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"This St. Patty's Day, I'll be spreading the design of plants and green furniture at my igloo.
Sounds like you've got quite a plan there, a good one without any luck to doubt. Decorating your igloo is definitely one way to show that St. Patrick's is here, especially with all the green furniture that hit the catalog this month. Using your creativity is also a great tool, there's always endless possibilities in what you can create with your igloo.
Thanks Blueice881 and Babycrier! Both of you will have 5,000 coins awarded to your accounts soon.
The St. Patrick's Parade has now arrived, and there's no doubt that we want to celebrate it. Maybe you'll find yourself a pot of gold for yourself in this lucky season? For this week's Reviewed by You, we would like to know what you enjoy most about it. What is your favorite thing about the St. Patrick's Parade?
I think my favorite thing about the St Patrick's parade is all the new friends you get by talking about how much they like the parade!
I actually dressed up like a leprechaun, although I had on the red nose, which didn't match my green outfit. One question: Could you please fix the glitch with the custom items not showing on our penguins when commenting on the blog? Thanks.
i love all of the different floats on the island! i especially like the float you can find in the forest, as there's so many things on it that you can interact with. the two green puffles on the float are adorable, and you can even find a leprechaun hiding in the tree!
My favourite thing about the St. Patrick's Parade would be racing with my fellow penguins to the forest, chatting about how green the Island is, hovering around the floats and most important of all, DRESSING IN ALL GREEN! The green- ness covered around the Island gives a festive vibe to it.
I like the made with real O berrys puffle O's float!
My Favorite thing is the whole place being GREEN my favorite color!
I like the way you can see the rainbow from all over the island and the follow it to the pot of gold. Also the decorations are amazing, I really love the effort clearly put into this. Thanks everyone who helped create this!
Hail glorious St Patrick, dear saint of our isle. On us thy poor children bestow a sweet smile. And now thou art high in the mansions above, on Erin's green valleys look down in thy love!!
Top of the morning to all of ya!
Happy St Patrick's Day, everyone! I really like how the island is set up. And you also get to find 2 pins, free items, and more!
First of all, I love what you have done to the island: it looks amazing. Almost every room is decorated and the items which are scattered about the island are very cool. I also really enjoy the parade and all the hilarious floats such as Rockhopper-branded cream soda.
My favorite part is the fact that each of the floats aren't moving so that way we carry on our day without worrying about hitching a ride on a float when you just trying to go to the stage to find ruby's ruby behind the- oh wait no spoilers lol.
wonderful stuff you guys are doing with this game.thank you!
I really liked the the parade because it made me feel very nostalgic! I also liked finding the different clothes and spreading the irish cheer. I basically loved the whole St Patrick's theme. Well done!
My favorite things about the party are the floats because they have amazing art styles and just look fantastic. Another favorite of mine are the items, because they are amazing ones that just look fantastic. And my last one is the rooms because of all of the green even places they don't fit in!
I loved the parade itself! I hopped onto a float and waved to everyone! It was an amazing experience!
My favourite thing about the St Patrick's parade is the free items and penguins playing the accordion around the town.
My favourite part of the parade is the awesomely designed floats. They look amazing and I love dancing on them with all my friends 🙂 Having so much fun on the island!
the thing i like about the parade is theres this cool instrument that petey k plays! and the island is all green! there was penguins marching and dancing and i danced with them! it was so fun!
I love the parade its amazing i love especially the music one and also the way it has the advertising it makes me giggle i enjoy that and also all the green it would make my irl sis love it and so do I.
Thanks for this awesome article Lataus, very Well done! And what I enjoyed most is how the community turned all into Leprechauns! Everyone put on their green outfits and it gave the island a cheerful vibe! Green is an amazing color. I love it!
I love that you were very detailed with the St Patrick's update. The snow is even green and the clover seats in the coffee shop are very unique. The island is very festive and I love the pots of gold, clovers, and shamrocks lying around in the snow. The penguins are vibrant and full of spirit.
I liked St. Patrick's Parade very much! But my favorite is island turned green!
1) the floats look incredible and I love how some of them look like they were built by companies in Club Penguin like Puffle Os and Cream Soda.
Or painted themselves in a corner and had to wait for the paint to dry! lol!
I enjoyed how even though everything is just only green, the island is still looking great! All the decorations added to the greenery makes it feel like not just a party, but a giant festival.
I was very exited when the the parade had different sponsors, like cream soda, puffle O's. I also liked when the whole town turned green, Keep it up stu!
I really love the addition of the new accordion. Now I go around the pizza parlor and sing about the weird stuff that happens there.
I don't understand these odd penguin customs yet, but they sure make great songs.
I'm not sure what my favourite part is, I'm just enjoying the identical leprechauns along with the green tint that has been added to everything!! I'm also loving the redecoration in my igloo, just for this season! Right now i'm looking forward to the meet up, and maybe if i'm lucky a mascot!!
I love that the entire island is green! So. Much. GREEN! And each and every one of my penguin friends can join in the parade, including my green puffle!
I loved the decor, it's really fantastic, it reminds me a lot of the Irish culture along with the Brazilian carnival party. This may not have been the initial intention of the party decoration, but that's what it seems to me.
The new and redesigned floats brought back so many fun memories from long ago. Green snow is the best snow! The St. Patrick's Day parties have always been my favorite and will continue to be thanks to the best staff team in the world.
I love how almost the whole island has turned green! Many penguins have their green outfits on, and even the snow is green! The parade is just amazing as it captures those classic floats that make the island more interesting! Many classic items have returned and it brings everyone into the spirit!
What i most enjoyed about the party is the creative and amazing design of the floats, those green decorations and especially, the music! I hope everyone enjoys this awesome party!
The pizza parlor and coffee shop are my favorites. I love the parade floats around the island too. The small details like the rainbow you can see from the iceberg and the four-leafed clovers scattered around really tie everything together! Saint Patrick's Day is definitely one of my favorite events!
The fact that not only most of the island is green, but the stores and their interior are green is awesome! Being a bit Irish makes this event my favorite by far in the game and I hope that everyone and new players enjoy this event while it lasts. P.S. Don't forget to wear green!
I like the designs of the floats, the exterior of the Pizza Parlor, and the Forest! They're decorated so well.
I love all the different designs! It just brings everything from around the island together.


What Are the Benefits of Vitamin Supplements?
For someone living in the developed world and eating a balanced diet, daily dosage with vitamin pills are unnecessary. This can be the specific vitamin or multi-vitamin pills. Nevertheless, there are situations where vitamin pills are necessary. Women in the childbearing age are required to take acid pills, 0.4 to 0.5 micrograms.
The supplements in folic acid pills protect the newborn babies who are affected by neural tube defects. Folic acid supplements are vital for the prevention of heart disease and cancer. Despite this being medically suggested over two decades ago, random trials are yet to be confirmed.
Those who are mainly at risk of osteoporosis will highly benefit from vitamin D supplements. Authorities are not in consensus as to the dosage. A dosage of 1000 international units seems good enough. When considering developing nations, supplements rich in vitamin A reduce the deaths of children. In developed nations like the USA, this is unnecessary.
Taking regular pills cannot be harmful provided you take it in the right dosage. Having one multivitamin pill per day is good. The pill can be harmful if it contains over 2500 UI or a dose of vitamin E above 30 IU. The high vitamin A intake increase the risk of osteoporosis or congenital disabilities. Regular intake of beta-carotene pills increases the individuals' exposure to lung cancer. A daily intake of vitamin C increases a person's chances of suffering from kidney stones.
There are those who love vitamin supplements due to the medical conditions bringing about deficiencies. Those who do not have balanced diets are the poor, alcohol abuses and other dietary restrictions. This also applies to those affected by gut conditions like celiac disease, gastric bypass surgery, chronic diarrhea, and much more. All these conditions interfere with vitamin absorption in our foods.
Those suffering from kidney failure or under dialysis require more vitamin supplements. Most adults get little exposure to sunlight, particularly those suffering from vitamin D. Some people are born with genetic conditions that interfere with vitamin B metabolism. In that case, you must consume foods rich in vitamin B every day.
In several cases, multiple vitamin supplements carry all minerals and nutrients required by the body. These multiple options are safe as they contain small amounts of each body nutrient required. The individual nutrients can be sold as supplements to your diet, and this means they are in larger amounts than the typical multi-vitamin.
They are mainly used to treat iron deficiency and can be therapeutically used when treating certain risk factors or health conditions. For instance, niacin taken in large doses raises cholesterol levels, while folic acid reduces a certain congenital disability referred to as spina bifida.
inconclusive. Some of the theoretical benefits arise from a regular intake of vitamin D pills. Supplements provide extra nutrients from dietary constraints. The diet lags behind in certain health conditions that bring about deficiencies or insufficiencies.
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Q: Why does "inferred" setting in Interface Builder not work? I was using interface builder to create a storyboard for my project. I had a few problems that felt like Xcode bugs, so I restarted xCode. The bugs all felt like the same thing.
The problem was that all my tab bar icons were not showing up in the UITabViewController's child views. They were, however showing up in the actual UITabView. The same thing was happening with the navigation bars in navigation controllers.
I looked this up and found this stack overflow post: Xcode: TabBar not showing in Interface Builder. This fixed my problem and I can now see tab bars and navigation bars, but I don't understand why it won't work when it is on inferred, it used to work.
Here is an image:
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My question is why I have to set "Bottom Bar" to "Translucent Tab Bar" to get it to work, rather than "inferred".
Note: I have already tried cleaning the project and restarting xCode. If answers include code, I would prefer Swift.

A: I think this issue in xCode 7.3.1. Here I have attached some screenshots.

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*These project is created in xCode 7.2. You can see here also inferred is worked fine and you can see tabor.

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*These project is created in xCode 7.3.1 Here at first I have tabbar with dark gray color by default when I add tabbar.

Then I set translucent and again I set inferred, it can be see clearly.

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About a year after this photo was taken, strong winds destroyed the sign.
From my grandparent's photo album. On the back it says, "Allen's station, Kingman, Arizona, 1958. Sign cost $150 a month in electricity to run. (200 bulbs on each side)" The '56 Ford belonged to my father as well, although he gave it to my mother to drive to work at the Arizona Highway Department.
That's my mother, Bobbie, standing next to our 1956 Ford parked halfway in the lube-room. Check out the classic Coke machine. I was standing about where the front, right wheel is, when Cornel Wilde walked up to me, the next year, when Hollywood came to town to film "Edge of Eternity." They used my dad's Flying A in the movie and between one of the takes he stood next to me and said, "You're up kind of early." I said, "Yes." And that was my first conversation with a movie star.
A rare view of the Kingman Motel, which was adjacent to my dad's gas station, to the west. Several years later, a Denny's restaurant went in here, about where the stone pile is.
After church on Sunday, we liked to go out to one of the many ghost towns in Mohave County and have a picnic.
I could invite a friend to go with us and on this Sunday I invited my friend Dan Harshberger and we were into playing "Guns" and we shot up the area with our Fanner Fifties. Here we are having a picnic in a mine tailing, recently worked. Note that my dad is still wearing his service station uniform. He probably worked half a day on Sunday and we picked him up to go on our picnic.
"They were long and lean, and low and mean, back in '55 we were making Thunderbirds."


How do I get workers' compensation insurance?
You need to report any workplace injury to your employer, no matter how slight. Your employer is required by law to ensure a First Report of Injury is submitted to to the Utah Labor Commission's Division of Industrial Accidents within seven (7) days of them being informed of your injury. They do this by reporting the injury to the workers' compensation insurance carrier, who in turn electronically reports the injury.
How does an employer report a fatality or serious injury?
Call UOSH at 801-530-6901 within eight hours of the occurrence of all fatalities; disabling, significant and serious injuries or illnesses.
Workers' compensation insurance is a wage replacement and medical care program for a worker who suffers a work related injury or illness. All employers, with few exceptions, are required to have workers' compensation insurance. It is a no-fault system and is the exclusive remedy available to an employee against an employer who suffers a work related injury or illness. Your employer is required by law to post the workers' compensation insurance carrier's name, address and phone number at your place of employment.
Where can I find answers to workers' compensation questions?
The Industrial Accidents Division of Utah Labor Commission, has staff available that can assist you with your workers' compensation claim. You can reach our workers' compensation intake staff by calling (801)530-6800 or our toll-free number for those employees outside of the Salt Lake area is (800)530-5090. The Commission also has a written publication available that can help an injured employee through the workers' compensation process. This publication entitled, "Employee's Guide to Workers' Compensation" is free of charge and explains the basic rights and responsibilities of the injured employee.
La Comisión también tiene una publicación escrita que puede ayudar a un empleado lesionado a través del proceso de compensación de trabajadores. Esta publicación titulada " Guía del Empleado Sobre El Seguro De Compensación Para Los Trabajadores " es gratuita y explica los derechos y responsabilidades del empleado lesionado.
Who pays for workers' compensation insurance?
The coverage is paid for and maintained by your employer and the benefits are paid by the carrier. The premium cost cannot be deducted from your pay.
See if your employer has workers' compensation insurance by clicking here.
What are my rights for workers' compensation?
Employee's Guide to Workers' Compensation | Guía del Empleado Sobre El Seguro De Compensación Para Los Trabajadores.


We assume that you've already installed and activated plugin. Now you're ready to add stories and setup feeds.
Stories — any kind of viral content (including quizzes) created with OnionBuzz plugin.
Feeds — custom OnionBuzz taxonomies. Feeds are simply categories for your stories.
Find shortcode in the list of stories on Stories tab. Copy and paste to any blog post or page.
Head over Feeds/Main feed tab. This is the feed where all the stories fall. Change feed name and slug if necessary. Click eye button to get full URL.
Additionally, you can display links on all of your feeds with widget (see below).
How to Get URL of Native Plugin Story?
What if you don't want to use shortcodes and display feeds, but still need to get URL to the story? You can get URL to the OnionBuzz story the same way as you get it for feeds. While editing your story, click eye button. The story will be opened in a new browser tab. Copy URL from the browser's address bar and that's it!
You can create multiple feeds (categories) for your stories. While editing your story attach it to one or multiple feeds.
While editing feed itself you can change slug for better SEO. Click eye button to open feed page in new tab. Check address bar of your browser to get feed's URL if you need it.
Go to Appearance/Widgets in WordPress admin sidebar. Add OnionBuzz Categories widget to pages or posts where you want to display custom categories (feeds) created with OnionBuzz plugin.
Go to Appearance/Menus in WordPress admin sidebar. Check that desired menu is selected.
Select OnionBuzz feeds or stories that you want to add to menu. And hit Add to menu button.
Don't forget to Save menu.


I am attempting to print the quizzes for my research and to assist me in different areas as an admin. assistant. However, when I go to a published quiz it will not let me see the full quiz, it only brings up the quiz as if I am taking the test, with one question at a time. Please advise as to how I can print the full quiz questions with the answer choice options.
Darlene Underwood, the only way to do this is to change your quiz settings so the quiz isn't one question at a time and then do a preview. You should then see all of the questions and answer options, and then should then be able to print/save to PDF/etc.
Once you are done just go back and change it back to one question at a time.
Thank you for your response. When I pull up the quizzes, now that they are published, I cannot go into the settings for each specific quiz. When I pull up Preview it does the one question thing. If I go to settings on the left sidebar there is no place I find listed to change the setting for my specific request.
If you don't see/have the edit button then it could be that you lack the right permissions. In this case you would need to talk to the Instructor of the course and/or Canvas Admins at your Institution.


"A very good job today" – that was the verdict from Head Coach Nuno Espírito Santo as Wolves returned from the City Ground with all three points thanks to a 2-1 win against Nottingham Forest.
All the goals came in the second half with both for Wolves from Diogo Jota, making it four in the three games from the in-form midfielder.
Jota broke the deadlock after 47 minutes before Forest substitute Mustapha Carayol responded with a spectacular equaliser only for Jota to glide through for the winner nine minutes from time.
"It was a very good job today," said Nuno.
"We controlled the game and had good possession against a very good team which play very good football.
"We were able to manage the game and show good character but also fantastic organisation – the shape and co-operation between the boys was excellent.
"We had that organisation and were then able to do what we needed to with our possession – getting goals, always threatening, and at the same time being organised.
Nuno is constant in his desire to talk about the team rather than individuals, but understandably was quizzed at length about the performance of the irrepressible Jota.
"Diogo had a good game and has been like that for us since day one," he said.
"And he can still get better as well – everyone can get better.
"All the boys are progressing well as players and the team and the squad is growing.
"We must continue to learn and we had moments last week where we took a big punch by making some mistakes.
"We didn't make the mistakes in those situations today and that shows the character and the growing and the quality of the players.
"Everyone is going to be important, and there were players on the bench today who have been important for us so far.
"Bright (Enobakhare) was on the bench but he started very well for us this season, Ben (Marshall) is coming back into it, Jack (Price) is important to us.
"It is not one moment that is important – it is the contribution of everyone throughout the season.
"We have to continue to work and keep playing the football that we enjoy.
Wolves moved to joint top in the early Sky Bet Championship table, level on points with leaders Leeds, thanks to a fourth away win in five attempts so far this season.
Not that Nuno will be looking!
There were however great scenes of celebration in front of the 2,000 Wolves fans at full time, with Nuno and his staff and players thanking the travelling support.
"We have to thank the fans, it means a lot how they support the team," he said.
"We thank them for being here and it was a great moment.
Wolves are next in action on Tuesday night in the Carabao Cup against Bristol Rovers, before welcoming Barnsley to Molineux in the Championship next Saturday.


Advertising is Amazon's fastest-growing segment: In 2018, Amazon made $10.1 billion from advertising, up 115% from about $4.7 billion in 2017.
While it only controls about 7% of the US digital ad market, the e-tailer is considered one of the only credible threats to the duopoly.
Is Amazon actually stealing spend from the duopoly?
Yes, but the movement is likely concentrated among certain types of advertisers, like CPG brands. Last year, for example, some CPG advertisers reported shifting 50% to 60% of their Google search spend directly to Amazon. That's not a knock on Amazon: CPG brands, like Proctor & Gamble and Unilever, are among the biggest advertisers in the world. For its part, Facebook has gone so far as to publicly recognize the threat posed by Amazon, listing the e-tailer as a competitor in its Q4 earnings.
In general, ad buyers plan to increase spend on Amazon and decrease spend on Facebook and Google. A group of 50 ad buyers representing $14 billion in US ad budget said they expect Amazon's share to double to 12% of total digital ad spend in 2019 versus 2018, per a Cowen survey. Meanwhile, they expect their spend on core Facebook to fall by 3% to 17% by 2020, and Google search to fall by 4% to 25% of total digital ad spend.
While Amazon is taking share from the duopoly, it likely won't overtake either player in the near future. As of 2018, Amazon's ad business ($10.1 billion) remains a fraction of the ad spend that has gone to Facebook ($55 billion) and Google ($116.3 billion). Amazon will narrow that gap some — it's projected to take in sales of $38 billion by 2023, per PRG estimates — but it's not going to end Facebook and Google's reign any time soon.
Search: Earlier this month, we learned that Amazon is reportedly running Sponsored Products display ads in search on its AmazonFresh grocery e-comm platform in the US. The AmazonFresh ad product could foreseeably help Amazon take greater share of CPG brand ad budgets. While these ads could certainly drive conversions through AmazonFresh, brand awareness was noted by some as the superior opportunity for CPGs.
Live-streaming video: In February, we learned that Amazon would launch a live-streaming video version of a home shopping network called "Amazon Live," enabling products to be featured in shows hosted by Amazon talent or brands themselves. The venture offers brands huge potential in terms of discoverability, customer acquisition, and conversions. The reach alone is massive: The shows get central placement in front of Prime's membership of 100 million subscribers across 200 countries along with distribution to non-members on its site.
Video in mobile search: Amazon is reportedly planning to launch video ads in search results on its mobile shopping app. Users are more likely to engage with these ads because of their format (video versus static display) and their placement (at the top of mobile search results). The unit is more likely to appeal to bigger advertisers, which further bodes well for Amazon's growing ad business: Companies will be required to spend a minimum of $35,000.


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Q: Splitting a list into n other lists, and other questions I haven't quite verified the correctness and lack of off-by-one bugs, but bear with me for a moment.
The goal here is to deal/split a deck of cards (defined as a {Card*}) into multiple Decks (which optionally take a {Card*} as a constructor argument).  I want to split the cards in a round-robin fashion, like cards would actually be dealt.  Here's the code I have so far:
{Deck*} split(Integer ways) {
    assert(theCards.size % ways == 0);
    {Card*} empty = {};
    value decks = LinkedList { for (i in 0:ways) empty };
    for(i -> card in entries(theCards)) {
        value deckIndex = i % ways;
        assert (exists current = decks[deckIndex]);
        decks.set(deckIndex, {card, *current});
    }
    return { for(cards in decks) Deck(cards) };
}

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*Is this the correct/idiomatic way to split a list into multiple lists?

*If I wanted to not reverse all the cards (that is, append to the list instead of prepend, or reverse the iterable) how might I do that?

*How would I initialize the values of the decks variable lazily inside the loop?

*Is there any way I can get away from needing the empty variable I have?

*Any chance I could write this without the need for mutable data structures?

Thanks, and sorry for the multi-question (I'd have created this on codereview.stackexchange.com but I don't have the rep to create a ceylon tag there).

A: Not reversed, lazy, no mutable data structures:
alias Card => String;

{{Card*}*} deal({Card*} cards, Integer players)
        => {for (i in 0:players) cards.skipping(i).by(players)};

void run() {
    value suits = {"♦", "♣", "♥", "♠"};
    value ranks = {for (i in 2..10) i.string}.chain{"J", "Q", "K", "A"};
    value deck = {for (suit in suits) for (rank in ranks) rank + suit};
    print(deal(deck.taking(10), 2)); // { { 2♦, 4♦, 6♦, 8♦, 10♦ }, { 3♦, 5♦, 7♦, 9♦, J♦ } }
}

The laziness and immutable style comes at the cost of iterating through all of the cards for each hand. I prefer this eager solution:
{Card[]*} deal({Card*} cards, Integer players) {
    value hands = [for (i in 0:players) SequenceBuilder<Card>()];
    for (card->hand in zipEntries(cards, hands.cycled)) {
        hand.append(card);
    }
    return {for (hand in hands) hand.sequence};
}

That way, you're just iterating the deck once.

Note that Ceylon's enumerated types provide a nifty way to represent things like suits and ranks in a type-safe and object-oriented way, analogously to Java's enums:
abstract class Suit(shared actual String string)
        of diamonds | clubs | hearts | spades {}

object diamonds extends Suit("♦") {}
object clubs extends Suit("♣") {}
object hearts extends Suit("♥") {}
object spades extends Suit("♠") {}

A: How about something like:
alias Deck => {Card*};

{Deck*} split(Deck cards, Integer ways) {
    assert(ways.divides(cards.size));
    return { for i in (0:ways) { for (j->card in entries(cards)) if (j%ways==i) card } };
}

If Deck is actually a class, not very clear from your description, then this:
class Deck(shared {Card*} cards) { ... }

{Deck*} split(Deck deck, Integer ways) {
    assert(ways.divides(deck.cards.size));
    return { for i in (0:ways) Deck { for (j->card in entries(deck.cards)) if (j%ways==i) card } };
}

Note: I have not tested this.


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Risky Business: Monster Sues Beats Alleging Fraudulent Practices
January 7, 2015 by Ted Leave a Comment
As the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicked off yesterday in Las Vegas, attorneys for Monster, LLC and owner Noel Lee were busy filing a lawsuit in a California Superior court against Beats Electronics, LLC, Andre Young (Beats founder better known as Dr. Dre), Paul D. Wachter (a Beats director), Jimmy Iovine (Beats founder), and HTC (a Taiwanese company that allegedly at one time owned a majority interest in Beats). Multiple published reports carried the rather salacious claims by Monster and "Head Monster" Noel Lee about the allegedly nefarious business practices of Beats, its founders, certain directors, and some of its partners.
See more on this surprising litigation…
This dramatic news broke only yesterday and so far there has been no response from Beats or its founders on the matter. However, the complaint by Monster paints a damning portrait of Beats founders Iovine and Dre saying "this case arises out of deliberate acts of corporate betrayal in the consumer electronics industry."
Lee and Monster allege that in September 2011, Beats engaged in a deliberate transaction with a division of HTC – described as a "sham transaction" – solely for the purpose of triggering a "Change of Control" provision in the contract with Monster and in so doing defrauding Lee and Monster of their rightful interests in the Beats line. These rights included "all development, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, distributing, and retail rights."
Absconding with it all…
Beats then proceeded, the complaint alleges, to abscond "with Monster's global distribution chain, key retail relationships, and intellectual property." Monster, it seems, was left holding the bag.
The complaint contains a detailed narrative alleging meetings, conversations, emails and other communications in which Iovine and others made statements that Monster says turned out to be deliberately misleading. The the purpose of these deceptive statements were to manipulate Lee and Monster to sign away their interests…all within just a matter of months before Apple, Inc. (who is NOT a party to this action) agreed to purchase Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion.
The portrayal of the HTC transaction as a fraudulent one triggering the Change of Control clause is a critical element to Monster's complaint. And the company alleges that once it had agreed the Change of Control clause had been triggered, things changed again and…Monster would claim…with obvious intent.
In July 2012, less than thirty days after Beats took over Monster's "Beats By Dr.
Dre" product line, Beats repurchased the shares that had allowed the sham "Change of Control" transition to occur. At that point, Defendants had improperly acquired a company that had been built in a partnership with Monster.
Writing Lee & Monster out of history…
Monster also claims that Beats went on to, essentially, rewrite history to deliberately take Monster's and Lee's contributions to building the Beats brand out of the picture. There may be more than bragging rights at issue with this assertion – clearly Lee and Monster believe they have a legitimate place at the Beats table.
Dr. Dre & Jimmy Iovine
While the suit does not ask for a specific amount, the complaint does throw a few numbers around. For example, Lee, who held a personal interest in Beats beyond their contractual arrangement with Monster, was said to have relinquished a stake worth a lot of money.
Had Lee retained his original 5% interest in Beats, his total stake in the Beats-Apple
deal would have been worth over $100 million. Iovine, Dre, Wachter, and Wood made hundreds of millions of dollars on the Apple-Beats transaction.
The stakes are high…
Of course, all we know about the matter at this point-in-time is from the Monster version of events. And the complaint certainly makes clear just how high the stakes are. For example, we learn that Beats, with sales of $750 million, was more than 60% of Monster's overall revenues in 2012. Monster clearly has a lot riding on a favorable finding from the court.
But it would be wise to reserve judgement. We are likely to learn the other side of the story from the response by Beats at some time in the near future. Until then, the complaint is an interesting first salvo in what will likely either be a quick and quiet settlement…or a multi-year loud and bloody war.
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Textron Test-Fires New Precision Glide Bombs
In this Sept. 8, 2005 file photo, Army Sgt Joshua Clark, left, and maintenance instructor Richard Peebles catch a Shadow 200, an unmanned aerial vehicle as it touches down after a test flight at Fort Huachuca. (A. E. Araiza/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
Military.com | By Kris Osborn
Textron Systems recently test-fired a new lightweight, precision-guided glide bomb from a Shadow drone at Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, in order to showcase the weapon's technology to interested Army and Marine Corps officials.
In development by Textron Systems since March of last year, the Fury is a small 27-inch, 13-pound GPS and laser-guided bomb engineered to fly and fire from medium and large drones, said Christian Leimkuehler, vice president of Textron Precision Weapon Systems.
"It is designed to be effective against moving targets with GPS, INS (inertial navigation systems) and semi-active laser-based seeking capability. We built the weapon to be affordable for a light platform," Leimkuehler added.
The weapon has been successfully fired against targets from a Shadow 200 and a Shadow M2 during testing over the last year. With the Fury, the intent was to design a weapon that would provide a strike technology while still enabling the Shadow UAS' intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR, mission, he added.
"We developed a system that had less than eight-percent impact to the endurance of the platform and it was very effective in allowing the operator to maintain the current conops (concept of operations) while maintaining the weapon. We wanted something that provides minimal impact," Leimkuehler explained.
Unlike the 100-pound Hellfire missiles fired from medium and large-scale drones such as Predators and Reapers, the smaller Fury is engineered to provide smaller and medium-sized drones with a precision-guided light attack option.
The Fury is also configured with a tri-mode fuse which can be set to detonate on impact, after a delay or above a specified target through what's called "height of burst" mode, he said.
There were two successful test-drops of the Fury against static targets from a Shadow 200 UAS at Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz., in August of this year.
At the same time, the weapons semi-active laser guidance is designed to give it the ability to destroy targets on-the-move. Semi-active laser technology works when the weapon can follow or hone in on a laser spot coming from a laser designator.
"We can employ this weapon against moving targets with a designation either from the platform or from a gun location. The weapon is capable of engaging moving targets. It has a fragmentation warhead as well as a warhead that is able to engage lightly armored vehicles," he added.
Army and Marine Corps representatives were on hand at Yuma for the recent test fires. Both the Army and Corps use Shadow drones for reconnaissance. The Fury would give the platform an ability to fire weapons as well.
Other vendors, such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, have tested and developed various precision-guided munitions from Shadow UAS as well, so the Fury joins a field of potential method the Army and Corps could use for the drone.
Although the Fury has primarily been tested on a Shadow UAS, Textron Systems and potential customers are talking about a multiple-load arming possibility for larger UAS platforms.
"Three Fury on a Hellfire rail allows current Reaper and Predator operators to have Hellfire on their rail as well as Fury," Leimkuehler added.
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I wasn't going to get into this series. I really wasn't. But then it just sucked me in!
Whilst it's fairly contrived and definitely made-for-TV, it's just fun. I've spoken to a number of architects that despise it for setting unrealistic expectations for their clients in terms of timings and how long it takes to get resource consents. But it's still just fun.
It became even more fun when my 9 year old daughter expressed that she liked the show. I ran her and her brother down to the site six weeks ago to show them. At that time the houses were all under shrink-wrap, but she loved getting a feel for things.
Spotting Mark Richardson in the wild was also fun.
I have absolutely loved snuggling with my daughter on the couch watching each episode for the last couple of weeks.
Last Saturday we made our way to the Open Homes. Amazingly my kids coped with the 2hr15 wait to get to the houses, and then the 1hr00 required to walk through and view. No complaints. No fractiousness. This is the benefit of them being completely engaged.
I have to compliment EyeWorks and MediaWorks for the event. The Neighbourhood was out in force, flogging baking, drinks, sausages… pretty much everything. It was great to support the local school. It was so festive. Everything was smooth – I was most impressed with the Traffic Management and the volume of staff that were keeping things moving and calm.
A highlight was a visit from Cate Owen who came and found me with branded hats and drink bottles for my kids. That really made their experience! Thanks Cate!
Having seen the houses? My favorites are still my favorites. There is a definite difference between the houses in terms of finishing and quality. The overwhelming crowd favorites are Jo and Damo, and their home has some pretty nice detail.
Overall, I can't wait to see the final result. I've enjoyed this Season.
My ex. has had to go to Europe for work (accompanied by her usual day-to-day support – Grandma!) and with our kids being in school, it fell to me to be Mr Mum.
So, I packed and moved from my apartment in Grey Lynn to her house in Howick. (It was more straightforward for me to be in Howick as the schooling is close, as are the extra-curricular activites).
Apart from her calling me in panic from the flight to Hong Kong on the first day to check that I remembered to collect the kids from school, it has been smooth sailing.
However, by 'smooth sailing', I mean a 'complete and utter change-up of my routine, massive reduction in available daytime hours to do my usual work, earlier rising, school lunch making, school uniform/PE gear washing and ironing, dinner cooking, writing proposals and actual work starting at 8pm'.
The initial shock to the system passed after the first weekend. It's the common idea of 'oh, another Monday. We did this last week already' that makes things easier. I am proud of the fact that my kids got to school on time, in good condition, with requisite food, and were picked up on time, every single day. I got them to gymnastics and ice-skating class on time. This is winning.
I have settled in to the routine but I have felt utterly isolated. I have had to fit my life around those of my kids. I work longer hours. I don't get to see anybody. My usual people are reduced to calls, emails, texts and Facebook status updates.
So this is what working solo mothers do, huh? It's exhausting. I have a new respect and a deeper understanding of how other people live.
Sidenote: Living in Howick and working in Auckland-town is untenable. You lose 2hrs to traffic each and every day. I've not missed this at all.


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A Letter To Teft Of The Book Bless The Beasts And The Children Used For Ideas For Similar Assignment
Dear Teft: As I read about you, I wonder why, although you have a genteel background, you chose a rebellious form of behavior. You wired cars, took them for joy rides, as well as other forms of mischief. It was not, however, your criminal background that caused your parents to punish you by sending you to camp at Box Canyon. Instead, it was because of your actions when you ...view middle of the document...
It was said about you that "as far was you were concerned, Exeter could shove itself up its own anal orifice." Not all of your behavior was rebelling towards your station in life in my mind. Some of your actions were to protect your friends, the Bedwetters. In some instances, it was heroic. One example was after you and the rest of the boys had stolen that white Chevy truck and had stopped to get some food. Some locals questioned why six "milk drinkers" would be out that late, so you and the rest of the boys left, only to be followed by the locals and almost run off the road. When you stopped, the locals noticed the car you were driving was wired. The locals said that they were going to call the police. You then pulled out the . 22 rifle you had taken from the camp and shot it off, protecting the Bedwetters by scaring off the locals. That judge was not easy on you, probably because you had a record. Well, I hope to see you soon after you get out of jail.Sincerely Yours,Zach Jones
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#if !defined(ALIZE_ConfigFileReaderRaw_h)
#define ALIZE_ConfigFileReaderRaw_h

#if defined(_WIN32)
#if defined(ALIZE_EXPORTS)
#define ALIZE_API __declspec(dllexport)
#else
#define ALIZE_API __declspec(dllimport)
#endif
#else
#define ALIZE_API
#endif

#include "ConfigFileReaderAbstract.h"

namespace alize
{
  class Config;

  /// Convenient class used to read a configuration from a raw file
  /// A raw format is a non-standard format.
  /// You can create your own reader with a particular format
  /// by using this class as an example.
  ///
  /// @author Frederic Wils  frederic.wils@lia.univ-avignon.fr
  /// @version 1.0
  /// @date 2003
  /// @warning Do not share files saved with this format. Use it as a
  ///      temporary and personnal backup.

  class ALIZE_API ConfigFileReaderRaw : public ConfigFileReaderAbstract
  {

  public :

    /// Creates a new ConfigFileReaderRaw object to read parameters from a
    /// raw file
    /// @param f the file to read (path + name)
    ///
    explicit ConfigFileReaderRaw(const FileName& f);

    virtual ~ConfigFileReaderRaw();

    /// Reads the configuration from the file and stores it in a
    /// Config object. The object is reseted beforehand
    /// @param c Config objet to store the loaded parameters
    /// @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs
    /// @exception FileNotFoundException
    ///
    virtual void readConfig(Config& c);

    virtual String getClassName() const;

  private :

    bool operator==(const ConfigFileReaderRaw&) const;/*!Not implemented*/
    bool operator!=(const ConfigFileReaderRaw&) const;/*!Not implemented*/
    const ConfigFileReaderRaw& operator=(
               const ConfigFileReaderRaw&); /*!Not implemented*/
    ConfigFileReaderRaw(const ConfigFileReaderRaw&);   /*!Not implemented*/
  };

} // end namespace alize

#endif // !defined(ALIZE_ConfigFileReaderRaw_h)

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package net.community.chest.net.proto.text.smtp;

import net.community.chest.CoVariantReturn;
import net.community.chest.net.proto.text.TextProtocolResponse;

public class SMTPResponse extends TextProtocolResponse {
    /**
     *
     */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -4731222900548772370L;
    /**
     * Response code value - non-positive if not initialized
     */
    private int _rspCode    /* =0 */;
    public int getRspCode ()
    {
        return _rspCode;
    }

    public void setRspCode (int rspCode)
    {
        _rspCode = rspCode;
    }
    /**
     * Default constructor
     */
    public SMTPResponse ()
    {
        super();
    }
    /**
     * Overrides the response code and response line string
     * @param rspCode response code value
     * @param rspLine response line (may be null/empty).
     * Caveat emptor: the toString override returns
     * the set response line
     */
    public void setResponseAndLine (int rspCode, String rspLine)
    {
        setRspCode(rspCode);
        setResponseLine(rspLine);
    }
    /**
     * Sets the current response value
     * @param rspCode response code to be used
     * @param rspText response text (without the code) to be appended.
     * If be null/empty, then response line contains only the string
     * value of the response code
     * @see #_rspLine
     */
    public void setResponse (int rspCode, String rspText)
    {
        if ((rspText != null) && (rspText.length() > 0))
            setResponseAndLine(rspCode, String.valueOf(rspCode) + " " + rspText);
        else
            setResponseAndLine(rspCode, String.valueOf(rspCode));
    }
    /**
     * Sets the current response without any associated text
     * @param rspCode response code to be used.
     * @see #setResponse(int, String)
     */
    public void setResponse (int rspCode)
    {
        setResponse(rspCode, null);
    }
    /*
     * @see net.community.chest.net.proto.text.TextProtocolResponse#reset()
     */
    @Override
    public void reset ()
    {
        super.reset();
        setRspCode(0);
    }
    /**
     * Pre-initialized constructor
     * @param rspCode response code to be used
     * @param rspText response text (without the code) to be appended.
     * If be null/empty, then response line contains only the string
     * value of the response code
     */
    public SMTPResponse (int rspCode, String rspText)
    {
        setResponse(rspCode, rspText);
    }
    /**
     * Pre-initialized constructor
     * @param rspCode response code to be used
     */
    public SMTPResponse (int rspCode)
    {
        this(rspCode, null);
    }
    /**
     * @param rspCode response code to be checked
     * @return TRUE if in [200-299] range (inclusive)
     */
    public static boolean isOKResponseCode (final int rspCode)
    {
        return (200 <= rspCode) && (rspCode < 300);
    }
    /*
     * @see net.community.chest.net.proto.text.TextProtocolResponse#isOKResponse()
     */
    @Override
    public boolean isOKResponse ()
    {
        return isOKResponseCode(getRspCode());
    }

    public boolean isSameResponse (final SMTPResponse rsp)
    {
        if (rsp == null)
            return false;
        if (this == rsp)
            return true;

        final int    r1=getRspCode(), r2=rsp.getRspCode();
        if (r1 == r2)
            return true;

        // if not same value, then declare "equals" if both response codes not initialized
        if (r1 <= 0)
            return (r2 <= 0);

        return false;
    }
    /* @return TRUE if same response code set
     * @see java.lang.Object#equals(java.lang.Object)
     */
    @Override
    public boolean equals (Object obj)
    {
        final Class<?>    oc=(obj == null) ? null : obj.getClass();
        if (oc != getClass())
            return false;

        return isSameResponse((SMTPResponse) obj);

    }
    /* @return response code
     * @see java.lang.Object#hashCode()
     */
    @Override
    public int hashCode ()
    {
        return Math.max(getRspCode(),0);
    }
    /*
     * @see net.community.chest.net.proto.text.TextProtocolResponse#clone()
     */
    @Override
    @CoVariantReturn
    public SMTPResponse clone () throws CloneNotSupportedException
    {
        return getClass().cast(super.clone());
    }

    /**
     * @param lval response line from the SMTP server to be checked
     * @return code in response line (<0 => continuation line - the positive
     * value is the original response code)
     * @throws IllegalStateException if parsing errors encountered
     */
    public static final int getResponseCode (final CharSequence lval) throws IllegalStateException
    {
        final int   nLen=(null == lval) ? 0 : lval.length();
        if (nLen <= 2)    // must have at least 3 digits of response code
            throw new IllegalStateException("null/empty response line (len=" + nLen + ")");

        for (int    nRsp=0; nRsp < nLen; )
        {
            final char    ch=lval.charAt(nRsp);
            if ((ch >= '0') && (ch <= '9'))
            {
                nRsp++;

                /*         Handle special case where response line is entirely made of
                 * the response code - in this case, we will reach "nLen" with all digits
                 * text.
                 */
                if (nRsp < nLen)
                    continue;
            }

            // at this stage "nRsp" is the number of digits in the response
            final CharSequence    numSeq=lval.subSequence(0, nRsp);
            final String          numVal=numSeq.toString();
            // Note: no need to catch NumberFromatException since we reached this place for digits only
            final int             nErr=Integer.parseInt(numVal);
            if ((nErr < 100) || (nErr >= 1000))    // should not happen (all response codes are 3 digits)
                throw new IllegalStateException("unexpected zero/negative value in response=" + lval);

            // check if this is a continuation - if so, then return a negative value
            if ((nRsp < nLen) && ('-' == ch))
                return (0 - nErr);
            else
                return nErr;
        }

        throw new IllegalStateException("unexpected response loop exit");
    }
    /**
     * Analyzes the input and extracts the response information
     * @param lval input to be checked
     * @param rsp (modifiable) response object to be set with parsing results.
     * If null then a null return value is returned
     * @return response information - same as input rsp (null if not a
     * valid response). Note: if it is a continuation line, the response will
     * be extracted anyway, but the returned error code will be negative.
     * @see #getResponseCode(CharSequence lval)
     */
    public static final SMTPResponse getFinalResponse (final CharSequence lval, final SMTPResponse rsp)
    {
        if (null == rsp)
            return null;

        try
        {
            rsp.setResponseAndLine(getResponseCode(lval), lval.toString());
            return rsp;
        }
        catch(IllegalStateException ise)
        {
            return null;
        }
    }
    /**
     * Analyzes the input and extracts the response information
     * @param lval input to be checked
     * @return response information (null if not a valid response). Note: if it
     * is a continuation line, the response will be extracted anyway, but the
     * returned error code will be negative.
     * @see #getResponseCode(CharSequence lval)
     */
    public static final SMTPResponse getFinalResponse (final CharSequence lval)
    {
        return getFinalResponse(lval, new SMTPResponse());
    }
}


The school CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is located in the area WARD 3 - NORTH BLOCK WARD of KOHIMA URBAN. CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is in the KOHIMA district of NAGALAND state. pincode is 797001. CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL KOHIMA URBAN was establised in the year 1967. The management of CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is Pvt. Unaided.
CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is a P + UP & Sec/H.Sec school. The coeducation status of CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is Co-Educational. The residential status of CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is No. and the residential type of CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is Not Applicable. The total number of students in CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL KOHIMA URBAN is 160. The total number of teachers in CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL KOHIMA URBAN is 19. The total number of non teaching staff in CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is 2. The medium of instruction in CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is English.
The total number of class rooms in CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is 13. The total number of other rooms in CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is 0. The total number of black boards in CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is 13. The total number of books in the library of CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is 4000. The total number of computers in CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL KOHIMA URBAN is 8. The student teacher ratio of CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL KOHIMA URBAN is 8.00000. The student classroom ratio of CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is 12.00000. The pass percentage of CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is 0.00000. The percentage of students who scored first class in CHILDREN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is 0.00000.


The founders of Purely Diamonds have been in the diamond industry for over 30 years. We are specialists in the design and manufacture of diamond jewellery, everything from rings and earrings to bracelets, bangles and pendants. We are also experts in the manufacture of Platinum pieces as well as 18-carat yellow and white gold.
Having built up an enviable reputation selling to High Street retailers, we recently took the decision to offer our products direct to public. Why? We can offer substantially lower prices when we sell direct to customers. The benefit is High Street quality without the High Street price.
Almost every item you see on this website has been designed and manufactured in-house in our workshop in London. In fact, we are one of the few genuinely in-house manufacturers still around today. We have a highly skilled team of craftsman who we have been working with for many years.


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I've Heard that on March 29 Paypal Changed their Policy, Saying that "to continue to hold and use balance at PayPal like you do today, you will need a linked balance account, which for your convenience we will establish and automatically link to your current PayPal account."
This probably means my that I have to confirm Bank Account. The problem is that I don't really have Access to it, my folks do... but I'm not sure that I can convince them well enough to confirm it.
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It's March 9th which means it's that time of the year again and your special day is here! We hope you have an awesome day with lots of birthday fun, gifts, happiness and most definitely, lots of cake! Here's to another year!


Telegram is a widely used text messenger. It is used by millions on phones and laptops.
Bots in Telegram are small programs that can chat with users right in the Telegram messenger app like a chatbots. You can learn more about Telegram bots here.
With Aimylogic you can easily create a bot for Telegram without programming skills. Just design a bot in Aimylogic and connect it to the Telegram channel.
You have to complete a couple steps to connect your bot to Telegram.
Open your Telegram messenger client and search for botfather in the contacts list. This bot helps to register your Telegram bot. Click on it and follow for it's suggestions to obtain a bot's token.
Once you've finished, botfather replies with unique token for your bot in Telegram. Just copy it and go for the next step.
In Aimylogic click on Channels menu and then click on Telegram button. A settings page appears. Paste your Telegram token here and then click on Connect.
After that you can return to the Telegram messenger client. Click on the link of your bot to start chatting with it.


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Offenders can now use smartphone as breathalyzer
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The Reno Municipal Court released a new smartphone breathalyzer system that detects alcohol use by offenders under court supervision, officials said Thursday.
The system allows the court to preform random sobriety checks using an app and Bluetooth technology, city officials said in a news release. The technology is also less expensive than other electronic monitoring systems and less intrusive than an ankle bracelet, officials said.
"Almost everyone has a cell phone these days, so the new system works great for those who work for school schedule prevents them from frequent testing at the court," Administrative Judge Dorothy Nash Holmes of the Reno Municipal Court said in a statement on Thursday. "It enables participants to comply with their conditions of probation with minimal disruption to their daily lives and also have quicker contact with their supervising officer."
The system checks the person's block alcohol concentration level using a a pocket-sized breathalyzer. The system was created by Outreach Smartphone Monitoring and uses the offender's biometric information to prevent fraud, officials said.
The app also works as a GPS to alert the court when an offender travels into a restricted zone. It also allows supervising officers to send messages reminding offenders of any upcoming court dates.
The technology is being used by the Marshals Alternative Sentencing Unit. Authorities provide offenders with an alternative to jail by supervising those addicted to drugs or alcohol. They also require the offenders to undergo court-ordered counseling.
The National Drug Court Institute reported that for every one dollar spent on treatment courts, communities save an estimated $27 in societal costs such as incarceration, social services and emergency hospitalization of addicts.


The advent of colossal cargo ships and a steady growth in sea borne trade signals a bright future for the ports sector. Andrew Mylius launches the ports and harbours special with an industry overview.
Experts say the global shipping industry is depressed. But despite this the World Bank forecasts international seaborne trade will grow at 4% a year in the next decade.
Imports and exports are growing as economies continue to expand in many of the world's developing nations. While bulk volumes are unlikely to get larger, increasing trade in manufactured goods is creating huge demand for container shipping. Regardless of recession, south-east Asia and India alone need more than 100 new deep water container terminals. China, Australia, the Middle East, African countries, and Chile, Argentina and Brazil continue to pursue ports sector growth.
Water transport accounts for 90% of freight travelling between the European Union and outside countries, and 30% of goods moved within the EU. Last year the European Commission proposed funding to integrate short-sea shipping into its Trans European Transport Network, TENS. Under the scheme, road and rail freight would, where viable, be transported by ship. Parallel proposals, outlined last year in the UK Government's White Paper on integrated transport, favour diverting a minimum of 3.5% road freight to water, bringing total domestic water borne tonnage to around 11%.
Developments in the ports and harbours sector are dictated by trends in shipping. The industry worldwide is business-led and tends to be reactive. Demand will increasingly be for 'hub' ports serving the largest inter- continental ships. From these, goods will be distributed via smaller ships to satellite ports, or onto national road and rail networks.
Hub ports will increasingly specialise in handling particular cargoes - bulk, containers or roll-on roll-off. A premium is placed on the ability to handle large quantities of cargo very fast in order to maximise ships' earnings at sea. Where there are already well established ports - in the UK, Europe, North America, Hong Kong and Singapore - a lot of future work will come in the form of port expansion and upgrading.
Change in the ports sector is being driven by a new generation of 'super post-Panamax' container ships. The vessels are fast enough to make inter- oceanic navigation economically viable without using the Panama Canal. As a result they have broken free of the size constraints the Canal imposed.
Post-Panamax ships are enormous. Until the mid-80s the biggest container ships carried up to 2,500 TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units). Now 6,000 TEU ships are fairly common and operators are looking at buying vessels of 8,000 TEUs. UK ship-broker the Baltic Exchange anticipates 14,000 TEU monsters appearing on the horizon in the near future. In 30 years drafts have increased from 9.75m to 15m and overall length from 180m to 347m.
Ports are responding to these nautical giants with massive dredges to make approach channels navigable and provide deep berthing. UK port owner- operator Associated British Ports reports dredging is by far its largest cost, accounting for 7% of annual expenditure. Since few if any harbours are naturally deep enough to accommodate super post-Panamax ships, new and maintenance dredging will be a major hub port activity, world-wide.
Dredging is carried out more or less unfettered by concern for the environment along the coasts and on the estuaries of developing countries. However, in Europe and the UK all major dredging is subject to environmental impact assessments and the port is normally required to mitigate or compensate any loss of natural habitat.
Faced with stiff competition for hub port business from rivals throughout continental Europe, port authorities are keen to find rapid, creative solutions to limit damage to the environment and objections from its guardians. There is likely to be increasing demand for investigative studies including pollution tracking, measurement of risk from contaminated sediments, assessment of behaviour in seabed materials, sediment erodability and erosion resistance, sedimentation studies and coastal and offshore design.
The advent of post-Panamax ships is demanding jetties and quay sides that are longer and of far higher specification than is presently normal. Ships now carry as many as 8,000 containers stacked 22 wide. Loading and unloading requires cranes with a reach of 50m which place huge load demands on the quay side. In addition to rail-mounted cranes, ports are also now using colossal mobile gantries mounted on multiple rubber tyres. Machines like the Gottwald 360 are capable of lifting 12t through a 27m radius. Containers are being stacked eight-high.
Hub ports will account for a large proportion of international trade but be relatively few in number. In the UK, for example, Felixstowe, Southampton, Humberside, Immingham, Hull, Thamesport and - if it gets consent - Dibden Bay are the only real hub port contenders.
One of the consequences of the post-Panamax revolution is that ships that are now classed as large and medium-size will be put to work on routes running between hub and satellite ports.
Deepening and upgrading, albeit on a slightly smaller scale, will have to be carried out at virtually every port that wants to remain commercially viable in the future.


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Can microcredit improve conditions for women?
With nearly 80% of microcredits being granted to women, we often hear of microcredit's force of empowerment and its role in the evolution of the female condition in developing countries. Looking at the still limited studies on the subject, it would appear that things are rather different in reality.
The term "empowerment", describes the act of taking charge of one's life on an economic, professional, familial and social level. The question still under debate is whether microfinancing services can help women, traditionally victims of discrimination, along the path to a certain level of autonomy in the private as well as the public sphere.
For ten years, following the long battle led by Muhammad Yunus 1, the World Bank and the various NGOs and organisations involved in the fight against poverty have been joining their voices to the arguments affirming the benefits of favouring women in the distribution of loans privilégier les femmes dans l'octroi des crédits. The 2007 microfinance summit report 2 estimated that microfinance affected 79 million women worldwide in 2006.
Studies in the field conclude that the results are by and large positive: improved purchasing power and access to healthcare, greater powers of decision-making and geographical mobility and a reduction in domestic violence. In Afghanistan 4, 74% of microfinance clients participate in their family's financial decisions as opposed to 53% of non-clients... In Jordan 4, according to a study carried out in 2007, 66% of women and 77% of men participating in microfinance programmes declared an improvement in their diet, 46% of the women and 50% of the men declared an improvement in their health and 41% of women declared an improvement in their children's education.
It would appear that women are playing a larger role in the economy of countries where microfinance services are developing. According to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), more than 60% of people at the head of small and medium sized businesses in Africa are women. In 2008, the Indonesian Office of Statistics recorded that 60 to 80% of small and medium sized businesses in the country were managed by women. These same businesses represent 97.1% of the country's labour force.
However, other analyses such as that of researcher Isabelle Guérin 5, draw attention to collateral effects which reveal how much ground remains to be covered with regard to female emancipation: misappropriation of funds by men, loss of control of businesses as soon as they become productive, the increase in responsibilities, problems of overwork, fatigue and growing stress… Another problem is the limited range of activities open to women: the concentration of women in the field of arts and crafts may, for example, create a level of competition that is detrimental to everyone's chances of success.
In 2009, the United Nations reaffirmed in a report 6 that the increased participation of women in the workplace was not enough to change inequalities on a daily basis. Women are still over represented in the informal economy, where jobs are often precarious, underpaid and not protected by official standards. As already underlined in a report in 2003 7: "satisfying clients' needs is not enough to resolve the problem of gender", i.e. those concerning equality and fairness between the sexes.
The analysis of informal practices in the field 8 would even appear to point to the consideration that, on a long term basis, microcredit should not be favoured as a tool in the fight against female poverty. Women's responsibility in the family economy suggest that micro savings accounts would be more appropriate, replacing debt with the savings and favouring the logics of investment rather than reimbursement.
Even if there are no "miracle solutions" to poverty, studies in the field 9, show that women are on the move, but it is still up to the participants in the microfinance system to adapt their services to their situation and real options. This is the cost of the hoped-for equality; it does not hang on the thread of microcredit alone. 10
1 "The money entering a household through a woman brings more benefits to the family as a whole," excerpt from "Creating a World Without Poverty" by Muhammad Yunus – founder of the Grameen Bank and Nobel Peace prize winner in 2006 - with Alan Jolis, published by. Jean-Claude Lattés, 1998
2 Microcredit Summit Campaign report 2007
3 "Afghan women gain socio-economic empowerment through microfinance, but challenges remain", Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan (MISFA), July 2009 http://www.misfa.org.af/
4 National Impact and Market Study of Microfinance in Jordan, 2007, written by PlaNet Finances in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance in Jordan, and the Agence Française de Développement (French Development Agency)
5 Isabelle Guérin, "Femmes et Microfinance, Espoirs et désillusions de l'expérience indienne", (Women and Microfinance, Hopes and Disillusions of the Indian Experience) Publisher: Editions des archives contemporaines, March 2009
6 Un report, "Women's Control over Economic Resources and Access to Financial Resources", October 2009.
7"A Guide to Gender Sensitive Microfinance" FAO (ASEG), April 2002
8"Women, Microfinance and Savings: Lessons and proposals", R. Vonderlack and M.Schreiner, BIM, 2004
9 According to latest International Microcredit Summit report: 84.2% of the poorest microcredit clients are women.
10 Elisabeth Hoffmann, coordinator of the Genre en Action (Gender in Action) network:
"Microcredit can only be productive if accompanied by high quality training, efficient social services to assist women with their family responsibilities, support for their organisations, better access to political positions in order to promote their needs and interests and - last but not least – men, who are also changing."
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I was recently asked what I thought was the difference between a Business Architect and a Business Analyst.
Broadly speaking I see the difference as being similar to the difference between an Enterprise Architect and a Solution Architect. i.e. one works at a Strategic level across the whole enterprise and the other works at a project level on a specific business domain or capability area in detail.
However the distinctions for Business Architects and Business Analysts are often far less clear.
This is because the terminology used by different organisations to describe a Business Analyst 's roles and responsibilities varies considerably from one organisation to another, and even fewer organisations have fully defined the role of a Business Architect.
Very often someone called a Business Analyst may in fact be working either as a Business Strategist, or as a Business Architect or as a Systems Analyst or as all three roles.
The following table illustrates the generic differences as I see them.


*As always, when it comes to game integrity we reserve the right to update the game without a poll, and on that basis we decided to suspend polling for this update. We're also still salty about sailing.
Is this a members only event?
*hops on Terrorbird mount and scuttles away* I loathe the Wildy!
I KNEW THIS DAY WOULD COME I CAN'T BELIEVE U ADDED EOC WITHOUT POLLING IT I'VE BEEN A LOYAL MEMBER SINCE 1749 AND AM FURIOUS THAT YOU WOULD RUIN THE GAME LIKE THIS AFTER ALL THE TIME I'VE INVESTED INTO THIS GAME. I'VE CANCELLED MY MEMBERSHIP ON THIS ACCOUNT AND ON MY 73 BOTTING ACCOUNTS WHICH MADE ME OVER $20000, ENOUGH TO BUY A BLUE AUDI IN REAL LIFE SO GF JAGEX.


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25 Years of SXSW Film Festival – Jamie Babbit
To commemorate the 25th edition of the SXSW Film Festival, we continue our weekly alumni spotlight on careers launched, artists discovered, powerful performances, and more with filmmaker Jamie Babbit.
After her groundbreaking debut film But, I'm a Cheerleader, Babbit world premiered her third feature, The Itty Bitty Titty Committee at SXSW 2007, where it earned the Grand Jury Award for Narrative Feature Competition. In 2015, she brought her ensemble dark comedy Fresno, starring Natasha Lyonne, Judy Greer, Molly Shannon, Fred Armisen, Ron Livingston, and Aubrey Plaza. Babbit has worked consistently in television and directed multiple of episodes of hit television series such as, Gilmore Girls, Looking, Girls, Silicon Valley (also co-executive producer), and more!
We are pleased to share her #SXSWFilm 25 story with you.
"I love SXSW because I made a film about a ragtag punk group of ladies who blow up phallic symbols in DC (The Itty Bitty Titty Committee) and not only did SXSW show it, but the jury gave us an award. The SXSW audiences are fearless and the programmers aren't scared to show some out there films.
I'll never forget that at our Itty Bitty Titty Committee premiere at The Alamo Drafthouse, a petite shy woman whom I would NEVER think would like this punk film just started crying as she came up to me afterwards whispering 'it's just so empowering'. This encounter is why I make movies. Thank you, SXSW!"
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Will the next iPhone charge wirelessly?
US pushes ahead with new rules for Chinese firms
Elon Musk passes Bill Gates to become world's second-richest person
Happy 10th birthday, iPhone
You may never have to plug in your iPhone again.
Apple has joined an industry group devoted to wireless charging, strengthening existing rumors that the next iPhone will charge without a cord. The Wireless Power Consortium, which is made up of some 200 organizations that promote a single wireless charging standard, confirmed to CNNTech that Apple joined the group last week.
IPhone rumors swirl months before each new version is announced, and hype around the so-called 'iPhone 8" is particularly high: Apple(AAPL) is expected to unveil a major redesign of the this fall to mark the 10-year anniversary of the smartphone.
The company has already shown interest in doing away with cumbersome cords. The Apple Watch charges wirelessly, provided consumers spend $79 on a magnetic charging dock. And the latest MacBook now comes with only one USB port.
Related: Apple stock nears a record high
Apple would also create another iPhone revenue stream by selling a wireless charging station separately. The feature would simplify charging for smartphone owners. Rather than plugging in one's phone, a user would only need to place it on the charging dock.
Apple said in a statement Monday it was joining the Wireless Power Consortium to contribute its ideas as wireless charging standards are developed.
As for the speculated possible features of the next iPhone, other rumors include an edge-to-edge display, a glass body and the removal of the home button.
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The Ghanaian Hiphop scene is worked up thanks to a rap Cold War between two of its heavyweights, M.anifest and Sarkodie. Tracks have been released, shots have been fired, sides have been taken, debates rage on over who's better, the beef has permeated I daresay, the national discourse and Ghanaian illustrators are flexing their design muscles and expressing their opinions and expectations through their work.
WORLASI is a multi-talented songwriter, painter, rapper, singer, beat maker and imho, poet.
POETRA ASANTEWAA is an amazing and equally talented wordsmith, fashion designer and creative honcho á la yobbings. She's possibly Ghana's dopest spoken word act.
Anyhow, both creatives are set to release bodies of work just after each other, the former I believe on the last day of September and the latter next month.
Fate? Well isn't that the possibility!
I'm excited for both projects, Worlasi's Nus3 which is Ewe for Strength and Poetra's in your face, jaw gaping title, Motherfucktitude: the NAKED ones.
I've no idea what direction Poetra's work is gonna take. My guess is, a planet load of narratives that honestly explore feminism, race and humanity in beautiful rhyme that doesn't scream amateur hour accompanied by that sensual voice that roots you to the spot. More importantly however, based off her Instagram poetry stints, I am confident the potency of her thoughts will dump you in a dark tunnel where that blinding yet difficult to grasp light at the end is wisdom we badly need.
And with a title like that, I'm ready to first motherfuck my ears into euphoria then scream my lungs out, motherfucktitude!
That's the cover for Worlasi's mixtape. It beautifully captures the spirit of the "you're your own master and slave" mantra. Let's pretend that's me instead of Worlasi in the photo. I'm more a slave to my whims, easily letting negativity get to me instead of picking myself up like a boss and screaming motherfuck the world and just doing me (forgive me, Drake's Over is blasting through my ears atm).
The hashtag, #50DaysOfCharacterSketch created by prolific Nigerian artist, Collyde Prime and his company of creative virtuosos is a leaf right out of comedian Jerry Seinfeld's hack to excellence, "don't break the chain".
The aim is to post an illustration of an original character bearing no semblance to popular and ubiquitous superheroes, every day, for 50 days, in whatever medium (digital, ink, pencil etc.) on social media. Open to everyone, it is an effort to promote African art, polish up skills, gain new ones, have fun and most importantly, reap the benefits of ten thousand hours (1200 actually).
Check out some illustrations from the project so far.
You can also watch Collyde Prime's comic animation below.
Agorkoli, Cause of Hogbetsotso, an animation that tells the story of the migration of the Ewe people, premieres later this evening at the British Council and I am excited about it. Somewhat.
Somewhat because the trailer for the animation released a few weeks ago kind of zapped my initial excitement from last year. As my illustrator/animator bud Kobe explained to me, the process of animation is rather hard work and even more overburdening in Ghana thanks mainly to very limited collaboration between artists, leaving usually just one guy to do everything – draw backgrounds, characters, animate, add effects, write and direct the animated films – among other reasons. I should thus be considerate and considerate I am. This is a start at the very least and I look forward to the future with much optimism.
That notwithstanding, I'm more interested to go see what manner of storytelling is employed in the animation; the complexity of characters, subtle cultural references, the protagonist vs antagonist angle etc.
I'm especially looking forward to what creative twist they put to the infamous story of the wicked King of Notsie, Agorkoli. Other good things to look forward to are the musical scores by rising afrobeat crooner Worlasi amongst others.
Agorkoli, Cause of Hogbetsotso should be fun and I pray the universe it lifts me off the ground, even if by just an inch.
So I heard today is world poetry day, cool, but poetry is not what's on mind this morn.
Well in a sense, it is.
For so long, we've heard everyone echo how uncreative we as a people are, and blah blah blah.
Then there's the counter argument that no, we are indeed creative but it is just the funds that are lacking.
To an extent, I'd go with the latter assertion. To an extent because I do not believe it is so much the money that matters, I believe it is the method.
Ghanaians are very creative, hands down! Only problem I see is with implementation. If you're a graphic designer, I am sure you would have encountered a ton of clients who have crazy ideas but just lack the know-how to execute!
So where does the problem stem from? Way I see it, it's in how we are brought up; our education system.
Let's take poetry for example. Growing up, poetry to me was something for the elite of elites, and an highly intellectually stimulating thing. Walk in people like Mutombo da Poet, Rhyme Sonny and Sir Black and I'm like WOW! They break down issues and their ideas in ever so enthralling rhymes and syllables, and present something that not only stirs your mind, but is enjoyable. Then I begin to wonder, who the hell got it into my head poetry had to be so full of dictionary sized grammar and vocabulary. O_o. Well they begun something and now there's an influx of poets; a few new ones and a host of previously sleeping dragons.
If our education system is anything to go by, someone who hasn't been to the university probably shouldn't appreciate poetry.
Ok on to the main point.
Have you seen kids in western movies? If there's something they all seem capable of doing, it is drawing! I mean even if it's some disaster of a drawing, they are still capable.
Not everyone can be as talented as the likes of KoBe Taylor, Johann Setorwu or Kojo Antwi, but i mean, chale!
Now imagine if our education system included [with emphasis] drawing, would it not make it easier for the teller at your local bank to make manifest his ideas to say the(idling engineer (who has to wait for the next technological breakthrough [from outside the country] so as to build expertise in), who would better understand and execute ideas if the teller could at least make a reasonable sketch?
I ask this because, time and time, ideas have popped into my head that I thought would be really cool, but because of my lack of knowledge, have had to tell someone about the idea who would now try it out, and eventually, either give me something crappy, or more than often, not do it at all.
Now, way I see it, if drawing was made mandatory "or even quasi-mandatory" as writing is, this country would be one step closer to actually being innovative. What's the point having ideas when they can't be implemented?
If even half the population can make decent sketches, chale, implementing stuff wouldn't be so difficult. Because at least, people can better understand ideas. If nothing at all, I know drawing would considerably improve the movies we make here, it'll bring out the best in us, as we can better implement action sequences.
And maybe, just maybe, it'll help our politicians better think through some of the policies they implement, and hopefully, bring out the proper politicians they should be.
I'm just saying, after all, these are the workings of my brain.
Gears and pistons in motion chale!!!