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<?php

namespace Kanboard\Model;

use Exception;
use Kanboard\Core\Base;

/**
 * Avatar File
 *
 * @package  Kanboard\Model
 * @author   Frederic Guillot
 */
class AvatarFileModel extends Base
{
    /**
     * Path prefix
     *
     * @var string
     */
    const PATH_PREFIX = 'avatars';

    /**
     * Get image filename
     *
     * @access public
     * @param  integer $user_id
     * @return string
     */
    public function getFilename($user_id)
    {
        return $this->db->table(UserModel::TABLE)->eq('id', $user_id)->findOneColumn('avatar_path');
    }

    /**
     * Add avatar in the user profile
     *
     * @access public
     * @param  integer  $user_id    Foreign key
     * @param  string   $path       Path on the disk
     * @return bool
     */
    public function create($user_id, $path)
    {
        $result = $this->db->table(UserModel::TABLE)->eq('id', $user_id)->update(array(
            'avatar_path' => $path,
        ));

        $this->userSession->refresh($user_id);

        return $result;
    }

    /**
     * Remove avatar from the user profile
     *
     * @access public
     * @param  integer  $user_id    Foreign key
     * @return bool
     */
    public function remove($user_id)
    {
        try {
            $filename = $this->getFilename($user_id);

            if (! empty($filename)) {
                $this->objectStorage->remove($filename);
                return $this->db->table(UserModel::TABLE)->eq('id', $user_id)->update(array('avatar_path' => ''));
            }
        } catch (Exception $e) {
            $this->logger->error($e->getMessage());
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Upload avatar image file
     *
     * @access public
     * @param  integer $user_id
     * @param  array   $file
     * @return boolean
     */
    public function uploadImageFile($user_id, array $file)
    {
        try {
            if ($file['error'] == UPLOAD_ERR_OK && $file['size'] > 0) {
                $destinationFilename = $this->generatePath($user_id, $file['name']);
                $this->objectStorage->moveUploadedFile($file['tmp_name'], $destinationFilename);
                $this->create($user_id, $destinationFilename);
            } else {
                throw new Exception('File not uploaded: '.var_export($file['error'], true));
            }

        } catch (Exception $e) {
            $this->logger->error($e->getMessage());
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Upload avatar image content
     *
     * @access public
     * @param  integer $user_id
     * @param  string  $blob
     * @return boolean
     */
    public function uploadImageContent($user_id, &$blob)
    {
        try {
            $destinationFilename = $this->generatePath($user_id, 'imageContent');
            $this->objectStorage->put($destinationFilename, $blob);
            $this->create($user_id, $destinationFilename);
        } catch (Exception $e) {
            $this->logger->error($e->getMessage());
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Generate the path for a new filename
     *
     * @access public
     * @param  integer   $user_id
     * @param  string    $filename
     * @return string
     */
    public function generatePath($user_id, $filename)
    {
        return implode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, array(self::PATH_PREFIX, $user_id, hash('sha1', $filename.time())));
    }

    /**
     * Check if a filename is an image (file types that can be shown as avatar)
     *
     * @access public
     * @param  string   $filename   Filename
     * @return bool
     */
    public function isAvatarImage($filename)
    {
        switch (get_file_extension($filename)) {
            case 'jpeg':
            case 'jpg':
            case 'png':
            case 'gif':
                return true;
        }

        return false;
    }
}

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Q: How Can My Script Read Column Headers in a For Loop And Have User Identify Which Column Header to Use? I have a Python script that works well -- it creates QR codes from a CSV and stores them while adding the img file path to the end of the CSV.
There's just two updates I want to make that I can't crack:

*

*Currently I have this line id, first, last = row in the reader loop which identifies the column headers from the csv. But it only works if there are three columns so they match. Is there any way to change this so it would work whether there are three columns or 20? (Should keep in mind that the script also writes two additional columns at the end of the columns.)

*Also the QR codes are currently generated by whatever the first column in the CSV is because it's defined as having created them via the id column. Is there any way to have the user identify which column the QR codes should be based on as opposed to always assuming it's the first column?

Here's an example of the data that works (but wouldn't work if there were more columns):
ID    First    Last
144   Jerry    Seinfeld
491   George   Costanza
104   Elaine   Benes
99    Cosmo    Kramer

And here's the current script that works except these two tweaks (thanks to some others on StackOverflow to get me this far!):
#!/usr/bin/python

import csv
import qrcode
import os
import shutil
import time
import inquirer

# Identify Timestamp
timestr = time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")

local = 'NBC'

# Load csv
filename = "stackoverflowtest.csv"

# Path to new local folder
localfolder = local
localimagefolder = os.path.join(localfolder, 'image')
localfilefolder = os.path.join(localfolder, 'files')

# Check/create folders based on local
if not os.path.exists(localfolder):
    os.makedirs(localfolder)
if not os.path.exists(localimagefolder):
    os.makedirs(localimagefolder)
if not os.path.exists(localfilefolder):
    os.makedirs(localfilefolder)

# Copy uploaded file to their local's file folder
target = os.path.join(localfilefolder, local+'-'+timestr+'.csv') # Target filename

# Read csv and generate QR code for local+first column of csv
with open(filename, 'rb') as csvfile, open(target, 'wb') as outfile:
    reader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=',', dialect=csv.excel_tab)
    writer = csv.writer(outfile, delimiter=',', dialect=csv.excel_tab)
    next(reader)  # Skip header row.

    for row in reader:
        id, first, last = row  # This is where I would like `id, first, last` to actually be just whatever the columns are in the CSV

        qr = qrcode.QRCode(
            version=1,
            error_correction=qrcode.constants.ERROR_CORRECT_L,
            box_size=10,
            border=4,
        )

        qr.add_data(local+"-"+id) # This is where it would be great to not assume that the first column is always going to be their ID
        qr.make()

        img = qr.make_image()
        imagepath = os.path.join(localimagefolder, local+"-"+id+".png")
        img.save(imagepath) # Save image.
        print "saving img:", imagepath

        writer.writerow(row + [local+'-'+id, imagepath])

For #1, I attempted to substitute id, first, last =  row with something like this but it didn't work:
with open(filename, "rb") as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f)
    i = reader.next()

And for #2, I attempted to do a raw_input request to ask the user what their column name is called, but I don't know if that's the best route -- and don't think it would work anyway until #1 is fixed.
Thank you!

A: First I suggest you use format on your strings to make your image name more readable:
e.g:
image_name = "{local_name}-{id}.png".format(local_name=local, id=id)

Open your file with 'r' instead of 'rb'.
# such that
with open(filename, "r") as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f)
    i = reader.next()

    # I'd probably also change i to headers
    headers = reader.next()

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Niemi won't be ready for Sharks opening night
By Matt ReitzOct 8, 2011, 2:53 AM EDT
We knew that San Jose Sharks backup goaltender Antero Niittymaki wouldn't be ready for opening night. He'll be lucky if he's ready by Christmas. We also knew that starting netminder Antti Niemi was questionable for opening night after recently having a cyst removed from his leg. Reports out of San Jose state that Niemi is close to being ready for game action, but he won't be ready for the Sharks first game against the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night.
Enter Thomas Greiss. You may remember Greiss from the 16 games he played while backing-up Evgeni Nabokov in San Jose during the 2009-10 season. After the Sharks completely overhauled their goaltending situations last offseason, Greiss found himself in the Swedish Elite League for a season before returning to the San Jose organization this year. Greiss talked about the possibility of playing against Phoenix on Saturday:
"It would be great. It would be the first home opener for me, so it would be fun."
(snip)
"I'll be happy with whatever ice time I get, will try and do my best and prove myself."
Since Greiss's comments to the media, Sharks head coach Todd McLellan has confirmed that the German born netminder will get the start on opening night in San Jose. After his play in the preseason, he's certainly earned the chance to show what he can do. He posted a 4-1-0 record with a 1.71 goals against average. McLellan explained that not only is Greiss starting to believe that he belongs, but his teammates are believing it as well:
"I think he feels like he belongs here and expects to be here. His teammates are more comfortable with him. His teammates have been around him more and know what to expect from him in certain situations. Because of circumstances, it wasn't a pleasant season for him (last year). But now he's back in the NHL, starting on Opening Night and it's another life for him."
For the Sharks to get where they want to go this season, they're going to need Greiss to be an adequate backup. There's a very good chance that Niemi will only miss a single start because the Sharks won't play their second game until next Friday in Anaheim. But McLellan wants to go with a balanced goaltending rotation at the beginning of the season to help preserve Niemi for the end of the season. If the Sharks coaching staff wants to go with a rotation at the beginning of the season and Niittymaki isn't set to return until December, Greiss will be appear in more games than your average third-stringer.
There's not that much pressure on Greiss though. The Sharks are only challenging for another Pacific Division crown, another spot in the Western Conference final, and perhaps more this season. It's Niemi's job for the long-haul, but games in October and November count just as much as those in February and March. Keep that in mind when the Sharks are battling for home ice advantage later in the year.

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About the Eurofound surveys
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Moves towards greater working time flexibility
The central social partners - the Austrian Trade Union Confederation
(Österreichischer Gewerkschaftsbund,ÖGB) and the Austrian Chamber of
Commerce (Wirtschaftskammer Österreich, WKÖ), the statutory body grouping
almost all nonagricultural enterprises - have for some time been discussing a
range of changes to the 1969 Working Time Law (Arbeitszeitgesetz, AZG). The
aim is to maintain competitiveness and employment by making possible a more
uneven distribution of working hours over time, without financial penalty to
the employer. This is expected to lead to higher productivity, better use of
plant, lower inventories, and a capability to respond more swiftly to
variations in demand. The trade unions also hope to achieve a reduction of
hours worked by individual employees in favour of more employment.
Работно време, Labour law, Labour and social regulation
National conference on youth employment
In a context of increasingly difficult youth employment in France, and of
social tension about what course of action to take, a recent national
conference has defined a number of concrete objectives. These seek to secure
employment for the most disadvantaged, and to expose students to the world of
work for the first time. These aims are based on a series of commitments on
the part of industry, Government and the social partners - who remain at odds
in their analysis - the effects of which must be monitored.
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Industrial action in public administration
Industrial action has accompanied trade unions' pay demands in Spain's public
administration since late 1996, and the threat of further action has been
made if negotiations are not started immediately.
Union recognition still an issue
Declining union membership and a legal and ideological attack on the role of
trade unions over the past 17 years may have left many with the opinion that
employees no longer value the right to act collectively. It has been argued
that the attack on the unions throughout the 1980s and 1990s has left the
unions weak and unable to protect members' rights. Alternatively, it has been
argued that people now prefer to negotiate their own employment contracts
individually and do not need trade unions.
Social partner negotiations on part-time work near deadlock?
In a recent press interview, Padraig Flynn, the European commissioner
responsible for industrial relations and social affairs, expressed his unease
at press reports that the social partners' negotiations on part-time work
were heading for collapse, and stated that he remained hopeful of a positive
outcome. Senior trade union negotiator and deputy general secretary of the
European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), Jean Lapeyre, also stated that he
remained convinced that the negotiations could succeed. He stressed, however,
that if part-time work was to be made more attractive and acceptable for
workers, assurance of "decent social protection" had to be offered.
Average minimum wage rates rise by 2.4% in 1996
Testing 1,2,3 Minimum wages in Austria are known as "collective agreement
wages" because they are set by collective bargaining rather than by law,
though it is unlawful to pay less than the collective agreement wage. Because
of the large number of collective agreements concluded independently of each
other, substantial variations in increases in the minimum wage can arise
between industries or groups of employees. It is only possible to estimate
the overall change of the minimum wage rate retrospectively. The annual
estimate and the detailed monthly reporting are both carried out by the
Central Statistical Office (Österreichisches Statistisches Zentralamt,
ÖSTAT) based on reports received from the trade unions.
Railways' operating functions and network responsibilities to be split
A new company, Réseau Ferré de France, has taken over the ownership and
running of France's railways.
Road transport strike: consequences for industry and trade
February 1997 saw a major strike in Spain's road transport sector. The
dispute was well supported, mainly in the north of the country, but was
called off without winning many concessions from the Government.
CBI sets out its plans for 1997
At the beginning of February the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) set
out its long term priorities for beyond the forthcoming general election. Its
director general, Adair Turner said that "whatever happens between now and
May, there are fundamental issues for business which need attention. The
changing nature of the world in which we do business brings both
opportunities and challenges, and the CBI should be at the heart of change."
Employment and Labour Market Committee holds first meeting
The Employment and Labour Market Committee (ELC), established by a Council
Decision on 20 December 1996, held its inaugural meeting in Brussels on 29
January 1997. The ELC was created in response to a request by the European
Council for the setting up of a stable structure to support the work of the
Labour and Social Affairs Council in employment-related matters. This area
has taken on a new dimension in the context of the" European employment
strategy" outlined at the European Council in Essen in December 1994. The ELC
is expected to improve the balance between employment, on the one hand, and
economic and monetary issues, on the other hand, in the European debate. The
new Committee will fulfil a similar role to that of the Economic Policy
Committee which provides advice to the Economics and Financial Affairs
Council (ECOFIN).
European Restructuring Monitor
The European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) has reported on the employment impact of large-scale business restructuring since 2002. This publication series include the ERM reports, as well as blogs, articles and working papers on restructuring-related events in the EU27 and Norway.
European Working Conditions Telephone Survey 2021
Eurofound's European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) paints a wide-ranging picture of Europe at work across countries, occupations, sectors and age groups. This series consists of findings from the European Working Conditions Telephone Survey (EWCTS) 2021, an extraordinary edition conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey was first carried out in 1990.
Developments in working life, industrial relations and working conditions in the EU
This publication series gathers all overview reports on developments in working life, annual reviews in industrial relations and working conditions produced by Eurofound on the basis of national contributions from the Network of Eurofound Correspondents (NEC). Since 1997, these reports have provided overviews of the latest developments in industrial relations and working conditions across the EU and Norway. The series may include recent ad hoc articles written by members of the NEC.
Eurofound's work on COVID-19 examines the far-reaching socioeconomic implications of the pandemic across Europe as they continue to impact living and working conditions. A key element of the research is the e-survey, launched in April 2020, with five rounds completed at different stages during 2020, 2021 and 2022. This is complemented by the inclusion of research into the ongoing effects of the pandemic in much of Eurofound's other areas of work.
Sectoral social dialogue
Eurofound's representativeness studies are designed to allow the European Commission to identify the 'management and labour' whom it must consult under article 154 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). This series consists of studies of the representativeness of employer and worker organisations in various sectors.
This series reports on developments in minimum wage rates across the EU, including how they are set and how they have developed over time in nominal and real terms. The series explores where there are statutory minimum wages or collectively agreed minimum wages in the Member States, as well as minimum wage coverage rates by gender.
European Working Conditions Surveys
The European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) launched in 1990 and is carried out every five years, with the latest edition in 2015. It provides an overview of trends in working conditions and quality of employment for the last 30 years. It covers issues such as employment status, working time duration and organisation, work organisation, learning and training, physical and psychosocial risk factors, health and safety, work–life balance, worker participation, earnings and financial security, work and health, and most recently also the future of work.
Challenges and prospects in the EU
Eurofound's Flagship report series 'Challenges and prospects in the EU' comprise research reports that contain the key results of multiannual research activities and incorporate findings from different related research projects. Flagship reports are the major output of each of Eurofound's strategic areas of intervention and have as their objective to contribute to current policy debates.
Eurofound's European Company Survey (ECS) maps and analyses company policies and practices which can have an impact on smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, as well as the development of social dialogue in companies. This series consists of outputs from the ECS 2019, the fourth edition of the survey. The survey was first carried out in 2004–2005 as the European Survey on Working Time and Work-Life Balance.
National social partners and policymaking
This series reports on and updates latest information on the involvement of national social partners in policymaking. The series analyses the involvement of national social partners in the implementation of policy reforms within the framework of social dialogue practices, including their involvement in elaborating the National Reform Programmes (NRPs).
Human and ethical implications of digitisation and automation at the workplace
The use of artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and the Internet of Things technologies in the workplace can bring about fundamental changes in work organisation and working conditions. This report analyses the ethical and human implications of the use of these technologies at work by drawing on qualitative interviews with policy stakeholders, input from the Network of Eurofound Correspondents and Delphi expert surveys, and case studies.
Structural change, Working conditions, Work organisation, Предвиждане и управление на въздействието на промяната, Ерата на цифровите технологии — възможности и трудности за труда и заетостта
Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Professional football sector
This study provides information allowing for an assessment of the representativeness of the actors involved in the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the professional football sector. Their relative representativeness legitimises their right to be consulted, their role and effective participation in the European sectoral social dialogue and their capacity to negotiate agreements. The aim of this Eurofound's study on representativeness is to identify the relevant national and European social partner organisations in the professional football sector in the EU Member States.
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This study provides information allowing for an assessment of the representativeness of the actors involved in European sectoral social dialogue taking place at cross-sectoral level. Their relative representativeness legitimises their right to be consulted, their role and effective participation in the European sectoral social dialogue and their capacity to negotiate agreements. The aim of this Eurofound's study on representativeness is to identify the relevant national and European social partner organisations at cross-sectoral level in the EU Member States.
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Third Years Win Silver at History Quiz and go Through to the National Finals | Posts - Welcome to Glenstal Abbey, a leading independent school, private school, boarding school and day school in Ireland.
Three Glenstal teams took part in the North Munster H.T.A.I. History Table Quiz held in St Munchin's last week.
Congratulations to Luke Nicholas, Daniel Kennedy, Jack Nolan and James Cannon who came second and go through to the National Finals which will be held in UCD in April.
Well done lads and we look forward to hearing of your continuing success.
Many thanks to Ms. Helena Foley for organising the Third Year teams and for preparing them so well.


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WATCH: Meghan and Harry gush over 'chatty' Baby Archie
Baby / 21 October 2019, 09:00am / Bang Showbiz
Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, holding their son Archie, meet with Anglican Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu, in Cape Town. Picture: Henk Kruger/African News Agency (ANA)
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan's son Archie is "so chatty".
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex opened up about their little boy's cute traits when they introduced their five-month-old son to Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter, Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe, during their trip to Cape Town last month.
A sweet clip shared during ITV's documentary "Harry & Meghan: An African Journey", which aired on Sunday, showed Archie giggling with Thandeka as his father wiped his dribble away.
Harry said: "I think he knows exactly what's going on."
Meghan then opened up about how parenting is "a lot" but admitted she and Harry are lucky the tot was "sleeping very well".
She said:"It's a lot with a five-month-old. Life is (tiring) but I think any parent can relate to that. He's been doing really well. He's been sleeping really well.
"It's not lost on us what a huge and significant moment this is.
"I think Archie will look back on that in so many years and realise at the beginning of his life he was fortunate enough to have that moment with one of the most inspirational leaders of our time."
Harry revealed his son had been alert and taking in the surroundings on their royal tour, and the 37-year-old former actress - who tied the knot with the prince at St George's Chapel in Windsor last May - added: "He's the happiest here. So chatty over the last few days."
Elsewhere, Meghan let slip her sweet nickname for her husband.
Opening up about joining the royal family and how she has adopted the "British stiff upper lip", she said: "You know, I've said for a long time to H, that's what I call him, it's not enough to just survive something.
"That's not the point of life, you have to thrive, you've got to be happy.
"I think I've really tried to adopt this British sensibility of a stiff upper lip."
Duchess Meghan's duties arranged around Archie
WATCH: Prince Harry breaks down as he talks about becoming a father
WATCH: Duchess Meghan opens up about negative press during pregnancy
WATCH: Prince Harry describes his mom's death as 'a wound that festers'


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Oh girl, prepare to seduce. With feminine ruffles, cold shoulder design and pleated skirt, the Girl Gone Wild leopard print mini dress has got us feline fine. Also features a deep plunge and choker-style neck.


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Q: You must setup php-http/httplug-bundle to use the default http client service Symfony 4.2.4 I started a project with Symfony 4.2.4. I try to integrate HWIOAuthBundle in my project but I have the following error.
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        "symfony/dotenv": "4.2.*",
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    "autoload": {
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    "autoload-dev": {
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    "replace": {
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        "symfony/polyfill-ctype": "*",
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        "symfony/polyfill-php71": "*",
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I tried all the solutions I found on the other post, but I still have the problem.
Thanks for your help.


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Chef Peter Gorton is backing an innovative new Restaurant Academy in Plymouth designed to combine modern brasserie dining with a centre of excellence that will launch the careers of the next generation of young hospitality professionals.
Twelve restaurants within this year's World's 50 Best Restaurants list have donated meals to a special Christmas auction held by charity Farm Africa.
Nestlé Professional Chef has unveiled a new premium range of its Natural Fonds which are designed to help chefs replace the stockpot and save hours of preparation time.
Two-Michelin-starred chef Claude Bosi says he must not turn a blind eye to the increasing 'casualisation' of fine-dining as he looks to try and keep people flocking through the doors of his Mayfair establishment Hibiscus.


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Come down to Panthers on ANZAC Day! We pay respect to the fallen with an afternoon of traditional 2-UP in EVAN Theatre from 1 pm. You can also relax in Squires Terrace Bar surrounded by the tranquil lake and live music with Will D from 12 pm and then Rose Carleo from 6 pm. Or join us for lunch or dinner at Kelly's Brasserie with our new autumn menu or check out our delicious blackboard specials.


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We Need to Rethink Our Obsession With Failure
Martin Gee for TIME
By Kanyi Maqubela
June 29, 2016 7:00 AM EDT
When speaking to the conditions necessary for innovation, financial economist and venture capitalist Bill Janeway says, "Economic growth has been driven by successive processes of trial and error and error and error." Failure is core to the innovation economy. It is taken as an article of faith in Silicon Valley vocabulary to "fail fast, fail often."
A successful brainstorming exercise can be described as a process of throwing many ideas against the wall and seeing what sticks. Inherent in that is an assumption that most ideas won't stick. Venture capital funds invest in a large quantity of companies with the expectation that a substantive percentage of them will go bankrupt. Failure is a key ingredient of innovation. But something doesn't add up.
I have failed numerous times in my career in technology. Dropping out of college was less of a triumphant moment and more of a shameful one. Shutting down a company was a statistic for the Kauffman Foundation, which indexes entrepreneurial activity in the U.S., but resulted in broken friendships, lost jobs and intimidating debts. But even the successes along that journey––raising millions of venture capital dollars, delighting tens of thousands of customers, growing our businesses––were chock full of insecurity, financial difficulty, and in some cases physical pain. What made it odd, most of all, was that it was very hard to admit to having failed. Everyone around me was "killing it' and their businesses were "going viral" and their companies were "crushing it." And everywhere I turned, panelists and speakers were talking about celebrating failure, and how important that is.
Failure may be necessary for innovation, but failure is not good. Celebrating failure, and claiming it as gospel, does a disservice to those who know it all too well; it leaves out those who are marginalized, underrepresented and often expected to fail. We need a reframing of the conversation. We need to tell our students, our entrepreneurs, our future innovators: failure is not good. But failure is okay. And to that point, we need to make failure okay.
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Silicon Valley doesn't not have a culture of failure. It has a culture of failure in the context of success. If you fail once, you haven't failed forever. If you fail once, you can ultimately still succeed. This is an important nuance, and one that I know intimately. In the moments where I failed, my family, my peers, my investors, my bosses and my employees, retained a relentless optimism that things would work out eventually. In this way, the financial support, the emotional and psychological support and the relentless optimism of Silicon Valley is the key ingredient to our innovative success. In that context, "error and error and error" part of the "trial and error" is underwritten by the whole community. And those are the moments where we make things great.
Kanyi Maqubela is an investor and entrepreneur. He serves as Partner at Collaborative Fund, a venture capital firm investing in creative entrepreneurs who are pushing culture forward. He lives in New York City with his wife.
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The broad definition that anything can potentially be deemed a pollutant, coupled with the fact that for more than 40 years most Commercial General Liability policies have contained pollution exclusions, ultimately leaves most manufacturers without adequate protections against third party claims. Learn how most manufacturers realize their vulnerablity to environmental issues in a column that was originally published by Crain's Cleveland Business on May 21, 2016.
Earlier this week in a webinar hosted by Ogletree Deakins, Armada Risk Partners shared several likely direct and indirect impacts of the new salary and overtime regulations. Ultimately, the effect on employee benefit plans will be driven by the approach each employer takes to mitigate its particular challenges.
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Health care inflation has increased with the arrival of the Affordable Care Act. Most employers are struggling with rising health care costs. Many mid-sized companies simply don't have the data to begin evaluating cost drivers and devise solutions to counter these. Data is critical because not all solutions apply to companies of equal size.
Worksite wellness programs have grown in prevalence, yet their promises of gains from lower health insurance utilization and increased productivity are under realized for most. Employers of choice or highly desirable work environments, however, have identified the barriers to realizing these gains and are employing a strategy that encourages employees to secure rewards in health and wealth.


February 23, 2010	Holden??™s Fall Holden has a disillusioned view of the world. He sees all adults as ???phonies??™, and all children as young and innocent. In a way, he is right. Children have a limited view of their life while adults are more knowledgeable of the world around them. But Holden takes this simple truth to a new level. He has a deep rooted fear of change. An example of this is when he states the reason why he like the museum so much. He says, ???The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything stayed right where it was. Nobody??™d move??? (121). He goes on to say that ???Certain things they should stay just the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone??? (122). The outside world scares Holden because he believes it to be full of phonies, which, in a way, is true. The adult world is infinitely more complex than the sheltered world of a child. Holden knows this, and is frightened by the possibility of change, of responsibility. Of owning up to his actions. He continuously holds himself back from being exceptional. Purposefully, he flunks out of Pencey, and intentionally acts as though he is not smart. For being smart would then bring him attention, which would bring him admiration from his teachers, and possibly from his peers. With that he would have responsibility to keep being intelligent. To live up to people??™s expectations of him, which would be much harder than not trying at all. Holden??™s fear of change translates over to his young sister, Phoebe and children in general. He tells her he wants to be ???the catcher in the rye??™, meaning he wants to protect children from the fall to their loss of innocence. When he takes Phoebe to the carousel, he stands with the rest of the parents.


The Perceptions of Pregnancy blog, like the Researchers' Network, aims to reach beyond boundaries and borders, and to facilitate an international and interdisciplinary conversation on pregnancy and its associated bodily and emotional experiences from the earliest times to the present day. Today's post is contributed by Angela Davis. Her post is the first on this site to explore Israel.
In this blog entry I look at the relationship between the state, medical profession and society in the provision and practice of assisted reproduction in Israel, focusing on the 'eggs' affair, a scandal that took place in 2000 about egg donation. Prior to the enactment of Israel's Eggs Donation Law, 2010, the IVF Regulations allowed egg cell donations only by women who were undergoing IVF as infertility treatment. The rationale was that the health risks could not be justified unless the intervention was undergone primarily for the donor's own benefit. In order to encourage infertility patients to donate eggs private clinics started offering economic inducements, by waiving certain costs of treatment if they would agree to 'share' their eggs with others.
However, in 2000 a scandal that came to be known as the 'eggs affair' came to light when some women filed a personal injury action claiming damages from Professor Zion Ben-Raphael, one of Israel's leading fertility experts, who was a chief of gynecology at a large public hospitals. The plaintiffs alleged that the doctor submitted them to excessive hormonal stimulation, retrieved dozens of eggs from single treatment cycles, and used these eggs in the treatment of large numbers of recipients at a private clinic – without their informed consent. The case was eventually settled out of court, but the plaintiffs had also complained to the police, and this led to a criminal investigation. The criminal proceedings culminated in a plea bargain, according to which the doctor confessed to certain facts and the matter was referred to a professional disciplinary tribunal, which eventually suspended his medical license for a period of two and a half years. Because the case was not adjudicated in a court of law, and the decisions of the disciplinary court are not made public, the full facts of the affair were never made clear. According to journalist reports, the doctor confessed that in one case he removed 232 ova from one patient and used 155 of them for 33 recipients, and in another, he took 256 ova and used 181 for treating 34 other women.
Retired Judge Vardi Zeiler, who presided over Ben-Raphael's case at the tribunal, said he had been somewhat lenient because of Ben-Raphael's 'impressive service' in the IDF (he was decorated after the War of Attrition) and in the medical field, as well as Ben-Raphael's 'warm regard' for his patients. However, Zeiler said that even though there was no specific law prohibiting the doctor's actions, medical practitioners were strictly bound by a code of ethics, which had been blatantly violated. Zeiler added that women would naturally be distressed upon learning that there were children from their eggs who were produced without their permission.
Susan Martha Kahn has argued that the, 'overwhelming desire to create Jewish babies deeply informs the Israeli embrace of reproductive technology.' I would argue that the 'eggs affair' is an excellent example of this pronatalism at work. In Israel, the use of donor eggs is seen as a way of enabling more couples to have children of their 'own'. Because within Judaism the mother is the woman who gives birth to the child, who provided the egg is not the crucial matter here. As the overarching goal for the state and medical professionals is to produce more babies, the means by which this goal was achieved were not viewed as important. Throughout the case Professor Ben-Raphael's actions were played down. This can be seen in the length of time it took before he was eventually disciplined – it took seven years from the time concerns were first raised until he was sentenced – and the first aborted attempt to prosecute him for criminal offences. The reluctance of his medical colleagues to criticize him, with the implication that others behaved in the same way, indicates that that women's right to have control over their own bodies was seen as secondary to the greater good of producing more children – they did not think he had a case to answer. The final disciplinary hearing also offers an interesting insight into gender ideology within Israeli society. It is striking that Ben-Raphael was given a lighter sentence because of his IDF record. I would like to suggest that his sentence was the manifestation of Israeli society's belief that he had served the country once through his actions as a soldier and for a second time through enabling more women to give birth.
Angela Davis is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. Her research interests concern parenthood and childcare in Britain and Israel. Her current project is a comparative study of Jewish women's experiences of maternity and infant care in England and Israel. She has also researched the provision and experience of pre-school childcare in Britain during the years 1939-2010. Previously she conducted an oral history of motherhood in post-war Britain. Her publications include Modern Motherhood: Women and Family in England, 1945-2000 (2012) and Pre-School Childcare in England, 1939–2010: Theory, Practice and Experience (2015).
 D. Rabinerson, A. Dekel, R. Orvieto, D. Feldberg, D. Simon and B. Kaplan, 'Subsidised oocyte donation in Israel (1998-2000): Results, costs and lessons', in Human Reproduction 17 (2002), 1404-1406, pp. 1405-6.
 C. Shalev and G. Werner-Felmayer, 'Patterns of globalized reproduction: Egg cells regulation in Israel and Austria', in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 1 (2012), 1-12, p. 5.
 J. Siegel-Itzkovich, 'Doctor's licence suspended after he admitted removing ova without consent' in British Medical Journal 334 (2007), 557.
 Shalev and Werner-Felmayer, 'Patterns of globalized reproduction', p. 5.
 J. Siegel-Itzkovitch, 'Gynecologist who stole patients' ova suspended. Judge says 'comparatively lenient' sentence reflects doctor's 'impressive' IDF service, but notes that women would naturally have been distressed by his actions,' in Jerusalem Post, 9 March 2007.
 S. M. Kahn, Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000), p. 3.
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Ателектаза је безваздушно стање већег или мањег дела плућа, које укључује и губитак плућног волумена, односно смањење респираторне површине за измену гасова. Може бити акутна или хронична. Хронична ателектаза представља скврчено и безваздушно стање дела плућа, трајно искљученог из плућне функције.

Најчешћи узрок ателектазе је опструкција дисајног пута, компресија плућног паренхима, недостатак или дисфункција сурфактанта. Лечење зависи од узрока. Најчешће се спроводи респираторна физиотерапија, инхалација бронходилататора, секретолитика, различитих техника повишеног експирацијског притиска, флексибилна бронхоскопија, и хируршко лечење.

Етиологија

Ателектаза настаје услед блокаде дисајних путева (бронхија или бронхиола) или дејства механичког притиска на плућа. Ателектаза није исто што и пнеумоторакс, јер он настаје када ваздух излази из плућа и испуњава простор између плућног ткива и грудног зида, при чему су дисајни путеви проходни, или пнеумоторакс је присуство ваздуха у плеуралној шупљини док је ателектаза потпуни или делимични колапс плућа или режња плућа. Иако постоји неколико главних разлика између ове две болести, кључна разлика између ателектазе и пнеумоторакса је присуство или одсуство ваздуха у плеуралној шупљини (осим ако је узрок ателектазе пнеумоторакс.)

Фактори ризика
Ателектаза је честа након операције или код људи који су лечени у болници. Фактори ризика за развој ателектазе укључују:
 Анестезију,
 Употребу цеви за дисање, или механичке вентилације,
 Страни предмет у дисајним путевима (најчешће код деце)
 Болест плућа
 Прекомерна секреција слузи која зачепљује дисајне путеве
 Притисак на плућа узрокован накупљањем течности између ребара и плућа (званог плеурални излив )
 Дуготрајно одмарање у кревету са неколико промена положаја
 Плитко дисање (може бити узроковано болним дисањем или слабошћу мишића)
 Туморе који блокирају дисајне путеве

Узроци
 Конгенитална ателектаза је повезана са пенетрацијом у респираторне органе амнионске течности, меконијума и слузи. Развој болести доприноси интракранијалној трауми, коју је дете добило током порођаја. Међу најчешћим узрочницима ателектазе су следећи фактори:
 Трајање продужене компресије респираторног система споља.
 Развој алергијских реакција.
 Појава опструкције лумена једног бронха или неколико одједном.
 Присуство тумора различите природе, што доводи до компресије плућног ткива.
 Присуство бронхијалне опструкције страним телом.
 Акумулација слузи у значајним количинама може довести до ателектазе.
 Фиброателектаза или плеуропнеумонија, изазвана заједно са туберкулозом
 Болести респираторног система у облику пнеумоторакса, упале плућа у ексудативном облику, хемоторакса, хилоторакса, пиоторакса.
 Дуго трајање лежања у кревету.
 Преломи ребара.
 Неконтролисана употреба дрога.
 Појава вишка килограма.
 Лоше навике, посебно пушење.

Врсте
Ателектаза је физиолошки према етиологији подељена на опструктивне и необструктивне.

Опструктивна ателектаза
Када постоји препрека у дисајним путевима, алвеоли не добијају довод ваздуха који је потребан да би их надували. Сходно томе, развија се негативни интраалвеоларни притисак. Неравнотежа притиска унутар и изван алвеола компримира ваздушне вреће, што резултује колапсом плућних ткива. Брзина којом се развија ателектаза зависи од три главна фактора:
 дела дисајног пута који је затворен
 присуство колатералног снабдевања ваздухом између захваћених и незагађених сегмената,
 природе опструкције
Опструктивна ателектаза је најчешћи тип и последица је реапсорпције гаса из алвеола када је ометана комуникација између алвеола и спољашње средине. Опструкција се може јавити на нивоу већег или мањег бронха. Узроци опструктивне ателектазе укључују зачепљење страним телом, туморе и болести слузокоже. Брзина развоја ателектазе и обим ателектазе зависе од неколико фактора, који укључују степен колатералне вентилације који је присутан и састав удахнутих гасова. Опструкција лобарног бронха вероватно производи лобарну ателектазу; опструкција сегменталног бронха вероватно производи сегментну ателектазу. Због колатералне вентилације унутар режња или између сегмената, образац ателектазе често зависи од колатералне вентилације, коју обезбеђују поре Кохових и Ламбертових канала.

Неопструктивна ателектаза
Када се ателектаза развије због неопструктивног узрока, та врста се идентификује као неопструктивна ателектаза. Неопструктивна ателектаза може бити узрокована:
 губитком контакта између париеталне и висцералне плеуре,
 компресијом,
 губитком сурфактаната,
 заменом паренхимског ткива ожиљцима или инфилтративном болешћу.
Пасивна ателектаза
Опуштајућа или пасивна ателектаза настаје када плеурални излив или пнеумоторакс уклоне контакт између париеталне и висцералне плеуре. Уопштено, једнолика еластичност нормалног плућа води очувању форме чак и када је запремина смањена. Различити режњеви такође реагирају различито, нпр. средњи и доњи режањ страдају више од горњег режња у присуству плеуралног излива, док је горњи режањ обично више погађен код пнеумоторакса.
Компресиона ателектаза
Компресиона ателектаза настаје када било које лезије грудног коша која заузима простор, компримира плућа и потискује ваздух из алвеола. Механизам је сличан релаксирајућој ателектази.
Лепљива ателектаза
Лепљива ателектаза је резултат недостатка сурфактанта. Сурфактант обично смањује површинску напетост алвеола, смањујући на тај начин тенденцију ових колапса. Смањена производња или инактивација сурфактаната доводи до алвеоларне нестабилности и колапса. Ово се нарочито примећује код синдрома акутног респираторног дистреса (АРДС) и сличних поремећаја.
Цикатрикатризацијом изазвана ателектаза
Цикатризација кој је резултат смањења волумена која настаје као секвела озбиљних ожиљака паренхима и обично је узрокована грануломатозном болешћу или некротизирајућом пнеумоније.
Заменска ателектаза
Заменска ателектаза настаје када алвеоле целог режња плућа испуњава тумор (нпр карцином бронхиоалвеоларних ћелија), што резултује губитком волумена плућа.

Синдром средњег режња
Синдром средњег режња је поремећај изазван рецидивом или фиксном ателектазом који укључује десни средњи режањ и/или лингулу. Може настати због ванћелијске компресије (компресија бронхија околним лимфним чворовима) или из интралуминалне бронхијалне опструкције. Може се развити у присуству патентног лобарног бронха без препознатљиве опструкције. Упални процеси и дефекти у бронхијалној анатомији и колатерална вентилација означени су као главни чиниоци синдрома средњег режња. Правовремена медицинска интервенција фибероптичком бронхоскопијом са испирањем бронха и алвеола  код пацијената, посебно деце, са синдромом средњег плућа, може спречити дугорочну појаву бронхиектазија. Бронхиектазија може бити одговорна за понављајуће инфекције и, на крају, за неповољан исход хроничне ателектазе.

Синдром средњег режња јавља се као плућна манифестација примарног Сјогреновог синдрома. Трансбронхијална биопсија изведена код таквих болесника открила је лимфоцитни бронхиолитис у ателектатичким режњевима. Ателектаза добро реагује на лечење глукокортикоидима, уз напомену да перибронхиоларни лимфоцитни инфилтрати могу имати важну улогу у развоју синдрома средњег режња код ових пацијената.

Заобљена ателектаза
Заобљена ателектаза представља пресавијено ателектатско плућно ткиво са влакнастим тракама и адхезијама висцералне плеуре. Инциденција је велика код радника који раде са азбестом (65-70% случајева), највероватније због високог степена плеуралне болести.

Болесници који су погођени овом болешћу обично су асимптоматски, а просечна старост у тренутку презентације је 60 година. Заобљена ателектаза може опонашати неопластични тумор. Знак репа комете или знак талона је његова карактеристична радиографска карактеристика.

Постоперативна ателектаза
Ателектаза је уобичајена плућна компликација код пацијената после торакалних и горњих трбушних захвата. Општа анестезија и хируршка манипулација доводе до ателектазе јер узрокују дијафрагмалну дисфункцију и смањену активност сурфактаната. Ателектаза је обично базиларна и сегментарна у дистрибуцији. После индукционе анестезије, појава ателектаза расте од 1 до 11% укупног волумена плућа. Откривено је и да је запремина крајњег експирације плућа смањена.

Клиничка слика
Знаци и симптоми ателектазе плућа су неспецифични, а клиничке манифестације зависе од захваћености плућа овим процесом. Сегменталне или субсегменталне ателектазе најчешће су асимптоматске, лобарне или билобарне, односно ателектаза целокупног једног од плућних крила и може се манифестовати тешком клиничком сликом.

Неспецифични знаци ателектаза су: повишена температура, кашаљ, тахипнеја, хроптање, бол у грудима. Опсежне ателектазе праћене су цијанозом, уз патолошки налаз у парцијалном притиску респирацијских гасова у крви и поремећају ацидобазне равнотеже. Повећане вредности запаљењских маркера указују на инфекцију. Код већих ателектаза перкусијски налази (муклино над тим подручјем плућа), аускултацијски (ослабљено или нечујно дисање, бронхијалне дисање, а могу се чути и крепитације, ако је дошло до инфекције).

Дијагноза
Рендгенским  снимком грудног коша обично сев може дијагностиковати ателектаза. Симптоми респираторне инфекције, посебно упала плућа на рендгену детета, могу указивати на страно тело, који је најчешћи узрок опструктивне ателектазе код деце.

Да би утврдио основни узрок, потребно је обавити следеће тестове као што су:
 Компјутерска томографија (ЦТ) - даје бољу слику од рендгенских снимака грудног коша и може помоћи да се утврди да ли тумор узрокује колапса плућа.
 Оксиметрија - је  једноставан тест за одређивање концентрације кисеоника у крви, за који се  користи мали уређај који се поставља на једном од прстију.
 Бронхоскопија - омогућава лекару да види и евентуално уклони, бар делимично, препреке на дисајним путевима, попут чепа слузи и тумора или страног тела.

Диференцијална дијагноза

Терапија
Циљ терапије је лечење основног узрока и поновно проширивање урушеног плућног ткива (нпр ако течност врши притисак на плућа, уклањањем течности може се омогућити нормално ширење плућа.

Терапија  укључују једну или више интервенција:

 Ударање о грудни кош  како би се покренули  слузне чепове у дисајним путевима.
 Примена вежбе дубоког дисања (уз помоћ подстицајних спирометријских уређаја ).
 Уклањање или ублажаваље свака блокаду у дисајним путевима бронхоскопијом .
 Нагнињањем болесника тако да је глава нижа од груди (која се назива постурална дренажа). То омогућава да се слуз лакше исуши.
 Лечите тумор или друго стање.
 Окрените особу да лежи на здравој страни, допуштајући ателектатичном подручју плућа да се поново прошири.
 За отварање дисајних путева користите инхалационе лекове.
 Користите друге уређаје који помажу у повећању позитивног притиска у дисајним путевима и прочишћавању течности.

Прогноза
Код одраслих особе ателектаза у малом пределу плућа обично није опасна по живот. Остатак плућа може да надокнади оштећени део, уносећи довољно кисеоника да тело норнмално функционише.

Велике површине ателектазе могу бити опасне по живот, често код бебе или малог детета или код некога ко има другу болест или болест плућа.

Ателектатична плућа обично се полако надувавају уколико се уклони блокада дисајних путева. Ожиљци или оштећења настала у процесу ателектазе могу изазвати ово стање.

Изгледи за опоравак зависе од основне болести. На пример, људи са опсежним раком често немају добру прогнозу, док они са једноставном ателектазом након операције имају врло добар исход.

Могуће компликације
Пнеумонија се може брзо развити након ателектазе у захваћеном делу плућа.

Превенција
Да би се спречила ателектаза пацијенти треба да предузму следеће мере:

 Премештање у разне положаје  и дубоким дисање код особа које дуго леже у кревету.
 Држите мале предмете ван дохвата  деце.
 Одржавати дуже време дубоко дисање након анестезије.

Извори

Спољашње везе

Болести плућног система

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An apprentice working at High Desert Milk in Burley. Photo courtesy of High Desert Milk.
High school students in the Magic Valley are participating in apprenticeships to help them learn manufacturing skills.
Similar to the software engineering apprenticeship program and the healthcare apprenticeship program the Department of Labor also offers, the manufacturing apprenticeship program – focused on the food processing industry in the Magic Valley – is intended to help those industries find skilled workers, especially during historically low unemployment rates.
Through the School to Registered Apprenticeship Program, Occupational Safety and Health Administration allows manufacturing partners to hire students as young as 16 years old, with a 1-1 mentoring ratio for training and safety, Jeppeson said. Students attend a 7 a.m. class three times per week and are required to be on time and attentive, with a "three strikes" policy that cut the 16-student class down to seven, he said.
Labor set up a joint project with the Minidoka and Cassia school districts. "That in itself was a major feat for us," Jeppeson said. "Mini-Cassia have a rivalry that goes back to the starting of the state of Idaho." But businesses wanted a single program to sponsor, not two, he said.
In contrast, most loved intake, where the milk comes into the plant, Robinson said. The apprentices sampled milk and checked for antibiotics, which requires understanding laboratory skills. Dryer and wet processing involves running the machines to produce nonfat dry milk and butter. Apprentices are paid $13 an hour, plus a $1 incentive.
McCain Foods, in Burley, produces frozen French fries and other potato items. It is one of the largest facilities of the company's 53 manufacturing plants, 11 of which are in the U.S., said Jeff McCray, plant manager. The company took on two apprentices, and this summer was their first opportunity to participate in the on-the-job portion, he said.
"The apprentices learn how to be machine operators, which includes learning how to safely operate many of the pieces of equipment that we have in our plant," McCray said. "Apprentices could learn to operate the batter system, the control room, the central receiving equipment, the peelers, the cutters, the palletizing equipment, the packaging equipment, and more." This summer, apprentices learned how to be a packaging line operator on the French fry and hash brown lines, he said. Apprentices are paid $15.75 per hour, the entry-level wage at the company.
When students graduate, they can continue with the companies, and also continue to attend the 7 a.m. class. Students who are still in high school can also continue with the program.


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With a moon touchdown in their sites, scientists and engineers gathered in California's Mojave Desert to plan, design and eventually fly a futuristic contraption called the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle.
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Northwest Flight 327
Yes, that's me.
In June of 2004, I was on a flight from Detroit to Los Angeles with my family when thirteen Middle Eastern male passengers, also on board, acted as if they might try and hijack the airplane. Federal Air Marshals were pulled out of cover during the commotion. When the flight landed at Los Angeles International Airport, a group of federal agents—including men from the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force—met the airplane.
After I learned the suspicious men were questioned only briefly and let go without further scrutiny, I wrote about my experience on that airplane flight. My article became an Internet phenomena, was reprinted around the world in many languages, and triggered an inquiry from the White House Homeland Security Council.
Ultimately, the Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Inspector General produced a report. Originally classified, the Inspector General's report was finally released. That official report determined:
•The leader of the group of Middle Eastern men was involved in a similar incident, with seven other men just five months prior to the incident on Northwest flight 327. That first "dry run," as it would later be called, was on Frontier Airlines Flight 577, in January 2004.
•Twelve of the thirteen men on Northwest Flight 327 were flying in the United States on expired visas.
•Eight of the thirteen men on Northwest Flight 327 had preexisting positive hits with the Interagency Border Inspection System (IBIS), a database of names and other identifying information used to deter and apprehend suspects—including suspected terrorists. These same men were cleared for entry into the U.S., wound up on Flight 327, and slipped through federal law enforcement scrutiny for the third time, when they were questioned by federal law enforcement at LAX.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Inspector General, Review of Department's Handling of Suspicious Passengers Aboard Northwest Flight 327, March 2006. (Download 4 MB pdf file)
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Oakland A's Top 50 Prospects
Oakland A's 2017 top-50 prospect scouting report: Richie Martin, SS
Our Oakland A's 2017 top-50 prospects list is out. Now find out more about the players on that list. In this piece, a close look at top-50 prospect Richie Martin. Martin had an up-and-down first full season. Can the changes he made late in 2016 carry over to 2017?
Name: Richie Martin
Position: SS
Height/Weight: 5'11'', 190
How Acquired: Selected in the first round of the 2015 MLB Draft
The old saying 'it's not how you start; it's how you finish' is one for Richie Martin to hang his hat on when assessing his 2016 season. The Oakland A's 2015 top pick finished last year with positive momentum after a rough first four months of the season. Can he carry that momentum into 2017?
Although Martin played for three years at one of the top collegiate baseball programs, he was viewed as a project prospect when he was selected by the A's with the 20th overall pick in 2015 out of Florida. An above-average defender and a good athlete with promise in his bat, Martin never put up the numbers at the plate in college that many expected of him coming out of high school. However, the A's felt that Martin had plenty of growth potential left in his development and the talent to be an everyday shortstop in the big leagues. Although Martin's first full season had a disappointing start, his strong finish has the A's excited about his future.Slow starts aren't anything new for Martin. Despite being the youngest freshman in Division I baseball, Martin became an everyday player for the Gators during his first season at the school. He hit .300 as a freshman but managed just a 707 OPS. He followed that season with a 697 OPS as a sophomore. Things began to come together for Martin before his junior season with the Gators, however. Playing in the prestigious Cape Cod League, Martin posted a 901 OPS and he stole 17 bases in 43 games. With his bat coming around and his glove already an asset, Martin came into his junior season with a potential first-round grade.
Richie Martin Stats
Year Team AB BA OBP SLG XBH BB K
2015 Vermont 190 .237 .353 .342 12 25 47
2016 Stockton 330 .230 .322 .312 21 36 73
2016 Midland 15 .333 .444 .533 2 2 3
Career 535 .236 .337 .329 33 64 122
Although Martin didn't find quite the same level of success with the bat as a junior with Florida, he did enough to remain in the first-round picture. In a career-high 70 games, Martin hit .291/.399/.430. He posted an even 1:1 K:BB ratio and connected on a career-best six homeruns.
After signing with the A's at the conclusion of the College World Series, Martin joined the short-season Vermont Lake Monsters. He got off to a fast start with the Lake Monsters but struggled for the final six weeks of the season and finished with a .237/.353/.342 line. The A's liked Martin's understanding of the strike-zone but began working with him to make adjustments to his swing mechanics to improve his timing at the plate.
That work continued into the spring, when Martin was a non-roster invitee to major league camp. He made only five appearances in big league camp, but he was playing well in minor league camp when he was sidelined with a knee injury sustained on a play at second base late in the spring. That injury cost Martin the first seven weeks of the regular season and halted the work he was doing on his swing.
Martin joined the Stockton Ports in late May. As he did with Vermont, Martin got off to a solid start with Stockton but then fell into a slump. This slump was even deeper than the one he experienced with the Lake Monsters. It came to a head in July when Martin hit only .144 with a 444 OPS for the entire month. From the outside, the slump was a cause for major concern, but in-house, the A's weren't too worried. They had asked Martin to revamp his mechanics mid-season and they were willing to live with poor numbers as he got comfortable with the new swing. A's Director of Player Development Keith Lieppman was pleased with how Martin handled making those changes in the middle of the year.
"It's not going to be a straight-line fix, but certainly pitch recognition and his timing are much, much better. I think we'll see much better results from him as he progresses," Lieppman said mid-season. "It's just a little bit at a time for him. We are very happy with how he has done. We moved him aggressively to that level and he has handled it."
Martin began to enjoy the fruits of his labors during the final month of the minor league season. He looked like a different player at the plate and, in 106 at-bats, hit .292/.385/.453 with his only two homers of the season. His K:BB for the month was 22:13, a big improvement over June and July, when he had a 50:20 rate. The A's bumped Martin up to Double-A Midland for the last week of the regular season and he continued to hit well, collecting five hits and three walks in 15 at-bats over five games. He also performed well for the RockHounds during the post-season, batting .320/.400/.480 with a homer in eight games.
Martin's work wasn't done when the RockHounds' clinched their third straight Texas League crown. He participated in the A's fall Instructional League for a second straight year, and he continued to work on revamping his swing. A's minor league hitting coach Eric Martins felt that after a couple of weeks, Martin began to show significant signs of improvement.
"There were some different things that we did where we collaborated as a staff with Jim Eppert [A's minor league hitting coordinator] and Keith Lieppman. We wanted to hone in on what he wants to feel at the plate and what we want to see from him and come together on that with Richie. Richie is so in-tune with what he wants to feel [at the plate] sometimes if it doesn't match what we want him to do, it's hard for him to get," Martins said. "I think after about two weeks into Instructs, he found something that was pretty good. He came in with the leg kick and there was all kinds of different things and moving parts. He's another guy who just needed some separation into his swing. He had a really good and pretty productive Instructional League for him to find what he needed to find to go into the off-season."
If it all comes together for Martin at the plate, he could be a starting shortstop in the big leagues for a long time. Defensively, Martin is already advanced for his age. He has excellent range both to the glove and arm side and his throwing arm is one of the strongest in the A's system. He is a smart player who uses his understanding of the game to position himself well on the field. Offensively, Martin has a good grasp of the strike-zone. That understanding coupled with his above-average speed make him a possible lead-off candidate down-the-road. He isn't a tall guy, but Martin has considerable strength and could threaten the 10-homer plateau at his peak. His swing has been complicated throughout his career, but if he can find comfort with his new mechanics, he has a chance to hit for average and get on-base at an above-average clip.
"The tools are there. It has been natural in his development to dip his toe in the water and gradually get better," A's Assistant General Manager Billy Owens said. "It wouldn't surprise me at all if we are having this conversation two years from now and he has surged forward and become the guy that we had envisioned during the draft. The talent is there, but he's just in the acclimation stage of his development."
One of the reasons the A's are optimistic that Martin has several positive development seasons left is his age. He was the youngest player selected from a four-year college in the 2015 draft and he just turned 22 in December, making him younger than many players who were drafted in 2016. Martin is one of the tooliest players in the A's system and one of their top defenders up-the-middle. The A's have struggled with their infield defense the past few seasons. If Martin can catch his bat up to his glove, he could have a big impact on the A's at the major league level.
Martin is likely to start the 2016 season with Midland and could get a cup of coffee in Triple-A by the end of the year.
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Q: Entity Framework Database First Automatically Validate Max Length for Properties I'm using EF Database First with an existing legacy database. Almost every field has a maxlength value in the database, and I can view this value in the .edmx file.
For example, on of the fields CCSTATUS is nvarchar(20). When the user inputs more than 20 chars, it clears ModelState.IsValid, but throws an DbEntityValidationException on db.SaveChanges().
For properties that I've added DataAnnotations to, when they fail to validate, they add model errors, which can then be displayed to the user so they can be corrected. I'm aware that I could add [MaxLength(n)] attributes to all of the properties in the Model MetaData classes, but is there a way to have EF add Model Errors instead of throwing DbEntityValidationException when a value is greater than the maxlength for the property?
EDIT
Thanks for the answers everyone. I ended up using EF Power Tools Reverse Engineer Code First feature to generate Code First models from my database, which included the appropriate maxlength attributes and other necessary annotations.

A: The reason of this behavior is that EF and ASP.NET MVC are two different things. The ModelState is a concept of MVC and it has nothing to do with EF edmx metadata. If you want to use the same class to represent action input and a domain entity then you should go with the [MaxLength(n)] attribute solution. However, I would recommend to use a viewmodel/dto instead.
I wouldn't go with the solution of @Reinard (catching the DbEntityValidationException) for the following reasons: you are validating input and you are checking the result of the input validation inside the controller action. DbEntityValidationException indicates a problem at a completely different layer (database). This kind of layer mixing will hurt you sooner or later. Another reason is that you shouldn't use exceptions like this, but this is a different topic, e.g.: Why not use exceptions as regular flow of control?

A: Why don't you catch the DbEntityValidationException and add a modelstate error? This will set ModelState.IsValid to false.
    try
    {
      repo.Save(model);
    }
    catch (DbEntityValidationException ex)
    {
      ModelState.AddModelError("EntityError", ex);
    }

You can expand on this and create a utility method that will log which fields caused the error:
foreach (var validationErrors in ex.EntityValidationErrors)
{
    foreach (var validationError in validationErrors.ValidationErrors)
    {
        string error = string.Format("Property: {0} Error: {1}", validationError.PropertyName, validationError.ErrorMessage);
    }
}

EDIT: As per Peter Porfy's answer I agree that you should avoid using Exceptions as part of your regular flow of control. Ideally you want to use the [MaxLength(n)] attribute and you could modify your T4 template to pick this up from the db when generating your pocos. Having said that, seeing that you're integrating with a legacy database I assume that schema changes might happen outside of the scope of "new" applications (like the one your developing), which means that exceptions like these might become more common, in which case the above code samples I provided might be useful. And whether you need to do code changes every time the schema change, or alternatively cater for that upfront (to some extent), I believe is a different argument altogether.

A: I believe what you want is to modify the T4 template to add the DataAnnotation automatically.