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Airbus targeted by several cyberattacks, China suspected
Through its subcontractors, Airbus has been the target of four cyber-attacks during the last year. Several security sources investigating the matter suspect that the attacks may have been Chinese industrial espionage operations.
According to concordant sources of the news agency AFP, the cyberattacks targeted the British engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce, the French technology consulting group Expleo, and "two French Airbus subcontractors that AFP has not identified".
The hackers would have used virtual private network (VPN) connections. Suppliers use VPN to access Airbus' sensitive data. The hackers were mainly after technical certification sheets of different Airbus components, as well as specific information regarding the engines powering the A400M Atlas tanker and the A350 wide-body commercial airliner.
While security sources of the AFP did not give a definitive origin for the attacks, some believe that a group of hackers linked to the Chinese Communist Party, known as APT10, could be behind them. Conjointly with Russia, China is currently developing a wide-body aircraft known as the CR929 destined to compete, among others, with the A350.
AeroTime has reached out to Airbus for comment but did not receive an answer at the time this article was published.
In January 2019, Airbus was already targeted, this time directly, on two of its British sites, Broughton and Filton. The latter houses some of Airbus wings, fuel systems and landing gear design, engineering and support, including for the A400M.
Hacking is not the only method of industrial espionage. On September 24, 2019, an engineer of the French defense and aerospace company Thales saw his work laptop and a notepad being stolen in what seemed like a targeted break-in into a hotel room in Maurepas, near Versailles. According to a police source, the laptop contained "sensitive data encrypted for military purposes," while the notepad mainly contained written transcripts of work meetings.
On October 19, 2018, Bombardier filed an official complaint in a U.S. court against Mitsubishi Aircraft, accusing the Japanese company of illegally acquiring some secret documents by hiring former employees of the Canadian plane maker. Mitsubishi was accused of stealing information that would help accelerate the certification process for the MRJ, of which development has been delayed for seven years. Eventually, the prosecution was dropped after Bombardier sold its CRJ program to Mitsubishi.
Bombardier sues Mitsubishi over stolen trade secrets
Bombardier sued Mitsubishi Aircraft in the United States on October 19, 2018, accusing the Japanese company of illegally acquiring some secret documents by hiring former employees of the Canadian plane maker
IT report: Iran hackers spy on foreign aviation companies
The US cyber-security company FireEye released a report, stating that a little-know, presumably Iranian, hacker group is spying on companies in aviation and energy sector located in the United States, Saudi Arabia and South Korea.
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Shell LiveWIRE solar energy innovator, Insolar, recently teamed up with Shell at Make the Future Detroit to launch its unique solar umbrella and inspire the next generation of bright energy solutions.
Produced in collaboration with the community of Santa Marta, one of Rio de Janeiro's central favelas, Insolar's solar umbrella captures the energy from the sun with OPV (organic photovoltaic) modules. As well as enabling people to recharge their smartphones and gadgets whilst at the park or on the beach, the umbrella also offers UVA and UVB protection and provides a welcome source of shade for themselves and others.
Make the Future Detroit (MTFD), a four-day festival of ideas and innovation, took place from 27-30 April at the Cobo Center. Focused on celebrating bright energy ideas that will inspire current and future energy solutions, MTFD offered free virtual reality experiences and hands-on science experiments for over 20,000 visitors from the Great Lakes Region and beyond.
Founded by Henrique Drumond, Insolar connects communities to solar power by installing photovoltaic panels. These solar panels not only provide low-income families with affordable electricity but aim to benefit society, the economy and the environment.
Henrique's initial vision for his company came during a visit to Mozambique, where he saw first-hand how small changes in the local economy delivered a great impact, opening his eyes to the broader benefits of affordable electricity – far beyond reducing bills or turning on televisions.
This philosophy is being brought to life in a community-based solar power system in Santa Marta. It was among the first areas to be freed from street gangs under a Brazilian state programme, and is now home to a community determined to build a better life for themselves. However, their hope is held back by the high price and low reliability of its power supply.
Henrique saw the exciting potential of tapping into Santa Marta's 2,250 annual hours of sunlight and the opportunity to create a community-based solar power system. Insolar's solar installations, supported in part by Shell, are providing the energy that keeps the lights on at a children's nursery or powering Internet access at an education centre. This enables the nursery to stay open longer and accept more children, enabling more parents and grandparents to work and earn a wage. In this way, a single action will very quickly bring significant social and economic benefits to every generation in Santa Marta.
The participation of the Santa Marta community is also key to the production of Insolar's new solar umbrella: students helped with the electrical installations for the umbrella; local seamstresses developed the packaging; taxis provided logistical support for the components; and the local nursery became the centre for production.
Commenting on the participation of the Santa Marta community in the production of the solar umbrellas, Henrique said, "Production of the solar umbrellas offers local residents the opportunity to work together towards a common goal. It provided an empowering experience for Santa Marta residents who were very proud to see their work presented overseas. Also, MTFD visitors were amazed to learn of the social impact associated with our umbrellas.
A Shell LiveWIRE award winner in 2014, Henrique is full of praise for the support he has received from Shell Iniciativa Jovem, the LiveWIRE programme in Brazil, and from Shell saying, "I have been very lucky to benefit from Shell Iniciativa Jovem and also from Shell's #makethefuture accelerator.
"Shell Iniciativa Jovem helped me to develop my business plan for Insolar, including the pilot project at Santa Marta, and introduced me to an amazingly powerful network of dynamic young entrepreneurs.


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Why is it that once we move into the workforce—and indeed to a great extent even before that—"play" becomes a four-letter word? When we were kids, nobody expected anything permanent to come out of our attempts to build houses with wooden blocks or Lego. Nobody told us to stop wasting time; it was not only accepted but even encouraged as part of the process of growing and learning. Yet in most System i shops, developers who dare to take a few minutes out of the day to "play" with a new technique or tool are likely to find themselves in trouble and be told to "get to work."
This attitude has always puzzled and depressed me. Many of the techniques that I have exploited to good effect as a programmer over the years were the direct result of simply playing with an idea to see what might come out of it. In fact, I became so convinced of the value of this practice that when I became an IT manager, I initiated the practice of "play time" for my programming staff. They were to spend half a day every couple of weeks simply exploring some new tool or technique. Sometimes they spent their time reading a technical journal, sometimes they worked with a program inspired by something they had read, or sometimes they simply worked with a tool we already owned to see if it offered any capabilities that we were not utilizing.
I know what you're thinking—that [insert programmer's name here] might simply take advantage of that to pad his resume. Certainly that could happen, although it has not been my experience. And who is to say that his "padding" today won't be a valuable asset to your company six months from now? Besides, if he really is that ready to goof off at the slightest provocation, what makes you think he's doing useful work right now?
By now, you might be wondering what all of this has to do with today's topic. Good question. The simple answer is that many aspects of the approach I'm about to describe emerged not out of sitting down to engineer a solution to a specific problem, but rather out of curiosity, an "I wonder what else I could do with this" approach if you like. I hope this will be the first in a number of articles that encourage you to explore new ideas and techniques.
Generating XML
Some time ago, when I first became interested in XML, I wrote a number of RPG programs that generated XML documents. RPG IV's string-handling extensions and varying-length field support certainly made this a lot simpler than it could ever have been with RPG/400, but it didn't take long for the "there has to be an easier way to do this" feeling to strike me. This was closely followed by "I guess I could write a set of subprocedures something like CGIDEV2 but for XML." No sooner did that pop into my head than I had the classic Homer Simpson "Doh!" moment. I didn't have to write anything; I could simply use CGIDEV2 for the purpose, but with an XML template rather than an HTML one!
For those of you unfamiliar with CGIDEV, a quick introduction is probably in order here before we go any further. CGIDEV2 was originally developed by IBM Rochester's business partner group to simplify the task of writing Web applications in RPG. Its designer, Mel Rothman, had the aim of making it as easy to write a Web page to a browser as it was to write a screen to a 5250 display. Since RPG programmers were familiar with the notion of using DDS to externally describe their 5250 screens, he designed a similar template-based system to provide a "fill in the blanks" approach to building HTML streams. Admittedly, as you can see in the extract from the sample template below, the result doesn't look like DDS. The principle is the same, however, in that the three basic elements of formats, variables, and literals all have equivalents in CGIDEV2. Of course, because there are no fixed columns, it looks very different, and special characters have to be used to identify the different components.
/$CategoryHeader
/%CatCode%/
/%CatName%/
/$ProductData
/%ProdCode%/
/%ShortDesc%/
Record format names (in red) are known by CGIDEV2 as section names. By default, they begin with "/$" but this, as with all the delimiters used by CGIDEV2, can be changed if you wish.
Variable Names (in blue) are referred to by CGIDEV2 as substitution variables, and they are identified by the paired "/%" and "%/" marks, which bracket the variable's name. These serve exactly the same purpose as in a display file in that they will be replaced by the contents of the variable when the section in which they are contained is written.
The balance of the template consists of literals. These will simply be output as-is, just as, for example, column headings in a display file would be.
Since the support for CGIDEV2 is not built in to the RPG IV compiler as display and printer files are, we use the CGIDEV2 APIs to perform the various tasks involved, such as writing records, supplying the data for the substitution variables, and writing the resulting XML data to the IFS.
Sample Program MCPRESSXML
The XML document we are producing will itemize all of the categories of goods sold by our company. Each category element will contain details of the products in that category. We will take a brief look at the RPG code used to generate the document in just a moment. Before we do, though, take a quick look at the portion of the finished XML document, which is shown below. You should be able to see the correlation between the template I showed you earlier and the finished document. As you can see, the Category section is repeated, just as a subfile record or printer file detail line might be repeated. Similarly, the Product section is repeated within its category.
If you prefer to study the full source of the RPG program, you can find it here. I'll just highlight the critical points in the process in this article. If you would like to see the full version of the XML template, it can be found here.
The program begins by loading the XML template into memory from the IFS. Alternatively, we could have stored it in a source physical file, but the IFS is normally preferred since we can use XML tools such as those provided in WDSC to help in its design. As you might expect, since CGIDEV2 was designed for building Web applications, many of the subprocedures have "HTML" incorporated into their names. If this bugs you, you can always create a new version of the relevant routines using "XML" instead of "HTML" in the names. Since the source code is supplied for all of the routines in CGIDEV2, this is not a difficult task. Once the template is loaded, the program writes the FILEHEADER section to the buffer before entering the loop that processes the Product file.
GetHTMLIFS('/Partner400/ProdTempl.xml');
WrtSection('FILEHEADER');
The product file we are processing (PRODUCT2) is a logical view of the product master, which has the category code as its primary key and the product code as the secondary. Since the relevant information must be output at the beginning of each new category, we check for a change in the category code, and if we find one, arrange for the output of a trailer section to close off the previous element. The WrtSection API is used to perform this task. It is the logical equivalent of doing a write to a display or printer file and causes the related XML data to be added to the buffer.
The UpdHTMLVar API causes the data identified by the second parameter to be set up as the value associated with the substitution variable named in the first parameter. The data stored in this way is not actually used until a section containing that variable is written. In this case, the values for CatCode and CatName are used immediately after being set, since they are used in the CategoryHeader section.
If CATCOD <> lastCategory;
If Not firstrecord;
WrtSection('CategoryTrailer'); // Not output first record
firstRecord = *Off;
lastCategory = CATCOD;
Chain CATCOD CATEGOR1;
UpdHTMLVar('CatCode': CATCOD);
UpdHTMLVar('CatName': CATDES);
WrtSection('CategoryHeader');
The section for the product information is set up and output in a similar fashion. Note that because three of the values involved are numeric, it is necessary to use the %CHAR built-in function (BIF) in order to convert the values to a character string. Unlike display or printer files, XML data streams can only consist of character data; it is up to us to convert it to the desired format before setting it into the substitution variable. If you want more sophisticated editing than that supplied by %CHAR (for example, you need to have leading zeros included in the string), you can use the BIFs %EDITC or %EDITW to provide the necessary formatting.
UpdHTMLVar('ProdCode': PRODCD);
UpdHTMLVar('Description': PRODDS);
UpdHTMLVar('SellPrice': %Char(SELLPR));
UpdHTMLVar('CostPrice': %Char(LNDCST));
UpdHTMLVar('QtyOnHand': %Char(STOH));
WrtSection('ProductData');
This process continues until the end of the product file is reached, at which time a final CategoryTrailer section is output followed by the FileTrailer section, which wraps up the XML document. At this point, our document is complete and all that remains is to write it out to the IFS. This task is performed by the WrtHTMLToStmf API, as shown below. We simply supply the path name and the code page in which it is to be written. Why specify the code page? Because if we did not do so, the file would be created in the code page of our job, which would mean EBCDIC. There are many code pages in which we might want our XML file, but EBCDIC is not likely to be one of them! Normally, the data would be written in ASCII (which is the case in my example—code page 819 being a commonly used ASCII code) or possibly in UCS-2 (Unicode), which would be represented by a code page of 13488.
WrtSection('CategoryTrailer FileTrailer');
rc = WrtHtmlToStmf(XML_Output: 819);
Beyond XML Documents
After I experimented with creating XML documents in the manner I have been describing, it occurred to me that there might be other applications for this technique. It didn't require a degree in rocket science to determine that any character-based "document" could be used as a template, and if substitution variables were imbedded in the text, then a "mail merge" operation could effectively be performed on it.
Some of the things I have played with include MS Word documents, Rich Text Format (RTF) documents, PDF files, and Excel spreadsheets. And of course I have also used the technique for the purpose it was originally intended for—namely, creating static Web pages programmatically. In fact, many of the Web pages for our RPG & DB2 Summit event are built in this way from entries in our session and speaker databases. You can see an example here. I can't claim credit for these pages, though; my colleague Paul Tuohy gets the honors for that.
RTF files work quite well, as the basic format is relatively straightforward, which is more than can be said for MS Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in their native format. It is hard to think of a word to describe how I feel about those (or at least it is hard to think of one that MC Press will publish!). Let's just say that it is a really good thing that MS is switching to XML as the default storage format for Office documents.
And that brings us full circle, since XML was where we started.
Generating Excel Spreadsheets
I have been generating Excel spreadsheets using RPG IV's Java interface capabilities since V5R1 became available, taking advantage of the facilities provided by the Apache POI project. While this provides for great flexibility, it can be a complex and tedious process if significant formatting is required. So, once I could save spreadsheets in XML format, I began to explore using the CGIDEV2 template technique to generate them. The spreadsheet shown in Figure 1 was built in this manner and, although it is very simple, demonstrates what can be done. The major benefit is the ability to incorporate cell formatting—something you just cannot do by using Comma Separated Value (CSV) files. For this example, I created a very simple spreadsheet containing the basic formatting that I needed and then saved it in XML format. I then edited the XML to form a skeleton for CGIDEV2 to use.
Figure 1: You can use CGIDEV2 to build XML spreadsheets like this one. (Click image to enlarge.)
You might notice that the data incorporated in this spreadsheet is the same as in the XML document we saw earlier. In fact, the only difference between the program that built this spreadsheet and the one that built the XML documents is the template that was used!
One quick word of warning on the XML generated by Excel: It often includes absolute cell references (e.g., ss:Index="5") or row and column counts (e.g., ss:ExpandedRowCount="6"). For our example, I had to remove these entries from the template; otherwise XML errors were flagged when I attempted to load the generated file. Although the dialog that appears when such errors occur informs you that details of the errors have been logged, I have yet to be able to locate the directory in which the file is located. Comments on the Internet lead me to believe that it is a "deeply hidden" directory, but I have not yet bothered to follow up on this and have been able to resolve any problems by experimentation.
An extract from the CGIDEV2 template used is shown below.
<row ss:height="15">
<cell ss:styleid="s27"><data ss:type="string">
Category: /%CatCode%/ (/%Catname%/)
<row >
<data ss:type="number">/%ProdCode%/
<data ss:type="string">/%Description%/
<data ss:type="number">/%SellPrice%/
<data ss:type="number">/%CostPrice%/
<data ss:type="number">/%QtyOnHand%/
This is the format used by Excel 2003, and as you can see, while it is more complex than our original document, is not hard to understand. With the help of a good XML editor, like the one built in to WDSC, it is relatively easy to determine which pieces map to which sections of the spreadsheet. If you need to delve more deeply into the topic, the full XML specifications used by different releases of Excel are documented on Microsoft's Web site. I have found that I can do most of what I need to do simply by studying the XML output from Excel, editing it, and then attempting to reload the document into Excel.
Some of you may be in the process of converting existing applications so that they can be used as Web services as part of your application modernization process. Perhaps you are modifying your RPG programs to take advantage of Web services. If you are, you may be wondering, as I did, if it is possible to simply use CGIDEV2 to generate the XML for the required request and response packets—in particular, to have that data accessible within your program without having to first write it to an IFS file. The answer is "Yes, but...". It is possible, but it requires that you write a couple of additional subprocedures for inclusion in CGIDEV2's XXXWRKHTML module. I am hoping to be able to publish the required procedures shortly, together with instructions on how to rebuild the CGIDEV2 service program. If you are interested in receiving them, please post a comment in the forum and I'll get them to you ASAP—or help you write them for that matter.
So go thou forth and play! You have nothing to lose but your upper management's conviction that RPG and the System i are "old fashioned and can't do that kind of thing."
Editor's Update: Please find the code for this article here and here.
Jon Paris's IBM midrange career started when he fell in love with the System/38 while working as a consultant. This love affair ultimately led him to joining IBM.
In 1987, Jon was hired by the IBM Toronto Laboratory to work on the S/36 and S/38 COBOL compilers. Subsequently, Jon became involved with the AS/400 and in particular COBOL/400.
In early 1989, Jon was transferred to the Languages Architecture and Planning Group, with particular responsibility for the COBOL and RPG languages. There, he played a major role in the definition of the new RPG IV language and in promoting its use with IBM Business Partners and users. He was also heavily involved in producing educational and other support materials and services related to other AS/400 programming languages and development tools, such as CODE/400 and VisualAge for RPG.
Jon left IBM in 1998 to focus on developing and delivering education focused on enhancing AS/400 and iSeries application development skills.
Jon is a frequent speaker at user group meetings and conferences around the world, and he holds a number of speaker excellence awards from COMMON.

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Principles for Flourishing
Ben Franks
As with so many aspects of the Christian life, the question of contraception requires wisdom.
We've already considered different views of contraception, and argued that contraception is only permissible when biblical principles of human flourishing are applied within the context of the biblical paradigm of marital fruitfulness. We discussed that paradigm for fruitfulness in another post... but what are biblical principles for human flourishing?
It is clear that the basic assumption of the Bible is that Christian marriages will be fruitful marriages that produce godly offspring. However, the Bible gives other specific principles of human flourishing (in relation to sex, stewardship, and the value of life) which must be prayerfully applied within this basic biblical paradigm. A careful consideration of these principles can help to guide Christian couples in knowing if and when they should consider using contraception.[1]
While there are no doubt many relevant truths, three specific principles for human flourishing which must be considered are the Bible's teaching that: 1) Sex is a multifaceted gift, 2) Stewardship is our calling, and 3) Life is precious.
Principle #1: Sex is a Multifaceted Gift
This first principle addresses the question: does sex have meaning beyond procreation? While the Christian tradition has unanimously (and rightly) maintained that one of the purposes of sex is procreation, the Bible presents a fuller and richer picture. Physical intimacy in marriage cultivates emotional and relational intimacy (Song of Songs 2:3-6), provides for the consummation of the one-flesh bond of marriage (Genesis 2:24, Ephesians 5:31), gives the gift of pleasure to one's spouse (Proverbs 5:18-19), and offers protection from sexual sin and temptation (1 Corinthians 7).[2]
Sex is multifaceted, and it has various purposes. While it would be wrong to artificially remove procreation from this list because of personal preference, that doesn't mean that procreation is the primary (or exclusive) purpose of sex. If this were the case, then couples who are unable to procreate would be forbidden from enjoying sex (this could exclude sexual intimacy for couples with damaged reproductive systems, sex during pregnancy or menstruation, or after menopause for older couples). Because of this broader view of sex, there is at least a possibility for physical intimacy to be enjoyed even when procreation is not in view in "each and every marital act."[3]
Principle #2: Stewardship is our Calling
This second principle addresses the question: why might parents choose to prevent pregnancy? In the very same verse which contains the command to be fruitful and multiply, God also establishes humans as stewards over creation (Genesis 1:28). This stewardship requires a wise use of the resources of creation for the protection, preservation, and cultivation of that creation. The goal is flourishing, and the means of pursuing that goal is stewardship. This means that the view which goes no further than to restate the truth that God is sovereign over conception doesn't go far enough. It would be equally true to say that God is sovereign over the amount of rainfall that farmers receive, the length and health of our days, or the amount of money we will earn in our lifetime, but those truths don't relieve men of the biblical responsibilities to care for the creation, preserve their health, or plan for the future. God's sovereignty must not be disconnected from man's stewardship and responsibility.
1 Timothy 5:8 connects this truth to the situation of family life when it commands believers to "provide for their families." The call to Christian stewardship and the command for prudence and planning (Luke 14:28) suggests that questions of physical prudence (i.e. considering the health of both the mother and possible children) and financial ability are relevant in considering how many children a family is able to support. Of course, this principle of flourishing must be applied within the context of the biblical paradigm of marital fruitfulness. This means that the relevant financial question before conception is: can we support the life of another child? Not: can we support our lifestyle if we have another child? Where health is concerned, the question is: will another pregnancy pose a significant threat to the health of the mother and/or child? Not: will another pregnancy make demands on my physical state and lifestyle?[4]
Principle #3: Life is Precious
This third principle addresses the question: how might parents prevent pregnancy? Human life is consistently portrayed as having intrinsic value in the Scriptures. Because people bear the image of God (Genesis 1:27) human life must be treated as precious in God's sight. In terms of contraception, this means that even if a couple finds themselves in a position where it might be permissible to use contraception, that does not give permission to use contraception which does damage to life. Specifically, this means that abortion or abortifacients are never legitimate methods of contraception for Christians. Even methods like sterilization should be embraced with caution, because it permanently eliminates the possibility of procreation.[5] This is one of the key conditional elements in determining when contraception may be permitted. If it harms life, it is off-limits.
In a culture which views contraception as absolutely permissible (and even as a positive necessity for public health and personal choice) the Christian's caution regarding contraception will seem strange. Nevertheless, God gives His people a clear paradigm of fruitfulness in marriage to guide their understanding and expectations for the typical family. Children are a blessing, and God delights to use children as agents of sanctification in the lives of believers. While contraception is not explicitly condemned or absolutely prohibited, the use of contraception for believers is tightly constrained by the broader teaching of Scripture. Even in situations where contraception is used, its use should be for the goal of fruitfulness and flourishing. When these biblical principles of flourishing are applied in the context of the biblical paradigm of marital fruitfulness, then Christians are equipped to make wise decisions for the glory of God and the growth of His people.
Ben Franks is an MDiv student at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. A native son of the PCA, he has done mission work in England with the EPCEW and served with churches in the PCA and OPC. He studied at Patrick Henry College and completed his B.A. in Classical Christian Education through Whitefield College. His writings have been published in the Puritan Reformed Journal, the Confessional Presbyterian Journal, and the Banner of Truth Magazine.
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[1] These are the "conditions" referred to in the view that holds contraception to be conditionally permissible.
[2] These purposes are very lightly adapted from the excellent article by Dennis P. Hollinger, "The Ethics of Contraception: a Theological Assessment." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 56 no. 4, (2013): 693-696. He concludes: "Contraceptives can be allowed because there are multiple purposes of sex, but the multiple purposes of sex can never be isolated from each other." Hollinger, The Ethics of Contraception, 696.
[3] To use the language of Pope John Paul, Humanae Vitae, 11.
[4] This is an important caveat and it must be applied carefully. It is quite common for people to interpret the biblical provision for stewardship and planning as a "loophole" to allow parents to prevent pregnancy for a range of reasons. To prevent pregnancy simply because a father thinks more children would increase his stress or because a mother doesn't want to regain the "baby weight" she just shed from her last pregnancy are probably not legitimate reasons. It is impossible to give absolute rules for every case, but Christian wisdom should be sought and applied in determining if or when preventing or delaying conception is permissible.
[5] While these procedures can sometimes be reversed, this is far from consistently successful. Of course, a distinction could and should be made in cases when sterilization is performed with the intention, not of preventing life, but of preserving the life of the mother.
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"Jacky's..." debuts at #1 in UK Vinyl Singles Chart; "Low In High School" #85 in 4th week
Discussion in 'General Discussion archive 2017 (read-only)' started by davidt, Dec 15, 2017.
By davidt on Dec 15, 2017 at 7:30 PM
"Jacky's Only Happy When She's Up On The Stage" debuts at #1 on the UK Vinyl Singles Chart Top 40 (week of Dec. 15, 2017). Also debuts at #45 on the Singles Sales Chart (link posted by Alainsane).
Low In High School is #85 in the UK Top 100 Album Chart, down from #69 in its third week.
davidt, Dec 15, 2017
Johnny Barleycorn
marred said: ↑
The Old Technology comment is a strange one. Should we stop using paint brushes and pencils for art? How old are guitars? Enough with the cave paintings already. How about a splash of turpentine and let's put up plasma screens instead in those dark dingy caves.
It is difficult to stop the needle from bouncing while you're on the train. I'll give you that.
You won't be sitting around the Christmas table asking your family and friends to sit still while you paint them. You will take a photograph or perhaps even a video. That is currently the dominant technology for recording such events. You might even stream it to the other side of the world live and for free.
Had photography been invented a couple of centuries earlier we would be looking at the Great Fire of London or the French Revolution in a very different way. Similarly, the mobile phone replaced the landline, which replaced the telegraph, which replaced the pigeon. All those things are rather wonderful in their own way, but one is a lot more convenient.
Which brings us back to vinyl, the old technology.
Johnny Barleycorn, Dec 16, 2017
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DavidK
Guys, stop. Really, stop doing this.
What's next, Morrissey's number one with those under 5'8?
Morrissey doesn't sell, and he hasn't sold since Quarry. Before that, he hadn't sold since Your Arsenal. It's not the end of the world, and it's not a surprise. Even live, he's just a small venue artist. I doubt he even makes much money from touring.
He's not popular, and was only ever popular for a brief moment in the so called "alternative" era. There's no such thing as that now.
Stop trying to magnify his success in niche markets. More importantly, you shouldn't expect him to sell well with his sub-par, mailing-it-in material, and the fact that he's pretty much considered dad rock now. This is how time flies. What was once considered edgy, is now considered silly. There's no escaping it, or marketing your way out of it.
Finally, vinyl markets don't mean anything. You're talking about mostly nostalgia collectors who buy vinyl.
"Yacht Rock" is now more popular with the youth than Morrissey.
Yacht rock? I'd reckon Fraggle rock is too!
Anyways, who cares what sells or what doesnt. Only important thing is if you like it and he sells enough to warrant him putting the effort into doing another.
And records aren't just for nostalgia collectors. I have thousands of them, and I play them on my stereo which is worth more than most people's homes. Audiophiles do exist - vinyl is the superior format.
DavidK, Dec 16, 2017
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I agree with everything you said. Do you ever wonder if Morrissey wasn't so aloof with his attitude and more reliable and took his career more seriously that he could have been one of the planets biggest rockstars that he could have came close to the same fame as Elvis or Sinatra somewhere close to those lines, if he actually had proper management and was manageable his career could have been different maybe the Smiths would never have broken up or maybe they would have anyways further down the line, I always wondered about the untapped possibility of what his career and fame could have gotten too if he didn't get in his own way and make stupid decisions after another.
Absolutely. In fact, there was talk at the time of Vauxhall & I that Morrissey had sabotaged his career momentum by not touring for it. He then went on to tour, and release two his worst albums before he was let go by the record company.
He abandoned the Bowie tour because he didn't like Bowie's on stage duet suggestion.
Even in The Smiths, he would refuse to make appearances, while complaining about record company marketing support. It's one of the main reasons Marr left. He couldn't take the unpredictability, and lack of communication. He worked his ass off, only to have Morrissey blow it up, and leave him to deal with the fall-out. He treated Marr like he was Boz: Dress in costumes, and do as I wish.
I think it's good that Marr left because it stopped The Smiths from becoming what would most likely be musical dinosaurs of their time. We would then be talking about some good songs they made before they become boring, and silly.
The more I learn about that time, the more I realize that Marr was %70 of The Smiths.
I can't forget the story of Marr and the record company coming around to his house, and banging on the door to try, and get him to make an appearance, and Johnny finally snapping: "You're not the only member of this band!"
I don't know how Marr ever resisted not punching him in the mouth. Morrissey is disarming in that he can make himself seem vulnerable, and like a bit of a weed, but then he goes behind your back, and turns the screws. Passive-agressive.
There are rumors that Matt Walker's brother, and Morrissey's former bassist took a swing at him, and that's why he's no longer with him. I wouldn't doubt it.
flowerguy85
Ehh, I dunno about that. I'm 18, been a devotee since I was 15, and me and most of my friends adore Morrissey. His music is extremely popular with us. Granted, I tend to seek out and flock towards other Morrissey people, but by and large his music is greatly admired. The only reason any of my friends dislike him is because of dumb shit he's said. But by and large we connect more with him than we do most modern artists. Or "yacht rock", which I honestly have no earthly idea what that actually is.
flowerguy85, Dec 16, 2017
Morrissey-so-old.com
Not shocking to hear about that I read and heard tons of stories how he would just bail or not even show up.That there were plans for to make certain music videos to film and he wouldn't even show up. Managers and band members having a hard time getting in contact with him also I read another story I think it was Tim Booth his video director how he owed him money but never paid him because he died and rather give the money to his family Morrissey pocketed the money I also have another story about Morrissey it was not to long after the 96 trial he was in Manchester at a local market and he runs into Mike Joyce , and they see each other and Mike says hello how are you Morrissey and he replied Hello I'm well how about yourself Mike said I'm good. Mike then tells Morrissey we'll its good seeing you again and Morrissey replies same as well. Kind of funny for a man who proclaims he hates Mike Joyce would bother saying hello and responding back to him.
Morrissey-so-old.com, Dec 16, 2017
marred
Johnny Barleycorn said: ↑
I just enjoy things no matter how arcane they might be and vinyl is one of the many.
marred, Dec 16, 2017
The video director you mean was Tim BROAD. Tim Booth is the singer of James. And this "money story" you are talking about sounds pretty much like the one Moz himself told in his Autobiography but in relation to his manager at the time Nigel Thomas who died in the same year as Tim Broad. Get your facts right.
congrats Morrissey, after a stormy German interveuw week, His single 'Jacky....'' charts nmbr 1 in the UK vinyl charts, and not special for Morrissey, but agree with Surface, vinyl is really having a comeback.
There are so many stories I can't remember all the names and details broad, booth close enough.
So can anyone say how many copies it sold? Anyone?
Uncleskinny, Dec 16, 2017
Troll x 2
I wonder how many copies were pressed? 2000? 3000? And how many copies actually get played even once? In this day and age who would go to the trouble of playing a vinyl single to hear under four minutes of music? Vinyl single is a pure collector's format, sold to fans only.
Eldritch, Dec 16, 2017
No idea but doubt whether if was more than a couple of hundred. My notes on vinyl are not related to Morrissey as I really don't care what his chart positions are but to add to the who buys vinyl question, Liam's recent album sold 103k in the first week and 16k were vinyl, so in his case it's about 16% of his sales.
Agree with the comments around old technology but there is a market for it.
Surface, Dec 16, 2017
Paint brushes and guitars have been replaced. Digital artwork is the norm now, as is electronic music. Even physical sculpting is being phased out. They are still used for nostalgia, and because they have a distinctly different sound, and effect to their replacements.
Vinyl does not serve any purpose other than nostalgia. It's the Polaroid camera of music technology, with even less convenience.
In fact, the vinyl hipster trend seems more akin to those who argued that digital photography was too "clean," when that's exactly why people like it, and accepted its replacement.
Music is a fashionable consumer market that will always have fashionable consumer trends associated with the listening experience.
What planet are you living on where all these things have been replaced? I'm pretty sure guitars are still being played. I saw one on youtube today. It is possible to embrace the digital age while still enjoying the things that brought us into it. Vinyl was here before hipsters arrived and it's not looking like it's disappearing anytime soon.
It's not what you do it with. It's what you do with it.
STDIB went in at #69 (main charts) with sales of 5,069 in the first week - a percentage of which was clear vinyl.
Unfortunately, these types of figures are getting harder to find.
I would hazard an educated guess around the 1-2k (optimistic figures) total vinyl sales based on the amount of indie shops/HMVs and the type of quantities they displayed. The Smith's recent RSD 7" success was 5k vinyl sold to get to #2 in the vinyl chart (with only the Bowie pre-sold black 7" messing things up).
Looking at the competition, I think charting at number 1 as several move down was to be expected.
It would be nice for those of us that like statistics to have the charts show total sales like they used to.
FWD.
Famous when dead, Dec 16, 2017
Thewlis
Great success! Had the charts still be compiled like 10 years ago, it would have been another surefire top 40-hit.
U2 down from 5-20 in its second week, which shows LiHS did relatively well.
Thewlis, Dec 16, 2017
So how many were sold? Do tell.
You don't buy Morrissey records, you don't attend his concerts, you are no longer a fan, so why on earth have you any interest in how many copies have been sold?
bhops
There is so much factually incorrect about this I have to ask the obvious question......David Bret is that you?
bhops, Dec 16, 2017
Fuck off Wratten, you lying piece of shit.
12" on the slack
the audiophile argument
Vinyl is the superior format; it's the only format that is fully analog and fully lossless.
However, analog doesn't happen with most new vinyls (I'd assume that goes for LIHS, too) as they are produced from a digital master. Which renders it a bit pointless.
12" on the slack, Dec 16, 2017
Oh, Skinny, has Boz left the band yet?
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EAB in Stevens Point
Portage and Wood counties will be quarantined for emerald ash borer, following discovery of the tree-killing pest in Stevens Point.
'Not only is it likely that EAB is present in Wood County at low levels that are difficult to detect, but historic patterns of wood movement into the county, and the fact that it is a wood utilization center, make it practical to quarantine it along with Portage County,' said Brian Kuhn, director of the Plant Industry Bureau in the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
The bureau administers plant pest quarantines.
'Mills there will be able to move wood in freely from other quarantined counties. They will still have to meet regulations for moving wood products that could carry EAB out of the county to non-quarantined areas,' Kuhn added.
Stevens Point residents noticed and reported woodpeckers activity on ash trees, which is one of the primary signs of EAB infestation. The woodpeckers are eating EAB larvae from under the bark. City foresters collected larvae, or immature beetles, from two ash trees and also found typical EAB damage — tunneling under the bark and D-shaped holes in the bark where adult beetles emerged.
Quarantines prohibit ash wood products and hardwood firewood from being moved to areas that are not quarantined. For businesses handling wood products that could carry EAB, this means that they must work with DATCP to assure that they are not transporting the pest to non-quarantine counties. For private citizens, a quarantine means that residents may not take firewood from these counties to nonquarantine counties.
'We strongly discourage moving firewood even within quarantine areas,' Kuhn said. 'The vast majority of EAB infestations have resulted from the movement of firewood, as evidenced by the number of times our first find in a given county has been in campgrounds. Most of the quarantined counties are not generally infested, so moving firewood within them could bring the pest to new areas in the county that would otherwise remain uninfested for several years.'
Kuhn notes that other forest pests and diseases also move easily and invisibly from one location to another under the bark of firewood.
DATCP recommends that property owners who have ash trees in quarantine counties:
· Keep a close watch for possible signs of EAB infestation: Thinning canopy, D-shaped holes in the bark, cracked bark, branches sprouting low on the trunk, and woodpeckers pulling at bark.
·Consider preventive treatments if your property is within 15 miles of a known infestation.
· Consider planting different species of trees that are not susceptible to EAB.
· Call a professional arborist, and visit emeraldashborer.wi.gov for detailed information.
Emerald ash borer is native to China and probably entered the United States on packing material, showing up first in Michigan in 2002. It was first found in Wisconsin in 2008 in Ozaukee County.
Other quarantined Wisconsincounties are Adams, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge, Door, Douglas, Fond du Lac, Grant, Green, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Juneau, Kenosha, Kewaunee, La Crosse, Lafayette, Manitowoc, Marquette, Milwaukee, Monroe, Oneida, Outagamie, Ozaukee, Racine, Richland, Rock, Sauk, Sheboygan, Trempealeau, Vernon, Walworth, Washington, Waukesha and Winnebago.
EAB adults lay eggs on the bark of ash trees in mid- to late summer. When the eggs hatch a week or two later, the larvae burrow under the bark for the winter and feed, forming the characteristic S-shaped tunnels and destroying the tree's ability to take up nutrients and water. The following summer, the adults emerge through D-shaped holes in the bark.


Flyuditek - synthetic agent with mucolytic action.
Expectorant and mucolytic the action exerted by the active component Flyuditeka, is associated with activation of the enzyme goblet cells of the bronchial mucosa.
The maximum effect of the Flyuditeka observed in two or three hours after administration of a therapeutic dose. Mucolytic action is stored, usually up to eight hours.
For adults - 5% in a light green clear orange syrup with caramel odor, 15 ml of which contains the active ingredient in an amount karbotsistein 750 mg.
The dark glass bottles of 125 ml.
Flyuditeka analogues of the active ingredient are drugs Bronhobos (in capsule form) and Libeksin Muko, Fluifort (syrup).
In addition, according to testimony, after consultation with the doctor can use the analogy Flyuditeka mode of action, which include: Ambrobene, Haliksol, Remebroks, Bromhexine, ambrogeksal, Mukoneks, Sinupret, Bronhotil, Haliksol, Ascoril, Solvin, ACC, Dzhoset, Mucosolvan, Pulmozyme , Fluimucil, flavamed and others.
In addition, Flyuditek prescribed in preparation for the bronchoscopy and bronhografii.
If hypersensitivity to Karbotsistein or auxiliary components Flyuditeka.
During the period of lactation and in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy Flyuditek should be taken with caution.
For children, use 2% syrup Flyuditeka for up to ten days.
Children's daily intake (From one month to two years) varies from one to two teaspoons, divided into two doses.
For older children, a single dose of syrup Flyuditeka of one teaspoon with a multiplicity of receiving 2 (from 2 to 5 years) or 3 (over five years) times.
5% syrup Flyuditek take adults and children from 15 years of one teaspoon three times a day. The most effective use of Flyuditeka reviews an empty stomach or two hours after a meal.
In the case of receiving Flyuditeka in high doses may develop nausea, gastralgia and diarrhea. For the treatment of any symptoms, usually symptomatic therapy.
With antibacterial and glucocorticosteroid means increases the efficiency of the treatment of inflammatory diseases of the upper and lower respiratory tract.
As a rule, Flyuditek well tolerated in all age groups.
In some cases, when an existing predisposition Flyuditek Review can cause disorders of the nervous system in the form of weakness, dizziness or faintness.
Flyuditek refers to a number of drugs with mucolytic action and released from pharmacies without a prescription. Shelf life syrup - two years (at a temperature not exceeding 25 ° C).


Asian Beach Games Oman 2010 - WaveRunner,PWC,MarineJet | Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.
Report on Asian Beach Games Oman 2010.
Location: The venues of Asian Beach Games in Muscat 2010 were spread over the 1 million sq m in the Al-Musannah Sports City.
The second Asian Beach Games were held in Muscat, Oman. This is a multi-sport event to be held every two years among athletes representing countries from Asia. PWC race was one of the sport categories in this event.
Mr. Medhy Menad, Activity Manager in the Gulf and Asia region organized for Team Indonesia to compete at the Asian Beach Games.
Mr. Uday Naik, General Manager of OHI Marine Yamaha gave a great support for this event so Team Indonesia was able to race in good condition.
Team Indonesia with their rider Mr. Aero Sutan Aswar was competing in closed course Open Class and finished 4 overall.
Aero was also competing in Endurance and won the Gold Olympic Medal on his Yamaha FZR, prepare by Mr. Bill Chapin from R&D performance.
The event was a great success with a lot of participant from Thailand, China, Kuwait, U.A.E. and so on. The next Asian Beach Games will be held in 2 years in China.


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Trixie Mattel Balances Genre, History And Humor On 'Barbara'
By Ari Shapiro,
Lauren Hodges
Published February 4, 2020 at 2:31 PM EST
"I mean for a cross-dresser selling folk music, I was like, if I can sell that, plugging the guitars in isn't going to be that farfetched," Trixie Mattel says of her third album, Barbara.
If you ask Trixie Mattel — the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars in 2018 — her success as a drag queen isn't worth as much as you might think. "Being one of the most famous drag queens in the world is still only about as much fame as going home first in The Voice in like, 2010," she jokes.
Still, she's got her fingers — with those long press-on nails — in a lot of different pies. There's a Netflix show called I Like To Watch with her Drag Race co-star, Katya, and a popular YouTube series, called "UNHhhh." She's also got a book, a makeup line, a live comedy tour, a documentary and a successful career as an earnest country singer. Her third album, Barbara, is out this Friday, and it combines her earlier folk and country work with some pop and rock influences.
Mattel sat down with NPR's Ari Shapiro to talk about changing up her style and the influence of Barbie dolls on her album and life story. Listen to the full conversation in the player above, and read on for highlights from the interview — including a web exclusive, live in-studio performance of "Jessie Jessie" — below.
On adding pop rock songs to her country-heavy catalog
I mean for a cross-dresser selling folk music — that's got to be the hardest thing to sell, right? So I was like, if I can sell that, plugging the guitars in isn't going to be that far-fetched. I mean some of the tracks even have like a B-52s vibe on the record. I knew I was going to do a lot more mod, a lot more Austin Powers-beach-party and '60s — but therefore kind of '90s at the same time. Think about "Walkin' On The Sun" by Smash Mouth. That sounds like '60s music.
I think the key here is — yes there's a genre shift, yes I've stepped a little to the left — it still has my fingerprints all over it. I started playing guitar around the time of Avril Lavigne, Michelle Branch, Blink-182, so I've always loved rock music that has really sugary, sweet harmonies and lyrics.
On the meaning behind the title of the album, Barbara
It's the name of America's favorite 11-and-a-half-inch fashion doll. It was sort of her name before she moved to California and became Barbie. She's from a fictional city in Wisconsin called Willows, Wis., and I'm from a real city in Wisconsin, so it's sort of based on that. And also the etymology of the world: I believe it's Greek and it means "strange woman." What's more of a strange woman than a drag queen?
On covering "I Can't Shake The Stranger Out Of You," originally recorded in 1971 by gay country pioneers Patrick Haggerty and Lavender Country.
In 1971, Patrick and his band of kind of misfits — there's a queer woman in the band, there's Patrick, who's gay as the day is long — he puts the record out, he puts it for sale in the back of a magazine that's like a gay rag, where you can send in five bucks and get a vinyl mailed to you. They pressed 1,000 of them, the 1,000 went like, overnight. People loved it, but get this: The critical response from the masses was so anti-gay, it basically got him blacklisted from music and even from finding a day job for like eight years.
I feel very privileged. [Patrick and I are] sitting there and I'm like "I'm worried about selling my record. It's my third record and I hope people like it! I hope they buy it!" And he reality checked me so hard. He was like "Really? Cause I had friends be murdered by police for being gay and no one said anything." It was a very enriching experience, because Patrick kind of reminded me that there's more of a mission to this than getting likes and making money. Now don't tell anybody that I had a feeling and I had a sincere moment.
NPR's Lauren Hodges and Sarah Handel produced and edited the audio of this interview. Cyrena Touros and editorial intern Jon Lewis adapted it for the Web.
Ari Shapiro
Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered grew at an unprecedented rate, with more people tuning in during a typical quarter-hour than any other program on the radio.
Lauren Hodges is an associate producer for All Things Considered. She joined the show in 2018 after seven years in the NPR newsroom as a producer and editor. She doesn't mind that you used her pens, she just likes them a certain way and asks that you put them back the way you found them, thanks. Despite years working on interviews with notable politicians, public figures, and celebrities for NPR, Hodges completely lost her cool when she heard RuPaul's voice and was told to sit quietly in a corner during the rest of the interview. She promises to do better next time.


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Aira, Kagoshima (Aira)
Aira (姶良市, Aira-shi) is a city located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is located west of Kirishima and north of Kagoshima.
The modern city of Aira was established on March 23, 2010, from the merger of the former town of Aira, absorbing the towns of Kajiki and Kamō (all from Aira District).
As of May 2010, the city has an estimated population of 74,611 and a population density of 323 persons per km². The total area is 231.32 km².
It is accessed with the Kyushu Expressway at interchange 25, the Kajiki Interchange and interchange 26, the Aira Interchange. The expressway passed through Aira, connecting Kagoshima to the west and Kirishima to the North. The interchange was first opened on December 13, 1973. There are five railway stations in the city. From east to west, Kajiki, Kinkō, Chōsa, Aira and Shigetomi stations serve the city. All of these stations belong to Nippō Main Line, and are operated by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu).
Aira's claim to fame is a stone gate in the village of Yamada which commemorates the victory of the Russo-Japanese War.
The plan for the merger of the three towns was defeated twice. Once in 2005 and again in 2008. These defeats were due to a debt in public finance and the number of seats in the city council. Finally, in 2009, town representatives compromised with these problems and the merger plan was accepted. Aira District will be left with one municipality.
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Unrivaled in DTLA, the four-tower Metropolis complex has an automated elevator system in Tower Two that takes residents directly to their floor with no stops on the way. This tower also has a state-of-the-art building automation system that monitors all of the building's mechanical functions. On the recreation side, the theater and gym both have […]
By Geoff Nudelman	 on August 22, 2018
Metropolis in Los Angeles, California
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Metropolis
Unrivaled in DTLA, the four-tower Metropolis complex has an automated elevator system in Tower Two that takes residents directly to their floor with no stops on the way. This tower also has a state-of-the-art building automation system that monitors all of the building's mechanical functions. On the recreation side, the theater and gym both have AV systems, and on-site fiber optics support Internet speeds up to 1 GB. Pricing for Tower Two starts at $600,000 to $1.2 million, depending on the layout and bedroom count.


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Development of a Great App: Evernote
G/O Media Studios
How often do you find yourself cruising through the apps on your smartphone and wondering: How did they do that? Welcome to the Great Apps series, inspired by the Intel AppUpSM developer program. Today, we give you the story of Evernote, that increbible, life-organizing app that aims to be your "outside brain."
Evernote started its mission to de-clutter the world back in 2008, and considering the note-taking app has since reached 6 millions users and counting, we'd say they're doing a pretty solid job. But who is the brains behind the technology that the New York Times lauded as a "Top 10 Must-Have" app?
Well, the list of people who have had their hand in writing Evernote's genesis tale is long, but the most important character in the story is a guy who owes it all to handwriting. Starting in 1989, founder and chief architect of Evernote (and apparent childhood-supporter of global warming), Stepan Pachikov helped start a company called ParaGraph which developed handwriting recognition software for the Apple Newton, one of the earliest personal digital assistants and the first tablet platform created by Apple. From there, Pachikov moved on to work with Lockheed Martin to help engineer optical character recognition software (the same technology that now allows Evernote users to snap a picture of a friend's business card and transform it into a digital contact). And so, the platform on which Evernote was built was set in place.
Evernote has transformed the way we remember and save information, and its new makeover for iOS signals that as we become more and more dependent on digital storage to keep our daily lives in order, this Great App will develop up with us.
The Great Apps Series is inspired by Intel. Have you developed the next Great App? Join the Intel AppUpSM developer program and you could get up to $25,000 in funding so you can develop and distribute your app to multiple app stores powered by Intel AppUp! Click here to sign up and submit now.


Last week our task force on minimum wage met for the second time. We invited three external speakers.
A representative from DG Employment clarified that the Treaty does not provide any competence for the Commission in setting wages: it is a matter for national governments and the social partners. This largely explains the variety in the conditions and the levels of minimum wage in EU countries where they exist. Two years ago the Commission published the "Employment package" to generate jobs recovery and encouraged the setting of a minimum wage at appropriate levels to support job creation, social cohesion and competitiveness.
Enrique Fernandez from Eurofound presented some of the key findings of the report "Pay in Europe in the 21th Century": in the second part of the report, they constructed a hypothetical scenario imagining how it would be if a 60%median average wage was set at the EU level. It's very clear that in the short run it's not possible and that there are still problems in the long run at the political level.
3. What level to set? If the level is set at the median, there won't be big changes in the distribution of wealth. What happened over the last 20years is a massive increase in inequalities because of high increases in the upper levels of income. If you anchor it to the GDP, you would anchor it to the total capacity of the society, rather than to wages: in a way it would be preferable to use this, because unemployment is not necessarily represented in wage levels, but it is in GDP. However, this is not just a technical thing.
The main problem is the diversity in existing levels and mostly in systems. Statutory wage tends to be national standard and universal, the collectively agreed is sector specific and so has a segmented scope. Compliance is another issue: it could again bring social dumping – but there is little information on this.
Finally, we heard from Magdalena Bober of Business Europe. They are not in favour of having a European minimum wage, because the treaty is very clear and there is no reason for changing it. Talking about minimum wages at member state level, it's up to the states. The best answer may differ from country to country, taking into account the taxation system and social benefits. There are reasons in favour of introducing minimum wages, but it can also have negative consequences for those it's supposed to protect, especially for young people or persons with disabilities who are not ensuring the employer a level of productivity higher than that set by the minimum wage: they will just not be employed at all. If it is introduced, the increase in wages could be passed on to the consumers: and since the propensity for consumption is higher among lower income people, the final effect can be none or even negative. Some workers who earn minimum wage are not living in poor households: so if you want to address poverty, there are more effective and better tools to do it rather than minimum wage.
This exchange clearly testifies how complex and sensitive this topic is. At Social Platform we will continue working on it. Now we are in an exploratory phase.


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Q: How to combine two activerecord relations I have model User and User has column provider.
Provider can be google, facebook or nil.
I want to make scope, that will output all users, except users with provider google and older that some time.
I tried to do it with two scopes:
scope :not_google_authorised, -> { where(provider: [nil, 'facebook']) }
scope :newest_google, -> { where(provider: 'google').where("created_at < ?", Time.now)}
...
users = User.not_google_authorised
users << User.newest_google

It get right results, but it changed class of users.
I need that users will be activerecord relations, not array.
I tried do:
users = User.not_google_authorised
users.merge(User.newest_google)
#or
users.or(User.newest_google)

But it doesn't work for me.
How can i combine this 2 scopes, so users will be activerecord relations, or how can i write one scope instead their?
I use ruby v3.3.7 and rails v4.1

A: ActiveRecord::QueryMethods#or did not exist until rails 5.
Also the current stable ruby version is 3.0.0 which means you cannot be using 3.3.7 as it does not exist yet (and may never exist).
merge will combine using AND (intersection).
So your best bet is to use raw SQL where or Arel like:
where(
  User.arel_table[:provider].eq(nil).or(
    User.arel_table[:provider].eq('facebook')
  ).or(
    User.arel_table[:provider].eq('google').and(
      User.arel_table[:created_at].lt(Time.now)
    )
  )
)

This should result in:
SELECT
  "users".*
FROM
  "users"
WHERE
  ("users"."provider" IS NULL OR "users"."provider" = 'facebook')
   OR ( "users"."provider" = 'google' AND "users"."created_at" < [SOME TIME]

A: One way is to do this, not super optimized but gets the job done.
not_google_auth_ids = User.not_google_authorized.ids
newest_ids = User.newest_google.ids
ids = not_google_auth_ids + newest_ids

users = User.where(id: ids)

A: we can right in a single scope that way:
scope :not_authorised, -> { where("(provider = ? and created_at < ?) or provider != ?",'google', Time.now, 'google' }

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So i upgraded my phone to win 10 recently. Today the game crashed and when i try to open it, i see "Loading..." with black background for like 10 seconds, then it closes. Now the game will not start anymore. I reinstalled it, restarted phone, took out battery, did soft reset, nothing worked. Anybody had this problem before? Any idea?
I had the same issue as you, You should try to do a factory reset, it worked for me but surely yo'll have to deal with this problem every week. But there is a solution Change your SD.


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Welcome to my Web page. I am thrilled to introduce myself, and share a bit about my practice.
I was born at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on Sunset, and grew up in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire. I have known that I wanted to deliver babies since I was 9 years old. My parents were very supportive of me, and ensured that I received a good education. I had the opportunity to shadow a physician when I was in college. This was the first time I saw a baby being born. It was the most fascinating thing I had ever witnessed. During medical school, I learned that being an obstetrician and gynecologist meant not only delivering babies, but also performing surgeries and taking care of women through the many stages of life. I cannot imagine doing anything else, and I am so thankful that I have been blessed with this opportunity.
My practice covers the entire scope of OB/GYN. It is important to educate young women about healthy lifestyle choices that could impact their lives. I have a special interest in minimally invasive surgery, which allows me to perform major surgeries through smaller incisions, allowing my patients to have a faster and less painful recovery. I try my best to always deliver high-quality care to my patients because they deserve it.
I love spending my free time with my husband, my teenage son, and my daughter who is now two years old. I enjoy exercising by doing yoga. My husband and I like to watch cooking shows and try out recipes. There is nothing like good food!