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Intense 2019 Algal Blooms in Watkins Glen – Near Drinking Water Intake Pipe – Haven't Spurred Regular Tests for Toxins
Peter Mantius May 29, 2020 July 22, 2021 Uncategorized
WATKINS GLEN, May 29, 2020 — Two of Seneca Lake's most intense harmful algal blooms of 2019 occurred in the Watkins Glen marina, only a few hundred feet away from the end of the intake pipe that supplies the town's drinking water.
Tests showed that water samples drawn from the marina last Sept. 9 and Sept. 17 were more than 2,200 times the state's threshold for a "confirmed" bloom. Only the second sample was tested for toxins. According to data the state first released this month, that Sept. 17 sample easily met the state standard for a bloom with "high toxin."
Those findings could pose a threat to local tap water, given that the town draws its raw water from an intake line that extends to within several hundred feet of the pier (at right) that bounds the marina.
The town did test its filtered drinking water for the bloom toxin microcystin once last year — it said it was negative — and it plans to do a similar test in 2020, said town Water Supervisor Martin Pierce. Only one.
That's probably not enough to allay public concerns, according to several officials involved in regional water quality issues.
"Testing once a year is not being very responsible for your public," said Jim Bromka, manager of Waterloo's water system.
William Roege, who supervises the 123 lakeside volunteers who collected algal bloom samples last year for Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association, agreed that the circumstances justify more drinking water tests in Watkins Glen. He said the marina probably had blooms on most of the calm days in the early fall; they just went unreported by volunteers.
"Early in the season, I wouldn't be so concerned," Roege said. "But certainly as you get toward September and October, I'd be doing it every other week or so."
Water plant operators are torn, said Mark Venuti, chair of the Seneca Watershed Intermunicipal Association and Geneva Town Supervisor. On the one hand, they almost don't want to know about HAB toxins "because of the trouble and expense," said Venuti. "On the other hand, they're proud and want to deliver a safe product. So they need to know if there's a problem."
Watkins Glen Mayor Luke Leszyk (at left) said Wednesday he had no idea there was a potential problem. "Bottom line is I did not know of any concerns of algal blooms in this area," Leszyk said in an interview.
Pierce said he does what state Department of Health officials instruct him to do.
"When we heard about the (bloom) near the hotel (last September), we immediately contacted the DOH and took their guidance and did their recommendations," said Pierce (at right).
The state agency warns against drinking, fishing, swimming, wading or even boating in suspected blooms. It says that "high exposure" can cause diarrhea, nausea or vomiting; skin, eye or throat irritation; and allergic reactions or breathing difficulties.
If consumed, microcystin harms the liver and the nervous system. It is toxic enough to kills dogs that drink or lick water that is contaminated with it.
The toxin is produced by cyanobacteria, which is commonly referred to as blue-green algae — even by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which uses the catchall term "harmful algal blooms," or HABs.
In fact, cyanobacteria are not algae. But their blooms often look like common algae, appearing in lake water as wisps of green, mats of scum or as swaths that look like green paint.
As HABs have proliferated in recent years, their threat to public drinking water has become increasingly apparent in the Finger Lakes — particularly Owasco, Skaneateles, Canandaigua and Hemlock — and beyond.
— In 2014, the city of Toledo, Ohio, banned 500,000 people from drinking from its public water system due to HAB toxins in water drawn from Lake Erie.
— In 2016, the towns of Auburn and Owasco detected traces of microsystin in their public drinking water drawn from Owasco Lake. The levels were below the DOH drinking water threshold of 0.3 parts per billion (ppb) and did not trigger a "do not drink" order. But it prompted the state to provide a $2 million grant to help Auburn built an elaborate filtering system.
— In September 2017, schools in the town of Skaneateles briefly turned off water fountains after traces microcystin turned up in that community's tap water, drawn from the lake nearby.
— In October 2018, the DOH issued a "do not drink" order for the town of Rushville, which draws its drinking water from Canandaigua Lake. After the lake had been plagued by several HABs with high toxins, tests showed microcystin in Rushville's public drinking water at 0.56 ppb and 0.66 ppb on consecutive days — roughly double the agency's 0.3 ppb threshold. The drinking ban was lifted after two days.
The cities of Rochester and Syracuse, which draw water from Hemlock Lake and Skaneateles Lake, respectively, have both closely monitored their drinking water following dangerous blooms.
Several water system that draw from Canandaigua and Owasco lakes have conducted regular tests of their drinking water for microcystin.
On Seneca Lake, Bromka, the water manager in Waterloo, said the DOH's Seneca County office required his water system to test for microcystin each month during the 2019 bloom season.
The Watkins Glen water system is supervised by the DOH's office in Hornell, which covers Steuben and Schuyler counties. The state agency does not appear to apply a uniform standard across all its regional offices. The DOH did not respond to questions emailed Wednesday about potential threats to Watkins Glen drinking water.
Leszyk, the Watkins Glen mayor, said neither the DOH nor the state Department of Environmental Conservation had notified him of special HABs risks to his the town's water system.
"Nobody ever called me or said, 'Hey, we have an issue down at the south end of the lake,'" Leszyk said. "I haven't been informed of any issues. And I'm sure if Martin (Pierce) was informed of issues that we'd be taking action on it."
Neither did SLPWA make a special point of notifying Watkins Glen officials that the intensity of the marina blooms stood out from the others they had identified last season.
SLPWA focuses on collecting data, under guidance provided by the DEC.
To check for blooms, the non-profit sends water samples gathered by its volunteers to the Finger Lakes Institute in Geneva, which tests for chlorophyll A. The DEC classifies any sample with chlorophyll above 25 micrograms per liter (ug/L) as a "confirmed" bloom. Of 143 samples SLPWA submitted last year, 130 were confirmed.
Chlorophyll A levels in the Watkins Glen marina blooms were recorded as 99,830 ugl/L and 56,590 ug/L — easily the highest two readings on the lake for 2019. The next highest Seneca bloom last year registered 19,782 ug/L on Sept. 16 in Yates County.
Even very high readings of chlorophyll A do not guarantee that a bloom will contain high toxins, although the two characteristics are closely correlated.
Last year SLPWA directed FLI in Geneva to send portions of 40 of its water samples to the Upstate Freshwater Institute in Syracuse to test for cyanobacteria (microcystis is the most common variety in the Finger Lakes, but there are others).
The DEC classifies a bloom as "high toxin" if cyanobacteria exceed 20 ug/L in the UFI tests. The state's limit for swimming and other recreation is 4 ug/L.
Roege of SLPWA said 34 of the 40 Seneca Lake samples sent to UFI for toxin tests were found to be "high toxin." Five other samples fell in the 4-20 ug/L range.
Of the 10 Seneca samples with the highest readings of chlorophyll A that were also tested for cyanobacteria, each one registered as "high toxin."
Tests results from 2019 blooms on neighboring Cayuga Lake last year followed a similar pattern.
Last August, the Community Science Institute in Ithaca tested for toxins in 14 Cayuga water samples with high chlorophyll readings. Twelve of them exceeded the DEC limit for "high toxin."
Only one of the two Watkins marina water samples was tested for toxins — the Sept. 17 sample that had registered a chlorophyll A reading of 55,590 ppb. The DEC did not inform SLPWA until this month that that marina sample had been confirmed last September as "high toxin."
The other marina sample, from last Sept. 9, had registered the highest chlorophyll A reading in the region last year, but it was never tested for toxins. If it had been tested, it would almost certainly have qualified as "high toxin," based on patterns noted above.
Roege and Venuti (at right) agreed that the marina blooms were particularly intense because they grew in sheltered, relatively calm water. But the toxins they generated would not necessarily have been bound by the limits of the marina.
Diagrams of the Watkins Glen water system show the intake pipe extending off a small peninsula near Salt Point Road. A 2019 consultant's report detailing the system noted: "The existing intake pipeline runs approximately 300 feet from shore….The intake box is located 60 feet below the water surface."
Because HABs tend to hover near the surface of the water, it was once widely assumed that intake pipes that extend into deep water provide good protection from bloom toxins.
Not so, as Syracuse water system operators that draw from Skaneateles Lake have learned. After officials provided public assurances that toxins could not reach that system's intake box 45 feet below the water surface, evidence later emerged of bloom toxins in 80 feet of water.
Traditional filtering and water treatment procedures aren't particularly effective against cyanobacteria either.
"A normal water treatment plant won't remove the (HABs) toxins, and in fact they exacerbate their effects," Venuti noted. "If they (cyanobacteria) are chlorinated and broken up, the toxins are actually released."
For years, Watkins Glen has relied heavily on chlorination as a means of purifying lake water for drinking. In fact, the town's heavy reliance on chlorination has led to a chronic problem with chlorination byproducts, including trihalomethanes, which are themselves toxic.
On Wednesday, WaterFront provided Leszyk a spread sheet that detailed data related to the two Watkins Glen marina blooms. He did not respond to followup phone and email messages seeking further comment.
The DEC has informed SLPWA and other non-profit watershed associations that it plans to discontinue paying for future tests of toxins in harmful algal blooms.
Last year the agency paid for SLPWA's 40 toxin tests, Roege said. This year, the group is on it own.
SLPWA will have to use funding from donors to pay for any 2020 toxin tests. Roege said he would try to convince the association's board to fund the effort. "Before Covid, I was planning on doing 30 tests this year," he said.
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4.2 Trillion gallons divided by roughly 140,000,000 gallons per day means we are effectively replacing the amount of water in Seneca lake every 30 days with water up to 108 degrees F in the summer months? I know there must be some fluid dynamics equations here that I know nothing about. But I am trying to craft a way to relay this to the locals to try and get more of a reaction. If it's warranted.
I tried to talk to John Christenson about this last year (writer for the local paper) and he pretty much said it's not the power plant that is so dramatically affecting the water and increasing the HABS – but the runoff and the untreated water from Penn Yan. I have no doubt that they are all contributing. I am just trying to figure out how I can help with something. And since the Greenidge folks seem to have to come before the planning board for increases in server loads, I would really like to have a POV that has some teeth in it… Can you help?
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Subject: Re: Greenidge issues on PSC Consent Agenda for June 11
Their petition to the PSC makes clear that Greenidge will continue to produce power for the grid, but they also want to provide behind-the-grid power to "tenants" for "data processing." They say that they can charge more for this power. The 20-E-0044 petition says this "will provide Greenidge with a stable source of revenue from sales of electricity produced at prices above those available from the NYISO markets into which it currently sells its electric power. Unlike spot market prices, which vary from hour to hour, revenues from sales of power for use in these on-site data processing facilities will provide a stable source of revenue that does not fluctuate and that is sufficient to support continuous operation of the Greenidge Facility."
Continuous operation of the plant at full capacity will result in huge amounts of water being withdrawn from Seneca Lake and discharged to the Keuka Outlet on a continuous basis at all times of the year.
Greenidge Station has a permit to withdraw up to 139,248,000 gallons per day from Seneca Lake for operation of the plant's once through cooling system and other plant operations.
The Greenidge permit is the largest water withdrawal permit issued by DEC in the Seneca Lake watershed and one of the largest water withdrawal permits issued in the Great Lakes watershed. The Greenidge SPDES permit authorizes the discharge of up to 134,000,000 gallons per day of condenser cooling water from the plant's once-through cooling system with a maximum temperature of 108o F in summer and 86o F in winter and into the Keuka Outlet. Other discharges are authorized with chemical limits but not volume limits. The SPDES permit requires that fish protection equipment be installed on the water intake pipe but the plant is being allowed to operate without this equipment having been installed. As far as I know, it is the only electric generating station in the country that is being allowed to operate without ANY fish protection equipment. Being allowed to operate without fish protection equipment gives Greenidge a big cost advantage over other electric generating stations, all of which have been required to spend tens of millions of dollars to install and upgrade their fish protection equipment.
The problems the plant has identified in the past as impediments to the installation of fish protection equipment are a result of its location on the shallow shelf into Seneca Lake at the mouth of Keuka Outlet. The depth profile of the lake in the vicinity of the outlet shows that the shallow shelf extends 1,600 feet from the shore, and the bottom of the lake drops off from 5 feet to 20 feet over that distance. The plant's water intake pipe extends from the pumphouse to a point 650-feet offshore where the water depth is approximately 11 feet. The intake relies on suction to convey water from the lake, through the elevated intake pipe, and on to the circulating water pumps. The plant has previously stated that this configuration does not allow for traveling screens, or any other technology, that would interrupt the suction upstream of the circulating water pumps. We find it difficult to understand how they plan to address these physical problems.
Ramping up operations at the plant greatly increases the damage Greenidge can do to fish populations in Seneca Lake with its water intake system and increases the likelihood of harmful algae blooms in the summer months with the increased hot water discharges.


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The Anglerfish is a year old!
At the end of December the eleventh issue of The Anglerfish came out, and skipping one month in summer we managed to come out with a pretty awesome issue each month. We're all currently busy with the new issue that will come out at the end of january, but I wanted to take a moment to reflect on all that we accomplished in the last year. I've been a part of The Anglerfish since the first issue, and for a project we all do in our spare time while we're busy with our lives and work and studies, I think it's amazing that we've kept up with it.
I love working for The Anglerfish. Yes, sometimes I don't feel like taking time out of my weekend days to work when I already work fulltime the rest of the week, but I always love actually doing the lay out and making the illustrations. I love that I get to try new things and push myself.
What if the Nightmare Before Christmas and A Muppet Christmas Carrol suddenly took place in the same universe? We would get Santa Jack Skellington trying to cheer up Muppet Tiny Tim with a possibly terribly scary present!
I originally made this to accompany a movie club article, which is a series that we have, but due to some problems there was no article to publish so my illustration was left in limbo. We decided (well, I decided, since I always do that section) to put it in the Art and Literature section so it wouldn't go to waste. I keep improving with every new thing I try illustration wise, and I think this is a good one, both in work (though there are always things that could be better) and in concept and lay out. I originally planned to have the text run around the colour edges, so as to emphasize the round snowgloby background.


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Q: Scope в setInterval Здравствуйте. Нужно запустить функцию класса (ExtJS) по таймеру. В этом методе через this вызываются другие методы. Я почитал, что по таймеру функции запускаются в глобальном пространстве. Поэтому this там уже не мой класс. Как это обойти?
A: Можно сделать через apply, вот простой пример:
var Test = function () {
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    console.log("constructor", self.rnd);
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Test.prototype.get_rnd = function () {
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Test.prototype.get_rnd_delay = function () {
    var self = this;
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http://jsfiddle.net/oceog/s8GKn/
и мне кажется вас обманули - глобален не scope а context
A: Выдрал фаербагом из DOM глобальное имя и в этой функции обращаюсь к другим не через this, а  глобально.
Если кто знает более элегантное решение, весьма прошу его здесь оставить)

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Ukrainian authorities reported limited success in securing the evacuation of Ukrainian civilians from the worst affected areas Friday.
Around Kyiv, volunteers and local authorities were able to help thousands more escape the worst affected districts to the north and west of the city.
Despite heavy outgoing and incoming fire, more than 22,000 people had been evacuated after three days from the districts of Vorzel, Hostomel, Bucha and Irpin, all of which have seen extensive destruction and are without power and water, said Oleksiy Kuleba, head of the Kyiv regional administration.
On Saturday, the administration would "be creating new routes to get to the towns which we could not reach yet to evacuate people," Kuleba added.
Chief among them is the town of Borodianka – some 25 kilometers (15 miles) northeast of Kyiv. It was again shelled on Friday as Russian forces continue their attempt to close in on the capital from the north.
Meanwhile, an attempt to evacuate more people from the town of Izium had been "disrupted by the Russian occupiers," said Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Synehubov in a Telegram post.
"We prepared 20 buses and humanitarian aid," he said, adding that a "green corridor" was agreed on and organized, but due to the shelling by the occupiers, it was never launched.
The buses were shelled and barely managed to turn round and get back safely. The evidence of shelling could be seen on the buses, he continued.
In the center of Ukraine, authorities reported the successful evacuation of more women and children from Enerhodar – which fell to Russian forces a week ago – and surrounding villages.
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The Audition
In the midst of a global pandemic, an actor who enters an audition must pass a series of tests in order to keep those around him alive.
Genre: Movies, Thriller
Actors: Kevin Leslie, Anita Chui, Xander Berkeley
Director: Bizhan M. Tong
Pretty Poison
A young man gets in over his head when he convinces a small-town girl he's a secret agent.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house they find abandoned for many years on the English coast. Their original enchantment with the house diminishes as they hear stories of the previous owners and meet their daughter (now a young woman) who now lives as a neighbor with her grandfather. Also heard are unexplained sounds during the night. It becomes obvious that the house is haunted.
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
The Maggie
The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old 'puffer' boat tricks an American tycoon into paying him to transport his personal cargo. When the tycoon learns of the trick, he attempts to track down the boat and remove his possessions.
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
It was Leonora Eames' childhood dream come true. She had married Smith Ohlrig, a man worth millions. But her innocent dream became a nightmare once she realizes the truth about her husband - he is power mad and insane! Since he will not grant her a divorce, she leaves her life of luxury on Long Island and goes to work as a receptionist in an impoverished doctor's office in NYC's lower east side. After Smith deceives her into a temporary reconciliation, Leonora becomes pregnant. By the time she realizes she is expecting, she and one of the doctors, Larry Quinada (James Mason), have fallen in love. But she is again lured backed to her wealthy husband to give her child financial security. Her sadistic husband is hell-bent on keeping her and her child prisoner. What will happen to Leonora?
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What's your Masterpiece?
There was a movie in the 90s called Mr. Holland's Opus, starring Richard Dreyfuss. I didn't much of it at the time, but the message has stuck with me all these years. The basic plot is that Mr. Holland dreams of composing this great piece of music, an 'Opus'. But in order to make ends meet while he's writing it, he takes a job as a music teacher at the local high school. The years go by, the Opus never gets completed, and when he retires from his teaching job, the kids from his 30 years of teaching come back to honor him and show him how much he affected their lives. The children, were in fact, his masterpiece.
My dad passed away earlier this year. My dad was a bit of a Mr. Holland himself. Holding a high-IQ but seldom holding a job, I had thought my father never lived up to his potential. At his funeral, people showed up that I had never met. There was a young woman from the copy center, where my dad used to go there to make copies. She said that he always brightened her day with his humor and he engaged her in interesting conversations. She looked forward to seeing him come into the store. All these people had stories of how much my dad had helped them and affected their lives. I had been looking proof in a paycheck, and quite frankly I think my dad was too. I wish he could have been at his own funeral to witness his own masterpiece.
I'll go get a tissue, and then we'll talk about how you can appreciate your own masterpiece while you are still alive.
When someone tells you that you affected their life, believe them. I saw a facebook post the other day reminding me how much we all affect people's lives in small ways. Then within minutes, I got a message that a friend heard a song that reminded her of me when we were kids. And my daughter tells me that the great music I introduced her to has influenced her playlist. What? My 12-year-old said this? Am I in an alternate universe? No, I'm not, I'm just more attuned to the small ways that people tell you that you affected their life.
Big things happen in the small. While you're working on your grand vision, your Opus, big things are happening right under your nose. Those people standing in the way of your big plans, they just want to connect with you. I had someone tell me that I was a big influencer in their career development. What?! Had I known that I would have been more intentional about it, maybe took them under my wing a bit more, who knows? These tiny interactions that we take for granted can change the course of someone's life. That doesn't mean you need to work hard for each interaction, it just means that you should stop, take a moment and appreciate it.
Negative energy counts too. It was brought to my attention that I have a unique ability to shift the energy in a room. It's a great super-power. But, my first reaction was "Oh crap, I have been using that power for evil and not for good." A co-worker used to joke that when the elevator dings I step off, the music gets shut off, and all fun gets sucked out of the office. Yep. That was me. Making people feel bad, intimidated, or otherwise uncomfortable is a way of affecting their lives too. Do you want to be remembered for that?
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When you bring together three legendary wordsmiths such as Kool G. Rap, Freeway and Fame of M.O.P. together you are bound to get something special. Today the fellas come together and provide just that with their new single, "Wise Guys." The new track follows a six-year hiatus from Kool G. Rap but finds the wordsmith picking up right where he left off.
He's gearing up to drop off a new project as well, and this track is the first single. Driven by some intense energy and some infectious melodies, the track makes a fitting first single as the fellas bring their A-game lyrical. The upcoming project is titled Return Of The Don and features production from MoSS and features from veterans Cormega, N.O.R.E, Raekwon and Sean Price. Check out the first single below and let us know what you think in the comments. Keep it locked for more from Kool G. Rap coming very soon!


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China's most admired firm?
How Tencent has become one of the world's most valuable companies
May 26, 2017 (WiC 367)
Pony Ma's Tencent is building a dominant (and very profitable) ecosystem around WeChat
For the better part of the twentieth century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was the world's most valuable firm. Its grip on the telephone market was so tight that at one point AT&T owned all the wires and all the telephones plugged into them.
When radio emerged as a game-changing medium – in a manner akin to how the internet has reshaped the world more recently – AT&T threw its weight behind that as well. The telco tried to crush competition with its control of key patents in vacuum tubes and radio transmitters. Ma Bell – AT&T's nickname – was innovative in monetising the airwaves as well and the first ever radio commercial was broadcast by its New York station in 1922.
AT&T's aggressive expansion into broadcasting was only checked when regulators stepped in to prevent a single corporation controlling America's phone lines and radio stations, fearing a possible monopoly on access to news and entertainment. Under the antitrust initiatives, Ma Bell was broken up into regional entities, although one of the "Baby Bells" later regrouped into a national giant and renamed itself AT&T once again.
The company rekindled some of its earlier ambitions to combine communication with content last year by agreeing to buy Time Warner for more than $100 billion, including debt. But in China its the internet giant Tencent that is making its own attempt to leverage a virtual monopoly in communication into something greater – in this case via its hugely popular messaging app WeChat. Tencent is using the platform to expand into other digital industries, with its 'super app' now offering a bewildering range of features and functions. Baidu and Alibaba, the other players in the so-called BAT internet trio, have been adopting a similar diversification strategy. However, buoyed by a spike in its market value, Tencent has been making some of the boldest strides. Last week, for instance, it made a major push into internet search and e-commerce, habitats long dominated by Baidu and Alibaba respectively. Investors may be betting it is going to emerge as the victor in this clash of the BAT titans.
How much is Tencent worth?
At Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting earlier this month Warren Buffett admitted that he had blundered by not buying Google's shares many years earlier. But spare a thought for Richard Li, son of Asia's richest man Li Ka-shing, who must be distraught at missing out on Tencent's incredible rise. According to Chinese media, Li junior acquired a 20% stake in Tencent for about $1.1 million in 1999 only for his cash-strapped telco PCCW to take profit on the investment for $10 million two years later.
In April 2013 we reported that Li had left nearly $12 billion on the table as Tencent's market capitalisation climbed to $60 billion at the time. But its share price has more than quadrupled since then and, as of Thursday, the Hong Kong-listed firm traded above HK$2.63 trillion ($335 billion). Yes, that's 75 times what Li's company PCCW is worth today.
Tencent's shares have been rewriting their all-time highs throughout the past year. Taking into account a one-into-five share split in 2014, the HK$275.2 closing price on Tuesday is nearly 400 times higher than its IPO price back in June 2004. Even investors that grabbed the stock early this year are sitting on gains of 45%.
The stock's advance has turned Tencent into a flagbearer for Hong Kong's stock exchange, where it at one point constituted about 16% of the market value of the Hang Seng Index, no mean feat in a grouping which includes heavyweights such as China Mobile and HSBC.
Hong Kong's Apple Daily further reports that Tencent's market value took it into the world's top 10 companies in April, overtaking the likes of JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, although it still lags behind Apple ($800 billion), Google's parent firm Alphabet ($683 billion) and Facebook ($446 billion).
"The market cap of global tech giants has become a buzzworthy topic because of Tencent," Beijing News adds, noting that the firm is also worth 10% of the entire bourse in Shenzhen, the city where it is headquartered.
Alibaba's market value has climbed 40% so far this year to $307 billion but it still trails in Tencent's wake. And trading at about $65 billion, Baidu increasingly looks like the junior party in the tech troika.
How profitable is Tencent?
Tencent's share price performance has been backed by strong earnings growth. In March it reported a 43% surge in last year's net profit to Rmb41 billion ($5.9 billion). Revenues also climbed 48% to Rmb151 billion.
"Tencent is making more than Rmb100 million a day," a columnist at Sina Finance observed. "In order to be successful, China's richest man Wang Jianlin [of Wanda Group] once advised us to set ourselves 'a small, achievable target' of earning Rmb100 million to begin with [see WiC339 for Wang's recipe for success]. Pony Ma [Tencent's boss] has hit that threshold every evening when he heads home from the office."
Tencent's archrival Alibaba has reported very similar revenue numbers for the same period, with sales for 2016 jumping 56% to Rmb158 billion, a record high. The e-commerce giant's net profit was almost identical at Rmb41 billion. But profit for the year had declined 42%, about the same percentage that Tencent's had increased.
The results mean Tencent is trading at a price-to-earnings ratio of 56 times versus Alibaba's 51 times. But its frenetic growth shows little sign of slowing and it has just posted more record numbers for the first quarter, reporting another 58% spike in profit to Rmb14.5 billion on revenue gains of 55% to Rmb49.6 billion for the same period.
Gaming is one of the brightest spots, generating Rmb22.8 billion, or nearly half of Tencent's revenues. That was a result of strong showing from the likes of Honor of Kings, a self-developed game and China's top-grossing smartphone title last year, and League of Legends, which it acquired through the purchase of California studio Riot Games in 2011. League of Legends is the world's most popular battle title for desktops and it topped Apple's iOS store in March in downloads too.
What is Tencent's latest move?
Active users of the all-pervasive WeChat, or Weixin in its Chinese version, climbed 23% to 938 million. This is the key to Tencent's success and it wants to grab a greater share of wallet from its huge pool of social media users. Revenues from social networks are up 56% year-on-year due to music and video subscriptions, for instance. Tencent has been investing heavily in video streaming and bankrolling Hollywood movies such as Kong: Skull Island, with plans to adapt popular films and novels (some already available on its publishing platform) into mobile games that will be sold over WeChat.
"After building the biggest social ecosystem in China, Tencent remains at an early stage of monetisation," forecast Chi Tsang, HSBC's head of internet research in Hong Kong, earlier this month.
Last week Tencent also launched a newsfeed and search function, posing a much more direct challenge to Baidu's search engine, which accounts for 65% of total searches in the Chinese language.
Millions of pages are published every day by WeChat users – from solo blogs through corporate PR to news reports from traditional media – but Baidu has been blocked from indexing the majority of the content. In contrast, WeChat's newly launched newsfeed and search tools should enjoy an advantage by operating inside Tencent's ecosystem or 'walled garden'.
In fact, Tencent already owns a 45% stake in Sogou, another search engine with roughly 10% of the Chinese market. Analysts anticipate that it will eventually offer WeChat users full search functionality on the internet through Sogou, which is targeting a New York IPO later this year. (The function just launched on WeChat can only search material posted within the app, not on the broader web.)
Of course, the fuller search service would pose a mortal threat to Baidu at a time when it has been reporting slower revenue growth as advertisers reallocate their spending to social media platforms.
By keeping its customers inside its 'walled garden', WeChat may also end up as China's biggest online news channel. One of its potential competitors is Jinri Toutiao (or Today's Headlines). Now five years old (see WiC244), the news aggregating platform has 600 million users and a fundraising round this month valued it at $11 billion. But the unicorn will probably have to fight off a challenge from the social media giant. "Tencent has effectively embedded a 'Baidu' in WeChat, and it comes with a 'Toutiao' as well," a tech blogger warned this week on (where else) WeChat. "The search and newsfeed function will give Baidu a punch and Toutiao a kick."
So Alibaba is playing catch-up?
For years the Chinese internet giants have been venturing into each others' territory. Alibaba has tried and largely failed to break into China's messaging business, and still hankers for a similarly powerful presence in social media. But WeChat's popularity is allowing Tencent to encroach much deeper into Jack Ma's e-commerce empire. The Chinese are increasingly turning to Tencent's all-in-one app to shop and pay for everything. WeChat Pay, Tencent's answer to Alibaba's payment solution Alipay, allows its users to transfer money to each other with a click or a code scan. Retail outlets across China accept payment from both mobile apps, although the Global Times says that Tencent's share of payments more than doubled to 37% in the fourth quarter last year, at the expense of Alipay, which saw its slice decline to 54% from 70% the prior year.
WeChat users can already shop on Alibaba's main e-commerce rival JD.com and commentators expect Tencent to extend its advance into the world of e-commerce. "Tencent is aggressively adding more services and retailers into the mix, such as the online travel agent Ctrip.com. That could – over time – crowd out the attractions of Alibaba," the Global Times predicts.
What are Tencent's global ambitions?
Both Alibaba and Tencent want to capitalise on their dominance in China by establishing themselves at the top of the global league.
A year ago Alibaba was hit by a spate of bad news that started with counterfeiting controversies on its online sales platforms and was followed by investor criticism of its accounting practices (see WiC327).
Since then its maverick chairman seems to have adopted a lower-profile at home in China, although Jack Ma has been spending time lobbying overseas governments to buy into his grand strategy: transforming Alibaba into a 'digital World Trade Organisation'.
"Alibaba is the company that likes to think it's a country," the Financial Times suggested in its Big Read this week, noting that Ma has been working "the stage like a seasoned diplomat". Besides taking on an important role at last year's G20 meeting in Hangzhou, where Alibaba is headquartered, Ma has also met a host of national leaders this year, and in January he was the first Chinese businessman to meet American President Donald Trump.
Tencent boss Pony Ma plays it much lower key and he's unlikely to ever admit publicly that his company wants to square up to Apple and Google. However, Reuters reported this month that Tencent has hired 1,500 software developers to work on its Mini Programs feature on WeChat, a newly-delivered function that looks and operates like the app stores on Apple's iOS and Google's Android, hosting its own universe of 'apps within apps'.
Tencent has said that it launched Mini Programs in tribute to Apple's achievements (see WiC351) but analysts are coming to the conclusion that WeChat is starting to become a smartphone operating system in its own right. In China, at least, WeChat's 'stickiness' is already much greater than anything that iOS and Android can offer. "Given WeChat can be used in nearly all models, there is no reason for Chinese smartphone users to pick iPhones. This is one of the main reasons why iPhone's market share in China has been eroded," an article on tech website Huxiu also recently suggested.
In the meantime investors have been trying to predict when Tencent's stellar share price performance might show signs of losing its lustre. Another warning is that companies like Alibaba and Tencent could become victims of their own success and run into growing regulatory risks as their commercial empires expand. "When one day Tencent or Alibaba's market value goes past $500 billion, or even $1 trillion, they will become monsters dominating all economic activities. Regulators may then step in to break them up, just as they did with AT&T in the 1980s. Before this happens, the Matthew Effect [that the big get bigger] will persist in the mobile internet market," another of the bloggers on Huxiu predicted.
As for Baidu, unless some of its investments in new technologies – such as artificial intelligence and self-driving cars – starts to pay off, the search giant could soon lose further ground to Tencent and Alibaba.
If so, WiC suspects we'll be talking less about the BAT trio and more about the AT (curiously only an ampersand and a letter away from AT&T, the former US monopoly).
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Looking Back: All the Places Food52 Has Called Home
Did you hear the news? Food52 has a brand new office and we can't wait to share it with you—check back for the full tour tomorrow!
Today: Before the big office reveal, join us for a skip down Memory Lane, as we recap all the places we've called home through the years. Might want to pack a snack.
It was early in the summer of 2009 that the very first posts, recipes, and contests began popping up on Food52. (Do you remember?!) We were a tiny team back then, and looking through all the pictures of our old offices has been the best reminder of how we've truly grown inch by inch. It also brought back a lot of good memories. Read on for a look at all the places Food52 has called home.
Amanda's House in Brooklyn
Where do you start a start-up? At home.
In the beginning, there was the windowsill photoshoot. It started in a real kitchen (Amanda Hesser's, then decked out in cherry wood cabinets), where our first photographer, Sarah Shatz, would have jerry-rigged a few lights and taken process shots.
After that, the finished dish was carefully plated and styled on a surface right by the window so it could be photographed in natural light. Our visual style was born and it's been evolving ever since.
Left: Amanda and Merrill Stubbs style Barbacoa Beef Cheek Tacos (recognize them?); right: There are ways to make do even when the sun goes down.
We didn't limit our photoshoots to the windowsill, instead taking the liberty of perching food in all kinds of places in Amanda's home.
Left: James Ransom, glued to the viewfinder of his camera; right: Kristen Miglore, our first official hire and now our Executive Editor, plays chef in Amanda's kitchen.
Unfortunately for Amanda and her husband, some of the best light was in their bedroom. Her kids, Addison and Walker, didn't seem to mind.
The same went for Merrill's daughter, Clara, shown here taking center stage at a photo shoot in Amanda's bedroom.
Many of our early recipes were shot right there in Amanda's bedroom.
From left: Kristen in her signature topknot making Alice Medrich's Genius Macaroons, Merrill drizzling toffee on a sticky toffee pudding for our style-off during the Summer Food Fights, and Kristen vaccuming up lentils from the very first Dinner vs. Child post.
Even after Amanda renovated her kitchen and Walker and Addie grew a few inches, some things never changed.
Cherry wood was replaced with gleaming white open shelves and cool blue-grey interiors; the kitchen was much brighter, which made it easier to get well-lit process (and glamour) shots no matter what was happening behind the scenes.
Kenzi Wilbur, our Managing Editor, is pictured here working on a dough of some sort while Amanda's washer and dryer are repaired—the show goes on!
We took it upon ourselves to explore some other parts of the house. That's Kenzi sniffing out a good wine from Amanda's collection (housed in her bedroom), a roast chicken getting some work done on Amanda's desk, and James, ever camera-ready, at the oven.
The dining room, adjacent to the kitchen, was unofficially taken over as desk space—much to the likely dismay (but great patience) of Amanda's family. The tripe lady, a team mascot of sorts—a photo by Pinar Yolacan of a woman whose shirt sleeves are made of tripe—watched over us all the while.
Dogpatch Labs
Fun fact: Food52 was the first team to work at Dogpatch whose lot included women.
In September of 2010, our team was invited to work at Dogpatch Labs, a co-working space run by Polaris Ventures—a huge step in our company growth, since this meant six months of free work space.
As Amanda remembers it, Dogpatch had a "1990s downtown loft feel—black leather sofas, splashes of red, wood floors, brick walls, an industrial-style kitchen, and black toilets that we could never quite adjust to (and the occasional beer keg—see above)". To make it feel homier, we spread a blue windowpane blanket across our table, topped it with a real lamp (with a real lightbulb!), pictured below, and set to work.
At Dogpatch, we spent a lot of time networking with fellow start-ups in the common spaces and at their tech events. We met Christina DiLaura (now our VP of Commerce Operations), Bridget Williams (Food52's COO), and two of our investors during our six months there.
A Julia Child chalk drawing covered one of the walls at General Assembly.
After our stint at Dogpatch, we moved on to General Assembly in January of 2011, where we stayed for 2 years. Our first workspace there was an office that was vacated when its prior tenant was raided by federal agents. The space was quiet and "a little Being John Malkovich-y," according to Amanda.
In order to have a meeting, we just swiveled our chairs around to face the center of our M-shaped desk. And this office is where Genius Recipes was born! The shared space also had conference and event rooms for meetings, which we took full advantage of.
An editorial meeting takes place on the community couches.
We used the conference rooms at GA for meetings of all kinds, including the ones involving liquid cheer.
Our third annual Piglet party took place at General Assembly. Joe Beef was the winner, as determined by Alice Waters.
There were also unusual yet inviting, tall-walled "sofa pods" (see below), used for meetings, naps, quiet work, and, as Amanda remembers, "hanky panky by some other start-ups."
Black, greys, and stripes were our unofficial uniform during those years.
Eventually, we moved from our tucked-away upstairs office to sit with the regular population. There, we were seated next to what Amanda describes as a "rowdy gambling company, who spent a lot of time flirting with Brette Warshaw, now Digital Editor at Lucky Peach—she barely looked up from her screen."
These were formative years—we grew to a dozen employees during our time at General Assembly, including Michael Hoffman, Karl Rosaen, Ryan Hamilton, Lauren Locke, and Kenzi Wilbur.
We also cooked—wherever we could. (Don't act surprised.)
And we fought off sad desk lunches with ham (sometimes whole legs of Iberico), snacks, cake, and cocktails in our trusty Chemex.
And we made it feel as much as possible like a home.
Left: Decor included large prints of Sarah's photography; right: Merrill, 8 1/2 months pregnant, was still working at 11pm the night before we relaunched the site.
During our time at General Assembly, Merrill met Brad Sherman, the eventual designer of our future offices, rather fortuitously. He was working there as an office manager and when she cut her finger and asked him for a Band-Aid, Brad mentioned he was an interior designer, specializing in office spaces. It didn't take long for Food52 office plans to get underway.
From General Assembly, our team landed half the floor of an office building on 30th Street in Chelsea (well, very north Chelsea, but more like Penn Station adjacent), where Brad installed the now-iconic raw wood shelves, salvaged from a barn in Kentucky, above a backsplash of gleaming white subway tile in the kitchen. We like a kitchen that feels personal and practical. It was time: "We moved our entire "office" with a Zipcar minivan—in one trip!," Amanda said.
Left: Ryan Hamilton and company help Brad (in the red hat) with the move; right: Kenzi, Kristen, and Marian Bull worked on the floor in our new office before we got desk chairs.
Everyone chipped in to paint our IKEA sawhorse table legs a nice, crisp white, and then to assemble them.
We enjoyed the luxury of a small outdoor patio (accessed through a window), plus a little extra room to store all kinds of surfaces for photography and props—many of which came straight from Amanda's kitchen to ours on loan.
We finally got to decorate our own space—including the kitchen of our dreams.
Company Snack Time, where we gather as a whole team over food and drinks every month or so, flourished at the West 30th Street office.
Our little coffee table corner had a peg-board wall decorated with old kitchen tools—in honor of Julia Child—and shelves holding some of our favorite cookbooks and gizmos.
Decorating this space, we quickly recognized in ourselves a fondness for combining old and new.
From the office at West 30th Street, we launched our e-commerce site called the Food52 Shop—though back then, as you might recall, it was named Provisions.
At first, the office felt so roomy we couldn't believe it.
Karl Rosaen, our VP of Product, conducts a meeting in the coffee table nook.
But we grew up pretty fast.
Okay, maybe a little faster than we'd planned for. In our office at West 30th Street, Food52 grew to nearly 40 employees—a few more than we'd ever expected to house there. For the last few months in this office, we were packed in like sardines. It's a good thing we like each other's company!
Left: As we started to run out of room, the Product Team resorted to having meetings in the studio and sitting on James's apple boxes! Right: Through it all, we found ways to make sure the office felt cozy rather than cramped.
Now, we're a little over 50—and the new, larger office on West 26th Street has been a revelation for the team. Looking back, we wouldn't have gotten here any other way.
Don't forget to check back tomorrow for a photo tour of the new office!
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Melina H. August 16, 2015
ah-mazing. kudos a million times over. i love, LOVE that you all are seemingly a family, even through all those growing pains! here's to more delicious good times, keep taking photos of it all. :)
Kate July 12, 2015
I love this sneek inside the helm of Food 52 and the story the photos tell of your evolution as a company. As someone just starting their own food business from home, struggling with window sill photo shoots and more recently alfresco shots since we've had scaffolding up. this is so inspiring and fantastic to see how you got started from humble beginnings too!
Tara July 12, 2015
Thanks for the behind-the-scenes look. Very interesting!
Leslie S. July 8, 2015
Loved reading this!!
Brette W. July 7, 2015
SO MANY MEMORIES. What an amazing bunch of people.
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laurenlocally July 7, 2015
Love this recap.
tamater S. July 7, 2015
Wow. Thanks for the generous look back down memory lane. It made me wish I could have worked at any one of those places. Lovely.
jvcooks July 5, 2015
I agree with nzle - so many great memories -- especially back in Amanda's house in Brooklyn. Special times!!
Nozlee S. July 5, 2015
Ahh, so many memories! I love these photos -- many of the ones I'm in I'd never seen before!


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Conservation of momentum, I know, so I'll make this as brief as possible.
The mass of a nucleus is less than that of its constituent parts. Imagine that it were feasible to fission and recombine an atomic nucleus repeatedly, while at the same time oscillating it back and forth in a given direction.
The energy would be pumped in and out, the mass would fluctuate. The individual nucleons would be moved in a given direction, translating the ship a given distance. It'd then be stopped, and the combined nucleus would be moved in the opposite direction translating the ship a smaller distance than before. Repeat, net movement of the ship.
That part seems to follow newton's third law, but obviously looking at the whole system, it doesn't.
I do not have a degree in physics. So I kindly request that someone explains to me why it won't work, instead of just telling me it won't.
— mitxela, Aug 31 2009
Intriguing - after all, f=m.a
And, as we all know, e=m.c²
So, in unifying these two equations, we should be able to describe e(nergy) in terms of mass and acceleration - and in doing so, power yourself along quite merrily.
This is where it falls down - in order to gather your energy, you need to capture it as it is released from your oscillating nuclear reaction - however, since the reaction is going to zoom particles out in all directions, you have to choose between capturing all of them (resulting in zero acceleration since you can't capture only those particles that fly off in the direction opposite to the one you want to travel in) or letting some go, and in doing so, losing some of that energy you'd need in order to continue the oscillation.
Imagine you build a petrol driven version - if you capture all of the enregy created in combustion, say, in a closed cylinder - you should conceivably (if we ignore the details for a moment) be able to recombine the constituent gasses etc back into unburned fuel, ignite and start again - however, because it's all in a sealed tube, your engine isn't going to go anywhere, because all the energy generated is utilised in keeping the engine running for the next cycle.
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The Rising Road Articles & Blog Posts
Jo Magpie, and her husband, Hrach, hitchhike across Europe.
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The Other Side of Ararat
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The Road to Van
"There is no work here," he says. "At school, we learn only Turkish. No Kurdish." It's a story we will hear over and over again on this journey, now we're in the part of Turkey unofficially known as Kurdistan. The Kurdish language was banned by the state until very recently. Town names were changed and Turkifised. Kurdish names were banned for children. It was illegal to speak Kurdish at school, or to print books in the language. It was a very successful campaign, most adults today either do not remember, or never learned the language.
Armenian Ruins and Breakfast in Van
"Let's go that way," Hrach says suddenly. This is my first time in Van, one of the biggest cities in the area of Turkey unofficially known as Kurdistan. Van is a university city, very modern, with a bustling air of people getting things done. We head down a side street and soon come across a […]
The City with Many Names
Even as a Kurdish city, Diyarbakır is unique. Kurdish separatist movements have always been strong here and the Turkish police recently instated a curfew on the city in order to suppress a potential uprising – in response to closing the border to Kurdish-Syrian refugees.
We hitchhiked to the city after a long cold wait on the south bank of Lake Van, with Recep, an enthusiastic Kurdish historian, who grew up in Istanbul but is originally from Kars.
Hitchhiking to a War Zone
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Finding the Sun
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Bananas, Ruins and a Campervan
We wind around mountain roads, truck by truck, car by car. One driver is particularly speedy, knocking us against the side of the car as he swerves round bend after bend. We overtake a camper van with bikes strapped to its rear, and gape as it slides from view in the back window. It's been […]
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Hitchhiking Memory Lane
My friend Lisa and I lived in a small chalet in Kaş ("Kash"), the tiny holiday town at the southernmost tip of South-West Turkey, for a few weeks in the spring of 2011. Now Hrach and I are hitchhiking in that area, it feels a bit like coming home. Four years earlier, Lisa and I […]


Rabbi Marc Schneier of The Hamptons Synagogue and East Hampton resident Russell Simmons recently received honors from Congress for their civil rights efforts regarding Black-Jewish relations.
Schneier is founder and president of the Foundation of Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) while Simmons serves as FFEU chairman. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the foundation.
In a ceremony held at the U.S. Capitol, Schneier and Simmons were honored, along with the FFEU, for working to ease tensions between Jewish-American and African-American communities. Attendees received a copy of Schneier's work, Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Jewish Community.
In addition to honoring Schneier and Simmons, the ceremony commemorated three other civil rights activists who were murdered on the "Freedom Summer" campaign 50 years ago. Those remembered for their service included James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.
Among the senators and representatives who spoke at the ceremony were several from New York. Local speakers included Senator Charles Schumer and Representatives Yvette Clark, Jerrold Nadler, Steve Israel and Grace Meng.


Newcastle and Manchester Universities have secured funding from the AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) for new collaborative research ustilising the iconic structure of Dunston Staiths on the river Tyne as its context. As an interdisciplinary project that connects the debates of fine art and urban design, Jetty Project investigates how a contemporary public artwork can meaningfully contribute to the reshaping of the multi-faceted debate around the term Sustainability. The project is developed as a collaboration between artist Wolfgang Weileder based at Newcastle University School of Arts and Culture, and urbanist Simon Guy, Director of the Architecture Research Centre at the University of Manchester, with additional project partners from the arts, heritage, education and business community.


Come and meet us during our Open Evening on 27 March. HAS University of Applied Sciences opens its doors for you, to give you a first-hand experience of what we have to offer to you as a student. Get to know some of the lecturers, walk around the building and the greenhouses, and listen to the presentation about your favourite study programme.


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Akiem Hicks loved everything about the play except the finishing touch.
After Eddie Jackson stepped in front of Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford's pass to tight end Michael Roberts and returned the interception 41 yards for a touchdown on Thanksgiving Day, the Bears safety directed his teammates in the end zone to do a few warm-up drills, including down-ups.
Hicks prefers his celebrations to be less labor intensive, and he relayed that information to Jackson for next time. At the pace Jackson is going — five defensive touchdowns in two seasons, three this year, two in back-to-back games — next time might not be too far off.
"I've never seen anything like him," Hicks said. "He can cover the entire field it seems like. He knows how to get the ball in his hands, and when he gets that ball in his hands he can make his way to the end zone. It's awesome."
Jackson, who was named the NFC Defensive Player of the Month on Thursday, has been scoring at a pace in his first two seasons that only one other defensive player in NFL history has matched. Erik McMillan is the only other player to score five defensive touchdowns in his first two seasons, while with the Jets in 1988-89.
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Twenty-seven games into his career, he is four touchdowns off Charles Tillman's franchise record of nine defensive touchdowns. Tillman also had five touchdowns in a two-year span — 2011-12, his two Pro Bowl seasons in 12 with the Bears.
But after Jackson was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week on Wednesday, he said he wasn't surprised at the impact he is making so early in his career.
"To be honest with you, not really," Jackson said. "I wanted to come in here and dominate. One thing I'm very blessed and grateful for is the team and place I ended up landing. I wouldn't want to be anywhere than here with the type of guys and teammates I've got. Being on the same team as them makes me better and makes me step my game up."
Jackson's confidence isn't a surprise given his success at Alabama, where he was a first-team All-SEC player in his junior season.
In 23 games in 2015-16, before his college career was cut short by a broken leg, he also scored five touchdowns — three on interception returns and two on punt returns. It was that season-ending injury that caused him to drop into the fourth round of the 2017 draft, when general manager Ryan Pace scooped him up.
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"God always has a plan," Jackson said. "At the time it was frustrating, but now everything is working out for the best. I'm very excited."
So are Bears players and coaches, who praise Jackson's football instincts. Cornerback Prince Amukamara compared Jackson's ability to read plays and track the ball to former All-Pro defensive backs Ed Reed and Asante Samuel.
"The thing is, it's like a closer for us," Amukamara said. "When we need a play, when we need to be able to score — you saw it against the Vikings and then you saw it against the Lions — he just always shows up. Big-time players make big-time plays in big-time games, and he's been doing that."
Jackson said the plays come from a mentality of rooting out the ball, and he credited defensive coordinator Vic Fangio and defensive backs coach Ed Donatell for putting him in situations where he can roam with that in mind.
Bears coach Matt Nagy said he believes Jackson's commitment to film study also plays a big role in his numerous game-changing plays.
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"He's a student of the game and he recognizes when to take chances," Nagy said. "So he is opportunistic, but he's smart in when to take chances and when not to."
Jackson will continue those efforts Sunday against the Giants when he'll see former Alabama teammate Landon Collins, a two-time Pro Bowler for the Giants whom Jackson said "is going to come out and try to put on a show."
Jackson will, too, but he also was careful Wednesday to say he has more work to do.
He said he has to continue to improve his tackling. And he said the entire defense is focused on playing a full four quarters and not allowing teams back into games.
"Coach Ed and I talk about it all the time — we don't pay attention to (the accolades) and get a big head," Jackson said. "We want to keep working. The goal is to make the playoffs and Super Bowl, so that's what we're fighting for."
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The Ivy Cardiff opens it's doors at St David's
The St David's Partnership, owners of St David's, Cardiff has today announced the opening of all-day brasserie, The Ivy Cardiff, marking The Ivy Collection's debut restaurant in Wales.
The new two-floor 5,400 sq ft brasserie has a capacity of up to 284 guests, an outdoor seating area, and an elegant private dining room with views across The Hayes. Designed by an in-house team, the space includes bespoke interior elements, such as an ornamental dragon, reflecting the location in Cardiff. Bold and colourful prints, a feature tree, and comfortable soft furnishings complete The Ivy Cardiff's unique style.
Speaking on behalf of the St David's Partnership, a joint venture between Landsec and intu, Kate Grant, Regional Managing Director for intu, said:
"The launch of iconic British restaurant The Ivy Cardiff is a fantastic dining addition to St David's, as we continue to attract leading national and international restaurants and retailers. The Ivy Cardiff's global appeal and beautifully designed space will bring an added appeal for our visitors alongside the luxury brands already on The Hayes, with a truly refined day to evening dining offer that is not available anywhere else in the region."
Baton Berisha, Managing Director at The Ivy Collection added:
"The St David's location is a stunning location for our first brasserie in Wales. We could not have been happier with the amazing response we have had since announcing the launch, and can't wait for visitors to experience The Ivy in all its glory."
This news follows the recent tenth anniversary for St David's 2', with internationally-renowned brands such as Levi's®, Skechers, and Ted Baker opening new stores at the destination this year.
The St David's Partnership dealt directly with The Ivy Collection.
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Applications are open for the APBF Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets 2018. The Prize for African Poetry is awarded annually to an African poet who has not yet published a collection of poetry. The African Poetry Book Series is made possible through the generosity of philanthropists Laura and Robert F. X. Sillerman, whose generous contributions have facilitated the establishment of the APBF. In recognition of their invaluable support of their work, the Sillermans have welcomed the use of their name for the First Book Prize for African Poets.
The African Poetry Book Fund, in partnership with Prairie Schooner and the University of Nebraska, promotes and advances the development and publication of the poetic arts through its book series, contests, workshops, and seminars and through its collaborations with publishers, festivals, booking agents, colleges, universities, conferences and all other entities that share an interest in the poetic arts of Africa.
The winner receives USD $1000 and book publication through the University of Nebraska Press and Amalion Press in Senegal.
While they have no specific formatting rules, they suggest sending your manuscript in Times New Roman or Arial, 12 point font, single-spaced. They also prefer one poem per page, meaning a new poem does not begin on the same page on which another ends.
For more information, visit APBF Sillerman First Book Prize.


I saw this recently in Jounieh, but I'm having a hard time believing it is an actual "7-Eleven" one of the biggest conveinent store franchises in the US.
Also judging by their website "7-Eleven" doesn't have any locations in the Middle East.
When I was younger, I remember a Lebanese restaurant called "Manhattan Cafe" used the golden arches of McDonalds as their logo. Meanwhile on TV, major stations use pop music all the time without copyright clearance.
Not taking intellectual property seriously also prevails at university campuses, where textbooks are copied openly at bookstores.
Perhaps it is unsurprising then, when I teach a course at a local university, that my students continue to plagiarize their papers despite multiple warnings and zeros. There is a feeling–it seems– that you can copy someone else's work and get away with it. As we can see on the streets and on TV, a lot of local companies are setting a great example.
No locations in the ME? I know there are many 7eleven's in Dubai, are they not from the same franchise?
And I like the "drive thru" sign 🙂 Is it really? Or is it another copy-paste?
Didn't try the drive thru, will have to update you if I do.


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What Democrats Just Blamed For Their Big Virginia Loss Is Absolutely Insane!
It is no surprise that the Democrats are losing their minds after the recent election that flipped Virginia to red after years of it being a blue state. After Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gubernatorial election on Tuesday, left-wing political analysts and personalities angrily claimed racism and white supremacy fueled the Republican Party's victorious night.
Of course, that is the only thing that makes sense to them since it could not mean that people are sick and tired of Democrats micromanaging their lives.
The left-wing media pundits went wild claiming that parents actually caring about education is a racist dog whistle to claiming America "simply loves white supremacy," Democrats, progressives, and other left-wing personalities sought to blame McAuliffe's loss on anything but the Democratic agenda.
Here are just some of the meltdowns :from prominent leftists on Twitter.
MSNBC host Joy Reid: "The exit polls showed that, which was interesting, that the Coronavirus or that the virus was very low importance to many voters. It was 'education,' which is code for 'white parents don't like the idea of teaching about race.' And I mean, unfortunately, the race is just the most palpable tool in the toolkit, it used to be of the Democratic Party back in the day when they were Dixiecrats and now of the Republican Party."
Reid also said, "Republicans are dangerous" because the GOP stokes a "kind of soft white nationalism eventually leads to the hardcore stuff."
"1619 Project" creator Nikole Hannah-Jones: "The only racial dog whistles in American politics are the ones heard by the media because for the rest of the country it's explicit. If the only educational concern in the election was the teaching of race and racism, then the issue wasn't education: it was and is always RACE."
Atlantic writer Jemele Hill: "It's not the messaging, folks. This country simply loves white supremacy."
Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali: "Whiteness remains undefeated. Let's wait and see who those white suburban voters went for tonight in Virginia. Any guesses?"
Walter Shaub: "Youngkin won because he convinced a lot of Virginians that their kids should never ever learn that their state was the last state in the union to desegregate. It would be one thing if he won because of some random policy issue. But he ran on straight-up racism. What a disgrace."
Radio host Dean Obeidallah: "Dear media: Republican voters are not excited by the issue of 'Education.' Republican voters are excited by the issue of WHITE SUPREMACY."
Professor Brittney Cooper: "White supremacy is indefatigable. That truth is both personal and political this week. Long way of saying I'm tired."
Howard Dean: "Racism still works in Virginia."
Of course, none of this makes any sense considering who won in Virginia.
How in the world can these leftists blame white supremacy for the win in the state when the good people of Virginia elected the first female black lieutenant governor, Winsome Sears, and first Hispanic attorney general, Jason Miyares?
Meet Winsome Sears, Virginia's new Lieutenant Governor.
She is a black woman who immigrated from Jamaica, served in the Marines, has a Masters degree, ran a women's homeless shelter, raised 3 kids— and now she has made history. pic.twitter.com/AFPdR0jSG0
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) November 3, 2021
How? How is this white supremacy?
Do you know what would be awesome for the media and journalists to do?
Maybe start investigating all the votes that supposedly went to Joe Biden? If Biden was the "most popular president" to be elected with 81 million votes then how are these liberal politicians losing now?
This is quite the image from @nytimes. All those red arrows show a shift to the Republican Party in Virginia. pic.twitter.com/3C368p7iAW
— Mark Bednar (@MarkBednar) November 3, 2021
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A full description of installation HDM in instruments Roland E 86, Е 96 was added.
A full description of installation HDM in instruments Roland EM 50, EM 55, VA 3 was added.
HDM successfully works with ROLAND VA-3. The installation is exactly the same as in ROLAND EM-55.
HDM successfully works with ROLAND EM-55. In near future a full description of installation will be added.
The program " HDM to HOST TERMINAL " now has the version 2.13. In this version such instrument as Roland E 86, Е 96, Korg iS 40, iS 50 are also supported.
The descriptions of the installation HDM were updated.
Attention! We've changed our e-mail. Send your information to the address valgit@svitonline.com Previous addresses are not valid!!!
HDM successfully works with KORG i - 300 and ROLAND E - 86. A new (1.62) version of the device "Hard Drive Memory" (HDM) has appeared. The device became smaller, and doesn't demand an additional power supply (except for instruments YAMAHA PSR 340, 350, 540, 550, 730, 740 in which is used additional, now impulse stabilizer). So now you do not need to solder anything for installing HDM in musical instrument. Electrical hashes on the power amplifier YAMAHA PSR 730, 740 are practically completely removed. The installation in all types of instruments considerably has become simpler.
You can look at the sound modules which are installed in MPAER - AV3 here.
HDM successfully works with YAMAHA PSR 2000. The installation is exactly the same as in YAMAHA PSR 1000.
New (2.11) version of the program "HDM to HOST TERMINAL" has been written. In the given version the problem of incorrect work of the program with slow computers is solved.
HDM успешно работает с YAMAHA PSR 740.
HDM successfully works with YAMAHA PSR 1000. Its installation in this instrument is very simple. You don't need to solder anything, there is no additional stabilizer. The instrument at once loads a song in itself and allows to look through the contents of banks during the reproduction of the song, as our MPAER - AV3HD.
Well-known firm "Park Audio II" has begun batch production of a new model of power amplifiers of the popular series VX. These are - VX 700-8 and VX 700-4, which have output power 350 W on the channel on 8 Ohm and on 4 Ohm but have very moderate price. On - mine, new hits of sales have appeared.
MPAER - AV3HD has a built-in hard disk for keeping information by a capacity 210mb. It is approximately 144 diskettes (banks). AV3HD's banks are protected from casual erasing.
Now "Hard Drive Memory" (HDM) also has a capacity 144 banks (diskettes). Here bank is protected from casual erasing too.
A new version of the program "HDM to HOST TERMINAL" is written. We took into account numerous wishes of users. The window of the catalogues became larger, the program became much stablese, the player is integrated directly into the program, sorting of files is added; you start your work from the last catalogue you've worked with. Now program recognizes the instrument, in which is installed "Hard Drive Memory" (HDM) by itself. Also you can directly from a computer install and remove protection of bank. The program already sees cyrillic and shows volume of chosen information.
HDM successfully works with ROLAND G-800.
Our 2AVCom has reached the age of three. We accept congratulations!!!
The exhibition "Ukrainian musical fair" took place in Kyiv from October 18 till October 20, 2001. At the exhibition 2AVCom has presented new products: the midi - player MPAER - AV3 and its modification with a built-in hard disk; the device "Hard Drive Memory" (HDM) for keeping musical information on a base of computer hard disk (HD) and the program for connection of the given device with a personal computer; MIDICOM - the interface for PC, is intended for connection midi devices to a computer through the serial port; the interface MIDIJS is intended for connection midi-keyboard or other musical instrument to РС through a plug of a joystick on a sound map.
The development of a new player of standard midi-files MPAER - AV3 and its modification with a built-in hard disk for keeping information MPAER - AV3HD is completed, the production of them is begun. It means, that you can always have at call more than 3000 midi-files, and have no problems with diskettes. A search of songs can be done during playing a song by native buttons. Many other technical parameters are improved too.
HDM successfully works with ROLAND E-500.
HDM successfully works with ROLAND EM-50. In near future a full description of installation will be added. Also the serviceability of the device with new models YAMAHA PSR-350, 550 was checked.
A full description of installation HDM in instruments ENSONIQ TS-10, 12, 10+ was added.
A full description of installation HDM in instrument YAMAHA PSR 350 was added.
Instead of amplifiers PA 2454 F and PA 2604 F the firm Park Audio II began to produce models VX 900 and VX 1200. These amplifiers have much more improved performances at the price of the previous models. Details in section Rag fair in PDF files.
A full description of the installation HDM in instrument YAMAHA PSR 540 was added.
How to install a hard disk for keeping information in yours PSR 630, 730, 640, 740 it is possible to look and to read here.
2.2, version of the interface of connection of the device HDM with a computer you can download HERE (200 kB, ZIP). We'll try to take into account all wishes concerning functionality and appearance of the offered interface. Also in near future some problems that originate at the users of the given program with the operational systems Windows 3.1 and Windows will be eliminated 95.
Our HDM successfully works with synthesizers KORG i5S and ROLAND XP 50, XP 60, XP 80, and, of course, with Yamaha PSR - 630, 730, 340, 540, 640, 740, QS - 300; Korg - i 3; Mpaer.
An interface of connection of the device HDM with a computer is written. It looks on a screen of the monitor approximately so. We'll try to take into account all wishes concerning functionality and appearance of the offered interface. This program you can download from our site. Now musical information can be copied directly from a musical instrument on a computer and from the computer on the musical instrument. Also it is possible to delete, to change titles and so on.
We are two years old! We accept congratulations!!!
We've got new dealers in Crimea, Lugansk, Kharkiv, Khmelnytsky, Ternopil, Lviv and other cities. Look in the section " Where to purchase ".
According to the numerous requests of working musicians in the section of the answers and questions we put photos of the devices HDM built-in in instruments YAMAHA PSR - 630 and YAMAHA QS - 300. We apologize for a temporarily unfinished site.
At the moment device HDM already has successfully worked more than month with such instruments: Yamaha PSR - 630, 730, 340, 540, 640, 740, QS - 300; Korg - i 3; Mpaer.


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Q: How to install vi (not vim)? How do I install the vi editor in Ubuntu 18.04? I want to try vi, not vim. I am just curious to see how it works. Thanks!

A: There's no such thing as "original" vi on Linux.
If one wants to try the original flavor of vi, there are a few options:

*

*vim.tiny as the other answer suggested.

*run busybox vi, busybox-static is default installed on 18.04/18.10. This version is a very small clone of vi.

*The traditional vi project, run by Gunnar Ritter, the first one who
ported vi to Linux. You need to compile from source for this one.

A: This is really late, but the closest you will get to a vi "package" install in Ubuntu is "nvi" -- "new vi."
This is the version that was written for BSD before the original source code was opened.  It is still used in the BSDs to this day.
There are still a few "add-ons" compared to "true vi", but it is vastly closer to vi than "vim-tiny".
The add-ons are true enhancements, not outright changes AFAIK, except where Keith was dealing with differences / updates between the POSIX & vi specs.  This can be contrasted with many of vim's IMprovements.
Anyone who implies vim-tiny or vim-minimal is somehow the "same" as vi is misguided at best.
The differences in "undo" (especially ^R) are enough to break the workflow of many people who use "real vi."
Pointing vim, vim-tiny, or elvis to "vi" does not make it vi.
That is like claiming symlinking bash to /bin/sh forces people to write POSIX-compliant shell scripts.
nvi comes from the "elvis" lineage as did vim, but nvi is intended to be "bug-for-bug compatible" with real vi.
Upside is that it also comes with "nvi-doc" which is some of the best vi tutorials around, IMO.
First thing I do on a Devuan box is "apt install nvi ; apt remove nano vim*"
nvi-doc also does not require a 33 Mb "vim" install, like "vimtutor" seems to.
The fact that the 33Mb "vimtutor" is based on an old, freely available, 30Kb Unix vi tutor is another story: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~amos/vi/vi.tut
Some Debian-based repos also have "elvis-tiny" hidden in there, but you are much better off compiling https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi vs using vim|elvis-tiny as others have said.  Even the description for elvis-tiny suggests you use something else... Slackware's default "vi" is a "full build" of elvis, which is much more usable but it has too many non-standard configuration settings for my taste.
Just make sure to have gcc, make, and libtinfo-dev if you go to compile ex-vi.
When in doubt, just type :version in command mode and you will see what your "vi" really is.

A: To install vi in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu open the terminal and type:
sudo apt install vim-tiny

This package contains a minimal version of Vim compiled with no GUI and a small subset of features which runs with 'compatible' set, no language bindings, no X/GUI support. This package's sole purpose is to provide the vi binary for base installations.
If a vim binary is wanted, try one of the following more full-featured
packages: vim, vim-nox, vim-athena, vim-gtk, or vim-gtk3.
To edit a file named FILE in vi type:
vi /path/to/FILE

Results of which vi :
/usr/bin/vi

Results of update-alternatives :
$ update-alternatives --list vim
/usr/bin/vim.gtk3
$ update-alternatives --list vi
/usr/bin/vim.gtk3
/usr/bin/vim.tiny
$ update-alternatives --config vi
There are 2 choices for the alternative vi (providing /usr/bin/vi).

  Selection    Path               Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/bin/vim.gtk3   50        auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/vim.gtk3   50        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/vim.tiny   15        manual mode

Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:


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Q: Setting interface NM_CONTROLLED to yes using nmcli in CentOS 7? I'm writing some documentation on configuring the network interfaces for a new CentOS 7 server. The specific section walks through setting the interface to a static IP address.
The steps thus far are:
# nmcli con mod eno16777984 ipv4.address 192.168.1.31/24
# nmcli con mod eno16777984 ipv4.gateway 192.168.1.1
# nmcli con mod eno16777984 ipv4.method manual
# nmcli con mod eno16777984 ipv4.dns 8.8.8.8
# nmcli con reload eno16777984

I notice though, that the above steps don't set the interfaces IP to the static IP set above (via ip addr show), when I restart the network service via systemctl, it breaks the networking config (my connection dies). I log back in via the terminal and add NM_CONTROLLED=yes to the `/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eno16777984, and restart networking again, and it works just fine.
So basically, I just want to know if it's possible to set the NM_CONTROLLED value to yes, using nmcli itself?
I know I can just echo 'NM_CONTROLLED=yes' > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eno16777984, but I was trying to script this out via nmcli itself.
I couldn't find much on this, so it may not be possible, but I thought id at least find out for sure

A: No, it's not possible to change NM_CONTROLLED via nmcli, because that property is not a regular property of NM's connection. It's a special setting to tell NM and ibiscripts whether the device is managed by NM or not.
Side note: nmcli con reload eno16777984 is wrong. First, after nmcli con mod you don't need to reload any connections. Second, reload doesn't accept an argument as it reloads all connections.
Also, when using NM, you would normally not restart network service, but nmcli con up ....


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I absolutely agree. I have used Quark Xpress since version 2 and step and repeat has been a vital part of it. Essential in fact.
Yes, PDF works but PSD does not. Is this a well-known problem then?
Help. PSD files that I have exported from Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo cannot be used in Quark Xpress. I just get the message "Bad file format" when trying to bring them in to Quark. Am I doing something wrong. Surely if this is a bug someone else would have noticed it?
I feel that it should be possible to: 1. Type in the position for a guide (as in InDesign and Quark Xpress. 2. Have guides show outside the document area (again as Indesign and Quark Xpress.
I am one of the many Quark Xpress users who would like to open legacy files from some years back. However, a stable version of Affinity Publisher would sell like hot cakes and I would certainly buy it once they get it working properly.
Thank you. Yes I have used this but it is not a patch on Step and Repeat in Quark Xpress or Indesign. In these programs you simply state how many copies you want and how far apart. Perfect for forms etc.
I consider a step and repeat function essential if Publisher is going to be a replacement for Quark Xpress which I currently use. Step and repeat is essential for forms design.
Thank you very much. My other problem is that I cannot find how to step and repeat. I use this a lot when creating forms.
I agree. I am very impressed so far. However I am getting a grey background fill on all text boxes. What have I done?
I am getting a grey background on both the artistic and frame text. I cannot seem to remove this. What have I done?
I find step and repeat vital when creating forms. I cannot find this feature.