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Commissioner of Income-Tax, Bombay City Vs. Godavari Sugar Mills Ltd. [1966] INSC 211 (10 October 1966)
10/10/1966 RAMASWAMI, V.
BHARGAVA, VISHISHTHA
CITATION: 1967 AIR 556 1967 SCR (1) 798
Income Tax Act, 1922, s. 23A--Company restricted from declaring dividend to limit prescribed by ss. 3 and 12 of Public Companies (Limitation of Dividends)Ordinance 1948Therefore not declaring dividend at annual general meeting as contemplated in s. 23 A-Public companies (Limitation Dividedness ) Act, 1949 repealing Ordinance within six months of meeting not applicable to asessee company-Whether order under s. 23 A valid Whether repealed Ordinance applied on date of meeting by virtue of s. 6(c), and (e) General Clauses Act, 1897.
At its annual general meeting hold on December 13, 1948 the respondent company declared a dividend of Rs. 3,68,433 for its accounting year ended May 31, 1948. In the course of its assessment to income-tax for the assessment year 1949-50 the Income-tax Officer passed an order on March 11, 1955, under the provisions of s. 23A of the Income-tax Act, 1922, that an undistributed -portion of the assessable income of the respondent would be deemed to have been distributed as dividend amongst the share-holders as at the date of the general meeting.
The respondent raised an objection that it was not legally possible for it to declare a higher dividend than that declared in view of SS-. 3 and 12 of the Public Companies (Limitation of Dividends) Ordinance No. XXIX of 1948. This objection was rejected a by the Income-tax Officer whose view was confirmed in appeal by the Appellate Assistant Commissioner and also by the Tribunal. Thereafter, a reference was made to the High Court on the question whether the order under s. 23A was validly made in the case of the respondent company to which the Ordinance applied an the date of the annual general meeting, but to which the Public Companies (Limitation of Dividends) Act, 1949, which repealed the Ordinance ceased to apply within the period of 6 months referred to in S. 23A(1). The High Court decided the question in favour of the respondent.
In the appeal to this Court it was contended on behalf of the appellant that (i) s. 23A contemplated the declaration of dividend not only on the date of the annual general meeting but also at any further point of time within a period of 6 months thereafter and that it was possible for the respondent company to declare a further dividend within the said period of 6 months; (ii) that in any event s. 13 of 1949 Act repealed the Ordinance completely and the effect was that the Ordinance was obliterated from the statute book, as if it never existed, and therefore, there was no bar in the way of the Income-tax Officer making the order of March 11, 1955.
HELD : (i) As the Ordinance was in force on the date of the annual general meeting of the respondent company, the Income-tax Officer had no power to pass any order under s. 23A.
The order which the Income-tax Officer is empowered to make under s. 23A is that the undistributed income shall be deemed to have been distributed amongst the shareholders "as at the date of the annual general meeting." If, -in actuality, a higher dividend could not lawfully have been 800 date of the General Meeting. Section 23A of the Act, as it stood at the material time, stated as follows:
"23A. Power to assess individual members of certain companies.-(1) Where the Income-tax Officer is satisfied that in respect of any previous year the profits and gains distributed as dividends by any company up to the end of the sixth month after its accounts for that previous year are laid before the company in general meeting are less than sixty per cent of the assessable income of the company of that previous year, as reduced by the amount of income-tax and super-tax payable by the company in respect thereof he shall, unless he is satisfied that having regard to losses incurred by the company in earlier years or to the smallness of the profits made, the payment of a dividend or a larger dividend than that declared would be unreasonable, make with the previous approval of the Inspecting Assistant Commissioner an order in writing that the undistributed portion of the assessable income of the company of that previous year as computed for income-tax purposes and reduced by the amount of income-tax and super-tax payable by the company in respect thereof shall be deemed to have been distributed as dividends amongst the shareholders as at the date of the general meeting aforesaid; and thereupon the proportionate share thereof of each shareholder shall be included in the total income of such shareholder for the purpose of assessing his total income." The respondent raised an objection that it was not legally possible for it to declare a higher dividend than that declared in view of ss. 3 and 12 of the Public Companies (Limitation of Dividends) Ordinance No. XXIX of 1948 (hereinafter referred to as the 'Ordinance') which was promulgated on October 29, 1948. Section 3 of the Ordinance provided:
"No company shall, after the commencement of this Ordinance, distribute as dividend during any financial year, any sum which exceeds, or which when taken with any sum already distributed as dividend during the same year whether before or after the commencement of this Ordinance will exceed:
(a) six per cent of the paid up capital of the company as on the last date of the period in respect of which the dividend is distributed, after deducting from such capital all amounts attributable to the capitalisation on or after the first day of April 1946 of one or more of 799 declared by the respondent, the Income-tax Officer could not Pass an order that such higher dividend should be deemed to have been declared, for the deemed declaration will suffer from the same legal restriction which an actual declaration is subject to. The prohibition imposed by a. 3 of the Ordinance applies not only to the actual dividend declared but also to the notional dividend deemed to have been declared under a. 23A of the Act. There is a manifest repugnancy between the provisions of the Ordinance and of s.
23A of the Act and it must be taken that there was an implied repeal of a. 23A of the Act to the extent of that repugnancy to long as the Ordinance remained in force. [803 C-F] Raghunandan Neotla v. Swadeshi Cloth Dealers Ltd., 34 Com.
Cas. 570; East, End Dwellings Co. Ltd. v. Finsbury Borough Council; [1952] A.C. 109, 132; referred to.
Since the notional distribution contemplated by s. 23A is as if the notional distribution took place at the date of the annual gener it is the law which prevailed is on that date which is to be account in considering the legal validity of the order made by the Income-tax Officer. The effect of S.13 of the 1949 Act is not to-obliterate the Ordinance completely from the statute book because the provisions of Section 6(c), (d) and (e) of the General Clauses Act would apply to this case since there was no contrary intention appearing in the repealing statute [804 F-G; 806 C] State of Punjab v. Mohar Singh [1955] 1 S.C.R. 893, 897, referred to.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION : Civil Appeal No. 28 of 1966.
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and Order dated September 27, 1962 of the Bombay High Court in Income-tax Reference No. 39 of 1961.
S. T. Desai, Gopal Singh and R. N. Sachthey, for the appellant, A. K. Sen, O. P. Malhotra, Y. P. Tarvei and Ravinder Narain for the respondent.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Ramaswami, J. This appeal is brought, by special leave, from the judgment of the High Court of Bombay dated September 27, 1962 in income-tax Reference No.39 of 1961. The respondent Godavari Sugar Mills Ltd.-is a Public limited company. The assessment year in this case is 1949-50. The relevant accounting year ended on May 31, 1948. The Annual General Meeting of the respondent was held on December 30, 1948. At that meeting a sum of Rs. 3,68,433/was declared as the dividend. Since the dividend fell short of the requisite percentage under s. 23A of the Income-tax Act (hereinafter called the 'Act') the Income-tax Officer passed an order, on March 11, 1955 under the provisions of s. 23A of the Act that the undistributed portion of the assessable income of the respondent of the previous year as computed for income tax purposes and reduced by the amount of income-tax and super-tax payable by the company in respect thereof shall be deemed to have been distributed as dividend amongst the shareholders as at the 801 the following, namely, reserves, profits and appreciation of assets, or (b) the average annual dividend of the company determined in the manner specified in sections 5 to 7, whichever is higher." Section 12 provided:
"Any Director, Managing Agent, Manager or other Officer or employee of a company who contravenes or attempts to contravene or abets the contravention of or attempt to contravene any of the provisions relating to the distribution of dividend or the issue of preference shares, contained in this Ordinance or in any rule, notification or order issued there under, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both." Section 2(b) of the Ordinance defines a "Company" to mean "A public company as defined in clause (13-A) of section 2 of the Companies Act." It is not disputed by the parties that the respondent-company was a company within the meaning of the Ordinance and that the provisions of the Ordinance applied to it. It was also admitted that the dividend declared by the respondent complied with the requirements of the Ordinance. It was contended by the respondent that the Ordinance prohibited it from declaring any larger amount as dividend than that already declared by it. The contention was rejected by the Income Tax Officer. The order of the Income-tax. Officer dated March 11, 1955 was confirmed by the Appellate Assistant Commissioner in appeal and, on further appeal, by the Tribunal. At the instance of the respondent the Tribunal referred the following question of law for the determination of the High Court:
"Whether on the facts of this case, an order under section 23A for the assessment year 1949-50 was validly made in the case of this company to which the provisions of the Public Companies (Limitation of Dividends) Ordinance, 1948, applied on the date of the Annual General Meeting but to which the Act replacing the Ordinance ceased to apply within the period of 6 months referred to in Section 23A (1)?" By its judgment dated September 27, 1962, the High Court answered the question of law in favour of the respondent.
In support of this appeal Mr. S. T. Desai put forward the argument that s. 23A of the Act contemplated a declaration of dividend not only on the date of the Annual General Meeting 802 .
but also at any further point of time within a period of 6 months from the date of the Annual General Meeting. It was pointed out that the Ordinance was repealed by the Public Companies (Limitation of Dividends) Act (Act No. 30 of 1949) (hereinafter referred to as the '1949 Act') which came into force on April 26, 1949. S. 2(3)(1) of the,1949 Act removed the restriction imposed by the Ordinance with regard to Public Companies to which the provisions of sub-s. (1) of s.
23A of the Act applied. It was submitted that it was possible for the respondent-company to declare further dividends within the said period of 6 months contemplated by s. 23A of the Act. The Annual General Meeting was held on December 30, 1948 and the six months' period from that date expired on June 30, 1949. The restrictions imposed by the Ordinance were lifted on April 26, 1949 and so during the period from April 26, 1949 to June 30, 1949 it was possible for the respondent company to declare further dividends and to comply with the requirements of s. 23A of the Act. It was argued that as the respondent-company failed to do so the Income-tax Officer was legally justified in making the order under s. 23A. On behalf of the respondent Mr. Sen contended that s. 23A (1) of the -Act did not contemplate declaration of further dividend after the holding of the Annual General Meeting and, in any event, the provisions of the Companies Act did not permit the declaration of any further dividend after the holding of the Annual General Meeting. Mr. Sen referred to the decision of the Calcutta High Court in Raghunandan Neotia v. Swadeshi Cloth Dealers(). Ltd. in support of this argument. It is not, in our opinion, necessary to express any concluded opinion on this aspect of the case, because we consider that, in any event, in view of the fact that the Ordinance was in force on the date of the holding of the Annual General Meeting of the respondent the Income tax Officer had no power to pass any order under s. 23A of the Act. The Ordinance was in force on December 30, 1948 on which date the Annual General Meeting of the respondent took place and a sum of Rs. 3,68,433/was declared as dividend. Section 23A provides that on the fulfillment of certain conditions set out there in the Income-tax Officer shall make an order in writing that the undistributed portion of the assessable income of the respondent of the previous year as computed for income-tax purposes and reduced by the .amount of income-tax and super tax "shall be deemed to have been distributed as dividend amongst the shareholders as at the date of the General Meeting aforesaid". It is clear therefore that the order which the Income-tax Officer is empowered to make under s.
23A of the Act is that the undistributed income shall be deemed to have been distributed amongst the shareholders "as at the date of the Annual General Meeting". Now, the question is whether (1) 34 Com. Cu. 570.
803 it was legally permissible for the Income-tax Officer to make the order which he has made on March 11, 1955 in the present case. The legal fiction as enacted under s. 23A of the Act is that the undistributed portion of the assessable income is deemed to have been distributed as dividend amongst the shareholders as at the date of the Annual General Meeting. In other words, the notional distribution is not by the Income-tax Officer but is by the Company itself at its Annual General Meeting. Since the provisions of the Ordinance imposed the restriction on the declaration of dividend beyond a particular limit that restriction will equally be binding for the Income-tax. Officer; and if the respondent is prevented from declaring a higher dividend than that declared on the date of the Annual General Meeting, the Income-tax Officer would be likewise prohibited by the Ordinance from passing an order that a higher dividend than that actually declared shall be deemed to have been declared at the date of the respondent's Annual General Meeting. To put it differently, if in actuality a higher dividend could not lawfully have been declared by the respondent, the Income-tax Officer could not pass an order that such higher dividend should be deemed to have been declared, for the deemed declaration will suffer from the same legal restrictions which an actual declaration is subject to. In our opinion, the prohibition imposed by s. 3 of the Ordinance applies not only to the actual dividend declared but also to notional dividend deemed to have been declared under s. 23A of the Act. There is a manifest repugnancy between the provisions of the Ordinance and of s.
23A of the Act and it must be taken that there is an implied repeal of s. 23A of the Act to the extent of that repugnancy created by s. 3 of the Ordinance and so long as the Ordinance remains in force. In view of the provisions of ss. 3 and 12 of the Ordinance the fiction created by s. 23A cannot, therefore, be brought into existence and the Income tax Officer cannot pass an order under the provisions of that section. As observed by Lord Asquith of Bishopstone in East End Dwellings Co. Ltd. v. Finsbury Borough Council('):
"If you are bidden to treat an imaginary state of affairs as real, you must surely, unless prohibited from doing so, also imagine as real the consequences and incidents which, if the putative state of affairs had in fact existed, must inevitably have flowed from or accompanied it. One of those in this case is emancipation from the 1939 level of rents.
The statute says that you must imagine a certain state of affairs; it does not say that having done so, you must cause or permit your imagination to boggle when it comes to the inevitable corollaries of that state of affairs." (1) 11952] A.C. 109, 132.
804 It is, indeed, true that as a result of the order of the Income-tax Officer there is no factual distribution of dividend but it is only a fictional or notional distribution of dividend which was not, in fact, received by the shareholders. The section merely enacts that notional dividend is deemed to have been distributed as at the date of the Annual. General Meeting, but even for bringing Into existence that legal fiction there must be no statutory prohibition as the Ordinance in the present case.
We proceed to consider the next contention of the appellant that s. 13 of the 1949 Act repealed the Ordinance completely and the effect of this section was that the Ordinance was obliterated from the Statute Book as if it never existed and, therefore, there was no bar in the way of the Incometax Officer to make. the order on March 11, 1955. Section 13 of the 1949 Act provides as follows :
" 13( (1). The Public Companies (Limitation of Dividends) Ordinance 1948 (XXIX of 1948) is hereby repealed.
(2)Notwithstanding such repeal, any rules made, action taken or thing done in exercise of any power conferred by or under the said ordinance shall be deemed to have been made, taken or done in exercise of the powers conferred by or under this Act as if this Act had come into force on the 29th day of October 1948." We are unable to accept this argument as correct. In the first place, the repeal of the Ordinance under s. 13 of the 1949 Act is immaterial, for, as we have already stated, s.
23A has created a fiction of distribution of the undistributed income as dividend and the section further states that it would be deemed as if it was distributed on the date of the Annual General Meeting. Since the notional distribution contemplated by s. 23A of the Act is as if the notional distribution took place at the date of the Annual General Meeting it is the law which prevailed as on the date of the Annual General Meeting which has to be taken into account in considering the issue as to the legal validity of the order made by the Income-tax Officer. In the second place, Mr. S. T. Desai is not right in his contention that the effect of s. 13 of the 1949 Act is to obliterate the Ordinance completely from the Statute Book. Section 6 of the General Clauses Act (Act 10 of 1897) states as follows :
"6. Where this Act, or any Central Act or Regulation made after the commencement of this Act, repeals any enactment hitherto made or hereafter, to be made, then, unless a different intention appears, the repeal shall not805 .lm15 (a) revive anything not in force or existing at the time at which the repeal takes effect; or (b) affect the previous operation of any enactment so repealed or anything duly done or suffered there under; or (c) affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any enactment so repealed; or (d) affect any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactment so repealed; or (e) affect any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid;
and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if the repealing Act or Regulation had not been passed." The reason for enacting S. 6 of the General Clauses Act has been described by this Court in State of Punjab v. Mohar Singh(') as follows :
"Under the law of England, as it stood prior to the Interpretation Act of 1889, the effect of repealing a statute was said to be to obliterate it as completely from the records of Parliament as if it had never been passed, except for the purpose of those actions, which were commenced, prosecuted and concluded while it was an existing law. A repeal therefore without any saving clause would destroy any proceeding whether not yet begun or whether pending at the time -of the enactment of the Repealing Act and not already prosecuted to a final judgment so as to create a vested right. To obviate such results a practice came into existence in England to insert a saving clause in the repealing statute with a view to preserve rights and liabilities already accrued or incurred under the repealed enactment. Later on, to dispense with the necessity of having to insert a saving .clause on each occasion, section 38(2) was inserted in the Interpretation Act of 1889 which provides that a repeal, unless the contrary intention appears, does not affect the (1) [1955] I S.C.R. 893, 897.
806 previous operation of the repealed enactment or anything duly done or suffered under it and any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced in respect of any right, liability and penalty under the repealed Act as if the Repealing Act had not been passed. Section 6 of the General Clauses Act, as is well known, is on the same lines as section 38(2) of the Interpretation Act of England." Section 13 of the 1949 Act is almost identical in language with s. I I of Punjab Act XII of 1948 which was the subjectmatter of consideration in State of Punjab v. Mohar Singh(') and for the reason given by this Court in that case the provisions of s. 6 (c), (d) and (e) of the General Clauses Act are applicable to this case since there is no contrary intention appearing in the repealing statute. Mr. S. T.
Desai is, therefore, unable to make good his submission on this aspect of the case.
For these reasons we affirm the judgment of the Bombay High Court dated September 27, 1962 and dismiss this appeal with costs.
R. K. P. S. Appeal dismissed.
(1) [1955] 1 S.C.R. 893.


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NYTimes: By Dan Hurley 1/ 6/2004
"What we are discovering around collective efficacy was not terribly obvious before we started to measure it with some precision."
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"If one of the ideas that comes out of the meeting is for them to clean up the graffiti in the neighborhood, the benefit will be much longer lasting, and will probably impact the development of kids in that area. But it would be based on this community action — not on a work crew coming in from the outside."
"As for policy implications, Dr. Earls said that rather than focusing on arresting squeegee men and graffiti scrawlers, local governments should support the development of cooperative efforts in low-income neighborhoods by encouraging neighbors to meet and work together. Indeed, cities that sow community gardens, he said, may reap a harvest of not only kale and tomatoes, but safer neighborhoods and healthier children."
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A couple of men from the same chat group became the first people in He Youbing's trip to accept her Bitcoin in exchange for some snacks.
Things went smoother for He Youbing when she travelled to the southern coastal city of Shenzhen, where a crayfish restaurant accepted Bitcoin. She also met a yoga teacher who bought Bitcoin from her, a transaction that allowed her to have enough money to spend a night at a modest hotel.
In the latest episode shown on September 15, He Youbing was on her way to Shanghai, the final destination of her 21-day trip.
China to block more than 120 offshore cryptocurrency exchanges as crackdown escalates
Team 1234 did not immediately respond to requests for comments made by the South China Morning Post through social messaging service WeChat.
The documentary marks a novel effort by China's community of cryptocurrency users to raise the profile of digital assets, like Bitcoin and ethereum, amid the government's intensified crackdown on all digital currency-related activities in the country as well as the recent tumble in value taken by almost every cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin, the largest digital currency, was priced at US$6,466.51 as of 8:03pm in Hong Kong on Monday, marking a 51 per cent decline since the start of this year, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin price index.
The campaign against cryptocurrencies in China started last September, when regulators banned cryptocurrency exchanges and the unregulated crowdfunding schemes with digital currency known as initial coin offerings.
Bitcoin billionaire's foul-mouthed tirade puts spotlight on China's cryptocurrency scene
Despite the central government initiatives on adopting blockchain, the underlying technology behind virtual currencies, Beijing has made it clear it does not want retail investors putting their money into cryptocurrencies amid fears of financial chaos.
Bitcoin Girl, however, is yet to make a splash beyond China's cryptocurrency community.
In the documentary, the producers said they refused the offer of several blockchain start-ups in China to help fund the experiment.
"If I fail, then that's the failure of the blockchain people," said He Youbing in the documentary, likely acknowledging the lack of infrastructure to support mass cryptocurrency transactions when compared with China's widely used mobile payment platforms.
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Creative food, informal charm and lots of fine bourbon: what's not to like?
: Combine informal charm with serious gastronomic cred, and Baltimore will beat a path to your door. Like some of the city's inviting hometown eateries, Bluegrass Tavern offers farm-to-table freshness; imaginative takes on regional food; and homemade charcuterie. The chef's creative, frequently changing menu demonstrates European flair and Southern comfort, with dishes for sharing and a variety of price points. Adventurous types might try blackened catfish jambalaya; traditionalists may opt for hot fried chicken tossed in extra spicy sauce and served with coleslaw and grilled corn. To wash it down, consider one of the house's beloved bourbons.


The Center for Initiatives in Pre-College Education (CIPCE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has published a substantial collection of lessons and units aligned to the Common Core Learning Standards in Mathematics (CCLSM) that make use of the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 and NXT.
The modules (lessons and units) that form the collection have been designed and taught by accomplished teachers, mentored by CIPCE staff. They are primarily aimed at students in grades 3 to 8, but may be adapted to other grade levels.
The modules include objectives for student learning, including state standards, student assessment and learning activities. Many also incude EV3 coding, builds, student handouts, assessment rubrics and estimated time frames.
This collaboration was made possible by a U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant.
Standards: CCSSM: 4.1MD and has connections to 4th grade ELA standards for speaking and listening.
Standards: CCSSM: 7NS.1; 7NS; MP.1; MP.2; MP.4; MP.5; MP.6; MP.7.
Standards: CCSSM 8.F.1; 8.F.4; 8.F.5.


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Established and new, Crew SC teammates hit respective century-mark milestones
By Megan Scribner @ColumbusCrewSC
A pair of century-mark appearances came to fruition for Columbus Crew SC's Hector Jimenez and Patrick Mullins over the weekend as Jimenez garnered his 100th career appearance under the Black & Gold, while Mullins, a recent acquisition, earned his 100th appearance in Major League Soccer.
Certainly anything but a one-trick pony, Jimenez - who became the fifth current Crew SC player to eclipse the century mark - has logged 66 starts while appearing in a variety of positions for the Black & Gold, including along the backline, as an outside midfielder, and as a central attacking midfielder.
"Obviously, it's a great milestone to hit," said Jimenez when asked about his 100th appearance. "It's a great honor and just shows that the coaching staff has a lot of trust and belief in me to be able to step on the field and perform. A big part of getting those hundred caps is staying injury free. I haven't had a major injury, knock on wood, since I have been in the League, and that kind of puts me in a situation where I can get in the games."
"Hector is the glue," said Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter following Jimenez's milestone achievement over the weekend. "He's the guy that keeps the locker room together, mixes well with everyone, understands the work it takes to be a pro. He's been a pro. This is his eighth season, so he really understands what that means. We couldn't be happier for him and this accomplishment."
In response to Berhalter's praise, Jimenez touched on the value it adds to his achievement.
"It feels great, it adds value," Jimenez said. "I've never heard that one before, honestly, but it's awesome to hear. It's not an easy thing sometimes, being on and off the field, but at the end of the day, I've grown as a person. It just goes to show the environment and culture that we have here. I take a lot of pride in that and I'm sure some of the guys in the locker room notice the amount of work I do on and off the field to have these relationships with everyone, so I'm very happy and thrilled to be here."
Acquired from the LA Galaxy following the 2013 campaign, Jimenez made his Columbus debut in the team's 2014 season opener against D.C. United on March 8, as he went on to deliver the game-winning assist to Jairo Arrieta as part of a 3-0 victory. Since then, Jimenez has recorded 13 assists and one goal for Crew SC.
Gyasi Zardes, who played with Jimenez during his time at the Galaxy, recognized the accomplishments of his long-time teammate.
"Hector means a lot, especially to myself. When I first became a pro, Hector was driving me to and from training. I always have respect for Hector, and I love playing with him each and every moment I get. Congratulations to him, and I really look forward to playing many more games with him."
Mullins, who came to Columbus on July 11 from D.C. United, recently made his fourth appearance with Crew SC after netting his first career goal with the Black & Gold on July 28 in a 3-2 win over the New York Red Bulls.
Following 52 appearances with New York City FC, Mullins appeared in 44 matches at D.C. United. After hitting his MLS century-mark, Mullins spoke on what the achievement meant to him.
"It feels very good to be able to achieve one hundred matches," Mullins said. "It's something I always wanted to do coming in as a pro, and I think it makes me very grateful to be able to be healthy for one hundred matches and then to be at a good level to perform, and also hungry to get another hundred."
To make 100 appearances, Mullins noted, it ultimately comes down to more than one's ability to play well.
"I think it just shows that you have to bring a level of consistency every day in your mental, physical, and psychological approach," Mullins said. "I think that's something I've done well in my five years in the League, and something that I still enjoy coming in each day and getting that feeling of being with a team and being able to play the game I love. It's something that I always wanted to do, and I don't take it for granted any day."
Catch Crew SC back in action on Thursday, August 23 as the Black & Gold take on the Chicago Fire. The match kicks off from Toyota Park at 7 p.m. ET.
Hector Jimenez Patrick Mullins League Player Team
Crew confident in 'next man up' mentality vs. Philadelphia on Saturday
MLS grows more diverse with youngest class of newcomers in League history
Major League Soccer names Coach of the Year Award after Sigi Schmid


Kimberly from Swoon Worthy has just moved home and we are so excited to see how she's going to do up the new place. Focusing on quick fixes first, take a look at how she's styled her new living room.
We love an Instagrammable restaurant and last month Kelly Prince Writes visited the ever popular Pink Mamma restaurant in Paris and gave us picture perfect tour. What do you think?
After working from her home office for nearly five years, Beth from Dotty Dishes is an expert on working from home and everything that entails. Here she shares how she copes with it day in, day out.
Gabriella Khalil shared another before and after look at one of her recent projects last month on the blog and we simply can't get enough of the statement sofa – look at those colours!
Stephanie from Life at 139a took an up close look at one of her favourite roomsets from the Ideal Home Show 2018 which was the botanical bedroom. With surprising botanical elements and plush finishes, it's definitely one to check out.
We are always on the lookout for new interior tips which is why we really loved this post on Sincerely Marie Designs on how layering rugs can add a new design element to the space.
Antwerp has just gone to the top of our must visit list thanks to this post from Design Soda which lists five of the best cafés to see on your trip.
There's a woodland inspired party going on in this little boy's room which we spotted on The Ordinary Lovely in April. How adorable and fun is that wallpaper?
Mrs Rackley Home added the finishing touches to her garden makeover last month just in time for the summer. How nice is the super sleek tiling combined with the chic outdoor furniture?
The LuxPad took a look at the colour trends for 2018 in this post from April which of included some big colour trends and some more unexpected ones too.
Paint effects can instantly brighten even the dullest of rooms and one of those rooms we usually don't know what to do with is the hallway, so inject some fun with this fabulous DIY.
Another wonderful DIY to surface in April is this mirror trick from A Bubbly Life which combines two top trends of the moment, oversized round mirrors and the ever popular pink hue!
This tablescape we spotted on Finnterior Designer is simple and elegant with just a hint of spring freshness which also makes it great for alfresco dining.
Rush & Teal have outlined their plans for their home this spring and summer, from garden clear outs to bigger redecoration projects – watch this space.
You wouldn't believe the images in this post aren't real tiling and it had us rushing out to buy paint supplies straight away. Check out the Design Twins skilful stencil technique.
We spend a third of our lives in bed so why don't we spend more time making it a restful haven? Charlotte Nichole shares her top tips for creating the perfect best for a restful slumber.
Style Mutt Home gave us a tour of her friend's New York home which she completely gutted and renovated so she could live in the fabulous city affordably.
Upcycling is all about finding everyday objects and repurposing them so we loved this inventive chopping board planter idea from Kate Beavis with its bold pop of orange contrasting with the herbs' greenery.
Sarah from Room for Tuesday shared her moodboard from the month before in April which focused on rattan which wasn't that surprising for spring but with a daring colour twist for the new season.
Design Sponge explored Malcolm from Design69's 1880s Victoria era house in Scotland which he has completely refurbished since he moved in with his partner.
Jenny from Seasons in Colour has shared some of her favourite interior range releases from April in this round up and we love how bright and fresh all the new collections are.
Hi Emily, thank you for sharing the inspiration with these 25 amazing interiors blog posts. This makes it easy for people who want to find inspiration for their home design. I'm curious, which interior blog post will be the best next time?. So, I waiting for your next post!


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Q: QTP Script - Click On WebTable Cell - Works in IE but not in Chrome Writing automation script for a web application, there's a table,
Upon modification, user need to click on the cell to enable it.

*

*Before user click on any cell, there's no childitem is detect ( try with childitem count with micclass - webEdit, webList, webElement - All return 0)

*After user click on the cell, the cell will change to editable field - webedit/weblist -- at here the childitemcount become 1

*Hence, click on the cell become a core process ( Open for suggestion if there's any workaround)
Currently I am clicking on a cell, input then click on the next cell, then repeat again. Here are the fragment of my code. The Object.rows(row).cells(i).click is not working in Chrome, but IE is doing correctly without any Issue.
Tried:

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*Highlight the table - It's showing the correct table

*Print row, i after highlighted the table

*

*IE -- it will be 1,0 ; 1,1 ; 1,2 and so on

*Chrome -- it's failed at the first step, Error = General Run Error

*Change Value of row, i to be +1 both ( still not working )
Code:
row = 1
rows = dictObject("WEBTBL_ACCDTL_FLOWTBL").GetROProperty("rows")
Arry_userInput = split(userinput,";")

'rows - 1 because of the header
If row <= rows-1 Then
    For i = 0 To Ubound(Arry_userInput) Step 1
        dictObject("WEBTBL_ACCDTL_FLOWTBL").highlight
        dictObject("WEBTBL_ACCDTL_FLOWTBL").Object.rows(row).cells(i).click 'Here Working in IE but not Chrome
        set currTxtBox = dictObject("WEBTBL_ACCDTL_FLOWTBL").ChildItem(row+1,i+1,"WebEdit",0)
        currTxtBox.Object.focus
        currTxtBox.Object.scrollIntoView

        If i = 0 or i = 1 or i = 2 or i = 3 or i = 7 Then
            Call table_dropdown_set(currTxtBox,Arry_userInput(i))
        Else
            Call table_txtbox_set(currTxtBox,Arry_userInput(i))
        End If

        wait 1
    Next
    wait 1
    Msgbox "Input Process Done!"
Else
    Msgbox "Please Trigger the button to add new row!"
End If

A: I see you're using .Object in order to access the cell, by doing this you're not utilizing UFT's full capabilities. Have you tried using the Cell property? This was added in a recent version of UFT so you should check if it's available in the version you're using.
Usage:
Browser("B").Page("P").WebTable("WT").Cell(row, column).Click

Unlike the ChildItem function of WebTable the Cell returns the element of the cell itself and not the contents of the cell which I think is what you really need.

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Meera Navlakha
2021 © by Meera Navlakha
Meera is a 24-year-old writer and journalist, based in London. She grew up between New York, Singapore, and India – all of which influence her work in their own ways.
She is currently an Editorial Fellow at Mashable. There, she writes daily original features and breaking news, on everything from TikTok culture to climate change to NFTs to women's rights.
In 2021, she worked at BURO.Global as a News Writer, reporting daily on culture, politics, art, and technology for the London team. She also contributed regularly to Vogue India, writing on technology, Gen-Z culture, and fashion. She was previously an intern at VICE Media (in their Singapore bureau), where she wrote over 130 stories in three months. Her work covered everything from Asia's sex wellness boom to Hong Kong's political protests to the last Indigenous tribes of India.
Her work has been published in The New York Times, Huffington Post India, Slate, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, W Magazine, i-D, The Juggernaut, gal-dem, Dazed, The Independent, and others. She has been twice shortlisted at the Amnesty Media Awards, was a runner-up in the UK's Freelance Writing Awards, and a finalist in the Asian Media Awards, amongst others.
She graduated with a BA in English Literature from Durham University and is now pursuing a Masters degree in Digital Media at UCL.
You can contact her at meeranavlakha@gmail.com or find her on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.


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class EmailerPreview < ActionMailer::Preview
  # Preview at /rails/mailers/emailer/updates_notification
  def updates_notification
    set_locale
    set_user
    @user ||= UpdateAction.last.update_subscribers.last.subscriber
    updates = @user.recent_notifications( per_page: 50 )
    Emailer.updates_notification(@user, updates)
  end

  def new_message
    set_locale
    # m = if message_id = @rack_env["QUERY_STRING"].to_s[/message_id=([^&]+)/, 1]
    #   Message.find_by_id(message_id)
    # end
    m ||= Message.last
    Emailer.new_message(m)
  end

  def observations_export_notification
    set_locale
    # ft = if (ftid = @rack_env["QUERY_STRING"].to_s[/flow_task_id=([^&]+)/, 1])
    #   FlowTask.find_by_id(ftid)
    # end
    ft ||= ObservationsExportFlowTask.includes(:outputs).where("flow_task_resources.id IS NOT NULL").last
    Emailer.observations_export_notification(ft)
  end

  def project_user_invitation
    set_locale
    # pui = if (id = @rack_env["QUERY_STRING"].to_s[/id=([^&]+)/, 1])
    #   ProjectUserInvitation.find_by_id(id)
    # end
    pui ||= ProjectUserInvitation.last
    Emailer.project_user_invitation(pui)
  end

  def confirmation_instructions
    # locale is determined by the user's locale
    set_user
    @user ||= User.first
    DeviseMailer.devise_mail(@user, :confirmation_instructions)
  end

  def bulk_observation_success
    set_locale
    @user ||= User.first
    Emailer.bulk_observation_success(@user, "some_file_name")
  end

  def bulk_observation_error
    set_locale
    @user ||= User.first
    bof = BulkObservationFile.new(nil, nil, nil, @user)
    o = Observation.new
    e = BulkObservationFile::BulkObservationException.new(
      "failed to process",
      1,
      [BulkObservationFile::BulkObservationException.new("observation was invalid", 1, o.errors)]
    )
    errors = bof.collate_errors(e)
    Emailer.bulk_observation_error(@user, "some_file_name", errors)
  end

  private
  def set_user
    # @user = if login = @rack_env["QUERY_STRING"].to_s[/login=([^&]+)/, 1]
    #   User.find_by_login(login)
    # end
  end

  def set_locale
    # if locale = @rack_env["QUERY_STRING"].to_s[/locale=([^&]+)/, 1]
    #   I18n.locale = locale
    # end
  end
end

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Researcher develops innovative way to look inside lithium ion batteries
Rapid testing of the particles inside a lithium ion battery at the nano scale wins Audrey Taylor a Mitacs award.
November 24, 2020	by PLANT STAFF
BURNABY, BC — A researcher at Simon Fraser University has come up with a way to improve lithium ion batteries needed for electric vehicles by creating tools to see inside of them.
Audrey Taylor was to be recognized for her work with a Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation — PhD at a virtual ceremony Nov. 24.
Mitacs is a national innovation organization that works with academic institutions to conduct research.
Taylor — working under Professor Byron Gates in the Department of Chemistry at Simon Fraser University — has developed a high tech tool for rapid testing of the particles inside a lithium ion battery at the nano scale to maximize battery performance and longevity.
She applied the same method used in examining biological specimens but in place of a knife, Taylor used a diamond blade to cut the hard ceramic-like battery into ultra-thin slices.
"Lithium ion batteries represent an emerging field and, therefore, we need new techniques to study them at the atomic level," said Taylor, who was able to obtain 60 nanometre thick cross-sections of particles 20 microns wide on one sample for viewing under a transmission electron microscope. The diameter of a human hair is roughly 70,000 nanometres or 70 microns thick.
Her method is now being used by Burnaby, BC-based Nano One Materials Corp. to produce low cost, high performance cathode powders used in lithium ion batteries.
"Nano One needed a quick way to inspect the protective coatings it was developing to improve the performance and longevity of lithium ion batteries," Taylor said. "Using our methodology, they can quickly obtain high resolution imaging of their coatings, which in turn leads to faster research and development turnaround."
She said the tool can also be used to understand what's happening at a battery's end of life.
"The more we know about what's happening inside the batteries, the better we can prevent adverse events and ensure high performance."
Mitacs is funded by federal and provincial governments.
General Technology Automotive automotive Innovation lithium manufacturing Mitacs Research Taylor
Researcher honoured for industrial ceramic coatings breakthrough
Extracting lithium: Ensuring a power source for electric vehicles
EU approves state aid to develop car batteries industry
Neo Lithium appoints director
Miss Vickie's chips recalled in Eastern Canada were also shipped west
Fossil fuels declining, but still big in Canada's energy use by 2050: report


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Edelstein on Philip Seymour Hoffman: 1967-2014
LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 19: Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman attends "The Ides of March" photocall during the 55th BFI London Film Festival at the Odeon West End on October 19, 2011 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images For The BFI) Photo: Gareth Cattermole/2011 Getty Images
First, you curse.
Then you ask, "Why?" and, absent a good answer (there is never a good answer), you think about what made Philip Seymour Hoffman great — and wonder if a key to understanding his absurd death at the age of 46 from a drug overdose can be located somewhere in that greatness.
Eight years ago, I ate lunch with Hoffman in the East Village for a New York Times profile and had a small inkling of his demons. Capote had just come out and he was the favorite to win an Oscar. (He did.) He talked about what it had taken for a man with a big head, big body, and big deep voice to embody a man with a small head, small body, and bizarre baby voice — about the training that wasn't unlike what he'd done as a high school jock (yes, he was a jock!), pushing his body and voice to places he wasn't even sure were in reach. And then he talked about the editing fights he'd had with his old friend, the first-time director, Bennett Miller.
When you hear about cutting-room fights, it almost always means the star thinks he or she is coming off as too unlikable and wants the director to ratchet up the vulnerability quotient. But Hoffman was arguing to make Capote less attractive — to make him, in fact, thoroughly reprehensible. He said he told Miller, "The way toward empathy is actually to be as hard as possible on this character."
I said I had no idea what he was talking about.
"I think deep down inside, people understand how flawed they are," he said. "I think the more benign you make somebody, the less truthful it is."
Yes … if you think that who we are at our worst is who we really are. And I'm pretty sure Hoffman did think that.
Ever since then, I've been conscious of how much he went out of his way to make his characters un-benign. It was central to his power as an actor, though I wonder if at times he didn't confuse self-hatred for integrity.
His delivery could seem groggy, as if he couldn't be bothered to clear his throat or gargle or expend any effort to be more attractive than he thought he was — which was not attractive at all. You can feel how far inside his comfort zone he is in The Talented Mr. Ripley as a through-and-through snob who barely acknowledges the title character's existence or in Charlie Wilson's War as a spy described as the "anti-James Bond" who refuses to suck up to his superiors (or the audience).
A few years after our interview, I complimented him on what might be my favorite of his performances, the brother of the playwright protagonist (Laura Linney) in The Savages — a funny, likable, normal guy.
"He's probably one of the characters closer to me than most," Hoffman said.
"He's not grotesque," I said.
"Well, everyone's life is grotesque if you look close enough. I don't shy away from that side."
"No, you go in the other direction."
Hoffman was famous for beating himself up on sets. He hated the ease with which his body put on weight. He also talked openly about his various addictions. (He was last in rehab for substance abuse in the spring of 2013.) Several years ago on NPR's Fresh Air, Terry Gross asked him about his alcoholism and why he couldn't just limit himself to, say, one or two drinks at dinner. He said he never wanted one or two drinks. He wanted the whole bottle. The point, he said, was to drink and keep drinking. He wanted to be liberated from self-disgust. He sought out oblivion.
I have no good excuse for missing his Willy Loman onstage (except I couldn't get a ticket), but I saw his Jamie Tyrone in A Long Day's Journey into Night and was ever so slightly disappointed. He was superb, of course: Tyrone Jr. is riddled with self-hatred and guilt, and Hoffman was poignantly credible telling his younger brother not to trust him. What he didn't have was the boozy Irish bravura that made Jason Robards's O'Neill performances so transporting. Hoffman could never see himself as a romantic figure—not for an instant.
His onscreen legacy? I put The Savages above even Capote, but the latter is certainly an Olympian feat, a triumph of sympathetic (and unsympathetic) imagination. Charlie Wilson's War should be seen because he's so palpably happy in the role. His Father Flynn is Doubt is one of his best performances, largely because he plays the (probably pedophilic) priest as a man who doesn't believe he's a sexual predator and is therefore at ease with himself. (The only Hoffman characters at ease with themselves are the bad ones.) His L. Ron Hubbard stand-in in The Master is in the tradition of flimflam visionaries so in love with their own spiels they forget they're frauds. Further back, he's a howl in Along Came Polly in a Chris Farley-like part, a guy with a vast appetite and zero shame.
I suspect Philip Seymour Hoffman had a lot of shame in his life and dealt with it by making himself as odious as possible in other arenas. Sometimes he went too far, but even then his performances could be revelatory. The only thing ordinary about this extraordinary actor was how he died.
For that, you curse.
Philip Seymour Hoffman's Greatest Performances in Film
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Q: How to use an extension function in a companion object Is it possible to define and use an extension function in a class' companion object?
In this example removePadding() is the extension function being used in Point.parse().
data class Point(private var x: Int, private var y: Int) {
    companion object {
        fun parse(text: String?) = text?.removePadding()
            ?.let { "(\\d+),(\\d+)".toRegex().find(it) }
            ?.mapNotNull { it.toIntOrNull() }
            ?.let { Point(it[0], it[1]) }

        // define removePadding() here?
    }

    // define removePadding() here?
}

The extension function removePadding() may look like:
fun String.removePadding() = this.replace("\\s+".toRegex(), "")

And the parse function may be called as:
val one = Point.parse("1, 7")

If it's possible, how? If it's not, why not?

A: You could basically place the extension in any of those places, declaring it normally:
private fun String.removePadding() = this.replace("\\s+".toRegex(), "")

The private modifier limits the visibility to the companion object or the data class, depending on where you place it. Usually, one should prefer the narrowest possible visibility scope for a declaration.
And another option is to declare the extension function locally in the parse function (note that it doesn't have the visibility modifier this time):
data class Point(private var x: Int, private var y: Int) {
    companion object {
        fun parse(text: String?): Point? {
            fun String.removePadding() = this.replace("\\s+".toRegex(), "")

            return text?.removePadding()
                ?.let { "(\\d+),(\\d+)".toRegex().find(it) }
                ?.groupValues?.map { it.toIntOrNull() ?: return null }
                ?.let { (x, y) -> Point(x, y) }
        }
    }
}

A: Since you only need the function as a helper for parse, you should declare it next to it.
companion object {
    private fun String.removeWhitespace() = replace("\\s+".toRegex(), "")

    fun parse(text: String?): Point? {
        ...


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Q: Make a cell with text and a date into just a date I have a cell (E2) that says "Manage Hours For 07-25-2013" I want to make a cell that adds a day to whatever day is in E2. How do I make that cell have only the date in the answer and not have "manage hours for" in it?

A: =DATE(RIGHT(E2,4),MID(E2,18,2),MID(E2,21,2))+1
Here this should work, adjust the mid( functions to properly relate to the characters in the cell, this should work with what you have

A: =RIGHT(E2,10)+1

This will return the Excel number value of the date. The cell can then be formatted as a date.
Or if you want to avoid having to change the cell's format, you can wrap the whole thing in a TEXT function:
=TEXT(RIGHT(E2,10)+1,"mm-dd-yyyy")


I've occasionally taken pictures of birds around southern Arizona, and have had a desire to identify them. With some help from Whatbird.com, I've been able to identify 3 of them, which I've included pictures below. Hopefully I'll be able to add to my bird collection, especially when I get a better lens for it (My max focal length is currently 135mm, so...) Clicking on the photo will allow for you to see a fuller description.


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Despite coronavirus, SCDOT says it plans to move forward replacing a bridge in Greer
Angelia L. Davis
The global coronavirus pandemic shut down schools, businesses and governments.
But, to date, it hasn't shut down plans to replace a bridge on a heavily traveled road in Greer.
The state Department of Transportation said it plans to move forward with removing and replacing the bridge on Gibbs Shoals Road. Construction is scheduled to begin this spring, according to the DOT's project web page.
SCDOT Secretary Christy Hall said in a statement that the agency intends to keep working on road and bridge construction projects "until it is no longer safe or effective for us to do so."
"At this point in time, there are no disruptions in the material supply chain or road worker availability," Hall said. "Additionally, like other businesses in the state, our industry has implemented sanitizing and personal health protection measures. We will continually reassess the situation and will adjust as needed to ensure the health and well-being of the employees in our industry.
Coronavirus updates in SC:Here's what you need to know
Hall's statement applies to construction projects in the state, DOT spokesman Pete Poore said.
Gibbs Shoals is a narrow two-lane road that connects to State 14 in the city of Greer and South Batesville Road in the county.
It's a roadway that residents, many of whom live in subdivision off Gibbs Shoals, said is treacherous to travel.
They told Greer city planning commissioners there have been multiple vehicle wrecks and fatalities there as traffic has continued to increase.
The danger of adding more traffic on that road is a reason that residents in nearby subdivisions have opposed a request to rezone an 18.53 acre pasture on Gibbs Shoals, near West Phillips Road, to allow for a 252-unit apartment complex.
More:Rezoning vote for 252-unit apartment complex on Greer farm delayed
An average of 9,000 vehicles per day traveled on Gibbs Shoals from South Batesville Road to South State 14 in 2016. In 2019, the average daily vehicle count was 9,200.
The DOT is replacing the bridge on Gibbs Shoals, which crosses the Enoree River, because it is "aging, substandard and structurally deficient" the DOT said.
The agency held a public hearing about the bridge work in 2017. A flyer about that meeting said the project will be federally funded through the On-System Bridge Replacement Program of the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). Approximately $3.2 million was budgeted for the project.
The portion of Gibbs Shoals at the bridge will be closed during construction.
That closure was scheduled to happen on the last day of school in June, said Ari Leinonen, a DOT resident construction engineer.
Given that schools are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Leinonen said it's unknown how that will schedule will play out because it hasn't been announced whether the school will year will resume at the end of April.
If the school year is extended farther into June, that could change the schedule of the project, he said.
"We didn't want to close the bridge in the middle of the school year and then have the buses scramble to find a new way around," he said. "The bridge will probably stay closed into December, but for them to start a school year with a new route would be much easier than trying to figure out a new bus route in the middle of the (school year)."
A six-mile detour is proposed, routing traffic to South Batesville Road to Hammett Bridge Road to East Suber Road to Gibbs Shoals Road.
The hope is to have a pre-construction meeting his month. After that, residents will start seeing physical activity, Leinonen said.


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Q: NodeJS - flatten nested array in recursion into an array of strings I have this datas structure:
{
  "fieldNodes": [
    {
      "selectionSet": {
        "selections": [
          {
            "name": {
              "value": "id"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": {
              "value": "phone"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": {
              "value": "address"
            },
            "selectionSet": {
              "selections": [
                {
                  "name": {
                    "value": "street"
                  }
                },
                {
                  "name": {
                    "value": "city"
                  }
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

I need to go over the fieldNodes array in recursion and create an array of strings of their value (name.value).
The nested values will be represented by a dot ("address.city").
The results for this example will be: ["id", "phone", "address. street", "address.city"].
I'm assuming that I have one object in the fieldNodes array.
Can someone please help me how the code should look like in NodeJS?

A: Try this recursive function that I made:

var obj = {
  "fieldNodes": [{
    "selectionSet": {
      "selections": [{
          "name": {
            "value": "id"
          }
        },
        {
          "name": {
            "value": "phone"
          }
        },
        {
          "name": {
            "value": "address"
          },
          "selectionSet": {
            "selections": [{
                "name": {
                  "value": "street"
                }
              },
              {
                "name": {
                  "value": "city"
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }]
};

function flatten(obj) {
  if (!obj.selectionSet) {
    if (obj.name) return [obj.name.value];
    return [];
  }

  var list = obj.selectionSet.selections.map(flatten).flat();
  if (!obj.name) return list;
  return list.map(item => obj.name.value + "." + item);
}

var list = obj.fieldNodes.map(flatten).flat();
console.log(list);

A: You can use a recursive generator function:

var data = {'fieldNodes': [{'selectionSet': {'selections': [{'name': {'value': 'id'}}, {'name': {'value': 'phone'}}, {'name': {'value': 'address'}, 'selectionSet': {'selections': [{'name': {'value': 'street'}}, {'name': {'value': 'city'}}]}}]}}]}
function* flatten(d, c = []){
    for (var i of d){
       if ("selectionSet" in i){
           yield* flatten(i.selectionSet.selections, 'name' in i ? [...c, i.name.value] : c)
       }
       else{
          yield [...c, i.name.value]
       }
    }
}
var result = Array.from(flatten(data.fieldNodes)).map(x => x.join('.'));
console.log(result)

A: Once you descend to the selectionSort level, it's a fairly straightforward recursion.  Here we wrap that recursive call into one that (flat)maps over the fieldNodes objects.  Since you expect only one, it doesn't matter whether we map or flatMap here, and this result is simpler.  But if you might have more than one, and you want them grouped, you might replace fieldNodes .flatMap (...) with fieldNodes .map (...)

const processSelectionSet = ({selectionSet: {selections = []}}) =>
  selections.flatMap (
    ({name: {value}, selectionSet}) => selectionSet
      ? processSelectionSet ({selectionSet}) .map (name => `${value}.${name}`)
      : value
  )

const extract = ({fieldNodes = []}) =>
  fieldNodes .flatMap (processSelectionSet)

const input = {fieldNodes: [{selectionSet: {selections: [{name: {value: "id"}}, {name: {value: "phone"}}, {name: {value: "address"}, selectionSet: {selections: [{name: {value: "street"}}, {name: {value: "city"}}]}}]}}]}

console .log (extract (input))

The main function, processSelectionSort simply flatmaps over the selections, capturing the name/value reporting it back if there is no selectionSort child node or merging it with the results of the recursive call to that child node if it exists.


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a.) No. 13.
b.) No. 15
c.) No. 18
4. What previously was located on the land that is now Augusta National Golf Club?
a.) Church of the Most Holy Trinity
b.) Fruitland Nurseries
c.) Waffle House
5. Who was the only player to complete the career Grand Slam at the Masters?
a.) Gene Sarazen
b.) Ben Hogan
c.) Gary Player
6. Name the first foreign-born player to win the Masters.
a.) Seve Ballesteros
b.) Herman Keiser
7. Who lost the largest 54-hole lead in Masters history?
a.) Greg Norman.
b.) Tom Kite.
c.) Ken Venturi.
8. What was the name of the first tournament held at Augusta National?
a.) Bobby Jones Invitational
b.) Azalea Classic
c.) Augusta National Invitation Tournament
9. Who is the oldest Masters champion?
a.) Jack Nicklaus
b.) Raymond Floyd
c.) Angel Cabrera
BACK NINE (5 points each)
10. Who won the first Masters?
a.) Bobby Jones
b.) Horton Smith
c.) Gene Sarazen
11. Name the player who finished runner-up the most times without ever winning.
a.) Greg Norman
b.) Tom Weiskopf
c.) Ken Venturi
12. Who won the first sudden-death playoff at the Masters?
a.) Nick Faldo
b.) Fuzzy Zoeller
c.) Larry Mize
13. What did Tiger Woods shoot on the opening nine holes of the Masters in 1997 when he set the scoring record of 270?
a.) 40
b.) 30
c.) 36
14. Which multiple winner of the Masters has never had the lead going into the final round?
a.) Arnold Palmer
b.) Phil Mickelson
c.) Nick Faldo
15. Who had the lowest final round to win the Masters?
a.) Gary Player
b.) Jack Nicklaus
c.) Charl Schwartzel
16. Who was the only player to lose twice in a playoff at the Masters?
a.) Ben Hogan
b.) Seve Ballesteros
c.) Chris DiMarco
17. Name the first player to shoot a 63 at Augusta National.
a.) Nick Price
b.) Johnny Miller
c.) Greg Norman
18. Which amateur had the 54-hole lead and shot 80 in the final round?
b.) Ken Venturi
c.) Frank Stranahan
19th HOLE (10-point bonus)
Which of these former British Open champions has never broken par in any round at the Masters?
a.) John Daly
b.) Bobby Jones
c.) Ben Curtis
1. b (Jack Nicklaus)
2. c (Mike Weir)
3. b (15th hole)
4. b (Fruitland Nurseries)
5. a (Gene Sarazen)
6. c (Gary Player)
7. a (Greg Norman)
8. c (Augusta National Invitation Tournament)
9. a (Jack Nicklaus)
10. b (Horton Smith)
11. b (Tom Weiskopf)
12. b (Fuzzy Zoeller)
13. a (40)
14. c (Nick Faldo)
15. a (Gary Player)
16. a (Ben Hogan)
17. a (Nick Price)
18. b (Ken Venturi)
19. b (Bobby Jones)


Suppose that it is December 2018 and you are in charge of forecasting the state of the economy in 2020. You believe that potential output in 2022 will be $20 trillion, with a 2% inflation rate, and your baseline forecast given current policies for output in 2020 is $19.4 trillion. You also believe that the marginal propensity to consume is 2/3, and you are working in the income-expenditure model. Suppose, also, that you believe the aggregate supply curve is strongly kinked with inflation anchored at 2%/year: that whenever potential output is above actual real expenditure the inflation rate is 2%/year, but if expenditure rises above the level consistent with output equal to potential output times the price level at 2% inflation, inflation accelerates and the price level rises to keep actual output from rising above potential.
Suppose that the federal government undertakes an extra $200 billion fiscal stimulus infrastructure construction program for 2020, and the Federal Reserve remains passive. How does this change your forecast of GDP and inflation in 2020?
Suppose that the federal government undertakes an extra $400 billion fiscal stimulus infrastructure construction program for 2020, and the Federal Reserve remains passive. How does this change your forecast of GDP and inflation in 2020?
Suppose that the federal government undertakes an extra $400 billion fiscal stimulus infrastructure construction program for 2020, but the Federal Reserve acts to keep inflation from rising above 2%/year. How does this change your forecast of GDP and inflation in 2020? What components of GDP do you think rise and what components of GDP do you think fall in this scenario?
How would your answer to (1) have been different if potential output were not $20 trillion but $21 trillion?
How would your answer to (2) have been different if potential output were not $20 trillion but $21 trillion?
How would your answer to (3) have been different if potential output were not $20 trillion but $21 trillion?


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Q: java throws InvalidModuleDescriptorException when module exports patched package java 10.0.2+13 throws a java.lang.module.InvalidModuleDescriptorException when a module-info.class in a directory in the module path exports a package that isn't under the same directory.
That is sensible behavior in many circumstances, but, in my case, I have the package under another directory which is patched into the module in question using --patch-module.
Example:
Module m is defined in file classes/m/module-info.class.
m exports package p.
module-info.class is the only child of directory classes/m.
Directory classes/patch contains p/Main.class.
Simplified command line:
java --module-path classes/m --patch-module m=classes/patch --module m/p.Main

The above will throw a java.lang.module.InvalidModuleDescriptorException that says that "Package p not found in module".
Is there any way to get java to not throw an InvalidModuleDescriptorException, without having to copy the class files from classes/m & classes/patch into the same directory, or into the same jar file?


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John Noakes, former Blue Peter presenter, dies at 83 after a battle with Alzheimer's
Helena Horton
Hannah Furness, Arts Correspondent
29 May 2017 • 2:09pm
Hannah Furness
John Noakes
Beloved television presenter John Noakes has died after a long battle with Alzheimer's.
The national treasure was the longest-serving host of Blue Peter, and was a household name in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
He was famous for the phrase "Get down Shep" as he tried to control the show's excitable Border Collie.
His family said in a statement to The Telegraph: "John Noakes, died peacefully on Sunday morning May 28th. He had endured and suffered from Alzheimer's over recent years and whilst he will be greatly missed by his wife, family and many friends his release from continuing ill health must be counted as a blessing.
"His many escapades with his faithful companion Shep, during his time with Blue Peter, will live on in many peoples memories and that is how his family would like him remembered."
John Noakes has died Credit: Facebook
Former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis said Noakes set the tone for the show, which it still has today.
"I grew up with him, like a lot of people did. I watched him at home and it felt like he was a member of my own family," she told the Press Association.
"It's a live show, everyone had to know exactly what they were doing, but he had an extraordinary ability to look natural on camera.
"He set the standard," she said.
"He wasn't pretending to be anyone. If he was nervous, he said so. He definitely was his own man. He set the tone for how Blue Peter is today."
She said that, together with Valerie Singleton and Purves, Noakes "grew the programme."
Ellis said: "It's that have-a-go spirit that continues in the programme now.
"Everyone then was speaking in received pronunciation.... He bounced in with that ability to cope with whatever was thrown at him. It was like watching a big brother on screen."
She said: "His enthusiasm and naturalness set the tone for the presenters of the future and he insisted that viewers could cope with that. It's a real loss".
Almost two years ago, worry was sparked after Mr Noakes went missing near his then-home in Majorca.
He had apparently fallen into a storm drain and was dehydrated after being outside with no water for hours.
His wife confirmed at the time he had Alzheimer's and that he had been suffering with it for a number of years.
She added: "You learn to live and cope with things. But this is a little different this time and I am concerned because it is the hottest day of the year so far here.
John Noakes on holiday with his wife Credit: REX Shutterstock
"If he is wandering around, he'll get more confused as he gets more dehydrated."
Mr Noakes trained as an aircraft engine fitter for the RAF before deciding to become an actor.
He joined Blue Peter as a presenter in December 1965, fulfilling the role of action man in the series, which he helped present for more than 12 years.
After leaving the show, he went on to make several television appearances and write a children's book, before sailing around the Mediterranean and finally settling in Majorca.
Blue Peter presenters: what they did next, in pictures
Tributes to John Noakes
Social media flooded with tributes to the television presenter.
"Get down Shep!"
So sad to hear that John Noakes has died. Loved him on #BluePeter #ripjohnnoakes pic.twitter.com/aJWJGZuKL0
— BowBelle (@janicestaines) May 29, 2017
oh, man. John Noakes. as kids, we fell off & out of trees, roofs, walls, from playing 'John Noakes'. Go well, Shep's waiting.
— Sarah PhEUlps (@PhelpsieSarah) May 29, 2017
RIP John Noakes, part of the Blue Peter team that i grew up watching. #BluePeter #JohnNoakes #RIP pic.twitter.com/4v9ZAPgb2q
— Garry Gaz Baylon (@chunky66) May 29, 2017
RIP John Noakes. A kind and reassuring tv presence throughout my childhood. pic.twitter.com/x8uLxDEf0u
— Tom Reagan's Hat (@andymannion777) May 29, 2017
RIP John Noakes pic.twitter.com/Qoq0gnXQtb
— David Lewis (@davidclewis) May 29, 2017
Ah, RIP John Noakes. Another part of my childhood gone.
— Paul Bernal (@PaulbernalUK) May 29, 2017
Good night, John Noakes. You were a lovely lovely man. pic.twitter.com/1xKFPW3HIZ
— Richard Littler (@richard_littler) May 29, 2017
RIP John Noakes. This is still one of the most terrifying things ever broadcast on British TV. pic.twitter.com/m6xpsQ3ixg
— Dan Jackson (@northumbriana) May 29, 2017
Why he was the best Blue Peter presenter of all time
Extract from 'Blue Peter: 50th Anniversary. A Personal Account' by Richard Marson (Hamlyn, £14.99)
In 2005 a dinner was held with Edward Barnes and all five Blue Peter editors. During the evening, talk turned inevitably to presenters past and present. The unanimous feeling was that the greatest and most successful presenter of all time was John Noakes. His bravery, his subversive sense of humour and his celebrated relationship with Patch (son of Petra) and Shep, proved an irresistible combination.
It all started in 1965 with the search for a presenter to join Christopher Trace and Valerie Singleton. Biddy Baxter, Leicester-born, often returned home at weekends, where she frequently found items for Blue Peter in the pages of the Leicester Mercury. She spotted a photograph of a young Noakes, appearing locally in the play Hobson's Choice. On 9 December 1965, Doreen Stephens, Head of Family Programmes, asked BBC One to authorise an increase of £50 per show to fund the third presenter. She explained that the programme had found "…a very promising man, John Noakes. He is young, attractive and unaffected, and a complete contrast to Christopher Trace."
John Noakes Credit: Adam Butler/PA
Noakes's introduction was deliberately low key. Biddy had warned her boss: "The introduction of an additional personality will have to be done slowly and with tremendous subtlety if he is not to be resented as an intruder. I feel it would be dangerous to bring him in before Christmas, as it is a psychologically bad time to increase the family circle, but I want to start edging the new face in directly afterwards."
It was just as well. Noakes had a distinctly rocky start: "This glass eye, the camera, stripped me naked. I actually shook with fear, the voice tremoring as I said the words. The first few months were quite terrifying. I went through murder. I even went to a hypnotist and a faith healer to try to get me out of it."
John and Sandra Noakes Credit: Ltd/REX Shutterstock
Noakes was nearly dropped, but in the event, although he was left out of the 1966 summer expedition, he was given another chance. Now he "…started to develop this idiot, who is not really the real John Noakes. I'd got rid of my Yorkshire accent at drama school. I brought it back and used it as part of a character. If I was in a racing car, I was the racing driver. If I was jumping out of an aeroplane, I was one of the Red Devils." He played his mistakes for laughs, but as well as acting the clown, he defined the role of the action presenter. He seemed utterly fearless and was only ever scared twice - once on a tree swing, the other up a circus sway pole.
There were no safety ropes for his famous ascent of Nelson's Column: "I could've murdered the assistant cameraman. He was new and full of enthusiasm. We started getting lightning and the steeplejack said, 'If we get anymore, I think we should go down.' In the meantime, this assistant cameraman was saying, 'If you could get over that ledge just one more time.' I thought, 'If I get close enough to him, I'll push him off!'"
Another narrow escape was the time Noakes came hurtling off a bobsleigh in St Moritz. His backside and legs were covered in bruises. Biddy, with her instinct for what would appeal to children, asked Noakes to drop his trousers and show the damage: "I'd only got back the day before and said to the wife, 'Have you got some clean knickers?' It was early morning and I put them on in the dark. When I unzipped my trousers live on air, I thought, 'I've got my wife's black lace knickers on!'"
Noakes left Blue Peter in June 1978: "Towards the end I was exhausted. The pressure was terrible. I'd done all these things and I don't think any of them really realised how difficult it was. It was a Peter Pan existence, a bit like an overgrown schoolboy's job."
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P.E.I. expands booster vaccine recommendations; 1 new COVID-19 case Friday, Dec. 3
Atlantic Briefs Desk | Posted: Dec. 3, 2021, 5:05 p.m. | Updated: Dec. 3, 2021, 7:50 p.m. | 3 Min Read
Dr. Heather Morrison, P.E.I.'s chief public health officer, announced one new case on the Island on Friday, Dec. 3. Morrison also said all Island residents who wish to receive a COVID-19 booster dose can do so by making an appointment at a Health P.E.I. clinic or a partner pharmacy, six months after their second dose.
P.E.I.'s chief public health officer reported one new case of COVID-19 on Friday, Dec. 3, while expanding COVID-19 vaccine booster dose recommendations to include Islanders over the age of 18.
Dr. Heather Morrison confirmed that the new case update is a person in their 70s who is a close contact of a previous case.
Contact tracing is complete, and the individual is self-isolating.
There are 19 active cases of COVID-19 in P.E.I., and there have been 382 cases since the pandemic began.
Vaccine makers could make Omicron-specific booster, says Fauci
New precautionary travel measures for P.E.I., 1 new COVID-19 case Thursday, Dec. 2
COVID-19 booster recommendations expanded
Morrison also announced expanded recommendations for the third dose of an authorized mRNA COVID-19 vaccine at least six months after a second shot.
Public Health is now recommending the following groups of Island residents receive a vaccine booster dose:
Adults 18 years and older
Health-care workers with direct in-person contact with patients, regardless of the interval between the first and second doses
Moderately to severely immunocompromised individuals, after the primary series of three doses
Residents of long-term care and community care facilities
Indigenous peoples; and
Adults who received two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine or one dose of the Janssen vaccine
"Booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines can increase the immune response and offer more protection against infection," said Morrison. "All Island residents who wish to receive a booster dose of the vaccine can do so by making an appointment at a Health P.E.I clinic or a partner pharmacy for six months after their second dose."
Morrison said those living in long-term care or community care, people age 50 and older and anyone moderately to severely immunocompromised, are at the highest risk of severe outcomes from COVID-19.
"I strongly recommend these groups to get a booster dose of vaccine when they become eligible six months after their last dose of COVID-19 vaccine," said Morrison.
Islanders can book an appointment to receive their booster COVID-19 vaccination at one of the Health P.E.I. clinics or at one of the 28 partner pharmacies across the province.
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