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package org.kie.server.router.utils;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Base64;

import io.undertow.util.Headers;
import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
import org.kie.server.router.KieServerRouterConstants;

public class HttpUtils {

    private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(HttpUtils.class);

    private static final String USER_NAME = System.getProperty(KieServerRouterConstants.KIE_CONTROLLER_USER, "kieserver");
    private static final String PASSWORD = System.getProperty(KieServerRouterConstants.KIE_CONTROLLER_PASSWORD, "kieserver1!");
    private static final String TOKEN = System.getProperty(KieServerRouterConstants.KIE_CONTROLLER_TOKEN);

    public static void deleteHttpCall(String url) throws Exception {

        URL controllerURL = new URL(url);
        HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) controllerURL.openConnection();
        con.setRequestMethod("DELETE");

        con.setRequestProperty(Headers.ACCEPT_STRING, "application/json");
        con.setRequestProperty(Headers.CONTENT_TYPE_STRING, "application/json");
        con.setRequestProperty(Headers.AUTHORIZATION_STRING, getAuthorization());

        con.setDoOutput(true);

        log.debugf("Sending 'DELETE' request to URL : %s", controllerURL);
        int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
        log.debugf("Response Code : %s", responseCode);
        if (responseCode > 204) {
            throw new IOException("Unsucessful response code " + responseCode);
        }

    }

    public static void getHttpCall(String url) throws Exception {

        URL controllerURL = new URL(url);
        HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) controllerURL.openConnection();
        con.setRequestMethod("GET");

        con.setRequestProperty(Headers.ACCEPT_STRING, "application/json");
        con.setRequestProperty(Headers.CONTENT_TYPE_STRING, "application/json");
        con.setRequestProperty(Headers.AUTHORIZATION_STRING, getAuthorization());

        con.setDoOutput(true);

        log.debugf("Sending 'GET' request to URL : %s", controllerURL);
        int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
        log.debugf("Response Code : %s", responseCode);

        if (responseCode != 200) {
            throw new IOException("Unsucessful response code " + responseCode);
        }

    }

    public static String putHttpCall(String url, String body) throws Exception {

        URL controllerURL = new URL(url);
        HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) controllerURL.openConnection();
        con.setRequestMethod("PUT");

        con.setRequestProperty(Headers.ACCEPT_STRING, "application/json");
        con.setRequestProperty(Headers.CONTENT_TYPE_STRING, "application/json");
        con.setRequestProperty(Headers.AUTHORIZATION_STRING, getAuthorization());

        con.setDoOutput(true);
        if (body != null) {
            con.getOutputStream().write(body.getBytes("UTF-8"));
        }

        log.debugf("Sending 'PUT' request to URL : %s", controllerURL);
        int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
        log.debugf("Response Code : %s", responseCode);
        if (responseCode > 201) {
            throw new IOException("Unsucessful response code " + responseCode);
        }
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
        String inputLine;
        StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();

        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
            response.append(inputLine);

        }
        in.close();

        return response.toString();
    }

    protected static String getAuthorization() throws Exception{
        if (TOKEN != null) {
            return "Bearer " + TOKEN;
        } else {
            return "Basic " + Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString((USER_NAME + ":" + PASSWORD).getBytes("UTF-8"));
        }
    }
}

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Toulouse, January 22, 2018 – ATR announces its first deal of 2018 which sees the introduction of the ATR -600 series in the US, to be operated by Silver Airways. The airline will introduce 20 ATR -600 aircraft into its fleet, of which 16 will be ATR 42-600s and four will be ATR 72-600s. This follows a deal between ATR and Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) for the purchase of 15 ATR -600s, of which 12 will be ATR 42-600s and three will be ATR 72-600s. These aircraft, along with five from an existing order between ATR and NAC, will be leased to Silver Airways, making them the first operator of ATR -600 series aircraft in the US.


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Q: scalable layout for storing and displaying user uploaded images I am trying to figure out the best way to layout my directory structure so that I can store images from multiple users in a way that would be scalable when used in combination with a database. The database will store the absolute path to each image.
So lets assume I was dealing with users' profile images each of which would have thumbnails of a different size. Would the structure below be sufficient:
/profile_images
    /user_1
      /image_a
        image_a.jpg
        image_a_small.jpg
        image_a_tiny.jpg
      /image_b
        image_b.jpg
        image_b_small.jpg
        image_b_tiny.jpg
    /user_2
        ...
    /user_3
        ...

So my question is whether such an approach would be good. If not, could someone please suggest a better approach that uses a database and filesystem to manage image uploads.
Thanks

A: Your layout seems sufficient for an application that is expecting moderate number of users and images.
That said, the solution may prove insufficient once the following factors come into play:

*

*The number of user-image combinations grows large.

*Your users are spread across the globe.

*You need to version the images.

*You find that a lot of bandwidth is being spent on hosting the images.

In such a case you might want to look at storing and serving these images outside using something simple as Amazon S3 or using a full fledged content delivery network (CDN).
I believe there are several plug ins available to support S3 storage with minimal fuss. S3Storage is one such (caveat: I have used S3 but not S3Storage).
Hope this helps.

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33rd round of 1.HNL - Croatia 1.division was played, and within that match between home team NK Istra 1961 and guests NK Zagreb.
Guests won with high result of 4:1, goals for them achieved: in 13th game minute Lovro Medic, in 26st Valentino Stepcic, in 45+02 minute Matias Sulc and in 76st again scorer was Valentino Stepcic, Croatian midfielder.
Game was played on NK Istra Stadium "Aldo Drosina" in Pula city.
This is Sime Grzan second goal in this season Championship, both goals he scored in shirt of NK Istra. On February this year Sime passed from Croatia 1.division Club NK Lokomotiva to his current Club.
NK Istra 1961 position on table of 1.HNL is 09th, out of 10 clubs competing and because only three rounds will be played till end of Championship, Club NK Istra will probably go to play off, where they will play against second placed Club of Croatian 2.division.


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Q: symfony2 unable to receive json response in controller I am developing REST API with FOSRestBundle. I am unable to send JSON response from controller. I am forwarding a request from fooAction of FooControllerFoo to a certain of BarController, when I try to return JSON response from that action I am getting blank array.
here is scenario:
FooController.php
class FooController  extends FOSRestController {
...

public function fooAction() {

 ...

    $response = $this->forward('ApplicationPApiBundle:bar:getByZipCode', array(), array('zipcode' => $zipcode));

    print_r($response);  //getting blank array here

...

}

}

BarController.php
class BarController  extends FOSRestController {
    ...

    public function getByZipCodeAction() {

     ...

       $response = new Response((array("one"=>"1", "two"=> "2")));

       $response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'application/json');

       // print_r($response);  // after printing I can see data in json format

       return $response;

     }

    }

when I print response in FooController's fooAction I see it as an empty array however when I print it in Barcontroller's getByZipCodeAction before returning it I see proper response object with json content.
Can anybody help me to figure out what is happening here?
EDIT:
Response object printed in Barcontroller before returning it:
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response Object
(
    [headers] => Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\ResponseHeaderBag Object
        (
            [computedCacheControl:protected] => Array
                (
                    [no-cache] => 1
                )

            [cookies:protected] => Array
                (
                )

            [headerNames:protected] => Array
                (
                    [cache-control] => Cache-Control
                    [date] => Date
                    [content-type] => Content-Type
                )

            [headers:protected] => Array
                (
                    [cache-control] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => no-cache
                        )

                    [date] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:48:49 GMT
                        )

                    [content-type] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => application/json
                        )

                )

            [cacheControl:protected] => Array
                (
                )

        )

    [content:protected] => {"one":"1","two":"2"}
    [version:protected] => 1.0
    [statusCode:protected] => 200
    [statusText:protected] => OK
    [charset:protected] =>
)

=================================================================
Response object printed in Foocontroller after getting response from forwarded action:
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response Object
(
    [headers] => Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\ResponseHeaderBag Object
        (
            [computedCacheControl:protected] => Array
                (
                    [no-cache] => 1
                )

            [cookies:protected] => Array
                (
                )

            [headerNames:protected] => Array
                (
                    [cache-control] => Cache-Control
                    [date] => Date
                    [content-type] => Content-Type
                    [x-debug-token] => X-Debug-Token
                    [x-debug-token-link] => X-Debug-Token-Link
                )

            [headers:protected] => Array
                (
                    [cache-control] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => no-cache
                        )

                    [date] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:48:49 GMT
                        )

                    [content-type] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => application/json
                        )

                    [x-debug-token] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => 168be3
                        )

                    [x-debug-token-link] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => /app_dev.php/_profiler/168be3
                        )

                )

            [cacheControl:protected] => Array
                (
                )

        )

    [content:protected] => []
    [version:protected] => 1.0
    [statusCode:protected] => 200
    [statusText:protected] => OK
    [charset:protected] =>
)

please notice contents are empty.

A: I'm no expert with FOSRestBundle, but I think you should be doing something like:
$view = $this->view(['one' => 1, 'two' => 2]);
$view->setFormat('json');
return $this->handleView($view);

I believe what's happening at the moment is that the view handler listener receives no data, so overrides the response's content with null.

A: I couldn't figure out the exact reason which is causing the issue it could be related to FOSRestBundle view listener.
Following the link mentioned by @Cerad in his comment, I decided to create service of the action where I was forwarding the request. So in my case I scrapped the BarController and created a service out of it although I could have opted to use this controller as service however I thought using separate class as a service is more feasible in my case.


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Rineke Dijkstra, Brighton, England, August 21, 1992.
The Guggenheim's mid-career survey of the Dutch artist's work
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Rudolf Stingel, Untitled (Paula), 2012 (11 x 15 ')
Stingel's huge, photo-realist painting of gallerist Paula Cooper is based on a photograph of Cooper from the 1980s. The painting was recently exhibited at Art Basel as part of the Art Unlimited show, and I've been obsessing over it since I saw it in the Times a few weeks ago. (The painting was reportedly purchased for $3 million by François Pinault, before the fair opened.)
Critic Jerry Saltz on Paula Cooper, from a 2005 Village Voice review of a show by Stingel that included another portrait of Cooper:
Just as Stingel has tried to redefine what painting can be, Cooper is and has been a model for the kind of dealer most dealers start out wanting to be: compassionate, activist, and responsible. Cooper is one of the most respected gallerists in the history of art dealers. Curator Francesco Bonami calls her "the Greta Garbo of art dealers-detached and a true believer in the power of art."
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The most striking thing about Stingel's [2005 portrait of Cooper, based on a 1984 photo by Robert Mapplethorpe] is how candidly he renders Cooper's beauty. This painting reminded me of the huge crush I had on her 25 years ago when I worked as a truck driver and used to make deliveries to her gallery. She always gave us snacks.
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From a story that year in British Vogue,
featuring models
Bruce Hulse and Talisa Soto
(styled by Grace Coddington).
The story, "Under Weston Eyes," was inspired by the work of photographer Edward Weston, of whom Weber says:
He took things that were very personal to him and let us see into that world. I thought it would be interesting to do a series of pictures of my own imaginary family, living together in the dysfunctional, neurotic, beautiful way that families do.
Photos from the story are part of the exhibition "A Bellport Tale," at the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society on Long Island. Through September 3; more at T Magazine.
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4. Manage, coach and develop a high performing team that meets agreed objectives and delivers best practice results, added value and continuous improvements.
5. Ensure all logistics staffs follow company rule, regulation and policy.
6. Develop and maintain strong relationships with all connected with logistics process.
1. Minimum 5 years of experience in logistics/supply chain/transportation with at least 10 years in management level.
4. Strong planning skills with the ability to handle multiple projects through to completion and to manage competing priorities.
5. Demonstrated knowledge of logistics problems, applications and distribution systems.
6. Proficient in Microsoft Office software including WMS, TMS Excel and Power Point.
1. Manage and control production planning to achieve company target both quality and cost.
2. Manage and control out of stock.
3. Manage stock materials to follow inventory ans safety stock policy.
4. Execute material planning via MRP process, confirm those required quantity and convert into PO within lead time. Amend / Reflect latest delivery into system.
5. Review and understand capacity for major supplier, identify concerns then lead to have clear agreed resolution / action plan together with sourcing team and suppliers. Also having / identify back up supplier for BCP plan.
6. Work closely with supplier to deliver materials as plan and follow agreed criteria I.E. MOQ, Remained shelf-life.
7. Work under assigned project or any initiatives to support business growth or process improvement.
1. Bachelor's degree in any field related to sciences, IE engineering or business.
2. Experience in Production planning & Material control or supply management or planning is preferable.
3. At least 10 years experience in a supply chain planning / manufacturing role or production planning & material control role.
4. Able to use Excel and MS Office.
5. MRP system on Microsoft AX is advantage.
7. Motivation and creative drive.
1. Partner with business units to drive the S&OP process improvement by leading the implementation of the integrated business planning process.
2. Manage and control KPIs's demand management to achieve targets.
3. Coordinate with all sales, marketing and productions and lead the discipline of the demand review process and drive the improvement in forecasting process, including the utilization of statistical forecast tools.
4. Coordinate with Logistics & Supply Chain team and lead the discipline of the supply planning process.
5. To partner with IT to step change demand forecast tool and implement business intelligent too.
6. Use all available market leads to develop supply scenario analysis, business contingency planning, and new product introduction to ensure business continuity and to support business growth.
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Q: R: Generate samples from posterior with MCMC p - The probability that a pcr test of a sick person, will show us a positive result.
q - The probability that a pcr test of a healthy person, will show us a positive result.
s - The general percentage of patients in the population.
Let q = 10%, p = 95% and s = 20%

*

*Generate data for 1000 people who came to be tested

I did it with this code (with help from here):
samp <- sample(1:4, 1000, replace=TRUE, prob=c(.19,.01,.08,.72))

stat <- c("sick", "sick", "healthy", "healthy")
tst <- c("positive", "negative", "positive", "negative")
test_data <- data.frame(
  health = stat[samp],
  test_result = tst[samp]
)
head(test_data)

And Let the periors to be:
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And I was asked to Generate 10,000 samples from posterior with MCMC.
My question is if have to multiply all these periors because they are independent and then to run MCMC and generate the samples?
How it should be done?


"Comparison of ballistic and strength training on swimming turn and dry" by Julian V. Jones, David B. Pyne et al.
Originally published as: Jones, J. V., Pyne, D. B., Haff, G. G., & Newton, R. U. (2017). Comparison of ballistic and strength training on swimming turn and dry-land leg extensor characteristics in elite swimmers. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching. 13(2). 262-269. Original article available here.
Swimmers undertake dry-land resistance training as part of their overall training regime in order to increase lower body force output, impulse and swim turn performance. We investigated whether short-term ballistic training or maximal strength training is more effective in enhancing leg extensor force characteristics during the swim turn. Twelve elite swimmers (10 males and 2 females 19.4 ± 1.0 y) were assigned to either strength (n = 6) or ballistic leg extensor (n = 6) training based on their coaching group for a six-week period. All testing was conducted during the final training cycle towards the World Championships selection trials. Swimmers undertook dry-land testing of a squat jump on a portable force platform with bodyweight only and an additional 30 kg load for males and 20 kg load for females. On the same day, all swimmers performed a turn analysis using a fixed force platform within the pool wall. There were no substantial differences between the strength and ballistic groups after the six-week intervention. Only squat jump peak velocity (loaded) showed a moderately large standardized difference (–0.71, ± 0.42 m/s) after six weeks in the strength-trained group. Relative peak power (4.0 ± 2.1 W/kg), squat jump peak force (loaded and unloaded) (195.0, ± 122.8 N; 155.0, ± 152.3 N), and squat jump impulse (unloaded) (2.9, ± 2.1 N) all showed small and clear improvements with ballistic training over the six-week intervention. Both strength and ballistic dry-land training can improve aspects of the push-off stage of the swim turn providing programming options for swimming and strength and conditioning coaches.


User interface (UI) testing is a process used to test if the application is functioning correctly. UI testing can be performed manually by a human tester, or it can be performed automatically with the use of a software program.
Automated UI testing is the automation of manual test tasks. Because manual test tasks can be time consuming and error prone, we implement automated UI testing as a more accurate, efficient, and reliable method. Over an extended period of time, automated UI testing becomes a cost-effective replacement to manual testing. However, it should be implemented after some part of the functionality is already finished (e.g. result of a sprint). Developing them in parallel with mainstream implementation might result in a headache while maintaining new functionality.
Furthermore, automated UI tests can run simultaneously on different platforms and on different browsers. However, they will not detect cases where the UI gets distorted. As soon as all DOM elements are in the document, the test will succeed. Automated UI tests become much more important when there are multiple people working on the same piece of code, for obvious reasons. Without good automated test coverage, complicated pieces of code quickly become one person's domain ("Don't touch that code without talking to Ted!").
There are multiple UI testing frameworks on the market, but one of the most commonly known and used is Selenium.
Selenium Grid allows scaling for a large number of tests, or for tests that must run in multiple environments. It also allows you to run different tests simultaneously on different remote machines. Utilizing Selenium Grid has two main advantages. First, if you have a large number of tests, or a slow-running test, you can boost its performance substantially by using Selenium Grid to run different tests at the same time using different machines. Second, if you're running your tests on multiple environments you can have different remote machines supporting different browsers and operating systems. In each case, Selenium Grid greatly improves the time it takes to accomplish regression testing for a web project.
I had the opportunity to pilot two sites that offer cloud based Selenium Grid hub services: SauceLabs and BrowserStack. WebDriver was introduced for accessing the selenium hub service. WebDriver is designed to provide a programming interface to access browser functionality. It doesn't matter if the browser instance is located in a local computer or remotely in the Selenium Grid hub.
Automated and real time testing environments – both providers offer this functionality.
Mobile testing – both providers offer this functionality.
Parallelized testing – both providers offer this functionality.
Log views - SauceLabs has a very detailed log view. It even displays info from the browser console. This is very helpful in finding problems on a web site.
Live automated test video – both sites have this functionality. In SauceLabs, you can even take control of a live test and inspect a page or its elements.
Screenshots - both hubs have a screenshot functionality. BrowserStack even displays screenshots in the main test log.
Typically, I run tests in a SauceLabs environment. One of the SauceLabs features I have found very useful is the ability to take control of the running test and inspect the browser screen. It's a great tool to get additional debug information for a failed test.
Another Selenium Hub I have tried is BrowserStack. Though all tests offer the same results on both hubs, BrowserStack seems to lack some core functionality compared to SauceLabs. The biggest shortage I have noticed is that the history grid lacks important information. All you have here is the platform name and browser name with the version, so it can be very difficult to find particular tests in the list (search is not available here either).
But, one of the biggest advantages BrowserStack has over SauceLabs is that BrowserStack bills for user count and parallelism degree, while SauceLabs bills for the test run minutes.
Let's talk about the actual tools used to write automated tests. Selenium WebDriver UI tests can be implemented using any unit testing framework. In our daily unit testing we use NUnit for that purpose. To run tests locally, we use a Visual Studio ReSharper plugin. For continuous integration and automated tests runs – we use CruiseControl.Net continuous integration server.
UI tests run slowly and it makes sense to run them in parallel. However, it is a big challenge because it involves shared data synchronization. In order to run separate UI tests simultaneously, we create multiple parallel tasks for the NUnit Console in the continuous integration server. The easiest way to synchronize shared data is to divide all tests into separate isolated groups. Isolated groups means that a testing functionality from one group shouldn't have shared data with another group.
Writing automated UI tests involves some recurring steps before each test can run. For example, you must initialize a connection to the Selenium hub, prepare data records in a database, execute test operations, send test status to the hub, and clear test data from the database. To avoid code duplication we have created SeleniumTestBase, an abstract class with all helper methods. Each test fixture should inherit it.
In this test sample I want to find http://thecodinglove.com/ site with the Google search engine. First of all, we need to give the driver instructions to navigate to 'www.google.com.' Then, we must wait for the page to fully render.
In this example, a search action is triggered while typing and no button has to be pressed. In this situation, the WaitForPage method is not suitable. In such cases we need more wait methods to interact with a dynamic page. The first of them is WaitUntilElementExists. It loops and checks if an element is displayed in the DOM. If an element does not become visible within a timeout interval, an exception is thrown. In line 18 this function is used to wait while http://thecodinglove.com/ link appears on the webpage.
As soon as a link appears on the page, we can click on it and wait while the page is loaded. Then, we can check if the correct page was loaded by finding one of the known elements on the web site. If the correct page was loaded - the test was successful.
Sometimes we need to wait until an element disappears. For example, if we are testing a pager functionality and we are on the last page, we have to check if the pager`s Next button disappears. We can't use WaitUntilElementExists inversion because at the very first check the element might still exist and the function might fail. We need to continue checking for a certain period of time, and check if the element disappears during that period. A WaitUntilElementNotExists method is implemented for such a check.
Using automated UI tests with extra scenarios steps.
Adding test records directly into a database.
Data entries can be prepared manually through project UI. In this case, a database should be restored before each test run.
The first option is very time consuming and expensive. It's only worth using when validating if an entity creation form works correctly. All other times when a data test is required, inserting data directly into a database is a better option. To make this easier, a fluent interface can be incorporated.
Alternatively, there is a third option that can be used. Test data can be prepared manually with a website. In this option, the database should be backed up and restored before each test run. This option requires accessing website databases and changing them with new ones. Furthermore, it would be hard to maintain different versions of databases. Not to mention, running tests in a real environment may be impossible.
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Q: Using AT TIME ZONE to get current time in specified time zone I am trying to use the new AT TIME ZONE syntax in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL. I'm just trying to get the current time in London as a datetime, adjusted for daylight saving. At the time of running all of the commands below, the time in London was 3.27am.
The first step is to get a datetimeoffset, which I can successfully do as follows:
DECLARE @dto datetimeoffset
SET @dto = (SELECT GETUTCDATE() AT TIME ZONE 'GMT Standard Time')
SELECT @dto

This returns a value as I would expect:
2016-04-04 02:27:54.0200000 +01:00

Next, I want to convert that to a datetime, which is what my applications expect. I've tried three different approaches, none of which give me the result I'm looking for:
SELECT SWITCHOFFSET(@dto,'+00:00')
-- Returns 2016-04-04 01:27:54.0200000 +00:00

SELECT CONVERT(datetime, @dto)
-- Returns 2016-04-04 02:27:54.020

SELECT CONVERT(datetime2, @dto)
-- Returns 2016-04-04 02:27:54.0200000

I feel like I'm missing something obvious - is there an easy way to take a datetimeoffset and return just the date/time part at that offset?

A: Since I was unable to find this anywhere else I thought I'd share. You can get the offset in minutes by using datepart (tz) with AT TIME ZONE.
datepart(tz,UTC_Date AT TIME ZONE 'Central Standard Time')

select dateadd(MINUTE,datepart(tz,cast('2018-07-02 17:54:41.537' as datetime) AT Time Zone 'Central Standard Time'),'2018-07-02 17:54:41.537') as CentralTime

returns
CentralTime
2018-07-02 12:54:41.537

A: The first line of your code contains the fault:
SELECT GETUTCDATE() AT TIME ZONE 'GMT Standard Time'

GETUTCDATE() returns a datetime, which has no time zone offset information.  Thus as described in the MSDN documentation:

If inputdate is provided without offset information, the function applies the offset of the time zone assuming that inputdate value is provided in the target time zone.

So, even though you retrieved the UTC time, you erroneously asserted that the value was in London time (which is UTC+1 for daylight saving time at this date).
The easiest way to handle this is to just fetch the UTC time as a datetimeoffset to begin with.
SELECT SYSDATETIMEOFFSET() AT TIME ZONE 'GMT Standard Time'

This invokes the conversion functionality of AT TIME ZONE, which in the docs states:

If inputdate is provided as a datetimeoffset value, then AT TIME ZONE clause converts it into the target time zone using time zone conversion rules.

Consider that if your data actually comes from a datetime field somewhere, you might need to use both parts of the functionality, like this:
SELECT mydatetimefield AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' AT TIME ZONE 'GMT Standard Time'

The first call to AT TIME ZONE asserts the value is in UTC, giving a datetimeoffset to the second call, which converts it to London time.
The output of any of these is a datetimeoffset, which you can cast or convert to a datetime or datetime2 exactly as you showed in your original question.  (Don't use switchoffset for this.)
Also, the Windows time zone identifier for London is always "GMT Standard Time".  It is inclusive of both Greenwich Mean Time and British Summer Time, with the appropriate transitions between them.  Do not try change it to "GMT Daylight Time" - that identifier doesn't exist.  This is also covered in the timezone tag wiki, in the section on Windows time zones.

A: I suggest you only store this as a string and qualify that it is a local time representation, otherwise the time SQL Server stores internally would be the wrong actual/physical time, if the server time is correct, but just not in the same time zone.  It is why you cannot use convert to represent the same because you are actually changing the datetime value from the real time of occurrence and not just re-representing it i.e. Datetime is always stored as UTC, but entered and displayed in the timezone of the server, so if you enter a local time in a datetime field, the server interprets that time as the time in the server time zone and not the actual time of the event, which results in stored time navigation/deviation if the local time is not the same as the server>  Should you then feed the same data to other systems in different time zones, they will have incorrect data and it can get messy.  Store the right value in the datetime field and display it as you wish as a string.


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Xiaomi Mi Play: Everything you need to know
Samrat Amatya
Xiaomi recently launched a new line-up in China dubbed the Xiaomi Mi Play. Although a part of the Mi branding, the phone closely resembles the budget-friendly Redmi series. Being a hybrid of sorts, the phone has a lot more to offer than its asking price of $159. For one, it has the all the new water drop style notch. Including this, here is everything the Xiaomi Mi Play has to offer.
Xiaomi Mi Play Overview
The Xiaomi Mi Play packs a 5.84-inches Full HD (1080 x 2280 pixels) IPS display with a 19:9 aspect ratio. The infamous notch makes a return but in a new avatar! Keeping up with the trends, Xiaomi has switched over to the water drop styled notch. Love it or hate it, the notches are not going away any time soon!
And encasing the internals of the phone is a glass-on-glass design sandwiched by a metallic frame. On the topic of keeping up with the trends, here too Xiaomi has gone with a dual-tone finish glass back. Color options include Dream Blue, Twilight Gold, and plain old Black.
Under the hood, the Xiaomi Mi Play packs an octa-core MediaTek Helio P35 processor along with the PowerVR GE8320 GPU. The SoC is backed by 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. The memory of the phone can be further expanded via a micro-sd card up to 256GB.
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Moving on, at the software front, the Xiaomi Mi Play runs MIUI 10 based on Android 9.0 Pie. And finally powering the device all up is a 3000mAh non-user removable battery. This, without a doubt, will be enough to get users through a day of usage on a single charge.
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The Xiaomi Mi Play price is $159 or CNY 1099 in the international market. The availability, on the other hand, is yet unknown. The same goes for the possible launch in Nepal! We are still unsure whether or not Mi Nepal will launch this phone. That said, we are hopeful for a possible launch since the water drop notch and the dual-tone finish are lately the biggest craze here in Nepal. Fingers crossed!
So what do you think about the Xioami Mi Play? Do you like what the device has to offer? Do let us know your thoughts on the device in the comments down below. And also don't forget to like our Facebook page and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more tech news like this one.
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Methods: This meta-analysis was carried out according to studies that adhere to inclusion and exclusion criteria during enrolment. The valid Iranian databases included: Medex, Magiran, SID, and Medlib, along with international data bases, namely, Scopus, Pubmed, and ISI were searched to find relevant articles. After determining the heterogeneity between studies, the random effects models were used to estimate pooled survival in leukemia patients.
Results: In total, 18 studies involving 2517 participants were included in this meta-analysis. The pooled 5-year survival rate was 0.56 % (95% CI, 0.54 to 0.58). According to types AML and ALL, the 5-year survival rates in Iran were 35.0 % (95% CI: 32.0-38.0) and 57.0 % (95% CI: 54.0-60.0), respectively.
Conclusion: Based on our findings, slightly less than 50% of leukemia deaths happened in the first 5 years after diagnosis, which is lower than the global average.


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La Mirada approves street repaving
By Mike Sprague | msprague@scng.com | Whittier Daily News
PUBLISHED: March 27, 2009 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 29, 2017 at 12:25 p.m.
LA MIRADA – This city is going to do its part to stimulate the economy.
With the use of federal stimulus money, plus other state bond and gas tax proceeds, the City Council this week approved plans to repave portions of La Mirada Boulevard and Alicante Road.
"There's almost $2 million worth of work that's going to go back into the economy," said Steve Forster, director of public works.
In addition to repaving, money will pay for replacement of damaged curbs, gutters and sidewalks and installation of the handicapped curb ramps on both streets.
Both projects are needed because the two roads are starting to deteriorate, Forster said.
"We've got a lot of cracking, pot holing with curbs and gutters and sidewalks that have been raised by trees," he said.
The work for La Mirada Boulevard will go from Oakwood Lane to Leffingwell Road. Construction on Alicante will stretch from La Mirada Boulevard to Santa Gertrudes Avenue.
The rest of La Mirada Boulevard in the city was repaved last year.
Contracts for both are expected to be awarded in late May or June, Forster said. Work on La Mirada is expected to take about 90 days and half that time for Alicante, he added.
Lane closures are expected during the construction.
"This is going to improve the quality for life for residents," Mayor Susan Tripp said.
"Having a well-maintained street eases people's minds because when the roads look crummy they become concerned about the city," Tripp said.
The Alicante project was supposed to be done earlier this year but had to be postponed when the state stopped its second round of funding from a bond issue state voters approved in November 2006.
But city officials found other money, using gas tax, Los Angeles County sales tax and previously unused state bond proceeds, Forster said.
"We continued to save where we can and identified pots of money we could use," he said.
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Respect people who find time for you in their busy schedule.
But love people who never look at their schedule when you need them.
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Life is short break the rules forgive quickly kiss slowly love truly,laugh uncontrollably,and never regret anything that made you smile .
Never give up on something you really want.It's difficult to wait but more difficult to regret .
Take a sip!! Merry Christmas!
I'm proud of my heart.
Tell them you love them!
Life is kind of like a party.
You invite a lot of people, some leave early, some stay all night, some laugh with you, some laugh at you, and some show up really late.
But in the end, after the fun, there are a few who stay to help you clean up the mess.
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XHaving cows fit and not fat at calving will certainly reduce your incidence of calving difficulty. But will restricting cows pre calving help to reduce the birth weight of calves? Several experiments in Teagasc Grange have looked at this, where the actual quantity of feed offered, or the quality, was reduced. A summary table of one experiment is listed below where two different silage qualities were offered to young cows pre calving.
Be careful not to over restrict cows pre calving. Allowing cows to get too thin will only serve to delay the cow's ability to resume breeding after calving.
Indoor finishing is expensive and therefore a high rate of gain is required to cover feed and other costs. Since feed is the major cost, the relationship between feed cost and the rate of carcase gain is a key factor in determining profit margin. Since most of the animal's feed intake goes towards body maintenance, you only start to recover the cost of feed when the animal begins to gain weight. A high rate of carcase gain is needed to minimise the proportion of feed going towards maintenance and maximise the amount available for carcase gain. For example, the daily feed cost of a 650 kg steer on high quality silage plus 5 kg concentrates is estimated at €2.12, (silage at €144 / tonne DM; meal at €235 / tonne fresh weight). At a daily liveweight gain of 1.0 kg per day and 0.66 kg carcase, the feed cost per kg of carcase gain is €3.20. If the same animal is underperforming at 0.8 kg liveweight per day, 0.52 kg carcase, then the cost per kg of carcases gain increases to €4.08 and so when other costs are added you are likely to be in a loss-making situation.
A decrease of 0.2 kg in liveweight gain would hardly be noticed on a large animal in the absence of weighing but would delay the sale date by about a month and increase the cost of finishing by about €64 / head in feed cost alone.
Assess the spring calvers to see what body condition is like. A cow calving in February/March should have a body condition score of 2.5. Thin cows should be grouped and fed accordingly.
The longer the time between calving and turnout the more pressure the spring calver will be under. Thin cows with average silage will need supplementation with 2-3 kg/day just to help maintain body condition before turnout. First calvers may need to be separated out from mature cows and fed as a group to ensure that they get proper access to feed.
Make sure you are feeding a good quality dry cow mineral at least six weeks pre calving.
The real impact of poor mineral status will be on calf viability. If you are dusting it over the silage you will need to feed 100- 120g/cow/day.
If you have had problems with calf scour in the past then cows should be vaccinated. Depending on the vaccine you should be vaccinating four to 12 weeks pre calving.
Check if you have all the equipment needed around calving. Is the calving jack working properly? Do you need new calving ropes? Have you plenty of iodine, calving gloves, calving gel? Are the cameras in the calving shed working? Have you any frozen colostrum? Do you have a good stomach tube?
Estimated tonnes of feed purchased in 2015.
Any results for soil analysis completed in recent months.
Gather the information now and get it in to the Teagasc office because when calving commences you will be too busy and it may be forgotten or done too late.
If you are exporting slurry every year, your stock numbers have increased or you have less land available then you probably need to apply for a derogation. If you are applying for a derogation for the first time you will need to have soil analysis. Let your adviser know that you will require a derogation plan now so that everything can be done on time.
January is a good month to check your farm for hazards and risks before the busy spring season. The law requires that a risk assessment be updated annually, or when significant changes related to health and safety occur in the workplace. Remember, work organisation is essential to prevent injury, as human factors such as rushing are a major hazard. Challenge yourself: make a list of health and safety issues and tackle them. Risk assessment documents are available from Teagasc, or use the online risk assessment tool for farmers – www.farmsafely.com. Also, can you include the topic on your discussion group's agenda for 2016?
A Teagasc Spring Grazing Farm Walk will take place on the farm of PJ O'Keefe, Callan, Co. Kilkenny on Monday January 25th and on the farm of Conor Beausang, Churchquarter, Grange, Co. Waterford on Tuesday January 26th. Both walks will commence at 11.00am and run for 90 minutes. Teagasc advisers, and researchers will discuss early turnout, fertiliser use, spring rotation planner and grazing in difficult conditions. All are welcome.
Teagasc Forestry adviser John Casey will hold forestry advisory clinics in the Teagsc office Dungarvan on Thursday January 28th by appointment. This is an opportunity to avail of a free one to one consultation, receive independent advice and up to date information on forestry. To make an appointment phone 058 41211.


God sent his son to redeem us not because we deserve it, but because he loves us.
Example of my kids misbehaving and still providing gifts for them on Christmas.
Bring snacks tomorrow for the Wesley House. Prayers for FIA member that was killed by a car.
THE SCENE: Finally dried out. 50s. Couldn't be better.
Don't take your days for granted. If you love your family, if you love your friends, TELL them. Words have power. I love the men of F3, and it's an honor to lead as we push ourselves to be better in all areas of life.
Credit to Creeper for the title.
Patrons covered between 3-4 miles this morning.
Pfeiffer led the Patrons in some ANGC boat/canoes b/c he is a badass.
Lead or Leave. It's pretty simple. Choose leadership. Be humble, be confident, don't be afraid. Don't checkout emotionally or physically.
This was an impressive group of Patrons. Guys got after it. Natural pairings formed. Me and BlueBird kicked it in the last group. It was a beautiful morning.
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1 Chronicles 28:10 = Be careful now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong and do it.
God is calling us as men to be strong – to be determined – to do it. He's called us to build for him, not tear down. I don't feel like I've been strong and have been doing it lately.
That's where this circle doesn't just stay here. Take this encouragement outside of 0530 – 0615.
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I can sometimes lose sight of what I'm working towards. Throughout the year I have to refocus myself because I've strayed from the path I wanted to be on. Whether because of some new shiney thing distracting me off to the side or because I backslid on my habits. I don't have trouble making fitness and fun thing habits. Where I struggle to find my destiny is in work. Sometimes I just feel like I'm on cruise control and not actively thinking, acting and making habits. I think the hardest place to make habits and form our destiny is in the things that we like to do the least. Take some time this week to think of some place in your life you know you need to be taking care of business but haven't been able to shape that destiny by making good habits toward that end. Make a gameplan to get it done.


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Professor Dickinson went to the glass-blowing bench, cut a glass tube of the proper length, fire-polished the ends, put it in the carboy, and it worked as expected. At this point Professor Dickinson complimented me for the idea, and I felt proud of myself but tried not to show it. * * * After receiving a telephone call late in the morning, Dickinson cheehlly told me that my SECRET clearance was approved. At noon, we took an hour off for lunch. Art always went his own way. John had brought his lunch and went across the street to Tournament Park, to toss soft balls as practice.
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Popped over to Koskela last week to pick up a light for the kitchen (yay), and spied a little letterpress exhibition they have one at the mo. Lets get this straight, I'm no art aficionado. I couldn't really tell you what I "like" or name an artist that has a profile in Australia, beyond the big hitters (is this the moment I should confess I even studied art history at uni?). So I guess like most, I just wait for art to strike me down. And this did. Perhaps it helped that there was coffee and cakes in the immediate vicinity, took the pressure off.
So the idea behind these designs is that a group of cool cats – The Hungry Workshop – invited a group of equally hep cats, the likes of Beci Orpin and Georgia Perry (even I know who those ladiez be), to produce designs. An eye – a single gaze, was the only set point for each work. Then they overprinted the beauties on their fancy letterpress machines and instead of a giant mess, they got these wonders.
Rad, right? I think part of the appeal for me is that nostalgic memory of going ape with the spirograph. It might also be the neon pink and aqua colourway.
Also, they're not ludicrously expensive: this is art I could possibly even own. Although knowing my luck, Mr B will detest. And so that joyous conversation will begin.


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Q: Android : making a camera activity I am following this guide to make my camera activity. Following is the code for an activity made for the user to open the camera and click a picture:
public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private static final String TAG = "MainActivity";

private Camera mCamera;
private CameraPreview mPreview;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    if(checkCameraHardware(this)) {
        mCamera = getCameraInstance();
    } else {
        Log.d(TAG, "Check camera hardware is false");
    }

    if(mCamera == null) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Camera is null");
    } else {
        Log.d(TAG, "Camera isn't null");
    }

    mPreview = new CameraPreview(this, mCamera);
    FrameLayout preview = (FrameLayout) findViewById(R.id.camera_preview);
    preview.addView(mPreview);
}

    private boolean checkCameraHardware(Context context) {
        if (context.getPackageManager().hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_CAMERA)){
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    public static Camera getCameraInstance(){
        Camera c = null;
        try {
            c = Camera.open();
        }
        catch (Exception e){
            Log.e(TAG, e.toString());
        }
        return c;
    }

And this is the CameraPreview:
public class CameraPreview extends SurfaceView implements SurfaceHolder.Callback {

private SurfaceHolder mHolder;
private Camera mCamera;
private static final String TAG = "CameraPreview";

public CameraPreview(Context context, Camera camera) {
    super(context);
    mCamera = camera;

    mHolder = getHolder();
    mHolder.addCallback(this);

    mHolder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS);
}

@Override
public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder) {

    try {
        mCamera.setPreviewDisplay(holder);
        mCamera.startPreview();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Error in setting the camera preview: " + e.getMessage());
    }
}

@Override
public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder holder, int format, int width, int height) {
    if(mHolder.getSurface() == null) {
        return;
    }
    try {
        mCamera.stopPreview();
    } catch (Exception e) {

    }

    try {
        mCamera.setPreviewDisplay(mHolder);
        mCamera.startPreview();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Error in starting camera preview: " + e.getMessage());
    }

}

@Override
public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder holder) {

}
}

On running the app the following error is displayed:
FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.example.prakhar.camerainterfacesample, PID: 13275
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.hardware.Camera.setPreviewDisplay(android.view.SurfaceHolder)' on a null object reference
at com.example.prakhar.camerainterfacesample.CameraPreview.surfaceCreated(CameraPreview.java:34)
at android.view.SurfaceView.updateWindow(SurfaceView.java:580)
at android.view.SurfaceView$3.onPreDraw(SurfaceView.java:176)
at android.view.ViewTreeObserver.dispatchOnPreDraw(ViewTreeObserver.java:944)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1970)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1061)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:5891)
at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:767)
at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:580)
at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:550)
at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:753)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5300)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:904)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:699)

Line 34 is:
mCamera.setPreviewDisplay(holder);

The manifest file is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.prakhar.camerainterface">

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
    <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:supportsRtl="true">
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity"></activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

Where am I going wrong?


Chipotle ( CMG - Get Report) target price cut at Deutsche Bank to $105 from $110 following slight quarterly miss. Maintained hold rating.
Chipotle upgraded at Baird from neutral to outperform with a $140 price target. Would use post-earnings weakness as a buying opportunity. Upward bias to 2008 expectations.
Esterline Technologies ( ESL initiated at Jefferies with a buy rating. Price target starts at $58 and fiscal-year 2008 EPS estimates begin at $3.15.
Fluor ( FLR - Get Report) upgraded at UBS to buy rating from neutral. However, price target dips to $153 from $165 and fiscal-year 2008 EPS estimates hold at $5.45.
Gamestop ( GME - Get Report) upgraded at UBS to buy from neutral. Price target and fiscal-year 2008 EPS estimates hold at $64 and $5.45, respectively.
Gen-Probe ( GPRO downgraded at Weisel from overweight to market-weight. Pipeline visibility has decreased, and revenue growth is slowing for the third straight year. Estimates also cut. $65 price target.
Senior Housing ( SHN upgraded at UBS to a buy rating from neutral. Price target lifts to $25 from $24 and fiscal-year 2008 EPS estimates upped to $1.77 from $1.71.
Viacom ( VIA upgraded at UBS to a buy rating from neutral. Price target holds at $48 while fiscal-year 2008 EPS estimates lift to $2.62 from $2.60.
Weight Watchers ( WTW - Get Report) upgraded at Oppenheimer from perform to outperform. Company has high margins and generates consistent cash flow. $54 price target.
Allied Waste ( AW estimates raised at Deutsche Bank by 2 cents to 93 cents a share to reflect new guidance. Maintained buy rating.
Goodyear Tire ( GT - Get Report) target price cut at Goldman to $28 from $32. See increasing concerns over deteriorating macro environment and materials costs. Although fourth-quarter earnings came in ahead of expectations, raw materials prices are tracking almost 10% higher already this year. Maintained neutral rating.
Ingersoll-Rand ( IR - Get Report) estimates cut at Deutsche Bank to $4.50 a share to reflect inclusion of Trane into earnings model. Maintained buy rating.


Today I have been revisiting my Collector quilt project, and appreciating how such simple blocks can still be so beautiful. This quilt is all about the fabrics, of course. The first four are all Kaffe.
I have been using translucent vellum to foundation paper piece these blocks, which makes centering all the motifs a breeze! Normally I hate fussy cutting, but this way it's fun.
I'm not sure why this quilt has been languishing so long, but I think it is just "out of sight, out of mind." Anyway, now the last 10 square-in-a-square blocks are done, and it's on to the sawtooth stars.
Oh, wow. I am anxious to see this one completed. I love it. The Kaffe, black on white, square in a square, precision piecing! It's all great.
Thanks very much, Mary Ellen. :D I intend to at least get the flimsy done soon. The quilting plan is still up in the air.
Great blocks Monica and I love the look of those melon ones too.
Great fabric, nice blocks. The quilt is going to look stunning. Well done!
Love your fabrics. This is going to look great!
Thank you, and thanks for stopping by, Anne!


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College Basketball|Ex-UNC Women's Basketball Coach Charged in Pedestrian Death
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Ex-UNC Women's Basketball Coach Charged in Pedestrian Death
DURHAM, N.C. — The former women's basketball coach at the University of North Carolina has been charged in connection with an accident that killed an elderly pedestrian, police said Friday.
Durham police said in a news release that Sylvia Hatchell, 67, was cited for misdemeanor death by vehicle and unsafe movement violation.
Betty Colby, 89, was struck by a vehicle about noon Monday in the parking lot of a fitness center, police said. The impact knocked Colby backward, and she hit her head on the pavement, investigators said.
Colby died Wednesday, according to the news release.
Investigators also said that neither speed nor impairment were factors in the accident.
Hatchell resigned as women's basketball coach last April after an external review found she had made "racially insensitive" comments and applied "undue influence" regarding players' ability to compete through medical issues. The review conducted by a Charlotte law firm also revealed "a breakdown of connectivity between the players and Hatchell" after 28 interviews of current players and program personnel.
Hatchell didn't immediately return a text message from The Associated Press on Friday night. Wade Smith, an attorney who has worked with Hatchell previously, responded to a text from the AP that he hadn't been in contact with Hatchell. He offered no additional comment.


According to WHO, of the 529,000 maternal deaths occurring every year, 136,000 or 25.7 percent take place in India.
"In fact, two-thirds of maternal deaths occur after delivery, postpartum hemorrhage being the most commonly reported complication. The incidence of emergency postpartum hysterectomies is about 83/100,000 with a maternal mortality of 17.7 percent and a perinatal mortality of 37.5 percent," said a WHO statement.
Postpartum bleeding or postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is defined as loss of more than 500 ml or 1,000 ml of blood within first 24 hours of child birth.
As a result of high PPH incidences in India, it is unlikely that the country will achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 focused on reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health care.
"The latest estimates of maternal mortality rate (MMR) in India from 2011-13, show an average of 167 deaths/100,000 live births. The same estimates also demonstrate that wide geographical disparities persist. The highest MMR can be found in Assam (300) and the lowest in Kerala (61)," said the statement.
According to WHO, blood is in chronic short supply in India which stipulates that every country needs at least a one per cent reserve.
"India, with its population of 1.2 billion people, needs 12 million units of blood annually but collects only nine million – a 25 percent deficit. Globally, there are innovations in the field of patient blood management, whereas in India awareness on the management has been overlooked thus far," said the statement.


The 2013 Full-Time MBA Ranking published by the Financial Times will no doubt grab headlines for the return of the Harvard Business School to the #1 spot for the first time in 8 years.
Arguably the most influential business school in the world, Harvard ranked #1 for the first two years of the FT MBA ranking back in 1999 and 2000, and then shared the top position with The Wharton School in 2005. It has featured in the top 5 every year since the FT ranking began, and this year pushes Stanford GSB down to the #2 position.
So who are the other winners and losers in the 2013 FT MBA ranking?
It looks like another year when US business schools are on the rise, accounting for 6 places among the top 10, and 51 business schools among the 100 that feature in the ranking. Among the top 25, Chicago Booth, UC Berkeley Haas, Northwestern Kellogg and the Tuck School of Business all moved up the table by 2 or 3 places, but the biggest winners this year are the Yale School of Management, which climbed 6 places to #14, and UCLA Anderson which rose 9 places to #23.
Further down the list, where the tightly clustered results of the ranking often lead to bigger swings from one year to the next, the University of Illinois Urbana and UNC Kenan-Flagler achieved double digit improvements to move them into the top 50, while UC Irvine jumped 27 places to #54 and Babson College moved from the bottom of the top 100 to #80.
Of the 10 business schools that did not make the FT's top 100 last year, Tulane University made the highest new entry in 2013, ranking #81. Among the biggest losers however was the University of Minnesota, which in 2012 ranked #72, and fell out of this year's table. Seven other US business schools suffered the same fate, while Penn State, Boston College and USC Marshall suffered drops of more than 20 places, with career progress and alumni salaries influencing their downward moves.
European business schools had a mixed year, particularly those from the UK. While the London Business School ranked in the top 5 for the 10th time, other UK business schools mostly struggled, with 5 schools falling out of the top 100, and several others such as Oxford's Saïd School of Business losing ground. The big success story however belonged to rival Cambridge Judge, whose strong graduate salaries helped the school to climb 10 places to #16. The University of Bath's School of Management was also one of the highest new entrants, placing at #72.
Among the Spanish business schools, IESE consolidated its top 10 position with a rise of two places to #7, while nearby Esade jumped 11 places to #22. But Swiss school IMD continued the slide witnessed in The Economist and BusinessWeek last year, with a 6 place drop to #19.
Further down the table, the most unexpected result came from Portugal's Lisbon MBA. Previously unranked, the school entered the FT ranking at #61, ahead of TiasNimbas of the Netherlands and Germany's Mannheim Business School, which also entered the ranking for the first time at #64 and #69 respectively. Ireland's UC Dublin also posted a strong result, jumping 22 places to #64. Though Spain, Portugal and Ireland are among the countries most closely associated with the Euro Crisis, the performance of their schools suggests that they remain good destinations to learn about business.
After several years of growing influence, a number of Asian business schools came unstuck in the FT's 2013 ranking. This was particularly true for institutions from India. The IIM Ahmedabad slumped 15 places to #26, while the Indian School of Business experienced a similar fall, losing 14 places to #34. The Asian winner was Shanghai-based CEIBS, which rose 9 places to make the the top 15. And with HKUST firmly among the world's top full-time MBAs at #8, the University of Hong Kong climbing 6 places to #31, and Fudan University entering the ranking at #89, China had a good year, with only Peking University Guanghua moving downwards.
2013 also saw the continued rise of South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University GSB which climbed 15 places to #51, and the entry of Korea University Business School at #86.
Elsewhere, the business schools of Singapore and Australia struggled. The National University Singapore fell 13 places to #36, while the Australian School of Business dropped 7 spots to #48 and Melbourne Business School crashed out of the top 50 with a 16 place fall to #62.
And finally the business schools from BRICS countries beyond India and China failed match the level of influence of their fast growing economies. Brazil's Coppead slipped down from #51 to #66, while the University of Cape Town saw a fall of 20 places to #74. The FT is yet to include a Russian business school in its full-time MBA ranking.
So as with every year, the delight of students, alumni and staff whose schools have risen in the FT this year will be matched by the disappointment of others whose schools have fallen. An MBA50.com survey shows that the FT is considered to be the most influential of the various media MBA rankings, with almost one-third of the votes.
Though the FT provide some fascinating data beyond the overall results, whether about diversity, international credentials, value for money or careers, neither this nor any other media ranking can really tell you if a particular MBA is the right fit.
Only you can work out the best business school in the world… for you.


MBFWA / Miss Unkon & Dylan Cooper — Journal by jysla kay.
I'd like to let the pictures speak for themselves, rather than give you my long opinion on each collection from the week (because let's face it, I wouldn't listen to me either), but I will say that Dylan Cooper's dresses were a sight to behold. Beautiful, flattering, ladylike silhouettes and modest hems are a refreshing take on spring/summer.
Miss Unkon was all about sweet, flirty pieces and back detail. Top two favourites from the collection were the white dress with draped open shoulders and the mint-coloured pleated shorts. I really wouldn't mind having those in my wardrobe. Not one bit.


January 2018 has been a time of planning and budgeting. It is hoped that the year 2018 will be as fruitful as have been the years past. It is also hoped that partners, well-wishers and supporters will continue rendering their unceasing support. This year, FVM is focusing on some health initiatives, in particular HIV/AIDS and non-communicable disease programs. Malawi, just like most Sub-Saharan countries faces so many health challenges. Healthy people are the only assurance of continued social and economic development within a nation. Please join the team in such exciting noble tasks.
More than 400 young people in secondary schools and colleges were reached with the Good News through Student Christian Organisation of Malawi (SCOM), an old partner organisation in reaching out the student world with the message of hope.
Volunteers of our preschool program were trained in various areas of child growth and got necessary skills to help them foster child development.
More than five hundred people were entertained with football and netball matches in Nandolo Area where a trophy and some cash prizes were given to the teams that participated. FVM Canada uses sporting activities to gather young people together in active participation, while at the same time using the opportunity to address issues such as early marriages, HIV and AIDS awareness, and education in relation to harmful cultural practices. Sports brings healing in all dimensions of life such as mentally, socially, physically and psychologically.
This past month 16 women and one man graduated from a three year training in basic tailoring skills and were awarded with certificates by FVM. They have formed four groups of four people to start generating some money for their groups while sharpening their skills.
Newton with a woman who made his shirt!
Rains started at a promising note in November, 2017 and crop was quite promising especially in the Southern Region of Malawi. However, drought of over 40 days scorched the crops thereby causing a threat to food security. Ministry of Agriculture is assessing the damage but obviously there will be hunger from March this year. The expected harvest will definitely be less than expected average. Please pray for the harvest and that enough food will be provided.