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What is a Horse Race?
Generally speaking, a horse race is an equestrian performance sport. It involves two or more horses ridden by jockeys who ride them over a set distance for competition.
Allowance races
Unlike claiming races, where horses are claimed by their owners and run for a predetermined price, horses in allowance races are entered for a price and run for that price. The price is usually lower than the claiming price. This creates a risk-reward situation.
These are generally the first races a horse will win in its career. It is common for horses to win several allowance races before progressing to stakes races. In major races, the purse can be as large as millions. In smaller tracks, purses can be much smaller.
In allowance races, the claiming price is usually five pounds lighter than the claiming price for other horses. This is designed to equalize the field. The weight is based on the horse's age, sex, and past performance. The weight is assigned by a track handicapper.
Stakes races
Generally speaking, horse racing is a type of wagering in which two or more horses race against each other. These races are held on a variety of courses. They range from steeplechases to sprints, hurdles and endurance races.
Horse races have existed for thousands of years in many different countries. They have also played a large role in mythology and history.
Stakes races are highly competitive events. They are usually handicapped and feature huge purses. They usually include restrictions on sex and age. Some stakes races also focus on specific skills.
Stakes races are the pinnacle of horse racing. They can be expensive. They may cost anywhere from thousands of dollars to millions.
Originally held in England, the Triple Crown horse race is now held in different parts of the world. The Triple Crown series is composed of three prestigious races: the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes.
The Triple Crown is considered one of the best sporting achievements in the world. It is awarded to a three-year-old Thoroughbred that wins three of the most prestigious races in the United States. It is a rare accomplishment and requires more than luck and determination.
The first Triple Crown horse was Sir Barton. He won all three races and went on to win 10 straight. It was a landmark in horse racing history.
Originally created to promote competition between North American thoroughbreds, the Breeders Cup is now one of the most important horse races in the world. The race attracts top thoroughbreds from around the globe and is one of the biggest money events in the sports world.
There are currently eight races on the Breeders Cup schedule. These races are open to horses aged three and older. They are normally held on a dirt track.
Last year's Classic saw C Z Rocket finish third. This year, the Classic will feature a field of Triple Crown winners as well as potential Horse of the Year candidates. This is one of the most important races in the United States outside of the Kentucky Derby.


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Scribez: I tried to upload this to Youtube, but Youtube won't take videos that are longer than 10 minutes.
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Q: How to cross-compile libFLAC as a shared library? I am trying to cross-compile libFLAC for Windows from Linux. Here are the steps I have performed:

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*I downloaded the latest release (1.2.1) and extracted the tarball.

*I applied a small patch:
patch -p0 < my_patch.diff

*I ran the following command in the extracted directory:
./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32
            --prefix=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32
            --enable-shared

*I then ran make and waited for the library to build.

*Although there were no errors during the build process, a shared library is not built - all I end up with is a static library (despite explicitly requesting one in the ./configure step above). If I run make install, I end up with the following files / directories:

The output of the two commands is available here:

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*configure: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1161368/

*make: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1161427/

Edit: if I use the option --disable-static, I get this output: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1161441/

A: I finally decided to switch from the 1.2.1 release to a checkout of git://git.xiph.org/flac.git.
...and I am pleased to report that the library now compiles without issue and I end up with a libFLAC-8.dll file.

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What does it mean to reach a checkpoint? Do you only go back to the last checkpoint when you die?

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This post is devoted to few convex and compact sets of matrices that I like.
The set \( {\mathcal{C}_n} \) of correlation matrices. A real \( {n\times n} \) matrix \( {C} \) is a correlation matrix when \( {C} \) is symmetric, semidefinite positive, with unit diagonal. This means that
\[ C_{ii}=1, \quad C_{ji}=C_{ji},\quad \left<x,Cx\right>\geq0 \]
for every \( {1\leq i,j\leq n} \) and for every \( {x\in\mathbb{R}^n} \). In particular, we have \( {C_{ij}=C_{ji}\in[-1,1]} \) for every \( {1\leq i,j\leq n} \). The set \( {\mathcal{C}_n} \) of all correlation matrices is convex and compact. It contains the identity matrix \( {I_n} \) but is not stable by the matrix product. However, it is stable by the Schur-Hadamard entrywise product! It is the intersection of the cone of symmetric positive semidefinite matrices \( {\mathcal{S}_n^+} \) with the affine subspace of equations \( {S_{11}=\cdots=S_{nn}=1} \). A closer look at \( {\mathcal{C}_3} \) gives, by simply computing the principal minors,
\[ \begin{pmatrix} 1 & a & c \\ a & 1 & b \\ c & b & 1 \end{pmatrix} \in\mathcal{C}_3 \quad\text{iff}\quad a,b,c\in[-1,1] \quad\text{and}\quad a^2+b^2+c^2\leq 1+2abc. \]
This shows the ellipsoidal geometry of \( {\mathcal{C}_n} \), coming from the spectral constraint, and related to the Schur complement. The set \( {\mathcal{C}_n} \) is not a polytope of \( {\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}} \) (i.e. is not the intersection of a finite collection of half spaces). Some authors use the name elliptope, an example of spectrahedron (set of matrices defined by linear matrix inequalities). The extremal points of \( {\mathcal{C}_n} \) were studied by Ycart while the facial structure was explored by Laurent and Poljak. A useful parameterization of \( {\mathcal{C}_n} \) using covariance graphs was developed by Kurowicka and Cooke.
The uniform probability measure on \( {\mathcal{C}_n} \) is the normalized trace of the Lebesgue measure. Its simulation was studied by many people, and one can take a look at the works of Joe and of Lewandowski, Kurowicka, and Joe, where the volume of \( {\mathcal{C}_n} \) is also computed in \( {\mathbb{R}^{n(n-1)/2}} \):
\[ \mathrm{Volume}(\mathcal{C}_n) = \pi^{(n^2-1)/4}\frac{\prod_{k=1}^{(n-1)/2}\Gamma(2k)}{2^{(n-1)^2/4}\Gamma^{n-1}((n+1)/2)} \]
if \( {n} \) is odd, while if \( {n} \) is even:
\[ \mathrm{Volume}(\mathcal{C}_n) = \pi^{n(n-2)/4}\frac{2^{(3n^2-4n)/4}\Gamma^n(n/2)\prod_{k=1}^{(n-2)/2}\Gamma(2k)}{\Gamma^{n-1}(n)}. \]
If \( {S} \) is a symmetric \( {n\times n} \) positive semidefinite matrix then the matrix \( {C} \) defined by
\[ C_{ij}=\frac{S_{ij}}{\sqrt{S_{ii}S_{jj}}} \]
for every \( {1\leq i,j\leq n} \) belongs to \( {\mathcal{C}_n} \). If \( {C} \) is a random element of \( {\mathcal{C}_n} \) following the uniform law, then it is known that the off-diagonal entries of \( {C} \), which are correlated, follow the same law, namely the Beta law of parameter \( {(n/2,n/2)} \) on \( {[-1,1]} \) (the density of the law of \( {C} \) is also computable using a covariance graph representation, leading to the volumetric formulas above). This allows to show that if \( {S} \) is the empirical covariance matrix of a standard Gaussian sample in \( {\mathbb{R}^n} \) then the random correlation matrix constructed from \( {S} \) (which is the empirical correlation matrix) does not follow the uniform law on \( {\mathcal{C}_n} \). One may ask whether or not the asymptotic spectral properties of a uniform random element of \( {\mathcal{C}_n} \), as \( {n\rightarrow\infty} \), are identical to the ones of Gaussian empirical covariance matrices (Marchenko-Pastur quarter circular law). I have not tested this numerically by simulation.
The set \( {\mathcal{M}_n} \) of stochastic matrices. A real \( {n\times n} \) matrix \( {M} \) is a stochastic matrix (we say also a Markov matrix) when all its entries are non-negative and all rows sum up to one. This means that \( {M_{ij}\geq0} \) and \( {M_{i1}+\cdots+M_{in}=1} \) for every \( {1\leq i,j\leq n} \). In particular, \( {M_{ij}\in[0,1]} \) for all \( {1\leq i,j\leq n} \), and every row belongs to the non-negative portion of the \( {\ell^1_n} \) unit sphere. The name Markov comes from the fact that such matrices are exactly the transition matrices of finite Markov chains on a state space of cardinal \( {n} \). The set \( {\mathcal{M}_n} \) of all \( {n\times n} \) Markov matrices is convex and compact. It is a polytope of \( {\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}} \) (i.e. intersection of half spaces) with \( {n(n-1)} \) degrees of freedom. The set \( {\mathcal{M}_n} \) contains the identity matrix \( {I_n} \) and is stable by matrix product (it is thus a semigroup for this product).
If \( {E} \) is a \( {n\times n} \) matrix with non-negative entries then the \( {n\times n} \) matrix \( {M} \), defined by
\[ M_{ij}=\frac{E_{ij}}{E_{i1}+\cdots+E_{in}} \]
for every \( {1\leq i,j\leq n} \), belongs to \( {\mathcal{M}_n} \). If the entries of \( {E} \) are i.i.d. exponential random variables then the Markov matrix \( {M} \) constructed from \( {E} \) follows the uniform law on \( {\mathcal{M}_n} \) which is the normalized trace of the Lebesgue measure. This kind of random matrices is called the Dirichlet Markov Ensemble since the rows of such random matrices are i.i.d. and follow the Dirichlet distribution with parameter \( {(1,\ldots,1)} \). Note that the entries of this matrix are identically distributed and follow a Beta law, and are correlated on each row and independent across rows. The law of large numbers gives \( {E_{i1}+\cdots+E_{in}=n(1+o(1))} \) and this suggests that the asymptotic spectral properties of such a random \( {M} \) as \( {n\rightarrow\infty} \) are identical to the ones of \( {E} \) (Marchenko-Pastur quarter circular law and Girko circular law), see cb-pc-dc.
Stochastic group. Let us consider the set of all \( {n\times n} \) real matrices such that \( {M} \) is invertible and \( {M_{i1}+\cdots+M_{in}=1} \) for all \( {1\leq i\leq n} \) (note that the entries of \( {M} \) are allowed to take negative values). This set is actually a group for the matrix product, sometimes called the stochastic group, and we refer to Poole for more details. This set is neither convex nor compact and I ignore what are its asymptotic spectral properties if equipped with a probability measure (notion of uniform law via constrained maximum entropy?).
The set \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) of doubly stochastic matrices. A real \( {n\times n} \) matrix \( {B} \) is doubly stochastic (we say also bistochastic) if \( {B} \) and \( {B^\top} \) are both stochastic matrices. This means that \( {B_{i1}+\cdots+B_{in}=B_{i1}+\cdots+B_{in}=1} \) for any \( {1\leq i\leq n} \). In particular, \( {B_{ij}\in[0,1]} \) for every \( {1\leq i,j\leq n} \). The set \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) is convex and compact, and forms a polytope of \( {\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}} \) with \( {(n-1)^2} \) degrees of freedom. It was shown by Canfield and McKay that in \( {\mathbb{R}^{(n-1)\times(n-1)}} \),
\[ \mathrm{Volume}(\mathcal{B}_n) =\frac{\exp\left(\frac{1}{3}+n^2+o(1)\right)}{(2\pi)^{n-1/2}n^{(n-1)^2}n^{n-1}}. \]
The Birkhoff polytope was remarkably studied by Barvinok, and a discrete version (contingency tables) by Barvinok and Hartigan.
The set \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) contains the identity matrix and is stable by the matrix product (semigroup!). The matrix with all entries equal to \( {1/n} \) belongs to \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) and is called sometimes the Wedderburn matrix. The van der Waerden conjecture, solved by Falikman, states that the Wedderburn matrix achieves the minimum of the permanent on \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \). The set \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) is referred to as the Birkhoff polytope (that is why we use the notation \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \)). A celebrated theorem of Birkhoff and von Neumann states that \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) is the convex envelope of permutation matrices. It can be shown, using the Minkowski-Carathéodory theorem, that each element of \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) is the convex combination of at most \( {(n-1)^2+1} \) permutation matrices (which depend on the particular element). The set \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) is also known as the assignment polytope or as the transportation polytope, since each element corresponds to a transportation map between \( {n} \) unit sources and \( {n} \) unit targets. One should not confuse \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) with the permutahedron. The set \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) plays a role in diverse areas and can be used for instance for the proof of the Hoffman-Wielandt inequality in matrix analysis.
The uniform law \( {\mathcal{L}_n} \) on \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) is the normalized trace of the Lebesgue measure. The law \( {\mathcal{L}_n} \) has identical marginal laws, and is invariant by permutation of rows and of columns but is not exchangeable (i.e. invariant by any permutation of the entries). Let us consider the random walk on \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) obtained at each step by selecting randomly two rows and two columns and transferring a random amount of mass between the corresponding four entries. This is a Markov chain which admits \( {\mathcal{L}_n} \) as an invariant law. Its speed of convergence was studied by Diaconis. More recently, Chatterjee, Diaconis, and Sly have shown that many asymptotic properties of random matrices drawn from \( {\mathcal{L}_n} \) are identical to the ones of random matrices with i.i.d. exponential entries. In particular, the entries are close to the exponential distribution of mean \( {1/n} \) and the Marchenko-Pastur quarter circular law holds true. It is conjectured that the Girko circular law is also true (we ignore how to adapt the Tao and Vu proof).
Unistochastic matrices. If \( {U} \) is \( {n\times n} \) unitary then the matrix \( {(|U_{ij}|^2)_{1\leq i,j\leq n}} \) belongs to \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \). Such matrices are sometimes called unistochastic by some physicists. However, it turns out that many elements of \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) are not unistochastic.
Tridiagonal doubly stochastic matrices. The subset of tridiagonal elements of \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \) corresponds to birth and death processes on a finite state space of cardinal \( {n} \) which are symmetric with respect to the uniform law. The uniform distribution on this remarkable subset was studied by Diaconis and Wood.
Permutation matrices. Recall that \( {P} \) is an \( {n\times n} \) permutation matrix when there exists a permutation \( {\sigma} \) of \( {\{1,\ldots,n\}} \) such that \( {P_{ij}=\mathbf{1}_{i=\sigma(j)}} \) for every \( {1\leq i,j\leq n} \). The set \( {\mathcal{P}_n} \) of \( {n\times n} \) permutation matrices is the set of extremal points of the convex polytope \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \). The set \( {\mathcal{P}_n} \) is a finite sub-group of \( {\mathrm{GL}_n} \) homomorphic to the permutation group \( {\Sigma_n} \). The spectrum of a permutation matrix \( {P} \) associated to \( {\sigma\in\Sigma_n} \) is actually a very nice object which is related to its cycles decomposition. Namely, if \( {\sigma} \) has exactly \( {1\leq r\leq n} \) cycles, with lengths \( {\ell_1,\ldots,\ell_r} \), then \( {P} \) has the spectrum of the bloc diagonal matrix
\[ B_1\oplus\cdots\oplus B_r \]
where \( {B_k} \) is \( {\ell_k\times\ell_k} \) of the form (the cycle is a right shift on \( {\mathbb{Z}/\ell_k\mathbb{Z}} \))
\[ \begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & \cdots & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & \cdots & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & \cdots & 0 \\ \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & & \vdots \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & \cdots & 1 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & \cdots & 0 \end{pmatrix}. \]
The spectrum of \( {B_k} \) is given by the solutions of the equation \( {\lambda^{\ell(k)}=(-1)^{\ell(k)}} \) (roots of \( {\pm} \) unity). The spectrum of \( {P} \) is the union of the spectra of \( {B_1,\ldots,B_r} \). In particular, the spectrum of \( {P} \) is included in the unit circle \( {\{z\in\mathbb{C};|z|=1\}} \) and depends only on \( {c_1,\ldots,c_n} \) where \( {c_k} \) is the number of cycles of length \( {k} \) of \( {\sigma} \). Note that \( {c_1} \) is the number of fixed points of \( {\sigma} \), and \( {c_1+2c_2+\cdots+nc_n=n} \). Now if \( {P} \) is uniformly distributed on \( {\mathcal{P}_n} \) then \( {\sigma} \) is uniformly distributed on \( {\Sigma_n} \) and this allows to describe the spectrum of \( {P} \) via an Ewens distribution with parameter \( {\theta=1} \), which gives rise as \( {n\rightarrow\infty} \) to a Poisson-Dirichlet distribution. The spectrum of uniform permutation matrices was studied for instance by Wieand, by Hambly, Keevash, O'Connell, and Stark, and more recently by Ben Arous and Dang. We ignore how to exploit these results in order to study the spectrum of the element of \( {\mathcal{B}_n} \).
Note. I have learned the existence of the set of correlation matrices from Gérard Letac, an eclectic mind who was one of my teachers years ago.
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Intéressant !
The circular law for the Birkhoff polytope (doubly stochastic matrices) was recently proved by Hoi H. Nguyen.
Werner Hürlimann 2013-10-10
The volume of the convex set of correlation matrices has been calculated with another method in W. Hürlimann (2012), Positive semi-definite correlation matrices: recursive algorithmic generation and volume measure. Pure Mathematical Sciences 1(3), 137-149.
Corey O'Meara 2014-04-04
Related work: Corey O'Mearaa & Rajesh Pereirab, Self-dual maps and symmetric bistochastic matrices, Linear and Multilinear Algebra 61(1) 23-34 (2013).
Here are two interesting pages on mathoverflow:
Extreme points of transportation polytope
Generalizations of the Birkhoff-von Neumann theorem

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On the first map HellRaisers decided to follow the meta of this patch and picked Lone Druid, though they did not start to sit out until the hero gets Radiance. Right from the first minutes our team started to put pressure on the rival's heroes, having taken all of them away a few times in a row. Alongside with that Power Rangers took first Roshan. It seemed as though the game got calm again, and the opponent started to turn it into its favor, but HellRaisers were not going to lose that map. Our five confidently played decisive fights, took Roshan and destroyed the Ancient of Power Rangers.
HellRaisers started the second map with surprising the opponent with the pick of Terrorblade, which in combination with Chen and Nature's Prophet would give huge push potential. Our five seized the initiative rather rapidly, started to push and took four heroes of the Belorussian team at once. HellRaisers were taking towers one by one, while Power Rangers could not do a thing against that. Afoninje, who took the role of the picker, and his team took Roshan and destroyed both the top and bottom lanes of the PR team, which was trying to wait for the attack, instead of starting it themselves. However, they did not make it. As a result, HellRaisers beat Power Rangers on the second map, too. Our team showed an excellent game! As we can see, the change of the game roles did a power of good.
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This is a bit of a long story, but stay with me.
In 1967, on the Sunday of the Monterey Pop festival, record producer Barry Friedman convinced Jac Holzman, the founder and boss of Elektra Records, to fund a pet project of his to the tune of $50,000. Friedman told Holzman that the promising young singer-songwriters of his acquaintance needed a West Coast version of Big Pink – a clubhouse-style, non-traditional studio environment in which his charges could write and record and develop musically, away from the time constraints of LA's network of established studios, with their day rates and wall clocks.
Wild and mercurial, and evidently persuasive, Friedman sold Holzman on his vision, and took singer-songwriters Jackson Browne, Ned Doheny, Jack Wilce, Rolf Kempf and Peter Hodgson, as well as drummer Sandy Konikoff and engineer John Haeny up to Paxton Lodge in Northern California.
After they got back, Doheny and Browne were soon reconciled, and what the latter did in the years after Paxton Lodge is well known. But what of his friend and sometime rival Ned Doheny?
I first came across Doheny's name around 10 or 12 years ago, when reading Barney Hoskyns's Hotel California, upon which the BBC based a 90-minute documentary, called Hotel California: From the Byrds to the Eagles. Doheny was interviewed for both, and was a valuable contributor. Doheny knew everyone, was well liked and respected within the scene, his recall was sharp and his judgements acute. Not much was made in either the book or documentary about his own music, and he was presented as more of a friend-of-the-stars than a serious musician in his own right, but in the decade since then, Doheny's had something of a revival of interest in his music, to the point where he even undertook his first UK tour in 2014.
Doheny's 1973 debut album stood out a little from its peers by virtue of its author's obvious interest in R&B – evident in his occasionally jazzy vocal phrasing, his syncopated strummed acoustic guitar and bluesy lead (an impressive player, Doheny handled all the guitars on the record), as well as arrangements that included a bubbling rhythm section and the tasteful electric piano of Jimmy Calleri. Released on David Geffen's Asylum label, Ned Doheny won some positive reviews, but failed to take off commercially.
Doheny wasn't the only white singer-songwriter in LA trying to interface with R&B, jazz and funk. Tim Buckley's Greetings from LA had emerged in 1972. But while Buckley was undoubtedly a better singer than Doheny, his priapic R&B/rock albums are (for me, anyway) a dispiriting listen. Melodically impoverished next to his best work, they're also off-puttingly grubby; he sounds like a dirty old man. I'd certainly not want to hear Buckley sing a song called Get it Up for Love.
Doheny, though, somehow gets away with Get it Up for Love, the first tack from 1976's Hard Candy, around which a sizeable cult has grown in the last 10 years. Musically akin to Boz Scaggs's contemporaneous records, and even sometimes recalling Steely Dan, Hard Candy saw Doheny achieve an even more seamless acoustic/funk fusion than he had managed on his debut.
The finest moment on the record is A Love of Your Own, co-written and here co-sung with the Average White Band's Hamish Stuart (AWB would cut their own version of the song in 1976). It's a very credible falsetto soul ballad, of the sort that fans of Hall & Oates circa Abandoned Luncheonette might appreciate. Doheny deserves a lot of credit, I think, for following his own path rather than doing what Jackson Browne, John David Souther, the Eagles and countless other Canyon cowboys were doing at the time.* It's pretty heartwarming that, while that put him at odds with the commercial consensus at the time, eventually his records have found their place.
*Perhaps, his financial autonomy played a part in his elliptical career path, which seemed less about concertedly trying to make it big, and more to do with pleasing himself. Doheny was born into oil money; his great-grandfather was Edward L Doheny (after whom Doheny Drive and many other places are named) and upon whom There Will Be Blood's Daniel "I drink your milkshake" Plainview is based.
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This lady, Manjulika, is very close to my heart.
Now that is a very cheesy line to start off the post but that is what it is!
I met Manjulika when I just started off with being an influencer, thanks to this li'l blog of mine. I met her in Goa and we kicked off really well. The more I got to know her, the more I was inspired by her passion to write.
Years passed by and we would randomly talk sometime or just meet at various social events. While she took her passion very seriously, I was so much engrossed in the rock bottoms of my life that blogging took a back seat. Soon enough I realized that I need to get back to blogging because that keeps me sane. And when I returned, I saw Manjulika traveling all around the globe and leaving a mark. And that is when I realized that if you have to achieve your dreams the amount of investment of your efforts and time is too damn high!
Looking at her blog keeps me going. She is my girl next door, who inspires me every day!
When I decided to interview her, I knew that it's going to be a good learning experience. When you read her answers, you would realize that she is probably one of the most practical and realistic people you will ever come across. This is an honest and elaborated interview which is surely going to leave a mark!
Manjulika: I would be lying if I said that leaving a well-paying job as a Telecom Engineer was not painful because I grew up as an ambitious student and always wanted to make a mark in the corporate world. It came as a shock to me when the thought of leaving job began to trouble me every day and one day, I resigned. The decision was a personal one and there were many factors that led to it but I am glad that blogging gave me the strength to stand by my decision. My parents were shocked but my husband was supportive. There has not been a day when I have regretted it because I was not enjoying my job at all. I felt wasted every day. Except for the salary, there was nothing that was inspiring me to return to office while blogging had opened up new and exciting avenues. When I had started my first blog in 2008, I had never expected that blogging would change the course of my life. My motivation comes from penning down stories on my blog which is called –PENDOWN.
Question: Being a blogger is still not a real "job" in India, or anywhere for that matter. It is definitely a struggle to maintain your dignity. How has been the struggle for you so far? Is the struggle over yet?
Manjulika: Oh yes, it is a struggle in India but it is gaining momentum. I still find it hard to explain to people why I visit restaurants for review, why I attend certain social events, why I travel with my laptop everywhere, why I promote things or brands on my social media platforms and many whys. Blogging has no defined dimensions and thus it is still not taken as a serious job. But I feel it is all worth it as long as I enjoy doing it and my urge to find interesting stories is met. Everything about blogging is not lucrative but it will become one day. I do a lot of paid assignments too and there isn't a month when I don't earn but the earnings are not stable yet. There is no fixed salary to meet all my ends, however, the trips that I get to be part of or the experiences that I get to live are absolutely incomparable.
Manjulika: Honestly, being a woman, in this case, has been helpful. This may sound weird but the truth is that it is very difficult for a man to give up his job and say that I want to blog and earn. Our society will make him feel guilty. As a married female, it was easier for me because I had my husband looking after the bread and butter and together, we did not let anyone else question me that why I wanted to blog or go on trips with a different set of people every month or why I was giving up on my job. It was a mutual decision and a choice driven by passion. But yes, I wouldn't deny the peer pressure, the questions that relatives and people in the neighborhood ask. Friends and family never shy in saying, 'you have a great life.' A very few have told me we know how hard you work and we are inspired by your choice of following your passion. The reason is that a lot of people still don't know what blogging is, they don't acknowledge blogging as work and not many know how hard it is to do something like this. The biggest struggle has been to prove it to those who matter because of somewhere even they have expectations. They want me to succeed. Like my parents want to see me as a writer. They are curious about my blogging assignments.
Manjulika: Gender stereotypes! Well, I remember when my blog had won me a trip to OMAN and I had traveled there with two guys, one of them had casually mentioned to me. I think you have a cool family where they allowed you to travel with two guys. Until then it had never struck me but yes I think somewhere people do think that too much traveling is not a girl's job or females should only travel with other females. As a travel blogger, I travel with boys, girls, men, and women and of all ages. On some of the bad days, I am made to realize that I am a married woman and I should concentrate on having kids rather than running around here and there. People tell me to rest and take a break when I have just discovered my wings. But I am glad at least people acknowledge that I have work and it keeps me busy.
Manjulika: Log kya kahenge toh dimaag mei tha but I didn't bother much. I think everyone is busy in cities so even though people want to throw nasty questions at each other, they don't get time for this. Here and there, people do ask me how it feels to lose my financial independence, do I earn as much as before or when will I start saying that blogging is lucrative. I answer it honestly. I say I have no qualms about asking money from my husband or father when I need it. Thankfully, I have not felt the need to do so far. Rest, they have been extremely supportive even without saying. And it not that I don't earn. But yes, sometimes it does affect me when I see that bloggers are not getting the right share or the right amount of money. Who doesn't want to earn? So I am still waiting to reach a certain level but I am very selective about my choices. I don't end up doing everything as a social media influencer.
Question: Travelling is a dream for almost all. You are living your dream – that is what it seems to all of your readers. What all goes into making your journey look effortless?
Manjulika: I never started as a travel blogger. I was someone who started as a book and food reviewer. In fact, I would write everything and anything that exhausted my emotions. From television to cleanliness to driving, I was writing about everything except travel. I loved taking part in blogging contests and there I won a lot of them. I got to travel to 3 countries over a period of 6 months and it changed me as a person. In addition, I was traveling a lot with my husband too so I had a lot of stories to tell. Thus travel blogging happened. Honestly, I am not a born traveler, I am not an adventure freak nor I travel to prove something to anybody. I travel for myself. I enjoy simple aspects of travel. I love the thrill of discovering new places and I am never in a hurry to do everything at any place. I do not rate any place as bad or not my type. I simply want to inspire people to travel because I feel it teaches you a lot. I have evolved so much as a person only when I saw the world outside my home, my city. Everything comes effortlessly to me because I have never tried to be like anyone or have never tried to be a traveler of any kind. I have nothing to do with solo, group or couple travel. For me, travel means to go to another place. I confess I am a comfort-seeking as well as a curious traveler just like any other person. Culture, art, heritage attracts me and I love traveling for that. I am not a dreamy person, I don't have a bucket list. I am good with everything that comes my way because I believe that I haven't seen much yet.
Manjulika: One woman army is taking a toll on me. I have not even become a pro in handling all my social media accounts. Someday, I am active on Facebook, sometimes, twitter, else it's Instagram. What I liked doing seriously like about my work is blogging. As a blogger, social media influencer, wife, daughter and more, it becomes difficult to juggle especially because when you work from home, you can't ignore certain things which are happening around you at home. When you are in office, you can put your mind off the things that are troubling you at home but you can't when you freelance from your house. I am not able to do so many things that I want to do for the blog because I am not left with time. I travel and then come back and write my stories, catch up on the lost family time and more. Rather, I have been looking forward to learning photography but I have not been able to evolve. I hope I start earning much more so that I can afford to expand my time.
Question: We all have our bad days at work. What keeps you going during those days?
Manjulika: Bad days keep coming and dissolving. If they weren't there, we wouldn't appreciate the good days. With blogging, the bad days are only when you lose certain projects that you really wanted to do when I get ill or I am too tired that I am not able to deliver on time. On some days, I have to deny opportunities of traveling because I am engaged with some other assignment, so that pains me else, I don't think I have had too many bad days. If I am not able to concentrate or things around me are disturbing, I get irked. To face it all, I try and sit down to blog. My love for blogging keeps me going. I remind myself of all the beautiful things that my blog has given me. And once I sit down to write and publish something that I want to share, I feel happy again.
Question: Message for aspiring blogger?
Manjulika: There is no shortcut to blogging. No one starts getting opportunities from day one. Focus on building a style, a brand. Work on the statistics of the blog rather than buying a fake number of followers. And be passionate about discovering new stories and telling it to the world.
Don't jump into the decision of quitting your job by getting influenced by others. And if you really want to do it, start working towards it. Take a year to prepare and cut down your expenses. Do your travels on weekends and see what you enjoy and what you don't. Start doing some freelancing work or diverting your time towards your passion. You must make some money before you say goodbyes to your monthly paycheques. If you really feel that your priority is to travel and you have achieved a balance in life, then just go ahead. The salary cut down isn't easy to handle so everyone must be prepared for it. You will not regret only when you are fully prepared to face the consequences. So I wouldn't say don't follow your passion but be ready to work really hard. Remember, you need money to travel too. Though I know I am not going back to my regular job, it needs a lot of courage to hold on to the thought that traveling for passion will become lucrative someday.
I really wish that this conversation did not end because each of her instances is so true and one can relate to so easily! Once you read her blog, you will see her achievements as a person in terms of experiences is many of us dream of! She is an inspiration, isn't she?
Good work manjulika!Astounded to read your struggles.After reading this,one can say that blogging is a vast field.What needed in this field is the patience.However,it was a good blog.


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I used to struggle with that, but in recent years I've really gotten over it, so I was like, hey, I'll do a blog post on the awesomeness of me! yay!
I like how passionate I can get over the stupidest things. When I get 'into' something, I always fall in fast and deep.
Conversely, I also like my ability to multi task. I can usually juggle three or four vastly different projects/endeavors in a day.
Seriously though, Annie's got so much discipline. Somehow her routines always stick without being overly dogmatic about it.
If there's a short cut to be had, Annie won't take it. If the guitar solo could be better with an extra riff, she'll practice it all afternoon until she gets it.
We compliment each other so well, that when I find myself out and about without her, I'm lost (literally, since she normally does the directions).
I love how she's always seeking adventure. New places, new people. Yet she doesn't seem to get bored with the same sights around here either.
This place, where a river enters Lake Superior, became one of Annie's favorite hang out places this summer, especially after we discovered an eagles nest in the top of the pine tree! (look close).
She's Donna's favorite sister, not for the least of which reasons are the recent string of books Annie's read to her.
I guess what I'm saying is, two is—in this case—better than one.


The Great Buddha Statue tells us the story of how Shakyamuni became a Buddha, surrounded by a multi-layered, ornately decorated temple honoring the Buddha. The Baguashan Skywalk allows you to overlook the ecological beauty of the canopy and it also provides one of the best panoramic views of Changhua City. You can take a walk along the literature trail, and visit Changhua Arts Museum or the Spring of Youth. You can enjoy everything along the same road – humanity, literature, and ecology. Come and enjoy Changhua.
The Changhua Baguashan Skywalk was built in 2016. It resembles an iron dragon, wrapped along Bagua Mountain in Changhua. This skywalk is 1,005 meters in length and ascends up to 16 meters in height. It is the longest skywalk bridge in central Taiwan and it connects to other tourist sites in the area.
Founded in 1922, the Changhua Roundhouse is located north of Changhua Station and is under the jurisdiction of the Changhua locomotive depot. The area mostly revolves around the train turntable, fanning out into twelve tracks, forming a semi-circle. Previously, roundhouses could also be found in Taipei, Hsinchu, Chiayi, Kaohsiung and Kaohsiung Harbor. However, due to railway modernization, these roadhouses did not escape the fate of being dismantled. Such fate almost fell on the Changhua Roundhouse due to plans to build a train maintenance base in the middle of Taiwan. Yet, because of the zealous efforts made by the locals and railway fans, the Changhua Roundhouse survived unscathed and the train maintenance base moved south. Therefore, Changhua Roundhouse is the only existing roundhouse in Taiwan.
Lukang Old Street in Lukang includes Putou street, Yaolin street and Dayou street. Yaolin street and Putou street were business centers in old Lukang. In present day, they have been included in the ancient monument protection area. The red brick streets are pedestrian only, so you can experience the old style markets without fear of Taiwan-style drivers. They immerse themselves in the literary and historical studios and seek childhood memories in the traditional shops. The ancient buildings, the old artifacts that repel evil spirits, as well as scrolls reveal the life pace and style in the old days. As the tourism industry prospered in recent years, some home owners began to sell folk artwork, representing the new style of the old streets. While the tourists are reminiscent of the old time, there are still more places to visit.
Lukang Tianhou Temple was built at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. The temple enshrines Goddess Mazu, which was one of several tutelary gods for people in the Minnan area in the early days. In the 3rd year of Emperor Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1725), Shi-bang donated the place and relocated the Mazu Temple to its current location. The Tianhou Temple was renovated in the 13th year of Emperor Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1874) and the 11th year of Emperor Showa (1936) in succession. Today's temple includes the pattern and layout from the renovation in the 11th year of Emperor Showa. The temple was appointed as the third-class historic site in 1985 and a Mazu Folk Art Hall was established in 1992. Tianhou Temple still preserves the "Shen Zhao Hai Biao," the horizontal inscribed board bestowed by Emperor Yongzheng and Emperor Qianlong, the "Yu Tian Tong Gong" horizontal inscribed board bestowed by Emperor Guangxu, and the horizontal inscribed boards presented by Fujian Governor Shao-Lan Wang, Lukang officers Lan-Pei Wang and Shou-Ming Sun, and Fujian Land Route Prefect Wen-Mo Xu. All are very important cultural assets to Lukang Tianhou Temple.
Breast Touching Lane is the narrowest alley in Taiwan. It is 100cm wide and with less than 70cm at the narrowest point, it would not be wide enough for two people to pass. If two people insist on passing through at the same time, their chests would be in contact with each other, hence the name.
The "Banbian ("Half-Side") Well" is actually a complete well located within residence of the Wang Family on Yaolin Street. In the early days, it was not possible for every family to have the finances to dig a well of their own. The master of the household had the funds and therefore dug a well by the side of wall. One side was offered to the neighbors to use, and the other half was in their courtyard for personal use, demonstrating the traditional virtue of being a good neighbor.
Located on Yuannan Road, this short trail is also known as the Butterfly Trail because of the large amount of butterflies found in the spring and summer. The diverse forests along the trails offer rich ecology and provide shade to the hikers. It is a trail with adequate length and slow slopes, suitable for family activities. The acacia and mixed woods provide shade and the resting pergolas offer great angles to the panoramic view of the Tengshan Bridge Trail and Yuanlin city center.
The garden has a variety of flowers. Thousands of people visit this famous garden. When visitors enter the flower area, they will be treated to a snack, coffee, and herbal tea in the gardens. There are some education programs for adults and children, such as planting, stone engraving, and combination arts. The planted flower area occupies 341 acres including the province highway area.From October to December, flower gardeners use lights to keep the plants growing. The lights are bright enough to light the whole garden, making it look like the middle of the day, even at night. You can enjoy the beautiful flowers along the 4.7 km province highway.
If Penghu's Double-Heart of Stacked Stones is the heart of the vast blue ocean, then Dacun's Double-Heart Pond is the heart of the earth. Standing by the Double-Heart Pond, on top of the viewing platform, one is captivated by the beauty of the heart pond and the surrounding landscape. If your timing is perfect, you might just catch the amazing Pinghe sunset.
Wanggong is a fishing port in western Taiwan. Since the organization of the Wanggong Awakening National Literature and Art Festival, a tourism and recreation fishing village have become the targets of development of the fishing port. The area contains a rich culture, wetlands ecology, and the 'lamps of fishing boats in Wanggong,' one of the eight wonders of Changhua County. Wanggong is a typical fishing village. It is famous for its oysters, rich natural landscapes, and cultural resources. The port has features like mangrove forests, water birds, fiddler crabs and mudskippers. The fishing village scenes include the Wanggong Fishing Port, lighthouse, sea-watching platform and bamboo rafts; and local industries like asparagus fields, dairy farms, and aquaculture ponds.
The term "Rou Zong" means dumpling in Chinese, and "Jiao" means corner. This beach is called "dumpling corner" because the shape of the Tetrapods lining the beach look like dumplings! How creative of the Xianxi people to integrate the food we cherish into everyday life. Also, Rou Zong Jiao Beach is one of the most popular volunteer spots for people to help their community through beach cleaning events. These events take place several times throughout the year.
This small tourist attraction was originally designed by a local building construction company as an art installment. In recent days, the site has been gaining popularity as more and more people come to see the very Instagram-able village of tiny homes. You can see why it has become a popular hashtag site in Taiwan! These rainbow colored houses were built so that everyone's colorful dreams may come true!
CashanLi is the former name of Hemei Township. In its earlier days, the township was known for its umbrella industry. Paying homage to this township's industrial past, the landmarks here consist of trees and lanes decorated with colorful umbrellas. These sites tell us an ancient story of the delicate and skillful practice of fashioning hand-made umbrellas and how this skill has been passed down from generation to generation.
Have you ever wondered where those wonderfully soft socks you bought in Taiwan were actually made? Have you ever went to find the tastiest guava in all of Taiwan? Look no further than Shetou Township in Changhua County! Take a trip to see the Soxlink sock factory. At Soxlink, not only will you see the fabric machines weaving the socks, but, you will also be able to see how the company has innovated their time-honored tradition of sock making to keep-up with large global brands like Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Target and so on. After your visit, take a pair of socks home to remember your trip!
If you are a nature lover, you cannot miss the scenic hiking trail in Qingshuiyan Forest Recreation Area. There are hiking trails near Qingshuiyan Forest Area, as well as the Changqing Bikeway and countryside scenery. With several different levels of trails, people of all ages can enjoy the forest views while breathing in the fresh air and listening to the singing birds. In 2017, the Changhua County Government opened Qingshuiyan's hot spring experience facility. Now you don't have to travel far into the mountains to experience the wonder of Taiwan's hot springs! Everyone is welcome to come and experience the beauty of nature.
Taiwan Glass Exhibition Hall provides a free location for local glass artists to display their creations. There are several different sections representing the glass works in the hall which break the traditional stereotypes of the glass industry.
Sticky Rice (米糕/油飯) is a Chinese rice dish commonly made from glutinous rice. It is cooked in many different ways according to culture and tradition like the rice dumplings commonly made for the Dragon Boat Festival . It is typically made with soy sauce, oyster sauce, scallions, cilantro, mushrooms, and pork.
Savory rice pudding is another sticky rice dish also called Wa gui that is served in a bowl mixed with duck egg yolk, shiitake mushrooms, pork, and shrimp.
This omelette is different than a western style omelette since it doesn't just rely on egg to make the 'pancake.' It also uses a flour and water mixture and is then added to vegetables, finishing with the special spicy and sour sauce.
The fried Oyster bun is a special fried seafood snack that is usually served on the Taiwan coast. It is made with a flour base, with layers of cabbage slices, sprouts, green onions and oysters. It is then deep fried in the pot until the crust is golden.
Ba-wan is a Taiwanese street food, consisting of translucent dough made of sweet potato starch filled with a savory stuffing and served with a sweet and savory sauce. The stuffing varies widely across different regions in Taiwan, but it usually consists of a mixture of pork, bamboo shoots, and shiitake mushrooms. Changhua style ba-wan is considered to be the "standard" ba-wan since it is the most famous and most widely imitated of all styles.
Silver needle noodle is a variety of Chinese noodles. It is short, about 5 cm long and 5 mm in diameter. It has a white semi-transparent color. The noodles may be stir-fried, scalded and flavored with a mixture of sauces, cooked in soup or cooked dry in a clay-pot.
Ba-Boa shaved ice is a popular dessert in the hot summer! It contains a total of eight (ba comes from eight in Chinese) kinds of beans and sweets-- big bean, red bean, green bean, jelly, peanut, pineapple, sweet potato and little tapioca.


The final curtain has come down for this years playing activity for the minor club. It ended on Sunday with a magnificent win for our minors in the championship final when they defeated a strong amalgamation of Carrick Sarsfields / St Dominic's / Moydow Óg on a scoreline of 11 points to 10.
Congratulations to the players their management of Tommy, Eamonn, Gary and Daniel and the parents and guardians of these lads for all their hard work throughout the year. It is a wonderful achievement having won the minor league final the week previously.
We will be losing some of the players to the Senior Club and we wish them well in their future careers on and of the playing field. We look forward in anticipation to seeing some of these lads again in the future representing the club on county final day with our seniors.
This minor championship is the crowing moment for the club as the U14 and U16 championship have also been won in the last couple of weeks. This is the first time in Longford GAA history the 3 major underage championships titles were won by the same club in the same year. These wins are the awards for the tremendous work that has been done and continues to be done at the U6, u8, U10 and U12 and in the national school.


There will be a NON championship class for adults , if you wish to enter this class please indicate on the bottom of entry form.
Postal entries are now CLOSED but anyone still wishing to enter can do so on the day with a completed entry form at a cost of £50 per rider .
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Home News Peek inside Tesseract HQ: Robotics startup builds future in real time (with humans on the brain)
Peek inside Tesseract HQ: Robotics startup builds future in real time (with humans on the brain)
By: Austin Barnes and Tommy Felts- June 23, 2020
Interns Matthew Claar and Decker Starr with founder John Boucard and Tess; Tesseract Ventures
As an intentionally lowered screen begins to lift on Tesseract Ventures, once-seemingly-wild ideas that lived only in tech inventor John Boucard's head are being realized.
With them, the future of work is taking shape — 3D-printed piece by 3D-printed piece — hardwired in the suburbs of Kansas City.
John Boucard, Tesseract Ventures
"We were a bit mysterious in the beginning, of course we were," admitted Boucard, founder and CEO of the rising robotics startup, describing the company's approach to its emerging body of work — the subject of curious whispers within the entrepreneurial and investor community for nearly two years.
"We have a tremendous momentum and focus. … It's a different kind of company. We have creatives, we have engineers, we have strategists."
And they have robots. But Tesseract is about much more than "Tess" — the name given to several vocal helpers rolling about Tesseract's Johnson County headquarters, Boucard said.
Click here to learn why Tesseract was named one of Startland News' Kansas City Startups to Watch in 2020.
Dave Starr, John Boucard and Jason Harrell; Tesseract Ventures
Room for imagination — and practical use
While Boucard and his team remain tight-lipped about certain aspects of the startup's product development, Tesseract started to reveal itself in May with the launch of its first mainstream product, the Tesseract PRISM — wearable badges that track and document the locations and proximity of workers.
PRISM by Tesseract
"We've been very careful how we message our business, because it's a crazy creative place," Boucard said of the launch of PRISM.
Its development and the ecosystem it creates within a construction work site — among many use cases for customers — is only the beginning for Tesseract's capabilities, he said.
Progress toward the future is already well underway as Tesseract settles into its new, permanent home in Overland Park, Boucard told Startland News during a tour of the space where it proudly displays its latest creation alongside Tesseract-designed toys and still-under-wraps tech prototypes.
The move to a 5,500-square-foot office, creative studio space and workshop consolidates two locations formerly located in the Crossroads Arts District and Martin City.
We put a really nice meeting area in the back shop!
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"We see the integration of a Tesseract environment as a smart space of the future," he explained, showing off the building's "Tesseract room," which was designed to bring its users' workspace to life.
"We have exceptional microphones and cameras and we're surrounded by screens. We can have confidential and secret conversations. People feel comfortable talking, it's completely secure. We can capture every note and share it to everyone instantly that's in the room with us," Boucard explained of the futuristic-looking space, which looks and feels like the set of a science fiction or superhero movie.
The Tesseract room
"We built it though. We actually went and did it," he laughed, eager to show the space to the world and people who've dreamed of something like it existing.
"Why would we do that? Why would we build a room like that?" Boucard questioned, adding the space is most often used as a think tank.
"I wake up at 4 a.m. — no alarm — and I [can] walk into the Tesseract room and [when the room recognizes my PRISM badge,] I see Japanese cherry blossoms and we have a full blown stereo system, it's second to none. It's visually appealing and that's the inspiration for me in the morning."
Invigorated by the space, Boucard and his team, which includes Dave Starr, vice president of research and development, can then start their day in the smart space, analyzing everything from employee efficiency — with full PRISM integration — to catching up on emails, displaying blueprints in 3D and hosting virtual meetings with customers scattered across the world.
"We walk in the room, 'Welcome Dave.' 'Welcome John,' and all the documents that we're working on show up on the screen," Boucard said with enthusiasm.
"We have special pucks we can put on the table that [pull up] wraparound menus. We can touch it and then everything shows up. We've got our own Mosaic RTLS [real-time locating system] that keeps track of our own PRISM badges."
What if buildings were robots too?
As the technology develops, Tesseract plans to continue working within the construction space, Boucard noted, adding the company sees it as a natural entry point for the introduction of robotics into society. Every location from hospitals to offices could one day benefit from the technology, he said.
"Our strategy is a bit different. … Even though we're designing robots to integrate with people in the construction phase, the biggest business opportunity past that is the building of the future and the business that could occur if the building was intelligent from the start," he explained.
Tesseract sees such a vision achieved by equipping new construction buildings of the future with fleets of robots that can alert property owners to such concerns as leaks and air quality issues, as well as sterilize working environments — an especially useful tool in the era of a pandemic, Starr added.
"I think long term it's a much larger play around the Internet of Things and understanding where things are in spaces," he said.
Decker Starr, Greg Lorett, John Boucard, Dave Starr, Jason Harrell, Helena Boucard, Spencer Cook, and Matthew Claar; Tesseract Ventures
Automation without replacing humans
"When you walk in, you see the quote on the front door that says, 'There's nothing more human than technology,' and for us I think that means a lot because you can't swing a dead cat without finding another software vendor out there that wants to automate something," Starr said. "And while we believe and we understand that automation and streamlining is essential to the survival of business, how do you do that in a way that makes it more human and allows humans to work better together? That's really at the core of what we do."
Wired with purpose, robots designed with intention are the future, Boucard said, and Tesseract is the only place in the city where you'll find them roaming the office and making jokes around the watercooler.
"It's a different way to go about the market versus, 'We're going to build this robot and it's going to go clean floors.' … We've had big conversations with cleaning companies [as a result of the pandemic] where there's unions and they don't want robots replacing their jobs," he explained.
"Our take is much different. We're saying this is a solution that you want to send in before the humans."
Perfect harmony between humans and robots might seem like the far-fetched plot of a science fiction movie, but for Boucard, no idea is off limits, he said.
"One thing that I remember when I first started the business, I pitched to Digital Sandbox," he recalled of an early experience with the Kansas City proof-of-concept funding program. "I didn't get it. It was [for] 25-large and I just thought, 'You know what? I'm not thinking big enough.'"
The rejection ultimately lit a fire under Boucard and has served as fuel for what stands to become the only top tech startup in Kansas City to be 100 percent backed by local funders, he said.
"Now we have the great luxury of picking and choosing the best of the best — the best of the best in KC. And we're lucky we have a very patient investor group of talented individuals that share that vision," Boucard said.
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"No bullshit here. It's not my style," he said. "I'm straight up, let's get it done, get the best people, the best technology, the best law firm, the best strategists and go do it. So we're taking a swing at it."
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Zuma's survival plan: keep power in family
By Agency Staff	 24 April 2017 No Comments
President Jacob Zuma may maintain his political clout well after he relinquishes office if his ex-wife and mother of four of his children, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, succeeds him.
While Zuma, 75, hasn't openly anointed an heir, his comments that the party is ready to be led by a woman have been widely seen as support for Dlamini-Zuma to replace him in December as leader the ANC and as the nation's president in 2019. She's being guarded by the presidential protection unit even though she holds no official post.
Since returning to South Africa last month following a five-year stint as head of the African Union Commission, Dlamini-Zuma has crisscrossed the country addressing ANC and church meetings echoing Zuma's call for "radical economic transformation" to give the country's black majority a bigger stake in the economy. Her bid to lead the ANC has been openly backed by key Zuma allies, including the party's women's league and its youth wing in KwaZulu-Natal.
"If she wins, then Jacob Zuma will call the shots from behind the scenes," Mcebisi Ndletyana, a political science professor at the University of Johannesburg, said by phone. "She is using his infrastructure and his support base and his proxies seem to be aligned behind her candidature."
Zuma, a former intelligence operative who's been implicated in a series of scandals, may need a pardon from his successor to avoid being jailed for 783 graft charges that were dropped just weeks before he became president in 2009, according to Ndletyana.
The main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, filed a lawsuit to have the charges reinstated, and last year the high court found the decision to scrap the case was wrong — a ruling Zuma and prosecutors are contesting in the supreme court of appeal.
While Dlamini-Zuma has strong leadership credentials, her failure to speak up about the pervasive corruption under the Zuma administration has tainted her image and campaign, said Nomboniso Gasa, an independent political analyst.
"It is difficult to separate her from everything that is wrong about Zuma," Gasa said. "Her messages are very similar to those of Zuma. It is very clear that she is not going to come with a different vision. Zuma's legacy is going to continue."
Under Zuma's leadership, South Africa has stagnated and the unemployment rate has hit a 13-year high. S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings downgraded the nation's credit rating to junk this month after Zuma fired his finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, who had sought to curb spending and waste and frustrated the president's plans to build new nuclear plants.
Dlamini-Zuma, who qualified as a medical doctor and served as minister of health, foreign affairs and home affairs before being elected to her African Union post, divorced Zuma in 1998. In January, the Sunday Times cited five of Zuma's family members as saying Dlamini-Zuma, 68, and her children have a house in the president's private homestead in the KwaZulu-Natal village of Nkandla and she has been a regular visitor there.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
The compound has been the focus of a national controversy. Last year, South Africa's top court ruled that Zuma violated his oath of office when he ignored a graft ombudsman's directive to repay taxpayer funds spent on a building a swimming pool, amphitheatre and cattle kraal.
Dlamini-Zuma has refused to answer questions as to why she's been allocated state cars and bodyguards normally reserved for serving or retired heads of state, or spell out what radical economic transformation should entail. In recent speeches, she's accused schools of teaching students to oppose the ANC and called for greater black ownership of the banking industry.
She comes across as arrogant and lacking in charisma, said Theo Venter, a political analyst at North West University's business school in Potchefstroom, west of Johannesburg.
"There are some serious misgivings around whether she is a good candidate," Venter said. "If you are an opposition party, you can only hope that she makes it because when it gets to 2019 everything that is happening this year will be painted on her and she will have a horrible time in defending the ANC."
After tens of thousands of South Africans took to the streets on 7 April to protest Zuma's decision to fire Gordhan, a post appeared on Dlamini-Zuma's verified Twitter account calling the protests "rubbish". Dlamini-Zuma said the post was fake and it was later deleted.
Five political analysts surveyed by Rand Merchant Bank said Zuma's continued presence in office and the possibility that Dlamini-Zuma may succeed him could place the ANC at risk of losing its majority in the 2019 elections, the Johannesburg-based lender said in a report.
Dlamini-Zuma's office didn't respond to several requests for an interview.
Her main rival in the ANC leadership battle is deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, a lawyer, former labour union leader and the second richest black South African, according to the Sunday Times. He publicly criticised Zuma's decision to fire Gordhan.
"Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's victory would send a negative signal, if only because of the trust deficit that Zuma has created," said Anne Fruhauf, vice president at New York-based risk adviser Teneo Intelligence. "She may well develop her own agenda over time but she might find it difficult to make marked departures from Zuma's policies, including the nuclear programme, if she owes her political victory primarily to the president's backers." — (c) 2017 Bloomberg LP
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Q: Echo a string into the HTML header This has got my mind twisted. Obviously PHP can't handle something ahead of time before it even knows there is a problem.
I've got this in the header of the document:
<? $site = new core();
register_shutdown_function(shutdown);
echo $site->insert_to_header(); ?>

Then further down, purposely put:
echo $test;

To create a warning. This gets taken to shutdown();, that looks like this:
class core {
function shutdown() {
$a = error_get_last();
if ($a == null) {
    echo "No errors";
} else {
    core::insert_to_header_cache('<link rel="stylesheet" href="core.css" type="text/css" />');
    core::insert_to_body_cache('

Error!

Error type: ' . $a[type] . '

Error message: ' . $a[message] . '

Located in: ' . $a[file] . '

Line: ' . $a[line] . '

');
}
}
//TODO Teleport variables to here, without doing that beforehand, this whole thing is broken :(
function insert_to_header_cache($insertion ='') {
    $headercache += $insertion . '/n';
    return true;
}

function insert_to_body_cache($insertion ='') {
    $bodycache += $insertion . '/n';
    return true;
}
function insert_to_header() {
    global $headercache;
    echo $headercache;
    return true;
}

function insert_to_body() {
   global $bodycache;
    return $bodycache;
}
}

My problem is, how can I get my insert_to_header_cache function to output back up into the header when it's already past that point?
Please keep in mind I realize calling global $bodycache and $headercache isn't working, but this isn't the issue here. Echoing anything in advance here doesn't work. because of order, I know that much.
Thanks in advance,
Evan Harrison

A: you can use output buffering. in a few words it allows you to collect all the output in a string before sending it to the client, and at the end you can manipulate the output that you has and finally send it to the client

A: My suggestion is to not output anything until all of the processing is complete and any injections of scripts, stylesheets or other resources have been performed on a Page object. If you wait until your view is completely ready, then compile the output, you have quite a bit more control over things like script and stylesheets being included in things like head tags.
Below is a simplistic example that is only meant to demonstrate what I'm talking about. As we discussed in the comments below the question, you can replace the buildOutput() method with a method to instead point to a PHP file that represents your view with calls to return the list of script and stylesheet URLs, for example.
<?php

class page {

    private $head;
    private $body;

    public function __construct(){
        $this->head = array('scripts'=>array(),'styles'=>array());
        $this->body = '';
    }

    public function addStylesheet($link) {
        $this->head['styles'][] = $link;
    }

    public function addScript($link) {
        $this->head['scripts'][] = $link;
    }

    public function setBody($content) {
        $this->body = $content;
    }

    public function buildOutput() {
        $c_styles = count($this->head['styles']);
        $c_scripts = count($this->head['scripts']);
        $styles = '';
        $scripts = '';

        for ($i = 0; $i < $c_styles; $i++) {
            $styles .= '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="'.$this->head['styles'][$i].'" />'."\n";
        }

        for ($i = 0; $i < $c_scripts; $i++) {
            $scripts .= ''."\n";
        }

        $html = "

$styles
$scripts

$this->body

";
        return $html;
    }

}

$page = new page;

$page->addStylesheet('http://www.example.com/my.css');
$page->addStylesheet('http://www.example.com/their.css');
$page->addScript('http://www.example.com/my.js');
$page->addScript('http://www.example.com/their.js');
$page->setBody('
This is my body
');

echo $page->buildOutput();

?>

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An Alert Bay man lit a fire in a carport of a residence and was charged with arson.
Just past midnight on June 21, 2016, the Alert Bay RCMP were called to a report that an intoxicated male, had lit a fire in the carport of a residence on the Namgis First Nation.
Upon arrival, investigators learned that a male, who resides at the residence, had been having a gathering at his home with seven other people. The resident had been asked to leave and been purposefully locked out after he began to cause a disturbance.
A short time after locking the male outside, one of the partygoers smelled smoke and went outside to investigate.
She discovered a bag of garbage had been lit on fire, directly against the door of the residence. The partygoers moved the fire away from the door and extinguished it in the carport.
Upon further inspection the occupants discovered that the rear door, the only other exit, had been blocked from the exterior with chairs and other assorted debris. Minor damage was sustained to the residence and no one was injured as a result of this occurrence.
Alert Bay RCMP located and arrested the suspect male, shortly after being called to the residence. The 38-year old male appeared before a Judicial Justice of the Peace June 22 and will remain in custody until his next court appearance July 12 in Port Hardy.


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Q: Keep getting TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str on my code I searched for other answers but couldn't get it right. It'd be awesome if someone could help me :) I keep getting this error: TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "NoneType") to str | on this code. I was trying to write a code that makes automatic e-mail based on the name of the person plus the ammount of characters in their name.
name = input("whats your name?")

number_of_letters = len(name+ "gmail.com")

print(len(name))

print((name) + (len(name)) + ("@gmail.com"))

A: You can't add int and str,
You just need to change this line,
print((name) + str(len(name)) + ("@gmail.com"))
#              ^ edited here

A: len(name) returns an int value, so when you do name + len(name), Python doesn't know if it should be adding the values or concatenating them.  You can use str(len(name)) to make it clear that you want len(name) to be treated as a string.  Also, the parentheses around each piece aren't necessary (although they won't cause any problems either).
print(name + str(len(name)) + "@gmail.com")


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Alert1 Medical Alert Review
by Jeph Preece Sep 6, 2017, 4:38 PM - Source: Dignifyed
Fall detection received top marks.
Above-average pendant range (105 feet).
Expensive packages require bulk payments to cut costs.
Cellular adapter takes up space and adds steps to setup.
Call response time of 67.13 seconds.
Though it boasts some excellent technology, the Alert1's pricing and overall average performance don't make it competitive enough with other products on the market.
$35.95Alert1
Alert1 has five package options: Home (with optional cellular adapter), Home Fall Detection, Mobile, Mobile Fall Detection, and Mobile + Home Fall Detection. Unlike with most services, in which the fall-detection pendant is an add-on, Alert1 emphasizes the pendant in a separate package.
For our medical alert review, we tested the Home Fall Detection package, which included a cellular adapter that resembled a modem. This added a step to the setup that other in-home medical alert systems didn't have, and it required two outlets.
The biggest downside to Alert1 is the pricing; the company received a failing grade in our cost comparison. At the time of our review, Alert1's packages all cost about $10 more per month than the market average. For example, the in-home landline system was $39.95 per month, but the market average was $30 per month. It's the same with the in-home cellular and the mobile alert packages: $10 above the market average for comparable devices.
On a positive note, Alert1provides excellent savings with bigger upfront payments. If you select the annual, semi-annual or quarterly payment options, you save $10 per month. On average, most medical alert services provide $3.90 per month in savings with bulk payments. When you consider that Alert1's bulk payment savings simply bring its prices down to the market average, however, it's clear that the service is still playing catchup.
Of course, prices fluctuate all the time. You should confirm and compare prices before you purchase a medical alert system.
The only feature that stood out in testing with Alert1 was the fall-detection pendant, which received an A grade. The pendant isn't unique to Alert1, as it's used by three other services in our review. But it was our favorite fall-detection pendant, because it accurately detected our simulated falls and wasn't too sensitive. While it activated on several of the drops from 12 inches, it didn't activate on any drops from 6 inches. Many of the fall-detection pendants we tested caused far too many false alerts when dropped from the shorter height.
Alert1's speakerphone was OK, receiving a B grade in comparison to other systems. The volume didn't match that of better speakerphones, which means you may struggle to hear the operators if you're in another room. But the audio was clearer than most.
We were surprised by the cellular adapter, since there were no pictures of the adapter on the website. This is the only service in our review that had an external, modem-like adapter like this. While the extra step in the setup wasn't difficult to figure out (you simply connect the adapter to the base unit), the adapter requires additional space and an additional power outlet.
Alert1's call-response time wasn't great, averaging 67.13 seconds. Out of 20 services, this came in 12th place. While this time was a few seconds faster than average, it still doesn't come close to the fastest response time of 20.67 seconds (GreatCall). Seconds matter in an emergency, so this is a significant concern to consider.
The monitoring center's call quality didn't stand out, receiving just a C+ grade in our evaluation. While the operators were all professional and some were exemplary, we had enough operators who sounded tired and bored that we had to lower the grade. A few even sounded eager to end the call, reading off a script with a pace that was too fast for comfort. Overall, the calls were just a little too inconsistent to receive a higher grade.
Based just on Alert1's pricing structure, there simply isn't enough value in the packages to compete with more-affordable medical-alert systems. The fall-detection pendant was excellent, but every other aspect of Alert1 was just average, which is why this service didn't receive our top recommendation.
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Octopus 'Teachers' Demonstrate They Feel Emotional Pain
As a documentary about a cephalopod contends for an Oscar, a new study reveals the sophistication of the animals' inner experiences
By Anna Blaustein on April 23, 2021
Pygmy octopus in a coral. Credit: Getty Images
An octopus nestles under a rock, but she's still within reach of the shark following her scent. The shark bites down on one of her arms and rolls over again and again, twisting the limb trapped between its jaws until it detaches. The shark swims away with the arm in its mouth, spitting out sand and rocks acquired in the scuffle.
Where her arm used to be, the octopus has a stub of bright-white flesh. She retreats from the site of the encounter slowly and without her usual flair, almost crawling along the seafloor on her way back to her den.
The scene is from My Octopus Teacher, a film nominated for Best Documentary in this year's Academy Awards, which will take place on April 25. Human viewers empathize with this cephalopod, whose intelligence and curiosity are apparent in the documentary. But what might she have experienced during the gruesome shark attack?
Until recently, there was no rigorous research showing that invertebrates experience the emotional component of pain. A study published in iScience in March provides the strongest evidence yet that octopuses feel pain like mammals do, bolstering the case for establishing welfare regulations for these animals.
The experiment, says Lynne Sneddon, a fish pain researcher at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, who was not involved in the study, "shows beyond a doubt that [octopuses] are capable of experiencing pain."
Much of what we might think of as a reaction to pain, such as pulling your hand away from a hot stove, is actually a reflex. It happens automatically, without involving the brain, in almost all animals with a nervous system. Pain is a two-part experience that occurs in the brain. The first part is awareness of a physical sensation, such as the throbbing of your burned hand. The second, more complicated part is the emotional experience associated with that sensation: realizing that your throbbing fingers and blistering skin are causing discomfort.
It is this emotional aspect of pain that is relevant for animal welfare, ethicists say. But it is difficult to measure. "I don't think there's any way of proving that another organism, even another human, actually, is experiencing conscious pain the way that we ourselves do," says Terry Walters, a pain researcher at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, who gave feedback for an early draft of the study but was not directly involved. The closest we can get for other species, he says, is determining what situations and experiences they try to avoid.
That is what Robyn Crook did using a so-called conditioned place preference test at her lab at San Francisco State University. This test is a common method of determining whether mice and rats are experiencing pain, and she found that octopuses behave like their mammalian counterparts in the assay.
During the experiment, Crook placed a Bock's pygmy octopus between two chambers, one with stripes on the walls and the other with spots. Both patterns were new to the animal and intended to catch her attention. The researcher then let her roam around and observed where she lingered.
The next day, in another part of the lab, Crook injected a small bead of acetic acid into one of the octopus's arms. She says doing so is like squirting lemon juice on a paper cut. When the animal awoke with a stinging arm, Crook confined her to whichever chamber she had preferred before.
The researcher removed the octopus 20 minutes later and administered lidocaine to numb her arm. Crook then placed her in the chamber she had not liked as much at first. After another 20 minutes, Crook returned her to her home tank.
Finally, about five hours later, Crook brought the octopus back to the chambers and gave her a choice: return to the initially preferred chamber, where she was confined with a stinging arm, or go to the one she had not liked as much but where she was numb. "All we're asking is, 'What do you remember feeling in those two places?'" Crook says. She ran the experiment with seven octopuses. They consistently chose to go to the second, nonpreferred chamber. As a control, Crook injected seven other animals with saline instead of acetic acid. Unlike the experimental group, those octopuses returned to the room they had originally preferred.
The results show the cephalopods' complex pain experiences. They associated the chamber they had once liked best with the stinging they felt the last time they were there, even though the injection occurred somewhere else. Then they compared that experience with their typical pain-free state and decided that how they usually felt was better. "That's the sort of big cognitive leap you have to make to be able to do this particular learning experiment," Crook says. Using all that information, the octopuses chose to go to the nonpreferred chamber. "There's a lot of conscious processing that has to happen," she says.
Walters thought Crook's experimental setup was elegant and thorough in devising a test for emotional pain in octopuses. "She did it in a way that is more systematic, more complete, more careful than anybody's ever done with any invertebrate," he says.
As the octopus from My Octopus Teacher recuperates in her den, swimmer and filmmaker Craig Foster checks on her daily. He feels deeply connected to the animal, and she may feel connected to him. It is hard to say.
Crook's latest study suggests that there ought to be more focus on the welfare of these animals, which are currently unprotected in both research and industry in the U.S.. In this country, animal welfare regulations apply only to vertebrates—they use a backbone as a proxy for the complexity of an animal's brain. Crook's work challenges that assumption by demonstrating emotional pain in tiny octopuses. Meanwhile unregulated use of the cephalopods continues at a small scale in labs and at a much larger scale in the food industry. There is even talk of farming octopuses for food. "It's not clear at all that's a good idea. It's very possibly an extremely bad idea," says Jonathan Birch, an animal sentience researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science, who was not involved in Crook's study.
Historically, findings that, like Crook's, indicate that a creature's brain is more complex than previously thought, combined with changes in public perception about the treatment of animals, have led to increased protections, she explains. "We see this very slow broadening of our circle of concern," Crook says. As her research strengthens the scientific case for welfare regulations, popular works such as My Octopus Teacher could help shape public opinion.
"It generates curiosity and concern for ocean habitats, and I think that's a great thing," Crook says. "If what comes out of it is more general public concern for the lives and deaths of octopuses and other cephalopods, then that's also great."
Anna Blaustein is a science journalist. She has a bachelor's degree in biology from Bowdoin College and a master's degree in science writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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He had said that the government would no longer provide financial assistance to recapitalize the remaining A category banks because the government did not have the financial resources.
The banks were all recapitalized by the government as a bail-out program to help rescue the banking sector crippled by the 1997-1998 financial crisis.
Authorities are starting to recapitalize banks and professionalize credit operations, but it's a slow process - and the banks keep lending.
The government has also spent $120 billion in the course of the past four years recapitalizing banks and buying bad loans.
A corporation, or an industry, is sustainable only when it continually reinvents and recapitalizes itself to meet changing business requirements.
The rescue plan, in which the company is to be recapitalized in a two-phase cash injection from the government, was announced Oct. 4.
The two recapitalised banks have established their Boards and Board committees.
Moreover, important steps were taken to recapitalize the banking system.
We have to recapitalize this company, and there are various methods we can use.
The now privatised Zambian mines have recently been recapitalised by the new owners Anglo-American Corporation.
He said in an interview that the greatest challenge that the company was currently facing was inadequate funds to recapitalise its operations.
At that time, the government dramatically expanded the loan guarantee program and recapitalised the banks with public funds.
That type of undertaking means anything from radical changes in strategy to trimming product lines, selling non-core assets or businesses, recapitalizing foreign subsidiaries, realigning management, or selling the entire company.
Instead of privatizing its state banks and financial firms, Beijing has decided to recapitalize them.
The government recapitalized the bank and now owns a 57 percent stake in it.
He offered to lend them money to repurchase the shares and recapitalise the business.
And I do believe that the Fed is confident (especially after the early 1990s experience) that any banking system problem can be resolved by recapitalizing the industry (either directly or through cheap borrowings).
The banks have been recapitalized with $33 billion in new funds, and four asset management companies have taken over nearly $160 billion in bad loans with an eye toward restructuring the debtors.
And he said they had launched a programme that would help mobilise finances and recapitalise the company.
Unless insolvent institutions are recapitalized with sufficient real capital and banks end their ruinous lending practices, the stock of bad loans will continue to rise.


DiBenedetto walked (3-0); Ball advanced to second.
Rosano singled up the middle, advanced to second on an error by cf (2-1).
Maher doubled to center field, RBI (2-0); Rosano scored, unearned.
Velez singled to center field (1-0).
Walsh singled to right center (1-0).
Rosano walked (3-1); Petruzzelli advanced to third on a wild pitch.
Rosano advanced to second; Petruzzelli out at third c to 3b, caught stealing.
Maher walked (3-2); Rosano stole third.
Maher advanced to second on a wild pitch.
Cooksey to 2b for Petruzzelli.
Velez singled to right center (1-1).
Bowser walked (3-2); Velez advanced to second.
Mulhern to rf for Downs.
Ball singled to left center (0-0).
Turcotte to p for Chotkowski.
Rosano hit by pitch (0-1).
Smith to p for Genereux.
Sullivan reached on a fielder's choice (1-1).
Medeiros reached on an error by 2b (0-2); Feole advanced to second.
Ball walked (3-2); Medeiros advanced to second; Feole advanced to third.


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El monte Kaplan es un pico de la Antártida perteneciente a la cordillera Hughes, que a su vez está situada en la cordillera de la Reina Maud, en las montañas Transantárticas. Tiene una altitud de   y una prominencia de . Se encuentra a 5 km al suroeste del monte Wexler.

La montaña fue descubierta y fotografiada por el almirante Richard Byrd durante un vuelo el 18 de noviembre de 1929 y visitada por A.P. Crary en 1957-1958. Crary nombró el pico en honor de Joseph Kaplan, el presidente de la comisión nacional de Estados Unidos para el Año Geofísico Internacional.

Referencias

Kaplan
Dependencia Ross
Cuatromiles de la Antártida
Picos ultraprominentes de la Antártida
Descubrimientos geográficos de Estados Unidos
Descubrimientos geográficos de 1929
Estados Unidos en 1927

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Nestlé's $10 bln L'Oréal sale is a messy trim
8 Dec 2021 By Dasha Afanasieva Follow @dasha_reuters
The food giant sold a 3% stake in the French cosmetics group, hanging onto 20%. It's been a strong performer, but a full exit would make more sense for Nestlé's shareholders. CEO Mark Schneider's timidity may reflect a dearth of reasonably priced companies to spend the money on.
Nestlé will cut its stake in L'Oréal by selling shares worth 8.9 billion euros back to the French cosmetics brand, the food group said late on Dec. 7.
Following the deal, Nestlé said it would own 20.1% of L'Oréal, down from 23.3%.
L'Oréal is paying 400 euros per share and planning to cancel the stock afterwards. As a result, the Bettencourt Meyers family's stake will rise to 35% from 33%.
Nestlé shares rose almost 2% by 0908 GMT on Dec. 8, while L'Oréal rose 1%.
Source: REUTERS/Charles Platiau
The logo of French cosmetics group L'Oreal is seen on a sales counter at a department store in Paris April 20, 2015.
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