The Hawthorne experiments were a series of studies on the productivity of workers, wherein various conditions were manipulated (pay, light levels, humidity, rest breaks, etc.). Surprisingly, each change resulted in a productivity rising, including eventually a return to the original conditions. This was true of each of the individual workers as well as of the group mean.
Clearly the variables the experimenters manipulated were not the only nor dominant causes of productivity changes. One interpretation, mainly due to Professor Elton Mayo and associates F.J. Roethlisberger and William J. Dickson, was that essentially, it was the workers' feeling they were being closely attended to which was the cause of the improvements in performance. This is now referred to as "the Hawthorne effect".
Thus these experiments were among the first indications that any productivity model must factor in intangible attributes such as human behavior.
It's important to understand two more concepts to understand the Hawthorne Effect properly and accurately. The Yerkes-Dockson Law and the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility. While motivation does increase productivity up to a certain point, any more motivation (example salary) would not be effective due to saturation of utility. Thus, one must not rely solely on the Hawthorne model to raise productivity but rather complement it skillfully with other motivation attributes, like job redesign, job enlargement, and raising production capability via means such as learning organization culture.
The Pygmalion Effect. This refers to self-fulfilling prophecy situations in which students performed better than other students simply because they were expected to do so by their teachers.
The Placebo Effect. This is the phenomenon that a patient's symptoms can be alleviated by an otherwise ineffective treatment, apparently because the individual expects or believes that it will work. This effect can be dealt with by using double-blind trials.
The Hawthorne Effects are a series of experiments conducted from 1924 to 1933, and famously analyzed by Professor Elton Mayo from 1927 to 1932. The term Hawthorne was coined as the site for the experimental studies took place at Western Electric Hawthorne Work, Chicago. The experiments were primarily started with the intention of studying the relationship between productivity and work conditions vis-à-vis examining the physical and environmental influences of the workplace (e.g. brightness of lights, humidity) and then moved on to the psychological aspects (e.g. breaks, group pressure, working hours, managerial leadership).
There is no definitive quantitative formula as the important attributes for working conditions varied greatly from place to place and industry to industry. However, a suggested generic approach that transcends all industries is to apply the Yorkes-Dockson Law, that there is an optimal amount of motivation for the maximum productivity. Any lesser motivation or more would result in a drop of productivity. Thus: y = -ax2 + bx + c. (y= productivity, x= working environment attributes).
Factory Environments. Example: an assembly plant.
Design / Creative Industries. Example: a draftsman.
Education / Services Sector. Example: a nurse.
Identify the working environment attributes that affect productivity, Example: x1, x2 ...xn etc.
The method allows clear identification of the concerns of the workers.
It solves productivity issues in a sustainable and long term basis, if it is properly and accurately modeled.
It brings forth consistency in the assessment of the working situation when management needs to carry out long term envisioning.
Difficult to identify the critical working environment attributes as some are intrinsic like organization dynamics etc.
Quantification of the parameters, a, b and c of the productivity model is also very subjective and depends on the discernment of the manager.
Critical working attributes are dynamic and model needs to be updated constantly to reflect actual 'ground' situation.
On the whole, the accuracy of the productivity model is highly correlated on the judgment and the acumen of the manager.
Important working attributes can be captured sufficiently.
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In one of its latest bulletins, Google has invited users to activate something called Google Signals in Google Analytics. This new feature promises to 'unlock new cross-device capabilities and more', but what actually is it? This T-Time show explains what this Google Signals is, what new reports it enables and what it means for your data in Google Analytics.
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What is Google Signals?
Google Signals and cross-device tracking improvements
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How to activate Google Signals in Google Analytics
Google Signals and GDPR
In one of its latest bulletins, Google has invited users to activate something called Google Signals in Google Analytics.Click To Tweet
(01:10) One problem we've always encountered in Google Analytics is that internet users use multiple devices during their journey to a website – and hopefully to a conversion.
Let's say, for example, that someone uses their mobile to access your website while on their morning commute, but they don't convert. Later that evening, the same person accesses your website at home via a different device, such as a laptop or tablet, and converts. Historically, those two sessions would be treated separately in Google Analytics and you end up with two sets of user data instead of one.
When you activate Google Signals in Google Analytics, the sessions are tied together to give you a much better understanding of the customer journey through your website.
(02:29) With cross-device tracking in place, you can now gain more clarity on the value of those early interactions with your website – this is especially useful if you're running something like Facebook Ads or any other form of social media PPC campaign.
(03:11) There are a number of new reports now available through Google Signals in Google Analytics. The first of which is Device Overlap – this is fairly self-explanatory, showing you the percentages of users accessing your site either through a single device or a combination of devices.
You can also analyse the device path and identify how often users are jumping from one device to another. Finally, you can figure out what the acquisition device is for users – this is the first device from which users interacted with your website. This could be critical for your marketing and advertising campaigns as it helps you understand how users are finding your brand in the first place.
(04:31) The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) shouldn't be a huge cause for concern when it comes to activating Google Signals in Google Analytics. This is because Google Analytics is not collecting any personal data, and its frequent use of sampling means that you would struggle to identify a user from the data it collects. You're also not holding users' names or email addresses unless they have willingly submitted it as part of their session on your site.
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"You Can't Use My Picture!": The Right of Publicity in Texas
Copyright is, broadly speaking, the legal right to control the use of creative works that one has authored, or to which one has purchased these rights. This includes the right to copy, reproduce, exhibit, distribute, and otherwise exploit the creative work, especially for commercial gain. A few exceptions apply, including the various forms of Fair Use, which allows the use of copyrighted material for certain specific purposes. Another important legal principle, which can act as an exception to copyright, is the right of publicity. This involves the right of an individual to control the use of their own name and likeness for commercial and other forms of gain.
A freelancer may obtain a license from a copyright owner to use a photograph in a project, or the freelancer may find a photograph that the photographer has placed under a Creative Commons license or in the public domain. If that photograph depicts one or more persons, however, the right of publicity might prevent even the copyright owner from using the photograph.
Unlike copyright law, which operates at the federal level and therefore has the same impact throughout the entire United States, the right of publicity derives from state law. This means that the law in Texas might be different from the law in Oklahoma. Currently, only twenty-seven states (including Texas and Oklahoma) recognize the right of publicity in some form.
Some states have enacted statutes dealing with the right of publicity, which provide reasonably clear statements of what the right is and what it protects. Other states rely on common law, the system of law that we inherited from jolly olde England, in which legal principles are essentially developed by tradition and modified over the ages by court decisions. Texas has a mixed system, with both statutory and common law rights of publicity. I will get to those in a moment.
Violations of the Right of Publicity
In a very general sense, an individual may be able to claim a violation of the right of publicity in several ways:
– Commercial use of their likeness without consent: With regard to photographs and other visual representations of a person, this generally applies to individuals in non-public settings, where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy. For photoshoots, film shoots, and similar projects, model releases typically include a release of the right of publicity. Paparazzi photographs of celebrities in public, as well as many photographs taken in public places, are not protected by the right of publicity. Courts have also found that images taken in a seemingly private setting are not subject to the right of publicity if they are sufficiently "newsworthy." This often applies to photos taken at crime and accident scenes.
– Commercial use of their name without consent: This applies to public figures (celebrities, public officials, and others generally known to some significant portion of the public), but it could apply to non-public figures in some circumstances as well. In a typical case, it prohibits the unauthorized use of an individual's name in a way that falsely or inaccurately suggests the endorsement of a viewpoint or product.
– "False light" use of name or likeness: This involves the use of a person's name or likeness in a way that portrays them in a way that is false or inaccurate, and that damages the person's reputation. It is similar to defamation in a number of ways.
– Invasion of privacy: This is sometimes also known as "intrusion on physical solitude," and involves the publication, often for financial gain, of images, video, or personal details intended to remain private. The internet phenomenon of "revenge porn" is a prime example of this type of violation of the right of publicity.
– Public disclosure of private facts: Much like the previous example, this involves the disclosure or use of private personal information in a harmful way.
Right of Publicity Cases
The only time the U.S. Supreme Court has weighed in on the right of publicity was in 1977 in Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co., when it held a broadcasting company liable for broadcasting footage of Hugo Zacchini's "human cannonball" act without his permission. The court rejected the defendant's claims of free speech and freedom of the press under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, finding that the right of publicity superseded both.
Other right-of-publicity claims over the years include:
– A lawsuit by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman filed in 2002—after their divorce—against the retailer Sephora, alleging that the company used pictures of them that falsely suggested they endorsed the company's products.
– A lawsuit by members of the cast of the HBO television series The Sopranos against the retailer Best Buy, filed in 2003, also for allegedly using a publicity picture of the cast in an advertisement. Since the picture was a publicity photo for the show, it is likely that HBO owned the copyright for the picture itself, along with the Sopranos characters played by the actors.
– A 2006 decision from a New York state court, Nussenzweig v. DiCorcia, holding that street photography portraying identifiable individuals without their permission is subject to an "artistic" exception to the right of publicity under the First Amendment.
– A $8.9 million verdict in favor of former NBA player Michael Jordan in August 2015 against a grocery store chain for using his image in a print advertisement.
The Right of Publicity After Death
So far, I have only mentioned the right of living people to assert their own claims for right-of-publicity violations. What about the estates of deceased people? That is a bit trickier, although it depends on the state.
One of the most famous cases involving an estate's likeness rights is from the California Supreme Court, which ruled in Lugosi v. Universal Pictures in 1979 that the heirs of Béla Lugosi—better known as the original film Dracula—had no rights to his likeness after his death. This is the case in many other states as well.
California passed a law attempting to grant retroactive likeness rights to Marilyn Monroe's heirs, but a court found that it did not apply to her because she was a resident of New York when she died. Tennessee law allows likeness rights to pass to one's heirs, so Elvis Presley's name and image were, until recently, still controlled by his estate. Texas also allows limited likeness rights after death.
Under Texas law, both living and dead individuals are protected by the right of publicity, albeit in different ways. A living individual may claim a right-of-publicity violation under the common law doctrine of "misappropriation." This requires proof of several elements:
– The defendant appropriated the plaintiff's name or likeness without permission;
– The defendant did so because of the inherent value of the plaintiff's name or likeness, not because it was newsworthy;
– The plaintiff is clearly identifiable in the publication; and
– The defendant received some benefit, not necessarily financial, as a result of the publication.
After death, an individual's right of publicity is transferable and descendible (meaning it can be included as an asset in one's will) under a Texas statute known as the Buddy Holly Bill. It applies to a person's name, likeness, image, signature, and voice. It limits prohibited activity to unauthorized use "in connection with…or for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the purchase of products, merchandise, goods, or services."
The law only applies to individuals who died on or after January 1, 1937, and whose "name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness has commercial value at the time of his or her death or comes to have commercial value after that time." The owner of the rights conferred by this law must register with the Texas Secretary of State for the rights to remain valid and enforceable. All exclusive rights under this law expire after the fiftieth anniversary of the person's death. To use Buddy Holly as an example, since he died on February 3, 1959, any rights available to his heirs under this law expired on February 4, 2009.
Coming soon: More exciting (to me, anyway) copyright news, anti-SLAPP laws and defamation, some stuff about trademarks, and my ongoing quest to understand software in a way that is helpful to y'all.
Photo credits: "Pappers" by Flashflash [CC BY-SA 3.0, GFDL], via Wikipedia; "Free stock photo of black-and-white, night, street" by Andreas Winter [Public domain, CC0 1.0], via Pexels; "Michael Jordan at Boston Garden" by Steve Lipofsky at basketballphoto.com [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons; "Buddy Holly Brunswick Records" by Brunswick Records [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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The Favourite will have a much fuller review in a few weeks. For now, Troy wants to confess to something. He loves British period movies with overwhelming sexuality and rude people. I think it's because I watched The Wicked Lady as much as I watched The Goonies. While I'm not a fan of what Emma Stone did in the film, I think Weisz went too far in the opposite direction. Plus, as much as I love Olivia Colman in the lead role, it's not terribly accurate.
Queen Mary was a lot grosser and more lame at that period. Imagine a slightly younger Anne Ramsay who was constantly bleeding down south, too bloated for her age and generally given to sloth-like movement. While quite good, it feels way too measure when compared to the filmmaker's prior entries. Still, it's enjoyable and works on repeat viewings.
13) Daniel's Pick – Game Night
Confession time: I'm the not the biggest fan of straight comedies. I enjoy them, but if they don't have much of a narrative hook, I quickly lose interest after a few watches. I prefer my comedies to come in the form of genre riffs. We're talking the kind of film where, if you removed the jokes, you'd still be left with a darker, less funny version of the same movie.
Game Night is just that kind of film. I loved every single last moment of this dark comedy, from the cast to the direction to those constant exquisite model shots that are peppered throughout. I am flat-out astounded that such work came out of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. With few exceptions, I am not a fan of their previous work. I can only hope that Game Night becomes the standard, not the exception, from them going forward.
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Waves crash into Tonga homes as Australia and New Zealand issue tsunami warnings
Warnings of 'unusual and unpredictable surges' have been issued across Pacific region
An undersea volcano has erupted in the Pacific island nation of Tonga, sending large waves which prompted tsunami warnings across the South Pacific.
A video posted to social media showed waves washing ashore on the island nation, swirling around homes and buildings. So far there have been no immediate reports of injuries or the extent of the damage.
New Zealand's emergency management agency issued an advisory on tsunami activity for its north and east coasts stating that some parts of the nation could expect "strong and unusual currents and unpredictable surges at the shore following a large volcanic eruption".
i mellomtiden, New Zealand's military said it was monitoring the situation and remained on standby, ready to assist if asked.
Tsunami waves detected after undersea volcano erupts in Tonga
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The Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai erupted on Saturday
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The eruption of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai, located about 65 kilometres north of Nuku'alofa, caused a tsunami measuring 1.2 meter, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said.
Australia's federal government is also "monitoring the situation" and "ready to provide support to Tonga if requested".
The Tonga Meteorological Services said a tsunami warning had been put in force for all of Tonga and data from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center showed waves of 80 centimeter (2.6 føtter) had been detected.
Authorities in the nearby island nations of Fiji and Samoa also issued warnings, telling people to avoid the shoreline due to strong currents and dangerous waves. The Japan Meteorological Agency said there may be a slight swelling of the water along the Japanese coasts, but it is not expected to cause any damage.
Tsunami waves measuring two feet in height were also generated in American Samoa after the volcanic eruption.
I en uttalelse, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Honolulu said that "a tsunami was generated by this earthquake. And based on all available data, there is a threat to American Samoa of sea-level fluctuations and strong ocean currents that could be a hazard along beaches, in harbours and in coastal waters."
Tonga's Business news site reported that a convoy of police and military troops evacuated the island's King Tupou VI from his palace near the shore. He was among the many people who headed for higher ground.
Dr Emily Lane from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research said the eruption is "very significant."
Professor Shane Cronin, School of Environment, University of Auckland, added that the eruption is one of the volcano's largest since 1100 AD and warned that the people of Tonga should be vigilant of further eruptions of the same size.
"The past large Hunga eruptions were comparable to the scale that we have seen in the 15 januar 2022 event or larger. Based on these past events, tephra (ash) falls of up to 20 cm thick can be expected on Tongatapu and the Ha'apai group of islands. Geological deposits on Hunga Ha'apai of the AD1000 and AD200 eruptions suggest that there were many eruptive phases during each of the major eruption episodes," Professor Cronin said.
Han la til: "This suggests that the current eruption episode could last several weeks or months and that further similar sized eruptions to the 15 januar 2022 event are possible."
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A Twitter user identified as Dr. Faka'iloatonga Taumoefolau posted video showing waves crashing ashore."Can literally hear the volcano eruption, sounds pretty violent," han skrev, adding in a later post: "Raining ash and tiny pebbles, darkness blanketing the sky."
The volcano is located about 64 kilometer (40 miles) north of the capital, Nuku'alofa. Back in late 2014 and early 2015, a series of eruptions in the area created a small new island and disrupted international air travel to the Pacific archipelago for several days.
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Franey retires, Trachier takes over
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Head coach Bill Franey (left) speaks with the only three-time All-American in program history, Katelynn Threats, during an 83-58 win over University of Science & Arts Oklahoma on Feb. 11.
Bill Franey says he will remember the smiles the most.
Franey, who is retiring after six years as the head coach of the women's basketball team, said he will take with him the memories of smiles of the women he coached.
"I have had the great fortune to work with so many young ladies whom I will never forget," he wrote in an email. "The smiles they brought to practice and to the office made every day a great one.
"That is what I will remember, that is what I will miss."
Franey, who announced his retirement in late March, compiled a record of 103-82 and led his team to the NAIA national tournament for the second time in program history, according to ramsports.net. Franey coached 15 All-Conference selections, four NAIA scholar-athletes, and the program's only three-time NAIA all-American, Katelynn Threats.
Franey wrote that for now he plans to focus on his club team for their final season.
"Some of those kids have been with me since third grade," Franey wrote. "Watching them play their final summer will be exciting; after that only time will tell."
Franey wrote that there was not an exact reason for retiring right now.
"Just felt the time was right," Franey wrote. "I hope my legacy is a good person who recruited quality student athletes and who treated them well."
Franey joined the coaching staff in 2009, and brought 35 years of experience to the Lady Rams, according to ramsports.net. His coaching career included junior high, high school, NCAA DI and NCAA DII. He also coached men's basketball, and has an 83 percent high school and college winning record.
Athletic Director Steve Trachier, a longtime friend of Franey, will take over as the women's team's head coach, according to ramsports.net.
"Coach Franey and I have been friends for a very long time," Trachier wrote in an email. "We even coached together some years ago. He has done a great job here changing the culture of the program and the team has been very competitive. Though I am sad to see him leave, I know he will stay close to the game of basketball and the coaching profession. It is in his DNA, and it is who he is."
Trachier wrote the last time he coached in public schools was the early 1990s, but since then he has coached elite-level high school teams for more than a decade.
"The last time I coached in public schools we were still shooting at peach baskets," Trachier wrote. "Almost all of those (high school) kids earned scholarships at the college level. It was the best playing against the best, and I found it more enjoyable than coaching in public school ball. I have continued to stay current in the game knowing that one day I would return to the thing I love the most, coaching basketball."
Trachier wrote that he is excited to work with the returning players, including two all- conference selections, Ashlie Bruner and Bailey Broadnax.
"We have a productive core of high character kids coming back next year," Trachier wrote. "They work hard, and I like that. We are in a very challenging conference but I really like our chances (of success)."
Broadnax, a junior forward, wrote in a text message that Franey will be missed on and off the court.
"There's not just one thing that I will miss, but everything," Broadnax wrote. "His personality always finds a way to make us laugh. He's a very open armed person, always a coach, and if you ever feel the need to vent he'll always lend an ear."
Broadnax wrote that her expectations for Trachier are higher than ever before.
"I have a different mindset as a senior," Broadnax wrote. "I'll do what I have to on the court and to push my team. I expect nothing less from him. We will both have time to get comfortable with each other, but after that, I expect business. He already showed us what it's going to take to get to the top and with the dedication we give I expect to get there."
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English speaking Tokyo dentist that provides general dental needs like braces, implants and retainers. Office located at 1-15-2 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo.
Dental and maxillofacial services, from oral surgery to dental CT scans to cosmetic dentistry from licensed Tokyo Dentist. Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10:00-19:00 and Saturday 10:00-13:00. Located at 3-49-16 Honcho Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.
Orthodontic clinic in Tokyo for children and adult. Located at 2F Kotobuki Building, 3-30-7 Kitasenzoku, Ota-ku, Tokyo 145-0062.
Child dentist Tokyo, cosmetic dentistry, tooth whitening, endodontics, implant, no pain dentistry, check ups and cleaning. Open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday to Saturday 09:00-13:00 and 14:00-18:00 at 3-8 Azabudai, Minato-ku.
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Community Magic offers a two-page PDF schedule of soup kitchen free meals. The second page has additional resources for homeless and other needy persons.
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You can now take your B1 English test in Reading, Berkshire at Eurospeak Language School, located in the Reading Town Centre.
Who needs the B1 test?
How long will the B1 test take?
The B1 ESOL test will take about 2.5 hour. The test will consist of a speaking, listening, reading and writing component.
At our B1 exam centre in Reading, the test can be taken on all weekdays and even on weekends. The candidate needs to complete the booking at Eurospeak, at least 3 days prior to the test date.
**An extra charge of £30 will be applied for test taken over the weekends.
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Q: Update query with 'not exists' check causes primary key violation The following tables are involved:
Table Product:
product_id
merged_product_id
product_name

Table Company_Product:
product_id
company_id

(Company_Product has a primary key on both the product_id and company_id columns)
I now want to run an update on Company_Product to set the product_id column to a merged_ product_id. This update could cause duplicates which would trigger a primary key violation, so therefore I added a 'not exists' check in the where clause and my query looks like this:
update cp
set cp.product_id = p.merged_product_id
from Company_Product cp
join Product p on p.product_id = cp.product_id
where p.merged_product_id is not null
and not exists
 (select * from Company_Product cp2
  where cp2.company_id = cp.company_id and
  cp2.product_id = p.merged_product_id)

But this query fails with a primary key violation.
What I think might happen is that because the Product table contains multiple rows with the same merged_product_id, it will succeed the for the first product, but when going to the next product with the same merged_product_id, it'll fail because the 'not exists' subquery does not see the first change, as the query has not finished and committed yet.
Am I right in thinking this, and how would I change the query to make it work?
[EDIT] Some data examples:
Product:

product_id merged_product_id
   23            35
   24            35
   25            12
   26            35
   27           NULL

Company_Product:

product_id company_id
   23          2
   24          2
   25          2
   26          3
   27          4

[EDIT 2] Eventually I went with this solution, which uses a temporary table to to the update on and then inserts the updated data into the original Company_Product table:
create table #Company_Product
(product_id int, company_id int)

insert #Company_Product select * from Company_Product

update cp
set cp.product_id = p.merged_product_id
from #Company_Product cp
join Product p on p.product_id = cp.product_id
where p.merged_product_id is not null

delete from Company_Product

insert Company_Product select distinct * from #Company_Product

drop table #Company_Product

A: A primary key is supposed to be three things:

*

*Non-null

*Unique

*Unchanging

By altering part of the primary key you're violating requirement #3.
I think you'd be better off creating a new table, populating it, then drop the constraints, drop the original table, and rename the new table to the desired name (then of course, re-apply the original constraints).  In my experience this gives you the chance to check out the 'new' data before making it 'live'.
Share and enjoy.

A: You can use MERGE if you are on SQL 2008 at least.
Otherwise you're going to have to choose a criteria to establish which merged_product_id you want in and which one you leave out:
update cp
set cp.product_id = p.merged_product_id
from Company_Product cp
cross apply (
  select top(1) merged_product_id
  from Product
  where product_id = cp.product_id
  and p.merged_product_id is not null
  and not exists (
    select * from Company_Product cp2
    where cp2.company_id = cp.company_id and
    cp2.product_id = merged_product_id)
  order by <insert diferentiating criteria here>) as p

Note that this is not safe if multiple concurrent requests are running the merge logic.

A: I can't quite see how your structure is meant to work or what this update is trying to achieve. You seem to be updating Company_Product and setting a (new) product_id on an existing row that apparently has a different product_id; e.g., changing the row from one product to another. This seems...an odd use case, I'd expect you to be inserting a new unique row. So I think I'm missing something.
If you're converting Company_Product to using a new set of product IDs instead of an old set (the name "merged_product_id" makes me speculate this), are you sure that there is no overlap between the old and new? That would cause a problem like what you're describing.

A: Without seeing your data, I believe your analysis is correct - the entire set is updated and then the commit fails since it results in a constraint violation.  An EXISTS is never re-evaluated after "partial commit" of some of the UPDATE.
I think you need to more precisely define your rules regarding attempting to change multiple products to the same product according to the merged_product_id and then make those explicit in your query.  For instance, you could exclude any products which would fall into that category with a further NOT EXISTS with appropriate query.

A: I think you are correct on why the update is failing. To fix this, run a delete query on your company_product table to remove the extra product_ids where the same merged_prduct_id will be applied.
here is a stab at what the query might be
delete company_product
  where product_id not in (
    select min(product_id)
      from product
      group by merged_product_id
  )
  and product_id not in (
    select product_id
      from product
      where merged_product_id is null
  )

-- Explanation added in resonse to comment --
What this tries to do is to delete rows that will be duplicates after the update. Since you have products with multiple merged ids, you really only need one of those products (for each company) in the table when you are done. So, my query (if it works...) will keep the min original product id for each merged product id - then your update will work.
So, let's say you have 3 product ids which will map to 2 merged ids: 1 -> 10, 2 -> 20, 3 -> 20. And you have the following company_product data:
product_id  company_id
1           A
2           A
3           A

If you run your update against this, it will try to change both the second and third rows to product id 20, and it will fail. If you run the delete I suggest, it will remove the third row. After the delete and the update, the table will look like this:
product_id  company_id
10          A
20          A

A: Try this:
create table #Company_Product
(product_id int, company_id int)
create table #Product (product_id int,merged_product_id int)
insert into #Company_Product
select           23, 2
union all select 24, 2
union all select 25, 2
union all select 26, 3
union all select 27, 4
insert into #product
Select              23, 35
union all select    24, 35
union all select    25, 12
union all select    26, 35
union all select   27, NULL

update cp
set product_id = merged_product_id
from #company_product cp
join
  (
    select min(product_id) as product_id, merged_product_id
      from #product where merged_product_id is not null
      group by merged_product_id
  ) a on a.product_id = cp.product_id

delete cp
--select *
from #company_product cp
join #product p on cp.product_id = p.product_id
where cp.product_id <> p.merged_product_id
and p.merged_product_id is not null

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Growing up in craft, Terrapin Beer Co. is utilizing its 16th Anniversary Carnival on Saturday, April 14, to celebrate its heritage as well as the curvy, and sometimes, bumpy road that led the brewery to its recent success, including a barrelage increase of 87 percent from 2008 to 2017.
Despite arriving during the non-craft beer age and battling Georgia sales and distribution laws, Terrapin Beer Co. quickly made a name for itself in the craft beer world after winning a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2002 for its Rye Pale Ale and a silver medal at the World Beer Cup in 2004 for its Extreme Cream Ale, in the midst of the extreme trend.
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That independence lasted until 2017 when Tenth and Blake became a majority owner. There were no descendants to take over the brewery when Buckowski and Cochran retire, and Cochran ultimately moved to Asheville, North Carolina to open UpCountry Brewing Co.
Buckowski's time is now spent on projects like the ATL Brew Lab at SunTrust Park, home of the Atlanta Braves. The Brew Lab is home to a pilot system five-barrel brewhouse and six ten-barrel fermenters, which produces a combination of new beers and old Terrapin favorites served at the Terrapin Taproom next door and open year-round.
And as the Terrapin Tribe, as they affectionately call their team and family members, celebrates its 16th year growing up, they're looking forward to sharing their successes with their fans. Barrel aged beers, year-round favorites, beers from the ATL Brew Lab, unique casks made by their brewers, and other special brews will be available for sampling during their 16th Anniversary Carnival on Saturday, April 14. Entertainment will include Rust, Strung Like a Horse, acts from sideshow couple Captain & Maybelle, as well as local vendors, food trucks, and carnival games with proceeds benefiting Nuci's Space, a health and resource center for musicians. Tickets are $26 and can be purchased here.
Sara Pletcher is the conference operations manager at Zephyr Conferences, the brainchild behind beer, wine, and food conferences for bloggers and industry professionals. Sara drank her first craft beer in 2009 and, therefore, naturally wrote her master's thesis on the Delaware craft beer industry. She's excited to finally put her passion to good work.


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Pedro Morales, född den 25 maj 1985 i Hualpén, är en chilensk professionell fotbollsspelare som spelar för Vancouver Whitecaps i Major League Soccer (MLS).

Klubbkarriär
Redan som 19-åring debuterade Morales för Huachipatos A-lag. 101 matcher, 17 mål och ett lyckat U20-VM senare väckte han stort intresse hos de chilenska elitklubbarna och till slut var det Universidad de Chile som vann dragkampen om spelaren.

Morales visade snabbt sin potiential som fotbollsspelare och redan under debutsäsongen kom han tvåa i Clausuras skytteliga (med 13 gjorda mål). Den efterföljande Aperturan blev inte alls lika målrik men kroatiska Dinamo Zagreb nappade och den 11 juni blev det officiellt känt att Morales hade skrivit under ett femårskontrakt med klubben. Under sin tid där blev han utlånad till sin gamla klubb Universidad de Chile och även till Málaga i Spanien. Därefter gjorde han en säsong till för Málaga innan han flyttade till Vancouver Whitecaps i MLS.

Landslagskarriär
Redan i januari 2008 fick Morales chansen att visa upp sig inför ögonen på Marcelo Bielsa då det chilenska landslaget åkte över till Japan för att spela ett par vänskapsmatcher. Morales klarade uppgiften och imponerade på Bielsa och bara en månad senare blev han uppkallad att delta i Youth Festival i Toulon. Normalt sett är turneringen avsedd för U20-landslag men eftersom OS i Peking väntade runt hörnet hade arrangörerna beslutat att göra om årets upplaga till en U23-turnering. Det här var Chiles första framträdande i turneringen, men man imponerade stort och tog sig obesegrade fram till finalen. Chile kom tvåa (Italien vann finalen med 1-0) och Morales utsågs till turneringens näst bästa spelare (bara Juventus Sebastian Giovinco kom före).

Morales imponerande insats i Toulon vann honom en plats i Chiles A-landslag inför de kommande VM-kvalmatcherna. Först fick han chansen mot Bolivia och sedan fick han nytt förtroende mot Venezuela ett par dagar senare.

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Webbkällor
 Pedro Morales på National-Football-Teams.com

Chilenska fotbollsspelare
Spelare i Huachipato
Spelare i CF Universidad de Chile
Spelare i Dinamo Zagreb
Spelare i Málaga CF
Spelare i Vancouver Whitecaps FC
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From the Peeps
© Carol M. Highsmith 2023
The elephant in the room.
LocationFairfax, VA
One of my favorite photography experiences was to capture the elephants at the Barnam & Bailey Circus. I had just received my new 100-megapixel Phase One camera, and I wanted to test it out. I wanted to see not only the quality but also how it acted in low light. I was thrilled to take images at two or three shows and watch the elephants perform. Now that the Greatest Show on Earth has closed for good, it makes me realize the importance of my work. These images are for the world to use and enjoy now and for the ages, without restriction.
Bodie, bygone.
LocationMono County, CA
It was a treat to meander through Mark Twain county, just east of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, where I came upon forlorn Bodie. I say "came upon" as if I'd stumbled out of the brush and beheld it miraculously. Actually about 199,999 other people visit the old ghost town, southeast of Lake Tahoe, every year. That's all right, to me it still seemed like my Voyage of Discovery, like Lewis & Clark.
Double crossing.
LocationJackson County, CO
Cowhands Scott McKay (on the white horse, Hays) and John Guthrie III (on Gunner), and Scott's dog, Ty, cross the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch, a guest ranch that includes a working cattle operation in the Park Range — a spectacular series of Rocky Mountain peaks overlooking the "park," as Coloradans in these remote parts call their valleys. Ah, regional idiosyncrasies! This scene in one of America's most sparsely settled counties (Jackson) blew me away.
Oh, Grammy, how I love ya.
LocationRidgway, CO
I was puttering around and photographing in tiny Ridgway in the Colorado Rockies one day when someone told me I should go down the street and knock on John Billings's door. I'd be in for a surprise, the person told me. And how! In his basement, John crafts the 580 or so of the Grammy Awards' iconic trophies, which he designed, to be presented at Hollywood's ceremony 850 miles away. How'd that come about? Too long a tale!
Carnival krewes.
LocationNew Orleans, LA
Saucy New Orleans, and its annual Carnival culminating on Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), fit the cliche: You love 'em or you hate 'em. Count me among the lovers! I'd prefer my own little parade rather than hordes of tipsy tourists with sharp elbows screaming "Throw me somethin'" on Napoleon Avenue or Canal Street, but the music, food, and history, and Louisiana's joie d' vivre make it intoxicating, even without a brandy milk punch in your hand.
The valley so whoa.
LocationNavajo Nation, AZ
Why is it that many of America's most splendorous sights are way, way far away from just about anywhere? The Grand Tetons and the Grand Canyon (I'm sensing a grand theme) and Arches National Park are like that. And so is this spectacular place: Monument Valley, a cluster of vast, stunning sandstone buttes on Navajo Nation land straddling the Arizona-Utah line – though mostly in Arizona. Let's see: splendorous, grand, spectacular, stunning. Sorta sums up this special place.
A yellow brick stroll.
LocationBeech Mountain, NC
Ashley Harkins as Dorothy skips my way along the Yellow Brick Road at the Land of Oz, a delightful storyland park, high in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. The park, which reimagines Frank Baum's classic story of the Wizard of Oz and Dorothy and a wicked witch, opened in 1970. It now puts on performances only once a week in June and in special shows each fall. I was enchanted to catch Dorothy after one of them.
Get your kicks.
LocationKingman, AZ
One of my favorite experiences as I travel across America nine months of every year is to hop on Old Route 66. I've probably taken it twenty times a year. I can't help thinking about what it must have been like in the days when it was "the Mother Road" across America's plains and desert. I love to stop at the Hackberry General Store in northwestern Arizona, where you can almost hear the old jalopies pull up for some gas, grub and a cold soda pop, and the only bathroom between Peach Springs and Kingman.
Siegfried and Roy's leading lion.
LocationLas Vegas, NV
I look back on this "photo op" with delight but also sadness. Siegfried (left) and Roy posed with one of their closest feline friends in their Mirage Hotel apartment, after the Las Vegas superstar illusionists invited me right up onstage to photograph among the elephants and big cats. It was magical in more ways than one. A few weeks later, as you probably know, Roy nearly died in an encounter with a spooked white tiger on stage.


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Hailu's world under-20 indoor 1,500m record ratified
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Monaco, Feb 6 (IANS) Lemlem Hailu's world under-20 indoor 1,500m record of 4:01.57 seconds, set last year, has been ratified, World Athletics announced on Saturday.
The Ethiopian middle-distance runner clocked her record-breaking time at the World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting in Lievin on February 19 last year, setting her fourth personal best within three weeks.
The race was won by her compatriot, world bronze medallist Gudaf Tsegay, but Hailu put up a good fight.
They were paced through 800m just inside 2:06 secs. The final pacemaker stepped aside with 400m to go and, with 2:55 secs on the clock, Tsegay took the lead. Hailu, however, responded 15 seconds later and hit the front, still looking comfortable with the pace while Tsegay was starting to grimace.
But with just half a lap left, Tsegay kicked again and regained the lead, eventually crossing the line in 4:00.60 secs with Hailu following less than a second later in 4:01.57 secs.
Hailu's time was an improvement on her own world under-20 indoor record of 4:01.79 secs that she had set in Torun on February 8 last year. She had set personal best in both of her races before that, too: 4:08.32 secs in Karlsruhe and 4:05.08 secs in Ostrava. Hailu, the 2017 world under-18 champion, now sits at 18th on the senior world indoor all-time list.
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In this presentation, i will be talking about a feature in RouterOS that is used to configure your device quick and easy, even for beginner. There will be a live demo on stage, and attendees are encouraged to participate.
With so many new line of products and features from MikroTik, choosing one might be bit confusing. This topic will cover how to choose the right devices for your network!
This presentation will show the most advantage of using PowerBox on the installation on rural area. We will be able to get the power history and power consumption of each devices connected.
Core to CPE with Mikrotik, Hybrid Wide Area Network.
Experience on deploying Wireless and Wired Wide Area Network in Sukabumi, Indonesia.
New technology, how WiFi will working like cellular roaming.
I will show how the attacker doing Brute Forces Attack to Mikrotik Router, and I Will show step-by-step to protect our Router for this attack with live demo.


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Tragedy and Memory
It's hard to find anything to say about the horrific events at Virginia Tech. As information comes out, it's looking like one of the hardest things for the families to cope with is that it seems nobody - except the killer - really did anything wrong. And when something this horrible happens, it's natural to not only want to find out who's to blame, but to punish someone for what happened. And the killer has placed himself beyond our reach.
It's been asked why they didn't shut down the campus after the initial shootings. Well, anyone who watches Court TV can tell you that in the case the cops first saw - two dead, a young woman who could have been the target and a young man who just got in the way - the first thing you ask is, Did she have a boyfriend? Her roommate told cops she did, a student at a neighboring college. Not only that, he was a gun owner. They'd all gone to a shooting range recently.
Of course they had to follow that up at once, as the most likely situation was that a fight with her boyfriend had gone horribly wrong. 99 times out of a hundred, they'd be right; the boyfriend / girlfriend / spouse / lover is always the most likely suspect. Within two hours they had actually found the boyfriend and were interviewing him, with every possible reason to believe the situation had been stabilized. Then the reports of carnage started coming in from Norris Hall. It's just a horrible coincidence that one of the few times correct police procedure led in the wrong direction it was the day a guy filled with deranged fury decided to take as many people with him as possible.
This is enough to make anyone shocked and upset, but for me it's done more; it's dredged up terribly painful memories from ten years ago. On December 1 of last year the Times-Picayune ran this article:
On a Sunday morning in December 1996, 10 years ago today, a former employee still bitter about getting fired and two accomplices -- one who had gotten a job as a dishwasher only 10 days earlier -- conned their way into the Louisiana Pizza Kitchen Restaurant near the French Market before opening time. Armed with a .357-caliber Magnum and makeshift potato silencer, they took money from a safe before fatally shooting a manager and two employees as they kneeled in a walk-in cooler.
Dying in the cooler that morning were manager Cara LoPiccolo, 28, and waiters Santana Meaux, 25, and Michael Witcoskie, 24.
I knew all three of them. I was working at the Old U.S. Mint, and my office opened directly onto a courtyard facing the Pizza Kitchen across the street. I was a lunchtime regular and knew all their faces, though not their names until the horrible morning I saw their pictures in the paper. They knew me too. Regulars mean a little bit more to restaurants in a high traffic tourist area. With all the hordes that pass through, familiar faces are nice to see.
It was incredibly difficult to get through that December. The entire French Quarter community was shocked, as a hit on a business like this was unheard of. The restaurant was closed, of course, and people immediately began coming to lay flowers and messages of sorrow against its walls. This became a sort of shrine to the fallen, which just grew and grew until it took up most of the block, not just flowers but mementos, pictures, statues of saints, candles tended around the clock. This made it harder for me, because I just couldn't get away from it. I couldn't put it out of my mind as I had to walk past it every day. Others who worked at the Mint, and who had also known the victims, could at least get to their offices by entering at the other side of the building. I couldn't.
I obsessed about it. I couldn't stop myself from going out several times a day to stare at the shrine, see what had changed. I think I actually became a bit unbalanced for a bit, to the extent that some of my co-workers were starting to worry about me. One Security officer, a good guy named Shelby, came by several times to talk to me, make sure I wasn't coming too unglued. I eventually did see a psychologist for a while, and he helped me find a way to memorialize them in my own way, put them to rest.
After a month or so the shrine was quietly taken down, and some months later the Pizza Kitchen reopened under new ownership. I eventually went back to being a regular, but it was never the same.
I haven't thought much about this for years, but Virginia Tech brought it all roaring back with a vengeance. For a while I was obsessing about it almost as much as I was about that shrine, watching TV for hours and scouring the web. I am getting over it. But I feel so keenly for all those kids, not just the ones who died, but the ones who will carry the scars of this forever. I think I know the feeling, at least a little bit.
Oh, and about the Pizza Kitchen killers:
A fourth victim was shot in the neck but survived. Damien Vincent, 34, played dead, then later crawled to a phone and called police. He was able to identify one of the suspects. Within 12 hours, all three of the attackers were captured.
The triggerman is on death row, and the other two will likely never get out of prison. That's something.
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Yeot-gangjeong () is a candy bar-like variety of hangwa (traditional Korean confection) consisting of toasted seeds, nuts, beans, or puffed grains mixed with mullyeot (rice syrup). In general households, they usually make and eat yeot-gangjeong during Korean holidays and Jesa. Or, it is made and sold as a winter snack and is usually eaten during holidays and feasts.

Preparation
Use pine nuts as they are, split peanuts in two, stir-fry sesame seeds,  and perilla seeds, beans, and fry rice paste. Mix the ingredients prepared by melting sugar into honey and pour bean powder or oil on a large wooden or metal plate, spread it quickly when it is hot, and cut the wheat into the right thickness with the next knife.

Pine nut, sesame, walnut, and peanut yeot-gangjeong are made of diamond-shaped or corrugated patterns, and rice paste yeot-gangjeong are recommended to be rounded to the size of a tennis ball.

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See also
 Candy bar
 Dessert bar
 Gozinaki
 Sachima

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Candy bars
Hangwa


They have had some adventures in their transformed bus!
We're all going on a Summer Holiday!
This Lincolnshire couple created their very own holiday bus by spending six years - and £10,000 transforming a dilapidated Stagecoach bus.
Tom Grantham and Kayley Barnes even have an oven and a log fire, in the 23-year-old bus - now a luxury camper - that they bought for just £1,200 in 2011.
It was previously the number 51 coach, which had travelled past their house every day on its route between Grimsby and Louth.
And Tom, 29, of Market Rasen, admitted he didn't tell Kayley about his unusual purchase at first.
He said: "It was just one of those impulsive purchases. I didn't tell the missus - she was not impressed.
"Because it came from so far away (Preston) I didn't have any idea it was actually a local bus until it arrived.
So now, they are selling it on eBay and any Yellowbellies with a passion for history - or buses - can get their hands on this one-of-a-kind vehicle if they have deep enough pockets.
The single decker has been fitted with three double beds, an oven, a gas log fire, a toilet and shower but kept some of the original features such as the steering wheel, driver's seat, dashboard and some signs.
In the meantime, it has been driven across the continent on family holidays, including trips to France and Belgium.
Tom, who spent nine months making the bus roadworthy, told our sister site www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk : "We have enjoyed doing it up as much as we have using it.
It hasn't all been plain sailing for the couple though, who were forced to call a friend after the bus broke down in Switzerland with their three children.
The eBay auction is set to end on Monday, July 3, and, at the time of writing, bids have risen to £9,200. You can take a look at the lot here .