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#include "3rdparty/catch/catch.hpp"

#include "4context/context.h"

#include "os.hpp"
#include "fixture.hpp"

using namespace upscaledb;

struct BtreeInsertFixture : BaseFixture {
  ScopedPtr<Context> context;

  BtreeInsertFixture() {
    ups_parameter_t p1[] = {
      { UPS_PARAM_PAGESIZE, 1024 },
      { 0, 0 }
    };
    ups_parameter_t p2[] = {
      { UPS_PARAM_KEYSIZE, 80 },
      { 0, 0 }
    };

    require_create(0, p1, 0, p2);
    context.reset(new Context(lenv(), 0, 0));
  }

  ~BtreeInsertFixture() {
    context->changeset.clear();
    close();
  }

  Page *fetch_page(uint64_t address) {
    return (lenv()->page_manager->fetch(context.get(), address));
  }

  void defaultPivotTest() {
    ups_key_t key = {};
    ups_record_t rec = {};

    char buffer[80] = {0};
    for (int i = 11; i >= 0; i--) {
      *(int *)&buffer[0] = i;
      key.data = &buffer[0];
      key.size = sizeof(buffer);

      REQUIRE(0 == ups_db_insert(db, 0, &key, &rec, 0));
    }

    /* now verify that the index has 3 pages - root and two pages in
     * level 1 - both are 50% full
     *
     * the first page is the old root page, which became an index
     * page after the split
     */
    Page *page;
    PBtreeNode *node;
    REQUIRE((page = fetch_page(lenv()->config.page_size_bytes * 1)));
    REQUIRE((Page::kTypeBindex & page->type()));
    node = PBtreeNode::from_page(page);
    REQUIRE(7 == node->length());

    REQUIRE((page = fetch_page(lenv()->config.page_size_bytes * 2)));
    REQUIRE((Page::kTypeBindex & page->type()));
    node = PBtreeNode::from_page(page);
    REQUIRE(5 == node->length());

    REQUIRE((page = fetch_page(lenv()->config.page_size_bytes * 3)));
    REQUIRE((Page::kTypeBindex & page->type()));
    node = PBtreeNode::from_page(page);
    REQUIRE(1 == node->length());
  }

  void defaultLatePivotTest() {
    ups_key_t key = {};
    ups_record_t rec = {};

    char buffer[80] = {0};
    for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++) {
      *(int *)&buffer[0] = i;
      key.data = &buffer[0];
      key.size = sizeof(buffer);

      REQUIRE(0 == ups_db_insert(db, 0, &key, &rec, 0));
    }

    /* now verify that the index has 3 pages - root and two pages in
     * level 1 - both are 50% full
     *
     * the first page is the old root page, which became an index
     * page after the split
     */
    Page *page;
    PBtreeNode *node;
    REQUIRE((page = fetch_page(lenv()->config.page_size_bytes * 1)));
    REQUIRE((unsigned)Page::kTypeBindex == page->type());
    node = PBtreeNode::from_page(page);
    REQUIRE(10 == node->length());

    REQUIRE((page = fetch_page(lenv()->config.page_size_bytes * 2)));
    REQUIRE((unsigned)Page::kTypeBindex == page->type());
    node = PBtreeNode::from_page(page);
    REQUIRE(2 == node->length());

    REQUIRE((page = fetch_page(lenv()->config.page_size_bytes * 3)));
    REQUIRE((unsigned)Page::kTypeBroot == page->type());
    node = PBtreeNode::from_page(page);
    REQUIRE(1 == node->length());
  }

  void sequentialInsertPivotTest() {
    ups_key_t key = {};
    ups_record_t rec = {};

    char buffer[80] = {0};
    for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++) {
      *(int *)&buffer[0] = i;
      key.data = &buffer[0];
      key.size = sizeof(buffer);

      REQUIRE(0 == ups_db_insert(db, 0, &key, &rec, 0));
    }

    /* now verify that the index has 3 pages - root and two pages in
     * level 1 - both are 50% full
     *
     * the first page is the old root page, which became an index
     * page after the split
     */
    Page *page;
    PBtreeNode *node;
    REQUIRE((page = fetch_page(lenv()->config.page_size_bytes * 1)));
    REQUIRE((unsigned)Page::kTypeBindex == page->type());
    node = PBtreeNode::from_page(page);
    REQUIRE(10 == node->length());

    REQUIRE((page = fetch_page(lenv()->config.page_size_bytes * 2)));
    REQUIRE((unsigned)Page::kTypeBindex == page->type());
    node = PBtreeNode::from_page(page);
    REQUIRE(2 == node->length());

    REQUIRE((page = fetch_page(lenv()->config.page_size_bytes * 3)));
    REQUIRE((unsigned)Page::kTypeBroot == page->type());
    node = PBtreeNode::from_page(page);
    REQUIRE(1 == node->length());
  }
};

TEST_CASE("BtreeInsert/defaultPivotTest", "")
{
  BtreeInsertFixture f;
  f.defaultPivotTest();
}

TEST_CASE("BtreeInsert/defaultLatePivotTest", "")
{
  BtreeInsertFixture f;
  f.defaultLatePivotTest();
}

TEST_CASE("BtreeInsert/sequentialInsertPivotTest", "")
{
  BtreeInsertFixture f;
  f.sequentialInsertPivotTest();
}

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SDG14 | ONE OCEAN EXPEDITION
Bringing sustainable development to ocean science education
How do we transform the ocean science education of the future? In what way must teaching change to encompass this? These were a couple of the key questions discussed during a three-day event in Cape Town in mid-January 2023 as part of the One Ocean Expedition.
EVERYONE ON DECK: The participants in the IAU-UiB joint SDG14 session during One Ocean Expedition on deck of tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl in Cape Town harbour, with some friends and specially invited guests for the opening day.
UiB / IAU
By Sverre Ole DrønenUpdated: 24.01.2023 (First published: 23.01.2023)
"Teaching ocean science and SDGs in higher education" was the subject for a three-day session organised jointly by the International Association of Universities (IAU) and the University of Bergen (UiB) as part of the One Ocean Expedition (OOE) visiting Cape Town.
Funded by FILAMO
Several partners from the UiB led IAU SDG14 cluster participated with the IAU cluster leads for SDG13 and SDG15 taking part. There were also partners from the FILAMO project, funded by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills through the INTPART programme. UiB's participation in the Maputo-Cape Town leg of OOE and UiB's participation in Cape Town were funded by FILAMO.
Ocean science and the SDGs
The first day of the session was on deck on board tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl in the harbour of Cape Town, with course leader and UiB Professor Øyvind Fiksen hosting the event.
"For three days here in Cape Town we get together to discuss how to make ocean science education more in tune with the Sustainable Development Goals," said Fiksen as part of his opening statement, "presenting examples from around the world, including UiB's contribution with student-active learning during our course on board OOE across the Pacific."
Embracing UN Ocean Decade
IAU's Secretary General Hilligje van't Land followed up on this when presenting the ideas behind the joint IAU-UiB event in Cape Town.
"We will be discussing the necessary transformation of higher education, our longstanding and close collaboration with UiB on SDG14 and engaging with the UN Ocean Decade during our days here in Cape Town," she said.
Norway's Ambassador in South Africa, Gjermund Sæther visited the event and welcomed the participants to Cape Town. He spoke of the strong ocean science ties between Norway and South Africa and how the One Ocean Expedition visiting Cape Town perfectly captures the strong ties between two proud sea-faring nations.
A transgressive opening session
On day two, Hilligje van't Land also moderated the transgressive opening session of the event with the title "Teaching ocean science and SDGs in higher education".
"I look forward to hearing examples from across several IAU SDG clusters and the three opening presentations from UiB, Rhodes University and the University of Ghana," she said.
There followed presentations by Sehoya Cotner from UiB, Heila Lotz-Sisitka from Rhodes University, and Robert "Bob" Manteaw from University of Ghana.
On day three, the seminar participants split in groups to discuss who to turn new ideas for ocean science higher education into practice.
UiB and One Ocean Expedition
The University of Bergen (UiB) is the main/principal sponsor of the One Ocean Expedition (OOE).
OOE is a circumnavigation of Earth on board tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl, taking place from August 2021 to April 2023.
UiB gave interdisciplinary courses on ocean and climate change on board in the Caribbean and the Herculean leg of the expedition from Chile via Fiji to Palau.
OOE concludes with One Ocean Week in the week after Statsraad Lehmkuhl's return to Bergen on 15 April 2023. UiB will host and co-arrange several events during the week.
Read more on the OOE webpage.
Contact us post@ka.uib.no+47 55 58 69 00 Universitetet i Bergen
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This year's NLCS Game 3 is up 92% in total viewers and 87% in U.S. HH rating over the network's comparable NLCS coverage in 2013 (St. Louis vs. Los Angeles Dodgers – 4.8 million total viewers; 3.1 U.S. HH rating), with increases of 53% among total viewers and U.S. HH rating over last year's ALCS Game 3 (Kansas City vs. Baltimore – six million total viewers; 3.8 U.S. HH rating).
Locally, TBS' telecast earned a 25.1 HH rating in Chicago – the best HH rating for an MLB game in the market since the decisive 2005 World Series Game 4– and a 19.0 HH rating in New York, the network's highest rating for an MLB game in the market on record.
The NLCS is averaging 7.9 million total viewers to garner TBS' most-viewed LCS coverage of all time through the third game of the best-of-seven series. Overall, the MLB Postseason on TBS is averaging 6.2 million total viewers through 13 telecasts, up 44% over last year to rank as the network's most-viewed postseason coverage to date. The corresponding 3.8 U.S. HH rating this year is an increase of 41% vs. 2014. Key demos are also garnering double-digit growth including a 52% increase in People 18-49.
Turner's TV Everywhere platforms are also generating significant increases throughout the postseason including 138% growth in unique visits, 45% in video starts and 28% in minutes consumed over last year's comparable coverage. Social media impressions are up 365% collectively across Twitter and Facebook for Bleacher Report MLB social accounts over last year.
TBS' exclusive coverage of the best-of-seven National League Championship Series, presented by Exxon and Mobil, will continue today, Wednesday, October 21, with the Chicago Cubs hosting the New York Mets in Game 4 at 8 p.m. Wednesday's coverage will begin at 7:30 p.m. with the MLB Postseason Pre-Game on TBS presented by Chrysler show, televised live on site throughout the NLCS.
Source: Nielsen Media Research, based on Live+SD Fast Nationals (10/18/2015 vs. 10/18/2014). DMA household ratings provided through Arianna. Online TVE Live Stream Starts, Users, Minutes by Quarter Hour (rounded based on actual game time) from Omniture SiteCatalyst; Live Stream Starts, Users, Minutes based on Quarter Hour from Omniture.


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The White Van: Were Israelis Detained on Sept. 11 Spies?
The White Van
Were Israelis Detained on Sept. 11 Spies?
Millions saw the horrific images of the World Trade Center attacks, and those who saw them won't forget them. But a New Jersey homemaker saw something that morning that prompted an investigation into five young Israelis and their possible connection to Israeli intelligence.
Maria, who asked us not to use her last name, had a view of the World Trade Center from her New Jersey apartment building. She remembers a neighbor calling her shortly after the first plane hit the towers.
She grabbed her binoculars and watched the destruction unfolding in lower Manhattan. But as she watched the disaster, something else caught her eye.
Maria says she saw three young men kneeling on the roof of a white van in the parking lot of her apartment building. "They seemed to be taking a movie," Maria said.
The men were taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background, she said. What struck Maria were the expressions on the men's faces. "They were like happy, you know … They didn't look shocked to me. I thought it was very strange," she said.
She found the behavior so suspicious that she wrote down the license plate number of the van and called the police. Before long, the FBI was also on the scene, and a statewide bulletin was issued on the van.
The plate number was traced to a van owned by a company called Urban Moving. Around 4 p.m. on Sept. 11, the van was spotted on a service road off Route 3, near New Jersey's Giants Stadium. A police officer pulled the van over, finding five men, between 22 and 27 years old, in the vehicle. The men were taken out of the van at gunpoint and handcuffed by police.
The arresting officers said they saw a lot that aroused their suspicion about the men. One of the passengers had $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock. Another was carrying two foreign passports. A box cutter was found in the van. But perhaps the biggest surprise for the officers came when the five men identified themselves as Israeli citizens.
'We Are Not Your Problem'
According to the police report, one of the passengers told the officers they had been on the West Side Highway in Manhattan "during the incident" — referring to the World Trade Center attack. The driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers, "We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem." The other passengers were his brother Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari.
When the men were transferred to jail, the case was transferred out of the FBI's Criminal Division, and into the bureau's Foreign Counterintelligence Section, which is responsible for espionage cases, ABCNEWS has learned.
One reason for the shift, sources told ABCNEWS, was that the FBI believed Urban Moving may have been providing cover for an Israeli intelligence operation.
After the five men were arrested, the FBI got a warrant and searched Urban Moving's Weehawken, N.J., offices.
The FBI searched Urban Moving's offices for several hours, removing boxes of documents and a dozen computer hard drives. The FBI also questioned Urban Moving's owner. His attorney insists that his client answered all of the FBI's questions. But when FBI agents tried to interview him again a few days later, he was gone.
Three months later 2020's cameras photographed the inside of Urban Moving, and it looked as if the business had been shut down in a big hurry. Cell phones were lying around; office phones were still connected; and the property of dozens of clients remained in the warehouse.
The owner had also cleared out of his New Jersey home, put it up for sale and returned with his family to Israel.
'A Scary Situation'
Steven Gordon, the attorney for the five Israeli detainees, acknowledged that his clients' actions on Sept. 11 would easily have aroused suspicions. "You got a group of guys that are taking pictures, on top of a roof, of the World Trade Center. They're speaking in a foreign language. They got two passports on 'em. One's got a wad of cash on him, and they got box cutters. Now that's a scary situation."
But Gordon insisted that his clients were just five young men who had come to America for a vacation, ended up working for a moving company, and were taking pictures of the event.
The five Israelis were held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, ostensibly for overstaying their tourist visas and working in the United States illegally. Two weeks after their arrest, an immigration judge ordered them to be deported. But sources told ABCNEWS that FBI and CIA officials in Washington put a hold on the case.
The five men were held in detention for more than two months. Some of them were placed in solitary confinement for 40 days, and some of them were given as many as seven lie-detector tests.
Plenty of Speculation
Since their arrest, plenty of speculation has swirled about the case, and what the five men were doing that morning. Eventually, The Forward, a respected Jewish newspaper in New York, reported the FBI concluded that two of the men were Israeli intelligence operatives.
Vince Cannistraro, a former chief of operations for counterterrorism with the CIA who is now a consultant for ABCNEWS, said federal authorities' interest in the case was heightened when some of the men's names were found in a search of a national intelligence database.
Israeli Intelligence Connection?
According to Cannistraro, many people in the U.S. intelligence community believed that some of the men arrested were working for Israeli intelligence. Cannistraro said there was speculation as to whether Urban Moving had been "set up or exploited for the purpose of launching an intelligence operation against radical Islamists in the area, particularly in the New Jersey-New York area."
Under this scenario, the alleged spying operation was not aimed against the United States, but at penetrating or monitoring radical fund-raising and support networks in Muslim communities like Paterson, N.J., which was one of the places where several of the hijackers lived in the months prior to Sept. 11.
For the FBI, deciphering the truth from the five Israelis proved to be difficult. One of them, Paul Kurzberg, refused to take a lie-detector test for 10 weeks — then failed it, according to his lawyer. Another of his lawyers told us Kurzberg had been reluctant to take the test because he had once worked for Israeli intelligence in another country.
Sources say the Israelis were targeting these fund-raising networks because they were thought to be channeling money to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, groups that are responsible for most of the suicide bombings in Israel. "[The] Israeli government has been very concerned about the activity of radical Islamic groups in the United States that could be a support apparatus to Hamas and Islamic Jihad," Cannistraro said.
The men denied that they had been working for Israeli intelligence out of the New Jersey moving company, and Ram Horvitz, their Israeli attorney, dismissed the allegations as "stupid and ridiculous."
Mark Regev, the spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, goes even further, asserting the issue was never even discussed with U.S. officials.
"These five men were not involved in any intelligence operation in the United States, and the American intelligence authorities have never raised this issue with us," Regev said. "The story is simply false."
No 'Pre-Knowledge'
Despite the denials, sources tell ABCNEWS there is still debate within the FBI over whether or not the young men were spies. Many U.S. government officials still believe that some of them were on a mission for Israeli intelligence. But the FBI told ABCNEWS, "To date, this investigation has not identified anybody who in this country had pre-knowledge of the events of 9/11."
Sources also said that even if the men were spies, there is no evidence to conclude they had advance knowledge of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. The investigation, at the end of the day, after all the polygraphs, all of the field work, all the cross-checking, the intelligence work, concluded that they probably did not have advance knowledge of 9/11," Cannistraro noted.
As to what they were doing on the van, they say they read about the attack on the Internet, couldn't see it from their offices and went to the parking lot for a better view. But no one has been able to find a good explanation for why they may have been smiling with the towers of the World Trade Center burning in the background. Both the lawyers for the young men and the Israeli Embassy chalk it up to immature conduct.
According to ABCNEWS sources, Israeli and U.S. government officials worked out a deal — and after 71 days, the five Israelis were taken out of jail, put on a plane, and deported back home.
While the former detainees refused to answer ABCNEWS' questions about their detention and what they were doing on Sept. 11, several of the detainees discussed their experience in America on an Israeli talk show after their return home.
Said one of the men, denying that they were laughing or happy on the morning of Sept. 11, "The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event."
ABCNEWS' Chris Isham, John Miller, Glenn Silber and Chris Vlasto contributed to this report.
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A great gift for your special someone, this piece of jewelry has 8x8mm round cut excellent quality lab-created Topaz gemstone and a highly polished Sterling silver ring.
An ideal gift for an iPhone owner with taste, this is a stylish gold trim leather hard case for iPhone 5 and 5S.
A hand-painted and polished human skull glass bowl that can hold 10 ounces of beverage. You can use it as a drink glass, party bowl, Halloween treat bowl or simply a keys bowl.
For the Star Wars fans, here is a Han Solo Christmas tree ornament so you can easily add the spirit of Star Wars with the spirit of x-mass.
On a gloomy day if you want your spirits to buoy, pick a card from this deck of wisdom – a collection of motivational quotes from different cultures and generations.
This portable and flexible spider grip holder made with alloy metal and soft rubber can be a useful gift for anyone owning a smartphone or tablet.
Do you often find yourself annoyed for not being able to use your smartphone while wearing gloves in cold weather? Well, these touchscreen-friendly gloves is just the thing you need.
These soft and comfortable car neck pillows will make your long drives a breeze. Specially recommend for family cars.
This small plush Master Rabbit tissue box can be a lovely gift for someone who loves cute cushy things. You an use it as a storage box once the tissue run out.
A person with some sense of humor would love this cute stuffed poop emoji cushion as a gift. The pillow is high quality, soft and comfortable.
For your friend or family member who's always cold, here is a cute polar bear hat that can be worn indoors as well as outdoors and makes the wearer look warm and snugly.
A super cute make up bag made with lovely soft plush. You can use this pouch to store your smaller items during travel or at home.
Made with soft wires and polyester mesh, this is a cute item to keep dirty laundry, children's toys or other household items for storage.
A beautiful, delicate and elegant double tilted heart gold and crystal necklace to present to your special someone as a gift.
A very handy gift for anyone, this 7watt LED flashlight with water-proof design and an adjustable focus. Head of the flashlight can be pulled out to focus the beam.
Designed after the legendary Loch Ness monster, this cute ladle can be a great cooking accessory. The ladle is 100% food safe, BPA Free and Dishwasher safe.
A great winter gift for the little one in your family, this is a high-quality knitted baby beanie for 6 to 18 months old children.
A great companion for your tea times, this shark tea infuser is made of pure, food grade, silicon rubber that can easily withstand low and high temperatures.
For minion fans, here is a 12 inch minion despicable me peeking decal sticker made with transparent background and high-quality material.
These cute LED night lamps made in the shape of cute mushrooms can be a nice Christmas gift and a cute home accessory.
A great companion for your stressed state of mind, this stress horse toy will help you relax your nerves in panicking situations. Useful accessory for home and office.
This a multi-purpose smartphone stand to set your phone in the most convenient spot possible. You can also use it as a car mount holder with its sticky gel suction pad. Goes with every model of smartphone.
A creative yet useful accessory, these are fine ballpoint pens with shape that makes them look like grass blades. When you put them in a vase they look like a fresh green grass plant.
For a clumsy-handed person this drop-protection case would be a boon. The cases come in different colors and go with Samsung S6 Edge model smartphones.
A cool faucet that changes the color of light according to the temperature of water. The spray nozzle comes in beautiful chrome finish, and a solid and firm brass body.
Here is a car-shaped wired optical mouse for your laptop or desktop computer. The mouse is shaped as a Ferrari sports model car.
A super cute elephant-shaped phone stand with both horizontal as well as vertical viewing. The stand has an ergonomic design that gives a comfortable viewing.
A cute decal made out of high quality material and original artwork.The matte vinyl gives the decal a "painted" on look.
A cute cat with lamp post wall sticker can make your children's room look lively. The materials used in it are non-toxic and environment-friendly.
Cute ball pens with funny expressions and pill-shaped design. These are small and retractable so you can easily carry them along wherever you go.
Staplers are a must-have in any office and even in homes, but instead of boring one-color designs, here is a cute panda-shaped stapler that holds up to 20 staples.
Light up your shoes for a concert, party or night event with these LED shoelaces.The laces are suitable for any kind of shoes and for people of all ages.
Now here is a cool and handy accessory for adventure lovers. This is card that can be folded into a camping knife that can be used to cut a lot of things.
To give your room a touch of Zen, here are beautiful wall stickers made with high-quality vinyl. You an use different parts of the sticker separately or collectively in style of your choice.
Here is a 3D mirror wall decal that can make any room lively and aesthetic. It is easy to apply on a smooth wall and reapply on another wall.
An eye-catching decor for any wall in the house, these 3D butterfly wall stickers come in a set of blue and purple and can be applied to any smooth surface.


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Astro's Playroom nearly had a chainsaw level
By Hirun Cryer
Edge magazine speaks to Astro's Playroom director
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It turns out there was a particular cut level from Astro's Playroom on PS5 that featured, among other things, a chainsaw.
In the latest issue of Edge magazine, E353 which you can buy here (opens in new tab), Astro's Playroom director Nicolas Doucet spoke about cut content from the game. "Yeah, we had to cut some stuff that just didn't fit naturally," the director says. "We had a really great chainsaw demo where you would rev the chainsaw and just cut through stuff coming at you – you'd cut through ice, through metal."
"And that felt really good, the adaptive trigger and the haptics were working really well together," Doucet continues. "But that was one where we tried and tried to find a way to fit it, but it just felt like it just didn't fit for this type of game. But if somebody wants to make a horror game, you know, that's a good one. That works [laughs]."
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Well, that sure seems like a mantel for Doom to pick up. Although it's absolutely wishful thinking, I can bet chainsawing through the legions of hell with the DualSense in id Software's sequel would feel absolutely incredible.
Elsewhere in the latest issue of Edge magazine, Doucet says there aren't plans for any extra content for Astro's Playroom in the pipeline. In fact, the Astro's Playroom development team at Sony aren't decided as to what they'll do next, let alone if they'll expand upon the PS5 pre-packaged game.
This would appear to throw cold water on the theories coming from the Platinum Trophy for Astro's Playroom. When the PS5 launched last month in November, users noted that the description for the games Platinum Trophy said "see you on our next adventure," possibly indicating that a sequel was in the works. The comments from Doucet appear to point to the description instead referring to whatever the team at Sony decide to do next.
If you're still on the road to the Platinum Trophy for Astro's Playroom, why not head over to our Astro's Playroom Artefacts guide for a helping hand.
Hirun Cryer
Hirun Cryer is a freelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ based out of U.K. After earning a degree in American History specializing in journalism, cinema, literature, and history, he stepped into the games writing world, with a focus on shooters, indie games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time he freelances with other outlets around the industry, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and anime.
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Value Edition
Amiga Explorer
Emulation & OS
Games & Demos
Amiga Forever Videos
The Premium Edition of Amiga Forever combines the Plus Edition software with the documentaries of the Video Edition, plus some extras.
DVD 0:
Amiga Forever Plus Edition software
Dave Haynie 2009 Interview (2009, 30')
Dave Haynie 2009 Interview - HD (2009, 30')
Launch of Amiga (1985, 17')
Inside Commodore (1988, 40')
Jay Miner Speech (1989, 49')
Jay Miner Interview (1990, 9')
History of the Amiga (1992, 43')
The Deathbed Vigil (1994, 118')
Amiga Faces Picture Gallery (1988-2005, 50')
Additional DVD features and details:
Region 0 (all regions)
CSS-free (no encryption)
Video content in NTSC format (as in the original footage, also compatible with most PAL DVD players, including 100% of those tested by us in 2005)
Menus and subtitles in English and Italian
These are, in our opinion, "must see" videos about the Amiga, the C64 and Commodore in general, which took a lot of time and hard work to create and process, also licensing hard-to-find materials that were presented to the general public for the first time in Amiga Forever.
This video collection will allow you to connect people and facts in new ways, as it better exposes the relationship between Commodore, the Amiga, an increasingly mature PC market, and the ups and downs of the video games industry. The videos also contain touching biographical parts, TV ads, precious insights into the history of personal computing and multimedia, and many an interesting lesson in project and business management, with a special focus on areas such as IT, startups, the consumer market and the video games industry.
We took the extra effort of adding subtitles in multiple languages in order to make these pieces of Amiga history and culture accessible to the widest possible audience. In addition to consuming an enormous amount of internal resources, the transcriptions and the translations would not have been possible without the generous help of a group of several dozen volunteers from all over the world.
A selection of original video content is available in the Amiga Forever page on Facebook. More videos are available at YouTube.com/Cloanto. Please subscribe to the channel in order to not miss future updates.
The original sources of all videos usually were NTSC VHS tapes, often chosen from the best version of multiple available ones, and in a few cases combining the best data from different tapes. The Jay Miner Speech video was digitized from a combination of Beta SP tape for the event footage and digital MPEG data for the original titles. The Jay Miner interview has its own story. The Dave Haynie interview was digitized from a combination of 8 mm video and an additional MD audio source. The videos were digitized, enhanced and encoded to the highest quality standards using the latest technology.
We took the greatest care in handling and converting the original tapes, using professional conversion labs and equipment, and we kept digital copies (in part uncompressed) to preserve the materials from the slow decay of analog tapes. Like our software archives, this data is stored at multiple locations and using file systems that incorporate bitrot detection and repair mechanisms.
Future releases may be superresolution-enhanced and/or be encoded using technologies other than MPEG-2 (a current DVD standard). Actually, superresolution technology (which combines data from multiple video frames to generate higher-resolution frames) has already been used to create some of the still pictures used on the Amiga Forever packaging and web site.
Ongoing Work
Amiga Forever as a whole, and its videos in particular, are a manifestation of a multiplicity of challenges we are facing. Like any passionate but small organization, we wish we had more resources available. As a successor of Commodore/Amiga we feel an additional burden and sense of duty for a cultural heritage that should be neither lost nor locked away.
Cloanto has been considering the idea of setting up a nonprofit/foundation dedicated to preservation for some time, and we hope that other projects may be successful enough to make this possible. In the meantime, some original content is currently exclusive to the Amiga Forever documentary series and helps support our ongoing preservation and dissemination work. We are also working with some of the most renowned preservation institutions to make sure that this legacy is preserved and will remain accessible for posterity.
Ongoing efforts include:
Collecting and preserving new materials, and best-quality versions of existing materials
Work on a new documentary using 3D HD technologies
Adding subtitles for new content, and in more languages (in particular German, Spanish, French and Japanese)
Releasing more content via online channels
We found the experience of creating transcripts and subtitles, which inevitably includes the repeat watching and listening to the same footage, to be quite rewarding also from the point of view of getting an almost intimate inside view of the stories told in the videos. If you would like to assist in this field, please get in touch.
We are always looking for new videos to preserve and make available. We keep being surprised by how new and better-quality content emerges from time to time, even decades after it was shot.
If you have an interesting video or suggestion, or if you found any inaccuracies in the transcripts or subtitles, please let us know.
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Overview of Videos
Launch of Amiga (1985)
Inside Commodore (1988)
Jay Miner Speech (1989)
Jay Miner Interview (1990)
History of the Amiga (1992)
The Deathbed Vigil (1994)
Dave Haynie Interview (2001)


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Frederick Jesse Hopkins (1876 – 1934) was a British minister of religion and socialist activist.

Born in Alderney, Dorset, Hopkins began working in a brickyard at the age of twelve.  He then attended Hartley College in Manchester, and in 1900 became a Primitive Methodist minister, responsible for various churches.  He became very interested in rural life and conditions, and joined the Labour Party.  In 1919, he left the ministry to focus on political work.  In 1921, he became the general secretary of the East Dorset District Labour Party, and in 1922 he began working full-time for the party as a propagandist in South West England.

Hopkins stood for Labour in Bournemouth at the 1918 UK general election, East Dorset at the 1922 and 1923 UK general elections, in Penryn and Falmouth at the 1924 and 1929 UK general elections, and in the 1928 St Ives by-election, but was never elected.

In 1928, Hopkins was appointed as the Labour Party's regional organiser for the Eastern Counties, taking over from Bill Holmes.  He died in 1934.

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1876 births
1934 deaths
Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
People from Poole
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Shaheed Ishwar Chowdhary Halt is a halt railway station on Gaya–Kiul line of Delhi–Kolkata Main Line in East Central Railway zone under Mughalsarai railway division of the Indian Railways. The railway station is situated at Manpur in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar.

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Dries Mertens has been in scorching-hot form for Napoli, which is averaging 3.8 goals per game so far this season.
In the aftermath of the fall of Juventus from Serie A, Inter emerged as the dominant force in Italy winning five back-to-back titles. A feat that many thought would never be beaten, until Juventus returned to their perch - winning six scudettos on the trot and giving the league a reputation of being a one-horse race. However, the 2017/18 season is set to be different.
Emerge Napoli, the Gli Azzurri - a new contender for the league title in what should prove to be the most exciting and competitive Serie A season in years.
Guided by Maurizio Sarri, Napoli look primed to end a 28-year wait for the title, playing one of the most entertaining brands of football in the world. Napoli are averaging 3.8 goals per game so far this season, the most in Europe - outscoring a PSG front-line worth a staggering €464m.
Wednesday night's 4-1 demolition of Lazio was a microcosm of everything Sarri has implemented at Napoli during his two-year tenure at the club thus far. Napoli went into the break 1-0 down to the home side but came out of the blocks flying after the break. A ferocious flurry of goals saw Lazio keeper Strakosha pick the ball out of his net on three occasions within just five minutes.
When everything clicks, Napoli are irresistible to watch and impossible to oppose - scoring 19 goals in five straight victories in the league this season. Fans have felt a wave of nostalgia, reflecting upon the days of Diego Maradona, who guided Napoli to their last league title in 1990 with 16 league goals. Dries Mertens is on course to emulate the achievements of the Argentine legend - having been transformed from a winger into a lethal striker by Sarri.
Scoring 23 goals in 24 games in 2017 alone, Mertens has emerged as one of Europe's top strikers - but this is not just based on statistics. Sarri has described Mertens as a 'little animal' whose hunger and appetite to win never ends, a valuable asset to any team chasing a title. Mertens has already begun to mirror the Napoli legend, scoring a carbon copy of Maradona's chip against the same opponent in 1985.
The comparisons were plastered all over Italian media, 'Like Diego,' ran the front-page headline on Corriere Dello Sport, while 'Dries or Maradona?' was the question posed by Gazzetta. When asked about the goal, Mertens said: "They showed me it earlier, his was better. Let's just leave it at that."
To be compared to Napoli's greatest ever player is a humbling testament to the progression of Mertens this past year.
Truth be told, his rotation against Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League tells the full story of where Sarri's priorities lie. For Napoli, for Sarri and for Mertens - only one thing is on the agenda this year. It's time to roll back the years, 28 of them to be precise.


Sajjan Jindal, Chairman and Managing Director of JSW Steel, said, "Our plan is to take to the next step to 18 MTPA from 13 MTPA."
JSW Steel, a leading integrated steel manufacturer, is planning to expand the capacity of its manufacturing plant in Vijayanagar, Karnataka, to 18 million tonnes per annum (MTPA). Currently, the plant has a 12 million tonnes per annum capacity.
JSW Steel, in June, had announced its plans to invest Rs 7,500 crore at its Vijayanagar facility until March 2020. The company made the announcement to increase the production capacity of the plant to 13 MTPA.
Vinod Nowal, Deputy Managing Director of JSW Steel, also said that the company is planning to expand the capacity of Vijayanagar facility to 18 MTPA. He further added that JSW Steel is planning to spend around Rs 43,000 crore in the next three years in these expansions, besides downstream facilities.
JSW Steel is a part of the diversified $13 billion JSW Group. The company's plant at Vijayanagar is the largest single location steel producing facility in the country.


Fluoride is a mineral that strengthens teeth against decay and helps them heal from the constant demineralization process occurring in the mouth. It penetrates the teeth and draws phosphate and calcium from your saliva into your teeth. Fluoride also attacks the bacteria in your mouth that produces the acid that leads to tooth decay. Studies show that this miracle mineral can even repair early tooth decay before it becomes a cavity.
In office fluoride treatments are a great way to supplement the fluoride we get from fluoride toothpaste and our fluoridated city water and are usually recommended for all family members.
Fluoride treatments are especially helpful for children as teeth are developing, for anyone in orthodontics, for anyone with receding gums, for anyone not drinking city tap water, and for those with medical and oral health conditions or medications that cause dry mouth.


Summer gives kids a healthy break to unwind before a new year of learning. Those weeks, though, can drag when the weather gets too hot or too rainy or the days just feel too repetitive. There are only so many museums, pools (indoor or outdoor), parks and sports activities that kids can enjoy until the novelty runs out. And, let's face it, most kids think their own house is usually pretty boring.
Parents know what happens when kids get bored. Either those dreaded devices come out…again. Or trouble ensues. Sometimes both. When the quiet whispering from the other room leads to screeches of 'he did it,' though, you know you're in trouble. And you'll likely have a clean-up on your hands.
Pour yourself a piping hot cup of grace, take a breath and get creative. When summer break makes you feel like you're going to break, lead kids outdoors to explore the many adventures that await them in the own backyard!
Grab some balloons and fill them with water. Set up forts with old boxes or toys from the garage and let the craziness begin! Set rules and boundaries for kids so playtime doesn't get too crazy. No aiming for the face. Make sure to clean up the mess afterward, so birds or other animals (like your pets!) don't ingest the latex.
If you have a kiddie pool, you can create your own backyard oasis. Make some sandwiches and lemonade and set up a fun backyard beach picnic. Eat outside on towels or blankets. Let kids play in the pool with water toys, and if you have a sandbox, let kids make sand castles! Decorate your beach with plants or potted flowers. Or head to dollar stores and buy some fun tropical décor for a festive backyard luau! Kids can don grass skirts and flower leis…you may even hold a limbo competition!
For some relaxing outdoor exercise, host an outdoor yoga retreat for kids. Grab some yoga mats, put on some calming music and practice kid-friendly postures. The CDC recommends that kids have one hour of physical activity a day, and yoga helps get kids moving while increasing their strength and flexibility. Yoga also helps kids de-stress after a busy day!
If the sprinklers are on to water the plants and lawn, let kids get in on the water fun. Put on their swimming suits and set kids free in the backyard. They'll have a blast running through the sprinklers and chasing each other. The National Wildlife Federation recommends playing sprinkler games like Simon Says and Fill the Cup, which requires players to fill their plastic cup with the sprinkler water (the first person to fill their cup wins!). Get imaginative and think of a few of your own games for kids to play in the sprinklers!
Host the Olympic Games in your own backyard. Create an obstacle course out of toys or sports equipment, host relay races, and see who can jump the farthest/highest. You can also add other competitions like hula hooping or a tug of war between teams. Create ribbons for kids to celebrate their participation and victories. Real Simple also suggests that teams make their own uniforms for the games!
While long breaks like summer vacation may begin to wear down parents—and kids—the time together won't last forever. Before you know it, you'll be packing lunches and sending kids off on the school bus once again. Create memories in your own backyard with fun activities that will take kids by surprise…and get them out of the house and active! And don't be afraid to join in on the fun…you're never too old for sprinklers!


The four star architectural showpiece that is Protea Hotel Hilton, with its imposing Tudor lines is a must-stay for the meandering country charm seeker.
Only five hours from Johannesburg, it is perfect for rekindling a romance and enjoying a private dinner on a floodlit pool deck with cascading water.
The Hilton's Tudor terrace boasts its own swimming pool, a lovely area to enjoy a quick snack or drink.
Enjoy comfortable bedrooms, all with old world charm, a private bathroom with a shower and a separate toilet.
Each guest bedroom features satellite TV, touch telephone, free Wi-Fi, tea and coffee making facilities and a double bed.
Our comfortable bedrooms, all with old-world charm, feature a private bathroom with shower and a separate toilet.
Each elegantly decorated and well-appointed guest rooms are en-suite featuring views of the swimming pool or the meandering mountainside.
Each of our standard guest rooms feature a private bathroom with shower and a separate toilet.
Originally established in 1936, the elegant and upscale hotel now boasts all the modern amenities expected from holiday vacationers to businessmen alike.
Discover our elegantly decorated accommodations with a work desk and tea/coffee making facilities. All rooms also have views of the swimming pool or the meandering mountains.
Ellington's Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge offers fine dining with a full a-la-carte menu and regular specials.
Enjoy a drink from the large selection at our elegant bar, the perfect place to unwind.


My SMU Class Policy - Welcome to Professor Newman Online!
Your university experience will be the basis for your future success. Take it seriously and make the most of it!
Teaching is merely a means to the end - learning. I view my role as a "senior partner" who guides students by linking course concepts to the student's personal experience or previously existing knowledge, whatever that may or may not be. This is why I require students to fill out a class survey to ascertain who you are and what you want out of the course. Among the problem based assignments I hope to use include: Question of the Day; "What If" role playing (aka "The Situation"); conceptual workshops; concept mapping (using the "inspiration" program available on line at SMU library). Some, if not all, of the examples used in class are from real cases I or others have litigated, including notices of claim filed with government entities. I also utilize panel presentations and "open interviews" of local business people and members of the legal profession.
I try to weave into any course Benedictine values based on the "Rule of Benedict" (RB) which acknowledges the primacy of God and reverence of all persons and all creation, seeking the "common good" and individual respect. [See, e.g. www.osb.org/acad/benval1.html]. Although nearly 2000 years old, the RB remains relevant today. It is expected that you will attend classes and behave in a respectful and professional manner. Beyond learning the subject, you need self-discipline - the type of discipline expected in the "real world" by employers and exemplified by the RB.


The Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program is a voluntary, independently certified program designed for the total feed industry. The Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program establishes comprehensive standards of excellence that go beyond existing regulations to maximize food and feed safety. Excelling at every aspect of feed production is "Our Responsibility, Our Promise" to regulators, customers and American consumers.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials have expressed support of the American Feed Industry Association's voluntary Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program.
FDA officials cite Safe Feed/Safe Food as a model program for feed and food professionals to rely on to achieve their goal of providing safe, healthy feed and food to their customers and consumers. Officials also say that those facilities participating in such programs will have fewer and shorter inspections as FDA expects these programs to be used in their risk ranking of facilities.
The Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program exceeds industry regulatory requirements and complements the FDA's new risk-assessment approach.
By passing a rigorous audit prior to becoming Safe Feed/Safe Food-certified, a company demonstrates to customers and consumers its commitment to producing safe and healthy feed and food every single day.
Companies that meet the requirements of the voluntary Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program continuously improve by constantly evaluating possible risks during manufacturing and taking steps to reduce and control those risks along the way.
By reducing risks, companies enrolled in the Safe Feed/Safe Food program protect their reputations in the industry for delivering high-quality, consistent and safe products.
Certification is known to result in financial savings through reduced product liability.
Minimizing possible risks furthers brand identity, helps maintain overall financial stability and keeps bottom lines "in the black," thereby providing greater peace of mind to employees and customers.
Given current and often-volatile market conditions, the Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program goes a long way toward eliminating a measure of uncertainty felt by many businesses and households.
The Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program increases understanding of industry regulations by providing a guide to meeting and exceeding them. It also helps facilities anticipating possible, future regulations including the Food Safety Modernization Act.
The reward for meeting these requirements is continuous improvement in feed safety and plant operations.
The Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program is administered by the Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI). SQFI's mission is to deliver consistent, globally recognized food safety and quality certification programs based on sound scientific principles, consistently applied across all industry sectors, and valued by all stakeholders. Because of this, AFIA felt SQFI was a great partner for offering and administering the feed industry certification programs. AFIA will continue to provide technical support and expertise to the SF/SF certification as well as training, marketing and promotion for the program.
SQFI offers a wide choice of auditors for their programs, thus allowing Safe Feed/Safe Food participants greater options.


I read your section in the Powder Coated Tough magazine and appreciate your knowledge and expertise. I have a couple questions about super-durables. I've talked with many of the leading suppliers of powder coatings and get the same answer from each one on this question. Are "true" super-durables (powder coatings to meet or exceed AAMA 2604 standards) available in all RAL colors? Each supplier tells me bright colors don't have the color pigments available to meet AAMA 2604. In our experience, over 20 years in the powder coating industry, some suppliers abuse the term "super-durable" in my opinion. When I order powders and use the term "superdurable" I would expect it to meet a certain standard. Seems the only standard to go by is AAMA. I guess my question to you is, what is a true super-durable in the powder coating industry? I look forward to your response and again I appreciate you taking the time and your expertise. I hope you have a great week!
Your observations are right on the money. Here's the long and short of it – AAMA specs trump the term "super-durable." Superdurable refers to the polyester resin used in the formula and not the overall powder coating. Super-durable resins are just what they sound like – really UV-durable polymers. Pigmentation, additives, and fillers affect the performance of a coating, especially outdoor durability, heat resistance, and chemical resistance.
I run a medium-sized powder coating line at a metal fabrication facility. We have a 5-stage washer that utilizes an alkaline first stage and a zirconium-based fourth stage with stages 2, 3, and 5 being RO rinses. We have a partitioned drying/curing oven so adjusting one without impacting the other isn't possible.
We have a customer that wants us to powder coat their extruded anodized parts. I've read conflicting opinions on powder coating anodized parts. We powder coated some of their anodized parts in the past, several times, and each time we ran the anodized parts there were significant finish and coating adhesion issues – but only with their anodized parts. Since then we've stopped painting their anodized parts. We don't have the capability of acid etching or media blasting the parts and it isn't feasible to sand or scuff the parts.
Can we, without doing any of the above operations, powder coat anodized parts and have a reasonably high expectation of first run success?
We have seen the best performance over Type II anodizing that had been applied to clean aluminum that was shot blasted with glass media prior to the anodizing step. A higher incidence of sporadic adhesion failure was observed over Type III anodizing, which is thicker than Type II.
If any of our readers have powder coated over anodizing, we would be glad to hear about your experiences.


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Q: Send multiple values to Raspberry with Arduino using serial I have got a question about serial communication between Arduino and Raspberry Pi. The fact is I want to send 2 variables to Raspberry Pi with Arduino and use them in different ways.
Here my sketch for Arduino :
int one = 1;
int two = 2;

void setup()
{

     Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop()
{
   Serial.print(one);
   Serial.print(two);
   delay(3000);

}
Here my python script for Raspberry:
import serial
import time

ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0', 9600)
time.sleep(4)

while True:
    data=ser.read()
    print data

The problem is that 'data' in the python code takes the two values send by Arduino (because of two print in the Arduino loop() ). But I want to receive the datas in Raspberry Pi with two different variables (to record them after). I try many technics to receive these datas in two different ways, but it not work.
Thank you for your help.

A: Arduino's Serial.print sends data as ASCII.
So your commands from the Arduino actually send the string 12.
There is no way for Python do see where the first value ends and where the second one begins.
One solution is to use Serial.println instead of Serial.print.
This will add a carriage return and a newline after each call.
So the string will become 1\r\n2\r\n.
On the Python side you can then use the split method.
An example in IPython:
In [1]: recv = "1\r\n2\r\n"

In [2]: recv.split()
Out[2]: ['1', '2']

And you can then easily convert the values to integers.
In [3]: [int(j) for j in recv.split()]
Out[3]: [1, 2]

Note: it is possible for Python to get an incomplete message! So you just might receive the string 1 the first time you read and 2 during a second read! So you might want to consider formatting your data so you know you have received a complete message.
One option to do that is to format your data as JSON. In your example this would be {"one": 1, "two": 2}. In this simple calse you can check that you have received a complete message because it starts with a { and ends with a }. But you could also use Python's built-in JSON parser.
In [4]: data = {'one': 1, 'two': 2}

In [5]: import json

In [6]: json.dumps(data)
Out[6]: '{"two": 2, "one": 1}'

In [7]: recv2 = json.dumps(data)

In [8]: json.loads(recv2)
Out[8]: {'one': 1, 'two': 2}

Using the JSON parser has an advantage because it raises an exception when you try to parse an incomplete message:
In [10]: recv2
Out[10]: '{"two": 2, "one": 1}'

In [11]: recv3 = '{"two": 2, "on'

In [12]: json.loads(recv3)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
JSONDecodeError                           Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-12-c1774b41dafa> in <module>()
----> 1 json.loads(recv3)

/usr/local/lib/python3.5/json/__init__.py in loads(s, encoding, cls, object_hook, parse_float, parse_int, parse_constant, object_pairs_hook, **kw)
    317             parse_int is None and parse_float is None and
    318             parse_constant is None and object_pairs_hook is None and not kw):
--> 319         return _default_decoder.decode(s)
    320     if cls is None:
    321         cls = JSONDecoder

/usr/local/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py in decode(self, s, _w)
    337
    338         """
--> 339         obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
    340         end = _w(s, end).end()
    341         if end != len(s):

/usr/local/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py in raw_decode(self, s, idx)
    353         """
    354         try:
--> 355             obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
    356         except StopIteration as err:
    357             raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None

JSONDecodeError: Unterminated string starting at: line 1 column 12 (char 11)

The correct way to deal with this is to keep reading data from the serial port and appending it to a string until parsing the data doesn't fail;
import serial
import json
import time

ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0', 9600)

buffer = ''
while True:
    buffer += ser.read()
    try:
        data = json.loads(buffer)
        print(data)
        buffer = ''
    except json.JSONDecodeError:
        time.sleep(1)

A: Re,
In first I want to thank you for your answer and to make me discover Json.
So I tried your last python code and modify my Arduino code like this :
int one=1;
int two=2;
int three = 3;
int four = 4;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
    Serial.println("{\"one\":\"" + String(one) +
    "\", \"two\":\"" + String(two) +
    "\", \"three\":\"" + String(three) +
    "\", \"four\":\"" + String(four) +
    "\"}");
}

In raspberry Py when i execute the code (without a while), the console return nothing. It seems that data send juste one character.
Thanks again

A: Actually I am quite new in these applications but I accidentally found a way straightforward.
Well of course, Roland's answer already does the job perfectly. This solution can basically do-it-very-fast.
After writing these two lines below in Arduino;
   Serial.print(one);
   Serial.print(two);

Just go and read the lines in Raspberry with the same way;
   ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0', 9600, timeout=1)
   ser.flush()

   one = ser.readline().decode('utf-8').rstrip()
   two = ser.readline().decode('utf-8').rstrip()

I think the trick here putting two readline() subsequently read the lines printed by Arduino in accordance. At least it worked for me :)
Well, I am not expert, just a beginner.
Salutations,

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Antique Code Show How bereft the coin-op arcades of yesteryear must have looked before the arrival of the audacious, muscle-flexing Out Run machine. It's true that Hang On and Space Harrier laid the foundations a year before, but Out Run was Sega's golden moment in sit-down, "experience" videogame machinery.
There were two versions of the deluxe, non-upright cabinet, with the flashier one containing a 26-inch screen (whoa!) and luxury seat. Both contained heavy-duty motorised elements so that the plastic beasts could move and shake to simulate your car's racing manoeuvres.
Adults and children were duly lured to the steering wheel of the Ferrari Testarossa-like car – Sega hadn't gained the licence at this point. With the on-screen passenger seat filled by a provocatively dressed lady – who issues a good telling-off each time you crash – the game provided a heady fantasy for young and old alike.
No doubt there are still a few machines lurking in smoky old seaside haunts, more than 25 years on.
Sega's closely guarded "super scaler" code routines were employed to create the smooth moving, undulating roads and scenery. Unlike the standardized "System 16" hardware that would power Sega's bread-and-butter arcade titles for the rest of the 1980s, Out Run's hardware was custom designed, featuring two 68000 processors, both running at an impressively zippy 12.5MHz.
Hardware scaling took care of the vehicles and roadside scenery – of which there was an inordinate amount – on one layer. The road was made of tiled bitmaps on a separate layer, again scaled directly by the hardware, no less impressively. 128 sprites could be displayed simultaneously, shunted around at the breakneck speed needed to simulate driving a vehicle at almost 300 kilometres per hour.
Yu Suzuki, probably Sega's most infamous games producer – he would go on to create titles such as the Virtua Fighter and Shenmue series – was keen to bring realistic driving mechanics into video games.
"I wanted to make a driving game where people who were skilful drivers of cars could also achieve good results in the game," he later said. And so Out Run machines came complete with up/down gear shifters that needed to be used at just the right point for optimum acceleration, an analogue steering wheel and accelerator pedal, and a car that handled differently at higher and lower speeds.
A distant forerunner of Gran Turismo? Absolutely.
Originally inspired by the film Cannonball Run, Suzuki found American landscapes too vast and empty for his country-wide race game. Sega's R&D budget sent him on a handy European road trip that gave him the inspiration he needed for his roads and scenery, taking in Swiss mountain passes and Italian cities, allegedly with a video camera strapped to the rental car. All for that vital need to understand Ferrari's homegrown territory, of course.
The Romanesque stone arches of the second stage – after taking the left turning – are especially memorable, with the illusion of speed enhanced significantly by those tunnel-like sprites. As many boy-racers found out, the hypnosis induced by the twisting, repetitive scenery was also very good at sending your vehicle off road and into a spin.
Suzuki appreciated that sound needed to make a significant contribution to the overall experience so he decked Out Run cabinets out with chunky speakers right next to a player's lugholes. High-quality digitised voices and vehicle noise samples were pumped out by the same sound chip that had been used in the Space Harrier chip, a 4MHz Yamaha 2151.
Many years before Grand Theft Auto started dabbling with the idea, Out run allowed the player to change the car radio to one of three bands at the start of play. The Magical Sound Shower, Passing Breeze and Splash Wave backing tracks are the stuff of folklore to Out Run fans, with original and reworked versions cropping up in the remakes and spin-offs that have appeared over the years.
Inevitably, the home computer and console conversions became top-sellers on the back of the arcade game's success. Quality was variable, and it's a mark of the original title's graphical standards that it took the Sega Saturn release in 1996 – ten years after the debut of the original – for a fully realized, arcade-perfect conversion to finally do justice.


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Q: Larvel5 Global $config var - fetched form db? I have a config table which holds lots of configuration values,
How can I create a static helper/class that will be available globally on laravel?
for example, I have a view with the an input:
<input type="text" value="<?= SettingsHelper::getValue('my-settings-key'); ?>" />
And off course i don't want to query each time for it, just one query that gets all the configuration values.
Any ideas?

A: You can make like this,
class SettingHelper {

    protected $items;

    public function get($key, $default = null)
    {
        if ( empty($this->items))
        {
            $this->loadSettingData();
        }

        if ( array_key_exists($key, $this->items) )
        {
            return $this->items[$key];
        }

        return value($default);
    }

    protected function loadSettingData()
    {
        $this->items = Setting::all()->lists('key', 'value');
    }

}

Need to bind this class in Container with singleton.


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Egan eager to build
The Republic of Ireland centre-half believes fourth-placed United can improve further in the coming weeks
John Egan sees no reason why the Blades can't build further on a 'positive' start.
Speaking ahead of Saturday's trip to The Den to face Millwall, the Republic of Ireland centre-half believes fourth-placed United can improve further in the coming weeks.
He remarked: "It's been a really positive start. We're up and around the top of the division, where we want to be.
"We took time to gel, but after the first two games we've turned things around and won five games since.
"The break came at a bad time for us, we played well at Bristol and got nothing, before getting a draw at home to Birmingham.
"Preston are a tough side to play against, but thankfully we got the three points in the end, which was a really good result."
Egan added: "The manager is demanding we improve all the time and if we can learn and win games at the same time that would be fantastic.
"There are positives and negatives in every game, even from a win you can pick the bones from it and work on areas to improve on."
John Egan


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2023: Why Northerners must vote for Tinubu – Ganduje
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State on Saturday said the north has no reason not to vote for the APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2023 general election.
Ganduje who stated this during an event organized by a group known as Patriotic Volunteers for Democracy to show solidarity for Tinubu, said the APC National leader helped President Muhammadu Buhari to become the President after several attempts nothing that it is pay back time.
Besides, Ganduje said Tinubu is the most competent for the job describing him as one who is tested and trusted as he has an unbeatable track record.
According to him, "I don't do tribal sentiments. As at today, among the politicians I have not seen who loves Northerners than Tinubu. When PDP refused to return Atiku, he (Tinubu) gave him the Presidential flag bearer of his party. After that, he (Tinubu) also gave Nuhu Ribadu his party's Presidential flag bearer although he didn't win the election. But even at that he helped him.
"What about that of Buhari? Buhari contested for the Presidential election for three times without succeeding. It was Tinubu who settled for a merger and helped President Buhari to become President. After he became President, he (Tinubu) was not given any position and he never asked for it. But for the love of Nigeria, Democracy, Buhari and the North. He supported the government. So what about now? It is pay back time for Tinubu. It is time to give him that support. Northerners don't have any excuse not to support him? No reason. He (Tinubu) has won election in the North by God's willing.
"Nigeria needs a leader who has capacity, experience, knowledge, firmness, who understands governance in the country. We assure you, we have the best Presidential candidate in APC.
"We are not campaigning for him because he is a Yoruba neither because he is a Muslim but we are voting for him because he has the capacity. He has done it before and will do it again, he is tested and trusted. Since 1999 and after leaving office as the Governor of Lagos State, he has consistently lead his party to victory. No politician in Nigeria for the past 21 years, with that unbeatable track record.
"His running mate, Kashim Shettima was the former Governor of Borno for eight years, Chairman of Northern Governors Forum in APC who provided good leadership. What else do we need? We need a competent and strong team and that with foresight. Tinubu/Shettima is the right team to rule Nigeria come 2023.
"Let's come back to Kano, do we need any trash to rule Kano? We need people with experience, maturity, understand governance. We don't need a green horn, we need someone who will continue from where we stop," the Governor said.
Ganduje commended the organizers of the event for it contribution to sensitize the populace to register and collect their PVCs as well as ensuring they carry out peaceful campaigns without carrying weapons.
The Secretary to the State Government and Leader of the group, Patriotic Volunteers, Usman Alhaji vowed to deliver 600,000 votes to the party in the forthcoming general elections.
He promised to go round the nooks and crannies of the state to mobilize supporters to vote and ensure the victory of the party.


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Language as a major step towards integration: Huda and Sulin's achievement
The ASB NFE team helps two young women to prepare and take a language exam at Center for the Study of the Hellenic Language and Culture DI.K.E.P.P.E.E. "Stavros Niarchos" at Ioannina University. With the support of IOM Greece
Huda and Sulin Abdullrahmani arrived in Greece with their parents and six other siblings around three years ago, from Iraq. For some time, this family stayed in Thessaloniki, but shortly after they moved to the Filippiada site.
Soon upon their arrival at Filippiada the sisters expressed the wish to learn Greek and joined ASB Non – Formal Education classes. With the support of Sofia Malami, ASB educator, they immediately showed dedication and as Sofia explained to us, she thoroughly enjoyed teaching Huda and Sulin. She said: "They are very consistent and diligent students, very interested in education in general, not only to learn new languages but also many other subjects. I am very happy to be able to assist such well educated enthusiastic young people"!
Two years have passed since the two commenced their Greek lessons. The idea for the exam came at the beginning of this year, as the teacher had noticed they had a good level of Greek and a possibility to get awarded for their hard work by participating and giving a language exam at the Center for the Study of the Hellenic Language and Culture DI.K.E.P.P.E.E. "Stavros Niarchos" at Ioannina University. Both grabbed the opportunity and took it as an incentive to continue studying and prepared themselves as best as possible.
The ASB NFE team then undertook all the necessary application procedures at the Center for Study. Initially, the exam was set for June, but due to the Covid 19 situation, it was postponed and finally arranged for the 5th October, which gave them even more time to improve their knowledge and prepare.
On the day of the exam, ASB assisted with transportation and facilitated with formalities at the University. During the trip to Ioannina, the girls were very enthusiastic and optimistic, demonstrating a high level of self-confidence. Both of them expressed their willingness to even stay in Greece, if possible, to find a job or study and fully integrate into local society.
After the exam was over, Huda and Sulin came out with a big glowing smile, saying that they are very satisfied with how the exam went and they expect good results. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) exam consists of four sections: writing, listening, speaking and reading. The results will be available within a month or two, after which they will receive an internationally recognized certificate.
Since we were already in the University campus, we walked around a bit. This short walk around was much appreciated, and they expressed once again, their determination to continue with their studies one day. A special surprise was the presence of their mentor Mrs Sofia Malami, who came to support and encourage them.
Sulin would like to become a police officer, while Huda would love to attend Medical School, and would like to become a doctor. No one knows whether they will change their mind or be successful in achieving their dreams, but these two young people are certainly a shining example of the determination of accepting challenges and following the path of education and good values in their lives. We wish them the best.
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Trading in e-Commodities Halted
Investors can take delivery or wait
With the government banning the e-series on NSEL, investors are likely to be stuck for some time.
Yogini Joglekar, Business Standard 6/8/2013
source: http://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/investors-can-take-delivery-or-wait-113080600965_1.html
The ban of the e-series contract on the National Spot Exchange could put retail investors, who were betting on commodities, in trouble. The e-series contract was targeted towards small investors who could buy small quantities even up to one or two grams of their preferred commodity.
One could also use the systematic investment plan (SIP) route to accumulate gold or silver over a longer period of time. There was the option of getting these goods delivered to jewellers when one wanted to convert it into jewellery.
But after the government's decision, which many experts say is a temporary one, retail investors who have been using this route to save gold will find themselves in trouble. According to experts, one option for them is to take delivery of the commodity and then, sell it in the market. It is quite a cumbersome process because taking physical delivery of gold or silver might not be huge in quantity but it is a risk that retail investors may not want to take. On the other hand, one may look at waiting out the tough period.
Unless the ban is revoked soon, SIP investors will find that their instalments aren't going through. Chintan Modi, head of commodities at India InfoLine says, 'It is the investor's choice to either wait or discontinue the plan.'
At present, NSEL allows converting gold units into coins or bars of 8, 10, 100 gm and one kg. It charges Rs 200 each for conversion of 8 and 10 gm coins, Rs 100 for 100 gm and no charge for one-kg bar. You will also have to pay a value-added tax at one per cent and Octroi for conversion of electronic units into physical coins (for Mumbai = 0.1 per cent). Taking delivery of investments held in e-series can prove to be a tad expensive due to its various fees and charges.
For instance, one can take delivery in the form of coins, available in eight and 10, 100 grams or one kg at a cost of Rs 200, plus one per cent value added tax (VAT). Here, gold is bought in electronic form, and held in a demat account with an exchange empanelled depository participant. One unit of e-gold is equal to one gram of physical gold. One has to pay annual maintenance fee towards their Demat account which is in the range of Rs 400 and Rs 500. Since, the exchange has various delivery centers across India, Octroi charges (on delivery) will also have to be borne by the investor himself. The octroi charges will differ from city to city.
Hemant Rustagi of Wiseinvest says, 'While e-gold is flexible and convenient to invest in, it is not as tax-friendly as gold ETFs.' One can buy as low as one gram in products of E-series and one can do so even after the market hours However, it has its flip side too. 'There is no long term capital gains tax if a person stays invested in e-series for 24 months, whereas the same benefit is available in gold ETFs and Gold savings plans right after 12 months.' In addition, gold ETFs are not subject to wealth tax, unlike in case of E-gold.
http://www.livemint.com/Money/FWKFxZKEdwxSXW3uH9vQcJ/NSEL-halts-trading-in-eseries-contracts.html
http://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/govt-bans-e-series-contracts-on-nsel-113080600970_1.html
National Spot Exchange Trading Banned, NSEL Trading Banned, e-Series e-Commodities e-Gold e-Series Trading Stopped, Physical Delivery of e-Gold e-Commodities
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Reliance Jio to Make the Most Out of Tariff Hike With Increased ARPU and Revenue
The Mukesh Ambani led telecom operator, Reliance Jio, is set to gain the most from the latest tariff hike, which has happened in the telecom industry. With this new report from ET Telecom, we have come to know that after a long time, Reliance Jio is finally moving away from deep discounting which has been one of its prime methods to lure new customers and something that has worked well for the telco in the past. The analysts have also shared their findings on the matter and said that the new tariff plans from Reliance Jio which are as much as 40% more pricy than the previous ones would push the EBITDA of the telecom operator by 33%. This upliftment in the EBITDA would translate to $1.5 billion for FY 2020-21 extra for the telecom operator in the FY20-21. Not only this, but the new tariff hike would also help the telecom operator in upping its Average Revenue Per User (ARPU)
, a very important industry parameter by 28% to 29%. This would bump up the ARPU to Rs 157 from its current levels.
Reliance Jio ARPU to Witness a Rise
In a note to its clients, SBICap Securities remarked: "Jio has also introduced a new 56-day category — offering more voice calling benefits (IUC minutes) vs the 28-day category — that comes at a higher cost per GB pricing for the consumer, which suggests that Jio no longer intends to incentivise deep discounting." Not only this, but the analysts have also said that till March 2020, the subscriber addition of Reliance Jio is expected to continue at the same pace with 9 million subscribers joining the telecom operator, and after that in FY20-21, the subscriber addition is expected to continue at the pace of 4 million a month. The analysts maintained their stance that the most to gain from the tariff hike would actually be Reliance Jio.
The new tariff plans from Reliance Jio have become effective starting today, and while some of the plans have been hiked by as much as 40% for Reliance Jio customers, still a lot of plans of Jio retail at 25% lower price than that of the incumbents like Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea. As opposed to this, in some cases, the prices of the plans have been hiked by as much as 50% by these competing telecom operators.
Jio ARPU Also to be Helped by JioPhone Users
Analysts from CLSA also chipped in this regard and said that the JioPhone customer base would also be a decisive factor in the case of Reliance Jio's revenue. Almost 20% of the subscriber base of Reliance Jio comes from JioPhone users. Now with the tariff hike in place, the JioPhone users might decide to recharge with 28 days validity plans instead of the long term validity plans meaning that these subscribers would further increase the ARPU of the company. Therefore, in FY21, the Jio ARPU could go up by 6% and EBITDA by 11%. The analysts further said that they expect another 10% tariff hike by April 2021. Not only this, but the telecom operator will also be helped by the IUC charges which it has introduced on the outgoing calls to other operators at 6 paise per minute.
A Goldman Sachs analyst also remarked that the ARPU increase will be substantial for Jio and would be more than what the other telecom operators witness. Whilst Jio will see a Rs 37 increment on its ARPU, Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel will see around Rs 24 to Rs 27.
Arpit Sharma
Arpit spends his day closely following the telecom and tech industry. A music connoisseur and a night owl, he also takes a deep interest in the Indian technology start-up scene and spends rest of his time spilling poetry and stories on paper.
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