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The network science community has created a rich portfolio of network modelling and analysis techniques, which have become a cornerstone of data science. Most of these techniques build on simple graph abstractions, where nodes represent a system's elements and links represent dyadic interactions, relations, or dependencies between them. This simple formalism has proven useful to reason about the importance of nodes, the evolution and control of dynamical processes, as well as community or cluster structures in networked systems. However, they do not account for higher-order dependencies between nodes, which are present in many real complex systems.
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UK's Boris Johnson apologizes for attending lockdown social gathering
Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized Wednesday for attending a backyard social gathering throughout Britain's coronavirus lockdown in 2020, saying there are issues his authorities "did not get right."
Johnson is dealing with a tide of anger from public and politicians over claims he and his employees flouted pandemic restrictions by socializing when it was banned. Some members of his Conservative Party say he ought to resign if he can't quell the furor.
Johnson acknowledged for the primary time Wednesday that he went to the May 2020 backyard social gathering at his Downing Street workplace, although he stated that he had thought of it a piece occasion to thank employees for his or her efforts through the pandemic.
"I want to apologize. … With hindsight, I should have sent everyone back inside," Johnson advised lawmakers within the House of Commons.
Opponents and allies alike have been demanding Johnson come clear in regards to the "bring your own booze" social gathering, held when Britain was underneath a strict lockdown imposed by Johnson to curb the unfold of the coronavirus.
An invitation to the "socially distanced drinks" gathering was emailed to about 100 folks by a senior prime ministerial aide. At the time, folks in Britain had been barred by legislation from assembly multiple particular person exterior their family.
Johnson's lunchtime look on the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session within the House of Commons was his first public look since particulars of the social gathering emerged.
The prime minister struck a tone of contrition, however urged folks to await the conclusions of an investigation by senior civil servant Sue Gray into a number of alleged events by authorities employees.
Opposition Labour Party chief Keir Starmer stated Johnson's assertion was "the pathetic spectacle of a person who has run out of street.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson waves to the media as he leaves 10 Downing Street. (AP)
"His defence … that he didn't realize he was at a party is so ridiculous that it's actually offensive to the British public," Starmer stated. "He's finally been forced to admit what everyone knew, that when the whole country was locked down he was hosting boozing parties in Downing Street. Is he now going to do the decent thing and resign?"
The social gathering scandal provides to a mounting listing of troubles for Johnson.
The scandal dubbed "partygate" has turn into the largest disaster of Johnson's two-and-a-half years in energy. During the U.Okay.'s first lockdown, which started in March 2020 and lasted for greater than two months, nearly all gatherings had been banned. Millions of individuals had been minimize off from family and friends, and even barred from visiting dying kin in hospitals. Thousands had been fined by police for breaking the ban on gatherings.
So there was widespread anger at claims Johnson's Conservative authorities flouted the foundations it had imposed on the remainder of the nation by holding backyard events, Christmas get-togethers and workplace quiz nights in Downing Street, which is each the prime minister's dwelling and his workplace.
Opposition politicians are calling for Johnson's resignation. More worryingly for the prime minister, many members of his personal social gathering are more and more involved about Johnson's judgment and management.
The Conservatives picked Johnson as chief in 2019 for his upbeat method and standard contact, and regardless of the serial allegations of rule-bending and dishonesty which have adopted him by means of his twin careers as journalist and politician. The selection appeared vindicated when he led the social gathering to a giant election win in December that yr.
But assist contained in the social gathering is being eroded by discontent over persevering with pandemic restrictions, which some Conservatives view as draconian. He can also be dealing with disquiet about his judgment after a slew of monetary and moral misconduct allegations towards him and his authorities.
The Conservatives have a historical past of ousting leaders in the event that they turn into a legal responsibility — and a current shocking loss in a by-election for a district the social gathering held for greater than a century has elevated their jitters.
Conservative legislator Christian Wakeford urged Johnson to not "defend the indefensible."
"It's embarrassing and what's worse is it further erodes trust in politics when it's already low," Wakeford wrote on Twitter. "We need openness, trust and honesty in our politics now more than ever and that starts from the top!"
Another Conservative lawmaker, Tobias Ellwood, stated Johnson wanted to apologize and "show some contrition" if he needed to experience out the storm.
"We can't allow things to drift, that is not an option," he advised Sky News.
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Jump ToI heard that Toby McGuire kept suffocating from rain up his nose.Why are you in here?Joyce, I don't understand you.We'll be fine.Walky, it's time to take the next step in our physical relationship.So, was it good for you?Hormones diffused!I'm not unlocking this door until you've seen each other naked!Maybe Joe's right.Okay, that's step one.So, like, on the count of three?Fun... and educational.This wasn't right.lil' baby tushieI love Christmas!I know you miss your family, but things'll get better!MERRY CHRISTMAS!Yer welky.Open your present!Sorry it's late.Who said we could hang this up?
So, like, on the count of three?
by David Willis on August 31, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Pure
Characters: David Walkerton, Joyce Brown
Location: Squad 128's apartment
This storyline makes a lot more sense in the context of being written by a essentially-still-fundie kid who was so afraid/ashamed of sexuality that being forced into it by someone else — having his agency removed — was the most appealing route to sexytimes or sexytimes adjacent. Maybe if it wasn't your fault, God would be less mad.
This is also why so much sex in the Walkyverse is buried in alcoholic situations.
Jen Aside
August 31, 2017, 12:09 am	| # | Reply
yeah, if we're really supposed to go forth and multiply, why is creating more people such a bad thing–I mean, ALL THOSE YEARS OF PUBERTY GOING TO WASTE
[among other "I stopped believing when I grew a brain" arguments]
Alan? I thought my mom fired you.
Let's go outside!
That TRAMP!
Yeah, that's an incredibly unhealthy view of sex.
Orion Fury
NinjaNick
Dammit!
Nevermind! We see him!
We'll be fine.
It was me the whole time
vlademir1
RE: Willis' comments in the description
This is similar to why there is a reasonably substantial amount of fundies especially in the more toxic parts of the BDSM community. Because of where I live and what I am, I come across a lot of women originally from the more fundie stronghold regions of OH, KY and IN who describe* as submissive due to holding a view of all women being, by their nature, subservient to men and yet being unable to find men who live by that mode in the more mainstream places to find a partner come to the BDSM community expecting it due to the BS peddled by the likes of 50 Shades. I also come across a lot of men who, thinking similarly to what Willis describes above, describe as submissive believing that some Dom or Domme taking control and "making them do it" somehow removes their moral burden from their own belief system. On top of these I also occasionally meet Doms from this background who, similar to the women described above, have the view of universal female inferiority but find women from the more mainstream sources "not docile enough" with all the distasteful (and oft abusive and/or rapey) elements that implies.
*I feel it worth noting here that I strongly distinguish between self description and self identity due to meeting quite a large number of people over the years who publicly describe themselves one way, yet, through word and deed, clearly don't see themselves in the mode they describe as.
poofdepoof
I think a looot of sex is buried in alcoholic situations, even among young people who aren't "essentially-still-fundy"… Just because of the way we are as a society, perhaps?
Mr. Random
Originally posted:
T Campbell
Here's some data worth adding:
My Christian upbringing was not at all fundamentalist. In fact, it was about as laid-back and holistic as you can get. I did break with my church after its conflicts over gay people became evident (love shouldn't be a "political issue") but that was several years into my adulthood and comics career.
And yet I could always identify strongly with this repression and the fear behind it. I had relationships with women, but they were almost always assertive types who could help me push past or work around this. It's nothing my parents trained me to feel and it was never more than subtext in most of my religion. But I seized on the few parts that weren't: "you should NOT fornicate before marriage" and all that.
Why was that? I think because I was a socially awkward person who stuttered until late high school and didn't pick up on anybody's cues, I was an intellectual whose concept of his own worth was tied to his self-control, and I had a sharp sense of responsibility. And one part of my sex education was that rapists didn't always *know* they were rapists– never underestimate someone's ability to be the hero of his own story. People could justify their actions with "she wanted it, I could read the signs" when no, they really couldn't. I *knew* I couldn't read the signs and I didn't want to be one of those monsters, so I made damn sure I wouldn't be.
TLDR: Sometimes you don't need a strict fundamentalist background to be this messed up about sex. Sometimes all you need is profound social difficulties that deny you the channels others have to figure things out.
Rabid Rabbit
Finally — an answer to the questions everyone was asking when you were doing Quiltbag!
August 31, 2017, 11:24 pm	| # | Reply
Nah, I can't blame QUILTBAG on any of that, and you shouldn't, either. At that point, I'd already written long-running relationships that seemed to resonate with people a lot more than anything in that series did.
There are a lot of different but related reasons QUILTBAG failed. I think the simplest way to explain it is that I rushed the gestation process so that I could pick up with it almost immediately after ending Penny and Aggie.
I figured I'd been doing this a while and knew what I needed to get started, and the rest I'd figure out as I went. But what I really needed was passion and time.
I couldn't swallow my pride enough to allow for that time, because of some emotional drama that also interfered with developing that passion. But that drama had little to do with sexuality, repressed or otherwise.
September 1, 2017, 3:16 pm	| # | Reply
Sorry, I should have added an emoticon or something. I was actually remembering the time on the P&A forums when someone put up a poll speculating about your tastes after you'd said something along the lines of not wanting to reveal them in order not to have readers judging the strip according to that.
If the opinion of a random person on the internet means anyway, "rushed into it" was my diagnosis at the time — but it also made perfect sense that you would have done so.
P.S.: I've been married almost a year… to a great woman who was my friend for years before that and definitely understood that she'd need a microphone and loudspeakers to signal her interest.
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Tom Foy 25th November 2019 Riding
Opinion: Pro cycling should be the Formula One of bicycles
As frustrated apparel brand Endura pulls the plug on its Movistar sponsorship, isn't it time professional cycling better embraced technology and took performance to a whole new level?
"We have chosen to avoid the developmental dead end currently being enforced by the UCI."
That was the official line from Endura when it shocked the cycling world last month by terminating its high profile sponsorship of the Movistar pro team. It sent a serious message to the industry and left many questioning whether it could be the first of many big players to cut ties with the pro peloton.
After the Scottish company, one of the sport's biggest apparel brands, invested heavily in developing state of the art, super-aero 'Silicone Surface Technology' for its team kits, the sport's governing body subsequently banned its use in competition. The reason? It fell outside the UCI's strict technical regulations for clothing. In other words Endura's kit was deemed 'too fast' to go racing.
Endura has sponsored the Movistar team since 2014. Credit: Shutterstock
Why? Surely making technological advances in performance at the highest level of the sport should be rewarded and encouraged, not penalised. There was no cheating here – just innovative new equipment that pushed things forward.
The professional echelons of any sport should be the undisputed pinnacle of performance – not least in those where technology plays a central role. At the top level it should be the cutting edge of human and mechanical innovation, when man and machine come together to break new ground. It should see the world's finest athletes utilising space age equipment, harnessing the latest data and world class resources to push the boundaries in every aspect of speed. In cycling terms that should mean the lightest, fastest bikes at the absolute limits of design and performance, and the most aerodynamically advanced clothing that compromises on nothing regardless of what's gone before. The only limitations should be in having no power assistance and, of course, no performance enhancing drugs.
It's no secret that all of the major bike companies have the technology and resources to make much faster bicycles for professional racing. They could shave significant weight from the current 6.8kg minimum limit, and far more aero rigs that do away with the traditional 'boxes' design (a UCI term – effectively the same double diamond frame template that we've seen since the 1870s). When you combine that with the sometimes archaic limitations seen on clothing (sock length anyone?) surely it's time to move on.
With super-light bikes like Canyon's Ultimate CF Evo tipping the scales at just 5.8kg (yours for a snip at £12,000) and brands like Endura selling clothing that's faster than the rules allow, it seems bizarre that in an industry that markets itself on innovation, average punters are able to use higher performing equipment on the Sunday cafe ride than the pros are in the Grand Tours.
When you look at other global sports that bring human and technical performance together, it's clear pro cycling could take some big learnings. Formula One for example is without question the pinnacle of motorsport and of the automotive industry as a whole. The fastest and highest performing cars on the planet – a culmination of the world's brightest engineers using the latest data to create the ultimate driving machines. It's also the testbed for breaking new ground in car technology, some of which eventually trickles down to the cars we drive on the road. The skill of the drivers is in extracting every ounce of performance from that technology. That and good old fashioned 'big balls', as legendary 1976 World Champion James Hunt would say.
Why would it be an issue if Peter Sagan was riding a £100,000 Specialized in the Tour de France? How exciting would it be to see a world class rider pushing ground breaking technology to its limits, competing at speeds never conceivably thought possible on a bicycle?
Of course there are some who would challenge the F1 analogy by saying that if there were no restrictions on technology, then the bikes the pros would be riding would be completely out of reach from the bike buying public and very different to the kind of machinery most of us ride. That is true, but why would it be an issue if Peter Sagan was riding a £100,000 Specialized in the Tour de France? How exciting would it be to see a world class rider pushing ground breaking technology to its limits, competing at speeds never conceivably thought possible on a bicycle? Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes F1 car is worth tens of millions and will never be bought by anyone, yet Mercedes sells a lot of A-Class hatchbacks thanks to his success. The term 'win on Sunday, sell on Monday' applies to bicycles as well as premium german cars. Having a largely unattainable 'halo' product for a company to demonstrate what's it's truly capable of has a massive effect on brand perception and sales.
Of course, Formula One's technology is restricted by a governing body, but as much as anything, this is largely to keep costs under control. The top F1 teams are spending hundreds of millions a year, and if there were no cost controls only one or two teams would be able to race. Cycling teams are not spending hundreds of millions to go racing, and in many cases the technology is already there, they're just not allowed to use it.
Imagine if one day, the pro peloton's bikes looked like this? Credit : Local Bike Chop / Instagram @localbikechop
As a result, professional cycling – the shop window of our sport – sends out the wrong message in my view. More importantly, from a commercial perspective, its success is entirely dependent on the sponsorship revenue it brings in. The bike and clothing sponsors are in it to showcase their tech and innovation credentials on the world stage. Placing such tight limitations doesn't give these brands that opportunity, and as we've already seen with Endura, this can and will turn them away.
More than anything, such a low ceiling for development at the top of the sport ultimately means that the trickle down effect is dramatically reduced for the millions of us that just like to ride our bikes. It's this reason, unless anything changes, that we'll all still be riding bikes with a traditional 'box design' in another 100 years when we could be riding faster, further and more comfortably than ever before. And for many of us, isn't that what it's all about?
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Taufik says:
19th December 2019 at 9:54 am
still in UCI and ITU box of no bents and fairing. Can't imagine haveing a recumbent and velomobile? I'm imagining M5 CHR, Cruzbike Vendetta, Carbent, Troytec, Zockra, Lightning F40, Alpha7, Milan SL, Metastretto, Marciglio M1, Velocraft Nocom in the pro peleton
Tom Foy says:
19th December 2019 at 10:27 am
Absolutely. So long as there is no power assistance whatsoever, it could be interesting to see what could truly be achieved with frame design, aerodynamics etc. Of course, this article is deliberately taking it to the extremes, but even if there was a hallway house that opened things up to push the technology a bit further, it could be cool to see.
The trickle down of technology has pushed forwards the performance for the masses.
F1 to road car. Now F1 car tech to pro bike to me yippie.
Al Klostert says:
1st January 2020 at 11:40 am
Have to agree, there are a few sayings in motorsport that 'competition improves the breed' & 'win on Sunday, sell on Monday' and it could/ should apply to cycling.
There is a conservative almost Ned Ludd-like attitude in road cycling to new technology, not only from many fans, but from the governing body. I despair at times.
The amount of money, R&D spent by the bike companies has to have a return on investment – and pro cycling is/should be the best way to demonstrate it. No bikes = no sport.
And my final point, considering the money & support from the bike manufacturers, they do get a raw deal in the Pro Team names. How many are named?
We should follow the example in motorsport/F1 were the engine supplier are named;
so Ineos-Pinarello, JumboVisma-Bianchi, BahrainMcLaren-Merida, etc
3rd January 2020 at 12:46 pm
Couldn't agree more with you, Al. At times I think 'tradition' in cycling can occasionally get in the way of innovation (look at how long it took for disc brakes to be accepted). I've also often thought that the bike brands don't get enough visibility in pro racing. It would be cool to see names like Ineos-Pinarello, Movistar-Canyon etc. Good for the bike companies, the teams and the fans.
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My main Ethos and Philosophy is to bring about awareness of who we are, why we are here, and how we might be of service to others. Ultimately we are here to experience and learn, but the latter element seems to have fallen by the wayside. Understanding our role and responsibility is a basic human function, and sufferance is often the result of not doing so. This is not about telling you what to do, this is about facilitating a process so that you may find that out for yourself.
I like to keep things simple: Open to all faiths and rejecting of none. You decide what is useful to you and what is not. Providing you cause no harm to yourself or others, then you can't go far wrong.
Various disciplines are incorporated to achieve this, ranging from Counselling, Mediumship, Regression, through to teaching you about Esoteric disciplines such as Numerology, Sacred Geometry and Symbolism etc. It could be a combination of things; all depending on what will benefit you best. To find out more, please click on any of the links below; these will take you into the main website and you can navigate from there. You can also listen to a brief audio sound bite located at the top of this page to get a feel of things.


HE is John. He buys and sells money on Wall Street, which, as he later says with a mysterious smile, ''Some people call arbitrage.'' She is Elizabeth. Elizabeth manages a trendy art gallery in SoHo.
When first they meet - their eyes locking over the poultry in a Chinese market - they are just a man and a woman. Beautiful, nameless creatures in designer clothes. Yet something within his gaze touches her deeply. A fire is lit. She can't explain it. Without exchanging a word, they separate - but no longer strangers, if you know what I mean.
Several days later, drawn together by a gravitational pull stronger than that of any two celestial bodies, and by a big-beat soundtrack that won't quit, they meet again, seemingly by accident, at the flea market. Their eyes lock again - this time for good (or evil). He buys her a $300 antique stole. She accepts. In next to no time they are aboard a sumptuously appointed houseboat at the foot of the Jersey Palisades, gazing across the Hudson at a stunning view of the Manhattan skyline.
Thus begins ''9 1/2 Weeks,'' the story of one woman's solemn, physically exhausting, utterly vacuous journey to the outer reaches of her sexuality, and of the man who takes her there, teasing her along with blindfolds, whips, handcuffs, stockings and garter belts.
''9 1/2 Weeks,'' which opens today at Loews 84th Street Six, is pricelessly funny without having many laughs. It's ''The Story of O'' as it might look if conceived as a two-hour television commercial.
Mr. Lyne may be onto something, though I doubt he has a clue as to what it is. ''Flashdance'' only scratched the surface of his singular vision. In ''9 1/2 Weeks,'' he has created a work that might well qualify as a truly nouveau film. Here is a movie in which actors impersonating characters are blended into the decor so completely that they take on the properties of animated products, no more or less important than exquisitely photographed strawberries. John and Elizabeth aren't fictional creatures. They are those giant figures that model Calvin Klein underwear on Times Square billboards.
John (Mickey Rourke) carries his beautifully cut, expensive suits so well that he becomes their accessory. One's attention is drawn not to his feelings or thoughts, but to the fashionable, two-day beard of the sort that's now being affected by male models, and which must demand a lot more care than a daily shave.
Elizabeth (Kim Basinger) is not a recognizable woman, but a mannequin on which clothes, hats and hair styles look good. Her body exists as a convenience on which to hang things. It could be argued that this is a metaphor for - or the cinematic equivalent of - the total denial of self demanded by a passion as heedless and all-consuming as we are meant to believe that John's and Elizabeth's is.
That could be argued, but it would mean sending your reason out to lunch.
I haven't read the McNeill novel, but I assume that the supposedly exalting, humiliating, bizarre sexual games that John plays with Elizabeth occasionally reach some kind of conclusion. You can't be sure of that from Mr. Lyne's film. It cuts away so discreetly, so persistently, that ''9 1/2 Weeks'' seems not to be about fulfillment but foreplay, which is the universe of the television commercial. It's not for nothing that Mr. Lyne, between feature film assignments, keeps busy turning out advertising films for Calvin Klein Activewear, among other clients.
To be perfectly honest, ''9 1/2 Weeks'' looks as if the director intended for the film to be somewhat more bold than it finally is. The movie is full of scenes leading nowhere, such as one in which Henry solemnly purchases a whip in a saddlery shop, followed by a sequence in which the ever-pliant Elizabeth dances for him, seminude, brandishing the whip and a pair of handcuffs. Shucks. They just want to be in their own music video!
Whoever was responsible for the released film seems to have edited it with a pair of garden shears. Christine Baranski, one of the comic delights of the New York theater, receives featured billing for appearing in one scene with one line of dialogue. Some of the other talented, underemployed people who show up include Margaret Whitton, David Margulies and Roderick Cook.


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Zoomlion Ghana Ltd: Tricycle to Recycling plants, panacea to waste, employment problems & tourism potentials
by TOA Correspondent October 17, 2020 October 17, 2020 0
By Francis Atayure Abirigo
Ghana's waste management bedrock Zomlion Ghana Limited remains solid in leading waste management activities and infrastructure in the sub-region. In April 2019, the first of its kind, the Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant was commissioned by the Vice President H. E. Dr. Mahmoud Bawumia with the assurance by the owner waste management entrepreneur and Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC) and Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong that he would replicate the facility in all sixteen regions if given the mandate by the government.
Subsequently parliamentary select committees on local government and housing among others and regional ministers visited the facility in Accra and appealed to Jospong to indeed replicate the facility in their regions. But the question is where did Zoomlion begin from? The company started with what is termed the manual tricycle concept from China in 2006.
They 2006 Tricycle Concept
Ghana witnessed its first massive national private waste management experience in 2006 when Zoomlion Ghana Ltd. first launched its manual tricycle concept in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region to collect municipal solid waste across the regions and districts of Ghana. The concept which owner and Executive Chairman, Dr. Siaw Agyepong said he saw in China while he was there with his little money to buy a printer for his printing press changed his mind and bought a few tens of them turned this company and the country's fortunes in the area of economic boost and waste management over a period of fourteen years today. The manual tricycle runs on three wheels with a container behind and propelled by human power.
Lucky for Zoomlion, the then president H.E. Former President John Agyekum Kufuor bought into the idea after the Bolga launch and called the company to nationalise it which took the company to virtually every region through the metropolitan, municipal and district administrative areas. Because the management team of the company believes in prudent management of resources and has an eye for growth, it grew from strength to strength such that it moved from the manual tricycle concept to a motorized tricycle concept to skip trucks, roll on roll off trucks, compaction trucks, street sweeping vehicles, construction of waste management plants among others.
Capital Intensive Waste Infrastructure
Barely fourteen years on, the company has grown into a multinational business operating in five African countries such as the Republic of Togo, Angola, Liberia, Zambia, Equatorial Guinea among others.
Over the years several waste management facilities have been put up to facilitate waste collection, storage, transport and processing.
The Teshie and Achimota Waste Transfer Stations were constructed to save travel time and traffic by storage and using mass capacity carrier trucks to transport at night and convenient less traffic times to final disposal sites. The company also constructed the Universal Plastic Product Recycling Company (UPPR) to manufacture waste bins, plastic chairs, containers and so on for domestic purposes and established Yeeco Ltd to manufacture bin liners among others using the plastic waste generated and collected in Ghana.
Transformational Waste Recycling and Compost Plants
Zoomlion constructed the Accra Sewerage Systems Limited (SSL) at Lavender Hill in Accra to solve the over 110 years' direct dislodgement of faecal matter into the sea problem. A problem which positioned Ghana for the bad reason as the 7th dirtiest in the world, a similar waste water treatment plant is being constructed in Kumasi by the company in partnership with Pureco Ltd a Hungarian company. The waste water treatment plant which sits on a 130 acres of land is the first of its kind in the sub-region with a capacity of treating 1000 cubic meters of waste water per day and provide over 650 jobs for indigenes of Kumasi. The 13 million euros worth facility which is based on a robust Hungarian technology to be provided by Pureco Limited, a Hungarian water resource technology engineering firm will also have the capacity to turn waste water into compost for agricultural use
By the foresight of the leadership of the Zoomlion company, the Accra Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP) was established to receive, sort and process municipal solid waste to produce high quality organic compost for agricultural purposes in Ghana and the sub region.
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The 600 ton per day (16 Hours) installed state of the art Material Recovery Facility (MRF) processes 40 metric tons per hour of municipal solid waste from most parts of the metropolis to produce over 100 metric tons of premium organic compost daily with an average composting maturity period between 90 – 120 days.
The Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant (IRECOP) which was commissioned in 2019 now being replicated in all the 16 regional capitals with the biggest being the over 94 million Euros Kumasi Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant (KCARP) which was commissioned in September 2020. KCARP is even touted as being the biggest ever in the whole of the African continent employing over 700 directly and 1500 indirect jobs in the waste management value chain and recovers, processes and manufactures organic fertilizer for agricultural purposes and also recycles the plastics for domestic and export purposes.
It is this IRECOP concept that is being replicated currently with the president H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo cutting sod for 10 to be established in the various regions. Construction of IRECOP is underway now in the Western, Western North, Ahafo, Bono, Bono East, Upper East and West an Eastern Regions. These facilities will be ready for commissioning in four-six months. Four of the plants will also take off in the Northern, Savanna, North East, Oti and Volta Regions this year covering all the sixteen regional capitals as Accra and Kumasi are operational already.
Zoomlion Ghana Limited also manages engineered landfills across Ghana through its subsidiary, Waste Landfills Limited, and have several subsidiary waste management companies in all the sixteen regions of Ghana such as Alliance Waste Management Services, Tropical Waste, Coastal Waste, Metropolitan Waste, Savana Waste, Urban Waste, BA Waste, Adehyeman Waste, Eastern Waste, Western Waste, Waste Masters, Ashanti Waste, Upper East Waste, Volta Waste and Meridian Waste Ltd among several others.
It is difficult to tell about the future but one can easily predict that if Zoomlion continues to enjoy government's deliberate and conscientious support whereby off taker agreements are signed and the necessary environment created, Ghana will be the cleanest city in the foreseeable future as all these facilities will turn waste generated into reusable materials.
The effort shall inure to the benefit of the tourism and health industry as there will be little or no plastic littering of our sea and beaches, cities and schools among others. There will also be no question of inorganic foods in our agricultural system if given the endorsement of government which even started procuring some of the compost for farmers in some years back. Government will not need to procure chemical fertilizers or maybe just a little to add up to the organic compost produced here by these companies or facilities.
The euphoria in Ghana is bombastic about these compost and recycling plants but there is need for government to walk the talk by signing the off taker agreements for all of them to operate fully to have the president achieve his clean Ghana agenda.
Francis Atayure Abirigo is a Development Communications Expert and a student of law in Accra, Ghana.
The views, predictions and insinuations are entirely mine.
Contact: +233 244 161 902 aabirigo@yahoo.com
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Why is the hit TV show Peppa Pig so successful?
UKCP child psychotherapist, Vanessa McHardy, gives her thoughts on why Peppa Pig is so successful amidst its movie release in China as we begin the Year of The Pig.
McHardy believes that children can relate to the lives of the characters on the show, which is reassuring for young watchers. 'And all the characters are animals, so Peppa Pig is identifiable regardless of your background or ethnicity,' she added.
A study conducted in China found a clear link between the level of happiness among city residents and the levels of air pollution.
According to the Independent, researchers measured the happiness of 144 Chinese residents using an algorithm to analyse 210 tweets from the popular microblogging platform Sina Weibo. By merging the information with weather patterns they found that surges in pollution correspond to dips in happiness.
With the majority of people now checking their phones every 12 minutes should more of us be taking a break from our phones to chat with a friend?
A new campaign set up by Scott Newby, Managing Director of NewbyCore Consulting, who faced his own battle with depression, seeks to get people to open up and ask for help if they need it.


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Q: google compute engine boot disk is full and ssh shell not responding how to attach with new disk space and extend to file system with gcloud cli. vm instance ssh not responding and i tried all other ways. i have snapshot image of instance disk. please anybody tell me how to attach disk and extend file system size. we using ubuntu 18.04 on googel compute engine.  ssh shell didn't give any response.  and serial console show this message again and again.

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A: Do you tried to follow this documentation [1] ?
I also found this step-by-step walk-through doc [2] from a 3rd party website, that worth to give it a try.
If you already added more capacity to your disk, you can use this command line in gcloud
gcloud compute disks resize example-disk --size 250

In the other hand, If your image is recent, you should just try to reboot your VM instance. The fs are supposed to resize automatically.

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Eddy County: Deep red and feeling blue
By Adrian Hedden And Ed Williams / Searchlight New Mexico
Published: Saturday, November 28th, 2020 at 10:16pm
Updated: Sunday, November 29th, 2020 at 12:02am
Lunch time at Guadalupe Mountain Brewing Company in Carlsbad, shortly before a November emergency health order ended indoor dining statewide. To create social distance, fewer tables were available. (Michael Benanav / For Searchlight New Mexico)
CARLSBAD – On an unseasonably hot afternoon in early November, Amber and David Templeton, who worked as crane and rigging operators, were packing their trailer to leave Carlsbad for good. Weeks earlier, their teenage son had gotten sick with COVID-19 and was too sick to travel, but he'd now recovered enough to hit the road back to Houston, their hometown.
They hoped to get a new gig once they arrived, but they weren't optimistic: The Texas oil and gas industry had taken a huge hit during the pandemic, shedding nearly 40,000 jobs in the first half of the year – which meant the prospects there could be grim. But the prospects in New Mexico were even grimmer.
"It sucks right now," David Templeton fumed as he washed the sleek black-and-chrome Harley-Davidson he bought during the boom, when workers like him were flush with money.
"I paid $20,000 cash for this bike, all $100 bills. Now I gotta sell it just to make ends meet," he said. "I've been in this industry since I was 17 years old, and I never seen it this bad."
For many people in this southern New Mexico city, the coronavirus has been the mother of all busts, reversing fortunes – and erasing livelihoods – at warp speed. The business losses are palpable.
In January, before COVID-19 arrived, the drive-through lines at fast-food restaurants were so clogged with local workers that getting a cheeseburger could take an hour. Guadalupe Mountain Brewing Company, a popular craft beer and pizza spot on the south end of town, couldn't get through the day without running out of pizza dough.
"See that wall right there?" asked manager David Allen, motioning toward the back of the restaurant's outdoor patio. "We had to build all that extra kitchen space just so we wouldn't sell out of pizzas each day."
Now, thanks to a thriving virus and an ailing oil industry, workers have fled, customers have vanished and Allen has plenty of extra dough – except for the green kind. The state's COVID-19 public health restrictions were an added sucker punch, he said. And there's been no end in sight.
In November, COVID-19 cases skyrocketed and hospitalizations increased by 231%, state health officials announced. A record-breaking 3,675 new cases were reported on a single day, Nov. 19; the coronavirus by that time had killed more than 1,300 New Mexicans, including a 12-year-old boy, the state's youngest victim. In response, Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued strict new shutdown orders that directed New Mexicans to stay home and closed nonessential businesses, a repeat of the state's first lockdown in the spring.
Small businesses are in a stranglehold, Allen said. "Your sanitizer, your masks, all those things we have to buy now, none of that comes cheap. It's definitely put a hurt on us."
The pain runs even deeper in the energy industry. In April, the price of U.S. crude oil plunged below $0 per barrel for the first time in history. Companies slashed their operations in the Permian Basin and cut the number of active rigs by more than half, to an average of 45 in October, as compared with 112 just a year ago.
By May, about 4,100 of New Mexico's oil-field workers had filed for unemployment, leading to about $500 million in lost wages and $20 million in lost revenue from personal income tax, state records showed.
Only months ago, oil workers squeezed their trailers shoulder to shoulder in places like the Sun West Mobile City, living in luxury RVs they hauled to Carlsbad from oil plays in Texas, North Dakota or elsewhere. Now, all but a handful of the 300 camper lots are empty.
From heyday to mayday
The coronavirus struck just as Carlsbad (pop. 28,000) was enjoying an economic heyday. Mobile home parks were growing, restaurants were expanding and corporate hotel chains were plowing millions into new lodgings.
Even after COVID-19 arrived, business seemed to be booming. A May economic development report by Carlsbad Mayor Dale Janway in the Carlsbad Current Argus listed more than 30 new developments underway or near completion, including apartment complexes, housing developments and banks, not to mention a Hyatt House, a Hilton, a Best Western and other hotels.
With the loss of many oil and gas jobs, most of the workers who filled the area's RV parks have left. ( Michael Benanav/For Searchlight New Mexico)
"We thought the oil boom was going to keep coming," said Mark Christensen, whose company, the Houston-based Christensen Building Group, purchased a dilapidated, abandoned downtown building last year and transformed it into the modernized Post Time Inn.
It seemed easy back then to read the tea leaves. Major multinational corporations – Chevron, ExxonMobil and Occidental Petroleum, among others – were pouring billions of dollars into infrastructure and personnel in the Permian Basin, considered the most productive oil field in the world. Stretching 250 miles wide and 300 miles long through the deserts of southeast New Mexico and West Texas, the basin had become a mecca for operators who used horizontal drilling and fracking to extract fossil fuels from almost unfathomably large shale deposits.
It was reasonable to assume there'd be a steady stream of employees to the area needing places to eat and sleep. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony in February, Christensen watched as the mayor and other city leaders packed into the Post Time's parking lot and beamed at the sight of the new business. For a month, oil workers, tourists and road trippers packed the motel to capacity. Then COVID-19 hit.
"It flipped our whole business equation upside down," Christensen said. New Mexico's public health restrictions have put the business in damage-control mode, he added.
Pumped for Trump
Locals are also struggling to recover from something a little further afield: the presidential election. Many people in this Republican stronghold refuse to acknowledge the victory of President-elect Joe Biden, in keeping with President Trump's refusal to concede defeat.
Seventy-five percent of Eddy County voters – 17,454 in all – cast their ballots for Trump, while only 5,424 voted for Biden, the secretary of state reported. Trump yard signs and MAGA merchandise predominated all across Carlsbad.
And in retail stores and supermarkets, shoppers often went mask-free, in violation of the governor's emergency health order. A recent trip to the local Albertsons revealed many families and small children with their faces uncovered. By Nov. 18 the store had reported five COVID-19 cases, and state health officials ordered it closed for two weeks to prevent further spread.
Some people in this deep-red corner of New Mexico appeared to fear Biden and Democratic energy plans more than the virus itself.
Locals expressed dismay at the "Green New Deal" – proposals that aim to combat climate change and pollution by reducing reliance on fossil fuels and shifting toward sustainable energy. Energy analysts, for their part, are expressing optimism about working with Biden. But critics in New Mexico said they feared his stance would hurt energy workers and their families.
Anger and arguments
Resentments boiled over on July 13, the day after Lujan Grisham ordered all restaurants to close their indoor dining rooms in order to protect public health. At least 50 protesters rallied on a street corner in downtown Carlsbad, waving signs that read "Let Us Serve." Waitstaff and cooks from local restaurants begged to be put back to work, while two eateries – the Trinity Hotel restaurant and Pizza Inn – refused to close for weeks, leading the state to pull the owners' licenses and threaten fines of up to $5,000 a day.
A truck rolls into a crowded "man camp" in September 2019, before the pandemic.
Battles of a quieter nature are dividing oil and gas experts. Some are adamant that fossil fuel prices will bounce back when the pandemic is defeated, which they believe will happen soon. "What we need to do is defeat the pandemic and demand for our products will return," said Ryan Flynn, executive director of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association.
Others argue that a full recovery could take years. Bernadette Johnson, vice president of market intelligence at Enverus, a Texas-based energy market analysis firm, predicts that oil and gas prices won't return to pre-pandemic levels until 2023 or 2024.
"It's not going to happen overnight," she told New Mexico's Legislative Finance Committee in July.
Stability in the storm
As difficult as things have been in the Carlsbad region, they could have been a lot of worse. Eddy County has weathered the storm with relative ease, compared with some of its even more oil-dependent neighbors. Its unemployment rate is one of the lowest in southern New Mexico.
In Lea County, an oil and gas hub immediately to the east, the unemployment rate hit 13.2% in September, according to the latest available data. Eddy County's rate was 8.4%.
City officials credit Carlsbad's resilience to its economic diversity. Tourism, fueled by nearby Carlsbad Caverns National Park, has historically provided a lifeline during the downsides of the oil industry's boom-and-bust cycle, typically drawing a half million tourists annually.
The Carlsbad area also boasts a nearly 100-year-old potash mine and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a nuclear waste repository with 1,000 employees. The facility has reduced its operations due to the pandemic – and has also reported 124 cases among workers. But it remains an important economic stabilizer, officials said.
"In Carlsbad and Eddy County, we have such economic diversity that when one industry dips down, the rest of them can hold it up," said Jeff Campbell, director of marketing and business development at the Carlsbad Department of Development. "If you look at it like a chair, if you've got four legs on a chair, if one breaks you've got the others that are keeping you up."
Meanwhile, schools in Eddy County have suffered a direct blow from the coronavirus: Like the Templetons, many families have had to pack up and leave in order to look for work elsewhere. To date, the K-12 school population has lost 400 students, according to Superintendent Gerry Washburn. The exodus could mean a substantial loss in revenue for the district, since New Mexico funds its schools on a per-pupil basis.
"We're going to continue to lose kids – not just [children of] oil-field workers, but service workers and all of the support industries," Washburn said.
Next year, the district will "bear the brunt of that declining enrollment," possibly leading to staff layoffs or other cost-cutting measures, he said.
A healthier environment
Hard as it is to see a silver lining in all the struggle, local activist Nick King, a pastor at the Carlsbad Mennonite Church, believes the extraction slowdown could actually be a blessing for Carlsbad. It could allow the oil and gas industry to reevaluate its environmental impact, he said.
The owner of King Solar, which installs solar power arrays at homes and businesses, King said a transition to renewable energy was essential even in an oil town like Carlsbad. Fracking, among other problems, contributes to air and water contamination, excessive water use and greenhouse gas emissions, he noted. "For the whole long-term bigger view, COVID may be a benefit in slowing us down and getting perspective on what really is necessary and important," he said.
Adrienne Sandoval, director of New Mexico's Oil Conservation Division, has estimated that up to 708 oil and gas wells sit abandoned throughout the state. Capping them is necessary to prevent pollution, but owners today might not be able to afford it. That means the state would have to do the job, which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars – or even millions – per well. Right now, New Mexico has the funding to repair only about 50 wells per year, Sandoval said.
'Gotta roll with it'
Weeks after David and Amber Templeton were packing up to leave Carlsbad, the family was still at the RV park, unable to find work and waiting to hear about a job at a chemical plant in North Carolina.
David said he sold his bike in El Paso for about $12,500, and that was keeping the family afloat as they hung out in the trailer. They watched TV and waited for the phone to ring.
Amber, like many people across the nation, felt boxed in. As someone who'd served for years in the U.S. Army, she disliked the idea of a second term for Trump, an "idiot" who didn't support the military, she said. But she worried that Biden would kneecap the oil and gas industry. "It's one idiot or another," she lamented.
And in the backdrop was the pandemic. "The COVID is horrible. It's horrifying. It's a constant fight," she said.
"We're just doing the best we can," David offered. "You can't really do much else." The family would do whatever it takes to make ends meet. They'd travel the country in search of construction and energy jobs. "We go where the work goes," he said. "We've just gotta roll with it."
Editor's note: This is an edited version of a story originally published by Searchlight New Mexico, a nonprofit investigative news organization. For a full version of the story, go to www.searchlightnm.org.
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'Phantom of the Opera' - with a musical twist
Kirby Adams
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It's said that moviegoers fainted at the unveiling of the Phantom of the Opera's face in 1925. While moviegoers today might not react the same way, you can now see the iconic flick - with a modern twist.
Ut Gret, along with other special guests musicians, has prepared a score to be performed live during a screening at the University of Louisville's Floyd Theater.
A working band for over 35 years, Ut Gret has been based in Louisville for the last two-and-a-half decades. Throughout their history, the band has consistently blended elements of jazz, pop and avant-garde music in performances that preserve the energy and vibrancy of a rock show.
This performance will be their seventh in a series of improvisational scores set to silent films featured at the Floyd Theatre.
"The Phantom of the Opera," with live score by Ut Gret, will take place at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 3.The Floyd Theater is located in the Student Activities Center, Room W308, at 2100 South Floyd St.
Free parking is available in the Red Barn parking lot, accessible from Cardinal Boulevard. The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Stuart Neff at 502-852-6691.
Reach Kirby Adams at kadams@courier-journal.com.


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Last PDP Member In Lagos House Of Assembly Joins APC
Gabriel Alabi
PDP's Lone Member In Lagos Assembly Joins APC
The Peoples Democratic Party lone member in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Dipo Olorunrinu (Amuwo-Odofin Constituency I) on Monday defected to the ruling party, All Progressives Congress.
Concise News understands that Olorunrinu lost his re-election bid to APC candidate, Mrs Mojisola Alli-Macaulay, in the March 9 House of Assembly election with 278 votes.
The lawmaker informed the House of his defection at the plenary through a letter titled: "Letter of Defection from PDP to APC, addressed to the Speaker, Mr. Mudashiru Obasa.
The letter was read by the Clerk of the Assembly, Mr Azeez Sanni.
The letter read in part: "I have been a young progressive-minded person and I have decided to realign with the APC, based on moving trend and party to reckon with taking Lagos State to the next level.
"I will like to appreciate Mr Speaker for his continuous act of service to my constituency. This explains the magnanimity of Mr. Speaker."
Olorunrinu had earlier said that in 2015, there were eight PDP members in the House, but seven defected; adding that, "in all sincerity, I make bold to say here that I have never had any regret."
He said he was happy to still find himself in the midst of great administration.
"Sincerely, I said to myself that continuity as a young man in politics is a necessity.
"I said to myself that I must join the progressives' party, which is the APC.
"Permit me to say this in this hallowed chamber that the PDP has been discovered by my humble self as a party that is not to be reckoned with.
"Not to be reckoned with because it is a party that lacks structure, it is a party that lacks vision for Nigeria of tomorrow.
"That's the more reason why I said to myself that we must start from here and preach the good news of APC.
"I want to say a very big thank you to Mr. Speaker for accepting me," Olorunrinu said.
He apologised to the Speaker for his late defection.
According to Olorunrinu, he has spoken with his constituents and stakeholders of different cadres on the decision to join the "moving train."
The Speaker welcomed Olorunrinu to APC and commended him for his decision, while other APC lawmakers also received him into the party.
"I thank you for making the decision at last. We welcome you into our midst as a member of APC in the House of Assembly.
"You have always been part of us, save the fact that you refused to dump the leaking umbrella. But today, you have decided. I welcome you on behalf of our party.
"I want to thank you for lending your voice to what have been our position from quite sometime that the best party in Nigeria today is APC.
"So, there is nothing to gain from PDP. For realising this, I congratulate you.
"Distinguished colleagues, we are now 40 members of APC. Thank you for joining us," Obasa said.
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U.S. Bancorp Releases 2022 Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test Results; Receives Preliminary Stress Capital Buffer of 2.5 percent
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 27, 2022-- U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) commented on the results of the Federal Reserve's Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test ("DFAST") conducted in accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Based on its strong 2022 stress test results, the company expects to be subject to a preliminary stress capital buffer ("SCB") of 2.5 percent, unchanged from the current level, for the period beginning October 1, 2022, and ending on September 30, 2023. The Federal Reserve has stated that it expects to finalize the SCB for all firms by August 31, 2022. The SCB, when added to the Basel III Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) minimum of 4.5 percent, requires the company to maintain a CET1 ratio above 7 percent through this period. The company's CET1 ratio was 9.8 percent as of March 31, 2022, under transitional regulatory capital requirements related to the current expected credit losses (CECL) methodology.
Given the strong performance of this year's stress tests, additional capital distributions, whether through a potential common stock dividend increase or resumption of share repurchases under U.S. Bancorp's existing share repurchase program, will be determined after closing of the company's acquisition of MUFG Union Bank's core regional banking franchise. As previously disclosed, U.S. Bancorp suspended all common stock repurchases at the beginning of the third quarter of 2021, except for those done exclusively in connection with its stock-based compensation programs, due to the pending acquisition. Any additional capital distributions remain subject to the approval of U.S. Bancorp's Board of Directors and compliance with regulatory requirements.
"The results of this year's stress test demonstrate that we are well-capitalized and remain prepared to withstand a severe economic downturn," said Andy Cecere, Chairman, President and CEO of U.S. Bancorp. "Our highly diversified business mix, well-established financial discipline, and conservative risk profile demonstrates our unwavering commitment to create and deliver value for our shareholders."
In addition, the company has published its company-run DFAST results, which are available on the company's website at www.usbank.com under "About Us," "Investor Relations," "Financial information" and "Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test results."
The company's DFAST results may differ from those calculated and published by the Federal Reserve Board largely due to, but not limited to, differences in models, methodologies, assumptions and applicable capital and accounting rules.
U.S. Bancorp, with nearly 70,000 employees and $587 billion in assets as of March 31, 2022, is the parent company of U.S. Bank National Association. The Minneapolis-based company serves millions of customers locally, nationally and globally through a diversified mix of businesses: Consumer and Business Banking; Payment Services; Corporate & Commercial Banking; and Wealth Management and Investment Services. The company has been recognized for its approach to digital innovation, social responsibility, and customer service, including being named one of the 2022 World's Most Ethical Companies and Fortune's most admired superregional bank. Learn more at usbank.com/about.
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The SPCA has called the incident "a horrific act of cruelty".
A witness saw the two kittens being hurled from the car on Wednesday afternoon, near the Greenhithe Bridge heading toward Albany.
One of the two cats had "miraculously" suffered only minor injuries, SPCA Auckland chief executive Andrea Midgen said.
"After being rescued by the SPCA Auckland inspectorate she is now receiving care and veterinary treatment."
However, its sibling did not survive.
The SPCA is now investigating the incident and has asked for anyone in the area on Wednesday early afternoon to come forward.
"This is a despicable act that inflicted serious pain and suffering on two innocent cats. It's important that those responsible for this cruelty are held accountable," Ms Midgen said.
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Q: UIscrolview with paging annimated automatic i have a scrolview with paging it's a scrol view for slide with 4 picture it's work fine with user interaction  so my question i want to set this scrolview scrol automatique without user interaction so like a banner for pub this is my code in view didload :
 [UIScrollView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
    [UIScrollView setAnimationDuration:4.0];

[UIScrollView setAnimationDelay:4.0];
[scroller setContentOffset:CGPointMake(320, 98)];
[UIScrollView commitAnimations ];

in this whay the scrol automatic work but the probleme the scrol wait 4 s and after go to the seconde image and is stop and if i add this code
[UIScrollView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
[UIScrollView setAnimationDuration:4.0];
[UIScrollView setAnimationRepeatAutoreverses:YES];
[UIScrollView setAnimationRepeatCount:INFINITY];
[UIScrollView setAnimationDelay:4.0];

[scroller setContentOffset:CGPointMake(320, 98)];

[UIScrollView commitAnimations ];

the scroller don't stop 4s after showing the second picture so in this case it's stop at first 4s after if the annimation begin don't stop never
so my question i want to do this :
image 1 ---showing fo 4 s -----image2 ----showing for 4s ----- image3 ----showing for 4s ----image 4 ----showing for 4 s ----- image 1 ---- showing for 4 s ...... like this automatique
so if someone can help me with example code or tutorial or any documentation it's will be very cool because i search in google and i find anything

A: create an NSTimer with an interval of 4 seconds.
let this be the fire method:
- (void)timerFireMethod {
    horOffSet = horOffSet + 320;
    //CGFloat horOffSet is an instance variable of the ViewController.
    //init as 0; I assume the width is 320. Any other width possible

    [scroller setContentOffset:CGPointMake(horOffSet, 98) animated: YES];

    if (horOffSet == 3*320) {
        horOffSet = 0;
    }
}

A: I've made an example in an earlier answer of mine:
UITableView scroll smooth with certain speed?
This example will be quite relevant for you if you can decypher the changes you need to make.
The following is what you need to do:
At the moment you want to start the animation (which is prolly at the start or selection on the page even) you need to start the timer. Then at a certain custom interval you can fire a method that sets the contentOffset a little further to the right (change Y-value appropriately). When you came at the end of the pages or when you ran the target method x-times (which is ezily stored in a property/global val) you can invalidate the timer.
Look at the question I posted and you will find every piece of the puzzle there.
You will figure it out.
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Green carpet to the future: zepp.solutions
HYDROGEN PIONEERS: 'THE PORT IS BRIMMING WITH POTENTIAL'
Take five hydrogen experts with a passion for racing cars and innovation. Then unleash them in the port of Rotterdam. The result? The world's first hydrogen-powered terminal tractor. 'The sky's the limit: you can produce all sorts of vehicles that run on hydrogen, with zero carbon emissions.' The tech start-up zepp.solutions develops hydrogen and fuel cell systems for a variety of applications. We talk with co-founder Jan Bot about the sustainable application of hydrogen technology.
At zepp.solutions, they believe that hydrogen will play a decisive role in the transformation of the traffic, transport and maritime sectors. Bot: 'We want to apply our way of thinking – what we know and what we can do – on a large scale to achieve the energy transition. Our all-in-one modules enable us to integrate hydrogen in a huge range of applications. We don't just develop the hydrogen system, but also handle integration and production. Our aim is to ensure that our hydrogen systems are as easy to integrate as a diesel-powered engine.'
Watch the video to see how zepp.solutions started.
The genesis of zepp.solutions is quite interesting. Bot: 'I started racing at a very early age: as a young boy I was already interested in racing cars and I wanted to become an inventor. At secondary school, I read in Technisch Weekblad about a racing team that had been set up at Delft University of Technology. They were doing such ground-breaking work – I was really excited. I ended up studying Technical Geosciences: I was interested in the energy transition and wanted to know more about the raw materials you need to produce batteries, for example. In 2012, I joined the Delft racing team as a driver and became increasingly convinced of the potential of hydrogen. We were a group of five friends in the team, each with a real passion for this area. We increasingly talked about the commercial potential of the knowledge we had gained in the team and at university.'
The only emissions are water vapour
Since 2012, Delft's racing team has been driving full-scale racing cars powered by a hydrogen fuel cell system. Bot: 'A fuel cell can convert the chemical energy stored in gaseous hydrogen and oxygen into useful electric energy. The hydrogen is stored in a tank, while the oxygen is taken from the ambient air. The big advantage of this alternative energy carrier is that the vehicle doesn't release any harmful substances: the only thing emitted is water vapour. What's more, converting hydrogen into electric power is more efficient than burning fossil fuels in a combustion engine.'
The team went on to set a number of world records: in 2015, world-class driver Jan Lammers achieved a new record time for hydrogen cars on the Nürburgring. Two years later, the team took part in an official racing competition on the Assen circuit, with Bot behind the wheel. 'We came in last, but we were beside ourselves with joy. We were the first team in the world to finish an entire race – in this case one lasting a full hour – in a hydrogen-powered car.'
New dimension in energy
In 2017, the five team members decide to turn the knowledge they had gained in the field of hydrogen into a business and founded zepp.solutions. Bot: 'At that point, there weren't that many people who recognised all the things you can do with hydrogen. As a fuel, diesel has been around for over a century. It's used in all sorts of vehicles, but it's very polluting.'
To win over potential clients, the five pioneers decided first to build a vehicle running entirely on hydrogen.
We tried to determine which sectors would benefit most from using hydrogen. We looked for applications that run continuously, consume a lot of energy and are still powered mainly by diesel right now.
This is how the Delft boffins ultimately teamed up with Terberg Benschop, a Dutch truck manufacturer and supplier of specialised industrial vehicles. Among other things, Terberg makes tractors for container terminals, which are used to transport containers between the gantry cranes and the storage sites. Bot: 'Terberg was interested in what we had to say. They recognise the advantages and cater to a large market. And they want to promote sustainability too. Working with their engineers, we developed the world's first hydrogen-powered tractor.'
This first tractor was a milestone for the entire team. Bot: 'We spent three years working towards that moment. Some of us spent a lot of that time tinkering with the mechanical aspects, while others worked on the software. To see all these separate efforts finally come together in a real-life end result was a very special experience.'
As of October 2020, the tractor can be found working at a terminal in Rotterdam's Waalhaven area. Bot: 'It can be used for the same work as a diesel tractor. It has the same tractive power, but without carbon emissions – and without the constant noise produced by combustion engines. And you can refuel it a lot faster than battery-powered alternatives: it only takes a few minutes to fill up. We're still in the test phase right now, but the vehicle is already participating in the terminal's regular operations, allowing us to collect as much data as possible. Terberg's ultimate objective is to take the tractor into production. We'll be handling the series production of the fuel cell system.'
Alternative to battery
Bot: 'We use hydrogen as an energy carrier – you could see it as an alternative to a battery. One of the big advantages over a battery system is that a hydrogen-powered vehicle can be refuelled within the space of three minutes, meaning it isn't standing idle at a charge point for a long time. In addition, hydrogen systems are a lot lighter, and the vehicle can carry more energy – which translates into more kilometres. That makes hydrogen systems particularly interesting for applications that consume a lot of power, and where standing idle costs money, such as trucks, vans and other commercial vehicles and vessels.'
Filled with opportunities
The zepp.solutions team has now grown from its initial five, to thirteen members. They're a varied bunch: the oldest member is 49, Bot is 29 and the youngest is 23. 'At lunchtime, we're always talking about how things work: we all share a passion for technology. We all come from slightly different backgrounds, with our own areas of expertise: that's what makes us so strong.'
For zepp.solutions' founders and team members, sustainability isn't a question but a given. Bot: 'Climate change is real: it's here – in fact, it's been here for some time. We also know that CO2 plays a major role in this process, and that we need to switch to power from renewable sources such as wind, hydropower, solar and heat. We're seeing growing demand for zero emission solutions. And when we drive through the port, it's filled with opportunities: all sorts of applications that could be switched to hydrogen. Terminal tractors, trucks but also larger and smaller vessels. At zepp.solutions, we have the knowledge and skills to help clients grasp these opportunities and successfully make this transition.'
We're currently running a pilot project with Watertaxi Rotterdam and a number of other companies. The first hydrogen-powered water taxi will enter service in the course of 2021. We'll be supplying the hydrogen-electric power train and the on-board hydrogen storage system. The boat also needs to refuel, of course. The Port Authority is looking for a suitable refuelling location together with the consortium.
Hydrogen infrastructure
Bot is pleased with the Port Authority as a partner. 'People in Rotterdam are open to innovation and prepared to capitalise on opportunities that present themselves. The supply of wind and solar power is growing every year, and hydrogen will prove the key to making renewable energy even bigger across Europe. We're excited about the current preparations for a new hydrogen 'backbone' for the region. This main pipeline can be used to transport green and blue hydrogen and connect suppliers and users. And this will create a huge range of opportunities for zepp.solutions. Our dream is to become one of the European market leaders in fuel cell systems.'
Does Bot have any tips he'd like to share with other entrepreneurs? 'Definitely: if you're certain that you're on the right track, don't let others discourage you: hang in there. And if you want to do something with hydrogen: call us! We can tell you more about the possibilities and what you need to keep an eye on. We really take our clients by the hand in this area. And we can go on to supply the required technology. That's what really sets us apart: the fact that we produce these solutions ourselves.'
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