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Thursday, May 9, 2013
Musings: Political Wills and Ways
34 comments:
- Anonymous said...
so - if the inspectors do not have enough training to do their jobs after how many years (+10 years in all cases but one) then why do they still have jobs? And whose responsibility is it to ensure that HIS employees are adequately trained?
Oh right, civil servants with no disciplinary actions, EVER.
- May 9, 2013 at 10:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
Dahilig hadn't seen any indication of "malfeasance"? Open your eyes! How about FRAUD, filing false government paperwork, TAX Evasion, FEMA violations, putting people's lives in danger by renting space in floods zones, EPA violations of old & heavily used septic tanks, parking violations, etc. etc. This guy is incompetent.
Justin Kollar should prioritize this, not make it contingent on getting funding for another position.
Besides, with all the fines, additional tax revenue that HAVEN'T been paid, these can more than fund any enforcement positions.
Amend the law so that "bounty hunters" can collect something for busting up these illegal TVR's. Enough is enough.
Let's get it together people! They're STEALING our beaches. - May 9, 2013 at 10:06 AM
- Anonymous said...
Kollar is the Mayor's boy. He's not going to crack down on anyone who has bought off the mayor or planning.
- May 9, 2013 at 10:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
why have all of the mayor's 'appointments' been completely unqualified to do the job he picked out for them? Have you tried to ride the bus here?
how many favors did he have to repay to be elected in the first place.
this guy has a trip planned that can't be avoided? when he is called upon to be at council to account for his actions or inaction?
pathetic, just pathetic.
- May 9, 2013 at 10:31 AM
- Anonymous said...
Kollar isn't asking for an additional position, he's asking the Council to stop the admin from de-funding the position he already has that is assigned to zoning cases. There's a big difference.
- May 9, 2013 at 10:49 AM
- Anonymous said...
why did this nincompoop sign anything as important as a permit without reviewing it first, I thought he was a lawyer...
- May 9, 2013 at 11:07 AM
- Anonymous said...
Go Council!
- May 9, 2013 at 11:17 AM
- Dawson said...
"Dahilig further irked the Council when he had to leave the meeting in mid-discussion to catch a flight for another event...."
...an off-island crash course in How to Update Your Resume? - May 9, 2013 at 12:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
All of this Lip Service is comical. Are you people really that gullible with all that is being said? This PLAY is the same as how they covered up the identity of Kauai's Serial Killer or point the finger "NOT OUR FAULT" in the deaths from the Koloko Dam breach. Together We Can....Together We Can....Together We Can.....
- May 9, 2013 at 12:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
Dahilig is probably flying to Honolulu for the UH Manoa commencement ceremony this weekend. He seems to spend more time working on the UH System's matters as a regent than he does for the COK.
- May 9, 2013 at 12:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
RE: UH - don't worry - state law allows him to be paid for both...
- May 9, 2013 at 12:54 PM
- Anonymous said...
Before throwing stones at Dahilig do your homework first. He stepped off the board in January and is no longer a regent.
- May 9, 2013 at 12:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
yeah - that's because he interviewed for a job with UH and had to...poor ting.
and his appointment would have been over in June anyway.
- May 9, 2013 at 1:11 PM
- Anonymous said...
And so he's flying out for what if he's not a regent? Maybe it's other county business he has to attend to? See a sick family member? Don't deflect your misstatement and try to cover up your inability to do homework before you speak.
- May 9, 2013 at 2:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
Dahilig probably just needs a break from all you crazy bastards!
This whole situation is pretty ironic...
A bunch of transplants claiming a bunch of other transplants are "stealing" their land. - May 9, 2013 at 3:32 PM
- Anonymous said...
The cast of Gilligan's Island is now laughing at Kauai.
- May 9, 2013 at 3:47 PM
- Anonymous said...
Forget transplant vs. local. This is fraud. Although I think Dahilig is part of the problem, much of the damage was done before he took office. This mayor, the former mayor, the current council (most members) and prior councils all looked the other way. I can't believe everyone's head was in the sand. This is fraud - period. Shaylene - well, I won't even go there. The current mayor and the current council better do something to clean this mess up. My guess is their pockets were lined along the way and will not push too hard. Mel Rapozo. I will vote for anyone who looks this stuff square in the eyes and tackles it head on. No singing allowed.
- May 9, 2013 at 4:46 PM
- Anonymous said...
Dahilig wasn't qualified for the job from the get go. They should've done a serious job search for a qualified applicant and picked the best one. I thought he was bought in to clean up this mess, instead it looks like he's covering for Ian and Imai until the storm blows over. He's blaming it on a systemic problem rather than serious negligence by personnel, no accountability that way. They need to have a thorough audit of Planning and in no uncertain terms, an investigation is warranted. As for Kagawa, where have you been? The public has long been frustrated and angry by the loss of public beach and access, not only now because Joan is blowing this out of the water and airing the county's dirty laundry. And for the clown who thinks its only "transplants" complaining about it here, you are so wrong. Many kanaka are upset and have been upset for a long time about these very issues that Joan is revealing. I'm one of them. Kudos Joan. Keep on stirring the pot and making Dahilig and the Mayor squirm.
- May 9, 2013 at 5:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
Dahilig is a transplant from Oahu for those keeping track of that nonsense.
Transplant or not he is compliant in the maladministration of the TVR ordinance - his staff isn't trained? And whose responsibility would that be?
He can't control his staff - he promotes those who have arrest records?
seriously the laughing stock of the Pacific - right here on Gillian's Island.
- May 9, 2013 at 5:38 PM
- Anonymous said...
At least Mel is willing to dig into this scandal, unlike when Joan wa uncovering all that dirt on Shaylene and all Mel wanted to do was cover up his friend's mess.
- May 9, 2013 at 5:49 PM
- Anonymous said...
Classic Shay as she tried to play the good cop on going after tvr's. too bad joann got her to "claify" that they were not tvr's. she already wants (needs?)the public eye. she'll be back.
- May 9, 2013 at 6:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
"I would not support anything that would be characterized as an investigation,"
YUP when you have something to hide you definitely don't want an investigation.
he really can't hide his managerial incompetence as it is and will be displayed for all to see.
Let's hope his trip to was for a job interview.
- May 9, 2013 at 6:51 PM
- Anonymous said...
you can't just say - Justin, give all the zoning to another attorney and they'll just have to deal with the added work load.
He is asking that a CURRENT position not be lost, which is TOTALLY different from asking for a new position. This position exists and he is asking not to lose it so that he can assign ZONING/TVR AND misc cases to this attorney.
You all seem to forget that this position is NOT ONLY for TVR... as he has had to repeat himself, its for ZONING/TVR/MISC CASES.
Even Shay said it, her office prosecuted zoning cases and Justin is simply trying to continue to engage in proactive enforcement of ZONING AND TVR issues by asking the Council NOT TO CUT FUNDING FOR AN EXISTING POSITION. An existing position Shay had, and an existing position Justin does not want to lose.
I'm sure the Council could give up the $35,000 request for a NEW SECRETARY, in addition to the $90,000 Administrator position that is in their budget that they clearly said in their presentation- we are not looking to fill that position. If you not going fill the position, why do you get to have the money in your budget???
Would the Council like to make those cuts to their budget, because as far as I can see, they are not doing their part in cutting back on their expenses as almost every department in the Mayor's administratoin has had to do. no im not a mayors good ol boy, i'm simply looking at the whole picture as a county.
pretty hyprocitical if you ask me, council points fingers at the mayor yet its okay for their department to keep asking for new positions. practice what your preach? lead by example maybe?
oh well, this whole budget thing is a circus.
it does take balls thought to start an investigation i give them that much.
ii do applaud those departments that have made the cuts even though it may effect customer service...what a shame. - May 9, 2013 at 8:28 PM
- Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
At least Mel is willing to dig into this scandal, unlike when Joan was uncovering all that dirt on Shaylene and all Mel wanted to do was cover up his friend's mess.
May 9, 2013 at 5:49 PM
Mel look things square in the eye? Forget it. A lot covered up in the Prosecutor's Office when Shaylene was around. Getting away with murder.
Mel can't be reformed. The Monica Alves days are hardly a thing of the past.
Don't buy Mel's posturing. TGOB probably get together over a beer after the County Council performance is over.
The Chief and his wife jump in, ruined credibility by supporting Shay, along with Mel.
KPD employees/officers in disbelief Iseri-Carvalo was being supported by the Chief.
He's about done with his time at KPD. Why should the cops bother to work hard when the next stepping stone was Shaylene? No need.
It never ends; same sh*t, just different faces.
Kollar should hire Tim Bynum as Deputy Prosecutor for TVR Enforcement. Tim has all the experience needed.
- May 9, 2013 at 9:29 PM
- Anonymous said...
May 9, 2013 at 6:00 PM that was classic Shay. Say anything even if it's pure b.s. And what was she saying about the County Attorney not paying for her travel? We're already paying $75,000 for her lawyer. She was flying all over the place as prosecutor using taxpayer money and she can't even pay her own ticket to Oahu? She says the truth needs to be told but she wouldn't answer questions about all the funny stuff when she was prosecutor.
- May 9, 2013 at 9:53 PM
- Anonymous said...
Shaylene Iseri-Carvalho: How DARE YOU complain about the County not paying for your travel back to Kauai to a attend deposition in the Bynum lawsuit! When you already cost this County HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS! Have you no shayme?!
- May 9, 2013 at 10:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Garden Island misses story per usual. Pathetic.
- May 10, 2013 at 5:02 AM
- Anonymous said...
The price tag for Shaylene Iseri-Carvalho will eventually be well over a million.
- May 10, 2013 at 7:39 AM
- Anonymous said...
9:29 pm - I agree. It's a mess. The Chief lost the respect of many by backing an arrogant, wasteful, ruthless, back-stabbing and corrupt prosecutor. What does that say about him? The mayor is definitely part of the problem with no visible displays of being part of the solution. I think it's beyond him at this point. There's a reason Mel back Shay. Ask around.
- May 10, 2013 at 8:11 AM
- Anonymous said...
"So it's still operating?" Hooser asked.
"That I don't know," Dahilig said. "We did issue a cease and desist order."
Anyone miss this?
BTW, get over Shaylene already. The foam around your lips is bubbling down your chin. - May 10, 2013 at 4:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
what was the purpose of issuing a cease and desist order if you don't inspect it to ensure that the illegal operation ceased?
what a baffoon. - May 10, 2013 at 4:21 PM
- Anonymous said...
What was the purpose of issuing a cease and desist if you donʻt know if itʻs operating?
- May 10, 2013 at 5:37 PM
- Anonymous said...
9:29 pm and May 10, 2013 at 8:11 AM, I agree, it is a mess. Why would Chief Perry cross the tracks to a location like Shaylene? Did he cross over or already there?
I wonder what Debra Morel thinks about this. She is always a reliable supporter for KPD and Perry.
Mayor Carvalho has mostly managed to run up law suits at tax payers' expense.
How much has this cost Kauaians? - May 10, 2013 at 9:55 PM
- Anonymous said...
If this is a KNOWN lie "Jane Abramo as "a very successful and fully permitted vacation rental" then why is this person still allowed to carry out the ethical responsibilities of a RA?
Real Estate Commission reporting? Anyone? - May 13, 2013 at 8:46 AM


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12-year-old guilty of murdering neo-Nazi father
| Riverside, Calif.
A 12-year-old boy was found guilty of murder in a Los Angeles courtroom today. Though he was only 10 when he fatally shot his white supremacist father, the judge said that the child knew what he did was wrong, and is thus guilty of second-degree murder.
Riverside Superior Court Judge Jean Leonard weighed the severity of the crime against the effects of the abuse and neglect inflicted on the now-12-year-old boy by his father, Jeff Hall, a regional leader of the National Socialist Movement, who was 32 when he died. The boy, who is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 15, could be incarcerated until he is 23.
During the trial, the slender 12-year-old boy in big eyeglasses appeared to listen intently as lawyers argued over whether he knew the difference between right and wrong when he shot his sleeping neo-Nazi father to death. The boy is not being identified by The Associated Press because of his age.
In arguments in juvenile court, the prosecution contended the boy knew what he was doing, premeditated the killing and should be found guilty of murder. The defense argued he was damaged by a violent home and was seeking to protect himself and his family.
Defense attorney Matthew Hardy began his argument by showing a photograph of the boy at a neo-Nazi gathering with someone in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe along with two other people. All are giving Nazi salutes and the boy is holding a toy gun.
"Welcome to his life," the defense attorney said.
Hardy said the father, 32-year-old Jeff Hall, had threatened to burn down the family home while the family slept, slapped and whipped the boy, taught him to shoot and that violence was an appropriate response to problems.
"At the time he pulled the trigger — and he did — did he know what he was doing was wrong? No," Hardy said.
The attorney quoted the boy as saying, "'I thought if I shoot him maybe he won't be able to hurt us.'"
Hardy also said the boy blamed his stepmother for urging him to kill his father.
"He said, 'She told me if I shot him all the violence would stop,'" Hardy said.
The woman initially said she was the killer but quickly retracted the claim. She has not been charged in the case.
The defense attorney also urged the judge to consider that the boy was born with problems because his mother used methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana prenatally.
The boy "was almost genetically programmed to commit violence," Hardy said.
The judge asked the attorneys to address lesser offenses than murder, and Hardy suggested a rationale for voluntary manslaughter.
In contrast to the pictures shown by the defense, Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Soccio showed photos of family outings to the beach and a birthday party in which the father participated.
"The boy was given his love and consideration," the prosecutor said of Hall. "The one person we seem not to be concerned about is the victim because he chose to join the National Socialist movement. Suddenly he's a non-person. But he was a loving father."
Soccio acknowledged the child had problems from the beginning of his life, had attacked teachers and behaved so badly that schools could not deal with him and he wound up being home-schooled.
But the prosecutor maintained the boy had the ability to think clearly and to premeditate his father's killing.
The defense attorney rested his case Tuesday without calling the boy to testify. The attorney said earlier that the defendant was on medication and was easily confused. He sometimes fell asleep during the trial.
The victim was a well-known gadfly at political meetings, and neighbors sometimes complained about his loud white supremacist gatherings, which were broadcast over speakers.
Riverside Superior Court Judge Jean P. Leonard, who heard the case without a jury, plans to issue her verdict on Monday.
Outside court, Hardy said he hopes that whatever the judge rules, the boy would not be sent to a juvenile justice facility but instead be placed in a private facility that offers therapy, medical treatment and schooling.
He said the boy has done well in his studies since he was arrested and shows high intelligence.
Hardy said it would be easier to place the boy if he is not convicted of murder.
But he said whatever happens, "We've got to help him. If you put him in the department of juvenile justice, you may be creating a serial killer. We're looking for a private placement for him."
The prosecutor did not comment outside court.

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Editor's Note: Mary Roeder works in Education & Community Engagement at UMS and is also our resident jet-setter and theater expert.
A couple of months ago I got some great news—I found out I had been accepted into the second round of the Leadership Development Institute (LDI), a program facilitated by —get ready for a mouthful— the Association of Arts Presenters (APAP) and the Research Center for Leadership in Action at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University (RCLA). Phew. APAP is the national service and advocacy organization that looks after the performing arts industry here in the US. Many of us UMS staffers attend their annual conference in NYC every January. The work of the RCLA is broadly centered around "moving beyond the traditional 'heroic' image of a leader to facilitating leadership in which people work across sectors and boundaries to find common solutions." So, APAP + RCLA = LDI, and LDI's main aim is to develop the leadership capacity of mid-career performing arts professionals.
How is this accomplished? Through a specific kind of research that the 14 of us chosen to participate are doing together called collaborative inquiry (CI). CI is a practice grounded in the idea that we can come to know certain things by researching "with" rather than "on." Put another way, each of us will serve as both the test subject and the researcher in our respective "lab" (our organization). The process is moved forward through a repeated series of reflection and action around a certain theme in which the participants all have a vested interest. Our group is researching how an organization can come to know and connect with its community. The output—other than 14 newly minted performing arts leaders/forces to be reckoned with—will be a white paper we'll present at the aforementioned APAP Conference in January 2013.
Our first session was held at the end of April in Austin, Texas. I'd never before been to the great magical land of cowboys and BBQ, so I was, needless to say, very excited to be there. With our two facilitators/den mothers—RCLA executive director Bethany Godsoe and Theresa Holden, co-director of Holden and Arts Associates—securely at the reins, we spent a great deal of time on the first day getting to know the people behind all those intimidating bios and learning about the process. By the second day (and several trees worth of sticky notes later) we were well on our way towards narrowing down our specific research question—the thesis that will ultimately form the backbone of our work. By the final day, we'd been assigned accountability partners (Brad and Beth are the unlucky pair tasked with keeping me on track) and had settled on a series of action steps we'd each commit to take between then and our next session in June.
So that's where we're at—each working hard to get our homework done by June 18 when we take the city of Washington DC by storm. I'll delve more into the specifics next time, so get ready!
In the meantime, I am pleased to present to you my 13 esteemed partners in this lofty endeavor (and a brief fun fact about each):
- Bobby Asher, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD (was only a few short weeks away from marriage during the time of our first convening and was remarkably present)
- Brad Carlin, Fusebox Festival, Austin, TX (was only a day away from the start of his organizations' festival launch and was remarkably present)
- Rachel DeGuzman, Rochester City Ballet, Rochester, NY (a Michigan native and U-M Alum!)
- Shirley Elliott, Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust, Tulsa, OK (fellow Fringe fanatic—shared stories with me from her first trip to Edinburgh)
- Sharon Fantl, Redfern Arts Center/Keene State College, Keene, NH (state-straddling New Englander, living in Vermont, but working in New Hampshire)
- Emily Harney, MAPP International Productions, New York, NY (very recently engaged at the time of our meeting)
- Brooke Horejsi, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University Fine Arts Programmin*, St. Joseph,MN (awoke ridiculously early on our last morning in Austin to do 6am hot yoga across town)
- Rebekah Lengel, Miami Light Project, Miami, FL (the second youngest member of the group and the lone holdout from Facebook)
- Mollie McFarland, AXIS Dance Company, Oakland, CA (the first to hit the dance floor at the Continental Club in Austin)
- Judy Oliver-Turner, Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Olympia, WA (in a group full of mommies, wins with the most kids)
- Andre Perry, The Englert Theater, Iowa City, IA (Iowan-by way of DC and CA-indie rocker immortalized in cartoon form on popular music blog Daytrotter)
- Liza Sacheli Lloyd, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (an avid hockey player!)
- Elizabeth Snodgrass, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY (had a do-over of a certain milestone birthday because she was sick during the actual one; purchased herself a ukulele to celebrate)


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Although some occupations are found in nearly every industry in the United States, others are specific to one or only a few industries. For example, several of the most concentrated occupations in the coal mining industry are found primarily in that industry, and are uncommon outside of the mining and extraction sector. As a result, job mobility for these workers might be extremely limited in the face of an industry downturn, particularly one affecting the extraction industries in general. On the other hand, although over a quarter of computer systems analysts are found in the computer systems design and related services industry, this occupation was distributed relatively evenly across sectors, potentially allowing displaced workers to move more easily into other industries. Understanding the relationship between industry and occupation may provide important insights into workers' ability to cope with job loss by moving across industries.
This BEYOND THE NUMBERS article uses two tools—the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) and industry quotients—to measure occupational specialization by industry. Although some industries use specialized labor highly intensively, others rely on less specialized occupations that are also prevalent elsewhere in the economy. These differences in industry staffing patterns may affect workers' ability to respond effectively and flexibly to changes in the economy. Occupations concentrated in a single industry, such as travel agents or shoe machine operators and tenders, may require skills that are highly specific to that industry. If workers in these occupations become unemployed, it may be difficult for them to use their skills in other industries. However, workers in more widely distributed occupations may find it easier to transfer their skills in response to job loss. Occupational composition also may affect a growing industry's ability to attract workers from elsewhere in the economy. For example, industries that rely on specialized, highly qualified workers may find that the high skill and training requirements act as a barrier to entry for displaced workers from other sectors.
Several different measures are available for examining the industry and occupation relationship. Traditional tools include measuring the share of total occupational employment found in a given industry, as well as the share of total industry employment made up of a specific occupation. For instance, 62 percent of registered nurses were employed in hospitals in May 2012, and registered nurses made up 29 percent of total hospital employment, showing a strong relationship between this industry and occupation.
However, these statistics provide only a partial picture of the relationship between occupation and industry. For example, they don't offer a convenient way of comparing which occupations are most and least concentrated by industry, nor do they allow for easy identification of industries that use specific occupations intensively. The HHI and industry quotients are additional tools that provide a complementary perspective on the industry and occupation relationship.
The HHI is normally used to measure market concentration among firms in an industry; here, it is used to provide an overall measure of occupational concentration by industry. In general, a higher HHI indicates that the occupation or occupational group was found primarily in a few industries, whereas a lower value indicates that the occupation or occupational group was spread more evenly across industries. An occupation or occupational group found entirely in a single industry will have an HHI with the maximum possible value of 10,000.1
The concentration of occupational groups across industry sectors, based on an aggregated HHI, is shown in chart 1. The aggregated HHI for each occupational group is a weighted average of the HHIs for the individual detailed occupations in that group, with each occupation's HHI weighted by the occupation's share of total group employment. Thus, occupations with high employment levels have more influence than occupations with low employment levels on the aggregate HHI, allowing the aggregate index to reflect more closely the industry concentration patterns of the occupations that make up the majority of jobs in the group. In some cases, weighting had a substantial effect on the aggregate HHI. For example, if the HHI for the transportation and material moving group is constructed by taking a simple average of the indexes of its detailed occupations, the result is nearly 74 percent higher than the weighted average HHI shown in chart 1. This reflects, in part, the fact that the largest occupation in this group—laborers and hand freight, stock, and material movers—made up nearly a quarter of the occupational group employment and had one of the lowest industry concentrations of any transportation and material moving occupation. The aggregated HHIs also differ from HHIs constructed directly from the major group employment data in that the latter capture only the overall distribution of each group across industries, whereas averaging the occupation-specific HHIs incorporates the industry distribution of the detailed occupations within each group.2
The most widely dispersed occupational groups included computer and mathematical, management, office and administrative support, and business and financial operations occupations. These groups tend to contain jobs that are in demand in many types of businesses. For example, office and administrative support occupations such as executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants, customer service representatives, and general office clerks provide support functions applicable to a wide range of industries. Similar support occupations in the business and financial operations group include accountants and auditors; purchasing agents; and meeting, convention, and event planners.
Although the management group includes some highly specialized occupations, such as funeral service managers or lodging managers, other management occupations involve overseeing functional areas relevant to many industries, such as sales, marketing, purchasing, and finance. Nearly all of the computer and mathematical occupations were widely distributed across industry sectors. Except for actuaries, all of the occupations in this group had individual HHIs below 3,000, compared with only about one-quarter of occupations overall. Computer and mathematical occupations with the lowest industry concentrations included network and computer systems administrators, computer user support specialists, and database administrators.
Several of the most concentrated occupational groups had specialized job duties that were directly related to the primary activities of the industries in which they were concentrated. For example, 89 percent of education, training, and library jobs were in the educational services sector, and 88 percent of healthcare support jobs were in the health care and social assistance sector.3 Eighty-one percent of employment in food preparation and serving related occupations was in the accommodation and food services sector.
Although some occupational major groups were, on average, more concentrated than others, individual detailed occupations within a given group could vary greatly in their degrees of industry concentration. For example, the installation, maintenance, and repair group had an aggregated HHI of about 2,800, but HHIs for individual occupations within this group ranged from 855 for first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers to 9,222 for bicycle repairers.
Detailed occupations that were spread most evenly across industry sectors, as measured by low HHIs, are shown in chart 2. These included two management occupations with broad job duties: chief executives and general and operations managers. Most of the remaining occupations shown were related to human resources or general office administration. Human resources occupations with low industry concentrations ranged from the managerial level through the clerical level, and included human resources managers; training and development managers; training and development specialists; human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping; and payroll and timekeeping clerks. Occupations associated with general office administration included administrative services managers; first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers; computer operators; secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive; executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants; general office clerks; and bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks. Overall, these occupations may allow for more mobility among jobseekers as they look for jobs in various industries.
Detailed occupations with perfect or near-perfect concentration in a single industry sector, as indicated by HHIs of approximately 10,000, included a number of occupations specific to government, such as postmasters and mail superintendents, postal service mail carriers, and other postal service occupations; legislators; tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents; judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates; and fish and game wardens. Postsecondary teaching occupations made up most of the remaining occupations with HHIs of about 10,000, reflecting their high concentration in the educational services sector. Such occupations may limit jobseekers to specific industries.
Aside from postsecondary teaching occupations and government-specific occupations, occupations with near-perfect industry concentration included mine shuttle car operators, mining roof bolters, orthodontists, funeral attendants, chiropractors, and shampooers. Many of these occupations were concentrated not only in a single industry sector, but in a specific detailed industry within that sector. For example, nearly all funeral attendants were employed in the death care services industry, part of the other services (except federal, state, and local government) sector.
HHIs for the occupations with the highest employment in May 2012 are shown in chart 3. Total employment in these occupations ranged from about 2.1 million for secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive, to over 4.3 million for retail salespersons.
In terms of their industry concentrations, the occupations in chart 3 fall into two broad categories: half had HHIs of less than 2,500, while the remainder had much higher HHIs of approximately 7,000 to 9,000. Occupations in the first category tended to be spread across multiple industry sectors, where they were found in numbers sufficient to produce high overall employment levels. Occupations in this category were general office clerks; customer service representatives; laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand; janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners; and secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical and executive.
However, occupations found primarily in a single sector also could have very high employment levels, provided they made up a sufficiently large share of employment in the sectors in which they were concentrated. For example, registered nurses was the largest occupation in the largest industry sector, health care and social assistance. Eighty-seven percent of registered nurses were employed in this sector, where they made up about 1 out of every 8 jobs. Similarly, retail salespersons and cashiers combined made up about 45 percent of employment in the second-largest industry sector, retail trade, although fewer than 20 percent of cashiers and 10 percent of retail salespersons were employed outside of the retail trade sector.
HHIs for a very different group of selected occupations—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations—are shown in chart 4. Unlike the largest occupations from chart 3, STEM occupations tended to be high paying: with the exception of forest and conservation technicians, all of the occupations in chart 4 had annual mean wages above the U.S. average of $45,790, while all of the largest U.S. occupations except registered nurses had below-average wages. However, like the largest U.S. occupations, STEM occupations varied greatly in their degrees of industry concentration.
Many of the most widely distributed STEM occupations were computer occupations, reflecting the importance of information technology to a variety of industries. Of the five STEM occupations with HHIs below 1,500, all were computer related: computer and information systems managers, computer network support specialists, database administrators, computer user support specialists, and network and computer systems administrators. Other computer occupations with low industry concentrations included computer systems analysts, web developers, and computer network architects (not shown in the chart). Outside of the computer group, STEM occupations with low industry concentrations included health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers; electronics engineers, except computer; and electrical and electronics engineering technicians.
STEM occupations with the highest industry concentrations included forest and conservation technicians, forensic science technicians, industrial engineering technicians, conservation scientists, and architectural and civil drafters, all with HHIs of 6,000 or higher. Three of these occupations were found mainly in government. Ninety-six percent of forest and conservation technicians and 93 percent of forensic science technicians were employed in the public sector, with forest and conservation technicians found primarily in federal government and forensic science technicians found primarily in local government. Eighty-one percent of conservation scientists were employed in the public sector; nearly half of these jobs were in federal government, with the remainder split between state and local government. Seventy-nine percent of architectural and civil drafters were found in the professional, scientific, and technical services sector, primarily in the architectural, engineering, and related services industry. Seventy percent of industrial engineers were employed in manufacturing. Although no single manufacturing industry accounted for the majority of industrial engineers, manufacturing industries with the highest employment of this occupation included aerospace product and parts manufacturing; motor vehicle parts manufacturing; and navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing.
The HHI provides a useful summary statistic for measuring an occupation's overall degree of industry concentration, but does not show the specific industries in which an occupation is used intensively. An alternative is to examine occupational concentrations using a variation of location quotients, a tool more commonly used to analyze data by geographic area. As used with respect to occupational employment data, the standard location quotient represents the ratio of an occupation's share of area employment to its share of national employment. The variation used here, called an "industry quotient" for the purpose of this Beyond the Numbers article, represents the ratio of the occupation's share of employment in a specific industry to its share of employment in all industries combined. An industry quotient greater than one indicates that the occupation makes up a greater share of industry employment than it does of overall employment. For example, an occupation that makes up 10 percent of employment in a given industry but only 2 percent of total employment would have an industry quotient of 5 for that industry, indicating the industry's relative reliance on this type of labor is 5 times the average.
In geographic area analysis, high location quotients do not necessarily imply high employment levels of an occupation. Very large metropolitan areas, for example, tend to have high employment of most individual occupations, even if those occupations have lower shares of area employment relative to the national average. A similar caveat applies to industry quotients: a high industry quotient for an occupation indicates that the industry uses that occupation more intensively than average, but depending on the overall size of the industry, it may or may not have high absolute employment levels for that occupation. For example, the household appliance manufacturing industry had an industry quotient of 35 for team assemblers, but had employment of only about 15,000 in this occupation. By comparison, the much larger employment services industry had about 177,000 team assembler jobs, but had a much lower—although still above average—industry quotient of 7 for the occupation. For this reason, it is helpful to look at industry quotients in conjunction with other data, such as the actual number of jobs and the percentage of total occupational employment found in the industry.
Industry quotients varied considerably by occupation. For some widespread occupations, industry quotients were relatively low even in the industries in which these occupations were used most intensively. Chart 5 shows the industries with the highest industry quotients for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, one of the occupations with the lowest overall industry concentrations as shown in chart 2. Bookkeeping clerks had industry quotients of 9 in the accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services industry and 5 in the office administrative services industry. In both of these industries, the primary business activities were directly related to the job duties of this occupation. Bookkeeping clerks had an industry quotient of less than 4 in every other industry.
The highest industry quotients for other widespread occupations were similarly moderate. For example, the highest industry quotient for first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers was about 14 (in the automotive repair and maintenance industry), and the highest industry quotient for human resources specialists was approximately 7 (in the employment services industry).
Where some of the highest industry quotients for some occupations were relatively low, industry quotients for other occupations ranged into the hundreds or even thousands. For example, shoe machine operators and tenders had an industry quotient of over 9,000 in the footwear manufacturing industry, and both fallers and logging equipment operators had industry quotients of over 2,000 in the logging industry. These industry quotients are extremely high because these occupations were highly concentrated in relatively small industries, but had low overall employment levels—in other words, the industry quotients had both high numerators and very low denominators. For example, shoe machine operators and tenders made up about 24 percent of employment in the small U.S. footwear manufacturing industry, but with total employment of about 3,400, this occupation represented less than .003 percent of total national employment.
Looking at industry quotients from the industry perspective reveals that some industries had several occupations with extremely high industry quotients, while in other industries, even the occupations with the highest industry quotients had only moderately high concentrations relative to the national average. These patterns suggest that industries vary considerably in their use of specialized, industry-specific labor.
The office administrative services industry is an example of an industry with a relatively low degree of occupational specialization. Even for the occupations used most intensively in this industry, industry quotients were moderate, ranging from nearly six for mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service to nine for both bill and account collectors and billing and posting clerks. (See chart 6.)
Although the occupations shown in chart 6 had above-average concentrations in the office administrative services industry, they made up only about 10 percent of total industry employment combined, and most jobs in these occupations were found in other industries. Of the occupations in chart 6, only billing and posting clerks, with industry employment of 13,650, and bill and account collectors (10,720) were among the largest occupations in the office administrative services industry. Credit counselors, training and development managers, and private detectives and investigators each had industry employment of less than 1,000. By comparison, customer service representatives, the largest occupation in the office administrative services industry, had industry employment of over 34,000. In addition, the office administrative services industry accounted for less than 3 percent of total employment in each of the occupations in chart 6.
The occupations with the highest industry quotients in the computer systems design and related services industry are shown in chart 7. The majority of these occupations were from the computer and mathematical occupational group. The only occupation from outside of this group, computer hardware engineers, also had job duties directly related to information technology. Although still moderate compared with those in many other industries, the highest industry quotients in computer systems design and related services were higher than those in office administrative services, ranging from about 17 for computer network support specialists, computer hardware engineers, and web developers to 32 for computer programmers.
Compared with office administrative services, the computer systems design and related services industry employed a more substantial share of the occupations used intensively in the industry, and these occupations made up a higher percentage of total industry employment. The occupations in chart 7 combined made up 45 percent of total employment in computer systems design and related services. Four of the occupations with the highest industry quotients also were the four largest occupations in the industry: applications software developers, with industry employment of 199,080; computer systems analysts (136,910); systems software developers (125,250); and computer programmers (122,790). In addition, the computer systems design and related services industry accounted for more than one-fifth of total occupational employment in each of the occupations shown in chart 7, rising to 34 percent for applications software developers and 39 percent for computer programmers.
However, the occupations shown in chart 7 were still widely found outside of computer systems design. For example, occupations like web developers, computer systems analysts, and computer network architects were associated with IT support functions in many industries, while computer network support specialists was among the STEM occupations most widely distributed across industries, as shown in chart 4.
In contrast to the industries featured in charts 6 and 7, coal mining is an example of an industry containing occupations that were both very intensively used and highly industry specific, as shown in chart 8. All of the most intensively used occupations in the coal mining industry had job duties directly related to the mining process, and most had limited employment outside of the extraction sector. Three occupations had industry quotients of over 1,000 in the coal mining industry, and a fourth occupation had an industry quotient of nearly 800. Two of these four occupations—mine shuttle car operators and mining roof bolters—were nearly exclusive to the coal mining industry, which contained 96 percent of employment in each occupation. Underground mining loading machine operators and continuous mining machine operators also were found primarily in coal mining, which accounted for 71 percent and 54 percent, respectively, of employment in these two occupations.
The remaining occupations in chart 8 had industry quotients ranging from 145 for excavating and loading machine and dragline operators to 575 for mine cutting and channeling machine operators. Of the occupations in chart 8, only mining and geological engineers and excavating and loading machine and dragline operators had significant employment outside of the mining sector. Thirty percent of mining and geological engineers worked in the architectural, engineering, and related services industry, compared with 44 percent in coal mining and other mining and extraction industries. About 43 percent of excavating and loading machine and dragline operators were employed in the construction sector, compared with about 31 percent in mining and extraction industries. Eighty-five percent or more of employment in the remaining four occupations—mine cutting and channeling machine operators, all other mining machine operators, all other extraction workers, and extraction worker helpers—was found in coal mining or other mining and extraction industries.
Although identifying the industries with the highest employment of each occupation is a good first step, the HHI and industry quotients offer additional perspectives on industry staffing patterns, helping to provide a more accurate picture of the distribution of occupations across industries. Such information could be useful for workers as they choose a career, jobseekers as they narrow or broaden their job searches, and employers as they try to recruit workers from other industries, based on the HHI and industry quotient for a particular occupation.
This BEYOND THE NUMBERS article was prepared by Audrey Watson, economist, in the office of Occupational Employment Statistics. Complete OES data, including data highlighted in this report, are available from the OES website at www.bls.gov/oes/. Email: email@example.com; Telephone: (202) 691-6569.
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Industry. A group of business establishments that produce similar products or provide similar services. For example, all establishments that manufacture automobiles are in the same industry. A given industry, or even a particular establishment in that industry, might have employees in dozens of occupations. Industry classification in the May 2012 OES data is based on the 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
Occupation. A set of activities or tasks that employees are paid to perform. Employees that perform essentially the same tasks are in the same occupation, whether or not they work in the same industry. Some occupations are concentrated in a few particular industries; other occupations are found in many industries. The May 2012 OES data use the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system to classify jobs into occupations.
1 The standard version of the Herfindahl-Hirschman index is calculated by squaring each firm's market share and then summing the results. For example, a market containing five firms with shares of 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 percent would have an HHI of (10)2 + (15)2 + (20)2 + (25)2 + (30)2 = 100 + 225 + 400 + 625 + 900 = 2,250. For the purpose of this Beyond the Numbers article, market shares were replaced in the calculation by the shares of the occupation's total employment found in each industry. An occupation with 100 percent of its employment in a single industry would have an HHI of (100)2 = 10,000. Herfindahl-Hirschman indexes presented in this section were calculated based on 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) detailed occupations and 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2-digit sectors and supersectors.
2 For example, consider an occupational major group consisting of four detailed occupations, each with employment of 100, distributed among four industries. At one extreme, the occupations could be distributed so that each industry contains all of the employment in one of the occupations; alternatively, each industry could contain 25 jobs in each of the four occupations. In the first scenario, because each occupation is perfectly concentrated in a single industry, each of the individual occupations has a Herfindahl-Hirschman index of 10,000; taking an average of the individual HHIs (either weighted or unweighted, in this example) produces an average HHI for the major group of 10,000. In the second case, each industry contains 25 percent of each occupation, so each of the individual occupations has an HHI of (25)2 + (25)2 + (25)2 + (25)2 = 2,500, and the (weighted or unweighted) average HHI for the group is also 2,500. However, in both cases, employment in each industry is 100, or 25 percent of total major group employment, and constructing the HHI directly from the major group data will result in an index of 2,500 for the major group, regardless of the very different distributions of the individual detailed occupations in the two scenarios.
3 OES data for the educational services sector include private, state, and local government schools; data for the health care and social assistance sector include private sector establishments and state and local government hospitals.
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But the xscale of the data is not correct and should be transformed. The initial scale is linear:
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Then I can try to transform all my data with e.g.:
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A day before our flight to Spain, my husband tore off a chunk of the post-it note that had our what-to-pack list and slapped it on my arm, saying 'don't pack your laptop, this will be your 7-day quitting patch'. I too tore off a slice for him and stuck it on his forehead, because hey, I wasn't going to let the evil man eat chocolate if I was to be on a diet, so to speak. So we left for the airport, pounds lighter without our usual gear and a few other things (that chunk I tore off…), but heart heavy with the fact that I couldn't even set some kind of a scheduled post here. It started with asking for three drinks in the plane instead of one, and then three toasts with nutella + banana slices for breakfast instead of the usual one cup of coffee, and an entire day of emptying out our friend's fridge (flan, leftover paella, grilled chicken, something that might've been dog food…etc) then going for the routine sunset stroll to the supermercado to replenish stocks for the next day. At one point I swear I could see my fingers tremble in the pattern of my email password, so instead I pet Murphy the ridgeback until we saw bald patches. At night, we played board games in Dutch and whenever either of us started losing blamed the only Dutch-speaker (aka host) for making up rules we couldn't check online.
I won't lie, and I'm sure you've all tried going off the computer/internet for a few days and will know exactly, it was pretty liberating. Personally I did come back 2kg heavier so with my brand of logic I will conclude that quitting computer is fattening, and therefore EVIL, but I won't deny that I did feel very deeply rested after our little holiday in Fuengirola.


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It has also become a place where misinformation can thrive, unrealistic beauty standards flourish, and heavily edited, curated lives can be portrayed.
Yet the compulsion to keep checking for messages, "likes" and fresh content can be hard to resist.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics recently published data showing almost 40 per cent of people aged 16-to-24 experienced mental ill-health in 2020-21.
It followed a headspace national youth mental health survey which found more than half of young people - 57 per cent - believed their mental health was deteriorating, with 42 per cent citing social media as the main reason for the decline.
But awareness of the problem, and the solution, may be growing. ACM's Heartbeat of Australia study released this week found that almost a third of Australians want to reduce their social media use in the next year. Of the more than 6000 people surveyed, younger people in regional areas were the largest group to indicate they'd be spending less time on social media in the next 12 months.
Rupert Saunders, a psychologist and the national clinical adviser for headspace, said social media used in moderation could help people form connections and access information - including links to mental health resources.
"But we do know that there are negative impacts like cyber-bullying, that the promotion of unrealistic or idealised bodies is impacting people's sense of body image, and that it can also impact on people's ability to take care of their mental health," he said.
"Young people are telling us that they believe their mental health is getting worse, and one of the main reasons they are citing for that is the role of social media.
"Things like staying up late on social media can really impact your sleep too, and sleep is really crucial for having a good, healthy head space."
Mr Saunders said more than half of people they surveyed about social media during COVID outbreaks had reported being cyber-bullied.
"A number of young people experienced others spreading rumours or posting hurtful, mean content about them on social media - which impacts their experience of mental health and engagement with other young people," he said.
Social media was also a powerful influence in terms of the way people felt about their body image.
So how do we strike a healthy balance?
"Setting limits is a really great way to start reducing some of those kinds of impacts," Mr Saunders said.
"Have certain times when you use it. We really encourage people not to do it straight after waking up or before going to bed, because this is a time where we can be pulled into those social media holes where three hours can go by without us realising it."
Mr Saunders encouraged people to try being more mindful, and more curious about what they were engaging with.
"We often receive and view a whole pile of material without actually stopping to verify whether it is accurate or valid," he said. "Paying attention is a great way of taking a step towards changing your behaviour. The more we take notice of what we're looking at, and for how long, and the more we take note of the types of themes we're looking at on social media, we can actually take a step back and go, 'Oh, actually, I'm using it a lot at this point in time', or 'I'm consuming a lot of topics around body image or fitness, maybe I need to look at some craft things to balance it out'. That's a really useful way that people can take control of it."
Mr Saunders also suggested adjusting privacy settings, to stop following "unhelpful" accounts, and to block people with negative messaging.
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Mr Saunders believes the community, government, social media platforms, young people - and those who support them - need to understand the harms of social media overuse as a collective.
"Whether it's adding more safety features, or advocating for social media companies to give more feedback to help people track their behaviour, or people in our communities supporting us to explore other options," he said. "It's hard to do as an individual, but I do think it's a shared responsibility for all of us."
Parents and guardians concerned about a young person's social media use could offer them a safe space to talk should they be exposed to harmful content or experience cyber-bullying.
"Having those conversations in a very non-judgemental and curious way to talk about what is going on online can be really beneficial to supporting young people in looking after their mental health," he said.
"It can be a hard thing to do, to say to a young person, 'Look, I'm a bit worried about your usage online, I've noticed these changes in your mood and behaviour. I'm just wondering what's going on?' "Saying, 'I'm going to take away social media' is not going to open up a conversation. That's why it needs a more curious approach."
Mr Saunders said there were useful resources available online at headspace, orygen.org.au and esafety.gov.au that offered tips to help start these conversations.
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PostgreSQL has native support for using SSL connections to encrypt client/server communications for increased security. This requires that OpenSSL is installed on both client and server systems and that support in PostgreSQL is enabled at build time (see Chapter 15).
With SSL support compiled in, the PostgreSQL server can be started with SSL enabled by setting the parameter ssl to on in postgresql.conf. The server will listen for both normal and SSL connections on the same TCP port, and will negotiate with any connecting client on whether to use SSL. By default, this is at the client's option; see Section 19.1 about how to set up the server to require use of SSL for some or all connections.
PostgreSQL reads the system-wide OpenSSL configuration file. By default, this file is named openssl.cnf and is located in the directory reported by openssl version -d. This default can be overridden by setting environment variable OPENSSL_CONF to the name of the desired configuration file.
OpenSSL supports a wide range of ciphers and authentication algorithms, of varying strength. While a list of ciphers can be specified in the OpenSSL configuration file, you can specify ciphers specifically for use by the database server by modifying ssl_ciphers in postgresql.conf.
Note: It is possible to have authentication without encryption overhead by using NULL-SHA or NULL-MD5 ciphers. However, a man-in-the-middle could read and pass communications between client and server. Also, encryption overhead is minimal compared to the overhead of authentication. For these reasons NULL ciphers are not recommended.
To start in SSL mode, the files server.crt and server.key must exist in the server's data directory. These files should contain the server certificate and private key, respectively. On Unix systems, the permissions on server.key must disallow any access to world or group; achieve this by the command chmod 0600 server.key. If the private key is protected with a passphrase, the server will prompt for the passphrase and will not start until it has been entered.
In some cases, the server certificate might be signed by an "intermediate" certificate authority, rather than one that is directly trusted by clients. To use such a certificate, append the certificate of the signing authority to the server.crt file, then its parent authority's certificate, and so on up to a "root" authority that is trusted by the clients. The root certificate should be included in every case where server.crt contains more than one certificate.
To require the client to supply a trusted certificate, place certificates of the certificate authorities (CAs) you trust in the file root.crt in the data directory, and set the clientcert parameter to 1 on the appropriate hostssl line(s) in pg_hba.conf. A certificate will then be requested from the client during SSL connection startup. (See Section 31.17 for a description of how to set up certificates on the client.) The server will verify that the client's certificate is signed by one of the trusted certificate authorities. Certificate Revocation List (CRL) entries are also checked if the file root.crl exists. (See http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/ba554_90007/ch04s02.html for diagrams showing SSL certificate usage.)
The clientcert option in pg_hba.conf is available for all authentication methods, but only for rows specified as hostssl. When clientcert is not specified or is set to 0, the server will still verify presented client certificates against root.crt if that file exists — but it will not insist that a client certificate be presented.
Note that root.crt lists the top-level CAs that are considered trusted for signing client certificates. In principle it need not list the CA that signed the server's certificate, though in most cases that CA would also be trusted for client certificates.
If you are setting up client certificates, you may wish to use the cert authentication method, so that the certificates control user authentication as well as providing connection security. See Section 19.3.10 for details.
Table 17-3 summarizes the files that are relevant to the SSL setup on the server.
Table 17-3. SSL Server File Usage
File | Contents | Effect |
$PGDATA/server.crt | server certificate | sent to client to indicate server's identity |
$PGDATA/server.key | server private key | proves server certificate was sent by the owner; does not indicate certificate owner is trustworthy |
$PGDATA/root.crt | trusted certificate authorities | checks that client certificate is signed by a trusted certificate authority |
$PGDATA/root.crl | certificates revoked by certificate authorities | client certificate must not be on this list |
The files server.key, server.crt, root.crt, and root.crl are only examined during server start; so you must restart the server for changes in them to take effect.
To create a quick self-signed certificate for the server, use the following OpenSSL command:
openssl req -new -text -out server.req
Fill out the information that openssl asks for. Make sure you enter the local host name as "Common Name"; the challenge password can be left blank. The program will generate a key that is passphrase protected; it will not accept a passphrase that is less than four characters long. To remove the passphrase (as you must if you want automatic start-up of the server), run the commands:
openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out server.key rm privkey.pem
Enter the old passphrase to unlock the existing key. Now do:
openssl req -x509 -in server.req -text -key server.key -out server.crt
to turn the certificate into a self-signed certificate and to copy the key and certificate to where the server will look for them. Finally do:
chmod og-rwx server.key
because the server will reject the file if its permissions are more liberal than this. For more details on how to create your server private key and certificate, refer to the OpenSSL documentation.
A self-signed certificate can be used for testing, but a certificate signed by a certificate authority (CA) (either one of the global CAs or a local one) should be used in production so that clients can verify the server's identity. If all the clients are local to the organization, using a local CA is recommended.


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Epic OpenShot 2.0 Update! (Part 2 of 3)
Written by
on .Welcome to the second of three exciting updates on OpenShot 2.0! This update will be a bit more technical than the last, but I'll try and keep it understandable for those who want to follow the process of developing software, and especially the process of developing a video editor.
Sharing Data and Synchronizing Everything
OpenShot 2.0 contains many different modules which all need to have access to the same information. For example, the interface needs to know what files are available for a project, be able to undo and redo actions, communicate button clicks to the other modules, etc... The video player needs to know what clips to mix together, which effects to apply, what frame to display, etc... And the timeline needs to visualize this same data to the user, so they can see what's happening and arrange their clips, etc...When a user moves a clip on the timeline, many things must happen. First, the timeline must communicate the clip's new position / location to both the interface (so it can be saved in your project, added to the project's history, etc...) and the video player (so it can update the video preview, and display the new video). And similarly, when a file is deleted from the interface (i.e. video project), the timeline needs to remove any clips related to that file, and the video preview must be updated.
So, they all need to access the same data, and communicate in 3 directions at all times. No problem, right? To accomplish this feet, we have built in some very robust support for JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). If you are not familiar with JSON, feel free to follow the link and learn more, but basically it is a simple, easy-to-write and understand notation, which can be used to share information between different programs.
In other words, we have 3 basic programs: a C++ video library, Python user-interface, and a JavaScript timeline. Of course, there is no built-in way for all these different programs to communicate. So, using the powerful JSON notation just felt right, and has worked great for us.
Using JSON to Communicate Changes
When something is changed in OpenShot 2.0, such as a new clip is dragged onto the timeline, a new file is added to a project, or the user clicks the undo button, this creates a small JSON string, which describes the change, and then distributes that change to all modules in OpenShot 2.0. Our powerful new video editing framework, libopenshot, can easily digest these special JSON "changes", and then only apply those changes to the current timeline. This is much faster than serializing our entire timeline on each change.Not only is this an efficient model for sharing data between the interface, timeline, and libopenshot, but it is human readable, simple, and also allows us to use JSON in other creative ways. Such as a powerful undo / redo system, which is actually just re-applying these JSON changes in reverse or forward order.
Exciting Possibilities with JSON
By leveraging the power of JSON, it also allows us to save the project file as JSON, bind the JSON to our HTML timeline with Angular.js, and will allow users to easily edit their project files. In fact, it will even allow users to build their own project files dynamically with a little scripting... if they want to have some programming fun!Okay, so hopefully you see some of the cool features that JSON will bring to OpenShot, but let me now demonstrate how easy it is to generate and use JSON in libopenshot with just a Python shell.
>>> import openshot
>>> r = openshot.FFmpegReader("massive_warp_hd.mov")
>>> print ( r.Json() )
Okay, so that was pretty easy! How about we change a few properties of this reader, by using some JSON of our own.
>>> r.SetJson(' {"width":640, "height": 480} ')
When Python, JSON, and libopenshot are combined, things suddenly become very fun! If you are especially bored one afternoon, you might find yourself in a Python shell editing a video project without any user-interface. When I catch myself doing that, it makes me laugh. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed part 2 of our special 3 part update! There are still many more updates to share, so I hope you will join me tomorrow evening for the final update (for now)!


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Jean Prouvé completed his training as a metal artisan before opening his own workshop in Nancy in 1924. In the following years he created numerous furniture designs, and in 1947 Prouvé established his own factory. Due to disagreements with the majority shareholders, he left the company in 1953. During the ensuing decades, Prouvé served as a consulting engineer on a number of important architectural projects in Paris.
'I'm not an architect; I'm not an engineer – I'm a factory man.'
Jean Prouvé
He left his mark on architectural history again in 1971, when he played a major role in selecting the design of Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers for the Centre Pompidou as chairman of the competition jury. Prouvé's work encompasses a wide range of objects, from a letter opener to door and window fittings, from lighting and furniture to façade elements and prefabricated houses, from modular building systems to large exhibition structures – essentially, almost anything that is suited to industrial production methods.
In close cooperation with the Prouvé family, Vitra began in 2002 to issue re-editions of designs by this great French constructeur.
In close cooperation with the Prouvé family, Vitra began in 2002 to issue re-editions of designs by this great French constructeur.
Jean Prouvé Collection
Vitra is now revising the collection with new colours and introducing a number of lesser known designs.
Discover more
My father, Jean Prouvé
An interview with Catherine Prouvé
'The Jean Prouvé designs are developed in close co-operation with the family. Questions regarding the details, materials and colours of the earliest models are examined, debated and resolved in intense and conscientious discussions. The commencement of this partnership stands under a propitious star. It continues the work of Jean Prouvé and fills us with deep satisfaction,' comments Catherine Prouvé.


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Run, Shoot, and Compare the Computer Ports for Contra
Experiencing all the computer ports of Contra gives the audience the literal notion of masochism, and in this article, we inspect the important reasons behind this fact, by introducing the Arcade version first, and comparing these ports with the original title.
The original Arcade game utilizes automatic movement in the air, and this means that while you're holding the right direction, for example, and hit the jump button to move in the air, the character goes to the right automatically, even if you released the desired direction during the process. But you cannot shoot upward and downward while moving along the x-axis in the air; as pressing up and down directions, in the same position, makes your character stop along the said axis. An automatic movement in the air doesn't necessarily mean that you cannot change your direction after each jump.
The game sometimes doesn't detect the lowest platform on the screen, as descending through the lowest one can make your character die:
But the Amstrad CPC port is different; you have one button to fire, an up direction to jump, and a down direction to drop down to lower platforms, meaning that the whole control scheme is made up of the main directions, plus one button to action. Holding this button will result in shooting, with all the weapons acting like machine guns in the game. So, you cannot crouch, until you're shooting, and you cannot jump, while you're shooting! Also, there is no way to fire downward, the lowest platform detection remains the same, and the automatic movement in the air is dropped.
The ZX Spectrum one is weird, making it a unique title compared to the other conversions; automatic movement in the air made a return, but there is no stopping the character; the scrolling seems working, but you're not able to go to the left; every other thing seems fine, but there is no shooting downwardly. Also, the ability to change your direction after each jump in the air, is only present in the tunnel levels, with no diagonal shooting in its boss fights. And here's the worst part; if you jumped, the game pulls the last standing position, and is forcing you to aim only at that angle in the air, without any option to change so, until you hit the ground and repeat the process with another jump!
The Commodore 64 is not official, but rather a romhack. It's still being included because it is well done, and Commodore 64 is awesome. It inherited its own issues and limitations for controls: no shooting downward, no automatic movement in the air and no lowest-platform detection. However, all the weapons act like machine guns, and no problem can be experienced with diagonal shooting in the game, but for some reason, the jump button (space bar) doesn't function normally, and you have to tap it multiple times to make it work! Not to mention that the fire button means JOYSTICK, and the jump button means KEYBOARD:
The MSX2 title, has the nearest controls to the Arcade game, as you have the ability to fire downwardly from the air. However, the automatic movement in the air is gone, with the jumps pulling the sensitivity of the button you're pushing, with no shooting left-upwardly.
And even this port doesn't solve the lowest-platform detection problem.
The Arcade version is your typical Contra; a variety of arsenal with pseudo-3D levels, and technical achievement, with visually impressive features. You have 3 continues, even if you have hundreds of coins, and you'll get killed if you dive into your enemies. Also, the game uses some methods to make one of the oldest examples of level design with just two buttons, where an obstacle fixes the player's position in the last level:
The original title gives the player an opportunity to ignore a few mini-bosses in the game, creating opportunities to fool them:
And about the Amstrad CPC port; the R power-up is replaced with a machine gun, no continues across your journey, and the scrolling effect is not smooth as well:
And what's the problem with the scrolling effect the game has? Well, the bullets of your enemies, for example, can go through sections of a level, but a weapon, as the power-ups of the game, disappears when the screen gets scrolled.
In the ZX Spectrum port, there is no design for the power-ups that you'll get; you hit their cases, and you get the weapons, and losing your lives doesn't mean losing your arsenal. However, the game is still hard, since you've got no way to increase your lives through your progress (with no continues), and the scrolling effect creates big problems in the waterfall level (with bad enemy placement):
But thankfully there are some tricks for the final bosses, as they don't react to you while not being revealed completely:
The ability to fool bosses in the Commodore 64 conversion, to an extreme degree, is its ridiculous gameplay feature, as this boss is ignorable, and you can scroll through the level with no threat ahead:
The opportunity to play with unlimited lives, WITHOUT any cheat codes, is the main benefit you could get from this version, as the game asks so from the player:
The MSX2 port, feels a lot like a bootleg version, as the enemies seem to come from another world:
While the weapons came from another universe:
As you have to aim in the worst ways ever in your gaming life:
And you must go through nearly 20 stages, to put an end to this expedition!
The scrolling effect is a lot like the Amstrad CPC port:
And the whole game feels like an RPG version of Contra:
While it's the first time that you have a health bar for each of your lives.
The original Arcade title is a technical achievement for its era: more than just one design for weapons' looks, and different kick-back effects with a great game-feel:
The game also uses parallax scrolling, with parts of the background moving at a different speed than parts of the foreground:
The Amstrad CPC port seems like a demake version; no different design for the weapons' looks, and no different kick-back effects, like the Arcade game. And the main problem is that the color of your bullets is the same as that of your enemies, so you don't know when to crouch. The ZX Spectrum port has the same problem, plus the fact that the color of your bullets can be the same as the whole environment:
There is nothing special about the Commodore 64 conversion, as it's like a demake version of the Amstrad CPC title. Compared to the Amstrad CPC port, the color of bullets is clearly distinctive, and compared to the ZX Spectrum port, every object has its own visual identity.
The MSX2 version is more colorful than the Commodore 64 port, and unlike the CPC one, is the closest conversion to the original game with its great color palette. However, since it's like a bootleg version of the original game, you can sometimes see the character changing its color scheme from stage to stage, with no logical reason!
If you wait for minutes in the Arcade game, you'll see some objects diving into the character and enemies appearing, to punish the player for waiting for too long:
The Arcade version also, looks more realistic than the other ones, because if you want to start shooting diagonally, the character shoots some bullets, somewhere between your main angle and the desired direction, till he reaches the desired diagonal direction you want:
As a sad conclusion of your ultimate efforts, the Amstrad CPC port has a dark message at the end of the game:
The unique feature of the ZX Spectrum title though, is its main menu, providing the player with a variety of options, as you can see:
In the Commodore 64 one, you can complete the game with unlimited lives, as said above in the Gameplay section.
And, the ending of the MSX2 version is its reward for your hard attempt: