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public static final int
LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG
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public static final int
LOG_LEVEL_ERROR
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public static final int
LOG_LEVEL_INFO
4

public static final int
LOG_LEVEL_NONE
2147483647

public static final int
LOG_LEVEL_VERBOSE
2

public static final int
LOG_LEVEL_WARNING
5

com.parse.ParseException

public static final int
ACCOUNT_ALREADY_LINKED
208

public static final int
CACHE_MISS
120

public static final int
COMMAND_UNAVAILABLE
108

public static final int
CONNECTION_FAILED
100

public static final int
DUPLICATE_VALUE
137

public static final int
EMAIL_MISSING
204

public static final int
EMAIL_NOT_FOUND
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public static final int
EMAIL_TAKEN
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public static final int
EXCEEDED_QUOTA
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public static final int
FILE_DELETE_ERROR
153

public static final int
INCORRECT_TYPE
111

public static final int
INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR
1

public static final int
INVALID_ACL
123

public static final int
INVALID_CHANNEL_NAME
112

public static final int
INVALID_CLASS_NAME
103

public static final int
INVALID_EMAIL_ADDRESS
125

public static final int
INVALID_EVENT_NAME
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public static final int
INVALID_FILE_NAME
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public static final int
INVALID_JSON
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public static final int
INVALID_KEY_NAME
105

public static final int
INVALID_LINKED_SESSION
251

public static final int
INVALID_NESTED_KEY
121

public static final int
INVALID_POINTER
106

public static final int
INVALID_QUERY
102

public static final int
INVALID_ROLE_NAME
139

public static final int
LINKED_ID_MISSING
250

public static final int
MISSING_OBJECT_ID
104

public static final int
MUST_CREATE_USER_THROUGH_SIGNUP
207

public static final int
NOT_INITIALIZED
109

public static final int
OBJECT_NOT_FOUND
101

public static final int
OBJECT_TOO_LARGE
116

public static final int
OPERATION_FORBIDDEN
119

public static final int
OTHER_CAUSE
-1

public static final int
PASSWORD_MISSING
201

public static final int
PUSH_MISCONFIGURED
115

public static final int
SCRIPT_ERROR
141

public static final int
SESSION_MISSING
206

public static final int
TIMEOUT
124

public static final int
UNSUPPORTED_SERVICE
252

public static final int
USERNAME_MISSING
200

public static final int
USERNAME_TAKEN
202

public static final int
VALIDATION_ERROR
142

com.parse.ParseObject

public static final String
DEFAULT_PIN
"_default"

com.parse.ParsePushBroadcastReceiver

public static final String
ACTION_PUSH_DELETE
"com.parse.push.intent.DELETE"

public static final String
ACTION_PUSH_OPEN
"com.parse.push.intent.OPEN"

public static final String
ACTION_PUSH_RECEIVE
"com.parse.push.intent.RECEIVE"

public static final String
KEY_PUSH_CHANNEL
"com.parse.Channel"

public static final String
KEY_PUSH_DATA
"com.parse.Data"

public static final String
PROPERTY_PUSH_ICON
"com.parse.push.notification_icon"

protected static final int
SMALL_NOTIFICATION_MAX_CHARACTER_LIMIT
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Progress in man-made consciousness – Wikipedia
By newsmagzines
Progress in machine arrangement of pictures
The blunder pace of AI by year. Red line – the blunder pace of a prepared human on a specific errand
Man-made reasoning applications have been utilized in a large number of fields including clinical determination, stock exchanging, robot control, regulation, logical disclosure, computer games, and toys. In any case, numerous AI applications are not seen as AI: "A ton of state of the art AI has separated into general applications, frequently without being called AI in light of the fact that once something becomes sufficiently helpful and normal enough it's not named AI anymore."[1][2] "A huge number of AI applications are profoundly implanted in the framework of each industry."[3] In the last part of the 1990s and mid 21st 100 years, AI innovation turned out to be broadly utilized as components of bigger systems,[3][4] yet the field was seldom credited for these triumphs at that point.
Kaplan and Haenlein structure man-made brainpower along three developmental stages: 1) fake restricted knowledge – applying AI just to explicit undertakings; 2) counterfeit general insight – applying AI to a few regions and ready to independently tackle issues they were never at any point intended for; and 3) counterfeit genius – applying AI to any area equipped for logical inventiveness, interactive abilities, and general wisdom.[2]
To permit examination with human execution, computerized reasoning can be assessed on compelled and clear cut issues. Such tests have been named educated authority Turing tests. Likewise, more modest issues give more attainable objectives and there are an always expanding number of positive outcomes.
Current execution
There are numerous helpful capacities that can be depicted as showing some type of insight. This gives better knowledge into the relative progress of man-made reasoning in various regions.
Simulated intelligence, similar to power or the steam motor, is a universally useful innovation. There is no agreement on the most proficient method to describe which errands AI will in general succeed at.[14] Some renditions of Moravec's conundrum see that people are bound to beat machines in regions, for example, actual expertise that have been the immediate objective of regular selection.[15] While ventures, for example, AlphaZero have prevailed with regards to producing their own insight without any preparation, numerous other AI projects require enormous preparation datasets.[16][17] Researcher Andrew Ng has proposed, as a "exceptionally flawed guideline", that "nearly anything a common human can do with short of what one moment of mental idea, we can likely now or soon robotize utilizing AI."[18]
Games give a high-profile benchmark to surveying paces of progress; many games have an enormous expert player base and a deep rooted cutthroat rating framework. AlphaGo brought the period of old style tabletop game benchmarks to a nearby when Artificial Intelligence demonstrated their upper hand over people in 2016. Profound Mind's AlphaGo AI programming program crushed the world's best proficient Go Player Lee Sedol.[19] Games of defective information give new difficulties to AI in the space of game hypothesis; the most noticeable achievement in this space was wrapped up by Libratus' poker triumph in 2017.[20][21] E-sports keep on giving extra benchmarks; Facebook AI, Deepmind, and others have drawn in with the well known StarCraft establishment of videogames.[22][23]
Wide classes of result for an AI test might be given as:'
ideal: it is preposterous to expect to perform better (note: a portion of these passages were settled by people)
godlike: performs better compared to all people
high-human: performs better compared to most people
standard human: performs much the same way to most people
sub-human: performs more awful than most people
Checkers (otherwise known as 8×8 drafts): Weakly addressed
Rubik's Cube: Mostly addressed
Heads-up limit hold'em poker: Statistically ideal as in "a human lifetime of play isn't adequate to lay out with measurable importance that the system is definitely not a precise arrangement"
Othello (otherwise known as reversi
Chess: Supercomputer (c. 1997); Personal PC (c. 2006);[31] Mobile telephone (c. 2009);[32] Computer routs human + PC (c. 2017)[33]
Risk!: Question responding to, albeit the machine didn't utilize discourse acknowledgment (2011)[34][35]
Optical person acknowledgment for printed text (approaching standard human for Latin-script typewritten text)
Different mechanical technology errands that might require progresses in robot equipment as well as AI, including:
Stable bipedal velocity: Bipedal robots can walk, yet are less steady than human walkers (as of 2017)[53]
Reasonableness. Current clinical frameworks can analyze specific ailments well, yet can't clear up for clients why they made the diagnosis.[56]
Securities exchange forecast: Financial information assortment and handling utilizing Machine Learning calculations
Different undertakings that are hard to tackle without logical information, including:
Proposed trial of man-made reasoning
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In his popular Turing test, Alan Turing picked language, the characterizing component of people, for its basis.[57] The Turing test is currently viewed as too exploitable to be in any way a significant benchmark.[58]
The Feigenbaum test, proposed by the designer of master frameworks, tests a machine's information and skill about a particular subject.[59] A paper by Jim Gray of Microsoft in 2003 recommended stretching out the Turing test to discourse figuring out, talking and perceiving objects and behavior.[60]
Proposed "all inclusive knowledge" tests mean to look at how well machines, people, and, surprisingly, non-human creatures perform on issue sets that are conventional as could be expected. At a limit, the test suite can contain each conceivable issue, weighted by Kolmogorov intricacy; tragically, these issue sets will quite often be overwhelmed by devastated design matching activities where a tuned AI can without much of a stretch surpass human execution levels.[61][62][63][64]
This segment ought to incorporate just a short rundown of another article. See Wikipedia:Summary style for data on the most proficient method to appropriately integrate it into this article's principal text. (October 2021)
Numerous rivalries and prizes, for example, the Imagenet Challenge, advance examination in man-made consciousness. The most widely recognized areas of rivalry incorporate general machine insight, conversational way of behaving, information mining, mechanical vehicles, and robot soccer as well as regular games.[65]
Past and current expectations
A specialist survey around 2016, led by Katja Grace of the Future of Humanity Institute and partners, gave middle evaluations of 3 years for title Angry Birds, 4 years for. On additional emotional errands, the survey gave 6 years for collapsing clothing as well as a normal human specialist, 7-10 years for masterfully responding to 'effectively Googleable' questions, 8 years for normal discourse record, 9 years for normal phone banking, and 11 years for master songwriting, however more than 30 years for composing a New York Times blockbuster or winning the Putnam math competition.[66][67][68]
Dark Blue at the Computer History Museum
An AI crushed a grandmaster in a guideline competition game without precedent for 1988; rebranded as Deep Blue, it beat the dominant human world chess champion in 1997 (see Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov).[69]
Year expectation made Predicted year Number of Years Predictor Contemporaneous source
AlphaGo crushed an European Go boss in October 2015, and Lee Sedol in March 2016, one of the world's top players (see AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol). As indicated by Scientific American and different sources, most eyewitnesses had anticipated that godlike Computer Go execution should be essentially 10 years away.[72][73][74]
Human-level counterfeit general knowledge (AGI)
Computer based intelligence trailblazer and financial expert Herbert A. Simon mistakenly anticipated in 1965: "Machines will be fit, in the span of twenty years, of accomplishing any work a man can do". Likewise, in 1970 Marvin Minsky composed that "Inside an age… the issue of making computerized reasoning will significantly be solved."[80]
Four surveys directed in 2012 and 2013 proposed that the middle gauge among specialists for when AGI would show up was 2040 to 2050, contingent upon the poll.[81][82]
The Grace survey around 2016 found results shifted relying upon how the inquiry was outlined. Respondents requested to gauge "when independent machines can achieve each undertaking preferred and all the more inexpensively over human laborers" offered a collected middle response of 45 years and a 10% opportunity of it happening in 9 years or less. Different respondents requested to assess "when all occupations are completely automatable. That is, when for any occupation, machines could be worked to complete the undertaking preferable and all the more inexpensively over human laborers" assessed a middle of 122 years and a 10% likelihood of 20 years. The middle reaction for when "Simulated intelligence specialist" could be completely mechanized was about 90 years. No connection was found among rank and positive thinking, yet Asian specialists were significantly more hopeful than North American analysts by and large; Asians anticipated 30 years on normal for "achieve each undertaking", contrasted and the 74 years anticipated by North Americans.
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National Lime and Stone is trying to annex its land into the city, over objections from nearby residents. The quarry's efforts were stalled Monday.
City's annexation of quarry stalled, councilmen want to hear from residents National Lime and Stone is trying to annex its land into the city, over objections from nearby residents. The quarry's efforts were stalled Monday. Check out this story on marionstar.com: https://ohne.ws/2GiMsh7
National Lime & Stone that owns property on Likens Road first asked the city to annex 224 acres of its mining property in 2014.(Photo: Hasan Karim/ Marion Star)
MARION — Despite waiting roughly four years already, National Lime and Stone will have to wait at least two more weeks before hearing an answer to its request to be annexed into the city.
The company's efforts to become part of the city stalled earlier this week when two Marion City Council members voted to block the annexation from going to a final vote.
Monday was the first time that the request has gone before the full city council since the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the Marion County Commissioners, which had opposed the annexation, to send the annexation to the city.
City Councilmen Ayers Ratliff, D-2nd Ward, and Jason Schaber, R-3rd Ward, voted against taking a final vote on the annexation Monday. With Councilman Rick Huddle, R-6th Ward, absent, there were not enough votes in favor of moving straight to a final vote.
The ordinance, which would bring into the city 224 acres of National Lime and Stone property currently located north of town in Grand Prairie Township, will have its second reading at council's next meeting April 9. Under council rules, an ordinance must have three readings before a final vote, though council members can expedite a final vote if at least seven council members vote to disregard that rule.
Schaber said he wanted to give residents an opportunity to speak on the measure, given the staunch opposition it encountered several years ago when National Lime and Stone had first sought to annex into the city.
"The council chambers were pretty full with residents that had concerns," he said.
At that time, residents of a subdivision bordering the west side of the 224-acre property voiced their opposition at several council meetings, saying the company's blasting and mining operations cause noise pollution, with some contending that vibrations from the operation have shifted their wells or cracked the foundations of their homes.
National Lime and Stone has denied causing damage to anyone's property.
"I feel I don't represent those folks, but I feel they should have a voice," Schaber said.
The company, which produces crushed stone, sand and gravel, and mineral products, plans to expand its operation north to access reserves of rock located outside its current mining area.
National Lime already owns the 224-acre property that it's seeking to annex into the city. But part of the property is not zoned for industrial use, and the company's request for re-zoning was met with opposition from the Grand Prairie Township trustees in 2014.
Under the ordinance before Marion City Council, the property would not only be annexed into the city, but would be zoned for mineral extraction.
Don Shepler, a resident of the subdivision bordering National Lime's property, has been outspoken against the quarry's expansion northwest, closer to the subdivision.
When reached by phone Thursday, he said he didn't see any recourse for him or his neighbors.
"There's nothing we can do," he said. "The city's all for it, so it's going to go through no matter what I do."
Shepler was not optimistic about what the quarry's expansion would mean for his neighborhood.
"They're going to ruin our property values out here. Eventually they're going to be right up against us," he said.
Marion City Law Director Mark Russell urged council at its Monday meeting to move forward with the annexation. The city has 120 days to act on the annexation request, with the clock having started on March 23, otherwise it is rejected, according to Ohio law.
Ratliff, the other councilman who voted against moving to a final vote, said he has been against the annexation from the beginning, when city council first voted on the matter in 2014.
"It is not fair to the residents out there that they have to have noise pollution that sounds like battlefields. It's not fair to the foundations of their homes that it causes them to crumble. It's not fair to their wells that it causes them to have cracks and dry," he said.
Ratliff acknowledged that people like Shepler were not his constituents. But, he said, they still feel the impact by what he and his fellow council members do.
"I think we owe it to them to give them a safe environment that is conducive to living and conducive to having a home here, and I don't thinking passing this does that," he said.
The annexation would become effective 30 days after council members pass the ordinance if they choose to do that.
The city's most recent annexation was the Kroger grocery store on Marion Waldo Road in Marion's south end in 2016, an acquisition of about 8.5 acres.
Council's next meeting is at 7:30 p.m. April 9 in Marion City Hall.
Other matters that went before city council Monday included:
• Council members voted to postpone a vote on an ordinance to change the clerk of council position from a full-time to a part-time position. That vote is now scheduled for the Marion City Council meeting on April 23.
• Council members voted 8-0 to approve an ordinance that raises the wages for lifeguards and front gate and concession stand attendants at the Lincoln Park Family Aquatic Center. Most of the changes were a difference of 15 or 20 cents. Some of the wages were changed to comply with Ohio's minimum wage laws.
• Council members voted 8-0 to approve an ordinance that creates the position of nuisance abatement officer. It is a seasonal, part-time position. That person will be responsible for enforcing the city's weeds and grass code, which prohibits weeds or grass taller than six inches. That person also will be responsible for enforcing other nuisance-related codes that regulate junk vehicles and waste or refuse accumulation in yards.
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Special thanks to our amazing partners that make these labs possible: Wellness in the Schools, Novato Unified School District's Director of Food and Nutritional Services, Miguel Villarreal, Lu Sutton's principal, Bonnie Barron, and the Lu Sutton PTA, led by Emy Everett. We look forward to expanding into all elementary schools in Novato, with your support. Beautiful photography by Nina Menconi.
Beans are no exception. From statements like, "I don't eat beans" at the beginning of our recent WITS labs to asking for second helpings of WITS' multi bean chili after only fifty minutes of food literacy education, well that's gotta be love! It's not just beans of course. These labs teach kids about kale and carrots, tomatoes and potatoes, apples and those locally grown foods that are also being served in the school cafeteria. Regardless of the starring produce of the lab, it's the positive, hands-on learning experience that leads to 77% of students saying they loved the Ginger Kale Salad and 75% saying they now love eating veggie bean chili.
To create magic, it's a build. I like to make sure parents know this because I never enter a cooking lab expecting for everything to be perfect. What I aspire for are small, incremental positive experiences for children with fresh foods. Some kids love to learn our "juicy chef words," which in our chili lab included descriptive vocabulary like translucent, garnish, saute, and simmer. Other children get super excited by the tactile portions of our learning, like sorting various varieties of dried beans and discovering ones they'd never known existed or holding the bell peppers to see which one is heavier or lighter.
Most children relish the knife skills part of the cooking lab, where we practice knife safety with nylon cutting knives from Curious Chefs, using our bear claw to hold what we're cutting or the tunnel, and learning new cuts–for kale it was "chiffonade" cut, which is to cut into thin ribbons–for the chili recipe it was slicing and then dicing our multicolored bell peppers.
What I love best is when our students from one lab to the next build upon what they've learned. We focus on listening to the foods–just ask your child what they should hear when an onion is put into a hot pan (sizzle) or how to know when you can stop massaging the kale salad (hint: it no longer crunches).
We also engage the children to learn that exploring new foods is fun by focusing on using all of our senses to taste and describe the foods we're experiencing. Lu Sutton kids don't make a decision about a new food until they've looked at it, smelled it, touched it, tasted it, and yes, listened to it. They love when a bell pepper squirts them in the face when cutting, because they know that the vitamin C in that pepper is good for their skin (a.k.a Vitamin C facial!). After teaching these WITS labs to kids, I'm also confident that even in this small amount of time, we are teaching these precious children at all ages that they are worthy of beautiful, fresh foods. What more empowerment can you ask for? Now, that's what I call love.
If you are a parent or teacher of Lu Sutton and you have not yet taken advantage of the free Joyful 12 memberships I provide with every school we work with, please be sure to go to www.joyful12.com/lusutton and take advantage of my online kitchen learning lab. I hope it will be a beautiful resource to you and your family after each lab to keep that enthusiasm about cooking thriving back at home! To learn more about our Joyful 12 School Project and how you can help us expand in our goal to grow healthy kids in all eight elementary schools in Novato, please visit our project page today.
Chef Hollie's cooking note: I make this chili recipe now almost weekly. My husband and I love to garnish with thinly sliced purple cabbage, sour cream, avocado, and a little cheese. We usually buy several colors of bell pepper, so that we can use some diced raw as garnish along with the cilantro suggested!
Rinse and drain beans and set aside.
In a large pot, heat oil over medium heat until warm.
Add onion, red pepper, garlic and jalapeno and cook, stirring, until onions are translucent. Stir in spices and cook 1 minute.
Add tomatoes, tomato paste, water, salt and drained and rinsed beans; reduce heat and simmer for 30-40 minutes, until flavors are well combined.
When you taste Aglaia's "Lazy Woman's Pie" fresh from the oven, you are struck with the taste of love. Oh, the aroma of her crumbled feta Crispy Cheese Pie coming out of the oven is a sensory memory I'll never forget. I'm transported back under that fig tree, taking Aglaia's outdoor cooking classes at Kea Artisanal on making homemade phyllo dough at her home in Kea, Greece.
I've always felt I should have been Greek, but with my strong Southern upbringing, I had to wait until much later in life to connect with my mentor, dear friend and adopted Greek aunt, Aglaia Kremezi.
This past fall, Aglaia visited San Francisco to promote her latest book, Mediterranean Vegetarian Feasts. I had the great pleasure of helping her with her cooking demo at CUESA (Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture) at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, and attended her beautiful dinner at 18 Reasons where her Nettles Soup was one of our starters. I'm excited to share with you my recreation of this divine recipe from spring nettels we discovered at the farmer's market in March.
Of her six cookbooks on Mediterranean cooking, this one is my favorite. She has not only gone back to her roots, with the seasonal vegetarian foods she was raised on, but she has also opened a window into a world for cooks across the globe to learn how to make simple, yet extremely flavorful plant based meals to nourish even the most discerning palettes.
If you have never tried them, nettles are amazing. As Langdon Cook refers to them in his book on foraging wild edibles, Fat of the Land, stinging nettles are the kryptonite of the plant kingdom. Loaded with more iron than spinach, rich in calcium, protein and a whole host of vitamins, nettles have been used for medicinal purposes for ages. These wild greens are among the many Aglaia explores in her book and are favorites of Balkan foragers for their deep, sweet flavor.
Even a boy scout will tell you, the fine thin hairs on these wild greens hurt if they brush against your skin. Be sure to handle the uncooked nettles with gloves or tongs to avoid a sting when washing and removing the stems. Once you've blanched them, they are no longer treacherous and can be handled with your bare hands. As Aglaia suggests in her book, don't throw out their cooking liquid. Instead, drink this lovely tea with a fresh squeeze of lemon.
What I adore about learning from Aglaia is that she takes us back to how it was always done, while also reminding us of how we can explore both old and new ways of cooking Mediterranean dishes. Her ancestors cooked and ate what was in season. Meat was expensive and greens, called horta, were plentiful. They built upon these basic components with staples like beans, nuts, grains, good olive oil, olives, capers, local cheeses, and yogurt–and occasionally cured or fresh fish.
Aglaia's advice is practical and empowering for every home cook that wants to eat delicious food and make it good for their family.
Shop with your head up, not buried in a list; look, touch, taste, and smell what the market has to offer. Go to your local farmers market without a recipe or shopping list in hand; choose the seasonal produce that inspires you, and only then search the pages that follow for recipes that will showcase your fresh ingredients.
If you want to learn how to build your pantry with essential Mediterranean ingredients and how to cook from scratch in well-planned stages, these sections are beautifully laid out with stories from her experiences and those of her ancestors. Aglaia takes you on a trip to a time when cooks wasted nothing and grandmothers lived to 98 years-old, giving and taking their own advice for daily doses of yogurt to ensure good health.
What I love most about cooking Aglaia's recipes is also what I love about teaching kids to explore new foods. They take me to a far away place that I can recreate easily in my own kitchen, using the same ingredients she would on her beautiful Greek island. It's an adventure that's not only fun but also sensorily delightful.
As I teach kids and families to love eating vegetables and fruits each season, I always feel Aglaia with me in spirit, looking over my shoulder saying "bravo," and reminding me that to teach and bring the joy of cooking to others is the greatest expression of love I can bring into this world. Thank you, Aglaia!
Soak dried mushrooms in hot water for 30 minutes to rehydrate. Note: this recipe calls for using the soaking liquid which is full of flavor. I like to pass that liquid through a mesh strainer lined with a coffee filter to ensure I capture any remaining dirt that was on the dried mushrooms. The recipe calls for 1 cup of hot water for the porcini and one cup for the morels, if dried.
Rough chop romaine and parsley. Discard stems from parsley.
Bring a large pot of water (1.5 quarts) up to a boil.
Blanch the nettles in 1 ½ quarts boiling water for about 3 minutes, until well wilted. Remove with tongs or a slotted spoon and let drain in a colander. Reserve the cooking broth.
In a medium pot, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the garlic and saute for one minute. Add the porcini and their soaking liquid as well as the morels (if using). Saute until tender, 3 to 4 minutes, then carefully remove the morels only and set them aside. Pour in the wine and add the romaine, parsley, and salt. Toss several times, until the greens are wilted and soft.
In the bowl of a food processor, combine the greens-and-porcini mixture from the pot with the drained nettles. Add a few teaspoons of the reserved nettle broth and pulse several times to make a paste. You will have to scrape down all the bits that stick to the sides of the bowl as you process. At this point, classic French cuisine would have you pass the paste through a fine sieve in order to make a perfectly smooth soup. I love a chunky texture so I omit this step, but it is up to you.
Pour the green pulp back into the pot and add the vegetable broth and 1 cup of the reserved nettle broth. Bring the soup to a slow boil, and then reduce the heat. Simmer, half-covered, stirring every now and then, for about 15 minutes, until the soup thickens.
Remove from the heat and stir in the yogurt and plenty of pepper. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
Serve in bowls, adding 1 to 2 morels to each serving, if using. Drizzle with good, fruity olive oil and garnish with the chervil leaves. Serve extra yogurt on the side.
If nettles are not available, replace them with ⅔ pound tender spinach leaves. The taste will be different but still delicious. Serve warm or cold.
As Morel mushrooms were not available at my store, I used two packages of dried porcini mushrooms, which were both 28 grams in weight. For garlic, I used 4 small-medium sized garlic cloves, and slightly more white wine, 1 ⅓ cups, so I could use up a bottle!
If you want to relish the taste of spring, our Minestrone Soup is for you. Just this last week as part of our Joyful 12 School Project, fifty of our students helped us make a gigantic batch as we devoured our meatless meal all celebrating spring spinach.
What I love about this recipe is that is takes you on a journey to Italy. As I explained to our eager students, Minestrone hails from Italy, as does pesto, which was our soup and toast topping for the class. Italians know how to use up what's growing each season in ways that are both satisfying and easy to modify based on what's in your pantry.
Take our pesto for example! Any good cook knows that cheese and nuts are critical elements in the classic basil pesto, but for our school class we needed to improvise. No cheese? No problem! Nut allergy? Again, we've got this! With a hearty dose of fresh and fragrant basil, some baby spinach, and some good olive oil and garlic, our base was still in tact. To make up for what was missing, we added some chickpeas which gave us added protein and fiber without taking away from the herby sauce. The kids ADORED it atop their toasts.
I hope your family will try our Easy Spring Minestrone with our Spinach Pesto and relish in your own improvisations as any good Italian family would!
Take 5 minutes to get out all your ingredients, measuring and cooking equipment needed, and place them on a cookie sheet within easy reach. Wash all produce.
Cut onion, green onion, and fennel into dice.
Get out a big soup pot to cook pasta. Fill about ½ way with water and cover with a lid.
First place walnuts, chickpeas and garlic together in a food processor.
Add basil and spinach gradually, with olive oil, to combine.
Add salt, blend and check for overall seasoning.
Saute yellow onion, green onion and fennel on medium high heat in 2 tablespoons olive oil and ½ teaspoon salt for 5 minutes.
Add fire roasted tomatoes with juice from can, garlic, vegetable broth and 2 cups of water and bring to a boil, which will take about 5-7 minutes.
Once boiling, turn down to a simmer, cover and cook 15 minutes.
While waiting for the soup to cook for 15 minutes, bring your pot of water to a boil for the pasta. When the water comes to a boil, cook pasta according to package instructions. Drain and set aside.You can rinse it quickly to keep noodles from sticking.
Add peas and spinach to soup and cook another 10 minutes on low.
Add 1 ½ teaspoons salt and ½ teaspoon black pepper and check for seasoning.
Add pasta just before serving, so it doesn't soak up all the broth! In each bowl, top soup with a spoonful of spinach pesto. We also love to drizzle a little more olive oil on top!
This soup is meant to be easy. We love fresh peas but use frozen to make this fast and easy. We are making a dairy free pesto recipe below, but you can also buy pre-made pesto to save time.
Part of the fun of Thanksgiving day is the lead-up to the big meal. Why not give your family this heavenly, creamy and taste bud zapping soup as their appetizer? It will tide them over until dinner, especially if you top with our dreamy and cheesy puff pastry topping. It's so easy but tastes so complex, you'll be praised as top chef even before the big bird hits your family dinner table.
I hail from the South, Charleston, South Carolina, to be specific. We're sort of sassy at times, with our food and our humor. That's what this summer corn soup reminds me of, growing up in the South eating corn during the summer every which way we could! I've kicked it up with a hint of spice and a sweet-n-sour red pepper relish crunch. If you just want a super quick soup your family will love, cook the soup, purée it and leave off the toppings. If you are having friends over, go that extra step with the red pepper relish and roasted okra. Believe me when I say their bowls will be wiped clean with this winning recipe.
When making this recipe with children or adults, the key is to focus on how easy it is to make because all the ingredients are fresh and delicious on their own! I literally adjust this recipe all depending on what we receive in our farm share box. Have your family taste as they prepare it and decide what they think is missing. For example, if you have a lemon but no vinegar, add that as your acid. If you have a green pepper vs. red, that is great, too. Keep trying together and adjust based on personal tastes.
Serve cold and from a cup and tell the story of how Gazpacho was eaten by Spanish field workers hundreds of years ago to nourish them as they worked!


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Joe Pool Lake is a fresh water impoundment (reservoir) located in the southern part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in North Texas. The lake encompasses parts of Tarrant, Dallas and Ellis counties. The lake measures  with a conservation storage capacity of . With a maximum depth of  the lake drains an area of .

Joe Pool Lake was named after Joe R. Pool, a Congressman-At-Large from the Oak Cliff area of Dallas who represented this area as well as the rest of the state of Texas from 1963 until his death in 1968. Pool was highly influential in the passage of legislation and funding of the lake. The project to build Joe Pool Lake initiated by a promise made in 1960 by Kennedy-Johnson Natural Resources Advisory Committee member Joe Pool and was carried out, after Pool's death in 1968, by a citizens committee called the Lakeview (Joe Pool) Planning Council. Pool's project was approved by Congress in 1965 and was known as Lakeview Reservoir until 1982 when president Ronald W. Reagan signed a bill to rename the lake to Joe Pool Lake. Actual construction began in 1977, bridge work was finished in 1981, with lake completion in December 1985. Impoundment of water began in January 1986 and the lake was filled by June 1989.

After 60 years, through the sheer determination of Joe Pool, his congressional friends and the many members of the Lakeview (Joe Pool) Planning Council, Pool's promise of flood control for the Mountain/Walnut Creek watershed was made good to the affected property owners.

"On May 24, 1986 with the lake approximately half full and still several years away from being open to the public, a ceremony was held to dedicate the new Joe Pool Lake. 1,500 people attended including U.S. Democratic Majority Leader Jim Wright, who among others, had helped keep the project alive through the years. There was food, music, cannons, and speeches. Joe Pool would have been proud to be there."

Parks and recreation

Joe Pool Lake includes a number of parks, paved boat ramps and parking lots, public swimming areas, a public marina as well a second marina located inside Cedar Hill State Park. Other parks include Britton Park, Loyd Park, and Lynn Creek Park.

Lynn Creek Marina
A full-service marina and restaurant are located on the northwest side of the lake, just off Lake Ridge Parkway near the Lynn Creek Park entrance. The Lynn Creek Marina has 258 wet slips, 40 dry storage slips. a ship store and service center. All facilities are available to the public on first-come, first-served, for fishing, pleasure, and sailboats; boat rentals; with an indoor-outdoor fishing area; and Patio Bar & Grill.

Water Resources
Joe Pool lake is mostly fed by Mountain Creek and Walnut Creek and drains north into Mountain Creek leading into Mountain Creek Lake. Joe Pool Lake is one of the few lakes in Texas that actually drains to the north. Joe Pool lake impounds water in two arms formed by Mountain Creek and Walnut Creek. The Mountain Creek Water Shed is in the Upper Trinity River Basin and has a length of  and a total drainage area of .

Currently (2005) Joe Pool Lake serves as a reservoir for the City of Midlothian for their public water supply. Several other entities have water interests in Joe Pool Lake, but are not currently using the water resources. The City of Midlothian has a water intake structure in the southeast leg of the lake. They consume water at a daily rate anywhere from  in the winter months to  in the summer months. The Trinity River Authority of Texas also has a water intake structure in Cedar Hill State Park, but it currently not in use.

Fishing

Fishing Regulations
Most species are currently managed with statewide regulations. The exception is a 14 to  slot limit on largemouth bass. Anglers may keep bass that are  or less in length, or  or greater. Daily bag for all species of black bass is 5 in combination, but only one largemouth bass  or greater may be retained each day.

Stocking history

All-ages records

Junior angler records

Fishing tips
Marked brush piles offer habitat in the lower end of the reservoir which are often good for both bass and crappie. Crappie fishing is also good under the bridges on both arms of the lake. In the Walnut Creek arm, the old creek channel is a good place to look for bass.

Fishing quality
 Largemouth bass: 3 of 5
 Catfish: 2 of 5
 Crappie: 3 of 5
 Sunfish: 2 of 5

Facilities
The TRA maintains excellent day use and overnight public recreation facilities. The only free boat ramp on the lake is at Britton Park on the upper end of the Mountain Creek Arm, although it is $5 to park. Cedar Hill State Park on the east side of the lake has the second most campsites of any facility in the state park system. It also has lighted fishing piers, boat ramps and group shelters. Local anglers complain that state park gates do not open until 8 a.m. daily.

See also

 Trinity River Authority

References

 Cedar Hill State Park and Joe Pool Marina
 Tangle Ridge Golf Club
 Army Corps of Engineers Joe Pool lake
 Areas of Outdoor Interest
 Lynn Creek Marina
 Handbook of Texas Online
 SMU Archaeological and Historical Investigations of Joe Pool lake
 Cabins at Loyd Park on Joe Pool lake
 Dallas Morning News Article ID 0ED3CDCE9CEF65D0 Publish Date: December 22, 1985
 City of Grand Prairie Lynn Creek Park on Lake Joe Pool Offers Free Entry to Grand Prairie Residents

External links
 Cedar Hill State Park and Joe Pool Marina

 Joe Pool lake dot Org Website
 Loyd Park
 Lynn Creek Park
 Information about all of the Lake's amenities
 Joe R. Pool

Reservoirs in Texas
Protected areas of Dallas County, Texas
Protected areas of Ellis County, Texas
Protected areas of Tarrant County, Texas
Bodies of water of Dallas County, Texas
Bodies of water of Ellis County, Texas
Bodies of water of Tarrant County, Texas
1989 establishments in Texas

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Amnesty? That's just a technicality.
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With yet another official firearms amnesty on the horizon, it seems prudent to bring forward a case that really makes us question the value of these amnesties.
Following the COAG resolution to restrict the availability and use of handguns by sporting shooters in late 2002, a national firearms amnesty was announced, which took place in Queensland between the 1st of July and 31st of December 2004.
It was during this amnesty that a licensed handgun collector and sports shooter in Queensland decided to acquire and register a previously unregistered semiautomatic UZI pistol. Thinking he was doing the right thing, by the law and in the spirit of the amnesty, to get unregistered guns off the street. With a 10 round magazine and a barrel over the new 120mm legal limit for semiauto handguns, it was able to fit in under the new restrictions on sporting shooters handguns.
The legislation governing firearms amnesties in Queensland allowed for weapons to be registered by those with a suitable license or surrendered to the state. The new owner of the semiauto UZI elected to have it registered against his firearms license with the details confirmed and entered by his local dealer, a relatively common practice under amnesties in Queensland. This is where this story should draw to an end, but alas disappointingly, we must continue.
About 10 days after the end of the amnesty, the owner had his house raided by the police and all his firearms seized. The basis for the raid was the owner's possession of the semiauto UZI pistol. Queensland Police had elected to charge the owner with unlawful possession of weapon under section 50 of the Act.
The story broke and made the news, Brisbane 4BC provided some coverage of the charge, reportedly acting premier Anna Bligh provided no comment on the case at the end of this segment.
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Unfortunately for the police, section 168B of the Weapons Act provides protection for those whom register a firearm under a declared amnesty. The provision clearly states that a prosecution cannot proceed against a person for unlawful possession of a firearm when they take action to obtain the necessary authority under the Act to possess the firearm during a declared amnesty.
Whilst the police were able to charge the collector, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) was unwilling to proceed with the prosecution, presumably because they read the Weapons Act and realised & that to proceed clearly violated the Weapons Act and therefore dropped the charge.
With the matter now presumably resolved, the owner was able to retrieve his firearms from the police. Some firearms were damaged due to lack of care by the police, as is apparently their standard practice, that is apart from the semiauto UZI pistol. The police had decided to insist upon their position that the semiauto UZI pistol was not a Category H weapon and was in fact a Category D or R weapon.
With no other option to retrieve his property, the owner sued the police for the return of the UZI. In a civil court case that took several years to resolve, the owner was able to prove on the balance of probabilities, that his semiauto UZI was in fact a Category H firearm. Demonstrating that it was neither a replica/ facsimile of a submachine gun, nor a substantial duplicate of a military style semiautomatic rifle and instead a Category H pistol.
With the magistrate calling the police's actions in the case to be 'oppressive', he ordered an immediate return of the UZI and awarded costs. With the court orders made and the owner able to recover a small portion of his costs from the police (and thus us the taxpayers), the semiauto UZI was returned to its rightful owner.
This is the first story we are presenting in an ongoing saga of law abiding firearm owners running into serious legal issues because of mistakes in fact and law by the police. Have you been in a situation like this? If so please contact us so we can hear about it.
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The Software Studies initiative at UCSD is pleased to welcome our new Postdoctoral Researcher, Jeremy Douglass. Jeremy will be researching critical approaches to software and code using the analytic frameworks of the humanities and the social sciences, working on software projects for analyzing (software) culture, and playing a key role in field-building activities for software studies worldwide.
Jeremy is appointed to Software Studies with support from the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). He will be working with Lev Manovich (Professor, Visual Arts) and Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Assistant Professor, Communication) to develop models and tools for the cultural criticism of software, establish the field as a complement to existing research in cyberculture and new media, and investigate how next generation cyberinfrastructure technologies can be used by humanists, social scientists, and cultural practitioners.
Jeremy arrives with a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara's Department of English. His dissertation, "Command Lines: Aesthetics and Technique in Interactive Fiction and New Media," explores several critical techniques of interest to the software studies field, including the ongoing influence of code and development tools on software genre formation and the use of close-reading techniques on source code. In addition to a history of publications and presentations on electronic literature and software, he creates visualization artworks and writes for the new media art blog Writer Response Theory.


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KotOR 3 - Obsidian's KotOR 3
VG24/7 talked to Chris Avellone about Obsidian's Knights of the Old Republic 3.
"The third game involved you, as a player character, following where Revan went and then taking the battle to the really ancient Sith lords who are far more terrifying than the Darths that show up. These guys would just be monsters. These would have a level of power that was considerable, but at the same time you'd be able to dig more into their psychologies, and their personalities, their history, and even how they dealt with the player, how they talk with the player, the different powers they cultivated and developed, and for some of them like - they're the ancients, so they're not just ruling a solar system, [but] swathes of the galaxy.
Reading these articles just brings back the misery of knowing EA will never fund a part III. Due to not being profitable and Disney retconning the Star Wars Timeline.
"Remember EA thinks Single-player games are dead & gamers are all basically idiots."
Check out my news Thread it's updated weekly.
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Also yes I know BioWare still updates their F2P MMO but it's not KotOR 3. Not even close. I also don't like what they did to the Revan arc in that game. I consider it blasphemy.
Funding kotor3 makes no sense to EA's CEO. In fact kotors 1 and 2 made no sense to him, not even sure how those two got blessed by that guy.
So forgeddit.
A shame it is, on the other hand, if they were working on that, we wouldn't see Outer Worlds.
The silly mmo obviously still milks $. Don't ask me how's that even possible today, I mean, all whales were supposed to move to phones in order to win by paying.
I believe by recently adding Bastila, Jedi Revan, Darth Revan, Darth Malek and many other KOTOR characters to the EA SWGOH phone game, they have made the KOTOR timeline cannon.
Not sure if that is true, but it wouldn't make sense adding them if they weren't going to be canon now.
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Originally Posted by Couchpotato
Disney retconning the Star Wars Timeline.
They have been bringing more and more stuff from the KoTOR era into canon the last few years (Rataka and Rataka Prime, Revan, what happened to Taris among others).
Disney's Star Wars is quite different from the old one and I get the feeling it doesn't work too well with old fans. I rarely see fans praising the new stuff online and going by episode 9 trailer's ending, Disney seems to have pushed the salvage button already.
It's developer is owned by Sony which means it'll remain a hostage of inferior hardware. ~ joxer
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the Rebels show really shined IMO. It added a lot of good lore to the SW universe.
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I'm pretty sure that was in pre-production before Disney had legal hold over the IP and formulated any plan of where they wanted to go with it considering it was announced in May 2013 and the main character sculpts were done before June 2013 (as the guy who did them left that month). And it was done by the Clone Wars team too.
they're the ancients, so they're not just ruling a solar system, [but] swathes of the galaxy.
Of course, no-one would attribute that to Jedi, to "the good ones" … It is so fully against modern narration techniques (as it appears to me) to have good aligned "ancients" like this, just look at Ctulhu …
It's like with Blofeld. No good aligned character would be such a long-term ruler. It's forbidden in storytelling, it seems to me. "Ancients" are always badass bad ones.
I haven't been following the news recently. Why Avellone is talking about previous plans of KoTor 3? Is there a possibility of that happening?
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Well don't get your hopes up but Disney might fund a sequel.
Link - https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/04…e-old-republic
Star Wars: Knights of the Republic is one of the most popular Star Wars video games to date, empowering players with the ability to venture down the light or dark side of the force in an era set 4,000 years before the Empire came to power. While delivering a powerful Star Wars fantasy, Knights of the Old Republic is also praised for its story, which delivered one hell of a plot twist.
Although Knights of the Old Republic received a sequel, was adapted into comic books, and it's setting was later explored in The Old Republic MMO, fans have long wanted to see it leap to the silver screen for a live-action film. At this year's Star Wars Celebration, MTV News' Josh Horowitz interviewed Lucasfilm's president Kathleen Kennedy, and asked her if Knights of the Old Republic was something they were considering for the future. "You know, we talk about that all the time," Kennedy said. "Yes, we are developing something to look at. Right now, I have no idea where things might fall, but we have to be careful that there is a cadence to Star Wars that doesn't start to feel like too much."
So will it be Obsidian who is now owned by Microsoft, or will it be an EA studio again?
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Cthulhu is modern? It was created by Lovecraft in 1928.
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That article is based on this 3-minute interview: https://twitter.com/MTVNEWS/status/1118270840989192192
Relevant part is about 10-15 seconds long, starting at 1:28. The interviewee is a film producer, and the interview was about TV shows and movies, not games.
The speculation there that there might be a game coming is based on absolutely nothing.
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Yes it's pure speculation that spurs hope but probably wont happen. On a side note future movies might take place in that setting based on a few recent interviews.
Link - https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/04…e-old-republicSo will it be Obsidian who is now owned by Microsoft, or will it be an EA studio again?
Thanks. After watching this interview I'm still confused. What did she mean by "we talk about that all the time"?
To me, it seems that they have no plans for KOTOR at all. She just did not want to look bad for their fanbase…
But even if I'm wrong and they are planning something, it is not clear if they are talking about a game, a movie, or something else.
Yeah, I don't get the impression that something's up. I think it's all corporate talk.
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New Graduates, Challengers and Champions
The aftershocks of the recent economic turmoil can still be felt, but emerging markets remain a strong launchpad for successful companies. The strongest and most globalized of them – the world Challengers and world champions – are doing just fine overtaking members of the developed countries club on the world stage, both in terms of efficiency and revenue growth. This is precisely the picture painted by the June BCG report analyzing the situation in emerging markets. BRICS Business Magazine presents an opportunity to get acquainted
with the most interesting of its propositions and conclusions.
The recent struggles of emerging markets (EMs) are so well-known that it can be hard to distinguish the fast-growing trees from the forest. But despite the slowdown in macroeconomic growth, the drop in commodity and currency prices, the crash of equity markets, and the rise of geopolitical risks, the top companies from EMs benefited tremendously from years of compound growth.
They grew three times faster than their counterparts in mature markets from 2009 through 2014. From 2005 through 2014, the average revenues of the largest EM company in each of 63 industrial sectors expanded from $15 billion to $43 billion. Revenues for China's Huawei, for example, ballooned to $61 billion in 2015, a 37% increase from the prior year. In IT services, India's Tata Consultancy Services and HCL Technologies have achieved double-digit growth almost every year.
In sectors as varied as household appliances, construction and engineering, industrial conglomerates, construction materials, and real estate development, companies from emerging markets have captured global market shares exceeding 40%. For example, the three air conditioning manufacturers with the largest market share in the world are China's Gree, Midea, and Haier.
But the numbers tell only part of the story. What are these companies exactly, and where do they come from? Outwardly, there has been little shift in the industry or geographic mix of the global challengers. Industrial goods is still the sector with the largest number of challengers; among countries, China and India come out on top. This high-level view, however, does not capture many of the undercurrents that are starting to ripple to the surface.
One trend is that resource and commodity companies may have passed their high-water mark. These companies have always made up a healthy share of the global challengers. And they do so in this year's report as well, accounting for 24% of companies on the list. But between 2014 and 2016, the number of challenger energy companies declined from 13 to 10. And none of the new challengers is solely in the resource or commodity business.
Another shift is the rise of a new breed of consumer companies. The consumer-oriented challengers on this year's list are moving beyond advantages based on cost and access to raw materials such as palm oil. They include Dalian Wanda, a luxury hotel and resort developer from China, and Discovery, a financial services firm from South Africa.
The new challengers are also appealing to the digital needs of the expanding middle class in emerging markets. Two prime examples are Axiata, a leading regional telecom operator, and Xiaomi, a maker of smartphones. Remarkably, the revenues of device makers from emerging markets grew eightfold from 2005 through 2014, reaching $211 billion. While many device makers are winning with low-cost products, others are increasingly investing in innovation and R&D.
Several other new challengers are likewise emblematic of larger themes. The emergence of China Eastern Airlines and Pegasus Airlines as challengers reflects the rise of air carriers in emerging markets. From 2005 through 2014, the revenues of such airlines tripled, and their global market share rose from one-fifth to one-third. Seven airlines based in emerging markets are now global challengers, compared with none 10 years ago.
Pharmaceutical companies based in EMs have also grown rapidly, from $8 billion in revenues in 2005 to $80 billion in 2014. This growth reflects both inroads in mature markets and rising health care spending in emerging markets. Lupin Pharmaceuticals and Sun Pharmaceuticals, both of India, have completed acquisitions to round out their product portfolios. Indian companies now have a 20% global market share for generic drugs and own 22% of pharmaceutical plants approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
Few global media companies have launched from emerging markets, although that may be starting to change. China's Alibaba has investments in several online media properties, and Dalian Wanda is buying a majority stake in Legendary Entertainment, a Hollywood studio.
And this is all above the core role EMs keep playing in production of raw materials and infrastructure in the world, as well as meeting needs of the rapidly growing middle class in their home markets and abroad.
Local leaders of the developing countries from different sectors to actively argue about their global ambitions
Building and Supplying the World
EMs continue to play a significant role in supplying the world's raw materials and meeting the infrastructure needs of both emerging and mature economies. That role is in flux, however, and most of the new challengers in this category are emphasizing integration, value-added services, and other higher-end capabilities. The name of the game is no longer simply low cost.
Brazil's Braskem is the largest producer of thermoplastic resins in the Americas. The company manufactures polypropylene, polyethylene, PVC, and basic petrochemicals. It has grown both organically and through acquisition. Braskem entered the global market with the acquisition of Sunoco Chemical in 2010 and Dow's polypropylene business in 2011.
The main businesses of the Philippines' DMCI Holdings conglomerate are power generation, property development, construction, mining, and water distribution. The growing economy and population of the Philippines are increasing demand for energy, infrastructure, water, and real estate. Despite softening nickel and coal prices, operational efficiency has helped DMCI Holdings' mining business continue to generate value.
Grupo México is the fourth largest copper producer in the world and operates the largest rail network in Mexico. Grupo México benefits from a low cost structure, geographical diversification, fully integrated operations, and strong finances.
The fertilizer company OCP of Morocco has exclusive access to the largest phosphate-rock reserves in the world. OCP has focused on integration, ranging from mining to the production of fertilizers and other value-added products, while reducing its environmental footprint. It has production and distribution joint ventures in Asia, Europe, and Brazil, one of the fastest-growing fertilizer markets in the world, where OCP has created an innovative supply channel. The company is also pursuing growth in Africa by encouraging the development of agriculture and the smart use of fertilizer.
Capturing Middle-Class Consumers
Many EMs are relatively young countries with a rapidly expanding middle class. This generation of consumers is optimistic, with the disposable income required to spend on goods and services. Eight of the new challengers are serving the needs of these consumers, although only three of them are traditional fast-moving-consumer-goods companies.
Peru's Alicorp has three main business lines: food, personal, and home care products; industrial food products, such as flour and food oil; and animal nutrition. Its consumer brands are well known throughout Latin America.
The Philippine's conglomerate Ayala, founded more than 180 years ago, has holdings in real estate, financial services, telecommunications, water infrastructure, electronics manufacturing, automotive dealerships, and business process outsourcing. It is moving into power generation, transport infrastructure, and education and is expanding primarily in Southeast Asia.
Started as a largely domestic carrier in 1998, China Eastern Airlines has been rapidly expanding overseas. With its main hub in Shanghai, the airline now flies to several destinations in the US and Europe. It also offers flights throughout Southeast Asia that appeal to Chinese tourists.
The Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda has achieved a trifecta. It is the largest owner of luxury hotels, the largest commercial property developer, and the largest owner of cinema chains in the world. It recently announced a deal to buy a majority of Legendary Entertainment, becoming the first Chinese company to own a Hollywood studio. By 2020, Dalian Wanda expects to be one of the world's five largest companies devoted to entertainment and cultural activities.
South African insurer Discovery has created partnerships and joint ventures with other insurers to enter China, the US, Singapore, Australia, and Europe. Its Vitality health insurance program rewards consumers who make healthy changes in lifestyle. Vitality is currently available in China, South Africa, the UK, and the US.
The consumer goods conglomerate Gloria of Peru is training its sights on regional expansion throughout Latin America. Gloria has an active presence in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. In 2014, it acquired five companies in Colombia, establishing itself as an important player in that country's dairy and food and beverage categories.
The largest low-cost carrier in Turkey, Pegasus Airlines increased revenues by 13% and earnings before taxes by 34% in 2015. The company has a 28%-share of the domestic market and a 10%-share of international flights. It is growing twice as fast as the market for international routes.
Universal Robina is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the Philippines, with a growing presence throughout Southeast Asia and beyond. In 2014, Universal Robina bought Griffin's Foods, the largest snack maker in New Zealand. Last year, the company was named the best-managed consumer company in Asia by FinanceAsia and Euromoney.
Meeting Digital Needs
The three companies below are tapping into the insatiable demand of consumers to be connected at all times.
This mobile operator Axiata of Malaysia has about 290 million customers in 10 Asian countries. It recently bought a controlling stake in Nepal's NCell. While most mobile operators based in emerging markets have struggled to maintain their profitability in recent years, Axiata's margin has averaged 38% in the three years ending in 2015.
Indian IT and business-process-services company Tech Mahindra is active in many industries but especially telecommunications, which accounts for one-half of its revenues. Tech Mahindra is the only Indian IT services company with a major presence in the $43 billion network-infrastructure business. It has engaged in several key strategic deals and partnerships in order to expand into new businesses.
Founded in 2010, China's Xiaomi is already the fourth-largest handset maker globally. It sells more phones in China than Apple and is rapidly expanding into other emerging markets, such as India and Indonesia. It sells directly to customers through online channels and keeps close track of feedback and suggestions through social media.
Paving Path to Global Leadership
As their name suggests, the global challengers have unfinished business to complete. They are on a path to become top companies in their industry, but there is no guarantee that they will get there. On the other hand, companies that we call 'graduates' have reached that peak. These 19 former global challengers are virtually indistinguishable from multinationals. What separates those companies from the challengers?
In seeking to understand the difference between challengers and graduates, five 'under the hood' attributes were uncovered that separate global leaders from the pack. Collectively, they constitute a winning combination that is greater than the sum of its parts. Indeed, all of the 19 graduates have acquired at least four of these five attributes.
Vision and Culture. In the case of all 19 graduates, their vision is easy to describe and see in action. For example, América Móvil aspires to be the fastest-growing telecommunications company in the world, while Tata Motors' ambition is to be the car company most admired by customers, employees, and shareholders. Johnson Electric aims to be the most innovative and reliable supplier of motors and motion systems. Many former global challengers also articulated a compelling vision. But they failed to create a culture that unified the company and amplified individual effort and achievement.
Operating Model. The operating models of global leaders are built to go global and to be adaptive. They are not modified versions of the model designed for the company's home market. Global leaders build global processes, especially for risk management and other core activities, but are willing to bend the rules so that local markets can make adaptations. Hindalco, for example, has deliberately created a portfolio of high- and low-margin products in order to provide a buffer against ups and downs in the economy.
Talent and Organization. Talent and larger organizational issues are often what distinguish global leaders, since the demand for great people is so intense, especially in EMs. Global leaders build global leadership and talent programs, rotate top people through geographies, and create opportunities for star talent outside of the home market. They build an employer-of-choice brand in key recruiting markets. They know how to integrate talent and retain key aspects of their culture when they acquire other companies. They create cost-effective training engines for line workers and middle managers. Tata Consultancy Services, for example, has learned how to scale its recruiting, onboarding, and training engines for the 50,000 or more employees that join the company each year. Such companies as Lenovo and Emirates Airlines have created a diverse and international workforce at all levels.
Go-to-Market Model. Global leaders understand how to be successful in many markets. They make smart local acquisitions and develop local partnerships to fill in the gaps in their coverage, product portfolio, or distribution networks. Meat processer JBS, for example, has created strategic partnerships in key geographies, established direct-sales teams, and located production facilities in low-cost countries.
Innovation and Reinvention. Global leaders are continually innovating and, when necessary, reinventing themselves to stay relevant. Li & Fung will create and shutter business units as necessary. Recognizing that beer tastes are regional, SABMiller uses local ingredients in its breweries. In Africa, for example, it offers many bottle and can sizes and uses local crops like sorghum to brew affordable beer.
To better understand these factors, two pairs of companies in two industries were examined. They started in similar positions of strength, but their fortunes took dramatically different turns. In one case, a large industrial goods conglomerate took advantage of a favorable cost structure, strategic M&A, and strong leadership to rise to the top of its sector. Managers knew how to execute and how to work with local partners in new markets. The other company focused on achieving efficiency and reaching production targets, but management conflicts and low-performing assets kept it from continuing on its growth path. The first company is now a global leader. The second has fallen off the global challenger list.
The companies in the second pair are both involved in similar technology, media, and telecom businesses. One invested heavily in innovation, especially localized R&D. It actively developed new technologies, both in-house and in partnership with outsiders. It developed modern, agile ways of working. The other company remained true to its command-and-control bureaucratic structure, which led to sluggish decision-making and a lack of local adaptation. Its innovation strategy was reactive, responding to requests from customers, rather than forward-looking. Not surprisingly, the paths of these two companies also diverged – global leadership for one, falling revenues for the other.
companies: basic
strategic approaches
While graduate companies share most of the five attributes described above, they did not all achieve success and competitive advantage in the same way. Their three primary strategic approaches were identified, as they:
…rely on strategic M&A and world-class integration to create long-term value. Mexico's Cemex in cement, South Arica's SABMiller in beer, and Mexico's Alfa have successfully integrated companies with diverse cultures and spread best practices.
…scale and replicate a successful business model to achieve growth. Li & Fung, headquartered in Hong Kong, has become the largest global supplier of clothes and consumer goods by acting as supply chain manager between consumers and manufacturers in Asia and elsewhere. Wilmar International, headquartered in Singapore but with major holdings in Indonesia, has become the world's leading supplier of palm oil by developing an integrated origination-to-distribution business model. Both companies had a singular vision of what they needed to do to go global and achieved it.
…emphasize innovation and global branding. UAE's Emirates Airlines has become a world-class airline by providing a superior passenger experience. Likewise, China's Lenovo has maintained a heritage of quality and innovative design in the PC business, which it acquired more than a decade ago. And unlike other telecom suppliers that have focused on low cost, Huawei has invested in R&D and innovation in order to provide high-quality products. These companies have demonstrated an ability to both develop global brands and be relevant in local markets.
New Champions: Challenging the Challengers
The abovementioned plagues and risks of the global economy do not need to be showstoppers for the global challengers and other aspiring companies in EMs. Most of these markets are still growing faster, and their demographic and consumer spending trends are more favorable than their mature counterparts.
Between 2015 and 2030, for example, the population of EMs is set to expand by 17%, more than three times faster than the rate in mature markets. The urban population of sub-Saharan Africa will rise by 70%, double the still impressive rate of the Asia-Pacific region, and more than three times the rate of Latin America. And, even if GDP growth slows to 5.5%, China and India will add $3.9 trillion in consumption over the next five years, equal to the entire GDP of Germany. EMs will account for one-third of global consumption by 2020, up from 29% in 2015.
It's a more challenging environment than it was five years ago. But for companies that want to send themselves into global orbit, emerging markets are still strong launching pads, albeit ones that are becoming more crowded.
As global challengers look to grow in a slower-growth world, however, they will face increasing competition not just from multinationals – their historic adversaries – but also from homegrown rivals. Nearly 1,500 companies based in EMs can be identified that, while not qualifying as global challengers, are still successful, growing companies. These companies – the champions – tend to be smaller than the challengers but still highly profitable and fast-growing. Indeed, from 2005 through 2014, they averaged 18% annual growth and in 2014 had revenues equivalent to six percent of global GDP. While many of them have regional or global ambitions, others are wholly focused on their home market.
Champions are companies to watch over the next 10 years. Like the global challengers, they are concentrated in China and India. But African, Latin American, and Southeast Asian companies are also well represented. The champions have grown faster than the global challengers over the past five years and are more profitable. Given their current growth rates, many champions are likely to become top-10 companies in their industrial sector by 2020. These companies will also be responsible for most of the world's economic growth through 2025. In other words, within five years, the top-10 lists of many industrial sectors will be populated by several companies that are virtually unknown today outside their home market.
To be sure, the road ahead will be more challenging than the one just traveled. Despite the growing middle class and increasing disposable income in many of these markets, global challengers and champions alike are not immune to macroeconomic forces. They cannot necessarily count on the purchasing power of mature markets to fuel growth or on foreign investors to fund their capital needs. More than $500 billion of net capital flew out of emerging markets in 2015. Commodity players cannot depend on China's once insatiable appetite for raw materials. They will need to do more than float higher on the tide of an expanding economy. They will need to compete.
Still, we are bullish on the long-term growth of many of these markets and even more so on the homegrown companies they have produced. Global challengers know how to win in volatile and uncertain times.
These companies are still developing world-class capabilities, although here increasingly they will need to rely on strategic M&A to build their capabilities and reach their goals. Not all of them will be up to these tasks. But if their past is any indication, most of them will continue to be viable companies, and many will become global leaders.
And unlike 10 years ago, when their primary competitors were multinationals, global challengers today face a new generation of local competitors. Finally, both the challengers and their homegrown competitors are vying for a pool of local revenues that is expanding less quickly, forcing them to seek growth elsewhere. Given these headwinds, global challengers – and companies that aspire to that status – must focus equally on growth and competitiveness. We still expect the overwhelming majority of them to thrive in this new world order. They are proven winners.
This is an adapted version of the Global Leaders, Challengers, and Champions: The Engines of Emerging Markets report by BCG released in June 2016. BCG published its first list of global challengers 10 years ago to highlight the achievements of companies that were 'changing the world.' In this, the 10th anniversary of that inaugural list, BCG looks more broadly at emerging markets and the dynamic companies, encompassing nearly 1,500 firms, they produce.
The BCG team of contributors to the report includes Daniel Azevedo, Vincent Chin, Dinesh Khanna, Eduardo León, Kasey Maggard, Michael Meyer, David C. Michael, Burak Tansan, Peter Ullrich, Sharad Verma, and Jeff Walters.
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