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Q: Break from for loop back into if statement vba I am trying to perform an action that will see if the date in range (dateRng) is less than today's date, and then, if it is, perform the for loop to hide the rows w.here a value in the column is zero. (I am paying off loans, and every month I want it to hide any loans that have been paid off.) Months are across columns, loans are in rows. Loan balance is (i, j).
The problem is that it never exits the for loop to go back and check the date after every new 'j' (column). It just stays in the for loop. I have tried break, exit, continue, etc. None seem to work, at least where I place them. How do I get it to check for the date, compare to 'today', THEN run the for loop to check each cell in the column, before moving on to column 2, checking the date and performing the same for loop.
It would be good to have it be dynamic, but that is not necessary, as every month I could just change the ranges in the code. This is strictly for my personal use. Any help is appreciated. thank you.
Sub hidePaid()

Dim day As Range, loanRng As Range, loanSum As Worksheet, dateRng As Range, cel2 As Range, i As Long, j As Long, col As Range

Set loanSum = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Loan Sum")
loanSum.Activate

Set dateRng = ActiveSheet.Range("D2:R2")
Set loanRng = ActiveSheet.Range("D4:R16")

For Each day In dateRng

If day.Value < Date Then

    For j = 1 To loanRng.Columns.Count
    For i = 1 To loanRng.Rows.Count

        If loanRng.Cells(i, j).Value < 1 Then
               loanRng.Cells(i, j).EntireRow.Hidden = True
        End If

    Next i
    Next j

End If

Next
End sub

A: I added comments in the code to show my changes.
You were close, but had one to many loops and like you say, needed to find the right place for the exit.
Sub hidePaid()
Dim day     As Range
Dim loanRng As Range
Dim loanSum As Worksheet
Dim dateRng As Range
Dim i       As Long

Set loanSum = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Loan Sum")
loanSum.Activate

Set dateRng = ActiveSheet.Range("D2:R2")
Set loanRng = ActiveSheet.Range("D4:R16")

'This loop processes by column
For Each day In dateRng

    'Once the date in the column is greater than today, it will stop processing
    'It assumes the values in dateRng are valid dates
    '(I.e. '01/01/2016' not just 'Jan', you can use number format in Excel to
    'get a date to show as 'Jan' if that is better for you)
    If DateDiff("d", Now(), day.Value) > 0 Then Exit For

    'The line of code you had should have worked in sense,
    'it would have touched every column but only procesed those before today
    'It also assumes that value in the cell to be an actual date
    'If day.Value < Date Then

    'You do not need a column loop here as you are already in one in the
    'previous loop
    'For j = 1 To loanRng.Columns.Count

    'This loop processes all the rows that are not already hidden and if
    'the value is equal to 0 then it hides the row
    'Note: you had the check to be less than 1, .50 is less than 1 and you don't
    'want to get caught out on a loan!
    For i = 1 To loanRng.Rows.Count

        If (loanRng.Cells(i, day.Column - 3).Value = 0) And (loanRng.Cells(i, day.Column - 3).EntireRow.Hidden = False) Then
            loanRng.Cells(i, day.Column - 3).EntireRow.Hidden = True
        End If

    Next i

Next

'Its good practice to clear out resources when finishing
Set dateRng = Nothing
Set loanRng = Nothing
Set loanSum = Nothing

End Sub

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A Color Removed
What does it look like when the right to safety is removed?
Amir Berbic (Cleveland, OH), Amber Ford (Cleveland, OH), Amanda King (Cleveland, OH), M. Carmen Lane (Cleveland, OH), Michael Rakowitz, RA Washington (Cleveland, OH)
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A Color Removed is a city-wide participatory project grounded in the impossible gesture of removing the color orange from Cleveland and suspending its future use.
The presence of orange, as a symbol of safety, encourages complacency. But what if we could trust that safety is a right guaranteed to everyone who travels in, through, and around Cleveland? What if orange was rendered superfluous? A Color Removed addresses the underlying questions regarding the right to safety by encouraging community members to deconstruct its symbols and create solidarity for a more peaceful city.
A Color Removed formally commenced with a public letter writing campaign in the fall of 2017 and continues with an open call for orange objects to be accumulated in collection bins installed throughout Cleveland. Clothing, toys, sports equipment, household items, etc. will be catalogued and displayed at SPACES from July 15 to September 30, 2018. The enlistment of community members in surrendering orange objects and developing responses to the supersaturated orange display at SPACES is an invitation to a difficult and ongoing conversation around the forces that shape safety in American cities, including gun violence and community-police relations, as well as the overlapping impacts connecting characteristics that are targeted for oppression. Facilitated discussions and workshops will be conducted by partner organizations, project collaborators, and neighbors, and housed within the monochrome A Color Removed display at SPACES, where fearless listening enables fearless speaking.
A Color Removed was conceived by Michael Rakowitz, as a response to the shooting of Tamir Rice by Cleveland police, and was debuted as a call to action during his 2015 Beamer-Schneider Lecture at Case Western Reserve University. In response to community feedback and the involvement of the Rice family, the project evolved to include a group exhibition of newly commissioned works by Cleveland-based artists who have long explored the conceptual underpinnings of A Color Removed in their work: Amber N. Ford, Amanda King and Shooting Without Bullets youth photographers, M. Carmen Lane, and RA Washington of Guide to Kulchur Learn House. Additional collaborators include Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Amir Berbic, Christopher Horne, Elaine Hullihen, Kelley O'Brien & Anthony Warnick of The Muted Horn, and Samaria Rice & The Tamir Rice Foundation.
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Václav Kolář (8. května 1946 Loket nad Ohří – 15. dubna 2017 Prostějov) byl český pedagog, komunální politik a publicista.

Život

Mládí a studia
Narodil se v Lokti nad Ohří do mezinárodní rodiny. Otec Jan byl původem z jižních Čech, ale maminka sice pocházela z Polska, avšak s celou rodinou se odtud nuceně přestěhovala do Alsaska na pomezí Německa a Francie. Kolářovi rodiče se poznali v Německu během druhé světové války, kam byli oba nuceně nasazení. Když válka skončila, chtěla maminka zůstat ve Francii, ale její partner ji přesvědčil k cestě do Československa, kde měli Kolářovi hospodářství. Po návratu ovšem zjistili, že jeho rodiče již s příchodem svého syna z války nepočítali, a hospodářství přenechali mladšímu synovi. Jan se proto rozhodl odejít do pohraničí a získat zde některý z objektů po odsunutých sudetských Němcích. Krátce pobývali v Lokti, kde se jim narodil syn Václav, ale posléze se usadili v obci Krajková, v níž Jan jako národní správce získal místní kovárnu a k tomu i bydlení.

V mládí Václav navštěvoval dvanáctiletou školu v Sokolově, na níž v roce 1964 maturoval. Ze školy později vzpomínal například na jejího tehdejšího ředitele Františka Štěpánka, jenž ve svých žácích podporoval vztah ke sportu. Když se pak Kolář rozhodoval, kam jít po dvanáctiletce studovat dále, doporučovali mu dva jeho oblíbení pedagogové, ať zkusí vysokou školu v Olomouci, jejíž absolventi často dostávají umístěnky do škol v západočeském pohraničí a on by tak mohl pracovat blízko domova. Doporučení vyslyšel a studoval tedy Filozofickou fakultu Univerzity Palackého, na níž si zvolil obor český jazyk – dějepis.

Ze svého mládí znal Kolář katolického duchovního Metoděje Habáně, člena dominikánského řádu, který vykonával duchovní správu ve farnosti v Chlumu Svaté Maří nacházející se nedaleko Krajkové. V případě nutnosti ale sloužil bohoslužbu i v krajkovském kostele svatého Petra a Pavla, kde mu Kolář dělal ministranta. Jakmile se posléze Kolář rozhodl studovat v Olomouci, seznámil ho páter Habáň s tamním prostředím, neboť sám v tomto městě působil. S duchovním se pak Kolář setkával i v pozdějších letech, kdy formoval jeho život. V pozdějších letech měl navíc páterovu fotografii umístěnu na pracovním stole.

Pedagogické působení
Vysokou školu Kolář absolvoval roku 1969 s diplomovou prací nazvanou "Hnutí katolických zemědělců na Moravě". Po ní absolvoval základní vojenskou službu a odešel na půl roku vyučovat na litoměřické Učňovské škole. Ve stejném městě již na tamním gymnáziu učila také Kolářova manželka Jaroslava, se kterou se poznali na společných studiích vysoké školy. Pak ovšem Jaroslava Kolářová onemocněla a vrátila se zpět na Moravu do rodných Čehovic. I Václav Kolář Litoměřice opustil a stal se vychovatelem na Automobilové průmyslovce v Bruntále a poté vyučoval český jazyk na Dvouleté důstojnické škole ve Vyškově. Ze všech těchto svých působišť pravidelně za manželkou do Čehovic dojížděl. Zdravotní stav manželky se zlepšil, až když nastoupila na prostějovské Gymnázium Jiřího Wolkera a Kolář začal od roku 1972 vyučovat na Střední průmyslové škole oděvní v Prostějově.

Po devatenácti odučených letech na SPŠ oděvní (1991) přešel Kolář na tři roky za manželkou na Gymnázium Jiřího Wolkera. Zde působil na pozici ředitele Jan Šverdík, s nímž se Kolář sblížil. Ten mu pak doporučil, aby se po Jarmile Dostálové ucházel o místo ředitele na tehdejším Reálném gymnáziu a základní škole města Prostějova. Toto místo k 1. září 1994 získal a zastával jej po dobu šestnácti let až do svého odchodu do penze v roce 2010.

Politické působení
Roku 1990 se Václav Kolář stal zastupitelem města Prostějov. Ve volbách v roce 1996 neúspěšně kandidoval za Občanskou demokratickou alianci (ODA) do Senátu Parlamentu České republiky, když v prvním kole skončil těsně třetí za pozdějším vítězem voleb Janem Kavanem z České strany sociálně demokratické (ČSSD). Členem obecního zastupitelstva se postupně stal ve volbách v roce 1994 (za ODA), 1998 (za ODA a nezávislé kandidáty), 2002 (za Unii svobody – Demokratickou unii), 2006 (za Křesťanskou a demokratickou unii - Československou stranu lidovou), 2010 (za TOP 09) a 2014 (za TOP 09 a nezávislí Prostějované).

Závěr života
Roku 2010 Kolář opustil místo ředitele školy, ale v komunální politice byl činný i nadále. Při odchodu do penze plánoval, že bude číst knihy, jež za celý svůj život nashromáždil, dále že se bude věnovat zahrádce a plánoval také cestovat. Roku 2014 obdržel z rukou prostějovského primátora Miroslava Pišťáka ocenění za mimořádný přínos v oblasti rozvoje prostějovského školství. Václav Kolář zemřel po krátké nemoci 15. dubna 2017. Poslední rozloučení se konalo 20. dubna v prostějovském kostele Povýšení svatého Kříže.

Rodina
S manželkou měl Václav Kolář dvě děti. Prvorozená Jana (* 1974) působí na katedře bohemistiky Filosofické fakulty Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci a mladší syn Ondřej (* 1978) je farářem sboru Českobratrské církve evangelické v Praze 8 – Kobylisích.

Dílo
Václav Kolář byl také literárně činný:

Odkazy

Reference

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Čeští ředitelé škol
Čeští místní politici
Čeští publicisté
Členové ODA
Členové TOP 09
Absolventi Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Palackého
Pedagogové z Prostějova
Politici z Prostějova
Narození v roce 1946
Narození 8. května
Narození v Lokti (okres Sokolov)
Úmrtí 15. dubna
Úmrtí v roce 2017
Úmrtí v Prostějově
Muži

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Miss USA 1997
George Hamilton
Marla Maples Trump
Hirsch Memorial Coliseum, Shreveport, Louisiana
CBS, KSLA-TV
Brook Lee
Congeniality
Napiera Groves
Audra Wilks
Miss USA 1997 was the 46th Miss USA pageant, held at Shreveport, Louisiana in January and February, 1997. Delegates arrived in the city on January 19, the preliminary competition was held on February 2, 1997 and the final competition on February 5, 1997.[1] The event, held at the Hirsch Memorial Coliseum was broadcast live on CBS.
At the conclusion of the final competition, Brook Lee of Hawaii was crowned by outgoing titleholder Ali Landry of Louisiana, becoming the fourth Hawaiian to win the Miss USA pageant and the first win in 19 years, since Judi Andersen in Miss USA 1978. After Lee won the Miss Universe 1997 title three months later, first runner-Up Brandi Sherwood of Idaho immediately inherited the Miss USA title on the night of the latter competition. Sherwood became the first Miss Teen USA winner (Miss Teen USA 1989) and the third Miss Teen USA state delegate in a row to hold the Miss USA title. Upon Sherwood inheriting the Miss USA 1997 title, she also became the first Idaho delegate to hold the Miss USA title.[2]
The pageant was held in Shreveport, Louisiana for the first time, having been held in South Padre Island, Texas the previous three years and in Wichita, Kansas the four years prior.[3] The new location was announced in August 1996, and then reigning Miss USA, Louisiana native Ali Landry, was invited to attend the official contract signing.[3]
The pageant was hosted by George Hamilton for the only time, and Marla Maples Trump, soon-to-be ex-wife of pageant owner Donald Trump, offered colour commentary for the only time.[1] Randy Newman provided entertainment during the competition.
Just prior to the final event it was announced that broadcaster CBS had entered a partnership with Trump, becoming half-owners of the Miss USA pageant and the associated Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe competitions.[4]
While the delegates were in Louisiana, over sixty corporate sponsors provided funding for events, which included dinners, receptions and cocktail parties. There were over three hundred volunteers involved.[5] The delegates were involved in more than forty-five hours of rehearsals prior to the preliminary competition and final show.[6]
This was the first year in which delegates were allowed to choose whether they wanted to wear one-piece or two-piece bathing suits for the preliminary and final swimsuit competitions. In previous years, the delegates were all assigned to only wear either one or the other.
Map showing placements by state
Hawaii – Brook Lee ∞
1st Runner-Up
Idaho – Brandi Sherwood ∞
2nd Runner-Up
Tennessee – Towanna Stone
Florida – Angelia Savage
Texas – Amanda Little
Utah – Temple Taggart
Rhode Island – Claudia Jordan
Alabama – Autumn Smith
New Jersey – Jennifer Makris
Oklahoma – Trisha Stillwell
∞ Lee won Miss Universe 1997. Due to protocol, Lee resigns her title as Miss USA 1997. 1st runner-up, Brandi Sherwood, replaces her as Miss USA.
Miss Congeniality - Napiera Groves (District of Columbia)
Miss Photogenic - Audra Wilks (Virginia)
Best in Swimsuit - Angelia Savage (Florida)
Historical significance
Hawaii wins competition for the fourth time.
Idaho earns the 1st runner-up position for the first time and surpasses its previous highest placement in 1964. Also it became the 25th state who wins the Miss USA title for the first time. She finished as 1st runner-up, but succeeded as Miss USA 1997 after Brook Lee became Miss Universe.
Tennessee earns the 2nd runner-up position for the fourth time and repeats the same position as the last year 1996.
Florida finishes as Top 6 for the second time. The last time it placed this was in 1995.
Texas finishes as Top 6 for the second time. The last time it placed this was in 1994. Also it reached its highest placement since Chelsi Smith won in 1995. Ironically, Smith went on to win the Miss Universe title in 1995.
Utah finishes as Top 6 for the first time and reaches its highest placement since 1982.
States that placed in semifinals the previous year were Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.
Texas placed for the sixth consecutive year.
Oklahoma placed for the third consecutive year.
Tennessee and Utah made their second consecutive placement.
Florida and Rhode Island last placed in 1995.
Hawaii last placed in 1994.
New Jersey last placed in 1993.
Alabama last placed in 1992.
Idaho last placed in 1964.
Illinois and Louisiana break an ongoing streak of placements since 1994.
Preliminary competition
The following are the contestants' scores in the preliminary competition.
Alabama 9.02 8.77 8.78 8.85
Alaska 8.18 7.45 7.72 7.78
Arizona 8.33 8.12 8.64 8.36
Arkansas 8.51 8.89 8.74 8.71
California 8.86 8.26 8.32 8.48
Colorado 8.27 7.94 8.48 8.23
Connecticut 8.34 8.81 8.81 8.65
Delaware 8.49 8.40 8.64 8.51
District of Columbia 8.64 8.50 8.65 8.60
Florida 9.44 8.95 9.13 9.17
Georgia 8.18 8.35 8.50 8.34
Hawaii 9.15 8.87 9.09 9.03
Idaho 8.63 8.83 9.19 8.88
Illinois 8.26 8.26 8.54 8.35
Indiana 8.51 8.66 8.71 8.63
Iowa 8.38 7.96 8.14 8.16
Kansas 8.96 8.49 8.34 8.60
Kentucky 8.51 8.45 8.89 8.62
Louisiana 8.77 8.41 8.60 8.59
Maine 8.30 8.37 8.30 8.32
Maryland 8.71 8.75 8.68 8.70
Massachusetts 8.55 8.31 8.37 8.41
Michigan 8.94 7.85 7.88 8.22
Minnesota 8.74 8.22 8.65 8.54
Mississippi 8.31 8.14 8.05 8.17
Missouri 8.69 8.75 8.77 8.74
Montana 8.70 8.64 8.66 8.67
Nebraska 8.80 7.67 7.76 8.08
Nevada 8.76 8.67 8.72 8.72
New Hampshire 8.67 7.91 7.30 7.96
New Jersey 9.02 8.47 8.81 8.76
New Mexico 8.18 8.46 8.37 8.34
New York 8.69 8.41 8.49 8.53
North Carolina 8.65 8.07 8.10 8.27
North Dakota 8.67 8.23 8.23 8.38
Ohio 8.98 8.07 8.29 8.45
Oklahoma 9.17 9.13 9.23 9.17
Oregon 8.99 7.63 7.61 8.08
Pennsylvania 8.66 8.36 8.24 8.42
Rhode Island 9.35 9.06 9.15 9.18
South Carolina 8.54 8.06 8.40 8.33
South Dakota 8.28 8.13 8.43 8.28
Tennessee 9.28 9.08 8.96 9.11
Texas 8.87 8.79 9.04 8.89
Utah 9.19 8.94 8.86 8.99
Vermont 8.54 7.97 7.89 8.13
Virginia 9.05 8.28 8.59 8.64
Washington 8.32 8.67 8.83 8.61
West Virginia 8.04 8.69 8.66 8.46
Wisconsin 8.56 7.89 7.45 7.97
Wyoming 8.14 7.60 7.87 7.87
First runner-up
Second runner-up
Top 6 Finalist
Top 10 Semifinalist
Idaho 9.300 9.511 9.303 9.371 9.624
Tennessee 9.473 9.589 9.474 9.512 9.553
Hawaii 9.514 9.330 9.473 9.439 9.450
Florida 9.308 9.724 9.737 9.590 9.443
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Alabama 9.193 9.556 9.293 9.347
New Jersey 9.314 9.231 9.424 9.323
Oklahoma 9.054 9.284 9.149 9.162
The Miss USA 1997 delegates were:
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Arizona – Jessica Shahriari
Arkansas – Tamara Henry
California – Alisa Kimble
Colorado – Damien Muñoz
Connecticut – Christine Pavone
Delaware – Patricia Gauani
District of Columbia – Napiera Groves
Georgia – Denesha Reid
Hawaii – Brook Lee
Idaho – Brandi Sherwood
Illinois – Jennifer Celenas
Indiana – Tricia Nosko
Iowa – Shawn Marie Brogan
Kansas – Kathryn Taylor
Kentucky – Rachyl Hoskins
Louisiana – Nikole Viola
Maine – Stephanie Worcester
Maryland – Ann Coale
Massachusetts – Jennifer Chapman
Michigan – Jennifer Reed
Minnesota – Melissa Hall
Mississippi – Arleen McDonald
Missouri – Amanda Jahn
Montana – Christin Didier
Nebraska – Kim Weir
Nevada – Ninya Perna
New Hampshire – Gretchen Durgin
New Mexico – Tanya Harris
New York – Ramona Reuter
North Carolina – Crystal McLaurin-Coney
North Dakota – Lauri Marie Gapp
Ohio – Michelle Mouser
Oregon – Heather Williams
Pennsylvania – Cara Bernosky
South Carolina – Casey Mizell
South Dakota – Jamie Swenson
Vermont – Lisa Constantino
Virginia – Audra Wilks
Washington – Sara Nicole Williams
West Virginia – Natalie Bevins
Wisconsin – Tara Marie Johnson
Wyoming – Stacy Dawn Cenedese
Ten delegates had previously competed in either the Miss Teen USA or Miss America pageants.
Delegates who had previously held a Miss Teen USA state title were:
Brandi Sherwood (Idaho) - Miss Idaho Teen USA 1989 and Miss Teen USA 1989
Claudia Jordan (Rhode Island) - Miss Rhode Island Teen USA 1990
Autumn Smith (Alabama) - Miss Alabama Teen USA 1993
Audra Wilks (Virginia) - Miss Virginia Teen USA 1988
Michelle Mouser (Ohio) - Miss Ohio Teen USA 1991
Arlene McDonald (Mississippi) - Miss Mississippi Teen USA 1992 (Top 12 Semi-Finalist at Miss Teen USA 1992)
Danesha Reed (Georgia) - Miss Georgia Teen USA 1993 (Top 6 Finalist at Miss Teen USA 1993)
Gretchen Jurgin (New Hampshire) - Miss New Hampshire Teen USA 1993
Delegates who had previously held a Miss America state title were:
Jennifer Makris (New Jersey) - Miss New Jersey 1994 (Second runner-up at Miss America 1995)
Stacy Dawn Cenedese (Wyoming) - Miss Wyoming 1992
Tamara Henry (Arkansas) competed on RuPaul's Drag U Season 3 "Ex Beauty Queens" and Won.
Ingrid Casares
Gayle Gurchiek
Nick Lowery
Frédéric Fekkai
Philip G. Satre
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^ a b "Miss USA event plays Trump card". The Baton Rouge Advocate. 1996-12-26. p. 1-B.
^ Associated Press (1997-05-19). "Miss Idaho Now Miss USA, thanks to Miss Universe". The Spokesman-Review.
^ a b Associated Press (1996-08-23). "Miss USA pageant moving to Shreveport". The Baton Rouge Advocate. p. 1-A.
^ "Beauty of a deal for CBS, Trump Enters into deal with Donald Trump to own and broadcast Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants". Hollywood Reporter. 1997-01-22.
^ "Shreveport treats Miss USA contestants like real royalty". The Baton Rouge Sunday Advocate. 1997-02-02. p. 9-b.
^ "Miss USA contestants sweat it out long before wait for judges' decision". The Baton Rouge Advocate. 1997-02-05. p. 6-a.
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Q: How best to interpolate covariance matrices? What is the proper way to interpolate covariance matrices? I have a spatial 2d grid and know covariance between sparse points on that grid, but want to extrapolate that that to produce a covariance matrix that covers the whole mesh. I am assuming that covariance is inversely proportional to inter-point distance. For amplitudes I can apply inverse-distance weighted interpolation, but what about for the covariance? Should I first interpolate the amplitudes then compute the covariance, or interpolate the covariance directly. If the second, how?
Thank you.

A: In the absence of any further information about the situation I would probably use inverse distance weighted average of correlations.

A: Consider a function,
\begin{eqnarray}\sigma^{'}=\begin{bmatrix}\sigma_{1}^{'}\\\sigma_{2}^{'}\end{bmatrix}=\sigma^{'}(\sigma_{1},\sigma_{2})\end{eqnarray}
Let us suppose that $\sigma^{'}_{1}$ and $\sigma^{'}_{2}$ are in between $\sigma_{1}$ and $\sigma_{2}$. Then by linear-linear interpolation
\begin{eqnarray}\sigma_{1}^{'}=\sigma_{1}\left(\frac{E_{2}-E_{1}^{'}}{E_{2}-E_{1}}\right)+\sigma_{2}\left(\frac{E_{1}^{'}-E_{1}}{E_{2}-E_{1}}\right)\end{eqnarray} and
\begin{eqnarray}\sigma_{2}^{'}=\sigma_{1}\left(\frac{E_{2}-E_{2}^{'}}{E_{2}-E_{1}}\right)+\sigma_{2}\left(\frac{E_{2}^{'}-E_{1}}{E_{2}-E_{1}}\right)\end{eqnarray}
Above two equations represent the linear-linear interpolation formula. According to Taylor series expansion, covariance error matrix $V_{\sigma^{'}}$ for the function $\sigma^{'}$ is given by
\begin{eqnarray}V_{\sigma^{'}}=\begin{bmatrix}\frac{\partial \sigma^{'}_{1}}{\partial \sigma_{1}}&\frac{\partial \sigma^{'}_{1}}{\partial \sigma_{2}}\\
\frac{\partial \sigma^{'}_{2}}{\partial \sigma_{1}}&\frac{\partial \sigma^{'}_{2}}{\partial \sigma_{2}}
\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}var{\sigma_{1}} & cov(\sigma_{1}, \sigma _{2})\\cov(\sigma_{2}, \sigma _{1}) & var{\sigma_{2}}
\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}\frac{\partial \sigma^{'}_{1}}{\partial \sigma_{1}} & \frac{\partial \sigma^{'}_{2}}{\partial \sigma_{1}}\\
\frac{\partial \sigma^{'}_{1}}{\partial \sigma_{2}} & \frac{\partial \sigma^{'}_{2}}{\partial \sigma_{2}}
\end{bmatrix}\end{eqnarray}
This is how the covariance matrix of a function $\sigma^{'}$ is linear-linearly interpolated. Note that, in order to interpolate the given covariance matrix $\left(\text{for eg.} \begin{bmatrix}var{\sigma_{1}} & cov(\sigma_{1}, \sigma _{2})\\cov(\sigma_{2}, \sigma _{1}) & var{\sigma_{2}}
\end{bmatrix}\right)$, we have to know the relation between the interpolated values (for eg. $\sigma^{'}_{1},\sigma^{'}_{2}$) and the given values (for eg. $\sigma_{1},\sigma_{2}$) and the relation between the two is given by the linear-linear interpolation formula.
For more details refer,
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361115402_A_note_on_the_examination_of_the_possibility_to_interpolate_the_covariance_uncertainty_matrix_in_nuclear_data_science


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The Mets have a lot of star power cheering them on from the stands of Citi Field.
There are the New Yorkers, born-and-bred Mets fans (Jimmy Kimmel, Jerry Seinfeld), and the stars who've fallen in love with their MLB team without residing in the city (Ed Sheeran, Nick Jonas).
It's a pretty big deal whenever these celebrity fans take a seat at the Flushing stadium. Demi Lovato and Jonas tried their luck in the batting cages; Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick took their son onto the field for some selfies.
Take a look back at some of our favorite celebrity appearances at Citi Field, past and present.
Hank Azaria threw out the first pitch before the game between the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies at Citi Field on April 18, 2017.
It's every Mets fan's dream to catch a foul ball. Kevin James reveled in that excitement at Citi Field on Sept. 18, 2016.
Laurie Hernandez threw out the first pitch at the Mets game at Citi Field on Sept. 3, 2016. She did a flip before throwing the ball, in typical Olympic gold medalist style.
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Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker took their son James Wilkie Broderick to a Mets game at Citi Field on Sept. 21, 2015. The lucky Mets fans took selfies on the field.
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IBC's Drug Discovery and Development Week was held in Boston on the first week of August, from August 3-6, 2009. This annual event, a highlight of the summer for the Boston biotech community, had always been called "DDT", for "Drug Discovery Technology" conference. More recently, the name was changed to "Drug Discovery & Development of Innovative Therapeutics World Congress," but the acronym "DDT" still stuck.
This year, IBC changed the format of the conference, hence the name change. The new format no longer was as technology focused, but emphasized drug discovery and the translation of discovery into clinical studies and onto the market. With our consulting group's focus on science and technology strategy, biology-driven drug discovery and development, and improving the effectiveness of pharmaceutical and biotechnology R&D, I naturally liked the change in format. IBC also intended the conference to focus on networking and discussion of real drug discovery, scientific research, translational medicine, and business issues. As far as I'm concerned, the conference fulfilled that purpose as well. It was good to meet with friends and colleagues old and new, and to have substantive discussions. Even the booths in the exhibit hall were populated with company executives and researchers, as well as salespeople. It seems that the exhibitors got the point of the new conference format.
A highlight of the conference was the session on oligonucleotide therapeutics, focused on RNAi. At the conference, the RNAi biotech company RXi Pharmaceuticals (Worcester, MA) presented animal study data on its proprietary self-delivered rxRNA (sd-rxRNA) compounds, which are chemically modified RNAi molecules with self-delivering moieties. sd-rxRNAs are designed to be delivered to cells and tissues without a delivery vehicle. In vivo administration resulted in systemic delivery of sd-rxRNAs to the liver. There are many disease indications that could be potentially treated by specifically targeting disease pathways in the liver using oligonucleotide therapeutics such as sd-rxRNAs. sd-rxRNAs are compatible with subcutaneous administration, and thus might be self-administered by patients. The lack of the need for a delivery vehicle also potentially allows for lower manufacturing costs.
I attended the Industry Leadership Forum on RNA therapeutics on August 4. It was like "old home week", since many of the panelists and attendees had attended (or spoken at) the RNAi conference in Cambridge MA in January at which I had also been a speaker. When I got up to ask a question at the end of the session, panel moderator Jim Thompson of Quark Pharmaceuticals recognized me and asked me a question in return.
One of the key discussions in the Leadership Forum concerned assessing progress in the therapeutic oligonucleotide field. Proof of principle has been achieved for aptamer drugs [pegaptanib (OSI/Eyetech/Pfizer's Macugen) for treatment of age-related macular degeneration], and for antisense agents [fomivirsen (Isis/ Novartis Ophthalmics' Vitravene), for treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis in AIDS patients]. These are the two first oliogonucleotide drugs to reach the market, and both treat ophthalmologic diseases and are delivered locally. Another antisense drug, Isis/Genzyme's mipomersen is a first-in-class apolipoprotein B (apoB) synthesis inhibitor currently in Phase III trials for treatment of homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). Miopomersen is one of Isis' second-generation chemically modified antisense therapeutics. These compounds preferentially traffic to the liver when injected intravenously, without the need for a delivery vehicle.
The panel at the Leadership Forum predicted that an approved oligonucleotide blockbuster drug, which is likely to be a locally delivered or a liver-targeting drug, is about 2-3 years away. The approval of Quark's systemically delivered kidney-targeting RNAi drug QPI-1002 (for acute kidney injury) may occur soon thereafter. The first microRNA drugs may be approved a year or two after that. Other systemically delivered oligonucleotide drugs that target organs and tissues other than liver or kidney are "a long way off", and the timing of their appearance is difficult to predict. This is typical of a technologically premature field, as discussed in our earlier blog post. Early formulations of oligonucleotide drugs may also fail in Phase III, thus thwarting the panel's predictions.
The panelists agreed that it is important to target the "low-hanging fruit" (i.e., products that are locally delivered or target the liver or kidney) first in order to get the momentum of the field going. However, researchers and companies should also look at other targets, especially if they are developing novel enabling technologies in drug delivery and/or in design of therapeutic oligonucleotides with enhanced potency and specificity.
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) featured my new article, entitled "Overcoming Phase II Attrition Problem", on the top of Page One of its August 2009 edition.
Here is an image of Page One of the August 2009 issue.
And here am I, at the IBC Drug Discovery and Development Week conference (formerly known as DDT) in Boston, on Tuesday, August 4, holding a copy of the August issue. Thanks to Keri Dostie of IBC for taking this photo.
The article discusses the most important challenge facing the pharmaceutical industry today, the need to improve R&D productivity. It outlines leading-edge strategies for reducing pipeline attrition and for increasing the number of drugs that reach the market and that address unmet medical needs.
If you need a more in-depth exposition, you may have your company order a copy of our May 2009 book-length report, Approaches to Reducing Phase II Attrition, an Insight Pharma Report published by Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI). The GEN article is based in part on that report.
You may discuss issues raised by the article or the report by leaving a comment on this blog post.
Thanks are in order to those who helped make the GEN article a success. Four industry executives were quoted in the article– Charles Gombar and Evan Loh of Wyeth, Bruce H Littman of Translational Medicine Associates, and Peter Lassota of Caliper Life Sciences. (Full transcripts of interviews with these and other executives are included in an appendix to the CHI Insight Pharma report.) Drs. Littman and Lassota also reviewed the article prior to publication.
Hearty thanks also to those who served as editors of the article—Laurie Sullivan and Al Doig at CHI and John Sterling and Tamlyn Oliver at GEN. Producing a lead article for GEN (or for other publications) requires an extra level of effort from editors as well as authors, so thanks to all who participated in this effort.


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Video of Candiotti pitching in 1993
Posted by alifeofknuckleballs in (Baseball) Life Ain't Fair..., All About Innings, Baseball, Dodgers Baseball, Knuckleballs, Rare Baseball Videos on January 14, 2015
Thanks to YouTube, we are able to once in a while come across rare videos uploaded by people just like you and me. I recently came across a video of Tom Candiotti pitching for the Dodgers in Philadelphia back in 1993, posted by a YouTube user called Classic Phillies TV. Thank you, CPTV!
Now, this wasn't one of Candiotti's best games, and most baseball fans will be more interested in seeing a young Pedro Martinez pitch a few innings late in the game. However, following this contest, one in which Candiotti fell to 0-3 with a 6.55 ERA through four starts, the knuckleballing Candy Man would then have a dominant four-month stretch that has since been forgotten. In his next 22 starts following this disaster in Philadelphia, Candiotti posted a minuscule 1.85 ERA and the Dodgers won 15 of those games. Unfortunately, Candiotti's won-loss record wasn't great because the Dodgers rarely gave him much support, resulting in a modest 8-2 record in those 22 outings, even with that 1.85 earned-run average. Included in that stretch was a 15-start undefeated streak which saw Candiotti go 5-0 with 10 no-decisions. One of his two losses in those 22 starts was a 2-0 defeat to Atlanta's John Smoltz, where Candiotti gave up just one run – on four hits – in eight innings (the only run came on a sacrifice fly and then the Braves added that second run in the ninth inning off Pedro Martinez).
In the 22-start stretch after the Phillies game, here were Candiotti's numbers:
155.2 IP, 122 H, 43 BB, 120 SO, 6 HR, .217 opposing BA
It's pretty amazing given the fact that Candiotti threw a knuckleball and yet averaged under 2.5 walks per nine innings. And only six home runs given up in those innings with nearly a 3-to-1 strikeouts-to-walks ratio.
That run actually gave Candiotti the National League ERA lead going into September, at a major league-best 2.43.
Thanks again, CPTV, for posting the video.
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What Cy Young?
Posted by alifeofknuckleballs in (Baseball) Life Ain't Fair..., Baseball, Blue Jays Baseball, Dodgers Baseball, Indians Baseball, Low-hit Gems on October 8, 2014
I was asked the following question on Quora.com earlier today:
How many times has a Cy Young award winner gone 0-2 or worse in the post-season?
My response was as follows:
Well, it's happened to the best. Obviously, I am assuming this question was posted following Los Angeles Dodger lefty Clayton Kershaw's second loss in the 2014 NL Division Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, a defeat that sent L.A. home for the winter.
In 1997, Seattle's Randy Johnson, the AL Cy Young winner two years earlier (and a 20-game winner in that current season), went 0-2 against Baltimore in the Division Series as the Mariners lost three games to one. The following year, Johnson was 0-2 for Houston in the NL Division Series versus Kevin Brown's San Diego Padres, with the 102-win Astros embarrassed in four games. (In 1997, Johnson was 20-4 with a 2.28 ERA, finishing second in the Cy Young race to Roger Clemens. In 1998, the Big Unit was 10-1 with a 1.28 ERA following a late-season trade to the Astros.)
Speaking of Brown, his wild-card Florida Marlins beat Greg Maddux twice in the 1997 NLCS, giving the four-time Cy Young-winning Maddux an 0-2 record in that series. The Braves, who won 101 games during the regular season and finished nine games ahead of Florida in the standings, lost to the Marlins four games to two. Maddux had won the Cy Young in 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995, and was 19-4 with a 2.20 ERA in 1997. [1]
Brown's 1998 Padres also handed the Braves' Tom Glavine an 0-2 mark in the NLCS, with San Diego knocking off Atlanta in six games. Glavine had won the Cy Young in 1991 and would win it again that same 1998 season with a 20-6 record and a 2.47 ERA. The Padres had a good year with 98 victories, but they were underdogs against the Astros (102-60) and the Braves (106-56). San Diego's brilliant run ended in the World Series, where the Padres were swept by the 114-win Yankees.
In 1993, the Toronto Blue Jays beat Cy Young winner Jack McDowell (22-10, 3.37 ERA in the regular season) twice in the ALCS as his Chicago White Sox went down four games to two. It was McDowell's second straight 20-win season that year, and he was named the 1993 Cy Young in the offseason. McDowell was 0-2 with a 10.00 ERA in that 1993 ALCS, and then two years later in the AL Division Series with the Yankees against the Mariners, was 0-2 with a 9.00 ERA (with the second loss coming in relief in the decisive fifth game).
So, it's happened before. I'm sure others will chime in as far as exactly how many times it's happened.
[1] 1997 was truly an odd season. In addition to Maddux and Johnson, a couple of other top pitchers went 0-2 in that year's postseason. Brown himself went 0-2 in the World Series against the Cleveland Indians. Though Brown never won the Cy Young, he was runner-up to Atlanta's John Smoltz a year earlier, and was also a 21-game winner in 1992. Andy Pettitte of the Yankees, meanwhile, was 0-2 also in the AL Division Series against Cleveland, one year after finishing second to Pat Hentgen for the AL Cy Young. The Indians also won two games in the 1997 ALCS that were started by Baltimore's Mike Mussina, who got a pair of no-decisions as the Orioles couldn't score in those two contests.
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On Sunday night Geoff pulled up a video, and told me to watch it, that I would love it. I watched it without looking away once (such is the sad state of my attention span that this is unusual), rapt, and was thrilled / surprised-but-not-actually-surprised when I saw the final credit: A film by Derrick Belcham. It just happens that Derrick is someone I have known since 2006 when I met him while sitting in some grass at Alexandra Park. I was impressed by both his height and his knowledge of sports trivia. In the meantime, he moved to Vancouver, then back to Toronto, and now lives in New York, and has developed an increasingly impressive body of work collected at A Story Told Well. This Tasseomancy video is a particular favourite; I posted a video he made for Fortnight Lingerie after I visited the Fortnight studio last year.
And so. This video. For Marissa Nadler's "Wedding." The light, the mirrors, the hair, the dancing, the dreamy music: a few simple (or simple-seeming, because I can't make my body do that), natural elements to create something so poetic.
Somehow I missed this earlier this month because I forget to look at Facebook and my Twitter feed is cluttered or I would have been all over it two weeks ago!
Derrick took inspiration from Francesca Woodman for this; as an aside, I recommend this post on Francesca Woodman written by Hila (and the documentary as well, which Geoff & I watched a few months ago after reading Hila's post, and which lead to a good discussion at our house).
Also: an interview with Derrick on some of his earlier work on Friends with Both Arms.
The "Wedding" music video was mesmerising... it's like the dancer's movements are so completely natural and un-natural at the same time.
Keen to check out the rest of the videos as well :) Thanks for sharing!
Love the video! Love the song! Thanks for sharing with us.
this is amazing. I've seen the fortnight video you posted before, his work is impressive! I'll be look at his work all day today!
This is utterly beautiful. It calls to mind a little of Pina Bausch's choreography (having recently watched that documentary about her, I adore it). I love the small, but intense movements. And the dreamy colour palate...and oh, I hear you about the short attention span! Mine is shameful!
oh my - such a breathtaking combination. I see she is with Gallim Dance, which the choreography reflects. Their movements are seemingly unnatural, almost grotesque at times, but staggeringly beautiful.
This reminds me of Sigur Rós' new video, definitely also worth the watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfJVAoTE2PI . Enjoy!
This lyrical piece is just so beautiful!! I love the interaction with the mirror!!!
Thanks Anabela :) I also thought that documentary was fascinating, I couldn't stop talking about it for days.


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Future cars may use replaceable batteries
One Palo Alto company has created the first "filling station" that swaps car batteries.
What killed the electric car? In large part, batteries. They are expensive, limited in lifetime, and difficult to dispose of. Now, a new report by UC Berkeley's Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology predicts that electrics would account for two-thirds of light vehicle sales if you and I could own the car without owning the battery.
That is the idea behind a Palo Alto startup called "Better Place."
The company's sustainable energy officer Sven Thesen explained it by saying, "What we do, as an electric mobility service provider, is in part own the battery. As a consumer, your cost is less and you don't need to worry about the battery."
In the same way that phones are connected to the communications grid through a service provider, Better Place proposes to connect cars to the electric grid as a "mobility" service provider, recharging them at the best time, for the best rate, with the cleanest energy.
"Imagine never having to go to the gas station again," said Thesen, "Never having to worry about an oil change."
You might object that plugging in and waiting for a charge is not as fast as putting in a nozzle at a pump and filling up with gasoline. But, what if you could simply swap out batteries in even less time?
The company's plans include a network of filling stations like one demo version in Japan that can switch low batteries for full ones in just 60 seconds. Add to that updating your batteries and recycling them for the life of the car.
Make no mistake, such a massive infrastructure is a major challenge that will take years. But, a new survey conducted by market-research company Ipsos for Better Place found that 1-in-3 Americans is interested in making their next car an electric one.


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The European Commission has today presented amendments to its October 2011 Proposals for a Regulation on Market Abuse and for a Directive on Criminal Sanctions for Market Abuse (see IP/12/846). For more information on the October 2011 proposals, see IP/11/1217, IP/11/1218 and MEMO/11/715.
1. Why has the Commission adopted an amended proposal for a Regulation following the LIBOR/EURIBOR investigations?
Since March 2011, investigations have been taking place in relation to possible manipulation of the EURIBOR and LIBOR benchmarks for interbank lending rates by a number of banks. The suspicion was that banks had provided estimates of the interest rate at which they would accept offers of funding which were different from the rate they would have accepted in practice. As a result, the integrity of the rates has been called into question – rates which are used as benchmarks for borrowing and as references for the pricing of many financial instruments such as interest rate swaps and consumer contracts such as mortgages, loans and credit cards. Furthermore, the individual contributor banks' estimates provided misleading information to the market about their likely costs of funding.
The Commission has assessed whether possible manipulations of benchmarks including LIBOR and EURIBOR are covered by its proposals for a Regulation on insider dealing and market manipulation and the related proposal for a Directive on criminal sanctions for insider dealing and market manipulation. Given that benchmarks are not currently explicitly covered by these proposals, the Commission has concluded that direct manipulation of benchmarks does not fall within the scope of either proposal.
Therefore, in order to capture the direct manipulation of benchmarks and in order to ensure that such manipulation of benchmarks is a criminal offence, the Commission has proposed to amend its proposals for a Regulation and for a Directive. The Commission has exercised its right of initiative in this area to clarify the changes which the Commission considers are essential so that its proposals adequately address the issues highlighted by the LIBOR scandal. The Commission's amended proposals are timely as the European Parliament and the Council will be able to consider them before adopting in the autumn a Committee Report (as regards the European Parliament) and a general approach (as regards the Council) regarding the Commission's original proposals for a Regulation and a Directive.
2. Why is the manipulation of benchmarks a cause for concern?
Many financial instruments are priced by reference to benchmarks. While it may be difficult or impossible for a competent authority to prove that manipulation of a benchmark had an effect on the price of related financial instruments, any actual or attempted manipulation of important benchmarks can however have a serious impact on market confidence and could result in significant losses to investors or distort the real economy. It is therefore essential to prohibit manipulation of benchmarks unequivocally, and to clarify that competent authorities could impose administrative sanctions for the offence of market manipulation in these cases, without the need to prove or demonstrate incidental issues such as price effects. It is also essential that all necessary steps are taken to prevent such manipulation and enable and facilitate the work of competent authorities in imposing sanctions. A stringent legal framework will act as a credible deterrent to such behaviour, thereby protecting investors and restoring market confidence. These regulatory steps should include criminal sanctions.
3. What are benchmarks and what types of benchmarks and manipulation will be prohibited by the amended proposal for a Regulation?
A benchmark is any commercial index or published figure calculated by the application of a formula to the value of one or more underlying assets or prices, including estimated prices, interest rates or other values, or surveys by reference to which the amount payable under a financial instrument is determined. Underlying assets or prices referenced in benchmarks can include equities (e.g. the FTSE 100 index), bonds (e.g. NASDAQ OMX fixed income), interest rates (e.g. LIBOR or EURIBOR), or commodities such as agricultural products (e.g. cocoa LIFFE London), metals (e.g. Gold COMEX) or oil (e.g. Brent oil ICE). All benchmarks are included in the amended proposal, provided that these determine the amount payable under a financial instrument. The amended proposal for a Regulation would prohibit natural or legal persons from transmitting false or misleading information, providing false or misleading inputs, or any action which manipulated the calculation of a benchmark, including the manipulation of benchmarks' methodologies.
4. Why has the Commission adopted an amended proposal for a Directive following the LIBOR scandal?
The Commission considers it essential that manipulation of benchmarks is subject to criminal sanctions in order to ensure the effective enforcement of EU policy on market integrity.
5. Which offences in relation to benchmarks will be subject to criminal sanctions?
The amended proposal for a Directive would extend the scope of the criminal offence of market manipulation in the proposal for a Directive to cover the direct manipulation of benchmarks, if committed intentionally. The amended proposal would also require Member States to criminalise inciting, aiding and abetting the manipulation of benchmarks, as well as attempts at such manipulation.
6. Is self-regulation of benchmarks sufficient? Is further regulation necessary?
At the moment, all options are on the table. The Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB), central banks, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) are examining how benchmarks are currently established in order to identify weaknesses and shortcomings and suggest possible ways of addressing the problems at hand. In this context, not only interest rate benchmarks need to be examined. Benchmarks also serve as the basis for many commodity contracts. Recently, IOSCO has called into question the way in which price reporting agencies establish oil prices. Key issues to be examined are how to ensure the integrity and transparency of the methodologies used when setting benchmarks, including the issue of adequate public oversight.
7. What might alternatives to benchmarks be? And should they be based on transactions or estimates?
Benchmarks offer standardised ways of agreeing on prices. A benchmark is a statistical measure, typically a price or quantity calculated from a representative group of underlying data. However, benchmarks and indices normally also include some element of discretion, judgement or subjectivity. What that standard should look like varies from one market to the next, depending on the needs of that market and the availability of data. This is the reason why today some benchmarks are based on estimates and others on actual transactions.
Any alternative to benchmarks needs to be reliable, transparent, credible and readily available. The Commission is considering all alternatives that best meet the needs of the economy and that could restore trust in benchmarks.
8. Who should determine indices – the banks themselves, or a supervising body?
The starting point should be that an index is reliable, and that it is produced in an honest way, ensuring the integrity and the transparency of the benchmark decision-making process. It should be based on accurate information, and calculations should be done in an unbiased way.
The objective of benchmarks is to offer a standard which is often used globally. It is therefore necessary to pursue work on this matter in cooperation with our international partners. The Commission stands ready to work together with the ECB and other central banks as well as with global fora such as the G20, the FSB and IOSCO to consider alternatives that best meet the needs of the economy and investors.


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Definition and Examples of a Lingua Franca
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"English," says Nicholas Ostler, "is a textbook example of a language with a large mother tongue community that is also widely used as a lingua franca" ( The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel, 2010).
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Dr. Richard Nordquist is professor emeritus of rhetoric and English at Georgia Southern University and the author of several university-level grammar and composition textbooks.
A lingua franca (pronounced LING-wa FRAN-ka) is a language or mixture of languages used as a medium of communication by people whose native languages are different. It is from the Italian, "language" + "Frankish" and also known as a trade language, contact language, international language, and global language.
The term English as a lingua franca (ELF) refers to the teaching, learning, and use of the English language as a common means of communication for speakers of different native languages.
"Where a language is widely used over a relatively large geographical area as a language of wider communication, it is known as a lingua franca--a common language but one which is native only to some of its speakers. The term 'lingua franca' itself is an extension of the use of the name of the original 'Lingua Franca,' a Medieval trading pidgin used in the Mediterranean region." (M. Sebba, Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles. Palgrave, 1997)
English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
"The status of English is such that it has been adopted as the world's lingua franca for communication in Olympic sport, international trade, and air-traffic control. Unlike any other language, past or present, English has spread to all five continents and has become a truly global language." (G. Nelson and B. Aarts, "Investigating English Around the World," The Workings of Language, ed. by R. S. Wheeler. Greenwood, 1999)
"Even though everybody around the world speaks English--sort of--in their dealings with American media and business, politics, and culture, the English that is spoken is a lingua franca, a Bodysnatched English to be carefully scrutinized as to its meanings when it is used by a foreign culture." (Karin Dovring, English as Lingua Franca: Double Talk in Global Persuasion. Praeger, 1997)
"But what do we mean by the term English as a lingua franca? The term lingua franca is usually taken to mean 'any lingual medium of communication between people of different mother tongues, for whom it is a second language' (Samarin, 1987, p. 371). In this definition, then, a lingua franca has no native speakers, and this notion is carried over into definitions of English as a lingua franca, such as in the following example: '[ELF] is a 'contact language' between persons who share neither a common native tongue nor a common (national) culture, and for whom English is the chosen foreign language of communication' (Firth, 1996, p. 240).
"Clearly, the role of English as the chosen foreign language of communication in Europe is an extremely important one, and one that is on the increase. . . . It is important to note that this means that both in Europe as well as in the world as a whole, English is now a language that is mainly used by bi- and multilinguals, and that its (often monolingual) native speakers are a minority." (Barbara Seidlhofer, "Common Property: English as a Lingua Franca in Europe." International Handbook of English Language Teaching, ed. by Jim Cummins and Chris Davison. Springer, 2007)
Globish as a Lingua Franca
"I want to draw a distinction between a language which is spread through nurture, a mother tongue, and a language that is spread through recruitment, which is a lingua franca. A lingua franca is a language that you consciously learn because you need to, because you want to. A mother tongue is a language that you learn because you can't help it. The reason English is spreading around the world at the moment is because of its utility as a lingua franca. Globish--a simplified version of English that's used around the world--will be there as long as it is needed, but since it's not being picked up as a mother tongue, it's not typically being spoken by people to their children. It is not getting effectively to first base, the most crucial first base for long-term survival of a language." (Nicholas Ostler quoted by Robert McCrum in "My Bright Idea: English Is On the Up but One Day Will Die Out." The Observer, October 31, 2010)
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"Because the cyberspace community, at least at the moment, is overwhelmingly English speaking, it is appropriate to say that English is its unofficial language. . . .
"The colonial past, imperialistic stealth, and the emergence of other language blocs in cyberspace as it grows will minimize in due time the preeminence of English as the de facto language of cyberspace. . . .
"[Jukka] Korpela sees another alternative to cyberspace English and a constructed language. He predicts the development of better language machine translation algorithms. Such algorithms will result in efficient and sufficient quality language translators, and there will be no need for a lingua franca." (J. M. Kizza, Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age. Springer, 2007)
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Citizens call for actress sisters' suicide case to reopen
Over 200,000 people joined an online petition calling for the investigation of actress sisters' 2009 suicide case / capture image from Cheong Wa Dae site
By Park Jin-hai
Amid the spreading #MeToo movement, citizens are calling on the government to reopen a sexual assault case that killed two actress sisters.
Over 200,000 people signed an online petition posted on Cheong Wa Dae's website March 3, calling for investigators to reopen the case, by Monday.
In 2004, the elder sister, who worked part-time as an extra, was sexually assaulted by 12 production crewmembers who directed and supervised her work several times. After she reported it to the police, the police investigation only increased her trauma, failing to separate the victim and her assailants and asking her to draw the shapes of assailants' genitals, according to her mother, surnamed Jang.
After repeated threats from the assailants, she gave into pressure and dropped the suit in 2006. She committed suicide in August 2009. But the family tragedy didn't end there.
Her younger sister, who introduced her to the job in the first place, also committed suicide six days later. After the two daughters' deaths in a single week, their father died of a stroke.
Jang, the only surviving family member, said "Those assailants are still working in the entertainment industry. Even if my daughters will not come back to life, I want those assailants to apologize."
Citizens petitioned "Please investigate both assailants and the police" and "remove the statute of limitations clause and reopen the case."
At the same time, another actress' 2009 suicide case also came to light. Over 200,000 people signed an online petition on Cheong Wa Dae's site calling for the case to be reopened.
Jang Ja-yeon, who starred in the drama "Boys Over Flowers," committed suicide at age 29. The police investigation concluded she had been suffering from depression and ruled her death a suicide.
Her death caused a national scandal when it was claimed that she had been sexually and physically abused by a number of prominent entertainment executives during her career, and that this alleged abuse contributed to her depression. Jang left a seven-page note listing at least 31 names of media executives, CEOs and directors she claimed she was forced into having sex with.
Although the case made a big stir in the country, only 10 people whose names appeared on the list were investigated, though they were later cleared of the charges.
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Nvidia and Samsung have released the latest Galaxy smartphone, the Galaxy R, which features a 4.19-inch screen, the Nvidia Tegra 2 mobile super chip and the Android Gingerbread operating system.
The Nvidia Tegra 2 chip is the first mobile processor with a dual-core CPU and the Galaxy R also features a GeForce GPU for fast web browsing. It also has hardware-accelerated Adobe Flash Player support, full HD video and console-quality gaming.
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Fortinet previews more flexible partner program at Accelerate
by Robert Dutt • April 10, 2019
Jon Bove, vice president of North American channels at Fortinet
ORLANDO — Fortinet's Accelerate event may have evolved into a customer and partner event in recent years, but partners still make up the majority of attendees, and the company used this year's event to offer a look at the next significant evolution of the program, one that the networking security vendor says will be a lot more responsive to partners' needs.
Jon Bove, vice president of North American channels at Fortinet, said the new program – which will be fully unveiled around mid-year and become the new program as of next year – will focus on being more flexible as the number of partner business models continues to expand.
"We're building the program on how they engage, what's their go-to-market, and then focus on competency," Bove said. The new program will focus competencies around Fortinet's big bets – data centre, security fabric, cloud, and SOC. "W think it makes our partners even more successful in positioning the fabric and expanding their opportunity with customers."
The current program dates back about a decade, Bove said, and was designed for a world where "partner" largely meant "reseller." But with the rise of managed service providers — both pure-play MSSPs and those wrapping managed services around hardware, and cloud-centric solution providers, Bove said the program has to evolve to meet changing needs amongst partners. The new program will bring currently-separate programs for cloud partners under the main program umbrella, and will for the first time, include recognition for consultant partners, particularly those with the company's Network Security Expert (NSE) certification.
Sean Campbell, director of channel sales for Fortinet Canada, said that bringing consultants into the same program "leads to a lot of collaboration" opportunities for partners.
"It leads them to get together and really work together based on their mutual strengths," he said.
The company is unveiling its intentions for a new program here at Accelerate, and then Bove said much of the rest of the first half would be spent listening to feedback to finalize the details before final rollout around mid-year, at which time he said the company would start to approach current partners around how they fit into the new structure.
However, some details are already in place. Bove said the new program would forego the current "precious metal club" tier program in favour of Advocate, Advanced, and Expert levels around each of the company's four significant pillars of focus. It will also, like the current North American program, align around SMB, enterprise, and service provider go-to-markets. And the new program will continue to aim to support partners moving towards managed services.
"There's a great opportunity to focus on the VAR-to-MSP transition. You're going to see us add a lot of value there," Bove said. The company, he added, is already working with its North American distribution partners to finance Hardware-as-a-Service deals around many of its products, including its FortiSIEM product for those looking to add more in-depth managed security services as part of their future strategy. Bove said the effort was aimed at helping with what he acknowledged is "a very expensive transition" in moving from a traditional VAR sales motion to an MSSP structure.
"That will really launch the MSSP vertical" in Canada, predicted Campbell.
The new program includes a new openness to partnering for the company. While Fortinet has been all-channel since its launch, it did pare the ranks somewhat a few years ago. Bove, however, said he's focused on "embracing all partners, and all kinds of partners," including working with a variety of partners with whom it has not historically done business. It's also looking to "reactivate" and re-engage partners with whom it may have parted ways under previous channel administrations, and get active with partners who are still technically in the program but have not been engaged in recent years.
The new program will also be a truly global one, replacing the current two programs — one for North America and one for the rest of the world, and will also introduce a new Global tier for Expert partners with significant presences in major markets around the world.
Education has been a hot topic at Accelerate, and it's one about which Fortinet is passionate, Bove said. In recent years, the company has made the first two tiers of its eight-tier NSE program available for free to the general public, and NSE continues to be free to the company's partners. Over the last year, the company introduced what it calls Fast Tracks — essentially boiling down NSE material into two-hour courses for solution providers' technical people. Those have been used 8,000 times by partners, with SD-WAN training the most popular content, followed by distributed network and cloud.
"Hopefully, we're designing a program that makes it easy for them to monetize the Fortinet fabric," Bove said.
One of the company's critical efforts around education, the Fortinet's program that aims to get former service members trained on the company's wares and pointed at new careers in information security, is starting to take shape in Canada as well. Campbell said the Canadian organization has just had its first FortiVets graduate hired by a partner, in this case, one of the company's distributors. The focus on education in the channel underlines one of Campbell's keys to success for partners.
"It's not a coincidence that our most technically-sound partners are our more successful partners," Campbell said.
Robert Dutt
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Kayfabe is a term that relates to professional wrestling. It is the storyline created to make the fighters, the sport and even the crowds more invested in what happens in the ring.
Watching athletes compete on skill alone is the definition of sport. Pro wrestling takes it further emphasising the good and bad characters of the fighters not just their skills. The good characters are the faces, the bad are called the heels. The good characters become even better when facing particularly bad characters.
Having an audience shouting for the favourite is as important as then crowds booing at the villain. The villains may be more important to get emotion running high and the crowds invested in the story.
If you think about what political rallies resemble and perhaps Donald Trump rallies, in particular, you may see the similarities. It is not only the US President that is seeing the benefit of riling up emotions and playing on people's fears. It works on all of us.
Tweets about Iranian sanctions that were due to come into effect on 5 November were preceded by a tweet using the Game of Thrones font to say that sanctions were coming.
It got HBO the owners of the show to respond and George RR Martin, the author of the books too. One of the actors in the series Maisie Williams also replied. As a consequence, the attention got the tweet more mentions, likes and retweets.
This article will add to the effect.
The intention though is not to add to the fire and ice, but rather help show it for what it is - a blurring of entertainment principals on real events.
Dramatic TV shows and sporting rivalries are more interesting than coverage about issues of policy. As a way to get more people interested in policy issues, they are sometimes described using terms from sport and entertainment. In order to get someone to read the story, you need to use more dramatic language. Differences of opinion become a "war", a loss becomes a wipeout and how we feel about the subjects becomes more important than what we know about it.
Social media is great for news and entertainment, but the blurring and the means to manipulate the messages and create villains and heroes may see us conflate real events with entertainment.
Biologist and entomologist Edward Wilson, when asked about how humanity might deal with receiving and processing a lot more information, said: "The real problem of humanity is the following: we have palaeolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology."
Unless we are able to understand how technology could be used to get us to react emotionally, there is a danger we can be manipulated.
George RR Martin's Game of Thrones quote to say "Fear cuts deeper than swords" could apply equally in his novels and in the real world. Seeing how fiction can relate to our society is important, but there is a limit to how far we can take clear insights and apply them to a complex world.
It is hard to reason with someone about their fears and it is all too easy to make us afraid. We need to recognise our fears and separate the elements intended to scare us from the elements that need to be addressed to reduce that fear. To succeed, we need to know when we are being influenced by kayfabe and when we are addressing the real issues.