BAHRAIN champions Manama suffered a disheartening 95-105 loss to Sharjah of the UAE yesterday in their opening Group 'A' game of the 38th Gulf Clubs Basketball Championship, being played in Muscat. The tournament also acts as the FIBA Asia Champions Cup GBA Qualifiers. A collapse in the fourth and final quarter, when Manama scored just 11 points while giving up 32, led to the defeat after the Bahrainis were in control for most of the contest. They even enjoyed leads of up to 14 points in the second half before giving it away midway through the final canto. Manama's six-foot, one-inch American guard Terrell Stoglin (185-G-91, college: Maryland, agency: Octagon Europe) waxed red hot in the third period, during which he scored 17 points, to help turn a close game wide open. They headed into the final 10 minutes of the contest with a comfortable 84-73 advantage, but that would quickly be erased by Sharjah who were spearheaded by their own high-scoring US import, James Justice (178-PG-89, college: Martin Methodist) Jr. Justice Jr. sparked a 17-4 Sharjah run to begin the fourth. He scored 13 unanswered points during that span, including the go-ahead basket that gave Sharjah the lead at 90-88 with just over five minutes remaining. Nothing was clicking for Manama at this point while Sharjah were making basket after basket. Emirati forward Jassim Abdulla buried a three-pointer to make it 93-88, and several possessions later, back-to-back triples by Omer Alameri and Abdulla stretched their lead to 100-89 with just two minutes 56 seconds remaining. Manama tried valiantly to make one last push to get back into the game, but they came no closer than six points the rest of the way. Justice Jr. finished the contest with 42 points. His team-high output included four three-pointers, seven rebounds and four steals as he was an efficient 16-of-23 from the field in the game. Countryman and fellow-professional Tyler Wilkerson (203-F-88, college: Marshall) added 31 points, 15 rebounds and five assists, while Sharjah captain Jassim Mohammad Abdaalj added 13 markers and Alameri chipped in with 11. Stoglin matched Justice Jr. on the scoresheet by scoring 42 of his own for Manama, including six three-pointers. He shot 15-of-28 from the floor, dished out six assists but also committed a costly eight turnovers. Seven-foot, two-inch NBA veteran Loren Woods (218-C-78, college: Arizona) added 19 points and 14 rebounds in the loss. Bahraini guard Hassan Nowrooz also finished with 19 points in the game as the only other player in double-figures. The loss for Manama meant that they will need to win their final two group games to have any chance of advancing to the next round. They will be hoping to bounce back the next time they return to the hardwood at Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex tomorrow to take on Nizwa of Oman. Today is a rest day. This tournament involves seven teams from across the Gulf, with the champions claiming the lone slot available for this September's Champions Cup.


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## How to convert pdf to multipage tiff with pdf renderer sdk in ASP.NET C# using ByteScout Premium Suite

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##### ****BasicExample.csproj:**

```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="4.0">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
    <ProductVersion>
    </ProductVersion>
    <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
    <ProjectGuid>{8212F3BF-B5E3-4FB8-9776-AFC7D18C1EB2}</ProjectGuid>
    <ProjectTypeGuids>{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}</ProjectTypeGuids>
    <OutputType>Library</OutputType>
    <AppDesignerFolder>Properties</AppDesignerFolder>
    <RootNamespace>BasicExample</RootNamespace>
    <AssemblyName>BasicExample</AssemblyName>
    <OldToolsVersion>4.0</OldToolsVersion>
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.0</TargetFrameworkVersion>
    <FileUpgradeFlags>
    </FileUpgradeFlags>
    <UpgradeBackupLocation />
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
    <DebugType>full</DebugType>
    <Optimize>false</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>bin\</OutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>DEBUG;TRACE</DefineConstants>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
    <Optimize>true</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>bin\</OutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>TRACE</DefineConstants>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
   <Reference Include="Bytescout.PDFRenderer, Version=1.10.0.98, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f7dd1bd9d40a50eb, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
      <SpecificVersion>False</SpecificVersion>
    </Reference>
    <Reference Include="System" />
    <Reference Include="System.Data" />
    <Reference Include="System.Data.DataSetExtensions" />
    <Reference Include="System.Drawing" />
    <Reference Include="System.Web" />
    <Reference Include="System.Web.ApplicationServices" />
    <Reference Include="System.Web.DynamicData" />
    <Reference Include="System.Web.Entity" />
    <Reference Include="System.Web.Extensions" />
    <Reference Include="System.Xml" />
    <Reference Include="System.Configuration" />
    <Reference Include="System.Web.Services" />
    <Reference Include="System.EnterpriseServices" />
    <Reference Include="System.Web.Mobile" />
    <Reference Include="System.Xml.Linq" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <None Include="multipage.pdf">
      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
    </None>
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Content Include="Default.aspx" />
    <Content Include="Web.config" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="Default.aspx.cs">
      <SubType>ASPXCodeBehind</SubType>
      <DependentUpon>Default.aspx</DependentUpon>
    </Compile>
    <Compile Include="Default.aspx.designer.cs">
      <DependentUpon>Default.aspx</DependentUpon>
    </Compile>
    <Compile Include="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" />
  <!-- To modify your build process, add your task inside one of the targets below and uncomment it.
       Other similar extension points exist, see Microsoft.Common.targets.
  <Target Name="BeforeBuild">
  </Target>
  <Target Name="AfterBuild">
  </Target>
  -->
  <ProjectExtensions>
    <VisualStudio>
      <FlavorProperties GUID="{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21}">
        <WebProjectProperties>
          <UseIIS>False</UseIIS>
          <AutoAssignPort>True</AutoAssignPort>
          <DevelopmentServerPort>7507</DevelopmentServerPort>
          <DevelopmentServerVPath>/</DevelopmentServerVPath>
          <IISUrl>
          </IISUrl>
          <NTLMAuthentication>False</NTLMAuthentication>
          <UseCustomServer>False</UseCustomServer>
          <CustomServerUrl>
          </CustomServerUrl>
          <SaveServerSettingsInUserFile>False</SaveServerSettingsInUserFile>
        </WebProjectProperties>
      </FlavorProperties>
    </VisualStudio>
  </ProjectExtensions>
  <PropertyGroup>
    <PreBuildEvent>
    </PreBuildEvent>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>
```

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##### ****Default.aspx:**

```
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="BasicExample._Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>

    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

```

<!-- code block end -->

<!-- code block begin -->

##### ****Default.aspx.cs:**

```
using System;
using System.Web.UI;
using Bytescout.PDFRenderer;

namespace BasicExample
{
	public partial class _Default : Page
	{

		/*
		IF YOU SEE TEMPORARY FOLDER ACCESS ERRORS:

		Temporary folder access is required for web application when you use ByteScout SDK in it.
		If you are getting errors related to the access to temporary folder like "Access to the path 'C:\Windows\TEMP\... is denied" then you need to add permission for this temporary folder to make ByteScout SDK working on that machine and IIS configuration because ByteScout SDK requires access to temp folder to cache some of its data for more efficient work.

		SOLUTION:

		If your IIS Application Pool has "Load User Profile" option enabled the IIS provides access to user's temp folder. Check user's temporary folder

		If you are running Web Application under an impersonated account or IIS_IUSRS group, IIS may redirect all requests into separate temp folder like "c:\temp\".

		In this case
		- check the User or User Group your web application is running under
		- then add permissions for this User or User Group to read and write into that temp folder (c:\temp or c:\windows\temp\ folder)
		- restart your web application and try again

		*/

		protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{
			// Prepare a test document.
			// Multipage.pdf file will be copied to the project directory on the pre-build event (see the project properties).
			String inputDocument = Server.MapPath("multipage.pdf");

			// Create an instance of Bytescout.PDFRenderer.RasterRenderer object and register it.
			RasterRenderer renderer = new RasterRenderer();
			renderer.RegistrationName = "demo";
			renderer.RegistrationKey = "demo";

			// Load PDF document.
			renderer.LoadDocumentFromFile(inputDocument);

            // Write the response.
            Response.Clear();
            Response.ContentType = "text/html";

            Response.Write("Converting into multipaged TIFF image...<br>");
            Response.Flush();

			// Render document to multi-page TIFF file at 300 DPI resoultion
            renderer.SaveMultipageTiff(Server.MapPath("output.tiff"), 0, -1, 300);

            Response.Write("Done! Check <a href=\"output.tiff\">output.tiff</a> file saved");

			Response.End();
		}
	}
}

```

<!-- code block end -->

<!-- code block begin -->

##### ****Default.aspx.designer.cs:**

```
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <auto-generated>
//     This code was generated by a tool.
//     Runtime Version:2.0.50727.42
//
//     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
//     the code is regenerated.
// </auto-generated>
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

namespace BasicExample
{

	public partial class _Default
	{
		protected System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlForm form1;
	}
}

```

<!-- code block end -->

<!-- code block begin -->

##### ****Web.config:**

```
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
	<appSettings/>
	<connectionStrings/>
	<system.web>
		<!--
            Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging
            symbols into the compiled page. Because this
            affects performance, set this value to true only
            during development.
        -->
		<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0"/>
		<!--
            The <authentication> section enables configuration
            of the security authentication mode used by
            ASP.NET to identify an incoming user.
        -->
		<authentication mode="Windows"/>
		<!--
            The <customErrors> section enables configuration
            of what to do if/when an unhandled error occurs
            during the execution of a request. Specifically,
            it enables developers to configure html error pages
            to be displayed in place of a error stack trace.

        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="GenericErrorPage.htm">
            <error statusCode="403" redirect="NoAccess.htm" />
            <error statusCode="404" redirect="FileNotFound.htm" />
        </customErrors>
        -->
		<pages controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion="3.5" clientIDMode="AutoID"/></system.web>
</configuration>

```

<!-- code block end -->

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FOR years there have been reports of a black panther in the Blue Mountains. But one resident now says he has caught the big cat on film.
Mysterious black cat-like creature filmed in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.
A man has described to the Today show the moment he caught a mysterious catlike creature on film in the Blue Mountains over the weekend.
Steven Muiser spotted the massive black feline on the western side of the Cox River — opposite to where he lives.
He said it was "definitely not a feral cat" and was "probably five times that size".
He and his partner watched it for about 20 minutes stalking the top of the hill and over the side of the ridge line.
This isn't the first time a black panther has allegedly been spotted in the Blue Mountains with an apparent rare sighting captured of the mythical beast last month.
An Instagram and Facebook page "Blue Mountains Explore" shared alleged proof in the form of a photograph snapped by "a freaked-out tourist" at the Pulpit Rock lookout, near Blackheath.
The social media group's page manager Cody told the Kyle and Jackie O show that the backpacker who captured the picture was "unaware" he had possibly just closed the case on a long-running Aussie urban legend.
By 2010, there had been more than 460 sightings of the panther in Hawkesbury — one of the smallest towns within the Blue Mountains — with former mayor Bart Bassett one of the many believers.
Rumour has it that this giant cat has been attacking kangaroos and livestock in the region for years.


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Tough choice: comrade-in-arms, or justice?
After premiering at the Majestic Theater in May, the play "Lei Jingtian" will be staged again during this year's China Shanghai International Arts Festival.
Revolutionary Lei Jingtian's question "human sympathy or law, what am I supposed to do?" comes to life in a soliloquy in a play produced by the East China University of Political Science and Law. After premiering at the Majestic Theater in May, "Lei Jingtian" will be staged again during this year's China Shanghai International Arts Festival.
Born in Nanning in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China in 1904, Lei Jingtian joined the Communist Party of China in 1925.
He participated in many movements and uprisings, such as the May Thirtieth Movement, the Nanchang Uprising, the Baise Uprising and the Long March.
Lei served as president of the high court of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region in 1937.
From 1956, he successively held the post of dean, first secretary of the Party Committee and Party Secretary of the East China University of Political Science and Law.
A scene from the stage drama "Lei Jingtian"
Beginning with a heated discussion in the classroom, the play features a sensational murder case judged by Lei in October 1937.
A 26-year-old military officer Huang Kegong was charged with killing a female student named Liu Qian after she rejected his marriage proposal.
Huang joined the Red Army in 1930 and was a revolutionary hero who served heroically in the Loushanguan pass battle in 1935.
Huang even wrote a letter to Chairman Mao Zedong and expected Mao to grant him amnesty for his crime.
Huang and Lei were comrades-in-arms. Faced with a choice between soldierly comradeship and the justice of the law, Lei chose the latter, which was recognized by Mao.
"The play raises a question to the students of our university as well as the people working in the field of law – what kind of 'law man' should we be?" said Guo Weilu, Party Secretary of the East China University of Political Science and Law.
"It was a great trial. The outstanding patriot Li Gongpu predicted that it would set a good example for the legal system of the New China."
Bota Habit (left) and Zhang Tong in the play "Lei Jingtian"
Directed by Wang Qizheng, the production stars actors He Bin and Zhang Tong as well as Bota Habit, a student at the university.
In order to bring history alive, the cast did field research in Lei's workplace in Yan'an.
They visited the Yan'an Intermediate People's Court, the original location of the high court of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region; the original location of the Shaanbei Public School, which is today's Renmin University of China; and the Lu Xun College of Art. The trip allowed the cast to experience Lei's life in Yan'an as well as learn about the Yan'an revolutionary spirit and customs.
"The trip aroused my burning ambition to be a Party member," said Wang. "Party Secretary Guo told me that the play was the best Party membership application and I think I have delivered a qualified performance."
Guo said they intended to make the play part of the repertoire of their school.
"We plan to let students perform the play in the new students welcome party and the graduation party every year, which allows them to remember Lei's teachings and the original aspiration of law," said Guo.
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Ali Spice Car Crash Suspect: "I'm Not Hiding"
OCEAN VIEW – TikTok celebrity Ali Spice and two other people were killed in the grey Toyota Tacoma crash on State Road 44 early on December 11; the driver of the vehicle has not yet been identified by police, but according to the family of one of the victims, they do. Kyle Moser, 25, of Daytona Beach, Spice, whose actual name is Alexandra Dulin, 21, of Indianapolis, and Ava Fellerman, 20, of Clearwater, all perished in the collision. The driver, 22-year-old Devin Perkins of New Smyrna Beach, was critically hurt.
The Toyota Tacoma's driver escaped the site of the crash on foot. Ashley Minton, Moser's sister-in-law, and Angela Gillis, Moser's sister, claimed that Tom Petry of Orange City was the driver in Facebook posts. Gillis published a screenshot of Petry's Facebook page in a post where she said he was "on the run" and urged anyone with information to "call the authorities." The Florida Highway Patrol is looking into the collision. The driver's identity has not been made public by the authorities, and no charges have been brought.
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denying that he was the driver. And he added, "I'm not hiding." Petry claimed that FHP investigators had previously met with his attorney, Patrick McGeehan. Facebook is how the two women obtained that information on the driver. According to Gillis, the mother of the 36-year-old Deltona lady who was a passenger in the Tacoma, is friends with Moser's mother's boyfriend.
Due to Dulin, who has nearly a million followers on the social media platform TikTok and is well-known for posting dancing videos and moments from her job as a Hooters waitress, the crash has garnered attention from all over the world. In the hours following the collision, McGeehan, of the Daytona Beach-based Musca Law Firm, claimed he called FHP and contacted the traffic murder investigator to let her know he represented Petry.
When I offered to make my client (the client) available to the FHP investigator, McGeehan stated, "I was told they were still investigating." "They informed me that no warrant had been issued for my client," When specifically asked if his client was the driver, the lawyer failed to respond, invoking the attorney-client privilege.
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When asked on Thursday if Petry and his attorney had spoken to the troopers conducting the investigation, FHP Lt. Tara Crescenzi responded that there was no new information to report. According to Crescenzi, "We have not yet arrested about the matter." We cannot confirm any additional information because the criminal investigation in this matter is still highly active. Since Sunday, according to McGeehan, his client has been ready to speak with FHP investigators, and all of his legal options have been exhausted. "FHP might or might not want to talk to him about the crash,"
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Posted by Linda Flegge on Nov 28th, 2021
City Holding Co. grew its holdings in shares of Chevron Co. (NYSE:CVX) by 1.7% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 36,058 shares of the oil and gas company's stock after buying an additional 586 shares during the quarter. City Holding Co.'s holdings in Chevron were worth $3,658,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Other large investors have also modified their holdings of the company. Sofos Investments Inc. lifted its position in Chevron by 10,500.0% during the 2nd quarter. Sofos Investments Inc. now owns 106 shares of the oil and gas company's stock worth $116,000 after buying an additional 105 shares in the last quarter. Stonehage Fleming Financial Services Holdings Ltd bought a new stake in shares of Chevron in the 2nd quarter valued at about $30,000. Horan Securities Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Chevron by 196.0% in the 2nd quarter. Horan Securities Inc. now owns 296 shares of the oil and gas company's stock valued at $31,000 after purchasing an additional 196 shares during the period. Newton One Investments LLC bought a new stake in shares of Chevron in the 2nd quarter valued at about $34,000. Finally, Capital Directions Investment Advisors LLC raised its holdings in shares of Chevron by 66.7% in the 2nd quarter. Capital Directions Investment Advisors LLC now owns 375 shares of the oil and gas company's stock valued at $39,000 after purchasing an additional 150 shares during the period. 65.55% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
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Shares of NYSE:CVX opened at $114.51 on Friday. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $109.96 and a 200 day simple moving average of $105.01. The company has a market cap of $220.74 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 22.11, a PEG ratio of 2.54 and a beta of 1.30. Chevron Co. has a one year low of $83.53 and a one year high of $118.08. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27, a current ratio of 1.28 and a quick ratio of 1.03.
Chevron (NYSE:CVX) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October 28th. The oil and gas company reported $2.96 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.21 by $0.75. The firm had revenue of $44.71 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $40.89 billion. Chevron had a net margin of 7.10% and a return on equity of 7.95%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 82.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.11 earnings per share. As a group, analysts expect that Chevron Co. will post 8.35 EPS for the current year.
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, December 10th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, November 18th will be paid a dividend of $1.34 per share. This represents a $5.36 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.68%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 17th. Chevron's payout ratio is currently 103.47%.
A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on CVX. Morgan Stanley upped their target price on shares of Chevron from $149.00 to $155.00 and gave the company an "overweight" rating in a report on Friday, November 19th. Truist upped their target price on shares of Chevron from $145.00 to $150.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, October 7th. Royal Bank of Canada raised shares of Chevron from a "sector perform" rating to an "outperform" rating and upped their target price for the company from $130.00 to $145.00 in a report on Wednesday. Societe Generale initiated coverage on shares of Chevron in a research note on Friday, October 22nd. They issued a "buy" rating and a $130.00 price target on the stock. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company upped their price target on shares of Chevron from $109.00 to $115.00 and gave the company an "equal weight" rating in a research note on Monday, November 1st. Ten investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and sixteen have given a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Chevron has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average price target of $121.23.
In other news, CEO Michael K. Wirth sold 26,250 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, November 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $118.01, for a total transaction of $3,097,762.50. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, VP Colin E. Parfitt sold 15,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, October 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $115.01, for a total transaction of $1,725,150.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 325,651 shares of company stock valued at $37,293,688 in the last ninety days. Insiders own 0.28% of the company's stock.
Chevron Company Profile
Chevron Corp. engages in the provision of administrative, financial management, and technology support for energy and chemical operations. It operates through the Upstream and Downstream segments. The Upstream segment consists of exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas; liquefaction, transportation, and regasification associated with liquefied natural gas; transporting crude oil by major international oil export pipelines; processing, transporting, storage, and marketing of natural gas; and a gas-to-liquids plant.
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Q: How to count the number of times a condition consecutively exists across rows in a column in pandas I have a simple df like this:
    data
0    0
1    0
2    1
3    1
4    0
5    0
6    1
7    1
8    1
9    1

I am interested in counting the number of times 1 consecutively occurs, and then creating a column assigning that value to each row in the chunk. It should look like this:
    data   count
0    0       0
1    0       0
2    1       2
3    1       2
4    0       0
5    0       0
6    1       4
7    1       4
8    1       4
9    1       4

Is there a simple pandas way to do this?

A: Use np.where, cumsum
s=df.groupby((df['data']!=df['data'].shift(1)).cumsum()).transform('count')
df['count']=np.where(df['data'].eq(1),s['data'],0)

How it works
#Create unique groups for each partition with unique values

(df['data']!=df['data'].shift(1)).cumsum()

# groupby the groups generated above and count occurrences in each group saving into a staging dataframe
df.groupby((df['data']!=df['data'].shift(1)).cumsum()).transform('count')

#Create a new column in the old dataframe allocating the count value from the staging dataframe if data value in old is 1 else make the count value 0

df['count']=np.where(df['data'].eq(1),s['data'],0)

outcome
data  count
0     0      0
1     0      0
2     1      2
3     1      2
4     0      0
5     0      0
6     1      4
7     1      4
8     1      4
9     1      4

A: Another way:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'data': [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1]})

df['count'] = 0
m = df['data'] == 1
df.loc[m, 'count'] = df.loc[m, 'data'].groupby(by=(~m).cumsum()).transform("count")

It gives:
  data  count
0     0      0
1     0      0
2     1      2
3     1      2
4     0      0
5     0      0
6     1      4
7     1      4
8     1      4
9     1      4

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Traders Warehouse: Leaving legacy systems to save time and money
Patrick Foot
A modular approach is more flexible — and better value — than ERPs for businesses of all sizes. But moving away from a legacy system can be a daunting task.
So here's some inspiration to leave a legacy system behind. Ryan Bamford, Derby branch manager for Traders Warehouse, blogging on the benefits he's seen since leaving Netsuite for Xero and Unleashed.
Traders Warehouse is a UK-based distributor of electronic security equipment such as CCTV, burglar alarms and door-entry devices.
What we're selling is safety, even if it's via something as simple as a Wi-Fi-enabled doorbell. Security is a big concern for a lot of people, and it is what we like to provide.
Traders Warehouse's head office in Derby, UK
We focus on offering a personal service, rather than being one of the big national companies that you see. We know our customers, and we speak to them regularly. We really put the emphasis on people.
The company has grown rapidly — but sustainably. We started in 2002 as a tiny little company with basically zero turnover and a single branch in Derby. Now, we operate in five locations around the country and employ over 50 staff. It's gratifying because it means we can offer a lot more for our customers.
Ready to See Unleashed in Action?
Watch a 25 minute webinar recording here.
Moving on from Netsuite
Before Unleashed, we were using Netsuite. The single biggest reason we left was the cost. Netsuite was very expensive, and it didn't offer us value for money — we were paying for features that we weren't using regularly enough. Plus, it was a difficult system to use for new starters and existing staff alike.
So we decided to move to a modular app-stack approach based around Unleashed and Xero. Unleashed is much more cost-effective. It gives us exactly what we need, with no superfluous additions — and at a significantly reduced cost. Overall, it's a much cleaner solution.
The decision to move software is never an easy one for a business. You have to look at all the aspects of a new system, including ease of use, cost and ease of implementation. We found that Unleashed offered all three in a perfect mix.
The warehouse floor
And as a company with a branch network, the multi-warehouse functionality is crucial. It means we can use Unleashed in each of our branches, bringing the whole company closer together. And we create virtual warehouses for consignment stock, giving us complete visibility.
Saving time across the business
Moving to cloud apps has given us much more flexibility and helped us save time.
We can give staff access to the functionality they need, instead of everyone having a login for a single, giant system like Netsuite. With Unleashed, you can set up permissions for different parts of this system — saving our staff wasted time searching for the functionality they need.
Teams across the business have benefitted from the software. The management team has much more visibility across the business. With Unleashed, for example, we can track margins directly in sales orders. And we save time when training new staff. We show them the system, and they can pick it up immediately. It's a clean layout, and everything you need to use is in a single place.
Our warehouse team, meanwhile, find the system so much easier to use than Netsuite. And the sales team can find products far quicker. When they're dealing with a customer over the phone or face to face, being able to see what's available immediately is a lifesaver.
Masterful modules
Unlike Netsuite, with Unleashed we can add modules so we only pay for the functionality we need. Some of the new additions have brought significant benefit to our business: particularly the B2B Store and Advanced Shipping.
The B2B Store has been a fantastic addition to our offering to customers.
We're able to offer large and small companies the ability to log in and see prices, create their own quotes and place orders. We can promote ourselves as a true 21st-century company. Plus, it helps our salespeople save hours each week, by freeing them up from admin and enabling customers to self serve.
Despite being an eCommerce platform, the B2B Store has actually helped us deliver a more personal service.
Advanced Shipping
Before Advanced Shipping, we'd have to enter order details twice to create a shipment: first in Unleashed and then on the DPD website for the shipping label. Unsurprisingly, this led to a little bit of human error.
Now, the process is automated — we create the shipment once, dispatch it, and the information goes directly through to the DPD servers so we can print the label.
Using Advanced Shipping to speed up fulfilment
All in all, the Advanced Shipping module probably saves us about one minute on each shipment. That might not sound like much, but when you consider that we ship around 50 orders a day, it adds up to a substantial saving in time and money. And that's not even taking the reduction in mistakes into account.
More visibility with BI
We've got big plans for Traders Warehouse, and Unleashed will be a big part of them. We're going to use the system to create a more uniform experience for customers, whichever branch they visit. And we're going to use the upcoming Business Intelligence module to get a better picture of what people are buying, what they're not buying and how we can better serve them.
What is the Business Intelligence module?
The Business Intelligence (BI) module is a tool that generates live actionable insights from your inventory data. Instead of relying on stale reports to track performance, it enables you to monitor multiple live KPIs: across Inventory, Sales and Customers.
Check out the Unleashed BI module
Our eye is always on opening more branches throughout the UK — we want to be a truly nationwide company. With Unleashed, we know we have the scope within the system to open a new branch when the opportunity is there.
Sign up for a free 14-day Unleashed trial here
Article by Patrick Foot in collaboration with our team of inventory specialists. When he's not writing about inventory management, he's busy jet-setting across the globe.
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Competition isn't always what it seems. If deregulation has taught us anything, it's to be suspicious when former monopolists start talking about competition. So if erstwhile monopolist SBC thinks Mayor Bill White's plan for a citywide wireless broadband network is bad, then it's probably good for consumers.
If deregulation has taught us anything, it's to be suspicious when former monopolists start talking about competition.
So if erstwhile monopolist SBC thinks Mayor Bill White's plan for a citywide wireless broadband network is bad, then it's probably good for consumers.
In March, White wants to seek proposals for a WiFi network that would first blanket the central business district and eventually encompass the entire greater Houston area. He estimates the initial cost at $1 million, and pledges no taxpayer money will be used.
SBC and Time Warner Cable have taken a conciliatory approach so far, saying they're looking at ways to work with the city on the project. But both companies have opposed municipal WiFi programs in the past.
WiFi threatens their land-based broadband service. You don't need those pesky phone lines or coaxial cables if you can pull your Internet service from the sky.
SBC and other phone companies have been fighting initiatives such as White's across the country.
One of SBC's former employees, Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Dallas, introduced a bill in May to kill city-sponsored WiFi programs. Sessions, by the way, has collected more than $75,000 in campaign money from SBC's political action committee since he took office in 1989, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., sponsored a competing bill in June that mandates that state legislatures can't prevent cities from offering WiFi. The Texas Legislature considered such a municipal ban this year, but it died when the session ended in May.
Both federal bills are still pending.
In February, a group called the New Millennium Research Council put out a report called "Not in the Public Interest — The Myth of Municipal WiFi Networks." As the title indicates, the report blasted city WiFi efforts, in part for stifling competition.
New Millennium is a Washington-based think tank backed by Issue Dynamics, a consulting firm whose clients, according to its Web site, have included SBC, Verizon, BellSouth, Qwest and Comcast — all telecom and cable companies that view municipal WiFi as a competitive threat.
These companies have fought local competition at every turn, and with good reason. The financial stakes are high.
Phone companies like SBC received $5 billion in federal subsidies last year, according to a Wall Street Journal report this summer. When you consider how much government coin is filling their pockets, it's no wonder the phone companies want to block municipal WiFi. They don't want to share the gravy train.
Having a chokehold on the market appeals to the company's monopolist roots. If you want DSL service in the Houston area, for example, in most cases you have to have SBC phone service, regardless of your Internet provider.
SBC can do that because it controls the plumbing. It did, of course, build its telephone network, but it didn't do it alone. It relied on agreements with cities similar to the WiFi plan that White now envisions.
That's not to say the mayor's plan will succeed. There's a host of technical and financial problems to overcome, and there's the risk that by the time a widespread WiFi network is built, the technology will have been surpassed by new innovations. Government, after all, is slow and inefficient.
SBC is right about one thing. Government shouldn't compete with private companies. On the WiFi issue, it isn't. The city is simply bidding a contract, like thousands of others, to provide a service. That service, if done right, may help reduce the $2 million the city spends on network costs for mobile devices, as my colleague John Roper reported earlier this week. That everyone in the city may be able to tap into the same service at a reasonable rate is simply an added plus.
Given its concerns about competition, SBC could offer its own WiFi plan. Then, come March, we could see which company has the most efficient, cost-effective service.
We already know the answer, and so does SBC. That's why it's resorted to the old monopolist game: Talk about competition while lobbying to stifle it.
Loren Steffy is the Chronicle's business columnist. His commentary appears Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Contact him at loren.steffy@chron.com. His blog, Full Disclosure, is at blogs.chron .com/fulldisclosure.


For business publishers webinars can be a dream. They offer a satisfying mixture of editorial heft and readership engagement – and let's not forget the sponsorship revenue they bring in.
But let's put aside those benefit for a second and focus on the sponsors. What's in it for them?
If a brand can find the right publishing partner, one that allows it to position itself as a trusted and authoritative voice to an audience of prospective customers, the potential to enhance its Thought Leadership credentials can be great.
Let's face it, Thought Leadership is an awful term, but if you can show expertise and position yourself ahead of the competition without resorting to squirm-inducing cliché, then you're on to something. There's also the (not so) small matter of considerable lead generation from a new and previously untapped database of interested individuals.
In addition, webinars offer a significant branding opportunity. For an hour, a firm can be on the computer screens and in the thoughts of people who have never previously paid it much attention.
Webinar partnerships can be quick, easy, and allow your brand to hit a significant number of people in little time.
But beyond branding, email lead generation, and the push of your key messages to new audiences, webinars can also help your firm pick up social media followers. In short, webinars can be a great way to kick off, or conclude, a content marketing program. What better, more straightforward format is there to draw together the key principles, research findings, and insights your firm has spent months discussing through its blogs, websites and social platforms?
Or, if you're using a webinar at the start of a content marketing project, what better way is there to introduce a series of themes you'll spend the next few months developing through your paid, owned, and earned media?
A partnership with a publisher can really help introduce your brand to a new and wide audience, but it might not be an option available to all businesses. If your budgets are tight, or for some other reason you decide to publish your own events, these tips are designed to help make your webinars as professional and editorial rigorous as they possibly can be.
Your theme – what's it all about?
Setting a theme for your webinar can be the toughest part of the exercise. Good themes are timely, informative, and aren't just a way to crowbar in a hefty promotion of your services or products.
Your webinar needs to have genuinely compelling topic, one that will make people who know little of your business sit up and take notice. I often find a topic or theme that establishes a business challenge, then looks at the ways that can be overcome can be the most useful and draw people in.
The trick is to find the right subject, then write a brief (essentially just promotional copy) that will draw people in. A compelling brief need only be two or three paragraphs long. Always set out what it is your likely to talk about, explain why this will be of interest, then give a few key bullet-points telling people what the key takeaways are likely to be.
It's highly likely you already have a database of customers and leads to whom you intend to promote your event.
To get started, all you need to do is to draw up the brief description of what your webinar will cover (as detailed above), build a registration page using one of many freely available webinar software packages, then email your brief to your database with a link to the registration page. It's that simple.
Send two or three emails over the course of a fortnight – you'll be amazed how many people will sign up on from the third after having just read the first two!
If you're not working with a publisher on an email lead-generation project, how about partnering with a related business? Invite one of their key people to speak on your webinar, promote the event to the customers and prospects of both organisations, then share the leads from both customer sets?
Webinars aren't the most complicated things, but that doesn't mean you can just breeze into them and expect success – practise always makes perfect. So two days before your live event, how about running a rehearsal?
A rehearsal isn't supposed to go smoothly. It's there to help you identify and then iron out the glitches. The key things to look out for are: sound quality, speakers' familiarity with the software, and connectivity.
Don't encourage people to join the webinar from open plan offices or rooms that echo – joining from home, a quiet corner office, or meeting room usually works best.
Constant 'bongs' quickly become tiresome, so ask your speakers to turn off all computer and phone notifications.
Then, to ensure good quality sound and a reliable connection, ask your speakers to dial in on fixed-line phone and use a hard-wired internet connection. Wifi can be unreliable, so can speaker phones, and VOIP connections don't sound great at the best of times. The last thing you need is for a speaker's voice to keep cutting in and out, or for them to disappear halfway through their presentation, that's why fixed lines are generally better.
Once you have all these technical issues sorted out, then you can familiarise your speakers with the back-end of your webinar software, showing them how to mute themselves when not speaking, how to assume control of the slide deck, and then moving the slides along once it's their turn.
If you're thoroughly organised, having standby speakers on hand to fill gaps created by last minute drop outs can be extremely handy – but who, really, is that organised? If you lose a speaker at the last minute, it might be easier just to ask each or your remaining participants to speak for a little longer. Then take your time, run an extra poll, and ask a few additional questions.
In case there are technical problems during your webinar, it's always a good idea to suggest that your speakers have a spare phone ready (a mobile, perhaps?), and to let them know how to rejoin the webinar without any panic. It's also handy for speakers to have a print out of their presentation and their notes. That way, if something happens to their web connection or computer, they can continue to present with voice alone.
Nothing is more off-putting than tuning into a webinar that promises to be informative and enlightening, only to be given the hard sell. Not only is it disinteresting, it can turn a viewer off your company for good.
Webinars are an opportunity to show how much you know, and share learning. Doing exactly that is far more powerful and persuasive than banging on about you latest piece of software for an hour.
Why not invite an independent speaker along to give their take on your subject? Two perspectives are always better than one.
Sharing your platform with someone who can offer a compelling, alternative or complementary take will only help show how confident you are in what it is you're going to say.
If you, or one of your speakers, is planning to wing it, to present on the fly, forget it. Few people have the necessary skills to deliver a worthwhile presentation without substantial planning and good notes.
If you're the webinar host, write a script and follow it. Introduce the topic, deal with all the event housekeeping, then introduce the speakers. Give each speaker a designated time slot and make them stick to it, good timekeeping will ensure your webinar is packed with information, yet remains brisk and compelling. Keeping things snappy is always better than a 50-minute lecture from one speaker. Aim for an hour-long event, get your three speakers to talk for 15-minutes each (or two for 22 minute each) then save ten minutes for Q&A, as often it can be the most compelling part of the event.
If your webinar software allows viewers to submit questions (most do) then deal with housekeeping inquires ('where can I get the slides after', 'what's the hashtag for this event') as you go.
If you're a speaker, prepare simple slides and good notes. Rather than packing your slides full of information, tiny graphs and charts, use them as a visual aid and let your words be the key element. More than anything else, practising your presentation and refining your notes will make you memorable. Remember, too much information can be bad. All you really want to do is get across one or two key messages that really chime with viewers.
When you run a live webinar, majority of technical issues can be quickly and easily overcome. They shouldn't hinder the smooth flow of your event. That said, it's always useful to have a colleague, who is not directly involved, to field all the technical queries raised via your webinar's chat facility and/or social media. Having that person on-hand makes life simple for everyone else. It means the presenter can be left to focus solely on the content of the webinar.
As I mentioned before, if you allow your audience to submit questions throughout the event, the best part of a webinar can often be the Q&A.
If you keep reminding people you intend to ask their questions at the end of the webinar, they tend to say interested.
More importantly, the audience questions are usually far more direct and insightful than anything the host can come up with, and as a result they generate compelling answers.
Most webinar software has a polling feature built-in – don't be afraid to use it. Ask the audience to fill out a poll then show them the results immediately. Doing this helps keep engagement high and prevents them getting bored and dropping off the webinar.
Similarly, its also useful to ask direct questions to the audience for immediate feedback, this too keep engagement levels high, it makes the feel involved.
Another great way to keep the involvement high is to establish an event Twitter hashtag, get all the participants to tweet prior to the event and then regularly remind your viewers that they can join the Twitter conversation.
Not only is it a great way to keep people engaged and spread your message, speakers can also line up a load of scheduled tweets that can miraculously appear with relevant content and links during their presentations – it's very useful.
Post event follow up can be as important to the overall effectiveness of your content marketing programme as the event itself.
If you gain loads of leads, email them a follow up. Everyone that registered, regardless of whether they attended the webinar, should get an email with a link to the recording of the event.
I always find two versions of a follow-up email are best – one for those that have registered but did not view, telling them about all the good stuff they missed. Then a second for all those that did view, with links to offers, promotions, further relevant content.
But don't let that be the end of it for your recording – pop it on your website, tweet links to it, keep the conversation going across all your social media. In addition, pop your slides on Slideshare, then let people know where they can download them.
For those people who took the time and effort to submit questions during the webinar, there's nothing wrong with a personal email to follow up their queries with further information.
Perhaps one final note: if you have a lot of questions submitted during your webinar, give yourself time to digest the general tone and tenor of them as a whole. They type of questions – and the level at which they are pitched – can be really help shape the future direction of your marketing programme. These questions are a quick and easy insight to the kid of issues that are mostly occupying the minds of your potential new customers.


Glassware: How to pick the right glass for your event?
Whatever kind of party you are hosting this Christmas, we have glassware that will suit your event. From wine tastings to a champagne bash, here are our top glassware edits from our collection.
If you are holding a wine tasting or wine pairing dinner, then our Riedel Veritas collection will be the perfect wine glasses for your event. All the glasses in the Veritas range are designed to get the best out of certain grape varieties, such as oaked Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Noir (new and old world), Cabernet and Merlot.
If you are looking for something more contemporary, you can opt for the Riedel O Stemless wine tumblers. With glasses for Viognier, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, Cabernet and Merlot.
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As part of the Nonstop November contest for Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), the members of St. Teresa's FBLA toured Millikin's newest student-run venture, Blue Brew, located in downtown Decatur inside the Hickory Point Bank building. The Blue Brew is a coffee shop that also serves teas, specialty drinks, and snacks. St. Teresa students were given a chance to talk to the current students from Millikin University that developed the idea as part of a class within the Center for Entrepreneurship.
FBLA students at St. Teresa operate a very similar business located in the high school called the K9 Kafe, which has been thriving since its creation back in 2007. "The K9 gives students practical experience on how to run a business including financials, marketing, inventory, accounting, customer service and much more," says Sandra Bronson, the K9 Kafe's faculty sponsor.
To wrap up the day, students had the opportunity to take a tour of the campus, eat lunch on campus, and discuss Millikin's marketing strategies currently used and what Millikin could do to better present itself to high school students.
Students that attended this experience were: Rylie Danner, Gracie Pugh, KT Vorhees, Shirley Syed, Taylor Prasun, Robert Malkamaki, Noelle DeJaynes, Mary Shupenus, Lauryn Pugh, and Sydney Allen.


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Apple Allows China To Search Its Software For Backdoors
by Lucian Armasu January 23, 2015 at 2:50 PM - Source: Beijing News (Chinese)
According to a report in Beijing News, Apple agreed to allow security audits of its software before it gets used in China. Apple has denied that its software has any backdoors in the past, but it appears the Chinese wants to see for themselves if that's true.
This comes after it was discovered from Snowden's NSA documents that tech companies either willingly cooperate or have their software and networks hacked so American intelligence agencies can spy on other foreign nations. That discovery has made foreign countries less trusting of American companies, and some have already started taking actions to resolve this potential security issue.
Some countries have started passing laws that force foreign companies to keep the data they have on their citizens in a local database. Although this makes some sense, it's difficult to enforce for all companies, in practice. It becomes too expensive for those companies to operate, so they may just end up leaving the country.
These laws have also been used mainly as a way for those governments to access data on their citizens that they previously couldn't access. For instance, if Google doesn't store the data in a certain country, then that country can't demand the emails of its citizens, because it has no jurisdiction over them. It can only have jurisdiction if the servers with the local citizens' data are located in that country.
The second solution that's beginning to get some traction, including in China, is the requirement that foreign companies show the source code for their software, especially if that software is to be used in government institutions.
Auditing the proprietary software of all foreign companies may prove quite difficult and time-consuming, as not only must the whole OS be studied with all of its intricacies, but also every single update from that point forward. Software audits are also quite expensive, and it's another cost the government must support.
Another option for governments could simply be the adoption of open source solutions, where possible, as opposed to proprietary ones. China has in fact already banned Windows 8 for use by government officials and institutions.
China has already begun collaborating with Canonical on a Chinese version of Ubuntu, so in a way it's also leading the charge in open source adoption for government use. Some European countries have also begun adopting Linux for use in some government institutions, not just as a national security solution, but also as a way to cut costs in the long run.
A combination of open source solutions for government use and security audits for proprietary software that gets sold or used by local companies and citizens may be a good mix that increases both the privacy of that countries' citizens as well as the security of its institutions.
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Lucian Armasu is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He covers software news and the issues surrounding privacy and security.
mortsmi7
China sounds pretty anal.
vaughn2k
... and then China will not tell Apple, if they found one..
Dietdee
next year chi phone 7
kenjitamura
Next week in the news: "China has started using OS X since they got hold of the source and it appears they have no intentions of buying overpriced Apple hardware now that there's no need."
Steve is rolling in his grave!
Murissokah
In completely unrelated news, the Chinese government has just announced their own groundbreaking OS and software distribution platform, the Nac OSX.
The comments here are pretty stupid. Apple allowing access to source code is a basic thing. Microsoft also allows access to source code to large business partners.
Personnal example, we needed Outlook not to go through American servers, because of the size of our business, they allowed making a server elsewhere (Canada). It cost a lot. But if you believe that your internal data and the data of your clients is confidential, you can't just say yes to external software, or cloud services. You need to be able to make an audit and see what is going on. Costs a lot? You bet. But what happens if your customers lose confidence in you? How much cost to your reputation if your data is hacked?
Ask Sony.
nuvon
I would let them audit too if I were Apple. The reason is simple: China's huge market! Why work against the local government when your intention is to sell more product, and this applies to other countries not just China.
Camikazi
@Andy Chow There is a difference between allowing Canada to check the source and allowing China to, considering that 9 out of 10 copies of Windows are pirated and the LARGE amount of iPhone clones that pop up from there. Hell there are even Chinese copies of BMWs and other cars, they clone and copy anything they can get their hands on so showing them how your OS works directly is a bit dangerous.
everlast66
Man, in China they make copies of copies, and then sue the manufacturer of the very original for ripping off their IP ...
rawoysters
Money talks.
@Andy Chow, and you are so clueless. It's like allowing a robber into your house and check-out its weakness, and plan for an attack later. Or allowing a copycat, study your technology, how good is it, and make their own.
fixxxer113
In other news, the pot has just called the kettle black...
jasonkaler
"Apple Allows China To Search Its Software For Backdoors"
But China's been doing that for years...
Doesn't anyone remember what happened when China wanted to see the source code for Cisco IOS and they agreed? Long story short....Huawei got there source code free and changed it partially to look like it was created by Huawei. Apple is stupid enough to agree to this?
okibrian
Yeah, give your source code to the people that are most known for copying (STEALING) everything ever made. That sounds like a great idea!
Usersname
The reason Apple never got the traction Windows did is partly due to Steve Jobs telling the NSA (and other American security agencies) to eff off artofit...
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Bruce County includes eight municipalities situated in the northern part of the Southwest Region of Ontario.
Bruce County is connected to world markets through road, air and water. Ontario Highways include #9 which runs from the municipality of Kincardine to Toronto; #21 which runs along the Lake Huron shoreline and then turns to go through Mount Forest on the way to Provincial highway 402 and Sarnia; #6 which runs from Tobermory and passes near Owen Sound to Guelph and the 401 near Toronto.
Air connections include the federally certified Wiarton Keppel International Airport and the Kincardine Municipal Airport which is being studied for its potential as a platform for economic development and new investment.
The deep Harbour at Owen Sound, which is actually located just across the Bruce County line in Grey County, accommodates large lake freighters and the Chi-chi Maun Ferry.
What is Bruce County Like?
Located in Southwestern Ontario, one of the most internationally competitive economic regions in Canada, Bruce County contributes to the $50 Billion of products and services exported from the region annually. Bruce County enjoys a mix of some of the most fertile farmland; a robust energy sector; a significant agribusiness sector; and a growing tourism industry.
Tourism relies on some of the most breath-taking scenery along the Georgian Bluffs and Bruce Trail and a host of visitor attractions including fairs and festivals operated in many of Bruce County's municipalities. Some of the more noteworthy attractions and events include sandy beaches; the Bruce Trail; campgrounds; cycling; birding; cross country skiing; boating; fishing; scuba diving at Fathom Five Underwater National Park in Tobermory; the Kincardine Scottish Festival; the Kincardine weekly Saturday night Pipe Band Parade; the Lighthouse Blues Fest; the Wiarton Willy Festival and Pumpkinfest in Port Elgin; to name a few.
Bruce County has 3750 farms that generate more than $255 Million annually in gross sales. Agriculture operations include growing of corn, soybeans, string beans, canola and winter wheat. County farms also produce beef, lamb, pork, elk, bison and emu. Bruce County also is home to horse breeding and training as well as wine production. Agriculture is complemented with a variety of support and processing industries, making the agriculture sector not only a significant economic activity for Bruce County but an important contributor to overall farm production in Ontario.
The energy sector is a large player in the County with much of the infrastructure located in the municipality of Kincardine. Kincardine is home to Bruce Power Nuclear Generating Station; large wind energy installations; and a growing solar energy sector. Kincardine is also in the final approval stages for the Deep Geological Repository, which will house low and intermediate radioactive materials from nuclear operations across Ontario.


This was taken back in February, when we had a mini heat wave in the UK, resulting in record-breaking temperatures. I've re-scanned the image today as I've just picked up a Plustek 8100 35mm film scanner. I'm keeping the Epson V550 fot medium format scans and other flatbed related stuff, but the Plustek produces notably better scans on 135 format negatives (not tried slides yet). I'll scan most frames at 2400dpi to save on file space, but the shots I like that contain plenty of detail will be scanned at 3600dpi (which is supposedly the scanner's actual max resolution – although it will scan at higher dpi rates than that).
Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Ilford HP5+.
Another photo from the Canon Sure Shot Telemax, although this time I do recall taking the shot. A good job really, given that I only took it a few weeks ago.
I thought the composition was a good one when I made the photograph, but again I'm very pleased with the way the little compact has handled the scene. I'd used up the roll of film in my F80 when I took this, and would have missed the shot if I'd not had the Telemax in my pocket.
Cyclists and joggers on Cleethorpes north promenade.
Nikon F80, Nikkor 28-80mm f.3.5-5.6 AF & Fomapan 400.
Every trip I make to a seaside town I invariably come back with a shot of some piece of street furniture advertising typical fare for the location. Sometimes it's a huge ice-cream, occasionally a donut, and this time a hotdog AND an ice-cream. If anyone has been with this blog for a while, or has looked at my older posts, you may recall another photo of this same fella from 2017.
Before the day warmed up, it was quite cold and grim looking at the north end of Cleethorpes promenade. This is looking north towards Grimsby (the harbour tower is just visible at the right of the horizon besides the large building. It wasn't just me taking photographs though. Look!
I'm going through a bit of an arty-farty image border phase at present. Not sure whether it's a good idea or not, but it does seem to make photos look better in many cases.
Nikon F70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D & Fujifilm Acros 100.


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Tuesday, Dec 28, 2021
Tommy Moyles
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Working towards a low-carbon and resilient future
Mary O'Brien October, 2019
Susan O'Flaherty works as Operations Manager at XD Sustainable Energy Consulting, alongside her husband, Xavier Dubuisson. XD Consulting is an integrated sustainability consultancy providing multi-disciplinary advice and support in the area of renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Susan and her family moved to Clonakilty from Brussels in 2001. Prior to this she had been working in project management in the non-profit sector and after the move, having done an MA in Translation Studies (French and German), she started running her own translation business.
"Fortunately, we ended up in Clonakilty and West Cork became home," says Susan. After renting for a short period, the couple bought their home in Ballinglanna, a stone cottage in a stunning location overlooking the Atlantic. Over the past 18 years they have turned this old damp cottage into an A3-rated house. "We have a 100 per cent renewable energy supply in the home," explains Susan. "We felt that it was important to be walking the talk."
"Our mission is to empower people, organisations and communities in making the transition to a low-carbon, resilient future," says Susan.
Their office is in their garden, with ocean views and it from here over the past two-and-a-half years, together with a very talented team of engineers, software developers and designers, and with research funding from SEAI, that they have created RetroKit.
With housing representing a quarter of all CO2 emissions in Ireland, improving the energy efficiency of our homes is essential. And so XD Consulting has created a software solution designed for engineers and managers in local authorities and housing associations, to help them decide on the best way to invest in the energy upgrades of their housing stock.
"They can use RetroKit to visualise their houses on a map and run different retrofit scenarios according to their energy performance targets and budgets," says Susan.
The company is currently working on a case study with Cork City Council, who will be trialling Retrokit in October and by the end of 2019, RetroKit will be available as a cloud-based digital platform.
After moving back to Ireland in 2001, Susan worked remotely as a project manager for a while and then set up her translation business while raising her family. She is also a founding member of the Clonakilty Kindergarten, a Steiner-based community playschool.
When she decided to join Xaviar full-time in the consultancy business in 2014, her experience in project management came into play. "I really enjoyed putting all the systems in place," she says.
This time last year, she decided to take on the challenge of helping turn their research for Retrokit into a business. One of the most significant lessons she has learned along the way is the importance of listening to the customer. "There is no point spending years and years developing something that people don't want or need," she says. "My role is finding out what the customer wants and being their voice."
Another important lesson learned was the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people. "We have such a creative pool here in West Cork, we've never had any trouble finding people," she says, "there are so many great individuals involved in this business, it's not just Xavier and me."
"We have always worked remotely on projects with different energy specialists around Ireland and the rest of Europe and so we are quite flexible in our way of working."
Susan completed a Women in Business course through the Local Enterprise Office, which she found really helpful. She went on to enrol in the Rubicon Exxcel Female Entrepreneurship programme, an initiative providing women with a business idea related to the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) sectors with the opportunity to explore and develop their idea.
"Both of these courses provided me with valuable support," says Susan. "I met so many other women at different stages of business and we're still in touch. We meet up every six weeks and talk about our challenges in business."
Life is busy and it can be difficult sometimes to switch off from work but living and working in the beautiful rugged surrounds of Ballinglanna with the sea on her doorstep does have its advantages. "I do struggle a bit with work-life balance but we have no commute and can walk down to the beach after work.
"In time I'd love to build up the business and the team in such a way that we can expand and develop new projects yet still maintain a good life-work balance."
For more information go to www.retrokit.eu
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The Great Crypto Conspiracy of 2018
Nick Rokke | Jul 9, 2018 | Palm Beach Daily | 9 min readPrint
Nick's Note: Bitcoin critics such as George Soros, JPMorgan, and Goldman Sachs, have called bitcoin "a fraud," "a bubble," and "a Ponzi scheme." Yet, they've begun investing millions in cryptocurrencies.
In today's essay, world-renowned crypto expert Teeka Tiwari reveals the real reasons they've talked down cryptos…
By Teeka Tiwari, editor, Palm Beach Confidential
If you're offended by sex, violence, and salty language, then you should skip this article…
Deadwood was an acclaimed Western series that ran on HBO from 2004–2006.
The series was set in the town of Deadwood, South Dakota during the Black Hills Gold Rush of the late 1870s.
As you can imagine, the show was full of shootouts, filthy language, and quite a few sex scenes… Certainly not a show you'd want to watch with your kids.
But there is an episode of Deadwood that holds a valuable lesson for crypto investors…
During the Dakota gold rush, regular folks who got in early made fortunes. These weren't mining magnates or industrialists. Much like today's crypto investors, they were savvy speculators pouncing on an opportunity.
What happened to all those early-stage prospectors?
In the fictionalized Deadwood version, wealthy miner George Hearst (father of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst), swindled them out of their mining shares.
This wasn't too far from the truth. According to rumors at the time, Hearst used murder, intimidation, and misinformation to force people to sell their claims. He even purchased newspapers in the town to influence public opinion.
Crypto investors will recognize the strategy Hearst used.
In a bid to buy in cheap, Hearst's agents started to float rumors that the government would seize all land in the town. Prospectors believed the rumors—and sold their mining stakes for pennies to Hearst's agents.
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The conspiracy worked. Hearst and his partners bought the biggest mine in the region—Homestake—for a bargain-basement price of $70,000 ($1.7 million in today's dollars).
Homestake would become the richest gold mine in U.S. history. From 1879 to 2002, the mine produced 44 million ounces of gold and 9 million ounces of silver.
At today's prices, that's a combined $56.5 billion in precious metals.
I'm seeing a similar heist play out in today's crypto markets.
Who's Behind the Conspiracy
Every day, we hear in the press how the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is cracking down on cryptocurrencies.
We hear that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is starting a new investigation.
We hear JPMorgan's CEO saying he'll fire any of his employees buying cryptos—then we find out his traders in London are buying with both hands.
We hear central banks float stories designed to scare and ward off crypto investors.
In February 2018, the Polish central bank even admitted it hired a firm to spread a "smear campaign" against cryptos. (And do you remember IMF head Christine Lagarde saying central banks need to band together against cryptos?)
Friends, the great crypto conspiracy of 2018 is upon us.
All year long, we've been under assault by rumors of central bank collusion against cryptos: threats of bans… endless investigations… and the ceaseless drumbeat of negativity from the traditional press.
And yet—amid this shower of negative news—careful observers will have noticed institutions are actually running into crypto investments.
Today, I'm seeing banks, regulators, and the press drown the market in negative news. They're using the same old trick Hearst used to scare speculators so he could scoop up the Homestake mine for pennies…
Guess what? It's working.
Institutions are getting the best prices on cryptos since mid-2017… While the average investor is panic-selling, big investors are buying.
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A new type of energy is taking over. It will power our businesses, our homes and our automobiles. And it will create a major commodity bull market centering around a few select metals.
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Crypto Wealth Is Being Redistributed
Over the last 90 days, we've seen some of the biggest investors in the world flood into cryptos:
Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs announced that it would launch a crypto trading desk.
Susquehanna—the 12th-largest trading firm in the world by volume—announced it would start trading cryptos, too. The firm even went as far as creating its own custody company to hold its cryptos.
Billionaire investor George Soros—one of the world's greatest moneymakers—gave the green light to his team to buy cryptos.
Coinbase—one of the world's largest crypto exchanges—launched a crypto index fund for wealthy investors and institutions.
Financial services company State Street said it's considering acting as a custodian for bitcoin. State Street has $2.7 trillion under management.
Wellington Capital—with over $1 trillion of assets under management—stated its intention to start trading bitcoin.
The Rockefeller family's venture capital firm, Venrock, said it's also buying cryptos.
Every important lawyer I talk to in the investment space is overwhelmed with crypto questions from their institutional clients. That's just the latest evidence that institutions are trying to get into this market—not stay out of it.
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Don't Fall Victim to This Conspiracy
Friends, make no mistake… We're in the middle of a massive handover of wealth from individuals to institutions.
I saw this happen after the housing crisis in 2010–2012, when institutions started buying up foreclosures by the thousands… but individual investors couldn't get a mortgage.
I saw it in 2003 after the dot-com crash, when institutions started buying up internet and technology stocks on the cheap… But on CNBC, they kept telling the public it was too early to buy.
I saw it during 1994–1995, when institutions scoffed outwardly about how "dumb" money was buying internet stocks… while they were loading up as individuals were selling.
I've seen this institutional blueprint for stealing wealth play out again and again.
Don't be a victim of this strategy. The key is to focus on what institutions are doing… not on what they're saying.
Across the world, institutional investors are embracing cryptos—not rejecting them.
Just as George Hearst made a fortune using misinformation to buy the Homestake mine on the cheap… institutions know they will make vast fortunes buying cryptos at depressed prices. Otherwise, they just wouldn't bother with it.
Don't be a statistic. Stay strong. Keep your position sizes rational.
We will ride the wave of misinformation through this dark valley of despair and into the bright sunlight of the life-changing future ahead of us.
Teeka Tiwari
Editor, Palm Beach Confidential
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A Note on Crypto Risk Management
Regular Daily readers know we're big fans of cryptocurrencies. That's because they're one of the few asset classes that can help you turn a small amount of money into life-changing gains.
If you do invest in this emerging asset class, we always recommend that you take a small position size. That means if you're an investor with a small account, you should place no more than $200–400 in each crypto trade. And if you have a larger account, you should place no more than $500–1,000 into each trade.
Cryptocurrencies are volatile. So small position sizes will allow you to keep a cool head during extreme periods of volatility in the crypto market.
In our July 4 interview, Teeka said that America was headed for a Second Civil War. Concerned readers responded…
From William L.: In response to Teeka's interview, I'd like to offer a statement from Scottish economist Alexander Tytler, who in 1787, was reported to have commented on the then-new American Republic as follows:
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been about 200 years.
There are now 3 camps:
Those who want to raid the treasury to receive benefits they didn't work for.
Those that feel they should control other people.
Those with self-control.
From Michael P.: You asked what was the root cause of America's political divisions. Here's my answer: The liberal media's biased, twisted, false, and selective reporting.
The media servse up ideology to "liberals" who are all too willing to consume this content as legitimate, even though not very long ago it would have been considered radical even by their own standards.
My thoughts of what might help this situation lie in a more conservative and traditional approach in which the "Silent Majority" become less silent. I, too, have never seen such a divided political environment in my lifetime.
From Tom D.: Until President Trump was elected, the left wing had free reign in the Democratic Party, most of the media, and in our educational system. I don't want to sound partisan, but when one group controls those three main functions in our society (and that is very much akin to communism, fascism, totalitarianism, etc.), it will breed division.
Trump at least made us aware of it. Hopefully, he'll help stop it so there is more of a free exchange of ideas… not a suppression of anything other than left wing ideas.
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Something similar exists in the stock market…
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Q: Add new object in {} to array I want to edit my code to add {} new object to my array grouping by id , my code add object to my old object :
my code and result are:

result = {
  "field": [{
    "id": "11",
    "name": "name",
    "email": "email"
  }, {
    "id": "11",
    "name": "name",
    "email": "email"
  }, {
    "id": "1234",
    "name": "name",
    "email": "email"
  }]
}
results = result.field;
groups = {};
for (var i in results) {
  var groupName = results[i].id;
  if (!groups[results[i].id]) {
    groups[groupName] = [];
  }
  groups[groupName].push(results[i].name);
  groups[groupName].push(results[i].email);
}
console.log(groups);

I want the result be like this :
 {"1234": [
        {"name" : "name",
        "email":"email"},
        {"name":"name",
        "email":"email"}],
     "11":[{"name":"name",
        "email":"email"}]}

** I use wso2 so I cannot use any method like : reduce .
Thanks ..

A: You can simply make use of reduce() method:

var object = { "field": [  {"id":"11","name":"name","email":"email"},{"id":"11","name":"name","email":"email"},{"id":"1234","name":"name","email":"email"}]};

var result = object.field.reduce((acc, {id, ...rest})=>{
    acc[id] = acc[id] || [];
    acc[id].push({...rest});
    return acc;
},{});

console.log(result);

A: I do it finally , the answer is :

result = {
  "field": [{
    "id": "11",
    "name": "asma",
    "email": "asma@hotmail"
  }, {
    "id": "11",
    "name": "jone",
    "email": "jone@hotmail"
  }, {
    "id": "1234",
    "name": "jak",
    "email": "jak@hotmail"
  }]
}
results = result.field;
groups = {};
for (var i in results) {
  var groupName = results[i].id;
  if (!groups[results[i].id]) {
    groups[groupName] = [];
  }
 groups[groupName].push({"name" :results[i].name,"email":results[i].email})
}
console.log(groups);


The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is most foul in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, no human affection, and no hope. This selection of his early writings, some making their first appearance in English in this new translation by David Coward, reveals the full range of Sade's sobering moods and considerable talents. This is a fully annotated edition including an introduction, a biographical study, and a history of the censorship of these writings.


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