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Bilibili Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2019 Financial Results
SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 26, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bilibili Inc. ("Bilibili" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: BILI), a leading online entertainment platform for young generations in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019.
Second Quarter 2019 Highlights:
Total net revenues reached RMB1,537.7 million (US$224.0 million), a 50% increase from the same period in 2018.
Average monthly active users (MAUs1) reached 110.4 million, mobile MAUs reached 96.2 million, representing increases of 30% and 35% from the same period in 2018, respectively.
Average daily active users (DAUs) reached 33.2 million, a 41% increase from the same period in 2018.
Average monthly paying users (MPUs2) reached 6.3 million, a 111% increase from the same period in 2018. Average monthly paying users for mobile games increased to 1.0 million from 0.8 million in the same period of 2018.
"We were excited to celebrate Bilibili's 10-year anniversary in June, which was punctuated by strong second quarter results that demonstrate the type of growth we strive to achieve," said Mr. Rui Chen, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Bilibili. "In the second quarter, we added 9 million MAUs sequentially, the highest net addition since 2017, bringing our total MAUs to 110.4 million, representing 30% growth year-on-year. Paired with strong user growth, our community is becoming more active and engaged. Our DAUs grew 41% year-on-year in the second quarter, reaching a record 33.2 million and outpacing our MAU growth. As we move into the summer months, we are delighted to see this momentum continue. Looking ahead, our strategic initiatives are designed to accelerate our targeted user acquisition efforts, enlarge our user base, enhance our content, and enrich our community to fuel our monetization."
Mr. Sam Fan, Chief Financial Officer of Bilibili, said, "High user growth and increased revenues marked our second quarter. We are pleased to once again surpass the high-end of our guidance with an even more balanced revenue mix. Our non-game revenues grew by 162% while non-game revenues per MAUs increased by 102%, year-on-year. As our monetization efforts progress, we continue to convert more online traffic to paying users. In the second quarter, the number of MPUs on our platform more than doubled compared to the same period last year, reaching 6.3 million. Our gross margin also improved to 16.4% from 13.8% sequentially. As we move forward with our growth plan, our focus will be on obtaining high quality growth while securing adequate return on our investments."
Total net revenues. Total net revenues were RMB1,537.7 million (US$224.0 million), representing an increase of 50% from the same period of 2018.
Mobile games. Revenues from mobile games were RMB919.9 million (US$134.0 million), representing an increase of 16% from the same period of 2018. The increase was primarily due to the increasing popularity of both existing and newly launched mobile games.
Live broadcasting and Value-added services (VAS). Revenues from live broadcasting and VAS were RMB326.0 million (US$47.5 million), representing an increase of 175% from the same period of 2018, mainly attributable to the Company's enhanced monetization efforts, led by increases in the number of paying users for live broadcasting services and the Company's premium membership program.
Advertising. Revenues from advertising were RMB167.7 million (US$24.4 million), representing an increase of 75% from the same period of 2018. This increase was primarily attributable to the ramp-up of brand advertising and performance-based advertising driven by further recognition of Bilibili's brand name in China's online advertising market.
E-commerce and others. Revenues from e-commerce and others were RMB124.1 million (US$18.1 million), representing an increase of 489% from the same period of 2018, primarily attributable to the increase in sales of products through the Company's e-commerce platform.
Cost of revenues. Cost of revenues was RMB1,285.9 million (US$187.3 million), representing an increase of 66% compared to the same period of 2018. Revenue-sharing cost, a key component of cost of revenues, was RMB573.0 million (US$83.5 million), representing an increase of 37% from the same period in 2018.
Gross profit. Gross profit was RMB251.7 million (US$36.7 million), which was flat compared with the same period of 2018.
Total operating expenses. Total operating expenses were RMB597.1 million (US$87.0 million), representing an increase of 67% from the same period of 2018.
Sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing expenses were RMB240.0 million (US$35.0 million), representing an 88% increase year-over-year. The increase was primarily attributable to the increased channel and marketing expenses associated with Bilibili's app and brand, including promotional activities for offline events, as well as promotional expenses for the Company's mobile games, the increase in headcount in sales and marketing personnel and the increase in fulfillment costs in associated with our e-commerce stream.
General and administrative expenses. General and administrative expenses were RMB141.3 million (US$20.6 million), representing a 44% increase year-over-year. The increase was primarily due to increased general and administrative personnel-related expenses and increased amortization expense related to intangible assets acquired through business acquisitions, and partially offset by a decrease of share-based compensation expense.
Research and development expenses. Research and development expenses were RMB215.9 million (US$31.4 million), representing a 64% increase year-over-year. The increase was primarily due to increased headcount in research and development personnel and other increased research and development expenses.
Loss from operations. Loss from operations was RMB345.4 million (US$50.3 million), compared to RMB106.9 million in the same period of 2018.
Investment income, net. Investment income, net was RMB14.5 million (US$2.1 million), compared to RMB0.8 million in the same period of 2018.
Income tax expense. Income tax expense was RMB12.7 million (US$1.8 million), compared to RMB2.4 million in the same period of 2018.
Net loss. Net loss was RMB315.0 million (US$45.9 million), compared to RMB70.3 million in the same period of 2018.
Adjusted net loss3. Adjusted net loss, which is a non-GAAP measure that excludes share-based compensation expenses and amortization expense related to intangible assets acquired through business acquisitions, was RMB256.1 million (US$37.3 million), compared to RMB19.5 million in the same period of 2018.
Basic and diluted EPS and adjustedbasic and diluted EPS3. Basic and diluted net loss per share were RMB0.96(US$0.14), compared to RMB0.26 in the same period of 2018. Adjusted basic and diluted net loss per share were RMB0.78(US$0.11), compared to RMB0.07 in the same period of 2018.
Cash and cash equivalents, time deposits and short-term investments. As of June 30, 2019, the Company had cash and cash equivalents, time deposits, as well as short-term investments of RMB8.6 billion (US$1,247.3 million), compared to RMB5.2 billion as of December 31, 2018.
Recent Development
In April 2019, the Company completed an offering of convertible senior notes (the "Notes") due 2026 in aggregate principal amount of US$500 million, and concurrent offerings of 14,173,813 American depositary shares (the "ADSs"), or the Primary Offering, and 6,526,187 ADSs from certain selling shareholders, each representing one Class Z ordinary share of the Company, with total net proceeds of approximately US$733.9 million received by the Company. The Company plans to use the net proceeds from the Notes and the concurrent Primary Offering for enriching its content offerings, investing in research and development, and other general corporate purposes.
For the third quarter of 2019, the Company currently expects net revenues to be between RMB1.74 billion and RMB1.77 billion.
The above outlook is based on the current market conditions and reflects the Company's preliminary estimates of market and operating conditions, and customer demand, which are all subject to change.
1 Starting from the first quarter of 2019, the Company counts mobile MAUs of Bilibili Comic and Maoer toward its MAUs. Bilibili Comic is a mobile application offering comic content the Company launched in November 2018. Maoer is a platform that offers audio drama. In December 2018, Company increased its shareholdings to 80.5% in Maoer Inc., operator of Maoer app. In the second quarter of 2019, Bilibili Comic and Maoer in an aggregate contributed to 3.7 million of Bilibili's MAUs.
2 The paying users are calculated by the number of users who paid for games, live broadcasting, premium membership, Bilibili Comics services and Maoer, after eliminating duplicates of users paid for multiple services other than users of Maoer. The Company adds the number of paying users of Maoer toward its total paying users without eliminating duplicates.
3 Adjusted net loss and adjusted basic and diluted EPS are non-GAAP financial measures. For more information on non-GAAP financial measures, please see the section of "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" and the table captioned "Unaudited Reconciliations of GAAP and Non-GAAP Results" set forth at the end of this press release.
The Company's management will host an earnings conference call at 9:00 PM U.S. Eastern time on August 26, 2019 (9:00 AM Beijing/Hong Kong time on August 27, 2019).
Dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:
United States: +1-866-519-4004
International: +65-6713-5090
Hong Kong: 800-906-601
China: 400-620-8038
Conference ID: 1594864
Participants should dial-in approximately 5 minutes before the scheduled start time and ask to be connected to the call for "Bilibili Inc."
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call and investor presentation will be available on the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.bilibili.com.
A replay of the conference call will be accessible by phone two hours after the conclusion of the live call at the following numbers, until September 2, 2019:
International: +61-2-8199-0299
Replay Access Code: 1594864
About Bilibili Inc.
Bilibili represents the iconic brand of online entertainment with a mission to enrich the everyday life of young generations in China. Bilibili is a full-spectrum online entertainment world covering a wide array of genres and media formats, including videos, live broadcasting and mobile games. Bilibili provides an immersive entertainment experience and high-quality content that caters to the evolving and diversified interests of its users and communities, and has built its platform based on the strong emotional connections of Bilibili's users to its content and communities.
For more information, please visit: http://ir.bilibili.com.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The Company uses non-GAAP measures, such as adjusted net loss, adjusted net loss margin and adjusted net loss per share, basic and diluted, in evaluating its operating results and for financial and operational decision-making purposes. The Company believes that the non-GAAP financial measures help identify underlying trends in its business by excluding the impact of share-based compensation expenses and amortization expense related to intangible assets acquired through business acquisitions, which are non-cash charges. The Company believes that the non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information about the Company's results of operations, enhance the overall understanding of the Company's past performance and future prospects and allow for greater visibility with respect to key metrics used by the Company's management in its financial and operational decision-making.
The non-GAAP financial measures are not defined under U.S. GAAP and are not presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools, and when assessing the Company's operating performance, cash flows or liquidity, investors should not consider them in isolation, or as a substitute for net loss, cash flows provided by operating activities or other consolidated statements of operations and cash flows data prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
The Company mitigates these limitations by reconciling the non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable U.S. GAAP performance measures, all of which should be considered when evaluating the Company's performance.
For more information on the non-GAAP financial measures, please see the table captioned "Unaudited Reconciliations of GAAP and Non-GAAP Results" set forth at the end of this press release.
Exchange Rate Information
This announcement contains translations of certain RMB amounts into U.S. dollars ("US$") at specified rates solely for the convenience of the reader. Unless otherwise stated, all translations from RMB to US$ were made at the rate of RMB6.8650 to US$1.00, the exchange rate on June 28, 2019 set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board. The Company makes no representation that the RMB or US$ amounts referred could be converted into US$ or RMB, as the case may be, at any particular rate or at all.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "aims," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident," "potential," "continue" or other similar expressions. Among other things, the Outlook and quotations from management in this announcement, as well as Bilibili's strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements. Bilibili may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including but not limited to statements about Bilibili's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: Bilibili's strategies; Bilibili's future business development, financial condition and results of operations; Bilibili's ability to retain and increase the number of users, members and advertising customers, provide quality content, products and services, and expand its product and service offerings; competition in the online entertainment industry; Bilibili's ability to maintain its culture and brand image within its addressable user communities; Bilibili's ability to manage its costs and expenses; PRC governmental policies and regulations relating to the online entertainment industry, general economic and business conditions globally and in China and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of the press release, and the Company undertakes no duty to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
Juliet Yang
Tel: +86-21-2509 9255 Ext. 8523
E-mail: ir@bilibili.com
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Emilie Wu
E-mail: bilibili@tpg-ir.com
In the United States:
Brandi Piacente
(All amounts in thousands, except for share and per share data)
For the Three Months Ended For the Six Months Ended
June 30, March 31, June 30, June 30, June 30,
RMB RMB RMB RMB RMB
Mobile games 791,013 873,455 919,856 1,479,509 1,793,311
Live broadcasting and VAS 118,614 291,652 326,013 214,378 617,665
Advertising 95,863 112,499 167,736 166,307 280,235
E-commerce and others 21,052 95,901 124,078 34,356 219,979
Total net revenues 1,026,542 1,373,507 1,537,683 1,894,550 2,911,190
Cost of revenues (775,858) (1,184,191) (1,285,944) (1,430,785) (2,470,135)
Gross profit 250,684 189,316 251,739 463,765 441,055
Sales and marketing expenses (127,764) (181,487) (240,004) (206,658) (421,491)
General and administrative expenses (97,940) (128,487) (141,269) (200,497) (269,756)
Research and development expenses (131,898) (186,075) (215,860) (237,804) (401,935)
Total operating expenses (357,602) (496,049) (597,133) (644,959) (1,093,182)
Loss from operations (106,918) (306,733) (345,394) (181,194) (652,127)
Investment income, net 818 82,047 14,468 26,278 96,515
Interest income 19,833 24,407 49,971 20,675 74,378
Interest expense - - (15,638) - (15,638)
Exchange gains/(losses) 10,669 (2,101) (847) 702 (2,948)
Other, net 7,697 14,930 (4,905) 11,009 10,025
Total other income 39,017 119,283 43,049 58,664 162,332
Loss before income tax (67,901) (187,450) (302,345) (122,530) (489,795)
Income tax (2,405) (8,188) (12,671) (5,579) (20,859)
Net loss (70,306) (195,638) (315,016) (128,109) (510,654)
Accretions to Pre-IPO preferred shares redemption value (1,408) - - (64,605) -
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests 350 9,678 2,201 1,300 11,879
Net loss attributable to the Bilibili Inc.'s shareholders (71,364) (185,960) (312,815) (191,414) (498,775)
Net loss per share, basic (0.26) (0.60) (0.96) (1.11) (1.56)
Net loss per ADS, basic (0.26) (0.60) (0.96) (1.11) (1.56)
Net loss per share, diluted (0.26) (0.60) (0.96) (1.11) (1.56)
Net loss per ADS, diluted (0.26) (0.60) (0.96) (1.11) (1.56)
Weighted average number of ordinary shares, basic 273,886,172 311,841,813 325,661,667 172,176,602 318,789,916
Weighted average number of ADS, basic 273,886,172 311,841,813 325,661,667 172,176,602 318,789,916
Weighted average number of ordinary shares, diluted 273,886,172 311,841,813 325,661,667 172,176,602 318,789,916
Weighted average number of ADS, diluted 273,886,172 311,841,813 325,661,667 172,176,602 318,789,916
The accompanying notes are an integral part of this press release.
NOTES TO UNAUDITED FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Share-based compensation expenses included in:
Cost of revenues 7,555 5,074 6,111 16,235 11,185
Sales and marketing expenses 2,473 3,122 3,778 6,021 6,900
General and administrative expenses 30,296 13,225 17,130 63,811 30,355
Research and development expenses 9,490 13,827 17,381 17,366 31,208
Total 49,814 35,248 44,400 103,433 79,648
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
December 31, June 30,
RMB RMB
Cash and cash equivalents 3,540,031 4,659,202
Time deposits 749,385 3,068,012
Accounts receivable, net 324,392 462,613
Prepayments and other current assets 990,851 1,649,315
Short‑term investments 945,338 835,769
Total current assets 6,549,997 10,674,911
Non‑current assets:
Property and equipment, net 394,898 456,584
Production cost 204,231 338,339
Intangible assets, net 1,419,435 1,559,932
Long‑term investments 979,987 1,600,759
Other long-term assets - 227,627
Total non‑current assets 3,940,039 5,124,729
Total assets 10,490,036 15,799,640
Accounts payable 1,307,598 1,718,444
Salary and welfare payables 246,815 230,193
Taxes payable 38,505 55,240
Short term loan - 100,000
Deferred revenue 985,143 1,081,758
Accrued liabilities and other payables 720,773 625,628
Total current liabilities 3,298,834 3,811,263
Non-current liabilities:
Long-term debt - 3,358,771
Other long-term liabilities - 170,005
Total non-current liabilities - 3,528,776
Total Bilibili Inc.'s shareholders' equity 6,950,796 8,226,875
Noncontrolling interests 240,406 232,726
Total shareholders' equity 7,191,202 8,459,601
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity 10,490,036 15,799,640
Unaudited Reconciliations of GAAP and Non-GAAP Results
All amounts in thousands, except for share and per share data
June 30, March 31, June 30, June 30, June 30,
Share-based compensation expenses 49,814 35,248 44,400 103,433 79,648
Amortization expense related to intangible assets acquired through business acquisitions 1,022 15,014 14,476 2,044 29,490
Adjusted net loss (19,470) (145,376) (256,140) (22,632) (401,516)
Adjusted net loss attributable to the Bilibili Inc.'s shareholders (20,528) (135,698) (253,939) (85,937) (389,637)
Adjusted net loss per share, basic (0.07) (0.44) (0.78) (0.50) (1.22)
Adjusted net loss per ADS, basic (0.07) (0.44) (0.78) (0.50) (1.22)
Adjusted net loss per share, diluted (0.07) (0.44) (0.78) (0.50) (1.22)
Adjusted net loss per ADS, diluted (0.07) (0.44) (0.78) (0.50) (1.22)
Source: Bilibili Inc.

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For us Asians, cooking rice is one of the simplest things we can do in the kitchen. Just pour cups of rice and water into the cooker, wait for a few good minutes, and voila-our staple side dish is ready! But believe it or not, rice and the way it is cooked can be a lot more technical than that, especially if you don't have your trusty rice cooker within reach.
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How to cook it: Following a 1 cup rice to 1.5 cups water ratio, combine the two ingredients in a pot with a lid and bring to a boil while uncovered. Reduce the heat to low, put on the lid, and let the rice simmer. After 20 minutes, turn off the heat and let the rice rest covered for 10 to 30 minutes, depending on how you wish to enjoy it (mushy, chewy, a bit dry). When cooked, brown has a nutty aroma and a chewy texture.
A big hit among health-conscious fans of rice, red rice is considered a superfood packed with fiber, B vitamins, iron, zinc, calcium, and antioxidants.
How to cook it: To prepare, rinse a cup of red rice in water. Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a pot, add the rice, stir for 2 minutes, and pour in 2 cups of water. Once it comes to a boil, lower the heat and cover the pot. Since red rice is unhulled and the bran slows down the absorption of water, cooking may take longer. It is usually left to cook for 45 minutes or until the water is fully absorbed. Remove from heat and leave for 10 minutes.
Glutinous Rice
Locally known as "malagkit", the stout and opaque glutinous rice-unlike the varieties mentioned above - isn't normally eaten or prepared as a side dish, but is usually a main ingredient in Asian desserts and delicacies. It graces Filipino tables in various forms of kakanin such as biko and suman or special rice dishes like champorado and arroz caldo. Hulled malagkit is also milled into a flour-like substance called "galapong", which serves as the base for more native treats like sapin-sapin, bibingka, and palitaw.
How to cook it: A popular malagkit dish is the Filipino rice cake biko, which is also one of the simplest to make. Wash and drain 2 cups of malagkit and cook it in 2 cups of coconut milk (second extraction) over medium heat for 15-20 minutes until it gets dry and sticky. Once taken out of the heat, stir in 1 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon salt. Heat the rice again and allow to cook for 5 more minutes. Transfer the cooked rice in a pan lined with banana leaves, and allow to set. Top it with latik.
The colors of rice don't just come in white, brown, and red. In China, an heirloom variety of rice is grown and is characterized by a dark, almost black, outer covering (bran), which is left intact for its health benefits like vitamin E and antioxidants. Back in the day, it is consumed only by Chinese royalty, hence the nickname "forbidden rice". Like its brown and red counterparts, it absorbs water slower, meaning its cooking time could take longer.
How to cook it: To make a simple serving, rinse a cup of black rice under running water until the water clears up. In a pot, combine rice and 1 ¾ cups of water to a boil. You may add a dash of salt to taste. With the lid on, turn the heat to low and allow the rice to cook for about 35 minutes, until the rice is tender and the water's absorbed. Turn off the heat and let it sit for 10 minutes before fluffing with a fork. When cooked, you'll see that the black grains have turned deep purple or indigo.
This Italian-grown grain has a sticky-creamy texture when cooked, which makes it perfect for Italy's most popular rice dish, the risotto. Arborio rice is often mistaken as a short grain variety, since it appears shorter and rounder after cooking.
How to cook it:Arborio rice is used in risotto and this deceivingly simple dish can actually be pretty tricky to make. While you can cook a good risotto, following different recipes, here are three tips you should remember that will help you get the right consistency and texture of rice:
1. Don't over-stir or under-stir the rice. Stirring the rice occasionally will allow the starch of the rice to give your risotto that creamy consistency.
2. Cook the rice until it has a good bite to it. You don't want a mushy or runny risotto.
3. Although cooking risotto can take a bit long, cooking it in low heat won't help you. Let the rice simmer in medium heat throughout the cooking process.
Ordinary Japanese rice or "uruchimai" are round, translucent grains that clump together when cooked, making them easier to pick up with chopsticks. It is also known as "sushi rice. Making steamed Japanese rice or gohan (which translates to meal) comes with a number of steps. The Japanese are very meticulous when it comes to food preparation, and even their most basic dish isn't exempted from that.
How to cook it: To prepare, rinse a cup of rice by swirling it in water, and drain quickly, so the rice won't absorb the dirt and starch. In Japan, the rice is "sharpened" in between rinses. You can do this by briskly rubbing the grains against each other with your hand balled into a loose fist, swirling, pressing, and twisting down on the damp rice every now and then. After rinsing, soak the rice in 2 cups of lukewarm water for 40 minutes.
Cook in a pot over high heat and reduce to medium heat once the rice starts to boil. When the water's been absorbed, remove the pot from heat and let the rice sit, covered, for 5 minutes. Turn over the rice with a shamoji or a flat rice paddle, then place the lid back and leave it to steam for five to ten more minutes before serving.
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Q: Does msync performance depend on the size of the provided range? I'm making many small random writes to a mmaped file. I want to ensure consistency, so from time to time I use msync, but I don't want to keep track of every single small write that I made. In the current Linux kernel implementation, is there a performance penalty for using msync on the whole file? For example if the file is 100GB, but I only made total of 10MB changes? Is the kernel looping over every page in the range provided for msync to find the dirty pages to flush or are those kept on some sort of linked list/other structure?

A: TL;DR: no it doesn't, kernel structures that hold the needed information are designed to make the operation efficient regardless of range size.
Pages of mappable objects are kept in a radix tree, however the Linux kernel implementation of radix trees has an additional special feature: entries can be marked with up to 3 different marks, and marked entries can be found and iterated on a lot faster. The actual data structure used is called "XArray", you can find more information about it in this LWN article or in Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst.
Dirty pages have a special mark which can be set (PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY) allowing for them to be quickly found when writeback is needed (e.g. msync, fsync, etc). Furthermore, XArrays provide an O(1) mechanism to check whether any entry exists with a given mark, so in the case of pages it can be quickly determined whether a writeback is needed at all even before looking for dirty pages.
In conclusion, you should not incur in a noticeable performance penalty when calling msync on the entire mapping as opposed to only a smaller range of actually modified pages.

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NTS Bulletin July 2020
Technology in Migration Policy and Practice
By The Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS Centre)
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
The technological changes that have heralded the 4th Industrial Revolution are continuously reshaping almost every part of human life, from society to politics and the economy. The area of international migration, increasingly described as one of the defining areas of interest and study of the 21st century, is no exception. According to the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, there were over 271 million recorded international migrants with more than 28 million refugees globally in 2019. Even in the ASEAN region, there were over 662,000 recorded international migrants, a third of whom are refugees. As such the nature of technological advances in the field of migration, including irregular migration, should be of particular interest to those who work in policy-making and practice.
In an effort to better manage irregular migration and its effects on society, governments have been increasingly turning to the use of technology in their migration policy and practices. For example, in 2018, the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration started a pilot programme to place 1,000 asylum seekers using an algorithm, rather than a random allocation of living areas as is the usual policy. In efforts to increase chances of social integration, the algorithm considers the background of individuals (including personal data such as area of residence, training and employment, age, countries of origin and arrival dates) in assigning them to areas where they have the highest probability of employment.
With increasing access to sophisticated technologies at lower costs, refugees themselves are also turning to technological solutions to their problems. Blockchain technology in particular is being used to solve the problem of refugees lacking legal identification documents. Based in Malaysia, the Rohingya Project is working on creating digital identities for Rohingya refugees to solve a key problem facing the diaspora in their host countries financial exclusion. As the Rohingya are effectively stateless, they lack recognised identity documentation, which tends to restrict them to the 'shadow economy', further increasing their vulnerability to exploitation. Having digital identities would enable them to potentially access public services including education, healthcare and banking.
However, these technologies can also work against those they intend to help. As digital identities are likely to contain sensitive information, they could also be used to keep track of and/or further in-crease surveillance and control of these vulnerable communities in the hands of corporations and governments. This is already happening elsewhere as seen in the case of private data analytics company Palantir Technologies which develops technologies that are being used to track and enforce deportations of irregular migrants in the US.
COVID-19 has also exposed the potential abuses of the use of technology in migration policies. In the case of the UK, their contact tracing application uses a centralised model for the data it collects, meaning a significant amount of data including proximity data can be shared with outsourced private companies. The data of users who test positive for COVID-19 will also be kept on the system for 20 years. Although the UK's National Health Service has said that this information will not be used for non-COVID-19 related purposes, the UK government has previously made data useful for immigration enforcement purposes exempt from these data protection laws. This exemption could very well come into effect, post-pandemic as well.
Some countries have gone one step further in the discussion, with "immunity passports". For example, Estonia has created an "immunity passport" app to allow individuals to show proof of their COVID-19 antibodies and/or vaccination records to others. However, scientific consensus around the accuracy of antibody tests is still pending; moreover, this can unnecessarily heighten discrimination against vulnerable communities. Individuals from countries that do not implement such immunity passport programmes could be barred from travelling to countries that enforce them, further marginalising vulnerable refugees who may have limited access to such programmes and/or documentation.
The reshaping of migration policies and practices due to technology has intensified in the 21st century. While advances in technology have clear benefits to both policymakers and migrants themselves, there are also drawbacks. As seen during this current COVID-19 pandemic, while useful as a tool for contact-tracing, the normalisation of surveillance technologies can also quickly turn these tools into symbols of oppression, denying already vulnerable refugee communities agency and dignity. As technology continues to grow and provide solutions to certain problems, they should not be regarded as the cure, but only as part of a cure with political, economic and social dimensions needed as well.
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Life in the Healy household has been good and very busy since we last wrote (which is part of why we haven't written in a while). Suffield Academy is back in session as of today, and Amy heads back to work tomorrow. Seth will be at daycare at the school, along with several of the children of other faculty members. It's going to be a big adjustment (especially for Amy, who has been home with Seth all summer), but the people at daycare are great, and Seth will have lots of friends to hang out with. Amy has Monday and Tuesday mornings off, so she'll still get plenty of time with Seth.
Today Seth turned 4 months old, and his 4-month checkup at the doctor's is tomorrow. We'll get to find out how much he's grown in the last two months, and we're anxious to find out about new developments that are headed our way (teeth, solid food, etc).
In the meantime, Seth has had many exciting developments! He's taken a great interest in his right foot, grabbing it whenever he can. It seems to be his favorite new toy, as he calms down and is content when it's in his hand. He's managed to get his toes up to his mouth, so that's been a lot of fun for him as well. He'll often curl up when he's on his back to get his feet where he can reach them.
He really enjoys grabbing at his toys now, and everything he gets ahold of goes right in his mouth. His favorite toy (besides his foot) is the "ADHD penguin" given to us by Jill (Jason calls it that because it has so many colors, features, and other distractions). Staying with his podiatric interests, he most enjoys chewing on the penguin's feet.
Seth now rolls from front to back with ease, finding it a great way to get out of "tummy time". He also seems very close to being able to roll from back to front, but hasn't quite managed this feat yet (he can roll to his side, but can't get all the way over).
Seth is getting better at sitting up (with some help) and staying in a sitting position. He still flops over pretty regularly, but smiles and giggles when he sits, so we think he likes it and will try to do it more in the future.
His hair is starting to fall out, so he's a little more bald than before. He still has enough hair on top for a good fauxhawk, but we can't help wondering what he'll look like in a month or two (new hair? no hair?).
We've uploaded all of our pictures from the month of August, so feel free to visit the photo gallery and see what's new. We've had visits with Wethersfield friends, Williams College classmates, auntie Lissa, and others.
We'll try to write more (and more often), but for now, that's the update from Suffield!


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Q: After which type of Exceptions/Crashes does an Azure Cloud instance perform restarts? As far as I remember, a role instance should automatically perform a restart after a crash/failure.
In order to test that behaviour, I wrote an application that enforces an out-of-memory-exception and my application crashed. The role instance didn't perform a restart, because it was still running and ok - the instance just restartet the .NET runtime.
I'm trying to find out how an instance reacts on different errors. In my case, a restart wasn't necessary. What type of errors/exceptions (that I can enforce) would cause a complete restart of an instance? What type of errors/exceptions would kill an instance forever?

A: The only reason that causes a role instance to be recycled (restarted) is when the Run method of RoleEntryPoint exits. This typically happens when you:

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*Overrided Run() method, and

*Have an unhandled exception in your program code, that would cause the Run() method to exit

Your role however would recycle, but rather hang, when you have enabled IntelliTrace logs collection.
The default template for a WebRole does not override Run() method, thus leaving the default implementation, which is "Thread.Sleep(-1);". There is no (auto) event that would cause automatic role recycling of a WebRole. Unless you do something in your RoleEntryPoint, that would cause Run method to exit. This automatic recycling only happens with WorkerRole, which do implement the Run() method.
UPDATE 1 (acording to comment 1)
run-Methoded of a RoleEntryPoint faces an error

Not just an error, but such kind of error (i.e. an unhandled exception), which causes the Run() method to exit.
Moreover, you can't just override the Run() in your WebRole, becasue your RoleEntryPoint descendat lives in different app domain (even different process) then your web application (so it will have no idea about your application's exceptions). Read more about Full IIS hosting and process here.
So, for a web role you just have a web application in fully features IIS 7.0 / 7.5, which has no idea that this IIS is part of an Azure deployment. Global.asax is your place to manage unhandled web application errors in ASP.NET. Check out this question, the answer of which provides a good example for Application_Error() handler.
You could use the RequestRecycle static method of RoleEnvironment type to manually require role recycling in your Application_Error() method. However don't recommend you to do so. I don't see a good practice in restarting the web server because of an application error. You should implement good exception handling and error logging strategy, regulary examine your error logs and take actions to avoid crytical errors that would require server restart.
What is your original intent? To understand when a Role will be automacitally recycled, or to model your application such as to automatically recycle your role on error? If it is the latter, I suggest that you revise your business requirements/logic.
UPDATE 2
I can't talk from Neil's mouth, but "instance failure" is everything that can cause a running VM to hang. Instance in Windows Azure is a signle Virtual Machine that hosts your application's code (read this blog post for detailed explanaition on Hosted Service, Role, Instance). Your application runs in a Windows Server based OS. It is a virtual machine. Anything could happen - from hardware failure on the host, to a generic software/driver failure of the guest OS. It is not neccessary to be your code. So in case something happens which would cause a single VM to fail - this issue is automatically handled by the Windows Azure Fabric. If it neccessary - your code is automatically deployed to another virtual machine. And this happens automagically. You do nohting. Imagine a HDD breaks, or a memory module burns out, or a network interface stops responding - these are just a few simple issues that could cause a running VM to fail. This is an instance failure.
A failure in your code is something that you should take care of. Everything else - Windows Azure Fabric controller takes care of.
UPDATE 3

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*What happens to an asp.net application in a webrole if an exception occurs and it is not handled? Will the application just hang in an
  undefined state ("broken") until I look for it or will it be
  terminated by the vm?

This question is totally out of scope! What happens to an asp.net application in a shared hosting account? Or in on-premise IIS installation? Application crash for the user whose actions caused the crash. The worst case app pool recycle. I have never seen a "hung" asp.net application. There is no such thing as "terminated asp.net application" or "broken". If it is a generic error that is caused during application startup or first request - the application will never be online. If it is error caused by some sequence of user actions - user will see an ugly error message and nothing more (unless you have appropriate Application_Error() handler in your Global.asax. I think it is enough explanations for a question having nothing to do with Azure.

*Can you think of a piece of .NET code in my application that could cause the crash of a whole web role or it is not possible with
  managed code (apart from an unknown bug in .NET)?

Are you kidding? This code will crash your web role and will force a recycling:
RoleEnvironment.RequestRecycle()

Please accept this question, as I don't think there is something missing. Plus it has answers to at least 4 more questions, added to the original one.
FINAL
There is no such thing as "kill the instance forever".


Without the crutch of voiceover narration, directly conveying mental behaviors and particularly pathologies through cinema is a formidable endeavor, one often better left to the printed word.
Respectably, French auteur Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale) introduces Freud to Sisyphus with this bone-dry yet oddly absorbing procedural, a cathartic, talky two-hander between "soul-sick" Native American Blackfoot James Picard (Benicio Del Toro as an alcoholic, shell-shocked WWII veteran prone to debilitating headaches and sight loss) and French-American ethnologist and analyst Georges Devereux (Mathieu Amalric) in a 1948 Topeka, Kansas, clinic.
Loosely structured like a two-hour abridgement of what the real-life Devereux chronicled in his book-length case study Reality and Dream, the film gently pushes viewers through the duo's therapy process like a highbrow The King's Speech.
Amalric's impish dexterity and Del Toro's mild catatonia make for a memorable mismatch, but Jimmy P.'s profound slow burn might be too clinical for some to consider dramatic.


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All ICT staff must respect the statutory rights of staff and students.
Every staff must respect and maintain the hierarchy in administration.
Every ICT staff must adhere strictly to the official resumption/closing time
Every ICT staff must dress decently and appropriately to work
Every staff must exercise self-discipline and restraint at all times and deal politely with staff, students and the general public.
Be careful when opening attachments and programmes found on the Internet.
All ICT staff must be punctual at his/her place of work and signing of attendance is mandatory. No staff should absent themselves from work except on approval by the relevant authorities
All ICT staff should monitor the Non-ICT staff, students coming into the ICT Centre to ensure, their visit is strictly official.
As users of ICT, students are responsible for their own behaviour and communications. It is expected that they will comply with the high standards set by the school when they are online.
Staff may review files and communications to ensure that users are using the system responsibly. Users should not expect that files stored on servers or in the Cloud would always be private.
Do not participate in 'chain mails', no matter how valuable their message may seem. Peace on earth won't be achieved by bombarding others with e-mail messages.
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UCF Knights weekend series recap against the Columbia Lions
By Lawrence Laguna / [email protected]
ORLANDO – The turnout for the University of Central Florida Knights weekend series at Jay Bergman Field against the Columbia Lions resulted in another series victory as they took the series three games to one.
This now marks the Knights' fifth series victory out of five played so far this season, capping off victories over Siena, Winthrop, Jacksonville University, Florida A&M and now Columbia.
Game one of the four game set commenced with the Knights ace starter Ben Lively guiding his team to a smooth victory as UCF piled up 10 runs compared to Columbia's three.
Lively pitched seven innings, allowed five hits and tied his career high in strikeouts with 11 as he improved his record to four wins and one loss for the season.
"Ben Lively did what he did, he gave us a chance to win tonight," said UCF head coach Terry Rooney. "It certainly wasn't his best performance tonight. Statistically it was good."
Behind the pitching came earned offense as the Knights delivered five runs in the first three innings of play. Austin Johnston lead the way for UCF early as he scored in the first run of the game on a single to score Erik Hempe.
The Knights would also play some small ball and take advantage to steal three bases. Columbia would only go on to score their first run in the fifth inning and come up with two more in the ninth inning before they were shut down by UCF pitcher Tyler Martin to cap off game one.
The second game of series came down to within one run, as Columbia was able to get redemption as they defeated the Knights 5-4.
Columbia earned its offense starting early in the first inning as the Lions scored two runs to jump out to the quick 2-0 lead. After starting 3-0 for the season Danny Davis would take the mound for the Knights only to allow early offense.
"Credit Columbia, they deserved to win," said Rooney. "They played better than us, they made more plays, they threw more strikes."
UCF's offense remained quiet until the sixth inning, when Parker Webster had an RBI double to left center field with the bases loaded to take the lead 3-2.
The Lions regained the lead in the top of the seventh inning when Ferraresi came up with one out and runners on first and second base. He cleared the bases with a double to left center field handing Columbia a 4-3 lead.
Columbia would go on to never let go of the lead and gain the final run off of a Jordan Serena double to left field off of UCF pitcher Spencer Davis to cap off the game with the 5-4 advantage.
Game three would give back the Knights the series as Chris Taladay assisted UCF with a 3-for-4 night as he broke into the all-time UCF hits list with 226 to pass Tyson Auer for No. 10 all-time.
"It's a great feeling and we had some great players at UCF and that's huge for me knowing that I can hit so well," said Taladay about making it on the top 10 hitter's list.
Brian Adkins took the mound for UCF as the Orlando native tossed 5 2/3 of three-hit baseball while allowing an unearned run and striking out five Columbia batters for his first win of the 2013 season, and 14th of his career.
Facing a 1-0 deficit, the Knights anwered in the third inning by taking advantage of two mishandled bunts after Tommy Williams (2-for-4, 1 RBI) singled to lead off the frame. After a sacrifice fly by Erik Hempe (1-for-3, 1 RBI), Taladay came through with the runners in motion by ripping a two-run double to right field to make the score 3-1.
Overall, the Lions would commit six errors as the Knights would put up six runs compared to Columbia's one to take a 2-1 series lead.
The last game of the series displayed the Knights dominance on how to close out a series. Eric Skoglund took the mound and pitched eight innings while allowing three hits. He began the game retiring the first nine batters he faced, including a four pitch inning.
"I thought that was his best performance of his career," said Rooney. "He was out there and being aggressive, letting his fastball rip and throwing some pretty off speed pitches."
The Knights defense committed no errors behing Skoglund and would go on to defeat the Lions 5-1. The two teams won't meet again for the rest of the season and UCF will go on to play their next series consisting of three games against UAB from March 22-24.
By Lawrence Laguna / [email protected], Author


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When I returned from two-week vacation, I had an email from my manager in my Outlook Inbox. She was assigning me to a new course. This course was in the pre-development phases with a project team of Subject Matter Experts (who also happened to be Instructors) assigned to the course.
I was also told that they were pretty far into the Design phase, because they had an outline and were starting to figure out their content.


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The main reason why I am sharing this particular weblog entry with you folks is to actually point you to a recent podcast I have been doing with the ever so insightful Maggie Fox, over at Social Media Group, as part of the Social Media Collective podcasting series.
If you would remember, not long ago I created a weblog entry over here mentioning how just recently I joined the Social Media Collective. In that post I mentioned how one of the different initiatives that is going on within the group is a podcasting series conducted by Maggie and just a few minutes ago she has just published episode #5 where I am the guest speaker.
"Luis is incredibly enthusiastic about social media (or "social computing" as the Europeans seem to like to call it). We talk about his three blogs (Elsua.net, The Knowledge Management Blog and his internal one at IBM), how he loves the fact that the Collective feed allows him to keep up with all his favourite bloggers in one place, how blogging helped him break his email addiction, his work at IBM helping companies build collaborative communities, how Knowledge Management has changed, the notion of the enterprise-wide "Knowledge Jam", IBM's perspective on and history in Second Life, social media vs. social computing, and empirical proof that all Spaniards hate celery."
Thus without any much further ado, go and have a listen. Hope you enjoyed it! And feel free to append any comment over here, over at the Social Media Today with Maggie Fox Web site or at Maggie's weblog.
Thanks ever so much, Maggie, for giving me this opportunity to participate from the Social Media Collective podcast series! Way too much fun!
Glad you enjoyed it too!!!
I downloaded the podcast but it only went for 6 minutes, not sure if I did something wrong.
Hi John ! Thanks a bunch for the feedback! I am not sure what is going on, but the actual podcast is about 28 minutes long and downloads quite nicely from the following RSS newsfeed: http://www.smcpodcast.com/rss, so you may want to have a look at that feed, if you haven't used it before. And if that does not work, let me know and I will have a look with Maggie about it. And see what is going on. It may have been also a temporary glitch. Who knows. Have a look and let me know if you still cannot download the full 28 minutes.
Appreciate your coverage if you have additional info.
Hello Sawada-san! Thanks very much for dropping by and for sharing, once again, some really good feedback! Yes, indeed "Innovation Factory" is off and they are certainly getting started with a number of really good offerings worth while checking out. I must say that I had a couple of them already in my radar to comment on further on them, but it looks like the list keeps growing up further, so will probably be touching base on all of those different offerings as time goes by. Appreciated the heads up and the support bringing forward some really good stuff that IBM is keeping itself busy with. Keep up with sending along the superb links and we will cover them over here a bit more extensively as time permits. Thanks again for the feedback!


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Cornell Board of Trustee member Ezra Cornell '70 announces the ONE Cornell Employee Award winners. To Cornell's right is Mary Opperman, vice president and chief human resources officer, and behind are other members of the Board of Trustees.
University, trustees honor outstanding employees
By James Dean |
They made Cornell a more welcoming and inclusive place, ran labs and dining halls more efficiently, and nurtured campus gardens and landscapes to their fullest beauty, among many other contributions.
Members of Cornell Retail Services pose with their ONE Cornell Awards.
University leaders and trustees on Nov. 18 honored 15 individuals and three teams with President's Awards for Employee Excellence, and the inaugural Trustee Award for Excellence.
In all, 154 employees were nominated for the four individual president's awards, and 19 groups – totaling more than 160 people – for the ONE Cornell team award.
The new trustee award drew from the entire list of nominees, who were celebrated at the seventh annual Employee Recognition Award Luncheon in Barton Hall.
"This is a terrific opportunity for me and for all of us to collectively take a moment to pause and say 'thank you' to a subset of our work force who goes above and beyond every day, and to celebrate their accomplishments together as a community," said Mary Opperman, vice president and chief human resources officer.
In a statement read by trustee Ezra Cornell '70, President Martha E. Pollack praised the nominees for "demonstrating extraordinary skills, teamwork, dedication and creativity."
Joe Rowe, director of administration in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, receives his Thoughtful Leader Award.
The great-great-great grandson of the university's founder, Cornell reviewed every nomination to help select the first three recipients of the trustee award, recognizing contributions to the greater university good. Employees' character, energy, passion and positive impact were among the factors considered – "those elements that when you read the nomination you say, 'Yes, we want more of that,'" Cornell said. "We were looking for some really special people."
Joining Cornell in presenting the inaugural awards were trustees John Alexander '74, MBA '76; J.T. Baker '21; Jeramy Kruser; Bruce Lewenstein; Manisha A. Munasinghe, Ph.D. '20; Carolyn Neuman '64; and Jaewon Sim '21.
The awards and winners:
The Mission-Possible Award – for supporting the university's core mission of learning, discovery and engagement:
Carl Cornell, undergraduate program coordinator in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, for redefining program services and support to create a greater sense of community, cohesiveness and belonging.
Aaron Jacobsen, teaching support specialist in the Department of Food Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, who developed new ideas that freed up more than 1,800 square feet of lab space for research.
Karen Prosser, lead finance specialist for the Finance and Budget Office in the College of Engineering, for initiative in generating reports and supporting colleagues with a positive, energetic outlook.
The Game Changer Award – for developing or implementing a new approach, system or idea:
Mark McHugh, manager of the Food Service Suite System for Cornell Dining, for innovative improvements to Cornell Dining processes and IT systems.
Peter DeStefano, director of player personnel, alumni, community and career programs for the varsity football program, who developed a comprehensive career development program that is the only one of its kind in the Ivy League.
Gary Stewart, associate vice president for community relations, for creating the New York State Hometown Alumni Award to recognize graduates making an impact in their home communities, a "simple but effective way to demonstrate Cornell's value."
The Culture of Belonging Award – for creating and supporting an open, inclusive, welcoming and equitable workplace environment:
Bianca Burns, graduate student services coordinator for the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the College of Engineering, for a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Cheryl McGraw, events manager in the Office of the Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Division of Human Resources, for ensuring that events and venues are accessible to employees with nonstandard schedules and special dietary needs.
Christian Miller, research and instruction librarian in Cornell University Library's Catherwood Library, who started monthly "#randomcoffee" events bringing together library employees for 30-minute breaks, walks or lunches, encouraging inclusion and collaboration.
The Thoughtful Leader Award – for mentoring or coaching colleagues:
Karene Booker, administrative manager for the Department of Development Sociology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, for creating an environment where colleagues can excel, including maintaining a OneNote document that has helped share valuable institutional knowledge.
William Hildreth, senior plant manager for the Central Energy Plant for Facilities and Campus Services, for "leading by example with compassion and integrity," including creating comprehensive training manuals and supporting new hires.
Joe Rowe, director of administration in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, for mentoring, challenging and inspiring colleagues to reach their full potential.
The ONE Cornell Award – for a group that implements a project or solves a problem that positively impacts Cornell and the community:
Campus Life Enterprise Services, a 12-person team that played key roles in a host of initiatives including planning and communicating aspects of the North Campus expansion; "Take Us Home" take-home meals; the Swipe Out Hunger program; management of campus spaces and events; and new student move-in and move-out processes.
Cornell Retail Services, an 11-person team that managed a complex conversion from a 30-year-old operations system to a modern, cloud-based system. Their efforts have enhanced services "while introducing efficiencies and innovations to business operations."
The Onboarding and Orientation Strategy Team, a team of 12 volunteers from across the university who developed a comprehensive program for onboarding and orienting new Cornell staff, earning "overwhelmingly positive" feedback.
The Trustee Award for Excellence – for service-oriented, purposeful and skillful work and a focus on the greater university good:
Kim Klein '90, a gardener in the Facilities Management grounds department, for her pride and passion tending to Cornell gardens and landscapes for nearly 30 years, bringing "care and beauty" to the campus environment.
Bruce Berggren-Thomas '79, a teaching support specialist in the Department of Animal Science in CALS, whose integrity, enthusiasm and skill make him the "cornerstone and heart" of the department, someone "we simply could not perform our jobs without."
Dustin Cutler, executive director of Cornell Dining, recognized as a passionate leader and "overwhelming force of change" who implemented new initiatives to recognize good work and improve communication between colleagues.
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Also known as Sanfermines
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The celebration of San Fermín, popularly known as Sanfermines, is a Festival of International Tourist Interest in honour of Saint Fermin de Amiens, which is held annually in the Spanish city of Pamplona, capital of the northern region of Navarre.
The festivities begin with the launch of the "chupinazo" (a loud rocket – firecracker) from the balcony of the Pamplona City Council, at 12 noon on 6 July. The Sanfermines end at midnight on 14 July when singing the "Pobre de mí…" (Poor me…), a farewell song.
One of the most famous activities of the Sanfermines is the "encierro". It consists of a race of men and women along a route of 875 meters in front of 6 untamed bulls and other 6 tamed bulls; the race finishes in the bullring of the city. This race in front of bulls takes place every day, between the 7th and 14th of July, and starts at eight in the morning, with a duration of between two and four minutes, although in recent years due to the security measures introduced it is very rare that they exceed three minutes.
The Sanfermines festival has an origin that goes back several centuries, although their worldwide fame is a recent phenomenon, also linked to the diffusion that Ernest Hemingway gave it. It is one of the most unique festivals and, with no doubt, the event by which the city of Pamplona is best known in the world. Its current nature, cosmopolitan and multitudinous atmosphere is the result of a slow historical evolution whose origins date back to the Middle Ages.
Below we describe the most important elements of this festivity from the north of Spain.
The chupinazo
The chupinazo is the rocket (firecracker) that is launched on 6th July each year at midday from the balcony of Pamplona's city hall. It marks the start of the fiestas of San Fermín (Sanfermines). It attracts a large number of people and it is broadcasted live on television.
After the Spanish dictatorship, in the election of the first democratic city council in 1979, it was adopted the criteria of firing the rocket in rotary turns among the members who organized the festival. Later, on 1983, it started to be launched by the different political groups within the city council. Since then, there have been some exceptions, generally related to sports where, for instance, the captain of some major regional football team was allowed to throw the chupinazo due to his team being promoted to the top division soccer.
Since July 6, 1941, the formula that has been mostly pronounced when launching the chupinazo has been as follows:
'"Pamploneses, Pamplonesas, ¡Viva san Fermín! Gora San Fermin!"
An approximate translation would be "Citizens of Pamplona, hail Saint Fermin!".
"Gora San Fermin" is the way of saying "Hail Saint Fermin" in a local language called euskera.
The Riau-Riau
The Riau-Riau is a traditional event within the Sanfermines, whose raison d'être keeps an essence full of criticism and protest against authority. It never had official consideration and it is not included in the official program of Sanfermines.
It is celebrated on the afternoon of July 6, at approximately 4:30 pm, when officials of the city hall leave the building to participate in the Vespers function in the Church of San Lorenzo.
Citizens of Pamplona, tourists, musicians and troupers such as those of "Gigantes and Cabezudos" occupy the city hall square, and later the Calle Mayor (Major Street), singing and dancing the "Riau Riau": a waltz composed in the middle of the 19th century by Miguel Astráin under the name of "La Alegría por San Fermín" (The Happiness for Saint Fermin).
In this way, in its origin, those officials from the city hall (specifically those working in the "Corporación municipal") had many troubles passing through the crowd, making a journey of just 500 meters taking several hours to complete. The last Riau-Riau to achieve this objective was in 1985, with a duration of three and a half hours, during which the "Waltz of Astráin" was interpreted, sung and danced around 180 times.
Since 1997 the Riau-Riau has been officially absent from the San Fermín festivities, although every year it is one of the hot topics when planning the programme of the Sanfermines. Since that year, some groups and associations organize an alternative Riau-Riau, without the participation of political representatives but with the people of Pamplona who want to preserve the tradition of going to Vespers along the route between the town hall and the church of San Lorenzo to the sound of the Waltz of Astrain. In 2018, this popular and unofficial modality celebrated its 21st edition.
El encierro (The running of bulls)
It consists of taking to the bullring the six bulls that are going to be fought at 18:30 of the same day in the bullfight. Since summer time was established in Spain in 1974, the running of the bulls starts every day at 08:00 hours. At that time they leave from the farmyard of Santo Domingo, where they have spent the night, and they go towards the bullring, where they arrive after travelling about 875 meters. All this is helped by 6 tamed bulls that serve as a guide for the other bulls, and also to somehow calm them down.
If you are only visiting Pamplona and don't want to participate in the "encierro" of San Fermín, don't worry about the bulls. The route is fenced and the bulls can't escape. The running of the bulls can be seen from the wooden fences that are installed along the streets, from private balconies or in the bullring itself.
There are fences protecting spectators from bulls during the "encierros"
The first encierro of San Fermín is on 7 July, and the last one is on 14 July.
The encierro of San Fermín has a medieval origin in the "entrance": the Navarrese shepherds brought the fighting bulls from the meadows of the "Ribera de Navarra" to the "Plaza Mayor" (Main Square), which was used as a bullfighting bullring as there was not any bullring yet in the city. The night before the bullfight they camped near the city and, at dawn, they entered the race together with the tame bulls (called "cabestros") and accompanied by people who, on horseback or on foot, helped with sticks and shouts to lock them in the corrals.
Eventually, at the end of the 19th century, they went from running after the bulls to help locking them in, to running ahead; this is how this custom became so popular. Some historical documents say that the first people to challenge the prohibitions that prevented running in front of the bulls were the butchers of the Santo Domingo Market, located next to the hill of the same name.
Chants and canticles
Before running the encierro, the participants ask to the saint "San Fermín" for help through chants and canticles that are sung on the slope of Santo Domingo Street (at the beginning of the route) 5, 3 and 1 minutes before the running of bulls; that is, at 07:55, 07:57 and 07:59. Since 2009 the chants have been performed both in Spanish and in Euskera / Basque (a local language).
Part of the chants say:
"A San Fermín pedimos por ser nuestro patrón, nos guíe en el encierro dándonos su bendición" which means "To Saint Fermin we ask for being our patron saint, to guide us in the running of bulls giving us your blessing".
The route during the running of bulls
The route of the encierro goes through the streets of Pamplona's old quarter and ends in the bullring. The corner between Mercaderes Street and Estafeta Street is a very popular place for photographers, and it is in this last street where you can see the longest straight section of the running of bulls.
Corner between Mercaderes Street and Estafeta Street in the Spanish city of Pamplona
The herd of bulls runs the whole route in about four minutes on average, at about 25 km/h and it is composed of six bulls and eight (sometimes six) tame bulls, followed by young men who work as shepherds in case any of the bulls is left behind.
The shepherds are identified with a bracelet which usually is green. Recently they also use clothing of the same color to clearly differentiate themselves from the rest of the participants in the race.
Other fundamental participants in the encierro are the "dobladores". They are four professional bullfighters carrying a bullfighting cape. In case some bull is left behind from the herd, the dobladores are in charge of leading them to the corrals in the bullring, trying to take them in a straight line so that they do not take any bad habit that could affect their afternoon bullfight.
The owner and origin of the bulls change every day, since they all (except the tame bulls) participate in bullfightings after each encierro. Therefore, there is a total of 8 different bull farms participating in the Sanfermines (San Fermín).
At the end of it
When all the bulls are already in the corrals of the bullring, the runners who participated in the encierro wait in the arena of the bullring for the release of heifers. It is usual for people to sit in front of the exit door so that the heifer passes over them.
It is a tradition of the San Fermin festival to stay right next at the door of the bullring when heifers are entering. Before participating on it, we recommend you to check if your health insurance covers injuries from bulls… 😂
Many people are run over by the heifer, partly because with so many people participating in the activity, it is hard to know in which direction the animal is moving.
It is totally forbidden to mistreat the animals, whether through kicks, climbing on top of them, grabbing them from the tail or similar.
The San Fermín encierro itself has its own risks. There are an average of 2,000 people participating in each running of bulls, and the bulls can gore or trample. It is common to see each day of Sanfermines to several participants of the encierro injured by horns, blows or traumas, especially if there are bulls left behind and not following the herd, or when it is formed a blockage due to the running crowd of people.
Although it is not common, there have been some deaths in the last 30 years.
In any case, if you are a foreigner and you have been injured during the encierro, you will be treated and healed. Nevertheless, keep in mind that they will pass the cost of the treatment to be paid by your health insurance.
The parade of giants, horses (kilikis) and big-heads (zaldicos or, in Spanish, cabezudos)
The Giants of Pamplona have more than a century and a half of history, and they are one of the most emblematic symbols of the Sanfermines festival. They are big figures made of wood, cardboard and fabric accompanied by a cohort of kilikis (horses) and zaldikos (cabezudos). Together they form the "Comparsa", which consists of a procession that takes place every morning of the fiesta of San Fermin, although you will be able to see them on the street some other times during the celebration. Behind each couple of giants there are musicians setting their pace.
The group of giants is composed by four couples that represent the races of the world and the continents, although there is not a couple representing Oceania. The white couple of giants are the kings of Europe, the yellow one the pair of kings of Asia, the light black one the pair of kings of Africa, and the black one the pair of kings of America.
The weight of the giants of Sanfermines is around 59 kilos in the European queen and 66.5 kg in the African king. Their height reaches 3.9 meters.
Giants, horses and big heads next to some Sanfermines participants
Fireworks of San Fermín
Every night at 11 pm, visitors can witness the burning of the pyrotechnic collection, which is between a quarter of an hour and 25 minutes long. Currently, the pyrotechnic spectacle during the Sanfermines has become an international competition in which professionals from other Spanish cities such as Valencia and Zaragoza, but also foreigners from countries such as Italy compete.
The history of the fireworks of the San Fermín festivities goes back to the 16th century and almost goes hand in hand with the precedents of the giants. Fire has always been a substantial element in the celebrations and rites of this northern Spanish land. The Chinese later introduced gunpowder and the city of Pamplona became home of fireworks in the Sanfermines since 1595. First there were modest Japanese firecrackers such as rockets and bombs in the Plaza del Castillo (Castle Square), but today they are a majestic pyrotechnic collections launched from the Citadel at 11 pm.
Other activities in Sanfermines
The atmosphere during the eight days of Sanfermines is really festive and jovial, so there are a lot of additional activities that give the city an absolute partying atmosphere. In fact, even at the end of the San Fermín festival, people sing a farewell song ("Pobre de mí…") but at the same time they happily embrace the wait for next year Sanfermines.
In addition to the running of bulls (encierro), which is the activity par excellence of the San Fermín festival, there are also many music concerts, sport competitions (chess, fencing, golf…), theatre plays and shows.
Each year the programme of the Sanfermines changes. Therefore, the year you come to visit this festivity, we advise you to take a look at their new programme on their official website.
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The dearth of activity at the Lincoln Discussion Forum signals the lack of love for Lincoln in Dearborn. With Ford making, walking back and modifying announcements about its future plans, Lincoln flies under the radar as the stealth marque.
Even the fake news about Lincoln fronted on FIN never appeared under the Lincoln Discussion banner. We even heard from a Ford of Europe exec about the state of battery tech (he's probably in solitary confinement now for his breach) but cobwebs are forming here. Lincoln has a president but his mouth must be taped shut; a management team with their mikes turned off.
There's no excitement here. No steak. No sizzle. No news. Nothing.
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They announced the Lincoln Aviator, Navigator Hybrid, New MKC (with new name), Continental with suicide doors, plus another unnamed vehicle in the next few years. I do agree with you however, more news and talk out of LiMoCo would be nice.
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Agreed. I, too, would like to see more discussion and insight about Lincoln on here.
Most Lincoln threads just get put in the FMC discussion section anyway.
Well, it would make some sense to not wait a model year after the new Escape.
I'd love to hear that this is actually happening.
This mean we can spect to see the new Corsair in the next 6 months.... Los Angeles Autoshow?
We've already seen near finished prototypes running around.
Probably, unless they give it its own event. They also have to show the production Aviator too.


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I am glad to hear that you are visiting my home town Patiala next week. I know this is the first time you are visiting this place but you do not have to worry about anything at all. I will be glad to put you up for the entire duration of your trip. Now in case that is not fine with you, you can stay in one of the luxury hotels in the city. There are many of them and they all offer facilities such as air-conditioned room, well-equipped bathroom, swimming pool and many more.
Patiala is a big city with lots of tourist attractions. The world's number one doll museum is here. There are some fabulous dance clubs too. I know you are the kind of person who just loves to dance to the beats of rock music. There is also a wonderful market where you will find all kinds of modern and traditional lifestyle products.
You don't have to bring warm clothes, as the weather is sunny at this time of the year. Instead pack cotton clothes in light shades. In addition, you must have long sleeve kurtas to get protection from the sunlight.
Do inform me the exact date and time of your arrival so that I can receive you at the airport. See you soon.


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