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How to use Google's Motion Stills app to be more creative with Apple's Live Photos
By Roger Fingas
Friday, March 17, 2017, 12:30 pm PT (03:30 pm ET)
Google this week updated its Motion Stills app —which stabilizes Apple's Live Photos, and enables quick creation of GIFs and short movies —with support for exporting back to the Live Photos format. Here's how to do that and use the app in general.
Once you've got a few Live Photos, opening the app will present you with an animated gallery of recent items, and prompt you to create your first movie. Before you do that though, it's worth scrolling up a little higher until you see the Settings icon appear.
This menu lets you change the quality of exported GIFs, apply watermarking, and adjust how often saved clips repeat in movies. You can also choose to unhide all of your clips, which is important, since there doesn't seem to be a good way of restoring individually hidden items.
Back at the main screen, you can create a simple movie by swiping right on multiple clips —swiping left will hide one. Once you've got enough, you can tap and hold on thumbnails in the bottom tray to rearrange their order, or drag them out to remove them entirely. Selecting the Play button will preview a montage, and bring up still more options.
You can mute audio, or tap the triple-dot icon to sort clips by when they were shot. More importantly, hitting the Share button in the lower-right will compile the movie and bring up the iOS share sheet, letting you push it to places like Facebook, Instagram, and Messages.
Most of the time, you'll probably want to focus on a single clip. Just tap on one from the main screen and you'll be presented with a small assortment of options.
The leftmost icon on the bottom toggles Google's automatic enhancements, which may include not just stabilization but things like cropping. It's usually best to leave them on. The twin arrows choose whether a clip loops forward and backward, and of course the speaker icon toggles sound.
More interesting is the "T" icon, which lets you add text. You can tap the color wheel to pick a background color, and tap yet another "T" button to cycle through a handful of fonts. The radar-like icon toggles Motion Text, which can be used to link text to a moving object.
To actually make use of Motion Text, though, you have to hit "Done" once you've written it, and then tap and drag it to the object —this can be tricky if it's a fast-moving thing like a car.
You can also drag text into stationary positions. To delete any item you don't like, tap on it and then pick the trash can icon.
Finally, hitting the Share option will bring up three export methods: Live Photo, GIF, and video. The latter two are largely self-explanatory, but hitting "Export Live Photo" will first bring up a slider for selecting the still image.
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Murder Capital Narrowly Miss No 1 on the Irish Album Charts
The Murder Capital at Button Factory, Dublin. Friday 16th of August 2019. Copyright Grayce Leonard.
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By: Stephen Porzio
The Murder Capital have debuted at No.2 on the Irish album charts. However, Ed Sheeran's No.6 Collaborations Project has pipped the band's When I Have Fears to the top of the Irish album charts, by just 74 sales.
From one perspective, the news might seem like a shame, particularly since Sheeran's album has already been top of the charts for four weeks. A No.1 album spot would have capped off a great week for Ireland's newest most exciting rockers. Their debut record received rave reviews upon release, as did their phenomenal Button Factory show last Friday.
That said, it is a remarkable achievement for the band, reaching No.2. Understandably, the band are far from disappointed. Speaking to Offical Charts Ireland, The Murder Capital said: "Feels like we're drinking under the table, at somebody else's wedding. For real though, love to everyone that bought the record."
The Murder Capital do have the honour of claiming this week's highest new entry on the Official Irish Albums Chart. Meanwhile, Post Malone saw both his albums rise through the ranks following his headline show at RDS arena. Beerbongs & Bentleys climbed nine places to Number 6, while debut album Stoney rose 11 spots to 17.
Also following their RDS headline concert on Wednesday August 21, Foo Fighters' Greatest Hits returned to the Top 50 at No. 12. Young Thug also debuted at No. 23 with So Much Fun, his ever first appearance on the Official Irish Albums Chart.
Meanwhile on the singles chart, Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello landed a ninth straight week at No. 1 with 'Senorita' – extending their run as the longest reigning No. 1 of the year so far.
Lil Tecca's 'Ransom' (3) and Kygo & Whitney Houston's 'Higher Love' (5) both entered the Top 5 for the first time. On top of these 'Post Malone' by Dutch producer Sam Feldt feat. Rani climbed four to enter the Top 10 for the first time at No. 7, coincidentally one spot behind the artist Post Malone with his Young Thug-featuring hit 'Goodbyes' (6).
Joel Corry claimed his first Top 10 with 'Sorry' climbing six to No. 8. AJ Tracey's 'Ladbroke Grove' also entered the Top 10 for the first time after climbing four to No. 9.
Australian singer Tones & I zoomed up 20 places to No. 11 with 'Dance Monkey'. Taylor Swift picked up the highest new entry of the week tag, with 'Lover' (14), the title track of her latest album which is released today (August 23). Read our first impression of it here.
Elsewhere in the chart, Normani debuted with 'Motivation' at No. 22, ahead of Miley Cyrus' brand new track 'Slide Away' at No. 25. There was also a new peak for Jax Jones & Bebe Rexha's 'Harder' which climbed seven places to No. 27.
Further down, Gerry Cinnamon claimed two singles on the Top 50 as 'Canter' (38) and 'Belter' (40) climbed seven and three places respectively. Becky Hill & Weiss rose four with 'I Could Get Used To This' (45).
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Q: Square Number Patterns Good day, I am having difficulties in this program
My Code is
using System;
class Pattern{
static void Main()
{
int rows, i, j, k;

Console.WriteLine("Enter the no. of rows: ");
rows = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

for (i = 1; i <= rows; i++)
{

  for (j = 1; j <= rows; j++)
  {
      k=i+j-1;
      if (k>rows){
      k=k-2;
      }
      Console.Write(k+ " ");

  }
  Console.WriteLine();
}
}
}

The output that I get is
123
232
323

The output that I want to get is
When I input 3
the output should be
123
232
321

When I input 4
the output should be
1234
2343
3432
4321

What seems to be wrong in my code? Thank you

A:     int count = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

    for (int i = 1; i <= count; i++)
    {
        string s = string.Empty;
        for (int j = i; j <= count + i - 1; j++)
        {
            int v;
            if (j > count)
            {
                v = count - (j - count);
            }
            else
            {
                v = j;
            }
            s += v;
        }
        Console.WriteLine(s);
    }

A: using System; class Pattern{
    static void Main()
    {
        int rows, i;
        string x = "1";

        Console.WriteLine("Enter the no. of rows: ");
        rows = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

        for(i = 2; i<= rows; i++){
            x = x+ i.ToString();
        }
        for(i = rows-1; i>= 1; i--){
            x = x+ i.ToString();
        }

        for(i = 0; i< rows; i++){
            Console.WriteLine(x.Substring(i, rows));
        }

    } }

You may try this solution but it's different with using looping for iteration. You may try your own solution, i hope my solution is correct answer.

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During a rare quiet time, I was looking back through some of the pictures that I took while this building was undergoing extensive refurbishment works in 2014. The transformation still amazes me. This really was my own 'Grand Designs' project. You should never say never, but I'm pretty confident that I won't tackle anything on this size and scale again!
The guide goes on to list lunch and dinner as, 'available all week' (in both the restaurant and bar) with the average 3 course à la carte meal costing the princely sum of £11. A very healthy list of beers follows (the pub was a Free House) together with details of the facilities which included two en suite bedrooms and a patio/terrace.
During the extensive renovation works, I endeavoured to retain as many of the original features as possible. (It made good financial sense as well as keeping the integrity of the building intact.) All the original beams remain. The elm bar counter was shortened and the wood up-cycled into shelving and a coffee table. Additional flagstones were discovered (and retained) downstairs and a hidden fireplace (boarded up for years) now takes pride of place in one of the upstairs bedrooms.
The bedrooms look very different now!
As you can see from the photos, the outside space was a pretty big project in its own right, but the works didn't stop there. The last piece of my bed and breakfast jigsaw involved my own living space. A previously unloved stable block used for storage (adjacent to the courtyard garden) is now my very happy home.
The outside space also needed work!
I'm delighted how things have worked out. I wanted the premises to still be a focal point for the local community, so I also cater for private functions, meetings and charity events.
This 15th century building is really enjoying a new lease of life.


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David Schwimmer Is Starring In A Series Of Perplexing Skittles Super Bowl Commercials
Stacey Ritzen
News & Culture Writer
Every year brands compete to be bigger, sexier, and weirder in unveiling annual Superbowl commercials, and this year Skittles definitely aimed for the latter with their spots. Recruiting the help of Friends star David Schwimmer (who, would have been better suited for Tropicana or Simply Orange, in my opinion), Skittles has created four 15 second spots teasing the "most exclusive Superbowl commercial ever" that will be broadcast on game day … to exactly one person, a California teenager named Marcos Menendez.
"The highly exclusive ad will not be leaked to the public, and no, this is not a joke. The ad will be revealed to Marcos on Super Bowl Sunday on Skittles' Facebook page," the company revealed. "Menendez's reaction is the only thing the public will be able to view on Facebook and no one else besides him will ever see the ad, not even Schwimmer."
The first spot (above) shows a nearly unrecognizable, downtrodden-looking Schwimmer dressed in shabby office attire feeding Skittles to a sentient, talking sandwich; while the others feature the actor floating in some sort of virtual reality setting, as an X-Men type of mutant with glowing orifices, and — in the most bizarre of them all — being fed Skittles while sitting on the lap of a lamb Ventriloquist's dummy.
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As regular readers know we are heavy users of Basecamp. This month is the first time in a while I'm not happy about our subscription as we've had to move up to the Elite Suite at $249 month as we've run out of Basecamp projects at 100 (we've been rotating them for awhile but five more projects came in and there just isn't space). For those who are counting, that's $3000/year for a software subscription.
Basecamp uses Textile as the main editor (well 37signals have added some kind of WYSIWYG editor lately but for those of us writing messages, comments and writeboards for the last seven years, Textile is in our blood).
So what I want to be able to do is write all my posts and drafts in Textile and then convert them to html for publication (saving the original in Textile for further editing).
For a while I used iTextile a wrapper around a Python script. It worked pretty well but was kind of ugly and not customizable. I gave up on iTextile due to ergonomics. When I went to fire it up again yesterday, it turns out iTextile is PPC only and requires Rosetta. On my most recent machines, I've managed to get rid of Rosetta completely so I was warned about installing Rosetta. I'd prefer not to have the emulator overhead hanging around waiting to steal memory and cycles, so I said no.
There is an interesting application called MarkMyWords from xelaton.com in Germany. MarkMyWords allows you to write in the mark up language of your choice (important ones include Markdown, Textile, BBcode and Wiki syntax) and get html out on the other end.
Preview is live which is very cool.
MarkMyWords does what it promises very well and even includes full screen and distraction free modes. If you are looking for a new text editor, MarkMyWords has a lot to recommend it.
The icon is fussy and ugly.
At this point, I was thinking what I really need is to get Textile into BBEdit. I don't know why the BareBones guys have been so lazy about adding a Textile module themselves. Apparently there's been Markdown syntax for a long time.
download our Textil.sh filter from Github.
you will get a folder with a file with this name in it: "Textile.sh"
Our version also won't convert single and double quotes to HTML entities. This should be an option in the original version, hopefully our changes get into Github.com soon.
Bingo, you now have full Textile writing inside of BBEdit at zero cost. Apparently this filter will work for other text editors which accept php filters (TextMate among others) but I can't provide step by step instructions as BBEdit 8.7.2 is my weapon of choice.
I may still buy MarkMyWords as I have something of a fetish for text and html editors (own at least ten of them) and earn my living writing and coding. $25 for another work tool is no big deal. But I wouldn't encourage it's adoption across our company as that would be $200 for what most people wouldn't use nearly enough. Our programmers will be much happier with a working php script. On the other hand, Textile.sh doesn't require me to change my workflow at all.
This article full of ordered and unordered lists was written in BBEdit and Textile.sh with no issues.
Marked does not get a review here as Marked is AppStore only. I will not sign into or buy anything from the AppStore or even let it run on my computers (the AppStore is effectively a back door).
In search of a good CSS Editor with FTP editing on Windows: BBedit Equivalent?


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Business Operations Commercial
New world speed record in AgustaWestland Grand
Aug.13, 2008 - During the attempt to break the around the world speed record in an AgustaWestland Grand helicopter, pilots Scott Kasprowicz and Steve Sheik have set a new speed record on the first leg of their trip from New York City to London.
Aug.13, 2008 – During the attempt to break the around the world speed record in an AgustaWestland Grand helicopter – pilots Scott Kasprowicz and Steve Sheik have set a new speed record on the first leg of their trip from New York City to London. This record setting flight covered 3,449 nautical miles and took the crew 40 hours, 41 minutes breaking the current record by over 35 hours. The record of the flight will be submitted to the National Aeronautical Association for ratification.
"We are thrilled to have broken this record. It's been an exhilarating and exhausting first few days," said Kasprowicz after landing at Redhill, just south of London, early Saturday morning. "We've experienced every possible type of weather condition including rain, icing and strong head winds, and through each challenging condition, the helicopter has performed exceptionally. It took a lot of hard work and last minute coordination to make this record happen and we appreciate everyone's efforts."
The pilots entered Russia on Sunday, the most challenging portion of their record attempt – dubbed the "Grand Adventure". They anticipate crossing the continent in 3.5 days and presently are on schedule to enter the United States through Nome, Alaska. They will travel through almost every state before landing back in New York next week.
As of today the crew has completed the first five legs of the trip, which included 30 fuel stops and an overnight inspection at AgustaWestland's facility in Cascina Costa, Italy.
Unlike previous flights to break the world helicopter speed record, Kasprowicz is performing this mission in his factory standard executive configured AgustaWestland Grand helicopter. No mission specific modifications or additional fuel cells have been added to the aircraft to improve performance.
Renzo Lunardi, Senior Vice President Commercial Business said, "Everyone here at AgustaWestland would like to congratulate Scott and Steve on shattering the New York to London speed record in the factory standard AgustaWestland Grand. We are tracking the great progress being made flying across Russia and look forward to your arrival back in New York and the setting of another world record."
The helicopter's progress is constantly monitored in the Control Centre by TracPlus USA using a Latitude S200 Sat phone/ terminal transmitting regular position and status reports over the Iridium global satellite communications network. This allows the control centre to know exactly where Scott and Steve are at all times, and share that information instantly with authorities and supporters. For real time tracking and more information about the Grand Adventure, please visit www.grandadventure08.com
Kasprowicz and Sheik departed from New York LaGuardia Airport for their history-making flight at 3:14 am on August 7, 2008. The journey will cover over 20,046 nm, 18 countries, 49 states and make 78 fuel stops in less than 2 weeks. The team will also look to break the Washington, DC to New York record on the last leg of the world speed record attempt.
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Sometimes it's really funny the illogical fears people allow to paralyze them. I shared a moment of levity about this with one of my coaching clients that I thought I'd share with you.
"B" is a talented communicator and marketing person who was in-between jobs at that time. She was sitting at home—doing nothing—and just a little depressed, lamenting the fact that nothing was going on in her life.
We weighed the pros and cons, and eventually, I encouraged her to enter the contest anyway, but to structure her ideas in such a way as to make herself and her involvement in them an indispensable part of their success. In other words, present the idea in such a way that the idea would likely not succeed without her unique talents and participation in the process.
I acknowledged her concerns, but insisted that she had nothing to lose when she considered the alternative. My exact words were, "Hey look, you might as well. 'Cause the worst that can happen…well, is already happening!" (i.e. nothing at all!) We shared a laugh, and then pondered the truth and implications of the statement.
There's always something in another person's experience that you can apply to your own life. Are you letting some irrational fear paralyze you? Are you opting to be safe in your inaction, rather than expose yourself to a little risk by taking action?
If the worst that can happen is nothing at all, and you end up right where you are, then you might as well take the risk. As the saying goes, you've got nothing to lose, and everything to gain!
What the heck, you've got nothing to lose!
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I bought some tiny mirrors to stitch on tunics. these mirrors gave me an idea of stitching thick borders.
Fabric- brown block printed cotton.
Pattern- A simple pattern incorporating the small mirrors.
Embroidery-mirror stitch, double cross stitch, double running stitch The borders were for yoke, sleeves, side slits on front and BACK- this alone I could have avoided.
the tunic itself was so heavy,whenever I made a turn wearing this tunic, it took the tunic a few seconds to catchup with me.LOL!


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This is listing of the suburbs and localities in the greater Wollongong metropolitan area in alphabetical order.

Suburbs are listed here if they are inside the Wollongong metropolitan area and are listed in the Geographical Names Register as suburbs or localities, with some exclusions.  For this list the Wollongong metropolitan area is considered to be the Australian Bureau of Statistics's Wollongong Statistical District, which includes the Wollongong, Shellharbour and Kiama local government areas.

In some cases suburbs cross into other LGAs, or are effectively managed by other government bodies for specific purposes - these are noted where known.

Notes

References

Lists of suburbs in Australia

Wollongong-related lists

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The Quezon City council has approved a special use permit (SUP) for the construction of a three-story pet crematorium on Congressional Avenue Extension, Barangay Pasong Tamo.
Councilors Marvin C. Rillo and Elizabeth A. Delarmente introduced the City Resolution 7672-2018, which allows the construction and operation of the pet crematorium by businessperson Justine Young.
An SUP is required for the construction and operation of the crematorium under the Quezon City comprehensive zoning ordinance of 2016.


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Path to Implementation
Balanced Portfolio
THRIVE Framework
THRIVE Partners
THRIVE Steering Team
THRIVE Staff
Phase I & II Interventions
Stakeholder Advisory Group
All of Us Event
Announcing Leadership Roles at THRIVE contributing to our promising future
THRIVE, the regional health and economic initiative led by Michigan Health Improvement Alliance (MiHIA) and the Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance (GLBRA) are announcing two executive leadership roles. Matthew Samocki, Ed.D. has been chosen for the role of THRIVE Portfolio Director effective January 27, 2020. Cathy Baase, M.D's longstanding service is being formalized with the defined role of THRIVE Senior Fellow. The THRIVE team is unified in driving progress with the breadth of stakeholders and partners throughout the region to achieve health and economic success.
Dr. Samocki, will lead the overall implementation of the THRIVE portfolio. He will execute comprehensive, sophisticated, large scale project management through the phased implementation of the portfolio. "I embrace the concept of collaborating with all stakeholders to mobilize as a team to make a positive impact in our region," said Dr. Samocki. He is a Midland resident and comes to THRIVE by way of the Great Lakes Region Mental Health Partnership where he served as Executive Director.
Cathy Base, M.D., FAAFP, FACOEM, in her role as Senior Fellow will continue to represent the THRIVE initiative on the national, state and regional level, guiding strategy development, bring innovative recommendations to the initiative and serve as a local thought leader in pursuit of the transformational THRIVE initiative aims. "As the THRIVE initiative moves ahead, it is important to add the clarity of this role being formalized. I am grateful for this opportunity to serve and remain steadfastly committed to achieving all that is possible with our partners through THRIVE," said Dr. Baase. She shared that she is "looking forward to working closely with the Portfolio Director and staff within MiHIA and GLBRA as we diligently work to improve the health and economy of our region." She will continue her volunteer role as Chairperson of the Board of Directors for MiHIA, strengthening the bond between the backbone organization and the THRIVE initiative. Dr. Baase brings her executive leadership and nationally-recognized stature in the field associated with her many concurrent national health roles and the expertise developed through over three decades at Dow to both MiHIA and THRIVE.
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Halestorm - It's Not You
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It's Not You
Screenplay VJ-Pro Hits Vision January 2010
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Halestorm is an American rock band from Red Lion, Pennsylvania. The group's self-titled debut album was released on April 28, 2009, through Atlantic Records. Their second album The Strange Case Of... was released on April 10, 2012. The song "Love Bites (So Do I)" from that album won their first Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance on February 10, 2013. Current members: Vocals, Guitar: Lzzy Hale Guitar: Joe Hottinger Bass: Josh Smith Drums: Arejay Hale


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Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor-Johnson's Relationship Timeline
By The Madras Tribune On Jan 20, 2023
Standing by their love story. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor-Johnson have defended their relationship — and their age gap — through the years.
The couple originally met when Aaron auditioned for Sam's directional debut, Nowhere Boy. According to the England native, her now-husband didn't have much availability due to his Kick-Ass filming schedule, so he auditioned at her home.
"It was so inconvenient," Sam, who was going through a divorce with Jay Jopling at the time, recalled during a 2017 interview with The Sunday Times UK. "In the end, I was like, 'OK, he'll have to come to my home.' I opened my door to John Lennon. I instantly knew he was the guy."
The director noted that she shared a "connection" with Aaron while they worked on the project together, saying, "He was very intense and absolutely mind made-up [about us dating]."
In 2009, the pair announced that they were engaged and expanded their family with two daughters. (Sam, for her part, was already a mom to two kids with Jopling.)
"I knew instantly that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with this person," the Anna Karenina star told The Telegraph UK in 2017. "I knew I wanted a family with her, I knew I wanted kids, and a month later she was pregnant with our first child."
Shortly after their 2012 nuptials, Aaron and Sam changed their last names to the joint Taylor-Johnson variation. The Marvel star said it was important for him to see his new moniker in the credits of his upcoming films.
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"Actually, I wanted it on Savages as well, but they told me the posters had already gone out. Then they said: 'Look, we hired Aaron Johnson,'" he detailed to The Guardian in 2015, adding that he fought to see the change with other projects. "I said: 'I want it changed! This is important.' It felt beautiful. It felt right."
Over the years, Aaron and Sam have clapped back against criticism of their 10-year age gap. In 2017, the Godzilla actor slammed the "intrusive" response when he and Sam first took their relationship public.
"But having to deal with that early in my career probably got me to a place where I can more quickly just go, 'Oh, f—k it' instead of wanting to rip someone's head off for asking questions I don't like," he shared during an interview with New York Magazine.
The photographer, meanwhile, praised the bond she formed with Aaron. "I literally found my soulmate," she detailed in 2017. "I feel so blessed: every day I wake up happy. We spend every minute of the day together."
Sam continued: "My friends call him Benjamin Button because he has — on the outside — such youth, and on the inside, he is so wise and settled. He doesn't like parties. He likes being at home and cooking for the family. He likes walking the dogs. He loves his chickens — he collects the eggs and makes breakfast for everyone. He is an amazing man."
The Solos executive producer said she wasn't bothered by the difference in age between her and Aaron because of their lengthy union.
"We've been together for over a decade now, so I feel like it is less of a conversation for people," she told The Daily Beast in 2019. "It doesn't worry me, and it's not something that is difficult to talk about because it's such a positive story, that we're a decade later together and working together and raising a strong family together. That may be a positive message for people out there."
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The patrons taking in the match barely had time to digest their pre-game souvlakis before the Melbourne Knights had found the back of the net in the opening minute as Northcote City goalkeeper Chris Theodiridis-Petropoulos failed to deal with a long throw allowing Thomas Fraser to head home.
However the home fans weren't to be disappointed as they hit back almost immediately with Evan Kounavelis pouncing on a poor Craig Sweeney pass which allowed to him slot the ball pass Christopher May in the Melbourne Knights goal.
The Knights' dream start soon turned into a nightmare as another defensive error in the twelfth minute allowed Milos Lujic to be one on one with the Knights' keeper and it was an opportunity the former Melbourne Victory youth player didn't pass up as he added Northcote City's second goal.
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The Knights were made to pay for the profligacy almost immediately as Northcote City's Dean Piemonte capitalised on yet another defensive mix up to add his team's fourth goal in the 56th minute.
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Northcote City continued to press for more goals with efforts from goalscorers Kounavelis and Lujic just going wide of the mark.
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Much of the sting went out of the game in the last fifteen minutes as the home side tired considerably and the wind had been well and truly been taken out of the sails of their opponents.
After the match Melbourne Knights' coach Andrew Marth rued his team's defensive errors and that they would look to put the match behind them before they take on newly promoted Port Melbourne in Round Five at Knights Stadium at 3pm on Sunday afternoon.
His counterpart Goran Lozanovski was obviously ecstatic with his team's performance especially after conceding such an early goal. He was particularly pleased with his team's ability to capitalise on the mistakes of their opponents with such ruthless efficiency. Lozanovski's only concern in their quest to maintain their perfect start to the season were injuries to Alex Rojas and Hayden D'Agostino which saw them substituted early in the match.
Northcote City: Chris THEODIRIDIS-PETROPOULOS, Tremayne SADLER, Dean PIEMONTE, Bonel OBRADOVIC, Adriano CHIAPETTA (Michael CATALANO 46') , Alex ROJAS (Nick TZOULIS 44'), Evan KOUNAVELIS, Hayden D'AGOSTINO, Milos LUJIC (Jonathan VOULGARIS 75'), Michael EAGER, Rashid MAHAZI.
Melbourne Knights: Christopher MAY, Adam ZILIC, David KUSTURA (Anthony DUZEL 36'), Thomas FRASER, Craig SWEENEY, Jacob COLOSIMO, Marijan CVITKOVIC, Anthony COLOSIMO, Joseph KONYIT (Abu KONTEH 60'), Abdoulaye DIALLO (Bobby VIDANOSKI 55'), Shayan ALINEJAD.


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using System;
using ChainUtils.BouncyCastle.Utilities;

namespace ChainUtils.BouncyCastle.Crypto.Digests
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Implementation of SHA-3 based on following KeccakNISTInterface.c from http://keccak.noekeon.org/
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>
    /// Following the naming conventions used in the C source code to enable easy review of the implementation.
    /// </remarks>
    public class Sha3Digest
        : IDigest, IMemoable
    {
        private static readonly ulong[] KeccakRoundConstants = KeccakInitializeRoundConstants();

        private static readonly int[] KeccakRhoOffsets = KeccakInitializeRhoOffsets();

        private static ulong[] KeccakInitializeRoundConstants()
        {
            var keccakRoundConstants = new ulong[24];
            byte LFSRState = 0x01;

            for (var i = 0; i < 24; i++)
            {
                keccakRoundConstants[i] = 0;
                for (var j = 0; j < 7; j++)
                {
                    var bitPosition = (1 << j) - 1;

                    // LFSR86540

                    var loBit = (LFSRState & 0x01) != 0;
                    if (loBit)
                    {
                        keccakRoundConstants[i] ^= 1UL << bitPosition;
                    }

                    var hiBit = (LFSRState & 0x80) != 0;
                    LFSRState <<= 1;
                    if (hiBit)
                    {
                        LFSRState ^= 0x71;
                    }

                }
            }

            return keccakRoundConstants;
        }

        private static int[] KeccakInitializeRhoOffsets()
        {
            var keccakRhoOffsets = new int[25];
            int x, y, t, newX, newY;

            var rhoOffset = 0;
            keccakRhoOffsets[(((0) % 5) + 5 * ((0) % 5))] = rhoOffset;
            x = 1;
            y = 0;
            for (t = 1; t < 25; t++)
            {
                //rhoOffset = ((t + 1) * (t + 2) / 2) % 64;
                rhoOffset = (rhoOffset + t) & 63;
                keccakRhoOffsets[(((x) % 5) + 5 * ((y) % 5))] = rhoOffset;
                newX = (0 * x + 1 * y) % 5;
                newY = (2 * x + 3 * y) % 5;
                x = newX;
                y = newY;
            }

            return keccakRhoOffsets;
        }

        private byte[] state = new byte[(1600 / 8)];
        private byte[] dataQueue = new byte[(1536 / 8)];
        private int rate;
        private int bitsInQueue;
        private int fixedOutputLength;
        private bool squeezing;
        private int bitsAvailableForSqueezing;
        private byte[] chunk;
        private byte[] oneByte;

        private void ClearDataQueueSection(int off, int len)
        {
            for (var i = off; i != off + len; i++)
            {
                dataQueue[i] = 0;
            }
        }

        public Sha3Digest()
        {
            Init(0);
        }

        public Sha3Digest(int bitLength)
        {
            Init(bitLength);
        }

        public Sha3Digest(Sha3Digest source)
        {
			CopyIn(source);
		}

		private void CopyIn(Sha3Digest source)
		{
            Array.Copy(source.state, 0, state, 0, source.state.Length);
            Array.Copy(source.dataQueue, 0, dataQueue, 0, source.dataQueue.Length);
            rate = source.rate;
            bitsInQueue = source.bitsInQueue;
            fixedOutputLength = source.fixedOutputLength;
            squeezing = source.squeezing;
            bitsAvailableForSqueezing = source.bitsAvailableForSqueezing;
            chunk = Arrays.Clone(source.chunk);
            oneByte = Arrays.Clone(source.oneByte);
        }

        public virtual string AlgorithmName
        {
            get { return "SHA3-" + fixedOutputLength; }
        }

        public virtual int GetDigestSize()
        {
            return fixedOutputLength / 8;
        }

        public virtual void Update(byte input)
        {
            oneByte[0] = input;

            DoUpdate(oneByte, 0, 8L);
        }

        public virtual void BlockUpdate(byte[] input, int inOff, int len)
        {
            DoUpdate(input, inOff, len * 8L);
        }

        public virtual int DoFinal(byte[] output, int outOff)
        {
            Squeeze(output, outOff, fixedOutputLength);

            Reset();

            return GetDigestSize();
        }

        public virtual void Reset()
        {
            Init(fixedOutputLength);
        }

        /**
         * Return the size of block that the compression function is applied to in bytes.
         *
         * @return internal byte length of a block.
         */
        public virtual int GetByteLength()
        {
            return rate / 8;
        }

        private void Init(int bitLength)
        {
            switch (bitLength)
            {
            case 0:
            case 288:
                InitSponge(1024, 576);
                break;
            case 224:
                InitSponge(1152, 448);
                break;
            case 256:
                InitSponge(1088, 512);
                break;
            case 384:
                InitSponge(832, 768);
                break;
            case 512:
                InitSponge(576, 1024);
                break;
            default:
                throw new ArgumentException("must be one of 224, 256, 384, or 512.", "bitLength");
            }
        }

        private void DoUpdate(byte[] data, int off, long databitlen)
        {
            if ((databitlen % 8) == 0)
            {
                Absorb(data, off, databitlen);
            }
            else
            {
                Absorb(data, off, databitlen - (databitlen % 8));

                var lastByte = new byte[1];

                lastByte[0] = (byte)(data[off + (int)(databitlen / 8)] >> (int)(8 - (databitlen % 8)));
                Absorb(lastByte, off, databitlen % 8);
            }
        }

        private void InitSponge(int rate, int capacity)
        {
            if (rate + capacity != 1600)
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException("rate + capacity != 1600");
            }
            if ((rate <= 0) || (rate >= 1600) || ((rate % 64) != 0))
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException("invalid rate value");
            }

            this.rate = rate;
            // this is never read, need to check to see why we want to save it
            //  this.capacity = capacity;
            fixedOutputLength = 0;
            Arrays.Fill(state, (byte)0);
            Arrays.Fill(dataQueue, (byte)0);
            bitsInQueue = 0;
            squeezing = false;
            bitsAvailableForSqueezing = 0;
            fixedOutputLength = capacity / 2;
            chunk = new byte[rate / 8];
            oneByte = new byte[1];
        }

        private void AbsorbQueue()
        {
            KeccakAbsorb(state, dataQueue, rate / 8);

            bitsInQueue = 0;
        }

        private void Absorb(byte[] data, int off, long databitlen)
        {
            long i, j, wholeBlocks;

            if ((bitsInQueue % 8) != 0)
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException("attempt to absorb with odd length queue.");
            }
            if (squeezing)
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException("attempt to absorb while squeezing.");
            }

            i = 0;
            while (i < databitlen)
            {
                if ((bitsInQueue == 0) && (databitlen >= rate) && (i <= (databitlen - rate)))
                {
                    wholeBlocks = (databitlen - i) / rate;

                    for (j = 0; j < wholeBlocks; j++)
                    {
                        Array.Copy(data, (int)(off + (i / 8) + (j * chunk.Length)), chunk, 0, chunk.Length);

                        //displayIntermediateValues.displayBytes(1, "Block to be absorbed", curData, rate / 8);

                        KeccakAbsorb(state, chunk, chunk.Length);
                    }

                    i += wholeBlocks * rate;
                }
                else
                {
                    var partialBlock = (int)(databitlen - i);
                    if (partialBlock + bitsInQueue > rate)
                    {
                        partialBlock = rate - bitsInQueue;
                    }
                    var partialByte = partialBlock % 8;
                    partialBlock -= partialByte;
                    Array.Copy(data, off + (int)(i / 8), dataQueue, bitsInQueue / 8, partialBlock / 8);

                    bitsInQueue += partialBlock;
                    i += partialBlock;
                    if (bitsInQueue == rate)
                    {
                        AbsorbQueue();
                    }
                    if (partialByte > 0)
                    {
                        var mask = (1 << partialByte) - 1;
                        dataQueue[bitsInQueue / 8] = (byte)(data[off + ((int)(i / 8))] & mask);
                        bitsInQueue += partialByte;
                        i += partialByte;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        private void PadAndSwitchToSqueezingPhase()
        {
            if (bitsInQueue + 1 == rate)
            {
                dataQueue[bitsInQueue / 8] |= (byte)(1U << (bitsInQueue % 8));
                AbsorbQueue();
                ClearDataQueueSection(0, rate / 8);
            }
            else
            {
                ClearDataQueueSection((bitsInQueue + 7) / 8, rate / 8 - (bitsInQueue + 7) / 8);
                dataQueue[bitsInQueue / 8] |= (byte)(1U << (bitsInQueue % 8));
            }
            dataQueue[(rate - 1) / 8] |= (byte)(1U << ((rate - 1) % 8));
            AbsorbQueue();

            //displayIntermediateValues.displayText(1, "--- Switching to squeezing phase ---");

            if (rate == 1024)
            {
                KeccakExtract1024bits(state, dataQueue);
                bitsAvailableForSqueezing = 1024;
            }
            else
            {
                KeccakExtract(state, dataQueue, rate / 64);
                bitsAvailableForSqueezing = rate;
            }

            //displayIntermediateValues.displayBytes(1, "Block available for squeezing", dataQueue, bitsAvailableForSqueezing / 8);

            squeezing = true;
        }

        private void Squeeze(byte[] output, int offset, long outputLength)
        {
            long i;
            int partialBlock;

            if (!squeezing)
            {
                PadAndSwitchToSqueezingPhase();
            }
            if ((outputLength % 8) != 0)
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException("outputLength not a multiple of 8");
            }

            i = 0;
            while (i < outputLength)
            {
                if (bitsAvailableForSqueezing == 0)
                {
                    KeccakPermutation(state);

                    if (rate == 1024)
                    {
                        KeccakExtract1024bits(state, dataQueue);
                        bitsAvailableForSqueezing = 1024;
                    }
                    else

                    {
                        KeccakExtract(state, dataQueue, rate / 64);
                        bitsAvailableForSqueezing = rate;
                    }

                    //displayIntermediateValues.displayBytes(1, "Block available for squeezing", dataQueue, bitsAvailableForSqueezing / 8);

                }
                partialBlock = bitsAvailableForSqueezing;
                if ((long)partialBlock > outputLength - i)
                {
                    partialBlock = (int)(outputLength - i);
                }

                Array.Copy(dataQueue, (rate - bitsAvailableForSqueezing) / 8, output, offset + (int)(i / 8), partialBlock / 8);
                bitsAvailableForSqueezing -= partialBlock;
                i += partialBlock;
            }
        }

        private static void FromBytesToWords(ulong[] stateAsWords, byte[] state)
        {
            for (var i = 0; i < (1600 / 64); i++)
            {
                stateAsWords[i] = 0;
                var index = i * (64 / 8);
                for (var j = 0; j < (64 / 8); j++)
                {
                    stateAsWords[i] |= ((ulong)state[index + j] & 0xff) << ((8 * j));
                }
            }
        }

        private static void FromWordsToBytes(byte[] state, ulong[] stateAsWords)
        {
            for (var i = 0; i < (1600 / 64); i++)
            {
                var index = i * (64 / 8);
                for (var j = 0; j < (64 / 8); j++)
                {
                    state[index + j] = (byte)(stateAsWords[i] >> (8 * j));
                }
            }
        }

        private void KeccakPermutation(byte[] state)
        {
            var longState = new ulong[state.Length / 8];

            FromBytesToWords(longState, state);

            //displayIntermediateValues.displayStateAsBytes(1, "Input of permutation", longState);

            KeccakPermutationOnWords(longState);

            //displayIntermediateValues.displayStateAsBytes(1, "State after permutation", longState);

            FromWordsToBytes(state, longState);
        }

        private void KeccakPermutationAfterXor(byte[] state, byte[] data, int dataLengthInBytes)
        {
            for (var i = 0; i < dataLengthInBytes; i++)
            {
                state[i] ^= data[i];
            }

            KeccakPermutation(state);
        }

        private void KeccakPermutationOnWords(ulong[] state)
        {
            int i;

            //displayIntermediateValues.displayStateAs64bitWords(3, "Same, with lanes as 64-bit words", state);

            for (i = 0; i < 24; i++)
            {
                //displayIntermediateValues.displayRoundNumber(3, i);

                Theta(state);
                //displayIntermediateValues.displayStateAs64bitWords(3, "After theta", state);

                Rho(state);
                //displayIntermediateValues.displayStateAs64bitWords(3, "After rho", state);

                Pi(state);
                //displayIntermediateValues.displayStateAs64bitWords(3, "After pi", state);

                Chi(state);
                //displayIntermediateValues.displayStateAs64bitWords(3, "After chi", state);

                Iota(state, i);
                //displayIntermediateValues.displayStateAs64bitWords(3, "After iota", state);
            }
        }

        ulong[] C = new ulong[5];

        private void Theta(ulong[] A)
        {
            for (var x = 0; x < 5; x++)
            {
                C[x] = 0;
                for (var y = 0; y < 5; y++)
                {
                    C[x] ^= A[x + 5 * y];
                }
            }
            for (var x = 0; x < 5; x++)
            {
                var dX = ((((C[(x + 1) % 5]) << 1) ^ ((C[(x + 1) % 5]) >> (64 - 1)))) ^ C[(x + 4) % 5];
                for (var y = 0; y < 5; y++)
                {
                    A[x + 5 * y] ^= dX;
                }
            }
        }

        private void Rho(ulong[] A)
        {
            for (var x = 0; x < 5; x++)
            {
                for (var y = 0; y < 5; y++)
                {
                    var index = x + 5 * y;
                    A[index] = ((KeccakRhoOffsets[index] != 0) ? (((A[index]) << KeccakRhoOffsets[index]) ^ ((A[index]) >> (64 - KeccakRhoOffsets[index]))) : A[index]);
                }
            }
        }

        ulong[] tempA = new ulong[25];

        private void Pi(ulong[] A)
        {
            Array.Copy(A, 0, tempA, 0, tempA.Length);

            for (var x = 0; x < 5; x++)
            {
                for (var y = 0; y < 5; y++)
                {
                    A[y + 5 * ((2 * x + 3 * y) % 5)] = tempA[x + 5 * y];
                }
            }
        }

        ulong[] chiC = new ulong[5];

        private void Chi(ulong[] A)
        {
            for (var y = 0; y < 5; y++)
            {
                for (var x = 0; x < 5; x++)
                {
                    chiC[x] = A[x + 5 * y] ^ ((~A[(((x + 1) % 5) + 5 * y)]) & A[(((x + 2) % 5) + 5 * y)]);
                }
                for (var x = 0; x < 5; x++)
                {
                    A[x + 5 * y] = chiC[x];
                }
            }
        }

        private static void Iota(ulong[] A, int indexRound)
        {
            A[(((0) % 5) + 5 * ((0) % 5))] ^= KeccakRoundConstants[indexRound];
        }

        private void KeccakAbsorb(byte[] byteState, byte[] data, int dataInBytes)
        {
            KeccakPermutationAfterXor(byteState, data, dataInBytes);
        }

        private void KeccakExtract1024bits(byte[] byteState, byte[] data)
        {
            Array.Copy(byteState, 0, data, 0, 128);
        }

        private void KeccakExtract(byte[] byteState, byte[] data, int laneCount)
        {
            Array.Copy(byteState, 0, data, 0, laneCount * 8);
        }

		public IMemoable Copy()
		{
			return new Sha3Digest(this);
		}

		public void Reset(IMemoable other)
		{
			var d = (Sha3Digest)other;

			CopyIn(d);
		}

    }
}

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The aim of this paper is to determine the incidence of internal corporate governance in Tunisian hotels. We use a stochastic analysis frontier model of a sample of 63 hotels between 2012 and 2013. We also explain the efficiency of the hotel industry in terms of internal corporate governance. The stochastic frontier approach is used to assess the efficiency and performance of firms, as well as factors determining performance. To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the interrelations among ownership, board and manager characteristics and firm efficiency in a sample of the hotel industry. To maximise performance, these governance characteristics are operationalised in terms of board characteristics, ownership structure and chief executive officer (CEO) characteristics. Six performance measures, such as financial performance, social and human performance, organisational performance, commercial performance and global performance, are specified and used to estimate hotel efficiency. The results show a positive correlation between the proportion of independent directors on the board and hotel performance. We also find that hotel performance is viewed as a proxy for director effort; therefore, the director's tenure positively affects the firm's efficiency and performance.
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Q: How to design a server with many persistent connections I am designing a application where many clients connect to a central server. This server keeps these connections, sending keep-alives every half-hour. The server has a embedded HTTP server, which provides a interface to the client connections (ex. http://server/isClientConnected?id=id). I was wondering what is the best way to go about this. My current implementation is in Java, and I just have a Map with ID's as the key, but a thread is started for each connection, and I don't know if this is really the best way to do this. Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Isaac Waller

A: Use the java.nio package, as described on this page: Building Highly Scalable Servers with Java NIO. Also read this page very carefully: Architecture of a Highly Scalable NIO-Based Server.
Personally I'd not bother with the NIO internals and use a framework like Apache MINA or xSocket. NIO is complicated and easy to get wrong in very obscure ways. If you want it to "just work", then use a framework.

A: With a single thread per connection you can usually scale up to about 10,000 connections on a single machine.  For a Windows 32 machine, you probably will hit a limit around 1,000 connections.
To avoid this, you can either change the design of your program, or you can scale out (horizontal).  You have to weight the cost of development with the cost of hardware.
The single thread per user, with a single continuous connection is usually the easiest programming model.  I would stick with this model until you reach the limits of your current hardware.  At that point, I would decide to either change the code, or add more hardware.

A: If the clients will be connected for long periods of time, allocating a thread per client can be problematic. Each thread on the server requires a certain amount of resources (memory for the stack, for example).
You could use Jetty Continuations to handle the client request with fewer threads by using asynchronous servlets.

A: Read more about the the Reactor pattern. There is an implementation for that in Java (it uses channels instead of thread for client).
It is easy to implement and very efficient.


Kozo's Mailbag: Who is Yotsuba?
While not an Asian film-related question, it happens to be a very appropriate one, because I featured numerous pictures of Yotsuba in that earlier blog entry. Doing so was wrong of me, because I incorrectly assumed that anyone who dropped by this blog either A) knows who Yotsuba is, or B) won't care one way or another. As this is Damn You, Kozo! and not something anyone would confuse with a quality blog, I figured I would be safe without the explanation.
Well, I was wrong. And even though a simple search can lead you to Yotsuba's Wikipedia page, I thought I'd explain it here.
Yotsuba is the name of a mischievous little girl created by Kiyohiko Azuma, the manga creator and all-around genius who also created a fun little gag manga called Azumanga Daioh. Yotsuba stars in the manga Yotsubato!, which basically translates as "Yotsuba &!", with the ampersand connecting his main character to any number of things, including firecrackers, presents, global warming, flowers, and other things that may pop up in everyday life.
What makes Yotsuba interesting and fun is simply her interaction with everyday things, and the surprising honesty, impetuousness, and rampant misunderstanding that a child may display when dealing with things like school projects, ice cream, strangers, the supermarket, next-door neighbors, and trips to the beach. Yotsuba also has a bizarre green hairdo that represents a four-leaf clover. In Japanese, "Yotusba" means four-leaf clover. There's your language lesson for the day.
The manga's motto is "Enjoy Everything", which explains it far better than I ever could. Both Yotsuba and the stars of Azumanga Daioh have made appearances on LoveHKFilm.com before, namely as featured images on the old Life with Kozo pages. I dumped them there because I enjoy both immensely; both share the same whimsical and frequently unexpected sense of humor, and both are free of fan service, violence, or any of the extreme subjects sometimes associated with Japanese manga and animation.
Please remember, not everyone who likes Japanese animation is a pervert. I include myself in that category, though I have been referred to as a pervert on the Internet before. Fitting enough, it was a comment made on some Ekin Cheng forum somewhere.
Anyway, Petra also asked where she can get her own Yotsuba action figure. A Yotsuba Revoltech Action Figure can be purchased from YesAsia.com or any number of online retailers, though there's not that much Yotsuba schwag currently available. There is, however, a very nice calendar that combines photography with color illustrations of Yotsuba, placing Kiyohiko's fictional mischief maker into a real-life context that perfectly summarizes her adventures and appeal.
Yotsuba isn't about wacky hijinks or over-the-top strangeness; it's a simple manga that's fun, familiar and even comforting, and there's lots to enjoy in the character's minor adventures. I said as much to Petra in my earlier email, and soon she got her own Yotsuba action figure, and even picked up a few issues of the manga.
This picture proves that this blog can make a small difference. At the very least, it's probably done more than the actual LoveHKFilm website has recently. The next goal of Damn You, Kozo: persuading everyone that Hong Kong film is not dead. The first person I'll try to convince is myself.
Anyway, I hope everyone who reads this becomes a fan of Yotsuba, too.
My job requires me to do midyear evaluations for my staff, an always pleasant experience that I look forward to with unbridled enthusiasm and delight. Really, I'm totally telling the truth.
Wow, that's a dismal list, isn't it? Some of the stuff that made this cut was not very good, but I had a hard time leaving them off in place of other films. There was no way that Missing, Linger, Kung Fu Dunk, or Fatal Move was making this list. They're all more likely to make the "Worst 10″ list, though naming that right now would be useless because not much more than 20 films have been released thus far in 2008. That low number makes this the worst output from the territory since way before I was born. And I was born a while ago.
This is usually where the expected "Hong Kong movies are really lousy" rant should occur, but I maintain that this is a numbers game that would be supported if Hong Kong produced more than 50 films a year. Back when Hong Kong made 300 or so movies per year, you could expect somewhere close to 60-100 good, or at least watchable films. Percentage-wise that's not great, but apply that percentage to current times, and you get a little less than 20 good films per year - which is more or less accurate when applied to Hong Kong Cinema in 2005-2007. If my math is bad, I apologize.
There's also a whole other discussion here about what's hurting Hong Kong film - i.e., lack of local support, targeting China, undue hype from the Internet, etc. - but I'll leave that for another day. That is, if I ever talk about it at all.
Some notes: Shamo and Beseiged City get included here because neither had wide theatrical release in 2007. Two films that would have made the cut are High Noon and The Way We Are, but both are thus far officially unreleased in cinemas so I'll leave them out to see if they make the end-of-year cut. CJ7 misses the list not because it's bad (it isn't), but because the amount of disappointment that came with it is so disproportionally large that I couldn't feel good about including it.
Also, I didn't consider The Sparkle in the Dark because I haven't seen it yet. I'm guessing it's not going to be Top 10 material anyway.
If I remember, I'll pass out final grades at the end of the year.
Jay Chou was knocked unconscious by a flying basketball.


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Building Diversity with People Analytics
A Conversation with People Analytics Winter speaker Patrick Boyle, Talent Analytics & Strategy Consultant, Dell Technologies
Could you define "opportunity hoarding" and occupational segregation? Why are these things bad for employees as well as the business?
First things first, opportunity hoarding is a sociological concept used to describe instances when certain groups exclude others from access to resources or benefits they control. In the workplace, we use it to describe situations where particular groups, usually gender or ethnic based, end up, often unintentionally, taking positions and keeping positions in the workforce for long periods of time and essentially kind of passing that on to a similar workforce in the future.
For example, let's say there is a job opening and it's promoted primarily through word of mouth. The job is in an industry that has a tight network and is all about who knows who and who's friends with who, that's essentially the word of mouth transfer of the job opportunity being available. People tend to be surrounded with other people like them, and when they have these conversations and pass on this information, you end up getting the same people, the same type or the same group of people, in the same positions. As a result, your workforce might not be as diverse as you would hope. However, if there was a more equitable way of disseminating this information, you'd have a much larger and diverse pool candidates.
Occupational segregation, on the other hand, is when particular groups, either gender or ethnic groups, are more or less channeled into a specific role or job function or job. I did a lot of work with the city of New York identifying when and where organizations end up having one particular group kind of dominate a particular field.
For example, and this is well documented, certain careers like school safety agents, tend to be dominated by women of color. While other positions, such as software developer roles, tend to have a very large white male concentration. that if you had less segregation in the occupations, that it would be beneficial for everyone.
As to why opportunity hoarding and organizational segregation is bad, to start, it minimizes your pool of talent. You end up excluding people that are very talented and capable just because either the opportunity isn't visible to them. In addition, organizations that lack diverse talent pools also tend to lack diversity of thought, which is also very valuable to organizations as it differing viewpoints foster innovation. I think of it kind of like a football team. If you're on a football team, you don't want 11 quarterbacks. You want diversity. You want some players who are bigger, some who are faster, etc. You want the right mix of people and talent to win which is why having a large talent pool to pull from is so crucial.
How do you go about measuring occupational segregation? What are some of the key metrics and analytics you use?
The primary one used is something called the dissimilarity index, and it's a really fascinating metric. It was originally developed to measure, I believe, housing segregation. City would use it to determine where people were living and how certain groups were segregated into certain geographical areas by race.
Eventually, people started applying the dissimilarity index to job functions or job roles or job families at various levels. It's a very simple measurement that uses a scale from zero to 100 to denote the amount of diversity in any particular title or role.
To elaborate, let's say there's a 60-person organization, you've got 40 men and 20 women. And one job is a painter and the other job is a carpenter. So if you look at the carpenters and you see that, say, 80% of the carpenters were women and 20% of them men, and then you would look at the painters and you see 20%, of the women were painters and 80% of the men were painters. Using the Index of Dissimilarity methodology, you would come out to a ratio or percentage of 60% dissimilarity index. However, the industry standard is a dissimilarity index of zero to 30 (which indicates very low segregation while 100 indicates total segregation) so you'd have a bit of work to do here when it comes to diversifying those two roles.
I think that it's important to recognize that it's easy to look at your organization as a whole and, based on that big picture view, assume you have this great, diverse workforce. However, when you go in and you drill down into the details, you may see that while you have excellent diversity numbers, the majority of those diverse numbers are coming from positions that are less desirable. They have lower salaries, they have higher attrition rates, for one reason or another. You've got great diversity, but is the diversity distributed equally throughout the organization? Because that's very important.
Otherwise, what's the point of having diversity if you're putting all of the diverse people in specific roles and you're not actually taking advantage of the benefits of having the diversity? I think it's great that people are starting to use people analytics a little bit more in the diversity space. However, measurements for occupational segregation such as the dissimilarity index are still underutilized.
Once you've identified occupational segregation as a key priority for your organization, how did you go about addressing this issue? In other words, how did you turn insight into action?
Well the first thing you need to do is the analysis within your organization to identify the dissimilarity index. And there's a simple calculation you can do that puts together the headcounts and diversity distributions for all of your titles. And if you want to do it in the title level, you can do it in the title level, if you want to do it at the job family level, you can do it at the job family level. If you find that you have a dissimilarity index of whatever threshold you want, 50% or 60% or more (typically 60% is moderate to high segregation). So if you see high occupational segregation, you want to then identify which roles specific groups of people are being channeled into at higher rates compared to other races and ethnicities.
To identify which gender or ethnicity is dominating that field and why, you need to look at all the data you have: onboarding surveys, hiring data, anything you can. If you have an applicant tracking system, you go in and you get a data dump from there and pull out information the locations where recruiters went to hire for this position, or any sort of the hiring practices that went into this role. If it was interviews, if it was exams, if it was tests. If it was any sort of evaluation that people took, are they subjective? Are they not objective enough for hiring the the right people?
Then you want to determine the barriers preventing a more equitable distribution. And sometimes, it's unfortunate, but it's simply a function of location. If you have a higher population of a particular group of people in an area that can actually physically get to the job, then that's the group of people that are going to end up getting hired. You know? And there's really not a whole lot you can do. But if you do have a diverse population to pull from, then there's another barrier that's preventing other groups from having this role.
Sometimes it's an educational barrier, maybe what's happening is you're only hiring people that have a particular educational background. And if there's a systemic inequality of a particular group that have this educational background, then maybe what you should do is you should open up the opportunities to people that are of other disciplines.
Also, the job description itself can serve as a major barrier, either due to the language or the hiring practices associated with it. A good example of this is if you're hiring for a role and in the job description you're requesting for someone with, let's say, a STEM background. You're only interested in applicants with STEM experience/education. You have to do more than just post the job description; you're going to have to actively recruit new groups of people. You have to make sure that you're going to different locations, such as historically black universities or colleges, to ensure the position is promoted beyond the typical channels. Also, for example, they've done studies on how women react to job description differently than men. They tend to be turned off by the extreme superlatives, excessive requirements and "bro-speak" (i.e. "work hard, play hard") that are commonly utilized in job descriptions for all kinds of jobs. So you may have to rewrite your job descriptions if they are only attracting one type of applicant.
What are some of the other ways people analytics can be leveraged to improve workplace diversity?
In terms of simply using people analytics to support our D&I programs, one thing we keep a close eye on is how successful we are at creating a diverse workforce via our hiring initiatives especially when it comes to filling entry-level positions. When we make an effort to hire people who are new to the workforce, are we getting a better, more diverse split when these people are first coming in? One of the great things about the new workforce is that we have a little bit more diversity to pull from. We also look at termination and attrition rates. It's important to keep your finger on the pulse of your terms and understanding, "are there significant differences between different groups in attrition? And if we do, what groups are they? Where are they from? What organization are they from? What role are they from?" And being able to present this information to leaderships teams and hiring managers so that they're aware if there's anything within their organization that could be improved upon, that they need to keep in mind when crafting job descriptions, interviewing candidates, etc.
Over the past year or two, Dell has received a significant amount of positive press regarding its approach to diversity. Speaking from strictly a people analytics perspective, how is it different from what other companies are doing?
I'm not part of the broader D&I team so I can't speak for them, but I can say that Dell is extremely data driven and the D&I team does a great job of communicating with our leadership teams to ensure that everyone has access to the data required to make these decisions This involves presenting scorecards to the leaders on a regular basis so they know where they stand and what their workforce looks like at all times. There shouldn't be any leaders out there that are not aware of what their organization looks like in terms of diversity.


A delegation of industry chiefs, stakeholders and business leaders have convened in South Africa for the 2018 edition of an energy industry event dubbed Africa Oil Week (AOW), highlighting the continent's potential as a growing change-maker in the lucrative global oil and gas sector.
Following a panel discussion held this week, the group affirmed Africa's ability to compete against all other oil and gas producing regions due to its natural advantages and competitive edge.
Africa Oil Week kicked off with a strong start for its 25th anniversary as delegates converged at a Welcome Reception in Cape Town, South Africa to celebrate the opening of the event.
The first session on Economic Outlooks was opened with key speakers including Jens Frolich Holte, State Secretary for Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs; David Hicks, Senior Vice President of Upstream, IHS Markit; Jasper Peijs, Exploration Vice President at BP; Mounir Bouaziz, VP Commercial/New Business Development South America & Africa, Country Chair Dubai & Northern Emirates for Shell; Paul McDade, CEO of Tullow Oil and Wale Tinubu, Group Chief Executive for Oando PLC.
His sentiments come at a time when a number of African countries are ready to join the international oil exporting arena while other global players are struggling to adapt to changes in the landscape.
Another standout plenary session was the Ministerial Panel led by BBC World Affairs Editor, John Simpson. Six Ministers from South Africa, Nigeria, Niger, Sudan and Congo provided insights on their country's exploration and production strategies.
A bidding round from the Republic of Congo, a licensing round announcement from Madagascar and a country roadshow from Uganda, all held on Tuesday, November 6th, 2018, once again highlighted the important role Africa Oil Week plays in driving new business opportunities for governments and exploration companies across Africa.
The affair also provided various networking and social functions for delegates.
Africa Oil Week is taking place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, and will run until the 9th of November, 2018.


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