Brooklyn mother of four dies 10 days after hit and run crash
by Naveen DhaliwalCYPRESS HILLS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A Brooklyn mother of four has died ten days after she was hit by a car while running errands. That driver did not stop.
"It is truly sad to see she passed away the way she did - she deserves so much better," said her son, Navindra Boodhu.
After days of agony in the hospital, Vabita Arjune lost her fight. Her son found the courage to talk.
"She would stop to do whatever she was going to do to help anybody out," said Boodhu.
 They were her world, and on Monday, October 28th, off work from her home health aide job, she was running errands a few blocks from her house and was crossing the intersection at Liberty Avenue and Crescent Street.
The car threw the 50-year-old right into the intersection. The driver did not stay on scene. This past Thursday, a week and a half after the accident, Arjune succumbed to her injuries.
"She didn't deserve to die like that," said one neighbor.
Investigators believe the vehicle they are looking for is a gray 2014-2015 Hyundai Sonata with driver's side mirror damage.
The family is making a plea for the driver to turn themselves in.
As Arjune's children search for justice, they are leaning on each other, trying to make sense of the future without their mother guiding them through.


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| t1=: >: -: > +. = |
(Dyad only) The primitive >: is
identical to greater than or equal |
| t2=: <. -<EMAIL_ADDRESS>|
(Both) Lesser-of is neg on greater-of on neg; Floor is neg
on ceiling on neg |
| t3=: <. -: >.&.- |
Same as t2 but uses under |
| t4=: *:@>: -: *: + +: + 1: |
(Monad) Square of a+1 is square of a plus
twice a plus 1 |
| t5=: *:@>: -: #.&1 2 1"0 |
Same as t4 using polynomial |
| t6=: ^&3@>: -: #.&1 3 3 1"0 |
Like t5 for cube |
| bc=: i.@>: ! ] |
Binomial coefficients |
| t7=: (>:@]^[) -: (]#.bc@[)"0 |
Like t6 with k&t7 for kth power |
| s=: 1&o. |
Sine |
| c=: 2&o. |
Cosine |
| t8=: s@+-:(s@[*c@])+(c@[*s@]) |
(Dyad) Addition and Subtraction |
| t9=: s@--:(s@[*c@])-(c@[*s@]) |
Formulas for sine |
| det=: -/ . * |
Determinant |
| perm=: +/ . * |
Permanent |
| sct=: 1 2&o."0@(,"0) |
Sine and cosine tables |
| t10=: s@- -: det@sct |
Same as t9 but using the determinant of
the sin and cos table |
| t11=: s@+ -: perm@sct |
Like t8 using the permanent |
| S=: 5&o. |
Hyperbolic sine |
| C=: 6&o. |
Hyperbolic cosine |
| SCT=: 5 6&o."0@(,"0) |
Sinh and Cosh table |
| t12=: S@+ -: perm@SCT |
Addition theorem for sinh |
| SINH=: ^ .: - |
Odd part of exponential |
| COSH=: ^ .. - |
Even part of exponential |
| t13=: SINH -: S |
Sinh is odd part of exponential |
| t14=: COSH -: C |
Cosh is the even part of exponential |
| sine=: ^&.j. .: - |
Sine is the odd part of exponential |
| t15=: sine -: s |
under multiplication by 0j1 |


| DOSE: T+ 0:00 |
50 mg |
oral |
2C-I |
| T+ 1:00 |
1 bowl |
smoked |
Cannabis |
| T+ 2:00 |
1 repeated |
smoked |
Cannabis |
| T+ 3:40 |
45 mg |
insufflated |
MDMA |
| T+ 5:35 |
1 repeated |
smoked |
Cannabis |
[Erowid Note: 50 mgs of 2C-I is considered a very high dose, see 2C-I Dose Chart]
My 2ci experience with a snack of MDMA:
*2ci is said to feel like an acid trip combined with rolling. Well, the results are in, that is pretty much what it’s like for me, especially if you add some pure MDMA powder to the mix.
12:54am We ingest 2ci, via fun size snickers bar’s containing 20ml of 2ci solution each.
Male (185Lbs) ingested 2.5 snickers bars (Approximately 50ml i.e. 50mg 2ci)
Female (120Lbs) ingested 2 Snickers bars (Approximately 40ml i.e. 40mg 2ci)
1:00am We depart to Wal-Mart to get supplies.
1:10am I think about a 2ci trip report I read about the dangers of driving on 2ci and his bad experience.
[Erowid Note: Driving while intoxicated or tripping is dangerous and irresponsible because it endangers other people. Don't do it!]
1:24 We finally arrive at the Wal-Mart. Our pupils are dilated and things are very bright, and colorful. I am starting to feel it and I can already tell this is going to be a strong trip. I know we need to get in and get out.
Items acquired at Wal-Mart:
Paintbrushes, Paint, and a Sketchpad for arts and crafts hour, Glow-sticks
1:47 arrival at home. It feels great to be home, I immediately race for a cigarette to calm me down as the visuals and body high multiply in waves.
2:00am Smoked a bowl…or two.
2:15am I sit in a well lit room to see how hard I really am tripping. The girl is not feeling it nearly as hard as I am, I try to play it cool and I remind myself to have a good time, and enjoy the visuals, however they are quite intense with 4 hits. The popcorn ceiling looks like an intricate glass ant farm. The ceiling swirls in synchronous order back and forth back and forth with a frequency about every 3 seconds. The body high tidal waves of pleasure wash over me about every 20 seconds. It is almost too much pleasure at times, but the keyword is almost.
*2ci has a very “rolly effect” to it, which can be greatly synced to music. (Thievery Corporation “Sun Moon and Stars” owned my world that night. Also see Markus Schulz, Deadmau5, Caspa’s Essential Mix, Bassnectar and all things Dubstep or Trance)
The visuals associated with 2ci are a cross between acid and shrooms. At this dosage the visuals were amazing yet, there were times during this night that I had to remind myself to enjoy the visuals while they’re here. As mentioned previously, 2ci has a swirling effect but the rooms do not breathe like with shroom visuals. Objects seem to lengthen, expand and contract, blinds move and flutter like gills on a shark, the cracks in doors become infinite, and paintings and pictures tell stories and move like holograms.
2:20am I lay back and stare at the ceiling.  The ceiling eventually moved so much it came off, and became pseudo transparent showing the vast and infinite space beyond it. This space was filled geometric shapes rotating in sync and in opposing directions. I am hallucinating pretty hard.
2:32am My mind feels like a visualizer.
2:33 am We turn on Milkdrop (Winamp’s visualizer aka the best visualizer there is)
3-4 am Lots of weed smoking and cigarettes and a dance party ensues. I am in love with 2ci.
4:00am Arts and Crafts time! Painting is very fun, and I highly recommend it. The amount of color that comes out of each stroke of a paint brush is breathtaking. Each stroke has its own thought, feeling, and meaning attached to it. It is unbelievable how much color comes from each stroke of a paint brush, immediately after a stroke has been made; some of the color disappears, like disappearing ink. The colors intensify and fade as this lovely drug pumps through my brain. *2ci effects have been compared to Acid because some synesthesia goes on, i.e. hearing and feeling colors, however it is not quite at the intensity as acid. Note: 2ci only became colorful at high doses.
4:30 I smoke a cigarette and take a GB hit as I admire my creations. I feel like an artist and am thrilled to actually walk away with something tangible.  (Roughly half of a strong ecstasy pill)
4:50am The drip comes and the ecstasy starts to kick in. The ecstasy takes away from famous 2ci queasiness. My body still feels amazing yet in a slightly different way. I can feel my body temperature rise. The MDMA changes the 2ci trip and even with this low dosage of MDMA, I feel the effects as if I had taken a couple hits of Molly) Eye wiggles ensue, and the ceiling is still moving, but now my visuals are slightly different. My brain does not know what to think, or which drug to respond to.
5:45am Sexy time ensues.
  That’s the equivalent of saying you should never listen to music while high because it’ll never be the same. Can you imagine if you never listened to music while high?
6:35am I smoke another cigarette followed by multiple Gravity Bong bowls.
6:40am We take a nice hot shower lit by a glow-stick only. The hot water feels amazing, and the darkness mixed with the blinking L.E.D. Glowstick causes some trippy hallucinations. My mind is able to wander while we make-out. The closed eye visuals are still great and the water and hot body pressed up against me feels amazing.
7:00am I can feel the waves of the 2ci start to slow. They still come but not as high in frequency, or intensity.
8:00am food.
9:30am Trippy sleep ensues.
Would I do it all again? For sure, however I might leave out the Molly (MDMA) this time. High dosages of 2ci are good enough on their own and shouldn’t really be combined with anything other than Nitrous, weed, cigarettes and Houkah. I took the MDMA because it was available and accessible and I was curious to know what would happen. I feel however that 2ci does not need a helping hand, unless that helping hand is another hit of 2ci.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


div
Syntax
div
Description
The div operator divides one number by another and produces the integer result, truncated in the direction of zero. For example, 7 div 2 produces 3 and -7 div 2 produces -3.
Example
In this example, eggCount is the total number of eggs. The first put statement determines how many dozen eggs there are. The second put statement determines how many extra eggs there are beyond the last dozen.
var eggCount : int
get eggCount
put "You have ", eggCount div 12, " dozen eggs"
put "You have ", eggCount mod 12, " left over"
See also
infix operators, precedence of operators and the mod operator.


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Before Change
for docNo, doc in enumerate(self.corpus):
// compute cosine similarity against every other document in the collection
allSims = self[doc]
// return either all similarities as a list, or only self.numBest most similar, depending on settings from the constructor
if self.numBest is None:
yield allSims
else:
tops = [(docNo, sim) for docNo, sim in enumerate(allSims) if sim > 0]
tops = sorted(tops, key = lambda item: -item[1]) // sort by -sim => highest cossim first
yield tops[ : self.numBest] // return at most numBest top 2-tuples (docId, docSim)
//endclass SimilarityABC
class Similarity(SimilarityABC):
Compute cosine similary against a corpus of documents. This is done by a full
sequential scan of the corpus. If your corpus is reasonably small (fits in RAM),
After Change
and yield the result.
for docNo, doc in enumerate(self.corpus):
yield self[doc]
//endclass SimilarityABC
class Similarity(SimilarityABC):


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The Georgia Strait air zone is one of the seven broad air zones in British Columbia. It covers the coastal areas of southwestern B.C. outside of the Lower Fraser Valley, and includes municipalities in the Capital Regional District, Cowichan Valley Regional District, Comox Valley Regional District, Alberni-Clayoquote Regional District, Nanaimo Regional District, qathet Regional District, Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, Strathcona Regional District, Sunshine Coast Regional District, and all the Gulf Islands.
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Transformations
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Transformations are lazy.
-
They contribute to the execution plan (called the DAG, for
Directed Acyclic Graph), but they don't execute anything.
-
No file is read and no transformation is performed until an
action is called.
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A RDD transformation is conceptually similar to a transformation
(like
filter()
or map()
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Keywords and Operators
Hard Keywords
The following tokens are always interpreted as keywords and cannot be used as identifiers:
as
- is used for type casts
- specifies an alias for an import
as?
is used for safe type castsbreak
terminates the execution of a loopclass
declares a classcontinue
proceeds to the next step of the nearest enclosing loopdo
begins a do/while loop (loop with postcondition)else
defines the branch of an if expression which is executed when the condition is falsefalse
specifies the 'false' value of the Boolean typefor
begins a for loopfun
declares a functionif
begins an if expressionin
- specifies the object being iterated in a for loop
- is used as an infix operator to check that a value belongs to a range, a collection or another entity that defines the 'contains' method
- is used in when expressions for the same purpose
- marks a type parameter as contravariant
!in
- is used as an operator to check that a value does NOT belong to a range, a collection or another entity that defines the 'contains' method
- is used in when expressions for the same purpose
interface
declares an interfaceis
- checks that a value has a certain type
- is used in when expressions for the same purpose
!is
- checks that a value does NOT have a certain type
- is used in when expressions for the same purpose
null
is a constant representing an object reference that doesn't point to any objectobject
declares a class and its instance at the same timepackage
specifies the package for the current filereturn
returns from the nearest enclosing function or anonymous functionsuper
this
throw
throws an exceptiontrue
specifies the 'true' value of the Boolean typetry
begins an exception handling blocktypealias
declares a type aliasval
declares a read-only property or local variablevar
declares a mutable property or local variablewhen
begins a when expression (executes one of the given branches)while
begins a while loop (loop with precondition)
Soft Keywords
The following tokens act as keywords in the context when they are applicable and can be used as identifiers in other contexts:
by
catch
begins a block that handles a specific exception typeconstructor
declares a primary or secondary constructordelegate
is used as an annotation use-site targetdynamic
references a dynamic type in Kotlin/JS codefield
is used as an annotation use-site targetfile
is used as an annotation use-site targetfinally
begins a block that is always executed when a try block exitsget
- declares the getter of a property
- is used as an annotation use-site target
import
imports a declaration from another package into the current fileinit
begins an initializer blockparam
is used as an annotation use-site targetproperty
is used as an annotation use-site targetreceiver
is used as an annotation use-site targetset
- declares the setter of a property
- is used as an annotation use-site target
setparam
is used as an annotation use-site targetwhere
specifies constraints for a generic type parameter
Modifier Keywords
The following tokens act as keywords in modifier lists of declarations and can be used as identifiers in other contexts:
actual
denotes a platform-specific implementation in multiplatform projectsabstract
marks a class or member as abstractannotation
declares an annotation classcompanion
declares a companion objectconst
marks a property as a compile-time constantcrossinline
forbids non-local returns in a lambda passed to an inline functiondata
instructs the compiler to generate canonical members for a classenum
declares an enumerationexpect
marks a declaration as platform-specific, expecting an implementation in platform modules.external
marks a declaration as implemented not in Kotlin (accessible through JNI or in JavaScript)final
forbids overriding a memberinfix
allows calling a function in infix notationinline
tells the compiler to inline the function and the lambdas passed to it at the call siteinner
allows referring to the outer class instance from a nested classinternal
marks a declaration as visible in the current modulelateinit
allows initializing a non-null property outside of a constructornoinline
turns off inlining of a lambda passed to an inline functionopen
allows subclassing a class or overriding a memberoperator
marks a function as overloading an operator or implementing a conventionout
marks a type parameter as covariantoverride
marks a member as an override of a superclass memberprivate
marks a declaration as visible in the current class or fileprotected
marks a declaration as visible in the current class and its subclassespublic
marks a declaration as visible anywherereified
marks a type parameter of an inline function as accessible at runtimesealed
declares a sealed class (a class with restricted subclassing)suspend
marks a function or lambda as suspending (usable as a coroutine)tailrec
marks a function as tail-recursive (allowing the compiler to replace recursion with iteration)vararg
allows passing a variable number of arguments for a parameter
Special Identifiers
The following identifiers are defined by the compiler in specific contexts and can be used as regular identifiers in other contexts:
field
is used inside a property accessor to refer to the backing field of the propertyit
is used inside a lambda to refer to its parameter implicitly
Operators and Special Symbols
Kotlin supports the following operators and special symbols:
+
,-
,*
,/
,%
- mathematical operators*
is also used to pass an array to a vararg parameter
=
- assignment operator
- is used to specify default values for parameters
+=
,-=
,*=
,/=
,%=
- augmented assignment operators++
,--
- increment and decrement operators&&
,||
,!
- logical 'and', 'or', 'not' operators (for bitwise operations, use corresponding infix functions)==
,!=
- equality operators (translated to calls ofequals()
for non-primitive types)===
,!==
- referential equality operators<
,>
,<=
,>=
- comparison operators (translated to calls ofcompareTo()
for non-primitive types)[
,]
- indexed access operator (translated to calls ofget
andset
)!!
asserts that an expression is non-null?.
performs a safe call (calls a method or accesses a property if the receiver is non-null)?:
takes the right-hand value if the left-hand value is null (the elvis operator)::
creates a member reference or a class reference..
creates a range:
separates a name from a type in declarations?
marks a type as nullable->
- separates the parameters and body of a lambda expression
- separates the parameters and return type declaration in a function type
- separates the condition and body of a when expression branch
@
- introduces an annotation
- introduces or references a loop label
- introduces or references a lambda label
- references a 'this' expression from an outer scope
- references an outer superclass
;
separates multiple statements on the same line$
references a variable or expression in a string template_
- substitutes an unused parameter in a lambda expression
- substitutes an unused parameter in a destructuring declaration


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| 177 | (A) | als newe and als nobiłł als neuer hade bene wymmede |
| (C) | ---- no text ---- | |
| 173 | (D) | As newe as a nedle þat neuere was hurte |
| 171 | (E) | & as newe as a noble . þat neuere was apeyred . |
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The inspection ignores methods related to the serialization, for example methods readObject()
or writeObject()
.
Example:
void method() throws InterruptedException {
System.out.println();
}
The quick-fix removes unnecessary exceptions from the declaration and normalizes the redundant try
-catch
statements:
void method() {
System.out.println();
}
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3. Temporary Ban¶
Community Impact: A serious violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior.
Consequence: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the community for a specified period of time. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.
4. Permanent Ban¶
Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.
Consequence: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the community.
Attribution¶
This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 2.0, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct.html.
Community Impact Guidelines were inspired by Mozilla’s code of conduct enforcement ladder.
For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see the FAQ at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq. Translations are available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations.


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D-Street Buzz: Metal stocks shine led by JSPL, Hindalco; Airtel jumps 5%, Zee Ent drags
Nifty Metal is the outperforming sector up over 2 percent led by Jindal Steel & Power and Hindalco Industries which jumped 4-5 percent followed by JSW Steel, NALCO, NMDC, SAIL, Tata Steel and Vedanta.
by Sandip DasThe Indian benchmark indices are trading on a handsome note with Sensex up 276.79 points or 0.69 percent at 40636.20, and the Nifty gained 83.40 points or 0.70 percent at 11997.80.
Nifty Metal is the outperforming sector up over 2 percent led by Jindal Steel & Power and Hindalco Industries which jumped 4-5 percent followed by JSW Steel, NALCO, NMDC, SAIL, Tata Steel and Vedanta.
Infra stocks are also buzzing led by Bharti Airtel which jumped over 5 percent followed by Bharti Infratel, DLF, Interglobe Aviation, Siemens and Tata Power.
The top gainers from the auto space are Maruti Suzuki, Eicher Motors, Motherson Sumi Systems, Bosch and Apollo Tyres.
From the pharma space, the top gainers are Aurobindo Pharma, Sun Pharma, Glenmark Pharma, Cadila Healthcare, Cipla and Biocon.
The top gainers from Nifty index are Bharti Airtel, Hindalco Industries, Bharti Infratel, Tata Steel and JSW Steel.
The top losers included Zee Entertainment, YES Bank, ONGC, ICICI Bank and Bajaj Auto.
The most active stocks included Bharti Airtel, Reliance Industries, Zee Entertainment, Tata Steel and ICICI Bank.
About 1164 shares have advanced, 803 shares declined, and 138 shares are unchanged.
Disclosure : Reliance Industries Ltd. is the sole beneficiary of Independent Media Trust which controls Network18 Media & Investments Ltd.


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Documents stolen from Quebec Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette's government car
by Basem Boshra Supervising Producer, CTV News Montreal | ContactMONTREAL - Embattled Quebec Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette's bad month just got worse: documents were stolen from the minister's government vehicle Wednesday night.
Jolin-Barrette's car had been parked in a lot at an office tower in Quebec City where Jolin-Barrette's office is located. He was reportedly working late Wednesday night.
A suspect who Quebec provincial police say has no ties to Jolin-Barrette was arrested and is to appear in court at a later date.
He is alleged to have had the stolen documents in his possession at the time he was arrested.
Jolin-Barrette told reporters in Quebec City Thursday that the stolen documents were not important, calling them mainly "handwritten notes" and "daily working documents."
He said his iPad was also stolen, and has been recovered, and that he has changed all his access codes.
"When you're the victim of a theft, it's not pleasant and I think any Quebecers who have experienced that know it's frustrating and worrisome - and that's how I feel today," Jolin-Barrette said.
Asked about the theft, Quebec Premier Francois Legault said Thursday he did not believe his minister acted irresponsibly in leaving documents in his work car, noting that he himself has done so. Legault said he was not aware if there are rules against doing that.
Earlier this month, Jolin-Barrette received widespread criticism for his efforts to reform a popular government program that fast-tracked permanent residency status for foreign students. Barrette subsequently cancelled the proposed reforms and apologized.
This is a developing story that will be updated.
- WIth reporting from Amanda Kline of CTV News Montreal


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The MDC Linear Progress component is a spec-aligned linear progress indicator component adhering to the Material Design progress & activity requirements.
Google Material Components documentation| Attribute | |
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@Input() indeterminate: boolean |
Puts the linear progress indicator in an indeterminate state. |
@Input() reversed: boolean |
Reverses the direction of the linear progress indicator. |
@Input() accent: boolean |
Colors the button with the accent color. |
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open() |
Puts the component in the open state. |
close() |
Puts the component in the closed state. |
setProgress(value: number) |
Sets the progress bar to this value. Value should be between [0, 1]. |
setBuffer(value: number) |
Sets the buffer bar to this value. Value should be between [0, 1]. |
Indeterminate
<mdc-linear-progress [indeterminate]="true"></mdc-linear-progress>
Determinate
<mdc-linear-progress [indeterminate]="false"></mdc-linear-progress>
Reversed
<mdc-linear-progress [indeterminate]="true" [reversed]="true"></mdc-linear-progress>
Accent
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Previous: Array Upgrading, Up: Specialized Arrays
Vectors whose elements are restricted to type
character or a subtype of character
are called strings . Strings are of type string. Figure 15–2 lists some defined names related to strings.
Strings are specialized arrays and might logically have been included in this chapter. However, for purposes of readability most information about strings does not appear in this chapter; see instead Strings.
| char | string-equal | string-upcase |
| make-string | string-greaterp | string/= |
| nstring-capitalize | string-left-trim | string< |
| nstring-downcase | string-lessp | string<= |
| nstring-upcase | string-not-equal | string= |
| schar | string-not-greaterp | string> |
| string | string-not-lessp | string>= |
| string-capitalize | string-right-trim | |
| string-downcase | string-trim |
Figure 15–2: Operators that Manipulate Strings
Vectors whose elements are restricted to type bit are called bit vectors . Bit vectors are of type bit-vector. Figure 15–3 lists some defined names for operations on bit arrays.
| bit | bit-ior | bit-orc2 |
| bit-and | bit-nand | bit-xor |
| bit-andc1 | bit-nor | sbit |
| bit-andc2 | bit-not | |
| bit-eqv | bit-orc1 |
Figure 15–3: Operators that Manipulate Bit Arrays


Void QuantConnect.Algorithm.QCAlgorithm.OnEndOfDay ( )
End of a trading day event handler. This method is called at the end of the algorithm day (or multiple times if trading multiple assets).
Void QuantConnect.Algorithm.QCAlgorithm.OnEndOfDay (
String
symbol
)
End of a trading day event handler. This method is called at the end of the algorithm day (or multiple times if trading multiple assets).
Void QuantConnect.Algorithm.QCAlgorithm.OnEndOfDay (
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End of a trading day event handler. This method is called at the end of the algorithm day (or multiple times if trading multiple assets).


Boxstarter will self-install via ClickOnce, asking for various confirmations and ultimately it will prompt you for your login password. (This gets saved and encrypted to allow for unattended reboots and re-logins during the installation). Then the real magic begins. Boxstarter downloads and installs all your tools and configures your environment, rebooting as necessary. An hour later your full development setup is installed, including Visual Studio 2013, any VS extensions, any other programs and tools, all the browsers you need, all critical Windows updates, etc. You just saved yourself a couple of days of work and a lot of hassle.
How does Boxstarter know what to install? There’s a Powershell script located at that bitly address. Let’s take a look at the script.
# Boxstarter options$Boxstarter.RebootOk=$true# Allow reboots?$Boxstarter.NoPassword=$false# Is this a machine with no login password?$Boxstarter.AutoLogin=$true# Save my password securely and auto-login after a reboot# Basic setupUpdate-ExecutionPolicyUnrestrictedSet-ExplorerOptions-showHidenFilesFoldersDrives-showProtectedOSFiles-showFileExtensionsEnable-RemoteDesktopDisable-InternetExplorerESCDisable-UACSet-TaskbarSmallif(Test-PendingReboot){Invoke-Reboot}# Update Windows and reboot if necessaryInstall-WindowsUpdate-AcceptEulaif(Test-PendingReboot){Invoke-Reboot}# Install Visual Studio 2013 Professional cinstmVisualStudio2013Professional-InstallArgumentsWebToolsif(Test-PendingReboot){Invoke-Reboot}# Visual Studio SDK required for PoshTools extensioncinstmVS2013SDKif(Test-PendingReboot){Invoke-Reboot}cinstmDotNet3.5# Not automatically installed with VS 2013. Includes .NET 2.0. Uses Windows Features to install.if(Test-PendingReboot){Invoke-Reboot}# VS extensionsInstall-ChocolateyVsixPackagePowerShellToolshttp://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c9eb3ba8-0c59-4944-9a62-6eee37294597/file/112013/6/PowerShellTools.vsixInstall-ChocolateyVsixPackageWebEssentials2013http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/56633663-6799-41d7-9df7-0f2a504ca361/file/105627/31/WebEssentials2013.vsixInstall-ChocolateyVsixPackageT4Toolboxhttp://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/791817a4-eb9a-4000-9c85-972cc60fd5aa/file/116854/1/T4Toolbox.12.vsixInstall-ChocolateyVsixPackageStopOnFirstBuildErrorhttp://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/91aaa139-5d3c-43a7-b39f-369196a84fa5/file/44205/3/StopOnFirstBuildError.vsix# AWS Toolkit is now an MSI available here http://sdk-for-net.amazonwebservices.com/latest/AWSToolsAndSDKForNet.msi (no chocolatey package as of FEB 2014)# Install-ChocolateyVsixPackage AwsToolkit http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/175787af-a563-4306-957b-686b4ee9b497#Other dev toolscinstmfiddler4cinstmbeyondcomparecinstmProcExp#cinstm sysinternalscinstmNugetPackageExplorercinstmwindbgcinstmDevbox-ClinkcinstmTortoiseHg#cinstm VisualHG # Chocolatey package is corrupt as of Feb 2014 cinstmlinqpad4cinstmTestDriven.Netcinstmncrunch2.vs2013#Browserscinstmgooglechromecinstmfirefox#Other essential toolscinstm7zipcinstmadobereadercinstmjavaruntime#cinst Microsoft-Hyper-V-All -source windowsFeaturescinstIIS-WebServerRole-sourcewindowsfeaturescinstIIS-HttpCompressionDynamic-sourcewindowsfeaturescinstIIS-ManagementScriptingTools-sourcewindowsfeaturescinstIIS-WindowsAuthentication-sourcewindowsfeaturesInstall-ChocolateyPinnedTaskBarItem"$($Boxstarter.programFiles86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"Install-ChocolateyPinnedTaskBarItem"$($Boxstarter.programFiles86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
Boxstarter works with Chocolatey and you can install anything with a Chocolatey package very easily. As you can see, most of the lines begin with cinstm which is a shortcut for install with Chocolatey if missing. You will notice there are also commands for configuring Windows and IIS options. There is plenty of additional information on the Boxstarter documentation.
What about DevExpress?
Want to install your registered CodeRush and DexExpress components? Easy. Since the installation packages are not available on chocolatey, you will have to put them on a network share accessible from the newly provisioned machine.
Then add the following to your boxstarter script:
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# Set the following to the network location of the DevExpress installers$pathToDevExpressComponentsSetup="\\somewhere\DevExpressComponents-13.2.7.exe"$pathToDevExpressComponentsSetup="\\somewhere\DevExpressCodeRush-13.2.7.exe"# Command line options for unattended installation# (/EULA is not required for versions earlier than 10.2.10)$silentArgs="/Q<EMAIL_ADDRESS>/CUSTOMERID:A1111 /PASSWORD:MYPASSWORD /DEBUG /EULA:accept"# Install .NET ComponentsInstall-ChocolateyInstallPackage"DevExpressComponents_13.2""EXE"$silentArgs$pathToDevExpressComponentsSetup# Install CodeRushInstall-ChocolateyInstallPackage"DevExpressCodeRush_13.2""EXE"$silentArgs$pathToDevExpressCodeRushSetup
Warning! don’t put your DevExpress passwords on a public website.
There are plenty of other ways of launching Boxstarter. You can install Boxstarter via Chocolatey. You can run Boxstarter remotely. If you are putting passwords in the installation script, you should choose one of the other options.
Advantages
I save time!
I can now version control the exact development environment along with the source code!
Onboarding new and junior developers is much quicker.
In a pinch, I can use this method to quickly provision a development machine with Azure or Amazon Web Services
One Last Hiccup
While I was testing my BoxStarter script I used the Windows 8.1 image from http://www.modern.ie/. Much later in the process I realised that Modern.IE only supplies 32-bit images and the chocolatey installer for Visual Studio extensions currently works only with 64-bit Windows.


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--- title: "Transforming natural resource management with radical openness" author: "Drew Tyre" date: '2019-07-19' output: html_document: code_folding: hide draft: no slug: radical-openness tags_include: - ecology - management - modeling categories: Research ---
Some time ago I participated in a discussion about responding to a request for information. The requesters wanted the formula for the model developed by myself and others for a state agency. At the time, I mused that if we had posted all the code and data for the project on github, the request would be redundant. I was told that it was necessary to only give requesters exactly what they asked for. So we did. But.
I can think of one reason: maintain agency authority over the decision making process. If no one else has the information, then no one else can criticize or take over the decision. But this is patently false. Ballot initiatives tie the hands of Agencies across the country. These initiatives were not stopped by agencies keeping their data and analyses secret. I don’t know if having the data in the open would have stopped a ballot initiative either, but it seems a reasonable hypothesis to try out.
Keeping the data and analyses secret provides another advantage: it hides the trade offs that decision makers are making. There are unavoidable trade offs in natural resources management. There is no way to make all stakeholders perfectly happy. If there were, then those decisions aren’t going to be challenged. If an agency simply tells stakeholders what the decision is, then perhaps some will be happy, some merely satisfied, and others outraged. But no one will be able to tell the extent to which their concerns were traded away to advantage someone else.
I like to think about these issues in the context of a three-legged stool model of the science-policy interface: credibility, salience, and legitimacy.
Scientists are used to building credibility by exposing their work to peer review as part of the publishing process. But a lot of agency work doesn’t get peer reviewed, because it isn’t really pushing science forward. Putting the data and code out in the open invites constructive criticism – stakeholders can see what choices were made in the analysis. In fact, they can take the data and make different choices and see if that affects the results. Making the work public will also lead to better work – no room to be sloppy and no carpet to hide sketchy assumptions under.
The analysis should already be salient to the decision, because the work is done to support the decision. But it might not be obvious to stakeholders how the work is connected to the decision. Agencies might consider that a feature rather than a bug, but I think it is something that should be fixed.
I think of legitimacy of the analysis as the “3rd rail” of the science policy interface – touch it and your contribution is dead to the stakeholders. One way to increase legitimacy is to involve stakeholders in the process of defining the science. Opening a repository with code and data for an analysis explicitly provides a place for that conversation to happen. It might not be the best place, but something seems better than nothing.
Increasing credibility, salience, and legitimacy increases trust. The more trust stakeholders have in an agency, the more likely they are to comply with a decision. Placing the code and data in the open should increase trust, because look ma, nothing up either sleeve! But that only works if it is also clear how the analyses contributed to the decision, and ultimately that means exposing the trade offs involved.
I don’t have rose-colored glasses on; radical openness won’t make conflict with stakeholders go away. But I think it could change the nature of that conflict for the better.
I learned some more details about the request for information on a phone call. One stakeholder group, representing fur trappers, wants a particular action to be taken. As far as I can tell, the action would cost the agency nothing, and the stakeholders in question are the only ones who would experience a (slight if not zero) negative effect. Nonetheless, the agency doesn’t think the action is warranted. The stakeholders feel that a population of trappable animals is declining precipitously, and they want the population closed to trapping. The agency thinks there are very few animals there (poor habitat), and there have always been few animals there. Closing the population to trapping admits that the stakeholders’ view is correct.
There is an opportunity here to have a different kind of conversation about the management. There are clearly two hypotheses: the population is declining because of trapping, or the population is low because of poor habitat. These hypotheses make very different predictions about what will happen after closing the management area. If trapping is the problem, then after closure the population will start to increase. If habitat is the problem, then after closure nothing will change. Alternatively, closure will lead to increasing populations. We could do adaptive management! If we really wanted stakeholder good will, set up a program for trappers to earn money monitoring track stations and camera traps in both the closed and nearby open areas.


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Rui works as a web developer, designing and developing the interfaces that customers interact with. He has a special eye for usability and performance and he likes to give it a go on new technologies when he has the free time.
João works with service development and integration, providing a high level of interoperability between very diverse systems that need to be in constant cooperation. He also focuses on IT/DevOps when he has the opportunity.


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