Oktoberfest is much awaited every year as beers from around the world are available at the bars in the city and celebrated with much anticipation.
This year, we were excited to try the special Oktoberfest menu at Q-Bar, VITS Hotel. A limited menu with about 6 dishes and 2 desserts was crafted for the festival alongwith domestic and international beers and beer cocktails.
The decor was nice and vibrant with beer quotes and a complete festive feel to it. The music was a bit too loud for our liking, but then again, it's a matter of perspective.
Without wasting too much time, we ordered for the Chicken Roll – Flattened Chicken Breast stuffed with chicken mince and spinach. Unfortunately, we were extremely disappointed with the dish as the Chicken was undercooked and inedible. The next, we tried the Chicken Schnitzel which was served with garlic lemon caper sauce and potatoes. The potatoes were delicious and the sauce was flavourful but the Chicken, again, was bland and unimpressive. Disappointed with the food, we thought we should move on to the beers.
A special mention to the bartender who was well informed and attended to us happily. He offered us a spicy beer cocktail which was really good! We loved the flavour and the fruity aftertaste was the cherry on the cake. Next, we tried a British Bourbon Flavoured Craft Beer called Brody's Beer. This was again our server-bartender's recommendation. With a hint of honey, this one is a must try for all you craft beer lovers!Overall, Q-Bar, needs to definitely work on the food as it failed to impress us but the drinks were fab and we might just give it another chance for that!
Happy news for all the Ming Yang fans! Your favourite chinese restaurant is back in the city! This time, it's bigger and better.
Black and grey stone walls, bronze armour tiles, cloud chandeliers and a huge silver dragon that sits right in the center of the restaurant, every element here has a story to tell.
We were invited for a preview and as we were seated, the first thing that arrived on our table was a cup of tea called the Secret Seven, made of seven secret ingredients! What's inside, no one knows.
The food, without a doubt, was top notch. Be it the dismiss, appetisers or the main course, everything was delicious. Our favourites on the menu were the Prawn Cheung Fun, Ming Yang Chicken, the Steamed Chilean Sea Bass with pickled chilli and the Celery and lotus stem in white wine sauce. In the desserts, we loved the Rice Pudding and the Origin Chocolate Mousse with Five Spiced Caramelised Popcorn.
Another thing that caught our fancy were these infused ice cubes which we are definitely going to try at home!
Call it popular, call it innovative or call it just the novelty factor, The Bombay Canteen has been open for a couple of weeks now but to get a reservation here is tougher than getting a rickshaw outside Andheri station.
Precisely why we decided to simply walk in on a Wednesday evening to try our luck, to find it completely empty. We were told that we could get a table only till 9 PM and we agreed to take it.
To start off with, let's talk about the ambiance, bright, airy and soft music. A complete win. The music tends to get louder and the lights dimmer after 8 PM. The menu is quite limited and though the names sound great the food is simple and a fusion of traditional meets contemporary.
We started our meal with the Aloo Bravas with yoghurt, mustard, red chilli and nylon sev – tasty and definitely a good snack to go with a drink. Next on the table were the Desi Tacos – desi because the tortillas are replaced with theplas. The chicken ones were quite delicious because of the spicy chettinad flavour, the vegetarian ones were average.
Next, on the server's recommendation, we ordered the Cheese Stuffed Grilled Chillies, this one was the biggest disappointment. Bland and tasteless, even the cheese couldn't make it taste better.
The other quick bites we really enjoyed were the Sprouted Lentil Chaat and the Teekha Chicken Wings.
Drinks at The Bombay Canteen are the highlights. Be it the potent Desi Whiskey Sour or the non alcoholic TZ's Elixir, we really enjoyed the drinks!
Overall, this ones definitely an add on to the numerous bars in Lower Parel with a limited food menu. A few good finger food options and a couple of drinks and it can be your go-to place for after work parties. Although we wouldn't know how to deal with the week long waiting list for reservations!
PS: By 8.30 PM the place was packed and there were no empty tables.


Why is it more interesting is Tulum offers diverse alternatives for tourists. Head South and you may discover the cenotes giving use of extensive cave that is underwater. Tulum is also most visited for its best-preserved coastal Maya web sites. You will be astonished along with its turquoise blue Caribbean Sea backdrop.
Tulum hosts many top rank international resort and spas where you are able to be pampered and spoiled along with your every requirements, want and whim. In addition features a great selection of restaurants providing various various kinds of international cuisine, so satisfying your cravings must not be a challenge.
If you are to engage in nature tasks along with your relatives and buddies, take to visiting the Sian Ka`an Biosphere, habitat with a of the very most animal that is amazing plant types entirely on Earth. There`s also a sport that is comparatively new famous in Tulum, and also this is Kite boarding. This water sport uses wind power to pull a driver through the water for a board that is kite. You should be conscious of the safety recommendations to help you optimize the enjoyment with this sport.
Some tourists are mesmerized by the beauty of the beaches of Tulum and by its colorful tradition. Buying Tulum Houses obtainable has changed into a trend now. A number of factors are involved in the increased appeal of the estate that is real in Tulum. Some of those facets will be the perfect sandy that is white, the magical history, the hot community plus the tranquil exclusivity.
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Might and July will be the 2nd most useful options. Temperatures will likely be warmer but rain shall be notably greater.
The worst times to get obviously are and October followed by August and November september.
Having said that, no one can predict the current weather with 100 percent accuracy. But a planning that is little assist.
Anybody who intends to head to Riviera Maya during months with high levels of rain, especially throughout the hurricane period, should think about travel insurance that is buying.
You will probably want to rent a car if you choose to get off the beaten path somewhere between Mexico`s bustling Cancun and the Mayan ruins of Tulum. Major vehicle rental companies are very well represented during the airport in Cancun and path 307, the road that operates the size of Mexico`s Caribbean coast, is newly paved and easy to navigate. Just imagine yourself atop Nohoc Mul, the tallest that is second pyramid in the Americas, with only howler monkeys and turquoise browned mot-mots for company. A car that is rental you the freedom to arrive hours before the tour buses and wander the ruins alone. The driving is simple, the roads are very well marked, and also the freedom is fabulous.
If you decide to navigate Mexico`s Riviera Maya from when driving of the leasing vehicle, here are a few tips.


It's pretty obvious that movie and television characters don't look the way most of us do, and that it's a problem. But rarely do we actually talk about why that poses a major issue, or the repercussions: When you only see yourself depicted on the screen as a sidekick, a villain, a predator, or a joke, how does that affect the way you view yourself in real life?
Fattitude, an upcoming documentary, tackles that very question. Specifically looking at issues of size (because, of course, media fails us on other diversity issues, too), filmmakers Lindsey Averill and Viri Lieberman explore the massive impact of media bias and its effects on viewers.
When you only see yourself depicted on the screen as a sidekick, a villain, a predator, or a joke, how does that affect the way you view yourself in real life?
As with any bias, intersectionality brings things into even sharper focus. Fat characters are nearly all misrepresented. But fat characters of color? Queer fat characters? When's the last time you saw one of them portrayed in mainstream media with nuance or humanity — when's the last time you saw them, period?
Averill and Lieberman are completing the film for the festival circuit, aiming for a 2017 release (more on that here). But they've given us a sneak peek with this exclusive clip, featuring more personal stories about this issue that bleeds into our daily lives — regardless of our size.


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Q: No improvement in prediction accuracy, in-spite of obtaining best c and g value I am a newbie in machine learning.Hence i apologize in advanced for this silly question.
I used LIBSVM to train a scaled training data using default parameter and generated a model. However i got a only 26.26% accuracy on test data. Hence,I used grid search to obtain optimum C and gamma(g) value.
I plugged in the best C and G value and re-trained my training data.But there was no change in accuracy.Can anyone please explain me the reason behind this.Thanks.

A: You have to normalize the data first and then use grid search to obtain optimum C and gamma(g) value.
Remember you need to normalize both training and testing data.

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Human rights activists want Uganda's penal code act revised
Lawyer Nicolas Opio
Human Rights activists are demanding government through its Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs to revise the country's penal code act.
Human Rights lawyer Nicolas Opio, the proprietor of Chapter Four, a local law firm and Proscovia Abalo, a human right activist while appearing on NTV on Monday said that penal code still contains some provisions that were instituted by the colonial masters purposely to protect them.
"There are some provisions which we should have scrapped off from our constitution a long time ago because the poor are suffering and as Civil Society Organisations, (CSOs) we want to petition the government over the same," said Abalo adding that as CSOs they don't agree with the penal code act when it comes to the idle and disorderly law because it criminalises the poor mostly but it is also very subjective.
Adding on Abola's argument Opiyo gave an incident where a police officer arrested a high court judge for being idle and disorderly while he was crossing the street and by the time the judge explained himself, he was at Central Police Station (CPS).
"A lot of people are still being held in police cells for petty offences so first, let us scrap that provision from our law books. In this era being idle and disorderly should not be an offence," said Opiyo.
Opiyo added that petty offences that are embodied in the Penal Code Act of 1950 which is an antiquated law must be removed. Provisions such as 167 and 168 have no space in the Human Rights dispensation because they only favour the powerful people and ignores the poor ones.
"The Uganda Law Reform should ensure that such laws are removed from the books of laws especially if they have been scraped off by the Courts of law. The penal code act is a colonial law that was created to preserve the colonial administration and so it shouldn't still be used in Uganda now.
"You ask any Policeman in Uganda, their bible is the penal code act but a penal code act was only relevant when Uganda was still under colonialism purposely to create the protection of the white colonial classes in the country and they are many examples of that. Like Police stations are where they used to be purposely to keep away the poor from white colonial quarters, they are many provisions of the penal code act that are really in the current dispensation offensive," he said.
A penal code is a document which compiles all, or a significant amount of, a particular jurisdiction's criminal law. Typically a criminal code that contains offences which are recognised in the jurisdiction, penalties which might be imposed for these offences and some general provisions.
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You seem scared than the person you want to sue – Fans mock singer Big Eye as his threats towards President Museveni fail to work

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The Ann and Robert H. Lurie Tower, a memorial built in 1996 for Michigan alumnus Robert H. Lurie, is located on North Campus at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. It houses a 60-bell grand carillon, one of the university's two grand carillons; the other is housed in Burton Tower on Central Campus. These are two of only 23 grand carillons in the world.
The Lurie Tower was designed by Michigan alumnus Charles Moore (AB '47, Hon Arch Ph.D. '92), with the structural engineering done by Robert M. Darvas Associates. The tower was dedicated in October 1996. A gift of the "Ann and Robert H. Lurie Family Foundation," it has 60 bells. Ann Lurie of Chicago donated $12 million in memory of her husband, Robert H. Lurie (BSE '64, MSE '66), to help fund the construction of North Campus buildings, including a bell tower. Completed in late 1995, the 167-foot (50.9 m) tall bell tower is a significant landmark on the evolving North Campus.
The bells of this grand carillon are lighter in weight than the Burton Tower's 53-bell carillon. They were cast in bronze at the Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry in Asten, Netherlands in the customary proportion of 80 percent copper to 20 percent tin. The North Campus bourdon bell weighs in at six tons.


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The Dell XPS 17 has been revealed in a leaked image alongside a revamped XPS 15
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Dell looks poised to real a revamped version of its XPS 15, as well a larger XPS 17, with the latter marking a return of the XPS line to larger-screened laptops.
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Going off the leaked image, it looks like the next XPS 15 and a new XPS 17 will both follow the design set out by their smaller sibling, only with more ports. However, from what we can make out in the leaked image, it looks like both of the larger XPS machines have dropped legacy USB Type-A support in favor of USB-C ports, which would be in keeping with the XPS 13.
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WVU has increased support for student mental health, while noting unprecedented need
Staff and students participate in the first day of class for the fall semester on the Downtown Campus.(WVU Photo/Brian Persinger)
West Virginia University put out a community notice on Sunday because of concerns about a serious and specific mental health problem.
"West Virginia University is in receipt of an anonymous letter that described content related to suicide taking place in public areas of campus," officials wrote in a notification to the university community.
The letter did not describe a threat to any person or groups, the university said, but did refer to noon Monday and both outdoors and an indoor location, the Mountainlair. University officials said they consulted with regional and federal public safety officials, as well as mental health experts. The university also increased security measures on the Morgantown campus.
"First and foremost, to the person who wrote the letter, the University cares about you and has resources available to help. While we do not know your personal circumstances, we do know this is a very stressful time of year and it can become overwhelming. You are not alone," university officials wrote.
"To our campus community, if you are aware of someone who is struggling with thoughts of self-harm and may be sharing their thoughts through letter writing, poetry or illustrations, please call 911 immediately."
TW: suicide
We cannot stress enough that we want to help the person who wrote this letter.
You have reason to be here. We care about you.
If that person is reading this, please call the Carruth Center at 304-293-4431. We're waiting on your call so we can support you. https://t.co/BfhXWYcNCj
— WVU Mountaineers (@WestVirginiaU) December 5, 2021
This event has taken place during a broad effort by West Virginia University student leaders to secure more funding to support mental health services. The student leaders have praised how the university has stepped up mental health services already but describe strain on mental health at high levels through the ongoing covid-19 pandemic.
WVU officials note that the university already has devoted more resources for mental health services — while also recognizing the increasing demand and unprecedented strain among many students that still must be addressed.
April Kaull
"West Virginia University, like many other colleges and universities across the country, has seen significant increases in the need for mental health services and support – especially during the pandemic," April Kaull, WVU's executive communications director wrote in response to MetroNews questions.
"We have been engaged with students, faculty, staff and other constituents as we look for ways to best address these needs."
Her comments about the need for student mental health services were made prior to the community notice that was issued on Sunday.
The issue of additional funding has become acute as leaders in WVU's Student Government Association try to get the attention of Gov. Jim Justice, whose administration faces a deadline at the end of this month to spend the state's remaining share of federal CARES Act funds.
West Virginia still has $127 million of its CARES money remaining, according to the state Auditor's transparency website.
WVU's Student Government Association on Sept. 15 passed a resolution in favor of the Mountaineer Resilience Project, requesting that an unspecified amount of that money be dedicated to student mental health.
A MetroNews story on Nov. 28 focused on the students' request. It included response from the governor's communications office, saying officials were aware but noting that no decision had been made. The story did not describe what federal money WVU had received already or detail the institution's position on whether mental health needs are being adequately met.
The institutional funding issue drew the attention of the governor's senior adviser, Roman Stauffer, who publicly questioned that aspect of the story.
This story by @BradMcElhinny fails to point out that West Virginia University has received over $100 million for COVID related needs:
➡ $20M+ CARES Act
➡ $30M+ COVID Response/Relief Act
➡ $54M+ ARPA (2021)
Did this student ask WVU to fund this ever? https://t.co/CpwGM7lpkg
— Roman Stauffer (@RomanStaufferWV) November 29, 2021
That, then, elicited a response from WVU freshman Azeem Khan, a student government senator who has been at the center of the mental health funding effort.
"This spring, we lost three of our classmates here at WVU. This resolution is about doing everything in our power to make sure that number doesn't increase," Khan wrote in a social media message. "Lives are at stake — and nothing should distract from the fact that this is a crisis which requires the leadership of our state government."
Khan and student leaders Sophia Flower, Oliver Dowler, Logan Riffey and Tyler Seidel followed up with an op-ed in The Charleston Gazette-Mail: "We still hold hope to engage with the governor on this topic because of its importance," they wrote.
Many have asked me for my reaction to the comments by a member of the Governor's staff yesterday about the Mountaineer Resilience Project. I'd like to share my thoughts publicly below: https://t.co/ajNWYPB8mp pic.twitter.com/9qvwm9Aar3
— Azeem Khan (@azeemkhan_30) November 29, 2021
The answer is complicated: Students have felt increasing anxiety for years, the pandemic exacerbated that, WVU has put more resources toward supporting student health, the federal dollars have helped the university maintain that support, and the university's needs still extend beyond what federal dollars have been available.
West Virginia University officials have publicly recognized the pull on student mental health, including loneliness and isolation, for months.
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T. Anne Hawkins, the director of WVU's Carruth Center for Counseling and Psychological Services, outlined ongoing efforts — as well as additional needs — during a late-October presentation before a committee of the board of governors.
Hawkins told university officials that use of the counseling center rose by 30 to 40 percent even as enrollment grew by a comparative 5 percent.
Many of the issues troubling students have been on the rise over the past decade. But, coming through the pandemic, the university started seeing higher-than-ever reports of depression and general anxiety.
In response, Carruth added five new positions and increased its in-person appointments. The center also expanded support such as a partnership with Talkspace, allowing students to connect via app with licensed therapists at no cost.
And the university established Let's Chat, a new initiative providing easy access to informal consultations at different locations around campus. And Healthy Minds University was launching this fall to augment what Carruth Center already provides as a counseling resource. A new Crisis Clinic, features a 24/7 after-hours crisis phone line and crisis text line also available for students.
The current-year budget for mental health services increased by about 9 percent, Kaull said.
WVU acknowledged the support from federal dollars it has received during the pandemic. "As it relates to Federal COVID-19 funding, we are appreciative of Governor Justice's support of CARES Act moneys," Kaull said.
After all federal funds have been drawn down, the University will have received $108 million in federal covid-19 dedicated funding from the various recovery acts: $48 million awarded directly to students to help offset their costs and hardships during the pandemic and $60 million for the university to offset increased costs and lost revenues.
The $60 million does not cover total university losses, Kaull noted, but it enabled continued investment in student services, including mental health services.
"We note that total covid-19 related expenses and revenue losses at WVU went beyond the allocated amount from the State and federal government. In fact, we also had to enact a 5 percent cut to make ends meet and to have the ability to invest in key priorities, including mental health."
Khan, the student senator, said he is aware of the university's financial challenges during the pandemic, as well as its continued efforts to support student mental health.
"We applaud the efforts that the WVU Administration has taken to provide students with support for our mental health. Their efforts and investments have improved and saved lives," he said this past week.
"At the same time, we strongly believe that this crisis requires further attention and investments due to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic which has exacerbated this crisis."
He proposed a variety of additional efforts. That could include extending telehealth options for students, creating hotlines for specific groups of students at risk such as veterans or sexual assault survivors or establishing a mobile counseling center for students with limited transportation options. More investment could go toward public service campaigns to reduce stigma.
Mental Health is a crisis on our campus which deserves the attention of our state government. Call Governor Justice & tell him to fund the Mountaineer Resilience Project. #yourvoicematters pic.twitter.com/j8kvhb5OZu
— WVU Student Government (@sgawvu) December 3, 2021
He and other student leaders are asking for a meeting with the Justice administration to explore what more may be done.
"After all, Governor Justice once said, 'addressing the complex mental health needs of children, youth, and families is fundamental to the future of West Virginia…' The current level of funding for mental health services at colleges in West Virginia is not adequate for a complex crisis, which is fundamental to the future of our state.," Khan said.
"We are still hopeful that the Governor will take the time to meet with us to talk about how we can work together. Even though we are kids, our opinion still matters."
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All Things Change?
December 8, 2016 December 8, 2016 by Thomas Schenk
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"All things change," wrote the philosopher Heraclitus about 2500 years ago, an idea that comes to us essentially unchanged. A corollary of this is that "you cannot step in the same river twice." The river is in a state of constant change and so is the self that attempts to step in it. And yet I grew up on the banks of the Mississippi River, and this morning I walked along the banks of the same river. It seems entirely reasonable to me that the child and the person I am today are the same person; the river I grew up by and the river that continues to flow from Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico is the same river.
Yes, the waters of the river have changed and change constantly. Yes, the waters that flowed through my veins as a child as well as most of the other material of my body has changed. My looks have changed, my ideas have changed, yet I still feel a connection with that child who loved to sit on the banks of the Mississippi. Can a river really be reduced to its waters, or a self to the particular material of which it is comprised?
"Mississippi River" is a set of words. Words seem to be more enduring than the phenomena they refer to. Is this impression of an enduring river nothing more than a trick played by words? Perhaps, but I think it is less simple than that. The words "Mississippi River" stand for a process. That process began at the end of the last Ice Age and continues unbroken. The shape of the river has changed as its banks have eroded, but erosion, like the flowing of water, is a part of the process of the river. The process is mediated by natural laws that we can understand under the concept of geology. To say that you can't step in the same river twice because its waters are constantly changing is perhaps paying too much attention to one part of that geological process and ignoring the rest. The process itself has endurance.
But it seems Heraclitus understood that. He recognized that there was a constancy, an orderliness, to change, and it appears that he used the word "logos" to refer to this constancy. And of course, this is the same idea that we have when we add the suffix "ology" to the prefix "geo" to designate the science of geology. Sciences like geology are the systematic study of that which appears enduring amidst that which appears fleeting. To account for this enduring element we refers to the "laws of nature."
Process and Information
Like a river, a human life is also a process. The me that sat on the banks of the Mississippi as a child and the me that walked beside it this morning form a continuous process. This process, a biological one, apparently began with the union of a sperm and egg (1). A biological process is like a geological process, but with a least one major difference. All biological processes are mediated by information encoded in genes. This information is enduring like the writings of Heraclitus, but a good deal more so. Genetic information outlast the ephemeral bodies that carry it by reproducing itself in the form of new bodies. Reproduction is an ability that biological processes possess and geological processes lack.
In addition to genetic information, the process of certain biological beings, most obviously the higher animals, is mediated by a different kind of information. This is information is gained through the senses and stored as memory in a neurological system. An animal using this type of information is a process that can change rapidly to adapt to new environments.
With humans, Nature added at least one more potent innovation to this use of information. In addition to storage in a neurological system, humans store information in a vast reservoir that we call "culture"; we can access and share this information through language. Through culture we have become the natural process that can harness other natural processes to its will.
The Continuity of Goals
When I was a lad, the President of the United States, John Kennedy, set a goal for the country that it put a human being on the moon. This goal, this thing made of words and ideas, organized a far-flung set of physical, biological and social forces. And voila, less than a decade after setting the goal, Neil Armstrong walked upon the moon. That is the power of a goal. A goal is powerful because, like the laws of nature, it can endure through time.
So in a certain sense, goals are to human activity what laws of nature are to the Cosmos. This idea was prevalent in the ancient world, but in a way that many of us now find incorrect. Then the idea was that some God or other intends the activities of the world much like humans intend activities such as the building of a temple or getting to the moon. (To intend means essentially the same thing as to set a goal.) The modern notion of mechanically regular laws of nature had to battle this notion of an intentional God, a battle still going on today.
If, however, we turn things around and start from laws of physical nature and move toward the human mind, comparing laws of nature to goals is more apt. In this view, the processes studied by a biologist emerge from the processes studied by physicist, and the processes studied by the human sciences emerge from the biological. Exactly what happens at these junctures where new processes emerge is still rather mysterious, but there is no reason to introduce dualisms to account for them. The processes that lead to culture and intentionality are fully nested in the processes of life and the processes of life are fully nested in the processes of physics (and just what the processes of physics are nested in is also a mystery, a great mystery).
From this perspective, when we conscientiously set goals, we are engaged in an activity that has its roots in the processes that shaped galaxies from the raw material of the Big Bang and that shaped oak trees from chemical information in the nucleus of a seed. A well chosen goal provides a continuity to our activities as physical principles of geology provide continuity to a river or genetics provides continuity to a tree. In terms of matter "we are stardust," but in terms of our conscious intentions we are of the very thing that shaped stars out of the primordial nebulae — we are an intentional part of the great process of the World. That Thou Art.
Think on this when you set your goals this coming New Year!
Note 1: Though I speak here of a process beginning, processes never really begin and end; smaller processes emerge from and dissolve back into larger processes.)
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GOOD GAME (GG) TOKEN - a utility cryptographic token that allows trust-less deals where anyone can pay players to take actions inside games.
ClanPlay is introducing a new marketplace for in-game actions where players and interested entities can incentivize other players to act upon their causes. A new meritocratic ecosystem will emerge where skill in games is financially valuable at large and any action that can be tracked - can be paid for!
We believe that the time has come for players to be directly compensated for trying out and playing new games, and that blockchain is the facilitating catalyst to drive this revolution forward. Through a smart contract that leverages ClanPlay's technology, we can track player actions, time spent and contribution in games - thus enabling developers to pay users in proportion to how deeply they engaged with their games while doing so in a transparent and trust-less manner.
GG is a utility cryptographic token that allows trust-less deals where anyone can pay players to take actions inside games.
Developers can directly compensate players for discovering and then progressively engaging with their games. GG will become the vessel for providing players with gradually increasing compensation for their participation in games. Direct Discovery Campaigns can start with a small reward for watching a game's ad, while additional rewards can be granted for downloading the game, completing a match or a level, taking various actions and even making a purchase. Developers that identify the optimal user journey for players, can plot an efficient campaign that encourages players to conduct proper analysis of their hard-developed product.
GG will lay the infrastructure for a safe and flexible environment in which anyone can bid for In-Game Actions and players can buy into offers to perform them. The opportunities here are endless and will undoubtedly lead to a new meritocratic economy in which gamer skills are matched with a financial value.
Example use-cases are leaders forming a new clan in a game and offering players (above a certain level) payment for joining and spending time in their clan; or creating rewarded challenges for existing clan-members to incentivize and engage them onwards; Another example can be aspiring players paying mentors for spectating their match and guiding them through; Players in collectible games can pay others to borrow their item for crafting or breeding, with a commitment to return it or pay its fair market price otherwise, and the list goes on to infinity. ClanPlay aims to create a dynamic marketplace where the community crafts and drives deal flow..
Tracking the progress of eSport tournaments is very complicated and requires manual analysis. This obstacle forces the majority of eSport events to be constrained to a single game and to be held in a physical location and in constrained scale.
GG holders are given the power to setup action-based tournaments where the prize pool is split between participants. This exciting opportunity opens a whole new world of cross game competitions based on any in-game activity - any action that can be tracked, can be made into a tournament goal. These tournaments are a great way to advertise goals and interests.
As part of the framework to enable GG usage by 3rd party Authorizers, ClanPlay will work to define a regulatory-compliant structure. Authorizers will state the actions they support and fee structure for their supported tournaments, based on their data capabilities.
Game data is decentralized in nature. There is no central database of game events and different parties have different access to information. GG's innovation is in its trust-less agreement verification and matching between payments and actions. To achieve a state where two parties can engage safely while assuming a certain deal fulfillment, authorization providers are required to inspect actions and provide deal governance.
Game data comes in two forms: deterministic and indeterministic. Examples of deterministic data points are a player's level, current clan and item ownership. To be considered deterministic, such data needs to be available over public game APIs (for example Clash of Clans) where any party can quarry it and determine the result. On the other hand, indeterministic data will often be available only via private or semi-private game APIs and consist of information that can be interpreted in more than one way. For example, assessing how much time a certain player has spent in a clan can greatly vary in measurement methods (days, hours, etc.) and is highly effected by the time zone.
GG is a utility cryptographic token that allows trust-less deals where in-game actions are being compensated by players and game developers alike.


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Spurs rout depleted Lakers 138-110 in last Staples game
(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (Jae C. Hong)LOS ANGELES — (AP) — Keita Bates-Diop scored a career-high 30 points, and the San Antonio Spurs routed the slumping Los Angeles Lakers 138-110 on Thursday night in the final event at Staples Center under the 22-year-old arena's original name. Bates-Diop, the fourth-year NBA journeyman who's averaging 3.8 points per game this season, scored 11 points in the third quarter. Los Angeles (16-17) is back under .500 for the first time since Nov. 26. TIP-INSSpurs: They also played in the Lakers' final game at the Forum on May 23, 1999. Tim Duncan scored 33 points then as San Antonio completed a four-game sweep of Los Angeles in the second round of the postseason.
Keita Bates-Diop scored a career-high 30 points and the San Antonio Spurs routed the slumping Los Angeles Lakers 138-110 in the final event at Staples Center under the 22-year-old arena's original name.
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Podplukovník Mikuláš Čordáš (6. prosince 1909 Dvorníky – 24. prosince 1976 Trnava) byl československý důstojník, účastník Slovenského národního povstání a politický vězeň komunistického režimu.

Život

Před druhou světovou válkou
Mikuláš Čordáš se narodil 6. prosince 1909 ve Dvorníkách na hlohovecku v rodině zahradníka a vinohradníka na velkostatku Jozefa Čordáše a Júlie rozené Sülleové. Vystudoval osmileté reálné gymnázium, maturoval v roce 1928. V roce 1929 byl odveden. V roce 1930 se přihlásil na medicínu, ale od studia jej odradila absence stipendia a internátního ubytování. Proto ještě v témže roce nastoupil na prezenční službu v Litoměřicích, v rámci které absolvoval školu důstojníků v záloze, jezdecký kurz a proviantní kurz. V roce 1932 byl propuštěn do zálohy. Zuřila hospodářská krize, byl nezaměstnaný stejně jako jeho otec a rodina byla ve špatné finanční situaci. Živil se pouze příležitostnými pracemi. Stálou práci získal v roce 1933, kdy byl přijat do Okresní nemocenské pojišťovny, kde jako úředník pracoval až do mobilizace v roce 1938, kdy byl opět povolán do armády. Sloužil v proviantním praporu, následně jako velitel kulometné čety. Opět propuštěn byl v hodnosti poručíka v prosinci 1938.

Druhá světová válka
Po rozpadu Československa byl Mikuláš Čordáš v květnu 1939 povolán do slovenské armády a zařazen jako velitel kulometné roty v Trnavě. Kromě toho byl ustanoven tělovýchovným důstojníkem trnavské posádky, krátkodobě sloužil i na dalších funkcích. Od června do srpna 1941 se zúčastnil tažení do Sovětského svazu. Druhý turnus zde absolvoval mezi březnem 1942 a březnem 1943. Během roku 1943 se zapojil do protifašistického odboje, kdy pomáhal zásobovat zbraněmi a dalším materiálem partyzány v Malých Karpatech. Po vypuknutí Slovenského národního povstání se společně s dalšími pokusil o převzetí kontroly nad Trnavou a okolím, posléze ale musel s trnavskou posádkou ustoupit na střední Slovensko. Účastnil se bojů na jihozápadních přístupech k povstaleckému území, následně byl ustanoven velitelem opevňovacích prací na jižních a poté jihovýchodních přístupech k Banské Bystrici. Po pádu Brezna ustoupil do Poľany, kde zorganizoval partyzánský oddíl. Začátkem roku 1945 se  s ním probil k Rudé armádě a v únoru téhož roku vstoupil do 1. československého armádního sboru. Jako velitel praporu automatčíků se podílel na osvobozování Liptovského Mikuláše, Žiliny, Vsetína, Bystřice pod Hostýnem a dalších míst.

Po druhé světové válce
Po skončení druhé světové války působil Mikuláš Čordáš ve velitelských funkcích pěšího pluku 23 v Trnavě. V roce 1946 se účastnil bojů proti Banderovcům na východním Slovensku. V roce 1948 velel pěšímu praporu 23 ve Zvolenu a poté v Nýrsku. Dosáhl hodnosti podplukovníka. Po Únoru 1948 se stal terčem intrik a vykonstruovaných obvinění týkajících se jeho činnosti během války na území Sovětského svazu. Dne 24. března 1950 byl zatčen a v roce 1951 odsouzen k osmi letům vězení. Propuštěn byl v roce 1953 a v roce 1969 rehabilitován. Do té doby pracoval jako slévač a na ředitelství trnavského cukrovaru. V roce 1974 odešel do důchodu, publikoval v různých periodikách, zemřel 24. prosince 1976 v Trnavě.

Rodina
Mikuláš Čordáš měla bratra a sestru. Oženil se s úřednicí Terézií Kudlovou, manželům se v roce 1938 narodil syn Eduard, který se stal učitelem a úspěšným sportovním trenérem. Jeho vnuk Juraj Čordáš reprezentoval Slovensko v běhu na 400 metrů a v baseballu.

Sportovní činnost
Kromě vojenské kariéry se Mikuláš Čordáš aktivně angažoval i ve sportu. Byl atletickým trenérem a rozhodčím a v letech 1946 a 1947 předsedou atletické sekce Československého svazu tělesné výchovy v Západoslovenském kraji

Vyznamenání
 Pamětní medaile za obranu Slovenska v březnu 1939
 Vyznamenání Za hrdinství III. a II. stupně
 1945 Řád Slovenského národního povstání I. stupně
 1945 2x Československý válečný kříž 1939
 Československá medaile Za chrabrost před nepřítelem
 Medaile za vítězství nad Německem ve Velké vlastenecké válce 1941–1945
 1945 Československá medaile Za zásluhy I. stupně
 1947 Řád rumunské koruny IV. třídy

Odkazy

Literatura
 Kolektiv autorů - Vojenské osobnosti československého odboje 1939 - 1945, strana 51 (Ministerstvo obrany České republiky - Agentura vojenských informací a služeb, 2005, ISBN 80-7278-233-9)

Reference

Externí odkazy
 Mikuláš Čordáš na stránkách Klubu vojenské historie Trnavská posádka

Českoslovenští vojáci
Osobnosti Slovenského národního povstání
Slovenští partyzáni
Příslušníci 1. československého armádního sboru
Političtí vězni komunistického režimu v Československu
Slovenští atletičtí trenéři
Slovenští rozhodčí
Nositelé Řádu Slovenského národního povstání
Nositelé Československého válečného kříže 1939
Nositelé Československé medaile za chrabrost před nepřítelem
Nositelé Československé medaile za zásluhy
Nositelé Řádu rumunské koruny 4. třídy
Narození 6. prosince
Narození v roce 1909
Narození v Trnavském kraji
Úmrtí 24. prosince
Úmrtí v roce 1976
Úmrtí v Trnavě
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More and more we are reading that simply going to work isn't, well, working for Millenials. That poses a bit of a problem for business consider that 50% of our workforce will be made up of Millenials by 2020. They're less concerned about money, and looking for meaning. While many business owners might be put off by adding purpose to existing incentives, making meaning at work isn't as difficult as it sounds – and we're seeing a number of organisations handle the challenge in a variety of ways.
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Last Friday night I quietly launched under my new name Datayze.com.
Unlike the other names I came up with, once I realized Datayze was available I felt like I had found "the" one not just "a" one. I pronounce it as data-yze as in "to data". It has everything I was looking for: the credibility, the geek factor without being overly geeky, and it works across all my apps. At seven characters long it's even one of my shorter domain names which is a nice bonus. But my favorite thing about it? When you pronounce it as data-yze it sounds like a call to action.
Even though it was love at first site for me, I polled my friends and family to get additional perspectives. Datayze was clearly a standout for them as well. DataLemma and DataQuod (Quad is latin for "fact") were also favorites. The former is still up for sale if your interested. I never registered the later. As far as I know it is still available as well.
If there's one drawback to Datayze it's that it's an off-by-one error of Datalyze. Datalyze.cc was one of the domain names I was initially thinking of, and one I was leaning towards for a while. I must admit I did type "datalyze.com" into the browser a few times when I was initially working on the migration.
Mistypings aside, I don't view Datayze as a variant spelling. Sure, it's one character different from both Datalyze, and Datatyze, two other domain names I considered. Unlike Dattaticks, which is one character different from the clearly better DataTicks, there isn't a clear winner among Datayze, Datalyze or Datatyze. Each works on it's own and independently of the others. I could see someone starting a company with any one of those names. Those two other names also aren't being used even though they've been registered. Datalyze.com is a blank page and Datayze.com is a GoDaddy splash page. This means there's no other website I could get confused with. It also gives me a chance to get out in front of users first and build my brand so that my domain is the one that gets the name recognition.
So far everything is running smoothly. I've set up 301 Redirects so the change should be mostly unnoticeable to my users. All old links and book marks should bring them to the right place. I even earned $2.04 over the weekend, which is higher than normal. It's still early, but I'm optimistic that 2016 is going to be a very good year for my business. Here's hoping.


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Home EDITOR'S CHOICE Memories of a close friend : Maurício Gugelmin
Memories of a close friend : Maurício Gugelmin
Take a look back at the friendship between Maurício Gugelmin and Ayrton Senna
Ayrton Senna had a great friend by his side every step of the way in his journey from Formula Ford to Formula 3 to Formula One: Mauricio Gugelmin, who turns 53 on April 20.
In the British towns of Norwich and Esher, they were roommates – in the case of the former, both shared the rent, so that their budget remained under control in a country known for the high cost of living.
Ayrton raced in Formula Ford 2000 and Gugelmin was starting out in F-Ford 1600.
Take a look at a few excerpts from the book "A Star Called Senna", by Lemyr Martis, in which Gugelmin tells a few stories about his day-to-day living with the Brazilian idol.
"Becão [Senna's nickname] was a generous guy. He was very fun with those close to him. He liked kidding around, but this side of his personality remained hidden, because most people only got to know Senna-the-driver, the serious, dedicated, super-professional man who left everyone in awe of his talent on the track. But the little kid – now, that one was dangerous. When eating next to him, you had to be as focused as on the starting grid of a race. If you relaxed for just one second, you could end up with a plate full of vinegar or glass of milk full of pepper. Toothpaste and shaving cream had to be kept under lock and key, so you didn't end up with a sticky face or a foamy mouth".
"Around 1985, I competed in Formula 3000 and Ayrton was driving the John Player Special Lotus. Instead of the beaten-up Alfasud, our very first car in England, we were parading around in a Escort, then a Renault, a Honda and finally a Mercdes-Benz. While in our first house, in Norwich, the £360 rent was split in two, in Esher I didn't even had to pay, Becão bought the property and didn't charge me anything. I lived there for quite a while".
-Maurício Gugelmin
"I recall that, in our leaner times, between 1981 and 1982, when he was in Formula 2000 and I was in Formula Ford, the prizes for winning were £100, £200 – around R$400 and R$800 right now, in the beginning of the millennium. So, we went to town, when we won. We had a feast at the notorious Doric restaurant, the only one in Snetterton where Ralph Firman, Van Diemen's owner, took Brazilian drivers to sign their contracts".
"Our culinary skills were pretty tragic, at home. The best we were able to do was a pasta dish with heavy cream, and I still don't know how it could end up so hard. It was only edible right after it was made; otherwise it turned into a brick. We only ate food that tasted and smelled good when Mrs. Neide, Becão's mother, came to visit", said Gugelmin, who competed in 74 Formula One races and achieved his greatest moment in the category when he made the podium in the 1989 Brazilian GP.
source/photo: Ayrton Senna Official
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1989 Brazilian GP
A Star Called Senna
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