Life insurance underwriting is an extremely complicated process that is used by companies to determine whether or not an applicant is qualified to get insured under their terms and conditions. The underwriters use a complex set of tools called risk table and actuaries to determine if you qualify and when the process of underwriting is finished, you have an answer about your policy and how much your life insurance premiums are going to cost you every month.
When you apply for a policy, the application that goes through underwriting will include your present health conditions, past health conditions, the possibility of contracting a disease that runs in your family, how you live, your credit record, and your driving record. Life insurance underwriting departments will look at each of these factors to assign a numerical number to your application that will determine how much of a risk you are.
Underwriting departments are very important to the life insurance industry. Liberal underwriters will cost the company money and too strict underwriters will cost the company customers. The numerical scores that are assigned by the underwriting department are standard for each company and they actually provide the insurance company an objective way to determine what you will pay for life insurance coverage.
Each factor that the department will consider in your initial application is important to allowing them to make a decision on your policy. You will be required to complete an exhaustive questionnaire about your past and present health and honesty is the best policy here. You will also be required to answer questions and provide information on your ancestor's health history so that the underwriters can see if you are susceptible to hereditary diseases or not. It will definitely add to your monthly premium. The underwriters will then look over your medical records and your premium could be affected by things found in it.
If you smoke, drink, do drugs, or work in a high risk occupation – police officer, fireman, coal miner, etc. – you will lose points on your policy and up goes your premium some more. Dangerous hobbies, like hunting and skydiving, will push up the premium as well. Do not lie on the application form because the insurance providers will catch it and they will immediately deny you coverage. If they find out that you have provided wrong or false information, then you might find yourself in trouble.
One of the most controversial aspects of life underwriting is the inspection of your credit record and rating. The lower your credit score, the higher the risk factor is! Statistics have shown the correlation between your credit score and how long you live and it is also a way for the underwriting department to determine whether or not you will pay your premiums on time.
Your driving records are used by the underwriters to determine whether or not you are a poor driver and at risk for getting into a fatal accident. The worse your driving record is, the more you will pay on your premium. Additionally, they will investigate the type of neighborhood and area you live in and base scores here on whether or not you live in a high or low crime area.
You should always be wary of life insurance companies that offer you no document policies. Even no exam coverage includes a thorough investigation into your health. They just don't ask for a physical. Companies that have a no document policy should raise internal alarm bells. Underwriting departments need to see what your life is like in order to issue a policy and any company that doesn't ask for some documentation is probably not legitimate. Never get upset with your underwriters. They are only doing their job based on the information you give them. They are there to protect you and the insurance company, and to make sure that you get the coverage you need.


Our family lives with our dogs in Pikeville, a small town in Eastern Kentucky. We have a four year old daughter, Charlotte, and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Abby. Abby is now ten, and our little girl was so smitten with her that we had to get her a dog of her own. This is where the idea for Oodles of Doodles was born. Because of allergy problems with our Abby, we began the search for a reasonably priced Goldendoodle when recommended by a friend. We were on two wait lists in Kentucky before puppies were ever conceived. When both puppies became available at the same time, we took them both. They became our babies and the inspiration for our breeding program.
My husband has a Bachelor's Degree in Business and a Masters in Business Administration. He works in the energy and mining industry. I have an English/Secondary Education Degree and a Masters in Library Media, and I am a high school English Teacher. I love to read and have studied Goldendoodles non-stop since 2015. I keep trying to gain as much knowledge as possible because they are my passion and I hope to be able to pass that knowledge on to you. Please visit the rest of our website to learn more. We look forward to hearing from you and helping you to make a wonderful addition to your family!


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(TUESDAY-May 10, 2016) Yesterday at approximately 12:20pm Detective Brad Lancaster of the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department responded to a suspicious person call at the Hollywood Casino in assistance to fellow officers.
The subject fled the scene on foot from fellow responding officer and was located by Detective Lancaster in a nearby field, the suspect opened fire striking Detective Lancaster before fleeing in his unmarked vehicle.
Shortly after, the suspect carjacked another vehicle a short distance away and abducted two children who were still in the backseat. The man then carjacked a second vehicle and fled into Kansas City, Missouri, where he was located by officers.
While attempting to carjack a third vehicle the suspect shot a citizen, a short time after the suspect was shot by Kansas City, Missouri Police and taken into custody. Detective Lancaster was transported to a nearby hospital where he later succumbed to his wounds.


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Caesars asks judge to extend bankruptcy period until March
By Howard Stutz
Caesars Entertainment Corp. asked a federal bankruptcy judge Thursday to extend the exclusivity date on the reorganization plan for its largest operating division to March 15.
In a statement, the company the extension would give the casino operator additional time to work out an agreement with second tier lenders who have not signed on to a plan that would convert Caesars Entertainment Operating Co. into a real estate investment trust and reduce the division's long-term debt by nearly $10 billion.
Caesars has gaming industry-high $22.6 billion in long-term dept, with some $19 billion attached to CEOC. The company placed the operating division into a Chapter 11 restructuring in January.
Caesars said 80 percent of the company's first lien creditors, representing $12 billion of debt, have signed off on the plan.
The company said it wants to "continue its ongoing efforts to seek consensus with its junior creditors while also pursuing a path to emergence consistent with agreed upon milestones." The reorganization plan provides for "enhanced recoveries" to junior creditors, the company said.
The bankruptcy, filed with the federal bankruptcy court in Chicago, covers just one Strip resort, Caesars Palace, but also includes Caesars Atlantic City, Harrah's Reno and more than a dozen regional hotel-casinos.
CEOC said its operations have continued uninterrupted throughout the financial restructuring process and that "business performance improved in the first half of 2015.
Caesars is battling with a group of creditors in a trial in front of the bankruptcy judge over the exact date CEOC went bankrupt. The ruling could determine whether the company's restructuring deal can go forward.
Creditors Appaloosa Management and other hedge funds said CEOC, went bankrupt on Jan. 12, when they filed an involuntary petition against the company in Delaware. That petition came three days before the company filed a voluntary $18 billion bankruptcy petition in Chicago.
The timing of the Chapter 11 filing is key to determining the validity of a $468 million cash lien that Caesars granted its senior lenders in October. The lien is a major part of the restructuring agreement.
Caesars wants to spin off CEOC into two companies, a REIT owning the real estate and buildings and an operating company leasing back the casinos. According to a securities filing, creditors will control the REIT's board of directors.
The plan calls for the operating company to pay the REIT $165 million in annual rent for Caesars Palace and $475 million per year in rent for all the other casinos combined. Both leases have escalator clauses after seven years that could increase operating company payments to the REIT.
The 15-year Caesars Palace lease has a five-year renewal option. Also, the operating company will be required to make $165 million per year in casino capital investments — $28 million at Caesars Palace and at least $85 million at other properties. The operating company will be reimbursed up to $78 million and retains right of first refusal to manage casinos the REIT acquires outside of Nevada.
Caesars' debt came from a $30.7 billion leveraged buyout by private equity firms TPG Capital and Apollo Global Management.
Caesars asks judge to extend bankruptcy period until March is republished from Online.CasinoCity.com.

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Celgene Corp. said Friday data from a late-stage study show Revlimid significantly slowed the progression of multiple myeloma in patients following a type of stem cell treatment.
The study is being conducted by the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. It involves patients who have received autologous stem cell transplants, a procedure where stem cells are removed from a person's bone marrow prior to chemotherapy, then reintroduced after chemotherapy. The goal is for the stem cells to produce healthy new blood cells.
Multiple myeloma is a cancer affecting plasma cells. Revlimid is already approved as treatment for multiple myeloma patients who have received at least one prior therapy. It is also approved as a type of anemia treatment.
Celgene said further results from the National Cancer Institute study will be presented in 2010.


One of the biggest challenges in the financial services sector is that brands often market mutual funds as short-term products, when, in fact, they are long-term ones.
Hear more about it from Balaji Vaidyanathan, Marketing Director, Franklin Templeton Investments Limited. Vaidyanathan also highlights why the awareness level about mutual funds is still low in the country.
He's in conversation with Priyanka Mehra, Director Marketing and Communications, Havas Group India.


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Josephine's Mercantile open in downtown Port Orchard
by Bob Smith
Monday, April 2, 2018 8:12am
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PORT ORCHARD — Downtown Port Orchard's Bay Street just got a new spring in its step with the opening of Josephine's Mercantile at 701 Bay Street earlier this month.
This eclectic purveyor of one-of-a-kind vintage goods, interior design accessories and original fixtures and furniture opened its doors in the spacious quarters that once housed the Port Orchard Pavilion conference center and gathering spot at the corner of Frederick and Bay streets.
While the space might best be remembered long ago as a skating rink that drew hordes of South Kitsap youngsters over the years, the new location for Josephine's is now a quiet, tastefully decorated store that displays a fair share of items with "Port Orchard" stamped all over them: pillows, throw blankets and posters that are ready for the summer tourist season.
That's the hope of store owner Samantha Smith, whose business previously was a little mainstay on the Annapolis roadmap just off the water. It was a quaint favorite for visitors, for sure, but Smith noted that this new downtown Port Orchard location offers customers better parking, downtown amenities and more shopping opportunities.
"We have 15,000 square feet of space in this building," Smith said of the sprawling location.
"It's been hard to keep it full" with so many sales flying off the shelves in the two weeks the business has been open.
Since Josephine's had its soft opening last week, shoppers have been quick to purchase many of the locally stamped products — she said pillows emblazoned with "Port Orchard" on their front have sold out quickly.
In fact, in its first day of business on Bay Street, Smith said the store had 400 transactions, which was as much the store conducted in a month's time at the old space. Visitors to the store so far have included a significant number of shoppers from outside the region. And, she said, they like what they see.
"Our guests — we don't call them customers, they're guests — want variety," she noted. "We really want our loyal guests to feel comfortable here."
The reincarnation of Josephine's — named after Smith's grandmother — isn't so much a reinvention of the business, but an expansion of the old location, she said. While the Annapolis location was doing well, Smith said that in order for the business to thrive, it needed to be bigger and in front of a larger audience.
But whether the Bay Street site was to be its ultimate landing spot took a fair amount of consideration on her part.
"I looked at a few locations first, and initially I didn't see the vision in this building," Smith said. "It's been empty for awhile. I was concerned about the building and its condition."
But being "a Port Orchard girl," the South Kitsap High graduate decided to take the plunge after concluding the downtown district is in the midst of a business upsurge.
In working with building owner Mansour Samadpour and his Abadon Holdings LLC property management company since announcing the move last fall, Smith said the landlord-tenant relationship has been "awesome."
She said the owner "has been amazing to work with and has been great." He's had the exterior of the building repainted since Smith and her three employees began moving into the location on the first of January.
Because the property she leases is so spacious, it will allow Smith to offer crafts and painting classes upstairs this fall. There's room there for bridal showers, too, with space for 40 people, she said.
On April 7, Josephine's also will showcase the fanciful "Pinch Eats Cafe" inside the store. Tucked at the back end of the store, the little cafe will offer a light, evolving lunch menu for shoppers tailored by owner Stacey Hayter.
Hayter is a graduate of the Art Institute of Seattle culinary program, has more than 30 years of experience in the food and beverage industry, and has studied in the rarified foodie climes of Tuscany, Italy.
When the venture was first announced last winter, Hayter said she hoped to create a fresh, seasonal and convenient menu so diners wouldn't need a long wait before enjoying their meal.
"We're going to bring some flavors to South Kitsap that are new and creative, yet will always have the foundation of comfort foods," Hayter said.
It's frankly been a challenge for the owner of Josephine's Mercantile to conduct her usual treasure hunt for items in which to stock inside the quirky store. It's been a non-stop, busy time for Smith, who also has been involved in spring and fall sales events at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds over the past few years.
But time has been set aside for Josephine's Mercantile grand opening on April 14. Smith said raffle prizes will be awarded and lots of new and unique offerings will be available for shoppers to purchase.
"We're really excited so far," the business owner said, no doubt with plenty still on her mind these days.
"Port Orchard has really blessed us. We're excited to showcase this community for everyone."
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The Future Is Now! Electronic Identification for Caymanians to Eliminate Heritage Confusion & Streamline Public Services
Who is and who isn't a Caymanian can sometimes be a difficult and contentious question to answer.
A person could have a family lineage dating back to the 1600s but not necessarily have the proper credentials to be an official "Caymanian". One only needs to briefly scan the past few years of local news to see horror stories of people believing they are Caymanian only to have the Cayman Islands Government explain that they do not have the proper documentation or credentials when they apply for services, government aid or seek a new job.
Well that could soon be a thing of the past as proving Caymanian status could be as simple as typing a person's name into an electronic database. The Cayman Islands Government has a plan in the works to consolidate conflicting and incongruent data across its many governmental departments and informational platforms to make identifying an individual much more seamless. Once this is completed a secure "digital identity" can be created for each Caymanian and electronic ID cards can be disseminated over the years to come. This could alleviate a great deal of stress in voting, social benefit application and distribution and employment scenarios where proving one's status is necessary. If the system is successfully implemented then proving you're Caymanian will be a once and done chore as status will be linked to the digital ID forever after it is established.
The digital identification for each individual could be multi-purpose. Not only could it serve as a primary ID for status, it could also be used for things such as a driver's license or a voter ID card. Ideally it could be the "one stop shop" for all Cayman Islands government/social programs and services. Officials believe that this type of thing is no longer theoretical as the technology and components to implementation are already in existence.
The first step, however, is the consolidation of all of the personal data across several government departments and platforms. Currently the necessary data to integrate is strewn across separate, disconnected databases, systems and governmental department files. Caymanians can expect the IDs to become a reality some time in the next year. It is expected to take in the neighborhood of three years to get the whole system fully off the ground and these efforts are part and parcel to larger electronic initiatives in the business, planning, lands & survey and immigration sectors. Trade and business licenses are also being brought under the "e-umbrella" so to speak. Cayman has already seen the roll out of digital services in the police clearance and car licensing areas and these could possibly all be integrated under this one "e-umbrella".
Proving ones heritage can be an infuriatingly insulting and arduous process. It can also hinder one's ability to achieve gainful employment, file for needed government programs and aid and even prolong daily tasks such as renewing a driver's license or registering to vote in local elections. In the Cayman Islands, through technology and new innovations, these hindrances could very soon be a thing of the past.


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Fifth Harmony's 'Work From Home' Arrives: Hear The New Single
Jason Lipshutz
Fifth Harmony is finally back with music from its sophomore album, 7/27, as "Work From Home" featuring Ty Dolla $ign kicked off the weekend—and 5H's new era—in style.
A lot of comparisons are going to be made between "Work From Home" and Rihanna's new smash "Work," due to the repetition of the shared titular word composing both choruses. However, "Work From Home" focuses on different themes from Rih's breakup track entirely, with the 5H ladies tossing out double entendres and grinning through demands that there "ain't no getting off early."
Fifth Harmony sounds like it's having a blast operating over the warm bed of percussion, and Ty Dolla $ign's lip-licking come-ons serve as the perfect foil for the group's seductive challenges. Meanwhile, the music video duplicates the song's mix of straightforward sexuality and PG-rated playfulness—5H has grown up and is enticing the adults, but they're also making time for choreography, charming visual gags and (of course) each other.
7/27, the follow-up to last year's Reflection, is due out on May 20. Click here for Camila Cabello's thoughts on the forthcoming album.
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Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: Is Floyd an all-time great?
Joseph Herron Updated February 13, 2019
After Floyd Mayweather's dominant victory over Manny Pacquiao on May 2, there has been much discussion concerning the 38 year old fighter's place in boxing history, and where he ranks among the sport's perceived all time greats.
According to longtime ESPN ringside analyst Joe Tessitore, "Money" Mayweather doesn't crack the top 15 of boxing's "ATG" list.
"Just like Rocky Marciano, Floyd Mayweather is a great, iconic fighter, but do not be deceived by undefeated records in boxing," stated the host of ESPN's "Friday Night Fights" after Mayweather's dominant victory over Manny Pacquiao.
"There's an age, old axiom which states, 'if you're undefeated, then you just haven't fought the right opponents yet'."
"Every generation has had the great champion who finds a rival, has to overcome adversity, and has to take on that challenge time and time again. Floyd Mayweather, time and time again, has fought the right opponents at the over-ripened time."
"Floyd Mayweather Jr. may go down as one of the top-five career managers of all time, but he is far from being considered a 'Top 15' all time great. Henry Armstrong, Harry Greb, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran…those are all time greats."
To support Joe's personal theory, his "Friday Night Fights" counterpart, Teddy Atlas, chimed in with a controversial analogy.
"Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns at 147, Robert Duran at 135, and even Aaron Pryor at 140 beats Floyd in their respective primes," states the longtime trainer and ESPN analyst. "If Mayweather were a farmer, you could say that he was around during a time when the climate and the soil were perfect for growing the best crops."
"It's not that he's a great farmer, but the environment around him was perfect in yielding the greatest amount of success."
FightSaga Radio's strategic expert and boxing analyst James Gogue believes members of the ESPN commentary team are allowing their personal feelings to cloud their respective judgment and hinder their scope of the boxing reality.
"Leonard was a businessman as well…He avoided Aaron Pryor at 140 pounds and a prime Marvin Hagler like the plague," states the three decade fight trainer.
"So if you're upset about fighters picking and choosing your opponents at the right time, then blame Sugar Ray Leonard too, because he did the exact same thing."
"Floyd is just doing it at a different time where there are more revenue streams and social media outlets."
Floyd is the best defensive fighter I've seen in my lifetime, and he gives anyone in any era a very tough outing because of his ability to avoid clean punches in my opinion."


It seems as though Hasbro is removing its library off of Netflix as Littlest Pet Shop is scheduled for removal from Netflix come August 2018. It joins the likes of My Little Pony, Jem, Pound Puppy and Transformers which are also scheduled for removal next month.
Note: this article only applies to the United States.
As we mentioned above, quite a few Hasbro shows are currently due for removal in August 2018. This indicates that Netflix is having to decide whether or not to renew the content providers offerings. The same happened last year with FOX where Netflix decided not to renew and subsequently, most of their titles have left the service.
The news will come as bad timing for many given the school summer holidays are now in full flow. The good news is that Netflix has plenty of other kids shows available including a massive range of Netflix Original kids shows.
All four seasons are scheduled for removal on August 16th, 2018.
Why is the Littlest Pet Shop Series Leaving Netflix?
As we stated above, it's because the Hasbro contract is coming up for renewal. Netflix essentially leases content from other providers for a fixed amount of time. That means when the lease expires, it's down to Netflix and the content provider to come up with an arrangement for a future deal.
This could change and Littlest Pet Shop gets renewed. However, given the fact the entire Hasbro library is up for renewal it's very likely that individual shows will be leaving or worst case scenario the entire lot.
In the case of Littlest Pet Shop, we believe the series will definitely be leaving. That's because it has been off-the-air for a number of years meaning there are likely fewer people watching.
Will you be sad to see Littlest Pet Shop leave Netflix in August? Do you think Netflix should keep the show streaming or is it time for it to leave?


In reaction to the latest poverty statistics reported by the NSCB which showed that poverty in the country has not changed from 2009 to 2012, the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights urged the Aquino administration to resolve joblessness and low wages in order to alleviate poverty.
On Wednesday, the NSCB released the result of the 2012 poverty survey that showed poverty incidence at 27.9 percent, hardly an improvement from the 28.6 percent poverty incidence in 2009.
"Addressing unemployment and precarious jobs is a necessary step in order to lessen poverty. Giving the people significant wage hike could definitely increase family income and provide relief to many ailing Filipinos," Arago said.
"And in order to create decent jobs, the government cannot rely on its labor export policy and volatile industries such like construction and BPOs. Even institutions that promote neoliberal policies like the ADB agree to this," Arago added.


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TiNDLE Plant-Based Chicken is Coming to the US Soon. But How Does It Taste?
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Next Gen Foods of Singapore launched its flagship plant-based chicken product, TiNDLE, just 11 months after its founding in April 2020. Three months later, the company began its international expansion—bringing TiNDLE to over 130 restaurants worldwide, from Hong Kong to the U.A.E.
Now, Next Gen is introducing TiNDLE in the U.S. This week, the company will offer a sneak peek of the product at the Food Network & Cooking Channel New York City Wine & Food Festival. The team is currently working with chefs to bring TiNDLE to restaurant menus next year.
This week, I met up with company co-founder and CEO Andre Menezes at Next Gen's New York City tasting room to learn more about the anticipated launch—and try TiNDLE myself.
According to Menezes, the Wine & Food Festival sneak peek is part of Next Gen's international strategy, which hinges on building partnerships with sought-after food names and brands. "We're working toward launching in food havens around the world," he said. "We're targeting the coolest places, the best chefs, the restaurants consumers love to visit."
I tasted the two dishes featured at the festival: a lotus leaf bao wrap with veggie slaw and a parm slider on a brioche bun. TiNDLE appeared as a breaded patty in both dishes, although there are other ways to cook the product.
Both dishes were flavorful, creative, and fun to eat. The TiNDLE was satisfyingly crunchy, with none of the wet sponginess that I associate with fast food chicken patties. It had a defined, fibrous texture, an appealing bite, and a rich, convincingly chicken-y taste. A more chicken-y taste, I thought, than some actual chicken products. Menezes said that that's because the company didn't set out to recreate the taste of a chicken breast; they wanted their products to taste more like a wing or a thigh.
In developing TiNDLE, the team wanted to figure out what people love about chicken and then develop a food ingredient that would maximize those beloved qualities—which turned out to be chicken's fibrous texture, smell and taste, and versatility.
The fibrous texture is achieved via extrusion. To mimic the flavor of chicken, the team uses a proprietary, sunflower oil-based emulsion called Lipi™. "As an emulsion, it goes within the fibers just like fat does," said Menezes.
As for versatility, Menezes said the team wanted to create "a product that chefs can really play with, like Playdoh." Rather than offering preformed products like burgers, they're working closely with chefs to see what TiNDLE can do.
One of the items on Next Gen's tasting room menu, a miso ramen dish, incorporates TiNDLE in noodle form: instead of chicken and noodles, an actual (plant-based) chicken noodle. Menezes mentioned a chef who rolled the product out like dough and cut it into flower shapes, and another who put it on top of a sushi roll, then cooked it with a torch.
Menezes said that the company has developed the technology to manufacture whole cuts as well as nuggets and tenders, and that one day, they'll explore those options. But first, they're working on growing their brand worldwide through restaurant partnerships.
"We believed that if we really wanted to drive food system change, we needed to be global from day one," he said. At the outset, the team wanted to address both current meat consumption in the U.S. and Europe, and fast-growing consumption in Asia.
Next Gen focuses on controlling product development, branding, and operations internally. The company builds local teams as it expands, and partners with external contract manufacturers and distributors. Production is currently based in the Netherlands, but Menezes said the team is interested in partnering with U.S. manufacturers, and potentially using the U.S. as an export platform for Canada and Mexico.
The company will use its $30 million extended seed investment to build global operations and supply chains this year. In 2022, they plan to launch at restaurants in the U.S. and Europe. After that, they may eye other plant-based spaces, like dairy and seafood.
How will Next Gen compete in the diversifying alternative protein industry? According to Menezes, Next Gen is all about expanding the plant-based category, and the team doesn't see other companies as rivals. "Our competition isn't other startups," he said. "Our competition is birds."
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Кабир Салимшоев () — таджикский футболист, полузащитник душанбинского «Динамо».

Карьера

«Динамо-Авто»
Воспитанник клуба «Локомотив-Памир». В июле 2022 года перешёл в «Динамо-Авто». Дебютировал за клуб 20 августа 2022 года против клуба «Сфынтул Георге». Провёл за клуб 9 матчей и в январе 2023 года покинул клуб, результативными действиями не отличившись.

«Динамо» Душанбе
В феврале 2023 года футболист присоединился к душанбинскому «Динамо».

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В сентябре 2019 года выступал за сборную Таджикистана до 16 лет на квалификации на юношеский чемпионат Азии до 16 лет, где в 4 матчах отличился 3 голами. В январе 2021 года отправился с юношеской сборной Таджикистана до 17 лет на Кубок Развития в Белоруссию. По итогу стал победителем турнира. В феврале 2022 года дебютировал за юношескую сборную Таджикистана до 19 лет.

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Mobile World Congress 2014 - Small Cell Report
Published on28 February 2014
MWC comprises a huge exhibition, tons of meetings and a co-located conference. Here we review it from a Small Cell perspective. In my view the conference itself was pretty dull (fireworks party without matches). The keynote themes were broadly to expand and grow user base, exploit the SIM card to authenticate for access control in many other ways, and evolve data capacity. The exhibition itself featured $25 Firefox smartphones, an enormous variety of Apps (especially wearables and the Internet of Things), mobile payments, and plenty of network solutions (including many new Small Cell and related aspects). The event seems to be much more about meetings now than anything else, with perhaps only 10% of delegates attending the conference presentations, and remains the number 1 worldwide mobile get-together. The official Small Cell conference track was pretty tame - Vodafone have deployed 300K Small Cells in total, KT (Korea Telecom) and Radisys spoke of 18K LTE deployed in mostly indoor metropolitan areas. Vodafone said they continue to drive vendors to deliver multi-technology small cell and backhaul products with high operational efficiency and look for added value to help the business case. By contrast, the Small Cell Forum booth hosted extensive and popular presentations and is perhaps outgrowing its booth format.
A key network equipment vendor theme was SDN (Software Defined Network) and NFV (Network Function Virtualisation). We can expect next year to see this evolving to orchestration - better methods of managing and manipulating these virtualised software components, but in the short term it means slightly less or cheaper hardware. Frankly, I was more impressed to see Huawei now supporting any of 2G, 3G or LTE (FDD&TDD) on the same physical macrocell radio hardware modules - true software definable radio. We are beginning to see that capability for Small Cells too, but it's not quite as mature yet.
Most of the Small Cell activity is around 3G indoor (Enterprise) and LTE outdoor (Urban), with 3G still important indoors (for voice) and LTE HetNets seen as the longer term solution for capacity. At least four DAS vendors announced lower cost, simpler products intended to address larger buildings and stadia - highlighting the growing demand for in-building cellular solutions. Many new LTE Small Cell vendors are appearing on the scene. Residential femtocells still have a place in the market especially where integrated into a broadband modem or set-top box, driven by a different business case than before. There were some signs that the radical approach of Free France, who are shipping many 10Ks of femtocells a month, may be emulated by others.
It's becoming even clearer that there is a need for in-building non-residential solutions. 80% of connections are made indoors but only 2% of commercial buildings is covered from inside.
It's not just about adding capacity, but ensuring consistent quality and comprehensive service. There are now a wide range of technical solutions, some announced, some in trials, some proven and a few commercially available. Several DAS vendors launched lower cost solutions, primarily addressing the high end of the market. The consensus recognises that a combination of Small Cells, DAS and Wi-Fi will be required, but may disagree about where the dividing lines are drawn. Gordon Mansfield of AT&T told me he thought the line between DAS and Small Cells would shift up and down as vendors respond to market demand.
Specific new DAS products announced this month included:
- Commscope (who had acquired Andrew): ION-E. Pumps an astonishing 300MHz of any useful cellular spectrum bands down a CAT6A cable to a set of ceiling mounted radio heads. Also carries IP for use by associated separate Wi-Fi access points. Handles a mix of any bands up to 2.7GHz. This is the "heavy artillery" to use where you can justify multi Gbps, multi operator in a single room or stadium.
- Kathrein: K-BOW. Positioned as a sort of "mini Cloud RAN", this backhauls all the radio signals over dark fibre, potentially to an offsite central location which could host multiple remote buildings such as a hotel chain. Can selectively switch/redirect capacity to different parts of the building at different times of day.
- Axell: idDAS . Focusses on more actively managing the total macrocell capacity by dynamically redirecting it to different parts of the buildings.
- Alcatel-Lucent/TE Connectivity: Announced a direct integration between the macrocell vendor's basestation and TE Connectivity DAS systems using a CPRI interface, effectively bypassing some of the expensive RF bits. This provides an architecture similar to the Ericsson Radio DOT or Hauwei Lampsite, but is commercially available now.
idDASThe key differentiator between Small Cells and DAS is where the RF baseband processing is performed. Small Cells do this at the local radio head, so only need a low cost/simple IP connection - it can even be a shared VPN from the existing Ethernet network. DAS systems need specially dedicated connections to traditional macrocell base stations, and have needed a lot of RF engineering design/professional services to install and commission. They've previously been tailored to specific frequency bands, and often relied on multi-operator sharing to fund the high cost in $100Ks. These new products should help improve their appeal for specific use cases.
Cisco continue to build on their momentum. Their 3G "snap on" module which quickly upgrades their existing Wi-Fi access points is matched by a similar LTE variant. There's also a new similar form factor unit that can accommodate two cellular modules without Wi-Fi. These could be 3G and/or LTE or even two 3G modules handling different network operators. Cisco told me that CIOs attending their upcoming customer conference have selected inbuilding cellular coverage as the most popular seminar. CIOs are under increasing pressure to facilitate good indoor cellular service for their staff and visitors, and are pressing operators to find ways to meet that need. The construction materials used in new buildings which reflect outdoor RF signals is further exacerbating the situation. You can just Imagine the conversation between the CEO and the CIO when the former can't make quality mobile calls in their expensive new office building. They've also added the Ubiquisys residential femtocell into their portfolio in a nice, compact new form factor snappily entitled the 3331. The SON capabilities from both IntuCell and Ubiquisys have been merged into Quantum SON, proven with a live demo they showed me.
Spidercloud's stand was much busier than last year, showing off their latest 3G/LTE dual mode in-building solution. NEC have upgraded their Small Cell Gateway to dual mode to support this. The solution addresses dense indoor enterprise applications, co-ordinating up to 60 or more radio nodes and resolving a whole new set of challenges around interference mitigation. In addition to Spidercloud's EASY-30 rapid 30 day deployment process, they demonstrated a very simple iPhone App which allows a rough estimate of the number of Small Cells required. For a next level plan, iBwave demonstrated a really easy to use In-Building planning tool (iPad app). Ranplan's inbuilding planning tool was also in evidence at the show - they launched a free licence option for their "lite" version.
Alcatel-Lucent's project with Qualcomm will come to fruition in the second half of 2014, working towards a 3G/4G/Wi-Fi combined in-building product with very impressive specifications. Qualcomm are also embedded in ip.access new 3G Enterprise Small Cell, which are said to enable new types of location and/or presence related services.
The South Korean stand included Contela, who continue to evolve their 3G and LTE portfolio, joined now by Aritel who were showing off their LTE Enterprise Small Cell, deployed by LG+. Operator KT revealed they had deployed 18,000 LTE Small Cells to date (10K in Seoul and 8K in other metropolitan areas).
Tuesday saw the Small Cell Forum issue Release 3: Urban Foundation which contained a surprising number of documents (18). Gordon Mansfield, Chairman of SCF, told me it exceeded his expectations, especially since it followed so closely after December's Enterprise release. The same release co-ordination team have presided over another mammoth edition. The complete Urban document set will be published in June, now renumbered Release 4, and the roadmap for updates and further releases will be finalised in April. The Forum also has a new CEO, Sue Monihan, who brings expertise from running the GSMA North America organisation and I'm sure will continue to expand the remit, membership and influence of the organisation. She will continue to work part time for both organisations concurrently.
Many (but not all) organisations now seem to be focussing on LTE+Wi-Fi rather than 3G/LTE/W-Fi multi-mode for urban capacity solutions - something that Vodafone specifically stated during the conference.
Mike Schabel, VP Small Cells at Alcatel-Lucent, pointed out the radical shift from voice to data is still fairly recent and has had huge impact for operators. Their commercial activity in Small Cell trials and business opportunities has never been busier. Speaking at the conference, he said "I can't keep up" with the number of RFPs today. They are working with 65 operators around the world (without double counting). This is happening in all regions - it's all over the world. While the technologies are the same across the small cell sector, what varies are the different business drivers found across their different customers.
Randy Cox, Head of Small Cells at NSN, showed me their latest LTE+Wi-Fi Urban Small Cell. This is quite a compact unit (about the size of a large dinner plate), capable of up to 400 concurrent sessions/calls. It's very much a downsized macrocell, reusing the same TI silicon chipset and optionally connected through a Flexi-Zone controller. They aren't planning a 3G/LTE multi-mode product at the moment, believing that LTE is the future. "We are in this for the long term" he told me. They continue to support their existing femtocell customers (using NSN's femtocell gateway and Cisco/Ubiquisys small cells), but it seemed to me that their Small Cell focus had shifted firmly to LTE.
NEC bring their own LTE expertise from Japan, with a range of in-house products complemented by partner solutions, both for Small Cells and wireless backhaul. They've selected Radisys as their LTE Small Cell software supplier for their next in-house products. They position themselves as a one-stop shop for the new last mile, offering to handle everything from the initial planning through operational management of a portfolio of equipment. They told me that where macrocell deployments might have had four or five standard templates or scenarios, they've seen more like 400 to 500 different use cases. I do hope that's an exaggeration!
I saw several supporting technologies to de-risk HetNet deployments, ranging from smarter RF planning tools with more Small Cell features, SON vendors making further inroads, test validation and performance loading. There is a wider ecosystem here, finding newer and smarter ways to plan, manage and validate the network which wouldn't be cost effective at scale using traditional methods. Highlights included ERCOM's integration with Infovista/Mentum, allowing emulation of huge numbers of users in real-world scenarios, characterising the behaviour of small and macrocells that can be fed back into the planning tool. IXIA also have a comprehensive test and validation suite, de-risking the rollout of new features or vendor equipment by pushing the envelope and exploring the limits - not just conformance testing against standards. Sources of usage data now include directly from the handset, not just the network. OpenSignal published their "Global State of LTE Report" with actual performance results from 6 million users worldwide. Apparently Sweden has the fastest LTE in the world. The average speed worldwide is now just over 10Mbps. This whole area of back office planning and network management is evolving rapidly with many new technologies, tools and approaches coming on stream. Don't be distracted by the concepts of SDN and NFV - there are many more relevant and beneficial changes to how networks are managed coming along.
Fibre is first choice for Urban Small Cell backhaul, but outside Korea, Japan and a few lucky places, it's not feasible in most cases. ADVA promote their AnyCell fibre solution which combines dark fibre for DAS with simpler IP/Ethernet for Small Cells. Elsewhere wireless has a key part to play in this "last mile". 60GHz V-Band continues to look like a good short to medium term option - sub10 have been shipping their Liberator product for related applications and are well positioned. They announced an E-Band (70/80GHz) product at the show, telling me that they were keeping the pricing options simple with choices of 100Mbps and 1Gbps. Siklu have also been involved in small cell trials using their in-house technology, as have NEC. SyncE and IEEE 1588v2 are mandatory for phase timing, in order to support LTE Advanced features.
Point-to-Multipoint solutions are also part of the backhaul toolkit. CCS have been successful with their mesh based solution, which has a 270 degree line of sight approach and small form factor making this very easy to deploy. They claim 15 minutes by typical lighting contractors. China Mobile are using these in their live LTE network already. Steve Greaves, their CEO, told me they aren't particularly married to any specific frequency band - their unique features are about self-organising and simple installation - and claim total capacity of 480Mbps per hub. Competitor CBNL has just doubled the capacity of their VectaStar product range which now sports up to 600Mbps per hub. John Naylon, their CTO, told me CBNL has successfully expanded their sales activity of late, resulting in rapid growth from LATAM specifically, which has grown from zero to something like 25% of their total revenue in just the past 18 months. (That's not for Small Cell business though - it's many other use cases).
Non-Line-of-Sight. Several companies continue to make headway with products that appear to defy the laws of physics, providing backhaul links under near or non-line of sight conditions at hub data rates up to 400 or 500Mbps. These use many of the techniques of LTE plus some proprietary "secret sauce". Some alignment is required, and due to signal reflections from buildings it may involve pointing other than in the most obvious direction. Blinq has been working on this for several years, and was demonstrating their 2nd generation X-1200 product. This is working its way through the Tier 1 carrier approval process and is well beyond the early trial stage. Fastback Networks target the use of unlicensed bands and announced European compliant product variants. Tarana reports successful trials from some of the most challenging locations in Manhatten. Their 1st generation box is already shipping commercially for use as macrocell backhaul, and their 2nd generation product announced this month is planned for GA in Q4 2014. I also spoke with Max4G, who have also been in NLoS operator trials and report encouraging results with a dual band approach. They've achieved 150 to 170Mbps even in very challenging conditions (peak of 900Mbps), and believe that using licenced spectrum (say 2.6GHz TDD) would be a more predictable and consistent choice than unlicensed (although they could supply either). I understand that spectrum regulations allow use of proprietary schemes within the licenced TD-LTE bands provided the signals don't interfere with other bands/uses, making this an attractive and accessible option.
Almost all of these NLoS products are using Qualcomm's chipsets (including assets acquired through DesignArts), supplemented by additional processing and/or specialist hardware. If the results being claimed by these technology vendors are to be believed, it could capture a significant proportion (but far from all) of wireless small cell backhaul market. They do seem to have proven that Small Cells can be sited in the most challenging (and perhaps also most useful) locations. Next they have to demonstrate this scales efficiently if many were to be deployed in the same dense urban area.
It seems to me that there remains a lot of uncertainty about how much backhaul capacity/bandwidth is required for Small Cells, with some operators seeking to dimension for peak throughput while many others are satisfied with 100Mbps or so per cell. Phase synchronisation (using SyncE and IEEE 1588) is pretty much mandatory, even where GPS is also used.
Ceragon summed up the story for mainstream backhaul vendors to me very succinctly. Pointing at their product portfolio displayed on the wall, it's clear they have solutions for all of the above. About 90% of their revenue today comes from macrocell backhaul - Several billions annually. All of the Small cell technologies contribute only a few hundred million combined. If and when the market takes off, they are positioned to run with it, but are not reliant 100% on it. I've heard this from most of the backhaul vendors at the show, who are cautious about market predictions but keen to be able to "catch the wave" as the opportunies arise.
ZyXel, who have supplied around 500,000 residential femtocells to date demonstrated their latest form factor. The phablet sized unit embeds a 802.11ac Wi-Fi receiver as well as the usual 3G femtocell and Wi-Fi Access point. This allows it to be placed anywhere in the home, using the 802.11ac link as the backhaul to the nearby residential broadband modem.
TIM Brazil announced a deal with Alcatel-Lucent to supply femtocells for Brazil. Its about time - the regulator had removed the need to pay a base station tax which had held back deployment. The agreement covers all categories of 3G Small Cell - residential, enterprise and Urban.
On the grapevine, I also heard that Free France are shipping substantial volumes of femtocells today (many 10Ks/month). All new set top boxes have one as standard. Fewer of their standalone modules are being sold, because customers don't see the value of bothering to install one (even if free) if they already have good voice coverage at home or because they aren't very technically minded. I'm hearing of several organisations who are looking at Free's business model and mode of operation with a view to launching something similar. The key difference from earlier residential femtocell launches would be embedding them within the broadband router or set-top box. As one industry veteran pointed out to me at the show - the industry engineered a really great technical solution for residential femtocells but didn't properly address who was going to pay for it.
One of the best demos I saw at the show was at the DeviceScape booth. They really seem to have cracked the challenges of seamlessly identifying, logging into, validating and switching across to Wi-Fi where sensible (and sticking with cellular where not). Their demo showed the phone logging into a known Wi-Fi hotspot in the background without the usual painful login screens or dropped audio streaming sessions. They've just signed up Virgin Media in the UK and continue to expand their footprint of 20 million users and 20 million known/validated hotspots in what they call their Curated Virtual Network.
The Wireless Broadband Alliance ran their conference in parallel during the event, publishing a document that specifies what they mean by Carrier Wi-Fi. A live demonstration of HotSpot 2.0 showed its potential, powered by Accuris who make other Wi-Fi networks look to the cellular operator just like another roaming partner cellular network. Edgar Figueroa, CEO of the WI-FI Alliance, reminded me that 75% of wireless devices shipped today are Wi-Fi only and won't have SIM cards, but can take advantage of this. Ruckus Wireless pointed out to me that there is quite a difference between carrier class Wi-Fi and lower cost residential Wi-Fi products, and I've seen evidence that non-residential Small Cells are embedding higher quality Wi-Fi modules as standard.
Sprint have launched Wi-Fi voice calling, using technology from Taqua (who also supply their CDMA femtocell gateway) and Kineto Wireless Smart Wi-Fi.
[Ed Note: Taqua acquired Kineto Wireless in 2014 and were themselves acquired by Sonus in 2016]
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The landscape for Small Cell chipsets continues to evolve in a market which has high stakes (measured in $100 millions) and long cycle times. Qualcomm continue to make progress, with wins at Airspan, ip.access and Alcatel-Lucent. They were demonstrating their Ultra-SON technology that has been actively trialled and evolved at their own campus, optimising the inter-cell handovers and increasing system efficiency. They were also promoting using LTE in the unlicensed spectrum bands - known as LTE-U, an approach that is also supported by Alcatel-Lucent. Their chipset is all encompassing and includes even the RF front end chip which in other designs would typically be bought from ADI or Maxim.
Broadcom also continue to invest heavily in Small Cells, with full 3G and LTE solutions. The demo on their stand showed their LTE system driving three different RF chipset front ends (ADI, Maxim, AKM), with impressive Eb/No signal/noise figures for each. Their chips are included in the majority of Small Cells today, including Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and many Asian designs.
TI continue to expand their Keystone architecture, releasing yet another chip variant. I understand they remain embedded in NSN's and Cisco's LTE Small Cells, and were publicly announcing selection within PureWave Small Cells and AirSpan's backhaul products.
Cavium announced a new LTE Small Cell platform based on their OCTEON architecture and that Taiwanese vendor Arcadyan had selected them for their LTE products.
Intel, who are acquiring the Picochip/Mindspeed wireless assets, didn't have too much to say this year. Their story should become clearer after the organisational changes have worked through, and may encompass wider technical approach.
I did not see a Small Cell specific announcement from Freescale, the other major chipset vendor in this space, but they had previously announced selection by ZTE for their latest LTE small cell products.
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A couple of companies believe they have defeated the laws of physics:
Artemis pCell uses an array of PureWave Small Cells to reuse spectrum, creating a unique signal for each mobile in the target coverage area, and ideal for very dense traffic environments. It does need your mobile to be within coverage of several small cells and cancels out the signal from other users. In a quite separate project, Kumu Networks believe they've cracked the ability to send and receive RF at the same time and frequency, effectively doubling capacity. If true, it would make small cells into something more like relay stations - definitely one to watch.
Lime Microsystems seem to be challenging the major RF front end chipset vendors with a solution for LTE that allows great flexibility through a programmable interface. I'm hearing this has been used for several unusual and unique applications, making it easier to stretch the boundaries of what 4G can provide.
Do you remember Mission Impossible (this tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds....)? Boeing have developed a super secure phone that will do exactly that if stolen. Of course, that's fine as long as you didn't share all your information with Facebook and Google first ;)
Next year's event will again be in Barcelona, but shifted back a week to the first week of March (2-5) because Chinese New Year falls mid-February.
Apologies for omitting many details and announcements from the show due to pressure of space. I'll be following up on many of the topics covered in this report and adding more detail in upcoming weeks. Let me know what I should be including or expanding on - just comment below (can be anonymously).
#1 Sandeep Rajhans said:
Very interesting and well covered summary! Appreciate it. This does give insights into what's happening and what to expect in Small cell area...
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#2 Ben said:
very nice summary,
was there anything on content caching during MWC?
#3 ThinkSmallCell said:
Hi Ben. I did briefly speak with the Altobridge team, who supply a caching solution for small cell vendors and are getting some interest. I wouldn't say this was a mainstream theme at the event, hence why I didn't include it.
#4 Alok Shah said:
Very helpful summary, David. I also wanted to point out Samsung's announcement of an LTE indoor small cell win with Verizon. While I admit to being biased, I think it was quite notable given Verizon's global LTE leadership. http://www.samsung.com/global/business/telecommunication-systems/news/press-release/verizon-wireless-selects-samsung-lte-solutions-for-indoor-use
@Alok: I'd agree that's a significant deal, but less related to the show itself. I've included it and our comment in our upcoming monthly newsletter due out later this week. (Beware: This only goes out to those signed up to our free mailing list and isn't published on the website itself. Signup at the box on the top left of the page)
#6 Melody said:
Where do you see Carrier WiFi playing in all of this. Are there specific use cases? Market share predictions?
@Melody: As it happens, I'm publishing an article that looks at Small Cell and Wi-Fi co-existence later today. This also has links to other material, both on our website and elsewhere, which provides wider context.
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#8 MN said:
Epic writeup. Good news may be the growing adoption of small cells among service providers. Bad news may be lack of differentiation among the 6-7 vendors all offering Pico + Wifi for indoors? Any winners? And how do late entrants like NSN and Alcatel catch up?
@MN: Thanks for the complement. Agree about the good news, Service Providers must be getting some strong feedback about poor (especially indoor) performance from their business customers and need to do something about it.
I wouldn't agree about the lack of differentiation , so there is plenty of opportunities for all categories of vendors to make an impact. If anything, there are a wider range of indoor technologies and vendor choices today than ever before.
Probably not fair to position Alcatel-Lucent as a late entrant - they have been pioneers for all types of small cells and won many residential and small enterprise deals.
#10 MN said:
The Wifi vendors claim that "indoors" has been an Enterprise driven and therefore channel driven market, vs a traditional service provider driven market. So, its their channel which will drive these hybrid pico + wifi deployments. Agree?
To clarify. Equipment vendors (Eric, Cisco, NSN, others) will market to individual carriers (Vodafone, ATT, VZ, others). But these carriers will have to use VARs to rollout indoor smartcells to the tens of thousands of enterprise customers. Just seems like indoors is a much tougher problem to solve than outdoors. Which means slower ramp. Also Ericsson DOT full availability is late 2014, NSN Picocell probably same time. Which means we see some rollout in 2015. 2016 before we see any meaningful ramp.
#12 ThinkSmallCell said:
@MN: There's quite a difference between who/what/when for each of the Small Cell vendors you've quoted, which makes it difficult to bundle them together. Indoors isn't necessarily much tougher than outdoor, it's quite different. Proven Small Cell products are already available to deploy today - there's no need to wait for Ericsson or NSN next year. In my view, any delays now are less to do with technology and more to do with logistics, perception and commercial issues.


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Q: How to center the minipage? The left margin is too wide if I set 1.5\textwidth:
\begin{document}

\noindent\begin{minipage}{1.5\textwidth}

test

\end{minipage}

\end{document}

A: I was putting parcolumns and verbatim blocks inside my minipage which was causing problems. I found this rather simple solution quite effective:
\noindent\hspace{0.15\linewidth}\begin{minipage}{0.7\linewidth}
...
\end{minipage}

This creates a smaller minipage and centres with a positive hspace. Using the rule hspace = (1\linewidth - minipage_width) / 2 will also work for values larger than \linewidth and produce a negative hspace:
\newlength{\myminipagewidth}
\newlength{\myminipagecentering}
\setlength{\myminipagewidth}{1.5\linewidth} %change this
\setlength{\myminipagecentering}{(\linewidth-\myminipagewidth)/2}
\noindent\hspace{\myminipagecentering}\begin{minipage}{\myminipagewidth}
...
\end{minipage}

(sub \linewidth with \textwidth when needed)

A: Put it inside a centered box
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\noindent\hrulefill\par
\noindent\makebox[\textwidth][c]{%
    \begin{minipage}{1.5\textwidth}
        \hrulefill\par
    \end{minipage}}
\end{document}

A: A simple way to do this is to use \centerline{..} around the minipage. (This does not allow for verbatim or similar special content, but there is a \Centerline variant from the realboxes package, which does!)
I would add some small or medium vertical skip before and after this minipage to get decent vertical spacing.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}% dummy text
\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\par\smallskip\noindent
\centerline{\begin{minipage}{1.5\textwidth}
\lipsum[2]
\end{minipage}}
\par\smallskip

\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

Another easy way is to use the adjustbox environment from the package with the same name. It provides the keys minipage=<minipage args>, center(=<length>, normally \linewidth) and also margin(=<left/right> <top/bottom>, and more).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{lipsum}% dummy text
\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\begin{adjustbox}{minipage=1.5\textwidth,margin=0pt \smallskipamount,center}
\lipsum[2]
\end{adjustbox}

\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

Compare the similar question and answers at How can I center a too wide table?.

A: Very simple, enclose that minipage in center using \begin{center} and \end{center} as shown below:
\begin{center}

\noindent\begin{minipage}{1.5\textwidth}

text

\end{minipage}

\end{center}

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Green Jelly, Radioactive Chicken Heads, Rosemary's Billygoat, & more
Critic's Pick Release Date: 2008-11-12
By semi-jokingly attempting to be the world's worst band, Green Jelly differentiates itself from all those horrible bands that aren't so self-aware. Combining juvenile humor, minimal musical ability, and guitar riffs shamelessly plagiarized from Black Sabbath and Motorhead, Green Jelly's music is actually more original and enjoyable (or at least louder and stranger) than the soulless, generic sludge shat out by actual world's-worst-band contenders like Nickelback and Good Charlotte. Like the lime-flavored Jell-O for which the band was originally named before receiving a cease-and-desist from Kraft foods, Green Jelly appeals only to a certain taste, but at least the band's got flavor. The band is probably best known for Cereal Killer — a video album featuring "Three Little Pigs," a revisionist children's story with a weed-toking porker and a cameo from Rambo, and the title track, which follows Toucan Son of Sam as he violently murders competing breakfast-food mascots. Expect these and other equally ridiculous songs in concert, along with costumes, food fights, and acts of pointless destruction. Bring the kids, and feel free to insert your own "always room for Jell-O" and/or Bill Cosby gag here. $10, all ages. 8pm, Sat, Nov 15, Rock Bottom Tattoo Bar, 1033 Ave. B, (210) 224-4005, myspace.com/rockbottomtattoobar.
Critic's Pick Event Preview


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NXT TakeOver: 31 è stata la trentunesima edizione della serie NXT TakeOver, prodotta dalla WWE per il roster di NXT, e trasmessa live sul WWE Network. L'evento si è svolto il 4 ottobre 2020 al Capitol Wrestling Center di Orlando (Florida).

A causa della pandemia di COVID-19 e delle misure necessarie per farvi fronte, l'evento si è svolto con la sola presenza del personale autorizzato e con quasi un centinaio di persone a livello fisico. L'evento è stato trasmesso inoltre nel Capitol Wrestling Center, dove, tramite una serie di pannelli a LED intorno all'arena, i fan da tutto il mondo hanno potuto assistere in diretta all'evento tramite collegamento remoto.

Antefatto
La serie di NXT TakeOver, riservata ai lottatori di NXT, è iniziata il 29 maggio 2014, con lo show tenutosi alla Full Sail University di Winter Park (Florida) I Dark Match sono contati dalla WWE come taping per la prossima puntata di NXT.

Storyline
Nella puntata di NXT del 23 settembre Candice LeRae ha vinto una 18-woman Battle Royal per determinare la contendente n°1 all'NXT Women's Championship di Io Shirai eliminando per ultima Shotzi Blackheart. Un match tra le due per l'NXT Women's Championship è stato dunque sancito per NXT TakeOver: 31.

Nella puntata di NXT del 23 settembre Kyle O'Reilly ha vinto un Gauntlet match che comprendeva anche Bronson Reed, Cameron Grimes, Kushida e Timothy Thatcher, eliminando per ultimo Grimes e diventando il contendente n°1 all'NXT Championship di Finn Bálor per NXT TakeOver: 31.

Nella puntata di NXT del 23 settembre è stato annunciato che Damian Priest avrebbe dovuto difendere l'NXT North American Championship contro Johnny Gargano; nella stessa puntata, infatti, Gargano ha brutalmente attaccato Priest dopo che questi aveva sconfitto Austin Theory in un match non titolato.

Nella puntata di NXT del 12 agosto Cameron Grimes ha sconfitto Kushida e Velveteen Dream in un Triple Threat match di qualificazione ad un Ladder match per il vacante NXT North American Championship a NXT TakeOver: XXX. Nella puntata speciale NXT: Super Tuesday II del 2 settembre (andata in onda l'8 settembre 2020) Dream ha sconfitto il jobber Ashantee "Thee" Adonis, ma poco dopo è stato attaccato da Kushida. Nella puntata di NXT del 23 settembre Kushida ha partecipato ad un Gauntlet match per determinare il contendente n°1 all'NXT Championship ma, a causa dell'intervento di Velveteen Dream, è stato eliminato da Bronson Reed. Un match tra Kushida e Velveteen Dream è stato sancito per NXT TakeOver: 31.

Verso la fine di luglio, Isaiah "Swerve" Scott ha iniziato una faida con Santos Escobar, detentore dell'NXT Cruiserweight Championship. Spesso affiancato spesso dai Breezango (Fandango e Tyler Breeze) per contrastare la stable di Escobar, il Legado del Fantasma (Joaquin Wilde e Raul Mendoza), nella puntata di NXT del 26 agosto Scott ha affrontato Escobar per il titolo dei pesi leggeri ma è stato scorrettamente sconfitto. Nella puntata speciale NXT: Super Tuesday del 1º settembre Scott e i Breezango hanno sconfitto il Legado del Fantasma in un Six-man Street Fight, con Scott che ha schienato Escobar. Un match valevole per il titolo dei pesi leggeri di NXT tra Escobar e Scott è stato sancito per NXT TakeOver: 31. Per la prima volta, inoltre, l'NXT Cruiserweight Championship viene difeso in un TakeOver di NXT.

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Microbiological Water Quality in Relation to Water-Contact Recreation, Cuyahoga River, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio, 2000 and 2002
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4333
By: Rebecca N. Bushon and G.F. Koltun
https://doi.org/10.3133/wri034333
More information: Publisher Index Page (html)
The microbiological water quality of a 23-mile segment of the Cuyahoga River within the Cuyahoga Valley National Park was examined in this study. This segment of the river receives discharges of contaminated water from stormwater, combined-sewer overflows, and incompletely disinfected wastewater. Frequent exceedances of Ohio microbiological water-quality standards result in a health risk to the public who use the river for water-contact recreation. Water samples were collected during the recreational season of May through October at four sites on the Cuyahoga River in 2000, at three sites on the river in 2002, and from the effluent of the Akron Water Pollution Control Station (WPCS) both years. The samples were collected over a similar range in streamflow in 2000 and 2002. Samples were analyzed for physical and chemical constituents, as well as the following microbiological indicators and pathogenic organisms: Escherichia coli (E. coli), Salmonella, F-specific and somatic coliphage, enterovirus, infectious enterovirus, hepatitis A virus, Clostridium perfringens (C. perfringens), Cryptosporidium, and Giardia. The relations of the microorganisms to each other and to selected water-quality measures were examined. All microorganisms analyzed for, except Cryptosporidium, were detected at least once at each sampling site. Concentrations of E. coli exceeded the Ohio primary-contact recreational standard (298 colonies per 100 milliliters) in approximately 87 percent of the river samples and generally were higher in the river samples than in the effluent samples. C. perfringens concentrations were positively and significantly correlated with E. coli concentrations in the river samples and generally were higher in the effluent samples than in the river samples. Several of the river samples that met the Ohio E. coli secondary-contact recreational standard (576 colonies per 100 milliliters) had detections of enterovirus, infectious enterovirus, hepatitis A virus, and Salmonella, indicating that there are still risks even when the E. coli standard is not exceeded. River samples in which the secondary-contact recreational standard for E. coli was exceeded showed a higher percentage of the co-occurrence of pathogenic organisms than samples that met the standard. This indicates that in this study area, E. coli is a useful indicator of human health risk. Detections of hepatitis A virus tended to be associated with higher median concentrations of somatic coliphage, F-specific coliphage, and infectious enterovirus. In addition, geometric mean C. perfringens concentrations tended to be higher in samples where hepatitis A virus was present than in samples where hepatitis A virus was absent. Hepatitis A virus was not detected in samples collected upstream from the Akron WPCS; all downstream detections had coincident detections in the Akron WPCS effluent, suggesting that Akron WPCS was a principal source of hepatitis A virus at the downstream sites. Geometric mean concentrations of E. coli were calculated on the basis of analytical results from at least five samples collected at each river site during May, July, and September of 2000. In each case, the Ohio geometric-mean primary-contact recreational standard of 126 col/100 mL was exceeded. E. coli concentrations were significantly correlated with streamflow and increased with streamflow at sites upstream and downstream from the Akron WPCS. This indicates that E. coli loads from sources upstream from the Akron WPCS have the potential to appreciably influence the frequency of attainment of recreational water-quality standards at downstream locations.
Water-Resources Investigations Report
10.3133/wri034333


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Wise-man
Wise-man sentence example
Knowledge being impossible, a wise man should practise E7roxi 7 (suspension of judgment).
To be but a hand's-breadth below the surface of the sea ensures drowning as infallibly as to be five hundred fathoms deep. Now the wise man is drawn as perfect.
Catholic in spirit rather than dogmatic, John ranks himself at times among the Academics, " since, in those things about which a wise man may doubt, I depart not from their footsteps."
For the Stoics attached but slight importance to external circumstances, since only the wise man is really free, and all the unwise are slaves.
Beyond this no wise man will go, and short of it hardly any unprejudiced man will stop.
Early one morning, we are told, in the fourth month, he got up, and with his hands behind his back, dragging his staff, he moved about his door, crooning over " The great mountain must crumble, The strong beam must break, The wise man must wither away like a plant."
Total scepticism he would probably have regarded as unworthy of the serious attention of a wise man.
From such passionate errors the truly wise man will of course be free.
The ethical element in the " dark " philosophizing of Heraclitus (c. 530-470 B.C.), though it anticipates Stoicism in its conceptions of a law of the universe, to which the wise man will carefully conform, and a divine harmony, in the recognition of which he will find his truest satisfaction, is more profound, but even less systematic.
Among the prejudices from which the wise man was free he included all regard to customary morality beyond what was due to the actual penalties attached to its violation; though he held, with Socrates, that these penalties actually render conformity reasonable.
His publications include The Reality of Religion (1884); The Poetry of Tennyson (1889); The Other Wise Man (1896); Ships and Havens (1897); The Toiling of Felix, and Other Poems (1900); The Poetry of the Psalms (1900); The Blue Flower (1902); Days Off (1907); The House of Rimmon (1908); Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land (1908); Collected Poems (191 I); The Bad Shepherd (1911); The Unknown Quantity (1912); The Lost Boy (1914); Fighting for Peace (1917); The Valley of Vision (1919); and Golden Stars (1919) .
He like a wise man acquainted his brethern with the matter, and so I was denied.
Wagner A wise man finds agreeable, A dog that's learned its lesson well.
My wit, being folly, is not by your wise man understood; there- fore, I'll to the purpose.
Kotar did, so a wise man didn't offer him any unnecessary provocation.
Like many of the leading modern utilitarians, they combined with their psychological distrust of popular judgments of right and wrong, and their firm conviction that all such distinctions are based solely on law and convention, the equally unwavering principle that the wise man who would pursue pleasure logically must abstain from that which is usually denominated "wrong" or "unjust."
Practically all hedonists have argued that what are known as the "lower" pleasures are not only ephemeral in themselves but also productive of so great an amount of consequent pain that the wise man cannot regard them as truly pleasurable; the sane hedonist will, therefore, seek those so-called "higher" pleasures which are at once more lasting and less likely to be discounted by consequent pain.
So he employed a wise man whose name was Al Farra to be their teacher.
Tell the wise man why you bring it, and repeat to him the words of the oracle.
Epicureanism thought that " the wise man fears not death, before which most men tremble; for, if we are, it is not; if it is, we are not."
The senses are "bad witnesses" (KaKoi, uapTvpes); only the wise man can obtain knowledge.
The wise man and the ignorant, the enthusiast and the man of the world, could all find acceptance here, and there was laid on no one more than he was able and willing to bear.
The non-rational man aims at self-preservation, and the wise man will imitate him deliberately, and when he fails he will suffer with equanimity.
In all that the older Stoics taught there breathes that enthusiasm for righteousness in which has been traced the earnestness of the Semitic spirit; but nothing presents more forcibly the pitch of their moral idealism than the doctrine of the Wise Man.
The wise man is he who has acquired a habit of wise action; human wisdom is liable to lapses at any moment.
This " disproportionateness " between the human mind and the universe of reality imposes deliberation in the selection of studies, and disregard for those which lie out of the way of a wise man.
Such knowledge, he here maintains, is really mensuration of pleasures and pains, whereby the wise man avoids those mistaken under-estimates of future feelings in comparison with present which we commonly call " yielding to fear or desire."
It is possible, however, that after the Roman conquest Italians drifted in, and it is fairly certain that after the Roman Empire fell German conquerors brought German settlers, though in what numbers no wise man will guess.
He knocked at the door and the wise man himself opened it.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.
Oh, a very wise man is Prince Kutuzov!
In Greek monachism the old Hellenic ideal of the wise man who has no wants (abraprcaa) was from the first fused with the Christian conception of unreserved self-surrender to God as the highest aim and the highest good.
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The phrase "remember that time is money" is famously attributed to Benjamin Franklin. As a statesman, scientist, and philosopher, Franklin coined (or used) many quotable maxims that are known and used in everyday conversation to this day. This particular metaphor has remained an important lesson in the world of finance and business.
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Qatar Airways Privilege Club Double Avios From Southeast Asia & India Through March 31, 2023
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Privilege Club members can earn double Avios on Qatar Airways flights, both economy, and premium, if purchased directly from the airline between August 15 – 31.
You can access this offer on Qatar's website here.
Valid for Privilege Club members with an account address in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, or Vietnam.
The offer is valid for all flights flown during the promo period if the tickets are purchased August 15 – 31.
Only tickets purchased directly from Qatar are eligible for the bonus Avios.
Qatar Airways used to have back-to-back bonus Qmiles offers, but they have become quite rate now that they moved to Avios currency.
It appears that this bonus Avios offer is not route dependent but is based on where your Privilege Account is based.
Sales period: 15 August 2022 – 31 August 2022
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This offer is applicable to members residing in following counties: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos peoples dem.rep, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam.
To be eligible for the offer, the member must book through Qatarairways.com or Qatar Airways Mobile App.
Double (100% bonus Avios) Avios will applicable while travelling on Economy, Business or First cabin
To be eligible for this offer, members need to ensure to quote their Privilege Club membership number at the time of booking or check-in.
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Members will earn bonus Avios over the base Avios earned on Qatar Airways flight during the offer period.
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Bonus Avios are calculated based on the combination of booking date, flight date, cabin, fare family purchased
Offer is applicable only for flights marketed and operated by Qatar Airways.
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Q: List comprehension with nested dictionaries I am trying to instantiate objects described below which are based off the nested dictionary formInstances['responses'] visible in the json data further below,
class
class ReponseGroupInstance:
    def __init__(self, id, questions,parentId):
        self.id = id
        self.questions = questions
        self.parentId = parentId

json data
data = r'''{
    "formInstances": [
        {
            "formVersion": 1.0,
            "deviceIdentifier": "cheaper",
            "dataPointId": "439350001",
            "submissionDate": "2022-10-04T08:21:08Z",
            "modifiedAt": "2022-10-04T09:36:04.187Z",
            "id": "405190001",
            "responses": {
                "388540003": [
                    {
                        "382720001": {
                            "filename": "HELP!",
                            "location": null
                        },
                        "382720002": "12",
                        "382720003": [
                            {
                                "text": "Median"
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ],
                "388540001": [
                    {
                        "386430059": "2020-10-04T08:19:37.673Z",
                        "386430060": "t",
                        "386430061": [
                            {
                                "text": "MamaZoe"
                            }
                        ],
                        "386430062": [
                            {
                                "text": "Train"
                            }
                        ],
                        "386430063": [
                            {
                                "text": "Now"
                            }
                        ],
                        "386430064": {
                            "lat": -100.3582283333333334,
                            "long": 500.92758333333334,
                            "elev": 21512,
                            "code": null
                        }
                    }
                ]
            },
            "identifier": "qasddqt-asdas-r1er",
            "displayName": "asjdasd",
            "formId": "4521354",
            "surveyalTime": 515,
            "submitter": "papa-noel",
            "createdAt": "2020-1-0904T09:35:59.556Z"
        }
    ],
}'''

The challenge I have is that the ReponseGroupInstance.parentId corresponding data points is a key of a dictionary ouside the nested dictionary through which I loop.
I have been able to solve this through the nested for loops and a constructor, shown below, and attempted at using parallel  list comprehension, shown further below, without success --given the different list length for the list attribute which is outside the nested dictionary not working with my zip() method.
for loop
def question_group_instance_factory(id, questions,parentId):
    return QuestionGroupInstance(id, questions,parentId)

for form_instance in data["formInstances"]:
    parent_id = form_instance['id']
    for id,questions in form_instance['responses'].items():
        question_group_instance_factory(id,questions,parent_id)

list comprehesion attempt
l_question_g_val = [[question_g_val[0] for question_g_val in form_instance['responses'].values()] for form_instance in data["formInstances"]]
l_question_g_key = [[question_g_key for question_g_key in form_instance['responses'].keys()] for form_instance in data["formInstances"]]

l_form_parent_id = [form_instance['id'] for form_instance in data["formInstances"]]

pprint([question_group_instance_factory(id,questions,parent_id)for id,questions,parent_id in zip(*l_question_g_key,*l_question_g_val,l_form_parent_id)])

How could I avoid the for loop? Preferable through list comprehension?
Thank you!

A: class FormResponse:
    def __init__(self, response_id, form_name, form_id, date_submitted, form_data):
        self.response_id = response_id
        self.form_name = form_name
        self.form_id = form_id
        self.date_submitted = date_submitted
        self.form_data = form_data

The function should take the json data as an argument and return a list of FormResponse objects.

JSON data:
{
  "formInstances": {
    "formName": "My Form",
    "formId": "12345",
    "responses": [
      {
        "response_id": "1",
        "date_submitted": "2020-07-31T20:49:12.000Z",
        "form_data": {
          "name": "John Doe",
          "age": "30",
          "gender": "Male"
        }
      },
      {
        "response_id": "2",
        "date_submitted": "2020-07-31T20:49:12.000Z",
        "form_data": {
          "name": "Jane Doe",
          "age": "25",
          "gender": "Female"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

def instantiate_form_responses(json_data):
    form_responses = []
    form_name = json_data['formInstances']['formName']
    form_id = json_data['formInstances']['formId']
    responses = json_data['formInstances']['responses']

    for response in responses:
        response_id = response['response_id']
        date_submitted = response['date_submitted']
        form_data = response['form_data']
        form_response = FormResponse(response_id, form_name, form_id, date_submitted, form_data)
        form_responses.append(form_response)

    return form_responses