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Awards HQ August 29: Creative Arts Emmys Are This Week! TV Academy Toppers Preview the Emmys; Fans' Picks; Kudos in Crisis
AWARDS CIRCUIT COLUMN: Will 'Better Call Saul' Be the Last Basic Cable Drama to Receive Big Emmy Love?
ABC's "Abbott Elementary" has been rightly praised as broadcast TV's great new Emmy hope, a critically acclaimed comedy that helped the traditional networks avoid completely getting shut out in the key scripted categories this year. But while the broadcasters have lamented the loss of their competitive edge among Television Academy voters for more than a decade, now it's basic cable's turn to watch their fortunes fade.
This year, just two basic cable series made it into the outstanding series field: AMC's "Better Call Saul," in drama, and FX's "What We Do In the Shadows" in comedy. It's a far cry from the golden age of basic cable at the Emmys, when the drama field, in particular, was dominated by the platform. The streak began in 2002, when FX made history by becoming the first basic cable network to win one of the major Emmy awards — when Michael Chiklis was named best actor for "The Shield."
By 2008, basic cable was on the same path first forged by HBO when it leveled the playing field for premium cable a decade earlier. That year, both AMC ("Mad Men") and FX ("Damages") received drama series nominations — and "Mad Men" won.
"Mad Men" kept that streak alive in 2009, 2010 and 2011 — and then AMC was back in 2013 and 2014 with "Breaking Bad." Comedy has been a bit harder for basic cable to pull off a win; it finally happened in 2020 with Pop TV's "Schitt's Creek" — but that victory was driven in tremendous part by the show's exposure on streaming services (specifically, Netflix).
And there's the rub. The quick acceleration of streamers from novelty to awards dominance has now pushed much of basic cable aside — just as cable started doing that to broadcast at the start of the millennium.
The earlier success of FX and AMC convinced plenty of other scripted basic cable networks — TBS, TNT, MTV, Lifetime, even E! and Bravo, briefly — to get into the prestige drama and comedy business. And it briefly worked. But it was a costly investment, and as cable began bleeding audiences to streamers, it didn't make sense to continue. Many networks like Lifetime and MTV eventually went back to reality. And now others are getting out of it due to shifting corporate priorities. Pop TV is out of the originals game, and so now are the networks formerly known as Turner.
The remaining basic cable networks still doing scripted are either focused on longform (Hallmark, Lifetime) or are premiering their shows on a streamer, like FX's shift to Hulu. AMC is holding on, but it, too, has a streamer it is steering programming to. (AMC also didn't get much Emmy attention for its "The Walking Dead" juggernaut, and it's uncertain whether the cabler's next big franchise, the Anne Rice vampireverse, will do any better with kudos.)
That's what makes the nominations for "Better Call Saul" and stars Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn so bittersweet. As cable morphs into something different, is this a last hurrah for the cord? In a few years, will HBO (as it relies more on HBO Max), Showtime, FX and AMC even be considered cable — or will they all be streaming services, part of a larger digital entity?
Sydney Sweeney Leads All Emmy Nominees, at Least According to Fandom's User Pages (EXCLUSIVE)
Online fan platform Fandom looked at fan engagement as it relates directly to this year's Emmy nominees, and found perhaps very different results for some of this year's key categories.
Looking at total 2022 page views on the Fandom site, the site found that Sydney Sweeney ("Euphoria") has generated far and away the most page views of any individual nominee, while "The Great" star Nicholas Hoult narrowly led the lead actor, comedy, category. Also, "What We Do In the Shadows" was tops with fans in total page views.
Here are some of their fan-centric findings:
Drama Series:
Winner: "Stranger Things," 36M (2022 page views)
Alt: "Better Call Saul," 21M (2022 page views)
Comedy Series:
Winner: "What We Do In The Shadows," 757K
Alt: "Ted Lasso," 694K
Competition Series:
Winner: "RuPaul's Drag Race," 18M
Alt: "The Amazing Race," 3M
Lead Actor In A Drama Series:
Winner: Jason Bateman, "Ozark," 92K
Alt: Jeremy Strong, "Succession," 91.9K
Lead Actor In A Comedy Series:
Winner: Nicholas Hoult, "The Great," 21K
Alt: Jason Sudeikis, "Ted Lasso," 20K
Lead Actress In A Drama Series:
Winner: Zendaya, "Euphoria," 428K
Alt: Laura Linney, "Ozark," 138K
Lead Actress In A Comedy Series:
Winner: Rachel Brosnahan, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," 21K
Alt: Kaley Cuoco, "The Flight Attendant," 20K
Supporting Actor In A Drama Series:
Winner: Nicholas Braun, "Succession," 86K
Alt: Kieran Culkin, "Succession," 82K
Supporting Actress In A Drama Series:
Winner: Sydney Sweeney, "Euphoria," 1M
Alt: Julia Garner, "Ozark," 308K
Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series:
Winner: Brett Goldstein, "Ted Lasso," 50K
Alt: Nick Mohammed, "Ted Lasso," 25K
Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series:
Winner: Juno Temple, "Ted Lasso," 25K
Alt: Hannah Waddingham, "Ted Lasso," 23K
Kudos in Crisis: As Globes Eye NBC Return, SAG and Spirit Awards Continue Search for New Homes
NBC took a Golden Globes breather in 2022 after new allegations of questionable financial practices inside the small, insular organization — as well as its paltry record of diversity and representation — turned the already controversial HFPA into more of a pariah. The org has spent more than a year in reform mode, to the point that NBC appears ready to bring the show back in 2023.
NBC and the HFPA remain in talks to make it official, but insiders say much of the heavy negotiating is done, and now it comes down to remaining smaller issues. It's unclear whether NBC will pay the whopping $60 million license fee that was renegotiated in 2018, when networks were particularly desperate to hold on to live events. But the real question mark revolves around the willingness of stars to show up for the event. No A-list commitment translates to no interest from NBC.
The Globes, at least, has a theoretical broadcast home to return to. The Screen Actors Guild Awards will find itself homeless in 2023, as longtime partner TNT (and its sister network TBS) continue to downsize in the wake of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger. As the T-Nets shed assets, the SAG Awards parted ways with the cabler company after 25 years.
SAG-AFTRA has employed power attorney Ken Ziffren to find a new home for the telecast, which is now being shopped to outlets. But so far, insiders say the price tag is steep, as are the costs of producing the show. With budgets tightening as the economy grows shaky, and the appetite for awards shows becoming even less apparent, it's unlikely any of the major nets has any money to spare to bid very high.
"There's no win," says one network exec. "The SAG Awards at its best is not going to move anyone's needle."
Also on the market: The Film Independent Spirit Awards, which has aired for years on IFC. Of course, IFC hasn't been the Independent Film Channel in nearly a decade, which made the ceremony a bit out of place on a network now focused on quirky comedies and sitcom reruns. With IFC now out of the picture, it's unclear where — or if — the Indie Spirits might land, but it may bump into the same limitations as the SAG Awards.
Creative Arts Emmys Producer Bob Bain Previews This Weekend's Ceremonies
(Above: RuPaul at the 2021 Creative Arts Emmys.)
There's a reason why event producer Bob Bain didn't employ a host for this year's two Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies. He has 45 awards to give out on Saturday, Sept. 3, and 48 categories to honor on Sunday, Sept. 4 — which means there's little time for anything else.
"If you think about it, the biggest challenge for a host is that once you have him or her, you have to justify them being up there," Bain says. "For us to create, over the course of two hours, six or eight throws or standups for a host, just takes up more time than we feel we need to spend."
Instead, the two Creative Arts ceremonies will open with short monologue, with other comedic breaks that will be sprinkled throughout the shows. But Bain's goal is to bring these shows in at between two and two-and-a-half hours, before sending the audiences on to the post-show Governors Galas (formerly known as the "Ball") on each night.
"It's pacing," Bain says. "If I had to put my job into one word, that's it. We're still learning, but we've got it down to a science because we've been doing this now for six or seven years. It really is about moving through this material as quickly as you can and peppering the proceedings with very short variety pitstops, so that people don't get too bored with the inherent monotony of the process."
The Creative Arts Emmys used to be a single night affair, but that ceremony would clock in at more than four hours. "I mean, it was complete drudgery," Bain says. "And that's one of the smartest things that I think the Academy has done since I've been here, is split these into two nights."
Last year's Creative Arts Emmys was actually carved into three shows over two days, but that was a function of safety and social distancing in the middle of the COVID-19 outbreak. Of course, the pandemic is still a concern this year, and proper measures are still being followed.
The Creative Arts Emmys will be back at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles' L.A. Live complex, where the Primetime Emmys will be held the following week, on Sept. 12. The Microsoft's usual theater-style seating will instead be decked with 94 tables, each with a capacity for 12 people. (Others will still be accommodated with traditional seats in the back.)
"We wanted to create this kind of nightclub environment," Bain says. "And they're basically being positioned around satellite stages, so that it makes it easier to get to a stage, depending on where your table is."
Once the second show is over that Sunday night, Bain's work is far from over. After that, he and his team must take two nights' worth of footage — more than four hours of awards — and condense it down into a two-hour recap, set to air Sept. 10 on FXX. The special must be delivered to the network by Thursday, just four days later.
"That means we are jammin' from the moment that this show is done," Bain says.
ON THE CIRCUIT: BAFTA Garden Tea, Sponsored by 'Squid Game,' and More
This weekend's BAFTA Garden Party, co-hosted by Netflix and "Squid Game," served as a fundraiser to support BAFTA's work to raise awareness and support for their learning, inclusion and talent initiatives in North America. Held at the British Residence in Hancock Park under a sweltering sun, the scones with clotted cream were very delicious.
Hey look, it's Variety's Team TV! Well, those on the west coast, along with special guest Joe Otterson, visiting from New York for the week. As Emmy season (and summer!) draws to a close, and as we prepare for a new TV season (yes, those still exist!), I thought it would be fun to have everyone over for a little Variety fun. From left: Diane Garrett, Kate Aurthur, Elizabeth Wagmeister, me, Jenelle Riley, Clayton Davis, Emily Longeretta, Selome Hailu, Joe Otterson
and BreAnna Bell.
The newest show from "The Americans" masterminds Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg is FX's "The Patient," featuring Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson in a thriller that clocks in at 30 minutes an episode! More of that, please. Above at last week's premiere event, the four of them in a re-creation of he set where Gleeson's character keeps Carell's character hostage.
Peacock sharing some source material for upcoming and returning shows including "Vampire Academy," "One of Us is Lying" and "Everything I Know About Love."
Executive producers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin are behind Nat Geo's "Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin," a 10-episode look at pioneering adventure athletes.
"Rick and Morty" is back for Season 6! And this time, it's "Wormageddon."
AppleTV+ is marking one final season of Jason Momoa's "See."
BURNING QUESTION: Do 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Theatrical Screenings Impact Emmy Eligibility?
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"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" will screen its first two episodes at fan events across the world on Aug. 31, two days before it makes its streaming debut on Amazon Prime Video.
Cinemark created a page for the one-night-only event, with a note that tickets will become available on Monday at 9 am PT. The reservation also comes with a $10 snack voucher. The event is only available to Cinemark Movie Rewards members — the theater chain's two-tiered loyalty program, which includes a free subscription option.
Outside of the U.S. and Canada, Amazon will also screen the series in locations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Argentina, Colombia, Australia and New Zealand. Reports indicate that the fan event will unfold across roughly 200 locations globally.
Here are the TV Academy rules when it comes to theatrical screenings:
9a. Television programs that are offered for "general theatrical release" occurring prior to their airing or Internet exhibition are not eligible. A "limited theatrical release" prior to the airing or Internet exhibition of the television program cannot exceed an aggregate of up to seventy (70) days prior exhibitions (i.e., 7 theaters for 10 days). A program with a prior theatrical release loses eligibility if it does not air within a year of its initial public exhibition, regardless of if this is or is not a general release. Film festival screenings do not count as theatrical screenings.
So the key issue here in this case is the term "release." Since it's a free promotional screening, it doesn't count as a release. The TV Academy tells me: "Since these screenings are by invitation only, and tickets are not being sold, we see these as promotional screenings, which will not affect Emmy eligibility."
In other words, "The Rings of Power" is still on tap next year to compete as Lord of the Emmys.
Television Academy Announces This Year's Emmy Sponsors
The Television Academy has announced its new and returning corporate partners for the 2022 Emmy Awards season, which is why you'll be seeing these products a lot in the next few weeks, particularly at the TV Academy events. Newbies include Justin Vineywards and Winery, which is the Emmys official wine partner for the first time.
Other sponsors include:
Kia America returns as the official automotive partner of the Emmys for the third year in a row; Franciacorta is providing numerous varietals of sparkling wines, in its second Emmy partnership; and yes, Fiji water — you remember their really aggressive workers popping up in photos all over the place — is back as well.
Also, Ketel One Family Made Vodka returns as the official spirits partner of the 74th Emmy Awards Season; People is… wait, what? Official entertainment magazine partner… ok, sure; and United Airlines is in its 23rd year in partnership with the Television Academy as official air carrier.
AWARDS CIRCUIT PODCAST: Trevor Noah on Kanye, Will Smith and How Social Media Poisons the Well of Civil Discourse
Trevor Noah admits that he didn't think his exchange with Kanye West on social media earlier this year would blow up the way it did.
After Noah discussed, on "The Daily Show," West's behavior toward ex-wife Kim Kardashian, West responded by directing a racial slur at him on Instagram, which led to West being banned on the platform for a day. At the time, Noah responded on Instagram by noting that "the biggest trick racists ever played on black people was teaching us to strip each other of our blackness whenever we disagree," and also that "I don't care if you support Trump and I don't care if you roast Pete. I do however care when I see you on a path that's dangerously close to peril and pain."
The Grammys, which Noah hosted, canceled West's appearance on the show, in a move that Noah criticized. In speaking with Variety's Awards Circuit Podcast, Noah explained why he responded in the way that he did.
"I've just become more comfortable speaking my mind in situations where I feel like the mob forgets that we're dealing with human beings," he says. "It's easy to stand on the sidelines, see a train crash coming and say nothing about it. And then after the train crashes off the tracks, we say, 'Oh, I saw that coming!' Well, then why didn't you say anything? Especially if you have some sort of platform, you have some sort of obligation to speak a truth. You know, see something and say some thing.
"And I also understand that human beings are a paradox. We can love people who we hate, we can hate people who we love. Human beings as a whole are complicated paradox. And so, I don't like to live in a world where we constantly discard human beings like pieces of trash. Kanye West is somebody who has an indelible impression on my life. His music has literally taken me through different periods of my journey, But then there are also moments where I go, like, 'man, Kanye, you, you're going off the rails here.' But I can still say that, 'I care for you as a human being, that's, that's why I'm speaking out. I'm not going to not care for you, I'm not going to hate you all of a sudden.' That's how I try and see the world, that's how I would hope people would see me.
"If I've engaged you as a human being, and if you like me, or if you like anyone in your life, I hope you'd have the ability to say to that person, 'hey, I think what you're doing here is wrong. I think you may be headed in the dangerous direction. And I'm saying that you because I like you. I don't discard you as a person.' And I think we have gotten very comfortable discarding human beings, immediately tossing them away and making them irredeemable characters. When in fact, I think all of us should be afforded the opportunity to redeem ourselves. All of us should have an opportunity at redemption."
On this edition of Variety's Awards Circuit podcast, we talk to "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" host about a wide range of topics, including doing a topical late night show when the news is so incessantly grim. Also, the success of his correspondents, the fact that he may be the only weeknight talk show host who hasn't gotten COVID, how he got his audience groove back and also the show's multiple Emmy nominations — seven across "The Daily Show" and its companion series, the most for the franchise since Noah took over as host in 2015. Listen below!
Variety's "Awards Circuit" podcast, produced by Michael Schneider, is your one-stop listen for lively conversations about the best in film and television. Each week "Awards Circuit" features interviews with top film and TV talent and creatives; discussions and debates about awards races and industry headlines; and much, much more. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or anywhere you download podcasts. New episodes post weekly.
Clayton Davis' Emmy Winner Predictions: Outstanding Structured Reality and Unstructured Reality Categories
Clayton Davis is putting up his early Emmy predictions. This time out, he tackles unstructured and structured reality:
STRUCTURED REALITY
"Love is Blind," the streaming sensation with Nick and Vanessa Lachey guiding the viewer has tickled the zeitgeist by finding people willing to get engaged before seeing each other's faces. The second season had plenty of twists and turns, and it managed to return after a brief hiatus due to COVID. The nom might be another stepping stone toward an eventual win, but it doesn't look like it'll be this year.
"Queer Eye" is tied with "Shark Tank" as the most awarded in this category, it'll be a photo finish to see who gets to set the record and keep the notoriety all for themselves. The Fab 5's sixth season performed very well on the streamer and continues to be a fan favorite, spreading positive messages all around, something our world desperately needs more of. The record could be well within reach.
"Shark Tank" is the second most nominated series ever behind "Antiques Roadshow," it's also tied for the most wins alongside "Queer Eye." The "sharks" (Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John and Kevin O'Leary) continue to make dreams come true and dash them in the wake of their movement. With the economy having a seemingly strange and downward turn, will that affect whether voters pull away from voting for the ABC series — especially since it hasn't won since 2017?
The first nomination for Chip and Joanna Gaines is priceless, but it also came with the launch of their own Magnolia Network. Not just renovating homes, they continue to renovate the TV landscape and the Academy voters are noticing. They could be a dark horse in the race and start a winning trend.
The sole nomination for "Antiques Roadshow," the PBS series, it's garnered 20 Emmy nominations across multiple categories shifting from non-fiction to reality program and finally into structured reality program in 2015; it has yet to win a single statuette. Will the Public Broadcasting Service ever go beyond collecting noms and move to trophies? The appraisal seems to be low at the moment.
UNSTRUCTURED REALITY
After the main series "Below Deck" snuck into the lineup last year, the Bravo spin-off found its way into the fold after seven seasons. This season follows Captain Sandy Yawn and her entertaining crew on the superyacht. Is there room for it to make a big splash in the category? Voters have been known to surprise us from time to time.
These types of noms bring pure joy to the awards season, showcased by the mention of Netflix's reality love series, "Love on the Spectrum U.S." Following people on the autism spectrum as they explore the dating world, the charms and hearts of Ronan, Kassandra, Teo and fan-favorite Michael, is the type of programming and diversity inclusion the TV Academy should be rewarding.
The spin-off of VH1's multiple Emmy-winning "RuPaul's Drag Race" is coming off its first win last year and is tied for the third most noms ever in this category. But, with momentum for the main competition show and the added visibility on Paramount+, will the expanded "werk room" created in accordance with COVID-19 protocols be too much of a call back to the past two years that many would like to forget?
The home-field advantage revolves around the Oppenheim Group, the high-end real estate firm in Los Angeles, which landed its second nom consecutively over its five seasons. Following twin brothers, Brett and Jason, and their band of brokers, can the West Hollywood and Newport Beach agents get a massive commission with its first Emmy win? Perhaps the MTV Award for Chrishell Stause and docu-reality show is an indicator.
The second season of the cheerleading series following the nationally ranked Navarro College Bulldogs Cheer Team has been embraced again. Impressive because it managed to get the nom with the added distraction of Season 1 star Jerry Harris being sentenced to 12 years in prison. Winning in 2020, could coach Monica Aldama bring the "W" again? Only three shows have won this category more than once, but it's possible.
Send Me Your Questions, Comments and More!Feel free to send your burning Emmy questions and suggestions to mschneider@variety.com, and your hot tips as well! Thanks for reading.


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An award winning Highland heating, plumbing and renewable energy solutions firm, which is headquartered in Inverness, has made the shortlist of the Scottish SME Business Awards 2017.
The McInnes Group is one of five companies shortlisted in the Business of the Year (under 30 staff) for the North region.
The awards are voted for by the general public who nominate their favourite businesses and entrepreneurs for the inaugural awards.
The McInnes Group, which was founded by MD Lachlan McInnes in 2011, is an award winning heating, plumbing and renewable energy solutions firm, which incorporates both McInnes Plumbing and Heating and McInnes Renewables.
Lachlan, 30, originally from Fort Augustus, was recently named winner of the Rising Star category at the Green Energy Awards. He carved out his business empire after been made redundant from his apprenticeship in 2011. He paid to complete his own apprenticeship and founded McInnes Plumbing and Heating Ltd. Lachlan's dad bought the determined entrepreneur his first van and he slowly managed to develop a good client base across the Highlands, mainly through word of mouth.
In 2013 Lachlan then identified a gap in the market to supply innovative renewable energy to customers across Scotland, and McInnes Renewables Ltd was born.
Lachlan now employs a total of 11 staff and four apprentices, and the business has experienced huge growth in last 12 months, with turnover now exceeding a seven-figure sum.
Lachlan McInnes said: "We would like to thank all our customers and supporters who nominated us for this award.
"It is great to make the shortlist for the Scottish SME Business Awards and it is even more special that it is members of the public who have voted for us.
The awards ceremony will take place on the 13 March in the Crown Plaza Hotel in Glasgow where all the winners will be announced.


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The Matanzas Sauto Theater reopened
Cubaplus photos courtesy Ernesto Cruz
After a great remodeling, the Sauto theater of Matanzas reopened its doors exhibiting all its splendor as an anniversary gift for the city where it is located that has just celebrated its 326 birthday. Located in the center of The Athens of Cuba, name by which the city of Matanzas is known, the Sauto Theater, a national monument, is considered a cultural jewel of the largest of the Antilles for being the oldest and most original for its conservation in 156 years of operation. The show performed in the reopening of the theater, was conceived as a tribute to Cecilia Sodis, who was director of the colosseum for 27 years, from 1989 to 2016, when she died. In the first part of the show, the Chamber Choir of Matanzas, conducted by José Antonio Méndez Valencia performed the play Santa Cecilia, by Manuel Corona, accompanied by the Matanzas Symphony Orchestra (OSM), under the baton of the young César Eduardo Ramos, after the OSM interpreted La Bella Cubana, composed by Matanzas musician José White, played by local lyric soloists, with soprano Lucelsy Fernández. Later on, the orchestra interpreted the Romanza Cecilia Valdés, Cuban operetta composed by Gonzalo Roig. For the second act, the program reserved music dedicated to Matanzas, such as variations for piano on the Matanzas darling romanza, operetta Daughter of the Sun, also by Roig, and played by pianist Hilda Elvira Santiago. With this reopening, the so-called Athens of Cuba once again proudly shows its emblematic neoclassical theater remodeled, whose scenarios have received prominent national and international figures, including: Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso, Russian Anna Pavlova, Italian tenor Enrico Caruso , actress Sara Bernhardt, Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, dramatist and Nobel Prize of Literature Jacinto Benavente, Argentine actress and singer Libertad Lamarque, Spanish dancer, Antonio Gades, and composer, guitarist and conductor Leo Brouwer.

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How did the gold rush affect californios?
What were the impacts of the gold rush?
What were the negative effects of the Gold Rush?
How did the gold rush affect the indigenous population?
How did the gold rush affect the economy?
Why is the gold rush so important?
Where is the most gold in the world?
How much gold is still in California?
Who was affected by the gold rush?
Why the gold rush was bad?
Why did the 49ers move west?
Who were the 49ers Gold Rush?
Did anyone get rich from the gold rush?
What happened to the miners when the gold ran out?
What were the 49ers looking for?
What was life like for the 49ers?
What are they called the 49ers?
Who owns SF 49ers?
Do the 49ers still have a chance?
How much is the 49ers worth?
The Gold Rush was extremely difficult on the Californios. As a result of the Gold Rush, many Californios had their farm lands destroyed or taken over due to invasions of dissatisfied miners. Some had even lost their property rights in court, and their farm lands had been taken away from them.
The Gold Rush had an effect on California's landscape. Rivers were dammed or became clogged with sediment, forests were logged to provide needed timber, and the land was torn up all in pursuit of gold.
One large negative aspect of the Gold Rush was how it affected the environment around it, miners devastated the surrounding ecosystem and flooded the rivers with sediment, the sediment washed downstream and flooded farms, and ruined crops.
The gold rush of 1848 brought still more devastation. Violence, disease and loss overwhelmed the tribes. By 1870, an estimated 30,000 native people remained in the state of California, most on reservations without access to their homelands.
The Gold Rush significantly influenced the history of California and the United States. It created a lasting impact by propelling significant industrial and agricultural development and helped shape the course of California's development by spurring its economic growth and facilitating its transition to statehood.
The discovery of the precious metal at Sutter's Mill in January 1848 was a turning point in global history. The rush for gold redirected the technologies of communication and transportation and accelerated and expanded the reach of the American and British Empires.
The total production of gold in California from then till now is estimated at 118 million ounces (3700 t).
The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy, and the sudden population increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood, in the Compromise of 1850.
The California Gold Rush also had a bad impact on California. It affected the indigenousness people and the environment. The gold rush destroyed native plants, ran the Native Californians out of their homes, and polluted the streams. It killed the plants by burying the plants with sediments from their diggings.
Arrival of the Forty-niners The discovery of gold in 1848 by James Marshall sparked a massive wave of westward migration. The largest influx occurred in 1849, and those prospectors who sought their fortunes became known collectively as forty-niners, in reference to the year they arrived.
In fact, James Marshall and John Sutter, the two men linked with the start of one of the most pivotal events in California history, never got rich. A century after the Gold Rush, the 49ers were memorialized when San Francisco's first major league professional sports franchise, a football team, was named.
However, only a minority of miners made much money from the Californian Gold Rush. It was much more common for people to become wealthy by providing the miners with over-priced food, supplies and services. Sam Brannan was the great beneficiary of this new found wealth.
When the gold ran out in an area, the miners would leave to find the next gold strike. The businesses would leave too and soon the town would be empty and abandoned. One example of a gold rush ghost town is Bodie, California.
On Janu, James W. Marshall and his crew found gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. This discovery would lure tens of thousands of people from the United States and foreign nations. People packed their belongings and began to travel by covered wagon to what they hoped would be new and better life.
Gold Fever Life of the Miner. Forty-niners rushed to California with visions of gilded promise, but they discovered a harsh reality. Life in the gold fields exposed the miner to loneliness and homesickness, isolation and physical danger, bad food and illness, and even death. More than anything, mining was hard work.
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REAL TIME NET WORTH. Denise York's family owns over 90% of the San Francisco 49ers, the NFL's fifth-most valuable team and the 2019 Super Bowl runner-up. York's father, Edward Debartolo Sr.
The 49ers now have a 27% chance to make the playoffs.
Franchise value of the San Francisco 49ers (NFL) 2002-20, the franchise value amounted to around 3.8 billion U.S. dollars. The San Francisco 49ers are owned by Denise DeBartolo York and John York, who bought the franchise for 13 million U.S. dollars in 1977.


A template that helps you set the 1-3 things you really want to get done today, followed by a look back at the day prompting you to look at what you did, what you learned, and what goes well.
To hit all the right notes in a day can be hard. There are so many should's that if you count them all up it seems as if they consume the whole day.
Counting your blessings, looking at what you did for yourself and for others, taking stock of what you learned, these are all things that sound great but fall by the wayside as soon as we really hit the grind.
As always, let's make it automatic instead. Let's add these key notes to our daily template.
Here's what that looks like. You can copy and paste this into Evernote or download this ENEX file (right-click and save as…) and import it into Evernote.
Of course you can use the copy-and-paste version of the template anywhere: put in in Springpad, in todo.txt, wherever.
In Evernote I have it in my Templates folder. When I close my day and review this note I click to the pinned template in my favorites bar and copy a new version to my Daily Outcomes folder (on Windows I use the shortcut keys CTRL + N, C, N to copy the note template but if you prefer just use the mouse).
I title each day's note with the date and name of the day.
The best way to keep your data clean & useful is to regularly do some easy tending and pruning.
WHY WOULD I LOOK AT OLDER NOTES?
Face it, when you started using Evernote you weren't sure what to put in. Or you followed the idea of "dump everything in it" to the letter and now every search has way too many irrelevant results. Or you realize that your "how to use Evernote as a cookbook" period is over and you no longer need those entries.
Or you wish you would have tagged some notes. Or you would like to move personal notes to one notebook and article clippings to another.
An easy way to tend to this data household chore is by doing a search for notes created on that day in the years before.
The format there is since date, before date, and the result is a list of notes created on the since date only.
To view other years I simply change the year. My data goes back to 2005 when I started to use Evernote so it takes 5 searches.
I'm done with my data pruning in 1-2 minutes usually.
I delete a lot of material that is outdated or no longer piques my interest.
See times gone by as I come across log entries.
I use the same pruning procedure in PersonalBrain. The reports tab lets you pick a start/end date.It's a bit more clicking with the calendar it has but it's pretty cool to have your data in order.
I love reading. Good books, great storytelling.
Movies. Movies too. From heart wrenching Sophie's Choice to "must see again" Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
And have you seen some of these articles? Some issues of the New York Times read like a monthly magazine – only it comes out daily! Hellooo!
All this stuff, all this content comes from somewhere; it's made by people who need to earn a solid, reliable long-term living. Just like you.
I'm a bit hesitant to say this but I blocked myself from Twitter and other (social) media snacking for 3 days – and I liked it.


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In the case of a double exchange, the high spin state of $Fe^{2+}$ and $Fe^{3+}$ are expected to have the spin direction aligned site to site. But what if I have a low spin $Fe^{2+}$ and $Fe^{3+}$ ? In the low spin state, $Fe^{2+}$ has zero net spins, and $Fe^{3+}$ has $1$ net spin, what kind of interaction should I expect?
If I have a chain of $Fe^{2+}$ and $Fe^{3+}$, e.g $\rm Fe^{2+} - Fe^{3+} - Fe^{2+} -Fe^{3+} - Fe^{2+} -.....$ can I expect some sort of long$-$range ordering?

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Rituals are like blankets that veil the truth. They are nets to trap our intellect, forcing us to confine our consciousness to the superficial values of the manifest world. The thinking of a person who believes exclusively in ritual practices becomes confined to this little world. Subtle thoughts of the mind and tender feelings of heart become outward oriented. Such a person begins to believe that everything can be accomplished with the help of rituals.
Because rituals involve material objects and because there is a system as well as a defined goal, a person's expectations grow and become vivid. When someone performs a ritual and the expected results don't occur, as is usually the case, that person becomes disappointed.
"You didn't do it with the right attitude of mind; you did not follow the exhortations correctly; you did not give the appropriate love offering to the officiating priests"; and so on.
Such explanations create and perpetuate guilt.
As the ancient portions of the revealed scriptures state, the original rituals were a simple means of channeling one's devotion toward the divine. They did not require help from priests and clergy.
However due to ignorance, laziness, or the tendency to lean on others, aspirants want their rituals to be done by someone else, namely a priest.
In order to display their expertise and impress their clients, priests elaborate the rituals, causing them to become riddled by dogma and superstition.


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Malkelm Morrison brings energy, versatility to Army defense
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Malkelm Morrison played his high school football less than an hour away from West Point but the former Iona Prep star's first introduction to Army came in the summer before his senior season.
Morrison and his high school teammates attended Lauren's First and Goal Football Camp in Easton, Pa. The camp was founded by Army linebackers coach John Loose and his family. Loose's daughter, Lauren, is a pediatric brain tumor survivor. Lauren's First and Goal raises money for brain tumor research and offers financial and emotional support to families that living with pediatric cancer.
Loose contacted Morrison about a week after the camp beginning his recruitment with an invite to visit Army. Morrison discovered the history of West Point and later experienced the Michie Stadium game-day atmosphere watching the Black Knights play in the 2017 season.
"The energy was definitely unmatched anywhere else," Morrison said of his first game at Michie Stadium.
Now, Morrison brings his own passion and energy to the historic venue as a hybrid defensive back/linebacker known as "the apache" in coordinator Nate Woody's defense. Morrison is one of eight returning senior starters from a defense that lead the nation in yards allowed per game.
As Army prepares for its second preseason scrimmage, every practice, every rep and every meeting matters to Morrison, who plays a position where more fundamentals may come into play. Morrison generally meets with the outside linebackers but he also gains some knowledge from safeties. He was Army's starting nickelback his sophomore year.
"Our coaches always stress always listen to all of the coaches even if they are not speaking directly to you," Morrison said. "Especially with my position, I try to take in all of the information from the safeties coach, corners coaches, my position coach (Coach Loose), the defensive coordinator. It's all information I can use in my skill set to build on my fundamentals and details."
One of Morrison's first football coaches was his father, Patrick, who played briefly for the New York Giants. Malkelm started picking up football around eight years old but it wasn't the first sport that he played.
"He (His father) was my position coach throughout Pop Warner," Morrison said. "He was a defensive coach. I did take in a lot of knowledge from my dad. Once I got into the high school and college ranks, he definitely still gave advice but he left it to the my coaches.
"I think he's proud (of me) especially where I came from and how hard I've worked especially in the academics. He'll always say, 'there's room for improvement at the same time.' He'll still always give me tips where I can get better."
On the subject of getting better, Morrison was asked what can be expected from Army's defense with waves of returning players from that top-ranked unit. Morrison made 33 tackles, led Army with two forced fumbles and added an interception last season.
"Definitely just some hard-working individuals and people," Morrison said. "We are just committed to each other and know we all have each other's back when we are out on the field so we can play fast and aggressive. We definitely have a lot of talent. We just want to make sure we all work together and play hard."
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Rainer Fetting est un peintre et sculpteur allemand, né en 1949 à Wilhelmshaven en Allemagne.

Avec Helmut Middendorf, Salomé et Bernd Zimmer, il cofonde la galerie  Am Moritzplatz en vue de faire connaître leurs œuvres. Il travaille entre New York et Berlin.

Expositions
 L'éloge de la peinture - James Brown, Rainer Fetting, Gérard Garouste, Per Kirkeby, Patrick Lanneau, Serge Plagnol, Musée d'art de Toulon, juillet-octobre 1983.

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 Alin Avila, éditions du Musée d'Art de Toulon, 1993.

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Peintre allemand du XXe siècle
Sculpteur allemand du XXe siècle
Artiste contemporain allemand
Naissance en décembre 1949
Naissance à Wilhelmshaven


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Taiwan's TPP Odyssey
Domestic issues (like pork imports) pose just as much of a challenge to Taiwan's TPP dreams as Beijing does.
By Shannon Tiezzi for The Diplomat
Credit: Taipei skyline image via Shutterstock.com
Taiwan's new leadership is determined to win inclusion in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but that's easier said than done. In looking at the challenges, there's a temptation to focus on the potential for Beijing to try to block Taiwan's entry into the 12-state trade pact. That's definitely a concern, given the mainland's history of restricting Taiwan's participation on the international stage. But looking only at the "China factor" overlooks the immense challenges Taiwan will face domestically in bringing its regulations in line with TPP standards. Even with the presidency and control of the Legislative Yuan in its hands, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will face an uphill battle.
President-elect Tsai Ing-wen has been crystal clear about her goal of bringing Taiwan into the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In a speech at the Washington D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, Tsai spoke of an "urgent need for Taiwan to participate" in the TPP. And in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Tsai wrote, "Ensuring that Taiwan is ready for the future candidacy into the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other regional economic agreements will be an important cornerstone of my economic policy."
Like the United States, which spearheaded the negotiations, Taiwan views the TPP both strategically and economically. Advocates for the agreement hope it can breathe new life into Taiwan's economy through integration with global markets, while also lessening Taiwan's dependence on the Chinese economy. Recent increases in cross-strait trade and investment have sparked concerns that Taiwan is growing too vulnerable to economic pressure from Beijing.
During her speech at CSIS, Tsai said that the DPP had created a "special task force" to look into the issues involved in joining TPP. Notably, Tsai's description of the task force's focus was entirely inward-looking: "the need for structural adjustments and reform, the extent to which Taiwan should adhere to international standards, streamlining legal infrastructure and bureaucratic practices, and making the necessary investments in specific sectors."
Similarly, just after the election, Joseph Wu, told a Washington, D.C. audience that the DPP administration will "rigorously pursue participation in the second round of TPP negotiations" (as well as inclusion in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership). That will involve diplomatic efforts, of course, but also a lot of domestic homework; Wu promised that Taiwan "will engage in an effort to reform legal infrastructure and make the necessary structural adjustment for Taiwan to be included in the second round of TPP negotiations."
On Wednesday, the DPP's Central Standing Committee held a meeting focused on the TPP question. Afterward, DPP spokesman Ruan Jhao-syong summarized some of the key points for the press. "For Taiwan to have innovations and upgrades in its economy, many laws need major revisions to be in line with international standards," Ruan said, citing remarks made by Tsai at the meeting. According to Ruan, Tsai pointed out that tariff reductions are only one part of the equation: the TPP agreement also touches on "coordination between laws, governance and administrative procedures."
Economic deregulation is always a difficult sell, and Taiwan is no exception. In Taiwan, one of the most hotly debated trade issues centers around pork. Currently, Taiwan bans imports of pork containing ractopamine, a drug used to enhance leanness. The additive is legal and commonly used in the United States, however. Taiwan's ban has been a major sticking point in economic relations between the two sides. In fact, current Premier Simon Chang told the Legislative Yuan on Friday that he believed the pork issue would make or break Taiwan's inclusion in TPP. "Before the pork issue is resolved, the United States will not agree (to include Taiwan in the TPP)," he said. Taiwan's pork industry is sure to oppose any change in the ractopamine ban, however, and health concerns might make it a tough sell among average Taiwanese as well.
Tsai has already come under fire from the rival Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, or KMT) for 'flip-flopping' on the pork issue, after she said she would look at Japan and South Korea's limits on ractopamine as possible models for Taiwan. Meanwhile, Tsai and the DPP have tried to engage with pork farmers (resulting in this video, posted to Tsai's Facebook, of her visiting a pork farm in Yunlin).
It should be noted, however, that similar resistance to pork imports (as well as other agricultural imports) was a major factor for Japan and the United States in the TPP negotiations. Tariffs on meat and other agricultural goods were one of the final hurdles to be cleared – but did not ultimately block agreement on the TPP.
Taiwan's trade dreams will ultimately be achieved — or denied — through changes at home. Though Tsai won't officially assume office until May 20, she is already laying the groundwork for a push to join TPP. Tsai announced this week that she plans to set up a special office under the Cabinet dedicated to handling international trade negotiations, including the TPP as well as bilateral trade agreements. "The office will build on the efforts of a TPP task force established last year to open communication channels and start preparations," Tsai explained.
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Taiwan's Voters Have Dealt a Brutal Blow to the Ruling DPP
By Nick Aspinwall
The KMT rode a "blue wave" in an election more about local concerns than the influence of China or the U.S.
Taiwan's Biggest Problems Are at Home (Not Across the Strait)
By Pengqiao Lu
Domestic struggles, not cross-strait relations, are contributing to Tsai Ing-wen's falling approval ratings.
It's Official: Taiwan Has a New President
By Shannon Tiezzi
Tsai Ing-wen official assumes office with promises of economic, political, and social reform.
Xi and Tsai's Dueling Messages on Cross-Strait Relations
By Zhenze Huang
How should we understand the "Double Tenth Day" addresses made by the two leaders?


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Like the waitperson, when you start working with a real estate agent they will ask a bunch of questions, show you some houses and get a feel for exactly what you want. If you start just calling every agent on every listing that would be like giving your whole order to one waitperson and then moving to a different table.
The new waitperson would be very helpful but would have to go through the whole ordering process again. So like that good waiter can help you find the best special on the menu, Tom can help you find your next home.


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5 Things Developers Need To Know About the App Economy
by Daniel Elliott
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The film industry realized earlier this year, to some degree of horror, that the apps economy is bigger than Hollywood.
While this comes as a surprise to many people, those that follow technology just nod and say, "of course." The technology sector is the fastest growing and one of the biggest in the world, completely outclassing traditionally rich verticals like sports and entertainment. For all its prowess, the NFL is only a $12 billion a year industry. That's a bad quarter for Google.
As for the apps economy specifically, technology by itself is no longer the story. Apps are mainstream, talked about by everybody all the time. New means of conducting business and human behavior are created almost daily, built on the software and services that comprise the apps economy.
Since the inception of the App Store in 2007, the app development industry has come a long way. Where does the app developer industry stand in 2015 and what are the opportunities and concerns for the next five years?
Every company needs an app. At least, that is what they tell themselves. The explosion of smartphone apps over the last four years has been an incredible development, shifting the paradigm of how companies do business and humans behave.
The demand for apps has led to the creation of a cottage industry designed to support the need of enterprises, startups and small businesses that need an app but have little to no time or technical acumen. App studios have done very well in the last several years, building apps for the masses from games for media organizations to internal accounting apps for the largest enterprises. It's been a good time to be an app developer.
The industry is now eight years into the Mobile Revolution and seven years since the dawn of the apps economy. It's a good time to pontificate on the future of app developers and studios and how they mature in the next five-to-10 years.
Key features that will affect app studios in the next five years:
Globalization: American app studios will see increased competition from international studios building for localized markets at lower per hour rates, according to a study from ContractIQ.
Cross-Device Development: The smartphone is no longer the de facto app engine as apps for cars, televisions and homes increase in popularity.
Developer Tools: The prevalence of free application programming interfaces and software developer kits will make it easier to stitch top-end app functionality together.
Supply & Demand: The demand for apps by startups and enterprises will not abate, but studios will be pressed by both the international and independent markets as profit margins decrease.
Monetization: The viability of paid app downloads will be mitigated by different business models, including in-app purchases and subscription services.
Let's take a look at each category to see how app development has evolved in the last five years and how that will affect developer decisions in the years to come.
Globalization Of App Developer Opportunities
According to a survey of app studios by ContractIQ (a firm that sources development talent to companies in need of apps), firms in the United States charge the highest rates for high-end iOS and Android development. The per hour rate for U.S. app studios is $150 for iOS and $168 for Android. Australia is the only other country in the survey that breaks the into the $100 realm ($110 median for iOS and Android).
In contrast, Singapore has a $63 media for iOS development and Indonesia goes as low as $11. The United Kingdom has a media of $70 for iOS development and India ranks at $30.
ContractIQ founder Ashwin Ramasamy notes in a guest article on TechCrunch that the growth of app studios in Singapore and Indonesia is tied to smartphone adoption in those countries, where demand is still booming in the large population countries.
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Indonesia's local mobile market is robust and growing. While U.S. smartphone usage is peaking (reaching 75 percent in the next two years), Indonesians are not stopping till the next 50 percent of its population gets hooked. It has about a 100 million users to try, fail, learn and provide a better mobile experience. They have to think mobile-first and they already are. Their adjacent geographic markets are leaders in mobile in Japan, Korea, China and Singapore. You just have to travel in their trains to realize what 'mobile' means to them.
Ramasamy says that U.S. firms will have to protect themselves by both expanding internationally and becoming full service stacks providing customer service and consulting instead of just being programmers for hire.
Cross-Device Development Is The New Black
The connected world is coming sooner than you might think. Smart app studios and mobile service providers are already thinking about how to take advantage of the new era of connected cars, intelligent refrigerators and televisions that act as hubs of entire smart homes.
The notion of cross-device development can loosely fit into the notion of "Internet of Things." The moniker IoT has become a generic catchall for any connected device that is not a computer, smartphone or tablet. A more appropriate description for the Internet of Things may be to classify specific industry categories instead of dumping them into one bucket.
In this case, we find several on-the-cusp sub-industries that app studios will have the potential to exploit. This includes wearables, smart home, connected televisions, ecommerce and retail, intelligent infrastructure ("smart cities"), health and fitness and industrial/agricultural equipment (think of the general idea of "additive manufacturing").
A Developer Economics survey from Vision Mobile noted that 53% of developers are working on at least one IoT project (in any one of the categories above). Smart home was the most popular category among developers with a 37% interest rate while 35% of developers had interest in wearables. Only 20% of developers were interested in retail, a surprise considering that ecommerce is the biggest revenue generator for developers (see below).
The opportunity for app studios is to be seen as an expert in any one of the connected world categories, such as home, infrastructure or retail. Being known as the de facto studio for medical app and device development, for instance, is a long term bet but sets the studio up with a future while it makes money day-to-day with smartphone apps.
Developer Tools Lower Bar To Building Quality Apps
According to ContractIQ, 25% of apps build by developer studios have no third party SDKs while 50% of apps from studios have between one and five SDKs. In the same survey, ContractIQ notes that only 10% of the studios customers know which SDKs are actually in their apps.
The studios' customers should probably be paying better attention to the actual building blocks of the apps they are contracting. The Developer Economics survey gives us a good idea of what is being used.
User analytics is the top third party tool category with 47% of apps scanned by Vision Mobile employing some type of analytics tools like Google Analytics or Flurry. Ad networks were second with 31% of usage followed by cross-platform tools (like Xamarin, Appcelerator or PhoneGap) at 30%.
The maturation of the mobile developer market over the last five years has led to a plethora of (relatively) easy-to-implement tools that significantly lower the bar to create sophisticated apps that provide apps added functionality and measure performance and user behavior. The result are app developers that know their users and can make better development and business decisions.
Supply And Demand: Strong But Intemperate
The growth phase for mobile apps shows no signs of abating. Especially when you consider the multiplier effect of connected world apps from wearables, cars, homes and so forth.
For the app stores themselves, research from AppFigures shows that Google Play almost doubled its volume of apps in 2014 from below 750,000 to nearly 1.43 million. The Apple App Store grew from a little above 750,000 to 1.21 million apps. As globalization of the apps economy continues in 2015 and beyond, the multiplier effect for app demand will remain healthy for developers and studios for the short-term future.
The question for developers is where to focus their attention. Vision Mobile believes the growth sector for app developers will be in the enterprise space as only 20% of developers in its survey are focused on enterprises (versus 64% on consumer apps). ContractIQ notes that the pipeline of business is coming from companies ranging the economic ladder with 23% of demand from enterprises, 30% from small businesses and 37% from startups.
The startup space is particularly interesting as venture capital money continues a healthy flow into startups that lack technical founders and app development expertise. Startup development contracts may not be as lucrative as those to enterprises, but they are more numerous and the request for proposal process tends to be less onerous and faster than for larger companies.
Monetization Centered On Ecommerce
Where is the money in the apps economy?
Vision Mobile's research says, overwhelmingly, that it is in ecommerce. The Developer Economics survey notes that the mobile ecommerce market will generate $300 billion in revenue in 2015, more than every other source of developer revenue combined.
The dominance of ecommerce makes sense. Commerce is inherently built on a transactional structure where people pay for physical or digital goods and services. Uber would fit into the ecommerce category of app revenue, for instance. Profit margins for commerce apps tend to be lower than purely digital goods, but revenue in any sum is the grease that powers the machine of industry.
App store sales (in-app purchases and paid downloads) make up the second highest slice with a $40.5 billion projection in 2014. The total would be more than twice what Apple and Google reported for developers in 2014 (around $17 billion with $10 billion of that going to iOS developers). The distribution of that wealth will remain skewed towards iOS but expect both stores to significantly increase developer revenue in 2015.
Advertising is a tricky source of revenue for app publishers. The paradox is that mobile advertising is a growing field—$34 billion for app developers in 2015—but one where only the very top app (like Facebook) will significantly benefit from. Just like the Web, scale is all that really matters when it comes to sustainability via advertising.
For app studios, contract work estimates to be an $18.5 billion business in 2015. Good work if you can get it, but be wary of the notes above on supply and demand and the globalization of the developer economy. Subscriptions, particularly for news, entertainment, music and video content, will grow to about $9 billion this year. Software-as-a-service types of apps (like accounting apps Concur or Expensify) make up the core of the subscription revenue for developers but entertainment (Spotify or MLB At Bat) are finding ways to make money as well.
Opportunity: Consolidation And New Frontiers
After seven years of growth in the apps economy, we will continue to see consolidation of developer services, tools and revenue opportunities. The barrier to entry for quality apps is as low as it as every been, but the barrier to success is higher as companies with lots of resources trap users with marketing and advertising campaigns. The small developer studio, always a struggling profession, will have to either look towards opportunities in the connected world space or look towards contract work. The Developer Economics Survey wraps it up nicely:
The open nature of the app stores and the size of the addressable market made it seem as if anyone who could create a decent app could make their fortune, or at least a decent living writing their own apps. As the market has matured, it has become painfully difficult for a small developer to be noticed. Also, the quality and functionality bars have gone up to the point where it's hard for a solo developer or very small team to compete in the consumer app market.
The good news is that there is enough money and opportunity within the apps economy that astute developers and app studios can build sustainable businesses by navigating the seams of the industry. By employing third party developer tools to keep costs down and quality high, hitting the right market at the right time and diversifying client portfolio between startups and enterprises, there is plenty of room for growth for clever developers.
This article originally appeared at ARC—The Application Resource Center from Applause.
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The team from the University of Utah mentioned that A3 is being released as open source and that the technology relies on what they have called "Stackable debuggers." Unlike a virus scanning program that reads from a definitions file, A3's stackable debuggers constantly analyze the code for breaches. Once a breach is found, original code is inserted back into the virtual machine. This not only makes virtual machines safe from known attacks. the technology can detect attacks or viruses that have not shown up in definition files provided by antivirus creators. A3 then detects how the breach happened and tries to find ways to make sure such breach never happens again. Sources suggest that the University of Utah team was funded by DARPA. Reports note that this project was completed in September of 2014 although many have stayed on the hush as the project is currently being tested.
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import com.github.DNAProject.common.Helper;
import com.github.DNAProject.crypto.SignatureScheme;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class AccountTest {

    @Test
    public void generateSignature() throws Exception {
        Account account = new Account(SignatureScheme.SHA256WITHECDSA);
        byte[]  signature = account.generateSignature("hello".getBytes(),SignatureScheme.SHA256WITHECDSA,null);
        boolean b = account.verifySignature("hello".getBytes(),signature);
        assertTrue(b);
    }

    @Test
    public void serializePublicKey() throws Exception {
        Account account = new Account(SignatureScheme.SHA256WITHECDSA);
        byte[] publickey = account.serializePublicKey();
        assertNotNull(publickey);
    }

    @Test
    public void serializePrivateKey() throws Exception {
        Account account = new Account(SignatureScheme.SHA256WITHECDSA);
        byte[] privateKey = account.serializePrivateKey();
        assertNotNull(privateKey);
    }

    @Test
    public void compareTo() throws Exception {
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        Account account2 = new Account(SignatureScheme.SHA256WITHECDSA);
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The Gods of Living Abroad must be crazy
Interview between the gods of living abroad and me, December 1984.
Gods: We understand you'd like to live abroad. So, tell us a bit about yourself.
Me: Well, I love English literature and dairy products. I'm good with words but not with pictures. I'm an Anglophile, but I'd also like to brush up my French.
Gods: Your French needs brushing?
Me: It's got all tangled since college. I can only speak in the present tense and I've forgotten the word for "restroom."
Gods: "Les toilettes."
Me: Merci. Also, I'm not keen on big cities. I like small towns. Villages, really. Small, quiet villages full of English people who love books and speak fluent French. And have cows. Did I mention that I don't care for seafood?
the gods decide
And that's how I ended up in Tokyo. Okay, it appeared to happen because my company was developing new software in Japan and needed a technical writer. But I ask you, how likely is that?
What I had in mind was tweeds and Wellies
For months after I moved to Japan in April 1985, the enhancements weren't firm enough to document. This concept of insufficiently firm software baffled my parents, then aged 71 and 82. As my dad wrote from California: "Is that why they call it 'soft'?"
It's no fun sitting in a cubicle for 40 hours a week with no work to do. The Internet would have been a godsend, but the Gods of Keeping People in Touch were still working on it. Instead, I spent a lot of time writing haiku.
I dreamed last night
I found a tentacle in my cornflakes:
The clock's hands move
As if Godzilla himself
Were trying to stop them
In my free time I worked on a mystery novel, the aptly named Terminal Death. Although it was set in Palo Alto, I'd written half of it in Liverpool, England. Now I was trying to write the second half in Tokyo. It didn't go well.
a poodle …
In addition to perfecting my haiku – and I think you'll agree I was nearing perfection – I studied Japanese. As I told my teacher, I'm good at grammar and syntax, so I expected to pick up the language in no time. This was boasting, which isn't done in Japan, except by foreigners. Especially Americans.
As it turned out, the things I knew about grammar and syntax didn't matter a damn.
For example, word order doesn't matter much in Japanese, which uses suffixes called "particles" to indicate parts of speech. Where we have to say, "I would like to win the Lottery," they're allowed to say, "The Lottery (particle) would like to win me (particle)."
These guys had no trouble with their particles
So the particles are important, but I kept mixing them up and saying things like, "I like to eat my friends with Mexican food," or, "A poodle owns my family."
Then there's the principle of yoin, a kind of reverberation between sympathetic souls, which dictates that in Japanese, you say as little as possible and allow your interlocutor to complete the meaning for herself. The truly cultured Japanese person, I gathered, says almost nothing. But when I said, "A poodle … " and looked at my teacher, she just sat there and waited for me to continue.
After work, I taught English lessons for my colleagues. For the advanced students who might be sent abroad on business, I devised real-life scenarios. They all learned to answer the phone with "Hello?" instead of "Moshi moshi," but I could never stop them bowing while they said it.
too late for the festival
Eventually the software firmed up and got documented, and after 18 months in Japan, I returned to California. I found myself missing the smell of tatami mats, the sight of kanji letters lit up in neon, even the sound of the bosozuku boys, the harmless gangs who whined their motorcycles through the streets at night. I missed bowing and being bowed to. Most of all, I missed my colleagues.
So, like a good technical writer, I sat down and documented. I tried to be honest about my struggles with the cuisine (seafood and I still don't get along), my bouts of homesickness and loneliness, the way I chafed against the Japanese saying that "the nail that sticks up must be hammered down," but I also recorded the experiences and relationships that gave me an abiding respect and affection for that beautiful country.
Too Late for the Festival was published by Academy Chicago in 1999 and has just been re-issued in paperback. So far, it's my only published book.
Gods: You see? All part of the plan.
Me: Right. Sure. Whatever.
Gods: We have filled in the rest of that sentence, and you're welcome.
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Margot Silk Forrest says:
Congratulations! I loved "Festival" when it first came out, and I think it's an absolute scandal (and shows very poor taste on the part of the publishing czars) that it's your only book published so far. Hope your current novel is going well — can't wait to read it!
Thank you, Margot. New novel is going very well. I'm scaring myself with the Frog Woman (you'll see when you read it).


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The Melting Pot: Final tech reviews of the year
by Joshua_Daniels
Written by Joshua_Daniels
Pure One Midi Series 3
I don't listen to the radio. I don't even know a great deal about radios. I felt out of place at the launch party for this radio. I needed a reviewer who knew what they were talking about, someone to whom 5 Live is not a station but a religion. I needed my mum.
So when the review unit came, I gave it to her. I was clear: set it up, use it, decide if it's any good. I thought this was a particularly effective test because, in the kindest possible way, she is not a technophile. She is still ill-at-ease with her work Blackberry and refers to mobile 4G data as 'marbles', frequently commenting that my data usage out of WiFi will 'use up your marbles'.
She had some comments.
Me: "Well, what were your first impressions?"
Mum: "I set it up. It worked. I managed to format some presets. The device appears to be well constructed, if slightly plasticky. More impressive though is that it packs a serious punch."
She proceeded to turn on Radio 4, and then turn the volume control a little. It became loud, but not distorted. This fairly small item really kicks out a lot of sound.
"This is enough to suppress a horde of annoying children, a MagiMix or Dad's DIY. It's brilliant."
Me: "What could be improved, if anything?"
Mum: "Pure has been making Radios for a while. I know because we've already got two or three of them. They aren't new to this, and their experience shows. Everything about this radio is functional, simplistic and usable. With that said, a slightly more high end construction wouldn't have gone amiss. Further, it isn't especially stable – a fairly mediocre knock will leave it lying flat, which is a bit of a nuisance. Other than that, it's excellent".
And thus concluded my contribution to the reviewing. There you have it. A solid radio.
This is a light, with a battery. If that sounds a little simplistic to have found its way onto these pages then worry not. Because the Hue Go is actually a component in a larger and more sophisticated chain. Above all else, it's awesome. You should absolutely give this as a gift/want to receive it this Christmas.
The Hue Go is part of the wider Philips Hue brand. If you haven't heard of that, you haven't been on public transport in the last few years. This stuff has been advertised extensively. It's a system of lighting based on WiFi, lent extra sophistication by virtue of the features WiFi brings. Beyond just being pretty, colour changing lighting, you can sent it to do all sorts of smart stuff – wake up lighting, timed lighting (home automation), etc.
The Hue Go, which is a standalone light, costs £70. You need to also get the WiFi bridge in order to make use of the juicier features, which costs a further £50. If £120 for a light sounds a little costly, then put it in perspective. It's beautifully designed and incredibly clever from a technical standpoint. An Anglepoise bedside lamp costs around £150.
This little light allows you to really colour a whole room, to create some ambience, to just make your home a nicer place to inhabit. It's as well suited to a college dorm (Netflix and Chill mood lighting?) to a home kitchen. Once you have the bridge, you can add more lights further down the line.
Home Automation, also known as 'smart homes' are going to be a huge part of tomorrow's technology. This is a great first step, at a reasonable price, and an extraordinarily good gift.
Take a look at this video from Philips:
Toshiba Kira
Billed as a luxury laptop, the Toshiba is one to avoid sadly. The substantial amount of money you're asked to fork over (my unit, the Kira-109 Ultrabook, will set you back £800 at John Lewis) doesn't seem to translate into a high-end product. It has a Full HD (1920*1080) screen, which is the exact same resolution as a smartphone from 2013. It just doesn't cut the mustard anymore. The HP spectre, the MacBook Pro, all the various Lenovo Ultrabooks – they all just do better here. Further, the Toshiba is thicker and heavier than just about all of its competitors. None of this, though. is unforgivable.
But here's what is. Pre-installed crapware. If you buy a laptop, irrespective of price, it should not come preloaded with sponsored junk. This stinks even more on a laptop this expensive. It obliterates the notion of a premium product. Toshiba is treating its customers awfully in this respect. The baffling part in all of this is that clearly somewhere inside the industrial works of Toshiba, someone gets this. On the Toshiba Chromebook 2, a laptop a fraction of the price of this one, there was no adware. I suspect this is because Chrome OS doesn't allow for it, but even so, the clear point here is that this is unacceptable at all price ranges.
There were other software issues. The laptop comes with Windows 8, like most laptops do. Theoretically, it's upgradable to Windows 10. I tried to upgrade it. It took me six attempts and a hell of a lot of fiddling. I review tech, as a job. It shouldn't take me six tries to do anything with a laptop, let alone something that the vast majority of consumers will want to do.
This laptop isn't wholly without redeeming features. The battery life is outstanding (though this was somewhat soured by the realisation that it was probably because the screen was underwhelming). The processor, RAM and SSD all work in unison to produce a seriously quick experience. With that said, it only became seriously quick after I'd upgraded (with difficulty) to Windows 10 and removed a load of bloatware. It won't be this quick out of the box.
The laptop is OK. Indeed, for a substantial price cut, it'd be excellent. But it isn't an Ultrabook. It isn't premium enough, slim enough, slick enough or light enough. Toshiba, you have work to do.
With thanks to Toshiba, Philips and Pure for sending over review units and being cool with us using their press photos. With thanks also to my mother, a budding tech reviewer.
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For Kim Kardashian West, caring for her husband Kanye while he recovered from coronavirus was a daunting experience.
In an interview for GRAZIA's cover story, the 39-year-old opened up about the experience helping West, 43, while being home alone with their kids.
"Kanye had it way at the beginning, when nobody really knew what was going on," she told the outlet. "It was so scary and unknown. I had my four babies and no-one else in the house to help."
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"I had to go and change his sheets and help him get out of bed when he wasn't feeling good," she said. "It was a challenge because it was so unknown."
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"Changing his sheets with gloves and a face shield was really a scary time," she said, later adding that "Maybe our planet needed a break."
In July, West opened up about facing his COVID-19 diagnosis earlier this year in an all-encompassing interview with Forbes.
"Chills, shaking in the bed, taking hot showers, looking at videos telling me what I'm supposed to do to get over it," the rapper told the outlet of his experience with the virus. "I remember someone had told me Drake had the coronavirus and my response was Drake can't be sicker than me!" (Drake later revealed he had tested negative.)
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The beauty mogul's new interview with GRAZIA comes three months after West announced he'd run for president — a decision met with ridicule and doubt by many. (One campaign operative told PEOPLE last week that there were "too many chiefs" in West's campaign, leading to his unlikely run that got his name on only a dozen state ballots.)
He's also been "struggling again" with his bipolar disorder, one source told PEOPLE. Last month, he spent several days sending erratic posts on Twitter.
"He's off his meds," an insider told PEOPLE last month. "He promised he'd stay on them. The last time, part of his negotiation with Kim was that he'd get back on his medication and he would work very hard to control his impulses. He made a lot of promises. And now those promises are broken, less than a month later."
The source explained that Kim is feeling "like she can only take so much."
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"It's the same thing over and over and over again," the source says. "He's on very thin ice with her right now, and she's truly trying to decide what to do to protect the kids, but also her own sanity. The whole thing is discouraging and difficult for her."
In July, the mother-of-four shared publicly addressed her husband's disorder, asking fans for "compassion" and calling their situation "complicated and painful."
"For such a powerful woman, she feels very powerless, and she hates it," the source also told PEOPLE in September. "She loves Kanye very much, and he just doesn't realize how much pain he's causing her."
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