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'The Bachelorette' Recap: Tayshia Adams and Ivan Hall Discuss Black Lives Matter
Haley Kluge
24 November 2020, 10:00 pm ·6-min read
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the Nov. 24 episode of "The Bachelorette."
Sixteen men remained in hopes of pursuing titular Bachelorette Tayshia Adams on Tuesday's episode of "The Bachelorette." Those men reflected on the previous dates poolside, but were interrupted by the arrival of host Chris Harrison.
"Lesson learned [from last week]: Tayshia likes bold," he said.
The statement became a challenge for the week, as each date asked the men to show their most confident — or vulnerable — sides. Ivan Hall, in particular, opens up to Tayshia Adams as the two shared a quiet one-on-one date, during which they discussed the impact of Black Lives Matter.
But first, things started as a group date, during which seven contestants competed for a chance to earn additional one-on-one time with Tayshia. Each man was prompted to write a song for the Bachelorette, in an attempt to impress her with their lyrics and confidence. Bennett Jordan rapped, Demar Jackson approached the situation with humor, but Ivan's sentimental lyrics impressed her the most:
"There were 31 guys when this all started // Couple weeks later, the Bachelorette departed // Couple of nights later, Tayshia walked through the door // She was looking like an angel, my jaw dropped to the floor // It was the greatest feeling ever; I felt like a new man // I can see it now, we can have a beautiful life — you're smart, sexy and passionate // And I can see you as my wife"
Ivan was rewarded with the additional time, and the two spent the entire evening in Tayshia's hotel suite.
"A date like this is really special to me. It's comfortable and it's fun and it's in my place. This to me Is the Friday night we would have if we were together," she said.
This low-key evening was a rare break from Bachelorette norms, where a one-on-one usually comes with some kind of activity or task. The two played games, ordered room service and spent the evening inside. While their discussions ranged in topics, they discussed some of the least acknowledged topics on the show — including race and their experiences being biracial.
Ivan took the time to explain his past — including his brother, who was a young father and spent the first few years of his child's life in prison. Ivan implied that his brother faced correctional brutality, which prompted a conversation on police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death.
"My brother went through some really dark times in prison," he said. "I was the only person he would really open up to about the stuff that goes on behind there. Like it's crazy stuff, you know, especially with like George Floyd – and that's police brutality and that's something that like really hit home for me. You can only imagine how much wilder it could be in prison."
"My brother used to tell me stories about how the COs (correctional officers) like, literally, beat him up. I felt so bad because my first question was like, 'Well, Gabe like what did you do?' It doesn't matter. No matter what George did either way – or what my brother did – these people have a job to do and they need to do it right. They can't just be hurting people for no reason, you know, and so it made me check myself, especially like this year 2020. Because crazy stuff that's happened this year with COVID and then George Floyd just like changed me as a man, honestly."
"I went to a school that there weren't many black people there," he shared. "And this caused me to remember those things – like randomly, walking down next to my campus and being called the N word randomly by some people – it happened all the time, happened all the time to me in college. I remember that, like that's just not right."
Tayshia shared her own experiences with being biracial.
"I'm realizing that I've been trying so hard my whole life to blend in because I knew I was different," Tayshia said. "I just remember hearing people yell 'Black Lives Matter' … it hit me more than I realize just because those are people in my backyard that I've been trying to prove for so long that I'm the same as them."
The conversation was emotional for both, as they bonded over their shared experiences. Tayshia was excited about getting to get to know each other, and secured their relationship with a rose.
The next day proved to be more lighthearted, as a second group date was hosted for the six rejected music contestants. Former Bachelorette Becca Kufrin and former "Bachelor" contestant Sydney Lotuaco joined Tayshia in hosting a competition style of truth or dare.
The day portion of the date revolved around dares, while the evening portion was sponsored by truth. Bennett revealed that he was previously engaged, and Demar's shared his fear of divorce, but Tayshia was most taken with Zac Clark — who shared his nerves in getting to know her.
"Zac and I have chemistry," Tayshia said. "It's intriguing to me because I want to get to know more about him but it also feels very comfortable like we've known each other for a while."
Zac received the group date rose.
On the continued theme of "boldness," contestants Ben Smith and Ed Waisbrot separately made plans to seek out extra time with Tayshia. After the dates had completed for the week, they each tried to find her hotel room before the rose ceremony. Ben was successful, as he found her room and the two had a night of conversation, while Ed found himself on the other side of the resort at Chris Harrison's suite.
Ben — who was chastised during his previous date for not being proactive enough — wanted to prove he was ready to prove himself. "You got your point across — you better believe I'm going to be the first one to grab your hand tomorrow and probably every other time I'm able to."
The next night, Tayshia hosted a cocktail party before the elimination ceremony. While most men took the opportunity to secure their relationship and a rose, Noah Erb used the time to communicate a different message: He said that men were questioning Tayshia's intentions after giving him a rose during last week's date that he crashed. Tayshia — who was visibly upset — confronted the men and canceled the remainder of the party.
"If you guys think I'm just trying to start drama in the house for no reason because I simply have a connection with some people, ya'll need to grow up," she told them. "I'm a grown woman and I can base decisions based off what I want to do, and if you're going to be questioning me, I'll gladly walk you outside."
Chasen Nick, Joe Park, Jordan Chapman and Kenny Braasch faced the reality of the lack of time, as they were sent home.
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Q: How can I find the Git commit that added a specific Gradle build dependency across file renames and reorderings? I'm working in a multi-project Gradle project implemented using Spring Boot and Java, and version controlled using Git.  One of the subprojects depends on a particular library (let's call it com.example:mylib), declared in that particular subproject's build.gradle file.  This library was added a while back, and I would like to find the commit that added it so I can get some context to why it was added, and whether it's still needed.  There are no imports in my code for the library, but since Spring Boot's auto-configuration works in part based on which libraries are on the classpath, the absense of direct usage within my code is not sufficient to determine whether or how the library is used.
To add a wrinkle to this scenario, various project restructurings have happened since the start of the project: subprojects have been renamed, moved to child projects, etc. multiple times.  The build files themselves have been restructured and reordered as well.  Additionally, the Gradle files have switched from Groovy (build.gradle) to Kotlin (build.gradle.kts) and then back again.
build.gradle
// ...
dependencies {
    // ...
    compile 'com.example:mylib'
    // ...
}
// ...

build.gradle.kts
// ...
dependencies {
    // ...
    implementation("com.example:mylib:1.0.5")
    // ...
}
// ...

I know of a few manual ways I could trace back and find the change.  For instance, I could use git blame and work my way back through the changes to the line, manually switching files as the renames and restructurings happen.  But these approaches can be a bit time consuming and tedious when there have been a lot of changes.
How can I quickly and easily find the commit that added the library?

A: git bisect can be used to quickly find the change in an automated fashion.
Given that develop has the library dependency, and abc123 is a commit before the library dependency was added, the following will find the commit that added the dependency:
git bisect start
git bisect new develop
git bisect old abc123
echo "! grep -rI --include \*.gradle\* mylib ." > /tmp/bisect.sh
chmod u+x /tmp/bisect.sh
git bisect run /tmp/bisect.sh
git bisect reset

git bisect start starts a new bisect session.  We then need to identify at least one one old and one new commit — that is to say, one commit before the change ("old") and one commit after the change ("new").  git bisect new develop specifies develop as a "new" commit, and git bisect old abc123 specifies "abc123" as an "old" commit.  (Note that the standard terminology is bad/good, not new/old, but as this is more of a change than a breakage, I'm choosing to use the alternate terms "old" & "new" instead of the standard terms.)
Git will then employ a binary search algorithm, switching to a commit roughly halfway through the old & new commits.
output:
Bisecting: 818 revisions left to test after this (roughly 10 steps)
[1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef12345678] Committed some stuff

At this point, you could manually identify this commit as old or new (git bisect old/git bisect new), with Git binary searching its way to the commit that introduces the change.  However, we can automate this process by having Git check each potential commit with a script by using git bisect run <scriptname.sh>.  If the script returns with exit code 0, it's identified as "old"; if it exists with a code between 1 and 127 (other than 125), it's "new".
For this case, we can use the command grep -rI --include \*.gradle\* mylib ..  This uses grep to recursively find any non-binary files that match the pattern *.gradle* containing the term "mylib".  This will match build.gradle and build.gradle.kts, but skip many other files that we don't care about (thus speeding up the process).
However, the grep command returns the opposite exit code that we want.  It returns a successful ("old") response on a match, but we want it to be a failure ("new") response.  The command can be negated to the desired value by using the ! reserved word: ! grep -rI --include \*.gradle\* mylib ..
This command is stored to the /tmp/bisect.sh script and made executable:
echo "! grep -rI --include \*.gradle\* mylib ." > /tmp/bisect.sh
chmod u+x /tmp/bisect.sh

Now that we have the script, we pass it to git bisect run to get the commit where the dependency was added:
git bisect run /tmp/bisect.sh

output:
abcdefg1234567890abcdefg1234567890abcdef is the first new commit
commit abcdefg1234567890abcdefg1234567890abcdef
Author: John Doe <john.doe@example.com>
Date:   Tue May 26 17:37:25 2020 -0400

    adding a new library for fun and profit

    1. add the library
    2. ???
    3. profit

 subproject1/build.gradle                           |   6 +-
 .../nested/subpackage/MyAwesomeClass.java          |  37 -------
 .../nested/subpackage/LessAwesomeClass.java        | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++
 .../nested/BoilerplateJunk.java                    |  32 ++++--
 subproject1/src/main/resources/application.yaml    |  12 +++
 .../another/subpackage/Whatever.java               |  28 +++++
 6 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

Finally, we call git bisect reset to end the bisect session and change back to the branch we were on before we started the bisect session.

A: git log -S displays only the revisions the number of appearance a given text string appears.  The last item in the list will be the revision the text string was first added.  In the case of the library, this will be the dependency it was first added (assuming the build file is the only location the dependency has ever appeared).
git log -S myLib

-S<string>
Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of the specified string (i.e. addition/deletion) in a file. Intended for the scripter's use.
It is useful when you're looking for an exact block of code (like a struct), and want to know the history of that block since it first came into being: use the feature iteratively to feed the interesting block in the preimage back into -S, and keep going until you get the very first version of the block.
Binary files are searched as well.

If you want to output just the revision the dependency was first added, this can be done with some command piping.  One way to do this is:
git log -S mylib --pretty=format:"%H" | tail -1 | xargs git log -1 --stat

output:
commit abcdefg1234567890abcdefg1234567890abcdef
Author: John Doe <john.doe@example.com>
Date:   Tue May 26 17:37:25 2020 -0400

    adding a new library for fun and profit

    1. add the library
    2. ???
    3. profit

 subproject1/build.gradle                           |   6 +-
 .../nested/subpackage/MyAwesomeClass.java          |  37 -------
 .../nested/subpackage/LessAwesomeClass.java        | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++
 .../nested/BoilerplateJunk.java                    |  32 ++++--
 subproject1/src/main/resources/application.yaml    |  12 +++
 .../another/subpackage/Whatever.java               |  28 +++++
 6 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

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The hype, and in many cases concern around DPI has always been strong. It has triggered provocative debate on the Internet around privacy, end user rights, the role of the operator, and the extent to which they can monitor what applications we send and receive on the Internet.
The truth is that DPI isn't just an emerging technology; it's actually a reality, showing up on traditional fixed line networks, enterprise networks and most recently on mobile networks. Recently, Telefonica announced the deployment of Sandvine's network policy control solutions to provide visibility across the network for some 250 million subscribers across 20 countries.
We have a unique solution for testing DPI technology, based on our direct experience working with service providers and networking vendors that are building and deploying DPI solutions. One of the more recent use cases for DPI is around billing and charging on a per app and user basis on 4G/LTE networks.
With the release of Mu Studio for LTE testing, we are seeing mobile customers recreate thousands of mobile applications over GTP tunnels. As we showed in previous App Quadrant reports for Netflix and Skype, the end device on which the application runs on has a huge impact on both operator resources and on end user bandwidth consumption.
Spirent (formerly Mu) TestCloud contains hundreds of application flows that are specific to the end device they run on and represent the exact payload, connection types and number of connections as seen on Android, iPhone and iPad devices.
To do this, they configure the application flows with unique sets of IMSI, EBR, Application ID, Tunnel ID and source IP addresses along with specific destination IP addresses. As these users and applications belong to different rating groups the billing and charging policies are varied, and in some cases quite complex. For example, access to adult websites is charged at double the rate than other websites. A more sophisticated example is when access to an application at certain times of the day is free, while at other times it is charged a differential rate for best effort data versus video.
From a topology standpoint, the Spirent (formerly Mu) solution wraps around an SGw-PGw combination and acts as many eNodeB stations, simulating hundreds of thousands of UEs on the S1-u interface as well as a set of servers on the SGi interface.
This sort of testing with real application content not only gives them a better idea of how the network behaves under realistic application flows, but also helps to test application- or content-specific billing and charging policies.
Many of these activities are currently occurring outside the U.S. but with the rapid rollout of LTE in the U.S. it may not be long before we see some of this here as well.
As a consumer, I think this is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, I would enjoy guaranteed performance for applications that I can depend on being delivered whenever I need them. On the other hand, I might have to pay more for getting that level of service. Ultimately though, like with anything you will usually get what you pay for. If I need faster bandwidth for a video-conference with colleagues or for game 7 of the World Series, I should be able to pay for it and get what I paid for.
DPI, with the right regulations in place, can be great for both consumers and operators.


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U.S. Solar Installations Set New Record in 2014, But Storm Clouds Lurk on the Horizon
By Travis Hoium Fool.com
GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association released the U.S. Solar Insight 2014 Year in Review report this morning, and it shows just how far the industry has come in a short amount of time. The U.S. solar industry had another record year in 2014, with 6.2 GW of solar installed, 30% more than a year ago. For at least the next two years the industry should see continued momentum, potentially even cracking the 10 GW mark by 2016.
In 2015 there doesn't appear to be any sign of a slowdown, and new offerings like energy storage will only add value to the solar industry and feed its move into the mainstream energy market. Here's what I took from the latest industry report.
Source: GTM Research and SEIA.
The surprising solar leaderResidential solar from SolarCity certainly gets a lot of attention in the U.S., but a vast majority of the installations in the country are large utility scale projects. First Solar and SunPower have been building 500-plus MW projects in the U.S., and that sheer size is tough for residential solar to compete with.
Utility scale solar is much bigger, but residential solar is growing more quickly. Residential installations were up 51%, to 1.23 GW in 2014, and utility scale projects grew at a 38% clip to 3.93 GW.
What'll be interesting to watch over the next few years is if the residential market can keep up that kind of growth as it grows larger. There's much more infrastructure needed to increase installations, and that may be a limiting factor to even greater growth.
Costs continue to plummetFor the long-term health of the industry the key is to keep cutting costs, and there was progress on that front. Residential system costs fell from $3.83 per watt in Q1 to $3.48 in Q4, and SolarCity has reported being far lower than that at $2.86 per watt.
Commercial costs fell from $2.53 per watt in Q1 to $2.25 per watt in Q4, and utility scale systems were $1.55 per watt for fixed tilt and $1.83 per watt for tracking systems. Incredibly, a utility scale solar system can now be built for less than it cost to simply buy a solar panel in 2011. That's incredible progress in a short amount of time.
An uncertain futureWhile everything looks rosy for the solar industry now, and should continue to thru 2016, the future is uncertain. The 30% investment tax credit, which provides a rebate of 30% of the cost of a solar installation, will decline to 10% for commercial projects in 2017 and expire completely for individuals. The industry faces an uphill battle extending the subsidy or replacing it with something else, primarily because of the growth and cost reductions I highlighted above.
GTM Research is predicting a pretty massive impact on the industry, with installations expected to fall 57% in 2017. If that happens, companies like SolarCity and Vivint Solar will be in big trouble, because they're reliant on the U.S. solar market. First Solar and SunPower can transition to international markets that are more favorable.
Depending on how the subsidy environment plays out, there are plenty of reasons to be cautiously optimismic about solar energy, at least in the next few years. Long term, say 5-10 years, I don't see any way the solar industry doesn't return to sustainable growth, but there could be speed bumps along the way.
2014 was another banner year for the solar industry, and despite upcoming challenges I'm very bullish on the future of the industry. Fundamentals are improving, and solar energy is competing with fossil fuels on a cost basis. That's where the industry needs to be, and it is still in the early phases of upsetting the $2 trillion electricity generation industry.
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Constitutional Purpose and Inter-clause Conflict: The Constraints Imposed on Congress by the Copyright Clause
Andrew M. Hetherington, Georgetown University Law Center
The argument that the preamble of the Copyright Clause provides a strict constraint on congressional intellectual property legislation has met with broad support among legal academics, but it is viewed with some skepticism by the judiciary. The Supreme Court did acknowledge in Eldred that intellectual property legislation must, in at least some sense, promote the progress of science, but stressed that it is for Congress, not the courts, to decide what does and does not promote progress. The Court specifically rejected a "stringent" form of rational basis review for Copyright Clause enactments proposed in Justice Breyer's dissent, noting that the Court will "defer substantially" to congressional findings that a particular measure will promote progress. This Article examines the wisdom of the "preambular argument," but it also addresses a more important question that has likewise been the subject of a divergence of opinion between academics and the judiciary: are all the arguments about the Copyright Clause preamble actually moot? Even in the event that the preamble of the Copyright Clause is found to sharply limit congressional action under that clause, Congress might simply enact intellectual property legislation under its commerce power. Who, after all, could deny that intellectual property rights implicate interstate commerce? The prevailing view among legal academics is reflected by William Patry's argument that Congress may not "ignore the restrictions on its power contained in one clause merely by legislating under another clause" such as the Commerce Clause. But the Eleventh Circuit reached just the opposite conclusion in Moghadam, finding that "as a general matter, the fact that legislation reaches beyond the limits of one grant of legislative power has no bearing on whether it can be sustained under another." As such, the Moghadam court held that "in some circumstances the Commerce Clause indeed may be used to accomplish that which may not have been permissible under the Copyright Clause" In Part I, I examine the text and historical origins of the Copyright Clause itself, and consider arguments that the "promote progress" requirement is not really a purposive preamble at all. I argue that the opening text of the clause does constitute a purposive limitation on congressional action that courts must take seriously, whether we actually use the term "preamble" or not. In Part II, I examine the practical import of this limitation in light of constitutional case law and doctrine. I conclude that although a reading of the progress requirement as a purposive preamble suggests that courts ought to be less deferential to congressional assurances of compliance than would normally be required by limiting language in the Constitution, any consequent scrutiny would be meaningless if, as the Moghadam court held, Congress may simply bypass the constraints of the Copyright Clause by legislating under the Commerce Clause. In Part III, I consider four different ways to assess whether action under one constitutional clause impermissibly conflicts with the limitations imposed by a different clause and, if a conflict is found, determine which should take precedence. I argue that one must consider the relationship between the constitutional purposes of the respective clauses in order to successfully analyze such conflicts. Finally, in Part IV, I use the purposive analysis just described to examine potential conflicts between the Copyright Clause and intellectual property legislation passed under the auspices of the Commerce Clause. I suggest that although there is no necessary conflict between the two, legislation could nonetheless run afoul of the Copyright Clause preamble while passing muster under the commerce power. In those cases, I argue, judicial weighing of the rival purposive goals involved will be aided by employing the anti-monopolistic and pro-free expression goals of the copyright preamble. Thus, courts should not only ensure that Commerce Clause intellectual property legislation has the purpose of promoting the progress of science and the useful arts, but also should employ exacting scrutiny when reviewing congressional assertions that this is the case.
Andrew M. Hetherington, Constitutional Purpose and Inter-clause Conflict: The Constraints Imposed on Congress by the Copyright Clause, 9 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. 457 (2003).
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There is no surprise that how the overall popularity of fat burner supplements has amplified dramatically over the years. This is because of the sheer amount of marketing exposure on how they can help you lose weight quicker than conventional methods can on their own.
Let's start out by taking a look at how fat burners work in the first place.Most traditional weight loss supplements on the market work by either blocking fat absorption, hindering carbohydrate absorption or simply by helping to suppress your appetite.
This type of diet pill works by helping to speed up your metabolism, predominantly through the actions of any type of stimulant contained within the supplement, such as Caffeine, PEA and Ephedrine. When your body is under the influence of a stimulant and your heart rate is elevated, it actually starts to burn up more calories, even at rest when you are not involved in doing any type of strenuous activity.
First off, like any of the other top diet pills on the market, fat burners should be taken in moderation and should be used exactly according to the manufacturer's directions. There are many people out there who think that "more is better" and throw caution to the wind, taking matters into their own hands by doubling doses.
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Carol + 2 is the second of a multi-year series of variety television specials starring Carol Burnett, aired on CBS network in the United States between 1962 and 1989. The first special, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, was aired in 1962. It featured Burnett and Julie Andrews. On March 22, 1966, Carol + 2 aired, in which Carol was joined by actor Zero Mostel and comedien  Lucille Ball.[1]

Cast
 Carol Burnett as Herself / Various Characters
 Lucille Ball as Herself / Various Characters
 Zero Mostel as Himself / Various Characters

Production
The variety / sketch comedy was directed by Marc Breaux. The inclusion of Ball was partly because CBS insisted on Burnett having an established co-star for the special, and also because Ball already had a contract with CBS for up to three specials (in addition to her regular sitcom The Lucy Show) for the 1966–67 season, of which she would only produce one (Lucy in London).

Release
On March 22, 1966, Carol + 2 aired on CBS. The variety / sketch comedy was such a critical and ratings success that CBS rebroadcast it on January 15, 1967. Carol + 2 was released on DVD on May 17. 2016. In April 2016, MeTV broadcast the special for the first time in 50 years.

References

Notes
1 A complete listing of the specials can be found with Burnett's other television work under Carol Burnett. Data is from Carol Burnett: The Special Years (CBS, 1994).

Citations

External links

1960s American variety television series
Carol Burnett

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Nicole Polizzi was born on November 23, 1987 in Santiago, Chile as Nicole Elizabeth Polizzi. She is a producer and writer, known for The Three Stooges (2012), Movie 43 (2013) and Supernatural (2005). She has been married to Jionni LaValle since November 29, 2014. They have two children.


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How to watch the Square Enix E3 2019 press conference
By Steven Messner 11 June 2019
Get ready to once again be disappointed by Final Fantasy 7 Remake not being announced for PC.
Square Enix's E3 2019 press conference starts at 6:00 pm PDT on Monday, June 10 (find your timezone here). If you plan on tuning in live, you can find it on the usual platforms like Twitch and YouTube.
Though Square Enix's conference last year was a pretty big disappointment (except for the deliciously awful debut of The Quiet Man), there's a lot to look forward to this year. Obviously the biggest draw will be news about Final Fantasy 7 Remake, which dropped a big trailer in May, but it still doesn't have a confirmed PC version. That kinda seemed like the only big thing Square Enix had going on until, last week, it teased Marvel's Avengers, the new superhero game it will reveal during its E3 showcase.
Aside from that, you can expect to see some details on Shadowbringers, Final Fantasy 14's new expansion due out in July. We're also hoping to get a better look at Babylon's Fall, that new PlatinumGames gig that Square Enix is producing but we've seen so little of, alongside that new shooter being made by People Can Fly.
Those are the games we know of, but it'd be amazing to see Square Enix announce something unexpected and exciting. Nier 3 would be a real treat or, hell, maybe we'll finally get to see Final Fantasy 16, which has to be in some form of development, right?
You can check out the full E3 2019 press conference schedule here.
Steven Messner
Steven enjoys nothing more than a long grind, which is precisely why his specialty is on investigative feature reporting on China's PC games scene, weird stories that upset his parents, and MMOs. He's Canadian but can't ice skate. Embarrassing.
Babylon's Fall


Just two, today, all about happiness.
Flow, the secret to happiness (20min). I usually post 5 min talks in the interests of everyone's time, but Czikszentmihalyi's talk is worth the time. And, he has a fantastic last name.


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I love the way Blipfoto has become part of my life, a daily task that has become an obsession!
A motorbiking Grandad enjoying retirement and living in Gloucester.
Born in South Shields, UK, at the mouth of the River Tyne, in 1948.
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Royal Air Force 1965 - 78. Served at foreign stations in Malta, Oman, Singapore and Maldives. Worked and lived in Saudi Arabia for 8 years and then Nortel Networks, until 2009, which involved extensive travel to train telecomms engineers from Oslo to Jeddah, Moscow to Milan, Dallas to San Francisco. Exciting places visited included Cairo, Beirut, Damascus, Ukraine (Comsomolsk), Moscow. It was a great job :-)
Travel has been a huge feature in my life, particularly the Middle East.
Love our dog, Jonty (Bichon), sadly Foxy (Long Haired Chihuahua) died on 23 Dec 2018. Both feature in my Blipfoto entries along with other passions - Aircraft (not so much nowadays) Grandchildren and my motorbike, and I like to listen to the radio rather than watch TV - Planet Rock & BBC Radio 4 Extra and ClassicFM in particular.
Oh, and there's my wife Marlane as well, she features quite a lot in my life, if not in my blips!
Update 2019 - Blips tend to be more about the grandchildren nowadays since we had an explosion of them from 2 for 12 years and during 2017/18/19 we are growing to 7 and an 8th in March 2020 !!!!!
Update 20 December 2020 - What is really great about Blipfoto is looking back. It's incredible how the focus of my journal entries has changed since April 2011.
djrose007@live.co.uk
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Jan 16th My Bacon Sandwich
Jan 15th Where has the Buddleia gone!
Jan 14th 13:00 and still Zero Degrees Celcius!
Jan 13th What's happening in the garden?
Jan 12th "Coo-Coo-A-Choo"
Jan 11th Fairies
Jan 10th Bit of Pampering
Jan 9th Two for Joy
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Early restoration of shank3 expression in Shank3 knock-out mice prevents core asd-like behavioral phenotypes
Several genes are associated with increased risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), neurodevelopmental disorders that present with repetitive movements and restricted interests along with deficits in social interaction/communication. While genetic alterations associated with ASD are present early in life, ASD-like behaviors are difficult to detect in early infancy. This raises the issue of whether reversal of an ASD-associated genetic alteration early in life can prevent the onset of ASD-like behaviors. Genetic alterations of SHANK3, a well-characterized gene encoding a postsynaptic scaffolding protein, are estimated to contribute to ∼0.5% of ASD and remain one of the more replicated and well-characterized genetic defects in ASD. Here, we investigate whether early genetic reversal of a Shank3 mutation can prevent the onset of ASD-like behaviors in a mouse model. Previously, we have demonstrated that mice deficient in Shank3 display a wide range of behavioral abnormalities such as repetitive grooming, social deficits, anxiety, and motor abnormalities. In this study, we replicate many of these behaviors in Shank3 mutant mice. With early genetic restoration of wild-type (WT) Shank3, we rescue behaviors including repetitive grooming and social, locomotor, and rearing deficits. Our findings support the idea that the underlying mechanisms involving ASD behaviors in mice deficient in Shank3 are susceptible to early genetic correction of Shank3 mutations.
Keywords: Phelan–McDermid syndrome; Shank3; autism; autism spectrum disorder; behavior; genetic reversal.


We're excited to announce that the wonderful Danielle Rose and Jay SooS are returning to Two Snakes Tattoo for another guest spot between the 21st-23rd April. Last time round the appointments got snapped up quickly so be to sure to email Danielle at daniellerosetattoo@gmail.com or Jay at jthurleytattoo@gmail.com to talk about your ideas or secure an appointment.
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Today's generation is all about movies and why wouldn't they be? Movies these days are so good that they inspire the whole generation to do things that positively affect the society. Well, most of the people are too lazy to go out and spend money to watch a movie, so they found another alternative which is torrents. Torrent websites allows us to download movies, music, T.V. shows, software's and much more at zero cost but when it comes to the movies, it isn't that good as it seems like. Till the DVD is released, we always get some pirated camera recorded stuff which is awful in every way. Well, there is a new kid on the block called ShowBox and it is one of the best applications that you can get in your smartphone.
Torrents are better than ShowBox, are they?
Torrent users will always defend themselves because you get stuff easily and it is not only restricted to movies and T.V. shows, but ShowBox is all about Movies and T.V. shows which get uploaded on the application in just a few hours of the release and that too without sacrificing the quality of the video. This is pretty amazing considering that it requires a lot of work to get the stuff in high quality.
Let us see what ShowBox actually offers and why should we all use it?
It is one of the best features of the ShowBox app as all downloads that are going to take place doesn't require any third party apps. Unlike torrents in which you have to download utorrent app and find other stuff that you want to download from the internet, it has a separate download tab in it where you can see all the downloaded and downloading stuff.
This is really a killer feature as ShowBox Movies app doesn't only allows you to download HD movies and T.V. shows but you can also watch them online without having to download them. This comes handy when you do not have ample space in your device.
The ShowBox movie app is absolutely free so it is pretty obvious that it doesn't asks for any payments, but the best part is that it doesn't even ask for any type of registration.
It doesn't matter if you have an android device or windows or apple or one of the Kindle devices, ShowBox Movies app can be downloaded in every platform of smartphones. It is even available on the Blackberry 10 operating system.
ShowBox Movies app violates some copyright laws and that is why it is not available on any app store. The only way to get the application is through external sources which often come with viruses. But ShowBox movie app is virus free and easily available on the World Wide Web.
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Macroscopic simulations of chemical engineering unit processes provide a means of visualizing the relationship between different process variables through the use of constitutive equations such as the mass, energy and momentum balances. Molecular simulations on the other hand provide an insight into processes on the molecular scale. These simulations coupled with various concepts from statistical mechanics, are often used to study the properties of materials under a range of process conditions.
In a natural extension to these two fields, we use molecular simulations to obtain physico-chemical properties required for use in the macroscopic simulations of multi-component adsorption systems. The application requires properties such as transport diffusion coefficients and the adsorption equilibrium properties.
We use equilibrium Molecular Dynamics simulations to study the self-diffusion coefficients of the different components in the system. We use a diatomic model for ethane. We show that the minimum dimension of the diatomic molecule governs the transition from ordinary diffusion to single-file motion. We also show that the methane self-diffusion coefficients decrease with increasing ethane mole fraction in the mixture.
We then use Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulations to study the adsorption equilibrium properties of the mixture. We show that in the pure component case, ethane molecules are preferentially adsorbed at low loadings and low temperatures, but an increase in either quantity causes methane molecules to be preferred instead. In the binary mixture, methane molecules fail to displace ethane molecules. We also show that an increase in temperature causes a decrease in the ethane selectivity due to a decreased importance of the energetic factors.
We then take resort to the Darken equation to obtain the transport diffusion coefficient. We show that the transport diffusion coefficient decreases with increasing total concentration and methane mole fraction. We also show that the transport diffusion coefficient increases with increasing temperature.
We then use the physico-chemical properties in the macroscopic simulation of the adsorption system. We present the operating conditions viz., temperature, feed velocity and time till regeneration. We thus achieve an integration of design scales that would add another important weapon in the arsenal available for researchers.
Adhangale, Parag S., "Integration of Design Scales and Its Application to Multi-component Adsorption Systems. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2004.


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JetBlue: Grenada to be newest Caribbean destination
Ben Mutzabaugh
JetBlue is continuing its push into the Caribbean, announcing on Wednesday that Grenada would become its newest destination.
Starting June 11, JetBlue plans to fly two flights a week between New York JFK and Grenada's Maurice Bishop International Airport (airport code GND). The airline would fly one round-trip flight on the route each Thursday and Sunday on 150-seat Airbus A320 aircraft. JetBlue says flights will be available for sale following government approval.
Grenada would become JetBlue's 90th destination overall and its 32nd destination in the Caribbean and Latin America .
"We cannot wait to add Grenada to our network of Caribbean destinations," Dave Clark, JetBlue's VP - network planning, says in a statement. "Grenada is one of the most beautiful and adventurous destinations in the Caribbean, and our new nonstop service will make it much easier to get there."


While the major non-American Western oil companies adopt and wait-and-see policy and US firms remain barred by Washington's sanctions, shadowy oil enterprises are gaining footholds in Burma.
Among firms which have recently won licenses to explore for oil and gas are little-known businesses based in Panama, Nigeria and Azerbaijan—countries where corporate accountability can be murky.
Not only does the bidding process remain opaque, the pedigree of some of the participants is too.
CIS Nobel Oil Company claims to be London based, but on investigation its only contact address is in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, a former republic of the Soviet Union on the Caspian Sea.
Nobel is to prospect for oil and gas on an unnamed onshore block awarded by the Burmese Ministry of Energy. Virtually nothing is known about Nobel other than that it does some prospecting in the Caspian Sea and has links with Azerbaijan's state oil company.
Nobel and a clutch of other little known firms bid for licenses when the ministry put forward 18 onshore blocks for development last year.
A firm registered in the Central American country of Panama called Geopetrol International Holdings secured a license for another block which it will operate with Burmese partner A-1 Mining Company.
Panama is notorious for providing so-called flags of convenience for murky shipping companies which do not comply with international safety standards and regulations.
Burma's Energy Ministry has also awarded a license to a firm called Tianjin New Highland, which appears to be Chinese but has links in the unstable African state of Nigeria, noted for its "black gold curse"—the political and business corruption around its oil wealth which has left millions of Nigerians in poverty.
Tianjin New Highland appears to have begun life in Hong Kong but is registered in the money laundering tax haven of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. It also operates under the name Tianjin Energy Resources.
"These are by no means mainstream oil businesses and the ownership of some of them is rather lost in the web of addresses and registrations," said an industry analyst in Hong Kong who did not wish to be identified.
Geopetrol already operates some form of joint venture with Goldpetrol, a subsidiary of Interra Resources of Singapore, which actually has links with Indonesia.
Confused? These webs can be extensive, leaving anyone seeking information on ownership confused and bemused.
Another little known Indonesian firm, Istech Resources Asia, has been named by the Burmese Energy Ministry as being successful in obtaining an onshore license, although it appears a local partner is still being arranged.
Under new rules, all foreign oil and gas firms starting up in Burma from now on must take on a Burmese partner.
For reasons that have not been explained, only nine of the 18 onshore blocks offered last year have been awarded, and only four of those had, up to last week, completed development agreements.
Local firms named in these partnerships so far are Aye Myint Khine Company, A-1 Mining Company, and UNOG.
UNOG Pte Ltd is registered in Singapore but is run from Burma. Oil industry data names Win Kyaing as managing director. He is also linked to another firm called IGE.
Some equally obscure foreign firms are already in operation in onshore blocks in Burma, with names such as Silver Wave Sputnik Petroleum and Zarubezhnet Itera, with vaguely Russian connections.
Sputnik Petroleum says it is registered in Singapore, while its sister company Silver Wave Energy leads back to the small Russian republic of Kalmykia on the Caspian Sea. Zarubezhnet Itera has links with the Russian state in Moscow.
Only two major international oil firms took up offers in the last license bidding round. These are Petronas of Malaysia and PTTEP of Thailand, both state owned and both already engaged in Burma's oil and gas industry.
"The apparent lack of interest from major players was surprising, although last year's bidding round took place before big changes like Aung San Suu Kyi being elected to Parliament and the EU suspending its sanctions," analyst Collin Reynolds in Bangkok told The Irrawaddy on May 8.
Another batch of onshore development blocks will be put up for sale in August, the Energy Ministry's director general of planning Htin Aung said last week. A batch of offshore licenses will be offered by the end of this year, he said.
Industry giants such as Chevron, Total, Shell, Nippon, CNOOC and Mitsubishi sent representatives to the March trade show in Rangoon organized by the Ministry of Energy to promote development.
The ministry's Htin Aung told the show's participants that Burma has "proven" oil reserves of almost 140 million barrels and 322 billion cubic meters of gas.
Raising that volume of hydrocarbons from beneath land and sea is going to require large and long-term investment—much more than the likes of Silver Wave Sputnik Petroleum, Nobel Oil and GeoPetrol can muster.


Although Scotland has been a part of the United Kingdom since 1707, it has maintained very separate legal, ecclesiastical and education systems and records to those found in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
This separation means that, while Scottish research areas cover similar territories to their sister nations such as inheritance, church records and civil registration, they have often done so in very different ways.
Nevertheless, the basics of genealogical research remain the same, with archives cataloguing and storing records from across the country and family history societies working to find, record and preserve hidden gems found elsewhere.
And as with the rest of the UK, Scotland also has a long tradition of indexing, digitisation and hosting its records online.
If your ancestors were Scottish, there are a range of free website resources to help you with your research, ranging from amateur transcription projects and community projects, to resources provided online by the Scottish Government and national bodies such as the National Library of Scotland.
The following resources – including databases, finding aids and local gems – should give you the tools you need to trace your Scottish ancestry.
ScotlandsPeople provides access to civil registration records, parish registers, wills, valuation records, and more. A great deal of free information is available on initial searches and you can pay for scans of the originals.
FamilySearch hosts two useful Scottish vital records indexes – Scotland Births and Baptisms 1564-1950 and Scotland Marriages 1561-1910. These mainly contain Church of Scotland records prior to 1855 and statutory records from 1856-1874/75.
Emma and Graham Maxwell have created Scottish Indexes to provide information from many difficult-to-access record sets held within the National Records of Scotland, including paternity cases and asylum records. The index information is fairly detailed and free and you can pay for the original scans.
Memento Mori contains free-to-access indexes of monumental inscriptions from Glasgow and central Scotland listing names of the deceased, dates of death and ages when given. Further information requires a payment, but this site will help you to identify when and where ancestors were buried.
The Scottish Association of Family History Societies has two free finding aids on its site. The Burial Grounds database notes where all known Scottish burial grounds exist, if their inscriptions have been recorded/published, and where available to consult. The Pre-1841 Population Lists database notes the locations of useful early census substitutes.
ScotlandsPlaces provides free access to 17th and 18th century tax records, as held at the National Records of Scotland. Original document images and transcriptions are available for dog tax records, window tax, hearth tax, farm horse tax and more. Various other resources are also freely accessible on the site.
The National Library of Scotland's free to access maps collection is by far the most definitive and accessible mapping collection in the UK. It has thousands of maps for Scotland from 1560-1964, but also holdings for England, Britain, Ireland, and more.
The Scottish Military Research Group is a charitable organisation set up to educate and inform the public about how to research their Scottish military ancestry. As well as providing free access to rolls of honour, it has the most comprehensive collection of Scottish military war memorials online, accessible via its Commemorations Project.
The Scottish Mining Website provides a veritable treasure trove of information and resources on those who worked in Scotland's central belt. There are detailed parish reports, gazetteer and newspaper articles, reports on accidents and strikes and more, with some 22,000 miners named, including information on 15,000 fatalities.
The National Library of Scotland has a dedicated platform on the Internet Archive. Among the collections freely available are published family histories, military lists for the British Army, RAF, and Royal Navy, rolls of honour, gazetteers, over a thousand Post Office directories, Gaelic manuscripts, and much more.
Alastair McIntyre's Electric Scotland site is packed with resources dealing with Scottish ancestry and history. Its many useful holdings include Francis Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, and thousands of books covering a range of subjects, such as the Scottish worldwide diaspora.
The Friends of Perth and Kinross Archives have indexed many records collections, which have been presented in free-to-access databases. Among the collections are Perth burial records from 1794-1855, militia collections, Jacobite resources, and the Perthshire People and Kinross-shire Kin.
If your ancestors came from further along the River Tay, check out the Friends of Dundee City Archives platform. Church records, burial records, burgh registers, trade directories, school records, Poor Law registers and more have been transcribed and made freely available.
If your ancestors came from Glasgow, check out the city archive's Virtual Mitchell website where you can view and download hundreds of historic images of streets, buildings, and images from daily life. You can search by area, street name, or subject.
If you reside in Scotland, registering on the National Library of Scotland's (NLS) e-resources collections can provide access to several newspaper resources – the Scotsman, The Times and the British Library 19th Century Newspaper Collection (providing access to the Glasgow Herald, the Caledonian Mercury, the Dundee Courier, and the Aberdeen Journal).
In 1699, the Edinburgh Gazette was conceived as the official paper of record for Scotland. Appearing irregularly up to 1793, it has appeared twice a week since then, and is freely available. Use the site to search for business notices, bankruptcies, military promotions, civil honours and much more.
Many research documents needed for our research still lie in archives. The Scottish Archive Network catalogue is a good starting point to search holdings from over 50 archives across Scotland. The site has not been updated in many years, however, and so local archive websites should also be consulted.


A teenager in Washington reportedly wrote "I need to get the biggest fatality number I possibly can" before his grandmother reported him to authorities.
The day before 17 people were killed at a Florida high school, a grandmother on the other side of the country called the police, concerned about what her grandson was plotting.
"I need to make this shooting/bombing ... infamous. I need to get the biggest fatality number I possibly can," the teen had written, according to court documents.
Along with a journal, the grandmother had discovered a semi-automatic rifle stored in a guitar case in her Everett, Washington home, KOMO reports.
The 18-year-old suspect, who attended ACES Alternative High School, was arrested and the judge found probable cause, KOMO reported on Wednesday. His bail was set at $5 million.
He was booked for attempted murder and for third-degree assault. The latter stemmed from when officers tried to arrest him. Police said he broke one hand out of his handcuffs and took off across the parking lot before falling. He then "mule-kicked" an officer from the ground.
The teen is also suspected of an armed robbery earlier in the week. According to court documents, he detailed the act in his journal, writing that he felt powerful seeing the cashier so scared.
The grandmother told officers the teen also wrote in his journal about using grenades and pressure cooker bombs.
"I need to make this count," he wrote, according to court documents. "I'm learning from past shooters/bombers [sic] mistakes, so I don't make the same ones."
"I'm preparing myself for the school shooting. I can't wait. My aim has gotten much more accurate. ... I can't wait to walk into that class and blow all those (expletive) away"
The teen decided to make a plot against his own school after flipping a coin between that and another school, according to the court file.
A neighbor praised the grandmother for her actions.
"There's a lot of kids who could have lost their lives," Julie Primachik told KOMO. "I think it's a hero-like thing to do."


Famed Argentine soccer team Boca Juniors have confirmed they will play two games in Costa Rica in early October. According to Andrés Navarrete, spokesman for the event promotion firm Addictive Entertainment, Boca Juniors will play against Saprissa Oct. 5 at the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium in the northern San José district of Tibás, and on Oct. 7 against La Liga of Alajuela at the Alejandro Morera Soto Stadium in that northwestern Central Valley city.
"Boca has guaranteed in the terms of the contract that they will bring their top team, nobody from their reserve team or second-division team," Navarrete said.
Boca Juniors are one of the most successful club teams in international soccer, and Argentine greats such as Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Riquelme and Carlos Tévez have worn the team's trademark blue-and-yellow jersey. According to Navarrete, bringing Boca Juniors to Costa Rica carries a price tag of about $1 million.
Saprissa and La Liga are the two most successful Costa Rican teams, having won 51 first-division titles between them.
Tickets for the games can be purchased at www.specialticket.net at a cost of between ¢11,000 ($22) and ¢32,000 ($63).


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Q: Is it possible to reverse a concatenated/? string. making it into a single (changed) variable I split this string ($messageText) using a formula like this:
list($msgat, $message) = explode("!", "$messageText", 2);

selecting a row from my database:
with this:
$sql = "SELECT verse FROM ".$datatable." WHERE book LIKE '%".$message."'";

I need to come up with a way to make this: (which works, on a page echoing)
 echo " " . $row["book"].  " " . $row["verse"]. "<br>";

something back into a single string: something like this I've been trying.
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thus, I would be able to use the original but changed, variable elsewhere.
I have tried various methods, trying to concoct a solution...
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etc etc... I am stumped... it is probably right before me I just can't find it.

A: $answer = " " . $row["book"]. " " . $row["verse"]; //this will store value into single variable answer
echo $answer; // use this if you want to display the result on the page.

this will definitely work if not show us the error so that we can resolve it.


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Q: Group By With Rollup results table has totals at the top I have the following query that returns a set of counts by weeks beginning with Monday, with a row for the aggregate totals.
select distinct
    DATEPART(ISO_WEEK, ig.IN_EVT_DT_TM) as B2B_Week,
    count (distinct bm.MISSION_ID) as B2B_Mission,
    count (distinct dl.DRIVER) as Distinct_B2B_Drivers
from
    DD.B2B_MISSIONS bm
    inner join dd.IN_GATE ig on bm.MISSION_ID = ig.IN_MISSION_ID
    inner join dd.XNS_DRIVER_LOGIN dl on ig.IN_DRIVER_ID = dl.driver
group by
    DATEPART(ISO_WEEK, ig.IN_EVT_DT_TM)
  with rollup
order by
    DATEPART(ISO_WEEK, ig.IN_EVT_DT_TM)
;

My Results Table looks like this:
B2B_Week    B2B_Mission Distinct_B2B_Drivers
            1647        357
44          717         264
45          930         301

I want it to look like this:
B2B_Week    B2B_Mission Distinct_B2B_Drivers
44          717         264
45          930         301
TOTAL       1647        357

ISSUES

*

*The totals row appears at the top rather than the bottom. This is
probably related to the second problem.

*I have been unable to use a CASE statement to return 'TOTAL' with
the date column is NULL. The primary problem is that the DATE is an
INT and 'TOTAL' is not. I have tried various methods of using CAST
on either the entire CASE statement or just pieces of it. I've tried putting the Case statement in the SELECT or in the GROUP BY statement.
Here is an example of what happens when I try to get TOTAL to appear.
case when DATEPART(ISO_WEEK, ig.IN_EVT_DT_TM) is null
then 'TOTAL' else DATEPART(ISO_WEEK, ig.IN_EVT_DT_TM) end

"Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'TOTAL' to data type int."

What am I doing wrong?

A: You should use the GROUPING function

GROUPING returns 1 for aggregated or 0 for not aggregated in the
  result set.

The advantage of this is that it will deal correctly with the case that B2B_Week is itself NULL and not incorrectly treat it as a total row.
WITH T
     AS (SELECT DATEPART(ISO_WEEK, ig.IN_EVT_DT_TM) AS B2B_Week,
                bm.MISSION_ID,
                dl.DRIVER
         FROM   DD.B2B_MISSIONS bm
                INNER JOIN dd.IN_GATE ig
                  ON bm.MISSION_ID = ig.IN_MISSION_ID
                INNER JOIN dd.XNS_DRIVER_LOGIN dl
                  ON ig.IN_DRIVER_ID = dl.driver)
SELECT B2B_Week = CASE WHEN GROUPING(B2B_Week) = 0 THEN CAST(B2B_Week AS VARCHAR(5)) ELSE 'Total' END,
       B2B_Mission = COUNT (DISTINCT MISSION_ID),
       Distinct_B2B_Drivers = COUNT (DISTINCT DRIVER)
FROM   T
GROUP  BY B2B_Week WITH ROLLUP
ORDER  BY GROUPING(B2B_Week),
          T.B2B_Week

A: Using a nested query (or making the inner query a CTE) allows you to format and sort things where you otherwise cannot. This version inserts the word TOTAL and sorts correctly. NOTE: If you need to report across year ends, then additional sorting logic needs to be added.
SELECT
    CASE
        WHEN B2B_Week IS NULL
            THEN 'TOTAL'
        ELSE Right('0' + CAST(B2B_Week AS varchar(5),2)
    END as B2B_Week,
    B2B_Mission,
    Distinct_B2B_Drivers
FROM (
    select distinct
        DATEPART(ISO_WEEK, ig.IN_EVT_DT_TM) as B2B_Week,
        count (distinct bm.MISSION_ID) as B2B_Mission,
        count (distinct dl.DRIVER) as Distinct_B2B_Drivers
    from
        DD.B2B_MISSIONS bm
        inner join dd.IN_GATE ig on bm.MISSION_ID = ig.IN_MISSION_ID
        inner join dd.XNS_DRIVER_LOGIN dl on ig.IN_DRIVER_ID = dl.driver
    group by
        DATEPART(ISO_WEEK, ig.IN_EVT_DT_TM)
      with rollup
    ) as src
ORDER BY
    CASE
        WHEN B2B_Week IS NULL
            THEN 'TOTAL'
        ELSE Right('0' + CAST(B2B_Week AS varchar(5),2)
    END


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Podcast with Direct Relief on Period Poverty
In this podcast (see below for transcript), Kind Cup Founder Christine Brown sat down with nonprofit Direct Relief to share insights regarding the benefits of menstrual cups in relation to period poverty. Direct Relief is a humanitarian aid organization, active in the United States and more than 80 countries, with a mission to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies – without regard to politics, religion, or ability to pay.
We knew early on that we wanted to partner with Direct Relief by donating cups they could distribute to their partner clinics throughout the United States. Increasing awareness and access to sustainable menstrual products has been part of our vision from the start.
In fact, not always having access to running water was part of the inspiration behind why we included several patent-pending design elements to achieve a more comfortable, functional, and user-friendly cup. Unlike traditional cups, Kind Cup can be collapsed for insertion with just one hand, and has an easy-to-access removal stem, so all aspects of placing and removing Kind Cup can be achieved with minimal contact to the cup itself.
We look forward to growing as a company so we can continue to increase our impact. We welcome creative collaborations with others who believe menstrual justice is social justice. Cups alone won't be the solution, but they certainly offer a long list of benefits including comfort, effectiveness, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness.
Design and innovation with purpose.
Click here to listen to the podcast on the topic of period poverty with our Kind Cup Founder and our proud partner, Direct Relief.
TRANSCRIPT OF PODCAST:
A period product that has been around for decades is now being considered by experts as a possible solution to period poverty.
First introduced in the 1930s, menstrual cups have gained popularity in recent years as new more comfortable iterations of the product have come to market.
While environmentally conscious women praise menstrual cups for their sustainability experts say they might be also be a viable solution for women in low income countries that can't afford to buy monthly period products.
That's according to a recent study published in the Lancet Journal of Public Health—which looked at 43 different studies on menstrual cup use among more than 3000 girls.
"We started looking at menstrual cups in primary school girls in Kenya and we thought if primary school girls can use menstrual cups and they are safe and effective then everyone can."
Professor Penelope Phillips-Howard is an author of the Lancet study and a professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
She's led several studies on period poverty in low and middle-income countries, many of which were included in the Lancet review.
"So our first study was in Western Kenya in a rural area and we looked at menstrual cups versus sanitary pads versus control."
Phillips Howard and her team found lower rates of sexually transmitted infections among girls who used menstrual cups than those who used sanitary pads.
While the study wasn't large enough to make a causal connection, Phillips Howard says the reduction in STIs could be linked to a decrease in transactional sex.
"We increasingly understood that when they were very impoverished the girls some of them were forced into having transactional sex to buy sanitary pads."
According a study, 1 in 10 girls in Western Kenya said they had had traded sex for money to buy pads.
But having a cup could change that.
The average global price of a menstrual cup is $23. While that's more than one month's worth of pads or tampons, it comes out to just cents per month over the cup's 10-year lifespan.
"One cup vs 2 packs of pads every month. 2 times 12 times 10 is a lot cheaper. About 70% of the cost."
Those savings could have huge impacts. The monthly cost of managing a period is a significant financial burden for girls and their families. Lifting that burden could reduce the negative consequences of having a period, like trading sex for pad money.
While reusable pads are alsoa cost-effective alternative to disposable period products, menstrual cups have an important advantage.
"The capacity of a cup is greater than you would have with a pad, tampon, period underwear."
That's Christine Brown. Her company, Kind Cup, recently made a donation of menstrual cups to health centers serving low income women in the United States.
"So just being able to have a larger capacity gives so much more flexibility of how you can use your day and how you can use your time. Which provides a lot more freedom for people as well."
For women with ready access to a private bathroom the increased capacity of a menstrual cup is an added convenience. But for women living in low-resource settings, it's a game changer.
In many low-income countries private restrooms aren't available in public spaces. Even in the United States, where public restrooms are seemingly abundant, homeless women have reported having to change their tampon or pad in public spaces—like Nancy, who appeared on a previous episode of the podcast.
"I used to have go behind dumpsters, go behind a tree and change real fast. (So you'd have to change your tampon or pad behind a dumpster?) Oh yeah, I did it a lot."
Nancy was homeless for 23 years and frequently struggled to buy tampons and pads every month.
For these women, having a period product that can stay in the whole day and still do its job, means being able go to work or school without worrying about where and if they'll be able to change.
OBGYN Ayesha Shaikh says that would be a huge relief.
"The girls at school are not worried about what's going to happen, they're not thinking about their menstrual cup. They're thinking about school."
Dr. Shaikh has a private practice in Santa Barbara and is a member of Direct Relief's medical advisory board. She practiced in India for over a decade.
"In India, where I practice before from 1964 to 1980 it. You do have women coming into the hospitals using leftover saris from their mother as a menstrual hygiene product."
Many women, she says, stayed home during their periods to avoid leaking in public.
"They can't go out to the fields because how will they be able, they change their cloth that they using."
Because menstruation is seen as being unclean by certain religions, Dr. Shaikh says many of her patients were ostracized during their periods and kept from participating in day to day activities.
"A girl, when she gets into menarche, that is the onset of a first menstrual period, is kept separately, away from the family. Away from food that's being offered to the other members of the family. She's kept in a separate room, is offered food separately, is not allowed to get out and see other family members, including her, especially men, because it was looked upon as something that was bad."
According to Dr. Shaikh, these kinds of practices aren't going to change because of a period product.
"I think the menstrual cup would help for girls and women who can use it and go to work, go to school. It's not going to change the religious ideas or thoughts about mensuration."
In the United States, stigma also presents a challenge for women experiencing period poverty.
According to Nurse Practitioner Brittany Adamson, menstruation is viewed by many as a taboo, making it difficult for women to voice their needs.
"Young girls who maybe live just with a dad or an uncle who are low income, struggling to buy food. Um, often girls are embarrassed to ask for money. Um, you know, if they're young, you know, 11, 12, they have their period and they often don't want to ask for money for these supplies, or even discuss this with maybe a male family member that they are living with."
Adamson is a clinician at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. She serves primarily low-income women in the greater Sacramento area.
"(Do you see patients at planned Parenthood that are struggling with accessing monthly period products?) Yes, yes, I do. Um, multiple times a week, patients ask for a supply of pads to go home."
While she says many can pick up a small number from their school or local shelter, they can't secure enough for their whole cycle.
To fill the gap, they make do with cheaper, more accessible materials.
"They would use a cardboard or toilet paper or, um. Socks from a dumpster. Somebody once told me when she had a terrible rash."
While a menstrual cup that's reusable could help solve this problem, she says the product has limitations.
Cups require regular cleaning which can be a challenge for women that lack stable housing.
Adamson says many of her patients live out of cars, motels, or rely on their relatives and friends for housing. For these women, maintaining a menstrual cup might pose a challenge.
"Women that don't regularly have access to a stove and clean water to boil, to sterilize the cup and to let it air dry and to wash it with the right soap, and to buy the right cloth pouch to store it in. Um, I think it's just maybe more of, um, not a, I don't want to say burden, but more about a maintenance sort of schedule, than their already chaotic and busy lives can manage."
While the reasons women experience period poverty are varied, so are the solutions.
Adamson suggests federal governments provide period products for free through public health programs.
Others, like Phillips Howard, emphasize the need to change public perceptions about menstruation.
"Men can talk about it, boys can talk about it, you stop the teasing, girls could leave class, women could leave their offices and change and not feel ashamed so getting rid of the stigma and taboo around it."
Regardless of their differences, most experts can agree that ending period poverty is a bigger job than a menstrual cup can achieve.
"The product is not a solution on its own. It's a contribution."
Thanks for listening to this episode of the podcast. For Direct Relief, I'm Amarica Rafanelli.
Emily Morrill


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