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Bitcoin Falls Below $5K as Market Pain Deepens
Bitcoin fell below $5,000, but some investors maintain hopes for their long-term prospects.
By Sebastian Sinclair
Mar 13, 2020 at 1:05 a.m. UTC
BELOW $5K: Bitcoin continued its tumble in late Thursday and early Friday trading hours. (Credit: CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index)
Sebastian Sinclair
UPDATE (March 13, 02:44 UTC): Bitcoin's price briefly sank below $4,000 before rebounding to between $5,300 and $5,500 in a 30-minute period. The rapid price rise followed complaints on Twitter that crypto derivatives trading platform Bitmex had gone offline, though it is unclear whether this is related.
Bitcoin (BTC) and the broader cryptocurrency market continued this week's sharp decline, with the world's largest crypto falling to around $4,800.
The crypto space echoed the broader global trading markets: Equities have been in free-fall mode, prompting another halt to trading as the S&P 500 suffered another 9.5 percent drop on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is also down around 10 percent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 9.43 percent to around 7,201 basis points.
The Asian markets fared no better as the Australian ASX All Ordinaries dropped 7.23 percent while Tokyo's Nikkei 225 fell 4.4 percent and is set to continue its slide into deeper losses amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Nearly $63 billion has been wiped from the markets as the total market capitalization of all crypto fell from $223 billion to $161 billion, with BTC falling more than 39 percent over the past 24 hours to levels not seen since April 2019.
As for other top crypto assets, ethereum (ETH) is at $109, while XRP (XRP) is trading at 14 cents.
Balances containing 100 BTC or more have fallen to 3 month lows
Balances containing 100 or more bitcoin have fallen to their lowest point since Dec. 31, 2019, signaling a flight to cash as other supposed safe-haven assets like gold fell 3.5 percent.
In the near term, investors expect major volatility. However, many express optimism when considering the long-term.
"Not a market for the faint-hearted. Staggering losses all round," CEO of BCB Group Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie said.
"Ahead of the halving we have a half-price sale and it won't last long. The market is oversold on correlated global economic jitters and it's not hard to see a short term correction," Landsberg-Sadie added.
However, a small glimmer of hope remains for those high-net-worth individuals, Landsberg-Sadie claims, who continue to put in purchase orders for bitcoin, despite the economic turmoil happening all around.
"Those four were all purchase orders. Of the high-net-worth individual buyers, two were U.K, one Swiss."
Others stated it was the long-term perspective that offered more promising returns on their investment as traders await the bloodbath in global markets to conclude.
"In the long term, we see this period as an opportunity for many investors to get exposure to the asset class at attractive prices," said Asim Ahmad, founding partner and co-chief investment officer at Eterna Capital.
Ido Sadeh Man, founder and chairman of the board at Saga Foundation, said conditions from a macro perspective look shaky at best.
"The near-future looks hyper volatile and even chaotic," he said. "This will only continue to weigh on the global economy, and ultimately hurt the pockets of individuals. The only available tool for corporates and households alike is to look at diversification strategies of their assets and currencies, to protect and preserve their value."
Bitcoin Head and Shoulders Pattern
On the technical side, BTC has broken down from a head and shoulders pattern that had been staring down traders since March 8's initial breakdown from $8,900 to just under $8,000.
High levels of spot volume as well as a dip into extreme oversold territory, as seen by the daily RSI, a measure of trend strength and momentum, do not bode well for crypto in the short term although a bounce may be on the cards, once the bloodletting ceases.
"In the short term we expect the bitcoin price to follow the market sentiment driven by monetary and fiscal policies in response to COVID-19 developments," Ahmad added.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Alabama -- A 56-year-old man from Eclectic was killed Wednesday when his pickup went down an embankment and hit a tree off Interstate 459.
William Gates was killed when his 1998 Dodge Ram left the interstate, went down an embankment and hit a tree along I-459 near Acton Road around noon Wednesday, according to Alabama State Troopers spokesman Sgt. Steve Jarrett.
Gates was pronounced dead at 12:33 p.m., according to the Jefferson County Coroner's Office.
Gates was from Eclectic, in Elmore County.
Alabama State Troopers are investigating the wreck.


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At the 2009 meeting of the Parliament of World's Religions, former US President Jimmy Carter called the worldwide abuse of girls and women the greatest unaddressed human rights crisis of our time. He stated that this problem is "largely caused by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare." Carter discussed these issues in A Call to Action.
In my address to the Parliament of World Religions on November 5, I will agree with Carter that religions play a major role in the abuse of women and girls, but I will question his view that religion's contribution to the abuse of women and girls stems from the misinterpretation of a few selected texts. Rather I will argue that patriarchal ideas permeate most of the so-called great religions.
Please accept my most sincere wishes for successful and triumphant presentations next month, and especially on November 5th.
Though represented by its detractors as an incursion of paganism into Christianity, and presented as an integrally and intrinsically Christian phenomenon by its supporters, the truth about the 1993 Re-Imagining Conference and movement is that it was a product of a wider feminist awakening. The critique of patriarchal religions that emerged in the academy and in churches and synagogues in the late 1960s and early 1970s was part of the emerging feminist uprising. The feminist movement placed a question mark over all patriarchal texts and traditions, secular and religious, and as such was beholden to none.
In the spring of 1971, Roman Catholic Christian Mary Daly published "After the Death of God the Father" in the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal. She asserted that the God whose death was touted in the "Death of God" movement was an idol fashioned in the image of male power and authority. She called for "the becoming of new symbols" to express the new becoming of women.
In their purest form, "egalitarian matriarchies" place the mother principle at the center of culture and society. Their highest values are the love, care, and generosity they associate with motherhood. These values are not limited to women and girls. Boys and men are also encouraged to honor mothers above all, to practice the traits of love, care, and generosity, and to value them in others.
"Egalitarian matriarchal" societies are matrilineal which means that family membership and descent are passed through the female line. They are also usually matrilocal, which means that women live in their maternal home all of their lives. Family groups are usually extended rather than nuclear. Often there is a "big house" in which groups of sisters, brothers, and cousins live together with mothers, aunts, grandmothers, and great-aunts. In what I imagine to have been the original form of the system (still practiced by the Mosuo of the Himalayas), men also live in their maternal house, visiting their lovers at night, and returning home in the morning.
While there is evidence that human beings visited Crete as early as 150,000 years ago, the first permanent settlers arrived from Anatolia in the New Stone Age or Neolithic era, about 9000 years ago, bringing with them the secrets of agriculture and soon afterward learning the techniques of pottery and weaving. As the gatherers of fruits, nuts, and vegetables and as preparers of food in earlier Old Stone Age or Paleolithic cultures, women would have noticed that seeds dropped at a campsite might sprout into plants. Women most likely discovered the secrets of agriculture that enabled people to settle down in the first farming communities of the New Stone Age. As pottery is associated with women's work of food storage and preparation, and as weaving is women's work in most traditional cultures, women probably invented these new technologies as well. Each of these inventions was understood to be a mystery of transformation: seed to plant to harvested crop; clay to snake coil to fired pot; wool or flax to thread to spun cloth. The mysteries were passed on from mother to daughter through songs, stories, and rituals.
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The Offspring becomes latest band to play a concert inside a video game
by Rachel Kaser — in Gaming
Credit: Offspring/Twitter
Punk band The Offspring are going to be performing a gig in … a mobile game? Yep, they join the ranks of the growing number of performers choosing to perform in games.
As for the venue, Offspring will be performing inside World of Tanks. That's right, the free-to-play mobile World War 2 war machine game. It wouldn't be my game of choice were I a punk band — but come to think of it, I can't come up with a hypothetical alternative, so who am I to judge? I have the feeling the hundreds of millions in revenue WoT rakes in on the average year might be too tempting for me to pass up too.
We're excited to announce that @worldoftanks has invited us to perform inside their game. Beginning Sept 18 you can join us on a virtual stage right in #WorldofTanks. The game has never seen anything like this before, so we're excited to be the first!#wot #WGFest19 pic.twitter.com/7oXkJ1EXoG
— Offspring (@offspring) September 15, 2019
The band performed live (by which I mean in-person) at Wargaming Fest: Tanker Day, a festival held by publisher Wargaming on their home turf of Minsk, Belarus. In its announcement, Wargaming said the group would be added to the game, and hinted they might be there to stay: "Starting from September 18, we'll assemble a virtual stage right in the game Garage, where the band will perform some of their biggest hits… And there's more to it. The Offspring can stay in your Garage for good — stay tuned for more details."
The band isn't the first to choose a video games as a venue for a performance. Last month, Korn performed in AdventureQuest 3D. Earlier this year, Marshmello played for the mother of all sold-out crowds, an audience of over 10 million in Fortnite for a concert that lasted around 10 minutes. The Verge called the latter "a glimpse into the future of interactive entertainment," which, given that we're seeing such an upswing of similar events, feels more right than I think writer Nick Statt realized.
Speaking strictly for myself, I'm all for concerts in games. I'm claustrophobic, meaning tightly-packed crowds turn me into a sweating, gibbering ball of distress (a belated apology to my fellow Kendrick Lamar fans, who were present for this revelation). And considering these concerts don't require travel or tickets, they could be an excellent way for fans who might not otherwise have the capability to enjoy a concert-ish social experience with fellow fans.
Regardless, if you're a World of Tanks player, check your Garage for The Offspring tomorrow.
Read next: How to build a production and recording studio that fits in a backpack
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Q: Passing global variables in .swift to specific viewController I want to pass a global array(in .swift file) to specific ViewController. Here's my code
commonData.swift
import Foundation

var regionArray:[Bool]?

let region = [
"United States",
"United Kingdom"
]

testTableViewController.swift
import UIKit

var arraySize:Int?
var boolArray:[Bool]?

class testTableViewController: UITableViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        self.boolArray = regionArray
        self.arraySize = region.count

        if(self.boolArray == nil) {
             self.boolArray = Array(count: self.arraySize!, repeatedValue: false)
             NSLog("Array renewed")
        }
    }
}

Even though I tried to enter table view many times, regionArray in commonData.swift prints out "Array renewed" in log data. How can I set and pass a global variable to load/make into specific viewController?

A: I suppose you made a typo:
class testTableViewController: UITableViewController {
    var arraySize:Int?
    var boolArray:[Bool]?
    ...

But anyways.
First off. Swift Arrays are not objects, they are structs which means you are not passing a reference to an object os by doing:
self.boolArray = regionArray

You are not passing the reference for regionArray to self.boolArray, instead whats happening self.boolArray is assigned a 'copy' of regionArray.
So when you do:
self.boolArray = Array(count: self.arraySize!, repeatedValue: false)

regionArray isnt touched at all you only give self.boolArray values.
To fix this you have to change self.boolArray with regionArray or add:
regionArray = self.boolArray

A: I solved this problem by designing singleton design pattern. What I've done is
commonData.swift
class mySingletonDesign {
     var regionArray:[Bool]?
     let region = [
         "United States",
         "United Kingdom"
     ]
}

var regionInfo = mySingletonDesign()

and testTableViewController.swift is
import UIKit

class testTableViewController: UITableViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {

        if(regionInfo.regionArray == nil) {
             regionInfo.regionArray = Array(count: regionInfo.region.count, repeatedValue: false)
             NSLog("Array renewed")
        }
    }
}

After this code, "Array renewed" was not called. Because this calling accesses regionInfo variable's direct memory.

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Green tour Kyoto | travel information in JAPAN » Blog Archive » Exploring Shiga Pref.
I rarely go to Shiga Prefecture though it is just next to Kyoto. But I went to there to have a healthy lunch yesterday. The cafe was built at the ground of Seian University of Art and Design. It takes just 15 minutes from Kyoto Station by JR Kosei line.
This cafe "Cafeteria YUI" is produced by one company "Blueberry Fields Kinokuniya" which manages blueberry growth and organic restaurant in Shiga. Their food for lunch is amazingly tasty and beautiful. And also it's very reasonable. Their interior is also nice with some stylish lamp shades made of cardboard and wooden table and chairs. As if I was in a wooden house in the forest.
There are some figurative arts at the ground of university. I enjoyed not only food but also art there.
After lunch, I took a walk to the famous temple, Miidera, located in Otsu of Shiga. Otsu used to be an ancient capital for only 5 years before the Emperor moved capital from Nara to Kyoto in the 7th century. In this temple, we can see many statues of Buddhism. They are so gorgeous!
The temple is usually covered by hundreds of cherry trees in this season. But unfortunately all of tree were not blooming. Cherry trees in Kyoto are not in bloom as well. It's about 1 week later than usual. I hope to see cherry blossoms and have bento lunch under them soon!


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Tequila Mockingbyrd say thank you, good luck and good bye with new track 'Drunk When I Told Ya'
Tequila Mockingbyrd release brand new track 'Drunk When I Told Ya',
a sea-shanty-esque festive banger all about the perils of drunk-dialling
'Drunk When I Told Ya' Video by Unit 15 Productions
Tequila Mockingbyrd have had a whirlwind of a year joining forces with Gill Montgomery (The Amorettes) and Laurie Buchanan (Aaron Buchanan and the Cult Classics) and what better way to wrap up this perfect storm than with a sea-shanty that captures the perils of drunk-dialling. Let's face it… We can all relate to that!
Drummer Josie O'Toole says "Who hasn't had a few too many Eggnogs at this time of year and made a few wayward calls?! It's a fun song that I actually wrote many moons ago, before the band even started. It seemed fitting now that this epic year is coming to an end that we put it out as a thank you to everyone for all of their support of all things Tequila over the years, at the same time raising a glass to the kick ass musicians who made it possible for the band to stay on the road in 2019. We hope you dig it."
The track features a special guest performance from Jimi Hocking (The Screaming Jets) on mandolin and is accompanied by a fun lyric video made with footage from the recent Hard Rock Hell Awards. It is the band's final release before taking a break to focus on a new venture in conjunction with Gill Montgomery and Laurie Buchanan.
Stand by for more news on that in 2020…
For now, thank you, good luck and good bye!
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Mixed and Mastered by: Ricki Rae
Performed by: Gill Montgomery (vocals), Laurie Buchanan (guitars), Jacinta Jaye (bass), Josie O'Toole (drums), Jimi Hocking (mandolin)
Video by: Unit 15 Productions
Single Artwork by: ASYLUMseventy7
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Mentoring is both ancient and modern.
Although the word "mentor" made its first appearance in the English language in 1750, the concept itself was not established there or then.
It appeared for the first time in antiquity, in "The Odyssey" by the Greek writer and philosopher Homer. The story, created around the year 700 BC, featured a character named Mentor, who was a friend of Odysseus. Mentor was an Ithacan elder who was the incarnation of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. In the famous story, when Odysseus leaves to fight in the Trojan War, his son Telemachus is left in the care of Mentor who has to take care of him and protect the boy as he grows and develops into manhood.
Elsewhere, the economy of medieval England survived and thrived on craftsmanship. Craftsmen passed on their trade, knowledge, and experience to their pupils, in a process very similar to the modern concept of mentoring. Such apprenticeship to a master would normally last for 12 years, or until the apprentices reached 21 years of age. The Industrial Revolution put an end to many of the craftsmanship traditions and with it, the informal system of mentoring that they promoted fell into disuse. In the emerging industrial world, young men found their way to the factories and were put through an impersonal system of training, rather than an individual teacher-pupil relationship.In the year 1699, the French book "Les Aventures de Telemaque", written by François Fénelon as an homage to Homer's classic, made the concept of mentorship popular in modern times. François Fénelon was the tutor to the grandson of King Louis XIV, and the lessons that he expounded in the book were developed to educate his pupil to become a peaceful and wise monarch, as Nayab discusses further.
Looking forward, one model, which stood the test of time in the United States, however, is an organisation founded in 1904 by the Men's Club of the Central Presbyterian Church of New York. The organisation, called Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) is a community-based mentoring program in which mentoring relationships are developed on a one-to-one basis, with the mentor and mentee belonging to the same gender, with the goal of helping youth in the community. BBBSA still exists as a successful mentoring organisation, it has almost 500 local agencies and millions of children and young people as mentees in all states of the USA. The organisation is used as a model for start-up community mentoring programs and frequently cited in research because of its good practices.
A study of prominent figures throughout the course of world history reveals that most of them had mentors who took care to oversee their progress. Alexander the Great had Aristotle, King Arthur of England had Merlin, Chandragupta Muarya of India had Chanakya, Paul of Tarsus, the famous Christian bishop of the first century AD, had Timothy, the poet T. S. Eliot had Ezra Pound, Martin Luther King had Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, Beethoven and Mozart had Haydn. The list goes on. A form of mentoring has always been practiced in monasteries, as illustrated by Saint Bede in his "De Corpore" and many other narratives, and continues to this day.
Since the 1980s, mentoring has been an essential part of management training in commercial organisations. Companies such as Xerox, General Electric, Kodak, Intel, and Avon all have well-established and popular mentoring programs.
Today, mentoring is recognised as a highly effective tool for training and development and it is widely used in educational and governmental institutions, universities and business corporations, as well as a bridge between them. Mentoring programs are becoming ever more popular and there is an emerging trend of establishing mentoring as a modern communication tool.
Modern organisational mentorship takes place in the environment of the learning organisations and focuses on developing competence, leadership, and lifelong learning. The concept of the ideal mentor is now that of an experienced person who can act as an objective sounding-board with the power to influence events; a person who can help and support people as they manage their own learning to maximise their potential, develop their skills, improve their performance, and become the persons whom they want to be. All this is in contrast to the earlier notion of providing guidance in accordance with preconceived societal norms of excellence. In support of the modern perception of mentoring, about 70% of Fortune 500 companies today offer mentoring programs.
The evolution of the concept of mentoring from ancient times until today, as well as its ongoing evolution, shows us the direction for mentoring in the future. It demonstrates that even after some forms of mentoring have proven themselves obsolete, the concept is still valid and thriving at the highest levels of business and learning.
For more information on mentoring, you can check out the relevant terminology, the in-depth explanation of the mentoring process, see the impact mentoring has or even other mentoring programs, which support social entrepreneurship or entrepreneurship in general.
And of course, if you feel inspired, click over to register as a Mentor or Mentee in our platform and reap the benefits of mentoring yourself!
This information is based on the research from the book "Mentoring – Process, Guidelines and Programs" by Assoc. Prof. Daniela Ilieva-Koleva, published in 2015.


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Topic: Ranking the Pokemon Games!!!
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ThomGee
Thu 24th Nov 2016
I'll rank them, but a reminder that I have not played Gen 2 or Gen 3, so I'll just use their remakes.
Here I go:
1. Sun/Moon
2. Black 2/White 2
3. Black/White
4. HeartGold/SoulSilver
5. X/Y
6. Diamond/Pearl/Platinum
7. Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire
8. Red/Blue/Yellow
These games are really hard to rate because I love them so much. The only ones I can say are actually bad games are Gen 1, and that's only because they're so outdated and glitchy.
Edited on Thu 24th November, 2016 @ 17:00 by ThomGee
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timleon
Tue 6th Dec 2016
After making my way to, what I assume is, around half-way through Sun and Moon (I've just got to the third island), I'm already tempted to place it on top. The game has so much personality, a great selection of Pokemon, and I love the island trials. My main complaints would be that the game is needlessly text-heavy early on, and that it has been fairly linear (although very few Pokemon games haven't been, to be fair).
Previously "Buizel" and "HunterLeon"
Currently playing: Fire Emblem Three Houses (Silver Snow), Uncharted 2, The Simpsons Hit and Run
What_Sthat
1. Heart Gold/Soul Silver
3. Fire Red/Leaf Green
6. Crystal
7. Gold/Silver
8. Emerald
9. Ruby/Sapphire
10. Platinum
12. X/Y
13. Red/Blue
14. Black/White
15. Diamond/Pearl
I am insanely glad my gen seven hype paid off. I had so much fun playing Sun that I am buying Moon and having both versions for the first time since gen three. Soul Silver is still my toppy tops but Sun is a lot of fun and does have my favorite moment/event from any of the games when Solgaleo makes its appearance.
Game(s) right now: Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon, World of Final Fantasy Maxima
DefHalan
@gizmoto Sun and Moon are ok, some people like them a lot, but others not as much. To me Sun and Moon are really lacking in a lot of areas that keep me playing Pokemon. I am more excited to return to Omega Ruby than I am to continue through Sun. I am forcing myself to finish Sun before I go back to OR.
People keep saying the Xbox One doesn't have Backwards Compatibility.
I don't think they know what Backwards Compatibility means...
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OneBagTravel
Still prefer the Gen1/2 games. Simple straight forward.
I love traveling light through Europe and run a blog about it at OneBagTravel.com
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ianl579
Wed 7th Dec 2016
@gizmoto Well.. there was Pokémon Stadium 1 and 2 along with Pokémon Snap. Are any of those the one you are thinking of?
Personally, I find Sun and Moon comparable with Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. I haven't beaten Sun yet, and it's been a while since I've played Black 2 (unfortunately), but I expect Sun and Moon to be either 3rd or 4th on my list.
"You feel it? Fawful is also feeling it! I am needing to feel it even more, though!" - The magnificent Fawful
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nf_2
I'm just going to pair up originals with their remakes to make it simple. I'm basing this list on their impact at the time of release and how they stand up currently.
1. HGGS/Platinum
2. RBY/FR/LG
3. DPPt
4. XY
5. RSE/ORAS
6. BW/BW2
BW are easily the worst main games in the series, indisputably. The story was hyped up to be something worthwhile, and it was still terrible, and it didn't add a whole of good things to the series (hidden abilities that had to be obtained through those awful computer games, generally not a great crop of Pokemon design-wise). They just generally felt pretty flat and uninspired. Also, gen V ruined online battling with the random Pokemon restrictions that it had set in place. Reusable TMs made up for that some, but not enough. The sequels, however, need to get a lot of credit for being the first games since Gen II to include Pokemon from previous generations available en mass before reaching the Elite Four. Having that kind of variety on story play throughs makes team building for the story really fun.
Gen III suffered a bit to me from just generally being pretty dull. I've replayed Emerald a ton, but something about Gen III just isn't all that exciting. ORAS fixed a ton of problems that the older games had, but the progression was a little off (you're freely GIVEN a Latio/as? midway through the game?). Removing the day/night mechanic was a pretty negative game changer at the time. Also, way too much water. The addition of abilities and natures cannot be understated though, and Gen III's Pokemon were some of the most prevalent in the competitive scene.
XY should get credit for getting basically everything right from the start. My only real complaint is that the number of new Pokemon was pretty low, especially with the addition of the new Fairy type (even with retroactive changes to older Pokemon, there could have been a couple more). My biggest problem with XY was mostly that the post-game might be the worst in the series outside of RBY, which is saying a lot. I also don't care for mega evolutions because of how they were handled. Many of the Pokemon that needed them didn't get enough of a boost to become viable, and the ones that got a mega often didn't need one in the first place. I liked the idea, but it had a pretty terrible implementation in terms of how much further competitive balancing was thrown out of place.
DPPt basically have a placeholder as a top 3 series release simply because of the addition of online play, and in getting it right the first time. The story/playthrough experience is arguably 2nd worst, obviously still better than BW but comparable to Gen III, which holds it back. Also, Gen IV's dex is poorly balanced for the story mode because of the terrible Pokemon variety pre-E4 and excessive emphasis on giving old Pokemon evolutions. Platinum also did very little as a remake to make it worth a purchase over either of DP. That said, the Poketech was fantastically useful and should have never gone away, and otherwise did so much else right to streamline the series to make online battling and trading easy to accomplish.
Gen I has to get credit for being the original. Sure, they're dated, glitchy, and have awful balancing but at least these games managed to actually have some personality. Those original sprites were just so grotesque and different, and while the designs were simple they were (mostly) excellent. Voltorb aside, the original collection is still one of the most varied and unique in the series (SM withstanding). Managing to exeggcute the concept that Pokemon was attempting to so effectively can't be ignored. These games started a phenomenon. The remakes are certainly more playable, even if the Sevii Island section isn't terribly fun, but I don't think they really added much to improve on one of Gen I's biggest flaws in the lack of post game stuff, especially since there's no online.
Gen II is just hands down the most complete. Pokemon variety, side quests, introduction of day/night/week cycles, the best story mode in the series with the longest post-game in the series... Gen II was easily the best at time of release of any set of games. The remakes managed to maintain the nostalgia of the old games while introducing the newer mechanics seamlessly into perhaps the definitive releases in the series (although I still prefer Crystal version). Gen II just introduced so many new mechanics while cleaning up basically every problem that Gen I had.
I didn't rank Sun and Moon because I haven't finished my playthrough yet, but I have to say that I'm really impressed. I've learned not to expect anything from a Pokemon story because these are kids games, so I don't factor the actual story quality unless it's both overly involving and terrible (like BW), so SM is safe there so far. Everything else though is excellent, from the new Pokemon, to the trials adding interesting twists to the normal story progression (although I really miss gyms...), there's a ton of things that SM is doing right. I'm tempted to put them above DPPt, but I'd have to see how the later half of the game goes. I don't care for Z moves (they're just another gimmick like mega-evos, and they make story playthroughs a little too easy). Alola versions of Pokemon are definitely cool, and I'm hoping this becomes a trend for future games for a ton of reasons, one being that you get extra Pokemon variety without having to extend the already massive Pokedex.
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I'm only gonna rank the first couple of main Pokémon Games.
1. Pokémon Gold/Silver
2. Pokémon Sun/Moon
3. Pokémon Red/Blue
4. Pokémon Black/White
5. Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire
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(As far as the main series games go) I'm probably going to tread on some toes and say Generations 4 and 5 were the peak of Pokemon, for me at least. Especially Gen 5.
I don't really know how to put it into words but there's something about the Unova games that feel special. People dislike a lot of the designs, and while they are some horrible ones (Those monkeys come to mind), some of my favorite Pokemon were also introduced. Maybe it's because bug Pokemon are my favorite, and Gen 5 gave that type a lot of love so I might be sort of biased in that department!
I'll probably write up a longer post one day explaining in depth why I like the music, story, characters and region from Gen 5 the best but for now I'll just leave it at that. I know and understand why a lot of people dislike them, especially BW, but I respectfully disagree when people say it's the worst. I think, for the time of their release, DP were far more flawed. And RBY doesn't have a lot to offer for the fans who didn't grow up with it nowadays.
@nf_2 as you can probably tell I don't share your opinions regarding Gen 5 but I definitely agree about Gen 3 being rather dull. It's weird because I've played through Emerald more than any other Pokemon game, and I'm starting to like Hoenn less and less as time goes on.
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@PotatoTheGreat I agree, Gens 4 and 5 were the peak for me as well. Although I have never played Pokemon Black or White, I love HGSS and B2W2. Platinum isn't as good because the beginning is the worst part of any Pokemon game, in my opinion, but it gets a lot better after the 3rd gym.
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@LegendOfPokemon HGSS and B2W2 are my favorite pokemon games =] gen 4 and 5 were just full of content and had a lot of charm in my opinion. I cant decide which one I prefer more, 4 or 5, but those 2 are at the top
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@LegendOfPokemon Gen 5 is definitely my favorite past generation (as Gen 7 is my new favorite, but it's ongoing). BW and B2W2 are my 3rd and 2nd favorite Pokemon games, and I just love them to pieces. The Pokemon, the region, the fact that we actually got sequels, the music, Team Plasma, oh gosh Team Plasma, and just the story in general are all so good and just feel complete.
@Nintendoer Team Plasma is my favorite evil team, followed closely by Team Skull (and Team Flare is the worst by far!)
@LegendOfPokemon Yeah, definitely my favorite. Strangely, I seem to be one of the only people who enjoyed Team Flare, at least, a little. Team Rocket (don't kill me) is my least favorite team, just below Flare.
@Nintendoer Why? Is it because of their lackluster plans in Gen 2? 🤔
Edited on Fri 16th December, 2016 @ 02:18 by ianl579
@PotatoTheGreat I'll agree to disagree about Gen 5. And yeah, I mostly ranked Gen 4 where I did because of the proper and generally well-executed inclusion of online trading and the poketech in game. Otherwise I thought Gen 4's replay value is terrible, and I honestly don't think I could tell anything about the campaign. The metagame balancing was pretty poor and I think the Pokemon design got a little bit of leeway due to having so many evolutions to older Pokemon.
I'm in the same boat about Emerald though. I think I've replayed Emerald more than any other game, including Gen 1 (and that's a lot of replays there), but in general Gen 3 is just... bland. I really can't identify what about Emerald makes it so much more enjoyable to play through, but I can't deny that is one of the more enjoyable ways to play Pokemon solo.
@Nintendoer The only reason why I prefer Team Rocket over basically all of the other teams is just because Team Rocket is at least believable. The other teams have some spin on world domination/destruction based on manipulating what is basically the equivalent of a god in the form of a legendary Pokemon. Team Rocket simply wants to steal Pokemon and make money. The "you lose and the world is destroyed" story line isn't as fun to me since it's that so far removed from reality. I get that complaining about that in a video game with this type of setting is a bit of a contradiction, but I like some some sort of realism there.
@nf_2 That's just your preference, and while it's fine, I happen to like the high stakes plans, the ones that make you go "These guys are insane". I dunno, might just be me.
@LegendOfPokemon That and they just don't seem to have any distinctive personality or goal. They just want general havoc, kind of like Team Skull, but Sun and Moon also had another team of villians, so it doesn't matter as much.
But yeah, their plan in Gen 2 was terribly boring, and since those were my first games, that might be why I dislike them.
@Nintendoer I personally like Team Skull because they aren't afraid to be weak comical thugs (and because Guzma is amazing).
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Some people are just weird. They don't fit in – not at school, not at home, not with other kids no matter how hard they try. In the age of dwarves and dragons, outcasts end up as slaves, thieves, or worse. For the ones lucky enough to live in the land of Iasos, there is an alternative school – a last chance for THE LEFTOVERS of society to find their path before it's assigned for them.
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Chris is a weirdo who flies his geek flag with pride. A true misfit his entire life, Chris embraces who he is even at school where he is a teacher at a K-6 science and technology-based school in Nixa, Missouri. He loves comic books, toys, video games, movies and motorcycles and has his comics and boyhood toys prominently displayed in his classroom for all to see and teaches his students to have pride in their uniqueness. As a kid, Chris loved stories but hated reading because it was extremely hard for him. He was what educators call a struggling reader. To this day, Chris still struggles with reading, but he has learned coping skills to become a better reader. Reading is a passion of Chris' and he cosponsors the Hall of Heroes comic book club at his school to help kids fall in love with reading. Chris didn't read regularly for fun until adulthood when he found a fantasy comic, Sojourn. That comic changed his life and for the first time in his life read for fun weekly. This experience influenced him when he decided to become a teacher in his late 30's. Chris graduated Drury University with an English degree and an emphasis in creative writing. He now has a Master's degree in Elementary Education and is dual certified to teach children from birth to grade 6. His favorite superhero is Wonder Woman and the first novel he read from cover to cover was Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn in high school.
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Spectacular Visualization: The Eye of the Riemann Zeta Function
Posted by Vincent Granville on January 2, 2021 at 11:30am
We discuss here one of the most famous unsolved mathematical conjectures of all times, one among seven that has a $1 million award attached to it, see here. It is known as the Riemann Hypothesis and abbreviated as RH. Of course I did not solve it (yet), but the material presented here offers a new path towards making significant progress. As usual, I wrote this article in such a way as to make it understandable by a large audience. You don't need to know more than relatively simple calculus to read it, and you don't even need to know anything about complex analysis: I did the heavy lifting for you.
This is a typical illustration of experimental math blended with data science techniques, resulting in visualizations that provide great actionable insights. It is my hope that after reading this article, you will be tempted to further explore RH, create even better visualizations about it, and find new insights. The techniques used here apply to many other problems, including serious business analytics.
1. The problem
The Riemann hypothesis, dating back to 1859, states that the zeta function ζ(s), with s = σ + it a complex number (the letter i denoting the imaginary complex unit), has no zero in the critical strip 0 < σ < 1. If proved, it would have a profound impact not just in number theory, but in many other areas of mathematics and beyond. In layman's terms, it can be re-formulated as follows.
Let us introduce a parametric family of real-valued functions, defined as follows:
with 0 < σ < 1, t a real number, α, β, γ three real parameters, and λ(⋅) a real-valued function with logarithmic growth. Elementary computations show that s = σ + it is a complex root (also called zero) of ζ(s), with 0 < σ < 1, if and only if
ϕ(σ, t; 0, 1, 0) = 0,
ϕ(σ, t; 0, 1, −π/2) = 0,
λ(n) = log(n).
For details about this formulation, see here. Moving forward, we will focus on RH as being a problem of finding the zeroes (or lack of) of a bivariate function in the standard plane: σ is the first variable, attached to the X-axis, and t is the second variable, attached o the Y-axis. A generalized version of RH seems to also be true: it corresponds to arbitrary values for α, β, γ. However we focus here on the classical RH. For ease of presentation, we use the following notation:
ϕ1(σ, t) = ϕ(σ, t; 0, 1, 0)
ϕ2(σ, t) = ϕ(σ, t; 0, 1,−π/2 )
Much of the discussion has to do with the orbit of (ϕ1, ϕ2) when σ is fixed but arbitrary, and only t is allowed to vary. The orbit consists of all the points (X(t), Y(t)) with X(t) = ϕ1(σ, t) and Y(t) = ϕ2(σ, t). In short, we are dealing with a bivariate time series in continuous time, with strong cross-correlations between X(t) and Y(t). Without loss of generality, we assume that t is positive. The spectacular plot shown in section 2 is just a scatterplot of the orbit, computed for σ = 0.75. It easily generalizes to other values of σ that are strictly greater than 0.5.
2. The visualization
I call the plot below the Eye of the Zeta Function. It is the scatter plot described in the last paragraph in section 1, and probably the first time that such a plot was created for the Riemann zeta function. It corresponds to σ = 0.75, with t between 0 and 3,000, with t increments equal to 0.01. Thus 300,000 points of the orbit are displayed here.
The spectacular feature in that plot is the hole around (0, 0). It has deep implications. It suggests that if σ = 0.75, not only ϕ1(σ, t) and ϕ2(σ, t) can not be simultaneously equal to zero (this is a particular case of RH, nothing new here), but most importantly, that it never jointly gets very close to zero. This is new and suggests that proving RH might be a little less challenging than initially thought. The same plot features a similar "eye" if you try various values of σ. In particular, the hole gets smaller and smaller as σ gets closer to 0.5. At σ = 0.5, the hole is entirely gone, and infinitely many values of t yield ϕ1(σ, t) = ϕ2(σ, t) = 0. The same is true for a generalized version of RH discussed in section 1.
Note that it is very tricky to get the scatterplot right. The series for ϕ1 and ϕ2 converge very slowly, and in chaotic, unpredictable way, see here. This can result in false positives: points very close to zero due to approximation errors, artificially obfuscating the hole. Convergence boosting techniques are required, see here. In addition, the frequency of oscillations in ϕ1 and ϕ2 increases more and more as t gets larger, and thus t increments should be made smaller and smaller accordingly, as t grows, in order to get a good coverage of the orbit and not miss potential true zeroes.
More plots can be found here. One (unpublished yet) is even more spectacular, though esthetically speaking, it looks just like a boring ring. I computed the approximation error (E1(t), E2(t)) when you use only the first 200 terms in the series defining ϕ1 and ϕ2. If t < 300, these points are located on a very thin ring very close to 0. Their distribution thus has a strong pattern, making it possibly even less challenging to prove that if σ = 0.75, then the Riemann Zeta function has no zero with t in [0, 300]. The pattern quickly disappears if t is larger, but you can still retrieve it by increasing the number of terms that you use in your approximation, allowing you to identify an even bigger zero-free zone in the critical strip. Proving it is zero-free even narrowed down to these zones, would still remain a big challenge though.
About the author: Vincent Granville is a data science pioneer, mathematician, book author (Wiley), patent owner, former post-doc at Cambridge University, former VC-funded executive, with 20+ years of corporate experience including CNET, NBC, Visa, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, eBay. Vincent also founded and co-founded a few start-ups, including one with a successful exit (Data Science Central acquired by Tech Target). You can access Vincent's articles and books, here.


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We had this watermelon salad at the breakfast buffet at the Halekulani Hotel in Honolulu. We liked it so much that we had it a few times and reversed engineered it. At first, we thought the little white things were chunks of tofu, but further tasting revealed them to be mozzarella. It was an interesting salad and a real mixture of cultures, so we've adopted it as one of our luau standards. Either that, or make a jack-o-melon.
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Dungeness Spit is a narrow strip of land that juts five miles out into the Strait of San Juan de Fuca. When Pacific mist has settled along the coast, visibility is minimal. On a clear day, one can see the San Juan islands and even Mount Baker, but when the mist settles in visibility can be measured in feet. We took a short walk along the spit, and very quickly we had no idea of where we were or how far we had walked. The familiar visual cues were gone.
The mist lifted as we walked, as it so often does towards the middle of the day. On our way out, we walked in a tiny sphere with the driftwood spine of the spit barely visible through the gray. On our way back, we could see farther and the driftwood was clearly visible. By the time we reached the climb from the spit to the bluffs, sunlight was breaking through and most dramatically.
Some of the driftwood, feathers and sea stone artwork - This was gone when next we passed the area.
We took the side spur off the Hurricane Hill trial to check out the meadow where the corn lilies grow. They are most definitely growing. They are even spreading with corn lilies appearing in areas we had not seen them in before. The views, not surprisingly, were spectacular. The corn lilies have not yet bloomed, but lots of other flowers have.
The corn lilies are not blooming yet.
We always take a picture or two of these rocks for some reason or another.
The snow is melting and the water is trickling down this part of the trail.
Among the other flowers, a glacier lily, a sign of recent melt.
More scenery - There is more to life than corn lilies.
We took the trail up Hurricane Hill again today. It has been a few weeks, so we expected the snow to be gone and the season to be passing. It is mid-August. In fact, the snow was more or less all gone, but the flowers are still blooming in earnest.
There are still some pretty spectacular views, even this late in the season.
Is this sweet cecelia? We aren't sure.
There are avalanche lilies under the pine trees where the snow lingered.
Our camera does not do justice to the scent of wild roses.
Those masses of white flowers are dirty sock plant. We call this area the hamper.
This time we made it up Klahane Ridge. We really didn't think we were up for it being a bit out of shape, but we dragged ourselves up, stopping often to catch our breath. The high country flowers are in magnificent bloom, though the glacier lilies are gone. Still, we have no reason to complain about lupines, paintbrush, yarrows, and the hosts of others the names of which we still haven't learned and memorized.
We even saw a family of mountain goats safely perched on a snow ledge far away and above us. That's about the right distance. That's why we bring binoculars, not that the Klahane Ridge climb is in need of scenery what with the distant mountains, alpine flowers, rocky crags and great sky.
Look carefully at that snow ledge to the upper right.
There are mountain goats there, at a safe distance.
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NU Online News Service, July 22, 9:42 a.m. – Life insurers and producers are making one last push to stave off a model regulation that would place variable life and annuity products under the auspices of securities regulators.
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform States Laws, Chicago, is scheduled to vote July 29 or July 30 on amendments to the Uniform Securities Act at its annual meeting in Tucson, Ariz.
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Review: Hundred Year Relationship, Sino-German Academic Communication in the Red Mansion
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Dongguan People's Hospital was firstly built in Qing Dynasty (AD 1888). The predecessor of it was Chinese Christian and Rhenish Hospital, which was established by Basel Evangelical Missionary Society and which was one of the earliest western hospitals. The hospital was built with red walls and green roofs in western style so that the natives called it "Red Mansions Hospital" and this name has lasted to today.
In 2019, Werner Eduard Siebert, a German professor, comes to Dongguan People's Hospital for academic communication to continue the relationship between China and Germany.
Introduction of Experts
Werner Eduard Siebert
President of Vitos Orthopedic Center Kassel
/Director of Adult Hip and Knee Reconstruction Department
Under Prof. Siebert leadership, Vitos Orthopedic Center Kassel has been the largest arthroplasty center in Germany. As an international famous professor of orthopedics and orthopedic surgery, Prof. Siebert participated in the education and training of Marburg University which was for young doctors. Prof. Siebert has ranked in "The Most Famous Hip and Knee Surgeons in Germany" of "FOCUS" for 8 consecutive years.
President of the European Hip Society (EHS) 2014-2016
lPresident Elect of the German Knee Society (DKG) 2017
lPresident Elect of the German Orthopaedic Society (DGOOC) and President Elect of the Congress of German Orthopaedic and Trauma Society (DKOU) 2018
lEditor in Chief of the German Orthopedic Journal "OUP"
Unveiling Ceremony and Welcome Ceremony
In the morning, Prof. Siebert, an international famous master of joint, came to Dongguan People's Hospital to begin his work as an international visiting professor for a week.
Limin Cai, Deputy Party Secretary and President of Dongguan People's Hospital; Zhongjia He, Vice President of Dongguan People's Hospital; Xianyin Liu, Leader of orthopedics; Xueming Zhou, Director of Orthopedic Department; Shizhen Liu, Director of The First Session of Orthopedics Department, Dongguan People's Hospital Wanjiang District; Songbo Liu, Director of The First Session of Orthopedics Department, Dongguan People's Hospital Wanjiang District; Jianen Guo, Director of Orthopedic Department, Dongguan People's Hospital Puji District, etc. held a welcome ceremony for Prof. Siebert. After that, they introduced Vitos Orthopedic Center Kassel and Dongguan People's Hospital respectively to each other in detail.
After that, Prof. Siebert and the representatives of Dongguan People's Hospital unveiled the plaque of Sino-German Joint Communication Centre together. The establishment of Sino-German Joint Communication Centre symbolized a beginning of joint communication of these two hospitals. In the future, there will be more and more international top masters to Dongguan People's Hospital to do academic communication.
After the unveiling ceremony, President Cai introduced to help us learn further about the history of Dongguan People's Hospital. In addition, Prof. Siebert visited the Orthopedic Department and Radiology Department.
Prof. Siebert said although he stayed here for a short time, he would try his best to bring Dongguan People's Hospital new knowledge.
Outpatient Clinic
On March 12th, Prof. Siebert went to outpatient clinic with Xueming Zhou, Director of Orthopedic Department in Dongguan People's Hospital, helping patients solve their problems.
From morning to afternoon, Prof. Siebert and Director Zhou gave diagnosis to more than 30 patients. Some of the patients knew Prof. Siebert's coming, so they came to Dongguan People's Hospital on purpose for the diagnosis by Prof. Siebert.
In the morning, a special patient appeared at the Outpatient Department. She was a teacher before retirement. Unfortunately, she got Parkinson's syndrome, with troubles of amyotrophy. However, though she had been transferred to different hospitals, there was still no solution for her. In a short time, Prof. Siebert proposed relative solutions for her.
Prof. Siebert's excellent medical skills had acquired the recognition of the patient and her families, who said "It was a valuable opportunity for me to get the diagnosis of an international master. The visit of Prof. Siebert has showed the principle of Dongguan People's Hospital------patient is the first. I hope the hospital can continue to organize such relative activities which benefit the people in the future." Director Zhou thought that doing outpatient clinic with Prof. Siebert helped him acquire a lot and he learned a lot of new concept and new methods of medical treatment from Prof. Siebert.
Surgical guidance
Prof. Siebert demonstrated orthopedic surgeries at Dongguan People's Hospital. The first operation was TKA surgery whose primary surgeon was Director Zhou while Prof. Siebert instructed beside. Before the surgery, Prof. Siebert discussed some problems in detail including what kind of approach would be used, how much fat pad should be removed, etc..He explained what should be taken care of during the surgery. In the process of operation, Prof. Siebert helped doctors performed osteotomy and reminded them that they must protect patient's interior ligament. In addition, Prof. Siebert taught them a new skill of hemostasis. The whole process of the surgery was very successful.
Through the procedure, Prof. SIebert made further communication with orthopedics doctors of Dongguan People's Hospital. Both of them broke through the limit of language and country boarder. From theories to practices, they learn the succefful experience from each other.
Total Hip Replacement Surgery as a Primary Surgoen
March 14th , 2019
On March 14th , as the primary surgeon, Prof. Siebert completed a THR surgery, whose patient was a 79 years old female. Prof Siebert applied anterior approach. As the first surgery, the THR surgery was very successful.
For watching Prof. Siebert's medical skills, more than 10 doctors encircled beside the operation bed and studied. Doctors who participated in the surgery, gave exclamations that how fast and fluent the surgery was. They said they had acquired a lot of advanced knowledge and gained a lot.
As an international joint master, Prof. Siebert at least does 600 joint surgeries every year. In the most crazy period, he made an amazing record of 1,200 joint surgeries in a year. Apart from doing surgeries at Vitos Orthopedic Center Kassel, Prof. Siebert has done surgeries for many celebrities and politicians from all over the world.
Signing Framework Agreement of Friendly Hospital Cooperation
In the afternoon of March 15th, Prof. Siebert attended the Conclusion Meeting as a visiting professor. After that, President Cai of Dongguan People's Hospital and Prof. Siebert of Vitos Orthopedic Center Kassel signed the Framework Agreement of Friendly Hospital Cooperation together. In the future, these two hospitals will organize a series of cooperation in clinic, talents, scientific researches and management. Our company will further strengthen the cooperation between Chinese hospitals and European hospitals. Gloryren Orthopedics will be the introducer of orthopedics international diagnosis and treatment standard in China.
At the meeting, Prof. Siebert said he hoped his arrival could make some contributions to Dongguan People's Hospital. In the meanwhile, he said he was fond of the city of Dongguan.
International Open lectures
In the morning of March 16th, Prof. Siebert, an international joint master, gave an international open lecture. For watching the master's medical skills, about 100 people came to study. In the class, Prof. Siebert shared some cases on infections of artificial joints and the treatment of that. He also shared his experience on the application of short stem implants in replacement.
Prof. Siebert said, "In 1891, the first TKA surgery was completed at Themistosicles Gluck in Germany. It has been 129 years for Germany to do TKA surgery. There will be some microbiologists, pathologists and orthopedics experts coming to Vitos Orthopedic Center Kassel for meetings every week. They will discuss cases together. We have a full set of standard management in a brief way so that patients will not be infected by 100%."
Prof. Siebert: Doctors are not artisans.
In the opinion of Prof. Siebert, doctors are neither artisans nor medical machines. The so-called doctor should be the existence of a life-saving ambulance. This view coincides with the views of doctors from the Dongguan People's Hospital. During the week, from academics to technology, from technology to management, both sides broke through the barriers of language and conducted a real exchange.
Director Xueming Zhou: Prof. Siebert has patience and excellent medical skill
In the opinion of Xueming Zhou, Director of Dongguan People's Hospital, Prof. Siebert is a patient and proficient doctor. No matter in outpatient clinic, daily ward rounds or case discussions, Prof. Siebert kept his patience and enthusiasm. In addition, while shared valuable skills, Prof. Siebert shared his management experience.
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