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Being A Gracious (And Responsible) Employer And Employee: Holiday Parties And Other Work-Related Social Gatherings
James D. Kondopulos, CPHR and Bobby Sangha|
As an employer, if you organize a company party or similar work-related social gathering for your employees, you have certain legal responsibilities. An employer can be held liable for not taking adequate precautions to protect its employees from foreseeable and preventable harm.
In Jacobsen v. Nike Canada Ltd., [1996] B.C.J. No. 363 (S.C.), the B.C. Supreme Court considered whether Nike Canada Ltd. was liable for serious injuries which rendered the plaintiff employee a quadriplegic.
Nike had provided the employee and his co-workers with beer during work hours. After work, the employee visited two clubs and drank more beer while in the company of one of his co-workers. When driving home to Port Moody in the early hours of the following morning, the employee drove off a highway into a ditch and was thrown from his car.
Nike conceded that it owed the employee a duty of care. In considering whether the company had met the standard of care owed by an employer to its employees, the Court held that Nike did not meet that standard because it provided alcohol at work, did not monitor the employee's consumption, and took no steps to ensure the employee did not drive when impaired. In commenting on the way in which Nike had made alcohol available at work, the Court stated:
"Nike required the employees to bring their cars to work and knew they would be driving home. In effect, Nike made drinking and driving part of the working conditions that day. It effectively encouraged the crew to drink without limit by making freely available large amounts of beer in an atmosphere which induced thirst and drinking games. The supervisors, Mr. Agostino and Mr. Prasad, drank along with the crew, and made no attempts to restrict or monitor the amount the plaintiff or any of the other crew members drank. No one told the plaintiff that some of the beer was intended for customers later in the weekend."
The Court found Nike to be 75 per cent liable for the employee's injuries. The total damages for his injuries exceeded $2.5 million.
WorkSafeBC Rules in Favour of Employer
In addition to personal injury litigation, events like company parties and other work-related social gatherings may also result in workers compensation claims. Employers should be aware of such claims because their experience rating and premiums under the applicable workers compensation scheme may be negatively affected.
In review reference no. R0116672, the Review Division at WorkSafeBC considered whether an employee had a compensable claim flowing out of injuries sustained at a company Christmas party.
The stories of the employer and the employee differed slightly. There was, however, consensus that a third person at the party had caused the employee to stumble on the dance floor. A physician's report noted that she fell on her right side, hit her head and was knocked unconscious for close to a minute.
The preliminary question for the adjudicator was whether the party was sufficiently connected to the employee's employment to be compensable. The adjudicator explained that participation in a recreational activity, including a holiday party, is not normally considered part of an employee's employment. Notwithstanding that, the adjudicator listed a number of factors for consideration, including whether the activity was part of the employee's job, whether she was instructed to participate, whether the activity occurred during normal working hours, whether the employee was paid or provided with other consideration for attending the activity, and whether the activity occurred on the employer's premises.
The adjudicator rejected most of the employee's arguments. She specifically rejected the argument that the provision of beer, wine and entertainment by the employer was in the nature of consideration for attending at the party. She also rejected the argument that attendance of management at the party meant that the function was under employer supervision. This was in spite of an acknowledgment by the employer that it had reprimanded a reckless dancer for his behaviour at the party.
The only possible factor which favoured the employee's claim was that she felt pressured to attend the party. Nonetheless, the adjudicator found that in the circumstances, the employee's participation in dancing at the Christmas party was unconnected to her employment.
Firing Offence: Okay or Not Okay?
Like employers, employees have responsibilities in relation to company parties and similar work-related social gatherings. While they are entitled to let loose with their work colleagues outside the workplace, they are bound to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner. They share accountability with their employer for the safety and well-being of their co-workers and must be professional and respectful.
In van Woerkens v. Marriott Hotels of Canada Ltd., 2009 BCSC 73, the B.C. Supreme Court considered whether Marriott Hotels of Canada Ltd. had wrongfully dismissed a senior sales and marketing employee for conduct in which he had engaged at the company Christmas party.
Marriott alleged it had just cause to discharge the employee without termination notice or pay in lieu of notice because he permitted the excessive consumption of alcohol, engaged in sexually suggestive dancing, condoned an after-party where employees drank heavily, inappropriately sexually touched a female subordinate, and was dishonest when asked about the incident with his subordinate.
The Court found that there was insufficient evidence to prove the employee facilitated the excessive drinking contrary to company policy. It also found that the employee was not guilty of any misconduct for drinking heavily because there was no policy prohibiting or restricting that. Lastly, the Court held that there was no misconduct arising out of the after-party because Marriott did not have a policy prohibiting such parties.
However, the Court determined that the employee had committed serious misconduct when he inappropriately touched his female subordinate in a bathroom when she was intoxicated and when he propositioned her subsequent to the after-party, the next day and roughly a month after the party. The Court found that Marriott had provided training to the employee with respect to its sexual harassment policy in advance of the party. The Court concluded that the employee was dishonest in the course of the company investigation when he denied that he had been in the bathroom with his subordinate and that he had inappropriately touched her.
In light of all of the above, the Court concluded that Marriott had just cause to terminate the employment relationship.
Best Practices For Holiday Parties
No company wants to find itself in an unpleasant situation during the holiday season — especially in connection with festivities and celebration.
To reduce and eliminate legal risk and any potential liability in damages, we have consolidated some of the lessons to be learned from the case law and, in our capacity as employer counsel, suggest the following proactive steps for the benefit of employers:
Ensure that all employees are invited to your company party or similar work-related social gathering but emphasize that attendance and participation are entirely voluntary;
Hold parties at venues other than the workplace which have responsible serving practices;
Ensure that you have adequate liability insurance and also that the commercial host has such insurance;
Promote responsible alcohol consumption and remind employees not to drink and drive;
Discourage employees from driving their personal vehicle to the party;
Endeavour to get everyone home safely, including by reminding employees in advance of the party of free ride-home services and alternative transportation options (e.g. public transit) or by providing vouchers for taxi cabs;
Ensure that all employees are aware of your expectations in advance of the company party or other work-related social gathering;
Maintain and consistently enforce a respectful workplace policy, including a part addressing sexual harassment, and ensure that all employees are adequately trained in the policy; and
Properly and thoroughly investigate all incidents of alleged harassment or other misconduct as soon as practicable and in an appropriate fashion.
Good luck in planning and hosting your company party or other work-related social gathering this holiday season. In writing this article, it is not our intention to discourage or dissuade you from putting on such a function. We simply wish you to be cognizant of your legal responsibilities and avoid any nasty and unnecessary incident or course of events.
If there is any employment, labour or workplace human rights issue with which we can assist, please feel free to contact our office.
James D. Kondopulos is a founding member and partner (practising through a law corporation) at the employment and labour law boutique of Roper Greyell LLP. He has been named by Lexpert as a Leading Lawyer Under 40. He has also been recognized by his peers as a leading lawyer in employment and labour law and listed in Best Lawyers in Canada, Who's Who Legal and the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. James can be reached by telephone at (604) 806-3865 or by e-mail at jkondopulos@ropergreyell.com.
Bobby Sangha is an associate lawyer at the employment and labour law boutique of Roper Greyell. He advises employers in all areas of employment, labour and workplace human rights law and can be reached at (604) 806-3826 or bsangha@ropergreyell.com.
For more information about James, Bobby and their colleagues at Roper Greyell, please visit www.ropergreyell.com.
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Very useful tips James and Bobby.
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His field goal percentage was 56.2% (don't forget to give me three digits on percentages). Kostassyn and Dylan Dobson took first place - Forever_Green took second place - and Rondeezy came in third.
On 3-pointers, Jaylen was 60.0%. Land Shark got the win. Kostassyn, DimitrusUK, Rondeezy, Forever-Green, Rajon Rondo Indonesia, Nopelovic placed - and Darthdoogh came in third. Brown shot no free throws, so no contest on that one. Please check your individual results. Let me know of any errors.
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Remembering Ulrich Beck
by Anthony Giddens on Jan 9, 2021
The ISSC was saddened to hear of the recent loss of Ulrich Beck. Ulrich was a scholar without equal whose life work made tremendous contributions to social science knowledge and public discourse over many decades.
In the 5 January edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Sir Anthony Giddens, the prominent British modern sociologist, published an obituary of Beck – we are honoured to be able to republish the English version of his obituary here.
Ulrich Beck, who has died in Germany aged 70, was the greatest sociologist of his generation. He was a prolific author, whose works reached not just the academic community but also a wide popular audience across the world. Beck was one of the very first authors to discuss globalisation - at a time, in the 1980s, at which the notion was very new and when in fact many disputed its essential validity. As Beck deployed the term, globalisation refers to the increasing interdependence of world society, a process that for him goes a long way beyond the marketplace.
This is far from being simply a benign phenomenon, as he showed in his first major work, Risikogesellschaft (Risk Society), published in 1986. As industrial society spreads across the world, it creates a complex tangle of risks and opportunities, many of which have no parallel in previous periods of history. For example, today we intervene into nature to a degree massively greater than any previous civilisation. We gain many benefits - such as a large-scale jump in standards of living. Yet at the same time we create huge new risks for ourselves.
One example consists in environmental hazards. Risk Society was published a year or so before the disaster at Chernobyl – a type-case of the sort of scenario Beck sketched out in his book and a remarkable anticipation of the future on his part. The book broke new ground in many ways and has influenced legions of researchers since the time at which it first appeared. It formed the platform for much of Beck's subsequent work.
Risk – and awareness of risk – Beck argued, do not just come to dominate the large institutions of our society. They penetrate our everyday lives, as a necessary part of the breaking-away of the modern world from traditional customs and traditions. Our lives become far more 'reflexive' – thought about, considered, pondered – than used to be true in the past. Take the example of marriage and what we have come to call 'relationships'. Marriage in modern contexts is no longer simply a ritual passage from one social status to another. It is an agreement made primarily by those directly involved, not by the wider family, and often agonised about before the commitment entered into. Virtually everyone who gets married today, for example, recognises that divorce rates are high, and in some sense or another factors that awareness into the decision that is taken.
These ideas a key part of The Normal Chaos of Love, a work published by Beck, together with his wife, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, in 1995. Love is 'chaotic' because the world of 'relationships' is one continually in flux. Love is rarely 'for life' today any more than a job is. Fundamentalism, which turns back to tradition, is a reaction against this new world of everyday life. For this very reason, however, fundamentalism is not itself in fact 'traditional' – it is a creation of the very world it seeks to reject.
The 'reflexive individualism' that comes to dominate everyday life penetrates and reshapes the political world also, an issue discussed by Beck in a series of works including The Reinvention of Politics (1996), Power in the Global Age(2005) and World at Risk(2009). A half a century ago, political parties in most democratic countries boasted high levels of membership and the majority of voters would vote regularly for the same party. Today that stable landscape has almost completely disappeared. The normal chaos of love has its counterpart in the 'normal chaos of politics', where stable political affiliations have sharply declined, levels of voting have fallen and volatility of voter preferences is the order of the day. Populist groups and parties, most of which have only a short life span, become a core part of the political scene, as do many other forms of informal grouping. Beck spoke of the influence of 'sub-politics' – political engagement that bubbles up from below and can have a significant impact upon the exercise of political power.
Populist parties of various kinds, of course, pepper the political landscape across Europe today – from the Front National in France to UKIP in Britain, on one side of the political spectrum, through to Podemos in Spain and Syrizia in Greece on the other. Beck had a long-standing interest in the evolution of the European Union, of which he was a strong supporter. For Beck the European countries will be the playthings of globalisation if they are not able to come together and exert a collective influence in world affairs. Sociology, he believed, must progress beyond 'methodological nationalism'. The national context is far too narrow a focus for grasping the forces moving our lives in today's global age. Similarly, the EU must be a transnational project, not just an assemblage of nations each trying to go its own way.
Beck explored these issues most recently in German Europe (Das deutsche Europa, 2012), written in the context of the crisis of the euro and its political fallout. The theme of risk, of course, reappears here with a vengeance. The novelist Thomas Mann famously argued in the 1950s that, against the background of two world wars, the objective of European integration should be to create a 'European Germany', not a 'German Europe'. Yet as a result of the euro crisis and its aftermath it is precisely a German Europe, Beck points out, that is arising. Angela Merkel is the de facto 'President of the EU'. Nothing much can be done without her say-so: Germany is setting the rules for everyone else. She exerts great power, but since Germany's leadership position has little direct legitimacy, tries to cover this up. Merkel, Beck argued, has become 'Merkiavelli', deploying artful strategies to shore up her influence – strategies that amount essentially to deceit.
She seeks to save the European Union, but all her policies must first pass through the prism of German politics and German economic thinking. The result is the situation we see today. The euro is not stabilised because 'Merkiavelli' won't support the mechanisms needed to do so, which essentially involve greater economic and fiscal integration within the eurozone. Germany's austerity policy is imposed on the supposedly irresponsible southern countries without a semblance of democratic consultation. As a result, the political centre in those countries is collapsing even more than in most other states. What is needed in this situation, Beck argues, is a new 'social contract' for Europe. It would involve essentially a collective revolt against austerity and German dominance. Economic policy would become more investment-driven; social protection would be partly Europeanised; and the richer countries at any one point in time would assume greater responsibility for those that are suffering. In the longer-term efforts must be made to build European identity from the bottom-up. At the moment, ' the power of capital and governments is strong but their legitimacy is weak, the exact opposite of the protesters whose power is week but whose legitimacy is strong'. The coming Greek elections this January, one could say, will be a struggle between just these rival forces.
Ulrich Beck was a dedicated and conscientious scholar, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the social sciences. For such a distinguished figure he was refreshingly down to earth and approachable, highly popular with his students everywhere. I used to tease him quite often, since he never mastered the British sense of humour, with its mixture of self-deprecation and smug superiority. More often than not though I was the one who ended up looking foolish. He had a good line in put-downs when he needed to.
He was very much a creature of the world portrayed so incisively in his writings. He was for a long period a professor at the University of Munich. Yet he was an inveterate traveller and lectured at a host of academic institutions in different countries. He held visiting posts at the London School of Economics and at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris and wrote widely for the press in Germany, the UK, France and the US, while his books have been translated into over thirty languages. Among other honours he won the Cultural Prize of Honour of the city of Munich; the German-British Forum Award; and the Schader Prize for outstanding contributions to the social sciences. Elisabeth, herself a very distinguished academic in her own right, was inevitably there by his side. Their marriage was remote from the normal chaos of love – it was the most stable and enduring bond in his life.
Anthony Giddens (Anthony Giddens is a member of the House of Lords in the UK and former director of the London School of Economics. He is the co-author, with Ulrich Beck and Scott Lash, of Reflexive Modernisation, published in 1994)
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Last week I was one of the many busy volunteers who helped pull-off the once-a-year Forum for Women Entrepreneurs auction and fundraising dinner in Palo Alto. I was in charge of the "for the family" items – things like hand-knit afghans, photography sessions, and crafts projects. Got a lot of VCs and lawyers I know to "bid up" – I wasn't satisfied until I got at least double the "suggested list price". More fun than a term sheet, since there isn't any triple liquidation preference on a scrapbook – or maybe they just haven't thought of that yet.
Susan Hailey, FWE CEO, is a real kick – fun, sharp, and quick-witted. I met her at a Buck's lunch in Woodside, and was impressed at how she'd taken a pretty much bankrupt organization that had lost direction after the bubble burst and suffused it with purpose and cash. You've got to have a lot of confidence to inspire confidence in others, and she has all that and more.
So, what were the real neat items that the VCs bought?
After 44 years, the UC system has decided to give up and winnow out qualified students, bumping many to the overloaded community college system. These students, in turn, will bump out qualified students hoping to work themselves into the Cal State and UC system in Kind of a "Survivor" meets "Goodbye Mr. Chips" reality show – but with a real downside.
Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berndahl expressed the concern in April's Cal Monthly magazine that "everything Berkeley has achieved over the past half century as a university could be lost within a half decade". Is Clark Kerr's vision finally vanquished?
What is the impact of these higher education budget cuts on the Silicon Valley high-tech industry? Will the next generation have the skills to compete in a world economy? Join me in my next installment of In the DataCenter as I explore The High Cost of Innovation.
Is "Free Culture" Under Siege?
Dan Kusnetzky, VP Systems at IDC, found my piece on Free Culture "an interesting analysis", which is high praise. But Dan also took issue with Dr. Lessig's premise that copyright and fair use is under siege.
Dan wondered whether we were seeing the impact on copyright and fair use as less "a concerted, planned effort…underway to control culture" and more a "side effect of a piecemeal effort to control 'intellectual property' for commercial purposes".
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Griff Palmer over at the Merc is an interesting guy. And his take on the SCO-IBM legal feud is pretty simple too – "More than once since the SCO mess came up, I've heard people say, "No problem. If SCO wins, we'll just go to *BSD." I guess open source types are "glass half full" kind of guys.
Griff notes I'm pretty nice in not nitpicking his essay – "I'm glad that someone of your technical stature doesn't find fault (or, at least, not fault enough to mention) in my piece." But I'm also a writer, and we all have got to stick together, especially when you write anything about a subject that people feel so emotionally about.
Steve Lohr of the NYTimes wrote today that "Linus Torvalds, creator of free operating system Linux, announces that software developers making contributions to operating system will have to sign their work and vouch for its origin".
What a grand idea – courtesy of Intel of course. Process is a good thing, as William discussed in his talk Open Software Development in the Real World (June 17, 2003 at the Internet Developers Group meeting in San Jose, CA). One question begs – "Will Linus Torvalds sign the Developer's Certificate of Origin for all his work on Linux, past and current, as well?".
After all, what's fair is fair, isn't it?
Well, my friend and Berkeley physics alum Rick Bentley is off to Iraq to consult on some infrastructure repair and fund his security startup Connexed. He's taking a digital camera and laptop (he's got Internet connectivity), to do a little reporting from the Green Zone that I'm going to produce. Oh, and he's growing a beard.
Bon Voyage Rick! Send me an email when you get there, and a few test clips (plus description) to see how much work it will take to send few clips as attachments (make sure they arrive OK). I'll put them in myself and set things up. If there's an issue with automation, we'll just work through me and I'll send them through. Hey, not bad – you get the personal attention of the CTO!
Keep your head down. And keep growing that beard.
Last month I wandered over to Stanford to have a cup of coffee and a chat with "Mr. Creative Commons" himself, Dr. Larry Lessig. My primary reason was to get some background for a book review and for an In the DataCenter piece.
Of course, I also wanted to meet the guy behind the Creative Commons license, as I've also had much to do with licensing and structure with BSD and Unix over the years – it's "in the family" so speak.
Prime Time for Open Source?
Griff Palmer of the Merc in his article Linux nears the tipping point speculates on whether it is really ready for primetime with consumers. The problem is that everyone who works with this stuff is already used to all of its oddities, so how can we tell a consumer can use it?
Well, I'm going to presume to speak a bit about it. First because I beat him (and probably most everyone else) in his serious qualification of "longevity" – I've been running Unix on the PC since 1989 – 386BSD that is. That's 15 years. Predates the invention of Linux by 2 years. And second because I'm a mom with kids and they use what I use. Period.
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Well, it seems that Ken Brown's latest paper is causing a bit of a brohaha. What I find most annoying is that people want to censor outright a sponsored (yes, by Microsoft and others) paper instead of allowing sensible people of good judgement to read it and form their own opinions. The Internet is supposed to allow a variety of opinions – not just a mob suppressing opinions they find inexpedient (and that means corporate-sponsored mobs too).
But since I'm not interviewed and I have nothing to do with Linux, I think I'll let Andy T and others wrangle that part of it out. Ken Brown's a DC guy, and clearly knows his politics. And since this is a tech blog, I think I'll stay in technical considerations.
It seems that time for speakers / posters is always too limited at conferences. Personally, it always seems I end up in some other room talking about my stuff and I miss a lot of the other presenters. Or sometimes I get major last minute work, and I miss a talk completely. And it's really annoying.
Wouldn't it be keen if anyone who is a speaker or poster presenter also had a 2 minute video synopsis of their work like an abstract produced and hosted on the Internet available for viewing? Of course, the first thing I'd hear back is "We don't have the time at a conference – it's rush, rush, rush." Yah, we all know that.


I know a family who has been struggling with accessing resources, and I am left feeling bewildered and disappointed. I have heard many wonderful things about the Zebra Centre, but am curious if anyone else has experienced difficulties with them denying support. The family went to them a year ago, the investigator spent only 15 minutes with the child, stood above her when talking, his demeanor was almost threatening. I work with children so I understand how you need to build a relationship and get on their level. After the 15 minutes of her not responding to him out of feeling uncomfortable, he stated there was no issue, and they closed the file. Now a year later, more allegations came up from the children, the family got referred to Zebra again, after talking to the police and they refuse to talk to the children as they say the case is closed. I am beyond frustrated as this family does not no where else to go, as anywhere else says they need a disclosure before they can work with the kids, but how are they supposed to disclose if nobody will try to talk to them? The police can't investigate, they say it HAS to go through Zebra. I felt like they were cheated and let down. I am concerned and worried, and was curious if anyone else out there have had a similar experience as I want to find other options, or maybe even just hear if it has happened to anyone else before. Thank you so much for your time.


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        J(u,v) = J(u,v) + I(x,y) .*exp(-1i*2*pi.*((u*(x-1)/M)+(v*(y-1)/N)));

A: This error is caused by incompatibility of data type. You are probably working with image which is a uint8 type data but other arithmetic needs double.
I suggest you that convert your signal to double firstly. For example, before the loops write this:
I = double(I); %// Now your signal is double type

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%// for loops and calculations
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I hope this would solve your problem..

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Q: Problem with Python Script that converts images to video after creating EXE with pyinstaller I wanted to make a script that will convert images stored in a folder to video.
Here's the code:
    import cv2
    import numpy as np
    import os
    import pyautogui
    import msvcrt

    imageFolder = input('Please enter images folder path: ').replace(chr(34),"")
    outputPath = imageFolder+'\Video.avi'

    try:
        images = [img for img in os.listdir(imageFolder) if img.endswith(".jpg")]
        while len(images)==0:
            imageFolder = input('There are no images in the directory ! Please enter images folder path: ').replace(chr(34),"")
            images = [img for img in os.listdir(imageFolder) if img.endswith(".jpg")]

        print('Creating recording...')
        fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'mp4v')
        frame = cv2.imread(os.path.join(imageFolder, images[0]))
        height, width, layers = frame.shape
        frameRate = 2

        video = cv2.VideoWriter(outputPath, fourcc, frameRate, (width,height))

        for image in images:
            print(f'{int((images.index(image)/len(images))*100)} %', end="\r")
            video.write(cv2.imread(os.path.join(imageFolder, image)))

        cv2.destroyAllWindows()
        video.release()

        decision = input('Recording has been created successfully ! Do you want to open it?  [Y/N]: ')
        if decision.lower() == 'y':
            print('Opening file...')
            os.startfile(outputPath)
    except:
        print(f'There was a problem with creating a recording. Check images path: {imageFolder}')

The code works fine when I'm launching that from command line, but after converting that to EXE with pyinstalller (pyinstaller -F ConvertToRecording.py) I'm getting an error like this:
    [ERROR:0] global C:\projects\opencv-python\opencv\modules\videoio\src\cap.cpp (3
    92) cv::VideoWriter::open VIDEOIO(CV_IMAGES): raised OpenCV exception:

    OpenCV(4.1.1) C:\projects\opencv-python\opencv\modules\videoio\src\cap_images.cp
    p:253: error: (-5:Bad argument) CAP_IMAGES: can't find starting number (in the n
    ame of file): C:\Users\MyUser\Documents\Test\20191018_12_45\Video.avi in function
    'cv::icvExtractPattern'

Any help appreciated !

A: I met the same problem. Just go to your OpenCV folder (if you don't have, go here: https://opencv.org/releases/) and find the opencv_videoio_ffmpeg420_64.dll ( I am using 4.20) file. copy it and paste it to your exe direction (same folder).
Then it will work.

A: Use the os.path module to with paths instead of concatenating strings. This ensures a better cross-platform compatibility. See the manual for a more elaborate explanation of the module.


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Connie Herd, center, is served lunch by her two granddaughters Hayle Romo, left, and Cameron Romo, right, during the annual Senior Citizens Concert and Luncheon at Buckeye Valley High School. The event was started in 1984 with 15 grandparents and has expanded to 300 senior citizens each year.
Over 300 senior citizens packed the auxiliary gym of Buckeye Valley High School for lunch during the annual Senior Citizen Day.
Generations crossed paths as Buckeye Valley High School students welcomed 300 grandparents and senior citizens to the annual Senior Citizen Day luncheon and concert last Friday.
Miller said it's good for the seniors to get a chance to see the kids and the older folks like the concerts. He said the kids love it as well by serving their grandparents lunch.
Doug Joseph, the teacher who started the event, said it began in 1984 when students started to invite their grandparents to lunch in the cafeteria. He said at the time there were about 15 grandparents.
Joseph said in the last 14 years, the school has hosted 300-plus senior citizens every year. He said the luncheon had to be moved to the auxiliary gym.
Joseph said he told those in charge of this year's event to expect the first guests to show up at 8:45 a.m.
After being treated to a concert and choral performance, the crowd went to the auxiliary gym for lunch. Students lined up with a plate in each hand at the serving tables for faculty, staff, and administration to load the plates with food. Students then walked the loaded plates over to the senior citizens waiting at the tables.
Vic Griffin said it was his first time attending the luncheon and that he had been invited by his granddaughter, Ryan Haney.
"This is the first time my grandchildren have been involved," he said.
Griffin said he found the performances by the band and choir to be special because Haney performed with both.
It was also Connie Herd's first year to attend the event. She went with her granddaughters, Cameron and Hayle Romo.


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Ohio State recruit TreVeyon Henderson won't play senior high school football season
Bill Rabinowitz
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Unlike most football players, running back TreVeyon Henderson isn't facing uncertainty regarding his upcoming season.
The five-star Ohio State commit knows he won't have one.
Henderson lives in Virginia, which has moved its high school football season to the spring. By then, the country's No. 1 running back in the 247sports.com's composite rankings expects to be at Ohio State as an early enrollee.
"I'm taking it pretty well," Henderson told The Dispatch on Wednesday. "It hasn't hit me yet that I won't be playing my senior ball at my high school. I'm just ready to get prepared for the next level and working even harder."
Henderson, from Hopewell outside of Richmond, considered transferring out of state in hopes of being able to play his senior season.
"It was like going through the recruiting process again," he said. "I had so many people hitting me up, trying to tell me to come to their high school. But it was just too much. I'd have to see if my credits transferred. Where would I be staying? Things like that. So I just thought I should stay in place."
Henderson tries to see the silver lining. He won't have to risk sustaining a serious injury or even the wear and tear that's a fact of life at his position.
But it's not easy.
"I really wanted to play football," Henderson said. "I don't think I could go through a year without getting on the field, but, shoot, I'll just have to deal with it and get through it."
Henderson scored 53 touchdowns last year and ran for 2,424 yards for Hopewell.
His coach, Ricky Irby, wishes he would have Henderson for his senior season but is grateful for the time they did share.
"He's a better kid than he is a player, and that's saying something because he's an unbelievable talent." Irby said. "He's a generational-type talent, and the things that go along with him make him even more special his work ethic, his character, his leadership.
"I've never seen a kid like that. Never coached one and never coached against one that has the talent he has. He's a very driven, motivated young man who wants to be the best player in the world."
Henderson committed to Ohio State on March 27, just a couple of weeks after the pandemic forced a travel shutdown. Henderson pledged to become a Buckeye without having visited the campus.
"I'm not really worried about it," he said. "I've seen the environment. The environment is great."
Even if travel doesn't open up, Henderson said his commitment to Ohio State is solid.
"I haven't even been thinking about decommitting from Ohio State and committing to another school," he said. "That hasn't been on my mind at all. It's all Ohio State."
Henderson said football is only one component in his decision, that the brotherhood among players, educational opportunities and program to prepare for life after his playing career were more important.
Henderson said other coaches have continued to pursue him, but he said he doesn't respond.
"I'm like 100% committed to Ohio State," Henderson said.
Irby said he would be shocked if that changed. He said that even in youth ball, Henderson resisted switching to better teams because he was loyal to his teammates.
"One of the things I talk about with the guys here," Irby said, "is to do as much research as you can, but once you make that decision, let's make that decision. I've never had a kid decommit here at Hopewell. I think your word is important."
Henderson is a big part of an Ohio State recruiting class that's top-ranked in the nation. Though the 19 members of the 2021 class are scattered throughout the country and can't physically get together, Henderson said it is a tight group. He said they all communicate daily on a group chat.
"I'm very excited to get to Ohio State," Henderson said. "I can't wait. I think about it every day."
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