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S. Korean tech giants feeling edgy over US-China trade disputes
Trade war could jeopardise several core businesses for Korean tech giants.
Written by The Korea Herald
South Korea's tech giants including Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are increasingly on edge over the ongoing economic brinkmanship between the United States and China, in light of a reported warning from Beijing not to cooperate with the Trump administration's China ban, according to industry sources Sunday.
"We will need to step up monitoring on the issue," said an official from one of the major companies based in Seoul. "Companies here will watch the situation closely, hoping to hear from the Korean government."
The comment was made after the New York Times reported that the Chinese government had summoned representatives of global tech companies, including Samsung and SK hynix, from Korea to Beijing and warned of "dire consequences" if they cooperated with the Trump administration's ban on Chinese firms. The meeting also included representatives of Microsoft and Dell from the US and Arm from the United Kingdom, the newspaper reported.
Samsung and SK hynix declined to comment, saying that doing so could worsen the situation in which they both find themselves — caught in the middle of escalating trade disputes.
Since the US president's executive order, issued May 15, barring American companies from using telecommunications equipment manufactured by China's Huawei, Korean companies that have business ties with the Chinese tech group have been monitoring the situation closely in the hope that it will have no direct impact on their businesses. It has yet to be seen how the order will impact their relationships with Huawei.
But the Korean companies are feeling greater tensions in recent days because the Chinese government is putting pressure on their Beijing-based entities.
Huawei, a manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and mobile devices, is a major customer of Korean chipmakers Samsung and SK hynix.
Samsung is engaged in rivalry with the Chinese company in the smartphone market, but it also sells DRAM and NAND flash chips to Huawei. The company is known as one of its five biggest customers, accounting for about 5 percent of its sales. Huawei accounts for 5 to 10 percent of SK hynix's total revenue, according to financial industry forecasts.
In the short run, some say the sanctions on Huawei could help Samsung increase its share in the global smartphone market.
A report by Strategy Analytics said Samsung could ship out around 315 million smartphones this year, easily maintaining the top position with a 23 percent share. If the sanctions continue, Samsung's market share could further expand to 24.5 percent in 2020.
"The losses Samsung is facing due to decreased memory chip sales to China could be offset by gains in the smartphone business," a market watcher said.
However, some in the Korean business community fear the possibility of the US-China dispute spiraling into a crisis similar to the so-called "THAAD crisis" of 2017, when Korean retailers such as Lotte suffered massive losses in China. Chinese consumers boycotted Korean products due to their ire over Korea's decision to deploy the US missile defense system.
"Korean firms as well as the government are in a dilemma, being unable to do anything as they are sandwiched between the US and China," said a Korean industry insider. "It reminds me of the past THAAD crisis."
While the THADD crisis dealt a blow to Korea's retail sector, the latest US-China fight seems to be having an impact on its industries as a whole — including the IT, retail and K-pop sectors.
Due to the trade war between the two superpowers, Korea's semiconductor exports to China plunged 38.7 percent on-month in May, according to data from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
"It is more fearsome that if any of our actions (by the Korean government or companies) creates anti-Korean sentiment again like back in 2017, the impact on IT exports will hit the retail and cultural sectors as well," he said.
About the Author: The Korea Herald	The Korea Herald is the nation's largest English-language daily and the country's sole member of the Asia News Network.
Thai-Chinese consortium to build world's largest hydro-floating solar project for Thai electricity agency
Under the Power Development Plan BE 2561-2580 (PDP2018), the first hydro-floating solar hybrid project has been implemented by Egat at Sirindhorn Dam. The consortium of BGRIM Power – Energy China , comprising B Grimm Power Plc (BGRIM) and China Energy Engineering Group Shanxi Electric Power Engineering Co Ltd. (Energy China) has signed a EPC contract to build the world's largest hydro-floating solar hybrid project for the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat). Under the Power Development Plan BE 2561-2580 (PDP2018), the first hydro-floating solar hybrid project has been implemented by Egat at Sirindhorn Dam. BGRIMM Power – Energy China consortium as selected bidder with the deal worth over Bt842 million, will construct and install a 4
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China, Myanmar have productive exchange during Xi's visit
A number of cooperation documents were exchanged by China and Myanmar covering areas as politics, trade, investment and people-to-people communications amid President Xi Jinping's state visit on Saturday. China and Myanmar exchanged a number of cooperation documents covering such areas as politics, trade, investment and people-to-people communications amid President Xi Jinping's state visit on Saturday.The exchange ceremony was attended by Xi and Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. The two countries issued a joint statement the same day.In his talks with Aung San Suu Kyi, Xi said the two countries should speed up connecting development strategies and jointly push the building of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor.Hailing the corridor as a flagship


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Q: empty file in force download - what is wrong? i using the following code to force download files in php
<?PHP
    $id =$_GET['id'];

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `blog` WHERE  id = '" . $id . "' LIMIT 1")or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){

        $file_name = $row[url]; //  "wwyypyv6.pdf"
        $file_type = $row[type]; // "application/pdf"
        $file_url = 'http://emfhal.hostech.co.il/upload/' . $file_name;
    }
        header("Content-Type: " . $file_type);
        header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file_name");
        readfile($file_url);
        exit();

    ?>

When I use this code to download this pdf file (only used for testing purposes), I open the downloaded , and all it gives me is an file empty. i tried it in chrome. opening it with windows and google chrome, it says that it can't display the pdf file because it is empty???

A: Correct solution:
// grab the requested file's name
$file_name = $_GET['file'];

// make sure it's a file before doing anything!
if(is_file($file_name)) {

    /*
        Do any processing you'd like here:
        1.  Increment a counter
        2.  Do something with the DB
        3.  Check user permissions
        4.  Anything you want!
    */

    // required for IE
    if(ini_get('zlib.output_compression')) { ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 'Off'); }

    // get the file mime type using the file extension
    switch(strtolower(substr(strrchr($file_name, '.'), 1))) {
        case 'pdf': $mime = 'application/pdf'; break;
        case 'zip': $mime = 'application/zip'; break;
        case 'jpeg':
        case 'jpg': $mime = 'image/jpg'; break;
        default: $mime = 'application/force-download';
    }
    header('Pragma: public');   // required
    header('Expires: 0');       // no cache
    header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
    header('Last-Modified: '.gmdate ('D, d M Y H:i:s', filemtime ($file_name)).' GMT');
    header('Cache-Control: private',false);
    header('Content-Type: '.$mime);
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($file_name).'"');
    header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
    header('Content-Length: '.filesize($file_name));    // provide file size
    header('Connection: close');
    readfile($file_name);       // push it out
    exit();

}

A: Use relative or absolute path for the local file being read, or if using http then enable the fopen wrapper for it:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/filesystem.configuration.php#ini.allow-url-fopen

This option enables the URL-aware fopen wrappers that enable accessing
  URL object like files. Default wrappers are provided for the access of
  remote files using the ftp or http protocol, some extensions like zlib
  may register additional wrappers.

Add/modify this line in your php.ini file:
allow_url_fopen = On

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Travelling is my forte, I have visited many different countries but The Netherlands has never been one of them – unless you count a brief transfer in Schiphol airport. The trip was organised for my birthday by my samboer (which means 'partner you live with' in Norwegian) and so we wanted to make it a romantic city trip, see the sights of Amsterdam and have an alternative visit that would be different to the stories you may hear of most people that visit for none other than the 'local produce'.
We stayed at the IBIS Stopera hotel located just outside of the city centre, the price was very reasonable for a double room which also included buffet breakfast which we took full advantage of. The staff were very helpful and the walk into town was about 10-15 minutes which wasn't a problem for athletes like us – especially when you get to walk along the canal occupied streets.
So, what did we do? Well we visited the Van Gogh museum, The Banksy / Dali exhibit at the Moco Museum, the ARTIS zoo and had a quick look in the Cheese museum. We only had one full day to spend doing things so had to manage our time wisely – with the help of a few Uber taxis.
Despite having less than two whole days in Amsterdam, we still managed to eat our way through a few restuarants, a couple of cafés and multiple fast food spots in the city. We visited Burger Fabriek on the first night followed by a cosy Italian (I forgot the name) the following night. During the second day we stopped by for lunch at Palladium, there I had to try a local traditional food – Bitterballen. A deep-fried ball of pork served with mustard, they were right up my street and something I'd order again if I revisit The Netherlands.
So we arrived midday Tuesday and left Thursday afternoon, yet still managed to cram in a weeks worth of activities and sights. We recently visited Nuremberg, Germany for the same amount of time and found that we managed to get everything we wanted to do completed in the short amount of time and were unsure if we could do the same in a much larger city like Amsterdam but thanks to the interlinking streets and easy to use public transport, our trip was stress free and exactly what I wanted for my birthday getaway.
I would recommend visiting for anyone that has never been no matter what the purpose of your visit, there will be something there for everyone and you will leave wanting to come back!
See you had fun in my City!!!
I certainly did, I will definitely come back in the near future!


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Finley mince the garlic cloves and ginger. Thinly slice the white bottoms of the green onions and add all three to a bowl. Add in the basil, paprika, and gochujang.
Thinly slice the darker green tops of the green onions and set aside for garnish.
Using a micro plane or zester, zest two of the limes, then juice both of those limes into a bowl with the zest. Add a little chopped cilantro to the same bowl.
Combine the Sriracha, soy sauce, honey, and 3/4 cups of water and stir to combine. Set aside.
Set the instant pot to Sauté add a tablespoon and let it heat up. Add the bowl of onions, ginger, garlic, and spices to the bowl and season with salt and pepper. Sauté until lightly browned and aerobatic.
Add in the chicken and season lightly with salt and pepper. Sear for an addition minute.
Pour in the soy sauce mixture and the lime juice mixture. Add in a few extra un-chopped cilantro leaves.
Turn off Sauté and set the instant pot to pressure cook for 15 minutes. You'll release the pressure after 5-7 minutes of natural release. Be sure your not venting the pressure.
After the cooking has been set, boil a pot of water and cook the rice noodles as instructed.
While waiting for the water to boil, chopped or smash the peanuts into a bowl for garnish and quarter the remaining lime for serving.
After boiling rinse the noodles in cold water so they stop cooking.
Once the instant pot has finished and you've waited 5min to quick release the pressure. Open the pot and remove the chicken and set aside on a plate or bowl and pull apart with two forks.
Set the instant pot to Sauté for just 2 minutes while you add in the peanut butter to the remaining liquid and a little soy sauce or sriracha to taste.
Turn off the instant pot and Add the chicken back to to the sauce. Tossing and coating, then add the noodles and toss to combine.
Serve the Pad Thai garnished with green onions, cilantro and lime slice, and one last small pinch of salt and black pepper.


Facebook says it will work to monitor threats to the upcoming India elections from an operations centre in Singapore.
As India faces elections in a couple of months, Facebook said it will launch transparency tools for electoral ads next month in the country to help prevent foreign interference and make political and issue advertising on its platform more transparent. According to a report in Quartz on Tuesday, the social media giant will work to monitor threats to the upcoming India elections from an operations centre in Singapore.
"The Singapore office will be a hub for the team managing threats to the Indian election," a senior employee of Facebook India was quoted as saying.
Earlier, in a blog post last Monday, Facebook said that advertisers will need to be authorized to purchase political ads and the social networking giant will give people more information about ads related to politics and issues.
"We will create a publicly searchable library of these ads for up to seven years. The library will include information on the range of the ads' budget, number of people they reached and demographics of who saw the ad, including age, gender and location," Samidh Chakrabarti, Director of Product Management, Civic Engagement at Facebook, said in the blog post.
Facebook said it is planning to set up two new regional operations centres, focused on election integrity, located in its Dublin and Singapore offices. "This will allow our global teams to better work across regions in the run-up to elections. These teams will add a layer of defence against fake news, hate speech and voter suppression, and will work cross-functionally with our threat intelligence, data science, engineering, research, community operations, legal and other teams," explained Katie Harbath, Global Politics and Government Outreach Director at Facebook.
The company said it will continue to expand its third-party fact-checking program which covers content in 16 languages.
The company said it will organize a series of workshops over the next six months in Singapore, Delhi, Nairobi, Berlin, New York, Mexico City and others, inviting experts and organizations who work issues such as free expression, technology and democracy, procedural fairness and human rights.


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Q: GKSession reconnect after App Suspends on Simulator but not on actual device I have an app that does local networking using a GKSession running in GKSessionModeServer mode. This is limited so that only two devices will ever connect when using this app.
All of the connection and communication code works exactly as expected as long as the devices do not disconnect from each other. I want the devices to automatically reconnect if there is an interruption. I have been working on code so that a device will automatically reconnect after a disconnection event as happened.
I can run the app at the same time on a simulator & device, if I suspend the app on the simulator it reconnects exactly as I expect (whether running as a server or client), however neither code works on the device if I suspend the app on a real device.
- (void)session:(GKSession *)session peer:(NSString *)peerID didChangeState:(GKPeerConnectionState)state
{
    NSLog(@"Game: peer %@ changed state %d", peerID, state);

    if (state == GKPeerStateDisconnected) {
        if (_isServer) {
            NSLog(@"Switching session ON");
            _session.available = YES;
        } else {
            NSLog(@"Running a reconnection request");
            [_session connectToPeer:peerID withTimeout:_session.disconnectTimeout];
        }
        [self.delegate bridgeHandDelegateShowDisconnectedScreen:self];
    } else if (state == GKPeerStateConnected) {
        if (_isServer) {
            NSLog(@"Switching Session off");
            _session.available = NO;
        }
        [self.delegate bridgeHandDelegateHideDisconnectedScreen:self];
    }

    if (_isServer) {
        NSLog(@"session state: %d", _session.available);
    }
}

As you can see I have littered by code with NSLog statements, the output when I suspend the host is on the simulator is:
Simulator:
2013-03-22 18:28:55.359 Practice[56120:c07] Game: peer 587373189 changed state 3
2013-03-22 18:28:55.359 Practice[56120:c07] Switching session ON
2013-03-22 18:28:55.364 Practice[56120:c07] session state: 1
2013-03-22 18:28:56.563 Practice[56120:c07] Game: peer 587373189 changed state 4
2013-03-22 18:28:56.563 Practice[56120:c07] session state: 1
2013-03-22 18:28:56.564 Practice[56120:c07] Game: connection request from peer 587373189
2013-03-22 18:28:56.565 Practice[56120:c07] MatchmakingServer: Connection accepted from peer: 587373189
2013-03-22 18:28:56.579 Practice[56120:c07] Game: peer 587373189 changed state 2
2013-03-22 18:28:56.580 Practice[56120:c07] Switching Session off
2013-03-22 18:28:56.582 Practice[56120:c07] session state: 0

Device:
2013-03-22 22:24:04.922 BridgeBiddingPractice[3739:907] Game: peer 865951788 changed state 3
2013-03-22 22:24:04.924 BridgeBiddingPractice[3739:907] Switching session ON
2013-03-22 22:24:04.938 BridgeBiddingPractice[3739:907] session state: 0
2013-03-22 22:24:04.942 BridgeBiddingPractice[3739:907] Game: session failed Error Domain=com.apple.gamekit.GKSessionErrorDomain Code=-65540 "The operation couldn't be completed. (com.apple.gamekit.GKSessionErrorDomain error -65540.)"

I can't find any mention of the error 65540. Any help would be gratefully received.


Who doesn't love a bit of good ol' fashioned rockabilly? Today's TOTD comes from Glasgow 'surf-noir' quartet The Strange Blue Dreams.
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Before you know it, you'll find yourself in a pair of braces and a bow tie, twisting and jiving all over the place!


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I come from a different field (Machine learning/AI/data science), but aim to ask a philosophical question with the utmost respect: Why do quantitative financial analysts (analysts/traders/etc.) prefer (or at least seem) traditional statistical methods (traditional = frequentist/regression/normal correlation methods/ts analysis) over newer AI/machine learning methods? I've read a million models, but it seems biased? Background: I recently joined a 1B AUM (I know it's not a ton) asset management firm. I was asked to build a new model for a sector rotation strategy (basically predicting which SP 500 sector would do the best over 6 months-- chose to use forward rolling 6 month returns) they employ and my first inclination was to combine ARIMA (traditional) with random forest (feature selection) and a categorical (based on normal distribution standard deviation) gradient boosted classifier for ETFs in each sector. Not to be rude, but I beat the ValuLine timeliness for each sector. I used the above mentioned returns as my indicator and pretty much threw everthing at the wall for predictors initially (basically just combing FRED), then used randomForest to select features. I ended up combining EMA and percent change to create a pretty solid model that, like I said, beat ValuLine.
I've read a lot of literature, and I haven't seen anyone do anything like this. Any help in terms of pointing me in the right direction for literature? Or any answers to the overarching idea of why isn't there more machine learning in equity markets (forgetting social/news analysis)? EDIT: For clarification, I'm really interested in long-term predictions (I think Shiller was right) based on macro predictors.
PS- I've been lurking for a while. Thanks for all the awesome questions, answers, and discussions.
Regime changes due to exogenous events. These are typically in the cross-val window which makes it even worse. (GFC, financial integration, trade law changes, interest rate adjustments by central banks, some idiot in a bank was hiding trades and loses 5 billions dollars, etc).
Much price changes are driven by news such as a plane crashing or a merger announcement. Are you trying to forecast news (!?) by getting your model to learn non-linear relationships on price data? It should be clear that, if American Airlines price falls due to a terrorist hijacking, it is not going to be useful to have a random forest learn any patterns that result since it will not repeat.
Because of these factors many (econometricians and practicioners) will try to use a priori knowledge to select features and impose constraints on the model in an attempt to improve generalization. This is perceived as necessary by econometricians since the data is too thin, noisy and nonstationary (i.e., the above reasons).
This is not to say that "machine learning" methods such as Lasso, NNG, Elastic Nets or Ridge can't be applied. They result in essentially linear models and you can impose whatever a priori constraints on it through the metaparameters in the loss function or by using a variant that preserves hierarchies when using indicator function interactions (Tibshirani 2013...). Edit: You will still need to select which features go into the algorithm (as a prior imposition) but you can use these to achieve slightly more sparsity than you would otherwise have and introduce some bias into your conditional expectation (or state probability if you're doing multinomial categorical GLM) for improvement in variance of sampling distribution.
I am however open to random forests with the right a priori constraints in place.
There are indeed hundreds of papers that use machine learning to forecast financial markets. Just google something silly like "fuzzy bayesian expert adaptive learners with PSO training S&P 500" and you will get a lesson in the file-drawer effect, publication bias and substandard research methodologies (e.g. selecting 3 of 50 algorithms and 2 of 50 indices and hoping it convinces people).
However, the above is an optimist's view of the industry. From those I've spoken to at low frequency funds they are simply ignorant of machine learning and couldn't apply it because they lack the knowledge and skills. If they were actually interested in being true quants, who knows how much damage they could do with deep learning or something.
If you want to do real machine learning in finance and actually do something that is meritocratic/skill/scientific instead of almost completely random and full of people who practice nonsense, go to a HFT firm (not that most people practice non-sense in low frequency funds, just that many do and this is something that is absolutely impossible to get away with in HFT). That said, I am continually and consistently underwhelmed when I hear of the research methods of low frequency quant funds.
I was just like you when I started out: I had learned a lot about machine learning (mainly neural networks and genetic algorithms/programming) and used it heavily. I also had learned about classic statistics but not nearly as much as about ML.
The problem with ML is - as I see it today - that you are often taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut, meaning: Because financial markets are so highly stochastic you have a lot of overfitting and often are confusing noise for signal.
Then comes interpretability because ANNs are a black box. Even if the results are promising you don't know what the model has actually learned.
Over the years I came to appreciate classic statistics because they are still the benchmark. I agree that they are mainly about linear models and Gaussians - something that is clearly wrong in financial markets, but it is a starting point!
there must be some kind of economic intuition involved why they should work.
So my humble conclusion is that it would be wrong to just use linear regression and the normal distribution but it would be equally wrong to just use some kind of super ML algorithm to find the right solution for you. When I have learned one thing over the years is that modeling the stock market is first and foremost an ongoing lesson in humility... and you still have to do the thinking yourself.
It's probably because of the strong long-standing statistical underpinnings in economics and econometrics, and overall, risk prediction. For example, look at current research with fat-tail distributions and calculations for Expected Tail Loss (ETL), etc. These studies fit Student's t, Normal, Stable, and Pareto probability distributions to data and report that e.g. the Kolmogorov or Anderson-Darling goodness-of-fit distance is less for the normal distribution, that is, the normal distribution doesn't recover the area in the tails as well as the Stable and Student's t (for varying d.f.). Next, moving into time-series analyses, there is still tremendous merit in using ARIMA, ARMA, ARCH, and GARCH-type fitting to explaining conditional means and variances, and autocorrelation. You can simply use a handful of the methods listed above and perform an incredible amount of risk prediction that has scientific merit in financial risk management.
Next, for ML, the more you delve into non-linear manifold learning (ISOMAP, Laplacian eigenmaps, etc), metaheuristics (evolutionary algorithms and evolutionary strategies such as genetic algorithms, covariance matrix self-adaptation, ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization), neural adaptive learning (ANNs), and many other ML and AI supervised methods you are essentially getting further away from deterministic and stochastic derivative-based gradient descent and Newton-Raphson methods -- which provide parameter uncertainty.
Recently, I started using particle swarm optimization for almost everything I optimize. Sure, Newton-Raphson is faster, is more consistent, and can provide parameter uncertainty, but as I see it, to correctly model risk one needs to combine realizations from many different distributions to build up a final uncertainty distribution. For this reason, the majority of time when I am not interested in Type I and II errors, power, AIC, etc, or for that matter the standard errors of coefficients, I typically spew out point estimates, and then use these as inputs to Monte Carlo analysis.
Regarding random forests (RF), it is one of the best unsupervised and supervised classifiers out there. RF simultaneously combines bootstrapping of the training samples and random feature selection to train each tree. Unknown test objects not in the bootstrapped training sample (called out-of-bag, OOB) are then "dropped" down each trained tree. Feature importance is then determine by comparing classification accuracy between permuted and unpermuted values of feature $j$ for all objects in the OOB via dropping them down the same trained tree. Breiman suggested using at least 5000 trees ("don't be stingy") and in fact his main ML paper on RF used 50,000 trees per run.
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been shown to be a universal approximator, however, they become quite expensive when compared with Newton-Raphson, providing you know the objective function your are fitting (optimizing). If you don't know the objective equation, then an ANN can be tremendously beneficial. Like I have said to other colleagues, in these cases, "the ANN is the equation." For this latter framework, where the ANN is the equation, if you draw random quantiles from distributions for various risk factors, and clamp each set of quantiles to the input nodes of the ANN, train using CV, the utility of an ANN combined with Monte Carlo will be immense.
Since it takes a decade or more to learn ML and AI at a level where you can tackle most any problem, there would be no expectation that someone with an extensive QF background would be able to pick it up quickly, and no expectation that the results would be better. ML and AI are best implemented for near NP-hard problems such as timetabling, shift and airline scheduling, and logistics, where there is not a closed form analytic solution (equation) that describes your model.
I was going to comment but it turned out to be quite elaborate.
My experience with certain AI/ML methods is that they're not deterministic. Take RBM for instance, a very wide-spread paradigm. To train such a machine you have two approaches, backpropagation or Kullback-Leibler divergence. Both require you to initialise the machine to a random state. And that makes them non-deterministic.
Even more problematic for instance are methods like Simulated Annealing or Genetic Programming to find maxima or minima in a landscape where every single step contains a non-deterministic component.
In general there's nothing wrong with a hint of non-determinism, especially in our racket where nearly everything is a stochastic process. It just becomes a problem when you need a reproducible result, for instance when comparing a live session with some backtest. It's just very hard to decompose tracking errors (e.g. divergence between paper session and live session) into systemic errors and the divergence of, say, the random generators (or more general the sources of non-determinism).
Conversely, if you try to turn a non-deterministic algorithm into a deterministic one by using a fixed (or deterministic) sequence of ``non-determinism'' the algorithm will collapse to a variant that's probably less efficient than a good deterministic one (e.g. deterministic SA vs. greedy search); of course I can't prove that here but if I had to I'd show that the probability to pick a sequence of randomness out of all possible sequences of randomness that reflects exactly the invariants before or after each step of a greedy round is abyssmally small.
The main reason to use traditional methods is interpretability. Specially when you are dealing with portfolios. Portfolios are nothing more than a linear combination of assets. Many Machine Learning methods are highly non-linear and therefore are hard to replicate with a real portfolio. For example if you want to minimize volatility of your emerging markets stock portfolio with a currency hedge portfolio a traditional optimization through a regression problem would give you weights on individual currencies but a Machine Learning method like SVM, ANN, etc give you no clue on what to buy or sell.
Having said that I think non traditional methods could work very well on feature selection, outlier or anomaly detection or classification. I see no problem on combining them as long as you can still interpret the model.
Pretty much agree with what everyone is saying above. Just want to add one more comment. The sad truth of not advocating a lot on the usage of ML in Asset Management is the difficulty to marketing it. Most of the pitches on the quant portfolios are trying to make a systematic fundamental (these days called quantamenal) story. ML methods are apparently not in line with the quantamental story.
Last comment, act as a dual role of quant research and portfolio management, I presonally like ML a lot. ML signals could be with low correlation with traditional ones and provides the right direction of turnover in extreme periods where no diversification could be found among most of the traditional signals.
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Live at The Majic Oven, 360 Queen St.E. Toronto the Impressions Quartet team up to take you on a musical trip from Nubia to HArlem.
Waleed Kush on bass,vocals and traditional instruments, John Ebata on keyboards,melodica and accordion, Naz Tana on guitar, Rich Greenspoon on drums.


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Wireless is the trend : telephones, internet, etc...The only thing that is not transmitted wirelessly these days is electricity. Therefore, like us, you cannot stand the sight of this hideous power strip, nor this imbroglio of cables and transformers.
Here is a solution: the charge box!
Transformers and power strips are easily hidden inside, but your mobile or your iPod remains in full view, laying comfortably on the felt fabric.
NB ! the power strip is not delivered with the charge box.
If wireless is the trend (telephones, wifi, etc...), so are nomadic products. And yet the only thing that is not transmitted wirelessly these days is electricity. We therefore find ourselves owning beautiful and microscopic mobile phones, digital cameras, and mp3 players, but also numerous chargers, because their batteries are greedy on electricity.
The charge box is the practical and aesthetic solution to this modern imbroglio of cables and transformers.
quality -made in Germany by a design object specialist, the charge box is built in steel then covered in a white powdered paint. Germany quality as we like it.
practicality -transformers and power strips are easily hidden inside, but your mobile or your iPod remains in full view, laying comfortably on the felt fabric. Your devices are thus always at hand.
simplicity -you only need to pass the mains cable of your power strip in one of the slits designed to hide the strip; then, to plug or unplug a charger, you simply put your finger in the hole in the lid, lift it, and you have access to the shambles, well hidden so far.


Elsas Creativity Blog. Creative Dreams, Everyday Life. Yes to a New Project.
as I face trying to make real my creative dreams.
That's what was on my mind this morning - and I almost sat down and wrote about this in everyday words. But another voice inside me came up with the start of a song, a word piece, and that's what I went with.
That's something I often do. I rarely, in my hopes and dreams, come up with tiny morsels, little tiny things easy to achieve. There are lots of smaller things, easy to do - songs, and so on, lots of writing, images. But then, to try to find a space in the world for those things, I'm stuck with loads to do that just doesn't come easily for me.
I'm getting ready to take on more of what I've started - more dreams that haven't made it to fulfillment.
I've slept long and hard these last couple of nights. Exhaustion. Maybe it's a coincidence. Maybe there's a connection. I don't know. But I know I feel bogged down - before starting - by all the work ahead, work I couldn't complete when I started, years ago, before despite trying.
I have, from about five years ago, a bunch of Flash files - a number of them meant for a major project: In My Own, My Chosen Home, explorations of what it means to be at home. (Flash, for people not familiar with the term, is a web design program where there can be movement, animation, video, etc.) The most ambitious undertaking, in those files, is Summer's Passion - whoops, typo - I meant to type, Summer's Passing.
Summer's Passing - a lot of passion went into getting that done for a deadline, a grant application that resulted in yet one more rejection. There was work left to do on Summer's Passing, and the whole Chosen Home project would have been much more work. All of it was put aside in the rush of life and the tide of events, and in the hope that there would be funding.
Now I am coming back to those Flash files and, with that, to one of my many dreams.
Don't bite off more than you can chew. I've heard that over and over. But what is "more than you can chew"? We can't know in advance all the time. Columbus would never have gotten to America if he'd listened to that - and the world might have been a better place for the natives of North America, at least for a while, if he'd stayed home.
Today I've felt on two sides - one the one side, ready to go ahead, and in my head imagining things already worked out - and on the other side, weighed down by the mass of things to do, things hard to do, skills needed, resources needed. One big help, Mark Corwin - very much part of Summer's Passing and other projects. In fact, it was his electroacoustic piece that sparked the words which led to everything else with Summer's Passing.
But that is an aside. The big thing. Trying to turn dreams into realities. Not easy when the dreams are big, when I don't happen to have made my way yet to quite the right place (scary all that searching, reaching), and when there are lots of other time demands.
But I know my dreams are calling out loud and clear - help, we need help, come help. Elsa, come on, it's time.
but over and over, my dreams do.


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This year's EDEN Research Workshop was planned to be hosted by the prominent Universidade Aberta the Portuguese Open University, in the beautiful city of Lisbon. Faced with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, EDEN is organising this workshop fully online, taking the full advantage of the virtual environment with an exciting and extensive three-day programme. As with past research workshops, the event will promote intensive collaboration and networking opportunities amongst participants including parallel 'research-speed-dating' paper sessions, workshops and dynamic poster sessions. With a high quality programme and close to 90 submissions already, this is the event for you to attend, especially if you are a researcher or post graduate student.
By upscaling and accelerating the adoption of distance and online education across the world, the disruptive impact of the Coronavirus Sars CoV-2 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of rethinking the educational process as an integral part of the authentic digital life experience of its main actors. In this massive collective experience of change, the role of educational institutions, teachers, learners, and of their families and communities is rapidly transforming. As a result, new challenges for researchers have emerged that need to be addressed: How do we assure truly equitable and socially fair access to digital learning opportunities? How can we conduct effective online learning with non-adult populations? How can we improve teachers' and learners' digital competences for teaching and learning? How may AI and machine learning contribute to enhancing the education process and making it more flexible and personal? How can we conduct more authentic and reliable digital assessment? What are the new challenges for research into digital, open, distance and networked education?
In this round table, we will provide you with a closer look into the rich and interesting programme of the EDEN Research Workshop and hold an open discussion on the challenging topics facing researchers and teachers today.
Alan Tait
Former EDEN President
Professor Emeritus of Distance Education and Development, Open University, UK
Alan Tait is an EDEN Senior Fellow. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Distance Education and Development at the Open University, UK, and Director of International Development and Teacher Education, responsible for the strategic direction of major projects in sub-Saharan Africa, Bangladesh, and India. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the Open University from 2007-2012. Alan is the founding editor of The Journal of Learning for Development, produced from the Commonwealth of Learning (www.jl4d.org); senior member of St Edmunds College, University of Cambridge; and Visiting Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark.
Ines Gil Jaurena
EDEN NAP SC member
Associate Professor at UNED, Spain
Inés Gil-Jaurena has a PhD in Education and is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education at the National Distance Education University (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia-UNED), Spain, where she has been teaching and researching since 2005.
Member of the INTER Group of Research in intercultural education since 2001 and Coordinator of CO-Lab: Collaborative Open Laboratory for teaching innovation (GID 2016-30) since 2016. She was the Editor-in-chief for Open Praxis, a scientific journal published by the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), since 2012. from September 2013 to October 2014, she was the Director of UNED Abierta, the OER Programme at UNED.
She has been involved in various European projects related to open and distance education, and is a member of e-ASEM, an e-learning network under the ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) Education and Research Hub for Lifelong Learning.
Antonio Teixeira
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
António Teixeira is an Associate Professor of open, distance and network education at Universidade Aberta (UAb). He's also a researcher at the University of Lisbon and collaborates with the University of Rome 3.
He was the Pro-rector for innovation in Distance Learning at Universidade Aberta (2006-09) and President of EDEN – European Distance and E-learning Network (2013-16). As a Pro-rector at UAb, António Teixeira conceived and managed the successful and speedy strategic transformation process of the university from a print-based distance learning institution to a fully online one. Throughout the years, he has integrated several boards of directors and many expert committees and task forces in higher education institutions and organizations at national and international level. He's currently an external expert for AQU Catalunya and ACPUA quality assurance agencies in Spain and the research and innovation national agency of Uruguay (ANII) among others.
António Teixeira has participated in over thirty international research projects and authored over one hundred scientific articles and other publications. He is an EDEN Senior Fellow and a member of the Board of the Council of EDEN Fellows.
Josep M. Duart
EDEN Vice-president for Research
Professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Josep Duart holds a doctorate in Pedagogy from Ramon Llull University (URL), Barcelona, and a Master in Business Administration from ESADE Business School, Barcelona. Since 1996 is full professor in Psychology and Educational Sciences Department at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He has been involved in several positions: vice president for Postgraduate Studies and Lifelong Learning, and former director of the International Graduate Institute at the Open University of Catalonia, UOC (2007-2013), and Director of the UNESCO Chair in e-Learning (2002-2009). Currently, he teaches on education and technology field, educational models and quality and is member of the Open Evidence Research Group.
As a researcher specialising in Educational Technology, e-learning models and educational organisation, he leads and collaborates on research projects in areas such as educational policy, higher education leadership and ICT use. He has published several books and a range of co-authored articles in international specialist journals (ORCID). He has also given lectures on ICTs in higher education at international conferences and European, American and Australian universities. He is the Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (ETHE), member of the EDEN (European Distance Education and E-learning Network) Executive Committee, and member of " The Universitity of the Future Network".
Ulrich Bernath
Former EDEN Vice-president
Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Research in Open and Distance Learning
Ulrich Bernath graduated in Economics. He holds a Dr. Phil. from the School of Education of Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. From 1978 until his early retirement in 2006 he has been the Director of the Center for Distance Education at Oldenburg University. In 2006 he endowed the Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Research in OPen and Distance Learning [http://frodl.org/en/] and chairs the Board of Trustees and Directors. Since 2008, the Foundation supports EDEN in granting the BEST Research Paper Award at EDEN's Annual Conferences and EDEN's bi-annual Research Workshops. [https://www.eden-online.org/recognition/awards/]
From 2002 through 2009 he served the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) as an elected member of the Steering Committee of the Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP), as an elected member of the Executive Committee as well as an EDEN Vice President. In 2009 EDEN awarded him the title of EDEN Senior Fellow.
Uli Bernath is author of numerous articles reflecting organizational, conceptual, and pedagogical issues in distance education and open learning [http://frodl.org/dr-ulrich-bernath-2/]. He has been the main editor of the ASF Series on Distance Education [https://uol.de/en/c3l/research-development/asf-series/]. Since 2013 he is EURODL's
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University Computing Centre SRCE, Croatia
Sandra is also the Head of the E-learning Centre at University Computing Centre. Her work is focused on monitoring and fostering e-learning in Croatian higher education and providing support and advice to institutions, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in learning and teaching. She was appointed Croatian representative in ET2020 Working group on Digital Skills and Technologies (2016-2018) and in ET2020 Working group on Digital Education: learning, teaching and Assessment (2018-2020). In 2018 she was appointed member of European Education and Training Expert Panel. Her field of interest is strategic decision making related to e-learning and distance education, quality assurance, educational technologies and open education and open educational resources. She has been involved in a number of projects (national and international) related to these fields and she actively presents at international conferences. She is also author of training courses for teachers and speaker on these topics.
She has a master's degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and PhD in Information and Communication Technologies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. She has been a member of EDEN Executive Committee since 2013 and in 2014; she received the EDEN Fellow Title. In 2019, she became President of EDEN.
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You Cannot Spread Medjugorje?
Shortly after the first apparition of the Mother of God, She appeared saying She comes as the Queen of Peace. She immediately took up the task to build a huge army from a tiny speck of geography upon the earth, no larger than a square meter, on which the Queen of Heaven appeared, a place within a tiny village.
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If the Virgin Mary is appearing, it is a given the apparitions will be opposed. The most clever adversary of any appearance of the Virgin Mary will be satan himself; cunning, father of lies, master of deception.
Therefore, should it not be the case that the followers and foes would be confused in regard to all aspects of the apparitions of Our Lady while waiting for the judgment of the Church?
A Friend of Medjugorje brings clarity to conflicting beliefs as to whether the apparitions of Medjugorje can or cannot be followed. Are the visionaries banned from having their apparitions in churches? Are the clergy and laity banned from hosting conferences and attending meetings on Medjugorje after the October 21, 2013 letter on behalf of the Pro Nuncio to the United States? At first glance, many thought so. But after reading, "You Cannot Spread Medjugorje?," you will be strengthened and your faith will be given the ability, the verbiage, and evidence to protect Medjugorje and Our Lady's plans. You will be able to show that the clergy, laity, and others can believe in Our Lady of Medjugorje's apparitions, and all can host the visionaries, and can attend events. How? Why? Because the Church says we can, providing one stipulation. Reading "You Cannot Spread Medjugorje?," you will learn that stipulation and much more of why Church approval of Our Lady's apparitions, to this point in time is not God's will.
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Home News A Record-Breaking Grand Seiko Set the Pace at Phillips's $21.1 Million Watch...
A Record-Breaking Grand Seiko Set the Pace at Phillips's $21.1 Million Watch Auction in New York
Phillips became the first auction house in history to hit a two-year 100% success rate in watch sales with its December 10-11 New York Watch Auction: SEVEN auction. It ticked up world record prices for Grand Seiko, Patek Philippe, Urwek, F.P. Journe, and George Daniels.
Buyers from six continents waved their paddles at the Park Avenue venue, bringing in $21.1 million in total, padding the house's watch auction earnings to $51.5 million this year, a record for the Americas.
The top lot came from F.P. Journe, "a very early, highly important, and extremely rare platinum tourbillon wristwatch with , pink gold dial, and certificate of authenticity, numbered 038, circa 1999." This elaborately named collector's item seized a sweet $1,240,000, tying the world record for the model.
F.P. Journe's platinum tourbillon wristwatch. Courtesy of Phillips.
The house also devoted 10 lots to Grand Seiko, which was the first Japanese watch to be chronometer-rated to Swiss standards, and also featured a 45-hour power reserve. A one-of-a-kind Kodo Constant Force Tourbillon, the brand's first mechanical complication watch, hit a world record price for any Grand Seiko at $478,000.
Seventeen of these works, including timepieces by Laurent Ferrier, Urwerk, and Romain Gauthier, were part of the inaugural event Time for Art, which raised $1.2 million for nonprofit arts organization Swiss Institute. The institute offers public programs, education, community and engagement workshops, and exhibitions in New York and beyond.
Paul Boutros, Phillips Head of Watches, Americas, said, "With collaborations by some of the most important artists and watchmakers today, this auction successfully brought together two worlds that seldom intersect while raising funds for a wonderful cause."
Urwerk, wristwatch. Courtesy of Pillips.
Another top earning lot, Urwerk's unique UR-102.02 brought in $403,200, more than 10 times its estimate and a new world record for any Urwerk wristwatch. Said Boutrous, "The enthusiasm collectors had for both the watches on offer, as well as for the important work carried out by Swiss Institute, led to some truly remarkable prices, going as far as setting a new auction record for a wristwatch by Urwerk."
The team is already planning a reprise of the event in two years. Mojdeh Cutter, Head of Partnerships and Events at the Swiss Institute and Managing Director of Time for Art, said, "The fantastic response from both art and watch collectors is testament to the fact that there is great interest in this new philanthropic format bridging two creative worlds, and we are immensely grateful to all who took a leap of faith with us as we already gear up for the next edition in 2024."
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Micro living : 40 innovative tiny houses equipped for full-time living, in 400 square feet or less / by Derek "Deek" Diedricksen.
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Introduction -- Big tinies (over 250 square feet) -- The inside story: It isn't for everyone / by Andrew Odom -- Small tinies (150-250 square feet) -- The inside story: Real-world tips for tiny kitchen survival / by Michelle Boyle ; The inside story: Minimalism: getting it, and getting there / by Ryan Nicodemus -- Teeny tinies (under 150 square feet) -- The inside story: Before you build / by Derek "Deek" Diedricksen -- Bonus! The Cafam cabin framing plans.
Profiles 40 tiny practical houses that are equipped for full-time living, all in 400 square feet or less. Detailed photography and a floor plan for each structure highlight inventive space-saving design features along with the nuts-and-bolts details of heating, cooling, electric, and plumbing systems. Includes tips on what to consider before you build and framing plans for a prototype small cabin.


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Sweet Release! Call of Duty Black Ops 3, Shovel Knight, Need For Speed, Yo-Kai Watch, Hard West, Disney Infinity Figures, Lego Dimension Sets, November's Free Games
Posted on November 3, 2015 | by Jared Cornelius | Comments
By Jared Cornelius
Welcome back to Sweet Release! Bleeding Cool's run down of the new games hitting store shelves and digital platforms. With October 2015 in the books, we're three quarters of the way though 2015's prime games season, and what a season it has been. After a fall that gave us a long list of huge games, the first week in November is poised to be one of the last big pushes at retail. That's not to say that there's nothing else out this month, but this week marks a time of year that most other publishers dread, the coming of Call of Duty. And while the Juggernaut of games retail looms over all others this week, we still have a robust month to look forward to and long list of quality titles before the holiday season truly arrives. A new month also means the new free games is you subscribe to a premium service.
Call of Duty has been pretty amazing. I don't actually mean the quality of the games which has been up and down depending on the year and developer, but I mean the cultural significance and the fact it's stayed relevant these past nine years. From it's humble roots as a Metal of Honor competitor, to it's incredible rise to prominence, the series is a bit of a phenomenon. This year Activision and developer Treyarch bring forward another entry into their Black Ops universe with Call of Duty Black Ops III.
The first person shooter is taking cues from last years Advanced Warfare and setting the title in the not so distant future of 2065, where scientific advancements in combat and robotics have made super-soldiers and robots the preferred weapon of the day. Apparently also lifting some cues from Deus Ex, there's mistrust and speculation about the uprising of cybernetic soldiers and there place in society. The story line has direct ties to the previous Black Ops games and features an interesting voice cast including OZ and Law & Order star Christopher Meloni and Seattle Seahawk Marshawn Lynch. Following in the footsteps of games like Halo 5, up to four player co-op gameplay is supported through the single player campaign with a focus on more open space for larger scale combat. Treyarch have also added a "realistic" one hit kill mode where taking fire will be an instant death.
This being Call of Duty, most will be coming to it for the multiplayer which features the traditional slate of game modes and adds a new "Specialist" class system with the characters having specific traits and weapons. Black Ops III also brings back it's popular Zombie Mode. With an actual story to the Zombie Mode as well level rewards and character experience, it gives you a little Left 4 Dead in the package too.
Call of Duty Black Ops III eleases Friday across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC. But fair warning to last generation players, the story has been completely striped out of PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions leaving only the multiplayer modes. To take some of the sting away, Activision has agreed to give last generation buyers a free digital copy of the original Call of Duty Black Ops. However if you're buying Call of Duty Black Ops III, I'm hard pressed to believe you didn't buy the original. Better than nothing I suppose.
I've talked to death about Yacht Club Games fantastic retro inspired 2D platformer Shovel Knight. The plucky Kickstarter success story was a lesson in how to make a fantastic game, but also in how to do a crowd funded campaign right (take some notes Comcept). With a terrific mix of mechanics inspired by 8-bit gems like Super Mario Bros. 3, Ducktales, Mega Man, and Castlevania, Shovel Knight was a masterclass in modern gameplay with classic roots.
Having made it's way to every console under the sun, Shovel Knight takes a bold new step this week by entering the retail space. PlayStation 4, Wii U, and 3DS owners can pick up the game for the low price of $24.99 at finer retailers everywhere. If you haven't played it yet, this is a great time to try as Yacht Club Games have added a ton of free downloadable content, including the recently released Plague of Shadows expansion with new playable character, Plague Knight. With more content on the way and with no additional cost, buying a physical copy of Shovel Knight is a great way to support an indie studio and help fund whatever their next endeavor might be.
Another curiosity from the past comes back this week in the form of EA's classic racing series Need For Speed. Developed by the relatively new, Ghost Games, a studio comprised of racing game veterans from other Need For Speed titles as well as the Forza and Project Gotham series. This year's version is looking to reboot the franchise and add popular elements from a wide range of the long running racing game series. The big focus is on different styles of driving including Drift, Speed, Outlaw ect.
The other big bullet point for the game is a heavy emphasis on customization, with players able to build and tune cars with aftermarket parts for "enhanced performance". They also seem to be taking a page out of perennial racing favorite Burnout Paradise's book by using an open world city modelled after Los Angeles. Like some of EA's other "popular" games, Need For Speed will unfortunately be an always online game with the developers citing the social elements of the game playing into it's progression. It's a dumb reason and I'm going to go ahead and say this won't sit well with people. Need For Speed released Tuesday on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and EA's proprietary Origin platform.
A little while back I talked about how I thought developer Level 5's robot battle sim LbX: Little Battlers Experience might be the next big thing for kids out of Japan. While that still may hold true, Level 5 is taking another shot at the international kids market with Yo-Kai Watch. A role playing game not unlike Pokémon, players befriend spirits or "Yo-Kai" who can be summoned for battle with other Yo-Kai. The ghosts can also be evolved into more powerful forms with over 100 different specters to catch. Apparently this is already really popular in Japan and is making it's way to the US via an absurdly long 92 episode anime series airing on Disney XD. There's also toys, manga, I0S apps, and even a version of Just Dance with the characters! Level 5 is a quality development house so I'm curious to see how this holds up against Game Freak's long running cock fighting simulator. Yo-Kai Watch releases Friday exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS.
I've professed my love for isometric strategy games before. Just last week I talked about Divinity Original Sin, as well as X-Com and Chroma Squad to name a few. I'm always pleased to see the genre so well represented with unique settings and mechanics. But with the fantasy, cyberpunk, and even super-sentai represented in the genre, it's surprising that no one has done a western, at least until now.
If you want some cowboy with your strategy you might be in luck with developer Creative Forge Game's Hard West. The isometric strategy game purports to be a tale of supernatural revenge in the old west with players controlling Warren, a man who'll do anything to find those who wronged him. The game is touting 8 unique scenarios with over 40 missions. Using similar mechanics as recent favorites like X-Com, players use luck, cover, and statistics to gunfight in the old west. Control up to four squad members and use special abilities to conquer foes and dark forces. Hard West release on PC and Steam on Wednesday.
It's not just a big week for games, as it's time for another round of brand new "Toys To Life" figures. Disney Infinity has reportedly hit the ground running this year, showing up at the number 7 spot on September's NPD sales charts. I'm sure this is in part due to the general positive attitudes surrounding Star Wars as well as the release of figures people want like Darth Vader and Han Solo but Disney hasn't forgotten about last year's 2.0 Marvel entry. This week sees the release of Hulkbuster Iron Man and Ultron figures which keep with the style and feel of the series mix of real life and animated characters. Both figures will can be used in the Toybox Mode and will be compatible with the upcoming Battleground expansion for 3.0.
Star Wars does get some love in this weeks releases as well with a Darth Maul figure that's compatible with the Twilight of The Republic playset.
Lego Dimensions also sees the release of several expansions this week including one tremendous franchise finally realized in Lego, Doctor Who. The Lego Dimensions Doctor Who Level pack releases this Tuesday and contains a Lego Peter Capaldi Doctor, Tardis, and K-9 and grants access to the games Doctor Who levels. There's also a Ninjago Team Pack and a number of single character Fun Packs including Uni-Kitty Fun Pack, Bart Simpson Fun Pack, Krusty The Clown Fun Pack, and Chima Lavel Fun Pack.
A new month means new games if you subscribe to the PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold.
I've made no bones about Microsoft dropping the ball with their Games With Gold service and I'm starting to feel like a broken record. With all of the content they had on Xbox 360 I'd think that somewhere along the line they'd pick up the slack and try to compete with Sony on the premium games. Yet again this month we have some truly lackluster titles with a racing game from 2011 looking like the highlight.
Xbox One users will have access to Pneuma: Breath of Life, a Myst style first person puzzle game all month.
On the 15th players will also get access to Knight Squad, an overhead multiplayer game that's somewhere between Smash TV, Bomberman, and Gauntlet.
Xbox 360 users get rally racer DiRT 3, free from the 1st to the 15th.
Where it'll be replaced by Dungeon Siege III, a not particularly great hack and slash game.
Meanwhile, PlayStation 4 users get Telltale Game's The Walking Dead Season 2 as well as Pieces Interactive's isometric wizard puzzle game Magicka 2.
PlayStation 3 users get arguably one of the best role playing games of last generation with Mass Effect 2 and Ubi Soft's under appreciated 3rd person action puzzle game Beyond Good & Evil.
PlayStation Vita get's the brand new role playing rogue-like Dragon Fin Soup, which will be cross buy on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 when available.
Finally Sony's handheld gets Invisimals, a weird mix of altered reality game and Pokémon.
That's an awful lot of games and that's all for this week. If you loved boxed copies of games why not give my new column, The Collector's Edition, a look. It runs down some of the latest news and some musings about retail releases.
Jared Cornelius is some guy from the Jersey coast who already spent too much money on games this year. Let him know what you still have to buy on Twitter @John_Laryngitis.
About Jared Cornelius
A miserable little pile of secrets...also a writer, definitely not an android
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The Beatles és el novè àlbum d'estudi de la banda anglesa del mateix nom, publicat el 22 de novembre de 1968. Per mor de la seva funda completament blanca, en la qual tan sols hi posa el nom de la banda, i per distingir-lo del grup, sovint se l'anomena the White Album ("l'Àlbum Blanc"). És un àlbum doble, amb diferència el més llarg dels Beatles.

Quan fou publicat, l'àlbum va rebre crítiques mixtes per part dels crítics musicals. La majoria trobaren que les cançons satíriques de l'àlbum eren poc importants i apolítiques enmig d'un clima social i polític turbulent, encara que alguns alabaren les lletres de Lennon i McCartney. Des de llavors, Martin i la banda han debatut si hauria estat millor publicar un sol àlbum en lloc d'un de doble. Malgrat tot, The Beatles assolí la primera posició a les llistes del Regne Unit i els Estats Units, i sovint se'l cita com un dels millors àlbums de tots els temps.

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The Beatles
 John Lennon – veus primeres, harmòniques i de fons; guitarres primera, acústica i rítmica, baix; piano, orgue Hammond, harmònium, Mellotron; harmònica, saxòfon tenor; cintes, tape loops i efectes de so (electrònics i en viu)
 Paul McCartney – veus primeres, harmòniques i de fons; guitarres primera, acústica, rítmica, baix; teclats (pianos acústics i elèctrics i orgues Hammond); percussió variada (timbales, pandereta, picarol, campaneta, picar de mans, cops de peu i percussió vocal); bateria (a «Back in the U.S.S.R.», «Dear Prudence», «Wild Honey Pie» i «Martha My Dear»); fliscorn; enregistrament
 George Harrison – veus primeres, harmòniques i de fons; guitarres primera, acústica i rítmica, baix; orgue Hammond (a «While My Guitar Gently Weeps»); bateria addicional, percussió variada (pandereta, picar de mans i percussió vocal); efectes de so
 Ringo Starr – bateria, percussió variada (pandereta, bongos, címbals, maraques i percussió vocal); piano i cascavells (a «Don't Pass Me By»); primera veu (a «Don't Pass Me By» i «Good Night») i segona veu (a «The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill»)

Músics convidats
 Eric Clapton – primera guitarra a «While My Guitar Gently Weeps»
 Mal Evans – segona veu i picar de mans a «Dear Prudence», picar de mans a «Birthday», trompeta a «Helter Skelter»
 Jack Fallon – violí a «Don't Pass Me By»
 Pattie Harrison – segona veu a «Birthday»
 Jackie Lomax – segona veu i picar de mans a «Dear Prudence»
 Maureen Starkey – segona veu a «The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill»
 Yoko Ono – segona veu, primera veu i picar de mans a «The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill»; segona veu a «Birthday»; parla, cintes i efectes de so a «Revolution 9»

Músics d'estudi
 Ted Barker – trombó a «Martha My Dear»
 Leon Calvert – trompeta i fliscorn a «Martha My Dear»
 Henry Datyner, Eric Bowie, Norman Lederman and Ronald Thomas – violí a «Glass Onion»
 Bernard Miller, Dennis McConnell, Lou Soufier and Les Maddox – violí a «Martha My Dear»
 Reginald Kilby – violoncel a «Glass Onion» i «Martha My Dear»
 Eldon Fox – violoncel a «Glass Onion»
 Frederick Alexander – violoncel a «Martha My Dear»
 Harry Klein – saxòfon a «Savoy Truffle» i «Honey Pie»
 Dennis Walton, Ronald Chamberlain, Jim Chest and Rex Morris – saxòfon a «Honey Pie»
 Raymond Newman and David Smith – clarinet a «Honey Pie»
 Art Ellefson, Danny Moss and Derek Collins – saxòfon tenor a «Savoy Truffle»
 Ronnie Ross and Bernard George – saxòfon baríton a «Savoy Truffle»
 Alf Reece – tuba a «Martha My Dear»
 The Mike Sammes Singers – segona veu a «Good Night»
 Stanley Reynolds and Ronnie Hughes – trompeta a «Martha My Dear»
 Chris Shepard – pogo cello a «The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill»
 Tony Tunstall – trompa a «Martha My Dear»
 John Underwood and Keith Cummings – viola a «Glass Onion»
 Leo Birnbaum and Henry Myerscough – viola a «Martha My Dear»

Equip de producció
 Geoff Emerick – enginyeria d'àudio, parla a «Revolution 9»
 George Martin – producció, producció executiva; corda, metall, clarinet, arranjaments i direcció orquestrals; piano a «Rocky Raccoon»
 Ken Scott – enginyeria i mescles
 Barry Sheffield – enginyeria (Trident Studio)
 Chris Thomas – producció; Mellotron a «The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill», clavicèmbal a «Piggies», piano a «Long, Long, Long», piano elèctric, orgue i arranjaments de saxòfon a «Savoy Truffle»

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Discs del 1968
Discs en anglès
Discs de rock
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ABU DHABI, UAE: PRNewswire: The Robes, a joint brand between the Italian fashion designer, Tanja Conia, and UAE Fashion House, both work closely to introduce elegant dresses, ready to wear, Junior, and about to introduce the first ABAYA with the brand "The Robes" which is expected in early 2017 as designed by joint hands of both Tanja Conia and the Emarati designer, Noura AJ, and produced in Italy with high quality solid, mat, and unwrinkled crepe textile, with touch of genuine calf leather in five main dark colors on Abaya back taking the shape of The Robes stripes theme as seen in the logo.
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Albertville is een plaats (city) in de Amerikaanse staat Alabama, en valt bestuurlijk gezien onder Marshall County.

Demografie
Bij de volkstelling in 2000 werd het aantal inwoners vastgesteld op 17.247.
In 2006 is het aantal inwoners door het United States Census Bureau geschat op 19.205, een stijging van 1958 (11,4%).

Geografie
Volgens het United States Census Bureau beslaat de plaats een oppervlakte van
67,5 km², waarvan 67,2 km² land en 0,3 km² water. Albertville ligt op ongeveer 334 m boven zeeniveau.

Plaatsen in de nabije omgeving
De onderstaande figuur toont de plaatsen in een straal van 24 km rond Albertville.

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Grand Junction, CO — Colorado United for Families, a grassroots advocacy campaign to educate Colorado constituents on Congressman Scott Tipton's (CO-03) votes on health care and taxes, is launching it's second television advertisement to hold Congressman Tipton accountable for his efforts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and raise health care premiums on hardworking Coloradans.
The ad, "More Hikes", highlights Congressman Tipton's vote to undermine the ACA, which will result in an estimated 235,000 Coloradans losing coverage by 2025, including 35,200 of Congressman Tipton's own constituents. The six-figure buy will air in the Grand Junction and Colorado Springs media markets. The ad release comes as Colorado's Division of Insurance works to determine by how much Colorado families will be impacted by increased insurance premium rates in 2019 as a result of ongoing Republican attempts to undermine access to quality, affordable health care.
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Gwinnett middle school students honored for fitness artwork
GCPS artists capture Fueled and Inspired, Together
Some Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) middle school students earned recognition for their artistic abilities after entering the Fit Girls Rise Up Art Contest. Sponsored by the Dairy Alliance, the contest asked students to create artwork that answered the question, "What does F.I.T. – Fueled and Inspired, Together mean to you?" The following Gwinnett students were winners in the contest:
Arya Patel
Hull MS
Autographed Falcons Merchandise
$150 NFL Shop Gift Card.
Lisa Rivera
Northbrook MS
Best Technical Skill
$100 NFL Shop Gift Card
Ashmin Kaur
7th Grade Finalist
Lynette Leon
Patel and Rivera's artwork will be featured in the F.I.T. Girls Rise Up! Journal, found on the GCPS Fine Arts website. Each of the finalist's schools also will receive a visit from a Falcons player, Falcons cheerleaders, and Freddie Falcon.
The Dairy Alliance is a nonprofit organization that works on behalf of the dairy farm families of the Southeast. It also is a community partner with the Atlanta Falcons Youth Foundation for the Fuel Up to Play 60 program (FuelUptoPlay60.com). The Foundation has provided a grant to The Dairy Alliance to pilot the Dairy Alliance's F.I.T. Girls Rise Up! Program in Gwinnett County as a result of their focus on the disparity between the male and female middle school population in aerobic capacity and involvement in youth sports.