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From the early days of lock down last year I was just as worried for a possible COVID-20 and COVID-21 as the current COVID-19. And when reconnecting with friends and former co-workers, many of whom work in public health and study of infectious diseases, the collective sentiment was largely similar. A close friend and I puzzled over India, as he’s from there and was convinced that it would see an outsized infection rate due to its population density. But we were still puzzled why India’s big wave emerged so recently and so asymmetrically. Part of it is our shared suspicion that there was under-reporting of cases, but we both thought there was more to the story.
Taking the queue from my entries about contagion spreading due to end-of-year congregate events in {{% url-link "Canada" "/post/COVID-19-Canadian-Case-Study" "_self" %}} and {{% url-link "Israel" "/post/COVID-19-Israel-Case-Study" "_self" %}}, my friend supposed that the same would happen in India with the advent of the national {{% url-link "Kumbh Festival" "https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56770460" %}}. Even though many of those public events are held outdoors, my friend explained some of the cultural norms had a great deal of close contact over extended periods. So I decided to dive back into the “Our World In Data” repository and line up India’s infection data with the dates of the festival.
{{% fancybox-iframe "/post/COVID-19-India-a-perfect-storm_files/figure-html/widgets/widget_India_COVID_Cases_per_Million.html" %}}
I was fully expecting for each date to be followed by a “bump” in case rates similar to what occurred in Canada and Israel. And while it can be influenced by under-reporting it’s hard to see that many events remaining flat. So what could be the reason for such a huge wave of cases? It’s entirely possible that there’s no correlation whatsoever, or that there’s something tangential about the later events that were minor contributors.  But with news of more virulent strains migrating to and gaining a footing in India I thought I’d take a look at genomics records to see if there’s anything else that emerges. So I dug into {{% url-link "Nextstrain's data" "https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global?c=pango_lineage" %}}. Even if there weren’t any answers I was hoping it would lead to better questions.
{{% fancybox-iframe "/post/COVID-19-India-a-perfect-storm_files/figure-html/widgets/widget_India_COVID_Variants_By_Month.html" %}}
{{% alert "info" "Hover:" "Shows tooltop with percentage of each variant present in data for that month aggregate." %}}
This visualization is structured as a percentage chart where each variant is represented as a percent of total observations for a given month. The tooltip sort order re-shuffles the results to show the most prevalent variants for the month displayed. It’s been interesting to see how sample levels and back-dated sequence reporting has continued to shape the percentages for a given period. April is still “shifting” as May data continue to come in. As usual, correlation does not mean causation - and in systems like this even correlation can be elusive, but it’s certainly enough to justify spending a bit more time with the data.
The two references below are worth sharing when looking to grok this domain. The first includes classification of SARS-CoV-2 variants among other information. The second has a concise description of the relationship between variant and clade as well as some notes on the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 genome.
I’ve worked at various healthcare-related companies throughout my career, and the one that maps most closely to this domain is {{% url-link "TherapyEdge" "/vitae/early-years/#TherapyEdge" "_self" %}}. I gained that formative experience right as AIDS was beginning to be understood as something other than an outright death sentence. So while I don’t have the level of knowledge and experience of a clinician or researcher in this field, I know a bit more than the average software engineer. Knowledge is power, and understanding the nuance of how variants can diverge, and how the scientific community responds to and communicates about it will continue to grow in importance as we learn to live with SARS-CoV-2 in the coming years.
Looking at clade data from the same observation set shows a more succinct pattern. While it looks like May has some drop off in the partial month data, April shows a clear take-over of 20I/501Y.V1 (primarily due to B.1.1.7) and 21A (due to B.1.617.2) which are the two variants that are currently causing the most worry around the globe.
{{% fancybox-iframe "/post/COVID-19-India-a-perfect-storm_files/figure-html/widgets/widget_India_COVID_Clades_By_Month.html" %}}
{{% alert "info" "Hover:" "Shows tooltip with percentage of each clade present in data for that month aggregate." %}}
Many experts around the globe are watching this very closely, and like variants and clades, so too will the information surrounding them continue to develop.
One of the main concerns surround a potential future “COVID-20” and “COVID-21” is the possibility of those variants reducing the effectiveness of vaccines or available therapies. With that, the contagion would continue to spread, and may eventually overtake once-thought-safe populations. And given the information from those that specialize in this area, certain strains of the virus not only seem more contagious, they also are showing some resistance to certain vaccines and demonstrate potential for accelerated spread.
During my time at TherapyEdge a significant portion of the company’s effort was on determining which strains of the AIDS virus were modulating within a given patient, which would impact the cocktail of ARV and related medications that made an individual’s treatment plan. It was like playing whack-a-mole, and if SARS-CoV-2 exhibits similar traits it will be a long time before the healthcare and scientific communities can get in front of it.
This isn’t the only report I had planned for looking at this data, but given the recent press around {{% url-link "Modi's COVID response" "https://www.npr.org/2021/05/11/995446333/this-government-has-failed-us-anger-rises-in-india-over-pm-modis-covid-response" %}}, and the dramatic effect that had on COVID incident rates, I thought some focus time with the data was warranted. Seeing population-leveled incident rates is heart-wrenching enough, but in absolute terms the situation in truly horrific. This isn’t just a problem for India. It’s a problem for all of us, and while the scientific community has some clarity on this, I’m hopeful that governments and policy-makers will see beyond their borders and their own personal fortunes to do what’s right for the future of our shared world.
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These charts are similar to many others on this site, with a few wrinkles in display and tooltip styling. I use {{% url-link "highcharter" "https://jkunst.com/highcharter/" %}}, the R wrapper for the {{% url-link "HighCharts" "https://www.highcharts.com" %}} JavaScript library.
Data for the first visual again uses the Our World In Data record set. Here it’s pared down to this year’s data and the date field is entitized.
library(highcharter)
library(tidyverse)
library(lubridate)
library(widgetframe)
library(xts)
library(jsonlite)
URL <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/owid/covid-19-data/master/public/data/owid-covid-data.csv"
coviddata <- read.csv(URL)
data <- select(coviddata, date, location, new_cases_smoothed_per_million) |>
filter(date >= "2021-01-01") |>
rename(value = new_cases_smoothed_per_million) |>
mutate(value = ifelse(is.na(value), 0, value)) |>
mutate(date = ymd(date))
data.wide <- pivot_wider(data, names_from = location, values_from = value)
data_xts <- xts(data.wide[,-1], order.by = data.wide$date)
Because this visual was about the general shape of the plotted area juxtaposed against the dates I didn’t use the “Highstock” visual as I did with Canada and Israel. The largest block of code is the layout of plotted dates, showcasing how the HighCharts wrapper uses a “lists of lists” approach to structuring the hand-off to javascript behind the scenes.
last_updated <- paste("Source: https://ourworldindata.org/ - Report Last Updated:", format(Sys.time(), "%a %b %d %Y %X"))
thm <- hc_theme_merge(
hc_theme_ffx(),
hc_theme(title = list(style = list(fontFamily = "Ubuntu")),
subtitle = list(style = list(fontFamily = "Fira Code")),
legend = list(itemStyle = list(fontFamily ='Ubuntu'))))
widget <- highchart(type = "chart") |>
hc_add_theme(thm) |>
hc_title(text = "India's Kumbh Festival Dates Compared To COVID Infection Rates (per Million)", align = "center") |>
hc_chart(
borderColor = 'rgba(160, 160, 160, 0.3)',
borderRadius = 8,
borderWidth = 2,
marginBottom = '80',
marginTop = '60',
marginLeft = '60',
marginRight = '60') |>
hc_plotOptions(series = list(marker = list(enabled = FALSE))) |>
hc_credits(enabled = TRUE,
text = last_updated,
position = list(align = "left", x = 10, y = -5)) |>
hc_add_series(data_xts$India,
type = "area",
name = "India",
color = "#FF9933",
showInLegend = FALSE) |>
hc_tooltip(valueDecimals = 2) |>
hc_xAxis(type = "datetime",
plotLines = list(list(
label = list(text = "First Bath: Maka Sankranti"),
color = "#138808",
width = 3,
value = datetime_to_timestamp(as.Date('2021-01-14', tz = 'UTC'))
),
list(
label = list(text = "Second Bath: Mauni Amavasya"),
color = "#138808",
width = 3,
value = datetime_to_timestamp(as.Date('2021-02-11', tz = 'UTC'))
),
list(
label = list(text = "Third Bath: Vasant Panchami"),
color = "#138808",
width = 3,
value = datetime_to_timestamp(as.Date('2021-02-16', tz = 'UTC'))
),
list(
label = list(text = "Fourth Bath: Ram Navami"),
color = "#138808",
width = 3,
value = datetime_to_timestamp(as.Date('2021-04-21', tz = 'UTC'))
),
list(
label = list(text = "First Shahi Bath: Maha Shivratri"),
color = "#138808",
width = 3,
value = datetime_to_timestamp(as.Date('2021-03-11', tz = 'UTC'))
),
list(
label = list(text = "Second Shahi Bath: Somvati Amamvasya"),
color = "#138808",
width = 3,
value = datetime_to_timestamp(as.Date('2021-04-12', tz = 'UTC'))
)
))
frameWidget(widget, width="100%", height="26rem")
This visual that’s built from the code below uses a Nextstrain data set, and while that can be generated from their Python/Anaconda project there’s a dependency on running the process in a Linux container (as I’m on Windows 10). I’ve done that kind of work for local dev instances to be eventually be deployed in the Azure stack, but automating a headless Python/Conda process was eating too much time. I’m not sure if I’ll go through the process of making it work or if I’ll simply re-generate the file a few times per week. Time will tell…
Here you’ll see that I looked at countries that border India as well as India itself. I did some data exploration in order to see “fan out” due to other columns showing tracing back to bordering countries. But I’ll need to do a more complete job of figuring out how to tie in relevant data, which seemed to be a bridge too far in this exercise. Note that I added a defaulted “1” value column so that roll-ups in the monthly aggregate could then be used by HighCharts to show a late-bound percentage value. (see {point.percentage:,.2f} % in the bottom sample)
library(highcharter)
library(tidyverse)
library(lubridate)
library(widgetframe)
library(jsonlite)
asia <- "/repo/nextstrain-ncov/data/asia.csv"
asiadata <- read.csv(asia)
data <- select(asiadata, Collection.Data, country, PANGO.Lineage, Clade) |>
filter(country == "India"
# | country == "Malaysia"
# | country == "Bangladesh"
# | country == "Nepal"
# | country == "Sri Lanka"
# | country == "Afghanistan"
# | country == "Pakistan"
# | country == "Maldives"
) |>
add_column(value = 1) |>
rename(Date = Collection.Data) |>
rename(Variant = PANGO.Lineage) |>
mutate(Date = mdy(Date)) |>
filter(Date >= "2021-01-01") |>
select(Date, Variant, value) |>
group_by(Variant, Date = floor_date(Date, "month")) |>
summarise(value = sum(value))
While the area spline and percentage charting makes for a “busy” visual, the key really is the tooltip. Note how HTML for building that mini-table is used to construct a “shared” tool tip, where mousing over any value will show the full range of values for every aggregate for that month. The late-binding of percentage-of-total has a definite “bucket brigade” vibe to it at first glance. But like most of this kind of hybrid/polyglot code exercises it becomes the “new normal” fairly quickly. There’s quite a bit of lift that’s being carried by the HighCharts “smarts” and that’s part of the beauty in the beast.
thm <- hc_theme_merge(
hc_theme_ffx(),
hc_theme(title = list(style = list(fontFamily = "Ubuntu")),
subtitle = list(style = list(fontFamily = "Fira Code")),
legend = list(itemStyle = list(fontFamily ='Ubuntu'))))
last_updated <- paste("Source: https://nextstrain.org/sars-cov-2 - Report Last Updated:", format(Sys.time(), "%a %b %d %Y %X"))
widget <- hchart(data, "areaspline", hcaes(x = Date, y = value, group = Variant, labels = FALSE)) |>
hc_plotOptions(series = list(stacking = 'percent', marker = list(enabled = FALSE))) |>
hc_legend(enabled = F) |>
hc_add_theme(thm) |>
hc_title(text = "India COVID Variants Percentage by Month (PANGO Lineage)", align = "center") |>
hc_add_theme(thm) |>
hc_yAxis(title = list(enabled = FALSE)) |>
hc_xAxis(title = list(enabled = FALSE)) |>
hc_chart(borderColor = 'rgba(160, 160, 160, 0.3)',
borderRadius = 8,
borderWidth = 2,
marginBottom = '80',
marginTop = '60',
marginLeft = '60',
marginRight = '60') |>
hc_legend(align = "right",
verticalAlign = "top",
layout = "vertical") |>
hc_tooltip(shared = TRUE, sort = TRUE, useHTML= TRUE,
headerFormat = "{point.key}
",
pointFormat = "
{series.name}: 	 {point.percentage:,.2f} %
",
footerFormat = "
") |>
hc_credits(enabled = TRUE,
text = last_updated,
position = list(align = "left", x = 10, y = -5))
frameWidget(widget, width = "100%", height = "26rem")
I’m seriously considering the lift in “breaking out” the Linux-focused Python tooling for Nextstrain. It’s both a way to keep my Python chops relatively sharp as well as lay some groundwork for more exploration of Nextstrain data in F#. Stay tuned!


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Gesto-Paint as name explains, Painting using hand gestures. I got inspiration to do this project after watching Pranav Mistry's TED Talk on “Sixth-Sense”. Putting a colored cap on fingers, doing gestures, computer recognizing and acting accordingly seemed super cool. After being fascinated by movie “Minority Report” and then Sixth Sense, I thought of this idea just to kickstart my passion of computer vision and HCI.
Idea was “ While Talking about Interaction with Computer, we need to talk in its language i.e machine language. Now the question arises why do we need to learn computer's language when we are using it for our ease. As all know, Gestures are the best part in expressing one. Then We can use our hand gestures to make computer work accordingly. So gesto-Paint is a hand gesture based project that enhance user interaction with computer.
I used OpenCV to recognize Red Colored marker and pymouse to control cursor, though I didn't created a paint application but my prototype's working was showing that it will paint too.
Later on, I tried this same project with OpenFramework too.
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Run level
Design matrices
A design matrix was generated for each run. All but the
first are collapsed, but each should be inspected for correctness.
Subject: 01, Task: rhymejudgment
The following confounds had NaN values for the first volume: framewise_displacement.
The mean of non-zero values for the remaining entries was imputed.
If another strategy is desired, it must be explicitly specified in
the model.
Correlation matrix
The correlation matrix of a design matrix shows the correlation between
each pair of regressors. Very high or low correlations among variables of
interest (top left) or between variables of interest and nuisance regressors
(top right) can indicate deficiency in the design. High correlations among
nuisance regressors will generally have little effect on the model.
...
Subject: 02, Task: rhymejudgment
The following confounds had NaN values for the first volume: framewise_displacement.
The mean of non-zero values for the remaining entries was imputed.
If another strategy is desired, it must be explicitly specified in
the model.
Correlation matrix
Subject: 03, Task: rhymejudgment
The following confounds had NaN values for the first volume: framewise_displacement.
The mean of non-zero values for the remaining entries was imputed.
If another strategy is desired, it must be explicitly specified in
the model.
Correlation matrix
Subject: 04, Task: rhymejudgment
The following confounds had NaN values for the first volume: framewise_displacement.
The mean of non-zero values for the remaining entries was imputed.
If another strategy is desired, it must be explicitly specified in
the model.
Correlation matrix
Subject: 05, Task: rhymejudgment
The following confounds had NaN values for the first volume: framewise_displacement.
The mean of non-zero values for the remaining entries was imputed.
If another strategy is desired, it must be explicitly specified in
the model.
Correlation matrix
Subject: 06, Task: rhymejudgment
The following confounds had NaN values for the first volume: framewise_displacement.
The mean of non-zero values for the remaining entries was imputed.
If another strategy is desired, it must be explicitly specified in
the model.
Correlation matrix
Subject: 07, Task: rhymejudgment
The following confounds had NaN values for the first volume: framewise_displacement.
The mean of non-zero values for the remaining entries was imputed.
If another strategy is desired, it must be explicitly specified in
the model.
Correlation matrix
Subject: 08, Task: rhymejudgment
The following confounds had NaN values for the first volume: framewise_displacement.
The mean of non-zero values for the remaining entries was imputed.
If another strategy is desired, it must be explicitly specified in
the model.
Correlation matrix
Subject: 09, Task: rhymejudgment
The following confounds had NaN values for the first volume: framewise_displacement.
The mean of non-zero values for the remaining entries was imputed.
If another strategy is desired, it must be explicitly specified in
the model.
Correlation matrix
Subject: 10, Task: rhymejudgment
The following confounds had NaN values for the first volume: framewise_displacement.
The mean of non-zero values for the remaining entries was imputed.
If another strategy is desired, it must be explicitly specified in
the model.
Correlation matrix
Subject: 11, Task: rhymejudgment
The following confounds had NaN values for the first volume: framewise_displacement.
The mean of non-zero values for the remaining entries was imputed.
If another strategy is desired, it must be explicitly specified in
the model.
Correlation matrix
Subject: 12, Task: rhymejudgment
The following confounds had NaN values for the first volume: framewise_displacement.
The mean of non-zero values for the remaining entries was imputed.
If another strategy is desired, it must be explicitly specified in
the model.
Correlation matrix
Subject: 13, Task: rhymejudgment
The following confounds had NaN values for the first volume: framewise_displacement.
The mean of non-zero values for the remaining entries was imputed.
If another strategy is desired, it must be explicitly specified in
the model.
Correlation matrix
Contrasts
A contrast matrix was generated for each run. Except
in very rare cases, these should be identical, so these should be
inspected to ensure no unexpected differences are present.
Subject: 01, Task: rhymejudgment
...
Subject: 02, Task: rhymejudgment
Subject: 03, Task: rhymejudgment
Subject: 04, Task: rhymejudgment
Subject: 05, Task: rhymejudgment
Subject: 06, Task: rhymejudgment
Subject: 07, Task: rhymejudgment
Subject: 08, Task: rhymejudgment
Subject: 09, Task: rhymejudgment
Subject: 10, Task: rhymejudgment
Subject: 11, Task: rhymejudgment
Subject: 12, Task: rhymejudgment
Subject: 13, Task: rhymejudgment


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The first thing we should ask ourselves is: What is the procedural content generation and what we can do with it on games? PCG is the the automatic or computer-assisted generation of game content such as levels, landscapes, items, rules, quests etc. This time we are generating the terrain for a posible sandbox game using voxels, like Minecraft. I have decided to use voxels because they are easy to manage and will allow me to do whatever I want with the terrain (cliffs, mountains, canyons, caves, corridors between caves, etc)
Noise
To generate our terrain we will use a noise signal. What is noise? Noise is a general term for unwanted modifications that a signal may suffer. This definittion is usually for processing audio signals but in computer graphics noise is used to generate realistic contents. There are different algorithms to make noise, but the most common is Perlin Noise developed by Ken Perlin, who won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for inventing it.
Perlin Noise
Perlin Noise is most commonly implemented as a 2D, 3D or 4D function, but can be defined for any number of dimensions.
The algorithm takes a noise function to generate a number of samples with different frequency and amplitude, these samples are summed to generate a new signal, you can see it on the next images in 1D and 2D.
As you can see, every sample adds a perturbation to the first one, being the first with greater amplitude the most significant, the next ones have less amplitude but greater frequency, which is what adds the disturbing values to the signal.
Knowing this, the Perlin Noise function comes from basically 2 parameters apart from the N coordenates in N-Dimension noise, the Persistance and the Octaves. Each successive noise function you add is know as an Octave and the Persistance deffines the amplitude of each Octave.
\(frequency = 2^i\)
\(amplitude = persistence^i\)
Simplex Noise
Now that we know the basics of Perlin Noise, Ken Perlin in 2001 designed an algorithm to address the limitations of his classic noise function, especially in higher dimensions. The Simplex Noise is a method for constructing an n-dimensional noise function comparable to Perlin Noise but with a lower computational overhead, especially in larger dimensions.
The advantages of simplex noise over Perlin noise:
- Simplex noise has a lower computational complexity and requires fewer multiplications.
- Simplex noise scales to higher dimensions (4D, 5D) with much less computational cost, the complexity is \(O(n^2)\) for n dimensions instead of the \(O(2^n)\) of classic noise.
- Simplex noise has no noticeable directional artifacts (is isotropic).
- Simplex noise has a well-defined and continuous gradient everywhere that can be computed quite cheaply.
- Simplex noise is easy to implement in hardware.
These are the reasons why I chose Simplex Noise instead of Perlin Noise. The values obtained are virtually the same but the algorithm is better.
Terrain
Once we have defined the noise algorithm with the Persistance and the Octaves, we simply create a voxel at coordinates (X, Y, Z), where the Y-coordinate is the value obtained by the noise function. As the value comes between (-1, 1) we sum 1 and divide by 2 to get a value between (0, 1). Now we simply multiply that value by the maximum height that we want to our terrain.
This is what you get with a Persistence of 0.27 and 3 Octaves, I have divided the terrain in sectors because of limitations of Unity, there are 10x10 sectors with 20x20 cubes per sector (around 40k cubes), but this is not really important to see what we want to.
Biomes
Here we have it, our procedurally generated terrain using voxels and Simplex noise but... is pretty boring, it would be great if it had some cliffs, canyons, high mountains, etc. To do that we have to create some biomes.
Biomes, taking Minecraft as model, are regions with varying geographical features, flora, heights, temperatures, humidity ratings, and sky and foliage colors. From now on we will focus our work on heights, using a curve values we can modify the height of our terrain and create completly different terrains with the same noise parameters.
The first curve on the right, is a straight line from 0 to 1, this means that if you get a value from the noise function equals to 0.1 and you evaluate this value with the curve, you will get the same value 0.1, in other words this is the curve used at the example seen before.
The other curve is quite different, more irregular, made by me. This curve will change the values obtained from the noise function significantly. When we have values from 0 to 0.52 the curve will return values near to 1, the values from 0.52 to 0.9 will be around 0.45, and from 0.9 to 1 will fall to 0.3. If we run the example with this curve what we see is a terrain made of cliffs and plains.
That's all for now, the next goal should be add some textures to the cubes, figure out how to create a huge map where more than one biome enter to the game and how to deal with the transitions between biomes.


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College of William & Mary
B.S. Computer Science & Mathematics
Aug 2009 - May 2013
- CS classes covering data structures, algorithms, systems programming, architecture, network security, and GPGPU programming
- Math classes covering calculus, linear algebra, matrix analysis, operations research, abstract algebra, probability, and quantum computing
- Defending an senior honors thesis in Computer Science
- Current cumulative GPA of 3.67
- Received Monroe Scholarship (Spring 2011) and Jane Mahoney Scholarship (Fall 2011) for outstanding academic achievement
- Organized and facilitated first two W&M Hackathons (Spring/Fall 2012), organizing third W&M hackathon for Spring 2013
- Current W&M Student ACM President (2011-Present)


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Quality Assurance Engineer - Mukwonago, WI 53149
Description:
Summary
The Quality Assurance Engineer assists with the facilitation of contract review, order submission PPAP, documenting and facilitation of the control of documentation associated with order contracts.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities of the Quality Engineer are detailed below, but not limited to the following:
Deals with Customers, Sales and Engineering on APQP activities for new program.
Work with Program Managers and Process Engineers to co-ordinate and prepare sample submission packages.
Work with suppliers & customers on quality concerns. Conducts investigations on non-conformance and recommends corrective action to prevent reoccurrence.
Interpret detailed blueprints, work orders, engineering specifications, and routing sheets to determine production standards
Analyzes data by completing hypothesis, normal distribution, and process capability analysis tests.
Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data; making recommendations.
Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establish personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participate in professional societies; maintaining American Society of Quality Control Certified Quality Engineer qualification.
Communicate with management any deviations of tolerances and quality.
Assist in addressing and resolving production problems causing deviations from existing standards.
Lead and/or assist in Corrective Actions and Root Cause Analysis.
Complete all required records and paperwork.
Comply with all quality and safety regulations and procedures.
Research, develop, and coordinate new inspection methods and practices with the Quality Manager.
Requirements:
Qualifications:
Ability to use Microsoft programs, such as: Outlook, Excel, Word, Access.
Understanding of AS9100 and ISO9000 Quality Management Systems and Standards.
Ability to perform PPAP, Gage R&R, SPC, FMEA, & PCAR’s a plus.
Strong organizational, communication and troubleshooting skills.
Education and/or Experience
Requires minimum of an Associate degree and/or high school diploma with a minimum of 15 years related experience or a combination of education and experience.
Ability to read and interpret complex documents such as blueprints, routings, work orders, engineering specifications, and safety regulations. Ability to write documentation.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to walk and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
The above statements reflect the general details necessary to describe the principle functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work that is involved in this position.


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SCSSdkClient.Object.SCSTelemetry.Truck.Current.Dashboard.Warnings
AirPressure
public bool AirPressure { get; internal set }
Is the air pressure warning active?
AirPressureEmergency
public bool AirPressureEmergency { get; internal set }
Are the emergency brakes active as result of low air pressure?
FuelW
public bool FuelW { get; internal set }
Is the fuel warning active?
AdBlue
public bool AdBlue { get; internal set }
Is the adblue warning active?
OilPressure
public bool OilPressure { get; internal set }
Is the oil pressure warning active?
WaterTemperature
public bool WaterTemperature { get; internal set }
Is the water temperature warning active?
BatteryVoltage
public bool BatteryVoltage { get; internal set }
Is the battery voltage warning active?


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This pentest laboratory was made by Bayani "metamudkip" Elogada. I made this for bug bounty hunters, ethical hackers, and pentesters as a playground for their attacks. It is built using HTML in UTF-8 encoding, and is vulnerable to most XSS injections. It is also a viable target for man-in-the-middle attacks. It is not connected to an SQL database though, so it cannot cater to SQL injections for now. In the future, I plan on adding API integration so that pentesters can have a target for authentication systems. I have added a few scripts in which researchers and pentesters alike can pick up a few one-liner payloads for XSS and SQLi. I am planning on including some webshell files too. Pick your destination in the directory above underneath the logo. |


Atuona, Hiva Oa, is the most convenient Port of Entry into French Polynesia when arriving from The Galapagos Islands.
The famous painter, Paul Gauguin is buried here in the small graveyard above the anchorage.
Position 09°48'S, 139°02'W.
Atuona is the Port of Entry.
This is the most common port of entry for boats arriving from the east. No other islands (other than the ports of entry Ua Pou and Nuku Hiva) should be visited before reporting to the officials in Atuona. See Fatu Hiva for reports from cruisers there in 2014.
It is NO LONGER compulsory for all yachts visiting French Polynesia to visit Papeete Customs and Immigration to complete the clearing-in process.
Yachts can now clear in or out of FP with the “gendarmes” offices (French Police) at the ports of entry in the other islands.
The Gendarmerie Nationale in Atuona can deal with Immigration and Customs formalities.
The Gendarmerie in Atuona is located half-a-mile (1 km) uphill. It is reported that the Gendarme may only process yachts during morning hours (until approx. 1100) on working days. They are reported to be friendly and efficient.
For full details on clearance into and out of FP go to French Polynesia Formalities.
Last updated July 2014.
The small port of Atuona provides good shelter, but can get crowded due to the number of boats checking in and a swell can arise. Boats deploy stern anchors to not only face into the swell, but also to allow more yachts to squeeze in. It is highly recommended you prepare your stern anchor ready to launch in advance, as winds commonly flow into the bay from the north while boats point into the swell from the south.
Yachts should also anchor behind two yellow posts with crosses on land on the starboard side as you enter the harbour (not easily detected). This is to keep yachts clear of the passage supply vessels which enter the harbour.
The depth varies from 2 to 3.5 metres so deep drafted boats may have to anchor outside the breakwater.
If a large southerly swell is predicted, boats at the end of the bay may find themselves in breaking waves.
Yacht Adina who visited French Polynesia in 2014 has written a useful article on stern anchoring - go to www.yachtadina.co.uk/sailingnotes
Getting Ashore
The dinghy can be left at the steps by the main quay (it is best to lift the dinghy onto the quay as there is a lot of surge) or by the ramp in the SE corner of the harbor. The ramp is extremely slippery so it is best to try to land at high water.
Shore Facilities
There is a public telephone in the harbour but other facilities are limited. At the dinghy dock is a tourist information hut run by Sandra from 8am to 11am for the benefit of yachts. She can arrange for laundry to be cleaned, tours to Puamau to see the tikis, airport taxis etc. Sandra will organise fresh produce if you request it. She offers internet access for 24 hours for 2000 CFP. The fuel station within walking distance also has some limited supplies including fresh baguettes in the morning.
Yacht Services
There is a new haulout facility here with boatyard. Facilities are basic, however it is worth considering for cyclone season and repairs are possible. See Boatyards for details.
Note: The time zone here is -9.5 UTC.
Last updated June 2016.


RiOS v8.5 includes support for SMB3 traffic latency and bandwidth optimization for native SMB3 clients and servers.Windows 8 clients and Windows 2012 servers feature SMB3 (originally called SMB 2.2), an upgrade to the CIFS communication protocol. SMB3 adds features for greater resiliency, scalability, and improved security. SMB3 supports these features:Encryption - If the SMB server and client negotiate SMB3 and the server is configured for encryption, all SMB packets are encrypted on the wire, except for when share-level encryption is configured. Share-level encryption marks a specific share on the server as being encrypted; if a client opens a connection to the server and tries to access the share, the system encrypts the data that goes to that share. The system does not encrypt the data that goes to other shares on the same server. New Signing Algorithm – SMB3 uses the AES-CMAC algorithm instead of the HMAC-SHA256 algorithm used by SMB2 and enables signing by default. Secure Dialect Negotiation - Detects man-in-the-middle attempts to downgrade the SMB 2/3 protocol dialect or capabilities that the SMB client and server negotiate. Secure dialect negotiation is enabled by default in Windows 8 and Server 2012. You can use secure dialect negotiation with SMB2 when you are setting up a connection to a server running Server 2008-R2. Allows an SMB client to retrieve hashes for a particular region of a file for use in branch cache retrieval, as specified in [MS-PCCRC] section 2.4. Allows an SMB client to obtain a lease on a directory. Encrypts traffic between the SMB client and server on a per-share basis. Uses remote direct memory access (RDMA) transports, when the appropriate hardware and network are available. Enhances failover between the SMB client and server, including optional handle persistence. Allows an SMB client to bind a session to multiple connections to the server. The system can send a request through any channel associated with the session, and sends the corresponding response through the same channel previously used by the request. To optimize signed SMB3 traffic, you must run RiOS v8.5 and enable SMB3 optimization on the client-side and server-side Steelhead appliances.RiOS v6.5 and later includes support for SMB2 traffic latency optimization for native SMB2 clients and servers. SMB2 allows more efficient access across disparate networks. It is the default mode of communication between Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Microsoft modified SMB2 again (to SMB v2.1) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.A vastly reduced set of opcodes (a total of only 18); in contrast, SMBv1 has over 70 separate opcodes. Note that use of SMB2 does not result in lost functionality (most of the SMB1 opcodes were redundant). General mechanisms for data pipelining and lease-based flow control. Request compounding, which allows multiple SMB requests to be sent as a single network request. Larger reads and writes, which provide for more efficient use of networks with high latency. Caching of folder and file properties, where clients keep local copies of folders and files. Improved scalability for file sharing (number of users, shares, and open files per server greatly increased).
2. Under Down Negotiation, complete the configuration on the client-side Steelhead appliance as described in this table.
Specifies that the Steelhead appliance does not optimize the connection when it is unable to negotiate down to SMB1. Enable on the client-side Steelhead appliance. Optimizes connections that are successfully negotiated down to SMB1 according to the settings on the Configure > Optimization > CIFS (SMB1) page.RiOS bypasses down-negotiation to SMB1 when the client or the server is configured to use only SMB2/3 or the client has already established an SMB2/3 connection with the server. If the client already has a connection with the server, you must restart the client.Down-negotiation can fail if the client only supports SMB2 or if it bypasses negotiation because the system determines that the server supports SMB2. When down-negotiation fails, bandwidth optimization is not affected.
3. Under Optimization, complete the configuration on both the client-side and server-side Steelhead appliances as described in this table.
Performs SMB2 latency optimization in addition to the existing bandwidth optimization features. These optimizations include cross-connection caching, read-ahead, write-behind, and batch prediction among several other techniques to ensure low-latency transfers. RiOS maintains the data integrity, and the client always receives data directly from the servers.You must enable (or disable) SMB2 latency optimization on both the client-side and server-side Steelhead appliances.To enable SMB2, both Steelhead appliances must be running RiOS v6.5 or later. After enabling SMB2 optimization, you must restart the optimization service. Performs SMB3 latency optimization in addition to the existing bandwidth optimization features. This optimization includes cross-connection caching, read-ahead, write-behind, and batch prediction among several other techniques to ensure low-latency transfers. RiOS maintains the data integrity and the client always receives data directly from the servers.You must enable (or disable) SMB3 latency optimization on both the client-side and server-side Steelhead appliances.To enable SMB3, both Steelhead appliances must be running RiOS v8.5. After enabling SMB3 optimization, you must restart the optimization service.
4. Click Apply to apply your settings to the current configuration.
5.Configuring CIFS Prepopulation You display and modify SMB signing settings in the Configure > Optimization > CIFS (SMB1) and (SMB2/3) pages.When sharing files, Windows provides the ability to sign CIFS messages to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. Each CIFS message has a unique signature which prevents the message from being tampered with. This security feature is called SMB signing.You can enable the RiOS SMB signing feature on a server-side Steelhead appliance to alleviate latency in file access with CIFS acceleration while maintaining message security signatures. With SMB signing on, the Steelhead appliance optimizes CIFS traffic by providing bandwidth optimizations (SDR and LZ), TCP optimizations, and CIFS latency optimizations—even when the CIFS messages are signed.RiOS v8.5 includes support for optimizing SMB3-signed traffic for native SMB3 clients and servers. You must enable SMB3 signing if the client or server use any of these settings:SMB2/SMB3 signing set to required. SMB3 signing is enabled by default. SMB3 secure dialect negotiation (enabled by default on the Windows 8 client) SMB3 encryption RiOS v6.5 and later includes support for optimizing SMB2-signed traffic for native SMB2 clients and servers. SMB2 signing support includes:Windows domain integration, including domain join and domain-level support. Authentication using transparent mode and delegation mode. Delegation mode is the default for SMB2. Transparent mode works out of the box with Windows Vista (but not Windows 7). To use transparent mode with Windows 7, you must join the server-side Steelhead appliance as an Active Directory integrated (Windows 2003) or an Active Directory integrated (Windows 2008 and later). For details, see Authentication. Secure inner-channel SSL support. For details, see Configuring Secure Peers. The RiOS SMB signing feature works with Windows domain security and is fully compliant with the Microsoft SMB-signing v1, v2, and v3 protocols. RiOS supports domain security in both native and mixed modes for:Windows 2000 Windows 2003 R2 Windows 2008 Windows 2008 R2 The server-side Steelhead appliance in the path of the signed CIFS traffic becomes part of the Windows trust domain. The Windows domain is either the same as the domain of the user or has a trust relationship with the domain of the user. The trust relationship can be either a parent-child relationship or an unrelated trust relationship.RiOS optimizes signed CIFS traffic even when the logged-in user or client machine and the target server belong to different domains, provided these domains have a trust relationship with the domain the Steelhead appliance has joined. RiOS v6.1 and later supports delegation for users that are in domains trusted by the server's domain. The trust relationships include:A basic parent and child domain relationship. Users from the child domain try to access CIFS/MAPI servers in the parent domain: for example, users in ENG.RVBD.COM accessing servers in RVBD.COM. A grandparent and child domain relationship. Users from grandparent domain access resources from the child domain: for example, users from RVBD.COM accessing resources in DEV.ENG.RVBD.COM. A sibling domain relationship: for example, users from ENG.RVBD.COM try to access resources in MARKETING.RVBD.COM. RiOS v7.0 and later features these authentication modes:NTLM delegation mode - Uses Kerberos delegation architecture to authenticate signed packets between the server-side Steelhead appliance and any configured servers participating in the signed session. NTLM is used between the client-side and server-side Steelhead appliance. This is the default mode for SMB2. SMB2 delegation mode in RiOS v6.5 and later supports Windows 7 and Samba 4 clients. Delegation mode requires additional configuration of Windows domain authentication. NTLM transparent mode - Uses NTLM authentication end to end between the client-side and server- side Steelhead appliances and the server-side Steelhead appliance and the server. This is the default mode for SMB1. Transparent mode in RiOS v6.1 and later supports all Windows servers, including Windows 2008 R2, that have NTLM enabled. It is easier to configure. Kerberos authentication support - Uses Kerberos authentication end to end between the client-side and server-side Steelhead appliance and the server-side Steelhead appliance and the server. Kerberos authentication requires additional configuration of Windows domain authentication. Windows 7 clients. RiOS v7.0 and later supports transparent mode when you join the server-side Steelhead appliance as an Active Directory integrated (Windows 2008) or an Active Directory integrated (Windows 2008). Windows 2008 R2 domains which have NTLM disabled. Windows servers that are in domains with NTLM disabled. Windows 7 clients which have NTLM disabled. You can enable extra security using the secure inner channel. The peer Steelhead appliances using the secure channel encrypt signed CIFS traffic over the WAN. For details, see Configuring Secure Peers.With RiOS SMB signing enabled, Steelhead appliances sign the traffic between the client and the client-side Steelhead appliance and between the server and the server-side Steelhead appliance. The traffic is not signed between the Steelhead appliances, but the Steelhead appliances implement their own integrity mechanisms. Whether Steelhead appliances are used or not, SMB-signed traffic is only signed, not encrypted. For maximum security, Riverbed recommends that you configure the Steelhead appliances as SSL peers and use the secure inner channel to secure the traffic between them. For details, see Configuring Secure Peers. If you already have a delegate user and are joined to a domain, enabling SMB2 signing will work when enabled with no additional configuration. SMB signing requires joining a Windows domain. It is vital to set the correct time zone for joining a domain. The most common reason for failing to join a domain is a significant difference in the system time on the Windows domain controller and the Steelhead appliance. When the time on the domain controller and the Steelhead appliance do not match, This error message appears: Riverbed recommends using NTP time synchronization to synchronize the client and server clocks. It is critical that the Steelhead appliance time is the same as on the Active Directory controller. Sometimes an NTP server is down or inaccessible, in which case there can be a time difference. You can also disable NTP if it is not being used and manually set the time. You must also verify that the time zone is correct. For details, see Configuring the Date and Time. For more troubleshooting, see Troubleshooting a Domain Join Failure.Both the client and the server must support SMB2 and SMB3 to use RiOS SMB2 and SMB3 signing. This section describes how to verify the domain and DNS settings before joining the Windows domain and enabling SMB signing.
1. If you are using delegation mode or configuring replication users, verify that the Windows domain functionality is at the Windows 2003 level or higher. In Windows, open Active Directory Users and Computers on the domain controller, choose Domain Name, right-click, and select Raise Domain functionality level. If the domain is not already at the Windows 2003 level or higher, manually raise the domain functionality.If replication users are configured to use password replication policy (PRP), the domain functional level must be Windows 2008 or higher. For details about delegation mode, see Enabling SMB Signing. For details about replication users, see Configuring Replication Users (Kerberos).
2. Identify the full domain name, which must be the same as DNS. You must specify this name when you join the server-side Steelhead appliance to the domain.
3. Identify the short (NetBIOS) domain name by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del on any member server. You must explicitly specify the short domain name when the Steelhead appliance joins the domain if it does not match the leftmost portion of the fully qualified domain name.
4. Make sure that the primary or auxiliary interface for the server-side Steelhead appliance is routable to the DNS and the domain controller.You must be able to ping the server-side Steelhead appliance, by name, from a CIFS server joined to the same domain that the server-side Steelhead appliance joins. If you cannot, you must manually create an entry in the DNS server for the server-side Steelhead appliance and perform a DNS replication prior to joining the Windows domain. The Steelhead appliance does not automatically register the required DNS entry with the Windows domain controller.You must be able to ping the domain controller, by name, whose domain the server-side Steelhead appliance joins. If you cannot, choose Configure > Networking > Host Settings to configure the DNS settings.Choose Configure > Optimization > Domain Auth Auto Config on the server-side Steelhead appliance and join the domain. For details, see Easy Domain Authentication Configuration. After you have joined the domain, the next step is to enable SMB signing.Important: When SMB signing is set to Enabled for both the client and server-side SMB component (but not set to Required), and the RiOS Optimize Connections with Security Signatures feature is enabled, it takes priority and prevents SMB signing. You can resolve this by disabling the Optimize Connections with Security Signatures feature and restarting the Steelhead appliance before enabling this feature.The RiOS Optimize Connections with Security Signatures feature can lead to unintended consequences in the scenario when SMB signing is required on the client, but set to Enabled on the server. With this feature enabled the client concludes that the server does not support signing and might terminate the connection with the server as a result. You can resolve this by using one of these procedures before enabling this feature: Disable the Optimize Connections with Security Signatures feature and restart the Steelhead appliance. Apply a Microsoft Service pack update to the clients (recommended). You can download the update from the Microsoft Download Center:
1.
Enables CIFS traffic optimization by providing bandwidth optimizations (SDR and LZ), TCP optimizations, and CIFS latency optimizations, even when the CIFS messages are signed. By default, this setting is disabled. You must enable this feature on the server-side Steelhead appliance.Note: If you enable this feature without first joining a Windows domain, a message tells you that the Steelhead appliance must join a domain before it can support SMB signing. NTLM Transparent Mode Provides SMB1 signing with transparent authentication. The server-side Steelhead uses NTLM to authenticate users. Select transparent mode with Vista for the simplest configuration. You can also use transparent mode with Windows 7, provided that you join the server-side Steelhead appliance as an Active Directory integration. NTLM Delegation Mode Re-signs SMB signed packets using the Kerberos delegation facility. This setting is enabled by default when you enable SMB signing. Delegation mode is required for Windows 7, but works with all clients (unless the client has NTLM disabled).Delegation mode requires additional configuration. Choose Configure > Optimization > Windows Domain Authentication or click the link provided in the CIFS Optimization page. Enable Kerberos Authentication Support Provides SMB signing with end-to-end authentication using Kerberos. The server-side Steelhead appliance uses Kerberos to authenticate users.In addition to enabling this feature, you must also join the server-side Steelhead appliance to a Windows domain and add replication users on the Configure > Optimization > Windows Domain Authentication page.The server-side Steelhead appliance must be running RiOS v7.0.x. The client-side Steelhead appliance must be running RiOS v5.5 or later.If you want to use password replication policy (PRP) with replication users, Kerberos authentication requires additional replication user configuration on the Windows 2008 Domain Controller.
3. Click Apply to apply your settings to the running configuration.
4. Click Save to save your settings permanently.
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Enable SMB2 and SMB3 Signing Enables SMB2/3 traffic optimization by providing bandwidth optimizations (SDR and LZ), TCP optimizations, and SMB2/3 latency optimizations, even when the SMB2/3 messages are signed. By default, this setting is disabled. You must enable this feature on the server-side Steelhead appliance.If you are upgrading and already have a delegate user, and the Steelhead appliance is already joined to a domain, enabling SMB2/3 signing works when enabled with no additional configuration.Note: If you enable this feature without first joining a Windows domain, a message tells you that the Steelhead appliance must join a domain before it can support SMB2/3 signing.Note: You must enable SMB2/3 latency optimization before enabling SMB2/3 signing. To enable SMB2/3 latency optimization, choose Configure > Optimization > SMB2/3. NTLM Transparent Mode Provides SMB2/3 signing with transparent authentication. The server-side Steelhead uses NTLM to authenticate users. Select transparent mode with Vista for the simplest configuration. You can also use transparent mode with Windows 7, provided that you join the server-side Steelhead appliance using Active Directory integration with Windows 2003 or 2008. NTLM Delegation Mode Re-signs SMB2/3 signed packets using the delegation facility. This setting is enabled by default when you enable SMB2/3 signing. Delegation mode is required for Windows 7 but works with all clients (unless the client has NTLM disabled).Delegation mode requires additional configuration. Choose Configure > Optimization > Windows Domain Authentication or click the link in the CIFS Optimization page. Enable Kerberos Authentication Support Provides SMB2/3 signing with end-to-end authentication using Kerberos. The server-side Steelhead appliance uses Kerberos to authenticate users.In addition to enabling this feature, you must also join the server-side Steelhead appliance to a Windows domain and add replication users:1. Choose Configure > Optimization > Domain Auth Auto Config and click Configure Domain Auth to join the server-side Steelhead appliance to a Windows domain.For SMB3, the server-side Steelhead appliance must be running RiOS v8.5. The client-side Steelhead appliance must be running RiOS v6.5 or later.For SMB2, the server-side Steelhead appliance must be running RiOS v7.0. The client-side Steelhead appliance must be running RiOS v6.5 or later.If you want to use password replication policy (PRP) with replication users, Kerberos authentication requires additional replication user configuration on the Windows 2008 domain controller.
3. Click Apply to apply your settings to the running configuration.
4. Click Save to save your settings permanently.
5.Configuring CIFS Prepopulation Windows Domain Authentication Creating Inbound QoS Classes Viewing Current Connection Reports If the SMB server and client negotiate SMB3 and the server is configured for encryption, you can configure share-level encryption. Share-level encryption marks a specific share on the server as encrypted so that if a client opens a connection to the server and tries to access the share, RiOS encrypts the data that goes to that share. RiOS does not encrypt the data that goes to other shares on the same server.
1.
2. Choose Configure > Optimization > SMB2/3 and enable SMB3 optimization on the client-side and server-side Steelhead appliance.An SMB3 encrypted connection shows as SMB3-ENC on the Current Connections report. When some shares are marked for encryption and others are not, if a connection accesses both encrypted and nonencrypted shares, the Current Connections report also shows the connection as SMB3-ENC.


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Constructors
TargetDeclaration
(
Target
target_)
Member Functions
Target
GetTarget
()
const
void
Write
(
CodeFormatter
& formatter)
override
Member Variables
Target
target
Constructor Details
TargetDeclaration Constructor
sngcm::ast::TargetDeclaration::TargetDeclaration(
Target
target_)
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ProjectDeclaration
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ProjectDeclarationType
::
targetDeclaration
)
,
target
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)
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{
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Member Function Details
GetTarget Member Function
Target
sngcm::ast::TargetDeclaration::GetTarget()
const
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{
return
target
;
}
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Write Member Function
void
sngcm::ast::TargetDeclaration::Write(
CodeFormatter
& formatter)
override
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WriteLine
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sngcm::ast::ProjectDeclaration::Write
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Dallas Buyers Club
In: Sports Medicine for the Primary Care Physician, 2nd ed , R. Birrer, Ed. ; CRC. Lori Boyajian-O'Neill, DO; Dennis Cardone, DO; William Dexter, MD; John from left, Sofia Vergara portrays Gloria, left, Ed O'Neill portrays her husband Jay, Sofia Vergara, Ed O'Neill, Rico Rodriguez UCLA-Oregon 10/26/2013


SMIME
Section: OpenSSL (1)Updated: 2009-09-30
Index Return to Main Contents
NAME
smime - S/MIME utilitySYNOPSIS
openssl smime [-encrypt] [-decrypt] [-sign] [-resign] [-verify] [-pk7out] [-[cipher]] [-in file] [-certfile file] [-signer file] [-recip file] [-inform SMIME|PEM|DER] [-passin arg] [-inkey file] [-out file] [-outform SMIME|PEM|DER] [-content file] [-to addr] [-from ad] [-subject s] [-text] [-indef] [-noindef] [-stream] [-rand file(s)] [-md digest] [cert.pem]...DESCRIPTION
The smime command handles S/MIME mail. It can encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify S/MIME messages.COMMAND OPTIONS
There are six operation options that set the type of operation to be performed. The meaning of the other options varies according to the operation type.- -encrypt
- encrypt mail for the given recipient certificates. Input file is the message to be encrypted. The output file is the encrypted mail in MIME format.
- -decrypt
- decrypt mail using the supplied certificate and private key. Expects an encrypted mail message in MIME format for the input file. The decrypted mail is written to the output file.
- -sign
- sign mail using the supplied certificate and private key. Input file is the message to be signed. The signed message in MIME format is written to the output file.
- -verify
- verify signed mail. Expects a signed mail message on input and outputs the signed data. Both clear text and opaque signing is supported.
- -pk7out
- takes an input message and writes out a PEM encoded PKCS#7 structure.
- -resign
- resign a message: take an existing message and one or more new signers.
- -in filename
- the input message to be encrypted or signed or the MIME message to be decrypted or verified.
- -inform SMIME|PEM|DER
- this specifies the input format for the PKCS#7 structure. The default is SMIME which reads an S/MIME format message. PEM and DER format change this to expect PEM and DER format PKCS#7 structures instead. This currently only affects the input format of the PKCS#7 structure, if no PKCS#7 structure is being input (for example with -encrypt or -sign) this option has no effect.
- -out filename
- the message text that has been decrypted or verified or the output MIME format message that has been signed or verified.
- -outform SMIME|PEM|DER
- this specifies the output format for the PKCS#7 structure. The default is SMIME which write an S/MIME format message. PEM and DER format change this to write PEM and DER format PKCS#7 structures instead. This currently only affects the output format of the PKCS#7 structure, if no PKCS#7 structure is being output (for example with -verify or -decrypt) this option has no effect.
- -stream -indef -noindef
- the -stream and -indef options are equivalent and enable streaming I/O for encoding operations. This permits single pass processing of data without the need to hold the entire contents in memory, potentially supporting very large files. Streaming is automatically set for S/MIME signing with detached data if the output format is SMIME it is currently off by default for all other operations.
- -noindef
- disable streaming I/O where it would produce and indefinite length constructed encoding. This option currently has no effect. In future streaming will be enabled by default on all relevant operations and this option will disable it.
- -content filename
- This specifies a file containing the detached content, this is only useful with the -verify command. This is only usable if the PKCS#7 structure is using the detached signature form where the content is not included. This option will override any content if the input format is S/MIME and it uses the multipart/signed MIME content type.
- -text
- this option adds plain text (text/plain) MIME headers to the supplied message if encrypting or signing. If decrypting or verifying it strips off text headers: if the decrypted or verified message is not of MIME type text/plain then an error occurs.
- -CAfile file
- a file containing trusted CA certificates, only used with -verify.
- -CApath dir
- a directory containing trusted CA certificates, only used with -verify. This directory must be a standard certificate directory: that is a hash of each subject name (using x509 -hash) should be linked to each certificate.
- -md digest
- digest algorithm to use when signing or resigning. If not present then the default digest algorithm for the signing key will be used (usually SHA1).
- -[cipher]
-
the encryption algorithm to use. For example DES (56 bits) - -des,
triple DES (168 bits) - -des3,
EVP_get_cipherbyname() function) can also be used preceded by a dash, for
example -aes_128_cbc. See enc for list of ciphers
supported by your version of OpenSSL.
If not specified 40 bit RC2 is used. Only used with -encrypt.
- -nointern
- when verifying a message normally certificates (if any) included in the message are searched for the signing certificate. With this option only the certificates specified in the -certfile option are used. The supplied certificates can still be used as untrusted CAs however.
- -noverify
- do not verify the signers certificate of a signed message.
- -nochain
- do not do chain verification of signers certificates: that is don't use the certificates in the signed message as untrusted CAs.
- -nosigs
- don't try to verify the signatures on the message.
- -nocerts
- when signing a message the signer's certificate is normally included with this option it is excluded. This will reduce the size of the signed message but the verifier must have a copy of the signers certificate available locally (passed using the -certfile option for example).
- -noattr
- normally when a message is signed a set of attributes are included which include the signing time and supported symmetric algorithms. With this option they are not included.
- -binary
- normally the input message is converted to ``canonical'' format which is effectively using CR and LF as end of line: as required by the S/MIME specification. When this option is present no translation occurs. This is useful when handling binary data which may not be in MIME format.
- -nodetach
- when signing a message use opaque signing: this form is more resistant to translation by mail relays but it cannot be read by mail agents that do not support S/MIME. Without this option cleartext signing with the MIME type multipart/signed is used.
- -certfile file
- allows additional certificates to be specified. When signing these will be included with the message. When verifying these will be searched for the signers certificates. The certificates should be in PEM format.
- -signer file
- a signing certificate when signing or resigning a message, this option can be used multiple times if more than one signer is required. If a message is being verified then the signers certificates will be written to this file if the verification was successful.
- -recip file
- the recipients certificate when decrypting a message. This certificate must match one of the recipients of the message or an error occurs.
- -inkey file
- the private key to use when signing or decrypting. This must match the corresponding certificate. If this option is not specified then the private key must be included in the certificate file specified with the -recip or -signer file. When signing this option can be used multiple times to specify successive keys.
- -passin arg
- the private key password source. For more information about the format of arg see the PASS PHRASE ARGUMENTS section in openssl(1).
- -rand file(s)
- a file or files containing random data used to seed the random number generator, or an EGD socket (see RAND_egd(3)). Multiple files can be specified separated by a OS-dependent character. The separator is ; for MS-Windows, , for OpenVMS, and : for all others.
- cert.pem...
- one or more certificates of message recipients: used when encrypting a message.
- -to, -from, -subject
- the relevant mail headers. These are included outside the signed portion of a message so they may be included manually. If signing then many S/MIME mail clients check the signers certificate's email address matches that specified in the From: address.
- -purpose, -ignore_critical, -issuer_checks, -crl_check, -crl_check_all, -policy_check, -extended_crl, -x509_strict, -policy -check_ss_sig
- Set various options of certificate chain verification. See verify manual page for details.
NOTES
The MIME message must be sent without any blank lines between the headers and the output. Some mail programs will automatically add a blank line. Piping the mail directly to sendmail is one way to achieve the correct format.The supplied message to be signed or encrypted must include the necessary MIME headers or many S/MIME clients wont display it properly (if at all). You can use the -text option to automatically add plain text headers.
A ``signed and encrypted'' message is one where a signed message is then encrypted. This can be produced by encrypting an already signed message: see the examples section.
This version of the program only allows one signer per message but it will verify multiple signers on received messages. Some S/MIME clients choke if a message contains multiple signers. It is possible to sign messages ``in parallel'' by signing an already signed message.
The options -encrypt and -decrypt reflect common usage in S/MIME clients. Strictly speaking these process PKCS#7 enveloped data: PKCS#7 encrypted data is used for other purposes.
The -resign option uses an existing message digest when adding a new signer. This means that attributes must be present in at least one existing signer using the same message digest or this operation will fail.
The -stream and -indef options enable experimental streaming I/O support. As a result the encoding is BER using indefinite length constructed encoding and no longer DER. Streaming is supported for the -encrypt operation and the -sign operation if the content is not detached.
Streaming is always used for the -sign operation with detached data but since the content is no longer part of the PKCS#7 structure the encoding remains DER.
EXIT CODES
- 0
- the operation was completely successfully.
- 1
- an error occurred parsing the command options.
- 2
- one of the input files could not be read.
- 3
- an error occurred creating the PKCS#7 file or when reading the MIME message.
- 4
- an error occurred decrypting or verifying the message.
- 5
- the message was verified correctly but an error occurred writing out the signers certificates.
EXAMPLES
Create a cleartext signed message:
openssl smime -sign -in message.txt -text -out mail.msg \ -signer mycert.pem
Create an opaque signed message
openssl smime -sign -in message.txt -text -out mail.msg -nodetach \ -signer mycert.pem
Create a signed message, include some additional certificates and read the private key from another file:
openssl smime -sign -in in.txt -text -out mail.msg \ -signer mycert.pem -inkey mykey.pem -certfile mycerts.pem
Create a signed message with two signers:
openssl smime -sign -in message.txt -text -out mail.msg \ -signer mycert.pem -signer othercert.pem
Send a signed message under Unix directly to sendmail, including headers:
openssl smime -sign -in in.txt -text -signer mycert.pem \ -from<EMAIL_ADDRESS>-to someone@somewhere \ -subject "Signed message" | sendmail someone@somewhere
Verify a message and extract the signer's certificate if successful:
openssl smime -verify -in mail.msg -signer user.pem -out signedtext.txt
Send encrypted mail using triple DES:
openssl smime -encrypt -in in.txt -from<EMAIL_ADDRESS>\ -to someone@somewhere -subject "Encrypted message" \ -des3 user.pem -out mail.msg
Sign and encrypt mail:
openssl smime -sign -in ml.txt -signer my.pem -text \ | openssl smime -encrypt -out mail.msg \ -from<EMAIL_ADDRESS>-to someone@somewhere \ -subject "Signed and Encrypted message" -des3 user.pem
Note: the encryption command does not include the -text option because the message being encrypted already has MIME headers.
Decrypt mail:
openssl smime -decrypt -in mail.msg -recip mycert.pem -inkey key.pem
The output from Netscape form signing is a PKCS#7 structure with the detached signature format. You can use this program to verify the signature by line wrapping the base64 encoded structure and surrounding it with:
-----BEGIN PKCS7----- -----END PKCS7-----
and using the command,
openssl smime -verify -inform PEM -in signature.pem -content content.txt
alternatively you can base64 decode the signature and use
openssl smime -verify -inform DER -in signature.der -content content.txt
Create an encrypted message using 128 bit Camellia:
openssl smime -encrypt -in plain.txt -camellia128 -out mail.msg cert.pem
Add a signer to an existing message:
openssl smime -resign -in mail.msg -signer newsign.pem -out mail2.msg
BUGS
The MIME parser isn't very clever: it seems to handle most messages that I've thrown at it but it may choke on others.The code currently will only write out the signer's certificate to a file: if the signer has a separate encryption certificate this must be manually extracted. There should be some heuristic that determines the correct encryption certificate.
Ideally a database should be maintained of a certificates for each email address.
The code doesn't currently take note of the permitted symmetric encryption algorithms as supplied in the SMIMECapabilities signed attribute. this means the user has to manually include the correct encryption algorithm. It should store the list of permitted ciphers in a database and only use those.
No revocation checking is done on the signer's certificate.
The current code can only handle S/MIME v2 messages, the more complex S/MIME v3 structures may cause parsing errors.
HISTORY
The use of multiple -signer options and the -resign command were first added in OpenSSL 1.0.0
Index
This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 05:29:10 GMT, December 24, 2015


Who am I? Where have I been? What have I done?
Steve's early years (age 3-7) were spent on the Mission field of Zaire, Africa (now called the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC). His father was a Medical Missionary doctor and Surgeon.
Upon returning to the United States, his family settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. His early intellectual development and Biblical learning was sharpened on a strict adherence to the Bible. He was raised in a strong Christian home that was dedicated to honoring God in everything. Steve has his Bachelors degree in theology from Cairn University (Philadelphia Biblical University).
He spent a year of graduate work in Israel at Jerusalem University College
(also known as the Institute of Holy Land studies). Additionally, he continues
to pursue his Masters degree in Near eastern Studies.
Currently Steve Ulrich is married and has three children. He lives in Hershey, Pennsylvania.


Reflect
type
class
The Reflect API is a way to manipulate values dynamicly through an abstract interface in an untyped manner. Use with care.
Static Methods
public
inline
callMethod
(o :
Dynamic
, func :
Dynamic
, args :
Array
<
Dynamic
>) :
Dynamic
Call a method with the given object and arguments.
public
compare
<T>(a : T, b : T) :
Int
Generic comparison function, does not work for methods, see
compareMethods
public
compareMethods
(f1 :
Dynamic
, f2 :
Dynamic
) :
Bool
Compare two methods closures. Returns true if it's the same method of the same instance.
public
copy
<T>(o : T) : T
Make a copy of the fields of an object.
public
deleteField
(o :
Dynamic
, f :
String
) :
Bool
Delete an object field.
public
field
(o :
Dynamic
, field :
String
) :
Dynamic
Returns the field of an object, or null if
o
is not an object or doesn't have this field.
public
fields
(o :
Dynamic
) :
Array
<
String
>
Returns the list of fields of an object, excluding its prototype (class methods).
public
getProperty
(o :
Dynamic
, field :
String
) :
Dynamic
Similar to field but also supports property (might be slower).
public
hasField
(o :
Dynamic
, field :
String
) :
Bool
Tells if an object has a field set. This doesn't take into account the object prototype (class methods).
public
isFunction
(f :
Dynamic
) :
Bool
Tells if a value is a function or not.
public
isObject
(v :
Dynamic
) :
Bool
Tells if a value is an object or not.
public
makeVarArgs
(f :
Array
<
Dynamic
> ->
Dynamic
) :
Dynamic
Transform a function taking an array of arguments into a function that can be called with any number of arguments.
public
inline
setField
(o :
Dynamic
, field :
String
, value :
Dynamic
) :
Void
Set an object field value.
public
setProperty
(o :
Dynamic
, field :
String
, value :
Dynamic
) :
Void
Similar to setField but also supports property (might be slower).


--- layout: post status: publish published: true title: Wrigley Field Defeats Fenway Park in Battle of Old Ballparks author: display_name: Matt Veto login: Matt email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>url: '' author_login: Matt author_email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>wordpress_id: 10192 wordpress_url: http://ivyenvy.com/?p=10192 date: '2014-07-05 09:56:32 +0000' date_gmt: '2014-07-05 14:56:32 +0000' categories: - Wrigley Field tags: - Red Sox - Wrigley Field - Boston - Fenway Park - Boston Red Sox comments: - id: 11863 author: Dawn Strand author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2014-07-05 15:20:57 +0000' date_gmt: '2014-07-05 20:20:57 +0000' content: I road tripped to Boston with my family and saw Fenway for the first time. Fenway is cool - still vintage but with modern amenities (cell phone charging tables?!?!). But Wrigley has Fenway beat in terms of beauty. Nothing beats the bricks and Ivy. I also missed Wrigley's organ music! Plus, there were brown patches of grass on Fenway's outfield. Ugh. I will say the Boston Fans are awesome - totally into the game, cheering for their team with every single pitch. And "Sweet Caroline" was actually pretty neat. - id: 17920 author: smurph11223344 author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2015-04-11 14:15:19 +0000' date_gmt: '2015-04-11 19:15:19 +0000' content: Your article sucks......you are obviously a Cubs fan looking to defend his home field. I would say the parks are about equal green monster=ivy, both have hand operated scoreboards. The fans at Fenway when I went seem to be much better (maybe because the sox actually win) compared to the half filled disinterested fans I witnessed at wrigley. The history is there in both parks and I'd say there about equal. If I had one baseball game left to watch in my life I'd go to Fenway.  As for the rest of us, we actually go to watch the Red Sox play baseball. I have never read a more bloated opinion of a 100+ year old ballpark through the eyes of a near sighted, Feng Shui loving Chicagoan who actually sat with his wife and counted french fries at a Sox game. I highly recommend you take your op ed writing to the next level of journalism, say a travel magazine. How about a Conde Nast list of Chicago churches with the best and worst communal wines?  Get lost. Fucka. - id: 25406 author: AngelRamirez2 author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2016-11-03 10:01:03 +0000' date_gmt: '2016-11-03 15:01:03 +0000' content: pounders The author has probably never been to Fenway. ---
Only two hallowed halls have survived the big money game of Major League Baseball: Wrigley Field, of course, and its 102-year-old American League counterpart in Boston.
But while both parks enjoy legendary status — drawing tourists more for its history than the teams that play upon it — I’m here to tell you that all things are not equal in these century-old stadiums.
Hang onto your Dunkin Donuts, Red Sox fans: Fenway Park is a miserable place to watch a game.
And I’m surprise more people aren’t talking about it. Meanwhile, Wrigley Field continues to get picked on.
Maybe it’s because Wrigley is in an ugly renovation battle between stubborn rooftop owners and a front office that wants to do something about the park’s relative decrepitness.
Maybe it’s because the Red Sox have won three World Series titles in 10 years, taking the spotlight off a stadium that features only a few good seats in the house.
Most likely it’s my detachment from the American League — and the fact that I’ve been to Fenway once — that solidifies this perception.
But like a good political pundit, shallow experience on the topic isn’t going to stop me from writing this review.
Having finally made the pilgrimage to Fenway Park on Monday, June 30, I left feeling the need to stick up for Wrigley’s vastly more sound ballpark despite my hypocritical rant against it in a previous blog post.
I went to Boston with seriously high hopes, at one point telling my wife that this could be the “second-most awesomest” live baseball experience of my life (Game 2 of the 2003 NLCS is still the best).
But had it not been for Jake Arrieta’s near no-hitter, I would have left feeling extremely annoyed.
For disclosure’s sake, we sat in the grandstand — the cheapest seats. But they still cost $50 apiece, so I don’t feel bad complaining.
To honor the Cubs sweep of the BoSox in Beantown, here’s a scornful review of Fenway Park as compared to the Friendly Confines in five key areas.
Fenway Park: This picture my wife took is kind of hilarious. This was our view for the first four innings. Sometimes you can’t avoid the sun. I get that. But it’s the second photo that locks in what I’m talking about.
This is your view if you look straight forward. What do I mean here?  Try it for three hours. It’s ridiculous.
Wrigley Field: OK, so you might sit behind a post once in a while. And the top row of the terrace reserve section underneath the mezzanine suites is a pretty awful spot. But at least you’re facing the action.
 The grandstand seats are still the wooden fold-down style. The leg room is nil. And to top it off, since everyone is shifting to see the action, you find yourself constantly unbinding your arms from your sweat-soaked neighbor.
It makes peeling noise, I swear.
 Since there’s no leg room, you’re bothering almost a dozen people (if you are in the unfortunate middle seat of the row) when you get up.
Getting back to your seat is just as bad. If you want to be respectful and wait until between innings, a kind usher will tell you to “Keep it movin’” and that “You can’t stand in the ballpark.”
…M’k.
Wrigley Field: The middle seat is always terrible, and I’ll be more cognizant of it from now on. But I swear there’s more room to move at Wrigley. I’ve never felt completely claustrophobic.
I waited almost a full inning to get a beer ($9.75), and then another full inning for food. I got a steak and cheese sandwich ($7.75) that was composed of over-cooked, crunchy, shredded meat on a grade-school cafeteria hot dog bun. My wife got two small, stale chicken strips on top of 15 french fries ($9). Side note: You can get an awesome cheesesteak for $10 at Citizen’s Bank in Philly.
Wrigley Field: The beer comes in a larger cup since they’re made to fit “tall boys,” so you already have more suds for your buck. The hot dogs are Vienna beef. When I still living in Illinois a few years ago, you could get there early and get a personal Connie’s pizza for a reasonable price. And the beer man is never too far away.
Wrigley Field: Parking sucks, yes. But having seen how poorly parking garages work in a neighborhood-locked stadium has me rethinking my fervent call for a garage near Wrigley. They don’t work. Keep the parking lots away from the park and spread them out. That’s the only way driving will be tolerable.
Wrigley: I’ve never missed the stinky Red Line more. I’ve made it from the end of the Blue Line at Forest Park to the Sheffield Red Line stop in less than an hour before. That’s 13.7 miles.
All that said, Boston itself is on par with Chicago as far as great cities are concerned. And the people are friendly, despite the gruffness they are stereotyped to convey. If I had to become a Bostonite tomorrow, I’d buy a condo in the North End in a heartbeat.
But I’d rather watch the game on TV.


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Employment
Apple Inc. - Technical Expert
January, 2020 - Present
Key Competences:
Provided Customer Satisfaction to the customers with technical problems.
Addressed technical concerns of the customer on daily basis.
Provided Apple Authorized hardware repairs on iOS Devices.
Apple Certified iOS Technician.
Apple Inc. - Technical Specialist
December, 2018 - January, 2020
Key Competences:
Provided Customer Satisfaction to the customers with technical problems.
Addressed technical concerns of the customer on daily basis.
Supported other areas of Apple Retail, Apple @ Work and Today at Apple.
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Summer 2016
Key Competences:
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Helped French nationals to arrange their consular business.
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Bachelor Degree
San Francisco State University
2019 - 2023
Extracurricular Activities and honors:
Earned Turkish American Arts & Culture Scholarship, Earned 2018 Fall Academic Excellence Award
High School
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2014 - 2018
Extracurricular activities:
Model United Nations, School Council, Community Service


Inflation Summary
- Overview of all high level consumer inflation data, including CPI, RPI, CPIH and RPIJ
Dataset
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The Consumer Price Inflation is a monthly release that contains percentage changes and weights for the CPI, CPIH, RPI and RPIJ.
Statistical bulletin
The ONS House Price Index (HPI) is a monthly release that publishes figures for mix-adjusted average house prices.
Statistical bulletin
A first estimate of retail sales in volume and value terms, seasonally and non-seasonally adjusted.
Article
A comprehensive review on the UK economy, including the latest GDP estimate and other statistical outputs of ONS.
Expert analysis
This statistical bulletin contains producer price indices of materials and fuels purchased and output of manufacturing.
Article
A comprehensive review on the UK economy, including the latest GDP estimate and other statistical outputs of ONS.
Expert analysis
ONS looks at what is the basket, why it is updated, and what it means to you.
(4,558 words)
Article on BBC website by Joe Grice, Chief economist.


Intro
In the "Topic Materials" I decided to keep following the same line about Digital Service and FrontEnd because this is the
major that I chose. So, for this page, I included some links and information about tools that is helping me during this course
and, specially, tools that helps me to create this page.
So, bellow you can find links of websites and materials about flexbox, grid, semantic elements, float and layouts that I used to
consult before start assignments and to learn a little more about this major. And for my "Eureka Moments", when I decide
to do something completely new (for me, of course) and ran into Google to find answers.
All these materials helped me to improve my skills in this couse and decide about my next steps in the BITE couse and
in my carrer.
A Complete Guide to Flexbox
The Flexbox Layout (Flexible Box) module aims at providing a more efficient way to lay out, align and distribute space
among items in a container, even when their size is unknown and/or dynamic.
Source:CSS Tricks,
Mozilla.
Grid Layout
The vast majority of websites out there use a grid. They may not explicitly have a grid system in place, but if they have a
"main content area" floated to the left a "sidebar" floated to the right, it's a simple grid.
If a more complex layout presents itself, people often reach for a grid framework. They assume grids are these super
difficult things best left to super CSS nerds. That idea is perpetuated by the fact that a lot of the grid systems they reach
for are very complicated.
Source:CSS Tricks,
W3Schools.
Semantic Elements
Semantics, put simply, is the study of meanings. For you fans of linguistics, it’s the study of the relationships among
signs, signifiers, and signifieds. So, in web design, a semantic element is an element that has intrinsic meaning, and
conveys that meaning to both the browser and the developer. For example, "tag div" and "tag span" are non-semantic elements.
They tell us nothing about their contents. But "form", "table", and "article" are semantic elements: They clearly
define their content. To enrich the semantic content of documents, HTML5 introduced several new page structure elements.
Source:Essential Guide,
Interneting is hard,
Mozilla.
Float Layout
Float is a CSS positioning property. To understand its purpose and origin, we can look to print design.
In a print layout, images may be set into the page such that text wraps around them as needed. This is commonly
and appropriately called "text wrap".
In page layout programs, the boxes that hold the text can be told to honor the text wrap, or to ignore it.
Ignoring the text wrap will allow the words to flow right over the image like it wasn't even there. This is the difference
between that image being part of the flow of the page (or not). Web design is very similar.
Source:CSS tricks,
W3School.
Layouts
Imagine that you want to create your own multicolumn web site. Where should you start from? After googling some,
you'll find dozens of tutorials and articles. It's good when there are plenty of possibilities, but it's a little bit hard
when you're a novice and don't even know what technique to choose. This article was written to help you with this important
decision.
Source:Codementor,
DEVMEDIA(em pt),
W3School.


User Management
{% if users %}
Username
Delete
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{{ user.username }}
Delete User
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
Create a New User


CSS Gridish takes design specs of your product’s grid and builds out several resources for your team to use:
- - Sketch file with artboards and grid/layout settings for designers
- - CSS/SCSS code using CSS Grid with a CSS Flexbox fallback for developers
- -
Google Chrome extension for anyone to check a webpage’s alignment


Sadly, ohnomymoney.com has been broken since the middle of 2010, as Wesabe, whose bank scrapers and API it depended on, has shut down.
In its two years, I never suffered any professional or personal inconvenience or embarassment as a result of having my balances posted online. It did appear in the New York Times Magazine, which is pretty sweet.
It also introduced me to Stephanie Grant, who has been doing a fantastic job overcoming her own finance woes in public with nothing but a blog and a great attitude.
Marc Hedlund, Wesabe's CEO, wrote an excellent post-mortem on why Wesabe lost to Mint and the state of online money management in general, that I found both depressing and motivating.


I lots and lots of things including photos and design.
I enjoy taking photos with the following techniques.


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