BOSSY BETTY: Happy Mother's Day! Hummingbird Update!
I thought today would be a good day to show you what's been happening in the nest.
And now, for a little video action.
"At three weeks of age, the little baby hummingbirds are now looking more like a real hummingbirds. They are testing out their wings more and more in preparation for flight. In the next few days, these little baby hummingbirds will fly away as real adult hummingbirds, never to return back to the nest."
"The mother hummingbirds will still feed their fledging for two to three days after leaving the nest. During this time, she will show them all the good places to catch bugs and get nectar. Then she will chase them off to live on their own."
Glad I am not a hummingbird mother!
Sonny Boy surprised me with a visit home from his college for Mother's Day. He arrived while I was away and parked down the street so I didn't see his car. I came home, saw a light in his old room, went in to investigate, and there he was, sitting at his desk! Talk about a great surprise. I am so happy to have him back in the nest, if only for a day. He and Evan make my life an absolute joy and I thank them for being incredible sons to this Mama Bird.
Bugs and nectar for everyone!!
It actually makes me a little sad that they'll be ready to fly soon, never to return.
I'm so glad you've been sharing this!
Amazing pictures! And a video? I love!!
For years, I've been trying to attract bluebirds to a bluebird house first on an old pine tree at my old house and then, on a fence at my new house. After nearly twenty years (really), we had bluebirds last summer!!!! I was so excited, you'd think they were my own children.
Like Blue Violet the speed at which baby birds grow up is rather staggering (read: sad) and I was definitely a little blue when my baby bluebirds left the nest.
Tell the mother hummingbird happy mother's day!
You captured very special moments in nature. Thanks for sharing.Happy Mother's Day!
Awesome pictures and video - thanks for sharing them! That is a little sad that they'll never return to the nest - but I suppose that's nature.
Awwwwww...thanks so much for sharing. These are such sweet pictures....and the video ....I love it!!!!
Happy Mother's Day! I mentioned you in my post today!
Awwww these hummingbirds really pack a lot in don't they???
From birth to fledgeling to flight! Amazing for such tiny itty bitty things - good luck to them and THANK YOU for sharing this fab journey from egg to now. I love how how mamma bird started to roost over her chick - awwwwwww!!
And great to hear your own babies have come visiting! Awwwww!!
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to you! I hope you have a wonderful and treat-filled day today.
Thank you for my bugs and nectar! LOL!
What a great mothers day post.. thanks for posting about the birds.
They may never come back but she looks like an awesome mother meanwhile.
This is so awesomely cool...how close are you able to get to film this? Looks like right up there.
I was just thinking we had not had an update on them for a while.
What a cute surprise from your son! Happy Mother's day to you!
I thought the voices in the video were equally intriguing! :D Loved the snaps! I don't think i've seen so much bird coverage on any other blog!
I love birdies, especially hummingbirds. I don't know how you got so close, but you did a fabulous job capturing this.
This is one of the things that makes people think that life is beautiful.
Fantastic photos and video! We have hummingbirds, but I've never seen a nest - only photos of nests. This is truly special to see all this action going on!
Wishing you a very happy and fulfilling Mother's Day!
How awesome post, Betty! Loved the idea too! Great shots!
Another great post Betty with awesome pictures!
Have a very wonderful Mother's Day!
Those are some awesome photos, Betty. Those little birds are just amazing to me. And what a nice surprise you got for Mother's Day. How great for you!
I love these hummingbird photos. Glad to see things progressing!
How sweet that your son surprised you!! You got me a little choked up in talking about that! And the hummingbirds.... a perfect post for the day!! It's amazing how wonderfully clear the video is!
Have a most wonderful Mother's Day, Betty.
These photos are beautiful and perfect for Mother's Day. I've never seen a baby hummingbird.
How sweet that your son surprised you. I hope you enjoy your visit. Happy Mother's Day.
Happy Mother's day Betty! I absolutely love the picture you captured of the mama feeding her baby. This is precious and signifies what this day is all about. How beautiful that you captured it in a picture. Oh and by the way, I do not live far from San Juan Capistrano..I live in Los Angeles.
So happy for you, Betty. Thanks for the swallows. Have a beautiful Mother's Day.
I have been waiting for these pictures and they were worth the wait, they are fabulous and I am so pleased to see that the little chick is surviving and growing. Three weeks only with Mom? I am SO glad that is not the case for us too.
I'm glad to know the hummingbird baby is doing so well. Sounds like a lovely day!
Bugs and nectar to you, too!
Betty Happy Mother's Day to you and thank you for this most amazing post and video. Oh my word it is just breathtaking to see Mom Hummer in action.
Happy Mother's Day! I'm glad both boys have been home to share with you this weekend. I've talked to 2 of my 3 and expected to hear from or see the 3rd child later today.
As to the hummingbirds, my husband asked me to pass on that he is a bit jealous. Capturing hummingbirds on video is not easy. We've tried and were not nearly as successful as this. We both loved watching it. Thank you.
Happy Mother's Day, Betty! Those were very sweet pictures. I think we should have a Hummingbird's Day!
Yay, yay, YAY!!! I was rooting for him! Are you *perched* in 1 spot all day, keeping an eye and camera on the baby? It was great to see the mama feeding him.
very beautiful! Happy Mother's Day!
Those are incredible photos. I love to watch birds. I have a birdbath by my window where I write...we've all become friends.
Great pictures and the video was a real treat. I kind of feel like a hummingbird mom today since both of my little chicks have flown the nest and i didn't get to see either one today. At least human chicks can call home though.
incredible footage. thanks for sharing that! wow.
But what a wonderful thing for your son to do! Melts my heart, this sort of thing.
that is so awesome! I love the series of photos and the video! Very, very cool!
I've been reading your blog, but when I went to comment the other day my computer died and that was that for the moment. I enjoy your writing and will be back for more!
Pictures are gorgeous, you should work for National Geographic.
Humming birds...One of God's most facinating creatures. Love them.
Great photos and video! So cool! I can't believe the mother didn't accidentally impale her baby with that beak though. Yipes.
So great to get a surprise visit from your son.
I enjoyed seeing the pictures and videos!! I am so glad we have more time with our little ones than the hummingbirds!!
We have so many hummingbirds here and it is a real joy to sit and watch them, I have never seen a nest before and it was great to view your pictures and watch the video.
Betty - what a truly fantastic journey you've brought us on. This was so lovely and I had a smile the whole time while watching the video. Happy Mothers Day to you!
I've never quite understood how a mother hummingbird can feed her baby with that long beak and it doesn't end up coming out the baby birds tailfeathers. Glad you had a pleasant surprise and a wonderful day.
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Woohoo!!! That is so cool. I liked the video. It plucked its own feathers out for insulation. That was awesome. Happy Mother's Day!!
Beautiful pictures. I loved the video too. Our backyard once had a bird for three months. It had built a nest and took care of the young ones. Once they were ready to fly, they left.
They are fantastic photos! All my birds were back in the nest for Mother's Day - it was wonderful.
Female hummingbirds check the strength of a prospective nest site by clinging to it or repeatedly landing on it. If the site passes the test, a female will begin to build. The nest will be built on the underside of a palm leaf, on the side of a vertical plant stem, on a small branch, on top of a cactus or many other different locations are used and different species have different preferences. Hummingbirds usually build on branches, but the hermit hummingbirds build nests that hang from vegetation or from a vertical plant stem, root, or rock.
Most typical hummingbirds build cup-shaped nests like the bird's nests most of us are familiar with. Hermits build cone-shaped nests which hang vertically, attached to something strong enough to support the weight of nest and birds for the breeding season. Hummingbird nests are built with pieces of plants and often cobwebs, and females frequently need to repair the nest as the chicks grow.
A hummingbird usually lays two white eggs, which are no bigger than peanuts, which hatch within 12 to 14 days after being laid. The young fledge in 18 to 20 days. Hungry nestlings may be seen reaching for the food their mother has brought; the chicks open their mouths in response to air currents created by the beating of her wings. Between three and four weeks after hatching, the young leave the nest and are on their own.
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what a treat you are Bossy!
my favorite part of the video is when momma gets done feeding the baby and then nestles down. Nap time!
What a sweet way for your son to surprise you!
OH, my gosh, how did you do that?? It is so fantastic.
Wonderful photos and video here. You've done a great job of capturing this beautiful creature and her young. And so timely for Mother's Day. It sounds like yours was wonderful.
more lovely photos & that video was awesome, i had no idea they stick the food so far down their throat, haha =) Great surprise for you for Mother's Day too!!
what incredible footage! and how cool your son surprised you. happy belated mama's day to you!
That is some harsh parenting right there. You think the baby birds ever come back every once in a while to ask mom or dad for a 20?
Such a beautiful video of a mom feeding her young. Interesting that they never come back to the nest. My son came back several times before he totally fledged. LOL! He has 5 young of his own now. He is hoping several f ledge soon!! Congrats on your POTW.
Wow - what amazing photos!
Congrats on the POTW mention from Hilary .. you have a great blog!
How wonderful!!!! That made me smile. Thank you.
Congrats on your POTW mention.
That's really cool! Thanks for sharing, and congrats on Post of the Week!
I love the pics of the mother feeding her baby!
I am so glad I scrolled down to see more about the hummers, this is so cool. The video is great.
Hi Betty, Judy (Squirrel Queen) told me about your post on Hummingbirds --so I just HAD to check it out. Judy knows how much I love my birds.
Love your hummers... That video is totally awesome.
Thanks for letting me stop by.
Wow. This is fascinating! Thank you for sharing. My son was captivated by the video! Phenominal!


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Fraunhofer ITWM goes through to the final round with their communication middleware GPI.
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Q: Azure Timer Function throws a 404 on a blob never specified I tried to debug on my machine a trigger of an azure function... when I execute it I got
Azure.RequestFailedException: 'Service request failed.
Status: 404 (The specified container does not exist.)
ErrorCode: ContainerNotFound

on this piece of code, that has not been developed by me

If I comment the [TimerTrigger("%TimerSchedule%", RunOnStartup = true)]  the application starts, but I cannot debug the time trigger...
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

A: The error message shows that the specified container for the blob that the function is trying to access does not exist.
This is due to several reasons.

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*The blob container was never created or deleted accidentally.

*The connection string to the blob container is incorrect or invalid.

*The function code is referring to the wrong blob container.

You need to check the blob container exists and that the connection string to it is correct.
You can also try specifying the correct blob container name in the code if it was not already done.

And if you are not sure which blob container the function is trying to access, you can try enabling logging for your function and looking at the logs to see which blob container is causing the error.
The issue with debugging the time trigger is you can try deploying the function to Azure and then use the Azure portal to enable the timer trigger and set its schedule.
This will allow you to debug the function when the timer trigger fires. Alternatively, you can try using the Azure Functions Core Tools to debug the function locally.
For more information refer to the
Thanks to Esther Fan for the blob-trigger
Thanks to Gaurav Mantri  for the SO thread.

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Q: Hide QLineEdit blinking cursor I am working on QT v5.2
I need to hide the blinking cursor (caret) of QLineEdit permanently.
But at the same time, I want the QLineEdit to be editable (so readOnly and/or setting editable false is not an option for me).
I am already changing the Background color of the QLineEdit when it is in focus, so I will know which QLineEdit widget is getting edited.
For my requirement, cursor (the blinking text cursor) display should not be there.
I have tried styleSheets, but I can't get the cursor hidden ( {color:transparent; text-shadow:0px 0px 0px black;} )
Can someone please let me know how can I achieve this?

A: As a workaround you can create a single line QTextEdit and set the width of the cursor to zero by setCursorWidth.
For a single line QTextEdit you should subclass QTextEdit and do the following:

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*Disable word wrap.

*Disable the scroll bars (AlwaysOff).

*setTabChangesFocus(true).

*Set the sizePolicy to (QSizePolicy::Expanding, QSizePolicy::Fixed)

*Reimplement keyPressEvent() to ignore the event when Enter/Return is hit

*Reimplement sizeHint to return size depending on the font.

The implementation is :
#include <QTextEdit>
#include <QKeyEvent>
#include <QStyleOption>
#include <QApplication>

class TextEdit : public QTextEdit
{
public:
        TextEdit()
        {
                setTabChangesFocus(true);
                setWordWrapMode(QTextOption::NoWrap);
                setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(Qt::ScrollBarAlwaysOff);
                setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(Qt::ScrollBarAlwaysOff);
                setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Expanding, QSizePolicy::Fixed);
                setFixedHeight(sizeHint().height());
        }
        void keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent *event)
        {
                if (event->key() == Qt::Key_Return || event->key() == Qt::Key_Enter)
                        event->ignore();
                else
                        QTextEdit::keyPressEvent(event);
        }
        QSize sizeHint() const
        {
                QFontMetrics fm(font());
                int h = qMax(fm.height(), 14) + 4;
                int w = fm.width(QLatin1Char('x')) * 17 + 4;
                QStyleOptionFrameV2 opt;
                opt.initFrom(this);
                return (style()->sizeFromContents(QStyle::CT_LineEdit, &opt, QSize(w, h).
                        expandedTo(QApplication::globalStrut()), this));
        }
};

Now you can create an instance of TextEdit and set the cursor width to zero :
textEdit->setCursorWidth(0);

A: There is no standard way to do that, but you can use setReadOnly method which hides the cursor. When you call this method it disables processing of keys so you'll need to force it.
Inherit from QLineEdit and reimplement keyPressEvent.
LineEdit::LineEdit(QWidget* parent)
 : QLineEdit(parent)
{
  setReadOnly(true);
}

void LineEdit::keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent* e)
{
  setReadOnly(false);
  __super::keyPressEvent(e);
  setReadOnly(true);
}

A: Most straight forward thing I found was stolen from this github repo:
https://github.com/igogo/qt5noblink/blob/master/qt5noblink.cpp
Basically you just want to disable the internal "blink timer" Qt thinks is somehow good UX (hint blinking cursors never were good UX and never will be - maybe try color or highlighting there eh design peeps).
So the code is pretty simple:
from PyQt5 import QtGui

app = QtGui.QApplication.instance()
app.setCursorFlashTime(0)

voilà.

A: Solution in python:
# somelibraries

class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.layout = QVBoxLayout()

        self.setFocus() # this is what you need!!!

        container = QWidget()
        container.setLayout(self.layout)

        # Set the central widget of the Window.
        self.setCentralWidget(container)

app = QApplication(sys.argv)

window = MainWindow()
window.show()

app.exec()

A: I ran into the same problem but setReadOnly is not a viable option because it alters the UI behavior in other places too.
Somewhere in a Qt-forum I found the following solution that actually solves the problem exactly where it occurs without having impact on other parts.
In the first step you need to derive from QProxyStyle and overwrite the pixelMetric member function:
class CustomLineEditProxyStyle : public QProxyStyle
{
public:
    virtual int pixelMetric(PixelMetric metric, const QStyleOption* option = 0, const QWidget* widget = 0) const
    {
        if (metric == QStyle::PM_TextCursorWidth)
            return 0;

        return QProxyStyle::pixelMetric(metric, option, widget);
    }
};

The custom function simply handles QStyle::PM_TextCursorWidth and forwards otherwise.
In your custom LineEdit class constructor you can then use the new Style like this:
m_pCustomLineEditStyle = new CustomLineEditProxyStyle();
setStyle(m_pCustomLineEditStyle);

And don't forget to delete it in the destructor since the ownership of the style is not transferred (see documentation). You can, of course, hand the style form outside to your LineEdit instance if you wish.

A: Don't get complicated:
In QtDesigner ,
1.Go the the lineEdit 's property tab
2.Change focusPolicy to ClickFocus
That's it...


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Q: MySQL table with "calculated values" and keys that are primary and foreign at the same time I already read through other questions such as these:
Is it fine to have foreign key as primary key?
Primary and Foreign Key at the same time
However, it seems to me as the answers are wildly different and the answer of whether or not it can be okay to have keys be both primary and foreign depends on the specific database and purpose of the table containing the keys.
This was done as part of an exam project and I have to either be able to explain my database design or come up with something else for my presentation.
My question(s) are:
How would you best justify the "selected_answers" table in my DB? i.e. does it make sense?
Is is still in 3rd normal form?
Could I make it different and simple while fulfilling the same purpose and functions of the current table?
This is my current relational model:
Relational model
This is my current SQL tables script:
SQL tables
The idea is to create a database which can store "audit" data on a firm that wants to audit how well they are complying with GDPR. It was an assignment for an exam.
The reason why I have "selected answers" is so that I can compare selected answers from users with the questions being asked.
Keys being both primary and foreign keys is so the numbers are "unique" while still referencing audit and question table.
The database is also supposed to be able to store each audit and the answers thereof individually.
For some more context I populated my tables with "test data" so that I could use stored triggers, procedures and a function.
Test data 1
Test data 2
All questions are pre set as question_ID 1 - 12 and all answers are answer_ID 1-5.
So these numbers will definitely repeat themselves, but for the purposes of storing audits and what was answered.
This is the final result which the database calculates:
Company name and registration number (CVR - danish), Time of audit (is updated through a stored trigger), average score of answers and a "compliance level" based on the average score.
Final result
I hope that I have provided enough information for you to help me :-) if you also need to see stored procedures, function and trigger tell me and I'll upload 'em.

A: Your table makes sense. You can view it as a many-to-many-relationship between audit and question (each audit can answer many questions; each question can be answered in many audits) with an attribute indicating what the audit's answer to the question is, constrained (by the foreign key to the answer table) to be one of a number of predefined answers. I also advise you write down the relvar predicates and see if they make sense.
It is in 3NF, unless there are odd functional dependencies (FDs) you haven't told us about. There seems to be a single non-trivial FD, {Audit_ID, Answer_ID} -> {Answer_ID}, and the left-hand side is a superkey (a key, in fact), so the table is in Boyce-Codd normal form, which implies 3NF. (I really don't know why people bother with 3NF when there is BCNF.)
I can't think of any simpler solution that fulfils the same requirements. Your design may have issues due to the use of surrogate keys combined with the lack of natural keys, but that is a different question.


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Quantum memory means an interaction between light and matter that allows quantum information, stored in light, to be retrieved – in a similar way to the memory in a classical computer.
Now researchers in China and the US have come up with quantum storage 'box', small enough to be used on a chip. The device is a nano-sized cavity, around one thousandth of a millimetre, filled with the element neodymium inside a crystal structure. The paper is published in the journal Science.
"The photons are stored in an ensemble of rare-earth neodymium atoms," says Andrei Faraon, from the California Institute of Technology, and co-author on the paper.
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Ireland drew with Scotland
Intercontinental Cup, Stormont, 9 August 2007
Scorecard Report Photos Ireland Team Venue
A rapid return to Stormont for Scotland, they having played Ireland there in the quadrangular tournament only some three weeks previously. In fact that match was Ireland's last game of the season to date.
This was a match of many phases and some records. There was never any possibility of a result over two innings after Scotland batted deep into the second day to score 314 in 148.4 overs, followed by a blank third day due to rain. When Ireland were 59-4 on the second day, Scotland might have sniffed a chance but two huge partnerships followed this poor Irish start. At 3:30 p.m. on day four, Ireland were one run ahead with some 2 ½ hours left. A declaration at that point might have been worthwhile and there could have been a Scottish collapse and perhaps some excitement. It must be admitted, however, that this was very unlikely.
Scotland had won the first Intercontinental Cop and Ireland had won the next two. This match was Ireland's first in defence of the cup and the chance of a hat-trick of wins. The format of the tournament had changed again somewhat. Now while there were still 8 countries involved worldwide, instead of being divided into two groups they would all now play each other over a period of a year/18 months. There would then be a final between the two teams which topped the league table. The seven other teams involved are Scotland and Netherlands from Europe, Namibia and Kenya from Africa, United Arab Emirates from the Middle East and Canada and Bermuda from the Americas.
From the previous match against Scotland Ireland left out Fourie (who was made 12th man for this game) and Kidd and brought in White and Thompson. The latter's last match for Ireland was in 2005. Two weeks earlier Scotland had beaten Netherlands by an innings in this competition but had to travel to Ireland with a much changed team due to the unavailability of a number of players. In fact, only three remained from the team which had beaten Holland, Watson, McCallum and Blain. All of the other eight had played against Ireland before except for Berrington whose first game against us this was. On the first day Ireland wore black armbands in memory of Billy McCarroll who had died recently and who had been Secretary of the Northern Cricket Union for over 20 years.
The first day was sunny with a warm breeze. The pitch was hard and fast and, indeed, gave very little bowler assistance throughout the match. Each day was scheduled from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. but a minimum of 96 overs were to be bowled and play could be extended until 6:30 p.m. to allow this to happen. Scotland won the toss and batted. Knox and MacRae opened to the bowling of Langford-Smith and Johnston. They each had three slips and a gully and only two leg side fielders, mid-on and long-leg. Langford-Smith's third ball was a wide, as usual, and in his 27 overs in this innings he never generated his usual fast pace. In the fifth over MacRae snicked Langford-Smith for four to the right of wicketkeeper O'Brien and low-down, the ball pitching just in front of his gloves. Both batsmen hit a four in the first 10 overs. The opening bowlers bowled six overs each, but the score after 12 overs was only 21. This was a rate of scoring which was to persist, more or less, all-day. Botha and Kevin O'Brien came on and (including one from Langford-Smith who replaced Botha for one over) nine maiden overs were bowled in succession. In the fourth of these overs O'Brien, with the first ball of his second over, the 16th, had MacRae lbw. 21-1-9. MacRae had faced 46 balls for his 9 runs, scoring off only four of them.
Watson, the Scottish captain, was next. He hit O'Brien for an extra cover four in over 22, at the end of this nine maiden over spell, opening his score off the 23rd ball he faced. Johnston came back for over 24 and Cusack came on for over 25. Each batsman hit a four. Then, in over 28, Watson hooked a short ball from Johnston. Cusack did not have to move at long-leg to take the catch. 42-2-9. Watson faced 40 deliveries but he did hit two fours. Hamilton, left-hander, joined Knox and lunch came after 30 overs with the score on 50-2. A four from Hamilton had brought up 50 two balls before lunch. Knox was 17, off 87 balls, and Hamilton four.
The lunch break brought two wickets but not until six more overs had been bowled for nine more runs. O'Brien was on for over 35 and in his second over, 37, Hamilton hit a four and was lbw next ball and showed his disgust at the decision on the way out. Bagh, a Danish umpire, was the decision maker. 63-3-16. McCallum joined Knox but the latter was out in the next over, the 38th. He snicked Johnston to third slip where White took a good overhead catch. 64-4-17. Knox faced 110 balls and had failed to score off the last 26 of them. He had not scored at all since lunch. In all he scored only off six of the balls he faced, including striking two fours.
Berrington was next and there followed a stand of exactly 50 runs, but it did take 18 overs. The sparse crowd could almost have cheered when spin appeared for the first time, McCallan coming on for over 45. The captain came in for some criticism for delaying the introduction of spin until now, but he could reasonably point out that seam had taken four wickets for 74 runs up to that point. Each batsman hit a four in McCallan's second over and Langford-Smith suffered a similar fate in the next over, McCallum pulling two fours. In Langford-Smith's next over, the 50th, McCallum gave a caught and bowled chance which was low but easy but was not taken. At this point McCallum was 21 and the score 97. In over 52 Berrington hooked a six off Langford-Smith to bring up 100.
There was spin at both ends when Thompson came on for Langford-Smith for over 54. The change worked. With the third ball of his second over Thomson's leg spin beat Berrington who was caught at the wicket. 114-5-18. Wright was next in but in seven more overs to the tea interval only 11 more runs were scored. Six of the overs were maidena, including the last three. The score at tea was 125-5, McCallum 34 in 74 balls and Wright six in 30 balls. 63 overs had now been bowled. 33 more overs were mandatory but, in fact, Ireland managed 38 in the final two hour session, with White and Thomson bowling 29 of them. These two bowlers resumed after tea. In over 67 Wright might have given a chance to short leg off White. Three overs later, in the 70th over, McCallum swept at Thomson and was bowled round his legs. 135-6-36. McCallum's innings had lasted for 94 balls and he hit five fours. Fast bowler Blain came in and it must be said he played very well and sustained the lower half of the innings. He made 93 of the remaining 179 runs scored after the fall of the sixth wicket. The start of his stand with Wright was slow. From overs 71 to 80 only six runs were scored and five of the 10 overs were maidens. Eventually, a four to Wright (his first off the 106th ball he faced) brought up 150 in over 90.
After bowling 29 overs together for 29 runs Thomson and White gave way to the new ball which had been delayed for 11 overs. The 91 over score, when the new ball was taken, was 154. 10 more overs were bowled up to the close of play, 29 runs were scored and a wicket fell. Johnston bowled five overs at one end. At the other end O'Brien bowled three, Langford-Smith one and Thomson one. Thompson's was the 101st and last over of the day. After the seventh wicket stand had put on 35 runs in 30 overs, Johnston bowled Wright in the 100th over. 170-7-36. The 36 had taken 131 balls with one four! Smith came in and took a single to face the last over of the day bowled by Thompson. In this over Smith hit Thompson for three fours, two to extra cover and one to square leg. In the previous 100 overs two fours were hit in one over twice. The close of play, after 101 overs, showed a score of 183-7 and both batsmen had scored 13, Blain off 98 balls with one four and Smith off nine balls with three fours! For only a very brief period, between the overs 52 and 62, did Scotland achieve a rate of two runs per over! Ireland had used eight bowlers. The only one missing who could bowl was Morgan.
The second day's wish and hope for Ireland was to clean up the last three Scottish wickets quickly and then make sure, at least, of the six points for first innings lead. It was not to be. The Scottish innings extended until 2:30 p.m., 49 more overs had been bowled and 131 more runs were scored. By over 116 Scotland had reached the lofty rate of two runs per over and so it stayed until the finish. Ireland then had a fright, being 59-4. N.O'Brien and Botha retrieved the situation by the close, 44 overs, when the score was 179 without further loss. The second day had sun and cloud and the breeze was not as warm. Before play began Scotland used the heavy roller.
The new ball was 10 overs old when Johnston and Langford-Smith resumed the bowling. Johnston was sure he had Blain lbw with the first ball of the day. Blain's reply was to hit a four but it was a snick to third man. Smith hit Langford-Smith for a four to third man in over 105 when 200 came up. In the first 12 overs of the day Blain hit four fours and Smith two. Botha was tried for two overs and O'Brien was given one in which Blain drove two offside fours in succession. White was given three overs from which nine runs came and McCallan was given a six over stint at the other end. In White's third over Blain went to a most valuable 50 when the score was 249. His 50 took 168 balls. Then McCallan bowled a maiden to Blain and Thompson replaced White for over 123. His second ball had Smith lbw, his third wicket of the innings. 249-8-40. Smith's 40 came off 61 balls with six fours. The eighth wicket stand was 79 in 23 overs.
Nel came in to join Blain and this pair prolonged the innings by putting on 60 runs in just two balls less than 25 overs. It took 80 minutes and straddled the lunch interval. The first 11 overs of the stand were shared by the three spinners, Thompson, McCallan and White. 250 came up in over 126. Blain hit a four in over 128 and a six off Thomson in over 129. Cusack, who had only bowled three overs to date, came on for over 134. Thomson bowled the last over before lunch to Nel who hit the second ball for six over mid-wicket. At lunch the score was 283-8 off 135 overs, Blain 71 and Nel 7.
Cusack and O'Brien were the post lunch bowlers. At 285 Nel give a chance to short mid-wicket of O'Brien when 14. Then Blain took 8 runs off O'Brien in over 141. Thompson resumed for over 142 and after two maidens, Nel took 8 more off Thompson in over 144 to bring up 300. McCallan replaced Thomson, who bowled a two overs spell, for over 146 and Blain hit his fourth ball for six to mid-wicket. O'Brien, in his sixth over after lunch, bowled a wicket maiden when the sixth ball had Nel lbw. 309-9-22. His innings lasted 69 balls with one six and one four. Blain was now 88. Could he get to 100 with the last man Lyons at the wicket. No, he could not but was not Lyons' fault as the last man out was, in fact, Blain. He pulled O'Brien to the mid-wicket boundary where Thompson had no problem with the catch. 314 all out, therefore, in 148.4 overs. Blain's 259 balls was twice as many as anyone else and he hit two sixes and 11 fours. The whole innings lasted 14 minutes short of nine hours. The scoring rate was 35 runs per 100 balls.
When, one wondered, if ever, have Ireland bowled 148.4 overs in an innings? There were three wicket takers, O'Brien 4-38 in 19.4 overs, three of the wickets being lbw, Johnston 3-49 in 27 and Thomson 3-76 in 29. Of the other five bowlers Botha, surprisingly, only bowled 8 overs for 15 runs. Cusack's seven overs cost only six runs. In fact, the five wicketless bowlers went for 136 runs in 73 overs, a rate of less than two runs per over.
Ireland started at 2:45 p.m. with 46 overs to be bowled up to the maximum finishing time of 6:30 p.m. By 6:32 p.m. only 44 overs had been bowled and Ireland were 179-4, a scoring rate of four runs per over in stark contrast to Scotland's snail's pace. Ireland used the heavy roller before Porterfield and White opened to Blain and Wright. White had opened for Ireland in his first three innings in 2000 and had done so 17 times in all, but had not done so since 2003. In 13 overs to the tea interval at 3:40 p.m. Ireland made a worrying start and were 43-3.
Porterfield started briskly and got more of the strike. He twice got fours off Blain with a pull and an extra cover drive. In the ninth over Nel, medium fast, replaced Blain. His third ball had Porterfield lbw on the front foot. Porterfield habitually plants his front foot into the line of the ball when he should place it inside the line. 31-1-18. Morgan scored one run and lasted six balls before "hanging out his bat to dry" facing Wright. The awful nibble was taken by the wicket-keeper. 32-2-1.
N O'Brien drove a four to extra cover off his first ball but Nel struck again in his second over, the 11th. White snicked a four to third man, then, next ball, drove at a ball too near him and was caught low at second slip by Wright. 40-3-11. Three wickets had fallen in 12 balls. Kevin O'Brien joined his brother, but had not scored by the tea interval which came with the total on 43-3, N O'Brien seven not out.
The 15th over, Nel, brought 14 runs with a four to Kevin O'Brien and two such to Niall O'Brien, the score rising from 45 to 59. The first ball of over 16, still being bowled by Wright, dismissed Kevin O'Brien lbw on the front foot. 59-4-7. The situation was now serious for Ireland. There were two days and a bit left to play, four wickets were down and Ireland still 255 runs behind. Botha solved the problem. He and Niall O'Brien batted out the remaining 29 overs that were bowled on day 2 in the 130 minutes up to the close of play. Both played fluently and well and did not let the precarious position inhibit them. In fact, O'Brien hit 11 fours in the stand and Botha hit seven.
In over 17 O'Brien hit Nel, in his fifth and last over, for three fours with a square cut, a pull and a square drive. Blain replaced Nel for over 19. Then Nel was, in fact, injured in over 20 attempting to catch O'Brien who hooked a long hop from Wright to wide fine leg. O'Brien was 33 and the score 85. The 12th man, Goudie, replaced Nel. At 4:50 p.m. rain delayed play for 10 minutes. O'Brien pulled Wright for four in his 11th and last over in this spell. 100 came up in Blain's third over, the 23rd, on his return. Watson, off spin, replaced Wright and Botha hit him for three successive fours in his second over, the 26th. For good value Botha added a four in overs 27 and 28. In over 29 O'Brien cover drove a four off Blain to reach 53 with the score on 131. He had faced only 55 balls with no less than 10 fours.
Lyons, slow left-arm, bowled the 31st over in place of Blain. It was a maiden to O'Brien, only the second of the innings. A very wet ball was changed in the 34th over. With a two to O'Brien in over 37, the stand was worth exactly 100 in 22 overs. O'Brien was now 69 and Botha 47. Blain and Wright came back for the last few overs of the day. In over 41 Botha went to 50 with the score on 169. He had faced only 74 deliveries with seven fours. After 44 overs, at 6:32 p.m., bad light stopped play. While the time was now past the latest time for finishing, that time could be extended to 6.40 because of the interruption for rain earlier. Ireland now were 179-4 off 44 overs. Considering the bad start, to have scored at four runs per over was quite a bonus. The deficit was still 135. O'Brien was 83, and Botha 53.
It rained most of the third day and play was never possible. The sun came out on day four and there was a breeze. However, a wet outfield and run ups precluded any play until 1:30 p.m., after an early lunch had been taken. Blain bowled the first over. O'Brien scored a single and Botha had a wide bowled at him. The second ball of the second over, bowled by Wright, O'Brien hooked at a ball too far up and too wide on the offside. The ball skied to cover and was taken. In the circumstances O'Brien should have played himself in and been more careful at this early stage. 181-5-84. O'Brien faced 109 balls and hit 14 fours but the stand, lasting 30 overs, pulled Ireland out of a hole.
Cusack came in next. It was his first ever first-class match and he celebrated that fact in an excellent way. His first scoring shot was a four off Blain. 200 came up in over 51, in which Cusack hit Blain for another four to fine leg. Then, in over 55, bowled by Blain, Wright dropped Botha, 71, low to his right at second slip. In over 57 Cusack got himself a five from a throw at the bowler's end stumps which went for four overthrows. In the first hour of play Botha had hit five fours and 60 runs had been put on. Then Lyons and Nel had a bowl. In the second over bowled by Lyons, the 63rd, Botha, with an off driven four, reached 102 with the score on 255. This was his third Irish century. It came off 144 balls with 13 fours. Watson replaced Lyons, who had only bowled three overs, for the 67th over in which the 100 partnership came up. It had taken only 22 overs. Botha's share was 64, Cusack's 34.
Blain returned in place of Nel for over 70. Botha hooked a six, luckily, between two legside fielders and a single by Cusack off the last ball brought up 300 in 423 balls. There were two landmarks in over 74. A stroke to wide mid-wicket for three by Cusack off the first ball brought him to 52, his first 50 for Ireland in his sixth innings, and put Ireland into the lead on first innings. Cusack faced 88 balls with six fours. Botha took 10 of the remainder of that over. Nel and Lyons returned to bowl. Both batsmen hit fours off Lyons in over 79. Botha's four, an off drive, took him to exactly 150 from 189 balls and it was his 18th four. It was the 11th individual score of over 150 for Ireland and now two players had made two such each, Botha having joined Morgan in doing so. The next over, the 80th, was the last before tea, which was taken at 4 p.m. The score was 349-5, Botha 152, Cusack 60. In 36 overs so far on this fourth day 170 runs were put on.
Three overs were bowled after tea, both batsmen hitting a four, and then the new ball was taken for over 84. Nel took it but Lyons, surprisingly, shared it. With a single off Lyons in over 85 Botha surpassed his previous highest Irish score, which was 157 against United Arab Emirates at Abu Dhabi early in 2007 in an Intercontinental Cup match. A two to Botha in over 90 took this sixth wicket partnership to 202, one more than the previous record for this wicket, 201 by AD Comyn and WD Hamilton in 1896 against I Zingari at Phoenix. That record had stood for 111 years.
Lyons kept bowling, in fact to the end of the innings. Watson replaced Nel for over 94. It transpired that Blain was injured and could not bowl. In over 95, bowled by Lyons, Cusack went down the pitch and hit a straight aerial four to bring up exactly 400. Next over, bowled by Watson, Botha, on 182, was dropped at short mid-wicket. At the end of this over Botha was 184 and must have been eyeing a score of 200 and perhaps breaking Morgan's record of 209. He inched nearer that figure with a two in over 97, bowled by Lyons. Two balls later he skipped down the pitch, missed, and was then unlucky to be stumped at the second attempt. 415-6-186. Botha faced 238 balls, with one six and 22 fours. His innings lasted five hours and 22 minutes and was the fourth highest ever for Ireland. The sixth wicket stand with Cusack was 234 runs in all from 309 balls. Botha got 133 runs in the stand to Cusack's 92. Apart from being a record for the sixth wicket, it was the second highest for any wicket.
Thomson came in at number eight with a reputation for much improved batting. He showed that this was so and was not out at the end. After 55 overs in this day's play it was agreed to start the last hour. These 55 overs were bowled by 5:20 p.m. The last hour would consist of 15 overs. In fact, only 11 were bowled. Play stopped at 5:56 p.m. to allow Scotland plenty of time to catch an 8 p.m. flight.
The big landmark in these 11 overs was in over 101, bowled by Lyons. Cusack hit a six over long-on to go from 95 to 101 on his first-class debut. Cusack faced 170 balls and this six to reach his century was his first of the innings. There were 12 fours. For Ireland, JR Gill, in 1948, hit a century in his only first-class match while AR White, in 2004, hit 152 not out on his debut in first-class cricket, also for Ireland. Cusack hit fours in three of the next four overs and 450 came up in over 105. Berrington, medium pace, had his first bowl in over 106. Cusack hit the fourth ball for six to long-off. In his next over Berrington had his revenge. Cusack cut the first ball for four but he was caught at the wicket off the sixth ball. 467-7-130. Cusack faced 204 balls with two sixes and 16 fours.
Thomson and McCallan played out the last two overs adding six runs for a final total of 473-7. This was the highest score ever made by Ireland at home and the second highest anywhere. The best was 531 for five declared against United Arab Emirates at Abu Dhabi earlier in 2007.
Ireland faced 39 less overs than did Scotland in this current match. Ireland scored 159 more runs at a rate of 71 runs per 100 balls. Scotland bowled seven maidens to Ireland's 60. Wright was probably Scotland's best bowler. He took 3-93 in 27 overs. The first innings points, six, went to Ireland and, because more than eight hours play was lost to rain, each side got three more points for what was considered a rain ruined draw. The Man-of-the-Match was AC Botha.
Andre Botha bowling
Kevin O'Brien appeals successfully
Trent Johnston and Kyle McCallan
Dave Langford-Smith
Trent Johnston appeal is turned down
Scotland captain Ryan Watson
Ryan Watson hooks straight to long leg
Ryan Watson troops off disappointed
Trent Johnston thinks he has got Gavin Hamilton lbw
Alex Cusack bowling
Kevin O'Brien traps Gavin Hamilton lbw
Steve Knox fends a short ball to slip
Kyle McCallan bowling
Through the legs of Niall O'Brien
Trent Johnston pursues the ball
Neil McCallum plays an unorthdox hook shot
Richie Berrington gets a single
Ireland celebrate
Craig Wright
A wicket for Greg Thompson
Greg Thompson appeals for lbw
Craig Wright strikes a boundary
Greg Thompson who took two wickets
Evasive action from the close in fielder
Trent Johnston happy at dismissing Wright
Trent Johnston can't believe it
Simon Smith pulls the ball to the boundary
Craig Wright dismissed
Craig Wright trudges off
Simon Smith and John Blain walk off the field
Andrew White bowling
Andre Botha
The 'Wags' on camera
Simon Smith batting
John Blain takes a single to reach his 50
John Blain acknowledges his half century
John Blain hits a boundary
Greg Thompson bowling
Niels Bagh signals the end for Smith
John Blain turns the ball away for a single
It wasn't pretty for the spectators
John Blain skies the ball...
..and Greg Thompson takes the catch
John Blain bowls to William Porterfield
Craig Wright bowling
Dewald Nel traps William Porterfield lbw
Wright delighted as Eoin Morgan departs
Craig Wright takes the catch to dismiss White....
... and Dewald Nel celebrates
Kevin O'Brien pullls Nel for 4
Nel can't believe his appeal is turned down
Niall O'Brien pulls
Andre Botha drives
Botha pulls Ryan Watson for 4
50 for Niall O'Brien
Another 4 for Botha off John Blain
Umpires Neills Bagh and Billy Doctrove call for a change of the ball
Botha guides the ball through the slips to bring up his 50
Botha ducks a short ball as the light fades
Close Andre Botha 53 * and Niall O'Brien 83*
Andre Botha who got 186
John Blain bowling
Alex Cusack
Alex Cusack who got 130
Alex Cusack and Andre Botha who put on 234
Dave Langford-Smith tries his hand at rugby
Another run for Botha
That's a six according to Ian Johnston
Ireland coach Phil Simmons
A pull shot from Andre Botha
Ross Lyons
Young fans from Ards Cricket Club
Andre Botha departs for 186
Greg Thompson
Ross Lyons is hit for six by Cusack...
..who celebrates a century on his first class debut with Greg Thomspon
A single to mid on for Thompson
Another boundary for Alex Cusack
The stumping of Andre Botha
The players settle for a draw
DT Johnston KJ O'Brien GJ Thompson D Langford-Smith AC Botha AR Cusack WK McCallan AR White WTS Porterfield EJG Morgan NJ O'Brien


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WHEN THE DECISION DOES NOT MAKE 'PROFITABLE' SENSE
Written by Spreado Mar 9 · 1 min read >
Whenever we are faced with problems, we are required to make the best decision. The best decision might not necessarily be the most obvious decision. However, such a decision is taken in the interest of the collective objectives and future business possibilities.
This scenario plays out in the analysis of business problems case titled MICODERM – Prevention and treatment of diaper dermatitis – where the alternatives in the decision did not make common sense.
Jorge Senna – the general manager of LIDERM – was faced with the challenge of deciding in September 2010 and he was faced with 3 alternatives. The details of the case and my personal learnings are outlined below.
The Background Story of LIDERM
LIDERM, was founded in 1974 in Spain, to develop and sell skincare cosmetics and medications (treatment and prevention). It was a joint venture between two important Spanish groups, a manufacturer of cosmetics and a manufacturer of pharmaceuticals. In 2010, LIDERM was the Spanish leader in both the prevention and treatment of skin
problems, and it is expected to replicate this success internationally. LIDERM had 600 employees in 10 countries. The company developed its products (classified as medications, OTC products, and cosmetics1) to address specific pathologies, and LIDERM ́s sales were evenly distributed among the three categories.
Another crucial element to the analysis of this case was the Spanish Social Security Reimbursement System (SSRS). Spain had a comprehensive, extensive health coverage system that offered free healthcare to all residents through a network of public health centres. In addition, medications prescribed in public health centres enjoyed a 60% discount or 100% in the case of retired persons. Pharmacies sold these medications to end-users at discounted prices and were compensated by the state for the difference a few weeks later. The Government decided which medicines could be subsidized. To be included in that list, the product had to be a medication, had to fulfil technical and health-related requirements and
had to be aimed at treatment and not just prevention. The final price for end-users was fixed by the Ministry of Health, based on audited data of costs provided by manufacturers.
Jorge Senna's alternatives to address the issues in this case are
to take the product out of the Spanish Social Security Reimbursement System (SSRS). Through that system, Spanish citizens were entitled to substantial discounts (60% or 100% in some cases) on prescription drugs. Taking Micoderm out of the SSRS would allow LIDERM to freely increase its selling price, but there could be a severe drop in sales volume, which was difficult to estimate.
request a price increase for the second time, hoping it would be granted this time after a previous rejection 6years back.
LIDERM could continue selling Micoderm at the current low, regulated price, absorbing the resulting losses.
Analysis from the case
Considering the alternatives above, it is important to emphasize the need for analysis derived from the criteria.
Analysis from barely looking at the case and not considering the whole facts points towards option 1 because it likely optimizes profit. And, why not, it looks very attractive. Why should LIDERM continue to make losses?
This case, however, made me realize that the answer is never really the obvious but the most acceptable based on the available criteria and facts that can be proven.
Written by Spreado
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) updated its Silica Standards recently, in an effort to curb lung cancer, silicosis, and other chronic pulmonary diseases by limiting employees' exposure to respirable crystalline silica. The updated rule is comprised of two standards, one for Construction and other for General Industry and Maritime.
OSHA has made these changes because previous Permissible Exposure Limites (PELs) are formulas that many find hard to understand. OSHA believes that the previous levels do not adequately protect workers.
There are three main forms of Silica: Quartz, Cristobalite and Tridymite. Exposures can come from chipping, cutting, sawing, drilling, grinding and crushing of concrete, brick, block, rock and stone. Silica can be found in many industries including: Construction, Foundries, Glass Manufacturing, Paintings and Coatings, etc.
The new General Industry PEL is 50 ug/m3 (nearly half of the former levels) and the action level = 25 ug/m3. Exposure assessments are required if exposures are or may be expected to be at or above actions levels of 25 ug/m3.
The Performance Option – exposures assessed using any combination of air monitoring data or objective data sufficient to accurately characterized crystalline silica. Objective data includes air monitoring data from industry-wide surveys or calculations based on the composition of a substance. This data must reflect workplace conditions closely resembling or with a higher exposure potential than the process, types of material, control methods, work practices and environmental conditions in the employer's current operations.
The Scheduled Monitoring Option – sets a schedule for performing initial and periodic personal monitoring. Monitoring is required if levels are at or above the Action Level.
Additionally, regulated areas are required where exposures can reasonably be expected to exceed the PEL.
A written exposure control plan must be developed and describe the tasks involving exposure to respirable crystalline silica, engineering controls, work practices, and respiratory protection for each task, and housekeeping used to limit exposures.
Respiratory Protection – Any use of respirator must comply with OSHA 1910.134. Respirators are required for exposures above the PEL including: while installing or implementing controls or work practices, for tasks where controls or work practices are not feasible, when feasible controls cannot reduce exposures to the PEL, while in a regulated area. Respirators are permitted where PEL cannot be achieved with engineering and work practice controls.
Medical Surveillance – Employers must offer medical examinations to employees who will be exposed above the action level for 30 or more days a year. Examinations must be offered every three years to workers who continue to be exposed above the trigger.
Employers are required to comply with the Hazard Communication Standard or Employee Right-To-Know Rules in their areas. Employers must also train workers annually on health hazards, tasks resulting in exposure, workplace protections, and medical surveillance.
Additionally, employers must maintain records under 1910.1020 for air monitoring data, objective data, and medical records. Results must be retained for 30 years after employee's employment.
Compliance Dates - June 23, 2018 for General Industry & Maritime Employers. Action Level Trigger Medical Surveillance must be complied by June 23, 2020. The PEL is the trigger from June 23, 2018 through June 23, 2020.
The updated standard is expected to affect the Construction Industry more significantly than General Industry due to the industry exposures. The new Construction Industry PEL is 50 ug/m3. All occupational exposures to respirable crystalline silica are covered, unless employee exposure will remain below 25 ug/m3.
The Construction Silica Standard identifies specific exposure control methods through Table 1. Eighteen tasks with effective dust control methods and respirator requirements have been identified. If employees are engaged in one of the tasks on the table, as long as you follow the engineering controls and respirator requirements you will be in compliance. No sampling is required as long as you follow the guidance of Table 1.
Respirators – Are required where exposures above the PEL are likely to persist despite full and proper implementation of the specified engineering and work practice controls. Respirators must be used by all employees engaged in the task for the entire duration of the task. Provisions specify how to determine when respirators are required for an employee engaged in more than one task.
A written exposure control plan must be implemented by a competent person. In this plan descriptions of tasks involving exposure to respirable crystalline silica engineering controls, work practices and respiratory protection for each task must be included. Housekeeping must also be addressed.
A competent person must be designated to implement the written exposure control plan. This person also makes frequent and regular inspections of job sites, materials and equipment.
Medical Surveillance – Identical to General Industry Standard.
Compliance Dates - June 23, 2017 for the Construction Industry Employers. Compliance with methods of sample analysis is required by June 23, 2018.


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World / Crime & Legal
Criticism grows over mass beheading of Shiites in Saudi, some of whom were minors when charged
AFP-JIJI
Online: Apr 25, 2019
Last Modified: Apr 25, 2019
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Saudi Arabia faced growing criticism Wednesday for its mass execution of a group comprised mostly of people from the kingdom's Shiite Muslim minority, some of whom the U.N. said were minors when charged.
U.N. rights chief Michelle Bachelet condemned Riyadh's execution Tuesday of 37 Saudi nationals, saying "it was particularly abhorrent that at least three of those killed were minors at the time of their sentencing."
The EU echoed her censure, calling the execution of people charged as minors a "serious violation."
Spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said the fact that the majority of those executed were Shiites had "the potential to fuel sectarian tensions" in the region.
They were put to death after being convicted of terrorism, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported, in the largest mass execution in the country for more than three years.
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At least 33 of those executed belonged to Saudi Arabia's Shiite minority, according to Human Rights Watch.
The rights group said the convictions were based on "unfair" mass trials and on confessions allegedly extracted through torture.
The Sunni-dominated kingdom's interior ministry said some of those executed were accused of "inciting sectarian strife," a charge often used in Saudi Arabia against Shiite activists.
One person was crucified after being put to death, SPA reported, a punishment reserved for particularly serious crimes in the ultra-conservative oil-rich kingdom where executions are usually carried out by beheading.
"Saudi authorities will inevitably characterize those executed as terrorists… but the reality is that Saudi courts are largely devoid of any due process, and many of those executed were condemned based solely on confessions they credibly say were coerced," said HRW's deputy Middle East director Michael Page.
"Executing prisoners en masse shows that the current Saudi leadership has little interest in improving the country's dismal human rights record."
Rights group Amnesty International said most of those executed were "convicted after sham trials" based on "confessions extracted through torture."
The executions were "yet another gruesome indication of how the death penalty is being used as a political tool to crush dissent" from within the Shiite minority, it added in a statement.
The rights watchdog said 11 of those executed were convicted of spying for Iran, while at least 14 others were sentenced in connection with anti-government protests in the Eastern Province between 2011 and 2012.
Among those executed was Abdulkareem al-Hawaj, who was only 16 at the time of his arrest, Amnesty said.
The mass execution is the largest since January 2016, when Saudi Arabia executed a group of 47 people convicted of "terrorism," including prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
The cleric's execution prompted a furious reaction from Tehran.
Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran were attacked in violent demonstrations, prompting Riyadh to sever relations.
Iran's top diplomat Wednesday slammed the silence of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on the executions.
"After a wink at the dismembering of a journalist, not a whisper from the Trump administration when Saudi Arabia beheads 37 men in one day — even crucifying one two days after Easter," Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter.
He was referring to the murder of prominent Saudi journalist and regime critic Jamal Khashoggi last year in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
At least 100 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia since the start of the year, according to data released by SPA.
Last year, Saudi Arabia carried out 149 death sentences, making it one of the world's top three executioners along with China and Iran, according to Amnesty.
The Eastern Province — home to the bulk of the country's Shiite minority — has seen bouts of unrest since 2011 when protesters emboldened by the Arab Spring took to the streets demanding an end to alleged discrimination by the government.
Although no official figures exist, Shiites make up an estimated 10 to 15 percent of the ultra-conservative kingdom's population of 32 million.
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According to Western Digital, there is no known way under Linux to disable (and hide) the "Virtual CD" (VCD) partition that can often be found on their external hard disks (such as the popular My Passport series).
No results with Google either, so I had to dig a little further. Please keep in mind that the following solution worked well for me, but that it could, potentially, brick your hard disk. You've been warned.
This rule file (which does nothing) takes precedence over the original rules in /lib/udev/rules.d, with the result that it would no longer trigger the usbmuxd daemon whenever an iPhone is detected on the USB host.
And now, it's time to run the TaiG Jailbreak.
I was fiddling with the fonts on my Linux notebook today, and I thought, why not upgrade all the Windows-based fonts with the latest fonts from Windows 10 (preview version)? Well, something definitely got changed and I don't think I like it.
I have five invites for Google Domains available. The first five users to reply to this post will get one (make sure to enter a valid e-mail or I won't be able to send it to you).
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Equal preference cipher groups. This change implements equal-preference groups of cipher suites. This allows, for example, a server to prefer one of AES-GCM or ChaCha20 ciphers, but to allow the client to pick which one. When coupled with clients that will boost AES-GCM in their preferences when AES-NI is present, this allows us to use AES-GCM when the hardware exists and ChaCha20 otherwise.
In this article I show you how you can tweak your nginx configuration to take advantage of this feature.
In this article I will walk you through setting up a domain DNS zone using the Google Cloud DNS service.
Google Cloud DNS is a high performance, resilient, and global DNS service, which allows you to easily publish and manage DNS records.
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D'Alessandro: As Yankees win, Alex Rodriguez admits Joe Girardi made right call with Raul Ibanez
Updated: Mar. 30, 2019, 12:43 p.m. | Published: Oct. 11, 2012, 5:04 a.m.
Yankees vs Orioles Game 3 ALDS
Gallery: Yankees vs Orioles Game 3 ALDS
By Dave D'Alessandro | Star-Ledger Editorial Board
NEW YORK — What was that noise? It sounded like relief, or perhaps a collective sigh of gratitude that 50,000 people make when they realize the manager finally heard their collective appeal.
Or maybe it was a poignant riptide beneath the sneering contempt they have for the guy Joe Girardi was finally taking out of the spotlight, the same guy he spared from another chorus of Bronx cheers when he sent a pinch-hitter up in that ninth inning.
Make no mistake: The former superstar known as A-Rod was not shown anything but the kind of respect afforded one of the greatest players every made last night. Alex Rodriguez even got to keep his No. 3 spot in the Yankees' lineup.
But when his manager had to maximize his microscopic chance of tying the game with a long ball in the 11th hour of Game 3, he let the world in on something they already knew:
A-Rod's time — at least his time as a guy you can trust in such a circumstance — has ended.
And what do you know? Joe Girardi finally went with his gut, instead of being dictated to by something his laptop spit out. Some say it was brave. We say it was a move that virtually nobody would wrangle over — not even Rodriguez, who demonstrated the final gong on his career as a relevant player by embracing a role he called "cheerleader."
If this was just another performance, he is a great loss to the theater. When Raul Ibanez hit that pinch-hit home run to force extra innings, Rodriguez was already on the top step of the dugout, leading the applause.
And when Ibanez ended this 3-2 passion play by launching his second solo homer in the 12th inning, Rodriguez praised Girardi as the smartest guy in the building.
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"I'm one of the leaders of the team," A-Rod said an hour after it was over. "Maybe 10 years ago, I'd react another way. But I'm in a place in my career now where I don't think anyone in the ballpark was more excited for Raul than I was.
"Joe and I preach about team, team, team. It's all we care about — how we have to somehow collect enough victories to win a championship. So I told him, 'Joe you have to do exactly what you gotta do.' And I got on the top step and started cheering."
The pregame hours were dominated by Girardi justifying his decision to keep Rodriguez in the three-hole — something that A-Rod himself couldn't justify, after going 0-for-3 with two K's — and giving a fairly convincing explanation why he doesn't fret over managing once-iconic players as they're reaching the finish line.
It's because he appreciates their "strong minds," and their steadfast belief that "they can always do it," Girardi explained.
And then the manager demonstrated to a national TV audience that even his faith has its limits.
As they began the home ninth — in a 2-1 hole with Baltimore's Jim Johnson set to close — Girardi told Rodriguez, "You're scuffling a little right now — we have got a low-ball hitter, Raul has been a good pinch-hitter for us, and I'm just going to take a shot."
So Rodriguez was replaced for the first time since junior high school, and then Ibanez launched one in the fifth row.
"I didn't hang my head, I was the top guy on the step, and you try to cheer your teammate on," Rodriguez said. "And I never question my manager."
No, that's a job for the 50,497 critics.
They grew more irritated with each at-bat, particularly after A-Rod struck out in the fourth inning, unable to catch up to a 91-mph fastball. There was something sad about it: He bounced back to the dugout with his usual gait as the boos grew louder with each step, and he tried to look as impassive as possible. That part was an act.
And then he struck out again in the sixth with a runner aboard, but the fact that it was a check swing at a 1-2 fastball inside meant that Fieldin Culbreth had to arbitrate. You couldn't be certain whether it was the batter or the first-base ump who was standing under the avalanche of bile that came down from the most distant reaches.
Okay, it was mostly the batter.
So Girardi lifted him in the ninth, and found lightning in a bottle.
"It's one of the best performances I've ever seen, and I couldn't happen to a better guy," Rodriguez said. "I wish it was me hitting two home runs tonight. But it wasn't me, it was the next-best guy. Raul Ibanez — what a day. We'll never forget this."
A-Rod's coming to the ballpark today and expects to be in the lineup. And if he were the manager, he implied that he'd have made the same move under the same circumstances, because "you get your pitches, you can't miss 'em. You have to be productive."
A-Rod remembers what that is like. We all remember: The Bronx has exploded like this before, but usually it's the result of a superstar producing at the moment of truth. Not a superstar applauding with the rest of us, forever a spectator for the season's biggest moment.
Dave D'Alessandro: ddalessandro@starledger.com
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Home > Blog > Who should website content be written for?
Great content is what draws visitors in to your website and hopefully keeps them there. However, it can be all too easy to get carried away with trying to please search engines when writing this content.
So, should your copy be written for the reader or should it be primarily drafted with search engines in mind?
This question is an important one, as it can result in two entirely different pieces of content, even when written by the same person on the exact same topic.
The answer to this question is key to unlocking the best copy you can create for your site, and to perform well in search.
Search engines are robots, which are programmed by humans. If you write content for search engines, you are writing for robots, and you can end up writing like a robot yourself — and no human is going to want to read that.
Thanks to human programming and regular algorithmic updates, search engines want to read content that has been written to help or inform humans, and they can easily recognise this.
In fact, they get better at this daily, and astonishingly better at it each year.
We all want our content to perform well in search, and it can do that by being excellent for search engine users.
So, how can you create content your readers will love? In short, you need to craft quality and compelling writing. Sounds simple, right?
When writing for humans, it's best not to overthink things, but here are some guidelines, in no particular order, for creating content that both your readers and Google will love.
Consider keyword density and don't be tempted to keyword stuff. If you're writing about your area of expertise (which you should be), then some keywords and keyword variations will occur naturally in your writing.
Don't try to add more keywords than necessary — nobody is going to want to read a page that's quite clearly written with just search engines in mind.
It is crucial that you write your content well — spend time on it, edit and proofread it twice, and make sure it is free from spelling and grammatical mistakes.
These are an instant turn-off for many readers and will make you (and your business) appear sloppy. Attention to detail is important.
Also make sure you consider the purpose of the page before you begin writing, then write to fulfil that purpose.
Keep it relevant and aim to build trust and authority through your copy by writing in an honest and authoritative manner — show that you are an expert in your field.
Think about the audience you are writing for — consider the questions they might want answers to, their interests, etc., and incorporate that into your content.
Aim to educate the reader, as answers are what they are searching for.
Concentrating hard on SEO alone can be a distraction when writing quality content.
For example, if someone is searching for a local emergency plumber, a keyword-dense page full of information won't be what they want to find — a promise of rapid help and a 24-hour telephone number is.
Always keep the site visitor in mind when optimising your content and you won't go far wrong.
You're probably an expert on the subject matter you are writing about, but if you have any gaps in your knowledge, make sure you do your research well.
Also, make sure you cite sources for any facts and figures you mention in your content.
Attention spans are short in 2019, so get your point across well but in a succinct manner.
Having said that, a singular sentence does not qualify as quality webpage copy!
The perfect length for your content will result in a dwell time that signals to Google that your page has answered their search query.
Keeping it concise doesn't automatically mean keeping it short.
Go deep into your topic — long-form blog posts on topics that include several angles or aspects are a great idea.
Do keep it all accessible though — even when explaining rocket science, you need to make it understandable to your audience or it is essentially pointless!
Don't forget to create enticing meta descriptions and add meta titles, too.
In summary, if you're benefiting your audience through your content, you'll be benefiting yourself in search.
So, take all of the above into account for your organic search campaign and, at the same time, don't overthink it!
If you'd like to know more about creating quality copy for your website, simply get in touch.