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Segment Raises $175M For Customer Data Infrastructure
Mary Ann AzevedoNatasha Mascarenhas
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Segment, a San Francisco-based customer data infrastructure company, has raised $175 million in a funding round led by existing investors Accel & GV.
New investors Meritech Capital, Thrive Capital, Y Combinator Continuity, e.ventures and Sapphire Ventures also participated in the round, which brings the startup's total funding to $284 million. The raise gives Segment a $1.5 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg, who cited "a person familiar with the matter."
The premise behind the company is that traditional CRM (customer relationship management) "is no longer enough." Segment wants to provide data infrastructure for companies looking to give their customers a seamless experience – while also being mindful of privacy around data.
Eight-year-old Segment says it plans to use the money toward a few initiatives, including opening "multiple new offices" across North America, Europe, Middle East and North Africa (EMEA), and Asia-Pacific "while significantly growing" its team. The company currently employs over 350 people in San Francisco, New York, Vancouver and Dublin. In FY2019, Segment told Crunchbase News it increased its employee headcount by 74 percent and expanded its global footprint, opening a EMEA headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.
Segment will also use the new funds to "accelerate the development and adoption" of its "Customer Data Infrastructure" platform, which is now being used in 71 countries. Enterprise customers include Intuit, IBM, VMware, and 21st Century Fox. The round will also help the startup invest in "further expanding its partner network."
In a press release, Segment said: "Companies must use dozens of business applications in their customer data stack, but they don't have the data infrastructure necessary to integrate these applications seamlessly or respect customer privacy preferences consistently."
Vas Natarajan of Accel notes that his firm led Segment's Series A in 2014.
"Segment transforms the way that businesses collect and manage customer data, with a particular emphasis on first-party data," he said in the press release. "Combined with powerful governance and audience management tools, Segment is the backbone for how great companies sell, market, and support their customers."
Illustration: Li-Anne Dias


The pvcreate command initializes a disk or partition as a physical volume for use with the volume manager. When using whole disks you don't need any special preparation.
When using partitions, the system id of the partitions should be set to "Linux LVM" (8e). The following output shows the creation of two 5G partitions on the "/dev/sdb" device, both with system ids set to "Linux LVM".
Other physical volume commands are available. Typically, they begin with "pv*" and are present in the "/sbin/" directory. Not all the commands listed below are physical volume commands though.
Other volume group commands are available. Typically, they begin with "vg*" and are present in the "/sbin/" directory. Not all the commands listed below are volume group commands though.
The resulting logical volume will have device path of "/dev/vol-group-name/lv-name", where the "vol-group-name" is that specified in the lvcreate command and the "lv-name" is that displayed in the command output. In this case, the device path is "/dev/DataVolGroup/lvol0". It can also be accessed using its mapper path "/dev/mapper/DataVolGroup-lvol0". The lvcreate command has many available settings, including the "-n" or "--name", allowing you to explicitly name the logical volume it creates.
Logical volumes can have their size reduced using the lvreduce command, but this can be very destructive so it's probably best to only do it when you don't care about the contents of the volume.
Other logical volume commands are available. Typically, they begin with "lv*" and are present in the "/sbin/" directory. Not all the commands listed below are logical volume commands though.
Once installed, the GUI is started from the menu (System > Administration > Logical Volume Management) or from the command line by issuing system-config-lvm as the "root" user.


Huawei 3G tablets have landed!
Just when I thought I got the best tablet in town when Huawei just dropped in – albeit a week later after I bought my 7″ plus Samsung Galaxy tab – to launch its best 7-inch tablet to challenge Samsung Galaxy's 7.0 Plus tablet. This is not the touted iPad challenger but at only Php19,990 a pop, this device is touted to give Samsung a lot of challenge. It's body is 10.5mm thick only but it brandishes an aluminum unibody (back cover) that only a much more expensive 7.7" Samsung tablet can achieve. It runs fast with a Dual-core 1.2GHz processor and a 1 Gb RAM. It's camera is a good 5 megapixel size while Samsung's resolution comes up to 3.2 megapixel.
But wait…what's Huawei? Who's Huawei? Huawei is a Chinese company that's made its mark in the recently held Mobile World Congress in Madrid, Spain. It's new products, the Mediapad 10 FHD (Full High Definition) and Huawei Ascend D Quad made a debut in that event that pundits said will give The New iPad a run for its money because of its form, function, and processor speed. It's Smartphone products are now making waves in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa.
This 7-inch Huawei device is only available at flagship MemoXpress stores in SM North EDSA and Megamall. It's price is not a promo fit (does not expire) but as soon as stocks are available only. The device is so good, I'm willing to trade off my Php23,990 Samsung for Php20,000 just to be able to buy this new device (That's almost Php4,000 discount).
I bought my device March 27 only and it's in solid condition.
If you're a Samsung-lover, then grab the chance and get my new toy for that much discount. By the way, did I say that the price comes with a Php3,000-value Capdase screen protector and leather case? So I don't know what you should be waiting for. Drop me a comment and I'll get in touch with you. First come, first served basis!


← Persevere and Do Not Give Up.
Recently, Alex Salmond, Scotland's former First Minister caused a stir amongst atheists and other secularists when he stated that he preferred people of faith to those with no faith or who had lost their faith. Their reaction was all to predictable, slating him for daring to express his views. They suppress other people's views about religion by rubbishing them. Too many lobby groups use this technique these days rather than address the issues their opponents raise. All too often it is because their arguments are weak. Because people know they will get abuse if they contradict them so they tend to keep quiet. While agnostics can claim to have no faith the same cannot be said of atheists.
To exclude the possibility of any kind of divine agency and leave everything to blind chance as to the origins of the universe through to life itself requires a high degree of faith. There can be no reason for the universe coming into existence in the first place as that would indicate a divine designer. Despite searches for life elsewhere in the universe we are the only known place in the universe where life, especially intelligent life, is known to exist. When Darwin wrote his Origin of Species very little was known about biochemical processes and life was believed to come about easily. The more we discover in this field the more the odds are stacked against it. Scientists developed a computer programme that calculated the chances of amino acids forming a protein by random processes and found it was billions to one. And that is just one of many required in each cell. Normally such odds would regarded as statistically impossible. But atheists have such a faith in their beliefs that they disregard the science when it contradicts them. DNA contains information, but how could a bunch of chemicals come together by accident and become a complicated code without an intelligence behind it? It takes great faith to believe that. When it comes to alleged human ancestors it also takes a lot of faith to believe. In the past week there was an announcement of another discovery of an alleged human ancestor in South Africa. A collection of bones had been found in a cave. A picture suggested that they were all jumbled up and might have come from more than one individual creature. TV reports then went on to show an artist's impression of what the creature allegedly looked like. But the process of arriving at this image was only briefly hinted at. What tends to be omitted in these stories is how much of a skeleton is missing, such as the small bones of the hands and feet which are always the first to decay or detach from a skeleton. But they are the very ones which help to show how human these discoveries actually are. The same goes on as to they arrive at the dating of these objects, a date is stated but the details are missing. Yet again it takes a lot of faith to believe it all.
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Puff Jokes
A teacher goes for a long walk on the beach. She finds a shiny magic lamb, picks it up, and rubs it.
There is a puff of blue smoke and a genie pops out. "You have three wishes. I can give you anything in the world. If I fail, I must become your personal genie for eternity."
The teacher thinks for a moment and says, "For my first wish, I want jewels. Silver, gold, platinum, whatever you have....
Guy goes to a clinic to sell sperm...
(This one has a physical punchline that doesn't work well with text, but it was the first dirty joke my grandad ever told me, so I wanted to share)
A man sells his sperm at a clinic Afterward he meets a woman in the elevator, going down.
She says, "What are you here for? I've just so...
I was desperate and I couldn't get a date with a girl to save my life until...
I swiped right on a blind date, a profile picture. She asked me to pick her up, so i did, but I wasn't expecting much. I went up to the door expecting 400 lbs of desperation, but she answer the door 5 foot 2 with baby blue eyes, strawberry blonde curls and all the right curves in all the right place...
A man walks into a bar...
The bartender asks "Why the long face?"
The man replies "I just found out my wife is sleeping with another man. I've decided I'm going to drink myself to death."
The bartender looks shocked and says "I'm sorry I can't help you kill yourself."
The man asks "W...
The five minute management course
Lesson #1:
A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor. Before ...
What do Puff Daddy and Pepe Le Pew have in common?
Can't stop, won't stop.
A bear and a rabbit are arguing in the forest...
The genie is quite sick of hearing them so he decides to do something about it.
"Gentlemen!" He exclaims, popping up between them in a puff of sparkly blue smoke, "You are clearly not happy. So, to mitigate this, I shall grant each of you three wishes!"
"OH! OH! I shall go first!" The ...
A Joke about a Genie
Two workers and their boss were walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out.
The Genie says, "I'll give each of you just one wish." "Me first! Me first!" says one worker. "I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, without a care in the worl...
A divorced lady in her early 40's, out for a walk in the countryside, stumbles over an oddly shaped bottle. Picking it up and rubbing it lightly to see what it is, there's a puff of smoke and a pixie appears from the bottle neck.
"Wow, that's a relief," says the pixie, "I've been in there a...
Here's a Halloween joke!
Three guys run into a museum to hide from the hoard of zombies coming down the road. While looking for something to eat and drink one of the survives finds a golden lamp and out pops a genie roaring out.
"You can have three wishes. So what is the first wish?" One man says " I want to go back...
A farmer went out to the field and found one his cows had gone cross-eyed
The cow could hardly walk and kept bumping into things. Fearing it might hurt itself, he called his vet to come have a look at the cow. The vet took one look at the cow and told the farmer "I've seen this before. You stand up there in front and watch her eyes." The vet took out a section of hose, pu...
A boy and his grandpa go out fishing
A boy goes out fishing with his grandpa who is an old retired sailor, real rough around the edges kind of guy
While fishing grandpa pulls out a cigarette and lights it. The boy asks "can I have one?" And grandpa asks back "can you touch your pecker to your asshole?" The boy says "no" and gra...
I wish -
### A man walks into a bar with a donkey and an ostrich.
He sits down at the counter and asks for a beer.
"That will be 5.98$, sir.", the bartender says.
The man, puts his hand into his pocket and pulls out 5 dollars and 98 cents in exact change.
"How mu...
NSFW: hope this isn't a repost, never seen it here, but one of my favorites I heard at least 20 years ago . A woman is walking alone on the beach one day....
Enjoying the beautiful day when she stubs her toe and stumbles over something in the sand. She turns around and is stunned to see a genie rising from smoke out of a lamp. The genie looks at her twirling his goatee and informs her he can grant her one wish. She takes a moment to ponder her decision a...
Three men are walking through the woods when they find an old, battered lamp.
One of them picks it up, rubs it, and out pops a genie.
"After all these years, I'm finally free!" the genie booms. "You know what, it's been so long that I'll make an exception and grant each one of you 3 wishes."
The first guy immediately blurts out, "I want a billion dollars!" In a ...
Me and the Devil
I was in church one Sunday when suddenly there was a flash of light, a puff of smoke, and the stench of sulphur. When the smoke cleared, there was the Devil standing in our midst. Everyone ran for the doors, but I just stayed in my seat.
The Devil said, "You know who I am, boy?"
"Yeah,...
3 little pigs
A wolf goes to the house of the first pig, which was made of straw. "Come out you pig, or I will huff and puff and blow your straw house down".
The pig stays put and the wolf starts huffing and puffing. Frightened now, the pig sneaks out the back door just as his straw house starts to blow ...
An new, environmentally-conscious farmer starts using manure in place of fertilizer on his crops.
He gets the manure from his own cows, and within weeks notices a significant change with his wheat and other grains. They begin to flourish like he's never seen before, and he quickly begins heavily using this alternative method. The blossoming crops attract the attention of a agriculture company ne...
How do you eat Reese's puffs?
How do you make an apple puff?
Chase it round the garden
Smoking in the rain.
Joke time!
A little old lady was waiting at the bus stop. While she was waiting for the bus, she decided to light a cigarette. She had a few puffs, then it started to rain. She couldn't keep it lit. She looked at a younger guy who was pulling a condom over his cigarette. She asks why he's doi...
TIL the creator of Corn Pops also invented Cocoa Puffs, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, and Apple Jacks
His tombstone just says "cereal entrepreneur"
A gentleman had made several attempts to get into the men's restroom
In a Chicago hospital, a gentleman had made several attempts to get into the men's restroom, but it had always been occupied. A nurse noticed his predicament.
Sir, she said "You may use the ladies room if you promise not to touch any of the buttons on the wall."
He did what he needed t...
A man traveling by plane and in urgent need to use the mens room is nervously tapping his foot on the floor of the aircraft. Each time he tried the mens room door, it was "OCCUPIED".
The stewardess, aware of his predicament suggested that he go ahead and use the ladies room, but cautione...
An Aligator and a Monkey meet by the river. The monkey is smoking something.
Aligator: Hey, what have you got there?
Monkey: I've got some of that good stuff man, it's that OG kush everyone's been talking about, you'll take one puff and you're gone! I'm telling you!
Aligator: Nah, mate,that's bull, lemme try some tho.
Aligator pulls once, nothing. Twice....
Grandpa and Grandson are on the porch (Long)
Grandpa and grandson are on the porch. The grandpa is smoking a cigar. The grandson asks " Grandpa, can I have a puff of your cigar?"
Grandpa replies "Well does your dick touch your asshole?"
The grandson is confused but replies "No."
"Well then you can't have a puff!"
An English man, a French man, a Cuban Man and an Indian man are in a train carriage.
The French man takes out a bottle of very expensive wine, has one sip, and throws it out the window.
The English man says "why did you do that? " and the French man replies, "we have so many of these in my country they are practically worthless.
A few minutes later the Cuban man takes ...
A pot head sits on the balcony with some good shit
He starts rolling a blunt, lights it up and takes a deep puff. All of a sudden a huge fireball flies across the sky. He's like "woah, tough shit". So he rolls another one. He lights it up, inhales and bam! Another huge fireball flies across the sky. "No way, that's insane". He rolls a third one and ...
The Muff Puff
So there was this married couple and the husband was a drunk. He would constantly drink and end up get abusive towards his wife.
So one day the wife gets fed up and decides she is going to go to the pet store and get something that will help defend herself. When she gets to the store an empl...
Three little old nuns are attending a church service in Rome when, in a freak accident, a giant crucifix falls from the old plaster wall and kills them.
When they arrive at the Pearly Gates Saint Peter says, "I'm SO sorry, Sisters, that was a freak accident and wasn't supposed to happen.
"Unfortunately, your Earthy bodies were too horribly mangled for us to just send your souls back, but we *do* have a protocol for cases like yours.
"W...
Donald Trump is walking along a beach
He stumbles over an old bottle, he picks it up and pulls the cork.
With a flash of light and a puff of smoke a Genie appears before him.
"Thank you Donald for releasing me from my prison, I shall grant you any 1 wish"
Trump immediately blurts out "I want a Dragon like from game of t...
Three Old Guys
Three old guys were having their early morning coffee klatsch and the first one said "I feel like I have to pee all the time, but it's just drips and drabs! It's just awful!
The second guy complains about pooping: I huff and puff and all I get are a few rabbit turds, it's awfull.
The third guy...
The tale of the bear and the rabbit
A bear and a rabbit is sitting next to each other in the woods, taking a shit when the bear asks the rabbit. "Do you mind when you get shit stuck in your fur? "No." says the rabbit. The bear then proceeds to wipe his ass with the rabbit.
A few weeks later, as both walk together they stumble ...
The Lucky Frog
A man goes golfing and notices a frog in the green at the first hole. He doesn't think anything about it, puts the ball on the tee and prepares to swing when he hears, "Ribbit, 9 iron."
The man looks around in surprise but doesn't see anyone. He turns back to his ball and prepares to swing a...
A five year old boy and his grandpa are sitting on the front porch together, when grandpa pulls a beer out of a cooler.
The little boy asked, "Grandpa, can I have a sip of your beer?" The Grandpa replied, "Does your dick touch your asshole?" The little boy answered no. Grandpa said "Then you're not old enough to have a beer."
A little later the grandpa lights up a cigar. The little boy asked, "Grandpa, can I ...
A stoner is smoking a joint at a hostel when a German guy turns up.
The German guy speaks no English, but the stoner is feeling good so he offers the German his joint. The German takes a puff, thanks him, and hands it back. The stoner nods approvingly, and for some reason begins to roll another joint. He takes a puff himself, and hands it to the German, and again th...
A 7 & 4 year old were in their bedroom. "You know what" says the 7 yr old, "I think it's time we start swearing" so when we go downstairs for breakfast I'll swear first and then you." "Okay" says the 4 yr old gleefully.
As they head downstairs and sit at the table in the kitchen the Mother asks the 7 yr old what he wanted for breakfast. He quickly replies and says "I'll have the Coco Puffs, bitch." WHACK, he flew out of his chair crying his eyes out! Mom then turns and looks at the 4 yr old and sternly says, "and w...
4 years ago today, I shared the worst joke I ever created. Here it is again for those that missed it.
There are two identical twin brothers that live together. One happens to be a well-respected dentist, and the other can't seem to keep a job. Instead of actively looking for work, he likes to sit around at home. One Saturday, the dentist is hungry, and puts his brother on the spot. He tells him to g...
A plumber apprentice, carrying a large, heavy tool box and a master plumber go out for a job.
They get to an overflowing sewer with poop floating on top. The master puffs his cigarette a few times and put it to rest on a rock. Takes his hat off, hold his breath and dips his head into the water to take a look. After a second or so, gets his head out:
"Give me the 9/16 wrench!"
A South African policeman pulls over another South African for speeding and driving wrecklessly
The policeman asks the driver to pull down his window.
The driver complies and large puff of weed escapes the car.
The officer shakes his head and asks:
"sir, how high are you?"
The driver immediately responds:
" no sir, it's hi, how are you"
and drives off
That was your greatest trick.
There was once a magician who performed sleight-of-hand tricks on a cruise ship. He had a regular spot on the ship's cabaret evening entertainment. He was actually quite a good magician, but his routines were regularly ruined by the on-board parrot who would fly around squawking and giving away his ...
A man walks into a bar and sees his friend sitting beside a 12-inch pianist.
He says to his friend, "That's amazing. Where did he come from?"
The friend pulls out an old lamp and tells him the genie inside will grant him one wish. The man rubs the bottle, and to his amazement, a puff of purple smoke spews out and slowly collects in the form of a genie. In a booming voice ...
An Orangutan Is smoking a joint on a tree when a lizard walks by...
The lizard asks: "Hey Orangutan what are you doing?"
"Smoking a joint"
"Ooooh can I have a puff???"
And the Orangutan: "Absolutely not, you're so small you couldn't possibly handle It"
"Cmon please Orangutan just one!"
"Alright! But don't make me regret It"
After smoking the lizard...
A 7 yr old and a 4 yr old are in their bedroom...
The 7 yr old looks at his brother and says, "I think it's time we start swearing"
The brother nods in agreement.
"When we go downstairs, I'll be the first to swear and then you swear" says the 7 yr old.
The two brothers go downstairs and the mother asks what they want for brea...
There once was a village whose mayors were all named Benny and had magnificent beards
Legend held that if a mayor shaved his beard off, an ancient curse would transform him into a piece of pottery.
Centuries passed and every Benny was a fair and wise mayor, and never shaved their beards. But one summer, their land was struck by a terrible heat wave. All the men of the villag...
A man is shopping at a pharmacy with his 10 year old son
As they go through the aisles the man's son points and says "What are those?" The man looks to see his son pointing at the condoms and thinks "maybe it's time to tell him some facts of life."
"Those are condoms son," the man says calmly, "They're what men use when they want to practice safe ...
A gentleman on his way to a job interview in Brooklyn breaks the sole of his shoe.
Not wanting to arrive at the interview with a broken shoe, he asks some by-standers where the closest cobbler is.
"You'll want Olaf Von Gundersen." says one gentleman. "He isn't very close by but he's quick and his prices are just right."
Having no choice, the man with the broken shoe...
So this guy decides to take off work to go golfing.
So he's there on the Green, about to head his ball, when he hears, "Ribbit! Nine-iron!"
He looks down and there's a little frog next to his foot. "What did you say, little frog?"
And the frog repeats. "Ribbit! Nine-iron!"
So the man shrugs, figures what the hell, switches cl...
A jewelry store owner and his two employees go on lunch break together
At the restaurant they find a lamp on the booth seat.
The owner rubs it and a genie appears; "Ye who have summoned me, I will grant three wishes. Since there's three of you here, you each get one wish."
The first employee says "I wish I was riding a jetski by a tropical beach crowded ...
Tom finds a lamp in his grandfather's attic
Seeing that it's a little dusty, he rubs it. To his surprise, a genie appears in a puff of smoke.
Genie: greetings, mortal. As you have summoned me, i will give you three wishes
Tom: alright, i wish to be rich.
Genie: granted. What is your second wish?
Rich: i wish i had...
A monkey is sitting on a riverbank, smoking weed.
A frog, swimming by, gets a whiff and makes a beeline to the shore:
'Hey dude! Mind if I take a puff?'
'Get out of town,' says the monkey. 'You're so small you'll be off your face after the first hit.'
'Oh come on, just a little bit! I've always wanted to try it.'
'Well, ...
Three men crash land on a desert island, 3 days later they find a magic lamp in the sand on the beach
>**this joke works best if you do the actions when you're telling it**
The men get very excited about the lamp and as they dust the sand away it hums and buzzes before a genie emerges in a puff of blue smoke.
"You have freed me from my prison," says the Genie, "For this, I will give...
A little boy sees his grandpa smoking weed.
He says, "Gramps, can I have a puff?" Grandpa replies, "Can your dick touch your asshole?"
"No..."
"Well, you can't have any."
Later, the little boy sees his Grandpa drinking beer and asks, "Can I have a swig?" Grandpa replies again, "Can your dick touch your asshole?"
The Dog Fight
The Israeli Dog vs. The Arab Dog
The Israelis and Arabs realized that, if they continued fighting, they would someday end up destroying the whole world. So they decided to settle their dispute with an ancient practice: a duel of two, like David and Goliath. This "duel" would be a dog fi...
Wanna hear a dirty joke?
Little Timmy fell in the mud.
Wanna hear a dirtier joke?
Little Timmy started playing in the mud.
Wanna hear a clean joke?
Little Timmy took a bath.
Wanna hear a cleaner joke?
Little Timmy took a bath with bubbles.
Wanna hear en even cleaner joke?
Little Timmy...
A man was walking down the beach one day when he found a dirty old lamp in the sand.
He picked the lamp up and started rubbing the dirt and sand off the lamp to clean it when all of a sudden a Genie pops out of it in a big puff of smoke.
"I am the Genie of the lamp", says the Genie to ...
Cerealsly amazing joke
Once upon a time, there was a Cheerio who wanted something to do with his life, because it sucked. He decided he wanted to marry someone. So, one day, he went to the town square and saw a beautiful Fruit Loop. He went up to her and tried to ask her out on a date, but before he could get any words ou...
An American, a Cuban, a Scotsman and a lawyer, were on a cruise ship. As they were standing on the deck, watching the waves and chatting, each one started showing off.
The Cuban took out a nice Cohiba cigar, lit it, took just one puff and tossed it into the sea. The other guys were flabbergasted....
A college professor is giving his students a test
At the start of the exam, the Professor says, "You have exactly 2 hours. I will not accept any papers after this time has elapsed."
Two hours later, the Professor calls out, "Time's up, Ladies and Gentlemen."
One student is still scribbling away ten minutes later when the Professor has...
A slight variation of an old joke
One day a man who had just gone through a very bitter divorce was walking on the beach. He notices something glittering in the sand and digs it out and holds it up. It appeared to be a gold, antique teapot. He rubbed it with his sleeve to brush the sand off and suddenly in a puff of smoke, a genie a...
Once upon a time in Soviet Russia a comedy theater has invited Joseph Stalin to watch and review their new comedy show just before premier.
Main character of that comedy is a clumsy guy with large mustache that is constantly getting into different stupid situations. After the end of the show all actors, directors and other personal gather at the stage and tremulously wait for resolution of comrade Stalin.
Comrade Stalin who is th...
In the land of Oz, there was a dark, musky swamp, and in this swamp there lived a bunch of deep green frogs.
Except for one frog, who was a pale yellow color. The yellow frog got made fun of all the time for being a different color, and one day he was so fed up he called out into the sky, "good witch Glinda, good witch Glinda, please turn me green!" And out of the sky, a little soap bubble floated down to ...
A traveling salesman is going door to door selling vaccum cleaners.
He goes up to one house, rings the bell and waits for an answer. The door opens and standing in front of him is a lil boy, who cannot be anymore than 7 years old. In one hand he's got a pint of beer and hanging out of his mouth is a lit cigar.
"Little boy, are your parents at home?" The sales...
Three families are driving along a mountain road, all collide and die in a wreck of twisted metal and fire. (Long)
All of them end up in a line standing before St. Peter and the pearly gates.
St. Peter motions the first head of the family forward. "What have you done to deserve to get into heaven?"
The man dressed in a business suit said, "My family never wanted for anything and I provided whateve...
Little Johnny goes fishing
Little Johnny goes fishing with his grandfather out on the lake. While they're fishing, grampa pulls out a tin of chewing tobacco and takes a dip.
"Grampa, can I try that?"
Grampa thinks for a minute, then says "Does your dick reach your asshole?"
"No sir...."
"Then you a...
A Pig walks into a pub.
He goes up to the bar and sees a curious looking bottle bubbling away with mist emanating from the top. Slightly flummoxed he asks the barman, "What's this about then?"
The barman replies, "Well, this is a mystic potion, a concoction of my very own. Take a sip and it'll magically release your...
Joe was heading towards the end of a round of golf...
...when hit his ball into the woods and found it in a patch of pretty, yellow buttercups. Trying to get his ball back in play, he ended up thrashing just about every buttercup in the patch.
All of a sudden, POOF! In a flash and puff of smoke, a little old woman appeared.
She yelled, "I...
A little boy and his papa were going on a boat ride
On the car ride to the lake the papa put in a dip. The little boy asked, "Papa, can I have a little dip too?" The papa asked the boy a question in return. "Is your penis long enough to touch your asshole?" The boy responded no and the papa replied back, "Well then you're not old enough, and besides,...
One day, DJ Khalid's son found a magical lamp...
One day, DJ Khaled's son stumbled upon a magical lamp. After rubbing it, a mystical genie poured out of the stem and asked for boy what he wanted for his wishes. Knowing his father's great love of music, the boy wished to become a keyboard, something Khaled enjoyed using for his music. "Granted", sa...
Joke Explanation
So we have a dad joke calendar at work that we check every day. Today's joke was as follows:
Q: How do you make an apple puff?
A: Chase it around the garden!
Can someone explain what the hell this means? Everyone at work has been racking their brains trying to figure it out and ...
Two guys are in a locker room when one guy notices the other guy has a cork in his ass.
He says, "How'd you get a cork in your ass?"
The other guy says, "I was walking along the beach and I tripped over a lamp. There was a puff of smoke, and then a red man in a turban came oozing out. ...
A kid goes to stay at his grandparents house for a weekend
On the first night, the kid and his grandad are sitting in the garage, Gramps is having a smoke. Kid says, "hey, can I get a puff?" Gramps says, "well. Does your dick touch your asshole?" Kid says, "no... What the hell??" Gramps says "well you can't have a puff of my cigar.
Next day, kid and ...
A man walks into a bar
and orders a drink. While he's waiting, he can't help but notice the disgruntled looking fellow sitting next to him. In front of him on the bar, is a tiny man in a tuxedo playing a concerto on a tiny piano. Obviously curious, the man asks:
Hey buddy, what's with the tiny musician?
There was a man who loved tractors...
This man was literally obsessed with tractors. He fucking LOVED tractors. He lived tractors, his life was eat, sleep, tractors. However, one day, he fell off a tractor and broke his leg. After that, he hated tractors and never went near one again.
A few years later, the man came home from the...
tiny pianist
An oldie, but goodie:
A man walks into a bar and sees a 12 inch pianist playing the piano. He talks to the bartender and says, "That's amazing! Where did you find a 12 inch pianist?"
The bartender replies, "Oh, I have a genie in the back room who grants wishes. Give it a try if you w...
(Nsfw) How do jews smoke weed?
They puff puff passover
A little rabbit is running through the forest
when he sees a bear and a wolf smoking a joint. Not knowing what a joint is, he approaches them.
"What are you doing guys?" the rabbit asks. "Smoking a joint." they said, "Wanna try?". "I can't. Mrs. rabbit is waiting for me." answers the rabbit. "Come on, rabbit. It's gonna be fun.". Rabbit ...
Humpty Dumpty was smoking some drugs
With a few gangstas and fairy tale thugs
Then all the King's men slapped them in cuffs
All because they had a few too many puffs
The Devil went to a small church...
The congregation at a die hard church was in full swing when with a stench of brimstone and puff of smoke the devil appeared! All them members ran from the church except one little old man in the first row who sat looking calmly at him.
The devil loomed over the old man and growled " Do you real...
Little Johnny is goofing off in math class and Ms. McHeiney calls on him.
"Johnny, three birds are sitting on a fence, you shoot one of them how many are left." Johnny sits up straight and says "none, the bang would make the others fly away." Ms. McHeiney says, "well, the answer is two, but I like the way you're thinking."
Little Johnny says "OK, I have one for y...
The guy is carrying a keg of beer
It's Friday evening, great weather, long weekend ahead. Everything is just perfect.
Suddenly he sees some rusty antique lamp in a pile of garbage. Curious, he picks it up.
Surely enough genie appears.
- what's your wish?
- what, just one?
- yep, this is a used lamp, o...
Smokin' Old Ladies
Two ladies in their 80s, best friends Ethel and Delores, are smoking while enjoying each other's company.
"Delores," Ethel starts, "how do smoke regularly but your lips never chap or crack?"
"Well, I use these," Delores responds as she pulls out a condom. She then cuts the tip of the c...
Mexican magician
A Mexican magician tells the audience he would disappear on the count of three
'uno, dos and puff...' . He left without a tres.
Mr. Pott was an average man, with an extraordinary skin condition
One day Mr. Pott (legend says his first name was Arthur) went to the doctor to get his skin checked out. He said "Doctor, I have a very odd skin condition. Multiple times a day, my skin will puff up and get all red almost instantly, with no warning."
The doctor thought this was very odd, and ...
Harry Potter is invited to a... "gathering" at Hogwarts one night.
He is told to go through the door marked by a gryphon. As he does so, he wonders what this is all about. When he enters the room, he is stunned to see Malfoy obviously inebriated on the floor, just slitherin' over to the side, towards a guy who would repeatedly huff 'n' puff clouds of smoke. Next to...
Did you hear the one about the guy on the toilet with all the buttons??
He looked at the array of buttons in bewilderment as he finished his business. He sees one labeled "WW"and decides to test it out. He pushes the button and warm water gently shoots out and washes his rear. Delighted, he moves onto one labeled "WA". He pushes it and warm air flows from the toilet and...
The Old Jew and the Genie
One day, a very old Jewish man was walking down the street when he encountered a tarnished brass lamp.
As he tried to polish it up with his sleeve, lo and behold a genie appeared in a puff of smoke.
"Master of the lamp, I am able to grant you one wish!" the genie bellows.
The o...
A Greek, a Jew, and an Irishman are accidentally killed by a bus.
An angel descends and tells them "Actually, there's been a mistake. It wasn't your time to die. We will let you come back to life, but you must promise to renounce your vices."
To the Irishman, the angel said, "Your vice is drinking too much. You can come back to life as long as you stop drin...
Lizard is walking through the forest...
and he comes up to a large tree along the path. He looks up in the tree and sees Koala sitting on a branch smoking a joint.
"Heyoo Koala, do you mind if I climb up and try some?" Lizard asks.
"Not at all Lizard, my dude, come on up!" Koala wheezed while exhaling a ripe puff.
Liz...
The tiny door to the magic castle was barely big enough to crawl through. It was carved with a half-lion, half-eagle, and guarded by a fearsome raven that would only allow you to pass if you breathed on its foot...
So basically you had to huff n puff on the raven claw then slither in the griffon door.
A guy moves to a new town and is looking for nearby place to get a drink.
He walks into the first bar he sees and orders a beer. The bartender serves him but says that if he wants to come back he has to become a member. The guy takes a drink and looks around the place then asks, "well what do I gotta do to be a member?" The bartender reply's, "Well, did you see that 7 foo...
Three friends are shipwrecked on a desert island
After days of despair, one of them stumbles across a lamp and shows it to the others. They rub it and sure enough a genie appears.
**"I AM THE GENIE OF THE LAMP, AND I WILL GRANT YOU EACH ONE WISH"**
The first friend immediately declares "I wish I was at home with my fa...
A door-to-door salesman knocks on a door of a house
Little Johnny opens up, holding a half empty bottle of whisky and a lit cigar.
The salesman says, "hey kid, are your mom and dad home?"
Johnny takes a swig of whisky and a puff of the cigar, and answers, "What the fuck do you think"?
An Irishman, a Greek, and a Jew die and stand at the gates of heaven
The keeper of the gates tells them "Well, you have all lived pretty decent lives, but you all fall victim to your respective stereotypes. So here's what's going to happen. You all will go back down to earth for 24 hours and you must avoid your weaknesses.
"Irishman, alcohol cannot touch your lips...
What does the Big Bad Wolf do to get high?
He huffs and he puffs.
A sodomizer, an alcoholic, a thief and a drug addict await judgment in Hell...
The gatekeeper of Hell says, "Each of you are here because you let your addiction get the best of you. But I'm giving all of you a second chance, prove me wrong and I will drag you back to Hell!". Just like that the sodomizer, alcoholic, businessman and drug addict are teleported back to Earth.
A man releases a genie
A man is walking along a beach in California when he finds a bottle. He opens it, and with a puff of smoke, a genie is released.
"As a reward for freeing me from the bottle," says the genie, "I'll grant you one wish."
The man thinks for a while and says "I've always wanted to visit Aus...
There's a 4 year old and a 7 year old.
The 7 year old says, "Hey, let's say bad words!" The 4 year old says okay, so they go downstairs. They see their mom and she asks the boys what they want. The 7 year old says, "Give me some god damn Reese's Puffs." The mom slaps him and asks the 4 year old what he wants. The 4 year old says, "You be...
he sits down at the bar and orders a drink. out of his shirt pocket he pulls out a little man and out of his pants pocket he pulls a little piano with a bench. He sets them on the bar and the little man proceeds to play the piano. The bartender is amazed and asks where he got them. The man pulls an ...
This guy walks into a bar, takes a seat and puts a bag onto the bar
He reaches into the bag and pulls out a little piano and then a little seat. Then this little guy comes out of the bag takes a bow, has a sits down and start playing the piano. A man with a hat sitting next to the man with the bag exclaims, "That's amazing! How did you get this little guy?"
A computer programmer was sitting at home with his wife.
He takes a cigarette out of his pocket, lights it, and takes a puff.
His wife looks at him angrily and says,
"You really need to stop doing that. Can't you see the warning on the box? It says 'hazardous to health!'"
The programmer takes another puff of his cigarette and says,
"I'...
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Fee Arrangements
How We Handle Cases
Results of Client Survey
Monopolization Claims
Price Fixing and Other Conspiracy Claims
Financial Institutions Cases
Consumer & Civil Rights
Employer Defense
Insurance Class Actions
Other Significant Insurance Cases
Representative Patent Cases
Products Liability, Environmental Contamination and Other Personal Injury
Shareholder & Securities
Shareholder Oppression and Family Disputes
Barry Barnett
Houston Office Phone: (713) 653-7891 New York Office Phone: (212) 729-2024 Dallas Office Phone: 866-754-1900 Email Download vCard Print Bio to PDF
Yale University (B.A., Economics and History (honors), magna cum laude, 1981)
Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1984).
Judicial Clerkship
Law Clerk to The Honorable Jerre S. Williams, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (1984-85).
An "incredibly gifted lawyer" (Chambers and Partners), Barry Barnett is the go-to choice of sophisticated business clients facing high-stakes business disputes. Colleagues call him "magic in the courtroom" (Who's Who Legal) and in 2017 and 2019 voted him the Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year for Bet-the-Company Litigation in Houston. With offices in Dallas, Houston, and New York, he has successfully navigated complex matters across the United States for more than three decades.
Trial counsel
Barnett's credentials match his knowledge and skill. He is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, for example, an Elected Member of the American Law Institute, and an honors graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, he is master strategist in commercial litigation.
Barnett focuses on complex matters, especially ones involving antitrust, energy, or intellectual property. He has represented major corporations like Alaska Airlines, Cisco Systems, KKR, Neiman Marcus Group, and Texas Instruments. He's also battled for clients against behemoths like Abbott Labs, Apple, AT&T, Comcast, JPMorgan Chase, Samsung, and Visa.
Barnett projects a compelling courtroom presence. His performance before the Supreme Court in Comcast Corp. v. Behrend prompted the Court to withdraw the question on which it had granted review. The judge in a patent infringement trial called him "one of the best" and his opening statement the finest he had ever seen. Another trial judge told Barnett minutes after a jury returned a favorable verdict that he was one of the two best trial lawyers he'd ever come across—adding that the other one was dead.
Barnett can handle a case from start to finish. He's tried cases to verdict and then briefed and argued them when they went before appellate courts, including the Third, Fifth, and Tenth Circuits, the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and even (in the case of Comcast Corp. v. Behrend) the Supreme Court of the United States.
Barnett is a sought-after public speaker, serving on panels and talking on topics like the hottest claims, trial of class actions, and techniques for streamlining litigation. He also comments on trends in commercial litigation and the implications of major rulings for outlets such as NPR, Reuters,
Law360, Corporate Counsel, and The Dallas Morning News. He's even appeared on Frontline.
Hard-graders
Clients and other hard graders have praised Barnett for his courtroom skills and legal acumen.
"Barry Barnett was magnificent in trying this case," said Energy Future Holdings' general counsel after Barnett led a trial team that defeated $500 million claims relating to power plants, a lignite mine, and an aluminum smelter. "We couldn't ask for more able trial counsel."
A client in a $100 million oil and gas case, which Barnett's team won at trial and held on appeal, said Barnett and his team "presented a rare combination of strong legal intellect, common sense about right and wrong, and credibility in the courtroom."
Chambers and Partners calls him "an incredibly gifted lawyer" who earns "widespread praise from peers"", "particularly [for] his notable courtroom skills." Who's Who Legal says he does "a fantastic job for his clients". And Best Lawyers named him the 2017 and 2019 Lawyer of the Year for Bet-the-Company Litigation in Houston.
Barnett appreciates that clients face many pressures. Managing the stress is important, especially in matters that take years to resolve. He encourages clients to call him whenever they have a question or concern and to keep the inevitable ups and downs in perspective. He wants them to know that he will do his level best to help them achieve their legitimate goals. He also strives to foster trust and to make working with him a pleasure. Winning makes that easier.
Superb clients
A wide range of business clients have entrusted their critical matters to Barnett, including the ones you see below.
Public Companies:
Encana Oil & Gas
International Securities Exchange
KKR & Co.
Vistra Energy
Whiting Petroleum
Private Companies:
Energy Future Holdings
Firth Rixson
Innovative Sonic
Insight Equity
INVeSHARE
Luminant Generation
Mewbourne Oil & Gas
Morris & Dickson Co.
Oak Hill Capital
Olympia Minerals
RainTree Oncology
Wagner & Brown
Barnett knows how to get along with all sorts of people. A son of a roughneck and a Texas native, he grew up in Nacogdoches, the oldest town in Texas. While co-captaining his high school varsity football team, he also served as the Editor of Key Club's Texas-Oklahoma District and sang in the East Texas All Region Choir. His wide-ranging experience helps him connect with clients, judges, jurors, witnesses, and even opposing counsel.
Barnett is steady and loyal. He has practiced at Susman Godfrey his entire career – 34 years. He and his wife Nancy live in Dallas and enjoy spending time in Houston and New York. Their daughter works in Houston, and their son is a student at Columbia Law School.
As a member of Ivy League championship football teams in his junior and senior years at Yale and a parent of two Yalies, Barnett has no trouble choosing sides for The Game in November. And he knows how important fighting until the end is. On his last play from scrimmage, during the waning minutes of The Game on Nov. 22, 1980, he recovered a Crimson fumble.
Yale won, 14-0.
To see a list of the cases Barnett has tried and get contact information for judges, arbitrators, and opposing counsel, click on this List of Trials.
Honors and Distinctions
Academy of American Legal Writers, Board Member (2012-2019).
American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow (2014-2019).
American Law Institute, Elected Member (2007-2019).
The Best Lawyers in America, Lawyer of the Year in Bet-the-Company Litigation (2017 and 2019), Bet-the-Company Litigation (2010-2019), Class Actions (2015-19), Commercial Litigation (2003-2019), Litigation – Antitrust (2012-2019), Litigation – Intellectual Property (2012-2019), and Litigation – Patent (2012-2019) (Copyright by Woodward White Inc.).
Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in Antitrust and General Commercial Litigation (2007-2019).
Martindale-Hubbell AV (highest) rating (1995-2016).
Texas Super Lawyer in Business Litigation, Antitrust Litigation, Class Action/Mass Torts, and Energy & Natural Resources (variously 2003-2019), Law & Politics Magazine (Thomson Reuters).
Articles and Speeches
Barry Barnett — NPR "Marketplace" Report
Oral argument in Comcast Corp. v. Behrend
Creator and blogger-in-chief, The Contingency, one of the top 10 law blogs in LexBlog.
Interviews by and articles for NPR's "Marketplace" report, Law Blogof The Wall Street Journal, Texas Lawyer, ABA Journal, business torts "Hot Topics" by the Litigation Section of the Texas Bar Association, Global Competition Review, Kansas City Business Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Blawg Review, Texas Cable News, D CEO, and Dallas Business Journal.
Author and speaker at continuing legal education seminars, including "The Hottest Oil & Gas Claims" at the 66th Annual Oil & Gas Law Conference, Current Issues in Multidistrict Litigation and Class Actions" at the Third Circuit Judicial Conference; "Daubert in Class Certification Hearings: The Standard After Comcast" for ABA Section of Antitrust Law; and "Current Developments in Business Litigation", American Bar Association.
State Bar of New York.
State Bar of Texas.
Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
Bars of the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, and Tenth Circuits.
Bars of the United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas; the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York; the District of Arizona; and the District of Colorado.
Professional and Civic Associations
American Bar Association; Section of Litigation and Section of Antitrust Law; American Association for Justice; Dallas Bar Association; Federal Bar Association Houston Bar Association.
Center for American and International Law, Executive Committee (2016-19) and Trustee (2011-2019). Yale Club of Dallas; Harvard Club of Dallas; Yale Club of New York City.
Greenhill School, Addison, Texas, Trustee (2007-2013).
New-York Historical Society, Trustee (2016-2019) and Chairman's Council (2012-2019).
Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation, Texas Bar Foundation, Dallas Bar Foundation, and Houston Bar Foundation.
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On NSE, the QIB quota was subscribed by 0.47 times, retail by 0.21 times while NII quota was subscribed by 0.05 times.
NEW DELHI: The Rs 450 crore initial public offering (IPO) of Infibeam Incorporation has received bids for 1.11 crore shares, or 0.89 times, the total issue size as of 11.30 hours on Wednesday, the last day of the issue.
Infibeam, the first online e-commerce company to hit the capital market, has put 1.25 crore shares on the block in a price band of Rs 360-432 per equity share. The offer will close later in the day.
Data available on BSE website showed the qualified institutional investor (QIB) quota was subscribed by 0.33 times the quota limit. The quota for non-institutional investors (NIIs) was subscribed by 1.41 times, while retail investors had bid for 0.64 times the quota limit.
The e-commerce company has set the limit for retail quota at 10 per cent. QIBs are allowed to bid for up to 75 per cent on the total issue size of 1.25 crore shares. The quota limit for non-institutional investors (other than retail individual investors) has been kept at 10 per cent.
Infibeam's businesses include BuildaBazaar (BaB) e-commerce marketplace (28 per cent revenue) and e-retail website Infibeam.com (72 per cent revenue). While BaB offers cloud-based, modular and customisable digital solutions and other value-added services to enable merchants to set up online storefronts, Infibeam.com is a multi-category e-retailer.
The key strengths of the company include its strong merchant base in BuildaBazaar and high growth the company recorded in the e-tail business. BuildaBazaar provides digital solutions to 48,724 merchants. It helps merchants to set up online storefronts at an average monthly realisation of Rs 1,650 per merchant. Infibeam.com, on the other hand, has 5,000 registered merchants. The company has 12 logistics centres across 11 cities.
The penetration of internet users in India is at 19 per cent, which is lower than China's 46 per cent.The online shopper base is expected to improve from the present 35 million to 180 million by 2020, with increasing internet penetration. Some estimates peg the e-retail market size in India to grow to $44 billion (nearly 4 per cent of total retail) in 2020 from $7 billion in 2015 (1.2 per cent of total retail).


Abbotsford Mayor George Peary spoke with The Cascade this week about his reasons for running for a second term in office.
Banman agreed to speak with The Cascade this week, outlining his goals as potential mayor and weighing in on the P3 debate.
This week, Peachey spoke with The Cascade, explaining her motivation to begin a campaign and what she'd like to accomplish as mayor.


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Facebook has found yet another issue with its ad metrics -- and now there's money involved.
Facebook (FB) said Tuesday it is offering refunds after a "bug" caused some advertisers to be billed incorrectly when users clicked on videos in a carousel ad unit.
The error is said to have been limited to those checking Facebook through their smartphone web browser, as opposed to the app. Facebook says the bug only impacted 0.04% of ad impressions.
"Regardless of how many impressions were affected, we take all bugs seriously and apologize for any inconvenience this has caused," the company wrote in a blog post.
A source familiar with the matter said the bug overcharged advertisers a median amount of $10 over the course of a year. It was unclear how many advertisers were affected.
It's just the latest in a growing list of ad measurement mistakes revealed by Facebook since last September. This issue once again threatens to unnerve the advertisers who fuel its core business.
"At this point, they've made so many of these disclosures around so many of their products you have to wonder if there is anything left they can screw up," says Paul Verna, an analyst with eMarketer.
Facebook previously admitted to miscalculating the average time users spend watching videos and the number of completed video views. It has also "over-reported" average time spent on Instant Articles.
After these earlier mistakes, Facebook expanded its partnerships with third-party measurement services to ease advertiser concerns.
"We know that measurement is important to building advertiser trust," Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, said on an earnings call with analysts in February. "We're going to continue to invest in measurement, including third-party partnerships, in the upcoming year."
So far, the issue doesn't seem to have impacted Facebook's bottom line. Facebook's ad sales, which account for nearly all of its overall revenue, hit $7.85 billion in the most recent quarter. That's up more than 50% from the same period a year earlier.
Verna says that Facebook and Google (GOOGL) -- the two dominant online platforms among advertisers -- have "a lot of leverage here."
"While advertisers don't like to see this kind of thing, they feel if there was value in the platform before the issue came up, there will still be value despite this problem," he says.


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Google Maps will soon show how busy it is to get the location directly from the map view and enhance the real-time view
Oct 16, 2020 busy, enhance, GOOGLE, location, Map, Maps, realtime, show, View
Google Maps will soon show how busy a place is from the map view. The map already has a feature that allows you to see how busy a restaurant or other company is. Now you can directly see how busy a specific location is without searching. Google announced that busyness information will appear directly on the directions and maps. It will soon be promoted to Android, iOS and desktop users worldwide. In the next few months, users will also be able to use Live View, a feature that uses AR to help you find roads around cities to learn more about businesses, restaurants, or shops.
Google announced new improvements to Google Maps in its 2020 search campaign. Google Maps will place indicators such as "usually busy" and "usually not too busy" under the location name to help people make more informed decisions based on the coronavirus pandemic. The busy feature allows users to see how busy a place is. This feature was launched in 2016. Google said that from March to May this year, its interaction with it increased by 50%.
Google said it is working to expand real-time busy information to more places around the world and is expected to increase global coverage by five times compared with June 2020. The expansion will include more outdoor areas such as beaches and parks, as well as functions such as grocery stores, gas stations, laundromats and pharmacies.
The tech giant explained that for the past four to six weeks, it has always favored the most recent data in order to quickly adapt to changing epidemic time patterns and busy living locations in a certain place, while keeping COVID-19 and social distancing norms in mind.
READ Detroit rapper Curtis Roach swept TikTok with a "boring house", the corona virus isolation anthem we need
Android and iOS users will soon be able to use the real-time display function on Google Maps to learn more about the business. If you are walking around and the store has caught your attention, you can use Live View to quickly understand its business hours, busyness, health and safety information (if any) and star ratings, just point to Your store is fine. Mobile phone camera. Live View only works on AR compatible phones.
Google launched Live View for Maps, which uses AR to help better navigate users. Now, Google will use the arrows and directions overlaid on the screen to pair the same technology with useful information about the location in the live view. The search giant announced earlier this month that iPhone and Android users will soon experience an updated live view during location sharing.
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Following Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice next year, audiences will be introduced to another DC Comics property, Suicide Squad. Unlike Batman v Superman, however, the filming for Suicide Squad has been a lot less secretive, with a number of set photos already leaking out - including some recent ones featuring Will Smith's Deadshot.
Suicide Squad will act as a vehicle for introducing a number of DC villains, including Jared Leto's Joker and Margot Robbie's Harley. But that is far from all of the eclectic cast of Suicide Squad. Some of the other baddies in the film will be Jai Courtney's Captain Boomerang, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's Killer Croc and Jay Hernandez's El Diablo. Unlike what you would probably assume from a movie featuring mostly villains as the center, Task Force X will be working under Viola Davis' Amanda Waller, a government agent responsible for overseeing the squad.
While promoting his upcoming movie, Terminator Genisys, Jai Courtney spoke with MTV Movies about what it's been like filming, what his approach to his character is, and if Jared Leto is utilizing method acting to bring The Joker to life as he has with previous roles.
"Well, it's always funny... Often you'll go into a movie, usually like franchise stuff, where it's like super protected and you're signing all sorts of agreements and things to not reveal details. I guess they launched some images officially, like the week before we started because we knew we we're going to get snapped up. Like, yeah, we can't say anything about it, but fans now, and like bloggers and stuff, have a pretty fair idea of what's going on."
It's interesting to note that Leto seems to be taking his role as The Joker pretty seriously, comparable to how he's approached past acting gigs. Previously, the actor had described the character as "nearly Shakespearean" and a "beautiful disaster of a character." Whether or not that lends itself to a great performance remains to be seen, but at least Leto knows this role is no joke.


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const Router = require('koa-router')
const qiniu = require('qiniu')

const { AK, SK, BUCKET } = require('../../config')

qiniu.conf.ACCESS_KEY = AK
qiniu.conf.SECRET_KEY = SK

const router = new Router()
router.get('/getToken', async (ctx, next) => {
    ctx.set('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
    ctx.body = { uptoken: new qiniu.rs.PutPolicy(BUCKET).token() }
    await next()
})

module.exports = router

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package appeng.api.networking;

import java.util.HashMap;

/**
 * A registry of grid caches to extend grid functionality.
 */
public interface IGridCacheRegistry {

    /**
     * Register a new grid cache for use during operation, must be called during the loading phase.
     *
     * @param cl
     * @return cache id ( can be used later to ask the grid for you cache. )
     */
    void registerGridCache(Class<? extends IGridCache> iface, Class<? extends IGridCache> implementation);

    /**
     * requests a new instance of a grid cache for use, used internally
     *
     * @param grid
     *
     * @return a new HashMap of IGridCaches from the registry, called from IGrid when constructing a new grid.
     */
    HashMap<Class<? extends IGridCache>, IGridCache> createCacheInstance(IGrid grid);

}


8 musical bells that play different notes when tapped with the mallet as the bells spin.
Beautiful design and quality this unique instrument rotates on a plastic stand that supports a set of 8 musical bells that play different notes when tapped with the mallet as the bells spin.
Very easy to play whilst giving kids a fun introduction to the musical scale.
Includes an easy to play music sheet with 8 songs.
Recommended for children three years and older.


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THOMAS, NORMAN
By Norman Thomas TIMELY TOPICS Hail "Peace on Earth"! WHILE we worry, not without reason, about our own troubles—shall we inflate or not inflate? How shall we take care of the unemployed in a...
...I'm not minimizing the benefits of these data to those farmers who still have farms...
...There is absolutely no excuse for it in this day of scientific enlightenment Newark New Leader Dinner to Follow N. J. State Convention 1UEWARK.—What promises to be the largest and most interesting New Leader dinner so far will be held on Sunday, December 10, starting at 6 p. m., following,the adjournment of the state convention that day...
...Dont forget the bill comes back to you and me to be paid ia the end I Beginning with the notoriously expensive letter-carrier, the government employs to carry ¦sail across the ocean (through subsidies to steamship companies...
...NO political realist can expect very much from the Disarmament Conference now...
...This resolution was defeated primarily by tha French delegates with the support of delegates from the Little Entente countries on the ground, stated by a French delegate, "that his nation would not accept any proposals if this were included...
...Philanthropists and social workers who as late as 1930 and early in 1931 refused to support my repeated efforts to force from them a clear-cut declaration on municipal housing have now fallen in line...
...Therein is food for thought...
...An owning class has other things to be excited about...
...We want a Peter Owens who with the triumphant workers shall be able to stop munitions trade, the lying propaganda in the service cf profit, the cowardice and hypocricy of the respectable tools of an owning class, in time to prevent war...
...If she has no sickness insurance, she is given a pension for a period after confinement And she is given a gift of a complete layette together with a supply of baby's toilet articles...
...Women Don't Concern Them...
...There ia a logic in Germany's demand either to be allowed to re-arm or to have the Allies disarm...
...I think or, st any rate, I hope that it will be a long time before any Socialist Central Committee in New York or anywhere else gives an endorsement to a right wing urion in internecine conflicts simply because it used to have some Socialist connections and is now fighting a Communist-controlled union even if that be in collusion with the bosses...
...More Fur Union Confusion THE other day in New Yo-k a Tammany judge declared a mistrial in the rather complicated legal proceedings by which the left wing furriers' union sought to set aside an earlier injunction got by the right wing which forbade employers to use any but members of the right wing union while in answer to this effort the right wing union sought to get a new injunction against tha left wing...
...and the rest of it—the world continues to drift toward war...
...All expectant moth* era of the workingclass are given the same care...
...Meanwhile, I should like to see "Peace on Earth" given in every town in America...
...France doubtless thinks it would be equally dangerous for her to disarm...
...On several occasions the famous J...imie Walker assured audiences that he wanted what I wanted, but knew a better way to*get it In 1929, when again I made municipal housing a major issue, there was more interest, and more direct interest Nevertheless, in spite of repeated efforts, I could not force Major La Guardia, then the Repuolican candidate for Mayor, to commit himself to this principle...
...She H given expert medical care...
...The convention will start at 9 a. m. and be in continuous session until 5 p. m., a quick noon lunch being served to the delegates at their tables to save time...
...The whole proceedings on both sides are left up in the air by the judge's declaration of mistrial...
...New Leader readers, or branches or groups outside of Newark desiring individual plates or tables, are urged to get in touch with Dr...
...As far as the lack of money to finance such measures is concerned, I want to say that this $7,000,000 is just one little item in a wag list of expensive noneosontiala we're spending money on...
...Let no one think from what I have said that *»<e .lay is "propaganda" in any false, strained or unnatural sense which sacrifices drama to a sermon...
...It is drama, good drama, powerfully conceived and well acted...
...The commercial aspect of French militarism was never worse illustrated than at the International Press Conference recently held in Madrid under the auspices of the League of Nations...
...But to rllow Germany to re-arm now under any pretext—that of fighting Bolshevism or of equality with other Powers—would be iangerous...
...In Vienna, the municipality takes charge of the pregnant workingclass woman from the fourth month on...
...The confusion is so great that there is not even a code as yet in the industry...
...All Agog Over Bee and Hog...
...Everybody knows the shocking state of affairs in 'he fur industry...
...Could any commentary on the low ethics of the French in regard to newspapers, newspaper subsidies and armament profits be more striking or mora alarming...
...No single pa^er in New York cried out on Major La C—rdia as a Socialist or dangerous radical...
...It appears that the Russian and American delegates were together on this press resolution, which is a good omen, perhaps, for what the two countries may do for effective disarmament now that Russia has boon recognised...
...If that new war can be prevented, it will be by the effective determination of masses of the people that they will not fight...
...Owr maternity mortality figures are tecond higheet on the list of civilized nations and we are also the most backward country • in regard to other social legislation...
...Especially necessary it is that workers should be organized so that the general strike against war can be made effective...
...By Gertrmde Wen Klein POKING its 1 nose late the lev* affair* of Oa garter - snake and into tbe domestic hab-, its of the anteater costs the government of the United States $7,000,000 a year...
...I speak specifically of the car* of pregnant women because of the appalling mortality figures, aad because of the grand job the Socialists of Vienna have been aad are doing in this direction...
...How shall we take care of the unemployed in a cold winter...
...The dinner has assumed such proportions that it must be held in the ball room, with practical assurance that every one of the 400 plates will be applied for some days, before the event Party branches, unions, the People's Institute, and many other groups are taking one, two, and even three tables of ten each...
...Louis Reiss, 188 Springfield Ave., Newark (Makret 2-8850...
...Thanks to the cooperation of the Workmen's Circle, the dinner will cost only 60 cents per plate...
...The topic of discussion at the dinner will be, "Hitlerism — in America and Abroad...
...No question of legitimacy or illegitimacy enters in: I think Socialist women in this country, through their various organizations, should make an aggressive effort to have governmental action taken in regard to matters that particularly affect them...
...The speakers are Charles Solomon and Frank Crosswaith, and probably a representative from abroad will speak...
...Whatever may be the case .nothing is clearer* than that the right wing union made a dangerous error in trying to beat its rival by going into a capitalist court with Tammany lawyers to get an injunction against employers who were really in collusion with them on this matter...
...Yet there may be a wholesome lesson fo...
...A Russian delegate introduced a resolution to end the practice of subsidising newspapers by munition plants, which, of course, have much to win by all stories of wars and rumors of wars...
...So do some phases of Socialism growl But not fait enough or toon vnough...
...What she has done with her meagre resources, during a period of bleak suffering through all of Central Europe, is something to admire and to hope to emulate...
...The way men talk just before the outbreak of the next war is the way they talked before the outbreak of the last war...
...The play is almost prophetic as a probable indication of what will happen—of what will happen, fiat is, unless all who hate war are well enough organized to make their resistance and their strikes end in victory, not defeat...
...In arousing the people to the danger of war, nothing is more effective than drama, for few situations hold in them such powerful elements of drama as does the drift toward war and the fight against it...
...Therefore I hail with all my heart the appearance of that power' and moving anti-war play: "Peace on F '.h" at the Civic Repetory Theatre on Weat 14th Street, N. Y. It was written by George Skiar and Albert Maltz and is being presented by the Theatre Union, Inc., an exceedingly interesting and hopeful venture...
...By some queer reasoning*' it is Jthe government's function to conduct extensive researches into the private lives of the members of the insect and animal world, but it would break up the home if motherhood, childhood, old age, unemployment, to mention just a few things, were given the consideration they deserve...
...A L SMITH and the rest who talk about "crack pots" and "baloney" dollars or rubber dollars will have to do a little explaining to convince the average man that their beloved gold standard dollars, which will buy so much more now than in 1926, aren't also really made for rubber or baloney...
...Don't Be Fooled by ''—nation...
...In the meanwhile, the original injunction agalnat the employers is to all intents and purposes a dead letter...
...For reasons I have previously g'ven, I am very skeptical of the value of the President's gold purchasing policy in reference to the dollar...
...In depression, there isn't as much money as there used to be in speculative housing...
...Yet if I hated inflation as much as Al Smith, or most of the bankers, or Matt Woll, I might reflect that perhaps President Roosevelt was doing them what we might call a good turn by trying an exceedingly mild form of inflation in an effort to stimulate a rise in price of certain agricultural commodities by means of increased European demand for them in cheaper dollars, and to forestall a wholesale inflation for which Congress is said to yearn...
...The people—college professors, students, graduates back for a reunion, recipients of honorary degrees, workers striking against the shipment of munitions— are people like the folks we know and what they do arises naturally out of their own characters and out of a situation which, alas, is all too probable...
...They sinned against sound labor tactics, they laid down a precedent which may rise to plague unions, and they got nothing out of it except big lawyers' fees which probably the union doesn't have to pay...
...Due to ignorance and lack of proper care, thousands of women's lives are sacrificed every year...
...Now They're Talking Housing THE other day Major La Guardis, Mayor-elect of New York, made a speech m municipal housing which took substantially the position that the Socialist Party has been urging ever since the war, only a little less carefully worked out than in our platforms of 1925, 1929, and 1983...
...She is given periodic" attention and advice...
...at $17,000 a pound and ending with the $6,600,000 spent on the Prohibition Bureau alone—not to mention the more than doubly costly coast guard—this represents quite a tidy sum which might be spend for all sorts of desperately needed social services...
...That shrewd political opportunist doubtless favored it at heart, but he was sfraid to commit himself to it Now he has come around...
...This is what the physieians themselves say...
...Peter Owens, the hero of "Peaco on Earth," goes out to execution almost i;t the very moment that Congress declares war...
...They invite a lack of confidence from rank and file workers, organized and unorganised...
...It is no defense whatever of such conduct to allege that the left wing union has done things that it ought not to have done...
...There Is more than one way to defeat a good will or emasculate a good program, and you can trust the landlord* the real estate1 interests, and the banks tied up with them to try some or all of those ways if Major La Guardia in New York or a leader in any other city actually gats down to cases and proposes a real program for municipal housing...
...trade union leaders in the future...
...These are tactics which invite worse than defeat...
...But we cannot ask American dramatists to give us this ending until we have done something to point the way...
...She is given the service of competent physicians in child-birth...
...Who reads the stuff and who is interested—outside of the agronomists, (just plain farmers to you and me)—is a mystery...
...No inflation will do what its enthusiasts claim for it Uncontrolled inflation will do immense damage...
...The convention is expected to be a useful and harmonious one, with every sect lor, of the state, represented...
...Yet there is no denying that French armament itself is a danger to the world...
...If it had been made by stme of Hitler's nominally democratic predecessors as vigorously and as effectively as Hitler msde it, the world would have been better off...
...Pregnant cows and suckling sows have the attention of all aorta of experts, and mountains of literature are written on this theme...
...Some rather damaging evidence was brought out in the proceedings to show tl at the right wing union had originally proceeded to get an injunction against employers who did not fight it not...
...1 dont think the tabloids spend as much to give us the more spectacular gyrations of the so-called human race...
...My main hope is that Socialists and workers generally will not get so excited about this battle between Smith and Roosevelt Matt Woll and Father Coughlin, that they will forget that the roots of our trouble are in the disintegrating capitalist system, not simply in money, and that our salvation depends upon the cooperative commonwealth, not upon any scheme of monetary reform...
...According to figures just released by the New York Medical Society, thousands of mothers die in childbirth annually—and 60% of these deaths are preventable...
...A great, rich city like New York and a powerful, rich country like the United States let its mothers die by the thousands, through neglect and ignorance...
...Because the march of events hss made municipal housing so obviously necessary1 that practically nobody dares attack it very violently out in the open...
...Both dinner and convention will be held in the Workmen's Circle Institute, 190 Belmont Ave...
...on its own initiative but at the suggestion and with the help of the employers themselves...
...The basis of representation for each branch is two delegates at large and one delegate for ten additional members, or majority fraction thereof...
...We might start on this question of maternal mortality...
...Poor, poverty-stricken, beautiful Vienna...
...Don't Forget Armament Makers...
...Friends of peace should pay far more attention to the mischief done by armament makers throughout the world, emphatically including the United States, who seek profits from preparation for war—yes, and from war itself...
...Why...
...It is expected that many visitors will be present, as a secretary and treasurer, eight delegates to the coming national convention, and a candidate for U. S. Senator and Governor will all be nominated...
...I mention the bees and the birds and the bugs, because while millions of dollars are spent on their care, human mothers are neglected and ignored...
...Apparently Great Britain and France are divided as to what to do...
...Nor does the apparent agreement of the public with Major LaGuardia'a approval of municipal housing mean that—if be tries to do anything about it—he won't have an awful fight on his hands to get it in any worthwhile shape...
...Indeed, some of the tariff and trade wars and the new war of currencies Just launched tend to increase the rate of drift toward the second World War...
...In 1925, when I first began to make housing a major issue, people listened and liked it, but liked it as something spart from themselves and remote...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 23


See northern Vietnam's most captivating destinations with a 5 day break that covers the best of Hanoi from the Old Quarter to Ba Dinh Square with a night spent on a traditional junk boat cruising around Halong Bay.
Welcome to Hanoi, one of southeast Asia's most charismatic cities with just the right amount of colonial charm and modern commotion with mopeds zipping along narrow streets lined with traditional houses and shopfronts. On your arrival at Hanoi's international airport you will be met and transferred to your hotel for check in (available from 2pm onwards). The remainder of the day is at leisure so you may wish to head out and explore Hoan Kiem Lake.
Today's sightseeing tour takes in the best of Hanoi, kicking off with Ba Dinh Square where the squat granite mausoleum of Vietnam's most famous leader - Ho Chi Minh - is laid to rest. Close by is the attractive and well-preserved stilted house where Ho once lived, now surrounded by well-tended gardens. Next up on the itinerary is the historic Buddhist temple known as the One Pillar Pagoda.
Touring continues with the Temple of Literature, the first university to have been built in Vietnam back in the 11th century. The complex features pagodas, courtyards, ponds and ancient trees making it a lovely spot for a little wander. Get to know Vietnam's colourful ethnic groups at the absorbing Museum of Ethnology. A highlight of your visit is sure to be the full-scale village houses arranged in the garden of the grounds.
Later this evening discover Hanoi's historic heart and soul as you head out on a walking tour of the Old Quarter where you can sample some of the city's tastiest snacks and street food from noodles to pancakes. The final stop of the day is the lively 'international corner' where locals and visitors alike gather to enjoy a cold beverage watching city scenes play out in front of them.
This morning depart Hanoi and transfer to Halong Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the jewel in Vietnam's scenic crown. Board a traditional junk boat for a cruise among the karst islands, carpeted with vegetation and rising dramatically from the vivid green waters of the bay. During your cruise you'll pass striking rock formations and sample a delicious lunch of freshly caught fish and seafood.
In the afternoon there will be the chance to swim in the waters, watch a cooking demonstration out on deck or simply relax on one of the loungers enjoying the incredible vistas. The day ends with a gastronomic feast with the other guests on board.
Start the day with a calming Tai Chi lesson, often accompanied by an amazing sunrise and the quiet breathtaking beauty of the bay's landscape. It's the perfect way to start your day. On the way back to the harbour the boat will pass many beautiful spots, stopping for the chance to explore Surprise Cave, one of the bay's many impressive caves that have been illuminated with neon lights to reveal a magical landscape of mineral formations.
Returning back to dock you will be met and transferred back to Hanoi by car where the remainder of the evening is at leisure.
Today marks the end of your touring arrangements with a departure transfer to the airport in time for your onward departure flight.
I really enjoyed Hoi An. It was very relaxed there.
Danang was very impressive for it's beauty. Also development is really happening there right now.
Hue was more than I expected: Really surprising.
Ha Long bay was unique.
Would have loved to continue on a longer tour but timelines did not suit this time round.
I will try to get back to South East Asia soon.


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Basic Circuit Analysis and Troubleshooting (Part Two)
Tracing Opens with the Ohmmeter
A simplified circuit, as shown in Figures 12-177 and 12-178, illustrates how to locate an open in a series circuit using the ohmmeter. A general rule to keep in mind when troubleshooting with an ohmmeter is: when an ohmmeter is properly connected across a circuit component and a resistance reading is obtained, the component has continuity and is not open.
Figure 12-177. Using an ohmmeter to check a circuit component.
Figure 12-178. Using an ohmmeter to locate an open in a circuit component.
When an ohmmeter is used, the circuit component to be tested must be isolated and the power source removed from the circuit. In this case, these requirements can be met by opening the circuit switch as shown in Figure 12-177. The ohmmeter is zeroed and across all good components is zero. The voltage drop across the open component equals the total voltage across the series combination. This condition happens because the open component prevents current to pass through the series circuit. With there being no current, there can be no voltage drop across any of the good components. Because the current is zero, it can be determined by Ohm's Law that E = IR = 0 volts across a component. The voltage is the same on both places across (in parallel with) the lamp. In this testing configuration, some value of resistance is read indicating that the lamp is in good condition and is not the source of the open in the circuit. Now the technician should move to the resistor and place the ohmmeter probe across it as shown in Figure 12-178. When the ohmmeter is connected across the open resistor, it indicates infinite resistance, or a discontinuity. Thus, the circuit open has now been located.
Troubleshooting Shorting Faults in a Series Circuit
An open fault can cause a component or system not to work, which can be critical and hazardous. A shorting fault can potentially be more of a severe nature than the open type of fault. A short circuit, or "short," causes the opposite effect. A short across a series circuit produces a greater than normal current flow. Faults of this type can develop slowly when a wire bundle is not properly secured and is allowed to chafe against the airframe structure or other systems, such as hydraulic lines. Shorts can also occur due to a careless technician using incorrect hardware when installing an interior. If screws that are too long are used to install trim, it is possible to penetrate a wire bundle immediately causing numerous shorts. Worse yet, are the shorts that are not immediately seen but "latent" and do not show symptoms until the aircraft is in service. Another point to keep in mind is when closing panels. Wires can become pinched between the panel and the airframe causing either a short or a latent, intermittent short. The simplified circuit, shown in Figures 12-179 through 12-182 is used to illustrate troubleshooting a short in a series circuit.
In Figure 12-179, a circuit is designed to light a lamp. A resistor is connected in the circuit to limit current flow. If the resistor is shorted, as shown in the illustration, the current flow increases and the lamp becomes brighter. If the applied voltage were high enough, the lamp would burn out, but in this case the fuse would protect the lamp by opening first.
Figure 12-179. A shorted resistor.
Usually a short circuit produces an open circuit by either blowing (opening) the fuse or burning out a circuit component. But in some circuits, there may be additional resistors which do not allow one shorted resistor to increase the current flow enough to blow the fuse or burn out a component. [Figure 12-180] Thus, with one resistor shorted out, the circuit still functions since the power dissipated by the other resistors does not exceed the rating of the fuse.
Figure 12-180. A short that does not open the circuit.
Tracing Shorts with the Ohmmeter
The shorted resistor can be located with an ohmmeter. [Figure 12-181] First the switch is opened to isolate the circuit components. In Figure 12-181, this circuit is shown with an ohmmeter connected across each of the resistors. Only the ohmmeter connected across the shorted resistor shows a zero reading, indicating that this resistor is shorted.
Figure 12-181. Using an ohmmeter to locate a shorted resistor.
Tracing Shorts with the Voltmeter
To locate the shorted resistor while the circuit is functioning, a voltmeter can be used. Figure 12-182 illustrates that when a voltmeter is connected across any of the resistors that are not shorted, a portion of the applied voltage is indicated on the voltmeter scale. When it is connected across the shorted resistor, the voltmeter reads zero.
Figure 12-182. Voltmeter connected across resistors.
Troubleshooting Open Faults in a Parallel Circuit
The procedures used in troubleshooting a parallel circuit are sometimes different from those used in a series circuit. Unlike a series circuit, a parallel circuit has more than one path in which current flows. A voltmeter cannot be used, since, when it is placed across an open resistor, it reads the voltage drop in a parallel branch. But an ammeter or the modified use of an ohmmeter can be employed to detect an open branch in a parallel circuit. If the open resistor shown in Figure 12-183 was not visually apparent, the circuit might appear to be functioning properly, because current would continue to flow in the other two branches of the circuit.
Figure 12-183. Finding an open branch in a parallel circuit.
To determine that the circuit is not operating properly, a determination must be made as to how the circuit should behave when working properly. First, the total resistance, total current, and the branch currents of the circuit should be calculated as if there were no open in the circuit. In this case, the total resistance can be simply determined by:
The total current of the circuit can now be determined by using Ohm's Law:
Each branch current should be determined in a similar manner. For the first branch, the current is:
Because the other two branches are of the same resistive value, then the current in each of those branches is 1 ampere also. Adding up the amperes in each branch confirms the initial calculation of total current being 3 amperes.
Tracing an Open with an Ammeter
If the technician now places an ammeter in the circuit, the total current would be indicated as 2 amperes as shown in Figure 12-183 instead of the calculated 3 amperes. Since 1 ampere of current should be flowing through each branch, it is obvious that one branch is open. If the ammeter is then connected into the branches, one after another, the open branch is eventually located by a zero ammeter reading.
Tracing an Open with an Ohmmeter
A modified use of the ohmmeter can also locate this type of open. If the ohmmeter is connected across the open resistor, as shown in Figure 12-184, an erroneous reading of continuity would be obtained. Even though the circuit switch is open, the open resistor is still in parallel with R1 and R2, and the ohmmeter would indicate the open resistor had a resistance of 15 ohms, the equivalent resistance of the parallel combination of R1 and R2.
Figure 12-184. A misleading ohmmeter indication.
Therefore, it is necessary to open the circuit as shown in Figure 12-185 in order to check the resistance of R3. In this way, the resistor is not shunted (paralleled) by R1 and R2. The reading on the ohmmeter now indicates infinite resistance, which means the open component has been isolated.
Figure 12-185. Opening a branch circuit to obtain an accurate ohmmeter reading.
Troubleshooting Shorting Faults in Parallel Circuits
As in a series circuit, a short in a parallel circuit usually causes an open circuit by blowing the fuse. But, unlike a series circuit, one shorted component in a parallel circuit stops current flow by causing the fuse to open. Refer to the circuit in Figure 12-186. If resistor R3 is shorted, a path of almost zero resistance is offered the current, and all the circuit current flows through the branch containing the shorted resistor.
Figure 12-186. A shorted component causes the fuse to open.
Since this is practically the same as connecting a wire between the terminals of the battery, the current rises to an excessive value, and the fuse opens. Since the fuse opens almost as soon as a resistor shorts out, there is no time to perform a current or voltage check. Thus, troubleshooting a parallel DC circuit for a shorted component should be accomplished with an ohmmeter. But, as in the case of checking for an open resistor in a parallel circuit, a shorted resistor can be detected with an ohmmeter only if one end of the shorted resistor is disconnected and isolated from the rest of the circuit.
Troubleshooting Shorting Faults in Series-Parallel Circuits
Logic in Tracing an Open
Troubleshooting a series-parallel resistive circuit involves locating malfunctions similar to those found in a series or a parallel circuit. Figures 12-187 through 12-189 illustrate three points of failure in a series-parallel circuit and their generalized effects.
In the circuit shown in Figure 12-187, an open has occurred in the series portion of the circuit. When the open occurs anywhere in the series portion of a series-parallel circuit, current flow in the entire circuit stops. In this case, the circuit does not function, and the lamp, L1, is not lit.
Figure 12-187. An open in the series portion of a series-parallel circuit.
If the open occurs in the parallel portion of a series-parallel circuit, as shown in Figure 12-188, part of the circuit continues to function. In this case, the lamp continues to burn, but its brightness diminishes, since the total resistance of the circuit has increased and the total current has decreased.
Figure 12-188. An open in the parallel portion of a series-parallel circuit.
If the open occurs in the branch containing the lamp, as shown in Figure 12-189, the circuit continues to function with increased resistance and decreased current, but the lamp does not light.
Figure 12-189. An open lamp in a series-parallel circuit.
Tracing Opens with the Voltmeter
To explain how the voltmeter and ohmmeter can be used to troubleshoot series-parallel circuits, the circuit shown in Figure 12-190 has been labeled at various points.
Figure 12-190. Using the voltmeter to troubleshoot a series-parallel circuit.
A point-to-point description is listed below with expected results:
By connecting a voltmeter between points A and D, the battery and switch can be checked for opens.
By connecting the voltmeter between points A and B, the voltage drop across R1 can be checked. This voltage drop is a portion of the applied voltage.
If R1 is open, the reading between B and D is zero.
By connecting a voltmeter between A and E, the continuity of the conductor between the positive terminal of the battery and point E, as well as the fuse, can be checked. If the conductor or fuse is open, the voltmeter reads zero.
If the lamp is burning, it is obvious that no open exists in the branch containing the lamp, and the voltmeter could be used to detect an open in the branch containing R2 by removing lamp, L1, from the circuit.
Troubleshooting the series portion of a series-parallel circuit presents no difficulties, but in the parallel portion of the circuit, misleading readings can be obtained.