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Derby win has re-ignited the Eagles and their coach
Posted on September 23, 2018 by Paul Cook	Leave a comment
The haunted look of shock and confusion was writ large over Darren Coleman's face. You see, his team's simply don't lose by 50pt margins, so when asked after Wednesday night's derby win over the Sydney Rays to reflect on what exactly had happened the previous weekend in Mudgee, when the NSW Country Eagles had fallen by the reprehensible scoreline of 62-7 to Melbourne Rising, his genuine look of bewilderment in trying to fathom the reasons why, was somewhat understandable.
"I just can't understand it, I still can't explain it." he mused.
It was the culmination of a testing few weeks in rugby for Coleman, a rarity in recent years for a coach whose star has been very much on the rise.
Rewind just three weeks and he was sitting pretty at the helm of his impressive Warringah team in the Shute Shield. They had just beaten Northern Suburbs in a tense and dramatic semi-final at North Sydney Oval, and he was preparing them for their second successive grand final after guiding them to an incredible and emotion-charged Premiership the previous year. Feelings of confidence and belief of back-to-back titles were running high in the Rats camp.
But then a fine young Sydney University side, hugely talented in their own right but handsomely embellished on the day by Jake Gordon and Tolu Latu in particular, tore up their script to run away worthy 45-12 victors and spoil the party.
Seven days later, Coleman and some of his faithful Rats charges had to dust themselves off and go again in a new competition, helped enormously by the NRC fixtures computer that dictated a trip to Perth and a clash with a revamped and hotly fancied Western Force team that already had several games under their belt in the World Series. Tongue duly removed from cheek.
All things considered, they performed pretty admirably despite going down 54-28, and were straight back on the dreaded red-eye across the Nullarbor to prepare for the road trip to Mudgee and the clash with Rising.
Their first home game of the season, it was also the chance to reconnect with their hugely valued fan base in the bush, and to put on a show that the locals could be proud of, and that the juniors watching on would be inspired to emulate in the future. So to say that the result and manner of performance was jarring, would be an understatement.
"We were at home and we went in positive, but we've never had a flogging like that. I still haven't found the answer," he rued.
As a result, coach Coleman went into Wednesday's derby showdown at Leichhardt Oval off the back of three losses in a row, a feeling he hadn't experienced since 2016 when he was in charge of Eastern Suburbs. While the Eagles went in off the back of the biggest loss in their NRC history – the previous being a 61-29 defeat to Brisbane City in September 2015 – and never having lost more than two games in a row.
In fact, under Coleman the Eagles have been by far the most successful of the four New South Wales representatives in it's now five-year existence (RIP the Rams and the Sydney Stars). They have reached two semi-finals, and one grand final in 2016 where they went down to Perth Spirit, and in the two years they didn't reach the pointy end, they finished in 5th by dint of bonus points only. Their winning ratio of 57% prior to Wednesday night, is bettered only by two-time champions Brisbane City.
So the 33-19 win over the Rays was more a restoration of normality, than any great leap forward. But boy, did they need it.
"You pretty much say that if you lose that, you can't make the finals really," said a relieved Coleman, standing outside an Eagles dressing room that was celebrating in traditional style with a rousing rendition of Daryl Braithwaite's 'Ride the Horses'.
"I was proud of our effort in Perth. With eight minutes to go we were only down by 7pts, and they'd had 10 games together, we'd had three sessions, so I was pretty proud of that performance. It's always a new group to start with because we have about 50% player turnover from one year to the next, so it just takes you a while to rebuild them and make them believe. But I was just happy for the boys tonight. They've been thrown together and worked hard but we were just outgunned the last two weeks. So to get a win – scratchy as it was – was important for our team morale."
Jake Gordon's hat-trick was enough to get him in the Wallabies squad – Photo: AJF Photography
Given they too were coming into the game winless, the Rays were understandably determined to break their drought and offered plenty of resistance, fighting back from 14-0 and 21-5 down to trail by just nine points at the break despite coming off second best at the set-piece against an Eagles pack boosted by the inclusions of Messrs Latu, Robertson, Kepu and Hanigan.
A tense third quarter saw the 'home' side with plenty of territory but nothing to show for it on the board, as the Eagles maul defence in particular stood up to the challenge. And with the ever-alert Jake Gordon punishing any opportunity at the other end to claim a hat-trick, that maiden win was secured – but without the all-important bonus point.
"Full credit to the Rays," said Coleman. "I know first hand after the Shute Shield grand final how hard it is to play off a non-dominant scrum that is having a hard time. Some of their attack was really slick and put us under some pressure but again, we were probably our own worst enemy. We were a bit loose in some aspects of our play, and there would be a couple of boys out there that wouldn't have been happy with the number of possessions that they gave up, so that hurt us.
"The Rays would have been pretty happy with that first half I reckon, and to turn around with that big wind behind them I thought they'd be relatively confident. We definitely had a battle on our hands, but we did well. It was just about getting the ball movement right tonight, which we did, but I was really disappointed that we didn't hold on for that bonus point at the end. The two years we haven't made the play-offs, it's been a bonus point or for and against, and everyone else has been getting a bonus point against these guys. There's enough good players in that team to not concede late tries, and that last try was the one that hurt the most.
"It definitely helps to have some real quality players out there," he conceded. "Jake Gordon was excellent, and Tolu Latu, although he made a few errors, he's definitely a notch above when he's on. But I want to give a wrap to Sam Thomson who made his debut, and I thought was really good. His lineout work was excellent as usual, but his carries were good too, and he always seemed to slip the first tackle. He was exceptional and I'm really happy for him."
The irony for Coleman is that he is now benefitting from some of the relative luxuries afforded his previous opponents in the shape of Latu, Paddy Ryan and Harry Johnson-Holmes, all of whom packed down for Sydney Uni against Warringah in dominant fashion a few short weeks go.
"When things were at their lowest on grand final day, after Uni had clocked something like their 15th scrum penalty, I looked at my assistant coach Ben McCormack, who's also my assistant with the Eagles, and said 'There's one upside Benny, three of those props are ours next week!'" he laughs.
"We don't completely control team selection in terms of injury availability, because the Waratahs have some restrictions around what we can do, so we just deal with the cards that we're dealt and do our best. But it was perfect timing getting those Wallabies tonight, right in the middle of the three games in eight days, it allowed us to rotate some guys. We lose those Wallabies now but we should have a few boys back to fill the gaps."
Emmanuel Meafou leads the charge against the Rays – Photo: AJF Photography
Of course, the elephant in the room here is the rank stupidity of launching a new competition – the third tier of rugby in Australia – on the same day that the showpiece final in the country's fourth level – Uni versus Warringah in the Shute Shield decider – was taking place.
This meant that every other NRC team had a game under their belts when the New South Wales sides joined the party in week two, and that around a third of those fighting it out at North Sydney Oval were expected to dust off their post-grand final hangovers – be they inspired by celebration or commiseration – and rock up to training to adjust to new team mates and new combinations with a few days preparation. It also – as Coleman pointed out – forced a reshuffle of the fixtures to leave both teams facing a ridiculous three games in just eight days.
As a result, the one remaining NSW state derby – marketed as a historical return to the old City v Country clashes of old – was shoe-horned into a windy Wednesday night slot, at a rugby league ground, and also offered as a TV viewing option. And the crowd was…
The farcical scenario is not lost on those forced to somehow negotiate such hurdles and still produce a winning footy team, or else face the wrath of the all-knowing 'Twitterati'.
"It just blows me away that we have all these University-qualified business expert management people running our game, and they can't seem to get a schedule organised that doesn't clash the two most important comps at the same time," said a frustrated Coleman, no doubt echoing the sentiments of many.
But deal with it he must, and the Eagles charabanc has quickly readied itself and moved another 480kms north to Armidale for this afternoon's clash against a potent-looking Canberra Vikings outfit. Minor Premiers and losing finalists in 2017, the Vikings are boosted by the inclusion of Joe Powell, who stays behind on home soil after Jake Gordon's exploits earned him a well-deserved spot on the Wallabies flight to South Africa.
Powell lines up alongside Wharenui Hawera in an all-Brumbies halves combo that will provide a stern test for the Eagles' rearguard. But this comp isn't supposed to be easy, and Coleman will be looking for a repeat of some positive recent history between the two sides to truly ignite their season, and repay the country faithful in the process.
"There's some really good teams and there's no gimmes in this comp," he attests. "But the good thing is Canberra was the game that got us on track last year, in round three in Armidale, and we won after the bell. That kick-started our season and we went on a winning streak, so hopefully we've got some momentum now and can go out and get a similar result.
"We're definitely better at home and we love getting up to the country. It was just horrible last week in Mudgee, and I felt sorry for all the people that came and watched. It was embarrassing.
"We've got some standards to get back on track."
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An other graphical bug: once I removed a file group in the File groups tab (it was the only group), and some parts of its row remained visible in the window. It didn't work - there was the button as well, but I couldn't click it -, just wasn't cleared.
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Q: How to edit java.util.package I have a class that contains some useful methods.This is the code for that:
import java.util.Vector;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class bk {
    private static int iAsLoopRunner=0;
    static Scanner takeInput=new Scanner(System.in);
    public static void print_int(int arr[])
    {
        for(iAsLoopRunner=0;iAsLoopRunner<arr.length;iAsLoopRunner++)
        {
            System.out.print(arr[iAsLoopRunner]+" "+"|"+" ");
        }
        System.out.println();
    }
    public static void print_float(float arr[])
    {
        for(iAsLoopRunner=0;iAsLoopRunner<arr.length;iAsLoopRunner++)
        {
            System.out.print(arr[iAsLoopRunner]+" "+"|"+" ");
        }
        System.out.println();
    }
    public static void print_string(String arr[])
    {
        for(iAsLoopRunner=0;iAsLoopRunner<arr.length;iAsLoopRunner++)
        {
            System.out.print(arr[iAsLoopRunner]+" "+"|"+" ");
        }
        System.out.println();
    }
    public static void print_double(double arr[])
    {
        for(iAsLoopRunner=0;iAsLoopRunner<arr.length;iAsLoopRunner++)
        {
            System.out.print(arr[iAsLoopRunner]+" "+"|"+" ");
        }
        System.out.println();
    }
    public static void print_long(long arr[])
    {
        for(iAsLoopRunner=0;iAsLoopRunner<arr.length;iAsLoopRunner++)
        {
            System.out.print(arr[iAsLoopRunner]+" "+"|"+" ");
        }
        System.out.println();
    }
    public static void print_vector(Vector arr)
    {
        for(iAsLoopRunner=0;iAsLoopRunner<arr.size();iAsLoopRunner++)
        {
            System.out.print(arr.get(iAsLoopRunner)+" "+"|"+" ");
        }
        System.out.println();
    }
    public static void sop(Object obj)
    {
        System.out.print(obj+" ");
    }
    public static void sopln(Object obj)
    {
        System.out.println(obj);
    }
    public static int[] getInt(int arraySize)
    {
        int arrayToReturn[]=new int[arraySize];
        for(iAsLoopRunner=0;iAsLoopRunner<arraySize;iAsLoopRunner++)
        {
            arrayToReturn[iAsLoopRunner]=takeInput.nextInt();
        }
        return arrayToReturn;
    }
    public static String[] getString(int arraySize)
    {
        String arrayToReturn[]=new String[arraySize];
        for(iAsLoopRunner=0;iAsLoopRunner<arraySize;iAsLoopRunner++)
        {
            arrayToReturn[iAsLoopRunner]=takeInput.next();
        }
        return arrayToReturn;
    }
    public static float[] getFloat(int arraySize)
    {
        float arrayToReturn[]=new float[arraySize];
        for(iAsLoopRunner=0;iAsLoopRunner<arraySize;iAsLoopRunner++)
        {
            arrayToReturn[iAsLoopRunner]=takeInput.nextFloat();
        }
        print_float(arrayToReturn);
        System.out.println("done ;)");
        return arrayToReturn;
    }
    public static long[] getLong(int arraySize)
    {
        long arrayToReturn[]=new long[arraySize];
        for(iAsLoopRunner=0;iAsLoopRunner<arraySize;iAsLoopRunner++)
        {
            arrayToReturn[iAsLoopRunner]=takeInput.nextLong();
        }
        print_long(arrayToReturn);
        System.out.println("done ;)");
        return arrayToReturn;
    }
    public static double[] getDouble(int arraySize)
    {
        double arrayToReturn[]=new double[arraySize];
        for(iAsLoopRunner=0;iAsLoopRunner<arraySize;iAsLoopRunner++)
        {
            arrayToReturn[iAsLoopRunner]=takeInput.nextDouble();
        }
        print_double(arrayToReturn);
        System.out.println("done ;)");
        return arrayToReturn;
    }
}

I want to add this class to java.util package as it facilitates in writing less code.Is it possible so that I can edit java.util package in my pc which reflects the changes in my pc alone ?

A: The java.util packaged is a core package of the Java language.
Don't try to use it because first you could not (not allowed) and second it is a bad practice to couple the core classes with custom classes.
These are two distinct layers. Trying to mix them would very error prone for developers.
For example how to differ your util classes from jdk util classes ? How to handle conflicts if the JDK API is updated ?
Suppose you want to have two distinct versions of these util classes, with your solution you cannot either as all is in the JDK.
At last, it is clearly not a convention and usable solution with modern build tools as Maven or Gradle where you specify your dependent libraries.
You should rather add your abstraction classes in a custom package and create a specific library (JAR) if you want to reuse it in any project.

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The continued encirclement of Derna and the escalation of conflict is having a devastating impact on civilians who fear for their lives
TRIPOLI, Libya, May 25, 2018,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The humanitarian community in Libya is perturbed by the continued lack of humanitarian access and subsequent assistance into Derna despite repeated requests. Humanitarian actors have not been allowed to deliver life-saving assistance to Derna such as supplies to support medical facilities and other basic services as well as to provide food and non-food items to those in need. Shortages in medicine and medical supplies are reaching critical levels and the first food shortages are being reported.
"I call on all parties to immediately allow safe and unfettered access to Derna for humanitarian actors and urgently needed humanitarian goods," Ms. Ribeiro said. "We need to be able to assist people in need without delay to prevent further loss of life"
The continued encirclement of Derna and the escalation of conflict is having a devastating impact on civilians who fear for their lives. Reports refer to at least one child killed and hundreds of families who have fled their homes.
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"Real-time," Interplanetary Chat
6 Mar 2017 by Christopher Noessel
While recording a podcast with the guys at DecipherSciFi about the twee(n) love story The Space Between Us, we spent some time kvetching about how silly it was that many of the scenes involved Gardner, on Mars, in a real-time text chat with a girl named Tulsa, on Earth. It's partly bothersome because throughout the rest of the the movie, the story tries for a Mohs sci-fi hardness of, like, 1.5, somewhere between Real Life and Speculative Science, so it can't really excuse itself through the Applied Phlebotinum that, say, Star Wars might use. The rest of the film feels like it's trying to have believable science, but during these scenes it just whistles, looks the other way, and hopes you don't notice that the two lovebirds are breaking the laws of physics as they swap flirt emoji.
Hopefully unnecessary science brief: Mars and Earth are far away from each other. Even if the communications transmissions are sent at light speed between them, it takes much longer than the 1 second of response time required to feel "instant." How much longer? It depends. The planets orbit the sun at different speeds, so aren't a constant distance apart. At their closest, it takes light 3 minutes to travel between Mars and Earth, and at their farthest—while not being blocked by the sun—it takes about 21 minutes. A round-trip is double that. So nothing akin to real-time chat is going to happen.
But I'm a designer, a sci-fi apologist, and a fairly talented backworlder. I want to make it work. And perhaps because of my recent dive into narrow AI, I began to realize that, well, in a way, maybe it could. It just requires rethinking what's happening in the chat.
Let's first acknowledge that we've solved long distance communications a long time ago. Gardner and Tulsa could just, you know, swap letters or, like the characters in 2001: A Space Odyssey, recorded video messages. There. Problem solved. It's not real-time interaction, but it gets the job done. But kids aren't so much into pen pals anymore, and we have to acknowledge that Gardner doesn't want to tip his hand that he's on Mars (it's a grave NASA secret, for plot reasons). So the question is how could we make it work so it feels like a real time chat to her. Let's first solve it for the case where he's trying to disguise his location, and then how it might work when both participants are in the know.
Fooling Tulsa
Since 1984 (ping me, as always, if you can think of an earlier reference) sci-fi has had the notion of a digitally-replicated personality. Here I'm thinking of Gibson's Neuromancer and the RAM boards on which Dixie Flatline "lives." These RAM boards house an interactive digital personality of a person, built out of a lifetime of digital traces left behind: social media, emails, photos, video clips, connections, expressed interests, etc. Anyone in that story could hook the RAM board up to a computer, and have conversations with the personality housed there that would closely approximate how that person would (or would have) respond in real life.
Listen to the podcast for a mini-rant on translucent screens, followed by apologetics.
Is this likely to actually happen? Well it kind of already is. Here in the real world, we're seeing early, crude "me bots" populate the net which are taking baby steps toward the same thing. (See MessinaBot, https://bottr.me/, https://sensay.it/, the forthcoming http://bot.me/) By the time we actually get a colony to Mars (plus the 16 years for Gardner to mature), mebot technology should should be able to stand in for him convincingly enough in basic online conversations.
Training the bot
So in the story, he would look through cached social media feeds to find a young lady he wanted to strike up a conversation with, and then ask his bot-maker engine to look at her public social media to build a herBot with whom he could chat, to train it for conversations. During this training, the TulsaBot would chat about topics of interest gathered from her social media. He could pause the conversation to look up references or prepare convincing answers to the trickier questions TulsaBot asks. He could also add some topics to the conversation they might have in common, and questions he might want to ask her. By doing this, his GardnerBot isn't just some generic thing he sends out to troll any young woman with. It's a more genuine, interactive first "letter" sent directly to her. He sends this GardnerBot to servers on Earth.
A demonstration of a chat with a short Martian delay. (Yes, it's an animated gif.)
Launching the bot
GardnerBot would wait until it saw Tulsa online and strike up the conversation with her. It would send a signal back to Gardner that the chat has begun so he can sit on his end and read a space-delayed transcript of the chat. GardnerBot would try its best to manage the chat based on what it knows about awkward teen conversation, Turing test best practices, what it knows about Gardner, and how it has been trained specifically for Tulsa. Gardner would assuage some of his guilt by having it dodge and carefully frame the truth, but not outright lie.
If during the conversation she raised a topic or asked a question for which GardnerBot was not trained, it could promise an answer later, and then deflect, knowing that it should pad the conversation in the meantime:
Ask her to answer the same question first, probing into details to understand rationale and buy more time
Dive down into a related subtopic in which the bot has confidence, and which promises to answer the initial question
Deflect conversation to another topic in which it has a high degree of confidence and lots of detail to share
Text a story that Gardner likes to tell that is known to take about as long as the current round-trip signal
OK, here's one: If you had to live anywhere on Earth where they don't speak English, where would you live?
GardnerBot has a low confidence that it knows Gardner's answer. It could respond…
(you first) "Oh wow. That is a tough one. Can I have a couple of minutes to think about it? I promise I'll answer, but you tell me yours first."
(related subtopic) "I'm thinking about this foreign movie that I saw one time. There were a lot of animals in it and a waterfall. Does that sound familiar?"
(new topic) "What? How am I supposed to answer that one? 🙂 Umm…While I think about it, tell me…what kind of animal would you want to be reincarnated as. And you have to say why."
(story delay) "Ha. Sure, but can I tell a story first? When I was a little kid, I used to be obsessed with this music that I would hear drifting into my room from somewhere around my house…"
Lagged-realtime training
Each of those responses is a delay tactic that allows the chat transcript to travel to Mars for Gardner to do some bot training on the topic. He would be watching the time-delayed transcript of the chat, keeping an eye on an adjacent track of data containing the meta information about what the bot is doing, conversationally speaking. When he saw it hit low-confidence or high-stakes topic and deflect, it would provide a chat window for him to tell the GardnerBot what it should do or say.
To the stalling GARDNERBOT…
For now, I'm going to pick India, because it's warm and I bet I would really like the spicy food and the rain. Whatever that colored powder festival is called. I'm also interested in their culture, Bollywood, and Hinduism.
As he types, the message travels back to Earth where GardnerBot begins to incorporate his answers to the chat…
At a natural break in the conversation…
GARDNERBOT
OK. I think I finally have an answer to your earlier question. How about…India?
India?
Think about it! Running around in warm rain. Or trying some of the street food under an umbrella. Have you seen youTube videos from that festival with the colored powder everywhere? It looks so cool. Do you know what it's called?
Note that the bot could easily look it up and replace "that festival with the colored powder everywhere" with "Holi Festival of Color" but it shouldn't. Gardner doesn't know that fact, so the bot shouldn't pretend it knows it. A Cyrano-de-Bergerac software—where it makes him sound more eloquent, intelligent, or charming than he really is to woo her—would be a worse kind of deception. Gardner wants to hide where he is, not who he is.
That said, Gardner should be able to direct the bot, to change its tactics. "OMG. GardnerBot! You're getting too personal! Back off!" It might not be enough to cover a flub made 42 minutes ago, but of course the bot should know how to apologize on Gardner's behalf and ask conversational forgiveness.
If the signal to Mars got interrupted or the bot got into too much trouble with pressure to talk about low confidence or high stakes topics, it could use a believable, pre-rolled excuse to end the conversation.
Oh crap. Will you be online later? I've got chores I have to do.
Then, Gardner could chat with TulsaBot on his end without time pressure to refine GardnerBot per their most recent topics, which would be sent back to Earth servers to be ready for the next chat.
In this way he could have "chats" with Tulsa that are run by a bot but quite custom to the two of them. It's really Gardner's questions, topics, jokes, and interest, but a bot-managed delivery of these things.
So it could work, does it fit the movie? I think so. It would be believable because he's a nerd raised by scientists. He made his own robot, why not his own bot?
From the audience's perspective, it might look like they're chatting in real time, but subtle cues on Gardner's interface reward the diligent with hints that he's watching a time delay. Maybe the chat we see in the film is even just cleverly edited to remove the bots.
How he manages to hide this data stream from NASA to avoid detection is another question better handled by someone else.
An honest version: bot envoy
So that solves the logic from the movie's perspective but of course it's still squickish. He is ultimately deceiving her. Once he returns to Mars and she is back on Earth, could they still use the same system, but with full knowledge of its botness? Would real world astronauts use it?
Would it be too fake?
I don't think it would be too fake. Sure, the bot is not the real person, but neither are the pictures, videos, and letters we fondly keep with us as we travel far from home. We know they're just simulacra, souvenir likenesses of someone we love. We don't throw these away in disgust for being fakes. They are precious because they are reminders of the real thing. So would the themBot.
Hey, TulsaBot. Remember when we were knee deep in the Pacific Ocean? I was thinking about that today.
TULSABOT
I do. It's weird how it messes with your sense of balance, right? Did you end up dreaming about it later? I sometimes do after being in waves a long time.
I can't remember, but someday I hope to come back to Earth and feel it again. OK. I have to go, but let me know how training is going. Have you been on the G machine yet?
Nicely, you wouldn't need stall tactics in the honest version. Or maybe it uses them, but can be called out.
GardnerBot, you don't have to stall. Just tell Gardner to watch Mission to Mars and update you. Because it's hilarious and we have to go check out the face when I'm there.
Sending your loved one the transcript will turn it into a kind of love letter. The transcript could even be appended with a letter that jokes about the bot. The example above was too short for any semi-realtime insertions in the text, but maybe that would encourage longer chats. Then the bot serves as charming filler, covering the delays between real contact.
Ultimately, yes, I think we can backworld what looks physics-breaking into something that makes sense, and might even be a new kind of interactive memento between interplanetary sweethearts, family, and friends.
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Q: ORA-22288 when trying to read BLOB from Windows directory I am trying to read BLOB from Windows directory located on the Oracle 11g DB server:
create or replace directory BLOB_DIR as 'C:\data\images';

grant read, write on directory BLOB_DIR to public;

set serveroutput on;

declare
    l_bfile  BFILE;
begin
    l_bfile := BFILENAME('BLOB_DIR', 'blob.jpg');
    DBMS_LOB.fileopen(l_bfile, DBMS_LOB.file_readonly);
    DBMS_LOB.fileclose(l_bfile);
end;
/

However, I am getting the following error:
ORA-22288: file or LOB operation FILEOPEN failed
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_LOB", line 744
ORA-06512: at line 5

I checked the directory and file exist and all the permissions are given to Everyone.
What am I doing wrong? How to get more specific error message?


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import { MarkerWithLabelOptions } from "./marker";
import { OverlayViewSafe } from "./overlay-view-safe";

export type LabelOptions = Partial<MarkerWithLabelOptions>;

const BLOCK = "block";
const NONE = "none";
const ABSOLUTE = "absolute";
const CURSOR = "pointer";
const LABEL_CLASS = "marker-label";
const EVENT_CLASS = "marker-label-event";
const EVENT_DIV_OPACITY = "0.01";

export class Label extends OverlayViewSafe {
  public anchor: google.maps.Point;
  public position: google.maps.LatLng;
  public zIndex: number;
  public clickable: boolean;
  public draggable: boolean;
  private labelDiv: HTMLElement;
  private eventDiv: HTMLElement;
  private zIndexOffset: number;
  private hoverCursor: string;

  constructor({
    clickable = true,
    cursor = CURSOR,
    draggable = true,
    labelAnchor = new google.maps.Point(0, 0),
    labelClass = LABEL_CLASS,
    labelContent,
    position,
    opacity = 1,
    map,
    labelZIndexOffset = 1,
    visible = true,
    zIndex = 0,
  }: LabelOptions) {
    super();

    this.createElements();

    this.anchor = labelAnchor;
    this.content = labelContent;
    this.className = labelClass;
    this.clickable = clickable;
    this.cursor = cursor;
    this.draggable = draggable;

    if (position instanceof google.maps.LatLng) {
      this.position = position;
    } else {
      this.position = new google.maps.LatLng(position);
    }

    this.opacity = opacity;
    this.visible = visible;
    this.zIndex = zIndex;
    this.zIndexOffset = labelZIndexOffset;

    if (map) {
      this.setMap(map);
    }
  }

  public get element(): HTMLElement {
    return this.labelDiv;
  }

  public get content(): string {
    return this.labelDiv.innerHTML;
  }

  public set content(content: string | HTMLElement) {
    if (typeof content === "string") {
      this.labelDiv.innerHTML = content;
      this.eventDiv.innerHTML = content;
    } else {
      this.labelDiv.innerHTML = "";
      this.labelDiv.appendChild(content);
      this.eventDiv.innerHTML = "";
      this.eventDiv.appendChild(content.cloneNode(true));
    }
  }

  /**
   * Get the class of the label div elements.
   *
   * **Note**: This will always return the default `marker-label`.
   */
  public get className(): string {
    return this.labelDiv.className;
  }

  /**
   * Set the class of the label div elements.
   *
   * **Note**: The default `marker-label` will additionaly be added.
   */
  public set className(className: string) {
    this.labelDiv.className = className;
    this.labelDiv.classList.add(LABEL_CLASS);
    this.eventDiv.className = className;
    this.eventDiv.classList.add(EVENT_CLASS);
  }

  public set cursor(cursor: string) {
    this.hoverCursor = cursor;
    if (this.isInteractive) {
      this.eventDiv.style.cursor = cursor;
    }
  }

  public get cursor(): string {
    return this.isInteractive ? this.hoverCursor : "inherit";
  }

  public get isInteractive(): boolean {
    return this.draggable || this.clickable;
  }

  public set opacity(opacity: number) {
    this.labelDiv.style.opacity = String(opacity);
  }

  public set title(title: string) {
    this.eventDiv.title = title;
  }

  public set visible(visible: boolean) {
    if (visible) {
      this.labelDiv.style.display = BLOCK;
      this.eventDiv.style.display = BLOCK;
    } else {
      this.labelDiv.style.display = NONE;
      this.eventDiv.style.display = NONE;
    }
  }

  public onAdd(): void {
    this.getPanes().markerLayer.appendChild(this.labelDiv);
    this.getPanes().overlayMouseTarget.appendChild(this.eventDiv);
  }

  public draw(): void {
    const coordinates = this.getProjection().fromLatLngToDivPixel(
      this.position
    );
    const x = Math.round(coordinates.x + this.anchor.x);
    const y = Math.round(coordinates.y + this.anchor.y);
    this.labelDiv.style.left = `${x}px`;
    this.labelDiv.style.top = `${y}px`;
    this.eventDiv.style.left = this.labelDiv.style.left;
    this.eventDiv.style.top = this.labelDiv.style.top;

    // If zIndex is not defined, used vertical position on map.
    const zIndex =
      (this.zIndex || Math.ceil(coordinates.y)) + this.zIndexOffset;
    this.labelDiv.style.zIndex = String(zIndex);
    this.eventDiv.style.zIndex = String(zIndex);

    // If not interactive set display none on event div
    this.eventDiv.style.display = this.isInteractive
      ? this.eventDiv.style.display
      : NONE;
    this.eventDiv.style.cursor = this.cursor;
  }

  public addDomListener(
    event: string,
    handler: (event: Event) => void
  ): google.maps.MapsEventListener {
    return google.maps.event.addDomListener(this.eventDiv, event, handler);
  }

  public onRemove(): void {
    this.labelDiv.parentNode.removeChild(this.labelDiv);
    this.eventDiv.parentNode.removeChild(this.eventDiv);
  }

  private createElements(): void {
    this.labelDiv = document.createElement("div");
    this.eventDiv = document.createElement("div");

    // default styles for both divs
    this.labelDiv.style.position = ABSOLUTE;
    this.eventDiv.style.position = ABSOLUTE;

    // default styles for eventDiv
    this.eventDiv.style.opacity = EVENT_DIV_OPACITY;
  }
}

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In four to six weeks, you will receive in the mail a Voter Notification card. This will notify you that the Elections Office now has your registration card on file and requests that you check the information to be sure that it is correct.
Between forty and twenty-one days before the election, the Elections Office will send you a sample ballot pamphlet that will contain the information about the candidates and ballot measures on which you will vote. The address of the polling place will be shown on the mailing label of the sample ballot pamphlet back cover. Also watch for the state Voter information guide sent to you by the Secretary of State's office before every June Primary and November General Election. This too contains valuable information.
When you have read the sample ballot and/or state Voter information guide carefully and you feel that you are informed on each issue and candidate, mark your sample ballot. Take the sample ballot pamphlet with you into the voting booth on Election Day to save time.
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Talented junior players in the U9 to U19 teams and the women's teams of FC Bayern Munich have been training at the new FC Bayern Campus on Ingolstädter Strasse since 1 August. A 70 million euro state-of-the-art football academy has been built on the site of a former barracks within sight of the Allianz Arena in the north of Munich. Polytan was in on the action as the fitter of choice: the Burgheim-based sports surface specialist laid around 22,000 square metres of synthetic turf and synthetic surfaces outside – with 20,000 square metres consisting of the LigaTurf RS Pro II CoolPlus premium synthetic turf system with top quality Infill Bionic Fibre infill granules.
Great importance is attached to the development of young talent in Munich: the ultra-modern sports facilities on the club's 30-hectare site include a sports hall, a ground with three stands for 2,500 spectators, a basketball court, a beach soccer pitch, fitness/technique/coordination areas, mini pitches, a circular track and seven full-size pitches. This unique offering is rounded off by the academy for 35 talented junior players, the club house, a cafeteria, a medical practice and much more besides.
At the request of the German record-holders, sports surface systems from Polytan were installed over an area of around 22,000 square metres on the open-air site, with synthetic turf from Polytan being laid on two full-size pitches, two mini pitches and the fitness/technique/coordination area. In addition, Polytan synthetic surfaces were the ideal choice for the basketball court and the circular track: the basketball court was fitted out with the hard-wearing PolyPlay S all-round surface, while the Rekortan M professional sports surfacing system ensures that the running track is suitable for competitions. Both areas have been laid in classic brick red, the usual colour of choice in professional facilities used for competitive events.
When it came to the synthetic turf, FC Bayern Munich opted for the LigaTurf RS Pro II CoolPlus system with Infill Bionic Fibre infill granules, which currently represents state-of-the-art technology in professional football.
Polytan had already been awarded the contract for the synthetic pitches at the training ground on Säbener Strasse by the German record-holders back in 2009 and 2011. Thomas Hanke, the Sales Director for Germany at Polytan, attributes the fact that the club has again opted for premium products by the Burgheim-based sports surface specialist to the continuous advances in its systems. "In combination with the elastic base layer, which provides for long-lasting, optimum force reduction, the LigaTurf RS Pro II CoolPlus synthetic turf system is ideal for the high demands placed on it by FC Bayern Munich. The highly resilient smooth filaments are similar to real blades of grass and yet they provide consistently good playing qualities, even when the weather is cold and wet. There is no need to close the pitches, and the turf heating system means that trainingsessions can run continuously, even if temperatures fall below freezing or there is a bit of snow."
The state-of-the-art Infill Bionic Fibre granules contribute to even better playing qualities and help to reduce the risk of injury to players. The EPDM granules are of an irregular shape, in contrast to the angular, smooth-cut form of conventional infill. The result is a softer and naturally springy surface. Thomas Hanke emphasises yet another advantage: "The organic structure of the infill granules reduces what is known as "splash", when material sprays up in other words, and duelling and tackling are possible to almost the same extent as on real grass." Furthermore, stalks of grass in two shades of green and the green infill granules give the turf a fresh, natural look which lasts all year round. The playing field is prevented from heating up excessively on hot summer days by Polytan's patented CoolPlus technology, which incorporates UV-reflective pigments into the filaments.


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The Global Economy's Shifting Center of Gravity
byEconomonitor
This posting seeks to repair that and provide a depiction of what the somewhat longer-run historical evidence says.
By Danny Quah
In the current policy debate on whether China, India, and the rest of Asia can continue to grow without a return to international markets of the US consumer—or, indeed, the opposite whether those national-economies will from now form the engine of growth for the global economy—compelling empirical evidence has been relatively scarce.
Define the global economy's centre of gravity to be the average location of economic activity, measured 3-dimensionally, across geographies on Earth. To fix ideas, I obtained PPP-adjusted incomes and geographical location data (World Development Indicators Online, Asian Development Bank, Google Earth, Brinkhoff; and Grether and Mathys, 2009). By merging already-extant data and estimating previously unused locations (distributing national income across urban agglomerations and rural places), I derived nearly 700 identifiable places on the planet where economic activity is measurable.
Since I use PPP-adjusted incomes data, the standard Balassa-Samuelson reasoning suggests that poorer economies will generally see an increase in their relative weights, as compared to when using incomes evaluated at market exchange rates. However, if those economies are also the fast-growing ones, then over time this Balassa-Samuelson effect ought to diminish. Thus, because of my use of PPP incomes data, any conclusions that suggest the rising relative importance of China, India, and other poorer parts of the world might be, in actuality, under-estimating the true underlying effects.
I find the following: In 1980, the global economy's centre of gravity was mid-Atlantic. This, unsurprisingly, reflects how North America and Western Europe between them held by far the greatest proportion of global economic activity. However, by 2008, that centre of gravity had drifted to a location east of Helsinki and Bucharest. Of course, this change occurred not due to the emergence of Turkey or Belarus, but instead from the continuing rise of China, India, and the rest of Asia. It is this rise of the East that has pulled the global economy's center of gravity 4800 km (75% of Earth's radius) Eastward across the surface of the planet. Extrapolating growth in those almost 700 locations across Earth gives the world's economic centre of gravity locating by 2050 literally between India and China. Observed from Earth's surface, the global economy's centre of gravity will move from its 1980 location 9300 km or 1.5 times the radius of the planet across Earth's surface.
There is, of course, no necessity that the centre of gravity locate on the planet's surface. Indeed, the calculation determines that the global economy's centre of gravity has typically been about 2800 km beneath the surface of the planet. Visualizing the drift of such a subterranean point is not straightforward: it matters where the observer is located in three-dimensional space, and distortion is inevitable when mapping onto a flat two-dimensional surface even just the surface of the three-dimensional Earth, much less subterranean locations as well. To minimize such distortion, I construct projections from the North-South axis of the planet to a cylinder having its axis aligned to that North-South axis and placed tangent to the planet at the Earth's equator.
The resulting Figure shows the projection of the global economy's center of gravity to that cylinder, placed against a familiar background of countries, coast lines, and oceans:
The center of gravity at 3-year intervals is indicated by dots in black for 1980-2007; the extrapolation between 2010 to 2049 is indicated by dots reduced in size and red in color.
The global economy's center of gravity has moved steadily east over the last 30 years, and looks set to continue that trend, slowing down only by around 2050 to converge just inside China, on China's border with India.
The Figure therefore shows (a) it is no historical surprise that the global economy might continue to be powered forward by Asia, with or without the US consumer returning to international markets—this Asian growth engine has indeed already done so for much of the last three decades; (b) the shift in the distribution of global economic activity eastward is substantial and long-term; this switch in relative importance is not just the result of a cyclical emergence out of the 2008 global financial crisis.
A paper bearing the same title as this blog posting contains details and more extensive discussion. An animation of the Figure that shows evolution in time is available.
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Q: What is the meaning of "duh" in this sentence? Though I know the meaning of each word except 'duh', I have failed to realize the meaning of the following sentence.

Why do researchers get so many grants to do stuff that's like, well, duh?

Would anybody like to explain the meaning of above sentence?

A: One definition of "duh" is "a disdainful indication that something is obvious" (Wiktionary).
So that sentence says that many researchers get grants to research things that are so obvious that they don't really need researching. For example, if a researcher received a grant to conduct a study on whether or not most dogs like to play fetch, the result is so obvious that it isn't really worth researching.

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DUH
  2 —used derisively to indicate that something just stated is all too obvious or self-eviden Merriam-Webster

So the sentence could be re-written:
Why do researchers get so many grants to investigate painfully obvious things?
I found it used in exactly that way:

'Duh' science: Why researchers spend so much time proving the obvious LA Times
  Alcohol increases reaction time; obese men have lower odds of getting married. A waste of research money? Not necessarily, scientists say.

A: The punctuation of this phrase is not correct. It is better written as:

Why do researchers get so many grants to do stuff that's like, "Well, duh?"

The implication of this sentence is that if two people were to have a conversation about the stuff, it would be something along these lines:

Person 1: Did you know that the sky is blue?
  Person 2: Well, duh.

With this understanding of the subtext, a rephrasing becomes more obvious:

Why do researches get so many grants to answer common sense questions?


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West Virginia DL Dante Stills Earns Invite to NFL Combine
West Virginia's Dante Stills is one step closer to reaching his goal of playing professional football.
The Mountaineers' defensive lineman was invited to participate in the NFL combine, as announced on the team's Twitter account.
✅ INVITED@Dstills55 is NFL Combine bound pic.twitter.com/386sJAXN5l
— West Virginia Football (@WVUfootball) January 19, 2023
The 2023 edition of the event will take place starting Sunday, Feb. 26 and run through Monday, March 6 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, home of the Indianapolis Colts. This will be the 36th consecutive year the combine will be held in Indianapolis.
Stills will be a part of the first group of position players to be evaluated, as defensive linemen and linebackers are set to report on the first night.
Stills' invitation to the NFL combine is the second big event he has been asked to participate in, joining the annual East-West Shrine bowl, in which Stills and teammate Bryce Ford-Wheaton will be suiting up on Thursday, Feb. 2 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
West Virginia Football DL Dante Stills Accepts Invite to East-West Shrine Bowl
Stills recorded 26 tackles, 13 solo, and 4.5 sacks during his final season at WVU in 2022. His 2021 campaign stands as his individual best statistics wise, posting 36 tackles, 29 solo, and a single-season best 7 sacks.
He set the WVU program record for tackles for a loss in his fives years as a Mountaineer towards the end of the 2022 season.
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I've already written about horsetail, sometimes called 'England's Aloe Vera', due to its incredible healing properties. This month I want to look at the real Aloe Vera, or similar species that many of you will have growing in pots on your window sill.
Aloes are succulents. This means they have fat, fleshy leaves designed to store large amounts of fluid in arid environments. It is the large amount of water stored within the cells of the leaves that gives us the sticky gel that is used for so many healing and beauty processes.
The photos in the article are of my own plants; amazingly, they all stem from (pardon the pun) one tiny, baby plant I was given by an old friend many years ago. Aloes quite happily reproduce by splitting and 'having babies'; tiny offshoots that become new plants in their own right. From one, miniscule plant in a 3 inch pot, I now have 3 large plants that are each a foot in height and width, and about 8 smaller ones. Not including ones that have been given away as gifts! So realistically, my descendants may have Aloe plants that all have their roots right here, right now with me. A truly immortal plant.
I have two, beautiful aloe plants on the tiny kitchen windowsill in my house. They are quite happy with the small amount of light they get through the small pane, and they are right next to the sink so I never forget to water them once the soil dries out. Why do I keep them where I cook? Because I am clumsy, and I frequently burn myself while performing my culinary experiments. Having the Aloe to hand is like having access to your own little burns unit! I break a tip off a leaf, revealing the squidgy, unctuous substance inside. The leaf is gently squeezed to encourage the liquid to come out. This is then spread on the affected area. The gel is remarkably soothing. Even in summer it possesses a cooling quality that takes the sting of the burn away instantly.
But normally, when I'm in the Kitchen Garden, I'm talking about food. And Aloe is not so great in that area. You can drink a juice made from the gel and many companies (I won't name and shame) have made grandiose claims about the health benefits including that it helps with weight loss, immune function and the all-encompassing 'detox'. There is, however, no scientific evidence to back these claims up. Also, the juice/gel may be toxic if eaten in very high quantities, although this has only been confirmed in rats, not humans.
Toxicity and health claims aside, it really doesn't taste very nice (yep, I tried it!) so for me, the best use for it in the kitchen is to soothe my sore fingers when I singe them.
As well as being a great topical remedy for burns, Aloe gives the same soothing benefits for sunburn, dry skin and even grazes or friction burns. It has been used in this way for over 5000 years, by numerous cultures and civilizations including the Egyptians, the Mesopotamians, the Chinese, Native Americans and the Ancient Greeks. The Knights of the Templar used it in a drink called 'Elixir of Jerusalem' which they believed increased their longevity and general wellbeing.
Although there is no hard evidence to prove Aloe has these effects on humans, in tests on animals it has been found that Aloe does have regenerative properties, helping heal skin problems in rabbits and eye defects in pigs. It was also found to produce a resistance to strychnine poisoning in white mice. Of course, this proves little for the benefits of Aloe on human physiology, but as anecdotal evidence, 5000 years of use says a great deal. Aloe has been used to slow the growth of cancerous cells and has even been considered as part of a course of treatments for AIDs patients.
The main benefit of Aloe that has been scientifically proven is in the treatment of gastric ulcers and ulcerative colitis. In tests, those who drank aloe vera gel in water twice a day for four weeks had a clinical response including remission of the condition. I know many people who swear by aloe juice for calming the stomach, especially in cases of IBS. Again, the evidence for this is anecdotal so please use your own judgement and consult a doctor before using Aloe for medical purposes.
As well as the other numerous medical uses we have touched upon (and there are loads more!) a recent clinical study suggests that Aloe Vera may hold some hope for those suffering with diabetes. In preliminary reports it was found that ingestion of the plant may be effective in reducing blood glucose levels.
Aloe has also been used as a treatment in radiation burns since the 1930s, including use on the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Cunningham tells us that having an Aloe in the house helps prevent household accidents. Thinking about how often I cut or burn myself in the kitchen, I can't vouch for this, only that it certainly helps to have the plant around when you do have an accident! Cunningham also tells us that in various cultures the plant is said to dispel or drive away evil, and to bring good luck and protection upon the household.
Aloe is associated with water; no surprise considering the way the leaves store the element in huge quantities. Despite the piercing, almost phallic nature of the leaves, the plant is considered to have a feminine aspect, and the planetary correspondence is the Moon. You can use this knowledge to apply the plant in your own magical workings. If you are doing a series of meditations based on the phases of the moon, perhaps move an Aloe plant into your sacred space, to aid your focus on the lunar cycle. An Aloe at the western corner of your altar may emphasise the element of water there.
If you are allowed, place an aloe plant on your desk at work (or where you work at home). The plant will not only cheer the working area immeasurably but will bring good luck and fortune in your work.
Ancient Egyptians used the plant in place of papyrus sometimes to make scrolls. Combine this knowledge with the other properties and use a mark or word carved into a leaf to emphasise your spell or working. Bury or burn the leaf, or offer it to your preferred deity.
Aloe is also associated with death and funerals (courtesy, again, of the Ancient Egyptians) so an Aloe plant is an appropriate gift for someone who is grieving the loss of a loved one.
A spell to heal another: Preferably at the full moon, or when the moon is visible, snap one of the leaves of your plant so you have a good size piece of Aloe. Sit outside and hold the leaf. Feel the smooth, outer skin, which holds the plant together. Feel the spikes, which protect it from harm. Feel the stickiness of the bitter gel that heals so many things. Concentrate on the healing power of the plant, and think of the one you wish to be healed. Touch the sticky gel at the broken end of your leaf. Make sure some of the gel transfers onto the first two fingers of your dominant hand. Touch those two fingers to your heart; think of the love you have for this person/animal. Touch your lips (external only!); think of the breath that flows through these lips, keeping you alive and well, connecting you to the world and therefore to the universe and all its energies. Concentrate on your breathing for a moment. Finally, touch the two, gel marked fingers to your forehead, concentrating on sending the healing energy of the Aloe and your love and breath to the one who needs it. Rest, and meditate on your intent. Keep the piece of Aloe on your altar or in a sacred place until a full cycle of the moon has passed, then bury it, if possible in the soil of the original plant.
In Jamaica, the plant is known as 'single bible' and is revered as a healer because of its ability to heal itself. It is often the first port of call for a child with intestinal worms. This may be because it can cause vomiting and diarrhoea. As such, don't take if pregnant or breast feeding! Until next time.


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Remote Sensing, Vol. 11, Pages 2982: Combining Satellite Imagery and Numerical Modelling to Study the Occurrence of Warm Upwellings in the Southern Baltic Sea in Winter (Remote Sensing)
Coastal upwelling involves an upward movement of deeper, usually colder, water to the surface. Satellite sea surface temperature (SST) observations and simulations with a hydrodynamic model show, however, that the coastal upwelling in the Baltic Sea in winter can bring warmer water to the surface. In this study, the satellite SST data collected by the advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) and the moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS), as well as simulations with the Parallel Model 3D (PM3D) were used to identify upwelling events in the southern Baltic Sea during the 2010–2017 winter seasons. The PM3D is a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model of the Baltic Sea developed at the Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdansk, Poland, in which parallel calculations enable high-resolution modelling. A validation of the model results with in situ observations and satellite-derived SST data showed the PM3D to adequately represent thermal conditions in upwelling areas in winter (91.5% agreement). Analysis of the frequency of warm upwellings in 12 areas of the southern Baltic Sea showed a high variability in January and February. In those months, the upwelling was most frequent, both in satellite imagery and in model results, off the Hel Peninsula (38% and 43% frequency, respectively). Upwelling was also frequent off the Vistula Spit, west of the Island of Rügen, and off the eastern coast of Skåne, where the upwelling frequency estimated from satellite images exceeded 26%. As determined by the PM3D, the upwelling frequency off VS and R was at least 25%, while off the eastern coast of Skåne, it reached 17%. The faithful simulation of SST variability in the winters of 2010–2017 by the high-resolution model used was shown to be a reliable tool with which to identify warm upwellings in the southern Baltic Sea.
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Best Cities for Retail Workers
Take a look at our deep dive into determining which U.S. cities are best for retail workers to pursue their careers in.
Adrian Mak
The retail landscape has rapidly evolved over the last decade, with the proliferation of online and e-commerce retailers like Amazon, forcing traditional brick and mortar retailers to change tack. One way retailers have had to adapt is to build larger presences online, with more robust and user-friendly e-commerce stores.
Yet retailers haven't forgotten about their physical stores; rather, they've dramatically rethought their brick and mortar strategies, adopting more creative and experiential in-store environments to draw buyers in and offer experiences you just can't get online.
As retail continues to innovate and redefine itself, retail workers are playing a much more important role in helping and delighting customers. Retail workers are part and parcel of the in-store experience, and in today's environment, highly skilled retail workers are more sought after than ever before. But where exactly are the best opportunities for retail workers?
Our analysis of the best cities for retail workers ranked 400 cities on their attractiveness for retail employees. Below, we highlight the 30 most attractive cities for retail employees, as well as the top ten small, medium, and large size cities for retail workers.
1. Sherman-Denison, TX
The Sherman-Denison area in North Texas, located roughly sixty miles north of Dallas in Grayson County, and comprised of the cities of Sherman and Denison, was named the best city for retail workers in our study. Notably, President Dwight Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, and his birthplace has become a popular museum visited by many tourists. A few large retail employers in Sherman include the Midway Mall and the Sherman Town Center. The Sherman-Denison area had the 5th highest retail wages in our study, with an hourly average wage of $17.09, which was 52% above the national average wage for retail workers. This retail wage goes far in this city, as the Sherman-Denison area has a cost of living that was 17% below the national average. Additionally, this area has 16% more retail jobs per capita than the average U.S. city.
2. Saginaw, MI
Located about 100 miles northwest of Detroit, Saginaw, Michigan was an important automotive manufacturing center through much of the 20th century, hosting up to twelve General Motors auto plants. Retail employment in Saginaw is anchored by the Fashion Square Mall and the Valley Center, as well as the River View Plaza Shopping Center. Retail jobs are plentiful in Saginaw, as it has a location quotient of 1.85, meaning it has 85% more retail jobs than the average American city. Retail workers in Saginaw earn roughly 10% more than the average retail worker, and they also benefit from the 8th lowest cost of living in our study.
3. Watertown, NY
The city of Watertown, New York is located in upstate New York only 30 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border. Watertown had a strong industrial base in the early 20th century, and the inventor of the safety pin was born nearby. Today, Watertown has several shopping centers, including the Salmon Run Mall, the Seaway Shopping Center, and Northland Plaza. Retail employees in Watertown earn $14.16 per hour on average, which is 26% higher than the national average wage. Retail workers also benefit from a cost of living in Watertown that is 9% below average. There are also many retail jobs available in Watertown, with 66% more jobs available than the average U.S. city.
4. Wichita Falls, TX
Also in North Texas, located approximately 100 miles northwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, is Witchita Falls, Texas. Witchita Falls hosts the Sheppard Air Force Base, which includes the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot training program, with pilots from 17 European countries coming to the city to train. Major shopping centers in Witchita Falls include the Sikes Senter Mall and the Parker Square Shopping Center. Average retail salaries in Witchita Falls were $27,710, 19% above the average. Additionally, Witchita Falls was tied for the 2nd lowest cost of living of the cities in our study.
5. Brownsville, TX
A third Texas city rounds out our top five cities for retail workers. Located on the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border, Brownsville hosts an important deep-water port and facilitates substantial international trade. Major retail centers in Brownsville include the Valle Vista Mall, the Sunrise Mall, and the Sun Valley Mall. Brownsville was tied with Witchita Falls for the 2nd lowest cost of living in our study, and it also offers retail wages of $30,370 per year on average. The number of retail jobs per capital in Brownsville was 5% higher than the national average.
Population Breakdown
Since it may be difficult to compare cities of different sizes, we separated our study into three separate categories: smaller cities with populations of 100,000 people or less, midsize cities with 100,000-500,000 inhabitants, and large cities with 500,000 or more people. Here are our findings:
Top 30 Best Cities for Retail Workers
The data below reveals the cities offering the most attractive environments for retail workers. Review each city's overall ranking as well as how each city scored in the three primary criteria.
1 Sherman-Denison, TX $35,550 1,630 1.16 83
2 Saginaw, MI $25,870 4,910 1.85 79
3 Watertown-Fort Drum, NY $29,440 2,040 1.66 91
4 Wichita Falls, TX $27,710 2,340 1.33 77
5 Brownsville-Harlingen, TX $30,370 4,590 1.05 77
6 Punta Gorda, FL $26,580 2,940 2.02 100
7 Bay City, MI $24,310 1,800 1.70 82
8 Pueblo, CO $30,500 2,220 1.19 85
9 Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL $25,640 4,300 1.94 98
10 El Paso, TX $27,100 13,320 1.42 83
11 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC $23,510 10,040 2.05 97
12 Hot Springs, AR $27,140 1,740 1.58 90
13 Jacksonville, NC $25,620 2,490 1.73 92
14 Parkersburg-Vienna, WV $23,510 1,950 1.69 83
15 Grand Junction, CO $28,650 3,060 1.65 100
16 Dothan, AL $27,150 2,280 1.30 82
17 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX $23,290 12,010 1.52 77
18 Canton-Massillon, OH $29,340 6,200 1.18 85
19 Odessa, TX $31,910 2,130 1.00 87
20 East Stroudsburg, PA $24,950 3,140 1.81 96
21 Cape Girardeau, MO-IL $26,850 1,890 1.42 87
22 Homosassa Springs, FL $27,930 1,440 1.43 91
23 Lubbock, TX $28,870 5,350 1.20 86
24 Rapid City, SD $27,000 3,570 1.74 103
25 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL $26,160 5,920 1.78 102
26 Yakima, WA $31,840 3,110 1.11 93
27 Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA $23,650 8,990 1.35 76
28 Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS $28,410 6,140 1.31 90
29 Joplin, MO $26,620 2,740 1.13 79
30 Amarillo, TX $26,770 4,530 1.27 84
Methodology: How We Ranked the Best Cities for Retail Workers
We used three main factors to determine the best cities for retail workers.
1. Average compensation for retail workers on an annual basis
The first criteria we used to rank cities in terms of the attractiveness for retail workers was the average salary that a retail worker earns in a year in a city. Cities with higher salaries ranked higher in our study. The salary data assumed that retail workers work an average of 2,080 hours per year or 40 hours a week for 52 weeks.
The average pay for retail employees nationwide was $23,370 per year, or $11.24 per hour. There were approximately 4,854,300 retail jobs in the U.S. in 2016, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 2% growth rate for employment in this sector.
2. Cost of living adjustments based on the relative expense of living in a city
In our study, we also adjusted the retail salaries using a cost of living index for each city. This adjustment is important because the living expenses in different cities can vary widely. Two retail workers earning the same wage, but living in different cities, may have very different lifestyles, depending on the costs of rent, transportation, groceries, and other necessities where they live. More affordable cities scored more highly in this study.
3. Concentration of retail jobs in the city
We used the location quotient to discover how many retail jobs were available in a city relative to the city's population. In places where the location quotient is higher, it may be easier for a retail worker to find a job since retail jobs are more plentiful. The higher the location quotient, the more highly ranked a city was in our study.


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Debbie Quick was born in New Jersey and has moved around a lot in life. However, a majority of her life has been spent in New York.
At 18 Debbie joined the United States Navy and was stationed onboard the USS LaSalle in Gaeta, Italy. She spent almost four years on the ship and was honorably discharged from the Navy as a Gunnersmate 3rd class petty officer.
After Debbie's experience in the Navy, she attended school at Dutchess Community College and earned an A.A.S. Degree in Office Technogologies. She began working at IBM as an Administrative Assistant and worked her way up to a Software Engineer. After her promotion to Software Engineer she went back to school at SUNY New Paltz and earned a B.S. degree in Business Management.
During the years of working and going to school, Debbie did not have much free time on her hands, but whenever she could find time she would go out with her camera and practice photography. After completing school at SUNY New Paltz and having a small amount of free time on her hands, she started studying photography through New York Institute of Photography. As Debbie learned more about photography, she also learned that her specialty was photographing animals (both domestic and wild). Her biggest passion has been photographing bald eagles. After observing, learning about and photographing bald eagles for almost a year, she decided to write and illustrate a children's book about them. Her passion for bald eagles is ongoing and will be a forever passion. In addition to learning about bald eagles and photographing them, she has recently begun to discover a passion for other birds of prey as well as small birds. Debbie's passion in learning about birds and photographing them in their natural environment will be a life long passion that she will continue to pursue.
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