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That being said, Canvia promises to make that fickle-mindedness less of a problem. The framed display is perfectly painting-sized, and lets you literally select from a massive repository of artworks (sorted by artist, description, genre, medium, etc.) and display the art on its display. However, here's where it's distinctly different from other photo-frame displays. Developed by Palacio, the Canvia comes with a 1920×1080 full HD Advanced IPS display, but within the frame also lies Palacio's proprietary Artsense technology. Sensors within the frame read surrounding visual conditions. Canvia combines this data with image processing techniques and existing 'reflection profiles' (defined through prior testing of similar environments and artwork images) and use this data to capture the realistic reflective behaviors of physical art, making it look incredibly similar to a painted canvas rather than a digital display. Put the Canvia in a sunny room and the painting looks more vivid, or frame Canvia in the hallway near your door and it modulates the display's colors and brightness to feel less like a display and more like an actual print.
The Canvia's display is all about freedom of expression, for you as the owner. Owners of the Canvia get access to Palacio's online portal of art (containing thousands of paintings from the classics to the moderns), while for just $10 a month, a premium account with Canvia gets you access to commissioned artpieces by famous and upcoming artists, illustrators, and photographers (Palacio gives back to the artists by sharing revenue with them). Designed to be used in landscape or in portrait, you can simply select artworks or even create a playlist of paintings to be displayed on Canvia's revolutionary screen. Through the smartphone app, you can even zoom into the paintings, cropping out parts you don't like, or even choose to display captions with the details of the artwork. Having a get-together? You can turn Canvia into a photo frame too, displaying photos from your camera roll or social media… and Palacio's also working on Google Home and Alexa integration with the Canvia, allowing you to literally change paintings (and in turn the theme of your home decor) with a sentence!
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Canvia is a smart display that makes digital images of art look like authentic paintings and prints.
Canvia offers lovers of art and design an authentic and harmonious viewing experience with an unprecedented level of freedom to change and explore. Controlled via an intuitive app, web account or voice-enabled devices such as Amazon Alexa, Canvia makes it easy to find art to suit changing tastes, keep you inspired and enliven your surroundings.
Canvia is driven by Palacio's proprietary (patent-pending) ArtSense technology that simulates the behavior of a physical painting or high quality print on a digital screen, whatever the environment.
Built-in sensors read ambient visual conditions and this data is used to actively adapt the displayed image. The light-emitting screen therefore appears solely light-reflective, as with physical art, and ensures all images retain a realistic painting or print-like quality (conserving details like texture, color and individual brushstrokes) under any conditions.
ArtSense also enables art selections that better suit an environment and context. In this way, Canvia offers a more realistic and harmonious art viewing experience than any computer monitor or TV; so real, in fact, that it's difficult to tell the difference between Canvia and physical art.
Canvia is linked to a huge online library that includes artworks from all genres, eras, cultures and media (including photography), offering choices to suit any mood, occasion, context and décor.
Need something relaxing for a late-night study session? You can schedule one of Monet's calming waterlily paintings. Friends over for the big game? Go for a George Bellows from one of our 'Sports' themed playlists. Throwing a house party? We've got an explosive Kandinsky or energetic Degas cabaret scene for that.
Users can schedule their own playlists and upload personal images via the app (iOS or Android), web account, USB or MicroSD. Information about an artwork and artist can be added as an overlay, and the entire artwork can be explored through zoom and repositioning functionality within the app.
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Q: React useState hook returns old state value despite it being updated I want to:

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*upload an image into the browser (I do this with React Dropzone. My uploadImage function below runs onDrop of file into Dropzone.)

*read the image as an actual image using the FileReader API.

*save the image file as well as image metadata into state, using React Hooks.

*make an API call that pushes this image to a server.

I am trying to confirm that I have the image at step 4, but I cannot confirm that via my console messages. I'm somehow stuck with the original state values despite log messages showing the state has already been updated.
I've tried adding extra asyncs to everything, and I've wrapped stuff in promises. I can confirm the readImage function is fine. I can confirm the run sequence is readImage, saveImage, setGraphic within saveImage, and then the console.log in uploadImage which should have the updated values but doesn't.
  const [graphic, setGraphic] = useState({ ...nullGraphic });

  const readImage = async (img) => {
    const reader = new FileReader();

    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      reader.onerror = () => reader.abort();
      reader.onabort = () => reject(new DOMException('Problem parsing input file.'));
      reader.onload = () => resolve(reader.result);
      reader.readAsDataURL(img);
    });
  };

  const saveImage = async (img) => {
    const imageRead = await readImage(img);

    console.log(imageRead);

    await setGraphic({
      ...graphic,
      image: imageRead,
      imageName: img.name,
      imageType: img.type,
    });

  };

  const uploadImage = async (img) => {
    await saveImage(img);

    console.log(graphic);
});

render() {

  console.log(graphic);

  return( <some dom> )
}

this is my strange console sequence:
Form.js:112 starting saveImage
Form.js:95 (snipped value of imageRead)
Form.js:237 {snipped updated values of graphic}
Form.js:114 done with saveImage
Form.js:116 {snipped original values of graphic}

My Theory
The useState hook is doing something funky.
The process copies the value when it starts instead of reading it whenever the console.log is being read, so the uploadImage function gets the original values of the useState hook for the lifetime of that process.

A: It might become clear why this would not work if we would simplify all those React magic into :
  function withState(initial, fn) {
    function setState(updated) {
       setTimeout(() => fn(updated, setState), 0);
       //...
    }
    setState(initial);
  }

Now we can illustrate what happens:
  withState(0, (counter, setCount) => {
    console.log("before", counter);
    if(counter < 10) setCount(counter + 1);
    console.log("after", counter);
  });

As you can see, setCount will not change the state (count) directly. It will actually not change the local count variable at all. Therefore "before" and "after" will always log the same (as long as you don't mutate counter directly).
Instead calling setCount will be deffered (and batched in React), and then it will recall the whole component function passing in the new count.
Therefore it makes no sense trying to await the setState call, also it makes no sense to log the state before and after it (as it won't change inbetween). Log it once in a component, if you set the state the whole component executes again and the logging will log the new state.

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Lisa Congdon's "A Collection a Day"
by Jill Singer
On January 1, the San Francisco–based artist and illustrator Lisa Congdon began documenting her various collections on a new blog, A Collection a Day. A new day, a new grouping: vintage Boy Scout cards, delicate sewing notions, paint tubes, plastic charms, erasers, paintbrushes, pencil leads, even — strangely — multicolored buoys. "No, I don't have a collection of buoys," Congdon laughs. Or a collection of Victorian shoes, for that matter. As her website explains, while she photographs the collections that decorate her house and studio, "some are imagined; those I will draw or occasionally paint." Scroll through her site, and you'll find twigs and toiletries drawn with ink on paper, and, yes, buoys painted with gouache on Masonite. When she began the project on a whim, the plan was to fill a year's worth of web space, even if she wasn't sure she'd have 365 things to document.
Congdon, who co-owns the design boutique Rare Device in San Francisco and creates work on commission for clients like Pottery Barn and Chronicle Books, came late to the art and illustration game. She was 33 the first time she picked up a paintbrush, and she only did so because she was taking an art class through the extended education program at Berkeley with her brother, who was a student there in need of an elective. But collecting hooked her early on: "As a kid, I collected dolls and penguins — really dorky stuff," Congdon says. "I've always had a love for old things. When I was little, I would go to my grandmother or aunt's house and ask permission to touch the things on their shelves. I think I had a fantasy of being an archeologist, discovering the story behind old stuff." It's a habit she picked up from her mother, who at 71 is still a practicing artist. "Among other things, my mother collects nativity scenes, so at Christmas the whole living room gets completely overtaken," she says.
Because the vast majority of Congdon's collections are paper ephemera, originally intended for use in her work, she doesn't tend to be particularly sentimental about them. "Part of being a collector is just the challenge and the weird pleasure you get from finding something," she says. Eight of her favorite conquests are presented here.
"I have a thing for school supplies, but what I love most about old erasers is the typography. It's actually what I love most about a lot of the things that I collect. I also love the shades of pink and how some are really worn and some are pristine. Erasers this old aren't really usable anymore anyway, so I feel like I'm rescuing something that would otherwise be thrown away. I have been collecting erasers for years and have a place in San Francisco where I find them fairly easily, but I don't want to reveal my source. This was the first collection I posted for my project back in January."
"My name is actually Elisabeth, but I've gone by Lisa since I was a kid, hence the E collection (I like E better than L). I got my first plastic E — the large black one, I think — a few years back and have been collecting them ever since. They are spread throughout my house, both on the walls and on shelves. I love typography in general so the E collection is a way for me to feed that particular obsession."
Some of Congdon's collections are ephemeral, literally. Her stockpiles of eucalyptus leaves and pinecones, subject to rot, must be carefully preserved. That's partly why she's attracted to these beach rocks, which she picked up mostly on San Francisco's Pacific shores. "I've been an avid collector of nature my whole life, but most of the time I'll collect something, photograph it, and put it back. I've had this particular collection of flat beach rocks for years, though. I look for the most smooth, most round rocks, and if they have a white line going down the center, that's a special perk," she says.
"I collect kitchenware in general; one of my first collections was enamel dishware. Most of my stuff is mid-century Scandinavian, and a lot of it is from the '70s. I actually have many more plastic spoons in orange and yellow, and some blue and green (those are harder to find). Unlike a lot of my kitchen collectibles, we actually use all of these spoons when we cook."
"Missals are old liturgical books with instructions for mass. I'm not a religious person, I didn't grow up Catholic, and I didn't even know what a missal was back then, but I think they're beautiful. I got my first one from a book vendor at a flea market in San Francisco — he's not there anymore — who had this big truck where every book was a dollar. It didn't matter how collectible or how cheap and ratty it was. Missals are quite small (2×4 to 2×5 inches) so you can carry them in your pocket. The paper is really thin, many are written in German, and the text is in some gorgeous Fraktur font. Some have illustrations inside too. In fact, might be interesting to open the next four up and show the insides, which are just as beautiful as the outsides."
"My tiny photo collection started several years ago. I had been collecting vintage class photos, and I loved looking at the expressions on people's faces. I think I was at a flea market looking through one of those large bins and found several of these tiny portraits, which is rare: You have to really dig to find these, and especially to find them not marked up and super expensive. I love the sepia tones and how they look when they're all lined up. Right now I have several hundred. I plan to fill a gallery wall with all of them someday as part of an art installation."
"This is just a small part of my scissor collection. Before I was a painter, I made quilts and pillows out of vintage fabric and I fell in love with sewing supplies, mostly vintage ones. Scissors became part of that collection and then grew into its own. We make a rotating collection of mobiles to hang from our ceiling at Rare Device, and I once made one from my scissors. To me it was a beautiful object, but it was super controversial. People either loved it or were completely frightened by it and thought it was creepy."
Tags: artist, collections, illustrator, Rare Device, retail, San Francisco
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Kiosk's Portugal collection
It's hard to put a finger on just how the New York store Kiosk — which peddles quirky housewares from around the world, one country at a time — vaulted from cherished destination of a few to the kind of place Jasper Morrison, London's best-known everyday-object apologist, feels obliged to check out when he's rolling through town. But while the 4-year-old Soho shop has begun to shed its air of secrecy, it has never lost its charm. Climbing a set of graffiti-covered stairs to its second-floor entrance, you never know what you're going to find at the top.
Alexandra Verschueren, Fashion Designer
At 22, Alexandra Verschueren has interned for Preen, Proenza Schouler, and Derek Lam. She's been honored by a jury that included former Rochas creative director Olivier Theyskens and the International Herald Tribune's fashion critic Suzy Menkes. And in the last six months, her graduate collection Medium has been fêted by Wallpaper magazine and the Mode Museum in her hometown of Antwerp. So why, when she applied to that city's Royal Academy of Fine Arts straight out of high school, did no one expect she'd get in?
Bec Brittain, Artist and Designer
When most of us get a package in the mail, it's the book we ordered from Amazon, or a birthday gift from our parents. When Bec Brittain gets a package, it's usually full of dead bugs. She orders them in bulk off the internet for a dollar a pop, then chops them into pieces and transforms them into hybrid bug-monsters.

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Q: Keras: early stopping model saving For now I'm using early stopping in Keras like this:
X,y= load_data('train_data')
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.1, random_state=12)

datagen = ImageDataGenerator(
    horizontal_flip=True,
    vertical_flip=True)

early_stopping_callback = EarlyStopping(monitor='val_loss', patience=epochs_to_wait_for_improve)
history = model.fit_generator(datagen.flow(X_train, y_train, batch_size=batch_size),
            steps_per_epoch=len(X_train) / batch_size, validation_data=(X_test, y_test),
            epochs=n_epochs, callbacks=[early_stopping_callback])

But at the end of model.fit_generator it will save model after epochs_to_wait_for_improve, but I want to save model with min val_loss does it make sense and is it possible?

A: Yes, it's possible with one more callback, here is the code:
early_stopping_callback = EarlyStopping(monitor='val_loss', patience=epochs_to_wait_for_improve)
checkpoint_callback = ModelCheckpoint(model_name+'.h5', monitor='val_loss', verbose=1, save_best_only=True, mode='min')
history = model.fit_generator(datagen.flow(X_train, y_train, batch_size=batch_size),
            steps_per_epoch=len(X_train) / batch_size, validation_data=(X_test, y_test),
            epochs=n_epochs, callbacks=[early_stopping_callback, checkpoint_callback])


Are you singing along yet? There are only 145 days until Christmas. And far less days until Halloween, Thanksgiving, you name it. Basically, it's crunch time for marketers.
When it comes to business, holidays have long been invading our sun-soaked, pool-filled season of relaxation. After all, how can you sit back with a pina colada at the office when campaign deadlines loom? Over at Find Your Influence (FYI), we recommend a nine-week influencer marketing campaign plan. And if you count out nine weeks from today… well, we aren't going to say it's too late, but you better get moving!
November and December drive 30% more e-commerce revenue than non-holiday months. And according to Think with Google insights, 78% of consumers use the internet for holiday shopping research. So what are you waiting for? Setting a plan is the first step in your holiday influencer marketing campaign. This means deciding on a campaign goal that aligns with your overall company or brand mission and objectives. It can be anything from raising brand awareness to increasing website traffic to promoting a specific seasonal product or service.
To highlight their family-focused brand, Tylenol asked nearly 40 lifestyle bloggers to answer the question: "How do you celebrate what matters most during the holidays?" Each influencer included Tylenol's family video in their post, then promoted it using the hashtag #WhatMattersMost and tagged Tylenol on social media.
Zappos Couture wanted to differentiate themselves in the crowded high-end retail marketplace, so they decided to feature a sole celebrity fashion blogger instead of multiple influencers. They partnered with Lauren Conrad to increase buzz – and sales – and her blogging team chose ten items to highlight and link to on Zappos' site.
Both brands succeeded in making an impact in their own way and boosting holiday brand awareness. So what will work for you? Once you've decided on a campaign direction, you should set up a system of measurement – social engagement, blog views, etc. – and finalize a budget. Then, you can start honing in on finding the right influencers, and inviting them to participate.
If you're feeling overwhelmed with starting an influencer marketing campaign for this holiday season, we can help! Reach out to us with any questions here, or learn more about influencer marketing on our blog.


Tunbridge Longfield is a store forming a part of Argos chain. It is open on: Monday 09:00-20:00, Tuesday 09:00-20:00, Wednesday 09:00-20:00, Thursday 09:00-20:00, Friday 09:00-20:00. At weekends its opening hours are: on Saturday 09:00-19:00, on Sunday 10:00-16:00. This shop's address is: Unit 4, Longfield Road Retail Park, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 3UE. To contact the customer service directly please call the number 0345 6564106. Tunbridge Longfield is frequented by many people inhabiting nearby towns like Royal Tunbridge Wells, Pembury.


Declared "a writer to watch" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), New York Times bestselling author María Dueñas pours heart and soul into this story of a woman who discovers the power of second chances.A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life behind, she is gradually drawn into his haunted world, with its poignant loves and unfulfilled ambitions. But in delving into the past, Blanca finds herself simultaneously awakened to the present by Daniel Carter, a charismatic professor with crucial knowledge about the dead writer that he has never before revealed. Amid this web of passion, conflict, and hidden feelings, including her own, Blanca advances like an avid detective, refusing to quit, and ultimately discovers startling answers that resonate deeply in her own life. Evocative, lyrical, and humorous, The Heart Has Its Reasons is a journey of the soul from the pangs of the past to the vibrant present. It is a story about the thrill of creating one's life anew.


Formed in 1990, Sawagi Taiko is the first all Asian women's taiko group in Canada. They are a multi-generational group of women of East Asian and Indigenous heritage, brought together by our shared passion for Japanese drumming. "Sawagi" means to "cause a commotion" in Japanese. With thunderous drum beats, stirring vocals, & martial-arts inspired choreography, they share the empowerment and exhilaration we feel through taiko with their diverse audiences. They harness the power of the drum to support feminist & social justice ideals. Their spirit, creativity and mutual respect can be felt both on & off the stage.


How could I ever not see this before? Not that I was really searching for one, closest I ever had was Ctrl+P AND I've only used it in vim.
Now I can stay much much longer staring at dark screens with just pure text (don't forget the colors) which not only forces me to stay away from the mouse as much as possible, but also relaxes my eyes. Yes, I'm old.
That's about it. Happy Fzf'ing!


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Nat Faxon & Jim Rash Ink Overall Deal With Sony Pictures TV
EXCLUSIVE: Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Descendants) have signed a two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures TV. This marks the first overall TV pact for the Oscar-winning writing duo. Under the agreement, Faxon and Rash will develop and produce series projects with Kevin Walsh, their film and TV producing partner at the trio's B Story banner. Faxon and Rash previously penned the 2005 ABC comedy pilot Adopted and made their TV directing debut this past season with Fox's comedy pilot Fatrick, which they also executive produced. Additionally, both have series experience as actors. Rash has a relationship with Sony TV with his co-starring role on the studio's cult comedy Community, which recently found a new home at Yahoo, while Faxon stars on FX's freshman comedy series Married.
On the feature side, in addition to earning an Oscar for co-writing The Descendants with Alexander Payne, the duo helmed their script for The Way, Way Back, which starred Steve Carell and premiered at Sundance in 2013. Faxon and Rash were repped in the deal-making with Sony TV by CAA. The duo have since signed with WME. Faxon is managed by Principato-Young; Rash by Intellectual Artists. Both are with Stone, Meyer, Genow.
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A picture is worth a thousand words ..
In addition to my post http://schimpf.es/android-clients-for-mysql/ I made some screenshots of all the existing MySQL clients available in android. Sometimes it is alot easier to decide for or against an application viewing some simple screenshots.
If you want to read more about these MySQL clients, please read my post.
Sometimes, you need to simulate an incoming short message for your app. For instance, an encryption app could need to intercept incoming SMS using a BroadcastReceiver, then check if the SMS was encrypted and if so, decrypt it. Then the decrypted SMS and not the original one should be processed further (show up in SMS app etc.).
You will need the WRITE_SMS privilege.
Microsoft's Android revenue. Tizen formation. And more.
# As Microsoft announced its latest Android-related patent agreement with Samsun, Goldman Sachs estimated that the company will make $444m in revenue from Android patent deals for fiscal year 2012.
# LiMo Foundation and The Linux Foundation announced the formation of Tizen to develop a Linux-based device software platform.


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House Prices in York Close, Bromsgrove, B61
On average, properties in York Close, Bromsgrove, are worth an estimated £232,000 or £261 per square foot.
Property value and sold house prices over time in York Close, Bromsgrove, and the UK
5, York Close, Bromsgrove, B61 8RX
14, York Close, Bromsgrove, B61 8RX
York Avenue, Bromsgrove, B61
Wrekin Drive, Bromsgrove, B61
Worcester Road, Bromsgrove, B61
Woodcote Lane, Bromsgrove, B61
Woodcote Green Lane, Bromsgrove, B61
How expensive are houses in York Close, Bromsgrove?
An average home in York Close, Bromsgrove, is worth approximately £232,000. The cheapest property in the street has an estimated value of £195,000, and the most expensive has an estimated value of £272,000.
Compared to the UK average, where an average property is worth around £300,000, an average home in York Close, Bromsgrove is 77% less expensive.
How big are houses in York Close, Bromsgrove?
Property sizes in York Close, Bromsgrove, range from 860 to 990 sq ft. The average home in the street has 888 sq ft of indoor space.
Compared to the UK average home, which has a size of around 950 sq ft, properties in York Close, Bromsgrove are -94% smaller on average.
Are house prices in York Close, Bromsgrove, rising or dropping?
House prices in York Close, Bromsgrove, have risen recently. In the last year, a home in the street has grown by £22,780 or 10.9% on average.


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Koli or Kolli or Kali () in Iran may refer to:

 Koli, Ardabil
 Kali, Bushehr
 Kali, East Azerbaijan
 Koli, East Azerbaijan
 Kali, Kermanshah
 Kolli, Sistan and Baluchestan
 Kali, South Khorasan
 Kali, Zanjan
 Koli-ye Olya (disambiguation)
 Koli-ye Sofla (disambiguation)
 Goli, Iran (disambiguation)

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Family demands justice as hoodlums murder ASP
By polisadmin on	 December 7, 2018 Features
The family of Abiodun Akinde, who was allegedly murdered by hoodlums in the Ashiribu area of Ijanikin, Lagos State, has demanded justice for his death.
It was gathered that Akinde, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, had visited a bar in company with his colleagues on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, to have some drinks before the hoodlums besieged the bar and shot him dead.
Akinde's elder brother, Adekunle, who stated that the police investigating the matter said his brother was killed because he did not allow the hoodlums to rob him, added that his findings revealed that there was no robbery as his late brother's belongings were left intact after he was killed.
The nurse, who is an indigene of Ogun State said, "What the Divisional Police Officer at the Ijanikin Police Station told us was that some hoodlums came to rob people and while they were trying to collect my brother's belongings, he (Akinde) resisted them and he was shot in the process. But I don't think it is so because from what we gathered, no one was robbed by the hoodlums. Those who killed him never stole his belongings and those of other people at the place where he was murdered.
"So, since we were told that the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba, for further investigation, we are hoping that the outcome of the investigation will lead to the arrest of those who killed him, because the family wants justice.
"As I speak to you, his corpse is still in a mortuary in Badagry pending when a post-mortem will be carried out."
Akinde's son, Tunde, told PUNCH Metro that his father's death was a set-up because his killers traced him to the bar where he was murdered.
The 26-year-old said, "I was at home when a lady walked up to me and asked me the last time I saw my dad; I said it had been a while and she told me to call him. I tried his number but it rang out; she said she could not say anything but advised me to visit his office. When I got there, I was surprised to meet my mum's younger sister and my dad's elder brother and some family members.
"They were having a meeting with the DPO of the Ijanikin Police Station. When they finished, I asked after my dad and was told that he was shot. They said we needed to check him at the Badagry General Hospital. When we got there, it was his corpse I saw. I was depressed.
"The police officers investigating the case at the SCIID, Yaba, said my dad was set up; they said how did the hoodlums manage to enter the bar and head straight for his table to kill him if it wasn't planned. He was not the only one at the beer parlour, so how were they able to locate his table? So, it appeared like they traced him to the place."
The wife of the deceased, Kudi, who is also a police officer, said she wanted justice, adding that she got to know about the death of Akinde from a colleague, who briefed her about the incident.
The mother of three said, "I was at home with my children. A police officer told me about the incident and what I was told was that my husband went for a birthday party and some hoodlums came to the gathering and shot him dead. I want the police to help me investigate this case so that the hoodlums can be arrested and brought to justice."
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti, who confirmed the incident to our correspondent, said the command had commenced investigation into the events that led to the death of Akinde.
Oti said, "On Tuesday, November, 27, 2018, around 7pm, ASP Abiodun Akinde, the Administrative Officer, Ijanikin Police Station, reportedly went to a bar at the Ashiribu area, Ijanikin, for the birthday party of his lady friend, one Dupe Ogunbiyi, 34, of 27 Jimoh Street, Iyana-Era, Ijanikin.
"However, a fight broke out between the officer and a group of men allegedly led by the lady's rival boyfriend. In the process, the officer was shot in the head with a locally-made pistol. The officer was rushed to the Badagry General Hospital, where he later died.
"Meanwhile, the lady and seven other suspects have been arrested and transferred to the homicide section of the SCIID, Yaba, for further investigation. The remains of the deceased have been deposited in the hospital's morgue for preservation and post-mortem examination."
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Last week comScore released its "Digital Future in Focus" report. The document compiles and presents the company's latest US internet statistics in a variety of areas, including search, mobile, social, video and e-commerce.
The chart reflects a total of 64 billion US search queries in Q4 2014. Roughly 29% of the overall volume is coming from mobile devices. The remaining 69% is from the PC.
From this we can deduce and crudely determine the percentage of local search queries. But first a caveat.
My sense is that "search" is here defined as activity on the major search engines exclusively. Even though the report discusses apps and app usage trends, it's not made clear whether any of the search volume reported above comes from apps or is purely PC or mobile web-based activity.
I suspect that the Google and Bing search apps are included in the numbers, while mapping and other search-centric apps (e.g., Yelp, YP, Foursquare) are not.
Taking the midpoint for local intent mobile queries (45%), total local query volumes (PC + mobile) would be 27% of overall search in Q4 2014. Of course the 20% (PC) local search figure is conservative (Google admitted this to me in 2010). But because that's the only public number we have from the company we'll stick with it.
Both Google and Microsoft have said that local intent search constitutes half of mobile search queries. Google has informally and formally issued a couple of different numbers, hence the range above. But if we go with the 50% figure then today local search on mobile devices is larger than on the PC.
This coincides with recent LSA survey data finding that more people use mobile devices for local search than the PC.
The comScore data above, as mentioned, probably do not define search beyond the boundaries of the major search engines. And there may be billions more "local intent" queries happening across the fragmented world of mobile apps.
While we don't have as much visibility on consumer intent behind PC search, the totality of evidence now argues that local search on mobile devices has eclipsed local search on the PC.
Especially with the "Mopocalypse" coming (Google's mobile-friendly algorithm) it's more important than ever for everyone to focus on mobile optimization, digital presence management and local-mobile data syndication.
Greg Sterling is VP of Strategy & Insights for the LSA. His research is focused on the impact of digital media on offline consumer purchase behavior.


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package com.cy.controller;

import com.cy.entity.UserInfo;
import lombok.extern.log4j.Log4j2;
import org.apache.shiro.SecurityUtils;
import org.apache.shiro.authc.*;
import org.apache.shiro.subject.Subject;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.data.redis.core.StringRedisTemplate;
import org.springframework.data.redis.core.ValueOperations;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.ModelMap;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.RedirectAttributes;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

/**
 * Created by cy
 * 2017/12/15 17:22
 */
@Controller
@Log4j2
public class LoginController {
    @Autowired
    private StringRedisTemplate stringRedisTemplate;

    /**
     * 登录页面
     *
     * @return
     */
    @RequestMapping(value = "/login", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String login(String message, ModelMap modelMap) {
        if (!"".equals(message)) {
            modelMap.addAttribute("message", message);
        }
        return "login";
    }

    /**
     * 登录动作
     *
     * @param user
     * @return
     */
    @RequestMapping(value = "/login", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public String login(HttpServletRequest req, UserInfo user, RedirectAttributes attr) {
        if ("".equals(user.getUsername()) || "".equals(user.getPassword())) {
            attr.addAttribute("message", "用户名或密码不能为空");
            return "redirect:/login";
        }
        String userName = user.getUsername();
        String pwd = user.getPassword();
        System.out.println(userName + pwd);
        //计数大于5时,设置用户被锁定一小时
        ValueOperations<String, String> opsForValue = stringRedisTemplate.opsForValue();
        if ("LOCK".equals(opsForValue.get("SHIRO_IS_LOCK" + userName))) {
            attr.addAttribute("message", "由于密码输入错误次数大于5次,帐号已经禁止登录!");
            return "redirect:/login";
        }
        if(stringRedisTemplate.hasKey("SHIRO_LOGIN_COUNT" + userName)) {
            if (Integer.parseInt(opsForValue.get("SHIRO_LOGIN_COUNT" + userName)) >= 5) {
                opsForValue.set("SHIRO_IS_LOCK" + userName, "LOCK");
                stringRedisTemplate.expire("SHIRO_IS_LOCK" + userName, 1, TimeUnit.HOURS);
            }
        }
        //开始调用shiro验证
        UsernamePasswordToken token = new UsernamePasswordToken(userName, pwd, "login");
        //获取当前的subject
        Subject currentUser = SecurityUtils.getSubject();
        System.out.println("asdasd");
        try {
            //在调用了login方法后,SecurityManager会收到AuthenticationToken,并将其发送给已配置的Realm执行必须的认证检查
            //每个Realm都能在必要时对提交的AuthenticationTokens作出反应
            //所以这一步在调用login(token)方法时,它会走到doGetAuthenticationInfo()方法中,具体验证方式详见此方法
            log.info("对用户[" + userName + "]进行登录验证..验证开始");
            currentUser.login(token);
            opsForValue.set("SHIRO_LOGIN_COUNT"+userName, "0");
            log.info("对用户[" + userName + "]进行登录验证..验证通过");
        } catch (UnknownAccountException uae) {
            log.info("对用户[" + userName + "]进行登录验证..验证未通过,未知账户");
            attr.addAttribute("message", "用户名不存在");
        } catch (IncorrectCredentialsException ice) {
            stringRedisTemplate.opsForValue().increment("SHIRO_LOGIN_COUNT"+userName,1);
            log.info("对用户[" + userName + "]进行登录验证..验证未通过,错误的凭证");
            attr.addAttribute("message", "密码不正确");
        } catch (LockedAccountException lae) {
            log.info("对用户[" + userName + "]进行登录验证..验证未通过,账户已锁定");
            attr.addAttribute("message", "账户已锁定");
        } catch (ExcessiveAttemptsException eae) {
            log.info("对用户[" + userName + "]进行登录验证..验证未通过,错误次数过多");
            attr.addAttribute("message", "用户名或密码错误次数过多");
        } catch (AuthenticationException ae) {
            //通过处理Shiro的运行时AuthenticationException就可以控制用户登录失败或密码错误时的情景
            log.info("对用户[" + userName + "]进行登录验证..验证未通过,堆栈轨迹如下");
            ae.printStackTrace();
            attr.addAttribute("message", "用户名或密码不正确");
        }
        if (req.getParameter("forceLogout") != null) {
            attr.addAttribute("error", "您已经被管理员强制退出,请重新登录");
            return "redirect:/login";
        }
        //验证是否登录成功
        if (currentUser.isAuthenticated()) {
            return "redirect:/index";
        } else {
            token.clear();
            return "redirect:/login";
        }
    }
}

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See also: 2012 graphics, category, 2012 basic city list, signup.
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Global Marijuana March is the first Saturday in May or thereabouts. See also: 4/20 events. '1002 cities have participated from 83 different nations or subnational areas since 1999.'To add or remove 2012 cities see: GMM signup contacts. Add this app to the sidebar of your Facebook pages. Click here to do so.
175 cities from 33 nations signed up for May 5, 2012 or thereabouts. Facebook: Global Marijuana March (fan page). Organizing: 2013.
2012list - signup - donors - drugwar - polls - torture - charts - 25percent - arrests - danabeal.
City lists by year: 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998.
GMM videos - photos - flyers - graphics - By year: 2012flyers - 2011flyers - 2010flyers - 2009flyers - 2008flyers - 2007flyers - 2006flyers - 2005flyers - 2004flyers - 2003flyers - 2002flyers - 2001flyers - 2000flyers - 1999flyers - 1998flyers.
Facebook: Global Marijuana March 2012.
See also Wikipedia: Global Marijuana March.
Cannabis - le changement c'est maintenant?
For many city-specific photo compilations see the photo albums in the many Facebook groups linked from the city pages. Some multi-city compilations from various sources: Wikipedia: Cannabis by country.
2012 Global Marijuana March. London Free Press. London, Ontario newspaper.
Latinoamérica participa en 'Marcha Mundial por la Marihuana' - El Nuevo Herald.
BBC News - In pictures: Global marijuana march.
Global Marijuana March 2012 (Videos and Pictures) | Hail Mary Jane.
Facebook: Worldwide Marijuana March 2012.
www.globalmarijuanamarch.weebly.com/facebook-events.html is the source of the Facebook event page (in the "updated city list" menu) in the Global Cannabis March app on Facebook. Keary Prophet is the person to contact about both. See also: Weebly Support - FAQ & Search.
If you need help creating a Facebook event or group page, ask at the 2012 or Multi-year GMM Facebook groups.
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The showmans road locomotive was a modification of the standard road locomotive which first appeared in the 1880's and was additionally fitted with electrical dynamo at the front of the engine and a full length canopy to protect this dynamo.
Their job was hauling then powering fairground rides of the day, they were amongst the hardest worked of all engines. Burrell built the most examples of this type of engine, followed by Fowler, then Foster.
Some, but not all, were more ornately decorated than other types of engines with additional brasswork, bright paint and electric lighting to allow the engines to be operated after nightfall. They were almost always named and are now most sought after by traction engine enthusiasts.


This week we tried out the Sainsbury's Smoky Mexican Bean Burger. This is something that sounds and looks quite generic, to be absolutely honest – how many Mexican bean burgers do you reckon I've eating in my life? It has got to be quite a high number, so something like this really has to stand out in order to impress me.
To be honest, I'm not sure this one did. I'm already struggling to remember what it actually tasted like. We served it up as part of a Mexican style night, with sides of gooey spicy nacho cheese parcels and refried beans. We can't go wrong with those two things as both J and I absolutely adore them, so the only thing the Mexican burger could really do was to mess it up. Thankfully, it didn't.
It tasted fine, just what I would expect from a burger of this style. The outside was crispy while the inside was a little softer, and crumbly. It was full of chunks of vegetables like sweetcorn, which is always a texture style I have enjoyed. It was smoky and only mildly spicy, and you could clearly taste the beans as well as some of the other ingredients. Anything more than that is almost beyond me to say – it really was quite unremarkable, if not unpleasant.


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Knoxville has bred several prominent authors with followings around the world. Several have written in eloquent detail about their hometown, including James Agee, Nikki Giovanni, David Madden, Cormac McCarthy, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and others.
Knoxville is particularly featured heavily in A Death in the Family by James Agee (1909-1955), an autobiographical novel that was published posthumously and won a Pulitzer Prize for the author in 1957.
There are several sites around Knoxville worth visiting with connections to local authors:
James Agee Park, a one-acre pocket park who was born in this Fort Sanders neighborhood. He lived one block to the north of the park. (Located at 331 James Agee Street)
The Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum features "The Secret Garden" inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel of the same name. (Located at 2743 Wimpole Ave.)
Alex Haley Heritage Square features a huge and impressive bronze statue of Alex Haley in honor of the legacy of his famous novel Roots. (Located in Morningside Park at 1620 Dandridge Ave.)
Nikki Giovanni, internationally renowned poet, is honored by a historical marker on Hall of Fame Dr. (formerly Mulvaney St.) opposite Cal Johnson Recreational Center. Giovanni grew up in Cincinnati but spent her summers here at her Grandmother's house. Her essay, "400 Mulvaney Street" details this old neighborhood which was changed dramatically by Urban Renewal in the 1950s and '60s.
Alex Haley Heritage Square at Morningside Park.
Related Stories by KHP's Jack Neely:
James Agee: Our Man in Havana
James Agee: Our Knoxville in 1915 Compares to Agee's Idyllic Memoir
Frances Hodgson Burnett: Finding Vagabondia
Thomas Wolfe: New Found Celebrity
Seasonal: Literature's Influence on Knoxville's Christmas
Help KHP expand content for everyone to discover Knoxville's past in richer detail by making a donation or connecting with us through our community engagement initiative, Knoxville Shoebox.


On Saturday, I was playing for the crowds gathered in the FIFA Fan Fest at Darling Harbour. Well, I say crowds; there actually weren't many people there. This probably had something to do with the fact that neither the bar nor any of the food outlets were open.
Anyway, given that Darling Harbour isn't far away, I thought it was an excellent chance to try transporting my trombone (and related paraphernalia – music, mutes, beer etc) on the Radish. So I strapped the 'bone on the back of the bike, and set off. I didn't want to get changed when I arrived, so I was wearing the band outfit – black shirt and pants, dress shoes and an orange tie**. I got a lot of strange looks going over ANZAC Bridge; I wasn't sure whether they were directed at the bike, the trombone on the back or my outfit.
It was pretty heavy, and of course the weight is higher than in the panniers. Still it handled pretty well, and i didn't work up too much of a sweat going up the hills. The security guard at the entrance to the FIFA enclosure did give me a suspicious look as I rode in, but when I explained I was with the band, he waved me through.
The other band members were a bit incredulous too; there had been some email exchanges about sharing lifts, and I had mentioned I was going by bicycle. 'Did you actually come by bicycle?' one of them asked. Kinda strange when my two hobbies collide; I guess my cycling friends don't see me playing much and my musician friends rarely see me on a bike. Although that may change, now that I've successfully taken the trombone for a ride. Rehearsals are in Lane Cove though, so getting over Gladesville Bridge on the Radish with all that weight might be a challenge (although one I shall have to attempt)!
**all sing together now… '..orange coloured ties…' We did have that song in the set list, but had to drop it as we ran out of time.
I was a little late leaving work tonight, which meant I had to dash back so that I wasn't late getting home. I jumped on the bike after escaping a meeting that had run late, and powered through Sydney.
I was riding the fixie. I love my fixie. I've been riding my other bikes a lot recently, including the heavy (and slow) Radish, and the tourer with panniers and so on, and getting on the fixie was just a joy. It is my favourite bike, I have to say. Just so much fun; it accelerates like nothing else as I leave cars behind me when the lights change. And I was a god in the Tour du Pont d'Anzac; my competitors were left floundering, still struggling to clear the spiral ramp as I breached the apex of the bridge (remaining, of course, mindful of pedestrians unaware of the unfolding sporting drama around them).
The cool weather is great too; as the cold air flows over your hot muscles you just feel glad to be alive, your body tingling with the electric thrill of the ride. I shot up the final hill, turned into my street and screeched to a halt at the front gate. Was I in time? Quickly I wheeled the bike into the shed, and went into the house.
I was in time! There was my daughter, in the arms of Mrs Chillikebab. As I entered, she gave me a glorious gummy 'welcome home Daddy' smile. Thanks to the trusty fixie, I had got home in time to give Baby Chillikebab her bath!
However, there was no time to lose; she was getting tired and bedtime was looming! Without bothering to change, I got her a nice warm bath ready. A quick cuddle with Baby Chillikebab, and then into the bathroom for funtime bathtime.
I lowered my daughter into the water, expecting the usual gurgly splashy smiles. But something was wrong! Baby Chillikebab stared at me in horror as she went into the water, before breaking into inconsolable wails! What had happened? Mrs Chillikebab came in, and felt the water. 'It's really cold!' she said.
Oh no. My hands and arms were still very cold from my ride home. What had felt nice and warm to my chilly fingers was no more than tepid to a baby taken from the cosy embrace of its mother's arms. I attempted to console Baby Chillikebab by wrapping her in a warm towel while the water temperature was adjusted, but it was too late. The spell was broken, and bathtime funtime became a succession of indignant screams which did not abate until Baby Chillikebab was clean, dry, warm, dressed and back in Mrs Chillikebab's arms.
#253: If you are going to be giving a baby a bath shortly after riding in cool weather, wear full-fingered gloves.
I suppose this is a kind of Gothic horror novel, but it's very engaging and beautifully written. It is a dark tale of murder and obsession.
It is the story of Grenouille, an unloved, unwanted child born in the slums of eighteenth century Paris. Grenouille has no capacity for love or affection, but he does have an extraordinary nose, capable of discerning the most delicate of scents and analysing the most complex of odours. On the one hand he shuns human contact, but he also craves being accepted into the society that ignores or rejects him.
He sets out to use his talent in a most calculated way; to create a scent that will make people like him. He learns the perfumers art in order to create the 'perfect scent' – a scent he finds one day and falls in love with. It is the scent of a beautiful, nubile young girl. As he goes about capturing and recreating this scent, the people he is involved with come to a miserable end – and ultimately he kills many innocent girls in his attempt to trap their scent.
The descriptions of various scents are beautifully written, and really evoke a whole world of smell that we are perhaps inured to. This is a very strange book in which Patrick Süskind takes the reader on a fantastical journey – well worth reading.
What do you get when you cross an after dinner mint with a biscuit? Answer: Arnott's Mint Slice. This is a very classy biscuit. A rich chocolate biscuit base, topped with peppermint cream (flavoured, as the pack proudly proclaims, with real peppermint oil) and finally enrobed in smooth dark chocolate. They even look classy, with their smooth chocolate coating and even layer of mint cream. Am I sounding like an advert? Apologies if I am, but I do rather like these biscuits. Indeed, to my mind they are nicer than the Tim Tam (there, I said it!), although I have a feeling I'm going to regret mentioning that.
Despite their richness, this is a biscuit that it is extremely easy to eat a whole packet of. Sit down with a packet of Mint Slices, and – whoooof! – they are all gone. I'm not the only person to comment on this; several friends have made the same observation. Indeed, it's got so bad in the Chillikebab household that we have to have two packets of Mint Slices in the fridge, labelled separately for Mrs Chillikebab and myself. Mrs Chillikebab has such self control she can eat perhaps one or two biscuits at a time, and make a packet last for week. Occasionally I can make a packet last two days, but that's very rare.
I'm going to go all out and give these a ten out of ten, although I'm not quite sure where that leaves me should an even better biscuit come on the scene.
On Sunday, the Radish came into it's own. Indeed, up until Sunday I had failed to fully appreciate the fun there is to be had on this machine; however I am now a confirmed Xtracycle fan.
It came about because we had to go and get groceries. Mrs Chillikebab initially wanted to go, as sending me with a list wasn't god enough, as 'I wouldn't buy the things that she didn't know we needed'. Hmmmm. Mrs Chillikebab and I have very different ideas about shopping. In my world, you take a list, and the objective is to get in and out of the store with the items on the list in the least possible time. Aisles that do not contain things on the list are shunned. Speed is of the essence; collecting things from the shelf without reducing the speed of the trolley is to be encouraged. In Mrs Chillikebab's world, you browse all the aisles, just in case there is something lurking that you didn't know you needed. And each item should be carefully selected, the price of alternatives weighed up, and carefully placed in the trolley to avoid damage.
Anyway, Mrs Chillikebab ended up not being able to go because of Baby Chillikebab's feeding schedule. So I had to go with the list. And of course, I had to go on a bike. This was it! The moment I had been waiting for – a fairly big shop was needed, and the Radish was waiting.
An additional complication was that it was pouring with rain. This was about 5pm on Sunday, and it was lashing down. Still, there's no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes, so I dug out the full waterproofs, and armed with waterproof over-trousers and a cagoule I set off.
I arrived at Birkenhead Point, and got the shopping. Lots of vegetables, milk, cans etc. Four of those green re-usable bags worth. I wheeled the trolley out to the bike, and loaded up.
Now, there is something supremely satisfying about wheeling a shopping trolley to your bike to load it up. I don't know why, it's just a great feeling. Like you are doing something deeply subversive.
Then, the ride home. Uphill. How was this going to go? Well, the answer is like a dream. This bike handles magnificently when loaded. If anything, it rides better with all that stuff on the back. Just so stable and easy. Even the weight didn't seem noticeable; I just cruised up the hills. In fact, I was so pleased I thought I'd get a bottle of wine to celebrate, so rode into the drive-through bottle shop at the Sackville Hotel. I pulled up behind a car, propped up the bike on its stand and went to get wine. That pleased me too; it just looked very cool seeing the bike there in the middle of the queue of cars. The wine (a nice Pinot Noir, to go with some bonito we bought earlier in the day) was stowed along with the rest of the shopping, and I rode home feeling very satisfied.
Now I can't wait for the next shopping trip; I reckon I can get a much bigger load than that on the bike. Those green bags were not much more than half full, and I think the Radish will swallow them just as easily when they are filled to the brim.
Today, something different. Notwithstanding my faint disquiet about an organisation that exhorts its members to 'do my duty to God, to serve the Queen and my country' (not much there for an atheist republican anti-nationalist) I had the opportunity to try a Girl Guide biscuit today.
These are sold by the Australian Girl Guides in May and June, and is their major fundraiser. Apparently they sell around twenty million of them – around one per Australian (as they note). I had two, so I guess someone else will have to miss out. Sorry it that was you. The Guides provide a wealth of exciting facts about the biscuits, including that put end to end they would surround Uluru 73 times and that they have been made to the same recipe for 55 years.
Each packet contains fifteen biscuits, each measuring 69mm across. An aficionado of these biscuits insisted that 'they have got smaller'. This phenomenon is well documented in economic circles as the 'biscuit anti-inflation index'; a fluctuating figure that tracks how fast consumers perceive their biscuits are shrinking. Theories abound as to what drives this index; like a lot of economic theory it is not fully understood. However, experts on the matter generally fall into two main camps, the 'insisters' (who believe the index is linked to the actual size of the biscuit) and the 'externalists' (who believe it is chiefly linked to external factors such as hand growth and happiness quotient).
I only had the opportunity to try the 'choc' variant, although there are also plain an 'mini choc' lines. The packet is green; I'm not quite sure why as the Guides corporate colour seems to be blue. I somehow expect biscuits in a green pack to be mint flavoured. So strong was this association in my mind that I thought I could smell mint as I opened them, and only later realised that this was some form of nasal illusion.
They consist of a shortcake-style biscuit embossed with the Guides logo, with chocolate flavour coating on the back. These biscuits are designed to be placed chocolate down – somewhat unconventional, but showing off the logo is obviously the point. The biscuit itself is kind of OK – plain, quite short and crumbly. It contains no butter, and is nothing special – just a fairly cheap plain biscuit. Perhaps a bit 'institutional'; but then it is institutional, so lets not hold that against it.
The whole thing is ruined, however, by the 'choc' coating. It's not actually chocolate; it's emulsified vegetable fat flavoured with cocoa powder, and it tastes exactly like that. It's really quite nasty; I'm not sure if this part of the recipe is also 55 years old, but if it is it needs updating with more modern chocolate technology. As they are, you should think twice about who you offer them too, in case the poor quality 'chocolate' offends them. I'd really think twice about serving these to the Queen, for example, notwithstanding the Guiding promise. Perhaps it's safer to stick to the plain variant. Only a two out of ten for these, I'm afraid.
I have bought a new bike. It was going cheap in the Dirtworks yard sale, and I just couldn't resist.
Here is is, in all its glory.
What a machine! It pretty much ticks all the boxes, with the exception of hub gears. And it just looks so cool. 'Like a Harley' was how one (non-cycling) friend put it. Those handlebar grips are hand-stitched imitation leather, people. And those tyres are over two inches wide.
All my non-cycling friends love it. I have had more complimentary comments from people at work about this bike than any other I've ridden. People are intrigued by the platform on the back, and ask 'what's it like to ride?'. People want to have a go on it. It's a bit similar to what happened when I bought the Aldi bike, and people wanted to try it out. It makes me reflect on some of the things Mike Rubbo talks about with regard to upright bicycles and their effect on cycling culture. I have to say, it is strangely liberating to jump on this bike wearing my jeans, pedal to my destination and hop off, ready to go. The cool weather helps, of course, but it does make me realise that I probably wear 'cycling clothes' when on short trips as much out of habit than real necessity.
Part of the equation is, of course, riding slower. This is a bike to cruise along on, rather than a bike to work up a sweat riding. The seat is set back, the handlebars are right there and you just can't get up out of the saddle for a sprint. Just sit back, click down the gears and enjoy the scenery as you cruise by nice and slow. it's a very different way to cycle.
And those gears are quite low. I haven't actually looked up the ratios, but that's a small front chainring coupled to some hefty gearing. You need them, as this thing weighs a ton. It's a lot like driving a bus, actually (not that I've driven one, but hey!) – slow to get going, capable of getting up some speed on the downhills but lacking in manoeuvrability. Steering takes some getting used to. Apart form the fact the handlebars kind of bash my knees when cornering it has such an extreme castor angle that it really prefers to go in a straight line. Sharp, low-speed corners feel a bit weird, especially with the extra length and the thick, soft tyres.
Cruising along on the flat, though, is lovely. Big balloon tyres (40psi!) soak up the bumps, and you just feel like waving to everyone as you go by. Especially small boys who point you out to their dads and cry out 'look at that man on the funny bike!'. Hills are a bit harder, but you just go slow and steady. My best 'score'* on this bike is only two, which gives you an idea as to the ponderous nature of climbing hills. Still, the low gearing makes it possible, and I can ride this bike to work from the Inner West to the top of North Sydney quite easily. And the brakes are awesome. The long wheelbase and weight on the back, coupled with the amount of rubber on the road means that this thing stops on a dime, notwithstanding the weight. (It has a disc brake on the rear, but not on the front.) The only real problem is that it's a bit small; it's a 'one size fits all' proposition, but in reality I'm a bit too tall and am not quite comfortable. The marketing for the bike features images of women riding it, so perhaps that's their target market.
The other gimmicky thing is the pedals; they have a kind of dynamo in them which light up some LEDs as you pedal. Well, actually they don't; experimenting with them shows that in order to generate enough power to light them up, you need to be riding with a cadence of about 300. Now I know those gears are low, but that's a tad ridiculous. However, the dynamo mechanism prevents you putting your feet close in to the cranks (as they stick up on the inside edge of the pedal). I'm going to have to change these, I can see, as I like to have my feet closer together when riding. It's the old one banana thing.
The reaction of my cycling friends to this bike has also been interesting. 'WTF?' is a common reaction, and many of them simply cannot comprehend why I bought it. Heavy, slow, less nimble in the traffic. And as for riding in jeans, well, just think of the chafing!
More fool them, I say. I am on the cutting edge of bike fashion; I rode a vintage 80s racer until they got popular, then a fixie until the fashionistas took over, when I bought a panniers-and-rack commuter. Well, this is the new bleeding edge, folks – upright cargo bikes. You heard it here first. Give it three years, and you'll take back the scoffs as you jump on your Dutch bike in your suit.


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#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include "config.h"
#endif

#include <errno.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <syslog.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include <tsd/log.h>

int tsd_log_quiet = 0;
int tsd_log_verbose = 0;

static char *tsd_log_filename;
static FILE *tsd_log_file;
static char *tsd_userlog_filename;
static FILE *tsd_userlog_file;
const char *tsd_log_ident;

static int
tsd_log_level2syslog(tsd_log_level_t level)
{

	switch (level) {
	case TSD_LOG_LEVEL_VERBOSE:
		return (LOG_INFO);
	case TSD_LOG_LEVEL_NOTICE:
		return (LOG_NOTICE);
	case TSD_LOG_LEVEL_WARNING:
		return (LOG_WARNING);
	case TSD_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR:
	case TSD_LOG_LEVEL_USERERROR:
		return (LOG_ERR);
	}
	return (0);
}

static const char *
tsd_log_level2str(tsd_log_level_t level)
{

	switch (level) {
	case TSD_LOG_LEVEL_VERBOSE:
		return ("verbose");
	case TSD_LOG_LEVEL_NOTICE:
		return ("notice");
	case TSD_LOG_LEVEL_WARNING:
		return ("warning");
	case TSD_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR:
	case TSD_LOG_LEVEL_USERERROR:
		return ("error");
	}
	return ("unknown");
}

/*
 * Log a message.
 *
 * Since this is often called during error handling, we save and restore
 * errno to spare the caller from having to do it.
 */
void
tsd_log(tsd_log_level_t level, const char *file, int line, const char *func,
    const char *fmt, ...)
{
	char *msgbuffer;
	char timestr[32];
	time_t now;
	va_list ap;
	int serrno;

	msgbuffer = NULL;

	/*
	 * Log levels:
	 *
	 *   quiet: print only warnings and errors
	 *   normal: print notices, warnings and errors
	 *   verbose: print everything
	 *
	 * If both the verbose and quiet flags are set, verbose wins.
	 */
	if (!tsd_log_verbose) {
		if (level <= TSD_LOG_LEVEL_VERBOSE ||
		    (level <= TSD_LOG_LEVEL_NOTICE && tsd_log_quiet))
			return;
	}

	/* make sure logging do not change errno */
	serrno = errno;

	va_start(ap, fmt);
	if (vasprintf(&msgbuffer, fmt, ap) < 0)
		msgbuffer = strdup(fmt);
	va_end(ap);

	if (tsd_log_file == NULL) {
		syslog(tsd_log_level2syslog(level), "%s:%d %s() %s",
		    file, line, func, msgbuffer);
	}
	now = time(NULL);
	strftime(timestr, sizeof timestr, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S UTC",
		 gmtime(&now));
#define LOGFMT "%s [%d] %s: %s:%d %s() %s\n"
	if (tsd_log_file != NULL)
		fprintf(tsd_log_file, LOGFMT, timestr, (int)getpid(),
		    tsd_log_level2str(level), file, line, func, msgbuffer);
	if (level == TSD_LOG_LEVEL_USERERROR && tsd_userlog_file != NULL)
		fprintf(tsd_userlog_file, LOGFMT, timestr, (int)getpid(),
		    tsd_log_level2str(level), file, line, func, msgbuffer);

	free(msgbuffer);
	msgbuffer = NULL;
	errno = serrno;
}

/*
 * Close a log destination
 */
static void
tsd_log_closelog(char **fnp, FILE **fp)
{

	if (*fp != NULL && stderr != *fp)
		fclose(*fp);
	fp = NULL;
	if (*fnp != NULL)
		free(*fnp);
	fnp = NULL;
}

/*
 * Parse a log destination specification and open it
 */
static int
tsd_log_initlog(char **fnp, FILE **fp, const char *logspec)
{
	char *fn;
	FILE *f;
	int serrno;

	f = NULL;
	if (logspec == NULL || *logspec == '\0') {
		errno = ENOENT;
		return (-1);
	}
	if (strcmp(logspec, ":stderr") == 0) {
		logspec = "/dev/stderr";
		f = stderr;
	} else if (logspec[0] == ':') {
		errno = EINVAL;
		return (-1);
	}
	if ((fn = strdup(logspec)) == NULL) {
		return (-1);
	}
	if (f == NULL && (f = fopen(logspec, "a")) == NULL) {
		serrno = errno;
		free(fn);
		errno = serrno;
		return (-1);
	}
	setvbuf(f, NULL, _IOLBF, 0);
	tsd_log_closelog(fnp, fp);
	*fnp = fn;
	*fp = f;
	return (0);
}

/*
 * Specify a optional destination for user errors, in addition to the
 * standard log destination.  This has to be either ":stderr" or the path
 * to a file (or device node).  Passing NULL or an empty string resets the
 * user log destination so user errors only go to the standard log.
 */
int
tsd_log_userlog(const char *logspec)
{

	if (logspec == NULL || *logspec == '\0')
		tsd_log_closelog(&tsd_userlog_filename, &tsd_userlog_file);
	return (tsd_log_initlog(&tsd_userlog_filename, &tsd_userlog_file,
	    logspec));
}

/*
 * Specify a destination for log messages.  Passing NULL or an empty
 * string resets the log destination to stderr.
 */
int
tsd_log_init(const char *ident, const char *logspec)
{

	if (logspec == NULL || *logspec == '\0')
		logspec = ":stderr";
	if (strcmp(logspec, ":syslog") == 0) {
		tsd_log_closelog(&tsd_log_filename, &tsd_log_file);
		tsd_log_ident = ident ? ident : "tsd";
		openlog(tsd_log_ident, LOG_CONS | LOG_PID | LOG_NDELAY,
		    LOG_LOCAL3);
	} else {
		if (tsd_log_initlog(&tsd_log_filename, &tsd_log_file,
		    logspec) != 0)
			return (-1);
		tsd_log_ident = NULL;
	}
	return (0);
}

/*
 * Close all log destinations
 */
int
tsd_log_exit(void)
{

	tsd_log_closelog(&tsd_log_filename, &tsd_log_file);
	tsd_log_closelog(&tsd_userlog_filename, &tsd_userlog_file);
	return (0);
}

const char *
tsd_log_getname(void)
{

	return (tsd_log_filename ? tsd_log_filename : ":syslog");
}

const char *
tsd_userlog_getname(void)
{

	return (tsd_userlog_filename);
}


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Q: WCF Service Clients Good day people. I have never posted on these type of sites before, however lets see how it goes.
Today i started working with WCF for the first time, i watched a few screencasts on it and now i am ready to jump into my first solution implementing it. All is well and so far all is working, although my question comes when i create the WCFServiceClient in my calling program/ client.
Lets say in my ServiceContract/ interface defining my methods exposed to the client, there are many methods each related to some entity object. How can i logically group all of the related methods of a particular entity together, so that in my code it would look like
e.g.
WCFServiceClient.Entity1.Insert();
WCFServiceClient.Entity1.Delete();
WCFServiceClient.Entity1.GetAll();
WCFServiceClient.Entity1.GetById(int id);

WCFServiceClient.Entity2.AddSomething();
WCFServiceClient.Entity2.RemoveSomething();
WCFServiceClient.Entity2.SelectSomething();

...
Instead of
WCFServiceClient.Insert();
WCFServiceClient.Delete();
WCFServiceClient.GetAll();
WCFServiceClient.GetById(int id);
WCFServiceClient.AddSomething();
WCFServiceClient.RemoveSomething();
WCFServiceClient.SelectSomething();

I hope this makes sense. I have searched google, i have tried my own logical reasoning, but no luck. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Shot
Juan

A: You can't really do that. The best you can do is to put all the "entity 1" methods in one service contract, and all the "entity 2" methods in another. A single service can implement multiple service contracts.

A:
WCFServiceClient.Entity1.Insert();
WCFServiceClient.Entity2.AddSomething();

This smells like two separate service interfaces - let each service contract (interface) handle all the methods you need for a single entity type:
[ServiceContract]
interface IEntity1Services
{
    [OperationContract]
    void Insert(Entity1 newEntity);
    [OperationContract]
    void Delete(Entity1 entityToDelete);
    [OperationContract]
    List<Entity1> GetAll();
    [OperationContract]
    Entity1 GetById(int id);
}

[ServiceContract]
interface IEntity2Services
{
    [OperationContract]
    void AddSomething(Entity2 entity);
    [OperationContract]
    void RemoveSomething(Entity2 entity);
    [OperationContract]
    SelectSomething(Entity2 entity);
}

If you want to, you could have a single service class actually implementing both interfaces - that's totally possible and valid.
class ServiceImplementation : IEntity1Services, IEntity2Services
{
    // implementation of all seven methods here
}

Or you can create two separate service implementation classes - that's totally up to you.
class ServiceImplementation1 : IEntity1Services
{
    // implementation of four methods for Entity1 here
}

class ServiceImplementation2 : IEntity2Services
{
    // implementation of three methods for Entity2 here
}

Does that help at all?


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Filed under: Our FIlms — Rajeev @ 2:13 am
Cast: Amit Sadh, Tapsee Pannu, Arsh Bajwa, Brijendra Kala
Director: Amit Roy
Running Shaadi opens with so much promise. Amit Sadh, playing Ram Bharose, a Bihari migrant employed at a garments shop in Amritsar, has been silently carrying a torch for his boss' daughter Nimmi (Tapsee Pannu). This feisty young girl, aware of Bharose's feelings for her, has made it a habit to rely on him for everything, including, on this occasion, help with an unwanted pregnancy.
But Running Shaadi has very little interest in negotiating the complicated dynamics of their relationship. The film is fashioned as a romantic comedy, and humor is mined out of scenarios that arise after Bharose and his friend Cyberjeet (Arsh Bajwa) set up a company that helps couples in love to elope and marry.
It's another interesting idea, but the film's director Amit Roy and writer Navjot Gulati never let a good thing be. The stakes are raised again when Nimmi and the two young men find themselves hotfooting it all the way from Amritsar to Dalhousie and then to Patna, although by now the script has become unnecessarily convoluted. To be fair, the Patna portions are the best in the film, thanks in no small part to the excellent Brijendra Kala who plays Bharose's uncle, a small-time local videographer who has committed his nephew's hand in marriage to the daughter of a Doordarshan official. The idea being that the father of the bride will pass his pilot when the couple is married.
There are several moments of ingenuity and laugh-out-loud humour in Running Shaadi, including one in which the family of a bride-to-be urges their daughter to demonstrate her singing skills to the groom's family who have come visiting. Another is a scene in which a pair of lovers disguised in burkhas, is spied upon by our protagonists, who're also disguised in burkhas. In addition to the comedy, Roy captures the texture of small town India with a sharp eye. Tapsee Pannu makes a big impression as a young woman who knows what she wants, and isn't shy of making a play for it.
But the film is ultimately weighed down by its choppy editing and inconsistent screenplay. The very conceit of the 'eloping business' set up by Bharose and his friend is quickly abandoned, never to be mentioned again. Also, much of the film is in impenetrable Punjabi which needs subtitles to be understood. And Bharose's sidekick, the tech-genius sardar with the Facebook logo on his turban, gets way more screen time than he deserves.
In the end Running Shaadi is amusing, but only in fits and starts. Frankly the only ones running will be you towards the exit door when the lights come back on in the end. I'm going with a generous two out of five.


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Here Are LA Lakers' 6 Best Options to Move Russell Westbrook | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors
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Here Are LA Lakers' 6 Best Options to Move Russell Westbrook
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The Los Angeles Lakers have started the season…slowly. They had hoped that new head coach Darvin Ham and a younger, healthier roster would lead to a better performance than last year's 33 wins. But the results have been concerning. The team is winless in three games, poorly assembled and historically bad from three-point range (21.2 percent).
The early failings aren't entirely on Russell Westbrook, but he stands out as the obvious problem given his team-high $47.1 million price tag and how poorly he fits alongside LeBron James and Anthony Davis. The Lakers have tried to get out of his deal since before last season's trade deadline.
With offseason deals too costly, the hope heading into the season was to evaluate progress over the first 20 games. But the losses are already mounting. Multiple executives around the league expect Los Angeles to eventually give up its 2027 and 2029 first-round picks to move Westbrook.
Is there a "Lakers tax"? Some executives believe it to be real—less because of historic rivalries but because of pressure to field a contender around James and L.A.'s recent history of questionable deals.
Will the Lakers rush into a panic trade? What kind of return would they be looking at for a deal in early to mid-November?
Buddy Hield and Myles Turner for Two Firsts
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The Lakers and Indiana Pacers (1-3) have been in a staring contest for months. Pacers governor Herb Simon has long resisted tanking, but the team isn't very good. Would he be more open to accepting that path for both Lakers' firsts?
Indiana is believed to be interested in a deal. The Lakers would receive Buddy Hield and Myles Turner, potentially with Daniel Theis and/or T.J. McConnell. L.A. hasn't gotten much out of Damian Jones and Thomas Bryant (out with a thumb injury). Turner would help the Lakers defensively and allow Davis to play more power forward.
Given his questionable durability, Turner's value may not be as much as a single first. Many view Hield as more of a negative asset given his production at $39.1 million-plus over this season and next. Still, he'd help address the Lakers' biggest weakness as a high-volume three-point shooter.
Multiple Players from San Antonio (Jakob Poeltl or a Trade Exception?)
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The San Antonio Spurs have enough salary-cap space to make an unbalanced trade. The Lakers and Spurs have communicated for several months about the possibility of working together on a Westbrook trade, but nothing has apparently come close to fruition.
The Lakers would take on Josh Richardson's expiring $12.2 million contract, along with the $27.5 million owed to Doug McDermott through 2023-24. L.A. might be able to get that done for a single first, but its low-leverage position may preclude reasonable protections.
If Los Angeles is more generous with its draft currency, perhaps it could get Jakob Poeltl to fill its need at center. Without him, the Lakers would receive a $21.1 million trade exception, large enough to acquire Turner in a separate deal. L.A. would still get an $11.7 million trade exception with Poeltl.
Jordan Clarkson, Malik Beasley from Utah
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The Utah Jazz are among the best teams in the NBA record-wise, but few expect that to last. After dealing Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert in the offseason, the Jazz are supposed to be tanking. If they continue winning, drop them to last on this list.
But if Utah decides to focus on development, it could offer the Lakers Jordan Clarkson and Malik Beasley. The Lakers would probably have interest in Lauri Markkanen, Jarred Vanderbilt or Kelly Olynyk, but Utah is more likely to offer aging veterans Mike Conley and Rudy Gay.
If the Lakers can get depth out of the Jazz for a single first, perhaps that's a viable path. Unless some of Utah's younger players can be had, the potential haul shouldn't be worth multiple first-rounders.
Rozier and Hayward from Charlotte
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Would Charlotte Hornets chairman Michael Jordan favor Westbrook as a Jordan Brand athlete? The Pacers and Spurs would probably try to buy Westbrook out if they traded with the Lakers, but the Hornets could be a rare team that might consider Westbrook's value as a player.
That may be a Lakers dream. Closer to reality, the Hornets aren't tanking. Terry Rozier and Gordon Hayward are their top performers. Others such as Kelly Oubre Jr. and Mason Plumlee might also help the Lakers, but the Hornets aren't likely to rush into a move that decimates their roster.
If Charlotte embraces the Victor Wembanyama chase, then perhaps it would move Hayward, whose contract may not appeal to the Lakers. But he'd be a clear talent upgrade, along with Rozier. But that opportunity may not develop until closer to the trade deadline and may cost the Lakers both first-rounders.
Kyrie Irving (Sooner or Later)
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The Lakers were interested in acquiring Kyrie Irving from the Brooklyn Nets and would do so if he became available again. So far, the Nets (1-2) have survived the offseason turmoil of Kevin Durant's trade demand. But L.A. certainly has an eye or two on that situation.
If the franchises want to help each other out of disappointing situations, perhaps there's a deal to be made. But that may not be likely until closer to the deadline. Irving will certainly stand atop the Lakers' free-agent wish list if a trade isn't in the cards.
The Lakers may have $31-35 million in cap space, but that won't be enough to max out Irving next season. It might, however, be enough if Irving's market is soft given his mercurial personality. The Irving possibility may lead L.A. to spurn some of the proposals listed above, unless they're for expiring contracts. That would mean no Hayward, Rozier or Hield if the Lakers identify Irving in free agency as the priority.
Whether they should is a different story. But that's the theme for all these potential targets. The Lakers are likely choosing from a list of questionable options.
Would Waiting Be Best?
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The Lakers may find a deal that improves their roster from bad to mediocre or even good. But how many realistic trades would make them great? Would any move that doesn't result in the Lakers joining the elite be worthwhile?
On the other hand, any team with James and Davis shouldn't be that far from contention—except for this squad and last year's. The Lakers may be in a poor position in October and November, but rushing to get a deal done may cause more long-term issues. What would be the point if they sacrificed two first-round picks and didn't become a significant force in the Western Conference?
If the Lakers can hold out until December and January, opportunities might increase as recently signed free agents become eligible for trades. Waiting may be best, though the season could be all but over if the Lakers fall too far out of contention.
Additionally, if the Lakers make a two-, three- or four-for-one trade, others on the roster beyond Westbrook would need to go. The only trade-eligible players on regular contracts include Davis, Patrick Beverley, Austin Reaves, Wenyen Gabriel, Max Christie and Kendrick Nunn. Others can be cut outright to make roster space, such as Matt Ryan, whose salary is non-guaranteed.
Finally, in any of the deals, the Lakers might want to try to rope in the Phoenix Suns in a multiteam swap to add Jae Crowder, who is away from the team, hoping for a trade.


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Brits yet to fall for the robots as job fears trigger sabotage
Data industry news01 Oct 2019by DataIQ News
Just 24 hours after a report predicted that artificial intelligence will create 133 million new jobs worldwide, it has emerged that UK workers are perhaps not quite so keen on the rise of the machines after all, amid claims that some staff are deliberately "sabotaging" robots in their workplaces over fears they will push them out of their jobs.
According to a study by De Montfort University into the use of robotics in the healthcare sector, some UK workers deliberately prevent machines from carrying out their tasks. This is in stark contrast to workplaces in Norway, where staff give robots affectionate names.
De Montfort professor of work, employment and skills Jonathan Payne said: "We heard stories of workers standing in the way of robots, and minor acts of sabotage – and not playing along with them. The UK seems to have a problem with diffusion and take-up of technology."
Reluctance to embrace it seems to stem from employers' lack of explanations, with bosses failing to tell their employees exactly why a robot is needed and what kind of improvements it would bring. This creates tension and makes the employees think of the robots as the enemy, instead of an aide, Payne suggested.
The study also reveals the more "vulnerable" regions when it comes to workplace robots: East Yorkshire, Northern Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Cumbria, West Wales and the Valleys.
It also highlights the fact that many UK businesses struggle to find the robot alternative "cost effective", because of implementation costs that would ensure a smooth transition.
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"Take My Money, HBO" Shows That Plenty Of People Pirate Just Because They Have To
I'm sure you all remember that amazing comic from The Oatmeal that depicts what happend when the creator decided to watch HBO's smash series Game of Thrones.
With credit card in hand, he took to the interwebs to try and find a place to legitimately purchase the show. First, he tried Netflix to no avail. Then he went to iTunes, only to find out that the show wasn't available yet (even though it had been airing for months). A trip to Amazon and brief search of Hulu Plus were disappointing as well.
"Of course," he thinks. "I'll just buy it straight from the source – HBO themselves." But as you might have guessed, he quickly found that a cable subscription was required to use HBO's streaming service, HBO Go.
And with that, he opened up uTorrent and grabbed the entirety of season one in a few minutes.
As it turns out, that comic doesn't look like it's that far off in portraying the prospective HBO audience. In fact, in the last couple of days, thousands of people have taken to Twitter to ask HBO to take their money courtesy of the new site takemymoneyhbo.com.
The message of the initiative is this:
"Take my money, HBO. We pirate Game of Thrones, we use our friend's HBOGO login to watch True Blood. Please HBO, offer a standalone HBOGO streaming service and TAKE MY MONEY!"
The new site, started by web designer Jake Caputo, asks people to tweet how much they would pay for a monthly standalone HBO Go streaming service – you know, without the confines of a cable subscriptions. And oh how the cordcutters have responded in droves. As of earlier this morning, Caputo reported that 30,000 tweets have already rolled in.
And the average price that people say they would be willing to pay? Around $12, which we can all agree is more than reasonable (and more than a month of Netflix's entire streaming service). If you do the math, that's already a few hundred thousand dollars for HBO a month.
Follow @jakecaputo	 Jake Caputo
@jakecaputo	Thanks to @dbalasuriya, the average willing price for @HBOGO is $12.30. #takemymoneyHBO @HBO | 30k tweets x $12.30 = $369k/month
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The number of tweets must be closer to 50K or more as of now. Caputo reported 21,000 tweets tagged #takemymoneyhbo in the first three hours.
So, it's abundantly clear that people are willing to pay 10, 15, even 20 dollars for all of HBO's content – free of any other burdens. And on the surface is looks like HBO is just tossing money down the drain with their noncompliance. But it would be unlike a company like HBO to turn down more money, so it's possible that the costs of implementing a standalone streaming service for HBO Go outweighs the benefits in their eyes. Plus, taking such action would be a bitchslap in the face of cable providers, who provide HBO with valuable promotion.
Then again, Game of Thrones is on its way to being the most pirated show of the year. That's because it truly is a massive pain in the ass to watch HBO shows without a cable subscription and without torrenting. And if public sentiment always ran the world, you'd be able to streaming the newest episode at the same time your buddy was watching it through his cable box. Unfortunately, HBO has a history of being stubborn with its content. The community reaction on this initiative is impressive, but I wouldn't hold my breath for quick, resolute action from the folks at HBO.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Recall: The Name That Wasn't Meant to Be
By Ravi Sharma | Updated: 11 October 2016 14:20 IST
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 became a failure despite being a good smartphone
The botched Galaxy Note 7 recall will haunt Samsung for years
Samsung needs to cut its losses and try to move past the fiasco
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 had all the makings of a great smartphone: it was powerful, received positive reviews when it launched, had a strong marketing campaign to back it up, and was a pretty decent update over its predecessor. Except that it explodes. Even its replacement units explode.
Instead of being the iPhone 7 killer that it was supposed to be, Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has become the biggest problem the company has faced since it joined the smartphone business. The new phablet has become a problem like no other for the South Korean titan, forcing it to first recall the device and then halt sales altogether.
The irony here is that Galaxy Note 7 was supposed to be something of a prodigal son for Samsung, a weapon meant to vanquish the new iPhone models during the crucial holiday period. Instead, it tuned into a bumbling idiot who cannot stand upright on its two legs.
Galaxy Note 7 was important for more reasons than one. Not only was it a very capable smartphone, but Samsung had broken tradition while naming it. To recall, the phablet's predecessor was named Galaxy Note 5, and the company skipped one generation while naming this year's model. This had never happened before. The reason behind the move, you ask? Samsung had this to say: "You might be curious as to why it's called Galaxy Note 7 instead of Galaxy Note 6. There are a couple reasons why. First, the Galaxy Note7 will complement our Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, and unify our product portfolio. Second, the Galaxy Note 7 will minimise confusion about the latest mobile technology from Samsung, and provide full alignment with Galaxy S smartphone."
(Also see: How to Check If Your Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Is Safe)
Another factor that may have come into play, though Samsung will probably never admit to it, can be that this year's Apple smartphones are named iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. A cutting-edge new phablet with the name Galaxy Note 6 may have left the impression that it was one year behind Apple's new smartphones. And there is no way Samsung would have let that happen.
Thus, it named the next flagship phablet the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. But even as it kept a laser-sharp focus on branding, the company seems to have faltered on the quality check front. Faulty batteries made by Samsung SDI, part of the South Korean chaebol or conglomerate, are being blamed for the whole fiasco and the phablet does not ship with SDI batteries anymore. But the damage is done.
Samsung is in no position to make inroads this holiday season, at least with Galaxy Note 7, especially since Google's new Pixel phones are here to fill the gap for a top-end Android phone. Maybe Samsung can prop up an upgraded version of the Note 7 - perhaps with the Plus, Prime, or Neo monikers it frequently uses, and try to salvage its position. It will be an uphill task though, as the Galaxy Note 7 recall is the kind of controversy that will be associated with the name for years to come. Ironically, if the company had released the phone as Note 6 as it should have been called, a new Note 7 would've been music for everyone's ears right now.
Further reading: Samsung Galaxy Note 7, samsung Galaxy Note 7 Recall, Samsung Galaxy Note 7 ban, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy Note 7 battery, iPhone 7, Google Pixel
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