By Ash Blue / Clever Crow Games / HTML5 in Action / @ashbluewd
Process of discovering a path through obstacles
between two points
No! Pathfinding is important for building complex HTML5 apps
Get our hero to the treasure with the shortest path
(click to move)
function euclidean (xC, yC, xT, yT) {
var dx = xT - xC, dy = yT - yC;
return Math.sqrt((dx * dx) + (dy * dy));
}
function manhattan (xC, yC, xT, yT) {
var dx = Math.abs(xT - xC), dy = Math.abs(yT - yC);
return dx + dy;
}
window.Map = window.Class.extend({
...
outOfBounds: function (x, y) {
return x < 0 || x >= this.data[0].length ||
y < 0 || y >= this.data.length;
},
...
});
window.Map = window.Class.extend({
...
getNeighbors: function (x, y) {
var neighbors = [];
// Check top, right, bottom, left (clockwise)
if (!this.blocked(x, y - 1)) neighbors.push(new window.Tile(x, y - 1));
if (!this.blocked(x + 1, y)) neighbors.push(new window.Tile(x + 1, y));
if (!this.blocked(x, y + 1)) neighbors.push(new window.Tile(x, y + 1));
if (!this.blocked(x - 1, y)) neighbors.push(new window.Tile(x - 1, y));
return neighbors;
},
...
});
window.Map = window.Class.extend({
data: null, // Current map
init: function (data) {
this.data = data;
},
outOfBounds: function (x, y) {
return x < 0 || x >= this.data[0].length ||
y < 0 || y >= this.data.length;
},
getWidthInTiles: function () {
return this.data[0].length;
},
getHeightInTiles: function () {
return this.data.length;
},
blocked: function (x, y) {
if (this.outOfBounds(x, y)) {
return true;
}
if (this.data[y][x] === 0) {
return true;
}
return false;
},
getNeighbors: function (x, y) {
var neighbors = [];
if (!this.blocked(x, y - 1)) neighbors.push(new window.Tile(x, y - 1));
if (!this.blocked(x + 1, y)) neighbors.push(new window.Tile(x + 1, y));
if (!this.blocked(x, y + 1)) neighbors.push(new window.Tile(x, y + 1));
if (!this.blocked(x - 1, y)) neighbors.push(new window.Tile(x - 1, y));
return neighbors;
},
getCost: function (xC, yC, xT, yT) {
return this.data[yT][xT];
}
});
Simple interface to manage closed tiles
window.PathFinder = window.Class.extend({
...
// New closed tile
addClosed: function (step) {
this.addHistory(step, 'closed');
this.closed.push(step);
return this;
},
// Check for existing closed tile
inClosed: function (step) {
for (var i = 0; i < this.closed.length; i++) {
if (this.closed[i].x === step.x && this.closed[i].y === step.y)
return this.closed[i];
}
return false;
},
...
});
Used to store and analyze group data
window.PathFinder = window.Class.extend({
...
// Adds a new tile
addOpen: function (step) {
this.open.push(step);
return this;
},
// Removes an existing tile
removeOpen: function (step) {
for (var i = 0; i < this.open.length; i++) {
if (this.open[i] === step) this.open.splice(i, 1);
}
return this;
},
// Check if the step is already in the open set
inOpen: function (step) {
for (var i = 0; i < this.open.length; i++) {
if (this.open[i].x === step.x && this.open[i].y === step.y)
return this.open[i];
}
return false;
},
// Get the best possible tile from the open set
getBestOpen: function () {
var bestI = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < this.open.length; i++) {
if (this.open[i].f < this.open[bestI].f) bestI = i;
}
return this.open[bestI];
},
...
});
This walks through the map API data finds a walkable path
window.PathFinder = window.Class.extend({
...
findPath: function (xC, yC, xT, yT) {
var current, // Current best open tile
neighbors, // Dump of all nearby neighbor tiles
neighborRecord, // Any pre-existing records of a neighbor
stepCost, // Dump of a total step score for a neighbor
i;
// You must add the starting step
this.reset()
.addOpen(new window.Step(xC, yC, xT, yT, this.step, false));
while (this.open.length !== 0) {
this.step++;
current = this.getBestOpen();
// Check if goal has been discovered to build a path
if (current.x === xT && current.y === yT) {
return this.buildPath(current, []);
}
// Move current into closed set
this.removeOpen(current)
.addClosed(current);
// Get neighbors from the map and check them
neighbors = this.map.getNeighbors(current.x, current.y);
for (i = 0; i < neighbors.length; i++) {
this.step++;
// Get current step and distance from current to neighbor
stepCost = current.g + this.map.getCost(current.x, current.y, neighbors[i].x, neighbors[i].y);
// Check for the neighbor in the closed set
// then see if its cost is >= the stepCost, if so skip current neighbor
neighborRecord = this.inClosed(neighbors[i]);
if (neighborRecord && stepCost >= neighborRecord.g)
continue;
// Verify neighbor doesn't exist or new score for it is better
neighborRecord = this.inOpen(neighbors[i]);
if (!neighborRecord || stepCost < neighborRecord.g) {
if (!neighborRecord) {
this.addOpen(new window.Step(neighbors[i].x, neighbors[i].y, xT, yT, stepCost, current));
} else {
neighborRecord.parent = current;
neighborRecord.g = stepCost;
neighborRecord.f = stepCost + neighborRecord.h;
}
}
}
}
return false;
},
...
});
Assemble walkable path from closed group
window.PathFinder = window.Class.extend({
...
// Recursive path building method
buildPath: function (tile, stack) {
stack.push(tile);
// Look at every parent and step back until no parents are left
if (tile.parent) {
return this.buildPath(tile.parent, stack);
} else {
return stack;
}
},
...
});
window.PathFinder = window.Class.extend({
map: null, // Map class reference
closed: null, // Taken steps
open: null, // Available steps that can be taken
history: null,
step: 0, // Step count
maxSearchDistance: 100, // Maximum number of steps that can be taken before shutting down a closed path
init: function (map) {
this.closed = [];
this.open = [];
this.history = [];
this.map = map;
},
addOpen: function (step) {
this.addHistory(step, 'open');
this.open.push(step);
return this;
},
// Remove a step that already exists by object memory address (not actual x and y values)
removeOpen: function (step) {
for (var i = 0; i < this.open.length; i++) {
if (this.open[i] === step) this.open.splice(i, 1);
}
return this;
},
// Check if the step is already in the open set
inOpen: function (step) {
for (var i = 0; i < this.open.length; i++) {
if (this.open[i].x === step.x && this.open[i].y === step.y)
return this.open[i];
}
return false;
},
// Get the lowest costing tile in the open set
getBestOpen: function () {
var bestI = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < this.open.length; i++) {
if (this.open[i].f < this.open[bestI].f) bestI = i;
}
return this.open[bestI];
},
addClosed: function (step) {
this.addHistory(step, 'closed');
this.closed.push(step);
return this;
},
// Check if the step is already in the closed set
inClosed: function (step) {
for (var i = 0; i < this.closed.length; i++) {
if (this.closed[i].x === step.x && this.closed[i].y === step.y)
return this.closed[i];
}
return false;
},
addHistory: function (step, group) {
this.history.push({
step: step,
group: group
});
},
findPath: function (xC, yC, xT, yT) {
var current, // Current best open tile
neighbors, // Dump of all nearby neighbor tiles
neighborRecord, // Any pre-existing records of a neighbor
stepCost, // Dump of a total step score for a neighbor
i;
// You must add the starting step
this.reset()
.addOpen(new window.Step(xC, yC, xT, yT, this.step, false));
while (this.open.length !== 0) {
this.step++;
current = this.getBestOpen();
// Check if goal has been discovered to build a path
if (current.x === xT && current.y === yT) {
return this.buildPath(current, []);
}
// Move current into closed set
this.removeOpen(current)
.addClosed(current);
// Get neighbors from the map and check them
neighbors = this.map.getNeighbors(current.x, current.y);
for (i = 0; i < neighbors.length; i++) {
this.step++;
// Get current step and distance from current to neighbor
stepCost = current.g + this.map.getCost(current.x, current.y, neighbors[i].x, neighbors[i].y);
// Check for the neighbor in the closed set
// then see if its cost is >= the stepCost, if so skip current neighbor
neighborRecord = this.inClosed(neighbors[i]);
if (neighborRecord && stepCost >= neighborRecord.g)
continue;
// Verify neighbor doesn't exist or new score for it is better
neighborRecord = this.inOpen(neighbors[i]);
if (!neighborRecord || stepCost < neighborRecord.g) {
if (!neighborRecord) {
this.addOpen(new window.Step(neighbors[i].x, neighbors[i].y, xT, yT, stepCost, current));
} else {
neighborRecord.parent = current;
neighborRecord.g = stepCost;
neighborRecord.f = stepCost + neighborRecord.h;
}
}
}
}
return false;
},
// Recursive path buliding method
buildPath: function (tile, stack) {
stack.push(tile);
if (tile.parent) {
return this.buildPath(tile.parent, stack);
} else {
return stack;
}
},
reset: function () {
this.closed = [];
this.open = [];
return this;
}
});
For use with platformers and other games requiring gravity
For when moving characters takes up more than one tile
Not many solutions out there yet. Most are weekend hack projects (not maintained). These are two of the best.


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Browns fans use helmet to take swings at Mason Rudolph pinata
by Bradford Arick, WPXI.comThe game may be over and the fines and suspensions handed down after a brawl erupted in the final seconds in a match up between the Steelers and Browns. However, the anger and frustration is apparently still simmering for some fans.
During a tailgate Sunday, Cleveland Browns fans were swinging a Steelers helmet at a Mason Rudolph pinata, imitating the infamous fight in which Myles Garrett smashed Rudolph with his own helmet.
Garrett was fined and suspended indefinitely. Rudolph was accused of using a racial slur and fined $50,000 by the NFL. A total of 33 players were fined as part of the incident.


July 20, 2019
Speech is an art. And like any art, it can be used not only as a platform to not only share your knowledge, but also to express your beliefs and emotions. However, it can be a difficult art to master. For some people, the scariest thing on earth is talking in front of a group of people. I was one of those people until I was in fifth grade, but I had to go on to stage every day to give the daily announcements to 300+ students in the morning. After the first few weeks, I really felt comfortable on the stage and started enjoying my speeches. Later, when I started high school, I really enjoyed talking in front of the class but noticed that a lot of people were still as scared as I was the first time I stepped on stage to deliver the announcements. So if you’re one of those people, or even if you just want to improve your already mastered speech skills, here’s a few tips to make to process just a little easier.
Tip one: Never memorize the speech. Take a different approach to your speech. Try writing down just the basic ideas you want to talk about during the presentation. Understand the basic ideas, and make sure to keep the important details in your mind. That will help you with lowering your anxiety levels of trying to remember every single word, and will prevent the audience from feeling like they’re listening to a robot.
  Try giving your full speech to yourself two to three times.  Refer to those notes afterward, focusing on what you improved on, and what could use some work, to really fine tune your delivery.
Tip three: Nothing is better than a perfect start. Grabbing your audience’s attention in the first thirty seconds is always a great way to make sure you have their full attention, so you can really make sure you deliver every one of your points properly. . Not to mention, wasting time before capturing the audience’s attention, they lose all interest in the speech.
Tip four: Don’t look at the presentation. While observing people’s speeches, I noticed a lot of them tend to look at their presentation/visual, instead of giving the audience proper eye contact. Eye contact is one of the most important things to remember when delivering a presentation. It will help to not only engage the audience, but also make them feel more inclined to absorb the information, as it feels more like you are speaking directly to them.
Tip five: Your voice is the soul of your presentation.Even if your audience is listening to you, the wrong tone of voice may cause them to become bored, or zone out of your speech. To avoid that, maintain a strong, projective voice, and avoid sounding monotone.


Programming Language Suggester
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What would you like to use programming for?
A. Web Applications
B. Microsoft Applications & Game Development
C. General Stuff
D. System & Network Programming
E. Game Engines & Operating Systems
F. Mobile & Desktop Apps
How hard do you want the learning to be?
A. Quite Easy
B. Easy but Complex
C. Super Duper Easy
D. Annoying
E. Not Difficult
F. Difficult
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E. Dropbox, Sentry, Postmates, Brilliant, Klarna
F. Uber, Slack, Lyft, Robinhood, ViaVarejo
What year do you have an affinity for?
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B. 2001
C. 1989
D. 2007
E. 2010
F. 2014
What unladen swallow has an average velocity of 24 miles per hour (11 meters per second)?
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C. Russian
D. Chinese
E. Japanese
F. Austrailian
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so you'd be suited for
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Code is hard to keep track of.
#on debian based os
$ sudo apt-get install git
#on fedora,
$ sudo yum install git
#on osx
$ brew install git
#or use the installer from https://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/
#on windows
#just use the installer from git-scm.org
$ git config --global user.name "Bruce Wayne"
$ git config --global user.email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>#if you want to change default editor for commit messages
$ git config --global core.editor emacs
#to view all settings
$ git config --list
#for any help
$ git help $Whatever
$ mkdir git-tutorial
$ cd git-tutorial
$ git init
#Just create a file called README and add whatever text you want
$ vim README
$ git status
# You should see README in untracked files
$ git add README
# adds README to staging
# if you have multiple files, you can use unix wildcards
$ git add .
$ git add *.js
# etc
$ git status
# You'll see README in changes to be committed
Often there are files we don't want to track. Specify those patterns in a .gitignore
# a comment this is ignored
*.a # no .a files
!lib.a # but do track lib.a, even though you’re ignoring .a files above
/TODO # only ignore the root TODO file, not subdir/TODO
build/ # ignore all files in the build/ directory
doc/*.txt # ignore doc/notes.txt, but not doc/server/arch.txt
$ git commit -m "My very first git commit"
# to check your commits
$ git log
# Open up README again and add some text
$ git commit -am "I skipped the staging area"
Each commit is given a SHA checksum.  to unstage)
#
# deleted: remove.txt
$ git mv README README.md
$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
# (use "git reset HEAD <file>..."
# Will explain what HEAD means later
# to clone a repo from a ssh/https url
$ git clone git@github.com:olenhad/git-workshop.git
# or if you prefer
$ git clone https://github.com/olenhad/git-workshop.git
$ git remote -v
# lists all remotes with urls
$ git remote add mySexyRemoteName git://mysexyrepourl
everyone should have a github account by now
Just create a repo called git-tutorial (or whatever you want really).
$ git remote add origin https://github.com/arandomusername/git-tutorial.git
# or if you prefer ssh (I do!)
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:arandomuusername/git-tutorial.git
to set up ssh keys check this guide
$ git push origin master
# Will obviously push our latest changes to remote named
# "origin" in branch "master"
# Lets assume someone else pushed some changes.
$ git fetch origin
# fetch pulls the latest data from the repo.
# fetch doesn't update your code. It just updates the repo.
$ git merge origin/master
# to merge your master branch with the remote's branch
# faster method
$ git pull origin master
Git is a distributed version control system
$ git branch
# lists all branches
$ git branch testing
# creates a new branch called testing.
# git uses a pointer called HEAD to track current branch
$ git checkout testing
Lets add a commit
$ git commit -am "change to test testing"
$ git checkout master
# .. perform some edits
$ git commit -am "changed stuff in master"
$ git merge testing
# git finds the best common ancestor
# performs a three way merge between common ancestor,
# the snapshot to be merged, and the snapshot merging into.
Sometimes a merge would fail
especially when same file edited in both snapshots
<<<<<<< HEAD:index.html

contact<EMAIL_ADDRESS>=======

please contact us at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>>>>>>>> testing:index.html
$ git branch -d testing
# to delete branches
$ git branch --merged
# check which branches are already merged
Pop up an ec2
# on your vm
$ git clone --bare https://github.com/olenhad2/git-tutorial.git
# bare repositories just contain git data
$ cd git-tutorial.git/hooks
$ vim post-receive
echo "hello from server"
$ chmod +x post-receive
Give your vm a static ip
add that to your ssh config
$ vim ~/.ssh/config
Host git-test
HostName <IP_ADDRESS>
User ubuntu
$ git remote add ec2 git-test:/home/ubuntu/git-tutorial.git
$ git push ec2 master
...
# remote: hello from server
#on your server
$ sudo apt-get install apache2
# add ubuntu to www-data group. give the group permissions over /var/www
$ sudo adduser ubuntu www-data
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
$ sudo chmod -R g+rw /var/www
$ vim ~/git-tutorial.git/hooks/post-receive
echo "hello from server"
export GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/www/
git checkout -f
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
#on your machine
$ vim index.html
$ git push ec2 master
# Go to your IP and enjoy


The Pick External Application dialog box allows you to add an any external application to the toolbar.
This is a Hot Spot image. Move your mouse pointer over the image
and when the mouse pointer changes to the shape of a hand click
the left mouse button once for extra help.
Enter the path and filename for the application in the Filename text box. If you want to locate the application on your hard disk, click the browse (folder) button.
You can also send you application parameters when you open it. To send a parameter enter the parameters directly into the Parameters text box.
You can choose to add the name of the current author or the currently selected text to the Parameters text box by clicking the > button although not every program will respond to these parameters in a useful way
Click OK to add your chosen application to the toolbar. The button for this application will carry the application's icon.


For example, if the input is a sequence of Spectrum's and the user chooses in the parameter window to compute the mean of 10 data sets, then the output will be a sequence of Spectrum's, each of whose elements is the average of the corresponding elements in the last 10 input Spectrum's.
The user can use the parameter window to choose to compute the mean, variance, and higher moments of the input data, up to the 8th moment. These are described in more detail below. Each statistic is output to a different output node. All statistics up to the highest moment being computed are output; thus, if one wants the 4th moment (related to the kurtosis) then the mean, variance, and third moment are also computed and are available from the first 3 output nodes. If they are not wanted, then the user does not have to connect these nodes to anything. The unit will function correctly even if some of the output nodes are not used.
The unit recomputes the statistics after receiving each new input data set. It includes the newest data in the statistics and drops the oldest set from the calculation, always keeping the last N sets in memory. The output is thus a sliding statistical measure. Users should exercise caution when using large data sets if memory is limited.
During a computation the user may change the number of inputs to be averaged or the maximum number of statistics to be output. The unit will respond safely and correctly. If the number of output nodes on the unit is less than the selected number of moments to be output, extra output nodes are added automatically. If the user sets the number of output nodes of the unit to be larger than the number of statistics calculated, then the statistics are repeated to the extra nodes cyclically. This allows the unit to duplicate its output.
AccumStat calculates these moments hierarchically, using lower moments to generate higher ones efficiently. Therefore, if a user wants the kurtosis (4th moment) the unit will also compute and output the mean, variance, and skewness.
The unit accumulates the appropriate number of data sets to compute the statistics. Once it has read in the required number, subsequent input data sets cause the older ones to be discarded. Output starts after the first input, so the correct statistics are not reached until the required number of iterations. Nevertheless, the output during this initial period contains the correct statistics for the number of sets accumulated so far. The number of sets and the number of output moments can be changed during the running of the network. AccumStat behaves appropriately in response to such changes. If the user changes the data type arriving at the input, then the unit resets itself and starts computing the statistics beginning with the first new set. A manual reset of the whole network also causes the unit to forget accumulated data.
The number of output nodes should be at least as large as the number of moments. If this is not the case, the unit will create extra nodes. There is no requirement to attach cables to all nodes. A user who wants only the kurtosis (4th moment) must use a unit with at least 4 output ports, but it is permissible to connect only the 4th node to a cable to extract the kurtosis.
Because higher moments like kurtosis are not normalized to the variance,
the user should do this manually if required, for example by feeding the
variance output into MathCalc to get the required power (square for kurtosis)
and then putting the kurtosis output and the MathCalc output into Divider
to get a normalized kurtosis. Alternatively, both operations could be performed
by a single MathCalc unit, or by separate units in the Math/Functions toolbox.


Ari Árelíus - Career
Ari Árelíus is the music project of guitarist, producer and songwriter Ari Frank Inguson. In 2018 he released the Ep Emperor Nothing, a psychedelic rock record written mostly with his friends from a previous band, Fabio Samsara. The album was produced by Ragnar Jónsson, member of the electro-pop band Bloodgroup and Ari's cousin. The results were a bit genre bending, Ari and other performers on the record were studying jazz at local conservatory Fíh and Ragnar's electro influence was clear.
Between 2019 and 2021 Ari released multiple singles sticking to the psychedelic sound but continuing to explore different influences from bossa nova, funk and afrobeat. In July 2022 Ari released his first Lp titled Hiatus Terræ. On the album, Ari juxtaposes the concepts of local and global to create a distinctive ideological basis that he built the album on. He uses local Icelandic musical elements such as fifth voicings, the accordion and an electric version of the Icelandic traditional drone zither Langspil and global musical elements, various world rhythms, throat singing, wooden flutes and an electric guitar sound that echoes the psychedelic 60s.
Ari studied music at Fíh and Mít, local music conservatories, and has a bachelor in philosophy from University of Iceland. Ari Árelíus has performed at festivals such as Iceland Airwaves and Secret Solstice and played at various venues around Iceland. Ari is also a playing member of indie pop band Pale Moon and has toured with them around europe and played perhaps most notably Jazz Festival Montreux 2022 in Switzerland.


Frontend developer with an eye for design and passion to create sophisticated digital products. Currently developing with the knowledge of technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I am enthusiastic to learn new skills that can challenge me to grow into a more experienced developer.I’m currently learning React and Adobe Xd and Photoshop.
Here have a look at some of my coding/work....
Here is how you can reach out to me...


Prodigy Dashboard is an online application used for making intergrations with prodigy’s API.
There’s two options for using this application.
Visit our published copy of this application here.
index.html
with a browser.
Want to contribute? Great!
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
Please make sure to update tests as appropriate (and recommended).
Link to our github repository here.
Developers/Maintainers:
We are not trying in any way to ruin prodigy math game, we are actually trying to enhance their security. Prodigy has not listened to many efforts we have made to contact them about this matter.
Some may ask, why make this a public service then? Well, the answer to that is if we didn’t release this to the public, it would have absolutely no effect on prodigy and they would never recognize.
We are not liable for any damage this service can cause to your accounts.
We cannot guarantee that this service will not contain any bugs and therefor we cannot take action for account damage.
This service cannot revert your account’s data after you click the save button.


COVID-19
What is COVID-19 & its symptoms?
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus.
There are Symptoms that are likely to be seen in COVID-19 Positive Patients.
Most common symptoms include:
- Fever
- Dry cough
- Tiredness
Some less common symptoms include:
- Aches and pains
- Sore throat
- Diarrhea
- Conjunctivitis
- Headache
- Loss of taste or smell
- A rash on the skin, or discoloration of fingers or toes
Serious symptoms:
- Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath.
- Chest pain or pressure
- Loss of speech or movement
- Seek immediate medical attention if you have serious symptoms
On average it takes 5–6 days from when someone is infected with the virus for symptoms to show, however it can take up to 14 days.
The COVID-19 virus spreads primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose when an infected person coughs or sneezes, so it’s important that you also practice respiratory etiquette (for example, by coughing into a flexed elbow).
For securing Ourself from COVID-19 we have to take some Preventions:
- Wash your hands regularly with soap and water, or clean them with alcohol-based hand rub.
- Maintain at least 1-meter distance between you and people coughing or sneezing.
- Avoid touching your face.

- Stay home if you feel unwell.
- Refrain from smoking and other activities that weaken the lungs.
- Practice physical distancing by avoiding unnecessary travel and staying away from large groups of people.
There are many Myths in our Mind related to COVID-19 its due to some unauthentic sources that create a fear and a misconception related to COVID-19.
So let’s clear out some Myths:
Myths regarding COVID-19
- Drinking alcohol does not protect you against COVID-19 and can be dangerous.
- Thermal scanners CANNOT detect COVID-19
- Adding pepper to your soup or other meals DOES NOT prevent or cure COVID-19
- COVID-19 IS NOT transmitted through houseflies
- Spraying and introducing bleach or another disinfectant into your body WILL NOT protect you against COVID-19 and can be dangerous
- There are currently NO drugs licensed for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19
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Copy all of the .gem files needed to run the application into the ven- dor/cache directory. In the future, when running bundle install(1) bun- dle-install.1.html, use the gems in the cache in preference to the ones on rubygems.org.
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By default, if you simply run bundle install(1) bundle-install.1.html after running bundle package(1) bundle-package.1.html, bundler will still connect to rubygems.org to check whether a platform-specific gem exists for any of the gems in vendor/cache. For instance, consider this Gemfile(5): source "http://rubygems.org" gem "nokogiri" If you run bundle package under C Ruby, bundler will retrieve the ver- sion of nokogiri for the "ruby" platform. If you deploy to JRuby and run bundle install, bundler is forced to check to see whether a "java" platformed nokogiri exists. Even though the nokogiri gem for the Ruby platform is technically acceptable on JRuby, it actually has a C extension that does not run on JRuby. As a result, bundler will, by default, still connect to rubygems.org to check whether it has a version of one of your gems more specific to your platform. This problem is also not just limited to the "java" platform. A similar (common) problem can happen when developing on Windows and deploying to Linux, or even when developing on OSX and deploying to Linux. If you know for sure that the gems packaged in vendor/cache are appro- priate for the platform you are on, you can run bundle install --local to skip checking for more appropriate gems, and just use the ones in vendor/cache. One way to be sure that you have the right platformed versions of all your gems is to run bundle package on an identical machine and check in the gems. For instance, you can run bundle package on an identical staging box during your staging process, and check in the vendor/cache before deploying to production. October 2010 BUNDLE-PACKAGE(1)


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by Associated PressMilwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton is expected to be sidelined for up to a month after suffering a left thigh contusion.
Middleton was hurt during Sunday night's 121-119 win at Oklahoma City. He underwent an MRI and examination Monday by team physician Dr. William Raasch that confirmed the injury as a left thigh contusion.
The Bucks say Middleton is expected to be sidelined for three to four weeks.
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Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print SCA/8418/1996 5/ 5 ORDER IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 8418 of 1996 With CIVIL APPLICATION No. 8471 of 1997 In SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 8418 of 1996 With SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 8617 of 1996 With SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 4381 of 1997 With SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 6458 of 1997 With SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 7444 of 1997 To SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 7456 of 1997 With SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 7458 of 1997 To SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 7461 of 1997 With CIVIL APPLICATION No. 322 of 1997 In SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 2922 of 1995 With SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 2922 of 1995 With CIVIL APPLICATION No. 3732 of 1998 In SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 2922 of 1995 ============================================= TARABEN SUKHLAL GAMIT - Petitioner(s) Versus CENTRAL PULP MILLS LTD & 7 - Respondent(s) ============================================= Appearance : SUO MOTU for Petitioner(s) : 1, None for Respondent(s) : 1, 4, MR SINGHVI, MR ABHISHEK MEHTA, MR RD RAWAL MR JA ADESHRA for Respondent(s) : 2, SERVED BY RPAD - (N) for Respondent(s) : 3, ============================================= CORAM : HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. K.S.RADHAKRISHNAN and HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE MOHIT S. SHAH Date : 19/09/2008 ORAL ORDER
(Per : HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. K.S.RADHAKRISHNAN) Heard learned counsel for the parties.
We have also perused the Report of the Expert Committee, constituted by this Court vide orders dated 22nd September and 6th October 2005 and in Special Civil Application No.2922 of 1995.
In paragraph No.6.3 of the Report, the Committee has opined as under:
?S6.3 The Committee reviewed the relevant information made available by the Board and the concerned industrial units to ascertain whether there has been degradation of Environment and damage caused to the environment by each of the units by not observing norms of the Board.
Central Pulp Mills Ltd., Surat.
(Presently :
J.K.Paper Ltd.) It was discharging large quantity of the trade effluent into the Nala which met the River Tapi. Though the industry has claimed for adequate treatment but in fact it had been exceeded several time higher than the permissible limit of the Norms during 1993-97. This violation of the norms cannot be condoned. Further more, that the water of River Tapi has been used as only source of drinking water for Surat City, located downstream of discharge point thus causing possible difficulties to water supply source of Surat. This mode of disposal is not desirable, from the environmental point of view.
Deepak Nitrite Ltd., Vadodara It was discharging large quantity of effluent into the River Mini and was not observing the Norms, because of inadequate pollution treatment facilities provided at that time, polluting the River Mini. This mode of disposal into River Mini is not acceptable. The degradation caused to the environment in the past cannot be condoned.
Baroda Dairy, Vadodara It is a milk processing unit and was discharging huge quantity of effluent without meeting the norms. This unit is surrounded by densely populated area and it had not provided adequate pollution control system at that time. The Board had also initiated legal actions for the violation of the provisions of the Water Act, 1974. The unit has now provided adequate pollution control systems, but earlier violation cannot be condoned.
Gujarat Torrent Bio-tech Ltd., Vadodara It is a pharmaceutical bulk drugs manufacturing industry and was discharging large quantity of effluent into the Effluent Channel, Vadodara, where relaxed norms are applicable. The industry was not meeting even the relaxed norms in view of inadequate treatment facilities provided and operated at that time. It has now updated effluent treatment facilities and shown improvement in meeting the norms. However, the unit has caused environmental pollution during the years under reference.
Minal Oil & Agro Industries, Mehsana (Presently: Kanak Castor Products Pvt. Ltd.) The industry was established without the consent of the Board and was discharging effluent on the land which caused stagnation and percolation and deteriorated the quality of ground water. It had violated norms of the Board simply because no pollution control facilities were provided at that time. This unit has ceased production later on. Now, new management has taken over this industrial unit.
Sushma Textiles, Bharuch This is a small scale textile processing industry and was discharging about 8000 litres/day of effluent without providing any treatment to its trade effluent. Initially it had carried out bleaching and dyeing process and generated effluent with high pH value and high colour units without obtaining required consent of the Board. The Board has also initiated legal action at that time. It has now changed to low pollution process but earlier violation cannot be condoned.
6.4 Compensation for Damage All the six units, have caused significant environmental pollution ? degradation, and therefore these units must compensate for such damage on the accepted principle ?SPolluter Pays??. In the absence of the feasibility of quantification of the damage to the environment by each unit, during the period under reference separately, the Committee considers that the damage and degradation to the environment by each industrial unit can be based on the quantity of the industrial waste water discharged by the unit and characteristics of the effluent violating the norms prescribed by the GPCB and other factors discussed earlier. In the absence of any other method, the degradation of the environment by each unit can quite reasonably be linked to the production capacity ? turnover of the unit during the period under reference and the percentage of the said turnover which could be levied from the industrial unit towards fine for damaging the environment.
The Committee therefore recommends that all the units under reference should pay the compensation based on the yearly production capacity ? turnover during the period under reference causing environmental pollution ? degradation.??
Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners has submitted that the Expert Committee Report could not specifically indicate as to what extent actual damage to the environment is being caused by the Industries in question, and therefore, it may not be appropriate for this Court to award compensation at the rate of 1% of the turnover, as it is not an appropriate formula. He, therefore, submits that the Report cannot be accepted as it is.
Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, we feel it appropriate to direct the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to examine the issue as to whether the industries in question are complying with the required standards set out by the GPCB, and whether they are causing any pollution and resultant damage to the environment. The GPCB shall conduct on the spot inspection of all the units in question and submit a report within a month from today.
Post this matter on 20th October, 2008.
(K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, C.J.) (MOHIT S. SHAH, J.) kailash Top


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- In their places, UltraTech Cement, Titan Co Ltd and Nestle India will be added in the index, Asia Index, a joint venture between S&P Dow Jones Indices and the BSE, said in a statement
- UPL Ltd and Dabur India will find a place in the S&P BSE sensex 50, replacing Indiabulls Housing Finance and Yes Bank
NEW DELHI: Tata Motors, Yes Bank and Vedanta will be dropped from the BSE's benchmark sensex from December 23.
In their places, UltraTech Cement, Titan Co Ltd and Nestle India will be added in the index, Asia Index, a joint venture between S&P Dow Jones Indices and the BSE, said in a statement on Friday.
Besides, UPL Ltd and Dabur India will find a place in the S&P BSE sensex 50, replacing Indiabulls Housing Finance and Yes Bank.
Among other changes, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Yes Bank, InterGlobe Aviation, SBI Life Insurance Company and Info Edge (India) will make entry in the S&P BSE sensex Next 50, while Cadila Healthcare, Dabur India, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, UPL Ltd and Edelweiss Financial Services will be dropped from the index.
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Title: Predicting someone's identity using eye tracking biometrics
Project Members: Lauren Hutson, Michael Tobia
Contact details<EMAIL_ADDRESS><EMAIL_ADDRESS>Course: EECS 349
Institution: Northwestern University
Problem definition Our task is to be able to predict who a person is based off of the movements of their left and right eyes when tracking an object. This task is important for the field of biometrics, which correlates to the fields of security and identification. It also has uses in the medical field for identification of diseases or symptoms of strokes. To accomplish our goal we employed a variety of different learners which included a multiclassification neural network using dropout and data normilization. Pruned decision trees, random forests, and SVM's.
Key Results Accross the different learners we used ten fold cross validation to train/ test our dataset. All reported are the reported accuracies from the validation set. Accross all of our tested classifiers we received a maximum acuracy we got was 65.2% by using a SVM with a 3rd degree polynomial. As for the other learners, Using the neural network we were able to get an acuracy of 24%, originally our neural network was classifying at 15% accuracy. But, we were able to increase the classification acuracy by increasing the depth of the network along with adding dropout into the network. Lastly the decision tree obtained an acuracy of 36.5% we've tried we've gotten the following final results. The neural network got a maximum


A portfolio.
Portfolios act like directories, they contain projects and other portfolios (non-circular).
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| final const | TYPE = 'portfolio' |
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| const | TYPE = '' |
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| const | OPT_FIELDS = [] |
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| readonly Api Api | $api |
| array array self[] AbstractEntity[] | $data = [] |
| array bool[] | $diff = [] |
| const | MAP = [] |
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| $this | addItem (Portfolio|Project $item) |
| $this | addItems (iterable $items) |
| magic string | getColor () |
| magic string | getCreatedAt () |
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| Portfolio[] Project[] | getItems () |
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| magic string | getName () |
| magic User | getOwner () |
| Project[] | getProjects () |
| magic Workspace | getWorkspace () |
| Portfolio[] Project[] | selectItems (callable $filter) |
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| magic $this | setName (string $name) |
| magic $this | setOwner (User $owner) |
| magic $this | setWorkspace (Workspace $workspace) |
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| string | __toString () |
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| null string | getGid () |
| bool | hasGid () |
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| __construct (Api|self $caller, array $data=[]) | |
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| Dehydrated data. More... | |
| Public Methods inherited from ImmutableArrayTrait | |
| void | offsetSet (mixed $offset, mixed $value) |
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| Public Methods inherited from CreateTrait | |
| $this | create () |
| Creates the new entity in Asana. More... | |
| Public Methods inherited from UpdateTrait | |
| $this | update () |
PUT the data diff to Asana, if there is one. More... | |
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| void | delete () |
| Deletes the entity from Asana. More... | |
| Public Methods inherited from DateTimeTrait | |
| null DateTimeInterface | _getDateTime () |
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| Public Methods inherited from FieldSettingsTrait | |
| CustomField[] | getCustomFields () |
| magic CustomField[] | getCustomFieldSettings () |
| magic CustomField[] | selectCustomFields (callable $filter) |
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| Public Methods inherited from MembersTrait | |
| $this | addMember (User $user) |
| $this | addMembers (array $users) |
| magic User[] | getMembers () |
| magic bool | hasMembers () |
| $this | removeMember (User $user) |
| $this | removeMembers (array $users) |
| magic User[] | selectMembers (callable $filter) |
fn( User $user ): bool More... | |
| Public Methods inherited from UrlTrait | |
| string | getUrl () |
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| null | _getParentNode () |
| Protected Methods inherited from AbstractEntity | |
| mixed | _get (string $field) |
| Lazy-loads missing fields. More... | |
| void | _reload (string $field) |
| void | _setData (array $data) |
| Protected Methods inherited from Data | |
| bool | _has (string $field) |
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| T | _hydrate (string $class, $item) |
| Sub-data factory that draws from the entity pool. More... | |
| bool | _is (string $field) |
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| bool | _of (string $resourceSubtype) |
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| array | _select (string|iterable $subject, callable $filter,... $args) |
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| $this | _set (string $field, $value) |
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| void | _setField (string $field, $value) |
| Sets a value, hydrating if mapped, and clears the diff. More... | |
| Protected Methods inherited from PostMutatorTrait | |
| $this | _addWithPost (string $addPath, array $postData, string $field, array $diff) |
For existing entities this adds references to other entities via the given POST path. More... | |
| $this | _removeWithPost (string $rmPath, array $postData, string $field, array|Closure $diff) |
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@staticmethod
def simplify(_worker: AbstractWorker, worker: "VirtualWorker") -> tuple:
return BaseWorker.simplify(_worker, worker)
@staticmethod
def detail(worker: AbstractWorker, worker_tuple: tuple) -> Union["VirtualWorker", int, str]:
detailed = BaseWorker.detail(worker, worker_tuple)
After Change
log_msgs = json.dumps(data_centric_fl_client.log_msgs)
verbose = json.dumps(data_centric_fl_client.verbose)
encoding = json.dumps(data_centric_fl_client.encoding)
timeout = json.dumps(data_centric_fl_client.timeout)
return (address, id, is_client_worker, log_msgs, verbose, encoding, timeout)
@staticmethod
def detail(worker: AbstractWorker, client_tuple: tuple) -> "DataCentricFLClient":


JValidations - Java validation API
JValidations is a framework to express and exercise validation rules for java objects. Its defining characteristics are:
- validation is performed by the objects themselves, not in external "validator" classes, preserving encapsulation
- validation rules are expressed in declarative java using Hamcrest matchers, not in XML or annotations or what have you
- how a validation failure is handled is entirely up to the caller through the use of callback interfaces
- extensible in that custom validations can be coded, and the DSL syntax can be modified to suit your needs
A full explanation of how to use JValidations is given in the tutorial and cookbook documents, accessible from the menu to the left. However, a simple piece of code here should give you an idea:
public class Customer implements Validatable<ValidationReport>{ private String name; private String email; public void buildValidation(ValidationSyntax validates, ValidationReport report) { validates.that("name", not(isEmptyString()), _else(report,"isBlank", fieldName())); validates.that("email", not(isEmptyString()), _else(report,"isBlank", fieldName())); } public interface ValidationReport { void isBlank(String fieldName); } }
Here you can see that the domain object Customer defines its own validation rules. It also defines its own callback interface (ValidationReport), which the caller will have to implement in its own way.
A Customer instance can be validated like this. First define what the caller wants to do in the event of a validation failure:
public static class PrintingValidationReport implements Customer.ValidationReport { public void isBlank(String fieldName){ System.out.println(fieldName + " is blank"); } }
And now do the validation:
JValidations.validate(new Customer(), new PrintingValidationReport());


Tyra Banks Looks Smoking Hot In Bold Coat With Only A Black Lace Bra Underneath
November 19, 2019
Tyra Banks Looks Smoking Hot In Bold Coat With Only A Black Lace Bra Underneath
Tyra Banks recently shared several Instagram posts with her eager followers, in which she documented the same outfit that she wore to the American Influencer Awards.
In the most recent snap she posted, Tyra revealed the scandalous outfit that showcased her insane body. She opted to wear a coat with statement shoulders and an eye-catching black, white, and gray graphic print. Though her bottom half was cropped out of the snap, another photo showed that she rocked the knee-length coat with a pair of high-waisted pants in the same bold print.
 The bra had black cups that flaunted Tyra’s curves, and a lace overlay that added a delicate touch and accentuated her cleavage. She kept the accessories simple, adding a pair of black leather fingerless gloves and nothing else. Given how bold her outfit was, she opted to not add too many accessories to distract from the look.
Tyra’s beauty look was flawless, and she incorporated bronze and brown shades that made her eyes pop. A masterfully applied combination of bronzer and highlighter sculpted her cheekbones, and she rocked a nude lip that allowed her eye makeup to be the main focus. Tyra pulled her hair back into a high ponytail that was teased to add a bit of extra volume, and she snapped the shots outside.
In the caption, she shared an inspirational message about influencers and the industry, saying that “tonight we celebrate access.” Her followers absolutely loved the smoking hot post, and it received over 74,400 likes within just eight hours.
Many of her followers took to the comments section to praise her beauty and the sentiment she expressed in her caption.
“You are so gorgeous,” one fan simply said.
Another longtime fan shared her love for Tyra.
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“I’ve looked up to you since I was 14 years old watching the Tyra Show. I wish you would do the Tyra Show again! I love how you empower women… all women.”
 That caption is so sweet,” another fan added.
Tyra is all about supporting others in the industry, as she does so on social media and spreads good vibes. A few months ago, the bombshell shared a throwback snap from her time on The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air in honor of Will Smith’s birthday that had her fans going nuts.


Looking for a night to remember, the platinum package is certain to make a lasting impression on you and all your guests. Our largest system includes, four professional speakers, two high-powered subwoofers, a large lighting system, a microphone, and a DJ for your event. The lighting includes: Strobes, Lasers, Colored Lighting and Uplighting. Ideal events include: Wedding, Prom, Homecoming and Relay for Life.
Our most popular package, the gold package includes two professional speakers with stands, a subwoofer, a microphone, and a DJ for your event. The lighting system will be a full party lighting system that gets the crowd up and dancing. Lighting options include: Strobes, Lasers, Colored Lighting or Uplighting. This package is ideal for events with 50+ people that want to spend the night on the dance floor with great lighting and thumping music. Ideal events include: Weddings and School Dances.
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Anything sent to the local port is forwarded through the SSH tunnel. At the SSH server, the application protocol of the message being sent through the tunnel is used to determine where to send the traffic. SSH functions as a SOCKS4 or SOCKS5 proxy server.
SSH dynamic port forwarding is set up on the attacker’s system by entering:
# ssh -D <IP_ADDRESS>:9150 -f -N<EMAIL_ADDRESS><EMAIL_ADDRESS>password:
The syntax of the command is
ssh –D address:port –f –N username@pivot_host
where –D indicates to use dynamic port forwarding,
address is the address of the local machine,
port is the local port that listens,
username is the user name on the pivot host,
pivot_host is the IP address or hostname of the server being used as the pivot point
–f tells SSH to run in the background and the
-N tells SSH not to run a remote command
The figure shows how, unlike SSH local port forwarding, SSH
dynamic port forwarding can access multiple systems on different ports.


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JSON 3 Releases
3.3.2
2014-06-22
- Test the minified version on Travis [#35].
- Add a change log and contribution guidelines [#55].
- Include the minified version in the npm package [#59].
- Simplify
bower.json
.
3.3.1
2014-04-08
- Reduce the Bower package size by lazily downloading the Closure Compiler [#54].
- Make
JSON3.noConflict()
idempotent [#56].
- Improve AMD
define
pragma detection before minifying.
- Support
node-webkit
and web workers.
3.3.0
2014-01-20
- Export a
JSON3
global in browsers and JavaScript engines.
- Add
JSON3.noConflict()
and JSON3.runInContext()
[#50].
- Add a post-minification step to remove multiple IIFE wrappers.
- Optimize
quote
.
3.2.6
2013-10-25
- Add Travis CI integration.
- Support Bower, Component, Jam, and Volo.
- Test with Node, PhantomJS, RingoJS, Rhino, and Narwhal on Travis.
- Simplify exports.
stringify()
optimizations.
- Add a
?minified
query parameter to the browser harness for testing the minified version [#35].
- Detect trailing comma and trailing decimal extensions in Rhino 1.7R3-R4 [#46].
3.2.5
2013-06-14
- Use
object.hasOwnProperty(prop)
instead of Object#hasOwnProperty.call(object, prop)
when iterating over host objects [#18].
- Minification improvements; avoid munging the AMD
define
pragma [#22; #25].
- Use character codes instead of strings in
lex()
. Optimize for valid source strings [#23; #27].
- Support Adobe ExtendScript [#29].
- Handle serializing ExtendScript host objects that throw exceptions [#30; #31].
- Support Browserify and RequireJS by exporting for CommonJS and AMD [#33].
- Use square bracket character access in
parse
. Add a charIndexBuggy
flag.
- Add a benchmark suite.
3.2.4
2012-10-11
- Change the export order to prefer
module.exports
, exports
, and then define
[#14].
- Avoid conflating duplicate properties and circular references [#15].
- Export
parse
and stringify
globally even if an AMD loader is present [#17].
- Isolate the feature tests into a
has()
function for has.js
compatibility [#19].
3.2.3
2012-07-13
- Prototype <= 1.6.1 compatibility [#8].
stringify()
: Iterate over whitelisted properties in order [#12].
- Correctly detect trailing commas in array literals.
3.2.2
2012-05-05
- Correctly detect native
parse()
implementations in AMD loaders and CommonJS environments [#9].
parse()
: Use delete
instead of Array#splice()
when removing elements from traversed arrays [#10].
- Detect
parse()
number grammar extensions in IE 9 [#11].
3.2.1
2012-04-26
- Reduce the file size by removing parse error strings [#5].
- Fall back to the native
stringify()
and parse()
implementations in AMD loaders and CommonJS environments [#6].
- Use the correct global object when exporting for browsers and JavaScript engines.
- Support building on Windows by using
zlib
instead of shelling out to gzip
.
- Switch to the Closure Compiler for generating the minified version.
r.js
compatibility.
- Safari < 2.0.2 and Opera >= 10.53 support.
3.2.0
2012-04-15
- Override native
stringify()
implementations to work around date serialization bugs.
- Ensure the date serialization tests pass in all time zones [#3].
- Add a workaround for buggy
Date#getUTC{FullYear, Month, Date}
implementations in Opera > 9.64 [#4].
- Ensure Firefox <= 11.0 serializes negative years as six-digit extended years.
- Ensure Safari <= 5.1.5 serializes milliseconds correctly.
- Add a Node-based build script.
- Vendor all dependencies.
- Opera 7.54u2 support.
3.1.0
2012-03-22
- Switched to
bestiejs
organisation
- Added support for a list of properties as the
filter
argument for JSON.stringify
- Fixed Firefox 4 and 4.0.1 allowing non-standard extensions to
JSON.parse
3.0.0
2012-03-20
- Renamed
JSON3
to JSON
- Removed
JSON3.Version
- Added minified version of library
- Created a GitHub Project Page
- Preserved alphanumeric order when iterating over shadowed properties on objects
0.8.5
2012-03-16
- Avoided relying on native functions
Math.abs
, and isFinite
, and native constructors String
, Number
, Object
, and Array
- Fixed AMD export logic
0.8.0
2012-03-15
- Renamed
Prim
to JSON3
- Added
JSON3.Version
- Added support for AMD lodaers as the
"json"
module
- Added feature tests for native
JSON
implementations
- Added string coercion for the
source
argument in JSON3.parse
- Fixed the date serialization routine in
JSON3.stringify
0.5.0
2012-02-18
- Fixed
Prim.stringify
’s handling of the width
argument
- Added Microsoft’s ES5 Conformance Tests to the test suite
0.2.0
2012-02-17
- Added
Prim.stringify
for serializing values
- Renamed
Prim.Escapes
to Prim.Unescapes
- Disallowed unescaped tab characters in strings passed to
Prim.parse
0.1.0
2012-02-16


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Collaborators: Michael Yen, Mathew Le, and Zhendong Su.
Kodethon is a cloud development environment used by students in Computer Science and Linguistics courses at University of California, Davis. Students can program in Python, C, C++, Java, Lisp, Prolog, and other programming languages. Programs are stored in the cloud but can be accessed from a variety devices including tablets and smartphones. The built-in editor provides convenient features like syntax highlighting and autocompletion. To execute Unix commands, e.g., ssh and scp, students can use a new easy-to-use shell or a full Unix terminal --- right within the browser. Kodethon also supports real-time collaboration which facilitates pair-programming and live teaching assistance. In addition, we will demo an integrated learning management system that intends to relieve the burden of grading programming assignments with features like automatic grading and plagiarism detection.
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Links on this page:
About me
Hello. I’m KaadmY.
I make stuff and play games.
I’ve contributed to a few open source projects, including (but not limited to)
- Quetoo: Bug fixes and general improvements.
I’ve also made some mods and maps for games
- Pixture: Subgame for Minetest that tries to emphasize survival and exploration.
- QInvasion: Darkplaces(Quake 1) mod that adds a wave-based monster invasion gamemode.
- Passture: A 2-team ctf map for BZFlag.
I can program, too
- Python: ~3 years of experience, slower than a snake (or Python, get it?)
- C: ~2 years of experience, fast but cross-platform build tools are difficult.
- C++: ~3 months of experience and still learning, good language but libraries are a PITA.
- bash scripting: useful but not very good for anything outside of batch command scripts.
- … and a slew of other languages I’ve picked up at some point and probably forgotten about by now.
And last but not least, I play games
You can contact me with email with my username on an email provider named Gmail.
I'm on a couple other sites, too:


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OnMobile Global Standalone September 2019 Net Sales at Rs 49.79 crore, down 14.11% Y-o-Y
Reported Standalone quarterly numbers for OnMobile Global are:
Net Sales at Rs 49.79 crore in September 2019 down 14.11% from Rs. 57.97 crore in September 2018.
Quarterly Net Profit at Rs. 4.47 crore in September 2019 down 61.06% from Rs. 11.48 crore in September 2018.
EBITDA stands at Rs. 10.12 crore in September 2019 down 32.53% from Rs. 15.00 crore in September 2018.
OnMobile Global EPS has decreased to Rs. 0.42 in September 2019 from Rs. 1.09 in September 2018.
OnMobile Global shares closed at 34.45 on October 31, 2019 (NSE) and has given -6.00% returns over the last 6 months and -1.57% over the last 12 months.
| OnMobile Global | |
| Standalone Quarterly Results | in Rs. Cr. |
| Sep'19 | Jun'19 | Sep'18 | |
| Net Sales/Income from operations | 49.79 | 49.98 | 57.97 |
| Other Operating Income | -- | -- | -- |
| Total Income From Operations | 49.79 | 49.98 | 57.97 |
| EXPENDITURE | |||
| Consumption of Raw Materials | 9.55 | -- | -- |
| Purchase of Traded Goods | -- | -- | -- |
| Increase/Decrease in Stocks | -- | -- | -- |
| Power & Fuel | -- | -- | -- |
| Employees Cost | 24.97 | 28.26 | 29.46 |
| Depreciation | 2.47 | 2.35 | 1.42 |
| Excise Duty | -- | -- | -- |
| Admin. And Selling Expenses | -- | -- | -- |
| R & D Expenses | -- | -- | -- |
| Provisions And Contingencies | -- | -- | -- |
| Exp. Capitalised | -- | -- | -- |
| Other Expenses | 11.15 | 25.02 | 30.65 |
| P/L Before Other Inc. , Int., Excpt. Items & Tax | 1.65 | -5.65 | -3.56 |
| Other Income | 6.00 | 3.62 | 17.14 |
| P/L Before Int., Excpt. Items & Tax | 7.65 | -2.03 | 13.58 |
| Interest | 0.25 | 0.38 | -- |
| P/L Before Exceptional Items & Tax | 7.40 | -2.41 | 13.58 |
| Exceptional Items | -- | -- | -- |
| P/L Before Tax | 7.40 | -2.41 | 13.58 |
| Tax | 2.93 | -0.22 | 2.10 |
| P/L After Tax from Ordinary Activities | 4.47 | -2.19 | 11.48 |
| Prior Year Adjustments | -- | -- | -- |
| Extra Ordinary Items | -- | -- | -- |
| Net Profit/(Loss) For the Period | 4.47 | -2.19 | 11.48 |
| Equity Share Capital | 105.70 | 105.70 | 105.70 |
| Reserves Excluding Revaluation Reserves | -- | -- | -- |
| Equity Dividend Rate (%) | -- | -- | -- |
| EPS Before Extra Ordinary | |||
| Basic EPS | 0.42 | -0.21 | 1.09 |
| Diluted EPS | 0.42 | -0.21 | 1.09 |
| EPS After Extra Ordinary | |||
| Basic EPS | 0.42 | -0.21 | 1.09 |
| Diluted EPS | 0.42 | -0.21 | 1.09 |
| Public Share Holding | |||
| No Of Shares (Crores) | -- | -- | -- |
| Share Holding (%) | -- | -- | -- |
| Promoters and Promoter Group Shareholding | |||
| a) Pledged/Encumbered | |||
| - Number of shares (Crores) | -- | -- | -- |
| - Per. of shares (as a % of the total sh. of prom. and promoter group) | -- | -- | -- |
| - Per. of shares (as a % of the total Share Cap. of the company) | -- | -- | -- |
| b) Non-encumbered | |||
| - Number of shares (Crores) | -- | -- | -- |
| - Per. of shares (as a % of the total sh. of prom. and promoter group) | -- | -- | -- |
| - Per. of shares (as a % of the total Share Cap. of the company) | -- | -- | -- |
| Source : Dion Global Solutions Limited |


Ghosts
readtime ~18min
Most of my problems come from being an Irish Catholic. Being an Irish Catholic means that you’re dealt a specific set of cards at birth, and it isn’t the kind of hand you’d go all in on. One card guarantees you have an overwhelmingly limited emotional capacity, which amounts to a free pass when it comes to dealing with anything or anyone on an emotional level. When confronted with a problem, if you’re Irish, you can ignore it and people will pretty much look the other way. I think my grandfather maxed out on what he could feel as a person by the age of 11, and the apple doesn’t tend to fall too far from the tree.
If there’s anything I’ve learned about Americans, it’s that they deal with most of their problems with escapism usually in the form of television or a chemical inebriant. And it must be the luck of the Irish that I was born here in the States. It’s the part of me that was raised American that is dependent on escapism as a coping mechanism, and it’s the Irish Catholic part of me takes that and runs with it. See, part of your identity is reliant on how much you can drink in a single sitting while watching a sports game. And if you’re a Mick from New England you love the Red Sox more than you love the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit combined. I’ve found this belief to be both truer and more wonderful the older I’ve become; praise the Lord!
My dad couldn’t have been more of a stereotype if he tried. He had this thing he would do where he would come home, drink, and then proceed to watch sports for hours without acknowledging the existence of anyone else. He feared intimacy in a way he probably wouldn’t ever be willing to articulate, and he built walls around himself so high that the only person who could see over them was my mother if she stood on her metaphorical toes. I used to say that my father was a piece of furniture that came with the house when we bought it. My mom found this to be humorous. My father did not.
My dad wasn’t a bad guy. He just wasn’t interested in being a parent. Being a dad who was willing to teach his kids about things just didn’t compute. It wasn’t in his coding. He believed that his fatherly duties began and ended with paying for groceries and the mortgage, and he may have smacked me from time to time for reasons I can’t say were unreasonable. The guy certainly wasn’t in the running for any Father of the Year awards, but he was my father, and he was there ⎼⎼until he wasn’t⎼⎼ and I loved him for that.
Right now I’m sitting in my father’s office thinking on a memory I can barely remember. The calendar reads August 17th, 2012, and my mother is away on vacation. There’s a faint hum of passing cars as they drift off into the night to unknown destinations. The illumination of the television is the only light in our world. A sportscaster informs us that the Red Sox lead the Cubs by two runs here at the bottom of the eighth. We sip scotch on the rocks and smoke indoors. I mirror his posture. Shoes on, feet kicked up resting on the coffee table, we kiss flaming cigarettes, and let thoughts wander to the rhythm of the game. Here, time is irrelevant. Everything and nothing is temporary. Spectral streams of smoke twist and bend in the light as they dissolve into thin clouds making us appear as ghosts.
The tip of his cigarette is a glowing charcoal he offers to the ashtray. He washes smoke down with a drink.
“Hey kid. I want to ask you something,” he says.
“Then ask.”
“You’ll think I’m mad.”
“I already think you’re mad,” I reply.
“Fair enough.” He takes a drag, and caches the ash. “What do you think of the past?”
“What do you mean?
“The past. Your own history. What do you think of it?”
“I don’t know.”
“That’s a shame.”
“You’re drunk.”
“Not drunk enough.”
“That’s a shame.”
“It is,” he said. “What are your thoughts on the matter?  What do you want me to say? The past is the past. It’s part of who you are, I guess, and I think sometimes people have a hard time remembering it’s not the present.”  “Hey the Yankees are going to be in town in a couple of weeks. We should see if we can’t get tickets.”
He nods and lets the words pass through either ear.
“Do you think you can change it?” He asks.
“What?”
“The past.”
“We’re still talking about that? Well, no. That’s part of it. Can’t change what’s already taken place. We have a word for it; it’s called history. Now finish your drink.”
My pops stares into his glass like a crystal ball, then finishes what’s inside.
I pour him another.
“Yeah, I figured as much. It’s just after my father passed that meant I was next in line. The world looks a lot different once you’re forced to look at it that way. You wish you could have made better choices, said certain things.”
“We all do. It’s the ninth inning, pops.”
“I know I can’t change a thing. I know that. It’s just sometimes I wish I could. Is that bad? I mean, I know it’s impossible, but people are wishing for impossible things all the time aren’t they?”
“Not me. I’m going to live forever. You and me both. Cheers.”
We touch glasses, and swallow what’s inside.
When you’re Irish you learn not to wince.
“Hey kid,” He says.
“Yeah?”
“I like watching these games with you.”
“That’s it,” I say, “I’m cutting you off.”
We watch the rest of the game without saying a word.
The next day I flew coach back to my studio apartment in Illinois. I was going to school at the University of Chicago at the time. I waited tables, consumed shameful amounts alcohol and ingested of a wide array of chemicals. For a while life was more or less one long hangover.
The following spring I received a call from my mother who told me that my dad was driving home from work when he guided his car into the oncoming lane, and then the center divider at 70 miles per hour. I caught a plane back to Boston early the following morning.
Up until that point Alzheimers was just a name to me. A harrowing abstract idea of an illness whose claim to fame was memory loss. That was where my knowledge began and ended. I understood what it meant on an intellectual level, but I don’t think anyone who hasn’t experienced it could be prepared to handle it on an emotional one.
What I learned about Alzheimer's is that it starts with the small things. Short term lapses in memory that happen to all of us, but on a much more frequent basis. His phone, keys, wallet, and other small, but important items were lost with increasing frequency. He’d forget the day of the week or show up to work on holidays. I stayed in Boston as long as I could, but once school started up again it was necessary for me to leave.
I said goodbye to my father, and then said goodbye to him again.
When I returned to Chicago I was in a constant state of psychic pain that I couldn’t express to anyone. There was guilt associated with leaving my mom alone with him.  And of course, there wasn’t. So I dealt with the pain the only way I knew how: I drank. When that didn’t work, I tried dulling it with magic pills.
Almost an entire season passed before I made it back to Massachusetts. My mom had it bad in my absence. Taking care of my dad had turned into a full time job. She worked long hours and weekends. She looked older, more disengaged, but she was happy to have me home, and perhaps even happier to have someone to share the responsibilities of caring for my father with.
She brought me inside to introduce me to my dad.
The Alzheimer's had seized his brain like the venom of a poisonous snake. It spread its toxins in lethal doses and launched the armadas of his brain against him. Every day was a clone of the day before. It drove me mad. The routine of it all, living each day with this man who raised me and didn’t know my name. We hadn’t lost him, but it felt like we had. I couldn’t or didn’t know how to handle it. And so I drank. I then I drank some more.
As the disease progressed, so did my father’s more reclusive tendencies. My grandfather was an inventor or sorts, and he passed this trait on to his son. My dad would spend hours in his office tinkering with different projects that he wouldn’t allow anyone to see, and because we saw it as a productive way to spend his time we didn’t ask any questions.
I left again, and stayed up north until it was time to come back for the holidays. By that point he was unrecognizable. Watching him was like watching a defective, Irish robot do a really bad impersonation of what he used to be like. No part of him was the same.
On Christmas we talked him into joining us for dinner. Parts of it weren’t so bad. There were even fragments of moments where he almost seemed like himself.
At night, I watched the snow fall out my old bedroom window. There was something hypnotic about it. I like the snow and the change in season it represents. It reminds me of Christmas as a child. Waking my parents up early to open presents, checking stockings, and inspecting a plate with the crumbs of cookies my Dad had devoured in the name of Santa Claus.
Inside was warm, and I liked that too. There’s a strange sense of comfort that accompanies feeling the opposite of whatever the weather tells you you’re supposed to be feeling.
Covers were ripped away from my body. The curtains were split open flooding the room with the radiant light.
“Get up. Now!” My mother said.
“What are you doing?” I asked rubbing sleep from my eyes. I glanced at a clock that read: 5:45 am.
“Your father. He’s gone.”
“Gone? What do you mean gone? Have you checked the backyard?” I rolled out of bed, and slipped into yesterday’s pants.
“Of course I checked the backyard.  I gathered my coat and followed her out.
We searched for hours, scouring the city for any trace of him. My mom remained optimistic and made desperate phone calls to friends to enlist their help. I prayed to be wrong.
Our search came to an end when we received a call from Tufts Medical Center. They told us that he had arrived there in an ambulance. Someone had called 911 and reported a half frozen man wandering around the Boston Commons in his pajamas. The same man would die of hypothermia before we could make it to the hospital. The nurse who had tended to him would later explain to us that he was out there looking for his son.
On the day of his funeral it was cold. I said some words, we buried him beneath an Alder tree, and then we all went home. And that’s all I really want to say about the matter.
I stuck around for a couple weeks into the spring semester, because I couldn’t bring myself to leave my mother alone. Even though, to some degree, she had seen it coming, she wasn’t prepared for everything to happen in the way that it did. He had no will, so I helped her disperse what few things he had to the few people he cared about. We cleaned out his closet and his things from the garage. All that was left was what remained in the office, which was, of course, the most difficult room to clean because it was the only room that belonged strictly to him. To us, cleaning it meant admitting that he was gone, and my mom and I just weren’t ready to come to terms with the reality of life without him.
Inside the office could only be described as immaculately organized chaos. The walls of the room were concealed by layers of handwritten notes. Leaning towers of notebooks were stacked into fragile columns that leaned against each other to stay upright. Polaroid photographs hung from thumb tacks pinned to the drywall, with names scribbled under the portraits in bright red marker. His office had been remodeled into a museum of memories he didn’t know belonged to him.
 A coil in the back of the chair funneled into a brass headpiece that hovered over the seat. Heart monitors that dangled from the helmet like Christmas ornaments were plugged into a pair of silver goggles. It was ominous, and yet there was something about it at that called to be explored.
I went downstairs and had myself a drink. And then I had another, before deciding to take the bottle with me.
The leather had been made delicate from years of use. It was weathered and soft, and it contoured to the shape of my figure as I reclined into the seat. The bottle called to me to be poured, and I answered accordingly.
“This one’s for you,” I said, maybe to no one. It went down smooth.
The apparatus loomed over me. I pulled it down, and felt it swallow my head. My fingers worked the buttons of my shirt open and attached the heart monitors. The goggles squeezed my temples.
I sat and waited for a long time. Waited for nothing to happen.
I let my thoughts wander back to a time I can barely remember.
Ten flaming candles in a cake tell you it’s a special kind of day. Wax drips and slithers in neon pink and green spheres down the face of the candle forming translucent puddles where the wick plunges down into the cake. Children form a loose wheel around the table. Juveniles, mostly boys, the same age as me. They sing, with smiles full of holes, a song so obvious it doesn’t need to be named.
Mom places the cake down in front of me, the boy at the head of the table. She says make a wish. I close my eyes and wish for superpowers. When I blow out the candles, I spit more than I blow. My mom leans over a corner of the table and cuts the cake into a grid. She’s here. Right now before me. Wisps of renegade hair from the edges of her temples stretch away from her skull, and float motionless in time. I breathe in and can smell the floral scent of her perfume braiding with the warm stale smell of bodies packed in a crowded room.
A small itch forms on the bridge of my nose, and I use a nail to scratch it. I consider my hand. Feel the weight of my own body. A rush of consciousness, a sudden snap back to reality in that same instantaneous surge of energy you experience after falling asleep while sitting up a bit too straight. Breathing becomes manual. My tongue feels too big for my mouth.
I see it.
There. Hanging in the air, arriving on a granite colored ribbon that withers in the breeze, the scent of burning hay. I follow its jet stream out into the living room. There’s a woman on the couch with deep cracks in her skin who looks like she’s been there since the dawn of creation. Beside her are men. Hairy men. Fathers equipped with swollen bellies, cherried cigarettes, dirty jeans and running shoes.
At the edge of the sofa I see my father. He does not participate in the gossip. His attention belongs to the television.  He cheers faithfully in silence.
A young boy, who I recognize as myself, rushes up to the man and commits the cardinal sin of telling someone his birthday wish. My dad laughs, removes his cap, and places it on the kid’s head.
“Come with me,” He says.
We follow our father down the hall.
On the walls are sepia toned photos. Captured moments. Relics of a forgotten place in time. My dad pushes over the door and leads me into his bedroom.
My 10-year-old self sits on the edge of the bed. His feet swing off the sides and dangle above the carpet like fragile necklaces.
I kneel down in front of myself, stare into his eyes and long to trade places. To be invited back into his secret world. His reality, a vaguely familiar dreamstate called childhood where problems are solvable and a sense of purpose and meaning are insignificant.
I want to linger here forever.
What I want, is to live infinitely in beautiful moments.
My dad launches clothes and the misplaced contents of his closet into the air as he excavates his wardrobe until he finds the treasure: An ancient bottle of Irish scotch.
“Here we go,” he says. He calls him kid, then tells him to get two glasses. He says if my mom asks he has his permission to lie.
The kid leaves the room and returns with the glasses. My dad pours a half inch pool in each glass. Swirls it. Inhales the aroma. Without words he instruct the kid to do the same.
I watch my younger me twirl the glass, and breathe in what’s inside. What he smells I smell. A harsh scent of smoked vanilla roasted inside of a barrel. Even then, it reminded me of home.
“Happy birthday, kid. One day you’ll be as old as me,” He says. “You’re probably, not ready for this, but I sure as hell am. Been counting down the days since you were born.”
The kid smells the drink again. My dad and I smile. The kid winces.
“I just figure if it’s gotta happen at some point, might as well happen with me first.” He lowers it to the kid. Remnants of the drink, a liquid tree sap, cling to the walls of the glass, and cascade down to the base of the drink. They touch glasses and before disposing of the liquid inside he stops.
“Son,” He says. “Please. Be better than me, okay?”
They drink. The fluid becomes a liquid fire, scorching it’s way down inside of me.
The kid shudders. He tries to act tough and almost succeeds.
My dad laughs.
“Go get a coke.” He says, and pats him off towards the kitchen.
The kid leaves. We both watch him go.
My dad lowers himself to the bed. Fingers spread apart, and pincer back together working to wipe away something in the corner of his eyes.
I miss him. It’s one of those things you couldn’t help if you tried.
Because even when I don’t, I still do.
Here he is. Both living and dead. Alone and not alone. Where I am now is where I want to be.
Fingers shrink the space between us. Stretched out, vibrating, tendrils of flesh that creep closer to the fabric of his shirt.
Closer.
In him I see a reflection of myself.
Here. This is eternal. Because whatever happened, happened.
There’s comfort in surrendering all hope that the past will improve. Because what we choose to love will never be as perfect as we long for it to be.
A descending sun radiates stripes of light through the blinds forming vague halos on the wall.
Closer.
Until I’m hovering over him. His hair a tangled forest of salt and pepper vines. My body follows my arms, lunging forward, closer to the man who put me here, as I attempt to draw him in for a final embrace.
Closer.
Lungs vacuumed air back into my lungs. I collapsed from the chair, soaked in sweat, a drowning man choking in air.
I’m here. Back to where I was.
Back to where you are.
I dust myself off. Listen to the sound of my heart beating..
I consider my hand. Feel the weight of my own body.
The bottle calls to me, and I answer accordingly. I sink back into the chair, and let my mind wander back to a place I barely remember.
Right now I’m sitting in my father’s office thinking on memory I can barely remember. The calendar reads August 17th, 2012, and my mother is away on vacation. There’s a faint hum of passing cars as they drift off into the night to unknown destinations. The illumination of the television is the only light our world. A sportscaster informs us that the Red Sox lead the Cubs by two runs, here, at the bottom of the eighth. We sip scotch on the rocks and smoke indoors. I mirror his posture. Shoes on, feet kicked up resting on the coffee table we kiss flaming cigarettes, and let thoughts wander to the rhythm of the game. Here time is irrelevant. Everything and nothing is temporary. Spectral streams of smoke twist and bend in the light as they dissolve into thin clouds making us appear as ghosts.