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Lionesses will only get better after World Cup heartbreak
09 Jul 2019 - 11:41AM | By Henry Distasio
England's Lionesses returned home this week following their 2-1 defeat to eventual World Cup winners the USA.
Goals from Christen Press and Alex Morgan proved too much for England, despite Ellen White finding the net for her sixth goal of the tournament.
White also had a potential equaliser ruled out for offside by VAR, before captain Steph Houghton missed a penalty in the 83rd minute.
England went on to lose their third-place match to Sweden by the same scoreline, finishing the World Cup one place lower than the last tournament in Canada.
It is undoubtable that the Women's World Cup 2019 was a massive success in terms of its effect on the women's game.
Despite the debacle of FIFA's ticketing projections, the BBC's total audience of their television coverage totalled 28.1 million, more than doubling last World Cup's viewing figures of 12.4 million.
In fact, England's semi-final defeat brought in a live TV audience of 11.7 million, the highest ever for a Women's World Cup game in this country.
More people are now aware of the women's game and the improvement in quality has not gone unnoticed.
The Lionesses themselves performed well throughout, reaching the semis for the second time straight and cementing their status as a world elite in the Women's game.
But was this tournament really a success for England? Phil Neville made it clear from the start that England's aim was to win, with the players sharing the same sentiment.
"We came here to win the World Cup, and that's still our aim," defender Millie Bright had even remarked before their encounter with the US.
The Lionesses are currently the third-best team in the world according to FIFA rankings and entered the tournament as outside favourites.
They started slowly against Scotland but with each game gone by, they seemed to grow more in both confidence and ability.
That may be the reason why their loss to the USA was so disappointing. Never mind that the Americans are the best in the world, England were on such a roll that it almost seemed impossible that they would lose.
Although they did finish a place higher during the 2015 tournament in Canada nobody expected the Lionesses to perform as well as they did.
Skip forward to 2019 and England entered the World Cup with a genuine claim of winning the whole thing. That was the difference.
England has improved massively in four years and have progressed from outsider underdogs to dark horse contenders.
No matter they didn't secure the bronze – they were after the gold. Neville may have received some grief for calling the third-place match 'nonsense' - but can you blame him considering there really is only one prize worth competing for?
England may not have finished higher than the last World Cup but taking into consideration their improvement in confidence, squad depth and quality, there is a strong case that this tournament was more successful than the last.
We must also remember that the women's game is only going to get better and teams are going to rapidly improve in the years to come.
And one final point; the debate over whether Alex Morgan's celebratory jibe by drinking a cup of tea should be taken as a compliment, not an insult.
Four years ago, no-one even considered the Lionesses as a World Cup contender. That celebration proved that they're finally seen as a genuine threat, and they're only going to get better.
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A short-hand characterisation of the differences between Safety-I and Safety-II is to note that Safety-I leads to protective safety while Safety-II leads to productive safety. Safety-I and Safety-II both want as few tings as possible to go wrong, but they do it in different ways. Protective safety means that the number of adverse outcomes, the number of things that go wrong, is reduced by preventing things from going wrong - by elimination, barriers, and protection. Productive safety means that the number of successful outcomes, the number of things that go right, is increased as much as possible. This can be done by understanding how work goes well and find ways to support and facilitate that. And since somehing cannot go right and go wrong at the same time, an increase in the number of things that go right will obviously lead to a decrease in the number of things that go wrong. QED.
The practical consequences of the two perspectives are shown by the table below. The two columns summarise the questions and concerns that are characteristic of the two perspectives.
Where can work go wrong? Where are the weaknesses?
What do we do well? Where are the strengths and skills?
Where are the risks and hazards?
How can the variability of work (deviations, non-compliance) be limited or constrained?
How can the ubiquitous performance adjustments (variability) be recognised, managed and supported?
How can we ensure that work-as-done corresponds to work-as-imagined? How can we increase standardisation?
How can we reconcile work-as-done with work-as-imagined? How can we learn from useful adjustments?
How can we ensure that people are reliable or compliant?
How can we motivate and inspire people to do a good job?
The Australian Journal of Health, Safety & Environment recently published an interview with Tom McDaniel from Siemens in the USA. The topic was "Safety-II in a regulated corporate environment - pending or happening?"


I have to be honest, initially I was a bit skeptical of just how good an all you can eat Argentinian/Brazilian restaurant could be. First of all, excuse the awful generalisation but the origins of this restaurant did remind me (before our visit) of that scene in 'Bridesmaids'… I was also unsure of how the bottomless aspect would work, as I've never really been a fan of traditional buffets where food is left out for hours and at £35/head I was hopeful it wouldn't be reminiscent of Edinburgh's most popular buffet restaurant, Cosmo's.
Thankfully, upon arrival all of these doubts were put to rest when our lovely server explained the menu and how the restaurant works. We were firstly surprised by the sheer size of this restaurant as well as the gorgeous bar area and the decor in general.
All the salads, nibbles, sides, and sauces were to be found at this lovely buffet. Diners are invited to go up as many times as they like and we were certainly spoiled for choice. My favourite items were the Duck Tabbouleh Salad, Cream Cheese Stuffed Peppers and the Coleslaw that had a South American twist.
All diners are given a token (see above) which determines whether meats are offered to you or not, and at what temperature. What I loved about this was we each only had to give our preference once at the beginning of the meal, and this was taken on board for the rest of the night. After we had tried everything were even asked which cut was our favourite so that it could be prepared for us, which was a really nice touch.
There really wasn't a single meat that I didn't enjoy, but the favourites around the table were the fillet mignon, chicken wrapped in bacon and the lamb which was so succulent. The food was something to write home about but what was more memorable for me was the experience on the whole and how the waiting staff enhanced it. It's no doubt that Fazenda were named one of the top 6 best places to work in hospitality by The Caterer only last week!
Yes, even I am a little surprised we managed to share this dessert between us after eating to such excess– although dessert does go to the heart, right?
We chose the beautiful Caipirinha Cheesecake (lime and cachaça) with crumble, caipirinha coulis and freshly grated lime. In the end, this was the perfect way to finish the meal and was so light it went down a treat.
As we found that we'd been so carried away by all the food on offer that we'd neglected to try any cocktails, we each ordered one to rectify this. It goes without saying these were all completely delicious and we'd definitely return for the cocktails alone.
Overall, we loved our meal at Fazenda. At £35 we think the food was terrific value for money, however the drinks seemed to come in on the pricier side at £5.50 for a pint of Estrella. That being said we found the service unbeatable and the atmosphere spot on. We can't wait to come back!
Ambience – Modern interiors with subtle hints to South America; industrial ceiling space, ambient lighting with plenty of candles and native music.


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by admin on 24/07/2020
While doing a course on chair-making at Raulandsakademiet, the director told us that we could buy various farm products like cheese and pizza crusts at the reception. Since I want to support local agriculture, I bought some cheese and kling before I left. Having come back some days later in order to go to a bird-watching course, I decided to contact the producer. Since she accepted my inquiry, I took some time off the course to do an interview instead.
Having arrived, I entered a small building and went upstairs where Gro Hommo and a female worker were making pizza crusts.
Gro picked the dough from a kneader and put it on a bench. She divided up the dough in small parts, weighed it, applied flour to the dough and kneaded it, forming a bun.
Next, the worker, who was from Ukraine, put the "buns" on a dough roller, which turned them flat. Then, Gro lifted them up one by one by means of a small wooden ruler and laid it on a workbench where she flattened both sides by means of a roller pin.
Next, she applied salt and sprayed water on the dough.
Finally, when the dough was ready, she put it on a hot electrical griddle and turned it upside down when it had been baked. Then, she baked the other side and put the finished pizza crust on another bench.
She had 5 griddles on which she could put the finished dough and all of them were quite hot and I had to be careful to avoid being burnt. This was really hard work in a warm room.
I asked Gro if they were growing wheat at the farm, but she told me it wasn't possible since it was located at about 700 metres above sea level, making it too cold. Instead, she was using wheat flour from Kvelde flour mill. This made it possible to sell the bakery products with a mark of excellence: Spesialitet – unik smak . In addition, she used olive oil from Uliveti Castel San Martino. Incidentally, a man from Rauland was importing olive oil from that farm in Italy.
In fact, this way of making pizza crusts is Gro's idea, but she has never applied for any kind of protection like a patent because it's expensive and time-limited.
The pizza crusts would be sold to restaurants, but they are also sold in various shops in south-east Norway.
Gro and her husband bought the farm about 40 years ago. While he was working outside the farm, she was tending goats because they were manageable for one person. The milk from the goats were used to make cheese. Gradually, she has expanded the farm and now there are about 250 goats and some tens of kids.
Gro told me that about half the goats were on a mountain farm, while the kids, the young and the old goats were back home at the farm.
Artificial insemination is used at different times of the year such that some of the goats produce milk all year, making it possible to make cheese all year too.
Gro also showed me the farmhouse dairy where brown goat cheese was being made. Besides, she showed me two storerooms for storing cheese, being located next to the dairy.
I asked her about the simple sign on the road passing the farm: Raundalen, the place where the farm is located. In fact, she didn't want lots of tourists to arrive at the farm, but she had a farmhouse shop where those in the know could buy the farm's products.
Next, we went back to the bakery since there were more pizza crusts to make. Some time later, a young man entered the bakery and Gro told me that he was the husband of the woman with whom she was working. Getting workers from Norway is difficult and this was the reason for having workers from Ukraine. Gro asked me if I wanted to see the goats since he was tending them and I accepted, of course.
Wearing clothes and boots from the farm, I was allowed to enter the barn. Having entered, I could see the Ukrainian man let the goats enter a part of the barn, which was used for milking. Instead, they were fed concentrated feeds and when they were finished, they were allowed to go outside again.
Next, it was time to feed the kids. First, he opened a lid, letting the kids have access to a trough where he poured raw milk such that they could drink it.
Instead, the small kids were allowed to drink from a small cup filled with raw milk. Finally, the smallest kids were lifted and held up while drinking from the cup. The worker told me that he had to treat them with care because they could get diarhorea if they eat too much.
Next, he let the goats on the hill through two gates to the meadow below the house where they could enter the barn.
He told me that they prefer to stay inside at night even though they are allowed to go outside if they want. Anyway, the goats can go outside at daytime all year and the cold winters lead to that they get quite shaggy.
This farm is selling kid meat from male kids. Instead, most male kids are just finished off at birth and the meat is not eaten.
When I was about to leave, I could hear the sound of the rolling pin and the dough roller from the bakery. Obviously, being a farmer requires lots of hard work.
The last day at Raulandsakademiet, we were served kid meat from Lega farm. I can honestly say that it was delicious and the meat was the most tender I've ever tasted.
Both the farmhouse dairy and the bakery will move to Rauland because the present premises are too small. Economic support from Innovation Norway makes this possible.
As told in various radio programmes, goat and kid are separated soon after birth, most of the goat milk is sold to Tine, goats had another diet in bygone times, which added a very strong taste to the goat cheese, while it's milder now, the goats are milked twice daily and they really appreciate being caressed after milking, Gro brings the goats she likes best to an annual outdoor market called Dyrskun in Seljord, Gro and her family use kid meat for sausages, pinnekjøtt and fårikål, Gro was running the farm on her own for many years, but now her son is running the farm.
This farm makes the following products:
brown goat cheese
white goat cheese called Stavsfjell
flatbread two of them are made from flour from Kvelde mill and one of them is made from whey and another one is made from mash instead of flour.
prim is a spreadable goat cheese with added sugar
cow cheese called Heimros made from cow milk from the neighbouring farm.
a cheese called knubbost corresponding to feta cheese
a blue cheese called Vehus
crispbread which is called knekkebrød
kling which is a local word for lefse
kid meat
On request, Lega can make yogurt, ice cream, sour cream and butter.
Last but not least, Lega is placed in a beautiful part of Telemark and it's really worth going there.
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Pompeo Rebukes Obama Mid-East Policy; Reiterates Importance of Confronting Iran
INU- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rebuked former President Barack Obama's policies in the Middle East and outlined the new US vision for the region, during a speech at the American University in Cairo on Thursday.
Pompeo said that "America is a force for good in the Middle East" - something that Donald Trump had reasserted during his two years in office - and that the "misguided" policies of the previous administration are over. He said that Obama's "wishful" thinking has diminished the US's role in the regime and emboldened the Iranian Regime.
Now, he said, the US has "learned from [its] mistakes", especially the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement that the US withdrew from last May, and "confronted the ugly reality of radical Islamism". This, he advised, is a new beginning.
Of course, Iran was quick to mock Pompeo's speech, with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeting that US interference causes "chaos, repression and resentment". However, this comment could more readily apply to Iranian interference in the Middle East, which has caused several wars and emboldened terrorist groups.
Iran Regime's malign behaviour
Also, during his speech at the American University, Pompeo thanked US allies in the Middle East for their effort to constrain the "malign activity" of the Iranian Regime. However, Pompeo wanted to stress that Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria was not a change in mission, but rather a push for US partners in the region to do more to confront radical Islamism.
This speech was welcomed by United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, among others, as an important message for stability in the region that highlighted the "importance of alliances and support of friends".
Earlier on Thursday, following a meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Pompeo said: "We discussed the need to counter the greatest threat of all in the Middle East, the Iranian regime and its campaigns of terrorism and destruction."
There, Pompeo vowed, that the US would "use diplomacy and work with our partners to expel every last Iranian boot" from Syria in order to " bring peace and stability to the long-suffering Syrian people".
On an unannounced visit to Irbil, Iraq, on Wednesday, Pompeo said: "The fight to counter Iran is real and important."
Pompeo is on a week-long trip to the Middle East, where he is urging governments there to put pressure on Iran to change it destabilising behaviour, as well as end its support for rebels in Yemen, anti-Israel groups and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.


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Just had the rear spring changed in readiness for a cruise tomorrow. Just thought I would post a picture to show how much broke off.
New one 9", this broken one is 7 and 3/4"
Tried RealOEM but it doesn't recognise the VIN number as the 2.0i Sport was a separate model so couldn't get a part number therefore no choice but to contact the local dealer - Sandal BMW in Wakefield. Phoned them about 3pm and rear springs are special order parts at £99 (incl VAT) each fortunately they were quite happy to sell just one! They phoned just after 9am this morning to say that it had arrived so off to collect it.
Couldn't find anything on Youtube for the E85 but did find This One for an E46. Followed this and used the jack from the Z3 and it was quite straightforward - took about an hour taking it slowly and carefully.
The Part Number for the o/s rear spring is: B33.53.6.761.924 and it was marked with 3 Silver marks for the lowered suspension option.
I know there is a cost issue but I would never replace just one spring, its bad enough that most spring are not matched when new.
Rear springs on the E85 Z4 are a well known issue and when repaired under warranty BMW used to just replace the one broken spring. However if the car was out of warranty BMW used to try and insist that they had to be replaced in pairs! They have now dropped that and it wasn't mentioned when I bought the single spring.
Shocks wear so these should always be replaced in pairs as should discs and pads. With the broken spring the o/s had dropped 12mm and with the new spring there is now 1mm difference between the n/s and o/s and that is probably as good, if not better than it was when it was new. Generally springs do not "wear" out like the shocks and the springs generally maintain the correct ride height - until they break!
I hear what you are saying, with warranty claims the dealer/manufacture is always trying to save money. So they will always go for just replacing 1.
As for springs, yes the can last for the life of a car, however, springs can wear out due to fatigue from heavy/longterm use. A spring that shows fatigued in simple terms can just get lazy.
In the past when BMW were telling people that they needed to replace the rear springs in pairs they said it was a safety issue but that backfired on them as they were only fitting one spring under warranty but I agree that was probably to keep their costs down.
I think that the key is heavy/longterm use but out of the almost 43,000 miles on the Z4 30,000 of these were the last 5 years of my wife's commuting with only her laptop in the boot. After fitting the new spring I left it for an hour or so with 2 bags of sand in the boot, took these out and checked the ride height. Then put the bags of sand back in the boot and took it out for a run and re-checked the ride height. I'll keep an eye on it over the next few weeks to see if the new spring starts riding any higher but so far so good. The sports suspension is extremely stiff and the MoT tester (same one for the last 3 years) has given up trying to do the bounce test as as it just doesn't move - the first time he had a moan about nearly giving himself a hernia!
It's probably one of the reasons why since 1976 the family cars (loadluggers, caravan towing cars, etc) have always been Citroens - 2 x GS, 1 xGSA, 2 x BX, 2 x Xantia and currently a C5 as there's no springs and shocks. In all the years the only suspension failure was a linkage in the rear ride height control and the new link piece cost 75p.


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"Swear to god," she continued, "And I am good. I'm good. I'm not a douche and I'm not a tool. I take my time, I, uh, have a lot of eye contact. Yeah? And I do swallow."


Michelle Mokaya, a senior enrolled in The Ingenuity Project at Poly, was selected as a top 300 Scholar (or Semi-Finalist) in the 2019 Regeneron Science Talent Search (formerly named Intel Science Talent Search). This year, 1,964 entries were received. The top 300 scholars were selected from 184 high schools in 40 states and two American and international high schools overseas. The 40 finalists chosen to compete in Washington, D.C in March will be announced on January 23.
The Ingenuity Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization formed in 1993, provides an accelerated and comprehensive math, science and research program to over 600 students in middle school and high school. Many graduates of the program have enrolled in competitive colleges to pursue leading careers in STEM. The program, a partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools, offers an exceptional opportunity to master complex mathematics, science, and STEM research. Students from across the city come together to support one another and share their aptitudes and interests. In school year 2018-2019, the program was hosted by three middle schools -- Mount Royal, Hamilton and Roland Park Middle Schools -- and by Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. The program will expand for the first time in over a decade into a new location in west Baltimore, James McHenry Middle School, in 2019-2020.


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As the Broken White Lines Become One
By Michael J. Gehring
In As the Broken White Lines Become One, Michael Gehring recounts his spiritual journey through the landscape of late-twentieth-century southern American Christianity. This account depicts how and why he drifted away from the Roman Catholic Church, fellowshipped for a while with the Assemblies of God, sojourned for a prolonged time as an outsider to the institutional church, and eventually found a theological home within United Methodism. What follows is a spiritual journey with a lot of turns. The work is not intended to be a complete autobiography. Significant biographical details and relationships are not included as this narrative focuses on the shifting and sifting grounds of American Christian denominations. This chronicle primarily concerns the spiritual journey that led him to United Methodism and what it was like, not only to choose it, but also to inhabit it. ""Any pastor who has spent some time with a Rolling Stone cover of Bob Dylan, a photo of Ernest Hemingway, a James Baldwin lecture flyer, and the Arkansas flag hanging on his office wall has to be a fascinating, eclectic, and unpredictable voice in the church. And that is surely true of Michael Gehring. In this compelling memoir, he traces his journey from his southern and Catholic roots through the fire of Pentecostalism, by way of Presbyterian corridors, and on to the vibrant piety of Methodism. The twists and turns seem at times random, even haphazard, but Gehring is able to help us see the hand of grace guiding him along the way. He could have been a housepainter, he flirted with being a philosopher, but now he is a creative and courageous pastor. As one of his heroes, Bob Dylan, sings, 'There's a slow, slow train coming, ' and we can all be grateful that Gehring has taken us along to savor the ride."" --Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor Emeritus of Preaching, Candler School of Theology, Emory University ""In the gospels, Jesus is not only on a perpetual road trip but also calls ordinary people to journey with him. One of the most interesting traveling companions that Jesus has called is Michael Gehring. In this loving, honest memoir, Mike portrays a life in movement, an intelligent, inquisitive man drawn by Christ through an assortment of experiences, good and bad, and of churches struggling to be faithful. Mike's is a circuitous, interesting journey, a life made more adventurous by the summons of Jesus Christ. This book is sure to be received as one of finest of ministerial memoirs."" --Will Willimon, United Methodist Bishop, retired, and Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry, Duke Divinity School ""Michael Gehring recounts his courageous journey of faith with humor and insight. He tells it like it is and is never dull. We get the sense of a man who is confident enough of God's love and presence in his life to take a risk in deciding what to do and which way to go. Gehring is a very gifted writer and has a story worth telling."" --Jerome Kodell, Abbot of Subiaco Abbey 1989-2015 ""It is rare to find a pastor-scholar who can craft a candid and self-disclosing life journal which conveys clarity and true grounding for faith and authentic conviction. Michael Gehring takes the novice lay reader and the trained theologian on a rich exploration in pursuit of living answers to challenging questions of religious integrity, the roots of loyalty, and the meaning of cultural heritage. Gehring's journey is intriguing and inviting. He respectfully invites the reader to join a development journey, filled with rich intellectual curiosity and a search in matters of the soul. He examines sensitive issues pertaining to the institutional structures of the church and their connection to personhood, relationships, and practice. This autobiographical-like story is instructive, creatively thematic, and superbly personalized. It speaks in the tone of an ordinary seeker of truth who is sharing a wealth of time-honored testimonials. Finally, it helps the reader to imagine
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I changed my router recently, then had some issue with a new firmware and configuration. The router decided to resync the line each time I made a configuration change, and of course that appears to have affected my speed (And line sync).
That was a couple of weeks ago and I would have thought after a period of stability that this would have been reset, but it has not. Speedtester shows profile of 7.9 downstream, 0.45 upstream., I was getting around 9-10 Mbps download, now I struggle to get 7.
Any chance this can be reset - also I would like the benefit of an uncapped upstream, can I ask for this? (I work from home and find uploading frustrating, so any increased upload bandwidth would be helpful, even if it causes a detriment to the download.
Your problem is that your downstream SNRM is (presumably) now targeting 12dB instead of the default value of 6dB. That is what needs to be reset.
No, except insofar as you can cause the DLM to raise your target SNRM by doing what you did, repeatedly restarting your router to mimic an unstable line.
But my point was that Plusnet do not have control over your download speed or IP Profile. However they can adjust your target SNRM by various means.
I've palced a SNR reset on your line that should see your speeds increase in the next 4 hours. I've also placed a modify order to uncap your upload speed which will complete tomorrow.


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Judge, unlike jury, finds Samsung's infringement of Apple's patents was not willful
At close of business on Tuesday, Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over two Apple v. Samsung lawsuits in the Northern District of California, entered four more of her long-awaited post-trial orders. The short version is that
she reversed the finding that Samsung's acts of patent infringement were willful (because Samsung had reasons to believe that what it was doing was legal) and overruled the jury with respect to a patent exhaustion question (which has no effect because the related patent was not deemed infringed by Apple), but otherwise upheld the jury's liability findings against Samsung, denying further modifications as well as a new trial;
as a result of finding no objective willfulness she denied Apple any damages enhancements for willful infringement (which could have resulted in a tripling of parts of the award); she also denied enhancements of trade dress damages on other grounds;
with the exception of declaring two Samsung patent claims (which the jury didn't find infringed anyway) invalid, she declined to overrule the jury in Apple's favor or to order a new trial on issues on which Apple didn't prevail last summer; and
she also ruled against Samsung's claims that one of Apple's multitouch software patents and four of its design patents were indefinite (which is one invalidity theory).
Let me put the Tuesday orders into context before elaborating on them. The jury rendered its verdict on August 24, 2012, and both parties filed a variety of motions to achieve improvements in their favor. A hearing on those motions, as well as on motions relating to remedies, was held on December 6, 2012. On December 17, 2012, Judge Koh adjudged two particularly important post-trial issues: she denied Apple a permanent injunction (a decision that Apple appealed that same week), and threw out Samsung's long-shot demand for a new trial because of alleged jury misconduct. Due to the complexity of this case and the overall caseload of the court it's not surprising that it took a while before any further decision came down, and with Tuesday's rulings we're still not done. The court still has to rule on Samsung's request for adjustments to the damages award (Samsung wants it tossed or reduced). Due to the denial of a permanent injunction, Apple will presumably move at some point for an award of ongoing royalties for future use of its patents by Samsung -- the denial of an injunction does not mean that Samsung is entitled to a freebie. And it's a given that either party will ultimately appeal (from the final district court ruling, to which we're now a lot closer) any unfavorable parts.
I previously assumed that Judge Koh was going to make only limited adjustments to the jury verdict. This prediction has so far been validated.
Now let's look at the Tuesday rulings on an item-by-item basis.
Ruling on Samsung's motion for judgment as a matter of law
The most important part of this JMOL ruling is that Judge Koh, unlike the jury, did not find a willful patent infringement by Samsung. In order to prevail on this one, Apple needed to prove both objective and subjective willfulness. "Objective" and "subjective" relate to the likelihood that its actions constituted infringement of a valid patent. The likelihood is objectively high if someone knowing the patents and all other relevant facts (including all of the prior art that could be used to invalidate them) would think that there is an infringement; it's subjectively high if the infringer actually knew these facts or if they were so obvious that he should have known. This is all just about patents, not Apple's trade dress claims, which the JMOL ruling addressed separately. The jury had found that Samsung's infringement was subjectively willful for three multitouch software patents and two design patents (in other words, Samsung knowingly and willingly copied Apple's designs and technology), but on this basis Apple still needed to prove an objectively high likelihood, which is for the judge (not the jury) to decide. The jury's findings of subjective willfulness were not addressed because the court found that there was no objective willfulness (so technically the jury wasn't overruled because its findings were only about subjective willfulness, but the result was reversed nevertheless). The order says that "[i]f Samsung had an objectively reasonable defense to infringement, its infringement cannot be said to be objectively willful". The order then looks at each of the five patents the jury found willfully infringed, and finds an objectively reasonable defense in each case:
Rubber-banding ('381) patent: Judge Koh concluded that Samsung reasonably relied on its invalidity defense. The order mentions the USPTO's first Office action tentatively rejecting all claims of this patent only in a footnote that points out how unreliable first Office actions are, but it may nevertheless have influenced Judge Koh's thinking. In a preliminary injunction decision in December 2011 she had not found this patent likely to be invalid.
Tap-to-zoom-and-navigate ('163) patent: even though Judge Koh near-simultaneously denied Samsung's motion to find the asserted claims of this patent indefinite, she felt that this was a close question of law and Samsung was acting reasonably in its reliance on having an invalidity defense to this patent. In other words, the judge didn't find that Samsung was right on this, but it wasn't light years away from being right.
Pinch-to-zoom API ('915) patent: here again, Samsung had an invalidity theory (against the asserted claim 8) that failed so far (the jury didn't buy it and Judge Koh declined to overrule the jury in this regard), but the theory was good enough that Samsung could have relied on it when deciding to infringe the patent. Like the rubber-banding ('381) patent, this one has also been tentatively rejected by the patent office, a fact that Judge Koh mentions only in a footnote that references another footnote according to which such first Office actions are unreliable.
Design patents (D'677 and D'305): Judge Koh believes that infringement was a close question, so Samsung's infringement wasn't objectively willful. Apple would have had to show that Samsung's defenses were unreasonable, which is a higher standard than just being ultimately unsuccessful. Whether Judge Koh's requirements in this respect were too exacting is likely going to be a key issue on appeal.
Samsung achieved a partial improvement only in a formal sense with respect to its '516 patent, but not enough to win a liability finding (at least not prior to an appeal). The jury's finding of non-infringement was upheld, but its finding of exhaustion of the asserted claims (claims 15 and 16) of the '516 patent was tossed. Apple's patent exhaustion theory here was (in a simplified form) that Intel had a license to Samsung's patents and Apple's products implement the patented invention only by incorporating Intel baseband chips. Judge Koh agrees with the jury that Intel was licensed. She also concluded that "the authorized sales to Apple occurred in the United States", which is another requirement. But she saw a contradiction in the jury's finding of exhaustion and non-infringement, given that exhaustion would require Intel's baseband chips to substantially embody the patented invention: if Apple used Intel chips in the accused products (Apple's more recent products come with Qualcomm chips) and if those implement the patent, then Apple's products incorporating those Intel chips, by definition, also implement it. So there can only be a finding of exhaustion if there is also one of infringement. Again, this has no consequences: the non-infringement finding stands, and if it was overturned on appeal, then the question of exhaustion would have to be analyzed again.
According to Judge Koh, the jury reasonably found Apple's two phone design patents (D'087 and D'677) and its user interface design patent (D'305) to be valid and infringed. The jury finding was not against the clear weight of the evidence, the order says. I would agree with respect to the phone design patents. I do believe that the question of whether user interfaces -- as opposed to designs of physical objects -- can be claimed by design patents (which is what the D'305 start screen design patent is all about) could be a rather interesting one on appeal.
It's worth noting that Apple succeeded in salvaging the D'677 patent through a terminal disclaimer it filed with the patent office and notified to the court in November 2012. The terminal disclaimer limits the term of this patent so as to avoid double patenting.
The registered iPhone trade dress and unregistered iPhone 3G trade dress were found protectable and diluted. Judge Koh found that there is substantial evidence in the record to support the jury's findings.
In connection with Apple's multitouch software patents, which were found valid and infringed (and which findings Judge Koh decided to uphold), the most interesting issue is that there was indeed an inconsistency in the jury verdict because the '915 patent was found infringed by multiple Samsung devices running Android 2.2.1 or 2.2.2, but not by the Galaxy Ace (Android 2.2.1), Intercept (2.2.2) and Replenish (2.2.2, too). Samsung argued that at least there should be a new trial as a result of such inconsistency. But under Ninth Circuit law, verdicts are vacated on grounds of inconsistency only if they cannot be "reconciled on any reasonable theory consistent with the evidence". One distinction that is made in this context is the one between two legal conclusions that cannot logically coexist and a "mere inconsistent view of facts". Here, Judge Koh concluded that there is an inconsistency, but it can and must stand.
The jury held not only two Samsung U.S. subsidiaries but also Samsung Electronics Corporation, a Korean entity, liable for direct infringement. The Korean parent company was also found liable for inducing infringement by its U.S. subsidiaries. Samsung wanted these findings overturned, but Judge Koh upheld the jury's findings, which makes sense: those U.S. subsidiaries are obviously controlled by the Korean company. They are formally separate legal entities, but for all practical intents and purposes they are just like local offices of the Korean organization, and actually refer to the Korean company as their "headquarters".
The jury verdict was a disappointment for Samsung not only because Apple prevailed on most of its claims but also because Samsung's infringement claims against Apple failed in their entirety. After the JMOL rulings (and before the appeal), Samsung still doesn't hold any offensive win against Apple (with respect to this case) in its hands. In fact, things got even worse for Samsung because Apple proved the asserted claims of its '941 patent invalid. Judge Koh declined to find any infringements with respect to the other four Samsung patents-in-suit.
The court also disagreed with Samsung's assertion that the trial was manifestly unfair. Samsung had argued that it was prejudiced by
the trial time limitation,
by Apple's references (permitted by the court) to witnesses Samsung did not call (suggesting that they weren't called because they had nothing useful to Samsung to say),
by court orders barring its witnesses from making certain arguments and not barring Apple's witnesses from making other arguments,
by a requirement to lay foundation for documents while Apple allegedly didn't have to meet such a requirement in some contexts,
by being barred from playing advertisements, which Apple was allowed to do, and
by not being allowed to use depositions to cross-examine Apple's witnesses while Apple was allowed to do so.
All of this relates to decisions the court made at or before trial, and it's unsurprising that the court still stands by its orders. The JMOL ruling notes that Samsung would have had the option to put its own infringement claims against Apple on a separate track, and that Samsung had to simply manage its allotted time.
Ruling on Apple's motion for judgment as a matter of law
The only item on which Judge Koh overruled the jury in Apple's favor is the question of whether the asserted claims (claims 10 and 15) of Samsung's U.S. Patent No. 7,675,941 on a "method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving packet data using pre-defined length indicator in a mobile communication system" are invalid. The jury didn't find any of Apple or Samsung's patent claims invalid, and a few days after the jury verdict came down I described this as the single biggest issue with the verdict, given that a solid majority of all patent claims granted by patent offices ultimately turn out not to be valid as granted (some are entirely invalid while others survive only after being narrowed through amendments). It would be a statistical anomaly for all Apple and Samsung patents-in-suit to be valid as granted. Even though the hurdle is very high for a court to overrule a factual finding by a jury, Judge Koh has now concluded that U.S. Patent No. 6,819,658 on a "method and apparatus for segmentation, reassembly and inverse multiplexing of packets and ATM cells over satellite/wireless networks" anticipated (i.e., renders non-novel and thus invalid) the asserted claims of Samsung's '941 patent. Samsung argued that there were some differences between the two patents, but according to Judge Koh, "Apple has established anticipation by clear and convincing evidence".
All other items of Apple's JMOL motion, discussed in more detail below, were denied.
The jury found that Apple's unregistered iPad/iPad 2 trade dress was not protectable and not famous, and on that basis never addressed the questions of dilution and infringement. Judge Koh determined that the jury's related finding was not unreasonable, and just like the jury, she didn't reach the questions of infringement and dilution.
An item on which I once thought Apple had a relatively good chance of prevailing was the iPad design patent (U.S. Design Patent No. D504,889, given that Apple had won a preliminary injunction over that one. Apple wanted the court to find it infringed by the Galaxy Tab 10.1. But Judge Koh noted that the jury was not bound by the preliminary injunction decision and that certain evidence was considered by the jury that was not available at the preliminary injunction stage, including among other things Apple's concession that the original iPad did not implement this design patent.
The judge also denied all other request by Apple for additional liability findings, including among other things an inducement theory.
The other four Samsung patents-in-suit (than the invalidated '941 patent) were not ruled invalid.
Apple brought certain FRAND contract and antitrust counterclaims against Samsung, and the jury ruled against them. Judge Koh did not overrule the jury on those. It's important to consider that even if such counterclaims fail, as they did here (prior to an appeal, at least), FRAND defenses can still succeed. In another post-trial decision (which came down in mid-December) Judge Koh declined to rule on Apple's FRAND defenses because there is no need to address them as long as no standard-essential patent-in-suit is found both valid and infringed. Even after Tuesday's ruling on Samsung's JMOL motion there is no SEP-based liability finding, so the FRAND defenses won't come into play unless and until an appeals court lets Samsung prevail on at least one SEP claim.
Ruling on Samsung's motion to invalidate four Apple patents for indefiniteness
Indefiniteness is an invalidity theory, but it's one for the court, not the jury, to decide, which is why Samsung's related motion attacking four Apple patents (the asserted claim of one software patent, and four design patents) is technically a separate motion from its JMOL ("overrule the jury") motion.
For the four design patents Samsung claimed to be indefinite (D'677, D'087, D'305, D'889) it faced a very high hurdle. It needed to show that a skilled designer would not be able to understand, from looking at the drawings in the patent documents, what kind of design was covered. Samsung failed to meet this high hurdle. Even Samsung's own expert witnesses gave testimony that allowed the court to infer that they had understood the scope of those design patents quite well (for example, if someone says a patent is obvious, he must understand the patent in the first place). There may have been some issues with dotted lines that appeared in one drawing but not another, or with only one of several drawings in one of the design patents having color, but none of this was enough to prove those design patents indefinite.
For the tap-to-zoom-and-navigate ('163) patent, indefiniteness was a closer question. The term that Samsung claimed to be indefinite (meaning that it's not amenable to construction and insolubly ambiguous) is "substantially centered". Without "substantially", the word "centered" would be mathematically precise. But "substantially" is a word of degree. Five pixels to the right of a center location on a screen that is 400 pixels wide is still "substantially centered" in most people's opinion, but how about 20 or 30 pixels? Where must the line be drawn? Samsung raised a legitimate question, but the answer is that a lack of precision does not necessarily render a patent invalid. Even one of Samsung's own witnesses talked about items being "substantially centered" on the screens of certain Samsung devices, suggesting that he was able to apply the term to a particular screen layout.
Ruling on Apple's motions for damages enhancements
In a post-trial motion Apple had asked for the damages award to be increased on different grounds. On the basis of the jury's findings of willful patent infringement, Apple wanted parts of the award to be tripled. It also wanted enhancements for trade dress infringement and dilution. And it asked for supplemental damages relating to the period between the trial and the final ruling. The question of supplemental damages still has to be decided by the court. The requested enhancements for willful patent infringement and for trade dress infringement and dilution have, however, been denied in their entirety.
The part on enhancements for willful patent infringement was simplified by Judge Koh's finding that Samsung's patent infringement was not objectively willful.
The legal basis for enhancements of trade dress damages is the Lanham Act (U.S. trademark law). Judge Koh's order notes that "[t]his type of enhancement is intended only to compensate a plaintiff for additional losses not compensated by the existing award, not to punish a defendant". Simply put, Judge Koh saw no indication that the jury did not consider all of the damages Apple suffered when it determined, on a per-product basis, its damages award. Apple wanted a reasonably straightforward jury questionnaire with total damages per product as opposed to a complex matrix of damages per product and per intellectual property right. While the jury questionnaire still ended up being huge (roughly 700 questions), Apple's wish for reasonably simple damages awards was granted, but as a result, Apple was unable after the trial to disaggregate the jury awards in order to show to the court that the part attributable to trade dress infringement was insufficient to compensate Apple for any losses.
[Update] AppleInsider has uploaded all four orders summarized in this post (link #1, link #2). [/Update]
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With 10 players and a member of the technical staff testing positive for COVID-19 since arriving in Orlando, FC Dallas has dropped out of the MLS is Back Tournament. The news was first reported by The Athletic and confirmed by the league about 30 minutes later. The entire squad had not been training for almost a week and it was unclear when they'd be able to resume training.
"Given the impact of the number of positive tests on the club's ability to train and play competitive matches, we have made the decision to withdraw FC Dallas from the MLS is Back Tournament," said MLS Commissioner Don Garber in a league statement. "The health of everyone involved in our return to play has always been our top priority, and we will continue to make decisions consistent with that priority."
FC Dallas' first match on July 9 had already been postponed, but the expectation was that they'd start the tournament on July 15 against the Seattle Sounders and make up their match against the Vancouver Whitecaps at a later date. The league announcement made no mention of how this would affect the rest of the tournament.
There are now just three teams in the Sounders' group. Aside from competitive issues within the tournament, forging on with a three-team group would also leave those teams with one less regular-season game.
Although there's a six-team group from which a team could be moved, that would only create other scheduling problems as there's no way to ensure all those teams would each play three games.
It's also possible that this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as teams dropping out and other postponements. Nashville SC reportedly has five positive test results and Taylor Twellman recently reported that teams not currently in Florida will still need to be there for seven days before being allowed to play, causing more delays.


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Q: How to dynamically replace HTML5 Video src I've got a project where I've got several videos that I'd like to dynamically load into the page. my HTML is fairly simple a single video tag
<video controls preload width="520" height="350" id="video">
<source src="videos/video0.mp4" type="video/mp4" id="video_source">
</video>

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I'm only using an MP4 file because this project only needs to function in Safari. I've tried 2 JS solutions and both seem to generate separate issues
Solution 1
$("#playlist a").click(function(){
   var video_source_link=$(this).attr("href");
   document.getElementById("video_source").setAttribute("src",video_source_link);
   document.getElementById("video").load();
   document.getElementById("video").play();
   return false;
});

In this version JS updates the src attribute of the source tag but does not load the video.
Solution 2
$("#playlist a").click(function(){
       var video_source_link=$(this).attr("href");
       document.getElementById("video_source").setAttribute("src",video_source_link);
       document.getElementById("video_source").load();
       document.getElementById("video_source").play();
       return false;
});

In this version the video loads into a blank window and when I click the back button Safari crashes with the following error WebKit2WebProcess.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close

A: Try changing the video tag instead of the inner child source tag:

$("#video")[0].src = $(this).attr("href");

A: First, check your video_source_link. If you're video_source_linkis correct, I recommend to delete this line document.getElementById("video").play();in soultion 1. Or How about delete controls preload in the video tag? And the follwing code works for me.
HTML
 <video width="320" height="240" autoplay>
   <source id="video_path" src="" type="video/mp4">
 </video>

JS
 $('#video_path').attr('src', 'path');
 $('video').load();

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Essex County, Massachusetts was among the most densely inhabited areas within the American Colonies and, as a result, numerous private schools and academies for young women flourished there. According to Betty Ring in Girlhood Embroidery, Salem alone had four public Schools and three Houses, four private Schools, Women's schools for needle work, four well known in addition to the great number for reading only, or "common work."
Eliza was the daughter of Richard Woodbury, Jr. (1798-1842) and Eliza Foster who were married on October 4, 1825 in Beverly, Massachusetts. Besides Eliza who was born on July 2, 1827 as she states on her sampler, there was also a son born to them on March 3. 1834 named Richard Augustus Woodbury. Unfortunately, not much else can be known of her life as she died on July 10, 1843 of consumption when she was just sixteen years of age.
The colors on the sampler are very pleasing . . . Several shades of green were used, from olive, to teal, to seafoam green while pale gold, ivory, and apricot colored flowers fill the Urn and Cornucopias to overflowing. Worked in silk on linen, the sampler is in excellent condition and conservation mounted into a beveled mahogany frame that appears to be original to the piece and protected with Tru Vue glass to preserve it for future generations.
Size is 11" wide and 17 1/2" high.


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Day-flying bats could be sign of deadly fungus, officials say
The New Brunswick government is asking the public to be on the lookout for day-flying bats during the winter as it continues to study a deadly bat fungus.
Public asked to report any sightings during winter as possible case of white-nose syndrome
CBC News · Posted: Oct 30, 2013 2:48 PM AT | Last Updated: October 30, 2013
Day-flying by bats during the hibernation period of November to May is considered abnormal activity and may indicate that an infected hibernation site is nearby, according to a statement issued by the Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday.
The department is working with the New Brunswick Museum to track the spread of white-nose syndrome across the province and to understand the impact of the disease on the province's bat populations.
Anyone who sees bats flying during the day, or dying or dead bats — all possible cases of the disease — is asked to call the department's Fish and Wildlife Branch, Species at Risk Program at 506-453-3826, or Don McAlpine, a zoologist at the museum, at 506-643-2345.
The public is also asked to avoid entering caves and abandoned mines that are known to be overwintering sites for bats because such visits could unknowingly spread the disease from one site to another, officials said.
Spreading quickly
White-nose syndrome was first detected in New Brunswick in a cave in Albert County, near Moncton, in March 2011 and has quickly spread, wiping out entire bat colonies across the Maritimes.
The problem is infected bats wake early from hibernation and appear to die from dehydration, starvation, or exposure, officials have said.
It is estimated New Brunswick's overwintering bat population has dropped by about 99 per cent due to the syndrome.
The little brown bat is the principal bat that has been affected.
The disease, named for the white patches that appear on the muzzles and other body parts of hibernating bats, was first detected near Albany, N.Y. in 2006.
It's believed to have come to North America from Europe.
Bats can live between 30 and 35 years and have a relatively low birth rate, with only one offspring born every year, so it could take many years for the population to recover, scientists have said.
The declining bat population is a serious problem because bats are a natural form of pest control, officials have said.
If there aren't enough bats to eat insects and help control insect populations, that could have a serious impact on farming, pesticide use, and the price of food.
Deadly bat fungus will be tracked across Canada
N.B.'s largest bat population wiped out
N.B. studies deadly bat fungus
Deadly bat fungus hits N.B.
N.B. researchers hunt for bat-killing disease


Digital printing trends show that the share of the total print market has doubled in the last ten years.
Digital printing is the term used to describe printing technology that links printing processes directly to your computer or mobile device.
When you think that in the UK alone there are over 8000 printing businesses with a combined annual turnover of £13.5billion you will appreciate it is a significant part of the print market.
The demand for colour prints continues to expand rapidly despite the growth of digital communications.
The quality of toner digital printing now matches the comparable quality of ink-based printing methods.
It is also better value than typical home and office printers where the cost of inks can exceed the cost of the most expensive champagne and perfumes.
It is a quick and simpler process that can be done on demand and on the same day.
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It is an environmentally-friendly method of communication.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace Nimbus.Infrastructure.RequestResponse
{
    internal class MulticastRequestResponseCorrelationWrapper<TResponse> : IRequestResponseCorrelationWrapper, IDisposable
    {
        private readonly DateTimeOffset _expiresAfter;
        private readonly BlockingCollection<TResponse> _responses = new BlockingCollection<TResponse>();

        public MulticastRequestResponseCorrelationWrapper(DateTimeOffset expiresAfter)
        {
            _expiresAfter = expiresAfter;
        }

        public DateTimeOffset ExpiresAfter
        {
            get { return _expiresAfter; }
        }

        public void Reply(object response)
        {
            _responses.Add((TResponse) response);
        }

        public void Throw(string exceptionMessage, string exceptionStackTrace)
        {
            // don't care.
        }

        public IEnumerable<TResponse> ReturnResponsesOpportunistically(TimeSpan timeout)
        {
            var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
            while (sw.Elapsed < timeout)
            {
                var remainingTime = timeout - sw.Elapsed;
                TResponse response;
                if (_responses.TryTake(out response, remainingTime)) yield return response;
            }
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            Dispose(true);
            GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
        }

        protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if (!disposing) return;
            _responses.Dispose();
        }
    }
}

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Cave Escape – Monuments
January 8, 2020 britofanescapehabit
Location: Nottingham
"MONUMENTS is based on the true story of the brave and relentless Monuments Men and Women of World War II. Full of unique puzzles, twists and turns, your mission is to repatriate the plunder that was stolen from private collections, museums and galleries and hidden in secret underground depositories, unknown to the allied forces. Some of the greatest treasures on Earth, historical and religious artefacts, gold and innumerable works of art of inestimable value must be recovered and returned to their rightful homes."
Monuments uses the real cave setting to its advantage, and it looks great, a realistic depiction of the salt mines in Austria, with just enough stuff to give a high level of immersion yet never too much to be off putting. The space feels real, lived in, used. Going deeper into the game further brings together the story cohesively and the immersion never lets up in this room, the attention to detail is fantastic.
The space is large, and although there are some dark moments this never impacted on gameplay, and torches are provided.
A game that weaves its way cleverly through linear and open moments. With the linear moments being at crucial points in the game used to further the narrative.
A smart game, with puzzles inclusive of codebreaking, observation, communication, logic, searching, & word.
Each and every puzzle is intrinsic to the theme, set and narrative and never ever strays from this path. The logic behind the puzzles is impeccable and there is no margin for ambiguity. Whilst this is a difficult game (especially for 2 players) the difficulty is never illogical or unfair. This is a true test of wits, produced in a flawless way.
Signposting was perfect, subtle, yet clear. This is a room that makes you work hard, but it is so satisfying when solved. There were no faults in the gameplay whatsoever.
Flow was excellent, with moments of fury, moments of peace and everything in between it was a real rollercoaster that at all moments felt natural and not prescribed.
A true gem, this room will put most teams through their paces in the most exquisite way, and there is no doubt that you will come out feeling very satisfied and smart!
However, I would recommend getting a few rooms under your belt before tackling this room!
Clues were sent via a telephone, and one other method, which I feel is a lovely surprise so I shall not spoil it!
Nick was our game host and was great, delivering a good brief (tailored to our experience!) and excellent clues throughout the hour.
Yes, in 59 minutes and 57 seconds, quite probably our closest ever!
Website: https://www.caveescape.co.uk
Off-Peak/Peak
3 Players £60/75
5 Players £87.50/105
6 Players £102/120
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Top Ten Quantum Technology Predictions for 2022
• January 3, 2022
2022 will be a critical year for economic, technological and philosophical progress in quantum. Here are a few of our predictions.
I think it was Albert Einstein who said, "As far as the end-of-year prediction lists refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
With that caution in mind, here are a list of predictions for quantum computing and quantum technology for 2022.
10. Quantum Biology Lives
In 2022, the world will just start to acclimate to the weird world of quantum information science when an even more science fiction-sounding advance will begin to emerge from the nexus of quantum and biological sciences. Quantum biology — not using quantum computers to understand biology — is the investigation into quantum processes that may lie hidden in living matter. The recent superconducting quantum tardigrade experiment is one example of this. But there is a much deeper, broader field to sow. Expect more news to come out in 2022 that will bring us to the cusp of quantum biology.
9. The Beginning of Quantum Betterness
We know that quantum supremacy has been achieved in limited academic settings, but it's still a long-range goal for practical quantum. Even quantum advantage on a consistent basis is still a near-term future goal. But what about Quantum Betterness, the point at which quantum is a bit better than classical approaches and better enough to warrant further investment. Quantum Betterness could be a transition state that allows domain experts to rely on quantum or hybrid quantum-classical approaches that might be slightly better than pure classical approaches and seen as a baby step to better position their organizations toward unlimited growth of quantum advantage and supremacy. After all, quantum startups may need to prove their value to customers and investors who will increasingly want results, not theoretical aspirations.
8. Philosophers Join The Conversation
Quantum computing offers vast economic, business, entrepreneurial and scientific potential. This potential — both positive and negative — has already attracted ethicist. But quantum science, which powers the quantum computing and quantum technology revolution, also offers intriguing insights into how our reality exists. We expect philosophers and theologians, who have remained largely silent about this revolution, to weigh in. The conversation will broaden beyond how does quantum computing work to what does quantum computing mean. These voices are not separate from the economic progress, however. They will be critical for integrating this technology, which may be era-changing, into society and paving the way for a safer, more prosperous future.
7. Supply Chain, Labor Shortage Woes Continue
For at least the first part of the year, supply chain problems will be a source of frustration for the quantum industry. The usual suspects — seemingly endless new waves of COVID and COVID-stroked fears and a nagging labor shortage — will cause most of the disruption. While these sources will begin to release their hold on the day-to-day business operations in quantum, expect longer-term interruptions. Hiring trained staff will continue to be a problem and quantum nationalism will make supply chains less than efficient and effective.
6. Urge to Merge
2021 saw the first quantum super-merger between Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum, now Quantinuum. This year, we will see a boost in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity. Companies will take a hard look at the competition, assess their own strengths and build relationships with potential partners. Investors will be looking to acquire synergistic combinations of companies, too.
5. China's Year to Shine, or Fade
Next year will be a pivotal year for China's quantum future. It is grounded in a dazzling technological display of 2021, which featured a duo of quantum computers that used two different approaches — superconducting and photonic — to achieve quantum supremacy. This established that the country is now a leader in quantum. But, this year will be the most challenging yet for the country. Cracks in the research engine that produced these breakthroughs are beginning to show. A recent accident at a quantum computing facility that threatened a computer and rumors of harsh working conditions at the site are problematic. Western countries are also worried that China will use its progress in quantum tech to threaten national security is another problem that could curtail progress. Finally, uncertain business conditions — and open arms elsewhere in the world — may pull entrepreneurial and scientific talent from the country and into competing ecosystems.
4. Failures and Fraud
We don't expect all good news in 2022. In fact, as the financial incentives grow in quantum and the pure complexity and difficulty of competing in the industry remains a significant barrier, organizations will be more willing to cut corners and, in extreme cases, commit fraud. Other companies will not be able to compete and choose other ways to exit the market — bankruptcy, acquisition, etc.
3. Profit Pressures
The flow of easy money may be tightening and the proliferation of quantum startups will make competing for that cash much more difficult. Investors will want to see more black on that bottom line — that means contracts, customers, clients and money. This will be the year that we might see quantum startups being punished — financially, at least — for not proving their business case to investors. Public quantum companies may also begin to pay closer attention to their bottom line, as well as tightening focus on ways to monetize quantum.
2. Schrodinger's Cat SPAC Fever
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies — or SPACs — are increasingly favored by startups looking for a head start to trade publicly. The approach is favored over the slower, red-tape heavy initial public offering route. As noted in The Quantum Insider, more and more companies have interest from some of the world's biggest investment firms. The valuations of those companies, too, reflect that interest. Critically, more quantum companies are on the cusp of commercialization. As more quantum companies drive hard toward commercialization and investment interest continues to grow, 2022 should see even more quantum SPACs.
1. Go Public, Or Go Home
Not all quantum computing and quantum technology will go the SPAC route. The industry will likely see startups go public through traditional initial public offerings — IPOs. These organizations may favor the longer — but more credible — IPO method.
20 of the World's Top Quantum Investors in 2022
6 Companies Working With Photonic Quantum Computing Technology in 2022
13 Companies Offering Quantum Cloud Computing Software Solutions
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Read the Indezine review of OfficeOne Shortcut Manager 4.
Microsoft Office applications allow plenty of customization for toolbars and menus. And finally in Office 2010, you can even customize the Ribbon tabs. However as far as customization of keyboard shortcuts is concerned, these options are limited (or non-existent) in comparison. Our review product addresses that glaring omission and plugs seamlessly right into PowerPoint. It works on all Windows versions of PowerPoint right from versions 2000 to 2010.
Shortcut Manager is from OfficeOne, a company based in Mumbai, India. You can learn more about the product, and download a 30 day trial version of Shortcut Manager from their site.
Shortcut Manager is a PowerPoint add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint 2002(XP), 2003, 2007, and 2010. This add-in assigns keyboard shortcuts to menu items, recorded macros and VBA code in PowerPoint. In addition, OfficeOne creates similar Shortcut Manager add-ins for Excel, Publisher, Expression Web and SharePoint Designer.
My contact at OfficeOne for this review was Chirag Dalal - thank you, Chirag.
Download the installer from their site, run the setup routine, and follow the instructions. I recommend you follow the installation instruction provided on the Shortcut Manager site.
When installed in PowerPoint 2007, the add-in can be found under the new Keyboard Shortcuts group in Home tab of the Ribbon (see Figure 1).
To use Shortcut Manager, launch PowerPoint, and select the Home tab of the Ribbon, and choose Keyboard Shortcuts | Customize (see Figure 1 above). This will open the Customize Shortcuts dialog as shown in Figure 2.
This is where you will find the menus such as File, Edit, etc. Yes, this is how it works in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 as well although these versions have no menus.
These can be seen only when you choose a menu from Categories section. It shows the list of commands under the selected menu option.
In this section, you can provide the new shortcut for the selected command by typing it in. Alternatively, you can view or alter the currently allocated shortcut key.
Catch Escape Key (Check Box): When presentations are configured in Kiosk mode, the keyboard is disabled during slide show. Only the Escape key is operational, and it takes you out of the slide show. If the Catch Escape Key check box is enabled, Shortcut Manager disables the Escape key function as well.
Alternatively, Shortcut Manager can call a macro named Shortcut_OnEscape in the active presentation when the Escape key is pressed. This enables you to define your own behavior when the user exits out of slide show using the Escape key.
Note: If you have customized any of the shortcuts using Shortcut Manager, it will override the same shortcut keys, if defined by PowerPoint.
Choose any of the menu options provided in Categories list (refer to Figure 2). This will populate the Commands section, as shown in Figure 3.
Select the command to assign a shortcut.
Now place your cursor in Assigned shortcut to command text box, and type your preferred shortcut key combination (see Figure 4 highlighted in red).
Press OK to apply, or Cancel to get back without any changes.
Follow the same procedure to change or assign other shortcut keys, as required.
Tip: OfficeOne creates a free add-on to Shortcut Manager called Shortcuts for PowerPoint. This adds many pre-created and useful shortcuts for daily use in PowerPoint.
PowerPoint Shortcut Manager 4 costs $29.95 for a single-user license. Multiple user licenses are available.
Support is through e-mail and online FAQ.
If you are a keyboard user who misses the speed of pressing keys in succession to perform tasks quickly in PowerPoint, or if you use macros and VBA and need to run your programming routines at the press of a key, then you will love Shortcut Manager. Even if you haven't found a use for the product, do download the trial and experiment. You might like the way it makes PowerPoint perform.
Chirag also made me aware of the fact that Microsoft recommends Shortcut Manager on their Keyboard Shortcuts web pages for both PowerPoint 2003 and 2007.
This is the original page. An AMP (Accelerated Mobile Page) version of this page is also available for those on mobile platforms, at OfficeOne Shortcut Manager 4.