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About Journal of Fluids Engineering
filter your search All ContentAll JournalsJ. Fluids Eng.
An Improved Neural-Network-Based Calibration Method for Aerodynamic Pressure Probes
Hui-Yuan Fan,
Hui-Yuan Fan
Department of Building and Construction, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, HKSAR, P. R. China
SER Turbomachinery Research Center, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
Wei-zhen Lu,
Wei-zhen Lu
Guang Xi,
Guang Xi
Shang-jin Wang
Contributed by the Fluids Engineering Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF FLUIDS ENGINEERING. Manuscript received by the Fluids Engineering Division Jan. 6, 2001; revised manuscript received July 29, 2002. Associate Editor: A. K. Prasad.
J. Fluids Eng. Jan 2003, 125(1): 113-120 (8 pages)
Fan, H., Lu, W., Xi , G., and Wang, S. (January 22, 2003). "An Improved Neural-Network-Based Calibration Method for Aerodynamic Pressure Probes ." ASME. J. Fluids Eng. January 2003; 125(1): 113–120. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1523063
Calibration of multihole aerodynamic pressure probe is a compulsory and important step in applying this kind of probe. This paper presents a new neural-network-based method for the calibration of such probe. A new type of evolutionary algorithm, i.e., differential evolution (DE), which is known as one of the most promising novel evolutionary algorithms, is proposed and applied to the training of the neural networks, which is then used to calibrate a multihole probe in the study. Based on the measured probe's calibration data, a set of multilayered feed-forward neural networks is trained with those data by a modified differential evolution algorithm. The aim of the training is to establish the mapping relations between the port pressures of the probe being calibrated and the properties of the measured flow field. The proposed DE method is illustrated and tested by a real case of calibrating a five-hole probe. The results of numerical simulations show that the new method is feasible and effective.
pressure measurement, probes, calibration, aerodynamics, neural nets, instrumentation
Artificial neural networks, Calibration, Pressure, Probes, Flow (Dynamics), Errors
Rediniotis
Chrysanthakopoulos
Application of Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic to the Calibration of the Seven-Hole Probe
ASME J. Fluids Eng.
Vijayagopal
Miniature Multihole Pressure Probes and Their Neural-Network-Based Calibration
Differential Evolution—A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for Global Optimization Over Continuous Space
J. Global Optim.
Schreck, S. J., Faller, W. E., and Luttges, M. W., 1993, "Neural Network Prediction of Three-Dimensional Unsteady Separated Flow Fields," AIAA Paper No. 93-3426.
Schreck, S. J., and Faller, W. E., 1995, "Encoding of Three-Dimensional Unsteady Separated Flow Field Dynamics in Neural Network Architectures," AIAA Paper No. 95-0103.
McMillen, R. L., Steck, J. E., and Rokhsaz, K., 1995, "Application of an Artificial Neural Network as a Flight Test Data Estimator," AIAA Paper No. 95-0561.
Fan, X. T., Herbert, T., and Haritonidis, J. H., 1995, "Transition Control With Neural Networks," AIAA Paper No. 95-0674.
Price, K., 1999, "An Introduction to DE," New Ideas in Optimization, D. Corne, M. Dorig, and F. Glover eds., McGraw-Hill, London, pp. 78–108.
Storn, R., and Price, K., 1995, "DE–A Simple and Efficient Adaptive Scheme for Global Optimization Over Continuous Space," Technical Report TR-95-012, ICSI, Mar. (via "ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/techreports/1995/tr-95-012.ps.Z).
Takahashi, T. T., 1997, "Measurement of Air Flow Characteristics Using Seven-Hole Cone Probes," NASA Report No. TM-112194.
Zilliac
G. G.
Modeling, Calibration, and Error Analysis of Seven-Hole Pressure Probes
Exp. Fluids
Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Textured Microchannel Flow
J. Fluids Eng
Pressure Loss Coefficients of Ductwork Fitting Combinations with and without Vanes (Baffles)
A Study of the Velocity Field During Mitigation of Vortex Breakdown in Model Francis Turbine at High Load
J. Fluids Eng (April 2023)
Numerical Studies of Bubbles in Swirling Channel Flows
Accelerating the Calibration of Multihole Pressure Probes by Applying Advanced Computational Methods
J. Turbomach (July,2005)
The Compressible Calibration of Miniature Multi-Hole Probes
A Comparison of Data-Reduction Methods for a Seven-Hole Probe
J. Fluids Eng (June,2002)
Extended Angular Range of a Three-Hole Cobra Pressure Probe for Incompressible Flow
J. Fluids Eng (October,2008)
Assessment of Unsteady Pressure Measurement Uncertainty: Part 1 — Single Sensor Probe
Assessment of Unsteady Pressure Measurement Uncertainty: Part 2 — Virtual Three Hole Probe
Development of a Non-Invasive Calibration Method for Ocular Tactile Tonometry
Research on Binocular Camera Calibration Technology Based on the BP Neural Network Algorithm
Experimental Characterization of a Cavitating Orifice
Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018)
Instrument Calibration Methods
Metrology and Instrumentation: Practical Applications for Engineering and Manufacturing

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description The code did not check the integer didn't overflow before trying to resize a buffer. A specially crafted file could result in using memory past the end of the allocated buffer. This security CVEs for this issue (CVE-2016-4563) along with CVE-2016-4562 and CVE-2016-4564 were based on a security advisory that will not be made public. This security fix was generated based only on the surface-level code-change information that is public in GitHub. For more information on this, see: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/476 For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u7. We recommend that you upgrade your imagemagick packages. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.


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Irvine 11; Civil Rights "Heroes"?
The California Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations recently published an article expressing the "Travesty of Justice" involved in the sentencing of the so-called "Irvine 11". The "Irvine 11" case grew out of a conspiracy by a group of Muslim students who planned the disruption of a presentation by the Israeli Ambassador at UC-Irvine. This group consisted of very confused Muslim youth who can neither appreciate common civility nor clearly understand the first amendment to the Constitution.
CAIR's article included comments from usual suspects in the Islamist supremacist movement like the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Muslim American Society.
The most interesting comment came from Hussam Ayloush, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations – Greater Los Angeles Area.
Ayloush compares the actions of petty Islamist thugs who attempted to shut down a speech by an invited guest to the actions of Ms. Rosa Parks? Not one of the "Irvine 11" is fit to carry Ms. Park's bus fare, let alone make a claim to her legacy.
As to Dr. King, does Ayloush really believe that any of the Irvine 11 is being targeted for assassination for their criminal actions on behalf of radical Islam? As for Malcolm X, Ayloush conveniently forgets that he was murdered by fellow Muslims for his beliefs (when not being targeted by the Ku Klux Klan).
Ayloush mentions "history books" in his harangue; perhaps he should read a few before he speaks. To compare the Muslim "civil rights" experience to the American Black civil rights experience is not a comparison, but a shameful insult.
Ayloush and other fellow travelers are obviously attempting to hijack the Black experience in America. We are a different and better country today due to the Civil Rights Movement. Black Americans demanded equal rights, not special rights, and therein lies the difference. When the so-called "Irvine 11" were arrested, there was no Bull Conner running amok with German Shepherd dogs ripping off flesh, no police officers dog-piling Muslims, no firefighters hosing the crowd down with firehouses or frog-marching Muslim suspects to the black maria for a quick trip to the lock-up where they could expect a whipping for being "uppity".
There has been enough standing on the shoulders of Black Americans to claim an undeserved legacy by Islamists. Black Americans do not need or want CAIR casting aspersions on their accomplishments or attempting to water their accomplishments down by comparing them to CAIR's propagandized "modern American Muslim" experience.
If CAIR Terrorist-Supporter Hussam Ayloush wants a "Muslim legacy", fine.
Build it, don't steal it.


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Each pint of blood that is donated is broken up into three parts: red blood cells, platelets, and plasma. Platelets are donated to cancer patients, and plasma is given to burn patients.
The blood is going to the patients at the UCLA hospital, which is one of only a few trauma centers left in Southern California, and is always in dire need of blood.
The hospital treats over 4,000 patients annually. In their lifetime, 90 percent will need a blood product.
Whitman encouraged people to donate because "as a donor, in 45 minutes to one hour we can complete the process and donate a pint of blood that can save lives.
"I think it is good karma. Putting your blood out there is good because you never know when a loved one will need it," Deans' Office Coordinator Ryan Wilson said.
Members of the Harvard-Westlake community were eligible to donate blood if they were 17 or older.
Food and drinks were provided for donors to raise their blood sugar levels after donating.
Chelsea McMahon '10 gives blood every three months, so Thursday's drive seemed routine.
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Oringally posted here: https://gist.github.com/joshfinnie/4046138. Also in need of an update.
Lately, I have been looking into Python CMSs. There are many out there, but for some reason or another Mezzanine stuck out as one I should try. Installing it is easy enough, but getting it up on running on my new favorite host, Heroku, was a bit of a challege.
Below you will find the steps that I took to get Mezzanine up and running on Heroku. Please let me know in the comments below if anything didn't work for you.
First, I added a URLPattern to my urls.py file. This should have been easy enough, but Mezzanine has a catch-all pattern: ("^", include("mezzanine.urls")), which made me manipulate the file a little more than I would have liked. Below is what my URLPatterns now look like for Mezzanine.
Second, I started to use the Gunicorn server to aid in getting my static media served properly. Heroku does not require a Profile to run Django apps, but in that case it uses ****. Since I am a huge fan of the Gunicorn web server, I wanted to eventually serve Mezzanine through it anyways. Adding the below Procfile got Mezzanine running on Gunicorn and successfully got Heroku to serve my static files.
I have included dj-database-url due to Heroku's DATABASES support (See the section called settings.py for more information.). I also include psycopg2 since I am using Heroku's free instance of PostgreSQL for my database.
Like I have said above, this is the way that worked for me, but I am sure it is not the best way of doing it. Let me know in the comments below as to whether this worked for you or not.


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Élie-Louis Decazes, Duque Decazes (Saint-Martin-de-Laye,  – Paris, ) foi um político francês que ocupou o cargo de Primeiro-Ministro da França entre 1819 e 1820 sob o rei Luís XVIII.

Biografia
Élie Decazes nasceu em Saint-Martin-de-Laye, no departamento de Gironde, na região de Aquitânia na França. Ele estudou direito, tornou-se juiz no tribunal do departamento do Sena em 1806, foi designado para o conselho de gabinete de Luís Bonaparte em 1807 e tornou-se assessor jurídico do tribunal de apelação de Paris em 1811.

Imediatamente após a queda do império, ele se declarou um legitimista e permaneceu leal à dinastia Bourbon durante os Cem Dias. Naquela época, ele conheceu o rei Luís XVIII, de quem foi recompensado com a nomeação como prefeito da polícia em Paris em 9 de julho de 1815. Seus sucessos nessa difícil posição lhe renderam o ministério da polícia em 24 de setembro, sucedendo Joseph Fouché.

Tendo sido eleito deputado no departamento do Sena, ele liderou os monarquistas moderados tanto como deputado quanto como ministro. Os moderados estavam em minoria na câmara de 1815, mas Decazes persuadiu Luís XVIII a dissolvê-la e, nas eleições de outubro de 1816, sua facção ganhou a maioria. Nos quatro anos seguintes, Decazes foi convocado a desempenhar um papel de liderança no governo.

Ministro da Polícia
Como ministro da polícia, ele teve que reprimir o Terror Branco da Segunda Restauração, a violência causada pelos Ultrarrealista contra liberais, republicanos e bonapartistas; após a renúncia do duque de Richelieu, ele assumiu de fato o comando do ministério, cujo presidente "formal" era o general Dessolles. Decazes também ocupou o cargo de Ministro do Interior na mesma época. O governo, do qual o Barão Joseph-Dominique Louis foi ministro das finanças, e Laurent de Gouvion-Saint Cyrele permaneceu Ministro da Guerra, era inteiramente formado por liberais moderados; seu primeiro ato foi suprimir o ministério da polícia, pois Decazes o considerava incompatível com o regime de liberdade. Suas reformas colidiram com a hostilidade aberta da Câmara dos Pares, onde os Ultras eram a maioria, e para superar o impasse ele obteve do rei a atribuição de sessenta novos Pars liberais.

Posteriormente, ele se dedicou à reforma da imprensa, eliminando a censura. Com a reorganização das finanças, a proteção das indústrias e a construção de grandes obras públicas, a França recuperou sua prosperidade econômica e o ministro tornou-se popular. Mas os poderes da Santa Aliança não saudaram o crescimento do liberalismo na França. Metternich em particular atribuiu as falhas disto principalmente à "fraqueza" do ministro, e quando em 1819 as eleições gerais confirmaram a tendência, em particular com a eleição do Henri Grégoire, criou-se um debate sobre se havia chegado o momento de colocar em prática os termos dos acordos do Congresso de Aachen. Foi essa ameaça de intervenções externas, mais do que o clamor dos Ultras, que levou Luís XVIII a solicitar uma mudança na lei eleitoral, o que tornaria um "escândalo" como a eleição de Grégoire impossível no futuro.

Primeiro Ministro
Dessolles e o Barão Louis, recusando-se a seguir essa política, renunciaram; Decazes então se tornou o chefe do novo governo em novembro de 1819 . A exclusão de Grégoire da Câmara e as mudanças no direito de voto agravaram as relações com os radicais, mas sem levar a uma reconciliação com os Ultras. As notícias da Revolução Espanhola, em janeiro-março de 1820 , tornaram as coisas ainda piores.

Decazes foi denunciado como o novo Sejano, a moderna Catilina, e quando, em 13 de fevereiro, o duque de Berry foi assassinado, Decazes foi acusado de ser cúmplice. O ministro, prevendo a tempestade que o esperava, de repente renunciou. O rei a princípio os rejeitou: "eles vão atacar" — ele exclamou — "não o seu sistema, meu querido filho, mas o meu." Mas ele acabou sendo forçado a se render à pressão da corte e da família real (17 de fevereiro). Decazes, elevado ao posto de duque, acabou em exílio digno como embaixador na Grã-Bretanha.

Isso encerrou sua carreira. Em dezembro de 1821 voltou ao seu assento na Câmara dos Pares, onde não desistiu de manter suas posições liberais. Com a Revolução de Julho, em 1830, juntou-se o novo reinado de Luís Filipe I de França. Quando isso caiu, em 1848 ele se aposentou pela vida privada.

Maçom, ele foi Soberano Grande Comandante do Conselho Supremo da França do antigo Rito Escocês e aceito de 1838 a 1860 .

Ele fundou uma empresa em 1826 para comercializar o carvão e o ferro de Aveyron e, em 1829, o nome Decazeville foi dado ao principal centro dessa indústria.

Ver também
 Lista de primeiros-ministros da França

Primeiros-ministros da França

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This is a family video edit of some of the fun we got up to over the holidays. It was a lot of driving but once we got to the Rockies it was pure playing in the snow. There was lots and lots of snow. I was nursing a broken rib during this entire time so downhill skiing was out of the question. However it gave me a chance to plant myself behind the camera and get this cool footage. Happy New Year everybody!


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• Accounts Payable is responsible for maintaining good relations with over two thousand suppliers. We also process colleagues' expense claims. All payments need to go through a rigorous checking and validation process.
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Q: SQL Server 2005 - How do I convert image data type to character format Background:  I am a software tester working with a test case management database that stores data using the deprecated image data type.  I am relatively inexperienced with SQL Server.
The problem:  Character data with rich text formatting is stored as an image data type.  Currently the only way to see this data in a human readable format is through the test case management tool itself which I am in the process of replacing. I know that there is no direct way to convert an image data type to character, but clearly there is some way this can be accomplished, given that the test case management software is performing that task.  I have searched this site and have not found any hits. I have also not yet found any solutions by searching the net.
Objective:  My goal is to export the data out of the SQL Server database into an Access database There are fewer than 10,000 rows in the database. At a later stage in the project, the Access database will be upsized to SQL Server.
Request:   Can someone please give me a method for converting the image data type to a character format.
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A: You presumably want to convert to byte data rather than character.  This post at my blog
Save and Restore Files/Images to SQL Server Database might be useful. It contains code for exporting to a byte array and to a file. The entire C# project is downloadable as a zip file.

A: One solution (for human readability) is to pull it out in chunks that you convert from binary to character data. If every byte is valid ASCII, there shouldn't be a problem (although legacy data is often not what you expect).
First, create a table like this:
create table Nums(
  n int primary key
);

and insert the integers from 0 up to at least (maximum image column length in bytes)/8000. Then the following query (untested, so think it through) should get your data out in a relatively useful form. Be sure whatever client you're pulling it to won't truncate strings at smaller than 8000 bytes. (You can do smaller chunks if you want to be opening the result in Notepad or something.)
SELECT
  yourTable.keycolumn,
  Nums.n as chunkPosition,
  CAST(SUBSTRING(imageCol,n*8000+1,8000) AS VARCHAR(8000)) as chunk
FROM yourTable
JOIN Nums
ON Nums.n <= (DATALENGTH(yourTable.imageCol)-1)/8000
ORDER BY yourTable.keycolumn, Nums.n

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Exactly two weeks ago I spent my Thursday evening with these two cuties at the Baltimore Zoo for their session. I am so glad that we did their session here. It was tons of fun and definitely enjoyable for the kids as well! =) We saw lots of animals, no Zebra's though, unfortunately =(. But we did watch a Rhino chase an Ostrich! I had a great time with them that evening and I just love how these images turned out! I'll warn you, this is a long one, as you will see I had many favorites =) So sit back and enjoy!


2010 – individual grant holder of the Max-Plank Institute of Comparative and International Law (Hamburg, Germany), research in the international model of contract of sale under prof. R. Zimmermann advisement.
2004-2005 – individual grant holder of the Fulbright Foundation; research project on "Trusts in Mixed Jurisdictions" at Tulane University Law School (New Orleans, USA), under prof. A. Yiannopoulos advisement.
1997-1998 – individual grant holder of the Research Support Scheme (RSS) of the Open Society Institute; the theme of the research project: "Emerging of Free Individual: Romanistic Perspective on the Postcommunist Institution of Ownership"
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Dozhdev D. "Ars boni et aequi" in the Definition of Law by Celsus: Law between Art and Science, in Works of the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences, 56 (2016) 61-73.
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Final Chapter: Walking Tall è un film del 1977 diretto da Jack Starrett.

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Who wears short shorts, barely-there skirts and plunging necklines? Take a look at this sampling of stars who put quite a bit of themselves on display.
Cutoffs, crop tops and double denim.
Robes are no longer banished to the boudoir.
Think slits and see-through dresses.
Because we have plenty of time to get fit and organized.
The theme? That there was no theme.
Black was the color of the night.
Stranger Things and Selena Quintanilla were popular.
Who wore what on the 2017 Emmy Awards red carpet.
A British actress pretty much stole the spotlight.
Ahead, five fall outfits inspired by Gigi Hadid, high priestess of cozy fashion.
Things were tame, but uplifting.


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The Umbrella Sequence: Sparkler Cliché
Stefan Braidwood
The Umbrella Sequence
Sparkler Cliché
Label: Ohev Recordings
"I hope you are able to take a moment to check out this rock and roll album that we made," drummer and percussionist Aaron Hageback has scribbled on the back of my press release. Without wanting to dent my image as an unimpeachable guardian of musical objectivity, this humble request instantly made me want to like their debut album proper (the quintet having already released an EP, The Disappearing Line/Athena, to reasonable success and much acclaim). Not that such base bribery was really necessary, as if there's any justice an album as strong as this should propel this Minneapolis band at least as far, if not further, than their former labelmates on Ohev, Hot Hot Heat. All deviant musician hopefuls be warned, though -- this only works once, and in the future I'll want to be seeing the cold hard cash and Playboy bunnies in advance.
It has to be said, though, that they already came very strongly recommended -- by my St. Paul-dwelling girlfriend, no less, whose exact words were "a band who finally deserve to be called 'the new Radiohead'". In order to give these words their full weight, I should point out that the lass is the third most Radiohead-obsessed person I have met (and I've met a few). Given that she would probably sell a small town into slavery in order to touch Thom Yorke (whom I've met a few times), I had a quick check out my window for meteors, tidal waves or other signs of an apocalyptic Second Coming before sitting down to have a damn good listen. It turns out that her description was a surprisingly objective sonic one, although this album tones down considerably what was, on the EP, an almost frighteningly close resemblance.
Chief amongst the changes is that singer Ryan Rupprecht only sounds like Thom in flashes now; although given that he seems to be trying to fill Johnny Greenwood's (multi-instru)mentalist role in the band as well, (playing Wurlitzer, "ratty old pump organ", Rhodes, Roland XP-10, acoustic guitar and even the retro-dinky Moog Liberation as well as singing), perhaps he's just too busy to nail his nigh-perfect imitation all the time.
None of this is to say that the resemblance runs anywhere close to a lack of imagination, or mimicked songwriting; The Umbrella Sequence have more than enough strengths (and the odd weakness) of their own. It's just that they've absorbed the full scope of the Radiohead approach from about Kid A onwards and made it their own, using a more Grandaddy-esque range of instruments (see "ratty old pump organ") and melding them to the stutters, beats and drones of recalcitrant electronica in a manner that to my ear is more organic and effective than the colder, more distant and dysfunctional aura of some recent Radiohead efforts.
Whilst they have mastered the emotive and interesting soundscapes (the end of "A Presswood Smile", which tapers off into huge caverns of luminescent fog, is lovely), they come off a lot shorter when it comes to hooks or readily comprehensible, resonant lyrics, though. Whilst the impression is always one of neurotically haunted care, with some intriguing if slightly pretentious imagery, lines like "It doesn't really hurt/anyone/to be nice" (from "Athena") aren't really up to scratch when bands like TV On The Radio are marauding around the alt-rock scene.
With a full, evocative gamut of compositions running from the blissfully expansive, through the waveringly eerie to the aggressively strident (and oddly groovy), though, everything is damn affecting, lyrical shortcomings or no. Whilst they must be getting utterly stick of the comparisons with That Band From Oxford by now, it should be stressed that for a debut album this is quite stunningly realised, assured and varied music- not exactly something you could say of Pablo Honey. To have mastered this much in just two years of playing together is an amazing feat, and one which promises truly great things given a few more years' experience to hone and develop their sound, their songwriting and themselves.
Dear Aaron, I hope not too many moments pass before I get to check out the next rock and roll album that you make, because I like this one lots. Still not entirely sure about the group name, though. Yours, Stefan B.
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List of awards received by Spice Girls
Title: List of awards received by Spice Girls
Subject: Spice Girls, Spice Girls dolls, Giving You Everything, Goodbye (Spice Girls song), Holler (Spice Girls song)
Spice Girls awards and nominations
Wins Nominations
MTV Europe Music Awards
World Music Awards
Awards won 42
Nominations 53
The Spice Girls are a British pop group that released 3 studio albums, 1 greatest hits compilation and 13 singles globally between July 1996 and February 2008. The group, with members Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown and Victoria Beckham, sold more than 80 million records and topped every major albums chart around the world including Britain, United States, Australia, Japan, Canada, France and Germany. After a hiatus of nearly seven years, all five founding members of the group reunited in 2007 for a greatest hits album and a world tour.
American Music Awards 1
Billboard Music Awards 2
Billboard Touring Awards 2.1
Billboard End Of Year Music Charts 2.2
Brit Awards 3
British Academy of Composers and Songwriters Ivor Novello Awards 4
Capital FM Awards 5
Channel V Music Awards (India) 6
Disney Awards 7
Glamour Women of the Year Awards 8
Irish Recording Music Association (IRMA) 9
Juno Awards (Canada) 10
Kids' Choice Awards 11
MTV Awards 12
MTV Europe Music Awards 12.1
MTV Video Music Awards 12.2
National Association of Retail Merchandisers (NARM) (US) 13
Online Music Awards 14
Smash Hits! Awards 15
The Sun Bizarre Awards 16
Vodafone Live Music Awards 17
World Music Awards 18
Created by Dick Clark in 1973, the American Music Awards is an annual music awards ceremony and one of several major annual American music awards shows. Spice Girls has received three American Music Award from three nominations.
1998 Spice Favorite Pop/Rock Album Won
Spice Girls Favorite Pop/Rock New Artist Won
Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group Won
The Spice Girls has won two Top Awards such as Best New Artist and Album Of The Year in 1997.
1997 Spice Girls Best New Artist Won
Spice Album of the Year Won
Billboard Touring Awards
The fifth annual Billboard Touring Awards took place November 20, 2008 in New York City. The Spice Girls won Top Boxscore from Return of the Spice Girls, O2 arena, London December 15 – January 22 (17 shows).
2008 Spice Girls, Return of the Spice Girls Top Boxscore Won
Billboard End Of Year Music Charts
Spice Girls has topped a total of 6 of these year-end charts in two years. In 1997 the Spice Girls wins 5 awards including Billboard's Top Pop Artist and Top Pop Album.
1997 Spice Girls Top Pop Artist – Duo/Group (Singles and Albums) Won
Top New Pop Artist Won
Top Billboard 200 Album Artist – Duo/Group Won
Top Hot 100 Singles Artist – Duo/Group Won
Spice Top Billboard 200 Albums Won
1998 Spice Girls Top Billboard 200 Album Artist – Duo/Group Won
The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The Spice Girls has been nominated nine times and has picked up an impressive five awards, including three special awards, in 1998 a special recognition award for global album sales, in 2000 a special recognition award recognising outstanding talent, previous winners include Elton John, Annie Lennox, u2, The Beatles and Queen, and in 2010 special award recognising the best performances over the 30 years of the Brit Awards.
1997 Spice Girls Best British Group Nominated
Best British Breakthrough Act Nominated
Say You'll Be There Best British Video Won
Wannabe Nominated
Best British Single Won
1998 Spice Girls Best Selling Album Act Won
Spice Up Your Life Best British Video Nominated
2000 Spice Girls Outstanding Contribution To The British Music Industry Won
2010 Brits Performance of 30th Year Won
British Academy of Composers and Songwriters Ivor Novello Awards
1997 Wannabe International Hit Of The Year Won
Best British-Written Single Won
Capital FM Awards
1997 Spice Girls London's Favourite Female Group Won
2008 Capital Icon Award Won
Channel V Music Awards (India)
1997 Spice Best International Album Won
Disney Awards
1998 Spice Girls Best Pop Stars Won
Glamour Women of the Year Awards
2008 Spice Girls Best band Won
Irish Recording Music Association (IRMA)
1997 Spice Best International Pop Album Won
Juno Awards (Canada)
1998 Spice Best Selling Album - Foreign or Domestic Won
1999 Spiceworld Best Selling Album - Foreign or Domestic Nominated
Kids' Choice Awards
1998 Spice Girls Favorite Music Group Nominated
1999 Spice Girls Favorite Group Nominated
The MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA) were established in 1994 by MTV Networks Europe to celebrate the most popular music videos in Europe. The Spice Girls has received three awards from six nominations, in the time span of 1997 to 1998.
1997 Spice Girls Best Dance Nominated
Best Breakthrough Nominated
Best Group Won
Spice Up Your Life MTV Select Nominated
1998 Spice Girls Best Group Won
Best Pop Act Won
The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year. In 1997 The Spice Girls received two nominations, won in the category of Best Dance Video for Wannabe
1997 Wannabe Best Dance Video Won
Say You'll Be There Viewers Choice Award Nominated
National Association of Retail Merchandisers (NARM) (US)
1998 Spice Best-selling Recording Won
Best-selling Chartmaker Recording of the Year Won
Online Music Awards
1998 Spice Album Of The Year Won
Smash Hits! Awards
The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party was an awards ceremony which ran from 1988 to 2005. Each award winner was voted by readers of the Smash Hits magazine. It ended with the closure of the magazine in February 2006. The Spice Girls won four awards.
1996 Spice Girls Best British Group Won
Best New Act Won
Say You'll Be There Best Pop Video Won
The Sun Bizarre Awards
2007 Spice Girls Best Comeback Won
Vodafone Live Music Awards
2008 Spice Girls Best Live Return Won
The World Music Award is an international awards show founded in 1989 that annually honors recording artists based on worldwide sales figures provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The Spice Girls has received three awards from three nominations.
1997 Spice Girls Best Female Newcomers Won
1998 Worlds Best Selling Pop Artist/Group Won
Best Selling British Artist/Group Won
Spiceworld
"Wannabe"
"Say You'll Be There"
"2 Become 1"
"Mama/Who Do You Think You Are"
"Spice Up Your Life"
"Too Much"
"Stop"
"Viva Forever"
"Holler/Let Love Lead the Way"
"Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)"
"Step to Me"
"Move Over"
"(How Does It Feel to Be) On Top of the World?"
"It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)"
Concerts and tours
Girl Power! Live in Istanbul
Spiceworld Tour
Christmas in Spiceworld
The Return of the Spice Girls
One Hour of Girl Power
Live at Wembley Stadium
Giving You Everything
Simon Fuller
Michelle Stephenson
Viva Forever! The Musical
2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony
Lists of awards by musician
British music-related lists
Spice (album)
Spice Girls, Michael Jackson, Pop music, Recording Industry Association of America, U2
Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Bbc, The Beatles
Robbie Williams, Take That, Spice Girls, Coldplay, Kylie Minogue
Katy Perry, United Kingdom, Christina Aguilera, MTV Europe Music Award for Best Rock, MTV Europe Music Award for Best Song
Spice Girls, Brit Awards, Dannii Minogue, Australia's Got Talent, Girls Aloud
Spice Girls dolls
Spice Girls, Geri Halliwell, Christmas, Ebay, Music video
Spice Girls, United Kingdom, Bbc, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton
Goodbye (Spice Girls song)
Spice Girls, Geri Halliwell, Virgin Records, Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton
Holler (Spice Girls song)
Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Let Love Lead the Way


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Big game in the Western Conference playoff race on Thursday night as Winnipeg visits division rival Colorado. The Jets are in the playoffs but battling for the Central Division title. The Avalanche are in a dogfight for the last wild-card spot but slight NHL betting favorites here. They could clinch a spot.
Teams have split four meetings. They last played Feb. 20 in Denver and the Jets suffered one of their worst losses of the year, 7-1. It was actually scoreless after one period and only 2-0 Avalanche after two. Nathan MacKinnon and Matt Calvert scored 11 seconds apart in the third period, and Semyon Varlamov made 26 saves. Carl Soderberg, Mikko Rantanen, Tyson Jost, Gabriel Landeskog, and A.J. Greer also scored to lead Colorado. The only score Varlamov allowed was to Kyle Connor in the third period with Colorado staked to a 4-0 lead. Connor Hellebuyck stopped 39 shots for Winnipeg.
As of this writing, the Jets and Nashville Predators are tied for the Central Division lead with 96 points and two games to go for each. Winnipeg comes off a 5-1 loss in Minnesota and closes the season Saturday in Arizona.
Jacob Trouba scored a shorthanded goal in Tuesday's loss. The Jets were down four goals when Trouba used his backhand to get Winnipeg on the board with under four minutes left in the second period. It's nine points for the 25-year-old blueliner in his last nine games, bringing him to seven goals and 48 points in 80 games this season.
Eric Comrie allowed five goals on 28 shots. It was Comrie's first start of the season. Should be No. 1 Connor Hellebuyck back in there Thursday. Hellebuyck turned aside 25 of 28 shots in Monday's 4-3 OT win over the Chicago Blackhawks. The victory put an end to Hellebuyck's three-game losing skid. He owns a 33-23-2 record with a 2.91 goals-against-average and a .913 save percentage this season.
Winnipeg forward Brandon Tanev left Tuesday an upper-body injury. Tanev has played in all 80 games this season and has 14 goals and 15 assists. Tanev appeared to suffer a hand or finger injury on a slash from Wild forward Eric Staal during the first period. Not yet clear on his status.
The Avs hold the second wild-card spot as of this writing and could clinch here with a point. They come off a big 6-2 home win over Edmonton on Tuesday. Down 2-0, the Avalanche scored four times in the second period. All four goals were scored in a 7:08 span. Colorado extended its lead over Arizona to four points for the final wild-card spot in the West. Both teams have two games remaining.
Alexander Kerfoot registered a pair of goals with a plus-2 rating in Tuesday's win. The 24-year-old British Columbia native has been a huge part of the Avalanche's push for a playoff spot. He has rolled up four goals and eight points during his six-game point streak.
Gabriel Landeskog posted a pair of assists with a plus-1 rating. Landeskog had an assist on an even-strength goal and a helper on the power play. He has racked up a goal and five points in his three-game point streak since returning from an upper-body injury.
Tyson Barrie went for a goal, an assist, and a plus-5 rating Tuesday. Barrie has registered seven goals with 14 points and a plus-4 rating across the past 14 games, and five of the helpers have come on the power play. His second point of the night gave him 58 points for a new career high. Semyon Varlamov allowed just two goals on 29 shots.
The Avs remain without excellent winger Mikko Rantanen. Rantanen is still out with an upper-body injury, which is reportedly a midsection issue. He hasn't played since March 21 and a timetable for his return remains unclear.


text: Q: Cronbach alpha application I developed a questionnaire to measure some factors influence in decision using related literature and after some interviews. Now I have to validate and see how to distribute among the target group. I collected data from 40 students since my target population is 400. So when I run Cronbach alpha in SPSS it turned out to be more than 0.9 with all items. Does this confirm the internal validity of this instrument so I can proceed or do I have to check it further?


A photolithography enhancement technique for offsetting the optical proximity effect, a phenomenon in which photomask patterns transferred onto a photoresist under insufficient resolution develop inaccuracies. OPC offsets those image errors by adding intricate modifications to the original photomask pattern, so the projected image on the photoresist accurately reflects the intended circuit pattern.
A coinage combining opto- (a prefix meaning light) and electronics. The word refers to technologies enabling conversion of electric signals into light and vice versa. Representative optoelectronic devices include optical fibers and LEDs.
In p-type semiconductors, electron holes move when a voltage is applied, carrying positive charge to produce an electric current. P-type semiconductors are created by doping quadrivalent semiconductor materials (such as silicon) with trace amount of trivalent elements (such as boron).
A process of exposing a photomask pattern onto a photoresist-coated substrate to transfer the pattern using ultraviolet or visible light. Either a contact/proximity system or a projection system is used depending on the preferred exposure method.
A plate used in a lithographic exposure system for transferring a circuit pattern onto a photoresist-coated wafer in the IC/LSI fabrication process. Typically, a photomask is a plate of fused quartz on which a circuit pattern is formed using chromium (Cr) or other opaque materials.
A type of semiconductor manufacturing equipment used to fabricate photomasks by forming a pattern of integrated circuits on glass plates. Photomasks are similar in function to negative film. The mainstream mask-making technology has shifted from optical lens-based tools to electron beam lithography tools.
A light-sensitive resin coating used to transfer masked circuit patterns on a substrate by means of exposure and development. The type of photoresist in which the exposed portion is removed is called a positive photoresist, and one in which the exposed portion remains is called a negative photoresist.
A type of flat panel display which, along with LCD, attracted a lot of attention as the next-generation display technology when it came out. A plasma display panel has numerous tiny cells encapsulating neon and other noble gases. When a voltage is applied, the gases in each cell light up and form images on the screen.
An insulated substrate on which an electronic circuit pattern is formed. Capacitors and other electronic components are soldered on the PCB to complete the circuit. Among its varieties are multi-layered PCBs and flexible PCBs.
A type of DRAM developed by U.S.-based Rambus Incorporated featuring an ultra-fast interface. The device was originally touted to be the next-generation DRAM with a 500 MB/s bandwidth, which was five to ten times greater than conventional DRAMs. However, it failed to become the next industry standard due to stiff pricing, and was replaced by double data rate synchronous dynamic random-access memory (DDR SDRAM) devices. Today, Rambus DRAMs have very limited applications.


Basic income is promising and inevitable. But the details need to be worked out.
Basic income has been a topic of intense scruitny in India over the last few years. 2017 Economic Survey even wrote a report on Universal Basic Income (UBI) and its feasibility. Political parties across the spectrum have been toying with the idea.
A minimum income guarantee scheme like NYAY (Nyuntam Aay Yojana) that has been proposed by Indian National Congress is a difficult to implement but a feasible scheme, contrary to the emerging narrative that its an impossible and unfeasible idea. Middle class in India gets 1% of GDP as yearly subsidies from GoI. Total subsidies by GoI amount to 2% of total GDP, and much of it is subsidy given on food. GoI's social sector schemes cost 3.7% of yearly GDP (not including the 2% subsides). A basic income scheme such as NYAY scheme which covers 20% of poorest households, will cost 2% of the yearly GDP. It is not at all in the impossible terrain.
Funding a basic income scheme that costs 2% of the total GDP is especially feasible in an economy that grows at 6-8% each year. This implies that a fraction of gains that India makes each year go to the poorest Indians. The proposal that 20% of India's population should be guaranteed 2% of India's GDP is not a radical idea. Such a scheme is also inevitable, as cash transfers become easier, and it will not come to me as a surprise if BJP were also mulling over similar ideas (afterall the UBI report came under their government, and they proposed a minimal basic income for farmers).
It is also important to consider that a basic income format of welfare was simply not feasible in a pre-IT era. A basic income based social welfare has become a possibility because of two key innovations that characterize India's development in 2010s: 1) development of a robust framework of universal identity (UID/Adhaar) system and online and mobile banking infrastructure, and 2) significant exapansion in bank access for people. However, NYAY is just one proposal. There are many alternative ways of distributing basic income.
How much of welfare should be as a transfer in cash, and not in kind? Should cash transfer replace for example health subsidies? Probably not.
Who should get a cash transfer? Everyone (UBI), vs. the poor (like NYAY). The problem with "means tested" scheme like NYAY is that they are difficult to target. If income is a qualification for basic income then people are bound to underreport their income to get these benefits.
Where will this money come from? Should it be through cuts in other in-kind welfare programs (which is inevitable), or as deficit? Currently India may not have the fiscal capacity to add large spending, and so if such a scheme is to be implemented, then it has to include cuts from other spendings, or else drastic improvements in revenue collection which still remains at the low end in India as a fraction of GDP (due to low tax base and a large unformalized sector).
Personally I am of the view that social welfare schemes should be as universal and unconditional as possible (although not always feasible), because implementing targeted and means-tested schemes open up a backdoor for inefficiency, bureaucracy and corruption. Bo Rothstein has a fantastic book on Quality of Government, which promotes the notion of impartial governance. So, I tend to favour basic income schemes that are universal and unconditional (hence a UBI), and at the same time do not completely substitute some in-kind welfare schemes like healthcare and education. I believe policies targeting the poor, should provide some income relief through cash transfers as a UBI, but other forms of in-kind relief (such as accessible healthcare, education, housing and amenities) cannot be replaced. Social welfare should still be seen as a basket of programs, which aid people in their incomes (yes), but also in their consumption.
Pegged at 3% of India's GDP, and targeting about half a billion children of India, every child below 18 years of age will get an unconditional yearly cash transfer of ₹ 12000, remunerated monthly at ₹ 1000. As India's GDP rises (if very conservatively at 5%, when realistically we expect it to be @7-10%), then this income will rise too. Today, an yearly income of ₹ 12000, will be equal to ₹ 28900 in 18 years (@ 5%), and a total value of such saving (at 5% interest rate), will be about ₹ 5.2lack (₹ 2.16 lack NPV), that a child will be entitled to once they enter adulthood. A part of this income can be utilised by parents to fund unconditional expenses (which are expected to rise with a new child), but families will be nudged to freeze all the money for 18 years, and use this saving as a collateral for short duration interest free loans (short credit) if they so need. If they fail to return the money, then that amount will be deducted from this pool. There will also be a cap where parents with more than two children will be frozen off from utilising any money from their third child's account. So, families with two children, will get an yearly assistance of ₹ 24,000 (present day value).
Hence, if I were a policy maker, a combination of instruments will be my preferred choice to ensure that an important demography of Indians (children), are better off in the future, and their family members are protected from risks. To this I will also add a comprehensive healthcare scheme about which I have written before. Government's Ayushman Bharat Yojana is an important milestone providing a significant health insurance (a key area of vulnerability) to India's 10 crore poorest households. As Guardian puts it "It's a godsend". To the Ayushman Bharat Yojana and my preferred model of subsystem-specific healthcare, I would also add a specialised healthcare program that provides unconditional healthcare coverage to all children. The money for such a scheme can partly come from the large savings pool that National Childhood Fund will create.


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Here are some nice vintage images of the Kings of England.
These are engraved prints from a Victorian book.
since there were a few female monarch in the line.
He died 1376 and was never crowned king.
He died in the Tower of London - murder is speculated.
He and his brother disappeared in the Tower of London, there is much speculation as to what happened to the two boys but many believe their Uncle and successor to the throne had them killed.
and she was executed for high treason.
to the English throne in the Union of the Crowns.
an order of Parliament due to his father's mental illness.


To design a Master Plan for a privately held publicly accessible Park including accommodations for the future development of the Erie to Pittsburgh Trail.
Situated along the Allegheny River in the historic Pittsburgh suburb of Aspinwall, the 13-acre Aspinwall Riverfront Park (ARP) provides the community with public access to its riverfront in more than 100 years. The Park is located on a working waterfront that includes a private marina, a federal lock and dam facility, a water treatment facility and a former metal scrap yard. The Master Plan leverages this working waterfront to create a fiscally sustainable development model by maintaining the existing private marina on-site. In addition to capitalizing on some shared amenities, revenues from the marina operations will directly fund maintenance costs for the park.
The ARP design concept, "Raindrops to River", furthers the principle of sustainable development through the implementation of an artistic passive stormwater management and infiltration system, a landform amphitheater, a man-made wetland and a partnership with the neighboring Pittsburgh Water and Sewage Authority facility. This learning landscape will teach future generations about sustainable stormwater management and drinking water treatment.
ARP serves as an important link in the proposed Erie-to-Pittsburgh Trail and accommodates this future trail connection as well as provides over a mile of internal trails. Other key features include a sculptural playscape and public art.
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Getting Real: How Social Media Is Revolutionizing the Way Businesses Connect
FedEx| 19 December 2018
Key social media innovations which are changing how businesses are connecting with customers – which have had the greatest impact on your business?
The latest ideas for connecting with customers on social media have one thing in common: They're all about realness. New facial-recognition technology is primed to start letting brands know how consumers really feel. Virtual environments incorporate so-real-you-could-pick-them-up branded objects. Highly relevant event content gets pushed out in nearly real time. And today's chatbots mimic real, live humans to spark warm feelings about brands. Here's a look at what's working today and what's on the way.
Face Facts
Remember when facial-recognition technology seemed impossibly futuristic, à la Minority Report? Now, we're immersed in it daily: Facebook uses a facial-recognition algorithm to suggest friends to tag in your photos, and you can use a scan of your face to unlock your new iPhone X.
The photo-sharing social network Polygram, launched in 2017, makes the leap from recognizing faces to recognizing emotions. When you post a photo, it shows you how viewers react. The app uses a convolutional neural network to scan the viewer's face, detect how it moves — smile, frown, raised eyebrows, eye roll — and map the reaction onto the appropriate emoji. The app reports back to you how many people looked at your post, how they reacted and how long they spent viewing it. It's a consumer-only app for now, but before long brands will be able to harness this next-level artificial intelligence to gather and monitor unfiltered customer reactions on the spot.
Object Lessons
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are social media's next big things, with platforms such as Snapchat pioneering the use of 3D lenses and virtual avatars. Now Facebook Spaces is getting into the action, with a beta experience using its own Oculus Rift headset. To incorporate pop-up advertising seamlessly into the immersive experience, a software platform called Trivver can place advertisers' branded objects into VR and AR environments so users can interact with them.
A Facebook user hanging out with friends in Facebook Spaces might spot a virtual energy drink sitting on a virtual table. Trivver's "smart tab" can pop up information about the drink and let the user share his or her find with friends, receive coupons and more. Trivver not only places objects in appropriate environments, it also targets the right viewers and keeps track of what they've already seen so they don't get brand fatigue. The company envisions opportunities for placing branded objects in VR and AR versions of sporting events, video games, concerts, movies and TV shows.
#ShoesAndNews
You know Adidas as a company that makes athletic shoes, apparel and accessories — but to cement its relationship with customers, it's also in the news business.
To keep conversation about Adidas going on social media 24/7, teams in the company's 12 digital newsrooms across the globe monitor trending topics and generate up-to-the-second content specifically for platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat, as well as the company's own digital properties. At the company's U.S. headquarters in Portland, Oregon, newsroom team members from public relations, social strategy, moderation, crisis and risk management, and analytics are housed together so they can "listen, react, analyze, repeat," in the words of managing editor Chris Murphy — and can purchase digital ads on the spot thanks to an on-site media buyer.
During the UEFA EURO 2016 soccer tournament, newsroom content earned Adidas more than 1.1 million social media shares. That's more than twice the number of shares posted by Nike, even though Nike's social media followership was almost double that of Adidas. The next major assignment for Adidas newsroom teams: the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, where play begins in mid-June.
Beauty and the Bot
Millennials are notorious for hating phone calls, but they're big fans of chatbots: 70 percent of consumers ages 18–34 who have used a chatbot to engage with a brand had a positive experience with it, reports a 2017 survey by mobile shopping company Retale. To reach young consumers where they live, many chatbots are moving off company websites and onto social media.
One of the first branded chatbots on the Kik instant messaging app was launched this year by beauty retailer Sephora. Kik's 300 million users are mostly teens — a prime audience for the bot's beauty tips, makeup demos and product recommendations, which users can purchase without ever leaving Kik. (Facebook Messenger, which reaches more than 700 million users, offers a similar function.)
Sephora has also experimented with bot-promoted contests, including Kik's first-ever sweepstakes and an auction for beauty samples, in which bidders used Kik's digital rewards points, normally used for in-app purchases such as stickers. Both massively exceeded expectations for engagement levels, according to Bindu Shah, Sephora vice president of digital marketing and media, who reported to Women's Wear Daily that Sephora was "amazed at the level of engagement, which was significantly higher than standard contest metrics on social platforms." "We were also thrilled that the sweepstakes enabled us to collect actionable insight from our users, all while giving them a fun and rewarding experience," she said.
How could social media innovations help your business?


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2022 World Cup Predictions – Betting Guide and Tips
The 2022 world cup predictions can be really helpful for a true fan, and if there's a listing of the biggest sporting event on the planet, then there's a big chance that the World Cup sits on top of that list.
Run and sanctioned by the Federation Internationale de Football Association, the FIFA World Cup is arguably the most popular and closely watched sporting event in the world.
As a sporting event, the World Cup is closely followed by billions of fans and spectators. Starting in 1930, the World Cup is hosted once every four years with the exception in 1942 and 1946 due to the war. Before the Cup is hosted in a designated country, different organizations and countries host the qualification phase. This series of events and matches is conducted to identify which teams will advance to the Cup.
As a tournament, the World Cup features 32 teams which include the host nation. Throughout history, there were 21 World Cups that have been played and several countries have won the Cup multiple times. One of the biggest teams in the world is Brazil which won the championship five times and this is the only team that has played in all World Cups. In the last World Cup, the French team emerged victoriously. As mentioned, this is the most prestigious football tournament or even a sporting event in the world. According to some estimates, billions of people often watched the Cup through the years. In the last World Cup (2018), more than 3 million people attended the games. This number is on top of the viewers that followed the games on television.
2022 World Cup Predictions
The popularity of this sporting event can also be seen in the amount of betting activity that happens before and during the World Cup. Months before the start of the Cup, online sportsbooks will often host their respective World Cup betting tips. Sportsbooks and their in-house experts and analysts are known to show their sports prediction and tips. And this is exactly what happened in the last World Cup when top sportsbooks also published their World Cup 2018 final prediction months ahead. And with the 2022 World Cup still many months ahead, the sportsbooks are now busy providing players and enthusiasts and tips on the best odds and picks with their 2022 world cup predictions.
Different Types of Bets You Can Make Online
Betting on World Cup is an exciting and challenging activity. With millions of other players and enthusiasts betting on the games, you will easily feel the excitement and challenge. And since the next World Cup is still several months away, then now is the right time to prepare for the biggest sporting event on the planet with the 2022 world cup predictions. One way to prepare for this is by reviewing the different types of bets that you can make in the 2022 World Cup. Here's a quick look at the different types of bets that you can make in the World Cup.
Moneyline Betting. If you are new in World Cup betting, then this is the most recommended bet that you can make. In the Moneyline bet, you simply place your money on the team that you think will win the match. For example, the match is between Spain and Portugal and you feel that Spain has the edge. Simply make that bet on Spain winning the match. Your payout will depend on the published odds of the casino or sportsbook. If Spain is represented with the use of a negative sign (-), it means that the Spanish team is favored to win the match. The Moneyline odds published in online casinos and sportsbook will tell you the amount of payout that you can collect after the match. The underdog is represented with the positive sign (+). If Portugal comes with published odds of +313, it only means that your $100 bet on this team will net you $313.
Over/Under Betting. In World Cup betting tips and predictions, this bet is also known as the 'Total'. This is also highly recommended if you are a beginner and wants to participate in sports betting. Under this betting arrangement, you will simply predict if the total or combined scores of the two teams will go under or over the listed score. For example, in the same match, the Over/Under number is published at +2.5. You will bet if the combined score of the teams will go beyond this number or stay below. If you think that the teams can only make two goals or less, then put your money on the Under bet.
Team Betting. The leading online sportsbooks will also give you a chance to bet on teams. For example, you can bet on the outcome of a team in its group, in every stage. For example, will the United States team qualify from their group? Will the Mexican team reach the semi-finals? Can Spain manage a final appearance? All these will fall into the team betting arrangement.
These are just three of the most popular bets that you can make online. Before you start betting online, it's always best that you check out the different types of bets. More importantly, you should always have access to World Cup final predictions or FIFA predictor since these can help you make an informed bet all the time.
Hottest Picks for 2022 as of Today
The 2022 World Cup is still 2 years away but the sporting world and the analysts are all buzzing about their World Cup Final predictions and their expert picks on which teams will dominate the competition. The excitement and anticipation are building up and these are partly motivated by the release of schedules for qualifying games and tournaments that are expected to start this year. Also, the excitement and the increasing number of FIFA World Cup predictions can be attributed to player movements and other news focused on individual players.
With several news items about player movements, salary negotiations, and personal troubles of players, the interest on World Cup betting intensifies. So which teas are expected to dominate the 2022 World Cup? And which teams are expected to deliver an average or even mediocre performances? According to some leading oddsmakers and sportsbooks and their 2022 world cup predictions, the following are the top picks and World Cup 2018 final prediction:
France, 5/1
Brazil, 7/1
Spain, 15/2
Germany, 8/1
Belgium, 11/1
Argentina, 12/1
Italy, 18/1
Netherlands, 20/1
England, 20/1
Other teams in contention, at least according to leading oddsmakers are:
Portugal, 28/1
Uruguay, 40/1
Chile, 50/1
Colombia, 50/1
Croatia, 50/1
Mexico, 50/1
Based on the many emerging World Cup Final predictions and tips, it seems that France is still the heavy favorite to take home the prize. After winning the top prize in the last edition of the Cup, the French team is strong as ever to reclaim the top prize in the sport. And what's more interesting about the scenario is that Kylian Mbappe, named the best young player, will only turn 23 years of age at the next tournament! In short, the French team has a young gun that can sustain the run and endurance of the team.
When it comes to the 2022 World Cup predictions, it is foolishness to discount the chances of Brazil. If the Brazilian team retains its competent coach and Neymar and Philippe Countinho continue their improvement, then there's a big chance that they can become a threat in the next World Cup. In the FIFA World Cup 2022 predictions, Netherlands and Italy are also in the mix although they are 'seeded' lower this time. Both teams are in the rebuilding mode which affects their chances of capturing the trophy. Although these teams are struggling to rebuild, these are still strong teams and they are also on top of the leading World Cup betting tips. Spain is a safe choice when it comes to the 2022 World Cup predictions. This team has the third-best odds of winning the World Cup. The United States, another popular team in the world, is also decently favored. It's outside the Top 15 but still boasts decent odds to become successful in 2022. And if you are wondering about host Qatar well, it has a 200/1 odds to win the championship.
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Other Tips to Keep in Mind When Betting on 2022 World Cup
Betting on World Cup has its own set of challenges. If you are planning to participate in betting online, then we highly recommend that you consider and follow the tips as listed below.
Read and follow the latest news and updates about the participating teams. The next World Cup is more than 2 years away and this serves as a great opportunity for you to learn about their strengths and weaknesses. Top sports sites like ESPN and CNN can serve as your source of top news about players, their health, and how they are preparing for the World Cup.
Check out FIFA World Cup 22 predictions. Online sportsbooks are always quick on the draw when it comes to odds and predictions. You can start checking out their in-depth analyses to find out which teams are favored to win.
Choose a reliable and secure online sportsbook. It is also important that you consider the site where you will place your World Cup bets. Make sure that the online sportsbooks are licensed and fully encrypted. Also, the websites should offer the best bonuses and free bets that you can use online.
Consider these 2022 world cup predictions and tips when you want to become successful in World Cup betting. And since the actual event is still months away, you can use this time to learn more about the Cup, the different bets to make, and use the available World Cup betting tips to improve your chances.
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1 2022 World Cup Predictions
1.1 Different Types of Bets You Can Make Online
1.2 Hottest Picks for 2022 as of Today
1.3 Other Tips to Keep in Mind When Betting on 2022 World Cup