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Iran: The oil and gas multibillion-dollar 'candy store'
Lifting sanctions should open the way for major oil groups to return to the country, but negotiations will be tough
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They did not advertise their presence. But in the days and weeks before Tuesday's nuclear deal between the west and Iran, a steady trickle of visitors from some of the world's largest energy groups have flown into Tehran.
By some accounts, they have done more than exchange business cards. As one senior western executive puts it, few of the industry's big players can ignore the "candy store" that is Iran — now preparing to throw open a multibillion-dollar shop window of oil and gas projects.
An array of US and EU oil-related sanctions, in place since 2012, has prevented detailed negotiations. But once these are lifted, serious talks about a return to the country will get under way, with the European majors first.
For the likes of Royal Dutch Shell, Eni of Italy and France's Total, among those whose officials have met Iranian counterparts in Tehran, that day may be months away. Negotiations with US energy groups — absent since the nationalisations that followed the 1979 Islamic revolution — could be even further off. A complex range of restrictions will need to be rolled back in the US.
Even so, for cash-starved Iran, desperate to rehabilitate a domestic oil and gas industry laid low by mismanagement, corruption and under-investment, there is now the real prospect of a new lease of life — and a huge increase in revenues from higher production and exports. Tehran is estimated by the US to have foregone $160bn in oil sales in the past three years as exports to Europe collapsed and Asian countries such as India sought alternative supplies.
"Iran needs investment and technology big time," says Daniel Yergin, author of the classic history of oil, The Prize. But talks will be far from easy, requiring pragmatism from the Iranians after a 50 per cent plunge in oil prices. "What's changed is the companies are no longer chasing barrels as they did when oil prices were going up. It is really now a buyers' market when it comes to oil and gas deals," he adds.
"Tehran will need to put a century of turbulent relations with the international oil industry behind it and focus on being commercial and competitive. The big companies are preoccupied with costs and profitability."
Seeking investment
Assuming key economic sanctions are removed by early 2016, Bijan Zanganeh, Iran's oil minister, is confident it can swiftly raise output and exports, by as much as 1m barrels a day. A release of 40m barrels of oil stored on Iranian tankers is also thought likely, weighing further on prices.
But his eyes are fixed on a greater prize. He wants western expertise to revive Iran's ageing fields and creaking infrastructure, and restore its position as the fourth biggest producer after Saudi Arabia, the US and Russia. The goal is to increase output by 50 per cent in just five years, to as much as 5m b/d.
Behind the scenes, and alongside the remaining diplomatic talks, work is already under way. Mehdi Hosseini, an adviser to Iran's oil ministry, says Tehran is finalising a new-style contract that it hopes will lead to deals with foreign investors worth up to $100bn.
As many as 50 projects could be up for grabs, with deals covering exploration, the development of onshore and offshore fields and the provision of new technology. They are likely to include the huge gasfields of South and North Pars, between them holding nearly 350tn cubic feet of undeveloped reserves, and major oilfields such as Ahvaz, Gachsaran, Marun and Aghajari, which were estimated to have held 200bn barrels of crude originally and have been producing for decades. There could be co-operation, too, in petrochemicals and liquefied natural gas.
In particular, Tehran is said by industry insiders to be keen to bring in a foreign oil company to help with the construction of an LNG plant to handle the gas from South Pars, part of a reservoir Iran shares with Qatar. Among those rumoured as possible partners is Shell, which has pioneered gas-to-liquids technology and will be the biggest private sector LNG supplier after its proposed £55bn takeover of BG Group.
"Qatar has gone far ahead of Iran," says Mr Hosseini. "This injustice is because of sanctions. Our gas is produced from Qatari wells instead of ours. This hurts national feelings."
Iran's appeal for foreign investors is clear. According to Wood Mackenzie, a consultancy, the country ranks as the world's third-largest holder of oil and gas, with more than 250bn barrels of oil equivalent in remaining reserves.
Unlike, say, the unexplored Arctic, its resources have been mapped and production costs are low. Its political stability relative to that of Iraq, riven by conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, is another attraction. Indeed, with energy groups struggling to make big discoveries, Wood Mackenzie says Iran offers a "golden" opportunity for integrated oil companies and nationally owned giants.
"We still need to review the details, especially regarding sanctions removal" says Patrick Pouyanné, chief executive of Total. "[But] Total has a long history in Iran and is willing to go back when the sanctions are lifted and if the conditions are interesting."
Mr Zanganeh will set out Tehran's terms of engagement — a set of conditions known as the Iran Petroleum Contract and billed as more rewarding than past deals — later this year. The big question is whether the contracts will be sufficiently attractive. While Tehran will not offer production-sharing deals, preferred by most foreign investors, it will enhance the terms of its widely disliked service or "buyback" contracts. Fereidun Fesharaki of consultancy Facts Global Energy says they will "look and smell" more like production sharing deals, where foreign companies win the rights to output and reserves, and risk is shared.
Doing deals
The new contracts will enable foreign companies to set up joint ventures with the state-owned National Iranian Oil Company or one of its subsidiaries. They are expected to run for longer, say 20 to 30 years. Remuneration will be more flexible. Instead of a fixed fee, rates of return would be based on a sliding scale and proportionate to risks surrounding development. Payments could be linked to oil prices. It is thought there will be no cap on capital spending.
Crucially, companies will also be able to book the value of reserves on their balance sheets. But, says Elham Hassanzadeh of consultancy Energy Pioneers, this will be subject to "strict conditions". Iranian law forbids foreign ownership of reserves and Mr Hosseini says: "If the booking of reserves is interpreted as a transfer of ownership to the IOCs, we [Iran] will not let that happen."
He adds that international oil companies have been sounded out on the details and the response has been positive. But one European executive denies any such involvement, while another is sceptical. Describing the flat fees paid under the old service contracts — which lasted from six to 12 years — as "lousy", he believes a meeting of minds with Iranian officials, known as tough negotiators, will be elusive. "Companies will be active, but I'm uncertain we will see an immediate explosion in contracts."
One western oil observer in Tehran, who claims to have seen elements of the contracts, also questions the benefits. The proposed terms bear little resemblance to production sharing, he says. Capital, investment and output would not be shared, nor would financing risk.
Moreover, political and legal uncertainties remain. The nuclear agreement could swiftly unravel and sanctions be reimposed if Iran breached the terms of the deal.
Oil executives will be wary, too, of requests that they work with local suppliers suspected of links with Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, which have in the past benefited from big contract awards. The fact that NIOC was designated by the US as an affiliate of the guards could damage the reputation of any company doing business with it.
For those companies that do invest, there is also the threat of legal action from individuals with claims against Iran based on its support for terrorism. Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based think-tank, says about $18bn has been awarded in US courts to plaintiffs against Iran. Efforts could be made to enforce those awards against any companies with operations there.
Nor should the technical hurdles be underestimated. Sanctions have taken a heavy toll on output. Crude production capacity has dropped to about 2.8m b/d, from 3.6m b/d in 2011. Natural gas output slowed to 5.7 tcf in 2013. "Many wells have been shut down. Some may have been damaged so much that we need to have new ones," says Mr Hosseini. Per Magnus Nysveen at consultants Rystad Energy says: "I don't want to be overly pessimistic. There is the potential for a large amount of condensate [ultralight oil] production and exports. However, with crude production, I'm more sceptical."
Mr Nysveen points to the Marun, Ahvaz, Gachsaran and Aghajari fields, where recovery rates are as low as 25 per cent, demanding heavy spending. Projects such as South Azadegan and extensions to South Pars — where Tehran has been unhappy with its Chinese partners — have also suffered problems. "A lot of industrial activity needs to be done to stimulate these fields, such as drilling and water and gas injection," he adds.
Playing the long game
Even if projects are agreed in months, actual implementation will take years, and analysts say the investment needed could easily rise to $200bn. Wood Mackenzie sees crude production rising to 3.4m b/d by 2020, less than Tehran's target, but adds that output could reach 4.4m b/d in a decade with enough foreign investment. Gas has "enormous" potential in the longer run.
It is suspected that Iran wants US expertise, though officials insist it has no preference. Such a return would be momentous. But ExxonMobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips are well behind their European rivals in positioning for a lifting of sanctions as US regulations are more restrictive. American companies have been estranged from Iran for longer and the threat of legal action against any business that tries to invest there is greater.
Legislation and executive orders impose such wide-ranging restrictions on US business dealings with the country that American companies take them to mean that even hypothetical discussions about post-sanctions contracts are illegal. Not one US oil company says it has held talks about possible deals with Iran. Exxon's understanding of the law is that its executives are barred from talking about business with any Iranian officials. Chevron says that it "acts in full compliance with US law and does not engage in business discussions with Iran." Conoco, similarly, says it is not engaged in any such talks.
For now, they will not even be drawn on their interest in Iran should conditions change.
Deals, eventually, will be struck. But do not expect a stampede: "Big Oil" will be treading carefully in this sweet shop.
Additional reporting by Anjli Raval
The oil market: A case of lower demand but plenty of supply
The return of Iran to international oil markets comes at a time when global supplies are already far exceeding demand. And while few expect the process of unwinding international sanctions to be completed before 2016, Iran has made clear it plans to ramp up exports as quickly as possible.
This will probably create new headwinds for the oil price which has halved in the past 12 months. Analysts estimate Iran could add 250,000-700,000 barrels a day of exports next year, with more to follow. Opec, the oil producer group, was already forecasting a surplus of at least 1m b/d next year before the Iranian deal. Before sanctions started directly targeting its oil exports four years ago Iran was exporting almost 2.5m b/d, more than double its current level.
Saudi Arabia and other large Gulf producers have also signalled they will not readily make way for Iran's barrels. Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, views Shia-majority Iran as its regional rival and is not minded to do it any favours. Riyadh has already increased production to a record level of 10.6m barrels a day — an increase of roughly 1m b/d since the end of last year. Kuwait and Iraq have also raised output despite falling prices.
Goldman Sachs this week said the Iran deal poses a "downside risk" to its 2016 Brent crude oil price forecast of $62 a barrel. Brent, the international benchmark, was trading near $58 a barrel yesterday.
While forecasting the future direction of the crude market is notoriously difficult — few predicted the impact of the US shale boom — on balance the Iran nuclear deal means one thing for the oil price: lower for longer than it otherwise would be. David Sheppard
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Lianne's day: catch up time!
well it has warmed up here , it has been a while since I posted, was I busy or lazy? bit of both actually.
We had a great Melbourne Cup Day at work, we blinged it up and the clients hatted up and we had a good time.
I am hoping to get my sewing machine off layby this week if my beloved hubby will lend me some money until payday. I have a flexi on Friday and would love to play with it.
I made some things for work last week, horses on sticks stuck in dog food cans by plaster of paris. I will have to take a pic they look better than they sound.
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Originally published in 'zine issue #5, 1992
Trevor Peres is the rhythm guitarist for Florida's Obituary. RC Records released the death metal band's third album, The End Complete, one of the subjects of our discussion.
D.U.: I don't know if you've heard the general opinion some people have, that it's trendy to go to Scott Burns and Morrisound Studios to do an album?
Trevor: Yeah, I know about it. [laugh] Something to say about it? I mean, we've been recording there since 1985. So basically, I see why a lot of kids like to go there, because I think they hear a good production, you know? I don't think they go there thinking, "Well, if we get Scott Burns to mix us, we're gonna sound like them."
"Every president in the whole world is fuckin' … fucked."
How much flak did you guys get when it came out that John Tardy didn't have standard lyrics the first album?
Yeah, we had a pretty good reaction to it, actually. 'Cause, I mean, I figured a lot of people were gonna freak on it, you know? A lot of the press really liked it. It was kind of surprising, actually. I think it's cool, 'cause we're not, like, a political band or a Satanic band or whatever. We don't really try to convey any kinda heavy duty message to anybody, so there's no real reason for lyrics. We just kinda use it as an instrument.
Did John make a point to have more structured lyrics on the new one?
No, it just kinda turned out that way, actually. I guess you could call it a progression for the band, maybe.
And Cause of Death was a halfway point?
Yeah, exactly. 'Cause we had some lyrics on the last album, you know. It was like, this album, he just put a lot more. I mean, there is still parts of this album where there's no lyrics at all.
Why do you downtune to D natural?
I don't know. The first album, we tuned to normal E, but when we went into the studio for Cause of Death, we didn't even plan on doing it. In fact, I recorded the scratch guitar tracks in E on Cause of Death. And when we went back, they were like, "We're trying to tune down. Scott Burns, it was his idea." And I go, "Whadaya mean, man?" And he goes, "Just try it, man. It might sound heavier." And I was like, "I'm sure it will, but …" So I tuned down, and it was really fucked up. And I got used to playing it. It sounded heavy, so I said, "Fuck, let's keep it that way."
Do you pay attention to politics?
Politics I fuckin' don't really even give a fuck about. [laugh] 'Cause, man, it's like, every president in the whole world is fuckin' [pause] fucked. I mean, he's not gonna do what I want, so I don't see why I should vote. But if kids would vote, that's cool.
Do you think that if they took away the Electoral College vote, the popular vote would make a difference?
Yeah, I think so. I mean, if they didn't have the electoral vote, man, it might be a whole new ball game. 'Cause I think pot would be legal now then. [laugh] 'Cause, you know, a lot of people know that [the government] could make a lot of money off of it, 'cause they tax it. Plus there'd be a lot more jobs, 'cause people gotta grow it, harvest it, pack it, and ship it, whatever, you know? That'd be a killer thing.
Has anyone ever told you that you look like you're dead?
Yeah. [laugh] I get it all the time, believe me. It's a normal, everyday occurrence. People call me "skully" all the time. [laugh]
How much creative control do you get? Do you run into arguments with RC Records?
We have, actually, a couple times. I've had Monte [Conner, A&R man for the label] fuckin' try to tell me, "Hey, man, why don'tcha play that riff at the end again." You know, all this shit. Yeah, there've been a couple disputes over certain things.
Is there something on the new album that you wish you could have gone back and done over?
Uh, as of now, no. I mean, I like how everything sounds right now. Maybe in about a half a year, there'll be something I'll really hate on it, you know? Like Cause of Death, I fuckin' hate it now. The production mainly, 'cause we didn't work that long on our guitar sound on it.
Have people told you that the guitar sound is like Celtic Frost?
Yeah, I've heard that a few times. I guess maybe it does kinda, but I mean, I think ours is a little bit heavier sounding. It's still got that same fuzzy sound, whatever. I was totally influenced by them when I was in high school and shit.
Do you have something at the end to throw in?
Just I hope everybody enjoys the new album, check us out on tour, and everybody, we'll all party [laughs] or whatever. ■
Photo: Obituary (courtesy RC)
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President Trump officially threw his support behind a criminal justice reform bill at the White House Wednesday afternoon, giving the legislation the push it might need to overcome a stall in the Senate.
"Working together with my administration over the last two years, these members have reached a bipartisan agreement. Did I hear the word bipartisan? Did I hear, did I hear that word? That's a nice word, bipartisan agreement, on prison reform legislation known as the First Step," Mr. Trump said Wednesday. "And that's what it is, it's a first step, but it's a very big first step. Today I'm thrilled to announce my support for this bipartisan bill that will make our communities safer and give former inmates a second chance at life after they have served their time, so important."
"It's the right thing to do. It's the right thing to do," Mr. Trump concluded, without taking questions from reporters in the room on the bill or pressing administration staffing matters.
The First Step Act, which has already passed the House, would constitute what would be a major overhaul of the criminal justice system. Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, who was in the Roosevelt Room on Wednesday, has been working with senators and private sector stakeholders to make improvements to the country's prison and sentencing policies. Mr. Trump personally thanked Kushner, senators and law enforcement officials in the room.
Mr. Trump — despite his tough law-and-order rhetoric — has expressed some openness to making changes to the system. When Jeff Sessions was still his attorney general, Mr. Trump said he'd overrule Sessions — a known critic of sentencing reform — if the attorney general tried to thwart him on criminal justice reform efforts. Criminal justice reform may be one of the few things the Senate can pass in the lame duck session ahead of January, when Democrats gain control of the House.
Meanwhile, the White House faces a slew of other controversies. Mr. Trump told the Daily Caller Wednesday he will announce a decision about the fate of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen "shortly." His pick for acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, faces scrutiny over his appointment and relationship to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. And first lady Melania Trump's office has called for the ouster of deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel in a public statement.


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Sarah Marshall-Pescini, PhD, Priv.-Doz.
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My research is focused on social behaviour and cognition. I started initially with investigating mechanisms relating to social learning in various primates (baboons, macacques and chimpanzees), and later turned my attention to dogs.
Since working at the Wolf Science, I have been particularly interested in comparing wolves' and dogs' social behaviour with conspecifics, and investigating what factors may be driving the difference we have observed. To better understand these aspects I have been particularly keen to expand our studies to free-living dogs and wolves in various locations (Italy and Marocco in particular).
2016-2020: Principle investigator (with Prof. Range 1 & Dr. Deschner): A new look at domestication: the role of oxytocin in wolves' and dogs' social relationships with conspecific and human partners. WWTF- Vienna Science and Technology Fund (CS15-018) (€ 600.000)
2016-2019 with Martina Lazzaroni and Prof. Range 1 'The effect of human socialization on problem solving abilities of canines; are dogs socially more dependent than wolves?' Austrian Academy of Sciences 2(€ 112.000)
2012-2014 with Dr. Cafazzo, Prof. Range 1 & Dr. Viranyi, Wolf Science Centre (WSC), Vienna 'Peace-making and conflict management in wolves and domestic dogs'. FWF- Meitner Programme -Project nr. BM1400-B19 (€ 160.000).
Since joining the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna I have been teaching classes in the 'Animal Behaviour', 'Canine Evolution, Behavior and Cognition' and 'Into Science' courses, in the framework of the MA in IMHAI.
Public outreach and Education
Most of my outreach work has been in presenting our work at workshops and/or conference for dog trainers/workers in Italy. I normally attend between 2 and 4 of such events each year.
Habilitation Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Italian State Habilitation for the Associate Professor, in Comparative Psychology and Zoology.
This is a peer-reviewed process which allows successful candidate to subsequently apply for relevant positions at Italian University in the 'habilitated' disciplines.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychobiology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy. "Relational and Environmental factors affecting pet dogs' performance in socio-cognitive tasks".
Supervised by Professor Prato-Previde, Biomedical Sciences and Technology Department, University of Milan.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, U.K.
"Observational Learning in Chimpanzees using Naturalistic Experimental tasks." The research project was carried out on Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Uganda.
Supervised by Professor Whiten, School of Psychology, St. Andrews University.
Master of Arts (MA), Psychology University of St. Andrews, Scotland, U.K.
Thesis title: "Social learning and imitation in captive stump-tail macaques" (Professor Whiten)
First class distinction obtained for the dissertation.
Senior scientist Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
Senior Post-doctoral scientist, Comparative Cognition, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Wolf Science Centre, Ernstbrunn, Austria, March ERC Funded research- CanCoop: principle investigator Friederike Range PhD ERC Grant Agreement n. [311870]
Supervision and development of novel research paradigms for the investigation of cooperation, prosociality and inequity aversion and the underlying emotional, physiological and cognitive mechanisms in wolves, pack dogs and pet dogs.
Post-doctoral grant ("assegno di ricerca"), University of Milan, Biomedical Sciences and Technology Department. Co-founder of a Dog Cognition Lab of the University of Milan. Funded by a Post-doctoral fellowship I obtained from the University of Milan.
Project involving social cognition in dogs and human infants.
Supervision of PhD, and Master students, on social cognition projects at the Lab
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I think it is important for me to clear my mind of irk-ful things. Perhaps in doing so my thoughts on Connectivism will be more objective? I will start with a couple things that irk-me, and any and all are invited to list their irks too. All I ask is that a brief description be provided of why the irk-ful thing is considered irk-some, in order that I might understand (and perhaps empathize) too. We are not likely irk-ed by the same irks.
The term MOOC – this has bothered me since its first use, as I saw it as a shameless attempt at self-promotion. It also sounds goofy. Is there not a better term? I am irk-ed at the thought that this term is now part of our vocabulary. Yuck!
When Grasshoppers fail – Yesterday I tried to comment in the grasshopper discussion thing on a colleagues blog post. I signed on, and it was indicated that I was successful in signing on and also that I hadn't signed on yet, so I couldn't comment. A conflicting message. I found this extremely irk-some, retrieved my password via e-mail, tried to sign on again, got the same conflicting messages, gave up. Today, it seems to work.
That's enough Irks for today. I must finish on a positive note! I was happy to see Siemens provide a definition of Connectivism here, at the 7:20 mark of the video. He defines Connectivism as "A Social Connected Pedagogical Model". I was un-irked to hear this definition, as I have wondered all along whether Connectivism is less of a theory and more of a pedagogy. It seems to me that Connectivism might better be described as a practice of teaching that finds its base in other theories such as connectionism, rather than a standalone learning theory. It appears that Siemens is adopting this approach to it now.
I would describe the Connectivist pedagogical model as the use of the connections afforded through digital technology to put learners and facilitators/subject matter experts in contact with each other for the purpose of advancing their learning and knowledge. Then ideas such as constructed learning, self-directed learning, complexity, chaos, cognition etc. can still belong to their respective theoretical frameworks, and Connectivism can stop insisting on subsuming them under its umbrella. I would be less irk-ed if this were the case.
btw. I think that any followers of the theory 'Con-Irk-tivism' can now safely self-identify as 'Irk-ites'. Have no fear.
Lolcats (see this weeks 1st reading) irk me!! Are they really funnier than the average YouTube cat video? What am I missing or is this really 'What Literacy Means in teh Digital Era'? … could this Emperor Have No Clothes? Maybe my irk factor is running too high but I just don't get it – am I to be shunned forever by connected sophisticates?
Hi Gordon. Yes, we are now required to learn the new language of lolcats. Teh Digital Era is changing the way we communicate….
Seems like someone beat me to it !
Now uz talkin Soosan! Some really funny ones 🙂 – my irk factor plummets as I rejoin the connekted sofistykates!!
Sometimes it irks me. Sometimes not. Sometimes I am just confused, Other times I just don't care one way or another about the fuss. Ask me later when the process of forgetting filters out what I least care about and I've had a chance to apply (or not) what I've learned (or not). I blog for myself, community network and teach online as a volunteer: get to do what I want even albeit on short resources. Independent minus the (-ly wealthy) part.
PS ~ double down with you on MOOC being goofy, less shameful promotion than just another unfortunate acronym. When Grasshoppers fail… I ignore it and find another way in or something else to read… no shortage. Annoying though that grasshopper generated links don't work in my rss reader (rss envy or what?). Less annoying than pipes breaking in a hard freeze.
Hi Vanessa, yes, broken pipes in a hard freeze sure tops mal-functioning digital pipes! I think it was Rose that mentioned the course requirement of blogging, stating that not everyone wants to blog and may rather participate in a discussion forum. I find it interesting that CCK11 forces people to blog in order to be best connected. If everyone refused to blog, what would happen to the course? I don't normally blog a lot myself, and I admire those that do.
I don't think there is a theory that adequately describes learning and ventures far outside of pedagogy. Constructivism is sort of metaphoric and pedagogically descripted. Vygotsky inspired social cultural and activity theory specifically took mediated activity as the unit of analysis. That is sort of pedagogic. No theory has yet come close to adequately describing the physical correlates of behavioral change, so the natural fall back is to pedagogy. But effective pedagogy is no small thing.
the main role for learning theory to provide a guide for pedagogy?
Hi Howard, no problem, no irk-someness raised! I think you may have clarified a couple of things I was wondering about, or at least have started me thinking in a different way about them. The issue of theory has been discussed to some length by a few participants throughout CCK11. The scientific folk seem to want a prescriptive, predictive theory. Maybe, as I think you are suggesting, a learning theory is not for that purpose, maybe it is more for pedagogical purposes. The usefulness of a pedagogy, and by implication the validity of the learning theory behind it, is often determined by measuring and evaluating the results (from testing of students) after the pedagogy is used. But there are problems with evaluation and with validation as well.
I think there is no one absolute way of explaining the world, and no one absolute way of explaining the mechanisms of learning. I guess you are right, the role of learning theory is to guide the pedagogy.
"(T)he meaning of human action must be understood as a limited field of possible interpretations or actions. . . the demand for final, absolute, unrevisable truth cannot be satisfied. As a text never has one interpretation, so also human action is open to multiple interpretations" (p.143). . . . "If one looks at Skinner, one gets the impression that freedom has failed: "Now let's try some systematic control" (p.175).
Skinner thought that freedom was an illusion, but I don't see evidence for that conclusion. Most philosophers have moved from a positivist stance to this hermeneutic stance. A major reason to believe in freedom is that we live and act in hermeneutic fields and we have the freedom to interpret, to reinterpret, and to negotiate our lives together amid these fine fields.
Howard, Is a hermeneutic stance as simple as being interpreted as "it's all about perspectives" or is that too simplistic ?
Thanks Howard. I am just reading a work from Jean Lave (1991) on situated learning that also suggests the hermeneutic stance. Do you think that S. Downes has moved towards this approach? I get the feeling that his stance is more of a positivist one.
Many come to mind but I'll stick to two for now in the interests of positivity.
It also irks me that I couldn't edit the typo above- that should read 'format' not 'forma' of course.


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Photo: The girls at our Nepal 'She Has Hope' rehabilitation home enjoyed learning how to make over 400 handmade necklaces with guest teacher Lindsey.
March 3, 2017. We are happy to report that on February 18th, a volunteer traveled from Houston, Texas, to visit the new group of girls currently living at our 'She Has Hope' rehabilitation home in Nepal. Lindsey, who is a jewelry designer, had previously visited the rehabilitation home with another volunteer in July 2016. During this trip, Lindsey taught the girls how to make long beaded necklaces with a bead crimp locking technique, stretch bracelets, and handmade tassels. They used variations of bone, wood, amber, turquoise, and clay beads which Lindsey purchased from various local market shops. In addition, she sourced many different silver pendants, silver lockets, and crosses from the local markets. However, pendants are often limited and hard to come by in Nepal, so Lindsey taught the girls a very creative technique of taking ornate beads and dangling a tassel through them, turning them into pendants. Lindsey loved that the girls were so eager to learn and would continue to practice a technique until they understood how to do it correctly. She said, "All of the girls are very bright and worked patiently with me." The girls completed over 400 handmade creations which gave them a great sense of accomplishment and self-worth.
Lindsey also encouraged the girls by getting to know them on a personal level through fun recreational activities. She taught them how to do yoga to prepare their minds and bodies for each work day, and to loosen up their shoulders, backs, necks, and hips after long sessions of jewelry-making or sewing. Lindsey also taught the girls how to line dance to country music, and how to swing dance with a partner. In return, the girls taught Lindsey how dance to Nepali music — the girls sang their favorite Nepalese songs to her while they danced in a circle. Lindsey reported, "We spent the majority of our time together on the floor beading and learning from one another. They would teach me Nepalese and I would teach them English. There may be a big language barrier, but we all understood the universal language of love. The Nepalese word 'maya' (love) could never be overused at our rehabilitation home." Even with all of the hardships the girls have been through, they still have it within them to encourage one another. Lindsey noticed that if one of the girls did not make a necklace correctly, another girl would help her figure out the mistake — the girls were extremely compassionate, helpful, and patient with each other.
In other news, our native Nepal team recently organized a trafficking avoidance counseling class for 53 teenage girls in the local schools. The girls were taught the importance of knowing the people around them in various situations; informing their friends and families about the people they spend time with; to use their mobile phone and Facebook account wisely if they have either one (to not share their password with their friends, to not chat with strangers, and to not post online unnecessarily); to be extra aware at all times in case someone is following them and to inform their friends and family of the possibility; and to not be lured by false promises such as marriage, or education and employment opportunities, from strangers. For the past few years, mobile phones have been one of the major mediums for human trafficking in Nepal — the traffickers use mobile phones to reach the girls from remote areas. Thus, our team focuses a lot on teaching these young girls how to use mobile phones with discretion.
As always, we are so grateful for your generous donations and your faithful prayers, helping to improve the lives of our girls, our children, and our native team, who faithfully serve in our programs.


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Mashaal Calls for 'Third Intifada,' Israeli Arabs Declare Strike
Israel National News (Link) - Gil Ronen (December 27, 2008)
Hamas leader Khalid Mashaal called Saturday night for a "third intifada" against Israel, speaking from Damascus following the IAF attack on Gaza earlier in the day. According to Channel 2's Arab affairs correspondent, the strategy of the terrorist group is to ignite rioting in Judea and Samaria as well as inside Israel, with the aid of the Islamic Movement.
MK Yitzchak Aharonovich (Yisrael Beiteinu, "Israel Our Home"), a former Deputy Commissioner of the Israel Police, said Saturday evening that "the Israeli nation has a new opportunity to find out on which side the leadership of Israel's Arabs rests and to whom they owe their allegiance. The police must react with an iron fist against any kind of provocation on their part," he added.
Aharonovich was joined by his colleague at Yisrael Beiteinu, Dr. Uzi Landau, a former Minister of Public Security, who called upon the Israel Police to "immediately dismantle the mourners' tent put up in Jaffa by Arabs in identification with Hamas, and prepare to… prevent such provocations in the future." Police are preparing for the possibility of extensive rioting in northern Israel.
The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, an umbrella group of Arab organizations, declared a national strike in the Arab sector beginning Sunday morning. Hundreds of Arabs who are Israeli citizens rioted in response to the IDF's operation in Gaza on Saturday. Arabs in Yafo (Jaffa) hurled rocks at an Egged bus. The bus was not carrying passengers at the time. Arab residents in eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods threw rocks at police.
Also in eastern Jerusalem, hundreds of Arabs attacked Israel Police and Border Police forces with rocks at the entrance to the Shuafat neighborhood. In a separate incident, several dozen Arab youths from eastern Jerusalem set alight garbage bins on Salah a-Din Street and were dispersed by police. No one was hurt and one suspect was arrested.
An Arab attempted to run over an Israeli policeman near the Old City of Jerusalem Saturday night. He hit the officer and injured him lightly in the leg. The driver was apprehended and is being questioned. In the Muslim quarter, Arabs threw rocks at Border Police. Police officers arrested four people.
Calls to block Route 65
According to Ynet, hundreds of members of the radical Arab Ibna Al-Balad movement demonstrated in the northern Arab city of Umm El Fahm and chanted a call for the "redemption" of Gaza "with blood and fire." Another demonstration took place nearby in the Kara Junction.
Arab members of the communist Hadash movement also demonstrated in Umm El-Fahm and Nazareth. In the mosques, speakers called for residents to seal off Route 65 which passes through the largely Arab Wadi Ara area, near Megiddo. Dozens of supporters of the Arab Ra'am-Ta'al party, which is headed by MK Ahmed Tibi, demonstrated against the operation in the northern town of Sakhnin. Arab leaders in Israel called the IDF attack on Gaza a "war crime."
Dec 27, 2008 5:18:45 PM | Islam, Israel
Syria calls for urgent Arab summit Syria called on Saturday for holding an emergency Arab summit to discuss possible action regarding the dangerous situation in Gaza in light of today's Israeli aggression. The state-run TV said President Bashar Al-Assad made the call in telephone contacts with Arab leaders. Al-Assad is the chairman of the current regular Arab summit, held in Damascus last March.
Egypt slams Israeli 'murder' in Gaza, summons ambassador Egypt condemned as "murder," Israel's Saturday air raids on Gaza that killed at least 205 Palestinians, opening its Rafah border crossing with the territory to allow the wounded through for treatment. "We call for an immediate end to Israeli military operations. We cannot allow these attacks to continue. We cannot permit the murder of Palestinians," Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on state television.


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Well, I went ahead and ordered one, it should be here sometime next week. I've read that you can mix Edit: Tolulene ( thanks Zoom for the msds) to thin out RTV silicone, so I'll give it ago and see if I can cast a thin sheet.
I have no idea if it's the correct RTV-1 or not, I'm just grabbing at straws to see if this is even feasible.
I spoke with a few folks in our contracting department and we have no contracts with Wacker or DuPont. We do however, have several with 3M, so if you guys can find a comparable 3M product I may be able to grab some to test.
PET/Mylar - McMaster .005" - works fine, though the heat from the resin reacting causes the Mylar to distort, maybe a thicker film would be better.
FEP - McMaster .002" - Sturdy, low friction. I think McMaster must use an odd batch because my cure times for .1mm layers is ~25 seconds, very strange compared to others.
PFA - McMaster .001 - Slightly better cure times than the FEP but still ~20 seconds.
I have some TPX on order from CS Hyde, I've read that even though it has high gas permeability it's still way too low for continuous printing.
has anyone seen this company before?
no stats on the films but I think it couldn't be any more expensive than the Teflon AF series.
Biggest problem with argotec is gonna be chemical inertness. Its apparently urethane based, but so are many photoresins. I suspect they will chemically bond.
I'd check your light source. With Near-UV leds, cure for me with fep is near instaneous. That or mcMaster sent you the wrong material. Got my fep film from Cs Hyde.
Thanks Crusoe for the insights.
I've made a few adjustments and shortened my throw a bit, I'll see if that has any bearing on cure time once I switch back from UHMW, although my TPX did finally come in, maybe I'll try that out first.
Also, my order of the elastosil RTV came in today, hopefully I can give the cast sheet a go sometime this weekend.
Interesting thread guys, highly informative and very creative. I just finished reading the 22 pages and my opinion is the same as the day they first released the disclosure and that is the speed is going to be geometry dependent. I see a number of you have pointed this out too. Also, I envision their patent will not be enforceable should someone decide to challenge it. To me, it's like everybody was driving their cars, of a particular type, around at painfully slow speeds and then someone using a car just like everyone else's car found out that if you just push the gas peddle to the floor you can drive at a much much greater speed on straight roads. That's not novel and I don't even know how they managed to get the patent in the first place since it should be evident to anyone in the know that it is not novel.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out in the coming years.
oxygen permeability of 0.1 cm3/m2 to barrer , how much it is?
Hi , I'm new to this forum , this might be a dum question but does anyone know how much this machine aprox will cost and when will aprox be out ??
I dont think everyone posting about flexvat materials other than the Teflon AF understands the difference is litterally two orders of magnitude greater when it comes to oxygen permiability. For an idea of orders of magnitude and to understand why using Teflon AF is crucial for this effect let me explain with comparing this to other orders of magnitude.
The difference, and the reason that its patentable, is that where other systems relied on the fluoropolymers to act as non stick coatings this banks solely on the deadzone created by the insanely large ammount of oxygen that gets through. Which is why they defined the permiability so well in their patent. It works on a different concept altogether, not quite just a pedal to the medal approach. While the other substances are slightly permiable to oxygen the idea wasnt that a dead zone where excess resin could pour in was created to allow for nearly continuous prints. I think it will hold.
Welcome to the forum. The great thing is we don't need to wait long to see what the outcome will be.
As for Teflon AF, I would advise that those working on an open source version try to find other materials since Dupont has numerous patents restricting how Teflon AF can be used and consequently it could end up being a can of worms situation in the long run. My intuition tells me that ordinary PTFE film would work, being that the solidification inhibition layer would be so thin that the inflow of resin wouldn't be able to dislodge those molecules from the surface of the film as they would tend to be held in place by van der Waals forces. Consequently, it wouldn't matter how permeable the film was as long as, over time, the oxygen got through to form the inhibition layer. In this regard, the viscosity of the resin is going to be a very big factor concerning the success of the process. If the resin viscosity is too thick I'm feeling like there would be a kind of "bulldozer" effect that would disturb the inhibition layer too much as each inflow part of the build cycle occurred.
As for those doing R&D in the opposite direction, top down, there is still the problem of the limitations of hydraulics. Aside from the benefit that can be gained by using the lowest viscosity resin that can be had and also heating the resin to further decrease viscosity one needs to devise a way to move the resin into position more effectively. Traditional wiping mechanisms are too slow to be effect in this situation where as speed is the top priority. There needs to be something else that helps the resin flow faster. Ultrasonics for example?
I would really love to work on this with you guys but my hands are currently tied at the moment as I finish up with other matters. When I do get a free moment though I'll jump into this and see what I can do to contribute.
I am completely new to this forum, and for that matter, to the world of 3D Printing. I've been silently following this blog for sometime now in hopes that It will help me complete a research project I am currently working on for my university. The project is to explore the feasibility of utilizing CLIP type 3d printing to make objects out of resin that has been reinforced with common reinforcement materials such as glass and fiber. I'm glad I found this thread because I've been experiencing many of the same problems as all of you. Any help you could provide would be fantastic.
My first question is: Has anyone considered polyisoprene or polyethylene as the gas permeable membrane as opposed to Teflon AF 2400?
My professor suggested these two materials as being possible alternatives but I dont know much about them. I came across some research which, unless Im reading it wrong, suggests that stretched polyisoprene has a barrer rating of close to 1100, a full 100 more than Teflon AF, making it an even better candidate for gas exchange. The only thing is, I dont know how strong it is, if the resin will eat it, or if it is UV transparent.


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A hundred visions and revisions : becoming a better actor.
This thesis considers my preparation for and performance in "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail." Through four themed chapters (ego, intellect, energy, and fear), I explore strengths of my acting that have become weaknesses. I consider their sources and how they have become liabilities to me as an actor. After examining these in detail, I use the conclusion of the thesis to propose ways to maintain these strengths as strengths by using them to counteract and support each other, thus allowing me to move toward a greater goal - that of transforming more thoroughly into markedly different characters onstage. The epilogue describes my first attempt to apply the proposals made in my conclusion to my acting.
Knight, Shawn M. 1977-, "A hundred visions and revisions : becoming a better actor." (2004). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 765.


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Why A Chinese Man Was Enstooled As Chief In Ghana
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When Chinese man, Sun Qiang, was enstooled as the Nkosuohene (Development Chief) of Asenyanso village in the Kwahu Afram Plains area of the Eastern Region of Ghana, the mood for rejection was instant and spontaneous.
Many of those who were enraged by the decision ranged from indigenes to persons in the diaspora, who thought there were far too many people in Ghana who qualified to be Nkosuohene for a Chinese to be given that honour.
The kingmakers were enraged too. They held a news conference to reject the installation and ordered that it be annulled.
They said on September 5, 2020, they received news of an enstoolment of a Chinese investor at Aframso, a village in the Afraim Plains, as a development chief in which they summoned the Odikro of the area for interrogation since it was abhorrent to the culture and tradition of Kwahu to carry anyone shoulder-high without the permission of the palace.
They said after the summons, Akyemfour Nana Asiedu, Abetifihene and his elders annulled the said enstoolment since laid down procedures were not followed.
Mr Qiang also held a news conference to denounce the title of Nkosuohene following the outpouring of anger.
Nkosuohene, which literally translates into development chief is very much an important component of Ghana's traditional governance systems.
The Nkosuohene is responsible for the development of the community of his reign. It was created to honor someone who does not have to be a member of a royal family.
Created by the Ashanti, a small number of selected foreigners have been honored with this title which appreciates the contribution of non-royals.
There are reasons why the people's anger won't go away on this matter.
There is evidence that many Chinese nationals come visit Ghana in the hopes of winning some of its resources; ie. Gold, Timber, diamond, etc.
Their government is even strongly eying the country's bauxite as they seek to construct badly needed roads for Ghana in exchange for a significant portion of bauxite deposits in the Eastern Region.
So the Chinese appetite for Ghanaian resources, acquired through fair or foul means has been firmly established.
It is for this reason that it becomes difficult to ignore rumours in the Afram Plains community that the Odikro has been the recipient of funds from Mr. Qiang and allowed him to fell trees for export.
At a press conference to announce his denouncement as Nkosuohene, the spokesperson for the Chinese man, Baba Issah, condemned the negative reactions of the general public toward the enstoolment of Mr Qiang.
He, however, noted that despite his denouncement, Mr Qiang will still remain committed to the development of the area.
"He is thankful to all of you for the opportunity. However, today, what he's saying to Ghanaians and the world is that he is no more interested in the chieftaincy title. He came for development, and, so, he is dissociating himself from the title.
At a press conference to announce his denouncement as Nkosuohene, the spokesperson for the Chinese man, Mr Baba Issah, condemned the negative reactions of the general public toward the enstoolment of Mr Qiang.
"The development of Afram Agya is a priority to him and, so, he still remains focused to the development of the area.
"He is, therefore, appealing to everyone who is interested in farming to come to the area and do so in order to create employment for the youth and people of the area," Baba Issah said.
The Chinese man, who operates an ethanol factory in the area, also extended an invitation to businessmen and farmers interested in cassava farming to come to the area and cultivate cassava farms which will supply the factory to enable him reach the 700-job goal he set for the factory.
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FMC Corporation Announces Separation into Two Independent Public Companies
New FMC will be comprised of FMC Agricultural Solutions and FMC Health and Nutrition segments
FMC Minerals will be comprised of the current FMC Minerals segment, which includes the Alkali Chemicals and Lithium businesses
PHILADELPHIA, March 10, 2014 – FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC) today announced plans to separate into two independent public companies, "New FMC," which will be comprised of FMC's Agricultural Solutions and Health and Nutrition segments and "FMC Minerals," which will be comprised of FMC's current Minerals segment. The company expects the separation, which remains subject to final board approval and other customary conditions, will take the form of a tax-free distribution of shares to existing FMC shareholders. FMC Corporation expects to complete the separation in early 2015, and each company is expected to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Pierre Brondeau, FMC Corporation president, CEO and chairman, said: "FMC has proactively managed its portfolio during the last four years as part of Vision 2015, including a realignment of our reporting segments early last year. Our decision to separate into two independent companies is a natural progression of our strategy. We believe that creating two companies, each with its own publicly-listed equity, will enable the management of each company to pursue its own strategy. This will give each company greater focus on the success factors that are most important to its business and allow the adoption of a capital structure that is appropriate to its business profile.
"The creation of two independent companies will deliver meaningful benefits to each of the businesses, the communities in which we operate and all of our stakeholders. Our customers will continue to have collaborative relationships with financially strong organizations that are focused on meeting their needs, and our employees will have new career opportunities."
New FMC will be led by Pierre Brondeau, president, CEO and chairman, and Paul Graves will be the executive vice president and CFO. Mark Douglas, president of Agricultural Solutions, and Mike Smith, vice president and global business director of Health and Nutrition, will continue in their current roles.
FMC Minerals' leadership team will be led by a new CEO who will be announced in the coming months. Andrew Sandifer, FMC Corporation's current vice president of Strategic Development, will join the FMC Minerals executive leadership team as CFO. Ed Flynn will be chief operations officer for FMC Minerals. Tom Schneberger and Eric Norris will continue in their current executive leadership roles for Alkali Chemicals and Lithium, respectively.
New FMC
New FMC, comprised of FMC Agricultural Solutions and FMC Health and Nutrition segments, will be a technology-based and customer-driven company with deep application expertise. Based on the midpoint of the company's February 2014 outlook, combined revenue and earnings for the Agricultural Solutions and Health and Nutrition segments are expected to be approximately $3.35 billion, up 16 percent over 2013, and $815 million, up 15 percent over 2013, respectively. New FMC is expected to maintain a strong balance sheet and financial policies consistent with FMC Corporation's current credit rating.
FMC Agricultural Solutions is a science-based business, serving growers worldwide. Growers look to FMC Agricultural Solutions for innovative crop-protection products developed from science-based innovation, field development, applications expertise and toxicology that, on a crop-by-crop, region-by-region basis, enhance quality and yield.
FMC Health and Nutrition develops products from natural sources that provide texture, stability and natural color solutions for food applications, while also producing binders, coatings and high-purity, high-concentration omega-3 for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications. Customers rely on FMC Health and Nutrition for its technical excellence, innovative products and collaborative R&D approach.
FMC Minerals
FMC Minerals will be comprised of the current FMC Minerals segment, which includes the Alkali Chemicals and Lithium businesses. Based on the midpoint of the company's February 2014 outlook, revenue and earnings for the FMC Minerals segment are expected to be approximately $1.0 billion, up 7 percent over 2013, and $153 million, up 19 percent over 2013, respectively. FMC Minerals is expected to generate strong cash flow and have the financial flexibility to pursue select investment opportunities. FMC Minerals will maintain FMC Corporation's disciplined approach to capital deployment and will continue to focus on sustainable, safe and ethical extraction of minerals, process efficiencies, and manufacturing and customer service excellence.
Both the Alkali Chemicals and Lithium businesses are structurally-advantaged minerals businesses, with cost-advantaged operations. Both businesses compete in attractive markets. The Alkali Chemicals business is the largest global producer of natural soda ash, using low-cost technologies to extract trona ore to produce soda ash and related products used in the glass, chemical processing and detergent industries. The Lithium business is the only brine-to-metals producer with a broad global product portfolio, selling into the energy storage, pharmaceuticals, polymers and industrial markets. Underlying market demand for lithium remains strong, driven by growth in energy storage from electric vehicle adoption and other applications.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs are acting as financial advisors to FMC Corporation on the proposed transaction and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is serving as legal advisor to the company.
FMC Corporation will conduct a conference call and webcast presentation at 8:30 a.m. ET on Monday, March 10, 2014. This event will be available live and as a replay on the web at http://www.fmc.com. The company will post supplemental information on the web at http://www.fmc.com, including a slide presentation that will be used during the conference call.
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Q: Rasa 3.x deployed on docker cant connect to duckling server I have rasa running in a container and duckling running in another docker container.
I can access duckling from browser as well as postman but in rasa logs I get this error:
`rasa4     | 2023-01-05 10:16:01 ERROR`
 rasa.nlu.extractors.duckling_entity_extractor  - Failed to connect to duckling http server. Make sure the duckling server is running/healthy/not stale and the proper host and port are set in the configuration.

More information on how to run the server can be found on github: https://github.com/facebook/duckling#quickstart Error: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=8000): Max retries exceeded with url: /parse (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7fb33c0733a0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused'))

this is my config.yml file:
# The config recipe.
# https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/model-configuration/
recipe: default.v1

# Configuration for Rasa NLU.
# https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/nlu/components/
language: en

pipeline:

# # No configuration for the NLU pipeline was provided. The following default pipeline was used to train your model.
# # If you'd like to customize it, uncomment and adjust the pipeline.
# # See https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/tuning-your-model for more information.
- name: WhitespaceTokenizer
- name: RegexFeaturizer
- name: LexicalSyntacticFeaturizer
- name: CountVectorsFeaturizer
- name: CountVectorsFeaturizer
  analyzer: char_wb
  min_ngram: 1
  max_ngram: 4
- name: DIETClassifier
  epochs: 100
  constrain_similarities: true
- name: EntitySynonymMapper
- name: ResponseSelector
  epochs: 100
  constrain_similarities: true
- name: FallbackClassifier
  threshold: 0.3
  ambiguity_threshold: 0.1
- name: "DucklingHTTPExtractor"
  # url of the running duckling server
  url: "http://0.0.0.0:8000"
  # dimensions to extract
  dimensions: ["time", "number", "amount-of-money", "distance"]

# Configuration for Rasa Core.
# https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/core/policies/
policies:
# # No configuration for policies was provided. The following default policies were used to train your model.
# # If you'd like to customize them, uncomment and adjust the policies.
# # See https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/policies for more information.
#   - name: MemoizationPolicy
#   - name: RulePolicy
#   - name: UnexpecTEDIntentPolicy
#     max_history: 5
#     epochs: 100
#   - name: TEDPolicy
#     max_history: 5
#     epochs: 100
#     constrain_similarities: true

I have installed docker on linux and followed all steps mentioned in rasa docker installation instructions


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Posts Tagged 'football'
Mark McGwire and Steroids
Mark McGwire's admission of using steroids and human growth hormone (HGH) is no surprise. Baseball knew about it and looked the other way. I look back to how Jose Canseco was universally ridiculed years ago for saying that much of baseball was using steroids. It turns out he was right. People don't like it when you speak the truth.
What's surprising is that there's no outcry about steroids in football. Obviously many players are using steroids or HGH, which is not detected by tests. It's true that baseball's records are considered sacred, and people would probably be more accepting of football players using steroids, but steroids and HGH still give players a huge unfair advantage.
The average weight of an offensive lineman in the NFL is about 310 pounds. Thirty years ago it was about 260. Not all of that can be accounted for with improved weight training and nutrition. When you see wide receivers with huge arms that look like they're flexed when they're not, and they recover from broken legs in less than two months to play again, it's pretty suspicious. Thirty years ago you didn't see any wide receivers like that.
In 2006 former Redskins tackle Jon Jansen said a large number of NFL players were using performance enhancers. "When there is something out there that people believe is going to help them, we'd be very naive and foolish to think that if you can't test for it, guys are going to try it," Jansen said. "Right now there is not a test for HGH, and when they develop that, I hope the NFL will institute that in our drug policy." Jansen backed off his statements when he was told to be quiet.
So the NFL now is just as bad as baseball was in the 1990s. They turn the other way even though a very large number of ex-players die decades earlier than they should. For years the NFL ignored the problems of concussions, while former players came down with early dementia.
Former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Steve Courson wrote in his book "False Glory" that coach Chuck Noll "conveniently and most definitely turned his head to it." The word is that the Steelers, who won four Super Bowls in the 1970s, were one of the first teams to use steroids.
Former NFL player and coach Jim Haslett said "It started, really, in Pittsburgh. They got an advantage on a lot of football teams. They were so much stronger (in the) '70s, late '70s, early '80s," Haslett said in 2005. "They're the ones who kind of started it."
Tags:1970s, Baseball, football, HGH, Mark McGwire, NFL, Steelers, steroids
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Old Sports Media Guides and Sports Illustrateds
I sell used books, magazines, and media guides on Amazon.com. In this blog entry I'm listing many of the sports media guides and old Sports Illustrated magazines I have for sale. The average price is $7. The old media guides – football, basketball, baseball, and hockey – are gold mines for information you can't get anywhere else. I have a lot of them from the early 1990s before the advent of the internet. It's very nostalgic to look through these media guides, as well as the Sports Illustrateds to remember how the teams and players were viewed back then, and to find information that is hard to find today. For example, pick a player from before the age of the internet. You may be able to find out his stats, but unless he was a Hall of Fame type player, you won't get the detailed information you would get in these guides.
Some of the highlights are a 1992 Boston Red Sox media guide featuring Roger Clemens on the cover, a 1991 Houston Oilers media guide with Warren Moon on the cover, a 1991 Chicago Bulls media guide with information about a young Michael Jordan inside, a 1992 Pittsburgh Pirates media guide with information about a young Barry Bonds inside, a 1992 Seattle Mariners media guide with information about a young Ken Griffey, Jr. inside, and Sports Illustrateds of Magic Johnson, Cal Ripken, and Sugar Ray Leonard.
Please check out my amazon storefront at http://www.amazon.com/shops/mikefrandsen.
I also have a lot of classic books and art books for sale.
1992 Boston Red Sox Media Guide [Paperback] by Boston Red Sox
Houston Oilers 1991 Media Guide [Paperback] by Chip Namias
1991-92 Media Guide [Paperback] by Cleveland Cavaliers
Cleveland Browns 1991 Media Guide [Paperback] by Cleveland Browns
1991 Chicago Bulls Media Guide [Spiral-bound] by Tim Hallam and Joyce Szymanski
Pittsburgh Pirates 1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Pittsburgh Pirates
Sports Illustrated June 30 1980 Sugar Ray Leonard [Mass Market Paperback]
Sports Illustrated May 19 1986 James Worthy Lakers [Mass Market Paperback]
Sports Illustrated November 24 1980 Sugar Ray Leonard [Mass Market Paperback]
Sports Illustrated December 26 1988 – January 2 1989 Pictures '88
Sports Illustrated June 18 1979 Earl Weaver Baltimore Orioles Manager
Sports Illustrated November 18 1991 Magic Johnson Lakers [Mass Market Paperback]
Sports Illustrated July 29 1991 Cal Ripken Jr Orioles [Mass Market Paperback]
Sports Illustrated – March 24, 1986 Issue: Marvin Hagler, Charles Barkley, an…
Sports Illustrated – March 3, 1986 Issue: Larry Bird Cover, Mario Lemieux, Wa…
Philadelphia 76ers 1991-1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Philadelphia 76ers
Milwaukee Bucks 1991-92 Media Guide [Paperback] by Milwaukee Bucks
Cincinnati Bengals 1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Cincinnati Bengals
Kansas City Royals 1991 Media Guide [Paperback] by Kansas City Royals
Utah Jazz 1991-1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Utah Jazz
Cleveland Indians 1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Cleveland Indians
1991-92 New Jersey Nets Media Guide [Paperback] by New Jersey Nets
Sports Illustrated February 22 1993 Vendela Visits the Florida Keys [Paperback]
1991-92 Houston Rockets Media Guide [Paperback] by Houston Rockets
1991-1992 Los Angeles Clippers Media Guide [Paperback] by Los Angeles Clippers
Seattle Mariners 1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Seattle Mariners
Pittsburgh Penguins 1991-1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Pittsburgh Penguins
Seattle Seahawks 1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Seattle Seahawks
1991-92 New York Knicks Media Guide [Paperback] by John Cirillo
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED MARCH 21, 1988 LARRY BIRD [Paperback] by No Author
1991-1992 Indiana Pacers Media Guide [Paperback] by Indiana Pacers
San Antonio Spurs 1991-1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by San Antonio Spurs
Toronto Maple Leafs 1991-1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Toronto Maple Leafs
Sports Illustrated (April 22, 1985) Marvelous! Marvin Hagler TKOs Thomas Hearns
1994-95 Georgetown University Men's Basketball Guide [Spiral-bound]
Milwaukee Bucks 1990-1991 Media Guide [Paperback] by Milwaukee Bucks
Los Angeles Kings 1991-1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Los Angeles Kings
Sports Illustrated (February 8, 1984) The Year In Sports Special Issue
Sports Illustrated November 21 1983 Marvin Hagler & Roberto Duran
1990-92 Golden State Warriors Media Guide [Paperback] by Golden State Warriors
California Angels 1992 Media Guide [Spiral-bound] by California Angels
1991-92 Atlanta Hawks Media Guide [Paperback] by Atlanta Hawks
Seattle Supersonics 1991-1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Seattle Supersonics
Milwaukee Brewers 1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Milwaukee Brewers
Vancouver Canucks 1991-1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Vancouver Canucks
Minnesota Twins 1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Minnesota Twins
1991-92 Denver Nuggets Media Guide [Paperback] by Denver Nuggets
Chicago White Sox 1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Chicago White Sox
1991-92 Orlando Magic Media Guide [Paperback] by Orlando Magic
Montreal Canadiens 1991-1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Montreal Canadiens
Oakland Athletics 1992 Media Guide [Paperback] by Oakland Athletics
Sports Illustrated April 15 1985 Dwight Gooden Mets [Mass Market Paperback]
Sports Illustrated April 13 1987 Sugar Ray Leonard beats Marvin Hagler
Sports Illustrated October 24 1983 Rick Dempsey Baltimore Orioles
Sports Illustrated Magazine June 10, 1985 (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) [Paperback]
1994 Masters Journal [Paperback] by PGA
Sports Illustrated (February 18, 1985) The Great One Gets Greater – Wayne Gre…
Sports Illustrated Magazine September 11 1995 Iron Man Cal Ripken Jr
WINTER 2002 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT EDITION YAMILA [Paperback]
Tags:Amazon.com, Baseball, basketball, Boston Red Sox, Cal Ripken, Chicago Bulls, football, hockey, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, nostalgia, Roger Clemens, Sports Illustrateds, sports media guides
Dhani Tackles the Globe
"Dhani Tackles the Globe" is a TV show on the Travel Channel in which Dhani Jones, an NFL player, plays the sports of different countries to which he travels. I really like the show because it shows an American who plays a traditionally American sport playing completely different sports, many of which neither he nor many other Americans have even heard of. One of the great things about it is that Dhani, a linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals, has a respect for other cultures and the sports they play.
Many Americans, especially members of the sports media, look down on non-American sports and ridicule them. Not just the obscure, seemingly strange sports, but even soccer, the most popular sport in the world. In fact, you can't watch ESPN doing a soccer highlight without seeing the anchor making fun of the sport – it's almost as if it's a requirement. They should respect the sport and the passion that millions of fans over the world have for it. It just makes ESPN and other sports media outlets look arrogant and shortsighted.
When the Olympics roll around, or in fact when any sport other than football, baseball, basketball, or golf is mentioned, the U.S. sports media feels obligated to either make fun of it, state how much no one cares about it, or say how much they hate it, as if they are afraid of what they are not familiar with. This is even true for relatively mainstream sports such as soccer, tennis, hockey, boxing, bike racing, or swimming.
Forget about getting an American sports media person to respect something more non-American such as the sports featured on the show: Muay Thai boxing (Thailand), schwingen (Switzerland), rugby (England), dragon boat racing (Singapore), hurling (Ireland), jai alai (Spain), Surf Life Saving (Australia), kickboxing (Cambodia), sailing (New Zealand), and Sambo fighting (Russia).
But back to the show. Jones and the show's producers do a great job of mixing in sports, cuisine, social life, and scenery. A couple of minor issues – Jones sometimes seems a little awkward as he forces too many jokes, and sometimes he does a little bit of friendly trash talking which doesn't always get understood by the people in foreign countries. I have another criticism of the show — that South America isn't represented, and the bigger oversight is that Jones did not travel to Africa, especially since he is African-American. But these are relatively minor complaints. For the most part, Jones is friendly, good-humored, and most importantly, respects the sports and games they play in other countries and their cultures. It's good to see that from a multi-millionaire American athlete.
In Switzerland, Jones did schwingen, or Swiss folk wrestling. Something notable about Switzerland was that Dhani seemed to get a slightly cold reception by many of the people, first by the competitors and later by the crowd. As for how he did in the sports, he sometimes looked a little lost out there, but I applaud him for taking the risk of trying something new. He got beaten badly a few times in Swiss folk wrestling. I missed the one on Thai boxing. He did relatively well in rugby as you would expect, though he only got to play for a few minutes. He didn't do very well in dragon boat racing, played passably well in hurling for a beginner, and didn't fare much better in jai alai.
The show is a good way to get to know other countries a little bit. It's a different spin on the usual travel shows. Jones also spends some time learning some of the jobs people do in other countries as well as sampling native cuisines and participating in some of the recreational activities of these countries. He sheared sheep in Ireland, milked cows in Switzerland, and rode (and fell off a) horse in England. You also get to see some of the scenery in places like Switzerland, which is amazing.
You have to respect Jones for what he's doing, going outside of his specialty in a specialized world. Most people are specialists in one or two areas, so when someone comes along who is flexible, adaptable, and versatile, people don't know what to make of it. They can't imagine people doing something other than what they do all day, year after year.
If people call themselves true sports fans, they should not mock and disrespect anything that isn't considered a major American sport. You may not be that interested in different sports or understand anything other than football, basketball, and baseball, but if you consider yourself a sports fan then at least respect other sports. (This is directed at every major sportscaster or sportswriter in America). A better attitude would also go a long way toward dispelling the notion that Americans only care about the U.S. and don't care about or understand other cultures. As a multi-cultural nation of immigrants, we should respect the sports and the cultures of other countries. My favorite sports to watch are football and basketball, but I try not to make fun of other sports just because I don't know them as well.
Dhani has also been active in volunteering and charity work. From the show's website: "Dhani has received accolades for his charity work for former Vice President Al Gore's Climate Change Project and the United Nations' World Food Program. He also represented the New York Giants at a press conference for the "Gift of New York," a September 11 philanthropy organization designed to provide victims' families with free access to New York's theatrical, artistic, cultural, sports and live entertainment venues."
More pro athletes should take advantage of the money they have and see the world in their off seasons.
Tags:American ESPN, Australia, Cambodia, countries, cultures, Dhani Jones, Dhani Tackles the Globe, England, football, Ireland, kickboxing, New Zealand, NFL, rugby, Russia, Singapore, Spain, sports, Switzerland, Thailand
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Black History Month – Football
"You have to have the patience of understanding that at the time you will be ostracized, but as history moves into it, people will see that what you said made all the sense in the world. As things change, the radical points of view that you had will not be radical anymore. You have to have the courage to deal from that position."
— Jim Brown, Black Star Rising, a documentary about blacks in the NFL in the 1950s and 1960s.
Tags:black, black history, football, Jim Brown, NFL, radical
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Coach Mike Photography
Coach Mike: Teaching Kids with Autism
DC Sports Examiner (Mike's sports articles)
Mike's Redskins Blog
National Autism Examiner (Mike's autism articles)
Video: Coach Mike Geico Caveman Spoof
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Episode 017 – No Kaiju!
While Jamon is away travelling, Q is joined by Dan Villalobos as Co-host. Topics include Ciara's rendition of Heal the World to commemorate the 14th anniversary of 9/11, Sony Music's October plans for Michael Jackson, a wrap up of The Jackson's performance at Proms in the Park and Jermaine Jackson's fantastic new song, Summer Time Feeling. Q and Dan then also discuss Kingvention 2015 (with a little help from Jay Hoffman), the use of Thriller in a new Party City TV ad, Paul McCartney's Pipes of Peace album reissue with a new version of Say Say Say, Tony Succar's Unity album being disqualified from the Latin Grammy's and all the latest on 3T's The Jacksons: Next Generation TV show. Q and Dan then delve into a discussion around their own personal Michael Jackson experiences as fans and their initial thoughts on Janet Jackson's new album, Unbreakable.
Ciara performs a cover of Heal the World on The View to commemorate the 14th anniversary of 9/11.
Does Sony Music Australia's communication with @MJBookClub on Twitter indicate that plans for celebrating Michael in October are in the works?
The Jacksons perform live at Proms in the Park in the UK. Read all about the show through Syl Mortilla's wrap up blog.
Paul McCartney re-releases his Pipes of Peace album with a new version of the song Say Say Say which features newMichael Jackson vocals!
The Tony Succar album Unity: The Latin Tribute to Michael Jackson has been deemed ineligible to qualify for a Latin Grammy Award. Tony responds to this news.
Dan and Q discuss their personal Michael Jackson experiences, including seeing him live and in person at various locations.
Dan and Q's initial thoughts on the new Janet Jackson album, Unbreakable.
Q – The latest two episodes of the Michael Jackson podcast, Moonwalk Talks.
Dan Villalobos – Wesley Snipes on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon discussing his role in the short film Bad.
Brad Sundberg's In The Studio With MJ website.