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Despite A Law Against Them, Hate Crimes Are Rarely Prosecuted
Of more than 1,000 reported hate crimes between 2010 and 2016, only eight cases were prosecuted.
By Alexandra HartApril 13, 2017 1:32 pmCrime & Justice
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Despite a Texas law that provides penalties for hate crimes, very few people have been prosecuted for committing them.
A new investigative report by ProPublica takes an in-depth look at hate crime prosecutions in in Texas.
ProPublica Reporter Ryan Katz says hate crime protections in Texas date back to 2001, when the Texas Legislature passed the James Byrd Jr. Act. The law punishes crimes committed bases on the race, color, disability, national origin, religion, age, gender or sexual orientation of the victim. The ProPublica report tracked hate crime reports in Texas between 2010 and 2016.
"We found that over that time period, there were over a thousand potential hate crime incidents in the state of Texas," Katz says.
Incidents included in the report were those recorded by police as potential hate crimes. It is then up to prosecutors to add 'sentencing enhancement" to a case in order for it to be classified as a hate crime, Katz says.
Of the 1,000 recorded cases, Katz says only eight resulted in a hate crime conviction.
"It's hard for prosecutors often to prove the intent of the accused, " Katz says. "You have to now get into somebody's head to prove their motivation…A lot of people say as well that in a lot of these cases there is no suspect that is ever arrested [when a suspected hate crime occurs.]"
Katz says the lack of a suspect is a problem in a large number of cases.
"For example in Travis County over that time period we found that [in] more than half of the cases [police] did not actually find a suspect," he says.
Another reason suspected hate crimes aren't prosecuted is that police often don't recognize them as such.
"Texas does not mandate or fund training for police, for example, to help build successful hate crime cases," Katz says.
Advocates of hate crime laws are disappointed in the low rate of prosecution, Katz says.
"One of the major reasons why the law was passed was to send a message to the community," he says. "It's…statement legislation where they say we're sending a message to communities that hate crimes will not be tolerated. And a few people that I talked to said the lack of convictions undermines that message."
Written by Shelly Brisbin.
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Chedworth é uma paróquia e aldeia do distrito de Cotswold, no condado de Gloucestershire, na Inglaterra. De acordo com o Censo de 2011, tinha 802 habitantes. Tem uma área de 19,19km². Nesta paróquia fica situada a Villa romana de Chedworth.

Ligações externas

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Barycypraea teulerei est une espèce de mollusques gastéropodes de la famille des Cypraeidae.

Distribution
Il est présent dans la mer Rouge et l'océan Indien.

Description
Dans sa description, l'auteur indique que les dimensions de la coquille sont de  de long sur  de large.

Philatélie
Le Sultanat d'Oman lui a dédié un timbre, émis en 1982 sous le nom « Cypraea teulerei ».

Étymologie
Son nom spécifique, teulerei, lui a été donné en l'honneur du Dr. Bernard Teulère (1795-1847), président honoraire de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux.

Publication originale
 Cazenavette, 1846 : Descriptions de deux nouvelles coquilles. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux,  ,  (texte intégral) .

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'TV is an under-leveraged medium': Shashi Sinha
Sinha was part of a panel discussion featuring Partho Dasgupta (BARC), Sanjay Behl (Raymond) and Pratyusha Agarwal (ZEEL) prior to the IAA Leadership Awards
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In a session preceding the IAA Leadership Awards BARC's CEO Partho Dasgupta, Sanjay Behl, CEO, Raymond, Shashi Sinha, CEO, IPG Mediabrands and Pratyusha Agarwal, CMO, ZEEL, discussed the power of television and how they believed that it remains the most effective and important medium for marketers.
BARC's Dasgupta set the tone by speaking about the reach of the medium. "We as Indian are still TV fanatics. Dancing uncle became a sensation on the internet and garnered a total of 2.8 million views. But on television, he got a total of 15 million views. He was the second biggest celebrity on the news after our Prime Minister. He made it to reality shows too and was seen dancing with Govinda. The reach of TV is now 835 million people. It's double of what it was 10 years ago. The average consumption of TV per day is three hours and 44 minutes."
He went on to give numbers of viewers for each category per week.
Hindi GECs - 510 million
Hindi movies- 505 million
Sports- 423 million
He added, "The recent Rahul Gandhi-Narendra Modi hug got 280 million views on television. TV dominates media spends at approximately Rs 26,000 crore. It is here to grow and get even bigger."
Behl echoed Dasgupta's views on the medium. He said, "The numbers are indisputable. The viewership on TV is bigger than the size of most European countries. TV and other mediums need to be contextualised. People are taking a short cut and looking for immediate actions instead of the role of building one. It's only strong brands that are looking at long term. The ones looking at short term hit digital and social media. When we look at media, we first look at reach. Then it's about how quick you want to build the reach. Product life cycles are getting shorter. Speed is imperative and TV gives you the eyeballs your brand requires. There's a passive engagement with the ad even if they don't want to see it. In digital you disengage after one view."
He also quoted a global study by Accenture which claimed that TV gets marketers the second highest ROI after paid search.
Sinha's plea to marketers was to look at gross numbers. He said, "We must look at gross impressions and that's when the comparisons happen. TV still has a long way to go. It's an under leveraged medium. The cost per television impression is cheapest in this country. India still has a long way to go and the growth will only come from SMEs."
Agarwal surmised, "It's not about TV or digital. It's about providing the best option for advertisers. TV has stayed relevant, been relevant and will be relevant. It is growing in rural. It's about talking to the consumer in their language. It provides the connect and reach. I believe the next stage of growth will come through these regional pockets. We are in a glorious time with all the media available."
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Chicken breasts and vegetables marinated in a delicious homemade greek dressing and then cooked to perfection. Feta and Greek olives are added before serving to give this recipe another layer of Mediterranean flavor.
Lately, I've been all about easy sheet pan dinners. Take some chicken, marinate it, and then throw it on a pan with some vegetables. This is one of the easiest way to get a healthy dinner on the table in about 30 minutes. Clean up is easy too since you only need one plan. Not to mention, sheet pan dinners taste delicious and look fancy. All vegetables taste wonderful roasted. And whether chicken is breaded, marinated, or both it turns out great cooked in the oven.
I absolutely love this new Greek Chicken and Vegetables recipe I put together. I'm not above using store-bought salad dressing for marinades but for this recipe I decided to make a homemade greek dressing that I found on allrecipes.com. I scaled it down, made some tweaks, and it turned out delicious. This is an easy dressing to make so if you're not used to making homemade then start with this one.
The greek salad dressing includes olive oil, red wine vinegar, garlic, dijon mustard, and some spices. I put all the ingredients into a mason jar, put the lid on, and gave it a couple shakes. I used the whole amount for this recipe but you can double it and save some for salads.
After I mixed up the dressing/marinade I poured half of it over 1.5 pounds of skinless boneless chicken breasts I pounded out and cut into pieces. This needs to marinate for about an hour or so. However, I recommend letting the chicken marinate overnight.
I poured the rest of the marinade over the vegetables which included red onion, cherry tomatoes, and artichoke hearts. These are the veggies I chose but you can certainly use whatever vegetables you like. Just like the chicken, let the vegetables marinate for at least an hour or overnight.
After the chicken and vegetables are done soaking up all the delicious marinade place them on the sheet pan. I use a Nordic Ware 1/2 sheet pan. I love it! It's perfect size to hold all the meat and veggies without taking up too much space in the cupboards. You can purchase it from Amazon for less than $11.
Discard any leftover marinade. I know you might be tempted to pour it over the vegetables but I find there's too much liquid if I do that.
Cook for 30 minutes in a 375 degree oven. Please note, I have an electric oven so your cooking times might vary. Just make sure the internal temperature of the chicken is 165 degrees.
The chicken was juicy and full of flavor. And, truly, there's no better way to cook vegetables. Scrumptious!
You can enjoy this chicken and vegetables any way you like. With pasta, on a salad, in a wrap, or just on it's own which is what I did. I took about a cup or so of vegetables and placed a few pieces of chicken on top. Then I sprinkled with 1 tablespoon of feta cheese and 2 chopped greek olives.
This Greek Chicken and Vegetable recipe is super filling. It's filled with protein, fiber, and tons of nutrients so you will feel satisfied without the bloat. Yay for no bloat!
I divided the leftovers between 4 meal prep containers and enjoyed for lunches the rest of the week. This recipe taste great cold or warmed up. I added the feta and olives after I warmed it up. Please note I figure the nutritional information using the feta and olives. If you want to lower the fat and/or calories you can leave one or both out. I hope you don't because it's tasty!
In a mason jar or bowl mix together the olive oil, red wine vinegar, dijon mustard, garlic, oregano, basil, onion powder, salt, and pepper.
Place the chicken in a container and pour half of the marinade over the chicken. Cover the chicken and refrigerate for an hour or overnight.
Place the vegetables in another bowl and pour the rest of the marinade over top. Cover the vegetables and refrigerate for an hour or overnight.
Place chicken and vegetables on a sheet pan coated with cooking spray. Bake for 30 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink and juices run clear. Internal temperature should be 165 degrees.
Serve hot or cold. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon feta cheese and 2 olives on each serving.
**Keep in mind with the nutritional information that you discard leftover marinade so you don't use all the marinade which would make the calories and fat lower than what's shown. I figured the nutritional information with all the ingredients just so you know.
The chicken and vegetables can be placed in the marinade 2-3 days ahead of time. Recipe can be cooked ahead of time and stored in the refrigerator for up to 4-5 days.


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Apple set to lock horns with Netflix and Amazon, investing in producing original shows
By Esmail September 2nd, 2015 AT 12:41 AM
After the successful launch of its homegrown Music app, the Cupertino giant, Apple is looking at gaining a share of the video streaming industry, pitching itself against the likes of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon prime, etc. Entertainment executives in Hollywood have held talks with Apple Inc. about producing exclusive shows for Apple TV, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Apple has discussed investing in original series, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions were private. The company hasn't decided whether to proceed, the person said.
With original programming, Apple would make the leap from being one of the top retailers of entertainment to its wealthiest producer, and obtain premium content for a live TV service it's said to be planning. Next week, the Cupertino, California-based maker of iPhones and Mac computers is expected to unveil a new version of its Apple TV set-top box, along with the latest iteration of the popular mobile phone.
The move would pose another threat to the pay-TV industry, which has suffered subscriber losses as young consumers watch video using online services like Netflix Inc. and Google Inc.'s YouTube and older viewers pare their spending. It would also pose a challenge to established online streaming companies like Netflix, Amazon.com Inc. and Hulu, whose services are bedrock offerings in the current Apple TV set-top box.
Apple would want to fund a number of high-profile series, the person said, rather than start with one or two. The company attempted to work with the stars of hit BBC series "Top Gear" after they left the show, according to Variety. Netflix currently showcases its original shows like House of cards and Orange is the new black.
Analysts and executives have long speculated Apple might fund programming or buy a movie studio. Up to now, the company has stuck with producing phones, tablets and computers — businesses with higher profit margins than content production.
The company has been taking steps into video production. Apple's new music app, for example, includes some exclusive, behind-the-scenes clips. Artists often welcome videographers and photographers into the studio with them, and Apple has hired executives to help shoot and produce video from recording sessions with willing musicians.
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Luna, officially the Municipality of Luna (; ), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of La Union, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 37,318 people.

Luna is  from San Fernando and  from Manila.

Etymology
The town got its name in order of the Luna brothers: Antonio Luna and Juan Luna.

History
Luna was once called Namacpacan, which is an Ilocano word meaning "one who feeds".

As early as 1587, Namacpacan was recorded as a visita (satellite mission, whose church is manned by non-resident clergy based in the cabecera) of Purao (now Balaoan). It was a settlement along the camino real (national road) from Vigan to Manila, and travelers stopped there to refresh themselves. Since restaurants were not yet in vogue, local families offered the travelers food and lodging, hence the name.

On 18 October 1906, during the terms of Governor Joaquin Luna and Mayor Primitivo Resurrección Novicio, the town was renamed "Luna" through Philippine Commission Act No. 1543. It was the first town that altered its name since the creation of the province in 1850. The change was to honor the famous Luna brothers: Revolutionary General Antonio and Spoliarium painter Juan; their mother, Doña Laureana Novicio Luna, was a native of Namacpacan.

Geography

Barangays
Luna is politically subdivided into 40 barangays. These barangays are headed by elected officials: Barangay Captain, Barangay Council, whose members are called Barangay Councilors. All are elected every three years.

 Alcala
 Ayaoan
 Barangobong
 Barrientos
 Bungro
 Busel-Busel
 Cabalitocan
 Cantoria No. 1
 Cantoria No. 2
 Cantoria No. 3
 Cantoria No. 4
 Carisquis
 Darigayos
 Magallanes
 Magsiping
 Mamay
 Nagrebcan
 Nalvo Norte
 Nalvo Sur
 Napaset
 Oaqui No. 1
 Oaqui No. 2
 Oaqui No. 3
 Oaqui No. 4
 Pila
 Pitpitac
 Rimos No. 1
 Rimos No. 2
 Rimos No. 3
 Rimos No. 4
 Rimos No. 5
 Rissing
 Salcedo
 Santo Domingo Norte
 Santo Domingo Sur
 Sucoc Norte
 Sucoc Sur
 Suyo
 Tallaoen
 Victoria

Luna's poblacion (town center) consists of the four barangays: Victoria, Salcedo, Alcala, and Magallanes.

Climate

Demographics

In the 2020 census, the population of Luna, La Union, was 37,318 people, with a density of .

Economy

Government
Luna, belonging to the first congressional district of the province of La Union, is governed by a mayor designated as its local chief executive and by a municipal council as its legislative body in accordance with the Local Government Code. The mayor, vice mayor, and the councilors are elected directly by the people through an election which is being held every three years.

Elected officials

Tourist attractions

Luna is also known for its pebble beaches, particularly in Nalvo Sur and Darigayos. Beach shades, cottages and resorts are found in these barangays. The municipality is also known for its native delicacies and pottery products which are comparable to San Juan's.

The town is a pilgrimage site as it enshrines the Apo Baket Namacpacan, a wooden Marian image.

On the beach of barangay Victoria rests the ruins of an old Spanish watchtower, locally named as Balauarte. The tower was intended to guard the shores of the town primarily from Muslim and pirate attacks during the Spanish period. During World War II, the tower served as the communication tower post for a temporary airfield for the USAFIP-NL forces. Due to years of quarrying within the site of the tower (1980 to 2000), the coastline receded and sea waves severely damaged the foundation of the tower, which eventually caused major damage to its structure. At present, efforts were initiated to preserve the tower from further damage.

Education
Luna has Public Elementary schools in each barangay except Barangobong. There are 6 public high schools (Luna National Science High School - Central in Barangay Barrientos, LNHS - Rimos and Cantoria Annex; and Oanari National High School) Bungro-Sucoc Integrated School in Bungro, Luna Technical Vocational High School and 1 Private High School (Santa Catalina Academy).

Gallery

References

External links

 [ Philippine Standard Geographic Code]
 Philippine Census Information
 Local Governance Performance Management System

Municipalities of La Union


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Home Regulation Circle CEO Hopes Libra's Unique Needs Trigger Positive Regulation
Circle CEO Hopes Libra's Unique Needs Trigger Positive Regulation
Jeremy Allaire, co-founder and CEO of payments company Circle, said that Facebook's Libra will run in a closed-loop permission scheme that has its own requirements for regulation during an interview with Bloomberg released on July 5.
During the interview, Allaire pointed out that there are different stablecoin implementations distinct in their regulatory approach. He explained:
"There's a really key difference between stablecoins that run on kind of closed-loop permission schemes — which is how Libra is being proposed today, at least in its initial incarnation — versus stablecoins that can run on the public internet."
Allaire also specified that the latter is the approach of USDCoin (USDC), the stablecoin jointly released by Circle and U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. He also noted that he hopes Libra will trigger the development of national policies concerning digital assets. He said:
"Our view is that, you know, crypto and blockchains represent sort of the fabric of the 21st-century economy, and there's an opportunity to put in place policy that allows us to flourish on a massive scale in the same way that the internet flourished in the mid- to late-nineties and policy was really vital to enabling that."
As Cointelegraph reported in May, Allaire already pointed out that the cryptocurrency space needs regulatory certainty and the current definition of cryptocurrency is too broad.
Allaire also said during the interview that he expects that mass adoption of non-sovereign store of value digital assets like bitcoin (BTC), but that he also foresees growth to happen in the adoption of stablecoins.
Allaire also recently debated Canadian businessman and TV personality Kevin O'Leary, who said that cryptocurrencies pose serious compliance challenges to the financial services industry.
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Q: How can I use an observable to perform a recursive search without going over duplicates? I'm going to phrase the question in rxjs, but I suppose it's similar for any Rx or observable library.
Say I have an observable of users, and a function getAssociates(user) that returns another observable of users. I want to use the getAssociates function on every user in the observable and return an observable of those associates. flatMap is enough for this.
But I also want to run getAssociates on each associate that comes back, but without ever running it twice on any given user (since two users might share an associate, and if A has B as an associate, then B also has A as an associate).
Something like the expand operator is what I think I'm looking for:
seedUsers.pipe(
    expand(user => getAssociates(user)),
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but how can I get in the bit about not running twice on any given user? I could maintain a list of seen users, but I'd like to achieve it in a functional style.

A: Conceptually, you need to :

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*Keep track of the known users, for example using a Set

*Filter the known users before making a request, for example using filter operator

Here is a suggestion :
let knownIds = new Set();

getAllItems(Ids){
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getAllItems([originalId]).subscribe( allItems=> console.log)

Notes:

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*I guess you could manage to do it using rxjs, but none of the solutions I can think of is simpler than using a set + filter.

*I used concatMap to ensure you don't run the request twice. Using mergeMap (flatMap), you could have a scenario like this :
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---Req(user2)--------resp(user2)--Req(user1)-----------------resp(user1)-
But if you accept having eventually more than 2 requests per user, you can use flatMap to gain speed.


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2018 FSU Football Schedule Preview: Notre Dame
Dustin Lewis, Sports Editor
Published 3:27 p.m. ET Aug. 21, 2018 | Updated 5:04 p.m. ET Aug. 21, 2018
Florida State as seen in a December 29, 2011 game at the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida.(Photo: Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)
Notre Dame rebounded in 2017 after winning just four games two seasons ago. The Fighting Irish reeled off a 10-3 campaign. And it's worth to mention how Brian Kelly's team did it amidst a tough schedule.
The Fighting Irish played six ranked teams last season. They wound up 3-3 in those matchups. And Notre Dame has a chance to be even better in 2018.
They're currently favored in every single game on their schedule for the upcoming season. The Fighting Irish also get to play three of their four toughest games – Michigan, Stanford, and Florida State – at home in 2018.
Notre Dame lost a lot of talent on offense to the NFL over the offseason. However, they're ranked No. 1 in the nation in returning production on the defensive side of the ball.
If the Fighting Irish can build depth at wide receiver and running back, they project to be pretty stout on offense. Notre Dame returns senior quarterback Brandon Wimbush, who threw 16 touchdowns to six interceptions a season ago. If Wimbush can raise his completion percentage from 49.5% to the mid-50s or low-60s it would reap big rewards for this offense.
Wimbush loses six of his top nine receivers from a year ago but the Fighting Irish signed four four-star receivers and one four-star tight end during the 2018 recruiting cycle. That influx of talent could help them find consistency at the positions sooner rather than later.
Notre Dame leaned heavily on their rushing attack last season, averaging 269.3 yards on the ground to 178.9 yards through the air. They should see more of a balance this season with an improved Wimbush and lesser-known options at tailback.
Senior Dexter Williams and junior Tony Jones will likely lead the way there. Williams could develop into a threat if he can stay healthy. The offensive line will still be solid. Notre Dame returns two seniors with ample experience, a rising sophomore who started every game, and multiple blue-chip pieces to fill in the rest of the puzzle.
Defensively is where the Fighting Irish could really earn their keep this season. They ranked just No. 46 in total defense in 2017, allowing 367 yards a game. The real question is how this unit will respond to new leadership.
Kelly promoted linebackers coach Clark Lea to defensive coordinator after old friend Jimbo Fisher hired Mike Elko to join him in College Station. The talent is certainly there for this Notre Dame defense. Six of the top eight defensive linemen, four of six linebackers, and the majority of the defensive backfield return for the Fighting Irish in 2018.
The only real concerns may be depth among the defensive line. The top three tacklers on the defensive front are back and some rising young talent is beginning to develop behind them.
All in all, there are very few qualms amongst this unit. It's up to first-year defensive coordinator Clark Lea to keep the momentum going.
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Intel Skylake-X Conclusion
For Skylake-X, and by virtue the Skylake-SP core we will see in upcoming Skylake-SP Xeons, Intel decided to make a few changes this time around. The biggest microarchitecture change comes in three stages: the addition of an AVX-512 unit, the adjustment in the L2/L3 cache structure, and the transition to a mesh-based topology. For the consumer and the prosumer, the biggest wins come two-fold: Intel's 10-core processors are now set to be around $999, undercutting the previous generation by a sizable amount, but also the introduction of the new X299 chipset based motherboards that act like big PCIe switches and should offer a sizeable amount of attached functionality though additional PCIe controllers.
Microarchitecture
For the AVX-512, part of the mantra is that it should be easier for compilers to vectorize more elements of regular code bases and achieve acceleration, but for the most part it is still an enterprise feature with a focus on cryptography, compute, and the financial services industry. In silicon the unit itself is sizable, and we are told it could almost fit an Atom core inside. This is a big change to make for Intel, as it would noticeably increase the size of the full Skylake-SP core and the full die size, which has a knock-on effect. That being said, this core is targeted towards the enterprise market, which should find plenty of uses for it. It is also worth noting that not all CPUs are equal: the 6 and 8 core parts only have one FMA to play with on AVX-512, whereas the 10-core and above have two FMAs as part of Intel's feature segmentation strategy.
The L2/L3 cache arrangement adjustments are just as nuanced, moving from a 256KB/core L2 cache to a 1MB/core L2 cache with a slightly higher latency should help with data streams being fed into the core, especially for heavy compute workloads and keeping those AVX512 units fed. The victim, in this case, is the L3 cache, being demoted to a 1.375MB/core non-inclusive victim cache, which will have limited functionality on a number of workloads, most notably compile tests. The overall cache adjustments just about balance each other out, and on average favor the new core by ~1% in our IPC tests, although the edge cases such as compilation, Handbrake (non-AVX512), and Corona can swing as much as -17%, -8% and +17% respectively.
The new mesh topology for the Skylake-SP core was perhaps more of a requirement for consistency than an option over the older ring bus system, which starts to outgrow its usefulness as more cores are added. Intel has already had success with mesh architectures with the Xeon Phi chips, so this isn't entirely new, but essentially makes the chip a big 2D-node array for driving data around the core. As with the ring bus, core-to-core latency will vary based on the locality of the cores, and those nearest the DRAM controllers will get the best benefit for memory accesses. As Intel grows its core-count, it will be interesting to see how the mesh scales.
Parts and Performance
The three Skylake-X cores launched today are the Core i9-7900X, the Core i7-7820X, and the Core i7-7800X: 10, 8 and 6 core parts respectively using the updated Skylake-SP core, the new cache topology, and the new mesh. With some of the tests benefitting from the new features and others taking a backseat, we had a wide range of results. The most poignant of which should be when we pit this generation 10-core over last generations 10-core. The Core i9-7900X has a frequency advantage, an IPC advantage, and a significant price advantage, which should make for an easy steamrolling.
In the end, this is what we get: aside from some tests that are L3 memory sensitive such as DigiCortex, WinRAR, and some of the PCMark8 tests, the Core i9-7900X wins every CPU test. For anyone who was unsure about getting the 10-core on the last generation on a compute basis, this new one seems to be the one to get.
The gaming story is unfortunately not quite as rosy. We had last minute BIOS updates to a number of our boards because some of the gaming tests were super underperforming on the new Skylake-X parts. We are told that these early BIOSes are having power issues to do with turboing, as well as Intel's Speed Shift technology when the GPU is active.
While these newer BIOSes have improved things, there are still some remaining performance issues to be resolved. Our GTX1080 seems to be hit the hardest out of our four GPUs, as well as Civilization 6, the second Rise of the Tomb Raider test, and Rocket League on all GPUs. As a result, we only posted a minor selection of results, most of which show good parity at 4K. The good news is that most of the issues seem to happen at 1080p, when the CPU is more at fault. The bad news is that when the CPU is pushed into a corner, the current BIOS situation is handicapping Skylake-SP in gaming.
I'm going to hold off on making a final recommendation for gaming for the moment, as right now there are clear platform problems. I have no doubt Intel and the motherboard vendors can fix them – this isn't the first time that we've seen a new platform struggle at launch (nor will it be the last). But with pre-orders opening up today, if you're a gamer you should probably wait for the platform to mature a bit more and for the remaining gaming issues to be fixed before ordering anything.
Itching for 18 Cores?
While today is the launch for Skylake-X CPUs up to 10-cores, a lot of talk will be around the 18-core Core i9-7980XE part due later this year, coming out at $1999. Double the price of the 10-core will unlikely equal double the performance, as we would expect lower frequencies to compensate. But users who need 18 lots of AVX-512 support will be rubbing their hands with glee. It will also be an interesting one to overclock, and I suspect that certain companies are already planning ahead to break some world records with it. We'll try and get a sample in.
Should I wait for the 12-core? For ThreadRipper? Or Just Go Ryzen?
Both the 12-core Core i9-7920X and AMD's ThreadRipper parts are set to launch this summer, with the Intel part confirmed in the August timeframe. By this time the X299 ecosystem should be settling down, while AMD will have to navigate a new X399 ecosystem, which I'm getting mixed messages about (some motherboard vendors say they are almost ready, others say they're not even close). Both of these CPUs will be exchanging more cores for frequency, and the cost is a big factor – we don't know for how much ThreadRipper or the X399 motherboards will retail for.
Ultimately a user can decide the following:
To play it safe, invest in the Core i9-7900X today.
To play it safe and get a big GPU, save $400 and invest in the Core i7-7820X today.
To play it cheaper but competitive, invest in Ryzen 7 today.
To invest in PCIe connectivity, wait for ThreadRipper. 60 PCIe lanes are hard to ignore.
To invest in AVX512, wait for the next Intel CPUs.
So What's the Takeaway Here?
From an engineering perspective, Intel is doing new things. The cache, the mesh, and AVX512 are interesting changes from several years of iterative enhancements on the prosumer side, but it will take time to see how relevant they will become. For some enterprise applications, they will make perfect sense.
From a consumer/prosumer perspective, it breaks the mold by offering some CPUs now and some CPUs later. The hardware itself won't feel too much different, aside from having all the Intel cores and software slowly taking advantage. But Intel's 10-core, at $999, suddenly got easier to recommend for users in that price bracket. At $599 though, the 8-core saves several hundred dollars for other upgrades if you don't need AVX-512 or 44 PCIe lanes.
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Comparing Skylake-S and Skylake-X/SP Performance Clock-for-Clock The Intel Skylake-X Review The Basin Falls Platform: X299, SKL-X, & KBL-X Microarchitecture Analysis: Adding in AVX-512 and Tweaks to Skylake-S I Keep My Cache Private: Moving to a 1MB L2 and a Non-Inclusive L3 Intel Makes a Mesh: New Core-to-Core Communication Paradigm Analyzing The Silicon: Die Size Estimates and Arrangements Favored Core, Speed Shift, and Big Motherboard Issues Power Consumption, Test Bed and Setup Benchmarking Suite 2017 Benchmarking Performance: CPU System Tests Benchmarking Performance: CPU Rendering Tests Benchmarking Performance: CPU Web Tests Benchmarking Performance: CPU Encoding Tests Benchmarking Performance: CPU Office Tests Benchmarking Performance: CPU Legacy Tests Comparing Skylake-S and Skylake-X/SP Performance Clock-for-Clock Intel Skylake-X Core i9-7900X, i7-7820X and i7-7800X Conclusion


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The Art Box – 5/10/10 | Tired, Need Sleep.
He always enjoys having something "different" to draw, paint, or color on. I might let him add some embellishments later… we'll see!
What an awesome idea! We go to the library a lot too.
We got nothing done last week with art, and I'm thinking the same thing is going to happen this week.
Get one of those big plastic carts on wheels. I love mine for the library!
oo love the new library bag! I need to distinguish one of our bags as that. I am always grabbing a different one.
The pictures are just too funny. We had a pretty art-free week too - Anna just wanted to play-play-play. The only free art that she did was coloring with qtips in the little coloring book from Michael's. It comes with paint strips and the colors are of better quality than I expected from $1 product.
I love your idea to have him decorate a special bag for the library. It gives him a sense of ownership and involvement, making it an (even more) special outing.


Congratulations, Callie & Austin! I'm looking forward to the big day!
I met Andrew when he was just a few days old. I can't believe how much he's grown! And his hair, OH his hair! It is off-the-charts adorable. Also, meet Cole, a little fireball who has enough personality to share with an army! Sometimes I like to show a few pictures that give a hint as to how our session went, and I have a few that will make you giggle.
Try as we might to get a picture of the two boys with momma…Cole kept getting away!
These kiddos were so much fun!


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Easier if you just checkout the notebook ( you can see the brush jumping around when zooming between plots.
I need the updated x.domain of all the charts to always match. I've fiddled with a few different techniques but no joy… any help would be appreciated, as always.
So, since you have two elements (one per iteration of your vars.forEach loop), you have two different independent states of the zoom behavior. Since you are redrawing all the charts when anyone of them zooms, it looks like you're keeping the charts in-sync, but in reality, this hidden state of the zoom behavior is only being updated on the chart you are interacting with.
To fix this, either: 1. Apply the zoom behavior to the top-level SVG rather than each chart separately so that you only have one zoom state. Or, 2. Use zoom.transform to update the other charts programmatically when the user interacts with a chart.
Ah, I see. I chose option 1 and it worked! (updated shared link) Thanks!


Missfresh partner Xiao-hui Xu announced at the Third A20 New Agricultural Festival on December 24 that Missfresh would complete a new round of financing next week. The capital obtained will be used for unmanned convenience sales. In June, Missfresh opened a new container location in Beijing. It comprises three parts: a room temperature shelf, a freezer and a cold-storage refrigerator. The location dispenses yogurt, fruit, snacks and other goods. Shoppers can use WeChat to buy goods, which is similar to goods are sold at vending machines in the subway.
It is also the third time that Missfresh has sought financing this year. Founded in November 2014, Missfresh is fresh online-to-offline retailer. It has completed five rounds of financing so far. The latest round is the C+ round, which was completed in March, with a total amount of $230 million. Missfresh announced in July that it had achieved profitability in first-tier cities, and the revenue reached 280 million yuan in July. Later, Missfresh started to establish a cold-chain logistics system featuring an "urban sorting center and community front storehouse." Missfresh could deliver goods within two hours.
For Missfresh, which previously only engaged in e-commerce, the purchase is a physical landing. The new shop can satisfy consumption demand within 30 meters. In order to cover these scenarios and replenish its stock at any time, Missfresh will rent unsatisfactory or idle commercial space for community distribution centers that optimize cost.
Public information shows Missfresh has acquired 8,000 high quality locations in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and five other cities, and it plans to quickly open another 100,000.
After the financing announcement, Xiao-hui Xu said there is a pattern in unmanned convenience shelves. "More smart boxes for unmanned retail may will appear in January," Xu said.
"In the future, the two giants of the unmanned convenience shelves will be Missfresh and Xingbianli," an unnamed insider said. Xingbianli, also founded in June, has raised a total financing of nearly 500 million yuan.
While popular with investors, unmanned convenience shelves and containers must compete with traditional convenience stores and fruit stands. In terms of product categories, convenience stores on the first floor of buildings tend to have more variety. Some even offer delivery services within 500 meters. If the scope expands to 3km from the office, Baiguoyuan, Yonghui, Fresh Hema and other physical stores will also be competing. It remains to be seen whether it will be easy for the new Missfresh and Xingbianli to gain a firm foothold in the long run.
December 2014: $5 million angel investment from GX Capital.
May 2015: $10 million A round financing led by Tencent and followed by GX Capital.
November 2015: 200 million yuan B round financing led by Tencent and followed by ZSVC.
January 2017: $100 million C round financing led by Lenovo venture capital and capital management fund of ZSVC, and followed by Tencent, KTB, Grand Flight and China Growth Capital.
March 2017: 230 million yuan C+ round financing led by Tiger Global and Genesis Capital.
This article by Xiaojuan Zhao originally appeared in Jiemian and was translated by Pandaily.


I had the opportunity to visit the Polytech breast implant manufacturing plant in Germany. Despite having used breast implants for many years I was not aware how they were actually made.
The process of breast implant manufacturing was a lot more complicated than I had thought. Did you know that most of the process for making a breast implant is done by hand. It takes about 2 weeks to make each implant.
There are multiple steps in making breast implants. The initial step involves production of a mold of the breast implant. The mold is then covered with silicone to form the shell of the breast implant. The shell can be covered with a variety of coatings or textures.
Once the shell has been made it needs to be filled with silicone. This gives the breast implant its shape and volume. The silicone is then vulcanized to make it cohesive or firm.
The next stage is sterilization of the breast implants. This is followed by packaging of the breast implants.
The sterile breast implants are then packaged into their boxes and prepared for delivery to users across the world.
So this briefly summarizes the manufacturing process of breast implants. It is a lot more intricate and complex than I had ever imagined. It was surprising how much was undertaken by hand rather than machinery. It is important to know how these products are made and to see what measures are taken by manufacturers to ensure their products are of the highest quality. Patients should also know how much care and attention goes into making their breast implants.


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Maori Tattoos: Tattoos That Really Mean Something
Do you really want to go tribal? Are you tired of the same old tattoo designs with no real meaning behind them? Then Maori tattoos are the ticket to getting to tribal roots that really mean something. The Maoris are a tribe in New Zealand that have been using tattoos for generations that are deep in meaning and a part of their culture. The tattoos are no just body art but a part of something bigger. Each tattoo represents something about the life of the wearer and where that tattoo is placed can represent growth, life, of status.
The traditional Maori Tattoos were not applied with needles, but instead small chisels were used that left grooves in the skin. When the tattoos were applied, it was considered a sacred and spiritual ceremony. The tattoos were no randomly placed, but were placed in certain areas to represent a stage in life. It was believed that when a Maori died, the tattoos would be an identification tool in the afterlife. Each line meant something that they achieved in life and the right placement and design of the tattoo meant that the person has achieved status in life.
Gender played a big factor when it came Maori tattoos. Women only received the tattoos on their lips or their chin. The men had tattoos on their face, buttocks, and thighs. If a person did not have a tattoo, they were looked down upon by the other Maori and even shunned in some villages. The tattoo was life and without a tattoo, a person would be lonely as they wondered through life and the afterlife. This gave the people the ambition to do something noteworthy so that they would achieve some kind of status. The status during life transcended to status in the afterlife.
In most tattoo shops, the Maori tattoos are 'inspired' tattoos. That means that the work will be done by needle and not by chisel. The meaning behind the tattoo may be lost and what you will get is a tattoo that looks like the original, but without the ceremony and spirituality, it will hold meaning only in the imagination of the wearer. The designs are far superior to the run of the mill tribal tattoo that was popular in the nineties because it still hold the mystery and mystique of the original.


"All people should have access to all forms of art"
On April 1, Kunsthaus Zürich is having an open day based on the motto 'Art and integration.' Gallery educator Madeleine Witzig will be guiding visually-impaired people through the Kunsthaus. But even during her tours, touching is the exception. She wants to address all the senses, so that both sighted and visually impaired people are on equal footing.
Madeleine Witzig, you are not visually impaired. How do you know what interests people who are?
Madeleine Witzig: I assume that people who come on one of my guided tours are interested in art, and that they regularly engage with it. Very often they are older people for whom visual impairments have manifested with age. I don't invent special themes, but offer the same tours as always; I also prepare as normal, develop the theme, the art history relevance. There are guided tours that are set up more like workshops, where we sometimes also experiment with sounds – such as what a color could sound like. But, in general, I am a very precise verbal translator and explain in as much detail as possible what there is to see.
But something must be different.
Yes, of course I make sure that I speak clearly, not too fast. The guided tour is two hours long – it is very strenuous if the information is absorbed almost entirely through hearing. We generally take more time, starting with welcoming the guests. The tours also start on Mondays, when the Kunsthaus is closed to the general public. That way it is calmer. We now offer a guided tour for all major exhibitions together with the 'Zürcher Sehhilfe' (Zurich association for the visually impaired). It used to be two guided tours per year, and now it is six.
Why do guided tours for visually impaired people even exist?
Of course, fine art works through vision. People who don't see well might benefit more from other forms of art, such as theater or music. But we believe that all people should have access to all forms of art. That is why we have created this offer, and we look after their needs as much as possible. But what we don't offer is three-dimensional replicas of pictures that can be touched. There are museums that do that, but it is an entirely different concept. I know that my guests appreciate having someone knowledgeable accompany them and take them seriously intellectually. Just because someone is older, slower, and can't see so well anymore, doesn't automatically mean that they are intellectually impaired. It is about seeing people on the same level.
Of course, safety is always a concern. Every participant has a companion with them. But to be honest, safety is always an issue – even with children or adults without impairment.
The title of your tour promises quite a lot. Seeing with your ears, OK. But looking with your hands?
We have a couple of selected figures made from different materials that we are allowed to touch; unfortunately none made of stone – that would just be too difficult. One of the guided tours includes three different female figures, which is especially nice. But I have noticed that people with visual impairments are particularly hesitant to just reach out and touch the artwork. The ban on touching something in an exhibition is deeply ingrained. But there are rules for touching, as well. Wiping movements are not allowed, because they damage the patina too much. But brief touching with the fingers is allowed and we don't even have to wear gloves for that – it is enough to wash the hands.
In addition to sight and touch, we also have the senses of smell and taste. Do you also involve those?
Certainly with still lives, all five senses are involved. The Dutch, in particular, represented these with symbols and objects. All the food that we see there – the flowers, the animals – whole universes are depicted there. For children, I often use objects that they can touch, smell, and get to know. But adults, whether they are visually impaired or not, have a greater wealth of experience, so it is enough to let them touch the lemon first: What do they feel? That way, we recognize the difference between a lemon and an orange very clearly. Then I cut it and the sense of smell comes into play. The only thing that you don't recognize without being able to see is the color of the lemon. The lemon speaks to all of our senses: You can hear how I peel it, you can taste, smell, and touch it. So I open up the world of a still life to my guests using a lemon.
Do the participants of your special guided tours have other questions about the art?
Not really. There are people who want to know more about the technique – those who might paint themselves. Everyone gets something different out of an exhibition. In that respect, there are no differences between sighted and partially-sighted people. For me, it is always important that we take the pictures and artists seriously. Engaging with art is a lesson in life. When we look at something in detail, we form a bond – and even a type of love. It enriches our lives. A visit to the Kunsthaus can also be an echo chamber for our existential questions. Then, the question of whether we see everything without impairment or limitations could even become secondary.
On April 1, 2017, the Kunsthaus Zürich open day, Credit Suisse is inviting deaf and visually impaired people to special guided tours of the collection so that they can enjoy an interesting art experience. Credit Suisse has partnered with the Kunsthaus Zürich since 1991.
The art historian Madeleine Witzig has been working as a gallery educator at the Kunsthaus Zürich since 1999. She gained her teaching experience from working as a primary school teacher and as a music teacher trained at the conservatory. She guides groups of adults as well as children and adolescents, be it in the context of school, professional development, or leisure. There are regular themes on display, with pieces from the collection and in the current temporary exhibitions. The format could be a one-hour teaching tour, but mostly it is a two-hour art discussion or a didactic tour with a workshop. The guided tours for visually impaired children and adults, which she has been offering at the Kunsthaus Zürich for many years together with the 'Zürcher Sehhilfe,' are particularly close to her heart.
March 27, 2017, 2:00 p.m.
April 3, 2017, 2:00 p.m.
April 10, 2017, 2:00 p.m.
Credit Suisse wants to make access to its products and services easy for everyone and aims to achieve the greatest possible accessibility for people with impaired eyesight, hearing or mobility. This applies for branches and ATMs, the internet, online banking, account statements, and advice. In Switzerland, there are around 500 talking ATMs, which make it easier to withdraw money or find out an account balance. For visually impaired clients, there are account statements in large print (15 pt.) or braille. This service is available for extracts from account statements, itemized account statements, standard account statements, and daily statements. Deaf clients can use a sign language interpreter during a personal consultation twice a year, free of charge.
Center of Accessibility (center.accessibility@credit-suisse.com) or at telephone number 0848 880 840.
Is active "All people should have access to all forms of art"


Over the past week or so I have become a little bit obsessed with watching short films.
This mainly include those by 'futute shorts' a fab little film production peoples that keep sending me little lush little treats in less than ten minute shaped moving images.
Not quite as profound as, nor quite as enchanting as the waking life promises. But very simple and funny and beautifully graphic novel esquely animated.
This is a little treat. so please watch it if you want to feel nice. by wirrow. lovely.


Springbrook School, located at the corner of Balfour Road (232) and Springbrook Road (72), was built in 1896 on land donated by Herb Titmus on the NW corner of his homestead. It was about one kilometre south of the BC Electric Railway which was built in 1910. According to Linton Harris, Jr., it was named after a sulphur spring at the corner of 72 and 232.
The school's attendance (Grades 1 to 8) varied from 18-24 students and there was one teacher. However, in 1903, Lavinia Brown (nee Medd) attended at the age of 4, in order to maintain the enrolment at an acceptable level so that it could remain open.
The one-room creamed-coloured school had horizontal shiplap siding and a cottage-style roof. There were two outhouses. An artesian well on the south side of the property produced water with a very strong smell and taste of sulphur. The front doors opened into a narrow cloakroom which ran the full width of the school. There were also shelves to hold lunch buckets. There was a door at either end of the hallway to enter the school room. The school had oiled floors and a large stove in the centre of the room which burned cordwood brought in by the older boys. The room contained a teacher's desk, the stove, and 5 rows of seats. The athletic field consisted of two horizontal bars and a couple of swings.
The younger children were in the rows against the south wall and the older children were on the north side of the room. When John Fee was in grade 2 or 3, he got the strap for looking at the big boys who were "raising hell", after being told not to look. According to John, the teacher, Miss Annie Monroe, was a "miserable so-and-so" who unfortunately boarded at the Fee residence. John thinks his mother made it clear to Miss Monroe at suppertime that she was never to strap her children again. She didn't, but only lasted one year at the school. John has a proficiency certificate signed by Miss A. C. L. Munro in June, 1930.
The school was one of only two buildings in the Harmsworth area, besides the station, which was not a farm building. Harmsworth extended from where the Salmon River crosses Balfour Road (just south of the Salmon River Hotel) north about 3 kilometres to the top of the hill leading down to the Salmon River Flats or Rawlinson Crescent. The hill was referred to as Potter's Hill, because the Potter family lived on the west side of Balfour Road at the top of the hill. The road was gravel, with wooden milk stands in front of everyone's farms, and mail boxes all on the right side of the road. Mr. Garnett delivered the mail, sitting on the right side of his Model T and reaching across to the brakes and gears with his left foot, a marvellous feat, according to the children.
The teachers that John Fee remembers from the 20s and early 30s were as follows: Miss McKay was a real "toughy" who left after several years in 1927; Miss Mabel Payne was a sweetheart (John was madly in love with her) who stayed from 1927 to 1929 when the three Fee children (John, Barbara, and Betty) attended; Miss Annie Monroe was a shock to the younger students, but only stayed one year; Miss Betty Gilders was a local girl who taught at the school until it closed in 1931.
When the school closed in December, 1931, the students were shipped by Harry Heller's homemade school bus to Fort Langley, then to Milner, and eventually to Langley High School.
In July, 1934, the Harmsworth Social Improvement Society paid $175 for the Springbrook School and site. The building, which still stands today, was renamed the Harmsworth Community Hall. Renovations since 1934 include a new entrance and washrooms and a kitchen in the rear.


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Explosion leaves one dead, one injured in Lincoln, CA
Lincoln, CA- One man was killed and another worker was injured at the Sierra Pacific Industries location in downtown Lincoln on the afternoon of Sept. 18, 2020. Sierra Pacific Industries is the second-largest lumber producer in the United States.
The two were working on an commercial-sized air compressor at the industrial plant when it allegedly exploded.
This accident is currently under a California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (CAL/OSHA) investigation, and it is believed that the company will have a better understanding of what took place which caused the accident and death once the investigation is finished.
"Lincoln Police personnel interviewed witnesses and documented the scene, and will turn everything over to Cal OSHA investigators," Public Safety Chief Doug Lee was quoted saying.
Milo Fryer Jr., 34, of Lincoln, was named as the man who lost his life because of this accident. The other worker was not identified in the local news reports but was released from the hospital.
Mechanical and machine safety and training is essential to prevent accidents like these.
Read more details from our source, NewsOpi.
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Six Bay Area Employers fined over lack of COVID-19 Protection
San Francisco, CA- In the Bay Area, Cal/OSHA has cited six employers for failing to adequately protect employees from COVID-19 exposure.
Cal/OSHA conducted nearly 8,000 compliance checks in businesses across the state of California in July to identify issues with protecting employees from the coronavirus.
Cal/OSHA recently cited the following employers: Uni-Kool Partners, in Salinas; Sutter Bay Medical Foundation, in Berkeley; Serve Max Farm Labor, in Vacaville; Ruiz Farm Labor, in Dixon; Michel Labor Services Inc. in Dixon; and M and J Williams Inc. in Santa Clara.
These six are included among eleven employers cited statewide in California within the industries of food processing, meatpacking, health care, agriculture and retail.
These citations ranged from penalties of about $2,000 to a penalty of more than $50,000, which was cited for a food processing company in Monterey Park.
"These are industries where workers have been disproportionately affected, and these citations are the first of many to be issued in the coming weeks and months," Cal/OSHA Chief Doug Parker was quoted as saying.
In general, workers in warehouses, factories, supermarkets, and others of the industries listed above are considered essential and have had outbreaks of COVID-19 in different establishments across the country.
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Willful Lockout Violations Found at LA Noodle Factory
Los Angeles, CA – An amputation at an LA noodle factory prompted a Cal/OSHA investigation resulting in $305,685 in fines for two employers. The amputation occurred in 2018 when a temporary worker was cleaning machinery and lost two fingers at JSL Foods Inc.
The injured man was a temporary worker placed at the JSL food manufacturing facility by Priority Workforce. The worker was cleaning a dough rolling machine when his left hand was pulled partway into the moving rollers, amputating two fingers on Oct. 2, 2018.
Cal/OSHA found JSL liable for one willful repeat serious violation and one willful repeat serious accident-related violation for failing to follow lockout/tagout procedures. JSL Foods has been fined $276,435 in proposed penalties for a total of seven violations. According to Cal/OSHA, JSL Foods was cited twice in 2015 for the same violations.
Three additional serious violations were cited against Priority Workforce, the employer who assigned the temporary worker to JSL Foods. Cal/OSHA found Priority Workforce failed to establish, implement, and maintain an effective Injury and Illness Prevention Program, failed to ensure employees were effectively trained, and failed to ensure machinery was adequately guarded.
According to Cal/OSHA, their investigation found that "the machine had not been adequately guarded to prevent fingers from entering pinch points, [nor had it been] de-energized and locked out to prevent movement while the worker was cleaning it…Neither employer had trained the worker to follow lockout/tagout procedures before cleaning the equipment."
Lockout/tagout procedures (also known as LOTO) provide detailed instruction on how to isolate and lock each energy source for a given piece of equipment. Workers who are trained in lockout can use these procedures and practices to prevent injuries that might otherwise occur when machinery or equipment starts up unexpectedly during cleaning or maintenance work. Martin Technical's certified lockout technicians and safety experts work together to provide your safety team with the most effective and accurate lockout program in the industry.
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Death Due to Willfully Unguarded Machinery Leads to $250K Fine
Santa Ana, CA – Cal/OSHA announced fines of over a quarter of a million dollars against Aardvark Clay & Supplies this week. The fines are the result of Cal/OSHA's investigation into a 2018 worker death at the facility which has been attributed to willful failure to properly guard equipment and lack of lockout/tagout training.
Enrique Garcia-Vazques (18) died in a workplace accident at the Santa Ana (CA) clay products business on Sept. 20, 2018 when he became fatally entangled in a clay manufacturing machine called a pug mill. According to reports, Garcia-Vazques was packaging clay blocks after they were cut to size when he became caught in the unguarded mixing blades of the machine as he attempted to identify why the clay stopped traveling through the extruder. According to Cal/OSHA's report, Enrique Vasquez Garcia sustained amputation, puncture and asphyxia-related injuries in the workplace accident.
Cal/OSHA found that machine safety guards had been purposely removed from the industrial mixer and that the worker had not received training on the machine prior to the accident. Local emergency responders tried to free Garcia-Vazques from the equipment, but sadly, in the end he was declared dead at the scene.
According to said Cal/OSHA's statement, "Pug mills have rotating blades that can cause amputations and fatally injure employees…Employers must ensure all machinery and its parts are properly guarded, and employees are effectively trained to prevent tragic accidents like this." Aardvark Clay & Supplies uses the industrial pug mills to manufacture and mix clay.
Investigators with California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health found that all four of the pug mills in Aardvark's Santa Ana shop had unguarded openings exposing employees to the moving parts. This is in direct violation of safety regulations requiring mixers to have a cover to prevent employees' hands from entering the machine during operation. This willful failure to guard machinery was cited as one of the willful-serious violations for which Aardvark is being held accountable.
Five violations were levied against Aardvark Clay & Supplies, along with a grand total of $250,160 in proposed penalties. Among the violations, one was categorized as willful-serious accident-related, one was classified as willful-serious, two were deemed serious, and one was general. Accident-related violations are cited when the injury, illness, or fatality is caused by the violation. Serious violations are cited when there is a "realistic possibility" that death or serious harm could result from the hazard created by the violation.
The willful-serious violations were cited for the Aardvark's failure to guard machine openings and points of operation. The serious violations identified hazards from the unguarded cutting portion of the clay machine and failure of the employer's safety program to identify unsafe conditions, implement corrective procedures, and effectively train employees on work-related hazards.
The state of California requires employers to conduct and document inspection of safety hazards as a part of their state-mandated Injury and Illness Prevention Program. Employers whose workplaces feature machines with moving parts, such as mixers, are also required to train their employees in Machine Guarding and Lockout/Tagout in an effort to prevent exactly the type of accident that killed Garcia-Vazques.
Aardvark Clay & Supplies was found to have failed to effectively train workers on the hazards involved with operating their machinery, and then found remiss in identifying and correcting their machine safety hazards. Machine safety guards were provided by equipment manufacturer, but Cal/OSHA found that Aardvark had removed the guards. Investigators documented evidence of fabricated guards having been added to the machines at some point in their operation, but these were found to have been later removed when the employer "believed they interfered with the rate of production."
For this reason, Cal/OSHA categorized Aardvark's violation as willful. Willful violations are cited when the employer is aware of the law and still violates it or is aware of a hazardous condition and takes no reasonable steps to address it.
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Fatal Injury During Machine Cleaning
Gardena, CA – A worker was killed this week in Gardena (CA) when the machine he was cleaning turned back on. The fatal injury occurred at the German Machined Products Inc manufacturing facility. Cal/OSHA is investigating.
On Monday afternoon, the Los Angeles County Fire Department received a call about a person trapped inside a metal-cutting machine. By the time emergency workers arrived, the man was dead.
The worker's name has not yet been released, but according to the LA County Coroner's Office the victim was a Latino man in his 60s.
German Machined Products' Gardena manufacturing facility specializes in complex machining and assembly for the aerospace industry. There is a history of Cal/OSHA citations and violations at the plant. In 2014, Cal/OSHA issued four general citations and one serious citation against German Machined Products for failing to properly guard hazardous machinery.
In light of this fatal workplace injury, Cal/OSHA will be interviewing co-workers, checking the Gardena facility's equipment, and thoroughly reviewing safety and training procedures at German Machined Products.
Accidents during machine maintenance and cleaning activities are especially tragic since they are highly preventable. The federal Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) standard is designed to protect the nearly 3 million workers who service equipment and consequently face the greatest risk of injury if lockout/tagout is not properly implemented. Compliance with the lockout/tagout standard is estimated to prevent roughly 120 fatalities and 50,000 injuries annually.
Please contact Martin Technical to learn more about Lockout/Tagout safety procedures.
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2 CA Workers Fatally Crushed after Disconnecting Hydraulic Hoses
Cantua Creek, CA – Cal/OSHA is investigating the deaths of two workers fatally crushed in an accident at an almond orchard outside of Fresno (CA).
Two workers at Vista Verde Ranch were attempting to repair an almond shaker in the grove when they were fatally crushed. One of the men was a mechanic, the other a machine operator. The mechanic crawled under the almond shaker and disconnected the hydraulic hoses that powered the shaker arm. However, neither worker set the machine's arm on the ground ahead of time. The hydraulically-controlled arm fell when the hoses were disconnected, fatally crushing both men.
Co-workers, concerned after having not heard from the pair for over an hour, went to check on the men. A call was placed to 911, and the victims were subsequently pronounced dead by paramedics. The two deceased workers were identified by the Fresno County Sheriff's Office as Arnold Torres (66) and Angel Barajas (31).
The incident is being investigated by Cal/OSHA. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, commonly referred to as Cal/OSHA, is an arm of the state government which sets and enforces workplace standards designed to protect and improve the health and safety of working Californians.
Worker Loses Both Legs in Lockout Accident at CA Foundry
Alhambra, CA – A foundry worker lost both legs last August after a coworker re-energized the machine he was working in. Alhambra Foundry has been fined $283,390 for federal workplace safety and health violations including lack of permit-required confined space program, inadequate machine-specific lockout procedures, missing accident prevention signage, and not having a confined space attendant monitoring his entry, the employee to have suffered the loss of both his lower limbs could look into hiring a workers compensation attorney to see if he is entitled to a compensation payout.
According to federal safety regulators, two Alhambra Foundry employees were cleaning and unblocking a 38-feet-long auger screw conveyor at the bottom hopper of an industrial air filtration device without effectively locking out the equipment. After the cleaning was done, one of the workers re-entered the 20-inch square opening to retrieve a work light from inside the confined space. Unfortunately, at that same time a maintenance worker 45 feet away energized the equipment to perform a test. The moving auger screw pulled the worker into the screw conveyor and both of his legs had to be amputated in
order to get him free of the machine.
The Cal/OSHA Chief stated that "sending a worker into a confined space is dangerous, especially inside machinery that can be powered on at any time…Employers must ensure that machinery and equipment are de-energized and locked out before workers enter the space to perform operations involving cleaning and servicing."
In their investigation, Cal/OSHA found that the screw conveyor was not de-energized and locked out before workers entered the hopper, and accident prevention signs were not placed on the controls. On construction sites, construction project management software is often implemented so as to keep workers informed of ongoing dangers and avoid potential incidents. Alhambra Foundry lacked specific procedures for de-energizing and locking out the equipment and additionally, the worker re-entering the hopper was not monitored by a confined space attendant.
Unfortunately, Alhambra Foundry was cited for similar violations eight years ago and therefore were issued a willful serious accident-related violation for failing to take appropriate measures to protect workers performing cleaning and servicing operations.
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Confined Space Death Reveals $350,000 in Violations
Los Angeles, CA – Cal/OSHA has issued fines of $352,570 for ten serious and willful health and safety violations following an investigation into a confined space death. Cal/OSHA reports that neither Tyler Development or D&D Construction Specialties Inc. were in compliance with required confined space procedures.
An employee of D&D Construction entered a drainage shaft in October 2016 to clean out mud and debris. No personal fall protection was utilized as the worker descended via bucket 10 ft. into the shaft. Reports state that the shaft was 4.5 ft. in diameter and lined with concrete. The worker lost consciousness due to the oxygen deficient atmosphere in the confined space, fell 40 ft., and then drowned in one foot of w
ater.
According to Cal/OSHA, Tyler Development was the general contractor constructing a single-family residence in the Bel Air area. They had subcontracted D&D Construction to install and service reinforced concrete posts known as caissons1 on the property.
These violations have been classified as willful because D&D Construction was cited in 2012 for similar safety violations at a different job site. In total, D&D has to pay a proposed $337,700 for 13 violations, including two willful serious accident-related, one willful serious, one serious accident-related, six serious, and three general in nature.
According to Cal/OSHA, the D&D Construction failed to ensure safe entry into the confined space; failed to have an effective method for rescuing the worker in the confined space in an emergency; and failed to test the environment to determine if additional protective equipment, such as a respirator or oxygen tank, were required to work safely in the shaft.
For their part, Tyler Development was cited $14,870 for five violations, three of them serious, for a failure to evaluate the worksite for possible permit-required confined spaces and failure to ensure that the subcontractor meets all requirements to comply with a permit space program.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda discusses relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and former star of "Hamilton", spoke about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico in a press conference at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture, 3015 W Division St., on Nov. 1.
By Molly Walsh
"Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, along with representatives from the Norwegian American Hospital and the New Life Covenant Church, spoke at a Nov. 1 press conference about local relief needed for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
The category 4 hurricane ravaged the U.S. territory Sept. 17 and was declared a major disaster by the Federal Emergency Management Agency three days later. Relief efforts by the federal government have been criticized widely for providing insufficient aid compared to assistance to Texas and Florida following hurricanes Irma and Harvey.
Miranda, who is of Puerto Rican descent, said during the press conference, held at The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture, 3015 W. Division St., more work needs to be done because the Puerto Rican people are part of the American family.
"There [is] no shortage of resources available to you. I'm sure there are some in Chicago I'm not familiar with," Miranda said. "Norwegian Hospital alone is an excellent one. There are drives going up everywhere. I've been sending everyone to HispanicFederation.org. They're very transparent and efficient with how they spend their money. "
Miranda wrote and released a charity single called "Almost Like Praying" with other Latino artists, including Marc Anthony, Camila Cabello, and Jennifer Lopez. All proceeds from the song go to the Hispanic Federation to fund hurricane relief.
Another speaker was OB-GYN Adeeb Alshahrour from Norwegian American Hospital, 1044 N. Francisco Ave., is a member of the planning community in charge of sending American missions to Puerto Rico. Alshahrour said he assesses critical needs and helps form teams of doctors and physicians from the hospital to send to Puerto Rico.
"We are going to be providing as much as we can to make sure our fellow citizens get health care to their doorsteps," Alshahrour told The Chronicle.
At least 71 of Puerto Rico's 78 towns have received assistance from nearly 100 missionaries and clean up crews, Billy Ocasio, executive director of The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture, said.
"There's still much work that needs to be done," Ocasio told The Chronicle. "There's still supplies that people can donate. There's still money that is needed to restore and rebuild Puerto Rico."
Anyone from the island or has ties to the island can tell you there was this terrible silence that the rest of the diaspora experienced in the wake of the hurricane, Miranda said.
"Seventy-five percent of the island still has no power [and] 25 [percent] still has no running water. So we're far from done here," Miranda said. "I'd much rather be telling you about some new musical I'm working on, but this is sort of the new full-time gig for now."
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ISLAMABAD: PML-N has submitted a bill to the National Assembly Secretariat today for the creation of Hazara Province.
The bill, that was moved by PML-N's Malik Sajjad Awan, bears signatures of Ahsan Iqbal, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Rana Sanaullah, Murtaza Javed Abbasi, and Malik Afreen Khan besides the signature of the mover. PML-N has mentioned that the KP Assembly had passed a resolution on 25th March 2014, for the creation of a Hazara province.
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I've argued before that we, meaning Reformed Christians, should use the 500 year anniversary of the Reformation to recover what makes us Reformed. Reading R. Scott Clark's book, Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice, is a great start. Closer to home, we could also learn a lot from our Dutch Reformed forebears in West Michigan.
Aleida J. Pieters dedicated a chapter of her book, A Dutch Settlement in Michigan, to the religious life of the Van Raalte settlement in Holland, Michigan. Pieters's descriptions of the various aspects of the settlers' religious life are fascinating and add context to modern piety, which is entirely embarrassing in comparison. Early settler doctrine, piety, and practice should certainly humble our hearts and minds.
The Dutch settlers knew that they "stood squarely upon the Confession of faith and the Canons of the National Synod of Dortrecht of 1618-1619, and further that they considered the Bible as the inspired Word of God and the infallible rule of conduct." Aleida J. Pieters, A Dutch Settlement in Michigan 112 (1923).
Pieters recounts that during the Civil War a Dutch mother was distressed that her son wanted to join the Federal army. She opposed his enlistment. "Her mind was at ease and her conscience was quieted when she remembered the words of the Lord to Moses commanding him to number the children of Israel 'from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel.'" The woman's son was eighteen at the time, so her consent was thus properly withheld. Pieters at 113.
"Every meal was begun with a petition for God's blessing, offered by the head of the house. At the close of the repast even if it was but corn bread, there followed a reading from the Scripture, the singing of a psalm, and a prayer of thanksgiving." Pieters at 113.
Sermons in these days were no twenty minute exhortations. The service began in the morning at nine-thirty and lasted from two to three hours. Those who came from a distance brought a lunch and ate it at noon so as to be on hand for the afternoon service beginning at two. . . . Sunday was a day of rest from all worldly occupations, none save necessary work was done. The housewife spent her Saturday in baking and cooking so that none of that work need occupy her time on Sunday. To the children it was often a long day, for no games were allowed, but to the elders it was a day of spiritual and intellectual uplift. Pieters at 114-15.
After the sermon, during the singing of a psalm, the minister came down and took his place at the middle of the table facing the congregation, and the people one by one took their places around him. In the earliest days, elders watched to see that no one who had not the right to partake of the sacrament took a seat. After the usual service of the blessing and prayer, the bread and wine were passed around the table, and then with the singing of another psalm, these people returned to their seats and others took their places. Pieters at 116.
The Dutch Reformed followed the presbyterian form of governance. The local church was led by the church council composed of elders and deacons. Because almost everyone belonged to the church, the council was essentially a form of local government, handling spiritual and worldly affairs.
Pieters provides some interesting anecdotes on this score. In one matter, a young man went into the forest and chopped down a tree from the woodlot of another man. The father of the young man was brought before the council and "directed to go home and read the story of Eli and his sons so as to prevent any further occurrences of the kind." Pieters at 118.
In another matter, a man complained about his mother-in-law. The council appointed a special committee to interview the woman. Pieters at 119.
"With religion playing so important part in their lives, it is not surprising that when a layman was elected to the office of elder he was considered to have reached the goal of his earthly ambition." Pieters at 116-17.
A story is told of an elder in the church who arose one Sunday morning and with tears in his voice announced that he would have to resign his position as elder because the Bible said that an elder should rule his own household, and he had failed, for his son had the evening before gone to a dance. To them [the Dutch settlers] life and religion were not only serious matters, but all important ones, before which every other interest paled into insignificance. Pieters at 121.
These anecdotes and descriptions pricked my conscience. As sinners, we tend to be quick to pat ourselves on the back and slow to seek instruction. We should ask ourselves some basic questions.
Does the average lay person have a basic understanding of the Canons of Dort and the Remonstrant controversy?
Can the average lay person recount specific scriptures like the concerned Dutch mother?
Are we encouraging and promoting family worship and the singing of Psalms?
What has happened to our Sabbath observance?
Are we taking care to honor the Lord's instructions as to the administration of the sacraments?
What is happening in our church councils? Are we resolving disputes among believers and leading our flocks?
Is the position of elder the pinnacle of earthly ambition for godly men in our churches?
Are elders held to the standards that Paul gave to Timothy and Titus?
We have plenty of work to do to. Thankfully, God has provided all that is necessary for us to reform our doctrine, piety, and practice.
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Q: TypeError in Django with python 2.7 Hey, new to Django and needing assistance, when I add my model to the admin interface in Django it appeares fine, but when I try to add or delete an entry in the database I get:
TypeError at /admin/Users/user/add/
  coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, tuple found

I done a google search and added:
def __str__(self):
    return ""

To the end of my User model class but with no success. Not sure if I have to enter something into my admin.py? I also have no "add" method in my User class, it also returns nothing else other than the method above.
Thanks for any help!
The User Class:
class User(models.Model):
GENDER_CHOICES = (
        ('M', 'Male'),
        ('F', 'Female'),
    )

username = models.CharField(max_length=30)
email = models.EmailField()
password = models.CharField(max_length=30)

birth_date = models.DateField()
description = models.CharField(max_length=200)
gender = models.CharField(max_length = 1, choices = GENDER_CHOICES, default = "M")
image = models.ImageField(upload_to="media/photos/")
signupIP = models.IPAddressField()
privateOrPublic = models.BooleanField(default=1)

def __str__(self):
    return ""

And the simple admin.py in /Users/
 from Users.models import User
 from django.contrib import admin

 admin.site.register(User)

Traceback:
 Environment:

 Request Method: POST
 Request URL: http://127.0.0.1/admin/Users/user/add/
 Django Version: 1.2.3
 Python Version: 2.7.0
 Installed Applications:
 ['django.contrib.auth',
  'django.contrib.contenttypes',
  'django.contrib.sessions',
  'django.contrib.sites',
  'django.contrib.messages',
  'django.contrib.admin',
  'Users']
 Installed Middleware:
 ('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
  'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
  'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
  'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
  'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware')

 Traceback:
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response
   100.                     response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\options.py" in wrapper
   239.                 return self.admin_site.admin_view(view)(*args, **kwargs)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\decorators.py" in _wrapped_view
   76.                     response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\views\decorators\cache.py" in _wrapped_view_func
   69.         response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\sites.py" in inner
   190.             return view(request, *args, **kwargs)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\decorators.py" in _wrapper
   21.             return decorator(bound_func)(*args, **kwargs)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\decorators.py" in _wrapped_view
   76.                     response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\decorators.py" in bound_func
   17.                 return func(self, *args2, **kwargs2)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\transaction.py" in _commit_on_success
   299.                     res = func(*args, **kw)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\options.py" in add_view
   795.                 self.save_model(request, new_object, form, change=False)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\options.py" in save_model
   597.         obj.save()
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\base.py" in save
   434.         self.save_base(using=using, force_insert=force_insert, force_update=force_update)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\base.py" in save_base
   517.                         for f in meta.local_fields if not isinstance(f, AutoField)]
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\fields\files.py" in pre_save
   255.             file.save(file.name, file, save=False)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\fields\files.py" in save
   91.         name = self.field.generate_filename(self.instance, name)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\fields\files.py" in generate_filename
   282.         return os.path.join(self.get_directory_name(), self.get_filename(filename))
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\fields\files.py" in get_filename
   279.         return os.path.normpath(self.storage.get_valid_name(os.path.basename(filename)))
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\functional.py" in __getattr__
   276.             self._setup()
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\files\storage.py" in _setup
   242.         self._wrapped = get_storage_class()()
 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\files\storage.py" in __init__
   133.         self.location = os.path.abspath(location)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py" in abspath
   465.                 path = _getfullpathname(path)

 Exception Type: TypeError at /admin/Users/user/add/
 Exception Value: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, tuple found

A: In your MEDIA_ROOT definition, change your replace to have a raw string, as otherwise you'll be replacing a literal single backslash rather than the two you meant.
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(file), "media").replace(r"\\", "//")