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Henrik Toft Hansen (Skive, Danska, 18. prosinca 1986.) je danski rukometaš i nacionalni reprezentativac. Trenutno igra za AG København. U klubu i danskoj reprezentaciji mu je suigrač brat René Toft Hansen. Oboje tamo igraju na poziciji pivota.

Hansen je s Danskom osvojio naslov europskog prvaka (Srbija 2012.).

S Danskom je 2013. godine osvojio srebro na svjetskom prvenstvu u Španjolskoj. Španjolska je u finalu doslovno ponizila Dansku pobijedivši s 35:19. Nikada nijedna momčad nije izgubila s toliko razlikom kao Danci čime je stvoren novi rekord u povijesti finala svjetskog rukometnog prvenstva.

Od posljednjih većih reprezentativnih uspjeha izdvajaju se osvajanje olimpijskog zlata u Riju 2016. te svjetskog naslova 2019. gdje je Danska bila jedan od suorganizatora.

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Home » Local » Tech experts seek innovative solutions for refugees' future
Tech experts seek innovative solutions for refugees' future
By Ana V. Ibáñez Prieto - Feb 21,2018 - Last updated at Feb 22,2018
Speakers take part in a discussion panel at the No Lost Generation Tech Summit 2018 in Amman on Wednesday (Photo by Ana V. Ibáñez Prieto)
AMMAN — "It has been five years since the opening of the Zaatari Refugee Camp and our lives have changed drastically since," said Reem, a Syrian refugee and life and business skills mentor for Syrian youth.
"We are no longer striving to cover basic needs, but we are still fighting for a better future and our aspirations are bigger now," she noted, expressing that "it is time to address the real challenges and to come up with solutions for a youth full of vision, capacity and energy — an energy that must be well invested".
Her remarks came at the opening of the No Lost Generation (NLG) Tech Summit 2018 on Wednesday, an innovation forum focused on youth impacted by the Syrian and Iraqi crises that aims at discussing the ways in which technology can support education, employment, participation and representation.
Led by a multi-agency steering committee comprised of World Vision, NetHope, Mercy Corps, the Norwegian Refugee Council and UNICEF, the forum invites participants to listen to the ideas of inspirational speakers, initiate new partnerships and work together to identify technological tools to solve key challenges faced by conflict affected youth.
The event builds on the insights of the NLG EdTech summit held in Amman last year, which brought together over 200 participants from the private, public and non-profit sectors worldwide to network, collaborate and design interventions aimed at the support of education for children and youth.
"Following the summit held last year, we decided to follow up with a symposium held in Silicon Valley in order to expand the vision from education to other challenges faced by the youth," Head of NLG (World Vision) Mark Chaple said during the opening of the forum, noting that "this year's edition of the summit is focused on finding solutions to obstacles in fields such as employment or gender".
Adolescents and Youth Adviser at Mercy Corps Amie Wells highlighted that the Middle East and North Africa region is the territory with the youngest population in the world with 162 million youth. "Adolescence is a stage where so much is happening, and going through this phase in a context of conflict makes it worse," she said, explaining that "social and cultural norms are broken down and opportunities for meaningful engagement are lost, in addition to the disruption of school and the consequent absence of friends and role models".
The summit witnessed the intervention of NLG Tech Task Force leader Laila Toplic, who introduced a tech consortium formed by over 50 global NGOs aimed at bringing humanitarian experts together with the private sector to support the needs of displaced children and youth.
"The NLG Tech Task Force is focused on establishing information exchange about refugees' education and livelihoods and facilitating private sector engagement," Toplic explained, noting that "the three key ways of engagement for business are corporate social responsibility and philanthropy, business operation and product development, and public policy engagement".
Pluralsight, one of the private sector companies involved in the pursuit of solutions to challenges faced by refugees, offers a digital learning platform to support displaced youth in learning in-demand skills.
The initiative was presented by Head of Social Impact at Pluralsight Lindsey Kneuven, who explained that "through UNICEF Lebanon, Pluralsight is addressing the lack of access to training suffered by displaced youth, which restricts their opportunities for dignified work and higher education in later stages".
Digital economy holds great potential for refugees, Jordanians alike, expert says
AMMAN — Technology could help address some of the education and skills challenges caused by the Syrian crisis, participants at the No Lost G
Tech summit to address educational challenges caused by Syria crisis
AMMAN — The No Lost Generation (NLG) EdTech summit on March 1 and 2 is attracting participants from the public, private and development sect
Tech summit to bring together global experts in support of Syrian youth
AMMAN — Syrian crisis humanitarian experts will join forces with tech companies, donors, investors, and youth to host the "No Lost Generatio

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This competition-ready brief in a classic design will make sure you stand out on the blocks. Made for both racing and training, this brief is made from Endurance+ fabric which is 100% chlorine resistant and designed to last for longer.
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They are a bit on the expensive side.


Last year's aggregate sales revenue of Korea's content industry was 94.3 trillion won (US$87.4 billion), up 3.4 percent from the previous year. The industry-wide exports were $5.41 billion, 9.8 percent higher than that in 2013. The industry set this year's target at 98.9 trillion won (up 4.9%) and $5.84 billion, respectively, for sales and export volume. The Korea Creative Content Agency will hold a forum on January 19 at the COEX Conference Hall in Seoul's Gangnam and present the industry's performance in 2014 and the outlook for 2015 including these figures.
The sales revenue in the game segment rose 7.4 percent to 10.4 trillion won while exports growing 12.2 percent to $3.05 billion. The segment's growth was buoyed by the rapid increase in the mobile game market, with competition getting fiercer as several large-scale foreign game developers and publishers moved in to the domestic market. The sales in the character business were 870 billion won, up 4.6 percent from 2013 while the exports growing 10.8 percent to $490 million.
For full article, see Korea Economic Daily.
The Korean government plans to spend 180 billion won ($163 million) over the next five years to support game developers who have been facing a double whammy of intensifying competition in the global market and tough regulations, and negative perceptions at home. The five-year road map for the development of the game industry, unveiled Thursday by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, envisions efforts to bring about a fundamental change to how the public and policymakers perceive online games.
A negative perception of online games is at the center of a vicious circle that has trapped the industry in a skills crunch, a decline in the number of hit products, and slowing growth, the ministry said. "There are many social misconceptions about games, particularly on the side of parents and teachers," said Yoon Tae-yong, a director at the Culture Ministry, at a news conference.
The ministry plans to roll out what it calls the "game literacy" program in cooperation with related government bodies to help parents and teachers forge a more balanced view of games, he said.
Nine of the Google Play Store's top 10 highest-grossing apps are Kakao games. The other one is the KakaoTalk messenger app, so it is fair to say that the "Kakao Kingdom" reigns supreme. National mobile games that rake in several billions within a year of release have emerged one after another since Kakao (the provider of global mobile social platform and mobile messenger KakaoTalk) launched Kakao Game at the end of July of last year.
Over the past year, the Kakao game platform has spearheaded growth of the entire mobile game industry. Accumulated sales from Kakao games amounted to KRW 466.2 billion over the past year with KRW 348 billion in the first half of this year, up 194% from KRW 118.2 billion in the second half of last year. Kakao Game's KRW 466.2 billion in sales over the past year even exceeded the domestic mobile game market's 2011 total sales.
According to KOCCA (Korea Culture and Content Agency), the domestic mobile game market is projected to hit KRW 918 billion this year and KRW 1.26 trillion next year (more than a 3-fold increase from KRW 316.7 billion in 2010 when South Korea's smartphone penetration started to take off.
As part of efforts to build the so-called creative economy backed by the Park Geun-hye administration, the government said yesterday it will expand the volume of Korea's content industry to 120 trillion won ($105 billion) annually by 2017, up from 88 trillion won last year.
Yoo made his remarks at a joint press briefing in Yeouido, western Seoul, with the future planning ministry and the finance and strategy ministry on boosting Korea's service industry. Part of the briefing was dedicated to announcing plans on developing the content industry that includes music, games, movies and animation.
People will be able to enjoy games on their handsets at any time of the day as the government decided not to include mobile games on the list of those prohibited from play from midnight to 6 a.m. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced Monday that they would exempt mobile games from applying the online game curfew. According to the notification, online games for personal computers, Web-based games and PC package games are currently subject to the online game curfew banning children under age 16 from accessing them during the first six hours of the day.
The new law will take effect from May 20-May 19, 2015 following an advance notice period running until Feb. 13.
The government wants local game companies to make it harder for teenagers to become addicted to online games. The Fair Trade Commission yesterday ordered local game service providers to change rules involving young players. Underage plays will not be able to sign up for an online game account without permission from a legal guardian. Also, an adult's permission will be required when an underage gamer wants to purchase a game item on a Web site. Any transaction made without the consent of an adult can be automatically cancelled.
The number of consumer complaints about underage gamers has risen in recent years. Revenues for the local online game market increased from 5.7 trillion won ($5.4 billion) in 2010 to 6.2 trillion won in 2011. The online game market accounts for 70.8 percent of the entire game industry, which had 8.8 trillion won in sales in 2011.
The number of consumer complaints filed to game companies rose from 4,285 in 2011 to 5,593 in 2012.
The Korea Serious Game Festival (http://www.ksf2011.co.kr/exhibit_en/) will be held for the third time from August 31 ~ September 2, 2012 at the Seongnam City Hall, just South of Seoul. Ten Dutch organzations (companies, R&D institutes and universities) will visit Korea to attend this event to look for business partners. On August 31 (Fri), the Dutch companies will be available for B2B meetings at the festival.
If you are interested to meet one or more Dutch companies, please register at: http://bit.ly/SeriousGamesMatchmaking. After registration, you will be contacted to set up a time for the meeting on August 31.
Mobile carrier LG Uplus unveiled its cloud computing based game platform called C-games, Wednesday.
Subscribers of various network services can purchase games from the C-games website that can then be played on any device with Web connectivity.
Korea has decided to ban trade for commercial game items from the second half of this year as a measure aimed at encouraging students to not waste time. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced that it is planning to halt all virtual item trades with a new law, to be announced sometime next month.
"The main purpose of the games is for entertainment and should be used for academic and other good purposes," said Kim Kap-soo, head of the ministry's content policy division, Wednesday.
The government official also stressed item collecting for commercial use is a serious hindrance to creating a healthy game culture.
Korea is the world's most-wired society with the Internet penetration rate standing at above 93 percent, data from government agencies said. Korea is also the home of the world's biggest smartphone and TV manufacturer _ Samsung.
For online role-playing games, the law prohibits users from using programs that allow in-game characters to hunt and collect items without the need of a player controlling them.


The World Health Organization has issued updated information on the patent status of hepatitis C medicines, including assessments of hurdles for affordable generic versions of latest drugs.
The reports were updated on seven new treatments, including sofosbuvir, ledipasvir and daclatasvir, which were included in the latest WHO Essential Medicines List. Data was provided for 40 countries and regions.
The patent landscape reports are available on the WHO website here.
"Knowledge of the patent status of new medicines is important for governments who are trying to make those medicines available to their populations," WHO said in the summary of the reports.
Looking at the report on daclatasvir as an example, it says in August 2015 WHO mandated another service provider, Pharmathen, to update and revise reports and the relevance of the different patents included in earlier reports by a different company.
New medicines on the market have given hope to the millions of people who suffer from Hepatitis C, a liver disease that kills approximately 700,000 people annually.
WHO works closely with Member States to assess and promote policy options for increasing access to these medicines, which remain unaffordable to many of those who need them and put an enormous financial strain even on the health systems of high-income countries.
Knowledge of the patent status of new medicines is important for governments who are trying to make those medicines available to their populations. To that end, WHO has carried out an analysis of the patent situation for seven of the new treatments, including sofosbuvir, ledipasvir and daclatasvir, all of which have been included in the WHO List of Essential Medicines in 2015. The reports provide clarity on whether the medicines are patent protected or not in individual countries.
"WHO Updates Patent Status Info For New Hepatitis C Medicines" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.


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Q: How to conclude $ \left\lVert x_k - \bar x \right\rVert_2 \le \left\lVert x_0 - \bar x \right\rVert_2$ There are 2 intersecting convex sets and I am discussing about alternating algorithm related to those convex sets.
I obtain the following results
$ \left\lVert y_k - \bar x \right\rVert_2^2 \le \left\lVert x_k - \bar x \right\rVert_2^2 - \left\lVert y_k - x_k \right\rVert_2^2  $
$ \left\lVert x_{k+1} - \bar x \right\rVert_2^2 \le \left\lVert y_k - \bar x \right\rVert_2^2 - \left\lVert x_{k+1} - y_k \right\rVert_2^2  $
How can I conclude following
$ \left\lVert x_k - \bar x \right\rVert_2 \le \left\lVert x_0 - \bar x \right\rVert_2$

A: Use the first inequality in the second:
\begin{align*}
\|x_{k+1}-\bar x\|_2^2&\le \|y_k-\bar x\|_2^2-\|x_{k+1}-y_k\|_2^2\\
&\le \|x_k-\bar x\|_2^2-\|y_k-x_k\|_2^2-\|x_{k+1}-y_k\|_2^2\\
&\le\|x_k-\bar x\|_2^2.
\end{align*}
Since a norm is nonnegative, this means that $$\|x_{k+1}-\bar x\|_2\le \|x_k-\bar x\|_2.$$
In other words, the sequence $e_k=\|x_k-\bar x\|_2$ is decreasing. As a result, $e_k\le e_0$.

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I had the pleasure of sitting down with a living legend in not only the world of jazz but in American music, Mrs. Sue Mingus, the widow of the late composer/bassist Charles Mingus. Like Miles and Coltrane, Mingus was a giant and yet, in the past, many have shied away from his music because of the complex structure of his compositions. For the past 30 years, Sue Mingus has made it her mission to not only keep her husband's musical legacy alive with the Mingus bands and the upcoming Charles Mingus High School Competition & Festival on Valentine's Day weekend, but also trust that there are listeners out there whose ears are mature enough to appreciate his vast, innovative body of work.
How did the Mingus bands come about?
Mingus Dynasty was the first band. About four or five months after Charles died, there was a two-day tribute at Carnegie Hall. A number of other bands performed there—I think one of Alvin Ailey's dancers performed. We had a number of different events and in connection with that I was asked to form a band to play Mingus. I had never done anything like this, but I looked at the make-up of bands and some of the seminal albums at Columbia Records and I put together a seven-piece band—four horns and a rhythm section.
It turned out that at the whole event this band was the only one that played Mingus' music. It suddenly revealed that people didn't want to trespass the territory; Charles was such a powerful figure and dominated his music so much so that people didn't really think of this whole gigantic body of compositions as being there to use like Duke Ellington's. Other people weren't really playing his music so that was the reason we kept this band going. We gave it the name Mingus Dynasty, which is also the title of one of Charles's albums. It seemed like a fitting title because these are musicians carrying on the Mingus legacy. And it just kept going for about 10 years until we ultimately doubled the size and formed The Mingus Big Band, which has 14 musicians.
There are three Mingus bands: The Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and we have another band who alternates here called The Mingus Orchestra, which is a 10-piece band. Each band brings something different to the music. The Orchestra focuses on the compositional aspects of Mingus. Their instruments are more unusual, more exotic to jazz—bassoon, French horn, bass clarinet, which we don't normally hear. There's also guitar, which we don't have in either one of the other bands.
Has being a member of the Mingus bands allowed musicians to hone and develop their crafts?
This music is like a University; it's very demanding, it is challenging music and it calls upon individual musicians to reach inside themselves and play who they are. It's very open music, there are a lot of spaces and I think it's one of the aspects of the music that's very exciting and it draws musicians to play the music because there is so much freedom written in the music that they can bring their own voices and their own ideas when they [perform] solo. Charles left an enormously varied [musical] legacy—the second largest in American music after Duke Ellington. The music is steeped in the blues but there are also European classic forms, bebop, and Latin music; there's just about every kind of music you can imagine that Charles drew upon and used within the structure of his compositions.
Who are some known jazz artists that have come from the Mingus bands?
Randy Brecker has played with us for a long time. Most of these musicians have bands of their own or make their own recordings or play with other musicians. They are all very active in the music scene. James Carter, saxophonist, has played with us originally. There have been so many that have passed through our Mingus bands. We have an enormous pool of musicians. We probably have over 100 musicians who've learned this music. Because of the nature of the Mingus band, we play one night every week and we've been doing this for over 15 years now. And not everyone's available every week, you know. The musicians may have other gigs and opportunities and as a result we have a large number of musicians on each instrument. That's just the nature of the beast. We look for musicians who are available and musicians are always coming into town and you hear about new people who come in and sit in the band. If there's a new player in town, word travels like a brush fire and you find out about it.
What has the experience been like for both bands to perform at the Jazz Standard?
It's been like coming home. We had a wonderful tenure at Fez, also known as Time Café. We had a residency for I don't remember if it was 10 years or a dozen years, but we missed it profoundly when it closed, which was about five years ago. We went to a few other places and finally we came here. We celebrated our first anniversary here in October 2009. And concurrently, we will produce a Mingus Big Band album, Live at Jazz Standard, which was recorded last New Year's Eve. It was broadcast nationally on NPR with such a wonderful array of artists like drummer Jeff Tain Watts and trombonist Conrad Herwig.
We were also celebrating the entrance into 2009, which marks the 50th anniversary of a number of seminal albums in jazz; Mingus had three (Mingus Ah Um, Mingus Dynasty, and Blues & Roots), Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, Dave Brubeck's Take Five, etc. This was a banner year for jazz, like 1939 was for movies (Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, etc.) As we entered 2009, the music that we played that will be on the live recording are pieces that originally came out 50 years ago.
Mingus is highly regarded as a legendary figure in jazz primarily as a bassist. Do you think that his prowess as a composer has been underestimated?
Charles's music was, on the surface, more difficult. He was a larger than life persona on stage—very intimidating. And I think people thought of it as "Mingus' music." This is the main thing that has changed since Charles died. Originally, people thought of him as a great personality on stage, a virtuoso bass player, and a bandleader. He was all those things. But they did not think first and foremost that he was a composer the way they think of Duke Ellington. When I started the Mingus Dynasty, people would say, particularly in Europe, "How can you have a Mingus band without Mingus?" It was his personality that was so big. And I took my cue from Charles who always said that he was first and foremost a composer and he knew that he would live on as a composer.
His composition, Epitaph, measures out to be possibly the longest piece of music in history—especially in jazz. Will this work ever be performed again? Did Mingus ever intend for this work to be performed?
This piece was recorded and videotaped and it was released this year. We premiered it in 1989, 10 years after Charles died. He had attempted to premiere it back in 1962. It was 19 or 21 sections, it takes over two and a half hours to perform and we play a lot of the individual pieces in the Mingus bands. There's a piece called "Peggy's Blue Skylight," a piece called "O.P.," (after Oscar Pettiford), and a wonderful ballad called "Noon Night." There are a number of these pieces that have been arranged for a smaller format. We also published the enormous 500-page score for Epitaph and that is also available.
It's been more than 30 years since his death. Why continue to keep the Mingus legacy alive?
I think like any good thing, as long as people enjoy it and certainly the musicians love playing the music and the audience has grown. Charles's music, when he died, was considered difficult and for many inaccessible. That has changed dramatically in the last 30 years because our ears grow up to music. When Stravinsky was first big, nobody composed his music. So things become more familiar. It's not out of reach anymore. We did our first Charles Mingus High School Competition last year and we're doing it again in February on Valentine's Day weekend. And if you can hear those high school kids play this music, they are phenomenal. His music, more or less, keeps itself alive.
You can also catch the Mingus Ensembles every Monday at the Jazz Standard with two sets at 7:30PM & 9:30PM, which sees rotating Mingus ensembles – Mingus Dynasty, Mingus Big Band, Mingus Orchestra. For more info, visit www.jazzstandard.com.


This study describes people's need for reassurance in self-care of minor illnesses.
Self-care and active surveillance are advocated as important strategies to manage minor illnesses. Reassurance influences patient satisfaction and confidence in the practicing of self-care.
This study is a descriptive and interpretive qualitative study.
Twelve persons with experience in self-care and receiving self-care advice were recruited, and data were collected using semi-structured interviews between September and December 2014. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analyses.
Having previous experience and the ability to actively manage symptoms using self-care interventions was described as reassuring. Participants became stressed and concerned when the symptoms persisted and interventions lacked the desired effect, which often resulted in a decision to consult. Participants wanted to feel that the nurse was an actual person, who was sympathetic, present and understanding, when they received self-care advice. The nurse's assessment and reasoning of the symptoms facilitated care-seekers' assessments of risk, and clear and concrete advice on how to manage the symptoms exerted a calming effect. Patients needed to trust that the nurse understood their situation to embrace the advice, and being invited to return created a feeling that the nurse had listened and taken them seriously.
Reassurance has the potential to allay doubts and fears to build confidence, which influences self-care and consultation behavior. Personal presence in the encounter, receiving an assessment and an explanation of the symptoms and precise advice are reassuring. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Clinical assessment of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in nursing homes is often based on staff member's observations and the use of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Nursing Home version (NPI-NH) instrument. This requires continuous observation of the person with BPSD, and a lot of effort and manual input from the nursing home staff. This article presents the DemaWare@NH monitoring framework system, which complements traditional methods in measuring patterns of behavior, namely sleep and stress, for people with BPSD in nursing homes. The framework relies on ambient and wearable sensors for observing the users and analytics to assess their conditions. In our proof-of-concept scenario, four residents from two nursing homes were equipped with sleep and skin sensors, whose data is retrieved, processed and analyzed by the framework, detecting and highlighting behavioral problems, and providing relevant, accurate information to clinicians on sleep and stress patterns. The results indicate that structured information from sensors can ease and improve the understanding of behavioral patterns, and, as a consequence, the efficiency of care interventions, yielding a positive impact on the quality of the clinical assessment process for people with BPSD in nursing homes.
The nurse-patient interaction is the cornerstone of psychiatric care, yet the concept "mental health nursing" is difficult to describe. This article aims to address this problem through the experiences of nursing students. Online journals from 14 nursing students were analyzed using qualitative content analysis, resulting in three categories: Trusting the Trusting Relationship, Voicing the Unspoken Needs, and Balancing the Dynamics of Doing and Being. This study demonstrates that providing nursing care based on trusting relationships is not a demanding task, but it takes place in a complex environment that has a tendency to make easy things complicated.
AimThe aim of this study is to explore the influence of nurse-led self-care advice on healthcare utilization and patients' satisfaction with telephone nursing.BackgroundMany consultations in high-cost settings are for conditions that are manageable through self-care and callers with greater satisfaction with the nurse interaction are nearly four times more likely to engage in self-care.DesignCross-sectional study.MethodsQuestionnaires were sent out to 500 randomly selected callers to the Swedish Healthcare Direct in Northern Sweden during March 2014. Callers were asked about their satisfaction with the consultation, their intended actions prior to consultation, the recommendation given by the nurse and the action undertaken after the call.ResultsYoung callers and persons recommended watchful waiting or recurrence if no improvements were significantly less satisfied with their care. When calling on their own behalf, both men and women rated the severity of their symptoms equally and were advised to self-care to the same extent. Self-care advice had a constricting influence on self-reported healthcare utilization, with 66·1% of cases resulting in a lower level of care than first intended. Feeling reassured after the call was the aspect of nursing care that influenced satisfaction the most.ConclusionReceiving self-care advice rather than referral to a general practitioner influences patient satisfaction negatively. Feeling reassured after consultation is strongly related to satisfaction, which in turn has been found to increase the likelihood of engaging in self-care behaviour.
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki.
Intelligent Assistive Technology and Systems Lab (IATSL), Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University of Toronto.


as brilliant minds converge right here in the Midwest this weekend, i could not be more excited to attend the first ever Murmuration Festival that brings together science and art and music and technology! get ready to hear talks and panel discussions from world-renowned scientists and brilliant, avant-garde musicians and some of your favorite stl makers!
as st louis gears up for this first ever Murmuration festival, i had the pleasure of speaking with Gil Weinberg, director of Georgia Tech Center for Musical Technology, about his career focused on bringing robotics together with music. he also is super famous for making that drumming prosthetic we couldn't get enough of on social media. check out the interview below to find out more about Gil and what you can expect from his talk on Sunday at Murmuration Festival.


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Schöner Brunnen (en:beautiful fountain) is a 14th-century fountain located on Nuremberg's main market next to the town hall and is considered one of the main attractions of the city's Historical Mile. The fountain is approximately 19 meters high and has the shape of a Gothic spire.

History
The fountain was built by Heinrich Beheim from 1385 to 1396.

Description

The 40 colorful figures that adorn the fountain represent the world view of the Holy Roman Empire. They are philosophy, the seven liberal arts, the four Evangelists, the four Church Fathers, the seven Prince-electors, the Nine Worthies, Moses and seven Prophets (Hosea, Daniel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Amos, Isaiah and Joel).

The two brass rings embedded in the fence surrounding the fountain on opposite sides are said to bring good luck to those who spin them.

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Buildings and structures in Nuremberg

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Forza Week in Review 6-28-19
Brian Ekberg
As we sometimes do here in the Week in Review, today's edition is focused a bit more on what's ahead than on what happened this past week. That's because not only do we have the head of the Forza franchise joining today's edition of #ForzaFriday, we're just days away from live shows featuring the latest news in Forza Horizon 4 and Forza Motorsport 7. So, bear with us as we anticipate the near future of Forza here in the Week in Review!
#ForzaFriday With Alan Hartman
Alan Hartman, Turn 10 Studio Manager and head of all things Forza, is coming to today's edition of #ForzaFriday! The show begins at 3 p.m. Pacific on the Forza Mixer and Twitch channels and we'll be spending an hour with him, talking about his career in games and with Forza, and of course chatting about the latest news in the world of Forza. We hope to see you there!
Today's stream with Alan is just the start of some newsworthy Forza shows in the coming days. On Monday, we'll be broadcasting our Series 11 stream from Playground Games HQ, which will begin at 10 a.m. Pacific/6 p.m. UK time. Watch as our friends at Playground take you through everything you need to know about the latest update for Forza Horizon 4, which arrives on Tuesday, July 2nd.
Directly following Playground's stream, we'll kick off with the July edition of "Forza Monthly" which will begin at 11 a.m. Pacific/7 p.m. Pacific. In addition to chatting with Playground about the latest Forza Horizon 4 updates, we'll also be joined by Chris Esaki to take viewers through the latest news in Forza Motorsport 7, including the Forza Race Regulations updates arriving with the July update. We'll also be debuting a new Q&A segment where we answer questions from the community about all things Forza. Don't miss it!
Sir Mix-A-Lot on WPW
Last week, Seattle hip hop legend Sir Mix-A-Lot joined our own Johniwanna on the June 19 edition of "Wheel & Pedal Wednesday", bringing along his Lamborghini Aventador to discuss on the show. If you missed it the first time around, the show is now up on the Forza YouTube channel for you to enjoy:
Forza Horizon 4 | Spring
As we mentioned in last week's edition of the Week in Review, the Rimac C_TWO is now available to earn in Forza Horizon 4! You can grab this two-geared, all-electric powerhouse by completing 50% of the Spring season events in the game, and don't miss the 2004 Subaru WRX, which is available to those who complete 80% of the season events. Look for new series and seasonal events and rewards coming with next week's Series 11 update.
Forza weekly photo contest winner by v Skoll v.
Forza Motorsport 7 Event Rotation
Over the past few weeks, the Engagement Team within Turn 10 has been doing some behind-the-scenes work related to online events in Forza Motorsport 7 – things like Hoppers, Leagues, the car rotation in Specialty Dealer, etc. The goal has been to automate the events that are coming and going into the game, ensuring that Forza 7 players will have events to play for the foreseeable future, while also allowing for the team to move on to other projects. Once this automation work has been completed, we'll share the full rotation of events in Hoppers, etc. Look for more information on this in the near future.
That's about it for the Week in Review. Remember to tune in to the PG livestream and "Forza Monthly" on Monday. Before we head out, here's a look at the rest of the streaming shows on the Forza channels next week:


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Macau News > Tourism > Hotel guests in Macau rise 20 per cent in September
Hotel guests in Macau rise 20 per cent in September
# Tourism
Prices in Macau start rising again in November
Macau's ex-chief prosecutor says accusations are 'unfactual'
Premier Li to attend Sino-Luso forum in Macau
Macau creates cooperation park with Changzhou in Chinese province of Jiangsu
Macau population falls to 647,700
Macau's 107 hotels and guesthouses recorded 1.02 million guests in September, up 20.2 perc ent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Monday.
Guests from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan accounted for 62.8 per cent, 12.2 per cent and 4.6 per cent respectively, up 20.9 per cent, 12.5 per cent and 40.6 per cent respectively.
The number of guests from South Korea leapt 75.5 per cent to 29,000.
Guests' average length of stay remained unchanged year-on-year at 1.4 nights.
The average occupancy rate of hotels and guesthouses amounted to 82.1 per cent in September, up 3.7 percentage points year-on-year. Four-star hotels enjoyed the highest average occupancy rate, at 86.5 per cent, up 10.4 percentage points from a year earlier.
The hospitality industry's number of guestrooms rose 20.7 per cent year-on-year to 36,000 at the end of September.
Guestrooms in 3-star hotels jumped 116.9 per cent year-on-year to 5,500.
In the first nine months of the year, the hospitality industry recorded 8.58 million guests, up 12.9 per cent year-on-year.
Macau Marathon route this year to cross'old bridge'
Macau, Hong Kong and mainland China aviation bodies sign delta deal
Macau government to pay 1 billion patacas to new contractor for LRT depot
Macau government wants 100,000 workers on non-mandatory providence fund


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Getting to Know Stephen Goldsmith, NYC's New Deputy Mayor
New York's new deputy mayor for operations, Stephen Goldsmith. Photo: AP.
As the new deputy mayor for operations, Stephen Goldsmith will soon be responsible for a portfolio of about a dozen city agencies, including NYCDOT, the NYPD, and the Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. To a certain extent, the livable streets agenda will go through him. While Goldsmith may not have a direct role in shaping the
specifics of New York City transportation policy, by steering the
Bloomberg administration's broad goals and political objectives, he's going to influence what the city will and won't do for livable streets over the next four years.
Unlike his predecessor, Ed Skyler, Goldsmith has a public record a mile long: He served as mayor of Indianapolis from 1992 to 1999 and has written six books on urban governance.
Goldsmith's transportation agenda as mayor flowed from his belief in free market principles, said Fred Siegel of the Manhattan Institute, where Goldsmith is a senior fellow. One of the biggest fights of his mayoralty was a push to privatize much of Indianapolis's bus system. The transit union was forced to bid against private companies for each route. "[Al] Sharpton came to Indianapolis," said Siegel, implying that this was a national-scale battle. Goldsmith believed that private transportation companies would adapt to changing travel patterns more adeptly than the public system had. He wrote in 1996 that competition brought bus fares down and increased ridership.
Some Indiana transit advocates, however, don't see those benefits as having materialized. "Indianapolis is the 26th largest metropolitan area in the country yet our system is last of the top 100 metro areas in terms of transit service," said Tim Maloney, senior policy director at the Hoosier Environmental Council. The privatized routes have since mostly been brought back under the transit authority, he explained. "There's universal community recognition today that we're doing poorly."
Maloney sees the bus privatization effort in the context of a general disregard for environmental issues by the Goldsmith administration. "There was really no sustainability thread running through most of what he did," he recalled.
Connie Szabo Schmucker, former executive director of the Indiana Bicycle Coalition, gave us the lowdown on Goldsmith's support of cycling while mayor.
The city's first bike lanes were striped on his watch, she said, and a public-private partnership built a series of greenways across Indianapolis. "That said, I never got the sense that Mayor Goldsmith was 'pro-cycling,'" said Schmucker, "especially not in the way our current mayor is." Indianapolis' current mayor, Gregory Ballard, has established a Bicycle Advisory Council, the annual Mayor's Bike Ride, and supported a plan to build over 200 miles of bike lanes.
Goldsmith's writing also reveals something of his attitude towards urbanism. In his book, The Twenty-First Century City, published just after completing his time as mayor, he writes that "if we specifically designed a 'suburban policy' to drive investment out of cities, it would look a lot like the current system," with mortgage deductions subsidizing sprawl and transportation dollars being spent on interstates instead of transit. This argument is embedded in a larger libertarian critique of government; Goldsmith also blames environmental, labor, and disability-rights laws for imposing costs on cities.
As deputy mayor, Goldsmith will be responsible more for the operation of the departments he oversees than for their internal goals and objectives. Here's how other observers and reporters have parsed his appointment:
The Times reports that Goldsmith was hired to help the administration shift from a boom-time budget to a period of retrenchment.
The Drum Major Institute's John Petro
believes that by appointing Goldsmith, who was a leading policy advisor
for George W. Bush during the 2000 campaign, Bloomberg is trying to
inject more conservative and free-market principles into liberal New
York City.
Liz Benjamin
reads between the lines of the mayor's announcement and sees the
Goldsmith pick as signaling big ambitions for Bloomberg's third term.
Filed Under: Michael Bloomberg, Stephen Goldsmith
George Haikalis, President, Institute for Rational Urban Mobility, Inc.
As Mayor of Indianapolis, Goldsmith oversaw the systematic destruction of the Indianapolis public transit network, which was a very well-run municipal enterprise at the time. In the name of free market competition, he made it much harder for all but the totally transit-dependent to use the system. While some of the damage has been repaired, the cost in human suffering can never be compensated.
Fortunately, Mayor Bloomberg does not control the city's buses and subways and so the ability for Deputy Mayor Goldsmith to repeat this destruction is limited. Many good government experts rightly feel that it would make good sense to consider shifting this oversight to the city.
However, Mayor Bloomberg's selection of a deputy with this kind of track record on public transit is a serious worry for those advocating making this shift in oversight anytime soon.
George Haikalis, IRUM
Brenda Rezak
On February 23rd at night, I was waiting for a First Avenue local bus at 23rd Street and three times had to run back and forth trying to meet a SELECT bus because the local bus wasn't coming. I tripped and hurt my left shin on the uneven ground (which is still bothering me).
This past Friday afternoon I again was waiting for a local first Avenue bus at 23rd Street as I was carrying a lot and needed to end up at 47th Street. While waiting there for 15 minutes, 3 SELECT buses passed, which I would've taken, if the local and EXPRESS busses stopped at the same corner, but they do not! I became so frustrated that I decided to walk to 37th Street (as a curiosity to see if the local bus would pass me.) By the time I arrived at 37th Street, a fourth SELECT bus did cross at 37th Street as I was crossing the street. NO LOCAL BUS HAD PASSED ME DURING THAT TIME. In fact, at each local stop along my walk, there were at least 15 people waiting for it.
I think something has to be done about this. There needs to be an Open Forum meeting for the public to address this situation. I know that one day, while trying to catch up with one of the busses, I'm going to break my neck.
Please let me know how we cn work together to alleviate this problem.
Stephen Goldsmith Out, Cas Holloway in as Deputy Mayor For Operations
By Noah Kazis	| Aug 4, 2011
Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith has resigned as deputy mayor for operations, the mayor's office announced today. Current Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway will replace him. Goldsmith was brought in for the mayor's third term with a charge to reinvent city government, particularly along the libertarian lines that he espoused as mayor of Indianapolis. […]
Memo to Goldsmith: To Balance NYC's Transpo System, Make Cycling Safer
By Ben Fried	| Aug 13, 2010
Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith and Mayor Bloomberg. Photo: Daily News There's a lot to like about Stephen Goldsmith's answers during yesterday's must-read interview with WNYC's Andrea Bernstein. It's clear that NYC's new deputy mayor for operations has a passion for efficiency. He comes across as deeply attuned to the fact that we allocate much of […]
Cities Learn From Chicago Parking Meter Debacle. Did Goldsmith?
By Noah Kazis	| Nov 17, 2010
When Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced that he was striking a deal to privatize his city's 36,000 parking meters, it was a golden opportunity for transportation reform. If all went well, the deal could have cleared a political path for higher peak-hour meter rates, curbing double-parking and congestion-causing cruising. But Chicago managed to completely bungle […]
State of the City's Transportation: Livery Cabs and Ferries
By Noah Kazis	| Jan 19, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg delivered his tenth State of the City address this afternoon, laying out what he believed to be the city's accomplishments, challenges, and priorities for the future. And if the speech is any indication, taxis and ferries are at the top of his transportation agenda. Bloomberg's plan to create a new class of taxi […]
Parking May Be Part of PlaNYC Update, Tweets Goldsmith
Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith dropped an intriguing hint this afternoon about the upcoming revision of New York City's long-term sustainability plan. "We are looking at parking as part of @PlaNYC 2.0," he tweeted. Now, there's a lot that needs to happen between today and Earth Day 2011, when the update is due. "Looking at" parking […]
Will Robert Lieber's Successor Finally Fill the Gaps in PlaNYC 2030?
By Noah Kazis	| May 19, 2010
NYC Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert Lieber. Photo: New York Daily News City Hall has another big vacancy to fill. This morning the Bloomberg administration announced that Robert Lieber, deputy mayor for economic development, is returning to the private sector. Lieber's portfolio includes the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Department of […]


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(6 Music Festival 2016 and SXSW 2016 flavoured!) Album Review: Bloc Party – Hymns
By Steven Loftin on Wednesday, 3rd February 2016 at 12:00 pm
Bloc Party are the definition of the word 'evolution'. If you listen back to the sharp indie tones they burst onto the scene with 'Silent Alarm' back in 2005, you would struggle to believe that you're listening to the same band now in 2016. Technically though, you aren't listening to the same band. Only one half of the original lineup remains, with the band citing increased tension and disagreement in the barracks the reasoning for this.
What Bloc Party do here on 'Hymns' is, at the root of it all, be consistently inconsistent. This is something we've come to expect of them. Although after their debut they didn't evolve the sound too much on 2006's 'A Weekend in the City', third record 'Intimacy' was a full-on revolution in terms of the sound they created. Focusing more upon dance and electronic than indie rock, it was a brave and bold move that saw tracks such as 'Flux' and 'One More Chance' becoming massive Bloc Party staples, just sans guitars. Fourth album 'Four' was the weakest in this evolution, where the collapse of the band was seemingly imminent, and a Kele Okereke solo album showing where this evolution stemmed from. Now, none of this is necessarily a bad thing; It shows they can develop and evolve beyond being a one trick pony. But to the extent shown here, where one track is barely similar to the next, you find it hard to engage and follow the record. But, it's still entertaining, as much as a McDonald's burger is still food, but it's not so exciting, so you just don't Instagram it.
Opener 'The Love Within' was our first look at this second coming of Bloc Party, and it was met with a mixed reaction. The sound itself is not too dissimilar to that of 'Four' or 'Intimacy', but it's the approach they take that lends itself to the confused reception. It seems almost abrasive in its attempts to be an opening statement telling us this record won't be a return to 2005-era Bloc Party. This continues through to 'Only He Can Heal Me', which is a soft, yet dark dance track.
Track four 'Good News' becomes almost the Bloc Party twist on country, with a devilish helping of slide guitar that complements the chord structure beautifully. Of course, the next track is the exact opposite: 'Fortress' is soft, a sentimental dance track that relies upon a low rumble of bass to push it forward with synthesised drums providing the percussion rather than the human equivalent found in new drummer Louise Bartle.
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'Into Earth' has a softer version of the twinned, alternating guitar progressions we've come to love and adore from both Okereke and co-guitarist Russell Lissack. Think 'Banquet', but if it was given some Valium. "You've seen the colour of my cash, does it not impress you, was I too flash?" is sung almost seductively by Okereke. The majority of the record from here carries on into a similar fashion: there are no particular fast numbers per se, and it all remains at a steady tempo, which can at times be a bit of a struggle to get through.
This is an evolution that Bloc Party have taken which, on an artistic level, has a lot of merit, though strictly it wasn't necessary. While on the previous two albums, they'd already broken past being a straightforward guitar band and proving they had more to say, this new LP feels like an accumulation of trying to bury that past forever and sending out a new statement of who they are what they do now. Obviously it breaks boundaries and attempts new sounds, but at the same, it can be quite dull. Hopefully with time the new lineup will begin to pull together a sound that is a more controlled culmination of everything they've done so far rather than a proverbial smorgasbord of anything and everything.
Bloc Party's fifth album 'Hymns', their first in 4 years, is out now on Infectious Records in the UK and Vagrant Records in North America. They're currently headlining the NME Awards tour through next Friday, the 12th of February at Birmingham Academy. They'll also be appearing at the 6 Music Festival in Bristol the weekend directly after, as well as SXSW 2016 in March in Austin. To read more coverage on Bloc Party on TGTF, head here.
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Top Ten Airlines in the World
Posted on 27th August 2019 under Airport Transfer
Flying is a fun-time moment that is anyone's dream. It is the only avenue to discovering the diverse cultures, beauteous features and even the dream job. However, not all flights are glitz. Several travellers have cited problems such as theft, delayed flights, hidden charges poor customer service and uncomfortable flight experience.
With US-based airlines such as ExpressJet and JetBlue missing in the Skytrax's report on the top ten airlines in 2019, there is much to research about before booking your first flight.
Here is a review of the best airlines in the world.
1) Singapore Airlines
Singapore airlines, abbreviated as SQ, is a word-class and flag bearer airline with a hub at Singapore Changi Airport. It has been in the list of top ten airlines in the world since 2018. The airline has also been ranked one of the best for two decades in the Travel & Leisure magazine. It features over 60 destinations in 30 different countries. For flexibility, the airline operates in ultra-luxurious first class and business class. Skytrax ranked it the best in the two categories. It also has a premium economy class and economy class. Choose this airline for comfort, safe and timely flights for almost all destinations across the world.
2) Qatar Airways
Based at Hamad International Airport, Qatar Airways is a state-owned flag carrier of Qatar. It is the Traveller's Choice award winner airline since 2017. Qatar Airways features over 145 international destinations across the world. Its fleet features two-cabin planes for its popular Business and economy classes and three-cabin for first-class, Economy class and business class. For comfort during the journey, you can convert the seats in the economy class, business class, and first-class to seat for a nap. Generally, Qatar airways offer outstanding seat comfort, legroom, in-flight entertainment, customer service and apex value for money.
3) Emirates Airlines
Emirates airlines, Dubai based and UAE government-owned airline is the largest and the best airline in the Middle East. Skytrax ranked it the third and fourth-best airline in 2019 and 2018 respectively. Its hub, Dubai International Airport is the third busiest in the world with more than 3,600 bookings per week. With Emirates, you can travel to over 150 destinations located in over 80 countries internationally. Travellers hail the airline for its apex safety and luxurious flight in all the classes (business class, premium class, first-class, and economy class). With a first-class ticket, you are guaranteed of a shower on board and many more comfort.
4) All Nippon Airways
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is a world-class Japanese Airline that has its headquarters in Tokyo. It operates a fleet that flies in over 32 international destinations across Asia, North America and Europe. To manage its bookings, the airline features two hubs, Narita International Airport and Tokyo Haneda Airport. Their cabin configurations include first class, business class, premium economy and economy class. You will automatically love the courteousness of its attendants, excellent seat comfort, cleanliness, and superb check-in and boarding. They serve a variety of meals to suit the diverse needs of the onboard passengers.
5) Eva Air
Eva Air, a five-star airline headquartered in Taoyuan International Airport, is a Taiwanese International Airline. It operates both cargo and passenger services to over 40 international destinations. It is a full international airline with routes to Asia, North America and Australia. However, for subsidiary services, the airline features a branch, UNI air that flies to more than 50 destinations in Taiwan.
Eva fleets feature all types of configurations. They stand out for their on-board services e.g Seat cleanliness and comfort, entertainment, safety and attention. It has a four-star rating by Skytrax for the value for money.
6) Lufthansa
Deutsche Lufthansa, commonly known as Lufthansa is an excellent German-based airline with a hub in Frankfurt Airport. It is the largest airline in Europe and the top-rated in the world for the largest fleets. As a founding member of the Star Alliance, the airline is well-established in every aspect. It operates the cleanest fleets and serves more than 215 international destinations across more than 81 countries. On average, it has 4-stars for in-flight entertainment, on-board experience, cleanliness, meals, comfort and legroom.
7) Qantas
Qantas is an international iconic airline headquartered in Mascot, Australia. Founded around 1920, this airline is the third oldest in the world and most established with a fleet that flies to more than 1000 destinations. It is best known for the premium catering services, best lounges and best domestic class services. Generally, Skytrax offered this airline 8th position for the world's best airline. It is Australia's largest domestic airline. Internationally, Qantas' fleet flies to 550 destinations around six continents.
8) Hainan Airline
Headquartered in Haikou, Hainan Airline is a Chinese flag bearer airline based in Haikou Meilan International Airport. It is the tenth-largest in Asia and the fourth-largest in China in terms of the fleet size. Globally, Hainan serves more than 90 destinations. Its fleet features all sorts of cabin configuration and an average of 4-star for legroom, seat comfort, customer services, meals, cleanliness and overall value for money.
9) Cathay Pacific Airline
Cathay Pacific Airline is the flag carrier of Hong Kong. Based in Hong Kong International Airport, the airline offers its services to over 77 domestic and international destinations. It has been named world best airline since 2013. Booking a ticket with Cathay pacific is a gateway to impeccable on-ground and on-board services, lounges, meals, in-flight entertainment, amenities and overall value for money.
10) Thai Airways
Thai Airways, a founding member of Star Alliance is a Bangkok-based airline and flag carrier of Thailand. It operates a fleet that offers regional and intercontinental services to over 75 destinations in 35 countries. The fleet features one, two and three configurations that offer Premium classes (Royal first and royal silk classes) and a business class. Average, Thai Airways features 4-star ratings for legroom, seat comfort, in-flight, on-board and on-ground services. It has four stars rating for the overall value for money.
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Rents in England and Wales increased by 1.8% in year to November 2018
Henry ThomasJanuary 9, 2019
Rents in England and Wales increased by 1.8% in the 12 months to November 2018, the latest index shows
Rents in England and Wales increased by 1.8% in the 12 months to November 2018, taking the average paid to £864 per calendar month, the latest index shows.
The South West recorded the strongest annual growth at 4.3% to an average of £701, followed by the East Midlands, up 1.9% to £663, according to the data from Your Move.
London remains the most expensive place to rent with an average rent of £1,263, followed by the South East at £897 and the East of England at £881.
Month on month rents increased by 0.1% and the biggest monthly rise was 0.4% in Wales and the West Midlands, taking average rents to £594 and £627 respectively.
Landlords in the North of England saw the highest percentage returns, with average yields much higher than in Southern areas. The average annual yield in the North East was 5% and in the North West it was 4.8%.
Overall, landlords in eight of the 10 regions covered by the index saw yields remain firm between October and November. But the East of England and the East Midlands both saw a slight decline in yields, down from 3.7% to 3.6% and down from 4.3% to 4.2% respectively.
London continued to have the smallest percentage returns, recording 3.2% during the month while across all of England and Wales the average yield was 4.3%, the same as the previous month.
National lettings director at Your Move, Martyn Alderton said properties in the North appear to offer high percentage returns to property investors and, as a result, they are attracting interest even more. This strong appetite to buy has been accompanied by a rise in demand for rental properties, since the North is attracting many young professionals and families with its good transport links and job prospects.
Martyn said as the London market continues to gently slow down, other regions are coming to the fore and proving attractive to investors. In the South West there was also good news and rental prices increased faster than anywhere else. The region boasts both the up and coming city of Bristol and some of the most picturesque parts of the world in Devon and Cornwall.
Henry Thomas January 9, 2019
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Development of Windows XP started on February 5, 1999 in the form of Windows Neptune. Neptune was originally going to be the successor of Windows ME, though based on the NT kernel. Microsoft merged the teams working on Neptune with that of Windows Odyssey, Windows 2000's successor, in early 2000. The resulting project, codenamed "Whistler", went on to become Windows XP.
Development work on Windows XP was completed in August 2001, and the operating system was released on October 25 of that year.
In the late 1990s, initial development of what would become Windows XP was focused on two individual products; "Odyssey", which was reportedly intended to succeed the future Windows 2000, and "Neptune", which was reportedly a consumer-oriented operating system using the Windows NT architecture, succeeding the MS-DOS-based Windows 98. Based on the NT 5.0 kernel in Windows 2000, Neptune primarily focused on offering a simplified, task-based interface based on a concept known internally as "activity centers", originally planned to be implemented in Windows 98. A number of activity centers were planned, serving as hubs for email communications, playing music, managing or viewing photos, searching the Internet, and viewing recently used content. A single build of Neptune, 5111 (which still carried the branding of Windows 2000 in places), revealed early work on the activity center concept, with an updated user account interface and graphical login screen, common functions (such as recently used programs) being accessible from a customizable "Starting Places" page (which could be used as either a separate window, or a full-screen desktop replacement). It was later confirmed that Microsoft were planning a successor to Neptune known as Triton, although it was originally thought to be a service pack to Neptune.
However, the project proved to be too ambitious. Microsoft discussed a plan to delay Neptune in favor of an interim OS known as "Asteroid", which would have been an update to Windows 2000 (Windows NT 5.0), and have a consumer-oriented version. At the WinHEC conference on April 7, 1999, Steve Ballmer announced an updated version of Windows 98 known as Windows Millennium, breaking a promise made by Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in 1998 that Windows 98 would be the final consumer-oriented version of Windows to use the MS-DOS architecture. Concepts introduced by Neptune would influence future Windows products; in Windows ME, the activity center concept was used for System Restore and Help and Support Center (which both combined Win32 code with an interface rendered using Internet Explorer's layout engine), the hub concept would be expanded on Windows Phone, and Windows 8 would similarly use a simplified user interface running atop the existing Windows shell.
Start-up screen of Microsoft codename- Whistler beta 2, build No. 2462.
In January 2000, shortly prior to the official release of Windows 2000, technology writer Paul Thurrott reported that Microsoft had shelved both Neptune and Odyssey in favor of a new product codenamed "Whistler", after Whistler, British Columbia, as many Microsoft employees skied at the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort. The goal of Whistler was to unify both the consumer and business-oriented Windows lines under a single, Windows NT platform: Thurrott stated that Neptune had become "a black hole when all the features that were cut from [Windows ME] were simply re-tagged as Neptune features. And since Neptune and Odyssey would be based on the same code-base anyway, it made sense to combine them into a single project". At WinHEC in April 2000, Microsoft officially announced and presented an early build of Whistler, focusing on a new modularized architecture, built-in CD burning, fast user switching, and updated versions of the digital media features introduced by ME. Windows general manager Carl Stork stated that Whistler would be released in both consumer- and business-oriented versions built atop the same architecture, and that there were plans to update the Windows interface to make it "warmer and more friendly".
In June 2000, Microsoft began the technical beta testing process. Whistler was expected to be made available in "Personal", "Professional", "Server", "Advanced Server", and "Datacenter" editions. At PDC on July 13, 2000, Microsoft announced that Whistler would be released during the second half of 2001, and also released the first preview build, 2250. The build notably introduced an early version of a new visual styles system along with an interim theme known as "Professional" (later renamed "Watercolor"), and contained a hidden "Start page" (a full-screen page similar to Neptune's "Starting Places"), and a hidden, early version of a two-column Start menu design. The Professional/Watercolor theme was never meant to be the final theme for Whistler, in fact it has been stated that Microsoft used Watercolor as a decoy, until they were ready to show Luna.  Build 2257 featured further refinements to the Watercolor theme, along with the official introduction of the two-column Start menu, and the addition of an early version of Windows Firewall.
Microsoft released Whistler Beta 1, build 2296, on October 31, 2000. In January 2001, build 2410 introduced Internet Explorer 6.0 (previously branded as 5.6) and the Microsoft Product Activation system. Bill Gates dedicated a portion of his keynote at Consumer Electronics Show to discuss Whistler, explaining that the OS would bring "[the] dependability of our highest end corporate desktop, and total dependability, to the home," and also "move it in the direction of making it very consumer-oriented. Making it very friendly for the home user to use." Alongside Beta 1, it was also announced that Microsoft would prioritize the release of the consumer-oriented versions of Whistler over the server-oriented versions in order to gauge reaction, but that they would be both generally available during the second half of 2001 (Whistler Server would ultimately be delayed into 2003). Builds 2416 and 2419 added the File and Transfer Settings Wizard and began to introduce elements of the operating system's final appearance (such as its near-final Windows Setup design, and the addition of new default wallpapers, such as Bliss).
On February 5, 2001, Microsoft officially announced that Whistler would be known as Windows XP, where XP stands for "experience". As a complement, the next version of Microsoft Office was also announced as Office XP. Microsoft stated that the name "[symbolizes] the rich and extended user experiences Windows and Office can offer by embracing Web services that span a broad range of devices." In a press event at EMP Museum in Seattle on February 13, 2001, Microsoft publicly unveiled the new "Luna" user interface of Windows XP. Windows XP Beta 2, build 2462a (which among other improvements, introduced the Luna style), was launched at WinHEC on March 25, 2001.
In April 2001, Microsoft controversially announced that XP would not integrate support for Bluetooth or USB 2.0 on launch, requiring the use of third-party drivers. Critics felt that in the case of the latter, Microsoft's decision had delivered a potential blow to the adoption of USB 2.0, as XP was to provide support for the competing, Apple-developed, FireWire standard instead. A representative stated that the company had "[recognized] the importance of USB 2.0 as a newly emerging standard and is evaluating the best mechanism for making it available to Windows XP users after the initial release." USB 2.0 support was later added with Service Pack 1, and Bluetooth support was partially added with Service Pack 2. The builds prior to and following Release Candidate 1 (build 2505, released on July 5, 2001), and Release Candidate 2 (build 2526, released on July 27, 2001), focused on fixing bugs, acknowledging user feedback, and other final tweaks before the RTM build.
In June 2001, Microsoft indicated that it was planning to, in conjunction with Intel and other PC makers, spend at least US$1 billion on marketing and promoting Windows XP. The theme of the campaign, "Yes You Can", was designed to emphasize the platform's overall capabilities. Microsoft had originally planned to use the slogan "Prepare to Fly", but it was replaced due to sensitivity issues in the wake of the September 11 attacks. A prominent aspect of Microsoft's campaign was a U.S. television commercial featuring Madonna's song "Ray of Light"; a Microsoft spokesperson stated that the song was chosen due to its optimistic tone and how it complemented the overall theme of the campaign.
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Baleboste A home economist, a woman who's in charge of her home and will remind you of it.
Bissel or bisl a wee bit.
Bubbe or bobe It means Grandmother, and bobeshi is the affectionate form. Bubele is a similar affectionate word, though it isn't in Yiddish dictionaries.
Bupkes Impolite company, Bubkes or bobkes may be related to the Polish word for "beans", but it really means "goat droppings" .It's often used by American Jews for , worthless, useless, a ridiculously small amount" : less than nothing, so to speak. "After all I did, I got bupkes!"
Chutzpah Or khutspe Nerve, extreme arrogance, incompetent. In English,chutzpah translates to courage or confidence, but among Yiddish speakers, it is not a compliment.
Feh! An expression of disgust, disapproval, similar to the sound of spitting.
Glitc or glitsh Literally "misstep," "glides," or "spill," which was the origin of the common American usage as "a minor problem or error."
Gornisht More polite than bupkes, and also referred to zero; used in phrases such as "gornisht helfn" (beyond help).
Goy A non-Jew, a Gentile. As in Hebrew, one Gentile is a goy, many Gentiles are goyim, and the non-Jewish world in general is "the goyim." Goyish is the adjective form. Putting mayonnaise on a pastrami sandwich is goyish. Putting mayonnaise on a pastrami sandwich on white bread is even more goyish.
Kibbitz In Yiddish, it's spelled kibets, and it's related to the Hebrew "kibbutz" or "mutual." But it can also mean verbal joking. It didn't originally mean giving unwanted advice about someone else's game : that's an American innovation.
Klutz Improved, klots. Literally means "a block of wood," so it's often used for a dense, unwieldy or socially awkward person. See schlemiel.
Kosher Something that's acceptable to Orthodox Jews, especially food. Other Jews may also "eat kosher" on some level but are not required to. Food that Orthodox Jews don't eat : pork, shellfish, etc. : is called traif. In English, when you hear something that seems suspicious or shady, you might say, "That doesn't sound kosher."
Kvetsh In popular English, kvetch means "complain, whine or fuss" but in Yiddish, kvetsh literally means "to press or squeeze.
Maven Pronounced meyven. Skilled, often used sarcastically.
Mazel Tov Or mazltof. Literally "good luck". Iit's congratulation for what just happened, not a hopeful wish for what might happen in the future. When someone gets married or has a child or graduates from college, this is what you say to them. It can also be used sarcastically to mean "it's about time," as in "It's about time you finished school and stopped living with your parents."
Mentsh An honorable, prudent person, an reliable person, a person who helps you when you need help. Can be a man, woman or child.
Mishegas Insane or crazy. A meshugener is a crazy man. If you want to insult someone, you can ask them," "How does it feel to be crazy?"
Mishpocheh Or mishpokhe or mishpucha. It means "family," as in "Calm you're mishpocheh. I'll sell it to you at a good price."
Nosh or nash To nibble; a small snack. Can also describe plagiarism, though not always in a bad sense; you knowing, picking up little pieces.
Nu A generic word that calls for a reply. It can mean, "So?" "Huh?" "Well?" "What's up?" or "Hello?"
Oy vey Exclamation of frantic , grief, or aggravation . The phrase "oy vey iz mir" means "Oh, woe is me." "Oy gevalt!" is like oy vey, but expresses fear, shock or amazement.
Plotz or plats Literally means to explode, as in aggravation. "Well, don't plotz!" is similar to "Don't have a cow!" Also used in expressions such as, "Oy, am I tired; I just ran a marathon. I could just plotz." That is, collapse.
Shalom It means "unfathomable peace," and is a more meaningful greeting than "Hi, how are ya?"
Shlep To drag, something you don't really need; to carry unwillingly. When people "shlep around," they are dragging themselves, perhaps slouchingly. On vacation, when I'm the one who ends up carrying the heavy suitcase I begged my wife to leave at home, I shlep it.
Shlemiel A clumsy, inefficient t person, similar to a klutz (also a Yiddish word). The kind of person who always spills his drink at a party.
Schlock Cheap ,shabby , or inferior, as in, "I don't know why I bought this hat as a souvenir."
Shlimazel Someone with constant bad luck. When the shlemiel spills his soup, he probably spills it on the shlimazel. Fans of the TV sitcom "Laverne and Shirley" remember these two words from the Yiddish-American hopscotch chant that opened each show.
Shmendrik A jerk, a dumb person, popularized in The Last Unicorn and Welcome Back Kotter.
Shmaltzy Excessively sentimental, flattering, over-the-top. This word describes some of Hollywood's most famous films. From shmaltz, this means chicken fat or grease.
Shmooze Chat, l talk, converse about nothing in particular. But at Hollywood parties, guests often schmooze with people they want to make an impression on.
Schmuck An insulting word for a fool, but you shouldn't use it in polite company at all, since it refers to male anatomy.
Shikse A non-Jewish woman, all too often used derogatorily. It has the connotation of "young and beautiful," so referring to a man's Gentile wife or girlfriend as a shiksa implies that his primary attraction was her good looks. She is most likely blonde. A shagetz or sheygets means a non-Jewish boy, and has the meaning of someone who is unruly, even violent.
Shmutz or shmuts Dirt : a small amount of dirt, not serious grime. If a little boy has shmutz on his face, and he likely will, his mother will quickly wipe it off. It can also mean foul language. It's not nice to talk shmutz about shmutz. A current derivation, "schmitzig," means a "thigamabob" or a "doodad," but has nothing to do with filth.
Shtick Something you're known for doing, an entertaining , an actor's routine, stage business; a gimmick often done to draw attention to yourself.
Spiel A long, sales pitch, as in, "I had to listen to his whole spiel before I found out what he really wanted." From the German word for play.
Tchatchke or tshatshke Knick-knack, little toy, collectible or gift. It also appears in sentences such as, "My brother divorced his wife for some little tchatchke." You can figure that one out.
Tsuris or tsores Serious troubles. Plagues of lice, war, hurricanes, hail, death now, those were tsuris.
Tuches Rear end, bottom, backside, buttocks. In proper Yiddish, it's spelledtuchis or tuches or tokhis, and was the origin of the American slang wordtush.
Yente Female or gossip queen At one time, high-class parents gave this name to their girls (after all, it has the same root as "gentle"), but it gained the Yiddish meaning of "she-devil". The matchmaker in "Fiddler on the Roof" was named Yente (and she certainly was a yente though maybe not very high-class), so many people mistakenly think that yentemeans matchmaker.
Yiddisher kop Intelligent person. Literally means "Jewish head."


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