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Discussion in 'Amateur Radio News' started by K5XS, Dec 18, 2020.
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Today's FCC "Daily Digest" includes a notice that the FCC, under provisions of the PIRATE ACT, the Commission will begin penalizing property owners when they knowingly allow pirates to operate from their property.
FCC ENFORCEMENT BUREAU WARNS PROPERTY OWNERS AND MANAGERS OF SIGNIFICANT NEW FINANCIAL PENALTIES FOR ALLOWING ILLEGAL BROADCASTING ON THEIR PROPERTY
Notice Could Precede Fines of Up to $2 Million Under the PIRATE Act -- WASHINGTON, December 17, 2020—The FCC's Enforcement Bureau today announced it has begun targeting property owners and managers that knowingly tolerate pirate broadcasting on their properties, exercising the Commission's new authority under the recently enacted PIRATE Act. Parties that knowingly facilitate illegal broadcasting on their property are liable for fines of up to $2 million.
"Pirate radio is illegal and can interfere with not only legitimate broadcast stations' business activities but also those stations' ability to inform the public about emergency information," said Rosemary Harold, Chief of the Enforcement Bureau. "It is unacceptable – and plainly illegal under the new law – for landlords and property managers to simply opt to ignore pirate radio operations. Once they are aware of these unauthorized broadcasts, they must take steps to stop it from continuing in their buildings or at other sites they own or control. If they do not do so, they risk receiving a heavy fine, followed by collection action in court if they do not pay it. In addition, our enforcement actions will be made public, which may create further unforeseen business risks."
Under the new authority, the Enforcement Bureau will provide written notice to property owners and managers the agency has reason to believe are turning a blind eye to – or even helping facilitate – illegal broadcasting. These new Notices of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting also will afford parties a period of time to remedy the problem before any enforcement action moves forward. In the first such notices, issued today to property owners regarding their buildings in New York City, the respective parties were given 10 days to respond. The Bureau will consider any response before taking further action.
Commission investigations have found that landlords and property managers too often are aware of this illegal activity taking place on their premises. The Commission has previously sent warnings to landlords and even sought cooperation from national property owners' organizations in raising awareness. With pirate broadcasts persisting despite these efforts, Congress took action and empowered the Commission to penalize property owners and managers that knowingly permit pirate broadcasters to remain operating from the landlord's buildings or unbuilt areas. Landlords and property managers also may be found liable if a pirate station ceases operation for some period of time but later resumes at the same site.
Separately, the Enforcement Bureau and the Office of the Managing Director also released today an Order amending the Commission's rules to implement the new enforcement authority granted by Congress through section 2 of the PIRATE Act, as codified in 47 U.S.C. § 511.
Notices of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting are available at:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-368827A1.pdf https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-368817A1.pdf
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-368826A1.pdf
The PIRATE Act is available at: https://www.congress.gov/116/plaws/publ109/PLAW116publ109.pdf.
DOC-368836A1.pdf (fcc.gov)
K5XS, Dec 18, 2020
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K5XS said: ↑
If Congress gave them the authority it's exactly the enforcement action they should be taking.
the Commission will begin penalizing property owners when they knowingly allow pirates to operate from their property.
"knowingly" is a key word.
K3XR, Dec 18, 2020
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Follow the money$$$$$$$$$
Penalizing the property owners????? The Pirates don't have the $$$$$$$$$$$ so the FCC goes after the property owner. With CV19 the owner can't even make them move if they don't pay rent even if they are making meth, but now the FCC can fine the property owner who may be totally unaware of the Pirate.
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it's not about you. it's all about me....
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I didn't look up every single eviction moratorium order in this big country, but the national CDC order preventing eviction excludes those for illegal activity.
N0TZU, Dec 19, 2020
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Not just one Benjamin, but a whole lotta Benjamins.
KK9W, Dec 19, 2020
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Obviously the intent of Congress and the objective of the FCC is to get the pirate activity to stop, not to collect fines while it continues.
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Anyone can set up a streaming channel on the internet so why bother transmitting? Does anyone even hear them? Radio broadcasting has been dying for years, most people are listening via their phones and other devices online.
NC5P, Dec 19, 2020
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I am guessing pirate radio is a niche thing.....? I have yet to hear one to my knowledge, I guess if I looked for them I might hear one now and again.....meh....I don't see the interest in it.
Like you say, few people even listen to broadcast stuff anymore.....well, maybe except for us.
KE0GXN, Dec 19, 2020
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This is 2018 but it looks like radio is doing OK.
https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insig...america-listens-the-american-audio-landscape/
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[//000000002]: # (Generated from file 'smtp\.man' by tcllib/doctools with format 'markdown')
[//000000003]: # (Copyright © 1999\-2000 Marshall T\. Rose and others)
[//000000004]: # (smtp\(n\) 1\.5\.1 tcllib "smtp client")

 [ Main Table Of Contents | Table Of Contents | Keyword Index | Categories | Modules | Applications ]

# NAME

smtp \- Client\-side tcl implementation of the smtp protocol

# Table Of Contents

  - [Table Of Contents](#toc)

  - [Synopsis](#synopsis)

  - [Description](#section1)

  - [Authentication](#section2)

  - [EXAMPLE](#section3)

  - [TLS Security Considerations](#section4)

  - [REFERENCES](#section5)

  - [Bugs, Ideas, Feedback](#section6)

  - [See Also](#seealso)

  - [Keywords](#keywords)

  - [Category](#category)

  - [Copyright](#copyright)

# SYNOPSIS

package require Tcl
package require mime ?1\.5\.4?
package require smtp ?1\.5\.1?

[__::smtp::sendmessage__ *token* *option*\.\.\.](#1)

# DESCRIPTION

The __smtp__ library package provides the client side of the Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol \(SMTP\) \(1\) \(2\)\.

  - __::smtp::sendmessage__ *token* *option*\.\.\.

    This command sends the MIME part \(see package __[mime](mime\.md)__\)
    represented by *token* to an SMTP server\. *options* is a list of options
    and their associated values\. The recognized options are:

      * __\-servers__

        A list of SMTP servers\. The default is __localhost__\.

        If multiple servers are specified they are tried in sequence\. Note that
        the __\-ports__ are iterated over in tandem with the servers\. If
        there are not enough ports for the number of servers the default port
        \(see below\) is used\. If there are more ports than servers the
        superfluous ports are ignored\.

      * __\-ports__

        A list of SMTP ports\. The default is __25__\.

        See option __\-servers__ above regardig the behaviour for then
        multiple servers and ports are specified\.

      * __\-client__

        The name to use as our hostname when connecting to the server\. By
        default this is either localhost if one of the servers is localhost, or
        is set to the string returned by __info hostname__\.

      * __\-queue__

        Indicates that the SMTP server should be asked to queue the message for
        later processing\. A boolean value\.

      * __\-atleastone__

        Indicates that the SMTP server must find at least one recipient
        acceptable for the message to be sent\. A boolean value\.

      * __\-originator__

        A string containing an 822\-style address specification\. If present the
        header isn't examined for an originator address\.

      * __\-recipients__

        A string containing one or more 822\-style address specifications\. If
        present the header isn't examined for recipient addresses\)\. If the
        string contains more than one address they will be separated by commas\.

      * __\-header__

        A list containing two elements, an smtp header and its associated value
        \(the \-header option may occur zero or more times\)\.

      * __\-usetls__

        This package supports the RFC 3207 TLS extension \(3\) by default provided
        the tls package is available\. You can turn this off with this boolean
        option\.

      * __\-tlsimport__

        This boolean flag is __false__ by default\. When this flag is set the
        package will import TLS on a sucessfully opened channel\. This is needed
        for connections using native TLS negotiation instead of
        __STARTTLS__\. The __[tls](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#tls)__
        package is automatically required when needed\.

      * __\-tlspolicy__

        This option lets you specify a command to be called if an error occurs
        during TLS setup\. The command is called with the SMTP code and
        diagnostic message appended\. The command should return 'secure' or
        'insecure' where insecure will cause the package to continue on the
        unencrypted channel\. Returning 'secure' will cause the socket to be
        closed and the next server in the __\-servers__ list to be tried\.

      * __\-username__

      * __\-password__

        If your SMTP server requires authentication \(RFC 2554 \(4\)\) before
        accepting mail you can use __\-username__ and __\-password__ to
        provide your authentication details to the server\. Currently this
        package supports DIGEST\-MD5, CRAM\-MD5, LOGIN and PLAIN authentication
        methods\. The most secure method will be tried first and each method
        tried in turn until we are either authorized or we run out of methods\.
        Note that if the server permits a TLS connection, then the authorization
        will occur after we begin using the secure channel\.

        Please also read the section on [Authentication](#section2), it
        details the necessary prequisites, i\.e\. packages needed to support these
        options and authentication\.

    If the __\-originator__ option is not present, the originator address is
    taken from __From__ \(or __Resent\-From__\); similarly, if the
    __\-recipients__ option is not present, recipient addresses are taken
    from __To__, __cc__, and __Bcc__ \(or __Resent\-To__, and so
    on\)\. Note that the header key/values supplied by the __\-header__ option
    \(not those present in the MIME part\) are consulted\. Regardless, header
    key/values are added to the outgoing message as necessary to ensure that a
    valid 822\-style message is sent\.

    The command returns a list indicating which recipients were unacceptable to
    the SMTP server\. Each element of the list is another list, containing the
    address, an SMTP error code, and a textual diagnostic\. Depending on the
    __\-atleastone__ option and the intended recipients, a non\-empty list may
    still indicate that the message was accepted by the server\.

# Authentication

Beware\. SMTP authentication uses __[SASL](\.\./sasl/sasl\.md)__\. I\.e\. if
the user has to authenticate a connection, i\.e\. use the options __\-user__
and __\-password__ \(see above\) it is necessary to have the __sasl__
package available so that __smtp__ can load it\.

This is a soft dependency because not everybody requires authentication, and
__sasl__ depends on a lot of the cryptographic \(secure\) hashes, i\.e\. all of
__[md5](\.\./md5/md5\.md)__, __[otp](\.\./otp/otp\.md)__,
__[md4](\.\./md4/md4\.md)__, __[sha1](\.\./sha1/sha1\.md)__, and
__[ripemd160](\.\./ripemd/ripemd160\.md)__\.

# EXAMPLE

    proc send_simple_message {recipient email_server subject body} {
        package require smtp
        package require mime

        set token [mime::initialize -canonical text/plain \
    	-string $body]
        mime::setheader $token Subject $subject
        smtp::sendmessage $token \
    	-recipients $recipient -servers $email_server
        mime::finalize $token
    }

    send_simple_message someone@somewhere.com localhost \
        "This is the subject." "This is the message."

# TLS Security Considerations

This package uses the __[TLS](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#tls)__ package to
handle the security for __https__ urls and other socket connections\.

Policy decisions like the set of protocols to support and what ciphers to use
are not the responsibility of __[TLS](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#tls)__, nor
of this package itself however\. Such decisions are the responsibility of
whichever application is using the package, and are likely influenced by the set
of servers the application will talk to as well\.

For example, in light of the recent [POODLE
attack](http://googleonlinesecurity\.blogspot\.co\.uk/2014/10/this\-poodle\-bites\-exploiting\-ssl\-30\.html)
discovered by Google many servers will disable support for the SSLv3 protocol\.
To handle this change the applications using
__[TLS](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#tls)__ must be patched, and not this
package, nor __[TLS](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#tls)__ itself\. Such a patch
may be as simple as generally activating __tls1__ support, as shown in the
example below\.

    package require tls
    tls::init -tls1 1 ;# forcibly activate support for the TLS1 protocol

    ... your own application code ...

# REFERENCES

  1. Jonathan B\. Postel, "SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL", RFC 821, August 1982\.
     \([http://www\.rfc\-editor\.org/rfc/rfc821\.txt](http://www\.rfc\-editor\.org/rfc/rfc821\.txt)\)

  1. J\. Klensin, "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", RFC 2821, April 2001\.
     \([http://www\.rfc\-editor\.org/rfc/rfc2821\.txt](http://www\.rfc\-editor\.org/rfc/rfc2821\.txt)\)

  1. P\. Hoffman, "SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over Transport Layer
     Security", RFC 3207, February 2002\.
     \([http://www\.rfc\-editor\.org/rfc/rfc3207\.txt](http://www\.rfc\-editor\.org/rfc/rfc3207\.txt)\)

  1. J\. Myers, "SMTP Service Extension for Authentication", RFC 2554, March
     1999\.
     \([http://www\.rfc\-editor\.org/rfc/rfc2554\.txt](http://www\.rfc\-editor\.org/rfc/rfc2554\.txt)\)

# Bugs, Ideas, Feedback

This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and
other problems\. Please report such in the category *smtp* of the [Tcllib
Trackers](http://core\.tcl\.tk/tcllib/reportlist)\. Please also report any ideas
for enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation\.

When proposing code changes, please provide *unified diffs*, i\.e the output of
__diff \-u__\.

Note further that *attachments* are strongly preferred over inlined patches\.
Attachments can be made by going to the __Edit__ form of the ticket
immediately after its creation, and then using the left\-most button in the
secondary navigation bar\.

# SEE ALSO

[ftp](\.\./ftp/ftp\.md), [http](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#http),
[mime](mime\.md), [pop3](\.\./pop3/pop3\.md)

# KEYWORDS

[email](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#email),
[internet](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#internet),
[mail](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#mail), [mime](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#mime),
[net](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#net), [rfc
2554](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#rfc\_2554), [rfc
2821](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#rfc\_2821), [rfc
3207](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#rfc\_3207), [rfc
821](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#rfc\_821), [rfc
822](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#rfc\_822), [smtp](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#smtp),
[tls](\.\./\.\./\.\./\.\./index\.md\#tls)

# CATEGORY

Networking

# COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 1999\-2000 Marshall T\. Rose and others

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Amazon Is Courting YouTube Networks for Short-Video Push
E-commerce Giant Widely Considered YouTube's Biggest Threat
By Tim Peterson. Published on October 11, 2013.
Not content to contend only with Netflix and Hulu for long-form video content like movies and TV shows, Amazon is exploring a push into the short-form territory dominated by YouTube.
Amazon has pitched YouTube networks on distributing their short-form videos through the e-commerce company's a-la-carte Instant Video service, according to people with knowledge of the discussions who declined to speak publicly.
In addition to expanding their viewership to Amazon's audience and opening up a pay-per-video revenue stream, producers would receive branded pages on Amazon that would promote their videos, similar to a show page on Hulu or a channel on YouTube.
No deals have been signed, and one source said that Amazon execs have put the some of the conversations on hold until 2014. An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment.
Amazon is separately pitching a handful of online video networks and media companies on running their editorial videos on product search pages in exchange for a cut of advertising revenue based on video views, sources said. For example, a network with a library of video gaming or how-to videos would display that content to people searching Amazon.com for related products. Amazon unveiled these so-called native video ads last month during Advertising Week, but aimed the short-form video units at brand marketers, not producers.
If and when Amazon does add short-form videos -- beyond currently available ones like video ads and movie trailers sourced from Amazon-owned movie site IMDb -- the e-commerce giant would be stepping up to online video's goliath, YouTube. The Google-owned video service receives 1 billion unique viewers a month who combine to watch 6 billion hours of video.
To date no other digital video service has been able to rival YouTube's dominance. Netflix, Hulu and Amazon have focused on longer videos like movies and TV shows, but Amazon, which originated as an online bookstore, has a reputation of not leaving any potential business untapped.
"Amazon, Target, Walmart -- name the company, they're all going to be in this [short-form video] business. It's not a question of if but when," said Michael Kassan, CEO of MediaLink.
The addition of short-form videos to Amazon's arsenal would not only beef up its position against YouTube, but would round it out as a competitor to any and every digital video service. The e-commerce giant already sells digital video downloads to compete with Apple's iTunes and streams on-demand to compete with Netflix and Hulu.
"Now it's adding this third piece and will end up really being the only provider that's effectively in all three of those video businesses," said Forrester Research principal analyst James McQuivey.
For Amazon to legitimately contend with YouTube would be dependent on the volume of short-form video it acquires. "That overarching goal of Amazon to create the one video service to rule them all is the right goal, but a handful of YouTube videos won't get you quite there," Mr. McQuivey said.
Amazon doesn't disclose the number of people who watch videos via its services, but the company claims to have more than 150,000 movies and TV episodes in its streaming library.
However, Amazon is widely considered the best suited to rival YouTube. "The biggest threat to YouTube is Amazon," said Mark Suster, partner at venture capital firm Upfront Ventures and investor in one of YouTube's biggest networks Maker Studios, at an online video conference in August. Mr. Suster added that high-level executives at Amazon understand its potential "but just have other priorities right now."
Amazon's short-form push wouldn't necessarily be bad news for YouTube, which regularly claims that creators distributing their videos outside of YouTube is good for YouTube. Mr. McQuivey said it would "probably be one of the best things to happen to YouTube because they haven't had to spend a lot of time and attention really helping [producers] succeed because those people haven't had an alternative."
Retail and E-commerce
Tim Peterson covers digital media for Advertising Age out of the publication's Los Angeles bureau. He previously reported on social media and ad tech for Adweek and worked as a reporter handling the digital marketing beat at Direct Marketing News.


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NEW YORK, Oct 28, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Investment Technology Group, Inc. (NYSE: ITG), a leading agency broker and financial technology firm, today reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2010. Net income for the third quarter of 2010 was $6.2 million, or $0.14 per diluted share on revenues of $130.4 million. For the third quarter of 2009, net income was $17.5 million, or $0.40 per diluted share, on revenues of $158.4 million.
ITG's non-U.S. revenues were $42.3 million in the third quarter of 2010, a 3% decline from $43.8 million in the third quarter of 2009. Non-U.S. operations posted a net loss of $1.0 million in the third quarter of 2010, compared to income of $0.2 million in the third quarter of 2009.
"Diminished investor confidence and continued equity mutual fund outflows reduced U.S. trading volumes during the quarter by 25% sequentially, weighing on our third quarter results," said Bob Gasser, ITG's Chief Executive Officer and President. "In the face of these headwinds, we believe that the recent Majestic acquisition will enable us to serve an expanded range of clients at every institution we cover, from traders to analysts and portfolio managers, whilewe significantly expand our addressable market. As we work to integrate Majestic and introduce the new offering to our clients, we will maintain our operating discipline and our focus on increased capital efficiency."
ITG continued its focus on capital management initiatives through its share repurchase program. ITG repurchased 944,928 shares of its common stock under its authorized share repurchase program during the third quarter of 2010 at an average price of $14.55, bringing year-to-date repurchases to 2.4 million shares. ITG ended the third quarter with $339.5 million of cash and cash equivalents, up from $325.9 million at June 30, 2010.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2010, revenues were $432.4 million, net income was $22.1 million and diluted earnings per share was $0.51. Excluding non-operating items, pro forma operating net income was $33.4 million and pro forma diluted earnings per share were $0.77 in the first nine months of 2010. For the first nine months of 2009, revenues were $482.1 million, net income was $50.6 million and diluted earnings per share were $1.15. There were no pro forma adjustments in the first nine months of 2009.
The discussion above includes pro forma operating net income and related per share amounts which are non-GAAP financial measures that are described in the attached tables along with a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to U.S. GAAP results.
ITG has scheduled a conference call today at 11:00 a.m. ET to discuss third quarter results. Those wishing to listen to the call should dial 800-901-5248 (1-617-786-4512 outside the U.S.) and enter the passcode 92915865 at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the call to ensure connection. The conference call and webcast will also be accessible through ITG's website at http://www.itg.com/. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast of the call, a replay will be available for one week by dialing 888-286-8010 (1-617-801-6888 outside the U.S.) and entering the passcode 77178542. The replay will be available starting approximately two hours after the completion of the conference call.
In evaluating ITG's financial performance, management reviews results from operations which excludes non-operating or one-time charges. Pro forma operating net income and pro forma diluted earnings per share are non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) performance measures, but ITG believes that they are useful to assist investors in gaining an understanding of the trends and operating results for ITG's core businesses. Pro forma earnings per share should be viewed in addition to, and not in lieu of, ITG's reported results under U.S. GAAP.
(1) As part of a fourth quarter 2009 restructuring, ITG made certain changes to its product priorities and wrote-off $2.4 million of capitalized development initiatives that were not yet deployed. As ITG's product development plan continued to evolve in the first quarter of 2010, it was determined that additional amounts capitalized in 2009 were not likely to be used and a further $6.1 million pre-tax ($3.5 million after-tax) write-off was recorded.
(2) In the second quarter of 2010, ITG recorded an impairment charge of $5.4 million for the entire amount of goodwill attributable its Australian operations, which is included within the Asia Pacific operating segment.
(3) In the second quarter of 2010, ITG committed to a restructuring plan in the Asia Pacific operating segment to close its on-shore operations in Japan resulting in lower operating costs and reduced capital requirements. Restructuring charges include employee severance, contract termination costs and non-cash write-offs of fixed assets and capitalized software, offset by reversals of accruals related to the fourth quarter 2009 restructuring.


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The 2014 China Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place between 31 March and 6 April 2014 at the Beijing University Students' Gymnasium in Beijing, China. It was the eleventh ranking event of the 2013–14 season.

Ding Junhui won his 11th ranking title by defeating defending champion Neil Robertson 10–5 in the final, and became the sixth on the list of players with the most ranking titles behind Stephen Hendry (36 titles), Steve Davis (28), Ronnie O'Sullivan (26), John Higgins (25) and Mark Williams (18). Ding also equalled Hendry's record from 1990/1991 to win five ranking titles in a single season.

Prize fund
The total prize money of the event was raised to £478,000 from the previous year's £425,000. The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Winner: £85,000
Runner-up: £35,000
Semi-final: £21,000
Quarter-final: £12,500
Last 16: £8,000
Last 32: £6,500
Last 64: £3,000

Non-televised highest break: £0
Televised highest break: £2,000
Total: £478,000

Wildcard round
These matches were played in Beijing on 31 March 2014.

Main draw

Final

Qualifying
These matches were held between 16 and 18 February 2014 at The Capital Venue in Gloucester, England. All matches were best of 9 frames.

Century breaks

Qualifying stage centuries

 141, 137  Duane Jones
 136  Pankaj Advani
 135  Jimmy White
 134  John Higgins
 127  Michael Holt
 126, 123  Ryan Day
 122, 109  Alfie Burden
 118  David Morris
 117  Mike Dunn
 116  Shaun Murphy

 115  Anthony McGill
 113  Joel Walker
 112  Dominic Dale
 112  Mark Allen
 107  Mark Selby
 107  Ken Doherty
 103  Ricky Walden
 100  Rory McLeod
 100  David Grace

Televised stage centuries

 142  Xiao Guodong
 136  Li Hang
 133  Barry Pinches
 130  David Morris
 129, 104  Yu Delu
 129  Tian Pengfei
 128  Duane Jones
 127  Ryan Day
 126, 119  Peter Ebdon

 124, 119, 104  Ding Junhui
 117  Hammad Miah
 115, 103  John Higgins
 110  Jimmy White
 109  Michael White
 106  Ali Carter
 102  Neil Robertson
 100  Ricky Walden

References

External links
 2014 China Open – Pictures by Tai Chengzhe at Facebook

China Open (snooker)
China Open
Open (snooker)
Sports competitions in Beijing
China Open
China Open

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Miami University has received another major gift for the construction of its new student-athlete sports medicine and rehabilitation center.
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Miami University is in line to receive a $10 million gift from Mercy Health—Cincinnati toward construction of its new student-athlete sports medicine and rehabilitation center.
The donation will be part of an affiliation agreement announced April 22 between the university and the healthcare system. Miami University and Mercy Health will collaborate on academic initiatives, which may include sponsored research, student scholarships, internships and more. In addition, the healthcare system will become the university's exclusive provider of sports medicine and rehabilitation services for varsity, club and recreational-intramural sports, starting July 1.
Mercy Health will donate $10 million over 13 years for construction of the Gunlock Family Performance Center.
To be located between Yager Stadium and the newly constructed David and Anita Dauch Indoor Sports Center, the Gunlock complex will serve as a home for the school's football team and as a treatment center for 500-plus student-athletes. It will feature a weight room, football locker room, offices, players' lounge, team meeting rooms, hydrotherapy area, rehabilitation center, recruiting and equipment room and reception area.
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It is believed that White Crane was one of the five original 'animal' systems practiced at the Shaolin Temple and that it may already have existed by the time the monk Da Mo arrived from India in the 6th century. Later, during the 17th century, a woman named Fang Qi-Niang combined her White Crane heritage, passed down from her father, with movements she witnessed while observing the behavior of cranes in the river near her home. This was the beginning of the Southern White Crane system, which now includes four major divisions: Ancestral Crane, Eating Crane, Shouting Crane and Flying Crane. It is Ancestral Crane that Master Yang-Jwing Ming learned as a youth from his Master, Cheng Gin-Zao.
Zong He Chuan translates as 'Ancestral Crane Fist.' The system is also known as ' Trembling Crane', 'Sleeping Crane' or 'Jumping Crane'. Each of these names describes a characteristic of the style. The Jin or martial power of Zong He Chuan derives from a shaking or trembling of the body that imitates the shaking off of water by a bird or animal. The legs are firmly rooted and the power is generated from the waist. 'Sleeping' may refer to the idea that the Crane practitioner is motionless until the opponent moves, at which time s/he physically explodes into defense while maintaining mental and spiritual calm. 'Jumping' refers to the jumping movements used in strategic footwork and escape.
White Crane is primarily a defensive system that specializes in the short range. Kicks are low and hands are used extensively in techniques that derive from the shape and movements of the Crane's wings or beak. The Crane is known for its dignity and calm appearance but also for the viciousness with which it defends itself.
White Crane practitioners also train in the use of weapons, including staff, double sticks, sai, saber, double dagger, spear and numerous other long and short weapons. Training in White Crane demands a conditioned body in order to withstand the great power that can be generated by the shaking Jin and the specialized whipping and arcing motions of the chest and spine. Without proper and progressive conditioning it is easy to damage the joints and internal organs in practice. Also, in order to reach the higher levels, the pupil must study and practice White Crane Qigong (cultivation of internal energy). For these reasons, only the most elementary of White Crane techniques and forms are taught in the first few years of YMAA training.


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Karl Gustaf (KG) Kristoffersson, född 15 maj 1918 i Maria Magdalena församling i Stockholm, död 10 december 2011 i Högalids församling i Stockholm, var en svensk fotograf.

Fotograferande
Kristoffersson började som obetald fotografelev hos fotograf Staffan Kronberg på Gumaelius reklambyrå i Stockholm. Därefter arbetade han som fotograf på bildbyrån Telegrafbild 1938. 1939 startade han sitt eget företag Svenskt Bildreportage med kontor på Vasagatan nära de dåtida tidningskvarteren i Klara, Hans intresse för film och teater gjorde att han följde filminspelningar och gjorde kändisreportage för Filmjournalen och andra veckotidningar. Han var teaterfotograf för fem stockholmsteatrar.

Finska vinterkriget bröt ut den 30 november 1939 och journalisten Barbro Alving reste till Finland i december för att rapportera. Kristoffersson och Barbro Alving reste runt i det krigshärjade Finland och besökte bland annat fronten vid det Karelska näset, Viborg och Helsingfors. Alving som krigsreporter och Kristoffersson som krigsfotograf.

Kristofferssons blev en så kallad Se-fotograf i tidningen Se, och han fotograferade allt från händelser, till skådespelare och personligheter.

I september 1945 var Kristoffersson i England i tre månader för att göra ett efterkrigsreportage. I Coventry dokumenterade han den sönderbombade staden. Han fotograferade bland andra skådespelaren Laurence Olivier, boxaren Olle Tandberg och nobelpristagaren Alexander Fleming.

Han fotograferade under inspelningar av svenska långfilmer. Ett exempel är Ingmar Bergmans film Musik i Mörker. Boken Regi Bergman är ett exempel där hans bilder på Ingmar Bergman publicerats.

Den amerikanska bildtidningen Life publicerade Kristofferssons bild av Haide Göransson på sitt omslag till oktobernumret 1949. För honoraret från Life köpte han spegelreflexkameran Speed Graphic och ett elektronblixtaggregat som han då var först med att använda i Sverige.  Kristoffersson medverkade med sina bilder i uppslagsverket Myggans nöjeslexikon där hans bilder illustrerade uppslagsord och personligheter. Hans bilder på popgruppen ABBA publicerades i ABBA The photo book utgiven på Max Ström förlag.

Hans bildarkiv är bevarat och uppskattas innehålla en halv miljon bilder. Bildarkivet innehåller alla bilder han fotograferade från 1939 och framåt. Det förvaltas av Sjöberg bildbyrå.

Bibliografi
Hon kameran och jag, Nordisk Rotogravyr (1955)

Referenser

Externa länkar
 Svensk filmdatabas. http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=419944
 Dagens Nyheter. https://www.dn.se/arkiv/familj/k-g-kristoffersson/

Fotografer från Stockholm
Födda 1918
Krigsfotografer
Avlidna 2011
Män


La Thuile, 15 feb. 2018 - Lt. Gen Roberto Perretti and Maj. Gen. Sir Edward Alexander Smyth-Osbourne visited the final session of the Mountain Warfare – Individual Basic Skill Winter Course, organized by the Italian Army Mountain Training Centre in La Thuile (Aosta). The visit was aimed at familiarizing with the Italian Army mountain warfighting capabilities.
The course provided the participants with advanced skills in fighting and surviving technics in a non-permissive mountain environment. The final examination was articulated in different and particularly difficult steps. Among these, a rapid ski mountaineering climbing with changes of direction, obstacles crossings, rapid rock climbing on a prepared path, a final steep slope with off-track downhill.


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Wind power: A primer
Publishing Date 06 Mar 2019
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Wind power generation relies on special turbines to convert the kinetic energy of the wind into electrical energy. Because of its dependence on wind, which experiences fluctuations due to gusts and temporary calms, wind power has an intermittent power output. A well-sited wind turbine can reach a "capacity factor" of above 40% – that is, it will produce about 40% as much energy as a generator that was able to run 24 hours a day.
The amount of power produced by a wind turbine also depends on the strength of the wind at a particular site: doubling the wind speed increases the power output of a turbine by a factor of eight. However, for a wind turbine to attain its highest performance, its design must match the weather conditions it will face during its lifetime. Three dimensions, including wind speed, extreme gusts and turbulence, determine the wind classes for which turbines are designed for. The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) sets international standards for the conditions each wind class encompasses.
Wind power generators can either be connected to the local power grid ("on-grid" systems), or used as standalone systems with a backup generator that runs on diesel ("off-grid" systems). More recently, wind power projects are being commissioned, together with energy storage systems, in an effort to manage the intermittency of wind power and secure the stability of the electrical grid.
Wind turbine operation
At very low wind speeds, there is insufficient torque exerted by the wind on the turbine blades to make them rotate. As the speed increases, the wind turbine will begin to rotate and generate electrical power. The speed at which the turbine first starts to rotate and generate power is called the cut-in speed. As the wind speed rises above the cut-in speed, the output power rises until it reaches the limit that the electrical generator is capable of. The limit to the generator output is called the rated power, and the wind speed at which this occurs, is called the rated wind speed.
At higher wind speeds than the rated speed, the design of the turbine limits the power to this maximum level and there is no further rise in the output power. As the speed increases above the rated power wind speed, the forces on the turbine structure continue to rise and, at some point, there is a risk of damage to the rotor. As a result, a braking system is employed to bring the rotor to a standstill. This is called the cut-out speed.
Onshore systems
Onshore wind power systems consist of a turbine positioned on top of a tower, placed on land. A turbine is a device in which a bladed wheel is turned by a force (i.e. the wind) and connected by a shaft to a generator to produce electricity. Currently, approximately 560 GW of installed capacity exists worldwide for onshore wind systems. Onshore wind power systems typically cost about USD $1.6 million per installed MW. They consist of the following components:
Rotor: the rotor is at the hub of a wind turbine, attached to the blades. The rotor converts the linear motion of the wind into rotational energy, which then drives a generator. Nearly all commercial wind turbines in use today are horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs), with a propeller-type rotor.
Blades: the rotor blades capture the wind and transfer its power to the rotor hub, causing it to rotate and drive the generator. Doubling the length of the blades can produce a fourfold increase in power. However, lengthening the blades also increases their weight, making them harder to move, less stable and more expensive to produce. Advances in blade materials and manufacturing have enabled the production of lightweight blades more than 80 metres long. High-stress areas of the blades are often composed of costly carbon fibre composites, among the strongest lightweight materials available. The rest of the blade is usually composed of less costly fiberglass composite. Today, most turbines contain three blades due to considerations around cost performance, power rating, tip speed, loadings on the hub, and aesthetical preferences.
Drivetrain: the drivetrain is the heart of a wind system's mechanical-to-electrical conversion machinery, and costs almost as much as the blades. The drivetrain connects the rotor to a gearbox, increasing the rotational speed by about a ratio of 100 to 1. The output shaft on the gearbox drives a conventional synchronous generator. In most modern turbines the drivetrain is variable speed, so that the output speed can vary with the speed of the wind, resulting in more efficient conversion and lower dynamic loads on the turbine systems. The drivetrain is a source of major operational challenges with wind systems due to gearbox failure. As such, direct drive systems, i.e. using no gearbox at all, have started gaining traction in the market recently.
Nacelle: the nacelle is the outer covering containing the key components of the turbine, including the drive train.
Tower: a typical commercial-size wind turbine will sit atop a tower that is 70 metres to 150 metres high. Current designs usually use a single tubular (solid) tower.
Ancillary components: turbines also include other components involved in the production and transfer of power, such as a brake, a yaw mechanism that moves the rotor to face into or out of the wind, electronic controllers, a hydraulics system, a cooling unit, a wind vane, sensors and power converters that convert the turbine's variable-output DC (direct current) electricity to constant-frequency AC (alternating current).
Balance of system: in the context of wind power, the "balance of system" refers to everything in the windfarm outside of the turbine towers – such as transformers, cables, and substations.
Offshore wind turbines
Wind turbines can also be installed in the ocean where winds are stronger and more persistent, and where more room exists for large-capacity wind farms. Offshore systems employ similar turbine technology to their onshore equivalents, with the exception that the offshore systems are installed on a support structure and they are designed to withstand the higher-speed wind environment and the added wave-induced loading on the turbines. Offshore wind is the anticipated approach for future wind deployment in Europe, where there is less land area rich in wind resources than in the US. Currently, there is an installed capacity of offshore wind farms of approximately 20 GW, predominantly in Europe. Offshore systems currently cost about a third more than their onshore equivalents – USD$2.3 million to USD$2.6 million per installed MW.
A major drawback of wind power systems is the intermittent nature of the wind. In many regions, there simply is not enough wind close to the ground to make wind competitive with standard forms of power generation.
At higher altitudes – hundreds or thousands of feet in the air – there are almost always steady winds that blow at relatively constant speeds. Some companies are developing "flying" or "lighter than air" wind turbines, which are tethered to the ground via a cable that conducts the electricity generated by the turbine back to earth. The hope is that these systems will be able to operate at peak capacity between 70% and 90% of the time.
Offshore wind installations have started moving away from shore motivated by the shortage of locations with shallow waters. As such, new floating structures are emerging to overcome restrictions around water depth and ground conditions, while enabling the exploitation of larger wind resources.
Small-scale wind turbines are also attracting interest from developers due to their potential to supply electricity at scales under 50 kW. This could potentially enable novel business models for wind-based distributed generation for commercial and even residential buildings.
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BP (NYSE: BP) announced an agreement to lease approximately 84,000 acres in northeast Ohio targeting the Utica/Point Pleasant shale formation from the Associated Landowners of the Ohio Valley (ALOV). The ALOV is a local Ohio group representing area mineral owners.
The 84,000 acres are located in Trumbull County, Ohio. BP reported in the news release terms of the agreement, to be executed with each landowner, are confidential. The company said its focus in 2012 will be to better understand the geology and devise a plan to safely develop the resource.
BP is active in North American shales including: the Woodford, Haynesville, Fayetteville and Eagle Ford shales. Other large oil and gas companies like ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), Shell (NYSE: RDS.A), Hess (NYSE: HES) and Anadarko (NYSE: APC) are exploring the Utica shale so it is no surprise that BP has made its entrance into the emerging play.
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Shortest distance between Ocilla and Augusta is 149.46 miles (240.53 km).
Flight distance from Ocilla, GA to Augusta, GA is 149.46 miles. Estimated flight time is 00 hours 21 minutes.
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The driving distance from Ocilla, Georgia to Augusta, Georgia is: 178.88 miles (287.88 km) by car.
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31°35'40"N 83°15'5"W
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Taylor, 22, began dance classes at an early age and at 13 she went on to join the Scottish Dance Theatre's Youth Dance Company.
She spent four years with the National Youth Dance Company of Scotland, touring the world to perform as far afield as India and Belgium.
Following a year of training with the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance at the Space in Dundee, she moved to London to take up a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Dance.
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China has laid out plans to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, with the aim of making the industry worth 1 trillion yuan ($147.7 billion).
The State Council released its three-step roadmap on Thursday outlining the thinking behind how it expects AI to be developed and deployed in areas from the military to city planning.
"Artificial intelligence has become a new engine of economic development," the State Council's document said according to a translation.
The first part of the plan runs up to 2020 and proposes that China makes progress in developing a "new generation" of AI theory and technology. This will be implemented in some devices and basic software. It will also involve the development of standards, policies, and ethics for AI across the world's second-largest economy.
In the second step of the plan which is up to 2025, China expects to achieve a "major breakthrough" in AI technology and the application of it, which will lead to "industrial upgrading and economic transformation".
The last step, which will happen between 2025 and 2030 sees China become the world leader in AI, with the industry worth 1 trillion yuan.
Beijing's plan hopes to help accelerate the commercialization of AI in China for areas such as smart cities, but also military uses, something that could worry the broader international community.
Already the U.S. is taking note. A recent Pentagon report showed how worried the government was about Chinese firms investing in U.S. start-ups, suggesting that there might need to be tighter controls around this.
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Time Travelling
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We Are So Close
The Old Continent
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In 1999 people were innocent enough to believe that environmental decline and ecological collapse was a long way away. The public assumed that, even if the eco doom was going to happen at some point, it was going to be so far into the future that none of them would be affected by that tragedy. Life was too good to even consider minimizing the massive individual consumption to cushion the upcoming devastation.
Social progress was made, and humanity was flourishing on so many levels. People felt ecstatic and optimistic about the future, saving the environment wasn't on the agenda.
Booming economics and immense focus on capital growth resulted in shrinking, surprisingly finite, natural resources. In reality, the unprecedented and exploitive consumption left Earth unbalanced, polluted and bleeding painfully.
The division between the new (modern, liberal) and old (patriarchal, reactionary) ways of living wasn't turned into a culture war as yet. But the actors, who were personally going to benefit from the divide, slowly started emerging onto the political and business stage.
1999 was still a few years away from the social media revolution, Internet rage and profit-only driven policies that happily sacrificed everything and everyone that stood in their way. In 1999 people didn't mind using brick phones, for as long as they worked. Owning a new phone every year or changing a computer every two years wasn't a status necessity, yet. Influencers, as a social group, didn't exist, and young people didn't aspire to be famous for the sake of consuming, most preferably for free.
It was still safe to eat fish without fear of eating too much plastic. Fast fashion wasn't that fast or that cheap either. Public transport was affordable and cheap airlines didn't have the monopoly to rule the skies.
However, even though the plastic wasn't causing water pollution yet, the plastic waste was already overflooding the land. Cheaply made goods began making their way to every household around the globe, leaving behind a trail of plastic pollution and consumer debts.
Regrettably, in the 1990s, even the most pessimistic environmental activists didn't foresee the bleak future that was just a few short decades away.
1999 was the last instant to wake up to global warming and eco devastation. It was the final moment to refocus human energy towards building a sustainable future from the ground up. But instead, the political and business class, skilfully aided by the celebrities, decided to advocate for global domination of wastefulness, while promoting over-consumption on credit.
Jessica's creative talent, her engineering abilities and skills were widely visible across Ecotopia. She started building and inventing when she was only eight years old. Her lifestyle inventions helped Ecotopia jumped through hundreds of years of development in a few short years, setting Ecotopia way ahead of the Old World.
It wasn't a coincidence that Jessica was the first one to land in Oxley Woods. Luckily the tunnel opened in a secluded part of the woods, away from the curious eyes. She found refugee amongst the trees for the first couple of nights, waiting for the rest of the team to successfully cross the tunnel.
However, after two freezing days and nights of waiting in the open, she ventured outside of her hiding spot.
Since she wasn't certain when and if anyone else was coming she knew she needed to secure shelter to be able to carry on with her mission, regardless if the rest of the team was coming or not.
But every night she returned to her landing spot and patiently waited for the rest of her team to show up.
To Jessica's greatest surprise her second day after arrival repeated itself, which made her realized that she was stuck in some type of time loop. However, the significant difference between the present day and the day she arrived was that she didn't jump out of the time tunnel when it opened. This discovery made Jessica slightly concerned about the future arrivals of her teammates. She wondered if they would be able to travel to the same day she did if the events during the day can change the outcome of the next day.
To Jessica's greatest relief, the actions she took one day had permanent implications on the next day, even though in a way it was still the same day. That proven that changing the future with the right actions was possible.
Since Jessica didn't like wasting time and keeping active was often her way of coping with challenging circumstances, she wandered the streets of London for hours at the time. She was surprised to discover so much wastefulness polluting pavements, streets and parks. People used cars a lot, instead of biking or using public transport. London was swallowing up smaller towns, destroying natural habitats of insects, animals and plants to make way for houses, roads, shops and train tracks.
The global political stage was stable enough to start introducing the much-needed environmental change. However, the understanding of climate decline and the cost of a consumption-led lifestyle was pretty low amongst society. More shopping, higher spending, and endless trips to shopping centres were the daily norm.
Even though Jessica was stuck on New Year's Eve that day was still filled with business, people running around and lots of unkindness instead of reflection and preparation to embrace the new Millennium. The day surely didn't feel festive at all.
The Rest of The Team
Luckily, the time tunnel sent every single member of the Ecotopian team to the same timeline, which Jessica welcomed with relief. By the time the rest of the team arrived, Jessica was already set up perfectly well in 1999. The accommodation, food provision and financial support were all in place to make the team's job go as smoothly as possible.
However, for some unknown reason to Jessica, she began feeling uneasy regarding their mission.
She spent a significant amount of time on her own and slowly started to recognise that Maggie's initial plan to start building the spaceship to move humanity to another planet wasn't the right solution. She wondered if perhaps there was a way out of the wastefulness and self-destroying trajectory they could take to re-set the future. What if travelling even further back in time to plant the seeds of change was a better idea? Soon she grew to believe that teaching humanity how to build sustainable circular habits to save the future ought to be the team's propriety.
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