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Generation #Hashtag Ascendant: Think Native Digital First
As more consumers turn to native digital content and become more willing to pay for it, media companies must adopt a native-first mindset.
By Laurent Colombani and David Sanderson
Media consumers who prefer native digital content now make up nearly half the audience for entertainment in developed markets and more than a third of the audience for publishing and online services. In developing markets, those percentages are slightly lower, but trending in the same direction. These consumers who, regardless of age, favor content and services that have been designed and distributed exclusively through digital (and especially mobile) channels, are transforming not only entertainment but also publishing and services (see Figure 1). Perhaps most important for media companies, a younger cohort among these consumers says that it is increasingly willing to pay for content.
These are among the findings of Bain's annual survey of media use across global markets. Bain's 2014 report focused on the rise of these consumers who prefer native digital (as opposed to digitized) content; we call them Generation #hashtag. Our 2015 study found that Generation #hashtag has grown to nearly half. For media companies, long-term success depends on understanding these consumers and their media preferences, and a clear understanding of monetization trends can help them form their strategic plans.
Mastering the new monetization model requires a sharp focus on five imperatives:
Rethink content strategy
Secure distribution routes
Embrace the new rules of advertising
Capture and make good use of consumer data
Revise the M&A toolkit
Survey results: Understanding media preferences
Three traits characterize native digital formats and set them apart from earlier digital and analog media: mobility, ubiquity and context.
Mobile devices forced the redesign of the user interface, experience and content itself, changing the way providers present digital content and services to consumers—for example, from web pages to apps and from 16:9 to vertical video.
Ubiquitous connectivity means that consumers are "always on," able to consume and manipulate dynamic content in the cloud, and that they are in social contact at all times.
Finally, pervasive metadata adds new context to content and service experiences. For example, geolocation makes it possible to filter and curate what consumers see and to match them with advertisers and relevant service providers.
These new rules of the road and the opportunities they created became the driving force behind the growth of Generation #hashtag (see Figure 2).
Mobile device penetration powers native digital consumption in developing as well as developed markets. Native digital consumption is nearly as high in developing markets as in developed ones, despite the historical fact that developing-market consumers lagged behind those in developed markets in adopting digitized media (the second wave). In many places, consumers will skip this second wave, leapfrogging from physical directly to native digital content (see Figure 3). In some markets where (legal) distribution of physical media never took hold, native digital media may even represent the first legitimate platform for consumers to access content and services. In China, a generation of gamers who never had access to consoles—until recently, the government had banned them throughout most of the country— embraced mobile games, helping to make Tencent the world's biggest gaming company by revenue, far outstripping more established players such as Electronic Arts, Activision, Sony and Microsoft.
Entertainment has passed a point of no return in its transition to native digital, with 47% of consumers making up Generation #hashtag across video, music and games in the US and Western Europe, and 37% across developing markets. The music industry is moving particularly fast, with native streaming surpassing CDs in the US in 2014, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, and even surging ahead of digital downloading in France, according to the Syndicat National de l'édition Phonographique.
The written word shows a more contrasted pace of change as few people outside the US and UK take up digital books, resulting in an overall penetration of 38% across developed countries, while online news reaches staggering digital penetrations of 89% across the same markets. In news, 31% of developed market consumers aged 15 to 25 rely primarily on native services such as Twitter, Reddit or BuzzFeed at the expense of traditional news outlets. Overall, about a third of readers belong to Generation #hashtag across developed and developing markets.
Services are also rapidly becoming a native-first space. Our survey reveals the widespread adoption of digital services across the categories of local (including classifieds, restaurants and home services), housing, jobs and travel. Native models are ramping up fast as Generation #hashtag flocks to sharing and mobile champions such as Airbnb and BlaBlaCar in travel, Yelp and Uber in local, and LinkedIn for job search. While millennials led the charge in entertainment, services show a surprisingly even pace of change across generations. People over 30 have switched faster for housing searches, with more than 30% using native digital formats compared with younger consumers' 20%, suggesting adoption comes from power users as much as new consumer cohorts (see Figure 4).
A new monetization map for the industry
With new platforms come renewed hopes for consumers who will pay, and here there is hope. While advertiser-supported models remain prevalent, consumers adopt the full spectrum of digital monetization models—including single purchases, subscriptions and micropayments. Our survey also found that, contrary to conventional wisdom, younger customers are more willing to part with cash across a range of payment models despite their slimmer wallets and access to illegal alternatives (see Figure 5).
Mobile platforms are key to success here, given their built-in user bases with registered credit card details from Apple, Amazon or PayPal. As these large, partially closed ecosystems take over from the more open approaches that prevailed in the desktop web era, some of the friction and fear around payments is disappearing. Our survey clearly indicates that mobile-equipped consumers in developed markets are more likely to pay for digital native content, which may partly explain why younger cohorts, who are more prone to use their smartphones to experience media content, appear more comfortable with consumer-pay models (see Figure 6).
Yet for all their positive momentum, native monetization approaches have a long way to go before catching up with revenue levels of older media such as CDs or boxed video games. The music industry already experienced a drop in average revenue per user (ARPU) of more than half between the physical and digitized waves as the online distribution of MP3s led to the unbundling of the album format. Many fear free streaming models will push ARPUs even lower. That outcome isn't certain: With Spotify leading the charge and powerful platforms such as Apple and Google entering the fray, streaming services are attempting to pivot to subscription models with their higher ARPUs—close to those last seen in the CD era (see Figure 7).
For this much-needed evolution to succeed, media companies will need to strike a delicate balance between getting users to adopt native models and getting them to pay for them. Today, about 25% of Spotify users pay for the service, half the proportion necessary to match the ARPUs of download services such as iTunes in Western markets. With the introduction of new paid services offering better sound quality, curation accuracy or content exclusives, the industry appears to be rallying behind this objective, but only time will tell if enough users sign on to make these models viable.
In developing markets, native services have a lower bar to reach since the penetration and market size of previous media waves has been more modest. Even the prospect of achieving annual revenues per user (ARPUs) of $1—be it though microtransactions, subscriptions or advertising—across vast, untapped markets such as India, China, South America and (eventually) Africa represents an important opportunity for the music industry and should be a component of future growth strategies.
A similar downward trend appears to be reshaping services in some industries with digitized models faring worse than physical ones and native players reaping even lower ARPUs (see Figure 8). Yet what native services lack in terms of revenue per user, they compensate for through scale. Leaders such as Yelp, TripAdvisor and LinkedIn are logging hundreds of millions of users. With such large consumer bases, they can explore a range of business models, including premium services for customers and transaction fees paid by suppliers and other partners—effectively building two-sided monetization approaches. For example, LinkedIn sells premium access to individual users as well as packages for recruiters, the latter fueling most of its revenue growth.
Overall, the monetization of native models remains a work in progress as native players explore new ways to raise revenue from users, advertisers and supply partners. As they learn, they are building scale, counting on the network effects to gain control of market share. Traditional models reached high ARPUs with user bases in the hundreds of thousands to tens of millions. Native platforms such as YouTube and King have much lower ARPUs but hundreds of millions of users (see Figure 9). Therefore, many adopt a "landgrab" mindset, reinvesting proceeds into expansion. Netflix focused first on big markets and now strives for global coverage. Uber has made its dizzying expansion pace a distinguishing feature of its model: In its first five years, it entered more than 300 cities in 58 countries, taking competitors (and regulators) by storm.
Yet pure high-scale, low-value models may not prevail forever. Early signs show that to reach full potential, even the champions of scale are looking to introduce premium services through proven recipes. For example, some music services rely on human curation rather than pure algorithms to foster usage and differentiate from algorithm-based, free offers. YouTube, a leading champion of algorithmic curation, uses a human editorial touch for its YouTube Kids app, targeting a highly attractive but very sensitive demographic. Netflix's CEO announced in July 2015 that the service's subscription price would increase over time to fund the production of original content—an announcement received with a double-digit share price increase. Just as traditional players need to embrace native models, native players may also have to learn some of the old dogs' tricks.
Success will require more arrows in the monetization quiver. While traditional models relied mostly on either consumer or advertiser pay, digital native platforms have broadened and blurred the model, creating a richer but more complex monetization map (see Figure 10).
"Freemium" models have allowed music platforms to take off and made titans of fledgling video game start-ups.
Crowdfunding has reshaped independent production, even for well-known figures such as filmmaker Spike Lee and TV host Chris Hansen. It allows Sony to help develop cult classic video games such as Shenmue III while letting fans take on the financial risk.
In publishing, the lines between content and advertising have blurred as websites such as BuzzFeed let advertisers contribute or even write "listicles" and other content, while bloggers monetize their followers through product placement and endorsement, pushing the UK's Advertising Standards Authority to introduce new rules on disclosure and transparency.
Service companies such as LinkedIn or Leboncoin create dual monetization models, hedging their core business across business-to-consumer and business-to-business markets.
Finally, data permeates this new landscape, with content owners, service providers, publishers, platforms, agencies and advertisers seeking to concurrently buy, sell and leverage it.
A playbook for the native digital era
Mastering the new monetization map for the native digital era will require a deep capabilities upgrade, with an emphasis on five imperatives.
From short videos for mobile phones to hours-long livestreams, media companies need to build content for the world we live in today rather than translate old recipes to new screens. The supply-driven paradigm of physical media has come to an end. Successful content is user-influenced, if not user-generated. Here, entertainment and publishing companies can learn from service players, which have become masters at growing audiences and building business models based on user engagement and contributions.
Leading players are not standing still. The continued dominance of film and music majors, for instance, is as much a testament to their adaptability to new models as to the resilience of their old recipes. Disney's investment in Maker Studio, Warner Bros. investing in Machinima, Nintendo striking a long-term deal with freemium video game maker DeNA and Condé Nast acquiring Reddit are only a few examples of old guard trying to master new content formats. New models are invented every year, and they all require tough decisions: For example, the jury is still out on Amazon's $1 billion valuation for Twitch, the fast-growing video game spectating service now competing directly with YouTube's own gaming service. Yet bandwidth limitations will not protect video from native digital change forever, and leading players in TV and video are well aware of the need to embrace such new formats.
In addition, content strategies should account for the growing share of global revenue from developing markets and their tremendous potential in the native digital space. Hollywood's new fascination with villains blowing up Asian cities, along with the more traditional assaults on New York City and the Golden Gate Bridge, is a sign of this shift and the critical need to reach a global audience. Aspiring worldwide leaders will need a strategy to react to the rapid growth of Bollywood and Nigeria's Nollywood, of Latin American telenovelas, of K-pop and many other local trends with powerful regional influence, now unleashed on digital native platforms.
In an increasingly overcrowded digital space, the old paradigm that "good content will always sell" may no longer hold true. How can providers cut through the clutter in a mobile world where any app that doesn't make it onto a smartphone's first two screens risks falling into oblivion? How can they get noticed on social networks where consumers are constantly solicited by friends, strangers, publishers and advertisers alike?
Securing the right distribution to ensure that great content finds its consumers is all the more critical as audiences become increasingly fragmented across media and platforms. And building relationships with the dominant platforms—whether Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon or Tencent—is a paramount but difficult task. Increasingly daunted by the revenue share such platforms demand from content and service partners to access their unique reach, many try to create alternatives—for instance, by developing or acquiring their own platform or securing deals with narrower, independent platforms with which they hope to secure more favorable deal terms. In the end, few can afford to bypass existing global ecosystems entirely, and most will have to develop a balanced portfolio of distribution channels, optimizing for reach and value. Striking the right equilibrium will become one of the distinctive capabilities of leading content and service publishers.
Generation #Hashtag Ascendant
Generation #hashtag now represents almost half of all online entertainment consumers in developed markets.
Digital advertising has already overtaken TV advertising in the UK and could do so in France and the US over the next two to three years. Just as content shifts from digitized to native digital formats, advertising is evolving, too. Early digital advertising formats such as display banners are still around, but they represent a mature if not declining space—that is, when consumers are not actively preventing their appearance by running ad-blocking software. In their stead, native digital formats (mobile, social and so on), some of which are woven into the content feeds consumers are seeking online, are thriving and have become essential growth drivers for platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.
As top marketers embrace digital not only for direct marketing but also branding campaigns, such new formats are setting new rules for the advertising market overall: Individual targeting, social engagement, measurability and return on investment (ROI) have joined (sometimes replaced) reach and affinity in the advertiser handbook.
In this changing advertising landscape, traditional players compete with a new breed of technology experts with advanced and rapidly improving analytical and programming skills. As individual data and geo-targeting become paramount, telcos and other infrastructure players that relay the very signal carrying the advertising message are also looking to participate in the growing digital advertising pie. Verizon's $4.4 billion buyout of AOL, now a leading global advertising solution provider, illustrates both these dynamics. The interest from major telcos in mobile ad-blocking technologies, such as the one developed by Israeli start-up Shine, also points to mobile operators gearing up for the digital advertising arms race.
As marketing becomes ever larger and programmatic, it is becoming harder to maximize the monetization of audiences without ceding some control to these new masters of advertising through partnerships or investing in this space to regain control. Those who fail to make good use of analytics will also fail to make the most of their audience.
Partner Laurent Colombani discusses five tactics that can help media companies master their monetization strategies and prioritize native digital content.
In a demand-driven economy, deep insight into consumer behavior is more critical than ever. Providers have to tailor content to fast-evolving trends. Advertisers demand precise targeting and ROI measurement. Online media stores depend on recommendations for the next purchase. Customer profiling and saved payment information at the ready is the best way to drive impulse purchases through microtransactions by allowing providers to generate relevant, timely consumer triggers and minimize payment friction.
Consumer data comes easily to most native players, which receive huge amounts of demographic and behavioral data through their customers' accounts. Netflix's use of consumer data, Zynga's reliance on A/B testing in its content and user interface strategy and Google's use of consumer data to increase its revenue per ad represent three well-known successful use cases. For traditional players, moving into the native space allows them not only to follow consumers and advertisers into new markets but also to access the wealth of information they bring. HBO's launch of HBO Now and Sky's Now TV allow them not only to gain share in the streaming market but also to correct the data collection imbalance. Vivendi's purchase of online video service Dailymotion is another way for a traditional player to access vast amounts of consumer data gathered by a global native video platform.
Acquiring a platform may be a fast (if expensive) way to access customer data, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient on its own. Media companies need to develop incentives for consumers to provide their data willingly, and they can reinforce this exchange by rewarding customers who do so. Some mobile video games award virtual currency when players sign up via Facebook, which gives them access to a wide range of data about their preferences, online habits and sometimes even friends. TripAdvisor incentivizes anonymous visitors to log in with additional features such as more personalized search and multi-device sync. A third option is to purchase or trade data: A vast ecosystem of information gatherers and sellers has emerged, allowing advertisers, publishers and others to buy, sell and share consumer data.
Regardless of how media companies obtain data, they should exercise caution in how they store and use it. More consumers are concerned about the ways companies gather and store information about them, challenging media companies' ability to collect and use data to support both advertising and consumer-pay models.
Our survey found that fewer people are willing to share personal information than they were a few years ago (see Figure 11). While historically such concerns have not really translated into action, this could eventually lead to consumer pushback, or more likely increased regulation, which would throttle both content creation and monetization. The European Commission, in particular, has stepped up with successive data protection regulations indicative of increasing scrutiny. Yet recent issues such as the "right to be forgotten," enacted by a European Court of Justice decision but still debated in many parts of the world (including Europe), show the difficulty of finding the right balance.
All major platforms have taken steps to increase transparency and consumer control. Google and Facebook continuously revise their privacy options, while Microsoft and Apple try to differentiate by emphasizing that they don't use data for advertising purposes. We expect demands on data safety and cybersecurity to increase, which could allow trusted brands and better protection to differentiate media companies in a crowded marketplace.
Revisit the M&A toolkit
All four above-mentioned levers represent a significant capability upgrade and cultural shift. While many have tried to use M&A as a way to speed up this process, the history of digital transformations is littered with examples of failed acquisitions and value destruction through high premiums and poor execution. The issue is all the more critical as native champions, well known for reinvesting profits into future growth, trade at consistently higher multiples (see Figure 12).
Traditional media executives are more accustomed to the tyranny of quarterly calls and analyst scrutiny on profits. They will need to set up specific approaches to digital M&A, both in terms of deal making—for example, how to value young companies—and integration. The latter remains a particularly thorny issue: Integrate the digital wizards too close to the core business, and cultures may clash with new talent fleeing; leaving them out on their own risks failing to see any synergies materialize. Some are making steady progress in the way they approach this conundrum. For example, Disney has tried to protect Maker's culture and independence while organizing for synergies by letting Maker experiment with some of Disney's IP portfolio, such as developing short-form content on Marvel characters. Conversely, the media giant is also looking to leverage Maker's deep insight into native digital consumer behavior to feed its future content strategies. Becoming more agile in acquiring and integrating native digital businesses will become an essential skill for companies that want to embrace the next wave of digital change.
The next generation is around the corner
Generation #hashtag and the breadth of native digital models it favors grew out of a wave of always-on devices born in the last decade with the smartphone boom. This is only the beginning. New devices are already emerging that will bring their own disruptive user experiences and formats. Whether virtual reality champion Oculus, now a Facebook company, will revolutionize how people watch the latest blockbuster at home, beat their high score or visit their next home remains to be seen. Microsoft's augmented reality project HoloLens may bring Minecraft to coffee tables, or Mars to NASA's meeting rooms. The next iteration of Google's Glass project or Apple's watch may bring a more convincing case for wearable devices. As device size and use cases diverge further away from legacy formats, now more than ever, media companies must adopt a native-digital first mindset rather than digitizing existing content and business models.
Laurent Colombani is a partner with Bain & Company in Paris. David Sanderson is a Bain partner in Los Angeles, where he leads the firm's Global Media practice.
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HomeTop NewsQatar 2022: See all Six Teams already in the Quarter-Final as Round of 16 Games Continue Today
Qatar 2022: See all Six Teams already in the Quarter-Final as Round of 16 Games Continue Today
Nigfooty Sports Media Tuesday, December 06, 2022
By Emmanuel Oladele - In the ongoing 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, six teams are already through to the final 8. The remaining two teams to complete the quarter-final teams will be decided today Tuesday. See all the six teams that are already in the final 8 below;
FINAL 8 TEAMS
• Netherlands - They beat the United States by 3-1 in the Round of 16 to reach the quarter-final.
• Argentina - They beat Australia by 2-1 in the Round of 16 to reach the quarter-final.
• France - They beat Poland by 3-1 in the Round of 16 to reach the quarter-final.
• England - They beat Senegal by 3-0 in the Round of 16 to reach the quarter-final.
• Croatia - They beat Japan by 3-1 on penalties, after a 1-1 draw in normal time in the Round of 16 to reach the quarter-final.
• Brazil - They thrashed South Korea by 4-1 in the Round of 16 to reach the quarter-final.
The quarter-final games will hold between Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th December.
Also, the Round of 16 games continues today, see today's Tuesday fixtures below;
QATAR 2022 FIFA WORLD CUP ROUND OF 16 - TODAY'S FIXTURES
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(56). Tue. 06/12/2022. Portugal vs Switzerland 20:00 WAT. (Lusail Iconic Stadium, Lusail).
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Posted Mon., Feb. 4—Berkeley city manager for five years, Phil Kamlarz will get his first City Council evaluation tonight (Monday) in a special closed-door council session.
Special meetings require only 24-hour notice to the public. Tonight's meeting was announced Thursday afternoon.
"I doubt if many members of the public are aware of the evaluation," Councilmember Kriss Worthington told the Planet. The public is not permitted at closed session meetings but may comment before the meeting.
Noting that the city has a council-manager form of government, Worthington said he thought the manager should be evaluated annually.
Another hot-button issue to be discussed behind closed doors this evening is a possible settlement of the lawsuit brought against the city by the Elmwood Neighborhood Association, which has argued that the John Gordon "Wright's Garage" project, approved by the city, is out of scale with the neighborhood.
Public comment begins at 5 p.m.
"In order to participate in the Public Comment portion of this meeting, you must arrive in the building prior to 5 p.m. Entrance to this building closes at 5 p.m.," the notice says.
Worthington pointed out that notice may impinge on the right of persons to speak before closed session if they arrive a few minutes late.
The closed session begins at 5 p.m. at city administration building, 2180 Milvia St., 6th floor, the Redwood Conference Room.


Autopalace in Bratislava is among the best BMW dealers in the world. The dealer won the Sales Award in the category of 'Best Retailer in Luxury Class'.
Excelling in car sales is already a feat only few achieve, but doing so with a strong customer- and service-oriented approach is something else entirely. It requires incredible dedication of all staff and a keen eye for the customers' needs. At BMW, the customers know what they want. The drivers of this car brand aim high and expect impeccable attention for quality and top-notch service.
Pieter Nota, member of the Board of Directors at the BMW Group, emphasised this point during the presentation of the awards to the highest-scoring dealerships. Autopalace in Bratislava is one of the 41 dealers that won a prize. A total of no fewer than 3,500 BMW dealerships put their name down for this competition initiated by the German car manufacturer.
Prizes are awarded in the categories of sales, after sales, customer service, luxury class and BMW i & iPerformance, which deals with electrically driven models and sustainable mobility concepts.
The 41 prize winners were welcomed at BMW in Munich and were put in the spotlights. Among the great rewards was the unique chance to tour this beautiful city in historic models of BMW from the BMW Classic collection. Pieter Nota: '2017 was the seventh consecutive year that BMW achieved a worldwide sales record. This consistent success is only possible with strong partners in the dealers' organisation. Autopalace in Bratislava stands out as one of those BMW dealers.


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Collection of music copyright fees growing
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Singer Tung Duong dominates 2021 Devotion Music Awards
Vietnamese divo Tung Duong once again emerged as the big winner at the 16th Devotion Music Awards, held online in Hanoi and HCM City on January 7.
HCM City: New Year countdown party 2021 to be held virtually
Monday, December 21, 2020 22:15
HCM City's annual countdown music party to welcome the New Year will be held virtually on December 31 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Divo's newest concept album tells humanity's journey
Friday, November 20, 2020 14:37
Human and human values are the inspiration for Vietnamese divo Tung Duong's latest album that will be released next week.
Concert to gather talented violinists and pianists
Thursday, November 05, 2020 10:11
Top Vietnamese violinists and pianists will showcase their talent at a concert in the concert hall of the Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi on November 6.
Veteran singers make strong comebacks
Sunday, October 25, 2020 14:28
Vietnamese music is bouncing back with many products by veteran and young singers after an inactive period due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Many celebrities in the fields of art, cinema, and football have responded to message "Niem tin chien thang" (Confidence of Victory).
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A Vietnamese version of Beethoven: The Music and The Life has been released on the occasion of the composer's 250th birthday (1770-2020).
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Monday, March 30, 2020 16:20
After many modern tunes have encouraged citizens to help stop the COVID-19 pandemic, now it is the turn of traditional Vietnamese music. One of the earliest works is a song entitled Tieu Diet Corona (Destroy Corona) by Xam Ha Thanh (Hanoi buskers' singing group).
Hoang Thuy Linh wins "big fours" at 2020 Devotion Music Awards
Pop singer Hoang Thuy Linh has become the first Vietnamese artist to ever win the "big four" categories at the 2020 Cong Hien (Devotion) Music Awards, the organizers announced on March 25.
COVID-19 forces voting for popular music awards to go online for first time
Thursday, March 19, 2020 15:10
Close to 100 reporters in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will vote online for the 15th edition of the Devotion Music Awards run by Vietnam News Agency's Sport & Culture newspaper, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organising board said on March 19.
COVID-19 forces cancellation of 2020 musical award ceremony
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Transgender singer Huong Giang's latest music video (MV) has attracted more than 18.6 million views on YouTube, with other hits gaining fame as well.
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A programme featuring Vietnamese artists will be broadcast on Lunar New Year's Eve by Vietnam Television (VTV).
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A Cornish pub has an ATM selling Bitcoin. Should you go buy some?
Max Channon talks to digital entrepreneur Thomas Plummer about the Bitcoin boom and discovers why the crypto-currency is more like gold than cash - and how this new money could change the way world goes round
Max ChannonLive and Trending Editor
An ATM in a pub in Cornwall has been enabling people to trade in the 'crypto currency' Bitcoin, while they sup a pint or three, since the June of last year.
The facility, in the One and All in Penzance, is still the only one of its kind this side of Bristol – but the business that installed it, Crypto de Change, will be opening a second ATM in Newquay in the new year.
With Bitcoin values rising from $1,150 in January of this year to a high of more than $18,000, the ATM in Penzance has been doing brisk business, says the man behind it.
The Bitcoin ATM in the One and All pub in Penzance (Image: Crypto de Change)
However, online gaming service Steam recently stopped accepting Bitcoin as payment, due to its volatile value and other issues, such as scaleability.
And naysers remain sceptical that a non-fiat currency, meaning one that is not backed and recognised by a government like the US Dollar or the British Pound, can really be a good long-term investment - and predict a big crash is coming.
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But prices have soared again today (December 11), after Chicago's CBOE exchange launched cryptocurrency futures trading, following regulatory approval by US authorities earlier this month.
So, have most of us missed the Bitcoin boat? Is the crypto-currency Klondike over? Or is there still gold to be found in them thar virtual hills?
And what even is Bitcoin? And what future - if any - do it and other crypto-currencies have?
The Herald spoke to Crypto de Change's Thomas Plummer, to find out.
Thomas, 27, moved to Penzance from Oxford in 2014, and has been trading in Bitcoin and other 'crypto-currencies' since 2013, after starting out with a £500 loan while he was jobless.
Bitcoin (Image: Geralt /Pixabay)
While Thomas is coy about what that initial investment is now worth, he says it's value is substantially more than £500 – and it pays his wages and a mortgage.
"I owe everything to cryptocurrencies, really," said Thomas.
"I do say 'Don't invest more than you can afford to lose', but I'm all in, all of the time, so I'm a bit of a hypocrite," said Thomas.
"I've mortgaged the house instead of cashing out, for example. But, at the current rate I can pay it off for 10 years and not do anything - just Play FIFA and do nothing else.
"Though, to be honest, FIFA for 10 years would drive me insane."
As Crypto de Change, Thomas trades Bitcoins for gift cards to spend with most major retailers, acts as a brokerage - and now runs the ATMs as a gateway to those services.
"The usage has increased, unsurprisingly, due to the rise in Bitcoin price," Thomas told The Herald.
"Through my site, until recently, I allowed customers to spend Bitcoin on Tesco groceries, Dominos pizza, etc - though I've limited it to gift cards now, because it's easier to handle VAT wise," he added.
The Crypto de Change website (Image: Crypto de Change)
The ATM in Penzance now handles between £500 and £2000-worth of transactions per week, reveals Thomas.
"Initially it was very low, due to my really bad marketing, but - as I thought - people found it and started using it."
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The ATM in Penzance is a one way system that only allows users to trade cash for Bitcoins, but the machine Thomas will be installing in Newquay, at Flannagan's Irish pub, will be two way – and will allow people to withdraw cash in exchange for Bitcoins.
And, as he expands the network, Thomas hopes to create jobs.
"If the ATM network grows, it will end up creating a few jobs as I will need to hire people to help manage it, as they need to be emptied/floated for cash."
What is Bitcoin? It's 'spiritual gold', says Thomas
Is Bitcoin really the new gold? (Image: Pixabay/Michael Wuensch)
Most people would describe Bitcoin as a 'crypto-currency', a token that can be traded, much like any money, for services or commoditites.
However, Thomas believes it's become more than that – and that it's now 'spiritual gold'.
"Bitcoin is more used as a store of value, an appreciating asset," he explained.
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"Due to scaling issues, it's currently slow and expensive to send Bitcoin - so in a way Bitcoin is like gold more than ever now.
"It was always like gold, by characteristic, but it can be sent, instantly, across the world and is highly divisible - gold can't do that."
"So it's a spiritual gold."
Bitcoin (Image: Pixabay/angelx77)
Like gold, Bitcoin is a finite resource: there will be 21 million of them, created by computer alogrithms. They are 'mined' by virtual prospectors using computers to find them in binary code.
Bitcoins are 'stored' in hard-drives known as wallets, and each of these hosts the ledgers which track and record all Bitcoin transactions.
This means the banking system is completely decentralised and is not controlled by a single institution.
"Imagine that every bank in the world has a book with everyone's bank balance, and every 15 minutes the banks get together and reconcile all the changes and logs new transactions with updated balances for each acount. Bitcoin does that autonomously," said Thomas.
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Since it was launched by Satoshi Nakamoto – whose identity remains unknown – in 2009, some 12.5million Bitcoins have been successfully 'mined', meaning less than 9 million are still to be mined.
"Bitcoin has a limited supply, by design," said Thomas.
"By that definition it is a deflationary currency, it will become more scarce over time, and can't be inflated."
Should we all be buying Bitcoin?
Bitcoin's value has been volatile - but the overall trend is upwards (Image: Pixabay/geralt)
What goes up must come down, or so the old adage goes.
Will the Bitcoin bubble burst? Is it little-more than a modern-day version of Tulipmania, the infamous 17 century stock market bubble which saw tulip bulb prices reach extraordinarily high levels, and then dramatically collapse?
Thomas thinks not.
"You can flood the market with more tulips, more houses, more dollar bills - but you can't create more Bitcoin. There's a set supply, to be introduced at set intervals."
"I'd say it's very volatile, but we may never see it crash. Unless there's a catastrophic failure, Bitcoin will always have a value.
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"The question is, where does it normalise? Short term, it will certainly level out and possibly fall to a normalised value.
"At which price point though? That's anyone's guess. But when it levels out, it will kind of autobot transform back into a currency."
"Bitcoin was called a bubble when it hit $100, $500, etc. The bubble doesn't pop - it just shrinks and then continues to grow."
"But the rule of thumb is 'be prepared for your investment to potentially drop significantly'.
"In 2013, the biggest Bitcoin exchange at the time, Mtgox, was hacked and around 425,000 Bitcoin were stolen.
"The price dropped from $1100 and plateaued between $400-600."
Bitcoin (Image: Geralt/Pixabay)
At 11am on December 11, Bitcoin was trading at $16,781, so to say they bounced back would appear to be an understatement.
"Absolutely," said Thomas, "the price did stay like that for a good couple of years mind."
"It's a stock on steroids. I describe it as being as volatile as a stock, but as transferable as cash."
"Right now, it's akin to a reverse bank run – lots of anticipation and 'FOMO' (fear of missing out).
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"People say Bitcoin is backed by nothing, I'd argue it's backed by more than fiat currency.
"You have a trustless network which works autonomously without a central body.
"You could say that fiat is crashing and Bitcoin is staying the same."
Does Bitcoin have a future – and should you buy into it?
Bitcoin and Dollars
Thomas believes Bitcoin has the potential to change the way the world operates.
"Long term, it could be as big as the internet," said Thomas.
"Imagine a self-driving car that owns itself, books itself in for MOTS, and drives people around for its own profit," said Thomas.
"Owned by no one, it exists as a charity, and when it breaks down it replaces itself with profits.
"Now imagine a NHS with no directors or managers, managed by self-learning intelligence which allocates funds with pin point precision and priority
"This is what can run on top of Bitcoin. It's a glimpse into a future."
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"If we see a default on a major currency, or a currency fails, don't be surprised to see a cryptocurrency take its place."
And it's been proposed to that they do just that in Venezuela, with the Petro, adds Thomas.
It's worth noting that some economists think the current monetary system is unsustainable.
Most Fiat currency is no longer backed by gold reserves: It's literally created from thin air, by private banking institutions, and borrowed into existence.
Money is, therefore, created as debt – and, rather then being controlled by Governments, the money supply is largely controlled by private banks.
Bitcoin, and other crypto-currencies, effectively break the private banks' stranglehold over the money supply.
"It's disheartening to see the amount of people buying it (bitcoin) and not believing in the technology behind it.
"Do the research first. Believe in Bitcoin's principals - it helps you sleep at night when you have put your life savings into it," adds Thomas.
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So it seems people who are buying into Bitcoin, should do so figuratively as well literally - and realise what they have is much than just an investment.
Bitcoin and other Crypto-currencies might not just have a future but could well be the future – and change the way the world goes round.
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MOROCCO: Casablanca selects Averda and Derichebourg for waste management
By Jean Marie Takouleu - Published on June 28 2019 / Modified on June 28 2019
Averda, based in the United Arab Emirates, and the French company Derichebourg have been chosen for the joint waste management in the city of Casablanca, to be carried out for a period of seven years.
Part of Casablanca's population will continue to see Averda's blue trucks collecting its waste. This company based in the United Arab Emirates was renewed by the Moroccan municipality for the management of its waste. For this new seven-year term, she will work with Derichebourg, a French company.
The two companies were selected following an international call for tenders, in which Mecomar and Norm also participated. The two selected companies will share the task in the city of Casablanca. Derichebourg will manage waste from the districts of Anfa, Sidi Belyout, Maarif, Mers Sultan, Al Fida, Moulay Rchid and Ben Msik. Averda will be in charge of the districts of Hay Hassani, Ain Chok, Roches noires, Hay Mohammadi, Sidi Bernoussi, and Ain Sebaa.
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"After five years of service in Casablanca, we are delighted to renew our commitment to the city's communities with new ideas and a very interesting range of new services and solutions. I am also pleased to announce a major investment in our staff and equipment," said Malek Sukkar, President and CEO of Averda. The company has nevertheless made new commitments to the municipality.
Averda and Derichebourg will now collect household waste at nightfall. The service providers of both companies will be paid on a flat-rate basis, and not on a tonnage basis as was previously the case. In addition, supermarkets (hotels, shops or restaurants), known to produce a large quantity of waste, will now collect their own waste, or pay for this service. Finally, the equipment used for waste collection will be controlled using GPS chips.
The municipality's commitment
Averda has already announced the arrival of new equipment to improve waste management in Casablanca. These are underground containers, side-loading containers and sealed metal containers. This "will allow the municipality to avoid the long-standing congestion problems in densely populated areas," Averda explained.
Through the support of the Municipality of Casablanca, Averda plans to introduce "state-of-the-art" equipment for heavy goods vehicles, including waste compactors, container washers, sweepers, loaders, tippers, tankers and bins. To support the work of Averda and Derichebourg, the municipality will pay a fixed sum of 932 million Moroccan dirhams each year, or 85.6 million euros.
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SeaBird Exploration and its partner MultiClient Geophysical (MCG) have secured a 'significant' additional pre-funding commitment from an undisclosed oil major relating to the ongoing MC2D project in North West Europe.
The pre-funding commitment is based on a revised scope increasing the survey from its initial 6,000 km to approximately 16,000 km.
Due to the planned increased survey scope and current inclement weather in the operative area, a decision has been made to suspend the survey for the 2018 season.
According to SeaBird, the survey is expected to re-start in the first half of 2019, provided further pre-funding has been secured.
In addition, SeaBird has also been awarded the contract for a proprietary 2D survey in North West Europe. The project is due to start imminently and will have a duration of about two weeks with an estimated contract value of approximately US$ 1 million.
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One great thing about Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a business application platform has been that it's modern enough to have been born into the browser window from day one. With no legacy from the pre-web era, the product has been able to stay relevant with no major disruptions in the client side development and also supported the eventual move of the server side functionality to the data centers in the cloud.
Internet Explorer market share peaked in 2003, when 95% of all Internet usage was on IE. Coincidentally, Microsoft CRM 1.0 was released in January 2003. At the time, providing support for any other browser than your in-house product would have certainly sounded like a requirement you could de-prioritize. Today Internet Explorer commands a market share of less than 40%. There are now more iPads sold than any brand of desktop PCs combined. If that doesn't signal the move to a post-PC era, I don't know what does. If you'd be a company manufacturing an IE only product for PCs in the year 2012, you could soon be out of business.
This is a fate Microsoft intends to avoid, which is why the cross-browser support for Microsoft Dynamics CRM was officially announced in the Q2 2012 Service Update release preview guide, released at the beginning of Extreme CRM 2012 conference in Berlin. We had already seen the promise of non-IE browser clients for Dynamics CRM presented in Microsoft's May 2011 Statement of Direction and now we finally have details about what to expect in Dynamics CRM R8 release exactly one year later. As with my previous post on mobile CRM, I won't rephrase all the content of the official announcement but I'll rather try and reflect on the topic with some personal observations and thoughts.
If you've glanced at the table of supported browser and OS combinations, you'll have noticed that Microsoft does not guarantee support on every browser out there on every operating system. This is not too surprising, as any web application developer surely knows what a nightmare the differences in interpretation of web standards between various browsers can be for application development and testing. In the words of Craig Dewar (Director of Product Management for MSDYNCRM), browser testing is a "gigantic effort" for Microsoft, which is why official support is not all encompassing.
Just because a browser or OS is not listed in Microsoft's documentation as supported, doesn't mean Dynamics CRM won't work on it. So, even though there are no supported options for using Microsoft Dynamics CRM on Linux, you might not notice any problems if you access it with Firefox on Ubuntu. In fact, Craig mentioned in his keynote at Extreme CRM 2012 Berlin that even if you're using a client that's not officially supported, Microsoft will allow you to open support tickets on issues that are not specific to the browser/OS combination you're running. I guess you'll just want to have at least one Win/IE or Mac/Safari device around to make sure you can reproduce the issue when dealing with Microsoft Support representatives.
In case you've been drooling over the cool Apple hardware that all the opinion leaders seem to carry with them these days, the future does indeed look brighter for people working on/with Dynamics CRM. Before you jump head first into the OSX & iOS world and format all your Windows partitions, it's important to remember that what Microsoft is talking about here is just the browser client support for CRM end users.
While you can get Microsoft Office for OSX and run Outlook on you Mac, what you can't do is use the Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook client. This means you can't track emails to CRM, synchronize your calendar appointments between Outlook and CRM, get CRM task and call reminders from your Outlook, synchronize your contacts from CRM to Outlook to your iPhone, or have any offline support for CRM data and application functionality when your Macbook doesn't have WiFi or 3G data connectivity. All in all, you lose quite a bit of that seamless productivity tools magic that Dynamics CRM promises to deliver for all Windows users. I haven't seen any announcements about a CRM Outlook client for Mac, so it's pretty safe to assume that we won't see one released for the Outlook 2011 for Mac version currently available.
OK, so how about the support of Apple's mobile devices then? It says Dynamics CRM will run on iPad 2 with iOS 5.x, so that should at least deliver the full flavor of the browser experience on a tablet, right? Well, the problem is you might get more than you bargained for in that deal, since (as far as I'm aware of) the browser client will look and work exactly the same on all supported platforms and devices. If you've ever tried running the Dynamics CRM web client on a Windows 7 tablet, you'll know that simply replacing the mouse cursor with your index finger will not magically "touchify" the user experience. What works nicely on a 24″ screen with mouse & keyboard input may not scale/transform into the tablet environment of 10″ screens and touch UI. If you've used a remote desktop app on your iPad, then I'd imagine this is pretty much what you can expect from a browser client on an iPad. Unless you go for the $30 per month subscription of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Mobile app or purchase a perpetual license from CWR Mobility, TenDigits or other ISV's that develop mobile clients optimized specifically for the touch UI. The same goes for Android tablets, only with the exception that the browser client falls into the "not officially supported" territory.
Finally, if you're not only using Dynamics CRM but also administering or customizing it, I've read that you'll still need Internet Explorer in order to access these areas in the web client.
'Reimagining' Windows, should we also reimagine Dynamics CRM?
Which brings us to Silverlight. It's been widely speculated that Silverlight 5 released at the end of 2011 will be the last of it's kind, the end of the road. Porting existing Silverlight apps to run on Win RT is said to be easy, which should naturally be in the interest of Microsoft to ensure. As I'm not a developer, I'm looking at the discussion more from the point of view of someone who needs to examine all the available technologies out there, evaluate how they fit together and build a working business solution out of them. From this perspective, there are some concerns regarding Silverlight that very much affect Dynamics CRM users as well.
Looking further ahead to Windows 8, we've already received the announcement that there will actually be a completely different edition of the operating system, called Windows On ARM (WOA), that will the basis for building always on, always connected, low power consumption devices to rival the iPad. The Internet Explorer 10 browser on WOA will not allow any plug-ins whatsoever, be it Flash or Silverlight. Furthermore, the Office 15 package that is available for WOA tablets will include only Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, but not Outlook. By now you should have figured out that the Microsoft Dynamics CRM experience on WOA will need to be quite different from what we have on Windows 7 today.
If there will not be Outlook on the "real" Windows tablets, what does the future hold for the CRM Outlook client? I previously wrote about the legacy of Outlook and how it will be increasingly more difficult to carry all that legacy when moving to the Post-PC era of iPad-esque devices for every knowledge worker. By the looks of things, Outlook could possibly get split into Metro Mail, Contacts and Calendar apps. If this happens, then it's easy to envision a separate Dynamics CRM Metro app sitting alongside them, integrating into all the other installed apps through a simple share contract. After all, isn't that the way it should really be? Link contacts/friends/followers from any social network app to CRM contacts, track any type of status update/post/tweet from the same app as a custom activity type into your CRM database. There's no reason why customer relationship management tasks should be any more complex or inflexible than that.
It's great to have Dynamics CRM available soon on (almost) any browser. Still, if Microsoft truly is reimagining Windows the way they claim to be and if their business customers buy into their new story, perhaps running Dynamics CRM on Safari won't seem all that exciting anymore this time next year.


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LeBron James is to join the Los Angeles Lakers in a deal worth $154m (£116m), his camp has announced after the story appeared to leak on Twitter.
The four-time NBA most value player informed the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday that he was not exercising his $35.6m (£26.8m) option and was becoming a free agent.
News of his next move then leaked on Twitter on Sunday as @chrissyteigen tweeted that she had seen the basketballer with a Lakers jersey.
The Cavaliers had hoped to re-sign James, who has appeared in eight consecutive NBA finals.
It is the second time he has left his home state team – but their fans are likely to forgive him after he ended their 52-year wait for a championship.
Euroleague champion Fenerbahce Istanbul, reached the premier club basketball competition's final after overpowering Lithuania's Zalgiris Kaunas 76-67 on Friday.
The Turkish side will battle in Sunday's title showdown against either Real Madrid or CSKA Moscow, who meet in the second semi-final in the Belgrade Arena.
Roared on by 10,000 fervent supporters, Fenerbahce prevailed thanks to an ironclad defence coupled with a game-high 19 points from playmaker Ali Muhamed.
They forced 20 turnovers by Zalgiris and restricted them to two three-pointers from 10 attempts as they carved out a 50-37 lead midway through the third quarter.
Zalgiris, who were cheered by around 1,000 fans including Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite donning the team's green-and-white scarf, responded with an 11-0 run to set up a see-saw final period.
Fenerbahce upped the tempo and pulled away to 66-54 on the back of the individual skill of Muhamed who netted 12 points in quick succession as he nailed a pair of three-pointers and a flurry of layups.
Zalgiris scored six unanswered points to restore a glimmer of hope but they ran out of steam and Fenerbahce closed the game out comfortably.
"We played aggressive defence to cancel out their long-range shooting and fan support was also vital," Fenerbahce's Serbian forward Nikola Kalinic told reporters.
Nigeria's male basketball team, D'Tigers, have been grouped alongside Australia, New Zealand and Canada in the basketball event of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
Australia who finished 4th at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is ranked 10th in the world. Set to make her debut at the Commonwealth, Canada is ranked 25th in the world and has participated in nine Olympic Games and won a silver medal at the 1936 Games in Berlin.
Despite being ranked number 1 in Africa and 32nd in the world, Nigeria is still the lowest ranked team in the group.
New Zealand will be taking part in her 21st Commonwealth Games, having competed at every games since inception in 1930. The group has been dubbed by many as the 'Group of Death'.
The fixtures released by the organisers recently will see D'Tigers start their campaign against New Zealand on Friday 6th April 2018 before facing Canada, a day later. On Monday, 10th of April, however, the Nigerian side will battle host, Australia.
Reacting to the draws, Vice President of the NBBF, Babatunde Ogunade, described it as a 'Group of death'. The former Nigerian captain said the team's performance will be hinged on the preparation for the games and the decision of the players to step up and prove a point.
"We want to use it as preparation for the World Cup qualifier in which case we bring in foreign-based players to join their home grown counterparts for a longer period, get more practice and bonding time for the team.
The Commonwealth Games holds from April 4 to 15, 2018.
The Nigeria Basketball Federation has said that plans are in progress to ensure the male basketball team gets the best assistance to qualify for the 2019 World cup.
D'Tigers, who will begin their quest for the world cup ticket in February 2018, will, according to the NBBF, open camp with domestic players early enough before their foreign counterparts join the team.
NBBF stated that the board would also roll out plans on its activities by January to enable sponsors and stakeholders get involved in the game to ensure basketball excels in 2018.
The Federation also declared that the national basketball team's coaches have started making arrangements to get the best players to battle for the world cup ticket.
A statement released by the body reads: "D'Tigers would begin preparations for the world cup ticket early February with domestic players because the foreign based players would be in action for their various clubs at that time. So they will join the team as preparations progresses.
Nigeria will be contending in group B which consist of Mali, Rwanda and Uganda in the World Cup qualifiers. The games will hold from February 23 to 25.
American Airlines has issued an apology after two black basketball players were recently kicked off a flight for being wrongly accused of stealing blankets from the first class cabin.
Marquis Teague and Trahson Burrell who both play for National Basketball Association minor league team, Memphis Hustle, were removed from a flight on Christmas Eve after being accused by a black male flight attendant of taking the blankets without permission.
But American Airlines has since issued an apology to the pair, who were on their way from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Sioux Falls, South Dakota for a match, after confirming that they had been given the blankets by other passengers as they walked through first class on their way to their seats.
Neither Teague nor Burrell has commented on the incident, but their assistant coach, Darnell Lazere, took to Twitter to express his believe that the motive behind the false accusations was driven by their race.
Nigeria will compete in the 2018 FIBA 3 on 3 World Cup holding in Manila, Philippines from June 8 to 12, 2018 after being awarded a wild card by the Federation of International Basketball Associations, FIBA.
This latest decision was relayed through a letter to the Nigeria Basketball Federation led by Musa Kida by FIBA 3 on 3 Development Manager, Robert Rieblinger.
The 3 on 3 team captained by Abdul Yahaya to their first FIBA Africa 3 on 3 Nations Cup title in Lome, Togo recently were deemed to be in good standing to be awarded the wildcard.
Nigeria is currently ranked 5th in Africa and 67th in the world, and will be making their first appearance at the world stage in the history of the 3 on 3 World Cup.
In his reaction, the NBBF's President, Musa Kida, thanked FIBA for the privilege accorded the federation and its players to be part of the 2018 World Cup.
"As part of our campaign promises, we will endeavor to expose our talents home and abroad to the best opportunities to improve their skills and become great. The promised exposure can only be possible through participation in international events such as this," Kida said.
Kida said that the latest decision to award Nigeria a wildcard is a direct result of the improved status of the country as a basketball playing nation since they assumed office.
"With another round of camping, traveling and participation of our 3 on 3 team at the World Cup already on the card, it means we will need more money to actualize these plans. The government alone cannot fund sports, so we will be reaching out to corporate organizations and individuals to partner the federation ahead of a busy 2018 basketball calendar," he noted.


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Being denied a pay increase
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Becoming the subject of racially charged jokes or comments
Segregation in the workplace
Being paid less for the same job than an equally-skilled person of another race
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Being fired or terminated from employment
There is very rarely definitive evidence of racial discrimination available to be produced immediately. Instead, you should be careful to hire a San Bernardino attorney who will work tirelessly to investigate every possible avenue while collating evidence on your behalf. You can be confident that your JML Law attorney will leave no stone unturned while building your case, ensuring that the employer, manager, supervisor or co-worker who committed the offense is held accountable for their actions.
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I know this is not one of my typical recipes, but I was so excited to find this, that I had to share. This icing helps make your cookies look professional. When it dries, it is shiny and hard. I hope you enjoy!
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There are 3 types of annotation parser - 1. Endpoint : translates into an endpoint configured on a service object. 2. Router : translates into a router that will be configured on a service object, i.e. WireTap, Splitter, or Filter 3. Expression : translates into an expression, usually these are configured on method parameters so that an expression will get evaluated on the parameter before being passed into the method.
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Dumri, Giridih (community development block), Community development block in Giridih disatirict, Jharkhand, India
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Dumri, Dildarnagar, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India

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Hennepin County launches 'NOverdose' campaign to combat addiction
HENNEPIN CO., Minn. (KMSP) - There is a major push underway to battle drug overdoses in Hennepin County, and the county released numbers showing 2016 was a record year for opioid-related deaths.
The epidemic is headed in the wrong direction -- fast.
Last year 144 people died from an opioid-related death, which marks a 31 percent increase from the year before.
The Hennepin County sheriff's office, wasting no time, announced a new, year-long, county-wide drug prevention campaign on Tuesday.
They're calling it "NOverdose."
The campaign is built around the idea that it's going to take the entire community -- schools, law enforcement, legislators, doctors, parents, peers - to win this fight.
"We thought that we could make a dent and have an impact," said Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek. "We did, ever so slightly for a year or so, but last year we watched the numbers skyrocket. So we didn't do a good enough job. Law enforcement, community partners, others…and so we're back here again because we don't give up."
Colleen Ronnei, a Minnesota woman whose 20-year old son Luke died of a heroin overdose one year ago said Luke was a clean-cut fraternity kid and a good student who appeared to beat his heroin addiction. But, the drug pulled him back in one last time.
"I'm here to shatter any myths you might have about who is being affected by the exploding opioid epidemic," she said. "If you think that you won't be affected, I urge you to think again. Chances are good you already have been."
U.S. Attorney Andy Lugar is warning about a new trend in opioid-related deaths - opioids laced with fentynal, which is a powerful, synthetic opioid pain medication.
Lugar said if you ever see heroin or opioids being sold at a cheaper price, or online or by mail, you should be concerned that it contains fentynal, which makes the drug even more dangerous.


WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could remain holed up inside Ecuador's embassy in London for a year, he has predicted.
The 41-year-old Australian, who faces arrest and extradition to Sweden over alleged sexual offences if he sets foot outside the building in Knightsbridge, insisted that he believes the case against him will be dropped.
In a TV interview broadcast in Ecuador, Assange said he believed it would take between "six and 12 months" for the issue to be resolved.
His comments follow Foreign Secretary William Hague's admission that "a solution is not in sight" to the row which has strained diplomatic relations with the South American country.
Assange was granted asylum by Ecuador after seeking sanctuary in the country's diplomatic mission in June.
In an interview inside the embassy, he told Telesur he believes the issue "will be solved through diplomacy".
Assange added: "The Swedish government could drop the case. I think this is the most likely scenario. Maybe after a thorough investigation of what happened they could drop the case.
"I think this will be solved in between six and 12 months. That's what I estimate."
Ecuador has claimed that Britain threatened to storm its embassy after Foreign Official highlighted available powers to enter the building and make the arrest, an assertion strenuously denied by Mr Hague.
The Foreign Secretary said yesterday: "This may go on for a long time so we are not making a threat against the embassy of Ecuador."
While talks aimed at finding a way of ending the stand-off would continue, he added: "Given Ecuador's position on what they call diplomatic asylum and our very clear legal position, such a solution is not in sight at the moment."


We need you! As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, we rely on our dedicated volunteers to help us light the spark of curiosity and ignite a love of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in children and their families.
How can you help? You can help repair exhibits, work in our office, deliver educational programming to the public, assist with special events, or even serve as a crew member aboard our tall ship, the Sailing Vessel (S/V) Denis Sullivan.
Over the past year, more than 500 volunteers donated their time and expertise at Discovery World. To learn how you can become involved as an individual, family or corporate team, scroll down for details on how to 'Join the Team!' For further details, download our list of Frequently Asked Questions.
If you are interested in joining the Discovery World Volunteer Team, please review the below Volunteer Positions for application instructions. If you are unsure of which role best suits your schedule and interests, please complete and return a Discovery World Volunteer Application. Submission instructions are available on the final page of the Application.
Once you have submitted your completed application materials, you will be contacted by the Discovery World Volunteer Manager to schedule a 40 minute orientation, and/or tour of available volunteer opportunities.


The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Orange County Branch recently presented at the Cove @ UCI Applied Innovation "The Future is Female — Championing Women Engineers," an event dedicated to promoting women engineers.
Sponsored by Gannett Fleming, a leader in global infrastructure solutions, four female panelists shared experiences from their careers as engineers and answered questions from the audience. The panelists included Jeanet Owens, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority; Derya Thompson, Gannett Fleming; Karen Sepulveda, Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority; and Kristina Swallow, ASCE 2018 president.
Aileen Santos-Redman of Gannett Fleming moderated the two-hour event, where the topic of inspiring women to pursue an engineering career by providing a female role model sparked much discussion among the audience and panel. Many stated that they never had a role model and had to pave their own ways.
The panel also discussed hot-button topics like finding and becoming a role model, encouraging diversity, educating male counterparts on advocacy within the office, balancing work and life, and paving a career path while uplifting those who are new to the industry.
To learn more about the American Society of Civil Engineers Orange County Branch, visit www.asceoc.org.


At Continental, as at most companies, we use the term 'Best and Brightest'. We are the Best and Brightest, we hire the Best and Brightest, we are constantly in search of the Best and Brightest. However, those are empty words until it is proven. Continental proves, on a daily basis, that we truly have the Best and Brightest, and today is no different.
Naomi Wolfe was selected as Next Gen's Leaders In the spotlight. Next Gen and Apartment Careers Committee focuses on individuals among management companies that volunteer their time to help the community. Naomi started with Continental in December of 2015 and is now the Community Manager at Springs at Knapp's Crossing in Grand Rapids, MI. Since that time, she has embraced every opportunity that has come her way and has proven that hard work and determination help build successful careers. Naomi now has six years in property management and accurately defines what it means to be the Best and Brightest at Continental.
HOW DID YOU FIRST BECOME INVOLVED IN MULTIFAMILY? By doing some temp work as a means of getting back into the real estate industry after a few years as a stay-home mom. Shortly into my assignment, I was hired on permanently and my career took off.
FAVORITE PART OF YOUR JOB? I love that I get to lead a team and implement systems and strategies for achieving and exceeding both professional and personal goals.
HOW DO YOU BALANCE AND PRIORITIZE YOUR MANY TASKS? Two words: Calendar Invites (I live by them)!
UNRELATED JOBS THAT UNEXPECTEDLY PREPARED YOU? One of my very first jobs was selling pre-IPO stock over the phone. This work prepared me for what I currently do by way of sales, organization, active listening, exceeding goals, dealing with upsets, and Emotional Intelligence. A great deal of what we do boils down to being able to tune in and customize our approach to situations based on the customer's perception.
MOST BENEFICIAL MISTAKE YOU MADE EARLY ON IN YOUR CAREER? The most beneficial mistake I made early on was not putting boundaries around my off-time. Since then, I have learned to keep my personal and family time sacred. While there are the occasional work-related emergencies, I do my best to be present with my loved ones when I am not at work.
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO OTHERS WHO ARE NEW TO THE INDUSTRY? Make sure to align yourself with a company whose culture aligns with your values. Also, be open to learning & growth opportunities that stretch your perspectives. Remember that each day brings something new, so being a team player at heart and having a positive view will often get you through even the most challenging scenarios you'll encounter.
HOW IS THE INDUSTRY APPEALING TO YOUNG PROFESSIONALS? This industry is awesome for young professionals because it gives you so many ways to flex your skillset and grow! It offers the opportunity to help run a business, train and lead a team, create new solutions, work with various stakeholders, network, travel, and embark on new adventures.
*the above content was copied from Next Gen's article entitled "Leaders in the Spotlight"


Parwaaz – The Stage Play Competition, organized by Ashwamedh under the aegis of TheatreCon was another daylong of Day 2, with the top 6 teams bringing in the elements of drama, tragedy, comedy and horror. The event was a huge success with the Main Auditorium crammed with audience, and became the highlight of the day. "Treadmill" – the annual production of Pratibimb – The Dramatics Society of Delhi Technological Society stole the show by grabbing all three accolades of Best Actor, Best Director and Best Play. Treadmill explored the theme of life, how we live in a constant state of hurry and how if affects our personal life. However, the production of Miranda House – "Saara ka Saara Aasmaan" was the most applauded play by the audience. IPCW debuted with their production – "Purdah" here at NSIT. Mr. Manuv Mehra, a theatre consultant at Times of India presided as the judge. Sadly, Hindu College backed out at the last moment but their replacement – Khalsa College performed – "Outer City" – which explored the shift in mentality paralleling the shift from a rural to an urban city.
Zephyr was organized by Mirage – The Western Dance Crew of NSIT in association with Capella-The Choreography Society of NSIT. It saw participants from several colleges rocking the Admin Block, as they competed in Solo and Duet competitions. While the top three performances definitely stood out and amazed the decent crowd, the rest too weren't easy to forget. The duet round was filled with great performers and managed to catch the crowd's unparalleled attention with the mind blowing acts. The event was rather memorable and packed in a lot of bang in the festival.
"If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers." Kicking-off with these fervent words, Shaam-e-Manto, organised by Tatsam – The Hindi Society of NSIT, was a successful event which managed to touch the souls of all Manto's fans with RJ Sayema's invigorating performance. Organized under the aegis of the Literary Events of Moksha'18, this unexampled event was a heart-warming episode for all who attended it.
Mudra was organized by Capella – The Choreography Society of NSIT in association with Artistic Motion Studios on the second day of the fest. It lit up the evening, with four immensely mesmerizing performances and witnessed a huge crowd. The event featured a unique theme of Thematic Dance Performance, which is an art of storytelling through choreography. The audience was left startled by the beautiful depiction of expressions, with some performances exploring complex social issues with great ease. The Hindu College's contingent walked away with a truly astounding first place finish. Capella also performed their annual production "The Labyrinth" in front of the home crowd after the event.
Organised by Tatsam, Khayaal putting up a decent show, as it featured performances by Shweta Singh, Vibhu Chaudhary, Aman Jaiswal, and Arpan Khosla. All in all, the event was a decent amalgamation of poetry, humour and shayari. Arpan Khosla was simply outstanding with the Mic. His performance also saw the highest attendance by the audience, partly justifying the main stage booking for the event. His comical insights on everyday happenings were the high point of the whole event. The rest of the performances were as marvellous if not more. The event gathered a pretty good turnout and we definitely look forward to a similar event next year.
Moksha'18 housed the open mic event which portrayed finesse at its best. Poets, writers and singers engrossed the audience with myriad forms of expressions, recitations and modulations. The event was interspersed with moments of nostalgia and self-realisations.The participants created an aura of inflowing creative energies as they recited their verses in synchronicity. Words that emanated from the depths of the heart, went undeviated to the heart. Some evoked contemplation, while some managed to a steal chuckle, and others stole the thunder. With a plethora of domains touched upon, the open mic succeeded in nurturing art and the artists.
Under the beaming moonlight, Moksha'18 experienced a night of pacifying music with a heart-warming karaoke night. Both the audience and the wind seemed to sway to scintillating melodies ranging from classics to rock. The performers created an aura of love where everyone seemed to embrace each other's company. The echoes and emotions were equally reciprocated, resonating indelible euphonies and imprinting trails of memories. The ambience spiced up to an extent that the event turned out to be an imitation of the ball. Additionally, the night was interspersed with moments of nostalgia as the juniors paid their final tribute to their soon-to-be-graduated seniors. All in all, it captured the souls of the onlookers and will be etched deep in their hearts.


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Australia's Charles Sturt University has opted for Auckland-based Unimarket's cloud-based eProcurement system designed for educational institutions, to help streamline and automate its spend management and procurement processes.
Charles Sturt University has more than 40,000 students and 15 campuses and locations throughout New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory.
Unimarket says it provided a full-suite solution and seamlessly connected this with CSU's existing ERP using its proprietary middleware and unique community-sourced integration.
Unimarket CEO, Peter Kane, said: "We were able to utilise our extensive experience with our Banner customers in the United States to integrate with CSU's ERP.