Archive for May, 2025

Memorial Day Observance 2025

Tuesday, May 27th, 2025

 

Today’s post is from our archives at SafeSourcing Inc.

Many people visit cemeteries and memorials, particularly to honor those who have died in military service. Many volunteers place an American flag on each grave in national cemeteries.

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The article below is sited from: http://www.cute-calendar.com/event/memorial-day/5719-usa.html

Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (May 31st in 2021). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the Civil War), it was expanded after World War I.

Many people observe this holiday by visiting cemeteries and memorials. A national moment of remembrance takes place at 3 p.m. local time. Another tradition is to fly the flag of the United States at half-staff from dawn until noon local time. Volunteers often place American flags on each grave site at National Cemeteries.

Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars take donations for poppies in the days leading up to Memorial Day; the poppy’s significance to Memorial Day is the result of the John McCrae poem “In Flanders Fields.”

In addition to remembrance, Memorial Day is also used as a time for picnics, barbecues, family gatherings, and sporting events. One of the longest-standing traditions is the running of the Indianapolis 500, an auto race which has been held in conjunction with Memorial Day since 1911. The Coca-Cola 600 has been held later the same day since 1961. (From: Wikipedia, license: CCA-SA)

Whether you are observing Memorial Day by volunteering your time placing flags on the graves of soldiers, volunteering your time to spend with wounded soldiers, or are just spending family quality time together, we at SafeSourcing wish you a safe and memory making Memorial Day.

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If you’re development team is working with Ai, here are some shortcuts that might help!

Friday, May 16th, 2025

 

Today’s post is by Troy Lowe; Vice President of Development at SafeSourcing.

If you have been following my BLOGs you will know that I have done a couple on shortcut options available in applications that we use in our work environment.  Recently I have been getting up to speed on the computer language Python.  Python is a language that is used by a lot of professionals that are working with AI and would like to make their applications more powerful by utilizing AI.  While learning this language I found that the editor that I like the best so far is Visual Code Studio (VS Code).  VS Code is a free, lightweight, powerful source code editor that was created by Microsoft and can be used for a wide range of programming languages and development tasks.  Vs Code like other Integrated Development Environments (IDE) provides many features and conveniences found in other IDEs such as syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, version control and debugging tools.  If you’re like me and spend a lot of time using VS Code, you could save some time and be more efficient by learning some of the built-in shortcuts.  These shortcuts are used by clicking a combination of the keyboard keys.  One of the things that I do most is click save before running the code in the IDE.  This can be done by using the shortcut “CTLR+S.”  You can then run the code in by using the shortcut “CTRL+F5”.  Like I’ve said in past BLOGs, memorizing the available keyboard shortcuts will make you more efficient because you don’t have to remove your hands from the keyboard to use the mouse.  Below are some other shortcuts that can be used.

VS Code Shortcuts:

  • Ctrl+K Ctrl+S – Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Ctrl+X – Cut Line (empty selection)
  • Ctrl+C – Copy Line (empty selection)
  • Ctrl+P – Quick Open, Go to File…
  • Ctrl+Shift+K – Delete Line
  • Ctrl+Enter – Insert Line Below
  • Ctrl+Shift+Enter – Insert Line Above
  • Home / End – Go to Beginning/End of Line
  • Ctrl+Home – Go to Beginning of File
  • Ctrl+End – Go to End of File
  • Ctrl+N – New File
  • Ctrl+O – Open File…
  • Ctrl+S – Save
  • Ctrl+Shift+S – Save As…
  • Ctrl+K S – Save All
  • Ctrl+F4 – Close
  • Ctrl+K Ctrl+W – Close All

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