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QC's report into allegations against Mike Hancock MP made public
By The Voice | Wed 22nd January 2014 - 5:04 pm
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We've reported before on the allegations of sexual assault against Portsmouth South MP Mike Hancock – Mike temporarily stood down from the Lib Dem whip last June and denies any wrong-doing. He has continued to serve as a Lib Dem councillor in Portsmouth and is the city's cabinet member for planning, regeneration and economic redevelopment.
Last night, Lib Dem-run Portsmouth City Council voted not to publish the report – we understand on the advice of the Council's solicitor – commissioned by the Council to investigate whether Mike Hancock had breached its code of conduct. In November, the Council's standards committee decided not to proceed with any investigation until civil court proceedings being brought by the complainant have concluded. However, the report by Nigel Pascoe QC has since been leaked. Here's how the BBC reports it:
The barrister who investigated claims of sexual misconduct by Lib Dem MP Mike Hancock towards a female constituent found her evidence "credible", according to his report. …
Mr Pascoe was appointed by Portsmouth City Council in Mr Hancock's Portsmouth South constituency to produce a report after a complaint by a female – known as Annie, which is not her real name – that the MP had abused his position as an elected representative with sexual advances between November 2009 and July 2010.
In the report, Mr Pascoe says: "I do not find the actions of Mr Hancock were motivated solely by sexual desire for [Annie], who at all times was his constituent. It follows that the true picture of the behaviour of Mr Hancock towards [Annie] is more complex and nuanced than has previously been represented in the press.
"That said, I consider that the prima facie evidence of his unwelcome sexual approaches remains unquestionably a very serious matter in the light of the position which he holds. No-one in public life should allow themselves to act in such an irresponsible and damaging way."
Sections of the 49-page report have been redacted. However, Mr Pascoe does state: "Making full allowances for the disclosed mental history of [Annie], I have no doubt that she has provided before me compelling prima facie evidence of serious and unwelcome sexual behaviour towards her by Mr Hancock. I am of the clear view that her account is credible and merits both compassion and respect."
Lib Dem Voice has asked the party about the current status of any disciplinary action that might be considered against Mike Hancock. At time of writing, the party is saying that it is awaiting the conclusion of the civil court case being brought against him. Inevitably, however, people are comparing that with the decision to suspend Lord (Chris) Rennard's membership this week.
We've also asked Portsmouth Lib Dems if they have a statement on the issue. Further updates as we get them.
UPDATE: 17:54
The Party has just released a statement suspending Mike Hancock's membership of the party.
The Liberal Democrats have this afternoon, for the first time, had sight of a Portsmouth City Council report by Nigel Pascoe QC into allegations of sexual impropriety by Mike Hancock.
Mike Hancock resigned as a Liberal Democrat MP last year in order to contest allegations of sexual impropriety in a High Court civil action.
Given Nigel Pascoe QC's conclusions in his report, we have immediately suspended Mike Hancock's membership of the party.
A spokesman for Mike Hancock has issued the following statement:
"These matters have twice been looked at by the police, first in 2010, and in conjunction with the CPS, they have found that there is no case for Mr Hancock to answer and have taken no further action.
"Portsmouth standards sub-committee has yet to meet to hear evidence including from Mike Hancock as it decided to postpone that hearing until after the associated civil court case. Unfortunately due to the ongoing civil case, Mike received legal advice that he should not give evidence to the council's investigator. He looks forward to giving his evidence when the sub-committee meets after the conclusion of the civil case. Mike Hancock asked to meet with the council's investigator to explain this and this was denied him despite the city council's solicitor asking the investigator to meet Mr Hancock.
"He therefore believes the report which he has not seen is likely to be one-sided.
"The independent legal advice to Portsmouth City Council noted that the High Court was a better place to establish matters of fact – not least because it could take evidence under oath which the council cannot. The most suitable place to settle a civil case is in court and not in the newspapers. As this is an on-going legal case, it not appropriate for Mike to give a running commentary. In the meantime he will continue to work hard to serve his constituents as an MP and councillor including campaigning for jobs at the dockyard."
And here's a statement from the report author Nigel Pascoe QC:
I have now seen for the first time the redacted version of my report, Public and Private Conduct, concerning Mr Michael Hancock MP. Whatever the legal reasons for redaction, which was not for me to decide, the overall effect is unsatisfactory in a number of ways. First, it does not carry the full reasoning for my conclusions and specifically my comments on a number of pieces of evidence.
Second, it does not set out the position of Mr Hancock as I perceived it to be, including a number of assumptions and comments that I set out clearly in his favour. Third, it edits the chronology of events in some respects that in my view, are unfortunate. Last, some of my conclusions have been omitted, although I can understand why that might have been done at this moment in time. I should add that there are other redactions of a minor character which I also understand.
It is for Portsmouth City Council and not for me to decide on its ultimate full publication and I have no intention of releasing myself redacted portions. But I am pleased that the partial release of the report has brought further information to the complainant, for whom I have expressed publicly my concern.
The constituent was entitled to know the views I had formed of her evidence, even though the full view has not yet been made public. That is the reason why in my view, it would be better for my full report to be published sooner rather than later. In the meantime, I hope that some responsible journalists will draw attention to one of my conclusions which has been made public in the redacted version, namely my admiration for the way that she addressed her mental health issues in front of me.
Nigel Pascoe QC
Portsmouth Lib Dems have just issued this statement:
We have today been made aware that Liberal Democrat HQ has received a complaint about Mike Hancock and has, pending investigation of that report, suspended Mike Hancock's membership of the party.
There is an ongoing civil court case on the issues raised in the complaints to Portsmouth City Council and to the Lib Dems nationally. Furthermore, the Police have investigated this complaint twice and found there to be no case to proceed with on both occasions. We believe in proper and due process and that as there is an ongoing court case, it is the court that should rule first, having considered all the evidence, not the media or internal panels.
Mike Hancock has loyally represented the people of Portsmouth for over 40 years and he will continue to serve as an excellent constituency MP and as a councillor.
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g 22nd Jan '14 - 5:27pm
Are there any other senior lib dem figures undergoing investigation following allegations of inappropriate behaviour? Now would seem a good time to release details, the drip drip is going to kill you.
Keith Legg 22nd Jan '14 - 6:17pm
Might want to turn the comments off here, like the Rennard stories?
Caron Lindsay 22nd Jan '14 - 6:19pm
They're on pre-moderation, Keith.
Peter Chegwyn 22nd Jan '14 - 6:35pm
It's good that you're pre-moderating posts here Caron because Mike Hancock has had to suffer appalling abuse from political opponents in the local Portsmouth News who post on that newspaper's online forum under numerous aliases.
I would guess they'd post here too given the chance. Glad you've already taken action to stop that!
Nonconformistradical 22nd Jan '14 - 6:40pm
His party membership has been suspended – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25852536
Simon 22nd Jan '14 - 7:05pm
@peter chegwin
It is quite possible that aome of his critics aren't political opponentsbutjust disappointed constituents. I don't condone abuse but this is a democracy and it merely insults the public to think they aren't capable of holding an opinion that isn't spoonfedto them by 'political opponents'.
paul barker 22nd Jan '14 - 7:49pm
Its not as if this news comes as a great surprise. Whether the timing is helpful or not (I dont know) this at least gives us a chance to clear up before the Elections are on us.
Peter Chegwyn 22nd Jan '14 - 10:44pm
@Simon – No, they're not disappointed constituents. Whatever else he may be accused of, nobody has ever suggested that Mike Hancock is anything other than a first-class constituency MP.
You may not be aware but there are actually TW0 court cases involving Mike Hancock at present, the one that has resulted in his suspension from the party and another where one of his political opponents, a Mr. Les Cummings, has been accused of a number of stalking and harassment offences against Mike Hancock:
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/man-alleged-to-have-stalked-portsmouth-mp-appears-in-court-1-5762109
That case is continuing.
S 23rd Jan '14 - 8:10am
@ Peter Chegwyn
Presumably the woman accusing him of sexual impropriety feels him to be something other than a first-class constituency MP.
BrianD 23rd Jan '14 - 8:25am
Mike Hancock served the people of Portsmouth for 42 years. He retains what was once a Tory seat because of his hard work -often 2 surgeries a week over that period. He cares passionately about Portsmouth people and has enemies in the city who have published leaflets describing him as a paedophile. Last year he was compelled to have a quadruple heart bypass which was not entirely successful but he has continued with his council, Parliamentary and constituency work despite debilitating illness..
We await the Court case for a final verdict but I am proud to have worked with him.
RC 23rd Jan '14 - 8:56am
Both of these cases are being used to the full by our political opponents because they feared the beginnings of a Lib Dem polling revival. In fact, it is hardly a coincidence that in the days before both of these scandals blew up again, there was a crop of positive polls.
If they can hit us hard now, then we can be humiliated enough in the Euros and council elections to put us out for the count in 2015.
That, in my opinion, is the strategy that is being deployed. We should do everything possible to make sure as a party we don't do anything that adds fuel to a fire started by our enemies, particularly those in the press.
g 23rd Jan '14 - 10:03am
RC, etc
This isn't a political conspiracy against the Liberal Democrats, it's an investigation into credible allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behaviour.
It demeans all concerned to turn it into a conspiracy theory, and it doesn't help anyone, least of all your party who are really struggling right now to convince that they think in line with modern mores on behaviour, to frame it as such.
John Dunn 23rd Jan '14 - 10:35am
RC writes
"We should do everything possible to make sure as a party we don't do anything that adds fuel to a fire started by our enemies"
By cleaning up your act perhaps ? Stop blaming everyone else. Your blame should be directed squarely at your poor leadership for ignoring issues that ought to have been dealt with sooner.
CP 23rd Jan '14 - 12:32pm
There was a discussion yesterday on one of the Rennard threads about why more women don't comment on these threads – well, I think this is a very good example of why they might be put off frankly. Blind loyalty to someone – a man – who may just be fallible and have done something to cause offence to a clearly vulnerable woman is not helpful. Mike Hancock may be a brilliant constituency MP and hard-working councillor (and I'm sure he is from everything I know of him), but blind adulation is why things got where they did with Rennard. And where is the real victim here? It's not Mike Hancock, it's the woman who made the complaint in the first place and whose complaint has been found to be largely credible. If you are in a position of power you have to use that very wisely at all times or face the consequences. If you put yourself up there, you either beheave impeccably or accept that you are in for a very rough ride and that you have given your opponents ammunition.
Like John Dunn and G say above, stop blaming everything and everyone else, and start addressing the culture that has led to the current problems (and I know from personal experience that there are others who have also been able to get away with such behaviour despite repeated complaints). And, yes, I am a woman!
RC 23rd Jan '14 - 4:40pm
They might be "credible" but unless those concerned are actually able to provide clear evidence that will hold up in a court of law, then in the final analysis there is nothing much that can be done about them.
Pardon me for confusing it with an overblown mediafest that is determined to use allegations about one individual in order to smear the whole party. My mistake.
@ John Dunn
"Your blame should be directed squarely at your poor leadership for ignoring issues that ought to have been dealt with sooner."
What does "dealing with" mean? Presumably you're talking about circumventing due process and coming up with some kind of lynch mob solution?
Yours and g's comments are exactly the kind of thing I am talking about. To make it out as if it's not two individuals, but trying to involve the party leadership in some kind of invented "crisis".
And quite what "cleaning up our act" is supposed to mean, coming from someone who I presume supports one of the other parties, I really don't know.
Try putting the other two parties under the same forensic microscope and who knows what horrors anyone would find.
Manfarang 23rd Jan '14 - 5:05pm
Allegations where real evidence that would stand up in a court of law seem lacking.
g 23rd Jan '14 - 6:43pm
RC, Manfarang, essentially this is an issue of accusations of abuse of power and abuse of trust, not necessarily criminal acts. It is why workplaces have harassment policies that do not start by summoning the police to charge those concerned, and then demand a jury to try them, but rather with mediation and disciplinary proceedings. Just because something is not illegal, does not mean it is not wrong, does not mean it is not abuse, and it certainly does not mean that no action can be taken to ensure it does not happen again and and that the offender remains unpunished.
CP 23rd Jan '14 - 7:10pm
RC "Try putting the other two parties under the same forensic microscope and who knows what horrors anyone would find."
You're no doubt right, but that's not the point is it? I would hope similar issues arising in any party would be subject to the same scrutiny both within that party and externally and that the culture of any organisation that 'allowed' such behaviour to be swept under the carpet would be challenged rigorously. As it has recently with UKIP.
It means taking the complaints seriously and treating the alleged victims with due respect and addressing their complaints promptly for starters – it's not circumventing due process, it's ensuring that matters are addressed swiftly in order to be fair to all parties.
Manfarang 24th Jan '14 - 11:30am
Balance of probabilties concerning proof in civil law cases.Again that seems to be lacking.
Chris 24th Jan '14 - 12:41pm
Why do you think that? Webster has said nothing in his public statements about the evidence not meeting the civil standard. Nor has Rennard, in his extremely long and detailed statement earlier this week.
"Why do I think that?"
Trial by newspaper and a trial by court are completely different matters.
Chris 25th Jan '14 - 1:35pm
Manfarang
If you are talking about Rennard, then my comment was based on Webster's public statements about his conclusions – nothing to do with "trial by newspaper". But I'm not really clear which of the two cases you are talking about.
Chris Manners 26th Jan '14 - 4:56pm
Report kept secret.
Councillors say "nothing to see here"
Report leaked, with apparently uncontested evidence of dreadful behaviour by Hancock- text messages alone.
Councillors invent some bogus threshold of not being found guilty of a criminal offence.
It's appalling.
Sorry, the rest of us listened to too much "new politics" stuff to let this chug along.
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It's only through building strong community connections between everyone can we ever begin to put public pressure on the council to do what we want. For example, we need regular meetings with all housing and tenant associations, and others, discussing the same issues in unison.
I also see it as part of my job to expose the inner workings of the council and make it public. Including much of its impenetrable bureaucracy and regulations. I will expose their 'club' operating behind closed doors — block voting to the endless lobbying — ensuring we all see it for what it is.
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I am interested in the use of underwater acoustics to study a variety of biological and physical oceanographic processes. Using underwater sound, we can non-invasively measure a variety of marine processes (zooplankton and fish distributions, submerged aquatic vegetation, turbulence and microstructure) with high temporal and spatial resolution.
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Current research projects include: field surveys of Antarctic krill populations near the Antarctic peninsula, physical factors influencing the retention of krill in the nearshore environment, the distribution of zooplankton populations as they relate to foraging effort from predators, use of acoustics (including instrument development) to map and measure submerged aquatic vegetation in estuarine environments, scattering model development for gelatinous zooplankton, submerged aquatic vegetation, and temperature and salinity microstructure.
J. D. Warren and P. H. Wiebe. 2008. Accounting for biological and physical sources of acoustic backscatter improves estimates of zooplankton biomass. Canadian journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65: 1321-1333.
J. D. Warren and J. N. Smith. 2007. Density and sound speed of two gelatinous zooplankton: Ctenophore (Mnemiopsis leidyi) and lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(1): 574-580.
J. D. Warren and B. J. Peterson. 2007. Use of a 600-kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler to measure estuarine bottom type, relative abundance of submerged aquatic vegetation, and eelgrass canopy height. Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science 72: 53-62.
Drs. Brad Peterson and Joe Warren are currently leading a group of students looking to leave the cold and rain of New York during the Winter Intersession in the tropical environment of Discovery Bay, Jamaica for MAR 388 / 537 - Tropical Marine Ecology. This 4 credit...
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Many thanks to those who participated and assisted with the 2017 Flax to Vax Race + BBQ on Saturday. Heather Lynch and Kurt Bretsch won for the faculty and Mark Nepf and Ashley Cohen won for the students. Overall the top five faculty times beat the top ten student...


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Thomsen Young September 20, 2013
deaf news
Myths about Deaf People
By Laura Benson
Minority groups are characterized by stereotypes; to this deaf people are no exception. The stereotypes surrounding deafness are largely as a result of ignorance, as people do not seem to be well versed with what deafness is and what it entails. In fact, just recently the DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) was accused of discrimination by requiring deaf people to use the telephone when making PIP claims. The DWP has since made an allowance for deaf people to make claims via their postal address instead. Below are a few other assumptions and myths about deaf people:
• All Deaf People Are Mute
In general, deaf people are able to produce some form of sound with their mouth. A good number of deaf people do not speak. Some shy away because it is difficult for people to understand them, while for others the complexity in determining the pitch of their own voice serves as a setback. To be proficient at oral communication, deaf people have to go to oral schools, where for years they are painstakingly taught how to speak.
• Deaf People Are Not Intelligent
Similar to the hearing population, there are some deaf people who have an intellectual disability. However, it cannot be concluded that all deaf people are not intelligent, or less intelligent than hearing people. There is no relation between deafness and intelligence.
• Deaf People Can Hear Using Hearing Aids
Hearing aids have helped many deaf people; however they are not useful for all deaf people. Hearing aids do not correct deafness or restore hearing, but instead amplify sound. For this reason, a hearing aid can help some deaf people decipher sounds and noises. The downside is that they magnify all noise, and hence it can be tricky for a deaf person with hearing aids to pick out certain sounds in a noisy environment.
• Deaf People Are Excellent Lip Readers
It is estimated that deaf people can understand approximately 30% of a conversation from lip reading. This can be attributed to many factors, such as that many speech sounds have similar lip and mouth movement, for instance p and b. However, when reading the lips of people they are familiar with, comprehension can be as high as 60%.
• All Deaf People Are Familiar With Sign Language
There are about 70 different kinds of sign language used by deaf people all over the world, for example British Sign Language, American Sign Language (used in America and some parts of Canada), French Sign Language, Italian sign language and so and so forth. Some deaf people are able to use a specific one or a blend of such systems.
• Deaf People Can Hear Me If I Shout
It is uncouth to shout at people, more so at deaf people. For some deaf people, especially those who use hearing aids, shouting can cause pain as the hearing aid amplifies the loud volume. Shouting can be interpreted as anger by a deaf person. Shouting also causes distortion of the lips, which may make it even more difficult for a lip reader to decipher what a person is trying to say.
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A PostCSS plugin which implement polyfills recommended on caniuse.com into your CSS where applicable

This library aims to fill the void left by polyfills for several browsers that require javascript work-arounds which can be invoked using CSS classes and custom CSS properties.

Think of it as the next best thing to have alongside autoprefixer using polyfills your already familliar with, without having to type a single line of custom CSS.

This is a very early work in progress but the idea is to approach this using the same API as autoprefixer, with some modifications to allow certain polyfill javascript libraries to be injected into your project using a single script entry point.

== Few aims of the project ==

- Build an ie.htc (google .htc files and you'll understand why) incorporating as much functionality as possible from existing IE polyfill projects such as CSS3PIE and background-size-polyfill

- Wrap .htc property invokers inside classes that require a polyfill from the .htc file (the above 2 projects would be a good start for this)

- Ignore existing polyfills and maybe recommend removing them (if the API supports them)

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Beading Dreams | Basic Stringing for Kids 2:30 p.m.
Finally, a class just for kiddoes!! Our young beaders will learn to string and crimp a necklace. This is the perfect way for your young creator to make fun gifts from the heart. Ages 7 and up welcome, kids are welcome to take this class without an adult!


If you are a practitioner or follower of Marketing Automation, you've probably read a few recent articles about Marketo's challenges with rolling out "Orion" to their install base. It's a clear reminder that big shifts in architecture are hard and uncertain, and it's often the customers who are caught in the transition. History tends to repeat itself, just as on-premise applications were replaced by new cloud apps by new software providers (as opposed to 'simply' moving existing on-premise apps into the cloud), the move to big data architecture is seeing similar transitions.
Act-On was built from day one on a native, Big Data (NoSQL) architecture, which puts us and our customers at an advantage. Early next week we'll be announcing the future of marketing; journeys which use machine learning to drive unique, powerful, and fully adaptive engagement paths for prospects and customers that respond to behaviors and provide a truly personalized experience. We're also doing this at a faster clip than our competitors, who are having to rebuild and transition off pre-existing architectures, which translates to a quicker time to value for our customers who can begin reaping the benefits of machine learning-driven journeys.
It's time to make the move. Your customers are expecting an incredible experience. If Marketo's customer communication plan for the Project Orion rollout is any indication of your future engagements with them, then I suggest you weigh your options. We want you to be successful in your marketing efforts and your big data-driven ambitions. To help, we're offering a switch-and-save program for all existing Marketo customers. Give us a call and we'll get you into Act-On for less than you are paying for Marketo, and work with you on a transition plan to capitalize on the future of marketing.


Our two papers on the toxicity test using an ostracod Heterocypris incongruens were published!
Heterocyris incongruens is a crustacean species having bivalve-like shells.
▲A picture of Heterocypris incongruens taken from a previous blog post.
H. incongruens has been used for the evaluation of environmental pollution such as sediment contamination. The test method was standardized by ISO (ISO 14371).
The standardized test relies on 6-day mortality and growth inhibition. For the development of the ostracod toxicity test using other endpoints such as reproduction and long term mortality, we performed the following studies.
▲Word Cloud of Niyommaneerat et al. (2017) generated by WordClouds.com.
This paper investigated the variability of reproductive parameters such as first day of brooding, life-time egg production, egg hatching ratio under non-toxic conditions. Then, the applicability of these endpoitns was discussed.
The developed chronic test was applied to test the toxicity of urban road dust.
▲Word Cloud of Hiki et al. (2017) generated by WordClouds.com.
H. incongruens sometimes produces long-dormant eggs (>150 days for hatching).t is desirable to shorten the duration of life-cycletoxicity tests including the observation period of egg development. This paper suggest a practical duration of life-cycle toxicity test with H. incongruens.
The experimental data of this paper relies on Mr. T's (an alumnus of our lab) bachelor's thesis.


No book is complete without recognizing the help and support of others. We dedicate this book to them.
To my wife Cecivón and my children Cecivonita, Tony, Maui, and Alex. You were my source of inspiration. To my esteemed colleague Dr. Bill Stein for your insightful input and invaluable critical thinking. And to my now friend Barry Keys for inviting me to work with him on the supply-chain design project.


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Q: Returning the results of hundreds of columns into an array I have a table with hundreds of columns. I need to take the result of every column (except one) and put them into an array and bring back the rest of the results. Here it was the table looks like:
ID          x123     x124    x125    x126  ......
2323343     0        0       0       1
3434566     1        1       1       0
3434342     1        1       0       0
3366577     0        1       1       1
....        ....     ....    ....    ....

This table continues on for a while. Basically I need all of the x# column's results brought back in an array with the rest of the tables results (except for the ID column). So that my results would look like:
array            x123     x124    x125    x126  ......
{0,0,0,1,...}    0        0       0       1
{1,1,1,0,...}    1        1       1       0
{1,1,0,0,...}    1        1       0       0
{0,1,1,1,...}    0        1       1       1
....             ....     ....    ....    ....

my current SQL statement is something like this:
select * from mffcu.crosstab_183

I figure this would take a function of some sort to build a table with these results and that is fine. I really don't know where to begin with getting EVERY column and EVERY record to be thrown into an array right now without NAMING every single column (there are so many). Any swing in the right direction would help greatfully.

A: If the format of your table is as simple and strict as it seems (the first column consists of 7 digits), you could resort to a very simple trick:
SELECT string_to_array(right(left(t::text, -1), -9), ',')
FROM   mffcu.crosstab_183 t;

That's all.
left() and right() require PostgreSQL 9.1 or above.
For older versions:
SELECT string_to_array(substring(rtrim(t::text, ')'), 10), ',')
FROM   mffcu.crosstab_183 t;

Explain
Every type can be cast to text in Postgres, that includes composite and row types. So

*

*Cast the whole row to text.

*Remove enclosing parentheses and the first column - in this case identified by length.

*Convert the result to an array with string_to_array().

A: I think you'll need to select all, as you are, then set the first field in each row of the result array to be an array of the remaining results in that row. It's not pretty but it works.
To my knowledge there is no way of excluding a column from a select statement. You either need to SELECT * or name each column to include.
How this is done depends on the programming language you're using to process the data returned from the SELECT.

A: I would recommend to look at temp tables, shema info and run-time sql
the code below may give you some ideas... (the code is done in sql server dialect. some adjustments might be necessery for postgree..)
CREATE TABLE #Result(Id int, ColumnId VARCHAR(10), Value TINYINT);

DECLARE db_cursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT 'INSERT INTO #Result SELECT ID, ''' + COLUMN_NAME +''', '+ COLUMN_NAME + ' FROM ManyColumnsTable' --'
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = N'ManyColumnsTable' AND COLUMN_NAME LIKE 'x%'

DECLARE @command NVARCHAR(80)

OPEN db_cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @command

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
       PRINT @command

       EXECUTE sp_executesql @command

       FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @command
END

CLOSE db_cursor
DEALLOCATE db_cursor

SELECT * FROM #Result --WHERE ColumnId = 'x102'

DROP TABLE #Result

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Q: How to wait for information (currentUser) before componentDidMount I have a user profile page, when I refresh the page my redux store clears and then I have a fetch all the information again from the backend... but my profile page begins to mount before I get that information back.
I this function in my "loggedInRoutes.js". It will get the currentUser from the JWT token I have in localStorage, and save the userName and ID, etc, in my Redux Store
  componentDidMount(){
    if (localStorage.length===0){
     this.props.history.push('/')
    }else{
      this.props.dispatchCurrentUser()
    }
  }

It's in the top level of my routes, the switch statement with my route rendering is in the same page.
In my profile page. (I need to check if the currentUser is friends with the user who's profile I went to, that's why I need both infos from the start).
  componentDidMount(){
    this.props.fetchProfile(this.props.currentUser, this.props.match.params.userId)
    this.requestFriendshipFunction()
  }

This works if I already have the currentUser in my redux store, but if I do a page refresh while on the profile page, the componentDidMount in the profile page gets called before I have that information, even though I'm calling the "dispatchCurrentUser" in a more container/parent component "loggedInRoutes".
Saving the currentUser info in local storage seems like a bad idea, and I'm not sure where to go from here.
Thank you.


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It's a worrying new craze sweeping the country's classrooms that every parent needs to know about.
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The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
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VIVO Y16 4G with 5000mAh battery unveiled
An affordable 4G smartphone from VIVO called VIVO Y16 4G has been made official. It has Stellar Black and Drizzling Gold color options.
Pricing and availability of Y16 were left out.
VIVO Y16 4G specs and features
It is a dual SIM smartphone with dual 4G VoLTE support. It is powered by Android 12 based Funtouch OS 12 out of the box.
The handset itself measures 163.95 x 75.55 x 8.19 mm and weighs about 183 grams. It has a poly-carbonate flat frame design and is fairly similar to VIVO Y35.
The VIVO Y16 4G feature a 6.51-inch multi-touch display that offers 1600 x 720 pixels HD+ resolution at 20:9 aspect ratio.
It has a tiny water-drop notch at top which houses a 5MP selfie cameras with F/2.2 Aperture. At the back side is a rectangle camera module that houses 13MP (main, F/2.2) and 2MP (F/2.4) shooters along with LED Flash.
The smartphone houses an octa-core MediaTek Helio P35 processor with IMG PowerVR GE8320 (680MHz) GPU. It has 4GB RAM and supports 1GB additional RAM using Extended RAM 2.0 tech.
The Y16 4G has 64GB built-in storage space which is further expandable using microSD card (dedicated slot). There is a 5000mAh battery that easy lasts for at least a day. It supports 10W charging.
Usual connectivity options like Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Bluetooth V5.0, USB Type-C, GPS and 3.5mm audio jack are present.
There are several sensors like Fingerprint sensor, Ambient light, proximity, e-compass and virtual gyroscope.


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Q: Setting Message Payload to Session Variable In my Mule flow, I have a message that is constantly being edited to form a record of all processing at the end of the flow. At one point, I make an HTTP call to a webservice to get some details for the message.
My problem is the following:
The HTTP response is saved as the message payload which requires me to save my master record to a session variable in order to save all previous processing. However, when I set the session variable, the value of the session variable is java.class@d6883 (java.class = the class of the object. Had to edit to comply with my code of conduct). How do I set the value of the message payload into a session variable rather than the memory location of the message payload?

A: Assuming the object you put in session is Serializable, you can achieve this using MEL:
<set-session-variable variableName="tempCanonical" value="#[message.payload]" />


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Збі́гнєв Ку́ртич (; 16 травня 1919, Львів — 30 січня 2015, Варшава) — польський співак, гітарист і композитор.

Життєпис
Народився в сім'ї Мечислава Куртича — диригента львівського оркестру мандоліністів «Hejnał» («Гейнал»).

Спочатку навчався від батька гри на скрипці, але згодом вибрав головним інструментом гітару. Виступав у багатьох музичних групах.

Був гравцем львівського футбольного клубу «Погонь» і 1937 року в його складі здобув друге місце на чемпіонаті Польщі з футболу серед юніорів.

За радянських часів виступав у львівському театрі-ревю Фелікса Конарського «Ref-Rena» («Реф-Рена», тобто «При-Спів»).

Разом із художнім ансамблем Третьої карпатської стрілецької дивізії був у складів Другого польського корпусу Владислава Андерса.

У 1946 році Куртич повернувся до Польщі. Співав джазові, рок-н-рольні й естрадні твори. Його найбільшим хітом стала пісня «Cicha woda» («Тиха вода»), яку як автор музики виконав першим. Українською мовою ця пісня відома під назвою «Диво річка» на слова Володимира Мельникова, яку виконує Людмила Бурміцька. Куртич написав музику, зокрема, до пісень «Jadę do ciebie tramwajem» («Їду до тебе трамваєм», слова Януша Одровонжа) і «Wołam cię» («Гукаю до тебе», слова М. Валевського). З 1966 року він виступав у дуеті з дружиною Барбарою Дунін. Збігнєв Куртич співпрацював з Польським радіо, виступав у програмі «Podwieczorek przy mikrofonie» («Підвечірок біля мікрофона»), записав кілька альбомів, виступав за кордоном. Після смерті вокаліста Юліана Штатлера керував варшавською музичною кав'ярнею «Pod Gwiazdami» («Під зірками»).

Збігнєв Куртич помер 30 січня 2015 року. Похорон відбувся 5 лютого 2015 у Варшаві. Музиканта поховали в колумбарії на Повонзківському цвинтарі.

Нагороди і відзнаки
 Бронзовий Хрест Заслуги (1971)
 Заслужений діяч культури Польщі (1977)
 Золотий Хрест Заслуги (1979)
 Мистецька премія польської естради «Prometeusz» («Прометей», 1995)
 Відзнака від міністра культури і народної спадщини (2006)
 Відзнака «Złote Liście Retro» («Золоте листя ретро», разом із дружиною, 2006)
 Орден Відродження Польщі, кавалер (1999)
 Золота медаль «За заслуги в культурі Gloria Artis» (2007)

Примітки

Джерела
 Cicha woda ze Lwowa — інтерв'ю зі співаком
 Fonosfera. Historia muzyki w Polsce — rok 1958
 Збігнєв Куртич у базі даник «Film polski»
 Zbigniew Kurtycz  у базі даних «Związek Artystów Scen Polskich»]]
 Zbigniew Kurtycz — Biblioteka Polskiej Piosenki

Польські гітаристи
Польські співаки
Польські композитори
Футболісти «Погоні» (Львів)
Уродженці Львова
Померли у Варшаві
Поховані на Повонзківському цвинтарі


Oyster farmer Kevin Lunny's reaction to what looked to others like the last legal gasp of his operation at Point Reyes National Seashore punched right to the point: "It's not over until the last oyster is shucked."
"This is a disappointing decision, but it's not really a setback," Lunny said of the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal Monday to hear an appeal of a federal order that would shut down his Drakes Bay Oyster Co. "This ruling only gives us the strength and incentive to fight harder. This is not just about oyster farmers - this issue affects farmers and ranchers on federal lands throughout the nation."
Without comment, the justices left in place court rulings upholding the Interior Department's refusal to renew the lease of Lunny's company, which operates California's only oyster cannery. Lunny and his wife, Nancy, bought the operation in 2004, eight years before the expiration of a 40-year lease in federal waters.
Next week, a federal judge in Oakland will review the Supreme Court's refusal to hear his case and consider its effects on the Lunnys' lawsuit challenging the eviction. The courts have allowed the 30-employee company to remain open while it appealed the rulings that have gone against the Lunnys.
"It ain't over by a long shot," Kevin Lunny insisted, citing a Marin County judge's ruling last week that blocked a California Coastal Commission shutdown order.
'No' means noEnvironmentalists, who call the oyster operation inappropriate for a wilderness area, said that ruling was superseded by the Supreme Court's refusal to hear his case.
"I think he's (Lunny) in denial of reality," said Amy Trainer, executive director of theEnvironmental Action Committee of West Marin. "For all intents and purposes, this round of appeals, where he has consistently been told 'no,' has been a hearing on the merits, and he has lost. At some point he needs to face reality and take 'no' for an answer."
A 1976 law set aside 2,500 acres of offshore land, including the oyster farm, as a wilderness area free of commercial activity once the oyster lease expired. The Lunnys' farm produces one-third of all the oysters harvested in California, however, and the grower has lined up supporters including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and chef Alice Waters.
Renewal deniedFeinstein steered a bill through Congress in 2009 that authorized the Interior Department to extend the lease for 10 years. But then-Interior Secretary Ken Salazar denied a renewal of the lease in November 2012, saying the oyster harvesting didn't fit Congress' plan for a wilderness area.
Two federal courts have ruled since then that the renewal question was solely up to Salazar and that he made an "informed decision" immune from judicial review. Supporters of the farm challenged the "informed" part by pointing to a conclusion in 2009 by a panel of scientists that the National Park Service made errors and misrepresented facts in its statements that the shellfish operation harmed the area.
Sensitive environmentDrakes Estero, the estuary where the oyster farm is located, is home to thousands of endangered birds, a large seal colony, and at least 5 percent of California's coast eelgrass, an important food source for birds and fish.
"The decision by the Interior Department was made in the public's interest," said Neal Desai, a director for the National Parks Conservation Association. "Americans deserve to have a protected marine wilderness region, as was long planned and paid for."
The Lunnys and their supporters retorted that shutting down a valuable food source in the name of simply keeping a wilderness area open was shortsighted at best.
"This case wasn't just about the future of the Drakes Bay Oyster Company," Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Tony Francois said in a statement. "It was about accountability in government and everyone's right to have access to the courts if bureaucrats threaten your livelihood."
In seeking Supreme Court review, attorneys for Drakes Bay - who said they are working pro bono - argued that the 2009 law did not give the government unlimited authority over the lease and was actually intended to "extend the lease."
The case is Drakes Bay Oyster Co. vs. Jewell, 13-1244.
Chronicle staff writer Henry K. Lee contributed to this report.


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Former Oasis star Noel Gallagher has revealed that Madonna gatecrashed his 50th birthday party.
Madonna gatecrashed Noel Gallagher's 50th birthday bash.
The 59-year-old singer-songwriter joined a star-studded guest list that included the likes of Damon Albarn, Russell Brand, Matt Smith and Woody Harrelson at Noel's landmark celebration - but unlike the other guests, Madonna wasn't actually invited to attend.
The TV star then quizzed Noel about Madonna's appearance at the birthday party.
Noel - who celebrated his 50th birthday in May - then explained that Madonna attended the event after she was invited by one of their mutual friends.
Although Madonna didn't actually receive an invite to the party, Noel enjoyed her company, saying she was on ''good form''.
Other guests at Noel's birthday included Bono, Michael Fassbender and David Walliams.
But one notable absentee was the singer's younger brother and former Oasis bandmate Liam, who took to Twitter to vent his own frustrations.
But more recently, Liam claimed that he and his brother have ended their long-running feud, telling his Twitter followers that they are now ''all good'' after Noel had ''reached out'' to him.
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The group's research is in two strands: computational modelling and experimental metabolic engineering.
The group are developing genome-scale computational models of metabolic networks for a number of plants including thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana, the first plant to have its genome sequenced. The computational models help understand the behaviour of complex metabolic systems that are hard to assess in detail experimentally. They also give a better understanding of the limits and trade-offs inherent within the metabolic system and can be used to predict how to metabolically engineer actual plants to optimise crop performance.
Lee Sweetlove's experimental work involves targeted genetic manipulation of plants, such as the tomato, to alter the amounts of specific enzymes and transporters. The general aim is to tweak the metabolic system of the plant to produce more of a specific target compound.
The aim of the experiment was to improve the taste of the tomato, since flavour is a product of metabolism: in the case of tomatoes, flavour develops during the ripening process due to accumulation of sugars and acidic compounds, in particular the amino acids aspartate and glutamate.
After extensive work, they concluded that it was a particular transporter protein that controls the accumulation of these amino acids. They then identified the gene responsible for encoding the transporter and developed transgenic fruit with that particular gene over-expressed. They found that levels of both aspartate and glutamate were significantly increased, demonstrating that this transporter has substantial control over the accumulation of the compounds that determine flavour.
The work on improving the taste of tomatoes has so far been carried out on a lab-variety of tomato. Lee Sweetlove's team are working with an industrial partner, Syngenta, who part-funded the research, to make similar genetic changes to commercial tomato varieties using advanced molecular breeding techniques.
Further work into the functioning of transporter proteins could improve nitrogen use efficiency in plants. His group have established that some amino acid transporters perform an additional role of signalling the plant's nitrogen status. A better understanding of this mechanism could allow for genetic manipulation of the plant to take up and utilise more of the available soil nitrogen, which in turn could lead to faster growth and a reduced input of nitrogen fertiliser.
This research has been funded by the BBSRC and Syngenta.


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This program helps very small, financially distressed rural communities extend and improve water and waste treatment facilities that serve local households and businesses. Good practices can save tax dollars, improve the natural environment, and help manufacturers and businesses to locate or expand operations.
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RSF recommends 7 digital security habits that journalists should adopt.
Cyber-surveillance is a bigger threat than ever. New forms of censorship are emerging, implemented by troll armies paid by authoritarian regimes. They include double switch, in which a journalist's online account is taken over in order to disseminate fake news, smear the journalist, and censor independently reported news and information.
In response to these new threats, RSF recommends additional vigilance. This includes adopting both simple tools and good habits. The following recommendations are not meant to be exhaustive or to offer tools that will completely eliminate the dangers of surveillance or of someone taking over your accounts. Technology evolves quickly and today's advice may not be relevant tomorrow.
Don't work with your back to a window.
When travelling by train or plane, put a privacy filter over your laptop screen to limit lateral vision.
Avoid being separated from your equipment.
Don't download any files or click on any links sent to you from unknown sources. Personalized phishing attacks are very common.
Carefully check the email address or online presence of anyone who shares a link with you. If in doubt, verify the sender's identity with other contacts or by using a search engine.
Always research tools and the context in which they are used.
Use passwords to protect your online activity.
Use a pass phrase rather than a password.
When creating a pass phrase, use digits and letters in upper and lowercase to create a sequence that is relatively complex but easy to remember, rather than a more abstract sequence of digits and special characters.
Use a different pass phrase for each online service.
Use a password manager such as LastPass, which is available as an extension for Firefox, Chrome and Safari. You can use it to store all your pass phrases.
When in doubt, check the strength of your pass phrase here.
If possible, use "two-step verification" to protect your email account. When it is set up, your email cannot be accessed without entering the different code that is sent each time by SMS to your mobile phone. Without your mobile phone, no one can get into your email account. Whenever you connect to Gmail, remember to click on the "Details" link at the lower right of the page. It opens a window that shows all recent connections to your account and will allow you to identify suspicious activity. Note: criminal organization and hackers in the pay of a government may have the ability to intercept these SMS messages and thereby take over the accounts of targeted journalists.
As a journalist, you should segment your digital activities and use several email addresses: a personal one, a professional one, one for online purchases and so on.
Remember to disconnect whenever an online operation is finished.
Online attacks, whether aimed at taking over an account or smearing a journalist's reputation, have the same objective: to discredit the messenger in order to kill the message.
Check social network confidentiality rules and clean up your profiles, keeping in mind that doxxing, the aggressive use of personal details found online – especially on social networks – is increasingly employed in harassment campaigns against journalists.
Use an antivirus AND an anti-malware such as Malwarebytes.
Keep your operating system (Windows, macOS, etc.) up to date.
A media outlet should ideally have several administrators whose profiles are not directly linked with the media in order to maintain access to its website even when the profile of one of the administrators is blocked.
Use Namecheckr to check your online presence.
Remember to disconnect after checking your email, Facebook account or Twitter account.
Never save a password in the browser of a public computer. If you have saved one by mistake, erase the browsing history when you finish working.
Delete cookies. The way to delete this kind of data varies from browser to browser. A good way to avoid making any mistakes is to use the private browsing mode in Firefox or Chrome.
Use encrypted messaging apps such as Signal (while keeping up-to-date of any reports about vulnerabilities in these apps).
FlowCrypt is a Chrome and Mozilla extension that enables end-to-end encryption of email.
Privnote and ZeroBin are websites that allow you to send someone a link to an encrypted message that self-destructs after being read.
To talk to your sources via the Internet use apps such as Jitsi Meet, a free and fully encrypted Skype equivalent.
Install a VPN in order to encrypt your Internet connections.
Install the Tor Browser, which allows you to browse anonymously.
Don't put your contacts' real names in your phone's contacts list. Assign them numbers or pseudonyms so that others (the police, armed groups, and so on) cannot get the details of your network of contacts if they ever seize your phone or SIM card.
Take spare SIM cards with you whenever you think your SIM card might be confiscated (at demonstrations, border crossings, checkpoints and the like). If you ever have to get rid of a SIM card, try to destroy it physically.
Lock your phone with a password if it has this feature. Change the default PIN of your SIM cards and lock them with this code.
Consider turning on your phone's flight mode in situations in which the security forces might target people with mobile phones (at demonstrations, during an uprising, or whenever a crackdown is possible). The authorities could later demand the call or SMS records or phone data of any individual at a given location at a given time in order to carry out mass arrests.
Turn off geolocation in your apps unless you need to use it. If you are using your mobile phone to stream video live, turn off the GPS and geolocation functions.
If your phone uses the Android operating system, software for encrypting your browsing, chats, texts and voice messages is available from the Guardian Project and Signal. When using your phone to go online, use the HTTPS Everywhere extension.
For more information, consult the Safety Guide for Journalists released by RSF, in partnership with UNESCO, but also the surveillance and self-defence "tips, tools and how-tos" provided by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). If you are the victim of a cyber-attack, contact the Access Now digital security helpline.