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InfoBox

InfoBox extends the Google Maps JavaScript API V3 <tt>OverlayView</tt> class.

 An InfoBox behaves like a <tt>google.maps.InfoWindow</tt>, but it supports several
 additional properties for advanced styling. An InfoBox can also be used as a map label.

 An InfoBox also fires the same events as a <tt>google.maps.InfoWindow</tt>.

For a description and examples of how to use this library, check out the how-to.

class InfoBox

Constructor

              Constructor

              Description

                InfoBox(opt_opts?:InfoBoxOptions)

                Creates an InfoBox with the options specified in InfoBoxOptions.
 Call <tt>InfoBox.open</tt> to add the box to the map.

Methods

              Methods

                  Return Value

              Description

                close()

                    None

                Removes the InfoBox from the map.

                draw()

                    None

                Draws the InfoBox based on the current map projection and zoom level.

                getContent()

                    string

                Returns the content of the InfoBox.

                getPosition()

                    LatLng

                Returns the geographic location of the InfoBox.

                getVisible()

                    boolean

                Returns a flag indicating whether the InfoBox is visible.

                getZIndex()

                    number

                Returns the zIndex for the InfoBox.

                hide()

                    None

                Hides the InfoBox. [Deprecated; use <tt>setVisible</tt> instead.]

                onRemove()

                    None

                Invoked when <tt>close</tt> is called. Do not call it directly.

                open(map:Map|StreetViewPanorama, anchor?:MVCObject)

                    None

                Adds the InfoBox to the specified map or Street View panorama. If <tt>anchor</tt>
 (usually a <tt>google.maps.Marker</tt>) is specified, the position
 of the InfoBox is set to the position of the <tt>anchor</tt>. If the
 anchor is dragged to a new location, the InfoBox moves as well.

                setContent(content:string|Node)

                    None

                Sets the content of the InfoBox.
 The content can be plain text or an HTML DOM node.

                setOptions(opt_opts:InfoBoxOptions)

                    None

                Sets the options for the InfoBox. Note that changes to the <tt>maxWidth</tt>,
 <tt>closeBoxMargin</tt>, <tt>closeBoxURL</tt>, and <tt>enableEventPropagation</tt>
 properties have no affect until the current InfoBox is <tt>close</tt>d and a new one
 is <tt>open</tt>ed.

                setPosition(latlng:LatLng)

                    None

                Sets the geographic location of the InfoBox.

                setVisible(isVisible:boolean)

                    None

                Sets the visibility of the InfoBox.

                setZIndex(index:number)

                    None

                Sets the zIndex style for the InfoBox.

                show()

                    None

                Shows the InfoBox. [Deprecated; use <tt>setVisible</tt> instead.]

Events

              Events

                  Arguments

              Description

                closeclick

                    None

                This event is fired when the InfoBox's close box is clicked.

                content_changed

                    None

                This event is fired when the content of the InfoBox changes.

                domready

                    None

                This event is fired when the DIV containing the InfoBox's content is attached to the DOM.

                position_changed

                    None

                This event is fired when the position of the InfoBox changes.

                zindex_changed

                    None

                This event is fired when the zIndex of the InfoBox changes.

class InfoBoxOptions

This class represents the optional parameter passed to the InfoBox constructor.  There is no constructor for this class.  Instead, this class is instantiated as a javascript object literal.

Properties

              Properties

                  Type

              Description

                alignBottom

                    boolean

                Align the bottom left corner of the InfoBox to the position
 location (default is <tt>false</tt> which means that the top left corner of the InfoBox is aligned).

                boxClass

                    string

                The name of the CSS class defining the styles for the InfoBox container.  The default value is "infoBox".

                boxStyle

                    Object

                An object literal whose properties define specific CSS
 style values to be applied to the InfoBox. Style values defined here override those that may
 be defined in the boxClass style sheet. If this property is changed after the
 InfoBox has been created, all previously set styles (except those defined in the style sheet)
 are removed from the InfoBox before the new style values are applied.

                closeBoxMargin

                    string

                The CSS margin style value for the close box.
 The default is "2px" (a 2-pixel margin on all sides).

                closeBoxURL

                    string

                The URL of the image representing the close box.
 Note: The default is the URL for Google's standard close box.
 Set this property to "" if no close box is required.

                content

                    string|Node

                The content of the InfoBox (plain text or an HTML DOM node).

                disableAutoPan

                    boolean

                Disable auto-pan on <tt>open</tt>.  The default value is false.

                enableEventPropagation

                    boolean

                Propagate mousedown, mousemove, mouseover, mouseout,
 mouseup, click, dblclick, touchstart, touchend, touchmove, and contextmenu events in the InfoBox
 (default is <tt>false</tt> to mimic the behavior of a <tt>google.maps.InfoWindow</tt>). Set
 this property to <tt>true</tt> if the InfoBox is being used as a map label.

                infoBoxClearance

                    Size

                Minimum offset (in pixels) from the InfoBox to the
 map edge after an auto-pan.

                isHidden

                    boolean

                Hide the InfoBox on <tt>open</tt>.
 [Deprecated in favor of the <tt>visible</tt> property.]  The default value is false.

                maxWidth

                    number

                The maximum width (in pixels) of the InfoBox. Set to 0 if no maximum.

                pane

                    string

                The pane where the InfoBox is to appear (default is "floatPane").
 Set the pane to "mapPane" if the InfoBox is being used as a map label.
 Valid pane names are the property names for the <tt>google.maps.MapPanes</tt> object.

                pixelOffset

                    Size

                The offset (in pixels) from the top left corner of the InfoBox
 (or the bottom left corner if the alignBottom property is true)
 to the map pixel corresponding to <tt>position</tt>.

                position

                    LatLng

                The geographic location at which to display the InfoBox.

                visible

                    boolean

                Show the InfoBox on <tt>open</tt>.  The default value is true.

                zIndex

                    number

                The CSS z-index style value for the InfoBox.
 Note: This value overrides a zIndex setting specified in the <tt>boxStyle</tt> property.

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After steaming overnight from the Prince Edwards, we made good speed east towards the Crozets with a view to arriving off the western end of the archipelago tomorrow morning. The weather was kind, if cool, and despite being a good distance from the nearest islands, a good diversity of seabirds was observed during 11 hours of transects, including three prions (thanks to digital photography…).


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Hi, I don't know if I put the link of my video like this, maybe I didn't, so I'd like to know if you delete post if we don't post it like you say above ? because I lost a post in Share Your Videos... I posted it here few days ago, and it's gone now, the vimeo link was working.
Außerdem: Muß so eine Veröffentlichung auf youtube liegen oder kann das auch eime private Webseite sein?
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I like Sam Harris, a lot actually. I think he is brilliant and his critiques on religion and culture are usually incisive. I have quoted him often in sermons actually. This quote here is from a larger conversation he was having about how to solve the complex social and political problems in our country today. While he is a progressive, his argument here is actually pretty conservative and I think shared by many today, on both the right and left. The main idea is that there is only one reality to be had and if we all just disengage emotionally when confronting different ideas, we can all agree on the facts and live in peace.
To be clear, he makes a great point here. Our identity has nothing to do with whether or not vaccines cause autism or whether or not racism is to blame for the latest death of a black person at the hands of a white cop. I also completely agree that emotions challenge our ability to hear views that conflict with our own. And while we should do our best to emotionally disengage when listening to opposing views, we cannot separate who we are emotionally from how we perceive reality.
I understand Tyler's frustration but there's nothing rare or new about the human capacity to redefine reality like this. I used to employ the same kind of intellectual gymnastics to explain how I could believe in and even love a God that tortures people and calls me to oppress and exclude. My reasoning back then is pure nonsense to me now. It's like I was speaking a different language and living in another world. And the fact is, I was! This is because the Bible is, as Wallace says, "simply language, and language lives not just in but *through* the reader. The reader becomes God for all textual purposes." Thus, there are as many interpretations/theologies as there are readers/believers.
The same principle applies to the complex political narratives we live in today. We are all living in our own realities, even Harris. His is constructed from scientism and objectivism, the belief that reason alone can solve all our problems. And to be sure, he is emotionally attached to this idea, which is ironic. But Harris' objectivism is shared by many people today on both the political left and right. They too believe that if we could just set aside our emotional attachments to our ideology, we'll all see the same facts and learn to live in peace. I wish it were that simple but it's not. Again, I agree with Harris that facts matter and that we should disengage emotionally as much as possible and think critically, but that actually won't bring the kind of peace we desire. Only love and humility will do that.
What Wallace teaches us is that we are each living in slightly, to very different realities with our own stories and facts. We cannot help that. Blame it on our advanced human brains. Therefore, the best course of action is radical love, understanding, and humility. Blatant disregard for facts and truth needs to be confronted but we need to do that while knowing that no one will ever completely adopt our version of reality. We will always feel somewhat frustrated with "those people" or "that person." The sooner we realize that facts (don't) matter, the better off we'll be.
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City Council Vice President Dan Lewis
Proposals Allow Government Sanctioned Homeless Tent Cities Throughout Albuquerque Amendments are currently being considered by Council to the Integrated Development Ordinance (IDO). https://www.cabq.gov/council/find-your-councilor/district-5/news/proposals-allow-government-sanctioned-homeless-tent-cities-throughout-albuquerque https://www.cabq.gov/council/find-your-councilor/district-5/news/proposals-allow-government-sanctioned-homeless-tent-cities-throughout-albuquerque/%40%40download/image/Councilor%20Lewis.jpeg
Proposals Allow Government Sanctioned Homeless Tent Cities Throughout Albuquerque
Amendments are currently being considered by Council to the Integrated Development Ordinance (IDO).
There are two proposals currently before the City Council that amend the City zoning code to allow government sanctioned homeless tent encampments throughout the city. One proposal would allow almost an unlimited amount of tent encampments called "Living Spaces" in every City Council District with almost no regulations. Another would propose up to 45, so called "Safe Outdoor Spaces" throughout the city with at least 5 tent encampments in every City Council District.
If passed, Albuquerque is on its way to looking like Seattle and other large cities where tent encampments are allowed in public and private city spaces, parking lots, commercial properties, near businesses, schools, offices, and homes. What's more concerning is that sponsors of these proposals are introducing amendments that prohibit these tent encampments from large portions of their own Council Districts.
"I oppose these unsafe and inhumane encampments," said City Councilor Dan Lewis. "Unsanctioned substandard living conditions in the form of illegal encampments have already emerged in City Parks, along and within City streets and rights of ways, and in some instances on private property. They have become normalized at many locations within the city. These encampments are often ridden with unsanitary conditions, drug abuse, physical abuse, and victimization of the most vulnerable. These environments are not safe or compassionate and they subject their inhabitants to harm, disease, illness, and hopelessness, and subject their neighbors in the community to the same conditions. I have funded and supported public and private drug treatment programs and mental health organizations that provide humane temporary shelters with running water and heat, and I will continue to do so as the solution to the homeless challenges that we have in our City, along with enforcing our anti-encampment, loitering, and trespassing laws that are already in place. Radical proposals that sanction tent encampments will not reduce homelessness in our city and will only make the situation worse."
In 2018, the City sold voters on an initial investment of $15 million in the Gateway Center and is planning to spend approximately $28 million next fiscal year in temporary shelters with running water and heat including the Gateway Center, tiny homes, private shelters, and related services. Additionally, the City and County combined anticipate up to $37 million annually in mental health, drug treatment, and programs that will support the unsheltered.
"With the investments that the City and County have already made in humane temporary shelters such as the Gateway Center and other private groups that provide temporary shelter and mental health and drug treatment, along with new private shelters, the city has beds for those that want them, and the city can legally enforce anti-encampment laws," Lewis said.
The proposed amendments to O-22-10, regarding "Living Spaces" and "Safe Outdoor Spaces," will be considered at the May 16, 2022, City Council Meeting.
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Denis Menchov
Russian cyclist
Menchov at the 2011 Tour de Romandie
Denis Nikolayevich Menchov
The Pope
Denny[1]
(1978-01-25) 25 January 1978 (age 43)
Oryol, Soviet Union
1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)
Geox–TMC
Team Katusha[2]
Major wins
Young rider classification (2003)
1 individual stage
General classification (2009)
Points classification (2009)
3 individual stages
Mountains classification (2007)
Combination classification (2005, 2007)
Stage races
Tour of the Basque Country (2004)
One-day races and Classics
National Time Trial Championships (2012)
Denis Nikolayevich Menchov (Russian: Денис Николаевич Меньшов; born 25 January 1978) is a former professional Russian road bicycle racer, who rode as a professional between 2000 and 2013. He was best known as a general classification rider, a climber, and a very good time trialist. In 2005 he finished second in the Vuelta a España, but in 2007 he would finish as the champion. Menchov also won the centenary Giro d'Italia in 2009, and finished second in the Tour de France in 2010 becoming the first Russian to do so. He was later disqualified from this Tour de France, along with the 2009 and 2012 editions, due to adverse biological passport findings.
1 Professional career
1.1 Banesto (2000–2004)
1.2 Rabobank (2005–2010)
1.3 Geox-TMC (2011)
1.4 Katusha (2012–2013)
1.5 Return to the sport: Gazprom–RusVelo (2019)
2 Doping
3 Career achievements
3.1 Major results
3.1.1 General classification results timeline
Banesto (2000–2004)
Born in Oryol, Menchov started his professional career in 2000 with the Banesto team of José Miguel Echevarri. His first success came in 2001, when he won the Tour de l'Avenir, a stage race for young professionals. A year later he won a stage in the Dauphiné Liberé. In 2003, Menchov had his breakthrough when he finished 11th in the Tour de France, and won the young rider classification. 2004 was his last year at Banesto and his most successful. He won Tour of the Basque Country, a stage in Vuelta a Aragón, a stage in Paris–Nice and stage five in the 2004 Vuelta a España, from Zaragoza to Morella.
Rabobank (2005–2010)
Menchov's contract ran out in September 2004 and he moved to the Dutch Rabobank team for two years. He became team captain following Levi Leipheimer's departure to Gerolsteiner. Menchov was Rabobank's main contender for the 2005 Tour de France, but due to a cold, he finished 85th, 2h 35m behind Lance Armstrong.[3] His 2005 Vuelta was more successful. He won the opening time trial to Granada and the stage nine time trial to Lloret de Mar, and wore the leader's red jersey. On the fifteen stage, he lost sight of Roberto Heras on a climb and ended the race second behind Heras. Heras was later disqualified for doping,[4] and Menchov received the official win of the 2005 Vuelta, but the title was given back to Heras in 2012. He also captured the event's Combined Classification.[5]
In the 2006 Tour de France Menchov won the 11th stage – the second mountain stage – from Tarbes to Aran Valley-Pla-de-Beret after a sprint with Leipheimer and Floyd Landis. The final week took its toll and he dropped from 3rd to 6th in the Alps. He later moved up to 5th overall after the disqualification of race winner Floyd Landis.
Menchov abandoned the 2007 Tour de France on stage 17, the day after his teammate Michael Rasmussen was fired from Rabobank.[6] Later that year, he won the Vuelta a España after leading during the second half of the race. In the Vuelta he also won a stage, the mountains classification and the combination classification.
In 2008 Menchov concentrated on Tour de France and did not defend his Vuelta title.[7] He ended third in the Tour because Bernhard Kohl was disqualified for doping. Also Menchov finished fifth in Giro prior.
In 2009 Menchov won the Giro d'Italia, with wins in stages 5 and 12. Despite crashing in the final kilometer of the last-stage time-trial through Rome, Menchov held the pink jersey and extended his lead by 21 seconds, winning by 41 seconds over Italy's Danilo Di Luca.[8][9] Menchov also won the points jersey that year.
In the 2010 Tour de France, Menchov came in second place after passing Samuel Sanchez in the final Time Trial. He was third originally, but moved to the second spot as a consequence of Contador's victory being revoked due to a doping affair, as was decided on 6 February 2012.
Geox-TMC (2011)
Later in 2010 Menchov transferred to Geox-TMC, as joint leader of the team with Carlos Sastre. Menchov was replaced as leader of Rabobank by Robert Gesink. With Geox, Menchov finished 8th in the 2011 Giro. The team were not invited to the Tour de France, a blow to Menchov, who had been considered a favourite. Menchov finished fifth overall at the Vuelta a España, having helped teammate Juan José Cobo to overall victory.
Katusha (2012–2013)
At the end of 2011, Menchov moved to Russian team Team Katusha for the 2012 season.[2] Menchov focused the 2012 season on the 2012 Tour de France, although he was devastated with crashes. Menchov also won the Russian national time trial crown. He started Tour very well with eighth place in prologue, but due to health problems finished only 15th place overall at the end.[10] He rode in the 2012 Summer Olympics representing the Russian National Team both in Olympic road race and individual time trial[11] After, the Olympic Games, Menchov rode the Vuelta a España where he won the penultimate stage in Bola del Mundo after outsprinting Richie Porte. After suffering a knee injury before the Giro d'Italia, Menchov announced his retirement from the sport of cycling in 2013.
Return to the sport: Gazprom–RusVelo (2019)
Menchov will return to cycling in 2019, in the role of directeur sportif for UCI Pro-Contintal team Gazprom–RusVelo.[12]
On 10 July 2014, a UCI press release detailing various athlete sanctions specified that Menchov had been banned (for a period of two years) until 9 April 2015 due to adverse biological passport findings. Due to this, he has been disqualified from the 2009, 2010 and 2012 Tours de France.[13]
On 22 January 2015, USADA released its reasoned decision on the case of Dr. Geert Leinders in which it stated that Menchov received blood transfusions during the 2005 Tour de France.[14]
Career achievements
Major results
1st Volta a Lleida
1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir
7th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1st Stage 2
1st Young rider classification Tour de France
1st Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama
1st Overall Tour of the Basque Country
1st Stage 5 Vuelta a España
1st Stage 6 Paris–Nice
1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Aragón
2nd Overall Vuelta a España
1st Combination classification
1st Stages 1 & 9
3rd Overall Tour de Romandie
5th Overall Tour de France
1st Stage 11
9th Overall Volta a Catalunya
1st Overall Vuelta a España
1st Mountains classification
3rd Overall Volta a Catalunya
1st Points classification
3rd Overall Tour de France
4th Overall Tour de Romandie
5th Overall Giro d'Italia
5th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
6th Clásica de San Sebastián
1st Overall Giro d'Italia
1st Points classification[15]
1st Stages 5, 10 & 12
1st Overall Vuelta a Murcia
2nd Overall Tour de Romandie
2nd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
2nd Overall Tour de France
5th Overall Vuelta a España
5th Overall Tour of Austria
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Stage 20 Vuelta a España
4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
4th Overall Volta ao Algarve
8th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
General classification results timeline
Grand Tour general classification results
— — — — — — — — 5 1 — 7 — —
— 47 93 11 DNF 85 5 DNF 3 51 2 — 15 —
/ Vuelta a España
— — — — DNF 2 DNF 1 — — 41 5 54 —
Major stage race general classification results
/ Paris–Nice
— 53 DNF — 12 — — — — — — — DNF 14
/ Tirreno–Adriatico
Did not contest during his career
— — — — — — 9 3 — — DNF 109 11 DNF
Tour of the Basque Country
— — — 36 1 11 DNF — — — — — — —
/ Tour de Romandie
— — — — — 3 — 54 4 11 2 14 DNF —
DNF 7 6 39 — 24 6 4 — — 25 — 42 —
Did not compete
DSQ = Disqualified
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^ "La Vuelta a España 2005 Overall Allround". lavuelta.com. 9 February 2006. Archived from the original on 4 August 2008.
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^ Simon Baskett (19 February 2008). "Menchov targets Tour rather than Vuelta defense". Reuters. Retrieved 26 March 2008.
^ REUTERS 31 May 2009. Russian Clinches Italian Bike Race. New York, NY: New York Times
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^ Velonews.com 17 July 2012. What happened to Menchov?
^ KatushaTeam Official Site 26 July 2012. Katusha riders will take part in 2012 London Olympic Games.: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2012. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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^ 10 July 2014. Athlete sanctions press release
^ http://www.usada.org/wp-content/uploads/AAA_decision_Leinders_December_2014.pdf
^ Awarded after the disqualification of apparent winner Danilo Di Luca
Denis Menchov at Trap-Friis.dk
Tour de France young rider classification winners
1975: Francesco Moser
1976: Enrique Martínez Heredia
1977: Dietrich Thurau
1978: Henk Lubberding
1979: Jean-René Bernaudeau
1980: Johan van der Velde
1981: Peter Winnen
1982: Phil Anderson
1983: Laurent Fignon
1984: Greg LeMond
1985: Fabio Parra
1986: Andrew Hampsten
1987: Raúl Alcalá
1988: Erik Breukink
1989: Fabrice Philipot
1990: Gilles Delion
1991: Álvaro Mejía
1992: Eddy Bouwmans
1993: Antonio Martín
1994–1995: Marco Pantani
1996–1998: Jan Ullrich
1999: Benoît Salmon
2000: Francisco Mancebo
2001: Óscar Sevilla
2002: Ivan Basso
2003: Denis Menchov
2004: Vladimir Karpets
2005: Yaroslav Popovych
2006: Damiano Cunego
2007: Alberto Contador
2008–2010: Andy Schleck
2011: Pierre Rolland
2012: Tejay van Garderen
2013: Nairo Quintana
2014: Thibaut Pinot
2016: Adam Yates
2017: Simon Yates
2018: Pierre Latour
2019: Egan Bernal
2020: Tadej Pogačar
Giro d'Italia general classification winners
1909: Luigi Ganna
1910–11: Carlo Galetti
1912* Atala–Dunlop (Carlo Galetti, Giovanni Micheletto, Eberardo Pavesi)
1913: Carlo Oriani
1914: Alfonso Calzolari
1915–18 World War I
1919: Costante Girardengo
1920: Gaetano Belloni
1921–22: Giovanni Brunero
1924: Giuseppe Enrici
1925: Alfredo Binda
1926: Giovanni Brunero
1927–29: Alfredo Binda
1930: Luigi Marchisio
1931: Francesco Camusso
1932: Antonio Pesenti
1934: Learco Guerra
1935: Vasco Bergamaschi
1936–37: Gino Bartali
1938–39: Giovanni Valetti
1940: Fausto Coppi
1941–45 World War II
1946: Gino Bartali
1948: Fiorenzo Magni
1950: Hugo Koblet
1952–53: Fausto Coppi
1954: Carlo Clerici
1956: Charly Gaul
1957: Gastone Nencini
1958: Ercole Baldini
1960: Jacques Anquetil
1961: Arnaldo Pambianco
1962–63: Franco Balmamion
1965: Vittorio Adorni
1966: Gianni Motta
1967: Felice Gimondi
1968: Eddy Merckx
1971: Gösta Pettersson
1972–74: Eddy Merckx
1975: Fausto Bertoglio
1977: Michel Pollentier
1978: Johan De Muynck
1979: Giuseppe Saronni
1980: Bernard Hinault
1981: Giovanni Battaglin
1986: Roberto Visentini
1987: Stephen Roche
1988: Andy Hampsten
1990: Gianni Bugno
1991: Franco Chioccioli
1992–93: Miguel Induráin
1994: Evgeni Berzin
1995: Tony Rominger
1996: Pavel Tonkov
1997: Ivan Gotti
1998: Marco Pantani
2000: Stefano Garzelli
2001: Gilberto Simoni
2002: Paolo Savoldelli
2007: Danilo Di Luca
2011: Michele Scarponi
2012: Ryder Hesjedal
2013: Vincenzo Nibali
2017: Tom Dumoulin
2018: Chris Froome
2019: Richard Carapaz
2020: Tao Geoghegan Hart
*In 1912, Giro was contested solely by teams, with no individual classification
Giro d'Italia points classification winners
1967: Dino Zandegù
1969–70: Franco Bitossi
1971: Marino Basso
1972: Roger De Vlaeminck
1974–75: Roger De Vlaeminck
1976–78: Francesco Moser
1980–81: Giuseppe Saronni
1984: Urs Freuler
1986: Guido Bontempi
1987–88: Johan van der Velde
1989: Giovanni Fidanza
1991: Claudio Chiappucci
1992: Mario Cipollini
1993: Adriano Baffi
1994: Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
1996: Fabrizio Guidi
1998: Mariano Piccoli
1999: Laurent Jalabert
2000: Dimitri Konyshev
2001: Massimo Strazzer
2004: Alessandro Petacchi
2005–06: Paolo Bettini
2008: Daniele Bennati
2010: Cadel Evans
2012: Joaquim Rodríguez
2013: Mark Cavendish
2014: Nacer Bouhanni
2015–16: Giacomo Nizzolo
2017: Fernando Gaviria
2018: Elia Viviani
2019: Pascal Ackermann
2020: Arnaud Démare
Vuelta a España general classification winners
1935–36: Gustaaf Deloor
1937–40 Spanish Civil War
1941–42: Julián Berrendero
1945: Delio Rodríguez
1946: Dalmacio Langarica
1947: Edward Van Dijck
1948: Bernardo Ruiz
1949 Race not held
1950: Emilio Rodríguez
1951–54 Race not held
1955: Jean Dotto
1956: Angelo Conterno
1957: Jesús Loroño
1958: Jean Stablinski
1959: Antonio Suárez
1960: Frans De Mulder
1961: Angelino Soler
1962: Rudi Altig
1964: Raymond Poulidor
1965: Rolf Wolfshohl
1966: Francisco Gabica
1967: Jan Janssen
1969: Roger Pingeon
1970: Luis Ocaña
1971: Ferdinand Bracke
1972: José Manuel Fuente
1975: Agustín Tamames
1976: José Pesarrodona
1977: Freddy Maertens
1979: Joop Zoetemelk
1980: Faustino Ruperez
1982: Marino Lejarreta
1984: Éric Caritoux
1985: Pedro Delgado
1986: Álvaro Pino
1987: Luis Herrera
1988: Sean Kelly
1990: Marco Giovannetti
1991: Melcior Mauri
1992–93–94: Tony Rominger
1996–97: Alex Zülle
1998: Abraham Olano
1999: Jan Ullrich
2000: Roberto Heras
2001: Ángel Casero
2002: Aitor González
2003–04–05: Roberto Heras
2006: Alexander Vinokourov
2009: Alejandro Valverde
2013: Chris Horner
2015: Fabio Aru
2019–20: Primož Roglič
Vuelta a España combination classification winners
1970: Guido Reybrouck
1971: Cyrille Guimard
1974: José Luis Abilleira
1989: Óscar Vargas
1990–1991: Federico Echave
1993: Jesús Montoya
Vuelta a España mountains classification winners
1935: Edoardo Molinar
1936: Salvador Molina
1941: Fermín Trueba
1942: Julián Berrendero
1946–47: Emilio Rodriguez
1950: Emilio Rodriguez
1955: Giuseppe Buratti
1956: Nino Defilippis
1957–58: Federico Bahamontes
1960–62: Antonio Karmany
1963–65: Julio Jiménez
1966: Gregorio San Miguel
1967: Mariano Díaz
1973–74: José-Luis Abilleira
1975–76: Andrés Oliva
1977: Pedro Torres
1978: Andrés Oliva
1979: Felipe Yáñez
1980: Juan Fernández
1981–83: José Luis Laguía
1990: José Martín Farfán
1992: Carlos Hernandez
1994: Luc Leblanc
1997–99: José María Jiménez
2000: Carlos Sastre
2001: José María Jiménez
2002: Aitor Osa
2003–04: Félix Cárdenas
2005: Joaquín Rodríguez
2006: Egoi Martínez
2008–11: David Moncoutié
2012: Simon Clarke
2013: Nicolas Edet
2014: Luis León Sánchez
2015–16: Omar Fraile
2017: Davide Villella
2018: Thomas De Gendt
2019: Geoffrey Bouchard
2020: Guillaume Martin
Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Doping cases in cycling
Russian Giro d'Italia stage winners
Giro d'Italia winners
Olympic cyclists of Russia
Russian male cyclists
Russian sportspeople in doping cases
Russian Tour de France stage winners
Russian Vuelta a España stage winners
Vuelta a España winners
Sportspeople from Oryol


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Q: Opengl ES 2.0: parts of a model are occluded where they shouldn't. Is z-buffer to blame? I'm using Assimp to render 3D models with OpenGL ES 2.0. I'm currently having a strange problem in which some parts of the model are not visible, even when they should be. It's easy to see it in these pictures:

In this second image I rendered (a linearized version of) the z-buffer into screen to see if it could be a z-buffer problem. Black pixels are near the camera:

I tried to change values for z-near and z-far without any effect. Right now I do that on initialisation:
glEnable(GL_CULL_FACE);// Cull back facing polygons
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);

And I'm also doing that for every frame:
glClearColor(0.7f, 0.7f, 0.7f, 1.0f);
glClear( GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT | GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);

I thought it could be a face winding problem, so I tried to disable GL_CULL_FACE, but it didn't work. I'm pretty sure the model is fine, since Blender can render it correctly.
I'm using these shaders right now:
// vertex shader
uniform mat4 u_ModelMatrix; // A constant representing the model matrix.
uniform mat4 u_ViewMatrix; // A constant representing the view matrix.
uniform mat4 u_ProjectionMatrix; // A constant representing the projection matrix.

attribute vec4 a_Position; // Per-vertex position information we will pass in.
attribute vec3 a_Normal; // Per-vertex normal information we will pass in.
attribute vec2 a_TexCoordinate; // Per-vertex texture coordinate information we will pass in.

varying vec3 v_Position; // This will be passed into the fragment shader.
varying vec3 v_Normal; // This will be passed into the fragment shader.
varying vec2 v_TexCoordinate; // This will be passed into the fragment shader.

void main()
{
    // Transform the vertex into eye space.
    mat4 u_ModelViewMatrix = u_ViewMatrix * u_ModelMatrix;
    v_Position = vec3(u_ModelViewMatrix * a_Position);

    // Pass through the texture coordinate.
    v_TexCoordinate = a_TexCoordinate;

    // Transform the normal's orientation into eye space.
    v_Normal = vec3(u_ModelViewMatrix * vec4(a_Normal, 0.0));

    // gl_Position is a special variable used to store the final position.
    // Multiply the vertex by the matrix to get the final point in normalized screen coordinates.
    gl_Position = u_ProjectionMatrix * u_ModelViewMatrix * a_Position;
}

And this is the fragment shader:
// fragment shader
uniform sampler2D u_Texture; // The input texture.
uniform int u_TexCount;

varying vec3 v_Position; // Interpolated position for this fragment.
varying vec3 v_Normal; // Interpolated normal for this fragment.
varying vec2 v_TexCoordinate; // Interpolated texture coordinate per fragment.

// The entry point for our fragment shader.
void main()
{
    vec3 u_LightPos = vec3(1.0);
    // Will be used for attenuation.
    float distance = length(u_LightPos - v_Position);

    // Get a lighting direction vector from the light to the vertex.
    vec3 lightVector = normalize(u_LightPos - v_Position);

    // Calculate the dot product of the light vector and vertex normal. If the normal and light vector are
    // pointing in the same direction then it will get max illumination.
    float diffuse = max(dot(v_Normal, lightVector), 0.0);

    // Add attenuation.
    diffuse = diffuse * (1.0 / distance);

    // Add ambient lighting
    diffuse = diffuse + 0.2;
    diffuse = 1.0;

    //gl_FragColor = (diffuse * texture2D(u_Texture, v_TexCoordinate));// Textured version

    float d = (2.0 * 0.1) / (100.0 + 0.1 - gl_FragCoord.z * (100.0 - 0.1));
    gl_FragColor = vec4(d, d, d, 1.0);// z-buffer render
}

I'm using VBO with indices to load the geometry and stuff.
Of course I can paste some other code you think it may be relevant, but for now I'm happy to get some ideas of what can cause this strange behavior, or some possible tests I can do.

A: Ok, I solved the problem. I post the solution since it may be useful to future googlers.
Basically I didn't request a Depth Buffer. I'm doing all the render stuff in native code, but all the Open GL context initialization is done in the Java side. I used one of the Android samples (GL2JNIActivity) as a starting point, but they didn't request any depth buffer and I didn't notice that.
I solved it setting the depth buffer size to 24 when setting the ConfigChooser:
setEGLConfigChooser( translucent ?
                         new ConfigChooser(8, 8, 8, 8, 24 /*depth*/, 0) :
                         new ConfigChooser(5, 6, 5, 0, 24 /*depth*/, 0 );


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Q: Using Codeforces API to get information about all ACs of a user on CF questions through discord bot (discord.py) - json file handling error in python I was trying to make a discord bot that would give me information about the questions in which the user that i enter has gotten ACs. For this I fetched the json file from CF API and converted it to dictionary to access it's key which held this information, I have attached the format of the fetched json. The problem is it gives me an error on the line where I am accessing the key and another error that I can't make head or tail of, I am attaching the error too. Can anyone please tell me where I messed up because I'm really new to this framework as well as python, I am attaching my code below too.
Code

import discord
import requests
import json
token = '(my_token)'
client = discord.Client()

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.content.startswith("!stalk"):
        handle = ""
        words = message.content
        for word in words[1:]:
            handle += word
        await message.channel.send(handle + ': (last correctly solved problem name) ')
        link = "https://codeforces.com/api/user.status?handle="
        link += handle
        request_info = requests.get(link)
        json_obj = dict(request_info.json())
        last_correct_problems = []
        for submissions in json_obj['result']:
            if submissions['verdict'] == 'OK':
                last_correct_problems.append(submissions['problem']['name'])
        for problem in last_correct_problems:
            await message.channel.send(problem + ', ')
client.run(token)

Error

Ignoring exception in on_message

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Users\HP\Anaconda3\envs\balalalabot\lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 312, in _run_event

await coro(*args, **kwargs)

File "C:/Users/HP/Desktop/labsheets/new_stuff/discbalalabot/bot.py", line 23, in on_message
for submissions in json_obj['result']:

KeyError: 'result'

Output on discord

*

*nandini Today at 14:23

*!stalk prabhu4

*balalala BOT Today at 14:23

*stalk prabhu4: (last correctly solved problem name)

API Link
you can refer to the user.status method on this page
JSON Fetched
{"status":"OK",
"result":[{"id":88388369,
"contestId":702,
"creationTimeSeconds":1596059866,
"relativeTimeSeconds":2147483647,
"problem":{"contestId":702,
"index":"A",
"name":"Maximum Increase",
"type":"PROGRAMMING",
"rating":800,
"tags":["dp","greedy","implementation"]},
"author":{"contestId":702,
"members":[{"handle":"Prabhu4"}],
"participantType":"PRACTICE",
"ghost":false,"startTimeSeconds":1469804400},
"programmingLanguage":"GNU C++17",
"verdict":"OK",
"testset":"TESTS",
"passedTestCount":32,
"timeConsumedMillis":46,
"memoryConsumedBytes":3788800},
{"id":88388346,
"contestId":702,
"creationTimeSeconds":1596059822,
"relativeTimeSeconds":2147483647,
"problem":{"contestId":702,
"index":"A",
"name":"Maximum Increase",
"type":"PROGRAMMING",
"rating":800,
"tags":["dp","greedy","implementation"]},
"author":{"contestId":702,
"members":[{"handle":"Prabhu4"}],
"participantType":"PRACTICE",
"ghost":false,
"startTimeSeconds":1469804400},
"programmingLanguage":"GNU C++17",
"verdict":"WRONG_ANSWER",
"testset":"TESTS",
"passedTestCount":0,
"timeConsumedMillis":15,
"memoryConsumedBytes":3788800}]}

A: I'll start this off by advising you to use the aiohttp library instead of the requests library, as requests is blocking while aiohttp is async.
It starts with the first couple of lines in your code. You want to get all the words except the command. message.content isn't a list of words, but it's a string of the message. You'll have to split it into words by using message.content.split(' ').
Now you should get the right results when you get the json file.
Next requestinfo.json() returns a dict and making a dict isn't neccesary.
When you've implemented this it should work.


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Rocket men set to launch from Florida
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket waits for launch at the Kennedy Space Center. (NASA)
HOLT, Fla., May 26, 2020—History will unfold today as two NASA astronauts are launched into space in a joint venture with the space agency and SpaceX from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
This mission marks the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011 that humans will fly to the space station from U.S. soil.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 3:33 p.m. CDT May 27 for the launch of the first commercially built and operated American rocket and spacecraft carrying astronauts to the space station.
Full mission coverage, including the launch, will be streaming live on NASA Television and its website. Coverage will continue through arrival at the ISS.
Pre-lift off coverage has already begun.
Astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken will launch from Florida to the International Space Station May 27. (NASA)
Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will travel to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft launched by a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center.
They're expected to dock with the ISS at 10:39 a.m. CST tomorrow.
Several NASA and SpaceX teams across the country have roles in today's launch.
SpaceX's launch team is commanding the countdown from Firing Room 4 in Kennedy's Launch Control Center, then will transfer control to the company's mission control center in Hawthorne, Calif.
Meanwhile, NASA teams at Kennedy and the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston are monitoring today's activities.
Staff and NASA news releases
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Adams Sanitation begins recycle program July 1 →


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Building Bahrain
bahrain_tm5_1987229_lrg.jpg (1901x2112, JPEG)
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Data Date: August 17, 1987 - August 17, 2022
Visualization Date: September 6, 2022
Bahrain is a small country with a big population. Both have been growing larger in recent decades.
Since the early 1980s, the population of this island nation in the Persian Gulf has quadrupled. In 2022, it reached 1.5 million. As population density has increased and urban development has spread, the need for land has grown.
"Like other countries in the [Persian] Gulf, rapid population growth and the simultaneous increase in urbanization, along with land scarcity, has pushed Bahrain to invest in mega land reclamation projects to extend its coastline," said Eman Ghoneim, a physical geographer at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
These images show changes across 35 years. The first image was captured by the Thematic Mapper on Landsat 5 on August 17, 1987. The second image, captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows the same area on August 17, 2022.
In 1987, Bahrain Island had just recently been linked to Saudi Arabia via the King Fahd Causeway, which opened in 1986. In July 2022, a record 2.5 million motor vehicle passengers traveled on the 25-kilometer (16-mile) stretch of road, according to news reports.
acquired August 17, 1987 - August 17, 2022
Change is most apparent in the country's north, where shallow coastal waters have made it technically and economically feasible to build new land from the seafloor. Notice the areal expansion of existing islands, as well as the addition of new ones.
Sabah Aljenaid, a geographic information systems and remote sensing scientist at Arabian Gulf University, used Landsat images to classify changes to the land between 1986 and 2020. Aljenaid and colleagues found that built-up (urban) areas dominated the changes during this period, increasing on average by 7.5 percent each year. The growth came primarily at the expense of vegetated land and wetlands.
Aljenaid pointed out the dramatic expansion of Muharraq Island, which now spans more than 60 square kilometers (23 square miles) northeast of Manama, the capital city. She also pointed to changes on the island of Nabih Saleh, which has lost its agricultural areas.
While urban expansion has been focused in the north, parts of the southern coastline have undergone change, too. Dredging for the artificial islands of Durrat Al Bahrain began in 2004; by 2007, about 5 square kilometers (2 square miles) of land had been added to Bahrain's southeast coast.
"A decade ago, I wrote that 11 percent of the island of Bahrain is reclaimed land, and the growth continues today," said John Burt, a marine biologist at New York University Abu Dhabi. The shape of Bahrain in 35 more years remains to be seen. "There was on-and-off again talk of building a bridge across Fasht Al Adhm to Qatar," Burt said. "It has not come to fruition, but it may be a future mega-development to watch out for."
AAAS (2014) Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project. Accessed September 6, 2022.
AAAS (2014, April 21) AAAS Analysis Finds Major Changes in Land Use and Land Cover in Bahrain. Accessed September 6, 2022.
Alburshaid, E. A. et al. (2021) Spatio-temporal land use analysis and urban growth dynamic prediction in the kingdom of Bahrain. 3rd Smart Cities Symposium (SCS 2020) .
Aljenaid, S. S. et al. (2022) Detecting and Assessing the Spatio-Temporal Land Use Land Cover Changes of Bahrain Island During 1986–2020 Using Remote Sensing and GIS. Earth Systems and Environment .
CIA World Factbook (2022, August 30) Bahrain. Accessed September 6, 2022.
The Economist (2022, June 9) Gulf states have spent billions to build cities in the sea. Accessed September 6, 2022.
Gulf News (2022, August 4) Record 2.5m passengers on King Fahd Causeway in July. Accessed September 6, 2022.
Landsat Science (2014, April 22) Looking at Urban Expansion in Bahrain. Accessed September 6, 2022.
United Nations Development Programme (2018, December 4) Bahrain Human Development Report 2018. Accessed September 6, 2022.
U.S. Geological Survey (2021) Bahrain. Accessed September 6, 2022.
U.S. Geological Survey (2021) Manama. Accessed September 6, 2022.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.


IN NEWS: India and South Africa will update their Strategic Partnership by agreeing on a comprehensive "roadmap" on the way ahead, as well as relaxing visa restrictions, when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa meets with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Republic day.
All aspects of the partnership would be reviewed and updated with a three-year plan of action on security cooperation, trade and investment, tourism, harnessing the 'blue economy', maritime cooperation, agriculture, science and technology projects.
The bilateral relations between the Republic of India and the Republic of South Africa have grown strong since the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994. Both countries have since developed close strategic, cultural and economic ties. Both are former British colonies and full member states of the Commonwealth of Nations as Commonwealth republics.
India and South Africa also share an extensive energy partnership. Ties with further solidified with South Africa's 2011 acceptance into the BRICS group.
IN NEWS: ISRO's PSLV C-44 broke the silence over a brimming Pulicat lake as it lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR, to successfully place into orbit a military satellite, Microsat-R.
Microsat-R, placed into orbit 13 and a half minutes after lift-off, is a defence application satellite. It is the first time an Indian satellite was being placed by ISRO in a low orbit at an altitude of 274 km.
Till this launch the fourth stage used to just become yet another piece of space debris. However, ISRO has found a way to make use of this stage with a student satellite, Kalamsat, made by Space Kidz India, weighing just 1.26kg, attached to it.
This would enable any agency that wants to conducts experiments in space to use the fourth stage till it disintegrates naturally. The fourth stage of the rocket may be orbiting in space for six months to a year. ISRO is aiming to use this time-frame to enable agencies to run short time experiments.
In news: In a bid to assist visually impaired people to easily determine denomination of currency notes, the Indian Institute of Technology at Ropar in Punjab has developed an Android App "Roshni", using image processing and analytics.
In news: Eighteen research institutions in India are among a group of 50 institutions — called the South Asian Nitrogen Hub (SANH) — in the United Kingdom and South Asia that have secured £20 million (about Rs. 200 crore) from the U.K. government to assess and study the quantum and impact of "nitrogen pollution" in South Asia.
So far, we have focussed on carbon dioxide and its impact on global warming. Nitrous oxide (N2O) is 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide but isn't as prevalent in the atmosphere. However, this is poised to grow.
In the future, reactive nitrogen pollution will be a matter of significant global discussion and, unlike carbon, India and South Asia cannot wake up at the last minute, realising that it has no updated, scientific assessment of its inventory.
NOx emissions grew at 52% from 1991 to 2001 and 69% from 2001 to 2011. The SANH will study the impacts of the different forms of pollution to form a "coherent picture" of the nitrogen cycle. In particular, it will look at nitrogen in agriculture in eight countries — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives.
In news: 2 rhinos raised at Kaziranga find a new home at Manas.
Since 2002, when CWRC started, more than 50 calves stranded in the wild at Kaziranga National Park for various reasons, in most cases due to floods, have been rescued.
The augmentation of Rhinos were part of the initiative "Bring Back Manas', a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The sanctuary, which hosts two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhinoceroses, is a World Heritage Site.
In 2006 Kaziranga was also declared as a Tiger Reserve.
The park area is circumscribed by the Brahmaputra River, which forms the northern and eastern boundaries, and the Mora Diphlu, which forms the southern boundary. Other notable rivers within the park are the Diphlu and Mora Dhansiri.
The Manas river is a major tributary of Brahmaputra River, which passes through the heart of the national park.
In 1992, UNESCO declared it as a world heritage site in danger due to heavy poaching and terrorist activities. In 2011, it was removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger and was commended for its efforts in preservation.
In news: It is a report released by INSEAD business school in partnership with Tata Communications and Adecco Group.
According to the report, Switzerland followed by Singapore, the US, Norway and Denmark were the top five on the list of countries.
However, India performed better than its lower-income peers when it comes to growing talent and access to growth opportunities.
Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna or UDAY.


Microsoft has finally unveiled it's very-much hyped "Project Scorpio," and it's their next gaming console – titled the Xbox One X. It's the most powerful and advanced Xbox yet, with native 4k, and will be available November 7th.
The Xbox One X will come with 6 teraflops of graphics power in its GPU (yes, a teraflop is real, believe it or not) – which is almost 150% of the PS4's graphics power. The custom GPU that Microsoft has designed puts out 1172 Mhz, and 12gb of GDDR5 RAM for lightning quick performance. There is a custom AMD, 2.3 GHz 8-core processor, and a liquid-cooled vapor-chamber cooling, something that is usually found on high-end PC gaming cards like the GTX 1080.The Xbox One X also ships with an Ultra HD BluRay Drive and a 1TB hard drive.
But what everyone is really looking forward to is the insane native 4k resolution this thing is capable; Microsoft even says that 1080p Xbox One games will run in native 4k, which is pretty awesome, and with a nice performance boost. Even the native 4k games can crank out 60 FPS right off the bat. And unlike the PS4, this is an actual, native 4k resolution.
Of course, as with the PS4, there aren't yet a lot of games available in 4k. 4k TV's and monitors are becoming more and more popular, but content creators (both video game and movie) have yet to really catch up. With the advent of these new gaming consoles, however, expect that to change. And if you can get a 4k system, then why not?
The outside of the Xbox One X hasn't changed much from the original, but Microsoft does say it is smaller – the smallest Xbox yet, in fact. There are the obligatory HDMI outputs, USB inputs, and S/PDIF. And of course, it still uses the classic Xbox controller we all know and love.
The Xbox One is no doubt the most powerful Xbox Microsoft has released yet, and its graphics power looks absolutely glorious. If you don't already have a 4k tv, it may seem a little steep to get into, and time will tell how it fares against the ($100 cheaper) PS4. But once 4k games become a little more mainstream, there will be no turning back to the world of 1080P.


The ever-reliable Ming-Chi Kuo with KGI Securities has some insight about what the iDevice maker's next-generation iPhones could give us.
Although the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 7 series smartphones only recently launched, credible rumors surrounding the iDevice maker's next-generation iPhone -- which many expect to be called the iPhone 8 -- are already circulating.
The latest set of rumors comes from the generally reliable (and always interesting) Ming-Chi Kuo with KGI Securities (via AppleInsider). There's some interesting stuff here, so let's see what he has to say.
Kuo expects that next year's iPhones will feature glass backs with metal frames, as phones with all-glass chassis aren't currently feasible "given technological bottlenecks."
The analyst expects that Apple's more mainstream smartphones will feature aluminum frames while more premium models may be differentiated by the use of more expensive -- though, according to the analyst, more aesthetically pleasing -- stainless steel frames.
Kuo says one of the key reasons Apple wants to move to glass is that producing the glossy finish that's currently used in the popular jet-black variants of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus is difficult. He cites manufacturing yields of between 60% and 70%. He also points out that a glass back will allow for "better scratch resistance," something that he claims will "improve user satisfaction."
It's quite interesting that Apple appears to be planning to more aggressively segment its product portfolio. This is hardly a new practice in the world of consumer electronics, but such segmentation actions are relatively new to Apple's iPhone business.
I suspect that there are a couple of key business realities driving Apple to be more aggressive on this front.
First, Apple simply has far more resources to invest today than it did during the early innings of the iPhone. Indeed, Apple's research-and-development spending has soared over the past decade (see the chart below), as the company's successes with the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and the Mac have allowed it to invest substantially more into the development of future products.
Building and ramping up into producing multiple variants of a product is no trivial task. However, the company's research and development budget is roughly an order of magnitude greater than it was back in 2007. Indeed, Apple's product development budget is up more than a factor of three from where it was just four short years ago.
Next, the smartphone market itself is no longer growing at the high rates that it had previously. That means Apple can't rely on the rising industry tide to lift its iPhone business. It needs to be aggressive about building and offering a broader and deeper portfolio of products to service as many potential customers as possible.
The reality is that the look and feel of a smartphone is an important selling point, and it's likely that the iDevice maker will be able to get a significant portion of its customers to pay more for a more "premium" looking design. The glass-backed model with an aluminum frame should be a premium design in its own right, but I'd imagine that there are customers that would choose to buy higher-end iPhones (for example, phones with larger on-board storage) simply for the even more premium look and feel of an iPhone with a stainless steel frame.
And finally, at some point it simply becomes hard to gain further market share and grow unit shipments, even with a broader portfolio of products. This means that Apple is going to sell a richer mix of products. Apple has historically differentiated iPhones by storage tiers and, recently, by size (the iPhones with 5.5-inch displays command a significant premium to the ones with 4.7-inch displays).
With increasing differentiation of higher end models (through both look and feel, as well as potentially technical specifications), Apple could very well drive a significant boost in iPhone average selling prices.
It would seem that Apple's executive team is keenly aware of these business realities and, as a result, is changing up its product development strategy in a bid to capture as much of the revenue and profit dollars in the industry as possible.
It's a good strategy, and as we see it really play out over the next couple of years, Apple's shareholders should be handsomely rewarded in the form of a return to iPhone unit growth and richer average selling prices.


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