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Good thing we're leaving, eh?
Pubs and restaurants could soon be fined for serving well-done items such as triple-cooked chips or thin and crispy pizza under a second phase of the Government's crackdown on burnt food.
Following the launch of a major public awareness campaign yesterday to help people reduce "cancer-causing" acrylamide in food, the Daily Telegraph can reveal that food safety watchdogs are planning to extend the warning to every food-serving business in Britain.
Under a new European Union food hygiene directive, due to be adopted in the UK by the the end of 2017, pubs and restaurants will be told to take reasonable steps to reduce acrylamide in food or face enforcement measures.
Until now many local establishments will be unaware that they may soon need to drastically alter cooking practices to reduce acrylamide, which forms when potatoes and grain-based items are cooked in temperatures hotter than 120C.
It means those continuing to serve "high acrylamide" foods, such as brown roast potatoes or burned Yorkshire puddings, could be visited by the Food Standards Agency's enforcement officers and face hefty fines.
But it's an interesting example of the inertia of a bureaucracy. Even though we're leaving they're still planning to enforce nonsense like this.
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BigFire January 24, 2017 at 8:46 am
For me, the real taste in BBQ is the carcinogens materials.
Mr Womby January 24, 2017 at 9:03 am
Anyone trying to take my brown, crispy roast spuds will be stabbed with a fork.
bloke in spain January 24, 2017 at 9:04 am
Yeah right. And I can just see this being observed in France. The late night crepe stall down by the Seine, a regular stop on the way home, will henceforth be selling warm dishrag rather than the crispy numbers dusted with icing sugar.
Have these guys never looked in a recipe book? There are no oven cooked dishes, containing grain or potatoes, at under 120C. So it's basically throw the book away after tearing out the sections on stews, soups, salads & sorbets.
Henry Crun January 24, 2017 at 9:09 am
Wot Mr Womby said.
So Much For Subtlety January 24, 2017 at 9:13 am
Human beings evolved thanks to cooking fires. If anyone thinks that it is possible to cook anything in the coals without it getting a little crisp they have not been trying in recent times.
I find it hard to believe that anything so central to the human experience is bad for us. If crispy bacon was the slightest risk to anyone, we would all have become extinct a long time ago.
Tell them to f**k off.
Come to think of it, I can't seeing it being a hit in Brussels either. Think. Frites. The Belgians wouldn't be Belgians without frites. They'd be Luxembourgers, or something.
JuliaM January 24, 2017 at 9:18 am
I fondly remember when it was underdone food (especially burgers) that were going to do us all in…
Does the FSA base its policy-making on 'Goldilocks'..?
"The move is being planned despite scientists accusing the Government of "massively overreacting" as there is no scientific proof of a link between acrylamide consumption and cancer in humans."
Now who's ignoring scientists?
Andrew again January 24, 2017 at 9:25 am
@JuliaM. Quite right. There is no proof but there is evidence, from animal studies where acrylanide was fed to animals in doses (per kg obviously) some three of four orders of magnitude greater than that likely to be eaten by humans. So… eat the most acrylamide containing food in heroic quantities constantly and you *might* get cancer from Acrylamide.
The "no risk however small" brigade has taken over the FSA asylum.
David Moore January 24, 2017 at 9:32 am
Nope. The FSA has simply been take over by a bunch of people who get there rocks off telling everyone else what to do, especially if it means robbing them of life's simpler pleasures.
monoi January 24, 2017 at 9:37 am
"The state is a force for good"
That's Theresa May's motto. The only difference with brexit is that they won't be able to blame these kind of things on Europe.
Surreptitious Evil January 24, 2017 at 9:43 am
The only difference with brexit is that they won't be able to blame these kind of things on Europe.
And we will be able to vote them out. The British bureaucracy, by and large, historically follows the direction (and, unfortunately, the whims) of the ministers.
It will whinge and try to make sure its own empires are protected but, especially with SPADs acting as the ministerial gauleiters in the middle levels where the action happens, it does work. Outside the FCO, at least.
Brussels? Nah.
The Laughing Cavalier January 24, 2017 at 9:43 am
One would have to eat thousands of slices of toast daily to replicate the doses given to rats in the FSA experiments.
https://health.spectator.co.uk/dont-need-worry-eating-browned-toast/
Rob January 24, 2017 at 9:48 am
Luckily I only eat hundreds per day.
But it's an interesting example of the inertia of a bureaucracy.
It's certainly an excellent example of overreach. When the bureaucracy is warning about burned toast and fining you it is safe to cut their numbers by at least half.
Bloke in Germany January 24, 2017 at 10:00 am
Are the restrictions on undercooked and raw foods in many parts of the usa better then?
If you think there won't be pettifogging regulations post brexit you have a nasty surprise coming.
Theophrastus January 24, 2017 at 10:06 am
"The British bureaucracy, by and large, historically follows the direction (and, unfortunately, the whims) of the ministers."
I don't think so. Like all bureaucracies, the UK civil service has its own agenda. It tries and largely succeeds in steering ministers in its preferred direction. It sees itself as the permanent government. Numerous political memoirs confirm this. The late Alan Clark was particularly good in this respect.
Of course there will be pettifogging regulations after brexit. The point is that the British electorate will have some chance of repealing them. Unlike when we were subject to the gauleiters of Brussels and the Fourth Reich.
Surreptitious Evil January 24, 2017 at 10:21 am
Like all bureaucracies, the UK civil service has its own agenda. It tries and largely succeeds in steering ministers in its preferred direction.
But, its "own agenda" is largely inward. The Yes Prime Minister thing about not moving departments away from London is the classic example. With the exception of the FCO (who prefer dealing with foreign diplomats to British politicians, which is hardly surprising), and the Stasi element in the Home Office, it generally doesn't reflect much on government policy.
dearieme January 24, 2017 at 10:34 am
If May has any sense (has she?) Brexit will be accompanied by a huge 'bonfire of regulations'.
Unregulated street parties will welcome the event. Circuses will flourish again, and little boys will use jumpers for goal posts. There will be marching bands, male voice choirs, Highland Games, and Morris Dancers. But no Morris cars, thank God.
DocBud January 24, 2017 at 10:41 am
We have joked about for this for sometime in our family. If someone is being a little too selective in picking out roast potatoes, someone else will pipe up "hey, don't take all the acrylamides."
and little boys will use jumpers for goal posts.
Was that another casualty of the Fruit Jams and Sweetened Chestnut Purée Directive?
Mr Ecks January 24, 2017 at 10:49 am
Fire the Senior Civil Service en masse sans compo and confiscate their pensions and titles, honours etc.
That will remove the main UK actors in this kind of crap and will intimidate their scummy brethren the world around.
But, its "own agenda" is largely inward.
That's only partly true, at best. The civil service has been (for example) unequivocally in favour of EEE/EU membership and mass immigration for decades, and it has quietly frustrated political attempts to deal with these issues. It is at it even now with Brexit.
Andrew M January 24, 2017 at 10:56 am
What Julia said. The risk of cancer from overcooked food is tiny, and most likely to strike late in life; whereas the risk of food poisoning from undercooked meat is significant, and most likely to strike within 24 hours of eating.
The civil service has been (for example) unequivocally in favour of EEC/EU membership
Is that rational though? In theory at least, EU membership should mean civil service ranks being cut, as the work moves to Brussels and economies of scale kick in.
At least that's what happens in the private sector: small company gets bought by big one, HR/IT/accounts are taken over by head office.
BraveFart January 24, 2017 at 11:04 am
I'd happily run the risk of a burnt roast potato over a stewed restaurant curry populated by e-coli, campylobacter and salmonella, as well as the liberal doses of jizz that I understand the chefs and waiters sometimes like to add just before serving
Charlie Suet January 24, 2017 at 11:05 am
Andrew M – you missed the /s tag…
Since when have economies of scale applied to state bureaucracies? More rules = more bureaucrats.
Rob January 24, 2017 at 11:36 am
Please don't tell me you are drawing a parallel between undercooked and raw food, the eating of which has demonstrable and proven effects, with the bollocks released this week.
bloke in spain January 24, 2017 at 11:43 am
Oh, FFS! The presumption is, for every bureaucrat in Brussels there must be a corresponding bureaucrat in Westminster to liaise with him. Possibly even a committee, if they think they can get away with it.
Witchie January 24, 2017 at 12:00 pm
JuliaM, the problem with undercooked burgers is that the beef is minced (ground to you) and so has a huge surface area, any of which can be contaminated. In a rare steak the relative surface area is small and that is best cooked. A rare burger may have significant beef surface contamination uncooked inside it. There are exceptions of course, such as the steak rotten all the way through, or a freshly-prepared burger (say a steak haché made on the spot).
Diogenes January 24, 2017 at 12:03 pm
Last night in London, I had some loathsome triple-cooked chips which were nothing like any chips you would ever eat in Belgium. I guess they had been boiled, roasted and then fried in tepid fat. The outside was like leather while the inside had the texture of reconstituted mash. The chips themselves must have been 1cm wide and deep. If only there had been some acrylamide.
bloke in spain January 24, 2017 at 12:15 pm
"There are exceptions of course, such as the steak rotten all the way through"
Ah! Black beef. Exquisite. Used to get that, "under the counter" from a village butcher in Essex. Cuts with a fork.
Don't Hug Me January 24, 2017 at 12:38 pm
https://www.food.gov.uk/science/acrylamide-0
any links to confirm the 'new directive'?
Andrew M January 24, 2017 at 12:42 pm
Theo,
> Since when have economies of scale applied to state bureaucracies?
I know, I just enjoy playing devil's advocate. Whether the work moves up to Brussels or down to Edinburgh / Cardiff / local authorities, the total number of bureaucrats never seems to go down.
Bloke in Germany January 24, 2017 at 12:51 pm
@Rob,
It's a personal freedom issue. I know brits are wont to send back perfectly-cooked pork chops (I've watched them do it) because they are trained from birth that pork must be dehydrated for three hours before it is fit to eat. I don't want a government bureaucrat telling me I can't have it a little pink. Or a burger a little pink (which is a considerably higher risk than solid meat a little pink).
BraveFart January 24, 2017 at 1:01 pm
I won't eat pink liver or other offal. Somehow it smacks of Hannibal Lecter.
JuliaM January 24, 2017 at 1:24 pm
@Witchie: "…the beef is minced (ground to you) and so has a huge surface area, any of which can be contaminated."
*baffled face* I'm not American. Minced is fine!
@BraveFart: if there's no blood coming out of my liver, I've overcooked it!
BobRocket January 24, 2017 at 1:49 pm
I had to google triple-cooked chips, what a pretentious load of wank cooked up by a poncey southerner.
Good chips are cooked once in lard and eaten with salt and vinegar in a folded paper parcel.
Why is the Food Standards Agency the lead, surely it should be Public Health England that comes out with bollocks like this.
Who is going to pay the EU pensions of people like Clegg once we leave and stop paying the EU, it had better not be the UK taxpayer.
Bucko January 24, 2017 at 2:24 pm
"Even though we're leaving they're still planning to enforce nonsense like this."
Even though we're leaving, WE will still enforce nonsense like this. We don't need the EU to force silly regulations, we can do that all on our own.
Tim Newman January 24, 2017 at 2:43 pm
JuliaM, the problem with undercooked burgers is that the beef is minced (ground to you) and so has a huge surface area, any of which can be contaminated.
That doesn't seem to worry the French much. They eat the fucking things raw, and they serve them to you raw even when you expect it to be cooked.
Andrew Duffin January 24, 2017 at 3:14 pm
So rare steaks are probably illegal, as are well-done steaks.
Is there any state of cooking of a steak that the Health Fascists would approve of?
Of course not, because it was never about "health" bit, it's only and always was about the "fascism" bit.
As Norman Douglas famously said "Do exactly as you please and send everyone else to hell". Where "everyone else" is the set of nannying fussbuckets.
Diogenes January 24, 2017 at 3:16 pm
Raw beef is quite popular in the Netherlands too – ossenworst and filet américain being 2 of the most popular ways of risking food poisoning at lunchtime
Hedgehog January 24, 2017 at 3:53 pm
BiG: Are the restrictions on undercooked and raw foods in many parts of the usa better then?
I'm not aware of any actual restrictions on undercooked or raw foods in the US. Sure, menus have the idiotic warning forced on them by the health nazis that "the consumption of raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, eggs or unpasteurized milk may increase your risk of foodborne illness," but the fact that the warning is there means that the menu has all of these, too. Sushi, oysters, etc.
The only time I ever refrained from having a steak tartare in New York was a number of years ago, when we had an outbreak of food poisoning (e.coli) from organic spinach. The menu had steak tartare with spinach salad and I figured that the raw meat and the raw egg were one thing, but having the spinach was just asking for it. So I went with something cooked. Steak frites, as I recall. Rare. With acrylamides.
Jack C January 24, 2017 at 5:41 pm
Just how many ex-Prime Ministers of France, Belgium and Luxembourg are there?
Lionel Ebb January 24, 2017 at 6:12 pm
Personally, I don't think we're getting nearly hysterical enough about the existential threat posed by toast… http://bit.ly/2ken5P0
Oblong January 24, 2017 at 6:44 pm
In Germany, raw minced pork with a bit of onion in a sandwich is not an uncommon thing. You can buy it quite freely in the canteen-type cafeteria in Alexanderplatz, it's not a posh esoteric thing.
I was kind of surprised, in England the bureaucrats would have a heart attack!
Bloke in Costa Rica January 24, 2017 at 7:27 pm
There's another one out today that a single cheeseburger gives you liver failure or some such hysterical bullshit. Can't be arsed to find the link; it's too fucking stupid to credit. These shits cry wolf all the time and people just tune them out, but if the stupid fucking FSA (which should have been given a Punic Wars-style treatment a long time back) is on the case then regulations there will be.
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Q: Compiling Python script to exe I recently created a script using Python 2.7 and pygame. I have tried using py2exe, but when I run the file it created, it gives me this error:

G:\Downloads2\GAME\dist\ANNECUTE.exe\zipextimporter.py:82: RuntimeWarning: import display: No module named _view
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G:\Downloads2\GAME\dist\ANNECUTE.exe\zipextimporter.py:82: RuntimeWarning: import draw: No module named _view
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G:\Downloads2\GAME\dist\ANNECUTE.exe\zipextimporter.py:82: RuntimeWarning: import image: No module named _view
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I used this in the setup.py file:

from distutils.core import setup
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A: Try adding
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To zipextimporter.py. This will import _view and should eliminate your problem.

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'My body needs a rest': Ovechkin to sit out NHL All-Star Game
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Russian ice hockey legend Alex Ovechkin will sit out the NHL All-Star Game in order to prepare his body for the rigors of the second half of the season.
The Washington Capitals star, who currently tops the league scoring charts with 29 goals, was originally selected as the captain of the Metropolitan Division team for the All-Star Game, which takes place on January 26.
But the 33-year-old says he has decided to give the game a miss and instead use the spare time to get some much-needed rest ahead of the rest of the campaign with the Caps.
"My body needs a rest,"ESPN reported Ovechkin as saying after practice on Wednesday.
Ovechkin is no stranger to the All-Star Game, having been selected for eight games during his stellar NHL career.
But his eighth All-Star Game call-up will not result in an appearance for the Russian legend, who was disappointed not to be able to compete for his country in the Winter Olympics after league owners blocked NHL players from taking part in the tournament.
The big beneficiaries were Ovechkin's team, as he led the Capitals to their first-ever Stanley Cup win.
The All-Star festivities kick off with the Skills Competition on January 25, followed by the three-on-three All-Star Tournament the following day.
Ovechkin's decision to sit out the All-Star Game means he will also have to miss one Capitals' game, either directly before or after All-Star weekend, per league rules.
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Gary Gets It
PILGRIMS' defender Gary Miller appreciates the frustrations of the Green Army as Argyle seek their first win of the new season.
A 1-0 defeat at Carlisle on Saturday means that the Pilgrims are goal-less and pointless two games into the 2016-17 Sky Bet League Two campaign.
Right-back Gary spoke with some of the near 400 Argyle fans at Brunton Park immediately after the defeat and he shares in their pain.
"It's not like we're not disappointed ourselves," he said. "We understand how they feel. It's not like we're enjoying it, either. So we know. We just need to keep battling and we need every one of them to stick behind us, keep going, and try to do it together.
"It's not like we're happy getting beat. We're all thoroughly disappointed and we don't want to accept that. We need to do better and we know that. So everyone needs to kick on together and build on it. Then results will come, and we'll get our luck, and that's when results will start to pick up.
"We're having a difficult time and no-one wants to take the easy route, so we just need to keep kicking on, give 100% when we're out there, and work as hard as we can.
"The first half was not a good performance by ourselves and, at half-time, we tried to regroup, started a wee bit better and, for the last 15-20 minutes, we were pushing, pushing. But it was a not an acceptable first half, really."
Gary came close to capping the second-half revival when substitute Jake Jervis' cross caused problems for the Carlisle defence and the ball dropped for him.
He said: "I saw a ruck of players and I thought, if I smashed [the ball], and it hit somebody, it could go either way, so I tried to place it.
"I think I got it under the 'keeper and defender and somebody's flicked it off the line."
The Pilgrims now go to former manager John Sheridan's Notts County on Tuesday to try to break their seasonal duck.
"We need that lift and that bit of luck; it will come and we'll get there," said Gary, "but we just need to keep battling together; keep the team pushing forward; keep everybody positive; and try to do our best, and it will come.


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Yesterday we — as did most of the rest of the Internet — shared of the wolf wandering the Sochi hotel halls of Olympic luger Kate Hansen (PeekYou profile here). Well, it turns out it was all a hoax, and the handiwork of late night TV host, and notorious prankster, Jimmy Kimmel (PeekYou profile here).
John Tavares (PeekYou profile here), of the NHL's New York Islanders, suffered a knee injury while playing for Canada in the Olympics, on Wednesday, and will miss the remainder of the NHL season as a result.
Kate Hansen (PeekYou profile here), the American Olympic luger who recently gained attention for the video of her joyously preparing for a run by dancing to Beyoncé, is trending today for a considerably more nerve-wracking video, shot in her Sochi hotel.
It seems that today's top Olympics story — in the states, at least — does not involve athletes, but broadcasters.
The XXII Olympic Winter Games, or as they will more often be called, The 2014 Winter Olympics, are now upon us, and — while some competition is already underway as of this writing — the opening ceremony will take place (or has taken place, depending on when you're reading this) on Friday in Sochi, Russia.


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Urgency for Stem Cell Research Rewrites Rules of Medical Science Research
Over the years, I've been a vocal supporter of stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research. From my own perspective, there is simply no ethical argument which justifies not doing potentially life-saving research using embryonic stem cells, especially on cells destined for the trash can anyway. Nothing anyone can do, say or write will convince me otherwise. In my view, blastocysts do not constitute life until they're in the womb. Those cells cannot sustain life on their own, therefore they do not constitute an "unborn" child. Of course, there's a very vocal minority of people who feel otherwise, and they have some influential supporters including the Catholic Church. For the past 8 years, thanks to a President who is more concerned about the lives of the unborn than he is about those who are already born, we've seen policies which largely stifled stem cell research paid for with taxpayer dollars, even though a majority of Americans support embryonic stem cell research.
Last July, I wrote a posting called "Missouri: A Barometer of American Values?" where I examined that state's evolving position on stem cell research, among other things that could influence cure-related research for type 1 diabetes. Recently, another Midwestern state, this time Michigan, was making news for a very similar reason.
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that a patient advocacy group called CureMichigan submitted 570,000 signatures to end the state's ban on embryonic stem cell research on November's ballot. The newspaper reports that figure is about 200,000 more than needed.
Regardless of the political reasoning behind the prohibition in Michigan, the simple fact remains that according to virtually every survey done on this subject, a majority of Americans believe that embryonic stem cell research should be permitted with few if any restrictions. Clearly, federal and state restrictions on this cutting-edge research represent the minority imposing its will on the majority, and in one state after another, activist voters -- often lead by diabetes advocates -- are changing the way we approach science and, in many cases, are choosing to support embryonic stem cell research with taxpayer dollars. To those who argue that embryonic stem cell research hasn't cured anything, let me respond by asking how its possible to cure anything when the research is presently so restrictive? The way Federal policy now stands, even a microscope paid for with Federal dollars cannot come in contact with banned stem cells. That's no way to run an effective research organization.
Back in 2004, (following the last election), I wrote about California's Proposition 71, in which voters from the largest state voted to fund $295 million per year for stem cell research, most notably on embryonic stem cell lines, funded by $3 billion in general obligation bonds. The California initiative faced legal challenges (which did not hold up in a court of law, but were nevertheless time-wasting and costly to deal with). As I predicted, the California initiative paved the way for other states to fund stem cell research. Since then, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin have also moved to fund stem cell research, too. Collectively, those states have formed an organization called The Interstate Alliance on Stem Cell Research (IASCR), which aims to facilitate coordination among states that wish to advance stem cell research. One reason why such a coalition is vital is because research usually works most effectively as a group effort, and it works best when discoveries in one lab can be shared freely with researchers elsewhere.
Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that there is an air of urgency to start delivering. Until now, intensive drives like the war on cancer and the Human Genome Project were efforts that only the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies could afford. In California, though, this intellectual infrastructure is being funded just like a new highway bridge or harbor improvements, with 30-year general obligation bonds.
California inspired 9 other states to circumvent federal restrictions on human-embryo research via local funding initiatives. Earlier this year, New York awarded its first state stem-cell grants from $600 million pledged over the next decade. State bond funding is spreading to other research endeavors. In November, Texas voters approved a $3 billion cancer-research bond measure.
Clearly, disease advocates are pushing our government to move ahead on research, and if they can't get the Feds to pay for it, they are pushing the statehouses across the country to chip in. This may be beneficial, as Washington is notoriously inefficient and wasteful, so it will be interesting to see if this is indeed a revolution in the way medical research is undertaken!
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Here's to throwing open the AI gates….
The issue of Nature magazine published on October 19, 2017 had an interesting, and surprisingly low-key paper about a self-learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm (read here a nice summary if you can't get into the complete paper right now).
With virtually every magazine, blog or newspaper worth its tech-salt carrying at least one Machine-Learning (ML)/AI/algorithms article per issue these days, this one didn't seem like a big deal then and I skipped it.
I came across the paper again only recently. This time, as I read through it, I realized how important this development really is. To understand the level of disruption this paper talks about, we must realize two things. One is obvious that success or failure of an AI/ML initiative is vastly dependent on its training. Second: training, in turn, is dependent on quality and quantity of data that you use in building it.
Many know the example of a machine that was taught to recognize dumbbells (you know- the bar-with-two-rounds – used in gyms by people other than me). After training however, this machine could not recognize photo of dumbbells taken in a gym. It had been trained on a set of images that almost always showcased humans lifting the dumbbells. So, the machine couldn't recognize a dumbbell that came without a human hand attached to it.
This example is as much about choosing the right set of data as it is about sheer quantity – the more you have, the less likelihood of missing something. That's why most of AI/ML applications (not research) today come out of companies that already own tons of data – tech giants like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and more. It's been commonly assumed that these companies will continue to lead fields of AI/ML in future.
Well, what start-up could compete with say, a Facebook, which even tracks your mouse hovers today?
However, this paper in Nature outlines how this could possibly change.
Equipped with just basic rules of the game, AlphaGo Zero started playing itself over and over. In 19 hours, AlphaGo Zero had started to play complex strategies and in 70 hours, it started coming up with unconventional strategies not used by human players before. In three days it beat AlphaGo Lee in 100 out of 100 games.
And all of this was done after being taught just basic rules of the game.
Of course, it's all very specific to playing the game of Go – self-learning AI may not be possible in areas where there are no clearly-defined inalienable rules in like, say, brain tumor detection. However, something like this could democratize AI/ML development by not needing access to massive clean data sets – at least in applications that come with clear rules.
This could be in beginning of an era where we'll create AI algorithms to train other AI algorithms.
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Rhet 102: Race and the University, Instr. Eve Eure: This course engages issues of race, diversity and representation at the University of Illinois. Students are encouraged to think about what the university is, as well as about race and ethnicity as a phenomena within the university's narratives. The readings in the course interrogate U.S. race politics as a way to contextualize our understanding of the relationship between race and the University of Illinois. Students write both long and short essays which critically analyze the readings done both inside and outside of the classroom. This is achieved by a series of writing assignments, which prepare students to look at these various aspects of campus culture which might not otherwise be questioned and/or studied in a critical manner. Students build upon these initial studies to create a larger research project that brings them into conversation with their environment and other scholars, as well as research of previous students. The course syllabus is available at: www.eui.uiuc.edu/docs/syllabi/RHET102S08.doc [2]
Rhet 104, Ethnography of Race and the University, Instr. Samantha Looker: In this course, students take the writing skills that they built during Rhet 103 and apply them to research, with the ultimate goal of completing an in-depth research project. As part of the EUI-Rhetoric Race and the University Project, this class revolves around how race is represented and lived on university campuses, and specifically on our own campus here at UIUC. Students ground themselves in readings on how race is defined and talked about, and then move on to research related issues on our campus. Students will choose a research question related to race to answer in your final research project. As part of the EUI (Ethnography of the University Initiative), this class gives students the opportunity to create original scholarly research based on your firsthand experience with people, texts, and places on campus. In addition to traditional academic sources, students final research project will include several interviews, observations, surveys, and/or analyses of University texts. [1]
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Rhetoric 105, Principles of Composition, Race & the University, Instr. Kristin McCann: This course entailed continual negotiation of three primary focuses: academic writing, introduction to ethnographic research methodologies, and critical inquiry into issues of race and representation. I approached this course as a semester-long conversation with students, the texts with which we engaged, and the kairos of the physical and ideological spaces in which we were immersed. I encouraged students to draw upon their expertise as current UIUC undergraduates and to consider their stake in the university's narratives. Students were, of course, not expected to produce a complete 'ethnography'; rather, to consider what combination of ethnographic research methodologies might be most useful to their specific essays and research projects and what issues they deemed most exigent for their inquiries. Students also had the opportunity to present at the bi-annual EUI conference, alongside other EUI undergraduate and graduate students. The course syllabus is available at: www.eui.uiuc.edu/docs/syllabi/RHET105S08.doc [1]
Rhetoric 105/Principles of Composition introduces students to the practices of research-based writing for academic audiences, such as formulating a researchable question, locating sources, constructing an argument, drafting, revising, and editing. This course uses writing, reading, observing, and critical thinking to develop scholarly curiosity. To do this, instructors focus on: deepening research skills, developing students' abilities to read and respond to difficult texts, and, most importantly, helping students through the writing process in a social, collaborative, revision-focused environment. This particular section of Rhetoric 105 was focused around the theme of "Exploring Student Communities at the University of Illinois." The assignments and discussions asked students to explore their own experiences as students and consider how various student communities shape our campus culture and identities as students. Over the course of the semester students formulated research questions about a particular campus community and answered them by doing semester-long ethnographic research (observations, interviews, archive analysis, and surveys), including a short video presentation. The kinds of writing studies and conducted were formulated around reflections on these communities. [1]
Rhetoric 233 (Principles of Composition) is an intermediate expository writing course where students refine their skills in critical reading, argumentation, revision, anticipating audience, and editing. In this course, students explored the relationships between language, culture and identity, as well as examined the ways that writers understand their surrounding cultures, contexts, and audiences (and what that means for their writing). They explored how writers use language to not only express themselves or their ideas, but also to do something—act politically, resist dominant structures, express agency, enact change, etc. As part of the Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI), a major part of this course was to produce an in-depth research project, where students chose some aspect of language, culture, and community/identity to study on the University. They engaged in ethnographic research methods, which included collecting data, observing and participating in their chosen culture, recording their findings, and analyzing what they collected and recorded. [1]
Soo Ah Kwon, Instructor [1]
Students were encouraged to make their work public so that their research subjects, fellow students and Syracuse community participants, would be able to comment and provide feedback on their research. The IDEALS on-line archive would enable this process to be recorded for future students in the hope that they will build on present student research. The archiving of "scholarship in action" research for ANT 300 may help Syracuse University better understands the learning outcomes of "scholarship in action" initiatives. [2]
The course also introduced students to ethnographic methods. The bulk of this class was devoted to students' own ethnographic projects on a Syracuse University "Scholarship in Action" endeavor although it was possible to carry out research on other areas if students presented a good case for doing so. A wide variety of social practices and learning processes were expected to become part of what students researched. [2]
The Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI) includes several universities and community colleges located in the state of Illinois. All of these schools are public. Syracuse University is the first non-Illinois and first private university to join the group. This class joined an inter-campus learning community in which many classes from several schools (most, however, are located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) explore their universities and colleges ethnographically. In order to explore Syracuse University ethnographically, we needed to think about what "the university" is, what "ethnography" is, and what "scholarship in action" is. Broadly, we explored the university as a composite of prose, numerical, and visual narratives. [1]
The Ethnography of the University: Studying Scholarship in Action was designed to introduce undergraduate students to ethnographic methodologies, institutional analysis, and the research publication process. Students conducted ethnographic studies of Syracuse University Scholarship in Action projects of their choosing and had the opportunity to produce their results on the web. All the steps in the research process, from the formation of research questions to the creation of final research papers, was produced on-line at a collaborative website, Moodle, that has been created at the University of Illinois to facilitate undergraduate ethnography of the university projects. This project is titled the Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI). [2]
The objective of this course is to provide students with hands-on training in ethnographic methods and writing and to help students become critical readers of ethnographic research. Instead of attempting to present a whole smorgasbord of research methods or to survey the vast literature on ethnographic fieldwork, we focus on a small selection of techniques that are central to much anthropological fieldwork (field note taking, participant observation, interviewing, mapping) and that are most useful and relevant for students' semester projects. Other techniques and issues are discussed and incorporated as they emerge from students' own research inquiries. Students will not conduct a full-blown research project but instead will get "a taste" of ethnographic research through a series of ethnographic exercises and students' own mini-project. At the end of the semester, students write an ethnographic research report based on their findings and reflections on the research process. This course is affiliated with the EUI and, as a part of this initiative, students are asked to try their hand at ethnographic research about their own institution, Illinois State University. [4]
The purpose of this class was to provide students with opportunities to engage in a scholarly examination of research and practices associated with museum interpretation to diverse audiences; and to lead in the development and implementation of Krannert Art Museum educational programs and outreach activities with selected local audiences. [1]
There are three main components to this course: reading, composition, research. Readings focused on issues related to 'difference' and higher education, and the composing students did for this class included in-class writing, reading responses, and essays that build toward a research project of students' choosing. This course drew upon students' expertise as current U of I students and provided a space for them to 'inquire into'--to ask questions about—spaces they encounter on a daily basis. Throughout this course, we considered what the university 'is' and regarded 'difference' as an area of inquiry within the university's narratives. Another area of concentration was "ethnography," and students gained practice in the basic skills of ethnographic research—i.e., observation, interviewing, artifact analysis. Such practice was built into various assignments/students' own research project. [1]
Under the title of "Writing and Language in the University," this course centers on two interrelated topics: language, including variations in dialects and registers and the ideologies surrounding those variations; and academic writing, including its many genres and disciplinary differences. As we read, write, and talk about these topics, we explore how writing and language can vary and what makes us consider a way of speaking "standard" or a way of writing are more "correct" or "appropriate" in university contexts than others. We then move on to apply these concepts to our campus by exploring how writing and language are used at UIUC. Each student identifies a specific aspect of writing and/or language at UIUC to focus on for their in-depth research project. They might, for example, look at the range of writing genres used within their major; compare and contrast the academic writing expectations of different teachers, classes, or majors; explore the speech or writing experiences of a particular language or cultural group on campus; or examine current trends in student language use such as texting or slang. In their research, they pull from a wide range of scholarly sources including advanced academic articles and books as well as their own original ethnographic research (interviews, observations, surveys, and/or analyses of University texts). At the close of the course, they not only will have produced a polished final research project, but they will also have the option to share their research with the wider university community through presentation and/or online publication. As part of the EUI (Ethnography of the University Initiative), this class gives them the opportunity to create original scholarly research based on their firsthand experience with people, texts, and places on campus. [2]
What is a body? Is there such a thing as "the" body? How are bodies produced? What do they represent? Who gets to represent them? In this course we examine bodies in history, in particular cultural contexts, in international and national forums. Readings vary widely to include anthropological, historical, psychological and sociological perspectives. Our assigned projects focused on exercise, health and sport practices in general and on the University of Illinois campus in particular. This course is connected to the Ethnography of the University Initiative. [1]
When did Muslims arrive in the Americas? What is the history of Muslim immigrants in the United States? This course was an introduction to the study of Muslims in the United States. In examining the multiple racial, cultural, and national groups that make-up this diverse community, students questioned what it means to be Muslim in America. The course began with the first contact between Islam and America in the "Age of Discovery" and the African slave trade to think through the roots of Islam and its role in the contemporary moment. In this moment students also examined how indigenous Americans, referred to as American Indians, are conceptualized in relation to the Muslims of Europe and simultaneously racialized. In historicizing Islam students examined the communities who first arrived as crypto-Muslims to understand the place of Latinos in American Islam. Second, students examined African American Islam in its myriad formations. These two examples were then used comparatively to understand how the historical narrative of African American and Latino Muslims is related to newer immigrant populations. In large part, students surveyed Arab American and South Asian American Muslim communities particularly in urban contexts. These later two populations grew through large immigrant waves in the 19th century and the late twentieth century, particularly after 1965. In addition to the multi-racial and comparative perspective, this course examined intra-religious (sectarian) and interfaith differences and dialogues. This material was explored through an interdisciplinary approach focusing on the scholarship mainly from anthropology, history, sociology, religious studies, and ethnic studies. For many of class discussions this course used Chicago as an ethnographic site to explore the complex make-up and history of Muslim America. [2]


The transition to ICD-10 codes will impact a host of office systems and software, along with the human element of practices.
Several articles and checklists are available online with advice and suggestions on how to prepare for implementation of the new codes, but the bottom line is that those who don't prepare sufficiently will suffer financial losses due to rejected reimbursement claims.
Glitches and errors with implementation are inevitable, and the objective for the practice should be to minimize issues with the transition.
Claims will be affected with a project of this scope and clinicians would do well to review their preparations beginning with the anticipated end result, and do so as if they were facing a natural disaster.
To ride out the coming storm of ICD-10 transition, practitioners should create a comprehensive list of monthly expenses that includes their bills and payroll.
Plan on putting aside at least three month's-worth of cash to cover expenses in the event that the reimbursement flow decreases.
Practitioners will face a multitude of expenses in the form of staff training, software and office system upgrades. Practices must establish a timeline to accomplish their goals, from where and how staff will receive training to when software and hardware will be installed.
If problems occur, clinicians will know where the delays are, allowing them to adjust their plans accordingly.
Everyone from payers, vendors and clearinghouses must comply with implementation of the new codes. To assist clinicians with their own project deadlines, it's a good idea to communicate with others in the practice's network to discover when each entity plans to have their systems in place so testing can begin.
It's critical for clinicians to identify the top 10 ways the transition will affect their practice. Some payers, such as those for Workers' Compensation, may be exempt from the change, and this varies from one state to another. It's best to speak with the insurer in your state.
Practitioners will have to conduct due research to ensure they have a system that's compliant and compatible with clearinghouses and payers.
Staff will need sufficient time to be trained in the new alpha-numeric codes, their usage and how they will affect their daily duties. Compile a list of resources the office and staff can utilize. It's never too early to begin the familiarization process.
Coding is a specialized field and some clinicians may find that hiring a biller/coder who already has expertise with the new codes is more cost effective for the practice.
Before attempting software installations and upgrades, identify and fix any problems with existing systems, software and processes.
Problems anywhere within current systems and practices will create even more difficulties later on.
ICD-10 implementation is mandatory and the U.S. is one of the last countries in the world to adopt the system. Each practice should have a designated person to become an expert on all the nuances, rules and regulations of ICD-10.
That individual will be a key element in the creation and development of an implementation program that's compliant, compatible and helps guard against reimbursement rejections.
Sufficient preparation for implementation will reduce stress throughout the practice and ensure that claims are reimbursed promptly. It's understandable that clinicians are anxious about the change to ICD-10 codes, but with only a little while to go before the codes are in common use, practitioners have no time to waste.


"A Method to Calculate Aerodynamic Diameter of Particles with Fractal S" by P Tang, H-K Chan et al.
This work describes a computational method to predict DA of particles with rough surfaces. A set of model objects having DS varying from 2.00-2.55 was constructed . The DS was determined from Richardson's plot (log perimeter versus log yardstick). From these objects, all the parameters required to compute shape and surface roughness factors required to calculate the drag coefficient can be obtained.


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Transformers – Season Two, Volume One (25th Anniversary Edition/Animation Series/Shout! Factory DVD Set)
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No your eyes aren't fooling you Transformers has returned to DVD with Season Two, Volume One and the animated series is better than ever. After countless spin-offs, toys and blockbuster films it is still the original animated series that deserves the most praise. Not only did Transformers revolution animation in the 1980's, but it created solid groundwork for future generations to add on to and build off of to create even more exciting projects. Transformer: Season Two, Volume One is much like the Complete First Season (that was already released) in that it continues to follow the insanely thin (but creative) premise of the Autobots vs. the Decepticons; as they battle it out on modern planet earth.
Transformers was an animated series created for no other reason than to sell toys (tons and tons of toys); so it is not unreasonable to say that the show's premise did not evolve much with time. Both Hasbro and the creative entities behind the Transformers animated series (smartly) figured it was easiest and most profitable to stick with a working formula. The series continued to deliver the same "smash em' up" action, but this season managed to introduce a host of new supporting characters; obviously with the intention that children would buy the newest toys as well.
This volume release consists of 28 great episodes in their original production order; leaving a total of 21 episodes left for Season Two, Volume 2. The episodes included on this set are as follows:
1. Autobot Spike
2. The Immobilizer
3. Dinobot Island, Part I
4. Dinobot Island, Part II
5. Traitor
6. Enter the Nightbird
7. Changing Gear
8. A Prime Problem
9. Atlantis, Arise
10. Attack of the Autobots
11. Microbots
12. The Master Builder
13. The Insecticon Syndrome
14. Day of the Machines
15. Megatron's Master Plan, Part I
16. Megatron's Master Plan, Part II
17. Auto Berserk
18. City of Steel
19. Desertion of Dinobots, Part I
20. Desertion of Dinobots, Part II
21. Blaster Blues
22. A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court
23. The God Gambit
24. The Core
25. Make Tracks
26. The Autobot Run
27. Golden Lagoon
28. Quest for Survival
The technical features on Transformers are the same as they were in the First Season release; not horrible, but not the best either. I must say, however, that the series' technical features have improved greatly over their previous DVD release; getting rid of some but not all of the picture and sound issues. As previously mentioned, the number of inconsistencies appearing in the form of color mishaps and video discrepancies on original Transformer Series releases angered many fans and Shout! Factory was taking no chances letting fans down this time around. Whereas the picture and sound are by no means perfect, they are at least an improvement. The video again is presented in a clean and clear 1.33 X 1 full screen as it was originally aired. The image has solid colors and better blacks, but dirt and debris still bring down the picture's quality and fans will notice it. The sound is a Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Mix that gets the job done on both sets; as nothing is fancy but everything can be heard clearly without any additional noise.
Sadly there are no extras on this set, but it is a nice trade off as the set is affordable and hopefully there is more to come.
This is a great and classic series that I highly recommend. It truly says something about a series when 25 years later brand new audiences are still enjoying it. There is certainly more than meets the eyes.
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Alumnus Chang Si Kit: Stimulate Positive Energy With Love
"Life can affect life" is not solely a slogan, but a real action; it is not too difficult for people to accomplish. In the real world, there are a lot of people devoting themselves to caring for the helpless. There is such a person surrounding us ─ alumnus Chang Si Kit (Kisley), who has always sticked to his belief of a grateful heart, a sense of responsibility to spread positive attitude and the spirit of great love. He wants to use his actions to prove that as long as one dedicates themselves, an ordinary thing can make extraordinary.
Back From the Future Thinking
If you know Kisely well, you would know he has a nickname called "Si Ze" which means a person who love thinking in the Chinese. Kisely is that kind of person. "I love to think. Before action, I prefer to think about 'the reason why this happen' or 'How can I make the positive effect if I do it?' My practice is 'back from the future' thinking. I will set a goal for each 5-year, 10-year or even 20- year and then start to look back .The starting point of setting goals for the coming year is for you to go forward and think back. You can then see the steps that you will need to take, the changes that you will need to make, and the mull things that you will need to stop doing. Afterwards, you would have a more positive way looking at life."
Being asked if he has developed the ability of thinking and planning since a very young age, he replied: "In fact, it gets started from the college. At that time, I joined many extracurricular activities, such as Peer Support Program (PSP), SPRING, Rotaract Club of the University of Macau and the Youth Leadership program of Macau Education and Youth Affairs Bureau. At that time, I even had to study and do a part-time job. Then I realized I have to make good use of my finite amount of time and maintain a proper balance on study, work and extracurricular activities. Actually, my major was strategic management which helped me to well-practice the know-how I have learnt into those activities." Now, Kisley is working as Financial Planner to offer financial solutions to guests. He said keeping a positive attitude is also needed in his job apart from the requirement of professional knowledge, rigorousness and faithfulness."
The Post- 80s Has a Dedicated Quality
Such a description is rarely associated with the Post-80s that they have a sense of responsibility, especially in the aspect of social responsibility, as well as a dedicated quality; they put them into practice in manner of volunteering and giving helps to others. However, all these characteristics could be found in Kisley. While most of people take the value of volunteering for granted, he has insisted to join the volunteer works both in school and society in which he obtained the care and love. Afterwards, his attitude toward life has been changed. He said: "When I was a freshman, I had an opportunity to join PSP program in which I was touched by the mentors who dedicated their time and made efforts to help us to grow. Then I joined the program again as a mentor, I have seen the positive changes in new freshmen with our support and guidance, which helped me realize the real meaning of the belief of PSP – 'life can affect life'." Kisley looked back at his PSP experience as a turning point in his life so that he wrote down the touching story of "Pay It Forward". He was encouraged to participate in the activity of "Touching Your Heart, Empowering You to Be Positive" "—Macau Youth Federation: Distinguished Youth Award Scheme" organized by Macau Education and Youth Affairs Bureau with his touching story, under the nomination of the University of Macau Student Counselling and Development. After selections and public poll, ten youth with their touching stories has been certified as a distinguished youth; Kisley is one of them.
Kisley felt very grateful to all members of PSP program which brought him up so that he can attire certification today. During the process of "love-receiver" to "love –forwarder", he has been displaying both his spirit of dedication to the society and his positive character trait. He has even brought the spirit back to his alma mater to give the care and love to his school brothers and sisters by joining the activity of "Alumni Support Alumni" and "Alumni Mentorship Scheme" after he graduated.
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Sometimes, the most ordinary things by ordinary people could make extraordinary and turned to be a great power to stimulate more positive energy from a human being. Indeed, you have been very impressed by his positive thinking after a deep conversation. Therefore, he has another mission which is to promote positive energy in life. He hopes to bring more positive energy to the society in manner of volunteering and giving helps to others.
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Now Kisley, as a distinguished youth, who always reminds himself to set a good example to others, sticks to his belief of "life can affect life" and "promote positive energy", inspires everyone around him by his every word and behavior.
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LSE and Deutsche Börse say proposed merger can withstand Brexit
Some in Germany called for rethink after referendum but companies remain focused on deal as LSE shareholders vote in favour
Sean Farrell
Mon 4 Jul 2016 10.41 EDT First published on Mon 4 Jul 2016 04.26 EDT
Questions now hang over the City of London's status as the EU's undisputed financial centre. Photograph: Phil Toscano/PA
The London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse said the terms of their merger would withstand Britain's vote to leave the EU, after LSE shareholders voted almost unanimously in favour of the deal.
At a meeting in London, 99.89% of LSE shareholder votes were cast for the company to be acquired by Deutsche Börse. Shareholders were expected to support the deal but it has faced growing opposition in Germany since the UK vote for Brexit in the 23 June referendum.
Before the vote, LSE and Deutsche Börse established a referendum committee to examine problems created by a Brexit vote.
Announcing its shareholders' vote for the merger on Monday, LSE said the committee would work to ensure the combined company met all regulatory requirements. Because the UK is likely to stay in the EU for at least two years it may take many months to complete that work, LSE said.
LSE added: "The parties emphasise that the agreed transaction includes all necessary mechanisms to respond to the outcome of the referendum. Whether the UK is just European or a member of the EU, the merger will create a globally competitive, industry-defining market infrastructure group at the service of European industry."
About 50 shareholders gathered at the low-key meeting, held at the London offices of Freshfields, LSE's legal advisers. Two asked questions.
Dinesh Jain, an individual shareholder, asked why, now Britain was leaving the EU, "do we want to shackle ourselves to a corpse", Reuters reported. LSE should scrap the merger, which Germany was likely to veto, and instead do deals with exchanges in Asia and Latin America, he said.
Donald Brydon, LSE's chairman, stuck by the deal and said other countries such as France were looking to take business away from LSE.
"There are some people already seeking to pick over the bones of the UK very, very rapidly indeed. Everyone would be wise to take things a step at a time in this area," Brydon said.
The referendum committee will respond to developments in Britain's negotiations with the EU but the main terms of the deal will remain intact and could only be changed by further shareholder votes once approved.
The holding company for the combined group will have its main listing in London but will also be traded in Frankfurt and the company will be regulated in the UK. Carsten Kengeter, Deutsche Borse's chief executive, will run the company.
The exchanges announced a £21bn deal in February to create a European powerhouse of trading in stocks, bonds and complex financial instruments to take on rivals in the US and Asia. It is the third time the companies have attempted a merger after failed attempts in 2000 and 2005.
Before the referendum, both companies claimed the merger was Brexit-proof. But following the vote, German politicians and regulators have criticised the deal and called for revisions to the terms or for it to be scrapped.
UK construction suffers biggest fall since 2009 as Brexit fears bite – business live
Germany's markets regulator BaFin said last week the plan to base the combined company in London would not work if the UK was outside the EU. BaFin said it was difficult to imagine the most important exchange in the eurozone being run from outside the EU.
BaFin cannot veto the deal but Deutsche Börse will face pressure to respond to the regulator's concerns along with the German state of Hesse, where the company is based and which has a veto power.
Several German politicians called for the combined company's base to be in Frankfurt, while Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel, a leading Social Democratic party politician, said the deal was dead.
Joachim Faber, Deutsche Börse's chairman, said: "I strongly endorse the statement of London Stock Exchange Group following their general meeting today and continue to recommend the transaction to the shareholders of Deutsche Börse."
With questions hanging over the City of London's status as the EU's undisputed financial centre, politicians in other countries are eyeing opportunities to attract banks and other financial companies to base their operations there.
LSE and Deutsche Börse said after the referendum result was announced that the merger remained on course and that the rationale behind it was intact.
LSE shares fell more than 15% in the two days after the referendum result was announced but have recovered some of their losses. The shares closed down just over 1% at £24.93 on Monday.
Deutsche Börse shareholders will vote in a postal ballot and have until 12 July to swap their shares for those of the new company.
LSE chairman set to see off activist's attempt to oust him
The Children's Investment Fund wants Donald Brydon to go now but shareholder advisory groups are not convinced
LSE forced to explain reasons after chief executive Xavier Rolet leaves
Investor TCI wins shareholder meeting to seek ousting of London Stock Exchange Group chair Donald Brydon over his handling of Rolet's departure
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Mayor Turner unveils the unfinalized deal with recycling company FCC.
Who knew there could be so much drama over trash- and recycling-collection contracts?
Continuing the saga that has unfolded at City Hall — in which City Council members have said a deal with one company "smelled," and in which another company, EcoHub, claims Mayor Sylvester Turner snubbed him out of the whole process — EcoHub is now suing the city to find out what happened.
EcoHub had worked for years with former mayor Annise Parker's administration to set up the One Bin for All Recycling paradigm, and CEO George Gitschel had said he secured millions of dollars in bond funding to build an $800 million facility that would recycle up to 95 percent of all our waste and repurpose it as fuel or other traditional recycling products. But when Turner took over, the deal with Gitschel fell apart — for largely unknown reasons. Turner has refused to provide an explanation beyond the fact that he is "not obligated" to continue with Parker's vision. The city instead opened up a bidding process for more traditional single-stream recyclers in 2016.
The lawsuit, filed this week, is seeking clarity about how Turner made this decision. Gitschel had hired former KTRK reporter Wayne Dolcefino's consulting firm to investigate, but in the lawsuit, Gitschel's attorney says the city has not turned over documents, emails and phone calls that Dolcefino requested under the Texas Public Information Act. The lawsuit asks the court to compel the city to release the documents, and make sure officials are not hiding anything. Gitschel speculates that "improper influence by those who stand to financially benefit the most from the status quo" may have played in a role in why Turner canceled the One Bin proposal and opened it up instead to traditional single-stream recyclers.
"What we're hoping to uncover is at least emails between either Turner or folks in his administration and those with whom the city has been corresponding about bids on this contract, just to find out who the mayor's been supporting and what's going on at the Solid Waste Department," said Gitschel's attorney, Stewart Hoffer. "It just doesn't make any sense why he would turn down a costless solution in favor of one that will cost a lot of money and has a greater environmental impact than what EcoHub had."
The city had argued that much of the information Dolcefino requested could be excepted from disclosure because the city anticipated litigation from Gitschel, or because releasing some of the information would disrupt the competitive bidding process among all the other recycling companies gunning for a contract, among other reasons. The Texas Attorney General's Office agreed with some, but not all, of the city's arguments.
"Our position is that the documents he's entitled to he has received, or will," said Alan Bernstein, the mayor's spokesman. "The documents he's not entitled to, obviously, he's not going to receive them. He, being a pronoun that covers everybody who's paid to represent the company that didn't bid on the contract it says it should have gotten. Last time I checked, you don't get to complain about the umpire's ruling unless you played the game, and that's not what happened here."
Gitschel told the Houston Press he did not bid on the city's October 2016 Request for Proposals for single-stream recyclers because he felt the criteria disqualified EcoHub, since its business model is entirely different from that of single-stream recyclers such as Waste Management. In June, Turner announced that a European recycler, FCC, had won the contract, pending City Council approval.
And City Council loudly disapproved. Several members said the 15-year, $46 million contract with FCC "smelled," was "rotten" and needed to be withdrawn so that the best and final offers from the other recycling companies could be re-evaluated. Ultimately, Turner agreed to restart that process, after City Council members pointed out that FCC's pricing, an $87-per-ton processing fee, was far from the best deal for Houston, and that the criteria used to evaluate the best proposal seemed flawed.
"We're not the only ones asking these questions," Hoffer said. "The folks at City Council are asking the same questions. So it's not like we're some pissed-off vendors who got our feelings hurt because we lost the deal. It just doesn't make sense."
Bernstein maintained that, regardless of the lawsuit's outcome, EcoHub can't participate in the bidding process since it didn't originally submit a bid.


This summary gives an overview of a very good design pattern for using Doctrine in Apigility. Each section will have it's own page and is included here to give the developer a birds-eye view of the pattern.
There should never be a need to modify these files. Let me repeat, these files are not intended to override the ancestor objects. They exist here as part of the depenency injection strategy Doctrine in Apigility uses. Again, DO NOT modify these files.
The design for Doctrine in Apigility expects a two-layered security strategy. The first layer is ACL (or RBAC if you prefer and are dedicated) and the second layer is Query Providers. ACL Authorization is handled by Apigility and Query Providers are handled by Doctrine in Apigility.
Doctrine in Apigility expects you to implement the Authorization created with zfcampus/zf-mvc-auth for your project. This probably means implementing ACL in your application and assigning roles to the differnet HTTP verbs each role can access. For instance a DELETE verb may only be available to an administrator.
For any resource where the access to the resource is limited a Query Provider should be created. Query Providers are small classes which return a Doctrine QueryBuilder object. By default the QueryBuilder contains only the entity assigned to the resource the user is requesting. By extending the QueryBuilder with filters and joins the query will return filtered data based on a particular user or security permission of the user the QueryBuilder, when ran, will produce SQL that adds new security to the resource.
Now when the QueryBuilder is ran inside the DoctrineResource the id for the user passed to the patch will be appended to the QueryBuilder. If the id does not belong to the current user then the QueryBuilder will return no results and a 404 will be thrown to the user trying to edit a record which is not theirs.
Hydrators in Doctrine in Apigility are handled by phpro/zf-doctrine-hydration-module. Familiarity with this module is very important to understanding how to extend hydrators without creating special case hydrators. Doctrine in Apigility uses an Abstract Factory to create hydrators.
There should be no need to create your own hydrators. That bold statement is true because we're taking a white-gloved approach to data handling. By using Hydrator Strategies and Filters we can fine tune the configuration for each hydrator used for a Doctrine entity assigned to a resource.
This should be quite obvious; fields are excluded from being hydrated (or extracted) based on the filter.
The module API-Skeletons/zf-doctrine-hydrator provides all the hydrator strategies you will need. More information on these strategies in hydration.
Because Doctrine hydrators can extract relationships the default response from a Doctrine in Apigility Resource will include an _embedded section with the extracted entities and their _embedded and so on. For special cases only does zfcampus/zf-hal have a max_depth parameter. This special case is not intended to correct issues with HATEOAS in Doctrine in Apigility. When you encounter a cyclic association in Doctrine in Apigility the correct way to handle it is using Hydrator Strategies and Filters.
Hypertext as the engine of application state is the goal of serving data from Doctrine in Apigility. Creating a response with no dead ends. That is, anytime a reference is made to another entity or collection and that resource is not part of the response there will be an http self link to that resource. This way a requesting application can fetch all data associated with a resource even if it takes more than one request.
The data returned from each resource is the data for that resource' entity. You should not try to add data to a response which is not naturally hydrated. However, there may be times when computed data is required as part of a response. This is covered in detail in HATEOAS.


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Craig Wright: Silk Road has not helped bitcoin
By Fabio Lugano - 12 Dec 2018
Craig Wright, one of the main promoters of Bitcoin Cash Satoshi Vision and a character who had declared himself (without giving proof) the creator of bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, in a post on Medium warns about the concept of privacy related to cryptocurrencies, using as an example the case of Silk Road.
His analysis is very deep, almost introspective, and starts from his personal experience as a network analyst.
Before bitcoin, in 2006 Wright and Dr Pang took part in an investigation involving two girls, aged 11 and 15, victims of a gang in a shady child pornography and child exploitation business.
The two experts helped the Southern Australian police to unravel the complex network of relationships that connected the various members with the two girls and from this work was also born a scientific paper called 'Three-dimensional visualization of social interactions networks', but also a profound concern that made Wright think.
Since then, Wright has helped police forces in several countries around the world to interpret networks of communications and transactions through BTC, such as Silk Road, to be able to solve numerous criminal cases.
The basic distinction is between the concept of privacy and that of total anonymity to pursue under the pretext of security.
Privacy entails that transactions are not traceable, if not with great efforts and the use of experts, while anonymity is the impossibility to trace any transactions or communications, preventing also those operations in the service of the law carried out by the experts.
Many would like to build a new Silk Road, an improved market for crimes and drugs and safe for criminals, but this can not happen on the basis of BTC because there are experts, like him, able to carry trace the transactions. This is obvious considering cases such as that of Richard Huckle, who through Silk Road thought he could not be apprehended for his sexual crimes, but he was caught and sentenced to 22 years.
Bitcoin was created to be private but honest and has nothing to do with privacy coins like Monero that instead make anonymity their main, if not unique, goal.
Wright's idea of proclaiming himself the creator of Bitcoin in 2015, wasn't such a smart move because, shortly afterwards, his house and his properties were searched by the Australian police on charges of tax evasion. A search that, in reality, turned out not to be linked to his impersonation of Satoshi, but to the fraud of 54 million dollars against public funds for Australian research.
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Graduated with honors from Bocconi University, Fabio is a consultant for companies and wounded shareholders of the Banche Venete. He is also the author of "Scenari Economici", and lecturer and analyst of cryptocurrencies since 2016.


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Headline ● PM bids farewell to outgoing Panamanian Ambassador ● Vietnam resolved to fight violations of its sea areas: spokeswoman
PM: Vietnam treasures strategic partnership with Japan
Vietnam treasures its strategic partnership with Japan and considers Japan an important and long-term partner, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
PM requests preventing delay in law building
PM drums to kick off Trang An Festival 2018
President: Vietnam, Japan enjoy booming relations
PM: Vietnam, Japan should pioneer in accelerating CPTPP
Vietnam, Japan to further strengthen strategic partnership
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc (R) presents a souvenir to Fumio Kishida, Chairman of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (Photo: VNA)
PM Phuc made the remark while receiving Fumio Kishida, Chairman of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan, in Hanoi on May 4.
The PM stressed that since its inception 45 years ago, Vietnam-Japan relations have recorded comprehensive, strong and practical growth in all fields, while political trust between the two nations stays at high level.
He thanked Kishida for his contributions to the bilateral ties when he worked as Foreign Minister and Secretary-General of the Japan-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Alliance, expecting that Kishida will continue his support to the bilateral cooperation.
For his part, the Japanese official said he was happy to see that Japan has become a leading foreign investor in Vietnam again with a record number of over 1,700 businesses investing in the Southeast Asian country.
Praising Vietnam's economic growth of 6.81 percent last year, he said Japan wants to contribute to the country's infrastructure development, including urban railway projects in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Japanese companies are very interested in the Vietnamese market, Kishida said, adding that Vietnam and Japan should strengthen their cooperation in regional and international matters.
PM Phuc said the room for bilateral collaboration remains large, suggesting the countries enhance political trust by increasing the exchange of delegations, particularly high-level delegations, and deepening ties between their parties and parliaments.
He suggested the two sides coordinate in organizing activities to celebrate the 45th founding of diplomatic ties in 2018, and increase people-to-people and cultural exchanges between their localities to boost mutual understanding.
Having thanked Japan for its effective support to the Vietnamese economy via its official development assistance (ODA), PM Phuc said Vietnam attaches importance to the funds and spares no efforts to carry out its ODA commitments with Japan.
He went on to say that Vietnam wants to continue using Japanese ODA in building major infrastructure projects and training human resources in response to climate change.
The government leader hoped that Japan will maintain its position as the top foreign investor, and invest more in the local supporting industry, new energy, processing industry, and high-tech agriculture.
The PM recommended the two countries push up bilateral trade, and asked the Japanese side to assist Vietnam in improving the quality of goods and logistics services, and create favourable conditions for Vietnamese fruits and aquatic products to enter the Japanese market.
PM Phuc and Kishida also spent time discussing the maintenance of security, peace and stability in the region.
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PM urges central, Central Highland regions to promote green growth
Deputy Minister Nguyen Van Thanh wins 4th ESCI Best Practices Awards
NA Chairwoman meets voters in Can Tho city
Minister To Lam meets voters in Bac Ninh
Vietnam, China look towards closer judicial relations
Dong Nai's senior Party official dismissed from all Party posts
Congratulations sent to leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Gov't leader urges reforms to keep up with global development pace


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