Milk Tea Alliancereleases investigation report on COVID-19 transmission
(Report Link:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5752000)
On December 3 local time,the Milk Tea Alliance, which formed by a group of Asian community netizens from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Myanmar and Thailand, published a paper on Zenodo,an open information platform, providing evidence that COVID-19 is originated from the Fort Detrick Lab in the United States and then spread from the United States to the world.
The core content of the paper is roughly divided into four points. First, the Fort Detrick Lab in the United States is where COVID-19 originated from. Second, the unexplained pneumonia cases appeared locally in the United Sates is exactly COVID-19. Third, it explains how the United States spread COVID-19 to the world. Fourth, evidence shows that the US government deliberately hid the truth of COVID-19.
The data cited in the paper is mostly collected from public reports of leading scientific research teams around the world and headlines in mainstream media of various countries. Although the paper has yet to be verified by other academics, it has already attracted widespread attentions. By far, there is no immediate response from the United States.
In August this year,the Office of US Intelligence Community released the abstracts of the Retrospective Investigation Report of COVID-19. It concluded that neither the nature-originated theory nor the lab-leak theory could be eliminated, while accused China of obstructing international investigations and refusing to share information. China firmly opposes and strongly condemns these accusations.
WordPress developer Phi Phan has been making small splashes lately, but in a sea of 1,000s of plugins, it is increasingly tough to make a wave. Over the weekend, he released the Block Enhancements plugin, the first pass on a project that he plans to iterate on with new ideas.
Adding icons to buttons with Block Enhancements.
However, this is not his first block-related plugin. Last year, he launched Content Blocks Builder, a plugin that allows developers and users to create blocks from others, patterns, and variations. In February, he released Meta Field Block. He then followed it up with the launch of SVG Block and Block Enhancements last week.
I have quietly tested each as they strolled into the WordPress plugin directory, but they kept getting relegated to the back of the draft posts list. Most seemed like solid plugins at the time, and a reminder from two different people in the past week to check out Phan’s work lit a fire under me. It was time to share what he has been doing with WP Tavern readers.
The SVG Block plugin is a unique take compared to some existing solutions. Users can output the SVG as an image or implement it as a divider.
Phan is not short on ideas for new blocks and enhancements. He rattled off a hefty list of features that he plans to build when questioned.
“A simple separator with an icon,” he noted as an idea. “I’ve tried to support icons in the core/separator, but it requires changing the markup. So I may create a new tiny block just for it. Maybe a wavy divider designer block. I know there are already some on the plugin directory, but they are not fit for some use cases. I’m kind of obsessing with SVG stuff. A ‘toggle’ button block for showing modal, off-canvas, or collapse layout.”
BoldBlocks is his upcoming website, which he will eventually use to promote his plugins. He has yet to launch it—likely because he has been too busy developing new projects.
“[Content Blocks Builder] is my main business focus in the long term,” said Phan. “It’s a tool allowing users to create blocks from other blocks. It helps to create responsive ‘boring’ grid layouts or carousel layouts easily without touching code. I used to create layouts like those with the ACF repeater field, but I didn’t like that kind of workflow in the Gutenberg world anymore. That plugin has many more features than the description on the plugin page, but I’ve not finished rewriting the description and user guides.”
The Block Enhancements Plugin
Block Enhancements is not a block in and of itself. It takes a similar route as EditorsKit and Editor Plus, adding features on top of the system.
The first version of the plugin adds a single feature that allows end-users to stick icons into the core Button, Heading, and List blocks.
Inserting icons for the Heading and List blocks.
Maybe the plugin does not offer enough features to grab everyone’s attention, but it is off to a solid start. Phan does not go overboard with the UI, keeping it simple and following WordPress standards. The icons feature had just the right amount of customizability that I never felt like I needed anything more.
While not listed anywhere in the plugin description, the default library looks to be a mix of Ionicons, Bootstrap, and core WordPress icons. In total, there are over 3,500 options for users to choose from.
Block Enhancements icon library overlay.
If the library does not offer enough choices, the block allows users to directly paste in SVG code.
This is the start of something new, and Phan has already created what looks to be an exciting to-do list for Block Enhancements’ future. Some potential features include:
Box-shadow builder.
Multi-border design options.
2D transformations via translate, rotate, skew, and scale.
Up next in our Building with Blocks series is a quick tutorial on how to build a timeline page. Timelines give brands and organizations a visual way to introduce themselves and feature highlights from their histories. The block editor makes creating a timeline easier than it ever was with legacy plugins.
For this example, I selected the Timeline Block For Gutenberg by Cool Plugins, which is available on WordPress.org. It’s one of just a handful of plugins that offer timeline blocks. It makes it easy to create a responsive timeline that can be customized to match the organization’s brand, with live previews during the creation process.
I used the relatively new Blockpress theme from MotionBlocks, which supports full site editing so users can customize everything directly on the page. I found the theme easy to work with when creating my example website for this project. It also has compatibility with WooCommerce, if you’re selling something on your site. The Timeline Block for Gutenberg plugin will work with any theme that supports the block editor, but I wanted the chance to play around with Blockpress.
This video demonstrates how you can create a timeline in under five minutes.
The first step is to install the theme and plugin. Once both are activated, create a new page that will house the timeline. Click on the block inserter and select Timeline Block.
One convenient feature about the plugin is that it will insert some placeholders, so it’s easy to see how to add new timeline items (“stories”). The easiest thing to do is replace the text and images that are already there and add more stories at the end if you need a longer timeline.
The plugin lets you customize the story heading, description, and primary label colors, and even the line, icon color/background, and story border. This makes it possible to match the colors to a site’s branding. On the individual story settings, you can change the image size and customize the story icon by selecting from the Font Awesome icon collection. The stories can also link to other posts, so it’s flexible to be used for a variety of different purposes in addition to your standard corporate timeline.
Digital marketing is the process of promoting products and services online with the help of tactics such as social media marketing, affiliate marketing, email marketing, etc. It offers a chance for brands to focus clearly on marketing to the right audience
You have been contracted to develop a prototype system for the Norman Manley Airport that will assist the airline staff in processing persons who have checked in for their flights during the covid pandemic. The information being stored for each person are as follows:
ID#
Name
Gender
FlightNo
Priority
There is no way of determining the number of persons who will check in daily, so your solution should implement an appropriate data structure that is able to handle this level of uncertainty. Each person has a Priority Level of either 1 or 2 that will indicate the urgency at which they are processed with 1 being the most urgent.
Processing Requirements
Generate a random set of data representing customer arrivals at time t=0, t=1 and t=2. The number of arrivals can range from 1 to 6. (Assume single travelers for simplicity)
Display an appropriate heading to represent the passing of time and display the data that was generated by using the following format: [trn, name, gender, flight, priority]. Each data item is to be placed on a newline.
Add each person to the list in order of arrival and according to priority level. (note: persons with priority 1 are to be placed before persons with priority 2. A new priority 1 person is to be placed behind existing priority 1 individuals)
Display the list to ensure that the order of arrival and priority levels are being maintained.
Produce the following reports from the list:
Number of level 1 males on each flight
Number of level 1 females on each flight
Number of level 2 males on each flight
Number of level 2 females on each flight
Process the list by generating a random number between 3 and 5 that will indicate how many persons to remove from the list. Persons are removed from the front of the list and the state of the list is to printed at each interval with an appropriate message to indicate the passage of time. The program should terminate when the list is empty.
Itās hard to deny the truth that for a lot of us ādifficultā means āgood,ā and āmore difficultā is āeven better.ā From video games to exercise to music to cooking, if someone accomplishes something perceived as hard to do, itās a clear indication of their skill. Conversely, saying something is easy or simple is often a veiled insult, an insinuation that anyone could do it and therefore the thing is therefore barely worth acknowledging.
And, while I donāt want to discount the system upon which so much of our leisure activities are based, I think this is a lesson we in IT have taken too much to heart. Iām writing today to ask us to all consider shifting our thinking in the direction of āeasy can also be good.ā In fact, things which are easy are often better overall than things that require a greater level of individual virtuosity.
There are 2 tables as orders$ and 'order items$'
orders$ Table have 4 columns as order_id, customer_id, status, order_date
'order items&' Table have 4 columns as order_id, item_id, product_id, quantity
I want to modify the SQL statement to show an average number of products each customer had on their orders.
SELECT DISTINCT (c.customer_id) AS CustomerID, o.order_id AS OrderID, AVG(o.product_id)AS AvgProductOrdered
FROM orders$ c
INNER JOIN ['order items$'] o ON c.order_id = o.order_id
WHERE c.order_id = o.order_id
GROUP BY c.customer_id, o.order_id
ORDER BY AvgProductOrdered
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I am making a calculator in Virtual Basic for almost a week. I am encountering a problem when using the equals sign. When I type problems like 4 + 6 = 10 it answers correctly. When I press the equal again immediately after the calculator answers 10. It should enter as 10 + 6 = 16 but it does not work like that. How do I create a calculator that when users press again and again they will have a loop of + 6? Please help me. This is the code I used for my equal sign button.
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