Gold star approval for our "Silver Hour"
The sun came out for Kesteven Rideability's inaugural Silver Hour based at The Paddocks Riding Centre, Hough on the Hill on Thursday 24th May. This innovative programme of equine therapy was devised so that older disabled adults can experience and benefit from being with horses and ponies in a safe and supported environment.
For the first session, four residents and their carers from Newton House, a local care home in Grantham, were welcomed to Kesteven Rideability. After a brief introduction about the ponies and how to approach them each visitor came into the stable yard. There was much excitement in the air as three of our lovely ponies, Fudge, Sox and Rio, were brought out of their stables and introduced to the group. The ponies were then led around so that each of the visitors could meet, fuss and stroke them. All the ponies here are used to dealing with people of all ages and abilities and were not phased by the sight of a group of visitors in wheelchairs. Each pony was introduced and it was magical watching the reaction of our visitors as they stroked and talked to "their" pony. Faces lit up and voices became more animated. There were happy tears as one lady reconnected with her love of horses and another gentleman regaled us with stories of the real War Horses of WW1. After first introductions some of the visitors groomed their ponies. Rio loved his mane being combed and Fudge dozed happily as his lady brushed him. After plenty of fussing (which all the ponies really enjoyed) the visitors were treated to home-made cakes and tea whilst sitting outside in the shade beside the Centre's outdoor arena.
The afternoon produced many special moments and each of the visitors and their carers expressed how wonderful the event had been for them. Not only is being with horses an enjoyable experience, it is also a proven therapy helping to reduce anxiety and improving mood.
Sessions can be for groups or individuals.


BREAKING: BETTER KNOWN IN AUSTRALIA as the supplier of the Sydney trams on the Inner West (L1 Dulwich Hill) Light Rail Line, massive Spanish transport entity CAF has just bought Polish bus company Solaris – maker of the current (European) Bus of the Year 2017 – it was announced late yesterday.
Going... Going... Gone! Massive Spanish transport entity CAF has just bought Polish bus company Solaris.
The innovative Polish bus manufacturer – whose zero-emission, 12-metre electric Solaris Urbino low-floor city bus also won the prestigious 2017 EBUS Award (organised by the VDV - German Association of Public Transport Companies), and was the world's first bus to feature antimicrobial copper handrails to help reduce the spread of germs between passengers – saw CAF acquire 100 per cent of its shares and will now be included in the massive CAF group.
At the time of publication, Australasian Bus & Coach magazine was attempting to confirm if the addition of electric buses to CAF's formidable arsenal of public transport product would see such vehicles here in future, ADR regulations permitting, given CAF's established Australian PT business experience already.
This transaction will ensure the leadership of the CAF Group and Solaris in the supply of innovative solutions in urban public transport in Europe and will strengthen the position of both brands in the international markets, the company states.
The Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) company is a Spanish manufacturer with more than 100 years of history and is listed on the Spanish stock exchange. The company is engaged in the design, production, maintenance and supply of rolling stock and rail vehicles. Another area of company's activity involves the latest solutions for urban transport, including e-mobility. The public transport vehicles produced by CAF are known all over the world, i.e.: Europe, USA, South America, Asia (India and Japan) and in North African countries (more info at www.caf.net).
"CAF's investment in Solaris confirms our commitment to the vision of profitable growth and opens new strategic markets to CAF," said Andrés Arizkorreta, president and CEO of CAF Group.
"Together with Solaris, we will create a leader in urban mobility solutions beyond rolling stock, particularly in the e-mobility segment. We want to continue using and to develop Solaris' valuable brand and to keep its Polish character. The combination of both companies' know-how in production, design, technology and services - together with the track record of Solaris in bus product innovation - will allow us to better serve our clients while creating shareholder value".
Solange Olszewska, founder of Solaris Bus & Coach S.A., said: "It was not an easy decision for me and my family. Over 20 years ago, my husband and I founded our company that today employs nearly 2,500 people and that is active on more than 30 markets. I know that I am leaving the company in good hands.
The CAF Group will continue the best practice in the Solaris brand and will let it grow even more".
"We want to ensure all stakeholders of CAF and Solaris companies - in particular our customers and suppliers - that we continue all business processes and cooperation in an unchanged form and that we will fulfil all our obligations resulting from the binding agreements," added Arizkorreta.
Additionally, CAF has entered into an agreement with the Polish PFR investment fund – Polski Fundusz Rozwoju – for the acquisition by the latter of a minority stake in Solaris (35 per cent) in the same terms and conditions agreed by CAF in the acquisition of Solaris.
This agreement will materialise in the next weeks once the administrative procedures are finished and the authorisation of the corresponding regulatory entities is obtained, it states. Through the participation of a solid financial partner like PFR as a minority shareholder, CAF maintains the Polish identity of Solaris and strengthens its position to accomplish the ambitious growth plan of the company, it adds.
Solaris Bus & Coach is a major European producer of city, intercity and special-purpose buses, as well as low-floor trams. Since the start of production in 1996, nearly 17,000 vehicles have already left the factory in Bolechowo near Poznań. They are running in 32 countries.
Despite its young age, Solaris has become one of the trendsetting companies in its industry. For many years it has been the indisputable leader among the suppliers of city buses in Poland, as well as one of the largest suppliers of city buses in Germany.


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Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Watson, Zo, Buddy. As AI bot making continues to take off, bot developers and marketers have been keen on giving their bots names that sound human. They're also giving them a face and their own distinct personality.
However, as intelligent bots or virtual assistants move towards becoming an $11 billion industry by 2024, bots with personalities, which have been programmed from the inside out — rather than the outside in — have been behaving badly.
Many of these problems have derived from a common issue: While bots understand what a human may be telling them at a baseline level, they fail to understand the intention and personality of the human they are conversing with.
From a scientific perspective, some may say that the shortcoming is in natural language processing (NLP) — the science of extracting intention from the text itself. However, I'd argue that they are failing because of the 7 Percent Rule.
The majority of chatbots today are text-based, which means they are unable to analyze the other 93 percent of communication that occurs outside of the A-Zs. They're simply unable to access that 55 percent of communication that can be analyzed through body language or the 38 percent of context that can be gleaned from the tone and tempo that someone uses.
What is a bot to do without access to these non-language-based cues in text-only channels? While current bot designers have been hung up on giving their bots personalities through the five-factor model of human personality, which includes agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, extraversion, and openness, I'd argue they'd be better off focusing on the other direction: enabling their bots to understand the different types of human personalities they will encounter.
Luckily, there is a human personality model for bot makers to use. In the 1970s, Dr. Taibi Kahler developed the process communication model (PCM) from his work with transactional analysis. NASA adopted this process to assist in astronaut selection in the 1980s and funded the creation of the Personality Pattern Inventory (PPI), which identifies the user's order of preference for each of the personality styles.
PCM is the only personality model that uses language as an important window into successful communication and interactions, as well as human behavior. Language indicators include keywords, phrases, tone/tempo, grammar, and syntax. By analyzing a person's communication preferences, PCM identifies their personality as fitting into one of six categories: organizers, connectors, advisors, originals, doers, and dreamers.
The most common personality group in North America is connectors. Connectors make up for 30 percent of the North American population and are hardwired to view the world through a lens of feelings, emotional states, and people. They value relationships and seek unconditional acceptance. Their language reflects their need to not put their relationships at risk.
The second most prevalent group in North America is organizers. About 25 percent of the population is comprised of organizers, who are focused on time structure, organization, and linear problem-solving. These are the individuals at work who place a high priority on to-do lists and gain a sense of accomplishment and success in crossing things off of them.
Another group to highlight is originals. An original is your creative type. They're playful, fun, energetic, and they think outside of the box. They represent 20 percent of the population.
With these personalities in mind, some bot builders may be thinking that they should be aiming to create a bot that communicates best with connectors, given that they are the largest personality group. However, in doing this, you'd likely be alienating the five other personality types with different communication preferences.
These communication preferences are as different as the people who make up the groups. Therefore, a chameleonlike bot that is able to analyze these six different personality types and interact with each accordingly is the best case scenario.
While these examples may seem somewhat rudimentary, they illustrate a first step toward training human personality analysis into your NLP. Once this is fully baked into your chatbot, it can serve as the core engine driving a more empathetic bot. A bot built to respond based on the personality and intention of the human on the other end of the conversation.
After all, the real barometer for a chatbot has not changed much since the first chatbot — SmarterChild — debuted on AOL's Instant Messenger in the early 2000s. At a basic level, all bots are designed to simulate human conversation.
Therefore, the best user experiences occur with natural and authentic dialogue between bots and humans. By adopting baseline personalities for humans, bot makers can design AI so that the dialogue is more natural and customized.
As we look to the future, where chatbot conversations will take on audio and visual forms, our ability to accurately analyze human personality by leveraging cues outside of language will get that much better.
In this future, the bots that thrive won't be the ones that were designed to have unforgettable personalities, but rather those that truly understand the personalities they are communicating with.
Christopher Danson is chief technology officer at Mattersight, a company that provides SaaS-based enterprise behavioral analytics software.


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Introduction: Responsible for a high mortality rate and for causing numerous sequels in the general population, stroke arises from a deficiency in cerebral oxygen supply, commonly caused by obstruction of the arteries or extravasation of blood for the tissue. Genetic factors, style and quality of life are factors directly related to the incidence of stroke and its numerous hospitalizations.
Objective: The study aimed to describe the epidemiological profile of hospitalized patients after clinical diagnosis of stroke.
Methodology: This is a retrospective study, with a quantitative approach, carried out through the analysis of 252 medical records of patients hospitalized in the Medical Clinic and in the Mixed Stroke Unit of the Deputado Janduhy Carneiro Regional Hospital, in the municipality of Patos - PB, in the period of January 1 to December 31 2015. All medical records of patients affected by stroke in 2015 were included; internal with clinical diagnosis of stroke; Computed Tomography of Skull; Neurologist's evaluation; and readable handwriting. Data were collected using a questionnaire with objective questions, including variables related to the objective of study. They were submitted to simple statistical analysis and later, discussed and related to the literature from the reading and the comprehension of the researchers.
Results: It was observed that the affected victim is woman, over 70 years of age, brown, living in an urban area and retired. The most frequent etiology of the stroke is of the ischemic type, being able to notice preexisting diseases in the patients, such as Arterial Hypertension and Heart diseases. 42% of patients were discharged after treatment in less than 15 days (78%). By causing many deaths and disabilities, bringing not only human, but social and financial damage to the health and social security system.
Conclusion: More and more studies are needed to diagnose the causes of stroke, consequences and possible decisions that attenuate this problem.
Keywords: Vascular Encephalic Accident. Hospitalization. Prognosis.
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Robot Entertainment — компания, специализирующаяся на разработке компьютерных игр. Была создана основателями Ensemble Studios, закрытой дочерней компании Microsoft (другая часть работников из Ensemble основала студию Bonfire Studios).

В настоящий момент Robot Entertainment осуществляет техническую поддержку игровых серверов и выпуск обновлений для ранее выпущенных под маркой закрытой компании Ensemble Studios продуктов (серии игр Age of Empires), а также занималась разработкой нового проекта, компьютерной игры в жанре MMORTS Age of Empires Online, однако в феврале 2010 года была отстранена от разработки.

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 Orcs Must Die! (2011)
 Hero Academy (2012)
 Orcs Must Die! 2 (2012)
 Echo Prime (2014)
 Orcs Must Die! Unchained (2017)
 Hero Academy 2 (2017)
 ReadySet Heroes (2019)
 Orcs Must Die! 3 (2020)

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