Tempus fugit. It has been two years since I wrote about Ferrexpo, and more than three since I presented it at the valueconferences.com's European Investment Summit. (By the way, Meyer Burger's pearl status turned out to be short-lived. Barratt Developments stock price, on the other hand, proceeded to grow 40% in 2014 and another 40% in 2015, to a peak of 6.6 pounds. This year it fell like a stone after Brexit to as low as 3.3, but it is now back at 4.8 – market efficiency for you).
My point two years ago was to show how wrong I had been on Ferrexpo and to try to explain – first to myself – why. My main argument was that I had underestimated the negative consequences of the big three iron ore producers' decision to continue to expand their production capacity. This had caused a steep drop in the iron price from 130 dollars per ton to 70, which the market was regarding as permanent, thus taking all iron ore producers – the big three as well as smaller companies like Ferrexpo – to very low valuations. My decision to stick with the investment was predicated on the assumption that the iron ore price drop would turn out to be cyclical rather permanent, and that valuations based on a permanently low price would eventually be proven wrong.
Ferrexpo ended 2014 at 0.5. But then, in the first half of 2015, it started to look as if I was right: the stock price climbed back 60% to 0.8. Alas, not for long. In the second half, the iron ore price resumed its fall, and by the end of the year it was as low as 41 dollars, taking Ferrexpo's price all the way down to 0.2.
In the meantime, the company had been chugging along, reporting lower but overall solid results. Its profile was as low as ever, and the message invariably the same: we are doing as best as we can in the current adverse circumstances, but there is nothing we can do other than sit tight and weather the storm. Brokerage analysts took notice and kept pummelling the stock.
To my increasing frustration – there were things to do: share buybacks, dividend suspension, divestments, insider buying, strategic alliances – a stone-faced IR would, each time I saw her, give me the same 'don't look at me, I just work here' message, the CFO kept sighing, and the CEO would not even meet me.
The attitude could not have been more different at Cliffs Natural Resources, the largest US iron ore producer. Here, after a fierce shareholder and management clash, a new CEO had been appointed in August 2014. Lourenço Gonçalves, a burly, ebullient Brazilian with a long experience in the mining industry, was as far as you could get from the amorphous Ferrexpo people. I had taken a position in Cliffs in 2013 and added to it in 2014.
Gonçalves' first public foray, the Q3 2014 earnings call in October, was a stunner. The stock price was at 9 dollars, down from 17 in August. But Gonçalves was adamant: he was going to turn the company around, restore profitability and reverse the decline. The old management – he said – had been driving the company to the ground by pursuing the same aggressive, China-focused expansion and acquisition strategy that the big three producers had adopted. He warned that the strategy was reckless and self-destructive, and that the big three's shareholders would eventually see the light and throw out the management responsible for it. His plan was to concentrate on the domestic market and sell everything else. He said brokerage analysts – who were almost unanimously sceptical about his plan and were 'predicting' more iron price weakness – were all wrong, and he was determined to prove them wrong. The company was buying back its stock and he and other company insiders were buying too on their personal account.
The stock had gone up 22% on the day of the Q3 earnings call. But it had soon resumed its downward trend, ending 2014 at 7 dollars. On the day of the June '15 conference it had reached 5, and a month later it was down to the beaten-up analyst's 4 dollar valuation target. Lourenço would have none of it – but being in the midst of all this drama was no fun.
A value investor is used to endure the pain when things go the wrong way – but there is always a limit, beyond which endurance becomes stubbornness, valiance turns into delusion and composure into negligence. I had bought Ferrexpo in 2012, added to it in 2013, when I also bought Cliffs, to which I had added in 2014. I just couldn't do more. All along I had kept doing the Blackstonian right thing – trying to prove myself wrong. But there was no way: I agreed with Gonçalves one hundred percent. Giving up was surely the wrong thing to do.
We are squeezing the freaking shorts and we are going to take them out one by one: I'm going to make them sell everything to get out of my way and they are going to lose their pants. How am I going to get there? The toolbox is full. (Gonçalves, Cliffs Q1 Earnings call, 28 April 2015).
Fun, but tough. The shorts kept winning, and winning big, for the rest of the year, which Cliffs ended all the way down to 1.6 dollars. But, in the meantime, things had started to change. Exactly as Gonçalves had predicted, the big three's shareholders lost their patience and forced a radical change in management strategy. The first to go was the Head of Iron Ore at BHP Billiton, who had been the most vocal advocate of the supposed virtues of lower iron ore prices – BHP's stock price halved in 2014-15 – soon followed by Rio Tinto's CEO and its own Head of Iron Ore – Rio's price went down 40% in the same period. The new management put a halt to the misconceived policy of big actual and planned production expansion, which by the end of the year had driven the iron ore price down to 40 dollars. As a result, lo and behold, at the beginning of this year – two full years later than my Ferrexpo post – the cyclical upturn in the iron ore price began in earnest. And, unlike the year before, it didn't stop: the price has now doubled to 80 dollars.
Right, at last. And freaking shorts on the run, as Cliffs' stock price blasted to a peak of 10.5 dollars earlier this month – five and a half times where it ended last year. Thank you, Lourenço, great job. So here is the graph I showed in July at this year's Italian Value Investing Seminar, where, alongside their stock picks, speakers are asked to talk about a past mistake.
My big mistake was – what else? – Ferrexpo, one of the three stocks I had presented at the 2014 Seminar (the other were two Italian stocks, Cembre and B&C Speakers, which went up 39% and 34% in 2015). Ferrexpo had by then gone up merely 50% since year-end, from 0.2 to 0.3, while Cliffs was already at 6. It was the silver lining of a bad story, and a vindication of my 2015 move – enhanced, ironically, by the post-Brexit dollar appreciation versus the pound.
There might be a perverse correlation between Ferrexpo's stock price and my talking about it in Trani – but I doubt I will collect a third data point to test the hypothesis. The move had nothing to do with the company, which this year continued to be its dreary self. And very little to do with a change in brokerage analysts' views – the Eeek analyst, bless him, still has a 0.26 price target. As it is clear in the first graph, it has all to do with the iron ore price correlation.
Be that as it may, I am very happy for the few friends who followed me on this roller coaster. This has not been a successful investment (so far!) – and no, I did not increase my Cliffs position at the end of last year. So I hesitate to categorize this post under 'Intelligent Investing'. But then 'intelligent' doesn't always mean 'successful'. Investing implies risk and must be judged on the intelligence of ex ante reasoning rather than the success of ex post outcomes. At the same time, however, it is wrong to indulge in self-forgiveness. We should learn from our mistakes: there is no right way to do the wrong thing. So, what did I get wrong?
When I first bought Ferrexpo at 1.7, back in September 2012, I saw it rapidly appreciate to 2.7 in February 2013. It was at that time that the first big downward revisions in iron ore price estimates started to surface, first from BREE (the Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics), then from Rio Tinto's chief economist, then from about everybody else and becoming consensus. As a result, in less than a month Ferrexpo's stock price was back to where I had bought it. There I made my big mistake. The lower price forecasts were based on slowing Chinese demand and increased supply from the big three producers. But I dismissed the second point, on the assumption that the big three would not be so irrational. Therein lies the big lesson: it is wrong to assume that the turn of events will necessarily follow its most rational course – we've had a flood of evidence on this from this year's major political developments!
Once it became clear, by 2013, that the big three were set on their expansion strategy and were not going to change their mind any time soon, I should have changed my mind and get out of Ferrexpo at close to par. I didn't: neglecting my own precepts, I failed to acknowledge the multiplicative nature of evidence accumulation, whereby even a single piece of strong disconfirmative evidence can be enough to overwhelm any amount of confirmative evidence on the other side of the hypothesis. Confirmation Bias, right there in my own face! Going public with my Ferrexpo pick – first at valueconference.com in October '13 and then at the Trani Seminar the following summer – did not help. So I have promised myself not to fall in that trap again, not by avoiding public picks, which are a useful and worthy exercise, but by refusing to abide by them (so far so good with my subsequent picks).
I am still invested in Cliffs. I was right in expecting the iron price upturn. But iron ore futures are still predicting a drop to 50-60 dollars in the next couple of years. China is likely to slow down steel production and the US likely to limit steel import – notice the big jump in Cliffs' stock price after Trump's election: one more irony in this mind blowing saga. The pellet premium – both Cliffs and Ferrexpo produce energy-efficient iron ore pellets, rather than lump and fines – should stay up, given China's impelling need to combat air pollution.
But please don't take my word for it.


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Press To MECO released their first album for Marshall Records "Here's To The Fatigue" on March 30th to critical acclaim. You can stream the album on Spotify or watch the music videos for singles "Familiar Ground" and the latest "Itchy Fingers".
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The final of the Patricia Routledge Competition was held at the Royal College of Music. The panel of judges was David Clegg (winner-1999), Simon Roberts (winner-1990), Judy Hildesley, Liza Hobbs and Patricia Wiliams.
The winner was Helen-Jane Howells, who trained at the RCM and is taught by Jennifer Smith. She received £2000. The runner-up was Jennifer France, who studies with Sandra Dugdale at the Royal Northern College of Music. She won £1000 as did third placed Christopher Jacklin, a student of Justin Lavender at the RCM. The winning accompanist, who received £1000, was Jennifer Miles.
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The reason I think this amnesty is so insane and I mean INSANE is...we will let in 15 million (I do also believe the numbers are much greater) uneducated/non-english speaking people that will very very quickly go straight to the welfare/food stamp/medicaid line which is already over burdoned.....INSANITY!
As you say oldglory more democrat voters..it really is a genious plan and once it's implemented...Democrat rule forever.
LOL they already are voting and their illegal....all you need is a drivers license in half the damn states and what does it matter if its fast or slow???
They shouldn't be VOTING at all!
No, no they won't, nor have they.
That come in before what date? Surely not the Dec 2011 as the gang of 8 are attempting to use.
You don't think they vote lol.
I guess you failed to read my O.P. What gives these 15 million illegals the right to break American laws?
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They broke the law and if busted, they will be criminally charged for make false statement on voter registration.
No, when they are convicted of crime so they will serve in the prison and deport eventually.
I'm fine with December 2011, if law isn't pass until next year - push to other one year - December 2012, or date when law pass and signed by president.
However, I'm skeptical about bipartisan immigration proposal because they can create a long term second class citizen.
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Awfully big word "if" is.
"When" is like "if", no guarantee. Is voting illegally a "serious enough offense" to warrant deportation?
Under Citizenship and Immigration Services guidelines, a noncitizen's vote does not always scuttle a bid for citizenship. The agency's officers are required to evaluate the circumstances of the violation, as well as the "moral character" of the applicant, and decide whether the law has been intentionally violated.
Why not push it backwards instead of forwards? Why not back date it 7 or even 10 years as Obama had originally declared?
There is no such thing as a second class citizen. There are only Citizens, Residents, and Illegals.
"When" is like "if", no guarantee.
I don't understand about what are you saying.
It is against law for vote as non-citizen - felony.
No thanks, I prefer amnesty for illegal immigrants who arrive about 2 years ago, or sooner.
I disagree with you because there is second class citizen in definition and the black people were used to treat as second citizen class during Jim Crow era. I'm concerned about immigration proposal that created by bipartisan could treat illegal immigrants as second class citizen in long term - about 10 years.
Its only a felony if they are convicted, however it may not be a "serious enough" crime to get them fined, jailed or deported. See above link I provided and quote.
There in lies our differences, I prefer illegals to be deported, or granted non-immigrant visas to those that can show they are working in the Ag Industry under the table, all others are to be deported as caught. Their costs can not and should not be absorbed by or forced onto the general public.
Those 10 years waiting they would be legal residents, not citizens, they must earn citizenship. Why not ad women to your claim, too, they weren't allowed to vote until the 19th Amendment. The difference is they (women and blacks) were citizens, illegals granted amnesty will only be granted legality making them residents, not second class anything.
It looks like I missed your quote with citation (#17). I think it will be applies to legal immigrants who falsely to vote as non-citizen - it maybe not deported - according to your link and ICE. For illegal immigrants - due to illegal status so ICE will know because they are breaking the existing law by enter US illegally - deportable due to enter illegally. I think it need to be tightened to include deportable offense under new law.
Oh I see - I have mixed feeling on immigration reform and I don't think that I have clear philosophy on immigration view (more like flip flop). I have sympathy on immigrants who came illegally as child so I feel that they should get visa to stay in US.
The immigration isn't part of my priority when come to elect the politician and I think immigration reform is most confusing to my mind.
I re-reviewed the articles and they seems extremely confused - so yes, you are correct about 10 years waiting to become a legal resident (green card). That means illegal immigrants get different treatment (worst). I'm afraid that immigration reform may not work at all, also fraud and perjury could be a big issue.
For minimum, without amnesty and path to citizenship, we need fix the broken security issue that make backdoor for illegal immigrants to enter US illegally - known as need to secure the border and increase the effectiveness of law enforcement to spot the illegal immigrants. I don't know if it is work or more cost effective.
I believe that immigration issue will never completely resolved and we simply need make more harder for them to find a job so they can return to their home country on their own - self-deport.


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Comcast: ONF Trellis software is in production together with L2/L3 white box switches
Posted on September 14, 2019 by Alan Weissberger
Jet lagged yet energetic and cheerful, Comcast Senior VP of Next Generation Access Networks Elad Nafshi returned from a motor bike trip in the European alps (via a red eye flight from Frankfurt, Germany to SFO) to deliver an important keynote speech at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Connect 2019 conference in Santa Clara, CA this Friday. A graduate of Tel Aviv University, Mr. Nafshi has been with Comcast for over 14 years.
Elad announced that Comcast, the leading ISP in the U.S. by subscribers, has deployed the open source ONF Trellis software and reference hardware design "in multiple markets with real customers." He noted that "This is not a technical trial or PoC. We have not deployed a new appliance. We deployed an entire ecosystem."
Trellis is an SDN-based, multi-purpose leaf-spine (AKA spine-leaf) switching fabric designed for access-and-edge networks, NFV, and edge cloud applications. It uses the Open Network Operating System (ONOS) open source SDN controller running in an x86 based compute server and the OpenFlow protocol as a "southbound API" (Control plane to/from Data plane) to interface with multiple interconnected white box/bare metal L2/L3 switches. That configuration is shown in the illustration below.
Comcast, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, and Infosys collectively authored a reference design for Trellis in April 2019. Reference designs are "blueprints" developed by ONF's Operator members (AT&T, China Unicom, Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, Google, NTT Group, and Turk Telekom), to address specific use cases for the emerging edge cloud/broadband and mobile access networks.
"In collaboration with the ONF and a team of supply chain vendors, Comcast is deploying the open source Trellis platform as the networking fabric in our next generation access network," Nafshi said in a press release. "This has been a multiple year journey from design, to extensive field trials and finally to production rollout, and we're impressed with the results and the advantages that using open source and Trellis are delivering for us as we upgrade our access network," he added.
While Elad said that Trellis rollouts are accelerating and may "soon come to an area near you," he declined to answer questions about the locations, size or scale of Comcast's Trellis deployments. I talked to Elad after his speech and found him to be very engaging and congenial.
Comcast claims an open source- and a white box-based Ethernet backhaul is integral to its next generation network access strategy. By using Trellis, Nafshi said Comcast improved network scalability as well as space and power facility efficiencies in its cable head-ends.
Trellis plays a key role in Comcast's next generation Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) [1] strategy, which uses an Ethernet-based converged interconnect network (CIN). Comcast is using Trellis within this CIN.
Note 1. Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) enables the evolution of cable networks by decentralizing and virtualizing headend and network functions. DAA extends the digital portion of the head-end or hub domain out to the fiber optic node and places the digital to RF interface at the optical-coax boundary in the node. Replacing the analog optics from the head-end converts the fiber link to a digital fiber Ethernet link, increasing the available bandwidth improving fiber efficiencies (wavelengths and distance), and directional alignment with NFV/SDN/FTTx systems of the future.
"This has been a multiple year journey from design, to extensive field trails and finally to production rollout, and we're impressed with the results and the advantages that using open source and Trellis are delivering for us as we upgrade our access network," Elad said.
While Comcast's conventional network currently relies on embedded routing and switching protocols running on individual vendor specific switches, Trellis software runs in a cloud-native SDN fashion on a cluster of standard compute server nodes each of which implements a centralized control plane via the ONOS SDN controller. This new SDN based architecture makes network design, deployment, debug and upgrades much simpler, while minimizing network complexity and cost.
"This is real, true production at scale," said ONF VP of Marketing Timon Sloane. "The design has been vetted and tested and hardened over multiple years. It's in multiple markets, with tens of thousands of subscribers."
"The open source ecosystem created by ONF has collectively established a new 'Distributed DevOps' model through the process of trialing, hardening and deploying Trellis with Comcast. This has established a new formula for open source whereby an operator, ONF and a consortium of commercial entities come together to collectively build and stand behind a deployment," said Saurav Das, Vice President of Engineering for the ONF.
Earlier at this week's ONF Connect 2019 event, Arthur D. Little, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, and Telefónica released a study that found virtualized, cloud-based architectures can save network operators 40% in capex and 25% in opex.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/comcast-has-achieved-production-roll-out-of-trellis-open-source-networking-fabric-300917819.html
https://www.opennetworking.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/ONF-Reference-Design-Trellis-032919.pdf
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/comcast-deploys-open-source-trellis-in-multiple-markets/2019/09/
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/operators/comcast-puts-open-source-networking-software-into-production
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Comcast claim: #1 Gigabit Service Provider in the U.S. but what about "5G" BWA?
Comcast says its Xfinity Gigabit Internet and Comcast Business Gigabit services are now available to nearly all of the 58 million homes and businesses the company's infrastructure passes in 39 states and the District of Columbia (it's not available in Santa Clara, CA where top downstream speed is 400M bits/sec). That makes the cable MSO the largest provider of gigabit Internet service in the U.S. based on the number of potential homes passed.
Gigabit Internet service is a residential XFINITY Internet service that delivers download speeds of up to 1 Gbps and upload speeds of up to 35 Mbps to customer homes via Comcast's next technology DOCSIS 3.1 Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC) network. Gigabit Pro is a newer ultra-fast tier delivered via a fiber-to-the-home solution and offers symmetrical upload/download speeds of up to 2 Gbps.
Comcast notes it has increased speeds 17 times in the last 17 years and that the capacity of its broadband network has doubled every 18-24 months. The company uses Xfinity xFi to give customers control over their internet; xFi is a digital dashboard that allows users to personalize, monitor, and manage WiFi connected devices inside the home or business.
"Comcast continues to offer an unmatched Internet experience that combines gigabit speeds with wall-to-wall WiFi, personalized tools and controls, and enough capacity to stay ahead of tomorrow's innovations," said Dana Strong, president of Consumer Services, Comcast. "We've built an innovative high-speed data platform that combines speed, coverage and control features and really sets our broadband experience apart from the competition."
"One of the ways that we compete, of course, is ensuring that we've got the fastest and the most reliable network," Matt Strauss, executive vice president of Xfinity Services at Comcast, told Fortune. "What's partly behind the announcement is reinforcing that now we have one gig deployed across our entire footprint."
Comcast started deploying gigabit service in earnest about three years ago. The company, which has 24.4 million total home broadband customers, wouldn't say how many people have signed up so far, disclosing only that 75% of all its customers now receive speeds of 100 megabits/sec or higher.
However, a Morgan Stanley survey released on Thursday said that only a tiny fraction of U.S. households—3% of cable Internet customers nationwide—have 1 gigabit/sec speeds or higher.
But 1 GB speeds may gain in popularity in the future. While a typical high-definition movie file is about 3 GB or 4 GB, a growing number of movies are available in 4K, for which files sizes can exceed 100 GB.
The top two U.S. fixed line telecom carriers Verizon and AT&T are just starting to introduce competing home Internet services with new "5G" (proprietary) fixed broadband wireless access (BWA) technology. Those "5G" BWA services are 10 to 40 times faster than current 4G LTE wireless networks, which are generally NOT used for BWA. Those two mega carriers along with Comcast are ranked among the best ISPs.
Google Fiber may not be too far behind in it's use of fixed BWA technology to deliver triple play residential services. Alphabet, Google's parent company, has put Google Fiber projects on hold in San Jose, Portland, and California. Google states that the move to wireless is inevitable, it will not neglect existing markets and will continue signing up new customers with wireless instead of fiber. Plans are underway to provide cities such as Dallas, Los Angeles, and Chicago with wireless internet service. Wireless technology is less expensive as it does not require labor-intensive constructions, the issues with the telephone owners, current copper and fiber providers and much cheaper to roll out.
In October 2016, Google bought Webpass, a company that specializes in the provision of wireless internet that at speeds of 1GBps at around $60. Webpass uses antennas on a building's rooftops to provide internet connections to both businesses and residences. Unlike in conventional ISPs where you would need to have a modem, with Webpass you only need to have a router where you can plug in an Ethernet cable and distribute the internet to your office or residence.
https://www.xfinity.com/gig
https://www.lightwaveonline.com/articles/2018/10/comcast-were-the-largest-us-gigabit-broadband-provider.html
http://fortune.com/2018/10/18/comcast-declares-victory-in-gigabit-home-internet-race/
https://hothardware.com/news/comcast-gigabit-internet-rollout
https://medium.com/@artiedarrell/fiber-no-more-google-fiber-is-switching-to-wireless-57e871ee8bc4
https://www.reviews.org/internet-service/best-internet-service-providers/
http://www.thurstontalk.com/2018/10/22/comcast-now-nations-largest-provider-of-gigabit-internet/
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Comcast Blames Widespread Service Outage on Cut Fiber Lines Owned by CenturyLink & Zayo
Comcast Corp, which has more than 29 million business and residential customers, today blamed cuts in two fiber lines for a widespread system failure that knocked out cable, internet and phone services around the country.
It was unclear how many customers were affected as the system failure, which appeared contained to Comcast's network, also disrupted connectivity services like Netflix Inc. and Okta Inc. as other internet service providers routed internet traffic through Comcast's network, according to network research firm ThousandEyes.
Comcast service problems today (June 29, 2018):
https://outage.report/us/xfinity
Comcast, one of the dominant cablecom companies in the U.S., said most service had been restored by late Friday. The Philadelphia-based company said in a statement that "one of Comcast's large backbone network partners had a fiber cut that we believe is also impacting other providers." Later, Comcast said the damaged fiber optic lines are owned by CenturyLink Inc. and Zayo Group Holdings Inc.
A spokeswoman for CenturyLink issued a statement saying CenturyLink's network was working normally, though the company had "experienced two isolated fiber cuts in North Carolina affecting some customers that in and of itself did not cause the issues experienced by other providers." The spokeswoman, Francie Dudrey, didn't comment further. Attempts to reach Zayo were unsuccessful. Fiber networks, which make up the backbone of the internet, transmit vast amounts of internet traffic, processing everything from online purchases to 911 calls.
Down Detector and Outage.Report, two websites that monitor the running of consumer-technology services, ranked the system failure as extreme and posted maps indicating large numbers of customers affected in the New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., metro areas as well as San Francisco, Chicago and Denver.
Reports of outages, according to the websites, spiked early Friday afternoon. Some customers took to social media to discuss the outages, saying they were having trouble getting through the company's phones and online chats. Comcast, on Twitter, directed customers to an internal website that was at one point down as well, eliciting a second round of customer complaints.
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### Refereed Journal Articles
* J. Booth, A. Roussos, E. Ververas, _E. Antonakos_, S. Ploumpis, Y. Panagakis, and S. Zafeiriou.

  **3D Reconstruction of "In-the-Wild" Faces in Images and Videos**

  *IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)*, 40(11): pp. 2638-2652, November 2018.

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  @article{booth20183d,
  author = {Booth, James and Roussos, Anastasios and Ververas, Evangelos and Antonakos, Epameinondas and Ploumpis, Stylianos and Panagakis, Yannis and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  title = {3D Reconstruction of "In-the-Wild" Faces in Images and Videos},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)},
  year = {2018},
  month = {November},
  volume = {40},
  number = {11},
  pages = {2638-2652},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2832138},
  ISSN = {0162-8828},
  }

* G. Chrysos, _E. Antonakos_, and S. Zafeiriou.

  **IPST: Incremental Pictorial Structures for Model-Free Tracking of Deformable Objects**

  *IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP)*, 27(7): pp. 3529-3540, July 2018.

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  [url]
  [bibtex]

  @article{chrysos2018ipst,
  author = {Chrysos, Grigorios and Antonakos, Epameinondas and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  title = {IPST: Incremental Pictorial Structures for Model-Free Tracking of Deformable Objects},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP)},
  year = {2018},
  month = {July},
  volume = {27},
  number = {7},
  pages = {3529-3540},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/TIP.2018.2816121},
  ISSN = {1057-7149},
  }

* G. Chrysos, _E. Antonakos_\*, P. Snape\*, A. Asthana, and S. Zafeiriou. *(\* Joint second authorship)*

  **A Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of Deformable Face Tracking "In-the-Wild"**

  *International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)*, pp. 1-35, 2017.

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  @article{chrysos2017comprehensive,
  author = {Chrysos, Grigorios and Antonakos, Epameinondas and Snape, Patrick and Asthana, Akshay and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  title = {A Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of Deformable Face Tracking ``In-the-Wild''},
  journal = {International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)},
  url={https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11263-017-0999-5},
  year = {2017},
  month = {February},
  pages = {1--35},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi = {10.1007/s11263-017-0999-5},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11263-017-0999-5}
  }

* C. Sagonas, _E. Antonakos_, G. Tzimiropoulos, S. Zafeiriou, and M. Pantic

  **300 Faces In-The-Wild Challenge: Database and Results**

  *Image and Vision Computing (IMAVIS), Special Issue on Facial Landmark Localisation "In-The-Wild"*, 47: pp. 3-18, 2016.

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  @article{sagonas2016faces,
  author = {Sagonas, Christos and Antonakos, Epameinondas and Tzimiropoulos, Georgios and Zafeiriou, Stefanos and Pantic, Maja},
  title = {300 Faces In-The-Wild Challenge: Database and Results},
  journal = {Image and Vision Computing, Special Issue on Facial Landmark Localisation "In-The-Wild"},
  pages = {3--18},
  volume = {47},
  year = {2016},
  publisher = {Elsevier}
  }

* _E. Antonakos_, J. Alabort-i-Medina, G. Tzimiropoulos, and S. Zafeiriou

  **Feature-Based Lucas-Kanade and Active Appearance Models**

  *IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP)*, 24(9): pp. 2617-2632, September 2015.

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  [code]
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  @article{antonakos2015feature,
  author = {Antonakos, Epameinondas and {Alabort-i-Medina}, Joan and Tzimiropoulos, Georgios and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  title = {Feature-Based Lucas-Kanade and Active Appearance Models},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
  volume = {24},
  number = {9},
  pages = {2617--2632},
  month = {September},
  year = {2015},
  publisher = {IEEE}
  }

* *E. Antonakos*, V. Pitsikalis, and P. Maragos.

  **Classification of Extreme Facial Events in Sign Language Videos**

  *EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing*, 2014(14): 2014.

  [pdf]
  [web]
  [bibtex]

  @article{antonakos2014classification,
  title = {Classification of extreme facial events in sign language videos},
  author = {Antonakos, Epameinondas and Pitsikalis, Vassilis and Maragos, Petros},
  journal = {EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing},
  volume = {2014},
  number = {14},
  pages = {1--19},
  year = {2014},
  publisher = {Springer},
  url = {http://jivp.eurasipjournals.com/content/2014/1/14}
  }

### Top-Tier Conference Presentations
* J. Booth, _E. Antonakos_, S. Ploumpis, G. Trigeorgis, Y. Panagakis, and S. Zafeiriou.

  **3D Face Morphable Models "In-the-Wild"**

  *Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR'17)*, Honolulu, HI, USA, ***Spotlight***, July 2017.

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  [supp]

  [code]
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  @inproceedings{booth20173d,
  author = {Booth, James and Antonakos, Epameinondas and Ploumpis, Stylianos and Trigeorgis, George and Panagakis, Yannis and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  title = {3D Face Morphable Models "In-the-Wild"},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition},
  address = {Honolulu, HI, USA},
  month = {July},
  year = {2017},
  organization = {IEEE}
  }

* R. A. Güler, G. Trigeorgis, _E. Antonakos_, P. Snape, S. Zafeiriou, and I. Kokkinos.

  **DenseReg: Fully Convolutional Dense Shape Regression In-the-Wild**

  *Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR'17)*, Honolulu, HI, USA, July 2017.

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  [supp]

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  @inproceedings{guler2017densereg,
  author = {G{\"u}ler, R{\i}za Alp and Trigeorgis, George and Antonakos, Epameinondas and Snape, Patrick and Zafeiriou, Stefanos and Kokkinos, Iasonas},
  title = {DenseReg: Fully Convolutional Dense Shape Regression In-the-Wild},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition},
  address = {Honolulu, HI, USA},
  month = {July},
  year = {2017},
  organization = {IEEE}
  }

* G. Trigeorgis, P. Snape, M. Nicolaou, *E. Antonakos*, and S. Zafeiriou.

  **Mnemonic Descent Method: A recurrent process applied for end-to-end face alignment**

  *Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR'16)*, Las Vegas, NV, USA, pp. 4177-4187, June 2016.

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  @inproceedings{trigeorgis2016mnemonic,
  author = {Trigeorgis, George and Snape, Patrick and Nicolaou, Mihalis and Antonakos, Epameinondas and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition},
  pages = {4177--4187},
  address = {Las Vegas, NV, USA},
  month = {June},
  title = {Mnemonic Descent Method: A recurrent process applied for end-to-end face alignment},
  year = {2016},
  organization = {IEEE}
  }

* Y. Zhou, *E. Antonakos*, J. Alabort-i-Medina, A. Roussos, and S. Zafeiriou.

  **Estimating Correspondences of Deformable Objects "In-the-wild"**

  *Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR'16)*, Las Vegas, NV, USA, pp. 5791-5801, June 2016.

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  @inproceedings{zhou2016estimating,
  author = {Zhou, Yuxiang and Antonakos, Epameinondas and {Alabort-i-Medina}, Joan and Roussos, Anastasios and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition},
  pages = {5791--5801},
  address = {Las Vegas, NV, USA},
  month = {June},
  title = {Estimating Correspondences of Deformable Objects "In-the-wild"},
  year = {2016},
  organization = {IEEE}
  }

* L. Zafeiriou, *E. Antonakos*, and S. Zafeiriou.

  **Joint Unsupervised Deformable Spatio-Temporal Alignment of Sequences**

  *Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR'16)*, Las Vegas, NV, USA, pp. 3382-3390, June 2016.

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  @inproceedings{zafeiriou2016joint,
  author = {Zafeiriou, Lazaros and Antonakos, Epameinondas and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition},
  pages = {3382--3390},
  address = {Las Vegas, NV, USA},
  month = {June},
  title = {Joint Unsupervised Deformable Spatio-Temporal Alignment of Sequences},
  year = {2016},
  organization = {IEEE}
  }

* *E. Antonakos*, J. Alabort-i-Medina, and S. Zafeiriou.

  **Active Pictorial Structures**

  *Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR'15)*, Boston, MA, USA, pp. 5435-5444, June 2015.

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  [extended abstract]
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  @inproceedings{antonakos2015active,
  author = {Antonakos, Epameinondas and {Alabort-i-Medina}, Joan and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition},
  pages = {5435--5444},
  address = {Boston, MA, USA},
  month = {June},
  title = {Active Pictorial Structures},
  year = {2015},
  organization = {IEEE}
  }

* J. Alabort-i-Medina\*, *E. Antonakos*\*, J. Booth\*, P. Snape\*, and S. Zafeiriou. *(\* Joint first authorship)*

  **Menpo: A Comprehensive Platform for Parametric Image Alignment and Visual Deformable Models**

  *Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM'14)*, Orlando, FL, USA, pp. 679-682, November 2014.

  [pdf]
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  @inproceedings{alabort2014menpo,
  author = { {Alabort-i-Medina}, Joan and Antonakos, Epameinondas and Booth, James and Snape, Patrick and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  title = {Menpo: A Comprehensive Platform for Parametric Image Alignment and Visual Deformable Models},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia},
  series = {MM '14},
  year = {2014},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-3063-3},
  location = {Orlando, FL, USA},
  pages = {679--682},
  numpages = {4},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2647868.2654890},
  doi = {10.1145/2647868.2654890},
  acmid = {2654890},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {New York, NY, USA}
  }

* L. Zafeiriou, *E. Antonakos*, S. Zafeiriou, and M. Pantic.

  **Joint Unsupervised Face Alignment and Behaviour Analysis**

  *Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'14)*, Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 167-183, September 2014.

  [pdf]
  [supp]
  [poster]
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  @incollection{zafeiriou2014joint,
  title = {Joint Unsupervised Face Alignment and Behaviour Analysis},
  author = {Zafeiriou, Lazaros and Antonakos, Epameinondas and Zafeiriou, Stefanos and Pantic, Maja},
  booktitle = {Computer Vision--ECCV 2014},
  pages = {167--183},
  year = {2014},
  publisher = {Springer}
  }

* *E. Antonakos*, and S. Zafeiriou.

  **Automatic Construction of Deformable Models In-The-Wild**

  *Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR'14)*, Columbus, OH, USA, pp. 1813-1820, June 2014.

  [pdf]
  [supp]
  [poster]
  [bibtex]

  @inproceedings{antonakos2014automatic,
  author = {Antonakos, Epameinondas and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition},
  pages = {1813--1820},
  address = {Columbus, OH, USA},
  month = {June},
  title = {Automatic Construction of Deformable Models In-The-Wild},
  year = {2014},
  organization = {IEEE}
  }

### Ordinary Conference Presentations
* D. Morrison, A. Milan, and *E. Antonakos*.

  **Uncertainty-aware Instance Segmentation using Dropout Sampling**

  *Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW'19), Robotic Vision Probabilistic Object Detection*, Long Beach, CA, USA, June 2019.

  [pdf]
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  @inproceedings{morrison2019uncertainty,
  title = {Uncertainty-aware Instance Segmentation using Dropout Sampling},
  author = {Morrison, Doug and Milan, Anton and Antonakos, Epameinondas},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, Robotic Vision Probabilistic Object Detection},
  year = {2019},
  organization = {IEEE}
  }

* *E. Antonakos*\*, P. Snape\*, G. Trigeorgis, and S. Zafeiriou. *(\* Joint first authorship)*

  **Adaptive Cascaded Regression**

  *Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'16)*, Phoenix, AZ, USA, pp. 1649-1653, ***Spotlight***, September 2016.

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  @inproceedings{antonakos2016adaptive,
  title = {Adaptive Cascaded Regression},
  author = {Antonakos, Epameinondas and Snape, Patrick and Trigeorgis, George and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing},
  pages={1649--1653},
  year = {2016},
  organization = {IEEE}
  }

* G. Chrysos, *E. Antonakos*, S. Zafeiriou, and P. Snape.

  **Offline Deformable Face Tracking in Arbitrary Videos**

  *Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW'15), 300 Videos in the Wild (300-VW): Facial Landmark Tracking in-the-Wild Challenge & Workshop*, pp. 1-9, Santiago, Chile, December 2015.

  [pdf]
  [bibtex]

  @inproceedings{chrysos2015offline,
  author = {Chrysos, Grigorios and Antonakos, Epameinondas and Zafeiriou, Stefanos and Snape, Patrick},
  address = {Santiago, Chile},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 300 Videos in the Wild (300-VW): Facial Landmark Tracking in-the-Wild Challenge & Workshop},
  pages={1--9},
  month = {December},
  title = {Offline Deformable Face Tracking in Arbitrary Videos},
  year = {2015},
  organization = {IEEE}
  }

* *E. Antonakos*\*, A. Roussos\*, and S. Zafeiriou\*. *(\* Joint first authorship)*

  **A Survey on Mouth Modeling and Analysis for Sign Language Recognition**

  *Proceedings of IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'15)*, Ljubljana, Slovenia, pp. 1-7, ***Oral***, May 2015.

  [pdf]
  [slides]
  [bibtex]

  @inproceedings{antonakos2015survey,
  title = {A survey on mouth modeling and analysis for Sign Language recognition},
  author = {Antonakos, Epameinondas and Roussos, Anastasios and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  booktitle = {Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2015 11th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on},
  volume = {1},
  pages = {1--7},
  year = {2015},
  organization = {IEEE}
  }

* *E. Antonakos*, J. Alabort-i-Medina, G. Tzimiropoulos, and S. Zafeiriou.

  **HOG Active Appearance Models**

  *Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'14)*, Paris, France, pp. 224-228, October 2014. ***Received the top 10% papers award.***

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  [poster]
  [code]
  [bibtex]

  @inproceedings{antonakos2014hog,
  title = {HOG Active Appearance Models},
  author = {Antonakos, Epameinondas and {Alabort-i-Medina}, Joan and Tzimiropoulos, Georgios and Zafeiriou, Stefanos},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing},
  pages = {224--228},
  year = {2014},
  organization = {IEEE}
  }

* *E. Antonakos*, V. Pitsikalis, I. Rodomagoulakis, and P. Maragos.

  **Unsupervised Classification of Extreme Facial Events using Active Appearance Models Tracking for Sign Language Videos**

  *Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'12)*, Orlando, FL, USA, pp. 1409-1412, October 2012.

  [pdf]
  [poster]
  [bibtex]

  @inproceedings{antonakos2012unsupervised,
  title = {Unsupervised classification of extreme facial events using active appearance models tracking for sign language videos},
  author = {Antonakos, Epameinondas and Pitsikalis, Vassilis and Rodomagoulakis, Isidoros and Maragos, Petros},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing},
  pages = {1409--1412},
  year = {2012},
  organization = {IEEE}
  }

### Other Publications
* J. Alabort-i-Medina\*, *E. Antonakos*\*, J. Booth\*, P. Snape\*, and S. Zafeiriou. *(\* Joint first authorship)*

  **The Menpo Project**

  *ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) Records*, 8(2), June 2016.

  [url]
  [code]
  [bibtex]

  @incollection{alabort2016menpo,
  author = {J. Alabort-i-medina and E. Antonakos and J. Booth and P. Snape and S. Zafeiriou},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGMM Records},
  number = {2},
  organization = {ACM},
  title = {The Menpo Project},
  url = {http://records.mlab.no/2016/04/28/the-menpo-project/},
  volume = {8},
  year = {2016}
  }

### Theses
* *E. Antonakos*.

  **Robust Statistical Deformable Models**

  *Ph.D. Thesis*, March 2017.

  Department of Computing, Imperial College London.

  Ph.D. supervisor: Dr. Stefanos Zafeiriou.

  [pdf]

* *E. Antonakos*.

  **Visual Modeling of Human Face in Real-Time with Applications in Recognition** (in greek)

  *Diploma Thesis*, July 2011.

  School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

  Thesis supervisor: Prof. Petros Maragos.

  [pdf (in greek)]
  [slides (in greek)]


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Spirit Riding Free centers on a group of three friends, who together experience coming of age and the power of friendship. Lucky, a gutsy 12-year-old girl, befriends a wild mustang she names Spirit. With her two best friends, Abigail and Pru, and their horses by her side, they explore a world filled with endless rides and never ending fun. Together they'll push their own limits and discover what it truly means to be free.
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Bounce TV Acquires The Trumpet Awards Star-Studded Annual Event
Bounce TV has acquired all assets of The Trumpet Awards, the prestigious annual event celebrating African-American achievements and contributions, in an agreement with The Trumpet Awards Foundation announced today.
Bounce TV, the fastest-growing African-American network on television, will now own, produce and world premiere the star-studded event annually. Bounce TV will also syndicate The Trumpet Awards to television stations around the country as well as internationally for broadcast after the Bounce premiere.Set to celebrate its 25th Anniversary in 2017, The Trumpet Awards will world premiere on Bounce TV on Sunday, Jan. 29 at 9:00 p.m. (ET). The black-tie ceremony will be held at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, Jan. 21. Hosts and talent will be announced shortly.Xernona Clayton, Founder and Executive Producer of the Trumpet Awards, will become Chairman Emeritus of the awards and continue to play an active role in the event. Ms. Clayton will remain President and CEO of the Trumpet Awards Foundation, Inc.Ms. Clayton commented, "After 25 years, I felt it was a good time to find a strategic partner to take The Trumpet Awards into the future. Bounce TV is the ideal custodian to continue to enhance the level of excellence that is our standard. I am thrilled to have my beloved Trumpet Awards become part of Bounce TV."Ambassador Andrew Young, co-founder of Bounce TV and a board member of The Trumpet Foundation, commented, "Bounce will continue the legacy of the Trumpet Awards and everything Xernona has lovingly created, while driving growth and scale across the next 25 years and beyond."The Bounce acquisition is the next chapter for the venerable and meaningful Trumpet Awards. Originally presented by Turner Broadcasting in 1993, The Trumpet Awards were created to herald the accomplishments of Black Americans who have succeeded against immense odds.Bounce TV (@BounceTV) airs on the broadcast signals of local television stations and corresponding cable carriage and features a programming mix of original and off-network series, theatrical motion pictures, specials, live sports and more. Visit BounceTV.com for more info.


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Mumbai, Dec 10 The Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) on Monday served notice to absconder diamantaire Nirav Modi, his family members and his companies to recover over Rs 7,000 crore owed to the Punjab National Bank (PNB).
The notice by the DRT-1 Registrar, A. Murali, came six months after the beleaguered PNB had moved the tribunal in July to recover around Rs 7,029 crore. This includes the principal component of around Rs.6,800 crore plus interest.
The accused-defendents include seven individuals and nine group companies, and all are barred from disposing off, transferring, or entering into any transactions pertaining to the secured properties, the notice said.
They have been allowed time till January 15, 2019, to reply to the notice, failing which the PNB plea would be decided ex-parte.
In the notice, nine companies, among them Stellar Diamonds, Solar Exports, Diamond RUS, Firestar International Ltd., Firestar Diamond International Pvt. Ltd., ANM Enterprises, NDM Enterprises, all based in Mumbai, besides the branches of some companies in Surat (Gujarat) and Japiur (Rajasthan) have been named.
Later in August, a Special Court under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, issued summons to Nirav Modi and others in an Enforcement Directorate (ED) plea.
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Mr. Henry Lane Wilson to the Secretary of State.
Sir: In acknowledging the receipt of the department's No. 55, of March 2, inclosing a copy of a letter of the Secretary of State to the Hon. Edwin Denby concerning conditions in the Kongo Free State, I have the honor to report that this letter had, prior to the receipt of the department's No. 55, been given general circulation by the Belgian press. The full text has been printed by almost every respectable newspaper in Belgium, and the editorial comments have been uniformly expressive of high appreciation and approval of the position assumed by Mr. Root.
I inclose a copy and translation of an editorial excerpt from Independence Belga, the leading daily paper of Brussels, and also a translation of a part of an article by Kurt Wolff in the German magazine Handel und Industrie, bearing upon the subject treated by Mr. Root in his letter to Mr. Denby. (Not printed.)
The Kongo Government are greatly pleased with the attitude of the United States, as outlined by Mr. Root, as it has recently had to meet attacks not only from foreign sources but also from Belgium. It has issued a pamphlet in English containing Mr. Root's letter, and has had the same translated into French and German.


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Monster Hunter For Switch Headlines Capcom's Online Sale Ahead Of The Tokyo Game Show
Last week, the schedule for the 2020 Tokyo Game Show was announced. Capcom will be participating in a special live stream – featuring reveals, game updates and plans for titles such as the new Resident Evil and more…
In the lead-up to this online event, Capcom is running a special software sale on its official website. As noted by fans of the company and reported on by VGC, the "most prominently featured discount" is for the Nintendo Switch title Monster Hunter XX.
Capcom has begun its digital online sale for the upcoming TGS Live 2020… and the top game they're advertising is Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate for Nintendo Switch.
They've also got RE:3, MHW/Iceborne, every RE on Switch/3DS and a few MH games on 3DS (XX/4G/3G/Airu).
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— Alex Aniel (@cvxfreak) September 9, 2020
While this might not be anything more than a sale, it's certainly interesting timing to spotlight this particular game/series after recent rumours surfaced about a new Monster Hunter game for the Switch being revealed soon.
In a shareholder meeting earlier this year, Capcom also mentioned how it was open to developing a new Monster Hunter entry that would be more popular with the high school age bracket.
If the company does have anything about Monster Hunter to announce, we guess we'll hear about it in a few weeks time at the Tokyo Game Show, running from 24th – 27th September.
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