 is just mud or a road, we still have to go and play on it.
This year sees nearForm attending Red Hat Summit for the second time and me attending for the fourth. Summit is the highlight of the Red Hat event calendar and is looked forward to by Red Hatters, customers and partners such as nearForm alike.
In addition to my talk about migrating your existing applications to Node.js on OpenShift on Tuesday 8th, we’ll be there in force for all of Summit at booth 833. I think you’re going to like our message a lot.
Oh, we’ll also be at OpenShift Commons Gathering on Monday, May 7th. Keep an eye out for the people in the nearForm t-shirts!Soliant Health is seeking a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) in the Orlando, Florida area. This is a contract position for the upcoming school year with the opportunity to renew. Apply today to get started!
MANILA, Philippines – Amid the ongoing probe into the disappearance of individuals allegedly involved in e-sabong, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has yet to resolve the issue of whether to suspend online cockfighting.
Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs chair Senator Ronald dela Rosa figured in a heated argument with chief Andrea Domingo on Friday, March 4, over the issue during the probe into missing e-sabong personalities.
Dela Rosa, a close ally of President Rodrigo Duterte, insisted that the President supported the suspension of such gambling licenses. Domingo claimed, however, that Malacañang had yet to give PAGCOR any advice on how to address the increasing number of missing e-sabong personalities.
“Sir, no’ng na-receive ko po ang inyong resolution…in two hours time, nagkaroon na po kami ng sulat referring at tinanong ko po talaga si Executive Secretary [Salvador Medialdea], ‘Sir, pumayag po ba talaga ang Presidente na i-suspend ang operations, according to the news reports?’” Domingo said.
“Kung sinabi lang po sa amin ni ES ’yun, isususpinde po namin. Kaya lang po, ang sabi po ni ES, ‘Tinanong ko si Presidente diyan, Andrea. Ang sabi niya, wala siyang sinasabing ganoon.’ So paano po ang gagawin namin?” the PAGCOR chairperson added.
Based on the Senate’s data, 34 persons involved in the electronic gambling operation had been reported missing. PAGCOR’s data also revealed that the industry had been earning at least P640 million ($12,378,847.12) from the operations since January.
Domingo said they couldn’t simply halt the operations, citing possible implications of the suspension.
“Although we do respect the resolution from 24 senators for us to immediately suspend e-sabong operations, we stand at the peril of having to pay P640 million while we suspend [the operations] without clear and legal basis. We have to look into the repercussions. In the final analysis, it would be PAGCOR that would be responsible for the final decision,” the PAGCOR chair said.
Domingo said that PAGCOR would have to talk to e-sabong operators first before it could decide.
E-sabong was among the gambling activities which flourished during the pandemic, attracting thousands of homebound bettors. Lately, however, there was an increase in the number of reports of missing persons who were involved this online betting industry.
The government has yet to decide on whether to suspend e-sabong permits.
Even some law enforcement agents were involved in e-sabong. On Monday, the Philippine National Police (PNP) launched a probe into its own personnel who participated in the online gambling activity.
Darden Restaurants filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday accusing Tyson Foods, Pilgrim’s Pride and other companies of a “conspiracy” to increase the cost of chicken meat.
Darden, the Orlando-based parent of Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse, said the companies in the suit worked together to destroy breeder hens and eggs in a coordinated effort to drive down the number of chickens on the market and drive up prices.
Darden, which is seeking unspecified damages, is following several other major food companies that have sued the chicken-producing industry in recent years, including US Foods, Sysco and BJ’s Wholesale and Winn-Dixie.
Darden’s lawsuit, filed in the Northern Illinois district court, includes more than two dozen companies that produce chicken meat, also including Foster Farms, Sanderson Farms and Koch Foods. Those companies sell about 98 percent of the chicken meat produced in the United States, the lawsuit says.
USDA data shows that the number of broiler chickens produced between 2008 and 2009 dropped by half.
Lawsuits against the chicken producers contend the activity continued until it was uncovered in 2016.
“This is a case about how a group of America’s chicken producers reached illegal agreements and restrained trade beginning at least as early as 2008 through at least as late as 2016,” Darden’s lawsuit said.
Darden spokesman Rich Jeffers said the company was part of a class-action lawsuit against Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride and others, but decided to sue independently.
“You see it at Olive Garden and [chicken is] across the board at all of our brands,” Jeffers said.
Tyson denied the allegations that it worked with others to fix prices.
The suit also says chicken companies worked to manipulate the price indexes that food distributors used to set meat prices.
In one well-documented case, the publisher of the state-operated Georgia Poultry Marketing News’ noticed he was getting inaccurate information from chicken factories. That single report in the country’ s largest chicken-producing state was used by many distributors and grocers to set prices.
When this was released, paired with the massive decrease in broiler chickens, the lawsuits started. The SEC and the Florida Attorney General’s office also started investigating the issue in 2017 but haven’t filed suit.
Winn-Dixie Stores sued major chicken manufacturers including Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms, alleging they conspired to fix the price of the United States' most popular kind of chicken.
Federal reports and private data companies such as Agri Stats have always given the chicken producing industry-wide availability to data on production and prices, but these lawsuits say companies had a private plan to work together, said Peter Carstensen, an antitrust law professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Darden is likely filing suit at this point because the chances of getting a broad class action suit at this point are getting more complicated, he said. The case could include thousands of different types of groups affected, including big food distributors, nationwide grocery chains, restaurant companies down to independent sandwich shops.
Because you are using a standard esri basemap the mapViews WKID is 102100 and the map does not automatically re-project the extent from other WKIDs to the maps WKID so you are limited to Extents that are 102100/3857 and 4326 (4326 works because the API can re-project that clientside).
Additionally, you can use GeometryService.project in order to go from your spatial reference of choice to Web Mercator or WGS84. This sends an HTTP request to an Esri geometry service, so it's not done in the client.
If I need to add graphics later, do I also project their geometries to WGS84? Will it have big impact on the performance? Thanks!
Any graphics added should be in the same WKID as the maps, so yes. As far as impact to performance there will be not be much at all the Geometry service is a pretty fast round trip to the server depending on the number of graphics.
Hopefully it's my last question of this topic: if my customers also provides me the latitude and longitude, can I assume their spatial reference is Web Mercator or WGS84?
Yes, you'll need to use.project to convert non-WGS84/Web Mercator geometries to WGS84 or Web Mercator if you're using an esri basemap.
This will have a significant impact on performance as project is behind an HTTP request. Depending on your use case this might be a concern or not.
If you're adding a static number of graphics to the view/a layer as part of your app then you could just project them all ahead of time and add the graphics with their projected geometries. If users need the ability to add new graphics in your preferred spatial reference at run time, then you'll have to project them using the geometry service in order to add them.
Your replies are very helpful.
I have an additional question: can I add a MapImageLayer which use non-WGS84?
Yue, yes you can as the MapImageLayer will request the returned image form the server to be projected in the same wild as the map is in.One teen involved with exposing a classmate with a severe pineapple allergy to the fruit admitted to one charge, while a second teen involved in the incident entered into an agreement in Butler County Juvenile Court on Friday.
The teens, both 14-years-old, were charged by Butler Township police, along with a 13-year-old girl, after the incident Dec. 13 at the Butler Intermediate High School, where police say the teens intentionally exposed the classmate.
The Butler Eagle is not naming the girls, as they were charged as juven