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The article below was published in the newspaper The Herald and News, Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA, on pages 1 and 2, on June 26, 1947.
Strange Flying Objects Pose Mystery For Pilots
OKLAHOMA CITY, June 26 (AP) Don't sell those strange flying objects reported whizzing over western Washington short until the returns are all in - a flyer claimed today he saw one flash over Oklahoma City.
"It was about five or six weeks ago, as near as my wife and I can remember," said Byron Savage, 38, Oklahoma City businessman pilot.
"I was standing in my front yard at the time, about dusk, with a little sunlight in the sky, when a flat, disc-like object came across the city from just a little east of south and was gone in about four of five seconds.
"The machine, or whatever it was, was a very shiny, silvery color - very big - and was moving at a terrific rate of speed.
"The funny thing about it was that it made no noise. I don't think it had any kind of internal combustion engine."
Referring to a claim by Kenneth Arnold, flying Boise, Idaho, businessman that he saw nine objects in western Washington similar to the one Savage described, the Oklahoma City pilot declared:
"I know that boy up there (Arnold) really saw them."
Savage said he told his wife about the object at the time, but "she thought I must have seen lightning," and he also told some skeptical pilot friends.
"I kept quiet after that," he continued "until I read about that man seeig nine of the same things I saw and I thought it only fair to back him up."
Mrs Savage said today that she now was convinced her husband saw the object.
"He was very much worked up about it when he read about the man in Washington," she declared.
Savage said the object he saw was high in the air - "somewhere around 10,000 feet. I could'nt be sure, judging it from the ground where I was."
(See Arnold Story on Page 2)
Flying Businessman Sticks To Tale Of "Super" Planes
PENDLETON, Ore., June 26 (AP) -- A tale of nine mysteerious objects - big as airplanes - whizzing over Western Washington at 1200 miles an hour got skepticism today from the army and air experts.
The man who reported the objects, Kenneth Arnold, a flying Boise, Idaho, businessman, clung, however to his story of the shiny, flat objects, each big as a DC-4 passenger plane, racing over Washington's Cascade mountains with a peculiar weaving motion "like the tail of a kite."
An army spokesman in Washington, D. C., commented "As far as we know, nothing flies that fast except a V-2 rocket, which travels at about 3500 miles an hour - and that's too fast to be seen."
The spokesman added that the V-2 rockets would not resemble the objects reported by Arnold, and that no high-speed experimental tests were being made in the area where arnold said the objects were.
A civil aeronautics administration inspector in Portland, Ore., added, "I rather doubt that anything would be traveling that fast."
Arnold described the objects as "flat like a pie-pan," and so shiny that they reflected the sun like a mirror.
He said he was flying fast at 2:58 p.m. two days ago toward Mt. Rainier when they appeared directly in front of him 25-30 miles away at 10,000 feet altitude.
Timed by clock
By his plane's clock he timed them at 1:42 minutes for the 47 miles from Mt. Rainier to Mt. Adams, Arnold said, adding that he later figured by triangulation that their speed was 1200 miles an hour.
"I could be wrong by 200 or 300 miles an hour" he admitted, "but I know I never saw anything so fast."
He said at first he thought they were geese, "but quickly saw they were too big - as big as a DC-4 that was about 20 miles away, he said. The DC-4 pilot reported nothing unusual sighted. Then Arnold said he thought of jet planes and started to clock them, "but their motion was wrong for jet jobs."
"I guess I don't know what they were - unless they were guided missiles," said Arnold, who continued here on a business trip.
"Everyone says I'm nuts," he added ruefully, "and I guess I'd say it too if someone else reported those things. But I saw them and watched them closely. It seems impossible, but there it is."
Arnold sayd he was 25-30 miles west of Mt. Rainer, en route from chelais to Yakima, when he sighted the objects. He explained he had decided to look for a marine corps plane, missing since last January, while he was in the area.
Blinding Flashes
He told a reporter the planes remained visible by the bright, "almost blinding" flashes of reflectd sunshine as far as 50 miles away.
Arnold admitted the angle from which he viewed the objects would make difficult a precise estimation of their speed, but inisted any error would not be grave "for that speed."
The DC-4 was closer than the objects, but at 14,000 feet and somewhat north of him, he said, adding that he could estimate the distance of the objects better because an intervening peak once blocked his view of them. He found the peak was 25 miles away, Arnold related.
He also said they flew on the west sides of Rainier and Adams, adding that he believed this would make more difficult for them to be seen from the ground.
The Boise man said that at first he thought the window of his plane might be causing the reflections, but that he still saw the objects after rolling it down.
He also described the objects as "saucer-like" and their motion "like a fish flipping in the sun."
Threaded Through Hills
"Ten thousand feet is very low for anything going at that speed," he said.
Arnold was flying a three-passenger, single-engined plane at 9200 feet at the time, he said, adding that his own speed was about 105 miles an hour.
He landed here yesterday and said he would remain another day or two before returning to Boise.
To: Kenneth Arnold or Newspapers 1940-1949.
This page was last updated on June 29, 2017.


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The countdown to Christmas morning and first night of Hanukkah is officially on. If you're still on the hunt for the ideal gift for your friends and family, we've got some ideas, from sweet cupcakes to a decadent $43,400 bracelet.
This year's gift guide is a little different from those of years past, though. Reflecting the eclectic shopping options in a city as diverse as Washington, more than half of the goods come from local, non-chain retailers, and not all big-ticket items are wildly out of reach, a nod to the continuing worldwide economic slump. So happy holidays — and even happier shopping.
Low: Founded this year by Washington native Read Wall, Read's Clothing Project (readsclothingproject.com) donates a book to a child in need through a partnership with Books for Africa for every purchase of the men's shirts, ties and accessories in Read's design collection, which feature a vintage, preppy-inspired look. The holiday collection of ties and bowties ($65) includes festively colored plaids made of tweed and wool tartan (right).
Medium: It's tough to see anything negative about TOMS Eyewear (toms.com/eyewear). Started by Blake Mycoskie as an offshoot of his wildly successful TOMS Shoes, TOMS Eyewear came out this year to offer stylish men's and women's frames at prices ranging from $135 for classics to $145 for aviators. For every pair purchased, the company provides medical treatment, prescription glasses or sight-saving surgery to someone in need in countries worldwide.
High: The holidays are a time to think of those less fortunate, and there was no shortage of natural disasters this year, such as Japan's earthquake and tsunami, that put plenty of people at a disadvantage. Oxfam America (oxfamamericaunwrapped.com) provides a chance to do more than make a small donation that you can't track. For $5,000, you can provide food, shelter, clothing, blankets, fuel, mosquito nets and more to an entire village in need. Oxfam also offers an extensive catalogue of charitable gifts in a range of prices, like giving a pair of sheep to help people make local textiles for $90 or training a midwife for $150.
Photo: Necktie – Read's Clothing Project
Low: Toast the upcoming holidays with homemade seasonal drinks at Bibiana Osteria and Enoteca (bibianadc.com) through Dec. 25. The $12, female-named cocktails include concoctions such as the Samantha, made with VSOP cognac, homemade biscotti liquor, lemon juice and a dash of orange bitters. For the more adventurous, there's the Vin Cotto: red wine, Saba, dry fruit and nuts along with a homemade digestive made of 27 spices, coffee and barley.
Medium: Think the whole cupcake fad is fading? Tell that to the lines snaking out the door at Georgetown Cupcake (georgetowncupcake.com). With a hit TV show — "DC Cupcakes" on TLC — the sister-owned bakeries in Georgetown and Bethesda Row in Maryland continue to thrive. See what the fuss is all about by ordering a single cupcake or a dozen. The company offers five holiday-centric dozen boxes ($29 or $55 with nationwide overnight shipping). For the most variety, try the Christmas Collection, which has flavors such as white chocolate peppermint, Rudolph red velvet, Christmas caramel and holiday hazelnut.
High: Ring in 2012 with Bourbon Steak Executive Chef Adam Sobel's six-course tasting menu — $175 per person or $270 including wine pairings — at the Four Seasons in Georgetown (www.fourseasons.com/washington/dining/bourbon_steak/). The menu includes Osetra caviar sandwiches with toasted blini and fried quail egg, Chinese roast squab with foie gras, and grilled bison tenderloin with black truffle gnocchi and toasted hazelnut. Dessert includes pineapple treats from confit to soup to sorbet and the restaurant's signature brownie with bourbon cordial and chocolate cremeux.
Photo: Cupcakes – Georgetown Cupcake
Low: This winter, bring some of the outdoors in. H. Bloom offers a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly orchid subscription for $85 (hbloom.com) available in purple or white. Set the day and time for delivery that works best for the recipient and plant the seed for a gift that gives all year-round.
Medium: The Nebula Grande bowl by Tony Wurman ($220 at Room & Board, roomandboard.com) is a handmade swirl of emerald green and earth tones so beautiful it shouldn't be kept in a cupboard or even covered by food. The bowl, which looks like blown glass but is made using hot glue, can hold its own as a table centerpiece or in a display cabinet.
High: "High-fashion" and "bathroom" aren't terms that often go together, but Porcelanosa (porcelanosa-usa.com), a tile, kitchen and bath shop that hails from Spain and has a new 9,000-square-foot showroom in Bethesda, Md., seeks to change that perception. The Lounge Negro (visit store for pricing) is a stunning wall-mounted sink with a quilt effect on the front and a spacious counter area topped with a large white bowl sink and streamlined faucet to create a very modern, clean, black-and-white look.
Another recent store opening is the home goods and jewelry store Dalton Pratt at 1742 Wisconsin Ave., NW, offering unique items such as Waylande Gregory handmade ceramics from Peru. A set includes a square plate with a bright gold-and-orange tiger on it ($250), a large giraffe plate ($585) and a tiger bowl ($765).
Photos: Nebula bowl – BrandLinkDC; Ceramics – David Phillipich for Dalton Pratt
Women's Fine Jewelry
Low: Good things come in small packages, especially if the box holds a dainty flower-shaped pair of Suzanne Somersall silver-white sapphire-pearl Hanabira earrings from Bethesda's Ginger Boutique ($750, gingerstyle.com). The diamond-like white sapphires make up the petals while a five-millimeter white pearl sits in the middle.
Medium: Actress Angelina Jolie has been seen several times on the red carpet sporting big, sparkly green bling, and she's made a classic look trendy. The Aura earrings by Mark Patterson fit this category well. With 15.67-carat green tourmalines set in white gold with diamonds at the Tiny Jewel Box ($15,665, tinyjewelbox.com), they become an instant heirloom while looking modern and fresh.
High: A wrist stacked high with bracelets is a popular look, but this bracelet is made to stand alone. And at $43,400, you'll want it to be noticed. Chanel's 1932 bracelet (chanel.com) in 18-karat white gold with two strands of cultured pearls connected by a stunning bow of black-and-white diamonds epitomizes the combination of class and femininity that was the pearl-obsessed Coco Chanel.
Photos: Hanabira Earrings – Suzanne Somersall; Bracelet – Chanel
Low: There's no reason why a woman can't be techie and trendy. The cushioned nylon interior of the Stephanie Johnson iPad case ($63 at Nectar Skin Bar, nectarskinbar.com) will keep the precious Apple product safe and sound while looking like a million bucks with a glittering exterior. It accommodates Apple's iPad skin for iPad and iPad 2.
Medium: Animal prints are huge this fall, but a shirt or dress can be a big commitment to the pattern. For something subtler, try Pietro Alessandro's animal print purse at South Moon Under ($124, southmoonunder.com), which has several area locations. The faux fur cheetah print is trimmed in black with a gold closure and chain for wearing on your shoulder or across the body.
M29 Lifestyle (2800 Pennsylvania Ave., NW), owned by the same company that owns the Georgetown Four Seasons hotel next door, bills itself as a lifestyle store, offering women's jewelry and accessories, fun home décor, and goodies for children and pets, too. Among the finds are cashmere and silk scarves by the well-loved designer Chan Luu ($195 to $245) and thick shawls by Jess Brown ($325) that are handmade in Bolivia using baby alpaca.
High: Through the Ostsee coat ($528), Leifsdottir has made the standard mid-calf black coat sexy and modern with a zipper and large leather buckle closures instead of buttons, a wide collar, and a sleek silhouette. It's available at Anthropologie (anthropologie.com), which has locations throughout the area.
Photos: iPad case – Stephanie Johnson; Coat – Leifsdottir / Anthropologie
Low: D.C.-based Taylor M. Llewellyn started Tucker Blair (tuckerblair.com) to marry high-end, preppy needlepoint patterns with full-grain leather and brass buckles to create men's belts ($65 to $95) that represent your personality. Available prints include American and G8 flags, beer bottles, fish, Frosty the Snowman, and "Santa's Taxi."
Medium: Practical yet stylish, UGG Australia genuine shearling gloves ($160, nordstrom.com) keep fingers warm on frigid days. Available in black, bomber chocolate and chestnut, the gloves share the same famous seaming of the well-loved boots.
High: Ideal for the world traveler in your life, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Geographic, left, watch ($11,200, tinyjewelbox.com) keeps track of the time in 24 time zones. It features a classic stainless steel case, white face and alligator strap.
Photos: Belts – Tucker Blair; Watch – Tiny Jewel Box
Girls and Boys
Low: The hottest toy on the toddler market this year is straight off the street — Sesame Street, naturally. That beloved fuzzy red sensation is back with Let's Rock Elmo ($54.88, amazon.com), which comes with a microphone, a tambourine and a drum set. Preschoolers can choose which instrument Elmo plays and let him sing, too.
Medium: Throw the ultimate holiday party for the little doll in your life and her friends by booking an event at the American Girl toy store (www.americangirl.com/stores/location_wdc.php). To see just how hot American Girl dolls are right now, you need go no farther than Tysons Corner mall, where the new store outside Bloomingdale's is buzzing with shoppers — and girls waiting for salon appointments for their dolls. Dining options include lunch or dinner ($16.50 per person), brunch ($15.50 per person) or afternoon teas ($11 per person). Go for the food and stay for an appointment at the salon, where stylists do dolls' hair ($10 to $20) and pierce their ears ($14).
The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner (www.ritzcarlton.com/tysons) is all about kids this holiday season, although adults will surely get a kick out of the festivities, too. Choose from the Nutcracker Tea ($70 per person), whereby members of the Creative Dance Center present a shortened, modern version of the classic holiday story, or the Princess Tea ($70 per person), where Cinderella, Tiana, Jasmine, Belle, Snow White and Chef Gusteau will sing and dance to Disney hits. A third option is the gingerbread house decorating class ($65 per person for children ages 3 to 12), which includes a treat to take home and hot chocolate to sip for inspiration.
High: For the boy who has everything, get him his first car. The Kettler '53 Chevrolet Vette Collector's Pedal Car ($1,119.99, fao.com) takes the term "ride-on toy" to a whole new level. Its plastic body covers a steel frame, and the car features a fully enclosed floor pan, chain ride crank with ball bearings, bike pedals, steel sprocket, classic grill "teeth" and chrome bumper trim.
Photos: Elmo – Hasbro / Sesame Street; Car – FAO Schwarz
Staycations and Local Events
Low: The Gaylord National Resort's annual "Christmas on the Potomac" extravaganza is exactly the kind of local excursion to get you primed for the holiday season (www.gaylordhotels.com/gaylord-national/christmas-on-the-potomac/). Overnight packages start at $149 a person and include tickets to the "ICE! featuring DreamWorks' Merry Madagascar" show at the sprawling resort complex. Highlights include a 60-foot glass tree and holiday decorations in the main atrium that looks out over the Potomac River and an indoor snowfall and winter wonderland sculpted from ice, as well as interactive experiences with DreamWorks characters from such films as "Shrek," "Kung Fu Panda" and "Madagascar," who apparently even do special wake-up calls for guests.
Medium: If this hotel was good enough for President Abraham Lincoln to call home in the weeks before his inauguration, it's lavish enough for you. The Willard InterContintenal Washington (washington.intercontinental.com) is offering winter weekend getaways until Dec. 25 for $299 per night or $377 per night including breakfast for two and valet parking. On New Year's Eve, $479 buys you a deluxe guest room, a bottle of Moët & Chandon Brut Imperial Champagne, valet parking and breakfast for two. One more perk is the Willard's annual "Holiday Lobbying" program, now in its 10th year. Nightly through Dec. 23, the hotel offers choral concerts by local groups ranging from the Grammy-winning Washington Chorus to the Arlington Children's Chorus in its grand lobby from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
High: The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. and its signature restaurant, Westend Bistro by Eric Ripert, is teaming up with Ripert's famed four-star New York restaurant, Le Bernardin, (left) to offer guests a decadent East Coast culinary travel combo (www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/WashingtonDC/). Starting from $1,025 a night, the package features a three-course lunch at Le Bernandin, including a meet-and-greet with chef Ripert, two roundtrip tickets on Amtrak's Acela Express train from New York to Washington, D.C., three-course dinner at The Pass at Westend Bistro, and club-level accommodations at the Ritz-Carlton in D.C.
Photos: Arlington Children's Choir – Willard InterContinental Washington; Le Bernardin – The Ritz-Carlton
Stephanie Kanowitz is a contributing writer for The Washington Diplomat.
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American Bar Foundation and University of Illinois College of Law to Convene World Experts on Systematic Sexual Violence and Victims' Rights
March 30, 2011, Press releases
Contact: Allison Lynch
E-mail: alynch@abfn.org
Online: www.lexglobal.org
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The Second in Continuing Series of Conferences on Aspects Of Gender Violence Will Take Place in The Hague on 7-8 April 2011
CHICAGO, IL – March 31, 2011 – Can we predict when systematic sexual violence will occur? In recent years has international criminal law expanded or contracted its ability to bring about charges of rape and sexual slavery on the grounds of crimes against humanity and genocide? Does the political context in which mass sexual victimization arises affect the expression or severity of the violence? What kinds of support measures are available to victims of sexual violence in developing and transitioning countries? These questions in addition to others related to the causes and responses to sexual violence will be addressed at the upcoming conference, Systematic Sexual Violence and Victims' Rights, organized by the Center on Law and Globalization of the American Bar Foundation and the University of Illinois College of Law in cooperation with the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University Campus/The Hague, The International Victimology Institute Tilburg (INTERVICT), and the Department of Criminal Law at Tilburg University. This conference, the second in a continuing series, will convene on April 7 and 8, 2011 in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Systematic Sexual Violence and Victims' Rights will bring together and facilitate the development of a global network of activists, lawyers, journalists, court and government officials, nonprofit leaders, and scholars who seek to combat and remedy the systematic victimization of women and improve human rights and the rule of law in international settings. This event will build on the inaugural conference convened in 2009, at which UN High Commissioner Navanethem Pillay, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Judge Richard Goldstone, and others, called for new and intensified approaches in international criminal law to address violence against women. At this second colloquium, the conferees will further develop these evidentiary discussions in addition to examining, more thoroughly, the concerns of victims.
The Keynote and Welcoming Address will be given by Elisabeth Rehn, Minister of State of Finland and the Chair of the Board of Directors at the Trust Fund for Victims of International Criminal Court. Rehn is an independent expert on crisis management and the role of women in the development of peace for the United Nations, governments and nonprofit organizations. Rehn has specific expertise in the area of human rights and international criminal law as a former UN Special Reporter on the situation in the Republic of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and as the UN Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of Secretary-General in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has received numerous national and international honors and awards.
April 7th, day one of the colloquium, will focus on the causes and responses to the systematic victimization of women. John Hagan, American Bar Foundation research professor and the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University, Center on Law and Globalization Co-director and 2009 recipient of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, will lead a panel of scholars to discuss the causal difference in race and religious based conflict, the varying political contexts in which these arise in Iraq, Darfur, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the resulting expression and severity of sexual violence. In addition, experts from around the world, including Judge Teresa A. Doherty of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, will address the topic of how sexual violence is being addressed in the field, the latest development in international criminal law on systematic sexual violence, and new evidentiary techniques to assist the ICC (International Criminal Court) bring indictments and convictions against the high level officials responsible.
The sessions on April 8th will provide an in-depth look into the needs, rights and perspectives of the victims and survivors of systematic sexual violence. Panelists will address topics such as the implication of the label "victim", how the ICC deals with the private law concepts of reparations within the public law setting of criminal law, the participation and protect of victims of sexual violence before the ICC and the ECCC (Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia), and available support measures for victims. Featured speakers include Renifa Madenga, Appeals Counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; Pieter W.I. de Baan, Executive Director of the Trust Fund for Victims at the ICC; Duong Savorn, Cambodian Defenders Project; and Kim Thuy Seelinger, Director of the Sexual Violence and Accountability Project at the University of California Berkeley Human Rights Center.
About the Center on Law and Globalization
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package com.baenadorado.josecarlos.practica5;

import android.content.ContentValues;
import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper;
import android.util.Log;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

public class DataBase extends SQLiteOpenHelper implements Serializable {

    // Logcat tag
    private static final String LOG = "DataBase";

    // Nombre de la base de datos
    private static final String DATABASE_NAME = "filmManager";
    private static final int DATABASE_VERSION = 1;

    // Nombres de las tablas
    private static final String TABLE_GENRE = "genres";
    private static final String TABLE_FILM = "films";

    // Nombres de las columnas
    private static final String KEY_ID = "id";
    private static final String KEY_IMAGE = "image";
    private static final String KEY_GENRE = "genre";
    private static final String KEY_IDGENRE = "genre";
    private static final String KEY_TITLE = "title";
    private static final String KEY_DATE = "date";
    private static final String KEY_DIRECTOR = "director";

    //Creacion de tablas
    private static final String CREATE_TABLE_GENRE = "CREATE TABLE "
            + TABLE_GENRE + "(" + KEY_ID + " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,"
            + KEY_GENRE + " TEXT," + KEY_IMAGE + " TEXT" + ")";

    private static final String CREATE_TABLE_FILM = "CREATE TABLE " + TABLE_FILM
            + "(" + KEY_ID + " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT," + KEY_TITLE + " TEXT,"
            + KEY_DIRECTOR + " TEXT," + KEY_DATE + " DATETIME," + KEY_IDGENRE + " INTEGER,"
            + KEY_IMAGE + " TEXT, FOREIGN KEY(" + KEY_IDGENRE + ") REFERENCES " + TABLE_GENRE + "(" + KEY_ID +
            "));";

    public DataBase(Context context) {
        super(context, DATABASE_NAME, null, DATABASE_VERSION);

    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
        db.execSQL("PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON");
        db.execSQL(CREATE_TABLE_GENRE);
        db.execSQL(CREATE_TABLE_FILM);
    }

    @Override
    public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
        db.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS " + TABLE_GENRE);
        db.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS " + TABLE_FILM);
        onCreate(db);
    }

    //Crear un genero
    public long createGenre(Genre genre) {
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();

        ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
        values.put(KEY_GENRE, genre.getName());
        values.put(KEY_IMAGE, genre.getImageUri());

        // Insert
        long genre_id = db.insert(TABLE_GENRE, null, values);
        return genre_id;
    }

    public Genre getGenre(long idGenre) {
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
        String selectQuery = "SELECT  * FROM " + TABLE_GENRE + " WHERE "
                + KEY_ID + " = " + idGenre;
        Log.e(LOG, selectQuery);
        Cursor c = db.rawQuery(selectQuery, null);
        if (c != null)
            c.moveToFirst();
        Genre genre = new Genre();
        genre.setId(c.getInt(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_ID)));
        genre.setName((c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_GENRE))));
        genre.setImageUri(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_IMAGE)));
        return genre;
    }

    public List<Genre> getAllGenres() {
        List<Genre> genresList = new ArrayList<>();
        String selectQuery = "SELECT  * FROM " + TABLE_GENRE;
        Log.e(LOG, selectQuery);
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
        Cursor c = db.rawQuery(selectQuery, null);
        // Recorremos con el cursor
        if (c.moveToFirst()) {
            do {
                Genre genre = new Genre();
                genre.setId(c.getInt(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_ID)));
                genre.setName((c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_GENRE))));
                genre.setImageUri(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_IMAGE)));

                genresList.add(genre);
            } while (c.moveToNext());
        }
        return genresList;
    }

    //Borrar Genero
    public void deleteGenre(Genre genre) {
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
        List<Film> allTagToDos = getAllFilmsByGenre(genre.getId());
        for (Film film : allTagToDos) {
            deleteFilm(film.getId());
        }

        db.delete(TABLE_GENRE, KEY_ID + " = ?",
                new String[] { String.valueOf(genre.getId()) });
    }

    //Crear pelicula
    public long createFilm(Film film) {
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();

        ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
        values.put(KEY_TITLE, film.getTitle());
        values.put(KEY_DIRECTOR, film.getDirector());
        values.put(KEY_DATE, this.getDate(film.getStringDate()));
        values.put(KEY_IDGENRE, film.getIdGenre());
        values.put(KEY_IMAGE, film.getImageUri());

        long tag_id = db.insert(TABLE_FILM, null, values);
        return tag_id;
    }

    public Film getFilm(long idFilm) {
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
        String selectQuery = "SELECT  * FROM " + TABLE_FILM + " WHERE "
                + KEY_ID + " = " + idFilm;
        Log.e(LOG, selectQuery);
        Cursor c = db.rawQuery(selectQuery, null);
        if (c != null)
            c.moveToFirst();
        Film film = new Film();
        film.setId(c.getInt((c.getColumnIndex(KEY_ID))));
        film.setTitle(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_TITLE)));
        film.setDirector(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_DIRECTOR)));
        film.setDate(this.setDate(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_DATE))));
        film.setImageUri(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_IMAGE)));
        return film;
    }

    //Select a todas las peliculas con el mismo genero
    public List<Film> getAllFilmsByGenre(int idGenre) {
        List<Film> filmList = new ArrayList<Film>();

        String selectQuery = "SELECT * FROM " + TABLE_FILM +
                " WHERE " + KEY_IDGENRE + " = '" + idGenre + "'; ";

        Log.e(LOG, selectQuery);
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
        Cursor c = db.rawQuery(selectQuery, null);
        if (c.moveToFirst()) {
            do {
                Film film = new Film();
                film.setId(c.getInt((c.getColumnIndex(KEY_ID))));
                film.setTitle(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_TITLE)));
                film.setDirector(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_DIRECTOR)));
                film.setDate(this.setDate(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_DATE))));
                film.setImageUri(c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(KEY_IMAGE)));

                filmList.add(film);
            } while (c.moveToNext());
        }

        return filmList;
    }

    //Borrar Pelicula
    public void deleteFilm(long film_id) {
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
        db.delete(TABLE_FILM, KEY_ID + " = ?",
                new String[] { String.valueOf(film_id) });
    }

    public void deleteFilm(Film film) {
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
        db.delete(TABLE_FILM, KEY_ID + " = ?",
                new String[] { String.valueOf(film.getId()) });
    }

    // Cerrar database
    public void closeDB() {
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
        if (db != null && db.isOpen())
            db.close();
    }

    private String getDate(Date date) {
        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        calendar.setTime(date);
        return String.valueOf(calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)
                +"-" + (calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1)
                +"-" + calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR));
    }

    private Date setDate(String fecha) {
        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
        Date date = null;
        try {
            date = dateFormat.parse(fecha.toString());
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return date;
    }

    /*
    private String getStringDate() {
        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
        Calendar gregorianCalendar = new GregorianCalendar();
        String fecha = String.valueOf(gregorianCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR))
               +"-" + gregorianCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1
               +"-" + gregorianCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
        Date date = new Date();
        return dateFormat.format(date);
    }
     */
}

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Gazette letters: Wildlife, support police and Labour party
Published: 9:00 AM August 12, 2017 Updated: 10:43 AM October 14, 2020
Terrapins are sucessfully hatching their eggs in local rivers. Picture: PA ARCHIVE - Credit: PA Archive/PA Images
It's all shrivelled buddleias and heavy rain clouds this week – muggy disappointment with summer's failure to fulfil its spring promise, writes Will McCallum, Newington Green.
I have just returned from a blue skies holiday and landed with a bump. My front garden is a litter of rose petals and crisp packets, my back garden a messy playground of weeds that sting, the only foliage that seems to thrive beneath the canopy of King Henry's Walk Community Garden behind my house.
I was lucky enough to see the New River's terrapins twice this week. They were casually swimming breaststroke upstream, openly mocking my poolside memories of the week before. Escaped pets, or more likely released, they seem happy in this urban habitat merrily disrupting the ecosystem by munching on everything in their path. In 2010, 51 terrapins were found in a trawl of Clissold Park pond, with several further terrapin evacuations there since – all taken to a terrapin rescue centre. Unfortunately for the creatures they feed on, despite assumptions that it was too cold for them to breed in this country, they are now successfully hatching their eggs.
Despite inauspicious beginnings, the week was saved by the taste of towpath blackberries, mostly tart with a couple just on the turn to perfection. I arrived home with purple-stained hands – late summer is here.
It is right the police watchdog will investigate the sad death of Rashan Charles, writes Terry Wood, Manor Road, Stoke Newington.
However, before a rush to judgement and a blanket condemnation of our police, I would like to inform readers and Diane Abbott of the following.
I have been the victim of two violent street robberies in Stoke Newington.
Thanks to mobile phones, the police arrived in under 10 minutes to save me from further harm and chase the suspects – and I was very glad to see them.
The crisis in Venezuela ought to be a terrible warning of the consequences of electing an extreme socialist government, writes Christopher Sills, Dunsmure Road, Stamford Hill.
Extreme socialist policies have turned a wealthy country into a place where people do not have enough to eat.
The Labour Party is led by Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonald and Diane Abbott who are extreme socialists.
They make Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson and Tony Blair look like right-wing Tories.
These people have praised the government of Venezuela in the past and at the time of writing have refused to condemn their latest anti-democratic actions.
To prevent Britain suffering a similar fate, members of the Labour Party must expel the three extremists from the Labour Party and put up moderate Labour candidates at the next general election in their place.
If Labour MPs and councilors refuse to act then they all deserve to be sacked at the next elections because they are supporting leaders who will impoverish the country.
Members of the Labour Party in Hackney have a special responsibility. They must act and not leave it to someone else. Ignoring the problem is not an option.
If they cannot persuade their colleagues to act, they should leave and form a new party or better still join the Conservatives.
If that results in four years of Conservative rule in Hackney, that would be a good thing, because it is now generally recognised that the three years that the Conservatives ruled Hackney Council from 1968 to 1971 changed Hackney for the better.
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Bracing Ourselves for the Climate Tipping Point
After Earth's warmest month in history, climate scientists gather in Geneva to debate whether we've already gone too far.
By Eric Holthaus
Activists outside COP21 in Paris last December stressed the importance of keeping warming below 1.5° Celsius. (Photo: Carbon Brief)
On Monday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration released its updated global temperature data for July, and a stunning record was broken: For as long as we've been keeping track (since 1880), and likely since long before, there has never been another month as warm as the one just past. And never is a long time: An extrapolation of recent research shows last month likely marked Earth's warmest absolute temperatures since human civilization began, thousands of years ago. That's a pretty big deal.
Depending on how you count, our planet briefly surpassed the 1.5-degree Celsius mark above pre-industrial levels this year, and may have also touched two degrees during a February-to-March global heat wave that coincided with the peak of El Niño. (The Earth's absolute temperature was much warmer during the month just past, because our planet's land area is concentrated in the Northern Hemisphere, and land heats more quickly than water during the summer.) These numbers are particularly meaningful, since they are the upper limits the world community agreed to less than a year ago in the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change; and embody the point past which scientists agree "dangerous" impacts will become unavoidable. Sure, humanity has agreed to these temperature goals, but there's a difference between agreeing to do something and actually doing it. The steady stream of new global temperature records point to the possibility that those goals might no longer be in reach.
The report that emerges from Geneva will lay out exactly what it would take for the world to stay below 1.5 degrees, which otherwise could be locked in by about 2021. Problem is, the report itself won't be published until 2018.
"Impacts have already occurred that are widespread and consequential," says Chris Field, a climate scientist at Stanford University and co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report focusing on climate impacts. "To a very clear extent, the impacts that have already occurred surpass the threshold of 'dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.'" That wording — dangerous — is part of a foundational phrase of Article 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the governing agreement for global climate negotiations. Some observers hold that "dangerous" climate change was witnessed for perhaps the first time earlier this year during a mass global coral bleaching event. The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration estimates that more than half a billion people worldwide depend on healthy coral reefs for food and livelihood, and their loss would greatly affect coastal communities as well as the entire balance of the oceanic food chain.
So, what does it mean that we're now in uncharted territory? And have we already come too far to avoid key planetary tipping points? What hope should we have that we'll fix this sooner rather than later?
This week, scientists are gathering in Geneva, Switzerland, in an attempt to answer these questions. That we've reached a new, increasingly urgent phase of global warming is becoming apparent after a surge of millennial-scale floods, ecosystem collapses, and record-strong cyclones — all within the last year, coinciding with what's likely to become the warmest year on record. The planet seems at the breaking point, with increasing evidence that we've already locked in additional warming that will take us further into uncharted territory — assuming we don't rapidly change course.
The Geneva gathering is officially a "scoping meeting" for the IPCC's upcoming special report on the 1.5-degree Celsius target, designed to analyze the scale of what it would take to meet that ambitious mark, and what might be gained and lost by doing so. That figure became a rallying cry of the least-developed countries on the front lines of rapid environmental change at the December global climate negotiations in Paris. (Campaigners even created a hand signal for delegates to show their support for the target during the talks last year.)
"The biggest reason this meeting is happening is not out of a deluded sense that we're on a likely trajectory toward 1.5 degrees Celsius," says Katharine Mach, director of science for the IPCC's group focusing on climate impacts. Rather, she explains, the meeting and the upcoming report are designed to state clearly that "there is dangerous climate change at 1.5 degrees Celsius, and that we're already seeing impacts."
The exact wording in the Paris agreement was that the global community would "pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees," which is considered to be the most ambitious temperature target still technically achievable, though most scientists I spoke with that are attending the Geneva meeting, including Mach and Field, said the most realistic best-case scenario would likely involve overshooting the target. (The sum of all countries' emissions reductions pledges in Paris, according to one analysis, would limit global warming to between 2.6 degrees and 3.1 degrees Celsius, a significant overshoot.)
The new report being worked on in Geneva will lay out exactly what it would take for the world to stay below 1.5 degrees, which otherwise could be locked in by about 2021. Problem is, the report itself won't be published until 2018, when about half that time has already elapsed. That's also the year countries are scheduled for a first formal review of their emissions pledges made in Paris, with the idea that the 1.5-degree report might spur bolder targets.
"An interesting question is the extent to which the scoping team will want to include solar geo-engineering, which is probably the most feasible method of stabilizing at 1.5 degrees Celsius, at least in the short term," climate scientist Ken Caldeira said by email; Caldeira's own work has examined the scenarios in which artificially boosting the planet's reflectiveness in an attempt to cool it down might make sense. Meeting the 1.5-degree target without these controversial methods, Caldeira wrote, is "physically possible but highly unlikely when viewed through a sociopolitical lens."
"Wholesale transformation is required to avoid warming beyond 1.5 degrees and a wholesale transformation will be required if the globe warms beyond it."
The planning document for the Geneva meeting uses bold language, which is uncharacteristic of the politically neutral IPCC. On page six, the document warns that a "wholesale transformation is required to avoid warming beyond 1.5 degrees and a wholesale transformation will be required if the globe warms beyond it." The stakes are that high, and the language makes me think that at least a few of the scientists involved in this effort have not yet given up hope of reaching the goal through more traditional means, even though it might amount to closing all coal-fired power plants worldwide by 2025, and eliminating all petroleum-powered transportation by 2030, or some form of geo-engineering.
Those would be aggressive moves, and we are just not built as a society to transition this quickly. To do so, as climate scientist Claudia Tebaldi at the National Center for Atmospheric Research explained to me, implies necessary trade-offs with other things we care about, like poverty reduction and economic growth. "When it comes to these very big step changes that people are thinking about, I don't think we can [model them]." In an op-ed in the New Republic on Monday, environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote that, in order to meet our climate goals at this point, we should literally declare a war on warming, and re-tool the global economy as rapidly as we did during World War II. Even then, it might not be possible.
In other words, if maintaining the 1.5-degree limit is technically achievable, that in no way means it is politically achievable, as the past decades of increasing global emissions can attest. Even the successful scenarios that scientists have developed increasingly rely on unproven technologies that involve essentially running the world's factories in reverse, sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and burying it underground on unimaginably vast scales only decades from now.
So, what do you say to the world when it's asked you to do the impossible? If the task seems so hopeless, why write a report at all?
"I think our biggest constraint is that are trapped in a way of linear thinking," says Susanne Moser, a consulting climate scientist and former IPCC author who helped organize this week's meeting in Geneva. "When you actually look at history, there have been social tipping points where things all of a sudden changed in a non-linear way."
Moser says that, while climate scientists and journalists often focus on catastrophic tipping points and steep changes in the climate system, the same could also hold true for solving climate change.
"I think it is absolutely crucial that we somehow connect the urgency of what it means to mitigate [climate change] at the same time that we show so clearly how we cannot afford to overshoot," Moser says. "The idea that we convey something like it's too late, to me it's like: And then what? What do you say after that? We have to constantly question our assumptions in terms of what we think is possible."
We know our current path will lead to catastrophe — incompatible with the livelihoods of billions of people. These profound changes will happen in our lifetimes. These impacts will happen, and are happening, to us. That scientists are willing to speak in increasingly bold terms about the seemingly impossible situation we're in may help us to question the fundamental economic model that's brought us to this point.


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Sorry for the off topic post but you will have to deal with it. It's not very often I get to talk CMU Football. I am a graduate of CMU and when I attended the football program was terrible, but through the years they brought Brian Kelly (now of Notre Dame) in from Grand Valley State and he built a powerhouse program in the MAC. Butch Jones took over after Kelly and continued the winning tradition. He has recently left to take over Kelly's old position at Cincinnati. Anyway, back to CMU, be sure to watch the game tonight at 7pm eastern on ESPN.
Central has a few NFL prospects including wide receivers Brian Anderson (recently broke NCAA record for consecutive games with a catch) and Antonio Brown (the MAC's version of Percy Harvin) along with Defensive End Frank Zombo. But the main reason everyone should watch is CMU's Senior Quarterback Dan LeFevour. He has been a four year starter and just plain fun to watch.
A quick, side-by-side comparison of two unnamed quarterbacks. Who is Tim Tebow and who is Dan LeFevour?
If you said QB #1 is Tim Tebow, you'd be right. QB #2 is CMU's quarterback Dan LeFevour, who doubles as the greatest dual-threat quarterback in college football history. He owns the career total touchdowns record, and has more total yards and total TD's than Tebow. Eat your hearts out, Florida fans.
Expect LeFevour and the Chippewas to play with passion and go out on a high note even though they've lost their coach.
It's the end of an era in college football. The casual fans, and Florida fans, will remember it as the Tebow Era and think of all the great things he accomplished. But the real fans of college football will always think of this time as the Dan LeFevour Era even though he was just a MAC quarterback in most people's eyes.
Thanks for letting me vent a little, GO FIRE UP CHIPS!


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In late 2012, author AJ Garrett was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. In the weeks following, he became concerned at the limited amount of quality log books for monitoring blood glucose testing. As a result, this log book was born. Within this log book, you will find the generic categories for multiple daily tests but also places to document your food intake. You may find this helpful when reviewing your test results. Whether your test results are maintained, high, or low; this feature will help to understand how certain foods either help or interfere with your test results.
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Diabetes is a serious disease that can lead to severe complications including blindness, heart attack, kidney failure, foot amputations and more. The best way to avoid these complications is through a complex regimen of frequent examinations, laboratory testing and treatments as defined by ADA position and consensus statements. Yet it has been suggested that as few as 20% of physicians follow recommended practice guidelines!The Diabetic Diary was designed by a physician-scientist who saw a need for a comprehensive, yet easy to use manual to guide diabetic patients and their physicians through the complex maze of diabetic medical management.The Diabetic Diary guides the diabetic patient through his/her yearly health maintenance regimen via concise, easy to understand summaries of current ADA recommendations. Space is provided to record medical history, medications, home sugar monitoring, clinical laboratory testing, physical examinations and immunizations. This book is organized for easy entry and retrieval of information by both patient and physician, making The Diabetic Diary the perfect companion to accompany any diabetic patient to all physician encounters.
Malachi first found out her had diabetes on his 6th Birthday. We had planned to go to Chuck E. Cheese on his Birthday, but instead we mad a trip to the clinic. Malachi was using the bathroom alot. I thought that was very unusual. I thought he had a bladder infection. So, I took him early to the clinic. They told me his sugar level was up to 1000. My heart dropped. They immediately told me to take him to Rainbow Babies and Children…I wanted to take him to the nearest hospital. The nurse said the surrounding hospitals did not have the proper team to take care of him. So, I rushed to the hospital. I got there as quick as I could. Soon as I got there I told the receptionest he had a high glucose level. The nurse rushed him back and gave hm and I.V. I was still trying to accept the fact that he has diabetes…I cried and cried…Malachi was admitted to the hospital. he stayed for several days. The team at the hospital taught me what I needed to know in order to take care of him. I was taught about the diet he had to be on. They also taught myself and my two eldest children how to give him insulin shots. Malachi was in good spirits the entire time. I don't think he realized how serious diabetes is. The hospital gave him a little Birthday party and they gave him a few presents. We did go to Chuck E. Cheese when he was released from the hospital a few day later. It has been 4 months since his diagnosis. Malachi has had some good day and some bad days. He has sneaked a few snacks and that took his sugar sky high. Malachi now realizes the glucose monitor will tell on him everytime. Malachi has learned how to test himself. He isn't old enough to give himself shots yet. He is learning the routine of what we have to do to keep him healthy. He drinks a lot of water now. The entire family is on a special diet now. We all eat healthier and wiser. I am coping with his diabetes on a daily basis. Everyday is different. I'm teaching him the importance of healthy eating and the importance of staying healthy. Hopefully when he is older he will keep the same habbits of taking good care of himself. The diary of Malachi will not end here. Until next time….
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2. If I set the Touchlistner to the ChartView the Panning stops working. Is there a workaround?
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Q: Merge multiple Excel files starting at row in R I have multiple Excel files that I need to merge into one, but only certain rows. The Excel files look like this...
The column headers are identical for all files. I also need to add a new column A to the newly generated file, so I created a separate Excel file with just the headers and the new column A. My script first reads in this file (below) and writes it to the workbook...
Next, I need to read each file, starting at row 9 and merge all the data, one after another. So the final result should look like this (minus the Member site column, I haven't attempted the logic for that yet, but thinking it will be a substring of the Specimen ID value)...
However, my current result is...
I am currently only using 3 files, each with a few dozen rows, to start, but the end goal is to merge about 15-30 files, each with 25 to 200 rows, give or take. So...
1) I know my code is incorrect, but not sure how to get the intended results. For one, my loop is overwriting data because it's constantly starting at row/column 2 when it writes. However, I can't think how to rewrite this.
2) The dates are returning in General format ("43008" instead of "9/30/2017")
3) Certain columns data is being placed under different columns (like Nucleic Acid Concentration has the values from the Date of Tissue Content).
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!
My code...
library(openxlsx)   # Excel and csv files
library(svDialogs)   # Dialog boxes

setwd("C:/Users/Work/Combined Manifest")

# Create and load Excel file
wb <- createWorkbook()

# Add worksheet
addWorksheet(wb, "Template")

# Read in & write header file
df.headers <- read.xlsx("headers.xlsx", sheet = "Template")

writeData(wb, "Template", df.headers, colNames = TRUE)

# Function to get user path
getPath <- function() {
  # Ask for path
  path <- dlgInput("Enter path to files: ", Sys.info()["user"])$res
  if (dir.exists(path)) {
    # If path exists, set the path as the working directory
    return(path)
  } else {
    # If not, issue an error and recall the getPath function
    dlg_message("Error: The path you entered is not a valid directory. Please try again.")$res
    getPath()
  }
}

# Call getPath function
folder <- getPath()

setwd(folder)

# Get list of files in directory
pattern.ext <- "\\.xlsx$"
files <- dir(folder, full=TRUE, pattern=pattern.ext)

# Get basenames and remove extension
files.nms <- basename(files)
files.nms <- gsub(pattern.ext, "", files.nms)

# Set the names
names(files) <- files.nms

# Iterate to read in files and write to new file
for (nm in files.nms) {

  # Read in files
  df <- read.xlsx((files[nm]), sheet = "Template", startRow = 9, colNames = FALSE)

  # Write data to sheet
  writeData(wb, "Template", df, startCol = 2, startRow = 2, colNames = FALSE)
}

saveWorkbook(wb, "Combined.xlsx", overwrite = TRUE)

EDIT:
So with the loop below, I am successfully reading in the files and merging them. Thanks for all the help!
for (nm in files.nms) {

  # Read in files
  df <- read.xlsx(files[nm], sheet = "Template", startRow = 8, colNames = TRUE, detectDates = TRUE, skipEmptyRows = FALSE,
                  skipEmptyCols = FALSE)

  # Append the data
  allData <- rbind(allData, df)
}

EDIT: FINAL SOLUTION
Thanks to everyone for the help!!
library(openxlsx)   # Excel and csv files
library(svDialogs)   # Dialog boxes

# Create and load Excel file
wb <- createWorkbook()

# Add worksheet
addWorksheet(wb, "Template")

# Function to get user path
getPath <- function() {
  # Ask for path
  path <- dlgInput("Enter path to files: ", Sys.info()["user"])$res
  if (dir.exists(path)) {
    # If path exists, set the path as the working directory
    return(path)
  } else {
    # If not, issue an error and recall the getPath function
    dlg_message("Error: The path you entered is not a valid directory. Please try again.")$res
    getPath()
  }
}

# Call getPath function
folder <- getPath()

# Set working directory
setwd(folder)

# Get list of files in directory
pattern.ext <- "\\.xlsx$"
files <- dir(folder, full=TRUE, pattern=pattern.ext)

# Get basenames and remove extension
files.nms <- basename(files)

# Set the names
names(files) <- files.nms

# Create empty dataframe
allData <- data.frame()

# Create list (reserve memory)
f.List <- vector("list",length(files.nms))

# Look and load files
for (nm in 1:length(files.nms)) {

  # Read in files
  f.List[[nm]] <- read.xlsx(files[nm], sheet = "Template", startRow = 8, colNames = TRUE, detectDates = TRUE, skipEmptyRows = FALSE,
                  skipEmptyCols = FALSE)
}

# Append the data
allData <- do.call("rbind", f.List)

# Add a new column as 'Member Site'
allData <- data.frame('Member Site' = "", allData)

# Take the substring of the Specimen.ID column for Memeber Site
allData$Member.Site <- sapply(strsplit(allData$Specimen.ID, "-"), "[", 2)

# Write data to sheet
writeData(wb, "Template", startCol = 1, allData)

# Save workbook
saveWorkbook(wb, "Combined.xlsx", overwrite = TRUE)

A: First of all, you are providing a lot of information in your question, which is generally a good thing, but I'm wondering if you could make your problems easier to solve by recreating the problem using fewer and smaller files. Could you figure out how to merge two files, each containing a small amount of data first?
With regards to the first challenge you raise:
1) Yes you are overwriting the workbook in each loop. I would suggest you load the data and append it to a data.frame and then store the end result after loading all the files. Have a look at the example below. Please note that this example uses rbind, which is inefficient if you are combining a large number of files. So if you have many files you may need to use a different structure.
# Create and empty data frame
allData <- data.frame()

# Loop and load files
for(nm in files.nms) {

    # Read in files
    df <- read.xlsx((files[nm]), sheet = "Template", startRow = 9, colNames = FALSE)

    # Append the data
    allData <- rbind(allData, df)

}

# Write data to sheet
writeData(wb, "Template", df, startCol = 2, startRow = 2, colNames = FALSE)

Hopefully this gets you closer to what you need!
Edit: Updating the answer to address the comments made
If you have more then a few files, rbind will get slow like @Parfait mentioned due to multiple copies of the data being made. The way to avoid this, is by first reserving space in memory by creating an empty list with enough space to hold your data, then fill in the list, and only at the end merge all the data together using do.call("rbind", ...) . I've compiled some sample code below that's in line with what you provided in your question.
# Create list (reserve memory)
f.List <- vector("list",length(files.nms))

# Loop and load files
for(eNr in 1:length(files.nms)) {

    # Read in files
    f.List[[eNr]] <- read.xlsx((files.nms[eNr]), sheet = "Template", startRow = 9)

}

# Append the data
allData <- do.call("rbind", f.List)

Below to illustrate this further, a small reproducible example. It uses just a couple of data frames, but it illustrates the process of creating a list, populating that list, and merging the data as the last step.
# Sample data
df1 <- data.frame(x=1:3, y=3:1)
df2 <- data.frame(y=4:6, x=3:1)
df.List <- list(df1,df2)

# Create list
d.List <- vector("list",length(df.List))

# Loop and add data
for(eNr in 1:length(df.List)) {
    d.List[[eNr]] <- df.List[[eNr]]
}

# Bind all at once
dfAll <- do.call("rbind", d.List)
print(dfAll)

Hope this help! Thanks!

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Asia, the far east. The Orient. A culture so different from the Western world. Different food, different customs, different ways of looking at life. Or is it?
Video Night in Kathmandu looks at how America and the Western world slowly is seeping into Asia. Taking over their culture, fast-food chains outcompeting the local restaurants, American movies being remade in Bollywood.
The author takes us on a tour of several Asian countries with stories told from often surprising and interesting angles.
I have to admit, I haven't travelled much in Asia. Apart from a few airports on my way back and forth to Australia, the only country in Asia I have visited is Japan. I tried it first, and kept on coming back.
Asia is unknown for me, but I love reading about it. It is not a lack of desire that has kept me away from Asia, more lack of money and time. There are so many places to visit, and not nearly enough time.
Iyer's book did not lessen my desire to go there. Although the book is from the '80s, and certainly a bit outdated, I found the stories from the different countries very interesting.
Pico Iyer has a way of finding the interesting locals, those living on the edge of society, those with a story to tell. He is then able to retell that story in a very interesting way, keeping the reader hooked. I can only compare to my experiences on his chapter on Japan. Here he found himself in many similar experiences to mine, but it was also clear that the book was from the '80s, and I could notice how the country had changed from then.
Overall, I found Video Night in Kathmandu very entertaining, it was hard to put it down at times. Iyer is able to find the truly interesting people and stories from places he visits, and retells them in a way that is easy to read and very entertaining. The book really intensified my desire to travel more in Asia. He also finishes the book nicely, with a thoughtful and well-informed afterword.
If you are looking for travel books about Asia, Video Night in Kathmandu is a good place to start.
This entry was posted in Book Review and tagged Asia, Pico Iyer, travel writing on May 8, 2015 by Traveltorgeir.


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The Oregon Employment Department's Unemployment Insurance online claim system, pictured on Friday, April 17, 2020.
Bryan M. Vance / OPB
The pandemic eliminated one in seven jobs in Oregon — a devastating blow over the course of two months that hobbled an otherwise healthy economy.
Multiple sectors, from hospitality to retail to private education services, were hit particularly hard, resulting in uneven job losses and disproportionate impact on people of color, low-wage earners and women.
Those are the conclusions of a new report from the Oregon Employment Department, "Disparate Impacts of the Pandemic Recession in Oregon." While the findings are no surprise to anyone who has followed economic news about the pandemic, the report offers more detail into this unprecedented economic upheaval than the state had done to date.
The report begins with a fact that's sometimes lost amid the national economic nosedive that began in March 2020: the winter of 2019-20 was one of Oregon's strongest economic periods on record. The number of unemployed people — 77,900 — was at an all-time low since 1978. The 3.8% unemployment rate was Oregon's lowest ever recorded.
So when the pandemic hit, the state's economy crashed at "breathtaking speed," according to the new report. The state lost 285,500 nonfarm payroll jobs, a 14.5% nosedive, as the unemployment rate skyrocketed by "nearly 10 percentage points to a record-high 13.2%."
Nearly half of those job losses fell in three large sectors: leisure and hospitality, private education services and the broad "other services" category, which includes everything from automotive repair to beauty salons.
Some of those jobs have been recovered by now in Oregon, particularly in "other services," as the economy has come back to life. But leisure and hospitality and private education services sectors have regained only about half of their lost jobs. Other areas, including local government, have seen job losses continue in recent months.
According to the agency, younger workers age 16 to 24 were more likely than other age groups to seek unemployment benefits during the pandemic.
Disproportionate impacts
Job losses landed heaviest on low-wage workers because of the pandemic's impact on certain sectors.
"Leisure and hospitality was most notable, with about one-fifth (18.2%) of all jobs at minimum wage, and roughly four out of five jobs (78%) paying below-median wage," the report said. The report also found that the two other hard-hit service categories had "larger shares of minimum wage jobs" than other sectors.
The report also found that women were disproportionately affected by job losses, because they are more likely to hold jobs in leisure and hospitality, education and other services than men.
Losses in the leisure and hospitality industries hit Latino workers particularly hard.
White people comprise 85% of Oregon's workforce but constituted just 81% of leisure and hospitality workers. Conversely, the report noted that "although Hispanic or Latino workers accounted for 12% of workers across all sectors, they totaled 17% of the leisure and hospitality workforce." That exposed them to disproportionate job losses, when restaurants and hotels shed jobs due to COVID-19 restrictions.
However, Latino workers were less likely to apply for regular unemployment benefits, according to the Employment Department's report. That's a change from pre-pandemic patterns, the agency said, while noting it lacks reliable race and ethnicity data from unemployment claims.
"Access barriers to unemployment benefits may have ... affected this or any other demographic with potentially greater shares of workers speaking a language other than English," the report's authors wrote.
The Employment Department went months without having effective application procedures in languages other than English.
The new report also found Hispanic or Latino workers were underrepresented in applications for the federal program that assisted contract workers and the self-employed, called pandemic unemployment assistance, or PUA.
"This was a bit surprising, as Hispanic or Latino business owners are more highly concentrated in leisure and hospitality," the report said. But, it went on to acknowledge, "the same access issues covered earlier for regular unemployment benefits may also be a factor in PUA claims too."
The report concludes that the same people who have struggled economically in the past are showing up again in terms of lost jobs, and in the case of Latino workers, less government support. The report argues that the disparate impact is going to affect Oregon's recovery.
"Some of the workers who were hit hardest by the pandemic recession are among the same demographic groups who took the longest to experience the benefits of the last economic expansion," the report said. "As Oregon's economy moves toward fully reopening, the workers disparately impacted due to pandemic-related job losses may also be more likely to need the assistance getting back to — and feeling safe on — the job."
Applying For Unemployment Is Even Harder For Workers With Limited English
In Oregon, the only way to apply for regular unemployment benefits online is in English.
Oregon enters 'job seekers' market' as economy grows out of pandemic
Officials at the Oregon Employment Department see openings and incentives, as employers look for workers.
Tags: Economy, COVID-19, Jobs


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Q: Manipulação de Data em PHP Boa tarde a todos.
Agradeceria de uma idéia para resolver meu problema:
Meus campos datainicio e datatermino estão sendo enviados ao BD utilizando esta preg_replace:
   public function getDatainicio()
   {

   return $this->datainicio;

    }
   public function setDatainicio($datainicio)
 {
 $datainicio= preg_replace("/\D+/", "", $datainicio);
$this->datainicio = $datainicio;
 }

 public function getDatatermino()
 {
  return $this->datatermino;
  }
 public function setDatatermino($datatermino)
 {
$datatermino= preg_replace("/\D+/", "", $datatermino);
$this->datatermino = $datatermino;
  }

Estou conseguindo inserir sem prolemas. Mas quando eu preciso criar o formulário de alteração eu estou retornando os dados do BD recebo desta forma:
["datainicio"]=> string(8) "20180921" ["datatermino"]=> string(8) "20180923"
Preciso converter para o padrão brasileiro e exibir no html e depois converter novamente se o usuário quiser alterar a data e enviar ao BD novamente com a data que ele aceita.
Já tentei alterar diretamente no HTML utilizando javascript mas não consegui resultado acho que é porque ele teria que receber no formato do BD 2018-09-21 e não 20180921.
Porque isto está acontecendo e qual o melhor método para resolver?
Este é meu html:
  <?php ini_set('display_errors', 1);?>
  <?php error_reporting(E_ALL);?>
 <?php require_once 'conecta.php' ?>
 <?php require_once 'cabecalho.php' ?>
 <?php require_once 'banco-curso.php' ?>
 <?php require_once 'banco-fornecedor.php' ?>
  <?php require_once 'curso.php' ?>
 <?php require_once 'fornecedor.php' ?>

 <?php
 $curso = new Curso();
 $curso->setFornecedor(new Fornecedor());
 if (array_key_exists('id', $_GET)) {
 $id = $_GET['id'];
 $curso = buscaCurso($conexao, $id);
 }
 ?>

 <?php $fornecedores = listaFornecedores($conexao); ?>

 <?php
 $ehAlteracao = false;
 $action = "adiciona-curso.php";
 if (array_key_exists("id", $_GET)) {
 $id = $_GET['id'];
 $curso = buscaCurso($conexao, $id);
 $ehAlteracao = true;
 $action = "altera-curso.php";
  }
  ?>

 <?=$ehAlteracao ?
   "Alterar" :  "Cadastrar " ?>
     o Curso
<form action="<?=$action ?>"  method="post" >

  <input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?=$curso->getId() ?>" />

  Nome do Curso
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="nome" name="nome"
   placeholder="nome do curso" required
  value="<?=$curso->getNome() ?>">

  Data Inicio
  <input type="date" class="form-control" id="datainicio" name="datainicio"
  value="<?=$curso->getDatainicio() ?>"   required>

  Data Término
  <input type="date" class="form-control" id="datatermino"
    name="datatermino"
  value= "<?=$curso->getDatatermino()?>" required>

  Professor
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="professor" name="professor"
     placeholder="professor" required
  value="<?=$curso->getProfessor() ?>">

  Local do Curso
  <select name="fornecedor_id" class="form-control">
  <option selected>Escolher...</option>
      <?php foreach($fornecedores as $fornecedor)  :?>
 <?php
     $essaEhAfornecedor = $curso->getfornecedor()->getId()
     == $fornecedor->getId();
     $selecao = $essaEhAfornecedor ? "selected='selected'" : "";
 ?>
    <option value="<?=$fornecedor->getId() ?>" <?=$selecao ?> >
        <?=$fornecedor->getCidade() ?>
    </option>
        <?php endforeach ?>
 </select>

<button type="submit" name="submit" id="registrar"
   class="btn btn-primary" ng-disabled="!checked">CADASTRAR</button>

Este é meu banco nas funções altera e busca
 function buscaCurso($conexao, $id) {
  $query = "select c.*, f.cidade as fornecedor_cidade from cursos c
  inner join fornecedores f on(c.fornecedor_id = f.id)
  where c.id = {$id}";

   $resultado = mysqli_query($conexao, $query);
   $array = mysqli_fetch_assoc($resultado);
   $curso = new curso();
   $curso->setId( $array['id'] );
   $curso->setNome( $array['nome'] );
    $curso->setFornecedor( new Fornecedor() );
    $curso->getFornecedor()->setId( $array['fornecedor_id'] );
    $curso->getFornecedor()->setCidade( $array['fornecedor_cidade'] );
    $curso->setDatainicio( $array['datainicio'] );
    $curso->setDatatermino( $array['datatermino'] );
    $curso->setProfessor( $array['professor'] );
    var_dump($curso); exit;

    return $curso;

        }