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BBC using WhatsApp and WeChat at Indian elections
BBC News India are sending messages to users of private mobile messaging services, distributing news and crowdsourcing information
Posted: 4 April 2014 By: Alastair Reid
Credit: By kiwanja on Flickr. Some rights reserved
The BBC is using private mobile messaging apps to engage with their audience in India around this year's general elections, the first phase of which begins on Monday.
Starting today, BBC News India is sending updates to users of WeChat and WhatsApp to distribute BBC content, engage with the audience and source user-generated content (UGC).
"A lot of these apps have huge, huge audiences," Trushar Barot, assistant editor of the BBC's UGC and social media hub, told Journalism.co.uk, "so the potential is definitely there as we figure out an editorial product that fits with the platform."
Figures from February estimate the number of global WhatsApp users at 450 million, while WeChat claimed a total 355 million users worldwide in March.
The first messages from BBC News India included stories in Hindi and English, an introduction to users as to how the app process would work and an invitation to share "thoughts, comments and experiences of the campaign as well as their pictures and videos".
WhatsApp users will receive three messages per day as push notifications, while the capability is limited to one message per day on WeChat.
This is the first post @wechat subscribers of BBC News India saw earlier today. pic.twitter.com/Rqc5DOsVbH
— Trushar Barot (@Trushar) April 4, 2014
The number of updates per day will be kept intentionally low, said Barot, so not to appear intrusive, as many mobile users feel private messaging services are more personal than other forms of social media.
"Anything you post as a push alert on WhatsApp or WeChat gets pinged directly to the mobile phone, usually with a direct message, and often gets read in the first few minutes," he said, unlike on Twitter or Facebook where users are less likely to see see all updates from an account they follow.
"You almost have a 100 per cent hit rate, which is potentially a very powerful mechanism but with that is a heightened level of awareness in not spamming people."
Barot described the process as "a pilot" as the news team experiments with trending topics, types of content, call-outs for engagement and broadcasting BBC content shaped to be more suitable for the medium.
We're reaching a very broad demographic and in certain parts of the world the people who use WhatsApp are actually quite poor Trushar Barot, BBC Global News
WeChat already has a "web-based, dashboard publishing tool" for brands or organisations to manage content and analytics in a "similar way to other social media", Barot said.
The simpler, more private nature of WhatsApp, however, meant the BBC held conversations with the app makers to allow the organisation to exceed the number of recipients for messages, normally limited to 250.
"In terms of getting people to connect we have to promote the mobile number for the account but also encourage people to send us a message," he said, adding that this enabled the corporation to to build a database of contacts to send content to.
The BBC first used WhatsApp in the Philippines for coverage of Typhoon Haiyan last year, and as the platform has proved popular for pre-election campaigning in India, Barot said it made sense to explore the possibilities of messaging apps in a more thought out manner.
"One of the things we realised is we're reaching a very broad demographic and in certain parts of the world the people who use WhatsApp are actually quite poor," Barot said from Delhi, where he is helping to set up the system. "That's a demographic that we don't generally tend to reach through traditional social media."
The majority of users aren't going to have big data plans to process video Trushar Barot, BBC Global News
The "technology barrier" for messaging apps is much lower than that of other social media as well, he said, as users can sign up more quickly and send content more easily than on other platforms.
"The majority of users aren't going to have big data plans to process video," Barot said, "but we knew there was a very big constituency of people who would have a minimum level of data, which is all they need to use WhatsApp and send as many messages or pictures as they want to each other.
"It's trying to hit that level of media in terms of what we produce and how we interact with them that we're really going to test out."
The technological barrier to some of these platforms is a "huge differentiator" in terms of other social media, he said, so this was a matter of meeting the audience where they already are to interact with them in a more effective manner.
"Although we're in an experimental phase we're not dipping our toe into a very small pool," Barot said, "because a lot of these app have huge, huge audiences."
Correction: This article was updated to state general elections, rather than presidential elections.
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''Desireablility of Being Maladjusted,'' Address at Beth Emet The Free Synagogue (Evanston, Ill.)
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Q: Xcode storyboard switch Someone help me understand the new storyboard in Xcode 4.2?
I know how to code to load another view controller but in the storyboard mode there are differences..
I also know there are a lot of tutorials about the navigationcontrollers, but I just want to switch UIViewControllers on storyboard.
With the normal .xib files I can switch views with this code from the RootViewController..

SecondViewController *Second = [[SecondViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
[self presentModalViewController:Second animated:YES];

When I use it in the storyboard mode it just loads the UIAlertView on the SecondViewController.m and the screen appears to be black?
Any help would be appreciated, also attached the Xcode project...
Here is the zip..
-x- Jay Ruben

A: You can also switch this way:
// get the view that's currently showing
UIView *currentView = self.view;
// get the the underlying UIWindow, or the view containing the current view
UIView *theWindow = [currentView superview];

UIView *newView = aTwoViewController.view;

// remove the current view and replace with myView1
[currentView removeFromSuperview];
[theWindow addSubview:newView];

// set up an animation for the transition between the views
CATransition *animation = [CATransition animation];
[animation setDuration:0.5];
[animation setType:kCATransitionPush];
[animation setSubtype:kCATransitionFromRight];
[animation setTimingFunction:[CAMediaTimingFunction functionWithName:kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut]];

[[theWindow layer] addAnimation:animation forKey:@"SwitchToView2"];

Download the sample project here.

A: you can do this:
SecondViewController *second= [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"second"];
[self presentModalViewController:second animated:YES];

Don't forget to give the second view controller an identifier like "second".
Otherwise you can connect both view controllers with a segue. Hold CTRL an drag from the first to the second view Controller. Now you can choose "push" and give the segue a name to switch the View programmatically like this:
[self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"second" sender:self];

Push Segues will only work if a navigation controller is set.

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ASHTON LEARNS FROM TOUGH SEASON
Stevenage central defender Jon Ashton spoke to the official website this week after the final game of the 2012/13 season; a year that began well but soon turned sour for the 30-year old, but one that also gave him a lot of time to learn.
He played a big part in the defence that remained unbeaten at the start of the year and that was despite a large turnaround of players in the summer. The future certainly looked bright and Ashton remembers back to the early stages of the campaign.
"Gary brought in a lot of new faces, it seemed like we all gelled together well, that happened quite quickly and we got off to a good start – unbeaten in 12 games."
At the time the togetherness was attributed in large parts to a pre-season trip to Dublin. Stevenage had two games and both were seven-goal thrillers. The first a large win over St James' Gate and the second a hard-fought 4-3 victory over Irish Premier League side UCD.
Speaking about the trip, Ashton told us, "When you have a lot of new players together, those sort of trips help you to all sociailise and to get to know each other and form relationships early on. It definitely helped the team."
minute tap-in. Still, the point meant that Stevenage remained unbeaten and just four points away from Tranmere Rovers at the top of the table.thThe season soon got under way and in the blink of an eye it was late September– Boro had drawn 2-2 at home to Bury, coming from a goal down to lead 2-1, only to surrender to substitute Mark Cullen's 86
45 minutes prior to the final whistle something had happened though – Ashton hadn't come out for the second half. After picking up an injury he was replaced by Oliver Risser at the break.
Boro Physio Paul Dando remembers that moment well, and told us "The injury he picked up against Bury was separate to the one he is currently out with now.
"He came off with a small tear in his right Achilles which caused him significant pain; he put in a lot of hard work in the gym to come back even stronger but shortly after returning to full training he ruptured his left Achilles tendon. Understandably, Jon was devastated as this was an unexpected setback considering how well he was progressing.
Dando paid tribute to Jon's attitude whilst out injured, continuing, "Jon is a professional of the highest standard in everything he does. His attitude, work rate and commitment are a credit to himself and he is a big personality around the club."
Jon himself spoke of the heartbreak at suffering consecutive, unrelated, injuries, saying: "I knew I'd be out for a while when the first injury happened but I didn't anticipate coming back from that and then getting injured again.
"It was gutting – having a long term injury is a mental battle as well as physical. I was buzzing to get back out onto the training pitch with the boys and then for it to happen again that was gutting."
His time on the sidelines has meant that he has found himself watching a lot of football, and despite enjoying the atmosphere of the Lamex he admits that it is one of the worst things for a footballer to have to do.
"I hate it, I'd rather not be there to be honest. It's even worse when we are losing games."
He continued, "If it's for a couple of games then it isn't too bad because you know you'll be back out there soon, but months on end when you just have to watch – I'd rather not be there, I hate it."
When Gary Smith departed and Boro were without a manager for trips to Tranmere Rovers and Crawley Town, Jon was asked by Chairman Phil Wallace to assist Captain Mark Roberts and Head of Youth Darren Sarll and take to the dugout for both games.
It was an experience that taught the former Leicester City trainee a lot and also gave him some more enjoyment after a long spell in the stands.
"I hate just watching from the side but getting in amongst the lads again and being in the dressing room before the game, I loved that.
"I learned a lot, I think I could see myself in a managerial role or as a coach in the future. I think I've still got a few years left in me yet as a player. But it is definitely something I'd consider in the future."
That spell may well have come to an end when the new manager came in, but after Graham Westley's appointment Ashton was asked to stick around on the bench. It is a manager he knows well and has enjoyed a lot of success with in recent history and on the return of the man who helped take Boro from non-league to League One Jon spoke with a lot of respect. Ash told us, "He has a proven track record here. Everyone wants to be successful and win trophies and medals so I'm hoping that he can bring the good times back."
Another change at the club has been some of the facilities, and despite having a brilliant training facility in the form of the Shephalbury Sports Academy, that is now a second base to the Bragbury End Training Ground.
Having moved in little over a month ago and now training there on a day-to-day basis, Ash is delighted with the standard.
"It's amazing, considering where the club was when I first joined four years ago – where the club is now is unbelievable and fantastic. The new training ground is probably one of the best that I've been at and it is lovely coming to work every morning."
But did Jon expect such a rise when he signed on the dotted line for Stevenage in January 2009?
"You're always ambitious and I knew the club could get to this point one day, it's just great that has only taken a short amount of time."
man this season!"thAs the chat with Jon came to a close he gave a message to those that have followed Stevenage home and away this year, simply saying: "Thanks for your support and for being the 12


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Artificial intelligence-driven voice forensics can yield a great deal of information about a speaker, including physical characteristics, health, genealogy and environment. Credit: Shutterstock
A U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer jumps out of an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter during a training exercise. Artificial intelligence-driven human forensics technology has helped the maritime service track down people accused of making hoax mayday calls, which cost tens of thousands of dollars and distract from the Coast Guard's mission. Coast Guard photo
The Mind-Blowing Promise of AI-Driven Voice Profiling
Voices speak volumes beyond words for this Carnegie Mellon research team.
In the future, voice analysis of an intercepted phone call from an international terrorist to a crony could yield the caller's age, gender, ethnicity, height, weight, health status, emotional state, educational level and socioeconomic class. Artificial intelligence-fueled voice forensics technology also may offer clues about location; room size; wall, ceiling and floor type; amount of clutter; kind of device, down to the specific model used to make the call; and possibly even facial characteristics of the caller.
Rita Singh, an associate research professor at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), leads a team developing the technology. "It's all about deducing all kinds of biorelevant parameters from a person's voice. Biorelevant parameters include everything from your physiological parameters, demographic, sociological. The list is very, very long," Singh says.
Voice research dates back six to eight decades and draws from an array of fields, including medicine, psychology and architectural acoustics. Singh is now in India working on a book about the technology. "In my book, I have a list of more than 150 fields that have reported results about the human voice. There is a lot of information out there, and if you collate or track through that information, you find indications of signatures for a particular parameter, like your blood pressure, in your voice," she says.
Despite decades of study on the human voice, the field of voice forensics is still young. Singh compares it to DNA science in the mid-1980s. "That's where this technology is right now. It's not off-the-shelf. It's backbreaking work at this point. And it's going to be backbreaking work for another 10 years. Or five years," she says.
But with today's technology, the science should advance relatively quickly. "It's going to progress much faster than DNA did because we have powerful computers. We have powerful algorithms. We have all of the artificial intelligence power behind that. It's still nascent, but it's going to happen fast," Singh says.
But what is already clear is that many variables can influence a person's voice, and with the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning, those variables can be detected and extracted. For example, height is proportional to the vocal cord length and affects the resonance of the voice. The length of the vocal tracts and the resulting resonance also can indicate a person's race—or at least what most people would consider race. "I hate to use the word race because there is no such thing as race. There are three types of skeletal structures in the world, according to anthropologists—Mongoloid, Caucasoid and Negroid. That's it. It has nothing to do with skin color," Singh declares. "From the voice, you can tell what the skeletal structure of the person is like."
Some of the variables likely are surprising to most people. For example, room clutter affects emotions and can be detected in a person's voice. The voice also can indicate whether a person is a leader within a group or has had a morning cup of coffee.
This month at a World Economic Forum event, Singh and her team plan to demonstrate a new capability: to re-create a speaker's face based on artificial intelligence-driven voice forensics. "It's not at the 'wow' stage yet. It's still a work in progress, and it's going to take years to perfect. But we're able to start doing that now," she reports. "There is enough information in the voice that we can conceivably, at some point in time, generate human faces."
The science is new enough that researchers do not yet know how many facial features eventually could be derived from voice forensics. Some features—hair color, facial hair, baldness—may not be represented at all in the voice. But then again, they might. Singh says researchers could one day discover that a gene for baldness correlates with a gene for a particular kind of voice, for example.
She indicates that it is hard to describe over the phone exactly how the technology works. "I at least need a whiteboard in front of me," Singh says.
But, she explains, it begins with a theory that a particular parameter might create a signature within the voice signal. If the researchers have reason to believe that a signature exists, then they design algorithms to perform feature engineering. Simply stated, feature engineering allows machine learning algorithms to discover specific features within data.
In this case, Singh says, the feature engineering is based on a subfield she is trying to create that she terms microarticulometry. Articulometry is the measurement of human articulation. "Microarticulometry has to do with looking very finely into the voice signal to derive clues from it," she says. "All of the parameters we try to deduce have signatures in the voice. Many of the parameters appear at very fine levels of the voice."
The algorithms must be precisely tuned to detect and extract those very fine variables. That means the margin of error is miniscule. "You make a very tiny error, and you're off," Singh notes. "There may be patterns in the voice signal that I can't see with my eyes. They may exist in high-dimensional mathematical spaces that can only be computationally analyzed. I cannot discover them using traditional methods. That's where artificial intelligence comes in."
The technology can be helpful even with short messages, although the number of parameters will be limited. "The Coast Guard gets calls that sometimes have only one word: Mayday," she says.
The U.S. Coast Guard has used the technology to help cope with prank callers. The service receives more than 200 false maritime distress calls a year, and the number is growing, according to a Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate article published last year. Every distress call launches an expensive search and rescue effort involving at least a small rescue boat, a C-130 fixed-wing aircraft or a rescue helicopter, and their crews. The cost of each outing can run from $10,000 to $250,000. One anonymous caller cost the Coast Guard $500,000 in 2014 by prompting 28 unnecessary rescue missions.
A Coast Guard spokeswoman says the maritime service does not currently provide any funding for the CMU team but still works with it.
"The Coast Guard has an agreement with CMU in that we get their assistance using the voice forensics technology with the hoax call cases, and they can publish their works with clearance from us," says Lisa Novak, a Coast Guard public affairs officer. "We have used the lab to investigate several hoax call cases, starting about four years ago. The technology has been used in various ways, such as to identify logical suspects, to exclude suspects, to identify someone where there is a hoax call with multiple callers and to support referrals to the U.S. attorney's office for criminal prosecution consideration, to name a few. It has been used as a tool to obtain more information and not relied on as a sole piece of evidence."
The Coast Guard asked Singh to analyze hoax calls, and she came up with a list of what she could discover about the caller's physical characteristics and environment. The list included age, height, weight, background noise and type of room where the call was made.
Singh reports that a lot has changed with the technology over the past year. "There have been improvements in every aspect since then," she says. She cautions, however, that changes are incremental, so "nothing magical" has happened in recent months.
Singh, along with three other technology and business experts, are co-founding a company called telling.ai to commercialize the technology. The company will initially focus on health care to aid early diagnosis of diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and to more easily identify different kinds of intoxication, including from recreational drugs.
She also reveals that she has worked with other agencies as well as the intelligence community, but Singh says she does not feel free to disclose much. In some cases, she suggests, lives could be at stake if she reveals the details of an investigation. In others, she simply does not know whether a case has been closed. "They don't tell me. I give them my analysis, and they're gone," Singh says.
Because the field of study is young, many challenges and opportunities remain, she allows. For example, because of high migration levels and the melding of languages, determining a person's region of origin is growing increasingly difficult. Also, it is difficult to determine whether a particular signature within the voice signal is tied to multiple parameters.
Still, the technology offers broad benefits. Singh indicates that she is open to recommendations for use cases. She suggests that voice forensics could be a noninvasive way of monitoring workers for signs of stress, fatigue or health issues. Additionally, the profiling technology could lead to more secure voice authentication processes. "That is something that should be doable in the near future," she concludes.
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Q: Предупреждение C6031 Возвращаемое значение пропущено: "exp" Жалуется на log и exp
Возвращаемое значение пропущено: "exp"
Возвращаемое значение пропущено: "log"
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "Ukrainian");
    double x;
    float G;
    cout << "Введіть x: ";
    cin >> x;
    G = 8,5*exp(-2*x)+((5*(x+4)+log(fabs((x-0,2))))/(x + 2)*(x-0,6));
    cout << "Відповідь: " << G;
    return 0;
}

A: Во-первых, ваш код компилируется без проблем. Об ошибке говорит анализатор кода, который, кстати, может и ошибаться. Это не компилятор.
А вот компилятор все скомпилирует. Только даст не то, что вы хотите. Потому что запятая получается не десятичной запятой (в С++ эту роль выполняет точка), а оператором запятая.
В результате ваше выражение
G = 8,5*exp(-2*x)+((5*(x+4)+log(fabs((x-0,2))))/(x + 2)*(x-0,6));

компилятор рассматривает как два:
G = 8;
5*exp(-2*x)+((5*(x+4)+log(fabs((2))))/(x+2)*6));

Чтобы оно делало то, что хотите вы - надо написать
G = 8.5*exp(-2*x)+((5*(x+4)+log(fabs((x-0.2))))/(x + 2)*(x-0.6));


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http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo25126083.html
Interview by Ilana Gershon
If you found yourself sharing a taxi to the AAA conference with a media anthropologist studying Chinese soap operas, how would you explain your book's major points?
It's funny that you mention soap operas since some of the names that are given to the (pagne) cloth that features at the heart of the book are named after (or inspired by) the characters of popular Ivorian and Latin American soap operas. A pattern called "Ricardo's suitcase" for example is named after the hero of a Brazilian telenovela, and there are many others that broadcast images about power and politics, beauty and wealth, and romance and conflict between men and women in global West Africa. I'd probably continue to talk more about the framing and analytical connections between television, cloth, and the global-local mediations of popular culture, but let me get to the book's major points.
In the book I take a mundane object –the pagne or the boldly patterned wrap that women wear in large parts of West Africa—to trace its origins, paths of circulation, and its technical and social production from Holland to Java, from Togo to the broader West African region, and now from China back to Africa. Drawing upon archival research and multi-sited fieldwork, the book theorizes the material economies of this iconic commodity (so-called Dutch wax cloth), born out of 19th-century Dutch colonial efforts to copy Javanese batik cloth for Southeast Asian markets, and reborn as a cultural and status marker for West African women. I think of this wax-printed cloth as a vibrant object and an assembled commodity, whose fabrication is uniquely entangled in both imperial circuits of commerce and more recent controversies over piracy and appropriation.
At the heart of this work are two metaphors. First is a visual metaphor: "pattern"–the idea of (memorable) recurring forms that we see and recognize across time and space. Secondly, there is "dense materiality" –the notion that there are properties inherent in the cloth that gives it material agency, and yet it is manipulated by its wearer and brought to life by the body. Through analysis of the cloth, my book reveals the making, unmaking and remaking of relationships between things, people, and the institutions that govern them. While the material object is at the center of the story, the book pays close attention to its various uses and to the way it extends out into different spaces: into the market, into the world of national Togolese politics, and into factory floors in Holland and China.
Chapter 3 focuses on analyzing wax cloth as a medium central to political spectacle and the formation of Togo as a nation, I was hoping you could talk a bit about the analytical implications of engaging with cloth this way. Taking cloth to be a medium particularly well suited to the political in Togo allows you to add to Benedict Anderson's argument about how national identity emerges, and am hoping you can talk about how using cloth makes this a specifically Togolese form of nationalism.
To answer this question is to address the chapter's central arguments about how a material object such as cloth helped forge national identity in intimate and public terms in Togo. I have to start with the Nana Benz's role in the representational order of the nation. The term Nana Benz refers to the powerful Togolese cloth traders who controlled the West African wax cloth trade from the 1950s to the 1990s, until political crisis, neoliberal reform and Chinese knock-offs derailed their hold on the economy. Named this way because these market 'mothers' used their wealth to buy the Mercedes Benz cars, which they then lent to the long time president-dictator, the Nana Benz built their financial power by controlling the circulation of cloth and embedding the cloth's semiotic power (and their branding power) into the order of the nation. The Nana Benz made the nation both intimate and palpable, by trading on national associations in the popular pattern names they bestowed on pagne, thus enabling ordinary Togolese to partake in the narrative of nation-building through their everyday consumption of cloth.
Anderson's argument about print capitalism is useful for considering how wax cloth (pagne) reached the masses, solidifying communal identities while registering national, ethnic, and gender differences. This is what makes cloth a particularly well-suited medium to the political and the specific brand of Togolese nationalism. The efficacy of this particular type of cloth and its association with Nana Benz-style nationalism is reflected in the common stories Togolese remember about the cloth traders, which offer insights into the way the Nana Benz (and their powerful stock in trade) captured people's imaginations. My analysis draws out the "dense materiality" of cloth and the way it can at once evoke sentiment and move imaginaries and bodies while grounding the political and the nation in its materiality and visibility. Because cloth provides a surface for multiple narrations and representations (the literal image layered onto the cloth for everyone to see and the bundle of unbridled meaning it generates and that is open for manipulation) it was made to work as a medium that inscribed and disseminated the political spectacle and embodied power. For instance, when the portrait of the Togolese dictator Eyadéma (in power for nearly 40 years) appeared on cloth, the fabric literally captured the body politic during political spectacles when wearing the presidential party pagne became practically obligatory.
During the course of your research, how to be a successful trader transformed to such a degree that who was or could be successful shifted dramatically. Could you explain how trading cloth changed to such a degree during those ten years that the Nana Benz was replaced by the Nanette?
One of the most dramatic events that fundamentally changed the nature of the regional cloth trade was the 1994 currency devaluation of the West African CFA franc: when the price of cloth doubled over night and practically turned an everyday consumer good into a luxury item. At the same time, shifts in global production, the liberalization of Togo's political, economic and public spheres and the undoing of the old system of cloth distribution, which had granted the women traders exclusive retail rights to the (Dutch) designs, all weakened the Nana Benz's place in the market. With the breakdown of national protections in post-Cold War Togo –amidst the crisis of the state, the unraveling of the dictatorship and national structures (Charlie Piot describes this process brilliantly in Nostalgia for the Future)– the Nana Benz's position as entrepreneurial nationals diminished, if it wasn't devalued all together. So when this system fell apart, a new set of female Togolese entrepreneurs, the Nanette, began collaborating with Chinese companies to produce better and better imitations of Dutch wax, undermining the very basis of class distinction in Togo as well as throwing wax cloth production and distribution into chaos.
Over the course of a decade-long fieldwork (2000-2010), I witnessed the struggles, and in some cases the financial ruin, of the old guard of cloth entrepreneurs whose profit margins continued to decline while some Nanettes accumulated fortunes. Although the Nana Benz initially denigrated the new China prints that the Nanettes distributed to cash-constrained consumers as fakes, some of the older women entered the China trade with varying degrees of success. For the new trade required a new kind of entrepreneurial subjectivity and savvy, including the ability to operate multiple trades at the same time. As subtle neoliberal actors, the Nanettes fashioned themselves entrepreneurially through the flexibility of cloth, moving themselves and cloth in and out of Chinese factory floors. But tinkering with cloth design, engineering copies while teaching Chinese manufacturers about the qualia of cloth — its texture, color, and smell— to enhance its sensuous and aesthetic properties is also a high-risk affair. I saw several Nanettes ruin themselves when the containers of cloth they had commissioned arrived at the port with unsellable (that is, faulty) merchandise. Navigating the fluctuations of a market where profit is made from the speed of copying and moving things transnationally, requires a distinct set of entrepreneurial dispositions. A successful Nanette not only appropriates neoliberal logics but she mobilizes an autonomous set of practices and subjectivities by constantly moving herself and cloth, cultivating close relationships with powerful port brokers, and involving herself with innovative open-source design and production.
What does the story of China's role in Africa look like when one begins by looking at the trade relationships surrounding cloth?
The circuit of capital built in the corridor between Africa and China is often portrayed as the new axis of South-South exploitation in Western media and policy discourses. Lurking behind this new axis are often ideological fears about the decline of the West in the world and the appearance of new global empires. Simplistic descriptions of Chinese neo-colonialism fall short in accounting for the complex ways that objects enter into and make social life, history and transnational trade. Looking closely at the materiality of trade and cloth allows moving beyond clichés about new forms of colonialism to ethnographically study what Chinese investment in Africa means for the people who work and live there.
What I try to show in the book is how China-in-Africa or China-in-Togo for that matter is made through complex patterns of coproduction and cross-positioning. Nanettes traveling to China leverage considerable agency with Chinese manufacturers who depend on the women's deep knowledge about the qualia of cloth and consumer taste. These are intimate encounters, when traders spend weeks at a time on a single factory floor and become producers of their own brands. Which does not mean that traders and consumers view the dominance of Chinese goods on local markets as unproblematic. There are many symbols, metaphors and stories that are associated with Chinese traders who dupe the population with low quality goods in the city. Yet beliefs about the aggressive business practices of Chinese traders are often contradicted by the traders' actual practices.
I am currently in Togo to work on my new project on Chinese investments in the Lomé port (Harboring the Future) and have had time to reconnect with the China-trading women in the market. While some complain that there is no longer money to be made in Chinese cloth (partially because there is too much of it), others speak of a strengthened partnership with their Chinese manufacturers. Certainly, what this trade relationship surrounding cloth reveals is the patterning of a new phase of global capitalism–whether that is capitalism with "Chinese characteristics" à la Aihwa Ong or a new form of (last) frontier capitalism remains to be seen.
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My favorite part was seeing the manufacturing process with the robotic arms, syrup dispenser, and plenty of conveyoring.
In the evening, we rode on a gondola up to the top of Stone Mountain. We were at the top right before sunset. It was gorgeous. There was a line painted on the ground to help you get back to the visitor center. Jacob told her that she had to stay on the path. She would not deviate from the path, she even stopped a few times, to tell me that there was a puddle on the path. I finally convinced her to wander with me away from the path. The views were breathtaking. We could see forever in all directions. Anna loved climbing all over the place and she only tripped once. She loved the gondola ride up to the top and back down.
After our time at the top, we hung out on the lawn. Anna and I danced to the music. And once it was dark the park played a laser light show on the mountain to watch.
We made our way back to Columbia the next morning. The road trip was long but enjoyable and we were glad to be with family!


"Az a televízió drága, amelyik az új asztal mellett áll."
Translation:The television that stands next to the new table is expensive.
I have reported this (next to and beside) on several occasions and for some weeks now. It would indeed be very nice if someone could review and correct the relevant questions. Maybe this is currently being addressed in preparation of the final version, I hope.
I write the translations down. They have a function where you can use the keyboard. I typed it and it worked.
The television that is standing next to the table, is expensive ... is also a good answer! It is even a better answer in my humble opinion.
Maybe you forgot the "New**"
That's what I have for my translation as well because those are the words given. The words they're asking for aren't even in their word bank.
So, why do all these relative clauses come at the end of sentences? I'm having a really hard time understanding how the sentence structure here works.
The explanation I have heard is that relative clauses cannot be focused in Hungarian.
So, in this exercise, "Az a televízío" is focused by the implied verb "van". There is no room to put the relative clause after "That television" (as we would in English) because then the relative clause would be focused by "van", which is not allowed; therefore it is moved safely to the end of the sentence.
Actually, they don't have to. You can express the same idea by saying: "Az a televízió, amely az új asztal mellett áll, drága." However, I the Hungarian - especially the written one - also uses the participial structures quite excessively, so the very same idea can be expressed more elegantly with: "Az új asztal melett álló televízió drága."
Ok. This isn't fair. My response and translation is correct, but it keeps saying that it's wrong because the words used in the correction aren't even there.


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Dartmouth-based musician Ian Janes performs as part of Music Runs Through It's Up Close & Personal Series, November 7.
Music Runs Through It have been offering unique midweek music experiences since launching its Up Close & Personal performance series back in May. The idea is a simple one – curated concerts in a listening room style followed by a Q&A with the artist. It's a win-win for artists and music lovers alike, providing musicians with a valuable midweek performance opportunity (often seen as a rarity for touring musicians) and a one of a kind experience for local music lovers who get to engage directly with performers following the show.
Dartmouth-based musician Ian Janes is the next musician slated to take the stage in this series with a performance at Dolan's Pub on Wednesday November 9.
A singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer, Janes' latest release, Yes Man, has been met with immediate and overwhelmingly positive critical acclaim. The record was given 4 out of 5 possible stars by Rolling Stone France, chosen as 'disc of the day" by Le Journal de Montréal, was nominated for four 2017 Music Nova Scotia awards and nominated for Pop Recording of the Year at the 2018 East Coast Music Awards. In March 2017 Ian's song Can't Remember Never Loving You was used to close the mid-season finale of the hit TV show, Nashville.


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ITV boosts pay-out in lieu of strong growth
Ken Odeluga March 4, 2015 10:43 PM

ITV Plc. shares traded atop the FTSE 100 today after the owner of the UK's largest commercial free-to-air broadcaster garnished 2014 results with an unexpected […]

ITV Plc. shares traded atop the FTSE 100 today after the owner of the UK's largest commercial free-to-air broadcaster garnished 2014 results with an unexpected cashback to shareholders.
ITV said it would return £250m to investors via a special dividend after 2014 profits came out better-than-expected, amid strong demand from advertisers in the first quarter.
The stock is again at all-time, post-Carlton Communications highs.
But whilst momentum suggests the shares could continue making fresh highs for the medium term, fundamentals look arguable.
Net ad revenue back in double digits
The maker of Downton Abbey has certainly had a promising start to 2015.
After rather modest single-digit percentage benchmark net advertising revenue (NAR) growth in the year before, ITV now forecasts these sales will be up 11% in the first quarter and up 4%-7% in April.
That compares to 6% in 2014.
Additionally, ITV made progress in its aim to reduce historical dependency on these revenues by developing production capabilities.
It said non-advertising revenue sources rose 10% to make up 45% of total revenue.
Full-year pre-tax profit was up 23% to £712m compared with a consensus forecast of £681m.
The full-year dividend rose 34%.
ITV CEO Adam Crozier has understandably been keen to keep pushing the diversification message, pointing to online and increasing returns from programme licensing.
"ITV delivered another strong performance in 2014 as we continue to rebalance the business, drive new revenue streams and invest in our future growth," Crozier said ITV's statement.
"Across ITV we maintained our emphasis on cash generation, cost control and improving margins as we continued to strengthen ITV creatively, commercially and financially."
The Crozier Premium
There is an authority based on an unequivocal track record in those words.
ITV's stock has put in a rise of more than 240% since the 51-year-old former Royal Mail boss took over as CEO in 2010.
Whilst some of that rise can be attributed to persistent talk of a bid, for at least a year, specifically naming the acquisitive Liberty Global, the owner of the UK-focused Virgin Media cable firm, there's little question ITV is a stronger animal than when Crozier arrived.
Still, with the likelihood of such a takeover receding after heavily-indebted Liberty tacitly heeded warnings from credit agencies about downgrade risk, shareholders will probably scrutinise ITV's growth prospects more closely.
Losing on viewing
An immediate pinch point should be ITV's share of viewing.
Despite increasing strength of its on-demand, net-based businesses, the group's share of viewing, still fell in 2014 after rising in 2013.
ITV said this was in large part due to a weaker performance from its main ITV1 channel.
Crozier told reporters today ITV's linear broadcast television had held up well, but had struggled to keep up with the BBC, which he said had outspent its competitors.
Whilst ITV plans to increase its total network programme budget by around £20m to £1.040bn, to counter this trend, Crozier was in fact referring to ITV's relatively thrifty expenditure on 'in-house' programme content, intended to compete with its closest rival, the BBC.
The BBC said its content investment was £176.4m in 2012/13, and rose to £200.6m in 2013/14, reaching a £200m target one year early.
ITV's run rate of total expenditure on intangibles has been in single digits for all but one half-year since June 2010.
And whilst ITV Studios EBITA was up 22% to £162m in 2014 that did not prevent ITV's Global Content/ITV Studios segment share of revenue contribution continuing to slide.
It fell to 36% of gross sales by the half-year mark in 2014 from 45% at the same point in the year before.
(ITV still lumps Internet revenues into a 'Total Broadcast and Online' segment which grew 7% to £127m during the full-year, whilst an 'Online, Pay & Interactive' line grew by 30% to £153m.)
Small screen growth rates
ITV's valuation growth rate presents a similar deficit as its programme revenue growth rate.
It has persistently been below the average of a bunch of its European free-to-air peers, judging by Thomson Reuters data, since 2010, despite ITV's resounding comeback from the penny stock status it hit at the end of the last decade.
Latterly, the group achieved a trailing average price-to-earnings ratio of 18.79 times, whilst ITV's edged down from a high of 16.03 times in 2013, to 15.92 most recently.
The current FTSE 100 average is 20.4.
Even around 16 times earnings, there is a case for the stock to be seen as structurally overbought.
It is effectively at all-time post Carlton Communications/Granada highs, but yielded more in 2005, a year after it was formed, at 3.77%, than its 1.9% effective yield for 2014, excluding the pay-out announced today.
The market doesn't expect ITV to match the current FTSE 100 average of 3.99% before 2015, and that hope still looks optimistic to me.
Still, the stock deservedly reflects a 'Crozier Premium' today, and short-term momentum is strong.
Even after that recedes, there looks to be plenty of support nearby, which could keep the shares above the shallower rising trend for the medium term.
But without opportunities for ITV to make bigger strides in growth than it achieved last year, its shares are unlikely to perform as robustly in 2015.


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Sergio Tee will be in the line-up of DJ Jean at the reunion party of discotheque iT.
iT was the hottest club in Europe during the 90's.
Sergio started in iT as a dancer. Later on, in 2011, he started to makes online mixes with the old tunes from iT.
In 2015 he started to play his music for audiences.
during Amsterdam Dance Event 2018 DJ Jean heard his set and he was totally surprised with Tee's energy.
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Could a dropped Thermos bottle have caused deadly bus accident?
A dropped Thermos bottle lodged between the brake and accelerator pedals could not be ruled out as a possible cause for the fatal 2017 collision between two buses in Flushing, New York, according to a report released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
Speeding bus hits another bus
On Sept. 18, 2017, at 6:16 a.m., a motorcoach operated by Dahlia Group Inc. collided with a New York City Transit Authority bus at the intersection of Northern Boulevard and Main Street in Flushing. The motorcoach was traveling 60 mph — twice the posted speed limit — when it struck the left rear side of the transit bus, causing the transit bus to rotate 120 degrees and then strike two parked cars. The motorcoach driver, a passenger on the transit bus and a pedestrian were killed.
NTSB investigators used data from telematic systems on the motorcoach and the transit bus and security video footage to establish the timeline of events, including respective vehicle location tracking, lane positions, and pre-crash speeds. The investigation was aided by a GPS device on the motorcoach which provided video and audio from its forward facing camera.
A "metal rattling noise" is a clue
The motorcoach was traveling at 30 mph when a metal rattling noise is heard on the audio recording. Three seconds after the metal rattling sound the driver utters a single-word remark as the motorcoach increases its speed. More audible metal rattling sounds are recorded from inside the cabin. Three seconds after the first exclamation the driver exclaims a second time as he approaches the accident intersection and swerves to avoid stopped vehicles. This steering maneuver is the only known action the driver takes after experiencing unintended vehicle acceleration. Vehicle data show no brake application. The motorcoach enters the Main Street intersection at 60 mph.
Investigators found no evidence that the motorcoach driver's experience, training, route familiarity or pre-crash activities were factors in the collision. The GPS recording indicates the motorcoach driver was conscious and aware of the hazardous conditions preceding the crash but was unable to control the vehicle's speed. Security camera video of the crash shows no illumination of the motorcoach brake lights before impact, but no mechanical or operational issues were found with the motorcoach. NTSB investigators ruled out a deliberate intent by the driver to crash his vehicle.
The driver's wife said...
NTSB investigators then considered the possibility that an object became lodged beneath or between both the brake and the accelerator pedals, resulting in uncontrolled acceleration and the inability to apply the brakes. At the scene of the crash, investigators found a metal Thermos bottle near the control pedals. The Thermos could potentially explain the metal rattling heard on the audio recording. The driver's wife said he had taken his Thermos for the trip.
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Ogun residents to enjoy uninterrupted supply of pipe borne water – Abiodun
Sorunke Adetayo Send an email July 6, 2021
…as automated dam gates are installed
Residents of Ogun State, particularly Abeokuta, the state capital, will soon begin to enjoy uninterrupted supply of pipe borne water.
The State governor, Dapo Abiodun, who gave the assurance on Tuesday, shortly after he inspected the Arakanga Old Water Works, Abeokuta, said the completion and installation of the five 'Barage Gates' would allow for proper damming and effective distribution of drinkable water to the people.
Abiodun noted that the rehabilitation of the waterworks was in tandem with his administration's social welfare and well-being pillar, which has provision of potable water as a major component.
"We have slated our water provision across the state as our post mid-term agenda, in line with our provision of infrastructure. And under our social welfare and wellbeing pillar, water features prominently and this was our immediate intervention. We are also providing water in our major cities such as Sagamu, Ilaro, Ota and Ijebu-Ode had been scheduled for post May 29, 2021. So, you will begin to see all our initiatives in this direction.
"We are looking at the distribution, reticulation and in no time, I'm sure that the good people of Abeokuta and the people of the state will begin to enjoy water supply that is clean, adequate, efficient and reliable, just like any other city worldwide," the governor stated.
Abiodun attributed ceasing in supply of water across the state to the failure of the immediate past administration to mandate contractors handling various road construction to repair water installations destroyed by them.
He, however, said his administration has included clauses which mandate contractors to repair water and other installations damaged while constructing roads and other infrastructure.
"The previous administration had awarded road contracts and the contractors had actually damaged the water reticulation without it being embedded in the contract clauses that will ensure that the water pipes were repaired.
"So, we have revisited that now, our contracts now have clauses in them where any utility that is damaged by the contractor will be repaired by that contractor, so that we don't have this type of situation repeating itself." he said.
Abiodun explained that the 'Five Gates', which allows for proper damming of water when Ogun-Oshun River Basin fails to release enough water is now being operated automatically as against the manual system in the past.
"This is this same water that serves the Lagos State Water Works, without this, the Adiyan and Akute Water Works will suffer. This is one of the steps we took before even formalising our relationship with Lagos, and that speaks of the collaboration and cooperation that we have with Lagos State.
"The original gates were operated manually, the new gates are electronic and automatic," the governor added.
He further assured residents of Iberekodo and Arakanga in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of the state of his administration's determination to complete the road in the areas, which was started but abandoned by his predecessor.
According to him, the link road to a neighbouring state is of utmost priority to his government.
"On my way coming here, I saw this road and I felt bad because the road is in a deplorable condition. We are currently embarking on construction of roads across the state, all these roads cannot be completed even in twenty years, but, we are determined to do this road.
"Because, this road goes to Iberekodo, Abeokuta North Local Government and even the Federal University of Agriculture, Opeji and also a link road to another state, which makes it a priority road for us, particularly as it will make things easy for the people," he said.
Earlier in his remarks, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Water Resources, Kunle Ottun, disclosed that the gate dam which stands at nineteen feets would now allow for effective water distribution for the people of the state.
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Unformatted Document Text: Tracking number: ICA-12-11416 25 6 That "ideology" itself has caused so much intellectual debate makes it even more difficult. Eagleton (1991) identifies 16 different uses of the term currently circulating in academia. My discussion here of "ideology" is admittedly cursory. For more, see also Eagleton (1991), Fiske (1992), Hall (1980), Grossberg (1993), Lewis (1992), Morley & Chen (1996), Omi & Winant (1994), and Shoelle (1988). 7 Mass media analysis coming out of the British Cultural Studies perspective tends to consider how ideologies and power not only appear in content but how they relate to the production of texts and receivers of mediated information. The theoretical tradition, however, has further complicated notions of ideology by centering Foucault's theory of "discourse," which, in simplistic terms, turns to language in social use to conceptualize knowledge and power. For two examples of this type of analysis, see D'Acci (1994) and Fiske (1996). 8 The weekday circulation of the paper is 20,469 and the Saturday circulation is 23,348. The paper does not publish on Sundays because of a joint operating agreement with Madison's morning daily. Approximately 60 full-time and five part-time employees work in The Capital Times' newsroom. Three editors and four reporters make up the features department, though a number of other local and national writers contribute columns to these pages. The paper promotes itself as the more liberal of the two Madison newspapers. In fact, across the masthead, the paper claims to be "Dane County's Progressive Newspaper." 9 At no point during the interviews and conversations did I mention "feminism," "women's movement" or related concepts to the interview subjects unless they had first mentioned the topic. Interviewees were simply told that I had an interest in contemporary women's sections. Along with the editor of Savvy, I interviewed the features editor, managing editor, editor-in-chief, publisher and Savvy's two primary writers. For background information, I also interviewed a copy editor who had been at The Capital Times when the paper introduced Savvy. My interpretations are based on qualitative methods and informed by feminist and other critical and cultural studies theories. 10 Specifically, The Capital Times runs a "Lifestyle" section on Mondays which typically includes food and health but can be a catch all for those stories that do not fit into any theme. Tuesday the paper publishes a section titled "Ethics, Faith & Values," Wednesday's are reserved for "Arts & Entertainment," Friday's section is for the weekend music and arts, and Saturday features "Travel." 11 Unfortunately no one in the newsroom seems to be able to locate the focus group report and the woman who conducted the research says she no longer has a copy of her findings. She did say, however, that she remembers women participants not being enthusiastic about the idea of a special section in the newspaper. This runs counter to what some in the newsroom remember about the research. The problem with conflicting accounts of the focus group results illustrates the difficulty in relying on a person's memory when conducting research.
Chen (1996), Omi & Winant (1994), and Shoelle (1988).
The weekday circulation of the paper is 20,469 and the Saturday circulation is 23,348.
Times when the paper introduced Savvy.
critical and cultural studies theories.
and the woman who conducted the research says she no longer has a copy of her findings.


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University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Sports Information
$159,286,136 Total Revenue
$159,138,410 Total Expenses
If you want to know more about the University of Oklahoma Norman Campus sports programs, you've come to the right place. Here we present data on the program as a whole as well as information about each varsity sport offered at the school.
The University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Athletics Program
What Division Is University of Oklahoma In?
As a member of the NCAA Division I-FBS, University of Oklahoma competes in the Big Twelve Conference conference.
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Sports-Related Financial Aid
A total number of 745 student athletes participate in varsity sports at the school, 376 of whom are male and 369 are female. On average, these students receive around $21,358 in sports-related student aid, which can help defray a lot of college costs. Looking at the difference between men and women, males received an average of about $23,266 and women received an average of $19,413.
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Coaches
The sports at University of Oklahoma are led by 17 head coaches, 8 of whom coach male teams and 9 of whom spearhead women's teams. The average salary of the men's team head coaches is $1,343,036, while the head coaches of women's team make, on average, $451,084 per year.
The head coaches of University of Oklahoma sports are supported by 22 assistant coaches of women's teams and 30 assistant coaches of men's teams. The average salary is $316,553 a year for assistant coaches of men's teams and $105,702 for assistant coaches of women's teams. Note, the individual salary of coaches is often dependent on the team they coach.
Did the University of Oklahoma Athletics Program Make Money?
In terms of financials, University of Oklahoma collected $159,286,136 in revenue and paid out $159,138,410 in expenses. This means the team turned a profit of $147,726, which is great since many schools have to declare a loss.
The net profit or loss can vary with each sport. For example, sports like basketball and football are often moneymakers for a school while other sports could be operating at a deficit. The chart below compares the amount of money made (or lost) for each of the men's sports offered at University of Oklahoma.
Likewise, money made for women's athletics can vary quite a bit by sport. Here's what the comparison looks like for women's sports at University of Oklahoma.
A Note About University of Oklahoma Sports Rankings
Along with the other data we present for each sport below, we also include the sport's ranking on our Best Schools for the Sport list when applicable. The top spots on College Factual's sports rankings are reserved for those schools that excel in both athletics and academics. This ensures that while you're participating in sports programs at the school, you'll also be getting a solid education.
Popular Sports at University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
University of Oklahoma Men's Baseball
#49 Rank (out of 271)
$-2,800,499 Net Profit/Loss
The 39-player men's baseball team at University of Oklahoma is kept in shape by one head coach and 3 assistant coaches. University of Oklahoma landed the #49 spot in our Best Colleges for Division I Men's Baseball out of the 271 colleges and universities that were included in the analysis.
The University of Oklahoma baseball program paid out $3,597,230 in expenses while making $796,731 in total revenue. This is a bit of a downer since it means that the program lost money, $-2,800,499 to be exact.
University of Oklahoma Women's Basketball
The 26-player women's basketball team at University of Oklahoma is kept in shape by one head coach and 3 assistant coaches. University of Oklahoma landed the #31 spot in our Best Colleges for Division I Women's Basketball out of the 324 colleges and universities that were included in the analysis. This ranking makes the school sit in the top 10% in the nation.
On the money side of things, the University of Oklahoma women's basketball program brought home $2,854,726 in revenue and paid out $6,403,803 in total expenses. Unfortunately, that means the program lost money, racking up a net loss of $-3,549,077.
University of Oklahoma Men's Football
$51,364,592 Net Profit/Loss
119 Team Members
The University of Oklahoma men's football team is made up of 119 players who, in turn, are trained and guided by a head coach and 14 assistant coaches. In College Factual's most recent Best Colleges for Division I (FBS) Men's Football analysis, University of Oklahoma ranked #15 out of 124 colleges and universities. This puts it among the top 15% in the country!
The football program at University of Oklahoma made $94,817,907 in revenue and spend $43,453,315 in expenses. So, the program was a moneymaker for the school, bringing in $51,364,592 in net profit. Mark this down as a good thing.
University of Oklahoma Golf
University of Oklahoma Men's Golf
#12 Rank (out of 20)
There are 12 players on the University of Oklahoma men's golf team, and they are led by one head coach and one assistant coach. In College Factual's most recent Best Colleges for Division I Men's Golf analysis, University of Oklahoma ranked #12 out of 20 colleges and universities.
On the money side of things, the University of Oklahoma men's golf program brought home $310,475 in revenue and paid out $1,511,811 in total expenses. This is a bit of a downer since it means that the program lost money, $-1,201,336 to be exact.
University of Oklahoma Women's Golf
$-915,379 Net Profit/Loss
The head coach and assistant coach train and lead the 7 players of the University of Oklahoma women's golf team. University of Oklahoma was given a rank of 16 out of the 18 schools in its division in our most recent Best Colleges for Division I Women's Golf report.
On the money side of things, the University of Oklahoma women's golf program brought home $189,582 in revenue and paid out $1,104,961 in total expenses. This is a bit of a downer since it means that the program lost money, $-915,379 to be exact.
University of Oklahoma Gymnastics
University of Oklahoma Men's Gymnastics
The head coach and 3 assistant coaches train and lead the 18 members of the University of Oklahoma men's gymnastics team.
University of Oklahoma brought in $176,526 in revenue from its men's gymnastics program while paying out $1,833,079 in expenses. This is a bit of a downer since it means that the program lost money, $-1,656,553 to be exact.
University of Oklahoma Women's Gymnastics
The University of Oklahoma women's gymnastics team is made up of 18 members who, in turn, are trained and guided by a head coach and 3 assistant coaches. According to College Factual's Best Colleges for Women's Gymnastics analysis, University of Oklahoma was ranked #16 out of the 20 schools in its division.
The women's gymnastics program at University of Oklahoma made $343,671 in revenue and spent $2,971,978 in expenses. Unfortunately, that means the program lost money, racking up a net loss of $-2,628,307.
University of Oklahoma Women's Rowing
The head coach and 4 assistant coaches train and lead the 82 players of the University of Oklahoma women's rowing team.
In terms of financials, the University of Oklahoma women's rowing program paid out $3,360,898 in expenses and made $517,292 in total revenue. Unfortunately, that means the program lost money, racking up a net loss of $-2,843,606.
University of Oklahoma Soccer
University of Oklahoma Women's Soccer
The University of Oklahoma women's soccer team is made up of 34 players who, in turn, are trained and guided by a head coach and 2 assistant coaches. In College Factual's most recent Best Colleges for Division I Women's Soccer analysis, University of Oklahoma ranked #75 out of 306 colleges and universities.
University of Oklahoma brought in $267,555 in revenue from its women's soccer program while paying out $2,011,128 in expenses. Unfortunately, that means the program lost money, racking up a net loss of $-1,743,573.
University of Oklahoma Women's Softball
There are 27 players on the University of Oklahoma women's softball team, and they are led by one head coach and 4 assistant coaches. In College Factual's most recent Best Colleges for Division I Women's Softball analysis, University of Oklahoma ranked #14 out of 273 colleges and universities. This puts it among the top 5% in the country!
The University of Oklahoma women's softball program paid out $4,322,219 in expenses while making $2,418,462 in total revenue. This is a bit of a downer since it means that the program lost money, $-1,903,757 to be exact.
University of Oklahoma Tennis
University of Oklahoma Men's Tennis
The University of Oklahoma men's tennis team is made up of 10 players who, in turn, are trained and guided by a head coach and 2 assistant coaches. Our Best Colleges for Division I Men's Tennis ranking placed University of Oklahoma# 16 out of the 21 schools in its division.
On the money side of things, the University of Oklahoma men's tennis program brought home $130,319 in revenue and paid out $1,119,080 in total expenses. This is a bit of a downer since it means that the program lost money, $-988,761 to be exact.
University of Oklahoma Women's Tennis
The University of Oklahoma women's tennis team is made up of 12 players who, in turn, are trained and guided by a head coach and 2 assistant coaches.
The women's tennis program at University of Oklahoma made $94,865 in revenue and spent $1,158,430 in expenses. Unfortunately, that means the program lost money, racking up a net loss of $-1,063,565.
University of Oklahoma Track & Field (Combined)
University of Oklahoma Men's Track & Field (Combined)
The 121 players of the University of Oklahoma men's track and field team are led by a head coach and 9 assistant coaches.
The University of Oklahoma men's track and field program paid out $3,016,671 in expenses while making $416,446 in total revenue. This is a bit of a downer since it means that the program lost money, $-2,600,225 to be exact.
University of Oklahoma Women's Track & Field (Combined)
The head coach and 8 assistant coaches train and lead the 144 players of the University of Oklahoma women's track and field team.
On the money side of things, the University of Oklahoma women's track and field program brought home $478,151 in revenue and paid out $4,325,261 in total expenses. That's not such good news since it means the program lost money to the tune of $-3,847,110.
University of Oklahoma Volleyball
University of Oklahoma Women's Volleyball
The 19 players of the University of Oklahoma women's volleyball team are led by a head coach and 3 assistant coaches. University of Oklahoma landed the #121 spot in our Best Colleges for Division I Women's Volleyball out of the 307 colleges and universities that were included in the analysis.
University of Oklahoma brought in $179,441 in revenue from its women's volleyball program while paying out $2,171,488 in expenses. That's not such good news since it means the program lost money to the tune of $-1,992,047.
University of Oklahoma Men's Wrestling
The University of Oklahoma men's wrestling team is made up of 41 players who, in turn, are trained and guided by a head coach and 3 assistant coaches. University of Oklahoma was given a rank of 14 out of the 16 schools in its division in our most recent Best Colleges for Division I Men's Wrestling report.
The wrestling program at University of Oklahoma made $276,498 in revenue and spend $2,030,820 in expenses. This is a bit of a downer since it means that the program lost money, $-1,754,322 to be exact.
In case you're wondering why certain sports that University of Oklahoma Norman Campus offers aren't listed above, it's because we have no data on those sports.
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