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Q: #1016 - Can't open file: './database_name/#sql-38f_36aa.frm' (errno: 24) I have table in mysql with MyISAM storage engine.
   I want to create partition on a particular table, for this I am executing the query -
alter table Stops PARTITION BY KEY(`stop_id`) PARTITIONS 200

Where 'stop_id' is type of varchar. While executing the above query I am getting the error -
#1016 - Can't open file: './database_name/#sql-38f_36aa.frm' (errno: 24)

Can anybody please help me to resolve this problem?
Thank You.

A: From here and here.

errno: 24 means that too many files are open for the given process.
  There is a read-only mysql variable called 'open_files_limit' that
  will show how many open files are allowed by the mysqld:
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'open%';

A lot systems set this to something very low, like 1024.
  Unfortunately, the following will NOT work:
SET open_files_limit=100000
MySQL will respond with:
ERROR 1238 (HY000): Variable 'open_files_limit' is a read only
  variable
However, it is possible to make a change to /etc/my.cnf. This file may
  not exist, if not, just create it. Be sure it has the following
  contents:
[mysqld]
open-files-limit = 100000

Then, be sure to restart mysql:
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart
Now, SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'open%' should show 100000. The number you
  use may be different.

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Parlato Case
FR's Mission
Interconnected companies, Anima, Prorsus, NXIVM, show Raniere pulling strings in Mexico
By Frank Parlato;
Keith Raniere. His followers refer to him as Vanguard, a silly title that he bestowed upon himself when he created the NXIVM cult..
Keith Raniere, pedophile, sex cult leader, brander and blackmailer of women, and perpetrator of 1,001 financial crimes, with 100 co-conspirators, [with nothing in his name to tie him by documents to any crime] and swindler of students, a rapist, statutory and otherwise, and smuggler of money from Mexico to the USA, and likely offshore, is a man of influence in Mexico and Latin America.
The children and siblings of some of the most important men of Mexico follow Keith Raniere and are high ranking members of his cult, called NXIVM or, alternatively, Executive Success Programs, or for short, ESP.
Alejandra Gonzalez Anaya, sister of the CEO of Premex, is a NXIVM coach.
Alejandra González Anaya is an example. She is a NXIVM/ESP coach. She achieved the rank of Orange Sash with two stripes. {Raniere bases his ranking on martial arts with sashes and stripes].
Alejandra's brother,José Antonio González Anaya, is chief executive of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Pemex is Mexico's national oil company.
One of Jose Antonio's allies is Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto, who was accused of secretly withdrawing 240,518,000, 000 pesos from the national assets invested in Pemex.
Jose Antonio, a rising star of The Institutional Revolutionary Party [PRI]. is expected to crook up the quiet end of that controversy and be appointed Finance Minister of Mexico. He is close friends with current finance minister, José Antonio Meade, who may be the next candidate for president for PRI.
Mr. Anaya boasts that among his closest friends is former president, Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
Students of Mexican politics will recall Carlos ran for president in 1988 against Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, who headed up a leftist alliance against PRI which had ruled the country since 1929.
Initial vote tallies showed Cardenas was going to win the presidency. The PRI, which controlled the government at the time, announced the ballot counting system had failed [They later burned the ballots] and declared Carlos Salinas president. The episode is Mexico's most notorious case of vote rigging.
Emiliano and Cecci Salinas salute before a NXIVM-only audience.
Keith Raniere is mentor to ex-president Carlos Salinas' son and daughter, Emiliano Salinas and Cecci Salinas. It is not known if Cecci is a branded DOS slave or not. But she is deeply inside the cult and one of its leaders. Both siblings hold the rank of Green Sash.
Watch the children of former President Salinas lead a NXIVM dance ritual. Note: The color of their tee shirts corresponds to their rank in NXIVM. Ranks go from low to highest: White- Yellow- Orange- Green.
Emiliano and Cecci are the two in green.
Alejandra Gonzalez Anaya, sister of Premex chief, Jose Antonio Gonzalez Anaya, was brought into ESP by Emiliano Salinas.
Besides being a coach for ESP/NXIVM, Alejandra is co-founder, producer and artistic director of a Raniere controlled company called Anima Inc.
According to Anima's website
ANIMA INC. was founded in 2007 by Keith Raniere and Alejandra González Anaya. The company is based on Mr. Raniere's humanitarian philosophy and concepts, and manifests through Ms. González Anaya's artistic vision and direction. Our work transmits some of the most intimate aspects of being human to create experiences that not only delight and entertain, but also profoundly transform.
Anima is Latin for 'breath" or "vital breath" or "wind" "motion" or "the soul."
Anabel Cantú Merodio
Anima's team also includes ESPians Anabel Cantú Merodio, who holds the rank of Orange Sash, with four stripes in NXIVM/ESP.
Branded DOS slave, Lauren Salzman – one of the highest ranked in ESP -[she is a Green Sash, with edge and four stripes] is part of Anima.
On the official ESP website, Lauren, who is Vice President of Education for the company, has her role in Anima explained:
Since 2007, she has been part of the creative team behind Anima Inc., a Mexico City-based performing arts company that recently performed at the Bicentennial Celebration of Mexico and directed and choreographed the opening and closing ceremonies for the Pan American Games. S
Esteban González Guzmán.
The CEO of Anima is Esteban González Guzmán. He is a coach for NXIVM/ESP and holds the rank of Orange Sash, Edge, with one stripe. Esteban 'worked' for Emiliano Salinas' [Raniere] company called Prorsus Capital.
Prorsus Capital was founded, it seems, on Keith Raniere's 'espoused' [but not practiced] 'principles', and like many of his companies is based on a Latin word. In Latin "Prorsus' means "forward" or "straight ahead," or "to sum up."
Prorsus' 'purpose' from their website is right out of Keith Raniere's lexicon:
Prorsus Capital was founded on the idea that entrepreneurism — putting forth effort and taking a risk in order to create a new business where there was nothing before — is one of the noblest human endeavors, and a necessity for a healthy, vital human society.
Prorsus claims to be an investment capital firm focused on technology, real estate, tourism and financial services in Mexico and Latin America. I could not find mention of any venture projects on the Prorsus website.
It does have typical Raniere boasts and slogan: 'Strategically Positioned for Innovation' is the slogan. And the boast: We are the premier venture capital fund specializing in Mexico and the greater Latin America.
But why don't they have one single project on their website, which has been around since at least 2010?
At Prorsus, Alejandro 'Alex' Betancourt is President. At ESP, he holds the rank of the Green Sash with three stripes.
Alejandro Alex Betancourt performs at a NXIVM ritual performance. The green t-shirt symbolizes his rank.
Emiliano Salinas is Vice President of Prorsus and he is a NXIVM/ESP Green Sash, but with only one stripe.
What gives Prorsus away as a possible shell company is having Espian Farouk Rojas listed on its website as a member of the board.
Farouk is a recruiter and coach for NXIVM/ESP and lives in Clifton Park, New York. Like most ESPians, Farouk is broke.
He cannot afford a car, and is often seen riding his bicycle, even in cold weather. He has been in ESP for so long, he is drifting from middle aged to elderly, imperceptibly, whiling away the years, daydreaming about the big money he is going to make with ESP, and of becoming a famous singer, as encouraged by Keith. He sings with Raniere's a-Cappella group, Simply Human, a singing group with no following and no paid performances.
He probably makes less than $20,000 per year doing his main work of trying to recruit people into ESP, an increasingly difficult job given the media attention on Keith Raniere now.
But here is what Prorsus says about Farouk:
Farouk Rojas joined Prorsus Capital as CTO in 2009. He is in charge of long-term technology strategy for the fund's businesses, as well as research and development of new technology business opportunities and overseeing IT operations for the fund's businesses.
Farouk has almost 20 years of experience in IT, computer networks, VoIP telephony, web development and software development and has participated as a consultant in medium and large scale IT projects in the industrial, telephony and mass-media sectors, internationally. He also secured funding for a dot-com era startup in Mexico and headed the development team of another one in the US.
Farouk has spoken at multiple Internet and technology-related conferences domestically and internationally, and has published columns on computers and the Internet in several newspapers and magazines in Mexico.
Farouk has stalled out for years in ESP and only holds the Yellow Sash [with four stripes] despite being one of ESP/NXIVM's earliest members, and yet he is in charge of "long term development strategy" for the "premier venture capital company in Mexico and the Latin Americas?"
Why can't he develop a strategy to afford a car?
Farouk Rojas has been singing up a storm for more than a decade, but has not gotten any further in his singing career.
Poor Farouk, he has been a Yellow Sash with four stripes for at least six years, while people who started ESP since he got his last stripe, have advanced far ahead of him.
A source told me, most earnestly, that Farouk's real problem with advancement is that he is fat. No one can advance in ESP if they are fat. Only thin people are allowed to coach and to teach. Thin people are the beautiful people, at least as far as the enlightened teachings of Keith Raniere are concerned.
None of these guys ever learn to make money. Executive Success Programs is the last place to learn it.
Alejandro Betancourt, president of Prorsus, is the profligate son of the accountant for Manuel Espinosa Iglesias. Pappa Betancourt is said to have become wealthy through creative bookkeeping for his boss. Daddy Betancourt gives his son Alejandro a generous allowance, eliminating the necessity of him working.
Alex, now 40, spends about half the year on vacations in exotic locales [often with awfully young men] and splits the rest of his time between Mexico City and Clifton Park.
Alex's bio on Prorsus states:
Developed the representation of Executive Success Programs, Inc. for Mexico City. He now co-owns and operates their Mexico City training center, which is one of their most successful subsidiaries worldwide. Over 8 years of his career with ESP, Alejandro has become one of their most qualified trainers and serves on their board of directors.
Emiliano Salinas also gets an allowance from his father, the former president, who reputedly stole a fortune from the Mexican people. Emiliano is kind of a nincompoop son of a powerful, but corrupt father.
Carlos Salinas [right' with son Emiliano and his bride Ludwika Paleta.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari is a man whose name conjures up images of fraud, corruption and economic devastation. He is like 'The Godfather'. When he was president, he would appoint the leaders of the drug cartels. One leading journalist asked me not to reveal he is working on a explosive story involving his son, Emiliano, for he believed Carlos might kill him at any time up until the story was broadcast. Then he would be safe.
Overall, Carlos Salinas is a man reviled as the keeper of the dark side. Mexicans hate and fear him. Many believe he is the most powerful man in Mexico.
The New York Times more or less summarized:
His rise to power as president in 1988 was marred by charges of fraud and repression against opponents. His exit at the end of 1994 was followed by the worst economic crisis in recent Mexican history, tensions over the unresolved murder of the PRI's presidential candidate and outrage after the arrest of his brother, Raúl Salinas, as the mastermind of another assassination, that of the former president of the PRI.
Raúl spent ten years in jail convicted of the high-profile political homicide of his brother in law, but, through the efforts and secreted wealth of Carlos Salinas, a judge acquitted Raul in 2005. Later, a Mexican judge exonerated him on the final charge against him of "unlawful enrichment" and ordered $19 million dollars in 12 bank accounts and 41 properties that were seized, returned to him.
These are ruthless, yet powerful, daring men. Emiliano is the wastrel son and nephew. He spends most of his time chasing women, and men, and is in an open sexual relationship both with his wife, actress, Ludwika Paleta, and his business partner, Alex Betancourt.
But on Prorsus' website, Emiliano sounds like a man with big work to do in the world.
Emiliano is General Director of the INLAK'ECH peace movement, a citizen's initiative to create a violence-free Mexico, founding member of the Ethical Foundation for Science and Vice President of CREUM, a training center for human development in Mexico City. He is also regional coordinator for Mexico for Executive Success Programs, Inc., out of Albany, NY, and serves on their board of directors.
The INLAK'ECH peace movement is another Raniere named group that does nothing. The words 'In Lak'ech' is a Mayan greeting that means, "You are me."
As for 'peace,' and brotherly love, Emiliano does what Raniere tells him. {and that means it is vicious]. He has been implicated in the attempted abduction of three of Keith Raniere's enemies, two former girlfriends, Toni Natalie, and Barbara Bouchey, and the former head of the ESP/NXIVM center in Washington state, Susan Dones.
According to a hard hitting story in the Albany Times Union today:
[Kristin] Keeffe, who for many years did paralegal work on behalf of NXIVM, … alleged that Raniere and Emiliano Salinas, a high-ranking NXIVM official and son of a former Mexican president, had unsuccessfully plotted to lure Bouchey, Foley, Dones and another NXIVM defector to Mexico.
[Keeffe said] "Emiliano set up the scheme to get [Barbara Bouchey] and Toni [Natalie] thrown in a Mexican prison."
There are, of course, many other wealthy Mexicans and Latin Americans in ESP. Almost all of them are the children of wealth and earned nothing themselves.
Edgar Boone and Omar Boone, the sons of Ricardo Boone. Gabriel Delgado Ayua, the grandson of Manuel F. Ayua, the founder of the first libertarian university, Universidad Francosco Marroquin in Guatemala.
Vera Autrey de Costa [may be branded], whose parents had one of the world's great art collections in Brazil, is another Latin American member of ESP. She spends her days in Raniere's thrall in Clifton Park and sells off her fabulous art collection in increments to support herself as she takes ESP classes interminably.
There are more, which I hope to detail in a future post.
But let us go back and conclude with Alejandra González Anaya and her Raniere-inspired company, Anima Inc.
It claims it is:
an award-winning production company that is devoted to create life-changing messages through massive events and the performing arts. We wish to touch our audiences, moving and inspiring dreams of flight, reminding them that every moment holds the possibility to pursue our dreams and actualize our potential.
Sounds like Raniere-speak to me.
Yet, while Anima is long on words, it is short on deeds. It boasts of participating in only nine productions during its 10 years' existence.
But it does boast:
For instance, the website says:
ANIMA INC. produced and directed Vuela Veracruz: Un Sólo Corazón (Fly Veracruz: One Heart), the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Central American and Caribbean Games 2014 held in Veracruz.
In language reminiscent of Keith Raniere, Anima states:
Athletes are some of the best expressions of human greatness. The Voladores (The Flying Men) gathered where the Flame of the Central American and Caribbean Games burns. They remind us why our rituals exist and they demonstrate why they're of utmost importance. Humanity transforms itself into the challenges the athletes have to face: their commitment, discipline, tolerance, compassion and glory. We are all a better team, thanks to our athletes.
Keith Raniere himself claims to be an athlete. On his own website we learn:
Applying this skill to athletics, Keith Raniere excelled in judo and was an East Coast Judo Champion at age eleven. He also excelled in numerous other sports including volleyball, tennis, table tennis, diving, softball, cycling and skiing.
I have looked, but nowhere can I find any online record of a lad who once was champion of the entire east coast when he was but 11.
But Keith often speaks of his abundant athletic ability, as he did with TV actress Grace Park in this You Tube Video:
Like most of what he says, it is nonsensical bullshit and meant to confuse and bewilder his followers into awe struck compliance and endless obedience.
Anima Inc. claims it won awards….
Mexico's Biggest Criminal: The Salinas de Gortari Crime Family
El Universal: Powerful Mexican surnames associated with NXIVM sex-slaver cult!
Mexico Power-Play: New round in match between Salinas and Videgaray – focuses on NXIVM and Salinas' son's role in sex-slaver cult
Frank Report's founder and lead writer Frank Parlato is one of the internet's most acclaimed investigative journalists. His writing and investigations have helped expose major criminal organizations and scandals.
Frank's work has been cited in major publications all over the world, including The New York Times, New York Post, The Daily Mail, VICE News, CNN, Rolling Stone, and more.
He is also the publisher and editor-in-chief of Artvoice, The Niagara Falls Reporter, Front Page and the South Buffalo News.
Investigate Chris J. Laue's involvement
with Anima. Laue had a website linked to Anima's Mexico "office". Within the actual link you can see the word fundraiser is built into the URL. Christopher J. Laue on his Anima site listed the same grand mega global events showing stadiums filled with 10's of thousands of people. Laue alleges to be Executive Producer of these
huge events. It is fiction . Look at Chris J. Laue's similarly fraudulent website for his alleged company ContinuumLive.
This site still active, unlike his Anima site now disabled. The two sites were identical. Chris J Laue is a fraud and his connection to the Anima people and the sick cult is more evidence that these vile people pretend to be good-dooers, but in reality what these " strategic Alliances",
have in common is they are all IT tech highly sophisticated hackers. They gain power by the info and dirt they gather on those they prey on. Much like Jeffrey Epstein, they use their hacking of info
to control , extort and blackmail.
News Briefs – 05/15/2018 | says:
[…] An interesting analysis of NXIVM founder Keith Raniere's Mexican connections. He was quite plugged in to the Mexican political and business leadership. […]
"The Mexico Connection"
Por favor says:
Spanish translation, por favor.
Monterrey: Hey, Omar and Jimena: My trial has not started, stay tuned; plus pics and thoughts by ESPians
Text from Rosa Laura Junco – daughter of Mexican media tycoon, Alejandro Junco de la Vega – explains and extols branding women
About Frank Parlato
Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist.
His work has been cited in major publications all over the world, including The New York Times, The Daily Mail, VICE News, CNN, Fox News, Rolling Stone, People Magazine, and more.
Frank Parlato was the lead investigator and coordinating producer of Investigation Discovery's 2 hour blockbuster special 'The Lost Women of NXIVM.'
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¿Cómo es trabajar en Beam Inc?
Beam is a good place to develop your career in the the beverage alcohol industry. It's a large corporation that treats their employees fairly. Often promotes from within, even if the options are questionable.
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A Pioneer Looks to Our Future
I've long been a supporter of space exploration. It is often one of the few bright spots in the world of government-funded programs. However, I have come to realize that it's that same government that has crippled our ventures in the final frontier. Nearly every new president rolls out a new "vision" for NASA, often discarding whatever the previous leader had promoted. Funding is just potential "get votes" for visionless Congress and has largely been stagnate as they prefer to send money to other countries or bailout only the companies that support them. So space exploration moves along in fits and starts. I was pleased to see that Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin largely shares these views in his new book Mission to Mars.
For decades, Buzz has championed our expansion in space and in this new book discusses how our government-run program has both succeeded and failed. He also sees the recent growth in private efforts in space travel as a new turning point on the frontier. This is indeed correct, and creating an environment where these efforts can continue to thrive and expand is critical. NASA has already begun relying on private industry to supply the International Space Station. Soon they will deliver astronauts and companies have begun using the facilities that once launched the shuttles. NASA has laid the groundwork, now the people must take over. If they do, space will no longer be the realm of the few.
Buzz details how NASA shouldn't be tied up in returning people to the Moon. Certainly they should be involved in technology transfer, training, design and U.S. participation, but their main thrusts should be elsewhere. They went to the Moon 45 years ago. Time to trailblaze elsewhere. And that place is Mars.
The Apollo veteran outlines his cycler design which would put spacecraft in continuous flight between Mars and Earth. It's an ingenious design that uses physics and reusable vehicles. Is it the only option? No, and he briefly mentions the Mars Direct plan that Robert Zubrin laid out years ago. It uses current technology and in-situ use of resources on Mars to drastically lower costs of a mission. It was the baseline for NASA plans for a time. Buzz's plan has some overlap with Zubrin's, though I think both can be used. Mars Direct is still the simplest way for early missions to reach Mars. Later, it could be used in tandem with cyclers to increase travel opportunities to Mars (and I'm sure technology will improve both methods, see Case for Mars for more on Mars Direct).
We also read on the potential of mining asteroids and the real need to detect and deflect ones that threaten Earth. Buzz's plan to first land humans on the Martian moon Phobos before Mars seems an unnecessary detour, though the satellite does have potential for the outposts he describes. He implores that whomever is president in 2019 to use the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 to commit to a Mars mission. I think this would be another empty vision from our politicians who cannot see past another election cycle. There is no Cold War to drive the project. Just as the people are taking over spaceflight, travel beyond our world will be up to them as well (perhaps Mars One).
NASA will surely be a part of it and maybe enough forward-thinking people exist in our government to support it. They can justify it anyway they want to: Jobs, technology, education, exploration, resources. It would certainly be a huge step forward against all of our steps backwards.
In 1989, Buzz stood on stage as President George Bush put forth a plan to reach Mars in 2019. The poorly conceived plan went no where. Now we are talking about announcing a mission in 2019 that won't even happen for many years after. That, to me, isn't very visionary. We need to get past the government-style pushing off the future to some indeterminate time that often never arrives. Buzz asks, "America, do you still dream great dreams?"
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Gabriel Zophy (April 17, 1869 – September 9, 1947) was an American carpenter, building contractor, and Socialist from West Allis who served one term (1911–1914) as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate representing the Milwaukee County-based 7th Senate district (14th and 17th wards of the city of Milwaukee; the towns of Franklin, Greenfield, Lake, Oak Creek and Wauwatosa); cities of South Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, West Allis and Cudahy and the village of West Milwaukee).

Background
Zophy was born on April 17, 1869 in Schwanden, Glarus, Switzerland. He came to the United States with his parents in 1870 to Juda, Wisconsin (in Green County), where he attended the public schools in winter and worked on farms in the summer. In 1885 he moved to Milwaukee where he learned the trade of carpentry, worked as a journeyman until 1894, when he engaged in the business of contracting and building which he since followed. He located In West Allis in 1901 before its incorporation as a village and took an active interest In public affairs. He became village trustee in 1903 serving one term. Later he was appointed school commissioner.

Senate career
He was a member of the state Central Committee of the Social Democratic Party (as the party was still known in Wisconsin) from West Allis in 1910 when he was elected to the Senate (replacing Republican  George E. Page) with 4,344 votes, to 3,864 for Republican George G. Brew (nominally a Progressive, but suspected of stalwart tendencies) and 3374 for Democrat Benjamin Steinel, and was assigned to the Senate's standing committee on State Affairs.

He was succeeded in the 1914 election by fellow Socialist Louis A. Arnold (with whom he later served on the board of directors of the Commonwealth Mutual Savings Bank, a Socialist-led institution, along with Charles B. Whitnall). He also served as vice-president of the bank.

Zophy died of a heart attack in 1947.

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Q: Search for a record by date in SQL Server I'm trying to make a textbox which whenever a textchanged event happens, the function will use the textbox text to search through the database to find the right records.
For example: I have 3 rows (name, phone number, birthday - the format is year - month - day - in SQL Server):

Name
PhoneNumber
Birthday

John
482
2000-7-9

Dennis
912
2001-12-9

Mike
123
2000-4-1

If the textbox.text is 9 or 9/, I want to return the 2 rows for John and Dennis.

Name
PhoneNumber
Birthday

John
482
2000-7-9

Dennis
912
2001-12-9

It is easy to search if I enter the date with yyyy-MM-dd format to the textbox, the query will be:
 SELECT *
 FROM   database
 WHERE  birthday LIKE %textbox.text%

I tried and it worked perfectly, but only when the date in textbox is following the yyyy-MM-day format. Is there anyway for it to work with the dd/month/yyyy format?

A: The following queries show how to search using different formatting options for the value given as a 'date'.
You could construct your query with several conditions  WHERE ... OR ... to match all cases.
I've changed the name of the table because database is a reserved word.
NB you should not construct your queries directly, to avoid SQL injection. Look up the safe way to do it for the language you are using.

declare @textboxtext VARCHAR(25);
set @textboxtext = '/9'
select *
from data_base
where day(birthday)
LIKE replace(@textboxtext,'/','');
GO

name   |  id | birthday
:----- | --: | :---------
John   | 482 | 2000-07-09
Dennis | 912 | 2001-12-09

declare @textboxtext VARCHAR(25);
set @textboxtext = '09/07/2000'
select *
from data_base
where birthday
 = convert(date,@textboxtext,103);
GO

name |  id | birthday
:--- | --: | :---------
John | 482 | 2000-07-09

declare @textboxtext VARCHAR(25);
set @textboxtext = '07/09/2000'
select *
from data_base
where birthday
 = convert(date,@textboxtext,101) ;
GO

name |  id | birthday
:--- | --: | :---------
John | 482 | 2000-07-09

db<>fiddle here

A: Following your comment this should meet your need. NB the months must be double digit: 9/1 will match 9/11 but not 9/01

CREATE TABLE data_base (
    name VARCHAR (25),
    id int,
    birthday date);
GO

✓

insert into data_base values
('John', 482, '2000-7-9'),
('Dennis', 912, '2001-12-9'),
('Mike', 123, '2000-4-1');
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3 rows affected

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from data_base
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name |  id | birthday
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John | 482 | 2000-07-09

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from data_base
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convert(varchar(10),birthday,103)
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GO

name   |  id | birthday
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John   | 482 | 2000-07-09
Dennis | 912 | 2001-12-09

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Increased mortality in COPD among construction workers exposed to inorganic dust
I.A. Bergdahl, K. Torén, K. Eriksson, U. Hedlund, T. Nilsson, R. Flodin, B. Järvholm
European Respiratory Journal 2004 23: 402-406; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.04.00034304
I.A. Bergdahl
K. Torén
K. Eriksson
U. Hedlund
T. Nilsson
R. Flodin
B. Järvholm
The aim of this study was to find out if occupational exposure to dust, fumes or gases, especially among never-smokers, increased the mortality from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
A cohort of 317,629 Swedish male construction workers was followed from 1971 to 1999. Exposure to inorganic dust (asbestos, man-made mineral fibres, dust from cement, concrete and quartz), gases and irritants (epoxy resins, isocyanates and organic solvents), fumes (asphalt fumes, diesel exhaust and metal fumes), and wood dust was based on a job-exposure matrix. An internal control group with "unexposed" construction workers was used, and the analyses were adjusted for age and smoking.
When all subjects were analysed, there was an increased mortality from COPD among those with any airborne exposure (relative risk 1.12 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.03–1.22)). In a Poisson regression model, including smoking, age and the major exposure groups, exposure to inorganic dust was associated with an increased risk (hazard ratio (HR) 1.10 (95% CI 1.06–1.14)), especially among never-smokers (HR 2.30 (95% CI 1.07–4.96)). The fraction of COPD among the exposed attributable to any airborne exposure was estimated as 10.7% overall and 52.6% among never-smokers.
In conclusion, occupational exposure among construction workers increases mortality due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, even among never-smokers.
never-smokers
This study was supported by The Swedish Council for working life and social research.
While there is consensus that cigarette smoking is a specific cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the association between occupational exposures and COPD has not been as straightforward. However, in recent years, an increasing consensus about the risk associated with dusty work has emerged 1–4. One problem has been that measuring COPD in epidemiological studies is not simple, as no consensus exists regarding the epidemiological definition of COPD.
Annual decline of lung function has been used as one proxy variable for COPD. In longitudinal studies of occupationally exposed cohorts, the annual decline in forced expiratory volume in one second has been found to be related to gas, dust and fume exposure 5–10. The reported declines were ∼7–8 mL·yr−1, after adjustment for age and smoking.
Studies of coal miners have shown an increased mortality due to bronchitis and emphysema 11–13, especially centrilobular emphysema 14–16. A relationship between dust exposure and degree of emphysema has been found in studies of coal and hard-rock miners 17, 18. Gold miners seem to have a greater risk of dying from COPD than coal miners, which may be due to the higher silica contents in gold mine dust 2.
Regarding other kinds of occupational dust exposure, the literature is scanty. Robinson et al. 19 analysed the mortality among 27,362 US carpenters' union members. The study was not controlled for smoking habits and they observed an increased mortality due to emphysema among construction carpenters. SjÖgren et al. 20, in a register-based study, reported that agricultural workers had increased mortality due to COPD. Hence, there is a need for powerful longitudinal studies evaluating the risk of COPD in groups occupationally exposed to other kinds of dust, not only from gold mines and coal mines. Here, the authors report the results of a prospective cohort study of 317,629 male construction workers exposed to different types of dust. The more specific aim of the study was to elucidate whether occupational exposure to inorganic dust, smoke or fume increased the risk for death from COPD, taking smoking habits into account.
In 1968, the Swedish Foundation for Occupational Safety and Health (Bygghälsan) was established to coordinate all activities concerning occupational health among Swedish construction workers. Construction workers were invited to health examinations at intervals of 2–5 yrs. Although the programme was voluntary, at least 80% of eligible workers participated at least once. Data from the health examinations, including occupational titles and smoking habits, were registered in a central database established in the early 1970s, as previously described 21–23. Through the personal identity number and a linkage with the National Cause of Death Register, it was possible to identify subjects who died (underlying cause) from COPD. The diagnoses from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) were used, as follows: from ICD 8, 490–492; from ICD 9, 490–492 and 494–496; and from ICD 10, J43–J44. Each worker was followed from entry into cohort (earliest 1 January 1971) until 31 December 1999. The loss of subjects was low (0.15%) and such persons were excluded from the analysis. Those examined before the age of 15 yrs or after the age of 67 yrs were also excluded.
The smoking habit at the time of the first health examination was used. When information on smoking was lacking, information from a later visit was used. Hence, smoking was classified as never-smokers, exsmokers, smokers and unknown smoking habits. The occupational title at the time of the first health examination was used. If the title included jobs that were often used for replacement of sick persons, e.g. storage worker or cleaner, the individual was excluded from further analysis. Most workers remained in the same occupation. For example, among the workers who participated in repeated examinations, 74% reported the same occupation. The exposed group consisted of 200,735 males. The reference group consisted of all males in jobs that were assessed as nonexposed in the job-exposure matrix (see below), 116,894 males in total. The study was approved by the committee of ethics at Umeå University (Umeå, Sweden).
Exposure assessment
A job-exposure matrix was developed for selected exposures as previously described 24. In brief, the exposure assessment was based on a previous survey from the mid-1970s 25, where each occupation was studied at visits to approximately five different sites in different geographical regions of Sweden. More detailed information about this procedure can be obtained from the corresponding author. Each factor was graded on a 0–5 scale, by a group of occupational hygienists and physicians. Level 3 corresponded to the hygienic threshold value at the time of the study. When no such limits were applicable, level 3 corresponded to an exposure that at that time was considered "acceptable". Exposures to asbestos, asphalt fumes, cement dust, concrete dust, diesel exhaust, epoxy resins, isocyanates, man-made mineral fibres, metal fumes, organic solvents, quartz dust and wood dust were assessed, focusing on exposure during the mid-1970s. Assessments were made for each of the 214 codes used to describe each individual's occupation during the period 1971–1985/86. After 1985, only 90 job codes were used and a similar matrix was made for the 90 job codes used after 1985.
In the final analysis, categories were combined, resulting in four major exposure groups, as follows: inorganic dust (asbestos, man-made mineral fibres, cement, concrete and quartz); gases and irritants (epoxy resins, isocyanates and organic solvents); fumes (diesel exhaust, metal fume and asphalt); and wood dust. Basic data about the cohort is presented in table 1⇓. As shown in table 2⇓, there is an overlap between the four major exposure groups. Specifically, workers classified as exposed to inorganic dust were also exposed to gases and irritants, and also to fumes.
Basic data on a cohort of 317,629 male Swedish construction workers divided into the different major exposure groups
Data on the overlap between different exposure categories
Relative risks (RR) were calculated by the person-year method 26, using the age distribution in the reference group as a control. Person-years were calculated from the calendar year after the first health examination until death, emigration or 31 December 1999, whichever came first. The analyses were stratified according to age in 5‐yr groups, smoking habits in four levels and calendar year. Person-years >84 yrs were excluded. Ninety-five per cent confidence intervals (CI) were calculated using a Poisson distribution. The influence of major exposure group, smoking habits and age were analysed using a Poisson regression model 27.
The proportion of COPD among the exposed attributable to work was calculated as attributable proportion (AP) 28:
The population attributable risk was not calculated, only the attributable risk among the exposed, as this is a cohort not representative of the general population.
Altogether 523 deaths due to COPD occurred among workers exposed to any airborne exposure and there were 200 deaths among the controls. Using the person-year method, stratifying for smoking and age, there was a slightly increased RR of death due to COPD (RR 1.12 (95% CI 1.03–1.22)) among workers with any airborne exposure as compared to controls. In the different major exposure groups, except exposure to wood dust, there was increased mortality due to COPD. Formal statistical significance was observed among those exposed to inorganic dust (RR 1.16 (95% CI 1.05–1.28)) and among those exposed to fumes (RR 1.22 (95% CI 1.04–1.42)) (table 3⇓).
Mortality from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among male construction workers according to exposure to different agents
When restricting the analyses to never-smokers, the mortality due to COPD among workers with any airborne exposure further increased (RR 2.11 (95% CI 1.43–3.00)). In addition, the RRs increased and remained significant among those exposed to inorganic dust, gases and irritants, and to fumes (table 4⇓).
Age-adjusted mortality (relative risk) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among male construction workers according to different exposures among never-smokers
The results of the Poisson regression analyses are shown in tables 5⇓ and 6⇓. When analysing the whole cohort, the increased mortality risk remained among those exposed to inorganic dust (hazard ratio 1.10 (95% CI 1.06–1.14)), but the risk declined among the groups exposed to gases and irritants, and to fumes. When restricting the analyses to never-smokers, there was an increased risk among those exposed to inorganic dust, gases and irritants, and to fumes.
Hazard ratios (HR) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among male construction workers according to different exposures based on a Poisson regression analysis
Hazard ratios (HR) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among male construction workers according to different exposures based on a Poisson regression analysis among never-smokers
The fraction of COPD attributable to work among the exposed was estimated as 10.7% overall and 52.6% among never-smokers.
The main finding in this study was an increased mortality from COPD among construction workers exposed to inorganic dusts, as compared to other unexposed construction workers. In this cohort of male construction workers, the proportion of COPD that was attributable to work was considerable, with an attributable fraction of almost 11%. The meaning of this is that reduction of workplace exposures to dust, gases and fumes would prevent one out of ten deaths due to COPD, regardless of other risk factors, such as cigarette smoking.
The main strengths of the present study are that it is a prospective, longitudinal study of a large cohort and that smoking habits have been recorded. In addition, the cohort is based on a register with a high complete coverage of the Swedish construction industry. Finally, an internal control group with known smoking status has been used.
There may be some misclassification of diagnoses between asthma and COPD. According to ICD 8, priority regarding the underlying cause of death was given to COPD if it was mentioned together with asthma, regardless of the cause of death on the death certificate 29. This priority rule has been excluded in subsequent classifications, meaning that since 1986 the underlying cause of death has been coded according to the death certificate. As a result of this, for the period before 1987, some asthmatics may have been coded as having died from COPD, but this misclassification is probably independent of the subject's occupation.
It is probable that the workers in the control group had been exposed to dust, albeit at lower levels than in the exposed group, which may underestimate the risks. Furthermore, the current authors have not been able to estimate the cumulative exposure index, since the exposure is only based upon occupation reported at the first health examination. It should, however, be noted that, in general, Swedish construction workers remain in the same occupation within the construction industry. In those examined at least twice, >70% had the same occupation after 5 yrs. The job-exposure matrix was based on exposure estimations from the 1970s. Several of the workers (in particular those who were older) had probably worked in the construction industry since the 1930s, 1940s or 1950s. Therefore, exposure to asbestos, for example, may have occurred without being taken into account in the job-exposure matrix. In particular, the current authors believe that previous asbestos exposure among plumbers may be the reason for the increased risk of dying from COPD among workers exposed to metal fume, as the group of workers exposed to metal fume consisted mainly of plumbers (80%). There was also a considerable overlap between those classified as exposed to inorganic dust and those exposed to fumes, and to gases and irritants. In the Poisson regression model it was only exposure to inorganic dust that remained associated with COPD mortality when other major exposure groups were introduced into the model.
The classification of smoking habits in the study was not time dependent. Hence, the results from the whole group can be criticised, as different exposure groups may have different cumulative exposure to tobacco smoke, i.e. different pack-years. However, this has been overcome by only analysing never-smokers, which was possible because of the size of the data set. Nevertheless, smoking habits were only reported at the start of follow-up and, therefore, there is a possibility that the fraction of never-smokers who started to smoke was different in the different exposure categories. However, if the analysis among never-smokers was restricted to those with smoking information from repeated health examinations, the relative risk for any airborne exposure did not change (RR 2.11).
Although there is a large body of scientific literature describing studies of COPD concerned with impaired lung function and/or symptoms, this is, to the best of the authors' knowledge, the largest study investigating the relationship between COPD mortality and occupational airborne exposures. The power of the study made it possible to separately analyse different smoking categories. Hnizdo et al. 30 recently found an increased risk for COPD among US construction workers (odds ratio (OR) 1.2), especially among never-smokers (OR 3.4). In the Dutch Zutphen study, an increased risk for nonspecific lung disease was found among construction and cement workers 31. The present results corroborate those from previous studies, indicating an increased risk for COPD among workers exposed to dust, such as asbestos, man-made mineral fibres, mineral dust and concrete dust. However, it should be stressed that the dust exposure is construction related, i.e. the results cannot be directly applied to the general population.
The mechanism for the relationship between dust exposure and COPD remains unclear. Churg and coworkers 32–33, in two separate studies, have previously reported the presence of fibrosis in the small airways among autopsy cases with a previous history of occupational dust exposure. Increased elastic recoil pressure among workers exposed to man-made mineral fibres has also been described 34. Taken together, these findings indicate that occupational exposure to dust, especially mineral dust, causes a scarring or fibrosis in the small airways.
When analyses were restricted to never-smokers, the increased mortality remained, which to some extent is contrary to other studies 2, although it is in accordance with others 30. The attributable fraction among never-smokers with any airborne exposure was high, 53%. Hnizdo et al. 30 also found a high attributable fraction, 31%, among never-smokers. However, their study was based on the general population and the attributable fraction was a population-based estimate. In South African studies of gold miners, the results indicated a multiplicative interaction between smoking and dust exposure 35, 36. The data presented in this study rather suggest an additive component in the relationship between smoking and occupational dust exposure. However, it should be noted that none of the nonsmokers in the South African cohort died of COPD. It should be stressed that the estimate for COPD among never-smokers in the current study is based on 31 exposed and deceased subjects.
Two studies from the US general population have recently been published and show a population-attributable fraction of ∼20% for occupation and COPD 30, 37. This is higher than was found in the current study, especially considering only construction workers were included here. The disparity could be due to differences in exposure between the countries, but also due to the fact that other "nonexposed" construction workers were used as controls. In the general population, "unexposed" subjects probably have a lower exposure to dust than the controls used in this study. Furthermore, the US studies may also include other types of occupational exposure not occurring among construction workers.
In conclusion, occupational exposure to dust increases mortality due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, even in never-smokers.
Received March 27, 2003.
Accepted October 6, 2003.
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Online Vigilantism: Using Internet sleuths to find the Moses Mabhida Stadium soccer hooligans
Spectators ripped out and set seats alight at the end of the match. Photo: Motshwari Mofokeng/African News Agency/ANA
When violence at the Moses Mabhida Stadium erupted, I like all soccer lovers groaned. Surely the Beautiful Game has not imported hooliganism as well?
As a long-suffering fan of second-placed Buccaneers or "The Deputy Champions" as we now call ourselves, I do relate to the anger and frustration. However apart from a profanity or two, which I am not allowed to use in this family column, I doubt I could be part of a rampage.
I am a devotee of technology determinism, which is a reductionist theory that aims to provide a causative link between technology and society's character. In other words I believe that technology is firmly leading society by the mouse pointer! Thus as videos of the rampage went viral and even before the police asked for help, I started playing with reverse image search software such as Google and Tineye to try to identify the hooligans. When the PSL and police asked for help in identifying some suspects I felt vindication as a proactive member of society.
Alas, I did not get many "hits" from the grainy public posted videos but I did get some close comparisons. However, even to my naked eye the comparisons looked dubious at best. I abandoned my search as it was just an academic exercise. I wondered if this happened before?
Crowdsourcing has emerged as a pervasive Internet method to leverage the collective wisdom of the experts and enthusiasts to solve challenges facing humanity. It may be technical – how do I fix my leaking pool; business – how do I sell my product, or global – how do we remove plastic from the oceans. Crowdsourcing has morphed a new offshoot appropriately called crime-sourcing, which is just what the police requested in the aftermath of the soccer match.
This form of Internet sleuthing, when applied to crime, is also called Internet vigilantism where vigilante acts is taken online. The online vigilante combine their digital skills with vigilantism and become known as digilantis. Digilantism, is an area I am currently studying, hence this work.
An intriguing aside: The etymology of the word "vigilante" now seems to refer to people who take the law literally into their own hands, yet the word itself has roots not in touching, but merely watching which appropriately suits Social Media.
So, what can go wrong with a simple task of identifying folk through images? Plenty, it turns out. The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing inspired digilantism as outraged US citizens tried any and every means to identify the culprits.
The internet sleuths, waged through photo and video-graphic footage, and then tried to triangulate this with available eyewitness accounts. The noble goal was to find the Boston Bombers. The unintended tragic consequences was that they got the identification horribly wrong leaving innocent people fearing for their safety. So what went wrong? The problem was that the police scanner video of a was the best source of information. This now for a world class event the Boston Marathon!
Crowdsourcing has positive spinoffs. We now have crowd-sourced investigations. Finding a missing dog in the neighbourhood, trying to relocate a stolen or missing sentimental artefact, finding loved ones or even Airplanes that crashed, like the MH370. Now, in South Africa crowd-sourcing is being used to fight football hooliganism. What happens if we crowd-search an alleged rapist and we get it wrong? It has already happened in townships. Will one team's fans use this as an opportunity to "out" other soccer teams fans because of fanatical hatred?
Consider in 2014, DigitalGlobe an American commercial vendor of space satellite imagery, launched a crowdsourcing campaign to allow concerned people to help look for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. They combed through satellite images for clues of its whereabouts. Over 500, 000 folk joined in the first week. They searched satellite images, tagging anything that looks suspicious. Each pixel on a computer screen represents half a meter on the ocean's surface. Ultimately the doomed flight was not found but it demonstrated peoples willingness to be digilantes. #HelpFindDurbanBaby invoked similar digilantivism as the nation closed ranks to help find missing child, Siwaphiwe in March 2017.
Will we erroneously vilify a Kaiser Chiefs fan? Let's accept that with highly polarised public events, crowd-sourced investigations will increase with or without our permission.
The pathway to the darknet is paved with good intentions. The Internet makes that journey just so much faster. My weekend experiment with video graphic image searches reminded me that if a police line-up is unreliable just much better will a poor non front facing video of an alleged culprit be?
One suspect was identified on Social Media as the Blue Robe Man because of the apparel he wore. This eventually proved wrong. I will not perpetuate his trauma by naming him. Another was called the White Hat Black Jacket Guy, another the Blue Duffel Bag Guy, and so on. With each suspect, a mad internet rush ensued to find their real identities. Some of these folk feared their lives. Read the story of the devastation wrecked on 22-year old Sunils Tripathi family. They were trying to find their son Sunil who disappeared during a bout of depression through crowdsourcing. Instead they entered the perfect digital storm with him being mistakenly recognised as the bomber. Tripathi had committed suicide.
We have police because innocent people will regrettably always be wrongly accused. The police have processes and systems to vet a crime and a criminal through unemotional investigation using science, together with facts and clues. You and I as Social Media users and potential digilantes have a role to prevent fake news and spreading victimisation. Be a vigilant digilante but know when to defer to the cops.
Charlie Beckett called the Boston fiasco a "media literacy seminar" and hopes that "people are learning to be less stupid." You don't want to be the person who names a suspect who turns out to be innocent. Touché.
Dr Colin Thakur is a digital activist who is committed to the dream of "one person, one connected device." He is the KZN e-Skills CoLab Director, located at the Durban University of Technology. His areas of research include e-democracy, Social media, and unstructured big data.
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In California, the wrongful death statute sets the parameters of wrongful death lawsuits, including who can bring a wrongful death suit and the statute of limitations for such an action. Survivors that may bring a wrongful death action in California include spouses, domestic partners, offspring or parents of deceased children, or, in the event that there are none of these, the next of kin who is responsible for the deceased's estate.
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Training Self-Driving AI Takes Humans & Automation
Stephen Lawson
Autonomous driving is a multifaceted engineering challenge but, among other things, it's a massive object-recognition problem.
Scale, a San Francisco start-up that helps train artificial intelligence platforms for many online services, is now addressing the steep demands of self-driving AI systems.
AI and machine learning are making strides in performing the complex planning and decision-making functions involved in getting from one place to another safely. Companies such as Nvidia and Tesla are building ever more powerful hardware to handle those tasks. However, interpreting sensor data to recognize roads, cars, pedestrians and more is at the heart of the problem and AI can't do that alone.
When cameras, radar and LiDAR deliver readings to an AI system, the computer can only recognize objects if it's been trained to generalize, Scale CEO Alexandr Wang told TU-Automotive. If the system encounters a car with a slightly novel design element, the AI may not know it's a car at all.
For example, a model that had a rear turn signal with three lights in sequence instead of one flashing light was a challenge for AI systems. So were the dockless electric scooters that began to show up in some cities recently, Wang said. Even the slightest change in a car's design from one model year to the next can make the AI's recognition a little bit less accurate.
Scale takes in sensor data from AV development vehicles operated by its customers, such as GM Cruise, Uber, Lyft and nuTonomy, and labels the objects that the vehicles encountered. Software does some of the work, but it needs to be double-checked. "Every piece of data gets at least looked over by a human," Wang said. (Most of the work is done by contractors, he said. Scale doesn't say how many there are, or where they work.)
Then Scale sends the labeled data back to the customer, which uses it to train the AI to better recognize objects. AV companies need new data every time they modify the array of sensors on a vehicle, as well as regular updates to keep up with new kinds of cars and other objects. People know what they are, but AI often doesn't.
"Ultimately, what we're providing them is the insights that humans have for free on top of the imagery and other kinds of sensor data," Wang said.
Automated driving is one of the most demanding uses of AI training data that Scale works on, he said. The company also labels things like couches in images on Pinterest and brick walls in Airbnb photos, which helps those companies put relevant content and ads in front of users.
Unlike those companies' machine-learning systems, automotive AI platforms need to do image recognition in real time. Also, driving systems need to achieve greater accuracy because the stakes are that much higher. "They can never be accurate enough," Wang said.
Also, driving systems aren't hidden in the background like the AI behind most web-based services.
"The way the models and the automated systems and the AI performs is front and center. If you're sitting in a car, you're going to see how it ends up driving," Wang said.
AI isn't even close to correctly identifying every important object by itself, said Navigant Research analyst Sam Abuelsamid. "I don't think that is going to happen any time in the near future," he said. So companies like Scale, as well as others with similar objectives, such as MightyAI, will have work to do for years, he said.
Even small changes like putting bits of tape on a stop sign can throw off an automated recognition system, so the software needs to be resilient enough that it can recognize things anyway, Abuelsamid said.
"It's actually surprisingly easy to break these systems, so it's crucial that you train them with a very careful data set," he said.
— Stephen Lawson is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @sdlawsonmedia.
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Marco Rubio (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)
Marco Rubio predicts a "red wave" of Republican midterm wins — but where's the evidence?
Midterm momentum continues to trend toward Democrats prior to Election Day
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2018/11/05/marco-rubio-predicts-a-red-wave-of-republican-midterm-wins-but-wheres-the-evidence/
As Americans prepare for Election Day, the latest surveys and studies reveal that Democrats are still in a position of growing strength, despite the curious last-minute spin coming from many Republicans.
"Forget about a blue wave," Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said on Monday. Pointing to Donald Trump's 2016 win in his state, Rubio predicted Republicans will do just as well on Tuesday. "A red wave of votes started coming in. That's what's gonna happen again now." White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said something similar on Monday.
But where is the evidence?
As statistician Nate Silver wrote on Fivethirtyeight, a systematic polling error would be necessary for Republicans to hold on to the House of Representatives — or, for that matter, for Democrats to win back the Senate.
As I wrote earlier this week, Democrats almost certainly need a systematic polling error to win the Senate. By that I mean: They need for the polls to be off everywhere, or at least in certain key clusters of states, to win the Senate. A polling error in just one or two races (say, Beto O'Rourke wins in Texas) probably wouldn't be enough: Democrats are defending too much territory and have too many problems elsewhere on the map just to get lucky.
That conclusion about the Senate ought to be fairly intuitive, I think. Even if you credit Democrats with wins in all the toss-up races, that wouldn't be enough — it would only get them to 50 seats. What might be more surprising is that the same conclusion holds for Republicans in the House. They need for there to be a systematic polling error too. If the polls are about right overall but Republicans are hoping to getting lucky in the swing districts, it probably won't happen — the odds are stacked heavily against them.
The Cook Political Report on Monday moved nine House races in Democrats' favor. GOP Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Karen Handel of Georgia are now in contests that, though previously labeled as "lean Republican," are officially regarded as toss-ups. The GOP candidates are doing a little better in Florida's 6th and 25th districts, which are labeled as "leaning Republican," but those districts had previously been labeled as "likely Republican," which is a stronger position for a GOP candidate to be in. Even more ominous, Texas's 6th and 10th congressional districts and West Virginia's 2nd congressional district have all moved from "solid Republican" to "likely Republican," while the race for California's 49th congressional district has shifted from "leaning Democrat" to "likely Democrat."
The only movement that has been favorable for President Donald Trump's party has been in Arizona's 1st congressional district, where a Democrat incumbent (Rep. Tom O'Halleran) has moved from a race that is "likely Democrat" to one that is merely "leaning Democrat" against his Republican challenger, Wendy Rogers. As Cook's Dave Wasserman tweeted, Michigan Rep. Fred Upton is now in a race that went from "likely Republican" to "lean Republican," whereas an open seat in Washington's 8th district (where Republican Rep. Dave Reichert is retiring) has moved from "toss up" to "lean Democratic."
But the biggest sign supporting Rubio's point: ballots already casts.
More registered Republicans had already cast an early-vote ballot by Oct. 23 than Democrats in crucial swing states. The other major factor potentially influencing the midterm elections is weather, with violent rainstorms expected to pummel the eastern United States while snowfall hits much of the Midwest on Election Day.
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Q: Is there a better way to plot interactive 3d graphs using pandas, bokeh, or python on Jupyter Notebook? I am processing x, y, and z data to have a floor map with high and lows. Z being a displacement sensor. I am having some difficulty plotting a good representation of my data. I am also fairly new to pandas and python in general. I have tried doing a contour plot with no luck, and I have only been able to plot my data using matplotlib as a 3d scatter as below. I tried looking into Bokeh as well using the surface3d extension, but I have not been successful. I would want to have my data shown in either a interactive 3d scatter or wireframe with gradients, and a contour plot. Thank you in advance!
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The Modern Day Hercules, Anthony Joshua, Tumbled by Fatboy Andy Ruiz, The Postmortem →
Anthony Joshua American Debut: Swaps Out Big Baby For Fatboy Andy Ruiz
Unified British heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua makes his American debut @Madison Square Garden in New York City against the emergency replacement for Jarrell Big Baby Miller, that new challenge being the long time contender Andy Ruiz Jr.
Questions, questions: Rankings, rankings, rankings, and who has their top 10 rankings one month out from this fight?
Answer: Just about any collection of Tom, Dick, Harry and Mary that may create a boxing website these days, but not Moi, though on occasion I may offer up my opinion. Mostly I rely on the two most easily verifiable systems, Boxrec and Ring that tend to have a lot of overlap in their rankings, thus their combination expanded with Boxrec's complete rankings of the total thousands within each weight division makes for a more studied approach to fighter rankings and any evaluation of fantasy, but more importantly for evaluation of upcoming fights. Ring's rankings are generated by a panel of, ahem, "boxing experts," and Boxrec's are generated by a dispassionate computer algorithm created by boxing enthusiasts with software expertise meant to "ape" what true experts might come up with.
Joshua is in a unique, legendary Wlad Klitschko position by those rankings in that by their "top 10" rankings at the May 1st announcement of Andy as a replacement, their top #2 and 3 collective of Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury have refused substantial offers, ie what used to be a King's ransom to fight Joshua, and Joshua had already beaten the previous #3, Joseph Parker, that would normally get him awarded the Ring belt save for the too often confusion of dolts who run that ranking system. He's already beat Alexander Povetkin who was the longtime #2, and Dillian Whyte who's still highly ranked, and the #6 Big Baby was popped for drug cocktails to forfeit his Josha fight. Luis Ortiz, and Adam Kownacki have both refused to fight Joshua, gambling that Wilder would get through his last fight against Dominic Breazeale, but no matter who won, the WBC would be the easiest belt to win with them positioning themselves well in their in house WBC rankings. The only top contender left is Kubrat Pulev who has always marched to a different drummer, and their #10, Oscar Rivas, only been in their ratings 3 weeks.
What we can say is that Andy, 32-1, 21 KO is fighting the best fighter he has ever faced, Joshua, 22-0, 21 KO with both being at the peak of prime athletic years, ages 29 born within a month of each other. The 2nd best Andy faced was Joseph Parker whom he lost to in a close fight. Andy last fought April 20th and seems to have had an easy time in knocking out a former supersized 6-7 contender, Alexander Dimitrenko, within 5 rounds while sustaining no injuries, so after a week's relaxation as the Big Baby Drug Cocktail Bombshell blew up, Bob Arum, who promotes Andy entered into negotiations with Josh that were quickly signed, sealed, and delivered to the Public on May 1st. That leaves exactly 4 weeks of light sparring for technique and fight planning with no need to get in shape since Andy hadn't had a chance yet to fall out of boxing shape.
Cue in all the fat boy jokes you want, this fatboy knows how to fight and stepped up when higher rated fighters were not game to. At the announcement of the fight, the always changing Boxrec rankings pegged Andy at 11th which is a fine rating no matter how anyone may dice it up. Andy fought for Mexico in the Olympics even though he was born in Imperial, California located approximately 40 miles north of the Mexican border and 70 or so miles east of San Diego, so I have to wonder if Saul Canelo Alvarez ever drove up in his new Lamborghini that he was recently clocked at 200 mph in France during The Run To Monaco to pay Andy a visit at his training camp for moral support?
This being such a sudden fight made out of the blue with such blatant contrasting physiques and records on display, Joshua sculpted out of bronze and Ruiz a completely different breed of cat, it's difficult for me to get a handle on the fight. My instincts tell me Andy will prove to be a game and tough customer for as long as the fight lasts if he keeps his chin tucked in. He lasted the distance against Parker in a tough fight, but Joshua is so much bigger, stronger and such a concussive puncher that I'm thinkin' maybe midrounds, say 7-10 is where Joshua finally drops the hammer.
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Abstract : Mathematical morphology is a nonlinear image processing methodology based on the application of complete lattice theory to spatial structures. Let us consider an image model where at each pixel is given a univariate Gaussian distribution. This model is interesting to represent for each pixel the measured mean intensity as well as the variance (or uncertainty) for such measurement. The aim of this work is to formulate morphological operators for these images by embedding Gaussian distribution pixel values on the Poincaré upper-half plane. More precisely, it is explored how to endow this classical hyperbolic space with various families of partial orderings which lead to a complete lattice structure. Properties of order invariance are explored and application to morphological processing of univariate Gaussian distribution-valued images is illustrated.


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A Ukrainian photojournalist takes part in a rally in support of freelance photographer Denis Sinyakov in front of the Russian embassy in Kiev September 27, 2013. A Russian court ordered 20 Greenpeace activists from around the world to be held in custody for two months pending further investigation over a protest against offshore oil drilling in the Arctic, drawing condemnation and a vow to appeal. In proceedings that Greenpeace said evoked Soviet-era scare tactics, activists from a ship used in the protest at an oil rig were led to court in the port of Murmansk in handcuffs and held in cages for a series of hearings that ended early on Friday. Twenty activists, Sinyakov and a freelance videographer were ordered to be held for two months, while eight activists were ordered to be held for three days pending a further hearing, the environmental advocacy group said. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: MEDIA ENVIRONMENT POLITICS ENERGY CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)
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April 13, 2014 August 29, 2016 CharlieQuiz 48
This week's picture quiz is a selection of musicians – can you name the band they are/were part of?
Click on the grey box to download the PDF and don't forget to print your answers too.
1. All Saints (Nicole Appleton)
By ger1axg (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
2. Pink Floyd (David Gilmour)
By user:Xett, originally Andy MacLarty. [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
3. Kiss (Gene Simmons)
This photo is a cropped version of 'Gene Simmons Shannon Tweed.jpg' By Global Wealth Trade (Own work) [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. This cropped version is used under the same creative commons Unported license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0.
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers (Flea)
By Leon Wilson from Sydney, Australia (Flea) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
5. The Killers (Brandon Flowers)
By Andrew Kendall (User:Andrewkendall) (Originally uploaded as en:Image:Killers1.jpg) [ CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
6. 10CC (Graham Gouldman)
By ChrisPsi (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
7. The Who (Roger Daltrey)
By Brett Schultz (WHO? Roger Daltrey!) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
8. Muse (Matthew Bellamy)
By Exo (Camera) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
9. Kinks (Ray Davies)
By Mo (nl.wikipedia.org/User:M0) (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons
10. One Direction (Zayn Malik)
By Eva Rinaldi [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
April 18, 2014 November 15, 2017 CharlieQuiz 48
This round is a little bit specialist… it is all about the TV show Blackadder.
1. In Blackadder II, which actress plays Lady Whiteadder – Edmund's aunt, out of whom he hopes to gain a huge inheritance?
2.What is the name of the 1999 Blackadder film in which the characters are enjoying a New Year's Eve Party and the use of a time machine?
Blackadder Back & Forth
3. What is the profession of Blackadder in series 3?
Butler (to Prince Regent)
4. Peter Cook plays which King of England in the original series of Blackadder?
5. In 'Blackadder Goes Forth', which character dresses up at 'Gorgeous Georgina' and performs at the music hall?
Lieutenant George (Full title: Lieutenant the Honorable George Colthurst St. Barleigh – played by Hugh Laurie)
6. In the second series, Ronald Lacey plays the 'Baby-Eating Bishop of…' where?
Bath and Wells
7. Complete the quote "Make a sentence out of the following words: Face – sodding…'…' "
Your – shut
8. In series two, 'Nursie' always dresses up as the same thing every time the Queen has a fancy dress party – what is this?
A cow
9. What is the name of Lord Melchett's beloved pet pigeon in Blackadder Goes Forth?
Speckled Jim
10. In series two, what does the character of 'Kate' claim her name is a short for?
April 22, 2014 July 5, 2016 CharlieQuiz 48
The following is a list of scientific, IT and science-related abbreviations and acronyms. What do they stand for?
1. AI (when related to computing and robots)
2. Radar
Radio Detection/Detecting and Ranging
3. DNA
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
4. Laser
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
5. NASA
6. BIOS
Basic Input Output System
7. CD-ROM
Compact Disc – Read Only Memory
8. AC (when related to electricity)
9. GPS
Global Positioning System/Satellite
10. ISP (when related to internet use)
Quiz 48 – Round 4 – The 90s
1. Which 1990s American TV sitcom starred Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Dustin Diamond, Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley?
2. In which year of the 90s did Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, commit suicide?
3. Which actress played wayward daughter Darlene in the US sitcom 'Roseanne'?
4. Complete the 1995 Smashing Pumpkins album title 'Mellon Collie and the…'
Infinite Sadness
5. Which year was the Queen's 'Annus Horribilis'?
6. In the blockbuster 1990 film 'Home Alone', what were the names of the two thieves that Kevin challenges?
Harry (Lime) and Marv (Merchants)
7. Which major comet became visible from Earth in 1997?
Hale-Bopp
8. In 1997 a round-the-world yachtsman was rescued from his capsized yacht after five days in the Southern Ocean – what was his name?
Tony Bullimore
9. Can you name two people who have presented TV's 'The Crystal Maze'?
Two of: Richard O'Brian (1990-1993), Edward Tudor-Pole (1993-1995), Stephen Merchant (One-off celebrity edition in 2016) and Richard Ayoade (2017-present)
10. What was the name of Sonic the Hedgehog's fox sidekick, who joined him in the second Sega game in the series, 'Sonic the Hedgehog 2'?
Tails (Real name Miles Prower)
Quiz 48 – Round 5 – Words
This round is all about compound words and phrases. Which word can either precede or follow the given words to make new words or phrases? E.g. house, fingers and bowling – can all go with green (greenhouse, green fingers and bowling green)
1. Light, check and hot?
2. Soil, hat, big, crop and table
3. Pot, good, rotten and tough
4. Hard, dead, touch and work
5. Cuff, chain, up and weak
6. Stop, supply, change and sell
7. Hand, motion, down and going
8. Wind, nature, thoughts and split
9. Ball, stool, set, hold and loose
10. Back, brush and breast
Quiz 48 – Round 6 – People
This round is all about groups or pairs of famous siblings (mostly musical, but not all). We will give you their first names, you tell us how they are/were better known collectively. We've given you a surname too where we think it necessary!
1. Robin, Barry and Maurice
2. Karen and Richard
3. Phil and Don
4. Joel and Ethan
The Cohen Brothers
5. Charlie and Craig Reid
6. Kim, Debbie, Joni and Kathy
7. Paul and Phil Hartnoll
8. Orville and Wilbur
9. Isaac, Taylor and Zac
10. Joy, Teddie and Babs
The Beverley Sisters
1. Which U.S. President was nicknamed 'Ike'?
2. In 'Mary Poppins' by P.L. Travers and the subsequent film, what is the name of Jane and Michael's mother?
Winifred Banks
3. The Gobi Desert lies within which two countries?
China and Mongolia
4. Which UK television show has a theme tune entitled 'It's Alright'?
5. Which U.S. artist recorded the 2010 album 'The Lady Killer'?
6. Which English comedian, presenter and actor hosted a 2013 talk show alongside his Dad?
7. In which year did the first series of the X-Factor begin in the UK?
8. In which country was Sigmund Freud born?
9. Ouagadougou is the capital city of which country?
10. True or false – the official opening of the Eiffel Tower was held in the year 1889?