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The app offers a variety of features for those on slower or unreliable networks. For example, Lite users can turn on a Data saver mode that allows them to control which images or video load when browsing the network. Once enabled, you can load this content by tapping “Load Image” or “Load video,” as needed.
The app is also under 3MB in size, so it will load more quickly on slower networks.
And like Twitter, the app includes features like Bookmarks, a darker “Night mode” theme, threads, and starting today, push notifications.
The company in November claimed Twitter Lite led to a greater than 50% increase in tweets, and noted that 80% of its then 330 million monthly users were outside the U.S. That percentage remains roughly the same – as of July, Twitter had a total of 335 million users, with 68 million of those in the U.S.
However, the company isn’t growing that quickly outside the U.S., despite Twitter Lite. Also as of July 2018, we noted the company’s international audience had only grown by a modest 3.5% over the past year.
An expansion of the Twitter Lite app will certainly open up Twitter to more people, but it’s not clear there’s much demand.
The app is available as a free download on Google Play.
Though the bar opens on Friday, its grand opening will be Saturday from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. They will have food trucks both nights, though – Chirba Chirba on Friday and Qspresso Cubanos Saturday. There will be beer, cocktail and whiskey specials Saturday as well.
Info: 623 Hillsborough St., Raleigh, 919-607-8501, dramanddraught.com, Hours: 5 p.m.-2 a.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 5 p.m.-midnight Sunday.
A Council of Trade Unions (CTU) survey shows 71 percent of nearly 1200 workers say their income has fallen behind their expenses.
However, this follows news of the economy having grown by 2.6 percent in the past year.
The council's president, Richard Wagstaff, said it was unfair that workers were not feeling the benefit of a booming economy.
"It's one thing for the economy to be doing well but if it's not being shared then everyone's not doing well - only a few people at the top," Mr Wagstaff said.
"We need to learn how to share our productivity growth. We haven't been doing that and if we had been doing that people would be much better off today."
Mr Wagstaff said he would table the survey to the government at the next Future of Work forum meeting.
Responses from surveyed workers included comments on the cost of living compared with overseas.
"After living in the UK, Australia and California coming back to NZ it is ridiculous how expensive basic groceries are - not to mention fuel and power," one respondent said.
"I have been in my current job 10+ yrs I have had to do 2 merit steps to be paid $22.60 pr hr. This is the same pay I was on when I left Australia 12 yrs ago," another said.
"My rate of pay has not changed in years but the cost of living continues to rise- this is the case for many New Zealanders. I am fortunate that my husband has a reasonable income. I would simply not be able to survive on my income alone- and my situation isn't unique."
"I was born in NZ and resided and worked here until I was 20; I then travelled and lived in Australia for ten years. Wages and salaries are far better in Australia."
The survey, run by the CTU's Together, was completed by 1195 people between 2-5 January and focused on incomes, cost of living, and conditions of work.
Business leaders are accusing the government of failing to listen to their objections about proposed employment law changes.
Axed over Christmas, told to be out by lunchtime - this is redundancy in NZ, where there's no mandatory notice period or compensation, and little support for those searching for new work.
More than 500 learning support specialists have walked off the job today for the first time, amid negotiations for better pay and working conditions.
ELMORE has avoided a winless Heathcote District league season after ending a tough year with its first victory on Saturday. Largely thanks to their accuracy in front of goal, the Bloods defeated Heathcote 17.5 (107) to 11.14 (80). The 27-point victory ended an overall 17-game losing streak for the Bloods, who before Saturday hadn’t won since they defeated Heathcote – also by 27 points – in round 16 last year. “We attacked the ball all day, took our chances when they came and had 22 blokes all pulling in the one direction,” Elmore coach Danny Brewster said. RELATED – SATURDAY SCOREBOARD “We got the ball in the areas we wanted to and managed to convert, which was pleasing.” The Bloods’ accurate tally of 17.5 featured 5.2 in the first quarter, 3.1 in the second, 6.1 in the third and 3.1 in the last. “I’d say we’d probably have six or seven players who played in their first senior win for the club today. It was good to see the boys got some reward for all the effort they’ve put in for the year,” said Brewster, who kicked four goals. “It has been a long year, but the boys haven’t let-up… they have kept showing up to training and doing the work.” Better players for the Bloods included Matt Thomson in the ruck and Ben Makepeace and Nathan Brewster. “Overall we had 22 contributors, which was a first for us this year and is probably what got us the win,” Brewster said Having spent the past two seasons at the helm, Brewster says he is keen to continue as Elmore coach next year. “I’ll put my hand up for it. I’m all for sticking around, it’s a good group of kids that probably just needs a few more experienced players and we’ll be able to turn it around,” Brewster said. While Brewster is keen to coach on, Saturday’s defeat signals the end of Luke Bell’s two-year coaching tenure at Heathcote, which finishes the season eighth with a 3-13 record. “The year was less than what we hoped for going in,” Bell said. “We had challenges right from losing a couple of players (Daniel Anderson and Blake Coyle) before the season started with knee injuries, which sapped a bit of momentum. “But the big positive is we debuted seven players, which we wouldn’t have done for five years. “The development of our players 21 and under has been good, but it still feels like we under-achieved. “Personally, I’m a bit burnt out with the coaching, but I think whoever takes over will have some good kids to work with. “There’s a good nucleus and if whoever gets the job can bring a forward or two with them, I don’t think it will be long before it can turn around.” North Bendigo secured top spot with its 13th win in a row, but has injury concerns to captain Jarrod Findlay and Lachlan Ford heading into its ninth-consecutive finals series. The Bulldogs put the finishing touch on their home and away season with a 14.24 (108) to 7.10 (52) win over Colbinabbin that locked up top spot. “They were tough conditions and Colbinabbin is a good side that plays its home ground well, so to come away with a win by almost 10 goals was pleasing,” Bulldogs coach Matt Dillon said. The Bulldogs were 34 points up at half-time when they led 8.10 to 3.6, before they added an off-target 6.14 after the main break without the injured pair of Findlay (shoulder) and Ford (foot). “We’ll have to wait and see how they pull up, but I’d say at this stage Lachie is probably the more worrying one out of the two in terms of getting up for our first final in a couple of weeks,” Dillon said. Centre half-back Daniel Morris, who played on Damien Carmody (two goals), Ben Knight (four goals) and Aarryn Craig led the better players for the Bulldogs, who finished as the minor premier for the third time in the past five seasons. Colbinabbin, which ended the home and away season fourth, was best served by Chris Ford, Will Lowe and Matt McEvoy. Just as it did in round nine, Mount Pleasant defeated White Hills by seven points to finish in sixth. In an identical scoreline to their first meeting when Mount Pleasant won 83-76, their return bout was also a 12.11 (83) to 11.10 (76) victory to the Blues at Toolleen. The Demons led by 15 points at half-time, but the Blues kicked eight goals to four after the break to win their fifth game. “White Hills was by far the better side in the first half and we just didn’t work hard enough… they were a lot cleaner and were running the ball well,” Blues coach Darren Walsh said. “We got destroyed in the midfield, but in the second half we changed a few things up in the ruck with where we were tapping the ball and that helped our midfielders to make the play a bit more, so that was a turning point.” Blues’ forward Ben Weightman bagged six goals, including the sealer late in the game with a classy kick from the boundary that bounced through. Weightman, who ended the season with 60 goals, was best for the Blues, who improved this year by three wins compared to 2017. Walsh will coach on with Mount Pleasant next year. The game in which Jake Allport was best for White Hills brought the curtain on Brent Millar’s two-year Demons’ coaching stint. The Demons finished seventh with their 3-13 record. Leitchville-Gunbower put the foot down after half-time to defeat LBU by 70 points at Gunbower. The Bombers were 15 points in front at half-time before piling on 11 goals to two to comfortably win 19.12 (126) to 8.8 (56). Bombers’ forward Matt Perri snared seven goals to win the league goalkicking for the second season in a row with 68 and be one of his side’s best, along with Daniel Coates (three goals) and Matt Ladson. The Cats had some of the wind knocked out of their sails with injuries late in the second quarter to Bart Phillips (groin) and Tom Leech (ankle). Tyler Phillips in the ruck was the Cats’ standout, while Ricky Walsh (three) was their only multiple goalkicker. Meanwhile, earlier in the day Andrew Cochrane played his 300th club game for LBU in the Cats’ 23-point win in the reserves in which he was one of his side’s best and kicked two goals. Saturday, qualifying – Leitchville-Gunbower v Huntly at Heathcote. 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ELMORE has avoided a winless Heathcote District league season after ending a tough year with its first victory on Saturday.
Largely thanks to their accuracy in front of goal, the Bloods defeated Heathcote 17.5 (107) to 11.14 (80).
The 27-point victory ended an overall 17-game losing streak for the Bloods, who before Saturday hadn’t won since they defeated Heathcote – also by 27 points – in round 16 last year.
“We attacked the ball all day, took our chances when they came and had 22 blokes all pulling in the one direction,” Elmore coach Danny Brewster said.
The Bloods’ accurate tally of 17.5 featured 5.2 in the first quarter, 3.1 in the second, 6.1 in the third and 3.1 in the last.
“I’d say we’d probably have six or seven players who played in their first senior win for the club today. It was good to see the boys got some reward for all the effort they’ve put in for the year,” said Brewster, who kicked four goals.
Better players for the Bloods included Matt Thomson in the ruck and Ben Makepeace and Nathan Brewster.
Having spent the past two seasons at the helm, Brewster says he is keen to continue as Elmore coach next year.
“I’ll put my hand up for it. I’m all for sticking around, it’s a good group of kids that probably just needs a few more experienced players and we’ll be able to turn it around,” Brewster said.
While Brewster is keen to coach on, Saturday’s defeat signals the end of Luke Bell’s two-year coaching tenure at Heathcote, which finishes the season eighth with a 3-13 record.
“The year was less than what we hoped for going in,” Bell said.
“We had challenges right from losing a couple of players (Daniel Anderson and Blake Coyle) before the season started with knee injuries, which sapped a bit of momentum.
“But the big positive is we debuted seven players, which we wouldn’t have done for five years.
“The development of our players 21 and under has been good, but it still feels like we under-achieved.
“Personally, I’m a bit burnt out with the coaching, but I think whoever takes over will have some good kids to work with.
North Bendigo secured top spot with its 13th win in a row, but has injury concerns to captain Jarrod Findlay and Lachlan Ford heading into its ninth-consecutive finals series.
The Bulldogs put the finishing touch on their home and away season with a 14.24 (108) to 7.10 (52) win over Colbinabbin that locked up top spot.
“They were tough conditions and Colbinabbin is a good side that plays its home ground well, so to come away with a win by almost 10 goals was pleasing,” Bulldogs coach Matt Dillon said.
The Bulldogs were 34 points up at half-time when they led 8.10 to 3.6, before they added an off-target 6.14 after the main break without the injured pair of Findlay (shoulder) and Ford (foot).
“We’ll have to wait and see how they pull up, but I’d say at this stage Lachie is probably the more worrying one out of the two in terms of getting up for our first final in a couple of weeks,” Dillon said.
Centre half-back Daniel Morris, who played on Damien Carmody (two goals), Ben Knight (four goals) and Aarryn Craig led the better players for the Bulldogs, who finished as the minor premier for the third time in the past five seasons.
Colbinabbin, which ended the home and away season fourth, was best served by Chris Ford, Will Lowe and Matt McEvoy.
Just as it did in round nine, Mount Pleasant defeated White Hills by seven points to finish in sixth.
In an identical scoreline to their first meeting when Mount Pleasant won 83-76, their return bout was also a 12.11 (83) to 11.10 (76) victory to the Blues at Toolleen.
The Demons led by 15 points at half-time, but the Blues kicked eight goals to four after the break to win their fifth game.
“White Hills was by far the better side in the first half and we just didn’t work hard enough… they were a lot cleaner and were running the ball well,” Blues coach Darren Walsh said.
Blues’ forward Ben Weightman bagged six goals, including the sealer late in the game with a classy kick from the boundary that bounced through.
Weightman, who ended the season with 60 goals, was best for the Blues, who improved this year by three wins compared to 2017.
Walsh will coach on with Mount Pleasant next year.
The game in which Jake Allport was best for White Hills brought the curtain on Brent Millar’s two-year Demons’ coaching stint.
The Demons finished seventh with their 3-13 record.
Leitchville-Gunbower put the foot down after half-time to defeat LBU by 70 points at Gunbower.
The Bombers were 15 points in front at half-time before piling on 11 goals to two to comfortably win 19.12 (126) to 8.8 (56).
Bombers’ forward Matt Perri snared seven goals to win the league goalkicking for the second season in a row with 68 and be one of his side’s best, along with Daniel Coates (three goals) and Matt Ladson.
The Cats had some of the wind knocked out of their sails with injuries late in the second quarter to Bart Phillips (groin) and Tom Leech (ankle).
Tyler Phillips in the ruck was the Cats’ standout, while Ricky Walsh (three) was their only multiple goalkicker.
Meanwhile, earlier in the day Andrew Cochrane played his 300th club game for LBU in the Cats’ 23-point win in the reserves in which he was one of his side’s best and kicked two goals.
Saturday, qualifying – Leitchville-Gunbower v Huntly at Heathcote.
Sunday, elimination – Colbinabbin v LBU at White Hills.
To get your ankles used to the bigger fins, you need to start practicing with typical SCUBA fins. A moderately stiff fin from companies like US Diver or Cressi have the ability to build your ankle and leg strength for longer swims and dives.
For special ops - you need a stiffer and longer SCUBA fin that requires booties also, a you will be issued Rocket fins, or Jet Fins if spec ops is in your future. Your ability to swim 45-90 minutes or more with fins will be required regularly in military diving / combat swimming programs (SEAL, Divers, SWCC, PJ, RECON, MarSOC, etc).
If at any time your feet, ankles, legs hurt, take the fins off and continue for 5-10 minutes without fins, then put them on again until they start to bother you again. Eventually, the pain will go away and you will build up the ability to swim for hours if you need to with fins.
The options are actually a good progression to go from just swimming, to starting with slip on fins, to build up to stiffer SCUBA fins. A good model of swimming with fins for a steady workout is 30-45 minutes. Typical SCUBA divers can take 30-45 minutes as well so you have to get used to moving your legs with fins one in open water. Some waters will have current to swim through or your ability to see more of the underwater world will require your ability to kick your legs. Practicing swimming in SCUBA fins will make your SCUBA dives much more enjoyable. And it is a great leg workout no matter what the ultimate goal of swimming with fins is.
China's social networking website posts mixed financial results.
It's not fair to call Renren (NYSE:RENN) the Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) of China, but mostly because it's a disservice to both companies.
China's leading social networking website operator posted better-than-expected quarterly results last night. Net revenue soared 41% to $45.2 million, fueled by a 40% pop in revenue at its namesake website and a 102% surge at its Nuomi daily deals platform. Renren's adjusted deficit narrowed at a time when Wall Street was bracing for a widening loss.
You don't have to dig deep to find the differences between Renren and Facebook. The growth at Renren's social networking site is stemming primarily from online games, which now account for 57% of total revenue. Facebook naturally has its vibrant social gaming ecosystem, but the bulk of Facebook's revenue comes from Internet advertising.
Facebook's bread-and-butter business is more like bread crumbs at Renren. Online advertising accounts for just 21% of the company's business, and that's shrinking. Internet marketing revenue rose by less than 5% over the past year. Online gaming is the real driver here with its 53% ascent.
Then we get to Nuomi. The social commerce platform is naturally going to be compared to Groupon. This is a strategy that flopped at Facebook. The world's leading social site seems to be gaining traction with Facebook Gifts now, but its attempt to take on Groupon in the daily deals space a couple of years ago failed to gain traction. The flash sales model that Groupon made popular seems all but dead domestically, but it's a different story in China where even leading online retailer Dangdang (NYSE:DANG) rolled out a new daily deals channel earlier this year.
We'll get another snapshot on flash sales websites in China when Dangdang reports on Thursday.
Renren's Nuomi is a success, even if it remains a sliver of Renren's overall business. There are now 3.1 million active paying users, up 69% from the 1.8 million people that took advantage of a Nuomi deal a year earlier. With revenue there more than doubling, we can conclude that the average active user is spending more on Nuomi.
The near term may get challenging. Renren's guidance calls for revenue growth to decelerate, climbing 23% to 27% in the current quarter. The $55 million to $57 million that Renren is targeting is shy of the $61 million that analysts were modeling. Renren isn't providing bottom-line guidance, but it's not likely to be pretty. The dot-com speedster made it a point to emphasize that it will expand its spending on mobile and other growth initiatives that won't pay off right away.
Yes, Facebook is also being pressured to make the most of the mobile migration, but it has had some initial success in the monetization process. Renren's just getting started on that front.
Facebook and Renren are two pretty different models, but it doesn't mean that investors can't win by owning both fast-growing companies.
Julia Tanner is a former FCC lawyer and currently serves as in-house General Counsel and Vice President for a group of Cellular One wireless telecommunications companies.
Freedom is critical to the economic engine of Silicon Valley, but laws are not often written to preserve it.
A federal decision in October let consumers unlock cell phones, tinker with their tablets and hack into some aspects of their connected vehicles’ software — as long as they don’t break other laws.
Unfortunately, this decision has to be renewed every three years, through a long and arduous process. It’s time for that to change.
Thanks to the aging Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), consumers can’t “circumvent” software or other “technological measure[s]” in devices they have already purchased, even to diagnose or repair the software, unless the Librarian of Congress, upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights and after an enormous public rulemaking, blesses that category of software and devices with a DMCA exemption. If not, even innocuous hacking of software in your cell phone, connected car, connected tractor, medical device or tablet could make you a criminal.
In an odd quirk of law, DMCA exemptions lapse if not renewed or revised every three years through the aforementioned rulemaking. This means every three years, groups and individuals gear up huge drafting and lobbying efforts to preserve — or torch — certain exemptions. This wastes their time and risks your rights.
Unlocking cell phones is a prime example. “Carriers typically place software on the device that prevents it from being used on another carrier’s network,” typically in order to prevent their customers from switching service providers. From 2006-2010, changing cellular providers without your existing provider’s consent was legal. An exemption to the DMCA permitted the unlocking of cell phones by customers.
Then, for almost two years, it became a criminal act. In 2012, the Librarian limited the exemption for cell phone unlocking to devices obtained on or before January 26, 2013. In other words, the unlocking exemption started phasing out. People who wished to take their phones abroad for a few weeks, switch services after paying early termination penalties or unlock a phone purchased through eBay, could not do so. They could not switch carriers until allowed by their existing carriers — which started occurring less frequently and only after the customer was “no longer under contract” (even if they paid early termination fees and were in good standing).
It took a White House petition, NTIA and FCC action and an Act of Congress to partially restore the unlocking exemption.
Even innocuous hacking of software in your cell phone, connected car, connected tractor, medical device or tablet could make you a criminal.
Your wireless company could have good reasons to want you to stay. If they sold you a phone discounted by hundreds of dollars, as is common for customers who sign one- or two-year agreements, they don’t want you to leave until those subsidies are repaid over time. On the flip side, when a device is “locked” to a network, consumers lose flexibility and marketplace innovators are penalized.
The FCC worked with industry to temporarily restore a version of unlocking standards through a set of industry consumer principles (the CTIA Consumer Code). Major providers agreed wireless devices would be unlocked: [if postpaid,] after you have fulfilled the applicable service contract, completed the device installment plan or paid an early termination fee… [if prepaid,] no later than one year after activation, consistent with reasonable time, payment, or usage requirements.
At the same time, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), worked with consumer advocates and competitive wireless providers and drafted legislation to reinstate the DMCA exemption. On August 1, 2014, President Obama signed into law the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, S. 517, Pub. L. 113–144.
Through these efforts, consumers could again take their phones with them when they switched carriers. While they might have to pay early termination fees to compensate for handset subsidies, they could keep their devices, and “orphaned” phones could be brought back into service.
After the 2012 setback, numerous public interest groups, carrier representatives and individuals geared up for the 2015 rulemaking. They filed comments, presentations and testimony, many simply in order to preserve the exemptions they had just fought to reinstate.
All-purpose tablet computers (such as iPads; not single-purpose devices such as e-book readers or gaming devices).
Mobile connectivity devices (such as mobile hotspots or removable wireless broadband modems).
Wearable wireless devices designed to be worn on the body, such as smartwatches or fitness devices.
The Librarian also exempted jailbreaking of smartphones and all-purpose mobile computing devices (such as many tablets, but not primarily single-purpose devices, such as e-readers or gaming devices). “Jailbreaking” lets you access an operating system in order to install or remove software when that otherwise cannot be accomplished.
The Librarian also adopted other exemptions, such as for programs in land vehicles that control vehicle functions (except those primarily designed to control telematics or entertainment systems), when necessary for the owner to allow diagnosis, repair or lawful modification, and not illegal.
After all this, you see the flaw in the process. Certainly, the Librarian’s decision will be hailed by individuals and competitive markets. Its benefits will endure, however, for only three years. In a year or two, individuals and groups will once again gear up for a burdensome lobbying process.