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'Dean of Valuation' Aswath Damodaran on FAANG Stocks, the Economy, and Companies Worth Buying
"Over the long term, I think winners and losers will be seen more in terms of sectors rather than countries," asserts the NYU business school professor.
Eric Uhlfelder
Aswath Damodaran
Not long ago, many investors considered WeWork's CEO Adam Neumann a shrewd visionary. Analysts were trumpeting WeWork stock as a "must buy" before it ever went public.
WeWork was seen as offering the template for the future of office space by being able to meet the needs of young, flexible startups looking to share space with like-minded entrepreneurs in thriving cities where new ideas and potential clients could be harvested and cross-pollinated.
Plenty, said NYU Stern School of Business Professor of Finance Aswath Damodaran. Even before the company's mishandled IPO was announced last year (then indefinitely delayed), Damodaran asserted that WeWork challenged the basic principles of asset and liability matching. "You have a firm that signs pricey long-term leases then sublets them to short-term tenants," explains Damodaran. "This is a model built on a knife's edge of precision that by design will be vulnerable to the smallest economic turbulence."
Damodaran's concerns about WeWork pre-dated the pandemic and even the firm's IPO when the company revealed key faults not only in its financials but its operations. "The firm's investment thesis was driven by the CEO's personality and belief that he was the next Steve Jobs, not sound valuation," says Damodaran.
He estimated the pre-IPO paperwork suggested a corporate valuation of $14 billion — a fraction of what was being pitched by Softbank, Goldman Sachs, and other private investors who anticipated a $50+ billion market cap. In hindsight, he admits even his $14 billion was overly generous when the IPO laid bare the arrogance of almost everyone involved in the IPO and the company's systemic risks.
"Another key problem," explains Damodaran, "is valuations were being determined by what early investors were paying, making its valuation a house of cards that collapsed when the market started to seriously question the company's fundamentals and forecasts."
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Professor Damodaran is outspoken when he sees things that don't make sense, because, as he explains, "I'm a teacher first and foremost. WeWork was a classic example of how critical it is for investors to distinguish between compelling story telling and hard financial metrics." Discerning between signal and noise is at the heart of what Damodaran does.
Being born into a secure, well-educated family in the southern Indian city of Chennai enabled Damodaran to pursue his education in the U.S. While studying for an MBA at UCLA, Damodaran imagined his next move would be into investment banking.
But his thinking turned when he became a teacher's assistant. It didn't take long for him to realize that teaching was his calling.
Damodaran holds the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education and is Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business. He has been the recipient of Giblin, Glucksman, and Heyman Fellowships, a David Margolis Teaching Excellence Fellowship, and the Richard L. Rosenthal Award for Innovation in Investment Management and Corporate Finance.
His passion for teaching earned him Stern's Excellence in Teaching Award in 1988, the Distinguished Teaching award from NYU in 1990, and his MBA students voted him Professor of the Year five times.
In addition to writing for various academic journals, Damodaran is the author of several highly regarded academic texts on valuation, corporate finance, and investment management. This has helped earn him the moniker, "Dean of Valuation."
Damodaran looks at the world differently than many of his colleagues. Instead of narrowly focusing of specific subjects and themes, he tends to look at the big pieces of a puzzle to see how they are all connected. This keeps him from getting distracted by the latest fads and claims of future market share, instead focusing more on business models in assessing what a company's value should be.
Moving to a different beat led him to strike a unique arrangement with the Stern School that's enabling him to reach a global audience. In return for teaching large classes, he has been allowed to upload his classes online for free to anyone who is interested in learning.
This has enabled Damodaran to transform his lecture hall on West 4th Street in Manhattan into a global forum. He receives hundreds of emails a days and sees the scale of people he's reaching as an extraordinary opportunity to potentially shape minds all over the world.
In August, I was able wedge my way into this modern day peripatetic's busy schedule to see, after four decades of studying markets, companies, and investors, what he makes of these most unusual times.
You approach finance and investment a bit differently than your colleagues. Why is that?
I dabble in many things because I am curious about so many different things without being an expert in any of them. I think this gives me a different, less biased perspective. When investing, I feel safer sticking with the companies I know and don't try to make judgments about the markets and the economy because I'll be more often wrong then right.
Where is the U.S. economy?
It's in trouble. Closing down the economy is an experiment that the world has never tried. This is an immense machine, where the engine has been turned off. The fear is that the economic engine might not start up or sputter for a while. So far—looking at the initial evidence from Germany, much of Scandinavia, and parts of China where they've reopened back up—the experience has been better than expected. South Korea has been more cautious and slower to recover. The U.S. is a few months behind these countries. The question is if the U.S. economy will expand back towards its previous norm.
The U.S. has one advantage other economies don't have: big tech stocks, which have been thriving and represent a larger segment of the market. They don't need the kind of capital intensity that traditional companies rely on to function and create revenue. Without these companies, we'd be in much deeper trouble.
This suggests to me that when the economy starts back up, we're going to get a new set of winners and losers. This isn't going to bring everybody back up to where they were before the crisis. Some of the largest companies are going to get even stronger and bigger, but at the expense of smaller, weaker competitors. This should allow the U.S. economy to come back faster than the rest of the world. But it will come with a cost – a more top-heavy economy, dominated by big winners.
The venerable economist Henry Kaufman believes there will be the permanent destruction of capital and that risk taking will take a while before it returns to pre-crisis levels. This will slow the return of the economy to pre-crisis performance. Do you agree?
That may be so. But here's the interesting thing. Private risk capital — venture capital money, IPOs, other risky ventures — has been quite active, which is contrary to what happens during typical crises. There's usually a flight to safety. Utilities and low P/E companies typically do well under such circumstances. But that hasn't been the case during this crisis. It's been just opposite. There's been more venture capital invested in 2Q20 than in 2Q19. Maybe risk capital is in denial or in delusion. But there's something different in this crisis that's not scaring them away.
A number of leading allocators fear the market's recovery feels more like a bear market rally rather than a true recovery. What do you think?
I think it's easy to dismiss the market rally on that basis. But I don't think that's the case. This has been the most orderly crisis I've ever seen in terms of how it has behaved across the period. It's a crisis that actually mirrors the virus: it has punished older, more mature companies that used to pay healthy dividends, and it has rewarded younger, more flexible companies that don't pay dividends. That's almost never the case during a crisis. I try to think of the last crisis where utilities are down far more than the rest of the market, and I cannot think of one.
Investor hope has returned, but business hope hasn't. How do you reckon the difference?
Investor hope is always ahead of business hope. Business hope has to wait for the vaccine. So the biggest market risk is if the release of an effective vaccine is delayed and consumer and business confidence drops. The market is being more optimistic than I am. But I've discovered over time to trust the market instead of my beliefs because I am a terrible economic forecaster.
Assuming the FAANGs + Microsoft continue to thrive, how will they help the rest of the economy regenerate or are you suggesting a bifurcated recovery?
The vast majority of new growth is in the big tech sector. These companies are cash machines. And companies like Apple, which generated $60B in free cash flow, will be able to buy promising new technologies. There will be bad news for brick and mortar retail, and you will see bankruptcies every day. There will be big losers in the process, which is going to create a very uneven recovery across the economy and across the country.
What are your thoughts about active versus passive investing?
I have little faith in active investing, at least as practiced today at hedge funds and mutual funds. They have been undercut by ETFs and index funds for more than a decade for a simple reason: active investing does not deliver the goods, and I don't think that's going to stop. I think the end game here is that we're going to see a smaller group of active managers that have consistent investment strategies, who actually bring something to the table rather than trusting in mean reversion to bail them out.
I am not a Warren Buffett acolyte. But the one thing you can say about Warren is that you know what he believes, you know whatever he does comes from that same "thought well." It might not work every time, but at least he has a consistent philosophy. The world has changed under him, and that may explain why what worked so well for him in the last century has not for most of this one.
Hedge fund managers would seem to have more latitude to respond to crises then other asset class managers — of mutual funds, ETFs, real estate, and private equity. Thoughts?
That is true. But there's well-established evidence that the more a manager can do, the more damage he or she can do. More freedom has often worked against hedge fund managers. And it's unclear if this freedom does provide hedge fund managers competitive advantages to enhance performance. There isn't a single hedge fund manager with which I would trust my money. There's a reason for this: many hedge funds are run by people convinced their models and methods are unassailable. Arrogance and markets don't go together. Markets are stripping experts of their expertise, and I think it's going to be interesting to see how the hedge fund business comes through this crisis.
You're planning a book about the crisis.
Yes. I'm keeping regular notes about how I'm feeling and thinking during this crisis in laying the groundwork for explaining what it was like to have lived through the pandemic — unbiased by the fog of memory. I'm doing this because I'm a teacher. This is my passion. And crises are when I learn the most. And crises help me refine what I'm thinking about markets and valuations. Every day I'm calculating an implied equity risk premium for the S&P 500. I do this instead of listening to pundits and market strategists, which I believe is noise.
Has there been a seminal event during the crisis?
March 23 was the day the Fed announced it was backstopping the private lending market. At that time, the price of risk in the equity market (equity risk premium) peaked. Almost to the day, we saw risk capital pivot back into the markets. By August, risk premium had virtually returned to pre-crisis levels.
When one looks at what the Fed has actually spent in support of the economy, it's almost nothing. I describe the Fed as the Wizard of Oz. It understands power comes from perception, not always the actual use of such power. I give Jerome Powell credit for how he has used that perception of power to drive markets. I think that's essentially the role of the Fed: to create change without actually doing much.
Is part of the reason investors have been returning to the market due to a search for yield not available in other assets?
I don't think so. If that were true, stocks that pay higher dividends would have been performing better than stocks that pay less or no dividends. The market is building in an expectation that dividends will be cut by 25% and stock buybacks by 50% this year. This is close to what happened during the Great Recession. The interesting question: how much of this reduction in dividends and buybacks will be permanent?
What do you expect 2020 Full Year GDP to be?
We would be lucky to see a decline that's less than double digits. But I'm expecting the number to be between -10-20%. We'll be lucky if the third quarter is down only 15% year-over-year. So my full-year projection is really dependent upon how the last quarter plays out.
What gives you reason to hope that the fourth quarter will be materially positive?
I really can't put a finger on it. I just get a sense that more people are showing greater mobility, they are in stores, and that economic activity is growing. I think we'll see a Christmas bonus.
Where will the market be at the end of the year?
I think we could see a positive single-digit return for the year. If that happens, that's cause for celebration.
In my recent global hedge fund survey, allocators across the globe were expecting a second sell-off? Do you?
The fact that so many allocators were expecting a second sell-off makes me very optimistic that there will not be one. It seems to be driven more by the belief that investors will wake up one day and realize that they've driven up prices far too high and they need to selloff. If this was to happen, it will not be driven by sentiment but by something fundamental that has happened.
What's your worst-case scenario for the market?
The virus turns out to be even nastier than expected, that treatment and vaccines are elusive, and if there are second and third waves of infection that forces the economy to again shut down. If that were to play out, I would think we could see the market drop by 25% for the year. But at this moment I would not expect this.
Does the government have the resources and firepower to deal with the fallout of a second or third wave?
Not without creating huge inflationary pressures for the next decade. We already have to be wary about how much money has been thrown at this problem. The impact of what we've spent already is the big unknown.
Whether we'll see significant inflation or debasement of the currency is yet to be seen. The response to the Great Recession didn't appear to trigger significant inflation--almost to the contrary.
I think the key question that the Fed will have to contend with is knowing when to stop fueling money supply and to start reeling it back in. The Fed did this very well post 2008 and maybe they will do that again…but that's yet to be seen. But the amount spent this time will exceed what was spent in the last crisis. We've never seen such an infusion of liquidity and don't know how managing such liquidity will play out.
Do you fear we could get trapped the way Japan has been for more than 25 years where there's permanently low interest rates and paltry growth?
I think Europe should be more fearful of the Japanese experience repeating itself on the continent than here in the U.S. because its demographics are less favorable than ours. The European economy is more fragile and less resilient than ours.
Are you worried about the revival of a sovereign debt crisis like we saw after the Great Recession?
I don't see how it can be avoided across Southern Europe, which looks more like an emerging market. Northern Europe is perhaps the strongest market region.
Does that put the Euro at risk of breaking up?
Yes. That divergence is tough to sustain when you all share the same currency and monetary policy. Politically and economically, it's going to create challenges we don't have here. Germany and other wealthy northern countries are being asked to back bonds that are largely trying to save Southern Europe. If there's a second wave and further shutdowns, that could put an awful strain on the euro regime.
Where would you recommend investors look for opportunities at this time?
Over the short term, I like the prospect of the Chinese and Vietnamese markets. But over the long term, I think winners and losers will be seen more in terms of sectors rather than countries. We live in a world of global companies. So even with the FAANGs being U.S. companies, their success has more to do with their respective industries rather than where they are domiciled. If you're capital light and flexible, then you have an advantage over companies that are more mature and capital intensive, and that's how I would differentiate investment opportunities.
Are there a couple of foreign companies you are high on?
Alibaba (ticker: BABA), Tencent (TCEHY), JD.com (JD). I would look across the world for companies like these. They may seem a little richly priced (as of the end of August), but there will be a selloff, which will provide buying opportunities.
Do you see the current investment environment as attractive or extremely risky?
Challenging and enriching often go together. When an environment is relatively low in stress, there's probably less undervalued opportunities in which to invest. Heightened levels of uncertainty are when the best investment opportunities show up.
So for a competent investor who does his homework, this is not a time to stay on the sidelines?
Staying on the sidelines has never worked for me because I've never been good at market timing--when to pull out when there's panic and then deciding when it's appropriate to return to the market. I don't make decisions to stay out of the market because I'm scared. I feel I need to be invested at all times. I call market timing the impossible dream. We all want to do it. But it never seems to work.
You're 62. You may be near retirement. Like others in that position, do you think it may be wise to take some money off the table after such a long bull market rather than to be exposed to what may lay ahead?
I don't personally need the liquidity. But if one does, you should sell now. If you have health issues, worried about your 401(k), then I definitely think you should listen to your gut. If you lie awake at night wondering what's going to happen to your portfolio, then you've already failed what I call the "sleep test," which should tell you to sell. Nothing in investing is worth getting an ulcer or a heart attack over. Don't listen to the experts, just divest a portion that you need so you feel better about yourself and your financial stability. And get some rest.
What did you do in 2008?
I rode the market down and back. I feel I'm better off staying in the market regardless of how uncomfortable I may feel about the market.
It took five years for the market to reclaim its former highs in 2007. Looking back at that time, do you think that was the best way to approach the market collapse?
Yes. I did move some money between some stocks I owned. But I stayed in the market. When people pull out of the market in the middle of a crisis, it's really difficult for them to get back in because it's too monumental a decision. It's easy to get paralyzed wondering what's the right time to reinvest. If one has pulled out the market and wants back in, just put your decision on autopilot. Put back 10% of what you want to reinvest every three or six months. Otherwise, you will be sitting on cash.
What are the likely permanent systemic changes that will result from the Covid crisis?
Big tech companies will get bigger and regulators will revisit issues of antitrust laws. Amazon, which was dominating the market before Covid, think about what it now controls. Google and Facebook will dominate online advertising even more. And this might stifle other independent innovation. A more interesting question will be the underlying reason for applying antitrust regulations. They were originally written to protect consumers. No Amazon customer is up in arms because they are paying for Amazon Prime. The problem is antitrust laws were geared to breakup 20th century conglomerates. We need to rethink these laws so consumers don't get hurt. Most big tech companies, while powerful, are not conglomerates. Breaking up Microsoft or Facebook doesn't make sense. But it could happen, affecting the largest market cap firms and therefore the market.
If big tech doesn't get broken up, will they be exposed to greater regulatory oversight?
I think so. This may not evolve into utility-like regulation. Actions will be taken to address issues involving political speech and privacy matters. But I do think there will be regulatory constraints that will restrict how they can grow.
Do you see price controls coming into play?
I don't think so. These companies don't charge high prices now, at least to their customers. To the extent that advertisers are willing to pay high prices to be on their platforms, I think that will remain between them and the companies.
Any other systemic changes likely to evolve?
There will be an accelerated shift away from less flexible, traditional industries, like steel, oil, and coal, into more flexible companies. Manufacturing industries will continue to lose out to less capital-intensive, technology-based variations. Tesla, for example, is much less capital intensive than GM. Big labor-intensive manufacturing companies will continue to lose out.
Are you concerned if Trump is reelected, tariffs could interfere with the free flow of capital and innovation across borders?
Trade wars, no matter who initiates them and how they play out, are troublesome, especially as companies and countries are increasingly dependent upon global growth. It's been a concern we've been living with for the last four years, and the market seems to have found a way to live with the friction. It's already a material issue, moving in ebbs and flows. I think the issues between U.S. and China run deep enough that I would be concerned about this regardless of who is president.
Do you fear the banking system is at risk?
On March 23, before the government announced the start of its massive stimulus, I was more concerned than I am now. Banking systems suffer when risk capital dries up, when banks alone are left bearing the burden of risk capital. That's what made the Great Recession so catastrophic for banks. The fact that risk capital has stayed in play, that Boeing was able to tap into the corporate bond market, has been a very positive sign for banks. This doesn't mean banks haven't been hurt by the crisis. Their stocks are down more than any other sector. But I don't expect a banking crisis as of this moment.
Will there be any long-lasting impairment of the economy that worries you?
I think manufacturing employment, which is in a permanent downward spiral. Two things are going to hurt commercial real estate: more remote working will reduce the demand for city center property (and all the multiplicative affects that will have) and the decline in brick and mortar retail. There's a global shift working against commercial real estate. This doesn't mean their prices are going to drop overnight. But this will be a test to see if retailers are going to pay premium rents as they had done so in the past.
How would you assess the risk of both household and government debt on the future of the economy?
If the virus comes back and the economy shuts down for any significant time, I don't see how you avoid a debt crisis. But I don't believe there's going to be a severe second wave that will shut down the entire economy. But if that happens, banks will suffer being in the front line. They will be the canary in mine shaft. And backstopping banks again will be tricky and therein lies a very dangerous scenario.
Thank you, Aswath.
Eric Uhlfelder has covered global capital markets and asset management for the past 25 years, authored "Investing in the New Europe," published by Bloomberg Press, and is a recipient of a National Press Club Award.
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Q: How to know version of library found by CMake? I'm currently developing a C++ project that uses CMake files and OpenCV among other libraries. My target would be to be able to compile my code both with version 2.4.something and with 3.0.
In order to do so, I thought of using CMake configured to set a variable indicating whether the OpenCV package found in the configuration phase has a version greater or equal to 3.0. Using this variable I can then include or exclude ad-hoc parts of my code.
However I was not able to find anywhere how can I know in a CMake file the version of a found package.
The pseudo code of my CMake file would look something like this:
....
find_package(OpenCV 2.4 REQUIRED)
if(OpenCV_Version >= 3)
    set (OpenCV_3 1)
else
    set (OpenCV_3 0)
endif(OpenCV_Version)
....

Is it possible to do this or am I doing something wrong?

A: From CMake documentation on find_package:
If the version is acceptable the following variables are set:

<package>_VERSION
    full provided version string
<package>_VERSION_MAJOR
    major version if provided, else 0
<package>_VERSION_MINOR
    minor version if provided, else 0
<package>_VERSION_PATCH
    patch version if provided, else 0
<package>_VERSION_TWEAK
    tweak version if provided, else 0
<package>_VERSION_COUNT
    number of version components, 0 to 4

You may use either variable OpenCV_VERSION with full version string for comparing using VERSION_* modes of if() command:
if(OpenCV_VERSION VERSION_LESS "3.0")
    # 2.4 version
else()
    # 3.0 version
endif()

or version-component variables with number comparision:
if(OpenCV_VERSION_MAJOR LESS 3)
    # 2.4 version
else()
    # 3.0 version
endif()

A: OpenCV provides a built in constant for this:
CV_MAJOR_VERSION
Using this constant you're able to easily write version dependent code.
#if CV_MAJOR_VERSION >= 3
    //OpenCV 3.x code
#else
    //OpenCV 2.4.x code
#endif

A: If you are using FindPkgConfig, you can also use its pkg_search_module command.
pkg_search_module(<PREFIX> [REQUIRED] [QUIET]
                  [NO_CMAKE_PATH] [NO_CMAKE_ENVIRONMENT_PATH]
                  <MODULE> [<MODULE>]*)

It then sets a <package>_VERSION variable if it finds the module.
include(FindPkgConfig)

pkg_search_module(OPENCV    REQUIRED    opencv)

message(STATUS "Got OpenCV ${OPENCV_VERSION}")
if (${OPENCV_VERSION} VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL "3.0.0")
    message(STATUS "Got OpenCV 3+")
else()
    message(STATUS "Got OpenCV <3")
endif()

That prints out something like this:
-- Checking for one of the modules 'opencv'
-- Got OpenCV 3.2.0
-- Got OpenCV 3+

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Colombia: Authorities must respect the rights of the Indigenous Peoples of Chocó
14 November 2018, 16:04 UTC
The Embera, Wounaan and Zenú Indigenous Peoples of the department of Chocó have begun a peaceful demonstration in Bogotá, called the Minga* for Life (Minga por la Vida), to demand a high-level roundtable discussion with the national government. In light of their demands, the Colombian authorities must guarantee their right to peaceful protest and undertake to comply fully with the Peace Agreement signed two years ago, Amnesty International said today.
"The Indigenous Peoples of Chocó have historically borne the brunt of the brutal violence of the armed conflict in Colombia and, today, this violence has intensified with the reorganization of armed groups, such as the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN) and paramilitary groups, in their ancestral territories. Every day, thousands of people and communities are being forcibly displaced; the government of President Duque must take decisive measures and immediate action to protect them," said Erika Guevara Rosas, Americas Director at Amnesty International.
Every day, thousands of people and communities are being forcibly displaced; the government of President Duque must take decisive measures and immediate action to protect them
Erika Guevara Rosas, Americas Director at Amnesty International
"The Colombian authorities must fulfil their obligation to implement the Peace Agreement and guarantee the rights to life and physical integrity of Indigenous Peoples and ensure the protection of their territories. The national and Bogotá city authorities must guarantee the right to demonstrate peacefully in Plaza de Bolívar, without repression and without restrictions. It is shameful that the authorities have sought to block their own people from entering the capital, restricting their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly."
It is shameful that the authorities have sought to block their own people from entering the capital, restricting their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly
The Minga for Life, a broad coalition of the Indigenous Peoples of Chocó, arrived in Bogotá last Sunday to demand protection and respect for their human rights. According to the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia, police blocked approximately 500 Indigenous people from entering Plaza de Bolívar, where they planned to hold their protest. Another part of the Minga was stopped by police on the outskirts of the city and forced to spend the night there before making their way on foot into the city on Monday morning.
*Minga is a word of Indigenous origin and refers to a broad call for Indigenous Peoples to demonstrate about an issue of collective concern.
Colombia: Authorities must act to prevent the displacement of 3,600 Indigenous people in Chocó (News, 17 August 2018)
Colombia: Government must implement immediate action plans in the face of mass forced displacement (News, 13 July 2018)
Colombia: Authorities must guarantee the safety of threatened communities (News, 14 June 2018)
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LUCKY SEVERSON, correspondent: This is a beautiful musical rendition of the Islamic call to prayer. It's performed by Salim and Sulaiman Merchant, internationally acclaimed composers of over 100 Bollywood films and television programs.
SALIM MERCHANT: We've made all our other hits, and they come and go, but these devotional songs, they stay on.
SULAIMAN MERCHANT: We might not be missionaries in its truest form, but in a lot of ways we go out there and spread our love through our music.
SEVERSON: Salim and Sulaiman are Muslims, Ismaili Muslims, a Shia sect of about 15 million scattered around the globe. Ismailis are unique, they say, because throughout history they are the only Shia community led by a living hereditary imam in direct descent from the Prophet Muhammad. His hereditary title is Aga Khan, and it was the Aga Khan who inspired them to make devotional music.
(to Salim and Sulaiman Merchant) Do you look at the imam as a holy man?
SALIM MERCHANT: Yes, He's like a spiritual leader, yes.
SULAIMAN MERCHANT: We pray to him to pray for us, and the beauty of that is we have somebody who's guiding us through our days.
SEVERSON: Is that a heavy weight on your shoulders?
HIS HIGHNESS THE AGA KHAN: Every day, every second.
SEVERSON: It is very rare for the Aga Khan to grant interviews. We caught up with him in Toronto:
(speaking to the Aga Khan): You are a spiritual leader, a businessman, treated like a head of state. I think you were just with the prime minister yesterday. Which of those hats are most important to you?
AGA KHAN: The institutional hat, which is the hat I inherited from my grandfather.
SEVERSON: As a spiritual leader?
AGA KHAN: As the imam of the Ismaili community, by far.
SEVERSON: He was only a 20-year-old student at Harvard when his grandfather bequeathed the title Aga Khan to him, bypassing his father who was known as a rich playboy who was once married to the actress Rita Hayworth. The Aga Khan is both a billionaire who owns private jets and yachts, and is welcomed internationally as a spiritual leader and for his work in social justice.
PROFESSOR ALI ASANI (Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures and Director of Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University): He is interestingly a very shy person, he doesn't like too much publicity. He seems to be a person who just wants to do his work quietly.
SEVERSON: Professor Ali Asani teaches Islamic religion and culture at Harvard.
PROFESSOR ASANI: Actually, when you look at his history and look at what he's accomplished, I do not think there is any Muslim leader in the world today who has such a record of accomplishment.
SEVERSON: The Aga Khan is the first faith leader to address a joint session of the Canadian Parliament.
AGA KHAN: (speaking before Canadian Parliament) We are active in the fields of economic development, job creation, education, health care, as well as important cultural initiatives. Our work has always been people-driven.
SEVERSON: With the help of tithes from Ismailis, the Aga Khan presides over one of the world's richest charitable organizations, although Ismailis don't see it as charity. They see it as their moral duty. The Aga Khan Development Network, the AKDN, is huge. It operates around the world, but primarily in the poorest regions of Africa and Asia. The network has a simple mandate: to relieve disease, deprivation, and ignorance for the people they serve, no matter their faith. The same is true of the network's many thousand employees, who come from all different faiths.
PROFESSOR ASANI: For Ismailis, faith consists of two dimensions. There are obligations to God, what we say, worship and prayer and spiritual growth and so on, and then there are obligations to larger society, especially the poor, the sick, the needy. One has to be engaged in social-justice work. It's not only part of faith, but it's also an important part of one's spiritual and ethical development as a person.
AGA KHAN: (speaking before Canadian Parliament) Islam believes fundamentally that the spiritual and material worlds are inextricably connected. Faith is a force that should deepen our concern for our worldly habitat, for embracing its challenges, and for improving the quality of human life.
SEVERSON: That is why the AKDN is at work in some of the poorest regions of the world, places, the Aga Khan says, that are ripe for violence and terrorism.
AGA KHAN: Not only does it come from poverty, but frankly in many areas it's predictable. The question is, when did that become explosive, and how do you stop it from becoming explosive?
SEVERSON: How do you?
AGA KHAN: Preempting it. Changing the basics of the quality of life and giving people, replacing despair by hope. People are driven by hope.
SEVERSON: And in his view, hope begins with education, one reason his network operates academies and schools for both boys and girls, like this one in Mombasa, [Kenya].
AGA KHAN ACADEMY STUDENT: Every human being has a role to play in this society, and the purpose of someone being educated is to, one day, to give back to their society and help improve their society.
SEVERSON: The AKDN oversees projects ranging from a cardiac surgery and cancer center in Nairobi and a hydropower plant in Uganda. The Ismailis are renowned for their contribution to the arts and Islamic culture, like the new Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, the first art museum in North America devoted to Islamic art and culture. Ruba Kana'an is the director of education and scholarly programs.
RUBA KANA'AN (Head of Education and Scholarly Programs, Aga Khan Museum): Our core mission is education, is building bridges between cultures through art, through interaction and engagement around art.
SEVERSON: This navigational instrument, called an astrolabe, kind of like an ancient GPS, is an example that Islamic, Christian, and Jewish scholars worked on together.
RUBA KANA'AN: For Muslims they needed this to find the directions for prayer towards Mecca and the times of prayer. What's fascinating about this specific instrument is that it has on it inscriptions in both Arabic, Latin, and Hebrew.
AGA KHAN: The empires which functioned best, you had intellectual pluralism, not only ethnic pluralism. You had intellectual pluralism. That is, the best qualified people in society, in medicine, in law, in space sciences, whatever it may be, they came together for the benefit of the community.
SEVERSON: The Aga Khan Trust for Culture creates jobs by restoring ancient holy places, like the Blue Mosque in Cairo and Humayun's tomb in Delhi.
Aga Khan Award for Architecture Video: "Founded by His Highness the Aga Kahn in 1977, the award has established a reputation as one of the most prestigious and coveted prizes in its field..."
SEVERSON: The Aga Khan offers a million-dollar prize for revitalizing architecture. The AKDN helped transform the Al Azhar Park in Cairo from a 500-year-old garbage dump to an oasis of beauty. The Aga Khan says the ethics of his faith guides everything he does.
AGA KHAN: Islam says that we as Muslims have to leave the environment in a better condition than we found it, when we were born. In other words, Allah has entrusted to the human race the duty to improve, work with his creation. And that's why the Aga Khan Trust for Culture is called a Trust, and that's how the ethic of the faith comes into the way you work.
SEVERSON: His title means "Great King," and his followers do treat him like royalty. In fact, they seem to adore him. Listen to 13-year-old peace activist Alyna Nanji.
ALYNA NANJI: He teaches us how to be respectful, he teaches us how to care, he teaches us moral values of kindness, and you know what? I think we can all learn a lot from him, because he is the one person that we can definitely say he walks the talk.
SEVERSON: Have you met him?
SALIM MERCHANT: Yes.
SEVERSON: What was that like?
SULAIMAN MERCHANT: It's difficult to kind of describe that because he has so much divinity. It becomes very difficult for us to talk in front of him, and singing is even more challenging.
SEVERSON: But there are those within Islam who do not revere the Aga Khan or the Ismailis.
PROFESSOR ASANI: During their history, the Ismailis suffered a great deal of persecution at the hands of the caliphs, but also those who hold other interpretations of Islam. Ismailis in Syria have been also attacked or have been surrounded by ISIS, on the one hand, and Al Qaeda on the other, because these are groups that generally don't tolerate the Shia, but particularly the Ismailis. So this history of persecution continues today.
SEVERSON: Are you generally optimistic?
AGA KHAN: No, frankly. No. I would hope that we would see a greater tolerance and greater acceptance of the divisions in society, because I think we are seeing forms of polarization which are very, very unhealthy, indeed.
SEVERSON: That's why the Aga Khan, who is 78 this year, travels the globe, doing his best to alleviate poverty and practice tolerance.
For Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly I'm Lucky Severson.
Special thanks to Azeem & Nims Maherali; Faridoun Hemani; Canadian Ismaili Youth Choir
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Around the world there are approximately 15 million Ismaili Muslims, who belong to the Shia branch of Islam. Their spiritual leader is the Aga Khan, who traces his ancestors directly back to the Prophet Muhammad. A wealthy philanthropist, he has made it his mission, based on his faith, to fight poverty, encourage peace, and promote religious understanding. We spoke with him in Toronto, where the Aga Khan Museum, the first art museum in North America devoted to Islamic art and culture, recently opened to the public last year.
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New York Times: "The Aga Khan, a jet-setter who mixes business and Islam" by G. Pascal Zachary, July 9, 2007
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Elektra Luxx — Very light entertainment, but still appreciable — 6*/10
Elektra Luxx is about sex and hot women, and set just after Women in Trouble (WIT), but not as interesting.
The good. An interesting, if not captivating, story. Beautiful women. Lots of things happening. Some laughs, a bit of drama, and sexiness.
The actors. Carla Gugino gives us a good performance as Elektra. I wonder if it's the limit of her acting capabilities. Adrianne Palicki is hilarious as the challenged beauty, while Emmanuelle Chriqui completes her admirably. And finally, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is just right as the obsessed blogger.
The bad. Using an actor for two different role. Not as good as WIT, and still portraying a career in the sex industry as something base.
The ugly. That bath scene with the virgin Mary. Badly shot and edited, with horrible sound take, and it doesn't even bring that much to the story.
The result. Nice entertainment, especially if you want to find out what happens after WIT. More geared toward men, even if it still empowers women.
Libellés : 2010, 6*, funny, sexy
Trance — Solid intrigue and good entertainment — 7...
Alien — This is what all space monster movies are ...
Shoot 'Em Up — A firefight with a scenario to prop...
The Postman — After destroying itself how can soci...
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The Guest House — B movie about two girls falling ...
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Elektra Luxx — Very light entertainment, but still...
Malèna — What a woman has to go through in life if...
Les saveurs du Palais — Plongé pour un instant der...
Erreur de la Banque en Votre Faveur — Le monde de ...
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The Croods — A brutish family on a surprising and ...
The Descendants — A family in crisis slowly faces ...
Armageddon — The Earth is to be obliterated and th...
Save the Last Dance — A real touching romance with...
Troy — Beautiful Greeks in incredible battle and f...
Oblivion — A sad post-apocalyptic world, a wastela...
Gnomeo and Juliet — Good fun for kids, but adults ...
Admission — Light comedy about one's options in li...
Olympus Has Fallen — America is under attack, to h...
The Watch — Silly stuff aplenty — 5*/10
Ferris Bueller's Day Off — The best way to skip sc...
Trouble with the Curve — A tenacious daughter and ...
Playing for Keeps — Lots of clichés, but good acti...
Hotel Transylvania — Excellent for the kids, but a...
Just Go with It — A romantic comedy about a well m...
Hancock — A drunk anti-hero for laughs and action ...
I Am Legend — The extinction of the human race, zo...
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Q: Is it possible to apply news strip in android app I have a idea of making a news app in which breaking news or top stories will be seen at the bottom of the android phone just like in TV.
It will not occupy whole screen instead of it will show only headlines in a continuous moving news strip.
I know it will be needing RSS feeds from different news website but i want to know the procedure of making the app means the "blueprint" of the app.

A: you would need to create a android desktop widget to do this. This link here should be useful. There also more code samples for ticker apps like this one.
To position at the bottom of the screen exactly may not be possible without playing with the android OS itself.

A: You can also do this by a background service and a system overlay view, thus by making ticker visible all the time not only in homescreen

A: Widget is not a good idea as it does not support animation, you can only update the widgets periodically.
If you need your ticker to be available always on top of all application. Then you could run a service and show a dialog activity. But that will send the current app to the background. Here is the solution:
The standOut library by pingpong boss will help you achieve it.


I'm writing this post organically this time, using pen and paper, sitting with my coffee in the quiet mornings, before the trades freshen for the day in response to the heating sea and land, watching brown boobies and pelicans feed on schools of fish in quiet anchorages. My thoughts circle the idea of sailboats as a slice of life that demonstrates on the small-scale the limits of energies, materials, and wastes, the importance of teamwork, and how technology changes over time as surplus energy continues to flow.
Sailboats are a microcosm, a small system that shares the same characteristics as larger, more complex systems. The most noticeable feature of a sailboat is the limit of both renewable and non-renewable energies. We cannot control the wind, but we can direct the sails to capture the renewable energies. When the wind is up, sailboats jump along wave tops, within limits. They can't head directly into the wind–to go to windward, we have to tack, and that takes more time and effort. Sometimes we sail fast, and sometimes we sail more slowly. We wring added speed from the boat using larger sails such as genoas and spinnakers, and through the development of knowledge and skill in tuning the sails. The wind is variable but unlimited over time, with daily and seasonal pulses, and occasional larger pulses from storms. Otherwise we must fall back on the non-renewable energies of a diesel engine, which provides steady, invariable power if our technology through engines and the entire edifice of global supply continues to run. Over the long-term, our diesel fuel is limited in accessibility and control of the source, through a complex system that is dependent on marina supply, cost, political and military might of a country, global trade, and other vagaries.
Boats can be designed for efficiency and comfort or for speed, but attempts to maximize both usually fail. If our charter company rigs our boat for maximum speed with large sails and a stripped hull and ballast, then we will need more skillful crew who must scramble frequently to change and manage sails to prevent the boat from broaching or capsizing during changes in available energy due to changing weather. "During self-organization, these systems reinforce (choose) pathways with the optimum load for maximum output" (Odum, 2007, p. 38). Our charter boat in the Virgin Islands was rigged for optimum load for maximum output with inexperienced sailors, which means it was under-canvassed. With inexperienced sailors, too much rigged sail on a catamaran may result in the use of costly boat insurance and a ruined vacation.
Modern boats also have limits of materials such as water and food, and places for waste to go. If we don't provision adequately in port, we run out of various things while under way that Americans may view as essential. Our large catamaran had two, large 125-gallon water tanks whose levels were visible. But the Water Information Program suggests that the average American uses 176 gallons of water per day, compared to 5 gallons per day for the average African family (that may be an underrepresentation of the problem of embodied water use). As Americans, we are not used to water or other restrictions. My daughter reacted to the idea of limits (especially on vacation) with an air of insult, calling me a water nazi when I suggested that perhaps we could do better on water conservation when eight of us burned through the first 125 gallons of water in 3 days. From habit, I tried to limit my own water use, and I use very little since I'm a sailor habituated to sailing on small boats with tiny supplies of water. But what I didn't use got used instead by others without awareness of our limits and customs of heavy water use. Experience helps–any swabbie who has previously run out of water behaves differently on a boat. Having clear, visible limits also results in better awareness of inputs and outputs to a system. Our boat this time allowed us to see how fast we were using water. On earlier boats there was no water gauge, and so the gurgling, sucking noise attached to a dry water pump was a rude surprise, especially to the uninitiated.
When drinking water runs out, it is a sharp reminder that even though we are surrounded by water, fresh water is a precious commodity that we waste amazingly on land. Fortunately for us on vacation, we avoided conflict over water by paying for easily accessible refills at marinas during our gunkholing. If we were cruising sailors attempting to cross an ocean, our boat culture would have needed to evolve quickly into a much more efficient, restraint-based, cooperative culture or risk strife with threat of failure to complete our journey, or worse. That transition would have required development of rules and respect for the commons of water, food, and labor. Americans may assume that it is our manifest destiny to pump our wells dry, and then go find some more from elsewhere and use that too, since that is all that we've known how to do for the past 40 years in this country.
Outputs are clearly visible on a boat. Removal of a bag of trash in the dinghy to someplace on shore is a visible cost, $3 per bag. On larger boats, when there is no place to send trash away, it remains aboard somewhere, in a lazarette or locker, as a stinky reminder. If our boat is small, it may be towed aft in the dinghy if there is no room aboard, as a visible, odorous decoration following us about. In the old days, the trash went overboard, and it still does in some places and situations. But Americans on vacation in a pristine sailing ground are new to the idea that their trash and waste actually have to go somewhere. Holding tanks from the heads fill up while anchored. People are rather appalled at the holding tanks that open into the ocean after we get underway–the waste stream is a visible reminder in the azure Caribbean Sea. Trash and waste removal on a large cruise ship is a different matter–cruise ships have gotten away with dumping it overboard for many years because people do not see it and the costs are borne over the longer term by the ocean, not the vacationer–out of sight, out of mind.
As we sail about the ocean, we are by ourselves, free to sail about in many directions, with wind direction and shoals as the main limits. But when we come into a crowded harbor, suddenly there are many boats, moorings, shoals, traffic, and other complexities. A harbor is an analogy to a city. We used to sail on and off of our mooring ball or anchor, but the anchorages have become more crowded over the years. So now we must use the motor to navigate crowded harbors, especially with a large boat. Costs go up in anchorages; there are no overt costs on the open ocean. We run from storages of food, water, and batteries, and from renewable energies of sun, wind, and waves. But in city centers, we pay for a mooring ball, we go out to eat onshore, we reprovision, we pay for someone to remove trash from the boat, we might buy something to fix something on the boat, and so on. The wallet comes out, and expenses go up in city centers.
With our large, modern sailboat, we have to run the engines for two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening to charge the battery bank. Over the years, the technology on sailboats has evolved to the point that the electronics and twin diesel engines on a catamaran need three batteries–one for each engine and one for the house of electronics, lights, and other technology. Electronics have expanded from a simple depth finder to sophisticated GPS, autopilot, charts, and so on. Similar to the expanded technology in cars, while the basic mode of transportation hasn't changed in terms of sails and sheets, the accessories have expanded profusely. How much of this is necessary or desirable? I still like the organic feel to a chart spread on my knees as I (wo)man the tiller. Private cruising boats may be equipped with wind vanes or solar panels to augment battery charging, so they are less reliant on the engine. But the bulk of recharging on most vessels, even those with renewable systems, is still dependent on diesel engines. Sailors accustomed to cruising use less of everything, as they are much more attuned to their limits, in terms of inputs and outputs of food, water, and energy.
When we started sailing down here, the stove was a simple single-burner alcohol stove, the water tank was very small, and the ice box was a block of ice in an insulated box with a drain. Now we have a two-burner, gimballed propane stove, a refrigerator, and a freezer. The single toilet with no holding tank has evolved into two to four heads, all with holding tanks, hot water showers, and sinks. Extra accoutrements make sailing easy–lazy jacks on the mainsails that automatically fold and cover sails at the end of the day, electric windlasses to raise anchors, two-speed self-tailing winches, and dinghies with motors rather than oars. Because of technology, we need less skills and less strength. I can no longer slam my fingers or toes in a hatch cover, as the hatches have high-tech preventers on them. Large biminis and dodgers protect our fair skin. If we dive, we no longer have to worry about buddy breathing, as our regulators have octopus rigs and other safety features. Similar to the technology that has expanded on land, our use of technology at sea makes sailing easier and safer, but also makes us soft, less skilled and perhaps a little stupid, too. We need less physical and intellectual muscle, and fewer calluses develop.
Some things haven't changed over the years. On a boat, paperbacks beat Kindles when inverters are scarce, and pen and ink beat the laptop for writing when exposed to spray and limited battery life. The rum is still plentiful and cheap, as long as we have provisioned enough (heaven forbid). As the trip progresses, we fall into timeless rhythms of day and night, storm and sun, gaiety and calm.
The human culture on a sailboat is a microcosm of life too. Traveling in a group of eight is a lesson in how teams form. Various business models exist that explain teamwork, and I am not current with the latest theories. But many of the theories describe the importance of top-down control and emphasize the importance of leadership in what gets done. In a world of gross excesses in managerial salaries, business theories that emphasize the importance of the leader rather than the entire system may also give too much credit to the role of managers in what eventually gets done. This focus on leadership may be part of a business culture whose goal is expanding bureaucracy, perpetuation and expansion of the status quo, and unfair pay scales for those at the bottom and top of the hierarchy. Spencer and Marx both suggested that the times produce the person and not the other way around. Our times have produced leaders who resemble pirates rather than effective captains of industry.
I like Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership model that describes a more self-organizational model where teams develop over time within different systems at varying paces, through stages of forming, storming, norming, and performing. In this model, leaders change their styles as teams develop over time, based on the needs of people and development of the team, from telling and selling activities, to participating and delegating for high-performing teams.
Boats are notorious for requiring both teamwork and good leadership, especially when rapid decisions need to be made. During the first few days on the boat, as people find their sea-legs, everyone focuses on their own needs as they orient to the boat and begin to develop as a team. Communication is crucial here if leaders are to describe safety rules and shape functional roles for quick team development.
A group forms when there is a need–for sharing, gathering food and eating, for sailing a boat, for security, and so on. The more the need for group work, the more the need for cohesive teamwork. Groups go through an initial formative stage of introductions and getting to know each other. Teamwork develops either slowly or quickly on a boat, depending on dynamics and the need for cohesion. Rules are required on a boat that relate to conservation, since there are limits.
During the storming stage, strengths and weaknesses are revealed, conflicts are hammered out, and the group self-organizes or comes together through leadership to work on chores surrounding sailing, eating, and play. Leadership and communication can make a difference in how quickly and smoothly the process of bonding happens. If leadership is too strong, cohesion can devolve into a hierarchy dependent on tight control from the top, for better or worse. And if there are few tasks for the group to perform, groups may fall apart or never form properly for lack of need. With less tasks, such as a vacation where paid employees do the work on a cruise ship, either group cohesion never forms, or it develops through artificial means such as games from a social director who works to create an artificial sense of bonding. The best teams develop by overcoming significant challenges–smooth seas never make skillful sailors. I would add that diesel engines and twin props don't help much in skill-building, either. The social culture of team work is part of our social DNA–without significant or challenging work to do within the system, it is hard to form bonds and to develop a sense of community.
Once groups form and storm, they norm. Culture develops on a boat as conflicts start to wane and groups develop a sense of camaraderie and social cohesion around tasks. A specific group culture may develop, with rules that fit the skills of the people involved, the tasks that need to be performed, and the level of commitment of those involved. Eventually, over time, teams become high-performing, with less direction and communication needed. Recognition of limits may become part of that culture, but only if the team is small enough and experienced enough to recognize and support values of respect for the commons.
Americans have developed a highly specialized hierarchy of labor. We are a nation of specialists accustomed to paying others instead of learning to do a lot of general tasks ourselves. Does the habit of specialization interfere with the ability to form teams? American business hierarchy has developed during a time of security and energy surplus, which allowed fossilized, complex hierarchies to form where too much emphasis was placed on leadership, and not enough on resilient teamwork from the bottom up. On a boat, when bad things happen, while strong leadership from a knowledgeable captain is helpful, a functional team that knows what to do and how to respond without direction from above is even more valuable. A team of generalists who can fluidly perform each others' jobs if necessary adds to that resilience. What happens in a complex, rigid, specialized business hierarchy in a real crisis, I wonder? We can probably throw most of the current business theories out of the window when that happens.
Since we are closer to living in nature on a boat, respect builds for the wind, the weather, and mother Ocean. Where do these islands stow their trash? How much of their water is through catchment versus aquifer? The accessible coral reefs are suffering from too much tourist love, a heating, acidifying ocean, and overfishing. The beach bar proprietors insist that the lobster are fresh and locally caught, but the lobsters, conchs, and grouper are increasingly absent from the close-in reefs and grass beds. Tarpon are prolific, perhaps in part because they are not very edible, and we see less other small reef fish. There are less birds, and very few fish pots are now found in the islands, either through regulation or scarcity of fish, as a sign of depletion.
I lived in Puerto Rico during the mid-1960s, when my father, HT Odum, was chief scientist for an Atomic Energy Commission-funded project to explore the impact of radiation on Luquillo rain forest (Lugo, 2004). I first came to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands around 1966 by ferry. The shops were quaint and local, with subsistence crafts for sale made of coconut and other plants and flowers, local seafood in the restaurants, and local village cultures concentrated round harbors and boat transport. Jets were rare, and prop planes were for the rich. Charlotte Amalie was still a relaxed, quaint tourist town with a lot of rum and t-shirt shops, friendly steel drum bands, and a lively night life. Now, St. Thomas revolves around big daily pulses of multiple, massive cruise ships, and the shops have changed from island crafts to international jewelry, perfume, and boutique culture for the very wealthy during the day, with the poor scrounging through the dumpsters at night. There's more crime, and our proprietor warned us not to walk down certain streets unless we were in a large group. Eating out is very expensive. Each year there are more navigation lights in the harbor, more cruise ships, and more houses on the hillside. There is less music, less joy, and less room for a garden, a locally based job, or other resilient forms of living. The islanders don't look as happy as they used to.
How big is too big when the oil becomes more valuable?
Private boat sizes in the BVIs have become bigger on average over time. We see few 20 and 30-footers these days in the cruising grounds–aspirations and the wealth-effect have increased boat charter sizes to the 40 and 50-foot size. And at Christmas, the rich descend in their 100 to 200-foot boats. People with smaller boats eye the larger boats and are envious. Older people with more access to surplus resources, symbolized in our society by money, aspire to more status, comfort, or power. Those without an electric windlass or the convenience of an extra shower on the aft deck want one, whether the additions are truly useful or not. As long as there is surplus energy fueling the bareboat charter industry, the trend is towards ever larger and more complex vessels, even though there are many advantages to smaller boats in terms of flexibility, less reliance on nonrenewable energies, and less waste of resources such as water.
How big is too big? How much of our technology becomes counter-productive if diesel fuel is not available to recharge the batteries and run the props? On our 40-foot cat, we could still sail the boat without diesel, but we would need more workers to sail on and off anchors, and to raise the anchor, for example. Old sailing vessels had many smaller sails and a very large crew to make them manageable. How big is too big, in either boats or cities?
Once the surplus energy stops, small boats may come back into fashion. What will happen to the huge cruise ships (and the ports that they frequent) as economies stutter and vacations fashioned on buying luxury stuff in air-conditioned shops falls out of favor? Can we retool those big boats into old-fashioned ocean liners used for transport, or are they too reliant on fossil fuels? The drama that resulted this week when a Carnival Cruise ship was stranded with limited water and generator power after a fire in the engine room suggests that our large cruise ships, or at least their passengers, are too reliant on electric technology and luxury. And how secure will smaller, private boats be in an ocean with more pirates and less available resources? How much complexity is too much in boats, and in society? Our freedoms are based on energy slaves, and before that, on the backs of real slaves, as Newman suggests in his song below, Sail Away. What happens when we can't use energy slaves anymore?
How did this post get so long? I must be on island time. This may be the last time we can make this trip–in the future, flights and charters may become more expensive, or inaccessible, or dangerous. We may end our sailing days where we began, gunkholing on small boats up and down the coastline of southwest Florida, the Keys, and the Tortugas.


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I shot this photo of Rhett and his girlfriend while we were taking photos of Shawn Crawford filiming his movie scene.  I couldn't ignore these wicked blues and yellows.[![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3124/2183/400/rhettandgirly.jpg)](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3124/2183/1600/rhettandgirly.jpg)
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INVAP is a company devoted to the design and construction of complex technological systems, with more than 40 years of history in the domestic market and more than twenty in the international scene. Its mission is to develop state-of-the-art technology in different industrial, scientific and applied research fields, thus creating "technological packages" with high added value, to meet domestic requirements or to be exported to international markets.
With its long expertise in the design, implementation and administration of highly complex multidisciplinary projects, INVAP is able to create products and services to meet the client's needs, fulfilling all the stages of a project: from the initial technical advice to the delivery of turnkey plants.
Its main activities are focused in the following areas: Nuclear, Aerospace, Government & Defense and Industrial and Medical Equipment. INVAP has designed and built several research and radioisotope production reactors worldwide, low orbit Earth observation and telecommunication satellites, industrial plants, radar systems and radiotherapy centers, among other developments.
Domestically, INVAP holds a close relationship with the Argentine Commission of Atomic Energy (CNEA) and the Argentine Space Commission (CONAE), institutions with which it has jointly accomplished major projects. Internationally, the company is related to numerous organizations, such as the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO), the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (AEA), the National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN) of Brazil and the Pallas Foundation of Neteherlands.
About 85% of INVAP's staff is comprised of highly qualified technicians and professionals, organized in dynamic structures that may easily adapt to form working groups for the various projects developed by the company.
INVAP is certified under ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management System) and ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management System) standards.
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 le laboratoire de mathématiques et de physique théorique (Tours) ;
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package net.sf.farrago.session;

import org.eigenbase.reltype.*;

/**
 * FarragoSessionStmtParamDefFactory represents a factory that creates {@link
 * FarragoSessionStmtParamDef} instances.
 *
 * @author Stephan Zuercher
 * @version $Id$
 */
public interface FarragoSessionStmtParamDefFactory
{
    //~ Methods ----------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Constructs a new {@link FarragoSessionStmtParamDef} for a parameter with
     * the given name and type.
     *
     * @param paramName parameter's name
     * @param paramType parameter's type
     *
     * @return a new FarragoSessionStmtParamDef
     */
    FarragoSessionStmtParamDef newParamDef(
        String paramName,
        RelDataType paramType);
}

// End FarragoSessionStmtParamDefFactory.java


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Q: iPhone App to listen radio I'd like to create an iPhone App that allows people to listen to radio. Below is what I've done so far, but when I click on the button nothing happen, can someone please advise what I've done wrong here.
Thanks in advance.
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface RadioViewController : UIViewController{

IBOutlet UIWebView *webView;
}

-(IBAction)radio;
@property(nonatomic,retain)UIWebView *webview;

@end

#import "RadioViewController.h"
#import <MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.h>
@implementation RadioViewController

@synthesize webview;

-(IBAction)radio{

    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://db5195728.tis.core.005.cdn.streamfarm.net:80/3212_erf_96_live.mp3"];
    NSURLRequest *req = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL: url];
    [webview loadRequest:req];
}

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
}

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}

@end

A: I've tried your code. It works fine here. So:

*

*Make sure your radio is called when you tap that button. You can set a break point there or add a NSLog to see whether it is called;

*Make sure your webview is correctly add to your view:shown and of the correct size.


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Danziger Bankverein A.G. (Gdański Bank Związkowy) – działający w Gdańsku w latach 1923-1931 bank o kapitale gdańskim.

Historia
Zarejestrowany przed 1923 jako sukcesor prawny założonej w 1865 Genossenschaft Danziger Bankverein. W 1930 posiadał 1039 udziałowców, głównie przedstawicieli drobnej wytwórczości. Na skutek pogłębiającej się recesji w 1931 bank poddano procedurze upadłościowej, którą zakończono w 1933.

Siedziba
Siedziba banku mieściła się m.in. przy Langer Markt 33-34 (Długi Targ) (1912-1927), Langer Markt 7-8 (1929-1933).

Zobacz też
 banki w Gdańsku

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Edmund Cieślak (red.): Bankierzy i banki w dziejach Gdańska, Bankowa Fundacja Kultury/Wydawnictwo Skorpion Warszawa 1998, 199 s.,
 książki adresowe, patrz w przypisach

Banki Wolnego Miasta Gdańska


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Will Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior NYSE:BLX meet your expectations?
Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior headquartered in Panama City, Panama is reporting their earnings on 04/17/2019 after the bell. Street forecast for the quarter ending Mar 2019 is $0.51.
According to stock market daily analyst this is Lower then same time previous year.Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, reported EPS for the same quarter last year was $0.49..
Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S.A., a multinational bank, primarily engages in the financing of foreign trade in Latin America and the Caribbean. The company operates through two segments, Commercial and Treasury. It offers short and medium-term bilateral, collateral-backed, short and medium term trade, and pre-export financing structured loans; and discounting of notes, cross-border leasing, pre- and post-export financing, import financing, letters of credit, bank guarantees, documentary collection, irrevocable reimbursement undertakings, bankers' acceptance, vendor finance, and ECA-backed financing services. The company also provides working capital financing solutions, including short and medium-term bilateral loans, collateral-backed bilateral loans, leases, and vendor finance; structured syndicated and clubbed loans, such as acquisition financing, pre-export financing, A/B loan financing with multilateral agencies, bridge loans, and liability management; and treasury solutions comprising term deposits and private placements. It primarily serves corporations, middle-market companies, and banking and financial institutions. The company was formerly known as Banco Latinoamericano de Exportaciones, S.A. and changed its name to Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S.A. in June 2009. Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S.A. was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Panama City, the Republic of Panama.
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Disney Winnie the Pooh Kids Comes to Raleigh
By Janice Lewine
Take a delightful trip to the Hundred Acre Wood with Winnie the Pooh April 12-14 at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts.
Storybook Theater presents Disney Winnie the Pooh Kids featuring the willy nilly silly old bear sharing snacks with his friends during this one-hour show staged specifically for young audiences. Performances are 6:30 p.m. April 12; 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. April 13; and 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. April 14. Purchase tickets, $14-$47, online at ticketmaster.com or call 800-745-3000. A portion of the proceeds benefits Marbles Kids Museum. Upcoming Storybook Theater shows include Dora the Explorer Nov. 1-3 in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, and Frosty the Snowman Nov. 26-Dec. 24 in Fletcher Theater at Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts.
Visit our Things to Do, Family Fun pages and Spring Guide to the Triangle for more upcoming family events!
SK Activities
Triangle Places for Family Fun in Winter
The Triangle offers lots of play escapes where kids can create and learn — and many outings are free.
Spring & St. Patrick's Day Craft Programs for Children
Take your children to celebrate spring or St. Patrick's Day at these craft programs that are free or inexpensive in Raleigh, Durham and Apex.
March 2015 Fun Family Events in Raleigh
Enjoy watching "The Velveteen Rabbit" come to life, take part in the N.C. Museum of Arts inaugural festival of art and flowers and head to learn and play with LEGOs at BrickUniverse.


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Q: Why does flatten on nested Iterator not compile and why do I need type ascription? (new Iterator[List[Int]] {
  def hasNext: Boolean = ???
  def next(): List[Int] = ???
}).flatten

gives error:
value flatten is not a member of Iterator[List[Int]]
[error] possible cause: maybe a semicolon is missing before `value flatten'?
[error]     }.flatten
[error]       ^
[error] one error found

But
(new Iterator[List[Int]] {
  def hasNext: Boolean = ???
  def next(): List[Int] = ???
}: Iterator[List[Int]]).flatten

works.  Also storing the iterator in a val works.
Scala version: 2.11.8

A: I believe this issue was addressed by Include the parts of a compound/refinement type in implicit scope. #5867. The problem was companion to anonymous classes used to not qualify for implicit search

I think aaf9198#diff-7c03397456d3b987549fd039d6b639c6R516 was the
  first to exclude refinement/anon classes from contributing to
  companion implicits. @odersky Can you remember the motivation?

Here is a minimal reproduction
trait A {
  def foo(): Int
}
class B {
  def bar(): String = "woohoo"
}
object A {
  implicit def aToB(a: A): B = new B
}

(new A {
  override def foo(): Int = 42
}).bar()

// Error:
// value bar is not a member of A$A12.this.A
// possible cause: maybe a semicolon is missing before `value bar'? }).bar();

Therefore since in 2.11 and 2.12 flatten on Iterator was provided as an extension method via flattenTraversableOnce the issue would manifest for anonymous Iterator class.

The following is my answer prior to the edit above:
It seems to have something to do with implicit resolution in both 2.11 and 2.12. If you explicitly import flatten as an extension method via
import scala.collection.TraversableOnce.flattenTraversableOnce

then it seems to work. The issue seems to be fixed since 2.13.0-M3 where typer phase gives
collection.this.TraversableOnce.flattenTraversableOnce[Int, List]({
  final class $anon extends AnyRef with Iterator[List[Int]] {
    def <init>(): <$anon: Iterator[List[Int]]> = {
      $anon.super.<init>();
      ()
    };
    def hasNext: Boolean = scala.Predef.???;
    def next(): List[Int] = scala.Predef.???
  };
  new $anon()
})(scala.Predef.$conforms[List[Int]]).flatten

whilst in 2.13.0 release flatten no longer seem to be provided via extension method
{
  final class $anon extends AnyRef with Iterator[List[Int]] {
    def <init>(): <$anon: Iterator[List[Int]]> = {
      $anon.super.<init>();
      ()
    };
    def hasNext: Boolean = scala.Predef.???;
    def next(): List[Int] = scala.Predef.???
  };
  new $anon()
}.flatten[Int](scala.Predef.$conforms[List[Int]])

The above expansion seems to be explained by SLS 6.4 Designators

.  is typed as if it was { val  = ; . }

A: I think it tries to parse this:
new Iterator[List[Int]] {
      def hasNext: Boolean = ???
      def next(): List[Int] = ???
    }.flatten

as this
new Iterator[List[Int]] ( {
      def hasNext: Boolean = ???
      def next(): List[Int] = ???
    }.flatten )

Notice where I added the parentheses ().


fantasai there seems to be a build error in the CSS test suite build process. When there is a boolean attribute the value must be retained in order for all the tests to render properly. We should not be changing what is specified for the attribute value. If there is no attribute specified then it is ok not to expand the attribute to explicitly have a value but if the value is explicitly specified the value must be retained.
It seems as if we are building out http://test.csswg.org/source/contributors/microsoft/submitted/Chapter_12/content-072.xht incorrectly as just 'defer' not as 'defer="defer"' as is stated in the source code.
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The apartment in Calpe / Calp has 1 bedrooms and has capacity for 3 people.
The apartment is cozy, has an exterior, and is 40 m².
The accommodation is equipped with the following items: lift, terrace, iron, internet (Wi-Fi), air conditioning in the living room, communal swimming pool, TV.
In the vitroceramic independent kitchen, refrigerator, microwave, oven, freezer, washing machine, dishes/cutlery, kitchen utensils, coffee machine and toaster are provided.
This is a beautiful 1 bedroom property located in Region of Valencia, Spain.
This apartment, in Calpe, is a comfortable property sleeping 3 people.
The apartment offers superb accommodation, including modern luxuries such as a community pool, television, open terrace, air conditioning and internet access.
You can bask under the Spanish sun in the apartment's beautiful open terrace, making use of its great facilities.
You can stroll down to the nearest beach in this Spanish apartment, which is 2100 kms away.
This wonderful apartment allows pets.
Beautifully restored caseta with pool and sea view in the mountains!
Casa Tokio - Villa with large garden and pool.


Tribbles are entering the ships systems, interfering with their functions and eating any edible bits. We must get them off the ship before they do too much damage. In order to use the transporters efficiently the Captain has ordered us to only beam them when 2 or more are together.
Trouble with Tribbles is an action puzzle game similar to the classic game collapse. There are two modes you can play, the classic mode and a new mode "Clear the Level".
To run the desktop version, run TroubleWithTribbles.jar as a runnable java file.


My Son Just Learned How To Scream... He Is 7 Mo. Old. Can I Get This Under Control? Suggestions?
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Oh man I remember when mine first started doing that around that age it scared the daylights out of me! But like Jessica said it's a learning thing he figured out!! lol I used to mock him but lightly, didnt want to scare the little guy! lol he would laugh at me and we just had a game of it! He's 2 now!
My 7 month old LOVES to scream/screech lol. He discovered it several months ago & then stopped doing it for awhile. I thought "yay! he forgot how to scream haha." But, then he figured it out again & does it ALL the time! He started doing it during the sermon at church on Easter Sunday lol. I just figure he is practicing his voice & soon he'll learn a new sound to *hopefully* replace the wonderful screeching he has learned!
I don't think that's anything you need to "get under control"... 7 months is still a baby. He isn't doing it to test you. At that age they learn to do so many new things and discovering their voices is one of them... think of it as a new skill he's figured out, and now he's practicing and learning how his voice works. I'm sure its kind of annoying sometimes but I don't think you would want to inhibit his discovering new things... and chances are he'll grow out of it soon when he learns something else.
he'll definately grow out of that, i believe that they are testing you, to see what your reaction will be!!!
How do I let my 7 month old kno the screaming he just picked up on from somewhere.. is not ok!
My baby is a squealer/screamer!
my 5mth old finds joy in screaming his lungs out. Is tat normal?
Normal for a 4 month old?!?
i think my 3 month old is spoiled!!! help me???
Screeching...is anyone else going through this?


In a change to our usual venue, this year's Livery Lunch took place on 15th July in the Sky Bar at the Grange St. Paul's Hotel, where we enjoyed some spectacular views over the City and the Cathedral in particular. Pre-lunch drinks were served on the open Terrace, and this was very welcome on what was a fine, but rather sultry, day. It is always a pleasure on this occasion to enjoy the company not only of our liverymen and their partners, but also that of our Honorary Freemen, and it was good to see a number of them there. We enjoyed a meal that was well-chosen for a hot day and then settled back to hear from our two speakers.
The first was Professor Harry Duckworth, Professor Emeritus of the University of Manitoba. Although Professor Duckworth's prestigious academic career has focussed on chemistry, he is also a notable historian and the author of both of the research papers published on the early history of our Company (a third paper is to follow). The second paper has been published very recently, and is entitled "The Feltmakers' Wool Adventure 1610 to 1624". We were very honoured, and absolutely delighted, that Professor Duckworth was able to join us for lunch. His very interesting talk considered the strong links between hat manufacture in London and the Canadian and North American fur trades, which involved the export of beaver skins (for fine felted headwear) and also coney/rabbit fur. Professor Duckworth is very much the master of his subject matter, and we were fascinated by his grasp of the development of this relationship.
Past Master John Bowler then spoke briefly to thank Professor Duckworth for his talk and also to introduce the second of his research papers.
These documents have done a very great deal to fill in the gaps in our history, much of which has previously been lost to us as a result of turbulent times and catastrophic events such as the Great Fire. The first dealt with our early history, between 1250 and 1604. The second, as above, the period 1610 to 1624 and the third will address the period leading up to 1667. Past Master Bowler also paid tribute to Stephen Freeth, formerly Keeper of Manuscripts at Guildhall Library, who we were delighted, could also be present at the lunch, and whose research has contributed substantially to the process.
Printed copies of "The Feltmakers' Wool Adventure 1610-24" are available from our Clerk at £10 per copy.


Jamaica Scorpions opening batsman John Campbell (front) plays a sweep shot during his second innings against the Leewards Islands Hurricanes during the CWI Professional Cricket League Regional 4-Day Competition match at Sabina Park last season. Looking on is Leewards Islands Hurricanes wicketkeeper Jahmar Hamilton.
The Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) said that its decision not to renew the contract of Jamaica Scorpions head coach Robert Samuels was because of bad results, among other reasons.
The JCA made the announcement in a statement yesterday and also used it to thank the former Jamaica and Windies batsman.
"With full consideration given to on-field performances and off-field areas, which needed improvement, the Board concluded that a change was necessary. The decision to not renew Mr Samuels' contract is the first in a number of changes coming to the Jamaica Scorpions franchise, which will be made public in due course," the JCA said.
Samuels had previously signed a two-year contract with the Scorpions, which ended on Friday, August 31, 2018, but it was extended twice, to run until December 31. In that time, he guided the Scorpions to the semi-final of the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Professional Cricket League (PCL) Regional Super 50 competition, and also suffered a 41-run defeat inside three days in their opening game of the CWI PCL Regional 4-Day competition, to the Barbados Pride, in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Monday.
The JCA said that an interim coach is now being sought and those discussions are at what it describes as "at an advanced stage." However, it said that the announcement regarding Samuels' replacement would made to the public after the holiday season.


11) Which is the 3rd nearest planet to the Sun?
12) A region of weak winds is called?
13) Mt. Godwin Austen is one of the highest peaks of the Himalayas. It is also known as?
14) Lakshadweep is a group of how many islands?
15) The Bodo language is spoken in which of the following states?
16) How many times in a year, day and night are of equal duration anywhere on earth?
17) Which one of the following is a major port on the East Coast of India?
18) The approximate circumference of the Earth is?
19) The main river flowing in the State of Jammu & Kashmir is?
20) Which of the following Countries in South Asia are land-locked?


I had been having problems getting my HDHomeRun to record, so I was happily doing maintenance on my system includigg a full system upgrade and now I can't get MythTV to use my HDHomeRun.
From my investigation I believe I have killed MythTV's channel changing ability, I have tried to upgrade the software for the HDHomeRun but this has had no effect.
Can anyone point me in the right direction, thanks guys.
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Then, the scanning, and tuning and watching and recording all worked again... it seemed it was nothing (or little) to do with the hdhomerun install, and more to do with the mythtv upgrade breaking something.
Any pacman update beyond mythtv-0.21-73 (at the moment the latest is mythtv0.21-76) does not work with my hdhomerun dvb-t.
This updates everything including mythtv. Watchtv and recordings do not work after this sort of upgrade. I need to downgrade mythtv to mythtv-0.21-73 to get the watchtv and recordings to work with hdhomerun device.
Thought I might post the info, incase anyone else encounters the problem, or knows what has happened since mythtv-0.21-73?
What changeset is in mythtv 73?
There was a hdhomerun patch that was made recently in SVN that stopped the mythtv package from building. As a result I reversed the patch in the PKGBUILD. That was done for 75.
20877 was the offending changeset.
If you happen to have -74 lying around, id be interested in the changeset number for that one too.
mythtv 73 was the last working version i have cached. I must have missed 74, as I only have 75 and 76.
I'll get the changeset number when i get home tonight, is it the 5 digit number in the system information screen?
Does anyone know if this has been fixed yet?
From memory I tried 76, and it didnt work, so I reverted to 73. I dont have 74 in cache, so am not sure if 73 or 74 is the last working version for hdhomerun.
I'm guessing that the hdhomerun patch that made svn compile fail could be fixed by now, and the patch could be re-applied? This maybe just wishful thinking.
For now, I'm staying at 73.
According to the two bugs you quote they were fixed in release 20877, how does that number relate to the releases of MythTV that we have on LinHES?
I don't have a /var/data directory, I do have a /var/cache/pacman directory but that is empty.
I too don't have a 74 version, just been skipped over. Something that may be of interest I did a pacman upgrade today and there was the latest released firmware for the HDHomeRun in the repos and was installed.
I will regress to 73 and see if my HDHR works again.
cesman has pushed a new version of mythtv without the changeset 20877 reversion. Please test and report back regarding hdhomerun functioning.
will try tonight, thankfully its easy to rollback if it doesnt work.. hopefully i can get to the box before the cricket starts..
I too can confirm that the latest update to version -78 works. Thanks Cecil fo getting this update out, it is a big relief.