Depending on how you consider things, it is the third time that it happens to me.
Being able to design, under certain limits, your own job, is an amazing opportunity.
I will not go into too many details as some of it is work in progress, but the process was amazingly energizing and I wanted to share a bit of that energy.
For my current job, I met my future boss on the recommendation of a former colleague. We discussed many things, from ITIL to Managed Services, and also public cloud and the need to get dev and ops team closer. We went through those kind of talks several times, at least four if memory serves. We went from a job which look like an Ops engineer/ITIL practitioner, to something closer to an Azure tech lead.
In my previous position I also had the opportunity to be offered a promotion, and been able to discuss some of the content and responsibilities of the future role. I was also able to step down when time came for me to admit that it was not an ideal position, for me or for the company. Which was really appreciated, at least on my part.
And once again a few weeks ago, I was called out of the blue by a colleague's boss. He started to discuss his own future and what he was trying to design. He wanted to build something new, and was searching for a partner to build that together. And in that scheme, he discussed a position very similar to my dream job, and offered it to me.
At that point I was ready to accept, without having any more details about the exact role and responsibilities, or even the salary. That's where my future boss started to ask me what I would include or exclude from that job description, and how I could make it my own. My mind just froze.
It took some time for me to recover and start thinking again. After some lame jokes, we discussed the position, and what we would like to build together. It took us several meetings and calls to see through the fog, as we are really going to build something new together, and we cannot rely much on what exists around us.
The last funny thing to happen was that my next interview was with the CEO of the company, who was convinced by the both of us in less than 35 minutes. I could not believe my luck in getting there.


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Chester County retirement community helps…
Chester County retirement community helps Avondale flood victims
1,400 pounds of food donated; over $16,000 raised
Leah Reynolds, Executive Director, Kennett Area Community Service and Lisa Marsilio, Chief Executive Officer at Kendal-Crosslands Retirement Communities. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
PUBLISHED: October 26, 2021 at 7:56 a.m. | UPDATED: October 29, 2021 at 5:08 p.m.
KENNETT SQUARE — When the remnants of Hurricane Ida blew through Chester County in early September, gratefully, the residents who live at Kendal~Crosslands Communities and the staff members who work there were safe and secure. However, quickly they realized their local neighbors were not and felt called to assist. Area residents in Avondale lost everything from a flood due to the remnants, and The Kennett Area Community Services (KACS) rapidly stepped in to coordinate the relief efforts.
The retirement community partnered with KACS and began a food, cash, and gift card donation drive.
"When we heard our neighbors lost everything, we knew we had to help, and we sent a call out to our residents and staff," said Lisa Marsilio, Chief Executive Officer at Kendal-Crosslands. "The drive we conducted over the past few weeks is our residents and staff living our values of responsibility to the wider community.
The community coordinated efforts with KACS and set up a donation drive, and as a result, within one week, they raised 1,400 pounds of food and over $16,000 in cash and gift cards.
"The residents and staff members at Kendal Crosslands truly exemplify what it means to help their neighbors in need," said Leah Reynolds, Executive Director, Kennett Area Community Service. "We are grateful to our community for answering the call to help us help others."

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The Magician becomes the Hat!!!: The Indian Politician doing tricks
November 17, 2018 April 12, 2019
The magician borrowed a 10 rupee bill from a person sitting in the first row, he lit that bill up, I saw with my eyes the 10 rupee bill turning into ashes, but what he did next was impossible for me to imagine. He started scrubbing the ash between his fingers and 10 rupee bills, not just one but umpteen number of them appeared. I was quite young when I saw a magic show like this, I could not believe my eyes. I had utilized all my logic and reached a conclusion that I want him to take a bigger bill from me and make zillions of it. When I told him that, he just giggled.
Magicians are the quite honest people; unlike some politicians, they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.
But they both work extremely hard and put a lot of research on getting in their audiences' brains. They uncover the way people perceive, with the sole intent of distorting their perception and forcing them to see something that does not exist. They confuse the audiences into seeing the future based on past experiences. The vanishing ball is one such trick, the magician tosses the ball twice and the third time people assume that the ball went up and later get confused when they don't see the ball coming down as per the law of gravitation. Rafale Deal is one such trick perfectly executed by our beloved magician. Bofors happened, it is a fact has been proved. It does not matter who was involved or who got acquitted, but it did happen. They tossed up Rafale, memories enriched with a variety of scams along with Bofors forced people to believe the opposition. Now when the French government, their president, Dassault CEO say that it is not a scam, people are confused, once bitten twice shy.
It's like the skillful magician pulled a rabbit from his hat.
A ball or a rabbit is not the only thing that could be vanished, a skilled magician could vanish anything and make something appear from nowhere. David Copperfield vanished the 310 feet high Statue of Liberty or someone magically made a five tonne elephant appear from nowhere. Likewise, our magicians made Indian History vanish or rather a major part of it vanish. What existed before the British? Mughals. What was there before the Babri Mosque? Nothing. What exists after the British? Bapu- Mahatma Gandhi, Chachu – Pt Nehru, Iron Lady- Indira Gandhi. Who brought Computers to India? Rajiv Gandhi. And that's it!!! The uneasiness that we are witnessing amongst a certain group today is because somebody is revealing the tricks like a debunker who forces the audience to take control of their vision and look at a place where the magician does not want them to look. The elephant was right there all the time, and once it was explicitly told where to look, you never missed it again every time you saw the video.
A skilled magician tends to exploit the fact that not every body in the audience is Sherlock Holmes i.e. they will tend to ignore the present. They think they have a vivid and a detailed awareness of their surroundings, but the fact is that they will compute only a very localized set of visual data points leaving a large part unprocessed. With properly executed misdirection, people would ignore what is right in front of them and focus on the cues provided by the magician. But the big question is: What are our magicians trying to hide by all these tricks?
The number of chief ministers from Indian National Congress has come down from 24 or 25 chief ministers in '60s when there were only 24 or 25 entities (states plus UTs) to 3 when there are a total of 36 entities (29 states and 7 UTs). The following graph would give a picture of that. INC has been on the downfall for decades now. PM Modi has done exactly what a hardware accelerator does in an embedded system design; accelerate or increase the speed by several folds.
Now you know what magicians are trying to hide; the destiny of Indian National Congress.
As soon as the party failed to separate itself from a dynastic rule, it was destined to fall. There is no paucity of dynasties in the Indian History. Starting from the Kuru Dynasty in 1200 BCE to Pallavas in 275CE to Mughal Empire in 1526CE (yes, history did not start with Akbar and Babar, there exists some history of around three thousand years before they were even born) to the Scindia rulers of Gwalior from 1731 CE and so on and goes till now. What is one thing common to all of them? They all fell, some stayed longer, some vanished quickly, but they all fell.
Why is every dynasty destined to be doomed one day? The rulers coming in the later part of the dynastic timeline simply are spoon fed. They never had to move a single muscle to build the empire, but they enjoyed the fruits of a being an emperor. The last ruler is always the weakest link. He is weak but offensive and thinks he could attack and win anybody. He is arrogant and self-centered to an extent that he starts thinking he is the kingdom and everyone else is to entertain him.
Did any of the last dynastic rulers know that he was the last one? Did Bahadur Shah Zafar know he was going to be the last Mughal emperor? Did Nityapal know he would bring the five-century old Chutiya Kingdom (pronounced as Sutiya or Sadia) in Assam to ground? Infact his inabilities were known right before the beginning, the nobles and ministers had resisted the decision of giving away the throne to him.
With hopefully the last and possibly the brightest Scions at the helm or leading in different parts, it is highly unlikely for congress to revive itself. However, if they see a small ray of hope they will try to drag their rule further, all dynasts do that and in the meanwhile bring misery to people. Indians got a chance to get rid of them for good in 2004 but they chose misery and pain for the next 10 years. They are standing again at the crossroads. It is not at all about why BJP should win, it is only about why Congress should not win anything till they let go of the dynasty. Congress would start resurrecting as soon as Dynasties are left behind.
By the way, magic tricks get old and magicians regularly update their magic tricks. There are tricks where the magician becomes the prop, for instance, he starts levitating or gets himself chopped into pieces. Would you be able to recognize if our magician becomes the hat? Think about it, is he acting like a magician or a prop?
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இவற்றிற்கான களஞ்சியம் January, 2007
[SandL] The Tamils' Struggle
Published by CAPitalZ under LTTE,Racism,Socialism and Liberation,Sri Lanka,Tamil Eelam,Terrorism
By Sérgio Rodrigues
Tamil Tigers assist in tsunami relief, 2004.
Photo: Jason South/The Age
On Nov. 26, the Tamil people of Sri Lanka celebrated Heroes Day. It is the day when the first fighter of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lost his life in combat in 1982—a day dedicated to the memory of all Tamils who have died fighting for the right to self-determination.
During his annual Heroes Day speech, Velupillai Prabhakaran, LTTE founder and leader, declared the Norway-mediated peace process between the Sri Lanka government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam "defunct." For all intents and purposes, peace has been defunct ever since Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, chose to intensify military action despite the ongoing peace talks.
The LTTE, commonly known as the Tamil Tigers, has been fighting for an independent state for the Tamils since 1972. Eelam is the Tamil name for Sri Lanka; Tamil Eelam refers to the historic homeland of the Tamils in the northeastern region of the country.
Imperialists around the world, including the United States, Britain and the European Union, have labeled the LTTE a "terrorist organization." The Sri Lankan government uses the label to justify its own state-sponsored terror against the Tamil people.
The fact is that the oppression of the Tamils long predates the birth of the LTTE and other armed national liberation organizations. A brief history of the country is necessary to understand the roots of the conflict.
The impact of European colonialism
Sri Lanka is a pear-shaped island off the coast of India slightly larger than the state of West Virginia. Its location makes it a strategic naval link between West Asia and Southeast Asia.
The Sinhalese and the Tamil peoples respectively account for about 74 percent and 18 percent of the population of Sri Lanka. Although there is dispute over who were the first to arrive, both Sinhalas and Tamils have inhabited the island for over two millennia. The Tamils are largely concentrated in the northeastern region of the country, especially in the Jaffna Peninsula.
European presence on the island dates back to the arrival of the Portuguese in 1505. Upon arriving, the Portuguese invaders encountered distinct kingdoms on the island. In particular, they encountered Tamil populations in the northeastern region and Sinhalese populations in the south among other smaller groups. They had distinct cultures, languages and religions as well as different socio-economic and political structures.
Over time, the Portuguese established their colonial rule by means of battles and treaties, yet they did not bring the different peoples under a single administrative structure. Likewise, the Dutch colonizers, who followed the Portuguese in the 17th century, set up separate administrative structures that reflected the distinct identities of the Sinhalese and Tamil peoples.
The British occupied the island in a series of bloody invasions beginning in 1795. By 1833, the British had imposed a unified system on the Sinhala and Tamil peoples. The island colony became known as Ceylon, and the forceful amalgamation of the Sinhalas and Tamils under the British colonial system laid the basis for the current conflict.
Masters of the divide-and-conquer game, the British played the Tamils against the Sinhalese in order to protect their colonial interests. The transformation of the once self-sufficient economy into an export-driven plantation economy necessitated a new class of English-educated professionals. The British encouraged the Tamils from the arid and less developed regions of the north and east to turn to English education and the professions for economic advancement. By granting the Tamils a stake in the colonial system, the British could use them as leverage against the Sinhalese majority.
After failing to integrate the Sinhalese into the plantation system, the British brought in Indian Tamils to work as indentured laborers in the fields. These Indian-origin Tamils had a distinct identity from the Ceylonese Tamil and also contributed to the make-up of the country.
The end of British rule
When British rule formally ended in 1948, the balance of power shifted dramatically. The exit of the British and the legacy of a unitary political system—as opposed to a federal arrangement or the formation of independent states—left the Tamils politically vulnerable. The Sinhalese majority quickly used its parliamentary majority to assert its dominance.
The Citizenship Act of 1948 and the Indian and Pakistani Residents Act of 1949 tied citizenship to descent. One had to prove three generations of paternal descent on the island in order to be granted citizenship. There were no provisions for citizenship by birth.
Although the new legislation applied to all on paper, in practice the targets were the Tamils of Indian origin. In the absence of an effective birth registration system in Ceylon, even those Indian Tamils who had been in Ceylon for generations were denied citizenship. Altogether, 90 percent of the total applications from persons of Indian origin were rejected.
Together with the 1949 legislation that denied non-citizens the right to vote, the Citizenship Act meant the complete disenfranchisement of the Indian Tamils. It aimed to undercut Tamil influence in the political life of the country and ensure the hegemony of the Sinhalese elites.
The Ceylonese Tamils were not directly affected by the act, but they correctly understood the implications of the new laws. S.J.V. Chelvanayakam, leader of the Tamil Congress, said, "Today justice is being denied to the Indian Tamils. Some day in the future, when language becomes the issue, the same would befall the Ceylon Tamils."
His words turned out to be prophetic. S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike and his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) emerged victorious in the 1956 elections after campaigning on a "Sinhala-only" platform. In that same year, the Official Language Act declared Sinhala the official language of the country. Those seeking government employment had to either know or learn Sinhalese, putting the Tamils at a tremendous disadvantage.
Religion was used as a political tool to further weaken the Tamils. Buddhism is closely associated with Sinhalese identity, while Hinduism prevails amongst Tamils. It was largely thanks to the religious fervor whipped up by the Buddhist clergy—many of them landowners—that Bandaranaike won the 1956 elections.
The rise of Tamil nationalism
The Sri Lankan government and its imperialist supporters are quick to justify the collective punishment of the Tamil people as a response to terrorism. President Rajapaksa recently told the CNN-IBM television channel that he has "always believed in a negotiated solution" while LTTE leader Prabakharan "always wanted to kill people." (Indo Asian News Service, Nov. 28)
However, a look at history shows otherwise. The Tamil struggle did not begin as an armed struggle. Rather, it developed into an armed struggle in response to the concrete conditions of violent oppression imposed by the Sinhala-dominated state apparatus.
The Federal Party, formed in 1949, was one of the earliest expressions of Tamil nationalism in the post-colonial period. It applied non-violent tactics modeled after Gandhi's movement in India.
The Federal Party organized campaigns of Satyagraha—peaceful sit-in protests—, which were met with the violence of Sinhalese mobs backed by complicit state forces. In the explosive 1958 riots, Bandaranaike deliberately waited 24 hours to declare a state of emergency in a calculated move to punish the Tamils. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Tamils lost their homes, several hundred were slaughtered and vast amounts of Tamil property were destroyed.
The 1961 Satyagraha campaign for Tamil rights lasted nearly three months and brought together Indian and Ceylonese Tamils across religious and caste divisions. The government responded to the peaceful actions by declaring a state of emergency and letting the military loose on civilians in the Tamil regions.
Amid the violence, a new constitution was approved in 1972. It reaffirmed the status of Sinhala as the sole official language, afforded special protections to Buddhism and denied basic rights such as freedom of speech and promoting one's culture to non-citizens—another blow at the Tamils of Indian origin. All proposals by Tamil politicians protecting the rights of the Tamil people were scrapped.
Growing militancy
By that time, disillusionment with the possibility of political reform was on the rise. Militancy was growing among Tamil youth and students and the armed struggle was taking root. The Tamil New Tigers, which would later become the LTTE, was formed in 1972.
The 1977 elections exposed the widespread support of the Tamil for an independent state. J.R. Jayewardene and his right-wing United National Party captured 85 percent of the parliamentary seats. However, the Tamil United Liberation Front—renamed TULF, openly calling for secession—became the leading opposition for the first time. Despite the TULF's inability to secure its political goals, the Tamil vote amounted to a call for secession that sparked renewed violence at the hands of the Sinhalese.
In 1979, the Terrorism Prevention Act made unlawful words or signs that could cause "religious, racial or communal disharmony or feelings of ill-will or hostility" between different communities or groups. Using language similar to apartheid South Africa's Terrorism Act of 1967, the new law targeted not only armed organizations but also the political freedom of the Tamils, since their "words" and "signs" could be construed by the Sinhalese as creating "communal disharmony."
In June of 1983, the Sinhala armed forces had gone on a frenzy in the cities of Trincomalee and Vavuniya, shooting civilians and setting shops, churches and houses ablaze. The LTTE responded with a well-orchestrated ambush on July 23, killing 13 soldiers and sending shockwaves through the racist Sinhala establishment.
The media ran inflammatory headlines following the incident, and Sinhalas who had gathered at the cemetery for the soldiers' funeral went on an anti-Tamil rampage. As many as 3,000 Tamils were killed and 150,000 were made homeless in Colombo. The armed forces did nothing to enforce the government-declared curfew. The August 12 issue of the Financial Times stated that "troops and police either joined the rioters or stood idly by."
"Black July," as it became known, was the most significant factor in the growth of the Tamil armed organizations. Years of violent repression proved that the non-violent tactics of the old guard were not a viable method of struggle. The ranks of the LTTE and other guerrilla organizations swelled.
India intervenes
With the escalation of violence that followed the Black July riots, India found itself pressured to intervene. Not only were tens of thousands of Tamil refugees arriving at its shores, but its own Tamil population, mostly concentrated in the state of Tamil Nadu, was outraged at the barbaric acts of the Sri Lankan government.
Soon, India began providing covert assistance in the form of training and weapons to the various Tamil liberation guerrillas. Anton Balasingham, chief negotiator of the LTTE, explained that India carefully limited the quality of weapons systems it provided to the guerrillas because it had a limited goal: it wanted to force Sri Lanka to seek a political solution but it had little desire for Tamil independence. For the LTTE, however, not taking the training and weapons would have left it vulnerable to the growing state violence.
During this period, the LTTE developed a relationship with M.G. Ramachandran, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu. Balasingham credits Ramachandran's financial patronage as the cornerstone of the growth of the LTTE into a modern guerrilla organization with both land and sea units.
The 1985 Thimphu talks were largely a result of India's pressure on both the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil guerrillas. The TULF and the five leading guerrilla organizations, including the LTTE, participated in the talks. The Tamil organizations enunciated four principles: recognition of the Tamil national identity, respect for the integrity of the Tamil homeland, the right to self-determination and citizenship for all Tamils. Their unity surprised the government and the talks quickly collapsed.
The LTTE stood out by waging a struggle against the 1987 India-Sri Lanka Agreement when most other Tamil organizations accommodated India's intervention. The agreement called for Sri Lanka to prevent foreign countries from using its ports and broadcasting facilities in any way that harmed India's interests and to allow India to participate in the restoration and operation of the Trincomalee Oil Tank. The agreement made some minor concessions to the Tamil people, including some devolution of power and official status for the Tamil language. But the agreement also called for the guerrillas to disarm and for the deployment of Indian troops in Sri Lanka.
The deal was a blatant attempt by India to sell out the Tamils for its own interests. The Indian Peace Keeping Force promptly arrived, but the interim administrative structures did not materialize and Sinhalese colonization projects on Tamil land intensified. The LTTE had reluctantly surrendered a portion of its arms as a gesture of good faith, but quickly reasserted its commitment to the struggle once it was clear that India and Sri Lanka were not holding up their end of the bargain.
India's inaction led popular LTTE leader Thileepan to declare a fast to the death. India aroused the collective ire of the Tamil nation by refusing to budge. Thileepan died on the hunger strike. Soon Indian troops were engaged in full-scale war against the LTTE.
The Indian forces angered not just the Tamils, who had hoped their interventions would bring peace, but also extreme Sinhalese nationalists who opposed even the mild concessions of the India-Sri Lanka agreement, which they considered to be an Indian encroachment on their sovereignty. One such extremist group—the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna—led a brutal campaign that became a threat to the Sri Lankan state.
The bloody war ended when Indian troops withdrew in 1990. As the only armed group to fight against the Indian forces, the LTTE emerged with unprecedented popularity among the Tamils.
Nationalism and the struggle for socialism
Poverty rates are highest in the Tamil regions of Sri Lanka.
Photo: Tim Johnson/Krt
Many of the political groups in Sri Lanka—both Tamil and Sinhala—profess to be socialists. The issue of national oppression is a critical one for Marxists, and the failure of socialist parties in Sri Lanka to champion the right of the Tamil people is a major obstacle to working-class unity.
The development of nations and nation-states is a phenomenon characteristic of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Different languages, currencies and tariffs all hamper free trade and commodity production—it is natural that the bourgeoisie should strive to eliminate such obstacles. For the bourgeoisie, a politically unified territory where people share the same language and culture provides a means to control the home market and secure its own class interests.
As such, the bourgeoisie's position on the self-determination of nations is invariably limited to the defense of its own national rights. The national bourgeoisie does not hesitate in denying the same rights it claims for itself to the nationalities it seeks to oppress and exploit.
The Sinhalese bourgeoisie welcomed the formal end of British colonialism since it alleviated the oppression of its own nationality, and yet did not hesitate to oppress the Tamil nationality—with the blessings of the former colonial powers. Extreme Sinhalese nationalism was crafted by the Sinhalese ruling class following Ceylon's independence. They played on the disadvantages experienced by the Sinhalese during British colonial rule to co-opt Sinhalese workers and peasants into backing the oppression of the Tamils.
Their racist ideology effectively drove a wedge between the Sinhalese and Tamil masses that stunted the development of a united struggle along class lines. In that context, the rise of Tamil nationalism developed in opposition to Sinhalese chauvinism.
Marxists seek to build international working-class unity as the most effective way to wage a struggle for socialism. That unity can only be obtained by fighting against all forms of privilege and oppression.
As Lenin explained, Marxists must fight for working-class unity while supporting the right of all nations to self-determination. This does not mean advocating for a particular form of self-determination, such as the formation of a separate state, but rather recognizing that every single nation is entitled to the same rights. To deny an oppressed nation the same right to self-determination that is enjoyed by an oppressor nation would amount to siding with the bourgeoisie of the oppressor nation.
The Communist Party of Ceylon passed a resolution in October of 1944 recognizing the multinational character of Ceylon. The resolution stated, "As there are distinct historically-evolved nationalities—for instance, the Sinhalese and Tamil—with their own contiguous territory as their homeland, their own language, economic life, culture and psychological make up … the nationalities should have the unqualified right to self- determination, including the right, if ever they so desire, to form their own independent state."
The self-described Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party and the CPC supported parity between the Sinhala and Tamil languages as well as the federalist setup proposed by the Tamil after the British forces left. Their position recognized equal rights for the Sinhala and Tamil nationalities.
In the years that followed, however, both the CPC and the LSSP joined the government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike—the widow of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. LSSP leader Colvin R. de Silva spearheaded the drafting of the 1972 constitution that wiped out the few protections the Tamil people still enjoyed.
The shift in the position of the left parties on the national question was an opportunistic development. The Sinhalese bourgeoisie was consolidating its political control, and its racist ideology permeated the Sinhalese masses across class boundaries. Abandoning support for national rights of the Tamil was the path of least resistance for a party seeking to remain politically relevant amid a Sinhalese-majority population.
It was also an unprincipled betrayal of working-class solidarity.
The founding document of the LTTE makes its position with respect to the left clear. "The strategy of the traditional Left parties was to collaborate with the Sinhala capitalist class and therefore their theoretical perspective was subsumed by the hegemonic ideology of that dominant class; which was none other than chauvinism," a 1983 document by the LTTE Political Committee explained. "This suicidal class collaboration made the Left leaders to turn a blind eye to the stark realities of national oppression; it made them to ignore the revolutionary conditions generated by the Tamil national struggle; it made them incapable of mobilizing the revolutionary aspirations of the Tamil militants.
"Our movement has chartered its political program, integrating the national struggle with class struggle defining our ultimate objective as national liberation and socialist revolution," the document explained.
But it is first and foremost the duty of communists of an oppressor nationality to show principled and unconditional support for the right of an oppressed nationality to self-determination.
The struggle today
Talks between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan government began in 2000 after a period of intense confrontation. The state forces had dealt serious blows to the LTTE following the withdrawal of the Indian troops. By 2000, however, the LTTE had skillfully recaptured several strategic areas including the vital Elephant Pass, which connects the Tamil stronghold—the Jaffna Peninsula—to the mainland.
Now, the Norway-mediated peace talks are hanging by a thread.
The 2004 tsunami was particularly devastating for the Tamil people of Sri Lanka. The LTTE has provided substantial relief in the north in cooperation with the Tamil Relief Organization. The first relief camp was set up the very same day, and the LTTE organized an international fundraising campaign for the relief efforts. However, government neglect has unnecessarily augmented the suffering of the Tamils and others in the region.
By the LTTE's own assessment, the Norway talks had allowed the two parties to develop rapport and resolve problems that had jeopardized the peace process. Nevertheless, large numbers of displaced Tamils faced a grim future as the army refused to release its grip on areas it had occupied. Furthermore, the geo-strategic value of Sri Lanka has led donor countries—the United States included—to use their leverage to undermine the Tamil people.
Prabhakaran's recent denunciation of the Sinhalese government for trying to "decide the fate of the Tamil nation using its military power" reaffirms the LTTE's commitment to Tamil national liberation.
It is a cause that deserves the support of the worldwide working-class movement.
The Tamil struggle for national liberation


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CASE STUDY: Washington DC Public Transportation
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It's getting tougher to be a criminal, at least on Washington, DC public transportation. "If you're a criminal, you're going to pass by one of our cameras," says Shawn Doody, digital video evidence manager for the Metro Transit Police Department and manager of the agency's new Security Operations Command Center (SOCC). "We're going to find you." Video from thousands of cameras is digitally stored and accessible from the agency's security network, giving operators at SOCC the ability to call it up quickly for an investigation or a trial.
At the heart of the new Command Center is a 27-foot wide, 11-foot high Mitsubishi Electric display wall, which enables operators and dispatchers to see multiple live and recorded video feeds at remarkably high resolution. It's the culmination of more than 15 years of coordination and experimentation by police and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
In 2001, Doody and William Taylor, a communications design engineer for WMATA, added a centralized recording system and set up remote viewing capability at several Metro Transit Police locations. In 2008, the pair began experimenting with a centralized viewing center, which became the predecessor to SOCC. "Bill put together a test to see how it would work," Doody recalls. "We had four workstations, each with four local monitors plus three 52-inch monitors that the operators could share."
Now the new Command Center in Action SOCC consists of two main areas: up front there are 10 computer workstations for video operators, who are employees of WMATA. Above and behind them are five more workstations for Metro Transit Police dispatchers. Video from the surveillance cameras is shared on the Mitsubishi display wall, which consists of 10 VS-72WEF78S 1920×1200 LED projection cubes, arranged in a 2-high by 5-wide configuration. In addition, there are six 65-inch LCD flat-panel displays mounted on the side walls.
Because officers in the field carry tablet computers, operators can send screen captures or video clips to them as they arrive on a crime scene. "If a witness says the person was wearing blue and brown, we can send an image showing that it was brown pants and a blue shirt, we know the shade of blue, and we can probably see his face as well," Doody explains.
In addition to the video wall, integrator Washington Professional Systems installed a Jupiter video wall processor, Crestron DigitalMedia technology with a 32×32 switcher, and a Crestron control system. CNL IPSecurityCenter software runs on each of the video operators' workstations.
"It's a really simple interface that allows the WMATA operators to put things up on the wall very quickly," adds Eric Choucroun, senior account executive for Washington Professional Systems.
In addition to the cameras, operators can display a dynamic rail map that shows the location of every train and the direction it's headed in real time, cable news feeds, and images from a Cisco video conferencing system that allows dispatchers or managers to communicate with their counterparts in other locations.
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Post Malone Survived an Emergency Plane Landing and a Car Accident Within 2 Weeks of Each Other: 'God Must Be Trying to Kill Me'
by Robert Yaniz Jr. twitter linkedin | More Articles: Celebrity
Post Malone has had tremendous success in the music world. Naturally, he's had to overcome some adversity along the way. In addition, the rapper — who reportedly has a net worth of $14 million — dealt with some wild close calls in 2018. Here's how Post Malone faced a crisis in the air and on the road just mere weeks apart.
Post Malone is one of the most popular rappers working today
Although he began pursuing music in 2011, Post Malone didn't realize his first studio album until 2016. Stoney ended up going multi-platinum and spawning hit singles like "White Iverson" and "Congratulations."
But his sophomore album led Post Malone to even greater success. 2018's Beerbongs & Bentleys was an even greater turning point for the rapper. That album features such inescapable tracks as "Rockstar," "Psycho," and "Better Now."
His subsequent albums, Hollywood's Bleeding and Twelve Carat Toothache, have also been successful. The former even features four top-10 singles in "Wow," "Goodbyes," "Circles," and "Take What You Want." But "Rockstar" served as Post Malone's first number-one hit.
He won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Song for "Rockstar" just the night before boarding a plane that would run into a bit of trouble.
Post Malone once survived an emergency plane landing
As reported by ABC News, Post Malone was involved in an emergency landing in 2018. The rapper was aboard a jet among more than a dozen people. After spending five hours circling the area, the plane landed at New York Stewart International Airport.
The Gulfstream aircraft had departed Teterboro Airport with plans to arrive in London, where Post Malone was set to perform. But after the pilot realized the plane had two blown tires, he attempted to burn off some fuel before making as safe a landing as possible.
Thankfully, no one was injured. Post Malone himself shared the news on Twitter, thanking fans for their prayers. He also expressed surprise at "how many people wished death on [him] on [Twitter]."
Post Malone faced a car collision just 2 weeks later
Although Post Malone is far from the only star to survive an emergency plane landing, he did find himself in a precarious situation soon thereafter.
Just two weeks after the Gulfstream jet he was on was forced to make an emergency landing, Post Malone's Rolls Royce suffered major damage, according to the BBC, after colliding with another car and then hitting a fence.
Post Malone performs in 2018 | Simone Joyner/Getty Images
Post Malone on Costco: 'It's Like Grown-Up Heaven'
Thankfully, no one was seriously injured, though Post Malone was understandably shaken. On Twitter, Post Malone lamented the proximity of these two events, proclaiming "god must hate me lol."
Considering the success the rapper has enjoyed since, he might want to rethink his good fortune. However, t must have been overwhelming to have two vehicular incidents go awry so close together.
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Q: Dash multiple app server set Flask session Let's say I have 2 apps running, and served by DispatcherMiddleware like the following:
utils.py
import uuid
from flask import session
def set_session():
    if 'uid ' not in session:
        uid = str(uuid.uuid4())
        session['uid'] = uid

index.py
from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def index():
    return render_template('index.html')

app1.py
import dash
import dash_html_components as html
from flask import session
from utils import set_session

app = dash.Dash(
    __name__,
    requests_pathname_prefix='/app1/'
)

def layout():
   set_session()
   return [html.Div('welcome', id='div'), html.Button(id='submit', n_clicks=0)]

app.layout = layout

@app.callback(Output('div', 'children'),
              [Input('submit', 'n_clicks')])
def print_session(n_clicks):
    return session['uid']

app2.py
import dash
import dash_html_components as html
from flask import session
from utils import set_session

app = dash.Dash(
    __name__,
    requests_pathname_prefix='/app2/'
)

def layout():
   set_session()
   return [html.Div('welcome', id='div'), html.Button(id='submit', n_clicks=0)]

app.layout = layout

@app.callback(Output('div', 'children'),
              [Input('submit', 'n_clicks')])
def print_session(n_clicks):
    return session['uid']

wsgi.py
from werkzeug.middleware.dispatcher import DispatcherMiddleware
from index import app as index
from flask import Flask

from app1 import app as app1
from app2 import app as app2

app = Flask(__name__)
app.wsgi_app = DispatcherMiddleware(index, {
    '/app1': app1.server,
    '/app2': app2.server,
})

I would like to have one session per user and per app.
But the above code raise the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "C:\Users\wsgi.py", line 24, in

from app1 import app as app1

File "C:\Users\app1.py", line 254, in

app.layout = layout

File "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\dash\dash.py", line 510, in layout

layout_value = self._layout_value()

File "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\dash\dash.py", line 476, in _layout_value

return self._layout() if self._layout_is_function else self._layout

File "C:\Users\app1.py", line 130, in layout

if 'uid' not in session:

File "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\werkzeug\local.py", line 379, in

__contains__ = lambda x, i: i in x._get_current_object()

File "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\werkzeug\local.py", line 306, in _get_current_object

return self.__local()

File "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\flask\globals.py", line 38, in _lookup_req_object

raise RuntimeError(_request_ctx_err_msg)

RuntimeError: Working outside of request context.

A: One possible solution is to store the session data (or just the session id) as part of your app layout. Here is a small example,
import uuid
import dash
import dash_core_components as dcc
import dash_html_components as html
from dash.dependencies import Output, Input, State

def layout():
    return html.Div([html.Div('Welcome', id='div'), html.Button("Submit", id='submit', n_clicks=0),
                     dcc.Store(id="session", data=dict(uid=str(uuid.uuid4())))])

app = dash.Dash(__name__, prevent_initial_callbacks=True)
app.layout = layout

@app.callback(Output('div', 'children'), [Input('submit', 'n_clicks')], State("session", "data"))
def print_session(_, session):
    return session['uid']

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run_server()

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import com.yahoo.sql4d.converter.druidGLexer;
import com.yahoo.sql4d.converter.druidGParser;
import com.yahoo.sql4d.query.Program;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
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import org.antlr.runtime.CommonTokenStream;
import org.antlr.runtime.RecognitionException;

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 * A rudimentary compiler for Druid Dql -> Druid Json.
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CelebrityFeaturedJune 2, 2022
Amber Heard positions for appeal as attorney warns actress CANNOT pay 10.4 million judgement
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp at the premiere of Black Mass, 2015 Toronto Film Festival – Author : GabboT
Update: According the the New York Post, Amber Heard's attorney while on the Today show said "Oh no, absolutely not" when asked if Amber could pay the 10.4 million dollar judgement.
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Amber Heard wants to appeal the verdict after a jury sided with Johnny Depp in his defamation trial and has "some excellent grounds" to do so, her attorney said Thursday.
Attorney Elaine Bredehoft contended on NBC's "Today" show that "a number of things were allowed in this court that should not have been allowed."
"(Depp's attorneys) were able to suppress the medical records, which were very, very significant because they showed a pattern going all the way back to 2012 of Amber reporting this to her therapist, for example," Bredehoft said Thursday.
"We had significant amount of texts, including from Mr. Depp's assistants saying, 'When I told him he kicked you, he cried.'"
Depp, 58, sued his ex-wife Heard, 36, for $50 million over a 2018 op-ed in which she described herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse." The piece didn't name Depp, but Heard had previously accused the actor of domestic violence, which he denied.
Heard filed a $100 million counterclaim over comments made by a Depp attorney painting her allegations as a hoax.
The seven-member jury said Wednesday that Depp should receive $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages after reaching their decision on the third day of deliberations at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Virginia.
Judge Penney Azcarate lowered the overall judgment to $10.35 million because punitive damages are limited in the state. Heard was awarded $2 million through her countersuit.
Bredehoft said Heard isn't able to pay the $10.35 million in damages, and said she believes the jurors were likely aware of the massive attention the trial received on social media.
"How can you not?" Bredehoft said Thursday. "They went home every night. They have families. The families are on social media. We had a 10-day break in the middle because of the judicial conference. There's no way they couldn't have been influenced by it."
Depp previously lost a libel lawsuit against the publisher of British tabloid The Sun over an article calling him a "wife beater," with a High Court judge ruling the claims were "substantially true."
"What did Depp's team learn from this? Demonize Amber and suppress the evidence," Bredehoft said. "We had an enormous amount of evidence that was suppressed in this case that was in the U.K. case."
Heard's legal team was unsuccessful in using the U.K. case to get Depp's defamation trial dismissed in Virginia, Bredehoft said.
Wednesday's verdict followed a six-week trial in which Depp denied abusing Heard and claimed she was physically violent toward him. Heard denied abusing Depp while accusing him of domestic violence and of substance issues.
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Depp, meanwhile, said in a statement after the verdict reading, "The jury gave my life back. I am truly humbled."
EXCLUSIVE: Amber Heard's attorney tells @savannahguthrie the actor is "absolutely not" able to pay the $10.4 million judgment to Johnny Depp. pic.twitter.com/I6BzkDXxJ8
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Q: alfresco-maven-plugin; truezip issues to pre-AMP a WAR I'm really struggling with the alfresco-maven-plugin and looking for some help.  The usecase is to pre-apply the AMPs to the alfresco and share WAR's (version 4.2.f) before deploying to the system related to file permission issues running the apply_amp.sh in a secured environment.
I've tried the following, both 1.1.1 and 2.0.0 versions, both with the associated parent alfresco-sdk-parent and without (NOTE: Without the parent is preferred, as we have company parent POM's for distribution and other reasons)
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.alfresco.maven.plugin</groupId>
            <artifactId>alfresco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.1</version>
            <extensions>true</extensions>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>install-amps</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>install</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                </execution>
            </executions>
            <configuration>
                <ampLocation>${project.build.directory}/amps</ampLocation>
                         <warLocation>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}-war</warLocation>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

Consistently getting the error:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: de/schlichtherle/truezip/fs/FsSyncExceptionBuilder

I've added as dependencies, and as plugin dependencies, the truezip, truezip-file, truezip-driver-file, truezip-driver-zip, truezip-swing, trying truezip versions from 6.X to 7.8.1, tried explicity listing the alfresco-mmt versions 4.2.f to 5.0.c (the 5.0.x seems to pre-bundle, but is not helping with the maven plugin).
Any guidance please?
EDIT: The answer provided below for this question asked over 2 years ago was answered related to an incorrect version of maven. A possible duplicate TrueZip: NoClassDefFoundError (but for shutdown hook only?) was detected was asked later and does not provide an answer/does not solve the problem; Note this question is considered 'answered' and resolved.

A: You were using an unsupported Maven version (in fact the Alfresco SDK 2.0.0 requires Maven 3.2.5 and above, see http://docs.alfresco.com/sdk2.0/tasks/alfresco-sdk-install-maven.html).
This explains why you are seeing this problem which instead does not exist in properly tested configurations.
Will close the related https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-sdk/issues/265 as well.

A: The workaround I did was:
Checkout 2.0.1-SNAPSHOT from here as of 3/9/2015:
https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-sdk
Using maven 3.0.5, jdk7, change plugins/alfresco-maven-plugin/pom.xml, change from version 3.2 to this version of the maven-plugin-plugin entry so it would actually compile the new version of the alfresco-maven-plugin:
            <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.0</version>
            <!-- <version>3.2</version> <executions> <execution> <id>generated-helpmojo</id>
                <goals> <goal>helpmojo</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> -->

        </plugin>

Update in my project the 2.0.1-SNAPSHOT of alfresco-maven-plugin and it works as expected (no alfresco-sdk parent pom neeeded).
New WAR with the AMP's pre-applied can be checked from downloading or copying the alfresco-mmt jar and using:
java -jar alfresco-mmt.jar list ${project}/target/${newalfresco}.war

Trackers until it gets resolved: https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-sdk/issues/265, https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-sdk/issues/266


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Former Detroit Red Wing player joins marijuana company
Kathleen GrayDetroit Free Press
DETROIT — Red Wings hockey star Darren McCarty already has four Stanley Cups under his belt, but that's not enough.
He wants a fifth cup with a new team that won't require him to lace up his skates.
McCarty has formed a collaboration with Pincanna, a cannabis company that is building a massive medical marijuana grow and processing operation along I-75 in Pinconning, north of Bay City. And McCarty hopes one day to win a Cannabis Cup — a marijuana competition that is held all over the United States to rate different pot products — with his own strains of legal weed, the Detroit Free Press reported.
By working with the company, McCarty wants to broaden the advocacy he already has been doing since he kicked his addiction to alcohol in 2015 with the help of pot. While he has grown his own pot outdoors, he's leaving the cultivating, processing and retail sales to the experts and will lend his name instead to products ranging from a CBD rub and gummy, to a mellowing strain of marijuana and a high-potency, marijuana-infused chocolate peanut-butter candy bar that will "crush" those who choose to indulge.
"I have a couple of ideas for the names (of the marijuana strains). Something to do with four cups, maybe sweet revenge," McCarty said, referring to his now infamous fight with Colorado Avalanche forward Claude Lemieux, whom he pummeled in 1997 in retaliation for Lemieux's brutal attack on Red Wings' teammate Kris Draper in 1996. "The names will come from some pretty big moments that I've had."
Referring to Pincanna, which also plans to open dispensaries in Kalkaska, East Lansing and Albion, he said, "I'm a four-time Stanley Cup winner, they're a 45-time Cannabis Cup winner. I'm going to be the first athlete with a Stanley Cup and a Cannabis Cup."
McCarty recently met with the Free Press before taping his podcast, "Grind Time with Darren McCarty," at a recording studio in Franklin.
The former Red Wing certainly had success in his 13 seasons with the team as an on-ice enforcer and member of the Grind Line — along with Kris Draper, Joe Kocur and Kirk Maltby — that thwarted the offensive threats from other teams and protected the Red Wings' scoring stars. McCarty quickly became a fan favorite, known more for his epic brawls on the ice. But he was an offensive threat too, scoring 127 goals, 161 assists and 288 points during his 13 seasons with the Red Wings and two with the Calgary Flames.
And since becoming a leading voice on marijuana, claiming the plant saved his life from certain death because of alcoholism and drug addiction, he hopes to translate his athletic success to the cannabis industry.
It was Nov. 11, 2015, when his blood pressure was spiking and he said his liver was about to explode after decades of abusing alcohol, with Jack Daniels and beer his drinks of choice, that McCarty had his come-to-Jesus moment. The battle with the bottle led to four stints in rehab, a variety of court battles and the end of two marriages.
"For me, growing up, you were either a jock or stoner, so I never smoked pot growing up, but I've been drinking since I was 12 or 13 years old. That was acceptable in the hockey circles, it's just culturally what was accepted," McCarty said. "So I would always say no to pot, until after my first surgery in 1999. I was on all these pills, and it was driving me crazy. And I'm an insomniac, so I can't sleep, and that had a lot to do with all the drinking."
A friend suggested he try some weed and "something went off in my head and it was like my body said yes."
But it didn't stop him from drinking to the point of collapse and several buddies, including the medical marijuana caregiver who supplied him with pot, isolated him, and for seven days, gave him "gram after gram" of Rick Simpson Oil, a potent marijuana concentrate created by Canadian Rick Simpson in 2003 to treat his skin cancer.
"I was in a coma and when I woke up after seven days, I didn't have a physical addiction," McCarty said. "I dropped to my knees and said, 'Thank God.' "'
He hasn't had a drink since, has lost 60 pounds, is off most of his prescription medications and has quit smoking cigarettes.
"If you've seen my progress over the past 10 years, you've seen me go through different stages from the alcoholism, which led me to this plant saving my life," said the 47-year-old Madison Heights resident. "I feel like I'm 35. I'm not lying. I feel like Benjamin Button."
But he's also smoking a lot of pot every day. From getting up in the morning and taking 100 milligrams of CBD, the nonintoxicating element of the cannabis plant, to smoking a few joints to get him going "because that's like a glass of orange juice," he said, and then a few more to relax and ultimately to go to sleep at night.
"So I smoked this morning and then I smoked on the way to the golf course and I smoked one on the golf course," he said, recounting his day. "And I'll probably smoke when we're done with this interview. And I was at High Times (a cannabis competition in Detroit) all weekend, so my system's pretty rockin' anyways."
He bristles at the suggestion that he might have just traded one substance — alcohol — for another — marijuana.
"No, because it's a plant," he said. "I live my life by the principles, the 12 steps. But you know what? There's a friggin' garden in my program.
"And the bottom line is, I'm not drinking. I'm not doing coke. I'm not doing pills. I'm not smoking cigarettes. In my book, what you think about me is none of my business because I know I'm right. The big fella told me so," McCarty said, pointing skyward.
Now, alcohol "repulses" him because he knows how the story ends if he goes back to the bottle. He instead wants to write the new chapter.
"Yeah, I'm a stoner, but I'm a sophisticated stoner."


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By the end of its first decade, Sirius XM had blanketed the country with satellite radio coverage, but on Wall Street the signal was growing faint. On Feb. 11, 2009, Sirius XM shares fell as low as five cents. Years of big spending had finally caught up with the firm, and the credit crisis would be the finishing touch. Hours before filing for bankruptcy, Sirius got a lifeline from cable pioneer John Malone's Liberty Media (ticker: LMCA).
"We thought the market had overreacted," says Greg Maffei, Liberty's CEO, looking back on those panicked days. "And that Sirius was in a bind not of its own making." • Liberty provided a $400 million loan to Sirius, which granted Liberty the right to acquire 40% of Sirius' equity for a nominal sum. It was a sweetheart deal for Liberty, which now owns a controlling stake in the company. But it allowed Sirius to live another day, and as the economy improved, the company gradually found its rhythm.
Today, Sirius XM Holdings (SIRI) has nearly 26 million subscribers and annual sales approaching $4 billion. At a recent $3.68, its shares are up nearly 74 times since hitting rock-bottom. The rebound gives Sirius XM a market value of $23 billion, in line with satellite-TV provider Dish (DISH) and topping Internet-TV sensation Netflix (NFLX). Yet investors still underestimate the company's potential and its effective monopoly in satellite radio. Sirius is using its now-ample free cash flow—more than $900 million this year—to buy back a big chunk of its stock. And the company, once a favorite of day traders, is getting more attention from professional money managers, like Seattle-based Rainier Investment Management. Rainier has bought $100 million worth of Sirius shares since April. Portfolio manager Sam Console thinks the stock is worth $5.50 to $6—50% above current levels.
"It's been more of a retail stock," Console says, discussing Sirius' volatile past. Now, "more institutional people are thinking about this company as a viable holding. From a fundamental perspective, there are a lot of reasons to like it."
Sirius is adding subscribers at a formidable clip, even as pay-TV companies struggle to maintain them. Last quarter, it added 513,000 customers, bringing its total paid base to 25.6 million—larger than any cable or satellite-TV company, including Comcast (CMCSA) and DirecTV (DTV), and right on the heels of HBO, which has 30 million customers through its cable partners. Sirius CEO Jim Meyer thinks his company will easily get to 30 million subs, and he talks about the possibility of reaching 40 million in the coming years. At that size, Sirius could become more profitable than any of its subscription-based peers.
IT HAS BEEN A LONG and winding path for Sirius. XM Radio debuted its satellite-radio service in 2001, followed a year later by Sirius. They merged in 2008, after six years of battling for subscribers and bidding up programming costs. "They put each other out of business in a lot of ways," Console says, "because they overbid for content that the market wasn't quite ready for. It was just too early, too fast." The company has spent the past five years weaning itself from oppressive contracts.
Sirius' business model is bearing fruit, pushing costs down and profits up. "Before we merged, our programming cost was $450 million for everything but music," Meyer told Barron's recently at Sirius' headquarters in midtown Manhattan. "Now, it's under $300 million. And that's not going to change a lot." Contrast that with the cost of TV content, which has been rising 9% a year, thanks to a hypercompetitive environment.
Most of Sirius' content, including Major League Baseball games and Fox News, is signed through the end of the decade. Howard Stern and the National Football League—admittedly costly programming—are up for renewal at the end of 2015. Music channels, which make up about half of Sirius XM's content, generate an estimated 60% of the costs. To cover royalties, Sirius pays a flat percentage of revenue, at a rate set by the Library of Congress. It's 9% now, rising to 11% by 2017.
In the second quarter, Sirius' profit margins exceeded 30% for the first time, using Ebitda, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, the media industry's earnings standard. Margins will climb as the company spreads out more of its fixed costs, from programming to satellite maintenance, over a bigger listener base. Says Meyer: "We are going to continue to improve every quarter as our model scales, and we believe we can get to 40% margins."
In contrast, Comcast and DirecTV are mature businesses with Ebitda margins that have topped out at about 33% and 25%, respectively, according to analyst projections. Margins for Netflix, 8% today, are expected to reach 21% by 2016.
ISI Group estimates Sirius' monthly programming costs will come to 96 cents per subscriber this year, falling to 76 cents by 2016. When Sirius and XM merged in 2008, it was about $2 per sub.
Mel Karmazin, the longtime radio executive who ran Sirius from 2004 until last year, deserves a lot of credit for Sirius' recent success, and plenty of blame for its earlier struggles. For years, he campaigned for the Sirius-XM merger. He eventually got regulators' consent, closing the deal in July 2008. But by then the credit markets were falling apart and much of the company's heavy debt load was coming due.
Karmazin's days were numbered from the time Liberty got involved. "I loved working for Mel," says new CEO Meyer, who's been at Sirius since before Karmazin arrived. "But Mel had a difference of philosophy with Liberty that I just don't have."
THE AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY has been a major boon to Sirius' business. Some 70% of new cars now roll off assembly lines with Sirius pre-installed, thanks to long-term deals with every major car maker. The company pays vehicle manufacturers to include its equipment, and today 57 million cars have Sirius receivers in the dashboard. That installed base will hit 100 million in 2017, assuming the auto industry continues its post-recession recovery.
The new cars come with a free trial, which typically lasts three months. It's a powerful hook, and unlike the new-car smell, the Sirius soundtrack tends to stick around. Nearly half of new owners pay to continue their subscription, at a monthly cost of $14.50. And it's predictable. Indeed, since the merger, the conversion rate has barely changed, hovering between 44% and 46% of new-car buyers, according to the company. Even recent price increases from Sirius haven't done much to change consumer demand. The pricing power speaks to the unique nature of Sirius XM content.
By traditional metrics, Sirius has never been a cheap stock. On an enterprise-value-to-Ebitda basis, it trades at 19 times 2014 estimates. But this is no traditional story. Thanks to a decade in the red, Sirius has $7 billion worth of net operating losses to apply against future earnings. Net income is slated to hit $468 million this year, or seven cents a share, rising to 11 cents in 2014.
Analysts expect Sirius to generate $930 million of free cash this year, growing to $1.9 billion by 2016. Most of that will be used to repurchase stock. "They could retire 40% of their equity over the next five years, if not sooner," says Rainier's Console.
ISI Group analyst Vijay Jayant estimates free cash flow, on a per-share basis, will rise 35% a year, from 16 cents in 2013 to 30 cents in 2015. At roughly 15 times the 2015 figure, Jayant gets to a price target of $4.40, 20% above Sirius' recent close.
Console is considerably more bullish; he thinks sell-side analysts are underestimating Sirius' subscriber gains.
Bulls believe Sirius' installed base is about to snowball. Auto makers are on pace to sell more than 15 million new vehicles this year, a strong number, but one that pales in comparison with the 40 million vehicles sold in the used-car market. Those vehicles increasingly are hitting the road again with Sirius XM radios installed, effectively giving the company a second bite of the apple, with none of the hardware costs it has for new models.
Meyer is excited about the used-car opportunity, which the CEO says never even factored into the company's early strategy. The challenge will be how to appeal to less-affluent used-car buyers. Sirius, he says, is exploring every option to expand the used-car channel without endangering its new-car base. This year, Sirius believes, it will add 1.5 million used-car subscribers. By 2017, annual used-car activations could grow to 2.6 million, according to estimates from Barclays Capital.
Another opportunity comes in the form of a connected car, which, in some ways, is the last frontier for wireless coverage. Today's dashboard looks prehistoric, compared with smartphones. Over time, 4G modems will be integrated into cars, creating traveling hot spots and allowing dealers to diagnose problems remotely and track maintenance needs. Consumers, meanwhile, will be able to instantly upgrade the software on radios and other equipment, just as they pull down apps to their smartphones.
Sirius believes it's in prime position to benefit; its satellites can provide the download link, easing congestion that already faces wireless networks. And its existing relationship with auto companies makes Sirius a prime candidate to handle hardware, billing, and customer service. "We believe we can drive this cheaper than anybody else," Meyer says. "Because of what we've learned over the last 10 years, we believe we can take a new technology and drive it down the cost curve faster than someone just bringing a modem."
LAST MONTH, Sirius launched its 10th satellite. The "bird" completes Sirius' network upgrades, and the company says it won't need another launch until the end of the decade. The satellites, which all told cost $300 million each, create a private network that covers North America, transmitting 140 channels filled with high-fidelity music, talk shows, and sports.
Much of the content starts in midtown Manhattan, where studios fill a floor at Sirius' headquarters. As Barron's visited, a nun walked through the door on the way to host her show on Sirius XM's Catholic Channel. Four days earlier, Lady Gaga took the same path. A Sirius spokesman describes the office as the "Times Square of pop culture."
The diversity of original content seems to keep subscribers happy. And it's a competitive advantage for Sirius, as it faces challenges from the likes of Apple (AAPL), Pandora Media (P), Spotify, and other Internet-based music streams.
Five years ago, that emerging competition was a key argument in favor of the Sirius-XM tie-up. Now, it's the main threat cited by Sirius detractors. Pandora, after all, offers free ad-sponsored music streams. Others, like Spotify, bring increased personalization to music via the smartphone, which can be connected to in-car radios wirelessly over Bluetooth technology.
The threat implies that Sirius is basically a music distributor, when, in fact, much of its unique content is talk and sports. "There are a lot of places to get music," says Maffei, who is now the chairman of the Sirius board. "There are not a lot of places to get Howard Stern, the NFL, Major League Baseball, ESPN, CNBC, Fox News."
Ultimately, the difference in the services shows up in revenue. Pandora made $6.50 per user in 2012, mostly from ads. Sirius made $142, almost all from subscriptions.
Consumers will eventually realize that free streaming services are anything but, since they require pricey wireless data plans. Last year, Jayant at ISI Group analyzed the wireless cost of streaming music. He estimated that a typical commuter spends 16.5 hours a month in the car. Streaming music during that time consumes roughly one gigabyte of data, which equates to $12 on a typical data plan.
Sirius, meanwhile, has embraced the long-term attitude of car makers. "The conversations ongoing with the original-equipment manufacturers today are for 2018," says Meyer. "We're not talking to these guys about what they're going to do next year. That's done." The deliberate pace insulates Sirius from the tech world's constant upheavals.
Maffei and Meyer both now think for the long term. In addition to used and connected cars, they talk about millions of dashboards that contain dormant Sirius radios. The equipment could pick up an ad-supported radio stream, via Sirius satellites. "There are going to be 70 million cars that are not subscribers, to whom we can provide some kind of a service," Maffei says. "That's an awful lot of reach into the best cars in the U.S."
By the end of its first decade, Sirius XM had blanketed the country with satellite radio coverage, but on Wall Street the signal was growing faint.


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