With Canada's recent signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (it still needs to be ratified), and issues of economic growth--or the lack thereof--dominating news headlines, we thought we'd share the latest data from Statistics Canada on Canadian international trade flows. The viz can be found here.
1. Since 1997 (as far back as this dataset goes), the values of Canada's imports and exports have generally risen each year, with the most notable exception being the drop-off experienced during the Great Recession of 2008-09. Since then, the values of our exports and imports have recovered to their long-run growth paths.
2. After maintaining a trade surplus for the 12 years leading up to 2009, Canada's trade balance has oscillated around zero since then, with much of 2015 spent in trade deficit.
Where will 2016 take us? A lot depends on how the Canadian domestic market fares given the economic headwinds we're facing (which could result in fewer imports), and also on how the American and Chinese economies plug along throughout the year, with conflicting news and data on how strong each of those countries' economic fundamentals currently are (which could affect exports).


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Q: Cordova camera plugin do not resize I'm up to date with the cordova camera plugin but it is not working the resize or the quality change, I tried with JPEG and PNG but nothing.
$ ionic plugin ls
WARN: ionic.project has been renamed to ionic.config.json, please rename it.
com-badrit-base64 0.2.0 "Base64"
com.googlemaps.ios 2.1.1 "Google Maps SDK for iOS"
cordova-plugin-camera 2.4.1 "Camera"
cordova-plugin-compat 1.1.0 "Compat"
cordova-plugin-console 1.0.3 "Console"
cordova-plugin-device 1.1.2 "Device"
cordova-plugin-file 4.3.1 "File"
cordova-plugin-file-transfer 1.6.1 "File Transfer"
cordova-plugin-geolocation 2.4.2 "Geolocation"
cordova-plugin-googlemaps 1.4.0 "phonegap-googlemaps-plugin"
cordova-plugin-screen-orientation 2.0.1 "Screen Orientation"
cordova-plugin-splashscreen 3.2.2 "Splashscreen"
cordova-plugin-statusbar 2.1.3 "StatusBar"
cordova-plugin-whitelist 1.2.2 "Whitelist"
es6-promise-plugin 4.1.0 "Promise"
ionic-plugin-keyboard 2.2.1 "Keyboard"

And some code
$scope.take_picture = function()
{
    screen.orientation.lock('portrait');
    var options = {
        quality: 25,
        destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI,
        sourceType: Camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA,
        encodingType: Camera.EncodingType.PNG,
        saveToPhotoAlbum: false,
        correctOrientation: true,
        allowEdit: false,
        targetHeight: 200,
        targetwidth: 200
    };

    $cordovaCamera.getPicture(options).then(function(imageURI) {
        $scope.image_uri = imageURI;
        $scope.marcar_gps();
        $cordovaCamera.cleanup();
        window.plugins.Base64.encodeFile($scope.image_uri, function(base64){
            $scope.base64 = base64.split("data:image/png;base64,")[1]
        });
    }, function(err) {
      console.log('error ',err);
      $cordovaCamera.cleanup();
      $ionicLoading.hide();
    });

    return true;
};

The picture size i'm getting is 2448 × 3264
Any idea?
Thanks in advance

A: quality: 50

Compression quality (0-100: 0=low quality & high compression, 100=compress of max quality). It doesn't change image resolution.
targetHeight: 200,
targetwidth: 200

For me specifying this only works with JPEG option, and also I have DestinationType.DATA_URL if that changes something.

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I know it's not always the best idea to be political on blogs. Why alienate your readership? Even so, I'm going to break that rule. That's because today, I found politics not to be divisive, but to be hopeful.
Today, I went canvassing. Our older two children stayed with my husband. It was me and the baby in a red cherry hat. We leafleted, and as my fingers reddened from pushing at stubborn letterboxes, and my feet wearied, I found myself grateful for postmen and the hard miles they cover. I walked, and we talked to voters, and the baby slept and sometimes woke and looked around until the rhythm of my steps or my voice lulled him back to sleep. It was peaceful.
I didn't expect to enjoy it, but it was one of the most interesting things I've done in a while. It alleviated the cloud of helplessness that's been hanging over me. It's such a simple thing, being active in your local community. It takes so little time to feel connection. A simple gesture. Eye contact, a smile, a compliment.
Walking is still the best way to uncover hidden nooks and crannies. I discovered pockets in our town I never knew existed. Little cul de sacs tucked away from the rush, where the kids in neighbouring houses play on the street together, more siblings than strangers. Chocolate box houses and grand nursing homes that made me think of Great Expectations. Peeling front doors and freshly planted peonies. Clanking dishes and fussing babies. Lost footballs and gnomes in sunglasses.
It's been a while since I've really looked into the faces of strangers and sought to understand them. I've been too focused on my immediate needs, on home and our family, on work. On the waves of despair that rush at me when the news brings another unwanted headline. And we forget, how the people we live side by side with experience joy and struggles, perhaps in different ways to us.
So we walked and discovered inch by inch. Dangerous dog signs and suspicious glances. Still waterways filled with sludge and lilies. Social housing where the halls echo with silence. A woman with her head in her hands on the kitchen table because she thought no one could see. Lonely people. Smiling people opening the door to save my fingers from the teeth of their letterboxes. Personalities imprinted on stamp-sized front gardens, under neighbouring patches of sky. A doctor, running out in his underwear, to talk to me about changing the world. The call of birds and the hum of traffic. The whisper of trees and sore feet. A curious child greeting us from behind his grandmother's frock.
We got home and I took the baby out of his sling. My shoulders ached and we heard about the outcome of the French election, and I thought how it had been a perfect day. I slept more soundly than I have for months.
At its best, politics is about understanding people, and about bringing them comfort. Today it reminded me of what it is to be human, and how empowering it is to act out our beliefs, even when the world feels dark. Especially then.
Beautifully written as always. Really enjoyed reading and felt I was there too.
Thank you. Yes, beautifully written. I can see you with your little one in his sling. Nothing to make people more willing to take in your message than a baby! He'll enjoy hearing about this when he's older. I stay politically active in many ways. After my husband died in June 2008, a friend asked me to drive to Pennsylvania with her to canvas house-to-house in support of Obama. It was one of the most healing I could have done.


My granddaughter's favorite things in the world are her play dough n' her baby dolls. She's three years old and hasn't yet, until now, had a baby that has made noise, wet itself, or any other action. I wish I could have left her surprise to the Cry Baby Coney.
She adores this beautiful baby. She is in awe and wonder that that this baby cries and makes real baby noises. Christina's youngest son is in awe as well.
The Cry Baby Coney is an adorable doll with wide beautiful eyes. She comes wearing her own changeable pink n' white one piece outfit. Her arms and her legs are movable. She also cries real water tears!
The Crybaby requires 2 AAA batteries. She will make authentic noise like a toddler and start to cry. She comes with her own package of tissues to wipe up those tears. She also comes with a teat, which in our house we also call it a binky. When she cries she just needs her teat/binky n' a couple cuddles.
It's simple to make the doll cry, just pour the water into a special container placed on the back of her head and then press the button below or turn the doll and pull the teat out of her mouth.
Our granddaughter loves the Cry Baby. This doll is recommended for children 18 months and older. It has been designed with high quality materials and is totally safe for little ones. The doll would make any child happy this holiday season.
This looks like a great gift for little girls. Thank you for sharing.
I know a special little girl who would love one of these cute dolls. They would be a really nice gift too for the holiday season.


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AUDIENCE REVIEW: Sean Dorsey "Secret History of Love"
Sean Dorsey "Secret History of Love"
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In its third year of Out in the Tropics — a performing art series that highlights contemporary GLBTQ artists and their work in dance, theater and film — FUNDarte opened this year's series with Sean Dorsey Dance and The Secret History of Love. The performance on Saturday, May 12, at The Colony Theater, was equal parts dance concert and theatrical performance that both educated and inspired as much as it entertained by laying bare the landscape of gay love through the ages in the pre Stonewall eras of the 20th century.
Photo: Lydia Danglier
Through movement and dialogue, both live and recorded, the company brings to light the personal tales of the community's elder GLBT generation and how they found or fought for their intimate, intense, and passionate love despite discrimination and warranted fear of persecution and prosecution. At the heart of this dance production was Dorsey's "soundscore" that included recorded live interviews with gay elders and their personal true accounts of first loves; of heartbreaks and police brutality; and of the inception of the cornerstone of gay life before such ideas as gay community or gay movement came to being — the underground bars and watering holes from the speakeasies of the 1920s, to the wartime joints of the 1940s, and the clandestine clubs of the 1950s.
The interviews painted a picture of life in Chicago's Boystown; to New York City's Harlem and Greenwich Village; to New Orleans' French Quarter; and to Boston's South End. The first recorded interview reveals that "secrets are our greatest industry." In these charming, chilling, and heart rendering testimonies a unique, fragile, yet precious love abounds. There were moments recounted of excitement, passion, fear, and genuine humor in these personal accounts of both life-long loves, or loves of long ago and the elegant to fanciful trappings of the roaring '20s to the dapper dress of the '50s.
A running thread in both the live and recorded dialogue is Dorsey's character's search for love in a time where same sex "fraternizing" was punishable by fines, prison time, and in some cases death. The overhanging question of love was, "Where and how do I find it?" in a world of supreme secrecy. The other three dancer/performers advise, cajole, push, and point the way to booze, dancing, and the special fraternity of the secret night spots. At times Dorsey would speak to a recorded voice of an assumed psychoanalyst who was leading her patient to his ultimate goal. At other times both parts of the dialogue were recorded while Dorsey danced a physical soliloquy as counterpoint. At others he lip-synched to his own-recorded voice.
These various levels of imitated, recorded, and live voice that made the soundscore so intriguing would change the surface of the audience experience from an instant visceral moment to one that was subtler.
The company consisted of a quartet, with Dorsey and three other male dancers who moved tirelessly through lyrical-looking minuets of sinewy phrases of constantly changing partners, and which incorporated lifts like punctuation after a long important sentence. The dancers moved through the historical landscape with subtle yet marked change in costume while the tenor of their movement changed in tone from energetic bursts to the intimate couplings at the dénouement of the piece.
As a whole this piece that Dorsey self-described as dance theater, endeavors to gain appreciation for an inconceivable time in the social fabric of GLBTQ persons — before the modern age we live in now of Kurt Hummel's on Glee and U.S. presidents affirming the right to gay marriage. The precious secret of the love that once "dare not speak its name" is as enduring as the political and cultural movements that came after to ensure its right to be heard.
This article also appears in the Miami Sun Post
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The following recipe serves 2-3 if you just want to cuddle up with your honey in front of the fireplace, but whenever I make this I typically double the recipe to serve 4-6.
Prep time = less than 5 minutes and cooking time = 25 minutes.
- 1 (750 ml) bottle of red wine (I prefer cabernet sauvignon. You can also try merlot or Zifandel. Honestly, cheap red wine is the best for this).
- 1 sliced orange. keep orange rinds on for zest.
- 2/3 cup sugar, honey, or agave syrup. I would recommend sugar or agave because they dissolve much easier than the honey, but whatever your preference. The agave is an all natural sweetener made from agave nectar and 25% sweeter than sugar, so you can use a little less.
1. Puncture/stick all the little cloves randomly into the orange slices. They stay in the orange the whole time it cooks to add flavor...and so no one chokes on a clove.
2. Combine all ingredients into a crock pot or slow cooker.
3. Warm ingredients on low to medium heat. AVOID BOILING or else you will lose the alcohol content.
4. Cook for roughly 25 minutes to an hour, stirring occasionally to dissolve all the sugar/honey/agave. You want to mull the spices & wine for a minimum of 20 minutes for all the ingredients to infuse together, and can keep it mulling on low heat for up to an hour. (It will give your home an absolutely amazing aroma!) Don't mull it for over an hour though, or else the spices may start to turn a bit bitter.
5. When wine is steaming it is ready to serve. Garnish with a cinnamon stick. Enjoy!


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package scalendar
package conversions

import java.util.Calendar._

sealed trait PeriodBuilder {
  val fields: List[Evaluated]

  def + (other: Evaluated) = Period(other :: fields)
  def - (other: Evaluated) = Period(other.negate :: fields)
  def milliseconds = {
    val now = Scalendar.now
    val future = fields.foldLeft(now)(_ + _)
    (now to future).delta.milliseconds
  }
  def into = new ToConversion(this.milliseconds)
}

case class Period (fields: List[Evaluated]) extends PeriodBuilder

case class Evaluated(field: Int, number: Int) extends PeriodBuilder {
  val fields = List(this)
  def negate = Evaluated(field, -number)
}

sealed trait EvaluatedField {
  val field: Int
  def apply(number: Int) = Evaluated(field, number)
  def unapply(evald: Evaluated) = evald match {
    case Evaluated(f, n) if f == field => Some(n)
    case _ => None
  }
}

object Milliseconds extends EvaluatedField {
  val field = MILLISECOND
}
object Seconds extends EvaluatedField {
  val field = SECOND
}
object Minutes extends EvaluatedField {
  val field = MINUTE
}
object Hours extends EvaluatedField {
  val field = HOUR
}
object Days extends EvaluatedField {
  val field = DATE
}
object Weeks extends EvaluatedField {
  val field = WEEK_OF_MONTH
}
object Months extends EvaluatedField {
  val field = MONTH
}
object Years extends EvaluatedField {
  val field = YEAR
}

class FromConversion(number: Int) {
  def millisecond = Evaluated(MILLISECOND, number)
  def second = Evaluated(SECOND, number)
  def minute = Evaluated(MINUTE, number)
  def hour = Evaluated(HOUR, number)
  def day = Evaluated(DATE, number)
  def week = Evaluated(WEEK_OF_MONTH, number)
  def month = Evaluated(MONTH, number)
  def year = Evaluated(YEAR, number)

  def milliseconds = millisecond
  def seconds = second
  def minutes = minute
  def hours = hour
  def days = day
  def weeks = week
  def months = month
  def years = year
}

class ToConversion(number: Long) {
  def milliseconds = number
  def seconds = number / 1000
  def minutes = seconds / 60
  def hours = minutes / 60
  def days = hours / 24
  def weeks = days / 7
  def months  = days / 30
  def years = days / 365
}

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Is Congress Allowed to Influence K Street Hiring Decisions?
Q: As an activist for ethical government, I am watching closely the reports that Democrats in Congress are pressuring K Street employers to hire more Democrats. In several Roll Call articles, I have read that they are frustrated about the shortage of Democrats hired by trade associations, lobbying firms and corporate government relations departments, and that they may take action to correct this perceived shortage. Doesn't last year's ethics reform prohibit Members from pressuring employers regarding hiring decisions?
A: In the nine months since Congress enacted the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, much of the discussion among Members, staffers and ethics lawyers has focused on the new restrictions on gifts and lobbying. Your question concerns a provision that has received comparatively little attention — the provision aimed at "Ending the K Street Project," which makes it a crime for Members and staffers to exert certain types of influence upon the employment decisions of private entities. Violations can result in heavy fines and up to 15 years in jail.
The law came in the aftermath of the "K Street Project," which loosely described efforts by Republicans in Congress to pressure lobbying firms and other private employers to hire Republicans. Upon its passage, Members issued press releases declaring that the provision "ends the pay-to-play scheme known as the K Street Project," puts "an end to the influence peddling K-Street Project," and "prohibits private entities from hiring and firing based on politics." Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) said on the Senate floor that the legislation was aimed at "anyone who would engage in the practice of wrongfully influencing a private entity's employment decisions and/or practices ... in exchange for political access or favors."
In light of this rhetoric, I can see why you might think that Democrats' recent efforts to ramp up pressure on K Street employers could violate the new law. For example, you probably wondered about Roll Call's report that senior Democratic aides recently met with key lobbyists to push them to abandon their allegiance to the GOP. It's this pressure that many government ethics advocates like you seek to end.
Yet, a closer look at the language of the new statute reveals that it does not target all types of pressure on lobbyists' hiring decisions and that merely demanding that employers hire Democrats does not alone violate the statute. Rather, other circumstances must be present as well. For one, the statute applies only where the Member or staffer exerting the pressure offers to take or withhold an official act for purposes of influencing the hiring decision.
Moreover, a last-minute change just before passage narrowed the new law's scope even further. As initially drafted, the law would have made it a crime for a Member or staffer to offer to take or withhold an official act "with the intent to influence, on the basis of partisan political affiliation, an employment decision or employment practice of any private entity." The version that actually passed is identical except that it inserts the word "solely" before "on the basis of partisan political affiliation."
This change is not insignificant. It means that a Member or staffer who offers to take an official act with the intent to influence a private entity's employment decision cannot be found guilty unless a prosecutor can show beyond a reasonable doubt that partisan political affiliation was the only reason for influencing the employment decision. Thus, a defendant who has some other, additional reason for influencing the employment decision — such as competence, personal friendship or committee experience — is not guilty under the statute.
However, the narrow scope of the new law does not mean that Members and staffers should feel free to pressure employment decisions. First, the difficulty prosecutors might face in obtaining a conviction under the statute would not necessarily deter investigations of potential violations. Given the substantial burden, expense and bad publicity that such investigations involve, Members and staffers have good reason to avoid conduct that might give rise to investigations.
Second, the ethics rules of both chambers now contain the same restrictions as those in the new statute. Unlike criminal sanctions, penalties for violations of Congressional ethics rules do not require proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Thus, Members and staffers who improperly influence private entities' employment decisions may be more vulnerable to an ethics violation than a criminal conviction.
Third, the language in the House ethics rule omits the word "solely." Therefore, in the House, a Member or staffer commits an ethics violation whenever he offers to take or withhold an official act with the intent to influence an employment decision or employment practice of any private entity on the basis of partisan political affiliation. This may be true regardless of whether political affiliation was the sole basis.
Finally, even where improperly influencing the hiring decision of a private employer does not violate the new statute or new ethics rules, the ethics committees might still conclude that such activity violates some other ethics rule. For example, both chambers generally forbid conduct that does not reflect creditably on Congress. The House and Senate ethics committees have exercised broad jurisdiction in applying these general prohibitions to all kinds of improper conduct, even where the conduct does not violate a specific rule.
So, to return to your question, last fall's ethics reform does increase the potential for liability to arise from pressuring employers about their hiring decisions. However, the narrow language of the new statute and ethics rules — particularly the insertion of the word "solely" — means that the new restrictions do not apply every time a Member or staffer exerts such pressure. In fact, it leaves many types of pressure untouched.


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17-year-old cyclist seriously injured in a fall in Salmtal
Salmtal (dpa / lrs) - In an accident in Salmtal (Bernkastel-Wittlich district), a young cyclist was seriously injured on Tuesday evening. The 17-year-old was on a road with a very steep gradient around 8 p.m., the police said. For reasons still unknown, he fell and injured himself so badly that he had to be taken to a hospital. The police asked witnesses to the accident to report.
Salmtal (dpa / lrs) - In an accident in Salmtal (Bernkastel-Wittlich district), a young cyclist was seriously injured on Tuesday evening.
The 17-year-old was on a road with a very steep gradient around 8 p.m., the police said.
For reasons still unknown, he fell and injured himself so badly that he had to be taken to a hospital.
The police asked witnesses to the accident to report.
Source: welt
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Dr. John E. Varnado was born and raised here in Walker, Louisiana. He has been practicing veterinary medicine for over 30 years. He attended LSU for preveterinary courses and graduated from LSU School of Veterinary Medicine in 1981. After graduating, Dr. Varnado worked in a practice in Baton Rouge for 18 months as a primarly large animal equine vet. In 1983 he built his first building located on the corner of Aydell and South Walker and began practicing in Walker as Varnado Animal Clinic. As the town grew, additional space was needed and in 2005 he build a new hospital at our present location on Walker South and changed the name to Walker Animal Hospital.
Dr. Varnado and his wife Molly are active, life long members of Walker Baptist Church. Their son Ryan and his wife Courtney, along with their 2 children Rylan and Slade, live here in Walker. Their daughter Laura and her husband Michael, along with their 2 children Brayden and Reese, live in Mandeville. In Dr. Varnado's free time he enjoys spending time with his family (especially wonderful grandchildren) and friends, working out and target shooting.
Dr. Hannah Sibley is a Walker, Louisiana native who has always had a sincere passion for animals. Through her schooling at Louisiana State University receiving her Bachelor's of Science and Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine degrees, that passion has grown into a career driven by her desire to help animals and their care takers along the way. She truly enjoys preventative medicine, surgery, and geriatric patient care. After working 4 years in Las Vegas, Nevada she has returned home to be close to family and friends and share her devotion of quality and passionate veterinary care in her home town.
Dr. Dana Finney has been a small animal veterinarian for over twenty years. Because of her undeniable love for animals since early childhood, veterinary medicine was the only suitable path for her. Dr. Finney graduated from LSU Veterinary School in 1998.
Born and raised in New Orleans, she has worked at St. Bernard Veterinary Hospital, Magazine Street Animal Clinic and Causeway Animal Hospital before relocating to the Baton Rouge area after Hurricane Katrina.
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WASHINGTON (CN) – The Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with how to compare monetary benefits and less tangible, interpersonal benefits in a case that could disrupt the way the government prosecutes insider trading.
At the heart of the case before the nation's highest court is Bassam Salman, a grocery wholesaler from Chicago who made nearly $2 million from trading tips he received secondhand from an investment banker.
Salman received the nonpublic trading tips from Michael Kara, who in turn got them from his brother Maher, an investment banker at Citigroup's healthcare division. Maher originally just talked to Michael about his job to get his brother's opinion on health matters, but over the course of time Michael pressed Maher for more and more details and became more forceful in his requests.
Michael and Salman became close after Maher proposed to Salman's sister. Shortly after, Michael began passing the information he got from his conversations with Maher to Salman, who then traded based off of these tips.
The Justice Department eventually cracked down on Salman for insider trading when his accounts – which actually belong to his wife's sister – boomed.
Salman was found guilty on four counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy.
He claimed the charge of insider trading was unfounded because Maher received no monetary benefit from the tips passed on to Salman, and appealed his conviction to the Ninth Circuit.
The Ninth Circuit held, however, that dolling out information can benefit an insider's relationship with his family or friends, and that the insider doesn't necessary have to benefit financially for his actions to be considered insider trading.
But Salman argued before the Supreme Court Wednesday that the charge of "insider trading" is made up entirely by judges, and goes well beyond what Congress intended in the Securities Exchange Act. He warned against adding to the law without legislative action.
"The Ninth Circuit's indeterminate psychological-benefit 'standard' provides so much flexibility that it would effectively allow the government to usurp Congress' role to define the crime," Salman wrote in a brief to the court.
For its part, the government argued in briefs that restricting the benefit necessary to prove insider trading to monetary gain would be damaging to laws meant to preserve faith in the financial markets.
The Supreme Court Wednesday struggled with balancing these two competing concerns during oral arguments that saw the justices question both sides extensively.
The arguments revolved around the Supreme Court's 1983 decision in Dirks v. SEC, which established the standard by which future courts should assess insider trading liability. Salman's attorney advocated for a more narrow reading of the Dirks decision, while the government said the case is important for protecting faith in the markets.
Both the liberal and conservative justices on the court pressed each side to explain its position, making it difficult to determine which way the court leans.
When Salman's attorney Alexandra Shapiro was at the podium, the justices pressed her to explain why doing something for personal benefit cannot be just as valuable as doing it for monetary gain.
Justice Stephen Breyer wondered why financial disclosure forms would require people to list their family members if there is no public interest in knowing how an individual's family member might benefit from their connections.
Justice Elena Kagan brought that argument further and offered Shapiro a hypothetical in which the justice wanted to give a family member a gift but couldn't afford it.
If she walked by a co-worker's desk, saw a $100 bill sitting there unattended and decided to take the bill and use it to buy the gift, surely she would be benefitting. So why should it be different if, instead of a $100 bill, she found and took insider information from her coworker's desk and gave that to a family member as a gift, Kagan asked.
Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben, who represented the United States, repeated a similar line during his time at the podium.
"The advantage that you receive is that you are able to make a gift with somebody else's property," Dreeben said told Breyer.
But Shapiro repeatedly pushed back at the idea that a gift always gives some personal benefit, arguing that some disclosures do not reach the level of insider trading.
Shapiro did note that she wasn't asking the court to determine whether insider trading can only occur when money changes hands, only that the government must prove the insider received a tangible real benefit and not the soft interpersonal benefit it claimed in Salman's case.
The idea is not to let insiders skate on insider trading claims, Shapiro insisted, but to make it clear what traders can and cannot do – a clarity that does not exist currently.
While some of the justices seemed reluctant to make the insider trading test as rigid as Shapiro would like, they also struggled with just how much of a benefit the government has to prove changed hands to constitute insider trading and just how close the relationship between the tipper and the tippee would need to be.
Chief Justice John Roberts challenged Dreeben on where the line is between insider information given to a friend as a gift and a tip gleaned from a simple social interaction.
If a group of friends decided to go away for the weekend but one had to stay back because he was "working on this Google thing," the friend's offhand comment could not be considered a gift if someone in the group traded based off of it, Roberts claimed.
Dreeben said he would not consider the information shared in that exchange to be a gift because the person revealing the information received no reward.
But Roberts warned such a distinction can be difficult to find.
Justice Samuel Alito took the hypothetical into even more dicey territory, asking Dreeben if an insider who gave confidential trading information to a stranger on the street just because he had a "really unhappy look on his face" would violate insider trading laws.
Dreeben said it would because the insider gave the information to a third party for non-corporate reasons.
"I think that Dirks adopted the basic line that sets forth the duty of loyalty, which is well established, that when you are given something for corporate purposes, you may not use it for personal reasons," Dreeben said.


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Q: Entity Framework 7 Migration Scaffolding in Class Library with Configuration Trying to add migrations to an EF7 Model that lives in an ASP.NET 5 class library. When running dnx . ef migration add mymigration fails with different results depending on which project I run it on.
If I run it in the folder of the main project, it cannot locate a DbContext, this makes sense because the DbContext is in the shared project and ef commands likely don't care about dependencies.
If I run it in the folder of the shared project, it does not have access to the connection string specified in the startup.cs. I have gleaned from questions like this that it does work from the shared project if you specify the connection string in the OnConfiguring method of the DbContext but I really would like to keep this code separate from the configuration.
I came across some issue logs in the EF7 repository that mention they implemented command line options for specifying a project and a context but there are no examples and I couldn't figure out how to use it from looking at the source code in the commit history.

A: Here is an approach that might work for you.

If I run it in the folder of the shared project, it does not have access to the connection string specified in the startup.cs.

Startup.cs
I'm assuming that in your Startup.cs, you're specifying the connection string by accessing Configuration rather than by hard coding it. Further, I'm assuming that in your Startup.cs file's constructor, you're setting up configuration from a few sources. In other words, your Startup.cs might look something like this:
public class Startup
{
    public IConfiguration Config { get; set; }

    public Startup(IHostingEnvironment env)
    {
        var config = new Configuration()
            .AddJsonFile("config.json")
            .AddUserSecrets()
            .AddEnvironmentVariables();

        Config = config;
    }

    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        services.AddEntityFramework()
            .AddSqlServer()
            .AddDbContext<MyDbContext>(options =>
            {
                options.UseSqlServer(Config["ConnectionStrings:MyDbContext"]);
            });
    }

    public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
    {
        var db = serviceProvider.GetRequiredService<MyDbContext>();
        db.Database.AsSqlServer().EnsureCreated();

        app.Run(async (context) =>
        {
            await context.Response.WriteAsync("Hello World!");
        });
    }
}

config.json
Further, I'm assuming that you're adding the connection string to a config.json in the root of your project (or that you adding it via user secrets or environmental variables.) Your config.json might look something like this:
{
  "ConnectionStrings": {
    "MyDbContext": "Some-Connection-String"
  }
}

If you're not doing it that way, it might be worth trying it.

I have gleaned from questions like this that it does work from the shared project if you specify the connection string in the OnConfiguring method of the DbContext but I really would like to keep this code separate from the configuration.

DbContext
If my assumptions above are correct, then you can access the connection string in the DbContext by using the same pattern that you used in the Startup class. That is, in the DbContext constructor, setup the IConfiguration. Then, in OnConfiguring, access the connection string. It might look something like this:
public class MyDbContext : DbContext
{
    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder builder)
    {
        builder.Entity<SomeModel>().Key(e => e.Id);
        base.OnModelCreating(builder);
    }

    protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
    {
        var connString = Config["ConnectionStrings:MyDbContext"];
        optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer(connString);
    }

    public IConfiguration Config { get; set; }

    public MyDbContext()
    {
        var config = new Configuration()
            .AddJsonFile("config.json")
            .AddEnvironmentVariables();

        Config = config;
    }
}

Project Structure
You'll of course need to have a config.json file in the root of your shared projects folder too. So, your projects' structure could look something like this:
SharedDataContext
    Migrations
    config.json
    project.json

WebApp
    config.json
    project.json
    Startup.cs

In the above, both config.json files contain a connection string setting for the DbContext.
Some Thoughts
If you don't like duplicating the config.json connection string stuff, then you can use environmental variables or user secrets instead.


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Q: How do you check if a file exists or not? so I am trying to code for an RLE program. I need to compress and decompress files, but I struggled to check if a file exists or not. can you help me with this please!
this is my programming so far:
file2 = input('Enter name of file containing the RLE compressed data: ')
# takes the name of the file
    if file2.exist():
        text = open(file2, 'r')  # opens the file and reads it only
        decode = ''
        count = ''
        data = input('Enter the name of the file to be compressed: ')
        for char in data:
            if char.isdigit():  # numerical char apears
                 # isdigit() checks if it contain digits; if yes or no
                 count += char  # its added to the count
            else:  # new char appears
                 decode += char * int(count)
                 # ^ decompress the char according to the count num
                 count = ''  # saves the new count num
     else:
        print('File name not found.')

I know that I need to fix the part where it says data = input('Enter the name of the file to be compressed: ') but I will do it later after fixing the file part. I kind of have an idea of how to do it.

A: Python likes to approach such situations via exception handling:
try:
    fin = open(file2, 'r')  # opens the file and reads it only
except FileNotFoundError:
    print("file doesn't exist")

This principle is called EAFP: it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission (https://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-anti-patterns/readability/asking_for_permission_instead_of_forgiveness_when_working_with_files.html).
The advantage is mostly readability and a clean coding style: e.g., you can immediately distinguish between regular conditions that determine program flow and exceptional situations. There is also a slight advantage in efficiency, if the exception doesn't happen very often.

A:
You can use the os.path module to check if a file exists. The module is available for both Python 2 and 3.

import os.path

if os.path.isfile('filename.txt'):
    print ("File exist")
else:
    print ("File not exist")


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WHO team visits animal disease center in Wuhan, China
WUHAN, China (Aryavarth) — World Health Organization experts visited an animal disease center in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Tuesday as part of their investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
Team member Peter Daszak told reporters later they had "excellent facilities, very informative meeting," and he tweeted the team met with staff in charge of the health of livestock in Hubei province, toured laboratories and had an "in-depth" discussion along with questions and answers.
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Further details of the visit were not announced.
The team members were wearing full protective gear during Tuesday's visit, a further indication of the work China has put into preparations for the WHO visit to Wuhan, where the first COVID-19 illnesses emerged in late 2019.
Outside their hotel and in public spaces, the experts have consistently worn masks and professional or business casual attire, but it's not clear if they have worn full-body protective suits at the research institutes, hospitals and markets they've visited previously.
Intense negotiations preceded the WHO visit to Wuhan since China has maintained strict controls on access to information about the virus, possibly to avoid blame for alleged missteps in its early response to the outbreak.
But on Monday, WHO officials in Geneva pushed back against suggestions the team of experts from 10 countries was not getting enough access or data.
WHO's COVID-19 technical lead Maria Van Kerkhove said the team has plans to visit the Wuhan Institute of Virology, considered among the major sources of information about the virus' origins. Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO's emergencies chief, said the agency was continuing to ask for more data and said anyone with information about how the pandemic started should share it with the organization.
The data the team assembles will add to what is expected to be a years-long quest for answers involving taking animal samples, genetic analysis and epidemiological studies.
China has largely stopped domestic transmission of the virus through sometimes draconian measures, including strict testing and electronic surveillance. Mask wearing in public is standard and lockdowns are routinely imposed on communities and even entire cities where cases are detected.
Schools have gone online and travel has been drastically cut during this month's Lunar New Year holiday, with the government offering incentives for people to stay put in the cities rather than return to their home towns for family gatherings.
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With social networks like WhatsApp and Twitter radically changing how we communicate with one another, a brave new world awaits forward-thinking organisations. And while there's undoubted risk in these new online platforms, there's also opportunity – to harness powerful social forces for good, and improve workplace well-being.
We asked Mike Bridge, associate principal consultant at Tribe, how can we make best use of them? Mike has a pedigree in improving businesses, by empowering people to unlock their potential. Here's his perspective.
What is the challenge as you see it?
"How to use communication positively is a perennial challenge, especially when the tools are evolving as fast as social networks do. Take email and mobile phones for example; they can already get in the way of people engaging with each other. So the real issue lies in how we use social networks in a more meaningful way, to support each other at work.
"One of the biggest well-being problems facing the modern workplace is poor mental health, and supportive communities have a role in tackling that. Mind estimate around 1 in 6 workers have anxiety, depression or stress. And the HSE say the latest estimates from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) show 11.7 million working days were lost in 2015/16 because of these three illnesses, with stress at 45%. Pressures like tight deadlines, too much responsibility and lack of managerial support were the main causes cited by respondents.
"If you look at the most effective, healthy teams, they're always the ones who value looking after each other. They develop, reward and reinforce positive behaviours that do that. So if online platforms can replicate that, they'll have a positive impact on well-being. Done well, you can get groups of people recognising when things go right, looking out for each other and correcting problems at source."
Is it really possible to cultivate these supportive conversations online?
"Many of us are lucky enough to have experienced an atmosphere of care and respect where everyone looks out for each other – the ideal family environment. These environments aren't abusive, people aren't put in situations they feel uncomfortable about and they're involved in decision-making. That usually feels good.
"So why not have that in the wider community you interact with outside of your home too? Why not apply the same values to every social group – whether real or virtual?
"It's all about getting people talking about what works well, making better products, being more efficient and making people's jobs easier. What's not to like about that? If we tap into people's desire for all that, then this can be about getting what you want out of work, enjoying quality of life and securing a healthier future for yourself."
Is the secret more positive reinforcement?
"Yes, the most successful organisations get better at celebrating and sharing and encouraging the good. They do that by engaging and empowering people, and openly recognising and accepting people are allowed to make mistakes as long as they're shared and put right. Once people catch the bug for encouraging each other and learning from them, wonderful things can happen.
"You can kick-start this by choosing a group of people; managers or staff from the frontline, to work as coaches or champions for change. They go out and talk to people, and it's their job to catch people doing things right, thank and praise them for it – because you want people to do more of that. At the same time, if you see someone doing things wrong, you challenge them, and get their agreement to try a better way in future. That gets the ground fertile for more of the same and starts raising the bar.
"You could compliment this with regular conversations that exchange ideas and share knowledge – to increase the pace of change and cement its effects. These could be well-moderated online forums or steering groups."
So would you advocate champions who do a similar thing on new social networks?
"Yes, that seems sensible. If you look at LinkedIn, the most active people on there are the ones sharing positive things. They're seen as influencers, thought-leaders in best-practice or building productive networks.
"On LinkedIn, people share things that are career-enhancing. It tends not to be stuff that's salacious or destructive, perhaps because there's a shared expectation that things should stay professional and work-related. Reputation seems to matters a lot more on LinkedIn than on Facebook, because your career, your business and your livelihood are on the line. People understand what's at stake and it's become a cultural norm there.
"Perhaps there's a lesson there – on social networks in a business environment, people tend to post sensible, thought-provoking, life-enhancing ideas. These can often be humorous and fun too."
What else can you do to promote healthy, supportive networks?
"Coming back to the idea of coaching conversations; things get really interesting when you get other staff, not just champions, talking and looking out for each other. Quite often, a business will call these by different names like 'near-miss reporting' for staff generated activity, whereas coaching conversations will have another. They might even have separate databases to store them in.
"With new platforms, like Tribe's Engage, people can share all of this behavioural improvement and people-support stuff in one place – where everyone can see it and make comments, and positively reinforce it. Indeed, Engage also captures proactive ideas for improvement. Who doesn't want to transform reporting data into a social commodity that can be used as a force for good?"
Do you believe online social networks are a force for good?
"These new platforms; they don't have all the answers. They're just vehicles for the change you want to see and the good intentions that sit behind it. The opportunity is in the speed and scale of what you can achieve with them.
"There are already communities of people who help each other out online, and they're self-regulating. You see this in awareness campaigning, charities and fundraising, interest group forums and online gaming.
"So: force for good? Yes, like any tool if it's used well it can do special things.
"Whenever I've seen businesses create space for people to come together regularly, on equal terms, to create new norms and better ways of working, it always improves business. Not just in safety but in wider efficiency. I've seen this happen using technologies which predate online social networks; so there's an exciting new opportunity to harness social networks here.
"Ultimately we need to get people talking; encourage them to do good things and celebrate that. This comes back to communities of people positively supporting each other – that has serious downstream benefits for safety, efficiency, health, resilience and better mental well-being."
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2022 marketing trends: our watchlist and what this means for your growing business
6 January 2022 3 min read
2022 is finally here and there's no denying that this is going to be a BIG year for marketing – with some massive changes already underway to the digital marketing landscape as we know it. But, what are the new digital marketing strategies you need to be aware of to stay ahead of the crowd? We've asked our team to share their top 2022 marketing trends, and most importantly, what this means for your business's marketing strategy.
The rise of the I-gorithm
If you follow our blogs, you'll already be aware of how the I-gorithm is set to change the marketing industry this year. We're already seeing it being rolled out by Twitter and Instagram – and Facebook is set to follow suit. Essentially, the I-gorithm curates a more tailored experience for users that places power back in their hands. It's a model based on trust and one that replaces the traditional algorithm. For marketers (reliant on highly targeted data) the shift to the I-gorithm is a scary prospect, but it's not all bad. Giving more control back to the user, will enable businesses to deliver more targeted campaigns by placing content in the feeds of consumers who are most likely to buy. This alternative digital marketing strategy will allow brands to cut through the noise more effectively and target audiences based on their preferences, rather than behaviours.
Video will no longer be a 'nice to have' but a 'must-have'
Video has been a marketing trend on everyone's list for at least the past five years, but this year, we're expecting to see all B2C (and not to forget, B2B) brands making this an essential ingredient of their new 2022 digital marketing strategy like never before. With TikTok set to surpass 1.5 billion users this year (well overtaking Instagram which remains on a billion actives) coupled with predictions that 82% of global consumer web traffic in 2022 will be from videos, brands will be doing themselves a massive disservice by not getting onboard with short-form video content.
Brands engaging influencers on new platforms
The great thing for brands is that you don't need to hire a TikTok specialist to hit the ground running. There's plenty of established influencers out there who will be talking to your exact target audience that your business can work with to create some killer video content. We expect to see more B2B brands continuing to embrace influencers too with Adobe, SAP, GE and PWC all having harnessed this trend. We've also seen the success of this strategy first hand – working with our clients to create their own LinkedIn influencers.
The revival of contextual targeting
Google's recent announcement that it will delay the death of the third-party cookie until 2023 may have given marketers a sigh of relief – but this isn't to say it's going away. In an inevitable cookie-less world, many of us will have to look to new digital marketing strategies to target our audiences, but contextual targeting could be your answer. For a while it was in the shadows because its performance was lower than behavioural targeting, but with the end to cookies (the very foundations of digital marketing before), marketers are moving back to contextual targeting – whether this be category, keyword, or semantic contextual targeting.
For businesses, this will mean you may know less about the people engaging with your platform/website, and instead, need to hyperfocus your content and posts to reach exactly the right people. Similarly, building a marketing strategy around first-party data which requests, not covertly captures, audience information will be key. Smart brands will shift spend away from cookies as soon as possible and embrace these alternative targeting methods that protect consumer privacy! We're especially loving this article by Forbes on the topic.
So there we have it. Our 2022 marketing trends watchlist. One thing is for sure – the more your business prepares for these inevitable industry changes, the better positioned you'll be to ride the wave, while neglecting these fundamental marketing shifts could cost you a significant amount of money and growth. If you're looking for an outsourced marketing team to help reach your 2022 marketing goals, find out more about YS marketing services here and get in touch today. We'd love to chat.
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В фотографии золотой час — это период дня вскоре после восхода солнца или перед закатом, в течение которого дневной свет выглядит более красным и мягким, чем при более высоком положении солнца.

Золотой час также иногда называют «волшебным часом». В этот период яркость неба соответствует яркости уличных фонарей, вывесок, автомобильных фар и освещённых окон.

Период времени около золотого часа до восхода или после заката называется «синим часом». В это время солнце находится значительно ниже горизонта и остаточное освещение приобретает преимущественно синий оттенок.

Характеристика

Когда солнце находится низко над горизонтом, солнечные лучи должны проникать в атмосферу на большее расстояние, что снижает интенсивность прямого света, так что непрямой свет с неба создаёт больше диффузного излучения, уменьшая коэффициент освещённости. Технически — это разновидность диффузного отражения света. Более синий свет рассеивается, так что если солнце присутствует на небе, его свет приобретает красноватый оттенок. Кроме того, низкий угол наклона солнца над горизонтом создает более длинные тени.

Термин «час» используется образно — эффект не имеет четко определённой продолжительности и варьируется в зависимости от сезона и широты. Характер освещения определяется высотой солнца, а время, в течение которого солнце перемещается от горизонта на заданную высоту, зависит от географической широты местности и времени года. В Лос-Анджелесе, Калифорния, через час после восхода солнца или за час до заката солнце имеет высоту около 10—12°. В местах ближе к экватору такая же высота достигается менее чем за час, а для мест, расположенных дальше от экватора, высота достигается более чем за час. В достаточно удалённом от экватора месте солнце может не достигать высоты 10° и «золотой час» в определённые сезоны может длиться весь день.

В середине дня яркое солнце над головой может создавать сильные блики и тёмные тени. Степень передержки различается, поскольку разные типы плёночных и цифровых камер имеют разные динамические диапазоны. Эта проблема с резким освещением особенно важна в портретной фотографии, где заполняющая вспышка часто необходима для сбалансированного освещения лица или тела объекта, заполняя сильные тени, которые обычно считаются нежелательными.

Поскольку в «золотой час» контрастность снижается, тени выглядят менее тёмными, а светлые участки менее подвержены переэкспонированию. В пейзажной фотографии тёплые цвета низкого солнца часто считаются желательными для улучшения цвета сцены. Это лучшее время дня для любого типа фотографии, поскольку свет хорошо рассеивается и тёплый.

См. также
 Альпийское сияние
 Пояс Венеры

Примечания

Литература
 Bermingham, Alan. 2003. Location Lighting for Television. Boston: Focal Press. ISBN 978-0-240-51937-1
 Lynch, David K., and William Livingston. 1995. Color and Light in Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-46836-1
 Lynch-Johnt, Barbara A., and Michelle Perkins. 2008. Illustrated Dictionary of Photography: The Professional's Guide to Terms and Techniques. Buffalo, NY: Amherst Media, Inc. ISBN 1-58428-222-3
 Singleton, Ralph S., and James A. Conrad. 2000. Filmmaker's Dictionary. 2nd ed. Ed. Janna Wong Healy. Hollywood, California: Lone Eagle Publishing Company. ISBN 1-58065-022-8
 Thomas, Woodlief, ed. 1973. SPSE Handbook of Photographic Science and Engineering. New York: John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0-471-81880-1

Ссылки
 Калькулятор Золотого Часа
 Калькулятор сумерек — Таблица синего / золотого часа
 Фотография Золотого часа: Руководство фотографа-пейзажиста

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Friday - December 7, 2018
First Anniversary of Bayer's Transparency Initiative
Bayer committed to transparency: Posts more than 300 glyphosate safety study summaries online
Monheim, December 7, 2018 – Today, Bayer marks the first anniversary of its Transparency Initiative, designed to enhance trust in the science behind crop protection products. As another important milestone in the company's efforts to make science more accessible, Bayer is making available more than 300 study summaries on the safety of glyphosate on its dedicated transparency platform.
"Trust in the integrity of crop protection science is core to us and our business," said Liam Condon, member of the Board of Management of Bayer AG and President of the Crop Science Division. "The public is interested in knowing more about how their food is grown and what products are involved in the production of food. Crop protection products are used by farmers to protect harvests from disease, pests and weeds. As one of the leaders in agriculture, we have been working diligently to make studies on crop protection substances available beyond regulatory requirements. We want to explain the benefits that science and innovation can deliver in agriculture while championing what's important to people: safe, healthy and affordable food that is produced in an environmentally sustainable manner. Improving access to the science behind our products is a key part of our Transparency Initiative."
Similar to the other substances included within its Transparency Initiative, Bayer is focusing on safety studies submitted under the European Union (EU) substance authorization process for plant protection products. On the website you can find the study summaries for studies on residues and metabolism (18), environmental fate (32), toxicology (180), and ecotoxicology (88) on the active substance as well as representative formulations. More information can be found on the FAQ page.
Access to the much more extensive underlying safety study reports will be enabled in 2019; this will include those owned by Bayer and submitted for the review that led to the European substance authorization renewal decision in December 2017.
The science behind the safety of glyphosate
Over the last 40 years, glyphosate and glyphosate-based formulations have been extensively evaluated for human health and safety. Most of this scientific research on glyphosate was conducted by independent researchers.
For additional research conducted on glyphosate, visit the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the U.S. Environmental Protection (EPA) and the glyphosate task force. Background information on glyphosate and its history as a safe and efficient weed control tool for farmers around the world is also available here.
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the Life Science fields of health care and agriculture. Its products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. At the same time, the Group aims to create value through innovation, growth and high earning power. Bayer is committed to the principles of sustainable development and to its social and ethical responsibilities as a corporate citizen. In fiscal 2017, the Group employed around 99,800 people and had sales of EUR 35.0 billion. Capital expenditures amounted to EUR 2.4 billion, R&D expenses to EUR 4.5 billion. For more information, go to www.bayer.com.
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Denoting antagonism to or inhibition or blockade of the action of epinephrine, norepinephrine, and related sympathomimetics.
See also: adrenergic blocking agent.
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A person holds a sign during a labor and union rights march in New York on March 4, 2015.
Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Unions Win Same Share of 2020 Mail, In-Person Elections (2)
By Robert Iafolla
Oct. 16, 2020, 6:41 PM; Updated: Oct. 27, 2020, 6:52 PM
Union win rate same for both voting methods
NLRB has halted seven elections set for mail balloting
Unions have prevailed in seven of 10 elections to represent private sector workers during 2020 regardless if the votes were cast in person or by mail due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of election results.
Unions have won 72.2% of the 313 mail-ballot elections and 70.5% of 329 manual elections tallied through Oct. 16. Those results are consistent with a union win rate of 71.9% for the representation elections conducted from 2015 to 2019.
Voter turnout was 69.1% for mail-ballot elections and 74.8% for in-person contests, the analysis of 2020 election results showed. Those figures are down from the 78.2% turnout for union elections from 2015 to 2019.
"Voter turnout has been low so far this year, but that's understandable, given the logistical challenges brought on by the pandemic," Bloomberg Law labor and employment analyst Robert Combs said. "What's surprising is that these challenges haven't affected one method of voting more than another, in terms of the outcome of the elections."
The strikingly similar statistical outcomes for the two voting methods provides new context for the National Labor Relations Board's recent willingness to indefinitely suspend mail-ballot elections in order to consider employer arguments that they should be held manually.
The Republican-controlled NLRB has halted seven mail-in votes since Aug. 25, while allowing five to move forward, including one election to oust a union. From early May to late August, the board had rejected at least 15 company requests to reconsider regional directors' orders for mail-ballot elections because of the virus.
Delays tend to disadvantage union campaigns, slowing momentum and giving employers opportunities to chip away at support for the union, labor law academics said. Employers favor manual balloting, in part due to concerns about possible fraud from mail voting, management-side lawyers said.
Concern About Delay, Fraud
The 2020 union election results show that the NLRB shouldn't stop votes and leave parties waiting to find out how and when workers will cast their ballots, said Maneesh Sharma, the AFL-CIO's associate general counsel. The statistics suggest that whatever issues about mail-ballot elections that worry the board don't actually affect outcomes, he said.
But keeping a workplace in limbo amid the tensions that often arise before an election harms workers, unions, and employers, he said.
"Ultimately the worst thing the board can do is indefinitely delay the election," Sharma said. "There's a reason the board is supposed to expeditiously resolve these things."
NLRB spokesman Edwin Egee declined to comment on whether the board considers the statistical similarities between mail and manual elections or the consequences of indefinite delay when it decides whether to halt mail-ballot elections.
The board orders don't explain its reasoning aside from saying employer objections raised "substantial issues warranting review."
Union preference for mail-ballot elections predates the pandemic, said Patrick Semmens, spokesman for the National Right to Work Foundation, a conservative advocacy group that litigates cases against unions.
"Union organizers may only care about the union win rate, but our concerns about mail in ballots are the opportunity for union pressure tactics and coercion that are greatly expanded by eliminating in-person, NLRB-supervised voting," Semmens said.
Although the threat of coronavirus transmission may make it prudent to hold certain union elections by mail, the NLRB should seek to conduct elections in-person as soon as it's safe to do so, said Maxford Nelsen, labor policy director for the Freedom Foundation, a conservative advocacy group.
Mail Elections Preferred
Despite the NLRB's newfound skepticism about mail balloting, it remains the overwhelming method of choice for the agency's regional directors in charge of approving elections during the pandemic.
Regional directors have ordered mail balloting in 39 of the 40 certification and decertification elections that they approved since the board paused its first mail-in vote in late August, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis. In at least six cases, regional directors called for mail voting even when the union agreed with the employer's preference for manual elections.
Six of the seven mail-ballot elections that the NLRB halted remain pending. Ballots would have been sent out to workers in those contests but for the board's intervention. The votes would have already been tallied in two of the six pending elections.
Ballots for nurses at Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital to join the Michigan Nurses Association would have been counted on Sept. 14. Votes for drivers at a Perdue Foods feed facility had been set to be counted Oct. 2.
One of the suspended elections moved forward because the union agreed to in-person voting to end the NLRB-imposed delay.
The ballots would have been mailed to workers at ClarkWestern Dietrich Building Systems' steel frame plant in Connecticut on Sept. 16 and the vote on whether they'd join the United Steelworkers would have been counted Oct. 7. Instead, the workers voted in person on Thursday.
(Adds more case detail in the 19th paragraph. An Oct. 27 correction updated voter turnout data. Story originally published Oct. 16.)
To contact the reporter on this story: Robert Iafolla in Washington at riafolla@bloomberglaw.com
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Union Elections Hang in the Balance as NLRB Ponders Vote by Mail
Oct. 7, 2020, 4:56 PM
NLRB Halts Mail-Ballot Union Election for Airgas Drivers (1)
Sept. 24, 2020, 10:04 PM
NLRB Stops Mail-Ballot Union Election at Upper Michigan Hospital
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Reads in code, writes out HTML with CSS classes based on the tokens in the code.

[![CI](https://github.com/atom/highlights/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/atom/highlights/actions/workflows/ci.yml)

See it in action [here](https://atom.github.io/highlights/examples).

### Installing

```sh
npm install highlights
```

### Using

Run `highlights -h` for full details about the supported options.

To convert a source file to tokenized HTML run the following:

```sh
highlights file.coffee -o file.html
```

Now you have a `file.html` file that has a big `<pre>` tag with a `<div>` for
each line with `<span>` elements for each token.

Then you can compile an existing Atom theme into a stylesheet with the
following:

```sh
git clone https://github.com/atom/atom-dark-syntax
cd atom-dark-syntax
npm install -g less
lessc --include-path=styles index.less atom-dark-syntax.css
```

Now you have an `atom-dark-syntax.css` stylesheet that be combined with
the `file.html` file to generate some nice looking code.

Check out the [examples](https://atom.github.io/highlights/examples) to see
it in action.

Check out [atom.io](https://atom.io/packages) to find more themes.

Some popular themes:
  * [atom-dark-syntax](https://github.com/atom/atom-dark-syntax)
  * [atom-light-syntax](https://github.com/atom/atom-light-syntax)
  * [solarized-dark-syntax](https://github.com/atom/solarized-dark-syntax)
  * [solarized-light-syntax](https://github.com/atom/solarized-light-syntax)

#### Using in code

```coffee
Highlights = require 'highlights'
highlighter = new Highlights()
html = highlighter.highlightSync
  fileContents: 'var hello = "world";'
  scopeName: 'source.js'

console.log html
```

Outputs:

```html
<pre class="editor editor-colors">
  <div class="line">
    <span class="source js">
      <span class="storage modifier js"><span>var</span></span>
      <span> hello </span>
      <span class="keyword operator js"><span>=</span></span>
      <span> </span>
      <span class="string quoted double js">
        <span class="punctuation definition string begin js"><span>"</span></span>
        <span>world</span>
        <span class="punctuation definition string end js"><span>"</span></span>
      </span>
      <span class="punctuation terminator statement js"><span>;</span></span>
    </span>
  </div>
</pre>
```

### Loading Grammars From Modules

highlights exposes the method `requireGrammarsSync`, for loading grammars from
npm modules. The usage is as follows:

```bash
npm install atom-language-clojure
```

```coffee
Highlights = require 'highlights'
highlighter = new Highlights()
highlighter.requireGrammarsSync
  modulePath: require.resolve('atom-language-clojure/package.json')
```

### Developing

* Clone this repository `git clone https://github.com/atom/highlights`
* Update the submodules by running `git submodule update --init --recursive`
* Run `npm install` to install the dependencies, compile the CoffeeScript, and
  build the grammars
* Run `npm test` to run the specs

:green_heart: Pull requests are greatly appreciated and welcomed.


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Dues snafu ended top candidate's bid to become AFSCME Council 4 executive director
By Marc E. Fitch July 2, 2018
Jody Barr, an administrator at Eastern Connecticut State University, replaced Salvatore Luciano as Executive Director of AFSCME Council 4 on May 11, but he wasn't the expected successor to lead one of Connecticut's largest public-sector unions.
AFSCME Council 4's Director of Collective Bargaining and Organizing Kevin Murphy was expected to take the lead role, but an eligibility challenge and subsequent investigation found Murphy was not a "member in good standing" because he failed to pay his dues on time and was therefore barred from the union election.
The mistake left AFSCME Council 4 in a bind, trying to find a successor for Luciano with little more than a month before elections.
Kevin Murphy was nominated for the position of executive director on February 16, 2018, but his eligibility was challenged by rival Charles Della Rocco, president of AFSCME Local 749.
According to a March 29, 2018 report by AFSCME's Elections and Nominations Committee, Murphy was late paying his dues for 6 months over the course of 2017.
Murphy chose to pay his dues quarterly, however the AFSCME local 818 constitution states that failure to pay dues by the 15th of the month for more than two months in a row results in suspension.
"Additionally, while Brother Murphy's retroactive dues payments may have restored him to the status of a member in good standing, it did not return him to the status of a member in good standing for a year prior to the election," the Elections Committee wrote. "Therefore, the Elections Committee finds that Brother Murphy is ineligible to run for the office of Executive Director at this time."
The technicality cost Murphy a significant promotion and raise in the union.
Murphy earned $129,403 in 2017 for his work as director of collective bargaining and organizing. The executive director position pays $155,254 per year, according to AFSCME Council 4's 2017 LM-2 filings.
However, Della Rocco's eligibility was also challenged and the Elections Committee found that he too was ineligible to run for executive director.
The Elections and Nominations Committee's report concluded "there are currently no candidates for the position of Executive Director" and had to schedule another meeting to nominate candidate for executive director.
Jody Barr was nominated for executive director on April 20, 2018, just twenty days before union members would vote, according to a May 11 report by the Elections Committee.
Barr had already accepted another term as president of AFSCME Council 4, but resigned in order to run for executive director as a last minute candidate.
Della Rocco was also nominated again after an AFSCME judicial panel in Washington D.C. dismissed the challenge against him.
Barr was able to mobilize a campaign quickly with mailers and won the election in a landslide, taking the top position in one of Connecticut's most powerful unions which counts among its employees Connecticut's Speaker of the House Joe Aresimowicz, D-Berlin.
Barr's election win meant a big raise from his previous job at ECSU where he earned $84,927 in salary in 2017. Barr worked for Connecticut's higher education system for 20 years and will be eligible to receive a pension upon retirement.
Murphy remains director of collective bargaining and organizing and Della Rocco remains President of Local 749.
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Marc E. Fitch is the author of several books and novels including Shmexperts: How Power Politics and Ideology are Disguised as Science and Paranormal Nation: Why America Needs Ghosts, UFOs and Bigfoot. Marc was a 2014 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow and his work has appeared in The Federalist, American Thinker, The Skeptical Inquirer, World Net Daily and Real Clear Policy. Marc has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Western Connecticut State University. Marc can be reached at [email protected]
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The union representing professors and faculty at the University of Connecticut say state lawmakers should reject tax cuts and instead
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