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Chipped Away
A Competitor Put the FBI on Haoyang Yu's Trail. The Investigation Didn't Go as Planned.
Illustration: Daniel Zender for The InterceptIllustration: Daniel Zender for The Intercept
Mara Hvistendahl
December 22 2022, 3:32 p.m.
Paul Blount started small. When he set up a semiconductor chip company in his basement in 2006, he was the only employee. He had spent a decade at the chip behemoth Hittite Microwave Corporation, and he saw room in the market for a boutique design outfit.
About a decade later, a man named Haoyang Yu did almost exactly the same thing, setting up his own lean chip company, Tricon, in Lexington, Massachusetts, just 30 miles from Blount's home. A tipster, whom Blount would later acknowledge was linked to his company, went to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, writing that their new competitor "smells a bit fishy."
The tipster said it was suspicious that no one in their orbit had heard of Yu. "None of us here know this person or this company and there is 100% no way that they could come up with this product line in 6 months," wrote the tipster. Both Yu and Blount marketed tiny, mass-produced chips called monolithic microwave integrated circuits, or MMICS, which can be used in everything from cellphones to military radar systems. Some MMICs are under export controls, which means that they can only be sent to certain end users and destinations with a license from the Commerce Department. Without evidence, the tipster hinted that Tricon might be violating export control regulations. "They are most likely reselling someone else's part and what makes me nervous is that at least one is 3A001.b.2.d part," the tipster wrote, referring to an export control classification number covering certain MMIC chips.
Yu, who also goes by Jack, was in fact no stranger to the industry. He had moved to Amherst in 2002 to study engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After graduation he stayed in New England, eventually settling in Lexington with his wife and two young children. He worked at Hittite after Blount left, staying on after the company was acquired by Analog Devices in 2014. The year Yu started Tricon, he left Analog to work as a software engineer at a company that counts MMIC makers among its clients. At one point, he had even visited Blount's company, Custom MMIC, to demonstrate software to a group that included Blount.
Nonetheless, the tip to the FBI set off a cascade of events that would upturn Yu's world. Investigators came to see him as a national security threat, zeroing in on what they imagined were unsavory links to China, where Yu, now a U.S. citizen, was born. They mounted a secret camera on a pole outside his house and enlisted the local trash company to set aside his family's garbage after collecting it so agents could covertly rifle through it. In May, after spending five nights in jail, three months with a clunky ankle bracelet tracking his movements, and over two and a half years in legal limbo, he stood trial for a slew of felonies, including export control violations, immigration fraud, and wire fraud. Prosecutors also accused Yu's wife, Yanzhi Chen, of wire fraud after she refused to cooperate.
Then, just as quickly as it had come together, the case against the couple seemed to unravel. The U.S. government largely failed to convince a Boston jury, which in June acquitted Yu on 18 of 19 counts. Shortly after the trial, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Rachael Rollins dropped all charges against Chen, saying in a statement that the decision was a result of a "continuing assessment of the evidence."
Early on in the investigation, a Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency agent labeled Haoyang Yu as a national security threat.
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Court documents reveal a series of missteps, including a confounding export control classification and a failed sting operation. The lone charge of which Yu was ultimately convicted, possessing stolen trade secrets, had no connection to China.
"There were so many mistakes," Chen told The Intercept recently. "We have had three very dark years."
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What prosecutors did have was evidence that Yu had transferred prototype chip design files onto his Google Drive while working at Analog Devices, naming two of the files Pikachu and Dragonair after Pokémon characters. Analog later abandoned the prototypes, some of which Yu had worked with while at the company, and in all but one case, the jury was unconvinced that the designs constituted trade secrets.
Yu's lawyers contend that such a case would have normally been dealt with through a low-stakes civil lawsuit filed by Analog Devices. That didn't happen, they argue, because of Yu's ethnicity. "Yes, he had some files on his computer that should have been deleted," said Yu's attorney William Fick of Fick & Mark in his closing statement at trial. But for the U.S. government, "[i]f you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
"The root problem behind a specific set of cases remains: the way that our own government still sees foreignness as a threat."
Federal prosecutors, working closely with the FBI and large corporations, have brought dozens of cases over the last decade involving alleged technology theft by China. In 2018, amid rising tensions with Beijing, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave the crackdown a name: the China Initiative. The initiative was scrapped earlier this year, following concerns from the American Civil Liberties Union and Asian American advocacy groups that it entailed racial profiling, but the biases that contributed to the program's downfall endure, activists say. "The root problem behind a specific set of cases remains: the way that our own government still sees foreignness as a threat," said Aryani Ong, co-founder of Asian American Federal Employees for Nondiscrimination. FBI Director Christopher Wray said in January that the bureau has over 2,000 open investigations involving China and technology. And perhaps no technology is more pivotal to geopolitical strategy than semiconductor chips, which are essential components of electronic devices and important to breakthroughs in computing.
"MMICs have cutting-edge military applications ranging from electronic warfare to signals intelligence to military communications," said Emily de La Bruyère, a co-founder of Horizon Advisory, a consulting firm focused on China. "China and the U.S. are locked in a battle — not just for advanced semiconductor technology, but also for influence over the global semiconductor value chain." In just the past few months, President Joe Biden signed into law the CHIPS Act, which is aimed at strengthening domestic semiconductor chip manufacturing, and the Commerce Department unveiled unprecedented new restrictions on the sale of semiconductor technology to entities within China. Last week, Reuters reported that the Chinese government was readying an infusion of 1 trillion yuan ($143 billion) into its semiconductor industry.
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Convictions in China Initiative and related cases have led to years of prison time. But many cases have fallen apart because prosecutors made inappropriate leaps, activists say.
"We are deeply concerned that the Yu case is yet another continuation of biased targeting policies and practices," said Jeremy Wu, founder of APA Justice Task Force, a group formed in the wake of several botched prosecutions of Chinese American scientists. "His case exemplifies another tragic ordeal."
For Yu and Chen, the ordeal is not yet over. For his sole conviction, Yu now faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. His lawyers are trying to get the charge thrown out ahead of sentencing, arguing that prosecutors inflated a workplace dispute into a national security threat and that the entire investigation was tainted by bias. A judge will soon rule on whether the government is selectively enforcing the law by targeting Yu for his ethnicity, in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Yu, his lawyers, and a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney's office in Boston declined to comment for this story, citing ongoing legal proceedings. When asked about the case by phone, Blount declined to comment and quickly hung up.
Haoyang Yu at the Boston Veterans Parade in November 2022.
Photo: Courtesy of Yanzhi Chen
"We Make Business"
Chen and Yu met online in the early aughts, when they were students pursuing graduate degrees in different parts of the United States. He was from the north of China, and she was from the south. He struck her as whip-smart and diligent, and after dating long-distance for a year, they married and settled in New England. They had two kids, and Chen stayed home to raise them while Yu worked as an engineer.
In 2013, they moved to Lexington for its excellent public schools, buying a house on a quiet street near the town's Great Meadow. They grew to love the historic Boston suburb, which two and a half centuries after the outbreak of the Revolutionary War is now a wealthy bedroom community with a large Asian American population. Chen volunteered at her kids' school and for local groups, and at her urging, Yu ran unsuccessfully for a seat on Lexington's Town Meeting.
Initially, Chen told The Intercept, Yu's goals for Tricon were modest. Yu registered the company in Chen's name — a structure sometimes used to protect assets — and listed a box at a nearby UPS Store as the company's mailing address. Business was slow. Chen advised him to focus on recouping his investment, not turning a profit. Since Yu was happiest when he was busy, she said she recommended the Town Meeting candidacy partly as a distraction.
"I never expected it to bring so much trouble," she said of Tricon.
The investigation into Yu began in earnest a month after the complaint linked to Blount, when the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency received a second tip about Tricon. A DCSA agent compiled an internal report, which was later entered into the court record, describing the second tipster as a government contractor with a security clearance. The contractor speculated that Yu "could be using" the contractor's "products pictures and datasheets to market for HIS own company." The agent labeled the report as involving foreign intelligence, China, and a "person reasonably believed to be an officer or employee of, or otherwise acting on behalf of, a foreign power" — presumably, Yu.
MMIC is often pronounced "mimic," and copying competitors' products is common in the chip industry, as are allegations of theft. Shortly before the tipster went to the FBI, Yu's previous employer Analog Devices had accused three former employees of taking proprietary material upon leaving the company. That case took the form of a lawsuit against the former employees' new workplace, Macom, and the matter was handled in civil court, with Analog paying its own legal fees. It quickly ended in a settlement.
But Yu's case was different. Because the U.S. government alleged that it involved a potential national security threat, four federal intelligence agencies conducted the sprawling 18-month investigation. And while Analog Devices provided information, federal prosecutors ultimately decided which charges to press, and U.S. taxpayers covered the ballooning investigative and legal costs.
Agents from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, Commerce Department, and U.S. Navy worked together to bring down a man they envisioned as a sophisticated technological spy.
Agents from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, Commerce Department, and U.S. Navy worked together to bring down a man they envisioned as a sophisticated technological spy. In addition to putting Yu under surveillance, they followed Chen around town as she drove their kids to and from sports practices and obtained a search warrant to comb through Yu's email accounts.
From the start, the U.S. government's investigation didn't go quite as planned. Early on, an undercover agent with DHS's Homeland Security Investigations force wrote to Yu, posing as representative of a potential buyer named "XY Atallah" from Jordan. The agent asked about a chip with specifications close to those that fall under export controls. "If good price, we can make business," he wrote. The agent repeated the stereotypical phrase in a follow-up email the next day: "We make business."
Yu suggested lower-frequency chips that could be legally exported to Jordan without a license. When the undercover agent posing as Atallah declined, insisting on the higher-frequency chip and saying he could pay upfront, Yu walked away from the deal. Agents also found emails that Yu had exchanged with a potential buyer in Spain. After the buyer asked about controlled chips, Yu noted that he did not have an export license for the products and asked if the buyer had a licensed representative in the United States — a legal way of moving the product overseas, provided that Spain was the final destination. That deal didn't go through, either.
Nor did the investigation uncover solid evidence of crimes involving China. In March 2019, an HSI agent alleged in an internal report that Yu had stolen designs and technical data from his former employer to produce his own MMIC chips and sell them to entities in China in violation of export control regulations. The agent also contended that Yu had consulted for a Chinese company, claiming that the payment was evidence of "additional export violations to China." Eventually, though, the government dropped both allegations.
The HSI agent also claimed that Tricon had illegally exported one chip without seeking an export license. But a semiconductor industry expert hired by Yu's lawyers would later show that the relevant export control classification had only been issued at the request of an investigator after Yu came under scrutiny.
Companies that suspect their technology or designs have been taken generally "want to set an example for their own employees," said Matthew Brazil, a former export controls official and resident fellow at the Jamestown Foundation focused on Chinese intelligence operations, after reviewing some of the court documents in Yu's case. "That's often a corporate response. But it's not clear where the espionage component was in this case." (Yu was never charged with espionage, but the U.S. government has in the past charged export control violations in cases alleged to involve spying or technology transfer.)
"It backfired because they turned non-criminal cases into criminal cases. And that never ends well."
One reason that investigators pressed the national security angle may have to do with timing. In November 2018, less than a year after Yu came under investigation, Sessions announced the China Initiative. Yu's name does not appear on a list of sample initiative cases released by the Justice Department and last updated in November 2021, but the effort was clearly important for Andrew Lelling, the U.S. attorney in Boston at the time. He was one of a handful of federal prosecutors on the initiative's steering committee. Lelling, who is now in private practice, declined to comment on this and several other issues.
"If your name is tied to it, then you want to see it succeed," said Robert Fisher, an attorney with Nixon Peabody in Boston who successfully defended a China Initiative case brought by Lelling's office. The priority placed on China-related cases led to an uptick in flimsy charges around the country, Fisher said. "It backfired because they turned non-criminal cases into criminal cases. And that never ends well."
Then-U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling, center, speaks outside federal court on Jan. 23, 2020, in Boston.
Photo: Charles Krupa/AP
"You Lied to Us"
Early one morning in June 2019, shortly before Yu's family was scheduled to fly back to China to see relatives, Chen returned home from dropping off their children at school to find cars lining the street. Their house was swarming with agents and local police, around 20 officers in all.
Agents from the Commerce Department and Homeland Security approached and asked her to get inside their vehicle, she said. In the car, according to a transcript of the interview, they drilled her about Tricon.
Chen told the agents that her husband was an uptight engineer, always doing everything by the book. Although the business was in her name, she said that he only let her do basic tasks for the company, not because he had anything to hide but because he wanted them done perfectly. "He's a control freak," she said, adding that she had helped him mail chips to sites in Europe and the United States but that he insisted on packing all the materials himself. She said that she didn't really understand MMIC technology.
"Yeah, neither do I," one of the agents admitted.
Later in the interview, the other agent accused her of lying. "I don't want to see you get in trouble for anything, you know, that you lied to us about," he said.
"I was so confused," Chen told The Intercept. While she didn't understand the technology he worked with, she did know that her husband's business was little more than a side project.
Meanwhile, inside their house, agents were rummaging through the family's belongings as another pair of investigators from the Commerce Department and Homeland Security questioned Yu. When he asked whether he needed a lawyer, they brushed off the question. Over the course of the interview, Yu mentioned an attorney five more times. But instead of stopping so that he could contact one, the agents kept questioning him.
When Yu declined to answer a query, musing that his remarks could be misinterpreted, one agent launched into a heated speech. "I appreciate that you want to try to protect yourself, but Haoyang, we're past that. The question now is, are you willing to do the right thing?" The agent offered a sample confession: "Like, 'Yes, I did it. I'm ashamed. I'm embarrassed. I shouldn't have done it. I had financial problems and I was trying to do the best thing I could for my family and this is the way that I saw to get out of that. It was a terrible choice.' Like — whatever."
But Yu stayed quiet.
Inside the agents' vehicle, Chen said she watched, stunned, as he was led away in handcuffs. "I didn't know why they took my husband away," she said. "It is a really weird feeling."
After the street cleared out, she walked into her house and surveyed the aftermath. The agents had taken their computers, cellphones, and papers printed with Chinese characters that had no connection to Yu's business, she said, including notes on potential travel destinations and the addresses of her college classmates. In the kitchen, a chipmunk scurried across the floor. The back door had been left open during the raid, and the animal had found its way inside. She shooed it out and sat down to cry. Then she forced herself to get up and put the house in order before her kids arrived home from school.
Later that day, Lelling's office issued a press release describing Yu as "a Chinese born naturalized US citizen." "Theft of trade secrets from American companies is a pervasive economic and national security threat," Lelling was quoted as saying. The press release continued: "Yu is charged with a massive theft of proprietary trade secret information."
Singled Out?
As the couple's cases moved toward trial, Yu's defense team hired a semiconductor expert, Manfred Schindler, a consultant who had worked with several leading chip companies. Schindler wrote in an affidavit that small outfits like Tricon were common in the MMIC industry, and that companies commonly reverse engineer one another's chips. "[M]ultiple manufacturers commonly sell individual items with very similar or even identical designs and performance characteristics," he wrote. (Schindler declined to comment, citing a confidentiality agreement with Yu's lawyers.)
More explosively, Schindler took issue with the export control category that the U.S. government said governed one of Tricon's chips. At the time, three of the charges against Yu hinged on that classification. The designation was unusual, Schindler wrote, because chips with similar specifications — including the one that prosecutors alleged Yu had copied — typically do not trigger export controls. He determined that the U.S. government had introduced the designation at the request of an agent investigating Yu and had never publicized the rule. The rule seemed to have been tailor-made for Yu.
Another setback came in January of this year, when the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts dropped charges in a controversial China Initiative case against Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Gang Chen (no relation to Yanzhi Chen). He had been charged with wire fraud and accused of omitting affiliations with Chinese institutions on Department of Energy grant applications that he submitted electronically. Prosecutors abandoned the charges after determining that some of the alleged affiliations did not exist and that Chen had no obligation to declare the others. Gang Chen's defenders alleged that he was the victim of blatant racism and bias; 170 MIT faculty members signed a statement in his defense. The Justice Department scrapped the China Initiative the following month.
Rollins had inherited both the Gang Chen and Yu cases from Lelling. Yu's lawyers hoped to get charges thrown out in his case as well.
Instead, Rollins's office went ahead with the prosecution. But by the time Yu stood trial, the allegations against him had changed. Prosecutors dropped the export control violation charges connected to the chip that Schindler had flagged after the Commerce Department reclassified it as not requiring a license. In a superseding indictment, they charged Yu with new export control violations, for sending two chip designs to a foundry, or chip factory, in Taiwan.
Yu's Tricon was what's known as "fabless," meaning the company didn't fabricate the chips in-house. Instead, Yu designed chips which were then manufactured in foundries. In recent years, Commerce Department officials have grown more aggressive about how they interpret regulations with regard to the export of design files, but historically, companies including Analog Devices have at times not sought licenses for similar exports. "[Fabless] suppliers often use off-shore fabs and package houses, yet most US military contractors don't seem to care about this," the industry publication Microwaves 101 notes in an explainer on MMIC suppliers. "Go figure!"
Using files found in Yu's Google Drive and on devices seized from his home, prosecutors alleged that he had stolen the designs for "dozens" of chips from Analog Devices. And, in a sort of legal hall of mirrors, they tacked on charges that depended on other charges sticking. In his interview ahead of becoming a U.S. citizen in February 2017, Yu had asserted that he'd never committed or tried to commit a crime for which he had not been arrested. Prosecutors alleged that this was fraud because he had committed a crime: trade secrets theft, the crime they were charging him with.
A detail shot of the semiconductor chip that was developed for use in car radar systems. Photos taken at Analog Devices in Wilmington, Mass., on July 5, 2011.
Photo: Yoon S. Byun/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
"Why Are You Challenging Him?"
The drama began even before the trial started, when a prosecutor tried to ensure that an Asian American man was not chosen for the jury. The judge questioned the prosecutor's motive. The potential juror, the judge noted, "is Asian; why are you challenging him? I see no reason to challenge him."
When the prosecutor replied that the objection was based on the man's profession, the judge asked what that was. Silence ensued. "You don't even know what the profession is," the judge admonished the prosecutor. (Court documents, which give only the man's first name and last initial, reveal that he worked as a nurse and paraprofessional for a public school system.) The government ended up withdrawing the objection, and the man remained on the jury.
As the trial got underway, prosecutors returned again and again to the Pokémon characters. "[N]o one names things after Pokémon characters at work when they intend to be found out," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Beck. They accused Yu of adopting a fake name because, in his work with Tricon, he used the English name Jack. They emphasized his use of multiple email addresses, claiming that it was a signature of criminals violating export controls. They suggested it was odd that Yu had registered Tricon in his wife's name rather than his own and used the address of a UPS store for the business rather than his home. And they called as a witness an employee of Win Semiconductors, the Taiwanese firm that had manufactured Yu's chips, who testified that the designs Tricon had sent the firm appeared unoriginal.
Then, halfway through the trial, Blount, Yu's Boston-area competitor, took the stand. In 2020, he had sold Custom MMIC for a reported $96 million. He later started a new company, Kapabl Engineering. When cross-examined by the defense, Blount admitted that he had met Yu before, though he said he did not remember the encounter. He conceded that Kapabl Engineering was, like Tricon, registered in his wife's name. Just as Tricon had a bare-bones website, Kapabl Engineering had a site that Blount conceded was "rudimentary." And much as Tricon had sent designs to Taiwan to be manufactured without obtaining an export license, Custom MMIC had sent designs to France without a license until 2019, the year Yu was arrested.
"Custom never got an export license to send the GDS to France?" asked Fick, Yu's attorney, referring to a chip design file.
"We did not, no," Blount answered.
"And is that because you were intentionally violating the law?" Fick asked.
"No," Blount said.
Blount also admitted that he was connected to the tip to the FBI. "We brought this matter to the FBI back in 2017," he said.
The jury deliberated for five hours. After they largely cleared Yu of the charges, Rollins's office boasted in a press release about the single charge that had stuck, calling it "the first-ever conviction following a criminal trial of this kind in the District of Massachusetts." Few observers saw it as a win for the government, though. The trade publication Law360 recently listed the trial among a string of losses by the U.S. attorney's office.
"The verdict revealed this case for what it truly is: a trumped-up civil dispute between a multibillion-dollar, global technology company and its former employee concerning alleged trade secrets," wrote Yu's attorneys in a recent filing. "The government's relentless pursuit of Mr. Yu was driven, at least in part, by its baseless and offensive assumption that he was a Chinese spy, secretly loyal to China and, thus, a danger to the national security of the United States."
If Yu had been white, his attorneys contend, the trade secrets spat might have been handled through a lawsuit in civil court, without the threat of prison time.
Yu's attorneys now argue that the law has been selectively enforced, and that the U.S. government gave too much weight to information provided by Blount and Analog Devices. If Yu had been white, they contend, the trade secrets spat might have been handled through a lawsuit in civil court, without the threat of prison time — as had happened when Analog Devices accused the three former employees of taking proprietary material to Macom. That lawsuit, in fact, involved data for several of the exact same Analog Devices products at issue in Yu's case, with the difference that the Macom engineers were accused of stealing much more data than Yu, and that, according to Yu's attorneys, one of them actually confessed to taking trade secrets.
Proving that Yu was singled out will be a challenge. Traditionally, the burden of proof for a selective enforcement motion rests on the defense, and no lawyer has successfully argued it in a China Initiative or related case. But in November, Judge William G. Young reversed an earlier decision on the topic, ordering the U.S. government to turn over to the defense additional evidence connected to Yu's prosecution.
In one filing, Yu's lawyers cited comments Lelling made to Science in 2020, in which they say he acknowledged that prosecutors were seeking out ethnic Chinese defendants. "[U]nfortunately, a lot of our targets are going to be Han Chinese," Lelling said at the time. "If it were the French government targeting U.S. technology, we'd be looking for Frenchmen.'"
In an email to The Intercept, Lelling took issue with that interpretation. "No one was targeting people based on ethnicity — we were looking for conduct," he wrote.
Chen's hopes now center on the judge dismissing the case. But she is clear-eyed about Yu's chances. "The success rate is very low," she said, adding, "I don't know why the government has invested so much on us. We are just normal people."
Meanwhile, in August, Analog Devices finally filed a civil lawsuit against Yu. By the time it winds through the courts, he may be in federal prison.
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An ex-partner of mine once joked that a majority of music in my library was effectively described as "Angry Women With Guitars". I'd like to think that my taste has grown since then, but as a general if you were to pull up the playlist of, say, Lilith Fair, I'm probably going to know the majority of the lyrics.
One of the groups that acted as sort of feeder band for my obsession with the kind of music you hear a lot in (just as a purely hypothetical, totally not based on my experiences) Chicago Lesbian Bars is a band called Tegan and Sara. I kinda fell in love with them once I decided that I actually wasn't terribly fond of all that 80s and 90s hypermasculine hairmetal music I listened to in High School so I would fit in with a bunch of people that I didn't actually want to fit in with, when I was secretly playing my tapes of Siouxsie and the Banshees so much that I had to buy replacements.
Tegan and Sara had a pretty good string of albums that catered to a particular audience, but in 2012 they dropped a much more "mainstream" album, much poppier with an interesting change to tempo and beats, but their musician's chops are still there: their voices are still great and still work well together, and the lyrics are snappy and smart as ever.
They're also unabashedly aiming at a younger, much more hungry audience and I think it works very well. It's understandable why there was crossover between T&S and Katy Perry during Perry's last tour; 2012's Heartthrob is pretty much the kind of music that someone who wanted to sing Perry's music to her girlfriend instead of her boyfriend would probably like to hear.
I like it. It's much more strenuously produced and consciously aimed than their earlier work, but I'm not going to criticise an artist for trying new things, especially when it means more people learn of their work. There's still plenty of angry, though. And if I want less of the synthpop vibe and more acoustic guitar, there's always the back catalog.
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'Recovered Voices' concert to honor music suppressed by the Nazis
Tuesday, January 5, 2010, By Jennifer Russo
The Syracuse University School of Education has partnered with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra (SSO), the SU Oratorio Society and the Syracuse International Film Festival to present a special concert performance, "Recovered Voices: Enduring Masterworks of Composers Almost Silenced by the Nazis," on Saturday, Jan. 30, at 8 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center on the SU campus.
Tickets for the concert are free and available to SU students, faculty, staff and the general public by calling the Schine Box Office at (315) 443-4517. Free tickets are also available at Temple Adath Yeshurun, Temple Concord and Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas. Free event parking will be available in the Waverly and Marion lots on Waverly Avenue, the Lehman and Harrison lots on University Avenue, and in any of the Quad lots.
The rule of the Nazi regime invokes thoughts of profound loss and human suffering. The "Recovered Voices" event celebrates the resilience of the creative spirit of those who endured this bleak period in history and whose masterful works survived suppression to inspire future generations.
The evening's musical program, conducted by SSO musical director Daniel Hege, will feature the works of composers Maurice Ravel, Erwin Schulhoff and Alexander Zemlinsky, with Franz Schreker's "Schwanensang" performed by the SU Oratorio Society under the direction of Elisa Dekaney, faculty member in SU's School of Education and College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA).
"It's an honor and a privilege to collaborate with Syracuse University once again, especially on a subject that has such importance in our lives," says Hege. "Music and the spoken word are powerful art forms to remember those whose lives were lost during World War II due to the oppressive Nazi regime. I look forward to the unique and dramatic ways we will be able to illuminate the necessity to reflect on this dark period of history in this collaborative concert."
Film accompaniment to the musical program has been produced by the Syracuse International Film Festival and Owen Shaprio, the festival's artistic director and professor of film in VPA. Spoken word narration will also accompany the music and display of visual art and images of life during the period in which the music was written.
The "Recovered Voices" event is a Chancellor's Leadership Project and part of the Regional Holocaust and Genocide Initiative: Resistance, Resilience and Responsibility. The goal of the initiative is to keep alive the memory and lessons of the Holocaust and past and current genocides through education and public dialogues about law, justice and ethics.
Event co-sponsors include Marilyn Ziering, the Ziering Family Foundation, Joseph Cangemi, Sharon H. Jacquet, Alice G. Kendrick and Jeryl A. Mitchell.
For more information about the "Recovered Voices" concert event, visit http://soe.syr.edu. For questions, to reserve tickets, or to arrange group attendance, contact Victoria Kohl at 443-7773 or vfkohl@syr.edu.
To learn more about the Chancellor's Leadership Project, the Regional Holocaust and Genocide Initiative: Resistance, Resilience and Responsibility and upcoming arts and education events, contact SU Professor Emeritus Alan Goldberg at agoldbe1@twcny.rr.com.
Jennifer Russo
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The Eurostar train ride, although without the really nice seats and the food/drink attendant, was without any drama. Yes, we had to cart the huge bags between trains but I was kind of getting used to it by then. That didn't mean I liked or enjoyed it, just that I was starting to get used to it! Oh, and the loud child sitting in front of us.
We were the last ones off of the train when we got to St. Pancras in London. I planned it that way! It was much easier to get the bags off the train if I could swing them down and be confident that I wouldn't hit anyone on the way! A nice taxi driver took us to the Comfort Inn. I think there was probably a good reason why he had never taken someone there before. I just wanted a place near Victoria Station, so that I could show it to Ed, and it was a Comfort Inn and it was just for one night. WTH, right???
It was an older building but what did you expect in that part of town? Everything is old there, I think! It's only for one night; it's okay. We took ALL of our bags to the elevator and were instructed to go DOWN one flight. Our room was 108. Usually the ground floor across the pond is G and the 100 level rooms don't start until you go up to the first floor, 1 in the lift … ummm, elevator. I expected to go UP one flight. WTH, we went down and ended up in the kitchen area where they serve breakfast. The building smelled old too.
When we got to the room, the lights didn't work. WTH? Wait, what's this little red light on the wall? It looked like it was on a card slot so, just as a test, I inserted our room key into the slot. The lights came on. Oooookay. So where's the air conditioning? We are from Texas; you MUST have air conditioning! We couldn't find the controls anywhere. There was an iron heater under the window but no A/C. Really??? I had to call down to the front desk to ask the woman to come show me how to turn the A/C on.
She eventually showed up but not before I had wilted from the heat and had already found a remote control that didn't go to the TV. Hmmm. Yep, it went to the A/C unit, at the top of the wall, just to the left of the window. It makes sense, since heat rises, to have it there but it was difficult to feel way down at the floor level.
I opened the window until we could figure this out. Then it dawned on me. We were under the Ground Floor. The window only opened so far and it was frosted. What's outside this window? Humph! Not the most upbeat view, as you can see!
I could tell you that it was also very tiny, but I'd rather give you some examples. The closet consisted of a rod only as long as the width of the built-in cabinet, since the rod stuck out from the back of the built-in cabinet, instead of sideways. When you were sitting at the desk, below the small tv on the wall, you had the back of the chair against the end of the bed, which really wasn't bad except when someone wanted on the other side of the bed. They either had to crawl over the bed or over you to get there. That's not good when you are not as young as you used to be!
The bathroom was as long as the bedroom. Sounds great, doesn't it? A nice huge bathroom? Not really. It was only wide enough for a shower, the largest item in the room. It was almost like walking down a hall just to get to the commode! There was a sink but a counter? Yeah, not so lucky there either. And I forgot that the English don't supply wash cloths. There was a single bath towel, hand towel, and bath mat inside the door. There was an extra bath towel and hand towel under the coffee pot in the bedroom though. There was liquid soap hanging in a wall container next to the sink but none in the shower. There was, however, liquid shampoo hanging in the shower.
Enough about the room. It's only for one night, right? We were still wilting a little from the heat but not quite so badly. Maybe it just took a while for the room to cool down? We decided to go get something to eat before we had heat stroke. I found out that when you remove the room key from the card slot inside the room, you only have a few seconds to open the door before all the lights go out.
We lucked out. On the corner just down from the hotel was St. George's Tavern and they served food! Woohoo!!!
The dining room was DOWN one floor, in the basement, but at least they had air conditioning! They seated us but it seemed like we sat there forever before someone came to take our drink order. They seated another American couple at the table for two next to us so we had a great conversation during dinner. The food was actually pretty great, the drinks were good, and the servers were cute. And it was only a short walk back to the hotel. The day was not turning out too badly at all.
And the room was downright COLD when we got back. Appreciation for air conditioning, frosted windows, and a great shower. Oh, and thankfully, removing the card key inside the room only turned off the lights and NOT the air conditioning. Now how do you calculate Fahrenheit from Celsius, because 26 degrees Celsius is way too hot and 18 degrees Celsius is way too cold! Where's my iPhone? There's an app for that and I already have it! I try to be prepared.


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Cast honours Aloysius Pang as show goes on
Cast of Channel 8's My One In A Million, which was supposed to star late local actor Aloysius Pang. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
Lensing ceremony held for TV series that late actor Aloysius Pang was meant to star in. Carrie Wong says he wouldn't want TV show cast to grieve long
The lensing ceremony held yesterday was supposed to be a joyous occasion to mark the start of filming for a TV series, but the absence of actor Aloysius Pang, who was meant to star in it, was keenly felt.
He was originally slated to be the male lead in Channel 8's romantic drama My One In A Million after returning from reservist training in New Zealand.
But on Jan 24, the news came of his tragic death in a New Zealand hospital after he sustained severe injuries during the reservist training.
But the show must go on, and the role was recast.
Beijing-based Singaporean actor Lawrence Wong will now star in it, opposite local actress Carrie Wong.
Neglect of protocol led to Aloysius Pang's death
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Although no tears were seen at the event and the mood appeared to be far from gloomy, Pang was never far from Carrie Wong's thoughts.
After all, she had paired up with Pang several times in previous shows.
She said that he was a "good guy, good friend and outstanding actor", adding solemnly: "He would not have wanted us (the cast) to grieve for too long. To honour his work ethic, we'll all be doing our best in our roles.
"He never had the chance to complete this show, so we will all complete it for him."
My One In A Million also stars Xiang Yun, Guo Liang and Jeffrey Xu.
Wong prides herself on her professionalism, adding: "Work is work, no matter who's starring opposite me. It won't change the performance I intend to give."
Also in the spotlight was Pang's last-minute replacement, Lawrence Wong, who recently rose to fame with the mega-hit Chinese drama The Story Of Yanxi Palace.
It took him no more than two days to accept the role and he was "happy to help do this favour" for Mediacorp and the local showbiz scene.
FIRST CHANNEL 8 LEAD ROLE
My One In A Million marks his first Channel 8 lead role, after several supporting parts before his big break with Yanxi Palace.
Wong told reporters he did not know Pang personally but he would do his best in the role, adding he would put his own spin on it.
He said: "This is one of the few comedic characters I've got the chance to play in my career. I hope the audience will like what I do with it."
Wong is also dealing with grief, as his 94-year-old grandmother died a few days ago. What helped him make it through the lensing ceremony was knowing that she died peacefully in her sleep.
He said: "I am sad, but I am also happy she is no longer suffering."
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Q: Inno Setup - Create folder in Public Users Documents in Windows 10 I am trying to add a folder to an installation which will eventually hold user output data. I can't put a folder into Program Files because users will not have the required permissions to write to it.
If it is not being installed to Program Files, then the data folder can be created inside the application folder (this is working fine).
I have a little piece of code to detect whether the installation was made to Program Files and, if so, I wanted to use CreateDir() to make a data folder in C:\Users\Public\Documents\{'MyAppName}\DB This seems to fail, in [Code] even though the standard Inno Setup script works:
[Dirs]
Name: "{commondocs}\{#MyAppName}\DB"

I am using the DeinitialiseSetup() procedure to make this happen at the end of installation, once the path is definite.
This is my code:
[Code]
  procedure DeinitializeSetup();
  begin
    { If it has been installed in the Program Files Folder put DB in Public Documents }
    if Pos(ExpandConstant('{pf}'),ExpandConstant('{app}')) > 0 then
    begin
      if not CreateDir (ExpandConstant('{commondocs}\{#MyAppName}\DB')) then
        MsgBox('Error: Data folder could not be created.', mbInformation, MB_OK);
    end
      else
    begin
      if not CreateDir (ExpandConstant('{app}\DB')) then
        MsgBox('Error: Data folder could not be created.', mbCriticalError, MB_OK);
     end;
  end;

Following another SO suggestion I used:
PrivilegesRequired=lowest

in the script but it did not work with or without this. I am beginning to think this may be a permissions issue but am not sure why, as the installer standard [Dirs] script works fine.
This is not the same as the other questions regarding identifying the path - I have got all the paths I want, only: [Code] CreateDir() does not seem able to create a folder in {commondocs}.
Many thanks for any suggestions.

A: My guess is that the {commondocs}\{#MyAppName} does not exist. CreateDir function can create a single directory only. It won't create parent folders for you, if they do not exist (contrary to [Dirs] section entry).
You can use ForceDirectories function instead:

Creates all the directories along the specified directory path all at once.

Side note: Do not use DeinitializeSetup to create the directories – Is is triggered even if the installation fails, or even if the user cancels the installation.
Use CurStepChanged(ssPostInstall):
procedure CurStepChanged(CurStep: TSetupStep);
begin
  if CurStep = ssPostInstall then
  begin
    { Your code }
  end;
end;

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Falcon 9 Block 5 Starlink 5 Launch set for wed morning
LAUNCH WINDOW AND LOCATION:
Starlink 5 is targeting Wednesday, March 18 with a window spanning 8:11-8:22 AM EDT (1211-1222 UTC) and a preferred T-0 of 8:16 AM EDT (1216 UTC) following Sunday's abort.
Starlink 5 will be launching from LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
BOOSTER LANDING:
Booster landing will occur on SpaceX's Of Course I Will Still Love You (OCISLY) drone ship, which will be positioned ~400 miles downrange.
The 45th Space Wing's forecast is predicting that weather will be 80% GO on Wednesday, March 18.
WATCH LIVE ONLINE:
The SpaceX livestream will begin around 15 minutes prior to launch. NASA TV will NOT be covering this launch.
ABOUT FALCON 9:
SpaceX's Falcon 9 is a two-stage, partially reusable orbital rocket capable of lifting payloads up to 50,300 lbs into low Earth orbit (LEO). Falcon 9's first stage is comprised of nine Merlin 1D+ engines, capable of unleashing over 1.7 million pounds of thrust during launch. SpaceX has two main ways of returning the first stage, one being a Return to Launch Site (RTLS) booster landing and the other being an Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) booster landing. During RTLS landings, the booster will land at one of SpaceX's three landing zones at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS). As we saw with the CRS-16 water landing, the booster actually targets just offshore and will automatically adjust this to the planned landing zone if all systems are nominal. This is to prevent an out-of-control booster from slamming into and damaging the landing zone. During Space Coast ASDS landings, the booster will land on SpaceX's Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) drone ship. ASDS landings typically can't be seen from shore due to how far out in the Atlantic they are, but if the conditions are just right you can sometimes see the booster's reentry burn a few minutes after separation. SpaceX uses the Falcon 9 for its Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and is working on human-rating Falcon 9 for manned missions in 2020, which they made major strides toward after the successful flight of Crew Dragon Demo-1 in March 2019.
SpaceX Website
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Spaceflight Now Twitter
SpaceX Updates Twitter
Emre Kelly – Florida Today Twitter
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Elon Musk Twitter
Information Source: https://www.launch360.space/
OIG leans on NASA to avoid the mistakes of ML-1 with SLS's second Mobile Launcher
NASA Remembers Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden


Blanche Gerstman (1910-1973) was a composer, double bass player, pianist, accompanist and lecturer. Born in Cape Town, she matriculated at the Good Hope Seminary School in Cape Town and completed her B.Mus. degree at the South African College of Music. She started music lessons at the age of 12, first studying harmony under C.V.N.G. Hely-Hutchinson, and at the College of Music she studied composition under Prof W H Bell and was taught piano by Colin Taylor. Her first significant composition was Hellas, which was performed in 1928, when she was 18 years of age. She worked for the South African Broadcasting Corporation as official pianist, accompanist and compiler for about 10 years before joining the staff of the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town as a lecturer in harmony and counterpoint. She regularly played the double base with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. She left the University in 1950 to become the principal double bass player with the orchestra, but after winning a Performing Rights Society Scholarship the same year, she spent a year at the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying musical composition. Returning to Cape Town in 1951, she continued as principal double bass player until 1961, when she was appointed lecturer in harmony and counterpoint at the University of Pretoria, where she remained until she joined the Durban Civic Orchestra in 1963, before returning to Cape Town and the South African College of Music the following year. In 1968, she again took up her position as double bass player in the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra. She died in Cape Town on 11 August 1973.


This recipe for Peanut Butter Smores Dip, by Kathy Duncklee, is from Cooking with Love... Omi Style, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. We help families or individuals create heirloom cookbook treasures.
2. Place the peanut butter cups in an even layer on the bottom of a large skillet or nonstick pan.
3. Place the marshmallows in a single layer on top.
4. Bake for 20 minutes until marshmallows are golden brown.
5. Serve with graham crackers for dipping.
When you are craving something sweet or just need a fun dip for a party, this might just be the treat you were looking for.


Join Us For Summer Colours Week!
We're excited to announce our 5th Annual Summer Colours Week happening next week (Aug 11th - 15th/14) and just like last year we're taking it all to instagram. If you would like to join in, use the tag #PoppytalkSummerColours and this year we'll be posting a few of our faves from the feed on our instagram (http://instagram.com/poppytalk/#) alongside our blog. Here's the colour line-up!
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The Dangers of Alkaline Water
Sparkling Water Vs. Regular Water
Acids in Carbonated Drinks
Does Tap Water Have More Minerals Than Filtered Water?
What Mineral Does the Body Store in Its Bones?
Tooth Corrosion: Soda vs. Mineral Water
Harmful Effects of Carbonated Water
Calcium Loss
Carbonated Ocean Water
Written by Paul Dohrman
Competing claims may have you wondering, "What are the effects of carbonated water on the body?" Carbonated water contains dissolved CO2 gas. Carbonation can occur naturally in spring water that picks up carbon dioxide stored in rocks, or it can be forced in by the manufacturer. Claims have been made that carbonated water erodes teeth and bones, leaches calcium and increases acidity in the stomach. These claims have not been borne out by experiment. In a healthy human, carbonation of water does not lead to ill health effects.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) gas is expelled by the lungs, so some people expect that ingesting it is unhealthy. However, CO2 is absorbed very slowly through the gastrointestinal tract, at a much lower rate than it is produced in cells and expired out of the lungs.
The gas expansion from release of dissolved CO2 in carbonation can lead to the distension of the stomach. Aside from the less serious case of triggering hiccups, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can also be aggravated. Furthermore, the stomach distension may reduce the effectiveness of stomach acid to digest food that requires sufficient acidity. Sufferers of IBS are advised to eliminate carbonated drinks from their diet (as well as many other items) to allow the GI lining to heal.
To be concerned about ingesting acids that would make the stomach too acidic is misguided. It is a common misconception that digestive problems originate from too much acid in the stomach. Actually, antacids are oftentimes the opposite of what is healthy, since inadequate acidity can lead to insufficient digestion, which in turn leads to increased activity of intestinal bacteria, which causes increased bloating and reduced nutrient absorption.cause:
antacids are oftentimes the opposite of what is healthy
since inadequate acidity can lead to insufficient digestion
which in turn leads to increased activity of intestinal bacteria
which causes increased bloating
reduced nutrient absorption
It has been claimed that acidic ingestion from carbonated water can lead to leaching of calcium from other parts of the body. This would be of concern because bones are made of calcium. Calcium deficiency leads to osteoporosis.
This claim has not been upheld in studies--not even when the stronger acids in soda have been tested in addition to carbonic acid. A study at Creighton University found no significant link between carbonated drinks and urinary excretion of calcium, a useful indicator of calcium depletion. Another study followed women in Spain during two months of drinking carbonated water; their bones were found to be normal at the end of the study.
Is the carbonic acid of carbonated water harmful before reaching the stomach 1? Below a pH of 5.2, the enamel of teeth is dissolved. Therefore, there is a mechanism by which carbonated water can have an unhealthy effect -- theoretically.
However, in practice, one would have to drink a great deal of carbonated water in order to wear the enamel faster than it is renewed. A study at the University of Birmingham found that carbonation had measurable, but small erosive characteristics, much smaller than the more acidic levels found in sodas, whose pH is driven lower (made more acidic) by the addition of phosphoric acid. (Soda manufacturers add phosphoric and citric acid to their product.)
CO2 absorbed into the world's oceans (effectively a carbonation process) may be far more harmful than drinking carbonated water. It has been estimated that half of the anthropogenic CO2 produced between 1850 and 1994 from fossil fuels and cement production has been dissolved into the oceans, increasing their acidity with the carbonic acid that the CO2 produced.
The resulting carbonic acid dissociates, adding a hydrogen ion to the seawater, which can then leach carbonate ions (CO3(2-)) out of seawater before shellfish can use it to build their shells.
Skeleton growth chart It has been claimed that acidic ingestion from carbonated water can lead to leaching of calcium from other parts of the body. CO2 absorbed into the world's oceans (effectively a carbonation process) may be far more harmful than drinking carbonated water. Furthermore, the stomach distension may reduce the effectiveness of stomach acid to digest food that requires sufficient acidity.
Paul Dohrman's academic background is in physics and economics. He has professional experience as an educator, mortgage consultant, and casualty actuary. His interests include development economics, technology-based charities, and angel investing.
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My research interests have varied over the last few years, going from user participation in peer production systems to systemic biases in the output of those systems, and have now settled (hopefully for a while!) on, as previously mentioned, trans-exclusionary bias in data and software, as part of a larger interest in data ethics. I can be found on ORCID and Google Scholar.
Bollman, S., Cook, D., Dumas, J., Fox, J., Josse, J., Keyes, O., Strobl, C., Turner, H. & Debelak, R. (2017). A First Survey on the Diversity of the R Community. The R Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, 542-552.
Keyes, O., Jacobs, J. & Rudis, B. (2016). R Packages to Aid in Handling Web Access Logs. The R Journal, 8(1), 360-366.
Halfaker, A., Keyes, O., Kluver, D., Thebault-Spieker, J. Nguyen, T. & Shores, K. (2015). User Session Identification Based on Strong Regularities in Inter-activity Time. Proceedings from IWWW '15: The 24th International Conference on the World Wide Web. Florence, Italy; ACM.
Halfaker, A., Keyes, O. & Taraborelli, D. (2013). Making Peripheral Participation Legitimate: Reader Engagement Experiments in Wikipedia. Proceedings from CSCW '13: The 2013 Conference on Computer-Supported Co-operative Work. San Antonio, TX.


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Stories & Recipes
Shikaakwa
Monarch Butterfly Habitat
Marigold (Tagetes)
Tagetes
Annual and perennial
Marigolds grow best between zones 9-11. Marigolds can grow between 6 inches to 4 feet tall and 6 inches to 3 feet wide. The flowers can be a mix of orange, yellow, mixed, red, cream and maroon. Marigolds need a lot of sunshine with moist soil. Marigolds require approximately 45 to 50 days to flower after seeding, therefore seeding indoors should be done in late March or early April. They can be planted freely in beds, borders, edges, pots, and boxes. Spent flower heads should be removed for additional flowering. They grow in almost any soil, however, marigolds thrive in moderately fertile, well-drained soil. The scent of the marigold repel animals and insects, and the underground workings of the marigold will repel nematodes (microscopic worms) and other pests for up to 3 years. Marigolds are best planted interspersed with vegetables to deter insects. French marigolds secrete a substance in their roots that is especially effective in deterring nematodes. This effect can last several seasons. French marigolds are also great for deterring whiteflies. In contrast, Mexican marigolds are the most effective variety in repelling insects. It is so powerful that it also repels bunnies from the garden (2).
Culinary and Medicinal Uses
In Mexico, Marigold seeds, either raw or toasted, have been used for centuries to treat intestinal worms. The leaves and roots are also used to make a laxative tea, which also helps with fever and general stomach pains (3). Marigolds are edible and add a spicy flavor to salads. Sometimes the petals are cooked with rice to dye the rice the color of saffron. Additionally, marigolds are grown in Mexico for chicken feed, because it is thought to produce richer eggs with a deeper color (1). There have been several NIH studies on the antimicrobial effects of marigolds (4).
Significance to Cultural Communities
Marigolds are native to south America. The Aztecs called it campasúchil, the flower of 400 lives, which was highly regarded for its healing properties. It was used to treat fevers and stomach aches. Marigolds were also sacred to Mayan cultures, and in both Aztec and Mayan cultures, the plant was often used to honor gods and spirits. Mayan priests would wash themselves with a marigold brew before calling on spirits (3). In modern Mexico, marigold serves as an important symbol for Los Dias de Los Muertos. The fragrance of the lower is said to guide spirits, and often times the flowers will be arranged in paths for the spirits, from graves to houses, so family members' loved ones can find their way back home. A cross of marigolds is formed for the spirit, so that when it approaches the altar, stepping on the cross will expel the guilt (5). When gravestones have marigolds on them, it is said to offer protection. Marigolds are also used in Hindu ceremonies to honor gods and goddesses, and it symbolizes passion and creativity (4). In medieval times English marigold was called Mary Gold after the Virgin Mary was believed to wear the golden blossoms in her hair. A single marigold flower would be gathered in August and wrapped with a wolf's tooth in bay leaves as a protective amulet. This amulet was thought of to guard the wearer from harmful words. Marigolds used to be thought of as a preventative treatment for the plague in Europe. In the American Civil War, marigold flowers were used to stanch bleeding from the soldiers' wounds (3).
From the Community Voice
Here's flowers for you;
Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram;
The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun
And with him rises weeping: these are flowers
Of middle summer, and I think they are given
To men of middle age.
- The Winter's Tale (4.4.122-7)
1. "Marigolds." The Old Farmer's Almanac. http://www.almanac.com/plant/marigolds
2. "Companion Planting." Golden Harvest Organics. http://www.ghorganics.com/page2.html#MARIGOLDS:
3. Davidow, Joie, Infusions of Healing: A Treasury of Mexican-American Herbal Remedies (New York, NY: Fireside, 1999).
4. Norton, Joan. "Significance of the Marigold Flower." Gardenguides. http://www.gardenguides.com/114697-significance-marigold-flower.html#ixzz2xxGNwsJz
5. "Day of the dead symbols." Celebrate Day of the Dead. http://www.celebrate-day-of-the-dead.com/day-of-the-dead-symbols.html
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Q: can't save sql query output to .csv format I'm facing a problem with sql query plz someone assist me.
In my admin panel there are few options to download data as. csv format which is come by using sql query from database. All query is single query and can download data as .csv format successfully  except following Sql Query. I can't download this query result as.csv format.
That's why I'm asking this question that how do i save this query output (there are 2 while statement and long query) as .csv format ? Now it's not save the result  as .csv format.
Single Query, Like
$sql = mysql_query("select * from user_property upr,  offers ofr where ofr.property_id
= upr.property_id  and ofr.agent_id IN (select id from users where company_name !='') order
by accept_ind asc");

Sql Query:
<?php
// Database Connection
$host="host";
$uname="username";
$pass="password";
$database = "database";
$connection=mysql_connect($host,$uname,$pass);
echo mysql_error();

//or die("Database Connection Failed");
$selectdb=mysql_select_db($database) or die("Database could not be selected");
$result=mysql_select_db($database)
or die("database cannot be selected <br>");

$output = "`";

$q =  mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE company_name != '' ");
while($r= mysql_fetch_array($q)){

    $user_id = $r['id'];
    $pc1 = $r['pc1'];
    $pc2 = $r['pc2'];
    $pc3 = $r['pc3'];
    $pc4 = $r['pc4'];
    $emailAgent = $r['user_email'];

$sql =  mysql_query("
 SELECT *
   FROM user_property upr
  WHERE (postcode = '$pc1' OR
         postcode = '$pc2' OR
         postcode = '$pc3' OR
         postcode = '$pc4') AND
         datediff(CURDATE(), upr.creation_date) <= 7 AND
         NOT EXISTS(SELECT ofr.property_id
                      FROM offers ofr
                     WHERE ofr.property_id = upr.property_id AND
                           ofr.agent_id IN(SELECT id
                                             FROM users
                                            WHERE company_name !=''
                                          )
                   )
ORDER BY property_id DESC");

while($rrr =  mysql_fetch_array($sql)){

    $columns_total  = mysql_num_fields($sql);

    // Get The Field Name
    for ($i = 0; $i < $columns_total; $i++) {
        $heading    =   mysql_field_name($sql, $i);
        $output     .= '"'.$heading.'",';
    }
    $output .="\n";

    // Get Records from the table
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {
        for ($i = 0; $i < $columns_total; $i++) {
        $output .='"'.$row["$i"].'",';
        }
        $output .="\n";
    }

    // Download the file
    $filename =  "myFile.csv";
    header('Content-type: application/csv');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.$filename);

    echo $output;
    exit;

    }// second while
}/// first while...
?>


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HIRE Technologies Reports $9.1 Million in Revenue, Its Sixth Consecutive Quarter of Revenue Growth
Revenue of $9.1 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, up 66% from Q1-2021.
Gross margin of $4.5 million was almost double the $2.3 million reported for the first quarter of 2021.
Adjusted EBITDA1 was $1.0 million ($0.1 million – March 31, 2021). EBITDA loss was $0.8 million for the period before normalizing adjustments (EBITDA of $2.6 million – March 31, 2021).
Adjusted net income2 was $0.4 million for the quarter (adjusted net loss of $0.3 million – March 31, 2021). Before adjustments, net loss for the quarter was $1.5 million (net income of $2.2 million – March 31, 2021).
TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / May 30, 2022 – HIRE Technologies Inc. (TSXV:HIRE.V)(OTCQB:HIRRF) ("HIRE" or the "Company"), a company focused on modernizing and digitizing human resources solutions, announces its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022. All financial figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.
"Q1 showcased the potential of the HIRE portfolio companies and what we have achieved across the network over the last two years," said Simon Dealy, HIRE's Chief Executive Officer. "A strong hiring climate and our ability to deliver on client demands across the country resulted in a 66% increase on our top-line and produced solid operating performance."
Q1-2022 Financial Highlights
Revenue of $9.1 million, up from $5.5 million in Q1-2021, with over 75% of the increase attributable to organic growth on the recurring contract book (up $1.7 million or $44%) and on-occurrence permanent placement book (up $1.0 million or 64%). Executive search revenue, attributable to the Leaders acquisition in Q3-2021, added another $0.9 million to the revenue increase. For more details on the Leaders acquisition, please see our news release dated August 30, 2021.
Gross margin was 49% on a percentage of revenue basis, a seven-point improvement over Q1-2021. On-occurrence permanent and executive search revenue now proportionally accounts for 39% of HIRE's revenue, up from 29% a year earlier.
HIRE reported positive adjusted EBITDA of $1.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022 ($0.1 million – March 31, 2021). For further details regarding the Company's use of non-GAAP financial measures, please see the sections below under the headers "Non-IFRS Measures and Footnotes" and "Non-IFRS Reconciliations".
Adjusted EBITDA excluded the impact of earn-out obligations treated as contingent remuneration of $1.3 million, $0.7 million in losses on the revaluation of contingent consideration, and net unrealized mark-to-market gains of $0.1 million. Unadjusted EBITDA loss for the quarter was $0.8 million (EBITDA of $2.6 million – March 31, 2021).
HIRE anticipates continued growth in 2022. The Company sees strong hiring intentions across all industry verticals into Q2 and a continuation of the first quarter's client demand, even with the traditional seasonality in the staffing space that typically tempers growth and the current and emerging economic and geopolitical uncertainties facing HIRE's clients. Further optimization of operating spend will also be a key area of focus for the remainder of the year.
"We are confident that HIRE's broad range of services, national footprint, and continued investment in our brands will enable us to benefit from the labour market's structural supply and demand forces," stated Mr. Dealy. "Our operational flexibility allows us to react swiftly and effectively to market changes, even in an uncertain macroeconomic environment."
HIRE announces the appointment of LaBarge Weinstein LLP as their virtual general counsel following the recent announcement of the departure of its Chief Legal Officer. "With their technology-focus and client-centricity at the core of their firm, we look forward to working with the partners, lawyers, and staff at LaBarge Weinstein LLP as we continue our growth story," said Mr. Dealy.
Conference Call & Webcast Details
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM Eastern Time / 9:00 AM Pacific Time
The conference call will be simultaneously webcast with presentation slides at: http://momentum.adobeconnect.com/hireq1/
Please join 10 minutes before the start of the call.
A recording of the conference call will be made available on hire.company.
Selected Quarterly Information
Gross margin (% of revenue)
Amortization of intangible assets
Loss on revaluation of contingent consideration, net
(1,313,480) (633,382)
Realized gain on convertible debenture derivatives
– 421,461
Unrealized gains on mark-to-market, net
NET INCOME (LOSS)
Basic earnings (loss) per share
(0.02) 0.04
Weighted number of shares
The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company reviewed this press release as well as the condensed consolidated interim financial statements (unaudited) for March 31, 2022 ("Financial Statements") and related Management's Discussion and Analysis for the three months ended March 31, 2022 ("MD&A") and recommended they be approved by the Board. Following review by the Board, the Financial Statements, MD&A, and the contents of this press release were approved.
This earnings press release should be read in conjunction with the Financial Statements and MD&A, which have been posted on SEDAR at www.sedar.com as of the date hereof.
Non-IFRS Measures and Footnotes
This news release refers to certain financial measures that are not defined by International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"), including earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ("EBITDA"), adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ("adjusted EBITDA"), and adjusted net earnings (loss).
EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP financial measures and are not standardized financial measures under IFRS and might not be comparable to similar financial measures disclosed by other issuers. EBITDA is defined as net income (loss) adjusted to exclude interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA, excluding restructuring and other non-operating items, unrealized gains or losses on derivative financial instruments recognized as part of financings, other unrealized fair value through profit or loss mark-to-market gains or losses, goodwill impairment losses, earn-out payments treated as future contingent remuneration from acquisitions, and share-based compensation expenses. Adjusted EBITDA also includes rent payments, which are not accounted for in EBITDA following the adoption of IFRS 16 Leases. The Company believes that EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA are useful measures in evaluating the performance of the Company, because it provides management and investors with insight into HIRE's operating performance without the impact of significant accounting policies related to depreciation and amortization, financing, and taxes.
Adjusted net income (loss) is a non-GAAP financial measure and is not a standardized financial measure under IFRS and might not be comparable to similar financial measures disclosed by other issuers. The Company defines adjusted net income (loss) as net income (loss) excluding restructuring and other non-operating items, unrealized gains or losses on derivative financial instruments recognized as part of financings, other unrealized fair value through profit or loss mark-to-market gains or losses, goodwill impairment losses, earn-out payments treated as future contingent remuneration from acquisitions, and share-based compensation expenses. The Company believes that adjusted net earnings (loss) is a meaningful metric for the Company and investors in assessing the Company's financial performance, because it provides management and investors with insight into performance without the impact of non-operating items.
Non-IFRS Reconciliations
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Reconciliation
Amortization
EBITDA (LOSS)
(820,445) 2,589,542
Transaction, restructuring & non-operating items
– (421,461)
Unrealized gain on mark-to-market, net
(125,401) (2,570,662)
Future contingent remuneration from acquisitions
Share-based consideration
Rent expense
(25,731) (27,812)
ADJUSTED EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA (loss) as a % of revenue
Adjusted Net Income Reconciliation
Share-based compensation expense
ADJUSTED NET INCOME (LOSS)
381,591 (264,105)
Basic adjusted net income (loss) per share
HIRE is a growing capital allocator that is rapidly establishing itself as a market leader in workforce management and staffing. HIRE's mission is to create a world-class portfolio of brands that will define the future of human resources through synergies, scale, and reach. The Company has extensive experience in building and growing staffing and executive search companies and is supported by a large recurring revenue base and a highly scalable shared services platform. This structure enables HIRE to create value for partners and shareholders. For more information, visit hire.company.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" or "forward-looking information" (collectively referred to hereafter as "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation.
All statements that address activities, events or developments that HIRE expects or anticipates will, or may, occur in the future, including statements about HIRE's future growth, business prospects, future trends, plans and strategies, expected benefits from business activities and the Company's prospects for completion of additional acquisitions, including those under the heading "Outlook" are forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements are preceded by, followed by or include words such as "may", "will", "would", "could", "should", "believes", "estimates", "projects", "potential", "expects", "plans", "intends", "proposes", "anticipates", "targeted", "continues", "forecasts", "designed", "goal", or the negative of those words or other similar or comparable words. Although the management of HIRE believes that the assumptions made and the expectations represented by such statements are reasonable, including the continued favourable market conditions, there can be no assurance that a forward-looking statement herein will prove to be accurate.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of HIRE to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties applicable to the Company, as well as trends identified by the Company affecting it and the staffing industry can be found in the Company's MD&A and its continuous disclosure record available on SEDAR. Although HIRE has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, or intended.
All forward-looking statements herein are qualified by this cautionary statement. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. HIRE undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
HIRE Technologies to Announce Q1-2022 Financial Results on May 30, 2022
HIRE Technologies Discusses Strong Demand for IT Professionals in North America


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Q: Codeigniter - How to select row id's of matching date column in query I am trying to write a query that outputs the shiftId's into an array.
I have a table that looks like this.
+---------+----------+-------+
| shiftId | endTime  | shift |
+---------+----------+-------+
|       1 | 03/03/19 |     1 |
|       2 | 03/03/19 |     2 |
|       3 | 03/01/19 |     1 |
|       4 | 03/01/19 |     2 |
+---------+----------+-------+

I want to return the shiftId of each date with the largest shift, and not sure how to go about.
I want my array to look like below, based on above table.
Array
(
    [0] => 2
    [1] => 4
)

I have tried to group_by date and then select_max of each shift but don't think I'm on the correct path. Any help would be appreciated.
I want to select shiftId foreach date where shift # is the largest.

A: You were on the right path!
Either use (this shows the SQL more clearly):
$query = $this->db->query('SELECT max(shiftId) shiftId FROM yourtable GROUP BY endTime')->result_array();

Or (if you want to use CI's query builder):
$query = $this->db->select_max('shiftId')->group_by('endTime')->get('yourtable')->result_array();

Both of these group the table by endTime, and then return the maximum shiftId for each group of identical endTimes. Both give an array that looks like this:
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [shiftId] => 2
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [shiftId] => 4
        )

)

To get rid of the shiftId index in the result and get the exact array structure from your OP, use:
array_column($query, 'shiftId');
Edit
If you want to get the shiftId for each endTime + MAX(shift) combination, use this:
SELECT shiftId FROM yourtable
WHERE CONCAT(endTime, "-", shift) IN (
    SELECT CONCAT(endTime, "-", MAX(shift)) FROM yourtable GROUP BY endTime
)

The inner query (after IN) does more or less the same as the previous query: it groups the records in the table by endTime, then gets the maximum shift for each group of identical endTimes, and here it concatenates this with the endTime and a dash.
You need to concatenate endTime with MAX(shift) here, because MAX(shift) alone is not unique in the table (there's more than one shift with number 2, for example), and neither is endTime.
The outer query (SELECT shiftId...) then finds the matching shiftId for each endTime + MAX(shift) combination and returns that.
You need to use two (nested) queries for this, because the inner one uses grouping and the outer one doesn't, and you're not allowed to mix those two types in one query.
Note: CONCAT only works in MySQL, if you're using a different database type, you might have to look up what concatenation syntax it uses (could be + or || for example).
In CI:
$query = $this->db->query('SELECT shiftId FROM yourtable
WHERE CONCAT(endTime, "-", shift) IN (SELECT CONCAT(endTime, "-", MAX(shift)) FROM yourtable GROUP BY endTime)')->result_array();


With Dragon Trail's 10th anniversary summit, China: The Future of Travel, just over two months away, we're excited to announce a preliminary list of speakers, supporting organizations, and an outline of the event schedule.
The summit, held in Beijing from May 19-21, 2019, will help attendees develop, grow and future-proof for the new kind of Chinese tourism that has emerged in this decade by bringing them up close and personal with real travel experts, influencers and travelers themselves.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Arlt is the founder and director of COTRI China Outbound Tourism Research Institute, which he established in 2004, with offices in Hamburg/Germany and Beijing/China. COTRI is the leader of market research and product and strategy development consultancy project for leading international companies and organizations. Prof Arlt holds a M.A. in Sinology (1985) and PhD in Political Sciences (2002) from FU Berlin, though his study of China started even earlier, in the 1970s. He has worked as a publisher, journalist, consultant, organizer of fairs and exhibitions and as owner of outbound and inbound tour operator companies, all in connection with China, tourism and transportation.
George Cao leads the Dragon Trail team with more than 20 years of experience in the travel and technology industries in China and America. An accomplished entrepreneur, George previously co-founded two travel meta-search engines: California-based Search Party and Beijing-based Go10000.com. During his time in Silicon Valley, George worked for WorldRES, one of the early B2B hotel distribution platforms and Talus Solutions, a leading revenue management solutions company based in Mountain View, California and Atlanta, Georgia. As a recognized expert in digital marketing and Chinese outbound tourism, George is often interviewed by the media and invited to speak at international conferences.
Sylvie Chen has extensive world travel experience, and has also worked in the tourism industry, focusing on luxury travel from Greater China, since 2002. Her roles include leading tours, developing new tour itineraries and maintaining supplier relationships, and presenting and selling the tours to high-end and incentive clients from Taiwan and mainland China. She founded HYT Travel Marketing in Hong Kong in 2015, and currently works as a market consultant, events organizer, and business development professional for Western tourism and events companies. Additionally, she has years of experience working in polar tourism, as both a market consultant and on-board expedition team for polar expedition companies.
Jonathan Cheung, Chief Executive Officer of luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent China, leads A&K's strategy development in mainland China. His responsibilities include business strategy formulation, outbound travel expansion, client acquisition, B2B & B2C partnership development, products and itineraries planning, brand and marketing promotion. He has over 20 years of experience in tourism, has played key roles in multiple international travel organizations, and has visited more than 60 countries and regions around the world.
Roy Graff, Dragon Trail's Managing Director – EMEA, has over 20 years of experience working in and with China in the tourism, hospitality, luxury retail and digital marketing sectors. He is the author of the book, China, the Future of Travel, and frequently serves as a media commentator and public speaker at leading travel and tourism conferences. Prior to joining Dragon Trail, Roy provided strategic advice to organizations including Skyscanner, VisitBritain, PromPeru, Eurostar, Tourism Ireland, Peninsula Hotels and Resorts among many others. In the early 2000s he headed Gullivers Travel Associates' development of the independent travel business in China in the early days of Chinese outbound tourism.
Chris Li is Director of the Weibo Travel and Sina Travel channels, with over 160,000 followers on Chinese social media platform Weibo. She is a producer of the celebrity travel video program Travel – Feel the World, and has seven years of experience working in travel media.
Chenyu Zheng is a best-selling author, lifestyle trailblazer, and visual artist from China. She regularly shares insights about China's consumer trends, internet landscape, and sharing economy around the world. She has been a guest lecturer at Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, and a speaker at Airbnb Open. Zheng graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in Economics, and studied abroad at Oxford University. Professionally, she has been a tech marketer and culture bridge who brought US companies to China, including Whisper and Uber. Additionally, she writes for leading tech and lifestyle publications and media outlets in China. Her lifestyle experiment to live in local people's homes for 606 days has instilled courage and inspired a new way to travel for emerging Chinese travelers.
– Platforms and Solutions – where to find your clients?
16:30-17:00 full forum talk – Crystal Ball – What's next for Chinese travel tech?
China: The Future of Travel is supported by a number of leading international travel organizations, and members of these organizations can also receive a discounted rate for attending the summit.
NTA – The National Tour Association (NTA), the leading business association for professionals serving customers traveling to, from and within North America. NTA members can click here for our anniversary event information on the NTA website.
PATA – The Pacific Asian Travel Association, a membership association which works to promote the responsible development of travel and tourism in the Asia Pacific region. PATA members can click here for our anniversary event information on the PATA website.
WTCF – The World Tourism Cities Federation, founded in Beijing in 2012, is the world's first international tourism organization focusing on cities. The Federation's recently published Market Research Report on Chinese Outbound Tourist (City) Consumption (2017-2018) is an invaluable, survey-based study of Chinese outbound tourism.


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Valentin Madouas (Brest, 12 de julio de 1996) es un ciclista profesional francés que desde 2018 corre para el equipo Groupama-FDJ. Es hijo del exciclista profesional Laurent Madouas.

Palmarés
2018
 París-Bourges

2021
 Polynormande

2022
 Tour de Doubs
 2 etapas del Tour de Luxemburgo

Resultados en Grandes Vueltas y Campeonatos del Mundo

—: no participa
Ab.: abandono

Equipos
  Bretagne-Séché Environnement stagiaire (08.2015-12.2015)
  FDJ stagiaire (08.2017-12.2017)
  FDJ (2018-)
 FDJ (2018)
 Groupama-FDJ (2018-)

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Ficha y palmarés completo de Valentin Madouas

Ciclistas de Francia
Nacidos en Brest (Francia)

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