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Premier League 23/08/2021
Odegaard Is Back at Arsenal… FOR GOOD!!!
My biggest dream has come true this season. Arsenal have managed to resign Martin Odegaard from Real Madrid. This time, it's a permanent deal! After the loss to Brentford, it was very clear that Arsenal…
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World Under-23 XI
As the curtains slowly draw to a close on the legendary careers of Ronaldo and Messi, the current season has given us more than a glimpse of the future talent that is to come. While…
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Is the European Super League a Sign that the Game's Gone?
News of the European Super League has set social media and the footballing community alight. Is all the commotion really justified? Much Ado About Nothing. That is my current perspective on the fuss that everyone…
Europa League 02/03/2021
Who are the main contenders to win the Europa League?
16 teams remain. There can only be 1 winner… If you are reading this article, I am sure that you followed each of the Round of 32 ties of the UEFA Europa League, the second…
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UEFA Champions League Round of 16 Predictions
THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE IS BACK! The stage is set for us to welcome back the European elite and watch them compete in the pinnacle of club football – the UEFA Champions League. The road to…
Championship, La Liga, Other, Premier League 02/01/2021
Is it a good idea to Appoint a Club Legend as Manager?
Is it realistic to expect a club legend to replicate their success on the pitch when they are in the dugout? Frank Lampard at Chelsea. Andrea Pirlo at Juventus. Ole Gunnar Solskjær at Manchester United….
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Pogba continues to flirts with Real Madrid.
Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba once again admitted his love for Real Madrid, has said he would love to play for Real Madrid one day but his is currently focused on his club Manchester United…
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3 things to look out for during the Champions League return!
For the first time in five months, the Champions League will soon be back on our screens. Unusually, the competition returns on a weekend but given that domestically, the football season has finished, fans are…
Europa League, UEFA Nations League 07/11/2019
Wednesday's (Football) Memes
As much as we love to watch football for its quality, sometimes it's the human side of the sport that brings the most entertainment. Let's take a look at some human highlight reels from…
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Can Real Madrid make any more signings without breaching FFP?
Over the last few windows, Real Madrid haven't made many 'big money' signings that stretch them financially, with the possible exception of Thibaut Courtouis, who arrived at the Bernabeu for just over £30m last summer….


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Why 'Terminator' Is So Creepy
By Jeremy Hsu
The movie "Terminator Salvation" tells of the human resistance struggling to defeat Skynet and its robot army. (Image credit: Warner Bros.)
Warning: may include SPOILERS for those who have not watched the trailer.
Hollywood and robotics researchers have long struggled with the "uncanny valley," where a movie character or robot falls into the unsettling gap between human and not-quite-human. One psychologist likes to demonstrate this by holding up a plastic baby doll and asking audiences if they think it's alive. They say no.
Then she takes out a saw and starts cutting the doll's head off, but quickly stops upon seeing the uncomfortable audience reactions.
"I think that part of their brain is thinking the doll is alive, and you can't shut that off," said Thalia Wheatley, a psychologist at Dartmouth College.
Similar sensations abound in the movie "Terminator Salvation," which tells the story of the artificial intelligence Skynet and its army of robots threatening to wipe out humanity in 2018. The uncanny twist comes when Skynet begins disturbing experiments that combine human flesh with robotic strength.
Scientists have begun to understand what happens in the human brain when it encounters the uncanny valley. And like the post-apocalyptic future of "Terminator," it's not pretty — a murky landscape where conflict rages upon confronting a challenge to our human identity.
Robot suffers identity crisis
Robots of earlier "Terminator" movies, such as the famous model played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, walked with the easy confidence of programmed beings. Their apparent inhumanity fed the thrill of terror felt by both human characters and movie audiences.
What the new "Terminator Salvation" suggests is that one of the earliest human-looking terminators had something of an identity crisis, and even bore the human name "Marcus Wright." That robotic delusion lasts until Wright gets captured with a horrific wound that exposes his true self.
"In the instant Marcus stares down at his mechanical torso, his sense of personal and human identity has been knocked out from under him, and that's devastating," said Karl MacDorman, a robotics researcher at Indiana University.
Moviegoers may also find themselves squirming a bit at the sight of a gaping hole in Wright's chest. Such a sight might not disturb so much if Wright looked like a mechanical robot that had merely suffered battle damage.
Yet Wright's human appearance betrays none of the robotic clues seen in the behavior of previous terminators — the emotionless faces, the unwavering movements, and the flat voices.
These moments reveal how the uncanny feeling can come from seeing a "mismatch among the elements" that signify normal human behavior and appearance. The mismatch can even occur for robots that don't necessarily look human, but display other eerily human characteristics.
"If you have a robot that looks very robot-like, you're not so troubled by its jerky motion," MacDorman told LiveScience. "If the robot moved exactly like a human, it might look strange."
A brain warring with itself
That strange sensation can affect people around the simplest of objects, as Wheatley clearly demonstrated with the plastic baby doll. Her lab examines how the uncanny valley might play out as a conflict in the brain.
Some sort of mental disconnect became clear in one of the lab's behavioral studies, where people looked at a gradual morph from a human face to a doll face. People quickly recognized the point where they became uncertain about whether the face was alive or not, when the morph was just 30 percent doll mixed in. However, the point at which they found the morph "creepiest" had much more of the doll face than the human face in the mix.
Wheatley suggests that one part of the mind gets tricked into believing it's seeing a human.
"One brain area likes to look at faces, same in monkeys as in humans — very primitive," Wheatley explained. "It doesn't seem to care so much if it's looking at human or a doll or a drawing; it just sees two eyes, a nose and mouth, and the brain cells fire."
At the same time, Wheatley suspects that the brain's social network regions recognize that the object is not alive. That social network system becomes active whenever the brain tries to understand other people's emotions or mental states, and also detects the biological motion of anything that's alive.
The resulting conflict in the brain sounds mental alarm bells and may create the uneasy feeling that we know as entering the uncanny valley.
"Even though your sophisticated analysis says it's not alive, you still have a primitive part of the brain not getting it," Wheatley said.
Testing the uncanny valley
Perhaps the greatest surprise about the uncanny valley is the lack of scientific studies supporting it, even though almost four decades have passed since Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori proposed the idea in 1970.
Wheatley's lab and others have only begun doing preliminary brain scan studies to identify which brain areas light up in response to an uncanny valley moment.
"There's a lot of interest in the uncanny valley, and not a lot of research to back it up," Wheatley said. "We're hoping to fill that void."
Other researchers have also argued that the uncanny valley concept is too simplistic, particularly how it describes a smooth drop-off curve as objects steadily appear more and more human.
"There are some people who say it's simply not true," MacDorman said. "I don't fully agree with that, because I think there's definitely something to the uncanny valley — but there's a problem with a simplistic view of the uncanny valley."
No one knows what it means to have 70 percent or 90 percent human likeness, MacDorman pointed out. Perhaps all the attributes of a robot, ranging from the eyes to body movement to voice tone, might have 90 percent resemblance to human characteristics.
Or a robot could be 99 percent perfect, except for a delayed reaction time during conversations with humans. That could still trigger the uncanny valley sensation in observers who would quickly conclude that the robot was retarded, if not — gasp — non-human.
If scientists still have not gotten a handle on the uncanny valley, at least everyone can experience it for themselves at the movies. Some filmmakers may run into the phenomenon accidentally by trying to create that perfect CGI character in "The Polar Express" or "Beowulf," MacDorman noted. Other movies, such as "Terminator," embrace the uncanny valley for the questions it raises about the human identity.
"In the scene of 'Terminator Salvation' when the Marcus Wright character discovers himself to be a terminator, the source of his horror — and ours — is not any defect in animation," MacDorman said.
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Recently several targeted attacks against Tibetan activist organizations including the International Campaign for Tibet and the Central Tibet Administration have been detected.
Immediately, suspicions have focused on China and on groups of hackers sponsored by the Beijing government, and on more than one occasion we have seen how the Chinese government also promotes and supports these types of initiatives.
The experts at AlienVault Lab have hypothesized that the group of Chinese hackers was the same as those responsible for the attacks against chemical and defense companies late last year in an operation named 'Nitro'.
The attacks were carried out using a tested scheme starting with a spear phishing campaign that uses an infected Microsoft Office file to exploit a known vulnerability in Microsoft.
As usual, the content of the email refers a topic of interest for the final target, in this case related to the Kalachakra Initiation, a Tibetan religious festival that took place in early January. The vulnerability that was exploited is known Office stack overflow vulnerability (CVE-2010-3333).
The malware used is a variant of Gh0st RAT, a well know remote access Trojan that enables attackers to acquire total control of the target, allowing document theft. The intent this time was to infiltrate organizations for political reasons.
For this precision attack, the use of free Web hosting services for the command and control servers and five families of malware have been identified, including malware called TROJ_WIMMIE. This malware exploited Rich Text Format Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2010-3333) and also Adobe Reader and Flash Player vulnerabilities.
The Chinese Government has always pursued an oppressive policy against Tibet. In April of 2008 protests erupted in some cities in Tibet that had been repressed by the government in Beijing by the use of force. During last few years in numerous cases have been detected violations of human dignity in Tibet by the Chinese government. According to the Dalai Lama,t we are witnessing cultural genocide.
Security provider Trend Micro has released a research paper that examines the relationship between attacks against the computers of Tibetan activists, companies in Japan and India and the activities performed by group of Chinese hackers.
The operations are known as part of the "Luckycat" cyber campaign began around June 2011, consisting of over 90 attacks against targets in India, Japan and Tibet.
Last week, the New York Times published an article that announced that those responsible for the attacks had been identified - a Chinese former graduate student.
The hacker is named Gu Kaiyuan, who had received government financial support for his computer security studies and currently is an employee at Chinese portal Tencent. Kaiyuan was involved in recruiting students for his school's computer security and defense research program.
Trend Micro researchers also found that the group also attacked military research institutes, aerospace, energy, engineering, and shipping companies.
"The Trend Micro researchers, led by Nart Villeneuve, traced the hacks to an e-mail address used to register one of the command and control servers the malware accessed. That e-mail address was then found to map to a Chinese instant messaging account belonging to a Chinese hacker, 'dang0102'."
"The same hacker also published a post on a student BBS of the Sichuan University using the nickname, "scuhkr," in 2005," the report stated. "He wanted to recruit 2-4 students to a network attack and defense research project at the Information Security Institute of the Sichuan University then. Scuhkr also authored articles related to backdoors and shellcode in a hacking magazine that same year."
Of course, the involvement of Gu Kaiyuan doesn't prove the campaigns are officially sponsored by the Chinese government, but the targets chosen leads the experts believe that the Beijing government is behind the attacks.
But "(t)he fact they targeted Tibetan activists is a strong indicator of official Chinese government involvement...A private Chinese hacker may go after economic data but not a political organization." .
Personally, I'm sure of the involvement of the Chinese Government by the nature of the targeted attacked and the way in which the attacks were carried out. The involvement of young hackers is now a known practice of the aggressive cyber strategy of China, which has long invested in youth resources and involving them in cyber espionage and hacking activities.
To conclude on the event in question, I remark that this is just the tip of the iceberg, Similar activities are conducted daily by cyber militia in China and young professionals in the IT sector are often involved... we could probably learn something by this approach.


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White Sox starting rotation will see plenty of changes for the remainder of the season
June 1, 2018 Stevie Pusch	0 Comments	2018 Chicago White Sox, Carlos Rodon, Carson Fulmer, Dane Dunning, Dylan Covey, James Shields, Lucas Giolito, Michael Kopech, Reynaldo Lopez
The Chicago White Sox are currently on pace to have their worst season in franchise history. The team will start the month of June as one of two teams that haven't hit the 20-win mark, joining the Baltimore Orioles. As their rebuild continues, one aspect of the team to keep an eye on as the season progresses is the changes coming to their starting rotation very shortly.
Within the next two weeks, the White Sox are expected to get their former first-round pick Carlos Rodon back from rehabbing a shoulder injury. Rodon was shut down in early September last year and underwent shoulder surgery to repair damage in the area. His return will be a boost to the ball clubs as he has shown potential to be a top of the rotation starter in his limited time.
The start of Rodon's 2017 campaign was also delayed due to injury as he did not make his debut until June 28th. Although he struggled at first, he did perform extremely well in the month of August. Rodon recorded four quality starts in a span of five outings only missing his fifth quality start by just one walk. Of the five appearances, four came against teams that would appear in the 2017 playoffs. In back-to-back starts against the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers, Rodon only allowed four total runs and pitched seven or more innings in both starts.
One of the White Sox best pitchers this season has been James Shields. He's pitched well in his last few outings as he as recorded three-consecutive quality starts.
Shields is putting himself in position to provide the White Sox front office with a very attractive trade piece for other teams. General manager Rick Hahn will listen to any trade offers for Shields as he most likely does not fit into the team's future plans. The question isn't when Shields gets traded, but how much the team can get in return if he continues to perform at a high level.
As the team heads into the summer months, one of the hottest topics will be the promotion of pitching prospect Michael Kopech from Triple-A Charlotte. Kopech is regarded as the White Sox best pitching prospect and one of the best prospects in all of baseball. In his last two starts, he has struck out 15 in just 11 innings pitched.
Kopech appears ready for a promotion, but there are several factors in the team holding off from promoting him soon.
If the team waits until mid-June, they most likely gain super two status for Kopech in which they would gain another year of control before he would qualify for arbitration. Another aspect is that the team could wait for a spot in the rotation to open up before bringing him up.
A trade of Shields could be what the team is waiting for as a similar situation occurred with second baseman Yoan Moncada last season. Moncada was called up the day after the team traded third baseman Todd Frazier, pitchers Tommy Kahnle, and David Robertson to the New York Yankees.
There are other prospects who could factor into the starting pitching staff from now until the end of the season with the team struggling. Dylan Covey is currently getting a look following the demotion of Carson Fulmer to Triple-A and Double-A prospect Dane Dunning could possibly see a few starts once the roster is expanded in September.
Manager Rick Renteria also confirmed that the team would give Fulmer another look as a starter once he works on his issues in the minors.
The performance on the field and the record are not fun for the team or the fans this far into the season. In a rebuild, it is important to identify the talent that will help the team in its goal of building towards sustained success.
With young starters Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez already here, the team will have a chance for all of their top pitching prospects to gain MLB experience by season's end. Although it may be rough in the second of the 2018 season, the White Sox and their fans will get a chance to get an in depth look at the team's young starting pitching talent.
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If we have an opportunity to reduce the number of Australians with brain cancer, we should absolutely take it.
Statistics show that the survival rates for brain cancer haven't improved in around 30 years, whilst survival rates for other cancers have.
This is one of the reasons why I joined the Senate Select Committee to inquire and report on the impact of funding for research into cancers with low survival rates. At hearings, we heard heartbreaking stories from those who had lost a partner or friend to brain cancer and valuable information on drug trials and other research.
The Federal Government must also quickly put more funding into research for the 186 rare and less common cancers which kill some 24,000 Australians each year. The Senate last year agreed to my motion calling on the Government to "urgently implement mechanisms it has at its disposal to increase and co-ordinate research efforts into rare and less common cancers, and to increase the pool of funding dedicated to investigating and affordably treating rare cancer".
A lack of funding and advances in research means that mortality rates for less common cancers such as cancers of the pancreas, brain and stomach have barely improved in decades.
We need to act urgently to investigate and understand these cancers and develop better treatments to help give people diagnosed with these cancers a better long-term outcome.
More details on the committee and the report can be found here: http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Funding_for_Research_into_Cancers.
Centre Alliance was instrumental in negotiating Commonwealth funding of $68 million to ensure that South Australia will have the southern hemisphere's first proton therapy treatment centre in Adelaide at SAHMRI (South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute).
Proton and Carbon therapies are examples of the future in terms of precisely targeting cancerous cells with less damage to surrounding healthy tissue, as well as less treatments and fewer side effects resulting in better outcomes for patients.
I successfully negotiated with government for a national rollout of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research's cutting-edge Australian Genomic Cancer Medicine Program (AGCMP). This program will enable 5,000 people to participate in ground-breaking clinical trials in their home state, instead of needing to travel to Sydney.


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Following the release of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) new anticipated agenda, which includes a commitment to propose a rule on extractive industry transparency within the next ten months, a coalition of 58 Democratic House members yesterday called on the Commission to initiate the rulemaking on a faster, more definite timeline.
The rule is mandated by Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires all extractive companies listed on U.S. exchanges to report all payments made to U.S. and foreign governments for oil, gas and mining resources. In July 2013, the U.S. District Court vacated the rule, remanding it back to the SEC for additional analysis and better justification for its decisions on several key requirements.
The SEC was already a year past the statutory deadline when it released its final rule implementing section 1504 in August 2012, and in light of the District Court's vacatur order, the rule is now almost three years overdue.
The letter was organized by Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the Financial Services Committee. Waters led the letter along with Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Ranking Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Natural Resources Committee, respectively.
"The implementation of Section 1504 is critical," the letter states. "Resource revenue transparency allows shareholders to make better-informed assessments of risks and opportunity costs, threats to corporate reputation, and the long-term prospects of the companies in which they invest. It is no surprise, then, that investors with assets worth over $5.6 trillion recently called on the SEC to quickly reissue a strong rule to align with transparency rules in other markets.
Full text of the letter is below, a signed copy can be found here.
We are aware that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced its anticipated agenda for the next ten-month period, and that this agenda includes a proposal to initiate rulemaking for Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act by March 2015.
While we are pleased that the SEC plans to begin focusing its attention on this important provision, which mandates revenue transparency in the extractive industries, we believe that the rulemaking for section 1504 should be on a swifter, more definite time line. We strongly urge you, therefore, to issue a proposed rule for public comment no later than the end of this year.
The initial rule issued by the SEC on August 22, 2012 adhered closely to the intent of the law, and we applaud the SEC for its forceful legal defense of the rule. In light of the District Court's July 2013 decision, which vacated the rule on procedural grounds but did not foreclose any regulatory options, we believe the Commission should issue a revised rule that is equally strong. The existing rulemaking record should provide the necessary basis to swiftly schedule a new rulemaking and to reissue a rule mandating public disclosure by company and by project with no exemptions. Anything less would undermine the intended purpose and benefits of Section 1504 for investors, companies, governments and their citizens.
We would note that after the SEC issued its rule in 2012, the rest of the world followed our lead, establishing as a global norm the public disclosure of oil and mineral payments by company and by project with no exemptions. The European Union and Norway passed disclosure laws modeled on the Commission's August 2012 rule. The Canadian government has committed to adopt the same requirements and plans to have legislation passed by April 2015 and regulations in place that summer. Several globally important oil and mining companies also support payment transparency at the project-level, citing significant business benefits, while others have begun voluntarily disclosing detailed payment information.
And in March, the United States was accepted as a candidate country in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which is a global effort designed to increase accountability and openness in these industries, and specifically requires project-level reporting in line with the standard set by Section 1504 and its sister legislation in Europe.
The implementation of Section 1504 is critical. Resource revenue transparency allows shareholders to make better-informed assessments of risks and opportunity costs, threats to corporate reputation, and the long-term prospects of the companies in which they invest. It is no surprise, then, that investors with assets worth over $5.6 trillion recently called on the SEC to quickly reissue a strong rule to align with transparency rules in other markets.
Public reporting of extractive payments is also fundamental to improving governance, curbing corruption, improving revenue management, and allowing citizens to demand greater accountability from their governments for spending that serves the public interest. This, in turn, can help create more stable and democratic governments, as well as more stable business environments, which contribute to the advancement of U.S. national security interests.
Since its passage, Congress has continued to support the strong implementation of Section 1504 rules. Last year, legislation to implement an agreement between the U.S. and Mexico to develop oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico (HR 1613) was significantly delayed when the House version of the bill included a waiver from Section 1504 requirements. The White House strongly objected to the House bill precisely because of the waiver, and issued a Statement of Administration Policy calling the exemption unnecessary and claiming it would directly and negatively impact U.S. efforts to increase transparency and accountability in the oil, gas, and minerals sectors. Congress ultimately passed a version of the bill that did not include the Section 1504 waiver.
Importantly, the final legislation was supported by the same industry groups and lawmakers who initially alleged that Section 1504 would create conflicts of law and put American companies at a competitive disadvantage.
The court decision, along with data and analysis from the previous rulemaking process, has provided the Commission with a road map to develop a revised rule requiring public disclosure at the project level with no exemptions. We strongly urge you to prioritize setting out a swift and fixed timeline for the implementation of section 1504, including the release of a proposed rule for public comment no later than the end of 2014.
John Yarmuth John Conyers, Jr.


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Weekly Hamptons Revenge Recap – Season 4, Episode 6: "Damage"
By Lee Meyer Posted on November 3, 2014
Victoria tries to get her Dave-Bot working, Photo: ABC, iStock/Thinkstock
David threw down the revenge gauntlet this week — but who is his target? Read on to find out!
And now, Revenge, Season 4, Episode 6: "Damage"…
As the sun rises on the beach, Emily watches David getting ready for a swim and flashes back to playing with her dad as a child.
Charlotte wakes up in the stranger's bed from last week. She finds him in his kitchen. "Vince" then pulls a gun and tells her to sit down; he's been waiting for this moment for a "long, long time."
Victoria visits David at the beach house with a suit for his upcoming television interview. Sensing he's planning something, she asks him if he's ready to tell his story, clearly nervous that something bad is going to come out about her.
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At Nolan's house, Emily and Nolan hack into the FBI's website to watch David's statement to them. Because it's just that easy. They are both disturbed as he tells the FBI agent about his fears and hopelessness. But Emily thinks there's something more going on…
Charlotte tries to reason with Vince, but he doesn't want to hear it. Suddenly, Charlotte swings her chair in Vince's face, and the two get into a brawl that would make Takeda proud. Charlotte, by sheer force of will or pure dumb luck, gains the advantage when he grabs her from behind and she responds by kicking the wall, knocking them both to the ground. Charlotte grabs the gun, but suddenly freaks out when it appears that Vince is dead…
Margaux calls Daniel to tell him that he's made Page 6 with Louise. Danny's horror turns to relief when Margaux tells him it's just Louise announcing their business partnership. Victoria makes an impromptu visit and is horrified that he's gotten involved with Louise. She finally tells Daniel about her time in the mental hospital and that Louise is mentally ill. "I can handle her," Daniel says. "You said the same thing about Emily Thorne," she sighs.
The cops are told that one Officer Mostrowski has passed away from a heart attack. Ben's interest is piqued—this is the same cop that beat Conrad up in prison (and, as the audience knows, helped him escape). Ben starts asking a cop questions about the death and how suspicious it seems, but the cop is exasperated and blurts out that he's got to stop, seeing as how last week he was accusing Jack. Jack is livid with Ben, who says it wasn't personal. "You're a beat cop," Jack reminds the worst new character on the show.
Charlotte looks through Vince's stuff and is shocked by what she sees. There's a knock at the door. She opens it to find Emily there, ready to help. Emily checks Vince, whose neck is broken, and in the blink of an eye figures out that Vince was one of the last remaining Flight 197 fanatics.
Louise excitedly meets with Victoria for drinks. Victoria embraces her and tells her she's so happy that Louise is working with Daniel. As things get more and more sweet, Louise snaps out of it and approaches her. Victoria is extremely cold to her and all but threatens the southern belle. Louise asks Victoria if they can see each other again, but Victoria says no and walks off to meet Margaux for lunch. She tells Margaux that she must cut the live feed at David's interview in case of anything unpleasant. Victoria is unnerved to find out that David invited Nolan.
Emily makes Vince's death look like an accident while telling Charlotte it's time to grow up. As Emily injects poor Vince with heroin and forces it to circulate to look like he overdosed and fell, ever-grateful Charlotte asks Emily if she killed Aidan. Emily can't take it anymore and tells Charlotte that it was mommie dearest who committed that crazy act.
Daniel's shocked to find Margaux and Louise playing tennis together at a country club that doesn't appear to be in the Hamptons. After Margaux leaves, Daniel asks Louise what she's up to. Louise defends herself after Daniel confronts her about meeting Vic in a mental hospital, but then apologizes when she explains that she didn't feel it was her place to tell Victoria's business.
Emily calls Nolan as she drives. She tells him that Vince had a photo of David walking in public on March 15 (Ides of March…clever, writers!), which doesn't add up with when he escaped. She is upset when Nolan refuses to continue to look into it. He hangs up and David thanks him for coming. Nolan and Victoria exchange quick barbs, then the interview begins…
David talks about his horrible time in captivity, while Emily investigates his supposed captivity quarters. David asks Nolan to join him on screen and ambushes him, accusing him of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from Amanda. A stunned Nolan doesn't know what to say and hurries out.
David and Nolan talk clothes, Photo: ABC
Jack is angry at Mostrowski's wake when he finds Ben asking his daughter questions. After interrupting the talk, Jack threatens to find another partner.
Later, Louise calls Margaux to congratulate her on the interview, but quickly asks what she knows about Victoria. When Margaux sounds confused, Louise invites her to lunch.
At the hotel, Victoria walks in on Charlotte packing for rehab. She's overjoyed that Charlotte's taken control of her life, but Charlotte reams her out for all the evil she's committed, including murdering Aiden to get back at Emily. Victoria tries to reason with Charlotte, who coldly says goodbye and walks out.
David confronts Nolan at his house and the two argue. Nolan maintains that he would never steal from him and that he's looked to David like a father figure. David responds by punching him in the face and walking out. Emily walks in and sees Nolan cowering on the ground. When she asks him what happened, he simply says, "your lies finally caught up to me."
Meanwhile, in the subplot nobody cares about, Jack catches Ben walking around the dead cop's garage. Ben reveals everything he knows about the cop, and that it just doesn't add up; the daughter said he lived alone, but neighbors said a man was seen coming and going often. They then find the double infinity sign on the wall, and Jack promptly switches gears.
Charlotte says goodbye to Daniel at the hotel and begins to tell him "a secret about Emily," which we don't hear, but is presumably that she's Amanda Clarke.
Victoria finds David at the beach house. He's devastated that he has nobody left from his old life except Vic, and she promises to always be there for him. She goes to leave, but he grabs her and tells her to stay with him. They embrace…
Emily apologizes to Nolan, but then it's back to business: Everything in his so-called dungeon seems to be staged (duh)! When Nolan asks how she knows, she reveals that everything in the prison seems to be old and rusty…except the bed, which looks new. Cue the shocking music…
Closing Thoughts: Nolan finally had something to do other than hack into computer systems for Emily, so that's something, right? His confrontation with David at the house was very emotionally potent, considering how close Nolan has said they were. But at the same time, this season seems to be one dark episode after another, and I mean that literally — it's summer in the Hamptons, so show some parties! Imagine David confronting Nolan at a swanky party in front of the entire community, or Louise crashing a gala and being publicly humiliated by Victoria. Maybe next time…
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British Airways to test onboard wifi
26 Nov 2013 by GrahamSmith
British Airways has confirmed it is to run a connectivity trial on one of its Boeing 747 aircraft over the course of 2014.
The aircraft will be fitted with the Panasonic Global Communications Suite "to provide a range of entertainment to customers' personal electronic devices under the name High Life Connect".
The B747-400 will operate on a range of different routes "to test how the system performs and identify usage levels to and from a range of destinations".
As discussed on the Business Traveller forum, the new service will enable travellers to watch live television broadcasts from BBC World, CNN, Euro News and Sport 24, as well as stream a selection of movies and TV shows to their personal devices. This is in addition to the usual in-flight entertainment provided.
There is currently no information about how much passengers will be charged for wifi, although, as with other carriers, there will be the option of paying an hourly rate or buying a flight pass valid for 24 hours.
The trial will involve offering the service at different price points, to see how responsive travellers are, and initially will not be announced to the whole aircraft, but to select flyers.
Interestingly, although the aircraft will also feature mobile phone connectivity and, for a separate roaming charge, customers will be able to receive data and texts over their mobile phones, it will not be possible to make voice calls. Why? It seems BA does not believe that this is something the majority of its passengers want.
A BA spokesman said that once the test is completed at the end of 2014, the airline will evaluate its success with a view to potentially extending the service to more aircraft.
The trial is also understood to be separate from Vueling's plans to roll out inflight wifi throughout its fleet next year (see news, November 14).
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Here is further proof that O'Regan's attack on Canadian born entrepreneurs was not only false, but he owes an apology to "Canadian-borns". Many or most immigrants given permanent residency under the business start-up programs not only did not start the businesses, but they were draining Canadian tax payer dollars.
This Global News report reports on the immigrant fraud. The fact that it is occurring under the business start up programs is buried in the middle of the reporting.
How do you like us Canadian-born business owners now, Seamus O'Regan?
Two days after O'Regan's attack on Canadian born entrepreneurs there is concrete evidence that foreign-borns supposedly starting businesses in Canada under the SUV/provincial business incentive programs are fraudulently using the program. The CBSA says that 462 foreign-borns – in PEI alone – have fraudulently used Canadian business incentive programs.
Today, Seamus O'Regan continued with a back-handed insult by saying he understands that "Canadian-borns" don't like to be on the "lesser end." Basically, it was a nonchalant "my bad" for being so blunt about my racism against Canadian-born people. Nothing to see here. His statement seemed to be a highly crafted kind of casual that wanted to side-step, rather than explain, the basis of his extraordinary bombshell of an insult to Canadians.
Shame-Us O'Regan raised the ugliness of divisive Liberal Identity Politics with a punch that left a mark on Canadian-borns, and wants everyone to pretend that didn't happen. The issue he raised, however, is calling for an answer: are so-called "Canadian-born" people inferior entrepreneurs in comparison to so-called "Foreign-borns"? It would be extraordinary, if true, that the tens of thousands of foreign-born people coming into Canada are actually creating more businesses than Canadian-borns, given their financial and language challenges.
We're told many or most foreign-born migrants come to Canada who are fleeing terrible situations. They are in shock, with little to no English, or work experience much less business experience in North America. Canadians are generous and want to welcome, receive and help foreign borns get back on their feet, and make Canada their home. The expectation is that they will work, but not that they will start businesses right away, a huge and difficult undertaking for anyone.
So called "Canadian-borns" on the other hand, speak English and/or French fluently, have had exposure to how Canadian businesses operate, and have family business contacts, etc So it's very curious, hard to believe in fact, that Canadian-borns could be doing so relatively poorly considering our relatively enormous advantages.
Maybe O'Regan was only comparing Canadian-born entrepreneurs to a select number of foreign-born who say they are an entrepreneur interested in coming to Canada to start a business. Some preliminary fact checking into just such foreign-borns shed some light on why O'Regan wanted to drop the issue, and quickly.
There is a program for Foreign-borns who want to start a business in Canada. It's called the "Startup Visa" program. It was initiated by the Harper Conservatives to fast-track the citizenship of foreign entrepreneurs who wanted to come to Canada and set up businesses. A good program for welcomed and needed immigrants to Canada. It had realistic checks on it to ensure bogus claims were refused. To be successful in the SUV program, the foreign-born applicant had to pass some expected requirements like basic English or French skills, and have at least $10,000, and some other like critieria.
In removing the criteria of investor support for foreign-borns (i.e. real business confident the business would succeed) the Liberals arguably shifted the balance of funding foreign born would-be entrepreneurs over Canadian-borns.
The Liberals incentivized foreign-borns with a fast-track to Canadian citizenship for them and their family to have all of the social assistance programs Canada has to offer, for example, healthcare. All the foreign-born has to do (in addition to the minimum $10,000, and routine requirements like basic language skills) was be accepted into an Incubator program which would, bonus, provide them mentorship, office space, etc to start the business.
This SUV program is being actively marketed by Canadian immigration lawyers and advocates to foreign-borns. A deal to good to be passed up. It's like being guaranteed a winning lottery ticket.The point is not that any one of the immigrants should be denied this opportunity in spite of the growing evidence of fraud occurring in the business immigration programs generally even by those within the SUV and those in the business of immigration.
The point is that for O'Regan to compare Canadian-born business start ups with a select, small group of Foreign-born business start ups – who have been highly incentivized to start a business in comparison to Canadian-borns, is clearly a false comparsion. The only purpose it serves is to falsely degrade and try to make Canadian-born citizens feel inferior, and to make foreign-borns feel superior.
One would like to think that all of the foreign-born recipients of the SUV program had a devotion to their new Canadian home. It appears that at least some, or most, it doesn't say, had no regard for Canada because in April, 2018, the Liberals began to realize there was a problem.
Businesses created by the "foreign-borns" through the SUV program were not actually operating their businesses in Canada. Foreign-borns were operating their businesses in foreign countries, apparently increasing the economic growth of those foreign countries, not Canada.
In all, Seamus O'Regan was wrong on all counts. He was especially wrong to make a broad comparison of Canadian-born entrepreneurs with foreign-born entrepreneurs. The truth is, O'Regan was comparing a small, select segment of foreign-born immigrants who are being highly incentivized to start a business, in comparison to Canadians-born employees, the engine of the Canadian economy.
Thanks for letting Canada know your true feelings about Canadian-borns Seamus O'Regan, and for raising the opportunity to have your views about foreign born superiority come out into the open to be shattered. Foreign-born business owners are welcome in Canada alongside Canadian-born business owners, and together we will make Canada strong in spite of the Liberals divisive politics.
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The Council works with the Development and Alumni Office in developing a programme of relevant and well-supported activities for The Watt Club as well as being a forum through which alumni can influence the University.
The Council is a volunteer body, led by a President and Vice President and supported by a Secretary, joined by the alumni-elected Member of the University Court, the Student Union President and four co-opted Members.
The current President and Vice-President are Norman Chipakupaku and Mike Ross respectively. Heather Kay is the current Secretary and Treasurer. View our full list of members.
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Q: Change :hover CSS properties with JavaScript How can JavaScript change CSS :hover properties?
For example:
HTML

    Hover 1
    Hover 2

CSS
table td:hover {
background:#ff0000;
}

How can the td :hover properties be modified to, say, background:#00ff00, with JavaScript? I know I could access the style background property using JavaScript with:
document.getElementsByTagName("td").style.background="#00ff00";

But I don't know of a .style JavaScript equivalent for :hover.

A: You can't change or alter the actual :hover selector through Javascript. You can, however, use mouseenter to change the style, and revert back on mouseleave (thanks, @Bryan).

A: This is not actually adding the CSS to the cell, but gives the same effect.  While providing the same result as others above, this version is a little more intuitive to me, but I'm a novice, so take it for what it's worth:
$(".hoverCell").bind('mouseover', function() {
    var old_color = $(this).css("background-color");
    $(this)[0].style.backgroundColor = '#ffff00';

    $(".hoverCell").bind('mouseout', function () {
        $(this)[0].style.backgroundColor = old_color;
    });
});

This requires setting the Class for each of the cells you want to highlight to "hoverCell".

A: I'd recommend to replace all :hover properties to :active when you detect that device supports touch. Just call this function when you do so as touch()
   function touch() {
      if ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement) {
        for (var sheetI = document.styleSheets.length - 1; sheetI >= 0; sheetI--) {
          var sheet = document.styleSheets[sheetI];
          if (sheet.cssRules) {
            for (var ruleI = sheet.cssRules.length - 1; ruleI >= 0; ruleI--) {
              var rule = sheet.cssRules[ruleI];

              if (rule.selectorText) {
                rule.selectorText = rule.selectorText.replace(':hover', ':active');
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }

A: I had this need once and created a small library for, which maintains the CSS documents
https://github.com/terotests/css
With that you can state
css().bind("TD:hover", {
        "background" : "00ff00"
    });

It uses the techniques mentioned above and also tries to take care of the cross-browser issues. If there for some reason exists an old browser like IE9 it will limit the number of STYLE tags, because the older IE browser had this strange limit for number of STYLE tags available on the page.
Also, it limits the traffic to the tags by updating tags only periodically. There is also a limited support for creating animation classes.

A: Declare a global var:
var td

Then select your guiena pig  getting it by its id, if you want to change all of them then
window.onload = function () {
  td = document.getElementsByTagName("td");
}

Make a function to be triggered and a loop to change all of your desired td's
function trigger() {
    for(var x = 0; x < td.length; x++) {
      td[x].className = "yournewclass";
    }
}

Go to your CSS Sheet:
.yournewclass:hover { background-color: #00ff00; }

And that is it, with this you are able to to make all your  tags get a background-color: #00ff00; when hovered by changing its css propriety directly (switching between css classes).

A: For myself, I found the following option: from https://stackoverflow.com/a/70557483/18862444

const el = document.getElementById('elementId');
el.style.setProperty('--focusHeight', newFocusHeight);
el.style.setProperty('--focusWidth', newFocusWidth);
.my-class {
  --focusHeight: 32px;
  --focusWidth: 256px;
}

.my-class:focus {
  height: var(--focusHeight);
  width: var(--focusWidth);
}

A: Pretty old question so I figured I'll add a more modern answer. Now that CSS variables are widely supported they can be used to achieve this without the need for JS events or !important.
Taking the OP's example:

    Hover 1
    Hover 2

We can now do this in the CSS:
table td:hover {
  // fallback in case we need to support older/non-supported browsers (IE, Opera mini)
  background: #ff0000;
  background: var(--td-background-color);
}

And add the hover state using javascript like so:
const tds = document.querySelectorAll('td');
tds.forEach((td) => {
  td.style.setProperty('--td-background-color', '#00ff00');
});

Here's a working example https://codepen.io/ybentz/pen/RwPoeqb

A: What you can do is change the class of your object and define two classes with different hover properties. For example:
.stategood_enabled:hover  { background-color:green}
.stategood_enabled        { background-color:black}
.stategood_disabled:hover { background-color:red}
.stategood_disabled       { background-color:black}

And this I found on:
Change an element's class with JavaScript
function changeClass(object,oldClass,newClass)
{
    // remove:
    //object.className = object.className.replace( /(?:^|\s)oldClass(?!\S)/g , '' );
    // replace:
    var regExp = new RegExp('(?:^|\\s)' + oldClass + '(?!\\S)', 'g');
    object.className = object.className.replace( regExp , newClass );
    // add
    //object.className += " "+newClass;
}

changeClass(myInput.submit,"stategood_disabled"," stategood_enabled");

A: Pseudo classes like :hover never refer to an element, but to any element that satisfies the conditions of the stylesheet rule. You need to edit the stylesheet rule, append a new rule, or add a new stylesheet that includes the new :hover rule.
var css = 'table td:hover{ background-color: #00ff00 }';
var style = document.createElement('style');

if (style.styleSheet) {
    style.styleSheet.cssText = css;
} else {
    style.appendChild(document.createTextNode(css));
}

document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(style);

A: Sorry to find this page 7 years too late, but here is a much simpler way to solve this problem (changing hover styles arbitrarily):
HTML:
<button id=Button>Button Title</button>

CSS:
.HoverClass1:hover {color: blue !important; background-color: green !important;}
.HoverClass2:hover {color: red !important; background-color: yellow !important;}

JavaScript:
var Button=document.getElementById('Button');
/* Clear all previous hover classes */
Button.classList.remove('HoverClass1','HoverClass2');
/* Set the desired hover class */
Button.classList.add('HoverClass1');

A: If it fits your purpose you can add the hover functionality without using css and using the onmouseover event in javascript
Here is a code snippet

foo

A: You can use mouse events to control like hover.
For example, the following code is making visible when you hover that element.
var foo = document.getElementById("foo");
foo.addEventListener('mouseover',function(){
   foo.style.display="block";
})
foo.addEventListener('mouseleave',function(){
   foo.style.display="none";
})

A: You can make a CSS variable, and then change it in JS.
:root {
  --variableName: (variableValue);
}

to change it in JS, I made these handy little functions:
var cssVarGet = function(name) {
  return getComputedStyle(document.documentElement).getPropertyValue(name);
};

and
var cssVarSet = function(name, val) {
  document.documentElement.style.setProperty(name, val);
};

You can make as many CSS variables as you want, and I haven't found any bugs in the functions;
After that, all you have to do is embed it in your CSS:
table td:hover {
  background: var(--variableName);
}

And then bam, a solution that just requires some CSS and 2 JS functions!

A: Had some same problems, used addEventListener for events "mousenter", "mouseleave":
let DOMelement = document.querySelector('CSS selector for your HTML element');

// if you want to change e.g color:
let origColorStyle = DOMelement.style.color;

DOMelement.addEventListener("mouseenter", (event) => { event.target.style.color = "red" });

DOMelement.addEventListener("mouseleave", (event) => { event.target.style.color = origColorStyle })

Or something else for style when cursor is above the DOMelement.
DOMElement can be chosen by various ways.

A: I was researching about hover, to be able to implement them in the button label and make the hover effect

<button type="submit"
        style=" background-color:cornflowerblue; padding:7px; border-radius:6px"
        onmouseover="this.style.cssText ='background-color:#a8ff78; padding:7px; border-radius:6px;'"
        onmouseout="this.style.cssText='background-color:cornflowerblue; padding:7px; border-radius:6px'"
        @click="form1()">
        Login
</button>

A: You can create a class in css
.hover:hover {
    background: #ff0000;
}

and then add it dynamically
const columns = document.querySelectorAll('table td');

for (let i = 0; i < columns.length; i++) {
   columns[i].classList.add('hover');
}

But your css and js files should be connected in index.html

A:     const tds = document.querySelectorAll('td');
    tds.forEach((td,index) => {
      td.addEventListener("mouseover", ()=>hover(index))
      td.addEventListener("mouseout", ()=>normal(index))
    });
    function hover(index){
      tds[index].style.background="red";
    }
    function normal(index){
      tds[index].style.background="yellow";
    }

Try this code it will work fine .

A: If you use lightweight html ux lang, check here an example, write:
div root
 .onmouseover = ev => {root.style.backgroundColor='red'}
 .onmouseleave = ev => {root.style.backgroundColor='initial'}

The code above performes the css :hover metatag.

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When Jeremiah Green left Modest Mouse, the question of "why would a drummer who's left his signature style stamped all over such classic material do such a thing?" arose. Truth is, Green departed one of the most original indie rock bands of the past decade to become a full-timer with Vells, another Seattle band who formed in 2002 by members of various other bands like Red Stars Theory and Stagger Lee. At the other end of the spectrum from Isaac Brock's ramblings, Vells sugarcoat jangly pop music to make one darling of an EP. Featuring six tracks led by the heavenly-voiced Tristan Marcum, this quintet mixes pretty 60s girl group hooks with Bacharach-concentrated chamber pop and the occasional haunting melody. This isn't exactly the rocket science Green was doing with his former band, but Vells have stumbled into some lovely territory that should make the debut full-length a mouth-watering wait.
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Congressman Steve Watkins says that he was an engineer in the Army but he apparently doesn't like math very much. His letter stated that he is one of very few Republicans able to listen to the Impeachment hearings.
Let me help him explain. There are 435 members of the House — 234 Dems (54%) and 201 GOP (46%). On the Committees hearing impeachment testimony there are 47 GOP and 57 Dems. Remember that in 2018 American voters replaced 41 GOP Members with Dems.
That means 47 of the 201 GOP (23%) members are part of the hearings and 57 of the 234 Dems (24%) are part of the hearings. Therefore 77% of GOP members and 76% of Dems are not invited. Only the GOP folks are complaining. As a side note, it seems improbable that none of the 47 Republicans have leaked any pro-Trump information. Maybe there isn't any?
Mr. Watkins is also unhappy that he must only review transcripts in the presence of Dem staffers. That sounds familiar. When members of Congress wanted to see the Mueller Report, they were treated the same way. I think the word they like to use in D.C. is "precedent." Another precedent was set by Trump's personal Attorney General by sitting on the Mueller Report for a month while he put his own spin on it at his news conferences. Then the AG blacked out information and is still fighting to keep it covered up.
Hopefully the impeachment process will be more transparent than the Republicans are when they have the power. When the GOP was the majority party in the House they refused to allow Dem members to subpoena witnesses to hearings about Trump's cozy deals with Russia. Probably because the Republicans were too busy investigating Benghazi four times, all in secret hearings. If the Dem lead committees release the transcripts of these hearings, I hope the GOP learns what transparency really looks like.
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You most likely know jazz, swing, and big band music. You might even know gypsy music. But have you ever heard of gypsy swing?
Gypsy swing, or gypsy jazz, is a type of "hot club jazz" that was started in France in the 1930s by Manouche gypsy Django Reinhardt. Django was known at the time as a guitar virtuoso, playing all around Paris with Romani guitarists. He had a unique playing style thanks to his exposure to early live jazz recordings. But one day after hearing a recording of Louis Armstrong, he started to tweak his technique to go along with the new jazz style.
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Ricardo, one of the original members of Velvet Caravan, grew up in Venezuela playing the violin – and with passion for orchestra music. He dropped out of school at 15 to become the youngest violinist in the Venezuelan Philharmonic Orchestra. Music took him all over the world, which is how he ended up in Savannah playing with the local symphony.
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Before they knew it, they were a quintet, not unlike the gypsy jazz groups from days of yore. They created a show to tell the story about how gypsy swing music came to be following World War I.
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If you're interested in learning more about the history and influence of gypsy jazz after the first world war, check out his weekly radio show on WRUU, called "Gypsy On My Mind." In it he talks about gypsies and the similarities between gypsy jazz and klezmer and even flamenco.
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NCORED was established to develop, review, and monitor programs of the Association with respect to issues of diversity and equity.
Authorization and Accountability
The National Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity is mandated by the NASW Bylaws (1994), Article XII, Section A. The Committee reports on a regular basis to the NASW Board of Directors on matters of policy and shall coordinate with the Program Coordinating Committee on activities related to program.
The National Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity (NCORED) promotes conditions which encourage respect for the diversity of cultures including equality of opportunity in all activities of the association. A particular focus is on those groups that have historically been subject to racism.
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Members, Terms and Criteria
The Committee shall be comprised of up to 7 members. The Board of Directors established the principle of representation of diverse racial and ethnic groups in accordance with the specification of groups identified under the Association's Affirmative Action Program. Representation from each of these groups on NCORED is desirable.
The Chair of NCORED will be a person, from one of the diverse racial and/or ethnic groups, and who is the Board Secretary or another member of the NASW Board of Directors. The Chair shall be appointed for a two-year term. The membership of the Committee is not included in the affirmative action statistics to avoid distorting the data.
Specific Responsibilities
Given that issues of ethnic and racial diversity are core to all association work, this committee shall develop, promote and/or collaborate on methods of insuring inclusion of racial and diversity issues on NASW policies and programs. To promote the development of knowledge, theory and practice as related to racial/ethnic diversity. To review proposed Delegate Assembly public social policies for their impact on people of color, and make recommendations for their acceptance or modification. To monitor policy changes, and data affecting policy changes, with regard to racial and ethnic groups both native-born and immigrant.
To identify ways to eliminate racist and ethno-centric social work practices and policies and make recommendations to appropriate organizational units for action.
The National Committee on Minority Affairs (NCOMA) was established following five years of study and recommendations by the Task Force on Minority Concerns formed by the 1969 Delegate Assembly. NCOMA was mandated as a standing committee by the 1975 Delegate Assembly. In 1996, the Committee's name was changed to the National Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity with approval from the Delegate Assembly.
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Contact Rita Webb, Senior Staff Associate at rwebb.nasw@socialworkers.org.
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#10 Tyson Ashcraft
POS. INF/RHP
HOMETOWN (PREVIOUS SCHOOL) Brentwood, Tenn. (Brentwood HS)
2014 (Junior): Saw action in 53 game drawing 52 starts...Finished with a .249 batting average...Tied for the team lead with four home runs...Hit 13 doubles and two triples...Drove in 34 runs...Walked 19 times...Made eight appearances on the mound with a 1-4 record with a 5.40 ERA...Struck out six batters in 15 innings or work.
2013 (Sophomore): Led the team with a .303 batting average…Drove in 29 runs…Scored 23 times…Hit seven doubles, one triple and five home runs…Was perfect in 225 chances in the field (215 po, 10 a)…Also saw action on the mound making 14 appearances with a 2-3 record…Posted a 3.86 ERA in 18.2 innings of relief…Fanned 18 batters…A-Sun All-Academic.
2012 (Freshman): Played in 33 games starting 27…hit .235 with five RBI, three doubles, two triples and one home run…A-Sun All-Academic.
High School: Prepped at Brentwood High School…Helped lead his team to the 2008 Sandlott World Series Championship and USSSA Championship…Helped lead BHS to football district championships in 2008, 2009, 2010.
Personal: Parents are Stephen and Teresa Ashcraft…One brother, Trent who played collegiate baseball at East Carolina before being drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2004…One sister, Tory, who played volleyball at Lipscomb…Also recruited by Memphis and UAB…Exercise science major.


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Q: Query SQL Server count value of count I have query as below:
SELECT
    COUNT(*)
FROM
    (SELECT
         h2.hacker_id, COUNT(c2.challenge_id) AS co
     FROM
         hackers h2
     INNER JOIN
         challenges c2 ON h2.hacker_id = c2.hacker_id
     GROUP BY
         h2.hacker_id
     HAVING
         COUNT(c2.challenge_id) = 1)

But, my query can not execute well and I get this error:

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Server WIN-ILO9GLLB9J0, Line 33
  Incorrect syntax near ')'

Please help me resolve this.

A: You need an alias for the subquery in either SQL Server or MySQL:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM (SELECT h2.hacker_id, count(c2.challenge_id) as co
      FROM hackers h2 INNER JOIN
           challenges c2
           ON h2.hacker_id = c2.hacker_id
      GROUP BY h2.hacker_id
      HAVING count(c2.challenge_id) = 1
     ) x;

Assuming that your hacker_ids are all well defined, you do not need the JOIN:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM (SELECT c2.hacker_id, count(c2.challenge_id) as co
      FROM challenges c2
      GROUP BY c2.hacker_id
      HAVING count(c2.challenge_id) = 1
     ) x;

If you have a unique id in challenges, you can also phrase this as:
select count(*)
from challenges c
where not exists (select 1
                  from challenges c2
                  where c2.hacker_id = c.hacker_id and c2.challenge_id <> c.challenge_id
                 );

With an index on challenges(hacker_id, challenge_id), this should have the best performance (once again, regardless of database).

A: You need  a table name for the FROM (  ) table eg add a simple T after the closing )
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM (
    SELECT h2.hacker_id, count(c2.challenge_id) as co
    FROM hackers h2 INNER JOIN challenges c2 ON h2.hacker_id = c2.hacker_id
    GROUP BY h2.hacker_id
    HAVING count(c2.challenge_id) = 1
) T


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Here's why truth in brand storytelling matters
As urban millennials and self-proclaimed nature geeks, we look for brands that reflect who we are. Where we've been. What we care about.
Brands are catching on — particularly when it comes to environmental responsibility. From Nature Valley granola bars to Seventh Generation cleaning products, corporations are leaning into our generation's collective call for corporate sustainability.
But as scholars and critics have noted, there's more to being a sustainable brand than adding a recycling symbol to your packaging. We've noticed two brands that go beyond greenwashing — with very different approaches.
In April 2019, Everlane, a clothing brand known for its approach of "radical transparency," teamed up with The New York Times to launch a microsite about fact-based climate reporting. The site offers a series of simple climate talking points linked to the New York Times reporting. Then, it asks the reader to purchase a New York Times-branded Everlane sweatshirt. Proceeds from the clothes support New York Times subscriptions for public schools.
With this activation, The New York Times and Everlane got some big things right. But they also missed the mark in a few key ways.
Throughout the site, the two brands balance their respective voices, seamlessly linking The New York Times' iconic "Truth" campaign to frank, assertive language from Everlane. The microsite tells a story: table stakes for good brand activism. It's an unexpected collaboration, but one that makes sense for both brands: one long-committed to fact-based reporting, and the other focused on sustainable, ethical production.
The microsite feels right for its customers. The messages arm Everlane's educated, urban shoppers with talking points for coffee dates and Thanksgiving dinners. The sweatshirts are a uniform for sustainability virtue-signaling. And all of that's important — because without a compelling reason for a consumer to engage, an activation can't make an impact.
But there's a disconnect. At the very top of the page, a rotating tagline for The New York Times asserts: "Truth. It affects us all. How we waste. What we buy." Then, at the bottom, you face a link to buy a $50 sweatshirt.
Suddenly, the message feels hollow. After all, isn't needless consumption part of the problem?
If "truth inspires action," as the site reminds us, how does the action Everlane and The New York Times want their readers to take further the cause they're highlighting? The short answer: it doesn't.
In comparison, consider Patagonia: a poster child for authentic environmental stewardship. Sustainability is core to their purpose, their promise and their product. Their purpose statement, "We're in business to save our home planet," summarizes their commitment to sustainability and good business.
Their marketing promises authenticity by giving people new ways to connect with the brand while tangibly delivering on its mission. Notably, Patagonia does not want you to buy excess product – they'd rather customers reuse, resell and share. By accepting trade-in "Worn Wear," repairing used products in their stores and ultimately extending the life of the products they sell, they send a powerful message about their commitment to sustainability. The classic "Don't Buy This Jacket" campaign articulated this message succinctly.
And while the gear they do sell is sustainable (read: recycled, durable and efficiently produced), their product is bigger than trendy puffers and corporate vests. By offering its customers tangible ways to connect with real causes through its Patagonia Action Works platform, the company creates an opportunity to be part of a lifestyle and community committed to preserving the outdoors, no matter where the consumer actually lives. Calls-to-action across the experience emphasizes pledge-signing, event-going and petition-signing, not just buying.
Tying language to action allows Patagonia to truly own their position as an advocate for our planet. Whether you're an adventurer or not, the approach resonates – because it's real.
Brands win customer loyalty when messaging and experience work together seamlessly. One without the other is either an empty promise, or a missed opportunity. Everlane and The New York Times remind us that it's not enough to have a call-to-action. That action has to deliver on the story you're sharing.
With a two-pronged approach, Patagonia both talks the talk and walks the walk. We applaud them for their sustained commitment to sustainability that resonates with their customers.
Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Marketing Land. Staff authors are listed here.
Rachel Benner is a brand strategist based in New York City.
Hannah Post helps brands discover and tell their stories in a more authentic and relevant way. Drawing from experience in marketing, Hannah brings storytelling to life across a constantly shifting competitive, cultural and technological landscape.
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