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Facebook 'manipulated' 700k users' feelings in secret experiment
News feed meddling totally within T&Cs, we're told
By Richard Chirgwin 29 Jun 2014 at 22:34
Updated Facebook let researchers adjust its users' news feeds to manipulate their emotions – and has suggested that such experimentation is routine, which is seemingly how the idea got past the advertising firm's ethics committees.
In 2012, researchers led by the company's data scientist Adam Kramer, manipulated which posts from their friends the sample of nearly 700,000 users could see in their “News feed”, suppressing either positive or negative posts, to see whether either cheerful or downer posts seemed to be emotionally contagious.
With only a user's “agree click” on Facebook's terms and conditions document to provide a fig-leaf of consent to the creepy experiment, researchers from Cornell University, the University of California San Francisco manipulated users' news feeds.
Let's hear from the university:
“The researchers reduced the amount of either positive or negative stories that appeared in the news feed of 689,003 randomly selected Facebook users, and found that the so-called 'emotional contagion' effect worked both ways.”
Cornell Social Media Lab professor Jeff Hancock reports the simple correlation that turned up: “People who had positive content experimentally reduced on their Facebook news feed, for one week, used more negative words in their status updates. When news feed negativity was reduced, the opposite pattern occurred: Significantly more positive words were used in peoples’ status updates.”
The study, which was published by PNAS here (the US National Academy of Sciences seems similarly unconcerned by the ethical concerns surrounding the experiment), describes the methodology like this in its abstract:
“We test whether emotional contagion occurs outside of in-person interaction between individuals by reducing the amount of emotional content in the News Feed. When positive expressions were reduced, people produced fewer positive posts and more negative posts; when negative expressions were reduced, the opposite pattern occurred. These results indicate that emotions expressed by others on Facebook influence our own emotions, constituting experimental evidence for massive-scale contagion via social networks” (emphasis added).
The researchers state clearly that “was consistent with Facebook’s Data Use Policy, to which all users agree prior to creating an account on Facebook, constituting informed consent for this research” (emphasis added).
Media reception of the research has been almost universally hostile – put “Facebook” together with “creepy” into Google News for a sample. Noting that the research “seems cruel”, The Atlantic says even PNAS editor Susan Fiske found the study “creepy”, but let the study pass because “Facebook apparently manipulates people's News Feeds all the time”.
Vulture South isn't so sure the researchers can give themselves a clean bill of health. In particular, a data use policy most users don't read, and which would confuse many, seems inadequate as a definition of “informed consent”.
Moreover, while the data use policy does, as the researchers state, permit the use of data for “research”, the context doesn't seem in full agreement with the researchers' interpretation: “we may use the information we receive about you”, it states, “for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement”.
In other words, “research” is offered not as a blanket permission, but as an example of “internal operations”.
The Atlantic notes that as a private company, Facebook isn't bound by the ethical rules that constrain academic research - something which doesn't exempt the two universities involved, nor the National Academy of Sciences.
Kramer has sought to explain himself in this post. He reassuringly claims that "our goal was never to upset anyone".
Kramer adds that "the research benefits of the paper may not have justified all of this anxiety", and says the experiment only adjusted the emotional content of News feeds in the positive direction.
He said posts weren't technically "hidden" since users could go looking for friends' posts on the friends' pages. However, the issue of consent remains unaddressed by Kramer.
Even the methodology of the study has come in for criticism. In this summary of the story, The Atlantic points to a critique by John Grohl at Psych Central.
Grohl says the research used textual analysis tools that were unsuited to the task set for them - discerning mood by extracting words from posts - and describes the results as a "statistical blip that has no real-world meaning". ®
Updated to add
Cornell originally credited funding for the research James S. McDonnell Foundation and the Army Research Office. It has now amended its media release to say that the study received no external funding.
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The Lonely Pirate MEP's Holocaust copyright stunt backfires
You can read Anne Frank, Julia. You just don't want to pay for it
By Andrew Orlowski 4 May 2016 at 09:27
Julia Reda MEP, the sole Pirate Party MEP
Comment A tasteless attempt to recruit Holocaust victim Anne Frank to the case of weakening European copyright protection has backfired on the EU's only Pirate Party MP, Julia Reda.
On WIPO’s World IP Day last week, copyfighter Reda tweeted that she was “trying to read Anne Frank’s Diary” but couldn’t because of copyright terms.
Appearing on CBC, Canadian poet and head of the Writers Union of Canada, John Degen suggested that invoking a murdered schoolgirl as a cause celebrate was somewhat “tone deaf”. In a must-read Medium post, Degen explained why he sent the MEP a hard copy of the memoir by snail mail, at his personal expense. Others joined in.
Degen pointed out something blindingly obvious to everyone except the copyright crusaders: that if Anne Frank had not perished at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in early 1945, she would be turning 87 next month. Yes, it’s a shame her eponymous diary is not out of copyright, but perhaps this is not a big deal: the book is readily available for as little as £1.99 (Kindle edition) and the proceeds go not to some corporate bank account, but to the Anne Frank Foundation, a charity that amongst other good deeds, provides medical assistance to Holocaust survivors. It’s rather more of a shame she isn’t alive to bear witness to the horrors of those times.
Reda was being misleading when she said she couldn’t read Anne Frank’s Diary – what she meant was that she didn’t want to pay for reading it. Reda refused to discuss the story with Degen on CBC, and blocked the poet on Twitter. So much for open government.
Cartoon from the comic book, which is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.
Degen highlights Reda’s imaginary persecution complex in contrast to the genuine persecution of an author – which is not a comparison that’s flattering to the copyfighters.
This bogus persecution complex is nothing new, as we’ve noted many times before. The iconography of persecution saturates anti-copyright discourse. It’s almost as if copyfighters can’t get themselves out of bed without being motivated by this sense of burning injustice. Anger is their fuel.
On the left is an illustration from a book written by Professor James Boyle of America's Duke University, who specialises in promoting “competing approaches to copyright”, channelling mental illness for a 2006 comic book. Are the voices in your head driving you mad? Copyright laws made them.
Here’s Cory Doctorow in 2010, conjuring “militias” out of thin air:
That looks painful. Reda herself continues in that tradition, with barbed wire, locks and barriers:
And in case you missed the point, more Reda:
Consider how central the need to feel persecuted is so central to the anti-copyright activists. Even ten years ago, the copyright reformer might have used the discourse of “spreading knowledge”, or “bringing light to the heathens” to justifying changes in copyright law, but now it’s barbed wire all the way. Why would this be?
Perhaps the activists work so hard at maintaining the persecution complex because the reality of digital copyright invites us to draw a different conclusion.
Today, giant corporations like Facebook and Google harvest the individual's work – they’re media companies that use everyone else’s “media” (including yours and mine). Little or no value is returned to the author from the plantation's giant advertising and data harvesting operations. Digital copyright is honoured more in the breach.
Yes, copyright terms have got longer, but the protection, which makes the term meaningful, is non-existent. Nominal terms may as well be 1,000 years, for in reality copyright lasts about five seconds. That’s about how long it takes for your work to be ripped off. Yet every mention of copyright someone will be bleating about terms – and how hard done by we all are.
Copyright was invented to prevent unauthorised exploitation by a more powerful corporate entity, so the solution probably lies not in weakening the individual’s rights, but strengthening them.
Instead of adjusting their politics to the reality of Facebook and Google, the activists have become trapped down an intellectual cul-de-sac, and have to adjust reality to their politics.
Perhaps we need some sort of support group. ®
Authoritarian regimes hate copyright, which is an Enlightenment idea that the individual should own and control their work. For state socialist and fascist regimes this is an anathema: the state should decide; the collective knows best. Pirates owe more to fascism than they are prepared to admit.
As Pirate MEP Reda would know, if only she had read more widely, German romanticism contributed enormously to this emancipation of the individual, and in Germany today you can’t even assign ownership of your work to somebody else. Now there’s a subversive idea.
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Unwanted quiet in Hobart, Australia's hard-luck cricket venue
Geoff Lemon
When bowlers run towards the radio commentary box at Bellerive Oval, ABC’s Jim Maxwell likes to refer to them approaching from “the Antarctic end.”
This southern part of Tasmania fits the description as tautly as a full sail. In the dark rocks of the harbour, in the wind knifing up hilled streets, you feel the presence of that continent.
Though it’s ten days by ship, a desert of boilerplate sea and domes of vacant sky, this is still the last point of land between you and it.
You feel that gulf snap back like elastic. Tasmania, hunched with its head turned away in a futile attempt to deflect that frozen attention. It’s there, as unavoidable as a stranger at the other end of an empty beach, footprint by footprint reeling you in.
The headlands, the craggy jumbled bluffs, speak of drama. They stir a response.
In Hobart during the last World Cup, lifelong Queenslander and free-jazz user of words Matthew Hayden treated co-commentator Ramiz Raja to a verbal version of the sort of discordant flute improv featured at David Walsh’s MONA festivals.
“So if you drive around or get around this island, the Apple Isle as they call it for the amount of apples that are grown here regionally, there’s an awful lot of timber and areas and it does burn, extremely dry at times and it can be a furnace, and then during the winter it can receive all the harshness you would expect from southern conditions and southern Australia.”
“To put it another way Ramiz, it could be that they’ve had to make the most of their conditions. They’re quite earthy in that these are hard conditions, hard times, and they’ve made the most of it. And you take any industry, whether it be – southern Australian was really – the British-founded areas in and around Tassie, very much a penal colony – it was built on the shackles of hard labour, and ah, in those penal times, and they looked a lot like David Boon too I imagine, with about 40 less kilos on them…”
Ramiz, awkwardly: “Ah ha ha ha.”
These images of difficulty and darkness are the kind that come to mind when the second day of a Test is dissolved in cold rain. Cricket Tasmania authorities were not fond of that perspective.
“Yes it’s raining in Hobart,” posted their Twitter account. “Contrary to popular belief it doesn’t ‘always’ rain here. We are the 2nd driest capital. Tweet nicely.”
Fair enough – each year we play here, there is talk of whether Hobart deserves Test matches, given the weather and small crowds. You can understand some local defensiveness.
This year, and last, the Tasmanians look like victims of scheduling. Getting 8000 people to an opening day with a miserable forecast in early November is a decent result, but imagine a match in the kinder and more reliable climate of January or February?
These days Australia’s Test season finishes a week into the new year – a return to the later-season scheduling of old might be the thing to revitalise it as desired.
Neither has Tasmania been helped by the standard of recent play. Last year, a shambolic West Indies folded in two and a bit days. Twelve months on, the home side followed the same example.
A year previously, Adam Voges had been lashing the ball to all parts in an unbeaten 269, at the fastest strike rate for a score that big of any batsman bar the outlier’s outlier, Virender Sehwag.
This year he got a first-baller from an unplayable delivery, then froze in the second innings to give up his wicket and most probably his Test career.
The harsh conditions mentioned in Hayden’s soliloquy applied to all of Australia’s batsmen, cable-tied to the green crease as cricket balls whizzed past the edge, the stump, the glove, the grille. Seam and cut, South Africa’s trio of fast bowlers using their armoury to expert effect.
We didn’t even see seven sessions of play. South Africa toughed it out to tally just over 300, incomprehensibly enough to win by an innings and the width of the Derwent.
Across the street from Bellerive before the second day of play, in front of the row of houses facing the stadium’s blank shoulder blades, someone had dumped a decommissioned toilet on the nature strip.
It may have just been hard rubbish week, but symbolically it sat nicely as comment on play. The seat of Australian power flipped, the top side dethroned. “The Australian cricket cistern is broken,” responded Cricinfo reporter Brydon Coverdale to the image above, and there have certainly been rumblings in the pipes since the game wrapped up.
The captain demanded players who will fight, the coach was questioned about a contract signed three months ago, the CEO returned to Hobart for a press conference that hinted at a state of emergency.
All three said there would be personnel changes for the next match, even though none of them was the chairman of selectors. Next up was that chairman announcing that he was going to go outside and may be some time. Antarctica had claimed another.
What a strangely bereft performance it had been. By the second half of Day 4, the only person on the field was a security guard apparently protecting the entire arena on his own.
Standing at midwicket, he was soaked by a trapdoor sprinkler that popped up like a camouflaged sniper. Its target gave the finger, dually, to a distant heckler in the stand who may have triggered the attack.
Quiet returned. Siege bowling and threatening skies had given way way to peace and to weak sunlight. On the morning of what should have been Day 5, the Tassie Tigers state squad had a loose practice session on the Test wicket, the river flowing broad behind them out towards colder waters, the players middling the ball with apparent ease.
Geoff Lemon is a writer, editor and broadcaster covering sport for The Roar, The Guardian and ABC, as well as writing on politics, literature and history for a range of outlets.
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‘White Lives Matter’ Group Protests Outside Houston NAACP
Breanna Edwards
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White Lives Matter
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White Lives Matter group protests outside Houston’s 3rd Ward NAACP on Aug. 21, 2016.
About 20 members of a “White Lives Matter” group protested outside the NAACP in Houston's 3rd Ward Sunday, calling out what they said was the civil rights organization’s failure to speak out against pro-black organizations like Black Lives Matter, SFGate reports.
"We came out here to protest against the NAACP and their failure in speaking out against the atrocities that organizations like Black Lives Matter and other pro-black organizations have caused the attack and killing of white police officers, the burning down of cities and things of that nature," protester Ken Reed told the news site. "If they're going to be a civil rights organization and defend their people, they also need to hold their people accountable."
Members of the “White Lives Matter” group carried Confederate flags and held assault rifles, as well as "White Lives Matter" signs.
"We're not out here to instigate or start any problems," Reed added. "Obviously, we're exercising our Second Amendment rights, but that's because we have to defend ourselves. Their organizations and their people are shooting people based on the color of their skin. We're not. We definitely will defend ourselves, but we're not out here to start any problems."
Some area residents, according to SFGate, were taken aback by the Confederate flags and weapons that the group carried.
"The Confederate flag throws me off," Quintina Richardson said. "You're saying Black Lives Matter is a racist organization, but when you're throwing the Confederate flag up and saying, 'White lives matter,' are you saying you're racist?"
Reed claimed that the flags were a symbol of Southern heritage and had nothing to do with racism.
"It has nothing to do with racism on our part," Reed said. "We're proud to be Southern. It has all to do about heritage, nothing to do with hate."
According to the report, police began to clear the crowd of “White Lives Matter” supporters at about 3:30 p.m. The last group to leave the area was a group of black and white residents who gathered to pray together in the parking lot of a church near the NAACP building.
Read more at SFGate.
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Stop Legal Aid Cuts
New details on Ford’s Legal Aid cuts show cuts will create crises in the courts
TORONTO – Today, Legal Aid Ontario detailed how it will continue to implement Premier Doug Ford’s cruel and unprecedented 30% cut to Legal Aid, which was first announced in April’s provincial budget. Legal Aid Ontario Lawyers, represented by their union the Society of United Professionals, say the cuts will prevent vulnerable Ontarians from receiving access to justice, especially in bail courts.
“These cuts are going to create unbearable crises in Ontario’s courts if they are not halted immediately,” said Dana Fisher, spokesperson for the Legal Aid Ontario Lawyers’ Local of the Society of United Professionals.
While the cuts will be felt in a number of areas of law, the immediate crisis will be in bail courts, Fisher noted. Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) and Attorney General Caroline Mulroney have stated that they expect Duty Counsel to perform even more bail hearings for clients eligible for Legal Aid beginning on July 7, 2019. Depending on the courthouse, Duty Counsel currently provide representation in 50-90% of bail cases. The remaining cases are conducted by private bar lawyers and generally for good reason.
“At current staffing levels, Duty Counsel are ideal to handle a high volume of relatively simple matters and a small number of complex matters,” said Fisher, who is also a Duty Counsel lawyer at the busy College Park courthouse in Toronto. “Duty Counsel cannot be two places at once. Taking on a substantial number of complex matters that require a full day of preparation or special accommodation means we can’t do as many routine cases. That could leave people facing charges unjustly locked up for an unreasonable amount of time as they await their turn for bail.”
Vulnerable people seeking justice in Ontario’s family courts are also being put at extraordinary risk through these cuts. Cuts to family law Legal Aid certificates for situations where there is a significant change in circumstances, such as access rights, custody and support, account for a significant amount of work by private counsel. Cutting these certificates with no clear plan for if or how this work will be done is of great concern and will limit the ability of individuals to access justice in the family courts.
“Combined with the immigration and refugee law cuts that took effect in April, and the devastating cuts also announced today to community legal clinics and Legal Aid certificates there is no part of the Legal Aid system that has been spared from the Ford government’s axe,” said Fisher. “Legal Aid clients are best served by a strong mix of duty counsel, private bar certificate lawyers and community legal clinics. Weakening any part of the Legal Aid system puts clients in jeopardy and yet this government is weakening all three parts of it.”
“We believe that there are ways to improve and streamline Ontario’s justice system but these cruel and reckless cuts are not the way to do it,” said Fisher. “At the same time the government is forcing LAO to make these cuts, the Attorney General is beginning a review of the Legal Aid system. Rather than cut first and hold an empty review after, we are calling on Premier Ford to stop these cuts until a transparent review is complete.”
For further information or to arrange an interview with Dana Fisher:
Adam Chaleff, Society of United Professionals, (647) 500-2394
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Football transfers
British tennis ‘has a bright future’
By Jerome Butcher & Martin Caparrotta Friday 4 September 2009, 18:14 UK
Jade Windley believes that British tennis has a brighter future than many people would have you believe.
19-year-old British starlet Jade Windley
Tennis starlet Jade Windley thinks that British tennis has a brighter future than many people would have you believe.
With all eyes on Flushing Meadows and British hopes relying fully on world number two Andy Murray at the US Open, the rising stars of British tennis were competing in the LTA AEGON Pro-Series Cumberland tournament in north London. The level of tennis on display was very good, especially given the terribly windy conditions.
19-year-old Windley came out on top of an all-British affair in the semi-finals of the tournament, beating Lisa Whybourn in straight sets to set up an encounter with another young British prospect, 18-year-old Joceyln Rae who is also Jade’s doubles partner.
Windley, who is currently ranked at 743 in the world, thinks that the women’s side of the game in Britain has a lot of promise and is backing Andy Murray to go all the way in New York.
The Sport Review caught up with Jade following her semi-final victory.
What do you think of the current state of British tennis?
“I think the women’s side of British tennis has quite a bright future. There’s quite a few young girls coming up, obviously Laura Robson in particular and overall I think it’s alright.
“The LTA could perhaps try to look elsewhere rather than just the National Tennis Centre, but apart from that I think it’s good.”
What has been the highlight of your playing career to date?
“I think probably playing Junior Wimbledon two years in a row. I won a few rounds there so that was nice.”
Do you look up to any tennis players on the circuit, or has anyone in particular inspired you?
“I used to be inspired a lot by Justine Henin. She’s about my height so I just tried to copy her!”
You’re playing in the final here tomorrow…
Yes, I’ll actually be playing against my doubles partner Joceyln Rae – we’ve got to play in the doubles final later today actually!
Finally, who do you think will win this year’s US Open?
“Definitely Andy Murray, and I want to say Kim Clijsters just because she’s an outsider. I’ll go for her – that’s who my money’s on.”
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A frustrated motorist has blasted NCP’s parking charges in Sheffield; branding the fees ‘extortionate’.
By Dan Windham
A Sheffield resident took to Twitter on Saturday afternoon to complain of the prices at the NCP Arundel Gate Car Park.
She tweeted: “These prices for Sheffield City Centre parking are extortionate @HelloNCP I'd expect these prices in Manchester but not here. I've just paid half this to park in Leeds City centre #ridiculous.”
NCP car park (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
In the picture, an hour of parking costs £4.30, two hours at £7.30 and three hours at £10.30.
The price then bumps up to £13.30 for four hours of parking, £17.30 for five hours and £22.30 for 24 hours.
According to the NCP website, this is their most expensive car park in Sheffield city centre.
The Wellington Street car park costs 70p to park for an hour, £2.50 for an hour at Furnival Gate and 50p at Blonk Street.
Arundel Gate.
However, it costs £15.30 to park for six hours at Hartshead Square and Campo Lane.
At the Sheffield City Council run Fitzwilliam Street car park, it costs an hourly rate of £1.30 and £5 for up to six hours at the Carver Lane car park.
Sheffield City Council increased car parking prices in April this year, with parking permits also increased for the first time in seven years.
The council said that parking in the city centre ‘remains cheaper or comparable to every other core city across the UK’, including Leeds, Nottingham and Birmingham.
Councillor Lewis Dagnall, cabinet member for environment and street scene at Sheffield City Council, said:
“This report sets out clearly how we will manage traffic and parking across the city. I’m particularly pleased we are showing our support for those who drive low emission vehicles as well as acknowledging the work our city’s carers do by making their permits free as well.
“Even with increases, our parking is still reasonably-priced and much cheaper than many other core cities.”
What are the new parking prices?
Parking will increase from £1 for the first half hour to £1.30 from Monday to Saturday from 8am to 8.30pm, or £2 for up to four hours or on Sundays (up from £1 per day) in Central Zone 1.
Parking in central zone 2 will increase from £1 per hour to £1.30 per hour from 8am to 8.30pm Mondays to Saturdays; £2 from 4,30pm to 8.30pm and £2 for Sunday parking.
Parking in central zone three will now be £1.30 per hour or £6.50 for all day parking, or £2 from 4,30pm to 8.30pm and £2 for Sunday parking.
Off-street parking rates will also increase by 30p per hour; short-stay all-day tariffs will increase to £5 a day and long-stay tariffs to £6.50 per day.
Permit prices, last reviewed when the scheme was introduced TEN years ago, will increase by 30 per cent, with exceptions for green permits and residential carers permits. A standard first residential permit will now cost £46.80
Dispensations and bay suspensions will also increase from £10 per day to £15 per day – the same as Rotherham and £5 cheaper than Doncaster.
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16 Jun 2018 by Rob Esteva
2018 FIFA World Cup – Costa Rica vs Serbia Preview
When? Sunday 17th June, 13:00
Where? Cosmos Arena
What channel is it on? ITV1
Where can I stream the match? The match can be streamed online via ITV Player
Are tickets still available? https://www.ticketbisevents.com/en/group-e-brazil-switzerland-costa-rica-serbia-tickets/ca5915
THE TEAM NEWS
Costa Rica qualified for their second consecutive World Cup and qualifying included their first ever win in the United States so morale is high and they will be motivated to cause one or two upsets as they did four years ago.
The squad has plenty of experience within the camp and with Real Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas in the team, he will be key in marshalling a defence and team that we can expect to be well organised and cohesive.
The lack of playing time for some of their important forward players like Ruiz and Campbell could be an issue, but they will be raring to go here and in some ways that may play into their favour as fatigue will certainly not be an issue.
Predicted line-up (5-3-2):
Gamboa, Acosta, Waston, Duarte, Oviedo
Borges, Bolanos, Tejeda
Urena, Ruiz
Unavailable: None
Doubtful: None
Serbia topped a difficult group in qualifying but they still decided to sack coach Slavoljub Muslin and replace him with Mladen Krstajic who comes in with the mission to make the team a more appealing and attacking outfit.
Milenkovic could be a starter in defence and the talented Milinkovic-Savic could easily get the nod too in midfield, and the former would help bring some youth to what is a relatively ageing defence.
On paper there is plenty of quality in this squad but they remain psychologically fragile and things could turn sour if and when things do not go well, and similar to a couple of other teams, it seems highly improbable that they will be able to fundamentally change their way of playing so soon before the tournament and to be successful with it.
Predicted line-up (4-2-3-1):
Stojkovic
Rukavina, Ivanovic, Tosic, Kolarov
Matic, Milivojevic
Tadic, Ljajic, Kostic
The fight for second place in this group behind Brazil really looks to be a tight one and neither of these sides will want to lose this opener that will make it virtually impossible to recover from. That may see them both approach this quite cautiously and they are not helped by the fact that neither possess a great deal of firepower. The Serbs are one of the more temperamental teams in the tournament so their matches could easily ignite at any stage, but even still, it seems unlikely there will be many goals in this one.
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Wesley Sneijder set to join new MLS franchise Los Angeles FC in 2018 on lucrative three-year-deal
Sneijder will end his time in Europe to become the new MLS outfit's first designated player when he moves to California in 2018
By Warren Haughton
WESLEY SNEIJDER is close to agreeing move to the MLS, with Los Angeles FC in pole-position for the star.
ESPN FC report the Dutch playmaker currently with Galatasaray will become the new sides first designated player when they start in the MLS in 2018.
Dutch star Wesley Sneijder is ste to move the new MLS franchise Los Angeles FC next yearCredit: EPA
The Holland international has another year to run on his deal in Turkey and with the new MLS season beginning in March 2018, he could start his new life in the US at the end of 2017.
Keep up-to-date with all the latest transfer news and gossip ahead of the summer window with SunSport’s daily LIVE blog
The 33-year old has been offered a three-year-deal worth £8million to leave Europe and move to the US West Coast.
LAFC chiefs believe they have pulled off a massive coup luring the former Real Madrid and Inter Milan star, who was linked with a move to Manchester United in 2011 and last year in a swap deal with Marouane Fellaini.
Sneijder has another year left on Galatasaray dealCredit: Getty Images
The Dutch playmaker won the Champions League at Inter Milan with Jose MourinhoCredit: Getty Images
Sneijder left Ajax to join Real Madrid in 2007Credit: AP:Associated Press
The arrival of Sneijder will be seen as a real statement of intent from the MLS new boys, in the same way LA Galaxy signed David Beckham in 2007.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic was a potential target until he sustained his long-term knee injury in April and is not expected to be fit until the new year.
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Fighting for the Injured in Anne Arundel County
Matt Trollinger and Trollinger Law fight for the rights of injured workers and car accident victims throughout Maryland. Here are some highlights from our recent work in Anne Arundel County.
Trollinger Law Continues to Help Injured Police Officers in Maryland
Trollinger Law fights for police officers in different departments throughout Maryland. In May, multiple Anne Arundel County police officers’ rights are now secure. Maryland Workers' Compensation attorney, Matt Trollinger assured permanency rights for the injured officers at the Maryland Workers' Compensation Commission. Any worker who suffers a permanent injury is entitled to benefits under Maryland law. These officers, injured in the line of duty, were entitled to compensation for permanent injuries.
Victory at Trial for Pedestrian in Glen Burnie
Attorney Matt Trollinger also had the opportunity to represent an Anne Arundel County single mother injured in a car accident. After an attorney, tried to resolve the case with State Farm, this case came to Trollinger Law for the client to fight for their rights in court.
The client while walking across Governor Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie, Maryland was struck by a young driver turning from a shopping center. The driver started their turn on a green light after leaving a shopping center. As she made her turn, she struck the pedestrian. There was no crosswalk at this intersection or crossing device to assist people crossing the street.
Still, State Farm refused to offer a single penny to the injured pedestrian. Instead, they blamed the injured pedestrian for the negligence of their driver. Personal injury attorney Matt Trollinger took the case to trial. State Farm argued that the pedestrian had a higher duty to avoid the collision. Matt Trollinger relied on Maryland Law 21-503, and argued that the pedestrian had the right of way. Trollinger and his client prevailed at trial recovering the medical costs as well as pain and suffering.
Contact Us For a Free Consultation to Protect Your Rights!
Trollinger Law is happy to help any police officers, firefighters, EMT’s and correctional officers with injuries suffered in the line of duty.
To learn more about your rights in a Maryland workers' compensation claim click here.
If you or your loved one is hurt at work or in a car crash, Call Trollinger Law for a Maryland car accident attorney at 301-965-8500 to protect your rights!
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Verdict of Back-Pay and Medical Benefits for Pharmacy Worker with Wrist Injury in St. Mary’s County, Maryland
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Top graduates 2019: When their hard work meets the future
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It takes hard work and dedication to graduate at the top of your high school class — whether you end up in the top 10 among 90 classmates or the top 35 among 350. Today we salute the hundreds of students who accomplished that rank in St. Paul and other east metro schools. This annual project invites schools to send us a list of their “Top Graduates,” however they define them. Some schools designate the traditional valedictorian and salutatorian, others define a Top 10, and some recognize a long list of students who have achieved honors status. Our 2019 compilation shows students headed to colleges from coast to coast — from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, to the University of California Berkeley. As college majors, STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) is strong. Some 80 students featured will major in a bioscience field; another 80 in an engineering discipline; three dozen in computer science. Other graduates are joining the U.S. military or … [Read more...] about Top graduates 2019: When their hard work meets the future
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Detroit Lions mailbag: Potential cap casualties, move on from Sam Martin?
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Justin Rogers The Detroit News Published 12:02 PM EST Nov 8, 2018 It's Thursday and therefore Detroit Lions mailbag day. When the Lions extended Sam Martin's contract in 2016, he was one of the best punters in the game. He finished fourth in the NFL in net average the previous season and rewarded the team's faith in him with the second-best net average in NFL history the following year. No one could have expected what happened in 2017, a freak foot injury suffered while on vacation. You just deal with those things as they come along, but that was the key culprit to last year's disappointing performance. This season, Martin has bounced back. He's not threatening franchise records, but his 45.4-yard average indicates the leg strength is close to normal. The net is a disaster, and some of that is his fault due to a few mishits, but it's more on shoddy work from the coverage units. Financially, Martin's contract extension didn't kick in until 2017 and … [Read more...] about Detroit Lions mailbag: Potential cap casualties, move on from Sam Martin?
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World's Best Stand-Up Paddleboarding Spots
The water sport that’s making waves around the globe? Stand-up paddleboarding. From its start in Hawaii to its popularity along the mangroves of Key West, see the best spots to “walk on water.”
By: Kathleen Rellihan
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Stand-up paddleboarding, also known as SUP, began in the 1960s in Hawaii with the "Beach Boys of Waikiki" paddling out on their long boards to take photos of tourists learning to surf. Surf pioneer Laird Hamilton popularized stand-up paddleboarding in the late 1990s; since then it has become the fastest growing watersport in the US.
After its origin in Hawaii, SUP went on to make a splash on California’s surfing scene. SUP doesn't require waves; its popularity is due in part to how easy it is to learn on flat water. The calm water in the Santa Barbara Harbor is just one of the Golden State’s popular spots for SUP.
A 120-mile-long chain of islands in the Bahamas, Abacos is an ideal place for SUP with its clear and calm water. As you glide over the stunning blue-green ocean, you’ll see colorful reef and exotic Bahamas marine life, from parrotfish to sea turtles.
The resort town of Whistler hasn’t met a sport it didn’t like. So when the snow’s melted off the ski slopes, the outdoorsy types here pick up a summer sport like SUP. This versatile sport can be enjoyed on Whistler’s brilliant-blue lakes like Alta Lake and Alpha Lake. With the Canadian Rocky Mountains in the background, SUP is a great way to take in all the beauty of Sea to Sky Country.
While this Central American hot spot is known more for surfing, SUP is quickly building momentum here, especially with tourists who don’t want to spend a week’s vacation learning to catch a wave. With its flat-water bay and exotic sea life, Playa Danta in the Guanacaste region is one of the country’s best spots for SUP. With water and air temperatures hovering around 85 degrees year-round, you won’t mind falling off your board here either.
The relaxed pace of stand-up paddleboarding fits well with the laid-back attitude of this island paradise. Take in all the natural beauty of Key West with a SUP tour along the mangrove forests. Keep an eye out for abundant marine life -- from stingrays to manatees -- in this diverse and protected ecosystem.
The south-of-the-border paradise of Puerto Vallarta is ideal for SUP-ers of all levels. Glide along the calm warm water in Banderas Bay and soak up the seascapes of this Pacific haven. Keep an eye out for dolphins, humpback whales and sea turtles that inhabit this area.
Another added bonus about SUP? It’s a great core workout. For those looking for even more of a challenge, take your workout to the water with SUP Yoga. Classes are springing up all across the U.S, from L.A. to D.C., offering devotees a way to practice yoga outside on a beautiful day. Combining yoga with the calming effects of being on the water? Pure bliss.
It seems every direction you look in Seattle there’s water...and more water. From Puget Sound to Green Lake to Lake Washington to Elliott Bay, there’s no shortage of bodies of water to explore on a paddleboard. Forget about touring Seattle on foot; SUP your way along Seattle’s waterways to see the city's best views and unique houseboats that line the coastline.
Black Canyon, Nevada
Leave the dark casinos behind and escape to the Colorado River just outside of Las Vegas for a SUP adventure. Paddleboarding here gives you a unique perspective of Black Canyon, a majestic 600-foot-deep gorge where the Hoover Dam was built. Don’t miss exploring the hidden caves and hot springs along the river, too.
Lake Tahoe, California
When this ski town thaws out in summer, there’s nothing better than paddling on the crystal-clear water of Lake Tahoe with the snow-capped Sierra Nevada Mountains as your backdrop. There’s no shortage of Lake Tahoe coastline to explore, either. You even can paddle across the California-Nevada state line from the North Shore Kings Beach to Crystal Bay in Incline Village, Nevada.
Think SUP’s only a warm weather sport? Its popularity has even reached Antarctica. SUP offers a better advantage over kayaking for nature enthusiasts in the Antarctic Peninsula to navigate through the ice and to see penguins and seals swimming underwater. Just try not to fall off your board into these icy waters!
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Whether you’re a frequent flyer or an occasional holidaymaker, knowing the official advice relating to certain subjects – for example, what to do if you lose your passport, or if certain destinations are safe to visit – is essential.
Then there’s the other stuff, such as sorting your travel money or finding out about which vaccinations you might need. It’s all part of the holiday, even if it’s not the most fun bit.
Here’s our de-jargoned guide to some of the most important travel-related issues.
Discovering your passport has expired when you’re standing at the airport check-in desk is a nightmare scenario you’ll hopefully never experience.
Delaying the renewal of your passport until the last minute is a false economy, so note down its expiry date and set yourself a reminder to renew it at least eight months before it expires – many destinations won’t let you travel within six months of its expiry date, and the FCO (Foreign & Commonwealth Office) advises ensuring you’ve got at least two blank pages.
Whatever the reason for the renewal, make an appointment with the passport office at least six weeks before the date of your holiday. It’s no longer possible to turn up and queue, so book an appointment by calling the passport appointment line (0300 222 0000). Alternatively, you can renew online or by post.
If your passport is lost or stolen while abroad, you’ll need to contact the nearest British Embassy, High Commission or Consulate (the FCO has a list of contact details for British Embassies around the world).
You’ll be asked to complete an LSO1 form to cancel your missing passport. Your nearest British Embassy, High Commission or Consulate will then provide you with emergency travel documents which will allow you to return home to the UK.
Depending on the circumstances and the conditions of your travel insurance, you’ll potentially be able to submit a claim to recoup costs associated with your emergency documentation. The amount you’ll be awarded depends on the terms of your insurance policy, and you’ll also need to supply evidence (such as a police report) and proof of the cost of the emergency documentation.
If you’re travelling to a country which requires a visa, always purchase your visa well in advance, and ensure you’ve got adequate space in your passport – some visas take up entire pages, and your passport should always have two blank pages. The FCO website has extensive information relating to the visa requirements for every country in the world. Some of the most popular destinations – including Thailand and Brazil – no longer require travellers to have visas for short stays, while other countries, such as USA, which requires UK travellers to purchase what’s known as an ESTA, operate visa waiver programs. These still often come with a fee. For example, the ESTA costs $14 (£11).
As for Brexit, it’s important to remember that the European Commission has assured British holidaymakers that they won’t need visas for short stays in Europe – even in a no-deal situation. However, from 2021 they’ll need a visa waiver, which can be applied for here. It’s similar to the ESTA which British travellers need to visit America, and costs €7. This ETIAS visa waiver will last three years and will allow unlimited entries into Europe.
Health advice and vaccinations
Advice relating to what precautions you’ll need to take in different countries changes all the time, so it’s important to make sure you’re up to date on the health-related advice for the destination in question. Do this by visiting the Foreign Office’s country guide, which has a section on health for every country.
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Advice relating to the safety of certain countries also changes all the time. Brush up on the latest advice by visiting , and remember that the advice relates to all aspects of safety, including the risk of terrorism, civil unrest and natural disasters.The TravelSupermarket blog also regularly covers issues relating to the current safety of high profile destinations, such as , and .
Advice relating to the safety of certain countries also changes all the time. Brush up on the latest advice by visiting the FCO, and remember that the advice relates to all aspects of safety, including the risk of terrorism, civil unrest and natural disasters.
The TravelSupermarket blog also regularly covers issues relating to the current safety of high profile destinations, such as Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia.
Special assistance when travelling
Don’t underestimate the ways in which airlines, airports and travel agents can help passengers who need an extra helping hand when travelling. For example, passengers with reduced mobility travelling within the EU are legally entitled to what’s known as “special assistance”.
This basically means they’re entitled to assistance from the moment they arrive at an airport, whether it’s access to wheelchairs or help embarking and disembarking flights. The Civil Aviation Authority’s website has a directory of every airport in the UK, complete with information relating to the special assistance services they provide. Find it here.
Although passengers travelling further afield aren’t protected by the same regulations, there are similar schemes in most countries. Always inform your travel provider – whether it’s an airline or travel agent – about any special circumstances which could mean you need extra help.
From safety to sorting your foreign currency, here are our top tips for travel money:
When should I get travel money? Exchange rates fluctuate both ways, making it almost impossible to predict when the best time to buy is. Usually, it’s a case of timing and luck. Things to try include keeping an eye on the market rates, buying half now and half later and spitting your money between cash and card. For more information, check out this article.
What are travel money cards? Travel money cards are an increasingly popular way of controlling the amount of money you spend on holiday – you simply load them with money before your trip. However, with so many different types available, make sure you read the fine print. For example, some travel money cards can’t be used at petrol stations, and others have hidden fees.
How to keep your travel money safe: Every type of travel money has its risks, but you can minimise these – and enjoy peace of mind – by keeping your purse or wallet out of sight and investing in travel insurance which will ensure you’re not left out of pocket if you’re a victim of theft. One of the easiest ways to protect your travel money is by using a credit card designed with travellers in mind.
Why do different bureau de change have different rates? Quite simply, exchange rates vary because foreign currency providers want to make a profit. Generally, if you’re purchasing foreign currency, you’ll get the worst deals at airports. Don’t make the mistake of assuming that the Post Office or the bank you do business with offer the best rates – this is no longer the case, so be prepared to shop around to find the best deal on holiday money.
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Portion Control: A Case Study in Reducing Food Waste Through Information Technology
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The following case study is part of a project by MPA students at the Presidio Graduate School on information management technology and policy. You can read the rest of the series here.
By Amy Hammes, Waste Warrior
Food grown in the United States is abundant, cheap and has allowed for unprecedented prosperity. These factors have also led to immense waste of valuable resources. Of the 591.4 billion pounds of perishables grown in the United States each year, it is estimated that nearly half is discarded. (Bloom, 2010) While previous generations might have considered wasting food “sinful,” today it has become a social norm; the collateral damage of a highly productive agricultural system that is enabled by inexpensive transportation and disposal capabilities.
Even cost-conscious commercial kitchen operations consider scrap waste an undesirable but inevitable part of their operational expenditures, throwing away 4-10% of their food purchases. (Copeland, 2011) Further adding to the waste problem is the consumer’s desire for near-perfect aesthetics.
These factors in aggregate means that much of what is grown will never reach the plate. Yet, new economic realities, such as higher disposal fees, government scrutiny of greenhouse gas emissions from decomposition and transportation, and the slow awakening that “waste = money” are leading organizations to take a closer look at their food footprint. This case study will examine how an innovative food waste tracking technology is helping a non-profit hospital system analyze their entire kitchen operations in order to reduce the amount of food scraps produced. Gundersen Lutheran Hospital System
The healthcare industry is generally considered highly wasteful and has been generally slow to embrace sustainable practices. Yet, that is not the case for Gundersen Lutheran Health System, a non-profit hospital group based in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Their award-winning sustainable initiatives are steered by the vision of CEO Jeffery E. Thompson, MD who aims to move the organization towards energy independence and eliminating waste. (Thompson, 2011) These programs look to not only improve sustainability efforts, but also examine what kind of payback or savings can be expected for the hospital. The savings accrued from efficiency and other measures allow the non-profit hospital to redirect these resources towards improving care and strengthening community relations.
Many of Gundersen Lutheran’s operational decisions have been guided by their comprehensive environmental strategy, Envision. The Envision plan is led by four key interconnected principles: energy, recycling, sustainable design and waste management and control. (Envision, 2011) The latter category, waste management, is now advancing towards the “control” arena through preventative measures. According to Sustainability Coordinator Tom Thompson, “we wanted to look at ways to recycle, but even more importantly, how to reduce waste before it is created.” (2011) Recently, this involved taking a deeper look at the kitchen operations and assessing the amount of pre-consumer food waste created from the roughly 21,000 meals served per week. (Sacksteder, 2011) He and his team decided to figure out what food was being discarded and the best possible strategy to mitigate it.
As previously noted, some food waste is inevitable in professional kitchens, yet this is even more problematic in the heavily regulated, high volume hospital cafeterias that must serve its patients and staff 24/7. Gunderson Lutheran takes this a step further with stringent in-house rules that dictate food dishes out longer than four hours cannot be sold, even if it is still safe and edible. (Sacksteder, 2011) This is a highly precautionary safety procedure that leads to literally, throwing away batches of soup and other dishes several times a day.
Approaches: Information through Tracking
Tom Thompson began holding strategy meetings with various stakeholders, including dietary staff and engineers to create an action plan to tackle the non-profit’s food waste challenges. He learned of an internal food waste tracking system called ValuWaste from LeanPath, a technology company that helps hospitality and food service clients reduce waste at the preparation and operational stage (known as source reduction). (LeanPath, 2011) There are four parts to the Valuate program: training, tracking and measuring, Advantage software program and coaching services. The basic philosophy of the Lean Path system is to first analyze the operation in order to set up baselines from which goals are determined, monitored and measured. (Copeland, 2011) This is first done through the Valuate tracking mechanism, consisting of a touch screen terminal and connected scale. Employees in the food preparation process enter the food item category and the weight is auto time-stamped under their name. The data is imported to the Advantage 4 software application where management can view activity on an easy to read dashboard, as well as generate summaries and graphs. (LeanPath, 2011) These reports highlight what specific food scraps were discarded, frequency, time and date and their monetary value. Encouraged by the testimonials of other hospital’s successes using the tracking system, Gundersen Lutheran launched the LeanPath program on July 2010 with Certified Executive Chef Thomas Sacksteder serving as Program Manager. (Gundersen Lutheran Case Study, 2011)
Success: Finding Solutions Through Uncovering Hidden Problems
It was soon determined that the Dietary department was generating a baseline of 24 tons of food waste annually, which was a surprising figure to the staff. However, armed with this new knowledge they could then establish targets and areas improvement. Additionally, hidden problems were soon being uncovered which led to procedures and menu adjustments. (Sacksteder, 2011) The results have been significant: total food waste had decreased by 50% within eight months, saving the hospital $25,000. (This diversion figure is now closer to 70%.). Sustainability Coordinator Thompson confirmed that the LeanPath system has paid for itself within seven months--much sooner than 10-12 months projected. (Thompson, 2011)
The most noticeable change has been in the trash bin itself. The kitchen staff had been emptying the trash bin three times per day while today it’s once daily. ValuWaste has not only identified the kinds of waste generated but the total value of ingredients in each batch. For instance, if a dish costs $12 to produce but 1/3 goes unsold, it equates to $4 in waste. This has led to operational changes like adjusting the amount of soup that is warmed according to the most optimal times. (Sacksteder, 2011)
According to Executive Chef Sacksteder, an enthusiastic supporter of the system, once the kitchen’s data is initially set up, the software does most of the work. (2011) He says that what makes this technology so important, from a program manager’s perspective, is the array of information the system provides for a nominal investment of time and effort. The 30 seconds it takes employees to utilize the ValuWaste scale for food waste has become second nature and standard operating procedures. Sacksteder estimates he is spending roughly 60 minutes per week monitoring the reports and examining each staff member’s activity. Additional time may be required on program issues during staff meetings and training.
Armed with diagnostic capabilities that can be constantly monitored, LeanPath has also helped the department reduce food waste through accountability and feedback channels. Identifying the employees who generated food waste allows Sacksteder to gather additional information and recognize possible knowledge gaps, such as knife skills to more efficiently cut produce. As the only culinary trained chef on staff, he has began producing training videos based on these discoveries to ensure each new employee understands standard procedures. Through a recent weekly report, he discovered that an unusually large amount of spaghetti had been discarded. After a quick investigation, he discovered it had been due to improper wrapping in the refrigerator; a problem he didn’t realize existed. A training session was soon conducted to ensure proper techniques and why it is important. Without the ability to pinpoint inefficiencies, these problems would have continued to go largely undetected--perpetuating these hidden costs.
Community Success: Reducing Through Donation
The new knowledge gained by accurate capture rates from the LeanPath system has created the incentive for Gundersen Lutheran to find additional opportunities to reduce beyond the kitchen boundaries. The non-profit hospital began donating much of their unsaleable food to another non-profit, the local Salvation Army Food Pantry and Kitchen. (Thompson, 2011) Stringent hospital guidelines, as well as Salvation Army’s own food safety oversight, provides assurances that the food is approved for human consumption. Each month over a 1,000 perfectly safe, fresh, homemade meals that would have otherwise been discarded, feed the community’s needy. While this donation program could have been facilitated without the LeanPath system in place, Thompson notes that the tracking program was a catalyst in fully understanding their food waste as well as a tool to help track the value of the gifts. The hospital produces a community benefit report with quantifiable statistics and now includes the food donation initiatives. He hopes that other professional kitchens join them in putting these resources to a much more productive use for more charitable organizations feeding the hungry.
For all the seemingly environmental or moral reasons for not wasting food, the bottom line for any organization is still very much an economic one. The double whammy that comes from wasting money on discarded food and then paying for the disposal of it is imposing a much higher financial burden than many kitchens may realize. Gundersen Lutheran Health Systems, as a non-profit organization, is making saving money and cost cutting an even greater priority as disposal costs increase. The new practice of using technology to monitor and track what food waste is produced, is helping the hospital meet the economic justification and values of their Envision mission while putting resources to use in their community instead of in a landfill.
About LeanPath. (n.d.). Retrieved 2011, 28-April from LeanPath: http://www.leanpath.com/company.shtml
Bloom, J. (2010). American Wasteland: How Americans Throw Away Nearly Half Its Food. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
Copeland, A. (2011, 17-April). Business Development. (A. Hammes, Interviewer)
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A Guide to Hiking to Dzongri Peak in Sikkim
India Sikkim
Himalayan Adventure of a Lifetime
By Sharell Cook
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The classic trek to Dzongri peak (altitude of 13,123 feet) in West Sikkim, India, passes through magnificent rhododendron forests and culminates with the magnificent views of snow-clad peaks at Dzongri. The thrill of Dzongri, the meeting place of man and mountain gods, is an attention-grabber for sure.
The best time to visit Dzongri is from mid-March through April, and then from September to mid-October, so you avoid snowfall and monsoon rains. However, owing to high altitude, there is a definite possibility of the climate taking unexpected turns during any time of the year.
Start your journey from New Delhi. Take the Indian Railways 12424/New Delhi-Dibrugarh Town Rajdhani Express for a 21-hour trip to New Jalpaiguri. From New Jalpaiguri, the best option is to hire a taxi for the six-hour trip to Yuksom, the first capital of Sikkim and base camp for the Dzongri trek.
Trek Arrangements
Yuksom is a small village in Sikkim with a population of about 150, surrounded by mountains. The open roads and views of snow-clad peaks produce an immediate contrast with the otherwise crowded roads of Delhi.
Hotels in Yuksom come cheap. Expect to share a bath. Get outfitted in Yuksom with a guide, cook, and porter and buy the supplies you'll need. The economy of Yuksom is mostly based on tourism, so the necessary logistics for the trek can be arranged locally. Alternatively, numerous travel agents in Gangtok can organize the Dzongri trek in advance.
Everyone must register at the police station at Yuksom with a valid proof of identity. Separate trekking permits are also mandatory for foreigners. The trekking permits are available at tourism offices in Gangtok or Sikkim House in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.
The trek starts from Khangchendzonga National Park in Yuksom. The trek to Dzongri is ideally five days, with one day of acclimatization at Tshoka village. However, it's possible to complete it in four days if you want to skip the acclimatization day.
Here's an overview of what to expect on each of the four trekking days.
Day 1: Yuksom-Saachen-Bakkhim-Tshokha (11 miles) -- The trek to Tshokha passes through dense tropical forests of Khangchendzonga National Park, with magnificent views of mountains peaks and the mystical music of river flowing down in the valley. The first five or six miles of the trek are fairly easy, with picturesque waterfalls, a few hanging bridges, and magnificent red and white rhododendron flowers. The last few miles are particularly strenuous; the trek has a continuous ascent with a gradient of 45 to 60 degrees right up to Tshokha.
This segment of the trek takes about eight hours.
Day 2: Tshokha-Phetang-Dzongri (5 miles) -- This part of the trek can be challenging. You might start to experience symptoms of acute mountain sickness because of the altitude. A rest day at Tshokha might help with acclimatization, so consider this before deciding to skip it. The adventure in this segment is compounded by intermittent rains and frequent snowfalls. Although the trail is well-marked with wooden steps, snow can sometimes make it invisible, and you can get caught in a snowstorm on this route.
Day 3: Dzongri-Dzongri Peak-Tshokha -- This is the goal of the trek, and you won't be disappointed if the day is clear. You'll get a spectacular view of the Kangchenjunga mountain range, the highest peak of the Himalayas in India, visible from Dzongri peak.
Day 4: Tshokha-Yuksom -- Follow the same trail back from Tshokha to Yuksom.
Money: Be sure to carry enough cash. Yuksom is a remote area and the ATMs are highly unreliable.
Medical care: Acute mountain sickness is the main cause of concern on this trek. It leads to a loss of appetite, headaches and stomach upsets. It's advisable to carry adequate medicines because there are no medical facilities available during the trek. If the problem persists, you should move to a lower altitude. Oral rehydration salts help to avoid cramps that might result from excessive water and mineral loss through sweating.
Clothing: The altitude of Dzongri makes it highly susceptible to unpredictable and inclement weather. Take good-quality trekking boots, sleeping bags, raincoat, and heavy woolen clothing.
Food: You'll need to bring ample food supplies on the trek. It's advisable to carry carbohydrate-rich foods because the low concentration of oxygen at high altitudes slows down the digestion of fats.
Ecological concerns: Polythene bags are banned in Sikkim. Cooperate with the authorities and dispose of all wastes in a proper place.
Written with input from Saurabh Srivastava.
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Trees as Power Sources
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study found plants can generate up to 200 millivolts between an electrode in the plant and one in the surrounding soil.
Doug Lung
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a custom circuit that can be powered from the limited power available from trees.
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study found plants can generate up to 200 millivolts between an electrode in the plant and one in the surrounding soil. The UW team found that big leaf maples generate a steady voltage up to a few hundred millivolts. The UW circuit consists of a boost converter that steps up voltages as low as 20 millivolts to 1.1 volts It consumes only 10 nanowatts of power during operation. To further reduce energy consumption a clock that runs continuously on only 1 nanowatt is used to turn on the system once every few seconds.
The low power circuits could be useful for powering sensors that could, as an example, provide early notification of forest fires. This, of course, will require developing transmitters than will work with the small amount of power available from the tree.
"It's not exactly established where these voltages come from," said Babak Parviz, University of Washington associate professor of electrical engineering. "But there seems to be some signaling in trees, similar to what happens in the human body but with slower speed. I'm interested in applying our results as a way of investigating what the tree is doing. When you go to the doctor, the first thing that they measure is your pulse. We don't really have something similar for trees."
In case you are wondering, this is not the same as the "potato battery" effect where dissimilar metal electrodes are used to produce voltage. The electrodes in this experiment used the same metal. Read Electrical circuit runs entirely off power in trees for more information.
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Powering through: UA students help child get mobile with toy truck
Nathan Ramey is a busy 4-year-old.
Since September 2016, the youngster has been going once a week to Akron Children’s Hospital for a series of occupational, physical and speech therapy sessions. For 24 months, he received chemotherapy treatments at his home in Green and in the hospital, taking his last dosage on Jan. 18.
Nathan has Down syndrome and is in remission from leukemia, and experienced Clostridium difficile — an unfortunate side effect from his chemotherapy treatments. Like any kid his age, Nathan finds a Power Wheels car to be quite the appealing toy. But because of his illnesses, Nathan has stunted growth and low muscle tone. Even walking can be tricky for Nathan, but he uses a gait trainer to help him be mobile.
So, a team of our biomedical engineering students in the College of Engineering stepped in to adapt an off-the-shelf Power Wheels kid-sized vehicle (donated by Fisher-Price) to meet Nathan’s challenges and give him additional mobility.
Check out the smile on Nathan Ramey as he tools around in his very own Power Wheels truck.
The faux blue Ford pickup truck now features:
An accelerator pedal redesigned to be within Nathan’s reach and requiring less force to activate;
A seat modified to be slightly higher, with stronger seat belts and extra cushioning;
A front bumper to help take away most of the impact if Nathan strikes an obstruction; and
A remote-control kill switch that allows Nathan’s parents to instantly turn off the vehicle’s battery if the youngster is headed in a dangerous direction.
“This project has been an excellent opportunity for the team to get practical engineering experience,” said project leader Christopher Halley, a fifth-year biomedical engineering major from Canfield, Ohio. “It's extremely satisfying to know that once this vehicle is presented to Nathan, it will improve his life. The adapted Power Wheels truck is going to be able to expose Nathan to a part of his life that he wasn't able to reach before. Once I see the smile on his face and how he’s going to be able to truly utilize the toy vehicle, that will make all these months of work worth it.”
Mom and Dad, AmyAileen and Joseph Ramey, are pictured here with Nathan and his older brother Trent, along with College of Engineering students Steven Innocenzio, Reid Polis and Christopher Halley, who adapted the truck for Nathan; and Heather Demor, senior design engineer for Air Enterprises, who aided with the project.
The team is also comprised of fourth-year student Reid Polis of Poland, Ohio; and third-year student Steven Innocenzi, of Solon, Ohio, both biomedical engineering majors. The group was mentored by an engineer from Air Enterprises in order to complete the project, which began in 2017. The project was originally proposed to UA’s Biomedical Engineering Design Teams by the Summit County Developmental Disabilities Board, which has offered project ideas to engineering students in the past.
RELATED: Learn more about all of our Student Design Teams in the College of Engineering.
“We were very excited to see the adaptations to the Power Wheels toy and how well Nathan did with it,” said AmyAileen Ramey, Nathan’s mother. “His activities are limited because of his illnesses; he can’t go to a lake, play in sand, or be around large groups of people for too long. Now that the weather is getting warmer, Nathan will be able to enjoy his new truck more often, especially since because his treatments for leukemia ended three months ago.”
Nathan received his truck at his home in February, but a brief illness kept him from driving it outside. On April 12, Nathan and his family met with the design team at East Liberty Park in Green where Nathan was able to drive the truck outdoors for the first time.
Nathan Ramey gives older brother, Trent, a ride in his newly adapted Power Wheels vehicle.
Media contact: Alex Knisely, 330-972-6477 or aknisely@uakron.edu.
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Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Revenue Projected
WASHINGTON (January 14, 2016)—Virginians could reap significant economic benefits by implementing a carbon trading program, along with stronger renewable energy and energy efficiency standards, to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, according to a Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) study released today.
“Virginia has a relatively modest emissions reduction target compared to other states around the nation,” said Jeremy Richardson, study author and senior energy analyst at UCS. “State officials would be smart to realize that shifting to cleaner energy doesn’t take much. The Clean Power Plan offers an opportunity to raise hundreds of millions of dollars a year by auctioning off carbon emission permits. This money could in turn be used for things like helping towns deal with increased coastal flooding, developing clean energy, and investing in economically distressed coal communities.”
The UCS study analyzed how Virginia’s economy, air quality and public health would be affected by a variety of policy changes, including making mandatory the state’s now-voluntary renewable energy standard—which encourages utilities to produce 8 percent of electricity sales from renewable sources by 2025—and increasing the standard to 16 percent by 2030. The study also evaluated the outcome if Virginia made its energy efficiency goal mandatory, rather than voluntary, and continued the requirement through 2030. The voluntary energy efficiency standard calls for a 10 percent electricity savings relative to 2006 levels by 2022.
The study found that enacting the stronger policies and creating a carbon trading program would:
Generate an average of $251 million annually from the sale of carbon allowances that could be invested in Virginia's economy;
Lead to $3.4 billion invested in energy efficiency improvements to benefit Virginia consumers;
Reduce the typical Virginia resident's electricity bills 4 percent by 2030 for an annual savings of $62;
Spur 6,252 megawatts of new wind and solar capacity in Virginia by 2030 to generate $3.7 billion in new capital investment;
Avoid 78 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions through 2030; and
Yield health and economic benefits worth an estimated $2.7 billion cumulatively through 2030 by avoiding carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide pollution.
“Virginia is playing catch up to other states, like neighboring North Carolina, when it comes to renewables,” said Richardson, pointing out that it lags behind many states in renewable energy development. “But with well-designed policies, it can easily be transformed from a laggard to a leader.”
Last year, most of the state’s electricity generation came from nuclear power (41 percent) and natural gas (28 percent), with the remainder (27 percent) coming from coal. Only 2.8 percent came from renewable sources other than hydropower. According to a recent U.S. Department of Energy analysis, Virginia had the economic potential to derive between 48 to 118 percent of its electricity sales in 2014 from renewable energy—led primarily by utility-scale solar and wind.
Based on the report’s findings, UCS recommends that the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality develop a compliance plan for the Clean Power Plan that includes carbon trading and that the General Assembly endorse a carbon trading program with auctioned allowances to raise revenues, as well as stronger renewable energy and energy efficiency standards.
This week, legislation was introduced in the Virginia General Assembly, House Bill 351, which includes a carbon cap and trade program with auctioned allowances and proposes to spend a majority of the revenues on investments in building resilience to coastal flooding, which is a growing risk for Virginia as sea levels rise. A corresponding Senate bill is expected to be introduced shortly.
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MKO Abiola: Ohanaeze lambasts Buhari for failing to honour Humphrey Nwosu
Uju Ayalogus Blog 10:36:00 Nigerian News, Politics,
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and prominent Igbo leaders have chided President Muhammadu Buhari for failing to honour Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, who headed the electoral commission that organised the June 12, 1993 presidential election, adjudged to be the most credible, so far, in the country.
The anger of the Igbo was aroused on Wednesday, when President Buhari declared June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day, instead of May 29, and singled out the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, the presumed winner of the presidential election; his running mate, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe and the late human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN), for national honours of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) and Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON), respectively, without listing Nwosu as a recipient.
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The Ohanaeze Ndigbo President General, Chief Nnia Nwodo, while reacting, said the Igbo are disappointed that Buhari refused to list their son, Nwosu, who conducted that election applauded today as the most credible in the country, alongside Abiola and others for honours.
Nwodo said: “Our president has a mental fixation, which does not promote national interest, whereas I agree that June 12 symbolises a true democracy day more than May 29, but, the selection of those to be honoured speaks volumes of Mr. President’s continuous tendency to see himself more of a Moslem leader than the national leader of our country.
“It is alright that Abiola should be honoured, but, it is questionable for Kingibe, who abandoned that mandate with Abiola and joined the government that overthrew the Abiola’s mandate, his is not an honour for upholding democracy.
The only qualification that he (Kingibe) has is his proximity to the president. And that raises the question about the fairness of the president in his sense of judgment.
“Nwosu has almost been on exile since he conducted that election because of his capacity to stand against all pressures to ensure the correct results were declared.
“I thought this would have been an opportunity to single out the chairman of the electoral commission, who did what Nigerians have been yearning for, from that commission, and which we have never had from any other chairman after him. The non-recognition of Nwosu can be put as nothing except the fixation of the president that nothing good can come from East of Nigeria; we feel disappointed.”
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The Tropical Fruits of Colombia
It is highly likely that there will be a dozen incredible fruits in season that you have never laid eyes on before. It's certainly a memorable and sensory experience to walk through the fruit section amid all the unusual scents, shapes and colours! Exotic fruits are extremely plentiful, delicious and oh so cheap in Colombia. We highly recommend that you take the time to try as many fruits as possible on your visit to Colombia.
In our first blog dedicated to tropical produce we will showcase 5 of Colombia's many exotic fruits:
This fruit belongs to the passion fruit family and is roughly the size of an apple with a round, freckled-orange appearance. Breaking open the hard shell of a granadilla is easily done with your hands and once you're through the outer shell there is a layer of pith. The fruit contains black edible seeds covered by a transparent or yellow jelly-like pulp. This refreshing and juicy fruit can be eaten straight away and has a sweet sugary flavour. You'll find this fruit available all year round. We recommend that you select the heaviest fruits as they contain the most fruit pulp. One granadilla costs on average $800 pesos each (£0.20p/US$0.30c).
Pitaya Amarilla
These strange looking fruits are commonly known in English as 'dragon fruit' named after their scaly red cousin found in Asia. The pitaya is the fruit of a species of cactus and has thick, leathery, scaly skin, sometimes even with a few thorns. The yellow-skinned fruit which has a white flesh filling with small edible black seeds can be eaten at any time and is an excellent natural laxative - so don't eat it in large quantities! It has an intense aroma and its pulp is very refreshing and sweet, the taste could be likened to grape or lychee - plus it is low in calories. How to eat it? Slice it in half and then scoop out the pulp. It can be eaten right away. This fruit is a little more expensive than the rest and costs $1600 pesos (£0.40p / $0.65c).
The feijoa is an egg-sized oval shaped fruit with smooth dark green skin. When you cut into a feijoa, you will see thick, juicy flesh that is either light yellow or white in colour with lots of small edible seeds present within the flesh. The feijoa fruit is well known for its fragrant and long-lasting aroma with tropical overtones including pineapple, mint and guava. The fruit is native to South America and was named after a Brazilian botanist, Joam da Silva Feijo. In English, the feijoa fruit is known as the Guavasteen. Feijoa is mainly grown around the village of Tibasosa in the department of Boyacá, central Colombia. If you ever venture to the picturesque main plaza there you will find shops selling everything made from feijoa including an eggnog called "sabajón" to feijoa flavoured ice cream, cakes, biscuits and candies. The whole economy of the town is based on the success of the fruit! One feijoa fruit costs around COP$400 (£0.10p/US$0.15c).
Zapote is a fruit that grows in the Colombian jungle regions and in particular, the department of Amazonas. The zapote fruit has a thick, leathery and downy skin and is usually brown or green on the outside. The soft and juicy flesh is orange-yellow and it has a creamy, nutty flavour. Inside there are some large inedible seeds. The fruit tastes a little like papaya or mango but far less sweet. This is a fruit that has always been eaten out-of-hand. Keep a napkin and some floss handy! Each zapote weighs in at around 400-800 grams and costs about $1000 pesos (£0.25p / US$0.40c).
Mango Azucar
The sugar mango is a small Colombian fruit with much lower fiber content than a normal mango. The small mango azucar is yellow and sweet with a thin edible skin. You could describe the mango azucar as having the texture of a nectarine but with the taste of a mango. Grown mainly in the northern region of Colombia, near the Atlantic Coast, cultivation has spread to the departments of Cundinamarca, Tolima and Huila. One mango azucar costs roughly COP$850 (£0.22p / US$0.35c) but you might want to buy half a dozen.
We hope you've enjoyed this article about Colombia's delicious tropical fruits! There are so many fruits in Colombia that you can find at any market around the country.
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Vail Daily column: Dealing with Putin
Opinion | January 16, 2017
Butch Mazzuca
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In 1966, Abraham Maslow said, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” Today this concept is commonly referred to as “Maslow’s Hammer,” a reference to the over-reliance on a familiar tool.
Given the formal name “Law of the Instrument,” this “law” essentially tells us that it’s human nature to approach problems using methods that were successful for us in the past. Implicit in this approach to problem solving is the notion that human beings tend to view problems from a single perspective.
The problem with using the Law of the Instrument, however, is that creative problem solving may take a back seat to just picking up our favorite “hammer” and “smashing” the problem.
Presidents use their hammers
It’s human nature to approach problems using methods that were successful for us in the past. Implicit in this approach to problem solving is the notion that human beings tend to view problems from a single perspective.
So what does Maslow’s Hammer have to do with Russian President Vladimir Putin? Plenty, when one considers that three presidents have used the Maslow’s Hammer approach and failed miserably when trying to deal with Putin.
President Obama is one of the most charming, engaging and charismatic politicians that has ever stepped foot in Washington — qualities that have served him well throughout his career. In fact, one might say that using his agreeable and disarming personality was his favorite tool (his “Hammer”) when interacting with foreign leaders. But Putin didn’t buy into it.
Obama’s predecessor George Bush tried the personal approach, invited Putin to his Texas ranch, looked into his eyes and saw his soul. Bill Clinton used his uncanny ability to assess people and circumstances to ascertain Putin’s real motives. Neither was successful.
Recently Bill O’Reilly interviewed Senator Lindsay Graham, R-South Carolina. During the interview, the senator expressed a very hawkish view toward the Russian leader. Graham was telling O’Reilly that we are beyond a Cold War with the Russians and are for all intents and purposes engaged in a hot war.
As the questioning turned to the recent Russian hacking kerfuffle, Graham said he wished Trump had taken a harder approach with Putin from the beginning instead of dragging his feet before finally admitting Russian fingerprints were all over the matter.
It can be argued that Trump’s ego kept him from immediately admitting the intelligence agencies got it right. But after a private communication from the director of national intelligence, General James Clapper, Trump accepted Senator Graham and DNI Clapper’s conclusions.
At the same time, the president-elect is supremely confident in his negotiating ability and sees himself as the consummate negotiator. As a result, Mr. Trump may be reluctant to take the hard line approach (imposing severe sanctions targeted at the Russian energy sector) preferred by Graham and most of Congress until he’s had the opportunity to try using his own “hammer” to engage the Russian leader.
But the problem with using the Maslow’s Hammer approach with foreign policy and international diplomacy is that it fails to take into account that some leaders are driven by tribal feuds, others have Cold War fears, still others have age-old strategic loyalties, and of course there are always hidden agendas.
Different cabinets
When President Obama took office in 2009, the many members of his cabinet and appointees came from academia. Most had little or no real world economic, military or strategic experience. Meanwhile, many believed the incoming president was more concerned with intellect than with abilities and that degrees and theories were more important than real-life experiences. As a result, President Obama was frequently given less than sound advice when crafting foreign policy.
By contrast, all of Trump’s appointees have real-life experiences, proven talents and resumes replete with accomplishment. Of equal importance, Trump understands these people have expertise beyond his own in their respective fields. He knows too that successful executives get the results they seek by first supplying the vision and then surrounding themselves with proactively competent people and letting them do what they do best.
So the question becomes, will Trump’s cabinet and team of advisers encourage him to use his hammer (his abundant negotiating skills in dealing with Putin) or will they counsel him to follow the course of action preferred by Senator Graham? More importantly, will Donald Trump’s ego allow him to follow his advisers’ advice if they recommend that he leave his “hammer” in the tool box?
Quote of the day: “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit” — Aristotle.
Butch Mazzuca, of Edwards, writes regularly for the Vail Daily. He can be reached via email at bmazz68@ comcast.net.
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2017 Cadillac Escalade Expert Review
In the world of full-size luxury SUVS, there’s nothing like the 2017 Cadillac Escalade SUV. While the Lincoln Navigator L can match the Escalade ESV for length, it’s no match for the Escalade’s power, technology and luxury features. European makes such as the Mercedes-Benz GL and Audi Q7 lack the Escalade’s sheer interior volume, not to mention its styling audacity.
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The 2017 Cadillac Escalade luxury SUV provides all the room, power and towing capacity of a full-size Chevrolet Suburban, then infuses it with copious luxury, technology and performance enhancement we’ve come to expect from a vehicle wearing the wreath-and-crest badge.
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Despite its numerous driver and parking assists, Cadillac’s 2017 Escalade SUV is a massive vehicle that can be difficult to maneuver and park. If you don’t need the Escalade’s oversized abilities, you’ll likely find a nimble Audi Q7 or Infiniti QX60 more appealing.
For 2017, the Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV full-size luxury SUVs can be equipped with a rear camera mirror. New standard equipment includes Automatic Park Assist that uses ultrasonic sensors to automatically park the Escalade in either a parallel or perpendicular spot.
By far the biggest standout feature for the 2017 Cadillac Escalade is its interior. Boasting soft-touch materials as far as the eye can see, the Escalade wows every time you enter. Leather and real wood give off a refined feel -- something missing from previous-generation Escalades. All models can be had with a 2nd-row bench seat allowing seating for eight passengers in lieu of a pair of bucket seats and seating for seven. Third-row legroom is tight in standard models, but the extended-length 2017 Cadillac ESV SUV rectifies that while also offering considerably more cargo space behind the rearmost seats.
Along with its powerful grille and streamlined rear quarters, the 2017 Cadillac Escalade benefits from the addition of full-LED headlights and taillights. There are four crystals in the headlights that act as the high beams, giving off radiant light. The long vertical taillights also employ LEDs, making it easier to follow the Escalade when weather conditions are less than ideal. While originally installed for aerodynamic purposes, the spoiler also hides the rear windshield-wiper blade. ESV models add even more length, coming in at a total of 224.3 inches compared to the 203.9 inches of the standard model.
A vehicle as robust as the 2017 Cadillac Escalade luxury SUV requires an equal under the hood, and Cadillac’s 420-horsepower, 6.2-liter V8 is just the beast. Power for passing and merging is never in short supply, but there is a price to pay at the pump, although we doubt anyone who can afford the Escalade will much care. On the road, GM’s Magnetic Ride Control does an admirable job managing the Escalade’s bulk, allowing it to negotiate tight turns with little fuss. The power steering assist is appropriately proportioned, with a nice heavy feel to the steering wheel that lightens up at lower speeds. Add the optional 4-wheel drive (4WD) and the Escalade becomes a winter warrior capable of tackling all kinds of road conditions. Regrettably, the Escalade’s size and poor approach angles prevent it from going places where you can take a Lexus LX or Land Rover Range Rover.
Pricing Notes
There are four trim levels for the 2017 Escalade: Standard (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price [MSRP] of just under $74,500 including a $995 destination charge), Luxury ($78,390), Premium ($83,890), and the top-line Platinum (just over $93,000). Long-wheelbase Escalade ESV models cost an extra $3,000. Adding 4WD is another $2,600. With every option box checked, the 2017 Cadillac can reach into the high-$90,000 range. The starting price for the 2017 Escalade puts it ahead of competitors like the Lincoln Navigator, Infiniti QX80 and even the Mercedes-Benz GL-Class. The Audi Q7 and the Infiniti QX60 both offer seating for seven and a starting price below $55,000 and $45,000, respectively. Be sure to check the KBB.com Fair Purchase Price to see what others in your area are paying for their new Escalades. We expect the Escalade to have better resale value than the Lincoln Navigator but to trail that of the Lexus LX.
You can’t miss the chrome grille, but you might not see the active-aero shutters behind it. Then there are the 12-way power-adjustable seats, 20-inch chrome-plated aluminum wheels, Magnetic Ride Control and hands-free power liftgate. A remote starter, tri-zone climate control, and a reconfigurable instrument cluster further the Escalade’s appeal, as does a power-folding 3rd-row seat, heated and cooling front seats, front and rear park assists, rain-sensing wipers, a surround-vision camera, Automatic Park Assist, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto-compatible 16-speaker Bose Centerpoint audio, CUE with navigation and a power tilt/telescopic steering column with heated leather-wrapped steering wheel.
Notable Options
Lane Departure Warning, Lane Keep Assist, adaptive cruise control, side blind-zone alert, rear camera mirror, cross-traffic alert, and 22-inch machine-finished wheels are all available on the 2017 Cadillac Escalade. For buyers seeking the most indulgence, the new range-topping Platinum line comes with Nappa semi-aniline leather, suede microfiber headliner and climate-controlled 18-way-adjustable front seats complete with massaging functionality for the driver's side.
FOLD-FLAT 2ND- and 3RD-ROW SEATS
Combine its flat-folding 2nd- and 3rd-row seats with the 2017 Cadillac Escalade’s massive interior, and you’ll create an enormous level floor large enough to accommodate anything requiring up to 94.2 cubic feet of space.
REAR CAMERA MIRROR
Cadillac’s 2017 Escalade luxury SUV can be equipped with a rear camera mirror that uses streaming video to improve the rear field of vision by 300 percent. Unlike a traditional mirror, the camera mirror can reduce glare and improve the image in low-light situations.
You have one choice when it comes to motivating the 2017 Cadillac Escalade luxury SUV, and that’s the 6.2-liter V8 engine rated at 420 horsepower and 460 lb-ft of torque. The standard transmission for both 2WD and 4WD models is an 8-speed automatic with driver shift control and tow/haul mode. Even with the 8-speed transmission, this engine gets parched quickly, and the EPA’s ratings of 15/22 mpg for the rear-wheel-drive (2WD) model and 15/20 mpg for the 4WD variant reflect that. While premium gasoline is recommended, the Escalade’s engine doesn’t require it, so you can save a few cents at the pump.
6.2-liter V8
420 horsepower @ 5,600 rpm
460 lb-ft of torque @ 4,100 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 15/22 mpg (2WD), 15/20 mpg (4WD), 15/22 mpg (ESV 2WD), 15/20 mpg (ESV 4WD)
Note: Due to changes in EPA testing to more effectively reflect real-world conditions, some 2017 models show slightly lower fuel-economy scores than their 2016 versions.
Editors' Notes
In the world of full-size luxury SUVs, Cadillac’s Escalade for 2017 occupies a unique spot. Only the Lincoln Navigator L can match the Escalade ESV for length, but it’s no match for the big Caddy’s power, technology and luxury features. In terms of sheer interior volume, Mercedes-Benz, Infiniti, BMW and Lexus don’t offer anything close, and none can match the Escalade’s sheer styling audacity. Powered by a massive 6.2-liter V8 engine, the Escalade can tow up to 8,300 pounds, not as much the Lincoln Navigator or Infiniti QX80, but superior to the Mercedes-Benz GL-Class, Audi Q7 and Lexus LX. Luxury amenities abound and the Escalade’s tasteful use of leather, wood and color make its interior one of the best in the segment.
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I am going to hit something sensors they work it stops your head from spinning.
This car is wonderful loaded with everything you would need on a excellent driving experience, all tune-ups and warranties are covered to 50k miles, solid quiet ride, radio sound is wonderful, I have had not one thing has gone wrong. With this car for 1 year. I do not like the gas area you open door and there is a flap over fill up tube not a gas cap I think that is odd, love that if I am going to almost hit something it is very helpful, thank you Cadillac.
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There is a silver hidden button that reveals a secret compartment,
I love my 2017 Cadillac escalade is amazing because it has so many cool features. From the dashboard to the instrument panel, just about everything is a screen. Even the rear view mirror can be flipped into a mode that is basically a small screen powered by cameras on the tailgate. I also really enjoyed the heads up display, which projects pertinent information on the road ahead of you. It is augmented reality that keep your eyes where they belong.
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Cadillac escalade is awesome!
This is my favorite car if all time. It is so comfortable and has a lot of room for sporting equipment. The ride is great as well. You can select different modes for suspension and handling. The sound is amazing and the entertainment is easy to access. There are a lot of phone connection and outlets. The Wi-Fi is awesome, as is OnStar. Service has been great. Gas mileage is not that bad for a big truck.
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Home › Construction News › Emirates REIT records income growth of 15.3%
Emirates REIT records income growth of 15.3%
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According to *Tradearabia news report, Emirates REIT, the world's largest Shari'a-compliant REIT, has recorded a year-on-year total property income growth of 15.3 per cent for one year ending December 31, 2018 to $69.9 million, said Equitativa, the largest REIT manager in the GCC.
The income growth was driven by a 35 per cent increase in annualized rent in Index Tower, it added.
Index Tower’s occupancy has now reached 50 per cent, a significant increase from 2017.
Following the acquisition of Lycée Français Jean Mermoz, a French curriculum school in Al Quoz, in the second quarter of 2018 and of three additional fully leased floors in Index Tower in December 2018, the Net Leaseable Area (NLA) for the period increased by 9.3 per cent to 223,192 m2 (2.4 million sq.ft.).
Focusing on future growth, these strategic acquisitions will help prepare for further increase in revenue in the coming years.
In the current challenging market, Emirates REIT recorded a 54.6 per cent drop in valuation gains due to a significant one-off provision on one of its assets.
In 2018, Emirates REIT's asset value passed the $1 billion threshold for the first time, marking an increase of 6.4 per cent over the previous financial year.
Sylvain Vieujot, CEO of Equitativa, commented: "Emirates REIT continues to deliver promising results to its shareholders, despite a challenging real estate market. Our focus on maintaining a high-quality diversified portfolio of real assets, and on enhancing the REIT’s rental revenues and improving its operational efficiencies, have proven to be a successful strategy in these challenging times.”
Equitativa also reported that the Index Mall fit-out of the retail outlets is now completed and ready to open shortly, thereby connecting tenants and visitors to Index Tower directly to the DIFC’s Gate Avenue.
*News source: http://tradearabia.com/news/CONS_353947.html
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The Senses
The Signals That Guide Our Sense of Taste
In his body of research, neuroscientist Charles Zuker, PhD, explores why we love the sweet, despise the bitter, and how we know when we’re thirsty.
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The colors of a sunset, the scent of jasmine, the sound of laughter, the touch of a loved one — we experience the world through our senses, all of which are processed in the 100 billion neurons of the brain.
“The role of our brain is to create an internal representation of the outside world,” says Charles Zuker, PhD, an investigator at Columbia's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, “and the senses are its principal conduit.”
But how does our brain create that representation from the chemicals that enter our nose and mouth, the wavelengths of light that strike our retina? How does the brain use new data to modify that inner picture of the world and to guide our behavior?
The Chilean-born Zuker has devoted nearly 30 years to exploring the molecular biology of the senses. His seminal work on the neuroscience of taste has helped unravel the mystery of how the brain decodes a universe of flavors through a deceptively simple sensory system. His research holds clues as to why the elderly often find food to be flavorless and lose interest in eating, and it may assist researchers in engineering new strategies for the battle against obesity.
Emotions, expectations, hope, creativity, ingenuity, distant memories, are but symphonies of electrical signals being choreographed in our brains.
The sense of taste relies on just five inputs: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and the meat-like flavor called umami. Unlike the colors of the spectrum we perceive with our eyes, each of the five basic flavors has an innately positive or negative value.
From birth, we love things that are sweet, slightly salty, and umami, and we reject things that are bitter, sour, or very salty. Consequently, says Dr. Zuker, “the taste system affords a beautiful platform for understanding how the brain transforms a chemical signal into like versus dislike — attractive versus aversive behaviors.”
The Zuker lab has illuminated the neural pathways that extend from the five types of taste receptors in the tongue to corresponding taste centers in the brain. Among the discoveries is a 2013 finding that we reject extremely salty foods because they activate the aversive pathways for sour and bitter tastes. A 2015 paper described the basic organization of the brain’s on-off switch for thirst, a discovery that could lead to new therapies for dehydration and excessive thirst.
Dr. Zuker’s own unquenchable thirst for science began in early childhood when his favorite toy was a microscope. He entered college at age 16, started graduate school at MIT at 20, and by age 26, Dr. Zuker had his PhD and was a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley.
He sees his exploration of the senses as an “entry point” for plumbing the deepest mysteries of what makes us human.
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Branches of a neuron in the cortex of a living rat. (Credit: Bruno lab/ Columbia's Zuckerman Institute)
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Roanoke's Mill Mountain Theatre announces 51st Season of stage productions
Thursday, October 15, 2015 4:52 PM by Visit Virginia's Blue Ridge
Roanoke’s professional theatre today announced its 51st Season of stage productions, educational programs for youth and the newly expanded concert series. Mill Mountain Theatre’s 2016 Season will build on beloved community traditions and is designed to create stellar audience experiences.
“The season honors the traditions that have made MMT so much a part of life in Roanoke,” said Ginger Poole, producing artistic director. “One of those is big musicals that consume the stage and fill the hearts of audiences. Another is seeing talented youth on stage in shows that challenge them to reach new goals. In 2016 we will perform shows that match those expectations and that we know audiences will love,”
The Season includes:
•Hollins-Mill Mountain Theatre Winter Festival of New Works. This collaboration with Hollins University’s Theatre Institute provides the stage to showcase two newly created plays, Coupler: A whimsical Underground comedy by Meredith Dayna Levy, Jan. 22-31, 2016; and SamanthaDied.com, by Taylor Gruenloh, Feb. 19-28, 2016.
•Smokey Joe’s Café, a musical revue packed with memorable tunes of Rock, Rhythm and Blues, including “Hound Dog,” “Jailhouse Rock” and “Stand by Me.” This show garnered seven Tony nominations and was the longest-running musical review in Broadway history. It will be on MMT’s Trinkle Main Stage April 27-May 8, 2016.
•Into the Woods Jr., the youth version of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale with music by Stephen Sondheim. This epic is about wishes, family and choices we all must make, an entertaining lesson for kids. It will feature student actors and theatre technicians from the MMT Conservatory education wing, on the Trinkle Main Stage July 27-August 7, 2016.
•The Odd Couple, one of Neil Simon’s greatest comedies, proves that opposites do attract. A happy and surprising story about two recently divorced men who become roommates by necessity and friends through hard work. On the Trinkle Main Stage September 29-October 9, 2016.
•Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, full of dancing, romance and laughter set it snowy Vermont with beloved songs “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep,” “Happy Holidays,” “Blue Skies” and the unforgettable title song. On the Trinkle Main Stage, November 30- December 18, 2016.
Mill Mountain Music, a series of easy, casual evenings to lay back with a beverage and familiar music, will expand in 2016 to three concerts, each played two consecutive evenings. They include:
•The Music of Motown, March 11 and 12, 2016, featuring medleys and powerhouse songs made popular by The Temptations, The Four Tops, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight and The Pips.
•The Music of ABBA, June 3 and 4, 2016, an opportunity to dance in the aisles to “Mamma Mia,” “S.O.S.”, “Money, Money, Money,” “Waterloo,” Gimme, Gimme, Gimme” and “Dancing Queen.”
•Holiday Music, Dec. 20 and 21, a perfect evening for the family to step into holiday mode without the frenzy. Cast members from White Christmas and other MMT alums will lead the singing of songs for a special time of year.
Also announced on Thursday was the return of Season Tickets at Mill Mountain Theatre. This audience service that has not been available since 2009 returns with special advantages and a limited-time discount price. If purchased before Dec. 1, 2015, Season Tickets give patrons three professional main-stage shows for the price of two regular tickets. Contact our box office at 540-342-5740 for details about this 33% discount deal.
For more information contact: John Levin, development@millmountain.org or 540-342-5761.
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Activists Demonstrate Once Again for Release of Yorm Bopha
Heng Reaksmey
VOA Khmer
Yorm Bopha was given a three-year sentence in December, in what many rights observers say was an attempt by the courts to curtail dissent over ongoing housing issues.
PHNOM PENH - Housing rights protesters resumed demonstrations in Phnom Penh Monday to demand the release of a jailed activist.
Around 100 supporters gathered in from of the headquarters of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party to demand the release of a jailed activist named Yorm Bopha, underscoring the persistence of a movement that the authorities have been unable to quell.
They were led by Tep Vanny, an activist who was awarded in Washington for her leadership earlier this month.
Tep Vanny was awarded for leading an ongoing movement against forced evictions and land grabs. She and other are demanding proper compensation following the evictions of thousands of families at the Boeung Kak lake development site in the capital.
“Our first priority is to find a solution to land grabs,” Tep Vanny said Monday. “My receiving the award was important to me, but we still need our demands met in land issues and for homes.”
Yorm Bopha was arrested last year and charged with assault, after participating in similar demonstrations. She was given a three-year sentence in December, in what many rights observers say was an attempt by the courts to curtail dissent over ongoing housing issues.
No officials from the CPP came out to meet demonstrators outside the headquarters on Monday. A police official said the party did not have the power to resolve the issue, which must be handled through the National Assembly, Senate and Ministry of Interior.
The demonstration eventually moved away from the CPP headquarters and back to the Boeung Kak neighborhood. No clashes with police were reported.
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Cameron McKay better known as Fitz or GoodGuyFitz is a massive YouTube Gaming Commentator and content creator coming out of Australia. His YouTube channel has over 4 million followers and each video regularly accumulates 3 to 9 million views. He is a first person shooter (FPS) gamer and mainly plays games such as CS: GO, Fortnite, and Battlefield. Just like his Misfits counterparts, he creates comedic videos during his gameplays. His podcast episodes with the Misfits attracts over 700,000 listeners on each episode.
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Mason Bradford who famously goes by his moniker Zuckles, is a YouTube gaming star who gained notoriety for his Let’s Plays and play throughs for a variety of survival games that included Rust and Fortnite. He has amassed over 68 million cumulative views on YouTube and continues to grow. Zuckles is also a member of the popular group Misfits where their podcast attracts over 700,000 listeners on each episode.
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Posted on November 27, 2012 December 23, 2015 by Jason Major
Unraveling the Secrets of Type Ia Supernovae: a New Two-Minute Thesis
The folks over at PHD Comics have put together a new video in their Two-Minute Thesis series, this one featuring Ph.D candidate Or Graur of the University of Tel Aviv and the American Museum of Natural History discussing the secret lives — and deaths — of astronomers’ “standard candles” of universal distance, Type Ia supernovae.
Judging distances across intergalactic space isn’t easy, so in order to figure out how far away galaxies are astronomers have learned to use the light from Type Ia supernovae, which flare up with the brilliance of 5 billion Suns… and rather precisely so.
Type Ia supernovae are thought to be created from a pairing of two stars: one super-dense white dwarf which draws in material from a binary companion until a critical mass — about 40% more mass than the Sun – is reached. The overpacked white dwarf suddenly undergoes a rapid series of thermonuclear reactions and explodes in an incredibly bright outburst of material and energy.
But exactly what sorts of stellar pairs lead to Type Ia supernovae and how frequently they occur aren’t known, and that’s what Ph.D candidate Or Graur is aiming to learn more about.
Read more: A New Species of Type Ia Supernova?
“We don’t really know what kind of star it is that leads to these explosions, which is kind of embarrassing,” says Graur. “The companion star could be a regular star like our Sun, a red giant or supergiant, or another white dwarf.”
Because stars age at certain rates, by looking deeper into space with the Hubble and Subaru telescopes Graur hopes to determine how often and when in the Universe’s history Type Ia supernovae occur, and thus figure out what types of stars are most likely responsible.
“My rate measurements favor a second white dwarf as the binary companion,” Graur says, “but the issue is far from settled.”
Watch the video for the full story, and visit PHD TV and PHD Comics for more great science illustrations.
Video: PHDComics. Animation: Jorge Cham. Series Producer: Meg Rosenburg. Inset image: merging white dwarfs causing a Type Ia supernova. (NASA/CXC/M Weiss)
CategoriesAstronomy, Cosmology, Stellar Evolution, supernova, Videos Tagsanimation, comics, Hubble, PHD TV, Subaru, supernova, video
5 Replies to “Unraveling the Secrets of Type Ia Supernovae: a New Two-Minute Thesis”
Kimball George says:
Great two minute drill! Thank you. I might say it was “clear as a bell…”
Andrew Planet says:
Could there be a set critical mass, not of a singular star or remnant, but of both combined relative to different types and their merged gravitational pull?
Jason Major says:
I think one *has* to be a white dwarf, because of its gravitational ability to pull in outer material from a companion and how accreted material collects on its outer layers, gaining mass – until it can’t any longer. Other types of stars may not have the capacity to gather mass until suddenly erupting. So that leaves the second star…
Thanks for that reply Jason, brilliant article, especially for those who don’t know much about the subject like me. What I meant was despite one having to be a white dwarf is the critical mass related to the one particular star type consuming the other ? I suppose I’m asking if all white dwarfs have the same mass, which I assume they don’t, as they are derived from different sorts of stars. Also, does the size of the companion star of a white dwarf add to the critical mass in that the larger the companion relative to its proximity to the white dwarf will precipitate it sooner into a supernova, there being more mass available?
As an after thought I find it amazing that the carbon and oxygen making up universally occurring white dwarfs and ubiquitous preponderance of the life giving solvent water seems to lead to an inevitable possibility of life arising
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A Fictional map in which 6 land masses are present. This is also the first official map created by semicedevine.
In this map, players can choose from a range of strategic solutions to solve problems that may arise throughout gameplay. The map itself looks quite simple, colorful, and creative, yet there are many different ways to win on this map.
Notice that the North Allegiance income bonus is "Superior" while the South Union income bonus is "Inferior". This is because if all of the northern territories are captured, they will give a greater income bonus of 1 more than if all of the southern territories are captured.
Faultland is the 6th land mass and consists of two territories and an income bonus of just 2 armies. However, if a player owns both mainland Sotalia or Custralia and Faultland, they will receive 4 more income bonus. This makes Faultland a strategic region to conquer for Sotalia and Custralia.
Review by Krulle on 4/23/2014.
Great map, yet I fully agree with Nathan. Once either one has northern or southern Union bonus, the game is decided.
Response by map creator Semicedevine on 4/24/2014
Acutually, conquering the northern or southern side is just one of the several strategies that can be used on this map. I gave the game large bonuses, so a player can attack another to prevent the other from taking a whole bonus. I gave Garia a high income because it is more likely for more players to attack it than any other island.
This game presents the strategy of attacking another player to specifically lower income, and the strategy of keeping and defending at least one territory that is part of a larger bonus that another player has mostly claimed.
"If one player takes over the northern side, than why don't the other players get smart and attack that one player to take away the income? (this applies to humans, not AIs)"
Although I do agree that I may have accidentally given this map too big of a bonus income...
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
Review by Nathan on 4/22/2014.
Great map. My only issue is that the North-south bonuses are way too big. I jumped from an income of 18 to 49 in one turn. It's a huge imbalance.
Yeah, your're right. I changed the bonus from 15 to 5 in the new version that I've uploaded. I should help to make the map more fair.
Also, part of the reason for the 18 to 49 income jump might be because you took over a territory that contributed to many different income bonuses which gave you a large income boost (Example: Garia Central belongs the South Garia, Garia, and the North Bonuses) I can't really help out with this though, this is more of a strategy instead of an issue.
Review by [NL] Willem van Oranje on 7/24/2014.
Not really a great and exciting map, but the map is well desined and playable.
Review by Daryle on 1/25/2015.
This map is small however it can be very challenging when it is over crowded
Review by SAWEESOO on 5/30/2019.
IT'S FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE DUDE, CAN'T WIN THIS SHITTY MAP
Review by Semicedevine on 4/21/2014.
An amazing, colorful, and bright map. Although the map is very simple, the map allows for players to choose a variety of strategies to use against others during gameplay.
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Students complained about erratic driving before bus wreck
2 years 7 months 2 weeks ago Friday, November 25 2016 Nov 25, 2016 November 25, 2016 5:22 PM November 25, 2016 in News
By: AP News
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Students and administrators raised concerns about a Tennessee school bus driver's behavior behind the wheel in the weeks before a crash killed six children.
Police have charged the driver Johnthony Walker with vehicular homicide after the Chattanooga crash. Federal authorities said Walker was driving off the designated bus route when he wrecked on a curvy road while carrying 37 children on their way home from Woodmore Elementary School.
Records released by the school district on Friday include two written statements by students complaining about Walker's driving. One said the diver would stop the bus to make students moving from their seats hit their heads. Another wrote: "We need seat belts."
The school's principal asked for video of the bus leaving campus, saying that in her opinion he was "driving way too fast."
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Trump protester says he wasn't planted by Dems
2 years 8 months 1 week ago Sunday, November 06 2016 Nov 6, 2016 November 06, 2016 1:52 PM November 06, 2016 in News
WASHINGTON - A protester involved in a scuffle at a Donald Trump rally in Nevada is denying accusations that he is an operative for Democrats.
Austyn Crites says he is a 33-year-old registered Republican who has donated money to Hillary Clinton's campaign and canvassed for her last week because he doesn't support Trump. But he says he has never met Clinton or her campaign.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN he was "a Democratic plant or operative" but offered no proof.
Crites says he attended Sunday's rally with a "Republicans Against Trump" sign when he was attacked and someone yelled something about a gun. Secret Service agents quickly hustled Trump away. The agency said no gun was found.
Crites says the Secret Service released him after more than an hour.
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Home Sci-TechComputers Google: Managing Efficiency
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by Ace Damon June 17, 2019
written by Ace Damon June 17, 2019
How did Google become what it is today?
Surely, you’ve heard the phrase “if I do not know, I go to Google it!”. In fact, I doubt there is anyone on the face of the earth who has never heard the name of this company at least once in their lives.
But how did Google become what it is today?
In the background, the explanation is straightforward! The company has achieved so much success in the market, thanks to a brand with a large force, and of course, a significant focus on capital management efficiency.
By the way, Google is so efficient and robust in profit margins, because it gets some of your information.
Google is able to store vast amounts of information by constantly crawling what happens on the Internet as well as by constant searches on its own search engine (Queries).
After all, after doing a search, Google is also knowing, in which links will click, getting more and more efficient, search the search. And if you do not know, thousands of searches are done, every second!
Information that Google subsequently uses to increase its competitive advantage. This is because all of these data are later used to train their algorithms on an overwhelming scale.
Of course, the research giant is great at crafting algorithms. But it gets a lot easier when there’s tons of information to take the system further. Curiously, once it reached ‘critical mass,’ Google began to do everything for everyone, to be considered the ‘best’ in its field.
The idea here was to spend as little as possible on advertising, focusing on evolving the infrastructures, to maintain market leadership and offering better services, compared to the competition. Does anyone remember Yahoo or Bing? Probably not.
It was no coincidence that when the giant’s servers were down, several ‘extra Google’ services were down! Examples include Snapchat and various games like Dragon Ball Legends.
So what now? It seems that things start to change a little. Is that in case you do not know, nowadays, the vast majority of Google’s money comes from the commercials, which you see every day on the most varied sites.
Who knows the truth about Google’s performance in these ‘ads’… maybe is nothing special, or perhaps it relies more than we will ever know.
Therefore, in addition to investing in infrastructure, Google is also trying to get these advertisements more friendly to the user, to get more and more clicks. In fact, ads are more relevant to the company than the search system itself.
What was a lot of work and adaptation is the passage of users from the PC to the smartphone.
In short, Mobile is still a difficulty for Google! With the company having to compete with social networks, which can keep users connected, again with content made available by the users themselves.
That is, the great strength of Google, which was the search in the Desktop, did not go 100% for the mobile. With social networks managing to attack the research giant in its great weakness. And maybe that’s why we see more and more Google hardware and services being made available.
In short, Google has enjoyed tremendous success in building your product in a super efficient way! Thanks to the data ‘offered’ by the users. After all, its scale of success is historical. But the move to the mobile has not been smooth. And so there is now a greater need to spend more on marketing, and expansions to other markets.
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City of Sin
Book 6, Chapter 150
The prosecutor began to read the final list of allegations, each one backed by rigorous facts and logic. Rundstedt could kill this minor noble with the flick of a finger, but the man didn’t seem afraid as he referred to three files that totalled more than 500 pages when summed together. He wasn’t elaborating on everything, but these documents would be available for anyone qualified to vote here to read through. The assembly officially gave him only ten minutes; every noble was an important personage who didn’t have so much time to spend. Of course, a majority of the viscounts here would rather spend their time on afternoon tea.
Even in the minimal duration, the prosecutor’s speech was brilliant and loaded with sound reasoning. However, Marshal Rundstedt only lifted his eyelids at the end and threw a death stare towards the man; very few people noticed the murder implied in his eyes.
This wasn’t particularly because of the contents of the allegation. Rundstedt was left impatient by the man’s drivel, the same feeling that Richard had with Canaan. Those of actual import didn’t have the patience to let flies buzz in their ears for an extended period of time. These people were merely instructed by superiors, but that didn’t mean they were blameless in the matter. Dogs barked more when they weren’t stopped; Richard believed it was best to cut them down so fewer people would be willing to serve that role in the future. He could even ignore those pulling the strings, but these puppets would be destroyed as an example.
When the young prosecutor finished his speech, his face seemed to glow with satisfaction. Richard sighed softly at the man’s naked ambition; these people were quick to seize any opportunities awarded to them. Perhaps this could be taken advantage of.
With the prosecution complete and Rundstedt himself not providing a defence, the judges quickly moved on and requested the upper families of Faust to vote.
“Guilty.”
“Not Guilty.”
The patriarchs announced their decisions with cold, mechanical voices. Richard hesitated over his own choice, but he eventually voted guilty. Including the royal family, there were ten guilty votes to five not-guilties. However, most of the sixth-level families voted guilty; the final tally was much more in favour of punishment than otherwise.
The head justice stood up, announcing in a solemn voice, “In light of the poor decisions made in the defence of the City of the Unsetting Sun, the Sacred Alliance shall strip Rundstedt of his rank as Marshal and discharge him dishonourably from the armies. Furthermore, his marquessate shall be stripped down to his original peerage, demoting him to the status of Earl. Earl Rundstedt, do you disagree with this judgement?”
Rundstedt actually smiled in response, “No.”
The judge nodded, ringing a bronze bell in front of him, “This judgement shall take effect immediately.”
The bell was still ringing when the representative of the Turing Family, the Duke’s nephew, stood up and yelled, “This is a mess! Only fools would pass this judgement!”
The judge rang the bell once more, “Lord Turing, this is a judgement made by the families of Faust. Please respect the order in the assembly.”
“The order is shit!” the youth raised his voice again, “Can the order hold the City of the Unsetting Sun? Who will keep us safe when the judgement is passed? Will it be you old wastrels?”
The judge’s face started to twitch with rage, but he couldn’t speak. While he had a modicum of status in Faust, it was nothing compared to one of the fourteen families. If he offended the Turings, he would be dead before the next morning.
The youth continued his rage, turning towards Richard, “Do I not make sense, Mister Richard?”
Even as the hall fell silent to witness the impending confrontation, Richard smiled, “Earl Rundstedt wasn’t the only person who held the City of the Unsetting Sun. Also, the judges might not be able to hold the city, but you’re the same.”
The youth’s face immediately turned ashen, staring murder as he responded, “Would you like to try?”
Richard laughed once more, “You’re not worth it, kid. I killed more Daxdians in a month than you’ve ever killed anything in your life. Fight me, and you’d be a corpse in seconds.”
The youth turned green, but he had no response. Eventually, he just snorted and went away. The judges announced the end of the trial once more, and this time the nobles left the assembly in twos and threes.
Two days later, Richard was stood atop the terrace of Blackrose Castle as he watched a team of cavaliers march west from the barracks. Following them were 2,000 infantrymen and another 3,000 soldiers responsible purely for logistics. As expected, the assembly had refused to grant him the title; they would soon realise his vengeance.
It would normally take months to march all the way from Azan to the western border, but he partitioned his troops. The cavalry was going to go ahead, while the rest of the troops followed them more slowly.
He watched for a few minutes as the cavalrymen slowly crossed the horizon before turning back, “Let’s go.”
“Of course, my Lord. The portal has been prepared, we can leave at any time.”
Richard didn’t answer immediately, looking into the distance towards a caravan heading their way. Asiris followed his gaze; this was the second such fleet in as many days, and the first one had been loaded with enough equipment to arm 125 knights to the teeth. However, this didn’t cause much of a change in the Dark Priest’s expression; Richard’s military power was expanding almost all the time.
“Eight shipments in total,” Richard commented, “A thousand fully-armed knights in total.”
This number caused Asiris to pause. Even considering the normal expenditure of 3,000 gold for a knight, this still meant three million gold. It was common knowledge that the equipment of Richard’s elites was now better than most, so the actual cost was undoubtedly higher. He bowed respectfully, “The Family will shine like never before in your hands.”
These words weren’t merely flattery. A thousand sets of knight equipment actually meant a lot of things. For one, such equipment was in limited supply in the market; to buy a thousand, Richard would need the workshops of a duke or two supporting him. In addition, knights themselves were difficult to get. Richard had exhausted almost all of the supply of high-level free warriors from the family and had turned nearly 4,000 of them into real knights. How had he found another thousand soldiers worthy of such equipment?
A source of soldiers, a source of equipment, himself a grand runemaster, and also very young. Richard’s future was unmistakeable; outside of a lack of personal might, he was already quite close to Gaton.
This was something Richard knew himself. He sighed and nodded at Asiris’s compliment, “Give me some more time, and I’ll match and exceed my father. Why can you not follow me like you did him?”
Asiris smiled, “Not every subordinate is willing to be a follower, my Lord, and not every follower will feel like you are family. Every one of us had our own story with Master Gaton; to us, he is irreplaceable. However, you do not have to worry about this; our sentiments will not affect our contributions to the family going forward.”
“Sigh. Alright, let’s go.”
Goldflow Valley, one of the first three planes Gaton had fought in. The other two had lost their forward bases to the locals, having their portals cut off. The Church had even recovered their coordinates. This plane was part of Gaton’s foundational years, before his miracle swept through the world.
The sky here was a pitch black, with a number of gorgeous bands of light slowly drifting all around to illuminate it, more than a dozen stars of various sizes occupying the void. Some of them were tiny specks of light, but the larger ones occupied a huge chunk of the sky.
Richard was almost entranced at the sight, but he quickly had to calm down and take a look around. Earth-shattering screams seemed to shake the earth around him as various lights flashed in the distant sky.
The incoming breeze carried the scent of blood.
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Darktrace’s gender diversity champion enters Woman Entrepreneurship Award
8 November, 2018 - 11:10 By Tony Quested
Poppy Gustafsson, CEO this side of the Atlantic for cyber security world leader Darktrace, has played a major role in championing gender diversity both within the workplace and wider afield.
Under Poppy’s leadership, five-year-old AI company Darktrace reached a $1.65 billion valuation and headcount of 750 by July of this year. It also won its second Queen’s Award for Enterprise in April and was on the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 for the third year in a row.
Poppy evangelises gender diversity at Darktrace where 40 per cent of employees and three C-level executives are women. She made the company a sponsor of WISE this year, a UK social enterprise that promotes this cause.
A colleague told Business Weekly: “Poppy inspires with a unique, new model of leadership that couples a highly ambitious growth strategy with humility and approachability.”
She is a fitting candidate for the Cambridge Judge Business School Woman Entrepreneur of the Year crown: the award is “For a woman entrepreneur who can demonstrate outstanding achievements in the last 12 months and who inspires and nurtures other women to excel.”
The Business Weekly Awards continue to attract exciting businesses and entrepreneurs across its broad range of categories.
Luminance, which has entered the Disruptive Technology category, is a prime example. Luminance was developed following unprecedented breakthroughs in machine learning from mathematicians at Cambridge University.
The company’s self-learning technology reads and understands legal documents like a human does, at speeds and efficiencies that humans could never achieve.
Just two years since launch, Luminance has revolutionised the legal profession. Initially focused on M & A, the company’s Diligence product is in use by 115 customers in M & A transactions of any size.
With such phenomenal success, Luminance has already expanded its platform to include ‘Property’, ‘Corporate’ and ‘Discovery’, providing law firms and in-house teams with a one stop shop for all of their contract review needs.
Also in the hotly contested Disruptive Technology category is Expedeon in Cambridge. Expedeon’s TruePrime™ Apoptotic Cell-Free DNA Amplification Kit is designed to overcome one of the main challenges facing liquid biopsy, or cell-free DNA analysis.
Traditional techniques limit the sample amounts that can be obtained from bodily fluids, which affects the number and type of tests that can be performed.
The company’s TruePrime™ Apoptotic Cell-Free DNA Amplification Kit exponentially amplifies cell-free DNA derived from the apoptosis cell-death mechanism (160-170 bp) in plasma, serum, urine, CSF and any other bodily fluids.
Overcoming the challenges associated with sample size unlocks the potential for new technologies to have a profound impact on early-stage diagnosis within oncology, the company says.
As expected, there has been great interest from the BioMedTech community in the region where entry for the Life Science Innovation Award sponsored by AstraZeneca and MedImmune is already strong.
There are also categories covering the most successful startup businesses, engineering excellence, international trade, the best graduate businesses, outstanding university and corporate entrepreneurs and social enterprise.
From all the shortlisted companies, a distinguished judging panel will choose a Business of the Year.
New to the judging panel this year is Dr Darrin Disley, formerly CEO at gene editing world leader Horizon Discovery and a champion of student entrepreneurship and social enterprise in Cambridge and globally.
Dr Disley steered Horizon to two Business of the Year titles so knows what it takes to come out on top in such a strongly competitive field.
Companies have until the end of November to enter but information is already being gathered on some early candidates and prompt engagement is helpful.
The formal judging process gathers pace in the New Year but no winners will be announced until the night of the presentation dinner, which is being held at Queens’ College on Wednesday March 20, 2019.
Award categories range from startups and disruptive technology to engineering excellence, social enterprise and international trade.
The University of Cambridge, through Judge Business School and Cambridge Enterprise, is again backing four categories to honour the best graduate businesses, the leading women entrepreneurs, individuals who have contributed most over a lifetime to furthering the Cambridge brand, and to ‘Dontrepreneurs’ – university personnel that have commercialised science or technology that has changed the world.
Companies can enter online: www.businessweekly.co.uk/business-awards/enter-awards
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What is Special Olympics?
Special Olympics Ontario is a sports organization dedicated to people with an intellectual disability; it provides athletes with far more than just the physical benefits of sport. Over the past 40 years Special Olympics has grown from a modest program serving local athletes, to becoming the world's largest movement dedicated to promoting respect, acceptance, inclusion and human dignity for people with intellectual disabilities through sport.
"To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition for individuals with intellectual disabilities"
Why get involved?
Build confidence, self-esteem and self respect
Fun, friendship, empowerment and acceptance
Path of healthy living & increased physical fitness
A person with an intellectual disability are eligible to participate in Special Olympics.
A person is considered to have an intellectual disability if that person satisfies the following requirements:
Typically an IQ score of approximately 70 or below
Deficits in general mental abilities which limit and restrict participation and performance in one or more aspects of daily life such as communication, social participation, functioning at school or work, or personal independence, and;
Onset during the developmental period (before the age of 18 years).
"Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."
Athlete Oath
18 core sports across the province are classified into the 3 seasons listed below
Athletics (Track & Field)
10-Pin Bowling
Rhythmic Gymnastic
5-Pin Bowling
Local and Regional Competitions
Open to all athletes within their own community
Provincial Games
Held on a rotating basis over a four-year period.
National Games are held every two (2) years on a rotating basis (summer & winter).
Also held every two years on a rotating winter and summer basis.
In addition to sports clubs, Special Olympics Ontario offers a variety of programs for athletes geared towards youth and healthy living. Such programs include
Active Start and FUNdamentals
Physical Activity & Healthy Living (PAHL)
Athlete Leadership Programs (ALPs)
Become An Athlete Now!
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First, we have a transparent, "absolute" bar overhanging everything. That bar is the one that houses this off canvas area.
Next, we have our "full-height" bar that is actually using a little bit of CSS magic to offset the height of the bar below it (notice how that bar is always positioned at the bottom of the screen). Additionally, notice how the text and buttons inside this bar respond to the sizing of the viewport all without the need for JavaScript.
Then, we have our last visible bar that houses our logo and navigation. This bar becomes sticky as you scroll down the screen, and also shrinks to a specified ratio of its original size. Notice how the links maintain their positioning and the logo scales automatically. Also, we've turned on our "content scrolling" for this bar, allowing its contents to be scrolled horizontally on smaller screens, a pattern we're seeing much more of on mobile devices these days.
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Evoke Pharma’s Stock Sinks on Stomach Drug’s Phase 3 Failure
David Holley
@xconholley
Evoke Pharma is taking a hit in the markets after announcing a Phase 3 trial on a gastroinetestinal drug for diabetes patients failed to meet its goals.
In early trading Monday, Evoke’s (NASDAQ: EVOK) stock price was down 72 percent to $3.02 per share as of 11:30 a.m. in New York. The company is developing a nasal formulation of metoclopramide, , an already-approved treatment for digestive pain and other symptoms related to the stomach being unable to empty its contents. Metoclopramide is currently available in oral and intravenous forms.
Evoke’s late-stage study failed to show a significant benefit to the drug, EVK-001, versus placebo at all 41 of the sites that tested it nationally. In about one-third of the sites (13 out of 41), patients in the trial who took placebo reported an improvement in symptomatic diabetic gastroparesis.
Patients who have the stomach condition, which is also called delayed gastric emptying, have trouble emptying food from the stomach into the small intestine, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases. The condition is also associated with abdominal pain and bloating, and lack of appetite and can be can be caused by diabetes, which damages the vagus nerve regulating digestive functions.
Solana Beach, CA-based Evoke plans to conduct further analysis of the study, which examined 205 patients nationally over four weeks, and used a survey methodology to derive a score on the frequency and severity of the signs and symptoms of the condition. Evoke didn’t reveal any further plans.
Others have had trouble developing a treatment for diabetic gastroparesis, too. In 2012, then-Research Triangle Park, NC-based Tranzyme Pharma, which was acquired by Ocera Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OCRX) in a reverse merger in 2013, stopped work on its experimental treatment for the condition after the company’s pill was outperformed by a placebo in a mid-stage clinical trial.
But the Evoke news could open the door to the owner of relamorelin (also called RM-131), another drug being developed for diabetic gastroparesis. Originally developed by Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, the drug aimed to cut patients’ gastric emptying time—how long it takes for the stomach to flush out food—and showed positive results during a Phase 2 trial in May 2014. Later that year, Rhythm sold the candidate to Actavis, the Irish drugmaker formerly known as Watson Pharmaceuticals, which started a Phase 2b trial last year. Actavis is now known as Allergan (NYSE: AGN), adopting the name following its acquisition of that company last year.
David Holley is Xconomy's national correspondent based in Austin, TX. You can reach him at dholley@xconomy.com Follow @xconholley
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‘Temporary’ traffic lights on A683 have cost more than £70,000 in three years
Monday, 11 February, 2019
A Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale District councillor has seen red over a temporary set of traffic lights at Middleton Hall Bridge which have been in place for three years and cost council taxpayers £71,507.
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Call for conference to agree steps to tackle Cumbria’s ‘graduate exodus’
Monday, 14 January, 2019
Cumbria County Council is being called on to hold a special conference to discuss and agree measures to provide more opportunities for the majority of Cumbrian university graduates who never return to the county after completing their higher education studies.
New railcards slashing fares for a generation in South Lakeland welcomed
Thursday, 3 January, 2019
News that the Conservative Government is introducing a brand-new railcard, which will halve all rail fares for 16 and 17-year-olds in South Lakeland has been welcomed by councillor James Airey, the Conservative group leader on Cumbria County Council
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Wednesday, 19 December, 2018
A ‘cash-strapped’ local authority is being urged to come clean over loans it has made to other councils over the last four years.
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Thursday, 13 December, 2018
A leading South Lakes councillor is urging the public to have their say on plans to defend places like Sandside from coastal flooding over the next century.
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The Wedding of River Song
Airs at 7:05pm on Saturday 1 October 2011
Patrick McLennan Fri, September 23 11:55am
There are flying dinosaurs in London parks and the Emperor Winston Churchill has the Doctor locked up in the Tower. All of history is happening at once because time has stopped at 5.02pm on 22 April 2011 – the date of the Doctor’s death.
Time is dying and the only way the Doc can see it living is through his murder at the lake. River Song, though, thinks she can save the Time Lord and the universe. At her wedding to the Doctor, he whispers something in her ear – his plan for escape.
In the final scenes we discover that the Doctor is not dead and used the Teselecta as a diversion. The Doctor is alive and ready for the Christmas special!
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Credit: James Stack
Hollyoaks spoilers: PARTY! It’s Damon Kinsella’s stag night. What could possibly go wrong?
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Microsoft's browser-based dev toolbox: How 'Monaco' came to be
What's the former technical lead on Eclipse Java development tools been doing at Microsoft for the past three years? Building a browser-based development toolset.
By Mary Jo Foley for All About Microsoft | November 18, 2013 -- 01:00 GMT (17:00 PST) | Topic: Developer
In 2011, Microsoft made a high-profile hire. Former IBMer and technical lead on Eclipse Java development tools, Erich Gamma, joined the company to work on an unspecified project. Microsoft officials said he'd open a lab in Zurich, Switzerland. And that's about all they revealed.
Now we know what Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Gamma's been doing for the past 2.5 years. He's been working to develop a subset of Visual Studio that would work in not just IE, but also other "modern" browsers, including Safari and Chrome. A first preview release of Gamma's project, codenamed "Monaco" -- which is completely different from this other Microsoft codename "Monaco" -- debuted last week.
When Gamma was still working at IBM, Microsoft officials approached him to gauge his interest in doing work on "online tools," Gamma told me during an in-person interview at last week's Visual Studio 2013 launch in New York.
Microsoft wasn't interested in replacing its native Visual Studio client on Windows. Instead, the idea was to "build a toolbox of components" from the bottom up, Gamma said.
Gamma was intrigued and decided to move to Microsoft. A handful of his former IBM team mates joined his new Zurich lab to work on the project.
Monaco was treated as a "green-grass" startup, Gamma said. That meant he had a wide-open field as to how he wanted to develop Monaco. He decided to use TypeScript, Microsoft's superset of JavaScript that is in the midst of development by Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Heijlsberg and co.
Even though TypeScript was only in its early stages at the time, Gamma said it appealed to him and his team because of they were all "hard-core JavaScript developers." (TypeScript isn't expected to hit 1.0 until some time in the early part of 2014, according to Microsoft execs.) The team also used Node.js -- the server-side JavaScript technology for receiving and responding to HTTP requests -- and Git in developing Monaco.
"An open mindset meant the ability to use what we wanted and to target every modern browser," said Gamma.
From the get-go, the mantra of the Monaco team was to focus on specific use cases where a browser-based toolset made sense. The first public Monaco use case is focused on allowing testers/developers to edit Windows Azure Web Sites directly from inside any "modern" browser, on any device (Windows-based or not). The thinking is that developers will be able to make relatively simple fixes to their Azure-hosted Web sites from anywhere by using Monaco in a browser.
Monaco also found a home in "Napa," Microsoft's Office 365 development toolset . Monaco provides the cloud/browser-based editing capabilities in Napa. Other Microsoft technologies which have integrated Monaco, even though it's still in preview form, include Team Foundation Service (TFS) and SkyDrive (for file editing within a browser).
The Monaco team decided against building a Metro-Style/Windows Store version of Visual Studio. The browser/toolbox route made more sense, Gamma said, as developers increasingly need to be connected to the Web at all times; there's not as much of an offline use case. The toolbox approach also allows for the addition and removal of specific Visual Studio components, as needed, Gamma said. The Monaco team has developed a command-line console for use in the browser, for example, which may be useful for some developers and applications, but not others.
Microsoft has posted some getting started videos for Monaco on the company's Channel 9 site.
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World Cup kicks off in Russia
June 14, 2018 by vnexpress Leave a Comment
The World Cup kicks off in Russia Thursday as the host nation take on Saudi Arabia in front of 80,000 people in Moscow after President Vladimir Putin officially declares the tournament open. Russia is spending more than $13 billion (11 billion euros) on hosting football's showpiece, the most important event in the country since the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. The buildup has been dogged by controversy and diplomatic scandals and has shone a light on the challenges facing Putin's Russia. On the day of the curtainraiser, Russia freed the main opposition figure to Putin, Alexei Navalny, from jail after he served a 30-day sentence for organising an illegal protest. The completely refurbished Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow hosts the opening match, against the two lowest-ranked sides in the tournament. Excitement has been steadily building in Moscow, with thousands of Saudi fans in green and white arriving in the city for the match. British pop star Robbie Williams performed at the opening … [Read more...] about World Cup kicks off in Russia
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World Cup group stage: 5 potential highlights
The World Cup group stage will see 48 games crammed into two weeks. AFP Sport picks out the moments to look out for in Russia: Spain forward Diego Costa (right) and Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo. (File photos: AFP) OPENING MATCH How can anyone miss the opening game at the World Cup? It sets the tone for a month-long festival of football, even if in this case it brings together the two lowest-ranked teams in the competition. Will Stanislav Cherchesov's Russia side do the host nation proud at the World Cup? (Photo: AFP/Alexander Nemenov) Hosts Russia will walk out onto the pitch at the 80,000-capacity Luzhniki Stadium ranked a lowly 70th in the world, three spots below Group A rivals Saudi Arabia, and without a victory in eight months. However, Russia has spent more than US$13 billion on preparations for the big event, and President Vladimir Putin will be eager for the hosts to get off to the best possible start. In contrast, a defeat against minnows Saudi Arabia … [Read more...] about World Cup group stage: 5 potential highlights
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Egypt, Nigeria continue to splutter in World Cup warm-ups
June 7, 2018 by thesaigontimes Leave a Comment
Egypt, Nigeria continue to splutter in World Cup warm-ups Belgium's Kevin De Bruyne in action with Egypt's Tarek Hamed at King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium on June 6, 2018 – PHOTO: REUTERS CAPE TOWN (REUTERS) - Egypt and Nigeria continued their recent poor form in World Cup warm-up games on Wednesday ahead of their bids to become the first African side to reach the semi-finals of the global showpiece event. Belgium eased past Egypt 3-0 in Brussels to extend the north African side’s winless streak since qualifying for the tournament in Russia starting next week. Eden Hazard provided the sparkle as Belgium dominated. The Chelsea forward set up Romelu Lukalu for the first goal and netted the second himself before halftime. Marouane Fellaini added a third in stoppage time to complete a strong performance by the hosts, who underlined their status as one of the favourites in Russia. Egypt were missing injured forward Mohamed Salah but their coach Hector Cuper … [Read more...] about Egypt, Nigeria continue to splutter in World Cup warm-ups
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Hazard hones World Cup form in 3-0 friendly win over Egypt
June 6, 2018 by vietnamnews Leave a Comment
Viet Nam News Football BRUSSELS — Eden Hazard scored once and assisted another goal in a 3-0 pre-World Cup friendly win over Egypt on Wednesday that gave worried Belgium fans hope of a promising World Cup campaign. Drawn in Group G containing England, Tunisia and tournament debutants Panama, Belgium are expected to cruise into the second round of the June 14-July 15 showpiece. However embattled coach Roberto Martinez has yet to win over fans, and is sweating over the fitness of key defenders Thomas Vermaelen (thigh) and Vincent Kompany (groin), both injured. Chelsea star Hazard, who survived a kick to his knee in the opening minute, forcing him off at half-time, said it was a performance Belgium would have to repeat in Russia if they want to progress. "I came off at half-time because I took a knock to my knee, but there’s nothing to worry about, it will be better tomorrow," he said. "It was nice to add some rhythm to the match, to create some movement and score as … [Read more...] about Hazard hones World Cup form in 3-0 friendly win over Egypt
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Complete guide to World Cup 2018 squads
June 5, 2018 by vir Leave a Comment
Left to right, clockwise: England's Harry Kane, Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, Brazil's Neymar, South Korea's Son Heung-min, Argentina's Lionel Messi, Egypt's Mohamed Salah. (Photos: AFP,Reuters) All 32 countries have announced their squads, with 736 players headed to the biggest showpiece in sport. Who are your favourites for the World Cup? Let us know in the comments below. GROUP A File photo of Egypt's star Mohamed Salah, who will be one of those expecting to light up World Cup 2018. (Photo: Reuters / Amr Abdallah Dalsh) RUSSIA Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Vladimir Gabulov (Brugge/BEL), Andrey Lunev (Zenit St Petersburg) Defenders: Vladimir Granat (Rubin Kazan), Fyodor Kudryashov (Rubin Kazan), Ilya Kutepov (Spartak Moscow), Andrey Semyonov (Akhmat Grozny), Igor Smolnikov (Zenit St Petersburg), Mario Fernandes (CSKA Moscow), Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA Moscow) Midfielders: Yury Gazinsky (Krasnodar), Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow), Alexander Golovin (CSKA Moscow), … [Read more...] about Complete guide to World Cup 2018 squads
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Portugal stumble, France impress in World Cup warm-ups
May 30, 2018 by thesaigontimes Leave a Comment
Portugal stumble, France impress in World Cup warm-ups Tunisia’s Saif-Eddine Khaoui in action with Portugal's Adrien Silva at Estadio Municipal de Braga, Braga, Portugal on May 28, 2018 - PHOTO: REUTERS BARCELONA (REUTERS) - European champions Portugal spurned a two-goal lead against Tunisia, stumbling to a 2-2 draw, as France, one of the World Cup favorites, flexed their muscles with a comfortable 2-0 win over Ireland in warm-up friendlies on May 28. Portugal were without captain Cristiano Ronaldo after he won the Champions League with Real Madrid on Saturday and Tunisia exposed defensive frailties in Fernando Santos' side which Group B opponents Spain, Morocco and Iran will try to exploit. Andre Silva and Joao Mario fired Portugal ahead in Braga but Tunisia's speed on the counter-attack was a problem for the hosts. Anice Badri and Fakhreddine Ben Youssef pulled the African side level, proving they will be no pushovers for Group G favourites Belgium and England, as … [Read more...] about Portugal stumble, France impress in World Cup warm-ups
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World Cup hosts Russia suffer more misery in loss to Austria
May 31, 2018 by ven Leave a Comment
World Cup hosts Russia turned in another unconvincing display as Austria extended their winless run stretching back to October with a 1-0 victory in a friendly on Wednesday. Russia's Igor Akinfeev makes a save during the match against Austria at Tivoli Stadion Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria, May 30, 2018 - Photo: Reuters The home side, who have not qualified for the finals, exposed defensive frailties in Stanislav Cherchesov’s team with Alessandro Schopf sending a neat finish past Igor Akinfeev following a fine run from Marko Arnautovic after 28 minutes. Shorn of competitive football due to qualifying as hosts, Russia have spent the last two years playing friendlies against some of the world’s leading sides, but their preparations have been far from ideal. Cherchesov’s spluttering team faced a barrage of criticism in the Russian media after suffering heavy home defeats by Brazil and France in March and the coach’s negative tactics were also questioned. … [Read more...] about World Cup hosts Russia suffer more misery in loss to Austria
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Salah ‘confident’ for World Cup despite shoulder injury
Egypt's Mohamed Salah is "confident" of being fit for the World Cup despite suffering a shoulder injury in Liverpool's Champions League final defeat against Real Madrid. Mohamed Salah is confident of making the World Cup after his shoulder injury. (Photo: AFP/Paul Ellis) Salah was forced off in tears during the first half of the 3-1 loss in Kiev on Saturday, sparking fears he wouldn't make it to next month's World Cup. The 25-year-old sustained the problem when he was dragged awkwardly to the turf following a challenge with Sergio Ramos, leading some to claim the Madrid defender had deliberately tried to injure Liverpool's star forward. Speaking after the final, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp had described the injury as "serious" amid fears Salah had suffered a dislocated shoulder. That would have ruled him out of Egypt's first appearance in the World Cup since 1990. Salah was pictured with his shoulder in a sling when he got off Liverpool's plane at John Lennon Airport on … [Read more...] about Salah ‘confident’ for World Cup despite shoulder injury
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Egypt banking on Salah’s Liverpool form at World Cup
Egypt coach Hector Cuper is hoping star striker Mohamed Salah can transfer the stellar form he's shown for Liverpool this season to the national side at the World Cup in Russia. After a sterling season with Liverpool, Egypt are hoping forward Mohamed Salah finds his scoring feet this summer at the World Cup in Russia. (AFP/Paul ELLIS) Salah, the Premier League and African player of the year, became a national hero over the leading role he played in helping Egypt qualify for their first World Cup finals in 28 years. "We hope that he will exploit the progress he's made as a striker at Liverpool," said Cuper on Monday (May 14). On Sunday, Salah set a new single-season Premier League scoring record after notching his 32nd goal of the season for Liverpool, surpassing the old mark of 31 goals he had shared with Alan Shearer, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez. Prudent and reserved as ever, Argentine Cuper refrained from making any World Cup predictions for 'The Pharaohs'. The … [Read more...] about Egypt banking on Salah’s Liverpool form at World Cup
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World Cup hopefuls Spain crush Argentina, Brazil edge Germany
Isco scored a hat-trick as Spain hammered an Argentina side without Lionel Messi 6-1 in a friendly on Tuesday (Mar 27), while Brazil defeated Germany 1-0 in their first meeting since the 2014 World Cup. World Cup hopefuls Spain crush Argentina, Brazil edge Germany Gareth Southgate's England were denied victory over Italy at Wembley after the visitors were awarded a late penalty in a 1-1 draw following consulation with the video assistant referee. Spain underlined their status as chief contenders at this year's World Cup in Russia as they extended their unbeaten run under Julen Lopetegui to 18 matches in sensational fashion in Madrid. Diego Costa bravely forced home Spain's opening goal on 12 minutes and Isco doubled the lead before Nicolas Otamendi halved the deficit prior to half-time. The absence of Messi, left out of the squad by Jorge Sampaoli despite the coach insisting on Monday that his star striker was fit, was telling as Spain dominated the South Americans in the … [Read more...] about World Cup hopefuls Spain crush Argentina, Brazil edge Germany
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Dying to play
Every Time I Die is ready to rip it up at The Palladium
By Chris McCarthy
Forgetting to bring your iPod on a road trip is bad, but forgetting to bring it on a three-month tour must be the worst.
Andy Williams is in that situation now, as he and his hardcore band Every Time I Die head out on the Sounds of the Underground Tour, which stops in Worcester this Friday.
"I'm not listening to anything right now, but when I do have my iPod, I listen to a lot of Iggy and the Stooges, a lot of Alice Cooper. I don't really listen to anything new," says Williams, guitarist for Every Time I Die.Every Time I Die
Based in Buffalo, the band has been together for more than 10 years. The group got its name during a basement rehearsal, when someone said "‘Hey, let's be called Every Time I Die,' and we all said ‘OK, cool.' It's not a great story," says Williams.
The other members of Every Time I Die include drummer Michael Novak and two brothers, vocalist Keith Buckley and guitarist Jordan Buckley. Williams says that it has yet to be awkward, since everyone gets along well. "There hasn't been any weirdness," says Williams.
The Sounds of the Underground tour features Williams's band, as well as Gwar, Shadows Fall, and a slew of other metal and hardcore bands. Every Time I Die got on the tour through the efforts of their managers and the band is more than ready to play. "We've played eight shows in Australia in the last seven months," says Williams. "We've been held up for so long and all we want to do is play," he added.
The band's stint Down Under with Norma Jean went well, says Williams. "I mean, we're not The Beatles or anything but kids come out to the shows." As those few shows weren't enough, the band has been practicing a lot and is excited to get back on the stage.
The group has gone through a number of bassists, and seems to have a hard time hanging on to them. After releasing four full-length albums, the band has performed with five different bass players, and has yet to find a permanent fit.
This past October, the band put out a behind-the-scenes DVD titled "Shit Happens." Putting life on the road on display turned out to be a success the first time around, so, according to Williams, they're giving it another go. "We taped the whole recording process. And we're filming on the Sounds of the Underground Tour, which will be a lot of fun, especially with Gwar around," he added.
The tour will keep the band occupied through August in their parade of metal and hardcore. The all-day event at The Palladium will surely keep everyone entertained, with enough bands to keep the show going all night. And after so few shows, Every Time I Die is - well, dying to play — and according to Williams, "ready to just rip it up."
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Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz ousted in no-confidence vote
Wilfrey Morena Monday, 27 May 2019 Edit this post
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz leaves the parliament after he lost a confidence vote on May 27, 2019 in Vienna. (Photo by AFP) The Au...
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz leaves the parliament after he lost a confidence vote on May 27, 2019 in Vienna. (Photo by AFP)
The Austrian parliament has removed Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his caretaker government from office in a no-confidence vote over a corruption scandal.
The motion was passed on Monday in the aftermath of the release of a controversial video of the vice chancellor and far-right freedom party (FPO) leader Heinz-Christian Strache, who was seen to be allegedly offering public contracts to a Russian agent in return for political support.
Social Democrats (SPO), the main proponents of the 32-year-old leader’s ouster, blamed him for forming a coalition with Strache’s party and accused the chancellor of an "uncurbed and shameless power grab.”
The two parties have a majority of 103 seats combined in the Austria’s 183-seat lower house.
General view of the parliament taken as Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (L, center) delivers a speech during a session of the parliament before a confidence vote on May 27, 2019 in Vienna. (Photo by AFP)
"Kurz gambled away his chances and, Mr. Chancellor, you bear full responsibility," the SPO deputy parliamentary faction head Joerg Leichtfried said in a speech before submitting the motion.
The vote, backed by more than half of MPs, came despite a surprise victory of Kruz’s conservative People's Party (OVP) in Sunday's European elections, which is projected to gain 34.9 percent of the vote and two extra European parliament seats.
Strache, denying all allegations, resigned from his political posts after the video release.
Austrian prosecutors said they were investigating Strache’s video "in multiple directions", but declined to provide further details.
The Central European country will now be led by a transitional body until general elections are held in September.
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UP Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar mocks SP-BSP alliance in UP, calls it a 'used cartridge'
OP Rajbhar is a state cabinet rank minister in the Yogi Adityanath government in UP.
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NEW DELHI: Controversial Uttar Pradesh Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar has mocked the newly announced pre-poll alliance between Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party and the BSP headed by Mayawati in Uttar Pradesh.
The minister said that the SP-BSP alliance, which was announced just ahead of the crucial Lok Sabha polls, will not be able to dent BJP's poll prospects in Uttar Pradesh.
However, he said that the coming together of the two parties has indeed made the task difficult for the saffron party.
Taking a dig at the pre-poll tie-up between the two parties, Rajbhar said, ''The SP-BSP alliance in UP is like a used cartridge. It won't impact the prospects of the ruling BJP here.''
The minister said that the political alliances are being forged across the country today, so the SP-BSP tie-up was also no big deal.
''Everyone knows about the fate of the two parties in 2017,'' Rajbhar said.
When asked if it was right on his part to keep commenting on the BJP since his party shares power with the former in UP, the minister said he was just speaking the truth and was not afraid to be called a rebel.
Referring to the recently passed upper caste quota bill, Rajbhar suggested the BJP to provide reservation in three categories of the backward castes.
Rajbhar said that doing so will help BJP as there are nearly 5-7 lakh voters from the backward castes in each Lok Sabha constituencies which might vote favour the saffron party-led aliance in the polls.
Interestingly, Rajbhar had sometimes back warned that the ruling BJP will be wiped out in the state in Lok Sabha elections if the BSP and Samajwadi Party join hands.
Rajbhar is a state cabinet rank minister in the Yogi Adityanath government in UP.
He also heads the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) party.
"It is very clear that if these two one-time rivals come together, the BJP will certainly be decimated in the state" where it won 71 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in 2014, Rajbhar had said.
He had also announced that his party would stage state-wide protests on the issue of 27 percent reservations.
Rajbhar has made several controversial statements in past questioning the BJP's government's functioning in UP and attacked the central leadership of the saffron party for not valuing the smaller NDA allies.
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Making Your Mark: Electronic Signatures in Hong Kong
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From centuries, the signature has been humankind’s way of showing one’s distinct identity on objects and documents. Throughout time and space, signatures have taken an infinite number of forms and mutations. It is not a wild leap to assume that this signature craze all started when some Palaeolithic humans some 15,000 years ago decided that they wanted recognition for their cave paintings and stencilled their handprint next to it.
The ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphics—a combination of pictographs to denote names. Romans were known to use signatures during the late empire, but the first incarnation of the signature as the western world knows it today came in 1069. “El Cid”, a nobleman from Medieval Spain, first signed his name on a document for a donation to a church. While on the other side of the world, the use of a seal was much more prominent— printing stamps and impressions of names on documents and objects, a practice which continues to this day.
The signatures of today, and in particular, electronic signatures are a radical departure from the past. Hand-singing something and using a seal a hundred years ago was much more of a physical manifestation of one’s word and bond. The pomp and circumstance of making your mark felt damn important each time, whether it was dipping a fountain pen in ink, melting red wax on a letter and sealing it with a signet ring, or using a heavy jade stamp to authoritatively impress your name on a document with red ink. Signatures felt like they mattered.
Today, any scribble on a tablet will suffice. However, do not be fooled by the casual nature of electronic signatures—they are just as binding as written or “wet” signatures.
What Is Required For An E-Signature To Be Valid In Hong Kong
The use of electronic signatures is governed by the Electronic Transaction Ordinance (ETO) Cap. 553, and within this piece of legislation is the definition of “electronic signature”.
It is defined under Section 2 as “any letters, characters, numbers or other symbols in digital form attached to or logically associated with an electronic record, and executed or adopted for the purpose of authenticating or approving the electronic record”.
What this means is any electronic depiction of what is usually a written signature will be enough on an electronic document. It could literally be a happy face, if you so wish to use that as your signature. The definition is very loosely defined for the ease of people to do business. Some people may be illiterate, and for them, any mark they make electronically will have the same legal effect as a written one.
Here are the rules in the ETO for electronic signatures: Section 6(1) of the ETO sets out three requirements for an electronic signature to be valid when the transaction in question does not involve anyone related to a government entity:
the person whose signature is required by law to be given uses a method to attach the electronic signature or associate the electronic signature with an electronic record to identify himself and indicate his authentication/approval of the information in the electronic record—e-signature must be part of the e-document;
the method indicated in (1) is reliable and appropriate so that the information in the electronic record is communicated; and
the person to whom the signature is given consents to the use of the method by the person whose signature is required by law to be given—get consent
If all three simple criteria are fulfilled, the electronic signature itself will be legally binding.
However, there are other considerations that must be accounted for when using electronic signatures.
Scope and Applicability of Electronic Signatures
Electronic signatures will work for most legal documents. Here are the circumstances when an electronic signature will not be legally binding, and a “wet” signature is required:
Exceptions under Schedule 1 of the ETO:
Testamentary documents
Trusts (other than resulting, implied or constructive trusts)
Assigning power of attorney
Documents concerning land and property transactions
Negotiable instruments
Court orders/judgments
Warrants issued by a court or a magistrate
Statutory declarations
Most of what has been listed above will not apply in the day-to-day affairs of a business, but it is worth mentioning.
With regards to overall scope of electronic signatures, for transactions not involving government entities, a signature requirement under law can be met by any form of electronic signature so long as it is reliable, appropriate and agreed by the recipient of the signature.
However, for any legal transactions involving Government entities, a signature requirement under law must be satisfied by digital signature supported by a recognised digital certificate issued by a certification authority that is recognised under the ETO.
Examples of a certification authority include the Postmaster General of Hong Kong and Digi-Sign Certification Services Ltd.
Paperless Contracts
The ETO also dedicated an entire section in its provisions about the use of electronic signatures in contracts. It is after all the bread and butter of the electronic signatures game—it would be amiss if I did not specifically discuss the use of electronic and online contracts when I am currently writing for Zegal, who provides that very service.
Section 17 of the ETO has some guidelines about the use of electronic signatures within contract law. So here are a few contract law refreshers:
Offer and the acceptance may be in whole or in part conducted through electronic records
It also goes on to say that the validity of a contract will not be void if the only reason given is that an electronic signature was used
Section 17 does not affect common law rules of contract
It is hugely important to not forget the last point. Common law rules of contract still apply. If the party that made the offer stipulated very clearly that only one method of acceptance was permitted, that method of acceptance must be exact for the acceptance to be valid. If the prescription for the method of acceptance is somewhat vague, then acceptance can be communicated by other methods that are equally or more advantageous (convenience and speed).
Electronic Signatures in the People’s Republic of China
Here is a quick bonus section on electronic contracts and signatures in China. The Electronic Signature Law of the People’s Republic of China (ESL) stipulates that a written signature is not absolutely required for the formation of a valid contract. Contracts can be formed verbally, electronically or in a physical paper document. Like Hong Kong, an electronic signature in China has the same legal force as a “wet” signature.
The requirements for a valid electronic signature in China under Article 13 of the ESL are as such:
When the creation data of the electronic signature are used for electronic signature, it exclusively belongs to an electronic signatory;
When the signature is entered, its creation data are controlled only by the electronic signatory;
After the signature is entered, any alteration made to the electronic signature can be detected; and
After the signature is entered, any alteration made to the contents and form of a data message can be detected.
Here are a number of circumstances where the use of an electronic signature is not permitted:
Human resources documents
Certain family law documents, including those pertaining to marriage, adoption, and succession
Pledges and mortgages (must be registered with an agency that only accepts handwritten signatures)
Business is increasingly being conducted electronically either in part or as a whole. Globally, there are fewer and fewer instances where you will find a transaction with no digital element at all. For most of us living in countries with developed internet and communications infrastructure, electronic signatures may be a part of everyday life. Having a succinct understanding of the implications of signing your name electronically is necessary.
Sikhei Leung is a law student and freelance writer. He holds a LL.M. in Human Rights from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a LL.B. from BPP University London. He also has a Psychology degree from Durham University.
This article does not constitute legal advice.
The opinions expressed in the column above represent the author’s own.
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2.5 Revelation Principle: Examples
博弈论 II：高级应用
Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind", game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Over four weeks of lectures, this advanced course considers how to design interactions between agents in order to achieve good social outcomes. Three main topics are covered: social choice theory (i.e., collective decision making and voting systems), mechanism design, and auctions. In the first week we consider the problem of aggregating different agents' preferences, discussing voting rules and the challenges faced in collective decision making. We present some of the most important theoretical results in the area: notably, Arrow's Theorem, which proves that there is no "perfect" voting system, and also the Gibbard-Satterthwaite and Muller-Satterthwaite Theorems. We move on to consider the problem of making collective decisions when agents are self interested and can strategically misreport their preferences. We explain "mechanism design" -- a broad framework for designing interactions between self-interested agents -- and give some key theoretical results. Our third week focuses on the problem of designing mechanisms to maximize aggregate happiness across agents, and presents the powerful family of Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanisms. The course wraps up with a fourth week that considers the problem of allocating scarce resources among self-interested agents, and that provides an introduction to auction theory. You can find a full syllabus and description of the course here: http://web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/GTOC-II-Syllabus.html There is also a predecessor course to this one, for those who want to learn or remind themselves of the basic concepts of game theory: https://www.coursera.org/learn/game-theory-1 An intro video can be found here: http://web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/Game-Theory-2-Intro.mp4
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Mechanism Design
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2.1 Mechanism Design: Taste 3:18
2.2 Implementation 18:01
2.3 Mechanism Design: Examples12:00
2.4 Revelation Principle 9:23
2.5 Revelation Principle: Examples5:18
2.6 Impossibility of General Dominant-Strategy Implementation 11:26
2.7 Transferable Utility 9:05
2.8 Transferable Utility Example8:31
2.9 Mechanism Design as an Optimization Problem 19:03
Matthew O. Jackson
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Yoav Shoham
Hi folks this is Matt again.
So we're going to look at some examples now of the revelation
principle you've just seen.
And in particular let's go back to the plurality
rule that we looked at just before in terms of an example.
So remember we have a society of people who are voters.
They are trying to make decisions between some set of candidates.
So they are tying to make an election here.
And, in particular their were three types of individuals,
those who liked A, those who liked B, and those who liked C.
The C types favored A over B.
They are a small part of the population.
So remember that was our example.
And we looked at an indirect mechanism, the plurality voting mechanism,
where what the actions look like where reports of a candidate.
So you just declared which candidate you wanted to vote for, and
then the mechanism picked the candidate named by the most agents.
Or in cases where there was some tie among getting the most votes,
then it would pick randomly among those with uniform probability.
So, that was the plurality mechanism.
And now the revelation principle tells us for
any equilibrium of that mechanism there exists an equivalent direct
mechanism which will have truthful announcing as an equilibrium.
So remember her there were many Bayes-Nash equilibria.
There will be different direct mechanisms for each one of these equilibria
in terms of translating the outcomes from the equilibrium and
the direct mechanism into an equilibrium in the direct mechanism.
So let's go through that.
Remember that we had, we looked at different types of equilibria say
all voting for A was an equilibrium, all voting for B was an equilibrium.
There was a Duverger's type equilibrium where you concentrate on two
candidates and you voted for your best candidate out of those two.
So the theta tilde voted for A, theta hat voted for
B, theta bar voted for A There's going to be many other equilibria.
We can have all C equilibria.
We can have two candidate equilibrium between B and C and B.
You can get some other mixed strategy equilibria.
But these are more of less the classes of equilibrium.
We can think about for looking at an example of direct revelation mechanism.
So how does that work?
Well now instead of actually casting a vote,
what the voter does is just tell us what their preferences are.
So they make an announcement that they're one of these three types.
Now if we want to think about the indirect mechanism which was
the plurality rule equilibrium where all people vote for A.
So we think of the mechanism plus what the equilibrium was.
Okay. So we can think about one of
the equilibria for the plurality rule.
Equilibrium where everybody was voting for A.
So what's the direct mechanism for that?
Well now each persons states their type.
Now remember in the indirect mechanism everybody was voting for A.
So what happens in the direct mechanism is the direct mechanism translates every
type announcement into the equivalent of the vote for A and the outcome
is just now going to be a independently of what people's types are announced.
So it's as if everybody voted for A, and then the outcome is just A.
Now, truth is an equilibrium, right?
So no matter what I do, it's as if I'm voting for
A, I might as well say my true type.
So this would be the direct mechanism associated with that
indirect mechanism and equilibrium.
Now if we changed it to the equilibrium where people are either voting for A or B,
depending on which was their favorite,
then again the direct mechanism is going to have people announcing their types.
And then what happens is mechanisms going to translate that into
what they would've done.
So it's saying theta told us as if you're voting for
A, theta hat as if you're voting for B, theta bar, as is if you're voting for
A, and then it'll count up how many theta tildes it gets,
how many theta hats it gets, how many theta bars it gets.
And if the majority of votes was for B, it'll end up being a B.
If it was for A, it picks an A.
And now, again, since that was an equilibrium in the indirect mechanism,
this is an equilibrium of the direct mechanism.
Now we see that Taking that same mechanism that we started with.
We have a different direct mechanism for each equilibrium that we had in
the indirect mechanism in order to make sure that things are incentive compatible.
Okay, so that takes us through the direct revelation Mechanisms.
These are going to be very useful for proving theorems because any
equilibrium that we can work with indirect mechanism we always know that there exist
in equivalent direct mechanism that's going to make our life a lot easier.
because it means that whatever we can do with indirect mechanisms,
we can also do a direct mechanism.
And so we can just concentrate on working with those and
making sure that we're getting all the possible outcomes
that we could have gotten with the indirect mechanisms.
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Users, Administrators, and Groups, Oh My!
Operating Systems and You: Becoming a Power User
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In this course -- through a combination of video lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on practice -- you’ll learn about the main components of an operating system and how to perform critical tasks like managing software and users, and configuring hardware. We’ll wrap up with an example of how you might see this content show up in an interview setting. By the end of this course you’ll be able to: ● navigate the Windows and Linux filesystems using a graphical user interface and command line interpreter. ● set up users, groups, and permissions for account access. ● install, configure, and remove software on the Windows and Linux operating systems. ● configure disk partitions and filesystems. ● understand how system processes work and how to manage them. ● work with system logs and remote connection tools. ● utilize operating system knowledge to troubleshoot common issues in an IT Support Specialist role.
Powershell, Linux File Systems, Linux, Command-Line Interface
It took some time to due to lap graded assignments.However finally enjoyed the course specially the remote connection section and Linux and windows operating system files and folders troubleshooting.
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Users and Permissions
In the second week of this course, we'll learn about configuring users and permissions in Windows and Linux OS. As an IT Support Specialist, it's important to know how to grant the appropriate permissions to users and groups for both Windows and Linux OS. By the end of this module, you will know how to add, modify, and remove users for a computer and for specific files and folders by using the Windows GUI, Windows CLI, and Linux shell.
Users, Administrators, and Groups, Oh My!3:07
Windows: View User and Group Information6:16
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Windows: Passwords4:35
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Windows: Adding and Removing Users5:37
Linux: Adding and Removing Users0:50
Ben Life as a CIO1:29
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Welcome back. Now that we've learned how to
navigate around the Windows and Linux operating systems,
let's start setting up our computer for use by other people.
As an IT support specialist,
you'll be responsible for other people's machines.
People will depend on you to help set up their machines,
troubleshooting their issues, and so on.
In this lesson, you'll learn how to manage multiple accounts on one machine.
You'll also learn about the different permissions and access types,
how to add and remove users,
and the best practices to use when managing multiple users.
It's common for a computer to have multiple users.
On your home computer, you might have your parents,
siblings, or children using the same computer.
Your town, library, school,
or other public places might also have computers with multiple users.
Even though these machines have multiple user accounts on them,
all users on a computer are isolated from others.
This means that Kevin can't see Victor's files and folders, and vice versa.
There are two different types of users,
standard users and administrators.
A standard user is one who is given access to a machine,
but has restricted access to do things like install software or change certain settings.
An administrator or admin is a user that has complete control over a machine.
They can view anyone's account,
change and remove anyone on the computer,
and view every single file.
You can have multiple administrators on a machine as well.
On your personal machine,
you're the default administrator because this
gives you complete control over your system.
After all, it is your machine.
But on a public computer,
the administrator is someone who actually runs and maintains the machine,
like an IT support specialist,
they can grant access for other users,
install software, change restricted system settings,
and perform other actions they deem appropriate.
How terrible would it be if anyone who is
using a public computer could just install software?
The computers would be bloated,
things would be out of place,
and worst of all, they could be infected with malicious software.
Users are put together in groups according to levels of
access and permissions to carry out certain tasks.
These tasks depend on what the computer's administrator considers appropriate.
An administrator could give different access and
settings based on the type of group a user is in.
Let's say you're an administrator for your home computer,
which everyone in the house uses.
You put your parents in a group called Parents,
and your kids in a group called Children.
You don't want either of them to be able to install software,
but you also want to add child safety restrictions on the children group.
As the administrator, you're able to specify
different permissions for both of these groups.
So how do you differentiate what type of user you are,
and what groups you're in on Windows and Linux?
Well hopefully, you'd know this if you are an administrator of a computer.
But if you don't, computers do a pretty good job of telling you.
In the next few lessons,
we'll see how we can view user and group information in Windows and Linux.
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[HAMR] 20th Jan - Steve day 166
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danridesbikes
Re: 20th Jan - Steve day 166
i nearly posted the same quote Fidgetbuzz
hellymedic
Quote from: Hillbilly on January 21, 2016, 10:46:50 am
Fingers crossed for (good) news.
I don't really care whether he is riding or not. I would just like to know that he is ok.
TimC
Bike pilot
Given the freezing fog, and the fact that Steve had ridden 239 miles when he got home at 3 am yesterday morning, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find he's suffering more than a little as a result. Whether or not it means this is the end of the attempt, it was a day that would stretch anyone - even Steve. I sincerely hope he's well and that someone will confirm that sooner rather than later.
Recalling a GE1000 that I ended up DNF some years ago, bear in mind that it is often not an instant decision to pack or carry on. I had two sleeps before finally calling it a day.
offcumden
Like anyone else reading this, my first concern is that Steve is OK. If, indeed, he is calling a halt for the time being, I would be very happy to make a contribution towards a future attempt. However, unless some very convincing explanation emerges for the lack of communication from the back-up team, this contribution will be dependent on a change of crew chief.
A heroic ride which continues to attract huge following and interest, shamefully let down by an incomprehensible lack of communication by the support team. We don’t need carefully honed essays; just a few words of reassurance, please.
Quote from: offcumden on January 21, 2016, 12:02:53 pm
I would be very happy to make a contribution towards a future attempt. However, unless some very convincing explanation emerges for the lack of communication from the back-up team, this contribution will be dependent on a change of crew chief.
Same here, I will not contribute again to any enterprise in which Hoppo is involved.
I would also want reassurance of a better flow of information to donors.
Having to rely on third parties such as Jo and Ivan for progress reports is not acceptable.
"Shut Up Jens" - Legs.
Quote from: Shreds on January 21, 2016, 06:22:22 am
203.8 Strava miles then it all appears to stop at Potton on Strava.
Potton on Strava? Sounds very middle-class.
Some people say I'm self-obsessed but that's enough about them.
red marley
Message posted on FB a few minutes ago from Steve's team:
"Just a quick message to let everyone know Steve's okay, although the tracker isn't showing.".
So that should reassure people of his wellbeing, although nothing confirmed as to whether or not he is to continue with the challenge.
Datameister
EU Cake Mountain
From FaceAche at 12:11. "Just a quick message to let everyone know Steve's OK, although the tracker isn't showing"
Rehash? Repost? New message?
Shucks. Jo beat me to it
toontra
Quote from: jo on January 21, 2016, 12:18:13 pm
That raises more questions than it answers, although good to hear Steve is "OK" (whatever that means).
I suppose we should be grateful that 'OK' probably means he is neither in a ditch nor in hospital.
And breathe.
I can't say I'm not a little anxious, nonetheless.
The implication is that he's ok and continuing, surely. Glad he's ok, and await confirmation of the rest.
The post indicates to me Steve is riding.
But whoever wrote it couldn't do a better job of inviting guesswork and speculation.
DaveE128
The FB post seems deliberately ambiguous about whether he's riding to me... Always good to know he's ok though.
The Seldom Killer
The worrying gap is the uncommon absence of a Strava record. Obviously not the be all and end all but that would seem the easiest way to confirm he is still making progress.
Sometimes it appears that the support crew really do just want to do this all behind closed doors with no support from anyone.
Quote from: The Seldom Killer on January 21, 2016, 12:36:55 pm
Given the team's record of secrecy, I wonder if this isn't some barmy notion to continue the attempt away from public gaze.
Goodness knows where that leaves validation, although Tommy managed OK without trackers.
On the contrary, he did have them. It just happened that they were paper/postcard based and the best technology available at the time.
Looking at the UMCA correspondence in the Bruce thread, I think they expect tracking to be public at all times. I doubt that's changed. A blip for a couple of days pretty much has to be acceptable to them though given the leeway they afforded Bruce before the warning and DQ.
Of course if it all goes private, about two thirds of the named support crew suddenly become surplus. The scrutiny about the odds of success can't have been comfortable for them but going into digital hermitage isn't going to alleviate that.
Sergeant Pluck
It's not new - we had the same mixture of unwillingness and inability to communicate during December, when Steve was showing dropping mileage as the end of the "original" year approached leading to concern among supporters.
I'm not quite certain whether this most recent FB post is being deliberately uncommunicative, or if it was written by someone who lacks the ability to understand how a post appears to the reader.
fboab
It's a fecking serious business, riding a bike
Maybe we're underestimating the pressure that constant scrutiny is putting Steve under, and that rather than 'the Team' preferring not to discuss, it's Steve who doesn't want to.
TSS is not Total Sex Score, Chris!
The end of the attempt, when it came, was always going to be a difficult time.
Silence could mean all sorts of things but a possible explanation is that Steve needs a bit of time, when he's not exhausted and / or on a bike, to decide what he wants to do.
@Sergeant Pluck
Honestly, I suspect a combination of the two. I suspect that yesterday didn't go according to plan but they're a) trying to avoid questions (they've failed before starting on that) and b) don't understand the perspective from outside the crew.
The simple message, if its to fall on any receptive ears is that it's long due time to engage the audience in the ongoing narrative of the attempt.
Quote from: fboab on January 21, 2016, 12:56:31 pm
Maybe, but anything other than saying so will just invite more scrutiny. "The Team are the main conduit of pressure to Steve and the crew chief should be managing the pressure.
Jack_P
It's just dicking about on bikes
Sadly it does seem the end, two days not riding is just not within the current scope of mileage required.
Steve sticks to the rules adamantly as has been seen before when his heart rate monitor failed, which would indicate no rides for 2 days.
I can understand the silence, I would be in bits and maybe we should wait and respect that.
Have to confess I read the "update" as meaning "He's ok, for varying values of 'ok'."
It's disappointing we're left to speculate so much. But I think conjecture that Steve's decided to continue the attempt somehow "in secret" is a bit wild.
I'd be happier for a bit more information about how OK Steve is. We're all clearly worried about his welfare.
You're only as successful as your last 1200...
Notwithstanding all the dissatisfaction with Steve's team and the lack of info, if this is indeed the end of the attempt, something on which Steve had set his heart quite a long time ago, he's going to need a bit of time to recover from the overwhelming disappointment. I'd like to give him some breathing space and wish him all the best for whatever comes next. He's a great cyclist and has earned a place in cycling's Pantheon. Not only that, he's an absolutely lovely bloke.
Maybe we're underestimating the pressure that constant scrutiny is putting Steve under, and that rather than 'the Team' preferring not to discuss, it's Steve who doesn't want to
Quite possibly.
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