Taiwan Workcation
I just got back from a 2.5 week workcation. I wanted to get out of town & get some new ideas, inspiration, and soak in some culture from outside of the US. Since I have family in Taiwan, it seemed like a pretty easy & low risk choice.
I still had to work, so I decided I’d work PT, but in Taiwan. Taiwan is 16 hours ahead (add 4 hours to PT and switch the AM/PM) – so I work from 12am-9am in Taiwan (8am-5pm PT). Sleep from 11am-6pm, work on side projects until 12am and then back to Coupa work. Weekends were mine.
Overall, Taiwan was awesome. The food there is amazing – cheap, fast, delicious, and everywhere. Transportation is fast and readily available. People are really friendly. Altogether, it was really fun & interesting to see the differences between their society and ours.
Lots of things stood out, but 2 things that really impressed me were the transportation and the self-serve culture.
Transportation
As mentioned above, getting around was really easy – and a better overall experience than anything I’ve dealt with in America. There are cabs & buses everywhere – you can flag a cab anywhere at any time in under a minute. Plus the bus has a free app that will send you a push notification when it’s close. Really nice, the first implementation I’ve seen of ‘objects talking to objects’. Pretty awesome.
But the real winner in Taiwanese transportation is the subway system. Cheap, fast, on time, and clean. What’s really amazing is the card. You get a plastic card that you load with money – you tap it against a terminal to get in, and tap again to get out. So much better than swipe or insert ticket – pretty small detail, but made everything just that much easier & faster.
Now, the really nice thing about this card is the integration of this card with the rest of Taiwan. You can use it at any 7-11/corner store (these are everywhere – often multiple on a single block). It’s also getting integrated into apartments.  So awesome.
Overall, getting around in Taiwan is just easy. And you only need a single card to leave the house.
Bonus – Taiwan also has a bunch of public bike racks around town that you can check out and ride around. It’s free for the first 30 minutes, and there’s a corresponding app that tells you where they are, where you can park, etc. And to check a bike out, you just need to use your subway card.
Self Serve Culture
Outside of transportation, one of the major differences that I noticed between Taiwan and America was an inherent culture of self serve. Everything and everyone seemed to be very self contained and respectful of their surroundings.
When you walk into a restaurant, you seat yourself. You don’t get offered water. You grab the menu yourself. If you want to order, you go up and order. This pattern was everywhere – food, shopping, etc.
The most prominent thing was how clean everything was. Because space is a constraint, everything is shared. Tables, chairs, personal space. And because of the volume of people, nobody cleans up after you. So everything is shared by lots of people, yet still remain clean. Sharp contrast to shared American public utilities. The biggest surprise to me was the subway – 1000’s of people getting on and off hundreds of times a day, and no litter.
Overall, my trip was great. My main takeaways – Taiwan seems to be a faster moving country than America in terms of integrating technology into mainstream life. I suspect this is a byproduct of the fact that Taiwan is much smaller; therefore, change is easier.
The other thing was the respect an awareness of the surrounding environment. People were largely self policing – which was pretty amazing to see at a large scale. In America we sometimes see this behavior in controlled environments, but to see the general population behave this way was cool.
Definitely going to return, would love to bring some of that back to America :).


...
...
Have questions? Want more information?
Contact us at the following:
Nawar Malhis:
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Joerg Gsponer:
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Web Application and Visualizations:
Matthew Jacobson:
jacobsonmt.com
...


Saved in alien_message/0747cd11edbf2310cdca76c274f44201.php
Looks like the aliens aren't here, so please leave the message, they will come later.
Save


This is a demonstration of how data can be passed down the component tree with input binding.
Parent Value: {{parentModel}}


Despite its preference for the MacRoman encoding, AppleScript does handle Unicode, but ironically, to get that to work, I had to include the string “«class utf8»” – the chevrons in which must of course be encoded just right.
After much pain, I came to realize it’d be best to just create a separate .scpt
file for the AppleScript, encoded in its native MacRoman, and call that from the shell script, i.e.
1
|
|
Before that moment of zen, I did this, which also works but is rumoured to kill kittens:
1 2 |
|


What do the terms partial, class and extends stand for?
partial class introduces a datatype. A partial class is incomplete, so you cannot create an instance of it.
class introduces a variant.
extends connects a variant to a datatype.


Country
has GINI
has HDI
has Population
Japan
-38,000
9,120
13,000
France
32,007
89,003
4,000
Argentina
44,500
8,110
1,900
USA
45,000
93,700
9,000


Sign in
Sign in Up2U company
perm_identity
Username
person
Password
Sign In
x
Incorrect username or password
Please check your password.
Sign up for a new user
Home
Sign Up


{% extends "global/Page.html" %} {% load staticfiles otree %} {% block title %} Practice {% endblock %} {% block content %} {% include 'trust_tutorial/Directions.html' %}
To make sure you understand the game, you will first do a couple of practice problems
Suppose that the multiplication factor is 2 , P1's endowment is 12 and P2's endowment is 9. If P1 sends 6 of their points to P2, how much does each player have before P2 sends anything back?
{% formfield player.answer1 %} {% formfield player.answer2 %}{#Suppose that P2 sends back {{ participant.vars.question_numbers.4 }} points. How much does each player have after P2 does this?#} Suppose that P2 sends back 4 points. How much does each player have after P2 does this?
{% formfield player.answer3 %} {% formfield player.answer4 %} {% next_button %} {% endblock %} {##} {#Suppose that the multiplication factor is 2, P1's#} {# endowment is 10 and P2's endowment is 5.#} {# If P1 sends 3 of their points to P2. How much does each player have before P2 sends anything back? #} {#
#}


"x" "1" "STUPPNER,H, STUPPNER,H AND RODRIGUEZ,E, A NOVEL ENOL-PSEUDOGUAIANOLIDEFROM PSILOSTROPHE COOPERI, PHYTOCHEMISTRY 27(8):2681-2684, 1988"


DEBCHECKOUT(1) DEBCHECKOUT(1) NAME debcheckout - checkout the development repository of a Debian package SYNOPSIS debcheckout [OPTIONS] PACKAGE [DESTDIR] debcheckout [OPTIONS] REPOSITORY_URL [DESTDIR] debcheckout --help DESCRIPTION debcheckout retrieves the information about the Version Control System used to maintain a given Debian package (the PACKAGE argument), and then checks out the latest (potentially unreleased) version of the package from its repository. By default the repository is checked out to the PACKAGE directory; this can be overridden by providing the DESTDIR argument. The information about where the repository is available is expected to be found in Vcs-* fields available in the source package record. For example, the vim package exposes such information with a field like Vcs-Hg:Â http://hg.debian.org/hg/pkg-vim/vim, you can see it by grepping through apt-cache showsrc vim. If more than one source package record containing Vcs-* fields is available, debcheckout will select the record with the highest version number. Alternatively, a particular version may be selected from those available by specifying the package name as PACKAGE=VERSION. If you already know the URL of a given repository you can invoke debcheckout directly on it, but you will probably need to pass the appropriate -t flag. That is, some heuristics are in use to guess the repository type from the URL; if they fail, you might want to override the guessed type using -t. The currently supported version control systems are: Arch (arch), Bazaar (bzr), CVS (cvs), Darcs (darcs), Git (git), Mercurial (hg) and Subversion (svn). OPTIONS GENERAL OPTIONS -a, --auth Work in authenticated mode; this means that for known repositories (mainly those hosted on http://alioth.debian.org) URL rewriting is attempted before checking out, to ensure that the repository can be committed to. For example, for Subversion repositories hosted on alioth this means that svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/... will be used instead of svn://svn.debian.org/.... -d, --details Only print a list of detailed information about the package repository, without checking it out; the output format is a list of fields, each field being a pair of TAB-separated field name and field value. The actual fields depend on the repository type. This action might require a network connection to the remote repository. Also see -p. This option and -p are mutually exclusive. -h, --help Print a detailed help message and exit. -p, --print Only print a summary about package repository information, without checking it out; the output format is TAB-separated with two fields: repository type, repository URL. This action works offline, it only uses "static" information as known by APT's cache. Also see -d. This option and -d are mutually exclusive. -P package, --package package When checking out a repository URL, instead of trying to guess the package name from the URL, use this package name. -t TYPE, --type TYPE Override the repository type (which defaults to some heuristics based on the URL or, in case of heuristic failure, the fallback "svn"); should be one of the currently supported repository types. -u USERNAME, --user USERNAME Specify the login name to be used in authenticated mode (see -a). This option implies -a: you don't need to specify both. -f, --file Specify that the named file should be extracted from the repository and placed in the destination directory. May be used more than once to extract mutliple files. --source=never|auto|download-only|always Some packages only place the debian directory in version control. debcheckout can retrieve the remaining parts of the source using apt- get source and move the files into the checkout. never Only use the repository. auto (default) If the repository only contains the debian directory, retrieve the source package, unpack it, and also place the .orig.tar.gz file into the current directory. Else, do nothing. download-only Always retrieve the .orig.tar.gz file, but do not unpack it. always Always retrieve the .orig.tar.gz file, and if the repository only contains the debian directory, unpack it. VCS-SPECIFIC OPTIONS GIT-SPECIFIC OPTIONS --git-track BRANCHES Specify a list of remote branches which will be set up for tracking (as in gitÂ branchÂ --track, see git-branch(1)) after the remote Git repository has been cloned. The list should be given as a space- separated list of branch names. As a shorthand, the string "*" can be given to require tracking of all remote branches. CONFIGURATION VARIABLES The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are sourced by a shell in that order to set configuration variables. Command line options can be used to override configuration file settings. Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose. The currently recognised variables are: DEBCHECKOUT_AUTH_URLS This variable should be a space separated list of Perl regular expressions and replacement texts, which must come in pairs: REGEXP TEXT REGEXP TEXT ... and so on. Each pair denotes a substitution which is applied to repository URLs if other built-in means of building URLs for authenticated mode (see -a) have failed. References to matching substrings in the replacement texts are allowed as usual in Perl by the means of $1, $2, ... and so on. This setting can be used to enable authenticated mode for most repositories out there. Note that the Debian repositories on alioth.debian.org ($vcs.debian.org) are implicitly defined. Here is a sample snippet suitable for the configuration files: DEBCHECKOUT_AUTH_URLS=' ^\w+://(svn\.example\.com)/(.*) svn+ssh://$1/srv/svn/$2 ^\w+://(git\.example\.com)/(.*) git+ssh://$1/home/git/$2 ' Note that whitespace is not allowed in either regexps or replacement texts. Also, given that configuration files are sourced by a shell, you probably want to use single quotes around the value of this variable. DEBCHECKOUT_SOURCE This variable determines under what scenarios the associated orig.tar.gz for a package will be downloaded. See the --source option for a description of the values. SEE ALSO apt-cache(8), Section 6.2.5 of the Debian Developer's Reference (for more information about Vcs-* fields): http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-vcs. AUTHOR debcheckout and this manpage have been written by Stefano Zacchiroli<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Debian Utilities 2013-12-23 DEBCHECKOUT(1)


| 009:052 Khan | : |
Say: "Do you wait for us (anything) except one of the two best things (martyrdom or victory); while we await for you either that Allah will afflict you with a punishment from Himself or at our hands. So wait, we too are waiting with you." |
| 009:052 Maulana | : |
Say: Do you await for us but one of two most excellent things? And we await for you that Allah will afflict you with chastisement from Himself or by our hands. So wait; we too are waiting with you. |
| 009:052 Pickthal | : |
Say: Can ye await for us aught save one of two good things (death or victory in Allah's way)? while we await for you that Allah will afflict you with a doom from Him or at our hands. Await then! Lo! We are awaiting with you. |
| 009:052 Rashad | : |
Say, "You can only expect for us one of two good things (victory or martyrdom), while we expect for you condemnation from GOD and retribution from Him, or at our hands. Therefore, wait, and we will wait along with you." |
| 009:052 Sarwar | : |
For us, you can anticipate nothing other than Paradise if we are killed or success if we triumph. However, what we can anticipate for you is either punishment by the hands of God or by ours. Wait and we, too, are waiting with you. |
| 009:052 Shakir | : |
Say: Do you await for us but one of two most excellent things? And we await for you that Allah will afflict you with punishment from Himself or by our hands. So wait; we too will wait with you. |
| 009:052 Sherali | : |
Say, 'You do not await for us aught save one of the two good things, while we wait that ALLAH will afflict you with a punishment either from Himself or at our hands. Wait then, we also are waiting.' |
| 009:052 Yusufali | : |
Say: "Can you expect for us (any fate) other than one of two glorious things- (Martyrdom or victory)? But we can expect for you either that Allah will send his punishment from Himself, or by our hands. So wait (expectant); we too will wait with you." |
Concepts/Themes Covered: أركان الإسلام > التوحيد > توحيد الله تعالي > إنذار من لا يعترف بتوحيد الله تعالي بالانتقام Pillars of Islam> Islamic> Oneness of Allah>A Warning to all who do not Acknowledge his Glory Oneness that He'll take Retribution from them الإيمان > الإيمان بالله > النفاق Faith> Belief In Allah> Hypocrisy الإيمان > المؤمنون > ولاية الله للمؤمنين Faith> The Believers> Allah Protection of the Believers الجهاد > الجهاد في سبيل الإسلام > أشرار الجند Jihad> The Call to Jihad>The Wicked Soldiers الجهاد > الجهاد في سبيل الإسلام > ذم المتخاذلين عن الجهاد Jihad> The Call to Jihad>Dispraise the Reluctant for the Holy War الجهاد > الغزوات > غزوة تبوك Jihad> The Holy Battles> Tabuk Battle
This tool uses eight English parallel translations for the Holy Quran imported from Mr. Clay Smith. You can also visit Qurany Concepts for browsing the Quran themes or topics. If you want to search the Holy Quran for keywords, please visit Qurany Keywords.


New 16-inch MacBook Pro On Sale for $140 Off [Deal]
by iClarifiedApple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro is in stock and on sale for $140 off today via Amazon.com.
The new MacBook Pro features a 16-inch Retina Display, 8-core processors, up to 64GB of RAM, next-generation graphics with up to 8GB of VRAM and a new advanced thermal design. There's also a new Magic Keyboard with a redesigned scissor mechanism and 1mm travel for a more satisfying key feel; as well as, a six-speaker sound system, longer battery life, Touch Bar, Touch ID, the Force Touch trackpad and the Apple T2 Security Chip.
The base configuration of the 16-inch MacBook Pro with a 512GB HD retails for $2399 but is now available for $2259 at the link below.
Grab the deal while supplies last!
Get Deal


- No images! Just a JS and a CSS file
- Very intuitive Photoshop-like interface
- Light and dark easy-to-customize CSS3 skins
- 28 KB total loaded by the browser
- Works and looks nice even on IE7
- Extremely easy to implement
Usage
Download the plugin and add colpick.js and colpick.css to the head of your documents:
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/colpick.css" type="text/css"/>
Now you may call the colpick
method on any jQuery object to create a color picker. By default you get a dropdown color picker:
Example - defaults
HTML
<button id="picker">Show Color Picker</button>
JS
$('#picker').colpick();
Options
Several options passed to the colpick function as an object allow you to customize the color picker. For example, passing flat:true
makes the color picker always visible, as in the following example.
Example - Flat mode, hex layout, no submit button
HTML

JS
$('#picker').colpick({ flat:true, layout:'hex', submit:0 });
All the available options are:
| Option | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| flat | boolean | Flat mode just displays the color picker in place, always visible, with no show/hide behavior. Use it with colpickShow() and colpickHide() to define your own show/hide behavior or if you want the picker to be always visible. Default: false |
| layout | string | Name of the color picker layout to use. Posible values are 'full' (RGB, HEX, and HSB fields), 'rgbhex' (no HSB fields) and hex (no HSB, no RGB). You can see the full layout at the top of the page. rgbhex and hex layouts are shown in the examples below. Default: 'full' |
| submit | boolean | If false the picker has no submit or OK button and no previous color viewer. If false use onChange function to get the picked color. Default: true |
| colorScheme | string | The color scheme to use for the picker, 'light' or 'dark'. Default: 'light' |
| submitText | string | The text to show on the submit button if active. Default: 'OK' |
| color | string or object | Default color. Hex string (eg. 'ff0000') or object for RGB (eg. {r:255, g:0, b:0}) and HSB (eg. {h:0, s:100, b:100}). Default: '11ff00' |
| showEvent | string | Event that shows the color picker. Default: 'click' |
| livePreview | boolean | If true color values change live while the user moves a selector or types in a field. Turn it off to improve speed. Default: true |
| onBeforeShow | function | Callback function triggered before the color picker is shown. Use it to define custom behavior. Should receive a colorpicker DOM object. |
| onShow | function | Callback function triggered when the color picker is shown. Use it to define custom behavior. Should receive a colorpicker DOM object. |
| onHide | function | Callback function triggered when the color picker is hidden. Use it to define custom behavior. Should receive a colorpicker DOM object. |
| onChange | function | Callback function triggered when the color is changed. This is the function that allows you to get the color picked by the user whenever it changes, whithout the user pressing the OK button. Should receive:
|
| onSubmit | function | Callback function triggered when the color is chosen by the user, using the OK button. Should receive exactly the same as onChange. It's never fired if using submit:0 option. |
jQuery.fn Functions
These functions are the color picker's interface. Use them to control the color picker externally, but not to get color values. To retrieve color values from the picker use the onSubmit and onChange callbacks.
| Function | Description |
|---|---|
| colpick(options) | The main function used to create a color picker. |
| colpickHide() | Hides de color picker. Accepts no arguments. Use it to hide the picker with an external trigger. |
| colpickShow() | Shows the color picker. Accepts no arguments. Use it to show the picker with an external trigger. |
| colpickSetColor(col,setCurrent) | Use it to set the picker color. The onChange callback is fired with bySetColor set to true. Parameters:
|
jQuery Functions
The following functions are used internally by the color picker. However, they may also be required as utility functions by your application. They are made available as jQuery functions:
| Function | Description |
|---|---|
| $.colpick.rgbToHex(rgb) | Receives an object like {r:255, g:0, b:0} and returns the corresponding HEX string (with no #). |
| $.colpick.rgbToHsb(rgb) | Receives an object like {r:255, g:0, b:0} and returns the corresponding HSB object (eg. {h:0, s:100, b:100}). HSB values are not rounded. H is in the [0,360] range, while S and B are in the [0,100] range. |
| $.colpick.hsbToHex(hsb) | Receives an object like {h:0, s:100, b:100} and returns the corresponding HEX string (with no #). |
| $.colpick.hsbToRgb(hsb) | Receives an object like {h:0, s:100, b:100} and returns the corresponding RGB object (eg. {r:255, g:0, b:0}). RGB values are whole numbers in the [0,255] range. |
| $.colpick.hexToHsb(hex) | Receives a hex string with no # and returns the corresponding HSB object (eg. {h:0, s:100, b:100}). HSB values are not rounded. H is in the [0,360] range, while S and B are in the [0,100] range. |
| $.colpick.hexToRgb(hex) | Receives a hex string with no # and returns the corresponding RGB object (eg. {r:255, g:0, b:0}). RGB values are whole numbers in the [0,255] range. |
Examples
Example - HEX textfield using onChange callback
HTML
# <input type="text" id="picker"></input>
JS
$('#picker').colpick({ layout:'hex', submit:0, colorScheme:'dark', onChange:function(hsb,hex,rgb,el,bySetColor) { $(el).css('border-color','#'+hex); // Fill the text box just if the color was set using the picker, and not the colpickSetColor function. if(!bySetColor) $(el).val(hex); } }).keyup(function(){ $(this).colpickSetColor(this.value); });
CSS
#picker { margin:0; padding:0; border:0; width:70px; height:20px; border-right:20px solid green; line-height:20px; }
Example - Color boxes using onSubmit callback and rgbhex layout
HTML

JS
$('.color-box').colpick({ colorScheme:'dark', layout:'rgbhex', color:'ff8800', onSubmit:function(hsb,hex,rgb,el) { $(el).css('background-color', '#'+hex); $(el).colpickHide(); } }) .css('background-color', '#ff8800');
CSS
.color-box { float:left; width:30px; height:30px; margin:5px; border: 1px solid white; }


Ever since the invention of the digital optical sensor, photography has been tightly involved with digital technology. By now digital cameras have become mainstream and analog cameras are rarely ever still seen.
Digital cameras have enabled us to more easily create, manipulate and share our photos. This is the main reason digital photography has become so widespread.
Digital photography has many advantages over other forms of capturing
The cost of cameras has increased compared to analong cameras as digital cameras are more complex, but the cost of taking an images is not basically free, as digital medium is a lot cheaper than photographic film. This allows us to take more photos without additional cost.


MAJOR LEAGUE: BACK TO THE MINORS A film review by Matt Williams
RATING: * out of * * * *
Well, you just can't keep a good franchise down...or a bad one from the looks of it. Major League, a mildly amusing film that stretched for it's first sequel now returns for a third try. However, with most of the original cast absent (most notably Charlie Sheen and Tom Berenger), the Cleveland Indians nowhere in sight, and the shift of focus away from the major league, it's a pretty big stretch to call this film a sequel.
Corbin Bernsen is the biggest name to return, as Roger Dorn. He helps to run the Minnesota Twins, and needs a new manager for their AAA minor league team, the Buzz. He finds his man in worn-out pitcher Gus Cantrell (Scott Bakula).
However, Gus finds the Buzz is full of misfits (surprise, surprise). There's only one promising player, Downtown Anderson (Walt Goggis), among the bunch. Though Gus does recruit former Major League players Pedor Cerrano (Dennis Haysbert) and Isuro Tanaka (Takaaki Ishibashi) for his minor league team. Let the wackiness ensue!!!
As you would expect, the Buzz starts out horribly, but then miraculously turns into a good team. So good, in fact, that Gus puts out a challenge to his rival, Leonard Huff (Ted McGinley), manager of the Twins, to pit the minor league Buzz vs. the major league Twins.
You know you're likely in trouble when a film can't even attract the likes of Charlie Sheen or Tom Berenger to return, and when a pair of out-of-work tv stars topline the movie, that trouble's almost certain. To their credit, the filmmakers know their formula cold, but the film doesn't even make the slightest effort to deviate from the norm.
The jokes they pile upon the film aren't as bad as they are simply tired. (Hey! A guy gets bonked in the head with a baseball! Whoa! Haven't seen that one before!) Some of the baseball commentary (by Bob Uecker again) gets a chuckle or two, but it's not even up to the low standards of the last Major League film.
As the lead, Scott Bakula has some talent, but I hope he's not trying to showcase it here. He ran through this old formula once before in Unnecessary Roughness (ok, that was football, but the bad-sports-team concept still holds). He doesn't uncover anything new this time out.
There are no real standouts among the rest of the cast. Each player has his quirk, and there's not much beyond that. Hardly any of them even rate a personality.
It's amazing that this one avoided going direct-to-video. There's no reason to see it on film...in fact, there are several reasons against seeing it at all. But, it isn't absolutely horrible, and could service as a last-choice rental.
Copyright 1998 Matt Williams
- Matt Williams<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Reviewer for Cinematter: http://www.cinematter.com Home of over 500 reviews, and information on over 600 upcoming releases
The review above was posted to the
rec.arts.movies.reviews newsgroup (de.rec.film.kritiken for German reviews).
The Internet Movie Database accepts no responsibility for the contents of the
review and has no editorial control. Unless stated otherwise, the copyright
belongs to the author.
Please direct comments/criticisms of the review to relevant newsgroups.
Broken URLs inthe reviews are the responsibility of the author.
The formatting of the review is likely to differ from the original due
to ASCII to HTML conversion.
Related links: index of all rec.arts.movies.reviews reviews


--- layout: default title: Java Libraries ---
Chulobot is a highly scalable and flexible Web Crawler written in Java.
A Round-Robin Iterator that traverses values in Round-Robin order, and can add and remove values in constant time.


{% import 'linguistics/words/macros.html' as words_macros with context %} {{words_macros.render_word(drawer)}}


Best ⌚for Black Friday
Best Smartwatch and Fitness Tracker Deals Black Friday 2019: Apple Watch, Fitbit, Android, Galaxy [Updated]
by Jeramy JohnsonThe number of smartwatches and fitness trackers out there in the market today is overwhelming, but there's light at the end of the tunnel: just about all of them, in every category, are discounted for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
There are many different kinds of smart wearables and brands to consider, so we've broken down some of the top questions we get about smartwatches and fitness trackers and have rounded up some of the best deals available right now. You're bound to find a great deal!
Best Black Friday smartwatch and fitness tracker deals
Fitbit Versa 2
The Fitbit Versa 2 is arguably the most fully-featured wearable available from Fitbit. It is a significant upgrade over the company's previous smartwatches, featuring a much better always-on OLED display, improved battery life of up to five days on a single charge, and on-device access to Amazon's Alexa smart voice assistant. There have been a lot of deals recently, but none better than these Black Friday deals we've been seeing at up to $50 off!
Best Black Friday deals: Over 200 deals updated in real time
Amazon's Fire Tablet is the one Black Friday purchase you NEED to make!
Great Fitness Watch
Fitbit Versa 2
Smartwatch with smart assistant
The Versa 2 boasts a slim design, AMOLED display, improved battery life, and tons of fitness features at an affordable price.
Apple Watch
If you are an iOS user, there really isn't a better smartwatch than the Apple Watch (heck, it's the best smartwatch period, regardless of platform!). The Series 5 is the latest and greatest Apple Watch, and unbelievably we're seeing deals up to $20 off or more!
The BEST Smartwatch
Apple Watch Series 5
The best Apple Watch at the best price
The Apple Watch Series 5 features an even better-looking, always-on display and the best smartwatch experience period for iPhone users.
Garmin Wearables
While not necessarily the most fully-featured wearables in the "smart" watch space, Garmin does make excellent fitness wearables that have some smart features built-in. Here are a few of our favorites that we've seen on special this Black Friday week.
High-end Smarts
Garmin fenix 5s
Tracking in class
The fenix line is Gamin's top-of-the line smartwatch, and this particular version is perfect for those with smaller wrists. It's up to 50% off for Black Friday, which is the best price we've seen!
Great for Runners
Garmin Forerunner 645
Lead the pack
The Garmin Forerunner 645 is an excellent GPS smartwatch made specifically for serious runners. You can also pick up a version that can store music from Amazon or Spotify for those long, grueling training sessions.
Smart Fitness Watch
Garmin Vivoactive 3
Still a smart bargin
The Vivoactive 3 is getting a little long in the tooth, but it still is a great fitness watch with smart features like notifications and NFC for mobile payments.
Smart Fitness Band
Garmin Vivosmart 4
Keep track of your health
This tracker offers more health monitoring features than most other options in its price range. It's also slim and easy to use.
TicWatch Android Watches
TicWatch makes some of the most interesting and affordable smartwatches out there, but they also make more premium devices like the TicWatch Pro 4G. Available in GPS and LTE models, this rugged smartwatch is on sale for 25% off its regular price right now!
Smart Trekker
TicWatch Pro 4G
A tough smartwatch
This rugged-looking smartwatch talks the talk and walks the walk. It has built-in GPS, available LTE, and a battery that lasts over 2 days. Stream music, swim, or explore the great outdoors with no worries!
Fossil Wearables
Fossil is considered by many to be the cream of the crop when it comes to WearOS devices. Their latest Gen 5 watches have been widely praised, and are now being seen on sale for over 30% off.
Additionally, their best from the previous generation, the Fossil Sport, has been seen for $25-$50 below its regular retail price, and it is worth considering if these good deals hold.
The Best WearOS Watches
Fossil Gen 5 Series
Google smarts and Fossil style
The latest Gen 5 smartwatches from Fossil have been praised by Android Central and many others as the best that Google's WearOS platform has to offer. They are available in several styles and colors, and have excellent build quality
Sporty WearOS Watch
Fossil Sport
Google smarts and Fossil sports
This sporty WearOS watch is available in nine fun colors, can relay all of your notifications, and can handle your heart rate and activity tracking.
Skagen Falster 2
Aside from the really high-end Apple Watches, there aren't too many smartwatches that are as pretty as the Skagen Falster 2. This watch runs WearOS by Google and will relay all of your notifications. It also has some fitness chops, with heart rate and activity tracking, swim-proof design, and built-in GPS. Plus, it's almost $100 off right now during Black Friday!
Stylish Smartwatch
Skagen Falster 2
Handsome WearOS wearable
The Skagen Falster 2 is one of the best-looking smartwatches around, and features WearoS by Google paired with very impressive fitness features.
Xiaomi Mi Band 4
Xiaomi is known for making quality smart devices at insanely low prices, and the Mi Band 4 is no different. For under $50 you get heart rate monitoring, sleep tracking, smartphone notifications, compatibility with Android and iOS, a color screen, and nearly three weeks of battery life. What a bargain!
Beauty of a band
Xiaomi Mi Band 4
An amazing band for an amazing price
Mi Band 4 has connected GPS, plus heart rate and activity tracking. It lacks smartwatch features, but the price makes up for it.
Withings Move
Withings has been in the connected fitness space for quite some time, and it has a line of simple fitness wearables and hybrids that you might want to take a look at if the traditional smartwatch or fitness band doesn't suite your style or aesthetic.
Affordable Hybrid Fitness Watch
Withings Move Hybrid Smartwatch
Fitness tracking in a simple watch
The Withings Move offers you 24/7 fitness tracking, sleep tracking, and connected GPS in a device that just looks like an ordinary watch.
Amazfit Wearables
Amazfit features some really affordable smart watches and fitness trackers, including Bip, which looks like a cross between an Apple Watch and the byegone Pebble Time. A pretty great value in our opinion!
Smartwatch clones
Amazfit Bip
Is that an Apple Watch?
The Fitbit Bip may look like an Apple Watch, but it packs much better battery life and works great on Android devices as well as iOS.
What's the difference between a smartwatch and a fitness tracker?
It may seem self-explanatory, but the differences between smartwatches and fitness trackers have been blurring lately as the product categories slowly merge together. You have full-featured smartwatches that are coming down in price to levels where fitness trackers have flourished, and you have fitness trackers whose capabilities are growing to include ever more smart features.
In addition to their ability to run more complex apps and serve as truly mobile communication platforms, most smartwatches available today have some sort of fitness tracking capabilities built-in to their hardware and software. This usually means monitors with the ability to track metrics like steps, heart rate, calories burned, and even sleep (battery-permitting), paired with some sort of interface to read and analyze that data. More advanced smartwatches like the Apple Watch Series 5, the Fitbit Versa 2, or the Samsung Galaxy Active 2 can do even more powerful fitness and workout tracking and use third-party fitness apps as well.
Fitness trackers tend to be smaller and less bulky than smartwatches, and generally speaking have fewer capabilities outside of fitness other than telling the time or maybe relaying basic notifications. These often take the form of a band that is comprised of durable materials like silicone or an engineered mesh and are often waterproof and dustproof as well. While they may have access to a similar app experience on your phone, the experience on your wrist is much more scaled back.
What's the best smartwatch if you're using Android?
As you can imagine, there is no shortage of smartwatch options for Android users... basically everything is available to you short of the Apple Watch! Which is the best is a matter of opinion of course, but several of my colleagues at Android Central have reviewed the top Android smartwatches and they generally have come away loving the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2. Though it runs on Samsung's Tizen platform, it still works perfectly well with any Samsung or Android phone. It has a decent app selection, a really good screen, and does solid fitness tracking. It also has built-in GPS and NFC, so you can take it out on a long adventure.
If style is your game, we recommend something like the Skagen Falster 2 or one of the latest from Fossil. Both give you the best of Wear OS (though that might not be saying much) while looking classy as can be. If fitness is your primary concern, take a look at the Fitbit Versa 2. You get Amazon Alexa access, the ability to respond to notifications on your wrist, and excellent fitness tracking.
What's the best smartwatch if you're using an iPhone?
If you're an iPhone user who wants a great smartwatch experience, there really isn't much point to getting anything other than an Apple Watch. The current generation Apple Watch Series 5 was lauded for its always-on display and amazing screen technology but has gotten mixed reviews for battery life and longevity. If you are lucky you can find the Series 4 still on sale at various online retailers, but perhaps the best deal in smartwatches right now is on the Series 3.
If the Apple Watch is too rich for your blood, or if you don't like being completely locked into the Apple ecosystem, we recommend giving the Fitbit Versa 2 a serious look. While you won't get all of the functionality of an integrated Apple Watch, you do get smart assistant access in the form of Amazon's Alexa, over 5 days of battery life, an always-on display option (which, granted, reduces that battery life), and industry-leading sleep tracking.
How much should you spend on a smartwatch?
How much you spend on a smartwatch is obviously constrained by your budget, but generally speaking, most good smartwatches will run you from $200 on the low-end to $600 and more on the high-end. Less smart fitness watches like the Fitbit Versa 2 are on sale during Black Friday for under $200, and you can even pick up an Apple Watch Series 3 for that price range.
The more premium the watch build materials and the better the overall ecosystem, the more you can expect to pay. For example, the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 is normally over $300 (though it's on sale during Black Friday), or you can speck up an Apple Watch Series 5 in Titanium or Ceramic for upwards of $800 - $1,400!
How much should you spend on a fitness tracker?
Aside from their simplistic interfaces and ease-of-use, one of the areas that fitness trackers still compete is in price. Most fitness trackers still sit well-below even the sale prices of decent smartwatches, and you'd be hard-pressed to find one over $200 (if you do, avoid it!). The best from Fitbit, like the Charge 3 and Inspire line, run from $75 to $150, and Garmin's Vivosmart 4 can be found during Black Friday for around $100. Heck, the Xiaomi Mi Band 4 is a pretty decent little tracker that is on sale for under $40 right now! Bottom line, you don't need to spend a ton to get good fitness features from a tracker.
Do you have to charge a smartwatch every day?
This depends on the smartwatch you choose, and how you use it. Some of the most capable and impressive smartwatches also have the worst battery life. Case in point, the Apple Watch Series 5. Apple claims it will last 18+ hours on a single charge, but this is heavily dependant on how you use it (are you running GPS all the time, are you making calls, etc). Many people have mentioned the Series 5 has worse battery performance than the Series 4, so that means you'll definitely be charging it at least every day.
Other smartwatches (albeit some that are less capable) can last at least two to three days on a single charge. The Fitbit Versa 2 can last nearly a week on a single charge (again, less if you use its always-on display or connected GPS), and the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 can get up to two days of use on a charge (but you can top it off from your Galaxy S10 or Note 10 phone via reverse wireless charging).
We may earn a commission for purchases using our links. Learn more.


Lawrence’s late 3 lifts Fresno State past Winthrop 77-74
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Mustafa Lawrence sank a 3-pointer with 1 second left and Fresno State turned back Winthrop 77-74 on Sunday.
Jarred Hyder had 26 points, hitting 5 of 7 from 3-point range, for the Bulldogs (1-1). Nate Grimes finished with 15 points and 15 rebounds, while Lawrence added 13 points.
Russell Jones topped the Eagles (1-1) with 15 points, hitting four 3-pointers. Josh Ferguson added 12 points, while Chandler Vaudrin scored 10.
Winthrop led 64-58 after DJ Burns’ jumper with 4:51 left in the game. But Nate Grimes had a three-point play and Anthony Holland and Jarred Hyder hit 3-pointers to put the Bulldogs up 67-64 with 3:17 remaining. Hunter Hale’s 3-pointer with 5 seconds left pulled the Eagles even at 74.
Fresno State shot 48% from the floor, including 46% from distance. Winthrop misfired on 21 of 34 3-pointers and shot 44 percent overall.
For more AP college basketball coverage: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and http://twitter.com/AP_Top25
This was generated by Automated Insights, http://www.automatedinsights.com/ap, using data from STATS LLC, https://www.stats.com
Sign up for Daily Newsletters
Copyright © 2019 The Washington Times, LLC.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.


This lesson discusses the basic concept of interfaces in the nesC programming language. It includes an easy to understand example using the Blink application introduced in the TinyOS Lesson 1 Tutorial.
Bug-free, maintainable software is rarely written
first try. As code evolves, pieces are rewritten,
refactored and improved. One large component may
turn into several smaller components. Given
enough common functionality between components,
the behavior of a set of components may be defined
independently of any particular implementation.
nesC
encourages such abstraction by
the use of interfaces. In this tutorial,
we will define an interface (BlinkHandler.nc
)
for handling blinks, and wrap the Blink application
with a program that implements the BlinkHandler
interface.
Let's start with a quote from the nesC reference manual:
Interfaces in nesC are bidirectional: they specify a multi-function interaction channel between two components, the provider and the user. The interface specifies a set of named functions, called commands, to be implemented by the interface's provider and a set of named functions, called events, to be implemented by the interface's user.
For our application, Blink
will be the
interface provider, and Blinker
will be
the interface user.
To provide independence between the component that
wants to blink an LED and the program that provides
the actual blinking behavior, the Blink
configuration needs to be slightly modified to
remove Main:
Blink.nc
configuration Blink { provides { interface StdControl; interface BlinkHandler; } } implementation { components BlinkM, TimerC, LedsC; BlinkM.StdControl = StdControl; StdControl = TimerC; BlinkM.Timer -> TimerC.Timer[unique("Timer")]; BlinkM.Leds -> LedsC; BlinkM.BlinkHandler = BlinkHandler; } |
In addition to removing the Main, we also specify that the BlinkHandler interface is implemented. Since this tutorial is being written during the holiday season, the Leds interface is retained so that Blink can fire a red LED while the BlinkHandler implementation fires a green LED.
In the Blink module file (BlinkM.nc) we need to add a few lines of code:
BlinkM.nc
module BlinkM { provides { interface StdControl; interface BlinkHandler; } uses { interface Timer; interface Leds; } } implementation { ... event result_t Timer.fired() { signal BlinkHandler.Blink(); call Leds.redToggle(); return SUCCESS; } ... default event result_t BlinkHandler.Blink() { return SUCCESS; } ... } |
Now when the timer fires, the BlinkHandler is signaled as well as toggling the red LED. Since the BlinkHandler interface is provided, a default Blink event is implemented.
BlinkHandler.nc
interface BlinkHandler { event result_t Blink (); } |
Since Blink is a component, not a program, it can't run by itself: something, somewhere with a Main needs to wire to it. The Blinker program fits the bill:
Blinker.nc
configuration Blinker { } implementation { components Main, Blink, LedsC, BlinkerM; Main.StdControl -> BlinkerM.StdControl; Main.StdControl -> Blink.StdControl; BlinkerM.Leds -> LedsC; BlinkerM.BlinkHandler -> Blink.BlinkHandler; } |
The final bit is to provide an overriding event for for catching the BlinkHandler.Blink signal. This is implemented like so:
BlinkerM.nc
module BlinkerM { provides { interface StdControl; } uses { interface BlinkHandler; interface StdControl as Blink; interface Leds; } } implementation { // StdControl implementation. ... event result_t BlinkHandler.Blink() { call Leds.greenToggle(); return SUCCESS; } } |
nesC interfaces are indispenable for rapidly and accurately implementing reusable components. This tutorial and accompanying code is intended to help clarify some of the implementation details for creating and implementing interfaces.
Use a parameterized interface to make the yellow LED blink. Hint: Remember to parameterize the default implementation of the Blink event:
BlinkerM.nc
... default event result_t BlinkHandler.Blink[uint8_t id]() { return SUCCESS; } ... |
Comments and corrections to: doolin at ce dot berkeley dot edu.


Reset graph Github & Sources Keyboard ON Mouse over the bars to display information. If keyboard toggle is ON, use the arrow keys to rotate the graph.
| Amazon Rainforest | Amzn G7 Donation | Avengers: Endgame | Cruise Ship | UIUC Budget | Apollo Program | US Fed. Education | US Prisons | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Funding in USD | 469000000 | 22000000 | 356000000 | 734000000 |<PHONE_NUMBER> |<PHONE_NUMBER>0 |<PHONE_NUMBER>0 |<PHONE_NUMBER>0 |


@(coinCollections: CoinCollection, changeText: String)
| Count: | |
|---|---|
| Hundred Dollar Bill | @coinCollections.hundredListCount() |
| Twenty Dollar Bill | @coinCollections.twentyListCount() |
| Ten Dollar Bill | @coinCollections.tenListCount() |
| Five Dollar Bill | @coinCollections.fiveListCount |
| One Dollar Bill | @coinCollections.dollarListCount |
| Quarter | @coinCollections.quarterListCount |
| Dime | @coinCollections.dimeListCount() |
| Nickle | @coinCollections.nickleListCount() |
| Penny | @coinCollections.pennyListCount() |


No, it's NOT a test. Stop asking.
The great thing about this test is that this document will actually contain inline scripts as well (once minified).


Random sequence generation (selection bias) ewe Allocation concealment (selection bias) a Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) CT Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) | Selective reporting (reporting bias) CO other ties TT Ss)
f + + + 1 0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
CL Low risk of bias LC Unclear risk of bias J High risk of bias |


試運 2019年11月17日晚上10點開始至22日晚上10點 Test polling from 10pm 17th to 10pm 21th Nov 2019
公佈試運投票結果22日晚上11點 Announce the test polling result at 11pm 21th Nov 2019 結果網頁 Result page
正式投票 2019年11月24日早上7點半開始至24日晚上10點半 Real polling from 7:30am 24th to 10:30pm 24th Nov 2019
公佈正式投票結果25日晚上12點01分 Announce the election result at 12:01am 25th Nov 2019 結果網頁 Result page
這個票站是: This votebox is:
任何票站都隨時可能因太多流量或受到攻擊而關閉, 但只要有一個票站在, 選舉都能夠繼續舉行 Any votebox may be down anytime as too much traffic / attacked, but the election can still go on as long as not all votebox is dead
每人只能於一個選區投一票, 如你已經投票, 則所任何選區都不能投票. 如你懷疑身份被盜來投票, 請聯絡
Each person can vote once in one council only. If you have voted, you cannot vote again in any council.
If you think someone stole your identity and voted, please contact
1) 到Etherscan.io (中立區塊鏈資訊平台), 使用選舉智能合約, 輸入中文全名和身份證號碼以得到選民號碼 (VoterID) Visit Etherscan.io (neutral Ethereum blockchain explorer), use election smart contract, input your full name and HKID number to get VoterID
Link圖示 Example
2) 輸入電郵, 我們將發送一個驗證碼到你的電郵, 確保你是真人和沒有投過票. Input email, we will send you a verification code to make sure you are real person and have not been voted before.
3) 填寫選票並加密 Fill-in the vote and encrypt
加密選票號碼, 如保留此號在Etherscan查證選票是否有效, 和有問題時追查用. 因存有你的投票選擇, 勿把此號分享給他人. Encrypted vote, please keep this vote to check if your vote is submitted on Etherscan and problem tracing. As this vote contains your voting choice, please this vote private.
4) 提交選票 Submit the vote to blockchain
提交選票交易記錄, 當顯示成功即你的選票已經成功繳交.
Vote submission transaction. When the transaction is confirmed. Your vote has been submitted.


We live our lives in quiet desperation, looking for something or someone outside ourselves to somehow fulfill us. Even as we search for the mythical Mr or Mrs Right, we operate from a degree of self-loathing, created by misinformation, misconceptions, conditioning and guilt.
How can we love or be loved if we dont love ourselves? How can we break the grip of our past to create a glittering new reality? Fortunately, our modern dilemma is ancient. It has been the challenge of all peoples in every age. Tantra offers a solution, in the search for the beloved.
From within the legalized structure and rigidity of Hindu society, emerged a group of rebels who believed that personal and human evolution lay beyond the restrictions of traditional castes and laws. They proved that freedom could produce excellence while legislation only produced stagnation. They became masters of themselves, discarding moribund traditions for self-knowledge. They included scientists who postulated atomic structure, astronomers who understood the solar system, mathematicians who created the concept of zero, negative numbers and the decimal place, and metaphysicians who discovered the aura, astral travel and the chakras. They became masters of every craft and art. They called themselves Tantrics, which refers to expansion and the weaving of energy. Their wisdom is a gift of 3,000 years. By rejecting empty ritual and rigid dogma, they were able to recapture the true essence of Hinduism.
Tantra and Hinduism both utilize a triad of forces to be used by the seeker: creation, transcendence and preservation. These forces symbolize steps, realizations or stages of initiation for the Tantra practitioner in the search for the beloved.
The creative force is symbolized by Brahma and his female counterpart Saraswati the patroness of the 64 Tantric arts. Our creative forces are given birth in artistic expression, especially in the art of love. Tantra sees our body and the expression of the senses as a way of producing energy to be redirected inwards and channelled. Healing our thoughts and feelings about sensuality and our bodies is an important first step in producing this energy.
The second Tantric force is deified by Vishnu the Preserver and his counterpart Lakshmi. He maintains life and propagates love. Laksmi is the embodiment of material prosperity and spiritual wealth. Tantra teaches techniques for maintaining heightened sensual awareness using secret rituals, positions, visualization, mantras and yantras.
The third principle is transformation as symbolized by Shiva (Lord over Death) and his counterpart Kali (the Destroyer of Illusion). The universe is constantly chan-ging; nothing remains static. Transcendence or going beyond the limitation of ordinary existence is the embodiment of Tantra and is revealed through sexual secrets. In learning how to extend from the mundane to the metaphysical, the lover takes the sexual energy created with his beloved and transforms it into a life wave, a force transcendental, to achieve liberation from death into pure undifferentiated consciousness.
Tantra literature elaborately describes the human energy system. Sadhanas or practices are prescribed for the initiated to experience the movement of this energy. Universal force enters through the top of the head and is distributed down and out through the body in a series of channels (Nadis). Our perception of the changing world of Maya (illusion) is created when this energy is directed outwards through our senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch). Tantra practices involve withdrawing this energy from the outer illusions and redirecting it upwards as awakened (Kundalini) energy through a channel called the inner flute. A series of wheel-like inner vortices called chakras intersect with this main channel. The inner traveller can experience transformation and connections with other realities at these stages as this energy is redirected upwards. When the energy again reaches the crown of the head, it becomes ultimately transformed into the nectar of immortality, producing inner erotic ecstasy. This experience of Samadhi is the objective of the Tantric seeker.
Mantra is an important component in Tantric work. A mantra is a primordial sound which can be repeated to produce a cumulative stream of focused cosmic and bodily energy for specific purposes. Om is the sound that created the universe and its continuation resonates and maintains all existence. Om is the sound of true love and, when chanted, it calls forth the beloved. The sound Hrim evokes resonance in the all-embracing heart chakra.
Yantra is a linked diagram by which visualized and meditated energies are focused. Yantras assist the Tantric practitioner in becoming one-pointed. Around the border, there are typically gates of entrance leading to a succession of patterns representing stages of atunement (often with accompanying deities), projecting towards a central point (symbol or mantra). When the upward (phallic) triangle of the Shiva, Brahma and Vishnu is united with the downward (pubic) goddess triangle of Lakshmi, Saraswati and Kali, they form a symbol of male and female forces withinsymbolizing, in many cultures, the connection to God.
Tantra teaches that our path begins as an inner journey. The work we initially are presented with is the movement and purification of our subtle energies. When the seeker is ready, however, the Beloved will appear as that counterpart, other half, partner, soulmate, who can join with you energetically to create cosmic energy, sustain it and transform it to the liberating elixir of eternal bliss and consciousness. Tantras gifts of mantra, yantra, sacred sex, the chakras and meditation are tools in the liberation from the illusions of the world and signposts in the search for the Beloved.
Dr Bryan and Light Miller have been a Tantric couple for 24 years. They offer discourses on topics ranging from ancient religion to health, and are practitioners of Ayurveda and Kaya Kalpa. They will be in Vancouver June 28-30 for a Tantra workshop and private Kaya Kalpa sessions. Call the Clearmind Institute for information, 983-8586. They will also be speaking at Shared Vision. See Calendar for details or call Shared Vision, 733-5062.


Welcome to Jacob Andersens personal portfolio page
Hello, my name is Jacob Andersen, and i would like to tell you a little about myself. I am very interested in professional software development and problemsolving, and i am at my happiest when the two things can somehow be combined.


Copyright (c) 1972 Bernd Kienitz
This game is played on a 6x8 square board, with the following setup:
|
| An example Black's move. He should not move to cell [1] since White can then block at d3 and gain one tempo. He moves to e4 and block at b5. White's move is a4-a5 [block at d3], then e4-d4 [a6], a5-b6 [e3], d4-e4 [a5] and White cannot move and looses! |
There is a ZRF to play Isola with Zillions. It seems that this game was produced by Lakeside and called (renamed?) Isolation. Check a similar but more elaborate game, Chase II. Another variant is Karaman.


Preston florist, 71, hunts down iPad thief with 'find my phone' tracker app - only to be threatened by a man brandishing a knife
by Matthew CalderbankA 71-year-old florist used a smartphone app to track down an thief who trashed her shop and stole hundreds of pounds worth of goods.
Joan Marsden arrived at her flower shop, The Secret Garden, in Adelphi Street yesterday (November 21) to find it wrecked by burglars overnight.
The intruders had smashed down a steel door before ransacking the shop and stealing cash from the till, an iPad, luxury candles and other products.
The business owner, who opened the florist in 1987, said she was "sickened" by the sight of her shop which had been "completely turned upside down".
Joan reported the burglary to the police, but after waiting for several hours for them to visit, she decided to do a bit of her own detective work.
"They had stolen my iPad and my daughter told me that you can track it by using an app on your phone", said Joan.
"So we visited the Apple store and they loaded up the app on my phone and we traced it to a nearby block of flats.

"The app led us straight to the door of one of the flats.
"At this point I was so angry, I was just seeing a red mist, so I shouted out in the corridor, "where's my iPad!?"
Joan said she heard movement inside the flat before the door swung open and a man appeared brandishing a knife.
"He stood there threatening me and my daughters with this knife, I couldn't believe it", said Joan.
Police soon arrived at the flats in Adelphi Street and the man was arrested.
He remains in custody.
READ MORE: Preston hotel burglar once had £24,000 a year job managing a call centre
Joan said she does not regret confronting the man, but said she never expected to be threatened with a knife.
"I was just so angry and upset about what they have done to my shop", said Joan.
"I've been here for 32 years and I love the area and we have so many lovely customers.
"It just really got to me, and the police didn't seem that interested when I reported it, which made me think, "well, I'm just going to have to do something myself".
"But I must say, the police were brilliant once I reported the man with the knife. They got here as quick as they could and they took him away in handcuffs.
"We've found a few of our items in the flat, but not everything. The shop is in that much of a mess that we don't know exactly what's been stolen. There's stuff everywhere. It's heartbreaking."
Joan said she will be spending the weekend cleaning up the shop and repairing the damage before reopening next week.
"We don't have any time to waste, because all our stock is fresh", she said.
"We have to try and sell the flowers as soon as possible, otherwise we will lose hundreds of pounds of fresh stock.
"It's going to be stressful to try and open again in time for Monday, but it has to be done. What other choice do I have? This is my livelihood."
Lancashire Police said a man remains in custody following arrest.


{% extends 'profile_base.html' %} {% load bootstrap3 %} {% block title %} E-mail Addresses | {{ block.super }} {% endblock %} {% block profile_content %}
The following e-mail addresses are associated with your account:
{% else %}Warning: You currently do not have any e-mail address set up. You should really add an e-mail address so you can receive notifications, reset your password, etc.
{% endif %}


--- layout: archive title: Zulip Chat Archive permalink: /stream/113488-general/topic/traversable.html ---
is free_group traversable?
I didn't read all that thread. Did you end up with a quotient on an inductive type for free_group
?
sure
What is the equivalence relation and the inductive type?
https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib/blob/master/src/group_theory/free_group.lean
/-- Reduction step: `w * x * x⁻¹ * v ~> w * v` -/ inductive red.step : list (α × bool) → list (α × bool) → Prop | bnot {L₁ L₂ x b} : red.step (L₁ ++ (x, b) :: (x, bnot b) :: L₂) (L₁ ++ L₂)
That looks traversable
Oh, wait, no, that's more complex than I thought. I'm not sure
Probably not. One thinig you can do with traversable T
is write a function T a -> list a
which lists "all the a
s in a T a
in order". I think this function is also supposed to be natural in a
.
Now "all the a
s in a T a
" may not really have a meaning a priori, but still it seems unlikely that you could write a sensible instance for something like the free group or free commutative monoid or any structure where the relations involve duplicating, dropping, or reordering variables.
Maybe you could define a traversable_up_to_order
class which only quantifies over commutative monads, and then it could have instances which are types formed by a quotient which reorders a
s, etc. This stuff grew out of Haskell, which doesn't have quotient types, so variants like this haven't been explored as far as I know.
For a group you probably need idempotency too ... and probably more now that I think of it. Some sort of cancellation
Thanks for the name traversable_up_to_order
. I've been thinking about adding this class
Yes, for free_group
, you would need a monad where you can undo effects, and that doesn't sound like the kind of thing there would be many examples of.
Actually, that might be an opportunity for a sort of undo / redo design pattern
@Reid Barton I think you just need a commutative applicative, where f <$> fa <*> fb = flip f <$> fb <*> fa
... option
is a good example of an applicative functor that supports that, plus the writer monad (over a commutative monoid) ... similarly, applicative validation[1] over a commutative monoid will be a commutative applicative – of course, it would be slightly ironic to traverse a free commutative monoid into another free commutative monoid, but it would work :wink:
[1] https://pursuit.purescript.org/packages/purescript-validation/4.2.0/docs/Data.Validation.Semigroup
{% endraw %}Last updated: Apr 24 2020 at 19:02 UTC


{{define "main"}} {{ $posts := where .Pages ".Params.type" "post"}} {{ $postNumber := len $posts}} {{ $previewQuantity := .Site.Data.data.preview }}
Click arrows and page numbers to see listings of {{$previewQuantity}} posts per page from newest (left) to oldest (right).


#include <objects.h>
Public Methods | |
| TPoint& | operator+= (const TPoint &adder) |
| TPoint& | operator-= (const TPoint &subber) |
Public Attributes | |
| int | x |
| int | y |
Friends | |
| TPoint | operator- (const TPoint &one, const TPoint &two) |
| TPoint | operator+ (const TPoint &one, const TPoint &two) |
| int | operator== (const TPoint &one, const TPoint &two) |
| int | operator!= (const TPoint &one, const TPoint &two) |
TPoint is a simple object that can be used to record a coordinate on the screen. For this, two public variables are available: `x' and `y'.
Definition at line 28 of file objects.h.
|
|
Adds the coordinate of another point to this point. Returns *this. |
|
|
Subtracts the coordinate of another point from this point. Returns *this. |
|
|
Returns True if two points are not equal (have different coordinate), returns False otherwise. |
|
|
Calculates the sum of two points. Returns a point with the resulting sum. |
|
|
Calculates the distance between two points. Returns a point with the resulting difference. |
|
|
Returns True if two points are equal (have the same coordinate), returns False otherwise. |
|
|
Is the screen column of the point. |
|
|
Is the screen row of the point. |


Collection
Documents for researchers and third parties applying for data extracts from the national pupil database, ILR and HESA.
Read the ‘ National pupil database: apply for a data extract ’ guide before using the documents on this page. The guide explains when and how to use the documents.
Information for researchers and third-party organisations applying for data extracts from the national pupil database ( NPD ), individualised learner record ( ILR ) and the Higher Education Statistics Agency ( HESA ).
Published: 21 November 2013
Updated: 8 December 2015
From: Department for Education


ADMIN PANEL
CREATE CLIENT
CREATE ADMIN
UPDATE CREDS
DELETE USER
ISSUE BILL
LIST OF ADMINS
LIST OF CLIENTS
CLEAR REPORT
LOG OUT
Create client
Username
Password
Repeat Password
Details (otional)
EIK (otional)
Sign up new client
Create admin
Username
Password
Repeat Password
Email
Sign up new admin
Update credentials
Username
New Username (otional)
New Details (otional)
New EIK (otional)
New enabled (otional)
New Email (otional)
Update Credentials
Delete user
Username
Repeat username
Delete user
Issue bill
Service
Internet
Tv
Tv+Internet
Phone
-
Start date
End date
Phonenumber
-
Amount
Currency
BGN
EUR
USD
-
Issue new bill
Username
Is enabled
Details
Email
×
×


Overview
This is part 1 of a summary of the book "A Cooperative Species, Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution" By Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis, 2011. Part 0 of this summary is found HERE.
This document is for educational purposes only.
Chapter 4. The Sociobiology of Human Cooperation
“I shall argue that a predominant quality to be expected in a successful gene is ruthless selfishness. This gene for selfishness will usually give rise to selfishness in individual behavior.” -- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (1976)
“Selfish and contentious people will not cohere, and without coherence, nothing can be effected. … social and moral qualities would tend … be diffused throughout the world. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1873)
[ ed. I think they agree with Darwin ]
Several advances occurred:
- The central importance of social structure [was convincingly argued by] Edward O. Wilson in his massively influential The Insect Societies (1971) and Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)
- 1970, George Price provided an ingenious method for the analysis of selection processes operating at multiple levels, providing a way to study the evolution of social behavior in group-structured populations [ this shows how behaviors can emerge at a group level that are not evident at the lower level -- even though genes are selfish, groups can behave altruistically ]
- This is known as “multi-level selection”
- Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman published “Cultural versus Biological Inheritance” (1973a), [arguing for] gene-culture coevolution
- in 1973, John Maynard Smith and Price published “The Logic of Animal Conflict” This paper launched the field of evolutionary game theory
multi-level selection may be of considerably greater importance among humans than among other animals given the
- advanced level of human cognitive and linguistic capabilities and
- consequent capacity to maintain group boundaries and
- to formulate general rules of behavior for large groups, and
- the resulting substantial influence of cultural inheritance on human behavior
Among the consequences of these distinctive human capacities are the suppression of within-group phenotypic differences through egalitarianism, coinsurance, consensus decision making and conformist cultural transmission.
Other animals do some of these things, but none does all of them on a human scale.
- All of these aspects of human social life enhance the force of between-group selection relative to within-group selection.
- A result, if we are correct, was the evolution this cooperative species.
Competing alternative explanations
A rather different interpretation of human altruism and its evolution is that, on closer inspection, most apparently altruistic forms of helping are just self-interest with a long time horizon.
- This approach takes reciprocal altruism as its starting point and shows how, when interactions are frequently repeated, individuals may enhance their fitness by a mutualistic form of helping based on the expectation of reciprocation in the future.
- Variants of this approach developed in models of indirect reciprocity and costly signaling show that helping others may be repaid not only by the targets of one’s help but also by others wishing preferentially to be associated with the helpful.
Competing models explaining cooperation in human society :
- Inclusive Fitness -- 1930, 1964
- Kin-based Altruism -- 1964
- Group-based Altruism (multi-level selection) -- 1977 , 1982, 1990
- Network-based Altruism -- 2006
- Reciprocal Altruism & Mutualism -- 1971
- Signaling Reputation -- 1973 , 1990 , 1975
- Indirect Reciprocity -- 1987 , 1986
- Repeated Games Folk Theorem -- 1981 , 1986
[ An important parameter in these models is what economists term the rate of time preference ]
[For example ] : reciprocal altruism can piggyback on kin-based altruism to get started
[ It may be that humans are able to mentally simulate the future better, or, have a longer time preference parameter, because ] non-human animals are extraordinarily impatient. Behaviors that at first appeared to be reciprocal have frequently, on further study, been better explained as simple mutualism in which the benefit to the actor compensates for the cost of the action regardless of the action taken by the other.
4.5 Reciprocal Altruism in Large Groups
To illustrate the consequences of extending the reciprocal altruism model to groups larger than two, we will develop an agent-based model. A large population consists of N groups of n members each, and each group plays a public goods game repeatedly d times. We will call this series of d rounds an encounter.
4.6 Reputation: Indirect Reciprocity
[ here they steel man a competing theory ]
The standing model
- An alternative mechanism of cooperation [where] individuals [remember] who cooperated with their partners in the previous period and those who did not.
- an individual who cooperated in the previous period [is considered to be] “in good standing”,
- the only way an individual can fall into bad standing is by defecting on a partner who is in good standing.
- Thus, an individual can always defect when his partner is in bad standing without losing his good standing status.
- the “standing strategy” is : cooperate if and only if your current partner is in good standing, except that if you accidentally defected the previous period, cooperate in this period unconditionally, thereby restoring your status as a member in good standing.
Indirect reciprocity and signaling models are similar in that the payback for the individual’s cooperative action comes from third parties.
The two models differ in a subtle way: in the signaling model the third party responds favorably because the signal is correlated with some desirable but unobservable property of the actor; in the indirect reciprocity model the signal (cooperating with those in good standing) is the desirable property itself.
In the case of indirect reciprocity, I want to associate with the hunter who shares his ample prey with other members of the group because I too would like a share of meat.
In the signaling model I want to associate with him because the fact that he has lots of meat to share indicates that he is physically able and would be a good mate or coalition partner. [ it is correlated with some other desirable quality ]
Part 0 : Overview of 14 key lessons of cooperative economics.
Part 2 : Failures of non-cooperative theory.
Part 3 : Evolutionary economics, rise of institutions, and the co-evolution of genes and culture.


| 0
| Setup
|
- Figure out how you will backup your save.
- Setup your Options.
|
| 1
| Getting preliminary achievements:
- Do not click the cookie yet.
- Do not purchase any upgrades yet.
- Do not ascend yet.
|
- Name your bakery "Orteil", then change your bakery name to something else.
- Click one of the tiny cookies in the Stats tab.
- Click the news ticker at least 50 times.
- Click the box between the "What's in a name" and "Tabloid addiction" achievements.
- Resize the window to dunk your cookie into the milk.
|
| 2
| Getting the Hardcore and True Neverclick achievements:
- Do not click the cookie yet.
- Do not purchase any upgrades yet.
- Do not ascend yet.
|
- Click Golden Cookies until you have enough cookies to buy a Cursor. Continue clicking Golden Cookies for the rest of the game.
- Buy buildings when you can afford them. Prioritize more advanced buildings and continue buying buildings for the rest of the game.
- Sell one of your Grandmas.
- Once you get 1 million cookies, you will get the True Neverclick achievement. Once you get 1 billion cookies, you will get the Hardcore achievement and can go to step #3.
|
| 3
| General progression:
- You can now click the cookie whenever you want.
- You can now purchase upgrades whenever you want.
- You can ascend after you reach the end of this step at least once.
|
- Begin buying upgrades. Continue buying available upgrades for the rest of the game.
- Use 3 sugar lumps to upgrade your farms, temples, and wizard towers to unlock minigames.
- Select the spirits in your Pantheon that best support your style of gameplay.
- Cast a spell whenever your magic meter is full until you have cast at least 999 spells. You can cast "Diminish Ineptitude" to avoid negative effects.
- Plant seeds in your Garden in specific patterns to potentially unlock new seeds.
- Use your sugar lumps to upgrade your buildings, prioritizing more advanced buildings.
- Ascend for the first time when you have at least 300 cursors and you will gain at least 1,324 prestige levels.
|
| 4
| Ascension Loop:
- Ascend when you feel your progression has slowed down too much.
- You can now purchase Season Switcher cookies.
|
- Start by purchasing the following upgrades:
- Legacy
- Heralds
- Heavenly cookies
- How to bake your dragon
- Permanent upgrade slot 1, which will hold your highest Cursor upgrade that gives +X cookies for each non-cursor object owned
- Season switcher
- Click the cookie until you can purchase a Cursor and a Grandma, then you will quickly return to your previous state. Continue general progression as in step #3.
- Reset your Pantheon and continue your Garden progression.
- Progress your dragon by sacrificing cookies and buildings. Make sure you will have at least 1 building after sacrifice. You can quickly re-purchase buildings that you sacrificed due to their decreased cost.
- Purchase seasonal upgrades by using the Season Switcher:
- Never switch to Business Day, as it does not provide any upgrades and increases the cost of future season switches.
- Switch to Valentine's Day when you have at least 1 sextillion cookies in your bank and can produce more than 50 quintillion cookies in a few hours. This will allow you to unlock all Valentine's Day cookie upgrades and not need to switch to this season until you ascend again.
- Switch to Christmas, unlock every santa upgrade, and click every reindeer that appears.
- Switch to Easter and click every golden/wrath cookie that appears to unlock additional upgrades. Each cookie in a cookie storm has a chance to unlock an upgrade.
- Switch to Halloween and pop wrinklers whenever they start withering the big cookie.
- Ascend again when you feel your progression has slowed down too much and purchase additional ascension upgrades.
|


Select Domain
Indicate which CMS domain CMS you would like to use. This means you will be searching and manipulating CMS items in that domain.
Logout
This machine has your login data stored. It also has stored the items you've been looking at and other data that you have pulled from the database during this session. If you feel your session data is sensitive, clear both your login and session data. If you want to keep your session data so that you can resume from where you left off, just clear your login data.
Subitem UI Control
Within an item you may have several subitems. Those can be arranged in tabs, or within an accordion. Choose which here.
Notification Delay
Sets the number of seconds a system notification will be displayed prior to disappearing.
Search Results Per Page
The number of results that will appear on a single page after you perform a search.
Component Caching
As components are loaded their packaged files can be cached, such that reloading the component pulls the packaged files from cache instead of fetching them remotely via a service call. This speeds up responsiveness, and should always be on, except when debugging, where cache-busting can helpfully limit the amount of manual cache refreshes necessary.


{% extends "weather/base.html" %} {% block weather_active %}active{% endblock %} {% block content %}
Responsive Two Column Layout Resize the browser window to see the responsive effect (the columns will stack on top of each other instead of floating next to each other, when the screen is less than 600px wide) Responsive Two Column Layout Resize the browser window to see the responsive effect (the columns will stack on top of each other instead of floating next to each other, when the screen is less than 600px wide) Responsive Two Column Layout Resize the browser window to see the responsive effect (the columns will stack on top of each other instead of floating next to each other, when the screen is less than 600px wide) Responsive Two Column Layout Resize the browser window to see the responsive effect (the columns will stack on top of each other instead of floating next to each other, when the screen is less than 600px wide) Responsive Two Column Layout Resize the browser window to see the responsive effect (the columns will stack on top of each other instead of floating next to each other, when the screen is less than 600px wide) Responsive Two Column Layout Resize the browser window to see the responsive effect (the columns will stack on top of each other instead of floating next to each other, when the screen is less than 600px wide)
{% endblock content %}


Parker Movie Expo
Home
(current)
Contact Us
Login
Sign Up
FirstName
LastName
Email
Contact Number
Password
Repeat Password
Login
Cancel


Cui Bono
Bills
Legislators
Contributors
Contributions
About
CONTRIBUTORS
Contributor 1
Contributor 2
Contributor 3


Before Change
"he, said, "Is that what we want our kids to learn?"",
]
observed = [
", ".join(item.text for item in triple)
for triple in extract.direct_quotations(spacy_doc)
]
assert observed == expected
After Change
("he", "said", ""I heard Donald Trump say we need to close mosques in the United States,""),
("he", "said", ""Is that what we want our kids to learn?""),
]
result = list(extract.direct_quotations(spacy_doc))
assert all(isinstance(dq, tuple) for dq in result)
assert all(isinstance(obj, (Span, Token)) for dq in result for obj in dq)
observed = [
tuple(obj.text for obj in dq)
for dq in result
]
assert observed == expected


When humans moved underwater to the home of many marine life, we became the minority. We barely had enough to survive. Majority of the population underwater were made up of jellyfish, and humans started to see this as a threat.
Conditions for jellyfish to grow and thrive were all present. Warmer oceans and lower oxygen levels caused other animals to suffer, but not jellyfish. Due to fishing many years back, the population jellyfish’s natural predators such as tuna and swordfish, and those they compete with for food, such as anchovies, have depleted. With optimal living conditions and less competitors and predators, jellyfish populations grew unchecked.
Even when we still lived on land, the overpopulation of jellyfish has done harm to us. Power plants supporting large operations have been forced to shut down when an invasion of jellyfish started blocking their cooling filters.


|
Return to Transcripts main page
CNN Transcripts for August 23, 2021
Note: This page is continually updated as new transcripts become available. If you cannot find a specific segment, check back later.
Cuomo Prime Time
Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees
Amanpour
At This Hour
The Lead with Jake Tapper
Don Lemon Tonight
CNN Newsroom
Deadly Firefight at Kabul Airport; Biden Says Troops May Remain After August 31st; ISIS Terror Threat Forces Alternate Routes to Kabul; FDA Expected to Approve Pfizer Vaccine; Lawsuit against Florida Governor's Mask Mandate; Poll on Vaccinations; Dr. Amy Compton Phillips is Interviewed about Vaccines. Aired 9:00-9:30a ET
Devastating Tennessee Flooding; Henri Dumps Rain on Northeast; FDA Fully Approves Pfizer Vaccine; Dr. Carolos del Rio is Interviewed about the Vaccine Approval; Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NH) is Interviewed about the Infrastructure Bill. Aired 9:30-10a ET
FDA Full Approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Vaccine; White House Says, U.S. Evacuates 10,400 from Kabul, Most in 24-Hour Period. Aired 10-10:30a ET
Houston Schools Reopen with Mask Mandates, Defying Governor; At Least 21 People Dead, 25 Missing in Devastating Tennessee Floods; Pentagon Gives Update on Afghanistan Withdrawal and Evacuations. Aired 10:30-11a ET
Did Not Air 12-12:30p ET
Did Not Air 12:30-1p ET
FDA Fully Approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Vaccine; Situation Still Volatile as Kabul Evacuations Pick Up Pace; At Least 21 Dead, 40 Missing in Devastating Tennessee Floods. Aired 1-1:30p ET
At Least 21 Dead, 40 Missing in Devastating Tennessee Floods; 33 Million in Northeast Under Flood Alerts Following Henri; Kathy Hochul to be Sworn In as NY Governor at Midnight But Cuomo Not Leaving Without Fight; AZ's Election "Audit" Report Due Today to GOP State Senators; House Democrats Head for Showdown over Biden Economic Agenda; U.S. Base in Germany Nears Capacity as 7,000-Plus Evacuees Pour In; Biden Speaks After FDA Approves Pfizer Vaccine. Aired 1:30-2p ET
White House Press Briefing; Afghanistan Evacuation; President Biden Addresses FDA Approval of Pfizer Vaccine. Aired 2-2:30p ET
Jake Sullivan Gives Briefing on Situation in Afghanistan; White House Holds Briefing on Harris Trip Abroad, Infrastructure Deal. Aired 2:30-3p ET
Pentagon Updates Afghanistan Withdrawal Efforts. Aired 3-3:30p ET
Pentagon Says Not Going to Let Up on Evacuations; U.S. Open to Staying Past 8/31 Deadline Despite Taliban Deadline Demand; Biden Urges Anyone Who Was Holding Out for FDA Approval to Get Your Shot Today; FDA Gives Full Authorization for COVID Vaccine; State Department Gives Update on Afghanistan Withdrawal and Evacuations; 21 Dead, Several People Still Missing in Catastrophic Flooding. Aired 3:30-4p ET
Biden on Evacuations: We Have a Long Way to Go; Thousands Protest in Australian Cities Against Lockdowns; Some Chileans Who Got 2 Sinovac Doses Eligible for Boosters; Afghan Evacuee Gives Birth Moments after Flight Lands; U.S. VP Harris Meets in Singapore with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong; Resistance to Vaccine Hampers COVID-19 Fight in Kenya. Aired 12-1a ET
Biden Considers Extending Troop Presence Beyond August; Australian PM Hints at Easing COVID Restrictions; Former Afghan Central Banker: "Shock" That Ghani Fled Country. Aired 1-2a ET
Firefight Breaks Out At Kabul Airport, One Person Killed; Source: About 20,000 Remain At Kabul Airport Amid Evacuations; Australia's COVID Outbreak And Anti-Lockdown Protests. Aired 2-3a ET
U.S. Troops to Extend in Afghanistan; Tension Builds Up Between Afghan Forces; Americans Disapprove Execution of Exit in Afghanistan; FDA to Officially Approve Pfizer/BioNTech; FDA Approval Could Convince Americans to be Vaccinated; Deaths from COVID-19 Changed Kenyans' Mindset. Aired 3-4a ET
U.S. Struggles to Keep Up with Demand for Evacuations from Afghanistan; German Military Reports Firefight at Kabul Airport; Full FDA Approval of Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine Imminent; Devasting Floods Leave at Least 21 Dead in Tennessee; Henri Now a Tropical Depression But Flood Threat Remains. Aired 4-4:30a ET
Hundreds Protest in Paris to Support Afghans; Biden: Terrorists May Seek to Exploit Kabul Situation; Cheney and Kinzinger Blame Biden and Trump for Crisis; Air Base in Germany Filling Up Fast, More Arrivals Expected Monday; U.S. Vice President Harris Meets in Singapore with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong; Unvaccinated Patients Filling Up Kenyan Hospitals; Chile Hopes to Turn Tide of Covid Cases with Booster Shots; French Football Fans Invade the Pitch. Aired 4:30- 5a ET
Connect the World
Erin Burnett Outfront
Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin
First Move with Julia Chatterley
Inside Politics
New Day
Quest Means Business
The Situation Room
CNN 10
Hala Gorani Tonight
|


To get started with yorlang, download and install the node runtime here
Then install the yorlang package with the following command:
Terminal
npm install -g yorlang
HELLO WORLD
Create a yl file e.g test.yl and write your first yorlang statement
yorlang
sọpé "báwo ni ayé";
Run yorl test.yl in your cli
OUTPUT
bawo ni aye
You can also download the vs code extension here
For more command line usage, run yorl --help
You can watch the intoductory video to yorlang here
Variables can be declared in yorlang using
Yorlang: jẹ́kí
Variables in yorlang must be initialized at the point of declaration. The keyword (jẹ́kí) must be used when initializing and re-assigning a variable. Strings in yorlang must be enclosed with double quotes. Yorlang variables can hold many data types such as strings, integers, arrays and booleans
Note:
Use the # symbol for single line comments. There's no multiline comments like /** */
A semi colon must be used at the end of every statement in yorlang
Yorlang is not accent mark sensitive but it is case sensitive.
Only english/yoruba alphabet can be used for variable names.
Boolean values are - true: òótọ́ false: irọ́
Operators in Yorlang include;
plus: "+" , minus: "-", multiply: "*", divide: "/" ,
Remainder: "%", Less_than: " < ", greater_than: ">", greater_than_or_equal: ">=",
less_than_or_equal: "<=", not_equal: "!=", equal: "==", assign: "=",
not_operator: "!", or: "||", and: "&&"
yorlang
jẹ́kí oruko = "damilola";
jẹ́kí odun = 5 ;
sọpé oruko + " " + "is" + " " + odun + " " + "years old" ;
OUTPUT
damilola is 5 years old
Re-assign variable example:
yorlang
jẹ́kí orúkọ = "dammy";
jẹ́kí orúkọ = "tunde" ;
sọpé "oruko mi ni" + " " + orúkọ ;
OUTPUT
oruko mi ni tunde
Conditionals such as if, else, else if and switch statements can also be used in yorlang
if: ṣé else: tàbí else if: tàbí ṣé
yorlang
jẹ́kí ago = 15;
ṣé
( ago < 12 ) {
jẹ́kí
ìkíni = "e kaaro" ;
} tàbí ṣé ( ago > 12
&& ago < 17 ) {
jẹ́kí ìkíni = "e kaasan" ;
} tàbí {
jẹ́kí ìkíni = "e kaale" ;
}
sọpé ìkíni + " " + "aye" ;
OUTPUT
e kaasan aye
The Switch Condition:
The switch expression is evaluated once.
The value of the expression is compared with the values of each case.
If there is a match, the associated block of code is executed and then it escapes the switch block without the need for a break (kúrò) statement.
The use of the break statement(kúrò) in yorlang yí(switch) condition results in an error.
The default(padàsí) block runs when there's no matched case.
Switch: yí
Case: irú
Default: padàsí
yorlang
jẹ́kí age = (2 * 5) + 8 ;
yí
( age ) {
irú 12 :
sọpé "omode ni e" ;
irú 18 :
sọpé "ọ̀dọ́ ni e" ;
irú 22 :
sọpé "agbalagba ni e" ;
padàsí:
sọpé "arugbo ni e ooooo" ;
}
OUTPUT
ọ̀dọ́ ni e
Loops such as for and while are also supported in Yorlang
For: fún while: nígbàtí break: kúrò
Note:
increments such as i++ in yorlang is invalid instead use jẹ́kí i = i + 1
decrements such as i-- in yorlang is invalid instead use jẹ́kí i = i - 1
yorlang
fún ( jẹ́kí i = 0 ; i < 5 ; jẹ́kí i = i + 1 ) {
ṣé
( i == 3 ) {
kúrò;
}
sọpé "iwọ ni" + " " + i ;
}
OUTPUT
iwọ ni 0
iwọ ni 1
iwọ ni 2
The While( nígbàtí) Loop:
The while ( nígbàtí) loop is executed as long as the condition in parentheses is true
yorlang
jẹ́kí onka = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ];
jẹ́kí i = 0;
nígbàtí ( onka [ i ] < 3) {
sọpé "o kere si aarun";
jẹ́kí i = i + 1;
}
OUTPUT
o kere si aarun
o kere si aarun
Function: iṣẹ́ return: padà
yorlang
iṣẹ́ isiro ( a, b)
{
padà a * b ;
}
jẹ́kí X = isiro( 5, 6);
sọpé X ;
OUTPUT
30
Variable Scope
The scope of a variable is the context within which it is defined. All inner functions(iṣẹ́) have access to variables in their outer functions(iṣẹ́). However, outer functions(iṣẹ́) do not have access to the variables in their inner functions(iṣẹ́). This scope spans imported(gbewọlé) files as well. For example:
yorlang
jẹ́kí a = 3;
gbewọlé "sample.yl";
Here the a variable will be available within the imported sample.yl script. An inner function can only read the value of the outer variable but it can’t change it. An attempt to change it will simply create a local variable within the inner function. For example:
yorlang
jẹ́kí a = 3;
iṣẹ́ àpẹrẹ ()
{
jẹ́kí a = a + 1;
sọpé a;
}
àpẹrẹ();
sọpé a;
OUTPUT
4
3
To mutate the value of outer variables within an inner function, you must declare those variables with wòkè. The script below will output 4. By declaring counter and i with wòkè within the function incrementCounter, all references to the variables will refer to the outer version. There is no limit to the number of global variables that can be manipulated by a function.
yorlang
iṣẹ́ getCounter ()
{
jẹ́kí counter = 3;
jẹ́kí i = 1;
iṣẹ́ incrementCounter ()
{
wòkè `counter, i`;
jẹ́kí counter = counter + i;
}
incrementCounter();
padà counter ;
}
sọpé getCounter();
OUTPUT
4
One-dimensional array example
yorlang
jẹ́kí àwọnMọ́tọ̀ = ["G-Wagon", "S-class" ];
sọpé àwọnMọ́tọ̀ [0];
OUTPUT
G-Wagon
Multi-dimensional arrays are also supported in Yorlang
yorlang
jẹ́kí àwọnMọ́tọ̀ = [ ["corolla", "camry"], ["G-Wagon", "S-class" ], ["Elantra", "sonata"] ];
sọpé àwọnMọ́tọ̀ [1][1];
OUTPUT
S-class
Add elements to the last position of an array by making the index empty
yorlang
jẹ́kí àwọnMọ́tọ̀ = [ ["corolla", "camry"], "benz" ];
jẹ́kí àwọnMọ́tọ̀[0][] = "S-class";
jẹ́kí àwọnMọ́tọ̀[] = "G-Wagon";
sọpé àwọnMọ́tọ̀ [0][2];
sọpé àwọnMọ́tọ̀ [2];
OUTPUT
S-class
G-Wagon
The import (gbewọlé) keyword is used to include the content of a yorlang file into another yorlang file.
This keyword is followed by a string which contains the path to the yorlang file to be imported. The file paths should be provided as a suffix to the project's absolute path
For example, suppose you have a project folder app with two sub folders : deploy & test . In the deploy folder is a file called deploy.yl and in the test folder is a file called test.yl . To import the test.yl file into the deploy.yl file, do the following.
yorlang
gbewọlé "/test/test.yl";
Here are some helper functions in Yorlang and their descriptions
ka :
This is used for counting the length of an array. Hence, it takes an array
as its parameter.
e.g. ka([26,78,75]) returns 3 as the length of the array.
síLẹ́tàŃlá :
This is used for converting strings to uppercase. síLẹ́tàŃlá
takes a string as its parameter.
For example, síLẹ́tàŃlá("KaYode"); returns "KAYODE"
síLẹ́tàKékeré :
This is used for converting strings to lowercase. síLẹ́tàkékeré
takes a string as its parameter.
For example, síLẹ́tàKékeré("KaYode"); returns "kayode"
tèSíbí :
This is used for reading user inputs. tèsíbí
takes a string as its parameter.
For example, tèSíbí("What is your name?"); returns user input
aago :
It is used for getting the current date.
For example, aago(); returns an array of the current date in the following order [ year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds ]
fiRọ́pọ̀ :
It is used for replacing a substring with a new string.
For example, fiRọ́pọ̀("Yoruba da pupo", "pupo", "gidigan"); returns "Yoruba da gidigan"
waNínú :
It is used for checking if a string contains a substring.
For example, aago("Yoruba da pupo", "pupo"); returns boolean - ooto
yipo :
It is used for generating random numbers between an interval.
For example, yipo(1, 5); returns a number between 1 and 5,
yipo(5); returns a number between 0 and 5,
yipo(); returns a number between 0 and 1