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No, Hyundai is not ending its love affair with hydrogen or ICEs
Why are anonymous comments by industry insiders treated as fact?
Cate Lawrence
Cate Lawrence is an Australian tech journo living in Berlin. She focuses on all things mobility: ebikes, autonomous vehicles, VTOL, smart ci (show all) Cate Lawrence is an Australian tech journo living in Berlin. She focuses on all things mobility: ebikes, autonomous vehicles, VTOL, smart cities, and the future of alternative energy sources like electric batteries, solar, and hydrogen.
It's been a busy week for Hyundai, who had to refute claims it was breaking up with hydrogen. This week, we saw yet another claim by an "industry insider" that Hyundai had suspended their R&D in 3rd generation hydrogen fuelcells.
An article by Korean news outlet Chosun Biz claimed that Hyundai had suspended R&D in 3rd generation hydrogen fuel cells due to technical problems and a lack of marketability.
That's apparently not true; an unnamed Hyundai Motor official issued a statement today to the Korea Times refuting the claim:
The hydrogen FCEV project has not been halted but rather delayed, as it encountered some difficulties during research, but Hyundai has been and will continue to develop hydrogen FCEVs.
No, Hyundai is not closing down its ICE development either
The hydrogen news was hot on the heels of the claim that Hyundai was closing down its Internal Combustion Engine R&D and moving the 12,000-odd staff to electric vehicle departments.
Just a few hours ago, an e-mail sent to Motor1.com from Senior Group Manager at Hyundai Motor America, Michael Stewart, said:
Hyundai Motor Group can confirm that it is not halting the development of its engines following recent media speculation. The Group is dedicated to providing a strong portfolio of powertrains to global customers, including a combination of highly efficient engines and zero-emissions electric motors.
Inaccurate media stories have consequences
Honestly, I'm starting to wonder if these industry insiders are paying fans of rival companies looking to cause affray.
In the case of the hydrogen claim, investors reacted adversely to the news. According to The Korea Times, companies affiliated with Hyundai and/or working on fuel cell tech saw share prices drop by 4%-10% following the report.
It looks like investors are taking their cues from the media, and I'm not sure that's a good thing. Shouldn't they be paying analysts for a more long-term vision?
Hyundai's hydrogen fuel cell dream is evolving — albeit slowly
In 2018, the South Korean government and Hyundai set an annual production goal of 130,000 hydrogen cars by 2025′ and '80,000 hydrogen cars sold by 2022. So far, retail sales are not even close anywhere in the world.
Hyundai's hydrogen fuel cell trailer drone has multiple configurations and use cases.
In 2021, sales of HFC vehicles almost doubled compared to the previous year. 16,300 vehicles were registered from January to December 20201. 8900 of these were Hyundai Motor's sole fuel cell EV Nexo, which increased its sales by 46% compared to the previous year.
Hyundai's NEXO fuel cell vehicle
In September last year, Hyundai announced its Hydrogen Vision 2040 at an online event called Hydrogen Wave. It doubled down on its aim to become the first automaker to apply fuel cell systems to all commercial vehicle models by 2028.
This is part of a bigger mission introducing hydrogen fuel cells into high-performance vehicles. These include urban air mobility, robots, aircraft, and large ships.
Hyundai Engineering Co., a construction unit of Hyundai Motor Group, is spending $336 million to build a plant to produce hydrogen from plastic waste. The company expects to raise up to $1.2 billion in a planned initial public offering (IPO) early this year.
The pain point is hydrogen refueling stations
The growth of hydrogen refueling globally — H2stations.org by LBST.
Hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles share the woes that plagues EV users — both lack easy access to charging or power. At the end of 2020, 553 hydrogen refueling stations were in operation worldwide.
In 2018, a collective of industry leaders and the government pledged to have 310 hydrogen refueling stations in South Korea by 2022.
At the end of 2020, there were a mere 60. That's a pretty dire shortfall. There are just under 400 EV charging stations in South Korea by comparison.
Most applications for hydrogen are industries — ships, trains, buses, VTOLs, and trucks. These typically have access to on-site refueling at truck parking bays, shipyards, bus, and train depots.
The prototype of Hyundai Vision FK, a high-powered sports car that runs on hydrogen, a plug-in system and rear-while drive.
But for hydrogen fuel cell cars to succeed, the infrastructure needs to catch up, leaving a chicken and egg problem where companies are trying to balance the long-term snail pace of commercial hydrogen fuel cell evolution with the rapid acceleration of electric vehicles.
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This Saturday, October 7th, marked the 16-year anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. Early this year, during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General John "Mick" Nicholson, the theater commander in Afghanistan, candidly reported that the war there is a stalemate. After 16 years of war, why do the Afghan and Coalition forces face a stalemate? Is there some way out of that war with a win, or even just a qualified success?
There are several reasons for the state of the war in Afghanistan, but two are of primary strategic importance. One reason lies in the United States' strategic cultural propensity to focus on action and operations without being clear about how or what those operations will achieve at the strategic level. America's bent for tactics and operations over strategy dates back to its support for the Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War.
The other reason and the principal cause for the strategic stalemate is Pakistan's strategic cultural proclivity for exporting and supporting Islamist militants in South Asia generally and Afghanistan specifically. This dates back to Pakistan's inception in 1947 and has become a key part of its existential purpose. Moreover, U.S. support of the Mujahideen against the Soviets compounded and helped intensify Pakistan's propensity for promoting jihad.
A strategic stalemate after 16 years of violence, loss, sacrifice, and costs is an unsettling predicament. But, there is still reason for some forecast for relief. This article explores those aspects of the current situation in Afghanistan that are good and warrant a modest degree of optimism. It will then delve into the United States' problem with strategy, and its corollary inclination for cultivating Pollyanna leader tacticians. This is the bad. The last part of this essay examines what is the ugly aspect of this war, and the single biggest obstacle to a successful outcome – Pakistan's support for the Taliban and other Islamist groups.
The good – aspects of this war still argue in favor of the stated U.S. policy to persevere with a modest but sufficient effort to sustain the effort so that Afghanistan does not fail. As examples, the Afghan government and its security forces do genuinely welcome our help. The government and its security forces, though imperfect, are working with the American-led Coalition toward common purposes.
Afghanistan is also the best combat theater where there are American boots on the ground, striking at the very groups that helped start this war. In fact, Afghanistan represents one of the better counterterrorism platforms in a combat theater from among those countries where the U.S. and its partners are advising and assisting indigenous efforts to combat Islamist terrorists around the world.
Moreover, General Nicholson is one of the best U.S. commanders of the Afghan theater since the war began. He is very knowledgeable and exhibits strategic intuition. He is the most experienced senior leader there, having served fours tours in Afghanistan. He is clear-eyed and candid about the state of the war and its risks. He is not the reason why there is a stalemate 16 years into the war.
Regarding senior Afghan leadership, General Nicholson and his team have also helped design an operational approach that will invest in and build the most capable indigenous forces – the Afghan Special Security Forces and the Afghan Air Force – to build tactical and operational overmatch the Taliban.
A modest increase in advisor capacity will assist with this growth in the most capable Afghan forces. This will build momentum at the operational and tactical levels. It is not a strategy but overmatching Taliban capacity on the ground can build operational momentum that complements strategy. Strategy must focus on the strategic center of gravity, Pakistan's sanctuary and support for the Taliban.
The bad – the length of this war relates to the absence of a strategy and no long view for South Asia. Over the last four decades, the United States approach to Afghanistan and Pakistan has exhibited a strategic attention deficit. America has not been at war in Afghanistan for 16 years but has been involved or partly responsible, by neglect, for the wars there for almost 40 years. Over those decades, the U.S. approach has at times been naïve, impetuous, unimaginative, maladroit, and tactical in its policies toward Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Beginning just before the Soviet invasion in 1979 and for 11 years or so, strategic epilepsy could describe the U.S. approach to the region. It was American policy to fund and support Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence in its support of Islamist insurgents to defeat the Soviets. America provided plenty of weapons and money to the most virulently Islamist groups to attrite the Soviets and exhausted their capacity and will, without thinking through the long-term implications.
Then, from the fall of 1990 to the fall of 2001, strategic narcolepsy characterized the U.S. approach to South Asia. This meant that America generally ignored Afghanistan while Pakistan continued to direct various movements of Islamist fanatics and condoned or collaborated with a malign alliance between al Qaeda and the Taliban. The 9/11 attacks returned the U.S. to strategic epilepsy, and since October 7th, 2001, America and its Coalition partners have been fighting some of the very same Islamist fanatics that American policy had helped empower during the Soviet War. So, with no strategy and no viable long-term plan for a post-war peace, the U.S. and its partners went to war 16 years ago using small numbers of Coalition forces and Afghan warlord militias to chase the Taliban and al-Qaeda to Pakistan, only to see the Taliban reconstitute with Pakistan's complicity.
Missteps early on in the war on the part of the Coalition and its Afghan partners, for example – the absence of a strategy, the reliance on warlords, the use of indiscriminate air power, an initial unwillingness to help rebuild, and a toleration of venal Afghan leadership – all created grievances among the Afghans. These grievances helped garner some support among the populace while Pakistan helped regenerate the Taliban in the Pashtun belt during the critical first five years of the war. Without the full support of Pakistan and its sanctuaries, the Taliban revival would have been impossible.
Compounding the strategic deficit is the inclination of Western militaries for producing too many Pollyanna tacticians and their disinclination for producing sober strategists. The U.S. military, in particular, excels at turning out optimistic tacticians but does not excel at developing critical strategists. During several tours in Afghanistan, candid reporting of bad tactical news was seldom apparent.
Throughout multiple years of my observations, while attending periodic theater or battle update briefs, the hallmark for these types of updates was the consistency in slides that were filled with green traffic light circles combined with maps with many areas colored in green. For military briefings, green is good and red is bad.
Reports of everything in the green, successful, good, all the time, in the context of a prolonged stalemate, are conspicuous clues to overly optimistic filters. In Afghanistan, this was manifest weekly, monthly, and yearly in the form of reporting and updates from the one-star and two-star commanders. Regular updates are consistently showing everything green testify to the Pollyanna tendency.
The emphasis on "can do," "decisive victory," "the big win," and "pushing the ball across the goal line" are so ingrained in military culture that reporting failure, setbacks, or even just a lack of progress with indigenous forces, is seldom evident. Freshly promoted one-star generals, in particular, seem to be the most enthusiastic briefers, profuse with great news in mean places.
U.S. military institutions need to start valuing and bearing ruthless candor and bad news. This Pollyanna problem stems from cultures that value and reward only unqualified success, victory and hyper-optimism. This combines with a focus on tactics and science over strategy and helps explain the part that Pollyanna junior general leaders play in prolonging these wars.
The unfortunate reality is that few U.S. leaders transcend tactics when they advance to general officer ranks. The art of strategy is more complex and heuristic than the science of tactics. The United States military continues to excel at creating captains of infantry companies and commanders of battalions, but it continues to fail at developing captains of war and strategy.
Encouraging heterodoxy and brutal candor, while learning from and embracing failure will better serve the causes in these wars than the orthodoxy and conformity will help these causes. It is imperative to educate leaders to think more critically and strategically.
Institutions with cultures that produce Pollyanna junior-general-officer leaders who are seemingly incapable of countenancing failure or thinking strategically, contribute to a deficit in strategy.
The ugly – nominal major non-NATO ally Pakistan supports and sustains the Taliban. This is the main reason for the stalemate in Afghanistan after 16 years. This war will not end, or it will not end well if the Coalition and its Afghan partners cannot undertake a strategy that sees Pakistan stop support.
After 16 years of groundhog war, the U.S. seems to be getting serious about a strategy that can remove the single biggest impediment to strategic success – the support and sanctuary that Pakistan provides to its Taliban proxies. This is what precludes the Taliban's defeat. A strategy to undermine this, the Taliban's strategic center of gravity, will bring stalemate breaking momentum.
The strategic stalemate is of Pakistan's design. Pakistan has sustained the stalemate by its use of Islamist proxies in the form of the Taliban and the Haqqani network. Pakistan's strategy has been to impose a strategic paradox on the Coalition through an asymmetry of will and means. It uses its means – a deep pool of zealous Islamist militants – to prevent the Taliban's defeat, to protract the war, and to erode the will of the West and its Afghan allies, to make their means irrelevant.
From its inception, Pakistan's existential postulation was to oppose India and to revise the regional status quo through the export of Islamist militant proxies. This export of jihad as strategy provided meaning and purpose for Pakistan's political elites and security establishment. Its civilian populace cohered behind it. Pakistan's employment of Islamist terrorists is a trait of its strategic culture.
Six decades of experience nurturing and deploying Islamist militants beyond its borders have deepened this propensity. The export of jihad is central to Pakistani strategy, but in the six decades that this proclivity has intensified, it has made Pakistan more insecure by losing wars, losing territory, and creating homegrown Islamist groups that have come to threaten Pakistan itself.
It is necessary to employ all means, with coercion and alliances, to impinge on Pakistan's fear and interests, to modify Pakistan's pernicious strategic behavior. States in the region and the international community need to help convince Pakistan that its long-held perception of its purpose – employing Islamist terrorists to oppose India and revise the status quo – is a bankrupt purpose that is harmful to all, including Pakistan.
Afghanistan has been the good war of the post 9/11 wars. It was good in the justness for going to war, in the way the Coalition tried to conduct it, and in the context that the U.S.-led Coalition should not quit on a moral commitment to its Afghan allies in their fight against externally directed Islamist proxies.
The purpose of strategy is to fulfill a political object. That purpose should relate to an end condition that is better than the condition before the war began. The instruments of a state's power and the ways they are employed should also align to achieve the political object sought at the costs and duration that state is willing to bear. If war brings stalemate, strategy is flawed.
The value of the political object, the morality of the war, and the perception of victory or defeat comprise the most compelling logic of the interaction of wills in Afghanistan. The political object and its perceived value permeate war. The value of the object for the Afghan War – to dismantle, defeat, and deny al-Qaeda sanctuary in Afghanistan – derived from the 9/11 attacks' horrible consequences.
The political object was and is to prevent an event like 9/11 or something worse from happening again by disrupting and denying Afghanistan as a sanctuary for al Qaeda and other Islamist militants. With Pakistan's support, the Taliban took over large swathes of Afghanistan in 1996 and provided al Qaeda sanctuary. Al Qaeda benefited from that sanctuary to plot and carry out the 9/11 attacks.
The last U.S. Defense Department Afghanistan report made the current gravity of the object clear: "Afghanistan faces a continuing threat from as many as 20 insurgent and terrorist networks present or operating in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, including the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, IS-K, and al Qaeda, in what is the highest concentration of extremist and terrorist groups in the world."
Quitting might see Pakistan's Taliban proxies eventually overwhelm and undermine the Afghan government and its security forces. And, if the Taliban were to revive an Islamist emirate in Afghanistan, there is reason to suggest a future with more attacks against the West, planned and prepared, with increasing scope and intensity, from Afghanistan's and Pakistan's tribal areas.
U.S. stated policy is now to win in Afghanistan. The senior leadership has opted for victory over defeat. A win is an Afghanistan that does not fragment and endures as a state that is inhospitable to al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the Islamic State-Khorasan and other Islamists groups.
There will still be violence and poverty, but stability without a continuous existential threat is a success. Success and the way out of there, then, is a relatively resilient Afghan state, with the Government, the security forces and the population aligned against an irrelevant, or reintegrated Taliban.
The refreshing candor about Pakistan in the U.S. Afghanistan policy statement in August should mean that the United States is dropping the pretense that Pakistan, one of the foremost ideological and physical incubators of Islamist militants, is an ally and a friend. Pretending that Pakistan was an ally in the war against Islamist militants, one that would act in ways to help defeat Islamist groups in the tribal areas, made the West complicit in Pakistan's malign conduct.
A policy to win in Afghanistan requires a regional strategy that aligns political will, intellectual capital, and capacity to defeat the enemy's strategy. This means undermining the Taliban's strategic center of gravity.
Defeat requires a strategy to undermine both the will and capacity of the Taliban, al Qaeda and the state that provides material, ideological, and sanctuary support. Pakistan is the state that provides the sponsorship, sanctuary and support that equates to the strategic center of gravity of the Taliban.
Until the U.S.-led Coalition strategy shuts down the sanctuary and incubators for the Taliban in Pakistan, operational forces will continue to capture and kill Taliban who will regenerate with the benefit of a deep pool of Islamist militants in Pakistan, with no good way out of there and no relief.
Robert M. Cassidy, Ph.D., is a retired U.S. Army colonel, who teaches at Wesleyan as a fellow. He has served in Afghanistan and has published work about Afghanistan's wars. The term 'strategic narcolepsy' is from a RAND study. The views in this are informed by his experience, study, and S. Paul Kapur's work. These are not the views of the institutions with which he affiliates.


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FFRF protests proselytizing at Texas pumpkin patch (Jan. 31, 2012)
Kindergartners will no longer be exposed to Christian evangelism during Bel Air Elementary School (Athens, Texas) field trips.
During three school trips to a pumpkin patch at Brand Cowboy Church in Athens, between Oct. 26-28, 2011, first-grade and kindergarten students had to listen to sectarian stories. One such story included a direct reference to Christianity: "God made each pumpkin different, just like he made each child different." Students also received a Christian-themed pamphlet, entitled "Bag of Jokes." This take-home pamphlet told students they were all sinners and instructed them to pray to God to ask for forgiveness. FFRF Staff Attorney Stephanie Schmitt wrote an Oct. 27 letter to the Athens Independent School District Superintendent in an attempt to intervene before the third field trip took place.
This flagrant constitutional violation was not resolved until Jan. 31. An Attorney representing the school district wrote, "To this end, it appears as if any such endorsement was done without knowledge or approval of the school district . . . The school district is confident that any Establishment Clause/Free-Exercise concerns have been addressed."


Can there be a standardised tool for low emisson climate resilience?
development of low-emission climate-resilient roadmaps for project development, policy instruments, and financial flows.
Step 1, to develop a multi-stakeholder planning process, includes establishing the LECRDS project team, reviewing and compiling information on existing climate assessments and plans, establishing LECRDS steering committee, identifying and creating policy and technical working groups, identifying technical capacity needs and implement training and putting in place communications and awareness-raising strategy directed towards a wide range of authorities, partners, and stakeholders. The second step is to prepare climate change profiles and vulnerability scenarios. The third step of the process is to identify strategic options leading to low-emission climate-resilient development trajectories through reviewing climate profiles and vulnerability scenarios, determining emission reduction targets and identifying the related opportunities and options to achieve them. The fourth step is to identify policies and financing options to implement priority climate change actions, which involves bringing together potential public and private partners, supported by relevant technical and financial experts, to jointly assess and develop the priority options identified. The fifth and final step is to prepare a comprehensive low-emission climate-resilient roadmap to guide formulation of projects and policy instruments, and to secure investment and financial flows for implementation of priority integrated climate and sustainable development activities by governmental and nongovernmental (NGOs) actors and agencies.
there is a need to incorporate into the LECRDs roadmap a vision of how the partnership and coordination platform may evolve over time with regards to its roles, responsibilities, and activities in the future.


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FLEISHER TEAM - Fleisher-Kamil, Levin-Weinstein, Martel-Stansby - Bye to Round of 8
The Fleisher team finished second in the 2010 Vanderbilt to earn a bye to the Round of 8 of the 2010 USBC.
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Marty Fleisher
{mosimage} Born in the Big Apple, Marty learned to play bridge at the age of eight by observing his parents and uncle. His biggest thrill is a tie between winning the Intercollegiate Championships at the age of 18 and his victory in the 2000 Cavendish Pairs. However, he considers his "greatest achievement" an absolute toss up between his marriage to his wife of twenty-five years and getting to the finals of the Grand Nationals in 1976 (at age 17 the youngest player to reach a National Championship final). But there was a famine of over twenty-eight years until he won the Swiss Teams at the 2004 Fall Nationals. It is interesting to note it may have been the longest stretch between 1st and 2nd for anyone. Indeed, it took Marty's teammates in the National Swiss (Gavin Wolpert and Vince Demuy) only one National to transcend from bridesmaid to bride! Marty enjoys few leisure moments for hobbies other than bridge as his professional commitment as an Employee Benefits Attorney and investment advisor is very time-consuming.
Michael Kamil
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A New Jerseyite all his life, Mike credits his love of the game to his first bridge partner, his mother, who professed to him as a young lad that every hand is an adventure. Together they won several New York area Regionals and their capturing the 1980 Las Vegas NABC Flight B Mixed Pair (besting over 1300 pairs) was his biggest thrill. However, the high point thus far in his bridge career was winning the 1990 Vanderbilt with Gerard, Morse, Sutherlin, Pollack and Sanders. From 1985-2003 Mike was a stock options trader. Presently he is a "sometimes" professional player but devotes his energy toward building a philatelic business on Ebay. Most of his leisure time is spent with his wife and their thirteen-year-old twin daughters. Mike modestly confessed to a 'modicum of success with each of his partners' (including Mike Moss, Mike Becker, Christal Henner-Welland and Marty Fleisher) but only a deep rooted love of bridge could have evoked the words 'I love playing regardless of partner's or teammates' abilities.
Bobby Levin
{mosimage} Bobby has won too many bridge events to list. He is the youngest player ever to win the Bermuda Bowl, in 1981 when he was 23. He and Steve Weinstein were second in the World Open Pairs in Verona in 2006.
Bobby has recently become an avid skier and has always been an avid tennis player. He also enjoys biking and has spent most of the last year and a half traveling the country with wife Jill and their dog skiing and biking around towns with lots of time on the beaches when we are not playing bridge at tournaments. His son andrew is in his 2nd year of college at Northwestern, and Jill's sons Shane and Justin Blanchard are upcoming bridge players who live in New York city.
Steve Weinstein
{mosimage} Steve Weinstein is the youngest player on the Fleisher team, and also the youngest player ever to win an NABC event (the Life Master Pairs in 1981 when he was 17). He has since won many other NABC events, as well as finishing 5-8 in the Bermuda Bowl & 2nd in the World Open Pairs.
Steve has been married to Liz Davis since 1993 (they have been together since 1986). He lives in Andes NY "the middle of nowhere" with 2 dogs, Zeke and Luther, and Archie the cat. After leaving Wall street in 2002, he has pursued a career as a professional bridge and poker player. He won the Borgata winter open poker tournament in Atlantic City in 2009 but is primary a cash game player.
Chip Martel
{mosimage} Chip Martel is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis. A World Grand Master, ranked tenth in World lifetime ranking (sixteenth in current performance ranking), Chip has won five world championships and placed second three times. He has also won over 25 North American championships and U.S. Bridge Championships ("Trials"), most of them in partnership with Lew Stansby. In January 2010, Chip and Lew marked the thirtieth-third anniversary of their partnership, one of the longest running in bridge history. Chip also has an outstanding record with other partners, including wife Jan. Chip and Jan recently teamed with Sally and Kit Woolsey and Rose Meltzer and Kyle Larsen to win the North American Open Teams in Washington. Chip is currently chair of the ACBL Laws Commission. A favorite hobby is revising his bidding system ("Chip abhors a bid without a meaning," friends say) and devising defenses to methods played most commonly outside the United States.
Lew Stansby
{mosimage} Lew Stansby, former commodities trader and current professional bridge player, lives in Dublin, California, with wife and fellow national champion JoAnna. Since winning the Reisinger in 1965, Lew has won more than thirty national championships and five Open and two Senior world championships, and has finished second three times. Most of these championships over the past thirty years have been won in partnership with Chip Martel, but Lew also has an outstanding record with other partners, including wife JoAnna. Their most recent accomplishment was second-place finish in the North American Open Teams in Chicago, playing with Chip and Jan Martel and Kit and Sally Woolsey. Lew is a World Grand Master, ranked ninth in lifetime ranking (18th in current performance ranking). Tall and softspoken, Lew is known for his love of games of almost all kinds and his incredible memory for bridge hands, even those from long-ago events he neglected to win.


Before reading this article, I invite you to have some fun with our Rock-paper-scissors agent Malphago in the iFrame below and try to see whether he gets stronger while playing with you. In the rest of the content, we'll illustrate the fundamentals of reinforcement learning (RL) with the help of Malphago.
Defeat the world champion at the board game GO.
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The diagram illustrates that the general decision making problem is actually studied by many of the different fields, as a fundamental sciences across those braches.
What we concern in this article is the technology as a branch of Computer science and Machine Learning.
Reinforcement learning is an essential component of machine learning, which is intersected with both supervised learning and unsupervised learning. In an RL problem, there is no supervisor, but just reward signals. Our agent takes actions according to the feedback reward and the actions effect the subsequent data it receives. We should notice that there is no i.i.d (independent identically distributed) data as in a normal supervised learning problem. Here, the feedback data can be delayed so that time really matters.
What is the problem set?
An RL problem is a sequential decision making problem – controlling an agent to interact with an environment step by step in order to achieve some goal.
Let's take Malphago as an example. Here the agent is Malphago's brain and the environment is playing with a human player, Bob. At each step, Malphago executes an action, rock or paper or scissors. Bob receives the action and generates an observation, which is one of all possible situations (rock vs. paper or scissors vs. rock or etc.). The corresponding reward is generated at the same time because we know who wins or the game is tied according to the observation.
Reinforcement Learning is based on the reward hypothesis: the goal can be described by the maximization of expected cumulative reward. In short, Malphago is designed to win as many times as possible in the long run but not a single game.
A reward is a feedback signal, which indicates how well the agent is doing at a step. The agent's job is to select actions to maximize cumulative reward. In a different pattern of agent/environment interaction, actions may have long-term consequences and the reward may be delayed, so that it may be better to sacrifice immediate reward to gain more long-term reward.
The State is the information used to determine what happens next. In our Rock-paper-scissors game, the environment state is fully observable by both Bob and Malphago. In this case we call it a Markov decision process, where we suppose that the future is independent of the past given the present. More precisely, we use the current observation as the current state (the state can be designed to be more complicated), Malphago makes his decision according to the state and continuously improves his strategy of making this decision.
Policy: Malphago's behavior function. That is, given the current state, what to choose as the next action.
Value function: How good is each state and/or action? Is (Rock vs. paper) a good state when playing with Bob or is paper a good action given this state? This function is dedicated to evaluating how much total reward we will get if following a particular policy.
Model: Malphago's perspective of Bob's strategy. How to predict next state and reward?
Malphago applies a so-called Q-learning method to improve its playing strategy. This method is a model-free approach using both value function and policy to build a learning procedure. In other words, Malphago doesn't care how Bob thinks and what Bob's next action is. Malphago only evaluates its value function and selects the best choice according to its policy. During the playing process, it learns this function and improves the policy.
Here comes the next question, to what extent can we approach to the value function? What if the function is much more complex than we imagined so that we are not able to evaluate a state's value properly? Deep reinforcement learning is therefore a good option to approximate the value function due to its strong ability of representation. Our Deep Malphago is an example of the implementation of DRL.
As a conclusion, Reinforcement Learning is a fundamental problem in sequential decision-making: The environment is initially unknown and the agent interacts with the environment to improve its policy.
It is like trial-and-error learning. The agent should discover a good policy during the experiences of interaction with environment without losing too much reward along the way.
Hope you enjoy the game with Malphago and thanks for reading.
Nowadays, I'm working on a Chatbot project with Google Dialogflow. In this article, I will present some notions about Dialogflow and Chatbots. Then, I will talk about how to create a simple Chatbot with Dialogflow Platform.
Today, between the huge capacities of the Cloud, the enormous amount of collected data and the algorithms based on neural networks, Artificial Intelligence is not a science-fiction subject anymore. It is disrupting and will disrupt every business sector, from Banking to Transportation and Health. That is why Artificial Intelligence is at the heart of Microsoft's strategy.


Days after RBI tightened liquidity to check rupee fall, HSBC country head and Ficci president Naina Lal Kidwai said the move was bad for industry as it would eventually lead to hike in interest rate.
Kidwai hoped that these measures will soon be eased as they have been effective in checking free fall of the rupee.
"Economy is in the problem. The reason it came (RBI actions) was to help the economy in that the rupee fall was sought to be corrected and it did. It corrected the rupee," she told PTI in an interview.
If rupee shows normalcy, she said, the measures announced to check rupee fall should be eased.
being an interest rate rise," she said.
"So, to that extent its not good for the industry. So, I hope it does not stay forever," she said, adding, the steps are temporary in nature. Kidwai said she hopes that the steps could be eased in a month or a two.
Image: A bank employee counts bundles of rupee notes at a cash counter in Agartala, Tripura.
In a move to stem the continuing fall of rupee, the RBI earlier this week came out with a slew of measures including hiking the lending rates for banks, limiting the borrowing of the system at Rs 75,000 crore (Rs 750 billion) and sucking up of Rs 12,000 crore (Rs 120 billion), to make the currency dearer.
The measures came after high level meetings between the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister followed by discussions with RBI Governor D Subbarao who was called as the rupee lost 33 paise to reach 59.89 after touching over 61-levels last week.
Under the measures announced, RBI raised lending rates to commercial banks 2 per cent to 10.25 per cent making the loans costlier.
Image: Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao speaks during a business conference in Ahmedabad.


Niagara area foster From St Lucia Male 9 weeks old.
Pancake is a very cute, 9 week old male potcake puppy from St. Lucia. He is looking to start a new life with a loving family! He has just arrived and is excitedly experiencing everything from cats to kids and loving it!
Pancake has found his furever home!


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Just sayin', as a Betsey Johnson devotee, the items from her are being listed at full retail, even though they are currently at half-price on her website and are available below "retail" at several online sellers. Now, obviously, pricing isn't a big deal, since you also get other stuff, but....figured I'd point it out.
I have to say the first Platinum Box wasnt to impressive, but it was free,,, they wanted to see how many people they could interested before charging and increasing inventory, I have to say though they have the BEST customer service, thats how I know about the reason for the free inaugral box, they promise the next boxes will be much better.
I hope that they are--they couldn't have been much worse! It was a shame, though, because they wound up turning off at least a few potential subscribers with how it was handled.
I noticed a few of her cosmetic bags were also listed at full price. I saw these same bags at Costco (set of 3) for $20 just a few weeks ago.
Once I weed out which cosmetic subs I am going to keep, I may have to sign up for this. I loved the selections they had for me in their quiz.
Yup. The one thing that I will say in their favor is that it is the actual BETSEY JOHNSON line, rather than BETSEYVILLE, but I still wouldn't want to be getting 4 year old lines from a company unless it was clearly disclosed that these are not the current collection NOR are the pricings accurate. I don't mind buying older stuff--if it's at a substantial discount--but this...isn't. (Again, not counting that you get additional items). I think I shall pass on this one, too, even though it looked exciting at first.
Its a sub for curly hair products. If I hadn't just started doing the curlygirl method I might try out.
I also can't figure out how one would subscribe if they wanted to? I don't think its open yet.
I can't decide if I hate or love you right now.
Haha, well let me know if you do subscribe and how you like it!!
I gave in and signed up for Sample Society as well. Feeling a bit uneasy about MyGlam and still waiting to get into BirchBox.
BirchBox, MyGlam, MyPlatinumBox, Sample Society, Sample Society, thelookstore, bluum, citrus lane, kiwi crate, babba box, little passports, blissmobox, conscious box and shoe mint.
I'm always down for a good deal, that's usually what gets my in trouble! The only thing I'm concerned about is that I'll be gone for three whole months this summer (my department is sending me to Italy) so i'll either have to cancel subscriptions (or skip months if that's possible) or just have my roomies make sure they put my boxes in my room. It would be kind of fun to come home to 9 boxes though!
You should be able to skip months but you would have to do it manually every month.
Yeah that's what I'm hoping, I know BB lets you skip months right? I'm not sure about the other two.
SO glad I wasn't the only one who found their inaugural box to be horrid. Someone said that their CS told them that the first month was done to just to gauge interest, but I don't know...it may sound stupid, but working in CS (in another field), when someone wants to cancel, we at least ask WHY they are cancelling--not just to try to "save" the account, but also because the feedback is important for future "directions" for the company. So while it was nice that they cancelled quickly, if they really were trying to gauge interest, I wonder why they didn't at least ask why people were cancelling, etc.
lol, same for me! I actually need to count them again and figure out what I will cancel. I don't want to cancel any of them!
I canceled MyGlam this morning.
I'm still giving them one more month--hoping Sample Society turns out nicely, to be honest.
I am subscribed to Beauty Army, and 2 premier boxes which will be Sample Society (dont like that name LOL) and Beauty Box 5..Beauty box 5 has the cutest little site I am dying to sign up for Birchbox! I always miss their openings...ugh its so hard to get in there!
Have you put your email in on birchbox? When I got in they ~reserved~ my spot for 48 hours, and then closed it if I hadn't registered yet.
Oh, I feel ya there! I've set myself a budget for each month of approximately $50. I don't see my leaving Birchbox any time soon, and canceling MPB gave me room for Sample Society. I have a feeling MyGlam is gonna go after March, so that will give me a tad more flexibility. By keeping it at a price point I can manage and trying to give at least 3 months, I figure I'm getting a better shot at finding THE RIGHT one for me, ya know?
Sample society sounds promising since its paired with Allure, and beautybar seems like a top notch shopping site for high end products! oh the anticipation!!!!!


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Virginia film industry grows 16 percent in 2013
Published Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, 2:52 pm
Front Page » News » Breaking News » Virginia film industry grows 16 percent in 2013
Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that the total economic impact of the film industry in Virginia in 2013 was $382.5 million, providing $19.4 million in state and local tax revenue for the Commonwealth. This is a 16% increase from 2012 when the economic impact was $328.4 million. In 2013, a total of 2,014 full-time jobs were available in the film industry.
Among the major projects filmed in Virginia in 2013 were Killing Kennedy for the National Geographic Channel and the amc television series TURN: Washington's Spies. Feature-length films included The Field of Lost Shoes, filmed in Lexington and Richmond, and Big Stone Gap, filmed in wise county. Significant TV production activity occurred in the Hampton Roads area, locally-produced indie feature films worked around Roanoke and Lynchburg, and northern virginia hosted a portion of the major motion picture Foxcatcher – releasing this weekend.
"I am pleased to see Virginia's film industry growing, which helps boost our local economy," said Governor McAuliffe. "Bringing jobs and revenue to the Commonwealth is my top priority, and the sixteen percent increase shows that our incentive program has been successful in generating more business and jobs for the Commonwealth."
Many productions filmed in Virginia benefit from incentive programs designed to support the Commonwealth's film production industry while making the filming experience in Virginia as economical and efficient as possible for production groups that choose Virginia for their projects.
Virginia has two separate incentive funds. One is the Governor's Motion Picture Opportunity Fund, which is a grant fund. The other is the Virginia Motion Picture Tax Credit fund, which is a refundable tax credit program. In addition to the incentive funds, the Commonwealth also has a Sales and Use Tax Exemption that applies to the purchase of production related supplies and equipment.
"Film and television production provide solid, good-paying jobs, and the industry has proven to be important for the diversification of our economy." said Maurice Jones, Secretary of Commerce and Trade. "This is an asset we have that we need to maximize for continued growth."
"We are particularly interested in continuing to bring episodic television series to Virginia," said Andy Edmunds, Director of the Virginia Film Office. "These productions stay longer, hire more Virginians, and provide a greater impact on the economy. With the support of the Governor and the General Assembly, I believe that TURN: Washington's Spies will be the first of many major TV series that will choose Virginia."
The economic impact data was collected in a November 2014 study by Fletcher Mangum of Mangum Economics, based on information from the Virginia Employment Commission and the Virginia Film Office.
The Virginia Film Office is a division of the Virginia Tourism Corporation. Tourism is an instant revenue generator in Virginia. In 2013, visitors spent $21.5 billion, supporting 213,000 jobs and contributing $1.42 billion in state and local taxes.


Overtime Calculator: How to calculate overtime under California overtime law?
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How to Calculate Overtime Under California Labor Law?
This post is written to provide employees and employers with an understanding on how to calculate overtime hours under California overtime laws. If you do not like math, you can refer to our easy-to-use online overtime calculator that will do to all computations for you.
all hour worked in excess of eight (8) hours on the seventh (7th) consecutive day of work in a workweek.
In general, when an employee works only in excess of the weekly or the daily number of straight-time hours, the computation of overtime hours is straightforward. Things get a little bit more complicated when an employee works more than 8 hours per workday and at the same time – more than 40 hours per workweek.
The Wage Orders provides that overtime hours should not be "pyramided" or "double-counted" under both daily overtime and weekly overtime provisions. In other words, once an hour is counted as an overtime hour under some form of overtime, it cannot be counted as an hour worked for the purpose of another form of overtime. When an employee works ten hours in Generic cialis online one day, the two daily overtime hours cannot also be counted as hours worked for the purpose of weekly overtime. See Monzon v. Schaefer Ambulance Service, Inc., 224 Cal. App. 3d 16 (1990).
Example 1: An employee works 12 hours on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. How many non-overtime and overtime hours did the employee work that week? Answer– The employee is credited with 4 hours of daily overtime each day worked, for a total of 16 daily overtime hours, and these daily overtime hours cannot be counted for the purpose of determining when to start paying time and a half for hours worked in excess of 40 in a week. Because pyramiding is not allowed, there are no weekly overtime hours, even though the employee worked 48 total hours during the workweek. Only 32 of these hours were regular, non-daily overtime hours, and they are the only hours that count towards weekly overtime computations.
The DLSE provides that the employer must pay its employees overtime compensation for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours per workweek or in excess of applicable daily maximum, whichever number of hours is greater. For example, if during a single workweek, the employee's total number of hours in excess of 8 hours is 10 hours and at the same time the total number of hours in excess of 40 hours per workweek is 8, the employee is entitled to 10 hours of overtime.
To better understand how to calculate overtime consider the following examples. Each of the following examples assumes that the work week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday and the employee is a nonexempt hourly employee who is entitled to overtime under California overtime laws.
Assume that in one workweek an employee works only three days of ten hours for each workday. The number of daily overtime hours is 6 (3x(10-8) = 6). The number of weekly overtime hours is 0, because the employee worked only 30 hours during the entire workweek. 6 hours of overtime must be compensated at time and one-half the employee's regular rate.
Assume that in one workweek an employee works six days of 8 hours for each workday. The employee's total number of work hours per week is 48, which exceeds a 40 hour workweek by 8 hours. Therefore, the number of weekly overtime hours is 8. The number of daily overtime hours is 0, because the employee never worked more than 8 hours per workday. 8 hours of overtime must be compensated at time and one-half the employee's regular rate.
Assume that in one workweek an employ works six days of 11 hours for each work day. To determine how many hours of overtime the employee worked, we must calculate (1) weekly overtime, (2) daily overtime and (3) compare both numbers. Whatever the number is greater should be deemed as employee's overtime hours. In this example, the employee's total number of hours worked during the workweek is 66 (11 x 6) of which 26 hours are weekly overtime (66-40). The employer's daily overtime is 16 (6x(11-8)=18). Because the employee's weekly overtime is greater than his daily overtime, the employer shall be compensated at time and one-half of his regular rate for 26 hours of overtime.
Assume that in one workweek an employee works four days of 11 hours for each work day. In this example, the employee's total number of hours worked during the workweek is 44 (11 x 4) of which 4 hours are weekly overtime (44-40). The employer's daily overtime is 12 (4 x (11-8)=12). Because the employee's daily overtime is greater than his weekly overtime, the employer shall be compensated at time and one-half of his regular rate for 12 hours of daily overtime.
If you believe that your employer does not comply with California overtime law, you need to consult an experienced employment law attorney. For a free consultation with a San Francisco employment law attorney, click here.
The one and one-half Time in example 6 is not 34 hours. It should be 32 hours.
Thank you for bringing this typo to my attention.
Thank you for all this. Very helpful.
If you continue to work past the 7th consecutive work day through the entire next work week (M-Sun then M-Sat of the following week for a consecutive 13 days), does that mean that everything from 0-40 hours of the next work week is 1.5 overtime and anything over 40 hours is double time?
The way it is explained all over the internet makes it seem like you get 1.5 – double time for the 7th consecutive day worked but then after that it goes back to regular pay or resets.
Any further explanation of the case above would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I have a question about overtime. If you are working more than 40 hours in a week and on some days you work more than 8 hours in the day, is more overtime due?. This is of course after a worker has worked more than 40 hours in the work week already. Is said person supposed to get paid double time or does normal overtime pay continue.
This is where it gets complicated and a lot of employees and employers have a misunderstanding as to how calculate overtime for the weeks where both daily and weekly overtime hours are worked. California overtime law explicitly provides that overtime pay should not be duplicated or "pyramided" under the daily and weekly overtime provisions. To avoid pyramiding or duplication of overtime pay for the same hours of work, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement and the Wage and Hour Division provide that the employee must be paid overtime for all hours in the workweek in excess of the applicable daily maximum or in excess of the applicable weekly maximum, whichever the number of hours is greater. Basically, there is no "pyramiding" of separate forms of overtime pay for the same hours worked. Once an hour worked is paid at the applicable daily overtime rate, that same hour cannot be used in the computation of forty hours for the purposes of weekly overtime pay.
Question. My employees set their own schedule. I have no part in it. Am I responsible to pay them overtime if they choose to work more than 8 hours in a day? Thank you so much for your help.


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GM Waddell Tells Kovalchuk To Expect Trade Soon
GM WADDELL TELLS KOVALCHUK TO EXPECT A TRADE SOON
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"…Thrashers general manager Don Waddell met with the star forward on Wednesday and told him to expect a trade to another NHL team over the next few hours or days.
There is no indication that any deal with a specific team is imminent, but the Chicago Blackhawks, Boston Bruins and New York Rangers are included on a list of five or more teams who continue to express interest.
Kovalchuk, 26, became the subject of trade rumours recently after reports surfaced that he could not come to terms on a multi-year contract with the only NHL team he's ever played for. The Russian sniper is in the final year of his current deal and is eligible to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1.
A seven-year NHL veteran, Kovalchuk was selected first overall by the Thrashers in the 2001 NHL Draft. In 594 career NHL games with Atlanta, he has amassed 328 goals and 615 points.
Kovalchuk scored a career-high 52 goals with the Thrashers in 2007-08 and was co-recipient of the Rocket Richard Trophy in 2003-04 with a league-leading 41 goals."


south prescott epa lead emergency cleanup aquaponics project.
You are here: Home / myKijani / south prescott epa lead emergency cleanup aquaponics project.
west oakland's soils are lead contaminated. in the south prescot region, it is so bad they are epa has decided to bring in the emergency response team.
we are building the the demo gardens shown below at the incident command center. the aquaponics garden here will be integrated with a grey water system and a bamboo bio filter installed by hyphae design lab. the gardens will be computer controlled and part of our social gardening project … more information coming soon. see here for basic prototypes.


Experts say: Effective running training is not just about running, it's all about variety! Make your running training more effective with supportive exercises for runners. Here's what you need to know about strength training, core exercises and stretching for runners with some persistent running myths about to be busted - stay tuned!


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Jennifer Love Hewitt's manager files a breach of contract suit
Management company has filed a breach of contract suit against Jennifer Love Hewitt, claiming she backed out on a 2002 agreement to pay a 10 percent commission on deals negotiated while the company handled her.
The star of the television program "The Ghost Whisperer" "plays a young woman with the unique ability to talk to 'earth bound spirits' who seek help in 'resolving unfinished business with the living,"' Handprint Entertainment LLC said in court filings. "In real life, however, Love Hewitt is having troubles 'resolving unfinished business with the living."'
The oral contract should include earnings from "The Ghost Whisperer," Handprint said in the complaint filed in Superior Court.
Hewitt's publicist Sarah Fuller referred all questions about the case to the actress' attorney Bob Wallerstein. Wallerstein did not immediately return a message left at his office.
Handprint said Hewitt acknowledged the agreement by paying 10 percent of her earnings from her first season on the program, even after replacing the management company.
Hewitt, star of the slasher flick "I Know What you Did Last Summer," "knows what she did last season," the complaint said.
The company is seeking at least $350,000 (257,258 EUR) it says it is owed and any legal costs, according to the complaint.


Open new Microsoft Excel file and type in the data required to complete a break-even analysis: fixed cost, Variable costs as well as sales Price. You might have other costs you want to include, that is very good. Just take into account the kind of each cost when it is added in a function.
In Economics environment, break-even point happens when the revenues actually equal the costs. To start creating chart that displays the chart lines that you need to see like revenues and costs, outline the 3 excel columns — the amount (products sold), cost (this is the total costs) and the sales (this is your total sales) data made in the last time period for example month or quarter.
To accomplish this, click on the mouse in the managing in the quantities (or items sold) and while maintaining the left button on your mouse down, pull down the sales in the last entry.
Choose the insert group next click the Scatter Charts image in the Charts group. Out of the scatter graph gallery, choose among the list of line charts: scatter graph with Lines or scatter graph using Smooth Lines. Select the Marker charts to select all the data series points. Chart that displays graphically exactly where revenues and costs are really equal, that is point where the breakeven actually happens for your business.


Heerkretz - Top vineyard in "Rheinhessen's Switzerland"
The western fringe of Germany's largest wine-growing region, Rheinhessen, takes in the steep hillsides and forested summits of "Rheinhessen's Switzerland" - a little-known circle of wine villages fanning out south of Wöllstein (southeast of Bad Kreuznach/Nahe).
Its proximity to the neighboring wine region, the Nahe, is reflected in its mix of forests (rare in Rheinhessen) and vine-clad slopes, as well as its geological makeup. The area lies in the western portion the "Mainz Basin," a subtropical Tertiary sea some 38 to 12 million years ago. The sediments and fossils left behind when the water receded provide a fascinating look at the area's geological past. In addition, numerous artifacts from the Neolithic period, Bronze Age, as well as Celtic and Roman times, have been unearthed in the vicinity of this month's famous vineyard.
"Heerkretz" is a first-rate hillside vineyard (partially terraced with dry stone walls) that slopes upward from an old "Heerstrasse" (literally, a road used by military forces, probably dating from Roman times, but also used by troops during the Napoleonic era). It stretches over a broad hill southwest of Siefersheim, extending west to neighboring Neu-Bamberg (both towns share the site name), in a winding course in which it faces east, south and west. Numerous hollows or small basins on the hillside also account for multiple exposures and help protect the vines from cold winds. The vineyards lie at heights ranging from 160 to 260 meters, making the site one of the highest in Rheinhessen.
In all, the site is very stony, with loamy soils in the lower and middle portions of the hill (sometimes mixed with sand), and shallower, stonier soils higher up the slope. Quartz crystals, feldspar and mica embedded in weathered porphyry and dark-colored melaphyre predominate throughout the site – and lend the soil its reddish-yellowish color (iron is also present, as is a bit of copper). The dark color of the melaphyre stems from a lava flow from Bad Münster am Stein/Nahe and Neu-Bamberg, toward Siefersheim and Eckelsheim some 285 million years ago. It quickly cooled and formed rhyolite. Subsoils include "Rotliegendes" (reddish mixtures of clay, slate and sandstone) and sporadic deposits of shell-limestone (fossils from the region's "seaside" past). Although the vineyard has a good water supply (underground springs at the bottom of the hill), the upper crust of the topsoil tends to quickly dry out, thus making it difficult to till – the soils have to be "scratched" (kratzen...kretz)...accounting for the latter portion of the site's name.
Here, as in other steep sites throughout German wine country, many acres have been abandoned. Some are being replanted today by dedicated, young vintners. Overall, the site is some 56 ha/138 acres in size at this writing. This figure takes into account that several small sites were consolidated into Heerkretz when vineyard boundaries were redrawn in the context of the German wine law of 1971. The core parcels of Heerkretz – many on old stone terraces – comprise some 44 hectares/109 acres. Prime parcels are located in the middle, steep upper streches of the site, some 250 m above sea level. Midway up the hill is a landmark – the Ajaxturm, a tall brick tower with a legendary past (see below). Riesling is the primary grape variety in the Heerkretz site, particulary in the stony, upper stretches. Small amounts of Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) and Gewürztraminer are also cultivated, as well as a bit of Frühburgunder (earlier-ripening cousin of Spätburgunder), Portugieser, Merlot, St. Laurent (red varietals) and Silvaner and Kerner.
Daniel Wagner, Weingut Wagner-Stempel in Siefersheim, has holdings in Heerkretz – part of his vineyards are at an altitude of more than 250 m, and recently he acquired parcels midway up the slope, near the Ajaxturm. He explains that wines grown in porphyry soils often have a flinty note on the nose. The predominantly acidic soil lends the wines a taut acidity and they are very mineral in character, perceptible on the palate as a light saltiness.
The rugged landscape of Rheinhessen's Switzerland offers hikers and cyclists an extensive network of trails and paths. Nature lovers can enjoy rare flora and fauna in the 40-ha/100-acre nature reserve on the plateau of the hills between Siefersheim and Neu-Bamberg, e.g. rare orchids, pasque flowers, steppe grasses and heath ("Neu-Bamberger Heide").
The 8-km/5-mile circular route that starts and ends In Siefersheim's market square, Bänkelches–Route (alluding to the 15 little benches [Bänkelchen] en route), runs through the vineyards and enables one to discover both vines and herbs. The village also maintains a "Kräuterlehrpfad" (signposted herb path), where you can bone up on wild herbs used both medicinally and in the kitchen (guided tours are possible).
Siefersheim's wine festival is the last weekend of August – "Tage der offenen Weinkeller" (open house at all estates, with music, food and wine).
On the road between Wonsheim and Neu-Bamberg, one can see the landmark "Ajaxturm" mid-way up the vine-covered slope. It is a tall brick tower topped by a battlement. A closer look reveals a stone statue of a dog in the battlement. It is all part of a legend that recounts a sad love story dating from the second half of the 19th century. A wealthy farmer's son from Siefersheim and the miller's daughter secretly met at this site and ultimately fell in love. The only witness to their meetings was the dog (named Ajax?) that accompanied them. The miller, who had had a dispute with the farmer, forbade his daughter from marrying the farmer's son. Indeed, he married her off to a wine merchant in Wonsheim and soon thereafter, she died of a broken heart. The farmer's son never married, but built the tower in memory of his sweetheart, and added the statue of the dog as a symbol of his eternal loyalty. So much for the legend.
A less romantic version: many young men in the area were brick masons and had little or no work in winter. As such, they were put to work building the tower – a prestigious landmark for Siefersheim during a period of prosperity in the second half of the 19th century.
Cultural & culinary events and art exhibitions take place in nearby Eckelsheim, in the Kulturhof. The mid-19th-century farm buildings (renovated) include an upscale restaurant, a small wine shop and an herb garden. Details below. The renovation of the Kulturhof was a major project to help rejuvenate the village of Eckesheim – and is viewed as a model in Rheinhessen. In summer, there are open-air cultural events at the ruins of the late Gothic church (1519) "Beller Kirche" south of town. For a walk through the vineyards (with wild herbs en route) follow the arrows along the "Wein- und Kräuterwanderweg" that opened in 2006.
Neu-Bamberg is a picturesque wine village replete with steep alleys lined with old half-timbered houses, an impressive town gate (Kandelpforte) – a vestige of the medieval town wall, and overlooked by the ruins of an ancient (13th-century) castle. It is known for "Stein und Wein" (stone and wine)...typical for this part of Rheinhessen, where quarries and vineyards abound.
Last but not least: the spa Bad Kreuznach is only a fifteen-minute drive from Siefersheim. Here, you can see numerous ancient artifacts from the area and well-preserved Roman floor mosaics in the Römerhalle museum. The city also has a number of excellent places to wine and dine and overnight, but our selection focuses on offerings in Rheinhessische Schweiz.
Siefersheim: The guest house at family-operated Weingut Wagner-Stempel has four double rooms and three holiday appartments. Each is individually, very tastefully furnished. No smoking permitted. Breakfast is served in the pretty, oleander-filled courtyard in summer, and in winter, in a breakfast room with an open fireplace. Four bicycles are available. Check www.wagner-stempel.de for details about rooms, events and the estate's award-winning wines. In 2007, Daniel Wagner was named "rising star of the year" in the German wine guide Der Eichelmann, and in April, the estate was listed as one of the 100 best wine estates of Germany by the consumer magazine Stern. Wöllsteiner Strasse 10.
Many thanks to Siefersheimer wine-growers Daniel and Cathrin Wagner, Weingut Wagner-Stempel, for answering countless questions about the site and surroundings, plus supplying photos. Thanks, too, to Neu-Bamberger wine-grower Otto Friess, Weingut Friess (www.weingut-friess.de), for additional information. P.S. If you're in Neu-Bamberg, he suggests having a simple, hearty meal at the restaurant "Zur Rheinhessischen Schweiz" – it's where the locals eat.


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UFO's Really Do Exist: Astronauts pass high-tech lie-detector tests
Astronauts believe they did encounter UFOs and aliens - new lie detector tests - Image credit - Public Domain | Pixabay
Using complex computer analyses, four respected Astronauts who said they saw aliens did not lie.
by Jane Flowers
April 8, 2018 at 7:11 AM Updated on April 9, 2018 at 9:47 AM
UFO's have long been claimed to exist. Among the claimants are astronauts. Using a complex high-tech lie-detector technology, it seems that the four respected astronauts who claimed they saw aliens did not lie. Well, at least they really do believe they saw them.
Lie-detectors aren't always totally reliable, but the new complex computer analysis is much better than traditional methods. The International Business Times reported that the astronauts who claim they saw UFO's and believe they really do exist include Buzz Aldrin, "Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper."
UFO's are not just a tall tale
Buzz Aldrin himself had previously stated that astronauts on Apollo 11 had all seen unidentified flying objects that appeared to be following them, according to Solar System Exploration Research.
However, they were finally convinced that it was merely one of the panels from the separation of the spacecraft. Over on Reddit, Buzz even told questioners about three years ago that he did not think they were UFO's after all.
It's interesting then, to note that despite what he said, the tests carried out by the Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Albany show that in fact, he does believe that what he saw were UFO's and that they really do exist.
Astronaut who believed aliens contact mankind
Astronaut Ed Mitchell was the sixth moon-walker and was with the Apollo 14 mission. The India International Times reported that he claimed that humans had been contacted by Aliens. The Daily Star pointed out that he claimed to have seen UFO's.
Even though he and fellow astronaut Cooper are both now deceased, the new technology was able to analyze the voices of the two astronauts and it turns out they were not telling lies. They really believed that they had encountered UFO's.
Apollo 15 astronaut also believes they encountered aliens and UFO's
Al Worden, now aged 86 was on the Apollo 15 project.
He claimed to have actually seen aliens when he spoke with Good Morning Britain. He too passed the new lie-detector test. He even went so far as to say that "human beings are descendants of an advanced alien form," according to IBT.
The high-tech computer analysis of these voices says that they are not telling lies. They all really do believe that they encountered aliens and/or UFO's.
Of course, this does not mean they actually did see, meet, or encounter aliens in UFO's. It merely means they believe that they did.
The fine points of what they saw and what they think they saw will not matter too much to those who believe NASA has long covered up the existence of alien life. While the mainstream media often describes the likelihood as defying logic, many people accept that there are simply too many instances of such reports to take it lightly.
What do you think about the fact that it now seems UFO's really exist? What are your thoughts on the lie-detector test the astronauts passed that may verify that not all of them suffered from some delusion?
I am a freelance journalist, a reviewer at Blasting News USA platform. I am also a video content editor and creator. I studied journalism and human communications in Australia and New Zealand.
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In "The One Hundreds," professional and nonprofessional dancers perform a hundred different phrases.Illustration by Sachin Teng
Twyla Tharp's Fiftieth
Twyla Tharp celebrates her fiftieth.
By Joan Acocella
This past year, Twyla Tharp kicked off the fiftieth anniversary of her career by restaging several of her earlier works, including the lovable "One Hundreds," from 1970. This piece is in three parts. First, two dancers, side by side, do a hundred phrases, fifty apiece. Then five dancers get up there and do the same hundred steps, twenty apiece. Then, a hundred people—some of them professional dancers, with, often, just folks off the street—take the field, and each of them does one phrase, one of the hundred. It takes these people longer to get on the field and off than to do their little thing, and there is lots of bumping into each other.
In certain respects, "The One Hundreds" is atypical of what Tharp eventually became. It is highly conceptual—those were conceptual days, the sixties and seventies. But as I watched "The One Hundreds," with the wind off Rockefeller Park blowing through my hair, my main thought was simply, How does she think up so many steps? Other dance works no doubt have a hundred steps: "The Sleeping Beauty," "Swan Lake." But here Tharp was highlighting her hundred steps and saying, "I made them! Me! Me! And I'm going to do this for a living!"
As part of her anniversary, Tharp arranged a ten-week, seventeen-city tour, which will culminate at the Koch Theatre this week. I wish she had celebrated by reviving more of her old works. What wouldn't I give to see "The Catherine Wheel" (1981), with its haunting David Byrne score, again? Instead—and I guess you have to admire her for this—she created two brand-new works, "Preludes and Fugues," to Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier," and "Yowzie," to various old jazz compositions. These two pieces are almost a textbook demonstration of what Tharp achieved in her career. First, the invention of "crossover dance"—that is, classical ballet combined with some other dance form, the latter, when she did it, being a sock-hop sort of boogie. Today, it can be pretty much anything, and is usually just some sort of modern dance.
Then comes the second innovation, more important. Year after year, Tharp turned dancers into geniuses. No one knows how, but there are certain choreographers for whom, magically, dancers who are very good become something much better. Tharp is right up there with Balanchine and Ashton. It's not even technical, though it's that, too. But you can see on their faces: they think she's letting them have a wonderful time. She's also giving them a major workout, which dancers love. When I attended a rehearsal of "Yowzie," Matthew Dibble, one of Tharp's group, was literally pouring sweat—big splats, on the floor—by the end. This wasn't gross. It was marvellous. ♦
Published in the print edition of the November 23, 2015, issue, with the headline "Birthday Party."
Joan Acocella has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995. Her most recent book is "Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints."
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{gratitude} thanksgiving
via Domestic Fringe
I know everyone is well past Turkey Day and into full Christmas prep mode, but I wanted to end my {gratitude} series with this quote from President George Washington, who declared the first Thanksgiving, and another from President Lincoln, who declared Thanksgiving a continuing national holiday.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor-- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be-- That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks--for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war--for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed--for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted--for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us... and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord--To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us--and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
-Pres. George Washington
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. ..They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union. -President Abraham Lincoln
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Pablo Neruda's Body to be Exhumed
Nick Moran February 17, 2013
In 2011 I wrote about a group of Chilean Communists who wished to exhume Pablo Neruda's body. They alleged that Neruda was murdered. Now, two years later, a judge has ordered the corpse to be exhumed and autopsied in order to set the record straight.
Nick Moran works on special projects for The Millions. He lives in Baltimore and he frequents dive bars. His interests can be followed on his Tumblr, Nick Recommends and Twitter, @nemoran3.
Hunger Games Madlibs
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Will the real Don Draper please stand up?
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Obrigada, Senhora
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Philip Esler's new book Sex, Wives, and Warriors: Reading Biblical Narrative with its Ancient Audience, reintroduces our culture to some of the Bible's most dramatic narratives.
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Nick Moran July 8, 2012
Patrick Somerville's latest novel, This Bright River, was recently reviewed in The New York Times by Janet Maslin, who found the book to be, among other things, "soggy." Unfortunately, some of her critique was based on a mistaken reading of Somerville's work. I'll let Patrick take it from here.
Hungry for Something New
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Hari Kunzru wonders whether the recent surge of attention for Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai makes him the latest talisman for the young New York literary elite. Regardless, it's worth revisiting Paul Morton's interview with Krasznahorkai and Adam Z. Levy's review of his latest novel, Sátántangó.
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Home » La Selva's life style » Pets
Our pets are the big Luna, returned to wag his tail happy after a troubled past. Foundling, in the first two years of her life she has been given to the big hunt . She began decimating our unfortunate hens, then attack the poultry houses of neighbors. Then she started to target the rabbits (tens), and she has even tried to eat up a sheep. Now, beyond the wild phase, she has calmed down giving herself to food and idleness. A lover of sweets, she spends her days sleeping from one room to another, and to seek your caresses. Shianti, the lady cat, is a marvellous princess always in search of small animals like lizards, birds and moles. When she couldn't find a prey, she organizes food incursions into the kitchen. Rufo is a gipsy cat, as he hasn't a house he's one of the pioneers at la Selva and he dedicated himself to nomadic life. Sometimes he comes back home after 10 pm, starved and with a scretch on the nose which is a sign of "love raids" ended in a not very good way for him. Ah, love!
What to say about Nina? She's a tenacious cat that, after has been thrown with her brothers into a steep canion with lots of garbage, she found the strenght to exit a bag and start miaowing. We abseiled down to recover her. Unfortunately, only anothe cat was alive when we arrived there and now she's in the good hands of our friends in Tuscany. Cicciona and Cirilla are our donkeys from Sardinia, they are inseparable mother and daughter and we have never seen such affectionate animals. They spend their days eating (also Marta's flowers) and being cuddled by Bianca, their owner.Least but not last, the seven sisters. Super hens which give us big and tasty eggs every day. They don't miss a beat! They thanks Luna's changing in her lifestyle. Just a recommendation: do not feed our pets and think about all the people who comes at la Selva. If everyone gives food to our pets, immagine how they will become… and there are pets that adopt the game of the "sweet eyes" (above all Luna). If you love animals, please respect this recommendation.


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