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Q: Get pixel information from canvas using ArrayBuffer I have a function to read pixel information from canvas. It looks like this:
function getPx (imageData, x, y) {

    var r = imageData.data[((y * (imageData.width * 4)) + (x * 4))],
        g = imageData.data[((y * (imageData.width * 4)) + (x * 4)) + 1],
        b = imageData.data[((y * (imageData.width * 4)) + (x * 4)) + 2],
        a = imageData.data[((y * (imageData.width * 4)) + (x * 4)) + 3];

    return {
        r: r,
        g: g,
        b: b,
        a: a,
        black: (r + g + b) / 3
    };

}

This works fine but is a bit slow. From what I understand from this article https://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/12/faster-canvas-pixel-manipulation-with-typed-arrays/ there is a much faster way to read/write imageData from the canvas using something called ArrayBuffer. I can't unfortunately get this to work. So does anyone know how to do this?
UPDATE:
I have a canvas where I want to measure some points color or alpha value, so I don't do this an all pixels. My attempts so far looks like this:
function getPx (imageData, x, y) {

    var data32 = new Uint32Array(imageData.data.buffer);
    var rv = data32[y * imageData.width + x];
    return rv;

}

This returns values and seems to be on the right way, however the values I get can look like this 4076863488 and 4244635648 and I'm not really sure how to turn them into the data I'm after.

A: As @Kaiido mentioned it's slower. But for anyone else who want to elaborate on this here's my final function.
function getPx (imageData, x, y) {

    var data32 = new Uint32Array(imageData.data.buffer),
        val32 = data32[y * imageData.width + x],
        str32,
        a = 0,
        b = 0,
        g = 0,
        r = 0;

    if (val32 > 0) {
        str32 = val32.toString(16);
        a = parseInt(str32.substr(0, 2), 16);
        b = parseInt(str32.substr(2, 2), 16);
        g = parseInt(str32.substr(4, 2), 16);
        r = parseInt(str32.substr(6, 2), 16);
    }

    return {
        r: r,
        g: g,
        b: b,
        a: a,
        black: (r + g + b) / 3
    };

}

And also, it's better to put data32 = new Uint32Array(imageData.data.buffer) outside of the function if your calling this function many times with the same imageData.

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The RC44 sailboat was designed by Russell Coutts and with the assistance of naval architect Andrej Justin the boat is built by Pauger Carbon Composite / Pauger Yachts and first launched in 2007. The class is recognised by the International Sailing Federation in November 2009 and held it first World Championships in 2010.

History
The boat was conceived in 2007.

Events

World Championships

World Tour
In addition the class holds a tour taking in a number of the key sailing locations in North America, Europe and the Middle East.

References

External links
Official RC44 Class Association Website
Boat designer Official Website
 Builders Official Website
  ISAF RC44 Microsite Website
  ISAF Homepage

Classes of World Sailing
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#SUPER-DRUPES
In Brazil, the sports drinks grow on trees
AP Photo/Andre Penner
How they do it in the Amazon.
By Jenni Avins
senior lifestyle correspondent
June 17, 2014 This article is more than 2 years old.
Many of the World Cup teams in Brazil brought their own ingredients for pre-game meals—Italy packed their prosciutto and olive oil, the U.S. their peanut butter—but they may be wise to wash down those dishes with a couple of Brazil's local drinks: açai and coconut water (known as agua de coco in Brazil). Due to recent spikes in popularity, beverages containing açai and coconut water may strike consumers as over-hyped, over-processed, sugary drinks disguised as natural beverages. But in Brazil, ordering an açai (pronounced "ah-sigh-ee") or an agua de coco (just how it looks, but that de sounds like "jee") can get you a pure, unadulterated natural sports drink that's hydrating and healthy. Fun fact: both açai berries and coconuts are drupes—three-layered fruits with hard, stone-like seeds.
Jenni Avins
A branch of açai berries is harvested in the Brazilian Amazon.
Where it comes from
Açai is a dark indigo-colored berry that grows on palms in the flooded regions of the Brazilian Amazon. (There, it's a staple of the local diet—"the milk of the Amazon." Some riverfront villages even have a community blender for easy processing.)
Coconut water is the water inside young, green coconuts that grow from palm trees largely planted along Brazil's east coast (Portuguese).
AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
World Cup price inflation: these are usually more in the neighborhood of $R2. Still worth it.
How to enjoy it
Açai berries are marble-sized, highly perishable, and comprised largely of their very hard pits, which is why the berries are soaked, scoured, and processed as frozen pulp for export to markets outside the Amazon. It's often mixed with guaraná syrup in Brazil, which adds sweetness and a caffeinated kick to the otherwise subtle tasting fruit. At Brazil's ubiquitous corner juice stands, açai with banana and honey ("banana e mel") is tough to beat. For a less cloying treat, ask for it without the syrup ("sem xarope"—pronounced "seng sha-roe-pee"). In North America, Sambazon sells organic frozen açai pulp that lets you do it home—with or without guaraná. Try it with pear juice, ice, and avocado for a rich shake, or use the classic ice, banana, honey, and soy/almond/coconut/just plain milk mix as the base for a granola-topped bowl.
Coconut water is the very best from a straw, stuck straight into the fruit itself. Brazil's many road and beach-side coconut stands offer the option of a coco "gelada"—which means cold, and is worth the extra buck or two if it's sweltering outside. After you're done, some coconut sellers will use a machete to whack the fruit open for you, and slice off a piece to use as a scraper for the pulp inside—also a treat. If you can't drink it straight from the fruit, the taste of Harmless Harvest bottled coconut water comes in at a (pricey) close second. Harmless Harvest uses coconuts from Thailand, and tastes a little nuttier.
Why it's good for you
Açai is rich in omega fats and antioxidants, which earned the berry much of its hype when it was hailed as a "super food" in North America. It also contains vitamin A, fiber, protein, and carbohydrates—some of the components that nutritionists identify as essential to a sports drink that helps athletes effectively recover.
Coconut water has lots of electrolytes, including potassium, which is not only good for bone and heart strength—it also can help muscle cramping. Like açai, coconut water also contains fiber, protein, and carbohydrates.
Açai: Some beverages that claim to be "açai" on their labels actually contain precious little of the actual berry pulp. The safest way to ensure you're getting the good stuff is to purchase frozen packets of pure açai and make it at home. Another way is to look at the listed ingredients in a bottled drink to see if açai is the first one. Also: it's no light drink. Açai is rich in antioxidants and omega fats—and also calories.
Coconut water is commonly mixed with sugary fruit purees in its bottled and cartoned versions. Those beverages are relatively lighter in calories and sugars than common bottled sports drinks, but shouldn't be gulped thoughtlessly like just plain water.

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PAGERDUTY_READ_ONLY_TOKEN is used for reading schedules and checking the overlaps.
SCHEDULE can contain a EXCLUSION_DAYS key, which specifies days (3 letter abb.) in form of object with optional start and end time (hh:mm format CET TIMEZONE).If start or end is omitted, whole day is considered excluded. Example below represents current weekend on-call setup.
Currently, we support Slack (SLACK with SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL and CHANNEL) or shorthanded SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL and PagerDuty (PAGERDUTY with PAGERDUTY_TOKEN, PAGERDUTY_SERVICE_ID and PAGERDUTY_FROM) notifications. The PAGERDUTY_TOKEN has to have full access.
For PagerDuty, an incident can either be directly assigned to the user with overlaps (default) or set to an escalation policy (if specified by PAGERDUTY_ESCALATION_POLICY_ID in config).
All PagerDuty integrations are using PagerDuty API v2. When generating an API token, select the v2 option.
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Q: Declare string in C without giving size I want to concatenate in a string multiple sentences. At the moment my buffer is with fixed size 100, but I do not know the total count of the sentences to concatenate and this size can be not enough in the future. How can I define a string without defining its size?
char buffer[100];
int offset = sprintf (buffer, "%d plus %d is %d", 5, 3, 5+3);
offset += sprintf (buffer + offset, " and %d minus %d is %d", 6, 3, 6-3);
offset += sprintf (buffer + offset, " even more");
printf ("[%s]",buffer);

A: This is a fundamental aspect of C.  C never does automatic management of dynamically-constructed strings for you — this is always your responsibility.
Here is an outline of four different techniques you might use.  You can ask additional questions about any of these that aren't clear.

*

*Run through your string-construction process twice.  Make one pass to collect the lengths of all the substrings, then call malloc to allocate a buffer of the computed size, then make a second pass to actually construct your string.

*Allocate a smallish (or empty) initial buffer with malloc, and then, each time you're about to append a new substring to it, check the buffer's size, and if necessary grow it bigger using realloc.  (In this case I always use three variables: (1) pointer to buffer, (2) allocated size of buffer, (3) number of characters currently in buffer.  The goal is to always keep (2) ≥ (3).)

*Allocate a dynamically-growing "memstream" and use fprintf or the like to "print" to it.  This is an ideal technique, although memstreams are not standard and not supported on all platforms, and dynamically-allocating memstreams are even more exotic and less common.  (It's possible to write your own, but it's a lot of work.)  You can open a fixed-size memstream using fmemopen (although this is not what you want), and you can open the holy grail, a dynamically-allocating memstream (which is what you want) using open_memstream, if you have it.  Both are documented on this man page.  (This technique is analogous to stringstream in C++.)

*The "better to beg forgiveness than ask permission" technique.  You can allocate a buffer which you're pretty sure is amply big enough, then blindly stuff all your substrings into it, then at the very end call strlen on it and, if you guessed wrong and the string is longer than the buffer you allocated, print a big scary noisy error message and abort.  This is a blunt and risky technique, not one you'd use in a production program.  It's possible that when you overflow the buffer, you damage things in a way that causes the program to crash before it has a chance to perform its belated check-and-maybe-exit step at all.  If you used this technique at all, it would be considerably "safer" (that is, considerably less likely to prematurely crash before the check) if you allocated the buffer using malloc, than if you declared it as an ordinary, fixed-size array (whether static or local).
Personally, I've used all four of these.  Out in the rest of the world, numbers 1 and 2 are both in common use by just about everybody.  Comparing them: number 1 is simple and a bit easier but has an uncomfortable amount of code replication (and might therefore be brittle if new strings are added later); number 2 is more robust but obviously requires you to be comfortable with the way realloc works (and this technique can be less than robust in its own way, if you've got any auxiliary pointers into your buffer which need to be ponderously relocated each time realloc is called).
Number 3 is an "exotic" technique: theoretically almost ideal, but definitely more sophisticated and necessitating some extra support, since nothing like open_memstream is standard.
And number 4 is obviously a risky and inherently not reliable technique, which you'd use — if at all — only in throwaway or prototype code, never in production.

A: You can use the snprintf function with NULL for the first argument and 0 for the second get the size that a formatted string would be.  You can then allocate the space dynamically and call snprintf again to actually build the string.
char *buffer = NULL;
int len, offset = 0;

len = snprintf (NULL, 0, "%d plus %d is %d", 5, 3, 5+3);
buffer = realloc(buffer, offset + len + 1);
offset = sprintf (buffer + offset, "%d plus %d is %d", 5, 3, 5+3);

len = snprintf (NULL, 0, " and %d minus %d is %d", 6, 3, 6-3);
buffer = realloc(buffer, offset + len + 1);
offset += sprintf (buffer + offset, " and %d minus %d is %d", 6, 3, 6-3);

len = snprintf (NULL, 0, " even more");
buffer = realloc(buffer, offset + len + 1);
offset += sprintf (buffer + offset, " even more");

printf ("[%s]",buffer);

Note that this implementation omits checking on realloc and snprintf for brevity.  It also repeats the format string and arguments.  The following function addresses these shortcomings:
int append_buffer(char **buffer, int *offset, const char *format, ...)
{
    va_list args;
    int len;

    va_start(args, format);
    len = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, format, args);
    if (len < 0) {
        perror("vsnprintf failed");
        return 0;
    }
    va_end(args);

    char *tmp = realloc(*buffer, *offset + len + 1);
    if (!tmp) {
        perror("realloc failed");
        return 0;
    }
    *buffer = tmp;

    va_start(args, format);
    *offset = vsprintf(*buffer + *offset, format, args);
    if (len < 0) {
        perror("vsnprintf failed");
        return 0;
    }
    va_end(args);

    return 1;
}

Which you can then call like this:
char *buffer = NULL;
int offset = 0;

int rval;
rval = append_buffer(&buffer, &offset, "%d plus %d is %d", 5, 3, 5+3);
if (!rval) return 1;
rval = append_buffer(&buffer, &offset, " and %d minus %d is %d", 6, 3, 6-3);
if (!rval) return 1;
rval = append_buffer(&buffer, &offset, " even more");
if (!rval) return 1;

printf ("[%s]",buffer);
free(buffer);


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Q: Unix ,cron and MAILTO looking at possibility of configuring MAILTO , such that we have few crons mailing to one email id and others to a different email id.
will the following work ?
MAILTO="email1@"
SHELL=/bin/zsh
0,30 * * * * <cron job>
0 1 * * *  shashi zsh -c "export MAILTO='email2@';find /home/y/logs/ -daystart -type f -ctime +7 -print -exec rm -rf {} \;"

am expecting with this first cron job would mail to by default 'email1@' , while the second cron entry would mail to 'email2@' as we have overridden MAILTO.

A: I'm mostly working on RHEL 5 and 6 right now - my RH6 box has cronie 1.4 installed.
I am able to put multiple MAILTO lines in the crontab.  The crontab is processed from top to bottom and the MAILTO can be changed in between different jobs.  I think this makes the file very readable and understandable.
So I would write your example code like this:
SHELL=/bin/zsh
MAILTO="email1@"
0,30 * * * * <cron job>

MAILTO="email2@"
0 1 * * *  find /home/y/logs/ -daystart -type f -ctime +7 -print -exec rm -rf \{\} \;


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Published: October 31st, 2017
Category: Announcements, Newsletter
Hurricane Irma has come and gone and those of us associated with the Wilmot Gardens have been able to breathe a giant sigh of relief. With one but very important exception, we experienced no major wind damage or flooding in the gardens including the greenhouse and the conference center. Nevertheless, it was necessary for our team aided by many volunteers to devote several days to general clean-up of the storm debris left in the wake of Irma.
The one exception was the uprooting of the sycamore tree that is the central feature of the Hippocratic Garden located in the northeast corner of the community lawn known as The Commons. The tree has been replanted and as of this writing, it remains viable. This tree is a direct descendent of the original tree obtained as a seedling by the UF Medical School class of 1969 from the Greek minister of agriculture and planted in front of Shands Hospital North along archer Road. It's significance lies in the fact that Hippocrates, considered the father of modern medicine, who taught and practiced medicine on the Greek Isle of Cos, frequently taught medical students while sitting under a sycamore tree. Each spring a ceremony is held by the senior medical school class at UF to recognize the clinical faculty member they believe best exemplifies the principles taught by Hippocrates. When the decision was made in 2009 to relocate that yearly ceremony to the Wilmot Gardens, the sycamore tree was believed to be too large to move to the new location. Fortunately, Ms. Linda Leucking and Ms. Irma Velez undertook the challenge to air-layer the original tree to obtain a second-generation seedling, which was planted in April 2011 at the new site in the Wilmot Gardens.
Those of you who visit and/or volunteer at the Wilmot Gardens will be pleased to learn that the parking lot west of the conference center building is undergoing expansion and will be paved. Hopefully the project which is now in progress will be completed by the time you read our fall newsletter. We are grateful to Mr. Mark Helms, Director of the Physical Plant Division at UF, for his support of this project. We also wish to thank Robert Walpole and Monique Heathcock of CHW, Inc. who provided their expert engineering for the project pro bono.
Preparations are now well underway for the fall plant sales at the Wilmot Gardens. An excellent selection of camellias and azaleas will be offered to the general public on Friday, November 3rd from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, November 4th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
There will be a second plant sale on Friday, December 1st from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 2nd from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Greenhouse at Wilmot Gardens. This sale will feature Christmas cacti, succulents, plant terrariums, seasonal edibles and more.
As usual, the proceeds from each sale will support the Wilmot Gardens and the therapeutic horticulture program.
C. Craig Tisher, M.D., Director, Wilmot Gardens
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Marty Strenczewilk Reflects on Splyce Founding and Acquisition, Next Steps
Credit: Marty Strenczewilk/OverActive Media
"I hadn't breathed in six years."
On March 25, Marty Strenczewilk surprised esports fans when he announced his departure from OverActive Media (OAM). The decision started small, he tells The Esports Observer, as an "inkling in the back of his head."
"It wasn't really an 'ah-ha' moment but I realized there were so many other interesting things I could be doing," Strenczewilk said. "I had been doing this for so long. I know six years doesn't sound like a long time to most people, but I'm a guy on his fourth career now, so to me, six years is an eternity."
A lot has happened in those six years. Strenczewilk co-founded Splyce in 2015, overseeing the brand as CEO from its inception through good times and bad. His Splyce brand and its staff were acquired by OverActive Media (OAM) in November of 2018 to manage OAM's two flagship teams that played in the Overwatch League (Toronto Defiant) and Call of Duty League (Toronto Ultra), respectively. Strenczewilk took the title senior vice president of team operations.
He noted that Splyce co-founder Vincent Garguilo and Jonathan Strenczewilk (Marty's brother) were laid off during the acquisition and moved on to other projects.
"They both had expressed to me this real joy during that month […] where they could breathe for the first time in many, many years and just recover from the fact that this was so intense for so long. I realized I hadn't breathed in six years."
As of January, he was the last OAM employee remaining in the U.S. who hadn't relocated to Toronto. Realizing that he would eventually be called up North, Strenczewilk decided it was time to reassess his future, as well as that of his brand.
"I want to make sure that they're a success," he said, adding that "it was important for him to make sure the offseason goes smoothly."
Strenczewilk will remain a large shareholder in the company, so he doesn't see it as walking away forever.
"I will always be very intimately connected to the organization," he said. "[OAM CEO Chris Overholt] and I were just talking about how we can't imagine a world in which he doesn't call me every once in a while to ask my thoughts on certain things. My goal is definitely to let them run the company."
Looking back, Strenczewilk doesn't think Splyce has changed considerably from how it first started in terms of its entrepreneurial spirit. Coming from the entertainment world, he likens esports to theater. It's young, passionate, and the ultimate goal is to graduate to Broadway, which is a professional business.
"I knew that was coming and I wanted to be part of it," he says of founding Splyce, marveling at the professionalism that teams are creating in the esports space today. "You can see it on the publisher side and in the great organizations who aren't hiring just anyone who says 'I heart esports'—they're actually getting people who are really good at what they do to build revenue, brand, infrastructure, operations, etc. It's necessary if you're going to scale a business."
Strenczewilk calls himself a student of the start-up space and that he always took the phrase, "surround yourself with people more talented than you" to heart. He looks back on his experiences with Splyce and OAM as a unique learning experience.
"The Toronto Ultra is one of the coolest things I've ever seen developed," he says. "I'm not taking anything away from what we did with Splyce, but I got to watch a brand birthed by an absolute expert in his field [OAM Vice President, Global Head of Marketing Mike Armstrong] and you can see the reception from the fans."
Another take away from his time with Splyce was the importance of creating a specific identity, Strenczewilk explains.
Credit: Activision Blizzard
"If you look at any start-up, the challenge so many face is that they're not specific—they're too generic," he said. "When we decided to pick up a European League of Legends team, and we had this kind of broad Western [brand], I'll be quite honest—I didn't realize the implications of that and how challenging that would be not to have an identity.
Strenczewilk noted the value of Spanish organization MAD Lions, which supplanted Splyce as OAM's pro League of Legends brand this year. The organization is based in Madrid and was founded in Spain. "It creates a fan base that we couldn't do with the Splyce brand."
"I still love the Splyce brand, I'm still very proud of what we built. Along the way, each decision has made sense to me the way we've done it. I'm very happy with how it ended up."
Looking to the future, Strenczewilk won't be working directly with non-OAM teams in order to avoid a conflict of interest. However, he says he's interested in the opportunities that exist in gaming and esports.
"I'm just open to working on something interesting and cool that has real possibilities. It doesn't have to be in any specific space," he said, adding that he is particularly interested in the "metaverse" social interaction between humans and computers.
Strenczewilk's resignation comes during an interesting, yet turbulent time for esports—an industry that after years of build-up finds itself unable to hold live events; a consequence of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Looking to the future, however, he is optimistic about the foundations already laid.
While the Toronto Defiant and Ultra had to cancel their homestands, their respective leagues still held multiple sold-out events in North America and Europe. "This was our year to show how important and successful localization could be and we've seen these great events have awesome audiences, high attendance, and be successful," he said. "It is important to continue to do that. It's unfortunate that we won't be able to continue but I think it's great we got as far as we did—we showed that the model does matter.
"On the other side, there is an incredible opportunity right now. There were two Toronto Raptors [players] tweeting and looking for two more to play in our pro CoD tournament," Strenczewilk says. "Let that sink in for a second. Even my least famous CoD players are streaming nightly with rappers, DJs, baseball players…it's because gaming brings us all together."
Strenczewilk called the fact that over 900K people watched a NASCAR esports event "mind-blowingly important."
"People in the industry assume that everyone knows what esports is in 2020 and that's bullshit. This is the opportunity for widespread knowledge—not necessarily an acceptance, but the knowledge that our industry exists."
He says his nine-year-old daughter summed it up when she said, "Wow, the day this all ends, Dad, it's going to be crazy outside."
"I think she's right—I don't think we're going to have any problems filling stadiums again. The opportunities that we're creating right now are going to continue to exist in addition to new ones as we talk about content on new distribution channels or access to new fans."
In the meantime, Strenczewilk is looking forward to taking a break, spending time with his family, and figuring out what's next. "I'm talking to some cool people," he teased.
This interview was conducted by Graham Ashton.
Editor's note: This interview was conducted prior to layoffs at OverActive Media at the end of March.
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Can Robert Bigelow (and the Rest of Us) Survive Death?
He's offering nearly $1 million if you help him figure it out.
By Ralph Blumenthal
Published Jan. 21, 2021. Updated Jan. 23, 2021.
New York Times Article.
What's across the River Styx? Robert Thomas Bigelow would like to know. Wouldn't anyone, especially now? But Mr. Bigelow is not just anyone, or any 76-year-old mourning a wife and confronting his own mortality. He's a maverick Las Vegas real estate and aerospace mogul with billionaire allure and the resources to fund his restless curiosity embracing outer and inner space, U.F.O.s and the spirit realm.
Now he's offering nearly $1 million in prizes for the best evidence for "the survival of consciousness after permanent bodily death."
In other words, was Hamlet right to call death an inescapable boundary, "the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns?" Or does consciousness in some form survive bodily death — what the Dalai Lama called how we merely "change our clothes"?
Is Raymond Chandler's Big Sleep only a nap?
Mr. Bigelow believes so. "I am personally totally convinced of it," he said.
A daunting quest, perhaps fringe to some, but the shaggy-maned and mustached entrepreneur, the sole owner of Bigelow Aerospace and Budget Suites of America, is not easily put off. He amassed a fortune to pursue his interests, including the designing and building of inflatable astronaut habitats for NASA, like his soft-sided expandable activity module called BEAM attached to the International Space Station.
His aerospace ventures have been financed by his Budget Suites business, one of the first extended-stay rental chains, now housing some 15,000 people in three states. The profits have enabled him, he says, to sink more than $350 million into Bigelow Aerospace, "my own real black hole," as he put it in recent phone interviews.
They have also enabled Mr. Bigelow to indulge a celebrated, if sometimes derided, interest in what he called "anomalous events" including his 20-year ownership of a spooky Utah ranch overrun by flying orbs and other creepy phenomena. The strange goings-on drew the interest of the Defense Intelligence Agency and, through funding secured by Harry Reid, the former Democratic Senate majority leader, led to the formation of a Pentagon effort to study unidentified flying objects — the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, revealed by The New York Times in 2017.
Mr. Reid called Mr. Bigelow "brilliant" and said they developed a close working relationship despite their sharp political differences; Mr. Bigelow is known as a conservative Republican with kind words for President Trump (at least until recently). Yet Mr. Reid said he had "high regard" for Mr. Bigelow: "He's looked into areas other people only think about."
An Exploration of Life After Death
Last June, four months after bone marrow disease and leukemia claimed the life of his wife of 55 years, Diane Mona Bigelow, at 72, Mr. Bigelow quietly founded the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies to support research into what happens after death.
It set the stage for his new afterlife contest, seeking the best available evidence of survival of consciousness, with prizes of $500,000, $300,000 and $150,000 for first, second and third place. The winners will be announced on Nov. 1.
Entrants must qualify as serious researchers by Feb. 28, with a record of at least five years of study of the field and preferably an affiliation with groups like the Society for Psychical Research in Britain. Submissions of up to 25,000 words are due by Aug. 1, to be judged by a panel of specialists. Mr. Bigelow said he had an idea what that best evidence might be, but "it would be prejudicial to say."
The Bigelows' interest in consciousness grew after the 1992 death by suicide of their 24-year-old son, Rod Lee, father of a baby son and as-yet-unborn daughter. (That son, Rod II, grew up to struggle with drug addiction and would also die from suicide at 20 in 2011. His sister, Mr. Bigelow's granddaughter, Blair, has worked with his aerospace and realty companies and may eventually take them over, Mr. Bigelow said.)
Seeking comfort after their son's death, the Bigelows held sittings with the renowned medium George Anderson. Did their son make contact? "Not really," Mr. Bigelow said, "but what I got out of the readings, I think, was that his spirit existed and that he was O.K."
Finding few researchers seriously studying afterlife experiences, the couple in 1997 endowed the Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies at the University of Nevada Las Vegas with a $3.7 million gift. Charles T. Tart, a spiritually inclined transpersonal psychologist, and Raymond Moody, an author who popularized the study of near-death experiences, became the first two chairs, but Mr. Bigelow shut down the program after several years. "Sadly, we just couldn't make enough progress in research aspects," he said.
In 1999 he founded Bigelow Aerospace and the following year bought the license from NASA to build expandable space habitats, launching the unmanned Genesis I and II inflatable modules into orbit in 2006 and 2007.
In 2016, Elon Musk's SpaceX sent Bigelow's BEAM to the space station, where it is filled with sensors, but Mr. Bigelow said he had a "fantastic" new commercial purpose to reveal soon. The aerospace company, however, laid off all but about 20 of its 155 employees last March when Nevada's governor declared it nonessential and it had to close.
After canceling his consciousness studies program, Mr. Bigelow focused on U.F.O.s, an interest dating back to 1947, a landmark year for flying saucer fever, after the crash of something still mysterious in the desert outside Roswell, N.M.
That May, when he was three, Mr. Bigelow said, his maternal grandparents, Tom and Delta Thebo, were driving down from the mountains outside Las Vegas after dark when a glowing object flew toward them, filling their windshield and terrifying them before streaking off. They were late getting back home and so shaken, Mr. Bigelow said, that "my grandfather couldn't drive a car for a while."
As to what may have happened to them during the missing hours, Mr. Bigelow said, "they wouldn't talk about it."
Mr. Bigelow has had his own anomalous experiences, including "one that I don't talk about." Others, starting when he was about 7, "I chalk up to just dreams," he said. But they left an impression on a child growing up in the dawning age of rocketry and atomic test clouds in the Nevada desert. "I was totally hooked," he said.
"When I was 12 or 13, I made a commitment to myself to really get involved in something to do with space, and something to do with U.F.O.s if I ever had the money to do it. So I made a premeditated contract to myself to get into some kind of field where I could make a lot of money."
'There's Things I Don't Mind Talking About'
After studying business at Arizona State University, Mr. Bigelow followed his father into real estate, founding Budget Suites in 1987. The furnished units, rentable by the week or month, cater to low-income workers living on tips or paycheck to paycheck, a housing category that falls in a gray area of noneviction edicts during the pandemic.
The New York Times reported in December that Budget Suites had filed at least 46 eviction actions in Texas and Arizona, winning half in court. Mr. Bigelow called tenant complaints "phony" and said his company often extended financing to those needing more time to pay.
Budget Suites made him the fortune he had promised himself. (The Wall Street Journal in 1999 said he valued his real estate empire at $900 million; Forbes estimated it in 2007 at $700 million.) Today he is often called a billionaire but he dismissed specifics. "It's not what matters," he said. "It's easy to say when you have the money, but it's not everything."
The money enabled him, however, to establish the Bigelow Foundation in 1992, collaborating with Bob Lazar, who claimed to have worked on reverse-engineering recovered extraterrestrial craft at the covert Nevada base known as Area 51. Mr. Bigelow also supported Dr. John E. Mack, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard who wrote two popular books on his experiences counseling people with credible alien abduction accounts, and Dr. Mack's frequent collaborator Budd Hopkins, an artist turned abduction investigator who wrote his own popular books.
In 1995, Mr. Bigelow founded the National Institute of Discovery Science to study paranormal phenomena, paying $200,000 the following year for the 480-acre Skinwalker Ranch, nicknamed for the shape-shifting witches of Navajo legend and vacated by its frightened owners, Terry and Gwen Sherman.
News accounts by the Las Vegas reporter George Knapp and others reported the couple had been terrorized by giant wolves unscathed by gunshots, glowing balls that vaporized their dogs and invisible forces that mutilated cattle, leaving them bloodlessly eviscerated.
Mr. Bigelow's investigative team, headed by Colm Kelleher, the institute's scientific administrator and biochemist, documented their own paranormal events, according to a 2005 book, "Hunt for the Skinwalker," by Dr. Kelleher and Mr. Knapp.
On one occasion, they write, investigators peering through night vision goggles watched an expanding tunnel of light disgorge a large hominoid creature that then walked away and disappeared. A sudden fissure in the sky seemed to open a vista onto another dimension. Cattle were found crammed into a closed trailer with no sign how they got there. And a closed-circuit video camera trained on the grounds had its wiring torn out, while another camera, focused on it, recorded nothing.
Mr. Bigelow said he saw "interdimensional" forces at play through portals at certain paranormal hot spots like Skinwalker. But he also said he had frequently visited the ranch without experiencing the kind of chilling events others reported, as if some intelligence were selecting the people to act upon.
"I slept like a log every single night," he said. And no human was physically harmed, but he said he and other visitors often carried strange things home, like a sulfurous stink in a certain part of his house. His wife felt the presence of a faceless creature pressing down on her side of bed.
Mr. Bigelow closed down his discovery institute in 2004, replacing it with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies which, worked secretly with the Pentagon on its U.F.O. program. The files of both organizations remain sealed to outsiders. He sold the ranch in 2016 for about $500,000 to another billionaire realty tycoon, Brandon Fugal, who has continued his own private on-site research.
"The main mysteries at Skinwalker were never solved," Mr. Bigelow said. But he added, "Lots of things have never been made public that we have, things that I personally initiated that we have photographs of."
Given what he called an overwhelming "preponderance of evidence," from more than 235 people he had interviewed about their close encounter experiences, he said, "it gets silly to be dragging the dead cat up and down the alley and pretending nothing's wrong."
In 2017 Lara Logan asked him on "60 Minutes": "Do you believe in aliens?" He responded, "I'm absolutely convinced. That's all there is to it."
Unlike consciousness, what he broadly called "E.T." has provided physical evidence to study, Mr. Bigelow said. "Maybe you've been handed something that's anomalous and it doesn't analyze" as anything we can make, he said.
But when asked to confirm that he possessed or knew of demonstrably off-earth material, he said: "I don't go there. There's things I don't mind talking about and things I do mind talking about."
'It May Matter What You Do While You're Here'
He was happy, however, to discuss his new afterlife contest, details of which he was set to fill in starting late Sunday on the national nighttime paranormal radio show "Coast to Coast." Its frequent weekend host is Mr. Bigelow's longtime friend George Knapp of KLAS TV Las Vegas.
The panel to judge the submissions includes Dr. Christopher C. Green, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State College of Medicine who served with the Central Intelligence Agency; Jeffrey J. Kripal, a professor of philosophy and religious thought at Rice University; and the investigative reporter Leslie Kean, the author of the 2017 book "Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence For an Afterlife," the basis of a six-part series on Netflix.
Mr. Bigelow said that of two "Holy Grail" questions — whether bodily death marked the end of existence and whether we are alone in the cosmos — he put survival of consciousness first, with a special moral aspect. "It may matter what you do while you're here," he said. "It could make a difference on the other side."
This sounds religious, but Mr. Bigelow said he subscribed to no church or denomination, rather, a "God force."
The two mysteries, moreover, may be somehow entwined, Mr. Bigelow speculated. "If we see a shadow going through one wall and through another, we don't know for sure if it was a discarnate human spirit or E.T.," he said.
One personal footnote. Don't ask me what happened on Jan. 4 at 5:45 a.m. as I lay sleepless, wrestling with this story. A tremendous bang jolted me and my wife and the dog upright. We found the glass door to our 12th-floor terrace completely spiderwebbed with cracks as if struck with tremendous force, but there was no sign of any projectile. Invisible moisture between the double panes? Or something else? There are things I don't mind talking about and things I do mind talking about.


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William Wegman's Weimaraners
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William Wegman fell in love with his first pup Man Ray early in his career and the two began a collaboration that lasted throughout Man Ray's life and gained Wegman notoriety as a photographer. The dog was a central figure in Wegman's photographs, known for his deadpan stare weiterlesen.
Michael Sowa's Their Master's Voice
Artist and illustrator Michael Sowa features animals in his works constantly. The German artist is best known for his whimsical surreal paintings in which animals are the main subjects, replacing or competing with human forms weiterlesen. His animals can be found conducting human business such as ice skating or Laptop Sheep https://ed-nederland.com/ magyargenerikus.com.
Frida Kahlo's Itzcuintli Dog With Me
Frida Kahlo loved animals and had many pets, she considered them a replacement for the children she was not able to have after a serious bus accident crushed her spine and lower body. She made 143 paintings, 55 of them are self-portraits portraying physical and psychological wounds and featuring her beloved animals nützlicher inhalt weiterlesen.
Among her pets she had hairless Mexican Itzcuintli dogs- her favorite named Mr. Xoloti, one of which she features in this work. Itzcuintli dogs are very rare and were highly prized by the Aztecs, which may explain their appeal to Kahlo, who was very proud of her MesoAmerican heritage.
Edvard Munch's Head of a Dog
Famous for his intense paintings depicting interior psychological states like The Scream, Edvard Munch himself struggled with anxiety and depression. Munch's sister and mother died when he was a boy and in 1908 Munch suffered a severe mental breakdown. In his later years Edvard Munch withdrew from society, living alone without a servant or a housekeeper nützlicher inhalt weiterlesen.
Only his several dogs kept him company while he devoted his time to painting. Munch was even known to take his dogs to the movies with him as his trusted critics. If his dog barked he left the show.
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 Kamiński – sposoby konsekwentnego i możliwie najbardziej skutecznego postępowania zmierzające do określonego celu.
 Muszyński  - sposób postępowania wychowawcy, polegający na wywieraniu wpływu na aktywność wychowanka, związany zawsze z obszarem nagród i kar. Wychowanie poprzez stosowanie tych metod dąży do obranego celu.

Zadaniem teorii wychowania jest tworzenie, rekonstrukcja, przetwarzanie tak treści, metod, kształtów wychowania, aby potrafiły się one wpasować w ówczesny kształt i model świata. Staje się więc niezbędne ciągłe poszukiwanie najlepszych i jak najbardziej aktualnych rozwiązań dotyczących wychowania i kształtowania jednostki. Teoria wychowania to dział, którego treścią i celem jest człowiek (podmiot), treścią jest wychowanie (przedmiot), metodą – sposób wytwarzania odpowiednich postaw, cech, nawyków w młodym lub dorosłym człowieku. Możemy zatem powiedzieć, ze istotą wychowania jest całokształt związany z formowaniem i dopasowaniem nas samych do aktualnych i przyszłych modeli dobrze wychowanego człowieka (w pełnym tego słowa znaczeniu - moralnie, fizycznie, społecznie, emocjonalnie, umysłowo).

Style wychowania
Wyróżnić można 3 podstawowe style wychowania:

Autorytarny:
 dominacja wychowawcy
 podporządkowanie wychowanka
 wychowanie zazwyczaj jednoznaczne restrykcyjne
 metody bezpośrednie: nagrody, kary

Partnerski:
 liberalny
 samodzielne kształtowanie sytuacji wychowawczych
 pozostawiona swoboda i niezależność dziecku
 interwencja tylko w sytuacjach kryzysowych
 wychowanie poprzez życiowe sytuacje

Demokratyczny:
 współkreowanie wychowanka
 wychowawca uczestniczy w życiu wychowanka
 metody pośrednie: oddziaływanie poprzez naśladownictwo

Podział według Muszyńskiego
WPŁYW OSOBISTY:
 wyrażanie aprobaty i dezaprobaty (podoba - nie podoba mi się)
 działanie – wpływu osobistego
 perswazja
 wysuwanie sugestii
 instruowanie
Indywidualna relacja wychowawca-wychowanek, według tych oddziaływań będziemy poznawać świat.

WPŁYW SPOŁECZNY
 modyfikacja celów zespołu
 kształtowanie norm postępowania
 przekształcanie struktury zespołu
 nadawanie właściwego kierunku kontroli
Pod wpływem otoczenia możemy zmienić swoje zachowanie by dostosować się do ogółu, by pozyskać akceptację

WPŁYW SYTUACYJNY
 nagradzanie
 karanie
 organizowanie doświadczenia
Określona sytuacja może wpłynąć na nasze zachowanie (strata bliskich)

KIEROWANIE SAMOWYCHOWANIEM
 ukazywanie samych sposobów
 przygotowanie do świadomego ćwiczenia
 ukazywanie do świadomego ćwiczenia
To co zrobię sama dla siebie, kierowanie swoim samorozwojem, to jakie wartości będą miały wpływ na mój system wartości

Podział według Piotrowiak
 metody bezpośrednie
 metody pośrednie
 metody indywidualne i grupowe

Metody bezpośrednie
To metody działające na świadomość.

NAGRADZANIE
 wybiórczość w stosowaniu nagród
 brak uzasadnienia
 nagradzanie – rozwija postawy konsumpcyjne

KARANIE
 niska skuteczność karania
 stosowanie karania zbiorowego
 eksponowanie kar fizycznych w wychowaniu
 powstanie zaburzeń emocjonalnych

W dzisiejszych czasach okazuje się, iż ten rodzaj metody wychowania jest wielce nieskuteczny. Karanie – budzi mechanizmy obronne (myślenie autonomiczne zrobię co będę chciał) Nagradzanie – szukanie kolejnych korzyści (komercje).

Metody pośrednie
Działające na podświadomość – skuteczność tych metod jest według niektórych osób o wiele wyższa.

Metoda perswazyjno-informacyjna
 tłumaczenie, przekazywanie, danych w celu zmiany opinii, postaw, zachowań
 korygowanie i wzbogacanie zasobu wiedzy
 w metodzie tej posługujemy się językiem werbalnym i niewerbalnym
 wychowujemy poprzez: komunikacje, rozmawiając, dyskutując, polemizując, perswadując

Warunki skuteczności:
 umiejętne słuchanie (nie zamykamy się na opinię rozmówcy i na drugą osobę)
	umiejętne formułowanie argumentów  (dojrzałe argumentowanie)
	stosowanie komunikatów pozawerbalnych (zgodność z komunikatem werbalnym)
	rezygnacja z bezwzględnej dominacji wyrażonej w opiniach. (nie moralizować, w wychowaniu nie ma zwycięzców i przegranych, wychowanie bez porażek)

Problemy:
 skłonność do moralizowania
 chęć potwierdzenia własnych racji
 unikanie tematów trudnych (tabu)

Ważna koncepcja Gordonowska
 komunikat przejrzysty,
 oparty na słuchaniu
 nie ma wygranych, przegranych
 nie oceniać - blokada dialogu
 wysłuchać, nie przerywać, niech powie co ma do powiedzenia

Metoda modelowania (modelowanie-wzorowanie) Bronfenbrenner
 naśladowanie zachowań, ról społecznych, upodabnianie się w sposób nieświadomy do innych osób
 efekt bezpośredni (dziecko zachowuje się dokładnie jak wychowawca)
 efekt generalizowania (tendencja do zbliżonych zachowań, jakimi posługiwali się nasi wychowawcy)

Warunki skuteczności:
1.	identyfikacja wychowanka z wychowawcą (autorytet)
2.	atrakcyjność treści przekazywanych przez model (treści dostosowane do okresu życia, w okresie dojrzewania – ucieczka od autorytetu rodziców – potem powrót)
3.	wartości przyswojone przez dziecko - jako determinanty pozytywnych lub negatywnych zachowań
4.	wiek dziecka- metoda skuteczniejsza w młodym wieku dziecka

Problemy:
1.	brak właściwych wzorców zachowań (rodzina, media, instytucje) pozytywne ok., negatywne – zasada dziedziczenia patologii
2.	rozbieżność między obszarem deklaracji a zachowań wychowawców (nasila się w okresie dojrzewania- wzór rodzica nie jest idealny, poszukiwanie bardziej spójnych wzorów zachowań)

Metoda zadaniowa (Motywująco-prowokująca)
 powierzanie dziecku zadań
 stawianie dziecka w sytuacjach problemowych
 wykształcanie dzięki tym sytuacjom konstruktywnych zachowań i postaw
 uczy się dzięki temu czego należy unikać, jak postępować
 nawiązanie do DEWEYOWSKIEJ koncepcji – doświadczenia (działalne jest źródłem wiedzy)

Warunki skuteczności:
 umiejętne formułowanie zadań (poziom i możliwości dostosowane)
 zaangażowanie
 stopniowanie trudności (od prostych do trudnych)
 obiektywna ocena działalności wychowanka
 pogłębianie samodzielności wychowanka (interweniować tylko gdy jest taka potrzeba)

Problemy:
 trudności w formułowaniu zadań
 skłonność do wyręczania wychowanka

Metoda grupowa
 oddziaływanie kilku osób na jednostkę w celu zmodyfikowania postaw bądź zachowań
 zmiany poprzez bycie i działanie z innymi osobami

Metoda organizowania działalności zespołowej (Kamiński, Courinet)
 istnieją cechy przywódców zespołu
 nikogo nie można włączyć do grupy na siłę
 grupa nie powinna być liczna spychanie odpowiedzialności na innych
 lider powinien wyłonić się sam w sposób naturalny
 gdy 2 liderów warto podzielić grupę

Warunki skuteczności:
1.	odpowiednia liczebność zespołu
2.	różnorodność (duże grupy ok. 50 os.)
3.	grupy dobrane według temperamentu
4.	precyzyjne określenie zadań
5.	koordynacja działań

Problemy:
1.	konflikty między członkami zespołu
2.	pogłębianie podziałów
3.	Rozwój postaw konformistycznych,
4.	ulegamy grupie, przestajemy się angażować

Metoda organizowania działalności samorządowej – A. Neill
 uczestnictwo dzieci i młodzieży w działalności
 uczy odpowiedzialności, ważności, że możemy mieć na coś wpływ
 przygotowanie do samodzielnego życia
 zbyt wczesne włączenie spowoduje upośledzenie na gruncie społecznym

Warunki skuteczności:
 realność zadań i problemów
 zwiększenie udziału wychowanków
 usprawnianie rozwiązań organizacyjnych
 tworzeniu równych szans udziału w budowaniu rzeczywistości

Problemy
 powstanie klik i grup interesów
 brak spójności działań
 nadmierna ingerencja wychowanków.

Wychowanie


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Radical Drexel prof blames 'Trumpism' in tweets on Las Vegas massacre
By Michael Tanenbaum
Politics Las Vegas Massacre
Latin American Studies Program at Cornell University./YouTube
This screen capture shows Drexel University professor George Ciccariello-Maher speaking during a lecture at Cornell University in April 2016. The former Drexel professor now works at New York University.
A Drexel University professor and self-styled troublemaker has again awakened the ire of American conservatives, this time for claiming "Trumpism" and "white supremacist patriarchy" are to blame for last Sunday's deadly massacre at a country music festival in Las Vegas.
George Ciccariello-Maher, a professor of politics and global studies, took to Twitter on Monday with a sequence of critical statements about the violent motive driving 64-year-old gunman Stephen Paddock, who took his own life after killing 59 concertgoers and injuring hundreds more from the window of his high-rise hotel room.
It's the white supremacist patriarchy, stupid.
— George Ciccariello (@ciccmaher) October 2, 2017
In a string of follow-up tweets, Ciccariello-Maher elaborated.
But liberals will drown out all discourse with a deafening chorus screeching "gun control."
To believe that someone who would shoot down 50 people wouldn't circumvent any gun law you pass is the height of delusion.
But liberal escapism means talking about easy questions and proposing easy non-solutions rather than talking about who kills and why.
White people and men are told that they are entitled to everything. This is what happens when they don't get what they want.
The narrative of white victimization has been gradually built over the past 40 years.
It is the spinal column of Trumpism, and most extreme form is the white genocide myth.
Yesterday was a morbid symptom of what happens when those who believe they deserve to own the world also think it is being stolen from them.
This isn't the first time Ciccariello-Maher has attacked the notion of "white victimization" as a dangerous force in American politics and culture.
In a December 2016 tweet he claimed was satirical, Ciccariello-Maher said that all he wanted for Christmas that year was "White Genocide," an "imaginary concept" he believes the far-right has hatched to marshal urgency for a racist agenda.
RELATED ARTICLE: Local satirist calls for The Onion to retract 'disturbing' articles on Las Vegas rampage
At the time of the incident, Drexel called the tweet "utterly reprehensible" and "deeply disturbing" while defending the right of faculty to freely express their thoughts and opinions. Right-wing websites, including Breitbart and The Daily Caller, pounced on Ciccariello-Maher, who fired back in equal measure.
🔥 it's lit, fam 🔥 pic.twitter.com/BfMmHEheZh
— George Ciccariello (@ciccmaher) December 24, 2016
A few months later, Ciccariello-Maher generated yet another "2-controversy day" with an incendiary tweet about U.S. military servicemen.
Some guy gave up his first class seat for a uniformed soldier. People are thanking him. I'm trying not to vomit or yell about Mosul.
— George Ciccariello (@ciccmaher) March 26, 2017
The self-described radical political theorist, who previously taught at the University of California-Berkeley and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas, elaborated on the tweet in a statement underscoring the consequences of the U.S. military's "brutal invasion and occupation" of Iraq.
In the days since Ciccariello-Maher's latest tweets, the professor has been busy batting down critics, including the conservative student publication Turning Point News, which wrote a reaction piece headlined, "Drexel University Doesn't Care About White People."
In which the trash at Turning Point misappropriate Kanye, misidentify Ho Chi Minh & invent quotes from fake students https://t.co/0YDPRCq3w0
"The recent social media comments by George Ciccariello-Maher, associate professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel University, are his own opinion and do not represent the University's views," according to a statement from the university. "Drexel is deeply saddened by the tragic shooting in Las Vegas. The thoughts and prayers of the Drexel community are with the families of those affected by this senseless act of violence."
Michael Tanenbaum
tanenbaum@phillyvoice.com
Read more Politics Las Vegas Massacre Philadelphia Liberals Donald Trump Shootings White Supremacists Drexel University Conservatives Trump Administration Professor Las Vegas


Published on July 6, 2012,	by Video Grandpa in Featured, Post, Software, Tech.
In a move that should be a surprise to no one, Avid announced July 2nd that they're selling off the Pinnacle and M-Audio divisions to Corel and inMusic respectively. They'll still keep the M-Audio I/O tech they appropriated for Pro Tools (like the MBox), but everything else is out the door. What this mostly means is that Avid no longer has consumer-specific divisions for audio and video production products.
What does this mean? Not much. Avid's been working on re-focusing their business for the past 5 years, and this is just the next logical step. Pinnacle and M-Audio were purchased in 2004-2005, when Avid was desperately trying to figure out how to compete with Final Cut for the new prosumer market. Obviously, that didn't go so well.
Now, Avid is a company that essentially sells 2 products: Media Composer and Pro Tools. Almost every other product they offer is really an add-on to these two. Avid offers what Apple used to: the ability to scale from one-man basement to the Olympics using the same core technology.
Avid is clearly and deliberately turning itself into a company that can compete in an industry where the line between consumer and professional continues to blur. The last step is pricing: Media Composer still costs $2,500, while Premiere Pro is $799. And with Creative Cloud lowering the barrier to entry even further with $50/month access to the full Master Collection, it's going to be increasingly difficult for Avid to be truly competitive without also turning the scalpel on its prices.
Comments Off on Continuing 5 Years of Restructuring, Avid Selling Off Pinnacle and M-Audio.


Summer fruits are the best. I definitely haven't been having enough variety lately. I picked up some cherries at Target today and I get so excited when I find two cherries connected at the top.
I know this is really common, but it gives me such happiness every time I find one!


The future of Airbnb is not the guy who rents out his place on the weekend. It's the professionals who know what they're doing, and sell rooms every night of the week. This is the real debate going forward.
When Airbnb talks about its legal troubles in New York, Berlin, Amsterdam, and elsewhere, it claims that existing laws were never designed for its new brand of disruptive peer-to-peer business.
There were laws created for businesses, and there were laws for people. What the sharing economy did was create a third category: people as businesses… They don't know whether to bucket our activity as person or a business.
In 2010, the State of New York passed a law designed to crack down on bad actors that operate illegal hotels—a goal we all share. Unfortunately, the 2010 law also had the unintended consequence of impacting regular New Yorkers.
There are more. You get the point.
There are no laws governing Airbnb because until very recently, there was nothing like Airbnb in the world—not of the same scale, not with the same guiding philosophy. And when Airbnb came onto the scene, regulators were forced to slot it into existing categories where it, arguably, didn't belong—treating a bachelor renting out his spare room to make rent, for example, with the same rules as a scuzzy landlord operating an illegal hotel. They've been playing catch-up ever since.
We are hopping into strangers' cars (Lyft, Sidecar, Uber), welcoming them into our spare rooms (Airbnb), dropping our dogs off at their houses (DogVacay, Rover), and eating food in their dining rooms (Feastly).
So when it comes to thinking about and dealing with this and other sharing-economy companies, the kind of business that Airbnb operates matters. Does it match the company's self-portrait? Is the company as novel as it claims to be? Are its hosts "regular people"?
It turns out there is an element of wishful thinking in the portraits of Airbnb. Last November, I took a look at Airbnb data from New York (here and here). In February, travel web site Skift carried out a similar study (here and here), which was part of the New York Attorney General's case against Airbnb. The two studies took similar approaches, collecting listings from Airbnb's public web site and gleaning what we could from that imperfect data set.
Both studies concluded that, while it is true that a large number of hosts rent the homes they live in, hosts with multiple listings make up almost half of Airbnb's business. Also that, while Airbnb makes great play of its origins in renting out an airbed, such rentals are now a negligible portion of its business. Even "spare rooms" are a minority of the business: the majority of Airbnb's business in New York comes from the rental of entire homes.
The data showed a company that was closer to orthodox models such as HomeAway and its subsidiary VRBO than the narrative would have it. There are differences—HomeAway is focused on vacation rentals, and many of its properties are run by property managers—but the similarities cast doubt on Airbnb's claims that existing regulations are inapplicable.
Now here we are: it's six months on, and interest in Airbnb continues. Airbnb has kicked 2,000 New York listings off its site (10% of the total for the city). It handed over host data to the Attorney General (anonymized, the company says). Meanwhile, the company is valued at $10 billion, having raised $450 million in a new round of venture capital. The New York dispute is now over, but the sharing economy poster child is still here, bigger than ever, and still a leading light in the wave of digital disruptors looking to shake things up and make a lot of money.
Is Airbnb's business based on "regular people" in a way that other part of the hospitality industry are not?
Is Airbnb's business based on spare rooms and airbeds?
I looked again at several cities I had collected (but not posted about) in November, so that I could look at how the business has changed in some of Airbnb's key markets.
I hoped that looking a second time at New York might have something to say about the 2,000 listings that Airbnb removed from the site in April, during its run-in with the Attorney General.
For those who don't want to read the whole thing, here are the quick answers.
While a good part of Airbnb's business is based on "regular people", over 40% comes from hosts with multiple listings. This is different from Airbnb's self-portrait. Airbnb's claim that existing regulations don't apply to it is at least exaggerated.
The majority of Airbnb's revenue comes from whole-home rentals. This makes the company much more like HomeAway and other vacation rental businesses. It casts further doubt on the company's claim to be a new class of business.
In some of its biggest markets, Airbnb may have maxed out the number of listings it can achieve. What's more, there is a high rate of churn as individual hosts put a property on the market, have a few guests, and then take the property off again.
Airbnb does not appear to believe its own claim that customer ratings provide an assurance of good experience. Airbnb says it removed 2,000 New York listings from the site because of bad experience, but at least half of those listings had good (4.5 or 5 star) average ratings from customers.
I'm going to post this in two parts.
Part 1 looks at the split between hosts with a single listing and those with multiple listings, and it also looks at how far Airbnb has moved from its "origin myth", after which the company is named—the hosting of people on couches and in shared rooms.
Part II looks at the change in Airbnb's business over the last six months, including the changes in New York where the legal strife has been the loudest.
If I have time and if there are requests, I'll collect these three together and post a single PDF.
Just to set out some basic information, Figure 1 shows the number of listings and of hosts in each city. The data was collected using a fairly straightforward two-stage search. The first stage goes through all the search pages for a specified city and collects the room_id values. The second stage visits the room page for each value and gets details about the listing. The code is available on github.
Airbnb has regularly said that is has about 20,000 listings in New York city. I find 19094 (and have over 20,000 from November) so the collection seems pretty complete.
In 2013, Airbnb claimed 5600 hosts in Berlin. I find 6141.
In the run-up to the World Cup, Airbnb claims to have 9,000 listings in Rio. I find just over 10,000. Perhaps the borders of the search are different, or the number is growing. Still, 90% accuracy is not bad.
In short, the surveys for each city seem pretty accurate.
Figure 2 shows the percentage of hosts in each city that have a single listing on the site. The values for New York and Amsterdam match Airbnb's claim for New York and Amsterdam to within a percentage point, which suggests that the sample is realistic and that the use of a single listing is a pretty good proxy for "regular people who occasionally rent out the home in which they live". The graph also shows that the claim applies to most of the big cities. Barcelona, Rome, and Tokyo are the only Airbnb locations surveyed that have fewer than 80% of hosts with a single listing. So far, so good for Airbnb's self-portrait. From here on I will call hosts who have a single listing "regular people".
Imagine that a city has 100 hosts, 99 are "regular people" with a single listing and one host has 99 listings, then the percent of hosts who are regular people would be 99%, but the percent of listings on the market that come from regular hosts would be only 50%. Both percentages are important in gauging the kind of business that Airbnb is. Figure 3 shows the percent of listings offered by regular people. The overall figure is 62%: still a significant majority, but a number that is 20% lower than the percentage of hosts.
We can see that for a few cities, notably Barcelona (11,000 listings) and Rome (growing quickly, at 8,000 listings), the majority of listings come from hosts with more than one offering.
The percentage of listings that come from different types of hosts corresponds to the experience of the potential guest browsing or searching the Airbnb site. The traffic generated by Airbnb is different, because not all listings are equally popular. There may be areas with many Airbnb listings but relatively few actual visits, while other areas may have listings that are visited very frequently. Airbnb does not give the number of actual bookings for each listing (or, nearly equivalently, the number of visits to the listing), but it does give the number of reviews that each listing has received, and this should be a reasonable proxy for the number of visits.
Figure 4 shows the percentage of visits that are to rooms listed by regular people. The numbers are getting significantly smaller now. No city has more than three quarters of its visits at properties of regular people, and several have a slim majority of visits to hosts with multiple listings. Overall, 45% of visits happen at places offered by hosts with multiple listings.
There is one more step to take, which is to look at Airbnb's actual revenue. What fraction of its business comes from regular people and what fraction comes from multiple listers?
To get here, I multiply the bookings (proxied by reviews) with the listed nightly price. Again, it's not a perfect measure but so long as regular hosts don't overall have longer- or shorter-stay guests compared to other hosts, it should give a reasonable picture.
Figure 5 shows the percentage of Airbnb's revenue that comes from regular cities. Only three cities have over 60% of their revenue coming from hosts with a single listing. Overall, 44% of Airbnb's business comes from hosts with more than one listing, which is slightly up from 42% in November (the increase may not be significant).
Airbnb Listing Types: The story of Airbnb emphasizes the casual "airbed" rental, but this is a very small part of Airbnb's business. Again, there are a couple of ways of looking at the data.
Listings by Room Type: Every listing on the Airbnb site is listed as one of three categories: a private room, a shared room, or an entire home/apartment. Figure 6 shows the breakdown in each city. It is clear that shared rooms are a negligible portion of the total: about 1 in 50 listings are shared rooms.
Figure 7 shows the visits by room type, using reviews as a proxy for visits again. Shared rooms are an even smaller percentage of the whole: only 1.4% of Airbnb visits are made to shared rooms.
Using reviews * price as a proxy, Figure 8 shows the percentage of revenue from each room type. The revenue that comes from spare couches and shared rooms is a mere 0.56%.
Figure 8: Revenue from different types.
The data show that Airbnb is consistently economical with the truth when it describes its own business. It's a long way from being just "regular people" and there is a lot more business coming from multiple-listing owners than they let on.
The data say that it's time commentators and the media stopped using the "Couchsurfing" narrative for Airbnb. At less than 1% of its business, the couchsurfing model is irrelevant for what Airbnb is today. It's far more like HomeAway than it is like Couchsurfing.
If there is a novelty to Airbnb's business, it's that it collects property managers, individual renters, and occasional renters under one roof, just as Amazon can offer best sellers, midlist authors and self-published obscura in the same place. And while much of the talk will be about the long tail of rooms, the reality is that Airbnb is pushing for the professionalization of its hosts, and we'll see more of that over time.
Other conclusions to come after we see the rest of the data.
This article originally appeared on Whimsley, and appears here with permission.
Tom Slee writes about the intersections of technology, politics, and economics. His book No One Makes You Shop At Wal-Mart is a left-wing game-theoretical investigation of individual choice and its problems.
His critical writing on the gulf between Silicon Valley rhetoric and practice, and particularly on the politics of openness & sharing, has caught the attention, if not the agreement, of leading lights from various "Open X" movements. He has written for the Literary Review of Canada, The New Inquiry, and The Guardian.