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78% of students are concerned about paying rent, says Threshold
Ali Condon
Over three-quarters (78%) of Irish third level students are worried about their ability to pay rent ahead of the new academic year.
A survey showed half of students did not have their deposits returned when forced to leave their rented accommodation at the beginning of the lockdown.
This new research from the national housing charity Threshold, which was published Thursday in conjunction with the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), found that 45% of students have been asked to pay more than one month's rent in security deposits.
Over three-quarters (78%) of Irish third level students are worried about their ability to pay rent ahead of the new academic year. Pic: Getty Images
Meanwhile, 21% of those seeking accommodation for the new academic year have been asked to pay four months' rent or more in advance.
Chairperson of Threshold Aideen Hayden said of these findings: 'When universities closed and exams were cancelled, many students were forced to move out of their accommodation, with little opportunity to retrieve their belongings.
'Our new survey on the impact of COVID-19 on students shows that 49% of students did not have their rental deposits refunded when they were forced to vacate their student accommodation.'
Meanwhile, 21% of those seeking accommodation for the new academic year have been asked to pay four months' rent or more in advance. Pic: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
Ms Hayden insisted that there is an urgent need for the introduction of a legal definition of rental deposits, and to implement a Deposit Protection Scheme that would see deposits lodged with an independent third party.
'Given that a Deposit Protection Scheme is already legislated for, we would urge the government to take action in implementing it as soon as possible.'
Meanwhile, USI President, Lorna Fitzpatrick said: 'Many students are getting information about timetables in dribs and drabs from their institutions, which leaves them in very uncertain positions over their accommodation needs.
'USI recently called on the government to introduce legislation for emergency provisions to ensure student renters are not hit by a repeat of what happened in March.'
'Given that a Deposit Protection Scheme is already legislated for, we would urge the government to take action in implementing it as soon as possible.' Pic: Getty
'The practice of looking for more than one month's rent upfront leaves students in a very difficult situation. It should not happen any year, but this year many students have lost their jobs because of the pandemic and are in even more trying financial positions.
'Research in relation to COVID-19 carried out by the USI earlier this summer shows that 60 per cent of students are "concerned," "very concerned" or "extremely concerned" about their ability to manage financially over the next year; asking for so much money upfront is extremely unfair.'
With this new information, Threshold has three key asks for the government with regard to rental deposits: to legally define a rental deposit, to limit rental deposits to the value of one month's rent, and to implement a Deposit Protection Scheme.
Threshold has three key asks for the government with regard to rental deposits. Pic: Getty
The group is calling for the government to write into law a clear definition of a rental deposit to ensure there is transparency for both landlords and tenants as to the payment and return of deposits.
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SEFS11 Regular session
Alphabetical list of the SEFS11 Regular session topics with respect to object organisms, habitats and method of approach:
1. Algae
2. Climate change and freshwater ecosystems
3. Conservation
4. Ecological modelling
5. Ecotoxicology and stress responses
6. Fish (and other vertebrate) biology
7. Freshwater science in policy, management, monitoring and restoration
8. Groundwater and subterranean habitats
9. Hydromorphology, hydrology, hydrogeology, hydrochemistry
10. Interspecies interactions
11. Invasive species
12. Karst
13. Lakes, reservoirs and ponds
14. Large rivers
15. Invertebrates
16. Macrophytes
17. Microbial ecology
18. Molecular ecology, phylogeny and evolutionary studies
19. Plankton
20. Surpassing aquatic boundaries
21. Streams
22. Taxonomy and systematics
23. Urban freshwaters
SEFS11 Special session
SS1. Science and management of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: a European perspective
SS2. Aquatic metacommunities: research and applications
SS3. Hydrology, biogeochemistry and ecology of mountain freshwaters
SS4. 10 th UAMRICH (Use of algae for monitoring rivers and comparable habitats)
SS5. Understanding cross-habitat linkages between stream and riparian zones to optimize management of biodiversity and ecosystem services
SS6. Linking natural and social science in freshwater ecosystems
SS7. Linking habitat heterogeneity, biofilm diversity and biogeochemistry across spatiotemporal scales
SS8. From source to sea – characterization and utilization of organic matter from different sources along the aquatic continuum
SS9. Research needs for European water and nature directives
SS10. Balkan rivers, be dammed!
SS11. Nature based solutions for urban streams
SS12. Mesocosm approaches to ecosystem-scale questions in freshwaters
SS13. Spring habitats: research, assessment tools and conversation efforts
SEFS11 Special session description
1. Science and management of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: a European perspective
Convenors:
Thibault Datry, IRSTEA, Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, France
Gabriel Singer, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
Rachel Stubbington, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Daniel von Schiller, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Petr Pařil, University of Brno, Czechia
Much the European river network is composed of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES). Intensified research in recent years has shed new light on IRES ecology, which have been overlooked by freshwater scientists for too long. IRES contribute substantially to catchment-scale biodiversity and biogeochemsitry and provide important ecosystem services. In response to growing academic interest, IRES are now also receiving increased attention from water resource managers, notably within the context of the Water Framework Directive. Building on the development of the COST Action SMIRES (www.smires.eu), this special session will present the latest European research on IRES ecology in the context of global change, to inform advances that address the challenges of managing these ecosystems.
2. Aquatic metacommunities: research and applications
Núria Bonada, FEHM group (Freshwater Ecology, Hydrology and Management), University of Barcelona, Spain
Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles, FEHM group (Freshwater Ecology, Hydrology and Management), University of Barcelona, Spain
Tibor Erős, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Tihany, Hungary
The metacommunity framework is helpful to understand how regional freshwater biodiversity is shaped by a combination of biological traits and environmental and landscape filters. However, this rapidly evolving field faces many methodological challenges. For example: 1) quantifying the species' dispersal abilities by considering life history and morphological traits; 2) measuring the resistance to dispersal imposed by all the landscape barriers (e.g. hydrological connectivity, topography); 3) taking into account spatial and temporal variability. The potential applications of this framework are still being explored. For example, biomonitoring tools could benefit from incorporating species' dispersal abilities and landscape configuration to provide more realistic indicator values. Also, understanding the main routes for the exchange of species among local communities can be useful for planning biodiversity conservation. Here we will explore new methods and recent findings in metacommunity research, and discuss its potential applications within the frame of global change and the freshwater biodiversity crisis.
3. Hydrology, biogeochemistry and ecology of mountain freshwaters
Sophie Cauvy-Fraunié, IRSTEA, Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, France
Georg H. Niedrist, University of Innsbruck, SIL-Austria
Though high mountain freshwaters are generally referred as pristine and remote hydrosystems, they have been and will be affected by multifaceted direct anthropogenic pressures combined with the effects of the ongoing climate change. Water is stored in mountain watersheds during cold seasons, ensuring the availability of high quality water during summer when supply is dropping and demand is highest in lowland areas. However, mountain regions are facing unique challenges through the interaction of both indirect and direct anthropogenic stressors resulting from climate- and land-use change, such as glacier retreat or water abstraction for hydroelectric power productions, which will affect waters quantity and quality, with drastic consequences on freshwater ecosystems. This session will examine hydrology, biogeochemistry, and ecology of mountain freshwaters in relation to ongoing and predicted environmental changes in different regions worldwide and will provide monitoring-, mitigation- and adaptation plans for water management in the future.
4. 10 th UAMRICH (Use of algae for monitoring rivers and comparable habitats)
Marco Cantonati, Museo delle Scienze – MUSE, Trento, Italy
Aleksandra Zgrundo, University of Gdańsk, Poland
The International Symposia on the "Use of Algae for Monitoring Rivers" date back to 1991, and since then offer an opportunity to review and discuss algae-based monitoring approaches in different countries, as well as improvements to approaches, methodologies, and techniques. The main aim of these Symposia has been the standardization of methods, the improvement of legislation and directives, and the discussion of novel approaches. We think that the topic of these symposia is particularly timely nowadays when discussion and revision of algae-based environmental assessments is a "hot topic" both in the EU and in the USA, and metagenomic methods and approaches are emerging. Selected papers presented at the UAMRICH2019 SEFS Special Session Symposium and other excellent solicited or unsolicited contributions on the topic may be included on a Special Issue on the topic proposed to Ecological Indicators.
5. Understanding cross-habitat linkages between stream and riparian zones to optimize management of biodiversity and ecosystem services
Brendan G. McKie, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Stream-riparian networks are key components of green and blue infrastructure that underpin landscape integrity, support biodiversity, and sustain human societies. However, these networks are subject to multiple human pressures which affect longitudinal and lateral connectivity, drive habitat and diversity losses, and threaten ecosystem services. This special session will combine presentations from the BiodivERsA project "Understanding cross-habitat linkages between blue and green infrastructure to optimize management of biodiversity, ecosystem services and multiple human uses (CROSSLINK, www.slu.se/Biodiversa_Crosslink), with additional presentations from selected speakers working on related research outside CROSSLINK. The session will focus on how riparian buffers in urban and agricultural settings affect biodiversity, ecosystem processes, and transfers of polyunsaturated fatty acids from stream to riparian food webs. The session will include presentation of results from CROSSLINK field studies conducted in Norway, Sweden, Belgium, and Romania, and will address challenges in balancing multiple values, uses and needs in riparian-stream networks.
6. Linking natural and social science in freshwater ecosystems
Sonia Herrero, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Stechlin, Germany
Susanne Stephan, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Stechlin, Germany
Cleo Stratmann, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands
Mandy Velthuis, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
Aquatic ecosystems are prone to be altered by human-driven actions. As a basis for the sustainable preservation of ecosystems and the services they provide, cooperation between social and natural sciences is of special importance. Studies focusing on the linkage between ecology and societal perception are increasing, as well is the relevance of multidisciplinary collaborations. This session aims to bring together projects that use both natural and social science to study freshwater ecosystems and underline the importance of collaborations of e.g. scientists, managers and citizens. Therefore, we encourage oral presentations and posters on projects on (freshwater) ecosystems with multidisciplinary, collaborative and innovative character with societal relevance. Besides discussing interesting hypotheses, methodological approaches and outcomes, we also want to address the pros and cons that the intersection of natural and social sciences brings along.
7. Linking habitat heterogeneity, biofilm diversity and biogeochemistry across spatiotemporal scales
Ute Risse-Buhl, Department River Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany
Clara Mendoza-Lera, Department of Freshwater Conservation, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Bad Saarow, Germany
Giulia Gionchetta, Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, Spain
Chloé Bonnineau, IRSTEA, Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, France
Stream biofilms are heterogeneous in space and time conforming microbial landscapes. Within these landscapes, physical habitat heterogeneity at the micro-scale shapes biofilm community development by modulating its diversity (structure and composition) and affecting meta-community dynamics. Similarly, micro-habitat heterogeneity can modulate stream biogeochemistry. Nevertheless the link between microbial diversity and biogeochemistry across spatiotemporal scales is not straightforward. Stream biogeochemistry at reach scale may not necessarily match for microbial communities and their function. In this context, the goal of our session is to explore the links between microbial landscapes and biogeochemistry across spatiotemporal scales. The session will address questions like:
Does habitat heterogeneity modulate microbial diversity and function at micro-habitat scale (e.g. EPS production; prokaryotes and micro-eukaryotes community composition)?
Does inter- or intra-biofilm heterogeneity impact biogeochemical stream processes across spatial scales?
To which extent microbial responses to stressors (e.g. physical, climate change, contaminants) observed at micro-habitat scale influence reach-scale biogeochemistry?
8. From source to sea – characterization and utilization of organic matter from different sources along the aquatic continuum
Katrin Attermeyer, WasserCluster Lunz, Austria
Gabriele Weigelhofer, WasserCluster Lunz, Austria
It is now widely accepted that inland waters transform huge amounts of organic matter during the passage from the source to the sea. The organic matter pools in lakes, streams and rivers originate from different terrestrial or aquatic sources, resulting in contrasting reactivity and degradability. Depending on the properties of the organic matter, its transformation within the aquatic ecosystem can differ with consequences for e.g., the transport to the sea or emissions of greenhouse gases. However, the magnitude and mechanisms of transformations of organic matter from different sources are still not adequately quantified and understood, contributing to a high uncertainty in global biogeochemical cycles. In this session, we seek to bring together research that improves our understanding of the processing of both dissolved and particulate organic matter sources along the aquatic continuum. We solicit contributions characterizing organic matter from different sources and their transformation in experimental, modelling, or field studies.
9. Research needs for European water and nature directives
Sandra Poikane, EC-JRC
Antonio Camacho, University of Valencia, Spain
Co-chair: Daniel Morant, University of Valencia
Science is committed both to create knowledge and to respond to the needs of the Society and Citizens to solve practical problems. We, as European freshwater scientists, are supported by the European citizens and it is our responsibility working jointly to allow a better knowledge and sustainable management of water resources and aquatic ecosystems. During the last decades, the EU developed policies aiming to achieve the improvement of management of water resources and to improve the ecological status of European ecosystems. Water and nature directives are inspired by the ecological knowledge generated by scientists, and its future improvement relies on the advancement that freshwater scientists can provide. In this session we aim to highlight which are the main research needs envisaged to increase the effectiveness of the European water and nature directives, as well as to show the knowledge-based solutions that European freshwater scientists can offer.
10. Balkan rivers, be dammed!
Simon Vitecek, University of Vienna, Austria
Sonia Herrero Ortega, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Stechlin, Germany
Marko Miliša, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Pristine ecosystems are the most precious natural heritage that nurses biodiversity, upholds ecosystem function and thus contributes to human well-being. The Balkans still harbour such near-natural areas that moreover are unique models to study biogeodiversity under preserved geomorphology and biogeochemistry and high levels of biodiversity. Because of their immense natural and socio-economic value, these systems are prime targets for multidisciplinary scientific explorations and societal advocacy. Also, they provide essential ecosystem services, such as food, water, transportation and energy. Naturally, increasing demand for these ecosystem services necessitates prudent management to sustainably develop natural resources. The aim of this session is to congregate a diverse community reflecting the complex interfaces of societal demands, scientific and economic interests, conservation planning and political decision-making. Thus, we invite contributions on freshwater biodiversity, aquatic ecology, ecosystem preservation and restoration, and sustainable management of freshwater resources with particular focus on the Balkans.
11. Nature based solutions for urban streams
Tadeusz Fleituch, Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
Nowadays, aquatic scientists and decision makers seek to explore the potential of nature-based solutions (NBS) to address contemporary water management challenges. They focus particularly on water for sustainable cities, disaster risk reduction and water quality. NBS use natural processes to enhance water availability, improve water quality and reduce risks associated with water-related disasters and climate change. The goal of the special session is to find the most appropriate NBS to maximize benefits and system efficiency while minimizing costs and trade-offs. Although NBS are not a panacea, they will play an essential role in the functioning of urban ecosystems and in creating better living conditions in heavily modified urban cities. Humans are an integral part of nature and therefore should live in harmony with it. It is expected that NBS help to improve water security for all kinds of ecological services.
12. Mesocosm approaches to ecosystem-scale questions in freshwaters
Meryem Beklioğlu, Middle East Technical University, Limnology Laboratory, Ankara, Turkey
Stella Berger, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
Lisette de Senerpont Domis, Netherland Institute of Ecology (NIOO), Wagenningen, The Netherlands
Jens Christian Nejstgaard, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
To obtain mechanistic quantitative understanding of aquatic ecosystem functioning and biogeochemical processes, a range of empirical approaches have been used from laboratory to ecosystem scale. Well controlled and highly replicated small-scale laboratory microcosm experiments have been used to relate changes in food webs to altered environments (e.g. biodiversity loss, nutrient and pollutant inputs, climate change etc.). However, their realism is limited and the extrapolation to natural systems is often difficult. The need to minimize these problems has led to development of experiments on larger scales. Large-scale mesocosm (or enclosure) experiments allow a more realistic setting by including a higher complexity in terms of trophic levels, and thus potential interactions. Thus, mesocosms experiments is a powerful approach to obtain such mechanistic quantitative understanding. To this session we therefore welcome researchers to present their ecosystem-scale empirical work where scientific questions about various aspects of aquatic ecosystem functioning has been tested through using mesocosms.
13. Spring habitats: research, assessment tools and conversation efforts
Stefanie von Fumetti, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland
Vladimir Pešić, Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
Natural springs are unique ecotones, which provide special environmental conditions for a highly adapted fauna and flora. In the Dinaric Alps, e.g., many endemic crenobiontic species were described in the past years. Springs worldwide are faced with severe anthropogenic impacts such as water abstraction, relocation, and cattle trampling. Climatic changes threaten springs additionally. Until now, no standard spring assessment protocol exists in Europe as springs are not included in the European Water Framework Directive. The development of global assessment tools and conservation strategies should be a focus of future efforts in order to be able to sustain or even restore valuable spring habitats globally. In this session we will discuss ongoing spring research and will focus on current assessment and conservation approaches worldwide.

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Google Video is NOT the same as YouTube!
Sometimes a common belief about search is just plain wrong. I've told lots of people that the videos found on Google Video (at video.Google.com) are a superset of the YouTube videos, and had them react with an "I didn't know that!"
(Okay. How many of you reading this far had that reaction?? Fess up now.)
The truth is that the videos on Video.Google.com are what Google finds by crawling the net, including video sites like YouTube.com, ABC.com, CBS.com, PBS.org, MySpace.com and so on.
The key thing to keep in mind is that YouTube is video that has been explicitly uploaded to YouTube.
Video.Google.com crawls all the video websites it can find, and gives links to those videos.
In a Venn Diagram:
Generally speaking, you'll find shorter clips of the premium content (think of shows like "Survivor" which exist only on CBS.com -- you can find clips and remixes of Survivor on YouTube, but can't get the whole show).
So when would you use Video.Google.com?
That's easy: Whenever you want to find full-length, professionally produced content and don't know where it exists. Since Video crawls other video sites, you can find out quickly where the original content exists, click through and watch in on the site. For example (to use Survivor again), if I don't know which channel produced the show, I'd just go to Google.com, search for [ survivor ] and click on the Video tab. I instantly find out that it was shown on CBS, and I can go there to watch it.
Since I rarely remember what production company or station has shown a particular show, this is a great way to figure out where it lives... and how to find it.
Learning as you search along: Why learn-as-you-sea...
Answer: Original cranberry sauce recipe?
Search challenge (Nov 24, 2010): What's the origin...
The Google Dictionary (and Wordnik too)
Answer: Where's the shrimp shack?
Wednesday Search Challenge (Nov 17, 2010): Where's...
Operator changes: phonebook: and rphonebook: gon...
How many words should be in your search query?
Answer: Textbooks archive?
Wednesday Search Challenge (Nov 3, 2010): Textbook...


Here is a short little design idea video from Art.com to help you figure out different ways of displaying artwork in your living room.
Looking for living room design ideas? Check out interior designer Steve Justrich's tips for placing art in the living room to truly match this room's mood. When selecting art, sometimes knowing how to get started is the hardest part.
And here is a selection of suggested original paintings on canvas that would look great on your living room wall, gallery style in a grouping, as shown in the video. Click on the images below for all the details.
If you have any questions just contact me, I'm always happy to help.
I've been working on a new series of flower paintings and will be adding them to the shop on April 8th. Can't wait to share them with you, so stay tuned! Follow me on Instagram for previews and all the latest news.


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Brunch: A Quick History & Rise to Ultimate Coolness
What is Brunch?
In word terms, it's the combination of breakfast and lunch—giving rise to the catchy word we've all come to know. After all, it could have been called "lunchfast". It's doubtful this would have taken off.
Some of us officially "do brunch". Some of us don't call it brunch, but we do it nonetheless, at home, as dictated by the diversity of our cupboards on a Sunday morning and the hour of groggy awakening.
Brunch: The Victorian Hangover Cure
That's right, brunch was intended as the original metropolitan hangover cure. Humans and hangovers are ancient friends. Even before we evolved into bipedal creature of ponder, our primate ancestors were making merry on fermented fruit. So it seems ridiculous that it took until 1895 for someone to think up the best meal for the day after.
Eat standard breakfast, and you'll regret it. Wait until lunch, and breakfast seems strange—but also you'll feel woozy. Yet lunch can only follow breakfast?
Cue mealtime maverick Guy Beringer. In the late Victorian era he wrote an article (Brunch: A Plea) for the Hunter's Weekly, advocating that a new meal to be adopted, which he called "brunch".
At the time, the modus operandi of the Victorians, like us, was to occasionally have a few too many stiff beverages on a Saturday night. However, unlike the most of us, their Sunday mornings were spoken for by church.
Upon conclusion of their sermons, it was time for Sunday lunch. For those not regretting their previous night's antics, this would have been a delight—heavy and rich, and requiring a snooze afterwards.
As much as we still love our Sunday roasts, hands up who's had to miss out due to "feeling a little off"? We've all been there.
Berlinger (who it can be assumed was partial to a drink or two) was fed up with this. He proposed a lighter meal, to be enjoyed with friends, an informal social event. Brunch would put everyone in good spirits for the week to come.
Of course, this wasn't solely about hangovers. It was about rebelling against the formality of an era.
Wait—why was brunch first featured in the Hunter's Weekly? Well, it might have taken an unnamed form elsewhere, but Beringer's idea came from hunt breakfasts, an English hunting tradition, with a spread of eggs, meats, fresh fruit, and sweets—a welcome sight after a morning's hunt, and very sociable.
Fast Forward: The Popularity of Brunch
However popular brunch became after Beringer's article, it cannot compare to the behemoth it has become now. Some joke it's the meal of the millennial generation, and who really knows if they're right. Whatever the case, brunch is not only wildly popular, but also considered intensely cool—since it's steady rise to ultimate stardom from the mid 00s—according to Google search trends.
This is thought to have been fuelled by the TV series "Sex and the City" and the character's love of Sunday brunch. Brunch took the mantle as a hip thing, and part of an affluent urban lifestyle.
Brunch has never really disappeared, and even had devoted cookery books in 60s, but its welded place on the hull of society today, is (perhaps), Beringer's vision come to life. Brunch is now standard.
Why is Brunch so Popular?
Brunch is no longer simply a cure for alcohol maladies, but being able to have a bloody Mary or a cocktail during, makes it a socially acceptable way to have hair of the dog. This is one of a few reasons it's so popular—
Another is its slightly nihilistic ambiguity.
Could be morning, could be afternoon. It could be Eggs Benedict; it could be (the classic) smashed avocado on sourdough toast. It could, for all anyone cares be a mix of the two. It could be waffles and fruit compote.
Its vagueness means it's endlessly flexible, suiting many tastes and lifestyles.
Brunch is not a greasy fry up either, it's the forte of people who stay up late, the thinkers, dreamers, creatives, artists, and those with a place to be. It's edgy, and sometimes innovative. Brunch is what people want to be seen eating on Instagram and Facebook.
Brunch in Edinburgh: With a View
You could have super trendy brunch at the back of a bookshop café or maybe in an arts centre. Whilst this is fine, if you're in Scotland's capital you'll be missing out sorely on the best view in town.
Brunch is quite literally elevated at The Tower, Scotland's first and finest rooftop restaurant.
Here we offer a full brunch spread, each dish made with locally sourced, superb Scottish ingredients. Our specialty is eggs; French Toast, Eggs Benedict, Eggs Florentine, Eggs Royale, omelettes, scrambled eggs—you name it.
We also have proper Scottish porridge, natural yogurt with granola, pastries, toast and preserves…and smashed avocado.
Plus, we have a cultured selection of teas and some favourite brunch cocktails, such as mimosas, bellinis, and a couple of our own.
We may be a fine dining restaurant, but our brunch is reasonably priced. Except for the full Tower Breakfast everything is less than ten pounds.
See Our Brunch Menu.
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Q: OpenNi: set Player node for OpenFileRecording I searched on web for this problem but I didn't find a solution.
I'm starting to use samples of OpenNI to develop my application. I have not  much experience with C++: I am a beginner.
I'm using SimpleSkeleton sample of OpenNI 1.5.4 which returns head position. I need it but using an ONI file which I got recording using NiViewer, and not the stream data from kinect.
Searching on web I found:
xn::Context context;
xn::Player player;
nRetVal = context.Init();
nRetVal=context.OpenFileRecording("Myfile.oni",player);
if (nRetVal != XN_STATUS_OK)
{
    printf("Can't open recording file: %s\n",xnGetStatusString(nRetVal));
    return 1;
}

My code enter the if loop, print 'Can't open my file.oni ...' and doesn't continue running.
I think the problem is to set player object. How can I do? Or what have I to do?
Without the lines:
nRetVal=context.OpenFileRecording("Myfile.oni",player);
if (nRetVal != XN_STATUS_OK)
{
    printf("Can't open recording file: %s\n",xnGetStatusString(nRetVal));
    return 1;
}

it runs correctly but use data stream from kinect and not from file.

A: Even if it seems like it's not, this is a path issue.
I had a similar problem, you're either passing it to OpenNI in a way it does no like, or the path is not valid.
How are you retrieving the path? Trying using boost to get the current-directory and then appending the .oni file name to that string

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Facebook outlines its ad targeting strategy on one handy page, presents a complex privacy picture
In this article: ad, ad exchange, ad network, AdExchange, AdNetwork, ads, advertising, datalogix, facebook, facebook exchange, FacebookExchange, fbx, guide, hash, hashes, identity, internet, marketing, opt out, opt-out, OptOut, privacy, security
To say that Facebook has to tread lightly around privacy issues is an understatement, especially with a targeted ad push underway. Rather than navigate that minefield once more, the social network hopes to skip it entirely by posting an overview of how the ad system tracks habits while retaining our anonymity. For the most part, Facebook walks the fine line carefully. Its Facebook Exchange auction system relies on a unique, untraceable browser ID to target ads to specific people without ever getting their identity; both a mechanism targeting ads beyond Facebook and a Datalogix deal to track the ad conversion rate use anonymous e-mail address hashes that keep advertisers happy without making the addresses readable to prying eyes. The initiative sounds like it's on the right course, although there's caveats at work. Opting out of any Facebook Exchange ads requires tracking down individual ad providers, which isn't likely to result in many of us leaving the ad revenue stream. Likewise, those who'd object even to the completely anonymous ad profiling don't have a say in the matter. With those concerns in mind, it's doubtful there will be many significant objections in the future -- Facebook knows its advertising money train can only keep churning if its members are comfortable enough to come along for the ride.
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This accident investigation report refers to the occupational accident that occurred onboard the platform workover rig Pride 14 on 17 June 2002. The rig was being erected preparatory to conducting workover operations. While the derrick was being raised, a gate across the V-door inadvertently opened. The driller, who was apparently braced against that gate, fell backwards, lost his hard hat, and was fatally injured when he impacted equipment on the lower level, 19 feet below the rig floor.
On the morning of May 19, 2000, a contract employee was using a portable of Accident winch (come-along) to remove a section of removable guardrail for the purpose of accommodating the installation of the mounting beams of a temporary crane. One end of the come-along was attached to the section of guardrail to be removed, while the other end was attached to a section of fixed guardrail located approximately 5 feet above the guardrail to be removed. As tension was applied to the come-along, the upper guardrail failed at its base welds and detached from the deck. As a result of the detachment, the employee fell approximately 60 feet to the Plus 10 deck and sustained fatal injuries.
CARISMA had been on a voyage from Slite to Roenne to take a cargo of sand. The ship arrived at Roenne on 25 January 2011 at 2200. As the loading operation was planned to commence the next morning, it was decided not to rig the gangway until visitors were expected. Half an hour after arrival, a part of the crew left the ship to go ashore. Instead of rigging the gang-way they used a pilot ladder that they rigged on the ship side. Shortly after having arrived at the town centre, one of the crew members felt tired and returned to the ship. At 0020 on 26 of January 2012, the seaman was observed struggling in the water between the ship and the quay. Within ten minutes the seaman was safe, but he died later that night at the hospital in Roenne.


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History - Lenin, Bolsheviks, Communist and the Early Soviet Era
SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM, CAPITALISM, LENINISM AND MAOISM
MARXISM, SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM
Socialism is a political system based on the concept that businesses and industries better serve the people if they are owned and operated by the workers and states. The idea sprung up during the Industrial Revolution, when gross inequalities and hardships caused by private ownership, were plain for all to see. In the 18th and 19th centuries a number of "utopian" philosophers offered idealist views of the world based on socialism. The word "socialism" first appeared in a cooperative journal in 1827.
Socialists viewed the profit motive as something inherently evil and selfish; and saw capitalists as evil people who would do anything to keep the wages of workers low so they could enrich themselves and live comfortably while workers suffered and lived in poverty. Socialists were generally regarded as reformers who made socialist reforms within the frameworks of existing governments, preferably democratic ones.
Communism is a extreme form in Socialism in which workers seize control of the government by revolution, and create a "dictatorship of the proletariat" in which there is no private property and the state (and thus the people) own everything. Workers and farmers are organized into communes or communal work units, hence the tern "Communism."
Marxism is the economic, political, and social theories of Karl Marx, a nineteenth-century German philosopher and socialist, especially his concept of socialism. Marxism-Leninism is the ideology of communism developed by Karl Marx and refined and adapted to social and economic conditions in Russia by Vladimir I. Lenin. Marxism-Leninism was the guiding ideology for the Soviet Union and its satellites. Communism is a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxist socialism and Marxism-Leninism. As the official ideology of the Soviet Union, it provided for a system of authoritarian government in which the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) alone controlled state-owned means of production. Communism nominally sought to establish a society in which the state would wither away and goods and services would be distributed equitably. [Source: Library of Congress *]
According to Marxism-Leninism socialism was the first phase of communism. A transition from capitalism in which the means of production are state owned and whose guiding principle is "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his work." Soviet socialism bore scant resemblance to the democratic socialism that some West European countries adopted in the twentieth century. *
See Separate Article KARL MARX AND MARXISM
Capitalism and Adam Smith
Capitalism is regarded by Marxists as a phase that society goes through on its way from feudalism to socialism. According to merriam-webster.com: capitalism is "an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market."
Adam Smith (1723-1790) is regarded as the first person to describe and clarify the basic principals of capitalism and laissez faire ("let it go") market economics. He "was not spectacularly original," wrote historian Daniel Boorstein, "All his intellectual raw materials were at hand—the ideas, the historical examples, even many of his most memorable phrases. But from our perspective he did more than espouse an economic doctrine. He lifted the vision of European man to a new scene. He saw economic well being not as the possession of treasure but as a process...Adam Smith helped his generation rise above the specious proposition that a nation's wealth consisted of its gold and silver....Adam Smith's extensive views gave his book a book a power surpassed by no other modern book. He was the true discoverer of the modern science of economics." [Source: "The Discoverers" by Daniel Boorstein]
Smith was described by some local people in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he lived, as a "well-dressed lunatic." His liked to rub his head vigorously against a wall above the chimney piece and talked and smiled to himself as he walked down the street in a "torturous, wormlike manner," as if "he was in deep conversation with an unseen person." Smith drank tar water to relieve his ailments and often went into trances which one biographer described as "thinker's cramp." Once while giving a talk about the division of labor he fell into a tannery pit full of fat and lime. Another time he put some bread and butter into a pot and poured water over it and then complained it was the worst tea he ever had. Smith was influenced by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, the 13th century theologian John Dun Scotus (the source of the word dunce), and Lord Monboddo (who deduced human being are born with tails). Smith never married and once wrote "I am a beau in nothing but my books).
Adam Smith's 700-page "Wealth of Nations," published in 1776, the same year as the American Declaration of Independence, describes the market economy and capitalism and drew on the works of John Locke and David Hume. Adam Smith was paid £500 for his work by a publisher. That was a considerable sum in 1776.
"Wealth of Nations" begins with a description of the pre-mechanical pin factory. Adam Smith illustrates the division of labor (an advancement from the Middle Ages when many guild members performed a variety of tasks). One man drew the wire, another cut into pieces of equal length, a third sharpened the point and a forth pounded the head (in the Middle Ages one man performed all these tasks in a less efficient manner). The "invisible hand" of large profits for the pin factory owner increases efficiency and guides the process in a way that makes large economies and society function with out a lot of pre-ordained rules. Marx latter argued that class war would ensue when workers alienated by the drudgery of their tasks would rise up against the factory owners. [Source: "History of Warfare" by John Keegan, Vintage Books]
Smith discussed the accumulation of capital, the mercantile system, making profits from stock and described the self-interest motive. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner," he wrote, "but from their regard for of their own self interest". But Smith he did not believe self-interest should be given free reign. He maintained that it should exist with the laws of justice and individual good will. He also condemned monopolies and supported the free trade of goods by removal of artificial barriers.
What is Communism?
Marx and Engels
Dr. Eno wrote: "Communism is a highly optimistic nineteenth century European political theory. When Marx first published his theory it offered the most comprehensive portrait of the past ever developed and, on the basis of that portrait, predicted dramatic changes coming in the future — changes that would benefit all but the wealthiest layer of European society and would, Marx believed, lead to a virtually perfect and lasting world order. [Source: Robert Eno, Indiana University /+/ ]
"When communism was adopted as a revolutionary ideology by leaders first in Russia and then in China and elsewhere, Marx's ideas were reworked to serve the interest of the governing leadership groups of those countries. Because Marxism envisioned both a revolutionary stage and an adjustment period when government would have extraordinary dictatorial powers, these leadership groups were able to manipulate Marx's ideas to strengthen their powers in arbitrary ways — communist ideas became excellent tools for sustaining totalitarian control by a ruling elite. When people refer to communism today, they usually mean the oppressive regimes that have exploited Marx's ideas, rather than the ideas themselves. /+/
"We will have ample opportunity in this course to see the way in which communism has been employed as an oppressive force in China since 1949. This reading is intended to help you understand in a little more depth the original nature of Marx's communism and how the nature of communism changed as it was adapted to the needs of the Soviet government by Lenin, and to the needs of the Chinese party by Mao Zedong. Chinese communism is based upon a three.stage progression of communist ideas from Marx to Lenin to Mao. To understand Maoism and the distinctiveness of Chinese communism, you need to understand the European communism from which it evolved. /+/
Only five Communist countries remain: Vietnam, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and of course China.
Dr. Eno wrote: "Socialism refers to a wide variety of political ideologies which tend to share certain characteristics. These include beliefs that the best societies are those that privilege collective decision making and action over uncoordinated decision making by individuals, that collective ownership of social goods is superior to private ownership, and that in a healthy society, its members care for one another without coercion. Socialisms generally aspire to create a broad community of people in which values and norms of behavior are held by consensus. One strong point of socialistic movements is the impulse to try and create a society that represents and serves all its members equally; one weak point is that the demand for consensus — overwhelming agreement among society's members — often moves from a "democratic" stage which allows majority rule, to a coercive stage where the majority demands value and action conformity of all its members. [Source: Robert Eno, Indiana University /+/ ]
"Marx viewed himself as a socialist and a political activist, but he was skeptical about the fuzzy and romantic ideas of many of the socialisms of his day. His goal was to employ Hegel's models of mankind and history to create a new "scientific socialism," 5 which could form the practical basis for world revolution and the creation of an ideal world community. Marx wrote many books and essays, but much of his thought can be summarized through a few key concepts." /+/
Other Revolutionary Philosophers
Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakunin (1814-76) developed the idea of anarchy, as an alternative to Utopian dream of total freedom. Described as the "apostle of universal destruction," he once lauded Satan as the first revolutionary and said, "Even if God existed it would be necessary to abolish him." In his book God and the State he argued for the destruction of the dominate political system and social order.
Bakunin was sentenced to life in prsion while in Germany, was extradited to Austria, amd was eventually given over to the tsar who imprisoned him for many years. After he was released he moved to London. In 1872, then 58, he was expelled from the First International over a doctrinal dispute with he followers of Marx.
Terrorist Sergei Nechaev justified political assassination "for the good of the cause."
Paris Commune of 1871
Barricades in Paris in 1871
After the Franco-Prussian War, many Frenchmen were outraged by concession given to the Germans, namely the transfer of the capital from Paris to Versailles and the ceding of the iron-rich provinces of Alsace and Lorriane to the Germans. They were also angered by the take over of the government in Versailles by monarchists.
Paris Commune Parisians seceded from France and France was divided into two parts: the Third Republic, with the regular army, at Versailles and the Paris Commune, ruled by working people and the National Guard, in Paris. The Commune hoped to join with other French cities and create a French confederation. Members of the Commune were called Communards.
The Paris Commune, which was evolving into a Communist state, existed for only for two months. It came to an end in May 1871 when the regular army entered Paris, while Prussian soldiers looked on from their positions north of the city, and captured the city in a "bloody week" of barricades and street-to-street fighting. The Communards executed hostages, including the Archbishop of Paris and set fire to the city hall, the Palace of Justice, Tuileries palaces and other government buildings.
The Versailles government retaliated and executed an estimated 20,000 Communards and exiled 7,500 others. Reprisals continued until a general amnesty was offered in 1880. The uprising and fighting left Paris a blackened smoldering ruin.
Fighting at the Paris Commune
Describing the fighting in Paris May 23 after the regular French army entered Paris Archibald Forbes wrote, "The fighting is furious and confusing all around. At the Opera House it is especially strong. I see troops and man after man skulking along the parapets of its roof.".The Federals are now massed at the top of Rue Lafite and firing down towards the boulevards. This must means the Versaillists are on the boulevard below."."They were Versaillists that I saw on the parapet of the New Opera. There is a cheer; the people rush out into the fire and clap their hands. The tricolor is waving on the hither end of the Opera House."
Describing the fighting May 24, Forbes wrote, "The Versailles troops collected about the foot of Ruse Saint-Honoré were enjoying the fine game of Communist hunting." A man is pulled from a carriage. "They yell---the crowd---'Shoot him; shoot him!'.".The stick falls on the frail man in black.".He is down; he is up again; he is down again the thuds of the gunstocks on him sounding.".They are firing into the flaccid carcass now.".His brains spur on my boot."
Describing what remained on May 29, Forbes wrote, "The ghastliest sight" was a hollow "now filled up with dead. One could measure the dead by the road. There they lay.". each successive tier powdered over with a coating of chloride of lime.".Among the dead were many women.
Early History of Communism
In 1889, the International Working Men's Association (also known as the Second International) was held to organize workers in all countries as a way of preventing war. May Day was declared as the international worker's holiday and the red flag was adopted as the worker's flag in commemoration of those who spilled their blood fighting for labor rights.
Communism developed more as response to social upheaval caused by war rather than industrialization. Social chaos produced by war created a climate in which revolutionary movements such as Communism could take root. Communists came to power in Russia during World War I and came to power in China, Vietnam and eastern Europe in the wake of World War II.
Problems with Communism and Socialism
Communism and socialism : 1) described the shortcoming of capitalism but failed to come up with a workable alternative; and 2) as the situation in Communist countries has shown, society becomes corrupt under Communism and fails to grow, workers become lazy and lack motivation in a system based on equality in which there are few incentives to get ahead in life.
The increased misery that Marx predicted were addressed through education social welfare and humanitarian legislation. Trade unions were better able to addressees the problems of workers than communism and socialism.
In the late 1990s, there was somewhat of Marx revival. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto in 1998, in a essay called the Next Thinker in Next magazine, staff writer John Cassidy commended Marx for predicting things like globalization, monopolistic economies and political corruption.
Dr. Eno wrote: "Marx died without seeing a communist revolution, but the first of these came only 34 years after his death, and in a place where he would not have allowed that a proletarian revolution was possible. In 1917, V. I. Lenin led an uprising in Russia that toppled a newly established liberal government, led by members of Russia's small capitalist class, which had itself ousted the aristocratic government of the Czar only months earlier that same year. [Source: Robert Eno, Indiana University /+/ ]
"Lenin had devoted his entire life to the overthrow of the Czarist government, and had for many years lived as an exile in Western Europe. Initially, his revolutionary aims had not been guided by Marxism, but after the turn of the century he adopted Marx's model and became a leading theorist of European Marxism. /+/
"Lenin's original contributions to Marxism stem from one key problem that he faced as a Russian Marxist: Classical Marxism held that a proletarian revolution could occur only in an advanced industrialized state where the bourgeois class had long held power — how could Marxism apply to Lenin's Russia? Lenin responded to this with two key theories, both of which became central to the Chinese communist revolution." /+/
Leninist Theories
Dr. Eno wrote: "Party Consciousness. Russia possessed only tiny classes of factory owners and factory workers. Russia lacked the social structures that could generate proletarian consciousness..there was no place for the key ingredient of revolution to come from. In response, Lenin claimed that Marx was not entirely correct, productive labor was not the only source of consciousness. Consciousness could also be instilled by education — a person could adopt a class world view through a process of persuasion and understanding. Lenin pointed out that all revolutions are led by some members of a class whose consciousness is more advanced than others. After the revolution, the vanguard simply educates those whose consciousness is less developed. Marx himself had anticipated this in his 9 idea of a post-revolutionary "dictatorship of the proletariat," during which the new ruling majority class would "re.educate" the members of the other classes to mold them into the emerging communist society. Carrying this one step further, Lenin said that what Russia needed was a "vanguard political party" that would disseminate Marx's ideas and educate both the small, backward proletariat in Russia and its natural allies in society (such as urban shop workers, street peddlers, beggars, and so forth). The vanguard Communist Party could serve as the source of class consciousness for the revolution. This would allow almost any country to have a communist revolution. [Source: Robert Eno, Indiana University /+/ ]
Lenin giving a speech
"Imperialism and Revolution. Lenin also identified a second agent that could hasten the spread of revolutionary consciousness: Imperialism. Throughout the 19th century, European countries had taken possession of non-industrialized regions of the world and transplanted to these African, Asian, and American societies features of European bourgeois culture and a small quantity of industrial enterprise. Lenin claimed that when the seeds of capitalism were sown into "feudal" foreign environments through a process of coercion and conquest, they spontaneously generated two new types of conflict. First, a new class of native capitalists would emerge and challenge the native "aristocratic" class, and second, anti-imperialist class conflict between alien factory owners and exploited workers would make the new proletarian class "revolutionary" from its very beginnings. Under these conditions the entire process of history would be radically accelerated. The emerging native bourgeoisie, becoming aware of earlier European examples, would soon seek to take control of power in the state by overthrowing the old elite class. And then, as society was in a state of general disruption, a vanguard Communist Party could seize the moment to energize a small but revolutionary proletariat and "piggyback" a communist revolution on the bourgeois revolution. The result would be a lightning.fast succession from feudal to bourgeois to communist state. This is, in fact, very close to what happened in Russia in 1917. /+/
"Lenin's theories were supported by the example of the Russian Revolution and as premier of the Soviet Union until his death in 1924, Lenin became the leader of the world communist movement. During the 1920s and 1930s, the Soviet Communist Party, claiming the powers appropriate to the period of the "dictatorship of the proletariat," engineered an economic transformation of Russian society and the Soviet economy by means of convenient emergency measures, such as the sweeping persecution of political opponents, the murder of landowners and wealthy farmers, and the starvation of millions of recalcitrant peasants. These successes gave Lenin's revisions of Marxism unparalleled influence throughout the world, and in many countries, particularly those which had been subject to the pressures of imperialism, communism was increasingly referred to as Marxist-Leninism." /+/
Mao Zedong, Maoism and the Revolutionary Peasantry
Dr. Eno wrote: "Mao Zedong, who had been among the founders of the CCP, was one of the few Party members willing to address a central fact about China's prospects for revolution: in a land of a half-billion people, the proletarian class probably numbered no more than a million and was concentrated in only one or two eastern cities. There was no realistic prospect that such a class could gain control over China — Leninism was simply inadequate for China. [Source: Robert Eno, Indiana University /+/ ]
Mao in Yan'an in 1946
"Mao proposed an alternative model of a distinctively Chinese form of communist revolution. Mao's idea was that the peasant class in China had for so many centuries endured the oppression of a parasitic landlord class, and possessed such a rich store of hatred and anger towards the wealthy landowners of China, that it was a potentially revolutionary class. (Mao was himself from a wealthy peasant family.) Mao's analysis of China's class structure did not conform to Marx's model of history, which was based on European precedents. For Mao, the two contending classes whose conflict would give birth to the next stage of history were not the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, they were the peasant and landlord classes. Mao believed the Party should be serving as the vanguard of a revolutionary peasantry, and should be instilling revolutionary consciousness not in the minds of city factory workers, but in the minds of rural peasants. /+/
"Prior to 1927, the CCP had viewed Mao as an eccentric among its founders. Marx and Lenin had said that the peasants, who worked individually rather than collectively in factories, were invariably a reactionary class which could never be politically mobilized prior to a revolution. Mao's arguments that the Chinese peasant was a uniquely "blank slate" upon which the outline of revolutionary consciousness could be inscribed with relative ease seemed idealistic and naive to the other founders of the Party. However, Mao had been allowed to experiment with his theories and was dispatched by the Party to the remote hinterlands of Jiangxi to see whether he could mobilize the peasantry.
"Once in Jiangxi, Mao's method for this was to recruit village peasants into the Party and its military corps until he had sufficient manpower to coerce local landlords — generally wealthy families who owned vast tracts of land that they leased to peasants for generations on cruel terms — into giving up ownership of their lands to the peasants who actually farmed the fields. This process of seizing the lands of the idle landlords and giving it to the peasants was called land reform. It was through his program of land reform — from which peasants benefited directly — that Mao wished to recruit peasant support and build a revolutionary peasant army that would ultimately overthrow the oppressive national "landlord" governments of the Nationalists and the local warlords. /+/
"Mao's efforts in Jiangxi had not been particularly successful. It was not until later that he mastered the art of conducting land reform campaigns that would yield solid peasant support for the Party. But when the other leaders of the CCP were forced to flee to Mao's base territory in 1927, Mao's tactics and his charismatic personality were far more forcefully impressed upon the Party membership than had been the case before. /+/
"In the end, Mao Zedong did prevail, Soviet Leninist advisors returned to Russia, and the communist revolution that proceeded under Mao's guidance came to possess the distinctive character of a "communist peasant revolution," which for Marx would have been a contradiction in terms. It is this aspect of Chinese communist ideology and practice that distinguishes it from Marxist-Leninism, and this is why Chinese communist ideology is called "Maoist."
Text Sources: Robert Eno, Indiana University ; Asia for Educators, Columbia University ; New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Times of London, Lonely Planet Guides, Library of Congress, U.S. government, Compton's Encyclopedia, The Guardian, National Geographic, Smithsonian magazine, The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Reuters, AP, AFP, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, Foreign Policy, Wikipedia, BBC, CNN, and various books, websites and other publications.


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Q: displaying data from multiple tables i have 3 table (SalesLog, Breakages, SalesReturn), I want to display data from these table like
ProductName          SalesQty         BreakQty        ReturnQty
ABCD                   1000              10              20

SalesLog Table
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SalesLog](
[SalesID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[MemoNo] [int] NULL,
[ProductCode] [int] NULL,
[Quantity] [int] NULL,
[Price] [int] NULL,
[pGroup] [int] NULL,
[pName] [nvarchar](30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,
[pSize] [int] NULL,
[BillDate] [nchar](10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_SalesLog] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[SalesID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

Breakages Table
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Breakages](
[breakId] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[MemoNo] [int] NULL,
[SalesmanID] [int] NULL,
[ProductCode] [int] NULL,
[pName] [nvarchar](30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,
[Quantity] [int] NULL,
[pGroup] [nvarchar](20) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,
[BillDate] [nchar](10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,
[AddedOn] [datetime] NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Breakages_1] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[breakId] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

SalesReturn Table
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SalesReturn](
[srID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[ProductCode] [int] NULL,
[Quantity] [int] NULL,
[pGroup] [int] NULL,
[MemoNo] [int] NULL,
[SalesmanID] [int] NULL,
[Price] [int] NULL,
[BillDate] [nchar](10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,
[AddedOn] [datetime] NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_SalesReturn] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[srID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

Any help will be appreciated..

A: Select
      pname as ProductName ,
      ProductCode as pc
      Quantity as SalesQty ,
            (select
                    Quantity
             from Breakages
             where Breakages.ProductCode = pc
             ) as BreakQty ,
             (select
                    Quantity
             from SalesReturn
             where ProductCode = pc) as ReturnQty
      from SalesLog;

A: SELECT
    sl.pName,
    SUM(sl.Quantity) as TotalQty,
    SUM(br.Quantity) as TotalBreakageQty,
    SUM(sr.Quantity) as TotalReturnQty
FROM
    SalesLog sl
    LEFT JOIN Breakages br ON sl.ProductCode = br.ProductCode
    LEFT JOIN SalesReturn sr ON sl.ProductCode = sr.ProductCode
GROUP BY
    sl.pName

This will give you total quantities grouped by product name.
As AakashM correctly points out, using inner joins will return only records that have a breakage and a return, so I have changed them to left joins.


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Author Jackson, Wanda, 1937- author.
Title Every night is Saturday night : a country girl's journey to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame / Wanda Jackson with Scott B. Bomar.
Publication Info. [United States] : BMG, [2017]
95th Street Adult Nonfiction 782.42166 JAC AVAILABLE
Description xv, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary Wanda Jackson's debut single, "You Can't Have My Love," reached the Top 10 while she was still a sixteen-year-old high school student. She hit the road after graduation, playing package shows with Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley, who gave Wanda his ring and asked her to be "his girl." With Presley's encouragement, the Oklahoma native began recording rock music, often releasing singles with country on one side and rock on the other during her decade-and-a-half tenure on Capitol Records. Known for her energetic stage shows and pioneering presence as a female artist, Wanda stormed the charts with a series of hit singles. In Every Night is Saturday Night, Wanda tells her own story of getting discovered by Country Music Hall of Famer Hank Thompson; shy she refused to return to The Grand Ole Opry for more than fifty years; the challenges she and her integrated band, The Party Timers, faced in the early 1960s; finding the love of her life; her recent work with rock luminaries Jack White and Joan Jett; and how her deep faith has sustained her over more than seven decades of rocking, shocking, and thrilling audiences around the globe.
Subject Jackson, Wanda, 1937-
Rockabilly musicians -- Biography.
Rock musicians -- Biography.
Singers -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Genre Autobiographies.
Added Author Bomar, Scott B., author.


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It was 50 Years Ago Tonight I Decided to Become an Astronomer
By Chris Carosa on January 27, 2017
Ever since I can remember I loved science. All sorts of science. My mother was a substitute teacher. Before I went to kindergarten she would bring home books from her third grade class and teach me to read. My favorite book was the science text book. I particular enjoyed reading about dinosaurs. When you like dinosaurs, you tend to like fossils and rocks. When you like fossils and rocks, you tend to like volcanoes and earthquakes. When you like volcanoes and earthquakes, you tend to like hurricanes and tornadoes. When you like hurricanes and tornadoes you tend to like weather and atmospheric phenomenon. When you like weather and atmospheric phenomenon, you tend to like planets and stars.
Yep, I liked science. But of all the flavors of science, I liked astronomy the best. Growing up in Buffalo, I just happened to be in luck. In 1966, SUNY launched a pioneer program in what could only be described as one of the first distance learning experiments in the country. Called University of the Air, the pilot program contained only two courses with credite and was available only to the Buffalo and Albany campuses. The courses would be aired on the local PBS station. Now here's the twist: one of those courses was an astronomy course called Eye on the Universe. Channel 17 (WNED-TV) in Buffalo broadcast it under the title "Basic Astronomy" and I watched it religiously. I remember an old man taught it. He was kind of boring. The facts weren't, but he was. There was always a commercial featuring Carl Sagan that asked you to "Give to the College of Your Choice." It was then I decided to go to Cornell. I wanted Carl Sagan to teach me astronomy.
So, did I want to become an astronomer when I was barely six years old? Did I want to become a science before I went to kindergarten?
I was still a kid.
I wanted to become a football player.
You see, the Bills were winning AFL championships back then and everyone treated them with awe. We all wanted to be a leader like Jack Kemp. We all wanted to ground out those tough yards like Cookie Gilchrist. We all wanted to hit with bone-breaking eye-popping power like Mike Stratton. Yep, if you were a kid in Buffalo in the mid-1960s, you wanted to be a football player.
But very quickly my father informed me those football players didn't get paid too much. In fact, they got paid so little they had to find real jobs just so they could live and feed their families. So, no, I didn't want to be a football player anymore. I just wasn't practical. I need to do something I could earn a decent living on. So I decided to be a race car driver.
Race car drivers had to be rich. They had to earn enough money to buy the car they were driving. They had to earn enough money to pay for all those mechanics in the pits that helped them. They had to be rich. So I figured race car driving was for me.
Now, there's something about me that you gotta know. I'm not too different than most people. Most people wouldn't purposely put themselves in harm's way. It's not that we're chicken. It's just common sense. Call it "the survival instinct." Football, besides not paying a lot, could get you hurt. Everybody got hurt, the best players, the worst players, even the guys on the sidelines who didn't move out of the way fast enough when the play came their way. Race car driving, well, nobody was hitting you. That was a safer sport.
Then it happened. I saw a car race on TV and there was an accident. It didn't look that bad, but my father said the driver was killed. I didn't believe it. The next day in the sports page, I brought up a picture of the wreck and showed it to my father. "See, dad," I said, "I was right. He wasn't killed. He was just injured. It says it here right in the paper. 'The driver was fatally injured.' So he didn't die. He was just fatally injured." I don't remember my father laughing when I told him that. I don't remember if he even cracked a smile. What I do remember was that was the day I learned what "fatally injured" meant. That was also the day I quick wanting to be a race car driver. Too dangerous.
So I had to pick a less dangerous career.
That's when I decided to become an astronaut. How cool could that be?! Why hadn't I thought of it before?! I could combine my job with my favorite science – Astronomy! Life couldn't be much better.
Until Part 2 of The Green Hornet Episode "Corpse of the Year." Now, back then, everyone was either Superman or Batman. I, being the budding young contrarian I have become, refused to follow the crowd. There was a new superhero on TV: The Green Hornet. Less campy than Batman, less serious than Superman, The Green Hornet was the happy middle. I watched it faithfully the one season it was on.
Most episodes of The Green Hornet were one-shot deals. None of this "stay tuned for the next exciting episode to see what happens" that had become the hallmark of Batman. Unfortunately, in its short one season span, The Green Hornet had a three two parters. The second one occurred in January 1967. Part 1 of "Corpse of the Year" aired January 13, 1967. In it, someone posing as the Green Hornet, going so far as to even drive a replica of the Green Hornet's Black Beauty, is menacing employees of the Daily Sentinel throughout the night. The cliff hanger ends as the imposter drives up to Britt Reid (i.e., the real Green Hornet), declares he will kill Reid, and fires his gun.
A six year old has only so much patience. We might not be as "immediate gratification" as kids today, but we were close. The following week, January 20th, 1967, the Green Hornet didn't air. We (yes, my faithful little brother, though a confirmed Batman fan, tagged along side me to watch The Green Hornet), has to wait a two full weeks to watch the "exciting conclusion" of this story. Making things worse, we were told to lower the sound on the TV, as our parents were entertaining another couple at the kitchen table just a few feet from the television.
The suspense of the episode was building until, about halfway through, ABC News interrupted the program for a special bulletin. There had been a fire aboard the Apollo launch pad, killing at least one person. As an astronaut in training, this interested me, perhaps a bit more than the fate of Britt Reid. At least they didn't say the person killed was an astronaut. I rose from seat and waddled over to my parents and interrupted them to repeat the announcement, then returned to The Green Hornet, already in progress.
Moments later ABC News broke in with another special bulletin. This one confirmed the dead person was indeed, one of the three astronauts aboard the spacecraft. Once again, I waddled into the kitchen with this update. It was less of an interruption than me initial report. By the time I got back to the TV, The Green Hornet was over and The Time Tunnel had begun.
The Time Tunnel was another one of those series that appealed to young science-oriented youths like me. It also had a splash of real-life history, which was always good, in the appropriate doses, that is. The episode on the evening of January 27, 1967 – "The Walls of Jericho" – had a bit of a biblical theme. We were never able to watch the entire episode. Shortly after it had started, ABC News interrupted the show for more (and final) time. The news was the worst. ABC News was now reporting all three astronauts – Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee – "within seconds" in a fire that consumed their Apollo test capsule. I didn't need to report this to my parents and their guests as they has become silent when they heard the frank "We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin." For the rest of the evening they discussed the tragedy, ABC News discussed the tragedy, and my brother and I, well, I don't remember what he did. I do remember what I did. I crossed off "astronaut" from my career list.
Too dangerous.
I had only one remaining option, but I didn't "officially" choose to become an astronomer until I entered second grade later that fall. On the first day of class I was greeted by a wall-sized Rand McNally map of the solar system. Painted like a 1950s science fiction back-drop, the muted colors called to me like the Sirens of Lorelei (though I wouldn't know what those were until I watched "The Lorelei Signal," the fourth episode during the first season of the Star Trek animated series (air date September 29, 1973).
Those colors. How those colors sang to me. I couldn't resist. I didn't want to resist. Whatever vows a seven-year-old can legally take, I took. From that point on I knew I would become an astronomer.
Postscript: I neither attended Cornell nor became an astronomer (at least in terms of how I earn my paycheck). I did major in physics and astronomy at Yale and I was offered a fellowship to obtain a PhD. in astronomy at Boston College (I turned it down). Why did I choose Yale over Cornell? Simple, my favorite color is blue.
Years later, I obtained a copy of that Rand McNally solar system map.
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Waterfront night-time lifestyle area for Sentosa, with driverless buses
1st	April 2019
A new lifestyle quarter called Siloso Green is set to open in Sentosa, Singapore by the end of 2019. It will feature restaurants, shops, concert and event spaces, and waterfront accommodation.
As part of plans to increase the resort island's night offerings, the project will take over the 24,500 square metre space that Underwater World vacated in 2016.
Bars, food trucks, innovative business concepts and live music under the stars are among the draws of the new attraction, Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC) said in a statement (via The Straits Times).
SDC's chief marketing officer Lynette Ang told The Straits Times that Siloso Green hopes to attract office workers, given its proximity to the central business district.
On-demand transport options
Jacqueline Tan, assistant chief executive of SDC, also revealed that a pilot trial of driverless shuttle buses will be made available to the public later this year.
Visitors will be able to hail the shuttles using their smartphones and travel around Sentosa.
Electric car sharing service BlueSG, which is already available in Resorts World Sentosa, will also be adding more stations around the island.
"These options will provide guests with more on-demand transportation options at night, when the frequency of other transportation options might be lower," said Tan.
"As we build the ecosystem over time, we believe more tenants and private sector partners will be encouraged to align their night offerings with demand."
Southern Gateway of Asia
Major changes are planned for Sentosa, the adjacent Pulau Brani, and the waterfront areas along Tanjong Pagar – with the aim of branding the whole area as the Southern Gateway of Asia.
Plans for the larger area will involve "a lot more opportunities for development into residential, commercial, hospitality and lifestyle", said Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Chee Hong Tat.
"What we're doing here in terms of night activities will support and fit in with the larger long-term plans for the Greater Southern Waterfront. I'm excited by the possibilities, and I think it will benefit visitors when they come to Sentosa, because this will be part of a larger integrated area," he explained.
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The short National Public Radio documentary piece above highlights a few participants from last month's Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S. (Bring Attention to Transforming Teaching, Learning and Engagement in Science) competition, where young rappers from New York public schools showcased original hip-hop performances all centered on one theme: science.
Christopher Emdin, an assistant professor of science education at Teachers College, Columbia University, founded the science-themed rap competition in hopes of engaging students who may not be initially attracted to science.
"Science Genius is about harvesting the power of urban youth culture," Emdin told NPR. "Once they are able to incorporate the arts and their culture into the science content, they take it and they run with [it]."
Jabari Johnson, a senior at Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts in Harlem, N.Y., won this year's competition with his rap performance titled "Quest for Joulery," a play-on-word with joules, the unit of energy. Among his prizes, he won the opportunity to spend a day in the recording studio with GZA, a member of Wu-Tang Clan.
The NPR piece cited a September 2011 study by the U.S. Department of Commerce that found blacks and Latinos half as likely to have STEM jobs as whites. Emdin is hoping programs such as Science Genius will encourage black and Latino students to take an interest in science, providing them with a different approach to understanding and excelling at it.
Emdin isn't the first to experiment with using hip-hop as a teaching tool. Check out this piece about how an educator utilized his students' interest in hip-hop to relate certain history topics and this one on the lessons a successful hip-hop artist can teach educators.


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Around 1900, the Vogtland was considered to be a major musical supplier capable of outfitting entire orchestras and music choirs. Today, prestigious town houses and the mansions of the publishers bear witness of this economically brilliant time. The region's prosperity was established by hundreds of craftsmen throughout the entire region at that time who not only built instruments, but also all related components and accessories.
The handicraft has been preserved, and there are larger manufacturers where the products are still handmade and manual skills are employed, so that they can justly be referred to as instrument makers. The more than 100 professional workshops and medium-sized businesses are happy to open their doors to trade visitors, inviting them into the cradle of the musical instrument industry and giving them insight into their resounding handicraft.
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Professor calls public's lack of civics knowledge 'gobsmacking' during Constitution Day speech
Michael Bielawski / September 21, 2022
LEARN THE CONSTITUTION: Professor Jason Jagemann from Norwich University's political science program said Americans understand what makes the United States a constitutional republic — if they hope to keep it that way.
MONTPELIER, Vt. — A handful of patriotic speakers met at the Statehouse on Constitution Day and shared why Vermonters need to understand and value the document that forms the basis for our nation's laws.
"The Constitution has been under assault for a number of years, and there are things going on right here in Vermont on our own state constitution," Gregory Thayer, a former GOP candidate for Lieutenant Governor, said Saturday at the event.
Thayer was one of the primary organizers of this event, along with Linda Kirker, a former state representative and the co-founder and president of American Conservative Women.
Jason Jagemann, a professor from Norwich University's political science program, was the keynote speaker. He spoke about the importance of the U.S. Constitution and noted that too few Americans know much about it.
"While the United States is the oldest modern living democracy/republic, the paucity of civic knowledge in the United States is nothing short of gobsmacking," he said. "According to a recent Woodrow Wilson Foundation poll, only one in three Americans, about 36%, can actually pass a multiple choice test consisting of items from the U.S. citizenship test, which has a passing score of 60%."
Jagemann added that more than half of Americans don't know which nations fought in World War I, and just one in five understand the reasons why the colonists fought the British during the Revolutionary War.
"Knowledge about the Constitution is not passed down genetically," he said. "We have to be vigilant, we have to learn it — and it must be learned anew by each generation, and it's not simply enough to read and memorize the Constitution. Instead we should try to get the ideas and understand them."
He offered a brief history lesson on some of the problems with the initial U.S. federal government, which existed for 12 years before the Constitution was written and ratified.
"The Articles of Confederation was set up as the structure of the United States government , Jagemann said, "but it was extremely weak and plagued with a number of collective action problems.
"There was no separation of powers, there was only a unicameral legislature (one chamber of lawmakers), there was a weak central government where the states had much power, it was after all a confederation."
Jagemann said these circumstances made basic government functions, such as the collecting of public funds for services or the payments of foreign debts, more difficult without these further revisions.
Jagemann also quoted from that era U.S. Senator Robert Bird, a Democrat from West Virginia who said, "The United States will survive and flourish as long as we know our nation's history and so long as we defend the Constitution and what it stands for. One will not protect what one does not value."
Gerald Malloy, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, made a brief appearance at the podium and said, "We've gotten away from this, and that's one of the reasons I'm running."
Another speaker, Jarrod Sammis from Castleton, a candidate for the Vermont House to represent the Rutland-3 district, noted that the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the Constitution) was "created after a multi-decade struggle against an empire for freedom." He went on to share in the reading the document, along with other participants taking turns.
Kirker offered encouraging words to attendees who showed interest in the Constitution.
"Don't give up, keep your spirit, let your patriotism be known," she said. "We owe it to our youth."
Kirker added: "I've got three great-grandchildren and I'm concerned for their future in this country. I want all to be able to ensure that we're going to leave behind a great opportunity of patriotism and love of country and respect and freedom, rights, and opportunities for our youth."
Michael Bielawski is a reporter for True North. Send him news tips at bielawski82@yahoo.com and follow him on Twitter @TrueNorthMikeB.
Image courtesy of Michael Bielawski/TNR
September 21, 2022 in TNR News.
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12 thoughts on "Professor calls public's lack of civics knowledge 'gobsmacking' during Constitution Day speech"
Melissa Casey says:
Knowledge is power. You see how those who control education have generated more ignorant and complicit citizens than any other time in history. All by design.
Unfortunately teaching American history has taken a backseat to teaching America/White hate, climate
warm mongering, socialistic idealism's, and revised history. The leftist National agenda in public
schools has lost touch with teaching what students need to succeed in life, Arithmetic, Reading,
Writhing, and History most importantly so you don't make the same mistakes over and over…
Ever since Carter nationalized the Education of children under a government Department it has deteriorated down the toilet.. home school or private schools are the only hope.. public schools are lost.
Dano says:
USA Liberal Unionized Education taught in grades K-12 grade F for fail. Same for High School, fail!
These teachers are products of the lib/prog college indoctrination. They can't teach about our constitution because they haven't read it or been taught about it. This is evidence of the dumbing down of the American citizen. I call it the Idiot Apocalypse. The teachers beat the arrival of the zombies, but both are braindead. When I graduated from high school a passing grade was 70%, it's now 60% and before too long it will be 50%. This is all planned. It is much easier to control a nation of idiots!
Jay Eshelman says:
…optimistic.. that is.
Re: "… only one in three Americans, about 36%, can actually pass a multiple choice test consisting of items from the U.S. citizenship test, which has a passing score of 60%."
I suspect this an overly optomistic assessment. I wouldn't be surprised if fewer than one in ten could pass the test.
jeffrey green says:
Socialist Congress Gal AOC, ex bartender…ran & won. She was interviewed…stating that the three branches of Government is the President, the Senate and the House…she had no clue the three branches of Gov't are the Executive, Legislative and Judicial. AND SHE IS IN CONGRESS! Worse, a recent survey showed that the majority in US cannot name the three branches.. Job well done – mission accomplished (the dumbing down of America)… by Union Democrat Agendized teachers 🙂
Marek Brzychcy says:
There are many teachers, school boards and parents that are just as clueless about the Constitution and civics as the students they are supposed to be teaching. The misuse of the word "democracy" when describing our form of government is a prime indicator. Remember Benjamin Franklin's response when asked what form of government was formed by the founding fathers. "…You have a republic if you can keep it."
There is a reason a strong emphasis on civics was done away with over 50 years ago and you are witnessing the sucess of the left's effort today. They play the long game of "Boiling Frogs".
Virginia Duffy says:
"Knowledge about the Constitution is not passed down genetically,"
Many teachers, school boards and parents seem to think that it is. There does not seem to be any effort to teach it.
Or, perhaps, they do not value what is contained in it….
Civics needs to be taught as it was 50 years ago, so that people understand the genius of the Founders, if our republic is to be salvaged.
Government has gotten bigger and more intrusive than that document allows, it is time to fix that.
They are not teaching anything about the Constitution or the Bill of Rights on purpose. It is a big part of the Progressive aka Communist agenda.


A quick and easy 30 minute meal with cheesy mozzarella chicken in a delicious and creamy sun dried tomato sauce over pasta!
Life is just so busy quick and easy skillet meals have become my new BFF. I have started becoming a major slacker lately as school is coming to an end. I honestly hate eating out and feeding my family fast food. So meals like this are just so easy to create and they are incredibly delicious!
This meal has so many delicious ingredients that your family is going to love! It has a creamy cheesy mozzarella sun dried tomato sauce and it is tossed with chicken and pasta. The fresh basil throughout also adds such delicious flavor!
Did I mention this meal is so easy to make?! Oh yeah. It takes less than 30 minutes to have it on your dinner table. My family devoured this. The picky one even ate it, minus the sun dried tomatoes and we all had seconds!
You are going to love this meal just as much as our family did!
In a medium sized skillet add the olive oil and chicken breasts. Season with salt and pepper. Cook over medium high heat until no longer pink in the center.
Add sun dried tomatoes, half and half, mozzarella cheese, basil, red pepper flakes, and water and stir until cheese is melted and sauce starts to thicken.
It can be found in the milk section and it is half cream and half milk.
Very Easy and very tasty. Big Win!
Add some Itialian bread and olive oil dip for an appetizer..
This dish I made for the 1st time almost 2 years ago & it was amazing & we've made it many many times since. If you love pasta you'll absolutely LOVE this. I am obsessed with the sun dried tomatoes they really make the dish for sure. You've got to make it at least once and i can almost promise it will become a regular.


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