The Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair II is a carrier-based subsonic light attack aircraft design that was introduced to replace the A-4 Skyhawk in US Naval service and based on the successful supersonic F-8 Crusader aircraft produced by Chance Vought. The A-7 was one of the first combat aircraft to feature a head-up display (HUD), Doppler-bounded inertial navigation system (INS), and a turbofan engine. It initially entered service with the United States Navy during the Vietnam conflict and was then adopted by the United States Air Force to replace their A-1 Skyraiders that were borrowed from the Navy as well as with the Air National Guard. It was exported to Greece (in the 1970s), Portugal, and Thailand (in the late 1980s).
Once the standard lidded box is opened you will find five light grey moulded sprues and one clear sprue inside. The box art states there are eight sprues, so either its a miss print or someone can't count lol. There are a 186 parts though.
External detail looks to be very good with recessed panel lines and quite a few recessed rivets. The first thing you notice is the open avionics bays on both sides of the fuselage. These look quite well detailed and with maybe a bit of wiring added should look great once painted.
There are quite a few pin marks to be found which shouldn't be seen on the completed model. The exception is inside the rear of the fuselage halves where there is eight small ejector pin marks which may need some attention.
Eleven parts make up the cockpit, which is built up in two stages. The first stage being the everything in the cockpit tub, with the second stage adding the instrument panel, rear bulkhead, HUD and the forward instrument cover later in the build. Internal detail for the cockpit is fairly good with launch rails for the ejection seat, foot pedals and control stick. There is some raised details for the sidewalls and rear bulkhead. The instrument panel and side consoles are moulded flat with decals for the dials and buttons. Two ejection seats are included in the kit, one now doubt for the two seater TA-7C and A-7K versions. The ejection seats don't have any harness's and are pretty basic in detail.
The wheel wells and undercarriage are well detailed with some nice raised detail, unfortunately in all the photos I have seen there is a light housing on the inside of the main starboard gear bay door that hasn't been duplicated in the kit. The tyres have a nice tread pattern moulded on to them but are not weighted, which shouldn't be too hard to replicate with some sanding. The wheel hubs look a bit different to photos I have but are nicely detailed none the less.
The exhaust is a disappointment to say the least with the fan as a moulded on affair that looks more like a spiders web then a fan. The intake trunking is well engineered with the two halves having a lap effect over the joint. A quick dry-fit of this part shows a little work with some sanding may still need to be carried out. There are two intake lips in the kit, one for later versions, but the one to use in this kit has two cannon troughs on it as earlier versions of this aircraft had two 20mm Colt Mk12 cannons on either side of the lower forward fuselage where as later versions had a single 20mm Vulcan cannon on the port side.
Weapons included in this kit on two identical sprues are eighteen Mk 82 iron bombs, two Sidewinder missiles, two fuel tanks and two FLIR (forward looking infrared) camera pods. The bombs are made up of three pieces and you have a choice of fuses. Twelve of these bombs can be fitted to a couple of MERs. The Sidewinders need four fins to be stuck on and then glued to a two piece launch rail. The fuel tanks seem a bit skinny and have two bands around them which stick out like the proverbial sore thumb and will need sanding down. The weapon pylons are typical Hobby Boss which means they have heavy recessed details, which I found to be on their A-10 and Rafale kits.
The clear parts are thin and clear with little distortion. The canopy has a frosted frame to make painting the frame easier but it does have a nasty seam line running down the center of it.
A quick dry fit of the major parts show the fuselage goes together very well but the wings will require a little careful filling at the wing roots.
Now I don't normally bother with seeing if a kit is dimensionally correct as I go with the old saying of "if it looks like it, it must be it " lol, but after I dry-fitted the fuselage the nose section doesn't quite look right. Personally I think the intake is a little too small, as the real aircraft always reminds me of a feeding Basking Shark, the nose is too pointy and the cockpit narrows down way to much. But it still looks like a Corsair II.
The instructions are printed with the normal black and white line drawings on a folded sheet of paper. The build sequence is pretty straight forward with internal paint numbers given along the way. At no point though are you told to add any weight to the nose to stop it tail sitting, mind you there isn't a lot of space to put anything in once the intakes, cockpit and nose gear is in lol. A parts diagram is given on the back page and here are at least 4 parts that are used in latter versions, but no parts are blacked out that aren't needed, so don't worry when you have parts left over.
Two schemes are given for this aircraft, both being Navy versions. The first scheme is for a A-7A 153228 NG/312 of VA-147. The second scheme is for 153214 NJ/201 of VA(F)-122 "Corsair College". Both schemes are painted in Light Gull Grey uppers and Insignia White lowers and control surfaces. All the paints are for the Gunze Sangyo Aqueous Hobby colour and MR Color range.
The decals look to be in register with little carrier film. The red on the national insignia looks a little on the bright side. There is very little in the way of stencilling, but considering how small some of them would be its probably a blessing lol.
Highs: Simple, straightforward build. Some nice detail. Nice touch with the open Avionics bay.
Lows: Nose section looks wrong.
Verdict: This is a nice kit, but with a bit of extra thought it could have been a great kit.
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What if there was a way of getting your children to do chores AND get the benefits of mindfulness at the same time?! Well there is, and the younger you start them, the more benefits you will see from an early age. 'Chores' isn't a word I like to use because it makes kids faces scrunch up! I prefer to explain them as 'family responsibilities' or 'tasks', and instill a sense of pride and duty where all members are playing their part. This is where Mindfulness comes in.
Learning to do a simple, but important, daily task with focus and intention resonates throughout our lives. Teaching children to focus and do a task, to the best of their ability from a young age, is a positive lesson to learn. Teaching them to appreciate responsibility, and succeed in simple daily tasks early on, instills a sense of duty and pride throughout life. As they get old enough, explain that stuff need to be organised so that you can find it quickly when you need it. Explain that the house needs to be clean so the dirt doesn't make you ill or attract rodents or bugs. And teach them to respect the 'things' in the house (clothes, furniture, utensils) that someone has lovingly bought to make their lives comfortable and cared for.
'Family responsibilities' should be done in silence so that children learn to focus and do tasks them properly. After all, the quicker it gets done, the quicker it's over! And any task, however menial, should be done to the best of our ability, and with pride. For younger children, chores not be long or drawn out, but short 'task meditations', where in 1 – 3 minutes they have successfully completed their responsibility in silent focus. And try NOT to reward children with treats, creating bad habits for the future and a conditioned response leading to disappointment in later life (no one gives ME a cookie each time I wash the dishes, and my life would me very depressing if I was expecting a reward each time I fulfilled my responsibilities!) Instead, you should give each other a heart felt 'thank you' and a hug, for the part you each play in making your house, your home.
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Knowledge Center Reports
200 Highest-Paid CEOs 2016
The New York Times recently published its coverage of the annual Equilar 200 study, which analyzes the highest-paid CEOs at U.S. public companies*. The 2016 Equilar 200 marks the 10th consecutive year of a partnership with The New York Times to deliver data on top-paid executives.
The introductory page of this feature shows the Top 10 highest-paid CEOs. Below that, there is a link to the full list of the 200 highest-paid CEOs in an interactive chart that allows you to sort by pay, change in compensation year over year, company revenue and total shareholder return (TSR) to see how pay aligns with company performance and shareholder return. You may also download that information in an Excel sheet by filling out the form to your right.
The Top 10 Highest-Paid CEOs
EXECUTIVE NAME TOTAL COMP. (MM) CHANGE IN PAY TSR
Expedia (EXPE)
$94.6 881% 47%
Leslie Moonves
CBS (CBS)
$56.4 4% -14%
Philippe P. Dauman
Viacom (VIAB)
$54.1 22% -42%
Mark V. Hurd
Oracle (ORCL)
$53.2 n/a 5%
Safra A. Catz
Frank J. Bisignano
First Data (FDC)
$51.6 454% n/a
Leonard S. Schleifer
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN)
$47.5 13% 32%
Robert A. Iger
Walt Disney (DIS)
$43.5 0% 17%
Sandeep Mathrani
General Growth Properties (GGP)
$39.2 702% -1%
Howard M. Lorber
Vector Group (VGR)
The full list of CEOs is on the following page in an interactive table.
Key Trends and Takeaways
Pay grows at the top, but more modestly than 2014. Median pay for Equilar 200 CEOs was $16.6 million in fiscal year 2015. The CEOs on this list saw a 5% pay increase at the median. However, CEOs on last year's Equilar 200 list earned 21% more at the median than in 2013. Average pay for Equilar 200 CEOs in 2015 was $19.3 million, compared to $22.6 million in 2014.
Highest pay packages were earned in special circumstances. Dara Khosrowshahi was the highest-paid CEO in the Equilar 200, earning $94.6 million chiefly due to a new stock option grant. His total pay was 881% more than the $9.6 million he was awarded in 2014. Other notable standouts in the top 10 were Frank Bisignano of First Data and Sandeep Mathrani of General Growth Properties. Bisignano earned $51.6 million, 454% more than 2014 due to IPO retention awards, and Mathrani was awarded $39.2 million, 702% more than the previous year due to a $25 million grant of full-value restricted stock units as part of a long-term incentive plan.
No CEO in the Equilar 200 earned more than $100 million. For the first time since 2013, the highest-paid CEO in the Equilar 200 earned less than $100 million. This is only the second time since the recession that this has occurred.
Though few in number, the top female CEOs outpace the field. CEOs on the Equilar 200 list are female, and they earned $18.6 million at the median, far outpacing the median pay overall. Safra Catz of Oracle was the highest-paid female with $53.2 million—tied for fourth overall with her colleague Mark Hurd. Marissa Mayer at Yahoo received the 11th highest pay package of any CEO in 2015 at $36.0 million. Mayer was the highest-paid female last year, coming in 14th on the list. Catz is the highest-ranking female since the inception of the Equilar | New York Times study of the 200 highest-paid CEOs.
Tech chiefs lead the pack. Technology CEOs in the Equilar 200 earned more than any other sector, awarded $18.3 million at the median. The basic materials sector—which includes energy and oil and gas companies—was the lowest-paid industry in the Equilar 200 at a median $15.0 million.
*The Equilar 200 includes U.S.-based or listed companies with more than $1 billion in revenue that filed proxy statements by April 30, 2016. Total compensation includes information disclosed in company proxy statements including salary, bonus, stock and options valued at grant date, and other compensation (including benefits and perks).
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What are "blue stragglers" in globular clusters? (Intermediate)
Blue stragglers are stars which stay on the main sequence (the normal, hydrogen-burning phase of a star's lifetime) longer than they are expected to.
The color of a star is a measure of its temperature and its mass - blue stars are hotter and more massive than red ones. The more massive a star is, the faster it burns up its hydrogen, so blue stars are expected to spend less time on the main sequence than red stars. Therefore, when you look at a color-magnitude diagram of a globular cluster (whose member stars all formed around the same time) you expect to see an orderly transition; stars which are bluer than a certain value (known as the "turnoff" point) will have already left the main sequence, while those which are redder will still be on it. The location of the turnoff point can be used to estimate the age of the cluster.
But, it is usually the case that several stars in a cluster are observed along the main sequence past the turnoff point, and these are referred to as blue stragglers. The most likely explanation for blue stragglers seems to be that they are the result of stellar collisions or mass transfer from another star. That way, a star which is red, cool and already somewhat old can get extra mass and turn bluer. It spent most of its life as a red star and therefore burnt its hydrogen at a slow enough rate to still be on the main sequence, but then at a certain point it gets extra mass and effectively "disguises" itself as a blue star, which makes us think it is younger than it really is.
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The United States Open Golf Championship is as its name suggests, open to anybody. Be it a professional golfer or an armature or even a handicapped if he or she is with an up to date USGA's handicap index and it is open to both male and female golfers as well. But there are certain ways to get an exemption from the US Open golf qualification and believe us these rules for the exemption are really interesting. Let us have a look at these exemptions from qualifying from the US Open Golf as on 2013 rules.
All the winners of the past ten years of the US Open are exempted.
The winner and the runner-up of the last year's US Amateur tournament need not go through the qualifications.
Winner of the last year's Amateur Championship.
The winner of the last year's Mark H. McCormack Medal, which is for the top-ranked amateur golfer of the world.
Winners of the last five years' Masters Tournament, the Open Championship and the PGA Championship.
Winner of the last year's US Senior Open.
All top 10 finishers of the last years' US Open golf.
Those players who had qualified for the last year's Tour Championship.
Top 60 golfers in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) standing two weeks before the start of the tournament.
All other golfers qualified from the various qualifying tournaments.
An automatic invitation to play all other three majors, the Masters, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship for the next five years.
An automatic invitation to play the Players Championship for the next five years.
No need to play qualification rounds for the US Open golf for the next ten years.
Five-year exemption from the PGA tour.
For the non-PGA player winner, he can join the PGA within the 60 days of the winning the US Open or prior to the beginning of any of the next five PGA Tour seasons.
When the US Open champion turns 50 he will get an automatic invitation to play the US Senior Open Championship for the next five years and a lifetime invitation to play the Senior PGA Championship and the Senior British Open.
Note: All top ten finishers at the US Open Golf are exempted to qualify from the next years US Open golf and top four finishers get the invitation to play the next year's Masters, automatically.


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The gang of five has also systematically favored corporate rights over women's rights, gay rights, consumer and environmental protection. That the Congress — elected by the people — passes laws expressing different values doesn't deter them.
Kennedy gained a reputation as a "moderate" because of his votes on abortion and on gay marriage, but he has been a leader in the assault on democracy and the elevation of corporate rights over worker rights. Now, his resignation is timed so that Trump can name, and the Republican majority in the Senate confirm, a younger right-wing zealot to carry on the assault on democracy. In the Civil Rights movement, we looked to the Supreme Court to enforce the Constitution against the Jim Crow laws of the apartheid South.
Now we must take back the Congress and the statehouses and rally the democratic bodies against the usurpations of the ideological majority of the court. Only if the pressure is constant will one or more of the Justices realize the dangers and errors of their course.
The pushback can start with our election laws and come from the bottom up. Localities and states should be passing laws to make voter registration automatic, to extend the days for voting, to expand the franchise, and rollback restrictions on voting.
Districts and states can pass laws matching small donations three or four to one, to encourage independence from the corruptions of big money. Localities might pass legislation demanding that candidates get their "oats and their votes" from the district itself – limiting funds to those provided by those who live in the district.
Nonpartisan citizen panels can put an end to partisan gerrymandering, ensuring the voters pick their representatives rather than politicians designing districts to pick their voters. It is long past time that we recognize what the right-wing Supreme Court gang of five is doing.
George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door defying the dictates of the Constitution and the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court. Now a shameless majority of five stands in that door against the laws of the Congress and states, eroding the democracy they are sworn to protect.
Just as it took a movement to challenge George Wallace and segregation, it will take a movement to reclaim our democracy from these "black robed rulers." Progressive activists should demand that every Democratic candidate for elected office at the local, state or national level make empowering workers a central part of his or her platform.
They should demand support for measures that will make it easier for workers to organize and crack down on labor law violations. Companies that violate basic worker rights should be penalized in public procurement decisions. At the same time, progressives need to expose the reality that the right wing gang of five in the Supreme Court is trampling the will of the people and overturning established precedents to serve the interests of the plutocrats and the right.
These "black robed rulers" are legislating from the bench, scorning even an effort to find common ground with their own colleagues. In a time of deep polarization, the lawless majority of court has chosen to stand with the powerful few against the vast majority. That too will not stand.


Finding the right job is one of the most important things we can do. It's about more than just identifying the right career path and making some money. Whether or not you're satisfied at work impacts our family life and happiness, too. And for employers, matching candidates to the roles best suited to them can mean the difference between success and failure.
In short, job search and recruitment are just too important to get wrong. So who do job seekers and employers trust most to get it right?
Applicant tracking solution TalentNest recently released a report evaluating the top 15 sources for job hires in Canada. Indeed was repeatedly named as a clear frontrunner, with leading measurements for both the quantity and quality of candidates provided. Let's take a closer look at exactly what made Indeed emerge as a top performer.
The TalentNest study didn't just name Indeed as a leader for a single measurement, but instead found that the company outperformed other sites on several fronts.
To start, TalentNest found that Indeed was the top source of applications in Canada in the period under study. And while it would be impressive enough to deliver such a large numbers of applicants, Indeed also led the way in delivering candidates that were ultimately hired.
In fact, according to TalentNest, Indeed is the #1 external source of hires in Canada, delivering three times as many hires than all other job sites combined.
The professionals provided by Indeed also fared well when employers rated their applicants. A higher percentage of Indeed's candidates passed prescreening questions when compared to applicants from other sources; in fact Indeed provides three times more top-rated candidates than all other job sites combined.
Of course, we here at Indeed welcome these results, but they are not a cause for complacency in our eyes. Instead, we see them as an affirmation of our mission: to help people get jobs. That's because Indeed is serious about bringing the best opportunities to job seekers and the very best candidates to Canadian companies.
But Indeed has much more to offer than a robust search tool. Canadian employers can tap into a deep pool of talent when they use our resume database, which contains more than 4.5 million resumes from quality candidates in every industry in Canada.
Indeed also gives companies space to showcase their brand and culture through our company pages, which feature a total of 600,000 employer reviews in Canada.
And there is more to come. Indeed is always developing new innovations with the goal of improving each step in the hiring cycle and — alongside companies like TalentNest — helping recruiters work smarter, not harder, to get the best results possible.
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NICE brings real-time voice authentication expertise to the Fast IDentity Online Alliance.
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DSU's netballers are confident of shedding their underdog tags and causing their opposite numbers in the University of Leicester ranks an upset in their series of Varsity games this Sunday.
Two of DMU's three BUCS sides ply their trade in a lower division than their UoL counterparts, with only the club's second-strings competing at the same level.
However, club chair Charlotte Turner said that this year, with the club's strength across all teams, she is confident of surprising their neighbours. And the club is relishing the chance of doing so.
Charlotte explained: "We're definitely looking forward to it. Every year we seem to be the underdogs, and that's something that we just have to deal with, but we've got some really strong teams this year.
"We've got really good squads, especially our centre-courters, so strong that I think 'why wouldn't we be able to win?' The girls are putting in the effort and we've got the quality of players so there's no reason why we can't get the wins.
For the first time in the Varsity fixtures between the clubs, there will be five matches, giving the development sides from each university the chance to test their mettle in the more pressurised environment that comes with the event.
With making the trip across town it represents even more of a challenge for the club - something that is not lost on Charlotte.She conceded that surrendering home advantage can play a part in proceedings.
She said: "A hundred per cent there is a home advantage. [Playing at home] you know the court, you play on the court, you know the posts, the changing rooms, everything.
The club's third-team are still vying for the league title, while the firsts and seconds are sitting in mid-table positions. Having both fallen to several narrow defeats, the table doesn't represent a true picture of how the sides have performed this year.
In the run-up to Varsity, the club has stepped up training and fitness, working on their weaknesses in specialised sessions with their coach Anne Melling.
Proof that the hard work is paying off is evidenced by the club's fourth and fifth sides, both of whom recently picked up comprehensive wins, explained Sarah.
"Last weekend they both won very easily and got some big scores," she said.
"They've improved massively throughout the year and really come together as a squad," said Charlotte.
As veterans of the Varsity experience Sarah and Charlotte have been trying to help any Freshers taking part understand what to expect during the games.
Sarah said: "It's the pressure. A lot of the Freshers don't know what Varsity is, but as long as they act like it's a normal game everything should go in our favour, but we've told them that Varsity is the game we want to win.
This Varsity also represents the last occasion both Sarah and Charlotte will be taking part in, ensuring that the day will be an emotional one no matter what happens, although they are keen to go out on a high.
Charlotte, who studies Law, said: "It'll be emotional, but exciting. It's the last time we're ever going to play for the club and wear the dress.
Charlotte said that the fact that DMU start most fixtures as underdogs makes the atmosphere around campus – with such desire to win – a white-hot one in the run-up to Varsity.
She said: "It's really clash of David vs Goliath. DMU are the underdogs of the city, but people are so passionate about winning that anything can happen on the day.
"There's a buzz around campus, and people are starting to feel the nerves.
With just a few days left until the bulk of the Varsity fixtures take place, Charlotte and Sarah were keen to wish their fellow Demons luck, and implored everyone to support each other and try their upmost as DMU bids to win the competition.
You can catch all of netball's Varsity fixtures on Sunday 6 March from 9:30am at the Danielle Brown Sports Centre. Click here for the full list of Varsity fixtures and get behind #TeamDMU.


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#include "glog/logging.h"

#include "modules/drivers/canbus/common/byte.h"
#include "modules/drivers/canbus/common/canbus_consts.h"

namespace apollo {
namespace canbus {
namespace neolix_edu {

using ::apollo::drivers::canbus::Byte;

Vcupowerstatus214::Vcupowerstatus214() {}
const int32_t Vcupowerstatus214::ID = 0x214;

void Vcupowerstatus214::Parse(const std::uint8_t* bytes, int32_t length,
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      ->mutable_vcu_powerstatus_214()
      ->set_vcu_powermode(vcu_powermode(bytes, length));
  chassis->mutable_neolix_edu()
      ->mutable_vcu_powerstatus_214()
      ->set_vcu_powermodevalid(vcu_powermodevalid(bytes, length));
  chassis->mutable_neolix_edu()
      ->mutable_vcu_powerstatus_214()
      ->set_replacebatterystateindication(
          replacebatterystateindication(bytes, length));
  chassis->mutable_neolix_edu()
      ->mutable_vcu_powerstatus_214()
      ->set_forbidden_aeb_signal(forbidden_aeb_signal(bytes, length));
  chassis->mutable_neolix_edu()
      ->mutable_vcu_powerstatus_214()
      ->set_bcu_chargedischargecurrent(
          bcu_chargedischargecurrent(bytes, length));
  chassis->mutable_neolix_edu()
      ->mutable_vcu_powerstatus_214()
      ->set_bcu_batt_internalvoltage(bcu_batt_internalvoltage(bytes, length));
  chassis->mutable_neolix_edu()
      ->mutable_vcu_powerstatus_214()
      ->set_vcu_driverinfo_alivecounter(
          vcu_driverinfo_alivecounter(bytes, length));
  chassis->mutable_neolix_edu()
      ->mutable_vcu_powerstatus_214()
      ->set_vcu_driverinfo_checksum(vcu_driverinfo_checksum(bytes, length));
}

// config detail: {'description':
// '0x0:OFF;0x1:IG_ON;0x2:Power_ON;0x3:Auto_ON;0x4:Reserved;0x5:Reserved;0x6:Reserved;0x7:Reserved',
// 'offset': 0.0, 'precision': 1.0, 'len': 3, 'name': 'vcu_powermode',
// 'is_signed_var': False, 'physical_range': '[0|7]', 'bit': 11, 'type': 'int',
// 'order': 'motorola', 'physical_unit': 'bit'}
int Vcupowerstatus214::vcu_powermode(const std::uint8_t* bytes,
                                     int32_t length) const {
  Byte t0(bytes + 1);
  int32_t x = t0.get_byte(1, 3);

  int ret = x;
  return ret;
}

// config detail: {'description': '0x0:Not
// Available;0x1:Invalid;0x2:Valid;0x3:Reserved', 'offset': 0.0,
// 'precision': 1.0, 'len': 2, 'name': 'vcu_powermodevalid', 'is_signed_var':
// False, 'physical_range': '[0|3]', 'bit': 13, 'type': 'int', 'order':
// 'motorola', 'physical_unit': 'bit'}
int Vcupowerstatus214::vcu_powermodevalid(const std::uint8_t* bytes,
                                          int32_t length) const {
  Byte t0(bytes + 1);
  int32_t x = t0.get_byte(4, 2);

  int ret = x;
  return ret;
}

// config detail: {'description': '0x0:NotActivate;0x1:Activate', 'offset': 0.0,
// 'precision': 1.0, 'len': 1, 'name': 'replacebatterystateindication',
// 'is_signed_var': False, 'physical_range': '[0|1]', 'bit': 14, 'type': 'bool',
// 'order': 'motorola', 'physical_unit': 'bit'}
bool Vcupowerstatus214::replacebatterystateindication(const std::uint8_t* bytes,
                                                      int32_t length) const {
  Byte t0(bytes + 1);
  int32_t x = t0.get_byte(6, 1);

  bool ret = x;
  return ret;
}

bool Vcupowerstatus214::forbidden_aeb_signal(const std::uint8_t* bytes,
                                             const int32_t length) const {
  Byte t0(bytes + 1);
  int32_t x = t0.get_byte(7, 1);

  bool ret = x;
  return ret;
}

float Vcupowerstatus214::bcu_chargedischargecurrent(
    const std::uint8_t* bytes, const int32_t length) const {
  Byte t0(bytes + 2);
  Byte t1(bytes + 3);
  int32_t x1 = t0.get_byte(0, 8);
  int32_t x2 = t1.get_byte(0, 8);

  int ret = (x1 << 8 | x2) * 0.02 - 400;
  return ret;
}

float Vcupowerstatus214::bcu_batt_internalvoltage(const std::uint8_t* bytes,
                                                  const int32_t length) const {
  Byte t0(bytes + 4);
  Byte t1(bytes + 5);
  int32_t x1 = t0.get_byte(0, 8);
  int32_t x2 = t1.get_byte(0, 8);

  int ret = (x1 << 8 | x2) * 0.01;
  return ret;
}

// config detail: {'name': 'vcu_driverinfo_alivecounter', 'offset': 0.0,
// 'precision': 1.0, 'len': 4, 'is_signed_var': False, 'physical_range':
// '[0|15]', 'bit': 55, 'type': 'int', 'order': 'motorola', 'physical_unit':
// 'bit'}
int Vcupowerstatus214::vcu_driverinfo_alivecounter(const std::uint8_t* bytes,
                                                   int32_t length) const {
  Byte t0(bytes + 6);
  int32_t x = t0.get_byte(4, 4);

  int ret = x;
  return ret;
}

// config detail: {'name': 'vcu_driverinfo_checksum', 'offset': 0.0,
// 'precision': 1.0, 'len': 8, 'is_signed_var': False, 'physical_range':
// '[0|255]', 'bit': 63, 'type': 'int', 'order': 'motorola', 'physical_unit':
// 'bit'}
int Vcupowerstatus214::vcu_driverinfo_checksum(const std::uint8_t* bytes,
                                               int32_t length) const {
  Byte t0(bytes + 7);
  int32_t x = t0.get_byte(0, 8);

  int ret = x;
  return ret;
}
}  // namespace neolix_edu
}  // namespace canbus
}  // namespace apollo

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The Journal of Cardio-Vascular-Thoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Society (GKDAYB Journal) is an official scientific journal of Cardio-Vascular-Thoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Society journal (GKDA-YBD).
The journal publishes clinical and experimental studies, case reports, editorial letters, review articles and reports of scientific meetings related to fields of Chest-Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care the both in Turkish and English, Review articles written upon request of the editor are not accepted.
The journal is published every three months namely in March, June, September and December. One volume is completed after publication of 4 issues (one year). GKDAYB is an open access, free and peer-reviewed journal and all published content is freely available at www.gkdaybd.org Printed copies are distributed to members of the Cardio-Vascular-Thoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Society free of charge.
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Brachystephanus nimbae is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is found in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, and Liberia.

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I am not a winter type of person, except that I love to hibernate. I am more of the Spring or Fall type of gal. I love the new birth of the spring and the warmer weather setting in. Longer days and longer nights as we don't need to get inside to get warm or cool down. The fall colours are one of Mother Nature's best works of art. It seems to change daily, and the photo opportunities are endless. Winter has always been my least favorite season. That is until this year.
I have noticed a huge change to my activities this winter. While I am trying to get my second book printed, winter is flying by at record speed. I started to notice the winter activities of the people around me. I live in a ski destination town, so it is not unusual to see a lot of new people dressed in ski outfits and sporting a wind glow on their faces from their day on the hills. Other's are at the grocery stores buying comfort food and getting ready to settle in with a good book or a new movie. Some people are renovating their homes on the inside or collecting supplies for the spring renovations. I have many friends that are creating and re-supplying their crafts from all their winter craft sales. Some are working on scrap-booking and decorations for their home. Some are baking up a storm and trying new recipes as they still have company coming around. Some are taking this quiet time to finally sit down and write, work on some puzzles, paint, sew, and knit, re-arrange furniture, clean out the old and get ready for the new.
I am learning to embrace every season as I am finding things to do in and around my home that keeps me busy. I traditionally just get lazy, stay cozy, and hibernate like a bear in the winter season. Now I am getting organized, cleaning out the storage room, the desks, and the closets, putting up some new storage ideas, and ordering some upgrades to the new home. Organizing and cleaning is something I have always loved to do, so now I am keeping busy no matter what the day may look like outside.
Winter really has become a busy time. Maybe by the time the Spring arrives, I will be able to enjoy my favorite season more as all these inside projects will be done. But, then it will be time for gardening and cleaning up and organizing the outside. I never thought that winter could be so productive, and as I embrace my least favorite season, I am taking care of business on the inside of the house. Ultimately, I am keeping my soul happy and full of sunshine, even on the winter's darkest days, just by doing what I love to do. My hope is that I will have more time to enjoy the Spring and Summer with all the things I am taking care of today. I am definitely learning to embrace all the seasons, but I still cannot wait for the snow to melt, the trees to bud, the birds to sing, the crocuses to pop out of the ground, and the sun to out shine the clouds.


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Mogherini stresses importance of international cooperation at UN
In a wide ranging speech to the UN Security Council on Monday 6 June, EU High Representative Federica Mogherini stressed the vital importance of cooperation between the European Union and the United Nations, the need to revive peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians and for a continued diplomatic effort to stop the war in Syria. She also spoke about the situation in Libya and EU steps to manage migration. Before the briefing, she also held talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the EU representation at the UN.
On the Middle East conflict, Mogherini told the Security Council: "Let us not wait for the next open war between the Israelis and the Palestinians – because this is what will happen, if they don't go back now to meaningful negotiations."
On the war in Syria, the EU High Representative stressed that Europe "is doing its part… All international actors need to do whatever they can to make the cessation of hostilities, the delivery of humanitarian aid and the negotiations work, and finally move towards a political transition for Syria. Our divisions would only benefit Daesh, and chaos." And the European Union is actively engaged also on Libya, Mogherini explained. "Our European Union has started to mobilise a package of EUR 100 million to make Libya's new start possible and make Libyans live their lives in safety and dignity." She continued by saying: "For us it is key that anything we do is planned and delivered according to Libya's full ownership and Libya's priorities."
Turning to migration, Mogherini said Operation Sophia was part of the EU broad strategy to deal with migration. "Tomorrow in Strasbourg we will present – together with my colleagues in the European Commission – the plan for a new "migration partnership" with our friends in our region and in Africa." (EU Neighbourhood Info)
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Mental Health Confidence Scale
Where can it be found? ResearchGate PDF
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Unlimited national permission granted by Professor F Markowitz. Full credit must be given, original copyright notices must not be removed or changed.
Further Notes Carpinello, S. E., Knight, E. L., Markowitz, F. E., & Pease, E. A. (2000). The development of the Mental Health Confidence Scale: A measure of self-efficacy in individuals diagnosed with mental disorders. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 23(3), 236–243. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0095162
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Date last checked 16th September 2020
Date next checked 16th September 2023
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package graphedit.layout.graph;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import edu.uci.ics.jung.graph.Graph;
import edu.uci.ics.jung.graph.UndirectedSparseGraph;
import graphedit.model.components.GraphElement;
import graphedit.model.components.Link;
import graphedit.model.diagram.GraphEditModel;

public class GraphFactory {

	/*
	 * Elements which are already contained in a graph
	 */
	private List<GraphElement> coveredElements = new ArrayList<GraphElement>();
	private List<Link> coveredLinks = new ArrayList<Link>();
	private GraphEditModel model;

	public GraphFactory(GraphEditModel model){
		this.model = model;
	}

	public List<Graph<GraphElement, Link>> createGraphs(){

		List<Graph<GraphElement, Link>> ret = new ArrayList<Graph<GraphElement, Link>>();
		List<GraphElement> allElements = new ArrayList<GraphElement>();
		allElements.addAll(model.getDiagramElements());
		allElements.addAll(model.getContainedPackages());

		for (GraphElement element : allElements){

			//if element is already in a graph, skip it
			if (coveredElements.contains(element))
				continue;

			//else, form a new graph

			Graph<GraphElement, Link> graph
				= new UndirectedSparseGraph<GraphElement, Link>();

			formGraph(graph, element);
			ret.add(graph);
			System.out.println(graph);

			}

		return ret;

	}

	private void formGraph(Graph<GraphElement, Link> graph, GraphElement element){

		coveredElements.add(element);

		graph.addVertex(element);

		for (Link link : model.getAssociatedLinks(element)){

			//avoid infinite recursion
			if (coveredLinks.contains(link))
				continue;

			coveredLinks.add(link);

			GraphElement source = model.getElementByConnector().get(link.getSourceConnector());
			GraphElement destination = model.getElementByConnector().get(link.getDestinationConnector());

			if (!graph.containsVertex(source))
				graph.addVertex(source);
			if (!graph.containsVertex(destination))
				graph.addVertex(destination);

			graph.addEdge(link, source, destination);

			if (source != element)
				formGraph(graph, source);
			else if (destination != element)
				formGraph(graph, destination);
		}
	}

}


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Inspired by its location, the Gibson Home was my first modern residence. The home was for Adam and Cathy Gibson. Their need to explore a larger home seemed timely with growing children and Adam's home business growing.
An empty lot near in the Forest Hills Neighborhood, near Broadripple, offered an opportunity for a home to frame a series of trees beyond, while securing a relationship to the street. More importantly, was the reclaimed stone that our client rescued to be the catalyst for a home they wanted for their future.
The design took advantage of the sites length. The elevation reveals three view corridors at varying depths, with their rooms and personal spaces anchoring the back and the most public in the front. It's multiple levels meet at a center core that organizes how one moves through the space and programs are divided.


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Adolf Hitler serves in World War I
Hitler, by all accounts, was an unusual soldier with a sloppy manner and unmilitary bearing.
But he was also eager for action and always ready to volunteer for dangerous assignments even after many narrow escapes from death.
Corporal Hitler was a dispatch runner, taking messages back and forth from the command staff in the rear to the fighting units near the battlefield. During lulls in the fighting he would take out his watercolors and paint the landscapes of war.
Hitler, unlike his fellow soldiers, never complained about bad food and the horrible conditions or talked about women, preferring to discuss art or history. He received a few letters but no packages from home and never asked for leave. His fellow soldiers regarded Hitler as too eager to please his superiors, but generally a likable loner notable for his luck in avoiding injury as well as his bravery.
On October 7, 1916, Hitler's luck ran out when he was wounded in the leg by a shell fragment during the Battle of the Somme. He was hospitalized in Germany. It was his first time away from the front after two years of war. Following his recovery, he went sight seeing in Berlin, then was assigned to light duty in Munich. He was appalled at the apathy and anti-war sentiment among German civilians. He blamed the Jews for much of this and saw them as conspiring to spread unrest and undermine the German war effort.
This idea of an anti-war conspiracy involving Jews would become an obsession to add to other anti-Semitic notions he acquired in Vienna, leading to an ever-growing hatred of Jews.
To get away from the apathetic civilians, Hitler asked to go back to the front and was sent back in March of 1917.
In August 1918, he received the Iron Cross first class, a rarity for foot soldiers. Interestingly, the lieutenant who recommended him for the medal was a Jew, a fact Hitler would later obscure. Despite his good record and a total of five medals, he remained a corporal. Due to his unmilitary appearance and odd personality, his superiors felt he lacked leadership qualities and thought he would not command enough respect as a sergeant.
As the tide of war turned against the Germans and morale collapsed along the front, Hitler became depressed. He would sometimes spend hours sitting in the corner of the tent in deep contemplation then would suddenly burst onto his feet shouting about the "invisible foes of the German people," namely Jews and Marxists.
In October 1918, he was temporarily blinded by a British chlorine gas attack near Ypres. He was sent home to a starving, war weary country full of unrest. He laid in a hospital bed consumed with dread amid a swirl of rumors of impending disaster.
On November 10, 1918, an elderly pastor came into the hospital and announced the news. The Kaiser and the House of Hollenzollern had fallen. Their beloved Fatherland was now a republic. The war was over.
Hitler described his reaction in Mein Kampf: "There followed terrible days and even worse nights - I knew that all was lost...in these nights hatred grew in me, hatred for those responsible for this deed."
Not the military, in his mind, but the politicians back at home in Germany and primarily the Jews.
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This is an arid ecoregion, even though it gets its name from two rivers, the Columbia and the Snake. The area is dry because it's in the rain shadow of the Cascade Range. The moist ocean air coming eastward from the Pacific Ocean has to rise to get over the mountains. As it rises, it cools, dropping the rain west of or on the Cascade Mountains. By the time the winds reach the Snake/Columbia Shrub Steppe, they are dry.


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State your case: Should agencies stop distributing mug shots?
San Francisco PD recently announced it would limit the distribution of booking photographs over concerns they reinforce negative stereotypes
This "State your case" looks at whether agencies should limit or stop the release of booking photos.
Our debaters: Jim Dudley, a 32-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department where he retired as deputy chief of the Patrol Bureau, and Chief Joel Shults, EdD, who retired as chief of police in Colorado.
The ground rules: As in an actual debate, the pro and con sides are assigned randomly as an exercise in critical thinking and analyzing problems from different perspectives.
San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott recently announced the agency would limit the distribution of booking photographs of people arrested. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
The issue: San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott recently announced the agency would limit the distribution of booking photographs of people arrested as they can show racial bias and reinforce negative stereotypes. Several media outlets have chosen to end this practice already.
In a July 6 interview with PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler, Chief Scott provided some background as to how the decision came about:
"Our academic partners shared the decades of work on bias, and how releasing booking photos impacts people's thinking. Because these booking photos are broadcast over mass media, they affect how people formulate beliefs about certain groups of people based on what they see. If you see a lot of images of African-American men posted on social media or news websites associated with crime, that can have an impact on whether people, including police officers, create stereotypes. The science tells us that stereotypes are a big part of bias."
Watch Chief Scott discuss the policy change below and then check out our columnist's viewpoints.
Jim Dudley: Arrests are made with probable cause. That is self-explanatory but it should be enough to chronicle an adult arrested for a crime.
As someone who served for 32 years in the San Francisco Police Department, I have to say prohibiting public mug shots is yet another flawed policy aimed at a social stigma, and not at a crime-fighting tool.
First and foremost, booking photos give notice to law enforcement in the region of what a recently captured offender looks like. Regardless of race or gender, it may fit the description of an otherwise unknown suspect in a crime an investigator chronicled or investigated.
Mug shots are valuable tools to inform the public of a probable offender who has been arrested. The mug shot release may stimulate someone's memory to recall the individual as a perpetrator of another crime or at least serve as a lead to another crime.
Victims are often known to take a path of least resistance and not report a crime for several reasons, including the belief that the individual may never be caught. Seeing the offender in custody may give courage to victims to report past crimes. For chronic offenders, it removes the anonymity that otherwise allows them to repeatedly commit crimes.
Chances are these days that an offender may not remain in custody for long, and will be out free on their own recognizance or "zero bail." Chronic offenders will often continue to commit crimes while awaiting adjudication. The mug shot may cause a potential new victim to give pause at their familiarity and prevent a new crime.
Joel Shults: My initial reaction to the San Francisco story was an eye roll for another empty, meaningless, politically correct, feel-good public relations tactic. But then I asked myself why police departments push out mug shots to the media in the first place. A quick look at the history of these things takes us back to the early days of criminology when the idea of body types, face shapes and other physical characteristics were believed to be indicators of a person's criminality.
Although couched in science with caliper measures and fingerprint-like classification systems, it doesn't take a leap of logic to see that judging a person's criminality by their looks is the kind of stereotyping less than a half step away from outright racism. So, the origin of mugshots is a little shady to begin with.
Now enter the age of the internet, where one moment can be memorialized and morphed into present-day judgments, and the scene gets murkier. Just like shuffling a shackled, stripe-suited defendant in for trial can make a deep psychological impression on a jury of guilt, a mug shot for very legitimate purposes can stain a person's presumption of innocence to infinity in the digital world. There's big money in companies who promise to remove mug shots from the web. The engineering school graduate applying for a sensitive government contractor position doesn't want his or her 19-year-old 2 a.m. police photo for a lawn ornament theft to pop up and linger in the mind of a potential employer.
Public trials and processes are an important part of our rights but always balanced with the presumption of innocence. Routine public release of mugshots deserves to be re-evaluated.
Jim Dudley: The release of mug shots should be a continued practice. The law agency should place them in crime alerts to stations and through their websites and social media. The press, as the Fourth Estate, has the discretion already to choose whether to release the photos as well.
For those wrongfully accused, the agency who publicly released the initial mug shot should issue a formal retraction. However, the mere fact that the District Attorney may choose not to prosecute is not reason alone for the retraction. Several years ago, our chief, assistant chief and others were indicted by a nefarious process including malicious prosecution and inaccuracies fed to a Grand Jury. A judge ultimately ruled for a "Factual Innocence" finding that served to call for media retractions. Until then, the command staff and agency were vilified, and the mug shots were often used to accompany the dozens of news articles published over several weeks.
Is the next step going to be no more videos or still photographs showing people committing or fleeing crime? I suspect it is next on the list for the same reasons. Currently, arrest logs are public record. Will they be concealed from the public as well? Police agencies may choose only to release photos of suspects in continuing violent cases where the suspects are outstanding, yet I believe popular media may choose to continue to use mug shots taken of officers accused of a crime.
Probable cause is necessary to effect an arrest. That threshold should be the benchmark for releasing mug shots as well.
Joel Shults: Jim, I agree there are many public safety and public interest motives for routinely releasing mug shots. But it is one of many things that have always been done and for many instances, we don't know why we started, why we continued or took time to evaluate the continuance of the policy.
The media will challenge this tightening and may prevail, but in the light of the storm calling for police reforms in many areas, this is an effort that is worthy of experiment and a showing of good faith examination of the way law enforcement works.
NEXT: Read more "State your case" debates here.
James Dudley is a 32-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department where he retired as deputy chief of the Patrol Bureau. He has served as the DC of Special Operations and Liaison to the Department of Emergency Management where he served as Event and Incident Commander for a variety of incidents, operations and emergencies. He has a Master's degree in Criminology and Social Ecology from the University of California at Irvine. He is currently a member of the Criminal Justice faculty at San Francisco State University, consults on organizational assessments for LE agencies and co-hosts the Policing Matters podcast for Police1.
Joel Shults operates Street Smart Training and is the founder of the National Center for Police Advocacy. He retired as Chief of Police in Colorado. Over his 30-year career in uniformed law enforcement and criminal justice education, Joel served in a variety of roles: academy instructor, police chaplain, deputy coroner, investigator, community relations officer, college professor and police chief, among others. Shults earned his doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Missouri, with a graduate degree in Public Services Administration and a bachelor's in Criminal Justice Administration from the University of Central Missouri. In addition to service with the U.S. Army military police and CID, Shults has done observational studies with over 50 police agencies across the country. He has served on several advisory and advocacy boards, including the Colorado POST curriculum committee, as a subject matter expert.
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Nintendo Switch Online surpasses 10 million accounts
By My Nintendo News Admin July 5, 2019 July 5, 2019
10 Comments on Nintendo Switch Online surpasses 10 million accounts
Nintendo announced at the recent shareholders question and answer session they now have over 10 million subscribers to the Nintendo Switch Online service. Here's what the company told shareholders:
Question: A Nintendo Switch Online subscription is very inexpensive, so the barrier to entry feels low, but on the other hand the content of the service still feels rather weak. How will you enhance the service going forward?
Furukawa: The number of subscribers for Nintendo Switch Online has increased steadily since the service was launched last September, and it has now surpassed 10 million accounts. Nintendo Switch Online provides users the ability to play Nintendo Switch games over the internet, both competitively and cooperatively. It also provides services such as Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online, Save Data Cloud Backup, and smartphone application services such as online lobbies and voice chat. In addition, we provided TETRIS 99 as a special offer to Nintendo Switch Online members this February, and then in May, began selling Nintendo Switch Game Vouchers that allow users to purchase two Nintendo Switch download titles at a discount. We recognize that making the Nintendo Switch Online service attractive to users is extremely important, and will continue to make the content of the sservice even more appealing going forward.
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reeleemee says:
I mean we can't play online without it so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well that's £200m. Not bad
And yet, they still haven't improved a single thing about the many flaws of their online service, LOL.
Where does all that money go?
To those guys asking these questions.
cronotose says:
Aren't you illustrating precisely why they shouldn't bother improving it? Most customers don't care.
They shouldn't bother improving it? What?? LOL.
Are you saying that because there's 10 million people paying for it without complaining? So Nintendo should keep their service shitty because they don't hear enough people from those 10 million complain about it on the internet? After all, companies shouldn't even bother caring about customer satisfaction before they get into a internet shitstorm, right?
People don't pay for it because they like it, they pay for it because they have to.
Besides, shouldn't every company always strive to satisfy their customers and to improve?? Seems like absolute common sense to me.
I don't even know what your comment is supposed to tell me and what its purpose is. I genuinenly don't get it.
First, you should understand that I'm not speaking out of personal desire. I would love a more robust Nintendo online.
"Are you saying that because there's 10 million people paying for it without complaining? So Nintendo should keep their service shitty because they don't hear enough people from those 10 million complain about it on the internet?"
The product is successful and extremely profitable. As a general rule, that's not something you dump more money into unless you have a specific compelling reason to do so. How many of the people complaining on the internet about Nintendo Online are PS4 or PC fans who are unlikely to buy a Switch Online account anyway? Do you know? I doubt Nintendo does either. So the choice is either A) Dump millions of dollars into a product which is *already* profitable to chase customers who may or may not exist, or B) Enjoy lots and lots of money. Not a hard decision for a business.
"After all, companies shouldn't even bother caring about customer satisfaction before they get into a internet shitstorm, right?"
The question assumes facts not in evidence. First, you need to show that there's a significant issue of customer satisfaction that they are neglecting. That they made a product that isn't for you is not a customer satisfaction issue. What percentage of online account holders are significantly dissatisfied, and how dissatisfied are they? Is that lack of satisfaction significant enough to effect future purchasing decisions? Do you know any of this, or are you just pretending to know this based on gaming site comment sections even though 99.999% of Nintendo's customers do not comment of game site message boards?
This is a bitter pill to swallow for most hardcore gaming enthusiasts, but it has to be said. *We are not their primary customer.* What we want is secondary to the health and success of Nintendo as a business. Now I don't like that. I would love a company that thrived on "hardcores first", but rarely does reality give us a perfect scenario.
Citation needed. How would you even collect that data?
That's actually an unbelievably terrible idea that would completely destroy most businesses. You need to care about quality, but quality costs money. You can only care about quality up to the point that your customers are actually willing to pay. McDonald's could create an absolutely phenominal and amazing $40 burger, but who's going to buy it? You invest in your product up to the point where you maximize return, not to create some hypothetically idealized product that caters to the 3 people in the world who actually care. So the question is, would the money they spend improving Nintendo Switch online be more or less than the new customers the improvements would generate? Nintendo has that market research. We don't.
The long and the short of it is, if the problems with the online service doesn't *actually* cost them customers, there isn't *actually* a customer satisfaction problem. This isn't a loot box based system where EA can keep charging the same customer over and over again to stay viable. They needed to draw a fairly large audience, and they did. That's proof of business concept right there.
I see some of your points, but it's still difficult for me to come in terms with the concept of putting a crucial feature, in this case online multiplayer, behind a paywall and not giving a damn about how well it actually works and how much it pays off for the consumer. Yeah, it is "cheap" in comparison to the competitions prices, but it's still overpriced for what I'm getting. Not putting money into working on it might be a "smart business decision" when looking at raw numbers, but from a business as big and rich as Nintendo, I would expect them to actually care about customer satisfaction and put some extra buck into their services instead of putting a paywall in front of a very important feature and not make it worth the money, even if they techincally don't "have to".
Generally, online multiplayer does not require people to pay for it, as we can see on PC, but it was a deliberate choice from Nintendo to ask for a monthly fee for it. So what's the point of that if absolutely nothing is even gonna change about the quality of their online service, compared to how it was before it got locked behind a paywall, you know what I mean? I wouldn't really mind paying for it if they had actually made their shit better and worked on the many flaws- in fact, I was optimistic when I first heard about the announcement of their paid online service, because it seemed like a no-brainer to expect them to finally make things better. It made perfect sense in my head, because as you've said, quality requires money, and a paid service was gonna give them that money. But turns out they had no such plans, lol.
Now, to the specific points I don't quite agree with-
"So the choice is either A) Dump millions of dollars into a product which is *already* profitable to chase customers who may or may not exist, or B) Enjoy lots and lots of money."
Or C), fix the issues, make improvements, give people a justification for why you're asking for money for the service in the first place and ask for more than 20 bucks, bump it up to 30 or even 40. Like that, they'll still make money and people will actually have a reason to pay for it instead of being forced to, if they want to enjoy one of today's the most crucial features. You need to make investments for a chance to generate even more profit, don't you? It works for the competition too, so why can't Nintendo do it?
"Do you know any of this, or are you just pretending to know this based on gaming site comment sections even though 99.999% of Nintendo's customers do not comment of game site message boards?"
That's the point I was trying to make. People who complain on the internet are only a very, VERY small fraction of people actually using the service. Not everyone who uses it is gonna go on the internet and compose a complaint about it. Which is why we don't know if people are actually satisfied with it. This is why I think it's a bit ridiculous to think that Nintendo shouldn't even bother with improving the service- just because they don't see millions complaining about it online, doesn't mean dissatisfied consumers don't exist.
"How would you even collect that data?" (in relation to me saying that people don't pay for it because they want to, but because they have to)
I mean… does anyone really want to pay money to use online multiplayer, on any platform? LOL. So this whole online service deal is about giving people reasons to pay for it, and in Nintendo's case, I genuinenly can't see a single reason why anyone would actually want to pay for it, other than the simple fact of wanting to play online, which in itself doesn't require them to ask for a fee, as we've established already. Do people actually want to be bound to their stupid phone app for simple features? Do they want lackluster online modes? Do they want extremely basic features to be missing? Obviously, I don't have hard evidence collected through surveying every single user of the online service or anything, but it seems like common sense to me that no one would actually want any of that, much less pay for it. You don't have to directly ask people to figure out that those things are not very desirable in the least.
In all honesty, the way I see it, this whole thing just makes Nintendo look like a bunch of greedy fucks that came up with a way of pulling money out of people's pockets without having to give anything back in return. Might be "smart" from a business standpoint, but it doesn't seem to be the most favourable light to be seen in.
"Generally, online multiplayer does not require people to pay for it, as we can see on PC, "
Not anymore. Not on console. Not since the Xbox360 defined how the west saw online play on consoles. Sure, it's a terrible deal for everyone involved. Yes, first it was just Xbox, then it infected Sony, now it's infected Nintendo. Value though, is 100$ in the eyes of the buyer. If people place value on the simple act of getting to connect online on a console, then people are going to charge for it.
Nintendo is not just at an abstract and ethical responsibility to do their best to turn a profit for their owners, but a literal legal obligation to do so. If the general public are dumb enough to think that it's reasonable to pay for access to peet-to-peer hosting, there is an actual legal argument that a gaming company is in violation of their obligations if they *don't* charge for it and leave money on the table for no reason.
The good news is this probably won't last forever. Boomers and Gen Xers will fade away into age, and younger people will never think that paying for general access is justifiable.
" It made perfect sense in my head, because as you've said, quality requires money, and a paid service was gonna give them that money. But turns out they had no such plans, lol."
I think many of us fans might have to come to terms with the concept that….. it is entirely possible that Nintendo are not competent to make things better.
" You need to make investments for a chance to generate even more profit, don't you? It works for the competition too, so why can't Nintendo do it?"
You're mixing up "can" with "should". If they can make the profit without the improvements, and it doesn't actually hurt their public image enough to damage sales, why spend their energy there? As for raising the price for a better service, this is a guess, but I'm going to guess that the people who's most successful console is the Wii are probably marketing to a poorer demographic. Back to the McDonald's example with a twist. Which would you rather own? McDonald's who sells lots and lots of cheap food, or a Michelin Star restaurant? If you want glamour, obviously the latter. If you want to make lots and lots of money, you do the former. By and large, cheap outsellf top quality every single time. This is why Nintendo doesn't compete for most powerful console. Back in the day, the NES was absolutely pathetic compared to computers. The PS2 was the weakest of its generation (if you don't count the Dreamcast) and it crushed the world. The Wii was more or less a modified Gamecube and it humiliated the competition not simply in sales, but in profit per sale as well. While the PS3 and Xbox 360 were selling low numbers of consoles at a loss, Nintendo was selling high numbers of Wiis at a profit. This is what they're shooting for. The price point that hits mass appeal, outside just the typical gaming audience. Once they start raising prices to appeal to just the typical gaming audience, you lose half the reason Nintendo machines sell in the first place.
" Which is why we don't know if people are actually satisfied with it. This is why I think it's a bit ridiculous to think that Nintendo shouldn't even bother with improving the service- just because they don't see millions complaining about it online, doesn't mean dissatisfied consumers don't exist."
It's certainly more indicative of that then it is of there being widespread dissatisfaction without any evidence. Put your place in a Nintendo exec's shoes. You walk into the board room and you have a proposal to spend tens of millions in online infrastructure. They ask you why they should do that when it's already a successful program. You tell them for customer satisfaction. Do you think they aren't going to ask you why you think customers are significantly dissatisfied? Companies do not drop millions of dollars and change their entire pricing model on a blind idea that there simply must be someone out there somewhere who would prefer things this way.
" I genuinenly can't see a single reason why anyone would actually want to pay for it, other than the simple fact of wanting to play online, which in itself doesn't require them to ask for a fee, as we've established already. "
You could say precisely the same thing about gaming hardware. In fact, legendary former Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi did just that. (paraphrased from memory) "The system is just a box that people have to buy to get to Mario." As I said earlier, our problem is that people *DO* see value in just getting access to online. Value is a measure determined by the buyer. If people *will* pay for online, then online inherently *has* value. It's precisely the same reason an Apple product costs three times as much as another brand's of the same specifications. People will pay it, therefore it is worth that much. I fall into this category myself. I wish Switch online were better. I do not wish it were better enough to stop paying for it. This is how, in the absence of unusual necessity like selling water in the desert, fair prices are determined.
"In all honesty, the way I see it, this whole thing just makes Nintendo look like a bunch of greedy fucks that came up with a way of pulling money out of people's pockets without having to give anything back in return. "
What it actually showcases, is that you don't understand at the most basic and foundational level, what value is and how it is fairly evaluated. The one greedy in this situation here is you, demanding that Nintendo spend millions and completely throw away a successful program just because it isn't the kind of program you would prefer. The Switch is the budget console. They market to budget customers, as they have for nearly 20 years. Their web program last gen was budget, as was the gen before that. They are not the platform for the tech enthusiasts. They have gone *way* out of their way to tell you that again, and again, and again, and again, and again. By what rational standard can you expect them to suddenly start building, pricing, and marketing to a tech enthusiast's standard in the middle of their already existing budget oriented platform?
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I really hope they are improving their online. Since they aren't gonna force 3rd parties to censor their games on their system, I'd like to think they are also already in the works of improving their paid online, too. (One step at a time is better than making no steps at all.) I love the fact Nintendo are doing this. It's all topsy turvy now as it use to be where Sony were the ones being lax with censoring while Nintendo were doing the opposite. No matter. Companies like Sony, Microsoft, Disney, CBS, etc will cease this crap when they realize that the "woke" & outrage cultures aren't making them money. They are only listening to these people right now because they think they can make money off of them. But catering to a vocal minority while the majority is leaving in droves is no way to make money. At the end of the day, money is far more important than some of their "values." Green is the only color that really matters. (Star Wars 9 needs to bomb or else Lucasfilm will shrug off the Solo film being a flop as just a fluke.)
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