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Isa Genzken: Retrospective
Minimalism & Post-Minimalism
Isa Genzken
Michael Darling
Sabine Breitwieser
Laura Hoptman
Jeffrey Grove
Stephanie Weber
Museum of Contemporary Art
Isa Genzken, Oil XI, 2007. Vinyl, plastic, and aluminum suitcases; silkscreen on laminated fabric, jackets, stuffed animals, plastic, paper, frames, and three fabric-and-plastic space suits, twenty parts, dimensions variable. Installation view, the German Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007. © Isa Genzken. Photo: Jan Bitter, Berlin. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin.
April 12–August 3, 2014
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Ave
www.mcachicago.org
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) presents the first large-scale American retrospective of Isa Genzken, one of the most important and influential sculptors of the past forty years. This exhibition of work by the renowned Berlin-based German artist, organized jointly by MCA Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Dallas Museum of Art, seeks to introduce American audiences to the breadth of Genzken's forty-plus-year career. Isa Genzken: Retrospective is on view April 12–August 3 and is organized by Michael Darling, MCA Chicago James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator; Sabine Breitwieser, former MoMA Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art; Laura Hoptman, MoMA Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture; Jeffrey Grove, Dallas Museum of Art Senior Curator of Special Projects & Research; with Stephanie Weber, MoMA Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance Art.
Genzken began exhibiting in the late 1970s, appearing regularly in solo shows at major galleries and museums as well as prestigious international group shows such as the Venice Biennale and dOCUMENTA. Her early work was initially inspired by minimalism but quickly expanded to blur traditional distinctions between painting, sculpture, and photography. Genzken's eclectic approach could be compared to other artists—Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, James Welling—but unlike them, Genzken cannot be defined by a single medium and she has made influential contributions in numerous fields.
This exhibition encompasses Genzken's work produced over the past four decades, with the past decade being one of particular productivity for her. During this time, she has taken her interest in found objects and collage and created several bodies of work that have redefined assemblage for younger artists working today. These works, which range from smaller, diorama-like sculptures to room-filling installations, incorporate photographs, kitschy souvenirs, pop culture cast-offs, cheap household products, and high-end design objects. Genzken is interested in combining many materials to create evocative statements that are immediately recognizable by the public as hers. The breadth of her achievements—which include not only three-dimensional works but also paintings, photographs, collages, artist's books, performances, films, and public sculptures—has remained obscure in most of the United States, and many of the works in this exhibition are on view in this country for the first time.
Divided into chronological sections and arranged thematically within those sections, the exhibition presents major works and series as points that signal new phases or chapters in the artist's body of work. The exhibition begins with Genzken's Minimalist sculptures from the 1970s and early 1980s (Gelbes Ellipsoid [Yellow Ellipsoid] [1976], Rotschwarz- gelbes Ellipsoid 'S.L. Popova' [Red-black-yellow Ellipsoid 'S.L. Popova'] [1981]), and her plaster, concrete, and epoxy sculptures from the 1980s (Mein Gehirn [1984], Bild [1989]), and culminates with series of assemblages that she began in the late 1990s and continues today (Spielautomat [Slot machine] [1999–2000], Kinder Filmen [Filming Children] [2005], and Hospital [Ground Zero] [2008]). Two new large-scale works are on view for the first time: Untitled (2012), a monumental photo collage, and Schauspieler (Actors) (2013), a multipart environment that features elaborately altered mannequins and props. Another major installation, Oil XI (2007), which was part of her installation in the German Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, is part of the exhibition.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue that features in-depth essays by the exhibition's four curators, as well as Lisa Lee, a specialist on Genzken's work and a professor at the University of Chicago.
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Q: How to get the file diff between two S3 buckets? So I have an S3 bucket of videos (several hundred), upon which I used ElasticTranscoder to transcode everything into a second, optimised bucket.
However, when I inspect my second bucket, there are 40-50 less objects, but I cannot figure out what they are (the directory structure is deeply nested etc).
How can I get the file diff of two buckets using aws s3api list-objects?
Perhaps there are files in the bucket which are not videos, which I somehow didn't know about.

A: You can use the sync command with the --dryrun option to compare instead of syncing.
aws s3 sync s3://bucket s3://bucket2 --dryrun
You can, of course, also use it to compare a local directory with a bucket.
aws s3 sync . s3://bucket2 --dryrun

A: Using Display only filenames:
aws s3 ls s3://bucket-1 --recursive | awk '{$1=$2=$3=""; print $0}' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | sort > bucket_1_files
aws s3 ls s3://bucket-2 --recursive | awk '{$1=$2=$3=""; print $0}' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | sort > bucket_2_files

diff bucket_1_files bucket_2_files

A: Inspired from @George comment
you can use this to extract paths list:
aws s3 sync s3://<main-bucket> s3://<second-bucket> --dryrun | awk 'match($3,"^(s3://[^/]+/)(.*)",a) {print a[2]}'

or for local paths
aws s3 sync <local-path> s3://darsak2.public --dryrun | awk 'match($3,"^(./)?(.*)",a) {print a[2]}'

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NEET 2017: CEE Kerala spot admissions begin today, reporting at Government Medical College campus
NEET 2017: The reporting process will take place in four rounds. The first round is on August 30 at 9 am for who have secured a state medical rank from 1 to 4,000.
By: Express Web Desk
New Delhi | August 30, 2017 12:39 IST
NEET 2017: The reporting process will take place in four rounds. The final two rounds will take place on August 31 at 9 am and from 2 pm for candidates with ranks ranging from 8,001 to 25,600 and above.
The spot admissions under the Commissionarate of Entrance Examinations (CEE) of Kerala have commenced on Wednesday, August 30, 2017. Candidates who have applied for the same report to the Old Auditorium, Government Medical College campus in Thiruvananthapuram.
The reporting process will take place in four rounds. The first round is on August 30 at 9 am for who have secured a state medical rank from 1 to 4,000.
The second round will take place from 2 pm on August 30 for ranks 4,001 to 8,000. The final two rounds will take place on August 31 at 9 am and from 2 pm for candidates with ranks ranging from 8,001 to 25,600 and above. Read | NEET Tamil Nadu: Counselling for management/ NRI quota seats to begin from August 31, click here
"Candidates from outside Kerala seeking admission to seats reserved for them shall have to report before 9 am on 3.08.2017, along with nativity proof, minority community certificate and other required documents," CEE Kerala said in a notice. It added that students are required to bring their spot admission slits to be allowed to enter the centre for reporting.
Value ties with Pakistan, look forward to scheduling meetings: US

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The Delhi door (also known as the Delhi gate) was the city guard entrance on the southern side of the city of Delhi. This gate is located between the old Delhi area (Shahjahanabad) and the New Delhi area. It is situated on the edge of Daryaganj. This door was constructed by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in 1638 as the gateway to the guard wall of Delhi's seventh city, Shahjahanabad. The king was using this gate to go to Jama Masjid to pray.


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Press office Press releases
Final countdown on stamp duty holiday leaves conveyancing solicitors under pressure
Renewal of Business Tenancies, 3rd edition
Stamp Duty Land Tax Handbook
As the 30 June stamp duty land tax (SDLT) holiday deadline approaches, the Law Society has published new guidance for under-pressure conveyancing solicitors.
The guidance covers managing clients' expectations and offers practical suggestions for dealing with transactions.
The chancellor Rishi Sunak extended the SDLT holiday in the March budget. Once the 30 June deadline passes, a new tapered rate will come into force and run from July to the end of September.
In Wales meanwhile, the land transaction tax (LTT) concession will come to a hard end on 30 June with no tapering arrangements after this date.
"We understand the terrific pressure that conveyancers are under ahead of the 30 June deadline, pressure that many solicitors have now been under for some time as they continue to work under the most challenging circumstances," said Law Society of England and Wales president I. Stephanie Boyce.
"Stressed and under-pressure solicitors have been working late into the night and over weekends, with little or no work-life balance, to ensure their clients' transactions are able to complete according to their wishes.
"It is key at this stage for conveyancing solicitors to take steps to manage their clients' expectations about completing in time to take advantage of the stamp duty holiday.
"Many factors limiting the speed of a move – delays in the issuing of search results, delays in mortgage offers being issued, problems in the chain and with dependent transactions – are usually outside the control of the conveyancer. They cannot guarantee transactions will complete before the end of June."
For England, tips include informing clients of the, admittedly not-so-beneficial, arrangement that will come into force from 1 July, and trying to make sure they have realistic expectations of the impact of not making the 30 June deadline.
Arranging completion dates as much in advance of the end of June is also advised, where possible.
The guidance also looks at the potential impact of the Leasehold Reform Bill and how to prepare for professional indemnity insurance (PII) renewals.
Notes for editors
Read the guidance in full
About the Law Society
The Law Society is the independent professional body that works globally to support and represent solicitors, promoting the highest professional standards, the public interest and the rule of law.
Press office contact: Nick Mayo | 020 8049 4100
Budget response: SDLT cliff edge averted, but justice system is still on the brink
Budget: Solicitors' leader examines key takeaways for legal profession
Call for urgent action ahead of stamp duty holiday deadline
This page was printed on 29/01/2022 and the up-to-date version can be found online at https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/contact-or-visit-us/press-office/press-releases/final-countdown-on-stamp-duty-holiday-leaves-conveyancing-solicitors-under-pressure


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US Democrats unveil carbon-neutral 'Green New Deal'
Congressional Democrats including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey have introduced a framework to battle climate change known as the "Green New Deal," which will promote clean energy programs across the United States. Photo: AFP
AFP, Washington
Congressional Democrats on Thursday unveiled an unprecedented plan to reverse climate change and eliminate all US carbon emissions within 10 years, by taking drastic steps that would require transformational action across the economy.
The "Green New Deal" introduced by liberal congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a rising Democratic star in the House, and Senator Ed Markey is a dramatic, potentially unrealistic, statement of intent on a sustainable path forward.
"This is our first step," Ocasio-Cortez told reporters.
"Today is the day we choose to assert ourselves as a global leader in transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy and charting that path."
The plan does not detail exactly how America will wean itself off of fossil fuels, or how much the ambitious transformation will cost.
The Republican Party hammered the deal as a "socialist wish list" which could cost upwards of $2 trillion.
The non-binding resolution is effectively a blueprint of dramatic action -- it proposes "upgrading all existing buildings" in the country, for example -- that could be taken to address climate change.
It is already playing a role on the 2020 presidential campaign trail, with progressive Democratic hopefuls including Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren expressing support.
"The green generation has risen up, and they are saying they want this issue solved," Markey said. "So this is going to enter the 2020 election cycle as one of the top two or three issues."
The ambitious goal, according to the measure, is to achieve "net-zero greenhouse gas emissions," in part by meeting 100 percent of the power demand through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who appeared to brush off the resolution as a "green dream" the day before, welcomed the "enthusiasm" with which Democrats were engaging in pushing the framework.
The measure has dozens of sponsors, none of them Republican.
The goal to become carbon neutral within a decade will most likely prove exceedingly ambitious, given the oil and gas industry's deep entrenchment in the global economy.
One critical factor will be the buy-in of President Donald Trump, who pulled the US out of the Paris climate accord, as is seen by Democrats as the world's most prominent climate-change denier.
The Paris deal saw nations agree to limit global temperature rises this century to below two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), and under 1.5C if possible.
Failure to meet those goals, scientists have said, could result in irreversible sea level rise, disastrous droughts and higher temperatures.
Senate approves impeachment trial rules, rejecting witnesses
India imposes higher customs duty on 28 US products
China accuses US of trying to block its tech development
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70 candidates cannot conduct electioneering


On March 29th, British Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50 to start the process for the UK to leave the European Union. Then, less than a month later – April 18th – the PM called for a snap general election.
We at Net Affinity have being watching developments closely, along with the rest of travel industry and, indeed, everyone else. Brexit will certainly affect tourism – but what specific impact will this have on the hotel landscape?
Early signs from June 2016, when the initial vote for Brexit took place, showed few changes to demand in the market. However, with a snap election announced the process of leaving the EU officially commenced, have things changed?
The snap election, with polls as they currently stand, seems likely to reinforce the hard Brexit that Theresa May and other members of the UK conservative party are pushing for.
Here's one change we can currently analyse with certainty: the drop in the pound versus the euro now makes Ireland an expensive destination in the eyes of the United Kingdom and Northern Irish traveller.
The drop in the value of the pound that Brexit caused is likely affecting tourism to all countries. However, since Ireland is so close to the UK and there's such heavy tourism traffic between the two countries, it's a particularly interesting case. We've examined it in depth below.
Here's what we know, and here's what hotels can do to maintain and grow direct bookings in the wake of Brexit.
In March 2017, the CSO (Central Statistics Office for Ireland) released figures stating that UK visitors to Ireland were down by 5.9% for Dec '16 to Feb '17, compared to the same time last year.
The same report shows that, over the same period, Ireland saw a 1% increase in European visitors and 38.2% growth in North American visitors. Other long haul destinations were up by 20%.
A recent survey by the Irish Hotels Federation shows that 4 in 10 Irish hotels are seeing a drop in advance bookings from Britain, while just over a quarter have said that bookings from Northern Ireland for the remainder of the year are down compared to 2016.
Brexit and the accompanying drop in the value of the pound is almost certainly the cause behind this drop in UK and Northern Irish visitors.
Which areas in Ireland are most strongly affected by this drop?
The Irish Hotels Federation have stressed that the border counties are likely to be significantly more affected by Brexit than those further away. Border counties lie on the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and welcome over 57% of all visitors coming from Great Britain & Northern Ireland.
Although hoteliers are reporting a drop in Northern Irish and UK business, they've still had a strong start to 2017. Almost 3 in 4 Irish hotels show business levels are up compared to this time last year, according to the IHF.
When analysing bookings, we are looking at bookings made for the 1st quarter of 2017 versus the same time in 2016.
These bookings were all made after the vote for Brexit was approved, and can be for stay dates in the 1st quarter or anytime into the future.
Arrivals, however, take into account bookings that were made long in advance of Brexit and therefore show very different results. Keep that in mind as you go through the analysis below.
All the figures below compare Q1 2017 versus Q1 2016.
In Quarter 1 of 2017, hotels in Ireland saw the UK & Northern Ireland markets grow 18% in bookings and 13% in revenue. They now see this market account for 30% of hotel Bookings and 30% of revenue overall.
The largest share of this growth comes from the UK* at 17% of growth in bookings.
The USA saw the largest growth in Q1 of 2017, although it's a less significant market for Irish hotels overall.
Other markets which saw positive growth were Germany, France, Canada, Belgium and Australia.
* Bookings that are tagged as coming from the UK may in fact be from Northern Ireland, depending on what customers enter in address fields. Therefore, we often look at Northern Ireland & the UK together.
All the key markets have seen an increase in arrivals and revenue versus the same time in 2016. Many of these bookings were made long before the Brexit vote happened.
Northern Ireland and UK markets make up 33% of Arrivals and 35% of Revenue. this shows and increase of 30% for arrivals and 21% for revenue.
The largest share of this growth comes from the UK*, at 30% of growth in arrivals.
The USA market, while again smaller for many Irish hotels, ha seen the largest growth over the same period.
* Again, it's likely that some of these bookings are in fact from Northern Ireland..
When the booking and revenue data for Q1 2016 vs Q1 2017 is broken down to focus on the border counties, the story gets a bit more interesting.
Bookings from Ireland now account for 43% of bookings for border counties, compared to 39% in same quarter in 2016.
Northern Ireland and UK bookings have dropped for the border counties significantly in the first quarter of 2017: a 20% drop for bookings and 23% drop in revenue.
However, they still account for a big chunk of bookings for these hotels.
UK and Northern Ireland bookings collectively made up 49% of bookings and 51% of revenue for border hotels.
More optimistically, bookings from the US and Canada saw large growth in the first quarter of 2017.
Whilst nationally hotels have seen an increase in arrivals for the first quarter of 2017, the border counties saw a decline of 8% in arrivals from the UK & Northern Ireland and a 9% decline in revenue.
Crowe Horwath, a leading accountancy firm in Ireland, took a recent survey in September 2016 on the impact of Brexit.
Their survey showed that 57% of hoteliers said that Brexit had not impacted their business since it was announced. However, 82% of respondents in border counties felt it had directly impacted on their business.
The same survey also looked ahead for 12-15 months at how hoteliers felt it would affect future demand levels. 64% of respondents in Ireland anticipate that demand levels will remain steady or increase in next twelve months.
That said, the responses in northern region were more negative: 75% expect a decline in demand in the next 12-15 months.
The effect of Brexit, for now, are most strongly felt on the immediate borders of the United Kingdom. However, we are only now beginning negotiations. Hotels should shore up their resources and strengthen their presence in other markets to prepare for all possible outcomes.
We all know the importance of retaining customers, but today's marketplace is highly unpredictable.
Given that many hotels are very reliant on the UK and Northern Ireland as a market, hotels need to attract new customers. Hotels that attract a large volume of UK and Northern Ireland business are going to be the first to see the impact of Brexit, so ensure you have other markets that you can focus on in low periods.
Make this a part of your book direct messaging. Are you targeting guests in new markets? Is your message crafted with those users in mind? UK, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland share many cultural similarities, so the messaging for all three can be quite similar. When you're casting your net wider, though, you must make sure you're still communicating clearly.
To ensure that, start with the data.
Whilst global data is good and helpful and always gives an indication on how the market is performing, your own hotel's data cannot be underestimated.
Consult your Google Analytics account to dive into user behaviour. Use this information to your advantage. Track your demographics carefully and look at individual markets to see the behaviour of these markets. When you have a good grasp on your 'ideal guest' in these markets, you'll be able to create special offers specifically for your target markets.
Consulting an expert can be extremely helpful, if you don't have the in-house time or expertise to dedicate – consider talking to a digital marketing agency, if you aren't already working with one.
Remember that your booking engine is full of useful data, and using it can give you a major competitive advantage.
We understand it can be a little intimidating to know where to start. Net Affinity recommend you begin by analysing the Geographical Breakdown of your bookings. This gives you a better understanding of your key markets.
For example, use your booking engine to inform you of the rateplans booked, length of stay, ABV and more for different markets. You'll be able to target these markets with the right offers at the right time.
Remember: data should be used to your advantage. By watching and understanding consumer behaviour, you can plan ahead!
Look at who's booking your hotel on third party channels at a higher cost – you might find new markets as future targets for your hotel.
Interestingly, a lot of hotels believe that OTA's bring them "new" overseas business, but this may not be the case. Often, the OTA's claim incremental business that with a bit of work you could persuade to book on your own website.
By knowing what business your OTA's give you, you can build a book direct strategy to get these customers booking on your brand site instead.
Your website is your hotel's virtual welcome mat, or a 'shop window', and it needs to appeal to a lot of different markets. The Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and UK markets are very similar. If you're investing in new markets, does your website sell to them?
For example, do you have a translation feature on your website? Have you got currency convertor features on your site? Are you selling your property correctly, and in the correct language?
These tools and tactics help various markets convert directly, rather than leaving your site and going to an OTA.
You need to make a great first impression. Net Affinity global stats show that many transactions happen the first time or on the first day a user visits a website – therefore, it is important to put your best foot forward.
Ensure your offering is clear. Clearly explain the differences between your different room types. You ned to inform the customer why they should pay more – is the room bigger? Does it have additional features? Make your selling points clear.
Use the same pricing method across your site. This is a recommendation we would make for any hotel looking to pursue a successful book direct strategy.
When some pricing is per person sharing, or total stay, or per room per night, it makes it difficult to compare offers and decide which is best value.
We have found that hotels that use a total price display method have seen a 20% increase in conversion over other pricing methods, so make sure you've got a consistent, ideally total pricing display in place. OTA's, who spend a great deal of time and money on researching what makes consumers book, always use a single, usually total price display on their sites.
Take the time to read the descriptions and look at the price display. Is it clear? Consider getting a person less familiar with your hotel website to do a walkthrough as well.
If anything causes you to think or hesitate, you can be certain potential guests aredoing more than just thinking – and chances are they have moved onto a third party or a competitor site.
You must protect your brand online. In a space where paid activity accounts for nearly all "above the fold" search results, hotels today need to spend to appear. This is one of the cornerstones of a book direct strategy.
If you're not bidding on your brand terms, you can be certain that OTA's are, and they're scooping up clicks and bookings because of it.
It is important to ensure that your marketing spend accounts for the natural peaks and lows of different markets. Not all markets travel at the same rate each month or season, and your marketing campaigns should reflect this.
There are a vast array of options for paid activity, from Google Adwords to Bing to Metasearch channels to Social. To know which combination is best for your hotel, you'll almost certainly need to consult a digital agency or risk doing a great deal of trial and error.
Whichever platform you are on, you need to ensure you are getting the best possible return on your investment.
Ask your marketing specialists to closely monitor your various location campaigns, and reinvest if you are not seeing a good performance from certain markets.
For example, our digital marketing specialists at Net Affinity are constantly tweaking AdWords campaigns to ensure clients are getting the highest possible return on investment. It's not a case of one size fits all.
The best way to attract new customers to your hotel website is through content. Remember, your website is your digital welcome mat.
Blogs and news feeds are always helpful. They help your guests feel in touch with you, give you a perfect place to showcase different elements of your hotel, and give your site new content for search engines to crawl.
When you have fresh, relevant content, you generally rank higher on search engine results, getting you more organic traffic and direct bookings.
Most importantly, in a market that is ever changing, be ready and be flexible.
The effects of Brexit are starting to show in Ireland, but on a national scale they're still very manageable. The border counties are seeing the biggest hit, and are where hotels should be planning carefully.
A weaker pound means that Ireland and Europe is seen as a more expensive destination for UK and Northern Ireland travellers than previously. This will encourage them to stay within the Pound Zone rather than travelling within Europe.
To help you adapt a book direct strategy that involves growing other markets, take a close look at the tips above and decide which are most useful for your hotel.
Above all, hotels must stay flexible and ready to adapt as the snap election happens and the negotiations for Brexit grow more contentious. To maintain direct bookings in an uncertain market, careful monitoring and planning is key.
Talk to your Net Affinity Account Manager for more details or information on how to grow direct bookings.
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Last week we had the chance of catching up with the fine folks from Capcom. They were in town to give the east coast press their own little E3, minus the booth babes and well… any other publishers. It was a good move considering that we totally forgot to book anytime with the company during E3 this year, and now after checking out Dragon's Dogma, I'm kicking myself at the thought that we missed the title while we were in LA.
Once you see Dragon's Dogma in action you'll understand why I'm so upset having missed this one. To put it simply — this game is gorgeous. And it comes as no surprise considering that it uses Capcom's MT Framework engine, the same one behind Lost Planet 1 and 2. And while the second game in the LP series did show manage to show more pops of color than its predecessor, you have never seen this engine look this damn good.
The game takes place in a high fantasy world. I'm talking like J.R.R. Tolkien high fantasy here with all the usual role playing suspects along for the ride. The Capcom rep wouldn't get into exact details as our demo was more mechanics and gameplay focused, but what we were told was that this was more of an "open world action game with RPG elements." And although that sentiment was reiterated on more than one occasion during our playtime, there's still no fooling me. If BioWare's Mass Effect 2 is considered an RPG and this isn't, then I apparently know nothing about video games. But I digress.
The segment of gameplay that was shown had our party of four battling it out on a hillside just outside of castle walls. The character used was definitely the warrior of the bunch as all of the attacks were up close and personal. And although this game brought to us by the same team behind Devil May Cry 3 and 4, director Hideaki Itsuno and producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi, it doesn't have any of the over stylized elements of those games. Actually besides Dead Rising, this is the most western feeling game I've seen come from Capcom, and that's through both the visuals and design.
During the action sequence our party was taking down a group of enemies.The other party members that join you are called pawns and they're definitely a chatty bunch. One thing that I liked was that they aren't a team of dumbed down AI that you have to worry about micro managing. They were just as engaged with what was going on as I was, evening pointing out strategies as we went along.
While being attacked by enemies on the ground, at the same time we were being attacked by a giant griffin who was swooping down from the sky. Once that griffin landed though, it was dinner time. We jumped on that bird, faster than inappropriate relatives on Thanksgiving — while working on beating up different sections of its body until it was finally put down. Something that has to be pointed out was just how detailed the griffin was — I mean you were able to see individual (gigantic) feathers on its body.
One interesting mechanic that was pointed out was the diversion system. You see the griffin that was attacking is attracted to blood, and if let's say my party was under attack I would be able to use the blood of an enemy body to lure the griffin away and keep my party out of danger. Another interesting tidbit is that even though the world is completely open to exploration there will be areas that you may need to be of certain height to access. How you become that certain height wasn't discussed in detail however.
Throughout the battle there was an experience bar that was filling up on the lower left side of the screen. When I asked about leveling and progression the Capcom rep informed us that they weren't talking about it just yet. Hopefully, we'll be able to preview more of Dragon's Dogma in the months to come, especially considering that they're expecting this action / role playing concoction to see an early 2012 release.
Among an effort by Netflix to expand its anime offerings, the network will be making an anime series based on Capcom's Dragon's Dogma.


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| 2011-2012 || Brûleurs de loups de Grenoble || Ligue Magnus
|| 25 || 1 || 3 || 4 || 10 || 13 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 2
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| 2012-2013 || Brûleurs de loups de Grenoble || Ligue Magnus
|| 26 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 24 || 8 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 2
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| 2013-2014 || Brûleurs de loups de Grenoble || Ligue Magnus || 26 || 0 || 3 || 3 || 32 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 4
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| 2014-2015 || Albatros de Brest || Ligue Magnus || 26 || 0 || 6 || 6 || 16 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 2

Statistiques internationales

| 2007 ||align="left"| Championnat du monde moins de 18 ans || 5 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 6 || -5 ||align="left"|  de la Division , Groupe A
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| 2008 ||align="left"| Championnat du monde moins de 18 ans || 5 || 5 || 1 || 6 || 8 || +13 ||align="left"|  de la Division , Groupe A
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| 2009 ||align="left"| Championnat du monde junior || 5 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 6 || +1 ||align="left"|  de la Division , Groupe A
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| 2010 ||align="left"| Championnat du monde junior || 5 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 10 || -6 ||align="left"|  de la Division , Groupe A

Notes et références

Naissance en mars 1990
Naissance à Montpellier
Joueur international français de hockey sur glace
Joueur canadien de hockey sur glace
Joueur du Grenoble métropole hockey 38
Joueur du Brest Albatros Hockey
Défenseur de hockey sur glace

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Welfare paternalism
Paul Ryan's welfare plan, including stronger reliance on case managers to guide clients out of income support and into work, reminds me an awful lot of the Beaulier and Caplan piece on behavioural economics and welfare. It was published in Kyklos; the link above goes to the ungated version.
I'd paraphrased their paper a few years ago:
If we take behavioural economics seriously, we've good reason to believe that the anomalies it describes are found primarily among the poor and are exacerbated by the welfare system. Poor people are more likely to exhibit behaviours that reflect more than just high rates of time preference: they demonstrate little ability to foresee the consequences of actions. The poor (and less educated / lower IQ - the two go together) are more likely to be heavy drinkers, to be obese, to smoke, to buy lotto tickets, to take illegal drugs, and to commit even non-economically motivated crimes (theft would not be surprising, but violent crime isn't lucrative). Low IQ amplifies behavioural anomalies. And, the dole makes things worse. If you start out with big self-control problems, you're likely to overestimate your ability to motivate yourself to find work - "I'll go on the dole for now but will look hard for work tomorrow". Absent the income backstop, you'd have to look for work. Worse, if welfare payments are more comfortable than the first year of work, after which work is better as income rises, folks with high discount rates and self-control problems may decide never to leave even though it would be in their long run interest. Consequently, welfare payments may make welfare recipients worse off, contra neoclassical economics.
Ryan's plan has recipients working with case managers to develop short- through long- term goals, with wraparound tailored support in place of some current federal programmes:
The OG system will promote a more holistic form of aid to move individuals and families out of poverty. One promising method this proposal envisions is the use of case management. Here's an example of the number of steps illustrating the OG in practice:
First, each state will approve a list of certified providers that are held accountable for providing quality service and achieving results (such as moving people to work, out of poverty, and off of assistance).
Next, a person will select a provider, and the provider will conduct a comprehensive assessment of that person's needs, abilities, and circumstances.
Then, the two of them will develop a customized plan to address the recipient's needs. The plan could take the form of a contract—with sanctions for failing and bonuses for exceeding expectations. The plan would offer financial assistance to address immediate needs, like food, clothing, child care, and housing. But it would also work on setting goals, learning skills, and developing a broader support system.
At the most basic level, successful completion of a contract will involve an able-bodied individual obtaining a job and earning enough to live above the poverty line. Each state may choose to define success slightly differently insofar as those basic conditions are met.
I'm not a particular fan of paternalistic approaches. They're insulting. But at least this variant is targeted at those who have demonstrated that they need a bit more of this assistance. Further, help to get out of poverty already comes with strings. Between this kind of approach and one that simply provided a minimum income with no strings, well, it's a tough call. I don't like the paternalism, but I do expect it could be more effective in getting people into better situations, conditional on there being some sufficiently competent and empathetic army of social workers to do the job. [update: link fixed]
The poor aren't like us
Coercion everywhere: welfare edition
Guaranteed income and living wages
Posted by Eric Crampton at 12:39:00 1 comments
Labels: behavioural economics, Bryan Caplan, Scott Beaulier, welfare
Whole Latta Derp
If one of the points of a public broadcaster is to provide basic factual information to voters prior to an election, so that they can then make up their own minds about what policies are the appropriate responses to the current state of the world, then TV One failed magnificently last night with Nigel Latta's infomercial.
The video of it is here (Series 1, Episode 4 if the link changes).
Latta made the case that:
inequality has been increasing substantially;
that the rich in particular have done well in recent years;
that poverty has worsened;
He also spent a lot of time talking with poor families about that life isn't exactly easy for the working poor.
Now you can take whatever position you like about the appropriate level of support for the poor and for the working poor, and about the appropriate level of inequality. But, those positions should at least be informed by a basic level of understanding about the current statistics and trends. If inequality has been worsening continuously for the past two decades, that could yield different views about appropriate policy than if inequality has been pretty stable for the past couple of decades. Similarly, if real incomes among the poor have been declining over the past couple of decades, that too could easily yield different views about appropriate policy as compared to a situation where real incomes among the poor have been rising a bit more slowly than among richer cohorts.
I'm not here going to take a view on appropriate policy. But I will put up the baseline facts that should be common knowledge among anybody wishing to have a view as to appropriate policy. This is all from the latest report on the topic from the Ministry of Social Development.
First, as noted last night, inequality has not been increasing. There was an increase from the mid 1980s through the early 1990s, and it's been flat since then. Last night I put up the Gini time series, but that's hardly the only measure of inequality. Let me here quote the Ministry of Social Development report:
Overall, there is no evidence of any sustained rise or fall in inequality in the last two decades. The level of household disposable income inequality in New Zealand is a little above the OECD median. The share of total income received by the top 1% of individuals is at the low end of the OECD rankings.
That's one of their big bolded summary findings. Inequality is flat, we're hardly out of line for the OECD, and whatever you think about inequality in NZ, it's not being driven by the top 1%.
Here's another graph: the 80/20 ratio. That one says how much more money somebody at the 80th percentile (earns more than 80% of the population) earns compared to somebody at the 20th percentile. AHC is After Housing Costs; BHC is Before Housing Costs. AHC shows a rise through the mid-90s, then noise around a 3.0 level. BHC shows a rise through the early 90s, then a slower rise through the early 2000s, then a drop back to the early 90s level, then noise around a level consistent with the mid-late 90s.
If you like ratios other than 80/20, the paper has a wide set of them, both Before Housing Costs and After Housing Costs. They're all a bit noisy, but they're all basically flat since at least 2001, with some flat since the mid-90s.
And here's that big middle class squeeze: the proportion of total income going to individuals in deciles 4 to 9. The fifty percent of the population in the upper middle class earns about 55% of total income.
Latta focused a lot on wages at different levels rather than the kinds of numbers above. We do have a reasonably progressive tax system with substantial transfers to the working poor. The numbers above reflect the after-tax-and-transfers income at the different deciles. The tax and redistribution system has worked to maintain pretty stable levels of inequality over the last couple decades on a wide variety of measures of inequality. It is a substantial mistake or deliberately misleading to portray things instead as a rising trend in inequality. And since I'm told that the Treasury Chief Executive told Latta, on footage left on the cutting room floor, that inequality was flat, Latta seems to have been wilfully seeking to mislead the public about the basic facts around inequality during an election campaign on a publicly funded television station.
This is not right. Public broadcasting is supposed to at least give everybody the correct basic facts so that voters can then deliberate about how to interpret and deal with those facts in policy choices. When it instead deliberately misleads the public into taking the narrative pushed by the Labour Party, I start wondering why we have a state broadcaster. Public broadcasting isn't supposed to make people dumber.
Enough on inequality. The MSD report also has the basic facts on poverty trends. Latta put up a one-year big increase in incomes at the top end of the distribution during the post-GFC share market recovery as representative of how the poor have suffered from the GFC as compared to the rich. Here's real household income changes over the period by decile:
The very poorest cohort did ok, though much of that was a rise in NZ Super. Things stagnated for the working poor; middle to upper-middle cohorts did fine. Folks in the 9th decile did about as well as folks in the first decile, while those at the very top stagnated.
How about over the longer period?
Over the three decades from 1982 to 2013 different income groups fared differently over different periods. The net gains over the last two decades from the mid 1990s to 2013 were similar for all income groups. Because of this similarity in net gains, income inequality in 2013 was similar to what it was in the mid 1990s.
Latta was right about one thing though: housing costs have hit disposable incomes of the poor by more than they've hit disposable incomes among the rich. MSD reports that, because of strong increases in housing costs, AHC incomes for households in the bottom two deciles are lower in real terms than in the 80s. But, again, most of the increase in hardship came in the early 90s.
Follow the blue line. This one's defined around 1998 real before-housing-cost incomes. If you were in a household that earned, in inflation-adjusted terms, and after housing costs, less than 60% of median 1998 incomes, you're in the cohort that follows that blue line.
You can see a sharp rise in the early 90s, then a slow drop through 2009, then a hump during the GFC that reverses. Ignore the discontinuity in 2007 that obtains when they rebased the measure. The proportion of low-income households is higher than it was in the 80s but the trend since the mid 90s is basically flat or declining. Is this just me cherry-picking measures? No. You get the same thing on the relative income lines. If you don't like current poverty or inequality rates, that's fine. But they're a "it's been like this for about 20 years" thing, not a "John Key is Evil" thing. The current state of affairs is roughly the same as it's been through many terms of both National and Labour.
And now, same thing again for children in low-income households.
It's hard to pull any worsening trend out of this. There was a big increase in the early 90s, and a fall since then.
Finally, Latta focused a lot on the working poor. The MSD report makes real clear that poverty is primarily among beneficiaries.
Nigel Latta's big beef seemed to be with the reforms of the 1980s. Those reforms did yield a wide range of changes, including to inequality and poverty measures. Latta, throughout the documentary, presented what seemed to be an ever-worsening trend in poverty and inequality. And he seemed to be importing a lot of the American narrative around the top 1%.
Here's the NZ data on the top 1%, both in time series and as compared to other countries, again copied directly from the MSD report:
Income inequality in New Zealand, 1984 to 2013 HES
2012 & 2013 for HES, 2010 & 2011 for tax records
Household disposable income, adjusted for household size … data from sample surveys (HES)
Gini x 100 (trend-line)
Share ratio, D10 to D1
Share ratio, Q5 to Q1
Share ratio, D10 to D1-4 (Palma)
Percentile ratio, P90 to P10
Individual market income … data from tax returns – avg of year noted and the one either side
Top 1% share
Top 10% share
Top 10% - 1% share (ie P90 to P99)
Income inequality in New Zealand compared with other OECD countries, c 2011-2012
OECD-34 median
Top 1% share – tax records
The latest available from 2009 to 2012
Note further that at least some of the rise in top incomes comes from reporting changes when the tax system was fixed to reduce the incentive to under-report incomes for top earners.
The American narrative around the "1%" simply does not here apply.
Take from all of this whatever policy preferences you want, while thinking hard about the kinds of things Nolan urges you think about. You can't start thinking properly about appropriate policy if your background facts are all wrong. Hopefully this corrects some small fraction of the harm that Nigel Latta did last night. Even better, read the whole MSD report on it.
[Update: 'Derp' is the constant, repetitive reiteration of strong priors. Latta should have updated after talking with the Treasury Chief Executive. He instead just repetitively reiterated his priors about inequality, herping a flerp of derp in the process.]
Posted by Eric Crampton at 15:11:00 12 comments
Labels: inequality, New Zealand, Nigel Latta
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HomeApplicationEducation/TrainingThe AR App That Brings Graphic Novels to Life in New Zealand Schools
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The AR App That Brings Graphic Novels to Life in New Zealand Schools
Jon Jaehnig July 22, 2019
posted on Jul. 22, 2019 at 2:05 pm
Source: Massey University
The Ministry of Education is finding an ambitious AR app investment to be paying off.
Fans of comic books and graphic novels believe that this medium is a way to get children interested in reading. The medium relies on text but also uses lots of images. This makes stories created in this way more accessible and engaging to young readers.
The New Zealand Ministry of Education has recently taken this philosophy one step further to reach tech-savvy youths. An AR app that brings graphic novels to life is a part of a recently launched $1.91M four-year program by the ministry, which aims to improve access to localized curriculum resources.
The AR app is called Manawatū and it was launched in schools within the Te Reo Māori population. Developers created the app to increase interest in the traditional indigenous language and cultural stories among young readers.
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"Gen Z [students in school] today are part of the YouTube and Google generation where digital technology is integrated in their everyday lives," said project manager Tama Kirikiri. "Utilizing augmented reality and a high-quality graphic novel to engage [students in this narrative] will speak directly to them and will certainly inspire them as the creators of tomorrow."
The recently launched project has been more popular than expected. Developers are now working on an English language version of the AR app for the more general population.
"Kaiko Māori are most often in the position of having to translate English resources into Te Reo Māori," said Kirikiri. "To be part of this groundbreaking project, creating a first of its kind resource for both Māori medium [schools] and English medium schools is really exciting."
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The AR App
The AR app works simply enough. Readers point their mobile phones at the pages of the graphic novel. The images than work as a target that generate 3D models on the page visible through the phone screen. The images then act out the scenes written and illustrated in the pages, moving from panel to panel.
The app is currently only available through the Ministry of Education. Further, it only works with select graphic novels. All of these are currently part of the curricula in the participating schools. Instructors and educators make up much of the project team. This ensures that the content is approachable, appropriate, and engaging for the students.
The popularity of the app that was initially for a very niche audience is certainly encouraging. The English-language version of the app will no doubt increase its visibility. Just as the English-speaking schools in the country adopted the app, the idea may spread to other locations in the near future.
See Also: Top Reasons Why Augmented Reality Represents the Future of Education and Training
The prospect of getting children to read and take an interest in their heritage through an AR app is exciting. Almost equally thrilling is the concept of using the program to familiarize children with AR at an early age. As the project leader pointed out, it may also encourage children to take up AR design as career paths. That's similar to how young children now aspire to be authors or artists when school cultivates a love of literature.
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Dinamo Riga () var en professionel lettisk ishockeyklub, der spillede i den sovjetiske liga i 1946-92 og den Internationale Hockey-Liga i 1992-95. Klubben blev stiftet i 1940, genetableret efter anden verdenskrig i 1946 og havde hjemmebane i Rīgas Sporta Pils i Riga, Letland.

Fra midt i 1940'erne til midt i 1950'erne og igen fra midt i 1970'erne til begyndelsen af 1990'erne var Dinamo Riga blandt Sovjetunionens ti bedste ishockeyklubber, og den opnåede sit bedste resultat, da den i sæsonen 1987-88 vandt sølvmedaljer i det sovjetiske mesterskab. Den nåede endvidere ved flere tilfælde semifinalerne i den sovjetiske pokalturnering.

Historie

Dinamo Riga blev oprindeligt stiftet i 1940 under Sovjetunionens besættelse af Letland. Efter anden verdenskrig blev foreningen i 1946 genetableret og var et af de tolv hold, der i vinteren 1946-47 spillede om det første sovjetiske mesterskab i ishockey. Dinamo Riga endte på fjerdepladsen efter de tre Moskva-hold, Dynamo, CDKA og Spartak. Tre år senere skiftede klubben navn til Daugava Riga og forblev til og med sæsonen 1962-63 i den bedste sovjetiske liga, men den var dog ikke stærk nok til for alvor at udfordre hovedstadsklubberne i kampen om det sovjetiske mesterskab.

Med nedrykningen til den næstbedste liga i 1963 begyndte en middelmådig tid for klubben, der endda i 1968, samtidig med at den skiftede navn tilbage til Dinamo, endte med nedrykning til den tredjebedste række.

I 1968 overtog den russiske træner Viktor Tikhonov trænersædet i Dinamo. Han var kendt for at lægge vægt på streng disciplin og revolutionerede træningsmetoderne, og han var blandt de første til at anvende videooptagelser til kampanalyser. Derudover lagde han stor vægt på sine spilleres fysiske form. På grund af Dinamo-spillernes ringe potentiale indførte han en strategi, som ingen sovjetiske hold indtil da have benyttet: at spille med fire angrebskæder. Dermed kunne hans hold ved hjælp af hurtighed og bedre kondition slå andre hold, der ellers var Dinamo spillemæssigt og teknisk overlegne. Som følge af den nye strategi opnåede Dinamo i 1970 oprykning til den næstbedste række, og allerede i 1973 var holdet tilbage i den bedste sovjetiske liga.

I 1975 blev Viktors Hatuļevs fra Dinamo Riga den første sovjetiske spiller, der blev draftet af et NHL-hold, da han blev valgt i 9. runde (nr. 160 i alt) af Philadelphia Flyers, men han fik naturligvis aldrig chancen for at spille i NHL.

I sæsonen 1976-77 blev en af stjernerne på det daværende Dinamo-hold, Helmuts Balderis, både point- og mål-topscorer i ligaen og følgelig kåret som årets spiller. Allerede den foregående sæson havde han scoret flest mål af alle i den sovjetiske liga. I 1983 blev han igen ligatopscorer - i sin karriere i den sovjetiske liga opnåede han i alt at score 333 mål og udføre over 230 assists.

Den største succes i klubbens historie blev opnået i sæsonen 1987-88, hvor den endte på andenpladsen i kampen om det sovjetiske mesterskab, kun overgået af CSKA Moskva. Til den sæson havde ligaledelsen indført et slutspilssystem efter amerikansk forbillede. I første fase af grundspillet endte Dinamo på 10.-pladsen, men i anden fase spillede klubben sig op på tredjepladsen og gik dermed videre til mesterskabsslutspillet for de fire bedste hold. I semifinaleserien, der blev spillet bedst af tre kampe, besejrede letterne Dynamo Moskva med 2-1 i kampe (2-0, 3-5 og 4-2), inden de i finaleserien bedst af fem kampe mod CSKA måtte se sig besejret med 1-3 i kampe (3-7, 2-1, 2-4 og 2-5).

Efter Sovjetunionens opløsning spillede Dinamo videre i den Internationale Hockey-Liga, indtil klubbens opløsning i 1995. I denne tid spillede man først under navnet Stars Riga (efter sponsoren A/S Stars) og senere Pārdaugava Riga. Parallelt hermed blev et nyt hold dannet under navnet Riga Juniors, der spillede i East European Hockey League (EEHL), og hvortil mange af Dinamo-spillerne skiftede, da klubben blev opløst.

I 1997 blev Dinamo '81 Riga oprettet som en form for efterfølger til Dinamo Riga. Klubben deltog i Letlands ishockeyliga og EEHL. I 2000 blev også denne klub opløst og erstattet af HK Riga 2000, der tilhørte Letlands ishockeyliga og flere gange blev lettisk mester i ishockey.

Titler og bedrifter

Sovjetisk mesterskab

  Nr. 2 (1): 1987-88.
 Nr. 4 (4): 1946-47, 1947-48, 1976-77, 1989-90.
 Nr. 5 (7): 1951-52, 1954-55, 1974-75, 1980-81, 1982-83, 1985-86, 1990-91.

Sovjetisk pokalturnering

 Semifinalist (2): 1976-77, 1978-79.

Sæsoner

Berømte spillere
 Viktors Hatuļevs
 Helmuts Balderis
 Harijs Mellups
 Artūrs Irbe
 Vitālijs Samoilovs
 Olegs Znaroks

Trænere
 1946–49: Jānis Dobelis
 1949–61: Edgars Klāvs
 1961–62: Anatolijs Jegorovs
 1962–63: Georgijs Firsovs
 1963–68: Staņislavs Motls
 1968–77: Viktor Tikhonov
 1977–80: Ēvalds Grabovskis
 1980–89: Vladimir Jursinov
 1989–90: Pjotr Vorobjov
 1990–91: Ēvalds Grabovskis
 1992: Jevgeņijs Banovs
 1992–94: Juris Reps
 1994–95: Mihails Beskašnovs
 1995: Leonīds Beresņevs

Kilder / eksterne henvisninger
 Hockey Archives: URSS 1946-47  - Russie 1994-95

Noter

Ishockeyklubber i Letland
Sport i Riga
Etableret i 1940
Etableret i 1946
Ophørt i 1995


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Moss and Russell sign the dotted line, declare themselves college basketball players
By: Mike Moore | Troy Times | Published November 23, 2011
Surrounded by family, coaches, teammates and friends, Athens senior Sinclair Russell, center, signed to play college basketball at Oakland University.
Photo by Erin Sanchez
TROY — Less than 30 minutes apart, and only a few miles from one another, a pair of long-time friends and former teammates took part in what had served as a lifelong dream.
For Troy High's Karin Moss and Troy Athens' Sinclair Russell, playing college basketball is now a reality.
The pair of senior standouts at their respective schools signed their national letters of intent Nov. 14, officially declaring themselves college basketball players.
Moss to Buffalo
Moss has served as the unquestioned leader at Troy the past few seasons, establishing herself as one of the best guards in the Oakland Activities Association.
When she inked her name to play next year at the University at Buffalo, she said it was a moment she'd waited for since childhood.
"Incredible feeling," Moss said. "I've been wanting to play college basketball since I was a little kid. It's something I've always wanted."
As a junior, Moss averaged 13.9 points per game and dished out 3.5 assists. She said she's anxious to get her senior season going this winter.
"We have a good group of girls here with a solid starting lineup and a solid bench," she said. "I think we're ready. We're going to shock some people."
When asked why she landed on Buffalo, Moss explained it was a no-brainer.
"The coaching staff was just awesome. The vibe I got when I was there was it," she added. "I just kind of knew that was the place for me. It's something that fits me perfectly."
Russell closer to home
For Russell, the decision to stay closer to home and attend Oakland University was an equally simple one.
Other schools came calling.
Other programs offered her the things she was seeking.
"But Oakland was the school that supported me from day one," Russell said. "They were the first to show interest and to offer me a basketball scholarship. I love the coaching. I love the style of play, and I think it's a place I can contribute at right away."
Russell was Athens' go-to player last season when she averaged 21 points, 14 rebounds and 10 blocks as a junior. Much like Moss, her friend and former AAU teammate, Russell is looking forward to her final season in high school, especially now that the whole college-selection process is over.
"Now I can just focus on this team and this year. The stressful part is over," she said with a laugh. "I think we have a chance to make this a real good year."
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Gum Drops and Candy Hearts are ... grape varieties?
By David Karp
Grapes with rich flavors, at last!
It is the supreme irony of modern fruit commerce that grapes, celebrated for producing rich, complex flavors in wine, appear as fresh fruits almost exclusively as neutral-flavored varieties, sweet but bland.
It wasn't always so — there was a time, before neutral seedless grapes proliferated, that deeply flavorful grapes were commonplace in California. Farmers grew them widely in the late 19th century, but over time they were replaced with firmer, larger and less flavorful grapes that shipped and stored well.
Fighting this tyranny of vapidity, inspired breeders today have developed table grapes with novel, even noble flavors — strawberry, intense muscat and fine wine — revolutionizing the fruit's possibilities. After decades of crosses and tests, these supergrapes are starting to be sold at groceries and farmers markets.
A "flavored grape" — to make the distinction clear — is one with a strong flavor, as opposed to a bland, generic one. Typical Western table grapes such as Flame, Thompson and Crimson have what in the trade is called a neutral flavor: They're sweet and juicy but have very limited flavor or aroma beyond a generic sweetness and acidity. Some varieties have a pleasing astringency in the skin, but that's about it.
The largest grower of this new type, Grapery, sells flavored grapes under two brands containing a succession of varieties over the season. Its main label, Gum Drops, is in stores till early October. The first variety sold by that name is Candy Snaps, which are small, round and firm, with a superb strawberry flavor. Next will come Candy Hearts (originally called Candy Charms, until it was discovered that that was also a porn star's name), which are oval and light red with a fruity muscat flavor. Last will be Candy Dreams, which are small and reddish black with a strong grape lollipop flavor.
Grapery also markets experimental flavored varieties grown in small quantities under its Flavor Pops brand in late August and September.
The story of flavored grapes started improbably in 1964 when James N. Moore, a fruit breeder at the University of Arkansas, started working with Concord-type grapes, derived from Vitis labrusca and other species native to the Eastern United States, which typically have rich, fruity flavors but also thick, astringent skins and soft flesh. He crossed them with California table grapes (of the European species Vitis vinifera), which were large, firm and seedless but also bland, and sought to combine the best attributes of both in new varieties. Grape plantings there remained limited, however, and in 2002, Moore's successor, John R. Clark, licensed his program's gene pool to International Fruit Genetics, a then-new fruit breeding company operating in Delano, Calif., 30 miles northwest of Bakersfield — table grape central.
IFG Breeder David W. Cain backcrossed the Arkansas grapes to Western varieties, and early on struck gold with Cotton Candy, a firm, green-amber grape with a sweet toffee flavor, which developed a cult following after its introduction in 2011. Skeptics snickered but children loved it. (The word genetics in IFG's name might alarm technophobes, but Cain made only old-fashioned crosses — applying pollen to flowers — without genetic modification.)
Through thousands of crosses over four generations, Cain eventually discovered 45 promising varieties, including more than a dozen with bold flavors, and figured out how best to grow them. California farmers have planted close to 1,000 acres of IFG's flavored grapes, aside from Cotton Candy. Small amounts were sold in the last few years at markets, such as Gelson's, Sprouts and Whole Foods in Southern California, and much larger quantities will be available this year.
Some of the best of these haven't made it into large-scale production yet but are among the dozen IFG flavored grape varieties that Murray Family Farms planted three years ago on 10 acres in Arvin, southeast of Bakersfield.
The oddest-looking but most spectacular-tasting is IFG Thirty-four, which hasn't been given a marketing label but is nicknamed "Scraggly" for its sparse bunches. Its dark purple berries have an incredibly intense, complex Concord flavor, with hints of eucalyptus, mint and cardamom — like a fine wine in fresh fruit.
Another of Cain's favorites, available for now only from Murray, is Sweet Mayabelle, which is small, red and crunchy like Flame but packed with muscat flavor.
Murray sells at 30 farmers markets, including Santa Monica, Hollywood, Torrance, Pasadena, Encino and Irvine, where consumers can find varieties by name and taste samples. Because Cain has come up with more varieties than chain stores can readily promote, their nomenclature for now is an inscrutable mix of numbered variety names, variety-linked trademarks and group brands for multiple varieties. Later this year, IFG is planning to establish new marketing brands for flavors such as tropical, spicy and muscat, said Andy Higgins, IFG's chief executive.
Currently, flavored varieties account for less than 1% of the table grapes grown in California, which produces 99% of the commercial table grapes in the United States. But who knows? The glory days may yet return.
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What Japan's Nuclear Restart Could Mean For LNG Prices
By Charles Kennedy - Apr 22, 2015, 10:57 AM CDT
It has been a bumpy road, but Japan is closer than ever to seeing a return to nuclear power.
Four years after Fukushima, Japan still has all of its nuclear reactors shut down. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pushed hard to allow some of the fifty-odd shuttered reactors to come back online, but has faced firm resistance from a nuclear-skeptical public.
And a little over a week ago it appeared that Abe's goal of bringing back some nuclear power would be put on ice. On April 14 a court blocked Kansai Electric Power's plant to restart two reactors in Fukui province. That bolstered anti-nuclear critics, and raised the possibility of a much longer delay. The court even said that the Nuclear Regulatory Authority's (NRA) safety review was inadequate, lending credibility to nuclear opponents. Related: Post-Fukushima Japan Turns To Wind As Solution For Energy Crisis
However, as it has been in Japan over the last few years, every hiccup is followed by some progress. On April 22, a separate court dismissed the legal challenges of some nuclear critics against the Sendai nuclear power plant, potentially clearing the way for its restart. Sendai, owned by Kyushu Electric Power, is slated to be the first nuclear power plant to come back online since the 2011 meltdown.
An official from the NRA said that the final green light for Sendai is "very close." Sendai, located in southwest Japan, could even begin operating by June. Related: Natgas Boom Undermining U.S. Nuclear Future
A return to nuclear power for Japan would have dramatic consequences for a country that is so dependent on fossil fuels. Japan imported a record level of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for the fiscal year that ended on March 31. The 89.07 million tons of LNG imported was an all-time high and a 1.5 percent increase over the previous year. Japan was already the largest importer of LNG before the Fukushima meltdown, but its imports of LNG surged after the disaster as Japan scrambled to make up for the lost power from its idled nuclear reactors.
More nuclear power would provide a further boost to the Japanese economy, which just posted its first trade surplus since 2012. Imported oil, LNG, and coal after Fukushima have sapped the country of resources, and turned years of surpluses into deficits. But the 2014-2015 oil bust has brought its deficit down. Related: Oil Price War May Benefit Both US Shale And Saudi Arabia
If Japan can successfully bring some of its nuclear reactors back online – even if they come back slowly, one by one – that would cut down on its dependence of imported energy.
For producers targeting the Japanese market, on the other hand, that would be bad news. LNG prices have already plummeted under the weight of new supplies and the oil price collapse. More Japanese nuclear power would contribute to more downward pressure on LNG prices.
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If we want to say, when we tell a story, that two persons (including me) were part of an event. Should we say whether "At the beginning, we were two in the adventure" or "At the beginning, there were two of us in the adventure" ?
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Either way is fine. "We were two" is more literary, like you are characters in a classic tale. For example:
The Musketeers were three, before D'Artagnan entered the story.
You could simply say, "There were three Musketeers at the start of the story," but sometimes you want to make it sound more dramatic. Or ominous:
Six of us began the adventure, but only I finished it.
We were six at the start of my tale, but only I remain to tell it.
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How can Norway take a leading role for cleaner oceans?
The results from the Circular Cleanup innovation process was presented in Oslo in front of a sitting and standing audience. Our message: as a country we have the knowledge, the resources and the innovation power to ensure cleaner oceans nationally and globally. What we are lacking is better directions, plans and strategies.
That is why we present the results from the project as a Circular Cleanup Framework that can be applied for different arenas. We showcase three strategies for the three arenas cities, coasts and global. The goal of these strategies is to make collecting plastic astray more efficient and more circular and make Norway front-runners for cleaner oceans.
You can download the results created by the Circular Cleanup Crew here, PDF (in Norwegian).
Launching results March 13th in Oslo!
On March 13th in Oslo we will present the results from the six month innovation journey.
February 2018 the Norwegian Shipowners´Association initiated the project Circular Cleanup, bringing together forces from both the ocean and waste industries to create new initiatives for cleaner oceans.
We invite you to a half-day gathering* to have a peek into the project suitable for anyone who is interested in innovation, sustainability, ocean plastic and ocean industries. Participants in Circular Cleanup will themselves present their experiences and learning from the project, and not least, the concepts developed and how they will contribute to cleaner oceans!
*The presentations will be in Norwegian.
Phase 3 – Testing and learning!
During the first two phases of the innovation process we developed a lot of new insight and new concepts. In phase 3 we went out into the "real world" to test our concepts. Why? To maximize learning and minimize risk, or in other words fail fast forward.
After the second phase of the innovation process we ended up with 14 concepts. In the third phase we took some of these concepts and created a plan for quick and cheap experiments to test the hypothesis in the concept architecture. This is a kind of risk management and risk mitigation tool that helps us understand the real world so that we can improve, iterate or pivot on the concepts. This way we can learn a lot, quickly, and establish a solid decision basis for the final concept portfolio.
This is the final phase of the innovation process before we present our findings, learnings and answers at the public portfolio launch March 13th, in Oslo!
Today the project learnings and results so far was presented for project partners managers. Together we discussed the learnings and iterated on the concept drafts.
One things is for sure, with the optimism and constructive feedback from the managers, the future for the ocean is looking bright!
Phase 2 – New ideas!
In the first phase og the innovation process we explored the world in order to learn something new. The results from this phase is summarized as key insights which we have used to unlock new ideas and new answers for cleaner oceans.
The ideas we created was further developed into concepts, with a business architecture. In this architecture we elaborate on the most potent ideas and supplement them with aspects of user and market needs, value proposition, revenue models and strategic partners.
This work sets us up for the thirds phase of the innovation process: testing and learning!
Phase 1 – Learn something new!
To create something new, we need to first learn something new!
This is what the first phase of the innovation process is all about.
To learn something about the world and the terrain in which we are innovating we look at the world through the three lenses market and user needs, orthodoxies and discontinuities. In addition to getting an understanding the power that is in the project partners through identifying our core competencies.
Together we have created a wide range of new insight, from what volunteer beach-cleaners think about to the latest tech in sensor technology. The insight is summarized in a few concrete key insights that will be used to unlock new ideas and opportunities in the second phase of the innovation process: new ideas!
After a successful kick-off we are now ready to start the innovation process!
In order to create good initiatives its important to understand the value chain for ocean cleanup.
16 organizations covering NGOs, private companies and the public sector came together, on August 29th, to mark the start of the innovation project Circular Cleanup. Together we will create new solutions and new initiatives for cleaner oceans.
In order to establish a good foundation and direction for the project Amund Drøen Ringdal, Director National and International Politics at the Norwegian Shipowners´ Association, gave an introduction to the background of Circular Cleanup and why they initiated it. This was followed by Karoline Andaur and Eirik Lindebjerg in WWF-Norway, who provided a good overview of the importance of immediate action to ensure ocean health, including cleaning our oceans.
Grieg Green and Tomra sharing insight at the kick-off.
Subsea7 and Bergen Kommune sharing insight at the kick-off.
Under the umbrellas of Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water) and Goal 17 (Partnerships for the Goals), the group will be guided through a six step innovation process, lead by the innovation studio Æra Strategic Innovation, to create new alliances and new initiatives for cleaner oceans.
Do you have solutions or insight you think we should know about on our innovation journey, please do let us know!
Together with GRID Arendal and Hold Norge Rent we organized a workshop at Arendalsuka, with participants from national and international organizations working with waste management and marine litter, to understand more on the challenges ahead and the opportunities for Norway in creating positive change.
From the workshop it is obvious that this is a complicated area, and that the most effective solutions are the preventative initiatives, especially relating to the lack of waste management practices in some sectors and in some regions of the world. The need for a wide range of solutions, including addressing getting plastic out of the ocean, is evident.
This was also the message from the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Erik Solheim – we need solutions and we know we can solve this problem!
We will use the input from the workshop to scope the innovation brief in Circular Cleanup and as part of the insights.
Since the breakfast meeting at the Norwegian Shipowners´ Association headquarters in April, where the Circular Cleanup project was first launched, 15 organizations have joined forces for cleaner oceans.
Since the breakfast meeting Circular Cleanup have been in dialogue with experts and key resources within the maritime and waste industry in order to define the scope of the project and ensure a good foundation for the innovation work.
The 15 organizations in the constellation represents the private sector, the public sector, NGOs and academia. Together we will come up with new answers for the practice within ocean cleanups.
On August 29th the first meeting with all organizations will be held, and this represents the beginning of the innovation journey.
Let us know if you want to stay updated on the project.
Circular Cleanup is an project initiated by the Norwegian Shipowners´ Association – bringing together forces from both the ocean and waste industries to create new initiatives for cleaner oceans.
Plastic waste filling our oceans is the world´s fastest growing environmental challenge. Every year 8 million tonnes of plastic reaches the ocean, and if we continue with today´s practice there might be more plastic than fish in the oceans by 2050. In order to ensure a clean and healthy ocean we need to prevent more plastic from reaching the ocean and at the same time clean up what is already there.
In the innovation project Circular Cleanup we take on the challenge to create new initiatives and new value chains for more efficient cleanup of plastic waste. In a six month innovation process, facilitated by Æra Strategic Innovation, we will create a portfolio of solutions for cleaner oceans, demonstrating how we can move from today´s practice to next practice.
We are now partnering up with 15 innovative and ambitious organizations to join us on this journey.


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Q: Parse .NET date with Javascript This is the value of my variable:
date.dateFrom = /Date(1328137200000)/

Here is how I use it:
$('#txtBoxDateFrom').val(data.dateFrom);

How to convert it to "normal" look?
I consider normal look this: 01/01/2012

A: function FormatDate(d)
{
  var day = d.getDate();
  var month = d.getMonth() + 1;
  var year = d.getFullYear();
  return month + "/" + day + "/" + year;
}

var formatted = FormatDate(new Date(1328137200000));
// Sets it as 2/2/2012

If you want to pad it with zeros:
function FormatDate(d)
{
  var day = d.getDate();
  var month = d.getMonth() + 1;
  var year = d.getFullYear();
  return (month <= 9 ? '0'+month : month) + "/" + (day <= 9 ? '0'+day : day) + "/" + year;
}

var formatted = FormatDate(new Date(1328137200000));
// Sets it as 02/02/2012

A: Using Date.toString or some other related method (toDateString, toLocaleString, etc), depending on what you consider "normal" look.


The Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Emergency Department, Cardiology and Blood Sciences Pathology units have created a chest pain pathway designed to help reduce patient waiting times in the Emergency Department.
The pathway, which has also proven to help with patient flow, has seen a 20% increase in patients who have presented with chest pain discharged within 4 hours, with 80% of patients now discharged in this time. Patients also have a far quicker wait time in ED when presenting with chest pain.
One of the key components of the pathway is the test for troponin, proteins that are measured in the blood to determine a heart attack. The key aspect of this test is that much lower levels of troponin can be detected much quicker, reducing the waiting time for the second troponin test from six hours to three hours. It is hoped that this will be reduced further to just one hour later this year. The high sensitivity troponin test also allows for gender specific testing which ensures that heart attacks are not being missed in females.
The troponin test also has financial benefits to the Trust, as it uses equipment already installed in the hospital's blood science laboratory.
The pathway also consists of the newly introduced Chest Pain Hot Clinics that enable some patients to be discharged following normal troponins and ECGs with a specialist nurse review within 72 hours. The specialist nurse has experience and skills in the assessment and management of patients with chest pain. They are able to assess, diagnose, treat and prescribe medications and also arrange for any further specialised investigations if required. They also work closely with the Cardiologists who provide additional support and expert advice when needed, which ensures patients are safe and reassured after discharge.


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import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.support.v7.app.MediaRouteButton;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import pl.droidsonroids.casty.Casty;
import pl.droidsonroids.casty.MediaData;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    private Button playButton;
    private Casty casty;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        casty = Casty.create(this)
                .withMiniController();
        setUpPlayButton();
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    private void setUpPlayButton() {
        playButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button_play);
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            public void onClick(View v) {
                casty.getPlayer().loadMediaAndPlay(createSampleMediaData());
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        });
        casty.setOnConnectChangeListener(new Casty.OnConnectChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onConnected() {
                playButton.setEnabled(true);
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            public void onDisconnected() {
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        });
    }

    private void setUpMediaRouteButton() {
        MediaRouteButton mediaRouteButton = (MediaRouteButton) findViewById(R.id.media_route_button);
        casty.setUpMediaRouteButton(mediaRouteButton);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
        casty.addMediaRouteMenuItem(menu);
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    private static MediaData createSampleMediaData() {
        return new MediaData.Builder("http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/video/mp4/bbb_sunflower_1080p_30fps_normal.mp4")
                .setStreamType(MediaData.STREAM_TYPE_BUFFERED)
                .setContentType("videos/mp4")
                .setMediaType(MediaData.MEDIA_TYPE_MOVIE)
                .setTitle("Sample title")
                .setSubtitle("Sample subtitle")
                .addPhotoUrl("https://peach.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/bbb-splash.png?x11217")
                .build();
    }
}