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Samson K-100 hoist rope makes Mideast debut on Grove crane
By Anirban Bagchi
New synthetic rope is 80% lighter than wire rope and offers several performance benefits
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A Grove RT880E in Qatar has become the first crane in the Middle East to be fitted with Samson's K-100 synthetic hoist rope, according to Manitowoc, the parent company of the brand.
The rope was fitted at a recent three-day event, which included machine testing and hands-on training for the installation, handling, and inspection of the K-100 product, Manitowoc said in a press announcement. Samson and Manitowoc representatives attended the event, along with employees from Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), one of the largest construction services companies in the region and the operator of the Grove RT880E.
The synthetic rope, designed specifically for mobile cranes, is the result of a joint development between Samson, a leading synthetic rope manufacturer, and Manitowoc. Made from a combination of high-performance synthetic fibers, K-100 is 80% lighter than wire rope and features torque-neutral construction that eliminates load spin and cabling, Manitowoc said. The new hoist material also makes for easy handling, reeving and installation as it reduces kinking, bird caging and damage from other types of spooling issues. Additionally, because it does not require lubing with heavy grease, it is more environmentally friendly.
Yannick Richaud, director of Manitowoc Cranes, UAE, said the K-100 will be a value-added option for Grove users in the Middle East. "K-100 will generate plenty of interest here in Qatar and the surrounding region. Crane enthusiasts in the Middle East will see the numerous benefits of this innovation. Additionally, customers, especially those in the oil and gas industries, will feel confident investing in a product that has been tested by a reputable and well-known company such as CCC," he said.
Samson has also enhanced UV protection on K-100 and, together with Manitowoc, has measured the effects of ultraviolet light on the new rope over a period of one year, Richaud added. The results showed that it maintained 90% of new rope strength following UV exposure.
"Samson is very excited about the new opportunities that will be presented to us now that K-100 is available throughout the Middle East," said Dennis Sherman, technical sales director for EMEA at Samson. "This synthetic rope will have a significant impact on the lifting industry in the region and we feel it is a true game changer for crane customers."
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20-month lockout over, sugar workers brace for return to work
Dan Gunderson
MOORHEAD, Minn.
Listen20-month lockout over, sugar workers brace for return to work
American Crystal Sugar Co. locked out 1,300 union workers at five processing plants - including this one in Moorhead, Minn. - and two storage facilities after union members rejected a contract offer. Monday, Aug. 1, 2011, was the first day of the lockout.
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Locked-out American Crystal Sugar union members are headed back to work after the union voted over the weekend to accept the company's contract offer.
Union members, who have been locked out at five factories in the Red River Valley since Aug. 1, 2011, expect a bumpy return to their old jobs.
Just enough union members changed their vote to ratify the same contract they had rejected four times. Employees last voted on it in December, when 55 percent voted to reject the offer.
The new contract means more money for workers, but they will pay more for health insurance and union officials say they will lose some job security.
In the latest ballot, the union says 55 percent of workers who voted agreed to accept the company's contract offer.
Dennis Gerlach, a worker who changed his vote to yes, said: "It's money, it's family life, it's how do I start over again in another career or another job? I'm not ready to retire yet, but I'm not ready to start over."
Gerlach, 56, worked for 35 years at the Moorhead factory before the lockout. After the lockout he accepted another job for less money.
He said he is happy to be going back to work, but he will not have the same trust in American Crystal leadership. The company spent months planning to lock out employees, he said.
"I think they have to actually do more time and planning than that to build relations among everybody again," Gerlach said. "I really wonder if they're qualified and if they're going to do that. But we'll see."
Bags of Crystal Sugar on the shelves of a Fargo, N.D., grocery store on Oct. 15, 2012. Locked-out union members picketed outside the store in an effort to get public support for a boycott of American Crystal Sugar products.
Another worker, Gayle Lund, 52, said she felt frustrated as she prepared to return to a job she had for 23 years before the lockout.
Lund voted no for the fifth time because the company refused to negotiate the contract.
But she will go back to work because she needs the health insurance, she said, adding that she expects to go back to a very different workplace.
"And with a lot of different people. People who have been doing my job," Lund said. "And that burns a little. I think it's going to be a big mess for a while."
Returning union workers will get their old jobs back, but they will be working alongside the employees who replaced them during the lockout. American Crystal says roughly half, or at least 650, of the union workers retired or quit during the lockout. Union members and replacement workers can apply for those open positions.
Lund fears that it will be a tense workplace and that union members will have a target on their backs.
"Our return-to-work agreement says absolutely no harassment will be tolerated," Lund said. "Now, I'm assuming they mean us harassing the replacement workers, but you know maybe somebody doesn't like me and decides, 'I'm going to get her out of here', and makes up some story and I'm gone. I don't know."
Wayne Jacobson, who has worked at American Crystal Sugar for more than 25 years, waves to a passing car outside of a company processing plant in Moorhead, Minn., in a file photo from Oct. 30, 2011.
MPR Photo/Nathaniel Minor
The union says that with the lockout over, replacement workers at Minnesota factories must join the union. Workers in North Dakota cannot be forced to join a union.
Union workers should be back on the job in about six weeks, said American Crystal Sugar Vice President Brian Ingulsrud.
Integrating the returning union workers and replacement workers will be a challenge, Ingulsrud said, and the transition will take time. The company will expect all of the workers to treat each other with respect, he added.
"I think the good thing is that we have a very good relationship with our current workforce, the replacement employees, and they're going to make up a very large percentage of our workforce going forward," he said. "My hope is that the culture that's been created with that group of employees will carry over going forward."
Last year's sugar beet harvest will be processed and the factories will close for the summer by the time union workers return, Ingulsrud said, so they will have a few months to integrate the workforce.
The company will hold employee meetings over the next two weeks to determine how many union members want to return to work.
The new contract will run until July 31, 2017, or just over four years, according to the company. Returning union employees will receive a total pay increase of 13 percent over the course of the contract.
American Crystal, which is based in Moorhead, is a cooperative owned by about 2,800 sugar beet growers. It is the nation's largest sugar beet processor, selling 90 percent of its production to industrial customers, including candy makers, bakeries and breakfast cereal makers.
The lockout began after 96 percent of the workers voting on the company's contract proposal rejected the offer on July 31, 2011.
In subsequent ballots, 90 percent of the voting workers turned down the proposal in November 2011, and 63 percent rejected it in June 2012.
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Q: Abstract classes and Multiple Inheritance We can achieve the same functionality as interfaces by using abstract classes, So why java doesn't allow the following code?
abstract class Animals
{
    public abstract void run();
}

abstract class Animals1
{
    public abstract void run1();
}

class Dog extends Animals,Animals1
{
  public void run() {System.out.println("Run method");}
  public void run1() {System.out.println("Run1 method");}
}

I know that multiple inheritance can be achieved by using only interfaces but the above code does the same thing as the interfaces would have done it.

A: This is not allowed because you can do more than this with abstract classes. It wouldn't make sense to allow multiple inheritance, provided you only used an abstract class when you could have used an interface.
It is simpler to only use abstract classes for things you can't do with an interface, in which case you wouldn't be able to use two abstract parent classes.
Note: with Java 8 there is less you can't do with an interface, you can have public instance and static methods with implementations.
In Java 9 you will be able to have private methods in interfaces ;)

A: This is because abstract classes are still classes, and inheritance is different than implementing an interface. Please see the differences between abstract class and interface. Also please see differences between inplementing an interface and extending a class in Java.
This both questions covers all the information you need to know to understand why you can't have multiple inheritance of abstract classes.
Also let me give you an example why this should not be allowed: Suppose you have the both  Animals and Animals1 implementing the same interface IAnimals:
interface IAnimals
{
    public string eat();
}

abstract class Animals implements IAnimals
{
    public abstract void run();
    public string eat(){ return "Animals eating"; }
}

abstract class Animals1 implements IAnimals
{
    public abstract void run1();
    public string eat(){ return "Animals1 eating"; }
}

If you now define your Dog class as you did:
class Dog extends Animals,Animals1
{
  public void run() {System.out.println("Run method");}
  public void run1() {System.out.println("Run1 method");}
}

It will have the method eat() too, which is not abstract so it can use it directly. What would be the return of this method for a dog? Which string will be returned, the one with Animals, or the one with Animals1?
This is called the diamond problem, and it is a reason why in some programming languages it is not allowed multiple inheritance.

A: Java does not support multiple Inheritance. -" One reason why the Java programming language does not permit you to extend more than one class is to avoid the issues of multiple inheritance of state, which is the ability to inherit fields from multiple classes. " Source https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/multipleinheritance.html
You may find this link useful.

A: I agree with you(if i understood about what you are talking :) )this is no need of such specific naming conventions.
interface pet
{

    public abstract void pet();
}

interface pet1
{
    public abstract void pet1();
}

class TestTt implements pet,pet1
{
    public void pet()
    {
        System.out.println("this is method of pet interface");

    }

    public void pet1() {
        System.out.println("this is method of pet1 interface");

    }
    public static void main(String a[])
    {
        pet obj=new TestTt();

        pet1 obj1=new TestTt();

        obj.pet();

        obj1.pet1();
    }
}

Now, Here if abstract class allows me to create object .then, i can create 2 different references for 2 abstract classes as in interface i can do.
If so, do i need Interfaces...?

A: In ABSTRACT class,we can't extends multiple abstract classes at a time.
but
In INTERFACE, we can implements multiple interfaces at time.
Therefore , interfaces are used to achieve multiple inheritance in java.

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An interview with Molly Petroff, a 5 Moments of Need Designer at Saint Vincent Hospital in Erie, PA, around her organization's 5 Moments Journey and the impact it is having on the performance of the workforce.
An Interview with Molly Petroff
"What I'm doing now is really affecting the work, the performance of people who are on the job. We couldn't always say that before when we were teaching in the classroom."
– Molly Petroff, 5 Moments of Need Designer
Bob Mosher (BM): How did the journey start for you?
Molly Petroff (MP): Honestly, it was accidental, or I guess—coincidental. I was at Elliott Masie's Learning event and I didn't have anything scheduled during one of the breakout hours and your session was quite literally—right there. I zipped in, not knowing how it would change my life.
BM: Well, we're certainly glad you dropped in Molly! How did you then "convince", for lack of a better word, your organization stakeholders and team that this was it?
MP: Well, after that first year which I spent developing my knowledge around the methodology, the whole team went to Masie and we followed you guys around like groupies. Then we just plowed ahead. Our stakeholders only saw a couple of screenshots of what we were trying to build and they really bought into the concept almost immediately.
As we worked with groups they would tell us, "This is great and we can also use it with this project!"
After the first project, we had a very easy time with buy-in around the build of additional projects.
BM: Training complains about always having to swim upstream for funding, and projects, and all this stuff. Why do you think this was different for you and your stakeholders in those initial conversations?
MP: A couple of reasons. At that point we did have our own funding for our own projects so that was a big help.
Second, our team has a very good working relationship with multiple other committees and leadership groups and I think they just trusted us to do the right thing for the institution, as that was what we had always tried to do in the past.
Finally, we had just come off a survey review that was very troublesome and we were offering them a credible solution to that problem so that it would never happen again, we hoped. So, all those things combined really helped us take off really kind of easily in the beginning.
BM: Well, it's a crawl-walk-run, right? We say this a lot. Unlike training, frankly, this is won one project at a time. You have to build that momentum, and frankly, credibility even though you were a credible department. So how did you pick your battles? Are you able to say, or generalize at least what you started with?
MP: At the very beginning, we had a compliance issue that we had to fix. So we dived into doing safety for the hospital—a performance support solution—an EPSS for the hospital safety situation. And it covered all our codes and everything the compliance people wanted us to cover every year.
When we completed the project we took it to leadership and at that very meeting, or maybe the next day, I had a request on my desk for our next project. And as it went out to more people, the committees started having ideas about how they could use this type of support.
Within two weeks, we literally had so many projects on our back burner that we could never have completed them all in a year. It was just amazing how people just swarmed to this concept because it just made sense to people.
In my humble opinion, it was partly the way we built it—you know, the design worked for people. They could find what they needed. It just filled a void at the right time. Right now there are probably fifty different projects in our One Learning Place and probably forty or forty-five in the Safety GPS.
BM: Oh, my!
MP: So you know, we've done a lot of adding and revisions and corrections over the years. But we've been at this now since 2011.
BM: Wow. Every L&D Department would kill to have people queuing up projects like that versus the door-to-door selling your wares kind of thing. What challenges have you had to address along the way?
MP: Well, people still come to us with requests for courses and we have to convince them there's a better way to do it, so that continues.
Also, when we initially put performance support out there as an idea, we at the same time, introduced the learning concept of the flipped classroom.
So that caused us some problems because they equated performance support with the same concept as the learning concept of the flipped classroom. So not all Five Moments were being addressed. Even still, we have to go back to them and say, "Okay you got the first part, but what about on-the-job?"
BM: Yep. Constantly re-educating.
MP: Yes indeed. I don't know if that's ever going to stop.
Bob: It's an age-old mindset that is instilled in us since—we were kids. We have to make them smart, so we send them to school. It's kind of become a reflex, to think training first.
When you look back on your journey, does anything surprise you in how you thought this would go?
MP: I think one of the early-on surprises for me was how well it was accepted and how everybody wanted some. That really was shocking to me. The other thing that surprised me personally was that what I'm doing now is really affecting the work, the performance of people who are on-the-job. We couldn't always say that before when we were teaching in the classroom. So many other things affect it, but now I can really see how putting this support in the workflow enables our people to work better—it affects their work and it affects the outcomes for our patients. And that is really gratifying.
BM: Of course! Can you share a bit about your regulator award? I think that speaks volumes for an outside agency to recognize your work.
MP: Hospitals get reviewed by an organization called the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. That's the big one. Once we get that accreditation, we can have our bills paid by the government, so that's an important one. They come through and do a review and survey every three years, routinely.
The last time they came through was the end of 2016. They did their usual assessment. We tell people before they come, "If you don't know the answer to one of their questions…"—because they interview people on the job—"If you don't know the answer to a question…" they are allowed to say, "I don't know but I can show you where I would find the answer." So we tell them, "Take them to One Learning Place or to the Safety GPS and show them the answer and then answer their question. So we told them to do that if a question came up that they couldn't answer.
About midway through the survey, they came to one of the leadership meetings and said, "Tell me more about One Learning Place."
Obviously, someone had shown it to them and during an exit interview, the suggestion was made that our Safety GPS was an exemplary practice for the safety education for our hospital. I was kind of surprised that they actually referred to it as safety education and not a resource—that pleased me incredibly. At that same meeting, we heard that we should submit this to their leading practice library. JCAHO has an online library where other JCAHO organizations can go in and see what other people are doing that is really great. So, we submitted our article and it was accepted so we're now also included in that library.
BM: Here's the classic question, if you could go back and do anything differently what would it be—if anything?
MP: The way we rolled it out to our small educator groups, I think that if we had to do it again, I would do that differently. I would introduce the whole concept of what performance support is better so they don't think it's one thing when it's another.
Connect with Molly to learn more about Saint Vincent's performance improving 5 Moment solutions.
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Csin Liang (Peking, 1979. március 29.–) kínai női nemzetközi labdarúgó-játékvezető.

Pályafutása
A CFA Játékvezető Bizottságának (JB) minősítésével a League One, majd a Super League játékvezetője. Küldési gyakorlat szerint rendszeres 4. bírói, illetve alapvonalbírói szolgálatot is végez. A nemzeti női labdarúgó bajnokságban kiemelkedően foglalkoztatott bíró.

A Kínai labdarúgó-szövetség JB terjesztette fel nemzetközi játékvezetőnek, a Nemzetközi Labdarúgó-szövetség (FIFA) 2010-től tartja nyilván női bírói keretében. Több nemzetek közötti válogatott (Női labdarúgó-világbajnokság, Női Ázsia-kupa, Algarve-kupa), valamint klubmérkőzést vezetett, vagy működő társának 4. bíróként segített.

A 2012-es U20-as női labdarúgó-világbajnokságon, és a 2014-es U20-as női labdarúgó-világbajnokságon a FIFA JB játékvezetőként foglalkoztatta.

A FIFA JB 2015 márciusában nyilvánosságra hozta annak a 29 játékvezetőnek (22 közreműködő valamint 7 tartalék, illetve 4. bíró) és 44 asszisztensnek a nevét, akik közreműködtek Kanadában a 2015-ös női labdarúgó-világbajnokságon. A kijelölt játékvezetők és asszisztensek 2015. június 26-án Zürichben, majd két héttel a világtorna előtt Vancouverben vettnek rész továbbképzésen, egyben végrehajtották a szokásos elméleti és fizikai Cooper-tesztet. Selejtező mérkőzéseket az AFC zónában vezetett. A 2014-es női Ázsia-kupa labdarúgó torna egyben minősítője volt a 2015-ös női labdarúgó-világbajnokságnak. Világbajnokságon vezetett mérkőzéseinek száma: 1.

A 2014-es női Ázsia-kupa labdarúgó tornán az AFC JB bíróként foglalkoztatta.

A 2015-ös Algarve-kupa labdarúgó tornán a FIFA JB játékvezetőként vette igénybe. A labdarúgó torna a 2015-ös női labdarúgó-világbajnokság főpróbája volt.

2012-ben az Ázsiai Labdarúgó-szövetség (AFC) JB a Év Játékvezetője címet adományozta részére.

Források

Kínai labdarúgó-játékvezetők
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LSH strengthens Newcastle office with several key appointments
We have made several key appointments to our Newcastle office strengthening the breadth and depth of our service offering across the North East.
Peter Dalby (Director) and Michael Fletcher (Associate Director) have joined to lead and grow the Building Consultancy team. Peter previously ran AA Projects' Newcastle office, where he was responsible for the delivery of all professional and project services in the Education, Commercial and Industrial sectors. Michael joins from Workman LLP, where he provided Building Surveying professional services and Project Management for Retail, Office and Industrial clients. Both Peter and Michael bring significant depth of experience across all Building Consultancy service lines to both bolster and widen the LSH offer.
Caroline Norton-Cox and Debbie Anderson have joined the Property Management team as a Property Manager and Facilities Manager respectively. Prior to joining LSH, Caroline worked as a solicitor in the commercial litigation department at Watson Burton having trained at Ward Hadaway where a significant part of her role was property litigation matters involving dilapidations, lease renewals and other aspects of commercial leases. Debbie Anderson previously held positions with F&C REIT and CBRE and brings with her a wealth of experience in commercial property and shopping centre management.
David Robinson has joined as a Development Surveyor in the firm's successful Agency team. David has several years experience having previously worked in G L Hearn's London office.
Philip Loxley joins as a Graduate Surveyor in the Valuation team. Philip previously worked at Cell:cm Chartered Surveyors in Newcastle specialising in the field of telecommunications property advice as well as covering other aspects of asset management for land and property owners.
Martyn Lytollis, head of LSH in Newcastle, commented: "I am delighted to welcome our new members to the team here in Newcastle. Their appointments are evidence of our ongoing commitment to delivering an unrivalled breadth and depth of commercial property services across the North East.
"We look forward to supporting them in their new roles and to the contribution each will make to the Newcastle business".
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Having high blood pressure is a common problem among people in the U.S., and it's also one that can lead to serious or deadly complications. It's important to take steps to maintain a healthy blood pressure level, and this can include making changes in your lifestyle, from the foods you eat to the level of activity you do.
So what about alcohol and high blood pressure? Is there a relationship between alcohol and high blood pressure, and if so, what is it?
The following offers a general overview of how having high blood pressure can affect you, as well as specifics related to alcohol and high blood pressure.
What Happens If You Have High Blood Pressure?
Before looking at the relationship between alcohol and high blood pressure, what is this condition? High blood pressure refers to a scenario where the pressure of your blood pushing against the walls of your blood vessels is too high on a consistent basis. Of course, there can be spikes and dips that occur with your blood pressure temporarily, but the condition of having high blood pressure signifies that it's more prolonged.
Blood pressure numbers come from measuring the blood pumping out of the heart and into the arteries and then measuring a force that occurs when your heart is resting between beats.
When you have high blood pressure, it makes it harder for your heart and vessels to work properly, and that can eventually cause damage to your arteries. The more damage that occurs to your arteries, the smaller the pathways inside them are, which can then cause further harm and lead to a variety of complications.
For many people with high blood pressure, there are no symptoms or indicators that something is wrong and this is why it can be referred to as a silent killer.
When you have high blood pressure, it increases your risk of things like stroke and heart attack, among other serious conditions.
Along with medication, most of the best things you can do to lower your blood pressure and maintain healthy readings are related to your lifestyle. For example, losing weight, exercising and eating a diet that's low in fat and sodium are all helpful.
What about alcohol and high blood pressure? What's the relationship between alcohol and high blood pressure?
What is the Relationship Between Alcohol and High Blood Pressure?
The relationship between alcohol and high blood pressure can be somewhat of a complicated one.
First, if you drink moderately it can actually help lower your blood pressure, but there are some big stipulations to keep in mind. Research has shown that if you engage in light to moderate drinking, it can create a reduction in blood pressure in some people. In moderation, alcohol might lower blood pressure by 2 to 4 mm Hg. While this shows a beneficial link between alcohol and high blood pressure, it's important to understand what's meant by moderate.
For example, moderate drinking in women is defined as no more than one drink a day, and for men, two. The amount of alcohol in a drink is also relevant when it comes to alcohol and high blood pressure. For example, a drink when it comes to wine is only five ounces, so it's important to be careful with how much you drink if you're thinking about the link between alcohol and high blood pressure.
While the relationship between alcohol and high blood pressure can be a positive one when drinking is light to moderate, what about heavy drinking?
If you drink too much, it can have quite the opposite effect and raise your blood pressure.
If you're a heavy drinker and you gradually cut back on alcohol, you can lower your blood pressure significantly in many cases. If you're a long-term heavy drinker and you stop suddenly, it can cause a spike in blood pressure. Instead, slowly reduce the amount you drink to see improvements in blood pressure levels.
If you binge drink, which refers to heavy drinking in one setting, it can cause a spike in blood pressure, and if you're a chronic binge drinker, high blood pressure can become long-term.
It's important to note that in addition to the direct relationship between alcohol and high blood pressure, there can also be indirect links between alcohol and high blood pressure.
For example, excessive alcohol consumption can cause weight gain, and being overweight can put you at risk for having high blood pressure and cardiovascular problems. You might also make poorer dietary decisions if you regularly drink and your inhibitions are lowered, which can also indirectly cause your blood pressure to rise.
The relationship between alcohol and high blood pressure can be a complex one. If you're a light to moderate drinker, alcohol can help you maintain a healthy blood pressure. If you're a binge or heavy drinker, it can cause your blood pressure to be higher.
It's important to discuss any concerns you might have about alcohol and high blood pressure with your physician, who can help make recommendations specific to you.


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OpenSea Executive Resigns Over Insider Trading
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The company's head of product, Nate Chastain, has stepped down.
Shutterstock photo by De Visu.
OpenSea's head of product, Nate Chastain, has resigned from the company after allegations of insider trading.
The firm admitted to the trading incident yesterday but did not confirm Chastain's departure until today.
OpenSea says that a third party has reviewed the incident and that it is working to improve transparency.
OpenSea's head of product, Nate Chastain, left the company today after he was found to have engaged in insider trading yesterday.
Head of Product Leaves Company
On Tuesday, head of product Nate Chastain was publicly accused of buying soon-to-be promoted NFTs before they were shown on the platform's front page. Twitter user Zuwu brought Chastain's behavior to light by inspecting the Ethereum ledger.
OpenSea quickly admitted that one of its employees had engaged in the alleged behavior. However, it did not confirm that the employee would leave the company until today.
"The behavior of one of our employees violated [our obligation to the community] and, yesterday, we requested and accepted his resignation," OpenSea said in an update.
Despite these admissions, silence remains on both sides. The firm has not officially identified Chastain as the employee in question.
Meanwhile, Chastain has not posted to social media for several days, only noting his past role at OpenSea on his Twitter byline.
OpenSea Continues to Succeed
OpenSea says that it is taking this opportunity to improve its operations. It says that it has commissioned a third party to review the incident and recommend new controls on its activities.
The company says that it will provide updates as it changes its policies and improves transparency. It also says that it "wants OpenSea to be a level playing field" for buyers and sellers.
OpenSea is the largest public NFT marketplace in operation today. It reached $3 billion in monthly trading volume in August, and it handles trades for several popular lines of blockchain collectibles including CryptoKitties and CryptoPunks.
The company also rolled out its trading app for the Google and Apple stores today, which will likely attract new investors.
Disclaimer: At the time of writing this author held less than $75 of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins and has not invested in NFTs.
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Q: implementing openlayers-google map into ionic app I am trying to implement openlayers-google-map into my ionic3 appliation refrred from https://github.com/mapgears/ol3-google-maps . I tried to copy the example code provided in the link but not success. my html view:

import { Component, ViewChild, ElementRef } from '@angular/core';
import { IonicPage, NavController, NavParams, MenuController } from 'ionic-angular';
import * as $ from 'jquery';
import * as ol from 'openlayers';
import Map from 'ol/Map.js';
import GoogleLayer from 'olgm/layer/Google.js';
import {defaults} from 'olgm/interaction.js';
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            controls: ol.control.defaults(),
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can anybody help to implement ol3-google map into ionic3 apps ?


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12-20: MediaTek has allegedly lowered its 10nm production orders to TSMC for 2017; GOME launching their first smartphone soon, and will be released in 1Q17; etc.
Rumor says that because high-end smartphone market is changing in China, MediaTek recently has lowered its 10nm production orders to TSMC for 2017, and it is 50% lower than originally planned. MediaTek denies such rumor saying 10nm is dedicated to customers with flagships or sub-flagships, thus they are high-end products. Market demand is not high, and the lower rate cannot be that high. (Laoyaoba, CEB2B, EXP Review)
TrendForce estimates that China's capital expenditures on wafer fabs from the start 2015 to the present has reached around CNY480B, of which 86.5% or about CNY435B came from state-backed funds (including the National IC Fund and local funds for IC ventures). (TrendForce[cn], press, TrendForce, press)
A veteran Wall Street analyst projects the semiconductor industry will snap back to typical growth levels in 2017 after a slight contraction this year. (EE Times, article, Laoyaoba)
Globalfoundries has announced the addition of 8 new partners to its growing FDXcelerator program—ASE, Amkor, Infosys, Mentor Graphics, Rambus, Sasken, Sonics and QuickLogic. They join Synopsys, Cadence, Invecas, VeriSilicon, CEA Leti, Dreamchip and Encore Semi to provide a suite of services that will enable Globalfoundries customers to implement 22FDX SoC designs. (Digitimes, press)
Touch / Display
Japan Display Inc. (JDI) is reportedly speeding up its OLED display production lay-out, and expects to enter mass production in 2018. JDI currently has plan to introduce Full Active technology in its now running LTPS LCD production, and will produce flexible LCD display in 2018-2019. (CN Beta, Sohu, 163, Reuters, Barron's, TechNave)
Samsung will reportedly provide OLED display panels for at least one of Apple's next iPhones, as well as NAND flash memory chips again. Adding DRAM chips into the mix will make Samsung the main supplier out of hundreds of companies. (Forbes, Laoyaoba, Bloomberg, ET News, ET News)
South Korea's LED maker Seoul Semiconductor has warned 29 foreign lighting companies and TV makers of legal actions if they continue to infringe on its proprietary technologies. The accused include Feit Electric and six others from the United States, Redvan and two others from Europe, Skyworth and 14 others from China, and Advanced Optoelectronic Technology (AOT) and 3 others from Taiwan. (TechNews, Pulse)
Glassmaker Corning Inc. knows automakers are conservative about change when it comes to car windows. But Corning is beginning to make headway in marketing its lighter-weight Gorilla Glass to manufacturers. Corning claims the new-technology glass is stronger and lighter than more commonly used automotive glass. (CN Beta, Auto News)
Taiwan-based Phison Electronics has announced it will start shipping solutions for Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.1 NAND flash storage devices in 1Q17. Phison has rolled out its first UFS 2.1 controller chip, the PS8311, to support 3D TLC NAND flash memory. (ZOL, Digitimes, press)
Fujitsu announced that it has licensed Nantero's carbon nanotube-based NRAM (Non-volatile RAM) and will participate in a joint development effort to bring a 256Mb 55nm product to market in 2018. (Laoyaoba, Tom's Hardware, EE Times, The Register)
Voice recognition has come a long way in the past few years. But it is still not good enough to popularize the technology for everyday use and usher in a new era of human-machine interaction. Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Baidu hunt for terabytes of human speech. (Bloomberg, Laoyaoba, Gulf News)
Lucid Motors has signed a strategic supply agreement with LG Chem for lithium-ion battery cells. The agreement establishes LG Chem as one of the key suppliers of cells for Lucid's products. The cylindrical cells that LG Chem will be producing for Lucid will feature a proprietary chemistry that has been developed together in partnership. (CN Beta, Green Car Congress, Lucid Motors)
pureLiFi, a developer of Li-Fi a wireless communication technology based on visible light communication, has improved data transfer rates from 5Mbps originally to 10Mbps and further to 40Mbps, making Li-Fi a technological complement to Wi-Fi, according to Digitimes Research. (Digitimes, press, C114, 163)
GOME, a private electrical appliance retailer founded back in 1987, has announced that they will be launching their first smartphone soon, and will be released in 1Q17. It will have a dedicated security chip and iris / fingerprint recognition. (Gizmo China, CN Beta)
Harish Kohli, managing director, Acer India indicates that the company has put its smartphone business on hold in India. Acer, which had already invested in setting up two manufacturing lines for the personal computer business and smartphones, is finding it difficult to offer quality in a 'price-sensitive market' such as India. (TechNews, Mashable, Business Standard)
Following layoffs in its field sales force and the resulting change to HTC's U.S. business, the company likely won't launch a new flagship smartphone in 2017 in the United States, according to Cliff Maldonado at handset research firm BayStreet Research. Maldonado said the company will likely move back into an ODM business model, where it will design devices for specific customers like Google and Sprint. (TechNews, Android Headlines, Fierce Wireless)
Smartphones offering resistance against water damage (and other liquids) grew 45.2% YoY in the first 9 months of 2016 in Western Europe, while shipments of non-water–resistant smartphones declined 17% in the same period. Water resistant smartphones reached 22.5M units in the period to represent 23% of the total number of smartphones shipped in 2016 to date, according to IDC. (IDC, press)
Lenovo has reorganized its operations in Brazil as part of a plan to reduce spending. It has swapped a manufacturing facility of 52,000m2 in the São Paulo state city of Itu for a facility that is half the size in Indaiatuba, also in the São Paulo countryside. The workforce has also been reduced from 5,000 staff in Brazil to 800 employees (CN Beta, ZDNet)
Huawei Enjoy 6s is announced – 5" HD in-cell touch display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 processor, 13MP + 5MP cameras, 3GB RAM, 32GB storage, Android 6.0 (EMUI 4.1), LTE, dual-SIM, fingerprint sensor, 3030mAh battery. (CN Beta, TechWeb, iMobile)
Tablets / PCs
Pegatron and Quanta Computer will be the largest and second largest OEMs for high-end and mid-range notebooks launched by Asustek Computer in 2017, together accounting for 80% of all Asustek notebooks, according to Digitimes. Taiwan-based Wistron and China-based BYD will undertake OEM production of the remaining 20% of Asustek notebooks. (Laoyaoba, Digitimes, press)
According to IDC, global tablets assembly industry is entering peak season in 3Q16, yet the shipment is still impact by phablets, shortages of main components, causing the quarter reaches record-low for its peak season–only 9.5% growth on quarter. In particular, slate tablet assembler shipment grows 8.7%, and detachable tablet grows 15.1%. (IDC, press)
According to IDC, worldwide AR and VR headset shipments are expected to see a CAGR of 108.3% over 2015-2020 forecast period, reaching 76M units by 2020. The more affordable VR devices will continue to lead the market in terms of volume. However, IDC expects AR headsets to pick up momentum over the forecast as more affordable technologies and more OEMs enter the market. (IDC, press, Digitimes)
According to GfK, in 2016, China VR devices sales would reach CNY650M, 3 times more than CNY150M in 2015. Monthly sales would be 382 units, and there are 480 brands. However, generally consumers do not know much about VR, 76% of people still only hear about VR. (199IT, GfK report)
Mobile VR headset is portable, and prices are affordable, thus driving the VR device sales. In the past 6 months, monthly sales could reach millions, in particular Baofeng and other local brands are the drivers. However, following the launch of HTC Vive, all-in-one VR market is becoming more apparent, and in Oct. 2016, all-in-one sales exceed mobile VR. (199IT, GfK report)
According to IDC, China wearables shipment would reach 38.76M units in 2016, 57.1% increase on year. Wearables is the 2nd largest mobile consumer electronic devices after smartphones in China. (IDC, press, 199IT, EE Trend)
After more than a year of negotiation, ZTE has bought stake in Zhuhai bus manufacturer Guangtong Bus with millions of yuan. (CN Beta, iFeng, 10JQKA)
Hyundai Motor's top priority of its self-driving tech is keeping costs low enough for the technology to be attainable by mass-market buyers; ensuring people wary of advanced driving-assist systems are comfortable with fully automated cars; and solutions for legal, regulatory and security issues that will dictate how soon robotic vehicles can be deployed. (Engadget, CNET, Forbes)
According to a survey conducted by McKinsey & Company with 80 corporates involved in traditional and Internet business, 90% of the respondents think that AI would change its industry from its core. However, traditional corps still struggle on how to invest in this technology. More than 40% of the respondents indicate their CEO has not put AI as one of the strategic focuses, more than 60% think in past 1 year, their company has not gained satisfactory development from their AI strategy. (Laoyaoba, McKinsey, report)
Strategy Analytics' "Top 10 Digital Media Predictions for 2017" highlights the trends and events that will shape OTT video, digital advertising and VR in 2017. (EE Trend, Strategy Analytics, press)
1-31 #BacktoWork : Intel's CEO Patrick Gelsinger has made 4 commitment; US may enforce more restrictions on Huawei; SK Hynix has reportedly reshuffled its CIS team; etc. 2023-01-31


How Can I Reduce The Cost of My Food Photography Shoot?
Food photography is costing more than I expected. How can I reduce the cost?
Food shoots can be very expensive and many clients, especially smaller companies, need to cut costs to make the photography justifiable. Restaurants and small food manufacturer such as bakeries and candy companies know they need photography, but find it hard to come up with the money to hire a food photographer and the team needed to produce the photos. Here are some ways to cut costs in order to make the purchase more affordable.
As a food photographer, I charge not "by the shot", but "by the day"… What that means is that the number of shots we can do changes with the complexity of the particular project. Where that comes into play is if you need seven shots and we figure that we can do six shots in a day, that the seventh shot will put us into a second day. Then, the one shot will actually cost you about 50% of the entire invoice. If you'd be willing to give up doing that seventh shot, you could save a bunch of money.
The reverse side of that situation is when you think you only need three food photos and the team figures that it can shoot six in that same time period. It might be a good idea to come up with some other photos you may need in the future, to round out the day. That way, your cost per photo will be less and you may not need to pay for additional photo shoot down the line.
It's a good idea to have some "expendable" photos that you'd like to have shot, it time allows, but if it doesn't, then you're okay not getting them. You can have a "must have" list of shots and a "would like to get to" list of shots for the day. If the "must have" pictures take up the entire day, then not getting to the "would like to get to" photos is no big deal, but if everything goes smoothly and there is time at the end of the shoot day, then you get a few extra photos to add to your food photography library. This brings down your "per shot" price.
The more elements in a food photo, the longer that photograph takes to shoot. The longer the photo takes, the fewer photos can be done in a day and therefore the more each photo ends up costing you. When I say elements, I mean food items and props. The more different foods you have in a shot, the longer it takes to prepare, compose, and light. Time is money.
Props also take time to compose and light, so an environmental food photos takes more time to shoot than does a simple plate of food on a white background. Sure, the simple photo usually doesn't look as good as something set in "mom's kitchen", but if cost is the factor between having food photography and not having food photography, then maybe that's something to consider.
Changing backgrounds is another thing that chews up time on a food shoot. To change the background, all the props beed to be removed old one and then rearranged on the new background. This ends up taking valuable shoot time, so the fewer changes necessary, the less each shot will end up costing.
A food stylist is an expensive member of the food photography team and takes on many responsibilities for producing great food photos. Some of these responsibilities involve buying the food for the shoot and sometimes the props too. One way a client can save a little money is to take on those responsibilities. These things have to be done, so if the client wants to do the legwork then the stylist's invoice will end up a bill less then it would have otherwise.
Clients interested in hiring a food photographer are usually limited to some extent, by geography. There are usually few talented food photographers in a give area. Shooting food is NOT something just any photographer can do. And if you think it is, you just don't know much about the subject. You don't want to hire your local wedding photographer to shoot your menu. Just because a photographer has a couple of food photos on his website doesn't mean that he knows how to shoot food. Take a good look at different local photographer's websites to see who in your area is the best food shooter and go with them. Usually there isn't too much a difference between local competitors, but if you can't see a difference in quality, then you might want to get estimates from a couple different food photographers.
One option you might want to consider is to actually go without a food stylist. Out of everything I've listed here, this is the one thing that will save you the most money… If you own a restaurant, you might have your chef do the job of the food stylist. Don't get me wrong, you will be lessening the quality of the shoot, but this savings may prove to be the difference between being able to afford or not afford to shoot.
I always prefer to work with a food stylist, but I'm also pretty good at directing a chef and letting them know what looks good in a photo. Another thing about substituting a chef with the stylist, is the whole shoot will be more productive. Stylists make the shots as perfect as possible, but they also chew up a lot of shoot time doing so. With a chef, and depending on the types of photos, we can usually shoot two to three times as many photos in a given day.
So there you have it. If you need to same money on shooting your next food photography project, I've given you a few suggestions and ideas. By far, substituting the stylist is going to be the biggest cost savings, but it will also compromise the "perfection" of the photos. Sometimes though, perfection isn't really what you want anyway. What you probably want is, as many 'beautiful food photos" as possible, And sometimes beautiful and perfect, are not necessarily the same thing.


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CBSA Release of Canadian Red Cross Immigration Detention Report
Successfully evading the watchful eye of even the Canada OPCAT Project, the first report of Canadian Red Cross monitoring of immigration detention in Canada has been released.
Published by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) on 14 February 2019, where the news item remains a front page feature, the report highlights the findings of Canadian Red Cross monitoring of immigration detention in Canada in the period September 2017 to March 2018. A French version of this key report is also available on the same website.
If the CBSA seems only too pleased to mark the release of the Canadian Red Cross' CBSA detention report, the said report has oddly yet to surface on the Canadian Red Cross website. Even so, its publication comes as a very welcome step in opening up a detention setting in Canada, for which there is currently no statutory arms-length oversight body.
CBSA by British Columbia Emergency Photography (2014)
Instead such facilities are monitored as part of a two-year agreement between the CBSA and the Canadian Red Cross, as highlighted in the Executive Summary of the recently published report. In the document the Canadian Red Cross summarizes its main findings, as follows:
"Under the reporting period, the IDMP carried out a total of fifteen (15) visits to detention facilities holding immigration detainees between December 2017 and end of March 2018. Based on our observations made during this reporting period, CRCS grouped its concerns into the following five themes:
Co-mingling of immigration detainees in correctional institution;
Lack of orientation about the detainees' rights and responsibilities in detention;
Difficulties in accessing certain medical service;
Lack of access to outdoor areas in some visited facilities;
Difficulties in maintaining contact with families."
On the basis of the CRC's findings and observations the report makes the following recommendations:
"Where detention is necessary, to hold immigration detainees in facilities other than correctional prisons and where this is not possible, to separate immigration detainees from the rest of the prison population;
To ensure that immigration detainees are fully aware of their rights and responsibilities, regardless of their place of detention;
To ensure that immigration detainees have access to adequate mental health services wherever they are detained;
To provide immigration detainees with daily access to outdoor areas as well as recreational activities;
And finally, to allow regular and adequate contact between detainees and their families."
In reaction to the Canadian Red Cross report, the CBSA has issued its Management Response and Action Plan, outlining its raft of proposed actions.
In contrast to certain other countries, Canada's dedicated immigration holding regime is relatively small, comprising just three facilities. However, the country's provincial prison estates are also used for the dispersal and detention of immigration detainees, a practice not without accompanying concern. Moreover, annually, sizeable numbers of persons are detained on immigration grounds.
According to the Canada Border Services Agency, in the fiscal year 2017-2018 some 8,355 persons were detained for a total of nearly 120,000 detention days in Canada. Of this number, 6,609 persons were held in one of the country's three Immigration Holding Centres, while the remainder were detained in provincial and other facilities.
It bears noting that, during its examination of Canada in November 2018, the UN Committee against Torture voiced various concerns about recourse to immigration detention in the country, including the use of provincial prisons and the absence of any arms-length oversight body of such detention facilities.
During the said review in Geneva, the Canadian delegation stressed its intention to make public the annual reports of the Canadian Red Cross Immigration Detention Monitoring Program. The publication by the CBSA of the first annual report of activities is therefore to be welcomed.
Read the CRC report in English.
Read the CBSA Management Response and Action Plan in English.
Lire le rapport de l'CRC en français.
Lire la réponse de la direction de l'ASFC et un plan d'action en français.
Examine the Concluding observations of the UN Committee against Torture from December 2018 concerning oversight of immigration detention in Canada.
Explore the Canada OPCAT Project's other featured articles relating to immigration detention, including the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law Border Criminologies publication, HMIP Detention Monitoring Methodology: A Briefing Paper (2018) and the Global Detention Project report, Harm Reduction in Immigration Detention (2018).
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Resting Place of the Birds is a concept, a space, a movement, a collection of online philosophies, a tribe of people with a passion.
Resting Place of the Birds was born of the need to connect people with rural Australia and let them share in the healing benefits of our vast blue skies, wildlife, and the general quietude of the bush.
A psychologist for over 10 years; a life time advocate for rural Australia; and a farmer alongside her husband on "Mundine" which hosts the venue for Resting Place of the Birds, Chantal sees the benefits of reconnecting people with their 'wild' roots, as well as their innate creativity, and wants to give people more opportunity to do so.


Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque believes the first-half goals his side scored were key in Sunday's 4-0 win over Italy in the Euro 2012 final.
Despite the Azzurri dominating proceedings early on, it was Spain who hit the front foot in the 14th minute when David Silva opened the scoring, before Jordi Alba raced out of defence and doubled their lead four minutes before the interval.
In the process, Spain made history by becoming the first side to win three successive major international tournaments, with Del Bosque in charge for the last two, and speaking after the game, he credited Silva's opener with knocking the stuffing out of Italy and Alba's second with effectively deciding the result.
"They were trying really hard and the first goal wore them down. The second was definitive.
Before I start to analyse anything I'd like to say that everyone loses sometimes. Italy had a great tournament but had that injury with Thiago Motta [which left them to play the last 28 minutes with ten men] and the game effectively ended then. We played well, got the first goal and though Italy responded well we reacted and got a second. Our success is historic but we have to begin looking to the future and qualifying for Brazil.
This is a great generation of players. They have roots and know how to play because they come from a country that knows how to. We have a great bunch of lads, some playing abroad – they never used to. This is a great era for Spanish football. After Vienna [and the UEFA EURO 2008 final] Luis Aragonés, the then coach, showed us the way, the direction to go. But there are challenges ahead with World Cup qualification,and then the Confederations Cup where, representing Europe, we want to do well.
We had an extraordinary match but don't underestimate Italy – they just had no luck. Everything went our way tonight . Italy had one fewer player, one less day of rest and they tried throughout but couldn't get into the game. We played our own game and were faithful to what we've done over the years. I have spoken to the King [Juan Carlos] and his son and they told us they will see us tomorrow. This is a great time for all the Spanish people.


Here is the complete Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice set, including the chase car! I think the set is alright overall, I'd say my favorites are the Twin Mill and the Tantrum. How about yourself?
2015 Marvel Ultimate Spider-Man Set!


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Due to the actions of Vicky...the biggest Loser is losing many fans!!! My family has watched every season, but this one takes the cake! I don't think we'll watch again. Never thought people could be so mean to others who are just trying to be healthy! They should be helping each other, instead they are acting like a bunch of bullies(VICKY, Heba, and Brady). I feel so very sorry for Vicky's children! The woman is EVIL!! She IS the Biggest Looser, in ALL senses of the Word!! She really needs Help and maybe a good church!


Originally a small town hockey player from Canada, I am now completing a PhD in Philosophy in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining Edinburgh, I spent time completing degrees in cognitive science and philosophy. I work on topics mostly in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, with side interests in philosophy of science and computing.
The explosion of research in embodied, embedded, enactive and extended cognition has done much to change how we think about and study the mind. In pursuit of further developing the 4E framework, I have sought to integrate theories of embodied, embedded, and extended cognition into the study of music cognition. My aim has been to advance the study of music cognition by focusing on the ways in which musical processes are often integrated with and heavily dependent on body and world.
"Resolving two tensions in 4E cognition." The 61st Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, May 30, 2017.
"The Narrow Conception of Computational Psychology." 12th Annual Open Minds Conference, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, December 3, 2016.
"Levels in Cognitive Science." 24th Annual Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, August 12, 2016. (with Robert West & Andrew Brook).
"Leveling the Field: Talking Levels in Cognitive Science." 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, US, August 10, 2016.
"Music Cognition and the Extended Mind." Situating Cognition: 2nd International Conference in Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, October 18, 2015.
"Music, Affect, and Extended Cognition." The Affect Conference: Memory, Aesthetics, and Ethics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CA, September 19, 2015.


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Juan De Jongh
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Influential centre Juan de Jongh joined Wasps from South African franchise Stormers in 2017.
His Currie Cup career began with Cape Town-based Western Province in 2009.
Only 12 months later De Jongh was handed the unenviable task of replacing Springbok legend Jean de Villiers in Stormers' Super Rugby line-up, and did so to such good effect that he also wore the number 12 shirt for his country against Wales in June 2010.
De Jongh has since added a further 18 South African caps to his collection, in addition to which he was part of the South African 7s team that won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
By the time he departed Cape Town for Coventry, De Jongh had over nearly a decade become a bedrock in both the Stormers and Western Province midfields where he appeared 94 and 56 times respectively.
During his first season at Wasps, De Jongh impressed many good judges with his powerful defence and eye for a break.
In 2018/19 De Jongh crossed for seven tries in 25 appearances, and hit the 50-appearance milestone for the Club in his first match of the 2019/20 campaign.
11 Tries
05/10/2019 Sale Sharks CE L 24-20 0 0 0 0 0
12/10/2019 Worcester Warriors CE W 6-39 0 0 0 0 0
26/10/2019 Gloucester Rugby CE L 25-9 0 0 0 0 0
05/01/2020 Northampton Saints Rep L 35-31 0 0 0 0 0
11/01/2020 SU Agen CE W 24-52 0 0 0 0 0
01/09/2018 Worcester Warriors CE W 20-21 0 0 0 0 0
08/09/2018 Exeter Chiefs CE L 42-31 0 0 0 0 0
16/09/2018 Leicester Tigers CE W 35-41 2 0 0 0 10
28/09/2018 Newcastle Falcons CE W 22-23 1 0 0 0 5
06/10/2018 Gloucester Rugby CE L 35-21 1 0 0 0 5
12/10/2018 Leinster CE L 52-3 0 0 0 0 0
20/10/2018 Bath Rugby CE D 35-35 0 0 0 0 0
17/11/2018 Northampton Saints CE L 36-17 0 0 0 0 0
24/11/2018 Bristol Bears CE W 28-32 1 0 0 0 5
01/12/2018 Saracens Rep L 29-6 0 0 0 0 0
08/12/2018 Stade Toulousain Rep L 24-16 0 0 0 0 0
29/12/2018 Harlequins Rep L 20-13 0 0 0 0 0
06/01/2019 Northampton Saints CE W 16-27 1 0 0 0 5
12/01/2019 Bath Rugby CE L 18-16 0 0 0 0 0
03/02/2019 Worcester Warriors CE L 35-23 0 0 0 0 0
02/03/2019 Leicester Tigers CE L 19-14 0 0 0 0 0
09/03/2019 Newcastle Falcons CE L 20-19 0 0 0 0 0
27/04/2019 Saracens Rep L 31-14 0 0 0 0 0
18/05/2019 Harlequins Rep W 25-27 0 0 0 0 0
01/10/2017 Bath Rugby Rep L 25-9 0 0 0 0 0
22/10/2017 Harlequins CE W 10-41 0 0 0 0 0
26/11/2017 London Irish CE W 13-17 0 0 0 0 0
02/12/2017 Leicester Tigers CE W 25-32 0 0 0 0 0
10/12/2017 Atlantique Stade Rochelais CE L 49-29 0 0 0 0 0
17/12/2017 Atlantique Stade Rochelais CE W 3-21 0 0 0 0 0
23/12/2017 Gloucester Rugby CE W 24-49 0 0 0 0 0
29/12/2017 Bath Rugby CE W 26-31 1 0 0 0 5
07/01/2018 Saracens CE L 38-15 0 0 0 0 0
21/01/2018 Ulster CE W 7-26 0 0 0 0 0
24/02/2018 Gloucester Rugby CE D 25-25 0 0 0 0 0


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Q: unable to execute sql query on over i am trying to execute this query but its showing error
select
    order_id,
    product_id
from (select
        order_id,
        product_id,
        count(*) over(partition by order_id, product_id) as dc
      from order_items
      )
where dc > 1  ;

error  i am getting is

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '(partition by order_id, product_id) as dc  from order_items) where dc > 1' at line 1

A: Unfortunately MySQL still doesn't support windowing functions. Therefore OVER clause won't work in MySQL.
You can emulate it either with a subquery or by using user (session) variables.
One way to select actual rows from order_items where the same product_id occurs more than once per order
select i.*,
       (
         select count(*)
           from order_items
          where order_id = i.order_id
            and product_id = i.product_id
       ) as dc
  from order_items i
having dc > 1

or with join
select i.*, dc
  from
(
  select order_id, product_id, count(*) dc
    from order_items
   group by order_id, product_id
  having dc > 1
) q join order_items i
    on q.order_id = i.order_id
   and q.product_id = i.product_id;

If on the the other hand you need only order_id and product_id and a count total for such rows
select order_id, product_id, count(*) dc
  from order_items
 group by order_id, product_id
having dc > 1;

Here is SQLFiddle demo

A: select
        order_id,
        product_id
              from order_items
        group by order_id, product_id
       having count(*)>1


My First Communion came from an abuser. Now "mandatory reporter" laws must be used to protect Catholic youths.
Potted plants, the tightness of my shirt collar and the air of celebrity. That's all I remember from the day of my First Communion. As a second grader, I was supposed to wait until spring. But my mom changed the special day for one reason: So I could receive the holy sacrament from Fr. Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Legion of Christ, who was speaking at a November conference at the Georgia World Congress Center. My school, founded by his religious order, celebrated a birthday mass for him each year, and costumed female students would perform a traditional Mexican dance in honor of his heritage. Maciel was the closest thing to a rock star we had — to us, perhaps even more than the pope himself.
The moment finally came during a two-hour mass. "I received my First Communion from a living saint," I bragged to my friends for years after. But almost a decade later, we learned the truth: Maciel was not "a living saint" but a rampant child abuser and philanderer. He died as the highest-ranking priest ever to be disciplined over sexual abuse allegations. And in light of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report released Tuesday, which showed more than 300 "predator priests" were credibly accused of abusing more than 1,000 child victims, it's worth asking again: What can be done?
The author, receiving his First Communion from Fr. Marcial Maciel at the Georgia World Congress Center in 1999. Maciel was later exposed as a sexual abuser.
Charge priests and those who protect them under "mandatory reporter" laws.
Eliminate or expand the statute of limitations on child abuse allegations.
Institute "look back laws" that provide a brief window to flush out old cases.
Statistically, priests don't abuse any more than the general population or other groups that come into contact with children often. In almost all cases, priests and church volunteers are already required to attend abuse reporting training (my uncle, a priest, has reported abuse on numerous occasions as it has come up in his congregation).
But the systematic hiding of abuse is particularly troubling in the Church. It's infuriated the faithful — and increasingly raised calls for Washington to demand accountability. "Somewhere along the way, being a good bishop became synonymous with being a good bureaucrat. As painful as it is, the truth needs to come out at all costs," says Connor Watts, a Catholic Atlanta attorney. And many priests welcome the Grand Jury report, hoping it cleanses the Church of bad leadership. "Civil authorities should not be afraid when they have a case to bring up charges against the cleric," says Fr. Paul Algers, a Legion priest. One priest pointed out to me that bishops removed themselves from a "zero-tolerance" charter on clergy abuse passed in June of 2002 (after the infamous Boston Globe report). A main architect of that charter? Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who himself resigned in June after allegations of sexual abuse and cover-ups.
Already, advocates and victims of child abuse nationwide have suggested eliminating restrictions on bringing accusations to court. Pennsylvania currently allows child victims to pursue criminal charges until age 50 and civil lawsuits until 30, but the state House Majority Leader Dave Reed announced this week he would bring a bill to the floor this fall that would eliminate the criminal time limit and move the civil lawsuit ceiling to 50.
Such obvious obfuscation should be punishable, yet few cases are tried, says Haven Evans, director of training at the Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance. The main issue: In cases of "ongoing" abuse, failure to report charges have a statute of limitations too … of only two years. But other states, not just Pennsylvania, should find it easier to adjust statutes of limitations on failures to report abuse. "Even though their policies on paper are showing zero tolerance, we know that in practice, that hasn't always happened," Evans says. If you can't charge the abusers, convict those who hid them from the world.
Some states, from New York and Michigan to Connecticut and Pennsylvania, have recently considered "look-back laws," providing an immediate one-to-two-year window for decades-old cases to be considered. In Georgia, Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who was U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops president while drafting the 2002 zero-tolerance charter, opposed a state look-back bill this spring, saying it unfairly targeted the Church over civil professions. "Why can't [victims] sue the public school system?" Algers asks.
The Vatican and USCCB promised new reforms after the report this week, but the USCCB didn't respond to our request for comment. Such laws could cost the Church millions in new lawsuits. Since a reckoning must be had, let it hit the purse as well as the heart. If the Church can't survive that, then it isn't a church worth saving.


SAN DIEGO - Pandemic H1N1 is this flu season's primary virus in San Diego County and most of the U.S., county health officials announced.
According to the county Health and Human Services Agency, 94 percent of the county's 1,730 lab-confirmed flu cases this season have been influenza A, which includes multiple subtypes such as pandemic H1N1. H3N2, another influenza A subtype, is usually the primary virus each flu season, but H1N1 cases are outpacing H3N2 cases in the county 10 to 1.
Pandemic H1N1 affects young and middle-aged adults more than any other demographic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, because they have not been exposed to the virus as much as older adults. Young and middle-aged adults also have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the U.S.
"Older people have some element of immunity to Pandemic H1N1 because they've had more exposure to these influenza viruses than younger groups,'' said Dr. Sayone Thihalolipavan, the county's deputy public health officer.
This season's flu vaccine protects against pandemic H1N1, H3N2 and two influenza B strains, Thihalolipavan said.
The county's flu death toll is up to nine, according to the county's flu report for the week of Dec. 23-29. That includes the Dec. 28 death of 26-year-old journalist Bre Payton, who was working in San Diego and is believed to have succumbed to H1N1 complications. At this time last flu season, 44 residents had died due to flu complications.
"The recently reported deaths are a reminder that, regardless of your age, the best protection against any known strain of flu is getting vaccinated,'' Thihalolipavan said.
County health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly advise the annual flu vaccination for people 6 months and older, especially those with a heightened risk of serious flu complications, like pregnant women, people older than 65 and people with chronic conditions like asthma and diabetes.


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Ottawa @ Niagara – Thursday, 2018.18.18 – 7:00pm - Page 6 - Niagara IceDogs Fan Forum !
We also have to remember we have not been full strength all season.Last night I thought the first was more or less even till the final four minutes.Ottawa dominated the second but I felt the Ice Dogs played a better final period considering this was our second straight game and Ottawa been off since Sunday. Tonight our third in third and Windsor second straight plus a bus trip should be interesting but the Dogs should win 4 to 2.
Have to remember we have not been full strength all season I thought the Dogs played a good final period considering it was our second straight game and Ottawa was fresher since they have not played since Sunday.
Just missed the opening, the gloves WERE THROWN!! We thought we had a chance of catching a dirty ol' mitt on that one.
Anyone know if a video of the Clark knee go to the OHL?
Interesting stat, 17 yr old Billy Constitinou is 9th in OHL Defenseman scoring so far with 3 G and 6 assist's in 11 games. Lleyton Moore is 11th in Rookie scoring with 6 assist's.


This report first provides a brief federal legislative history of identity theft laws. It analyzes the current trends in identity theft, including prevalent identity theft-related crimes, the federal agencies involved in combating identity theft, and the trends in identity theft complaints and prosecutions. The report also discusses the relationship between data breaches and identity theft as well as possible effects of the FTC's Identity Theft Red Flags Rule, effective June 1, 2010.
Finklea, Kristin M. January 5, 2010.
Finklea, Kristin M. Identity Theft: Trends and Issues, report, January 5, 2010; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc505630/: accessed April 24, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.


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Not Completely Happy
"Happy" National Aboriginal Day? That might be a stretch
Opinion by Nickita Longman
Not sure if you should be celebrating National Aboriginal Day on Tuesday, June 21?? Me either.
Sure, I love an Indian Taco (the messier, the better) just as much as the next person. I absolutely adore a loud and colourful powwow outdoors on a summer day, and I most certainly am thrilled to celebrate the wide array of indigenous artists, authors, academics and awesome community builders across Turtle Island on a year-round basis.
But if we're talking history, we can almost guarantee it's not all calories and colourful culture.
Let's look at Saskatchewan, the bottom-heavy rectangular compilation of Treaties 2, 4, a wee bit of 5, 6, 8 and 10. For length's sake, let's focus in on the past year. Saskatchewan, often late to the party on various accounts, housed the last running Indian Residential School up until 1996.
Perhaps that explains the harsh, and at times, barbaric way indigenous people are still treated in this complicated province of ours.
Indigenous Peoples, Police And Incarceration
In February, the Maclean's article "Canada's Prisons are the 'New Residential Schools'" confirmed that Saskatchewan has the highest number of dangerous offenders — and as Saskatoon Defence Lawyer Jim Scott reported in 2015, 80 per cent of those are indigenous. This overrepresentation is no coincidence. In fact, they give context to high rates of police brutality, carding, and unwarranted stops experienced by indigenous people in this province. For example, Const. Robert Kenneth Power was seen on video forcefully kicking Eddy Stonechild, a homeless man half his size, to the concrete ground in May of 2012 in Regina. In March of 2016, the officer's job had been reinstated and, in the words of Deputy Chief Dean Rae, he "has been a contributing member of our service since he came back."
Of course, this news was released a few months after Regina Police Chief Troy Hagen went on record stating "There is absolutely no reason for me to believe that we have racists within the Regina Police Service."
In January of this year, approximately 115 inmates at the Regina Correctional Centre went on a hunger strike due to the inedible, expired, and undercooked food being served by a private catering company called Compass Group. After national attention, Premier Brad Wall stood by his sound advice: if you don't like the food, don't go to prison.
Which completely disregards the path that has been paved to get to prison in the first place.
Further in the Maclean's article, a doctor — who also acts as a witness across Canada in many cases large and small — said "there is a good reason they call Saskatchewan 'Alabama North'"
Saskatchewan has built a reputation for its shoddy and untrustworthy justice system, and its relationship with indigenous peoples.
Happy National Aboriginal Day?
Reservations Over Quality of Life
There are 70 First Nations reserves within Saskatchewan. In March of this year, three of those reserves — the Key, Cote and Keeseekoose First Nations — declared a state of emergency after mental health concerns with a combined population of less than 2,000 people.
Outrageously high costs of living and inadequate housing aside, indigenous communities in Saskatchewan often lack the same access to mental health support as urban centres have. This resulted in 18 young people taking their lives in La Loche between 2005 and 2010, plus many more attempts. After four dead and seven wounded in January's infamous shooting, NDP MP Georgina Jolibois has said the community needs permanent, long-term mental health support. The current situation — where families are pushed to relive and retell the traumatic experiences that took place earlier this year as rotating support-staff temporarily visit the community — isn't working. But band-aid solutions are all we've come up with so far.
Then there's water. According to Health Canada, on March 31 of this year there were 133 water in effect for 89 First Nations communities. A solidarity camp in Regina (with a two-month anniversary on June 18) has been meeting regularly with the regional indigenous and Northern Affairs (INAC) administrations and demanded a list of boil water advisories in Saskatchewan earlier last month.
Saskatchewan has 17 First Nations Reserves with undrinkable water.
Missing And Murdered? Nothing To See Here
Saskatchewan has been a leader in missing persons for quite some time. According to CBC's database, there are 32 indigenous women who called Saskatchewan home before they vanished.
In January 2015, Nadine Machiskinic was brought to the hospital at four in the morning after being found injured at the bottom of a laundry chute of the Delta Hotel in Regina. Police issued a statement saying the "death of Machiskinic revealed no indication of foul play."A coroner's report, on May 20 says the 29-year-old mother of four's death was "accidental".
"A young aboriginal woman, who lived a high-risk lifestyle in the sex trade, ends up at the Delta Hotel at 4 a.m. CST, and falls down a laundry chute and it's not anything to be considered suspicious?"Delores Stevenson, Maschiskinic's aunt, told CBC.
Machiskinic's death is just another story with details that barely skim the surface of Saskatchewan's dark, complex problems rooted in the ongoing effects of colonialism. Cases like Machiskinic's are common across the country. Within the past year, indigenous people are, yet again, faced with a system that continues to fail them.
Happy National Aboriginal Day? The truth is there's still a lot to celebrate, and celebrate I will.
Let's just not forget there's a lot to be mad about, too.


This series contains a collection of records in a variety of types of contents accumulated by Dr. Lee Sui-ming, spanning the years 1930-1960, which were purposely grouped with designated topics relevant to the history of Lingnan University in Guangzhou and the subsequent re-establishment in Hong Kong in 1967.
Files include correspondence, documents, photographs, publications and ephemeral documents, audio-visual materials etc., with both original and reproduction copies.
Subdivided into sub-series with designated topics related to the history of Lingnan University, based on the advise given adviced by Dr. Lee Sui-ming.


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INXS Plays Their Last Show With Michael Hutchence
INXS closed out their world tour on Sept. 27, 1997, with a headlining show at the Star Lake Amphitheater in Burgettstown, Penn. The Australian band didn't know it at the time, but this would be their last show with singer Michael Hutchence, who died several months later.
They were serving as headliners for a radio station-sponsored show dubbed the Summer Stretch Concert. Nearly 7,000 people gathered to hear an eclectic lineup of artists in addition to INXS, according to a review from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, including Christian star-turned-pop act Amy Grant, synth-pop outfit Savage Garden, and folk-leaning alternative darlings 10,000 Maniacs and Lisa Loeb.
Judging by the review, INXS was the clear highlight. "The band members were particularly animated and playful," critic John Young wrote. "Their sensual, funny, engaging set added an exclamation point to an event that was often a scattershot, bland farewell to summer."
At the time, INXS were touring in support of their 1997 LP Elegantly Wasted. "In some ways, we return to the style we invented over the years — that funky power-pop stuff with big riffs, which we haven't done in awhile," Hutchence told the Los Angeles Times in August 1997.
In Pennsylvania, the band kicked off their set with the album's anthemic title track, and featured several additional Elegantly Wasted songs across the rest of the night, highlighting the soulful rocker "Girl on Fire" and the Rolling Stones-esque hip-shaker "Don't Lose Your Head."
Listen to INXS' Last Show With Michael Hutchence
Otherwise, the setlist leaned heavily on the songs that made INXS massive superstars in the 1980s, such as a rollicking "New Sensation" and barn-burning "What You Need." These tunes especially showed off the band's chemistry and live prowess; the latter especially stretched out into a saxophone-laden jam.
Admittedly, there were some rougher moments during the show: "Don't Change" was much slower than the hit version, and Hutchence's voice sounds ragged on "Never Tear Us Apart." He bounced back, however, with a slinky "Need You Tonight" and tossed in several exhortations of "Hallelujah!" and "Amen!" during a fire-and-brimstone take on "Devil Inside."
The concert ended with an energetic take on 1990's blues stomp "Suicide Blonde," a big hit for the band. It was a perfect but bittersweet way to conclude things: INXS with Hutchence sounded vibrant until the last.
After their world tour wrapped, INXS had several big events planned for later in 1997, including high-profile 20th-anniversary concerts in Australia. The band members were hard at work practicing the day before Hutchence's death; footage from rehearsals didn't show anything to be amiss.
But Hutchence died on Nov. 22, 1997, in a hotel room in Sydney. The coroner ruled he died by suicide. INXS would later continue forward with singer JD Fortune but decided to cease touring in 2012.
Meet the New Boss: Rock's Replacement Singers
Some bands soar to their greatest heights after an original frontman leaves. Others must deal with the past's towering expectations.