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UiPath appoints new UK and Ireland managing director to lead growth in the region
UiPath, the leading AI and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company, has appointed Chris Duddridge as Area Vice President and Managing Director of UK and Ireland. Chris will be responsible for driving automation adoption in the region and increasing UiPath’s market share.
With more than 20 years in sales and technology, Chris previously held the position of RVP of Sales for UK and Ireland at UiPath. An experienced sales leader, Chris has also held the position of Sales Director EMEA at an ERP provider where he grew a small UK sales team to a prominent market leader in the Benelux, DACH and MENA regions.
What UiPath is building, along with our partners, puts us in a privileged position to help some of the UK and Ireland’s leading organisations automate to improve their processes, make work more interesting for employees and increase efficiency. Automation isn’t always an easy project for companies, public sector agencies or government departments to negotiate, but it’s certainly made simpler by relying on the UiPath end-to-end hyperautomation platform which is the world’s best automation technology. For the year ahead, we will remain obsessed with investing heavily in our customers and supporting them fulfil their digital transformation requirements, all the while contributing to our company’s mission to empower everyone for the workplace of the future.
Gavin Jackson, Managing Director EMEA at UiPath, said:
I am confident that Chris will flourish in leading our expansion across this key region. He is a role model for the team, steps into the heart of the action, creates hope, direction and belief. Under his already proven leadership, UiPath will stay customer-centric in the region and quickly respond and adapt to their needs and demands. Not lastly, he is the perfect fit to inspire his team to build the legacy of reshaping the way people work, every day.
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Simon Stevens to lead stellar speaker line-up for ukactive National Summit 2016
By ukactive13/10/2016No Comments
Keynote speakers to include Simon Stevens, Nicola Blackwood, Jennie Price and Dr Chris Van Tulleken
ukactive today unveiled the detailed agenda for National Summit 2016, featuring an unprecedented line-up of thought leaders from the worlds of physical activity, health, and politics.
Taking place at Westminster’s Queen Elizabeth II Centre on 9 November, this year’s Summit combines networking and highly-topical breakout sessions with an impressive collection of keynotes, including a speech from the chief executive of the NHS, Simon Stevens.
As head of Europe’s largest single employer, Simon Stevens is expected to discuss the future of the health service and the important role of prevention in helping to shape it. The NHS England CEO has taken the lead on this theme by unveiling a raft of workplace wellness initiatives, including a £600m national incentive fund to help frontline NHS staff stay fighting fit through a range of physical activity and healthy eating offerings.
The central theme for this year’s Summit will be Physical Activity: Always Moving Forward, exploring how the sector can support the NHS to deliver its ambitions for a healthy, active nation and ensure physical activity is at the heart of the preventative health agenda.
The Summit will feature a series of breakout sessions bringing together leading public health and physical activity experts to explore key topics such as delivering physical activity as part of the government’s new strategies, the role of prevention in the future of the NHS, and the professionalisation of the physical activity sector. In addition to Simon Stevens, there will be keynotes from Public Health Minister Nicola Blackwood, Sport England CEO Jennie Price, ukactive Chair Tanni Grey-Thompson and ukactive Executive Director Steven Ward.
There will also be a joint session led by Professor Sir Muir Gray CBE, Chief Knowledge Officer to the NHS, and Chris Van Tulleken, a doctor and TV presenter. Having recently featured in the high-profile BBC documentary The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs, the pair will deliver a topical talk looking at the importance of the preventative agenda in cutting down Britain’s dependence on prescription pills.
As the marquee event in the physical activity calendar, Summit 2016 will gather more than 500 thought leaders on public health and physical activity, offering invaluable networking opportunities and the chance to gain unique insights into the wider issues facing the sector.
The event will also serve as the launchpad for ukactive’s latest report, Blueprint for an Active Britain: Milestones Review. The document will build on the foundations laid by last year’s Blueprint for an Active Britain report, assessing the key areas of progress to date. These have included the adoption of many Blueprint recommendations in the recent physical activity strategies put forward by the government and Sport England. Backed by a broad coalition of key stakeholders, the new report will make a series of new policy recommendations for the year ahead and outline key areas of priority the physical activity sector.
Looking forward to the event, ukactive CEO Steven Ward said: “We felt it would be difficult to top last year’s Summit in terms of quality, but the line-up of heavy hitters due to speak on the day will take our marquee political event to new heights.
“Summit is a golden opportunity to establish key business contacts, glean insights from top-tier keynote speakers and take part in breakout sessions on major topics affecting our sector, such as delivering on the government’s new strategies, behaviour change among society’s least active and embedding more movement in the workplace.
“The QEII will be packed with leaders from the public, private and third sectors, coming together to focus their collective firepower on the pressing need to create a more active nation.”
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, legendary Paralympian and chair of ukactive said: “I am delighted to have Simon Stevens – Chief Executive of NHS England delivering a keynote at our National Summit in London on the 9th November 2016. This is a seminal moment for the physical activity sector and symbolic of its importance on the frontline in the fight against the dangers of sedentary lifestyles.
“Whereas last year was about setting a vision for an active nation, this year we turn our focus to how we can develop and deliver this practically, connecting government and stakeholders from the public, private and third sectors to ensure that physical activity is at the heart of the preventative public health agenda.”
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As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on our economies and societies, the United Nations today called for the inclusion of forest financing in efforts to recover from the pandemic.
“Forests offer nature-friendly solutions to recover from social and economic impacts of the pandemic,” said Alexander Trepelkov, Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat. “Investing in forests is essential to build sustainable, resilient and fair societies, capable of withstanding future pandemics and global challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss,” he added.
Forests provide a wide spectrum of benefits and services, from maintaining the health of ecosystems to supporting income and livelihoods for millions of people. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased pressure and reliance on essential forest products and resources. Yet, forests are under threat from unsustainable activities and natural disasters. In view of the emergency humanitarian needs stemming from the pandemic, financial resources allocated for sustainable forest management could be at risk of being reallocated or reduced.
In its latest policy brief on forest financing and COVID-19, published today, UN DESA analyses the adverse impacts of the pandemic on income generation from forests, as well as the implications for current and future funding for forests. The brief proposes measures to finance sustainable forest management, mobilize investment and other resources for forests, as an essential component for effective post-pandemic recovery plans.
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Catalytic asymmetric aldol reactions in aqueous media.
Chem Soc Rev. 2008 Aug; 37(8):1502-11.CS
Nature has perfected the stereospecific aldol reaction by using aldolase enzymes. While virtually all the biochemical aldol reactions use unmodified donor and acceptor carbonyls and take place under catalytic control in an aqueous environment, the chemical domain of the aldol addition has mostly relied on prior transformation of carbonyl substrates, and the whole process traditionally is carried out in anhydrous solvents. The area of aqua-asymmetric aldol reactions has received much attention recently in light of the perception both of its green chemistry advantages and its analogy to eon-perfected enzyme catalysis. Both chiral metal complexes and small chiral organic molecules have been recently reported to catalyze aldol reactions with relatively high chemical and stereochemical efficiency. This tutorial review describes recent developments in this area.
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Tony Scholes November 25, 2020 Fletcher chops down Forest at the Turf2020-11-25T15:13:17+00:00 Team of the Seventies
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Having won at Brighton a week earlier, Burnley more than continued to put the shock home defeat against Orient to bed with a winning return home, beating Nottingham Forest 1-0 to keep us two points clear at the top of the Second Division.
Boundary was the key word of the week and it was a week when the Borough of Burnley lost while some of the outlying areas were winners. It was all about where certain villages would be placed with the new boroughs set to come into being in 1974. Burnley wanted all of Read, Altham, Higham, Sabden and Reedley Hallows to be included as part of the new town borough but those villages were fighting against it, and it was the villages who won with all of them excluded and handed to Nelson, Accrington and Clitheroe.
“It’s the worst possible outcome, much worse than expected,” said Borough Surveyor, Mr. E. C. Ashby with Councillor Edward Hanson adding: “We in this council have tried desperately hard to maintain the prestige of the borough all along the line. There is no doubt, however, that had we tried to reduce ourselves to the bottom limit the result could not have been worse than it is now. We have been sold down the river. We have been reduced to second tier status and the Government is completely and utterly responsible.” That view was just about unanimous from the town but on the other side of the fence it was a different story. Councillor Cyril Law, Read’s representative on Burnley Rural District Council was jubilant. “I haven’t been as excited for years,” he proclaimed as he saw the split with Simonstone whose take on it was one of major disappointment.
And there was no good news either on the vandalism and hooliganism front. An open letter to those responsible was published in the Burnley Express. It opened: “Dear Thug or Vandal or Hooligan or Tearaway or Prank Player or Misunderstood Youth. Select your own category, this open letter will STILL apply to you. Don’t misunderstand the use of ‘dear’ as a term of endearment or respect. You deserve neither. It merely refers to how much you are costing the community, an incalculable sum. Not just in cash, but in torment and nerve-jangling fear, particularly the old and the infirm.”
Alderman Thomas E. Gallagher was delighted with the response from the local paper. “This is the kind of straight talking we want,” he said. “Perhaps they will understand a real verbal belt at them. It might have an effect on some. On others it won’t, but we must keep trying. What they are doing to old people is terrible, and it will get worse with the darker nights. Some of these old people dare not go out at all.”
There is some good news to report. Last week came news that Edith Dyson was trying to make contact with her son Eddie who had suffered serious injuries while working in South Africa. Finally she received a telegram and was able to make a phone call to the Sterkfontein Mental Hospital where her son was receiving treatment. “I felt like jumping over the moon when I spoke to Eddie. At last I know how he is,” said a delighted and relieved Mrs. Dyson. “Eddie is still not well. He sounded vague and couldn’t remember some things, but he knew me and my daughter and it was lovely to hear him. He even said he might come out of hospital in about two or three weeks and that he was coming home in January. That made me very happy.” Mrs. Dyson, who had been forced onto tranquilisers, now said she would have to save up to pay for the £60 phone call. She also gave MP Dan Jones £25 of her holiday savings to have sent to her son.
Geoff Nulty on lead vocals, Paul Fletcher on ukulele and Burnley are Leaning on a Lamppost
We’re not going back to the hooliganism and vandalism story now but there were some naughty girls in town, selfish and thoughtless too according to Burnley Girls’ High School headmistress Mrs. M. (Dolly) Dearing. At the school’s prize distribution, Dolly, whose son Basil later became a director of Burnley Football Club, said: “We have had a larger number than usual of girls who were selfish and thoughtless in their behaviour. Some of the new intake were included, but they are mainly girls who have been here since the first form, but I can say that there’s not a single girl among the naughty ones who has not done something during the year which deserves some credit.” I don’t think it was anything to be too concerned about. Dolly’s methods, in terms of behaviour, were somewhat behind the times, and it was often that said she had the school running like a 19th Century organisation.
One girl, or young woman had done very well for herself though and that was Susan Harland, Miss Elgin. On her 23rd birthday she took the town’s prestigious Queen of Industry and Commerce 1972 title. It was another fantastic night hosted by television presenter Stuart Hall. It was a fiercely fought competition and as contestants hopes ended they probably thought, it’s a knockout. I’m not sure now what they would think though with Stuart Hall less remembered for the game show and his radio football commentaries than he once was.
The mess from Burnley’s game against Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough was still being cleared up and one local man was fined £70 in a Sheffield court for kicking a South Yorkshire copper. This was one case I have referred to previously. Now, I wouldn’t have made much of a fuss of this case but I was in court that day to witness this travesty of justice. A PC Graham Hibbert told the court that he clearly saw the accused kick his colleague PC James Larkin but I know for a fact that this was not true. I’m not one to dare suggest that South Yorkshire police officers don’t tell the truth but the outcome of this case was ridiculous because there had been no such offence taken place. Again, I won’t embarrass the man found guilty by naming him but I can confirm that justice was finally done after an appeal, and rightly so. You would just hope that the likes of PC Graham Hibbert and PC James Larkin were very seriously dealt with.
This local man wasn’t the only one to come out on the wrong side at a Burnley away game. In the game played a few weeks earlier at Millwall all of Mick Docherty, Doug Collins and Leighton James were booked by referee Mr. Clive Thomas. Burnley Football Club had notified the Football League that if any of those three players amassed the total of 12 penalty points required for a two match suspension then an immediate appeal would be lodged. Manager Jimmy Adamson said: “We have never complained before, but in this particular match I felt that none of the bookings were justified.”
During the week, the players had held a dance at the Cat’s Whiskers. Fans flocked to join the dancing and to see the new look cabaret. Geoff Nulty, the team’s top vocalist, was a resounding success as he belted out ‘Leaning on the Lamp Post’ accompanied by Paul Fletcher on ukulele but the real star was Eddie Cliff who brought the house down with his yodelling.
There was some good news for three more players who were all named in international under-23 squads. Alan Stevenson received an England call with Leighton James and Jeff Parton winning places in the Welsh squad. They’d be facing each other too, if selected, with the game to be played at Swansea’s Vetch Field.
Martin Dobson’s header hits the bar
But for Burnley, it was Nottingham Forest at Turf Moor, and ahead of the game Adamson confirmed that again it would be the same team and that Billy Ingham would be named as the substitute. He said: “They will probably come to defend and it will be our job to overcome this. It is important that we keep picking up the points at home. Whether they defend or not the Forest management is determined that the team should not arrive with an inferior complex.”
Forest were under new management with Dave Mackay having replaced Matt Gillies. He and his assistant Stan Anderson had previously been at Swindon and were still disappointed that they’d lost the game at Burnley with their previous club earlier in the season. Anderson said ahead of this trip: “When we came to Turf Moor with Swindon I thought we played Burnley off the park, but they got the points. It’s great to have the chance to get our revenge even if we are at another club. The boss and I would be delighted if the Forest boys could do it for us. He added: “Burnley are obviously the best team in the division at the moment and it is clearly going to be no easy task for us, but they can be outplayed. We proved this with Swindon and if we go out there suffering from an inferiority complex Burnley would steamroller us to defeat. Every team wants to beat Burnley and will pull out that bit extra to do it. We are no different in that respect.”
Forest might have wanted to beat Burnley but it was something they failed to do as the Clarets recorded successive 1-0 wins, with Fletcher, without his uke, this time getting the goal. It wasn’t a performance that was greeted with too many plaudits and press and fans alike suggested we were below par with a couple of national newspapers describing us as poor. There’s no doubt we weren’t at our best, far from it, but we were still the better of the two teams by some distance and probably it was no more than our inability to score more than one goal that brought the criticism. We created enough opportunities but missed too many of them and the fans were left on tenterhooks right until the end of the game. We might have paid for it too when Paul Richardson was gifted the simplest of chances to equalise right at the end. Thankfully he fluffed his lines when he dallied so long it allowed Alan Stevenson to come out and save at his feet. Other than the failings in front of goal we could be satisfied overall but, as Adamson had said when we lost 4-0 at Leeds in the League Cup: “They showed us how to control a game when you are in front.” It was something we needed to do because, overall, it should have been an easy win against a poor Forest side who defended well, worked hard, but showed little invention going forward.
Fletcher’s shot goes in and Burnley win 1-0
We controlled the first half which saw most of the play in and around the Forest box. Twice they cleared off the line with goalkeeper Jim Barron beaten but the best move of the half came with a link up between Martin Dobson and Fletcher. They exchanged passes down the right and when Dobson got to the line he pulled the ball back for Fletcher who was stretching and could only fire over from ten yards.
If anything we were even more on top at the start of the second half. Dobson headed against the bar, Frank Casper robbed Tommy Gemmell of the ball but fired wide. Then, finally we went in front. After all our good play the goal was presented to us virtually on a plate. A promising move looked to have broken down when Doug Collins played a wretched ball straight to Gemmell, but the former Scotland international, instead of playing the ball forward, opted to play it back to Barron. The pass back was never strong enough and FLETCHER nipped in to force his way past the goalkeeper, quickly regain his balance and steer the ball into the unguarded net from an acute angle.
Unfortunately we weren’t able to get that much needed second goal and were thankful to Stevenson right at the end for us retaining the lead. Casper and James were disappointing on the day and that was always going to have an effect on the performance, but it was another win and things were looking good.
The teams were;
Burnley: Alan Stevenson, Mick Docherty, Keith Newton, Martin Dobson, Colin Waldron, Jim Thomson, Geoff Nulty, Frank Casper, Paul Fletcher, Doug Collins, Leighton James.
Nottingham Forest: Jim Barron, Peter Hindley, Tommy Gemmell, Bob Chapman, David Serella, Doug Fraser (Paul Richardson 75), Martin O’Neill, George Lyall, Neil Martin, John Robertson, Duncan McKenzie.
Referee: Mr. H. G. New (Bristol).
Attendance: 12,048.
This was another week when a number of results went for us. Second place QPR also won but three of the next four in the table were all beaten. That left Lancashire clubs Blackpool and Preston in 3rd and 4th places. Preston, like us, had won nine of their opening 19 games but, very much unlike us, they weren’t to have too much success in their remaining games.
We were off to Sunderland a week later. It was a day, for reasons other than the game, that I’ll never forget.
Second Division Results
Bristol City 1 Sunderland 0
Burnley 1 Nottingham Forest 0
Cardiff 3 Fulham 1
Hull 1 Blackpool 2
Luton 0 Carlisle 1
Middlesbrough 0 Swindon 2
Millwall 1 Huddersfield 0
Orient 3 Sheffield Wednesday 2
Oxford 2 Aston Villa 0
Portsmouth 0 QPR 1
Preston 4 Brighton 0
Burnley’s Goalscorers
9: Paul Fletcher
8: Leighton James
6: Martin Dobson
4: Dave Thomas
3: Frank Casper
2: Colin Waldron
1: Doug Collins
Pos Team pld w d l f a ga pts
1 Burnley 19 9 9 1 33 19 1.74 27
2 QPR 19 9 7 3 35 24 1.46 25
3 Blackpool 19 8 7 4 29 20 1.45 23
4 Preston 19 9 4 6 20 15 1.33 22
5 Luton 19 9 4 6 26 21 1.24 22
6 Aston Villa 19 8 6 5 19 18 1.06 22
7 Oxford 19 9 2 8 26 22 1.18 20
8 Sheffield Weds 20 8 4 8 33 28 1.18 20
9 Middlesbrough 19 7 6 6 18 23 0.78 20
10 Fulham 19 6 7 6 26 24 1.08 19
11 Swindon 20 6 7 7 28 30 0.93 19
12 Bristol City 20 6 7 7 23 25 0.92 19
13 Hull 19 6 6 7 27 24 1.13 18
14 Carlisle 18 7 4 7 25 23 1.09 18
15 Nottingham Forest 19 6 6 7 20 25 0.80 18
16 Huddersfield 20 5 8 7 19 24 0.79 18
17 Millwall 19 7 2 10 24 23 1.04 16
18 Orient 19 4 8 7 18 24 0.75 16
19 Sunderland 18 4 7 7 23 29 0.79 15
20 Portsmouth 19 5 5 9 19 25 0.76 15
21 Cardiff 19 6 3 10 22 32 0.69 15
22 Brighton 19 2 9 8 23 38 0.61 13
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After 94 days without hockey, more than 1,000 players will report to NHL training camps on Thursday. TSN Senior Hockey Reporter Frank Seravalli takes a look at 10 league-wide storylines to watch during the preseason.
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After 94 days without hockey, more than 1,000 players will report to NHL training camps on Thursday. Here’s a look at 10 league-wide storylines to watch during the preseason:
1. Will there be a resolution to the Patrick Kane saga?
All eyes will be fixed on South Bend, Ind., when the defending Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks open training camp at Notre Dame on Friday. The Hawks say they expect Kane to attend, despite an ongoing police investigation into sexual assault allegations in Western New York. So far, the NHL says they are monitoring developments in the Kane case. A grand jury investigation is expected to convene soon to review findings in the case. Kane, 26, has not been charged with a crime. Even if the grand jury recommends not proceeding with a case, there is precedent in pro sports for Kane to be disciplined. Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was suspended for a quarter of the 2010 season by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, less than 10 days after a district attorney in Georgia declined to pursue criminal charges on sexual assault allegations.
2. Will Steven Stamkos’ contract extension talks linger into the season?
Lightning GM Steve Yzerman labeled signing Steven Stamkos to a long-term extension his “No. 1 priority” for the off-season. So far, it seems the Lightning and Stamkos’ camp have made little in the way of progress - though both sides remain tight-lipped. One of the reported hang-ups is that coach Jon Cooper would like to slot Stamkos at right wing, though Stamkos prefers to play centre. This is the final season of Stamkos’ five-year, $37.5-million deal. There is plenty of time to work out a long-term pact. Stamkos, 25, has said all along he wants to remain in Tampa Bay, and a few swipes of the pen can make that a reality. The longer these talks linger, though, the greater the lure of free agency.
3. How will the new 3-on-3 overtime format and coach’s challenge impact the game?
Before the preseason slate opens on Sunday, the new 3-on-3 overtime format is one of the few facets almost every team will be practising when camps open. Will teams use two forwards and one defencemen? Or three forwards? Will they be aggressive or passive? How coaches attack the new 3-on-3 format is one of the most interesting stories to watch in the new season. With a focus on speed and skill, the NHL hopes to decide up to 70 per cent of overtime games without need for a shootout. Also, for the first time ever, coaches will be able to challenge referee decisions on goaltender interference and off-sides on plays in which a goal is scored.
4. Who will be centering Phil Kessel by the end of training camp: Sidney Crosby or Evgeni Malkin?
To start, Penguins coach Mike Johnston said he will place Phil Kessel on a wing with Sidney Crosby - but that doesn’t mean the line will be a permanent fixture, even for training camp. Malkin is expected to skate with countryman Sergei Plotnikov, a KHL import, with Patric Hornqvist on the right side. Both Crosby and Malkin have long been in search of talented wingers to help the Penguins overcome their playoff disappointments of the last six seasons. Kessel has the fourth-most goals in the NHL since 2009. If he can find chemistry with Crosby, the Penguins could quickly be the envy of the Eastern Conference again.
5. Will any players be moved at the end of training camp as salary cap casualties?
Last year, Johnny Boychuk and Nick Leddy were traded from the Bruins and Blackhawks to the Islanders on the eve of the regular season, with the managers of those two teams waiting until the last possible moment to make their clubs salary cap compliant. Will any players be on the move this year? Heading into camp, nearly half the league (12 teams) are within $2 million of the $71.4 million limit, and few of them have the full complement of 23 players signed. The Kings, for instance, could be forced to make a move if Mike Richards were to win his grievance for wrongful contract termination. Or, even if the Kings are found to have wrongfully terminated his contract, but are then permitted to follow through with an ordinary course buyout, there would still be salary cap consequences for this season. Chicago remains in salary cap jail, even after Kris Versteeg’s salary dump to Carolina, and doesn’t have much wiggle room to sign one of the many tryout players they have in camp to a contract.
6. How much of an impact will Connor McDavid make?
The game is vastly different, but many will hold McDavid to the 102-point mark Sidney Crosby set as an 18-year-old rookie in 2005-06. Only four players topped 80 points last season. TSN analyst Ray Ferraro believes anything in the 58 to 62-point range will constitute a successful season. Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli tempered expectations a bit by setting a bar of 20 goals and 20 assists, but even he admits he would take the over in that situation. Will he also outscore second overall pick Jack Eichel? Eichel was the talk of Sabres’ prospect scrimmages after a dazzling goal and assist.
7. Who will be the next captain of the Montreal Canadiens?
After going without one last season, Canadiens owner Geoff Molson says the team will name its 29th captain in franchise history by the end of camp. Many say the real leader in the Canadiens’ dressing room is goaltender Carey Price, who captured the Hart, Ted Lindsay and Vezina trophies last season. Will the Canadiens bypass NHL rules and choose just the second goaltender since 1947-48 as captain? Then in Vancouver, Roberto Luongo was the last goaltender to be captain, relinquishing the role in 2010 when GM Mike Gillis said the role is “incompatible” with the position. Max Pacioretty, P.K. Subban and Brendan Gallagher are also strong candidates.
The Devils and Sharks are two other teams with a captain vacancy heading into the season.
8. How many veteran tryouts will earn a contract in camp?
It was a bad summer to be a free agent. With the salary cap ceiling only slightly climbing, more teams are placing an emphasis on production from younger players. The result is more talented, dependable veterans trying to earn a job on a tryout than ever before. Sergei Gonchar (PIT), Curtis Glencross (TOR), Brad Boyes (TOR), Jan Hejda (CHI), David Booth (FLA) and Scottie Upshall (STL) are just a few of the names this fall heading to camp on tryout offers. Some players, like Sean Bergenheim, are not accepting tryout offers in an attempt to hold out for a guaranteed contract.
9. Which coaches will begin the season on the hot seat?
Very few NHL coaches begin a season in the final year of their contract. But that’s exactly what Ken Hitchcock is doing - for the second straight year - after signing a one-year extension in St. Louis this off-season. The Blues have been the NHL’s biggest playoff disappointment over the last four springs, following usually strong regular seasons. Hitchcock is not alone on the hot seat. Eyebrows will be raised at Boston’s Claude Julien, Montreal’s Michel Therrien and Los Angeles’ Darryl Sutter, particularly if disjointed training camps ensue.
Meanwhile, nearly a third of the league’s coaches will have a fresh start in camp: Todd McLellan (Edmonton), Dave Hakstol (Philadelphia), Peter DeBoer (San Jose), John Hynes (New Jersey), Jeff Blashill (Detroit) Dan Bylsma (Buffalo) and Mike Babcock (Toronto).
10. When will the NHL’s Board of Governors make a decision on expansion?
All three phases of the NHL’s formal expansion application process have been completed, with bids from Las Vegas and Quebec City going the distance. The NHL’s Board of Governors is scheduled to meet on Sept. 29 in New York. The Board is expected to be briefed on the process, at the very least. The league’s 30 clubs are unlikely to vote to extend to invitations to join the league for the 2017-18 season later this month, though it is possible. It will likely have to wait until December, when the next meeting convenes in Pebble Beach, Calif.
Frank Seravalli can be reached at frank.seravalli@bellmedia.ca.
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Home Top News Kuala Kubu Bharu in Selangor up for UNESCO consideration
Kuala Kubu Bharu in Selangor up for UNESCO consideration
By S Puvaneswary
/ Posted on 1 October, 2018 9:44
A lotus pond near Kampung Ampang Pecah in Kuala Kubu Bharu
The Selangor state government is working towards getting Kuala Kubu Bharu town listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, under the Garden City Heritage category.
It is understood that a consultant will be appointed in December to ensure the town fulfils the necessary requirements.
If the application is successful, Kuala Kubu Bharu will be the first place in Selangor state to have the prestigious UNESCO branding.
Abdul Rashid Asari, Selangor state government’s chairman of standing committees for cultural and tourism, Malay Tradition and Heritage, said: “The UNESCO branding is important to further attract foreign and domestic tourists to Kuala Kubu Bharu as well as the state of Selangor.”
Kuala Kubu Bharu town, the principal of Hulu Selangor district, was built in 1928 after floods destroyed the old district capital of Hulu Selangor. It was designed by Charles Compton Reade, Malaya’s first town planner, based on the garden city movement of the early 20th century where self-contained communities are surrounded by greenbelts.
As a tourist destination, Kuala Kubu Bharu is rich in ecotourism activities such as hiking at Bukit Kutu and Lata Medang, trekking to Chiling waterfall, paragliding, white water rafting and mountain biking.
Annual sporting events held at Kuala Kubu Bharu includes Kuala Kubu Bharu paragliding Accuracy Championship, Selangor International Bird Race and Pertak Trail Run.
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FM 70 and SH 286 Project
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Corpus Christi District is proposing to construct passing lanes and widen shoulders on State Highway (SH) 286 from south of Farm to Market (FM) 2444 to FM 70 and on FM 70 from the FM 2444/ FM 70 intersection to U.S. Highway (US) 77 in Nueces County. The total length of the proposed project would be approximately 25 miles. The existing SH 286 and FM 70 roadway consists of two 12-ft travel lanes in each direction with narrrow shoulders, with one section of existing passing lanes on FM 70. The proposed project would add 12-ft passing lanes in sections, throughout the project limits and widen shoulders to 10-ft on each side of the roadway. In addition, ditches would be regraded and drainage structures (culverts and bridges) would be widened where needed. The purpose of the proposed project is to improve safety and mobility along SH 286 and FM 70
Any proposed improvements will ultimately be based on traffic, local and regional access needs, safety, the avoidance and minimization of environmental impacts and the consideration of community input.
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Preliminary engineering (schematic design) and environmental studies are anticipated to be complete in early 2021.
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Balancing Action 101: Why Lines Moveby Rob Gillespie
After a great first week of football, I thought it would be important to explain line moves from the House's point-of-view in detail. Much of this comes from a similar article I wrote last football season, but I think it is important enough for bettors to understand how a sportsbook operates that I will publish it every year!
Remember that sportsbooks make their money by withholding a small commission on winning wagers. If Player A bets on Atlanta -4, risking the standard $110 to win $100 and Player B bets $110 to win $100 on Buffalo +4, then the sportsbook makes $10 regardless of the outcome, as long as the final score isn't Atlanta by 4 points (in which case both wagers would be pushed and nobody makes any money). Since the total wagered is $220, the house's gross profit % in this simple scenario is about 4.5%. This number is the Theoretical Hold Percentage (or THP for short) for a straight wager. Now lets discuss a couple of reasons why this number is only theoretical.
First, in the real world, action is very rarely perfectly balanced and sportsbooks almost always have a vested interest in the outcome of every game. When action isn't balanced, and the outcome of an event could lead to a loss for the house, the sportsbook is exposed. Each sportsbook determines how exposed it can be on any given event. It is a combination of this tolerance for risk and the sportsbook's wagering action that drives line changes. If a sportsbook has $5,500 wagered by its clients on Atlanta -4 and $2,200 wagered on Buffalo +4, then the sportsbook stands to lose $2,800 if Atlanta covers (collects $2,200 from players who bet on Buffalo but has to pay $5,000 to players who bet on Atlanta) but stands to win $3,500 if Buffalo covers (collects $5,500 from players who bet on Atlanta but has to pay $2,000 to players who bet on Buffalo). This may not seem like much risk, but if you multiple these numbers by 10, 20, 50, 1000 or more, you can appreciate why sportsbooks move lines to balance action. One sportsbook might move to -4.5 when it is exposed by $5,000 on Atlanta where another sportsbook might be comfortable at -4 until it is $250,000 offside. It depends on the anticipated total handle, the game, the sport and the book's tolerance for risk.
Some sportsbooks handicap the games themselves and may shade the line a half point or more in a direction to generate more wagering on the team they think will not cover. If they like Atlanta to cover the -4, they may open the line at -4.5. If they like Buffalo, they may open the line at -3.5. Or, they may open the game at -4 and simply decide to allow more risk on one team then the other. For example if the house likes Atlanta and has a normal risk tolerance of $25,000 on a given line, the house may then decide to move to -4.5 after only being $10,000 offside on Atlanta, but would wait to be $40,000 offside on B before moving to -3.5.
Right now, other than cursing me for too much math, you may be thinking: why don't sportsbooks just keep moving the line until they are balanced? The reason sportsbooks don't balance action at any cost is because there is also a risk involved every time a line is moved. Let's use some very simple examples to demonstrate the risks.
Example #1: There is $110 on Atlanta -4 so the house moves the line to -4.5 to attract action on Buffalo (now at +4.5). Someone bets on Buffalo +4.5 for $110 so the house is happy. However, there is an unpleasant side effect if the final score is Atlanta -4. The player who bet on Atlanta has his wager pushed, but the player who bet on Buffalo wins and collects $100, so the house loses $100. When the final score lands on one of the outer extremes of the range of pointspreads for a game the house is said to have been sided.
Example #2: There is $110 on Atlanta -3.5, so the house moves the line to -4 to attract action on Buffalo. At -4 it takes $110 more on Atlanta and decides to move to -4.5. Someone bets on Buffalo +4.5 for $220 so the house is happy ($220 total on each team). In this case, there is a very unpleasant side effect if the final score is Atlanta -4. The player who bet on Atlanta -3.5 wins $100, the player who bet at -4 has his wager pushed and the player who bet on Buffalo wins and collects $200 so the house loses $300. When the final score lands between the outer extremes of the range of pointspreads for a game the house is said to have been middled.
It is the risk of getting sided or middled that keep books from moving lines, and it is the risk of having a position on a losing team that force them to move the line. Books that move lines too far can suffer heavy losses with a bad outcome, as will books that don't move lines enough. The difficulty in knowing when to move lines is what makes bookmaking an art and not a science. Just remember that every book moves lines a little differently and so every day there are differences in the lines between books for the exact same game.
Which brings us to a recap of last week's action. Thursday's college game (S.Miss/UAB) was anticlimactic; it wasn't going to be over before the NFL game started so it didn't get much action. (Just one example of how things would have been different if a bookmaker created the schedules for all sports...). For the NFL game, action was outstanding, coming very close to the numbers from last Super Bowl, but not quite. Early action was on the Jets and I saw some books dip to Washington -2.5 but I am glad we stayed the course as action came back late on Washington and we ended up with Redskin money. The 16-13 Washington win meant spreads were a push (except for the shops that moved to -2.5 and back) but the low score gave the House a little profit for the night.
Friday's college game saw better action. There was a little money on Oregon State -8/8.5 and the Over so the Fresno St 16-14 win was an Ok result as well.
Saturday started off mildly enough with a moderate win for the book on Wake Forest's upset of North Carolina St. Then there was a split in decisions as the book won with Bowling Green's shocker over Purdue but players getting it back with UConn's big win over Army. The mid-afternoon games were definitely kind to the House with Georgia Tech's big win over Auburn and Washington State's near-upset of Notre Dame being the two biggest decisions of the day. We were lucky to get the pair. The book was even luckier with UCLA +3 when Colorado missed a late extra point that would have gotten a push for Buff's bettors. That had to be the toughest beat this weekend. Marshall's strong performance against Tennessee was also good for the book and the Washington/Indiana game managed to make 25 an interesting spread by landing on the number! The early evening games went to the players though with good wins on Florida State -15, Oklahoma State -22 and West Virginia -10. The only game that round that went the book's way was Alabama's back door cover against Oklahoma in a game that drew more action than any other college game this weekend. Action on totals was far more balanced this weekend than last. The only real decision there was a win for the players in the Over on Miami's thrilling comeback against Florida. What a great game to watch! Overall, it had been a good day for the book (and a record for us for college football handle in day by almost double!) and we were expecting a little extra action on the late games (LSU/Arizona and Stanford/San Jose St.) as bettors chase losses but they really didn't get that much action. Perhaps bettors are more disciplined this year or maybe everyone was just getting ready for Sunday's NFL!
Sunday was hopping busy until 1pm ET, then the phones went dead and we got to watch some football! The biggest decision of the day (and the weekend) went to the bettors when Indy squeaked past the Browns 9-6. Other early scores were good though with Jacksonville covering, the Giants winning outright (will Kurt Warner ever be 100% healthy again?) and the Texans shocker in Miami. That game was good for the book as it killed a lot of 10 and 13-point sweetheart teasers. The 49ers were a popular bet in the middle set of games and bettors did very well when the 49ers dismantled the Bears. For the late game, the Titans got the game so bettors managed to rally to cut into the book's profits from the early games. Totals ended up 7 Over and 7 Under for the day but the biggest play was NE/Buff under and that went against the House. However, we got the next four when SD/KC, Ind/Cle, NO/Sea and Oak/Ten all came in under the number.
Action for the Monday Night game was split pretty evenly, although there was a little money on the Bucs straight-up and on the Over. I'll be back next week with another Frontlines, so until then, enjoy another great week of football action.
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Wanda’s 25 Favorite Albums of 2015
By Wanda Fischer • Dec 30, 2015
Tom Paxton and Wanda at the Folk Alliance International Conference, 2015.
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This was a very difficult year to make a selection of so-called “favorites.” I had to narrow this list down several times, and it wasn’t easy! This list is presented in alphabetical order by artist.
I had many other albums that I liked and played on the air, but these were the ones that tickled my fancy the most. I came to these conclusions after much thought and wrangling with myself...and maybe even some chocolate.
1. Anna and Elizabeth: Anna and Elizabeth (Free Dirt)
2. Geoff Bartley: Uncle Wiggly’s Bicycle Ride (Magic Crow)
3. Boxcar Lilies: Knockout Rose (Boxcar Lilies)
4. The Burns Sisters: Looking Back: Our American-Irish Souls (Burns Sisters)
5. Andy Cohen: Road Be Kind (Earwig)
6. Caroline Cotter: Dreaming as I Do (Caroline Cotter)
7. Della Mae: Della Mae (Rounder)
8. Jonathan Edwards: Tomorrow’s Child (Rising Records)
9. Archie Fisher: A Silent Song (Red House)
10. Sam Gleaves: Ain’t We Brothers (Community)
11. Avery Hill: Dreams and Ghosts (Avery Hill)
12. Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen: Welcome Day (Sleepy Creek)
13. Joel Mabus: A Bird in This World (Fossil)
14. Sue Massek: Precious Memories: The Songs of Sarah Ogan Gunning (Strictly Country)
15. John McCutcheon: Joe Hill’s Will (Appalsongs)
16. Gene and Gayla Mills: Walk on Solid Ground (Heart Pine)
17. Tom Paxton: Redemption Road (Pax)
18. John Roberts and Debra Cowan: Ballads Long and Short (Golden Hind)
19. Jason and Pharis Romero: A Wanderer I’ll Stay (Lula)
20. Dan Schatz: The Promise of the Sowing (Folk-Legacy)
21. Spuyten Duyvil: The Social Music Hour, Volume I (Spuyten Duyvil)
22. Hans Theesink and Terry Evans: True and Blue (Blue Groove)
23. Happy Traum: Just for the Love of It (Happy Traum)
24. Various: The Joy of Living: A Tribute to Ewan MacColl (Compass)
25. Wes Weddell Band: Nobody’s Flag (Dusty Shadows)
I would also like to mention that Larry Kaplan’s “Songs for an August Moon,” which came out in 2014, was inadvertently left off of the “Favorites of 2014” list, so I want to include it here.
Wanda Fischer
The Felice Brothers Celebrate Valentine's Day At BSP In Kingston
By Sarah LaDuke • Feb 12, 2015
Butch Hogan
The Felice Brothers are a Hudson Valley based folk-country-rock band with a fervent fanbase. This Saturday they’ll play a Valentine’s Day show at BSP Lounge in Kingston, NY.
The Felice Brothers’ most recent album Favorite Waitress, is out now on Dualtone Records. Paste Magazine calls the album the band’s “best to date…a remarkably varied and well-paced collection of tunes” and American Songwriter calls it one of 2014’s best releases.
Here we speak with James Felice about studios, songwriting, and hometown crowds.
"Woody Sez" at The Guthrie Center
By Ray Graf • Aug 7, 2013
Wendy Mutz
Woody Sez is a toe-tapping theatrical concert event that uses the words of Woody Guthrie, and over twenty-five of his songs to transport the audience through his fascinating, beautiful, and sometimes tragic life.
Performed by a talented group of four versatile actor/musicians who not only play 15 instruments ranging from guitar and fiddle to jaw harp and dulcimer, but they also bring to life the many people who are the fabric of Woody Guthrie's amazing story.
Woody Sez will be at The Guthrie Center in Great Barrington on August 14th and 16th and David Lutken joins us now to tell us more.
David studied at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He has performed in Europe and the United Kingdom, at Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y and Carnegie Hall. His debut in the West End was the 2011 production of Woody Sez.
The 33rd Annual Old Songs Festival
By Joe Donahue • Jun 25, 2013
Old Songs is a family-friendly festival of folk, traditional, Celtic and world music and dance, known for its relaxed atmosphere, interactive sessions and workshops, hands-on experience and participatory nature.
In addition to three concerts there are 120 daytime workshops given by performers, a juried craft show, food and instrument vendors, and a children's activity area.
The 33rd Annual Old Songs Festival is taking place this weekend at the Altamont Fairgrounds, Altamont, NY and Roger Mock, Assistant Director of the festival joins us now to tell us more.
Peggy Seeger
By Alan Chartock • Mar 18, 2014
The Annual Berkshire Festival of Women Writers is a collaborative, multi-venue event sponsored by Bard College at Simon's Rock with many local partners, celebrated across Berkshire County in the month of March - Women's History Month.
This year, the festival features more than 150 women of all ages and from many backgrounds sharing their talents through readings, lectures, workshops, performances, and screenings held at 36 Berkshire County venues from Sheffield to Williamstown. All 58 festival events are open to the public and most are free.
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How can you be so sure? Behavioral, computational, and neuroscientific perspectives on metacognition in perceptual decision-making
S3 – How can you be so sure? Behavioral, computational, and neuro-scientific perspectives on metacogni-tion in perceptual decision-making
Time/Room: Friday, May 19, 2017, 2:30 – 4:30 pm, Talk Room 1
Organizer(s): Megan Peters, University of California Los Angeles
Presenters: Megan Peters, Ariel Zylberberg, Michele Basso, Wei Ji Ma, Pascal Mamassian
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Metacognition, or our ability to monitor the uncertainty of our thoughts, decisions, and perceptions, is of critical importance across many domains . Here we focus on metacognition in perceptual decisions — the continuous inferences that we make about the most likely state of the world based on incoming sensory information. How does a police officer evaluate the fidelity of his perception that a perpetrator has drawn a weapon? How does a driver compute her certainty in whether a fleeting visual percept is a child or a soccer ball, impacting her decision to swerve? These kinds of questions are central to daily life, yet how such ‘confidence’ is computed in the brain remains unknown. In recent years, increasingly keen interest has been directed towards exploring such metacognitive mechanisms from computational (e.g., Rahnev et al., 2011, Nat Neuro; Peters & Lau, 2015, eLife), neuroimaging (e.g., Fleming et al., 2010, Science), brain stimulation (e.g., Fetsch et al., 2014, Neuron), and neuronal electro-physiology (e.g., Kiani & Shadlen, 2009, Science; Zylberberg et al., 2016, eLife) perspectives. Importantly, the computation of confidence is also of increasing interest to the broader range of researchers studying the computations underlying perceptual decision-making in general. Our central focus is on how confidence is computed in neuronal populations, with attention to (a) whether perceptual decisions and metacognitive judgments depend on the same or different computations, and (b) why confidence judgments sometimes fail to optimally track the accuracy of perceptual decisions. Key themes for this symposium will include neural correlates of confidence, behavioral consequences of evidence manipulation on confidence judgments, and computational characterizations of the relationship between perceptual decisions and our confidence in them. Our principal goal is to attract scientists studying or interested in confidence/uncertainty, sensory metacognition, and perceptual decision-making from both human and animal perspectives, spanning from the computational to the neurobiological level. We bring together speakers from across these disciplines, from animal electrophysiology and behavior through computational models of human uncertainty, to communicate their most recent and exciting findings. Given the recency of many of the findings discussed, our symposium will cover terrain largely untouched by the main program. We hope that the breadth of research programs represented in this symposium will encourage a diverse group of scientists to attend and actively participate in the discussion.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation to visual cortex induces suboptimal introspection
Speaker: Megan Peters, University of California Los Angeles
Additional Authors: Megan Peters, University of California Los Angeles; Jeremy Fesi, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Namema Amendi, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Jeffrey D. Knotts, University of California Los Angeles; Hakwan Lau, UCLA
In neurological cases of blindsight, patients with damage to primary visual cortex can discriminate objects but report no visual experience of them. This form of ‘unconscious perception’ provides a powerful opportunity to study perceptual awareness, but because the disorder is rare, many researchers have sought to induce the effect in neurologically intact observers. One promising approach is to apply transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to visual cortex to induce blindsight (Boyer et al., 2005), but this method has been criticized for being susceptible to criterion bias confounds: perhaps TMS merely reduces internal visual signal strength, and observers are unwilling to report that they faintly saw a stimulus even if they can still discriminate it (Lloyd et al., 2013). Here we applied a rigorous response-bias free 2-interval forced-choice method for rating subjective experience in studies of unconscious perception (Peters and Lau, 2015) to address this concern. We used Bayesian ideal observer analysis to demonstrate that observers’ introspective judgments about stimulus visibility are suboptimal even when the task does not require that they maintain a response criterion — unlike in visual masking. Specifically, observers appear metacognitively blind to the noise introduced by TMS, in a way that is akin to neurological cases of blindsight. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that metacognitive judgments require observers to develop an internal model of the statistical properties of their own signal processing architecture, and that introspective suboptimality arises when that internal model abruptly becomes invalid due to external manipulations.
The influence of evidence volatility on choice, reaction time and confidence in a perceptual decision
Speaker: Ariel Zylberberg, Columbia University
Additional Authors: Ariel Zylberberg, Columbia University; Christopher R. Fetsch, Columbia University; Michael N. Shadlen, Columbia University
Many decisions are thought to arise via the accumulation of noisy evidence to a threshold or bound. In perceptual decision-making, the bounded evidence accumulation framework explains the effect of stimulus strength, characterized by signal-to-noise ratio, on decision speed, accuracy and confidence. This framework also makes intriguing predictions about the behavioral influence of the noise itself. An increase in noise should lead to faster decisions, reduced accuracy and, paradoxically, higher confidence. To test these predictions, we introduce a novel sensory manipulation that mimics the addition of unbiased noise to motion-selective regions of visual cortex. We verified the effect of this manipulation with neuronal recordings from macaque areas MT/MST. For both humans and monkeys, increasing the noise induced faster decisions and greater confidence over a range of stimuli for which accuracy was minimally impaired. The magnitude of the effects was in agreement with predictions of a bounded evidence accumulation model.
A role for the superior colliculus in decision-making and confidence
Speaker: Michele Basso, University of California Los Angeles
Additional Authors: Michele Basso, University of California Los Angeles; Piercesare Grimaldi, University of California Los Angeles; Trinity Crapse, University of California Los Angeles
Evidence implicates the superior colliculus (SC) in attention and perceptual decision-making . In a simple target-selection task, we previously showed that discriminability between target and distractor neuronal activity in the SC correlated with decision accuracy, consistent with the hypothesis that SC encodes a decision variable. Here we extend these results to determine whether SC also correlates with decision criterion and confidence. Trained monkeys performed a simple perceptual decision task in two conditions to induce behavioral response bias (criterion shift): (1) the probability of two perceptual stimuli was equal, and (2) the probability of one perceptual stimulus was higher than the other. We observed consistent changes in behavioral response bias (shifts in decision criterion) that were directly cor-related with SC neuronal activity. Furthermore, electrical stimulation of SC mimicked the effect of stimulus probability manipulations, demonstrating that SC correlates with and is causally involved in setting decision criteria. To assess confidence, monkeys were offered a ‘safe bet’ option on 50% of trials in a similar task. The ‘safe bet’ always yielded a small reward, encouraging monkeys to select the ‘safe bet’ when they were less confident rather than risk no reward for a wrong decision. Both monkeys showed metacognitive sensitivity: they chose the ‘safe bet’ more on more difficult trials. Single- and multi-neuron recordings from SC revealed two distinct neuronal populations: one that discharged more robustly for more confident trials, and one that did so for less confident trials. Together these finding show how SC encodes information about decisions and decisional confidence.
Testing the Bayesian confidence hypothesis
Speaker: Wei Ji Ma, New York University
Additional Authors: Wei Ji Ma, New York University; Will Adler, New York University; Ronald van den Berg, University of Uppsala
Asking subjects to rate their confidence is one of the oldest procedures in psychophysics. Remarkably, quantitative models of confidence ratings have been scarce. What could be called the “Bayesian confidence hypothesis” states that an observer’s confidence rating distribution is completely determined by posterior probability. This hypothesis predicts specific quantitative relationships between performance and confidence. It also predicts that stimulus combinations that produce the same posterior will also produce the same confidence distribution. We tested these predictions in three contexts: a) perceptual categorization; b) visual working memory; c) the interpretation of scientific data.
Integration of visual confidence over time and across stimulus dimensions
Speaker: Pascal Mamassian, Ecole Normale Supérieure
Additional Authors: Pascal Mamassian, Ecole Normale Supérieure; Vincent de Gardelle, Université Paris 1; Alan Lee, Lingnan University
Visual confidence refers to our ability to estimate our own performance in a visual decision task. Several studies have highlighted the relatively high efficiency of this meta-perceptual ability, at least for simple visual discrimination tasks. Are observers equally good when visual confidence spans more than one stimulus dimension or more than a single decision? To address these issues, we used the method of confidence forced-choice judgments where participants are prompted to choose between two alter-natives the stimulus for which they expect their performance to be better (Barthelmé & Mamassian, 2009, PLoS CB). In one experiment, we asked observers to make confidence choice judgments between two different tasks (an orientation-discrimination task and a spatial-frequency-discrimi-nation task). We found that participants were equally good at making these across-dimensions confidence judgments as when choices were restricted to a single dimension, suggesting that visual confidence judgments share a common currency. In another experiment, we asked observers to make confidence-choice judgments between two ensembles of 2, 4, or 8 stimuli. We found that participants were increasingly good at making ensemble confidence judgments, suggesting that visual confidence judgments can accumulate information across several trials. Overall, these results help us better understand how visual confidence is computed and used over time and across stimulus dimensions.
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Insights on technology and trends driving the future
Changing Your View of What’s Cool in Displays
By Doug Pfau, Visteon Displays Technical Sales Manager
Where would you look for the coolest innovations in display screens? Your laptop or fitness bracelet? Probably not. Your new smartphone? Maybe. What about your car’s instrument panel? You may be surprised to find that the latest screens on your dashboard are among the most exciting and versatile displays anywhere.
Advancements in OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology, high-resolution imaging and clever peripherals that integrate filters, touch controls and haptic feedback are revolutionizing in-vehicle information display screens, not only for drivers but for passengers up front and in the back seat as well.
Perhaps the cleverest of these developments is a dual view display—which ultimately can become a triple view display. It allows the driver, the front seat passenger and a passenger in the center of the second row to each see a different image or video, all on the same screen. This multi-view display appears on a screen with a horizontal resolution of 2,880 pixels, which is more than twice that of HD. Dual view provides a horizontal resolution of 1,440 pixels for each viewer, or 960 pixels for each of three viewers. With a high-tech louver system in front of the display, smart electronics send every second pixel (or every third pixel for triple view) to the driver and passenger. The driver may see only a navigation screen while the front passenger watches a movie and the rear passenger (for example, in a taxi) sees a video advertisement. Images and/or video from multiple sources are fed into the electronics, which unweave and reweave the images to display them via the appropriate set of pixels.
Another bright idea is the dual OLED display, which uses two 7-inch OLED screens — a main display and another that slides out when needed. One screen could be dedicated to the navigation system while the other screen shows Apple CarPlay controls. An important benefit of having two screens is the ability to display controls that otherwise would be buried in menus. With dual display, these virtual buttons are easy to find and reach.
A further cutting-edge technology is the curved lens. A conventional thin-film transistor (TFT) display — the type commonly used in flat-screen TVs, computers and mobile phones — is optically bonded to a curved lens, creating a combination that pops the image to the surface of the lens. It’s coupled with a fast-response touch capability for optimal user satisfaction.
Still one more illustration is the multilayer display cluster concept that replaces conventional dashboard gauges with 3-D virtual images. Two transparent TFT displays placed about 10 millimeters apart, along with polarizers and advanced graphics, cause the 3-D gauges to look real from any angle.
Visteon’s information displays incorporate the consumer appeal of sleek design, craftsmanship and touch capability to deliver high-performing displays for the demanding automotive environment. This video features advanced concepts for a dual-view display, curved lens, dual OLED and multi-layer display.
All of these technologies benefit from autoluminous control, a system that combines inputs from an exterior light sensor pointing out the front windshield with two sensors on the display that read interior light levels and automatically adjust the display’s intensity so it is easily visible.
In addition to transforming instrument-panel styling, these bright, smart displays can make driving safer. A dim display, or one with low resolution, requires drivers to spend more time focusing their eyes on the screen instead of on the road. Dual displays show all controls, rather than burying them in menus, providing drivers with needed information faster, and allowing them to return their attention to the road sooner.
Many of these innovations are currently available. Dual view display, for example, can be seen on the Land Rover Evoque. The once formidable cost of OLED displays is declining as production ramps up for OLED smartphone screens. Similarly, high-resolution TFT screens are becoming much more affordable, with the average screen size expected to grow from 7 inches today to 9 inches within two years. Some displays are even being produced in a free-form configuration that can be integrated into center consoles and other units.
So next time you’re looking for what’s hot and what’s cool, turn to your vehicle’s electronics — it’s the future on wheels.
Doug Pfau is a technical sales manager at Visteon with 26 years of experience. He is responsible for developing customer-specific technology demonstration properties and quoting new designs. Doug leads teams in the area of displays, remote inputs devices and audio head units. During his automotive career, he has worked in product engineering, mechanical CAD, project management, advanced development and technical sales at Visteon and Ford Motor Company.
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Miami Valley students show mixed emotions about mask order, virtual learning
by: Kiona Dyches
Posted: Aug 5, 2020 / 04:16 PM EDT / Updated: Aug 5, 2020 / 04:17 PM EDT
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The Ohio Department of Health will issue a new order for K-12 schools, requiring all students to wear masks. The mandate sparked mixed reactions from parents, and school administrators. But some students said they, too, are feeling anxious about ongoing changes to the upcoming school year.
“I’ll be nervous,” said Trinity Young, a 5th grader at Fairview Middle School.
“It’s disappointing but I’m optimistic,” said Ashton Davey, senior at West Carrollton High School.
Mason Aydelot, a freshman at West Carrollton said, “I’m nervous especially because of this COVID thing.”
The students expressed similar feelings about Ohio’s new school mask mandate.
“If wearing masks is something that will allow us to go into school and at least have the in-person learning I’m 100 percent with that,” Davey said.
Aydelot said, “I’m perfectly fine with it because I can still understand people with it and I’ve been able to manage with it.”
Trinity, Aiden, and Ava said they understand why the order is in place, but wearing one at school isn’t the best.
“Some moms or dads might bring sick kids to school and we don’t wanna catch it,” Ava Bozeman explained.
“Sometimes when I have on a mask it makes me hot so it’ll be weird,” said Trinity.
While virtual interactions have become normal, the students say it’s another change that’s not exactly welcomed for learning.
“It can be hard for me to focus if I’m just at home, so having the stimulus of being actually at school, I think is a lot better for me,” said Davey.
Masks or no masks, the students tell say they’re just looking for a little more certainty.
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lead me to the mansion
Horror&Thriller
The last descendants of Arlott have died and left the wife with the family's surname. A mansion passed through generations, yet she was unaware of this mansion's existence. Her husband died in an odd and despicable way as if he knew his doomsday, was it a disease that corrupted him or was it the works of someone? Lilith is to unravel everything by what her husband had left for her. The mansion. Stuck in the forgotten era, she came to a stop before the wooden door. It was loose and the door is barely hinged, the knob rattled open. In her sight, stood a 'person' ? ? her hands waver in fear, her scream is just behind her throat, she felt her knees give up. The clock ticked slowly with every second felt eternity. "It was you two" she exclaimed.
~You have to be careful or the darkness might just breach your walls when you least expect it. Needless to say, you have to stay fortified. The word of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous runneth to it and is safe~ A war is on. A war between the light and darkness. As an age long push and pull ensue, which side will give in, which side will surrender? The dark is scary and yet enticing. It is easy to fall off a cliff when the voice on the other side is so alluring, so sweet. √√√√√√√√√√√√ It's been eight months since Luke died in a freak accident that inevitably changed Adriel's life forever. College has started and Adriel doesn't know how she would manage without her brother. Alex, his best friend just upped and left not being able to handle his death, the consequence being, she'd had to handle it alone. Relief came in form of Jayden Crow a goergeous senior who gave her everything she needed and wanted. He was a drug and she was soon getting addicted, but wasn't that how the darkness worked? Be the sweetest thing you've ever tasted until it becomes poison in your gut. Everything was normal until he came and turned it upside down and she let him in till he became her ruin. He was the darkness and she was supposed to be the light. Truths are told, faith is renewed, wounds are healed and strength is found—but at what cost?
Days with My Sergeant
Two people, in different world destine to meet each other. Sergeant Herrera a young Sergeant of the Arland lives in Western Place who keeps peace in the land of Simpkins. Chyrill who came from the South East place who went to Simpkins to be a volunteer, who was isolated from her friends and stranded in the woods saved by the Arland Soldiers. But her days was never been easy, she was suspected as one of the intelligence units from Sans serif the group of terrorist. She stays in the camp of the Arland Soldier she did not expect to fall in love with Sergeant and make him fall in love with her. How can she escape from the Arland camp if her heart belongs to the Northern people of Simpkins and her days with the Sergeant was a remarkable in her entire life, day by day she was falling in love with the Sergeant. Who will can say that in the midst of the war there was a love grows in between the two of them. But how long will their love prevail if destiny itself and war separate them.
My Immortal Crush: Curse of the White Wolf
LGBT+ ADVENTURE MYSTERY THRILLER CURSE MAGIC-AND-WEAPONS MAGIC-REALISM POTIONS A-LITTLE-BIT-OF-ROMANCE WHITE WOLF LITTLE BIT OF THE REAL WORLD
Cursed. She's cursed. How did this happen? Momo is just an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life with his ordinary brother in their ordinary big mansion. She is the youngest in the family and has an old friend named, Lulu. But when her school day is interrupted by a classmate telling her she's involved in a strange curse, her life turns upside down. Since then, the weirdest things began to occur in her life and a mysterious boy suddenly appears. Is he the aid that she needs? Or the cause of her death by the curse? Read along and find out! "Is Momo the one holding the curse or in the beginning, it was Xhien all along?" A/N: Arts in the cover are not mine
LOVE AND MADNESS
Felicity Genson is a college student having her version of a roller coaster ride of life. As she deals with her problem, Drake Montessario came into the picture. They became friends and developed feelings. Thus, it was a U-turn to their fantasy life. Stephanie Beatrix came and ruined their bubbles. Should Fely hate her or support her best friend, Drake? In life, one thing that we should always remember is to never trust anybody. Even yourself. We make the stupid decisions we could when we're in love. Just like Felicity. "If you love a person, you don't need a reason."
The Billionaire's Xmas Love BWWM
Three days to Christmas, Adaora, Nigerian billionaire business woman grudgingly leaves for America to attend a destination wedding. There, she meets Kelvin Hathaway, a broken British-American and the two journey through friendship and love, emotional healing and a whirlwind romance. But there is little time by their side due to their geographical locations. What happens at the end of the three days when they have to face reality; separation, or working of another kind of permanent deal? SHE'S THE GRINCH, AND A LITTLE BIT OF AN EBENEZAR SCROOGE. HE'S THE ONE WHO DIDN'T THINK HE WOULD CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS THIS TIME, SINCE THE MUSIC HAS COME TO REMIND HIM OF HIS LOSS AND PAINS. BUT WITH ONE BEAUTIFUL ENCOUNTER, THE GRINCH COULD HEAL HIM, AND HE COULD TEACH HER, WHAT THE SEASON MIGHT JUST MEAN TO THEM. IT IS SIZZLING HOT ROMANCE, IT IS BEAUTY TO THE SOUL,IT IS CHILD-LIKE HAPPINESS. IT IS LOVE.
Time Beyond A Dream
“What if you could wake up in your dreams and live out your wildest fantasies? What would you do?” Catherine wishes all her dreams were just like those that everybody has. Yet, her dream was different. Her dreams weren't rainbows and sunshine, however, her dreams became her reality. After all, she was a descendant of the Mark. The bridge of the Land of Nod. But everyone she loves could be gone in a minute, that's why she'd concealed it. Nobody knew that she was the daughter of fire. Yet, Catherine was beyond miserable, how they played her, how she was a puppet. Her furious eyes were her pain untold, and she wished she could show it, she does. But she has to let them in so she can trust them, but fear was her enemy, she doesn't know whom to trust. And they shattered her hope, lies were told.
Devil's Cold-Hearted Love
Contemporary Romance ROMANCE ACTION REINCARNATION SYSTEM CULTIVATION LOVE FIGHT ADVENTRURE
//Participating in WPC Contest - 147 A divine cultivator, who was cursed at the time of his birth to spend his second life as an Asur until he turns thirty. Unable to finish his cultivation to achieve immortality, he had died and took birth into an Asur clan in his second life. As an Asur, until and unless, his soul and body unites with a stronger witch, only then his curse will be triggered. However, the witch whom he abducts to torture and make her suffer, has actually been sent by the divines to help him out in cultivation as she is one of the stronger cultivator among the divines- the only female to have high cultivating strength. But ever since, she was under Bennett clan’s, her powers were blocked. She slowly starts to fall in love with the cold-hearted devil. He himself did not realize that a love seedling had sprouted in his heart until one day while he was forcing himself on her and torturing, she cried out. “I already gave you my heart and soul, do you still have to torture me?”
She thought getting married would curb her failures but she never knew that it was the beginning of a nightmare for her. Joanne an ambitious child who takes decisions as quick as possible without minding the consequences involve in it. Desmond a young and vibrant Doctor who like adventures and sees things beyond the human eye, finds Joanne attractive even with her flaws. But what would their fate be, will they settle as spouse or as friends.
To the outside world Cosgrove academy was just a school for rich spoilt kids but what they don't know is that they are more than that, they are supernatural. All the legends about faeries vampires werewolves are true. Chanel enters this new world to discover her new identity love betrayal and rivals. She finds out that the life she had been living was all a lie. Follow Chanel on her journey to find new friends, love and her identity
Into The Subtle Darkness
Teen ROMANCE DRAMA DEATH HIGH SCHOOL SECRETS TEEN ROMANCE DEPRESSED FEMALE LEAD SUICIDAL THOUGHTS SUICIDAL CONTENT SELF HARM DARK LOVE
How long does it take to get into the reality of one's life? One day? Month? Year? How long will it take for her to know the reality of life? What'll she experience? Pain? Happiness? Hardship? Or death?
HITODAMA { SPIRIT ORBS }
Martial Arts ROMANCE ACTION ADVENTURE MYSTERY NO HAREM MARTIAL ARTS CRIME SUPERPOWER VENGEANCE SELF-DISCOVERY
A teenager orphaned at a young age with vengeance in his heart, Another who grew up with no goals or dreams but is determined to make something of himself and a girl born with a silver spoon and a golden heart...... Join Dan, Sai and Ilara as they fight against crime and corruption in a world where superpowers and extraordinary individuals exist. An adventure filled with danger and death awaits them on their quest towards a just system and a better world. Different ideals come into play as secrets are revealed resulting in an event that will not only expose all that was once hidden but will also rewrite the system that once ruled all things. PS : this novel is heavily inspired by anime so expect it's fight scenes and battle techniques to be written in like manner as is done in anime. Also each volume is actually a story arc similar to the way anime divides it's plot into arcs, so expect awesome volume names but weird and maybe strange chapter names. If you are enjoying the story, how about buying me a coffee to serve as incentive for the work to go on. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/RFTS Thanks in advance. All donations are appreciated If you'd prefer supporting me using Patreon, I also have an account there https://www.patreon.com/R_F_T_S Help me out on this epic adventure by supporting me. Voting for my novel with power stones is also greatly welcomed. Please vote for my book. ( PS : Only if you are enjoying the novel) Thanks in advance.
Invisible Curse
Andriya Adams was like a normal teenage high school girl or so it seemed to outsiders. She carried a huge hatred inside herself. It was for herself. On the other hand Auroar Stephen, a boy who lived his life in regret because of his wrong decision or to be more precise his wrong wish. His small mistake had caused him to suffer for the rest of eternity. He could make up for his mistake and live a normal life like he did once and for that all he had to do was prevent another soul from making his same mistake. The story is about Andriya and Auroar and how their fates were intertwined together.
ZIZWE
Zizwe's life has been constantly plagued by troubles, while she has to deal with their destitution and her mom being in and out of hospitals, she also has to deal with Nicks mom constantly reminding her that she'll never accept her in her sons life since she comes from a poor family. One fateful day Zizwe's life is turned upside down when Nick's mom spews the most horrendous and humiliating words to her while Nick just stands there and does Nothing to stop her from attacking Zizwe, having had enough of Nicks mom and being degraded she runs away in tears to save herself but what she doesn't know is what fate has instore for her as she finds herself thrown inside a massive muddy pit with no way out. Gage Hart, Multi Millionaire and business man is mesmerized when his eyes land on this beautiful trapped girl. He finds himself enchanted and having a sudden urge to protect her, he vows to take her away from the slums she's living in but what Gage doesn't know is that Zizwe's heart already belongs to Nick. Unless he can steal her heart
The Unpredictable Game of Love
A story of a long distance relationship of a girl whose life is in the Province of the Philippines, living a very simple but a happy life. She was born experiencing happiness and contented of what they have,and a story of a boy whose life is in Canada, who came back to the Philippines with his parents for a while. A boy who grew up in secret, a boy who is full of secret. A two different person whose lives are opposite. A girl who grew up in happiness and a boy who grew up in sadness. How can you live your life if your life is away from you? Until when you can hold on to wait for the man you love? Love is like a game. How can you win the game of your love if it is unpredictable? clarixass
Sweet Dreams or Beautiful Nightmares
Fantasy Romance REINCARNATION EVIL-PROTAGONIST MYSTICAL REALM HIDDENSECRETS DREAMS AND REALITIES UNEXPECTED TWIST AND TURN ROMANCE ADVENTURE FANTASY DOUBLE IDENTITY INTROVERT FL HIDDEN IDENTITIES
Timothea's used to be simple life was stirred by a dream. She started loving a man of her dream, literally. However, it seems her dreams aren't just simple dreams, and the imaginary love of her life is not so imaginary after all. But a manifestation of her extraordinary life of mysteries and conundrums. Not only to herself, but also to the people around her. This is a story of reality mixed fantasy, a story of love, life and war, between self-identity, good and evil, of witches and fairies. Shifting between two dimensions of the human world and Ayorko's mystical realm. A fight for power, a fight for love. Dare to read chapter seven onwards, and you're not gonna loosen your grip. I would like to acknowledge these girls, who helped me with my cover. The model, photographer, and production staff, namely Kyla, Carla, and Metch. Thanks, girls!!
The Beautiful and the Damned
She was a gift He was the owner. And the ancient angel was going to stop at nothing to get what was rightfully his. ............................. "It seems like I haven't really been expressing the intense feelings I have been harboring towards you since the very first day I laid my eyes on you Amica mea" he spoke slow and seductively. Being that she's never seen this side of Seker before Bethel didn't know what to do or think, but her body such as hell did. The grim reaper inhaled sharply, the familiar smell of arousal invading his centuries old nostrils. By the god's the woman didn't know what she was doing to him at the moment, he felt like devouring her as a whole right there and then. But as the perfect gentleman that he was, he held his grounds. Bullock's who was he kidding he was anything but a gentleman, but for her he could adjust to be one.
Contemporary Romance ACTION MYSTERY THRILLER SERIAL KILLER FEAR FEMALE PATROGONIST HORROR-THRILLER STALKING ITALY RECOMMENDED
Destiny comes to Italy for a vacation and joins a tour group headed by Bianca. They find themselves in the middle of danger when someone from within the group starts murdering the other members… When the entire tour group is murdered in cold blood, Bianca and Destiny realize that they're the next target! On the run with a serial killer closing in, watching their every move they struggle to survive. Detective Chiara Caruso and Journalist Domenico, are hot on the trail....or are they? How do you run from someone you can't see?
SAY YOU'LL LOVE ME AGAIN
Fantasy Romance ROMANCE MODERN FANTASY DRAMA TRANSMIGRATION HANDSOME-MALE-LEAD CAFE WORKER MANAGER LEAD AVERAGE GIRL CUTE WAITRESS
They said that he's a robot - cold and emotionless. Some women find it cool and some find it annoying. In Hana's case... "Isn't it your day off today? Why are you here?" Jacob was glaring at her but she ignored him and just looked for a seat where she can see him from afar. "Are you here to sketch me again?" "Of course. Isn't it obvious? Are you becoming dumb now?" she retorted back while arranging her art materials on the table. Among all the cafe staff, she's the only one who's got the courage and guts to talk to their boss. Jacob crossed his arms on his chest while watching her helplessly. "I don't care about you sketching, drawing or painting me. But don't you fall in love with me." "Heh! Are you serious? Did you think this is some kind of novel plot where a CEO makes a contract with his girl? Seriously?" Hana rolled her eyes and started flipping through the pages of her sketchpad. "Don't worry, I can assure you that it won't happen." "I'm holding you accountable with your words." Jacob said before he left her alone and continued to do his work. "As if I'd tell you that I've fallen in love already." Hana smirked at the thought. MEANWHILE... "Your Majesty, aren't you sorry for your own daughter? What if the Queen, her highness, comes back and finds out that you've banished your daughter?" the small wind diety Airiaj, asked with concern while looking at the huge water mirror in front of them. "Hmp! It would be better if she really comes back." The Cerulean King sneered without any care that his daughter was going through difficult times. If her mother didn't ran off somewhere, Hana wouldn't have a hard time in the mortal world. She would've gotten married already! **** cover isn't mine it's edited by a friend https://discord.gg/XkurxZGR
The Truth Behind the Mirror
Fantasy Romance ROMANCE LOVE REVENGE EROTIC-ROMANCE ADULT -CONTENT JAMAICAN
Like velvet the Rise of the Syndicate evolves from the Truth Behind the Mirror. A clandestine organisation with roots deep in the Hans Clan in China with tentacles behind the seats of power and politics. Karma like a sand grain becomes infused and is marinated by the warm succulent juices of the clam like Syndicate. Quan Woo's weakness for beauty and brilliance blinds him as Karma becomes the prized pearl. However, she has one mission ; to find who was responsible for robbing her of the love of her life. Filled with suspense, intrigue and mouth watering intimate scenes. The Truth Behind the Mirror is a must read
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Supporting actors in cancer growth may help predict the course of the disease
Supporting actors sometimes carry the play – not only in the theater, but in cancer too. In fact, the “help” breast cancer receives from supporting cells called cancer-associated fibroblasts is crucial for its growth. It might even be possible to predict the course of the disease from the types of fibroblasts present within a tumor. This conclusion emerges from a study by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers.
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are present in large amounts in breast cancer and in other malignant solid tumors; in pancreatic cancer, for example, they account for up to 90 percent of the tumor tissue. Unlike cancer cells, these fibroblasts within tumors don’t undergo mutations, but their gene expression is different from that of healthy cells, as are the roles they play. They release proteins that affect the immune response, stimulate blood vessel growth and build up the extracellular matrix that holds cells together. Dr. Ruth Scherz-Shouval of Biomolecular Sciences Department set out to learn how exactly gene expression of fibroblasts changes in malignancy, to what extent these changes are varied and dynamic, and how they affect the cells’ function.
Changes in a cell’s gene expression are reflected in its RNA. Graduate student Gil Friedman in Scherz-Shouval’s lab aimed to characterize fibroblasts from breast tumors in mice. Together with other team members and in collaboration with the lab of Prof. Ido Amit of the Immunology Department, the scientists sequenced RNA from thousands of single cells originating in tumors at different stages of growth, including metastases, and analyzed the sequencing data to understand how fibroblasts become dynamically rewired in the tumor.
Tissue sample from triple-negative breast cancer, stained for the presence of cancer cells (red) and the two types of cancer-associated fibroblasts: pCAFs (magenta) and sCAFs (green). The nuclei of all cells are stained blue
The researchers found that cancer-associated fibroblasts came in several distinct subtypes, each characterized by a particular pattern of gene expression. Overall, they could be grouped into two major types, termed “p” and “s.” The ones in the p category, abbreviated as pCAFs, originated within local healthy tissue; those in the s category, or sCAFs, originated elsewhere, probably in the bone marrow.
By isolating these two types of fibroblasts from mouse tumors and studying them in tissue culture, the scientists found a division of labor between them: The differences in gene expression translated into different supporting roles they played in malignancy. Moreover, both the gene expression and the role of these cells was dynamic – it changed as the tumors progressed. For example, in early stages of tumor growth, one subtype of the pCAFs mainly suppressed the activation of immune T cells, but in later stages, the main function of the same cell subtype was to release collagen for the extracellular matrix.
To test the relevance of these findings to humans, the scientists analyzed tissue samples collected at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel, and at Cancer Research UK in Cambridge, from hundreds of breast cancer patients. The researchers performed a procedure that is well suited to a hospital setting: staining tissue samples with markers for different cell subtypes, based on those they had identified in mouse cells. The staining revealed that similarly to fibroblasts in mouse tumors, the ones in human tumors also fall into two major types, pCAFs and sCAFs. Furthermore, the ratio between the two types of cells correlated with disease prognosis: Survival was markedly better in patients who had more sCAFs than pCAFs. The latter finding was most pronounced in patients with triple-negative cancer and BRCA mutations, one of the most aggressive types of breast cancer that is particularly prevalent in Ashkenazi Jews.
In addition to providing a means of assessing breast cancer prognosis, the study’s findings open up new directions in the search for potential future therapies or in improving existing ones. Further studies will clarify how exactly the fibroblasts affect the microenvironment of the tumor, and this knowledge can help develop new drugs. For example, activity of fibroblasts that release signals to alter the immune response may be blocked by medications so as to allow immune cells, including those induced by various immunotherapies, to kill the tumors.
Study participants included Oshrat Levi-Galibov, Coral Halperin, Dr. Meirav Pevsner-Fischer, Hagar Lavon, Shimrit Mayer, Dr. Reinat Nevo and Yaniv Stein of the Biomolecular Sciences Department; Eyal David and Drs. Chamutal Bornstein and Amir Giladi of the Immunology Department; Dr. Avi Mayo and Prof. Uri Alon of the Molecular Cell Biology Department; Drs. Maya Dadiani, Nora Balint-Lahat, Iris Barshack and Einav Nili-Gal-Yam of Chaim Sheba Medical Center; and Drs. H. Raza Ali and Carlos Caldas of Cancer Research UK.
Dr. Ruth Scherz-Shouval’s research is supported by the Moross Integrated Cancer Center; the Laura Gurwin Flug Family Fund; the Peter and Patricia Gruber Awards; the Rising Tide Foundation; the Elsie and Marvin Dekelboum Family Foundation; and the estate of Aliza Yemini. Dr. Scherz-Shouval is the incumbent of the Ernst and Kaethe Ascher Career Development Chair in Life Sciences.
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The Famous Fiber Optics Inventor, World Nanotechnology Expert, and the Founder of Silicon Valley of Ghana; was one of the Keynote Speakers at the 2019 HACSA Summit held at Kempinski Hotel in Accra. from August 4 to August 11. The meaning of HACSA is the; Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa.
The Summit organized by Ambassador Svanikier, Founder and President of HACSA brought participants from many African countries, as well as Blacks from the Diaspora in the UK, France, USA, Brazil, and the Caribbean. This was one of the most Successful HACSA events on the continent of Africa. The meaning of HACSA is the; Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa.
Speakers at 2019 HACSA Summit were drawn from many disciplines and different cultures, including FilmMakers. The Incredible line of keynote speakers included Her Excellency Rebecca Akufo Addo, the First Lady of Ghana, who highlighted Training Girls to Code at the Gala event, Her Excellency Jewel Taylor Vice President of Liberia who emphasized the need for the leaders in Africa to be forward-thinking.
Former President of Ghana His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor shed light on the current status of African Countries,. Other Keynote Speakers included; Ambassador Kwesi Quartey of the Africa Union Commission; Former Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe; Hon Arthur Mutambara and Ghana’s Minister of Tourism; Hon Barbara Oteng Gyasi.
An Archeological Exhibit by experts from Legon was sponsored by the US Ambassador to Ghana, Her Excellency; Stephanie Sullivan who delivered the keynote address at the opening night. Former Ghana’s Ambassador to France; Tommy Svanikier and their Team of volunteers are credited with organizing the event.
The noted Inventor spoke on a panel for Innovation and Technology in the morning and delivered the Luncheon Keynote Address. He emphasized that the Africa Union Development Agenda 2063 can be a reality when fast and efficient transportation infrastructure is created to link various countries to enhance Trade and Regional Integration. He demonstrated that fast trains and aviation hubs are critical to Development and Trade in Africa since at moment poor road networks impede trade within the 54 countries. Around 10 percent Intercontinental versus European Union 70 percent. It is easier to export to European Union Countries and the United States from Africa than to the 54 African Countries. He has developed a Roadmap for Industrialization, Infrastructure Development and Modernization of the African Continent beginning with Ghana, detailed in his Autobiography – The Right Stuff Comes in Black Too, the African Edition Book under CopyRight.
Dr. Mensah showed a wooden Mahogany stool specially designed to house his book while being delivered from the sky by a Drone to land at Manhyia Palace before the launch of his book by; His Majesty Otumfuo Osei II. The King of the Ashanti Kingdom. His Majesty wrote and signed the Foreword for this African Edition.
Dr. Mensah also unveiled in detail his Luxury Cruise Ship Project that will retrace the path of original Slave ships over the Atlantic Ocean to land in Brazil, the Caribbean Islands and the East Coast of the United States. {From James Town to Charleston) About 300 Blacks will be on the Cruise Ship. the occupants will represent the different groups whose ancestors were on the original slave ships; 100 from America, 100 from Africa, 50 from Brazil, 50 from the Caribbean, This number can be increased to 1000. In the same ratios, 300 from America, 150 from the Caribbean, 150 from Brazil and 300 from Africa. In the USA Dr. Thomas Mensah has discussed this project with Media Mogul; Oprah Winfrey during her visit to Atlanta to celebrate Ambassador Andrew Young’s Birthday.
In Ghana recently Dr. Mensah was happy to discuss the project with the Director of the Black Panther Movie; Dr. John Kani from South Africa. He also discussed the project with the Film Director; Juan Gelas from France who showed a documentary on slavery by Europeans namely; the Portuguese transporting slaves from Africa to Brazil, the French transporting slaves from Africa to French Caribbean Islands, The Spanish transporting slaves from Africa to Latin America and Cuba, and the British from Africa to America and the West Indies. There will be 5 engagements on this Cruise Ship where the 5 Couples will jump the broom expecting to be married on the arrival of the Cruise Ship in America (Charleston and James Town ), Brazil, Cuba, and Jamaica. The weddings will be extravagant with the Brides wearing gowns that trail 30 feet behind like that of Princess Diana of England.
In America, the wedding will occur in front of the Slave Market that exists in Charleston, with Reception held at the New International Museum of Slavery being built by a group led by the Majority Whip Hon James Clyburn. The Participants of the Cruise Ship will line up wearing a bracelet with African Names on them and will walk up to the edge of the Ship pronounce and shout the name on the bracelet and throw it into the ocean, a symbolic gesture to let the slaves that could not make the Journey know from Heaven that they have not been forgotten just like the Holocaust Memorial. The entire two week Cruise will be filmed for Television and also shown in Movie Theatres around the world.
This Cruise Ship Project will bring healing to Blacks in the Diaspora as well as their brothers and sisters in Africa who were colonized on the continent after slavery.
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Made up of Craig Fitzgerald, Dean Gavin and Matt and Stephen Murtagh, the quartet have been making music together since their school days, drawn to those classic indie bands that we all know and love.
Now getting ready to release their debut album, Tales from the Backseat, early next year, the record deals with the shared experience of growing up and their insanely catchy anthemic tracks shimmer with the relatability and charm of teenage youth.
Giving us a sneak peak today, the guys have just released their brilliant new single “Permanent Vacation”, that radiates with the energy and enthusiasm we’ve come to expect from the indie babes.
Currently touring in the US and set to support The Kooks when they hit Europe, The Academic are certainly establishing themselves as ones to watch.
Firstly, how did you all meet?
We all met back when we were in school and that’s when we kind of started playing together. Matt and Stephen are bros so they obviously knew each other and then once we started going through school we starting jamming together and writing songs and that’s kind of where it kicked off from. We started the band at like 17/18 and kind of started taking it serious from there on in.
Was there a certain moment that made you want to start making music together?
I think it kind of happened straight away because we were all really close friends and we all enjoyed playing music. We were just literally in a garage with each other for months, just playing some of our favourite songs and writing songs together so it was more just out of the love of music really.
And did you have a similar idea of what you wanted the band to be like? Was it fairly harmonious?
We all had a really wide range of influences growing up but where we all found our common ground was in the mid-2000s indie style. Craig liked everything from Motown to hip-hop and Dean played heavier stuff when he was younger, but where we really all found common ground was with bands like The Killers and The Strokes and stuff like that.
Classic. Did you buy all the leather jackets and skinny jeans and really just get into it?
Yeah! That was us. We were the kids in school who wore the skinny jeans…
And with your name, what was the idea behind The Academic?
We were playing under so many different band names when we were growing up in school, but when we started to write the songs we were showing up to places and people didn’t really know our name so we sat down and made a short list of names. We were all reading Catcher in the Rye at the time and that was a big influence on how we started writing songs, and so I skimmed through that book and the word “academic” was in the first two or three pages so that was in the list, and then it made sense cause we were all in school together and that’s kind of how it stuck!
Amazing, and you’re dropping your new song “Permanent Vacation” today. Can you tell me a little bit about it?
It was written in a session where we had a guitar riff that sounded a bit nuts and then it was switched to become a drum thing and then it became this kind of 60s sounding beat with kind of a punk back beat in the verse. It was a really easy song to write and the lyrical theme was always going to be something about the idea of never wanting to come home from a holiday becayse you’re having too much fun type of thing. It was written in the summer so that’s kind of what that was about at the start when the song was created. We’ve been playing it for quite a long time now and I think it’s a band favourite at this point.
Amazing and you’ve announced your debut album Tales From The Backseat as well! Without giving too much away, what can you tell me about it?
So we recorded it in Los Angeles and it’s very different, I suppose, from our original EP. It was very much a labour of love. I mean we were in the studio for two months recording it every single day and it was just an intense and fun experience.
If you could have people take away one kind of feeling from it what do you want people to feel after listening to your debut record?
I guess like, it’s a happy album and so the experience should be enjoyable. You shouldn’t come away feeling sad, and if that happens you don’t like it. But yeah, it’s like upbeat for most of it, like an indie album that you can throw on at a party
Non-stop indie bangers basically?
Well kind of! But I think the stories are about growing up as teenagers, and everyone goes through that, so I think there’ll be a story in there for everyone to kind of get off the album I think.
You’re in America now. Did you ever think when you first got together as a band that it would get to the point where you’re recording in America and about to release an album?
No, I don’t think we were expecting this at all! We were just a band that wanted to show up to venues and play gigs and we never thought about recording the album until it got a little bit more serious. It’s a kind of surreal thing for us to be recording in Los Angeles now and then getting to go tour it like in kind of amazing venues. It’s an amazing experience for us so you just kind of take it as it comes really.
Yeah cause you’re about to go on tour with The Kooks as well, right?
Yeah. Once we get home from this US tour we’re pretty much straight into European tour with the Kooks.
Being self-confessed fans of 2000 indie music, do you think you’ll be able to play it cool around Luke and the gang?
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In this handout photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, and provided by Russian Direct Investment Fund, a new vaccine is on display at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia. Russia on Tuesday, Aug. 11 became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine for use in tens of thousands of its citizens despite international skepticism about injections that have not completed clinical trials and were studied in only dozens of people for less than two months. (Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/ Russian Direct Investment Fund via AP)
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian scientists have belatedly published first results from early trials into the experimental Sputnik V vaccine, which received government approval last month but drew considerable criticism from experts, as the shots had only been tested on several dozen people before being more widely administered.
In a reportpublished in the journal Lancet on Friday, developers of the vaccine said it appeared to be safe and to prompt an antibody response in all 40 people tested in the second phase of the study within three weeks. However, the authors noted that participants were only followed for 42 days, the study sample was small and there was no placebo or control vaccine used.
One part of the safety trial included only men and the study mostly involved people in their 20s and 30s, so it is unclear how the vaccine might work in older populations most at risk of the more severe complications of COVID-19.
International experts remained cautious over the vaccine’s effectiveness and safety. Nevertheless, its Russian developers made some bold claims Friday after presenting the findings to reporters.
Professor Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute that developed the vaccine with assistance from Russia’s Defense Ministry, told reporters that the vaccine triggers “sufficient” immune response “to counteract any imaginable dose infecting (a person) with COVID-19.”
“We are ready to assert that the protective effect of this vaccine will be detectable and remain at a proper level for 2 years, or maybe even more,” Gintsburg said, without providing any evidence to back up the claim.
According to the Lancet report, the trials took place in two Russian hospitals involving healthy adults aged 18 to 60, who were required to self-isolate once they registered for the trial. They remained in the hospital for the first 28 days of the study after being vaccinated.
One part of the study involved a frozen formulation of the vaccine while another studied a freeze-dried variation. Scientists said the frozen vaccine would be suitable for current global vaccine supply chains while the freeze-dried version could be used in hard-to-reach areas.
Both vaccines used a modified version of the common cold-causing adenovirus to carry genes for the spike protein in the coronavirus, as a way to prime the body to react if a real virus causing COVID-19 comes along. That’s a similar technology to the vaccines being developed by China’s CanSino Biologics and Britain’s Oxford University and AstraZeneca.
Russian researchers said all 40 participants produced a neutralizing antibody response, molecules which are key to blocking infection. The vaccines also appeared to trigger a reaction in the body’s T-Cells, which help by destroying cells that have been invaded by the virus.
The most commonly reported side effects were pain at the injection site, fever, headache, and muscle or joint pain.
In an accompanying commentary, Dr. Naor Bar-Zeev of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and colleagues wrote that the studies were “encouraging but small.” They said that the immune reaction elicited by the vaccine “bodes well” but that “efficacy for any COVID-19 vaccine has not yet been shown.”
Bar-Zeev and colleagues said that proving the safety of any coronavirus vaccine would be critical.
“Since vaccines are given to healthy people and during the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially to everyone after approval following (advanced) trials, safety is paramount,” the scientists wrote.
Dr. Ohid Yaqub, senior lecturer at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, said the limited study size was not enough for regulatory approval, which the vaccine received last month.
“The design and size of (an early) study is not anywhere near sufficient for widely recognized standards of approval. The study was not randomized, and it was not large enough to detect rarer safety issues,” Yaqub said.
The vaccine was approved by the Russian government with much fanfare on Aug. 11. President Vladimir Putin personally broke the news on national television and said that one of his daughters had already been vaccinated, experienced slight side effects and developed antibodies. Since then, several high-profile officials also said they had taken the shots, including Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
It remains unclear whether they were among the volunteers in clinical trials or accessed the vaccine in some other way.
Russian health authorities announced advanced trials of the vaccine among 40,000 volunteers last month. According to official records, it will be a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Officials also mentioned that vaccination of risk groups, such as doctors and teachers, may be carried out “in parallel” — but it remains unclear whether it will be done as part of the study.
Michael Head, a senior research fellow in global health at Britain’s University of Southampton, agreed the Russian vaccine appeared to be “promising,” but that further studies were needed.
“At this stage, we do not actually know if the vaccine works,” he said. Head was not linked to the Russian research. “Public confidence in any vaccine is vital,” he said in a statement, calling suggestions from Russian and other authorities that a vaccine could be fast-tracked without the proper research “problematic.”
“Ultimately, we must not pour additional fuel on the anti-vaccine lobby fires,” he said.
Numerous public health experts expressed concern last month that Russia had approved the Sputnik V vaccine before publishing any data.
The World Health Organization said last month it had started discussions with Russia to obtain more details about their candidate vaccine. But on Friday, WHO spokeswoman Dr. Margaret Harris said she “had no specific information on Russia … and who is sharing what (data) with who.” She said the agency’s aim was “to get all countries together and get all the information.”
Cheng reported from London. Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this report.
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That continued Monday when ESPN released its latest This Is SportsCenter commercial featuring New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski.They are 29th in the league in team earned run average at 5.Their team WHIP is 1 while their FIP as a staff is 4.
Useful Team Statistics The Oilers have 74 total points this year, which is 24th in the NHL.In terms of pace they are 17th in the league with 96 possessions per 48 minutes, and their effective field goal percentage of 52% is 12th.He is not the sort of modern prototype who can draw his man to the perimeter and shake him side-to-side but Bagley has a very quick first step for a big man and has proven he can get by his man from the high post down.8 on ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper’s most recent Big Board.
He left last Monday’s start vs.The Vikings ranked #4 in the NFL in opponent passer rating allowed at 83 and were #6 in the NFL with a 60% completion rate against them.Gutierrez: Like a prodigal son returning.Bulls sophomore guard Jayvon Graves had a season-high 19 points and made a career-high five 3-pointers at St.His field goal percentage is 52% while his free throw percentage is currently at 72%.
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Besides, that’s old news.He’s made 400 saves for a save percentage of 93%.Wisconsin is 60 in six seasons since Bielema was promoted from defensive coordinator to replace the retiring Barry Alvarez.
We’re going to need guys from the bench to step up and play.The Hurricanes will unveil their new third jersey at the Draft Party at 6 p.m.Nick Saban’s machine against Heisman winner Kyler Murray and the best statistical offense in NCAA history should be full of fireworks.The pace of the college game and the ways that a lot of these guys work in a college game in terms of pace has really created an issue where pace is not the issue for young quarterbacks that it used to be.
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Plante joined their ranks by playing in 24 games of his own that year as a 20-year-old winger.11 regular-season wins and a conference title feels right to me.Grant will look to get back on track offensively in a favorable positional matchup versus the Timberwolves on Tuesday.The under is 6 in the previous eight meetings.
This one I actually have the skills to do it.Taken at the team shop by Todd Ice.We are pleased to be able to sign a player of his international repute, and we are confident that the French public will appreciate his qualities.With an earned run average of 3, Alec Asher has a 1 record and a 1 WHIP.
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With a chance to win, D’Angelo Russell airballed a 3-pointer.While on my visit here it made me realize this is the place for me, says White of his commitment to Georgetown.The Nationals hold a .400 team slugging percentage and an on-base percentage of .315, which is good for 17th in baseball.Their kickers have a field goal percentage of 83%.
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They have 275 face-off wins as opposed to 310 losses, meaning their face-off win percentage is 47%.
The teams last met in the postseason in 2001 when Philadelphia beat Chicago 33 in a divisional playoff.They are averaging 107 points per game and surrendering 104, good for a point differential of 2.Started all 12 games at defensive tackle, finishing fifth on the team with a career-high 56 tackles .He has walked 11 times and has struck out 11 times.
Later, Carolina’s Ryan earned a shorthanded breakaway, but fanned on the shot and Korpisalo flipped it away.He has a slugging percentage of .505 and an OPS+ of 120.Seriously, it was one of the best games in NFL history , and I was honored to play in it.Fast Sign up with Instant Access Click Here One E-mail A Week Is All You Need!The Suns are not championship material, so skip the futures odds, but they are team that will make noise and cover spreads in 2014.
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Bud Norris is expected to come off the disabled list to make the start in this one.I scored the OT winner there, Backstrom said on Friday after a 3 win against the Detroit Red Wings.at Mybookie CLICK HERE.So far this year, the Penguins have one of the top three offenses in the NHL by scoring over three goals per game against their opponents.
I still don’t know if they are going to rebound any better than they did last year, and that’s a concern.Became the second player in franchise history to eclipse the 1-yard mark in franchise history.I feel like these are all unique matchups, this is its own unique matchup, everybody is a different space, different place, that’s unique to right now.
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That was one of the best NCAA games I’ve watched in a long time.Do Know Who is Behind Home Plate There are few people who can change the game of baseball the way a home plate umpire can.The Carolina Panthers placed quarterback Taylor Heinicke, their Week 16 starter, on injured reserve on Wednesday morning.Krystkowiak said no players have been ruled out due to the flu bug.
The bad featured two embarrassing losses and one close call.Although Mahima Chaudhry’s first and only film with Subhash Ghai was Pardes �?he was the one who discovered her.Bohannon’s one-handed banked 3, his first basket of the game, gave Iowa a 44 lead at the halftime buzzer.Started at right guard in regular season finale at DAL …Their total rebound percentage is 53% while their offensive rebound percentage for the season is 39%.
But during this time off, I’ll be off for a while, I’ll be focusing on academics, my health, of course, and I’ll just be observing to be the best player I can be next year.I am able to now look forward to my future.Stevens is no worse than the third-best coach in the league, and he’s the best in-game coach.Advanced Statistics The Rangers are 14th in the league in starting possessions in the offensive zone, doing so 51% of the time.He has 61 hits this season along with 31 runs scored and 30 runs batted in.Behind the arc they shoot 38% which is good for 2nd in the league.
Opponents average 31 rebounds a game which ranks 42nd, and they give up 11 assists per contest, which puts them in 67th place in the country.Martinsville interested in Cup night race: According to Martinsville Speedway President Clay Campbell, There’s nobody that wants a night race here more than I do.The Wizards have an offensive rating of 104 and a defensive rating of 105.If we have learned anything by now it’s that we can’t count this team out no matter what.Texas A&M Texas A&M Aggies Injuries 11 15 G Alex Robinson Personal has left the team Tony’s Pick: Take Texas Get $60 worth of FREE premium member picks.
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It might be a natural tendency to root for the underdog, but when it comes to betting, most of us gravitate toward the favorite, particularly when the spreads get into the four- to five-point range.When the work was done, Cook received a certificate of completion and submitted it to Allstate.13 Virginia Tech on Friday.Doc’s Sports has been a leader in college football handicapping for more than four decades, and we are offering new clients $60 in free college football picks from Doc’s Sports or any Advisory Board handicapper of your choosing.
But I don’t see Arizona making an Elite Eight run.The bullpen has an earned run average of 3 and they have given up 442 base hits on the year.When he’s good he’s very good, but I have no faith we will see that here.He has the advantage of working in the thin air of Denver for half of his games, and he’ll turn 25 in the first month of the season, so he has the potential to continue to improve.
Carpenter is 6-for-12 off him with two homers.On a season level, a QBR of 75 or higher would be elite performance, and 25 would be considered replacement-level performance.When his moonlighting, cab-driving father was able to stash away $500, the family bought a house in the St.They also allow a 30% shooting percentage and a 24% average from behind the arc ranking them 6th and 19th in those defensive categories.They currently have a point differential of -4 as they are averaging 105 points per game while giving up 109 per contest.
They believed they still had the best player in the world on their roster, and they were going to build around him.Jazz at Warriors Golden State hosted New Orleans on Friday night again without All-Star guard Klay Thompson, and he won’t play in this one, either.He went 20 for 32, resulting in a 63% completion percentage.When Blane bought the car, he thought it would probably need to be restored, but with the parts available to us and the experience that we have, I thought the paint was good enough on the car that I thought it would be a shame to repaint it, Jason said.When Behdjou asked everyone in the room to introduce themselves, many said they were struggling.
Kevin Hayes added an empty-netter, and Mats Zuccarello and Chris Kreider each MONTREAL – John Tavares scored in overtime to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 4 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night in a battle for second place in the Atlantic division.As mentioned above, I would wait on this one until late Thursday night for the Giants-Eagles result.My question: Although Danny Etling was a seventh-round pick, did he show anything in OTAs that would indicate that he may have potential to become a starter down the road or a serviceable backup?The Fighting Illini give up 137 rushing yards per game on 35 carries for an average of 3 yards per carry.As a team, Los Angeles allows 8 hits per nine innings while striking out 8 batters per nine innings.
Ohio State has gone 50 with a National Championship in four seasons under Meyer, while Michigan took a major leap forward in its first season with Harbaugh.These teams have met four times as ACC opponents, and the visiting team has won every time.Lakers at Nuggets Betting Odds and Line Movement The Lakers are a small one point road favorite in this game, according to NBA odds, after some early money has come onto their side.I mean, what you say is important and all.
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️ ROCKETS 115, CELTICS 104 While no single game in the NBA is a make-or-break moment, it sure feels like Tuesday’s visit to the Golden State Warriors might just tell us definitively if this team can still dig deep and produce its finest basketball against top-level competition.The Tigers give up 55 points per contest at home this year and they have given up 61 points per game in their past 3 contests.
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You expect it from the reigning MVP.But while Fletcher’s teams made the playoffs in a difficult Central Division, they never played for a title.– Detroit Lions defensive tackle Damon Snacks Harrison became the eighth player since 1931 to play in 17 games in an NFL regular season.New York as a team has walked 19 times this year and they have struck out 35 times.This matchup features James Harden of the Rockets and Buddy Hield of the Kings.D’Angelo Russell had 28 points.
They have given up a total of 4 yards on D, which is 62nd in the nation.The opening line for this game has Eastern Michigan as 4 point favorites and the over under has been set at 144.
It’s all about angles!He scored two of Boston’s three goals, put four shots on net and won 75% of his face-offs.We watched him play with us, and he’s got that offensive skill.
Like many countries, New Year’s Day is a public holiday in the UAE, and one of three secular holidays observed in the country.And Noah has remained on minutes restrictions all season.With that said, defensive coordinator Mike Pettine could get creative with his personnel in different packages this season, so Ryan will likely log a significant number of defensive snaps regardless of his formal slotting on the depth chart.
Take #857 Harvard +1 over Princeton These are two of the top 4 teams in the Ivy League and should be in the conference tournament come March battling for the automatic bid.After being named MVP of the American Hockey League while playing with Binghamton in 2004, Spezza made his first impact with the Senators, setting a franchise record with 71 assists during the 2005 season.The Cubs have been lousy and just don’t seem mentally into this season so far.
Their average scoring margin is 16 and their shooting percentage is 47% as a team which has them ranked 8th.That will all come out in April when the league reveals the entire 2019 schedule.annual sales peaked at 20 in 2010 but averaged under 7 during each of the 12 model years the first two generations were offered.The Patriots have three options: 1.
They are averaging 106 points per game and surrendering 113, good for a point differential of -7.This Week in Sports Betting, A-Z by Nicholas Tolomeo – 5 2011 A – Andrews, Erin.This is a sedan freed-mostly, anyhow.The odds for this matchup have Minnesota at +122 and Toronto at -132.
They have allowed 28 home runs this season, ranking them 20th in the league.They shored up the middle of the defense at each level, and they drafted three players that could end up being top-notch talents.The Rockets have an overall record of 16 and a home record of 8.With the Super Bowl opening point spread and totals line it’s very clear that large spreads are not what is to be expected here.Oakland Raiders – The Raiders are the latest coastal team that has chosen a 10-day trip for back-to-back road games rather than back-to-back cross-country flights.
The team was 4 in those starts, so he’s just continuing his hot betting streak right now.They average 52 rebounds per game and 19 assists per game which ranks them 15th and 25th in those offensive categories.What they do on the defensive side of the football presents a big challenge.The perfect descriptor of Justise Winslow might be His game is a bit of an enigma-not so much in his strengths and weaknesses, but where and when he is most effective.No Obligation.
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What England Can Teach Us about Fracking Quakes
– Justin Williams, November 16th, 2018
There is an ongoing debate about whether the economic potential of fracking outweighs its dangers. England can teach the US a great deal about this, as it is one of the countries that both leads the industry of shale gas exploitation and upholds strict rules to enforce safety standards.
Since 2014, the UK government has applied a so-called “traffic-light system”, where the colors green, amber, and red symbolize whether fracking operations are safe or not. Any tremor over 0.5 Local Magnitude (“LM”) on the Richter scale initiates the red light procedure, which effectively means that fracking has to stop and a series of testing and monitoring operations has to begin immediately.
The 0.5 LM parameter is significant because of the movement of faults and induced earthquakes, which tend to increase in magnitude, start occurring above that threshold. The key element in this geological scenario is to understand that any seismic activity above 0,5 LM could mean that fracking is impacting existing faults, weakening the earth’s structure and posing a risk for well integrity and people.
The work towards upholding these standards was initiated in 2011, after what is known as the Preese Hall report was released. The Preese Hall report was an exhaustive research study resulting from an alarming series of seismic events which occurred in Lancashire where 58 earthquakes were linked to the exploration of a shale gas reservoir at the Preese Hall well. The largest had a magnitude of 2.3 LM and was perceptible to local residents. Cuadrilla, the British exploration and production company founded in 2007, was the company responsible for the fracking operation.
The Preese Hall report demonstrated the direct correlation between earthquakes and fracking. After all, roughly 100 earthquakes above the 0.5 LM were accounted for in the UK in the last 100 days, proving that what happened in Preese Hall well in 2011 is not a singular or unique event.
One of the reasons why the report is relevant for the entire world today is because it has proven that larger earthquakes are preceded by a series of smaller events, suggesting that seismic activity is cumulative and should be monitored closely. Moreover, through the Preese Hall report, England has established that dangerous induced earthquakes are often a response to long-term fracking, urging the need for strong governmental regulations for industries and mining corporations.
However, the debate over man-made or induced earthquakes comes as industry opposition to the currently upheld seismic standards is rising. For example, Cuadrilla is one of the many irresponsible big and powerful drilling firms which calls for the regulatory standards of induced tremors to be relaxed, claiming economic reasons.
The company has been fracking in Preston New Road (Lancashire) for weeks. Since then, there have been 34 tremors in the area, according to data from the British Geological Survey. Since Cuadrilla started fracking in the area their operations were made to stop twice. Fifteen days ago there was a 0.8 LM quake, and another 1.1 LM happened last week. Although these recent seismic events are sometimes imperceptible on the surface, it is undoubted that their consequences are severe.
The impact on local people is serious not only for the short term consequences but also for long-term ones. Some of the immediate perceptible implications of fracking are people experiencing cracks in walls, broken crockery, unnecessary stress and hazards encountered when driving or walking, and worries about the future integrity of their properties.
People are also uncertain regarding long-term damage both regarding health and safety, and politically speaking. For example, local resident Dianne Westgarth, who lives less than a kilometer away from Preston New Road, has reported that she and group of residents have written several letters to the government asking their help to stop fracking in the area, but they have fallen on deaf ears.
Reportedly, the local community has lost all faith and trust in the industry and the government alike. Elderly residents of Carr Bridge, who had moved to the area looking for peace and quiet, have also expressed their distress.
Even if the UK government were to disregard people’s anxiety and concerns regarding fracking, one major worry stems from the existing faults on the coast and the speculative science of what will happen when the fracking fluid reaches these faults, as the fracks move along the horizontal well.
In fact, the Preese Hall report acknowledged that casing damage was found at Cuadrilla’s fracking site after the quakes and the wellbore was found to deform. Damaged wellbores mean a loss of well integrity and this is a major red flag signaling plausible contamination of rock layers. This could very well happen again in Preston New Road or anywhere else affected by these fracking-related quakes.
Cuadrilla CEO, Francis Egan, has made several media appearances recently lobbying the general public and governmental agencies to try to loosen what he claims are “conservative regulations”, and speaking in favor of commerce and the wellbeing of the mining industry.
Nonetheless, England has taught us that corporations should be held accountable and that industry and regulators should collaborate and gather enough information to understand the underground effects of fracking before the impact of this industry becomes irreparable.
If you or a loved one are injured on a pipeline job, you may be eligible for significant financial recovery. Our Corpus Christi -based Williams PLLC oilfield injury attorneys represent injured pipeline workers in Texas, North Dakota, the Gulf of Mexico and across the nation. For a free, confidential case evaluation, contact Williams PLLC today.
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Asians and Friends Chicago had its first night of mahjong for LGBT individuals on June 16—and a promising crowd of 16 people showed up.
Future nights will take place on the third Saturday of each month ( Aug. 18 ) at Marc Rubin's Chicago Room Gallery, 3318 N. Halsted. An introductory session will start at 7:30 p.m., and play will take place 8-10 p.m.
Mahjong is usually played by four people who use 144 tiles. The goal is to collect winning sets of these tiles.
It's BYOB with a $7 corking fee; there's also complimentary coffee and tea. RSVP at www.afchicago.org or 312-409-1573.
Talkin' Tech: Ocasio-Cortez first in Congress to use Twitch platform to 'get out the vote' 2020-10-23
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NATIONAL ROUNDUP: Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Promoted as "the nation's first drag queen-staffed bar and gaming venue," Drink & Drag held its grand opening in Las Vegas May 5, according to a press release. The 22,000-square-foot venue features 12 bowling lanes, billiards, ...
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WinnipegREALTORS® may have been disappointed that the recent provincial budget missed an opportunity to get education funding off the backs of property owners (see letspayfair.com for more information), but the association was pl...
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“Will Premier Doer call an election this Friday?” “Of course,” was the reply from NDP MLA (Fort Rouge) Tim Sale, who is now the spokesman for the NDP election campaign. Of course, Sale had nothing to lo...
Winnipeg to be site of first “national” museum outside Ottawa
For the first time in Canada’s history, a national museum will be built outside the capital region of Ottawa-Hull. Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced last week at the Fairmont Hotel in Winnipeg that the federal ...
Coalition challenges Premier Doer
Members of the education finance coalition, representing some 250,000 Manitobans, were led to believe some major education property tax relief would be included in the provincial budget. But the measures announced in the April 4 budget only...
Red River Fever — typhoid epidemic led to improved water and sewage systems
by Bruce Cherney On September 16, 2002, a mechanical failure at the North End Water Pollution Control centre caused 427,000 cubic metres of raw sewage to flow into the Red River. Surprisingly, untreated sewa...
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by Bruce Cherney A survey commissioned by the Dominion Institute revealed that only 41 per cent of the respondents were aware of this nation’s most important victory during the First World War — a defining moment in Canad...
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Trump Must Be a Russian Agent; the Alternative Is Too Awful
Garrett M. Graff
We know a lot about the "what" of the Mueller probe’s findings. The crucial questions now focus on the "why."
We know a lot about the “what” of the Mueller probe’s findings. The crucial questions now focus on the “why.”Photo Illustration by WIRED staff; Getty Images
It would be rather embarrassing for Donald Trump at this point if Robert Mueller were to declare that the president isn’t an agent of Russian intelligence.
The pattern of his pro-Putin, pro-Russia, anti-FBI, anti-intelligence community actions are so one-sided, and the lies and obfuscation surrounding every single Russian meeting and conversation are so consistent, that if this president isn’t actually hiding a massive conspiracy, it means the alternative is worse: America elected a chief executive so oblivious to geopolitics, so self-centered and personally insecure, so naturally predisposed to undermine democratic institutions and coddle authoritarians, and so terrible a manager and leader, that he cluelessly surrounded himself with crooks, grifters, and agents of foreign powers, compromising the national security of the US government and undermining 75 years of critical foreign alliances, just to satiate his own ego.
In short, we’ve reached a point in the Mueller probe where there are only two scenarios left: Either the president is compromised by the Russian government and has been working covertly to cooperate with Vladimir Putin after Russia helped win him the 2016 election—or Trump will go down in history as the world’s most famous “useful idiot,” as communists used to call those who could be co-opted to the cause without realizing it.
At least the former scenario—that the president of the United States is actively working to advance the interests of our country’s foremost, long-standing, traditional foreign adversary—would make him seem smarter and wilier. The latter scenario is simply a tragic farce for everyone involved.
We’re left here—in a place unprecedented in American political history, wondering how much worse the truth is than we already know—after four days of fresh revelations in the public drip-drip-drip of the Russia investigation. The past two months have seen the public understanding of the case advance into almost unthinkable territory. Now we’re simply trying to figure out how bad things really are.
Consider: On Friday, The New York Times reported that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation of the president himself in 2017; on Saturday, The Washington Post published a story saying that Trump has gone to great lengths to cover up and hide—even from his own aides—his interactions with Putin; on Sunday, columnist Max Boot outlined the case for Trump as a Russian asset; and on Tuesday the Times came back with an authoritative recounting of Trump and Putin’s interactions, a recounting that included a bizarre telephone call from Air Force One where the president tried to argue off the record that contrary to the unanimous conclusion of his own intelligence community, “that the Russians were falsely accused of election interference.”
Like so much of the strangeness of the Trump era, these new revelations are simultaneously shocking but not surprising. Of course the FBI wondered why Trump’s actions toward Russia and the intelligence community were so aberrant and felt compelled to investigate. But to fully understand why these revelations matter so much in the grand scheme of the special counsel's investigation and the Russia probe, it helps to understand a bit about spies and the unique, dual mission of the FBI—which is tasked not just with enforcing federal criminal laws but also with protecting the nation’s secrets, politics, and economy from undue foreign influence.
I’ve said before that one of the most misunderstood aspects of this investigation—from the start and to this day—is that it began by targeting the Trump campaign and Americans like Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Page and Papadopoulos (and more recently, Michael Flynn) have shouted from the rooftops in recent months that they were entrapped and targeted by the Deep State FBI—that’s even the name of Papadopoulos’ forthcoming, fever-dream-inspired book—but the FBI started with their best interests at heart: Agents saw people with ties to the Russian government circling around the Trump campaign, and so the bureau stepped in, entirely appropriately, to monitor that activity.
The FBI was apparently alerted to this activity by its own intelligence and by tips from friendly foreign intelligence overseas. It wasn’t like these Russia-affiliated characters were necessarily new to the FBI: In 2013, agents in New York had watched as undercover officers from the Russian SVR, its foreign intelligence service, akin to the CIA, tried to recruit Page as an asset—only to determine he was too scatterbrained to be of any use.
To fully understand why these revelations matter, it helps to understand a bit about spies and the dual mission of the FBI—which is tasked not just with enforcing federal laws but also with protecting the nation from undue foreign influence.
The FBI's investigation during the 2016 presidential campaign, which we know now was codenamed Crossfire Hurricane, began as an attempt to protect Trump, to protect a political neophyte and the bizarre assortment of advisers who had surrounded him (the political equivalent of the Star Wars bar scene) from what the FBI believed were the nefarious efforts of Kremlin-linked players.
Now counterintelligence investigations, as shadowy as they are, are just that; their singular goal is to counter the specific activities of foreign intelligence services. Counterintelligence cases are markedly different from criminal cases, because when they begin the ultimate goal isn’t necessarily a pair of handcuffs and a courtroom—the goal is simply to counter the targeted actions. That can mean an arrest in some cases, but it also can mean simply watching—monitoring a suspected intelligence officer’s or agent’s routines and meetings, as the FBI evidently did with the NRA’s Russian friend, Maria Butina, for years.
It can also mean covertly disrupting or neutralizing the activity in some way, which can be as simple as showing up unannounced in US offices to warn unwitting Americans that they might have interacted with—or are about to interact with—a suspected undercover intelligence officer. (The Trump campaign did, in fact, receive so-called “defensive” briefings from the FBI to be wary that it might be the target of outreach and attempted influence from foreign powers—warnings the campaign pointedly ignored, either stupidly or conspiratorially.) At their most advanced, counterintelligence investigations can lead to the recruitment of double agents, triple agents, or the feeding of false intelligence or information back through identified spy channels.
Counterintelligence cases come with special authorities, including powerful FISA warrants for monitoring communications, along with special oversight, coordinated nationally through the Justice Department’s National Security Division—because they’re vital to the security of the United States and meant to help protect both ordinary, unwitting Americans as well as the nation’s political and military leaders.
The evolution of the FBI’s inquiry—from starting out in the spring of 2016 by attempting to protect the Trump campaign and realizing by the fall that the Trump campaign was open for business with Russia, to wondering by the spring of 2017 whether the candidate-turned-president himself was in on or even directing the plot—must have been head-spinning for the bureau and its allies in the Justice Department.
We still don’t understand nearly enough about what transpired inside the ironically paired FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building headquarters on one side of Pennsylvania Avenue and the Justice Department’s Robert F. Kennedy building across the street during the 10 days between FBI director James Comey’s firing and the appointment of Mueller as special counsel—the panic on the part of acting director Andrew McCabe, the befuddlement of deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, and the horror among agents and prosecutors. (We might know more when McCabe’s memoir comes out later this spring.)
But we know that there was evidence that deeply concerned both McCabe and Rosenstein. And we know too that we haven’t yet seen that evidence. It’s easy to forget how much of this case the FBI and Mueller know that we don’t.
For just one example: We know thanks to the bumbling of Representative Devin Nunes of California that Carter Page was targeted with a FISA warrant that was renewed three times, each for an additional 90 days, by two successive deputy attorneys general: Sally Yates and Rod Rosenstein. Each time the FISA warrant was renewed, the Justice Department would have had to demonstrate to a court that it had uncovered new intelligence showing that Page was having contact with foreign agents. What was this new intelligence? What was Page doing during this whole period, which stretched from a couple weeks before the November 2016 election right through the transition and the beginning of the Trump presidency? We don’t yet know.
Nearly all of the revelations we’ve seen thus far from the Mueller probe and the Russia investigation have focused on the “what.” Some of the whats we know so far: Paul Manafort—a money launderer, deeply indebted to Russian oligarchs, who was working for free as Trump’s campaign chair—passed polling data to someone tied to Russian intelligence. The Trump Tower Moscow project continued well into the campaign. National security adviser Michael Flynn tried to cover up his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The attack on the 2016 election by Russian intelligence, approved by Putin himself, shifted over the course of 2016 from merely attacking Hillary Clinton to actively boosting Trump himself. Kremlin-linked figures sat down with Trump’s campaign leaders in June 2016. Trump confiscated the notes of his government interpreter after meeting with Putin in Hamburg.
What we haven’t seen in any of these instances (and many others) is the “why.” That’s where we’ll ultimately learn the truth about which scenario we face: an incredibly hapless and easily coopted president—or an active criminal conspirator. Why was Manafort funneling campaign polling data through Konstantin Kilimnik? Why does Mueller believe Kilimnik is tied to Russian intelligence? Why does the US believe the Russian president himself approved the attack?
So now we can add the following whys: Why has Trump covered up his interactions with Putin from his own government? Why has he sought out Putin for private conversations? Why did he confiscate the notes from his interpreter?
Presumably, the FBI and Mueller uncovered all these whats relatively quickly and easily. The investigation has stretched on to document and understand the whys.
As Esquire’s Charlie Pierce noted this week, The New York Times’ carefully written story on the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation includes a deeply pregnant phrase: “No evidence has emerged publicly that Mr. Trump was secretly in contact with or took direction from Russian government officials.” No evidence has emerged publicly. But there are plenty of bread crumbs pointing to the idea that such evidence exists secretly, with investigators.
Understanding and answering those “why” questions will mark this final phase of Robert Mueller’s investigation. Only then will the nation and the world know the answer to the one big, honking “what” question that’s left: What are Trump’s motives for all his inexplicable actions? It’s hard to know which answer will be worse for the country.
Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) is a contributing editor for WIRED and coauthor of Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat. He can be reached at garrett.graff@gmail.com.
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Decoding Robert Mueller's Russia Investigation | WIRED25
WIRED contributing editor Garrett M. Graff, who covers special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, authored the magazine's June cover story about Mueller's time in Vietnam, and wrote "The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller's FBI and the War on Global Terror." Graff breaks down the investigation's status, the big outstanding questions, and where the investigation is likely to go after the midterm election.
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The Latest ► Press Releases ► Revolve stores keep key workers pedalling
Revolve stores keep key workers pedalling
Doctor and support worker highlight benefit of commute by bike.
Revolve certified bicycle stores across Scotland are calling for donations of bikes, to ensure they can continue to support key workers during lockdown. The stores have adapted operations during the coronavirus pandemic, adopting measures such as physical distancing, while still supplying those on the front line with much needed bikes to transport them to and from work.
Awarded by Zero Waste Scotland, the Revolve certification is Scotland’s guarantee for pre-loved items and gives shoppers the confidence that they will receive quality products and excellent customer service. All donated bikes are fully refurbished to meet Revolve standards.
Bike for Good in Glasgow has reopened its South Hub, and is keen to receive donations of bikes so the team can continue to support key workers. All bikes are being loaned to key workers during this time, and they can keep them for as long as needed.
Anna Bochsler, 25, lives in Govanhill and is a support worker for adults with disabilities. Anna said: “The bike has been amazing! I had a lot of anxiety around getting the bus to work in case I picked up the virus and spread it within work, so using the bike has completely removed that.
“I've never cycled in a city before and I was really apprehensive about the traffic and the road rules. However, due the roads being quieter, this has proved the perfect time to gain some confidence cycling around the city.”
Another key worker who has benefited from the service is Chi Hoi Lee. Chi Hoi Lee, 24, from Glasgow, is working as a Junior Doctor. Chi said: “I am very thankful for the bike loan; it makes my commute a lot easier and faster.”
“This service has been very helpful. I received speedy responses and Bike for Good have answered any questions that I have had. They have made commuting to work much easier for myself.”
Kimberley White, communications lead at Bike for Good, said: "Bike for Good are now opening their doors on limited Saturdays for bike sales, as the demand is through the roof. However, we are running out of bikes to sell!
“At the moment we are only looking for bike donations that are in fairly good condition and are especially seeking hybrid bike donations.”
Recyke-a-bike in Stirling is currently operating a collection service for donations of bikes from the surrounding area, allowing them to continue repairing and giving new life to pre-loved bicycles before passing them on to those who need them most.
Angela Barron, chief executive, Recyke-a-bike said: “We have a lot of demand from key workers looking for adult bikes, and our supply is rapidly dwindling. We have been able to access some recycling centres, but demand is far outstripping supply, so we have launched a donation drive.”
Each year in Scotland thousands of items which could have been reused end up in landfill needlessly. Revolve stores ensure valuable resources can be reused – extending their life, supporting local communities and protecting the environment.
Miriam Adcock, project manager, Zero Waste Scotland, said: “Although many Revolve stores across Scotland remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, some of our organisations, such as Bike for Good and Recyke-a-bike have reopened with a limited service, allowing them to support key workers.
“The Revolve quality kitemark guarantees that any bikes supplied are of the highest quality, which is so important when ensuring that key workers can get to work safely. We would urge anyone with a bike they no longer use to consider donating it a specialist Revolve store such as Recyke-a-bike or Bike for Good.”
To find out if your local Revolve bike shop is open just now and accepting donations visit bikes.revolvereuse.com .
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Is Petr Cech Really Worth 15 Points?
Posted on August 3, 2015 by officeglenn
Ahead of the start of the new English Premier League season, I’ve been looking at John Terry’s suggestion that Petr Cech is worth between 12 and 15 points in a season.
To be honest, my first thoughts were that Terry was a little generous — Cech might be worth five or six points at most. Then, last week, Alan Shearer reinforced the claim, stating he would improve Arsenal “by a number of points.” So I had a closer look at some key results from last season. How much of a difference could Cech have made to Arsenal’s tally last season?
Arsenal dropped four points in games in August 2014: a 2-2 draw with Everton and a 1-1 darw with Leicester City. Although Wojciech Szczesny had a few issues in these games, he wasn’t the only one. Credit should go to the sharpness of our opponents and to several key Arsenal players suffering from World Cup hangovers. As much as I’d like to, I can’t hold Szczesny responsible for those four dropped points.
September 2014 as a similarly disappointing month with another four points lost in draws with Manchester City (2-2) and Tottenham Hotspur (1-1). A poorly defended corner in the 83rd minute cost us two vital points against City. Would Cech have marshalled his defence any better? Against City, Chelsea also dropped two vital points at home because of a goalkeeping error. Cech was not in goal on that day, so we’ll never know if he’d have made a difference.
As for Tottenham, we had 69 per cent possession and 16 shots at goal to Tottenham’s four. Chelsea didn’t face Tottenham at home until March, after Spuds had just played a tiring Europa League match. They won 2-0 against a clearly tired team, so I can’t justify comparing the two games. What is blatantly obvious, though, is a very poor conversion rate cost us points here.
Two more games and another five points go begging. On Oct. 6, we faced Chelsea and lost 2-0. An early injury to Thibaut Courtois, bringing Cech into the game, a denied penalty from a Fabregas handball and an Arsenal defensive error may have changed the scoreline, but let’s be honest — Chelsea were the better team on the day.
Then there was the 2-2 draw against Hull City, where Arsenal scored two goals on two shots. Mohamed Diame’s tug on Mathieu Flamini and the defence’s lack of appeal cost Arsenal the first goal. Szczesny’s fault? No! But would Cech have done better against Hull? In December, Cech made his first Premier League start of the season against Hull, who were unlucky on that day, losing 2-0. Tim Cahill should have seen a second yellow card for diving. But instead, 10 minutes later, Hull were down to 10 men because of a reckless tackle by Tom Huddlestone. That’s two Arsenal points lost and two Chelsea points gained because of luck!
In my opinion, this is where we needed Cech between the sticks. The 2-1 loss at Swansea was preventable. Unforgivably, Szczesny did not move for Swansea’s second goal and definitely cost us two points. Chelsea annihilated Swansea in January with a 5-0 away win — three points for Cech!
After Swansea, our defence gifted Manchester United — with two rookie defenders — their first away win by a score of 2-1. Ouch — that one hurt! Szczesny’s collision with Kieran Gibbs resulted in an own goal, and Arsenal forgetting the first rule of defence allowed Wayne Rooney to steam forward for their second. That was three points lost against a poor United squad. In contrast, United had 70 per cent possession against Chelsea in April; Cech was not in goal, but with the Chelsea bus parked the way it was, it didn’t matter who was in net. Of United’s 15 shots, only two were on target; Courtois only had to make one 2- yard save.
There are two away games to look at in December: a 3-2 loss to Stoke City and a 2-2 draw with Liverpool. Three first-half goals and a late red card for Calum Chambers cost us the game against Stoke. Emi Martinez conceded the first goal after just 19 seconds. That early shocker gave Stoke the momentum they needed to take a 3-0 lead at halftime. Had Chambers stayed on the pitch, Arsenal could have won the game in the second half, but the damage was done. Just two weeks later, Chelsea did to Stoke what Stoke did to Arsenal — stunned their opponent with an early goal. After two minutes, Terry gave them the lead, which led to a 2-0 win. Even though, again, Cech didn’t play, I’m crediting him with three points for this fixture for two reasons — two minutes, and 19 seconds.
Against Liverpool, Arsenal had just 36 per cent possession, but have to feel robbed of two points. After Martin Skrtel was steamrolled by Olivier Giroud, nobody expected him to stay on the pitch, let alone lead his 10-man team to a 97th minute equalizer. Two inexcusably lost points.
The final straw was on New Year’s Day, when Szczesny gifted Southampton both goals in a horrible 2-0 loss. We never looked like winning the game, but if my mother was still alive and in goal, even she could have saved us two points.
That brings the total number of points that goalkeeping likely cost Arsenal in the 2014-2015 campaign to between 10 and 12. Arsenal’s fortunes changed after the Southampton match and, at best, Cech could only possibly have earned us one more point after this match (a 1-0 loss to Swansea City on May 11), but, on the day, in my opinion, that was a fair result.
Twelve points it is, then. That would have been enough to tie with Chelsea for first place.
The final goal difference finished just six goals in Chelsea’s favour. Had those matches I’ve mentioned gone the way I feel they could have, we would have won the league by three or four goals.
Of course, it’s all speculation, and only time will tell if Cech will be enough to win us the league this season.
One other thing to consider is that Arsene Wenger has also challenged his creative players to contribute 10 more goals this season. With a fully fit squad, the likelihood of Theo Walcott being used more as a central striker, along with last season’s goal difference, suggests Arsenal don’t really need another centre forward, but it’s no secret Wenger has had his eye on Karim Benzema for several seasons now.
Are there any more surprises before the transfer window closes? I can’t wait to find out.
— Stuart McKerell
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Chapter 6 of 15
How to Manage a Remote Team
How to hire a remote team
How to build culture in a remote team
How Successful Remote Teams Evaluate Employees: A Look inside Automattic, GitHub, and Help Scout
How to Build Strong Relationships in a Remote Team
How to Run a Company Retreat for a Remote Team
This is What a Remote Office Looks Like
How to Work Faster in a Remote Team
How to Find Your Optimal Work Environment and Boost Productivity
The pros and cons of working across time zones: What to expect when you work in a distributed company
How to Avoid Burnout in a Remote Team
How to Thrive as an Extrovert on a Remote Team
How to Find and Get Hired for a Remote Job
The remote worker's toolkit: The 15 tools you need to work remotely
A Special Thanks To Those Who Share: The Best Blog Posts, Articles and Resources on Remote Work
By Wade Foster - Last updated April 1, 2019 -
You are reading: Chapter 6 of 15
One of the downsides of being a remote team is that physical interaction doesn't happen unless you make a dedicated effort to get the team together.
While we firmly believe that day-to-day work does not need to happen in person, we do believe that some things happen easier when in person. Because of that, we get the whole team together for a company retreat twice a year.
We've now run 10 company retreats for team sizes of 7, 10, 14, 19, 27, 34, 45, 68, 95, and 185. Here's everything we've learned to pull them off.
1. Why Should You Run a Company Retreat?
Big, full-company retreats are tough to coordinate and expensive, so why even bother?
Ultimately: because some things are just better done in person. For instance, it's hard to have an impromptu, deep conversation with a teammate over Google Hangout about their kids, some random idea you've had improving a secondary process in the company, or company values. All those things tend to naturally happen in person, while they don't happen in a remote team unless you force it.
Also, retreats are a ton of fun. Since you don't see everyone on a daily basis, it's exciting to have everyone around for a week-long excursion where you can talk shop and learn more about each other as people in an everyday setting.
2. Where Should You Hold Your Company Retreat?
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Wherever you want!
So far, we've had company retreats in California, Washington, Florida, Colorado, Alabama, Utah, Texas, Vancouver, Toronto, and Louisiana—and departmental retreats in other locations.
When choosing a place for your company retreat, there are a few things to consider:
Make it somewhere easy for folks to get to (that is, less than a two-hour drive from a major airport).
Go somewhere that can hold everyone. When we were a smaller team of under 30 people, we were able to do AirBnB and HomeAway houses (hotels can feel sterile, but houses feel inviting.) As we've grown, we've had to broaden our search for places that could accommodate larger groups in one spot while also still providing that sense of privacy and closeness. Our People Ops team has done a great job scouting locations based on these criteria and others, such as our need for a large conference room, fast and reliable Wi-Fi (at least 100mbps up and down), and breakout rooms to work on projects together.
Don't worry so much about being close to tons of activities. We used to think having a large city nearby would be important but then realized we rarely took advantage of the full city amenities.
That said, do have some activities very near the retreat location. Beachside houses, resorts near hiking trails, or places with big games rooms (pool, ping pong, etc.) are great because people can entertain themselves in downtime without driving places.
Ultimately, though, go with what suits your company. I know some companies travel overseas or some bring everyone into headquarters.
3. How Long Should Your Company Retreat Last?
It depends. You need to be respectful of people's time. After some iteration, we've found four full days plus one optional "fun" free day, bookended by two travel days to be a good fit. People with family and kids aren't too inconvenienced, and it's long enough to do something meaningful. We have biannual retreats, one in the winter and one in the summer. Every year, the retreat weeks alternate to avoid these days always falling on someone's birthday or other family celebration.
As you grow, another thing to consider is staggering travel days. We have the founding team plus international travelers come in a day early. This means customer support for Zapier isn't abysmal for one day while everyone is traveling, and we can prepare the location with food since we're there a bit early.
4. What Should You Do During Your Retreat?
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It can be easy to default to doing the things you always do on a day-to-day basis at work. But that would be a waste of an opportunity.
We decided early on that we should do things during the week that we can't do together—even if it was at the expense of making progress on Zapier itself. After all, we work on the product every other day of the year. For one week it makes sense to take some time off and work on the team which is just as important as the product itself.
Some of the best activities we do are mostly unrelated to work.
We play party games, such as Mafia, have karaoke nights, and have hiked Mt. Rainer, skied, swam in the ocean, and visited the USS Alabama together. Doing something physical is a great way to learn more about each other, but we've also done food tours and even visited an old Texas ranch that's used as a movie set.
We also spend time doing work-related things or discussing issues important to us.
Previously, we paired a mini-conference with a hackathon. Here's how we did it:
Before the retreat, all team members suggest projects for the hackathon that anyone at the company can work on. This project should be something that can be significantly developed, if not shipped, in three days.
After the project suggestions are in, each department (e.g., support, marketing, product, engineering) votes on the top hackathon project the company should work on.
From that list, each person in the company selects the top project they would like to work on (plus 2 alternatives) at the retreat. Hackathon teams are assigned based on this.
During the retreat, each hackathon group works on their project over the course of 3 working days or afternoons.
At the end of the week, each group presents what they built.
Some examples of hackathon projects that have come out of our retreats are new features like Formatter by Zapier, a guide to using Zapier, and accessibility enhancements in our product.
Most recently, we experimented with replacing the hackathon with an "unconference." While the hackathons encouraged collaboration with people from different teams and let us experiment with things that might not have otherwise gotten attention, they've been difficult to plan as we've grown. So for our last retreat, we decided to try unconferences instead. As Meghan Gezo, HR/People Ops Specialist, explains:
An unconference is a participant-driven meeting that lets attendees decide what gets discussed. Rather than locking everyone into a set schedule and set topics, the unconference lets everyone decide what topics are important to talk about. It also lets everyone participate in the discussion instead of just one person or a panel of people. Even if a topic ends up with only a few interested people, it can still be really useful to everyone involved!
Each unconference lasts 40 minutes, with one lead/facilitator and one note taker.
Before the retreat, everyone is free to suggest topics (via a spreadsheet) and nominate the lead person, which could be themselves
At the unconference, participants are encouraged to share ideas in the conversation.
Some of the topics covered at the last retreat include:
Productivity and Energy Management
How to Make Data Friendlier
How Zapier Experts Use the Product
Managing Diverse Time Zones
How to Win The Price Is Right
After doing a couple of retreats, we've found that the best retreats combine something everyone on the team can work on in person along with multiple activities that help the team get to know each other better. Like our Game of Thrones viewing party:
5. What About the Cost of the Retreats?
Obviously, cost is a big consideration for doing a trip like this. Keep in mind, though, that a typical remote team saves tons of money each month by not having to pay for an office (or paying for a much smaller one than you'd normally have to have if you're a partially remote team). We decide to invest money we save on office-related expenses into company and department retreats because of the invaluable team-building these experiences provide. At the same time, we try to keep spending on retreats reasonable; keeping everyone happily employed is more important than sending everyone to luxury resorts overseas.
Retreats aren't cheap, but what's even more expensive is having a remote team that doesn't work well together. Ultimately, the cost of the trip is well worth it in my mind, but you have to make that choice based on the constraints of your own business.
Getting Feedback on the Trip
If you're planning to keep doing retreats as you grow, then you'll want to make sure the retreats keep getting better. The way to do this is to ask for feedback.
For example, the feedback we got from our first company retreat was that since we paired the trip with a conference, everyone spent a ton of time doing their own thing at the conference and by the time we all were able to regroup at the place in the evening everyone was really tired. So we decided not to do retreats alongside conferences again.
Here are some questions that are useful to ask the team after a retreat:
What was awesome about the trip? Be as detailed as you'd like.
What should we do differently the next time around? Be as detailed as you'd like.
In retrospect, did you like the unconference structure? What was good? What could be improved?
We had a handful of roundtables this retreat. What was good about these? What could be improved?
How did your team day go?
Based on feedback from our previous retreats, we've learned that teammates most enjoyed meeting and hanging out with everyone, having an entire venue to ourselves, lots of food options, and a range of roundtable topics.
Doing a company-wide retreat is a big event, and our People Ops team spends a lot of time planning it—about a year in advance. But it's a lot of fun. If you run a remote team, I would highly encourage you to consider planning one for the next year. I think you'll find it well worth it, and your teammates will love your company even more for it.
Curious what a remote team looks like in day-to-day action? In the next chapter, we'll peek at the Zapier team's home office setups and workspaces.
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Toronto Azure Jays reliever Anthony Bass doesn’t want to pay on having a minor-league discipline for a property ball game this season. A...
Orange Jays could share MLB park this season
Toronto Azure Jays reliever Anthony Bass doesn’t want to pay on having a minor-league discipline for a property ball game this season.
And the particular team’s front business office appears to agree.
Bass, who also joined often the Blue Jays off waivers from the particular Seattle Mariners inside August, says general supervisor Ross Atkins has explained to the particular team they’d prefer to setup home base in a new big-league stadium rather than using their triple-A discipline in Buffalo, N. Y.
“I got the opportunity to discuss with Ross yesterday . and I just mentioned: ‘Look, we want in order to play in some sort of major-league ballpark, we sense that honestly, that is the best opportunity with regard to us all. ’ And he / she agreed, ” Bass mentioned on a good video phone with reporters Sunday.
“He said: ‘I listen in order to you guys excessive and clear. And that certainly is just what we’re going to perform for you because that’s exactly what the group wants. '” The Canadian government rejected the Glowing blue Jays’ need for permission to try out residence games at Toronto’s Rogers Centre — where they have been training for the very last two weeks — expressing it’s not safe for online players to help continually travel around the Canada-U. S. national boundaries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Blue Jays and even teams coming into Barcelone for street games might have needed special permission in the government to waive the required 14-day self-isolation time for any individual crossing the border intended for non-essential reasons.
The united states government’s selection came Weekend, less than a 1 week before the start of the 60-game MLB season. Often the Violet Jays open up against the Sun light in Tampa Gulf on July 24 and their household opener is set to get five days later against Washington.
Bass said they was “definitely surprised” if instructed the would want to get a new household.
“We ended up disappointed primarily, but concurrently we admire the Canadian government’s choice, ” Bass said. “We know something going with around the globe. And with that said, our focus in each of our direction was we will need to put ourselves inside the best problem to win. … And the idea felt like that was very much echoed during the entire clubhouse that we want in order to be inside a major-league ballpark, wherever that is. ”
Violet Jays president Mark Shapiro said Wednesday that the team has put in more time examining Buffalo in recent days nonetheless that the stadium possesses infrastructure challenges. Minor-league job areas aren’t always equipped with right behind-the-scenes sources — similar to not sufficiently batting cages to get hitters, for example — and in addition they tend to have lesser clubhouses.
Although finding a big-league recreation area to participate in out of would carry its own challenges along with the Blue Jays obtaining to share some sort of capability with another workforce.
Even though Bass acknowledged there could be drawbacks to definitely not having some sort of correct home stadium, he explained the benefits regarding a major-league park your car outweigh those, and that this group is “willing for you to make many sacrifices. ”
Outfielder Teoscar Hernandez, subsequently, says that although he’d desire some sort of major-league field, the idea doesn’t matter to the dog where the Blue Jays find yourself playing their household games.
“It doesn’t produce a difference because the new baseball field, ” he said. “You’re definitely not going to get the beautiful factors they also have on major league grounds (at) some minor-league field, nonetheless for me, it’s gonna be the identical. ”
Manager Charlie Montoyo says the Blue Jays will be ready to get action recently regardless associated with where they’ll be trying to play.
Toronto has a set of pre-season games throughout Boston in advance of travelling to help Tampa, and Montoyo said being able to teach inside Toronto has made sure the team is — fairly — healthy going into your season.
A number of Glowing blue Jays players and staff members reportedly tested constructive for COVID-19 last month while working out in their spring-training ability within Dunedin, Fla.
“Of training course, it’s a lot better to participate in (home games) in Barcelone … to be able to be (in) all of our property ballpark, but this is definitely not gonna happen, ” Montoyo said. “So we’re not necessarily gonna use the idea like a built-in excuse. Wheresoever we go, we’re about to have to play in order to get, wherever that can be. ”
Largemouth bass, which possesses a young daughter throughout a high-risk group for just a bad COVID-19 outcome, according to the area of Toronto’s house field matters both within terminology of how ready that is designed for major-league games and how protected it is.
While early on reports had suggested often the Azure Jays were looking at discussing Tropicana Field with all the Sun rays in St. Petersburg, Fla., Bass said the team might desire to not maintain a COVID “hotspot” like Florida, which reported 15, 328 COVID-19 cases Sunday.
“We want to become where is considered safe — a place in the states just where cases are going lower, or even they’re very minimal, ” said Bass, who else added his family won’t be with him this time of year regardless of where these people play.
“So that 토토랜드 of mine. ”
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