The revolutionary social trading app that connects the world's brokers and their clients.
Financial trading is tough. The FCA revealed that over 80% of traders lose money. This is no small issue given there are 13.9m online traders globally. Typically, retail traders trade alone which can lead to poor decision making. Pelican solves this by integrating execution with communication. Think IG meets WhatsApp.
Data now shows that the average percentage of profitable CFD traders on social trading platforms is around 33%, which is around 10% higher than with traditional brokers. Brokers now recognise that social trading improves clients' profitability. As far as we are aware, Pelican is the only FCA-Regulated social trading app built to allow multiple brokers to connect their clients to a central network. Pelican's social DNA and unique features are why brokers from around the world are now interested in partnerships. Initial partners include the world's number 1 CFD and spreadbetting platform; IG. CFD trading is the start. We believe that the benefits of trading socially also apply for shares and sports betting. These huge markets are planned in 2019.
The founders believed that a Bloomberg equivalent for the retail trader would improve decision making and therefore ultimately profitability. Pelican's unique design allows traders to discuss ideas, develop strategies, share, execute, copy or oppose trades and see who are the best. All these interactions occur on just one platform, like professional traders and institutions experience on their Bloomberg terminals.
Our data since launch has shown their hypothesis to be correct.
Now, domestic and international CFD brokers are seeking to partner with Pelican because new regulations are forcing them to look after their clients better. For hundreds of brokers around the world, Pelican currently is the only option to provide a FCA regulated social trading solution for their clients.
Imagine a world where you could connect your broker account to a central social trading network. Welcome to the world of Pelican.
☻ Pelican is paid a percentage of the subscription revenue generated by users paying to follow mentors and good traders.
Over the summer the European regulator (ESMA) placed certain restrictions on the CFD industry, one of which was to make brokers publish the percentage of profitable traders on their platform. Social trading platforms are shown to have circa 10% more profitable traders in total than traditional brokers (33% vs. 23%). We are now forming partnerships with brokers from around the world to connect their clients into the Pelican network.
☻ Brokers pay a set-up fee.
☻ Brokers pay a monthly service fee.
☻ Rebates on copied trades within the platform.
☻ Rebates on new clients introduced to the broker from within Pelican's network.
The main purpose of this funding round is to accelerate our B2B broker connections, whilst developing further our B2C offering. The majority of funds raised will be spent on technology development and implementation.
We are working with our broker partners, enhancing and adding new features for the benefit of both direct and indirect clients.
We will be working on making the integration of new brokers as seamless as possible. We intend to add new asset classes, such as shares and crypto-currencies, as well as a sports betting platform in 2019.
We wish to add Institutional Sales to manage inbound interest from brokers and also find new partners overseas. Management believes that broker demand will likely accelerate as Pelican secures its position as a central network. We will also look to recruit for social media and PR. Broker partners have indicated that they will be running Pelican launch campaigns. We need the necessary in-house expertise to coordinate these.
Pelican is targeting traders and investors who are using traditional brokers. Pelican was built initially to target the Spread Betting and CFD trading industry, with over 13.9 million online traders globally. The household names in this industry are IG, CMC and Plus500, with a combined value of over £4.5 Billion. Pelican can target CFD traders in multiple countries either directly (B2C) or indirectly (B2B) via these partnerships. We feel that brokers also see Pelican as a potential tool to reawaken dormant accounts.
The CFD industry is our first target, but Pelican plans to integrate share trading and sports betting as these markets have hundreds of millions of participants around the world.
The typical user in the UK would be a male aged between 25 and 45. He is likely to work in a professional capacity, in industries such as medicine, IT, legal or accounting.
The market for Spread Betting, which is essentially the same as CFD trading, started in 1974 in the UK when IG was launched to allow people to speculate on the price of gold. Now people can use CFDs to speculate on a wide range of products from Apple to Bitcoin, from GBP/USD to Brent Crude. Now there are some 13.9 million online traders around the world. There are well-established markets in the UK, parts of Europe, Japan and Australia. There has also been growth in recent years in Asia. Pelican can leverage from its broker partnerships to target these international markets, as multiple languages will be available within the app shortly.
The fundamental problem for the industry is that the majority of CFD traders are not profitable. Too many of their customers trade poorly and make mistakes; mistakes which the social trading platforms have been shown to reduce. We believe that Pelican's social DNA helps these traders make better informed trading decisions.
We shall attract new customers via both B2C and B2B models.
Pelican will invest in social media and PR to acquire new clients, whilst continuing to work with mentors to bring in their followers.
As Pelican is a social network, we shall optimise for our users to bring in their friends, acquaintances, work colleagues or trading club buddies using inbuilt trade sharing and inviting features. We think this virality can greatly reduce our Client Acquisition Cost (CAC). We don't intend to spend money on traditional direct marketing campaigns.
Pelican will work with our broker partners to engage with their existing client base. Pelican plans to run campaigns in conjunction with our partners targeting segments of their client base interested in social trading as well as dormant and poorly performing trading accounts. The brokers' clients should get access to better traders and ideas from all over the world, whilst Pelican has more engagement on its network.
There are other successful social trading platforms like eToro and Darwinex who are competing against hundreds of traditional CFD brokers. We believe that Pelican is the only platform which has the actual FCA Regulation permitting social trading and is built specifically as multi-broker. A partnership with Pelican provides the umbrella regulation as well as the technological offering to allow any traditional broker to offer a comprehensive social trading solution.
Traditional brokers in the UK could try to replicate Pelican. However, it would take considerable tech resource and time to build and they would also have to obtain our specific regulation. Inbound interest from global brokers suggests that they would currently rather partner with us than build their own social system. Furthermore Pelican is looking to establish itself as a collective network, the size and scale of which we believe would be difficult to replicate by any single broker.


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Home » Law and Ethics » Joint venture dispute and failure to register the shares
Joint venture dispute and failure to register the shares
1. Joint Venture Dispute:
1.1Contractual Obligation:
There was no binding contract between the parties in law but an oral agreement to develop the house as a joint venture. Agreement can be made either by words or in writing and so Wimpy are bound by that agreement[1].
It is possible to enforce the joint venture agreement in equity either under the constructive trust or under the law of proprietary estoppel[2].
1.2 Constructive Trust:
A constructive trust is invoked, as it would be unconscionable to allow Wimpy to exploit the property as its own, in a manner inconsistent with the agreement, which enabled them to acquire it, and deny the beneficial interest of Truly Smart Company[3].
It is not necessary to have written declaration of trust within S 53 (1) of the Law of Property Act 1925 [4]. However,Truly Smart Company can establish an interest in the property under the principles elaborated in Pettitt v. Pettitt[5] and codified by the House of Lords in Lloyds Bank v. Rosset[6]: the company can rely on a constructive trust, as it is exempt from the requirement of writing by S 53 (2) of the LPA 1925[7].
To give rise to a constructive trust it is necessary to establish either advantage to Wimpy or detriment to Truly Smart, but not both[8]. However,Truly Smart Company in reliance on the promise kept out of the bidding gave an advantage to Wimpy to obtain the property
for a lower price. On the other hand, Truly Smart Company lost the opportunity to acquire the property for themselves[9].
1.3 Proprietary Estoppel:
It is clear that an estoppel could arise even though there was no intention to create binding obligations, as where the parties had attempted to negotiate a contract[10]. Furthermore, Lord Kingsdown in Ramsden v. Dyson[11] opined that the doctrine of estoppel could arise where there was a fostering of an expectation in the minds of the parties, which, once acted upon; it would be unconscionable to deny later. The concepts of constructive trust and proprietary estoppel have much in common in this area[12]. In respect of remedy, the proprietary estoppel is a more flexible doctrine[13].
2.Failure to register the transfer shares:
2.1 Share Transfer:
The shares should be passed to Reshida Timol despite her uncle's shaky signature. As her uncle had done everything in his power to transfer his legal and equitable interest in the shares[14]. The transfer of legal title to shares in a private company was regarded as effective even though it was not completed by entry in the share register of the company[15].
2.2 Share Registration:
The company cannot refuse to register the shares in her name due to shaky signature[16]. The basic position on share transfer is set out in Re Smith, Knight & Co, Weston's Case[17]. However, the company might take a different view regarding the argument about business ethics with her uncle, and that he may have changed his mind prior to his death. It is not possible by her uncle to renege on the transfer as he had done everything he had to do to transfer the shares[18].
2.3 The Appointment of Executor:
Reshida may further claim shares, as she is one of the executors of her uncle's will[19]. An imperfect gift might be perfected by the subsequent appointment of the donee to be the donor's executor where the donor had an immediate intention to make an out-and-out gift, and that intention survived until the donor's death[20].
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[1] See, Fifoot & Furmston's, Cheshire, Law of Contract (1996), 13th edition, p-28
[2] See, Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson view in Grant v. Edwards (1986) Ch. 638 ; Robert Walker L.J. view in Yaxley v. Gotts (2000) Ch 162.
[3] See, Chattock v. Muller (1878) 8 Ch 177, Pallant v. Morgan (1953) Ch 43; Lonrho Plc. v. Fayed No-2 (1992) 1 W. L. R 1 ; Banner Homes Group PLC. v. Luff Development Ltd. (2000) CA 372.
[4] See, Todd, Paul & Lowrie, Sarah, Textbook on Trusts (2000), 5th edition , p-150
[5] (1970) AC 777
[6] (1991) 1 AC 107
[7] See, Moffat, Graham, Trusts Law Text and Materials (1994), 2nd edition, p-96
[8] Cited in Hudson, Alastair, Equity & Trusts (2002), 2nd edition, p-469 ; Banner Homes Group PLC. v. Luff Development Ltd. (2000) CA 372
[9] Cited in Penner J E , The Law of Trusts (2000), 2nd edition, p-5.20 ; Pallant v. Morgan (1953) Ch 43
[10] See, JT Developments v. Quinn (1991) 62 P & CR 33.
[11] (1865) LR 1 HL 129,
[12] Cited by Millett L.J in Paragon Finance Plc v. D. B. Thakerar & Co (1999) 1 All E R 400
[13] Cited in Hudson, Alastair, Equity & Trusts (2002), 2nd edition, p-469
[14] Re Rose. Rose and Others v. Inland Revenue Commissioners (1952) CA 1217
[15] Cited in Todd, Paul, Cases & Materials on Equity & Trusts (2000), 3rd edition, p-67
[16] Cited in Farrar J.H & Hannigan B.M, Farrar's Company law (1998), 4th edition, p-239
[17] (1868) 4 Ch App 20
[18] See, Hayton DJ, The Law of Equitable Remedies (2001), 11th edition, p-406 ; Mascall v. Mascall (1984) 49 P & C. R 119
[19] See, Strong v. Bird (1874) LR 18 EQ 315
[20] See, Re Freeland. Jackson v. Rodgers (1951) 1 Ch 111

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Our programmers work hard to ensure the smoothness of the animations in various screen sizes—from Desktop to Mobile—and also meet the animation requirements from the design team.
We went through numerous prototyping and discussions to make sure that the animations are best suited for the final outcome.
Most of their sales enquiries are from the website and we are glad that we're part of the team that supports client on the digital strategy (e.g. from developing the website to putting up the ads on social platforms).
We do think that animation plays a bigger role in websites as it enhances the attractiveness of the website.


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Collecting digital user data without invading privacy
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311111 novel cryptographic method that makes it possible to collect data and protect the privacy of the user at the same time
The statistical evaluation of digital user data is of vital importance for analyzing trends. But it can also undermine the privacy. Computer scientists from Saarbrücken have now developed a novel cryptographic method that makes it possible to collect data and protect the privacy of the user at the same time. They present their approach for the first time at the computer expo Cebit in Hannover at the Saarland University research booth (hall 9, booth E13).
"Many website providers are able to collect data, but only a few manage to do so without invading users' privacy", explains Aniket Kate, who leads the research group "Cryptographic Systems" at the Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" (MMCI) in Saarbrücken. Two aspects threaten privacy during data aggregation: On the one hand, where and how is the data aggregated? For example, website owners are interested in the age and gender of their visitors. Therefore, they store data files (cookies) on their computers that observe which other websites they visit. "But this wealth of sensitive information allows them also to reconstruct detailed profiles of each individual", says Kate. On the other hand, it is important to publish aggregated data in a privacy-preserving way. "Researchers have already demonstrated that precise information about the habits of citizens can be reconstructed from the electricity consumption information collected by so-called smart meters", explains Kate.
In cooperation with his colleagues Fabienne Eigner and Matteo Maffei from the Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA) and Francesca Pampaloni from the Italian IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Kate developed a software system called "Privada". It is not only able to resolve the dilemma between the desire for information and the protection of data, but it can also be easily applied in different domains. "For example, with Privada website owners are still able to observe that their websites are mainly visited by middle-aged women, but nothing more", Kate explains.
To achieve this, users split up the requested information and send parts of it to previously defined servers performing multi-party computation: Each server evaluates its data without being aware of the data of other parties. So together they compute a secret, but are not able to decode it on their own. Moreover, each party adds on a value corresponding to a probability distribution to make the data a little bit imprecise. The perturbated partial results are assembled into the actual analysis. The perturbation ensures that the identity of the individual person is protected, while trends are still significant in the aggregated statistic about user data.
The privacy is even guaranteed if all but one of the servers collaborate. Hence, according to the researchers, it is even conceivable that companies could provide such servers. If only servers, and not users, perturb the data with a certain amount of noise, that has two advantages: Firstly, not much computational power is necessary on the user's side. Hence, even a mobile phone could send the partial result to a particular server. Also, in total, there is only a minimal amount of noise attached to the aggregated data. Hence, the resulting statistic about user data is as accurate as possible.
The computer scientists from Saarbrücken have already implemented their concept. "The computation is fast; the servers just need a few seconds", says Fabienne Eigner, part of the research group "Secure and Privacy-preserving Systems" at Saarland University. She also worked on the software system. The architecture is constructed in such a way that it would not make any difference if someone were to analyze the data of a thousand or a million people", explains Eigner.
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PAr ONORIENT 25 octobre 2018
Femme éthiopienne
Le noir est banni dans les tenues de sorties, seules les couleurs vives et pétillantes habillent les femmes immigrées
Magasin à Beyrouth, vendant les uniformes des travailleuses domestiques
Le shopping à Dawra, activité battant son plein le dimanche
A Sunday in Beirut
In Lebanon, hiring immigrant maids to take care of the home is common practice. They cook, clean, go grocery shopping, look after the children, and make sure their employers' house stays nice and pleasant. Most of them live in their boss' house, but some of them have decided to have their own place and do cleaning work here and there.
Besides their job, these women have in common the fact that they all are immigrants in Lebanon for a short or long duration, enough to earn some money to take back home. According to our estimates, 250,000 immigrated housemaids work in the land of the cedars. Most come from Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Philippines, and Sri Lanka. Onorient met these women in order to find out more about their very peculiar lives and their experiences as foreign women in Lebanon.
On the occasion of a Sunday outing organized outside of Beirut, dances and traditional music take centre stage.
Sunday is like an oxygen bubble; it is a day for rest, sociability, groceries, femininity, life, far from the beautiful Lebanese houses where they work. It is their only day off when they have any. Sunday in Beirut seems like a happy celebration, a day to lose track of time as activities multiply. On Sunday, hours are not counted, a light atmosphere takes over the streets of the Lebanese capital.
During the week, their work apron clearly identifies these women as immigrant domestic workers. Walking the employers' dog, scanning supermarkets' shelves, carrying groceries bags in the street, these Lebanese women's social role is limited to their profession, to which they should be entirely devoted.
During the week, working uniforms clearly identify these women as immigrant domestic workers.
Finally, on Sunday, they can leave aside the professional mask hiding their face and show their true colours when they are not working. Whenever they can, they leave their workplace which is also their home to spend the whole day out. More numerous in the streets of the Lebanese capital on Sundays, they become visible in the public space. They just live, like any other woman. Outwardly, there is nothing surprising in this. However, when they appear in this way, as women and not as domestic workers, they implicitly claim their humanity.
A boosted and highlighted femininity as a mode of expression
As they are used to get up early, these women go out in the streets of Beirut as soon the clock strikes 9. In their often-dilapidated room, they enjoy taking time to apply make up, set their hairstyle and choose their clothes. During the week, they keep taking care of others instead of themselves. Clothes make them rediscover an identity, a character, normally hidden when they wear their uniform. As a mode of expression and a tool to claim their femininity, Sunday clothing styles are usually elaborate.
When outside, their coloured clothes strike the passers-by' eyes. Ethiopian women cover their head and shoulders with a white transparent veil. Other women highlight and display their femininity with fitted dresses, shoes speckled with sequins, braided or straight hair, big creole earrings surrounding the face and jewels adorning the bodies. Group or individual smiling portraits are then shot and sent to families back home.
An Ethiopian woman wears her Sunday best and awaits in front of the church's doors.
Taking over the Lebanese public space
Small parts of Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka are progressively and slowly recreating themselves in Beirut. Dona, who used to be a domestic worker, got married with a Lebanese man and now owns a hair salon that is full of customers even on Sundays. She does Ethiopian women's hairstyles in her tiny and colourful shop. Lebanon seems to fade away in the Ethiopian atmosphere.
These shops started developing in the 1990s in various squares of the Lebanese capital because of the growing population of non-Arabic migrant workers. They are far from rare nowadays. Asaf Dahdah, a geographer and researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France (CNRS), talks about an "ethnic shop plan" to refer to a "commercial activity, developed by native and/or foreign business owners, which targets one or several foreign populations."
Dawra is a suburb of Beirut but for migrants it is a central hub full of African and Asian shops coming one after the other. Dawra's cosmopolitanism is even more bustling on Sundays. Immigrant women meet in groups and walk around the animated streets. They speak Arabic even when it is not their mother tongue because most of them learned it in Lebanon. The streets transform into an open-air melting pot. Because of their unstable status, migrant workers cannot set roots in the cedar country; this investment of and visibility in the Lebanese public space becomes a pacific victory.
Dawra is an international city but also a place where these women's identities and origins are clearly present. When they go to the shops selling the products of their countries, national specificities surface. In Dawra, this mixture between local identity and a broader belonging to the community of immigrant women domestic workers is striking.
In Dawra, the presence of immigrant workers is reflected in the shops selling products marketed to them.
The quest for a normal lifestyle
Anyone who walks on Dawra streets on Sundays will see the desire of those women to have a normal life. Strolling, laughing, singing, dancing: nothing seems to distinguish them from the rest of the Lebanese population. Yet, given their precarious financial, legal, professional, and residential situations, such a quest for a normal life amounts to mere symbolic resistance.
Jeanne, a domestic worker for more than twenty years who came from Madagascar, tells us her employers' systematic response when she asks them for a little money: « Jeanne, why do you want 10 dollars? Do you need anything? I can buy you anything you want. You want to buy shampoo with the 10 dollars? » Being able to go to Dawra and buy what she wants with her 10 dollars feels like a liberation from the boss' authority. In reality, completely harmless acts are marked by a desire for autonomy, after a week of infantilisation at work.
Every Sunday, the quest for a normal life is reaffirmed but it is constantly confronted with the foreign origins of these women. Indeed, they keep being labelled as immigrant domestic workers both by Lebanese people and by other immigrant women. Apart from the colour of their skin, which unfortunately remains a determining criterion in the attribution of this label, the places they visit and the shops where they buy their clothes all participate in this categorization. Probably unconsciously assimilating that only the Lebanese should visit certain places, these women dare not go there, just as few Lebanese go to Dawra. These women thus spend their Sundays in the Lebanon of immigrants, adorned with African and Asian colours and sounds but marked by symbolic violence.
Beyond symbolic violence, a revelation of the vulnerability of immigrant women
When spending a Sunday in the streets of Dawra, one cannot help notice absences, especially of Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan women, yet numerous to work in Lebanon. Admittedly, Bangladeshi women usually live in Muslim areas in the South and the North of Lebanon, but it doesn't explain entirely their rare presence in Dawra. Other factors must be taken into account, even though there is a risk of creating stereotypes on the behaviour of these women. In the Bangladeshi community, Sunday is not really synonymous with day-off. Either these women don't have a day-off, or they take advantage of it to do house cleaning by the hour, higher paid, and supplement their income.
Indeed, these women have to deal with financial constraints that cannot be ignored: they generally earn less than 450 US dollars a month. In Dawra, there is a fine line between Sunday joy and return to precariousness and vulnerability. Red high heels, short dresses and plunging necklines sometimes depict a dull reality rather than a claimed femininity. Incitement to prostitution may arise when men ask "How much does she charge?" and wink with insistence, in the hope of managing to negotiate the price in a staircase. Apart from the personal decisions helpless women take, the presence of entire networks fuels these immigrant women's prostitution. A taboo hangs over prostitution organizers. Even local NGOs do not manage to tackle this issue, one among many other issues domestic workers in Lebanon are confronted to.
In the context of our survey, prostitution was evoked by these women when they recounted some offers they received in the streets, or when they were asked to perform services in kind instead of paying the taxi fare. Once, a woman from Ivory told us about her former roommate who ended up in a prostitution network after trying to obtain false ID documents. Caught in these bad nets, the young woman was required to pay a large sum of money before recovering a false work permit that doesn't look like an original, in addition to being forced to give sexual services. Besides this story, which was recounted in the privacy of an apartment around a bowl of fruits, prostitution was rarely mentioned in our survey.
Reflecting not only liveliness and joy, but also nostalgia and exoticism, Sundays spent outside also reveal the violence of immigrant women's condition in Lebanon. Prejudice, precariousness, identity claims underlie Beirut's cosmopolitan setting. In the face of this violence, religion becomes a haven, a space of solidarity where immigrated women hope to find comfort.
Traduction du français à l'anglais par les étudiants en master, spécialisés en traduction audiovisuelle et multimédia, de l'Université d'Évry.
Article original en français de Marion Tertre, publié en français le 26 juillet 2018
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The "Izzone:" Loud, loyal and annoying
Sean Shapiro and Sean Shapiro
EAST LANSING, Mich. — If you've ever been to the Breslin Center or watched a Michigan State basketball game on TV, then you've been introduced to the "Izzone."
The Michigan State student section, named for current head coach Tom Izzo, is loud, loyal — students have to earn a chance to get in the lower bowl through past attendance — and annoyed the hell out of me Saturday afternoon.
Unlike Anderson Arena, where I get to take in the action from basically the rafters, my seat on press row at the Breslin Center was within an arms reach of the white-wearing, always-jumping, yelling Izzone.
No one warned me that I should have brought earplugs — which one reporter for a Michigan-based publication inserted right before tip-off — and I'm partially thankful that BG never led after the first couple minutes, because if anything was thrown… well it would have hit me in the back of the head.
20:00 — Michigan State wins the tip and the entire Izzone blows up brown paper bags, not sure what that's for…
19:12 — Spartans score their first points of the game — after BG had taken a 2-0 lead on a Dee Brown layup — and all those brown bags get popped in unison, kind of like when you'd squeeze a bag of chips as a kid until it popped, imagine that noise, but a lot louder.
17:05 — A'uston Calhoun subs into the game, Izzone can't help but notice he's apparently spelled his name wrong, I'd be reminded of this every time he touched the ball.
12:07 — Jordon Crawford airbags a 3-point try, this was by far his biggest mistake of the game, not because he missed a 3, but because the crowd won't let him forget as he's instantly gone from "midget" — Crawford is 5-foot-6 — to "Air-ball."
9:24 — Michigan State misses back-to-back 3-point attempts, both which seemed forced and I hear a student in the Izzone behind me say, "Wow, this zone is killing us." First and only reference made to the game that actually has to do with strategy. Meanwhile on the court, BG only trails 10-9.
2:08 — Possibly the same guy who made the zone defense comment makes this gem of a statement, "How are we only at 20 points? At this rate we'll never get tacos."
0:19 — Luke Kraus is blocked by Michigan State's Adreian Payne, leading to a basket at the other end, crowd starts chanting, "Bring the pain," which eerily sounds just like Central Michigan's football chant, "Move those chains."
0:00 — Buzzer goes to end the half, Spartans lead 25-19 thanks to a pair of late BG turnovers, get my first reprieve from the Izzone as I head to the media room for a beverage.
18:44 — Dee Brown scores and the Falcons are on a 4-0 run to start the second half, BG only trails 25-23 and for the first time this game, it's quiet enough to talk to the other members of press row.
17:46 — So much for that, Spartans drill back-to-back 3s and this place is rocking, only one thing could make it worse/louder — more 3s.
17:08 — And of course they hit another 3-pointer.
16:20 — And another.
13:40 — And another .
9:00 — And another… no wait, that's actually a putback dunk by Payne on the rebound. By the way, the score is now 52-29, Spartans are now truly "Bringing the pain."
7:02 — Kraus flips a Michigan State player over his back while fighting for a rebound, Izzone goes ballistic, good thing Draymond Green doesn't take the crowd's advice, at 6-foot-7 and 230 pounds, I don't think it would have been fair fight for the 6-foot-2, 200-pound BG guard.
2:56 — It's 67-38 and this crowd wants tacos, so what better way to let the players know, then chant, "We want tacos! We want tacos!"
1:58 — And they get the tacos! Thank god I only had to listen to that chant for 58-basketball seconds — which was more like five minutes in real time.
1:02 — Spartans empty the bench and bring in the subs, crowd is still on its feet and jumping up and down, really? The score is 72-38, do you need to keep jumping?
0:42 — James Erger air-balls a 3-pointer, luckily for him Crawford already has claimed the moniker "Air-ball" and this game is pretty much over.
0:00 — Buzzer sounds and the Spartans can celebrate a 74-39 victory, and most importantly, I can head to the media room and away from the Izzone.


An investigation at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia has found that a paper on air pollution and human health contains a host of issues with the data and its analysis. The paper has been retracted with a very detailed note from Environmental Research.
"Submicrometer particles and their effects on the association between air temperature and mortality in Brisbane, Australia" has been cited three times, according to Thomson Scientific's Web of Knowledge.
-incorrect analysis of the data, partly as a consequence of a failure of communication regarding the nature of the data set and how it was collected.
-incorrect and misleading description of how and when the data set was collected.
-failure to correctly attribute the source of the data.
-an incorrect description of the statistical methods and data selection.
-incorrect citation of papers in the description of the data collection.
-Dr Wang had full access to the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (ILAQH) database but did not have permission to copy or use any data which she did not collect.
-Dr Wang obtained a collection of raw data on 'Submicrometer particles for the period of 1995–2000' (the dataset) without permission from the ILAQH, QUT. The dataset constitutes the main focus of the paper.
-conducted an analysis that was based on incorrect assumptions about the data.
Conclusions of the paper are flawed.
-The final sentence in Section 4 (Discussion) of the Paper makes two incorrect citations to Crouse et al. (2009, 2010).
-The cited papers do not refer to the dataset used by the authors.
-The Paper failed to cite previous papers by Morawska et al. (1998, 1999) and Mejia et al. (2007) that presented an analysis of the dataset used by the authors.
There was a failure by the authors to acknowledge ILAQH and Prof Morawska's contribution to the paper.
The results showed that the effects of air temperature on mortality were lower among the elderly and people with respiratory diseases, and greater among people with cardiovascular diseases after controlling for submicrometer particle concentrations. Submicrometer particles seem to be an important confounder for the temperature– mortality relationship, particularly among vulnerable groups, and should be taken into account when assessing the impacts of air temperature on human health.
There is not any other paper of this group of the Queensland University that has been retracted by Environ Res, or even questioned for a potential retraction.
An email to Weiwei Yu, the corresponding author, at her QUT address bounced back. We could not find her listed in the University's directory. We emailed QUT, the journal, and authors Shilu Tong and Sam Toloo — who both work at QUT — for more information. We'll update this post with anything else we learn.
I am absolutely thrilled to see ER take the lead on retracting a scientific paper for cause!
I am not an environmental researcher, but Inappropriate access to data is a major problem in the biomedical research field. Unethical data access, particularly in underdeveloped settings, without proper review by both local and the institutes of the outside researchers is rampant!
Here we have an excellent example of hyping and misleading the public and other researchers with the questionably obtained data.
A tip of the cap!
On the first note how did this paper get published? I wonder how it cleared the initial screening by the Editors and later the reviewers?


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Capleton greets supporters outside the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court after being granted bail yesterday.
Though pleased that his bail application yesterday for high-profile client Capleton was successful, attorney Christopher Townsend is blasting investigators at Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) over what he calls tardiness.
"They went to the scene, and they were told certain things that contradicted the complainant's account. They should have taken statements from those witnesses and present it to the authorities, [and] certainly persons in higher command, so that a proper decision can be taken as it relates to the investigation moving forward," Townsend said.
The attorney told THE STAR that there is an active investigation against the woman in question.
"There is in fact a parallel investigation against this young lady for attempting to extort money from the artiste," Townsend said.
"We have those voice notes, and I have been contacted by police investigators who have requested that we turn over all documentation, the voice notes and WhatsApp messages to them in furtherance of their investigation," he said.
Townsend further told THE STAR that he does not believe his client should have been charged in the first place.
"I don't believe that he should have been charged at all. I do believe in my client's innocence, and certainly if the investigation was done properly, they would have seen the major flaws that are coming to the fore," he said.
THE STAR gathered that Capleton made a report to the police about the incidents before his arrest.


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Eric Stonestreet braves Ellen DeGeneres' haunted house with Andy Lassner
Well, 'cringes in fear' might be more accurate
By Megan Daley Updated October 30, 2015 at 07:19 PM EDT
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Each year, The Ellen DeGeneres Show sends its executive producer Andy Lassner to a haunted house because host Ellen DeGeneres (dressed as Karla Kardashian) really enjoys watching him recoil in fear. But this time around, he was joined by Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet who vowed, "I will do my best to protect you" – more or less.
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The duo faced two haunted houses (Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios and the other based on the classic fright fest Halloween) and Stonestreet had a hard time keeping his promise. Clowns, a "choir of zombies," and other terrors made it pretty difficult. They took turns pushing and shoving each other through the houses, and weren't afraid to drop a few F-bombs at the creatures that got a little too close.
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See the two hilariously face their worst nightmares in the two videos, below.