James F. English, The Economy of Prestige. Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Believe it or not, they once gave out an Olympic gold medal in Poetry. I'd say cue the slapstick, except James English thought of that already. A few pages previous to this anecdote he quotes from a Monty Python skit: "And the crowd goes quiet now as [Thomas] Hardy settles himself down at his desk..." It's one of a few gems strewn throughout this stiff but useful guide to prizes—international prizes in Poetry, and Art and such. Beyond this, The Economy of Prestige goes far towards explaining a wide range of cultural phenomena of the twenty-first century.
Those verbal gems are a blessing, they keep reminding us how ludicrous the whole idea is to begin with: a prize for writing Poetry? Why not a prize for Breathing? The answer, of course—but there is no "of course." If you ever woke up at two am to realize that the whole idea of grading poets, or painters, or anybody else as Best, Second Best or First in Show borders on insanity, then you're ready to think along the lines laid out in this book. Prizes, English points out, are one of many ways symbolic capital is created in a global economy, and he sets out, clumsily but insistently, to outline how "symbolic capital" works.
[This other economics] does not assume the primacy of the money economy; it is a matter not of reducing culture to economics, artistic motivations to money-lust, but of enlarging the notion of economics to include systems of non-monetary, cultural, and symbolic transactions.
And yet it is. Bourdieu's approach is never as interesting, never as challenging as when it confronts traditional Marxist questions about class formation and the formation of economic capital. Within the world of art symbolic capital accrues from the shows you've had, the fact that you live in Manhattan, and so forth, but as every New York artist knows, you can't pay the rent with symbolic capital. English observes that "not being about the money" is an important function of prize-giving, which puts it in the same functional category as the recent, clumsy show at PS1 devoted to works that were "not for sale." Here we begin to envision an approach that could deal with cultural texts and events the way therapy deals with patients, unearthing each time a set of specific strategies of denial and repression connected to production and relations of production: "At stake [in the giving and receiving of prizes] is the very belief in the Artist as a special category of person, and hence in Art as a special domain of existence." Well, what could be more special than not having to worry about rent? English's most interesting contribution may be his refashioning of Bourdieu's concept of "illusio," which in Bourdieu, he claims, is a rarity, "a special complication or nuance in the habitus," but in English's reading becomes a form of collective belief, almost a group delusion. The idea that art is about not being about the money often takes on this pathological dimension, easily observed among those for whom it most obviously is, too, about the money.
Group delusion or defense mechanism? Bourdieu has written at length about the "world upside-down" aspect of certain forms of symbolic capitalization, but maybe his description coul apply to the symbolic system of Capitalism itself. English brings up Bourdieu's concept of a '"strategy of condescension," a technique of behavior that enables a participant "to enjoy both the rewards of the game and the rewards due to those who are seen as standing above the game," but I wish he had put more flesh on this particular skeleton. It's obvious enough that those who denigrate a certain prize (or one specific winner of one specific prize) are upholding at the same time the illusio that such a thing as a worthwhile prize is at all possible. It's not obvious why. There's a parallel here with that strange habit among "leftists" of denigrating money per se, a superb piece of hypocrisy that automatically sets them apart from those who don't have the leisure to not worry about money to begin with. Similarly, English raises the ever-present possibility that the prize is a "Trojan Horse", exploiting those who imagine they're doing the exploiting, and (English doesn't mention that), vice versa. Quickly and inexplicably the author moves on to Bourdieu's conception of "two fields of cultural production," one "real" in the sense that it consists of artists and writers creating for a living, the others, creating for "art's sake."
From these disjointed observations one begins to gather that prizes are part of a wider cultural movement that bribes artists to not be productive economically, which is pretty much how the system operates under Capital: suppose I write a book and the book is successful—perhaps so successful that I never need to write a book again, or simply so successful that I spend a considerable amount of time flogging my book instead of writing another or, worse, enter the habitus of the prize-givers? In effect I've been co-opted into another system of symbolic formation, the talk-show circuit, for instance. This is a habitus with a radically different system of values: English mentions in passing that Jean-Paul Sartre did not simply turn down the Nobel Prize because it represented bourgeois capitalist values, he turned down all prizes on principle, even those given out by communist regimes, apparently because he felt the value-system enforced by prizes in general was incompatible with his own, regardless of the stated intention. Toni Morrison, by the way, plays a large role in this story - not a pretty one.
English concludes with a discussion of that area where the clash of cultural habitus provides, and promises to provide, the greatest challenge in years to come: the clash of cultural values within the pattern of globalization. Rightly, he points out that a "global" culture is not the "world" culture it pretends to be, that universally significant "heritage of humanity" that's always being sold through Unesco or the Museum of Modern Art. Global culture does not and cannot exist without a constant input from the local cultures that it constantly co-opts and encourages. The author makes a persuasive and ambiguous case around the South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, pointing out that the group emerged from the Apartheid-era world of black-only singing competitions but that its rise marked at once the end of Apartheid and the economic collapse of a certain form of African musical culture.
It was Sartre, also, who spoke of a "Marxist Horizon," meaning that Marxist theory, no matter how incomplete, could pop up again whenever other, presumably narrower theories had exhausted themselves. "The Economy of Prestige" drops off at the point where its questions become practical ones, not for Marxist professors or liberal professors, but for artists trying to make sense of their world and act within it. Because if "Global Culture" is about the falsification of the actual use-value of art in general, then it falsifies the production of art at all levels. In Canada, for instance, the definition of "what is art" is made at once to embody a wide range of cultural activities, coupled with the insistance that these cultural activities can and should be judged according to a value system which is fundamentally alien to them, and what is alienated here above all is the system of exchange, even economic exchange, hence the system of production that brought them into being in the first place. Is there such a thing as Inuit Art? Not in any museum or gallery. Is there an art that's actually detached and detachable from the relations of production that brought it forth? In your dreams, bourgie boy, and your dreams are what you like to call Art.
Here are two stories English doesn't quote in his book. The first concerns Charles-Claude-Flahaut de la Billarderie, Comte d'Angivillier, the unfortunate administrator charged with the cultural policy of Louis XVI in the years leading up to the French Revolution. Angiviller once complained that "One cause of the lack of success of many artists who have given brilliant promise in their youth, is the excessive ease of finding work." It's not that prizes are good for starving artists, it's that starving artists are good for prizes.
Here's the second story. When he was very young, and just a day out of a Southern orphanage, Ray Charles entered a singing contest. He had to, he was starving, and the price was a jar of pickles. Of course he won the prize, and took it up to his room, and then he realized he had no way to open it. Damn.


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"Eugenics and the Creation of the Business Executive, 1900-1920"
The term "business executive" was uncommon in American usage until 1900, when it appeared in nearly every issue of System magazine, a forerunner to Business Week. System's mission was to proselytize the efficiencies of systematic management, and "business executive" emphasized the functional responsibility of managers to execute the goals of the firm down a chain of command. By this definition, all managers were executives, even foremen. System de-mystified executive work, interviewing successful executives who shared the minute details of their tasks, schedules, and habits.
Once in print, though, "business executive" escaped these functional boundaries, swiftly becoming a popular description used by and for white-collared businessmen of all kinds. It suggested an elite status and clear-headed decisiveness. But even corporate leaders who embraced systematic management rejected a purely functional definition of the business executive. Engineers could not measure the traits that made executives effective: "personality" and "the ability to control men." But another science might: eugenics. Eugenicists believed that evolutionary theory could be applied to sort living humans by desirable and undesirable hereditary traits. Eugenic research in anthropology, sociology, and psychology claimed that clues to ability and personality could be found in outward physical traits, allowing employers to swiftly and "scientifically" match candidates to jobs and prevent inefficient "misfits."
This paper will examine three eugenically-informed methods used by firms to identify executive talent during this period: 1) Katharine M. H. Blackford's Character Analysis, a series linking physical features to abilities, 2) Enoch Burton Gowin's The Executive and his Control of Men, an academic survey correlating executive power to physical "engine," and 3) the Man-to-Man Rating System devised by industrial psychologist Walter Dill Scott that rewarded candidates who best matched men currently excelling in the same position. These methods assumed the fitness of current executives and validated traditional homophily—the preference for candidates who resembled themselves—by defining it as a beneficial racial instinct supported by science. This paper is a draft of the second chapter of "Corner Office: A History of the American Business Executive," which examines how executive culture, management theory, and American history consistently linked executive competence to white masculinity for over a century.
Wendy Gamber, Robert F. Byrnes Professor and Chair, Department of History, Indiana University, will provide introductory comments.
Attendees are encouraged to read Mahar's paper, '"Eugenics and the Creation of the Business Executive, 1900-1920," which may be obtained by contacting Carol Lockman at clockman@Hagley.org.
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Though other markets remain healthy, the video-processing-chip company is still weathering GoPro's woes.
Ambarella's latest A9SE Ultra HD 4K Flying camera SoC. Image source: Ambarella.
Ambarella (NASDAQ:AMBA) stock may be falling after the company released fiscal fourth-quarter 2016 results Thursday after the market close, but don't take that to mean the video processing chip specialist's performance wasn't solid.
Quarterly revenue climbed 5% year over year, to $68 million, slightly above the high end of Ambarella's guidance, which called for fourth-quarter revenue of $65 million to $67.5 million. Based on generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), that translated to net income of $5.1 million, or $0.15 per share, down from $17.7 million, or $0.53 per share in the same year-ago period. On an adjusted (non-GAAP) basis, which offers perspective by excluding items like stock-based compensation, Ambarella's net income fell 4.4% year over year to $21.6 million, or $0.64 per share. Here again, Ambarella's guidance called for lower fourth-quarter adjusted net income between $15 million and $17 million.
During the fourth quarter we saw strong sales from professional IP security, automotive aftermarket, home monitoring and flying camera markets. This was largely offset, however, by a continued decline in the wearable sports camera market. In addition, during the quarter we delivered our first 14nm chip, H2, and continued to successfully diversify and expand our end markets and customer base.
To be fair, this shouldn't come as a surprise. This was exactly the case last quarter, when growth in all of Ambarella's other emerging market segments was almost completely negated by weakness in the wearable sports camera market -- or, more accurately, weakness from key customer GoPro (NASDAQ:GPRO), revenue from which is expected to comprise around 25% of Ambarella's total this year. And as I noted in my earnings preview earlier this week, Ambarella CFO George Laplante warned three months ago that high inventory levels for customers in the wearable sports camera market were expected to have a "substantial impact on [Ambarella's] shipments in Q4, extending into Q1 of fiscal 2017."
In fact, Laplante also stated this would mean enduring a "moderate" year-over-year decline in total revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2017. Sure enough, for the current quarter Ambarella anticipates revenue of $55 million to $57 million, representing a decline of 24% to 20%, respectively, from last year's fiscal first quarter. For perspective, however -- and this explains the market's reaction today -- analysts' consensus estimates called for fiscal Q1 revenue to fall a more modest 12.1% year over year.
But this also shouldn't spook long-term investors, either. During this quarter's conference call, Laplante explained that the actual demand from GoPro has declined to the low-single digits as a percent of total revenue so far in Q1, "with the likelihood that this weakness will continue at similar levels until the launch of any new products with our chip." As such, Laplante insists until GoPro refreshes its capture device line up -- which GoPro incidentally narrowed last month to include only its three highest-end devices -- Ambarella is choosing to exercise caution until it has "a better picture of end-user demand in this market."
Ambarella management also tackled the topic of increasing competition from chip juggernaut Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM). More specifically on the wearable camera side, Wang acknowledged "We know that Qualcomm [is] talking to our customers, but we don't see them making much progress with camera solutions. In fact, we still believe that their current ad processor base solution is quite behind in video quality, compression efficiency, power consumption, video features and performance." In other words, price and margins notwithstanding, Ambarella has faith the performance of its chips is still comfortably ahead of the competition in wearables.
In the end, those kinds of challenges are par for the course for Ambarella, but this certainly doesn't help appease skittish investors as long as Ambarella continues to weather weakness in its former core wearables space. And for now, it appears this weakness will endure for at least another quarter before Ambarella can return to healthy year-over-year growth from all its segments. With the caveat that Ambarella's long-term growth story remains firmly intact, it's hard to blame the market for taking a step back today.


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Q: Zoom/unzoom and points decimation Situation:
I have one Chart and three ChartArea that are aligned in view, zoom, cursor through the AxisViewChanged method that act in this way:
       if (e.Axis == ax1)
        {
            ax2.ScaleView.Size = ax1.ScaleView.Size;
            ax2.ScaleView.Position = ax1.ScaleView.Position;
            ax3.ScaleView.Size = ax1.ScaleView.Size;
            ax3.ScaleView.Position = ax1.ScaleView.Position;
            min = (int)ax1.ScaleView.ViewMinimum;
            max = (int)ax1.ScaleView.ViewMaximum;
        }

        if (e.Axis == ax2)
        {
        ....

And it works very well in both cases: when I zoom in/out or scroll.
Problem:
The problem is that my graph source is made by a lot of points, in the worst case we talk about 3'600'000 samples. With this amount of samples, when I move around points with cursor and try to show a tooltip with the values, the interaction quality collapse and becomes unusables (even having set Fast Line).
So I tried to implement a simple decimation algorithm to reducethe number of showed points:
  void draw_graph(int start, int end)
    {
        double fract_value = 0;
        int int_value = 0;
        int num_saples_selected = end - start;
        if(num_saples_selected <= MAX_GRAPH_NUM_SAMPLES)
            fill_graphs_point(0, end, 1);
        else
        {
            fract_value = ((double)num_saples_selected) / ((double)MAX_GRAPH_NUM_SAMPLES);
            int_value = (int)fract_value;
            if (fract_value > int_value)
                int_value++;
            fill_graphs_point(0, end, int_value);
        }
    }

    void fill_graphs_point(int start, int end, int step)
    {
        int i = 0;
        for (i = start; i < end; i=i+step)
        {
           dlChart.Series[SERIES_VOLTAGE].Points.AddXY(timestamps_array[i], voltage_array[i]);
           dlChart.Series[SERIES_CURRENT].Points.AddXY(timestamps_array[i], current_array[i]);
           dlChart.Series[SERIES_ENERGY].Points.AddXY(timestamps_array[i], energy_array[i]);

         // I will use this to came back to real position of the initial array
            decimation_positions.Add(i);
        }
    }

Assuminig I had a good idea with this method to reduce the points number, I do not know where to put the call to the function "draw_graph". If I put it in the AxisViewChanged method it will call my method also when I scroll (horizontally) my graph and this is not what I want. I want to call my method only on zoom and unzoom event.
Expected behavior: in the first view (without any zoom) the graph has to show an "idea" of the trend of the graph. Then for every selection/(un)zoom I want to call my function to check if the points number of selected portion will fit in my window size that is MAX_GRAPH_NUM_SAMPLES(=10000).
Hope someone can help me. Whatever kind of suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

A: I forgot to say that strangely the problem appeared when I zoomed in more than one time. At some point also the PC fan started. I resolved disabling the library zoom and implement my self a sort of zoom (a little bit more simple). The solution is in this method and the method I write in the question:
private void dlChart_SelectionRangeChange(object sender, CursorEventArgs e)
    {
        double startSelection = e.NewSelectionStart;
        double endSelection = e.NewSelectionEnd;

        // Allow the selection to disappear
        reset_selection();
        try
        {
            // before convert point from "showed point" to "real point" I check the limits
            if (
              (startSelection >= 0) && (startSelection <= decimation_positions.Count()) &&
              (endSelection >= 0) && (endSelection <= decimation_positions.Count()) &&
              (endSelection != startSelection)
            )
            {
                // convert
                startSelection = decimation_positions[(int)startSelection];
                endSelection = decimation_positions[(int)endSelection];
                // check for reverse zoom (from right to left)
                if (startSelection > endSelection)
                {
                    double tmp = startSelection;
                    startSelection = endSelection;
                    endSelection = tmp;
                }
                // clean the series
                this.reset_series();
                // draw the selected range
                draw_graph((int)startSelection, (int)endSelection);
            }
        }catch(ArgumentOutOfRangeException ex)
        {
            // todo
        }

        //System.Console.WriteLine("SelSTART = "+e.NewSelectionStart+" SelEND = "+e.NewSelectionEnd);

    }

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top 5 K-Pop
songs of 2018
2018 was the year for K-Pop, especially overseas for BTS' legendary success - speaking at the United Nations to their win at the American Music Awards, BlackPink's collaboration with Dua Lipa and Red Velvet Wendy's duet with John Legend.
Another year of success for K-Pop, and continuing with the high quality of music and choreographies that came out this year.
Here are little asia's favourite tracks from 2018's K-Pop stars.
1. Good Evening - SHINee
Hallyu veterans SHINee had their first release after the passing of their member Kim Jonghyun. In 2017, Kim Jonghyun's suicide shook the world and left an imprint on the world of Korean pop. This comeback signified the 10-year old's group will to continue, despite the grief they had went through. 'Good Evening' was the lead single from their three-part album release. Beautifully crafted choreography, with the use of props will catch your eye. With a slower melody in comparison to previous powerful tracks from SHINee like 'Lucifer' or 'Dream Girl,' the hint of upbeat tones meshed with the soft electronic pop and of course, powerful vocals makes for a catchy song. You will find yourself smiling, feeling pride for this group that have grieved for over a year while still pushing to go forward - feeling an undeniable heart ache, as you notice a missing member. A bittersweet song, with multiple meanings.
2. Tempo - EXO
Wow, EXO's comeback after a year and a half was worth the wait. With the inclusion of Lay; how could you not enjoy this? A mix of hip-hop and pop, the listener is carried on a journey throughout the song. From Chen's velvet voice leading you into the song, Chanyeol's flawless deep rap - this song will be stuck in your head for awhile. Different ranges from Baekhyun, Xiumin, D.O and Suho bring vibrance to the song, making it impossible for you to avoid singing 'Don't mess up my tempo!'
3. 20 SOMETHING - Jeong Sewoon
Despite not making it into the 'Nation's Boy Group,' AKA WannaOne a little over a year and a half ago - Jeong Sewoon is doing just fine. His song '20 SOMETHING' came out in July, and the summer vibes are definitely there. Wide shots of the outdoor locations, with beautiful scenic pictures set the mood for his acoustic slow song about his personal struggles about reaching towards his goals and dreams. A relateable song about the anxieties of getting older. This soft song will remind you that you're not alone and you can look forward to tomorrow to begin again.
4. Bbi Bbi - IU
After IU's album 'Palette' came out last year - everyone was waiting for what she would come out with next! And she did not disappoint. In October, she came back with Bbi Bbi which is an upbeat song but unlike a typical K-Pop song. Classic IU, putting her classic indie pop twists (IU's Twenty-three) into her songs. A chill and relaxing vibe, her soothing voice will have your head bobbing along to the music. You couldn't ask for anything more from the legendary IU.
5. FAKE LOVE - BTS
BTS' Fake Love. Need I say more? Similar in production value to 'Blood, Sweat, Tears' the quality was a m a z i n g. Cinematography and the aesthetic of each scene with every member was memorable, and impactful alongside their strong vocals and rap. The rap-line and vocal-line outdid themselves, starting off with V and Jungkook's alluring voices into Jimin's pre-chorus with the backdrop of emotional and beautifully filmed, scenes - you'll find that you'll be staying on the music video for the entire five minutes.
RM, Suga and J-Hope bring intense and heavy rap intertwining with the vocals from Jin and Jungkook. A song about the realization that love cannot always match expectations, and to move past it - you may or may not relate, and even if you don't it's easy to catch onto the emotions of the song.
But hey, don't worry if you catch yourself singing 'Fake love' even if you may not understand the lyrics, we all did.
Photo Courtesy: 뉴스인스타 (NewsInStar) [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons (top left), @K_POP_Amber [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons(top right)


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Navigate where you want to move the file and tap on Paste.
3How to delete a file?
A Trash Can icon will appear once a file is highlighted.
Tap on the icon to delete a file.
It will ask you "Are you sure you want to delete this file?" Tap on Delete.
4How to set a custom startup location?
Navigate to the settings in Astro file Manager.
Select any File or location and select OK.
5How to I see the files on my device?
Tap on internal shared storage option in storage locations.
Navigate through the internal shared storage.
6How do I see the files in my cloud services?
Tap on any of the cloud locations that have been signed into.
Navigate through the cloud storage.
7How to Create a New Folder?
Navigate to the location in Astro file Manager where you wish to create a folder.
Tap on the menu on the top right hand side of the screen.
8How to Change View Settings?
9How to set a favorite location?
Navigate to the location you wish to set as a favorite.
10How to access my favorites in ASTRO File Manager?
Advance to the home menu and scroll down to the favorites.
You can free up the disk space from Apps you never use or consider uninstalling the Apps which uses a lot of space.
12How to use a USB drive with Astro File Manager ?
Currently, the USB and other OTG drive support works for all Samsung devices. The feature is less likely to work on other devices. We plan to extend the support to other popular devices in future.
13How to create a label on SD card so I can transfer files?
The simple fix is to remove the SD card from the phone , connect it to a regular desktop or laptop with a USB adaptor and rename the card. Renaming the card gives it the needed "label" and will now work again in your Astro program.


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Chitchat — Our side project just became our main project.
Chitchat — Our side project just became our main project.
We fully sympathize with the spammy invitation texts and notifications, and we apologize for being such a pain.
We are working hard to build sustainable products — not just hack some growth numbers together — and we know these sorts of tactics are annoying and just don't work. Retention is the most important metric, not growth.
Chitchat has only been out for a few weeks, effectively run as a product for a limited beta community, our latest build wasn't supposed to be used beyond a small group of targeted people. We had some issues with too many notifications being sent out and a half baked growth feature with incorrect copy variations.
Having friends on the app is an integral part of what makes the Chitchat experience work. On Friday, more people started using the app than we were anticipating, and before we knew it, a lot of people were receiving invitations to Chitchat. We are moving fast, obviously too fast.
Immediately after hearing your feedback, we shipped a new version of ChitChat (currently waiting for review by Apple) that addresses these concerns and throttles down notifications.
To give you a little more context around ChitChat, ChitChat is the latest in a series of mobile apps that our company, Swipe Labs, has built. We are a product studio and every year we focus on a new app until something catches on. So far we have built Tag (2014), Swipe (2015), Channel (2016), and Chitchat (2017).
Chitchat started a few weeks ago as an internal side project. It was very early on in iterations and it was never supposed to go primetime.
The cat's escaped the bag: we have a new live messaging app, ChitChat.
We had no idea that Chitchat would spread so fast, and our team is incredibly excited about building a platform for live spontaneous communication that mirrors real world human interaction.
We want you to know that we are grateful for your feedback. We're listening to you, and we're working on making ChitChat a great place for people to hangout.
Please send me an email to marwan@joinswipe.com if you have any suggestions.


You know what's cool? A trillion dollars.
I don't have anything interesting to say about the fact that Apple Inc.'s equity market capitalization reached a trillion dollars yesterday, but both Bloomberg and the New York Times have interactive online features about what numbers you could add to get to a trillion, and Bloomberg's even includes some numbers you could multiply or subtract to get to a trillion, so perhaps I should list some numbers you could divide to get a trillion? Like, if you had a mole of dollars, and you divided those dollars evenly among all of the stars in our galaxy, each star would have about as many dollars as Apple's market cap. Or if you expressed Warren Buffett's net worth in Mexican pesos, that would be approximately Apple's market cap expressed in pounds sterling. Or if you had a googol of dollars and you divided them by the number of atoms in the universe, you'd have about enough dollars to give an Apple market cap to each person on earth. And then we'd all be rich.
You should not completely neglect "other." There is something self-referential about corporate valuations, and I do not think it is ridiculous to believe some version of the idea that a company is worth a trillion dollars because it is worth a trillion dollars, and not because shareholders have a rational model of the expected future cash flows and those flows happen to add up to a trillion dollars.
But the more conventional explanation is that people are willing to buy Apple shares at a $1 trillion valuation because they expect Apple to give shareholders back more than $1 trillion in the future. (Really, a present value of more than $1 trillion in the future, which means roughly $1 trillion very soon or much more than $1 trillion much later.) That is, not to belabor it too much, a lot of money. Usually when a company is worth $X, that can mean that it is currently generating lots of cash and paying it out to shareholders and that cash is expected to add up to about $X, that it is currently generating no cash at all and investing shareholder money in long-term projects, but that if all goes well and those projects pay off then it will in some distant future be able to pay out, like, $3X to shareholders. But as X gets really really really really big, then getting hypothetically even bigger in the future recedes as an explanation, and actually paying out cash in the present becomes more likely to dominate.
Comparatively speaking, its earnings don't get anywhere near the respect of its megacap brethren. At $56 billion, profits in the past year are double the next biggest earner in the Nasdaq 100 Index. But its price-earnings ratio trails 70 percent of the gauge's members.
Put it this way. If Apple's income was treated with the same generosity bestowed on companies like Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc., its value would be closer to two trillion than just one.
And my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Shira Ovide notes that Apple's profit margins are shrinking as it spends more money on research and development. In some ways this is the opposite of the intuitive popular story of Apple, which is that it used its brilliance to invent superior products that it could sell at huge margins. I mean, that story is true: It did do that. (Cheaply: "Steve Jobs once said that 'innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have,'" Ovide notes.) But at some point, once you have invented the iPhone, you can simultaneously make a lot of money selling iPhones, and spend a lot of money trying to invent the next iPhone, and invent the next iPhone.
In 1997, Michael Dell famously said that Apple should "shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." Apple's market cap was about $2.8 billion at the time, and it closed at about $1,001.7 billion yesterday, so that strategy would have left about $999 billion on the table and is high on the list of worst financial ideas of all time. But in the long run it, or something like it, is the right idea for almost all companies. You take money from shareholders, you use it to make some things, you sell the things, you make a profit, you reinvest the profit in making new things, you repeat for as long as that makes sense, and eventually you either run out of things to make, or—if things go very very well indeed—you have more profits than you can possibly invest in making those things. In the very long run, the way to reward the shareholders for giving you money in the first place is to (1) make as much money as possible with their money and then (2) give most of it back to them. The difficulty is in the details, and the timing. You want to return money to shareholders you've invented the iPhone, not 20 years .
On Twitter, reporters and other observers mocked what they said was the cowardice ofthe analysts for failing to ask about the scandal.
I don't know. Presumably the analysts didn't ask because they didn't think they'd get a useful answer, which was a reasonable assumption given that (1) Moonves was the one running the call and (2) CBS began the call by saying those questions would be off limits. The function of a stock analyst is not primarily journalistic. If a reporter asks a public figure a question that he doesn't want to answer, and he sputters and refuses to answer, then that has value: The public has learned something, even without an actual answer to the question. The comfortable have been afflicted. If an analyst asks a company a question that it doesn't want to answer, and the company doesn't answer, then he's wasted a question; there's no field in his financial model for "angry CEO sputtering." And in any case the analyst's job is as much about maintaining access to management—to update his own models and also to help his clients get access—as it is about asking penetrating questions. Losing favor with management, getting your questions answered, seems like a strictly negative outcome.
This is not to say that the sexual misconduct scandal is irrelevant to the financial model! Quite the opposite: In general, if a scandal might bring down a long-serving powerful CEO, that is going to be material to a company's results, but it's particularly important here because Moonves and CBS's board are fighting a very strange battle against CBS's controlling shareholder. Anything that weakens Moonves's position—whether it's financial results, legal arguments in that fight, or an a personal scandal—matters in that fight, and might affect CBS's future. It's just that asking Moonves about it, in public, on an earnings call, is probably not the way to find out.
Elsewhere, nobody asked about Carl Icahn's activist position on the Cigna Corp. earnings call yesterday, either.
The average annualized daily volatility of Bitcoin against the U.S. dollar, over the past year, is about 90 percent. That implies, loosely speaking, that about one day out of every 20, Bitcoin will move by more than about 11 percent against the dollar. In fact, Bitcoin has had daily moves of 10 percent or more on 22 days over the last 12 months, including 10 so far in 2018; seven of the 10 big moves in 2018 have been 10 percent or more.
OKEx is a Hong Kong-based exchange that lists Bitcoin futures and allows . Leverage of 20x means that for every $1 you put up as margin at the exchange, you can buy $20 worth of Bitcoin futures. If the price of Bitcoin goes up by 5 percent, then those futures will be worth $21, and you will make $1 on your $1 investment. If the price of Bitcoin goes down by 5 percent, then those futures will be worth $19, and you will lose your whole dollar. If the price of Bitcoin falls by 10 percent in a day, which, again, has happened on average this year, then those futures will be worth $18, and you will lose your whole dollar, and also there will be a dollar missing. Like, you were supposed to pay $2 to the person who sold you the futures, but you only put $1 into the exchange. Someone has to come up with the other dollar.
A massive wrong-way bet on Bitcoin left an unidentified futures trader unable to cover their losses, burning counterparties and threatening to dent confidence in one of the world's largest cryptocurrency venues.
The long position in Bitcoin futures listed on OKEx, a Hong Kong-based exchange, had a notional value of about $416 million, according to an OKEx statement on Friday and data compiled by Bloomberg. While OKEx moved to liquidate the position on Tuesday, the exchange was unable to cover the trader's shortfall as Bitcoin's price slumped. Because OKEx has a "socialized clawback" policy for such instances, it will force futures traders with unrealized gains this week to give up about 18 percent of their profits.
"It's a weird mechanism," says a crypto trader who used to work at Morgan Stanley, in a significant understatement. OKEx "requires traders to pass a quiz on its rules before they can begin investing in futures," which you can try here, and there is forced liquidation if you get too close to wiping out your margin, but … there are simpler and more effective ways to make sure that this doesn't happen? Like Cboe and CME Group list Bitcoin futures contracts, and they require 40 percent and 43 percent maintenance margin, respectively. That's leverage of a bit more than 2x. If Bitcoin prices fall by 40 percent in a day, then your margin will be wiped out and Cboe and CME will have a problem. But that never actually happens. The margin is set high enough that it's not at too much risk of being wiped out in a day.
At OKEx … ????? The margin is set low enough that it's at risk of being wiped out all the time, and when it is, they take money from everyone else on the exchange to make up for it. "It's a weird mechanism"! I suppose the point is that if you want to gamble on Bitcoin, you want to gamble on Bitcoin, and just buying two Bitcoins for the price of one isn't exciting enough for you; you want to lever up 20 times, while also gambling a bit that your winnings might be taken away from you.
Or maybe not? Maybe the point of a Bitcoin futures exchange is to allow fun but not-too-serious gambling on Bitcoin. Having 20x leverage and socialized clawbacks is, in a certain light, a way to volatility, as experienced by your customers. If Bitcoin prices drop by more than 5 percent, then the people who were long only lose 5 percent, while the people who were short make more than 5 percent, but have to give up a chunk of it in "clawbacks." Both wins and losses are trimmed a bit. It's a way to bet on Bitcoin but not exactly mean it.
Elsewhere, "Korean Authorities Investigate Alleged Crypto Scam That Promised Investors Shipwreck Gold," why not. When I read about financial scams I often think about the "Linda problem," in which people hear a description of a woman named Linda ("single, outspoken and very bright") and are asked if it is more probable that "Linda is a bank teller" or that "Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement." The former is strictly more probable, but people tend to choose the latter, because it has a story, a personality, a coherence; they are swayed not by bare facts and rational analysis but by wanting to create a vivid picture of who Linda is. Similarly, is it more likely that if you give someone money they will pay you back with gold from a Russian shipwreck, or that if you give someone money they will pay you back in gold from a Russian shipwreck ? If you're into shipwrecks, and you're into crypto, and you're into getting your money stolen, then combining all three is somehow extra satisfying.
There is a popular belief that being a professional investor and trying to find out information about companies is, somehow, cheating. Like if you are a hedge-fund manager and you do lots of research and pay for proprietary data sources and go to private one-on-one meetings with corporate executives, then you have advantages that regular retail investors don't have. There is no level playing field for the retail investors. It's unfair.
But there is a contrary belief that is less popular but more entertaining, which is that actually the retail investors are cheating. After all, any random hobbyist can read a public company's annual report and find out lots of detailed information about the company's finances and strategy. And she didn't need to put in any work to get that report; it was just made freely available to her online by Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure rules. By making all this good stuff available to just anyone off the street, those rules unfairly the value of professional investors' skills and hard work. This makes high-skill professional investing less rewarding than it would otherwise be, reducing the differences in results between good and bad investors. And that reduces the incentives to become a good investor, which makes markets less efficient.
Disclosure regulation is a cornerstone of modern securities markets. Its economic consequences have been extensively studied and heavily debated. A widely recognized benefit of mandatory disclosure is that it levels the playing field by publicly disclosing to everyone what is known only to sophisticated investors. This leveling reduces trading costs and consequently reduces the firm's cost of capital.
In our recent paper, available here, we show that this reduced informational advantage of sophisticated investors is not unambiguously desirable. In particular, when sophisticated investors stop trading in a firm's stock, there is a reduction in the ability of firm managers to glean decision-relevant information from the stock price. In other words, mandatory disclosure impedes the feedback effect of stock prices on managerial decisions, which in turn could harm investment efficiency. In documenting such an effect, we demonstrate that the economic consequences of mandatory disclosure are broader than often thought and, under certain conditions, mandatory disclosure can crowd out informed traders' ability to acquire information, resulting in less managerial learning from the stock price. This in turn lowers the efficiency of the manager's investment decisions.
Coinbase Inc., one of the most popular U.S. cryptocurrency exchanges, is investigating allegations of insider trading on its platform in the hours before the company announced it would enable purchases of the bitcoin spinoff known as bitcoin cash.
Bitcoin cash surged in the hours before the San Francisco-based company's announcement, while bitcoin prices tumbled the most in two months. Bitcoin cash added to gains once Coinbase posted the news on its website at 7:07 p.m. Tuesday in New York. It traded higher by 45 percent to $3,435.36 as of 9 a.m., according to data compiled from coinmarketcap.com. Bitcoin hovered near $17,000 after falling as much as 10 percent.
Armstrong said he "will not hesitate" to fire any employee found to have violated Coinbase policies, which bar them from trading on material non-public information — such as when an asset will be added to the platform.
Bitcoin cash emerged earlier this year amid a split between factions in the cryptocurrency space over proposed software upgrades to the blockchain technology underpinning bitcoin. Coinbase, which at one point this month was the top free application in Apple Inc.'s App Store download ranking, already offered ethereum and litecoin in addition to bitcoin.
While Coinbase briefly enabled orders to be posted in U.S. dollars on its platform for more sophisticated traders, it suspended the facility after two minutes due to "significant volatility," the company said in a blog post. Coinbase plans to reopen the order books Dec. 20 at 9 a.m. Pacific Time.
Click here for a menu of virtual currencies on the Bloomberg.
Coinbase said earlier that customers who held a bitcoin balance at the time of the fork creating bitcoin cash Aug. 1 will see an equal balance of the rival coin in their account.
Bitcoin has soared to new highs this month as regulated U.S. derivatives exchanges in Chicago started trading futures in the unit. It was recently at $17,416, about 11 percent off its record high on Monday, but still up about 18-fold this year.


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MANILA, Philippines — Two senators are more inclined to support the lowering of the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) to 12 years old, instead of 9.
On Monday, the House of Representatives justice committee passed a bill lowering the age of liability from 15 years to 9 years old.
But after conducting the first hearing on the same issue at the Senate on Tuesday, Senator Richard Gordon expressed his inclination to support lowering the age of criminal liability to 12 years old only.
"Nine (years old) I think is too tender," Gordon told reporters after presiding over the hearing as chair of the Senate committee on justice.
"I'm more leaning now to 12. Ang ire-recommend ko siguro is 12 pero after about three years we look it up and then we raise it to 15 years old…" he said.
Gordon believes that at 12 years old, a child has a "more serious understanding" of what is good and bad.
After three years, he said Congress may go back to the current 15 years old threshold.
"I'm not changing for the sake of pleasing the President. I'm changing because I think this is a more pragmatic way…" the senator added.
President Rodrigo Duterte has repeatedly asked Congress to amend the existing law by lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility which is at 15 years old.
Senator JV Ejercito also junked the House version of the bill, setting the minimum age of criminal liability to as young as 9 years old.
"I do not support the proposal to lower the age of criminal liability to 9 years old," he said in a text message.
"They should not go to regular jails because they need rehabilitation. It's the criminals who use minors that deserve heavy penalties," Ejercito added.


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Governance in developing countries
New strategy to help build stability overseas
A new strategy published today outlines how the UK will help to stop serious conflict taking hold in unstable countries
Department for International Development and The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Government has today published a new strategy outlining how the UK will help to stop serious conflict from taking hold in unstable countries.
When violent conflict breaks out, the costs to the country and the international community are enormous. Lives are lost, people are displaced and trade links are cut. Schools shut down, hospitals are destroyed and businesses cannot operate. For these reasons, war is often termed 'development in reverse'.
The new paper - known as the Building Stability Overseas Strategy - details how Britain aims to tackle these problems by promoting democracy, security and prosperity in countries and regions where its interests are at stake.
The strategy has been developed jointly by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Department for International Development and Ministry of Defence.
The strategy is based on three strands:
Early warning: improving our ability to anticipate instability and potential triggers for conflict
Rapid crisis prevention and response: improving our ability to take fast, appropriate and effective action to prevent a crisis or stop it spreading or escalating
Investing in upstream prevention: helping to build strong, legitimate institutions and robust societies in fragile countries that are capable of managing tensions and shocks so there is a lower likelihood of instability and conflict
Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, said:
The Building Stability Overseas Strategy will help the UK to work more effectively to tackle instability upstream, helping to prevent conflict and the suffering it causes. This goes to the heart of the drive to achieve better targeted, more effective aid.
Not only is this cost-effective and beneficial for the security of the UK, it will also help to improve the lives of some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet.
The strategy is clear that investments must deliver results whilst providing value for the UK taxpayer. To ensure this, a new transparent, cross-Government reporting framework is being set up to measure the UK's impact.


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Book Free Stays at Hyatt Hotels by Transferring Chase Points in 4 Easy Steps!
I recently shared 6 reasons why Hyatt is my favorite Chase hotel transfer partner.
Booking award nights at Hyatt hotels can get you incredible value when using your Chase Ultimate Rewards points. And Emily and I have had wonderful experiences at many of their hotels, including the Hyatt Regency Maui and Park Hyatt Paris-Vendome.
The best part is it's incredibly easy to transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points directly to your Hyatt account and book a free stay!
In just 4 easy steps you can transfer points and book an award stay. I'll show you how!
Link: 6 Reasons Why Hyatt Is My Favorite Chase Hotel Transfer Partner!
If you also have a no annual fee card like the Chase Freedom, Chase Freedom Unlimited, and Ink Business Cash Credit Card, you can move points to an eligible Chase Ultimate Rewards account that allows you to transfer them directly to Hyatt at a 1:1 ratio.
Once you're ready to transfer points, use this step-by-step guide to get them into your Hyatt loyalty account!
Hyatt has a no "blackout date" policy. But a standard room must be available in order for you to use points to book an award stay.
So before you transfer points to your loyalty account, its a good idea to confirm award nights are available. Because once you transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points to Hyatt, you can NOT transfer them back.
In my sample search at the Andaz Napa, it shows award nights are available for 20,000 Hyatt points per night. This makes sense because it's a Category 5 hotel.
Now You Know How Many Points to Transfer to Your Loyalty Account!
If it looks like award rooms aren't available, there's still hope! As long as you see a standard room available to book with cash, you can call Hyatt at 800-228-3360 to see if you can book using points.
And keep in mind, you can NOT book award stays at Hyatt's all-inclusive hotels online. You must call Hyatt to book a room at an all-inclusive like the Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos. Although it's an extra step, it's worth it to save money on a fantastic stay!
With all-inclusive hotels, I recommend you call Hyatt to confirm there are available award nights before transferring Chase Ultimate Rewards points to your loyalty account. This way you can avoid the frustration of moving your points and finding out there are no rooms available.
Now that you know how many points you'll have to transfer, log into your Chase Ultimate Rewards account and link your Hyatt account.
On this page, enter your Hyatt loyalty account number.
Once your Hyatt account is linked, the information will automatically save to your Chase Ultimate Rewards account. This means you can instantly transfer points in the future.
It's time to move your points to Hyatt! Just enter the number of points you'd like to transfer to your loyalty account. You must transfer your points in 1,000-point increments.
Remember, once you move points you can NOT move them back. So double check to confirm you're moving the right amount of points.
Chase Ultimate Rewards points typically transfer instantly to your Hyatt loyalty account. So once you complete your points transfer, log-in to Hyatt and book your award stay.
Similar to Step 1, find the hotel you want to book and enter your travel dates. When you see the cost of the award night and room type, click "Select" to book.
Then, enter the required information to finalize your reservation.
Remember to check the hotel's cancellation policy when booking. If you have to cancel within the eligible timeframe, you'll get the points back into your account.
That's it! Enjoy your free Hyatt award stay!
You can earn Chase Ultimate Rewards points to use for free Hyatt stays with lots of great credit cards. I'll share 3 options!
Just keep in mind these cards are impacted by Chase's stricter application rules. So if you've opened 5+ cards from any bank (except these business cards) in the past 24 months, it's unlikely you'll be approved.
You can earn 80,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points with the Ink Business Preferred card after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
This is the highest sign-up bonus currently available on any card earning Chase Ultimate Rewards points.
This card has a $95 annual fee, which is NOT waived the first year.
When you open the Chase Sapphire Preferred card, you'll earn 50,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
The annual fee is $0 for the first year, then $95. This makes it easy to evaluate the card for ~10 months without a fee to see how you like it!
You'll earn 50,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points after spending $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months of opening a Chase Sapphire Reserve account.
This card has a $450 annual fee, which is NOT waived the first year. But cardholders get amazing perks like up to a $300 statement credit each account anniversary year, which offsets travel purchases for hotels, airfare, car rentals, and much more!
It only takes a few minutes to transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points to Hyatt and book an award stay.
Before you transfer points, I recommend checking the cost of your award stay and seeing if rooms are available with points. Because once you transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points to Hyatt, you can NOT get them back!
Don't forget you'll have to call Hyatt at 800-228-3360 to redeem points at all-inclusive hotels like the Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos.
To earn Chase Ultimate Rewards points for free Hyatt hotel stays, you can consider cards like the Ink Business Preferred, Sapphire Preferred, and Chase Sapphire Reserve!
Can I use my UR points to pay for Hyatt hotel nights? Do I need to have Hyatt Status also?
If able to book Hyatt rooms and pay with U.R points, how do I do that, please?
You can transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points to your Hyatt loyalty account and book an award night following the step-by-step guide in this post. You don't need Hyatt status to do this.
What's your experience with upgrading award stays with points or cash @Hyatt properties?
You must call Hyatt at 800-544-9288 to upgrade with points. Sometimes you'll see an option to use more points for an upgraded room at the time of your award booking.
I just checked Chase's website, and right now, you can get the Hyatt Zika Los Cabos for 14,534 points (with the Reserve point value). Why would I transfer 20,000 Chase points to Hyatt for the same hotel? For status extras? Is there a resort fee that gets waived if booked thru Hyatt? On face value, it looks like I could get 5 nights thru Chase for the point value of 4 nights if I transfer them and book thru Hyatt.
Excellent point! Depending on your travel dates, it's possible you might use fewer points by booking through the Chase travel portal. If that's the case, I'd definitely book that way!
During my search, I found most nights cost $300+, so it would make more sense to transfer points to Hyatt to book as an award stay.


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Traffic and Strategy Play Out in Outlaw Vintage at Road Atlanta
Gordon Slingerland
Gordon Slingerland didn't realize he had taken the win in V2 at Road Atlanta. He had been battling Keith Campbell, who ran out of fuel before the finish.
In Saturday's Thunder race on a picture perfect Georgia afternoon, it was Matt Isbell, in his MTI Racing 240Z up against Joe Freda in his bright red 1971 Camaro in V1. Isbell qualified on pole with a blistering 1:28.4, with Joe not far behind. The race started with Isbell out in front and Freda's Camaro hot on his heels the entire race, with both cars running race laps in the 1:29s. At Road Atlanta, that's fast. The lead changed several times, with traffic and tire management being key factors. Isbell was able to fend off multiple challenges from Freda using slower cars as picks and taking away the passing line, Isbell took the checkered flag for the V1 class victory and the overall Thunder race victory as well.
In V2, we had Keith Campbell's 1965 Mustang and Gordon Slingerland's 1968 Firebird. In qualifying, Campbell took the 10th overall spot while Slingerland was in the 12th spot with a GTS3 car between them. At the start, Slingerland couldn't clear the GTS car and got boxed in, allowing a Spec Z to get around, and letting Campbell to put some distance between them right away. Once clear of the Spec Z, the race progressed nicely, but Slingerland couldn't cut into Campbell's lead as both drivers put in consistent lap times.
With no cautions, the overall leaders eventually came around to lap Slingerland, getting between him and Campbell, and as luck would have it, a full- course caution came out shortly after. This allowed Campbell to go all the way around Road Atlanta's 2.5-mile length to be at the tail end of the line for the re-start, Gordon was up front behind the leaders but now his strategy shifted from catching Keith to keeping from getting lapped in class.
On the restart, Slingerland kept Campbell behind him, as the rest of the race went green with only a few laps to go. Slingerland's car started sputtering down the front straight running out of fuel. On the white flag lap, he was able to wiggle the car to get enough fuel back into the pickup and make it around to take the checkered flag. Only after he pulled in did he realize he'd won V2. Campbell had run out of fuel just a couple of laps sooner and coasted into the pits.
Qualifying played a huge part, as well as racing luck, but those long green-flag races require fuel strategy in these big V8-powered Outlaw Vintage cars, proving there's more to winning than just being fast.


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Bringing 120 years of planning alive with an immersive, guided experience
About the author: Mark Gallant is a geographer and GIS professional from Ottawa, Canada. Before recently starting a new position with Esri Canada as a Senior Consultant, he spent 12 years at the National Capital Commission where he leveraged ArcGIS Online technology to help tell the story of Canada's Capital. Outside of work hours he creates story maps covering topics not normally found within the traditional scope of geography for his non-profit website EntertainMaps.com.
Throughout 2019, the National Capital Commission (NCC) is celebrating 120 years of planning Canada's Capital with a special initiative focused on its own legacy as well as the organizations that preceded it. Before my time at the NCC came to an end a few months ago, I was able to participate in a working group of professionals from different departments and disciplines that was tasked with generating creative content for the Web portion of this initiative.
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One of our first items to tackle was presenting the first 60 years of planning in the Capital in a way that was highly visual, interactive and easy to understand. We had no set format or list of rules to follow, but because so much of the NCC's planning content is map-based, I knew that Esri Story Maps had something to offer us by bringing some of the old, static plans and policies to life in as an interactive narrative. Plus, we had success in using story maps for other Web projects at the NCC, so the group was comfortable with me prototyping an application that eventually became the Building Our Capital story map (which, coincidentally, has also been selected as the Story Map of the Month for April).
The main reason I chose Story Map Cascade as the template for this story map was the functionalities found within immersive sections, both from the point of view of an author and as an end user. Immersive sections allow story map authors to manipulate map actions by disabling map controls, turning layers on or off, zooming in, zooming out or panning to an area when setting up the display of a web map.
I knew that in order to show how the planning boundaries have changed over time, I was going to have to start at a large scale in 1899 when the organization was responsible for only a small area, then eventually zoom out to a small scale to capture the entirety of the region that is covered by the National Capital Act today. By being able to set each map view to appear how I wanted it to with the map controls disabled, the transition from each boundary by year is seamless and readers do not have to worry about zooming or panning around the map—it happens for them as they scroll. The floating panels included text to describe what is being shown for each year, sequentially. I used this same technique for the overview of NCC land ownership by year shown later in the story. The big advantage here is that Cascade relieves the reader from having to perform map actions and allows them focus on the narrative.
Immersive sections in Story Map Cascade are a great way to guide a reader through your web maps one step at a time.
Immersive sections within Cascade also lend themselves well to presenting high-resolution images in a full-screen format. I knew that for the section of the story focused on historic plans, I might have a few nice, static maps or visuals to use but no actual web map component. So, in this case, the static map or image filled the screen as we overlaid text describing the main takeaways from each plan.
Immersive sections are also a great way to compare historical maps by uploading them as images and fading from one to the other.
Something that we really wanted to include in the story was a comparison between the 1959 NCC Street Map and our modern-day aerial photo at a few flagship sites around the Capital. 1959 was the first year of existence for the NCC and we had a copy of the published paper street map from that year as a georeferenced TIF, so I used ArcMap to export two high-resolution images of each site at the exact same scale, extent and pixel size: one with the paper map visible and one with our modern aerial view. I was able to bring these into an immersive section and use the 'Swipe Horizontal' option when transitioning between each image. The result for the reader is a swipe action as they scroll between the street map and the aerial image for each site; it's almost as if they are peeling back a piece of history and looking at what's on the ground today.
A swipe transition was the perfect way to compare historical maps with modern aerial imagery of the same area.
In summary, the immersive sections found within the Cascade template allowed us to create a highly visual narrative that is not dependent on a reader performing any tasks other than reading. The success of this story so far also demonstrates that story maps can play an important role as a communications tool for organizations that are rich in map-based content.
You can learn more about the NCC's celebration of 120 years of Capital Building here.
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Tuesday, 7th March, 2017
A tale of two crocodiles
Last week was an exciting week in the trade mark world, as the Supreme Court released its decision in a long standing dispute between Crocodile International and Lacoste. Supreme Court decisions on trade mark law are very rare, and this decision was especially welcomed as a clarification on the law on non-use of trade marks in New Zealand.
The case related to the question of whether Lacoste had used its trade mark registration (the crocodile mark).
Lacoste own this mark as a result of an assignment to it from a Crocodile company many years ago. Lacoste had never used the trade mark in this form, and had never used any trade mark including the word crocodile.
In both the High Court and the Court of Appeal it had been held that because of Lacoste's use of its alligator mark
, it had used the crocodile mark on the basis that the dominant element of the mark was the crocodile, and the word (which hadn't been used in any form) merely reinforced that dominant image. These decisions came as a surprise to a number of trade mark practitioners in New Zealand, as previously the law had been quite settled that significant variations in use from the mark that was registered would result in the registration being revoked for non-use.
The Supreme Court clarified this law and largely reset the position which trade mark practitioners previously understood it to be. This clarified again that, in New Zealand, if the mark was used has a visual, oral or conceptual quality that is different to the mark that was registered, that it is likely that the registration will be revoked.
More surprising was the Supreme Court's finding on whether the Commissioner has a discretion to not revoke a mark even if it has not been used. The previous position under New Zealand law was established by the High Court in the Cure Kids case in 2014. In that case, the High Court held that even if a mark had not been used the Commissioner had a discretion to retain the mark on the register in certain circumstances. The Supreme Court has overturned that position and has held that there is no residual discretion for the Commissioner to retain the mark on the register even if it has not been used.
Accordingly, this Supreme Court decision makes clear that if the mark has not been used in predominantly the same form as registered, then barring other exceptions specified in the Act, the mark will be removed from the register.
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La Reale Società Canottieri Cerea è uno dei più antichi club remieri fondati in Italia, attuale campione d'Europa in carica. Il club svolge attività sportiva e ricreativa ininterrottamente dal 1863, anno della sua fondazione.

Storia

È stata cofondatrice nel 1888, sempre a Torino, della Federazione Italiana Canottaggio (FIC) e, successivamente, ancora a Torino, il 25 giugno 1892, della Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (FISA).

Il nome "Cerea" deriva dall'espressione dialettale torinese di saluto, solitamente utilizzata dai barcaioli e appassionati di voga, quando si incrociavano sul fiume Po.

Nel 1925 il Re d'Italia Vittorio Emanuele III conferì alla Canottieri Cerea l'autorizzazione a fregiarsi del titolo Reale e di inserire nello stemma, la corona reale.

L'attuale sede è ospitata nello stesso e caratteristico chalet che fu costruito 140 anni fa in sostituzione della tettoia del barcaiolo di Casa Reale, e si trova sulla sponda ovest del fiume Po, all'altezza del Castello del Valentino.
La storica sede è, dal 2007, visitabile liberamente nelle giornate che il F.A.I. (Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano) organizza annualmente con l'apertura di oltre 500 monumenti al pubblico.

Particolarità della società, per mantenere lo spirito dello Statuto Societario originale, ispirato a valori e costumi sociali tipici dell'Ottocento, è  l'utilizzo l'informale "ciao" come saluto tra soci sia giovani che anziani. Fino al 2013 il circolo era esclusivamente maschile, poi attraverso un cambio di statuto la società si è aperta anche alle donne, dotandosi anche di uno spogliatoio femminile al piano terra della struttura.

Solo nel 2012-2013 sono stati vinti 3 campionati del mondo. Il 2012 è un grande anno per la Canottieri Cerea con la doppietta mondiale firmata da Luca Lovisolo nell 8 con timoniere juniores e l'oro vinto da Guido Gravina nel quattro senza pesi leggeri under 23. Guido Gravina bisserà poi il successo l'anno successivo con un'altra vittoria (a Linz) sempre nel quattro senza pesi leggeri.
Negli ultimi anni sono stati vinti anche numerosi titoli italiani. Il 2017 è stato un anno indimenticabile: per la prima volta dalla fondazione della storica Società 3 titoli italiani sono stati vinti lo stesso anno. Le vittorie sono state timbrate rispettivamente da Achille Benazzo, Alberto Zamariola, Andrea Carando e Leonardo Radice nel quattro di coppia juniores. Luca lovisolo, Pietro Cappelli, Andrea Carando e Leonardo Radice hanno invece vinto nel quattro di coppia under 23. Infine l'ultimo oro è stato vinto da Emanuele Giacosa, Guido Gravina, Pietro Cappelli e Lorenzo Italiano nel quattro di coppia pesi leggeri.
Il 27 maggio 2018 i giovani atleti della Cerea Achille Benazzo e Alberto Zamariola si laureano campioni d'Europa nel quattro senza junior.
Il 12 agosto 2018 Benazzo e Zamariola vincono la medaglia di bronzo ai mondiali juniores a Racice (Repubblica Ceca) nel quattro senza insieme Bonamoneta (Murcarolo) e Castelnovo (Lario); lo stesso giorno Giacosa e Cappelli sono medaglia d'argento in Cina ai Mondiali universitari nel quattro senza pesi leggeri.
Il 2018 rimarrà un anno incredibile per la Canottieri Cerea, Alberto Zamariola infatti l'8 ottobre vince nel due senza la medaglia d'oro alle Olimpiadi giovanili di Buenos Aires. Per la prima volta nella storia delle Olimpiadi dei giovani un equipaggio azzurro vince la medaglia d'oro, è storia!
Gli atleti hanno raggiunto questi risultati grazie al lavoro degli allenatori Federico Vitale e Giuseppe Carando e una dirigenza societaria che ha messo a disposizione degli allenatori e degli atleti gli strumenti necessari al raggiungimento degli obiettivi sportivi.

I colori sociali sono l'azzurro (in onore della famiglia Savoia) ed il bianco, alternati in bande orizzontali. Al centro del petto della divisa da gara (body), è presente una stella gialla, rappresentante l'onorificenza della "Stella d'oro al merito sportivo".

Il "Silverskiff"
Importante evento agonistico organizzato dalla R.S.C.Cerea, solitamente nel secondo fine settimana di novembre, è il Silverskiff, competizione sul fiume Po, denominata "gara di gran fondo", su un percorso di ben 11.000 metri, per imbarcazioni "singole" gli Skiff,  aperta a tutte le categorie agonistiche. È solita accogliere, fra i partecipanti, i migliori canottieri mondiali, compresi campioni del mondo e medagliati olimpici.

Il giorno precedente alla "Silverskiff" è organizzata la "Kinderskiff", aperta ai ragazzi aventi un'età compresa tra i 12 ed i 14 anni, su un percorso di 4.000 metri o 1000m, a cui partecipano mini-atleti provenienti da tutta Italia e dalle nazioni vicine.

Nel 2015 si è svolta per la prima volta, all'interno della manifestazione remiera, la SilverPararowing.

Per il Silver Skiff il 2017 è un anno record, il totale dei partecipanti per la prima volta in 26 edizioni supererà quota 1000.

Nel 2018, la competizione è stata annullata per maltempo, infatti proprio in quei giorni il Po in piena non ha permesso lo svolgersi della regata, che ha dato appuntamento a tutti i suoi partecipanti per l'anno successivo.

Nel 2019, si è svolta la ventottesima edizione della regata internazionale, hanno partecipato campioni mondiali e olimpici come ogni anno.

L'edizione del 2020 è stata annullata a causa della situazione pandemica di Covid-19.

Giochi olimpici

Durante i XX Giochi olimpici invernali di Torino 2006, la R.S.C. Cerea è stata l'ultima tappa della fiamma olimpica prima del suo ingresso allo Stadio Olimpico per l'accensione del braciere.

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Collegamenti esterni
R.S.C.Cerea su canottiericerea.it
Silverskiff su silverskiff.org

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Puisque tu pars est une chanson de Jean-Jacques Goldman, extraite de l'album Entre gris clair et gris foncé, sortie en 45 tours en juillet 1988. Elle s'est classée n° 3 en France.

Informations sur la chanson

Selon Goldman, la chanson traite . Il dit : .

La chanson, qui montre une  dans l'écriture, a une .

La chanson a été incluse dans plusieurs albums live de Goldman, notamment Traces, Du New Morning au Zénith et Un tour ensemble, et dans les compilations L'Intégrale 81/91 et Singulier. Une version live de Goldman avec Les Fous Chantants est incluse dans le DVD Solidarité Inondations.

Elle sert également de bande son pour un vidéo-hommage émouvant publié à la fin du double album live de la tournée En passant. Pour conclure la vidéo, compilation des séquences tournées en coulisses, le texte suivant s'affiche en surimpression : « Dédé Mallet était responsable de la sécurité des concerts depuis toujours… Il est décédé le . Cette tournée lui est dédiée. »

La chanson en version studio commence par un sample de la chanson Is There Anybody Out There? de Pink Floyd sur l'album The Wall (de 0,32s à 0,39s).
Il n'existe aucun article officiel relatif à l'utilisation de ce sample.

Reprises

Puisque tu pars a été reprise par de nombreux artistes:

 Jean-Félix Lalanne en 1990
 Tracy Huang en 1990 (en mandarin sous le nom de Ràng ài zì yóu, extrait de l'album du même nom)
 Michel Leclerc en 1996 (version instrumentale)
 Céline Dion en 1997 (en version anglaise sous le nom de Let's Talk About Love, extrait de l'album du même nom)
 Bryan Adams en 1999 (version anglaise, incluse dans son maxi Cloud #9)
 Les Fous Chantants en 2000 (inclus dans l'album 1 000 choristes rendent hommage à Jean-Jacques Goldman)
 Le Collège de l'Estérel en 2002
 Les 500 choristes en 2006 (inclus dans la compilation du même nom)
 Tony Carreira (en version portugaise sous le nom de Já que te vais)
 Promotion Lieutenant de La Batie de l'EMIA (École Militaire InterArmes)
 Les Prêtres en 2011 (album Gloria)
 Irma et Zaz en 2012 (chantée en français et anglais sur l'album Génération Goldman)
 Vianney en 2018 lors d'une émission hommage aux 40 ans de carrière de Jean-Jacques Goldman

Classement

Le single s'est classé n°3 au Top 50, derrière deux tubes de l'été, Nuit de folie de Début de Soirée et Un roman d'amitié d'Elsa et Glenn Medeiros. Il a été certifié disque d'argent pour un total d'environ 450.000 ventes.

Le single est aussi sorti au Canada et au Japon, mais ne s'est pas classé dans ces pays-là.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Chanson de 1987
Single musical sorti en 1988
Chanson interprétée par Jean-Jacques Goldman
Chanson écrite par Jean-Jacques Goldman


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The iBooks Author 1.01 is out with an updated EULA, clarifying what Apple has and doesn't have rights over.
The change is an important one though, clarifying that Apple has rights over the format a book is in, not the content. If someone wants to charge a fee for an .ibooks formatted file, that document can only be sold or distributed through Apple, and that work will be subject to a separate agreement with Apple. The restriction does not include works distributed in non-.ibooks formats (such as the Kindle,) as TUAW's Erica Sadun previously discussed.
Hopefully this'll clear up any questions about Apple's intentions.