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The city-state that continues to reinvent itself, Singapore offers everything from shopping malls and colonial splendour to family fun. We've checked into a handful of its overnight abodes.
By Julia Buckley
Published 20 May 2013, 17:45 BST, Updated 5 Nov 2020, 05:46 GMT
Photograph by Marina Bay Sands
An isosceles triangle in the South China Sea just below Singapore, jungle-clad Sentosa is primarily for families with its theme parks and other kid-friendly attractions, although three palm-backed beaches pull in sun-seekers, too. Most hotels here are resorts, with Resorts World's sprawling 121-acre plot including two casinos and the Universal Studios Singapore complex. Prices tend to be below those on the main island and with easy links to the city — there's even a cable car for the intrepid — it can make a great, laid-back base.
We Recommend: Capella Singapore
If the abstract sculpture on the immaculate lawn is the first sign that Capella isn't your typical colonial villa, the modern wing behind the neo-classical facade is the second. The work of Norman Foster, who paired a couple of 19th-century army mansions with a steel-clad contemporary wing set amid 30 acres of lush gardens overlooking the South China Sea, Capella Singapore is in a league of its own. Tasteful rooms — housed in the modern wing — are all beiges and greys, with dark wood furniture, monochrome bathrooms and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the jungle and sea beyond. Dotted through the grounds are 38 villas, each with its own outdoor shower and plunge pool, while the huge 'manors' come with their own lap pool. Golf buggies ferry you to the main pool area, which spills spectacularly down the hillside, or to the art-filled public areas, where your PA — or personally assigned concierge — awaits. Sentosa may be child-orientated, but this is definitely for grown-ups.
Rooms: Doubles from S$699 (£373), B&B. 1 The Knolls, Sentosa. T: 00 65 6377 8888.
X Factor: The Auriga spa, which, as well as offering treatments based on the lunar cycle, has sound-wave loungers, a herbal steam room and scented showers.
Best for Families: Hard Rock Hotel
The name might imply unbridled hedonism, but in squeaky clean Singapore the Hard Rock's large rooms and prime location beside Universal Studios (it's part of Resorts World) make this a great choice for families. There's a kids' club and the sprawling pool area sports an artificial beach. Rooms are parent-orientated with sleek, boutique-style fittings, guitar-shaped toiletry holders, a purple colour scheme and monochrome rock-star photos on the walls.
Rooms: Doubles from S$235 (£125), room only. 8 Sentosa Gateway, Sentosa. T: 00 65 6577 8899.
Best for Beach: Shangri-La Rasa Sentosa
Sentosa's family-orientated atmosphere meets the zen-luxe style of the Shangri-La chain, here at the island's westernmost tip. With beach to the front and jungle to the side, it's Sentosa's only resort situated plum on the beach — the tankers heading to harbour are practically within touching distance. Remodelled in 2011, the 454 rooms bring the outside in, with natural beiges, carved wood and pops of green. Outside, the lush, palm-cloistered grounds are replete with resident peacocks, monkeys and ornamental koi.
Rooms: Doubles from S$350 (£187), B&B. 101 Siloso Road, Sentosa. T: 00 65 6275 0100.
An easy cab ride away from Orchard Road, but with considerably more soul than the shopping malls, Little India is a throwback to the Singapore of old, its streets clustered with low-rise buildings and traditional shophouses. Just north of Downtown Core and blending into Kampong Glam — the Middle Eastern district — you can hop from temple and mosque to sari shop and shisha bar (while Little India has fantastic restaurants, Kampong Glam pips it in the nightlife stakes). Hotels here tend to be smaller, independent properties, and the area is a buzzy but down-to-earth retreat from the glamour of downtown Singapore.
We Recommend: Wanderlust Hotel
The exterior may be a little austere — the building is a heritage-listed former school — but inside, kooky is given a free rein, with barber chairs greeting you in the lobby, leading into industrial-chic French restaurant, Cocotte. Four local design firms were given the run of the building, meaning each of the 29 rooms is different, though they're themed by category. Small, single-hued Pantone rooms come in a range of bold colours, each with a musical motif, from Purple Haze to Yellow Submarine; larger Mono rooms are divided into Origami — with undulating ceilings and adjustable lighting — or Pop Art, with trompe l'oeil fittings. It's worth upgrading to a Whimsical room, though — large duplexes with a bathroom and living area below, and the bedroom above accessed via a ladder; themes include 'spaceship', 'typewriter' or 'treehouse', the latter's ceiling adorned with a plethora of artificial leaves.
Rooms: Doubles from S$218 (£117), B&B. 2 Dickson Road. T: 00 65 6396 3322.
X Factor: Its upmarket chic: the toiletries are Kiehl's, the breakfast buffet is a class apart, and there's even a Jacuzzi on the second floor sundeck. Rainbow mosaic-tiled, of course.
Best for Extras: Moon Hotel
Past the futuristic glass-fronted façade and white-tiled lobby, lie Moon's 80 rooms: small but sassy with patterned wallpaper, super-soft beds and open-plan bathrooms (not for the demure, but brilliant for saving space). But it's the extras that'll really make you over the moon: breakfast, wi-fi, minibar (containing beer as well as soft drinks) and nightly cocktails are all included in the room rates. Windows, however, aren't a given, so make sure you request a room with a view.
Rooms: Doubles from S$146 (£78), B&B. 23 Dickson Road. T: 00 65 6827 6666.
Best for Budget: 5 Footway Inn Project Bugis
If you're prepared to relinquish a few creature comforts — windows, say — 5 Footway Inn is an excellent budget bet. Set in an old shophouse on the fringe of Little India, it's an upmarket hostel with private, en suite rooms (bring earplugs — soundproofing isn't great). Most rooms are pod-style — tiny and windowless — but many still contain a bunkbed, desk, sofa and bathroom. A simple breakfast is provided in the plant-filled dining room, and the nightlife of Baghdad Street and hip boutiques of Haji Lane are both nearby.
Rooms: Doubles from S$104 (£56), B&B. 10 Aliwal Street.
MARINA BAY/CHINATOWN
East of downtown, where the Singapore and Kallang rivers flow into the South China Sea, modern Singapore shines around Marina Bay, with dazzling architecture, fabulous landscaping and an abundance of breathtaking views. A two-mile waterfront promenade, the Singapore Flyer giant ferris wheel and the SkyPark on top of the Marina Bay Sands are all popular, though the new Gardens by the Bay — pairing rare plants with modern architecture — may yet trump them all. But it's not all cutting edge here — one of Singapore's historic hawker centres, Lau Pa Sat, lies just inland, while Chinatown is a short walk to the west.
We Recommend: The Fullerton
A great wedding cake of a building wedged between the Singapore River, Marina Bay and the skyscrapers of the Central Business District, you'd never guess The Fullerton only opened in 2001. But while its hotel lineage may be recent, the building has been an integral part of Singapore since 1928, when it housed the General Post Office. Its history still shows in the vast, palatial atrium and the Post Bar's coffered ceilings. In contrast, the 400 tech-friendly bedrooms are pretty modern, with butter-coloured walls and marble-clad bathrooms. Courtyard accommodation overlooks the atrium, but ask for a room with a view, and you'll enjoy floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the river or Marina Bay.
Rooms: Doubles from S$440 (£235), B&B. 1 Fullerton Square. T: 00 65 6733 8388.
X Factor: The location — in addition to the fabulous views it benefits from, the hotel is five minutes' walk from nightlife hub Boat Quay, with Chinatown a little further along.
Best for Romance: The Scarlet
Singapore notoriously doesn't do sexy, so while the Scarlet's facade — a row of shophouses filing towards Chinatown — is nothing but traditional, inside it's a riot of boudoir chic. Rooms teem with high, padded headboards, tasselled curtains, and chairs clad in crushed velvet (red, of course). Gold is liberally sprinkled throughout — from the bedroom mirrors to the huge chandelier dangling above the lobby. Too much? Take a breather at Breeze, the rooftop bar and restaurant.
Rooms: Doubles from S$180 (£96), B&B. 33 Erskine Road. T: 00 65 6511 3333.
Best for Pools: Marina Bay Sands
'Rooftop pool' doesn't quite begin to describe Marina Bay Sands' SkyPark. 'Skyscraper-top pool', maybe. Perched 57 floors up, infinity edged and draped precariously over the resort's three towers, it's probably the most terrifying outdoor pool in the world. And this gargantuan resort has plenty more to flaunt, with numerous restaurants and cafes, a mall, convention centre, museum and casino all on site. In contrast to the facilities, the 2,561 large rooms are muted, letting the floor-to-ceiling windows and their killer views do the talking.
Rooms: Doubles from S$359 (£193), room only. 10 Bayfront Avenue. T: 00 65 6688 8868.
Clustered round the mouth of the Singapore River, sprawling Downtown Core encapsulates the city, with colonial-era buildings squaring off against skyscrapers. Nuggets of the past lie in every direction — from the ongoing archaeological dig at Fort Canning Park to the shops at Chijmes, a convent-turned-mall. A few of the hotels here are landmarks in themselves — visitors flock to Raffles for a Singapore Sling, or Fort Canning to see the spice garden planted by Sir Stamford Raffles himself. An evening among the bars of Clarke Quay, though, will bring you thoroughly back to the present.
We Recommend: Raffles
It could so easily go wrong. Expectations are sky high here, at one of the most iconic hotels in the world; luckily, the 126-year-old Raffles delivers, with delectable rooms, gallons of history, and impeccable service. It's not, of course, for everyone — this is the kind of place where the dress code is strictly enforced. As for the 103 suites, they're unashamedly old fashioned, with dark wood furniture, oriental carpets and teak floorboards. Yet that's the joy of Raffles — as you sign the famous guestbook at check-in, you step back in time. Tropical gardens divide the property and although it's in the middle of the city, the only disturbance on your veranda will be snatches of birdsong and the rustle of palms. Afternoon tea, the curry buffet, a Singapore Sling in the Long Bar — there are perhaps too many rites of passage at Raffles to chalk off in one visit. Luckily, staying here trumps them all.
Rooms: Doubles from S$840 (£450), room only. 1 Beach Road. T: 00 65 6337 1886.
X-factor: The superb service. Staff address guests by name, and each suite has a service button to call the 24-hour team of butlers.
Best as a Hideaway: Hotel Fort Canning
Tucked away in the lush Fort Canning Park, this former military base retains its magnificent colonial facade but brings things thoroughly up to date inside. The 86 rooms lead out to a conservatory-like area, containing the bathroom, study, or even a sundeck. With acres of parkland to explore, you're a world away from the city, yet just a five-minute taxi ride from Orchard Road.
Rooms: Doubles from S$360 (£193), B&B. 11 Canning Walk. T: 00 65 6559 6770.
Best for Pizzazz: Gallery Hotel
In comparison to the hotel's extraordinary exterior, with its colour-framed and neon-lit windows, the 222 rooms are disappointingly normal. Yet the public areas — including four restaurants, an al fresco cafe overlooking the Singapore River and a bar with a resident magician — are suitably flashy, while the glass-sided pool, extending into the ether from its fifth floor deck, is the hotel's masterpiece.
Rooms: Doubles from S$170 (£91), room only. 1 Nanson Road. T: 00 65 6849 8686.
Published in the May/Jun 2013 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK)
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Malcolm Johnston
is a Canadian soccer player who currently plays for MLS Next Pro side Whitecaps FC 2. He is the brother of Celticplayer Alistair Johnston.

Early life
His family lived in Aurora, Ontario, five minutes from ice hockey player's Connor McDavid's house. Malcolm reportedly could also have played ice hockey to a professional standard but pursued a soccer career, as had his older brother Alistair.

Career

Early career
Johnston played for Vaughan Azzurri from the age of 14 until graduating Aurora High School in 2019. From 2016-2019 he captained his team at Vaughan. He also made a couple of appearances for the senior team in League1 Ontario. He played four seasons for the University of Maryland from 2019. From the second season onward he was chosen as captain and entrusted with the role of designated penalty taker, due in part to his calm demeanour.  Coach Sasho Cirovski described him as a "cool cat". It was a successful decision as Johnston proved adept at scoring from the spot.

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He finished the season as the top scorer in 2022 for the Maryland Terrapins with six goals and was also credited with eight assists. He was also awarded the Terrapins 'goal of the season' with a bicycle kick against Rutgers University.  Johnston entered the 2023 MLS SuperDraft and was selected in the first round of the draft by New York City FC with the 26th overall pick.

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On February 28, 2023, Johnston signed with MLS Next Pro side Whitecaps FC 2.

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His brother is the Canadian international soccer player Alistair Johnston.

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Home > News Archives > Tag: episodes > ABC Announces Episode 9.22
ABC Announces Episode 9.22 Posted May 8 2018
ABC has issued the press release for the penultimate episode before The Middle's hour-long series finale. "Split Decision" airs Tuesday, May 15.
Split Decision – Now that Frankie knows Axl was offered a job in Denver, she makes it her mission to sway him from taking it and moving away. Meanwhile, the usually overly optimistic Sue is depressed over Sean leaving for Ghana, without ever expressing her feelings for him; and Brick drives everyone crazy when he buys a huge amount of lawn chairs to replace the one he's been using for nine years, on "The Middle," TUESDAY, MAY 15 (8:30-9:00 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network, streaming and on demand.
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Now that Frankie knows Axl was offered a job in Denver, she makes it her mission to sway him from taking it and moving away. Meanwhile, the usually overly optimistic Sue is depressed over Sean leaving for Ghana, without ever expressing her feelings for him; and Brick drives everyone crazy when he buys a huge amount of lawn chairs to replace the one he's been using for nine years.
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'Deadly Monopolies'? Patenting The Human Body In a new book, medical ethicist Harriet Washington details how genes and tissues are increasingly being patented by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Those firms, she argues, are focused more on their profits than on the medical needs of patients.
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The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself—and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future
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In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled that living, human-made microorganisms could be patented by their developers. The ruling opened the gateway for cells, tissues, genetically modified plants and animals, and genes to be patented.
In the past 30 years, more than 40,000 patents have been granted on genes alone, says medical ethicist Harriet Washington. In her new book, Deadly Monopolies, Washington details how our tissues and genes are increasingly being patented by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Those firms, she argues, are focused more on their profits than on the medical needs of patients.
Restrictive patents on genes prevent competition that can keep the medical cost of treatment down, says Washington. In addition to genes, she also points to tissue samples, which are also being patented — sometimes without patients' detailed knowledge and consent. Washington details one landmark case in California in which medically valuable tissue samples from a patient's spleen were patented by a physician overseeing his treatment for hairy-cell leukemia. The physician then established a laboratory to determine whether tissue samples could be used to create various drugs without informing the patient.
"[The patient] was told that he had to come to [the physician's] lab for tests ... in the name of vigilance to treat his cancer and keep him healthy," says Washington.
The patient, a man named John Moore, was never told that his discarded body parts could be used in other ways. He sued his doctor and the University of California, where the procedure took place, for lying to him about his tissue — and because he did not want to be the subject of a patent. The case went all the way to the California Supreme Court, where Moore lost. In the decision, the court noted that Moore had no right to any share of the profits obtained from anything developed from his discarded body parts.
"If they're his cells and medically viable agents are being derived from his body, it seems intuitive to me that he should be the one to decide what's done with it," says Washington. "I think we can't forget that money is not the only question here. Money is important for the corporations ... Money may be less important to [the patient] than his bodily integrity and about his rights to informed consent and his rights of autonomy to choose what should be done with his body."
Another patient, a hemophiliac, was told by his doctor that his blood contained highly concentrated amounts of antibodies that could be highly valuable for other patients. He started a company to market his blood. But he also gave his blood away for free to other companies and noncommercial researchers. Washington writes that the patient "rewrote the rulebook" by understanding that "donating and selling tissues are not mutually exclusive."
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Before the 1980s, it was rare for university researchers to obtain patents on their products, says Washington. She points to Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine.
"Edward R. Murrow said to [Salk]: 'This vaccine is going to be in great demand. Everyone's going to want it. It's potentially very lucrative. Who holds the patent?' And Salk said, 'The American people, I guess. Could you patent the sun?' This was the norm," she says.
But since the 1980s, researchers at universities and the pharmaceutical industry have become collaborators in ways that they weren't before, says Washington. The 1980 Bayh-Dole Act gave universities and small businesses control of their intellectual property — which allowed them to sell their patents.
"Before the 1980s ... most researchers worked within a university culture which encouraged free discourse without necessarily a potential product in mind," she says. "It encouraged collaboration and data-sharing, and the values held by medical researchers were values of academic excellence, medical achievement, altruism ... these were the motivations. Now that the patent is based upon the value of exclusivity, the corporation discouraged very strongly and prohibited data sharing. ... This culture of the corporation has overtaken the medical research culture."
Harriet Washington is also the author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.
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Universities get money and support from the pharmaceutical companies for their research efforts. In turn, a pharmaceutical company can potentially buy or license a patent for a molecule or gene from the researcher — which is even more lucrative, says Washington.
"Once they have done that, they will hopefully emerge with a medicine," says Washington. "Now they can decide what to charge for it. And in this country they can charge anything they like."
She notes that the relationship between universities and pharmaceutical companies is different now than it was in the past.
"Very often, medical researchers would not sell a patent. [They] would hold the patent on the medicine — not sell it to anybody — which means that it could still be manufactured and sold by corporations, but they had no exclusivity," she says. "[The pharmaceutical companies] could not charge this astronomical price, because customers could simply go elsewhere for it."
Washington is also the author of Medical Apartheid, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has been a fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University and a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Constellation HomeBuilder Systems to Introduce Game-Changing Industry Data Platform at Build Smarter Conference
Scribble eSign offers a cost-effective alternative to remote signing for BuildTopia users and their customers.
TORONTO–November 30th, 2022 – Constellation HomeBuilder Systems, North America's largest provider of home building software solutions, today announced the launch of Scribble, a new electronic signing solution that supports eSigning of digital documents and contracts, designed specifically for homebuilders. Scribble offers builders on the BuildTopia construction management software platform a streamlined signing workflow, including multiple signers and documents, secured signing sessions and secured document storage.
Today's business-minded home builders want to sell homes as quickly and easily as possible, and this partnership makes it super easy. Powered by Constellation's new home marketing software platform, NHLS Distribution Engine, it has never been easier for new home builders to create an unlimited number of new home listings to advertise with great convenience and no extra charge to your NHLS account. This comprehensive value offering is exactly what the Canadian new home building industry has been waiting for, a national site for all new homes.
The NHLS platform is built to seamlessly integrate with popular construction ERP systems including NEWSTAR, BuildTopia, FAST, and other systems as requested but can also be used as a standalone solution to accurately distribute listings, with the click of a single button.
"Builders are looking for cost effective and reliable e-sign alternatives that easily integrate into their existing construction management solution, while securely and efficiently collecting and managing eSignatures," said Sean Wilhelm, vice president of Constellation HomeBuilder Systems.
"Despite homebuyers demanding a more digital homebuying experience, we're still seeing frustration among builders who are trying to make technology decisions based on a myriad of eSign solutions that claim efficiency improvements, but in reality, lack simplicity and pricing transparency" continued Wilhelm. "Scribble delivers all the mainstream workflow automations, security and compliance features that builders are looking for, but at a more cost-effective price point."
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Streamline closing workflows – Scribble is built-in to BuildTopia, enabling builders to add it to their workflow quickly and easily with minimal training and zero disruption.
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The solution offers faster, more convenient way for homebuyers to sign closing documents by participating in a scheduled "signing session". This provides homebuyers the flexibility to electronically sign documents from anywhere for a better homebuying experience.
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Asda 'sexist' Xmas ad row heats up
The number of official complaints to the advertising watchdog alleging Asda's Christmas ad is "sexist" has snowballed to 160, driven by a backlash on social media and protests from a campaign group.
By Lara O'Reilly 9 Nov 2012 9:54 am
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The Advertising Standards Authority confirmed to Marketing Week it has now received 160 complaints about the ad, which depicts a mother preparing for Christmas, since it launched on Sunday (4 November) – up from 24 on Tuesday (6 November).
The volume of complaints is likely to prompt the watchdog to consider a formal investigation of the advert sooner than in most normal cases. An investigation could result in the ad being banned ahead of the supermarket's lucrative Christmas shopping period.
The ad has sparked considerable debate on Twitter, Facebook and web forums in the past week, with both men and women claiming the spot – which carries the strapline "Behind every great Christmas there's mum" – could reinforce negative gender stereotypes.
Justine Roberts, founder and CEO of Mumsnet, told Marketing Week the ad was the subject of more than 1,000 comments on its forums in less than 24 hours.
She adds: "Most users are irritated by what they see as a patronising portrayal of an outdated version of family life and that the days when men sit around demanding their tea are long gone. That said, there are some who admit that the ad fairly accurately reflects the division of labour in their households over Christmas but even they wouldn't put up with the 'What's for tea, love' line without all hell being let loose."
Meanwhile, campaign group Fathers 4 Justice is encouraging its supporters to stage a series of "occupy"-style protests at Asda supermarkets, starting with its flagship Wigan store, which is set to launch its "Christmas showcase" next week.
When it first emerged that viewers had complained about the Saatchi & Saatchi-created ad earlier this week, an Asda spokeswoman told Marketing Week that 80 per cent of its shoppers are mums and in research its customers were "overwhelmingly positive" about the ad. In less than three hours after launching the ad Asda claims its Facebook page received 22,000 likes.
In response to the recent spike in complaints about the ad, an Asda spokesman says: "To any mums and dads who have been upset by our Christmas TV ad – we'd like to offer our sincere apologies. It wasn't our intention to offend anyone. Our ad depicts what many of the 16 million mums who shop in Asda tell us they feel. It is intended to be light-hearted and fun and in the main that's how it's been received. We respect all hard-working parents and know just how tough it is managing a family – particularly at Christmas."
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Periodic broadcasting with VBR-encoded video
Martin Reisslein, Despina Saparilla, Keith W. Ross
We consider designing near video on demand (NVOD) systems that minimize startup latency while maintaining high image quality. Recently nonuniform segmentation has been used to develop periodic broadcasting techniques for NVOD. These techniques give significant reductions in startup latency as compared with more conventional uniform segmentation. Essentially all of these schemes assume, however, that the videos are CBR-encoded. Since a CBR-encoded video has a larger average rate than an open-loop VBR encoding with the same image quality, there is potential to obtain further performance improvements by using VBR video. In this paper we develop a series of multiplexing schemes for the periodic broadcasting of VBR-encoded video that are based on smoothing, server buffering, and client prefetching. Two key but conflicting performance measures exist when using VBR video: latency and packet loss. By introducing small additional delays in our multiplexing schemes, our trace-based numerical work shows that the schemes can achieve nearly 100% link utilization with negligible packet loss. When the ratio of the CBR rate to the VBR average rate is a modest 1.8, startup latency can be reduced by a factor of four or more for common scenarios.
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Reisslein, M., Saparilla, D., & Ross, K. W. (2004). Periodic broadcasting with VBR-encoded video. Multimedia Systems, 9(6), 503-516. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-003-0123-2
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Connectedness presents great obstacles to teachers actively trying to engage students in the classroom. This workshop will introduce to you an easy and free online resource that can be used to replace one or all of the traditional lesson plan steps in order to increase student participation and engagement levels.
Who is Bruno Guedes Pereira? What is the single characteristic that you want most people to know about you?
I am a senior lecturer at the oldest and largest French-speaking university in North America, and I am currently involved in many projects that seek to adapt teaching to the new learning spaces in order to optmize learning in postsecondary institutions.
My workshop will introduce a new web tool that can be used to replace one single step of the lesson plan, such as controlled practice, or the whole lesson in order to reach digital native learners and increase their engagement level in class. As such, one could say that my workshop will aim to show you that you can (T)ransform your teaching in order to (T)ranscend traditional learner engagement.
Currently, (T)ransforming my teaching has been the focus in my career.
TESOL Greece is an opportunity to share my experiences in the brave new world of teaching 2.0 with a larger network of fellow teachers.
I expect to make great connections and learn new ideas and methods.
I wish all participants great success at sharing ideas and experiences as I think this is truly how we measure the success of a TESOL conference.


I bought this 5D house back in 2009 after I'd got a 40D(?) stolen. Even though it's technology is from 2005, this camera still produce photos that are of a fantastic quality. When I decided to acquire a new DSLR I thought that I would sell of this long trusted friend. But I find that I'm too emotionally attached to it (and probably won't get that much money for it). I guess I'll keep it for now and maybe, 30-40 years from now I'll sell it to someone who have found love for old cameras. Much like I have with the Pentax ME Super and Leica IIIf.
For more photos have look at my 5D album on flickr.


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There are plenty of free activities that allow you to try something new as a whole family. Pre-register using the barcodes provided at DeltaReg.ca or by calling 604-952-3000. These events are provided through the support of the Province of British Columbia.
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Unveiling the TRP Ratings of Indian Hindi TV shows
February 01, 2019 Edge TV, India
The Television Rating Point or the TRP is supposed to be an effective tool for judging which television programs or serials are actually viewed most. This should be giving us an index regarding the preference of the common people and also, the overall popularity of a specific television channel.
The TRP proves to be immensely beneficial for calculation purposes. We are told that a device is connected to a television set in thousands of households across India. These numbers would be regarded as a sample from the total television owners in diverse demographic and geographic sectors. The device is known as the People's Meter and it effectively records the program and the precise time when the viewer would be watching the television shows of his preference on a precise day. The calculations would involve taking the average for a period of 30 days that should be giving the viewership status for a precise channel.
As per the https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com, "As per the Television Rating Point (TRP) is a tool provided to judge which programs are viewed the most. This gives us an index of the choice of the people and also the popularity of a particular channel. For calculation purpose, a device is attached to the TV set in a few thousand viewers™ houses for judging purpose."
The TRP rating points would be quantifying the GRPs or the Gross Rating Points that are achieved by a campaign or advertisement among targeted audience within a relatively larger population. The GRP and TRP metrics are supposed to be both crucial components for determining and evaluating the real marketing effectiveness of a certain specific advertisement.
Salman Khan's flagship TV show Bigg Boss season 12 has now dropped right to the bottom of the list, occupying the 19th slot. Kaun Banega Crorepati 10 in its 40th week saw major rises, as per the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC). The participant of the day, Binita Jain won the grand prize of 1 crore, which earned the episode the highest recorded ratings for this season. This allows it to jump from 7th place to 3rd. Bigg Boss 12, unfortunately, has suffered from a variety of issues, ranging from a changed time slot to unimpressive contestants and needless, overdone drama.
Naagin 3, a fantasy drama still continues to enjoy the first or second positions. Some other television shows that are in the top 5 brackets include Yeh Rishta Kya Kahlata Hai, Kundali Bhagya, and also, Kullfi Kumar Bajewala. Moreover, we have witnessed that the mythological drama 'RadhaKrishn' on Star Bharat actually, opened to a really positive response. So it has grabbed the #6 ranking in the charts. Star Plus became the number 1 General Entertainment Channel in precisely the urban market. The other channels to follow include Sony TV, followed by Colors, and then Zee TV.
As per https://www.filmibeat.com, 'Surprisingly, the weekend shows are ruling the TRP chart. Khatron Ke Khiladi 9 has got a massive opening and has occupied the top slot. The Kapil Sharma Show, Naagin 3 and Super Dancer 3 are at second, third and fourth place respectively.'
With the start of a brand new year, several new shows have been launched. With every new week, you would be getting a fresh TRP report that will tell you precisely which television show has won the maximum popularity and became truly a hot favourite of many.
Unveiling the TRP Ratings of Indian Hindi TV shows Reviewed by Simon Mkhize on February 01, 2019 Rating: 5
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\section*{Asymptotic Dynamics}

The S-matrix is used to describe the scattering of in-particle
states to some final out-particle states. The existence of such an
S-matrix description of particle scattering is  based on the
overlap between the interacting and free theory in the remote past
and future, i.e., in QED with the interaction Hamiltonian
\begin{equation}
H_I(t)=-{\mathrm{e}}\int\! d^3
x\,\overline{\psi}(x)\gamma^\mu\psi(x)A_\mu(x)\,,
\end{equation}
it is assumed that $H_I(t)\to 0$ as $t\to\pm\infty$. This large time limit,
though, fails to be that of the free theory in QED. Instead one finds
that the interaction survives:
\begin{equation}
H_I(t)\to -{\mathrm{e}}\int\! d^3x\,
A^\mu(x)J^{\mathrm{as}}_\mu(x)\,,
\end{equation}
where the non-vanishing asymptotic current has the form\,\cite{kulish:1970}
\begin{equation}
J^{\mathrm{as}}_\mu(x)=\int\!
d^3p\,\rho(p)\frac{p^\mu}{E_p}\delta^{(3)}(\underline{x}-\frac{t
\underline{p}}{E_p})\,.
\end{equation}
What this is telling us is that in such a theory with massless
fields, the associated long-range nature of the interactions
implies that we cannot simply \lq\lq switch off the
coupling\rq\rq. The asymptotic dynamics for the matter  is not
free, and  hence there is no particle description at early or late
times. This is the well-known infra-red problem in QED.

The interpretation of this result that we wish to emphasize,
though,  is that  Gauss' law is not trivial asymptotically: the
matter and gauge fields cannot be viewed as independent. In
particular, the matter fields are not physical as they are not
separately  gauge invariant even at remote times. This raises the
obvious question: if the matter fields are not physical, then what
are the physical charges in this theory, and can they have a
particle description?

\section*{Construction of Charges}

Charges must be gauge invariant to be physical. The generic form
for a charged field in QED is thus given by the product of the
form $h^{-1}(x)\psi(x)$ where, under a gauge transformation,
$\psi\to e^{i{\mathrm{e}}\theta}\psi$, the dressing transforms as
\begin{equation}\label{ginv}
h^{-1}\to h^{-1}{e}^{-i {\mathrm{e}}\theta}\,.
\end{equation}
There are, though,
many ways to construct such invariant fields that  are not
physically acceptable. In addition, then, we impose the kinematical
condition  that we want
charges that are, in fact, charged particles at early and late
times, i.e., they should have a sharp energy-momentum at these
asymptotic times. This condition is encoded in the dressing
equation:
\begin{equation}\label{dresseqtn}
h u^\mu\partial_\mu(h^{-1})=-i{\mathrm{e}}u^\mu A_\mu\,,
\end{equation}
where $u^\mu$ is the asymptotic four velocity of the particle.
This equation can be motivated either from the form of the
asymptotic dynamics associated with the dressed field, or from
heavy charge effective theory\,\cite{Horan}.

Equations (\ref{ginv}) and (\ref{dresseqtn}) are the fundamental
equations in our approach to charges
in QED and, as we will see later, QCD. For a given four velocity
$u^\mu$, which we write as $\gamma(\eta+v)^\mu$ where
$\eta=(1,0,0,0)$ and
$v=(0,\underline{v})$, we can solve these equations to obtain the
dressing
\begin{equation}
 h^{-1}=e^{-i{\mathrm{e}}K} e^{-i{\mathrm{e}}\chi}\,,
\end{equation}
where
\begin{eqnarray}
&&K(x)=-\int_{\Gamma}ds(\eta+v)^\mu\frac{\partial^\nu
F_{\nu\mu}}{{\mathcal G}\cdot\partial}\\ &&\chi(x)=\frac{{\mathcal
G}\cdot A}{{\mathcal G}\cdot\partial}
\end{eqnarray}
and ${\mathcal
G}^\mu=(\eta+v)^\mu(\eta-v)\cdot\partial-\partial^\mu$ while
$\Gamma$ is the past (future) trajectory of an incoming (outgoing)
particle. It is immediate from this form of the solution that the
dressing has structure:
\begin{itemize}
 \item a gauge dependent part associated with  $\chi$ which makes the  whole charge gauge
 invariant, we thus talk of this as the
 minimal part of the dressing;
\item a gauge invariant part associated with  $K$ which we call the  additional part of the
dressing. It is needed to satisfy the dressing equation.
\end{itemize}
To gain a better understanding of why these different structures
arise in the dressing and, indeed, to verify that the dressing equation
does capture the particle structure of the asymptotic charges as we expect, we
need to perform detailed perturbative tests of the construction.

In the present context, what we need to calculate are the on-shell
$n$-point Green's functions for the charged fields. Each charged
field needs to be dressed in the form appropriate to the
asymptotic velocity of its in-coming or out-going
particle. The dressing for each charge can then be expanded
perturbatively and the minimal and additional structure can be
seen to generate two new vertices. Armed with these new Feynman
rules,  the on-shell Green's functions can be calculated and we
find\,\cite{Bagan:1998kg} that, at the appropriate points on the
mass-shell:
\begin{itemize}
\item the infra-red divergences associated with the minimal part of the
dressing cancel those soft divergences that arise from the perturbative expansion
of the matter;
\item in pair creation processes, the  additional gauge invariant part of the
dressing generates a phase divergence which cancels the one which
arise from the matter fields.
\end{itemize}
Thus we have seen that, already at the level of Green's functions,
our construction  does describe charged particles and that the
structure in the dressing reflects the differing infra-red
behaviour of the matter fields. In this context, we can view the
minimal part of the dressing as the soft component of the charge, and the
additional part as the phase.

\section*{Charges in QCD}

In contrast to the situation in QED where the electric charge was
itself gauge invariant, in an unbroken non-abelian gauge theory,
such as QCD, the very definition of charge requires a restriction
on the form of the gauge transformations at spatial
infinity\,\cite{Lavelle:1996tz,Lavelle:1997ty}. Once this is
correctly taken into account, though, the route to the
construction of non-abelian charged particles proceeds in a now
familiar manner:
\begin{itemize}
\item {gauge invariance is maintained through the dressing
$h^{-1}$ where now, under a non-abelian gauge transformation,
$h^{-1}(x)\to h^{-1}(x)U(x)$;}
  \item {the kinematical restriction required to describe an asymptotic charged particle with
  four velocity $u$ is
  $h u\cdot\partial(h^{-1})=gu\cdot A$.}
\end{itemize}
All that needs to be done, then, is to solve these equations!

We have presented an algorithm for the perturbative construction
of the soft part of the dressing to an arbitrary order in
perturbation theory and we can  incorporate some non-perturbative
effects\,\cite{Lavelle:1997ty}. We have also proven  that there is
a global obstruction to the construction of such dressings. This
follows because it can be shown that any such dressing could be
used to construct a gauge fixing which, however,  we know cannot
exist globally. This shows that isolated quarks are not
observables and colour must be confined.

In addition to the construction of charged matter, in a
non-abelian theory we also need to construct gauge invariant glue.
The dressing can also be used for this and by analyzing what
happens in massless QED we can see that the dressing equation
  for a massless charge will also lead to a vanishing  asymptotic
Hamiltonian\,\cite{Horan}.  This gives us confidence that even the
collinear structure associated with such charges will be correctly
captured in our approach.

Rather than discuss these general results here, it is perhaps more helpful to present a concrete
calculation which captures the essential new ingredients found in the non-abelian
theory. This will also allow us to give a new physical
interpretation to the minimal part of the dressing. Thus we shall conclude this talk
by presenting a direct route to the calculation of the  potential between static
quarks.

\section*{The Interquark Potential}

Up to now we have essentially been concerned with the construction
of isolated charges. However, when it comes to hadrons we are
faced with the question of whether these colour singlets have a
constituent structure, i.e.,  are they  constructed from
individual gauge invariant constituent charges? There are various
models for hadronic structure, some of which have a constituent
structure and some of which do not. We wish to investigate to what
extent these pictures follow from QCD.

The method we are going to follow is to construct gauge invariant
constituent states and then study their energy. This will then be
compared with that derived from the Wilson loop which we
recall\,\cite{Fischler:1977yf,Appelquist:1977tw} yields, at order
$\alpha^2$, the following potential between two static quarks
\begin{equation}
V(r)= -\frac{g^2 C_F}{4\pi r}\left[ 1+
\frac{g^2}{4\pi}\frac{C_A}{2\pi }\left( {4}-{\frac13} \right)
\log(\mu r) \right]\,.
\end{equation}
At lowest order this is a Coulombic potential and the logarithmic
correction we have split here into two parts reflecting the
anti-screening and screening contributions typical of a
non-abelian gauge theory.

The dominant anti-screening contribution comes from longitudinal
glue and the screening part from gauge invariant
glue\,\cite{Lavelle:1998dv}. This divide has been seen in a wide
variety of studies of the $\beta$-function. Since our dressings
factorise into two parts (a minimal part constructed out of
longitudinal degrees of freedom and an additional gauge invariant
term) we would expect that if a constituent picture holds then the
minimal part of the dressing for the constituents should reproduce
the dominant anti-screening term in the potential. We will now
show this.

To calculate the potential at order $\alpha^2$ we will need to
extend the  minimal dressing to $O(g^3)$. Having done this the
potential is the separation dependent part of the expectation
value of the Hamiltonian between the   charged constituent states.

The minimal static dressing in QED was: $\exp(-ie\chi)$, with
$\chi={\partial_i A_i}/{\nabla^2}$. In QCD this has the gauge
invariant extension
\begin{equation}
\exp(-ie\chi)\Rightarrow \exp(g\chi^aT^a)\equiv h^{-1}
\end{equation}
with $g\chi^aT^a=(g\chi_1^a+g^2 \chi_2^a+g^3\chi_3^a+\cdots)T^a$
where
\begin{equation}
\chi_1^a=\frac{\partial_j A_j^a}{\nabla^2}\,;\quad
\chi_2^a=f^{abc}\frac{\partial_j}{\nabla^2}\left(
\chi_1^bA_j^c+\frac12(\partial_j\chi_1^b)\chi^c_1
\right)\,;\quad\dots
\end{equation}
Note that for the rest of this talk we denote by $h^{-1}$ the
above minimal static dressing.

Now we  take the expectation value of the Hamiltonian between
such minimally dressed quark/antiquark states:
$\bar\psi(y)h(y)h^{-1}(y')\psi(y')\ket0$. This yields for the
potential
 \begin{equation}
  -\textrm{tr}\int\!d^3x \,\bra0 [E^a_i(x),h^{-1}(y)]h(y)
[E^a_i(x),h^{-1}(y')]h(y') \ket0
\end{equation}
At $O(g^2)$ we obtain for $ V^{g^2}(r)$
\begin{equation}
  -g^2\textrm{tr}\!\int\!d^3x \bra0 [E^a_i(x),
  \chi^d_1(y)]T^dT^b
  [E^a_i(x),\chi^b_1(y')] \ket0\,.
 \end{equation}
From the equal-time commutator:
$[E_i^a(x),A_j^b(y)]=i\delta^{ab}\delta_{ij}
\delta(\boldsymbol{x}-\boldsymbol{y})$ we thus obtain the expected
Coulomb potential:
\begin{equation}
  V^{g^2}(r)=
  -\frac{g^2 N C_F}{4\pi r}\,.
\end{equation}

At $O(g^4)$ we  require $[E^a_i(x),h^{-1}(y)]h(y)$. From simple
manipulations we obtain
\begin{equation}
 g[E_i^a(x),\chi_1(y)]
 +g^2[E_i^a(x),\chi_2(y)]+g^3 [E_i^a(x),\chi_3(y)]
 +O(g^4)\,,
\end{equation}
\noindent plus many gauge dependent terms which we can drop. This
yields for the potential\,\cite{Lavelle:1998dv}
\begin{eqnarray}
 V^{g^4}(r)&\!=&
\! - \frac{3g^4 C_FC_A}{(4\pi)^3}\int\!d^3z\!\int\!d^3w
 \frac1{\mod{\boldsymbol z-\boldsymbol w}} \times \nonumber\\
&& \qquad\left(  \partial_j^z\frac1{\mod{\boldsymbol z-\boldsymbol
y}}\right)
 \left(  \partial_k^w\frac1{\mod{\boldsymbol w-\boldsymbol {y}'}}\right)
\langle A_k^T(w)A_j^T(z)\rangle\,.
\end{eqnarray}
Inserting the free propagator
\begin{equation}
\langle A_k^T(w)A_j^T(z)\rangle=
\frac1{2\pi^2}\frac{(z-w)_j
(z-w)_k}{{\mod{\boldsymbol z-\boldsymbol w}}^4}
\end{equation}
and performing the integrals, we easily find
\begin{equation}
V^{g^4}(r)=-\frac{g^4}{(4\pi)^2}\frac{NC_FC_A}{2\pi
r}\,{4}\log(\mu r)\,.
\end{equation}
This we recognise as the expected  anti-screening contribution to
the interquark potential. This calculation has shown that the
non-abelian anti-screening effect can be understood as arising
from the interaction of two gauge invariant constituents.

\section*{Conclusions}

Starting from the observation that in gauge theories the
asymptotic fields are not free, we have seen that Gauss' law
implies that dressings are needed to construct physical charged
fields. We have presented a method of constructing dressed charges
and have seen that this results in a structured dressing.

In QED we have demonstrated that the dressings remove the
infra-red  divergences associated with on-shell Green's functions.
We note that the  different structures found in the  dressings
play different roles in this cancellation.

In non-abelian gauge theories such as QCD well-defined colour
charges must be dressed if colour is to be a good quantum number.
The perturbative construction of dressed fields has been
investigated by various authors\,\cite{haller:1997}, however, we
stress that there is a global obstruction to the construction of
an isolated colour charge.

To test the physical validity of constituent structures we have
studied the potential between such gauge invariant quarks. The
anti-screening contribution to the full interquark potential was
recovered by considering minimally  dressed quarks. This result
shows that we have determined the dominant glue configuration and
renders a constituent structure visible.

Extensions of this work to higher orders in the potential and to
the usual screening contribution are in progress. Given the global
obstruction to the construction of dressings, the above
constituent picture of hadrons must  break down at some scale. The
major challenge of this  programme of research is to determine
this scale.

\section*{Acknowledgements} This work was supported in part by the
British Council and the  Acciones Integradas (HB 1997-0141)
programme.

\section*{References}

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Nick Nurse
Fred VanVleet
Leonard scores 37 as Raptors beat Cavs 126-110
By IAN HARRISONDecember 22, 2018
Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard, right, drives to the basket as Cleveland Cavaliers guard Rodney Hood, left, defends during second-half NBA basketball game action in Toronto, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Raptors keep rolling along despite missing a couple key players because of injuries.
Having Kawhi Leonard on the court certainly helps.
Leonard matched his season high with 37 points, helping the Raptors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 126-110 on Friday night.
OG Anunoby equaled his career high with 21 points as Toronto improved its NBA-leading record to 25-9. Pascal Siakam had 15 points and 10 rebounds, and Fred VanVleet scored 14 points.
The short-handed Raptors won their second straight despite injuries to three starters. Guard Kyle Lowry missed his fourth straight game because of a sore left thigh, and center Serge Ibaka was sidelined by a sore right knee for the second straight game. Guard Danny Green was shelved by a sore left knee after starting Toronto's first 33 games.
Raptors coach Nick Nurse said he has been impressed with the way his team has responded to the rash of injuries.
"I think we're handling it really well," Nurse said. "We're having to do a lot of different things, play a lot of different lineups, a little bit different style here and there."
Siakam said the Raptors are trying to stay positive.
"All of us are waiting for opportunities to be on the floor," he said. "It's tough to have three starters out but, at the same time, it's another day in the NBA, it's another game, so we've got to go out there and play it."
Jordan Clarkson scored 20 points for Cleveland, and Larry Nance Jr. had 16 points and 12 rebounds. Collin Sexton scored 17 points, and Cedi Osman finished with 12.
The Cavaliers lost for the fourth time in five games. They also dropped to 3-13 on the road.
Cleveland had injury problems of its own. Rodney Hood was limited to 17 minutes because of a sore left foot, and David Nwaba turned his left ankle in the second quarter and played only 14 minutes.
"Both guys are obviously a big part of what we do, they're starters," coach Larry Drew said. "We had to kind of switch some things up."
Leonard shot 12 for 16 from the field and went 11 for 12 at the free-throw line. He was working out after the game and did not speak to the media.
Toronto had a 102-97 lead with 7:36 remaining when Anunoby drove for a powerful one-handed dunk. After VanVleet stole the ball from Sexton, Siakam converted a layup to put the Raptors up by nine points.
Clarkson made a pair of free throws and Nance dunked to cut the gap to five again, but Leonard replied with a three-point play, and then teamed with VanVleet to hit back-to-back 3s.
"I thought our guys put up a good fight," Drew said. "For 3 1/2 quarters we did some good things. We just couldn't overcome them."
TIP-INS
Cavaliers: Cleveland's reserves scored 53 points. ... Matthew Dellavedova led Cleveland with six assists.
Raptors: VanVleet led Toronto with eight assists while Anunoby matched his career high with eight rebounds. ... Toronto used its 12th starting lineup of the season, with VanVleet, Wright and Anunoby joining regulars Leonard and Siakam. ... Toronto sold out its 200th consecutive game, a streak that began in November 2014.
CAN'T COME BACK
Cleveland is 0-18 when trailing at halftime.
HIGH-SCORING
Toronto scored 120 or more for the 14th time, more than anyone else in the league.
STILL SITTING
Leonard will sit against the 76ers on Saturday, Nurse said. Leonard has not played in both ends of a back-to-back yet this season after an injury-wracked season last year. Nurse said there's a chance Green and Lowry could return Saturday, but Ibaka is not expected to play.
Cavaliers: Host Chicago on Sunday night.
Raptors: Visit Philadelphia on Saturday night.


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The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney T.D. today welcomed the entry into force of a landmark treaty banning nuclear weapons.
The Minister said: "The entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) comes just over three years after 122 states of the UN General Assembly voted to adopt a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons.
The TPNW is a significant global achievement; it is the first time nuclear weapons have been expressly prohibited in an international instrument. The pandemic has shown us that risks, however unlikely, can materialise with devastating global impact.
The growing public body of scientific and medical evidence clearly shows that we will never be remotely equipped to deal with the consequences of a nuclear weapon's detonation. The only guarantee of safety is the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, as foreseen in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The TPNW represents an important step towards implementing the NPT and gives our work a renewed purpose as we face the challenges ahead."
The Minister, referring to the Dáil Debate that took place on the entry in force of the TPNW in December, said;
"Dáil Eireann recently considered the urgent issue of nuclear disarmament. The elimination of nuclear weapons is not just a priority of this Government, but one shared by all parties and strongly supported by the Irish people.
It is imperative that current and future generations understand the threat posed by the very existence of the most powerful and most indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction ever invented. This Treaty, which enters into force today, commits us to raising awareness of the risks and consequences of nuclear weapons, which has long been a priority for Ireland."
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Judge Jeanine: Loretta Lynch Must Have Played Role in FBI Spying On Trump
By Ben Marquis
Despite having mockingly dismissed such claims for the past year, the liberal media recently admitted — based on anonymous FBI leaks — that the investigatory bureau had indeed spied upon then-candidate Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Judge Jeanine Pirro absolutely exploded at that news during the "Opening Statement" segment of her program Saturday evening, and pointed an accusatory finger directly at the ultimate overseer of the Obama administration's FBI — former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
It was recently reported by The New York Times and The Washington Post that the FBI had used an "informant" to subversively question fringe associates of the Trump campaign with regard to possible campaign connections with Russia. That information likely served as part of the foundation for the Trump/Russia collusion investigation.
Based on her own experience and information from her own sources, Pirro said such a move would had to have been authorized at the highest levels of law enforcement, by no less than Lynch herself.
"I want you to remember that you heard it here first," Pirro said. "Any 'collector' — their name for an informant working on a national campaign — must have a sign off by the Attorney General.
"Here, that would be liar Loretta Lynch. Lynch, herself, would've had to have approved of an informant on that campaign. And if she didn't, then the FBI under James Comey was even more corrupt, going rogue in their attempt to destroy Donald Trump."
This is a great point by the former judge which almost certainly suggests the increasingly obvious fact that Trump's campaign was spied on with the knowledge of — and quite probably directed by — the highest levels of the Obama administration, perhaps even the former occupant of the White House himself.
Earlier in her rant, Pirro took great issue with the use of a government "mole" to spy on the political opposition's campaign itself, a move she likened to that typically seen used by totalitarian tyrants in third-world nations.
She said there was no legal basis to justify the use of the informant — who she declined to name but whose identity has increasingly become widely presumed — and pointed out that he had no real reason to have any sort of contact with the minor campaign figures he came into contact with.
Do you believe Loretta Lynch authorized the use of an FBI informant to spy on the Trump campaign?
Pirro also heaped plenty of criticism on current Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who she viewed as, at best, doing little to nothing to expose these dastardly deeds by their predecessors in the Department of Justice, and at worst being complicit in the wrongdoing and subsequent coverup.
Given what we already know and suspect about how the Obama administration played fast and loose with the laws and rules that got in the way of implementing and protecting their liberal agenda, it is not out of the question to wonder just how involved Lynch — as well as fired FBI Director James Comey, among others — played in this now-confirmed spying on the Trump campaign.
Consider Lynch's infamous tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton at the Phoenix airport in June 2016, just ahead of the announced exoneration of Hillary Clinton and the opening of the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.
It is widely assumed that Clinton's email investigation was a topic of discussion — not just golf and grandchildren as Lynch had claimed — between herself and the former president, but was a potential plan to stymie Trump's campaign with an investigation to undermine his presidency, in the off chance he actually won, also a topic of the conversation?
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We may never know the exact content of that discussion, but we could one day find out that Lynch did indeed sign off on the use of an informant to assist the FBI in spying on the campaign of a political opponent. Such a revelation would be nothing short of devastating to the supposedly "scandal-free" Obama administration.
Ben Marquis
Ben Marquis is a writer who identifies as a constitutional conservative/libertarian. He has written about current events and politics for The Western Journal since 2014. His focus is on protecting the First and Second Amendments.
Ben Marquis has written on current events and politics for The Western Journal since 2014. He reads voraciously and writes about the news of the day from a conservative-libertarian perspective. He is an advocate for a more constitutional government and a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, which protects the rest of our natural rights. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, with the love of his life as well as four dogs and four cats.
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Cannabis edibles will be big — but concentrates could be even bigger
Sales of potent extracts have surpassed edibles in U.S. jurisdictions
By: Solomon Israel
Posted: 01/3/2019 3:07 PM
Cannabis edibles will be legal for sale in Canada later this year, and the news media is breathless with anticipation.
Marijuana-infused food will "radically transform food and drink in the new year," declares the National Post. "The market is enormous," according to a recent Maclean's headline. "It is just a matter of time before the edible market will represent the majority of the cannabis market in Canada," proclaims Dalhousie University food professor Sylvain Charlebois in a recent article.
Canadian demand for commercial-grade, cannabis-infused food will be significant, no doubt.
A vape pen with a cartridge full of concentrated marijuana oil at a shop in Seattle. Vape pens and other concentrated forms of cannabis will become legal for sale in Canada sometime in 2019. (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press files)
But market data from four U.S. states shows consumer spending on cannabis edibles has been completely eclipsed by spending on another product category that will also become legal in Canada in 2019: concentrated forms of cannabis such as hash, shatter, budder or wax, and — above all — vape pen cartridges loaded with cannabis oil.
Sales of cannabis edibles in Arizona, California, Colorado and Oregon reached US$685 million between January and October of 2018, according to data provided by cannabis market data firm BDS Analytics. But consumers in those states spent more than US$1.4 billion on cannabis concentrates during the same period.
Most of that spending — US$972 million — was on cannabis vape pens and their accompanying pre-filled oil cartridges. These devices are to the old-fashioned joint what e-cigarettes are to cigarettes: discreet, user-friendly gadgets that turn small amounts of cannabis oil into an inhalable vapour, less stinky than smoke and easier to inhale.
The remaining US$446 million was spent on other marijuana concentrates such as shatter, wax and hash oil. These are often used for "dabbing," a more involved form of consumption that uses specialized equipment to deliver an especially potent hit of cannabis extract. (Dabbing is a relatively recent phenomenon, but cannabis concentrates are far from new — hashish is another cannabis concentrate that might be more familiar to older users.)
Quadron Cannatech Corp. CEO and director Rosy Mondin in front of one of the company's cannabis extraction systems, which uses carbon dioxide to process marijuana bud into concentrated oil. (Supplied)
"All evidence from (Canada's) friends in the south would indicate that concentrates, and especially vape (pens), will be a bigger market than edibles," says Greg Shoenfeld, vice-president of operations with BDS Analytics.
That's music to the ears of Rosy Mondin, CEO of Burnaby, B.C.-based Quadron Cannatech Corp., which manufactures extraction devices used to make concentrated cannabis oil and is developing cannabis vape pen hardware for the future Canadian market.
Mondin sees huge potential for cannabis concentrates delivered through vape pens, especially among novice cannabis users in search of a smokeless, hassle-free way to consume.
"Over the years, when I've offered friends of mine a puff of a joint, they've always said 'No'. If I've offered an edible, over the years, they've always said 'No,'" she says.
A man uses a "dab rig" to superheat and inhale a concentrated dose of cannabis extract. (Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press files)
"But now with the vape pens... these same friends who always said, 'No,' would always say, 'Hey, do you happen to have one of those pens with you? Can I try a pen?' Because it's easy, because it hits you faster than an edible. You can control how much you take."
Existing data suggests many Canadian cannabis users are already using concentrated forms of the drug.
The federal government's 2018 Canadian Cannabis Survey polled nearly 13,000 Canadians about their cannabis use. Among respondents who used cannabis, 26 per cent said they had used hashish or kief (a powdery cannabis concentrate), 19 per cent used solid concentrates, and 17 per cent used liquid concentrates. Forty-one per cent reported using edibles in the past year, and 82 per cent used regular dried cannabis bud.
Twenty-six per cent of respondents said they had used a vape pen in the past year to consume cannabis for non-medical purposes. (Despite being unregulated, the devices are widely available through the illicit market.)
A "dab" of concentrated cannabis resin. (Joe Mahoney / The Canadian Press files)
Opponents of cannabis legalization have always pointed toward edibles as a dangerous category, says Greg Shoenfeld of BDS Analytics.
"Time and time again, they've been looking at edibles to take over the market, and it's never really played out in the data. Over time, edibles have begun to capture a greater share of the market, but they're still a distant third category," he says, adding cannabis enthusiasts might use the products in different ways.
"I think that there's a lot of consumers out there that may be consuming a combination of products, be it vape (pens), flower, edibles, pre-rolls — they could be consuming all of them, but the frequency of consumption of, say, a vape product might be more frequent than how often they're eating edibles," Shoenfield says.
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Jan 4, 2019: Arrival of legal cannabis edibles will be complex challenge Sylvain Charlebois


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Q: Scala class extends {}

By chance I came across weird compiling Scala syntax:
class Some extends {
  def hi = println("hi")
}

Guys:

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*Is it an official Scala supported syntax?

*Does it mean simply extending the Object?

*Does it somehow relate to "duck typing"?

*Do you know interesting or tricky usages of this?

Thanks.

A: This is actually a strange quirk in Scala's syntax. An extraneous extends is allowed before beginning the body of the class. Here are the relevant parts from the Scala Syntax Summary:
ClassDef          ::=  id [TypeParamClause] {ConstrAnnotation} [AccessModifier]
                       ClassParamClauses ClassTemplateOpt
ClassTemplateOpt  ::=  'extends' ClassTemplate | [['extends'] TemplateBody]
ClassTemplate     ::=  [EarlyDefs] ClassParents [TemplateBody]

ClassTemplateOpt is everything after the class's parameters, in this case everything from extends onwards. The usual use of extends is the first alternation of ClassTemplateOpt, with extends being followed either by a parent or an early initializer. However, an early initializer cannot contain a def, and there is no way to interpret the contents of the braces as a parent. It cannot be a structural type because hi has a concrete definition.
The second alternation allows the class parameters to be immediately followed by the class body, without using extends. However, an optional extends is allowed. The extends in OP's code is an example of this, and is exactly equivalent to the same code without the optional extends:
class Some {
  def hi = println("hi")
}

A: This is actually just a syntactical accident (I think). Scala allows early definitions which look like
class Some extends {
  ...
} with ATrait

so the parser also accepts class Some extends { ... } which is equivalent to class Some { ... } (source).

A: Yes this is Scala's structural typing or more commonly known as duck typing.
object LoudDuck {
    def quack(): String = "QUACK"
}

object QuietDuck {
    def quack(): String = "quack"
}

object CowDuck {
    def quack(): String = "moo"
}

def quackMyDuck(duck: { def quack(): String }) {
    println(duck.quack())
}

scala>quackMyDuck(LoudDuck)
QUACK

scala>

scala>quackMyDuck(QuietDuck)
quack

scala>

scala>quackMyDuck(CowDuck)
moo

You can also declare your stuctural types with the "type" keyword.
type Duck = { def quack(): String }

def quackMyDuck(duck: Duck) {
    println(duck.quack())
}

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