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The Bookman, Volume 61
the publishing business, but he soon returned to the west coast and was at work on "Sunset Magazine" when he met Kathleen Thompson.
"I had heard of this remarkable Miss Thompson", he told me. "She was star reporter on the 'Call' at the time, and I did everything in my power to meet her. I finally did, and I knew at once that I must marry her."
Three meetings, and it was arranged. The young people decided to risk New York. They came on here, and the story of their struggles and their excellent management is one which deals largely in careful budgets and ambition to keep out of debt. They worked hard, both of them. He found a job on "The Christian Herald", and later on "The American Magazine". She managed the house in a way that was truly miraculous. They had a few good friends and simple pleasures. She helped by reading manuscripts by the score, and he kept encouraging her to write. She was shy about it. Years before this she had written "What Happened to Alanna", designed for "The Atlantic", and when it came back had thrown it into a drawer where it lay forgotten. Now, however, she set to work again. After they had been married about a year, Mrs. Norris wrote two stories and submitted them in a contest held by the "Telegram". Both were accepted, and she won a prize. It was then that Mr. Norris took matters into his hands, and he has been her manager ever since. There were to be more discouragements and disappointments. "What Happened to Alanna" went to a list of twenty eight magazines, beginning with "The Atlantic", before it was accepted its second trip by "The Atlantic". Then there was a baby, then the writing of "Mother", then more and more success, until the market for her
short stories was assured and she was rapidly becoming one of the best known of American women writers.
At this point Charles Norris found himself confronted with his great problem. Brother of a brilliant novelist, husband of a brilliant novelist, he faced the question of becoming her manager, no more. True, she had often felt that his name should go on the title page with hers. True, it was his constant advice and encouragement that made success possible. But this was not the life that Gaston the Fox had dreamed for himself. Nor was this the life that his wife dreamed for him. As he had encouraged her writing, she now turned to developing his. As he had made it possible for her to write in the early days of their marriage, she now made it possible for him. He wrote "The Amateur" and it found a publisher. Then he set to work on a new novel. It was about the time of the war. He enlisted and was presently a major. But "Salt" was rejected by his publisher, and he claims that it was the bitterest moment of life. He tried to forget it in the events of the war, left it with an agent, and it was placed.
Critics praised "Salt", but in point of sales it was only fair at first. However, this book of Mr. Norris's has gone on selling ever since. When he returned from the war he wrote "Brass", which became a best seller, followed it with "Bread", and his next novel, finished and sold as a serial for an enormous sum, is called "Pig Iron".
Meanwhile, Mrs. Norris had written the famous "Certain People of Importance", which did not appear as a serial, and will follow it this autumn with "Little Ships", another story which has not had serialization. She writes many short stories and two serials a year. She combines in an
unusual way the ability to tell a story and the ability to write well. Mr. Norris prefers to study characters in difficult psychological situations.
To quote again from "Noon" which, by the way, is a remarkably human little autobiography: "I always feel", she writes, "that my husband's plots create his characters while my stories are plotted about a character that especially takes my fancy. We both write only of America, but while his analytical studies of social and domestic conditions slowly force his imaginary men and women upon their logical and predestined paths, my heroines occasionally prove superior to circumstances, and arrive triumphantly at the happy ending."
Their methods of work are different, although both find that regularity is essential in the life of an author. From nine until one is sacred to their writing, and no telephone interruptions are allowed. Mrs. Norris sees her whole story clearly in her mind before she writes, usually talks it over with her husband, often writes an outline, and seldom rewrites. She works rapidly, and enjoys every moment of it.
Mr. Norris develops his story slowly. He sometimes sits for hours over a typewriter pondering a sentence, and he gathers the background material for his books with great care. He claims, and I think honestly, that he does not believe himself to be a born writer. He has taught himself to write. He is, I think, mistaken in this belief. He is a born psychologist, and his style is distinctive in its relation to his psychological understanding.
They are even with the world now, both best sellers, both having gained critical esteem, both healthy and happy in their relations with the world of books and with their own friends. have not dwelt here on Mrs. Norris's illness and her fight back to health, nor upon the beloved sister, who died during the war. Nor have I said much about the son, nephews, nieces, and cousins who make the Norris ranch a place of laughter and home atmosphere. I have been most interested in detailing what seems to me a lesson not only in the value of careful planning in the formation of writing careers, but also in the advantage of even odds in the successful progress of the marriage relation.
Of course, Mr. Norris is still the manager. It is he who opens and answers most of the mail. It is he who keeps much of the world away from his wife. Yet I should imagine that her influence is as strong in the family in its way. I fancy that the give and take is as nearly in proportion as the literary reputations. Is it easy to get into six figures in tandem? It seems to me an achievement worth our most serious consideration.
When I went to interview the Norrises, a promise was made to tell me the famous middle name - famous to me, because it had been promised for many years. It was forgotten. I found out, though; but I shall respect confidences. For whom was he named? I shall never tell. I leave you to guess. Best luck in the world to Mrs. Norris, and to Major Charles Gilman S Norris!
BOOKS OF MEMORY
By Julian Hawthorne
Y father, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
had about five hundred books when we came back from England in 1860, and took up our residence in the Wayside, in Concord.
That is my guess: they were never catalogued, or even counted. But the west wing of the little house had been done over after our return, and the ground floor room was fitted with bookshelves and called the library. room above it was my sister Una's bedchamber. The family used to assemble in the library after dinner, and my father would read aloud to us there for an hour or two: he was a perfect reader, his voice, grave and musical, conveying without effort every shade of meaning of the text. He read to us several great books Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", Spenser's "Faerie Queene", Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered", all of Walter Scott's novels, many of De Quincey's essays, Washington Irving's "Life of Washington" none of his own books, except the stories for children called "The Wonder Book" and "Tanglewood Tales". These, indeed, he read to us in manuscript before they were published, before we went abroad. After the astral lamp had been wound up making a guttural sound lighted, he would sit in his rocking chair beside the table and begin. He would hold the book in his right hand, by the top, his fingers coming over: we seated ourselves as we pleased, but I always watched his face, lighted by the lamp. It was a masculine face, with a great, clear brow and powerful dark eyebrows
over deep blue eyes. Its expression was serene, commanding, never severe; the right eyebrow had a way of lifting at passages of humor, and at times when the fun broadened he would smile or chuckle for a moment. Again, he would kindle with the spirit of the theme, and his rendering of dialogue, as in Scott's stories, was masterly. When, in later years, I did my own reading, I realized what light and charm he had communicated to the printed page: the author would seem toneless in compari
The library, as I was going to say, was a small room, and bookshelves had been built on the west side and on part of the north. I doubt if there were more than five hundred volumes. Some of them had been preserved from his boyhood, and showed signs of service; others had happened in, as books will, many of these presentation copies from authors or publishers; then there were a few deliberately bought. On the top shelves were small, queer looking books, mostly French: all the works of Voltaire, poor of paper and print and bound in paper; Rousseau, similarly attired. Montaigne, in a large quarto, was on a lower shelf. On the lowest shelf of all were big folios, antique and somewhat dilapidated. The most ancient was bound in brown leather, now tattered and worn at the corners, "God's Revenge Against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murther". It was an early seventeenth (or perhaps sixteenth) century compilation of grisly tales translated from the Italian, bloody tragedies, the perpetrators of which were invariably caught and executed in ways yet more bloody. On the title
page and fly leaves were signatures in faded ink of many ancestors of our family, who had read the book generation after generation, and my father's signature was among them. Beside this terrific work was Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia", a very early edition in folio. The text is interspersed with numerous love sonnets and lyrics in the Elizabethan style, and several of these had been underscored and marked by some forefather of mine one Daniel Hathorne (as the name was then spelled), evidently much in love in his day with a young woman named Mary Rondel, whose signature was likewise inscribed here and there. Daniel would mark
some especially impassioned lyric and scribble on the margin, "Pray, Mistris, reade this as if I myselfe wrote it." Obviously, then, the two lovers had been wont to peruse the volume together or he would pass it on to her as a sort of vicarious love letter.
And hereby hangs an odd little family ghost tale. My father, in his boyhood, had no doubt seen the marginal annotations, and perhaps guessed at their meaning; but after he went to Bowdoin College, at seventeen, the book, together with most of the others in the little domestic library, was transferred to the keeping of some relatives, the Misses Ingersoll. (It was only after our family returned from Europe, in 1860, that these volumes were brought back and placed in the little room in the west wing of the Wayside where, of course, I saw them for the first time.) In 1858 we were residing in Florence, across the way from the Robert Brownings. Now, Mrs. Browning was at that time eagerly interested in spiritualism, and it happened that our governess had the fortune or as she, being a skeptic, considered it, the misfortune to be a medium: she did automatic writing. Her pencil would
be controlled by the usual run of spiritual persons, chiefly alleged relatives of one or another of the circle, now defunct and descending from heaven to tell us to be good, that all was well, and that they were working for our benefit up yonder. Robert Browning disbelieved and scoffed, my father smiled with an arching of the eyebrow, Mrs. Browning listened prayerfully, and my mother regarded the transactions with reverential interest, if not with entire faith.
All of a sudden, in the midst of edifying and sanctimonious messages, the pencil was, as it were, violently seized our governess barely keeping her fingers on it and a name dashed onto the paper in a large, bold, irregular handwriting, quite different from that of any of the previous communicants which, in fact, had seemed like feeble imitations of the governess's own. The communicant a woman - went on to declare, in passionate haste, that she had been intimately connected with a member of the Hawthorne family, about a century before, and that she wanted the "sympathy" of Nathaniel Hawthorne!
There was a vibration of reality about this which startled all of us. There was a touch of almost savage desperation in it, nothing angelic, nothing edifying or persuasive. This was an actual person, with a suspicion of sulphur in her atmosphere, and she was grasping at an opportunity for which she had waited during three long generations. We all looked at my father, and Browning said, half laughing, "Well, Hawthorne, it's up to you!"
My father shook his head: he had never, to his knowledge, seen or heard the name before. It was a peculiar, unusual name, and in all my experience since that evening I have met with it in but one place in the margin of the old volume of Sidney's "Arcadia",
where it stands in faded brown ink "Mary Rondel".
Poor, miserable Mary was at all events quite sure of herself, and of some wrong that had been done her by an ancestor of ours, which had caused her, as she stated, to die in hardship and unhappiness. When I opened the "Arcadia", six or seven years later, I was startled at the inscription and recalled the incident.
Then I looked at a miniature on ivory of one Daniel Hathorne, commander of a privateer in the Revolution, a handsome, daredevil sort of fellow with ruddy cheeks and bold blue eyes. The miniature is on my desk as I write, but there is no picture of Mary Rondel, and the mystery of her appeal has never been unraveled. I recollect, I recollect, however, that her irruption into our peaceful gathering in Florence broke up the meeting: no other spirit could get a hearing, and the circle, to the great relief of our governess, was discontinued.
Perhaps old, favorite books, which have been pored over by readers in previous centuries, may be haunted by their ghosts. One is sometimes half sensible of an emanation an aura from such volumes which invests the shelf on which they stand with an unaccountable, silent charm of companionship. Or is it the authors of them that bend over us as we read and are gratified at our attention? I think, at all events, that there is more about a good book than appears to eye and touch: its virtues live and affect us; the spirit that conceived and executed it is still operative.
What a marvel it is, after all, that a packet of paper cut up in oblong pieces and stitched together, and covered with little serried black marks, should powerfully influence the minds and lives of thousands, through many ages! Writing and reading are mira
cles so unfathomable that we are forced to consider them both intensely commonplace.
The money value of old books is in a different category, a puzzle of a kind less recondite. When, at last, it was decided to sell my father's books, partly because of the difficulty of avoiding loss and decay in a family so vagrant as ours, I made several surprising discoveries. There was a little old brownleather bound volume, a good deal worn at the corners and otherwise defaced, roughly printed, and full of marginal notes in crabbed chirography together with the signatures of the writers men of the Hawthorne family, beginning with the first emigrant, William Hathorne, who was also prominent in the events which the book described. It was called "The Wars with the Indians" and was, I learned, the first book printed in the American colonies. One might have picked it up on a second hand bookstall for ten cents, but the price it brought was unimaginable
so much by reason of its extreme rarity, and as much more, perhaps, on account of the scribblings with which it was defaced, or enriched, according to one's view of the matter. I can't name the exact figure, but there was money enough in that shabby pocket volume to build a good house or to make the tour of Europe.
There were others for instance an array of ten superb folios, "English State Trials", containing verbatim reports of the trial and conviction (on no evidence to speak of) of the famous Captain Kidd and several hundred other cases, as interesting or more so: authentic material to supply scores of novelists from now till doomsday. . . . But I find myself at the end of my tether for today, with almost nothing done. Books, like women, are beguiling.


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Q: Разбить программу на потоки без сторонних библиотек Сабж. Понятно, что есть много хороших и разных библиотек для распараллеливания программ на потоки и задачи. А как самому написать библиотеку для многопоточности на голом Си? Что для этого нужно (просто план, пошагово)? Что почитать по этому поводу?
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describe ManageIQ::Providers::Vmware::CloudManager::Refresher do
  before do
    @host = Rails.application.secrets.vmware_cloud.try(:[], 'host') || 'vmwarecloudhost'
    host_uri = URI.parse("https://#{@host}")

    @hostname = host_uri.host
    @port = host_uri.port == 443 ? nil : host_uri.port

    _guid, _server, zone = EvmSpecHelper.create_guid_miq_server_zone
    @ems = FactoryGirl.create(
      :ems_vmware_cloud,
      :zone     => zone,
      :hostname => @hostname,
      :port     => @port
    )

    @userid = Rails.application.secrets.vmware_cloud.try(:[], 'userid') || 'VMWARE_CLOUD_USERID'
    @password = Rails.application.secrets.vmware_cloud.try(:[], 'password') || 'VMWARE_CLOUD_PASSWORD'

    VCR.configure do |c|
      # workaround for escaping host in spec/spec_helper.rb
      c.before_playback do |interaction|
        interaction.filter!(CGI.escape(@host), @host)
        interaction.filter!(CGI.escape('VMWARE_CLOUD_HOST'), 'vmwarecloudhost')
      end

      c.filter_sensitive_data('VMWARE_CLOUD_AUTHORIZATION') { Base64.encode64("#{@userid}:#{@password}").chomp }
    end

    cred = {
      :userid   => @userid,
      :password => @password
    }

    @ems.authentications << FactoryGirl.create(:authentication, cred)
  end

  it ".ems_type" do
    expect(described_class.ems_type).to eq(:vmware_cloud)
  end

  it "will perform a full refresh" do
    2.times do # Run twice to verify that a second run with existing data does not change anything
      @ems.reload
      VCR.use_cassette(described_class.name.underscore, :allow_unused_http_interactions => true) do
        EmsRefresh.refresh(@ems)
      end
      @ems.reload

      assert_specific_orchestration_stack
      assert_table_counts
      assert_ems
      assert_specific_vdc
      assert_specific_template
      assert_specific_vm_powered_on
      assert_specific_vm_powered_off
      assert_specific_orchestration_template
    end
  end

  def assert_table_counts
    expect(ExtManagementSystem.count).to eq(2) # cloud_manager + network_manager
    expect(Flavor.count).to eq(0)
    expect(AvailabilityZone.count).to eq(1)
    expect(FloatingIp.count).to eq(0)
    expect(AuthPrivateKey.count).to eq(0)
    expect(CloudNetwork.count).to eq(0)
    expect(CloudSubnet.count).to eq(0)
    expect(OrchestrationTemplate.count).to eq(4)
    expect(OrchestrationStack.count).to eq(3)
    expect(OrchestrationStackParameter.count).to eq(0)
    expect(OrchestrationStackOutput.count).to eq(0)
    expect(OrchestrationStackResource.count).to eq(0)
    expect(SecurityGroup.count).to eq(0)
    expect(FirewallRule.count).to eq(0)
    expect(VmOrTemplate.count).to eq(8)
    expect(Vm.count).to eq(3)
    expect(MiqTemplate.count).to eq(5)

    expect(CustomAttribute.count).to eq(0)
    expect(Disk.count).to eq(3)
    expect(GuestDevice.count).to eq(0)
    expect(Hardware.count).to eq(3)
    expect(OperatingSystem.count).to eq(3)
    expect(Snapshot.count).to eq(0)
    expect(SystemService.count).to eq(0)

    expect(Relationship.count).to eq(0)
    expect(MiqQueue.count).to eq(9)
  end

  def assert_ems
    expect(@ems).to have_attributes(
      :api_version => "5.1",
      :uid_ems     => nil
    )

    expect(@ems.flavors.size).to eq(0)
    expect(@ems.availability_zones.size).to eq(1)
    expect(@ems.floating_ips.count).to eq(0)
    expect(@ems.key_pairs.size).to eq(0)
    expect(@ems.cloud_networks.count).to eq(0)
    expect(@ems.security_groups.count).to eq(0)
    expect(@ems.vms_and_templates.size).to eq(8)
    expect(@ems.vms.size).to eq(3)
    expect(@ems.miq_templates.size).to eq(5)
    expect(@ems.orchestration_stacks.size).to eq(3)
    expect(@ems.orchestration_templates.size).to eq(4)

    expect(@ems.direct_orchestration_stacks.size).to eq(3)
  end

  def assert_specific_vdc
    @vdc = ManageIQ::Providers::Vmware::CloudManager::AvailabilityZone.where(:name => "MIQDev-Default-vCD-DualSiteStorage-PAYG").first
    expect(@vdc).to have_attributes(
      :ems_id  => @ems.id,
      :name    => "MIQDev-Default-vCD-DualSiteStorage-PAYG",
      :ems_ref => "89ade969-1dc4-4156-abad-e29f79511676",
      :type    => "ManageIQ::Providers::Vmware::CloudManager::AvailabilityZone"
    )
  end

  def assert_specific_template
    @template = ManageIQ::Providers::Vmware::CloudManager::Template.where(:name => "CentOS7").first
    expect(@template).not_to be_nil
    expect(@template).to have_attributes(
      :template              => true,
      :ems_ref               => "vm-857551b6-380c-44d0-ab34-9d144866f0b4",
      :ems_ref_obj           => nil,
      :uid_ems               => "vm-857551b6-380c-44d0-ab34-9d144866f0b4",
      :vendor                => "vmware",
      :power_state           => "never",
      :publicly_available    => false,
      :location              => "unknown",
      :tools_status          => nil,
      :boot_time             => nil,
      :standby_action        => nil,
      :connection_state      => nil,
      :cpu_affinity          => nil,
      :memory_reserve        => nil,
      :memory_reserve_expand => nil,
      :memory_limit          => nil,
      :memory_shares         => nil,
      :memory_shares_level   => nil,
      :cpu_reserve           => nil,
      :cpu_reserve_expand    => nil,
      :cpu_limit             => nil,
      :cpu_shares            => nil,
      :cpu_shares_level      => nil
    )

    expect(@template.ext_management_system).to eq(@ems)
    expect(@template.operating_system).to be_nil
    expect(@template.custom_attributes.size).to eq(0)
    expect(@template.snapshots.size).to eq(0)
  end

  def assert_specific_vm_powered_on
    v = ManageIQ::Providers::Vmware::CloudManager::Vm.find_by(:name => "spec1-vm1")
    expect(v).to have_attributes(
      :template              => false,
      :ems_ref               => "vm-f9ceb77c-b9d9-400c-8c06-72c785e884af",
      :ems_ref_obj           => nil,
      :uid_ems               => "vm-f9ceb77c-b9d9-400c-8c06-72c785e884af",
      :vendor                => "vmware",
      :power_state           => "on",
      :location              => "unknown",
      :tools_status          => nil,
      :boot_time             => nil,
      :standby_action        => nil,
      :connection_state      => nil,
      :cpu_affinity          => nil,
      :memory_reserve        => nil,
      :memory_reserve_expand => nil,
      :memory_limit          => nil,
      :memory_shares         => nil,
      :memory_shares_level   => nil,
      :cpu_reserve           => nil,
      :cpu_reserve_expand    => nil,
      :cpu_limit             => nil,
      :cpu_shares            => nil,
      :cpu_shares_level      => nil
    )

    expect(v.ext_management_system).to eq(@ems)
    expect(v.orchestration_stack).to eq(@orchestration_stack1)
    expect(v.availability_zone).to be_nil
    expect(v.floating_ip).to be_nil
    expect(v.key_pairs.size).to eq(0)
    expect(v.cloud_network).to be_nil
    expect(v.cloud_subnet).to be_nil
    expect(v.security_groups.size).to eq(0)

    expect(v.operating_system).to have_attributes(
      :product_name => "CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64-bit)",
    )
    expect(v.custom_attributes.size).to eq(0)
    expect(v.snapshots.size).to eq(0)

    expect(v.hardware).to have_attributes(
      :config_version       => nil,
      :virtual_hw_version   => nil,
      :guest_os             => "CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64-bit)",
      :guest_os_full_name   => "CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64-bit)",
      :cpu_sockets          => 2,
      :bios                 => nil,
      :bios_location        => nil,
      :time_sync            => nil,
      :annotation           => nil,
      :memory_mb            => 2048,
      :host_id              => nil,
      :cpu_speed            => nil,
      :cpu_type             => nil,
      :size_on_disk         => nil,
      :manufacturer         => "",
      :model                => "",
      :number_of_nics       => nil,
      :cpu_usage            => nil,
      :memory_usage         => nil,
      :cpu_cores_per_socket => 1,
      :cpu_total_cores      => 2,
      :vmotion_enabled      => nil,
      :disk_free_space      => nil,
      :disk_capacity        => 17_179_869_184,
      :memory_console       => nil,
      :bitness              => 64,
      :virtualization_type  => nil,
      :root_device_type     => nil,
    )

    expect(v.hardware.disks.size).to eq(1)
    expect(v.hardware.disks.first).to have_attributes(
      :device_name     => "Hard disk 1",
      :device_type     => "disk",
      :controller_type => "SCSI Controller",
      :size            => 17_179_869_184,
    )
    expect(v.hardware.guest_devices.size).to eq(0)
    expect(v.hardware.nics.size).to eq(0)
  end

  def assert_specific_vm_powered_off
    v = ManageIQ::Providers::Vmware::CloudManager::Vm.find_by(:name => "spec2-vm1")
    expect(v).to have_attributes(
      :template              => false,
      :ems_ref               => "vm-a28be0c0-d70d-4047-92f8-fc217bbaa7f6",
      :ems_ref_obj           => nil,
      :uid_ems               => "vm-a28be0c0-d70d-4047-92f8-fc217bbaa7f6",
      :vendor                => "vmware",
      :power_state           => "off",
      :location              => "unknown",
      :tools_status          => nil,
      :boot_time             => nil,
      :standby_action        => nil,
      :connection_state      => nil,
      :cpu_affinity          => nil,
      :memory_reserve        => nil,
      :memory_reserve_expand => nil,
      :memory_limit          => nil,
      :memory_shares         => nil,
      :memory_shares_level   => nil,
      :cpu_reserve           => nil,
      :cpu_reserve_expand    => nil,
      :cpu_limit             => nil,
      :cpu_shares            => nil,
      :cpu_shares_level      => nil
    )

    expect(v.ext_management_system).to eq(@ems)
    expect(v.orchestration_stack).to eq(@orchestration_stack2)
    expect(v.availability_zone).to be_nil
    expect(v.floating_ip).to be_nil
    expect(v.key_pairs.size).to eq(0)
    expect(v.cloud_network).to be_nil
    expect(v.cloud_subnet).to be_nil
    expect(v.security_groups.size).to eq(0)

    expect(v.operating_system).to have_attributes(
      :product_name => "CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64-bit)",
    )

    expect(v.custom_attributes.size).to eq(0)
    expect(v.snapshots.size).to eq(0)

    expect(v.hardware).to have_attributes(
      :config_version       => nil,
      :virtual_hw_version   => nil,
      :guest_os             => "CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64-bit)",
      :guest_os_full_name   => "CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64-bit)",
      :cpu_sockets          => 2,
      :bios                 => nil,
      :bios_location        => nil,
      :time_sync            => nil,
      :annotation           => nil,
      :memory_mb            => 2048,
      :host_id              => nil,
      :cpu_speed            => nil,
      :cpu_type             => nil,
      :size_on_disk         => nil,
      :manufacturer         => "",
      :model                => "",
      :number_of_nics       => nil,
      :cpu_usage            => nil,
      :memory_usage         => nil,
      :cpu_cores_per_socket => 1,
      :cpu_total_cores      => 2,
      :vmotion_enabled      => nil,
      :disk_free_space      => nil,
      :disk_capacity        => 17_179_869_184,
      :memory_console       => nil,
      :bitness              => 64,
      :virtualization_type  => nil,
      :root_device_type     => nil,
    )

    expect(v.hardware.disks.size).to eq(1)
    expect(v.hardware.disks.first).to have_attributes(
      :device_name     => "Hard disk 1",
      :device_type     => "disk",
      :controller_type => "SCSI Controller",
      :size            => 17_179_869_184,
    )
    expect(v.hardware.guest_devices.size).to eq(0)
    expect(v.hardware.nics.size).to eq(0)
  end

  def assert_specific_orchestration_stack
    @orchestration_stack1 = ManageIQ::Providers::Vmware::CloudManager::OrchestrationStack
                            .find_by(:name => "spec-1")
    @orchestration_stack2 = ManageIQ::Providers::Vmware::CloudManager::OrchestrationStack
                            .find_by(:name => "spec2")
    vm1 = ManageIQ::Providers::Vmware::CloudManager::Vm.find_by(:name => "spec1-vm1")
    vm2 = ManageIQ::Providers::Vmware::CloudManager::Vm.find_by(:name => "spec2-vm1")

    expect(vm1.orchestration_stack).to eq(@orchestration_stack1)
    expect(vm2.orchestration_stack).to eq(@orchestration_stack2)
  end

  def assert_specific_orchestration_template
    @template = ManageIQ::Providers::Vmware::CloudManager::OrchestrationTemplate.where(:name => "vApp_CentOS_and_msWin").first
    expect(@template).not_to be_nil
    expect(@template).to have_attributes(
      :ems_ref   => "vappTemplate-a19bdc8f-88fa-4dd6-8436-486590353ed5",
      :orderable => false,
    )

    expect(@template.ems_id).to eq(@ems.id)
    expect(@template.content.include?('ovf:Envelope')).to be_truthy
    expect(@template.md5).to eq('729bfcafe52065bdee376931efe104d9')
  end
end

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Lynden sits in third with a 4-2 NWC record, Anacortes fourth at 4-2, as well. Squalicum is the first team on the outside looking in at 3-3, Bellingham just behind them at 3-4.
Four teams are vying for two spots, barring a major collapse by either Sehome or Burlington-Edison.
Anacortes might have the toughest road despite being in right now, and owning the tie-breaker with the Red Raiders after defeating them in straight sets Thursday, Oct. 9, will certainly help. Of the Seahawks' final six games, they have to face Lynden, Blaine, Lynden Christian and Sehome, all tough matchups.
Bellingham, on the flip side, has Meridian, home against Lynden, Sedro-Woolley, Mount Baker and Sehome, a much easier schedule to end the year than the Seahawks or Squalicum, for that matter.
Lynden, through its final six games, has Anacortes at home, Bellingham, Burlington-Edison, Ferndale, Mount Baker and Squalicum. Back-to-back-to-back games against the Red Raiders, Tigers and Golden Eagles offer a great opportunity to establish themselves as that final seed, but it can also put them so far behind the Lions might not be able to overcome it.
Finally, Squalicum finishes with murders row, so to speak, with Burlington-Edison, Ferndale, Meridian, Sehome, Nooksack Valley and Lynden. That matchup with the Lions to end the season might be do-or-die for both, but if the Storm make it that far and are still in contention, it would mean Squalicum had upset some of the top programs in the conference.
Junior Squalicum striker Kim Hazlett is running away with the Northwest Conference girls' soccer scoring title with 19 goals, Nooksack Valley's Tori VandeHoef a distant second with 13.
Even Hazlett's teammate up front, Kim Dorr, has 12 goals, leading many to believe the Storm are a two-player offensive juggernaut. That couldn't be further from the truth.
Behind the talented juniors has been senior midfielder/defender Michelle Saunders, who has a league-leading 13 assists, all the while being a legitimate contender for defensive player of the year.
Saunders has stepped into a leadership role for the Storm, taking the place of Lauren Gibb from a year ago, facilitating an offense that has scored a league-best 56 goals, allowing just four in the process.
Likewise, senior Meridian midfielder Lexi McKinnon is second in the NWC with 10 assists, playing an integral role for the Trojans who boast three players with nine goals apiece — Payton Lunde, Janessa Murphy and Emily Brackinreed — and four others with at least two goals.
It's not a coincidence that both of these teams are enjoying successful seasons, having two seniors willing to facilitate rather than score.


Listen to Episode 4 of "Coffee with Gringos" here or on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher and Soundcloud.
Download the Episode 4 transcript here!
Mariah: And I'm Mariah Wika. Today, we'll be discussing those vacations that we went on. We chatted about them last episode. As you listen, listen for past tense and travel vocabulary. And remember, if you're feeling lost, you can always go to our website and read the transcription and follow the guide for this episode. So, let's grab a cup of coffee and talk about our vacations!
Paige: Hey Mariah! So good to see you.
Mariah: It's great to see you too. It's been a little while.
Paige: Yeah, I haven't seen you since your trip to the US.
Mariah: That's true, that's true. Yeah, I was in the US for two weeks. I just got back recently.
Paige: Where are you from again?
Mariah: I'm from Minnesota, so that's in the north. It's on the border with Canada.
Paige: But it's summer there, right?
Mariah: It is summer there right now! It's so beautiful. Oh my gosh, it was sunny and warm every single day.
Paige: Uh, that's so amazing. It's literally been freezing the last couple weeks here, so I bet it's been hard to be back.
Mariah: It's definitely hard to adjust from summer to winter, that's for sure.
Paige: Tell me more! What did you do? Why were you home?
Mariah: Oh yeah, so the reason I went home is that my college roommate got married.
Mariah: And so, I was in the wedding. I was a bridesmaid. And so, I was home for the bachelorette party and the wedding.
Paige: Wow, a lot of fun activities! How was the bridesmaid's dress? Was it cute?
Mariah: The bridesmaid's dress was absolutely beautiful. It was as good as a bridesmaid dress will ever be.
Paige: Fair to say. Fair. And how was the wedding? Was there a DJ? A band?
Mariah: Yeah, the wedding was fantastic! It was in downtown Minneapolis. And, it was a small wedding, not so big. I'm not sure how big weddings are in Chile, but this was about 150 people. Pretty intimate. The music was great, the food was excellent, and my friend was really happy, and that was the most important thing.
Paige: That's amazing you got to share that when you've been living so far away.
Paige: It's good you got to go home. And what else did you do? Did you get to see the family and eat a lot of good food?
Mariah: I did, I did. Yeah, my family lives in Minnesota as well, and so I spent a lot of time with them. My sister and her husband bought a dog while I was gone, and so I met the new dog, and we went to the park, and we had picnics. We even went to the theater together.
Paige: You and the dog?
Mariah: Me and the dog, no! I went to the theater with my family. So, it was pretty special to have a chance to spend time with them after so much time away.
Paige: Amazing. And it was probably good to get some good Minnesota comfort food while you were home?
Mariah: Absolutely. All of the dairy products. Cheese, ice cream, milk, chocolate milk. All of the dairy products!
Paige: Yeah, food is what you miss most.
Mariah: Totally. Also, one really cool thing about Minnesota is that is has a really huge immigrant population, and so we can get food from all over the world because our immigrants bring such a rich culinary scene to Minnesota. And so, if you want awesome Mexican food, you can find it. Or Korean or Vietnamese or Middle Eastern food. I loved taking advantage of that while I was home.
Paige: It sounds like you really had such an amazing time!
Mariah: It was a great trip. It was such a great trip. And how about you?! You went to Atacama while I was gone, didn't you?
Paige: Yeah, no, exactly! I went up north actually with my friends from high school.
Paige: Yeah, they were visiting, and we got to show them northern Chile. It was absolutely amazing. Better than I thought it would be. I just felt like I was transported to a different world. There were volcanoes and deserts and then also snow and craters and geysers. Everything. Everything was there!
Mariah: Did you do tours? Or did you rent a car?
Paige: We actually rented a car and just created our own path. We literally went wherever. And it was nice because it was winter, so there was barely anyone up there.
Mariah: Oh perfect, so it wasn't very touristy right now?
Paige: No, we had the road to ourselves. We got to see the stars every night. It was so quiet and peaceful. I think I'm moving out of Santiago!
Mariah: So, we will have to do Coffee with Gringos remotely.
Paige: But yes, no, it was absolutely amazing. I can't wait to explore more areas of Chile.
Mariah: Totally, totally, that's fantastic. Did you eat any new foods up there?
Paige: I did! I actually tried llama for the first time.
Mariah: No way! That's so cool!
Paige: Yeah, I was actually very hesitant to try it because it sounds like it's something you probably shouldn't eat.
Mariah: Right, right, at least based on our culture.
Paige: It just looked like it would be kind of a tough meat, but it was actually very tender. It was fantastic. I will probably go back just for the llama!
Mariah: That's awesome, that's awesome.
Paige: So really good food and beautiful landscapes. Overall great.
Mariah: Fantastic. That's so cool. I'm glad that you liked it so much.
Paige: It was amazing. Do you have any more trips planned in the future?
Mariah: Yeah, I'm really hoping to go to Peru! I've never been to Peru, and I've heard such spectacular things. I love archaeology, and so of course I want to visit Machu Pichu. And I've heard that the food, the culture, that it's all really, really interesting.
Paige: Yeah, I went two months ago, and you definitely need to plan it out and spend a lot of time because it's such a spectacular trip that you really don't want to rush it.
Mariah: Yeah, I heard that you spent one weekend?
Paige: Yeah, it was probably a Guinness World Record. I did Machu Pichu in the shortest amount of time physically possible. We flew into Lima and then Cusco and did Machu Pichu in a day.
Paige: I would not recommend it.
Mariah: I'll be sure to spend more time when I go.
Paige: Please do. It's such an amazing sight that you really want to soak it in.
Mariah: Yeah, yeah, I'll definitely do that. Oh my gosh, I forgot to tell you, I had the longest trip home!
Example: I just got back to Santiago recently.
Example: It's been difficult to adjust to winter weather after spending two weeks in the sun.
To spend time (phrase) - to pass time with somebody, this is tricky because in Spanish we usually say, "pasar tiempo" or "compartir"!
Example: When I was in Minnesota, I was able to spend a lot of time with my family.
Example: I ate a lot of dairy products in the US. Cheese, milk, and ice cream are comfort foods for me!
Example: Breaking news! Paige wants to move to the North of Chile!
Example: If Paige moves to the North of Chile, we will have to record Coffee with Gringos remotely.
Example: Chile has many different types of landscapes - desert, ocean, and mountains!
Example: I think I should get a Guinness World Record for seeing Peru in the shortest amount of time possible!
Example: It's mind boggling that Paige visited Peru for just a weekend trip!


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Q: PHP - stop the notice/error displaying at wrong time I accidentally deleted my previous question about this.
I'm new at PHP. This is my first assignment.  I have an error message "Sales price must be a valid amount" that is being displayed next to the first input box that shouldn't be there. This occurs when the user clicks "confirm" without data in the inputs. Instructions state that in this case, the user remains on the page.  I don't need any error messages displaying at this time.  How can I keep my error messages working as they should but stop the one message from showing up when "confirm" is clicked with no input?  Hope this makes sense.

// get the data from the form
$sales_price = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'sales_price', FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT);
$discount_percent = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'discount_percent', FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT);
$total_price = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'total_price', FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT);

if (isset($_POST['confirmSubmit'])) {
    echo 'Validation Error';
    $validation_error = 'Validation Error';
}

// validate sales price
$sales_valid = true;
$sales_priceError = '';
if ($sales_price === NULL) {
    $sales_priceError = '';
    $sales_valid = false;
} else if ($sales_price === FALSE) {
    $sales_priceError = 'Sales price must be a valid amount';
    $sales_valid = false;
} else if ($sales_price <= 0.0) {
    $sales_priceError = 'Sales price must be greater than 0';
    $sales_valid = false;
}

// validate discount percent
$discount_valid = true;
$discount_percentError = '';
if ($discount_percent === NULL) {
    $discount_percentError = '';
    $discount_valid = false;
} else if ($discount_percent === FALSE) {
    $discount_percentError = 'Discount percent must be a valid amount';
    $discount_valid = false;
} else if ($discount_percent <= 0.0) {
    $discount_percentError = 'Discount percent must be greater than 0';
    $discount_valid = false;
}

// calculate the discount and the discounted price
$discount_amount = $sales_price * $discount_percent / 100;
$total_price = $sales_price - $discount_amount;

?>

<!doctype html>

    <title>Quote</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="quote.css">

Price Quotation

    <form id="priceForm" name="priceForm" method="post" action=''>
        Sales Price
        <input type="text" id="sales_price" name="sales_price" required
               value="<?php echo $sales_price; ?>"/>
        <?php if (!empty($sales_priceError)) : ?>

                    <?php echo $sales_priceError; ?>

        <?php endif; ?>

        Discount Percent
        <input type="text" id="discount_percent" name="discount_percent" required
               value="<?php echo $discount_percent; ?>"/>
        <?php if (!empty($discount_percentError)) : ?>

                    <?php echo $discount_percentError; ?>

        <?php endif; ?>

Discount
            Amount <?php echo '    $' . number_format($discount_amount, 2); ?>

Total Price <?php echo '    $' . number_format($total_price, 2); ?>

        <input type="submit" class=inline name="submitButton" id="submitButton" value="Calculate"/>
    </form>

    <form id="confirmForm" name="confirmForm" method="post" action="<?php echo(($sales_valid && $discount_valid) ? 'confirm.php' : ''); ?>">
    <input type="hidden" id="sales_price" name="sales_price" value="<?php echo $sales_price ?>"/>
    <input type="hidden" id="discount_amount" name="discount_amount" value="<?php echo $discount_amount ?>"/>
    <input type="hidden" id="total_price" name="total_price" value="<?php echo $total_price ?>"/>
    <input type="submit" class=inline name="confirmSubmit" id="confirmSubmit" value="Confirm"/>
    </form>

 Enter price and discount amount and click Calculate

A: Ok so you need to structure you form processing logic like this:
 $sales_price = ''; //default value
 //other fields - I used just this one, but obviously you should do the
 //same/simular for the rest of them

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST') {
    //do stuff common to both form, such as both have sales_price

    $sales_price = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'sales_price', FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT);

    if(isset($_POST['submitButton'])) {
       //code specific to the first form

       $sales_valid = true;
       $sales_priceError = '';
       if ($sales_price === NULL) {
           $sales_priceError = '';
           $sales_valid = false;
       } else if ($sales_price === FALSE) {
           $sales_priceError = 'Sales price must be a valid amount';
           $sales_valid = false;
       } else if ($sales_price <= 0.0) {
           $sales_priceError = 'Sales price must be greater than 0';
           $sales_valid = false;
       }

        //and so on

    }else if(isset($_POST['confirmSubmit'])){
        //code specific to the second form

        if(!empty($sales_price)){
              //do stuff
        }

    }

}

This way when the first form is submitted only that code runs, when the second only that code.
When isset($_POST['submitButton']) is false its impossible for the validation code to run, and therefor you won't get the error when submitting the other form.  You should check the data in the second forms processing code, to make sure the first one was sent.  You can also add a hidden field (into confirm form) that is empty on the first from submission and then filled after when it is submitted.
Pro Tip: is you can use a do/while loop as a control structure in the second form processing code like this:
 }else if(isset($_POST['confirmSubmit'])){

  do{

    if(empty($sales_price)) break; //bail on the loop

        //form processing code

 }while(false); //runs 1 time

Do while, unlike other loops checks the condition (in the while part) after it runs 1 time.  In this case that condition is FALSE, so it ends the loop.  But this allows you to use break or continue (break is more logical) to exit the loop and prevent the rest of the code from running.  This is cleaner then  excluding the code by if conditions (IMO).
Hope that helps.
PS - I tried to keep it as simple as I could.

A:
This occurs when the user clicks "confirm" without data in the
  inputs.

Based on your codes, I believe what you really need is a simple Javascript form validation prior to submission. You can add this:

<form id="priceForm" name="priceForm" method="post" action='' onsubmit="return validateForm()">
<input type="text" id="sales_price" name="sales_price" required
               value="<?php echo $sales_price; ?>"/>
.. etc

The key is onsubmit function on the form tag. You can add more form item validation as needed. I just show example of one input text type.


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ARDC, Side by Side and 3 Wide!
ARDC COMPETITORS PREPARE FOR CHILI BOWL COMPETITON
Posted on January 8, 2015 by admin Posted in General News
Area Will Be Well Represented in Tulsa, OK
As final preparations are completed and trailers are being loaded, all eyes turn to Tulsa, OK for what is frequently referred to as 'the Super Bowl' of midget racing as the 29th Annual Chili Bowl gets underway on Monday, January 12th in the
The American Racing Drivers Club will be well represented in the 2015 Chili Bowl competition as fifteen drivers with ties to the organization have registered to compete in this year's event – certainly the largest presence ARDC has ever had in Tulsa. The delegation of ARDC competitors represents a broad cross section of the organization – from rookies to seasoned veterans.
John Heydenreich who hails from Bloomsburg, PA was the winner of the 1990 Chili Bowl and is a former ARDC competitor, ranking ninth on the ARDC All Time Feature Winners List. Heydenreich last competed with ARDC during the 2013 season. While the entries have reached record levels for the 2015 event, Heydenreich maintains that the competition has always been tough in Tulsa. "It's all about preparation and opportunity," Heydenreich states. "You've got to get your elbows up and be ready to take advantage of whatever opportunities come your way."
Collegeville, PA driver, Alex Bright knows all about those opportunities. Bright qualified for last year's Chili Bowl by finishing 3rd in the A Main on his qualifying night while racing for his grandfather, Joe Hemler in his Lightcap Electric #77. Racing the same car that he used in ARDC competition, Bright battled with Christopher Bell and Kevin Swindell right down to the wire in last year's event to finish fourth. This year, Bright will have a Mike Heffner owned midget at the Chili Bowl, with Sean Michael turning the wrenches. A second Heffner entry will be piloted by 8 time URC Sprint Car Champion, Curt Michael who will make his first Chili Bowl appearance.
The "Royersford Rocket", Steve Buckwalter has raced in five Chili Bowl main events. Buckwalter's best finish to date has been a ninth in the Saturday night main event along with a third place finish on his qualifying night.
Now making his home in Berks County, Danny Stratton joined the ranks of ARDC competitors this season as the driver of the Jerry & Karen Steward owned #33. Stratton has raced midgets throughout the country and boasts a fourth place finish in the 2012 Chili Bowl as his best performance to date. Stratton will field a second Andy Bondio entry at this year's Chili Bowl, joining team mate, Tim McCreadie – the winner of the 2006 event.
2014 ARDC Champion, Reading, PA driver, Steven Drevicki leads a host of ARDC competitors who return to completion in Tulsa this year. Drevicki carries the momentum to Tulsa that took him to the top of the ARDC competitors this season. Drevicki and DeGre Engineering Race Team took everything they learned the season before and rolled it into a championship season. Brenden Bright chased Drevicki throughout the season and travels to Tulsa on the heels of one of his most successful seasons in midget competition after finishing second in points. Milford, NJ driver, Nick Wean returns to Chili Bowl competition this year and looks to improve upon his 11th place finish on his qualifying night. After finishing 8th in points on the ARDC schedule, PJ Gargiulo of Morton, PA heads west and hopes to make his first A Main on his qualifying night. Shawn Jackson of Bear, DE will debut his new Elite Chassis, Esslinger powered #7 in Tulsa this week. Jackson was the first driver from the First State of Delaware to compete at the Chili Bowl. Tyler Brehm returns to compete in a second Steve Buckwalter entry. Brehm raced in Tulsa last year after only taking a few practice laps in a midget before the Chili Bowl. In 2014, Brehm raced the Jim Jackson owned #97 in ARDC competition and his headed to Tulsa with a lot more seat time and experience under his belt.
Drivers, Ryan Greth and Jim Radney, are hoping that they can convert what knowledge they gained while competing in the Tulsa Shootout just ten days before the start of the Chili Bowl as they head to Tulsa with their Hyper Racing midgets for their second Chili Bowl experience.
In addition to Curt Michael who makes his first Chili Bowl appearance, 2014 ARDC rookie, Tommy Kunsman of Northampton, PA will be behind the wheel of a second Rick Wean owned entry. Kunsman has been a spectator in Tulsa for the last eight years and looks forward to seeing the event from the other side of the fence. Jamie Spears of New Holland, PA will also make his Chili Bowl debut. Both rides – Kunsman's ride in the Wean #78 Spike chassis and Spear's #74 Stealth – are up for sale and looking for new owners to take possession in Tulsa!
First things first as qualifying gets underway on Tuesday night. Everyone's goal is to make the A Main on qualifying night. Qualifying takes place Tuesday through Friday with final qualifying all day Saturday before the main event.
Follow all the Chili Bowl news and ARDC results on Facebook. There will be live updates throughout the competition with daily results posted on our web site at www.ardcmidget.com.
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Hampden Academy Chartered in 1803
Hampden Academy enjoys a long history that few other schools in Maine, or indeed elsewhere, enjoy. Less than 30 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Crosby and others subscribed the sum of $3,400 to fulfill the charter of erecting and supporting a new school in the then District of Maine portion of Massachusetts. It was 1803 and Maine was still seventeen years from becoming a state. Thomas Jefferson was president; he signed the Louisiana Purchase in that same year. Dorothea Dix, who would become a crusading champion of the mentally ill, had been born in Hampden just the year before.
The first wooden schoolhouse that was Hampden Academy no longer exists. Fire consumed it in 1842. The brick building known now as "the Old Academy" was built for $1,125 and has been a traditional sight in town since 1843. Fire damaged the lower rooms of this building in 1854, and the doors were closed for a short time in the 1880s when post-Civil War populations diminished. Today, however, this building is the oldest building used to hold daily classes in the state of Maine.
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The tragedy of war has also struck the Academy. When the Academy was only nine years old, the Battle of Hampden, part of the War of 1812, was fought on the school grounds. Personnel and students were also involved in at least six other major wars: the Civil War and the Spanish American War before the school turned 100; World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War before she turned 200.
A Historical Perspective
Think of some other historical moments Hampden Academy has witnessed:
Francis Scott Key wrote the "Star Spangled Banner," destined to become the national anthem, when the Academy was only eleven years old.
Hannibal Hamlin, who practiced law in Hampden, became governor of Maine and then vice president of the United States under Abraham Lincoln - both happened before the Academy turned 60.
In 1903 as Hampden Academy turned 100, the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk and Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company. Also that year and the next, a furnace and electric lights were added to the Academy, and it was voted to build an annex to the building.
In 1920, when HA was 117, women won the right to vote, and Maine women were some of the first in the nation to vote because Maine held elections in September.
Mickey Mouse took to the screen as HA turned 125 - with the Stock Market crash of 1929 shortly thereafter - and the Academy building got a new vestibule in 1930.
In 1953 when HA was 150 years old, the Russians put Sputnik in space. The school was 166 years old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969 - and it was 183 when the Challenger exploded.
Graduates of Note
Hampden Academy is also proud of its many graduates and folks who have worked here - just to name four relatively recent ones: Ricky Craven, NASCAR driver; Mike Bordick, baseball player; Forrest Hart, bronze sculptor and creator of the Bronco on the front lawn; and Stephen King, "king of horror." Look around you at this gym. Steve worked here as an English teacher when he wrote about Carrie's blood-bath of a prom in her school's similar gymnasium.
For 157 years of its existence, Hampden Academy served the town of Hampden. Then, in 1960 and again in 1970, the towns of Newburgh and Winterport, respectively, joined with Hampden to form SAD #22. In 2013, the town of Frankfort joined the newly renamed RSU #22.
216 Years | A Tradition of Excellence
Hampden Academy has been here to witness almost all the the history of the United States and countless inventions and improvements. It has seen the number of states in the nation grow from seventeen to 50; the end of slavery after the Civil War and the beginning of the War on Terror after the attacks on the Twin Towers; the assassinations of four presidents and the impeachment proceedings of two; medical treatments from blood-letting with leaches to heart transplants to laser and robotic surgery; and the inventions of the telegraph, telephone, electric lights, passenger trains and passenger cars, and laptop computers, cell phones, Blackberries, and iPods. Through all that it has seen, Hampden Academy has been a school of tradition; a tradition of challenging students to achieve excellence. It will remain defined by the faculty and students who have in the past, do presently, and will in the future populate its halls with their tradition of focusing on excellence, a tradition that began in 1803.


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var eq = require('./shared/eq.js');

describe('when', function() {
  it('calls the whenTrue function if the validator returns a truthy value', function() {
    eq(R.when(R.is(Number), R.add(1))(10), 11);
  });

  it('returns the argument unmodified if the validator returns a falsy value', function() {
    eq(R.when(R.is(Number), R.add(1))('hello'), 'hello');
  });

  it('returns a curried function', function() {
    var ifIsNumber = R.when(R.is(Number));
    eq(ifIsNumber(R.add(1))(15), 16);
    eq(ifIsNumber(R.add(1))('hello'), 'hello');
  });

});


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Color matching and prediction: color correction tool v1.3 released!
The color matching tool v1.2 released! Please send me a PM, if you're interested.
An upgrade of the color matching algorithm. The stabilization parameter has been replaced by a smoothing parameter, and now is in the range from 0 to 1 (default 0.01).
The algorithm has been upgraded, such that creating a color matching model now only takes a few seconds, even for a set of 4K frames.
The color correction tool v2.2 has been dubbed the color matching tool v1.0 to distinguish it from the upcoming color balancing tool v1.0. The functionality of the color matching tool v1.0 is the same as the color correction tool v2.2.
An exported LUT should now also work in Adobe After Effects. In addition LUT creation is now faster.
A fast processing mode, that allows for significantly faster model building. Creating a color correction model at the default settings (using 10 color spaces) now only takes up to 2 minutes, independent of the frame resolution, while creating a single space model only takes up to 10 seconds.
The single color space model is now available by setting the number of color spaces to 1.
A new color matching algorithm, with improved stabilization.
An option to increase the number of color spaces, that the algorithm uses to match the source and reference (max 100). Increasing the number of color spaces leads to more accurate results, but is also slower.
A new stabilization parameter that has a range of 0 to 25. Use this option, if the source is noisy, or if the reference colors are inconsistent. Increasing this value improves the quality of the output image. Usually a value of 0 to 5, will lead to a much improved result, without seriously affecting the quality of the color match. Higher values may result in a slower convergence to the desired color palette, thus requiring a larger number of color spaces.
A special thanks to thestarwarstrilogy.com for the post!
What can the tool do? It can accuratelly match the colors between a source and a reference. A color matching model can be constructed, that can then be used to correct other frames.
When you've downloaded the file named ColorMatchv1_2_pkg.exe, execute the file. You will be asked to install the MATLAB runtime environment. After you have finished installing, a new executable named ColorMatchv1_2.exe will be available. Open this file as administrator, else it will not work.
A few words of advice on using the GUI. The GUI itself is pretty self explanatory.
Select a test image. A figure will open, showing the image. You will be able to crop the frame, with your cursor. If you don't want to crop the frame, close the figure window to be able to continue.
Select a reference image. A figure will open, showing the image. You will be able to crop the frame, with your cursor. If you don't want to crop the frame, close the figure window to be able to continue.
Build a color correction model. There are two processing options: fast processing mode (default), and normal processing mode. Fast processing mode is significantly faster, especially for high resolution frames, but could in theory be less accurate, although in practise this will rarely be the case. You can set the number of color spaces that will be used to build the color correction model (minimum is 1 color space, which closely mimics histogram matching, albeit far more stable, maximum is 100 color spaces). Increasing this number will lead to more accurate results, but is also slower. Depending on the resolution/size of the images after cropping and your hardware, this may take 0-1 minutes in normal processing mode, and roughly 0-30 seconds in fast processing mode, using the default settings, on an Intel Core i5. A figure will open showing you the test frame as it is being matched. With each iteration it should be closer to the reference. There is a smoothing parameter (range 0-1) that can be increased, if the source is noisy, or if the reference colors are inconsistent. Normally this could lead to unwanted artifacts in the output image. Increasing this number will prevent this, and improves the quality of the output image. Usually a value of 0.01 to 0.1, will lead to a much improved result, without affecting the quality of the color match. Higher values may result in a slower convergence, thus requiring more color spaces.
Import a color correction model (optional).
Import any number of images, and color correct them with a color correction model you just built or imported. The images will be saved in a newly created directory named "Corrected" with the same name as the original images. Color correcting a frame may take anywhere between 5 and 20 seconds, depending on the resolution/size of the frame, and of course your hardware.
Export a 3D LUT (lookup table) for use in other software programs, such as Davinci Resolve or Adove After Effects.
Hope you enjoy the tool. Of course if you use the tool for your projects, any acknowledgements will be appreciated. The same is true for any comments, critisism or suggestions you may have. In that case write a post in this thread or send me a PM.
I decided to move the color matching discussion from the super resolution thread to a new thread. I wrote a script in MATLAB that matches the colors of the same frame between two different sources. The color correction can be transfered to other frames, although there's of course no guarantee these will be correct.
Here's an en example for frame 8228 of Star Wars, where I matched Harmy's Despecialized Edition to the GOUT, GKar, and what appears to be a scan from a 35 mm print.
As you can see crushed whites, and blacks are difficult to match correctly, but the overall agreement is very good.
Now for a more interesting comparison, I matched frame 8228 for Team Negative1's video sample to four different sources: GOUT, GKar, 35 mm print, and Harmy's Despecialized Edition.
Yes, there is tons of compression in their SW reel previews.
Here's three tests of calibrating the color model on a single frame (8228), and then using this model to correct other frames for reel 1.
Because I implemented this method in Scilab and I get those grainy pictures as well.
However, if you look at the face, you'll see that the colors are matching the original more using the PDF method. But mine has more noise.
Very impressive! Can you also use this model to color correct other frames in the same scene? In other words if I give you a random frame, could you match that to the GOUT without a similar GOUT frame or do you always need a reference frame? The way I set up the model, it can in principle correct all frames based on a single frame, assuming the color degradation or color adjustments are very similar between frames.
This allows for the color correction of the whole film with only a limited number of reference frames.
Yes, you can correct other frames of a scene as well. The algorithm has an input image and a target image. The goal is to get the colors from the target image into the input image. However, the algorithm only provides good results, if the input image and target image look similar. So it would only make sense to match with frames of the same scene.
I see, but that does mean that the frame with the soldier's face could not be corrected based on the Darth Vader frame. The two frames are not similar in the sense that they depict a different scenery.
Quite impressive guys! DrDre's method seems to work well except for the reds. They are darker/blacker than they should be. If you can fix that, it would probably be closer to the PDF Color method which is currently even more impressive.
I would think even your method wouldn't work well in some cases. For example, if you took a desert scene and applied it to a snow scene, it probably wouldn't look right.
That depends. If the colors were adjusted or have faded in the same way in different scenes it would work just fine. The Tatooine scenes in -1 preservation have a very similar blue hue to them, so I expect the color corrected version would look very similar to the reference, even if the calibration was done based on a Tantive IV frame.
If the color was adjusted on a scene by scene basis or if the reels were stored under different conditions it would most likely not work very well.
The algorithm matches the probability density function (PDF) of each image. If you do this with just the original color space, the colors will hardly mach. So the idea of the algorithm is to transform the color space and match the PDF again. The transformation of the color space is done by multiplying the picture with a rotation matrix. The algorithm does this N times. In this example I calculated 50 rotation matricies and used all of them to create the image in post #5. In the image of this post I still calculated 50 rotation matrices, but just used the first 49 of them to do the color transfer. In this image I used just one rotation.
You can always try the Matlab script from the thread I linked.
I have to correct myself though. I said that I used 49 rotations to create the image, which looks exactly like yours. Turns out that's wrong. My algorithm just used 1 rotation and matched the PDF. This means that your algorithm probably just matches the PDFs as well. If you want a get closer to the target colors, you have to match the PDFs in different color spaces as well. This is probably what makes the PDF algorithm look more closer than your algorithm.
Anyway, I'm going to modify my script, and then I will post more comparisons. Probably tomorrow.
Here is GOUT,GKar,35mm compared to Harmy matched to Gout,Gkar,35mm using PDF matching with 50 rotations.
Then Scilab crashed and I forgot to save the rotation matrices, which means I have to recalcule them again. I will try it with just 20 matrices this time, because I want to know if less matrices are good enough and the calculation of 50 matrices takes about 3 hours, compared to about 45 minutes of 20.
But you can already see, that the PDF algorithm does worse than DrDre's algorithm when it comes to colouring frames with a different reference frame. With PDF you are limited to frames of the same shot.
I've slightly optimized my color correction script, but the PDF algorithm is still better at matching frames of the same shot.
However, the real strength of my current method is that it can color correct frames from completely different scenes.
Subsequently, the color correction model is used to correct a frame, which depicts a different scene with different colors.
That's really impressive and quite useful. The PDF transfer generally doesn't provide good results if the target frame is of lower resolution and/or compressed. In that case your script could just use another frame and provide better results. Your method also seems more fitting for cases like The Hobbit edits, where people try to match the colors of each film.
If we apply the color correction model directly to the Tantive IV scenes of the bluray it actually works pretty well. The bluray color adjustments are fairly consistent, except for a odd green hue in the opening scenes of the film.
Hey, I've got a challenge/request for you. Would you be able to match Harmy's shot of the speeder in Mos Eisley to the GOUT (though, I if I recall, there is more detail from the laserdiscs in this shot, due to GOUT smearing)? Specifically, the famous vaseline smeared shot after "move along" and before "I don't understand how we got by those troops".
I'm entirely unfamiliar with the methods you guys are describing. How much more difficult will it be to eventually process longer scenes? How long is the rendering for a frame?
For the GOUT the processing is quite fast, because colors are pretty consistent for the entire movie. So after a color model has been built, it only takes a few seconds per frame. However, since I'm doing it in MATLAB, I have to convert the raw avi to image files, and then import in MATLAB, adjust colors and then export. Subsequently the loose images will be converted back to avi.
towne32, if you can provide me some screenshots, then I can do it for you using the PDF method.
I'm currently using SCILAB, which a free software that provides many similar features as MATLAB. But I plan to write a Avisynth-Plugin that implements the PDF algorithm.


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all the foregoing increased the risk that the Company would be forced to recognize a significant non-cash impairment charge, could not timely file one or more of its financial reports, would have to amend one or more of its financial statements, and could not meet its financial obligations as they came due; and
as a result, the Offering Documents and Defendants' public statements throughout the Class Period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
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Hawick community councillor Andy Maybury, right, being given �107,000 by SP Energy Networks chief executive officer Frank Mitchell in Glasgow last November to help get the town's electric car club started.
Bright sparks are being invited to help steer an £167,000 electric car-sharing scheme in Hawick in the right direction next week.
Four low-carbon cars are to be bought for use in the town from this summer after a project driven forward by Hawick Community Council attracted £107,000 from Scottish Power Energy Networks' green economy fund.
Transport Scotland is chipping in £30,000 to pay for chargers, and an interest-free loan will add another £30,000 to the project's budget.
Teries are now being invited to attend two public events to find out more about the scheme.
Townsfolk will also be able to test-drive various vehicles and give their opinions on the best ones to go for.
The first event is to be held next Monday, January 28, from 7pm, at the Tower Mill auditorium.
Home Energy Scotland's Chris Milne and Angus Rodney will talk about electric cars and the contribution they make in tackling climate change.
There will be information too from car club company CoMo UK about the benefits of car clubs and how the cost of transport can be reduced by not running your own car.
Community councillor Andy Maybury, project manager for the Teviot electric Car Club, will explain what will be happening over the next few months and how you can drive an electric car when you need to without buying one of your own.
The following Saturday, February 2, there will be test drives of various electric vehicles at the Common Haugh.
When up and running, users of the scheme will need to sign up, and there will be a checking process to verify driving licences.
Drivers wanting to book a vehicle will be able to do so via a phone app or online.
They then just turn up at the appointed time with a phone or card, unlock the car and drive off.


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Labour Councillor for West Bletchley working to protect open spaces
Labour Councillor Nigel Long has persuaded a local town council to try and buy two open spaces in West Bletchley that have been put up for sale by private owners.
Two areas of much valued open space in West Bletchley have recently been put up for auction by their owner, leaving residents concerned that they may be purchased by developers. The two spaces on Melrose Avenue and Cheney's Walk in Bletchley are listed as parks in the Neighbourhood Plan and Labour Councillors are keen to ensure they remain as such.
The land is private, but some residents had been concerned it was owned by Milton Keynes Council, however both spaces are owned by companies outside Milton Keynes and MK Council has confirmed it doesn't own either site.
To protect these spaces from the risk of being purchased by developers for profit, Labour Councillor Nigel Long is working with West Bletchley Parish Council to encourage them to consider purchasing the land to retain their status as parks. The Parish Council held a special meeting on Tuesday 14th July where they voted unanimously to support for Councillor Long's proposal to try to buy the sites, although this is subject to the way the auction goes.
Cllr Nigel Long
Councillor Long said: "I believe it is outrageous that these open spaces are being sold at auction. Whilst one site is small but lovely; the Cheney's Walk site is substantial. It was identified as a local park in the Neighbourhood Plan. It is also wrong that the local council, councillors and the wider community were not consulted by the owner on the sale of the site."
He continued: "I am pleased that Labour-led West Bletchley Parish Council agreed to try and buy both sites at auction. It has also agreed that if our bids are not successful the parish council will look at a range of other measures to try and secure the sites and stop any development on them."