The U.S. Department of Labor reports that the number of workers who belong to labor unions has decreased slightly in the past year. In the United States, total union membership stands at 14.6 million, which was a decrease of about 0.2 percent from last year. In all, about 11 percent of the workforce belongs to a labor union. In contrast, in 1983, the first year data was available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent, with 17.7 million workers belonging to unions. The report also shows that the current union rate among public sector employees is over five times higher than the union rate for employees in the private sector. 35.7 percent of public-sector workers are members, compared to just 6.6 percent for the private-sector.
This is another indicator of the waning influence of Labor in the American workforce. But what might be the reason for the continuing decline?
Unions have refused to adapt to the modern workplace. Collective bargaining means one-size-fits-all. They don't recognize individual contributions. Unions demand that management base promotions and raises on seniority not merit. However, today's employees expect to be rewarded for what they bring to the table. More than 70 percent of the current private labor force is under the age of 45. Younger workers tend to be highly mobile, better educated, in white-collar or "new"-collar (computer, technical, etc.) careers. Yes, they care about wages, but also feel such issues as gaining new skills, having a say in how their jobs are done, career advancement, and quality of life both on and off the job, are just as important. Many simply don't see a union contributing positively to those needs.
I also believe more of today's workers realize they can advocate and negotiate for themselves much more effectively and not have to pay a union to do it for them, and end up not having much control over the outcome.
Today's more competitive and global business environment also plays a part. When unions raise labor costs and business has to compensate by raising prices, consumers can shop somewhere else. Unions that insist on uncompetitive wages may wind up like Hostess's Bakery Union - with unemployed members.
But I have to believe that the tens of thousands of federal, state and local employment laws and regulations – with new ones being passed all the time – play a huge role in the decline of unions. There was a time in this country when unions seemed necessary. Many businesses took advantage of and abused workers. But business wised up – both voluntarily and by force. It's no longer necessary to have a union to coerce a business into paying fair wages or maintain a safe work environment. Laws and regulations have done that. In many ways, government has assumed the responsibility for the things traditionally handled by unions. Unions have therefore become less necessary for most workers.
All of these reasons (and more, I'm sure) are also the reason for the drastic antics of labor unions (think about the OUR Walmart actions over the past couple of Black Fridays), and the vast overreach of the NLRB. Union membership is declining and these folks are desperate to stop and reverse that decline. Problem is, they continue to use the same old model, the same old tactics, which many are now seeing as tiresome at best, ineffective and downright unnecessary and abusive at worst. We can hope that the tide has turned and that the smart American worker sees more value in his ability to guide his own future rather than hand it over to those who care more about their political influence and the collection of dues to support that influence than they do about the individual worker.
As I noted last week, a hearing in the Senate HELP committee convened to address the EEOC's attack on employer wellness programs. The "EEOC is sending a confusing message to employers—reliance on Obamacare's authorization of wellness programs does not mean you won't be sued," according to Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN). He went on to say "we want to make sure we don't have a countervailing move going on in the government to discourage [wellness programs]." Witnesses at the hearing testified to the value of such programs and expressed concern with the issues raised by the EEOC's recent litigation. Former EEOC General Counsel Eric Dreiband of Jones Day said the "EEOC's flip-flopping, ongoing and seemingly never ending 'examination,' and litigation [of wellness programs] perpetuate confusion and uncertainty," and recommended that "if the executive branch of the government will not end this regulatory mess, the Congress should do so by enacting appropriate legislation." Senator Alexander vowed to work on legislation to clarify the law and enable employers to offer voluntary wellness programs with financial incentives if the EEOC's general counsel continues to sue employers. It's been reported that EEOC chair Jenny Yang recently said "We know it's important for us to provide guidance in this area," and "we are working to get something out as soon as we can, but it's hard to predict exactly when that will be." Truly a shame they can file a lawsuit quicker than they can provide guidance to prevent one. Hmmmmm.
When the NLRB passed down its ruling on the "quickie election", the business community clearly voiced its displeasure as expected. Now, as reported by Littler and others, House and Senate Republicans are considering whether to employ the Congressional Review Act procedures for overturning the NLRB's rule. This could at least get the measure to the President's desk. Under the Congressional Review Act, Congress can pass a resolution nullifying a rule by a federal agency under an expedited procedure that would only require a majority vote in both houses. So, the normal sixty-vote floor in the Senate needed to shut off a filibuster is not necessary. Also, the Senate HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander has reintroduced the NLRB Reform Act (S. 288), which includes increasing the NLRB from five to six members with each party controlling three seats. Technically, this would alleviate the wide swings that take place when the party majority changes after elections.
Regardless of outcomes, this is getting interesting!


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Q: Request for experience: when has having only 16GB on your iPhone inconvenienced you? Today I regretted having only 2 GB on my Shuffle, because it meant I could not store the three most recent episodes of my favorite podcasts; but so far I have never used the full 16 GB on my 2nd Generation iPod Touch.
Now I am looking at replacing the iPod Touch and a very early Android cellphone with an iPhone 4S.  The contract will be $1680 over two years, so the $200 cost difference between the 16GB and 64GB model verges on negligible; but I care; I could get the small size and donate $200 to pancreatic cancer research.
What are people doing with the second 16 or 48GB of storage on their iPhones?  Movies?  Whole music collections?  DOS emulators?
Presumably people who have 16GB iPhones made that capacity choice based on what they thought their needs would be.  For those who subsequently discovered that 16GB was not always enough, what were the circumstances?
First-hand answers are more useful than second-hand, though if you have a friend, colleague, or family member who frequently berates him or herself for being stingy with memory, the details would be useful too.

A: Video Capture, more photos, larger image sensor and better camera on the iPhone 4S means I'll spring for 32. Even with iCloud and all the music streaming options, I find I always want 4 GB of core music (and another 2.5 of podcasts) with me. Having room for more serious app and book (PDF) storage will be very nice.
The 14 GB iPhone 4 I've used since it launched was sufficient except for maybe a handful of times where I wanted more space. Especially when using iMovie to assemble slide shows and short video updates on a longer trip. Also, if an apple keynote or other hour long video comes out, I don't have the space to accommodate such videos.

Those are the few times when "the 16" wasn't enough for me. I now don't take several databases with me using bento and filemaker pro since I want more space for songs and camera footage.

I initially thought of a white 32 iPod Touch and the smallest black 4S - but having all the space and speed in one package makes it more of a computer to me. I can grab a bluetooth keyboard and get short work done if needed. I'm also quite eager for AirPlay and a 4S.

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Meitu loses $17.3M on Bitcoin, gains $14.7M on Ether
Hong Kong tech company Meitu has taken a $17.3 million hit on its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings — but on the upside, its Ether (ETH) holdings have gained $14.7 million.
The developer of popular Photoshop-style apps spent a total of $100 million on BTC and ETH between March and April this year, acquiring a total of 940.89 BTC for $49.5 million, and 31,000 ETH for $50.5 million.
According to a June 6 voluntary announcement from Meitu, the fair value of its BTC and ETH holdings is based on the market prices as of June 30, which is the final day of the firm's six-month interim results, in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards.
As of the end of the second quarter on June 30, Meitu's BTC holdings represented $32.2 million and its ETH represented $65.2 million, marking an overall $2.6 million decrease from its initial $100 million investment.
The firm accounts crypto-assets as "intangible assets under the cost model" in the interim results, and the BTC loss is expected to be recognized as "impairment loss", while the ETH gains will not be recognized as "revaluation gain" until such time as it is sold.
The interim results have not changed the firm's bullish sentiments towards crypto, with the announcement reiterating:
"The Board believes that the blockchain industry is still in its early stage and that cryptocurrencies have ample room for appreciation in value over the long-term."
The report stated that due to the firm's long-term view "there are currently no plans to sell the same in the near future."
Interestingly, the firm also provided an updated fair value of its ETH and BTC holdings as of July 6, which reveals an overall $5.2 million gain on its initial investment, with ETH representing $72.4 million, and BTC up slightly to $32.8 million.
Related: Ether already 'flippening' Bitcoin, says Celsius CEO
Ethereum could gain even more if popular Crypto Twitter account "CroissantEth" is right with his thread containing 24 reasons why ETH is undervalued.
24 reasons $ETH is extremely undervalued…
A thread by
— croissant (@CroissantEth) July 7, 2021
Aside from the obvious use cases of ETH in smart contracts, decentralized finance and NFTs, and the upcoming EIP-1159 upgrade and eventual transition to ETH 2.0, Croissant highlighted the fact that 94 out of the top 100 decentralized apps are built on the Ethereum network.
"These protocols often have many further use cases involving $ETH, creating the fundamentals for the Web 3.0 economy," he said.
Croissant also points to the stablecoins that utilize the Ethereum network, citing Tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC), MakerDao (DAI), and TrueUSD (TUSD), as he emphasized their multi-billion market caps, and highlighted that USDC grew from a $4 billion market cap to $25 billion this year.
2. Stablecoins$ETH is home to many stablecoins which have grown tremendous use cases:$USDT: $62B$USDC: $25B$DAI: $5B$TUSD: $1.5B
They are very popular for use in DeFi, & VISA will soon accept tx settlement in $USDC$USDC has grown from a $4B mcap, to $25B this year pic.twitter.com/fP8gufNeAd
The Metaverse, gaming, and digital land also get notable mentions as he cites their massive growth potential, along with layer-two solutions, decentralized autonomous organizations to name a few.
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Hundreds of students have walked out of class and gathered outside the Supreme Court in Washington to protest against Donald Trump's election.
The students began assembling outside Mr Trump's newly-opened hotel on Tuesday and walked past the Capitol to the Supreme Court across the street.
The streets in between are blocked by protesters and police.
The protesters are carrying signs reading "Black Lives Matter" and "Not My President".
Woodrow Wilson High School students promoted the event on social media, saying they want to tell Mr Trump "he can't divide us".
Wilson Principal Kimberly Martin said in a letter to parents that the school defends students' right to self-expression, but she warned that students who participate will receive unexcused absences.
The protests came as Donald Trump's allies engaged in an unusual round of public speculation about his potential appointments – including their own futures.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani seemed to be angling for secretary of state, and a Trump official said the job was his if he wanted it.
However, a second official cautioned that John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, remained in contention.
In Washington late on Monday, Mr Giuliani said Mr Bolton would be a "very good choice". Asked if there was anyone better, he replied: "Maybe me, I don't know."
On Twitter, businessman Carl Icahn disclosed details of a conversation he said he had with the president-elect.
Mr Icahn said Mr Trump was considering Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker, and Wilbur Ross, a billionaire investor, to lead the Treasury and Commerce departments.
Meanwhile, Mike Rogers, a respected Republican voice on national security issues, announced he was stepping down from the transition effort, while an apparent clerical oversight effectively halted the Trump team's ability to co-ordinate with President Barack Obama's White House.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence, now running the transition team, ignored questions from reporters as he walked through the lobby of Trump Tower, a thick binder tucked under his arm.
He took over from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who spent months running transition operations before his demotion last week. The switch has slowed Mr Trump's ability to co-ordinate with the White House.
Mr Pence has yet to sign a memorandum of understanding facilitating interactions between his team and Obama administration officials.
Mr Christie had signed the document, but Mr Pence's promotion makes it no longer valid.
A stream of Trump advisers arrived on Tuesday at his eponymous skyscraper to plan for the next administration.
"He's going to be a great president. He's got a team," said retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, who is advising on defence issues.
"He's got great people. They believe in him. They believe in the republic. It's going to be just fine."
The team appeared to be focusing on filling out the top national security jobs. Mr Trump's selections will be the first signals to anxious international allies about the direction he plans to take US foreign policy.
Mr Giuliani, 72, would be an out-of-box choice for secretary of state. A former mayor and federal prosecutor, he is known for his hard line law-and-order views.
Mr Bolton has years of US foreign policy experience, but has raised eyebrows with some of his hawkish stances, including a 2015 New York Times op-ed in which he advocated bombing Iran to halt the country's nuclear programme.
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, a loyal Trump ally and immigration hardliner, is said to be a contender to lead the Pentagon as defence secretary.
Mr Trump is also considering Richard Grenell as US ambassador to the United Nations, which would bring some experience and diversity to his nascent administration.
Mr Grenell, who served as US spokesman at the UN under George W Bush, would be the first openly gay person to fill a Cabinet-level foreign policy post.
The transition planning comes amid continued backlash from Mr Trump's weekend decision to appoint Steve Bannon, a man celebrated by the white nationalist movement, to serve as his chief strategist and senior adviser.
"After winning the presidency but losing the popular vote, President-elect Trump must try to bring Americans together – not continue to fan the flames of division and bigotry," House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said.
She called Mr Bannon's appointment "an alarming signal" that Mr Trump "remains committed to the hateful and divisive vision that defined his campaign".
Until joining Mr Trump's campaign this summer, Mr Bannon led the Breitbart website that appealed to the so-called "alt-right" – a movement often associated with far-right efforts to preserve "white identity", oppose multiculturalism and defend "Western values".
Breitbart has frequently targeted House Speaker Paul Ryan. Asked about Mr Bannon's appointment, Mr Ryan said: "I would just simply say the president will be judged on results."
On Monday, Mr Trump spoke for the first time by telephone to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The president-elect "is very much looking forward to having a strong and enduring relationship with Russia and the people of Russia," his transition office said.
Mr Trump, who has no foreign policy experience,has also spoken with the leaders of China, Mexico, South Korea and Canada in recent days.
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Lindsay Morgan Lohan was born in New York City, New York, on 2nd July 1986, to Dina Lohan and Michael Lohan. She began her career at age three as a Ford model, and also made appearances in over sixty television commercials, including spots for The Gap, Pizza Hut, Wendy's, and Jello (opposite Bill Cosby). Lohan made her acting debut in 1996 as the third actress for Ali Fowler in the television drama "Another World" (1964). Shortly after, she was handpicked by Oscar-nominated writer Nancy Meyers as estranged twin sisters in an adaptation by Walt Disney Pictures of a novel by Erich K?stner, which would mark Meyers' directorial debut. Lohan's first feature film, Parent Trap, The (1998) was a huge success, earning Lohan widespread critical acclaim, and a Young Artist award for Best Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film, as well as Blockbuster Entertainment and YoungStar award nominations.
After signing a three-movie contract with Disney, she returned to the small screen to star in the made-for-TV movies Life-Size (2000) (TV) (opposite Tyra Banks) and Get a Clue (2002) (TV). She also appeared as Rose in the pilot episode of the short-lived comedy series "Bette" (2000), which starred Bette Midler.
In June 2001, Lohan took a brief hiatus from acting. Her music career was launched over a year later, when Estefan Enterprises made a five-album production deal with her in September 2002.
But Lohan was not turning her back on her blossoming acting career. Just over a month previously, she had been cast opposite Jamie Lee Curtis for another Disney adaptation of a novel, this time of a fantasy comedy by Mary Rodgers. Freaky Friday (2003) was a huge hit, and critics were spellbound by delightful performances from Lohan and Curtis (who went on to receive a Golden Globe nomination for her work). In addition, Lohan won the 2004 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Female, as well as a Saturn award nomination and another Young Artist award nomination.
Lohan relocated permanently to Los Angeles between projects, and moved into an apartment with fellow actress Raven. She also dated pop star Aaron Carter for a short time. Lohan's next acting role was the title character in the comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), a Disney adaptation of the novel by Dyan Sheldon. The film receiving scathing reviews upon its release, and died a quick death at the box office, but even the harshest of critics were impressed by Lohan's charming turn as aspiring actress Lola.
Lohan's next project, Mean Girls (2004) saw her reunite with Freaky Friday (2003) director Mark S. Waters. Inspired by a non-fiction book by Rosalind Wiseman and written by "Saturday Night Live" (1975) scribe Tina Fey, the high school comedy drama opened to glowing reviews, and grossed a whopping $112 million worldwide. This earned her status as a bankable actress, and a salary of $7.5 million for the upcoming Donald Petrie romantic comedy Lady Luck (2005).
One of the most sought after young actresses in the industry, she is also set to star in two other romantic comedies: Untitled Nick Cannon/Lindsay Lohan Project (2006) (opposite Nick Cannon) and Fashionistas (2005) (based on the novel by Lynn Messina) as well as the high school dramas Dramarama (2006) and Gossip Girl (2005) (based on the novel by Cecily von Ziegesar), and the Disney fantasy adventure Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) (a remake of Love Bug, The (1968)).
In her spare time, Lohan enjoys swimming, basketball, shopping, singing, reading, writing, gymnastics, collecting Beanie Babies, roller-blading, and playing with her siblings Aliana, Dakota and Michael Lohan.


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Q: Database Schema for Consignment Inventory I'm developing a consignment inventory for hospitals,
The infrastructure is this:
Multiple Suppliers
Multiple Warehouses
Multiple Hospitals

I'm stuck on deciding whether to make a separated stock tables for EACH hospitals and warehouses or store them all in one stock table.
My current plan is this:
They are all going to read on a single item table for general item information only, then the stocks, stock movements, consign orders, employees, patients will have separate tables per hospital/warehouses.
Example:
Separated Tables
tbl_items //centralized item information
tbl_suppliers //centralized supplier information
tbl_warehouse1id_stocks
tbl_warehouse1id_stockmovements
tbl_warehouse2id_stocks
tbl_warehouse2id_stockmovements
tbl_hospital1id_stocks
tbl_hospital1id_stockmovements
tbl_hospital1id_employee
tbl_hospital1id_patients
tbl_hospital2id_stocks
tbl_hospital2id_stockmovements
tbl_hospital2id_employee
tbl_hospital2id_patients

Merged Tables
tbl_items //centralized item information
tbl_suppliers //centralized supplier information
tbl_warehouse_stocks //where warehouse_ids are primary keys
tbl_warehouse_stockmovements //where warehouse_ids are primary keys
tbl_hospital_stocks //where hospital_ids are primary keys
tbl_hospital_stockmovements //where hospital_ids are primary keys
tbl_hospital_employee //where hospital_ids are primary keys
tbl_hospital_patients //where hospital_ids are primary keys

which is better? for maintaining, speed optimization etc.? my current opinion is that the separated approach is better because why should (for example) hospital1 search for their certain stock of items to the pool of stocks of all hospitals? does this affect the speed? if hospital1 tries to query their entire stock record, it will affect the query time of other hospital because hospital1 is currently searching for their records. of course indexing should help but still.
EDIT:
The server resides on a single location and its a web-based system.

A: I would highly recommend taking the MERGED TABLES approach that you've laid out.
Disadvantages of Separate Tables:

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*Every time a new warehouse/hospital is built or added to the tracking system, you have to add new tables to your schema

*Writing a query to count the stock of a single item across all hospitals or warehouses now because a much more complex query (unions/joins through every table).  Combine this with the fact that a new warehouse may be added to the system (previous point), you now have to update all these queries individually

*How will your web back-end layer know which table to query? This sounds like you would be going down the path of dynamic query generation and will be adding yet more complexity to your code base.

Unless you have significant constraints that you haven't laid out (extremely large db with billions of rows or poor hardware that you can't scale up), indexes are designed to exactly help with this scenario.


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22 European nations are working together with each various other with the intent to generate an application advancement milieu that would work with all smart devices. Being spearheaded by the German Graunhofer Institute for Open Communications Systems, it is something that can well appease private application users and finish continued irritation among consumers.
Cutting to the chase, various programs languages are made use of in various settings – as an example the iPhone, Symbian and Android settings – meaning that an application that woks on one system, could not work on an additional. And, if that was not discouraging sufficient, don't quit to forget that there are platforms apart from those on mobile phones: car installations and other home customer electronics for example. How remarkable to have an all-encompassing collection of apps that would serve the purpose that they were created for yet not require particular or top quality fixd app to run on.
There are plenty of customers that would welcome this advancement. The end customers, negating those with a geekish bent, dream ease of usage and compatibility rather than true "brand name" specificity. Putting it another way, if I such as an app, then I do not care how it is developed provided it benefits me on the gadget I own or use. Performance is the search phrase for consumers. Nevertheless, you uncommitted who made your car engine as long as the car runs to your liking.
Yet, don't get as well comfy, the relocation is not without its critics. There is a lot of wheeling and dealing to be done before the proposal, despite its 10 million Euro financial investment, gets anywhere close to conclusion. There, after all, always some that won't play sphere.


What are the current trends in PRC citizen inflows into Australia – both permanent and temporary? This fact sheet provides a snapshot of key statistics and trends in permanent migration, naturalisation, student visa grants, visitor visa grants, temporary work visa grants and visa cancellations.
In 2017-18 162,417 permanent migration programme visas were granted. Migrants from the PRC accounted for 15.5 percent.
- New Zealand: 3.3 percent.
PRC citizens have been the second largest source country of permanent migrants to Australia after Indian citizens since 2011-12, accounting for approximately between 14-15 percent of Australia's permanent migration intake each financial year since then.
PRC migrants' proportion of total citizenship conferrals reached a 10-year low of 5.2 percent in 2015-16. Their proportion continued to decrease in the years following.
In 2016-17, Australian citizenship was conferred on 137,750 people. PRC migrants accounted for 4.8 percent of the total. Female migrants comprised 57.7 percent of all migrants from the PRC – the highest proportion of the top six countries of origin, and 6.3 percentage points higher than the average of these.
- Sri Lanka: 4 percent.
Note: These are the top five source countries for migrants who acquired citizenship in Australia in 2017-18.
Between 2012 and 2016, residents of Chinese heritage represented six percent of total applications for Australian citizenship…But the Home Affairs figures show that while the number of Chinese applications has remained steady, the number of approvals fell to less than three percent of applicants between July 2017 and February 2018.
In 2017-18, there were an average of 2.1 million temporary entrants in Australia in each of the four financial quarters. Temporary entrants include (but are not limited to) visitor visa holders, student visa holders and temporary resident (skilled) visa holders. The Temporary (Work) Skilled visa (subclass 457) was abolished and replaced by the Temporary Skill Shortage visa (subclass 482) from March 18 2018.
Note: Including the PRC these are the top five source countries for temporary entrants in Australia in 2017-18.
The average number of temporary visa holders from the PRC has consistently increased over the last five years, from an average of 132,901 in 2013-14 to an average of 245,662 in 2017-18.
In 2017-18, a total of 333,014 student visas (excluding secondary visas for dependents, etc.) were granted. With a share of 25.6 percent, the PRC was the largest source country in this visa category. This represents a nine percent increase in absolute terms from 2016-17.
Note: Including the PRC these are the top five source countries for Australian student visa grants in 2017-18.
While the number of visas granted to students from the PRC has continued to grow over the past five years, the rate of growth has slowed since 2015-16. At nine percent growth, the number of PRC student visa grants grew by less than the total number of student visa grants, which increased by 9.8 percent.
Overall growth is now driven primarily by India and Nepal, which grew 47 and 46 percent, respectively, from 2016-17 to 2017-18.
5.6 million visitor visas were granted in 2017-18. Visitor visas include tourism and business subclasses, which accounted for 5.1 million and 0.5 million grants respectively. The PRC was the largest source country for recipients of these visas, comprising 16.9 percent of the total.
Note: Including the PRC, these are the top five source countries for visitor visa grants in Australia in 2017-18.
The PRC made up the largest proportion of business visitors with 17.2 percent of all business subclass visas granted, ahead of 12.8 percent for the US. Business visitors from the PRC have outnumbered those from the US every year since 2010-11.
In 2013-14, the number of visitor visa grants to PRC citizens overtook visitor visa grants to the UK to make the PRC the largest source country for the first time. This is largely driven by tourist visitors. Between 2009-10 and 2015-16, tourist visitor visa grants grew at double-digit rates every year. However, this rate of growth has slowed since 2016-17.
64,470 Temporary (Work) Skilled (457) or Temporary Skill Shortage (482) visas were granted in 2017-18 (excluding secondary visas for dependents, etc.). This was a 25.8 percent decrease from 2016-17.
Total numbers of 457/482 subclass visa grants have largely been declining since 2012-13, with grants to the PRC following this trend. From 2016-17, the proportion of temporary workers from the PRC has decreased from making up six percent of all grants to five percent in 2017-18.
This fact sheet was prepared by Elena Collinson, Senior Project and Research Officer, and Michael Zhou, Project and Research Officer at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney.
 Elena Collinson, 'The PRC diaspora in Australia', Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney, February 1 2018 <https://www.australiachinarelations.org/content/prc-diaspora-australia>.
 Australian Government Department of Home Affairs, Temporary visa holders in Australia (to December 31 2018) <https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/ab245863-4dea-4661-a334-71ee15937130>.
 Australian Government Department of Home Affairs, Student visa program (to January 31 2019) <https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/324aa4f7-46bb-4d56-bc2d-772333a2317e>.
 Australian Government Department of Home Affairs, Visitor visa program (to December 31 2018) <https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/903e4782-8d6d-438d-9c40-9883cf91606c>.
 Australian Government Department of Home Affairs, Temporary work (skilled) visa program (to December 31 2018) <https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/2515b21d-0dba-4810-afd4-ac8dd92e873e>.
 Australian Government Department of Home Affairs, Australian Migration Statistics, 2016-17 (released December 2018) <https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/australian-migration-statistics>.


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Q: Arrows to text above and below line I have been searching for an answer for some time but have not come across a solution. I am taking some notes from a programming course and need to take a line of code and identify each individual part with alternating arrows. For example, the line:
this.Something = new AnotherThing(anArgument);
Now, I need an arrow below this line pointing up to 'this' coming from some text identifying the part. Now, another arrow would need to start at some explanation text above this line and point down to the 'Something'. The =, new, and parenthesis do not need anything, just the other items. I have been trying to use \underset and \overset, but the spacing on the line goes wonky. Any guidance will be greatly appreciated.

A: Here's one option:

The code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{tikzmark}

\lstset{
  basicstyle=\small\ttfamily,
  escapeinside=@@,
  columns=fullflexible
}

\begin{document}

Some regular text before
\vspace{1.8cm}
\begin{lstlisting}
@\tikzmark{a}@this.@\tikzmark{b}@Something = new AnotherThing(anArgument);
\end{lstlisting}
\vspace{1.3cm}
Some regular text after

\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\draw[red!80!black,->]
  ([shift={(10pt,-3pt)}]pic cs:a) -- ++(10pt,-20pt) coordinate(aux1);
\node[below,red!80!black]
  at (aux1) {some explanatory text};
\draw[green!80!black,->]
  ([shift={(15pt,9pt)}]pic cs:b) -- ++(10pt,20pt) coordinate(aux2);
\node[above,green!80!black,text width=4cm]
  at (aux2) {some other explanatory text; it's longer};
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Remarks

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*The listings package was used to typeset the code. The package offers additional customization possibilities for typesetting code; please refer to the documentation

*TikZ was used here. The tikzmark library was used to place some marks (the escapeinside feature from listings was used to place the marks inside lstlisting). Then those marks were used to draw the arrows and place the explanatory texts using \nodes.

*Since the overlay option has to be used in the tikzpicture for the exaplanatory texts, some spacing will need to be added to get the proper spacing with the material surrounding the code.

*Some internal calculations are involved, so the code needs two runs to stabilize.


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Among the many items featured in Risk of Rain 2, the ukulele is perhaps among the most favored by survivors. Allow players to harvest the innate electrical power of musical instruments, the ukulele causes foes' hearts to skip a beat thanks to an arcing array of lightning-based damage. Read on to learn more about how the ukulele works in Risk of Rain 2.
The ukulele was a popular item in the original Risk of Rain, so it's not exactly surprising to see it return in Risk of Rain 2. Players who can scoop up the ukulele will immediately discover why it's one of the game's better items: Each time the survivor attacks, the ukulele offers a 25 percent chance to deal 80 percent chain lightning damage on up to three targets within 20 meters.
Can't seem to find the ukulele? Don't worry, neither can the game's logbook, apparently.
Of course, the real beauty of the this item is in how it stacks: Each additional ukulele adds +2 targets and +2 meters to the item's range, and unlike items such as the Tougher Times teddy bear, the effect stacks cleanly. If players manage to collect 11 ukes in a single run, they'll have a 25 percent chance to hit up to 23 enemies across a staggering 40 meter distance.
Even a couple of ukuleles can make or break a tense firefight. They also pair very well with other items like gasoline or sticky bombs, which similarly provide a chance to deal extra damage to individual targets or groups of targets.
Being a green or uncommon item, ukuleles should appear somewhat frequently throughout Risk of Rain 2 runs. Like other uncommon items, they have a chance to drop from item chests, terminals, Shrines of Chance, and end-level bosses.
The ukuele might not be among the highest tier items in Risk of Rain 2, but its powerful chain lightning ability and the delightful electrical tick noise the attack makes should keep a smile on survivor's faces. Be sure to brush up on other crucial game guides covering Hopoo's latest roguelike release by heading over to Shacknews' Risk of Rain 2 home page.


We've all berated ourselves for our failure to break our bad habits. But as it turns out, there might be a neurological reason for that.
Calakos, an expert in the brain's adaptability, teamed up with Henry Yin, an expert in animal models of habit behavior in Duke's department of psychology and neuroscience. Both scientists are also members of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.
Their groups trained otherwise healthy mice to form sugar habits of varying severity, a process that entailed pressing a lever to receive tiny sweets. The animals that became hooked kept pressing the lever even after the treats were removed.
The researchers then compared the brains of mice that had formed a habit to the ones that didn't. In particular, the team studied electrical activity in the basal ganglia, a complex network of brain areas that controls motor actions and compulsive behaviors, including drug addiction.
In the basal ganglia, two main types of paths carry opposing messages: One carries a 'go' signal which spurs an action, the other a 'stop' signal.
Experiments by Duke neurobiology graduate student Justin O'Hare found that the stop and go pathways were both more active in the sugar-habit mice. O'Hare said he didn't expect to see the stop signal equally ramped up in the habit brains, because it has been traditionally viewed as the factor that helps prevent a behavior.
The team also discovered a change in the timing of activation in the two pathways. In mice that had formed a habit, the go pathway turned on before the stop pathway. In non-habit brains, the stop signal preceded the go.
These changes in the brain circuitry were so long-lasting and obvious that it was possible for the group to predict which mice had formed a habit just by looking at isolated pieces of their brains in a petri dish.
Calakos said some researchers are beginning to explore the possibility of treating drug addiction using transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS, a noninvasive technique that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate the brain. "TMS is an inroad to access these circuits in more severe diseases," she said, in particular targeting the cortex, a brain area that serves as the main input to the basal ganglia.
Meanwhile, Calakos and her team are studying what distinguishes ordinary habits from the problematic ones that can be seen in conditions like obsessive-compulsive disorder.


You are hereForums / Archives / Planning Rides / Weekly/Local/Day Trips / Ride Sunday morning 11th?
Being a beginner I don't really know where to suggest...so wondered if anyone wanted to ride Sunday morning and can suggest a place?
Submitted by soulrider on Sat, 10/03/2007 - 10:56.
There is a single-track trail that circumnavigates Narrabeen Lake, which is really quite flat and i'm sure suitable for the most noob beginner. I myself haven't completed the trail and have only ridden the Wakehurst Parkway side of the trail (there are a couple of short sections where a short ride on the side of the road is needed to link up the trail).
On this side of the trail there is a section which can take you under the road and up by Deep Creek Reserve. At the back of this reserve is a small wooden bridge which leads to another bigger steel bridge. Go right at the end of the steel bridge and take the right when you come to the first fork in the trail. This takes you along a nice little single track with a few little fallen log obstacles/bridges and some nice 'rainforesty' type vegetation. There is a second fork about halfway along this trail (at some rock boulders on your left). The left takes you up some more technical terrain and which is Deep Creek trail, which leads up to Morgan Road firetrail heading up to Oxford Falls. The right (which i prefer, and suggest you take) continues along with similar, fairly simple single track and a few little obstacles to hone your skills on. This winds its way till it comes to the bottom of a steep little hill which it starts to climb. I haven't been the whole way up this trail, so i'm not too sure where it heads, though i assume it eventually connects up with the Deep Creek/Morgan Road Firetrail. Although it sounds like there are a few different ways to go, you would have difficulty in getting lost here as the trails are all fairly short and recognisable. Have Fun!
I may or may not be available for a Sunday morning ride.. i have a party to go to Sat night.. plus some bike service to do (if i get around to it), though would be happy to catch up for a ride sometime. You can msg me on my mobile in my profile.
Submitted by christine on Sat, 10/03/2007 - 11:45.
Submitted by Tanya on Sat, 10/03/2007 - 14:53.
Soulrider - I ride around narrabeen lake quite a bit so know that well, thanks for the tips though. Christine - I've got to be somewhere for 11 so Terrey Hills might be pushing it. I may wander in to Manly Dam and just do sections that I need to work on. Probably going to be there around the 8am, 8.30 mark. If anyone is interested let me know....or I will just please myself for time.
Submitted by Buck on Sat, 10/03/2007 - 17:08.
Yep I'd be keen for a lap around Manly.
What time exactly and meeting place?
Manly Dam at 5 p.m.
Submitted by Little-Ditty on Sat, 10/03/2007 - 18:58.
What a coincidence. Some of us were chatting about a Manly Dam lap just this afternoon. Although I am not sure what time others were expecting this to kick off.
I will be doing a Manly Dam lap at, say, 5:00 pm? The offer is open for all attendees and skill levels. Hope some of you can make it.
Submitted by Tanya on Sat, 10/03/2007 - 19:18.
and I got antsy and went there this afternoon in anticipation...and just did the technical single track bit...maybe Oxford Falls instead. I note there's rolling/jumping/whatever practice on in Belrose in the morning also. Anyway, Ben, I'll get back to you on your mobile to arrange..and make sure a change of trail is OK. Will park at the top of the firetrail and if anyone wants to join, I'll be there at 8.30, 0410 191 313 let me know if you're coming.
Submitted by Buck on Sat, 10/03/2007 - 19:30.
Haven't ridden Oxford Falls yet but keen to give it a go. I'll see you there in the morning.
Submitted by dyego on Sat, 10/03/2007 - 20:02.
Start form the public school???
Submitted by Buck on Sat, 10/03/2007 - 21:44.
Submitted by Tanya on Sat, 10/03/2007 - 21:54.
Dyego - I think Liam is still up for Manly Dam at 5pm! Liam you really should not have crashed my thread about a morning ride and thrown in arrangements for an afternoon one! Confusing!!
Submitted by Little-Ditty on Sun, 11/03/2007 - 13:13.


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Rolls-Royce India has awarded its PR and communicationsresponsibilities to First Partners for India and South Asia region. The account was handled by Weber Shandwick in India eralier. First Partners founding partners, Atul Ahluwalia, Dilip Yadav and Santanu Gogoi quit Weber in 2015 after a long innings and subsequently started their own firm.
First Partners' mandate is to develop and implement a strategic communications framework for Rolls-Royce India & South Asia by reinforcing the brand's core values and strengthening its positioning amongst key stakeholders.
"India is a strategic growth market for Rolls-Royce. As we continue to grow our footprint in the country, we need a stronger focus on an effective industrial communication supported by a cohesive content-led approach. First Partners was aligned to our evolving communication requirements in the region and we look forward to a productive partnership," said Aparna Srivastava, head of communications – India & South Asia, Rolls-Royce.
"We are thrilled to partner with Rolls-Royce, a global brand admired for its world-class technology and engineering expertise. Our experience, passion and business outcome approach gives us an edge to deliver meaningful results for Rolls-Royce in India & SA," said Atul Ahluwalia, founding partner, First Partners.
Since setting up shop a year ago, First Partners has also bagged the Hyundai and Danone accounts.


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Written by Amineh Qaraee on December 9, 2022 . Posted in NEWS
On Thursday, December 8, the 84th day of the uprising, people in Sanandaj paid their homage to Sarina Sa'edi on her 40th day of martyrdom.
The ceremony was held in Behesht Mohammadi Cemetery despite extensive security measures and the heavy presence of the security forces. The mourners chanted: "This year is the year of sacrifice; Seyed Ali (Khamenei) will be overthrown," "Poverty, corruption, and high prices; We shall carry on until the overthrow of the regime," "Death to the dictator (referring to Ali Khamenei)". Sarina Sa'edi, a 15-year-old girl from Sanandaj, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on October 26 in the Naysar neighborhood of Sanandaj due to multiple and severe baton blows. She died on October 27 in Towhid Hospital of Sanandaj.
At 3 a.m. Thursday, December 8, the funeral ceremony of Hooman Abdullahi, a 21-year-old martyr of the uprising, was held in Sanandaj. He was shot dead due to the direct shooting of suppressive forces. The regime's agents kidnapped his body and compelled his family to bury him at night.
December 8 – Qom, central #Iran
Students at the Islamic Azad University began chanting as regime Vice President Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh was leaving the campus:
"This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!"#IranRevolution#اعتراضات_دانشجویی pic.twitter.com/HI35HMd0Wh
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 8, 2022
In Arak, in fear of holding the 40th-day ceremony of Mehrshad Shahidi, the regime cordoned the city's cemetery off this morning and blocked the street leading to it with concrete barriers. The city's local TV announced yesterday that the cemetery was closed. The security force elite unit was stationed outside the house and on the rooftops around Mehrshad's house and prevented people from entering the area. They did not even allow the martyr's family to leave the house and hold the ceremony. In some areas, gunshots could be heard. However, the brave women of Arak gathered in the street despite these repressive measures. They called the people to protest by chanting, "Proud Compatriots express your support". Locals drove towards the cemetery with continuous honking.
In Ramsar, people paid their respect to Ma'edeh Javanfar, on the 40th day of her martyrdom. She was a 28-year-old nurse that was martyred by the regime's criminal agents on October 25 in the city of Rasht.
December 8 – Arak, central #Iran
More footage of security units dispatched to prevent anti-regime protests during today's ceremony marking the 40th day of the murder of Mehrshad Shahdi by the regime's security forces.#IranRevolution2022#مهرشاد_شهیدی pic.twitter.com/hdgMIcddlL pic.twitter.com/A0lcbwLV2I
In Dezful, criminal agents of the elite unit were stationed in the city to prevent people from paying their homage to Mohammad Gha'emifar. He was a 17-year-old teenager injured by security forces on October 22 and died 15 days later. Despite security measures, however, people took part in the procession by chanting, "This is the perished flower dedicated to our motherland".
On Thursday morning, storeowners in Sanandaj in Kurdistan Province took to the streets protesting decisions made by authorities to shutter stores of those who participated in the recent three-day strikes in solidarity with the ongoing Iranian revolution. They chanted, "Death to the dictator (referring to Ali Khamenei)" and clashed with the regime's security forces, who shot at the shopkeepers and wounded some. Sanandaj shopkeepers went on strike to support sealed shop owners and refused to open their shops. In Najaf Abad, the bazaar merchants organized a protest against sealing their shops. Shopkeepers in Ravansar, whose shops had been sealed, staged a protest rally in front of the city's governor.
December 8 – Sanandaj, western #Iran
Locals are on strike and continuing the nationwide protests against the regime on the 84th day of the uprising.#IranRevolution2022#اعتصابات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/MvWmZNUheq
Students at the Azad University of Qom disrupted the speech of Ghazizadeh, one of Ebrahim Raisi's deputies, who was visiting the university. Students chanted, "This year is the year of sacrifice; Seyed Ali (Khamenei) will be overthrown," and "We don't want a murderous guest; we don't want a corrupt system". Defiant youths set fire to an IRGC telecommunication tower in Sarab. In Kut Abdullah, a seminary of the clerical regime was set on fire. On Wednesday, youths in Arak attacked with Molotov cocktails an infamous paramilitary Basij base called Sayyad.
Students of Rassam Karaj University held a protest rally and chanted, "We have neither bread nor home; the hijab has become a scapegoat," and "High prices and inflation; people are being looted".
MEK Iran (follow us on Twitter and Facebook), Maryam Rajavi's on her site, Twitter & Facebook, NCRI (Twitter & Facebook), and People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran – MEK IRAN – YouTub
Tags: Iran human rights, Iran Opposition, Iran Uprising, Maryam Rajavi, MEK, Regime Change


I am still somewhat amazed. I bought a 4 stroke Honda line trimmer, $30 cheaper than anywhere else I could find, AND it was personally delivered to my door, over 300 kms away from Dee Why FREE of charge. Not by a courier service but by Allmowers who took the time to explain its operation. Even better the thing starts, unlike my old Stihl that was turning me into a demented cripple with one arm four inches longer than the other from pulling the cord four hundred times a day. Well a slight exaggeration but you get the picture.
Thank you to Steve & the team at Allmowers Dee Why for a really great shopping experience. I found the best price available which included free delivery. After mucking the guys around with my delivery time slot Steve was only only to helpful and understanding in working in with my schedule. A nice gentleman from the team delivered the trimmer already assembled completed with petrol, oil & line and to top if off I received a lesson on how to use & look after the trimmer. Allmowers went beyond my expectations with their good old fashioned customer service and I will certainly be returning for other gear down the track.
Phenomenal service. Best price around.
Ordered 7pm and had it next day in Lane Cove before midday.
These kind of businesses are few and far between.
Best price + stunning service = unbeatable!!
So far so good with my new Honda 4-stroke line trimmer. A four year warranty gives peace of mind after years of disappointment with disposable 2-stroke trimmers. Allmowers had the best price I could find on the product, and the promise of free delivery throughout NSW made the deal a no-brainer. What has been so impressive about my purchasing experience, though, is the service that Allmowers provided. When an Allmowers vehicle pulled into my drive having driven from Sydney to Newcastle to personally deliver the fully assembled trimmer, I was completely stunned. The Allmowers staff member walked me through starting, using and maintaining the trimmer, offering a level of customer service all too rare today. I am absolutely impressed. And it works! I'll be going to Allmowers for all my future outdoor lawn and power equipment needs.


A few more impressions of the presentation of Jack's novel Dark Memory in Jakarta, 28 December 2016.
He was thoroughly enjoying among others a wonderful presentation in Jakarta, at Gramedia Central Park, of the Indonesian edition of Dark Memory [Hellevanger], as well as the second printrun of the Indonesian Pyrophobia [Vuurgeest], published simultaneously.
He received the symbolic first copy from Mr Suhartono, General Manager at Gramedia publishers. You can also see him with his publisher Noni and editor Deesis, and signing lots of books. Currently he is competing with Stephen King on who sells most books in Indonesia. Not bad!


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Q: USB bug which locks the kernel I manage a few remote machines installed at a manufacturing facility, which run Ubuntu 18.04. For months I had seen unexpected kernel locks, which I could not explain. By locks I mean that the machine completely dies. The graphical screen and keyboard freezes. I cannot ping or connect through ssh during the locks. The only way of making the machine come back is through a power off/on sequence. After rebooting I cannot find anything meaningful about the lock in the logs. The machine is a good quality one with a 6-core Xeon, ECC memory, etc. Exact the same problem happens in multiple machines.
A few days ago I was able to create a sequence of events that produce the locks in a couple of minutes. These events have to do with USB 2.0 interrupt I/O on USB devices connected at 12 Mbits/s. It is necessary to have at least 36 devices connected to reproduce the problem easily, which I cannot do from where I am. The machines are in a country other than the one I live, and my physical access to them is not possible due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Due to company guidelines, I cannot upgrade the kernel, which is: Linux version 5.0.0-37-generic (buildd@lcy01-amd64-023) (gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1)) #40~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 14 12:06:39 UTC 2019. There is no special USB drivers installed. However, there is a NVIDIA manufacturer driver installed, which I installed using the Ubuntu regular tools for non-free software. All USB I/O is done by a regular user (the device group is set to the user group by udev).
During the test phase, we tried Kernel 5.3.0-62-generic, which had the same behavior. My guess is that, for a regular user, this bug rarely manifests itself and it may be there for a long time.
I would like to figure out exactly where the problem is and I am looking for your guidance.
Is there a way of getting meaningful information about the lock when it happens? How to figure out where the kernel is hanging, considering I am remote?
Additional information:
Just to be clear, we have two machines with exact the same problem. One is still running kernel 5.3.0-62 and the other 5.0.0-37. Here is the information I collected:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor   : 0
vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
cpu family  : 6
model       : 85
model name  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-2133 CPU @ 3.60GHz
stepping    : 4
microcode   : 0x2006906
cpu MHz     : 1200.306
cache size  : 8448 KB
physical id : 0
siblings    : 12
core id     : 0
cpu cores   : 6
apicid      : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu     : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 22
wp      : yes
flags       : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb cat_l3 cdp_l3 invpcid_single pti intel_ppin ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm cqm mpx rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb intel_pt avx512cd avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_pkg_req md_clear flush_l1d
bugs        : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs taa itlb_multihit
bogomips    : 7200.00
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor   : 1
....

processor   : 11
vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
cpu family  : 6
model       : 85
model name  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-2133 CPU @ 3.60GHz
stepping    : 4
microcode   : 0x2006906
cpu MHz     : 1200.379
cache size  : 8448 KB
physical id : 0
siblings    : 12
core id     : 5
cpu cores   : 6
apicid      : 11
initial apicid  : 11
fpu     : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 22
wp      : yes
flags       : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb cat_l3 cdp_l3 invpcid_single pti intel_ppin ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm cqm mpx rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb intel_pt avx512cd avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_pkg_req md_clear flush_l1d
bugs        : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs taa itlb_multihit
bogomips    : 7200.00
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

free -h
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            31G        860M         29G        7.1M        1.3G         29G
Swap:           15G          0B         15G

lsb_release  -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release:        18.04
Codename:       bionic

cat /proc/version
Linux version 5.3.0-62-generic (buildd@lcy01-amd64-004) (gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)) #56~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 24 16:17:03 UTC 2020

sysctl vm.swappiness
vm.swappiness = 60

lshw -C memory
  *-cache:0
       description: L1 cache
       physical id: 1
       slot: L1-Cache
       size: 384KiB
       capacity: 384KiB
       capabilities: internal write-back unified
       configuration: level=1
  *-cache:1
       description: L2 cache
       physical id: 2
       slot: L2-Cache
       size: 6MiB
       capacity: 6MiB
       capabilities: internal varies unified
       configuration: level=2
  *-cache:2
       description: L3 cache
       physical id: 4
       slot: L3-Cache
       size: 8448KiB
       capacity: 8448KiB
       capabilities: internal varies unified
       configuration: level=3
  *-memory
       description: System Memory
       physical id: 6
       slot: System board or motherboard
       size: 32GiB
       capabilities: ecc
       configuration: errordetection=ecc
     *-bank:0
          description: DIMM DDR4 Synchronous Registered (Buffered) 2666 MHz (0.4 ns)
          product: HMA81GR7CJR8N-VK
          vendor: Hynix
          physical id: 0
          serial: 33B2CDD7
          slot: CPU0-DIMM1
          size: 8GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 2666MHz (0.4ns)
     *-bank:1
          description: DIMM [empty]
          physical id: 1
          slot: CPU0-DIMM2
     *-bank:2
          description: DIMM DDR4 Synchronous Registered (Buffered) 2666 MHz (0.4 ns)
          product: HMA81GR7CJR8N-VK
          vendor: Hynix
          physical id: 2
          serial: 33B2CD95
          slot: CPU0-DIMM3
          size: 8GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 2666MHz (0.4ns)
     *-bank:3
          description: DIMM [empty]
          physical id: 3
          slot: CPU0-DIMM4
     *-bank:4
          description: DIMM [empty]
          physical id: 4
          slot: CPU0-DIMM5
     *-bank:5
          description: DIMM DDR4 Synchronous Registered (Buffered) 2666 MHz (0.4 ns)
          product: HMA81GR7CJR8N-VK
          vendor: Hynix
          physical id: 5
          serial: 33B2CDD8
          slot: CPU0-DIMM6
          size: 8GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 2666MHz (0.4ns)
     *-bank:6
          description: DIMM [empty]
          physical id: 6
          slot: CPU0-DIMM7
     *-bank:7
          description: DIMM DDR4 Synchronous Registered (Buffered) 2666 MHz (0.4 ns)
          product: HMA81GR7CJR8N-VK
          vendor: Hynix
          physical id: 7
          serial: 33B2CCC4
          slot: CPU0-DIMM8
          size: 8GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 2666MHz (0.4ns)
  *-firmware
       description: BIOS
       vendor: HP
       physical id: 5
       version: P61 v01.76
       date: 04/22/2019
       size: 64KiB
       capacity: 15MiB
       capabilities: pci pnp upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb biosbootspecification netboot uefi
  *-memory UNCLAIMED
       description: Memory controller
       product: 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family Power Management Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1f.2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz (30.3ns)
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:90420000-90423fff

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers (rev 04)
00:04.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers (rev 04)
00:04.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers (rev 04)
00:04.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers (rev 04)
00:04.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers (rev 04)
00:04.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers (rev 04)
00:04.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers (rev 04)
00:04.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers (rev 04)
00:04.7 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CBDMA Registers (rev 04)
00:05.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E MM/Vt-d Configuration Registers (rev 04)
00:05.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2025 (rev 04)
00:05.4 PIC: Intel Corporation Device 2026 (rev 04)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E Ubox Registers (rev 04)
00:08.1 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E Ubox Registers (rev 04)
00:08.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E Ubox Registers (rev 04)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH Thermal Subsystem
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH CSME HECI #1
00:17.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset SATA RAID Controller
00:1b.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #21 (rev f0)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev f0)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f0)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f0)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation C422 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family Power Management Controller
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH HD Audio
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family SPI Controller
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-LM
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X111SL PCIe-to-PCI Reversible Bridge (rev 02)
02:04.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
02:04.1 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
02:04.2 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 65)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
05:00.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X111SL PCIe-to-PCI Reversible Bridge (rev 02)
06:04.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
06:04.1 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
06:04.2 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 65)
14:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCI Express Root Port A (rev 04)
14:05.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2034 (rev 04)
14:05.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E RAS Configuration Registers (rev 04)
14:05.4 PIC: Intel Corporation Device 2036 (rev 04)
14:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:08.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:08.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:08.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:08.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:08.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:08.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:08.7 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:09.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:09.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:0e.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:0e.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:0e.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:0e.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:0e.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:0e.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:0e.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:0e.7 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:0f.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:0f.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:1d.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:1d.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:1d.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:1d.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E CHA Registers (rev 04)
14:1e.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers (rev 04)
14:1e.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers (rev 04)
14:1e.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers (rev 04)
14:1e.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers (rev 04)
14:1e.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers (rev 04)
14:1e.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers (rev 04)
14:1e.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCU Registers (rev 04)
15:00.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X111SL PCIe-to-PCI Reversible Bridge (rev 02)
16:04.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
16:04.1 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
16:04.2 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 65)
20:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCI Express Root Port A (rev 04)
20:05.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2034 (rev 04)
20:05.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E RAS Configuration Registers (rev 04)
20:05.4 PIC: Intel Corporation Device 2036 (rev 04)
20:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2066 (rev 04)
20:09.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2066 (rev 04)
20:0a.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2040 (rev 04)
20:0a.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2041 (rev 04)
20:0a.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2042 (rev 04)
20:0a.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2043 (rev 04)
20:0a.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2044 (rev 04)
20:0a.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2045 (rev 04)
20:0a.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2046 (rev 04)
20:0a.7 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2047 (rev 04)
20:0b.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2048 (rev 04)
20:0b.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2049 (rev 04)
20:0b.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 204a (rev 04)
20:0b.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 204b (rev 04)
20:0c.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2040 (rev 04)
20:0c.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2041 (rev 04)
20:0c.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2042 (rev 04)
20:0c.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2043 (rev 04)
20:0c.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2044 (rev 04)
20:0c.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2045 (rev 04)
20:0c.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2046 (rev 04)
20:0c.7 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2047 (rev 04)
20:0d.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2048 (rev 04)
20:0d.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2049 (rev 04)
20:0d.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 204a (rev 04)
20:0d.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 204b (rev 04)
21:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL [Quadro P400] (rev a1)
21:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
2c:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCI Express Root Port A (rev 04)
2c:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCI Express Root Port C (rev 04)
2c:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCI Express Root Port D (rev 04)
2c:05.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 2034 (rev 04)
2c:05.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E RAS Configuration Registers (rev 04)
2c:05.4 PIC: Intel Corporation Device 2036 (rev 04)
2c:12.0 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M3KTI Registers (rev 04)
2c:12.1 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M3KTI Registers (rev 04)
2c:12.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M3KTI Registers (rev 04)
2c:15.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M2PCI Registers (rev 04)
2c:16.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M2PCI Registers (rev 04)
2c:16.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M2PCI Registers (rev 04)
2c:17.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E M2PCI Registers (rev 04)
2d:00.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C9X111SL PCIe-to-PCI Reversible Bridge (rev 02)
2e:04.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
2e:04.1 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
2e:04.2 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 65)

Thank you for your answer.
The chances of having a memory problem are too small: these are two brand new machines with exactly the same behavior.
Each set of 18 USB devices is connected to a 10-Amp.-power-supply powered HUB. Each hub has its own USB 2.0 root, I mean, I installed multiple USB 2.0 PCI express expansion cards, and only one port of each expansion card is used for each HUB. I do not believe I have a problem there either.
About BIOS, I cannot see, due to my lack of knowledge, how it could affect an expansion card after Linux takes over. I would appreciate a clarification about the BIOS mechanism that would interfere on the way the kernel access the interface.
However, above all that, a change in the application program avoids the kernel lock. So, a regular user, running a user application with read/write access to /dev/bus/usb/XXX/XXX can lock the kernel if he access the devices very quickly. A simple change there, and a PC which previously locked in a couple of minutes after power up, will not lock in 72 hours, as we observed. I mean that the application is basically the same, and the only difference would be delays of a few milliseconds, which will avoid kernel locks. An additional clarification is important: no delay was introduced between accesses to the same device. But if the application access all devices at the same time (without delays) a kernel lock will happen after a few minutes.
I really think I should touch the kernel, and figure out exactly why it is locking. If the application program submits too many URBs at the same time we have a good chance of getting a kernel lock. Delays between URB submissions will avoid the lock.
My point is that simple ioctl calls to USB devices should not break the kernel. I need help to address the kernel issue. The problem is difficult to reproduce because it needs many devices connected to it which are available in a place I do not have physical access to, due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.
Any clue about how to debug this kernel issue?

A: BIOS
Your HP has BIOS version: P61 v01.76
I need the EXACT make/model # to be able to check for a newer BIOS. If you have the HP Z4 G4 workstation (P61), then a newer BIOS, version 2.59, dated Sept 4, 2020, is available here.
Note: Verify that I have the correct web page for your model #.
Note: Have good backups before updating the BIOS.
memory
I also need to check your memory configuration via the User Manual, as it may not be correct.
According to this, your memory is installed correctly.

Go to https://www.memtest86.com/ and download/run their free memtest to test your memory. Get at least one complete pass of all the 4/4 tests to confirm good memory. This may take many hours to complete.
USB
There may be too many USB devices on one USB controller. Most computers have more than one USB hub, and possibly, connecting some of the USB devices to USB ports on different USB hubs might make a difference.
Use lsusb to view your USB hubs.
Use lsusb -tv to determine where your USB devices are connected.
Move some USB devices to other USB ports if possible.
You may also have a USB power issue, which might be solved by the use of an external powered USB hub(s).


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