Q. What is a text label and why would I make one?
A. Text labels contain text rendered into bar code format. When you request text labels from the website, you'll be able to specify up to 100 characters of content to be encoded in each label. When you scan them with the Digit-Eyes application on your phone, text labels are simply read out loud to you by your phone.
Q. What are the advantages of text labels over audio labels?
A. Text labels are useful when you know in advance what you want the label to say or where you want to share content (perhaps inventory tags or labels that identify critical household papers.) The content associated with a text label is public because anyone who has Digit-Eyes on their phone can read it.
Q. How do I get text labels?
Using your free account on the Digit-Eyes website, you'll be able request text bar codes for the size of address label that you purchased. When you request text labels on the website, you'll see a sheet of input boxes that are organized like the labels you bought and you'll be able to type up to 100 characters of text for each label. The Digit-Eyes website will give you a PDF file that contains the codes you requested and the file will be formatted so that the codes will fit exactly on your sheet of labels. Using your own computer printer, you will simply print the PDF file on one of the sheets of address labels.
Labeling is simple. Just stick the label on the item you want identified. When you use the Digit-Eyes application on your phone to scan the label, the phone will read and voice the content of your label to you.
Q. How to I specify the contents of a text label?
A. After you tell the system what kind of labels you have, you'll get an input form on the screen that is organized the same way as your sheet of labels. There is an input box for each label. Type into each box whatever you want to be encoded into that particular label.
Q. Do I have to fill in all the boxes?
A. No. If you leave an input box blank, no code is printed on that label.
Q. Do I have to print a full sheet of labels at once?
A. No. You can type just the ones you want to print now. Note that the manufacturer of the labels for the laser printer says it is "inadvisable" to run the same sheet of labels through a laser printer several times because the sheet may curl and the labels may come off. They offer no such caution about the inkjet labels.
Q. How many characters can each label hold?
Q. Can I change a text label?
A. No. Once the text is printed, it is what it is. If you want it to say something different, you'll need to make a new label.
Q. How many text labels can I have?
A. As many as you want.
Q. Do text labels take up storage space on my phone?
A. No. The text is encoded in the label; nothing is stored on the phone.
Q. Do I have to stick to alphabetic characters when typing a label?
A. No. You can use symbols and numbers in addition to upper and lower case alphabetic characters when creating your Digit-Eyes labels. You can also use non-English characters such as those in the Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hiragana, Kana, Kanji, Korean or Russian character sets.
Q. Wow! So I can make text labels in languages other than English?
A. You can certainly make them and they will be decoded and displayed correctly on the iPhone screen, however VoiceOver may not be able to read them to you.
According to Apple, VoiceOver, the voicing software on the iPhone, can speak 21 languages including Bahasa Indonesian, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Dutch, English (US), English (UK), English (Australian), Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Thai, Turkish. To change your VO language tap Settings > General > International > Voice Control.
VoiceOver is silent when it finds a character it cannot render, so it will correctly voice Digit-Eyes labels that use the Japanese or Russian character sets but it will not voice Digit-Eyes labels in Arabic, Hebrew or Hindi even though labels using these character sets will be correctly displayed on the screen.
Thus, if your text labels are to be used by the sighted, you can use any language; if you are making labels for people who are not sighted, you'll need to use only languages that VoiceOver supports.
Click here for more information from Apple on this topic.
Q. How do I know what a text label says?
A. Scan it before you stick it on anything. VoiceOver will read it to you.
Q. What if I decide to get rid of my phone? Are the text labels readable with anything else?
A. Yes. Any QR code reader can read the text labels. Only Digit-Eyes and Digit-Eyes Lite voice them to you.
Q. Can other people read my text labels?
A. Yes, if they have a QR code reader such as Digit-Eyes or Digit-Eyes Lite.


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Steven Spielberg couldn't have directed this any better. His 31-year-old daughter and the man she became incredibly close with after meeting him during the pandemic, are getting married!
Sasha Spielberg and Harry McNally, the son of famed NYC restauranteur Keith McNally, are engaged after he popped the question on New Year's Eve. Harry took to Instagram to announce the pending nuptials. In a nod to his future father-in-law's storied career as a film director, Harry added a bit of suspense to his caption, writing, "When Harry (McNally) Proposed to Sasha (Spielberg) on New Year's Eve She……..said Yes!"
A post shared by Keith McNally (@keithmcnallynyc)
Sasha also took to Instagram to share the exciting news, and she, too, put a bit of gusto in the announcement. She posted a series of pictures, the first of which shows her smiling and showing off her new diamond ring. The second picture shows a November 2020 diary, and the third photo shows the happy couple hugging in front of a Christmas tree.
Spielberg's 31-year-old daughter explained the three pictures, writing that the first pic shows her posing with the engagement ring the morning after Harry proposed. The second pic's a diary entry following their first date in which she predicted she would one day marry Harry. And the third picture's the candid photo taken by none other than the famous movie director himself.
She captioned her post, in part, "Unbeknownst to Harry, my dad was secretly filming. Classic."
A post shared by Sasha Spielberg (@sashaspielberg)
In an interview with BlackBook magazine back in March, Sasha opened up about her relationship with Harry.
"I went through another breakup during COVID," she told the outlet. "Then I met truly the love of my life [who] I'm with now. The intimacy of getting to know someone during COVID, and I hope it's the same intimacy getting to know a record, that's what it's been like for me. You have no distractions. There's nothing around you except that person."
Sasha is a singer and actress with movie credits in The Terminal and, most recently, Licorice Pizza. Harry helps manage his father's Manhattan restaurant, The Odeon. He's also in the music industry, with some of his work including directing music videos for the likes of Selena Gomez, Haim and more.
Sasha is one of Spielberg's seven children, which includes the director's biological, step and adopted children.
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Colorful blankets and lawn chairs covered most of Forsyth Park on Oct. 5. Savannah's Picnic in the Park brought together a vast amount of adults, children and pets to enjoy a beautiful fall day. Musical performances from the Savannah Arts Academy Orchestra, Equinox Jazz Quartet, and more, gave the community picnic a comfortable and family-friendly vibe.
Every year Savannah celebrates National Arts and Humanities month with the event, and nothing says art more than decorating a picnic spread.
This year's theme for Picnic in the Park was 'Fly Me to the Moon' and picnickers entered the contest to see who had the best picnic spread.
The two women put together a spread on top of a blanket with constellations sewn on it. They also had tables of macaroons, cheese and crackers, and a globe-like trinket with the phrase 'Fly Me to the Moon' painted on it.
Many groups of friends and family were just as excited as Kimberly and Brittany for the legendary contest. But some families simply came to relax and enjoy the atmosphere.
"We come every year; in-fact this is our 10th year coming. We just love the outdoors, listening to music, and seeing our friends," Savannah locals Barret and Cindy Welsh said.
Even though Picnic in the Park celebrates the arts and humanities, it also celebrates family. Amongst the crowds of adults, there was an equal amount of young children playing soccer, running around, and having fun. Dozens of people gathered to eat delicious food and spend time with their loved ones.
Elizabeth Reese, who works in the med-tech department at Armstrong came with her daughter and met up with her family to enjoy the event.
Just as the theme says, the city of Savannah went from having fun in the sun to relaxing under the moon and stars as the night carried on. Crowds sat on their blankets listening to the music while feeling the essence of romance and art.
The packed event was highlighted by a performance by the Savannah Philharmonic, who entertained the crowds and brought the park to life.
After intermission, the Savannah Philharmonic presented the crowd with a Star Wars themed piece, bringing a twist to the phrase 'Fly Me to the Moon'.


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IMAGES have emerged showing what could be the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and it's covered in bullet holes, an expert has claimed. The Google Earth pictures show what appears to be the outline of the plane, which vanished along with 239 passengers and crew, under the surface of waters just north of Mauritius.
Australian amateur crash investigator Peter McMahon has spent years poring over NASA and Google Maps images since the plane disappeared in the Indian Ocean four years ago and claims he now thinks he has found it. He believes the aircraft is 10 miles south of small islet Round Island – an area not included in the search operation by experts. Mr McMahon said he sent his findings to the Australian Transport and Safety Bureau, which confirmed it could be the missing craft. But he claims they were then told by US officials to stick to the assigned area of the Indian Ocean.
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PREVIEW: White Tigers ready for battle
 25 Apr 2019 By Truro City Football Club
We need your support for Saturday's crunch clash...
THE WHITE Tigers go into Saturday's final game of the season at home to Slough Town knowing that only a win will be good enough, allied to results elsewhere going in our favour, for us to escape relegation.
We face opponents who sit safely in the middle of the table following their promotion into this level at the end of last term.
We have already beaten them 2-1 away in December, so we'll be hoping to complete the double.
"It's time for the talking to stop and for actions to speak louder than words," said manager, Paul Wilkinson. "We know what we have to do and we'll be fully focussed on ensuring that we do our part by getting the three points before looking at what has happened elsewhere.
"We go into the game on the back of an Easter period which saw us show plenty of battling qualities to come back from two goals down to share the spoils at Hampton & Richmond Borough on Monday afternoon, whilst before that, our last game here against Gloucester City, saw us put in arguably our best performance since I have been at the club.
"On that occasion we created enough chances to have won more than one game, so it was extremely frustrating to see us get no points to show for our efforts.
"Football is full of fine margins; we controlled that game and looked the most likely side but we have fallen the wrong side of it on this occasion.
"We started the second half well but when the penalty didn't go in, all of a sudden we are on the back-foot. That said, we kept going and pulled a goal back towards the end but it wasn't quite to be.
"Then at Hampton, we looked the most likely side for much of the opening period but then fell behind against the run of play before having the sucker-punch of conceding a second goal right at the start of the second half.
"It would have been easy for heads to drop and for the lads to be resigned to their fate, but instead they rolled their sleeves up and with our travelling contingent right behind us, we managed to get back into the game and stuck to our task to the very end.
"We know that if we perform to these levels on Saturday, we will give ourselves every chance of getting a winning result.
"The players are ready for the challenge and by everyone working together, we can do this."
It goes without saying that we need your full backing and support...
Updated 15:18 - 20 Jun 2019 by Truro City Football Club
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Q: Creating a smooth mesh grid in Matlab I'm using the Matlab function checkerboard to create a checkerboard and then display it as a circle rather than a square or rectangle. I have written the code below to do this but because my meshgrid seems to be so coarse, when I do imshow(checks) you can see that the edges of the circle are jagged and not at all smooth. Could anyone tell me how to overcome this problem?
Alternatively, the reason why I have had to set such a small meshgrid is that I need the K matrix generated from checkerboard to be really small as I want there to display less of the checkerboard to make it appear as though the squares have a bigger distance. If anybody knows of a way of doing this without creating a meshgrid, that will also work.
This is part of my script that uses Psychtoolbox so I'm a little bit restricted in what I can do. Once I have created checks I use it to generate a texture to draw up to the screen while scaling it up to make it bigger.
Can anyone help?
Code:
  K=checkerboard(9); % using Matlab checkerboard function to create a checkerboard
  K=K(1:27,1:27); % using a small part of the checkerboard as I want to have a wide distances between the lines
  cmap = [0.48 0.48 0.48; 0.54 0.54 0.54]; % colour map to make the colour grey
  bw1 = ind2rgb(uint8(K), cmap);
  white = 1;
  grey = white/2;
  rcycles = 8;

   % Now we make our checkerboard pattern
   xylim = 1;
   [x,y] = meshgrid(-1.25:0.0932:1.25,-1.25:0.0932:1.25);

  checks = bw1;
  circle = x.^2 + y.^2 <= xylim^2;
  checks = circle .* checks + grey * ~circle;

  imshow(checks);

A: (Late answer, but perhaps someone might find it helpful.)
It seems to me that to achieve a texture without jagged edges you just need to rescale the checkerboard pattern before applying the circular aperture. You can do that easily with the repelem function in matlab:
K=checkerboard(9); % using Matlab checkerboard function to create a checkerboard
K=K(1:27,1:27); % using a small part of the checkerboard as I want to have a wide distances between the lines
cmap = [0.48 0.48 0.48; 0.54 0.54 0.54]; % colour map to make the colour grey
bw1 = ind2rgb(uint8(K), cmap);

% this scale factor indicate by how much the checkerboard size is increased
scale_factor = 23;

bw1 = repelem(bw1,scale_factor,scale_factor);

white = 1;
grey = white/2;
rcycles = 8;

% Now we make our checkerboard pattern
xylim = 1;
[x,y] = meshgrid(linspace(-1.25,1.25, 27*scale_factor),linspace(-1.25,1.25, 27*scale_factor));

checks = bw1;
circle = x.^2 + y.^2 <= xylim^2;

checks = repmat(circle,1,1,3) .* checks + grey * ~repmat(circle,1,1,3);
imshow(checks);

Result:

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Q: Error Trapping Best Method Hi I am trying to get a list of all trouble tickets but it says that not all codes paths return a value. Does Anybody no what I am doing wrong thanks
public List<TroubleTicket> GetAllTroubleTickets()
{
    try
    {

        List<TroubleTicket> tickets = new List<TroubleTicket>();

        var q = _supportDeskEntities.TroubleTickets.ToList();
        return q;
    }

    catch (Exception ex)
    {

    }

}

A: If you catch an exception the function returns no value. So change this:
catch (Exception ex)
{
}

To this:
catch (Exception ex)
{
  return null;
}

Or if you want it to return an empty list when an exception is catch then you can do this:
catch (Exception ex)
{
   return new List<TroubleTicket>(0);
}

If we are taking about best practice then I would say that you should log the exception and then re-throw it. Like this:
catch (Exception ex)
{
   //write to log
   throw ex;
}

A: You need to return a value from the catch statement (or throw another exception within it). Otherwise, the function will return null
You can try this:
public List<TroubleTicket> GetAllTroubleTickets()
{
    try
    {

        List<TroubleTicket> tickets = new List<TroubleTicket>();

        var q = _supportDeskEntities.TroubleTickets.ToList();
        return q;
    }

     catch (Exception ex)
    {
       return new List<TroubleTicket>(); // This is just in case you want to ignore any exceptions

    }

}

or
catch (Exception ex)
    {
       throw new Exception("There was an error getting tickets"); // Probably not as good of a way as you lose the exception details

    }

A: You only return a value if there is no exception thrown. You must either return from inside the catch block, or return outside the try/catch structure.
So you can either return in two separate places:
public List<TroubleTicket> GetAllTroubleTickets()
{
    try
    {
        var q = _supportDeskEntities.TroubleTickets.ToList();
        return q;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        // You can also return "new List<TroubleTicket>()" if null is an unacceptable return value
        return null;
    }
}

or keep a return value variable, and set it in two different locations, and return it in one location:
public List<TroubleTicket> GetAllTroubleTickets()
{
    List<TroubleTicket> tickets;
    try
    {
        tickets = _supportDeskEntities.TroubleTickets.ToList();
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        // You can also use "new List<TroubleTicket>()" if null is an unacceptable return value
        tickets = null;
    }
    return tickets;
}

A: You're not returning anything if an exception happens and you're not assigning the list to List<TroubleTicket> tickets but to a different variable. You could do:
public List<TroubleTicket> GetAllTroubleTickets()
{
    List<TroubleTicket> tickets = null;
    bool gotTickets = true;
    try{
        tickets = _supportDeskEntities.TroubleTickets.ToList();
    }
    catch (SpecificException ex){
        gotTickets = false;
    }
    catch (Exception ex){ // catches all other "unexpected" exceptions
        // log and/or...
        throw;
    }
    return gotTickets ? tickets : null;
}

But you should not catch all kind of exceptions but only specific types that you expect. You also should log all other types of exceptions.

A: Your catch block is not returning anything.
public List<TroubleTicket> GetAllTroubleTickets()
{
    List<TroubleTicket> tickets =null;
    try
    {
        tickets = new List<TroubleTicket>();
        var q = _supportDeskEntities.TroubleTickets.ToList();
        return q;
    }

    catch (Exception ex)
    {
       //Log or handle your error
    }

    return tickets;
}


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Q: Symfony 4 Beta - installing monolog then clearing cache produces a count() error I am using the v4.0.0-BETA1 tag and when I run
composer req log

then
php bin/console cache:clear  --env=prod

I get the following error messages:

In BaseNode.php line 348:
Invalid configuration for path "monolog.handlers.main": Warning:
  count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements
  Countable
In Configuration.php line 654:
Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that
  implements Countable

Uninstalling monolog
composer rem log

Allows the cache to be cleared successfully again. Any ideas on a fix here?

A: Are you using php 7.2? Monolog doesn't support it. Here's a fix to be committed https://github.com/symfony/monolog-bundle/issues/223
Edit: It has already been fixed in 3.1.2: https://github.com/symfony/monolog-bundle/releases/tag/v3.1.2


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Tony von Bornstädt is, so to speak, an "old" acquaintance and, as he says himself, a SCALE reader from the very beginning. The man from the north lives with his two twins and what he affectionately calls the best wife in the world in Schleswig-Holstein and thus within throwing distance of the Baltic Sea. His roots, however, lie in beautiful Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where he also found his love of fishing over 30 years ago. His fishing grounds include the countless possibilities of the Mecklenburg Lake District as well as the waters around Rügen and Denmark. He was able to inspire his children for fishing at an early age and so the holiday to Sweden with the family, which takes place at least once a year, is one of his fixed rituals. For the passionate family man, there is nothing better than seeing his two twins enjoying themselves when it comes to fishing for perch and roach.
For Tony, shared experiences on the water are the be-all and end-all of fishing, which is why he has been travelling with friends at least once a year for many years to exciting fishing destinations, sometimes on Bornholm, in Sweden and Slovenia or even Spain.
Anyone who knows Tony will quickly realise that fishing plays the most important role in his life, next to his family. So, what could be more obvious than to ask him if he could contribute an article. No sooner said than done: Tony accepted our request and took us to one of the most beautiful fly-fishing areas of all …
Today I put the last bits of my equipment from our Lapland trip into the cellar. In the process, I came across a thick piece of moss that somehow found its way to my home. It was still very soft and smelled extraordinarily spicy. It brought back memories. It all started almost exactly two years ago with a "let's-do-something-crazy" idea. Lapland, loneliness, adventures around the campfire, outside any civilisation – the plan was quickly forged and soon after it started …
"Now we're screwed" was the thought that went through all our minds as the helicopter took off and did a lap of honour over our heads after dropping us off somewhere in no man's land. No road, no cabin, no mobile phone reception – the location was about 40 km north of Kiruna and we had wanted it that way. Ten pieces of luggage with tents, fishing gear, clothes, various equipment, food and a rubber dinghy lay spread out in the ankle-deep moss. We were where we wanted to be and now there was no turning back. We looked for a dry spot on a hill and set about preparing our base camp for the next few days. The river glistened in the twilight and hardly anyone could wait to make their first casts.
The following nights were starry and freezing cold and two to three layers of thermal clothing in the down sleeping bag were necessary to get through the night reasonably warm. Given the air and water temperatures, everyone's morning body care was quite short and only a breakfast of cereals and hot campfire coffee slowly brought back the spirits. And because things that work at home at the push of a button sometimes take ages in the wilderness, we didn't get to fish until the morning of almost every day.
But what happened then made up for one or two cold nights. The fishing exceeded all our expectations. The section of river in front of us turned out to be a true grayling paradise. It only took a few casts to hook one of the beautiful fish and the choice of flies didn't really matter much either. Obviously, the fish were in a feeding mood and since hardly anyone had fished in this seclusion, they were coming in at a rapid clip. The sizes were also particularly impressive. The average was a good 30 cm, but every day we put several banner fish over 40 cm on the scales. The largest specimens were usually in their mid-late forties, which was remarkable given the otherwise sparse food supply and the seasonally narrow window of opportunity.
But our spot had even more to offer: If you ran upstream in the river or along the bank, after a few hundred metres you reached a lake that seemed very promising to us. It did not disappoint us, and the first casts already brought perch and pike in nice regularity. It felt like there was no perch under 25 cm and the average was clearly above 30 cm. We also hooked several pike and often just missed the metre mark.
The crazy thing was that all the fish were biting on all the lures! Grayling were on dry and wet flies or streamers. But we also caught a few on SpinMad on a steel leader! We caught pike on grayling that had previously taken our fly! We caught perch on 20cm pike flies and pike on 5cm trout plugs. What happened up here so far north we wouldn't have thought possible and nothing comparable has happened to any of us before. Good for us, because this ensured a protein-packed dinner every day. Whenever the weather was kind to us, the campfire was lit and shortly afterwards we had a choice of perch or grayling.
It could have gone on like this from our point of view, but after three days massive rainfall started. Land rain. Break in the rain. Continuous rain, no break. Pouring rain, followed by land rain. The sky hung low and dark over the camp. But that didn't stop us from getting into our waders, anyway, taking boat trips in our inflatable kayak and exploring the river down to the big lake. And the picture was the same: despite the change in the weather and regardless of whether we used fly or spinning rods, we could count on two hands the number of casts that didn't catch any fish at the end of the day.
On the second rainy day, a small river ran through one of our tents and a change of sleeping place became necessary. Our cherished campfire was no longer possible because the rain ruined any thoughts of it. The gas burner we had brought with us, lit in the awning, nevertheless enabled us to have warm meals. But somehow it became more demanding and above all more uncomfortable: On the third day of rain, the tent seams began to drip, but we still went to the water. We caught a few more fish in the next few hours, but when we were washing up in the river, we had the idea of asking the helicopter pilot via emergency satellite phone for the weather forecast for the pick-up day. The experienced frequent flyer was obviously also worried about the visual flight conditions and offered to pick us up that same evening. Wet and frozen through, we accepted thankfully.
Back at the lodge from which we had started, four completely happy, if somewhat smelling men spread out the contents of their duffle bags that very evening and treated themselves to a first well-deserved beer. This trip into the Nordic wilderness had been worth it. We wanted to surrender to the elements, and we did. We happily summed up that thanks to the cohesion of the group, there was never a bad mood in the face of the gruelling conditions. In the end, everyone perceived the tour as a unique and great experience and each of us will certainly remember the fish and nature for a long time. Finally, I would like to thank my companions Holger, Koni and Alexander for this extraordinary trip!
I also don't want to forget the man who made sure that everything went smoothly: thanks also to the trailblazer and organiser of the trip Carsten Dogs from pukka destinations. It couldn't have been done any better …
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REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of July 2021
Commission File Number: 001-39977
Baosheng Media Group Holdings Limited
Floor 15, Yonghe East Building B
No.28 Andingmen East Avenue
Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F:
Form 20-F x Form 40-F ¨
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934:
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Resignation and appointment of Independent Director
Ms. Yu Zhong, an independent director and the chairperson of the nominating and corporate governance committee of the board of directors of Baosheng Media Group Holdings Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the "Company"), notified the Company of her resignation from the board of directors for personal reasons on June 23, 2021, effective June 28, 2021. Ms. Yu Zhong's resignation from the board of directors was not a result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter related to the operations, policies, or practices of the Company.
On June 28, 2021, the board of directors of the Company appointed Mr. Weitao Liang as an independent director of the Company and the chairperson of the nominating and corporate governance committee to fill the vacancy created by Ms. Yu Zhong's departure. The biographical information of Mr. Weitao Liang is set forth below.
Mr. Weitao Liang has over 14 years of experience in corporate finance and investment banking. Since March 2017, Mr. Liang has served as the head of Global Business Department at China Great Wall Securities Co. Ltd., where he is responsible for forming its Hong Kong subsidiary, undertaking cross-border investment banking and financing business development and supervising a team of global asset management. Since Mr. Liang's joining China Great Wall Securities Co. Ltd. in July 2012, he consecutively served as Executive Director of Investment Bank Quality Control Department from July 2012 to September 2013, Deputy Managing Director of Investment Bank Quality Control Department from September 2013 to March 2014, Deputy Managing Director of Investment Bank Capital Markets Department from March 2014 to March 2015, head of The National Equities Exchange and Quotations (NEEQ) listing business from March 2015 to March 2017. Prior to that, he consecutively worked in the Investment Banking Department of China Merchants Securities Co. Ltd. from June 2007 to September 2008, Investment Banking Strategic Clients Department of China Merchants Securities Co. Ltd., an investment banking company, from September 2008 to August 2010 and NEEQ Department of China Merchants Securities Co. Ltd. from August 2010 to June 2012. In addition, since September 2019, Mr. Liang has served as the financial advisor of Hainan Hotpot Media Blockchain Science & Tech Co., Ltd., where he provides financing and investment advice. He also served as the M&A advisor of Legend Blockchain & Mining Group Co., Ltd. since November 2019, where he involved in providing solution. Mr. Liang has also served as an independent director at Dunxin Financial Holdings Limited (NYSE: DXF) since April 2021. Mr. Liang received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Tongji University in 2004, a master's degree in operations research from Zhejiang University in 2006 and a master's degree in engineering management from City University of Hong Kong in 2007.
Mr. Weitao Liang does not have a family relationship with any director or executive officer of the Company and has not been involved in any transaction with the Company during the past two years that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
On July 2, 2021, Mr. Zuohao Hu, an independent director and the chairperson of the compensation committee of the board of directors of the Company, notified the Company of his resignation from the board of directors for personal reasons, effective July 5, 2021. Mr. Zuohao Hu's resignation from the board of directors was not a result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter related to the operations, policies, or practices of the Company. Following Mr. Zuohao Hu's resignation, the Company expects to nominate a replacement director to the board of directors and elect a new chairperson for its compensation committee of the board of directors, in accordance with the terms of its compensation committee charter.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: July 2, 2021 By:
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Name: Wenxiu Zhong
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Game Preview: New Orleans Pelicans vs. Detroit Pistons
By Oleh Kosel@OlehKosel Mar 3, 2015, 10:05pm CST
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The last time the Pelicans squared off against the Pistons, they unexpectedly mauled them. Coming into that game, New Orleans had lost 3 of their last 4; on the other hand, Smith-less Detroit was on a roll, having had won 9 of their their previous 10 games.
This time around, the circumstances are much different. The Pelicans are 6-2 since the All-Star break, meanwhile the Pistons are 2-3. As to where New Orleans has found a way to deal with multiple injuries, Detroit has failed to overcome the loss of Brandon Jennings.
What's Different
For Wednesday's match-up, the personnel will be different from the January 14th game. Besides no Jennings, Kyle Singer and DJ Augustin have been replaced with Reggie Jackson and Tayshaun Prince. That's right, Prince is back in Motown, but if he had his choice, he'd have rather gone elsewhere. This reunion was nothing like Kevin Garnett going back home to Minnesota.
Jackson, on the other hand, was ecstatic to leave Oklahoma City. He had reportedly asked for a trade prior to the end of October (the extension deadline for 1st round picks entering their 4th season), but when his request went ignored, he turned sour. He supposedly skipped a game, purposefully turned into a worse version of a black hole, and in general behaved like a malcontent.
Regardless of the truth of these allegations, his game has yet to flourish with it's new found freedom. In his first four games as a Piston, he's had trouble finding the bottom of the net (33 FG%). Worse, he's been shooting the ball nearly 20 times a game. Looks like someone is trying too hard to land a great payday.
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3 Keys to Victory
Clone Omer Asik. As you've probably heard, Anthony Davis' status has been upgraded to questionable. After the media witnessed his ability prior to the Mavericks game, this news isn't a surprise, but he's still not assured of taking the floor against the Pistons. If that ends up being the case, the Pelicans are going to have to pull a rabbit out of the hat. Greg Monroe and Andre Drummond have been a handful, especially of late, combining for 32.9 points and 24.5 rebounds a game in February. Omer Asik can guard one of them but who gets the other? Undersized Dante Cunningham or foul-prone Alexis Ajinca? Pray Anthony Davis is healthy enough to play, but if he isn't, Oshner cloning Asik, scary as that sounds, may be the next best option. On a serious note, the players on the floor shouldn't be afraid to help. Outside of Kentavious Caldwell Pope and Anthony Tolliver, the current roster has had trouble shooting it from the outside. As a last resort, foul. The Pistons are one of the worst free throw shooting teams in the league.
Stop Penetration. Dallas had a field day in the paint taking to the rim via the dribble -- they had 50 points in the paint but just 9 offensive rebounds and 11 total assists. I'm sure much of that had to do with tired legs after the game against the Nuggets and Carlisle correctly mandating the offense to take advantage of this, but the Pelicans can't allow a repeat performance. Breakdowns in the defense will force one of the Pelican bigs to help and that's a recipe for disaster with Monroe/Drummond ready to pound the offensive glass.
Push the pace. The Pelicans pace has slowed considerably since the start of the season, but if Anthony Davis is unable to go, New Orleans needs to find a way to create some easy baskets. As we saw against the Mavericks, strings of missed shots will happen; thus, it's important to have a plan B. The Pistons are one of the best at not putting opponents on the free throw line, so let's see the guards push the pace or attempt to create a few more turnovers before their defense is able to get set on that end.
Who: Pelicans vs. Pistons
When: March 4th, 7:00 CST
Where: Smoothie King Center Arena
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Made in Jordan: Inside the Unexpected Powerhouse of Garment Manufacturing
Publication Business of Fashion
AMMAN, Jordan — The ancient city of Petra, 70 years of regional turmoil and the spiralling Syrian refugee crisis. All spring to mind at the mere mention of Jordan, the Middle Eastern nation that shares a border with Iraq and Syria. Few of us, however, would think of its vibrant garment manufacturing industry.
But look at the labels stitched into clothing made by Gap, Victoria's Secret, Hanes, Eddie Bauer, Lands' End or Macy's and there it is: "Made in Jordan." Garment exports make up roughly 20 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
In the arid outskirts of Jordan's cities sit a growing number of industrial parks that house garment factories quietly churning out clothing for some of the world's most recognisable brands.
There are currently 75 factories producing everything from towels to t-shirts, fleeces to frilly knickers. They account for 95 percent of the industrial workforce, and 95 percent of apparel exports.
Despite its reputation as the safest place in the Middle East, instability in Jordan is at an all-time high. More than one million Syrian refugees are jostling for shelter and a few Jordanian dinars a day (one dinar is equivalent to $1.41). Jordan is the only Arab country still active in the coalition against Isis, and the threat of destabilisation from Syria and Iraq have authorities working all-out to protect the country's northern and eastern borders.
Jordan's political opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood, is breaking apart, allowing the dissenters to slip under the radar. The country's ruler, King Abdullah, has increasingly relied on financial and practical support from his allies, such as the United States, to support not only his people, but also asylum seekers from Syria, Iraq, Sudan and Yemen. Many diplomats in Amman privately admit they think of a terrorist attack in terms of 'when,' not 'if.'
Yet, somehow, the industry is growing at a time when all common-sense indicators suggest it shouldn't be.
"When you step into Jordan, you never feel the regional tumult," says Radhakrishnan Putharikkal, president of the Classic Fashion factory on the sprawling, 118 hectare Al-Hassan Industrial Estate just outside the northern city of Irbid.
Classic is now the leading garment manufacturer in the Kingdom. Its exports accounted for nearly 13 percent of Jordan's $1 billion garment exports to the United States last year, according to Jordan's Trade Ministry. Established in 2003, it has grown from a small-scale operation (300 people, 130 machines and $2 million turnover per year) to 15,000 employees, 7,500 machines spinning out close to 200,000 garments each day, and an annual turnover of more than $250 million.
"Jordan's stability and location made us choose it over Morocco or Tunisia, and our calculations were 100 percent right," says Putharikkal.
In contrast to its neighbours Israel and Saudi Arabia, Jordan is a poor country, devastatingly dry with few resources: potash, phosphates, concrete and tourism top the list. Oil is imported, along with nearly half the country's food and the bulk of manufactured goods. Despite the economics, how Jordan became a manufacturing powerhouse is more about politics than purchasing power.
When the 1994 peace accord was hammered out between Jordan and Israel, a key economic element was introduced: the Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ). Under this legislation, goods produced in collaboration with Israel could enjoy freer access to the US market. The QIZs were packaged as a "peace dividend," says Jordan scholar Sean Yom, a political science professor at Temple University in Philadelphia.
"They were presented this way to convince many Jordanians that the 1994 peace accord with Israel would benefit them. It was supposed to catalyse the export sector, spread more jobs and attract foreign investment."
This happened, but only up to a point: the group that benefited most from foreign investment was merchants and businessmen, people who already had financial capital and could leverage their connections to secure new contracts, and as Yom puts it, "rake in more profit."
"Most of the jobs initially went to foreign labour anyway, before a backlash forced managers to hire locally," says Yom.
Some experts say the export potential of the QIZ project became moot in 2000, when the US inked its free trade agreement with Jordan, cutting out the need for an Israel connection. But others say the QIZs served another purpose: fast-tracking the free trade deal with the US.
"Without these factories in the QIZ zones we could never have started the process to attract these Hong Kong and China manufacturers and the US trade," says Halim Salfiti, the former chief executive of Al Tajamouat Industrial City.
"There was a process of the foreign manufacturers educating the locals by showing them how to do this. The foreign manufacturers started working here, then they started trading. And they had relationships with buyers, so for Jordanian manufacturers starting up, that was a door-opener. It was easy to market," says Salfiti.
With most of the old QIZ factories growing and new industrial areas springing up under the US-Jordan free trade agreement, business boomed. In 2006 and 2007, the multi-billion dollar business of exporting manufactured goods (mainly clothing) was Jordan's largest export.
One area where the QIZ project failed, and where the garment manufacturing industry under the US free trade agreement is still floundering, is around employing locals, particularly women. Official statistics show that for years, the labour market participation of girls and women aged 15 and above has stagnated at around 12.6 percent, compared to 60.3 percent of men in the same age bracket.
Classic has struggled with this in its urban factories, which employ around 2,000 Jordanian workers. Cultural factors are significant: Jordan is a socially conservative country and in rural areas and smaller cities, like Ajloun, where Classic has a satellite factory mainly employing Jordanians, women tend to withdraw from work upon marrying.
Anecdotally, among Jordanians, factory work tends to be seen as shameful, and even in areas with high levels of unemployment, meeting labour demands with skilled or trainable local staff is challenging.
Classic has set up a crèche as a way of retaining its 90 percent female workforce at its Ajloun factory. But employee turnover is between 15 percent and 20 percent, mainly due to marriages.
Local employees are also more expensive: Jordanian workers receive an additional 80 dinar per month for their living expenses, whereas international workers receive in-kind payment in the form of housing, food and living costs.
Foreign workers typically come to Jordan on three-year contracts and work six eight-hour days, with 125 percent minimum wage pay for overtime and 150 percent for holidays. Many are members of Jordan's General Trade Union of Workers in Textile Garment and Clothing Industries, which in 2013 saw a landmark collective bargaining agreement on wages, employment conditions and seniority issues take effect.
All of this is a marked improvement over conditions during the sector's most prolific stretch, around 2006 to 2007. Factory owners and subcontractors were accused of a range of workers' rights abuses at the factories making clothing for Victoria's Secret, as well as Levi's, Gap and Calvin Klein. A New York Times investigation accused Jordan of running sweatshops where workers were abused and even imprisoned.
Despite an unemployment rate of at least 12 percent, Jordan also imports labour. There are around 55,000 garment workers in Jordan, and about 75 percent of them are from Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Madagascar.
On Classic Fashion factory's fluorescent-lit, air-conditioned factory floors, row upon row of Bangladeshi and Indian workers hunch barefoot at sewing machines, feeding fabric, cutting, stitching, finishing, boxing and labelling. Signs in English, Arabic and Bengali advise workers of emergency procedures and company regulations, and roving quality-checkers, mostly Jordanians, keep the place humming.
Putharikkal explains: "There's a competition for who can do things for the best price, and brands know which factories are good at what."
Classic focuses on knits. Factory bosses recruit in workers' countries of origin for people skilled in this type of fabric, in order to take advantage of the free trade agreement between Jordan and the US. A monthly minimum wage of just 110 Jordanian Dinars (about $155) for garment sector employees makes it an attractive set-up.
According to Better Work Jordan, a partnership between the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), conditions and compliance have improved. All factories that export to the US must be assessed annually — something Better Work Jordan carries out. In its 2014 report, the organisation found that 33 of the 55 factories that had been assessed before showed improvements across all compliance areas.
Better Work Jordan runs a workers' centre at Al Hassan where foreign workers can access social support, prayer rooms, information on human rights and labour rights, and take part in social activities from holiday celebrations to games. The organisation also offers employers training in labour law and human rights.
Linda Kalash, executive director of Tamkeen Fields for Aid, a Jordanian non-governmental organisation that works to protect migrant workers' rights, says the situation still isn't good enough.
"The violations continue," she told BoF at a meeting in her Amman office. She faces a steady stream of migrant workers in need of help, from making complaints about treatment on the factory floor to requests for legal help with hefty fees incurred for breaking contracts early. Kalash says grievances are fewer and less egregious than in past years, but she and her team are still run off their feet.
As Jordan's tourism industry collapses in the face of regional chaos, revenue from garment manufacturing is becoming more valuable. Growing the sector and employing more locals and more women is the next challenge. And here, progress begets progress: nine months ago Jordan's Ministry of Labour inked a deal to establish a new, partly-subsidised factory in the country's deprived Husseiniya district. The project guarantees 500 jobs for local women.
With a busy, high-functioning port in Aqaba on the Red Sea and access to Israel's Haifa port through the Allenby Bridge crossing, Jordan is well placed to be a global manufacturing hub. Shipping from Jordan to the US is quicker and cheaper than shipping from Southeast Asia, and as Classic's Putharikkal points out, Jordanian factories are developing a reputation for good work delivered on time.
As regional tensions ratchet up, it's undeniable that some sort of change is coming. But in Jordan's factories, for now, at least, it's business as usual.
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Q: Get PEM from p7+p8 files using C# Intro
I am working on converting a Java library to .Net.
The library is an implementation of polymorphic pseudonym decryption and will be used in The Netherlands to decrypt "BSNk"s in the area of European eIDAS electronic identification services.
I have already converted most of the library and worked with the author of the Java version to verify the results.
The next step is to make the .Net library actually usable for Dutch companies, and that's where I have been stuck for the past 2 weeks.
The algorithms use an elliptic curve in a PEM file as one of the parts for the calculation. But the clients (the users of the library) will receive this in the form of a p7 and a p8 file which you can convert/extract/decode (?) to the PEM data.
Question
How can I get from te p7+p8 files to a PEM string in C#?
Preferably using just System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs, but I currently am using BouncyCastle in other parts (because the Java version did).
Not listed below but I did also try to do this using SignedCms and EnvelopedCms, but got nothing but (to me) incomprehensible errors from that. I don't have a lot of experience in cryptography, but have learned quite a bit over the past few weeks.
If I understand it correctly than I would explain this as the p7 file being the envelope of the PEM message, and the envelope is signed/encrypted using the private key in the p8 file?
Code
public static string ConvertToPem(string p7File, string p8File)
{
    var p7Data = File.ReadAllBytes(p7File);
    var p8Data = File.ReadAllBytes(p8File);

    // Java version gets the private key like this:
    // KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA").generatePrivate(new PKCS8EncodedKeySpec(bytesArray));
    var privateKey = PrivateKeyFactory.CreateKey(p8Data);

    var parser = new CmsEnvelopedDataParser(p7Data);
    var recipients = parser.GetRecipientInfos().GetRecipients().OfType<RecipientInformation>();
    var recipientInformation = recipients.First();

    //Java version gets the message like this:
    //final byte[] message = keyInfo.getContent(new JceKeyTransEnvelopedRecipient(key).setProvider("BC"));

    var keyInfo = (KeyTransRecipientInformation)recipientInformation;
    var message = keyInfo.GetContent(privateKey);

    return Encoding.ASCII.GetString(message);
}

Update 8-10-2018
Following a tip from the author of the Java library I tried to skip the problem of automatically converting to PEM and just using openssl to decrypt it. Unfortunately the openssl command to decrypt the files also fails! Both on Windows as well as on Linux. The strange this is that this is done using the same files that work perfectly fine when used in the Java library. Is the p8 corrupt? Is it somehow only compatible when used in the Java JceKeyTransEnvelopedRecipient???
openssl cms -decrypt -inform DER -in dv_keys_ID_D_oin.p7 -inkey privatep8.key -out id.pem

(I also tried using PEM instead of DER but to no avail. The files are in the GitHub repo)

Update 9-10-2018
Thanks to Carl who figured out the cause of the seemingly corrupt p8 file. Instead of directly decrypting it using openssl cms we had to convert the binary DER p8 to a base64 encoded PEM first.
openssl pkcs8 -inform der -outform pem -in private.p8 -out private-p8.pem -topk8 -nocrypt

We could also do this in c# by reading the bytes from the p8 file, converting them to Base64 and adding the BEGIN/END PRIVATE KEY header/footer around it.
Resources
You can see this code being used and failing as a unit test in my project. The project also includes matching p7, p8 and PEM files to test with.
The Java version can be found here: https://github.com/BramvanPelt/PPDecryption
My work in progress version can be found here: https://github.com/MartijnKooij/PolymorphicPseudonymisation

A: Finally I was able to successfully decrypt the message; it looks like the BouncyCastle APIs are ignoring the SHA-256 OAEP directive and stick to SHA-1 OAEP which results in the padding exception. Additionally, the Microsoft APIs leverage X509Certificate2 which only support RsaCryptoServiceProvider with SHA-1 OAEP support as far as I discovered. One needs the newer RsaCng for SHA-256 OAEP support. I think we need to raise a ticket with corefx (https://github.com/dotnet/corefx) as well as bc-csharp (https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp).
The following c# code will decrypt the message; using Microsoft APIs:
// Read the RSA private key:
var p8Data = File.ReadAllBytes(@"resources\private.p8");
CngKey key = CngKey.Import(p8Data, CngKeyBlobFormat.Pkcs8PrivateBlob);
var rsaprovider = new RSACng(key);

// Process the enveloped CMS structure:
var p7Data = File.ReadAllBytes(@"resources\p7\ID-4.p7");
var envelopedCms = new System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs.EnvelopedCms();
envelopedCms.Decode(p7Data);
var recipients = envelopedCms.RecipientInfos;
var firstRecipient = recipients[0];

// Decrypt the AES-256 CBC session key; take note of enforcing OAEP SHA-256:
var result = rsaprovider.Decrypt(firstRecipient.EncryptedKey, RSAEncryptionPadding.OaepSHA256);

// Build out the AES-256 CBC decryption:
RijndaelManaged alg = new RijndaelManaged();
alg.KeySize = 256;
alg.BlockSize = 128;
alg.Key = result;

// I used an ASN.1 parser (https://lapo.it/asn1js/) to grab the AES IV from the PKCS#7 file.
// I could not find an API call to get this from the enveloped CMS object:
string hexstring = "919D287AAB62B672D6912E72D5DA29CD";
var iv = StringToByteArray(hexstring);
alg.IV = iv;
alg.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
alg.Padding = PaddingMode.PKCS7;

// Strangely both BouncyCastle as well as the Microsoft API report 406 bytes;
// whereas https://lapo.it/asn1js/ reports only 400 bytes.
// The 406 bytes version results in an System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException
// with the message "Length of the data to decrypt is invalid.", so we strip it to 400 bytes:
byte[] content = new byte[400];
Array.Copy(envelopedCms.ContentInfo.Content, content, 400);
string decrypted = null;
ICryptoTransform decryptor = alg.CreateDecryptor(alg.Key, alg.IV);
using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream(content)) {
    using (var cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(memoryStream, alg.CreateDecryptor(alg.Key, alg.IV), CryptoStreamMode.Read)) {
        decrypted = new StreamReader(cryptoStream).ReadToEnd();
    }
}

The implementation of StringToByteArray is as follows:
public static byte[] StringToByteArray(String hex) {
    NumberChars = hex.Length;
    byte[] bytes = new byte[NumberChars / 2];
    for (int i = 0; i < NumberChars; i += 2)
        bytes[i / 2] = Convert.ToByte(hex.Substring(i, 2), 16);
    return bytes;
}

A: You should be able to achieve your goals with .NET 4.7.2:
using (CngKey key = CngKey.Import(p8Data, CngKeyBlobFormat.Pkcs8PrivateBlob))
{
    // The export policy needs to be redefined because CopyWithPrivateKey
    // needs to export/re-import ephemeral keys
    key.SetProperty(
        new CngProperty(
            "Export Policy",
            BitConverter.GetBytes((int)CngExportPolicies.AllowPlaintextExport),
            CngPropertyOptions.Persist));

    using (RSA rsa = new RSACng(key))
    using (X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2(certData))
    using (X509Certificate2 certWithKey = cert.CopyWithPrivateKey(rsa))
    {
        EnvelopedCms cms = new EnvelopedCms();
        cms.Decode(p7Data);
        cms.Decrypt(new X509Certificate2Collection(certWithKey));

        // I get here reliably with your reference documents
    }
}


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