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The Bavarian outfit wrapped up the German title in record time at the end of March, but have since surrendered their unbeaten run in the league - winning just three of their last seven games in all competitions.
'In 27 games we conceded 13 goals and then seven in our next three matches after that, so our focus dropped a bit because we had already won the league,' Guardiola said at the pre-match press conference.
Despite the blip in form, Guardiola praised the overall hunger of his team, who stand the chance of winning the treble for a second consecutive season.
Saturday's victory at Eintracht Braunschweig was Bayern's first win in four games, and, although the former Barcelona boss was not entirely happy with his team's performance, he saw positive signs.
History is on Guardiola's side on his return to the Bernabeu, where he never lost in six visits as coach of Real's arch rivals Barcelona.
However, he played down the significance of his record in the Spanish capital.
Bayern have beaten Madrid in four of the five European Cup semi-finals the two teams have contested.
Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer has overcome a calf injury sustained in a 3-0 defeat to Borrusia Dortmund and is expected to start.
Moleskine notebooks come in many colors and sizes.
The Moleskine notebook is a ubiquitous tool of the trade in writing and art circles. I’ve purchased a few dozen over the last few years. From the little tiny ones that are not much bigger than a credit card and fit in my shirt pocket; to the big ones that are about the size of an old LP cover. When my sister asked me to officiate at her wedding, I used the biggest notebook in the Moleskine family to hold the script I wrote for the ceremony.
Moleskine (it’s pronounced moe-lay-SKEE-nay, or mole-skin, or mole-skeen, depending on who you ask) has brought a modicum of order to my disorderly creative life. But little did I know that with each of my purchases — and they ain’t cheap, these notebooks — I was helping build a capitalist empire.
Perhaps not yet, but Moleskine seems to be trying really hard to become unhip. True, the notebooks are durable, they have the backing of the late Ernest Hemingway and Vincent van Gogh, and they’re even “vegan.” (They’re made from cardboard and oilcloth and not from dead moles.) But anything that can be done well can very easily be overdone, and Moleskine is getting treacherously close to kitsch as it offers a series of “limited edition” notebooks with “Lego,” “Peanuts” and “Star Wars” themes.
A quick perusal at one Moleskine fan site, however, reveals that love of the notebooks is pretty universal. The site Moleskinerie.com currently features a video in which the Brazilan artist Maykel Nunes reveals an entire gallery of drawings tucked inside one set of Moleskine covers.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — U.S. Housing Secretary Julian Castro said Friday he isn't being vetted as a potential running mate for Democrat Hillary Clinton and continued to maintain that he is unlikely to be offered the job.
But the 41-year-old rising star among Democrats wouldn't say one way or the other whether he would accept if Clinton asked him to join the ticket as her vice presidential candidate.
"I'm not going to get into that. Number one, I've said for a long time, I don't believe that's going to happen," Castro said. "This is a decision that she's going to make and I'm going to be happy to support whatever the ticket is."
The former San Antonio mayor was back in his hometown for the Texas Democratic Convention, which kicked off Friday around the same time that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was across town at a fundraiser. The guests included former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Trump's onetime 2016 rival who is now one of his most vocal backers.
Hundreds of protesters, and some Trump supporters, crowded near the country club where Trump raised money before the billionaire businessman headed to Houston for another fundraiser and an evening rally. His swing through Texas was rebuked by Democrats at the state convention, where "Clinton/Castro 2016" stickers could be found on cars in the Alamodome parking lot.
So persistent are rumors about Castro's future that Congressman Joaquin Castro, his identical twin brother, was called "Mr. Vice President" in jest by a state senator at a press conference denouncing Trump.
A coalition of progressive groups, some of which have backed Democrat Bernie Sanders, have also taken note of Julian Castro's prospects: In April they launched a campaign in April that criticized his Housing and Urban Development office for selling mortgages to Wall Street in the aftermath of the foreclosure crisis. Democrats in Congress and Latino groups rallied to his defense, with some accusing the groups of trying to mar Castro's vice presidential prospects.
"I do believe that in some quarters there were politics involved," Castro said. "I give credit to a couple of the groups for bringing that issue up that they have brought up before. But I think that there's a way for folks to work together in a positive direction."
Many delegates at the Texas convention would like to see Castro run for governor if he doesn't wind up a vice president. But Castro said "it's extremely unlikely that I'm going to run in 2018."
Other rumored vice presidential contenders include Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Labor Secretary Thomas Perez. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's name has also surfaced as a potential running mate and met last week at Clinton's Washington home, adding to speculation that she could be under consideration.
A 46-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by setting himself ablaze in north Delhi's Shastri Nagar on Sunday, police said.
Naveen Kumar Gupta's body was found after his neighbour informed the police about a foul smell and smoke emanating from his home, they added.
On reaching the spot, the police found a room on the second floor of the residence to be locked from the inside, said the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) HarenderSingh.
Upon breaking open the door, the severely burnt body of a man was found on the floor along with a suicide note, he added.
Gupta, a divorcee living alone in the house, was taken to a hospital but doctors declared him brought dead, police said.
The deceased's elder brother and parents had passed away few years ago, they said.
Police were awaiting Gupta's post-mortem examination report and analysing the suicide note.
Ward 8 - includes elementary, middle and high schools in the North End, Dufferin, William Whyte, St. John’s, Robertson, Burrows Central and Inkster-Faraday.
Brouzes has lived in the Winnipeg School Division for 15 years. She and her husband Rick, a Street Outreach Worker, are parents to an 11-year-old son and she is the daughter of a school principal.
Brouzes graduated from the University of Manitoba and was a civil servant for 21 years as child development counsellor and family service worker.
She has a regular involvement advocating and supporting students in each of the ward’s schools, and has been a director at Ikwe Safe Rides - Women Helping Women, a member of the City’s transportation advisory counsel, an adolescent mental health counsellor at Manitoba Adolescent Treatment Centre, a Red River College instructor, board member at Inspire Community Outreach, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls round table facilitator, an early childhood cfficer for the Government of Nunavut and an early childhood educator.
Edel has been living on Alfred Avenue for the past 35 years where she raised her family with her husband, Faron. Her children and grandchildren attended North End schools.
She says education is really important to her. After graduation from high school in the adult education program, she completed a social work degree at the University of Manitoba.
She has worked in the North End all her life as a prevention manager at End Homelessness Winnipeg, program manager at Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre, executive director at Mount Carmel Clinic, co-director at the Community Education Development Association and community development worker at Hope Centre Health Care.
She has volunteered at the SPLASH Child Care at Strathcona School, the North End Housing Project and the North End Community Renewal Corporation. She has also served as a board member with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Andrews Street Family Centre and Ndinawemaaganag Endaawaad Inc.
Ward 9 - includes elementary, middle and high schools in Garden Grove, Tyndall Park, Meadows West, Inkster Gardens, Burrows-Keewatin, Shaughnessy Heights, Shaughnessy Park and Mynarski.
Buternowsky is 54-year-old lawyer, married with five children who are in high school and university.
He was previously the chairman of a regional health authority in rural Manitoba and is a member of the Mohutniy Ukrainian dance group in Anola, Man., a volunteer at the Ukrainian Pavillion at Folklorama, and is involved with the St. Anne’s Ukrainian Catholic Church. His kids dance with the Rossdale Ukrainian dance group in St. Andrews.
Buternowsky says he chose to run for school trustee because he has been deeply concerned about the quality of education that is being delivered to the children.
In his opinion, the quality has slipped and he says he has raised this issue with various teachers. However, it is apparent that the cause of this descent is systemic and not the fault of the teacher’s, he adds, and there seems to be little concern with remedying this, and the teachers can only teach within the current system parameters.
He says a mediocre educational system hurts the low income students the most, as a good education can provide poor students with opportunities not otherwise open them.
In his view, there has been a failure on the part of the board of trustees to ensure that a quality education is being delivered to all students.
If Buternowsky is elected, he says he will do his absolute utmost to ensure that the board fulfills its duty to the students that they receive a top notch education that is as good or better than anywhere else in Canada and that he will accept nothing less.
If there is a focus at the top for delivering an excellent education, the teachers will deliver it, he says.
Chahal has a Bachelor of Computer Applications and a Master of Political Science. She is married with three children who attend Tyndall Park Community School.
She is involved with the Parent Advisory Council and has worked in the youth programming of Tyndall Park Community Centre and served as the vice president of programming of Tyndall Park Community Centre.
If elected, she will ensure safety in schools, open a daycare, lower taxes, install cameras throughout all schools’ areas, provide school supplies, advocate for more diversity in school staff and less bullying and harassment, implement school identity cards and swimming classes.
Koshelanyk grew up in Northern Manitoba and moved to Winnipeg with her husband in 1996 to make sure their children had more opportunities and a greater chance at success. They have lived and volunteered in the Ward 9 area for almost 20 years.
She has four children who have attended Tyndall Park, Prairie Rose, Garden Grove, Stanley Knowles, Sisler and Tec Voc. Koshelanyk has regularly attended parent councils at many schools and says she is very aware of the issues at those schools.
Koshelanyk has held volunteer board positions with Tyndall Park Community Centre and Garden Grove Parent Advisory Council where she is the current Chair of the board.
Twenty-five years after graduating high school while working and volunteering Koshelanyk went to Red River College and received her Honours Certificate in Computer Aided Drafting. She continues to further her education.
She says she believes that every child deserves the best education possible.
Schatkowsky is a parent and foster care provider that has lived and worked in the Garden Grove area for over 25 years. Through her experience in the foster care program she has advocated for children in her care within the school system.
Schatkowsky has been active in the school community, most recently serving as an executive member of the Ecole Stanley Knowles Parent Advisory Council. She also volunteered on the Parent Advisory Council at Garden Grove School, where she held positions as chair and treasurer and also helped with the lunch program at the school. She is known by others to be caring and willing to support those in need.
Schatkowsky and her husband Doug have been together for more than 30 years. She has two adult sons, a daughter-in-law, three grandchildren and one more on the way.
She has always considered the children in her care to be important members of the community that she provided a voice for and looks forward to helping the children in the Winnipeg School Division by ensuring fair and equitable access to all things that the school division has to offer.
Schatkowsky says she believes that children must come first as they are our future.
Sugawara, 36, is a husband, father and a resident of Ward 9 for more than 28 years.
He was raised in Tyndall Park and attended both elementary and high school in Ward 9. While he moved from the neighbourhood for a few years, Sugawara and his wife Krystal decided this was the best community to raise their family in and moved back after getting married.
To compliment his role as trustee, he says he will bring extensive experience working with every level of government including time served on several boards and steering committees. Over the past four years, he worked in the North End developing youth programming and services. Most recently he worked in the Housing Department of the North End Community Renewal Corporation and represented tenants and landlords in hearings with the Residential Tenancies Branch. He continues to volunteer time at special events and with numerous organizations within the community.
As trustee, Sugawara says he will further advocate for safe educational facilities, enhance access to language programming, foster environments that produce successful students and dedicate his time to supporting successful educators and staff.
The family of Fire Chief Jerry Gautreaux has organized a prayer service 6 p.m. tonight at St. Bernadette Church, 409 Funderburk Ave., Houma, in honor of Gautreaux's upcoming surgery.
Gautreaux, longtime chief of the Bayou Cane Fire Department, was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor this month. He is scheduled to undergo surgery to remove the tumor at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Monday. He will leave to prepare for the operation this week.
For information call the church at 879-1506‎.
In May 2017, Singapore GovTech and IMDA invited me on a press tour that aims at showcasing the best innovations driven by government agencies in Singapore.
Singapore has a long tradition of government-led initiatives when it comes to developing infrastructure or high-tech innovation, one of the most important and recent one is “Smart Nation” launched in 2014, probably inspired by the “Start-up Nation” a.k.a. Israel, a term coined by the book written in 2009 by Dan Senor and Saul Singer.
Our week-long visit to Singapore’s incubators and government-backed R&D facilities gave me a better sense of how Singapore lives up to its Smart Nation reputation.
On the first day, we paid a visit to the GovTech Hive, a building that houses GovTech’s Government Digital Services (GDS). The Government Digital Services is a team of over 150 experts in subject matters such as data science, artificial intelligence, user experience design, software engineering, geospatial tech, Internet of Things (IoT), and all things digital.
When we entered the Hive, Mr. Chan Cheow Hoe welcomed us; he is the Government Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Deputy Chief Executive of GovTech. He was very passionate about the Hive, an initiative he promoted, and that officially launched in late October 2015. According to Mr. Chan, when he joined the government in 2014, he assembled a core team of 7 experts that grew to over 20 and now totals 150 people.
After spending over 20 years in the private sector, Mr. Chan Cheow Hoe had an “epiphany” three years ago and wanted to help his country’s innovation process, so to achieve that, in April 2014, he joined as Government CIO of Singapore. During a short speech, he explained the mission and the strategy of the GovTech Hive. See below an overview of his presentation, and I have added a Q&A with him at the end of this article, after the products and services demos.
In the past, the government outsourced all its software development, and for Chan Cheow Hoe, “technology is not an enabler, technology is a very critical capability,” so the idea behind the push by the government was to build a highly capable innovation team, internally. And such a strategy can be cost-efficient if the team and the projects are well managed, a fact that obviously, I cannot check.
However, we know that the Government of Singapore is famous for its efficiency when it comes to public hygiene, public safety, high tech infrastructure management and high-speed connectivity innovation and development. From a western democracy point of view, all that brilliance comes with downsides, when strict enforcement and lack of privacy are involved.
"“TECHNOLOGY IS NOT AN ENABLER, TECHNOLOGY IS A VERY CRITICAL CAPABILITY,”CHAN CHEOW HOE, SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT CIO"
According to the Deputy Chief Executive, the team was built from the ground up with diversity in mind, from the hard-core developer to the product designer, the social scientist, the psychologist or the game developers from Ubisoft. “Diversity is interesting, and we found that the best products are created by diverse teams,” said Chan Cheow Hoe. Well, I totally agree with the statement, since lots of surveys support the claim.
The second goal of GovTech and the Hive is to develop the industry and help the digital transformation of the ecosystem, by leveraging close collaboration with vendors. The GDS team start on to develop an idea, and when the concept is more advanced, then the vendor can continue the project.
"“DIVERSITY IS INTERESTING, AND WE FOUND THAT THE BEST PRODUCTS ARE CREATED BY DIVERSE TEAMS” CHAN CHEOW HOE, SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT CIO"
“(…) Software has gone from factory model to an intellectual model” meaning outsourcing the development to a huge team in Bangalore for example.
”We had to move away from the factory model” the government cannot support thousands of developers here but “the government can support 200 people here in Singapore,” said Mr. Chan.
From what I heard from Mr. Chan Cheow Hoe, Government Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Deputy Chief Executive of GovTech, and the demos I saw (see below), it looks like Singapore puts a lot of effort to innovate as fast as a startup for the benefits of its citizens.
Overall, I was impressed by the high level of competency and the top professional backgrounds of the Singaporean government executives I met, including Mr. Chan.
Some of the digital services showcased here do not exist in my home city of San Francisco, although it is at the center of “innovation land a.k.a. Silicon Valley” with a huge municipal budget of $10 billion for less than 1 million inhabitants (to date 864K). By comparison, Singapore gets about S$75 billion, or $55.3 billion, and as a country must support much more departments than what a city has to, such as the military.
Singapore has an international reputation for its perfect cleanliness, thanks to its strict policies regarding littering (find the information). As a foreign visitor, I highly appreciate the modernity, the diversity, the safety of the country, and the high standard of cleanliness.
The OneService@SG mobile app, developed by Hive for the Municipal Services Office (MSO), will take the efficiency of the country’s urban maintenance to the next level. TI Jie Bo, Associate Consultant, Product Design & Development, showed us a demo of OneService@SG, explaining how the service can help to detect overgrown trees, among other issues that can be reported by citizens in a few clicks. As displayed on the home screen (see photo) Singaporeans can report issues in the following categories: animals, pests, roads & footpaths, drinking water, drains & sewers, cleanliness, trees & greenery, construction sites, abandoned trolleys, others.
OneService@SG is a platform that offers residents the ability to easily provide feedback on municipal matters. Launched in January 2015 for iOS and Android, the platform rolled-out as a web portal in September 2016. According to Chan Cheow Hoe, Government Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Singapore, there are over 1.2 million calls placed to the police every, for a population of 5.6 million! OneService@SG aims to prevent people from calling the law enforcement for non-safety related queries.
According to Mr. Chan, the application was developed in nine months using APIs to connect with the historical IT systems of the nine agencies that are providing services on OneService@SG.
If the information is correct, it looks like the Hive is acting as an efficient and innovative startup to create useful applications for the citizens of Singapore.
He added that the team takes great care to prevent the “vigilante” downside out of such a service. In fact, OneService@SG conveys a subtle feeling of “big brother is watching over the city,” however, in a time of global crisis for public budgets, such solutions can save a lot of resources and money.
Singapore has the lowest rate of cardiac arrest survival among developed cities in the world, approximately 12%, according to SDCF. The problem to solve in Singapore is the to intervene in less than 10 minutes, and, according to Ms. Gina CHIANG, Associate Consultant, Digital Design & Development, it is almost impossible due to the constant traffic jams in the city. By comparison, in the U.S., the survival rates are between 60% to less than 10%, depending on the location!
To address that critical issue, The Hive, in collaboration with SCDF (Singapore City Defense Force), developed the SDCF “myResponder” mobile application. The main goal is to create a network of expert responders. Usually, healthcare professionals, who can immediately intervene in case a cardiac arrest happens close to their location.
The SCDF myResponder app is available both for Android and iOS, as a free download from both app stores. According to SDCF, since February 2017, there have been over 39,000 downloads and, over 14,000 people have registered themselves as Community First Responders. Automated Externals Defibrillators (AED) have been placed on the island, and since March 2014, the Singapore Heart Foundation (SHF) and SCDF have created a database of AED locations in public spaces, and the data is accessible to the public via the SCDF myResponder app.
MyResponder’s geolocation features allow the SCDF Operations Center to locate a registered responder in a 400-meter radius and send him/her an alert. Then, in case the responder chooses to proceed, he or she accepts the alert and provides CPR or uses the closest available AED until the SCDF ambulance arrives.
MyResponder’s users can also alert SCDF of an incident via the app.
As of June 2017, more than 16,000 people have registered as users of the myResponder app, with over 8,500 successful activations (instances of public responding to cases). Those results are quite encouraging since it has been proven that involving the community in providing rapid quality care saves lives.
GovTech aims to make Singapore citizens and residents’ life easier when it comes to navigating government services. Using a Natural Language Processing engine and chatbots to provide an efficient Virtual Assistant is certainly the best way to help people find what they need! I wish my city of San Francisco – which is at the edge of the Silicon Valley – could do the same.
Ask Jamie, the virtual assistant developed in collaboration with the Hive, has been implemented in more than 30 government agency websites, including the Ministry of Education, Singapore Land Authority, and the Municipal Service Office.
Ask Jamie can retrieve an information from a different agency than the one where the question was asked since the virtual assistant engine is shared across thirty government websites.
The ability to retrieve information without knowing which agency to go to is certainly the best feature: it saves a lot of time for both the government’s agents and the users.

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