CHARLOTTE, N.C. — JUNE 6, 2012 - Leading environmental services company Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE:RSG), FORTISTAR and Duke Energy dedicated a new, state-of-the-art landfill gas-to-energy plant in North Carolina with a ribbon cutting event at the site today. The facility began commercial deliveries of renewable power to Duke Energy Carolinas on February 16, 2012 under a long term power purchase agreement.
"Although we are leaders in increasing energy output at landfills, it's projects like this one that get us really excited," said Republic Services Area President Jamey Amick. "To be able to take yesterday's trash, and from it, generate enough energy to power more than 7,700 homes…now that's something to celebrate."
FORTISTAR recently finalized the construction on the 11.5-megawatt renewable energy facility, called Concord Energy Renewable Gas to Energy Plant, at Republic Services' CMS landfill in Concord, North Carolina.
The Concord Energy facility utilizes landfill gas to fuel two Solar Taurus turbines, each capable of generating over 5.5 megawatts, and combined with the associated landfill gas conditioning and compression equipment, will meet the total electrical energy needs of nearly 7,700 North Carolina residences. "Landfill gas-to-energy projects are an important part of Duke Energy Carolinas' commitment to deliver renewable energy to its customers in a cost-effective way," said Owen Smith, managing director of Duke Energy's regulated renewables business. "The company will continue to look for good projects, like the Concord Energy project, to meet our state's renewable energy requirements."
"This project represents a successful collaboration that will benefit the citizens of North Carolina and the environment," said Concord Mayor Scott Padgett. "We have always had an excellent relationship with CMS and Republic, and it continues with this meaningful and environmentally-sensitive project."
Landfill biogas, which is created when organic material decomposes in a municipal solid waste landfill, consists of about 50 percent methane. It is a readily available, local alternative energy source that offsets the need for imported sources of fossil fuels. The biogas can be converted and used in many ways: to generate electricity, heat or steam; or as an alternative vehicle fuel. Methane is also a controlled greenhouse gas. FORTISTAR's projects contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases by using the methane before it reaches the atmosphere and thus replacing energy produced from nonrenewable sources such as coal, oil or natural gas.
Mark Comora, president of FORTISTAR added, "We are proud of the relationships FORTISTAR has with both Duke and Republic Services and we are pleased to expand on them here at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. We continually look for innovative ways to help ease the burden placed on our electrical grid by providing reliable and cost efficient renewable alternatives. Harnessing the power of landfill gas is an important part of the solution, and we look forward to being a contributing member of the Concord community for a long time to come."
Republic Services provides recycling and solid waste collection, transfer and disposal services in the United States and Puerto Rico. The Company's various operating units, including collection companies, transfer stations, recycling centers and landfills, are focused on providing reliable environmental services and solutions for commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers. For more information, visit the Republic Services website at republicservices.com.
FORTISTAR LLC, headquartered in White Plains, NY, has a 25-year history of owning and managing power-generating assets, and currently has ownership stakes in over 60 projects in North America. With total generation capacity exceeding 3,000 MW, FORTISTAR'S projects include landfill gas, digester gas, biomass and natural gas assets, including the Midland Cogeneration Venture project, the largest independent power producer cogeneration facility in the United States. FORTISTAR is dedicated to delivering more efficiency from traditional energy facilities, as well as developing additional renewable resources. FORTISTAR's growing renewable business focuses on the landfill gas and solid fuel biomass sectors. For more information on FORTISTAR, please visit www.fortistar.com. Please visit cms.fortistar.com for additional information about the landfill energy project at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.


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Limited budget is a common circumstance which is experienced by many homeowners. But now, fortunately there are bathroom remodeling ideas on a budget which will help you remodel your bathroom without spending too much money. First, try the bathroom remodeling ideas on a budget which is easy to do, that is installing some decorative tiles on your bathroom walls. Nowadays, there are many decorative tiles which are rich in accents and textures so that your bathroom's walls look more stunning.
Second, try bathroom remodeling ideas on a budget which focus on decorating your wall. Try to repaint your bathroom's walls with the fresh colors which are different with the old colors used in your bathroom. This is a bathroom remodeling idea on a budget which is affordable because by repainting the walls, your bathrooms will look so different in nuance and ambience because colors affect the feeling.
Fourth, try bathroom remodeling ideas on a budget which transform your bathrooms look fresher and more natural. Simply display some green potted plants in your bathrooms shelves, or display a large green potted plant near your bathtub or your window so and let the potted greens make your bathing experience is much more relaxing. As an addition, you also can display some flower pots to add color or install a plant box in your bathroom's walls to give a more natural touch.
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February 2, 2017 | Giving Back
Nigol and Eleonore Koulajian: Bringing Peace to Society through the Individual
Nigol and Eleonore Koulajian have built their lives around the mental, physical and spiritual benefits of yoga and meditation. Drawn to the personal transformations that have occurred by making yoga and meditation part of their lives, the Koulajians have also been guided by an essential tenet of their practice: bringing greater peace and clarity to the world through the development of the individual. Through their NOK Foundation, they are contributing to spreading this philosophy with generous donations to AGBU, helping to develop individuals in Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and across the diaspora in the process.
Nigol and Eleonore came to Eastern religions and philosophy from two unlikely paths. Nigol was born into the Armenian community of Beirut in 1967 and came to the United States at the age of sixteen. After earning his BS in electrical engineering from Notre Dame University and his MBA in finance from Columbia Business School, he embarked on a career in finance that ultimately led him to establish his own quantitative investment firm in New York, Quest Partners LLC, where he currently serves as chief investment officer.
Eleonore (née Mangin) was born in London and lived in Geneva and Paris, before moving to New York to continue her career in international development at the United Nations. Working as a consultant with non-governmental organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America, she saw firsthand the importance of a grassroots approach to development and the great social impact of investing in individuals: "I was looking to help people first and foremost and was frustrated that, at a large organization like the UN, it was difficult to see the results of action. I slowly began to see that so much change happens internally and decided to devote my efforts to teaching yoga and meditation to serve people at a deeper, more personal and transformative level."
To this end, the Koulajians founded the NOK Foundation in 2002 to cultivate the study of Eastern religions, philosophies and yoga. A principal aspect of these practices is to promote ethics and values as a self-sufficient means to quiet and purify the mind and bring integration, creativity and efficiency to the individual and to the society at large. The foundation also seeks to encourage the pursuit of self-inquiry and meditation to achieve these goals.
The couple sees their donation to the AGBU as a way of furthering their foundation's mission and showing gratitude for their successes all the while strengthening the Armenian community—in part for their two sons, Theodore, age six, and Soham, age four. "It has impressed me the way AGBU supports Armenian culture and traditions, which is exceptionally important in the diaspora. The transparency and efficiency of the organization as well as its focus on the development of Armenians the world over enables it to bring about real social change in the Armenian community—starting at the individual level," says Nigol.
The Koulajians' donation allows AGBU to expand its general programs around the world—from internship programs and summer camps to young professionals groups and sports teams. These activities—big and small—all touch the lives of each individual participant, helping to bring purpose, clarity and peace to their lives. For the Koulajians, the benefits of the integration of the Armenian community as modeled by the AGBU is an inestimable wealth that they would like to see at large throughout all cultures.
Look out for the Winter 2017 issue of the AGBU News Magazine for more stories of donors like Nigol and Eleonore.
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Ok so maybe this isn't exactly the type of thing you might think to make when wanting to lose a few pounds, but some things in life just have to be done. You feel me?
Thankfully we've had quite a lot of help from friends, family and neighbours in eating our way through these cookie bars because they are honestly just too delicious. Baked goods like this are best enjoyed when shared anyway.
Today I'm partnering with Collective Bias in creating a pretzel-tastic recipe to share for World Pretzel Day (this Friday). So naturally, a sweet & salty gluten free cookie bar was in order. Holla!
There's just something so perfect about the combination of salty, crunchy pretzels mixed in with anything chocolate. It's a sweet & salty marriage of tastiness and I'm all about it.
To make these pretzel filled cookie bars I hit up the Free From aisle at my local Sainsbury's in search of the Schar's Gluten Free Pretzels.
Not only are Schar's Pretzels gluten free, but they're all free from eggs, dairy and other animal products which makes them vegan friendly as well. While I do use eggs in these bars I've included instructions for how to substitute the eggs for aquafaba for an egg free, vegan version.
Aquafaba, if you're unfamiliar, is the starchy water found in cans of chickpeas (or other white beans). It behaves similarly to egg whites in a lot of recipes which helps to bind and add stability to a recipe in a similar way that eggs do.
Either way, eggs or no eggs, I hope you love these as much as we all have here!
Honestly though – grab a friend, make these together, and then pass them out to everyone you know! You, your friends, and your waistline will thank you for it!
Don't forget to #asaucykitchen on instagram if you try these Peanut Butter Pretzel Gluten Free Cookie Bars! I love seeing what you make with! You can also post your pictures to our facebook page!
Preheat the oven to 350°F/180°C. Line or grease the sides and bottom of a square 9inch baking tin. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, using a stand mixer or an electric hand held mixer mix together the peanut butter and sugar until combined. Add the vanilla extract and both eggs and continue mixing until smooth.
Add the flour, baking soda and salt and slowly mix until combined. Stir in 3/4 of the chopped pretzels and peanuts.
Transfer the dough to the greased/lined baking tin and press the dough into the bottom and sides of the pan. Press and smooth into an even layer.
Scatter the chopped chocolate over the top and press into the dough. Take the remaining pretzels and peanuts and sprinkle over the top and press into the dough.
Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes or until the sides are lightly brown and it's cooked in the centre. To test for doneness insert a tooth pick into the centre of the bars - if it comes out clean it's done.
Allow the bars to cool in the pan for about an before removing. Once cooled, cut into squares and enjoy. Store in an airtight container for up to a week and enjoy.
In a large mixing bowl, using a stand mixer or an electric hand held mixer mix add 6 tablespoons aquafaba (chickpea brine) to the bowl and begin whipping until loose peaks form. Then add sugar in a little at a time and beat until the texture is glossy and semi-firm peaks form.
Add the peanut butter and mix well until combined. Then add the vanilla extract and 1/4 cup (60 ml) dairy free milk.
From this point on your can complete the rest of the recipe as written above.
I didn't know much about Aquafaba and it is always good to know.
I'm not a huge fan of pretzels, but dang it if this recipe wouldn't convert me!


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Q: MVC 3 on IIS 7 returns 404 for MVC extensionless url requests Our website is a mix of asp.net web-forms and MVC 3. The website is developed in web-forms, except for a separate MVC application that is stored in a separate Directory in the root of the website and having its own web.config. The web-forms pages (aspx) are served properly by the IIS 7 server, but MVC url's are returning 404 - File or directory not found.
For example, say the website is www.abc.com and the MVC application is accessed using www.abc.com/aaa/controller/action, where aaa is the root directory for the MVC application and contains its own web.config. The web-forms url (say www.abc.com/feedback.aspx) is working but, the MVC URL's (say (www.abc.com/aaa/Controller/Action) are returning 404.
I have confirmed from my shared hosting provider, that the website is running over .net 4 Integrated pipeline Mode application pool, so extensionless url's should be handled by the IsapiModule by default, without requiring any extra configuration for the same.
One doubt that crops in my mind is whether the MVC application root folder (aaa in above example) should be converted to a separate application ?
Any guesses, to resolve the above MVC url issue?

A: asp.net-mvc and webforms share the routing system. You should make a Hybrid WebApp, part WebForm and MVC. I did something similar recently here, where the webforms is the main app and the MVC is the nested one. In this case, you must have only one global.asax and a single web.config for the entire site. The MVC could live at the same directory as the WebForm, but only with they share stuff.
I followed this guide from Scott Hanselman to make this work.

A: The hosting provider uses WebsitePanel , through which I was able to create a Virtual Directory for the folder containing the MVC application. The MVC URL's are now being routed to the Isapi handler and not returning 404(file not found) any more. So, I guess I will close this topic here.
In short, creating a virtual directory for the MVC application resolved the issue.

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New Automotive Training Centre
As PNG economy moves towards unprecedented growth, due to substantial extraction of mineral and natural resources, the demand of a locally skilled workforce is imperative and must be met to achieve maximum participation.
These were the remarks of Australia's Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Brett Mason, who was part of the ground breaking ceremony, of a new National Automotive Training Centre at the Australia Pacific Training Centre, in Port Moresby today.
Mr. Mason also emphasized that this is directly related to the Vision 2050 that PNG is aspiring towards.
Also representing the Department of Education was Acting First Assistant Secretary, T.V.E.T, Wini Leka, who thanked the Australian Government and its commitment to bettering higher education in PNG.
Mr. Leka said natural resources and minerals are important for economic growth, but stressed that a locally trained workforce was equally important.
An extra 180 automotive trade training places for Papua New Guineans will be created at a new National Automotive Training Centre, to be built in Port Moresby.
A large workshop space and six large classrooms will provide for the delivery of competency-based automotive mechanical, auto-electrical and diesel fitting training programs.
Australia will provide approximately K1.1 million towards the Government of Papua New Guinea's K4.5 million project, which is expected to be completed in September 2014.
At a time when PNG experiences a high unemployment rate and poverty, institutions as such can greatly combat these adversaries and create a trade-viable human resource that can cater for job opportunities within the robust industrial sector.
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Who can start the UK's withdrawal from the EU under Article 50 TEU?
Who can start the process of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU)? Article 50 sets out the procedure for withdrawal but is silent on this question, providing only that "Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements". So the answer to the question turns on what are the "constitutional requirements" of the United Kingdom. Here is my contribution to this vexed and very topical question.


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Inside Smith & Main's Small Business Success
May 9, 2022 - by Sandy Vo
Category Heart of Bellevue
Chanel Smith, owner of Smith & Main
Small businesses that survived the peak of the pandemic are now sharing stories of strength, resiliency and lessons learned. Old Bellevue's Smith & Main is one of the many local businesses that made it through the tough times.
Owner Chanel Smith first opened her shop in 2018 and built a reputation as the go-to clothing boutique for in-season fashion and distinctive jewelry. When she shut down her store in 2020, Smith was grateful for the loyal customers who kept her afloat.
"Our customers were calling in asking if we were okay," Smith said. "I was and still am very grateful to be in this community," Smith said.
While her online storefront allowed her to keep selling, Smith said she knew there was more to be done. Like many businesses across the country, she brought the shopping experience straight to customers' homes by creatively pushing products on social media. When an order came in, Smith hopped in her car and hand-delivered it right to their front doorstep.
Smith & Main's social posts on Facebook
"When we closed, I worked twice as hard just to earn half as much in sales," Smith said. "It was worth it. Connecting with my customers is important, and honestly, I was just happy to be able to provide them with a bit of retail therapy during that time."
Smith waited for months in anticipation of one day returning to her store. When she finally reopened Smith & Main, it was an uphill battle to get back to where she was. After many months of providing one-on-one shopping experiences, Smith found strength in numbers by collaborating with other boutiques in the area. She organized in-store events once it felt safe, hosting everything from holiday beauty events to community fashion shows.
"I think during the pandemic, one of the most valuable lessons I learned was that local businesses need to stick together," Smith said. "These events were a way to build the community back up and do something different to help each other through the pandemic."
Smith & Main's interior
In June, Smith will celebrate her fourth anniversary since opening Smith & Main. She's proud to be what she describes as a haven for women to find clothes that inspire confidence.
"We're much more than a clothing boutique," Smith said. "If we can help provide them with an outfit they feel great in, we've done our part."
Smith plans to host a weekend-long sale and a spring event next month to celebrate her anniversary and give back to the Bellevue community.
"Without the all-around support for local businesses during the pandemic, I don't know if we would've made it," Smith said. "I'm honestly so lucky to be in a caring community like Downtown Bellevue."
This blog is part of the Heart of Bellevue: our campaign to showcase local businesses while connecting you with stories of activity, creativity and recovery. Find out about our campaign and explore more of what's happening around Downtown.
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A trio of Toronto city councillors is floating the idea of a new and higher tax bracket on sales of the most expensive homes, a move they say could raise millions for people struggling for housing.
Ana Bailao, Brad Bradford and Joe Cressy announced Friday that they will be seeking a staff report into the feasibility of modifying the land transfer tax so that homes selling for more than $3-million are subject to a 3-per-cent levy. The top bracket is now 2.5 per cent on sales over $2-million.
They say that such a change would raise a projected $5.1-million for a city program called Housing Allowance. This provides between $250 and $600 monthly to people facing eviction for financial reasons or people trying to leave the shelter system.
"People who are doing very well and have benefited from the housing market will also help to ensure that those struggling to live here can find a home here," Mr. Cressy told reporters.
John Pasalis, president of Toronto brokerage Realosophy Realty, warned that the proposal might have an unintended consequence for lower-priced homes as well.
Brad Henderson, president and chief executive of Sotheby's International Realty Canada warned that escalating taxes and fees could discourage some people from moving.
"It puts another tax on an already overtaxed real-estate market," he said.
The land transfer tax – a power granted to Toronto by the province, and which can be modified by council – has become an essential part of the city's budgeting process. Staff are expecting it to raise about $730-million this year.
The money raised by setting a new top bracket would not go into the general pot of city revenues but would be earmarked for the Housing Allowance program. There are 5,000 people currently receiving money under this program, the councillors say, and boosting the land transfer tax could mean this support being extended to another 1,000 people each year.
The city's land transfer tax was instituted in 2008. The city's real estate market has since gone into overdrive, but the tax's brackets have not risen in step. It was only in 2016 that the top bracket was raised to sales over $2-million, an increasingly common price in the more desirable areas of the city.
According to the councillors raising the idea of modifying the tax, about 775 homes now sell annually for more than $3-million. A decade ago, fewer than 200 homes sold annually above that level.
Council will consider the item at its upcoming meeting, which begins next Wednesday.


In all areas of Iraq, including the KRG, there are approximately 6,350 non-governmental organizations registered with the NGOs Directorate nationally (as of 2008). But estimates including unregistered CSOs have ranged from 6,000 to 12,000 total organizations. However, only a small fraction of these will meet the minimum standards of political and identity-group impartiality, transparency, accountability, and capacity.
Geographical location is an important factor shaping the nature of CSOs in various provinces. These differences are ascribed not to the nature of the population of each province per se, but most especially to regional differences in the security climate in which CSOs have developed in the last 8 years. CSOs in the western and northern areas of the country, where the security situation has been less stable until more recently, in general tend to be more recently established, less multi-functional in their capabilities, and suffer more capacity gaps, both as a sector and as individual CSOs. However, capacity gaps in parts of Iraq (Wasit or Muthanna governorates, for example) have experienced relative stability since 2003.
Iraqi CSOs often operate within a hostile and frustrating environment due to the Iraqi national government. Multiple claims are made against CSOs by Iraqi officials, and political affiliations play a major role in choices of funding and registration.
Local councils at local level in Iraq have no formal role in the governance of CSOs, although informally local councils can vary greatly in their approach to CSOs. Some have been quite cooperative in project implementation and service delivery, though on the other hand, local councils can be an obstacle to registration at the federal level by withholding necessary documents and cooperation.
Funding for Iraqi CSOs comes from several sources. One is within the Iraqi political system. This funding stream is often politically compromised and difficult to access for independent CSOs. Many have been denied funding from both provincial and federal governments. The 2010 NGOs law requires some civil society work be funded by the Iraqi government, but implementation standards are unclear and could be politically compromised as there is no shortage of CSOs with links to the dominant political parties in Iraq and their networks of patronage and/or corruption.
Another funding stream is domestic fundraising and member contributions. There is a weak capacity for fundraising in general. There can be a tenuous relationship between citizens and civil society groups that can limit the willingness of Iraqis to part with scarce cash in support of organizations representing a sector that does not in the abstract enjoy a great deal of confidence on the part of the Iraqi public. The most successful organizations at employing domestic contributions in their fundraising tend to be rooted in religious or family networks.
Three Iraq Civil Society Organizations reported that their main day-to-day operations were completely or nearly completely funded by contributions of one principal activist. International donors remain the most reliable source of funding for independent CSOs and the best hope for the continuation of an independent civil society sector in Iraq.
Civil society in Iraq is in its infancy, and is highly dependent on donors for its development. Discontinuities in donor commitment to Iraqi CSOs could be damaging to the health of CSOs or public confidence in the sector. Donor relationship with Iraq CSOs should have appropriate expectations: Capacity building will take years, not months. Adequate research by donors should be conducted of individual Iraqi CSOs, as well as increased communication normal application process to properly vet and understand potential grantees.


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Q: What is the proper way to design this database? So, I'm not a database expert (or really have much experience at all other than my college classes) and I need someone to point me in the right direction on how to design this problem. To be very clear, I'm out of school and I have my degree. This is NOT a homework problem.
I work as a software engineer at a company that manages other company's warehouses. I built a system that tracks our associate's productivity by the hour and I need the information to be stored in a database. Previously I have used Java and simply serialized classes and stored the data in files on our server but the problem is I've had to change so many data types to account for more information we wish to track and I lose the serialized objects after any significant changes. Anyways, I decided to just use a database to store this stuff but really am having a hard time with it's design.
So the information I need stored is as follows...

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*Associates

*Jobs (Associates can work multiple jobs throughout the day and each job has a different goal average they need to reach)

*Each Associates' Total Work Hours for a given day

*Need to save all this for each separate day (this is the hardest part for me and I have a mental block on how to separate all that by day)
A little more info: The way I designed this in code was like this.
HashMap<LocalDate, HashMap<Employee, DayData>> data = new HashMap<>();

So as you can see each day has a list of employees each with a "DayData" object associated with them.
The DayData object contains total day work hours and a list of WorkJob.
WorkJob stores the name of the job, the unit per hour the associate hit, and the units the employee packaged.
I hope this is clear as mud. I can explain anything further if needed. I really need someone to point me in the right direction with this. Please and thank you.

A: You're structuring your data using nested structures. Instead, you should look for relations (tables), with a flat structure... and ask the database to join them when you need content from more than one. Don't be afraid to JOIN them all, this is what RDBMS are for.

You could use the following structure. I've defined it using textual SQL; but you can work out the equivalent ERD if you need to, based on all the foreign keys (REFERENCES or FOREIGN KEY) already defined in the tables.
Table where relevant data for your associates
CREATE TABLE associates
(
    associate_id INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,  /* Probably should be IDENTITY */
    associate_name TEXT NOT NULL,
    other_data TEXT
) ;

Table where all jobs are described:
CREATE TABLE jobs
(
    job_id INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,  /* Probably should be IDENTITY */
    job_description TEXT
) ;

Table where you assign which are the job/s that every associate should perform, and the average_daily_goal:
CREATE TABLE jobs_x_associates
(
    job_id INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES jobs(job_id),
    associate_id INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES associates(associate_id),
    average_daily_goal DECIMAL(5,2) NOT NULL,

    -- (job_id, associate_id) is the natural primary key
    PRIMARY KEY(job_id, associate_id)
) ;

Table where you store the worked hours that every associate performed of every kind of job s/he is assigned to perform (this is, more-or-less, equivalent to your DayData, but with a column for associate_id, so that it can relate to it):
CREATE TABLE worked_hours
(
    job_id INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES jobs(job_id),
    associate_id INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES associates(associate_id),
    work_day date NOT NULL,
    worked_hours DECIMAL(5,2) NOT NULL,

    -- The pair (job_id, associate_id) must exist in jobs_x_associates
    -- we do not allow associates to perform jobs they have been not
    -- assigned. Depending on business rules, you can lift this
    -- restriction
    FOREIGN KEY (job_id, associate_id)
        REFERENCES jobs_x_associates(job_id, associate_id),

    -- Only one entry per associate,job and day
    PRIMARY KEY(associate_id, job_id, work_day)
) ;

Sample data for base tables:
INSERT INTO associates
    (associate_id, associate_name, other_data)
VALUES
    (1, 'Alice Cooper', 'nice buy'),
    (2, 'Bob Geldorf', 'difficult to define') ;

INSERT INTO jobs
    (job_id, job_description)
VALUES
    (101, 'Cleaning windows'),
    (102, 'Dish washing') ;

Sample data for jobs assigned and worked hours:
-- What should everyone do?
INSERT INTO jobs_x_associates
    (job_id, associate_id, average_daily_goal)
VALUES
    (101, 1, 5.0), -- Alice should clean windows for avg. 5 h/day
    (101, 2, 3.0), -- Bob should clean windows for avg. 3 h/day
    (102, 1, 1.0), -- Alice should wash dishes for avg. 1 h/day
    (102, 2, 0.5); -- Bob should wash dishes for avg. 0.5 h/day

-- We record what they actually did
INSERT INTO worked_hours
    (job_id, associate_id, work_day, worked_hours)
VALUES
    (101, 1, '2017-07-01', 5.0),
    (101, 2, '2017-07-01', 3.0),
    (102, 1, '2017-07-01', 0.7),
    (102, 2, '2017-07-01', 1.0),

    (101, 1, '2017-07-02', 3.0),
    (101, 2, '2017-07-02', 2.0),
    (102, 1, '2017-07-02', 0.8),
    (102, 2, '2017-07-02', 1.3) ;

With these data, you can perform queries such as:
 SELECT
     work_day, associate_name, job_description,
     average_daily_goal, worked_hours
 FROM
     worked_hours
     JOIN jobs USING(job_id)
     JOIN associates USING (associate_id)
     /* LEFT */ JOIN jobs_x_associates USING (job_id, associate_id)
 ORDER BY
     work_day, associate_name, job_description ;

 work_day   | associate_name | job_description  | average_daily_goal | worked_hours
 :--------- | :------------- | :--------------- | -----------------: | -----------:
 2017-07-01 | Alice Cooper   | Cleaning windows |               5.00 |         5.00
 2017-07-01 | Alice Cooper   | Dish washing     |               1.00 |         0.70
 2017-07-01 | Bob Geldorf    | Cleaning windows |               3.00 |         3.00
 2017-07-01 | Bob Geldorf    | Dish washing     |               0.50 |         1.00
 2017-07-02 | Alice Cooper   | Cleaning windows |               5.00 |         3.00
 2017-07-02 | Alice Cooper   | Dish washing     |               1.00 |         0.80
 2017-07-02 | Bob Geldorf    | Cleaning windows |               3.00 |         2.00
 2017-07-02 | Bob Geldorf    | Dish washing     |               0.50 |         1.30
 SELECT
     associate_name, job_description,
     average_daily_goal,
     CAST(avg(worked_hours) AS DECIMAL(10,2)) AS average_worked_hours
 FROM
     worked_hours
     JOIN jobs USING(job_id)
     JOIN associates USING (associate_id)
     /* LEFT */ JOIN jobs_x_associates USING (job_id, associate_id)
 GROUP BY
     associate_name, job_description, average_daily_goal
 ORDER BY
     associate_name, job_description ;

 associate_name | job_description  | average_daily_goal | average_worked_hours
 :------------- | :--------------- | -----------------: | -------------------:
 Alice Cooper   | Cleaning windows |               5.00 |                 4.00
 Alice Cooper   | Dish washing     |               1.00 |                 0.75
 Bob Geldorf    | Cleaning windows |               3.00 |                 2.50
 Bob Geldorf    | Dish washing     |               0.50 |                 1.15
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NOTE: If you do allow associates to perform (and record) jobs they were not assigned to do, remove the FOREIGN KEY mentioned before, and change the /* LEFT */ JOIN to actual LEFT JOIN. This will allow the database to still show them, even if the average_daily_goal is N/A (i.e.: NULL).


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Sep, 2021 - By SMI
Researchers use metal-organic frameworks to develop more efficient hydrogen storage systems.
Although hydrogen-powered vehicles are a cleaner alternative to fossil-fuel-based transportation, commercialization of hydrogen cars is only possible if more efficient hydrogen-storage systems are developed. In this report, researchers have utilized metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to develop hydrogen storage capacity under normal operating conditions.
Improved hydrogen storage systems will help in increasing the driving range of the automobiles and reduce the cost. Expensive, bulky cooling or compression systems are used in currently used hydrogen-powered vehicles to store enough hydrogen for acceptable driving ranges. MOFs are compounds that contain metal ions coordinated to organic ligands. The 3D structures of some MOFs form pores, which can adsorb molecules of hydrogen gas. This allows them to attract other molecules, which could allow the gas to condense under near-ambient conditions.
Researchers tested four different compounds for determining the best MOF for hydrogen storage. Among the four compounds, two compounds had nickel as the coordinating metal, and for the other two compounds, cobalt was the coordinating metal. A MOF called Ni2(m-dobdc) showed the highest hydrogen-storage capacity over a range of pressures and temperatures. At ambient temperature and a much lower tank pressure than used in current hydrogen vehicles, Ni2(m-dobdc) set a new record for hydrogen storage capacity of 11.9 g of fuel per liter of MOF crystal.
Furthermore, the structure of the MOF was examined by the researchers by using neutron diffraction. They found that seven specific binding sites for hydrogen gas were present in a single pore. This enabled dense packing of the fuel.


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Seedy K's Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Week X (Bonus Music Video Included)
November 4, 2015 FootballCollege Pigskin, Louisville Cardinalsseedyk
Oh my, yes, how very sweet!!!
The Ragin' Cajuns of Lafayette du Louisianne scored 21 unanswered after halftime to overwhelm their cross-state rivals from Monroe. Which W was dutifully predicted here. And which victory along with those by the Gators of Florida, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, the Volunteers of Tennessee (Have no fear, the bonus music video shall not be "Rocky Top") and the Cardinals of Louisville by the hair on their chinny chin chins over the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest, sealed a pigskin perfecto by the kid for the weekend,.
5-0. How invigorating it is.
Funny, I haven't heard yet from any of the usual nagging nabobs of negativitude, those who are ever willing to remind me of my mistakes at the earliest possible moment. You guys out there, or you gone fishin'?
Anyway, I've blasted ten games over .500, standing imperiously at 28-17 for the '15 campaign.
So, yeah, I'm obviously full speed ahead into this weekend's sumptuous slate of battles, several of which will have bearing on the schools competing New Year's Eve in the Final Four.
But first, a musical interlude to celebrate the Ragin' Cajuns W, and their connectitude with my Kajun Kaplan.
The Kaplan Waltz, of course. What else were you expecting?
And, now, this week's prognostications:
LSU @ Alabama. The most loathsome interloper into the world of college sports recently is the concept of branding. It's so Don Draper. So Mad Ave. So advertissimo. We used to talk about programs, like the tradition of the Alabama program. While wearing houndstooth for sure. Now it's the Roll Tide Brand. And in this world of sponsored search responses, banner ads and pop ups, it's working. We need only observe the initial standings of the CFP. That very same Crimson Tide squad, which lost at home to an Ole Miss team that lost to Memphis State, has, thanks to notoriety, expectation and savvy SEC marketing — thank you Paul Finebaum — jumped the line over several schools which have proven themselves more worthy thus far. Well, the Tide certainly gets a chance to prove itself this week on the gridiron, when Les Miles' undefeated LSU Fournettes come a callin'. Tired as many of us might be of all the SEC boasting, those guys do take their football seriously. This is a big one. The Tigers have been ranked for the last 14 meetings, the Tide for the last nine. The Sabanista have won the last three in this division smashup, since the Bayou Bengals bested them 9-6 in Tuscaloosa four seasons back. Smart money is on the home team, praise The Bear and pass me another one of them Dreamland ribs. But, I gotta feelin'. Tigers win. Bama gets bumped from Final Four rankings. And they play that "Kaplan Waltz" up and down the bayous to celebrate.
Florida State @ Clemson. This is the one when Dabo Swinney can, with a W, finally, absolutely, positively, forever and always, bury use of the descriptor "Clemsoning." It is a term that, within the confines of college football, has come to mean "the delivery of an inexplicably disappointing performance." This year's Tigers are undefeated. And sit atop those initial CFP standings, thanks mostly to a W over Notre Dame, which knew way more than everybody about branding — Thanks Gipper — before Madison Avenue even coined the term. Even though Clemson has lost 4 of its last five in the series, including the last three, this year's orange-clad squad is impressive.1 Florida State, as always is formidable. But, all said and done, Dabo's gonna be dancin'.
TCU @ Oklahoma State. That Select Committee that shall choose the Final Four doesn't appear to be much enamored with Big 12 pigskinning, which I like to call Fast Break Football. At some point last Saturday, Smart Guy texted me and asked, "Are you watching Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State?" Of course I was. Defense? I don't need no stinkin' defense. Last team with the ball wins. Which last week was the Okie State 'Boys, by the hoops score of 70-53. The point is to win the game. If that means concentrating solely on fan-friendly offense, bring it on. Too many Bo and Woody acolytes on that Select Committee. Which means, when observing a couple of schools from the Heartland getting it on, if you don't want to miss anything, you'll have to time your bathroom breaks and scurries to the kitchen to fill up on chips and beverage. This home team averages 44 ppg, 7th in the land, while the Horned Frogs tally 48 ppg, 2d nationally.2 I didn't need Dan Holgorsen's low five with the TCU QB along the sideline to tell me Trevone Boykin's the deal. But, it was a cool move. The purple visitors are favored, even though the home orange team is also undefeated, and has been, frankly, more impressive. I'm goin' with T Boone Pickens State.
Kentucky @ Georgia. Nothing says we should be feelin' better by Saturday night for the beleaguered Georgia Bulldogs and man on the hot seat coach Mark Richt than a visit from the Wildcats. UGa's lost three of four. Athens hasn't been under siege like this since the Peloponnesian War. But the Cats are comin' to town, which should make everything OK. UK's lost umpteen straight to Georgia, including the last two by scores of 17-59 and 31-63. Richt may be a Dead Man Walking, a mentor with other vistas on his mind, but he'll hold the gang with pitchforks and torches at bay for at least another week. Georgia needn't stoops to conquer.
Syracuse @ Louisville. Talk about a team that would really really really like to win one, say hello to Syracuse. The Orange have dropped five in a row, after an opening trio of Ws that were apparently a false positive. Sure, 'Cuse only lost to LSU by 10, but that, frankly, is a BFD. An anomaly. Meanwhile the Cardinals have been borderline atrocious on offense the last couple of outings, and similarly not so laudable on defense way too much of the time. The Cards two top line QBs are banged up. Fortunately, the squad includes the best third team signal caller in the land in Kyle Bolin. He may start on Saturday. There are worse things that could happen. Assuming U of L's offensive line all of a sudden starts to play better — an assumption without any factual basis whatsoever — U of L could, even should, break out. Or it may survive again, as it has the last two times out, also against an arguably inferior foe, by a digit or deux. Either way, Louisville gets the W.
← Louisville CardFile: Bellarmine	Louisville CardFile: Syracuse →
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JGJoyner says:
I see you didn't count your loss in the St. Ignatious vs. Holy Name game last weekend. 5-0 with an *, indeed…..On the other hand at least you picked some big boy games this weekend–or at least games with local rooting interest….
I am sure that LSWho wasn't all that fired up to play WKU in their last, but i was surprised at the failure of the Tigers to truly physically dominate the Toppers, esp'ly when LSU had the ball. I suspect that the hometown Tide will find a way to slow down our man LeonardF, if not stop him–and will win by a score or so in a defensive struggle….
Clemson is due to beat FSU. Maybe not an edge in talent per se, but these Tigers do seem more focused than the Noles. Playing at home, I suspect that the #1 seeded Orange and Purple hang another L on FSU—unless the QB goes down early making them one dimensional. If Cook doesn't have a Heisman type game, this one could get ugly early, esp'ly considering the FSU first half efforts in their last few games (eg. See Louisville….7-6).
TCU…take a good Boykin when you can get one…
Ky-Ga? First team to score blows out the other? Maybe so, maybe not, as your Cayuts have scored first vs. both MSU and the Vols in their last two "efforts." It is past big blue badness so I am sure the gridiron cats see no reason to do anything this week but roll over—again. Still, if the Bulldog players as well as their fans are ready to turn the page after a decade of "failure" under coach MR, the Cats could pull a stunner—-but I wouldn't bet on it…..
In the Big East, uh ACC, game of the week, (no offense CU and FSU) one has to think that the LamarJ's will have a break out game eventually, right? Well, I have been waiting and the early season promise by under-rated freshmen phenoms seems to have hit the wall. The continued failure of the Cardinal offense to perform at even a substandard level of proficiency is becoming more and more alarming as our savant head coach seems to attempt to reinvent himself, along with his game plan, in search of personal growth and offensive perfection.
I know, I know the OL is frightfully bad and terribly young, but given his history, one would think that CBP could scheme some kind of a running game with or without the threat of the golden child learning how to take a snap from center and mesh a hand-off to a RB heading toward the line of scrimmage. With that said, and being at home, unless the offense turns tail and permits the Orange defense to score a couple of TD's and continues to go backward once good field position is achieved or the ball (finally!) makes it to the red zone, it will be hard for even these Cards to lose to a team on a 5 game skid. Take the Cards..not sure I could lay 14 points tho unless we punt on first down— often.
Wildcat says:
Much as I would love to disagree with your picks, I must say that I agree with every single one. Your record clearly is improving and I will be stunned if you are not above water this week. One can only hope that you are learning from this experience and that we have moved beyond those delightful 1-4 weekends of the recent past..
Let's be honest here, Mr Wildcat. My only 1-4 weekend was Week VI. Singular, not plural. Since then, I'm 11-3.
Our close loss to Clemson is looking better and better.
BlindLuck says:
Seedy, another week and still no point spread!?! These "straight up" prognostications are beneath you. I think the Cards win this one by 24.
To paraphrase Gold Hat in "Treasure of Sierra Madre," "Point Spreads? We ain't got no point spreads. We don't need no point spreads. I don't have to show you any stinkin' point spreads!"
Congrats to you and "Wildcat" for picking T. Boone Pickens U over overated T.C.U. I love it when that jerkoff Gary Patterson gets his.
The 'Pokes have been overlooked all season. And I love that tradition I didn't previously know about. The students in the first row around the stadium, hanging over the edge, paddles in hand, banging on the protective foam.


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Q: Localizing JavaAnpr for local license plates I am working with JavaAnpr to automatically recognize license plates. While it works well with European license plates, it doesn't with my country.  For example;

How could I edit the recourse files and syntax XML to support other countries?

A: @michel_layyous - Here's the documentation by the author.  Read Page 57:
http://javaanpr.sourceforge.net/anpr.pdf
syntax.xml is essentially a regex file.
Using this page as an example:
https://code.google.com/p/android-anpr/source/browse/trunk/res/raw/syntax.xml?r=21
<type name="russia">
   <char content="abcehkmoptxy"/>
   <char content="0123456789"/>
   <char content="0123456789"/>
   <char content="0123456789"/>
   <char content="abcehkmoptxy"/>
   <char content="abcehkmoptxy"/>
   <char content="0123456789"/>
   <char content="0123456789"/>
</type>

This Russian license plate pattern is 8 characters.  The first character can be any of those letters.  The next 3 characters can be any number from their respective set.  The next 2 characters can be any of those letters from their respective set, and the last 2 characters can be any of those letters from their respective set.
The next Russian license plate is just like the first Russian license plate, except one key difference:
<type name="russia2">
   <char content="abcehkmoptxy"/>
   <char content="0123456789"/>
   <char content="0123456789"/>
   <char content="0123456789"/>
   <char content="abcehkmoptxy"/>
   <char content="abcehkmoptxy"/>
   <char content="012"/>
   <char content="0123456789"/>
   <char content="0123456789"/>
</type>

The 6th character can only be a 0, 1, or 2.
I also found a relevant blurb on this page:
http://www.mp3car.com/software-and-software-development/124529-automatic-number-plate-recognition-anpr-3.html
I found a very similar license plate for your country, however it consists of two rows.  The first two numbers are on the top row, and there are 5 numbers on the bottom row.  It looks like your country has 7 digits for your particular style of plate.  I don't how the dot factors into the recognition of your plate, however, Page 58 of the author's documentation states:

The correction of a plate means the replacement of
  each invalid character by another one. If the
  character
  ( )
  i
  p
  at the i
  th
  position of the plate
  P
  does not match the selected pattern
  ( )
  `
  sel
  P
  , it will
  be replaced by the first valid one from
  ( )
  s
  y
  .
  ( )
  s
  y
  is a sorted vector of output activities denoting
  how much the recognized character is similar to an
  individual character from the alphabet.
  Heuristic analysis of a segmented plate can sometim
  es incorrectly evaluate non-character
  elements as characters. Acceptance of the non-chara
  cter elements causes that the recognized
  plate will contain redundant characters. Redundant
  characters occur usually on sides of the
  plate, but rarely in the middle.
  If the recognized plate number is longer than the l
  ongest syntax pattern, we can select the
  nearest pattern, and drop the redundant characters
  according to it.

A: Check out OpenALPR (http://www.openalpr.com).  It has better support across various countries.    The library is written in C++ (as opposed to Java) but that should be easy to hook up using JNI.


Exciting News today from the Majestic SEO camp in that they have been working hard to increase the Fresh Index Data.
Previously 45 days, you can now see Fresh Index data from the last 90 Days which means that you can report quarterly link data.
Majestic pride themselves on being responsive to the needs of the industry and the increased data view came about due to client requests.
Other Fresh Index data within the Majestic Toolset will also be updating to reflect increased depth of index rates. This will bring more meaning to data viewed in the Fresh Mode.
90 Days can now be found on general summary charts, and as usual, you can export to Excel to change the view if you wish.
For more details on the Fresh index update check the Majestic Blog. Keep checking back here this week also as there are more updates in the pipeline.


Cattle Egret are an America success story. First arrived as immigrants from Africa in 1941 – breeding population by the early 50s. Fulfilling a niche in the ecosystem – not displacing something here already (at least not as I understand it).


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Acceptable in the 80s: River City: Tokyo Rumble review
With so many franchises celebrating their milestone anniversaries, a few relatively obscure ones are also joining the fun. Case in point, the Japanese beat-em-up River City series is commemorating its 30th anniversary, with Natsume and Arc System Works bringing River City: Tokyo Rumble to the 3DS stateside. A blatant love letter to the arcade games of old, Tokyo Rumble aims to provide players a nostalgic experience with its retro presentation and simple mechanics. Does it have what it takes to stand up to the big bad bruisers in the current market?
River City: Tokyo Rumble follows protagonist Kunio as he tries to defend his friend from bullies. The battle goes sideways after the scuffle as he finds out that a syndicate known as the Tokyo Lion Alliance is planning to overrun the place with crime and debauchery. Armed with his fists and joined by three of his pals, Kunio punches and kicks his way to defeat his enemies and bring peace to the land of Tokyo.
What instantly sticks out in the game is the decidedly NES-looking presentation. The game is a love letter to the Double Dragon and Final Fights of the 80s and 90s, and it surprisingly holds up. The story, basically "beat up bad guys to save the day," is cheesy but charming, and the main protagonists are flat in their characterization, but this fits with the game. It lacks the complexity of modern narratives, but that's part of the nostalgic fun of it all. The game doesn't really tax the hardware as much, and the 3D effects are pretty ineffective, but the pixel art is very well made.
While a beat-em-up in practice, the game also employs some RPG-lite mechanics. By beating up bad guys, you can level up Kunio and his three unlockable friends' attributes such as strength and willpower. You can purchase items that can give you stat boosts as well as scrolls that will allow you to learn new moves. While there is no multiplayer in the main story mode, you're allowed a partner to help you out when the going gets tough, and can give them AI orders like charging towards an enemy or helping you out by fighting someone you're targeting. These little RPG touches help give the game a little depth, and further contribute to the charm of the game.
However, while the presentation is purposefully retro, the gameplay is more hit-and-miss with this nostalgia. Going back to its NES roots, Tokyo Rumble harkens back to a simplistic two-button system: you have one button for punching and one for kicking. While there's a separate button for jumping, you can actually mash both the punch and kick buttons to accomplish the same thing, so it's really up to you if you want two or three buttons. Surprisingly, this combat system is somewhat deep; while there isn't a dedicated block button, you can use the two buttons in creative ways, such as picking up a baddie and chucking them around, parrying some kicks with your own, or grabbing a nearby weapon and clubbing someone with it. For a simplistic system, it's pretty gratifying.
The basic fighting mechanics work, but the movement is very clunky. This game was designed for a 2D plane, and it shows: while you can dash by tapping the left or right d-pad twice, there is no option to do this up or down. When you're actually moving up or down, your movement speed slows to a crawl, leaving you vulnerable to enemy attack. Additionally, some moves requiring jumping or simultaneous button presses (like grabs,) seem to be inaccurate enough to be annoying. There were times that I was pummeled because I missed a jump, and since you can't defend yourself at times, a large chunk of my health would be sapped away.
Unfortunately, the rest of the package is barebones. There isn't a local multiplayer mode for the main story, which is a shame, since the game would have been tons of fun if I had a buddy with me kicking the snot out of park punks. The AI is serviceable, but a human partner would have been cool. There are a couple other modes in which to mess around, but they're a bit identical. There's a battle mode, where up to four players can go and fight each other using characters unlocked in the story mode, and a dodgeball mode, which alludes to River City's sports titles and is basically battle mode but with projectile balls being the only means of hurting opponents. While these modes boast dozens of characters, there are really only a few viable options since only the main characters and enemies will have some of the best attacks here. If the character you select was a wimp in the main campaign, prepare to get destroyed by Kunio and pals! These are fun diversions (and include local and download play,) but with limited customization options, they end up being pretty shallow.
River City: Tokyo Rumble
River City: Tokyo Rumble is an unapologetic love letter to the beat-em-ups of yesteryear. While simplistically accessible and filled to the brim with nostalgia, it's brought down by very limited options and some clunky controls.
—Elisha Deogracias
Charming 80s pixel style with matching personality
Fighting mechanics are great...
…Until sluggish movement hampers the experience
Extras and other modes are quite limited
Elisha Deogracias is an aspiring accountant by day, freelance writer by night. Before writing for Gaming Trend, he had a small gig on the now defunct Examiner. When not being a third wheel with his best friends on dates or yearning for some closure on Pushing Daisies, he's busy catching up on shonen manga and wacky rhythm games. Mains R.O.B. in Smash. Still doesn't know if he's a kid or a squid.
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Doorstop, Melrose Park SA
Transcript, E&OE
Topics: Rise in domestic tourism; Business events grants program; Taliban prisoner transfer; China-Australia relationship; state border closures.
Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much for coming along today. Firstly, a little glimmer of good news in what is a horrific year for our tourism industry. We have seen from June data around domestic visitation an uptick, around $1 billion of extra spending of people across Australia getting out in support of local tourism businesses. And what this shows is that where restrictions are eased and where people can travel in a COVID safe way, they're eager to do so. It's wonderful to see that many regional tourism businesses are benefiting from a big boost in intrastate travel where people are getting out of the capital cities and travelling around regional areas, and that's been a wonderful boom for many regional tourism operators. But there's still large parts of the tourism economy who are struggling and struggling enormously. We know very well that airlines, airports, hire car companies, tour operators, big city hotels are all bleeding right now from pain as a result of the lack of visitation available to them.
We also know that our business conferences and events sector is really struggling too. This is a sector that employs around 240,000 Australians. That's 240,000 Australian jobs that just are sustained by meetings, conferences, exhibitions, and what we want to do is make sure that those jobs can be saved into the future. That's why today the Morrison Government has announced a $50 million injection of support for exhibitions and conferences to be planned and to take place with some certainty and some financial underpinnings. This is going to provide some grants for businesses to make the commitment, to participate in exhibitions next year, knowing that those exhibitions are going to help companies – like the one I'm at here today – hire companies, as well as those who build exhibits and construct them, as well as the people who run the audio visual side of things, the caterers, the cleaners. There are a whole raft of different jobs that depend on the meetings and conferences sector. We want to help that get back on its feet as different communities reopen and different parts of our economy reopen in a COVID safe way.
Question: This is a $36 billion industry. What are you actually going to do with $50 million and closed borders? Is it actually going to achieve very much for the industry at all with all the borders closed, or is it just a matter of this sounding like you're trying to achieve something?
Simon Birmingham: So, we're not expecting that this is going to see major exhibitions or conferences happening next weekend. This is really about enabling the commitments and the planning to happen right through into next year. And we know that there are long lead times when it comes to major conferences, major exhibitions. 95 per cent of major conferences and exhibitions have been cancelled this year, which is what is putting pressure on the 240,000 jobs relying on this industry. We want to make sure that next year, as many of those conferences and exhibitions go ahead, which requires planners to have confidence that people will book to exhibit at those meetings and conferences. And that's what this fund is for. Targeted funding to ensure that small businesses, who would usually take out a stall or book a stand at an exhibition, do so with confidence with the financial support to know that if circumstances change, they won't do their dough.
Obviously, border restrictions are an impediment, but all states nearly have made certain commitments to try to get back to normality by Christmas. So, this is building on those National Cabinet commitments to try to see opening, normality being achieved by Christmas. And from that, getting people to plan in 2021 with the confidence to hold their exhibitions, to book a slot there, to build a stand, and to support the jobs that rely on it.
Question: These grants aren't all going to wind up in firms in Sydney and conventions in Sydney, are they? They're going to be spread across the continent?
Simon Birmingham: This is a grants program that is open absolutely across Australia, and our expectation is that we will see conferences and exhibitions supported right across the country. But it is true, that the more open the state is, the better the opportunity for them to viably conduct a conference or exhibition is going to be. So that's a matter for individual states to choose. But their conference, their exhibition is going to be more viable and better able to proceed if they're open to visitors and exhibitors coming from interstate as a part of that.
Question: That seems to favour Sydney over Melbourne with lockdowns, with restrictions still going to be very tough late into the year [indistinct]?
Simon Birmingham: No, because as I said, to this to sustain activity that really will largely take place in 2021. It's a very short period of time in terms of major conferences and major exhibitions, to see them go ahead or restart this year. What we want to make sure is that conferences and exhibitions that were cancelled in 2020 do happen in 2021. And this funding is going to provide some confidence for people to plan and book, and to save those jobs next year.
Question: On another matter, if you don't mind me asking. What's the Australian Government's response to the Afghan soldier who killed three Australians being transported to Doha, into Qatar? Is that something that you expected?
Simon Birmingham: We have made consistent, and continue to make consistent representations that Hekmatullah should serve a full custodial sentence. Now, that custodial sentence could occur in Afghanistan, in Qatar. But the Australian Government's position is that a full custodial sentence should be served with no reprieve.
Question: And what assurances have been given?
Simon Birmingham: We continue to make those representations. I'll leave the direct nature of the conversations that the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and other officials have had with Afghan and U.S. authorities for them to comment on. But our position does not change by virtue of relocation from Afghanistan to Qatar. We expect a full custodial sentence to be served with no reprieve.
Question: Are you concerned that this could be a step towards his release?
Simon Birmingham: Our position hasn't changed. We don't want to see a release. We want to see a full sentence served without reprieve. Where that occurs, a matter for other authorities. If Qatari authorities are happy for that sentence to be served their, that is their decision. We've made very clear to all of the states involved as- that the full sentence must be served out.
Question: And Minister, on another matter, do you think the Australian diplomats, did they act lawfully? This is looking at the ABC and the AFR journo. Or did they disrupt Chinese investigations into two Australian journalists?
Simon Birmingham: What we saw in relation to the return to Australia of journalists from the ABC and Financial Review from China was diplomacy and our diplomatic service working as it should. They worked as it should in terms of firstly ensuring the safety of Australians and the well-being of Australians and the safe return of those two individuals. And they worked as they should in working with Chinese authorities to ensure that they could safely leave China, and that the Chinese authorities requests for interviews to be conducted prior to them leaving China were handled in an appropriate way. Those interviews were undertaken prior to their departure from China, whilst ensuring the safety of the individuals concerned.
Question: Does this mark the new low- this dispute, the new low for relations between Australia and China?
Simon Birmingham: There are clearly a number of tension points that have arisen during the course of this year in particular, but going back over a period of time. It doesn't change the reality that the Australian Government's position on China is still one where we welcome the fact that China's economy has grown so successfully in recent years, creating better opportunities for hundreds of millions of people across China and our region. We want to continue to see that type of growth and we want to work in a way that is both mutually respectful and mutually beneficial to facilitate.
Question: Are you worried about the implications though for future trade?
Simon Birmingham: There are a number of tensions that have and are impacted in certain trade related sectors. That is clearly a concern and I've expressed my disappointment on that before but it doesn't change the fact that from an Australian Government perspective, our position is one of consistency. Consistency in defending Australian values, Australian interests and Australian security, but also consistency in welcoming the economic growth and prosperity of China, the transformation that it's had for hundreds of millions of people in raising their living standards, and our desire to continue to support that in a way that is mutually beneficial of China, Australia, and everyone across our region, and mutually respectful of the sovereignty of all nations involved.
Question: Staying on that, how do you intend to attract Chinese tourists given the tension to the relationship?
Simon Birmingham: Well, we're a little way away from running tourism campaigns internationally at present. We obviously have strict international border restrictions in place to protect Australia from the risks associated with COVID-19. But when those border restrictions can be eased, we certainly stand ready to remind everyone from around the world the amazing experiences that they have here in Australia, the safety of Australia, of the opportunities to come be it for cultural tourism, adventure tourism, nature-based tourism. A range of different experiences that people can have, or of course to come here and undertake amazing high quality English language studies that are world class institutions.
Question: On Tiger Air, why weren't we able to save it?
Simon Birmingham: Well, this has been flagged and foreshadowed for some period of time as part of the arrangements that the buyout of Virgin entailed. What we've seen this year is an international and domestic aviation industry under immense pressure. The fact that the Virgin Australia administration was able to go through the proper processes, come out the other side, saving thousands of jobs and maintaining competition in our domestic database industry is a welcome result. Obviously, we feel for those directly impacted by the closure of the Tiger brand, but the closure of that brand is not an unexpected event. We can still continue to have that competition of domestic aviation industry given Virgin's ongoing survival.
Question: And you blame the state premiers for border closures, for the demise of the aviation industry?
Simon Birmingham: Border closures are not helping in relation to airlines, airports quite clearly. The border closures create ongoing pressures on the viability of those airlines and threaten jobs across those different sectors. Now, we recognise there's a role for border closures. It's why we support the quarantining of Victoria, but we do want to see the states and territories exercise not just common sense but sense when it comes to the analysis and evidence and data that's there about opening up [indistinct] being suppressed in a complimentary way. What I want to say is that states like WA or Tasmania reciprocate in the opening up that a state like South Australia has shown to them. I want to see that states like South Australia and Queensland recognise that Canberra has not had a COVID case for 62 days. And it's pretty reasonable to expect that you should be able to facilitate travel from Canberra into Queensland, into South Australia as a result of that type of success.
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Q: How to process a login form data? I have created a login form for my website, but the issue is how to process the data provided in the form by the uses.
You see, I can't just write a basic function like this one -
myfunction(){
if(usename==='xyz' && password==='pqr');
return true;
else{
return false;
}
}

'Cause it will be clearly visible to all in the inspection. What should I do?
Also, I should mention that I am not really good at developing, I only got some basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

A: Login should always be processed by a server side code. One of the example is php.
The php part would retrieve the username and password and query with the database and check if the pair exist.
You need to learn some server side language. It can be any language like php, java, python or nodejs. As you already have knowledge of javascript, you can go with node.js.

A: There are two types of form validation. There is a client-side validation and the server-side validation. Client-side is validation that occurs in the browser before the data has been submitted to the server. This is more user-friendly than server-side validation as it gives an instant response. This can be further subdivided:
    JavaScript validation is coded using JavaScript. It is completely customizable.
    Built-in form validation using HTML5 form validation features.  This generally does not require JavaScript. Built-in form validation has better performance, but it is not as customizable as JavaScript.
Server-side validation is validation which occurs on the server after the data has been submitted.  Server-side code is used to validate the data before it is saved into the database. If the data fails authentication, a response is sent back to the client to tell the user what corrections to make. Server-side validation is not as user-friendly as client-side validation, as it does not provide errors until the entire form has been submitted.  However, server-side validation is your application's last line of defense against incorrect or even malicious data. All popular server-side frameworks have features for validating and sanitizing data (making it safe). My advice would be you master both since having some validation on the browser helps with interactivity with the user too.


Welcome to my review of the Honor 6+.
First up, let's take a look at the hardware. As you can see it is a non offensive rectangular design, with a mix of plastic, glass and metal. The front camera is 8mp.
The top edge reveals a microphone, headphone jack and infra red blaster. The phone comes with its own infra red app, which comes with an extensive database but also can learn functions off another remote.
On the bottom edge is another microphone and micro usb socket.
There are no buttons on the left edge but on the right hand edge there are the power, volume and two sim trays. This setup can be configured to take 2 micro sims or one micro sim and a micro SD card for additional storage. In fact the second tray can either take a micro sim or a nano sim. To use a nano sim, the nano sim card is rotated 90 degrees. If you don't need a sim in the second tray, then you can use it for a micro sd card to expand the storage. So just to clarify, the prime sim tray located at the bottom of the phone, can only take a micro sim. It has been made this size as there are still many phones that need a micro sim. Obviously, if you had a nano sim, then an adapter would be needed to make it micro sim size.
On the rear you have the loudspeaker and 2 x 8mp rear cameras along with a true tone flash unit.
Before we move on, I will cover off the specifications of the Honor 6+.
– Camera focus time of 0.1 seconds.
In the box you get a micro usb lead, UK charging adapter plug, basic wired headset, sim ejector tool and some leaflets/quick start guide. You also get a screen protector for the front of the phone. The charger included is a fast charger, recharging phone in 2 hours.
The Honor 6+ is running android 4.4.2 along with EMUI v3. With EMUI you have a totally skinned look with tons of extra functionality. You also have access to a theme store to totally change the feel and look as required. EMUI v3 removes the app drawer, but this is not an issue. Lollipop is coming in July 2015.
The phone is powered by Honor's own chipset, a 8+1 cores Kirin 925 chipset (1.8ghz) with 3GB RAM plus 32GB of internal memory. This is enough to provide a reasonable user experience with plenty of space for apps. AnTuTu revealed a score of 43,000. This should improve slightly once updated to lollipop.
As a phone, it is extremely effective. It pulls cellular, wifi and bluetooth signals with ease. Its cellular reception capabilities are way ahead of any phone I have ever used. As an example, my Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge whilst driving through Cornwall showed no service several times. However the 6+ was on full H+. Another example, the 6+ was receiving 4G, whereas my S6 Edge only had H+. Both phones were on the same network too. Add to the fact it has dual sims, the Honor 6+ makes a compelling device for users who need good signal strength and versatility of the dual sim setup. If you decide not to use it in dual sim mode, then you have the option of using a micro SD card instead. My Sandisk 128gb micro sd card worked just fine. At the end of the article are screen shots showing the settings menu for the sim management, along with other aspects of the phone.
Delving deeper in to the phone skin, the quick settings are skinned as below.
If you pull down all the way, you will reveal the remainder of the quick settings toggles.
There are even extra controls available in the lock screen. The lock screen features a new image every time you press the power button. If you do not like the magazine unlock function, you can change this.
With regards to unlocking the phone, the 6+ features a double tap to unlock. This is handy for such a large device. It is has a one handed mode and customisable on screen control buttons which can be swiped down to be hidden in apps too. In one handed mode, the on screen control buttons will squash up closer to the left or right, the same for the keyboard and phone dialler.
Below is a my first home screen style applied to my Honor 6+.
Then I tried a few new themes and settled for this look which I really like a lot.
As there is no app drawer, I simply created folders on my home screen, and created another folder on another home screen for unused apps. However, as I mentioned the Honor 6+ comes with an extensive theme store. When I first got the phone, it only had 6 themes available, but now the Theme app has been updated and allows access to a huge selection of themes.
The Honor 6+ has a feature called Touchplus. After you apply this film you get new touch control areas with shortcuts at the top and bottom of the phone. I will be buying one of these and have heard from somebody who already has one how useful the Touchplus has become. Screen shot at end of post. Other features include glove mode and motions. Motion control is extensive. Options include flip to mute, reduce volume as you pick up call, raise to ear to make calls, answer calls or control the speaker/bluetooth headset, shake to rearrange home screen layout, tilt to move icons, widgets or keyboards, double tap to turn on screen. Gestures are also available. With the screen off, you can open an app by drawing the letter on the screen. Eg draw a C to open the camera, e for browser, m for music and w for weather. You only have a choice of 4 letters to draw but you can remap any of them to your desired application.
Battery and power management. The Honor 6+ comes with a 3,600mah battery that will get you through a heavy day and two for medium or light usage. It has affective power management modes from smart to ultra modes. Personally, I just used the smart power mode.
Screen. The 5.5 IPS 1080p panel is excellent. Colour temperature of the screen can be adjusted in the settings too. Viewing angles are good, and it is readable in the sun, although not as clear as some other phones.
The loudspeaker is on the rear of the device and maxes out at 87db. This makes listening to podcast ideal. The quality of the loudspeaker is average. The phone comes with a FM Radio but does not includes RDS. However, because of the signal strength capabilities of the Honor 6+, plug the included headphones in to act as the aerial, and within seconds the phone has scanned the entire frequency and saved the strongest stations. The included headset produces a pleasant sound. These just sit in the ears, but are not the in ear canal type, and consequently have no cushions. However, whilst not the bleeding age of audio quality, they would suffice for many people. I used them for several hours whilst listening to the FM radio. DTS is an EQ option on the phone for the music app and should always be left on. I would rank headphone audio quality 8/10 on my scale. USB Audio is not present. Bluetooth audio sounded excellent, even the DTS EQ option made a slight difference with my Plantronics BackBeat Pro headphones.However, the overall music capabilities and quality are above average and enjoyable.
Now this is where the Honor 6+ gets really interesting. It has 3 x 8mp cameras. A 8mp front camera and 2 x 8mp on the rear. To fully understand how this tech properly works, view the below video.
The camera interface is fairly straight forward.
Looking at the screen shot above, on the left edge, you get access to the main menu, changing from rear to front cameras, audio control on/off, flash options. The main control switches between photo mode, video recording or wide aperture control. Above the shutter is a tear drop which brings up the filters, and below the shutter button is the gallery button.
If you press the top left menu button, you are presented with the following.
Here you have access to a number of shooting modes from HDR, Watermark and Super night and more. You also have access to the advanced settings.
In photo mode you can select shots from 13mp at 4:3, 10mp at 16:9, 8mp at 4:3, 6mp at 16:9 and 6mp at 1:1. Video options are 1080p, 720p, VGA, QVGA and MMS. There is no 4K. Wide Aperture mode options are 8mp 4:3 and 6mp at 16:9. ISO options are from Auto, 100 up to 1,600. You can adjust the image for saturation, contrast and brightness. The Honor 6+ also features Ultra Snapshot. Holding volume down with the phone off can either open camera and take quick snapshot or just open the camera. Both options only take around 1 second.
As I mentioned at the very start, this phone has some clever technology happening with its two rear 8mp cameras. The front 8mp camera takes good selfies too. But moving back to the rear, in photo mode it uses the 2 lenses to create a 13mp shot, pulling in as much light as possible. And in real life I was really happy with the end results. All the different modes work well. As they say, the proof is in the pudding! Burst mode is achieved by pressing and holding the shutter button. It can take a maximum of 18 shots in a burst.
Super night mode allows shutter exposures of up to 32 seconds. You can either set the ISO and shutter times yourself or allow the phone to decide. In auto super night, the camera uses its dual 8mp lenses to first establish the scene depths and then starts to build the photo. For more than 3 seconds, you will need a tripod. See examples below.
The real fancy part of the phone is the wide aperture mode. This uses one of the rear 8mp lenses for depth data. This means before you take a photo, you can touch any part and adjust the focus and f stop from f/0.95 to f/16. See screen shots. You can even re-edit the focus and f stop values after you have taken the shot, re save and repeat as many times as you like.
Anyway, let's take a look at some camera samples. With all these shots taken, these were snapped first time, every time and without the need for a second just in case the first shot didn't come out correctly!
Here is a macro shot.
Normal photo mode shots some in HDR.
First shot is normal and then in HDR mode.
File output size was around 11mb.
Here I managed to take a shot, and keep the cross only in focus. In fact, after you have snapped the photo, you can go back to the photo, and change the focus and f stop anywhere on the image and save this new version. You can repeat this as many times as you like.
Next from the Honor 6+ but shot using the wide aperture mode, so below are 3 versions. First up, all in focus.
Now the rear of the photo is in focus.
Remember, these 3 photos are created from just one shot.
The Honor 6+ has a mode called "supernight". It really is fantastic. To illustrate its prowess, below is a shot of my local church at night using the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. The S6 Edge was on a tripod, and this was shot using its Pro Mode.
And now for the Honor 6+, using its "supernight" mode. The 6+ was on a tripod for both of these shots. Same church, same time, same level of darkness.
Now the Honor 6+ shot is using a 32 second exposure and an ISO of only 200! I have shown you the longest shutter exposure just to give you an idea of what's possible. A 10 to 15 second exposure would have been a better balance of light and darkness. However , what's those red markings on the stones? Ghosts perhaps?
What's not to like with this superb piece phone from Honor. The Honor 6+ is available in black from Three UK on contract and PAYG for £299. Or click here for the Honor 6 Plus from Amazon UK in black and white for £299.
I really like this phone. The camera is reliable, competent, creative and fun to use. The screen and its size are superb. Along with its dual sim and signal prowess, this makes a really good value device. In fact everything on this phone works well.
A selection of screen shots below for your perusal.


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Special issue: real world application of SHM in Australia
Nguyen, Andy and Chan, Tommy H. T. and Zhu, Xinqun (2019) Special issue: real world application of SHM in Australia. Structural Health Monitoring, 18 (1). pp. 3-4. ISSN 1475-9217
Text (Accepted version)
Special Issue Editorial_accepted version.pdf
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1475921718823980
Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring (ANSHM) was established in 2009 to promote and advance the field of SHM in Australia and the association has grown considerably since then. By November of 2018, ANSHM has the membership made of 45 organisations including 20 universities, 16 private companies, 6 road authorities and 3 research institutions. Every year ANSHM organises an annual workshop and/or conference sessions for members to exchange their research and practical developments in SHM. One edited book and nine journal special issues have been produced since the establishment of ANSHM. One of these special issues was organised in Structural Health Monitoring - an International Journal (SHMIJ) in 2014.
On 6–7 December 2017, ANSHM held its 9th annual workshop as part of the prestigious 8th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructures (SHMII-8) in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The main focus of both SHMII-8 and the 9th ANSHM workshop was SHM in real-world application. Interestingly, all sessions of SHMII-8 and ANSHM workshop were held within the P block building at Gardens Point Campus of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) that was instrumented with Australia's first ever long-term full-scale SHM system. Inspired by this theme and high-quality presentations at the workshop, a special issue named 'Real World Application of SHM in Australia' was established in SHMIJ and the 9th ANSHM workshop speakers were invited to submit enhanced and extended versions of their papers to this Special Issue. After rigorous pre-screening, peer review and revision processes, fourteen papers were accepted for inclusion in the Special Issue. The contributions include deterioration assessment of the instrumented P block building at QUT using hybrid model updating and long-term vibration monitoring data, reliability-based load-carrying capacity assessment of bridges using SHM and non-linear analysis, and innovative vibration based damage identification methods with applications to cable-stayed, steel-truss or timber bridges as well as to frame, utility-pole or building structures. The Special Issue also includes new research on non-destructive evaluation of (i) incipient pitting corrosion in reinforced concrete structures, (ii) gaps between carbon fibre reinforced polymer composite and concrete surfaces, (iii) fatigue cracks in pipes, (iv) bolted joints, and (v) in-situ stress. Most studies were verified on real civil structures or large-scale laboratory models well reflecting the high applicability of the developed methods to solve real-world problems.
As the guest editors of this Special Issue, we thank the authors for their contribution and all the anonymous reviewers who provided constructive review comments to the manuscripts submitted to this Special Issue. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to the Managing Editor Professor Michael Todd and the journal executive committee for their support and assistance during the submission and review process. Finally, we would like to thank the SAGE Publications team for their diligence in assuring the efficient and timely production of the papers toward the publication of this Special Issue.
Accepted version made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
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Q: Why DateTime can not satisfy serde::Serialize? extern crate serde;
extern crate serde_json;

#[macro_use]
extern crate serde_derive;

use chrono::{self, Date,DateTime, TimeZone};
use serde_derive::{Serialize,Deserialize}; // 1.0.91

#[derive(Serialize,Deserialize )]
struct Test<Tz>
where Tz:TimeZone,
{
    t:DateTime<Tz>
}

fn main(){

}

The code above is not gonna compile with the error:

error[E0277]: the trait bound chrono::datetime::DateTime<Tz>:
  serde::Serialize is not satisfied   --> src/main.rs:16:5

I have
chrono = {version="0.4",features = ["serde"]}

in my Cargo.toml
I found that the implementation is here: https://docs.rs/chrono/0.4.6/chrono/struct.DateTime.html#impl-Serialize
full code sample here https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2018&gist=57b41f6dd1c4c0a2c7f4f541234137a7
but I am not sure if the playground have serde feature enabled or not.

A: Sorry guys the problems is as @crazysim said in the comment.
DateTime didn't implement Deserialize trait.
If I remove it, the code will work:
extern crate serde;
extern crate serde_json;

#[macro_use]
extern crate serde_derive;

use chrono::{self,DateTime, TimeZone};

#[derive(Serialize )]
struct Test<Tz>
where Tz:TimeZone,
{
    t:DateTime<Tz>
}

fn main(){

}


text:
Dynamic Insurance Brokers –
Barry McCrory is a second generation Community Builder. His father, Gerry, won the award in the Sports and Recreation category in 2008. Like his late father, McCrory is "Mr. Hockey" in Sudbury. McCrory has coached and mentored young hockey players for more than 30 years and is actively involved with minor hockey.
When it comes to the minor hockey scene, there is very little that Barry McCrory has not done, says sports writer Randy Pascal. His involvement, "has quite literally touched hundreds, if not thousands of young hockey players."
As an instructor with the McCrory Hockey School, he has worked with players as young as three or four and ignited their passion for the game. The school was started by Gerry 45 years ago.
"My dad handed the school over to me, and I would like to hand it over to my children," he says.
McCrory is the current president of the Sudbury Minor Hockey Association (SMHA) board of directors, and has been a director since 2001.
He was general manager of the Northern Junior Wolves from 2004 to 2007, and is a commissioner with the Northern Ontario AAA Hockey League.
For the past decade, McCrory has cochaired the Big Nickel AAA Hockey Tournament, the biggest AAA tournament in Northern Ontario. This November the tournament will celebrate its 40th anniversary.
The tournament has attracted as many as 76 teams in minor and major peewee, bantam and midget divisions.
Over the years, the tournament has made and continues to make financial contributions to community charities and organizations.
Bruce Killah, co-chair of the Big Nickel AAA Major Hockey Tournament, says in his letter to the CBA judges, "We strive to make Sudbury the AAA Capital of the north."
In 2018, McCrory was co-chair of the national Telus Cup Major Midget AAA championships.
"The experience was phenomenal. Teams from all over Canada came in. The tournament made $85,000 for the Sudbury Minor Hockey legacy fund. Money will be used to help the grassroots program for first-time hockey players and scholarships," he says.
One of McCrory's former players, Alex Vendette, says, "Barry's commitment and enthusiasm is unmatched and he taught me to always strive to be my best. He always prided himself on not just developing hockey players. But developing quality people as well."
"Barry helps players believe in their potential," says Tammy Simpson, SMHA executive director. "He builds their confidence and supports them through the adversity they're going to face during their development as young players…The skills his players learn from him on the ice are the same skills that help them become great citizens."
McCrory has worked in sales for CocaCola Bottling Ltd. for 39 years. He is married with two children, Morgan and Colin, and one grandson, Noah.
He credits his understanding wife, Linda, for allowing him the time to pursue his passion for hockey, working with young players and giving back to the community.
"I have been married for 33 years and she understands what it takes to get things done in the community.
"I think it is always good to give back…I do not do for recognition (but) because it is good for the community."


The Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI) of the Helmholtz Zentrum München in Munich, Germany, is a multi-disciplinary academic research structure strongly integrated with the Chair of Biological Imaging at the Technical University of Munich. IBMI research focuses on innovative optical and optoacoustic methods that enable novel visualization of living biological tissue. The Institute has 11 laboratories ranging from engineering to biological and medical research, is home to researchers from more than 25 nationalities and promotes independent career development and diversity. With a broad international presence and many prestigious awards, IBMI leads imaging and sensing technologies, advances biomedical discovery and translates novel sensing technologies to clinical applications.