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Annual premium equivalent (APE) is a measure used for comparison of life insurance revenue by normalising policy premiums into the equivalent of regular annual payments.  This is particularly used when the sales contain both single premium and regular premium business. This is used by the insurance industry to allow comparisons of the amount of new business gained in a period by life insurance companies.

There can be single payment premiums which is actually the sales spread over a period of long time. (In contrast to the recurring premiums which involves payment of premiums every year). So APE is a measure to normalize the single premium payments to the recurring payment premium equivalent. This helps in comparing the sales accurately.

A common approach taken by insurance companies is to take 100% of regular premiums, being the annual premiums received for a policy, and 10% of single premiums. This assumes that an average life insurance policy lasts 10 years and therefore taking 10% of single premiums annualises the single lump sum payment received over the 10-year duration.

Related categories
 Insurance
 PVNBP (Present value of new business premium)
 European embedded value (EEV)

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Ghosn faces Mitsubishi sack as more allegations surface
TOKYO (AFP) – Top executives from Mitsubishi Motors gather on Monday (Nov 26) to sack Carlos Ghosn as chairman over alleged financial misconduct that the once-revered tycoon denies, as further allegations leaked out against him.
At an emergency meeting in Tokyo, "it is to be proposed to the Board of Directors to promptly remove Ghosn from his position as… chairman," said the Japanese firm, the third company in the powerful alliance also involving Nissan and Renault.
Following his stunning arrest last Monday, the 64-year-old Brazil-born Frenchman began his second week in a Japanese detention centre facing allegations he under-reported his salary to the tune of US$44 million (S$60.49 million) over several years.
He has not been formally charged and denies the allegations, telling prosecutors he had no intention of under-declaring his compensation.
Fellow executive Greg Kelly, described as the mastermind behind the alleged misconduct, has also reportedly denied the allegations, stressing that his boss's compensation was paid in an appropriate fashion.
The board of Nissan decided unanimously on Thursday to oust Ghosn as chairman, a spectacular fall from grace for the dynamic businessman credited with turning around the firm's once-flagging fortunes by tying its fate to Renault.
The executives made their decision "based on the copious amount and compelling nature of the evidence of misconduct presented", said a company spokesman.
According to local media, Nissan formed a "secret" cell within the firm to look into the alleged financial misdeed.
Executives accelerated the probe amid concerns Ghosn was working on a fully fledged merger between Nissan and Renault, Kyodo News said without naming its sources.
Renault is the dominant partner in the alliance, holding 43 per cent of the shares in Nissan, but the Japanese firm outsells its French counterpart – sparking concern in Tokyo about the balance of power.
Together, the three-way alliance is the world's top-selling car company, with some 10.6 million vehicles rolling off the production line. It employs around 450,000 people worldwide.
Renault, which is 15 per cent owned by the French state, has decided to stick by Ghosn for now, appointing an interim boss while the current CEO and chairman is "incapacitated."
'CONSPIRACY THEORY'
France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire has urged the Japanese firm to share "quickly" whatever evidence it has gathered and stressed Ghosn will stay at the helm of Renault "until there are tangible charges".
However, Mr Le Maire also said, "I do not believe in a conspiracy theory," amid talk of a so-called "palace coup" within Nissan to prevent Ghosn merging the firm with Renault.
Nissan's CEO Hiroto Saikawa spoke to staff on Monday to address the issue. Mr Saikawa, who rose through the Nissan ranks under Ghosn's wing, has already spoken of his "great resentment and dismay" at the allegations.
Meanwhile, further claims continued to leak out in the Japanese media of Ghosn's alleged misconduct.
Officially, prosecutors are looking into allegations that he understated his income by around five billion yen between June 2011 and June 2015.
But the Asahi Shimbun said authorities are planning to re-arrest him on charges of understating his income by a further three billion yen for the following three fiscal years.
Under Japanese law, suspects can face additional arrest warrants, which can result in heavier penalties. The current allegations could see Ghosn facing 10 years behind bars and/or a 10-million-yen fine.
Separately, Kyodo has reported that Nissan paid US$100,000 annually since 2002 to Ghosn's sister for a fictive "advisory" role.
And the Mainichi Shimbun reported on Monday that Ghosn used Nissan's corporate money to pay a donation to his daughter's university and also charged family trips to the company.
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Вісім мандрівок Буковиною — путівник Буковиною Ірини Пустиннікової, який вийшов 2009 року у видавництві «Грані-Т» (м. Київ) в серії «Путівники». Містить велику кількість карт, наданих ДНВП «Картографія», та фотографій.

Тематично путівник охоплює історичні місця Буковини та перлини її архітектури. У путівнику йде мова про місто Чернівці та Чернівецьку область загалом.

Анотація
Буковина – прекрасна і своєрідна. Мальовничі карпатські краєвиди, незвичайна архітектура, що поєднує у собі, здавалося б, непоєднувані стилі, дивний світ переказів і леґенд зроблять Вашу мандрівку неповторною.

Путівник Ірини Пустиннікової не лише скерує Вас до найцікавіших куточків Буковини. Історія краю заструменить джерелами життєвих доль людей, малюючи колоритну картину цього поліетнічного краю. Вісім мандрівок у «край Черемоша й Прута» залишаться у пам'яті незабутніми спогадами.

Характеристика путівника
Путівник зорієнтований на мандрівників та читачів, які цікавляться історією та архітектурною спадщиною Буковини. Також він стане у нагоді тим, хто вирішив ближче познайомитися із Чернівцями, адже велика його частина присвячена саме цьому місту.

Зміст
 Чернівеччина чекає
 Потяг до Чернівців
 Від Панської до Зеленої
 Придністровські села
 До буковинських Карпат
 До румунського кордону (Сторожинець, Буденець, Черепківці, Біла Криниця)
 Найменший район з найменшим райцентром
 До Хотинської фортеці
 Вервечка буковинських сіл

Посилання
 Книга на сайті видавництва
 Видавництво «Грані-Т» презентувало путівник «8 мандрівок Буковиною» . Буковина online
 «Літакцент»
 «Літакцент»: Євген Булавка. Подорож у провінцію

Див. також
 Ірина Пустиннікова. Вісімдесят три святині Тернопілля

Книги за алфавітом
Українські путівники
Архітектура Чернівецької області
Книги видавництва «Грані-Т»
Книги 2009

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Home Research > Members > 1754-1790 > LYTTELTON, William Henry (1724-1808)
LYTTELTON, William Henry (1724-1808), of Hagley Hall, Worcs.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964
9 Dec. 1748 - Jan. 1755
b. 24 Dec. 1724, 6th s. of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Bt., M.P., and bro. of Sir George Lyttelton, 5th Bt. and Sir Richard Lyttelton. educ. Eton c.1740; St. Mary Hall, Oxf. 1742; Grand Tour with Henry Thrale; M. Temple 1743, called 1748. m. (1) 2 June 1761, Mary (d .28 May 1765), da. and coh. of James Macartney of Longford, Ireland, 2s. 1da.; (2) 19 Feb. 1774, Caroline, da. of John Bristow, 5s. 1da. cr. Baron Westcote [I] 29 July 1776; suc. his nephew Thomas as 7th Bt. 27 Nov. 1779; cr. Baron Lyttelton [GB] 13 Aug. 1794.
Sub-cofferer of the Household 1754-5; gov. S. Carolina 1755-60, of Jamaica 1760-6; envoy to Lisbon 1766-71; ld. of Treasury 1777-82.
Lyttelton sat for Bewdley on his family's interest. In 1754 he was made sub-cofferer by his brother George, newly appointed cofferer, and a few months later with Pitt's support was appointed governor of South Carolina (which vacated his seat in the House). He sailed soon after the outbreak of unofficial hostilities with France in a ship which was taken by a French squadron and sent to Nantes. Commenting on Lyttelton's plight Horace Walpole wrote:1
He is a very worthy young man, but so stiffened with Sir George's old fustian, that I am persuaded he is at this minute in the citadel of Nantes comparing himself to Regulus.
Thanks to the prompt release of the ship by the French Government Lyttelton arrived back in England in time to 'give his vote and turn the scale' in the election of a bailiff for Bewdley, which would otherwise have gone against his family and led to the loss of the borough.2 He reached South Carolina in 1756 and remained there till 1760, when he returned to England for a year before going to Jamaica as governor. Lyttelton was an admirer of Grenville, and approved of his American policy.3 He wrote on 20 Oct. 1765 to his friend William Knox:
If the doctrine openly asserted by the Virginian assembly that that colony ought not to be bound by the British Act of Parliament for imposing the stamp duty, and the sedition of the people of Boston ... be not animadverted upon in an exemplary manner, I do not see how the mother country can hope for the future that her laws will be obeyed in such distant dominions.
And on 20 Mar. 1766, commenting on the proposed repeal of the Stamp Act, he wrote that the Act had been 'fully carried into execution' in Jamaica, and added: 'I suppose that no reasonable man can doubt that the mother country has force sufficient to compel the obedience due to it upon the continent.'4
In 1774 Lyttelton was returned unopposed for Bewdley. In Parliament he vigorously supported North's American measures, and consistently voted with Administration. On 26 Oct. 1775, seconding the Address,
he expatiated on the necessity of strengthening the hands of the Government if coercive measures were intended to be pursued ... He was against any conciliatory offers being made ... and thought at all events the honour of the nation required coercive measures; that the colonies ought to be conquered and then to have mercy shewn them.5
In 1777 Westcote, as he had now become, was made a lord of the Treasury, and in North's minutes for possible changes compiled in June 1779 is mentioned as comptroller of the Household; but North told the King, 24 Sept. 1780, that though he had again thought of Westcote for comptroller, he did not believe he would accept 'as the difference of income would be too great to be approved by him'.6
A dozen speeches of his are reported, more than half on American affairs. On Fox's intimating, 12 June 1781, that he would move that Administration immediately seek peace with America, Westcote declared that he would oppose the motion, as
it clearly appeared to him, that it would be a violation of the constitution in the first instance, because it would infringe on the inherent right of the sovereign and divest the Crown of the exercise of the executive power.
He concluded:
He was of opinion ... it was a holy war. The motives which gave it birth were generous and noble; it being, in the first instance, from an intention to maintain the inalienable and indubitable rights of the sovereign power of the King, the Parliament, and the nation; the unity of the British Empire, and the dominion which was necessary to be preserved over all the respective parts of which it was constituted.7
After Rockingham's death Westcote wrote to William Knox on 14 July 1782,8 that he was glad that power was now in Shelburne's hands 'rather than in those of any other man who was in opposition to Lord North, for I have always had a very high opinion of Lord Shelburne's talents'. He did not vote on the peace preliminaries, 18 Feb. 1783, was classed by Robinson in March 1783 as a follower of North, but did not vote on Fox's East India bill. He seems to have been in opposition till 1787. Sir Gilbert Elliot wrote to his wife, 15 Dec.:9
The last entertainment of the political world here has been a letter written by Lord Westcote to Lord North, in which, after repeating his assurances of regard and devotion to Lord North, he informs his honour, that as his Lordship (Lord North) is now in so deplorable a situation, he cannot take it amiss if he (Lord Westcote) should avail himself of his opportunities to carry some very desirable points for himself by attaching himself to his friend Mr. Pitt.
Westcote voted with Pitt over the Regency, 1788-9.
Johnson is reported to have observed about him that he had 'more chaff than grain in him; as everything indeed, says he, which grows up to so prodigious a length, has'.10 He died 14 Sept. 1808.
Author: Mary M. Drummond
1. To Bentley, 28 Aug. 1755.
2. Wyndham, Chrons. of 18th Cent. ii. 200.
3. Debrett, iii. 523.
4. HMC Var. vi. 91, 99.
5. Almon, iii. 7.
6. Fortescue, iv. 353; v. 133.
7. Debrett, iii. 519-24.
8. HMC Var. vi. 187.
9. Life Letters, i. 182. See also Walpole to Lady Upper Ossory, 16 Dec. 1787.
10. Thraliana, i. 200.


Are you still reeling from your credit card bill after buying Christmas presents? You're not alone. Many Americans continue to put holiday spending on credit cards despite the warning signs of building consumer debt. But, you need to be saving for Christmas again already!
According to the National Retail Federation, holiday retail sales increased 3.8% to $601.8 billion. More than $42 billion was spent online, a 10% increase in last year.
We give generously to our friends and family members each holiday season. That's fine until you reach for your credit cards to give the gifts and spend months paying the balances off. Far too many people give from their heart even when their wallet can't afford it. Don't make the same mistake this year.
How to Start Saving for Christmas Now!
Now is the time to start saving for Christmas even though the holiday just ended. Here's how to give smartly and start saving for Christmas now.
If you are like me, you want to buy gifts for a lot of people. My wife has to rein me in. Make a hard list just like Santa Claus on who is getting presents from you and your family this year and stick to it.
Make a decision early in the year that you are going to only give gifts to your children and spouse this year. To help people from feeling hurt, communicate that as early as possible so there are no unrealistic expectations.
How much did you spend on Christmas gifts this past December? You might be able to just review those credit card bills, and you should assume that you will spend about the same this year.
According to Gallup, the average American spent $96 per day last December or almost $3,000 for the month. This spending does not include car loan payments, mortgage payments, and typical monthly household bills. Instead, this reflects discretionary spending on things like Christmas gifts. This was the highest consumer spending in December since 2008.
If you want to be safe, add 10 percent to what you spent last year. But the most important thing is to make — and stick to — a budget, just like you would for your other household monthly spending. Set a dollar value or a number of presents that you will buy your children this year.
I can remember my mother religiously setting aside a set amount of money each month from her paycheck into her Christmas Club savings account at our local credit union. While banks don't really set up Christmas Club accounts as they did decades ago, you can set up one on your own. Open a new savings account, nickname it Christmas Club, and set up a monthly automatic transfer to it.
Let's say you spent the $3,000. Divide that number (or however much you plan to spend on gifts) by the seven months left until Christmas. So you need to deposit $428 each month in that new savings account. This will keep you from having to reach to your credit cards this December.
Have you seen a great sale that's going on at your spouse's favorite store? What's keeping you from buying him or her a gift for Christmas now?
I have a running list of presents that I know my wife would love. I keep them in a Wunderlist with notes, website addresses, running price list and other details. I also stalk my wife on Pinterest to find the perfect gift without having to ask.
How much did you spend last year? Can you beat that number this year? Make it a game. The gamification of finances is a powerful tool to help you reach your goals — whether it is paying off debt, saving for retirement or saving for Christmas presents.
The SaveUp app for smartphones and website uses those same gamification insights to help you create a positive habit that can also reward you. Would you save more money if you doing so would enter you in a drawing to win $2 million, cars or vacations? The folks at SaveUp are betting it will. And you can use the same motivation to save for Christmas gifts.
Christmas and the holidays are a wonderful time to celebrate with friends and family. We are a very generous nation, and that trend can continue with a little planning that starts now.
Have much did you spend on holiday gifts last December? Do you over do it and pay for them with a credit card? How soon is too soon to start buying Christmas gifts for loved ones?
Note: This article on saving for Christmas was reproduced with permission from AOL Daily Finance.
Happy New Year to you! We have the same idea on saving for next Christmas like start buying gifts. I told my wife to start listing the names so that every month we can buy gifts for them. And I have also new idea on how to save money so that in Christmas time you have money.
I completely agree that people should start their holiday savings today and gives one enough time to save. As you said the best way to know how much you need is by looking at how much you spent the previous Christmas. It's also good to figure out if one overspent. I tend to budget a specific amount available right on October to begin the holiday shopping leading into Christmas Eve.
2014 Christmas experience wasn't the best for me. I have to get started in saving some money for the next holidays as soon as possible.
We keep a spreadsheet every year with who we're giving gifts to and the final amount spent so we can track it all.
The other nice benefit is it gives us a place to record who got us what and if we sent a thank you card yet.
Great post! It's actually a great idea to start thinking about Christmas expenses as early as now. Aiming to save more than the amount spent last Christmas makes sense, and gives you more legroom so you don't panic come December.


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Online form evaluation
December 22, 2021, 8:15 PM EST
BETA Team Registration
Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government
Andrei Turenko
Hanne Watkins
Behavior, Finance & Microfinance, Governance, Other
C21, C93, D14, D91, D83, K35
The Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government (BETA) is evaluating the effect of presenting additional conditional and static prompts/warning in an online Government form.
Team Registration, BETA, Andrei Turenko and Hanne Watkins. 2021. "Online form evaluation." AEA RCT Registry. December 22. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.6534-2.0
Details of this intervention are kept private until the trial is complete.
Details of the outcome variables are kept private until the trial is complete.
Applicants will be randomised into two groups (with equal probability of assignment to either group). Applicants in the treatment group will complete a form that contains the five prompts of interest. Applicants in the control group will complete a form that does not have these five prompts.
As primary outcome measures, we will track:
1. dropout rates. Dropouts are defined as forms that have been inactive for 14 days at the end of the trial
2.	the number (count) of assets (real estate, vehicles) reported in the bankruptcy form,
3.	the average monetary value (in $) per asset (real estate, vehicles) reported in the bankruptcy form, and
4.	total self-reported income (in $) for the current and upcoming year.
The randomization will be done automatically when applicants create a registration on the government website. Each applicant will have a 50% chance of ending up in each of the two arms of the trial.This method approximates a coin flip.
The randomization unit is the individual. There is only a single level of randomization.
1400 individuals. We are aiming for 700 individuals in each arm of the trial; due to the randomisation process our final sample size may be slightly larger than 1400 individuals.
1400 individuals.
700 individuals per treatment arm
Cohen's d = 0.15 We are specifying a standardised effect size here because we have different outcome measures (hidden until trial completed) with different units and standard deviations.
Bellberry Limited
January 22, 2021, 12:00 +00:00
Data Collection Completion Date
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization)
2339 individuals
Was attrition correlated with treatment status?
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms
1177 individuals in the treatment group, 1162 individuals in the control group


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Are You Ready To Move To A New Climate Zone?
Even if you know what you are getting into, you must be well prepared for the surprises. For instance, if you are moving to a cold region, you must know that hooded sweatshirts would be an essential component of your wardrobe. There are some states where the weather changes drastically by thirty degrees from morning to evening.
Always keep yourself flexible when you move and how you would set up your day. There might be a chance that you are used to of going for jogging when your kids go to bed. If the nights are extremely cold in your new city, you may want to shift your jogging timings to the cooler mornings instead. In some states, people go for jogging in the lunch time. So, once you move, be mentally prepared for some change in routine.
If you have shifted to a new city, you may not be accustomed to their daily attire. You might be wondering from they have got such rain gear. You will only get to know the city-secrets when you discuss with your colleagues and boss. You can discuss the typical household issues like pests etc. You would be surprised to know that in some regions cockroaches fly! Spend time in making new friends and acquaintances and get to know how things work in the new city.
Is there anything you wish to know about your new home in the new city? It could be about air circulation in your new home, drafts in an old building, how frequently you should be cleaning your gutters, would your basement flood in the rainy season, do pipes freeze if neglected etc. You might be thinking whether it would be wise to spend extra on storm shelter? An experienced realtor has answers to these questions and would be the best person to assist you in navigating in the new area. They may also suggest some questions that you can ask your home inspector as well.
Moving to a new place is a hectic process and you may be nervous about your shifting as well. There are loads of things to plan beforehand. Post moving is another area that you need to prepare yourself. Hiring one of the reputable Milwaukee moving companies can reduce your burden and stress to a considerable extent. You can discuss your concerns with them as well and they will also give a brief overview of your new place as well. Since they have facilitated moves all over the country, they will have firm knowledge about the most common problems faced by people relocating a certain region.


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This guy's Facebook cat-abuse videos went viral, and 4chan is out for justice
Warning: These videos are difficult to watch.
Fernando Alfonso III
Posted on Jan 30, 2014 Updated on May 31, 2021, 7:47 pm CDT
Animal lovers from 4chan are out to destroy a man from France who captured two videos that appear to show him viciously abusing a cat.
The first horrific video, which you can still find on Facebook (warning: it's extremely disturbing), allegedly features a man named Farid from Marseille, France, hurling an orange cat more than 20 feet into the side of a building. The other shows Farid tossing what looks like the same cat more than 50 feet in the air, toward some bushes. Both videos have been shared more than 5,500 times combined since they were posted Jan. 22.
The videos have gripped 4chan's random imageboard, /b/, where more than three different threads have collected thousands of comments from users seeking justice.
Not only has /b/ tracked down Farid's full name and phone number, they have contacted French police with the videos and information. /b/ has also flagged Farid's videos on Facebook, which has thus far resulted in no action.
The community is also encouraging people to share the following image to help bring Farid down:
While /b/'s penchant for raids, pornography, and crude humor has earned it the title of the Internet's outhouse, its zeal for taking down animal abusers is unparalleled.
In August, /b/ raged against a South Carolina teenager for kicking a kitten on Vine. /b/ retaliated against 17-year-old Walter Easley by posting his personal information online, contacting his school and local newspaper, and prank-calling his home. /B/'s tactics ultimately worked.
On Aug. 19, Easley was arrested and charged with cruelty to animals. Easley pled guilty to animal cruelty charges while the cat was confiscated by animal control and is in good health.
In September, /b/ hunted down the information for "Kevin," a senior at Maryland's Tuscarora High School, who uploaded the following photo to his Instagram:
Eventually, Kevin deleted it and the rest of his photos. But it was too late.
"[T]his bitch needs a good raiding," one anonymous user wrote in a /b/ thread containing his full name and links to his Twitter profile and Facebook page.
With social media marketers, late night talk show hosts, and anyone with a decent set of Photoshop skills able to fool the masses into believing anything, there is a chance Farid's videos aren't 100 percent real.
In one of the videos, where he's seen tossing the cat toward some bushes, the viewer loses sight of the animal. The sheer distance the cat flies is enough to raise some eyebrows, but it's not definitive proof the video is fake. And in the video where Farid hurls the animal at a building, the camera does not break away from the horrific act, which culminates in a shot of the cat splayed on the concrete, crying loudly. Farid can be heard laughing in the background.
The Daily Dot has messaged Farid on Facebook and has not heard back at time of publishing.
Photo by gangster car driver/Flickr
*First Published: Jan 30, 2014, 8:09 pm CST
Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot's first art director until 2016. He's gone on to report at Lexington's Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.
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Game 155: Red Sox look to make it 2 in a row against the O's
Conor Frederick (@C_Frederick1016)
The Red Sox will be looking to make it 2 in a row against the AL East champion Baltimore Orioles tonight in Camden Yards. The Sox will send Rubby de la Rosa (4-7, 4.31 ERA) to the mound tonight against Orioles ace Chris Tillman (12-5, 3.29 ERA). This game is meaningless on paper because the Orioles clinched the division already and the Sox are out of the playoff race, but there's still plenty to watch for tonight. For the Orioles, they'll be looking to build momentum going into the ALDS, and for the Red Sox, it's still about finishing an abysmal 2014 on a high and getting a look at all of their young talent.
That includes de la Rosa, who is 0-2 and a 7.43 ERA in his last 3 starts, and 0-2 with a 7.11 ERA against the Orioles. He'll look to rectify both trends and solidify a possible rotation spot for 2015. He'll have to go toe-to-toe with Chris Tillman, who is sure to feature heavily for the Orioles in the postseason. He's 2-0 with a 2.55 ERA in his last 3 starts, so the Red Sox offense will have their work cut out for them if they want to make it 2 wins in a row against the O's.
9/20 at BAL: Betts 2B, Bogaerts SS, Ortiz DH, Craig 1B, Nava LF, Castillo CF, Bradley Jr RF, Middlebrooks 3B, Vazquez C, De La Rosa RHP
— Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) September 20, 2014
Stats and photo from MLB.com.


The Merrow Sewing Machine Co. was old, analog and grappling with its identity after 165 years as a market leader when Charlie Merrow and his brother, Owen, bought back the company in 2003. Since then, the seventh generation of Merrows has used lots of tech, namely cloud, to bring it into the 21st century and drastically change its business model.
In certain circles, the name Merrow has been synonymous for centuries with quality, and with quality stitches. Technology and innovation, though? Not so much.
Then Charlie Merrow and his brother, Owen, took control of the company.
This is the part of the technology success story not told nearly often enough, Merrow said, "because people spend so much money on software and ERP and MRP, and they make it work." You spend and spend and, in an effort to justify the financial investment, "figure out a way to kind of muscle through it and make it work.
As part of the seventh generation of Merrows involved with the company, and its current CEO, Merrow implemented Kenandy ERP and MRP, and Salesforce CRM, along with dozens of smaller custom applications that supported those major apps. The evolution has taken years and transformed the company from little more than an old sewing machine manufacturer to an incubator that Merrow said he can envision someday becoming a holding company for multiple brands.
IndustryWeek: What was the impetus for change back in the early 2000s? And why turn to cloud to move away from analog?
Charlie Merrow: It's a deceptively simple answer. We like to say that we have all the problems of a major multinational company with the resources of a small business. In a nutshell, there's the impetus for change. How do you run that? How do you manage that? You can do it by having lots and lots of people who do lots and lots of things, or you can use technology. I came from a world of technology, so my decision, when I bought out the other companies with my brother (Owen is the company's COO) was to rebuild our business around a narrower focus for product, and through a far more efficient infrastructure to manage what is, effectively, a very complicated company. We have a lot of stuff that needs to be managed, and we needed technology to do it.
IW: Neither you nor your brother was involved with the company when you purchased it back in the early 2000s. Why buy it at all? Just a certain pride to uphold the family name?
CM: I'm probably as narcissistic as anyone you've ever met, but (the name on the company) had very little to do with it. The brand strength and product strength are why Owen and I bought the company. The brand is sold into 87 countries, and we have installations in more than that. The brand is well enough known that on Project Runway, they use the term "Merrowing." It's an unusually strong brand in an industry that has commoditized almost everything. And we have a product that really is unbelievable. The core product line and the innovation around that product line was significantly underutilized. So it was brand strength, product strength, and customer base. Even in 2003, when we looking at the company, it was remarkable the quality of the customers that existed. Merrow just needed to change what it was doing with those customers in order to have those customers 12 years, 15 years later. And that was really clear.
IW: What was happening back in 2003, 2004, 2005 before that change?
CM: From a manufacturing perspective, people will probably recognize that when you build a big manufacturing facility up and your business declines because of competition, any company is going to do things in order to keep its manufacturing centers running. What Merrow ended up doing in 2003 was trying to fill up machine hours. The focus had drifted from building some great sewing machines to trying to make anything they could, getting any contract work they could, to run these machining centers. That clearly wasn't sustainable or healthy.
There was an inflection point, and it had to do with Chinese manufacturing. Chinese machines came into the market and they were the last that catalyzed change. Merrow was either going to get sunk by cheap Chinese manufacturing, or it was going to adjust its business model to add a lot more value to its customers — and run much, much more efficiently.
IW: Your first effort at cloud, though, didn't do that.
CM: Right around the financial crisis in 2008, we had worked very hard to turn the company around and the center of it — this technical, digital system that we had moved the company to — was sinking us. All the work we had put in to update product, to update branding, to update the relationships with customers, was completely compromised by our inability to see what was really going on with the company. It had almost every division of the company frustrated with their jobs. There was a time when we asked, 'Did we just do something that compromised our ability to run this company moving forward?' We needed to change.
CM: I found anybody and everybody who had software I could test. I went and threw sample data in and started using it. I got the NetSuite people to let me screw around on their system, I got a Salesforce CRM trial in, anything I could try I did. I even looked at QuickBooks. Anything I could put a sample set of data in, I did, just to see if we could use it to do something better.
I put the Salesforce trial in, and I threw it over to a couple sales guys, and I used it a little bit, and there was something materially different about that from everything else. It was extensible. I know how to program, but if I hadn't been able to program, I would have been able, in 10 minutes, to change what they were looking at so it was relevant to Merrow. As soon as I recognized that I could customize and build them something that made effective, I gravitated immediately to this platform. People get very confused about Salesforce and what it is. … It's a stable, data-driven tool set that lets you quickly and efficiently collect data, report on data, and manage data. And there's a lot of functionality they built on top of that with their CRM program. I could adjust very quickly what the sales people were looking at, what they were talking with customers about, information they were collecting, then give them back that information in the form of reports so they could do a better job the next day.
IW: And you actually programmed a couple dozen custom apps yourself on top of all the basic software?
CM: Companies that make sewing machines and are trying to build new businesses, if they're not technology-driven businesses, have no right to have a department of programmers. We were able to build it ourselves and quickly adjust it. And it made us better. It made us able to run the company and deliver the product and customer service we knew we were capable of doing. The staff responded really well. Every department was encumbered by the systems we had delivered to them previously, and every department was now empowered by them, and adjusting them. It was a total transformation of the way we ran the company.
IW: You report revenue that has more than doubled during the last three years — in part thanks to this tech shift — and now you're actually developing other companies as an incubator? That's a considerably significant shift.
CM: In 2012, our aspiration was to double the company's size. How were we going to do that when our core business can grow very fast when there's a fashion change, but tends to be slow-growing? We made the decision to spin up some of these ideas that had been percolating in my head for a while, and we had the resources — the technical infrastructure — to do it, we had executable ideas, and we had the skill set in house to build a technical front end for these businesses pretty quickly. So they are part of our growth strategy. How do you double revenue? You build things that can grow very fast and you spin them off. That's what we're doing right now. Probably the best example of that is WoolPRO, the apparel line. That's turned into a terrific success that might, if it keeps on doing what it's doing, overshadow Merrow. Building things, bringing smart people in who have great ideas, nurturing those ideas, building businesses around them, then executing on them — it's all part of our strategy now.
IW: Your advice to other manufacturers who might be in a similar situation, researching to upgrade through tech?
CM: We've moved from becoming a company that's explored CRM, to building out an ERP and MRP system on the cloud, to using that cloud as this repository of information to create actionable and effective decisions. You gotta know technology to do that stuff. I don't know, sometimes I meet with my peers who don't know anything about technology and work for businesses that are five times larger than mine, and I don't think there's right way to do this.
IW: If you and Owen are still running the company during its bicentennial in 2038, where is it? What has it become?
CM: In 2004, I met with the biggest sewing needle manufacturer in the world, and I asked, 'When was the last great innovation in the textile business? When was the last time something really awesome happened?' Everybody scratched their heads, and somebody said, 'Well, back in '88, I think that was when the lacing puller came out. That was pretty good.' I was so disappointed. 1988? That's the last time something interesting happened? Our job, our mission is to create branded stitching, to create value in stitching, to build machines that add value to sewn products and allow people who build things that are sewn to monetize the stitch. Where I think our core business is at the bicentennial is that we're a company that is at the forefront of building products that add value to sewn products, and we're the brand you use to build your products because consumers recognize it and know they'll get something different, unique, more technical and strategic, and valuable when they buy a product with a branded stitch. Our job is to build the equipment to do that. That's what a sewing machine is in 21 years — not just a commodity that constructs products. It's a company that builds value into them.
The company itself, in 20 years, has turned into a holding company for multiple brands. We'll buy brands, and we'll build brands, and we use our global network to distribute the products for those brands. We'll have built up a portfolio of companies that leverage our same distribution to deliver those products and services worldwide under the Merrow brand name, with just a far more diverse set of products and services in and out of textiles.
CM: We're working really hard and humbly to try to be a great company that has an inspiration to be like Berkshire Hathaway. I don't want this to sound stupid, but I've been reading Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders since I was 14 years old. The only stock I own is Berkshire Hathaway. This isn't by design. I'm not trying to run my company to mimic what Warren Buffett has done. I'm running it to be as competitive and effective in this marketplace as possible. I think there's great value in learning from what people have done successfully, but you also have to assess what your strengths are. Our strengths are our worldwide distribution, our brand, and the management of this company. I'm really proud of my brother. He does an extraordinary job running the operations of this company. I can throw him businesses and he can grow them and make them efficient. If I just give him businesses and technology, I have a lot of confidence that he can make it work.
IW: Takeaways from the first 13, 14 years?
CM: I've made a lot of mistakes and we've done a lot of things well, but there's one variable that has remained strong this entire time: the people who we work with, both the employees of the company and the agents who represent us worldwide. No exaggeration, without those people and agents, we would have tripped up and made mistakes that really might have killed us along the way, because we changed so much. They are central to the rebuilding of Merrow.
If we ever get together and have a beer, there are some pretty dramatic stories that influence me saying something like that. When we were learning how to rebuild sewing machines with new methodologies and new bills of material, we were shipping them out into the market and our agents were literally rebuilding them for us, because we were doing it wrong. Instead of them shipping product back to us, they just rebuilt the machines for us, then either called us up or flew in and said, 'Something's gone wrong.' There were lots of stories like that, where people wanted us to be successful, or wanted to help us be successful, rather than just walking away.


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Is Aaron Jones a Top-12 Running Back for Fantasy?
By jhesterman
Player Profiles, Redraft
If we were to take a tally of all the running backs last season that were under-utilized, Aaron Jones' name would pop up quickly. There were a few backs that certainly qualified to make that list, including Kenyan Drake. Drake is a player whom I have talked about before. Both of these players produced when given the opportunity. However, the opportunity provided fell short of what fantasy owners were hoping for.
Aaron Jones was expected to become more of a focal point for the Green Bay Packers after a few strong outings the previous season. However, he began the season serving a suspension. Enter Jamaal Williams from stage left. Williams began the season as the lead dog and handled 31 carries and six targets through the first two weeks. What he did with those carries was unimpressive. He totaled 106 yards (3.4 YPC) and 12 yards on three receptions.
Jones returned in Week 3 to an almost evenly split workload, in which he was easily the more productive back. He totaled 42 yards on six carries to Williams' 29 yards on five carries. From there through the bye week, Mike McCarthy continued to split the carries fairly evenly, despite Jones producing better each week.
At some point during their Week 7 bye, Jones found and acquired a rather large can. A can of an unknown substance which he promptly opened during week eight.
In Week 8, Jones finished with 86 yards on 12 carries and one rushing score. That was just the beginning. From Week 8 through Week 14 Jones did not see less than 11 carries in any game. During that stretch, he scored seven touchdowns in eight games and was the RB5. His 5.48 yards-per-carry was the best in the NFL among running backs who totaled 75 or more attempts. In fact, he is averaging 5.5 YPC in both of his NFL seasons.
2019 Outlook – RBBC
There are plenty of questions about Aaron Jones' outlook for the 2019 season. The most common question surrounds the new coaching regime. Matt LaFleur joins the Green Bay Packers as their new head coach. He has already stated that he prefers a running back by committee approach, which does not instill confidence in Jones' outlook. When considering Jones future, one can simply analyze the past. LaFleur displayed a prime example of how to misuse a running back last season. Granted, once Derrick Henry blew up, he committed to the touches required to keep him productive.
There are a couple of reasons to not be overly concerned about the RBBC conversation in Green Bay. First and foremost, there is zero dispute about which running back is the most talented in that backfield. It does not take an NFL Scout pair of eyes to pinpoint the better of the two options. (Maybe Mike McCarthy's contacts were foggy…for the first half of the season.) Jones simply outperformed Jamaal Williams in every statistical category last season. He's a smart and elusive runner that has the patience to exploit an opening.
Secondly, the reports of wanting more involvement in the passing game from the running backs bodes well for Jones and his value. Sure, Williams had more targets (41) than Jones (35), but the six additional targets only led to one additional reception and four additional yards. Jones posted a better targets-per-game average (2.92) than Williams (2.56), a better catch percentage (74% to 65%) and finished with the lone receiving touchdown of the duo. Jones accomplished this in 12 games, not the 16 that Williams played.
The third point is that Jones is taking his role and his body seriously. Reports came out that Jones cut junk food out of his diet and replaced body fat with muscle. He has cut his body fat from 11% to 5.3% during the offseason. Meaning, he still weighs in at 204 but has replaced body fat with muscle.
2019 Outlook – Improvements
The Packers, as a team, should benefit from several key additions. LaFleur brings a more modern play calling scheme birthed from the minds of both Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay. While it may take a while to be fully integrated, it should prove to be more creative and play to the strengths of the current roster.
The Packers addressed the offensive line by inking Billy Turner and dropping a second-round pick on Elgton Jenkins. This was one of the smartest moves they made after watching their franchise quarterback hobble through the majority of the season. They also added key pieces on the defensive side of the football. Teams playing with a lead are more apt to control the clock, which could mean an uptick in opportunity for the run game.
Bottom Line on Aaron Jones
In a recent article, our own Sam Factor made an active comparison between the draft cost of Jones, Marlon Mack, and Josh Jacobs.
"Aaron Jones will also be playing in what should be an elite offense next season. Jones appears to be the most likely running back of the three to have significant volume in the rushing and passing game.He also has a safe floor because he has shown he can be an RB2 in fantasy football even while sharing the backfield with Jamaal Williams. When on the clock deciding between these three players, take the back with the highest floor and ceiling in 2019."
-Sam Factor-
Jones average draft position is currently at 3.02 in PPR drafts as the 14th running back off the board. Truthfully, this appears to more adequately represent his floor, not his ceiling. If the reigns are handed to Jones in a high-powered offense led by a healthy Aaron Rodgers, a top-six performance is not out of the question. This team is no stranger to the red zone and Jones found paydirt with great success in that role last season. It was not that long ago that Eddie Lacy was a coveted running back for fantasy purposes for these exact reasons.
With Aaron Rodgers the last 3 yrs:
No team called passes at a higher rate than GB (66%)
But no team threw fewer passes to RBs than GB (15.9%)
If LaFleur adds more RB-passes it would be tremendous. Two of the NFL's best QBs (Brady, Brees) led the NFL in RB-target rate last yr. https://t.co/VhZYuzry9M
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) June 27, 2019
LaFleur has mentioned wanting to involve the running backs more in the passing game. This again bodes very well for Jones and to a lesser degree, Williams overall value. Jones is primed for a breakout kind of season and is on the right team to bring that idea to fruition. His risk-to-cost ratio is balanced enough to make him a target in most drafts and his upside is as of yet untapped.
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Scientific Resonances
Thinking Outside the Box
Coherence in Electricity
July 27, 2022 in Articles
The phenomena of coherence in Light is well documented and understood. Photons have random phase differences and therefore do not produce observable interference patterns.
However, this effect also exists in electricity!
When an electrical signal of a particular frequency is applied to a double coil perfect cancellation of the electromagnetic signal occurs. As with light this cannot be achieved with 2 separate sources. the double coil is constructed from winding one peice of wire folded in two. Current then flows clockwise in one coil and anticlockwise in the other.
This perfect cancellation results in a change in human Consciousness and can be demonstrated by listening to music. When the coil is activated at particular frequencies such as 7.83 Hz (Schumann) and 432 Hz (the A above middle C, preferred by many musicians) music sounds more mellow and emotional.
We have spent a number of years trying to capture this difference with sophisticated recording equipment and failed completely even though it was obvious to the listeners. The only conclusion is that an Energy field was created that in some way affected human Consciousness. The field did not obey the Laws of Physics. The power used to excite the double coil was irrelevant and the Energy field was not subject to the inverse square law!
The coherence effect was discovered when a single signal was applied to an audio amplifier set in mono mode. The left and right channels were then applied to 2 separate coaxial coils to produce cancellation. The level of the resulting magnetic field was indeed zero but the musical effect was completely absent.
Our conjecture is that the Energy manifests from other Dimensions just as virtual particles can appear spontaneously in the vacuum of space!
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Listening to his words, I think Scott knew that his battle was almost over. And yet, he continued to fight. He did not fight to shout another "Boo-yah!" at a home run, or to give out another NBA Finals trophy. His greatest accomplishment wasn't revolutionizing sports reporting or fusing hip-hop with sports journalism.
It was being a dad. He fought cancer with everything he had because he loved his daughters.
We need to fight for our kids.
When we want to give up on a project, we fight for them when we knuckle up and persevere, thus showing them what commitment means. When we want to spend a ton of money that we don't have for something we don't need, we fight for them by delaying our gratification and saving so we don't have to go into debt. When they start complaining that life isn't fair when they have to do their chores, we fight for them by teaching them the importance of responsibility.
When our kids reach the age that they're old enough to date, we fight for them by reminding them of God's standard for purity (and hopefully we've been teaching them about it long before their first date). When football is on and they ask us to play with them, we fight for our kids by hitting pause on the DVR and going on an adventure with them, thus showing them that they are more important than a game. When they mess up, and they will, we fight for them by praying for them, by forgiving them, and by loving them (even when that love has to be tough). When we mess up, and we will, we fight for them by showing humility and asking for their forgiveness.
My oldest is only a month away from being a teen. Right now, I'm still one of the smartest guys on planet earth. Soon, however, I know she'll no longer think that I'm (to borrow Scott's catch phrase) as cool as the other side of the pillow. There will be arguments. There will be meltdowns. That's OK. I'm still going to fight for her. And I will fight for her younger sisters, too. Because they, and their mom, are my life. God entrusted them to me to love, watch over, and protect. I am, and will continue to do so, come hell or high water.
So thank you, Stuart Scott, for showing us what it means to fight for our kids. Thank you for your courage, your perseverance, and your energy. You truly were a plaid dad.


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In March 2010 ERIS launched a support project for Ethiopian media consisting of a capacity-building project for journalists and a media monitoring programme. The project was implemented in close cooperation with the School of Journalism of Addis Ababa University (SJ AAU).
The training sessions reached more than 100 Ethiopian journalists and were held in Addis Ababa and the regional centres of Awassa, Nazareth, Bahir dar and Makele.
They aimed at improving the quality of media coverage during the May 2010 parliamentary election, including editorial standards, accuracy of reporting, balance in coverage of the campaign, and the electoral process itself.


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An Art Form
September 30, 2013 By: NCVeditor Category: Community, Economy, Pat LaMarche
Homeless Advocates Gather to Promote Cooperation
by Pat LaMarche
The Texas Conference on Ending Homelessness was held last week in Austin. More than 400 homeless advocates — from shelter directors to student liaisons — came together to update their certifications, learn from each other, and recharge their spent fuel cells.
Ken Martin, executive director of the Texas Homeless Network, was encouraged by their near record turnout in the face of budget cuts and an increasing demand on overtaxed service providers. The economic downturn over the last half-decade — since the stock market crashed in October of 2008 — has caused an uptick in homelessness all across the nation. Because agencies have to do more with less, Martin and his organization provided free booth space to not for profit agencies hoping to interface with the advocates who attended the conference.
Art from the Streets is one of those not-for-profit groups.
Founded by a couple of artists in the 1990s, Art from the Streets is preparing to host its 21st art show and sale this November. Homeless artists from Austin have been creating and selling their work with encouragement and materials provided by Art from the Streets. Only recently an official 501(c)3 charity, all paper, canvas, and pigment mediums came from donors who hadn't even gotten a tax break for their contributions.
Every Tuesday and Thursday St. David's Episcopal Church opens their doors to volunteers and street people who work together producing the pieces that will be sold each year. With very rare exceptions — like when the artwork has to be mounted — the street people who create the art get all the proceeds from the sale. If there's an additional expense to the work, that expense is taken out of what the artist is paid.
One of the original artists from Art on the Streets, Howard Cook, spent Thursday touching up the pieces he intends to sell in November's show. The 56-year-old Cook was born and raised in Austin. Cook is what the department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) calls chronically homeless. That means Cook has been verifiably homeless for more than a year. In fact, he's been that way for decades.
HUD regulations changed this year. They now require that agencies prove their clients don't have anywhere to live. Luckily, Art on the Streets doesn't receive HUD funding and the participating artists don't have to jump the often out of reach administrative hoop of proving a negative in order to participate.
Cook doesn't identify as a homeless man when he's painting. Katrina Meredith, the volunteer at Thursday's painting session says it's like that for most of the artists. Meredith explained, "Homeless is a category to stick people in. There's a certain intensity when they come in to do art. They go to straight to work. There is a time in that period that there is a feeling of peace, of productivity, of focus, of normalcy for people whose lives are very chaotic." That transformation is why Meredith volunteers, "In this space there's a calmness that I like witnessing that keeps me coming back."
For Cook, homeless is more than a category; it's the condition that prohibits his painting every day, "I wish I had my own place, I'd stay up to 4 or 5 in the morning." It's also why Cook can't use oil paints, "Oil dries too slow. I'd like to paint with it; it's a nice color and everything. When you got your own house you can wait for your work to dry."
Cook said he started painting when he was a baby. He's sure of it. He can't remember a time when art wasn't important to him. And more than anything he'd like to be known for his art not for his homelessness, "Everyone wants to leave your name in history. I want my name in the encyclopedia and make a little living too." Right now, it's that making a living that's the most important thing of all, "Money's tight and people got to eat. People come to our program and they buy good art."
Cook's also spoke about the Arts from the Streets program expanding. He thinks that's essential because there are more homeless everyday, "Houses are burning up, places are flooding out and people are losing their jobs. These are the times we live now." So Cook wants everyone who still has a home to come to their show, "People who still got it need to thank God that they ain't out here yet."
Ken Martin and the rest of the Texas Homeless Network agree. That's why Art in the Streets got their free booth at the conference. Martin said, "Times are too tough for advocates right now, for us all to be on our own. We're happy to work with other agencies."
Pat LaMarche has extensive experience working with the nation's poor, most recently as Vice President of Community Affairs at Safe Harbour, Inc. As a former journalist and award-winning broadcaster, LaMarche spent more than two decades studying and reporting on poverty issues both in the U.S. and abroad. During her 2004 Green Party Campaign for U.S. Vice President, she took to the streets to uncover the lives of the homeless in what she called the "Left Out Tour," resulting in the book Left Out in America: The State of Homelessness in the United States (2006). Among other venues for her work, LaMarche is a Contributing Author for New Clear Vision.
Tags: advocacy, art, homeless, homelessness, housing, jobs
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package org.connectbot;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import org.connectbot.bean.SelectionArea;
import org.connectbot.service.FontSizeChangedListener;
import org.connectbot.service.TerminalBridge;
import org.connectbot.service.TerminalKeyListener;
import org.connectbot.util.PreferenceConstants;
import org.connectbot.util.TerminalTextViewOverlay;
import org.connectbot.util.TerminalViewPager;

import android.annotation.TargetApi;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.ContentResolver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.content.pm.ResolveInfo;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Matrix;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.Path;
import android.graphics.PixelXorXfermode;
import android.graphics.RectF;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Build;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
import android.text.ClipboardManager;
import android.view.GestureDetector;
import android.view.KeyEvent;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewConfiguration;
import android.view.accessibility.AccessibilityEvent;
import android.view.accessibility.AccessibilityManager;
import android.view.inputmethod.BaseInputConnection;
import android.view.inputmethod.EditorInfo;
import android.view.inputmethod.InputConnection;
import android.widget.FrameLayout;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
import android.widget.Toast;
import de.mud.terminal.VDUBuffer;
import de.mud.terminal.vt320;

/**
 * User interface {@link View} for showing a TerminalBridge in an
 * {@link android.app.Activity}. Handles drawing bitmap updates and passing keystrokes down
 * to terminal.
 *
 * @author jsharkey
 */
public class TerminalView extends FrameLayout implements FontSizeChangedListener {
	private final Context context;
	public final TerminalBridge bridge;

	private TerminalTextViewOverlay terminalTextViewOverlay;
	public final TerminalViewPager viewPager;
	private GestureDetector gestureDetector;
	private SharedPreferences prefs;

	// These are only used for pre-Honeycomb copying.
	private int lastTouchedRow, lastTouchedCol;
	private final ClipboardManager clipboard;

	private final Paint paint;
	private final Paint cursorPaint;
	private final Paint cursorStrokePaint;

	// Cursor paints to distinguish modes
	private Path ctrlCursor, altCursor, shiftCursor;
	private RectF tempSrc, tempDst;
	private Matrix scaleMatrix;
	private static final Matrix.ScaleToFit scaleType = Matrix.ScaleToFit.FILL;

	private Toast notification = null;
	private String lastNotification = null;
	private volatile boolean notifications = true;

	// Related to Accessibility Features
	private boolean mAccessibilityInitialized = false;
	private boolean mAccessibilityActive = true;
	private Object[] mAccessibilityLock = new Object[0];
	private StringBuffer mAccessibilityBuffer;
	private Pattern mControlCodes = null;
	private Matcher mCodeMatcher = null;
	private AccessibilityEventSender mEventSender = null;

	private static final String BACKSPACE_CODE = "\\x08\\x1b\\[K";
	private static final String CONTROL_CODE_PATTERN = "\\x1b\\[K[^m]+[m|:]";

	private static final int ACCESSIBILITY_EVENT_THRESHOLD = 1000;
	private static final String SCREENREADER_INTENT_ACTION = "android.accessibilityservice.AccessibilityService";
	private static final String SCREENREADER_INTENT_CATEGORY = "android.accessibilityservice.category.FEEDBACK_SPOKEN";

	public TerminalView(Context context, TerminalBridge bridge, TerminalViewPager pager) {
		super(context);

		setWillNotDraw(false);

		this.context = context;
		this.bridge = bridge;
		this.viewPager = pager;

		setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT));
		setFocusable(true);
		setFocusableInTouchMode(true);

		// Some things TerminalView uses is unsupported in hardware acceleration
		// so this is using software rendering until we can replace all the
		// instances.
		// See: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/hardware-accel.html#unsupported
		if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11) {
			setLayerTypeToSoftware();
		}

		paint = new Paint();

		cursorPaint = new Paint();
		cursorPaint.setColor(bridge.color[bridge.defaultFg]);
		cursorPaint.setXfermode(new PixelXorXfermode(bridge.color[bridge.defaultBg]));
		cursorPaint.setAntiAlias(true);

		cursorStrokePaint = new Paint(cursorPaint);
		cursorStrokePaint.setStrokeWidth(0.1f);
		cursorStrokePaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);

		/*
		 * Set up our cursor indicators on a 1x1 Path object which we can later
		 * transform to our character width and height
		 */
		// TODO make this into a resource somehow
		shiftCursor = new Path();
		shiftCursor.lineTo(0.5f, 0.33f);
		shiftCursor.lineTo(1.0f, 0.0f);

		altCursor = new Path();
		altCursor.moveTo(0.0f, 1.0f);
		altCursor.lineTo(0.5f, 0.66f);
		altCursor.lineTo(1.0f, 1.0f);

		ctrlCursor = new Path();
		ctrlCursor.moveTo(0.0f, 0.25f);
		ctrlCursor.lineTo(1.0f, 0.5f);
		ctrlCursor.lineTo(0.0f, 0.75f);

		// For creating the transform when the terminal resizes
		tempSrc = new RectF();
		tempSrc.set(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
		tempDst = new RectF();
		scaleMatrix = new Matrix();

		bridge.addFontSizeChangedListener(this);
		bridge.parentChanged(this);

		// connect our view up to the bridge
		setOnKeyListener(bridge.getKeyHandler());

		if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
			terminalTextViewOverlay = new TerminalTextViewOverlay(context, this);
			terminalTextViewOverlay.setLayoutParams(
					new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));
			addView(terminalTextViewOverlay, 0);

			// Once terminalTextViewOverlay is active, allow it to handle key events instead.
			terminalTextViewOverlay.setOnKeyListener(bridge.getKeyHandler());
		}

		mAccessibilityBuffer = new StringBuffer();

		// Enable accessibility features if a screen reader is active.
		new AccessibilityStateTester().execute((Void) null);

		clipboard = (ClipboardManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
		prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context);

		onFontSizeChanged(bridge.getFontSize());

		gestureDetector = new GestureDetector(context, new GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener() {
			// Only used for pre-Honeycomb devices.
			private TerminalBridge bridge = TerminalView.this.bridge;
			private float totalY = 0;

			@Override
			public boolean onScroll(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float distanceX, float distanceY) {
				// The terminalTextViewOverlay handles scrolling. Only handle scrolling if it
				// is not available (i.e. on pre-Honeycomb devices).
				if (terminalTextViewOverlay != null) {
					return false;
				}

				// activate consider if within x tolerance
				int touchSlop =
						ViewConfiguration.get(TerminalView.this.context).getScaledTouchSlop();
				if (Math.abs(e1.getX() - e2.getX()) < touchSlop * 4) {
					// estimate how many rows we have scrolled through
					// accumulate distance that doesn't trigger immediate scroll
					totalY += distanceY;
					final int moved = (int) (totalY / bridge.charHeight);

					// Consume as pg up/dn only if towards left third of screen with the gesture
					// enabled.
					boolean pgUpDnGestureEnabled =
							prefs.getBoolean(PreferenceConstants.PG_UPDN_GESTURE, false);
					if (e2.getX() <= getWidth() / 3 && pgUpDnGestureEnabled) {
						// otherwise consume as pgup/pgdown for every 5 lines
						if (moved > 5) {
							((vt320) bridge.buffer).keyPressed(vt320.KEY_PAGE_DOWN, ' ', 0);
							bridge.tryKeyVibrate();
							totalY = 0;
						} else if (moved < -5) {
							((vt320) bridge.buffer).keyPressed(vt320.KEY_PAGE_UP, ' ', 0);
							bridge.tryKeyVibrate();
							totalY = 0;
						}
					} else if (moved != 0) {
						int base = bridge.buffer.getWindowBase();
						bridge.buffer.setWindowBase(base + moved);
						totalY = 0;
					}
				}

				return true;
			}

			@Override
			public boolean onSingleTapConfirmed(MotionEvent e) {
				viewPager.performClick();
				return super.onSingleTapConfirmed(e);
			}
		});
	}

	@TargetApi(11)
	private void setLayerTypeToSoftware() {
		setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);
	}

	public void copyCurrentSelectionToClipboard() {
		if (terminalTextViewOverlay != null) {
			terminalTextViewOverlay.copyCurrentSelectionToClipboard();
		}
	}

	@Override
	public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
		if (gestureDetector != null) {
			gestureDetector.onTouchEvent(event);
		}

		// Old version of copying, only for pre-Honeycomb.
		if (terminalTextViewOverlay == null) {
			// when copying, highlight the area
			if (bridge.isSelectingForCopy()) {
				SelectionArea area = bridge.getSelectionArea();
				int row = (int) Math.floor(event.getY() / bridge.charHeight);
				int col = (int) Math.floor(event.getX() / bridge.charWidth);

				switch (event.getAction()) {
				case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
					// recording starting area
					viewPager.setPagingEnabled(false);
					if (area.isSelectingOrigin()) {
						area.setRow(row);
						area.setColumn(col);
						lastTouchedRow = row;
						lastTouchedCol = col;
						bridge.redraw();
					}
					return true;
				case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
							/* ignore when user hasn't moved since last time so
							 * we can fine-tune with directional pad
							 */
					if (row == lastTouchedRow && col == lastTouchedCol)
						return true;

					// if the user moves, start the selection for other corner
					area.finishSelectingOrigin();

					// update selected area
					area.setRow(row);
					area.setColumn(col);
					lastTouchedRow = row;
					lastTouchedCol = col;
					bridge.redraw();
					return true;
				case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
							/* If they didn't move their finger, maybe they meant to
							 * select the rest of the text with the directional pad.
							 */
					if (area.getLeft() == area.getRight() &&
							area.getTop() == area.getBottom()) {
						return true;
					}

					// copy selected area to clipboard
					String copiedText = area.copyFrom(bridge.buffer);

					clipboard.setText(copiedText);
					Toast.makeText(
						context,
						context.getString(R.string.console_copy_done, copiedText.length()),
						Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

					// fall through to clear state

				case MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL:
					// make sure we clear any highlighted area
					area.reset();
					bridge.setSelectingForCopy(false);
					bridge.redraw();
					viewPager.setPagingEnabled(true);
					return true;
				}
			}

			return true;
		}

		super.onTouchEvent(event);

		return true;
	}

	/**
	 * Only intended for pre-Honeycomb devices.
	 */
	public void startPreHoneycombCopyMode() {
		// mark as copying and reset any previous bounds
		SelectionArea area = bridge.getSelectionArea();
		area.reset();
		area.setBounds(bridge.buffer.getColumns(), bridge.buffer.getRows());

		bridge.setSelectingForCopy(true);

		// Make sure we show the initial selection
		bridge.redraw();
	}

	public void destroy() {
		// tell bridge to destroy its bitmap
		bridge.parentDestroyed();
	}

	@Override
	protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
		super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);

		bridge.parentChanged(this);

		scaleCursors();
	}

	public void onFontSizeChanged(final float size) {
		scaleCursors();

		((Activity) context).runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
			@Override
			public void run() {
				if (terminalTextViewOverlay != null) {
					terminalTextViewOverlay.setTextSize(size);

					// For the TextView to line up with the bitmap text, lineHeight must be equal to
					// the bridge's charHeight. See TextView.getLineHeight(), which has been reversed to
					// derive lineSpacingMultiplier.
					float lineSpacingMultiplier = (float) bridge.charHeight / terminalTextViewOverlay.getPaint().getFontMetricsInt(null);
					terminalTextViewOverlay.setLineSpacing(0.0f, lineSpacingMultiplier);
				}
			}
		});
	}

	private void scaleCursors() {
		// Create a scale matrix to scale our 1x1 representation of the cursor
		tempDst.set(0.0f, 0.0f, bridge.charWidth, bridge.charHeight);
		scaleMatrix.setRectToRect(tempSrc, tempDst, scaleType);
	}

	@Override
	public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
		if (bridge.bitmap != null) {
			// draw the bitmap
			bridge.onDraw();

			// draw the bridge bitmap if it exists
			canvas.drawBitmap(bridge.bitmap, 0, 0, paint);

			// also draw cursor if visible
			if (bridge.buffer.isCursorVisible()) {
				int cursorColumn = bridge.buffer.getCursorColumn();
				final int cursorRow = bridge.buffer.getCursorRow();

				final int columns = bridge.buffer.getColumns();

				if (cursorColumn == columns)
					cursorColumn = columns - 1;

				if (cursorColumn < 0 || cursorRow < 0)
					return;

				int currentAttribute = bridge.buffer.getAttributes(
						cursorColumn, cursorRow);
				boolean onWideCharacter = (currentAttribute & VDUBuffer.FULLWIDTH) != 0;

				int x = cursorColumn * bridge.charWidth;
				int y = (bridge.buffer.getCursorRow()
						+ bridge.buffer.screenBase - bridge.buffer.windowBase)
						* bridge.charHeight;

				// Save the current clip and translation
				canvas.save();

				canvas.translate(x, y);
				canvas.clipRect(0, 0,
						bridge.charWidth * (onWideCharacter ? 2 : 1),
						bridge.charHeight);
				canvas.drawPaint(cursorPaint);

				final int deadKey = bridge.getKeyHandler().getDeadKey();
				if (deadKey != 0) {
					canvas.drawText(new char[] { (char) deadKey }, 0, 1, 0, 0, cursorStrokePaint);
				}

				// Make sure we scale our decorations to the correct size.
				canvas.concat(scaleMatrix);

				int metaState = bridge.getKeyHandler().getMetaState();

				if ((metaState & TerminalKeyListener.OUR_SHIFT_ON) != 0)
					canvas.drawPath(shiftCursor, cursorStrokePaint);
				else if ((metaState & TerminalKeyListener.OUR_SHIFT_LOCK) != 0)
					canvas.drawPath(shiftCursor, cursorPaint);

				if ((metaState & TerminalKeyListener.OUR_ALT_ON) != 0)
					canvas.drawPath(altCursor, cursorStrokePaint);
				else if ((metaState & TerminalKeyListener.OUR_ALT_LOCK) != 0)
					canvas.drawPath(altCursor, cursorPaint);

				if ((metaState & TerminalKeyListener.OUR_CTRL_ON) != 0)
					canvas.drawPath(ctrlCursor, cursorStrokePaint);
				else if ((metaState & TerminalKeyListener.OUR_CTRL_LOCK) != 0)
					canvas.drawPath(ctrlCursor, cursorPaint);

				// Restore previous clip region
				canvas.restore();
			}

			// draw any highlighted area
			if (terminalTextViewOverlay == null && bridge.isSelectingForCopy()) {
				SelectionArea area = bridge.getSelectionArea();
				canvas.save(Canvas.CLIP_SAVE_FLAG);
				canvas.clipRect(
					area.getLeft() * bridge.charWidth,
					area.getTop() * bridge.charHeight,
					(area.getRight() + 1) * bridge.charWidth,
					(area.getBottom() + 1) * bridge.charHeight
				);
				canvas.drawPaint(cursorPaint);
				canvas.restore();
			}
		}
	}

	public void notifyUser(String message) {
		if (!notifications)
			return;

		if (notification != null) {
			// Don't keep telling the user the same thing.
			if (lastNotification != null && lastNotification.equals(message))
				return;

			notification.setText(message);
			notification.show();
		} else {
			notification = Toast.makeText(context, message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
			notification.show();
		}

		lastNotification = message;
	}

	/**
	 * Ask the {@link TerminalBridge} we're connected to to resize to a specific size.
	 * @param width
	 * @param height
	 */
	public void forceSize(int width, int height) {
		bridge.resizeComputed(width, height, getWidth(), getHeight());
	}

	/**
	 * Sets the ability for the TerminalView to display Toast notifications to the user.
	 * @param value whether to enable notifications or not
	 */
	public void setNotifications(boolean value) {
		notifications = value;
	}

	@Override
	public boolean onCheckIsTextEditor() {
		return true;
	}

	@Override
	public InputConnection onCreateInputConnection(EditorInfo outAttrs) {
		outAttrs.imeOptions |=
			EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_EXTRACT_UI |
			EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_ENTER_ACTION |
			EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_NONE;
		outAttrs.inputType = EditorInfo.TYPE_NULL;
		return new BaseInputConnection(this, false) {
			@Override
			public boolean deleteSurroundingText (int leftLength, int rightLength) {
				if (rightLength == 0 && leftLength == 0) {
					return this.sendKeyEvent(new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL));
				}
				for (int i = 0; i < leftLength; i++) {
					this.sendKeyEvent(new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL));
				}
				// TODO: forward delete
				return true;
			}
		};
	}

	public void propagateConsoleText(char[] rawText, int length) {
		if (mAccessibilityActive) {
			synchronized (mAccessibilityLock) {
				mAccessibilityBuffer.append(rawText, 0, length);
			}

			if (mAccessibilityInitialized) {
				if (mEventSender != null) {
					removeCallbacks(mEventSender);
				} else {
					mEventSender = new AccessibilityEventSender();
				}

				postDelayed(mEventSender, ACCESSIBILITY_EVENT_THRESHOLD);
			}
		}

		((Activity) context).runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
			@Override
			public void run() {
				if (terminalTextViewOverlay != null) {
					terminalTextViewOverlay.onBufferChanged();
				}
			}
		});
	}

	private class AccessibilityEventSender implements Runnable {
		public void run() {
			synchronized (mAccessibilityLock) {
				if (mCodeMatcher == null) {
					mCodeMatcher = mControlCodes.matcher(mAccessibilityBuffer);
				} else {
					mCodeMatcher.reset(mAccessibilityBuffer);
				}

				// Strip all control codes out.
				mAccessibilityBuffer = new StringBuffer(mCodeMatcher.replaceAll(" "));

				// Apply Backspaces using backspace character sequence
				int i = mAccessibilityBuffer.indexOf(BACKSPACE_CODE);
				while (i != -1) {
					mAccessibilityBuffer = mAccessibilityBuffer.replace(i == 0 ? 0 : i - 1, i
							+ BACKSPACE_CODE.length(), "");
					i = mAccessibilityBuffer.indexOf(BACKSPACE_CODE);
				}

				if (mAccessibilityBuffer.length() > 0) {
					AccessibilityEvent event = AccessibilityEvent.obtain(
							AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_TEXT_CHANGED);
					event.setFromIndex(0);
					event.setAddedCount(mAccessibilityBuffer.length());
					event.getText().add(mAccessibilityBuffer);

					sendAccessibilityEventUnchecked(event);
					mAccessibilityBuffer.setLength(0);
				}
			}
		}
	}

	private class AccessibilityStateTester extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Boolean> {
		@Override
		protected Boolean doInBackground(Void... params) {
			/*
			 * Presumably if the accessibility manager is not enabled, we don't
			 * need to send accessibility events.
			 */
			final AccessibilityManager accessibility = (AccessibilityManager) context
					.getSystemService(Context.ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICE);
			if (!accessibility.isEnabled()) {
				return false;
			}

			/*
			 * Restrict the set of intents to only accessibility services that
			 * have the category FEEDBACK_SPOKEN (aka, screen readers).
			 */
			final Intent screenReaderIntent = new Intent(SCREENREADER_INTENT_ACTION);
			screenReaderIntent.addCategory(SCREENREADER_INTENT_CATEGORY);

			final ContentResolver cr = context.getContentResolver();

			final List<ResolveInfo> screenReaders = context.getPackageManager().queryIntentServices(
					screenReaderIntent, 0);

			boolean foundScreenReader = false;

			final int N = screenReaders.size();
			for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
				final ResolveInfo screenReader = screenReaders.get(i);

				/*
				 * All screen readers are expected to implement a content
				 * provider that responds to:
				 * content://<nameofpackage>.providers.StatusProvider
				 */
				final Cursor cursor = cr.query(
						Uri.parse("content://" + screenReader.serviceInfo.packageName
								+ ".providers.StatusProvider"), null, null, null, null);
				if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
					/*
					 * These content providers use a special cursor that only has
					 * one element, an integer that is 1 if the screen reader is
					 * running.
					 */
					final int status = cursor.getInt(0);

					cursor.close();

					if (status == 1) {
						foundScreenReader = true;
						break;
					}
				}
			}

			if (foundScreenReader) {
				mControlCodes = Pattern.compile(CONTROL_CODE_PATTERN);
			}

			return foundScreenReader;
		}

		@Override
		protected void onPostExecute(Boolean result) {
			mAccessibilityActive = result;

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Justia Dockets & Filings Ninth Circuit California Eastern District Bird v. Mitchell, et al. Filing 6
Bird v. Mitchell, et al.
ORDER adopting 5 Findings and Recommendations and remanding case to Madera County Superior Court signed by District Judge Anthony W. Ishii on 6/12/2015. CASE CLOSED. Certified Copy of remand order sent to other court. (Lundstrom, T)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 MICHAEL BIRD, [Madera County Superior Court case #MCCV069617] 12 13 14 15 16 17 1:15-cv-00641-AWI-GSA-PC Plaintiff, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS (Doc. 5.) vs. P. MITCHELL, et al., Defendants ORDER REMANDING CASE TO MADERA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT ORDER FOR CLERK TO CLOSE CASE AND SERVE NOTICE OF REMAND 18 19 20 21 Michael Bird ("Plaintiff") is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with this civil rights 22 action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The matter was referred to a United States Magistrate 23 Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302. 24 On April 29, 2015, findings and recommendations were entered, recommending that 25 this action be remanded to the Madera County Superior Court. (Doc. 5.) The parties were 26 granted thirty days in which to file objections to the findings and recommendations. (Id.) The 27 thirty-day time period has expired, and the parties have not filed objections or otherwise 28 responded to the findings and recommendations. (Court Record.) 1 1 In accordance with the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 636 (b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 304, this 2 court has conducted a de novo review of this case. Having carefully reviewed the entire file, 3 the court finds the findings and recommendations to be supported by the record and proper 4 analysis. 5 Accordingly, THE COURT HEREBY ORDERS that: 6 1. 7 The Findings and Recommendations issued by the Magistrate Judge on April 29, 2015, are adopted in full; 8 2. This action is remanded to the Madera County Superior Court; and 9 3. The Clerk of Court is directed to close this case and serve notice of the remand. 10 11 12 IT IS SO ORDERED. Dated: June 12, 2015 SENIOR DISTRICT JUDGE 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2


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The Dimension Data Ladies Pro-Am is a women's professional golf tournament held in Western Cape, South Africa. It is an event on the Southern Africa-based Sunshine Ladies Tour since 2014, played concurrently with the men's Dimension Data Pro-Am on the Sunshine Tour.

The professional golfers are teamed with an amateur and together they compete for the Dimension Data Ladies Pro-Am trophy. They compete using the Better Ball Medal scoring system with the amateur handicaps taken into account.

Except for 2015 when the event was hosted at Oubaai Golf Resort & Spa, the tournament has been played over three days on two different golf courses, the first two rounds at George Golf Club, with the third and final round at Fancourt Hotel and Country Club.

In 2021 the tournament had a revised format, without the pro-am element, in observance of the coronavirus health protocols and restrictions. The ladies field did not play at the George Golf Club but joined the men playing the Outeniqua and Montagu courses at Fancourt on alternating days for the first and second rounds, before playing the final round at the Outeniqua as per previous years.

Winners
Individual

Team event

See also
Dimension Data Pro-Am

References

External links
Coverage on the Sunshine Ladies Tour's official site

Sunshine Ladies Tour events
Golf tournaments in South Africa