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Review, Pricing, and Specs
Highs Friendly and unassuming styling, a broad range of available powertrains, standard driver-assistance features.
Lows Entry-level models are very basic, unrefined base engine, hybrid powertrains come with hefty price hikes.
Verdict While nicely sized and fairly practical, the Escape lacks the finesse of class-leading compact SUVs.
By Drew Dorian
With the launch of the similarly sized Bronco Sport last year, giving compact SUV buyers an off-road capable option at their Ford showroom, the 2022 Escape's soft-road capability and carlike ride and handling can continue to serve on-road-oriented drivers. Unlike the Bronco Sport, the Escape can be had with hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains, although the base turbo three- and upgraded turbo-four engines are still offered here. The Escape offers plenty of people and cargo space inside, but its cabin isn't as refined as rivals such as the Hyundai Tucson, the Mazda CX-5, and the Volkswagen Tiguan. Still, the Escape comes standard with desirable driver-assistance features and can be outfitted with plentiful optional luxuries and convenience items—as long as you're willing to pay for one of the higher trim levels.
Other than three new blue colors joining the options sheet—Atlas Blue, Flight Blue, and Iced Blue—the 2022 Escape is the same as the 2021 model.
Pricing and Which One to Buy
The best value of the lineup is the mid-range SEL trim with front-wheel drive. The SEL adds plenty of niceties that compact-SUV shoppers will appreciate, including rear parking sensors, memory settings for the driver's seat and exterior mirrors, faux leather upholstery, a remote-start feature, a leather-wrapped steering wheel with heat, a hands-free power liftgate, fog lamps, and roof-rack side rails.
Engine, Transmission, and Performance
The 2022 Escape offers a wide range of powertrains, starting with a 181-hp turbocharged 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine that can be had with either front- or all-wheel drive. The turbo three, while somewhat grumbly and unrefined, provides adequate acceleration and managed to motivate an all-wheel-drive Escape SE to 60 mph in 7.7 seconds at our test track. Upgrading to the 250-hp turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder is the compelling choice and was powerful enough to score a 5.7-second result in the same zero-to-60-mph test. Both gasoline engines are paired to an eight-speed automatic transmission. To tackle new competition in the form of the Honda CR-V hybrid and the Toyota RAV4 Prime, Ford also offers two Escape hybrids—one of which is a plug-in—and those powertrains consist of a 2.5-liter four-cylinder and two electric motors which combine to make 221-hp.
Range, Charging, and Battery Life
The plug-in hybrid model will carry a 14.4-kWh battery pack, which is good enough for an EPA-estimated 37 miles of electric-only driving. When we have a chance to test the plug-in model and learn more about the plug-in hybrid's capabilities we will update this story with more details.
Fuel Economy and Real-World MPG
According to the EPA, the turbocharged 1.5-liter three-cylinder model with front-wheel drive will offer the highest fuel economy estimates among nonhybrid Escape models. It's rated for 27 mpg city, 33 mpg highway, and 30 mpg combined; adding all-wheel drive drops those numbers to 26 mpg city, 31 mpg highway, and 28 mpg combined. We tested an all-wheel-drive model with the turbo three-cylinder and managed an impressive 35 mpg during our 75-mph highway fuel-economy route. Although the larger turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder with all-wheel drive is rated for 23 mpg city, 31 mpg highway, and 26 mpg combined, we ended up with a 32-mpg highway result in our testing. For those seeking the most efficient Escape, look no further than the plug-in hybrid model, which earns fuel economy ratings as high as 44 mpg city. For more information about the Escape's fuel economy, visit the EPA's website.
Interior, Comfort, and Cargo
The Escape's cabin, while handsomely styled and spacious for both front- and rear-seat occupants, suffers from several low-rent plastic panels, including those on the doors and lower center console. Highly textured cloth seat upholstery is standard, while higher trim levels receive either convincing faux-leather seating surfaces or genuine leather in the top-spec Titanium. Behind the Escape's rear seat is a capacious cargo hold that provides space for up to eight carry-on suitcases, which ties its crosstown rival, the Chevrolet Equinox. We fit 21 cases with the Escape's rear seats folded, but the Equinox held two more.
The Car and Driver Difference
Why We Test: Every Number Tells a Story
Infotainment and Connectivity
While base S models come with a 4.2-inch radio display and an AM/FM radio as the only entertainment, SE trim levels and higher get a larger 8.0-inch touchscreen display with Ford's latest Sync 3 infotainment interface and Apple CarPlay/Android Auto capability. A smartphone app provides remote access to vehicle telematics and remote start on all Escape models, but the most connected and high-tech Escape is the Titanium model, which comes standard with a 10-speaker B&O Play audio system, in-dash navigation, and a 12.3-inch digital gauge display. A pop-up head-up display is optional.
Safety and Driver-Assistance Features
Ford is offering a suite of driver-assistance features, which it calls Co-Pilot360, as standard on every Escape model. For more information about the Escape's crash-test results, visit the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) websites. Key safety features include:
Standard forward-collision warning with automated emergency braking
Standard lane-departure warning with lane-keeping assist
Standard blind-spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert
Warranty and Maintenance Coverage
Ford's standard warranty package is fairly basic, especially compared to rivals such as the Hyundai Tucson and the Kia Sportage, both of which offer far longer powertrain coverage. The Escape hybrid and plug-in hybrid will both come with a policy that's specific to those models' electrified powertrains and provides up to 100,000 miles worth of protection.
Limited warranty covers 3 years or 36,000 miles
Powertrain warranty covers 5 years or 60,000 miles
Hybrid component warranty covers 8 years or 100,000 miles
No complimentary scheduled maintenance
2020 Ford Escape SE 1.5T AWD
front-engine, all-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 4-door hatchback
$30,485 (base price: $29,790)
turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 12-valve inline-3, aluminum block and head, port and direct fuel injection
91 cu in, 1496 cc
Suspension (F/R): struts/multilink
Brakes (F/R): 13.0-in vented disc/11.9-in disc
Tires: Continental ProContact TX, 225/65R-17 102H M+S
Passenger volume: 103 cu ft
Cargo volume: 99 cu ft
Rollout, 1ft: 0.3 sec
Standing ¼-mile: 15.9 sec @ 87 mph
Top speed (governor limited): 122 mph
Roadholding, 300-ft-dia skidpad*: 0.84 g
*stability-control-inhibited
Highway range: 540 miles
2020 Ford Escape Titanium 2.0T AWD
turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 16-valve inline-4, aluminum block and head, direct fuel injection
120 cu in, 1974 cc
Tires: Bridgestone Ecopia H/L 422 Plus, 225/55R-19 99H M+S
EPA FUEL ECONOMY (C/D EST)
More Features and Specs
More From Ford
2023 Ford Bronco Raptor
2023 Ford Ranger Raptor
2022 Ford E-Transit
Mazda CX-5 Starting at $27,125
Volkswagen Tiguan Starting at $27,490
Hyundai Tucson Starting at $26,195
Honda CR-V Starting at $27,625
Ford Bronco Sport Starting at $28,910
Ford Escape Starting at $27,255


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Today, communication through audiovisual media is stronger than ever. To keep up with the latest work opportunities, many translators have chosen to break into this yet-very-young translation area, without being truly prepared.
A colleague has recently mentioned that he was thinking about sitting for the entrance examinations for an important international company looking for subtitlers. I told him that I thought it was a great idea, but that I was unaware that he was doing audiovisual translations. Without hesitating, he said that it would be his first time working in this area but that he thought it'd be fun. Needless to say, he did not pass the entrance examination. However, there are many translators like him that underestimate the specialty and, also, there are many unprepared companies that fail to acknowledge this risk.
Public will be constantly exposed to source language. As a result, they are aware at all times that they are dealing with a translation. This doesn't happen when they read a book, for example. If on top of this we consider that public may not be aware of the technical aspects of this type of work, we'll be able to understand why it is common to hear more complaints about subtitle translations than literary translations. For this reason, subtitle invisibility is the top goal of an audiovisual translator.
Translation must appear on screen during the time equivalent to its utterance. Here is where one of the essential subtitling parameters comes into play: reading speed. No matter how good a translation may be, it is useless if the public can't read fast enough to understand it, right?
Translation must not cover more screen space than necessary. As a result, there are limits regarding the number of characters per line and location on the screen.
Having so many restrictions, this kind of translations results in the inability to translate the whole of the original text. Audiovisual translators must know how to prioritize information and translate only what is necessary to convey the message without covering the screen with text or forcing the public to read too fast.
It is important that each subtitle line has the longest meaning or semantic unit possible. That means that translators must avoid splitting articles or adjectives from their respective nouns, or leaving isolated prepositions, etc. Once more, its purpose is to naturalize subtitle reading to make translation invisible.
Audiovisual translators are not limited to translating a message from one language into the other; they must also consider that the message is being converted from oral into written form. As if this weren't enough, we also have visual marks (such as looks or gestures) that may potentially affect the message.
There are many types of texts that pose challenges related to informal language and contemporary culture, but such difficulties are even greater in the oral language. For example, audiovisual translators may have to subtitle a song trying to keep its humor, rhyme and making sure it matches what's being shown on screen.
Each scene in a TV show or movie has been meticulously planned by many people to achieve the perfect rhythm. If we can make subtitles merge naturally into the audiovisual rhythm, we can help the public forget they are facing a translation and our work will become invisible.
Translators must avoid creating subtitles that do not match shots or scene changes. This is one of the most time-consuming technical aspects for the translator, but it is crucial to guarantee subtitle invisibility.
Audiovisual translation is intrinsically linked to technology. Unlike other types of translations, where technology becomes just added value, in this case it is a mandatory requirement. There commonly are format and audio problems, among many others. For this reason, translators and Project Managers must be in touch constantly to avoid running into errors when it's already too late.
Audiovisual translation poses an exciting challenge and it's encouraging that there are so many colleagues looking to engage in it, but it must not be underestimated. As Donald Kendall has said: "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." Customers must also understand this, as they shouldn't give work to unprepared translators.


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Nerd Street Gamers Partners with Butler to Host Virtual Esports Summer Camp
Posted on June 17, 2020 by Butler Esports
Nerd Street Gamers, the national network of esports facilities and events dedicated to powering competitive opportunities for gamers, and Butler University have partnered to host the University's inaugural virtual esports summer camp, Camp Localhost, presented by Butler Esports. Starting June 29, teens ages 14-18 will have the opportunity to participate in a structured, week-long online esports camp focusing on a variety of video games, including Overwatch, Rocket League, League of Legends, and Fortnite. These boot camps will be held through Discord, where campers will be virtually overseen by a coach, who will run games, drills, and matches throughout the duration of the week.
Camp Localhost coaches will provide a structured environment for participants to learn about the fundamentals of competitive gaming, map and game strategy, team dynamics, and effective communication skills. In addition to improving their gaming abilities, campers will take away various skills throughout the sessions that they can apply to other aspects of their lives, including teamwork, communication, and the ability to stay calm under pressure. Nerd Street Gamers is providing the logistics for the clinics, including professional instructors and camp programming. Butler Esports will also provide coaches, along with communications and recruitment of players.
"Our partnerships—including our latest with Butler Esports—allow us to address the shortage of competitive frameworks for young gamers and provide a gateway to collegiate and professional leagues," said John Fazio, Founder and CEO at Nerd Street Gamers. "Nerd Street Gamers is taking a unique approach to competitive gaming, and we're excited to provide an opportunity for gamers who may have experienced the cancellation of many traditional summer camps this year. Our partnership with Butler allows us to engage and connect aspiring players in an online esports camp, while fostering relationships with a prominent collegiate esports league."
Since 2017, the Butler Esports group has been competing in intercollegiate esports, including the Big East Conference. Its administration brings this experience to Camp Localhost to empower students to truly become ingrained in the games. Every session will allow campers to scrimmage, practice their skills, and then evaluate their performance with structured, individualized feedback from instructors. The camps will also include daily seminars from industry experts, professional players, and more.
"Esports and gaming continues to grow on our campus, especially after launching our first dedicated Esports and Gaming Center in our Atherton Union," said Dr. Frank E. Ross, VP for Student Affairs at Butler. "We must continue to evolve with our students' passions recreationally and competitively. This provides clear connectivity of our students through employment opportunities that will enhance our student experience and career aspirations, while also developing the student of tomorrow."
Across the nation, COVID-19 has disrupted events and industries. Due to safety concerns, traditional summer camps have been postponed, creating a unique opportunity for esports to offer an alternative solution and fill the void for structured summer activities. Camp Localhost offers gamers and parents a worry-free, safe option to participate in a traditional summer camp experience, while teaching valuable life lessons virtually amid the pandemic.
"We look forward to this new camp and the partnership with Nerd Street Gamers," said Eric Kammeyer, Director of Esports and Gaming Technology at Butler. "With so many traditional in-person camps postponed, we modified to launch our first-ever esports summer camp in virtual format to bring our program to the participant. Our Butler Esports program strives to lay a strong holistic foundation with three pillars in mind: Community, Curriculum and Competition. We believe this is another strong partnership that highlights those elements by delivering impactful learning in a new way to our current and prospective students."
June 29 – July 2: Fortnite
July 13 – July 16: Rocket League
July 20 – July 24: Overwatch
July 27 – July 31: League of Legends
To register for Camp Localhost, presented by Butler Esports, visit nerdstgamers.com/butler.
About Nerd Street Gamers
Nerd Street Gamers is a national network of esports facilities and events dedicated to powering competitive opportunities for gamers. The company promotes greater access to the esports industry, laying a national framework for esports talent development and high-quality gaming tournaments. NSG has received backing from Five Below, Comcast, SeventySix Capital, Elevate Ventures, and angel investor George Miller. For more information, follow @nerdstgamers on Twitter or visit nerdstgamers.com.
About Butler University
Butler University is a nationally recognized comprehensive university encompassing six colleges: Arts, Business, Communication, Education, Liberal Arts & Sciences, and Pharmacy & Health Sciences. Approximately 4,600 undergraduate and 800 graduate students are enrolled at Butler, representing 45 states and 30 countries. More than 75 percent of Butler students will participate in some form of internship, and Butler students have had significant success after graduation, as demonstrated by the University's 98 percent placement rate within six months of graduation. The University was recently listed as the No. 1 regional university in the Midwest, according to the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Rankings, in addition to being included in The Princeton Review's annual "best colleges" guidebook.
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Butler University admits students of any race to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at Butler University. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
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Pet World is an independently owned local pet retail store. We carry an expansive selection of products for all of your pets, whether you have a dog, cat, small animal, bird, fish, or exotic pet. We also sell a small selection of carefully sourced small animals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians.
At Pet World we believe that a happy pet makes for a happy owner and we strive to provide our customers with everything they need to keep their pets happy. We will accommodate special orders and are glad to help you any way we can. Give us a call if you need assistance searching out a special pet product.
Pet World was founded over 25 years ago. The owners had years of experience selling whole sale pet supplies, but wanted to branch out and fulfill a need they saw in the retail pet supply market.
In 1990 they founded Pet World.
Ever since, Pet World has been striving to be the best pet store in the Metrowest area with the largest variety of items. We carry numerous hard-to-find pet items, have a knowledgeable staff, and sell healthy, well-cared-for small animals, exotic pets, fish, reptiles, and birds.
For years, Pet World has housed the adoption center for Stray Pets In Need of Massachusetts (SPIN). Working with SPIN, they have placed thousands of stray and surrendered cats into loving homes.
At Pet World, we want to provide the very best for your pets. Come in and visit us at our Natick store.


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Friday Faves: What's Your Favorite Thing about Grove City's Arts in the Alley?
Posted on Friday, September 18th, 2015 at 3:38 pm.
We love that Arts in the Alley was mentioned as a favorite! The popular festival is this weekend, September 19 & 20. We will have a booth in the Kids Fun Street area with games and a postcard coloring contest. Your little one (or not-so-little one) could have their artwork made into a postcard!
Now, onto this week's Friday Faves. To keep with the theme of Arts in the Alley, this week, we want to know: what is your favorite thing about Grove City's Arts in the Alley?


Auto accidents — like other personal injury scenarios — can vary quite substantially, depending on the circumstances. As such, the outcome of auto accident litigation in Pennsylvania may appear (to those unfamiliar with injury lawsuits) to be rather unexpected or even arbitrary. For example, it may not be clear to first-time litigants how they might be better covered by insurance in situations where a commercial vehicle is involved (due to potential employer liability). In reality, there are expansive rules governing employer liability in situations where a commercial vehicle is involved.
Here at Berger & Lagnese, LLC, an experienced Pittsburgh commercial vehicle accidents lawyer can assist you with bringing an action against both the driver and their employer. We represent commercial vehicle accident victims throughout Allegheny County, Butler County, Westmoreland County, and everywhere else in Western PA, including Pittsburgh, Cranberry Township, Butler, Greensburg, Indiana, Washington, and New Castle. Contact our firm today for a free consultation and an evaluation of your commercial vehicle accident claims.
In Pennsylvania, as in other states, employers may be held liable for the negligence of their employees pursuant to the doctrine of vicarious liability. In other words, an employer may be held responsible for the damages you suffer, even if they did not act negligently or wrongfully themselves. Importantly, however, Pennsylvania law only allows for the imposition of vicarious liability where the defendant-driver was acting within the course and scope of their employment (which depends on the circumstances).
For example, if the defendant-driver was commuting home from work, that may not be considered "within the course and scope" of their employment. On the other hand, if the defendant-driver was delivering a package by request of management, then that may be considered "within the course and scope" of their employment.
There are, of course, many reasons as to why an injured plaintiff (such as yourself) would want to impose liability on an employer. Prime amongst these reasons is access to more adequate insurance coverage. Whereas an individual employee may have limited insurance coverage, a business is much more likely to be covered by a substantial insurance policy, which can lead to greater compensation for the victim.
Whereas vicarious liability holds the employer responsible for the negligence of their employees, a negligent hiring, supervision, and retention claim holds the employer responsible for their own unique contribution of negligence. In Pennsylvania and elsewhere, a negligent hiring, supervision, and retention claim may apply in addition to vicarious liability — the two claims are not mutually exclusive and do not necessarily interfere with one another.
Let's clarify with an example. Suppose that you are injured by a defendant-driver in a collision on a road in Pittsburgh, PA. With the assistance of a qualified Pennsylvania truck accident attorney, you investigate the situation more thoroughly and discover that the driver's employer hired them despite knowing that they were unlicensed (and therefore incompetent to operate a commercial vehicle). Not only is the driver negligent, but the employer could potentially be held liable for negligent hiring because the employer knew or should have known that the driver was unlicensed and therefore unqualified to operate the vehicle.
If you've been injured in an accident involving a commercial vehicle (where the defendant was negligent or acted recklessly or intentionally), then Pennsylvania law may give you a right of action against the driver and their employer, depending on the particular circumstances of your case. Litigation can be complicated by a number of factors — some quite unexpected — so it's important that you work with a team of attorneys who have a long and consistent track record of success in handling such claims.
Here at Berger & Lagnese, LLC in Pittsburgh, our experienced Western PA personal injury lawyers have decades of experience representing injured clients in a range of lawsuits, including those that involve commercial vehicle accidents. We understand the contours of litigation and what strategies should be employed to secure maximum compensation on behalf of clients.
Interested in learning more about your Pennsylvania commercial vehicle accident claims and potentially moving forward with the process of litigation? Call (412) 471-4300 or send us a message online to schedule a free and confidential consultation today. We look forward to helping you with your claims.


Durian lovers rejoice! The king of fruit takes centrestage in this recipe, where fresh durian puree is gently folded with just the right amount of cream to create a luscious concoction that's piped into freshly baked choux pastry. Obviously, the better quality durian you use, the better the durian puffs will taste. Oh, and resist the urge to eat all your durians before the choux buns finish baking! Enjoy!
Bring water, butter and salt to boil in a pot over medium heat.
Once boiling, add sifted flour in all at once and stir mixture together with a wooden spoon. The dough should start coming together.
When dough is at room temperature, add eggs in one a time, beating well with a wooden spoon after each addition.
Brush tops of dough with egg wash (egg yolk beaten with a little water) and bake at 180oC/350oF for 20-25 minutes until choux buns are crisp on the outside and fairly dry on the inside.
Meanwhile, put durian flesh in a food processor and pulse until creamy.
Dust icing sugar over durian puffs and serve cold.
how much sugar required? not listed in ingredient list but appeared in step 1 of method.
There is no sugar in the recipe, and have corrected it in the steps. Thanks for pointing that out!
My dough after adding the eggs came out too thick and dry…similar to play doh consistency. Can you advise what went wrong…thanks!
Hi, can i just use durian paste for the puffs or do i still need to mix with whipping cream?
Hi, it depends on the consistency and taste of the durian paste you are using. If it is made from fresh durian, then you could still mix in whipped cream to give it a more creamy texture. If it is made from cooked durian, then it might be difficult to fold cream in. I think you would just have to experiment and try it out based on the paste you have.
Hi can i check if i could use whipped cream rather than thickened creamwill there be a difference?
Not much difference. Thickened cream has a bit of thickening agent so it's a bit more stable, but whipping cream will work just fine too.
Good recipe. Thank you so much !
Hi hi. .. can I know the puffs need to be cool for how long before piping in the durian filling ?
how long can it last for and how do you keep it? by putting it in the refrigerator?
why my dough become very soft that it does not form a nice shape when i squeeze out from the piping bag?
Pls advise me how to made the shell of cream puffs more crusty.


Support the Petersfield Open Air Pool, and you could win up to £150.00 each month.
The Pool 200 club is your chance to help raise funds for the Petersfield Open-Air Pool, and stand the chance of winning one of three monthly prizes. Get in touch with us to receive a standing order mandate for your chance to participate in each month's draw! Each ticket in the monthly draw costs just £3.00.
The prizes are paid to the winners by cheque within three days of the draw taking place. A list of the winners for the current month is displayed on the notice board by the entrance to the pool. A complete list of prize winners is maintained by the pool committee for all members to see. In the interests of fairness, each draw is attended by at least three committee members or nominated representatives.
To make things nice and easy, subscriptions can be paid by standing order, either annually or on the first day of each month. Payments by cash or cheque are also gratefully accepted. The total number of tickets in the draw is limited to two-hundred, other than this there is no upper limit of numbers that can be held by any one person. The club is open to anyone over the age of eighteen.
If you are a tax payer, we can reclaim the tax on your contribution if you fill in a GIFT AID form (available from Diane). Help your donation work harder! Fill in the forms today! For more information, pick up a leaflet at the pool, or contact: Diane Harvey, Flat 5, King Williams Gate, The Square, Petersfield, GU32 3HP Tel: 01730 266838. Alternatively please email the pool to request a form.
Contact Diane with your preferred number(s). These numbers will be allocated to you if they're available, otherwise they will be picked at random.
The objective of the "Pool Two Hundred Club" is the provision of funds towards the general updating and improvements for the Petersfield Open Air Swimming Pool, being a charitable purpose.
All proceeds, deducting sums lawfully appropriated on account of expenses, or for the provision of prizes, shall be applied to the said charitable purpose. Notwithstanding, the funds may be used to the provision of running costs. The controls of the club and funds are the responsibility of the Petersfield Open Air Swimming Pool management committee and all decisions relating to any matters regarding the Club or the fund shall be the responsibility of that committee. The Club is restricted to 200 members and is available to any person over the age of 18.


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DO 365 's focus is to foster the celebration of volunteerism and our communities, while addressing ways communities, volunteers, businesses, and those in need can establish mutual trust, belonging and empowerment, especially during these tough economic times.
National Sign Up Day Events -- 12/31, 1/1, 7/4 and Labor Day -- "Sign Up! Party On!" -- encouraging nationwide volunteerism sign up opportunities at existing holiday parades, sporting events and gatherings, and inviting fun Day One January 1st festivals in towns that don't yet have new year's celebrations. DO 365 hopes to lobby for a Congressional Resolution and Presidential Proclamation for official recognition for the benfits of nationwide sign up days for communities.
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The design and management of technology-enhanced learning has become increasingly complex since the early days of CBT and eLearning, and now incorporates trends and technologies such as social learning, BYOD, natural user interface (NUI) and gamification.
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struct Speed
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    float x;
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struct Acceleration
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    float x;
    float y;
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    {
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class Destructor final : public System
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            EntitiesRegistry::destroy(entity);
        });
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};

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    void update()
    {
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        {
            speed.x += acc.x;
            speed.y += acc.y;
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        });
    }
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class Mover final : public System
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    void update()
    {
        for_each([](Position & pos, Speed const & speed)
        {
            pos.x += speed.x;
            pos.y += speed.y;
            pos.z += speed.z;
        });
    }
};

int main()
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    Creator     crt;
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    Mover       mv;

    crt.update();

    EntitiesRegistry::end_frame_process();

    for (size_t i = 0; i < 2000; ++i)
    {
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The No. 23 Harvard men's tennis team will play No. 45 Virginia Tech in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday. Senior Jon Pearlman, Freshman Shaun Chaudhuri and Head Coach Dave Fish give some insight to the weekend.


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The Chinese App Market Project…Paused?
So the Chinese App Market Project has paused for the moment. I've made some strides in this area but I've also switched jobs after spending 14 years with my previous employer. The job switch has forced me to learn another language (C#), which I have been doing in what little spare time I have.
There have also been a series of non-super-serious family incidents that have taken up more of my time. Maybe this is what life is like when you have a family with two small children: moving from one small crisis to the next, then it's 10:30 pm and all you want to do is have a beer on the couch or go to bed.
I have also found that I have been nurturing a more holistic appreciation of the tech world lately. I feel that this is an expansion of my previous perspective. I feel that in the past I was very much concerned with the nuts and the bolts of tech, and lately (while still being concerned with bolts) I've found myself appreciating the larger perspective. Trying to look at the system as a whole to develop a greater understanding of all its many parts, and thinking about how this will play out in the future.
For the moment it's all mobile for me. I can't get away from the fact that for the foreseeable future all signs seem to point to mobile taking over more and more of the world. Cheaper hardware, the way we work shifting based on mobile (think about how the PC or the web changed your job). What was your job like 25 years ago before everyone was using a PC? How did it change 15 years ago when the web took off? How will mobile change the way you work? This is what I spend my walks thinking about.
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Q: Launchpad keeps rearrarining icons Every time I reboot my Mac running macOS Sierra I lose my Launchpad layout. I've tried different apps, tried removing some preferences. All of the apps are reset to their default position.
Anyone have a solution on how to fix this?
Kr,
Vincent

A: I don't know what you've tried thus far but a solution I've found to work well in the past for Launchpad issues is just to force reset the Launchpad back to its default settings. Most people don't enjoy doing this because it requires you to then set everything back up the way you like it afterwards, but at this point that's what you're having to do after every restart anyways, so what have you got to lose?
To force reset Launchpad back to default settings:

*

*Launch Terminal.app

*Carefully type the following: defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall

*Wait until you notice the Dock refresh; this means the process is
complete

I would then only move a couple things around in Launchpad for time's sake (in case this didn't work) and then restart your Mac to test!
If that did not work, simply force-resetting may have not be enough. Maybe it wasn't just the defined settings inside of the file that were corrupt, but the entire file itself. If this is the case, we need to delete/remove the file and trigger the OS to create a brand new one. You have two options for this!
Option A)

*

*Navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Dock (yes, Dock!)

*Move any files in this folder to your Desktop (except for the one called 'desktoppicture.db' if one is present)

*Restart the Mac

*Move a few app icons around in Launchpad to suit your liking

*Restart the Mac again to test

*If the issue is resolved and no new problems occur you can move
the files(s) we relocated to the Desktop to the Trash; if issue still occurs (and especially if any new issues are occurring), move the file(s) on your Desktop back into the ~/Library/Application Support/Dock folder and choose "Replace" if prompted, then restart your Mac.

Option B)

*

*Navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Dock

*Move 'desktoppicture.db' to your Desktop (if the file exists)

*Launch Terminal

*Carefully type the following: rm ~/Library/Application\
Support/Dock/*.db ; killall Dock

*Restart your Mac

*Move 'desktoppicture.db' from your Desktop back to
~/Library/Application Support/Dock (if it was present in the first place)

*Move a few app icons around in Launchpad to suit your liking

*Restart the Mac again to test (your background should also be back to normal if it had been changed during this process)

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Bob Jones lives and works in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Recent exhibitions include Stone White Vinegar, Tree House Gallery, 2012. Mountains and Matter, 65GRAND, Chicago, IL in 2011. The Witching Hour, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL in 2010. Recent group exhibitions include Across the Wounded Galaxies, Heavy Brow Gallery, Bloomington, IL in 2011; IAAFBJHMJNMOMRSATSW, Fountain Studios, Brooklyn, NY and Reduced and Reclaimed-Gina Alvarez and Bob Jones, Dog and Pony Projects, Buffalo, NY in 2010; Greynbow, Horse Trader Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and Artists Run Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago in 2009. Jones' work has been written about in ArtSlant, Bad at Sports, Beautiful Decay and Newcity. He is represented by 65GRAND in Chicago, IL.
Brion Nuda Rosch, 35, is an artist, curator, and educator living and working in San Francisco. He is a 2010 Pantone Color of the Year Award winner, a Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship Finalist, a SFMOMA SECA Finalist, and 2009 San Francisco Artadia Award winner. Rosch is represented by Eli Ridgway in San Francisco, and DCKT Contemporary in New York. He combines his studio practice with the curatorial direction of Hallway Projects including the One-Day Artist Residency Program, and the visual art reference blog Something Home Something. Recent exhibits include Bay Area Now 6 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Isn't It Obvious? at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Material Deposits at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Armory Show in New York and solo exhibits at Eli Ridgway Gallery, Greg Kucera Gallery and Toves Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Carey Lin earned her M.F.A. from the University of Chicago in 2007 and served as a Teaching Fellow in the UChicago Department of Visual Arts in 2008. Originally from Florida, Carey now lives and works in San Francisco, where she co-directs the Royal NoneSuch Gallery in Oakland's Temescal distrct. She is also the recipient of a 2011 Alternative Exposure grant from Southern Exposure for Stairwell's, a roving curatorial project that includes temporary site-specific exhibitions, publications, and off-site excursions.
John Phillip Abbott lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife and two dogs where he teaches painting and drawing part-time at the University of New Mexico and works at a safe home for runaway and homeless youth. He received his BFA from Western New Mexico University in Silver City, NM in 2002 and received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin in 2007. Abbott has shown his work at Ebersmoore in Chicago, Galerie VanDerStegen in Paris, France and Galerie Urbane in Marfa, Texas.
Joshua Abelow is represented by James Fuentes in New York. He has upcoming solo exhibitions at Sorry We're Closed, Brussels and Brand New Gallery, Milan. You can find Abelow online here ART BLOG ART BLOG.
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Samantha Bittman received her BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004 and MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. Recent exhibitions include Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, The Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, 65Grand, Chicago, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, Threewalls, Chicago, and FFDG in San Francisco. In 2011 Bittman participated in the Skowhegan residency program, and in 2010 at Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI.
Seth Adelsberger has been living and working in Baltimore, MD since 2002. He is also Co-Director of Nudashank and publishes the painting tumblr "The Glaze."
Sofia Leiby is an artist and writer based in Chicago. She is a contributing editor of the media theory journal Pool and has recently exhibited at Alderman Exhibitions in Chicago and MermHaus in Portland.
Tatiana Berg (b. 1985, Washington D.C.) is a painter based in New York City. She is currently an MFA candidate at Columbia University.
Peter Shear, 32, is a painter interested in the secret and persistent radicality of appearances.
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Applying the final touch to the controversial Mann Island development on Liverpool's waterfront
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Workmen putting the finishes touches to the striking Mann Island development on Liverpool's waterfront.
The large-scale development by Neptune Developments and Countryside Properties comprises of 376 one, two and three bedroom apartments, plus office space and leisure facilities.
The shiny black monolithic slab has drawn contrasting opinions from locals and architectural experts alike.
Gavin Stamp, architect, historian and trustee of the 20th Century Society was immensely unimpressed by the buildings:
They should not be built. Not only is this a World Heritage Site, but there needs to be a break between the great 20th century group of the Pier Head's Three Graces and the 19th-century group of the Albert Dock. It was fine as it was with low-level buildings between the landmark groups, acting as a buffer zone so that neither of those groups are overwhelmed.
[Similar dockside view, 1911]
Meanwhile, Alistair Sunderland, architect and a member of the Ludcap panel was feeling the love, but loses the argument for the use of the word 'vibrant':
The polished granite cladding is …[a] contrast with the brilliant white of the neighbouring Port of Liverpool Building and the new Museum of Liverpool…As a neighbour, it's a complementary contrast to the new Museum of Liverpool. "One's black and shiny, the other's white and matt. They both use building shapes which are not familiar in our vocabulary and I think they make a very positive contribution to making the waterfront seem vibrant.
Ptolemy Dean, architect and presenter of BBC 2's Restoration programme disagreed:
The whole group of original buildings is brilliant. Until recently, by sheer good fortune, the clarity of Liverpool's greatness as a port and 20th- century commercial centre was preserved. It's the spaces between the buildings that matter and that's being taken away, with the wonderful sense of the skyline, so we are losing a vital part of the story. The three new granite block buildings are like sitting in an opera and hearing a mobile phone go off. The illusion is shattered by something interrupting it.
I rather like the look of it, but then I don't know what it looked like before, and can see that it's one hell of an architectural statement to impose on people. I can certainly see why some aren't too chuffed.
What do you think? Love it? Hate it?
Read more about the controversy behind this development here and see the developer's site here.
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Heloise says:
Sun 16th June, 2013 at 10:08 am
Very introverted development, says look at me. To hell with the historic context…..not convinced personally.
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Anytime author George R. R. Martin is seen somewhere, we're assuming a good portion of his readers get angry. Shouldn't he be sitting in a room somewhere, by his lonesome, finishing The Winds of Winter, the long-promised sixth book in his A Song of Ice and Fire cycle?
Yet there Martin was, at the Emmys, basking in the glory of Game of Thrones winning still more trophies. The Hollywood Reporter caught up with him at the ceremony, where they wound up talking about how he at least skipped set visits during the show's final season in order to find more writing time.
Among those distractions were various Emmys after parties, which he attended, rather than go straight back to the hotel and bang out another 20 pages or so. Doesn't he realize A Dance with Dragons, the previous installment, came out in 2011? In fact, it hit stores a mere three months after the HBO hit's very first episode, meaning the process of writing of the next book has a good chance of lasting longer than the show based on his books spanned its entire television run.


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I THOUGHT this week we could perhaps think of taking a stroll around the town, walk off some extra calories and take the chance to enjoy some of our town's historical buildings.
For this stroll, we should start at the Place St Maur des Fosses. This area was constructed following the re-development of York Road into the new Regis Centre, which was opened in 1980, alongside the flats of Mountbatten Court. It is difficult to believe that this area in the centre of our seafront was completed only 38 years ago.
From here, we should walk towards the town hall, passing, on our left, one of Arun District Council's Blue Plaques. This indicates the premises where Dante Gabriel Rosetti worked in 1875 in the stable of his home. These premises were until recently the garages for a group of solicitors and have been converted into flats.
Our next major construction, of course, is that of the town hall, which was opened in 1929, after the closure of the council's building in the High Street. This was one of a number of developments in the town, around the time that King George was here to recuperate.
It was felt that the town was in need of an imposing town hall. It is interesting to see the number of different stones that were incorporated into this building to act as a memorial to the builder, architect and council representatives of the time.
Next, we continue inland, along Clarence Road, passing the Roman Catholic church that was opened in 1882 by a group of monks. This massive construction would, at that time, have been very imposing in such a small seaside resort that was still only slowly developing. Previously, there had only been a small meeting area near West Street to accommodate the Catholics in the town.
Turning left, we will stroll along the High Street, which contains a variety of buildings built at varying times in the town's development.
First was one of the town's post offices, which was opened in 1926, after having a variety of previous sites throughout the town centre. Walking further along the High Street, on the opposite side, we see the Lock Centre, and it is quite difficult to realise that this was originally the town's fire station built in 1899, as shown on the top façade of the building.
Next door we have the William Hardwicke, which was opened in 1810 as The New Inn and was eventually changed to The Sussex Inn. It was built to accommodate the coach and horses that would travel down from London and pass through the town on their way to Portsmouth.
The name of William Hardwicke commemorates the name of the original builder of the New Inn. He is buried in South Bersted churchyard.
Opposite the William Hardwicke, we have a public house. Originally a private house constructed in 1870, over a number of years its front rooms were to become used as a restaurant. However, it was not until 1947 it was to be a public house known to many people as The Orlando.
For a small number of years, it became The Hogshead, before being renovated and renamed The Beach House and, recently, it changed name again to Ocean's and now it is The Punch and Judy.
Further along, you see a shop with a number of original green glazed tiles that formed the outline of the public house, The York Inn, which was built as a post house in the 1830s. Next, of course, we find the impressive Arcade, which was begun in 1901 by William Tate the local Bognor builder.
This was just one of his constructions throughout the town. At one time, one of the shops in the Arcade was Timothy Whites, but as the town centre was developing, they were able to buy new premises opposite at a cost of £17,000. This site is now the Santander Bank, but was originally the United Reform Church, who sold the church and site, as it was becoming quite noisy for parishioners to worship quietly.
On the corner, next to the Arcade, we have now Howards cafe, but this building has been home to a wide variety of businesses. During the 1880s, York House occupied it, and the Arcade was built in the grounds of the house. The businesses in the adjoining corner premises have included a bank, job centre, Burger King and now the T Bone Burger bar, a far cry from its original use as a private residence.
Across York Road, we have another impressive building. For years, E. Lawrence Wood – who was a publisher of books and postcards – occupied this site. This was also another post office as well as a general store and today is an estate agent.
If we look across the road, we can see a solicitors' shop, which was the site of Bognor Motors and originally a Wesleyan Chapel. Further along we had the very popular Torbay Fisheries, where today we have William Hill.
Continuing along this side of the road we come to the car park for Morrisons but for many this will always hold memories of the Southdown bus depot, with its distinctive art deco frontage.
However, until 1929, this site was occupied by the town hall until it moved to today's site.
How many people can remember a restaurant in this vicinity which I think was very well used and much loved by Bognorians – that of the Polly Anne restaurant. Although there have been quite a number of restaurants and cafés in the town, it is usually the name of the Polly Anne that evokes the most memories.
Next to this was the imposing wall of the Merchant Taylors Convalescent Home, which was eventually demolished in the 1950s ready for the construction of the impressive Queensway and Fitzleet House. Well, this was the view in the 1960s when it was reported that the town was forward looking by building these two major developments.
The corner building, on the opposite side of the road, which today contains several small shops, was for many years occupied by Webster and Webb. This site was also for a time one of our many post offices, but was originally known as a library and reading room.
Webster and Webb became renowned for producing a wide range of postcards and pictorial books on Bognor, which forms such a good basis of the information that I and other local historians use. Here also you can find Heygates Bookshop.


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Practice makes perfect in Netflix's The Perfection
By Sonaiya KelleyLos Angeles Times
Mon., May 27, 2019timer5 min. read
In order to portray a pair of musical prodigies for Richard Shepard's psychological thriller The Perfection, stars Allison Williams and Logan Browning had to learn to convincingly play the cello in a little over two months.
"At the time, I was shooting five days a week on (A Series of Unfortunate Events), so it was lots of early morning cello," said Williams. "I felt so bad for my neighbours. When I moved out of the apartment, I almost wanted to give them baskets or something, like, 'I'm so sorry for all of the 2 a.m. cello you had to listen to.'"
In the film, which is now streaming on Netflix, Williams plays Charlotte, a virtuoso with a tortured past. Upon meeting Lizzie (Browning), the new star pupil at her former school, the two barrel together down a demented path that is as sinister as it is unexpected.
Though Williams and Browning hadn't met before production, the two quickly bonded over the shared instrument. "We immediately developed such an easy rapport having the cello in common and trying to learn in a very meta way," said Williams. "It was a very uniting thing because it was so hard."
On top of that, the actresses were tasked with learning songs that were deliberately written to be difficult. "Richard didn't want them to be songs that anyone would recognize," said Williams. "(So) it didn't sound as beautiful as when decades-long cellists play those songs, but we could play them."
After having worked with Williams on HBO's Girls, the director (who co-wrote the script with Nicole Snyder and Eric C. Charmelo) wrote Charlotte with her in mind and sent over the script while she was in the middle of shooting the last season of Netflix's Unfortunate Events.
"He's like, 'I'm having an insane script delivered to you. It's crazy. Call me as soon as you finish it,'" she said. "I was like, 'Oh, boy, I can't wait.' The script read so well that I read it in one sitting, I could not put it down."
"It was a literal page-turner," said Browning, who also stars in the Netflix series Dear White People and was cast in The Perfection after an extensive search. "There are moments early on in the script where, when I read them, I didn't understand how the movie could continue."
The stars and director are careful to keep several key twists and plot points under wraps. "It's weird to promote a movie in which you really can't talk about like half of the movie without spoiling it," said Shepard. "It's really tough. I think a lot of the joy of the movie is not knowing what's going to happen."
Over the course of the film, Charlotte and Lizzie's relationship is, at times, impossible to parse — are they colleagues? Rivals? Lovers? The constantly shifting dynamic got a boost from the actresses' "immediate" chemistry, says Browning. "It was very natural because I trusted and related to Allison, and got along with her and admired her," she said.
"Mutual," said Williams. "I think spending so much time in prep and also learning the cello together was all we needed to make sure that there was an intimacy and a comfort. So going into whatever scene it was, whatever the dynamic was supposed to be, we already had developed a short-hand and it was just very easy to get into."
That ease was further aided by the artistic short-hand Williams had honed with Shepard over filming Girls.
"Richard has directed me through some of the most intense stuff I've done on Girls and so this was like, 'We're good,'" said Williams.
"Watching them made me comfortable," said Browning. "I didn't feel like I was the odd kid out. I was like, 'Oh, I'm the odd kid that gets to join in with these odder kids.' They got along so well and were so inviting and welcoming and very collaborative. You really never know what you're going to get when you go into a new experience with a new team of people, and to be welcomed with such open arms and a mutual level of respect, I always want to work like that."
"I wanted their input to help create these characters," said Shepard. "As I've gotten older and been doing this, I just feel like the movies gain so much by bringing the actors in as a partner. They were in the editing room challenging me the whole time, but in a good way. And the two of them together, I also knew would challenge each other."
The film was shot very swiftly over just 23 days, including 72 hours in Shanghai, an experience Williams remembers as being "a blur."
"I looked back at the photos I have on my phone, so I know I was there," she said. "And I watched the movie, so I know I was there. But my actual in my body memory of it is so-so."
One of the critical scenes filmed in the city was a sex scene that both women say they felt extremely supported throughout.
"I hadn't done a love scene with another woman before so I had no idea what that was going to be like," said Browning. "And honestly it was one of the best possible scenarios. I pray and hope that everyone can have an experience that's as safe and trusting and comfortable as that because that is the way it's supposed to go. There is a way to capture art that is beautiful, sensual and sexual that allows everyone in the room to feel safe and comfortable."
The film marks Williams' second consecutive horror film following her memorable performance as honey badger Rose Armitage in Jordan Peele's Oscar-nominated Get Out.
"I thought that having that sort of hangover in people's associations of me going into the beginning of this movie for Charlotte would work really well," she said. "I thought I could use it to the advantage of the movie, which hopefully has worked."
At the same time, the actress is hypervigilant about not being pigeonholed in villainous roles.
"I think carefully about all the choices that I make, but I haven't sort of cemented myself like, 'I'm just going to be villainous,'" she said. "I think that the coolest thing you can do in 2019, working off of the way the industry naturally has developed over the years, is just to be able to understand how people see you from a meta level and play with that in the roles that you take."
Despite that level of insight, Williams still struggles with relinquishing control over the way the movie is received by audiences.
"This is movie No. 2 for me so I'm still new at this, but the weirdest thing is that we don't get to control that," she said. "And for someone who likes a little bit of control in her life, it is very stressful. I think a movie like this can have a lot of different take-aways. I'm really excited to see all the different perspectives."
"I just hope people have a really good time," said Browning. "I would love for it to be a part of the genre forever. I'd love for it to be one of those movies that people always refer to just because of how much fun and how wild of a ride it is."


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Using Monte Carlo for Prediction
Sample-based Learning Methods
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In this course, you will learn about several algorithms that can learn near optimal policies based on trial and error interaction with the environment---learning from the agent's own experience. Learning from actual experience is striking because it requires no prior knowledge of the environment's dynamics, yet can still attain optimal behavior. We will cover intuitively simple but powerful Monte Carlo methods, and temporal difference learning methods including Q-learning. We will wrap up this course investigating how we can get the best of both worlds: algorithms that can combine model-based planning (similar to dynamic programming) and temporal difference updates to radically accelerate learning. By the end of this course you will be able to: - Understand Temporal-Difference learning and Monte Carlo as two strategies for estimating value functions from sampled experience - Understand the importance of exploration, when using sampled experience rather than dynamic programming sweeps within a model - Understand the connections between Monte Carlo and Dynamic Programming and TD. - Implement and apply the TD algorithm, for estimating value functions - Implement and apply Expected Sarsa and Q-learning (two TD methods for control) - Understand the difference between on-policy and off-policy control - Understand planning with simulated experience (as opposed to classic planning strategies) - Implement a model-based approach to RL, called Dyna, which uses simulated experience - Conduct an empirical study to see the improvements in sample efficiency when using Dyna
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Monte Carlo Methods for Prediction & Control
This week you will learn how to estimate value functions and optimal policies, using only sampled experience from the environment. This module represents our first step toward incremental learning methods that learn from the agent's own interaction with the world, rather than a model of the world. You will learn about on-policy and off-policy methods for prediction and control, using Monte Carlo methods---methods that use sampled returns. You will also be reintroduced to the exploration problem, but more generally in RL, beyond bandits.
What is Monte Carlo?6:43
Using Monte Carlo for Prediction6:28
Imagine asking 1,000 people about their experience doing something and deciding to do that thing if most of their experiences turned out well. That's the essential flavor of Monte Carlo. Let's look at an example using Monte Carlo for prediction. By the end of this video, you will be able to use Monte Carlo prediction to estimate the value function for a given policy. Let's discuss the specifics of the Monte Carlo prediction algorithm using an example with a card game, blackjack. Blackjack is played with a standard deck of 52 cards. The objective is to collect cards so that their sum is as large as possible without exceeding 21. Face cards are counted as 10, while each ace can count as 11 or 1 based on the player's preference. The game begins with two cards dealt to both the player and the dealer. The player can see one of the dealer's cards, but the other is face down. If the player immediately has 21, they win unless the dealer also has 21 in which case they draw. If the player doesn't have 21 immediately, they can request more cards one at a time or a hit. If the sum of the player's cards ever exceeds 21, we say the player goes bust and loses. Otherwise when the player decides to stop requesting cards or sticks, it becomes the dealer's turn. The dealer only hits if the sum of their cards is less than 17, if the dealer goes bust the player wins. Otherwise, the winner of the game is a player who's sum is closer to 21. We can formulate this problem as an undiscounted MDP where each game of blackjack corresponds to an episode. Rewards are given at the end of the game with minus one for a loss, zero for a draw, and one for a win. The player has two actions, hit or stick. The player decides to hit or stick based on three variables, whether they have a usable ace which is an ace that can count as 11 without their sum exceeding 21, the sum of their cards and the card the dealer shows. There are 200 states in total. We assume the cards are dealt from the deck with replacement. This means that there's no point in keeping track of the cards that had been dealt and that the state respects the Markov property. Let's use Monte Carlo to learn the value function for the policy that sticks when the player sum is 20 or 21. Suppose in the first state, the agents card shows a total of 13 with no usable ace and the dealers visible card shows 10. Since the agent's policy is fixed, it hits and gets a 7 moving it to 20. The agent sticks because its sum is 20 and it's now the dealers turn. The dealer draws a nine and goes bust losing the game and resulting in plus one reward for the agent. Now, that the first episode is over the agent can perform a Monte Carlo update and so start learning. The return from each state in a episode is plus one because the only non-zero reward is plus one at the end of the episode and the discount factor is one. Now, let's look at the states starting from the end of the episode and working backwards. In the last non-terminal state, the card sum was 20 with no usable ace and the dealer had a visible 10. Let's call this state A. We add plus one to the list of returns for state A and set the value of state A equal to the average of the list. Stepping back to the second last state, state B, the agent shows 13 with no usable ace and the dealer has a visible 10. Again, we add plus one to the list of returns now for state B and set the value of state B equal to the average of the list. We've now processed every state in the first episode and completed the Monte Carlo updates for that first episode. Now, what would happen if the agent played many games of blackjack? Let's look at the value function the agent learns after 10,000 episodes. We'll plot one value function for states with a usable ace and one for states without a usable ace. The three axis of the plot are the card the dealer's showing, the agents sum, and the value of that state. The plot with usable aces is much more rough than the plot with no usable ace. That's because most blackjack games do not have a usable ace so the usable ace values are estimated with far fewer samples. Both plots have a similar shape. Looking at the values going across the plot, it looks like the card the dealer's showing doesn't impact the value function very much. If we look at the agent's sum however, the value function is much higher in states where the agent has a 20 or 21. Why are these values so much higher than when the agent has a sum of 19? The answer has to do with the policy the agent is following. The policy always hits on sums of 19 or lower. So the agent is likely to bust when the sum is 19. On the other hand, when the sum is 20 or 21 then the agent will stick and is likely to win. Now, let's look at the value estimates after 500,000 episodes and the estimates have nearly converged to the state values. Notice the plots are much smoother now. We see the same pattern as before, where the values are low unless the sum is 20 or 21. Now, what are some of the implications of Monte Carlo learning? First, Monte Carlo learns directly from experience. So there's no need to keep a large model of the environment. Monte Carlo methods can estimate the value of an individual state independently of the values of any other states. In dynamic programming, the value of each state depends on the values of other states. So this is a pretty big difference. Finally, the computation needed to update the value of each state along the way doesn't depend in any way on the size of the MDP. Rather, it depends on the length of the episode. In this video, we showed how to use Monte Carlo prediction to learn the value function of a policy, and talked about how Monte Carlo learning doesn't need to sweep over the whole MDP.


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OFFICIALS SEARCH FOR BRIDGE JUMPER
By DAVID MACAULAY
SUFFOLK — A search was underway on the Nansemond River in Suffolk Thursday night for a teenage boy who was seen jumping off a bridge by a passing driver.
Suffolk police spokeswoman Lt. Debbie George said the police had received the call at 7:30 p.m.
"We've had no confirmation that the child is in the water," she said.
The U.S. Coast Guard was called out to search the river below and near the bridge on Route 58 close to Wilroy Road at 7:56 p.m.
A search vessel was sent down the river and an HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter from the Coast Guard's Elizabeth City Air Station in North Carolina was sent to Suffolk.
Coast guard spokesman Petty Officer Larry Chambers said the search was still continuing two hours later. "It's just started," he said at 10 p.m. "We could be there some time," he said.
Chambers said a white teenage male had been spotted jumping from the bridge by a passing motorist just before 7:30 p.m.
The bridge is 35 feet high and the water is about 25 feet deep, he said.
"It's pretty marshy out there so we have people looking on the banks with flash lights for footprints," he said.
No car or bicycle was left on the bridge suggesting the jumper went there on foot, Chambers said.
Just before 10 p.m. Coast guard teams placed a drift marker in the water to gauge the current and where a person could have drifted to.
Police units also joined in the search and were checking databases for reports of missing people. George asked anyone who had children or teenagers playing in the area or near the bridge who are unaccounted for to contact emergency authorities.
"We haven't had any reports of anyone missing yet," Chambers said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Coast Guard command in Hampton Roads at 757-668-5555. *


The service-oriented government as the inevitable trend and the developing direction of Chinese government occupies a pivotal position in the Chinese society, and also has the indelible effect on China's economic development. With the deepening of the reform and opening up, the politics and economy and other aspects of China has shown a tendency of vigorous development, and the stable, open and liberal political system has promoted the development of China's regional economy constantly. Through consulting relevant information, China's rural economic cooperation organization has been investigated and studied in order to summarize the current development situation of China's rural economic cooperation organization and the problems arising from the development process, and at the same time points out that the service-oriented government has play a positive role in guiding China's rural economic cooperation organization, and some solutions and advice have been put forward to the rising problems. The study found that the problems rising in the process of China's rural economic cooperation organization development are mainly: the government's policy support, the effective specification of national laws and regulations and financial support by financial institutions. However, in the process of guiding China's rural economic cooperation organization, the service-oriented government also has made a contribution. The study shows that in order to give full play to the guiding role of service-oriented government, the government must provide the corresponding knowledge science and technology for different regions and different nature of the rural economic cooperation organization according to location conditions, and adhere to the market-oriented rural economic development mode, meanwhile, the government must encourage, support and guide the talent flow to rural economic cooperation organization.


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Q: Azure DevOps Permissions Hierarchy for SOX Compliance Issue: As part of SOX Compliance Audit, the auditors who are demanding separation of duties, are asking to remove contribute access to the source code even for administrators like Project Admins and Collection Admins in the Azure Repos in the Azure DevOps Services or to any one who are able to deploy to production environments through release pipelines.
Question: How does MS  or any other companies utilizing Azure DevOps or similar services address these permission conflicts in the Era of the DevOps and SRE where a person who has access to production deployment will need to make code changes (if required) to address any customer problems, all at the same time keeping compliance folks happy ?
Solution Tried so far:-
- Added explicit denies for the project collection administrators group for the contributing permission in the repositories but it does not address all other scenarios as for Collection admin, deny does not trump allow.
From MS Docs - Azure DevOps Permission Settings

A: Not sure if this is an acceptable answer but your problem is your auditors. In this era, it is generally understood that a combination of automation and robust audit logs, that is enough to comply.
I would speculate that your problem comes from the auditor's lack of understanding. The actual deployment is handled by the machine, not a person. I'd agree that developers should not be making unchecked arbitrary changes in product.
My suggestion, speak to your CTO about getting a new audit team next time.
For reference here is what Puppet say on this:

What does "separation of duties" really mean? Some companies implement
controls to limit access to IT systems or require manual approvals,
believing that regulations — for example, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or
SOC 2 — mandate separation of duties. This is often interpreted to
mean that people who can commit to a code repository must not be
allowed to deploy that same code to production. Indeed, many auditors
and security professionals are convinced that this is what the
regulations say. In reality, regulations can frequently be satisfied
with the combination of:
• Automated deployment
• A requirement that someone other than the code author must review and approve the change
• Supporting controls such as strong audit logs and access control If
your automation efforts are being hamstrung by controls such as these,
we suggest you focus on building a collaborative relationship with
your auditors and risk management teams. Work together on genuinely
satisfying regulatory requirements in an efficient and secure manner.
We've seen very few people actually reach out to their risk teams to
collaborate, but the ones that do nearly always succeed.


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Oh my goodness Lynsey – I'm so, so sorry for your losses! I can't believe it -both Grandmas in one evening! AND a cousin!
I'm at work but wanted to just send my condolences. You've had so much to deal with over the last few years, it's just not fair sometimes. We'll be thinking of you this week and keep you in our thoughts and prayers. It's so funny you wrote – I've been thinking about you a lot over the last couple of weeks and wondering how you are doing. With the holidays I never got to writing you so am so glad you posted.
Thinking of you – keeping you in our thoughts through such a difficult time.
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Oh my gosh Lynsey… to say I'm sorry doesn't even begin. My deepest sympathies to you and your family. It is truly amazing what fate can throw at us and expect us to rebound from. So many losses in such a short time…..breaks my heart.
As always, thank you for your update on your family and your health. I think of you often.
Postive vibes for your scan result this week.
My very deepest sympathies to you, and all the family, as you are reeling from yet another blow. It seems so unfair and so overwhelming – this all at one intensity of situations and emotions. Please know, we send you loving energy every day!!
So sorry to hear you lost both your grandmas so quickly. Lovely photos of them both as well, they look so happy and proud! We were really saddened here in England that (Great) Aunt Alice died so suddenly and so quickly after Aunt Peggy. And then to lose Tim too, really shocking and terribly sad for everyone. Mum showed me the eulogy you read for Aunt Alice; Janice forwarded it all the UK cousins. Lovely words and memories, it can't have been easy to read on the day.
I'm Mercy's granddaughter (Judith's daughter), and we lost her when I was 18; I still miss her but the memories are always happy. Losing Aunt Alice is the end of an era as she was the last of the Hollan siblings. They all lived such full and busy lives. I remember her from visiting here to see my Grandma and the rest of the family. She was a lovely lady (& my grandma's favourite sister) so I will always have very fond memories of her.