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Q: How to put views properly to make all views visible inside Linear Layout? I have a horizontal linear layout with 3 elements, an icon and two text views:
<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="20dp"
        android:layout_height="20dp"
        android:layout_margin="8dp"
        android:background="@drawable/icon_place" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="8dp"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:text="Information 1"
        android:textColor="@android:color/black"
        android:textSize="14sp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Information 2"
        android:gravity="right"
        android:textSize="13sp"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:textColor="@android:color/darker_gray"
        android:layout_margin="8dp"/>

</LinearLayout>

Giving me this :

I want the second text view "Information 2" to always stay visible, the first text view being cropped if needed. But here is what happens with a long text in the first text view:

So what should I do instead? Thanks for your help!

A: Firstthing you set android:maxLines = 1 to enforce your textviews to visiable at one line. If you want your textview cropped itself based on content. Remove below code from xml.
android:maxLines="1"

Second thing your first textview take remaining space of linear layout other than second textview and imageview you must use android:weight property of linearlayout. you can see the simple layout weight property as per your need here.
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/linear.html
Weightsum equalweights distributed weights all you need for complex linear layouts. See this tutorial for help
http://abhiandroid.com/ui/linear-layout
Here is the Code
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="@+id/recycler_view_empty"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:visibility="visible">

<ImageView
    android:layout_width="20dp"
    android:layout_height="20dp"
    android:layout_margin="8dp"
    android:background="@drawable/ic_menu_send" />

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_margin="8dp"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:text="Information 1 IInformation Information InformationInformationvvvInformation Information"
    android:textColor="@android:color/black"
    android:textSize="14sp"
    android:textStyle="bold" />

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Information 2"
    android:textSize="13sp"
    android:maxLines="1"
    android:textColor="@android:color/darker_gray"
    android:layout_margin="8dp"/>

</LinearLayout>

Output:

In Editor View

A: You can wrap your two TextViews in a horizontal LinearLayout splitting it into two equal size parts by using the weightsum attribute. You can also ellipsize the text if it is too long.
<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="20dp"
        android:layout_height="20dp"
        android:layout_margin="8dp"
        android:background="@drawable/icon_place" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:weightSum="2">

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_margin="8dp"
            android:maxLines="1"
            android:gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="Information 1 with a very very long test"
            android:ellipsize="end"
            android:textColor="@android:color/black"
            android:textSize="14sp"
            android:textStyle="bold" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Information 2"
            android:gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:textSize="13sp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:ellipsize="end"
            android:maxLines="1"
            android:textColor="@android:color/darker_gray"
            android:layout_margin="8dp"/>

    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

This is the result:

A: There is a concept of "android: weigth = 1" if you add it to all 3 components. then their width will always be 33.3%, and the width should not change when displaying long texts, if you want a width of about 10% 40% 40% then you will have to conjure with this tag, ksatai value is not accepted in the format 0.5 they need to write here in this format .5

A: You should set android:layout_weight="1" to the TextView in the middle and change match_parent by wrap_content for the 3rd TextView.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="20dp"
        android:layout_height="20dp"
        android:layout_margin="8dp"
        android:background="@drawable/ic_launcher_background" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="8dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:text="Information 1"
        android:textColor="@android:color/black"
        android:textSize="14sp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="8dp"
        android:gravity="right"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:text="Information 2"
        android:textColor="@android:color/darker_gray"
        android:textSize="13sp" />

</LinearLayout>

here is the result screen

A: Use this one -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <RelativeLayout android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/icon"
            android:layout_width="20dp"
            android:layout_height="20dp"
            android:layout_margin="8dp"
            android:background="@android:drawable/ic_lock_idle_alarm" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/icon"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_margin="8dp"
            android:maxLines="1"
            android:text="Information 1"
            android:textColor="@android:color/black"
            android:textSize="14sp"
            android:textStyle="bold" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:text="Information 2"
            android:layout_marginLeft="28dp"
            android:background="@android:color/white"
            android:gravity="right"
            android:textSize="13sp"
            android:maxLines="1"
            android:textColor="@android:color/darker_gray"
            android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="8dp"/>

    </RelativeLayout>


Well with Christmas now a distant memory, the next thing on people's minds is the V-word. That's right, Valentine's Day is coming! Now Valentine's Day is not for everyone – the abundance of pink hearts and mushy cards can put even the most romantic of people off. However, you can go the non-mushy route and give your fave person a fun and unusual V-Day surprise. I've found 5 of the quirkiest free Valentines Day card printables that you can nab – perfect for those anti-romantics!
OMG how did I ever live without knowing that these cards existed? I'm a HUGE Star Wars fan, so it makes sense that I'd love to receive one of these fabulous cards by Megan Harney at Wit & Wander… but I challenge even someone who doesn't know the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek (I know!) not to love these.
Being a teenager of the 90s, these old school rap lyric cards by Almost Makes Perfect just make me want break out my old cassette tapes and sing along (I won't. Promise). I love the contrast of the pretty handwritten text against the hilarious rap lyrics, it's the perfect compromise for an unromantic Valentine!
You can get a little more obvious with your lovey dovey intentions with these cards by Landeelu, however the 'deerly' pun with the heart antlers nicely stops it from stepping into mush land!
Another lovely freebie from the super talented Megan at Wit & Wander. These free cards mix the more traditional red and heart vibe with a fun modern twist. I think my favourite is the typewriter one!
If I'm going to be strict then these aren't really card printables as such – more envelopes really. What I love about these fun printables from Design Eat Repeat, however, is the fact that you can write your beloved a little note and give it to them, which feels a lot more personal than a shop bought card, don'tcha think?
So, there you have it, 5 of the cutest, quirkiest and FREE Valentines Day card printables around. Which is your favourite?
Print it on your home printer. For more details on how to print stationery at home check out this blog post.
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In the eyes of many, the American League East only has two teams: the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. It's hard to blame anyone that thinks like that (considering both teams are consistently have a top-five payroll amongst the 30 teams) but the low-spending Tampa Bay Rays are ready to give New York and Boston a run for their money.
Last season the Rays finished with a 90-72 record, good for third in the division. This year it looks like the Rays are ready to put that third place finish in the rearview mirror.
Currently the Rays sit at 12-4, good for best record in the MLB with the red hot Seattle Mariners sitting right behind them. People can talk all about it is just a hot start for the team from St.Pete but I am here to tell you why that is not the case.
The Rays have always been able to win without spending very much at all and this year is no different. Their 25-man payroll is currently last in the MLB at around $49 million. To put that in perspective, the Red Sox are paying David Price $31 million this year alone. Still, that does not matter to the Rays.
Tampa Bay has a litany of young players on cheap deals that are performing at a very high level to start 2019. Two players from last season's Chris Archer deal- Tyler Glasnow and Austin Meadows- have been hotter than a ghost pepper. Meadows is hitting .357 with 6 bombs already while Glasnow has a 0.53 ERA in three starts.
Tampa's success does not stop there either. Veterans Kevin Kiermaier and Charlie Morton have also been off to great starts. Add Blake Snell and Tommy Pham to that list as well.
It is definitely easy to laugh this team off, but do not be surprised if by season's end they are in the playoffs while the Yankees and / or Red Sox are going golfing.


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I'm writing this from one of our public library study rooms here in beautiful Springfield, MO. My "real" office at home was offline all day yesterday and I was stuck at home — but maybe I can use that experience to impart a useful tip. But first, a little background information is in order.
We had something like 15 hours of severe weather come pounding through our neck of the woods overnight on Monday. For that time, we were ALWAY under either a tornado warning or a severe thunderstorm warning. For those of you who live outside stormy regions of our world, a weather "watch" means conditions are right for bad weather; a "warning" means that sucker's here.
Two tornadoes went through our town, neither very close to our old house. But one of them blew down my son's privacy fence and scattered his neighbor's trash all over his (my son's) yard.
Several nearly-100-mph straight line wind gusts blew by also, as well as some serious (golf ball sized to baseball sized) hail. It was a less than fun night in the Ozarks. Two people died as a result of those storms, many homes were damaged or destroyed, and things were a mess all day yesterday. Which brings me to the point of all this: We lost telephone service, along with our DSL — meaning I had no way to get online from home yesterday.
I happened to be stuck around the house all day anyway waiting for a plumber to repair a sump pump problem that came about from the storm. So I couldn't get to what I like to think of as my instant, public office space: A private study room in one of our public libraries, with free WiFI.
Hence the title of this post: If you haven't done so yet, you might want to scout out a public place where you can spend serious time online for free if you're doing writing or business on the Internet. Perhaps you already have. There are many cafes, coffee shops, and libraries all over that offer such space. If you haven't found that sort of backup spot somewhere handy, you really should.
Thankfully, our DSL/phone service is now back, so I probably won't spend long here, because I'm a lazy old bald guy who loves blogging from his favorite recliner more than this stiff library chair. But it was nice to have. Find something like that for yourself.
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Bandit [a.k.a. Bitty Bandit, 'Tinky Wonder Butt, Mr. Butt]
A highly intelligent street urchin who picked me up at the Post Office in the Fall of the year I lost Sugarfoot. He's a mixed breed: he's part
cat, part dog, and part monkey.
Bandit had been living on the street, eating out of trash cans and scavanging what food he could find. He was sick and had a worms. I picked him up and took him to my car. I think he realized he'd bagged himself a more responsible human than his previous people. He was purring and rubbing himself all over me. As soon as we were in the car Bandit passed gas. A very foul fart. I opened a window and said, "Hooey! You're a stinky butt little cat, aren't you?"
Well, the vet treated him for worms and disease, and I put him on a high-quality cat food diet. His insides cleaned up quickly and he never was, literally speaking, a stinky butt little cat again. But, the name stuck. He's still my 'Tinky Wonder Butt, cause he's a wonderful little 'Tinky Butt. That's the story of his nickname.
Bandit's favorite game is fetch. He likes for me to throw a toy down the hall into another room so he can run after it and bring it back to me. Then he'll stand ready to run after it again and he'll be happy to play this game for hours.
Bandit and Timmy often don't get along very well. I imagine it's some kind of Alpha cat thing. Timmy is much bigger and stronger than Bandit, but Bandit is the more agressive of the two. Timmy could shred Bandit if he'd just stand up to him, but Bandit always comes out on top. I don't like them fighting and do what I can to discourage it.
[14/Sep/00]Since Joey's death, Bandit has moved into Joey's spot on the bed and he's demanding more of my attention. He's also playing games that he hasn't shown an interest in since he was a year or two old. He seems like a self-appointed cheerer-upper cat.
[01/Mar/02] At approximately 10 minutes after 4:00 p.m., Bandit started crying out. I went to him and found him lying with his rear legs apparently paralyzed and he was obviously in terrible pain. I put on my shoes and grabbed a jacket and rushed him out to the car to take him to the vet. I drove like a maniac to the nearest vet (not my usual vet -- that would have been much too long a drive) and they were closed already. So, I turned around and headed to the second nearest clinic... but Bandit died about a minute before I got there. Just before 4:30.
His last minutes were spent in terrible agony. The vet theorized that a blood clot blocked the arteries to his lower body and that half of his body died from oxygen deprivation. They said there's not much that can be done at that point. They wouldn't have been able to do anything but euthenize him. It is, I am told, a very painful death.
I've never in my life ever seen a cat suffer so much. I don't think I'll ever get the sound of his screams out of my mind, nor the sight of him thrashing and writhing in agony. I wanted so desperately to help him, and I couldn't.
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We all suffer from a tendency to accumulate sentimental objects that clutter every inch of surface space. But there is no need to display our possessions all at once. "Cutsie, cutsie" are weeds that choke your garden. Dolls and stuffed animals seem more appropriate in a child's room than in a living room. Avoid displaying mementos from your travels, i.e., items purchased from vacation destination gift shops. Be cautious with pillows that have slogans or messages. If you're a collector —of teapots, antique silver, antique cups and saucers, figurines, whatever —display your possessions with economy. A grouping of like objects in one space is dramatic, but a grouping of like objects everywhere throughout the house can look demented. Concentrate your collection in one area for the biggest impact.
Nothing is duller than everything being paired off — bedroom end tables that match the headboard, the headboard that matches the dresser; the dining room table that matches the chairs; and the chairs that match the sideboard. When everything is matched, the effect is stultifying. A room is far more interesting when it has a variety of woods, shapes, and textures.
A dining room can successfully incorporate upholstered chairs with a wood table, or the table and chairs can be of contrasting woods. A pair of sofa tables shouldn't be identical. Two unmatched tables can be unified with a pair of lamps.
Break up the boredom of the obvious with surprise touches. Every room can stand a touch of black or red. Introduce an object that is whimsical— a child's chair a vase of branches, a clay handprint from kindergarten. Remember, decorating is creative, and our best results are achieved not only through trial and error but through combination and recombination.


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Corruption Is Still A Big Problem In The Philippines
Panos MourdoukoutasFormer Contributor
Photographer: Veejay Villafranca/Bloomberg
President Rodrigo Duterte's death squads have killed the democratic process in the Philippines, and they haven't killed the system that reproduces and perpetuates corruption.
In fact, the Philippines is getting more corrupt under Duterte, dropping 13 notches in the 2017 Corruption Index published recently by Transparency International.
That's on top of six notches it dropped in 2016, which had already pushed the country closer to highly corrupt Asian countries like Pakistan, and far below countries like Singapore and New Zealand that are almost corruption free.
Corruption Rank 2017
Philippines 134 95/168 101/168 114/180
Pakistan 143/168 117/168 116/168 123
India 87 76 79 85
Source: Transparency International
To be fair, the findings of the survey should be interpreted with a great deal of caution, for a couple of reasons. One of them is that they are based on other surveys and polls, and therefore, subject to aggregation errors. Another reason is that some of the data included in these surveys go back a couple of years ago, and therefore that data reflects the policies of the previous administrations more than it does the Duterte administration.
Meanwhile, other surveys show that Filipinos are better off today than they were two years ago. Like a Gallup survey, which finds an increase in the percentage of Filipinos who consider their lives positive enough to rate it as "thriving" since Duterte assumed office.
Specifically, 28% of Filipinos consider themselves thriving in 2017 compared to 26% in 2016, pushing the Philippines up one notch in the ranking of the Asian-Pacific countries.
For an obvious reason: Duterte's economy is running on high gear. It was ranked the world's 10th fastest growing economy in the world in 2017.
That's according to the World Bank's latest edition of Global Economic Prospects.
Still, fighting corruption is a big bet for the Philippines and for foreign investors buying Philippine stocks. Why? Because it will determine whether the Philippines can move forward to become a developed country or slide back to the frontier status.
Fund 3-Month Performance 2-year Performance
ishares MSCI China (FXI) 1.77% 12.89
iShares MSCI Philippines (EPHE) -2.75 4.14
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM) 2.36 10.42
Source: Finance.yahoo.com 2/21/2018
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Panos Mourdoukoutas
I'm Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at LIU Post in New York. I also teach at Columbia University. I've published several articles in professional…
I'm Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at LIU Post in New York. I also teach at Columbia University. I've published several articles in professional journals and magazines, including Barron's, The New York Times, Japan Times, Newsday, Plain Dealer, Edge Singapore, European Management Review, Management International Review, and Journal of Risk and Insurance. I've have also published several books, including Collective Entrepreneurship, The Ten Golden Rules, WOM and Buzz Marketing, Business Strategy in a Semiglobal Economy, China's Challenge: Imitation or Innovation in International Business, and New Emerging Japanese Economy: Opportunity and Strategy for World Business. I've traveled extensively throughout the world giving lectures and seminars for private and government organizations, including Beijing Academy of Social Science, Nagoya University, Tokyo Science University, Keimung University, University of Adelaide, Saint Gallen University, Duisburg University, University of Edinburgh, and Athens University of Economics and Business. Interests: Global markets, business, investment strategy, personal success.


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Q: cannot rollback - no transaction is active first time app is executed I am creating DataBase this way:
MainActivity:
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    BBDD bbdd=new BBDD(MainActivity.this);
    SQLiteDatabase db=bbdd.getWritableDatabase();

}
}

BBDD:
public class BBDD extends SQLiteOpenHelper {

public static final int DATABASE_VERSION = 1;
public static final String DATABASE_NAME = "users.db";
public String TABLE_USERS="users";
public String TABLE_SKILLS="skills";
public String TABLE_USERTYPES="tipousuarios";
public Context ctx;

public BBDD(Context context) {
    super(context, DATABASE_NAME, null, DATABASE_VERSION);
    ctx=context;
}

@Override
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
    Log.i("David", "onCreate de BBDD");
    dropTables();
    //db=getWritableDatabase();
    poblarTablas(db);
}

private void poblarTablas(SQLiteDatabase db) {

    Log.i("David", "Creando tablas");
    //Creamos las tablas
    db.execSQL("CREATE TABLE "+TABLE_USERS+" ("+
    "id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, "+
    "nombre TEXT NOT NULL, "+
    "apellidos TEXT NOT NULL, "+
    "tipoUsuario TEXT NOT NULL, "+
    "login TEXT NOT NULL, "+
    "password TEXT NOT NULL)");

    Log.i("David", "Tabla users creada");

    db.execSQL("CREATE TABLE"+TABLE_SKILLS+" ("+
    "id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, "+
    "user TEXT FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES "+TABLE_USERS+"(login), "+
    "habilidad TEXT NOT NULL)");

    Log.i("David", "Tabla skills creada");

    db.execSQL("CREATE TABLE "+TABLE_USERTYPES+"( "+
    "id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, "+
    "tipousuario TEXT NOT NULL)");

    Log.i("David", "Tabla tipos de usuarios creada");

    //Insertamos los tipos de usuario
    ContentValues valuesTipoUsuario=new ContentValues();
    valuesTipoUsuario.put("tipousuario","administrador");
    db.insert(TABLE_USERTYPES,null,valuesTipoUsuario);

    ContentValues valuesTipoUsuario2=new ContentValues();
    valuesTipoUsuario2.put("tipousuario", "técnico");
    db.insert(TABLE_USERTYPES, null, valuesTipoUsuario2);

    //Insertamos usuarios
    ContentValues values=new ContentValues();
    values.put("nombre", "Rubén");
    values.put("apellidos", "García López");
    values.put("tipoUsuario", "administrador");
    values.put("login", "rgarcia");
    values.put("password", "rgarcia");

    db.insert(TABLE_USERS, null, values);
    ContentValues values2=new ContentValues();
    values2.put("nombre", "Rafael");
    values2.put("apellidos", "Martín González");
    values2.put("tipoUsuario", "técnico");
    values2.put("login", "rmartin");
    values2.put("password", "rmartin");

    db.insert(TABLE_USERS, null, values2);
    ContentValues values3=new ContentValues();
    values3.put("nombre", "Sarah");
    values3.put("apellidos", "López Martínez");
    values3.put("tipoUsuario", "técnico");
    values3.put("login", "slopez");
    values3.put("password", "slopez");
    db.insert(TABLE_USERS, null, values3);

    ContentValues values4=new ContentValues();
    values3.put("nombre", "David");
    values3.put("apellidos", "Fernández Arias");
    values3.put("tipoUsuario", "técnico");
    values3.put("login", "dfernandez");
    values3.put("password", "dfernandez");
    db.insert(TABLE_USERS, null, values4);

    ContentValues values5=new ContentValues();
    values3.put("nombre", "Pilar");
    values3.put("apellidos", "García Cabrera");
    values3.put("tipoUsuario", "técnico");
    values3.put("login", "pgarcia");
    values3.put("password", "pgarcia");
    db.insert(TABLE_USERS, null, values5);

    //Insertamos las habilidades de los usuarios
    ContentValues vSkills=new ContentValues();
    vSkills.put("user", "rmartin");
    vSkills.put("habilidad", "Reponedor de productos");
    db.insert(TABLE_SKILLS, null, vSkills);

    ContentValues vSkills2=new ContentValues();
    vSkills2.put("user", "smartinez");
    vSkills2.put("habilidad", "Envolver");
    db.insert(TABLE_SKILLS, null, vSkills2);

    ContentValues vSkills3=new ContentValues();
    vSkills3.put("user", "dfernandez");
    vSkills3.put("habilidad", "Envolver");
    db.insert(TABLE_SKILLS, null, vSkills3);

    ContentValues vSkills4=new ContentValues();
    vSkills4.put("user", "dfernandez");
    vSkills4.put("habilidad", "Reponedor de productos");
    db.insert(TABLE_SKILLS, null, vSkills4);

    ContentValues vSkills5=new ContentValues();
    vSkills5.put("user", "pgarcia");
    vSkills5.put("habilidad", "Cobrar");
    db.insert(TABLE_SKILLS, null, vSkills5);
}

private void dropTables() {
    Log.i("David", "Eliminando tablas");
    ctx.deleteDatabase(DATABASE_NAME);
}

@Override
public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion)     {

}
}

This way, I receive the exception:
E/SQLiteLog: (1802) os_unix.c:30027: (2) stat(/data/data/com.prueba.sdos.pruebasdos/databases/users.db) -
E/SQLiteLog: (1802) statement aborts at 9: [CREATE TABLE users (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, nombre TEXT NOT NULL, apellidos TEXT NOT NULL, tipoUsuario TEXT NOT NULL, login TEXT NOT NULL, password TEXT NOT NULL)]
E/SQLiteLog: (1) statement aborts at 2: [ROLLBACK;] cannot rollback - no transaction is active
D/AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
W/dalvikvm: threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4157fd88)
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
              Process: com.prueba.sdos.pruebasdos, PID: 8734
              java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.prueba.sdos.pruebasdos/com.prueba.sdos.pruebasdos.MainActivity}: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: cannot rollback - no transaction is active (code 1)
                  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2263)
                  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2313)
                  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:144)
                  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1246)
                  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
                  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
                  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5212)
                  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
                  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
                  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
                  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:602)
                  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
               Caused by: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: cannot rollback - no transaction is active (code 1)
                  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteConnection.nativeExecute(Native Method)
                  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteConnection.execute(SQLiteConnection.java:555)
                  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteSession.endTransactionUnchecked(SQLiteSession.java:439)
                  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteSession.endTransaction(SQLiteSession.java:401)
                  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.endTransaction(SQLiteDatabase.java:522)
                  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper.getDatabaseLocked(SQLiteOpenHelper.java:263)
                  at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper.getWritableDatabase(SQLiteOpenHelper.java:164)
                  at com.prueba.sdos.pruebasdos.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:15)
                  at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5240)
                  at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1088)
                  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2227)
                  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2313)
                  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:144)
                  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1246)
                  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
                  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
                  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5212)
                  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
                  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
                  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
                  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:602)
                  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

I have read about thi error when you are upgrading the DDBB, but this happens to me the first time I execute the app.
Could anyone help, please?
Thank you.

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Programs for young students in elementary schools and for teens in the foster care system who struggle with emerging mental health issues or trauma—as described in WNYC's "Breaking Point: New York's Mental Health Crisis" series—are important preventatives that can restore health and steer young people away from the pipeline to prison. For adults returning home from a correctional facility, access to stable housing can be just as important to preventing them from falling back into behaviors that led to their incarceration. Studies have shown that people who have a safe place to live are better able to navigate the transition home from a correctional facility and, as a result, have an easier time finding employment and maintaining sobriety. On the other hand, when individuals have trouble accessing safe, affordable housing, they often wind up in recurring homelessness and criminal justice involvement.
Communities across the country have struggled to break this cycle, and New York City is no exception. In fact, a recent report by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on 400 New Yorkers admitted to jail more than 18 times in the last five years found that this small group accounted for 300,000 days in jail over the same time period (the reported data is cited here). This group also presented a higher prevalence of mental illness and substance use disorders than the general jail population.
There are two new approaches in New York City to change these unwanted outcomes. The recent Columbia University evaluation of one such approach—CSH's Frequent Users Services Enhancement (FUSE) pilot—suggests supportive housing effectively improves reentry and decreases this population's use of public systems. Another approach, focused on supporting successful reentry and family reunification, is examining the impact of increasing access to public housing for people with criminal convictions.
The FUSE pilot used supportive housing as an intervention for people cycling through homelessness and criminal justice involvement, targeting individuals who had at least four shelter stays and four jail stays during the five years prior to program entry. By combining affordable housing with services to improve housing stability, employment, mental and physical health, and to decrease active substance use, the pilot reduced pilot participants' usage of jails, emergency rooms, and shelters during Columbia's two-year evaluation. Each individual housed through FUSE generated $15,000 in public savings, paying for over two thirds of the intervention costs. Mayor Bill de Blasio has recognized this successful model and has committed to expanding FUSE this year in the Mayor's Task Force on Behavioral Health and the Criminal Justice System Action Plan.
Building on FUSE, CSH and Vera have partnered with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), New York City Department of Homeless Services, New York State and City Departments of Corrections, and 11 reentry service providers to launch the NYCHA Family Reentry Pilot Program. NYCHA is one of the first public housing authorities in the country to test lifting local bans on persons with criminal justice histories. The pilot is designed to help 150 individuals recently released from prison or jail reunite with their families in NYCHA apartments. Participants receive six months of case management support from one of the participating service providers and, at the end of two years, can become permanent tenants on the family's lease. If the pilot is effective, it could be expanded in New York City and demonstrate a model for public housing authorities nationwide.
The program's evaluation, supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, is underway and will provide information useful to other housing authorities interested in similar programs. Programs like these will stop the revolving door of arrest, incarceration, and homelessness that trap our most vulnerable New Yorkers and, more importantly, give them a place to call home.
Vera is pleased to complement the WNYC broadcast, Breaking Point: New York's Mental Health Crisis, with a blog series that features the voices of experts from a range of fields as they examine how the nexus of poverty, mental health, and the criminal justice system affects nearly every aspect of New York City life.


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Dubya takes his show on the road
Forget the hot, dusty weeks relaxing at his Texas ranch. President Bush, still down in the polls and grappling with grave matters on the world stage, is breaking his summer routine this election year to travel the country and boost the standing of his presidency and the Republican Party.
With Republicans nervous about keeping control of Congress and worries about the future of Iraq, Iran and North Korea, White House officials have decided too much is at stake this year for Bush to spend so much time on vacation. He'll spend some time at the ranch, but it will be less than previous summers and interrupted by more time on the road.
Since he's been president, Bush has spent the better part of every August largely out of sight on his ranch. It hurt him most last summer, when anti-war activists camped outside his property and drew attention to the mounting deaths in Iraq. Then Hurricane Katrina hit, forcing him to end his vacation several days early.
This year, Bush's travel among the people is designed to show that he's a likable guy and remind Americans why they elected him. The White House is gambling that more exposure to the president in local media _ where the coverage tends to be softer _ will offset the harsh realities of a slowdown in the economy and trouble in Iraq.
Bush was starting his road show Thursday with a two-day trip to Chicago, where he planned to listen to the concerns of local leaders over dinner and then stand for an hour of questioning from the national and local media in a unique heartland news conference.
The overnight trip is a departure for the president who travels extensively across the country but is known for his quick fly-in, drive-by visits. White House counselor Dan Bartlett said the Chicago trip will be the first of several this summer where Bush will spend significant time in a community and "really sink his teeth into the local market."
"There are a lot of things that are important to this president and often times when you fly into a community, you're in and out within 55 minutes and you talk about one subject," Bartlett said. "This gives him an opportunity to cover a broader range of subjects in the local community."
The president's approval numbers have been slowly rebounding from an all-time low this spring, and another summer out of the public eye could risk a reversal. If Democrats win control of either the House or Senate this November, a lame-duck Bush would face even more resistance to his agenda during his last two years in office.
Bush has been making more impromptu stops recently to talk to average Americans and show his folksy side. President Clinton was the master of using these meet-and-greets to get out among the people _ and get positive news coverage for it _ and Bush's aides believe they could have the same effect for the current president.
Last week in Ohio, after an unusual day of diplomacy that featured Bush and the Japanese prime minister touring Elvis Presley's Graceland in Tennessee, the president's motorcade pulled over at a lemonade stand across the street from a Republican fundraiser where he helped bring in $1.3 million. Bush distributed plastic cups full of the drink prepared by excited, giggling children to the startled reporters traveling with him.
He's also stopped unannounced to shake hands with staff and students waving to his motorcade outside an elementary school in Laredo, Texas. Then just a few minutes later, he stopped by a Mexican barbecue restaurant, where he greeted patrons in Spanish and English and ordered up a couple of plates of nachos.
And earlier this week, he visited a Dunkin' Donuts to tout his immigration proposal with the foreign-born management over a cup of the shop's coffee.
But it's not just about shaking hands and slapping backs, said Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Franklin said Bush has been most effective at improving his image when he shows candor about the problems the country faces and talks more in-depth about public policy.
"He's more successful at rallying opinion when he behaves like a policy leader as president than when he appears as the nice guy George Bush that you'd want to hang out with out among the people," Franklin said.
The president's summer travel plans include more interaction with everyday Americans, more chances for local media to ask questions and more fundraisers. Some Republican candidates have been reluctant to appear with Bush when he's so unpopular, but even some of those running in swing districts apparently have wagered that a day or two of taking hits for standing with the president are worth the massive amount of money he can raise for a campaign.
The president's ambitious travel schedule "is good for me," said Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y., who is overseeing the Republican effort to maintain control of the House. "The president is the best fundraiser that the Republican Party knows today in 2006."
Asked whether Bush could hurt candidates in swing districts, Reynolds points out that Bush raised $840,000 for Rep. Dave Reichert, running for re-election as a centrist in his Seattle-area district.
As Bush visited, Reichert issued a statement welcoming the president's help but pointing out that they do not agree on everything.
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The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Forum for Innovative Regenerative Medicine (FIRM) in Japan, demonstrating a shared ambition to accelerate research and commercialisation of regenerative medicine.
Through this collaboration, FIRM and CGT Catapult hope to create a cooperative relationship between major players in the UK and Japan that will lead to information sharing on regenerative medicine technologies, policies and legal issues. Additionally, both groups hope that the partnership will enable a continued increase in the profile and standing of their countries within the cell and gene therapy space, advancing both organisations places at the forefront of cell and gene therapy research globally.
"We are pleased to announce this memorandum of understanding. The agreement with FIRM will enable us to boost the reach and profile of the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult in Japan and ultimately develop stronger links between industry in both countries," stated Keith Thompson, CEO of the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult.
"The partnership between the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult and FIRM will clearly promote the collaboration of industries between the UK and Japan, and accelerate the development of regenerative and cellular medicine products not only in both countries but worldwide," added Yuzo Toda, chairman of FIRM.
"This marks yet another relationship with an important major international institution in the cell and gene therapy space, indicating that the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult is continuing towards its goal of becoming a global hub of expertise in this burgeoning area of Life Sciences," concluded Thompson.
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Seven food truck teams embark on a food truck race that could earn them a life-altering prize of $50,000. In the premiere, the teams meet Tyler in Los Angeles, the center of the food truck revolution, and the race begins with the teams' first Truck Stop challenge, a game-changing twist posed in each episode: Instead of starting in Los Angeles, the race commences in San Diego. To even the playing field, the teams begin with empty trucks and an equal amount of seed money. They have three days to prepare, promote and sell their food by any means necessary. After a weekend of triumphs, teamwork, and tests of character, the totals are tallied and the trucks find out who continues the great race and who goes home.
Chile Santa Fe
With just a few miles before they reach the small art community of Santa Fe, N.M., the six remaining teams make frantic calls to local tastemakers to rally support for their weekend of sales. After meeting Tyler in Santa Fe Square, they receive a stipend and the action begins. The teams are interrupted as Tyler calls with their Truck Stop challenge: the teams must each add a special dish to their menu that includes local red or green chiles. Over the weekend, secret judge Eric DiStefano (Coyote Café) samples each of the dishes, and the winning truck receives immunity from the weekend's elimination.
The five remaining teams roll into Fort Worth, Texas, the beef capital of the world, and assemble in front of the courthouse. After the weekend's competition gets underway, Tyler calls the teams with their Truck Stop challenge: butcher a side of beef and incorporate into a special dish. Unaware of the challenge's steep odds and secret judge "King of Fort Worth" Tim Love (Lonesome Dove), the challenge winner earns $1,000 towards its final tally, an amount equivalent to immunity.
The Big Uneasy
The final four trucks arrive in New Orleans and meet Tyler at the Louisiana Superdome. The competitors run into shockingly unpredictable weather; one minute it's clear, and the next it's a major downpour. Putting even more pressure on the teams, Tyler calls them with the Truck Stop challenge: the teams must close down their trucks for the night and meet him near the Mississippi River at day break to prepare a classic catfish dish for a local legend, Chef Jacques Leonardi (Jaques-Imo and Crabby Jack's). The winning team earns $500 and the opportunity to immediately open their truck for business, while the three losing teams endure filleting 700 pounds of catfish before returning to their trucks.
Small Town Trouble
The remaining three teams pull into Jonesborough, Tenn., population 5,000. Nervous about how this small town will react to them, the teams meet Tyler on Main Street and realize that this leg of the race will hinge on their sales acumen and food quality. The trucks battle over the crowd assembled for a music festival but keeping their attention proves difficult. In the Truck Stop challenge, Tyler tells the team's to meet him at Old Man Johnson's farm to cook an authentic five-course prairie meal over an open fire to be judged by two cowboy historians from the American Chuck Wagon Association. As a reward, the winning team moves their truck to a greater populated town where they have the chance to beat out the competition.
New York Plate of Mind
The final two teams meet Tyler in Manhattan for an epic battle on the hungry streets of the Big Apple. In the final sprint of the competition, the trucks race through the five boroughs and scramble to make $500 at each location before moving on. To turn up the heat, Tyler calls the teams in the middle of the race with a Truck Stop challenge that brings them back to Brooklyn where they have an hour to prepare the other team's signature dish for judge Chef Nate Appleman (Pulino's Bar and Pizzeria). Chef Appleman awards a hefty advantage to the wining team, and it's a nail-biting finish as both teams chase the Manhattan finish line where the winner of The Great Food Truck Race is crowned and receives the well-deserved prize of $50,000.


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• Are you able to identify all plan fiduciaries and their responsibilities?
• Is your plan document readily available, properly executed and up to date?
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• Who is responsible for timely identification and enrollment of new participants?
• Do you follow a consistent process to timely distribute all required participant notices and disclosures?
• Do you know the deadlines for timely deposit of salary deferrals, loan repayments, and employer contributions?
• Can you identify all service providers for your plan?
• Do you know specifically what services your providers are responsible for and what, if anything, you need to furnish to those providers to enable them to carry out their duties (have you paid attention to the small print)?
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On October 18th, 2007, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau Macau's casino gaming profit for the 3rd quarter of the year improved 46 percent to MOP20.34 billion($2.55 billion) from MOP 13.95 billion from the previous year.
Combined with the MOP37.97 billion profits the Gaming Inspection stated for the 1st six months of the year, the 3rd quarter result brings Macau's total casino gaming profit for the 9 months of the year ended September 30th to MOP58.32 billion.
That is 47 percent better than the MOP39.70 billion achieved for the same time last year. The Bureau did not explicitly stated on the figures it released on their Internet site but gambling analysts commented that they expected the casinos total win from the wagers made by the high-rollers helped pushed the casino gaming profits in Macau, the only area in China where casino gaming is allowed.
Analysts and Casino industry officials said that high-rollers are players who usually spend at least half a million patacas (or an equivalent of $62,620) in casino wagering on each visit to Macau. Analysts commented that the opening of brand new casino facilities in Macau had lured in more players to the Chinese territory increasing casino profits.
The Las Vegas Sands Corporation's $2.4 billion Venetian casino resort facility in Cotai, which debuts in August, is among the three casino facilities that were launched in the past nine months of this year.
The amount of casino tables improved to 3,992 by the end of September from 2,762 casino table games. Macau cut the four decade monopoly of gambling mogul Stanley Ho of the casino industry after Macau reverted back to Mainland China rule in 1999.


IBPS conducts CWE for recruitment to Specialist Officers Cadre Posts in 20 Public Sector institutions. This examination is among the last in the category of the examinations to be held by the IBPS and marks the end of the examination season for the Bank jobs Aspirants.
The structure of the Written Examination will be conducted in Online Mode as follows.
All the Tests will be in Objective Type and is printed in two languages, except for English Paper.
The Specialist Officers Common Written Examination consists of 200 Objective Type Questions, each question carries one mark totally 200 marks and the time duration is 120 minutes.
Negative Marking: The negative marking is applicable in the Objective Tests. Every wrong answer deducts 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question as a penalty. In case no answer is given by the candidate, no penalty for that question is applicable.
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It will be a double dose of Fifita with David to play his first top grade game alongside Andrew in the match against the Eels tonight.
David has been added to the Sharks bench in place of Bryce Gibbs, with Siosaia Vave moving into the starting side. David Fifita will play in jersey 25.
The rest of the Sharks side is as selected earlier in the week.
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Syria: Another day, another massacre
Reports are coming in of yet another episode in which Syrian security forces have opened fire on a crowd of peaceful protestors. Which raises the question: What will it take to move Western democracies to respond to the serial slaughters of civilians by the regime of Bashar al Assad?
The latest bloodshed took place Tuesday morning, this time in the city of Homs, where thousands of people had occupied a central square Monday night, pitched tents and vowed to remain until their demands for political change were met.
This was an act of extraordinary courage, since at least a dozen people had been killed Sunday in the city of 700,000 by the security forces. And it appears to have prompted another massacre.
Information is fragmentary, because Syria has prohibited foreign journalists from entering the country and done its best to censor the Internet. But reports from residents gathered by the BBC and a video posted on YouTube indicate that security forces stormed the square in the early morning hours, firing on the crowd with automatic weapons.
"Listen to the shooting," once caller told the BBC. "Can you hear it? It's hammering on us like rain." The death toll was uncertain, though one BBC correspondent was told eight had died. Mass shootings of civilians by security forces are becoming a near daily event in Syria. In the southern town of Daraa, where the protest movement began last month, there have been multiple massacres, including one on April 8 in which gunmen opened up on a crowd marching with olive branches, killing 27. There have been similar episodes in the city of Banias and in several nearby villages. And these are just the ones that human rights groups have been able to document.
All together, considerably more than 200 people have been killed by the regime. The government mixes its repression with empty promises of change: Hours after the latest shootings Tuesday it announced that it was lifting a decades-old emergency law. But opening fire on crowds was not permitted even under emergency rule. There is no indication that it will stop now--unless the regime is toppled, or comes under severe international pressure.
In nearly every instance where state-sponsored murder on this scale has taken place in recent years, the United States and other democracies have reacted strongly. Uzbekistan's massacre of protestors in the city of Andijon in 2005 led to a rupture of relations with Washington and the European Union. And NATO has intervened in Libya to protect civilians from Moammar Gaddafi.
Yet the response to Assad's bloodshed has been limited to rhetoric. President Obama called the shootings in Daraa "abhorrent" and a White House statement said last week's attack on Banias was "outrageous." But the administration has refrained from taking even diplomatic measures to express its dissatisfaction, such as withdrawing the U.S. ambassador in Damascus. It has failed to bring Syria's case before the UN Human Rights Council--not to speak of the UN Security Council.
Syria, mind you, is not a friend of the United States. It is Iran's closest ally in the Arab world, and a sponsor of the Hezbollah and Hamas militias. For years it provided a transit route for suicide bombers headed to Iraq in order to kill American soldiers. It tried to secretly build a nuclear reactor with the help of North Korea.
Yet even when faced with extraordinary human rights crimes--the repeated gunning down of unarmed protestors--the Obama administration remains passive. At first this response was puzzling. Then it looked badly misguided. Now it has become simply unconscionable.


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ISLAMABAD: A three days Mango Festival was organized under the arrangements of Sardar Group of Companies at The Centaurus Mall Islamabad where stalls of different breed of mangoes were displayed.
Ambassador to Turkmenistan, Atadjan Movlamov, Secretary Narcotics Arif Nawaz Khan, Senior Vice President PGCL, Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan, Executive Director Higher Education Dr. Arshad Ali and Vice Chancellor MNS Agriculture University Multan, Dr. Asif Ali were also present at the time of Inauguration.
The festival was also attended by agricultural experts, mango growers and representatives of cultivators organizations from all over the country.
Minister for Agriculture, Food and P&D Punjab, Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan played a pivotal role in planning, organizing and executing the Three days Mango Festival.
This show was organized under the collaboration of the Management of the Centaurus, Inter University Consortium, MNS Agriculture University Multan and 7 Oceans association.
The basic aim of organizing this exhibition at the pioneer Mall of Islamabad The Centaurus was not only to highlight the importance of Pakistani Mangoes but also to increase and enhance it s export and this exhibition will play an important role in enhancing the productivity of mangoes.
Pakistan is the fourth largest producer of mangoes and shares 8% of the production of the mangoes. The total under cultivation area for mangoes in Pakistan in 170 million hectors. At present, there are multiple breeds of mangoes in Pakistan out of which 9 are registered.
The famous types of mangoes are Chaunsa, Sindhri, Anwar ratore, and Langra which have no match in taste in the entire world.
Moreover, government of Punjab has taken multiple steps in the field of agriculture which would ensure more production of mangoes and revenue generation and in this all role of Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan can never be undermined and shall be remembered as an initiator.
In a very short duration of care taker government, Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan has initiated revolutionary steps for the development of agricultural field, continuation of which shall pay an important role in the country's development.
Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khanhas also donated a sum of Rs 2 Crores in personal capacity to MNS Agriculture University Multan which is a very noble step and no such precedence exists.
His this deed will act as a beacon and source of inspiration for others. The total production of mangoes in year 2015-16 as approximately 17 lacs 5 thousand and 80 tons where as export was 64 thousand and 112 tons.
Last year Pakistani mangoes were exported to many new countries out of which Japan, America, Lebanon, Marakish and South Korea are on the top the list.


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Project by the Numbers: NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
Posted on April 22, 2021 August 16, 2022 Posted in Air Pollution, By The Numbers, Carbon Utilization, Cleantech, Earth Day, ETV, Executive Interview, Verification, XPRIZE
Tim Hansen, Founder and CEO, sat down today for a Project by the Numbers debrief to talk about some of the impressive numbers behind the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition and 350Solutions role as the official verifiers for the competition. Click here to read more about the project.
Q. What is verification as it relates to carbontech or cleantech?
Hansen: Verification is the work of figuring out if a technology or process is doing what it is designed to do. Most developers have an idea of what their technology is doing – but having an outside party come in and check your work as a fresh set of eyes, can help discover missteps in your calculations or assumptions, or provide assurance that the technology is working as designed. Verification should be seen as positive, because it can highlight opportunities for continued improvement.
Unfortunately, at this time, verification is not a standard part of technology development, but hopefully that will change.
Q. Are all verifications the same?
Hansen: All verifications are not the same. And that can be both a good and a bad thing. For certain technologies, its performance drivers – what matters about how it works – may differ depending on the application, location (and its regulations or policies), and driver for its use. For XPRIZE, there were certain parameters focused on in the competition, but those may not be as important in other scenarios. So, having the flexibility to focus on what different users might need in terms of data about a technology's performance is great, with results targeting different or specific use cases or operating conditions. On the other hand, having a core set of performance metrics for a technology that is universal and agreed upon is great. It allows everyone to do some fundamental apples-to-apples comparisons. So, developing consensus core metrics or verification protocols is important in the long run.
Q. What verification was involved in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE?
Hansen: Our company was extensively involved in designing the verification plans, meaning processes and metrics, for the competition. We worked with each finalist to account for all the resources that were used in (i.e. feedstocks, materials, energy, and other inputs) and created (products, byproducts, wastes, etc.) by their technologies. We observed and reviewed all of the data that was submitted by the teams as well as installed our own equipment to measure how much CO2, energy, and water each team was using. Finally, 350Solutions collected samples of the final products and had them analyzed to ensure that they were viable, market-competitive products. The goal of these verifications plans was to provide the judges clear and consistent data that would allow them to make informed decisions and ultimately pick the winners.
Q. We know that 18.1 tonne of CO2 was converted into product by the 9 teams during the finals, equal to the amount of CO2 produced by 2.4 U.S. homes in one year. How do we know that to be true?
Hansen: We measured it. Teams measured it. We cross checked, we verified. We had flow meters and CO2 analyzers on each input stream to each team's process, measuring CO2 input second-by-second. And on the product side, we validated team submitted data for measurements of their product output – by observing their measurements in person and remotely. And, we also did independent analysis of their products to see how much carbon was actually in the product. Essentially, that allowed us to do a mass balance on carbon for each team and figure out where the carbon went.
From the CO2 usage perspective, it's good to note that, at the Calgary ACCTC site, the site-operated CO2 capture system – which collected the CO2 from the power plant flue gas and provided a stream of pure CO2 to the teams – actually processed much more CO2 than the teams were able to use. They produced over 400 tons of CO2 from mid September to early December and ran near continuously. Over 46 tons of that CO2 was fed to the teams during that period.
Also – to some that 18.1 tonnes may seem small when we are talking about gigaton impacts needed. But, considering that some teams were only able to operate for about a day or two during the demo, some were still at very small scales, and some weren't fully optimized yet (these are still new technologies!), that number is pretty good. Even more important, though, is that number represents massive scaleup in two years from the kg level that most teams were producing in the semi-finals. Scaling these techs is critical, and the XPRIZE competition pushed them hard and showed that it can be done rapidly and is the first step toward scaling to gigaton scale CO2 utilization.
Q. We talk about the number of data points reviewed, 27,828,703 – what type of information is behind those data points and why is that important?
Hansen: They key thing to understand with the amount of data is that it is an indication of the level of detail that was looked at for each team. We aren't simply talking about one final set of numbers – like that a team used 1.7 tons of CO2 over 35 days. We look at second-by-second or minute-by-minute data on these processes. And, each process might have a few to dozens of different measurements that all go into calculation of how much CO2 is used, for example. Looking at this level of detailed data ensures that you are able to catch times during operation when there might be an upset (like a pipe froze and the process wasn't working right), or when an instrument goes haywire and reports wrong numbers. Having that level of data lets us make sure that we are reporting true values for performance, not just what a computer spits out at the end.
Q. Are there any other interesting numbers that you can share related to the competition?
Hansen: Our team at 350Solutions has been working with XPRIZE for more than four years. In the semifinals, we traveled more than 95,000 miles to 28 different locations in six countries to monitor the technologies. During the last year of the competition, we still traveled to be onsite in both Wyoming and Canada to perform some in-person monitoring for days at a time, including 35 man-days of full or modified quarantine during COVID, and probably close to a dozen COVID tests.
Press Release: 350Solutions Technology Verification Approach Vital in the $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
350Solutions Completes Verification of InnoTech Alberta Inc.'s Carbon Capture System
350Solutions Completes Carbon Utilization Verification for Dimensional Energy Technology June 2, 2021
350Solutions Completes Verification of InnoTech Alberta Inc.'s Carbon Capture System May 13, 2021
Project by the Numbers: NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE April 22, 2021
Press Release: 350Solutions Technology Verification Approach Vital in the $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE April 19, 2021
Executive Perspective: 2020 Predictions in Review – A Look Back January 28, 2021


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Q: Automating performance tests for python code in a CI My apologies in advance for a question that might seem trivial - I am a mostly solo dev in academic environment and a lot of industry best practices don't necessarily make it here.
Several of my projects run high-performance numerical computation loops. Per se, a single iteration of the loop is rather fast (~1 sec), but there are a lot of them (10-100k per run). Due to that, the performance of the loop is essential to the performance of the whole application and some minor modifications to it (such as unnecessary array type/shape conversions) can slow it down by a lot (latest optimization pass I performed accelerated it by a factor of 20-ish).
As such, it is critical for me to monitor if any changes to the code I am making are having a performance impact on the core loop- be it immediate or by accumulating the loss of performance over time.
I am using a CI suite and number of tools to run unittest, measure test coverage and automatically build the apidocs. However, so far I have not found anything that would perform performance tests as easily or combine their outputs into a graph-over-time. Looking around, I realized that actually comparing performance on different builds is non trivial, given it can be affected by the hardware running the performance tests as well as the software enabling the code isolation and results collection.
Is there a recommended way to perform performance tests to minimize the effects of hardware? Or at least make sure the values are comparable? Is there a standard way of outputting/ingesting performance test results in Python? For instance something along the lines of pytest --duration?

A: Setup a Jenkins instance (master).
Add Slave nodes and tag them based on your needs (says PERF_NODE, FUNCTIONAL_NODE, ).
Create Jobs in jenkins (you can configure the job to run on git push or manual trigger). Configure the jobs to run on the specific nodes.
Setting up the above should not take more than 2 hours (assuming you are familiar with Jenkins and you have the necessary machines with admin access).
If you want to do fine-grained resource control, then you need to do that outside jenkins scope. Say you write a script that is invoked as part of the job that books the resources to run the job.
As part of the job configuration you can run anything (it could be a tox command on a pytest). Tox can produce Junit style results that Jenkins can plot (with additional plugins) and show you detailed test-cases pass/fail results + Historical graphs.
If this approach would work, then shoot any more questions..

A: I haven't done this in the past or validated it but at first glance, although you're right that comparing absolute time elapsed across runs would be tricky, maybe it's worth focusing on the number of instructions/function calls during a run? I think that would only vary between processor/versions of dependencies, not depending on whether or not your VM has a noisy neighbor or some other process slows down a test run a smidge. If you have one less function call in your hot loop, you'll make it faster wherever/however it runs.
cProfile can dump binary reports, which you can probably store as artifacts from each build, and then you can read them/compare them.


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Analysis: Men's 200m Butterfly
One epic journey ended here. Michael Phelps (USA) becomes the most successful Olympic athlete ever - but has a spot of trouble with his goggles along the way
1. Michael Phelps (USA) 1:52.03 WR (25.36; 53.53; 1:22.75; 1:52.03)
2. Laszlo Cseh (HUN) 1:52.70
3. Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) 1:52.97
Fastest field: Beijing 2008: 1:52.03 - 1:55.14 (bronze in Athens would not have been among the top 8)
World Record: 1:52.09 - Michael Phelps (USA), Melbourne, 28.03.07
Olympic champion: Michael Phelps (CHN) 1:54.04
World champion: Phelps 1:52.09
Minimal. In a raise that produced five new time entries in the all-time top 10, only one man raced slower than he did in the heats, namely Kaio Almeida (BRA). What it took to make the semis:
One epic journey ended here. Michael Phelps (USA) becomes the most successful Olympic athlete ever. With five golds up to this point, after victories in the 200m butterfly and the 4x200m freestyle with US teammates, Superfish has a career 11 gold medals to his name. Two more than Paavo Nurmi (FIN), Larysa Latynina (URS), Mark Spitz and Carl Lewis (USA). The butterfly final produced a world record of 1:52.03 but Phelps looked a little uneasy as Laszlo Cseh (HUN) came home in 1:52.70, a European record, and Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) touched just behind that in an Asian record of 1:52.97. The reason soon became clear: Phelps's goggles had filled up with water. He had no idea how it happened but he coped and came through it. He threw the goggles off in disgust at the end of the race. one of his goals had been achieved: victory. But the other had not: "I couldn't see anything for the last 100, my goggles pretty much filled up with water, it just kept getting worse and worse through the race and I was having trouble seeing the walls to be honest. But it's fine, I wanted to break the record. I wanted to go 1:51 or better but for the circumstances, I guess it's not too bad." The performances of Cseh and Matsuda were stunning. The Hungarian wiped 5sec off his best, the Japanese 2secs off. Before Beijing, only Phelps had cracked 1:54. Now three are below 1:53 and four others in the final swam inside 1:55. Five men in the semi-final had an impact on the all-time top 10 and one other man in the final, Nikolai Skvortsov (RUS) in the semi: with a European record of 1:54.31, slower than the 1:54.16 of cheat Ioannis Drymonakos (GRE), who forfeited six months of results, including the European title, when he got suspended for doping. Cseh, of course, claimed that European record in the final.
1:52.03 Phelps, Michael USA BEIJING F
1:52.70 Cseh, Laszlo HUN BEIJING F
1:52.97 Matsuda, Takeshi JPN BEIJING F
1:53.86 Stovall, William G USA
1:54.16 Drymonakos, Ioannis GRE
1:54.31 Skvortsov, Nikolai RUS BEIJING S
1:54.35 Burmester, Moss NZL BEIJING F
1:54.35 Wu, Peng CHN BEIJING F
1:54.38 Korzeniowski, Pawel POL F
1:54.46 Tarwater, Davis USA F
1:52.09 Phelps, Michael USA 2007
1:54.56 Yamamoto, Takashi JPN 2004
1:54.62 Esposito, Franck FRA 2002
1:54.91 Wu, Peng CHN 2006
1:54.93 Korzeniowski, Pawel POL 2007
1:54.99 Shibata, Ryuichi JPN 2007
1:55.03 Malchow, Tom USA 2001
1:55.22 Pankratov, Denis RUS 1995
1:55.22 Skvortsov, Nikolai RUS 2007
1:55.35 Burmester, Moss NZL 2007
Victory for Phelps extended the USA lead over the world in the event: nine Olympic titles (1956; 1960, 1968; 1972, 1976, 1992, 2000, 2004; 2008), with Australians and Russians claiming two each. Of the 42 medals on offer since 1956, 18 have gone to Americans, with Australia next best on five medals. The title had never been retained until Phelps decided that it was time to change the history of the event. The first Olympic crown went to William Yorzyk (USA) by the biggest winning margin ever. If he had something about him then, he kept the magic throughout his life: by 1984 he was a 57-year-old anesthesiologist capable of swimming 2:11 in a 200 yard butterfly race, a time faster than his best from a time when he led the world in his youth.
Fastest: 1:54.03: Michael Phelps (USA), 2004
World Record wins: Mike Troy (USA), 1960; Kevin Berry (AUS), 1964; Mark Spitz (USA), 1972; Mike Brunner (USA), 1976; Jon Sieben (AUS), 1984; Michael Phelps (USA), 2008.
Biggest margin: William Yorzyk (USA), clocked 2:19.3 to win the inaugural crown in 1956, a time that left him 4.5sec ahead of Takashi Ishimoto (JPN). That margin may never be repeated again, perhaps, although Phelps won the world title in 2007 by 3.04sec.