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Red Sox fans who think that it would be swell for the Yankees to sign Cliff Lee for a gob of money over several years since it will hamstring them down the road should do it twice. The fact is that the Yankees can absorb a couple (or three, maybe four) bad years at the tail end of the deal, no matter what they pay him. They have only a few commitments past 2015 (albeit big ones), but in the short term Lee and Sabathia are a fearsome duo, and that doesn't include Hughes with AJ Burnett as a fourth or fifth starter. If the tandem lefties lead them to a Series or two and a championship that will be at the expense of the Sox, something us SFs should reject.
Count me as one Sox fan who wants Lee as far away from the AL East as is humanly possible. I just don't see "overpaying" for Cliff Lee keeping the Yankees from fixing that problem in 2015 when (and if) it might arise. I am just not interested in finding out how bad a 7/160M deal is for the Yankees books in 2016.
Go to Texas, Cliff. PLEASE.
by SF on December 13, 2010 in Economics, General Baseball, General Red Sox, General Yankees
I'm strangely ambivalent about the potential Lee signing. On one side, I recognize that the Sox now have a beast of a team on paper and are the current favorites. Adding Lee probably evens it up, giving the Yanks a team well built for short postseason play. Also, a Lee, CC and Pettitte rotation seems especially well matched for the Sox lefty-heavy line-up. That's a minor point, I guess, but I would want to see how it played out.
On the other hand, losing out on Lee will push Cashman to younger and cheaper alternatives, who might very well be better in the long term. The Yanks are supposed to have a lot of exciting pitching in the farm. Will they be a part of the Yanks' plans?
Nick-YF December 13, 2010, 12:42 pm
Cliff Lee won't block anyone. He won't keep youngsters from coming up. He takes up one spot, and if you believe his cost is ridiculous then that makes it even more likely that they Yankees try to fill out their rotation with Hughes 2.0, or some other youngster. Maybe they tire of AJ and eat part of his contract and open up a spot. I have no reason to believe that Cliff Lee will keep any uber-talented Yankee pitcher from cracking the squad in a year, two years, or three. There are five rotation spots, and Lee, Sabathia, and Hughes only take up three of them. Pettitte might play this year, but who knows about 2012, and AJ could be discarded.
Lee doesn't limit the Yankees or a youth influx, in my opinion.
SF December 13, 2010, 12:48 pm
I concur with SF. Crowing about how hefty a contract will be four years from now is pretty hollow.
On the other hand, if losing out on Lee means the Yankees swing a trade for Greinke…
Paul SF December 13, 2010, 1:54 pm
"Crowing about how hefty a contract will be four years from now is pretty hollow."
What if it's three years from now?
Personally, I prefer they go the Greinke route. I think in Jesus Montero they have the most tradeable prospect in the history of Yankee uber prospects. Where is he going to play?
Nick-YF December 13, 2010, 1:57 pm
I do think Lee is somewhat overrated. He had the monster season in 2008, of course, then has been a steady 130 ERA+ pitcher for two straight seasons, which would be cause for all sorts of optimism if he were 29, still theoretically in the prime of his career. But he's 32.
I guess I'm not sure what makes Cliff Lee better than Johan Santana at this point. Santana is viewed as a disappointment with his big-time contract, this despite being the same age as Lee AND having been marginally better over the past three seasons.
This makes me think either Santana is now underrated because of how dominant he was as a young pitcher or that Lee is being overrated because of his phenomenal SO/BB ratio, which has led to excellent, but not particularly earth-shattering, results.
I think a Lee signing would be all about the post-season. Is it obnoxious to just presume you'll make the post-season? Yes. But I think the Yankees largely do, and the most exciting pitching prospect then for them is someon who is a proven commodity in those pressure-packed October moments. Lee is that. And I completely agree with SF re: Lee not blocking young upcomoing talent…on the contrary, I think the Yanks are much more likely to trade that talent away before it is major-league ready if they lose out on Lee and feel pressed to add other proven starters to their rotation.
IronHorse (YF) December 13, 2010, 2:36 pm
Hello all, it has been awhile…
Nick, I don't think the Yankees have anyone close enough to being ready that they would fill any void (?) left by the Yankees not signing Lee. I am with you though that I really don't care it either way. He'd obviously be great to have on the team and I couldn't care less about how much he'd make in 2075. He's a pitcher that relies on control, there's no signs to say he couldn't pitch to 39 years of age and still be successful. He's not a thrower like say Beckett or Burnett.
The Yankees will not trade for Greinke. While they may match up well (even though MLBTR says differently) he's got the make up of a guy perfect for Washington, San Diego, Pittsburgh, places where there he can pitch under little to no scrutiny. Too many red flags regardless of talent.
Montero is going to catch until he proves he cannot catch Nick. Even if the Yankees sign Martin today (fingers crossed) he will still split time with Montero for sure. If he wasn't traded in July I don't think he's going anywhere now.
Paul, I miss this…Lee is somewhat of a different story than Santana (Even though the K #'s are similar as of late) Santana has always relied on the strikeout and Lee has only begun to be that guy since 2008, 2009-ish. Also, Lee is more of a contact pitcher as you can tell by his H/9 and lower BB total. Overtime Santana's health (knee, arm, etc…) has really hampered him from being that strikeout guy. Players need to adjust over time, less velocity means more complete pitching. Lee is a complete pitcher, like Roy Halladay. Of course I am not saying he's as talented, but at 32 he gets what it means to be a complete pitcher. Whether that was due to his stint in the minors or just coming with age, the bottom line is he's a pitcher with command of what it means to be 32 and still be this good. I think you are really underestimating just how good he is. As I said above, who's to say he can't pitch this way for 7 more seasons? Sure his K's will go down, but at worst he's Andy Pettitte. The same Andy Pettitte the Yankees are going to pay $10-$15 million to pitch in 2011 if he so chooses. Lee is a top 5-7 pitcher in the game and should be that way for at least 3 more seasons. What happens after that is really TBD, but I don't see him falling off the map and it turning into an AJ Burnett situation. Barring injury he will be more than adequate for years 4-7 for whichever team he chooses. Look at his numbers after the minor league stint, he's only gotten better.
This could all change tomorrow if his arm falls off, but that goes for all pitchers.
John - YF December 13, 2010, 3:00 pm
Welcome back John! Man, Nick and John on one thread – I must be dreaming :o) Great to see everyone flocking back…let's all stick around a while!
In 2010 only 22 pitchers had more K's than Lee…Not one of them had fewer walks (18). Not one of them other than Roy Halladay (30) was within 35 walks! After Lee and Halladay the next guy (in the top 25 K's) is Jered Weaver with 54, Adam Wainright (56) and Liriano (58). I'd say that qualifies as being pretty close to "Earth Shattering" if you add in a respectable 7.84 K/9 (better than CC) and an ERA of 3.17 (better than Sabathia)…
It's like a dysfunctional family reunion!
Welcome back John!!!
SF December 13, 2010, 3:14 pm
Wow, between John and Paul this past week has been like a highschool reunion! Glad to see so many regulars back.
Atheose - SF December 13, 2010, 3:15 pm
"I think a Lee signing would be all about the post-season."
Which is the single most important thing about him yet somehow left out of a lot of the criticism on here???
per baseball reference:
Career postseason-
2.13 ERA
3 CG's
76 innings
54 hit
22 runs (18 earned)
80 K's/8 walks
very underwhelming…
krueg December 13, 2010, 3:19 pm
Thanks guys! Great to be back. Trust me, I wanted to be here, just couldn't due to some family circumstances. All's well that ends well.
Joel Sherman speculating that the Phillies could be the "mystery team" that's supposedly courting Lee.
I highly doubt it, but can you imagine?
Halladay
Oswalt
Hamels
Literally the greatest rotation ever.
Especially in AAAA…yikes.
HOLY SMOKES!
WHAT A WEEK! WELCOME BACK, JOHN!
Brad December 13, 2010, 3:43 pm
Part of Lee's rising K rate is also attributed to the fact that the rest of MLB realized that he's not going to walk anyone, and that they have to swing at nearly every pitch, and since his stuff is just flat out nasty, contact isn't made.
All I know is I've been in the stands twice now when Cliff Lee has pitched to the Yankees in October. Taking these two together (G1 of the '09 WS and G3 of the '10 ALCS) he delivered two infuriatingly non-chalant and yet dominant performances, totalling 17 IP, 8 hits, 0 ER, 1 BB, 23 K. I've been psychologically scarred from being at the scene of these two maulings. I don't want to watch another one. Unless of course he's wearing the right uniform.
I remember during the post-season last year, it was mentioned that Lee seems to thrive on the big stage, Krueg playoff stats and IH's first hand account both seem to prove that. And what bigger stage is there in MLB than on the mound at Yankee Stadium?
Come on Lee, sign in Texas, you know you are a country boy at heart. I really don't want to worry about facing you 33-4 games in the season with the potential of facing him in the ALCS.
/shivers
BillsBurgSF December 13, 2010, 10:00 pm
"about facing you 33-4 games in the season"
.."should be 3-4 games in the season"
Looks like the Phillies are the mystery team. Sounds like Lee would have to leave some money on the table to go there but loved his time in there and would love to have the chance to form a top 2 with Halladay. Gotta say this wouldnt bode well for the Sox chances to win it all, despite the fact it would help with their quest to make it to the WS next year. That would be a hell of a staff…
sam-YF December 13, 2010, 10:02 pm
My blood pressure is going up more everyday…
krueg December 13, 2010, 10:28 pm
Could they have made a "finish what we started" offer to Lee? It would be tough to lose to anyone in 6 games in the WS with that rotation.
It's being reported that Philly is offering 5 years, must be in the range of 22-25M per. WOW, they jumped over 40M in payroll from 2008 to 2010, adding an additional 20+, that 60M+ payroll increase over 4 seasons is by far the biggest jump in MLB.
Still think Yankee's are favs with Rangers second.
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!
Per ESPN just now…the Yankees are OUT of the Cliff Lee sweepstakes. I haven't been able to find anything to confirm but that's what they just opened SportsCenter with…
krueg December 14, 2010, 12:05 am
Lee to Philly, leaving $50 mil on the table or something. At least I can still hate the guy.
sam-YF December 14, 2010, 12:06 am
Yep…i'm seeing tweets that he might be going back to Philly to rejoin Doc. Cool. Go back and hide in AAAA.
He must really hate NY, huh?
OK Cash, what do you have up your sleeve man. Time to earn your paycheck!!!
Well it cant be the fans because it doesnt get much worse than Philly.
good…like i said, i really thought we could get more value doing something, anything, besides cliff lee…i don't think he has the stones to pitch in ny, despite his post season resume and the supposed ice water in his veins…[see world series, last year, for balance]…the phillies?…really?
dc December 14, 2010, 1:30 am
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The Green Team Speaks to…DAN PONEMAN
Daniel B. Poneman is president and chief executive officer of Centrus Energy Corp. He also serves on the company's board of directors.
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1. As you look back at your time in the government, what is your proudest accomplishment?
In government as in business, your accomplishments are all a product of teamwork and so the pride really comes from contributing to a team that did important work.
In that spirit, I would say that during my time at the National Security Council (NSC) the proudest accomplishment would be the effort to address the North Korean nuclear threat triggered by Pyongyang's March 1993 announcement that it was withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Amid rising military tensions, and through intense negotiations directly with Pyongyang as well as a global diplomatic campaign, our team – led by Ambassador Bob Gallucci – negotiated an Agreed Framework that bottled up the North Korean plutonium production program for eight years. A close second would be the intense diplomatic effort to save the NPT from its possible demise by extending it indefinitely in the NPT Review and Extension Conference of 1995, so that it will remain the cornerstone of global efforts to combat the spread of nuclear weapons for generations to come.
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China now accounts for 28% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, more than any other nation. Therefore, China's nuclear power objectives are critical to overall global efforts to avert potentially catastrophic climate change. Nuclear represents a major alternative to coal-fired power generation, which China has been adding for years to support its growing economy and population. From 2000 to 2016, that meant adding around 50GW of new coal-fired power generation – enough to power South Africa — each year. In 2017, China announced it was slowing the pace of coal-fired power expansion, but any way you look at it, China's growing coal fleet will add prodigious amount of greenhouse gases for many decades to come.
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The loan guarantee program of the U.S. Department of Energy shows the potential of green finance. Before that program was launched, there were no grid-scale solar photovoltaic projects in the United States. It was challenging for project developers to raise commercial capital to support those projects before they had an established track record, especially in the years following the 2008 financial crisis. The loan guarantee program financed five of those projects, bringing in new commercial lending in the process and providing sufficient confidence to the market that the next ten solar photovoltaic projects were financed entirely by the private sector.
Green finance can also provide instruments to support investments in energy efficiency, which is the cheapest way to produce a greener landscape. As they say, "negawatts are cheaper than megawatts."
One of the reasons why China has been successful in deploying clean energy technologies domestically and exporting them around the world is China's commitment to providing low cost financing. And, of course, the Paulson Institute has played a vital role in promoting green finance within China! If America wants to be competitive, we need to make sure that U.S. deployments and exports of clean energy technologies have similar options available.
5. Which living person do you most admire and why?
Brent Scowcroft. His wisdom, integrity, and decades of selfless public service have made the world safer and more secure. In a tumultuous and changing world, he has always managed to distill a clear-eyed sense of how best to advance U.S. strategic interests, and provided outstanding counsel to the presidents he served in support of those interests around the world – from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the tragic events in Tiananmen Square to the demise of the Soviet Union and the peaceful reunification of Germany. He presided over a NSC process that is widely acknowledged to have been the most successful in history, serving as an unquestioned honest broker among such forceful personalities as Secretary of State Jim Baker and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, making sure that President George H.W. Bush received the benefit of a full spectrum of views and options, while quietly, yet effectively adding his own voice and judgment to help the president make the right decision. And despite his extraordinary success and gaining the respect and admiration of leaders around the globe, he has remained humble to his core and a wonderful friend and mentor to generations of foreign policy and national security experts.


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World Science Festival 2019
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Touring Performances
Justin M. Rao
Justin M. Rao is a researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City. He did his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Ph.D. in economics at the University of California in San Diego. His research interests typically fall under the broad umbrella of empirical microeconomics with a focus in e-commerce, online behaviors, and understanding pro-social behavior. His work has appeared in leading economic journals and received attention in the popular press from outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Slate, and The Atlantic. A video of Rao doing economics-themed standup comedy has a 90 percent "thumbs up" rating on YouTube.
Past Programs Featuring Justin M. Rao
Computer Scientist's Apprentice
Saturday, May 30, 2015 | 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Kareem Abdul-JabbarNBA All-Star, Actor, Author
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a retired American professional basketball player. He is the NBA's all-time leading scorer, with 38,387 points. During his career with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season MVP Awards.
Pamela AbshireBioengineer
Pamela Abshire is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her areas of specialty are in the fields of integrated circuit design and bioengineering.
Jad AbumradRadio Host
Jad Abumrad is the host and creator of WNYC/NPR's award-winning radio series Radio Lab, which reaches nearly 4 million people per month and describes itself as believing "your ears are a portal to another world. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience."
The Abyssinian Baptist Church ChoirChoir
The Inspirational Voices of Abyssinian Baptist Church is the resident choir of one of the most prominent African-American institutions in America. Under the leadership of the Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, the Abyssinian Baptist Church has followed the African-American church tradition of actively building communities.
Jennifer AckermanAuthor
Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science, nature, and human biology for almost three decades. Her new book, The Genius of Birds (Penguin Press, 2016)–a New York Times bestseller–has been called a "lovely, celebratory survey" by The New York Times and "gloriously provocative and highly entertaining" by the Wall Street Journal.
Diane AckermanAuthor, Naturalist
Diane Ackerman is the author of 24 works of nonfiction and poetry. Her works include the New York Times best sellers The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us, which received the PEN Henry David Thoreau Award and One Hundred Names for Love, a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Circle Critics Award.
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Sports Gambling Statement
Counter-Strike has spawned a wild multibillion-dollar world of online casino gambling; it's barely regulated and open to any kid who wants in.
By Shaun Assael 1/20/17
On Aug. 9, 2015, two young millionaires worked their way through a pool party on a hotel rooftop in the Hollywood Hills. One was clean-cut, with hypnotic green eyes, the other more rakish, with a British accent slightly muted from the time he'd spent in LA. Trevor Martin and Tom Cassell had rocketed to fame as teens by streaming themselves playing video games and now, at 22, were two of the most recognized gamers on YouTube.
The sky was a turquoise blue and the weather a perfect 86 degrees as the pair, known to their fans as TmarTn and Syndicate, found a quiet spot to chat. Both had already leveraged their fame to make themselves wealthy. Martin, who has 3.2 million subscribers on YouTube, was dabbling in real estate; Cassell, whose videos are seen by his 10 million followers, had his own clothing line. Fans would line up to meet them at conventions, and their endorsements were enough to make or break new games. Now, as they settled in under the shade of a palm tree, the men plotted their next fortune in esports. They were about to move into a new multibillion-dollar world that had virtually no regulation — a burgeoning Wild West of gambling centered on a game they'd spent countless hours playing online, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
The first-person-shooter game pits terrorists against counterterrorists and was played by an average of 342,000 people at once in 2016. Its biggest tournaments, such as the ELeague Major scheduled for Jan. 22-29 in Atlanta, can have million-dollar prize pools and as many as 27 million streaming viewers. An estimated 26 million copies of the $15 game have been downloaded since its debut four years ago, helping make its manufacturer, Valve, the world's leading distributor of PC titles.
While other titles such as Call of Duty offer similar gameplay, one distinctive feature has helped fuel Counter-Strike's growth: collectible items in the game called "skins." Although they don't improve anyone's chances of winning, the skins cover weapons in distinctive patterns that make players more identifiable when they stream on services like Twitch. Users can buy, sell and trade the skins, and those used by pros become hotly demanded. Some can fetch thousands of dollars in online marketplaces.
Valve controls the skins market. Every few months, it releases an update to Counter-Strike with new designs. It decides how many of each skin get produced and pockets a 15 percent fee every time one gets bought or sold on its official marketplace, called Steam. Valve even offers stock tickers that monitor the skins' constantly shifting values.
But Valve also leaves a door open into the programming of its virtual world, one that allows skins to move out of Steam and into a murky constellation of gambling websites, where they're used as currency. Some $5 billion was wagered in skins in 2016, according to research by the firms Eilers & Krejcik Gaming and Narus Advisors. While about 40 percent of them are bet on esports matches and tournaments, says Chris Grove, who authored a study for the companies, roughly $3 billion worth flows to a darker corner of the internet — one populated by fly-by-night websites that accept skins for casino-style gaming. Here, the games are simple, the action is fast and new sites open as soon as others close. Plenty of adults visit these sites, but with virtually no age restrictions, kids are also able to gamble their skins — often bought with a parent's credit card — on slots, dice, coin flips or roulette spins. At least one site even has pro sports betting.
None of this could happen without Valve, a privately held company run by its charismatic co-founder, Gabe Newell. The billionaire, who according to Forbes owns more than 50 percent of the company, has watched his personal wealth rocket to $4.1 billion, due in part to Counter-Strike's success.
As they sipped cocktails in the Hollywood Hills that day in 2015, Martin and Cassell decided that as long as the casino was open, they would get their cut.
Video and Story Source: ESPN.com; http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/18510975/how-counter-strike-turned-teenager-compulsive-gambler


The operation resembled one of the many police raids against the gangs that terrorize Venezuela's poor neighborhoods. But Ordóñez's only crime, his family said, was that he attended a protest against the government days before.
President Nicolás Maduro is facing the biggest challenge to his authoritarian rule yet. Protesters are in the streets, an opposition lawmaker has declared himself the rightful president, a growing number of foreign governments have backed that claim and the Trump administration has intensified the pressure, cutting off Maduro's access to oil sales in the United States — a principal source of his government's cash.
In the face of the crisis, Maduro has hit back hard, sending out security forces to crush dissent in deadly operations that have alarmed even some of the president's traditional supporters.
But while Venezuela's armed forces have publicly declared their allegiance to Maduro, they have not taken the muscular role they have in the past. When months of chaotic demonstrations arose against Maduro two years ago, it was largely the National Guard that squelched dissent with batons and bullets, with protesters prosecuted in military courts.
But this time, in a potential sign of the strained loyalties inside the military, much of the crackdown has been entrusted to a relatively new national police unit Maduro created to conduct raids on gang groups in Venezuela's slums.
Now the unit appears to have his political opponents in its sights. Known as the Special Actions Force, or FAES, it is being sent to work as Maduro's enforcer in the poor neighborhoods that once supported him but have turned against him, according to human rights groups, former government officials and current lawmakers.
At least 40 people have been killed in the latest round of protests against Maduro, largely in nightly raids in poor neighborhoods involving the special police unit, human rights groups say.
But Cliver Alcalá, a former military general who broke ranks with Maduro, said it was not surprising the government was relying on the special police unit to do its bidding. The reason: It has lost trust in many members of the armed forces to confront protesters the way they did in 2017.
Many of the National Guardsmen who were sent to the streets in previous years have not returned to work because their salaries are nearly worthless, Alcalá said. Venezuela's inflation — the worst in the world — has obliterated them.
Human rights groups say little is known about Maduro's special police force, including the names of its top commanders and who exactly has been invited to form its ranks.
The group came into existence in 2017 as Maduro struggled to wrest control of the country's poor neighborhoods from criminal gangs.
The government had been organizing joint raids with police and armed forces, called Operation Liberate the People, which became increasingly bloody. In a single two-year period, the government said the raids killed more than 500 people.
Facing mounting opposition to the raids, Maduro changed course, creating the special unit of his national police charged with a similar task.
The new police are taught to be loyal to the president, training at Venezuela's National Experimental Security University, an institution founded under Maduro's predecessor, Hugo Chávez.
Izquiel, the criminologist, said that officers leave after only six months' training that is largely conducted by ideologically driven professors who preach allegiance to Maduro's government.
Among them was the killing of Óscar Pérez, a rogue police pilot who commandeered a helicopter and captured the attention of many Venezuelans in 2017 when he fired blank ammunition on government buildings and unfurled a banner calling for Venezuelans to rebel against Maduro.
In an interview with The New York Times shortly before his death, Pérez asserted that a pro-Maduro paramilitary group had penetrated the special police unit and exerted influence over it. It was an explosive assertion even then, because it meant that civilian vigilantes were acting as uniformed police officers.
The day of Pérez's death, the leader of the paramilitary group, a man named Heiker Vásquez, was killed fighting alongside FAES officials who had surrounded Pérez.
Uniformed members of the special police unit were also photographed in Vásquez's funeral procession along with members of his paramilitary group, known as the Three Roots. In Venezuela, these armed paramilitary groups are known as "colectivos," and typically have their roots in fervently pro-Chávez circles.
"If it's not FAES in these raids, it's colectivos dressed in FAES uniforms," said Solórzano, the legislator, saying that she believes the pro-government groups are being armed and asked to fight alongside regular officers.
Julio Reyes, an opposition activist, said he was targeted Sunday in the Tacagua Vieja neighborhood by the special police unit.
Relatives of Ordóñez, who was killed that day, said they never got a real explanation for his death.
His sister, González, said she asked a FAES officer patrolling the area why the group had shot her brother. The officer said Ordóñez had been killed in a fight with the unit and had been trying to flee, she recalled.
But González said the explanation made little sense because her brother had already been hit with rubber bullets fired by FAES officers during a protest several days ago, and was barely able to walk.
On Wednesday, at his funeral, Ordóñez's body lay in a wooden coffin lined with butcher paper. Family members knelt beside it in the back of a pickup truck before it was lowered into a grave.


In recent articles, Benchmark has considered the business case for the deployment of smart search solutions, and has assessed the performance of Avigilon Appearance Search to see what it offers system integrators and security installers. In the final article addressing smart search solutions, we consider the benefits for end users.
It has to be accepted that the majority of end users who implement video surveillance systems are aware of the many benefits available from the technology, both in terms of site security and additional business intelligence data collection. Video is a great enabler for the vast majority of businesses and organisations.
For system integrators and security installers, understanding the benefits of video to an end user is vital, because a clear understanding of customers' expectations and requirements makes a system easier to sell. As with any technology, the level of investment is typically based upon a value-oriented assessment.
The more value a system adds for the business on a day-to-day basis, the easier it is for the user to justify their investment. Additional value equals a higher return on investment, and for many that is a key part of the purchasing decision.
Today's video surveillance market is seeing an increase in applications using higher numbers of video capture devices. This is partly because the current technological landscape has eroded many of the traditional barriers to higher camera counts.
Available bandwidth, while still a consideration, is no longer a significant limitation on the number of cameras that can be deployed. Despite increased video resolutions and a greater demand for real-time streams, compression technologies have also evolved significantly. The introduction of smart encoding allows video streams to be automatically managed using dynamic bit-rate control, which also allows the deployment of more cameras without a detrimental impact on overall efficiency.
Some systems previously needed data throughput to be 'throttled' to ensure that processing power was not depleted. This is no longer the case, and today's latest generation processors offer enhanced power whilst also enabling hardware acceleration.
Video storage and archiving has also followed a similar pattern to processing. The falling cost of HDDs and SSDs, coupled with ever-increasing drive capacities, makes the archiving of multiple camera streams efficient and cost-effective.
Finally, it must be recognised that the capital cost of camera hardware has decreased across the board.
The flexibility of network-based infrastructure, coupled with lower cost devices, has allowed users to expand the video surveillance of their sites.
However, higher camera counts do have one down-side. Video streams create huge amounts of data, and locating relevant footage quickly and easily can become a real challenge for system operators.
End users with a history of video surveillance use will recognise that systems with high camera counts do have a weakness. Unless the user knows where and when an incident has occurred, locating footage – including historical data that shows events leading up to and following the incident, as well as footage that allows the creation of a timeline – can be difficult. This is exacerbated when the site in question has tens or even hundreds of cameras. Searching through multiple streams of video for what might be no more than a few seconds of relevant footage is a slow, labour-intensive and error-ridden process.
In many cases, the process of finding the various clips and linking them together becomes so complex that incidents and simply not resolved. The required time and resources to follow up an event means a resolution is simply not viable.
Given the customer has purchased an advanced video solution, this inability to quickly and efficiently find relevant footage, to link clips together to create a time-line or to analytically assess supplementary information means the solution is unlikely to meet their expectations.
For system integrators and security installers offering surveillance solutions, this single weakness is something that can be the difference between winning or losing a contract.
Avigilon's Appearance Search technology eliminates this issue by using AI-based algorithms and deep learning technology to quickly and accurately search video data, across defined time windows and camera groups, to locate instances containing selected people or vehicles. As instances are found, those of interest can be 'starred' and these positive results are used to further teach the search engine about the target. As such, presented instances become more accurate. The system can also identify periods outside of the defined time window where relevant video clips have been identified. Searches can therefore be expanded across additional cameras and time zones without the need for hit-and-miss video scrubbing.
The value of Appearance Search's ability to quickly and accurately locate footage of interest not only enhances security by building a smart evidence trail, but also enables compliance and liability issues to be addressed.
Avigilon Appearance Search was deployed as part of a solution implemented by Billings Public Schools (BPS), the largest school district in the state of Montana, USA. The BPS portfolio comprises 31 schools, with 1,800 teachers and over 17,000 students.
BPS installed a complete Avigilon video surveillance system featuring video analytics, the Avigilon Control Center (ACC) VMS and Avigilon Appearance Search technology.
One school faced issues of high crime rates and on-site incidents. Within seven months of the installation, a considerable change became obvious. The system, which utilised the Appearance Search smart technology, proved to be an effective investigative tool and helped to mitigate violence, de-escalate bullying and reduce vandalism and theft.
Additionally, the Appearance Search technology demonstrated its value with regards to establishing liability for on-site events. In one such case, BPS used the Appearance Search technology to track and identify an individual responsible for a door being left open which resulted in a burglary. The technology quickly allowed the user to ascertain a contractor working on-site had not secured the door, allowing BPS to hold the contractor accountable for the cost of the related damages.
The ability to ascertain who has been involved in incidents, along with identifying accomplices, has also proved invaluable. Because searches can flag footage across numerous cameras, it becomes a simple task to collect evidence which can be viewed in chronological order. This eliminates a need for investigations involving witnesses or victims. The simplicity of the smart search functions makes it simple for an operator to quickly and easily collate all relevant footage using a few mouse clicks.
Another example of how Appearance Search adds value can be demonstrated via the implementation at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital. The facility's legacy security system meant the hospital's management were often unable to provide accurate evidence during forensic investigations. As a result, many liability claims and incidents went unresolved. This situation is not uncommon, and highlights how user expectations are not met on many occasions.
The upgraded system made use of Avigilon Appearance Search technology, and this enabled operators to quickly and easily locate specific persons or vehicles of interest across all cameras, both inside the hospital and care centres, as well as across external areas.
This functionality provided enhanced situational awareness for management, enabling fast event response which saved time and effort during critical investigations. As such, the use of Appearance Search increased the return on investment for the hospital, and ensured the end user's expectations were met.
A recent addition to the functionality of Avigilon Appearance Search enables businesses and organisations to ensure any footage shared with other agencies meets the criteria for GDPR compliance.
Video footage including individuals is often classed as personal data under the regulations, and as such needs to be handled in a way that protects the privacy and rights of other people in any archived scenes.
Because Appearance Search uses object classification, all searches identify a specific person or vehicle within a viewed scene. These 'objects' have bounding boxes which are used to identify the targets. When evidential video is exported, it is possible to pixilate all video outside of the bounding box, thereby ensuring that other people or vehicles in a scene are not identifiable, while the target can be clearly seen.
As the video clip has the non-critical areas blurred during the export process, the original video recording is always preserved by the Avigilon VMS.
Avigilon Appearance Search is a smart search tool that adds real value for end users, and as such represents a worthwhile investment for many businesses and organisations. System operators can be more effective and efficient, time and resources are saved, and the level of security is significantly enhanced.
Appearance Search is also easy to implement as the technology forms an integral part of the Avigilon video surveillance solution functionality.


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Robust and daring, this Brunello brings a lot to the table, but delivers. A complex bouquet of peppery spice, rich tobacco, and freshly dug soil dares you to unravel the mystery of the delicately woven fabric of silky red fruit that lies underneath. Not for beginners or casual drinking, let this one age a few years to allow it to enter its most sublime expression.


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package org.apache.activemq.artemis.protocol.amqp.connect.mirror;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.Message;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.QueueConfiguration;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.SimpleString;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.postoffice.impl.PostOfficeImpl;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.ActiveMQComponent;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.ActiveMQServer;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.MessageReference;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.Queue;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.RoutingContext;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.impl.AckReason;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.impl.AddressInfo;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.impl.RoutingContextImpl;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.mirror.MirrorController;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.transaction.Transaction;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.protocol.amqp.broker.AMQPMessage;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.protocol.amqp.broker.AMQPMessageBrokerAccessor;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.protocol.amqp.connect.AMQPBrokerConnection;
import org.apache.qpid.proton.amqp.Symbol;
import org.apache.qpid.proton.amqp.messaging.DeliveryAnnotations;
import org.apache.qpid.proton.amqp.messaging.Properties;
import org.jboss.logging.Logger;

public class AMQPMirrorControllerSource implements MirrorController, ActiveMQComponent {

   private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(AMQPMirrorControllerSource.class);

   public static final Symbol EVENT_TYPE = Symbol.getSymbol("x-opt-amq-mr-ev-type");
   public static final Symbol ADDRESS = Symbol.getSymbol("x-opt-amq-mr-adr");
   public static final Symbol QUEUE = Symbol.getSymbol("x-opt-amq-mr-qu");

   // Events:
   public static final Symbol ADD_ADDRESS = Symbol.getSymbol("addAddress");
   public static final Symbol DELETE_ADDRESS = Symbol.getSymbol("deleteAddress");
   public static final Symbol CREATE_QUEUE = Symbol.getSymbol("createQueue");
   public static final Symbol DELETE_QUEUE = Symbol.getSymbol("deleteQueue");
   public static final Symbol ADDRESS_SCAN_START = Symbol.getSymbol("addressCanStart");
   public static final Symbol ADDRESS_SCAN_END = Symbol.getSymbol("addressScanEnd");
   public static final Symbol POST_ACK = Symbol.getSymbol("postAck");

   // Delivery annotation property used on mirror control routing and Ack
   public static final Symbol INTERNAL_ID = Symbol.getSymbol("x-opt-amq-mr-id");
   public static final Symbol INTERNAL_DESTINATION = Symbol.getSymbol("x-opt-amq-mr-dst");

   private static final ThreadLocal<MirrorControlRouting> mirrorControlRouting = ThreadLocal.withInitial(() -> new MirrorControlRouting(null));

   final Queue snfQueue;
   final ActiveMQServer server;
   final boolean acks;
   final boolean addQueues;
   final boolean deleteQueues;
   private final AMQPBrokerConnection brokerConnection;

   boolean started;

   @Override
   public void start() throws Exception {
   }

   @Override
   public void stop() throws Exception {
   }

   @Override
   public boolean isStarted() {
      return started;
   }

   public AMQPMirrorControllerSource(Queue snfQueue, ActiveMQServer server, boolean acks, boolean addQueues, boolean deleteQueues, AMQPBrokerConnection brokerConnection) {
      this.snfQueue = snfQueue;
      this.server = server;
      this.acks = acks;
      this.addQueues = addQueues;
      this.deleteQueues = deleteQueues;
      this.brokerConnection = brokerConnection;
   }

   public Queue getSnfQueue() {
      return snfQueue;
   }

   public AMQPBrokerConnection getBrokerConnection() {
      return brokerConnection;
   }

   @Override
   public void startAddressScan() throws Exception {
      Message message = createMessage(null, null, ADDRESS_SCAN_START, null);
      route(server, message);
   }

   @Override
   public void endAddressScan() throws Exception {
      Message message = createMessage(null, null, ADDRESS_SCAN_END, null);
      route(server, message);
   }

   @Override
   public void addAddress(AddressInfo addressInfo) throws Exception {
      if (addQueues) {
         Message message = createMessage(addressInfo.getName(), null, ADD_ADDRESS, addressInfo.toJSON());
         route(server, message);
      }
   }

   @Override
   public void deleteAddress(AddressInfo addressInfo) throws Exception {
      if (deleteQueues) {
         Message message = createMessage(addressInfo.getName(), null, DELETE_ADDRESS, addressInfo.toJSON());
         route(server, message);
      }
   }

   @Override
   public void createQueue(QueueConfiguration queueConfiguration) throws Exception {
      if (addQueues) {
         Message message = createMessage(queueConfiguration.getAddress(), queueConfiguration.getName(), CREATE_QUEUE, queueConfiguration.toJSON());
         route(server, message);
      }
   }

   @Override
   public void deleteQueue(SimpleString address, SimpleString queue) throws Exception {
      if (deleteQueues) {
         Message message = createMessage(address, queue, DELETE_QUEUE, queue.toString());
         route(server, message);
      }
   }

   @Override
   public void sendMessage(Message message, RoutingContext context, List<MessageReference> refs) {

      try {
         context.setReusable(false);

         MessageReference ref = MessageReference.Factory.createReference(message, snfQueue);
         snfQueue.refUp(ref);
         refs.add(ref);
         message.usageUp();

         setProtocolData(ref);

         if (message.isDurable() && snfQueue.isDurable()) {
            PostOfficeImpl.storeDurableReference(server.getStorageManager(), message, context.getTransaction(), snfQueue, true);
         }

      } catch (Throwable e) {
         logger.warn(e.getMessage(), e);
      }
   }

   public static void validateProtocolData(MessageReference ref, SimpleString snfAddress) {
      if (ref.getProtocolData() == null && !ref.getMessage().getAddressSimpleString().equals(snfAddress)) {
         setProtocolData(ref);
      }
   }

   private static void setProtocolData(MessageReference ref) {
      Map<Symbol, Object> daMap = new HashMap<>();
      DeliveryAnnotations deliveryAnnotations = new DeliveryAnnotations(daMap);
      daMap.put(INTERNAL_ID, ref.getMessage().getMessageID());
      String address = ref.getMessage().getAddress();
      if (address != null) { // this is the message that was set through routing
         Properties amqpProperties = getProperties(ref.getMessage());
         if (amqpProperties == null || !address.equals(amqpProperties.getTo())) {
            // We set the internal destination property only if we need to
            // otherwise we just use the one already set over Properties
            daMap.put(INTERNAL_DESTINATION, ref.getMessage().getAddress());
         }
      }
      ref.setProtocolData(deliveryAnnotations);
   }

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A New Approach to an Age-Old Problem: Solving Externalities by Incenting Workers Directly
Greer K. Gosnell, John A. List, Robert Metcalfe
---- Acknowledgments ----
We thank participants at the 2015 EEE and PPE NBER Summer Institute sessions for excellent remarks that considerably improved the research, and seminar participants at Columbia University, Dartmouth College, University of British Columbia, University of Chicago, University of Tennessee, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Omar Al-Ubaydli, Steve Cicala, Diane Coyle, Paul Dolan, Robert Dur, Robert Hahn, Glenn Harrison, Justine Hastings, David Jimenez-Gomez, Matthew Kahn, Kory Kroft, Edward Lazear, Steve Levitt, Bentley MacLoed, Jonathan Meer, Michael Norton, Sally Sadoff, Laura Schechter, Jessie Shapiro, Kathryn Shaw, Kerry Smith, Alex Teytelboym, Gernot Wagner, and Catherine Wolfram provided remarks that helped to sharpen our thoughts. Thanks to The Templeton Foundation and the Science of Philanthropy Initiative at the University of Chicago for providing the generous funds to make this experiment possible. Further thanks to the UK Civil Aviation Authority and the pilots' unions who took the time to review and approve of the study objectives and material. A special thanks to those individuals at Virgin Atlantic Airways—especially to Paul Morris, Claire Lambert, Emma Harvey, and Captain David Kistruck—and Rolls Royce (especially Mark Goodhind and Simon Mayes) for their essential roles in the implementation of this experiment. These parties are in no way responsible for the analyses and interpretations presented in this paper. We thank Florian Rundhammer and Andrew Simon for their excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Film, Images & Historical Interpretation in the 20th Century: The Camera Never Lies
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This course is a short taster on the topic of the use of Images, Film, and their use in historical interpretation in the 20th century. It is primarily provided for those who have a general interest in history that draws on photojournalism as primary evidence, and films based on historical events. Once you have completed this course we hope you will be equipped to: Appreciate the significance of photographs as historical evidence in the twentieth century. Understand the limitations of the medium, and how we can attribute meaning to these individual records of 'one moment in time' while taking into account the circumstances in which any particular image was taken. Understand how individuals and institutions have looked to manipulate images to their own ends – through alteration and/or censorship – and what that meant to contemporary interpretation, as well as subsequent historical interpretation. Put individual images into a wider context, and in particular with reference to history written, or portrayed, beyond academia: public history. Do be aware that part of the contents of this course regard images and depiction of war. Real wars and real images.
This is an excellent course and I have really enjoyed it. The topics covered are diverse and the course has provided me with several areas for further independent research.
Excellent course, learn a great deal about the subject in a short time. This course and the program are great for those who strive to be life long learners.
From Page to Screen: Film as Public History
What is 'Public History'? How do photographs and films with an historical theme shape our awareness of historical events and our memories?
Introduction3:53
Approach to study3:28
Flags of Our Fathers: The Book and Film as Public History9:42
Letters from Iwo Jima9:52
Academic critiques5:32
An Honourable Suicide8:02
Interview with Julio Etchart: America's Other 9/1124:18
Final Thoughts (MOOC wrap up) 5:17
Dr Emmett Sullivan
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Now, let me introduce, the, the film, Letters from Iwo Jima. released, again in 2006, and I think it was released quite late in the year. But, at a point in time when it could be considered for the Oscars the following year. and that's, that's something that happens reasonably regularly. We mentioned it in the context of Black Hawk Down. Now, both Steven Spielberg, who produced, or was the executive producer of Flags of Our Fathers. And also thinking about Letters From Iwo Jima considered this as quite an important piece in many respects. But Clint Eastwood himself as the director, you can look at some of the interviews he's given around what went on, did say that he became more and more interested in what was happening with the actual commander of, commander in chief of the Japanese forces. Tadamichi Kuribayashi. >> Okay. >> We're going to get various variations when we're pronouncing that during the course of the day. As I said previously, for those of you native Japanese speakers, I can only apologize. And moving on from that, okay? The, he'd simply become, who was this man? That actually took the responsibility to defend Iwo Jima, this five-mile island. I, I think in what, the book, it's described as 22 kilometers square. So not a very large space. But to defend it, and to defend it with the intelligence and the sophistication that the Japanese did. >> Mm. >> And the point being that whereas with "Flags of Our Fathers", there was a book. It was James Bradley's account of what was going on. With Letters of Iwo Jima, actually you had the, the book itself is called Picture Letters From the Commander In Chief, and it's been given a, a subtitle of Letters From Iwo Jima to tie in with the movie. Okay. So we actually have information, a, a group of letters about Kuribayashi in this regard, but we don't have a Japanese narrative about what went on. >> No, because it, it's, letters on structure in the way that the narrative would be. >>Yep. And, again, its, you know, partly things you'd consider was a historian, if you take correspondence, how we're actually going to, make sense of these letters within a, a, archival material, written correspondence, whatever, in a broader context. Okay, now so, in terms of citing source material for the film the Picture Letters from the Commander in Chief is one source. And the other is written by. >> Kumiko Kakehashi, which was original published as so sad to fall in battle, an account in war based on a general, Tadamichi Kuribayashi's letters from Iwo Jima. Now that was actually retitled to tie in with the film, and has the popular edition I have here says Letters From Iwo Jima. Okay. So what you have is source material which is in some respect primary evidence. In another respect is a narrative, a historical narrative, around that primary evidence. I think the letters con, that, constitute the, the, so sad to fall in battle actually cover about 8 months. It's not a complete, complete narrative all the way through. but not, not only that, I believe these letters were discovered at Iwo Jima as unposted. That they were relics from the battle, so to speak. they couldn't be distributed off the island. Because of communications issues and the American onslaught. >> Mm. >> And I think it's 2005, that these letters were found again. >>So it's within the arc of the production of the films that suddenly we have another source coming up that gives a different perspective on what's going on. >> I mean the problem with any, any letters, if you'd like, is the idea that if I'm, you know, sort of lying wounded in a ditch, I'm not going to write home and tell mom that I'm lying wounded in a ditch. I'm going to tell her that everything is fine and that I've been promoted, so not to say that letters aren't valid source or that they need to be taken with a, with a grain of salt. Or, or, or in this case we,we know that soldiers will write with military censorship in mind, and will avoid certain topic. Knowing that the letters may not be forwarded. All of the lower sections will be blanked out. Which, which h-, is something that has happened in the past i-, in different environments. Okay? So, what we have is, a body of material. We have a director who's very familiar with the battle. He's working on, a multi stranded film in terms of Flags of our Fathers. And I've described it as multi. describe as multi-stranded. Because it does cut backwards and forwards through the historical narrative. It is not a continuous chronology, going through. it the point that many reviewers say. Is that the, the key flag raising actually take, take place, until around about 90, about 90 minutes into the film. So, let's just consider the, the issues around us, we have, a committed director. I think, one of the, I think that the main producer of both movies described Clint Eastwood as a fearless filmmaker. So, the fact that he doesn't speak Japanese, doesn't have a consistent source material in the way that he has for the first book. And has not in the past worked with, Japanese actors or crews to the degree that Letters from Iwo Jima required, wasn't a problem for him. It, what it meant was a way of actually structuring and scripting. Letters of Iwo Jima as initially a companion piece. But I as I'll say probably the more lauded and the more respected of the two movies in, in, in it's entirety. Paul Haggis basically had taken on the responsibility of writing Flags of our Fathers, with a degree of trepidation. He, he loved the book. I mean, he, he respected what was written there. but you hear him commenting in, in the DVD extras about, Well, you know? Perhaps I can get you 10 percent there, or 11 percent there, etcetera, etcetera. And how do you craft a story around this? When it comes to now can we write something in Japanese. It became problematic and the end solution was in terms of Iris's participation and what went down on the actual writing of the script, was to have someone who was American Japanese. to write it with Paul in terms of the actual context of a story. Then to write it in English and then to have it translated into Japanese. So there's a process of it, iteration and I think that that's interesting in taking a story which is in Japanese and translate it into English. >>And then converting it back. yeah. Translation is one thing, but it's also a case of the number of times you're getting possible compromises along the line. >>History is written by the victor as we know, so, that's in itself a problem with general hi-, history writing. >>Mm-hm. >> But. >> You've got, then, the added thing of no one has really written about this from the losing side either. >> Or at least not written it in, written it in the same way and same consistent way as Flags of Our Father has put it from the American side. And also there is an issue about the way in which these events are presented to the Japanese public more generally as well. So in terms of moving this discussion on, and, and, and the way we might consider it. we have a, a different arc from page to screen, because, there isn't, a continuous narrative there. There isn't a, a set of source material which, gives a story, per se with the same detail and structure. But what we have is a reflection of that story from a Japanese perspective. And I know that, some of the characters in, in the Letters for Iwo Jima were fictionalized. And this it where it comes to the point well, is it the writing of history or is it produ-, production of entertainment? And that's something that we can, we can come back to as we got through this discussion today. [INAUDIBLE] .


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Discovery Publication
Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist born on 9 October 1873. He is also the father of astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild. The physicist and astronomer Karl Schwarzschild developed the concept of black holes, showing that when stars undergo gravitational collapse and shrink below a certain size (now called the Schwarzschild radius) the gravitational pull becomes so great that not even light can escape. He was able to use photographic plates to determine the apparent magnitude of stars, theorized that space is non-Euclidean, determined the diameters of particles in comets' tails, and calculated the first rigorous solution to Albert Einstein's field equations. He is best known for providing the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical non-rotating mass, which he accomplished in 1915, the same year that Einstein first introduced general relativity. The Schwarzschild solution, makes use of Schwarzschild coordinates and the Schwarzschild metric, leads to the well-known Schwarzschild radius, which is the size of the event horizon of a non-rotating black hole. The uncharged, zero angular momentum black holes are called Schwarzschild black holes. Uncharged nonzero angular momentum black holes are called Kerr black holes. Non-spinning charged black holes are called Reissner-Nordström black holes. Charged, spinning black holes are called Kerr- Newman black holes.
DISCOVERY OF THE MONTH
Discovery of America by Columbus on 12th October 1492
Anam Haider
Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. Little is known of his early life, but he worked as a seaman and then a maritime entrepreneur. He became obsessed with the possibility of pioneering a western sea route to Cathay (China), India, and the gold and spice islands of Asia. At the time, Europeans knew no direct sea route to southern Asia, and the route via Egypt and the Red Sea was closed to Europeans by the Ottoman Empire, as were many land routes. Contrary to popular legend, educated Europeans of Columbus' day did believe that the world was round, as argued by St. Isidore in the seventh century.
Discovery, 2012, 2(4), 2-3
Artificial Intelligence: Bringing expert knowledge to computers
Harpreet Kaur, Jyoti, Jyoti Yadav, Ankur Arora, Dolly, Laveena Ahuja
This paper discusses what artificial intelligence (AI) exactly means, what is the need of AI, applications of AI and its advantages and disadvantages; and evaluates the future aspects of artificial intelligence. AI is the study and design of intelligent agents. The original goal of artificial intelligence was the construction of "thinking machines".. Artificial Intelligence is the key technology in many of today's novel applications. Although there are some fairly pure applications of AI -- such as industrial robots, for the most part, AI does not produce stand-alone systems, but instead adds knowledge and reasoning to existing applications, databases, and environments, to make them friendlier, smarter, and more sensitive to user behavior and changes in their environments.
Teachers' self-efficacy as correlates of secondary school students' academic achievement in southwestern Nigeria
Emmanuel O. Adu, Ruramayi Tadu, Ifeoma Eze
A school is a complex subculture within the larger society. It possesses its own culture that influences both teachers and students' behaviour towards achieving the educational goals. Secondary schools has recorded poor performance in recent times in public examinations. Several studies have been carried out on teachers, students, schools and home factors, but not much have been done on school culture and students' academic performance. This study, therefore, examined the influence of teachers' self-efficacy on students' academic performance in selected secondary school subjects in Southwestern Nigeria.
Discovery, 2012, 2(4), 8-16
On the homogeneous cubic equation with four unknowns (X3+Y3 = 14Z3 - 3W2(X+Y))
Gopalan MA, Vidhyalakshmi S, Sumathi G
The homogeneous cubic equation with four unknowns represented by the diophantine equation (X3+Y3 = 14Z3 - 3W2(X+Y)) is analyzed for its patterns of non-zero distinct integral solutions. A few interesting relations between the solutions and special numbers are exhibited.
Discovery, 2012, 2(4), 17-19
Near field communication (NFC): an expertise primer
Ashish Kumar, Ankur Arora, Ch. Jahirul Islam
NFC is a short range wireless technology that allows communications to take place between devices that either touch or are momentarily held close together. The technology works via magnetic field induction and operates on an unlicensed radio frequency band. "Tags" are embedded within devices (these could be mobile devices such as mobile phones or PDAs, or NFC stations such as ticket barriers or cash registers).


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Q: Python parsing string,lists I am currently struggling to parse the following string - the response from API request -
https://api.iextrading.com/1.0/deep/book?symbols=goog
the output from this API is

{"GOOG":{"bids":[{"price":1030.79,"size":100,"timestamp":1541428203560},{"price":1003.79,"size":200,"timestamp":1541429104723}],"asks":[{"price":1040.62,"size":100,"timestamp":1541429609821},{"price":1084.79,"size":100,"timestamp":1541428203541},{"price":1111.79,"size":200,"timestamp":1541428981007}]}}

Looking to get the price value and size value from the output both bids and asks. To save it in data frames or another workable format.
Thank you for your help!

I was able to get the first line of each by formatting it into fdataframe and indexing, like
a = pd.read_json(url).dropna()
r = pd.DataFrame(a)
print(r.iloc[0][0][0])

Response
{'timestamp': 1541428203541, 'price': 1084.79, 'size': 100}

but I still need to parse it somehow to get price and size values...

A: Assuming that this is JSON; use json.loads to convert it into a nested dictionary.
>>> line = '{"GOOG":{"bids":[{"price":1070.92,"size":100,"timestamp":1541089522066}],"asks":[]}}'
>>> d = json.loads(line)
>>> d["GOOG"]["bids"][0]["price"]
1070.92
>>> d["GOOG"]["bids"][0]["size"]
100

From comments:

url = "api.iextrading.com/1.0/deep/book?symbols=goog"
d = json.loads(url)`

Well, the problem is that you are trying to parse the URL itself as a JSON string. This is not what json.loads does. Instead, you have to read the content from that URL first, e.g. using urllib, or just use pandas.read_json as you already did in the other code in your question:
>>> d = pd.read_json(url).to_dict()
>>> d["GOOG"]["bids"][0]["price"]
1037.23

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