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Avis Budget Group Named One of Canada's Best Employers
Ranking recognizes employee satisfaction levels and likelihood to recommend their place of work PARSIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avis Budget Group has been named to the Forbes list of Canada's Best Employers 2020. Developed in collaboration with analytics firm Statista, the 2020
Avis Budget Group Adopts Short-Term Shareholder Rights Plan to Protect the Company and its Shareholders
SRS Investment Management Refuses to Renew Cooperation Agreement on Acceptable Terms PARSIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR) today announced that a committee (the "Committee") of its Board of Directors that was formed to manage the Board's
Avis Budget Group to Announce Fourth Quarter 2019 Results on February 19th
Conference Call to Discuss Results Scheduled for February 20th, 2020 PARSIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR) announced today that it plans to report its fourth quarter 2019 results after the market close on Wednesday, February 19th, 2020, and to
Avis Budget Group and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Sign New Connected Car Agreement, Giving a More Streamlined, Self-Serve and On-Demand Rental Experience in Europe
Customers of Avis Budget Group renting FCA vehicles in Europe will soon find it easier to pick up and return their vehicles, allowing them to manage their entire rental experience digitally and enabling lock/unlock technology. More than 22,000 connected Fiat, Jeep, Alfa Romeo, Lancia cars and
Avis Budget Group Provides Leadership Update
Joe Ferraro Named Interim Chief Executive Officer PARSIPPANY, N.J., Dec. 30, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Joe Ferraro, President, Americas, as Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2020. Mr.
Avis Budget Group Surpasses 200,000 Connected Vehicle Mark
Connected fleet offers trifecta of benefits: operational efficiency, customer satisfaction and new revenue models PARSIPPANY, N.J., Dec. 16, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avis Budget Group announced today that it has surpassed the 200,000 connected car threshold globally, a significant marker on its
Avis Budget Group Partners with Verizon and Edison Interactive to Launch New All-in-One Digital Travel Assistant
Strategic partnership powers an enhanced digital media experience for car rental travelers using Verizon's nationwide 4G LTE network PARSIPPANY, N.J., Dec. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avis Budget Group, in partnership with Verizon and Edison Interactive, today announced the launch of a new
Avis Named World's Leading Car Rental Company at World Travel Awards 2019
BRACKNELL, United Kingdom, Dec. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading car rental brand, Avis, has been named the world's leading car rental company for the second year in a row at the World Travel Awards 2019 Grand Final. The award was announced at an awards ceremony in Muscat, Oman on 28 th
Avis Named #1 Rental Car Travel App by J.D. Power
Avis mobile app ranked highest in customer satisfaction in J.D. Power 2019 U.S. Travel App Satisfaction Study PARSIPPANY, N.J., Nov. 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avis Car Rental was named the 2019 top rental car travel app by J.D. Power. The Avis mobile app ranked the highest in customer
Avis Budget Group Recognized for Support of Women in the Workplace at Inaugural WINiT Awards Gala
WINiT names Avis Budget Group's Vice President of Sales, Beth Kinerk, among Top 40 Women in Travel PARSIPPANY, N.J., Nov. 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avis Budget Group has been honored as the winner of The Creating a Company Culture for Women to Advance and Succeed Award at the inaugural WINiT


"This is consistent to the Insurance Amendment Act and in line with our expectations," said Sandeep Ghosh MD and CEO Bharti Axa Life Insurance.
MUMBAI: The Insurance regulator has defined Indian control as the right to appoint majority of the directors, or to control the management or policy decisions, ending months of speculation and confusion on what constituted control. "The expression "control" shall include the right to appoint a majority of the directors or to control the management or policy decisions including by virtue of their shareholding or management rights or shareholders agreement or voting agreements," said Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority.
With this definition, Indian shareholders because of their higher shareholding in the company will be able to dictate terms and that even if there are provisions in agreements that give more rights to minority shareholders may become invalid.
The Insurance Laws (Amendment) Act 2015 that raised the foreign investment cap in the insurance sector to 49% included requirement on "Indian owned and controlled" for an insurance company. Around half a dozen companies have applied to FIPB and the sector regulator for an increase in the FDI limit to 49% including Max Bupa and Bharti AXA. There are 52 joint ventures in life and general insurance industry. Though a majority of insurance companies are owned by Indian promoters, in some cases, foreign partners were playing an active role in running the show.
Appointment of all key persons including the chief executive officer has to happen through the board or the Indian promoter. Apart from the CEO all key management personnel can be nominated by foreign promoter and approved by the board.


Hit the mat with this sparkling gem of a unitard! Unicorns, sparkle, rainbows, and magic all wrapped up in one stunning design. Rows of colorful unicorns prance across a shimmering aqua background ready to make some magic. Make this unitard your happy ending! Matching scrunchie included.
Made of metallic lycra, the Magic Leaping Unicorn Unitard will keep you covered while you tumble, twist, and flip. With stretch and shine all in one, you can sparkle in comfort and style! It has a super plush velvet trim for a soft and cozy feel around the neck and arms.


Dofus Touch features two main game modes. The first one is PvP in which players can fight duels among themselves, while the other, PvE, lets them cooperatively defeat computer-controlled opponents.
The PVM Solo / Multi: The PVM (Player versus Monsters) is the most intuitive game mode: it is only to fight the monsters of DOFUS Touch, from simple piou (lvl 1) to Count Harebourg (lvl 200 ). Although most of the dungeons and THL (Very High Level) areas of the game require multiple players to play, it is possible to fend for themselves in the game and progress without the direct help of other players.
The PVP Multi AvA / Kolizeum: The PVP (Players Versus Players) is a game mode that allows to compete between players. It takes place mainly during AvA (Alliance versus Alliance) where the goal is to control an area with its Alliance to enjoy bonuses xp (experience), drop (resources obtained by fighting monsters) or even bonuses specific to the zone . The second solution to make PVP is the Kolizeum. In this one will confront 2 teams of 3 players (chosen randomly or not) in battles to death that brings xp and kolizetons (tokens allowing the purchase of objects in play) as well as to mount in Ladder Kolizeum of server.
The PVP Solo Brakmar vs Bonta: The PVP (Player versus Player) solo is a mode of play that tends to disappear simply because the one if does not bring rewards other than the wings of the cities (Brakmar> Demon and Bonta> Angel) More and more in order to be able to paradise in front of the other players. However this mode of play requires a great knowledge of the game and remains fun to play.
Which mode do you like more? Choose one and enjoy the game.


The gloves are bulky and the first time I used them, the thumb holes cut into my hands. During the second week the gloves started to peel off in places, followed by the stitching breaking apart. The gloves are cheap made. Instead of sending them back I use the gloves from the Gold's Gym MMA Training Kit, which fit a lot better, giving me more movement in my hands for punching.
I noticed there are a few complaints about the velcro feet straps. I have had them about ten months and I have never had a problem, except for that they can stick to the carpet.
The Basic workout is to help you learn the moves and to get use to the bands. My favorite workouts are Combo Sculpt, Ripped Core, Boot Camp Power, and Body Blast.
If you use the bands correctly they give you the resistance you need to see changes in your body. I especially feel the difference in my shoulders and arms. I'm only 5'9 and the bands work perfectly for me. Someone who is shorter or taller may have problems with them.
I noticed some reviewers complain about the price. A single Tae Bo DVD can cost around ten dollars at Walmart or up to fifteen dollars on Amazon.com. In PT 24/7 you are getting 7 workouts, so if you bought them separately it would cost you at least seventy dollars, and that is without the gloves, bands, and the workout schedule.
Tae Bo may not be for everyone, but it works for me.


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Jokes of the day for Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Funny jokes, funny photo and funny video collected from the internet on Wednesday, 11 March 2009
One morning the phone rang at ...
One morning the phone rang at 3:00 a.m. in Jeff's house. He picked up the phone and a woman asked, "Is this 555-1111?"
"No, this is 555-1112." Jeff replied.
"Oh, I'm so sorry for disturbing you." The woman said.
"That's alright," Jeff said. "I had to get up to answer the phone anyway."
Joke | Source: Jokes of The day - Used to be - Australian Joke of the day - site changed purpose and no longer serves jokes
Q: Why did th...
Q: Why did the blonde have square breasts?
A: Because she forgot to take the tissue out of the box.
#joke #short #blonde
Joke | Source: Comedy.com - The World Famous Comedy.com Daily Joke!
Put about 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window. Then send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours and then analyse the situation.
A dentist a nurse and a army g...
A dentist a nurse and a army general are flying.
The dentist decides to drop a tooth brush out of the plane. The nurse drops down a medical kit and the army general drops a bomb.
They land the airplane and see what happened...
First they found a guy looking for his false teeth.
Next they found a guy bandaging his wounds.
Lastly they found a young boy laughing his head off.
They asked him what happened and he said, "My grandfather farted and blew up his house."
Joke | Source: Kiwi box - today's pick Joke of the day
A Rare Book
A collector of rare books ran into an acquaintance who told him he had just thrown away an old Bible that he found in a dusty, old box. He happened to mention that Guten-somebody-or-other had printed it.
"Not Gutenberg?" Gasped the collector.
"Yes, that was it!""You idiot! You've thrown away one of the first books ever printed. A copy recently sold at an auction for half a million dollars!"
"Oh, I don't think this book would have been worth anything close to that much," replied the man. "It was scribbled all over in the margins by some guy named Martin Luther."
Q: Did you blow your horn or a...
Q: Did you blow your horn or anything?
A: After the accident?
Q: Before the accident.
A: Sure, I played for ten years. I even went to school for it.
Joke | Source: Jokes of the day - Used to be Joke rating machine, but this site is dead
If cbca3 - a7373 = 38ab0 find number abc. Multiple solutions may exist.
A lady answers the doorbell. A...
A lady answers the doorbell. A man at the door says, "I'm the piano tuner." "I didn't call for a piano tuner," says the lady. "No," says the man, "but your neighbors did."
Joke | Source: Click The City - Philippine's Leading Lifestyle and Entertainment Guide.
Lightbulb Joke Collection 08
Q: How many Dylan fans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind. The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Q: How many Pet Shop Boys does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: Two. One to change it and one to sit around looking bored.
Q: How many heavy metal fans does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: Three. One to change it and two to say "Excelleeeeeent !"
Q: How many punk rockers does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: Two: One to screw in the bulb and the other to smash the old one on his forehead.
Q: How many crusties does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: Twelve. Crusty #1 yanks the old bulb out and crusty #2 is just about to put the new one in when crusties #3 and #4 stagger in and start arguing that it's their turn. In the ensuing squabble the bulb gets dropped on the floor and smashes. Then crusty #5 points out what a good laugh this is and so chief crusty (#6) dispatches crusties #7 and #8 to go down the shops to buy a new one. After having visited at least 2 off licences on the way, they find their way into the hardware shop. While crusty #7 is busily trying to buy 6 new bulbs for the princely sum of 10p each and a can of special brew, crusty #8 is busy liberating as many as will fit into his long grey shapeless overcoat's pockets. They are joined on the way back by crusties #9 and #10 whose names they've forgotten but they do at least *sound* familiar, and much frivolous hugging ensues until someone remembers what the trip down the shops was all about. On their way back into the squat they pass crusty #11, who has only just joined the group, and who is just on his way out to go and get his hair crimped. Anyway once inside, the lightbulbs are all smashed on the floor and the stereo is cranked up so the dancing can begin. At this point crusty #12 comes back in from a Levellers gig and collapses in a corner, only to find he is lying on something that makes a noise, which turns out to be the dog, holding the last unsmashed lightbulb in its mouth.
"The job notice posted at the University placement office advertised for someone to set up a bookkeeping system for a local dinner theater that was filing for bankruptcy.
When an eager first-year accounting student inquired, the interviewer told him that the company needed an advanced student capable of handling Chapter 11 proceedings.
"I'm sure I could do it," the student proclaimed confidently. "My class is already up to chapter fourteen."
What does a king do when he bu...
What does a king do when he burps?
Issues a royal pardon.
Joke | Source: http://news.scotsman.com/ - Joke of the day
So a guy walks into a bar with a steering wheel down his pants.
When he walks up to the bar and orders a drink, the bar tender
"Gee that must be a bit annoying mate"
The guy replies: "Yeah, its driving me nutts!"
#joke #short #walksintoabar
up, comedians, funny videos, d...
up, comedians, funny videos, dane cook, mike birbiglia, eugene mirman, demetri martin, jeff dunham, katt williams, daily joke, joke of the day, funny jokes, yo mama, jokes, redneck, blond, george bush, bush, lawyer, favorite, list, animal, college, dumb
#joke #short #lawyer #yomama

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Predictive Maintenance Tech
Behind the scenes of detecting anomalies with deep learning at Airbus
As one highly interdependable and optimised industry, one minor anomaly in the airline industry may cause tremendous consequences. This is why detecting anomalies is beneficial not only for aircraft manufacturers but also for airlines and passengers. Dr. Sarah Andreas, Data Scientist at Airbus, joined us at the online Maintenance Analytics Summit to present how they use deep learning for contextual predictions of time-series sensor data. In this talk, we touched upon several important points regarding time series anomaly detection with deep learning in the airline industry.
Hyperight: Hi Sarah, we are excited to have you as one of the speakers at the virtual edition of the Maintenance Analytics Summit. Let's begin with a few words about yourself, your background and role at Airbus.
Sarah Andreas: As a Data Scientist at Airbus, I am currently working on anomaly detection in time series data, but previously worked on other projects involving ML and AI at Airbus. I am a physicist by training, and I did my PhD in theoretical particle physics. My research focused on building models and applying statistical analyses to experimental data in order to discover new physics, in particular dark matter.
Since resigning from academia, I have used my skills and knowledge to work as a data scientist and to apply ML and AI to a variety of areas, from improving and optimising business models, processes or marketing, to the aerospace industry.
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Hyperight: Deep learning has found many useful applications in different fields such as medicine for image segmentation, in the automotive industry for self-driving cars, natural language processing, and of course in the aviation industry for anomaly detection. What are the benefits of using deep learning to detect anomalies in aircraft before they actually appear? And what are the implications if they are not detected on time?
Sarah Andreas: Detecting anomalies in sensor data can benefit not only manufacturers but also airlines and passengers. But let me clarify first, that the anomalies we are looking for are only small context-dependent deviations from normal behaviour, all severe deviations from design-specifications, everything that is safety-relevant is of course already reported. The anomalies we try to capture could, for example, come from a valve that is oscillating when closing/opening and thereby causing wear and tear, which could reduce its lifetime and require earlier replacement. By pointing the engineers towards unexpected and abnormal behaviour, they can act appropriately, potentially replace parts before delivery or schedule respective maintenance without causing delays or disruptions in flight operations.
Hyperight: In your presentation summary, you mention that there are many sensors on the subsystems and systems on the aircraft that generate large time-series datasets. Could you please clarify what time series are? How do you analyse time series and provide actionable insights?
Sarah Andreas: Time series data is generated by recording the readings of sensors over time, e.g. the continuous temperature measurement at every second. Since there are many sensors all over the aircraft, this data is very valuable and could be considered the heartbeat of an aircraft, similar to the ECG of your heart taken by the doctor. We do multivariate analyses of all relevant sensors in a subsystem and train LSTM models on the normal behaviour of the system so that we can predict how the time series of a certain sensor should develop under normal conditions. By comparing this prediction with the actual measured data, we can find deviations from normality, i.e. anomalies, and notify engineers about unexpected behaviour.
Hyperight: Besides anomaly detection, what are some other deep learning applications in the aviation industry?
Sarah Andreas: At Airbus, we focus our AI applications in 5 main areas in which we concentrate our efforts, run projects and develop platforms. Besides anomaly detection, this is computer vision, knowledge extraction, decision making and conversational assistance, like chatbots. These are applied in various divisions throughout the company, for example, to optimise production, improve processes and help guide decision making.
Hyperight: We can imagine the amount of data that is generated and the number of sensors and metrics that should be monitored. But automated anomaly detection systems is a solution to monitor all the metrics at scale. How much are automated anomaly detection systems viable?
Sarah Andreas: We are aiming at building a solution that can detect anomalies with human-level performance after each flight in order to point the engineers to abnormal behaviour. Such a system supports engineers in their day-to-day work while otherwise they would not be able to detect all anomalies manually since the amount of data generated is so huge that it is impossible to look through hours of data of various sensors for a vast number of aircraft. Of course, we need to ensure that performance is sufficient with few false positives since engineers would likely stop using the system after too many false alarms.
Hyperight: As we can conclude, deep learning and AI are in the research phase and haven't found full application in the aviation industry. What are the challenges that are holding back implementation? Do you believe the future holds a solution to these challenges?
Sarah Andreas: The aviation industry has always been a great playground for innovation. It brings together many domains of expertise with very high standards in terms of performance and efficiency. But because it is a highly interdependable and optimised industry, any change needs to prove its worth before being implemented. Since deep learning and AI are very new, state-of-the-art and fast-paced, the aviation industry itself needs time to gain hands-on experience and to better understand the benefits and limitations before implementing it. This is particularly important with respect to explainability and reproducibility, especially since ML/AI are usually perceived as a black box. Addressing this issue is also important when it comes to aircraft safety and as a result, certifying any ML/AI systems by the global aviation authorities.
I believe that it is important for our industry to get accustomed to ML/AI, which will then play a significant role in shaping the future of the aviation industry.
Since there are many sensors all over the aircraft, this data is very valuable and could be considered the heartbeat of an aircraft, similar to the ECG of your heart taken by the doctor.
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Business Predictive Maintenance
Throwback to the first Maintenance Analytics Summit (part 2)
In the previous article, we introduced some of the topics and presentation that were discussed at the very inception of the Maintenance Analytics Summit.
Now, we'll continue in the same fashion, and give due credit to the second round of PdMA Summit 2018 speakers that shared their knowledge at the event that unites PdM practitioners, experts, academia and visionaries working with Data-Driven Maintenance, Machine Data and Advanced Analytics.
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1. Edge Analytics & Data Lineage – Marty Cochrane, Vice President, Solution Architecture at Arundo Analytics
Marty brought on stage edge computing which was then considered a hot topic in IIoT. 2018 was a year when many exciting new examples of the use of edge analytics sprang up. Marty walked us through the process of Arundo's edge analytics and how they collect data from the edge devices, apply models to the data, stream the data and finally add it to dashboards. He brought up the question of the transparency of the sensor data sources for subscribers. Watch his presentation below to see how they solved this data lineage challenge.
2. Predictive Maintenance Use Cases From The Energy Sector – Umid Akhmedov, Director, Head of Architecture, Data & Analytics at FLSmidth
Umid Akhmedov, then working as a Head of Advanced Analytics at Ørsted, discussed some use cases with predictive analytics that they as an energy company leveraged to support their green transformation. Their transformation had begun in 2016 with creating a digital strategy built around advanced analytics and automation to deliver the next-level user experience. Umid emphasised that IT had a central role in making it happen with aligning the business strategy, data foundation and setting up the processes. Learn how Ørsted transformed itself into a green company with the help of predictive maintenance below.
3. DNVGL Predictive Maintenance Examples – Jarl S. Magnusson, Principal Specialist at DNV GL
Jarl S. Magnusson outlines several predictive maintenance examples at DNV GL with a focus on the importance of data management and data quality for advanced predictive analytics. Jarl explained their process of taking care of ship data in a safer, smarter and greener way relying on safety performance monitoring, automated compliance and emission monitoring. Realising their customers are facing trust issues with their data, Jarl outlined the data platform they built to establish standards and recommended practices for data quality, security and ownership that provide trust in the industry data analytics. Watch Jarl's whole presentation below.
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4. Challenges In Modeling Elevators For Predictive Maintenance – Matti Laakso, Condition Monitoring Expert at KONE Corporation
Matti Laakso presented unique challenges that the different varieties, models and types of elevators and escalators pose for applying predictive maintenance on them. Keeping up with the fast-paced digital economy, Matti presented their intelligent services that revolutionised their elevator and escalator maintenance based on real-time data and analytics – 24/7 Connected Services. The overall goal of their predictive maintenance services was to keep the equipment availability as high as possible. After their new service was launched, Matti states they discovered many new features and benefits they could offer to their customers thanks to data. Find out the workings behind what makes a good predictive maintenance service for elevators in the video below.
5. Condition Based Maintenance In The Manufacturing Industry – Ali Rastegari, Project Manager Warranty and Technical Support at ABB
During his position at Volvo Group Trucks Operations, Ali Rastegari presented his personal PhD research on frameworks and guidelines to support the development and implementation of condition-based maintenance in manufacturing companies. Ali stated that at that time, the largest problem in the manufacturing industry was the low level of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) – 15-20% below the targeted level. The most evident reason for this was machine failures and the fact that maintenance workers were doing reactive rather than preventive maintenance. This made implementing digitalisation, Industry 4.0 and predictive maintenance nearly impossible if companies hadn't even done preventive maintenance. Watch Ali elaborate on the benefits of CBM exemplified through practical case studies.
6. Clear Expectations About Data Quality – Christian Rasmussen, Senior Manager Data Engineering at GRUNDFOS & Signe Horn Thomsen, Data Specialist at GRUNDFOS
Christian and Signe brought up the matter of data quality and how if it's not up to par, it cripples the delivery of analytics insight. Christian started with explaining GRUNDFOS's digital offerings, which are part of their digitalisation strategy. Later on, Signe presented the troubles data scientists go through with data access, cleaning and preparation to get good data quality. Signe also explained what data scientists' expectations of data to work with it are. She revealed GRUNDGFOS's data quality assessment method in order to meet the expectations, create awareness about data quality and provide a common language about data quality. Watch the whole presentation for a detailed overview of their data quality assessment method.
7. Innovation In Service And Maintenance Industry Using Predictive Analytics – Ashutosh Kumar, Manager of Customer Success at Cognite AS
Ashutosh delivered insights into innovation in the service and maintenance industry from a maintenance provider's perspective. He touched upon the past and then-present maintenance strategies that were used in the industry, the role of digitalisation on the path towards predictive maintenance and the process and challenges of developing a predictive maintenance solution. Ashutosh stated that many companies relied on reactive or corrective maintenance. Although this type of maintenance had been predominant in the '70s and '80s, he said that it was still in place for some smaller machines. The next step was implementing preventive maintenance with scheduled shutdowns. And finally, the last one is predictive maintenance. But according to Ashutosh, there are different levels of predictive maintenance dependent on the maintenance that is required for an asset. Watch in the presentation below how to choose the best approach for PdM.
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8. SJ Goes Digital: The Journey Towards Predictive Maintenance – Andreas Stjernudde, Digitalisation Coordinator at SJ AB
Andreas Stjernudde advised on how a company can transform from mainly doing corrective and preventive maintenance, towards predictive maintenance. Andreas related the process of implementing predictive maintenance on train coaches constructed in the middle of the past century with very low potential of predictive maintenance and only infrastructure monitoring, to modern double-decker trains which can be equipped with sensors for predictive maintenance. He discussed the consolidation of virtual assets and sensor data into a single system to increase the potential of condition-based maintenance. Watch the whole process of SJ's digital transformation below.
9. Quick Wins And Dead Ends: A Collection Of Customer Stories In Asset-Heavy Industries – Jake Bouma, Director of Smart Maintenance at Cognite AS
Jake Bouma focused on practical examples and customer stories from the heavy-asset industry while revealing first-hand insights into things that do and don't work when doing predictive maintenance. Heavy-asset industries such as maritime, utilities and oil and gas held a market opportunity of more than USD 20 billion if the downtime was reduced by only 10%, declared Jake. People saw predictive maintenance as the solution to capture this value by reducing cost. However, Jake saw this formulation as restrictive when it came to the approaching problems with data science in the heavy-asset industry. He challenged the concept of giving future predictions and forecasting when to do maintenance to reduce cost by relying on predictive maintenance. Find out why Jake took issue with these perceptions surrounding predictive maintenance in the video below.
10. Automation Of Maintenance Prediction For Rotating Assets – Renato Neves, Global Manager Software, Apps and Analytics at SKF & Rerngvit Yanggratoke, Senior Data Scientist at Ericsson
Renato introduced the topic of how to automate the problem detection of rotating assets by using infrequent data. Sticking to their mission of providing reliable rotation to the world, SKF founded their project on two business propositions: offer trouble-free operations of assets throughout the lifecycle, and deliver value over the whole lifecycle of the assets. And condition monitoring is one of the most important parts of offering good rotation equipment performance, said Renato.
Watch the whole presentation where Renato and Rerngvit describe how they automate maintenance with a machine learning approach for determining the health state of rotating systems.
Join us for the 3rd edition of the Maintenance Analytics Summit – an event filled with amazing presentations on Maintenance Analytics, Predictive Maintenance, IIoT and Condition Monitoring, tailor-made for every professional or organisation working with, or interested in taking proactive measures based on Advanced Data Analytics to predict and avoid machine failure.
At this edition you will listen to awesome presentations such as:
Maintenance Analytics in the age of Industrial Intelligence.
Asset lifecycle management from inception to disposal by the aid of ten metrics approach.
How to Develop a Predictive Maintenance Program Aligned to the PoV Process.
Data-Driven Uptime.
Manufacturing Intelligence Center: how to become a Brilliant Factory.
Saving lives on the tracks – the IoT approach.
Predictive Maintenance through the Cloud-based Approach.
Time Series Anomaly Detection with Deep Learning.
AI in Prognostics and Health Management.
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In these troubled and uncertain times of the COVID-19 pandemic, we must be more united and consolidated than ever before. The spread of the novel coronavirus has touched all of our lives in some manner. Our hearts go out to everybody affected by the recent developments.
Even in these disheartening times, we are still here. We will persevere and come out stronger from this crisis to enjoy the new decade that will mark the industrialisation and stabilisation of AI and data.
In the interest of attendees safety and those closest to them, together with the event organising committee, event partners and speakers, we have decided to make the 2020 edition of the Maintenance Analytics Summit a virtual one.
Deep Learning Tech
Can we trust deep learning to detect duplicate code? GitHub did it
GitHub as a platform doesn't need an introduction. Everyone that has even been closely or remotely connected to some sort of code development, testing, production or even marketing of software products, has a very clear understanding of GitHub.
As a software development platform, GitHub opens its doors for developers all over the world to host, share, and discover software, particularly but not limited to open-source. Consequently, one is inspired to ask just how much data of code GitHub actually stores.
Clair Sullivan, Machine Learning Engineer at GitHub, came to Data Innovation Summit to enlighten us about how much code data they actually have and what exactly they do with it.
At the time of her presentation, Clair stated that GitHub stored around 0.8 petabytes of data of code produced by developers.
Going a step forward, Clair explains that all that data can be represented in a graph – of connected data. What does that mean? Simply put, the graph presents two pieces of data connected together, like a developer writing code, pulling requests, creating issue, making a comment, cloning a repository.
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Duplicate code – Why it's such a problem for GitHub
Clair's talks focused on a particularly interesting aspect of code – duplicate code. You may wonder why copying a piece of code and posting it in another repository would cause such a fuss.
To give us an idea of why duplicate code is the focus of her talk, Clairs draws attention to a paper on duplicate code in GitHub and how much of it resides there.
Image source: Clair Sullivan's PDF presentation at the Data Innovation Summit 2019
As we can see, a staggering 93% of JavaScript on GitHub is duplicate. Considering the amount of duplicate code, GitHub is focused on finding a way to leverage it and help developers in their code development by suggesting existing code based on similarity.
Types of duplicate code
Clair describes that there are 5 different types of duplicate code:
Type 0 – completely identical
Type 1 – the only difference is in comments and whitespace
Type 2 – can also include variations in identifier names and literal values
Type 3 – syntactically similar with differences as the statement level (can be added, removed, or modified)
Type 4 – syntactically different but semantically similar (they do the same thing)
Detecting Type 0, 1 and 2 is quite easy using hashing, but the real fun starts with Type 3 and 4 as they are much more complex to detect.
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Graphs of code
Explaining Type 3 duplicate code, Clair gives the example of the two functions below:
The functions may look very different at first sight, but both are doing a form of addition.
ASTs or abstract syntax trees are how code is put together an in its essence it's nothing other than graphs, which are directed and acyclic, meaning there are no loops in them.
If we represent the two above AST functions into graphs, we get these two visuals below:
Graph calculations are represented through the adjacency matrix – good news for machine learning people that want to crunch numbers. The adjacency matrices turn the graph into numbers and vectors that ML people can work with.
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But going back to the headline of the article, it said using deep learning and for that we need images. What if we take these numbers, rows and columns and turn them into an image, Clair suggests. This is what Clair did in her research; she took the code and the graph of it and turned it into a picture of the code, the AST adjacency matrix of a function, to be more precise:
The next step was to apply a convolutional neural network to see if she can detect duplicate images, i.e. codes.
If we can identify developers going down the path of creating duplicate code, can we help them write that code?
Watch the full presentation with Clair Sullivan
Deep learning model for detecting duplicates in graphs of code
Clair explained how the workflow went with running deep learning on the graph images for the purpose of detecting duplicate code.
She relied on the labelled dataset called Big Clone Bench which contains 6.7 million Java files labelled for their type of duplicates. The idea was to go through all of them and pick the Type 3 duplicates, which are the same language, syntactically slightly different, but semantically identical.
First, she identified two files in the Big Clone Bench dataset which are labelled as Type 3 duplicates and compared them. Then she created a training set based on those labels of either Type 3 or not Type 3 leaving them with Type 3 clone or a negative clone which they used in the training.
Then, the code is converted into ASTs JSON, which is converted into an adjacency matrix and a convolutional neural network code is written to define if they are Type 3 duplicates or negative duplicates. The process for detecting duplicates is done at a file and function level.
After running the test on file to file comparison, Clair got an accuracy on the test set of almost 93%. The training was done on 5000 negative clones and 8220 Type 3 clones, with 20% loss.
As for the function to function comparison, she got 97.7% accuracy on a test done with nearly 28.000 negative clones and 53.000 total training cases, which are great numbers.
In order to make sure she wasn't being fooled by the results, as it doesn't happen rarely in deep learning algorithms, Clair added random noise to the images by 1%. As a result, the test accuracy went down, as expected, but as she states, there is no 100% proof that results are accurate and have to be taken with a grain of salt.
But at the end of the day, Clair presented only one way, one node in the whole graph, for doing graph analytics on code.
Clair admits that GitHub's current approach for clone detection using O(n2) is not efficient and that's why it's not in production. As she says, GitHub is working on finding a way out of this O(n2) modality.
However, they focus the majority of their efforts on detecting Type 4 duplicates, which as Clair states "is the Holy Grail" for research. For detecting Type 3 they worked with Java, but they want to expand to comparing Java to Haskell.
But code is not the only data on GitHub as we've seen. There's data on the users, their activity and interactions on the site and all of it can potentially be represented as a graph, Clair points out. These are some of GitHub's exciting area of work that hopefully we'll soon see results of.
Throwback to the first Maintenance Analytics Summit (part 1)by Ivana Kotorchevikj / May 12, 2020


So we were shopping at our local Econsave, and my cousins and I came across these wonderful things in the "killing insects and stuff" isle.
As you can probably tell from the pic, the Malaysians, they're pretty serious about killing those mosquitoes.
Like, 800mL of pure mosquito-killing liquid serious.
Like, free Dettol hand-wash serious.
Like, RM15.90 serious (approx. AU $6.70).
Anyway, my counsins and I thought it was amusing, so I thought you might to.
But I guess it was one of those moments where you had to be there. Ah well.
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CD REVIEW: THE TENORS – Under One Sky
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Label: Universal Music Group
Reviewed by: Todd "Toddstar" Jolicoeur
Every rocker needs to step back and take a relaxed moment every now and then. My moment happened recently when I stumbled upon the latest release from The Tenors. Disc opener "A New Day's Begun" isn't what you may expect from voices and performers like The Tenors. The mood of the track has a great pop-like feel to it that keeps the tempo flowing, matches the well-defined textures of the quartets voices, and kicks this off in the right direction. "Besame Mucho" is what you would expect from this track musically, with the exception of the interjected moments of instrumentation that recall visions of a Bond movie. There are also moments of vocal flare thrown into the mix that create a cool modern take on the classic. "I Remember You" is a great track that lends itself more to modern Top 40 than it does classical – especially at the chorus, but it fits the confines of the disc and the abilities of the four voices that comprise the groups sound. "Who Wants To Live Forever" is a killer rendition of the Queen classic. While there are few versions that can match the intensity of the original, this comes as close as any I have heard. The vocals are spot on and mixed perfectly against the orchestration. Lindsey Sterling makes a guest appearance on violin. "Granada" is grand – grand in vocal quality, orchestral arrangement, and overall production. It is a deviation from the other track on the disc, but it works. "Nella Fantasia" builds on the vocal strength of other tracks, while the arrangement and orchestration have a very commercial feel to them. "Love Will Never End" brings a classic feel and sound to the disc, with heavy vocals that deliver the lyrics with emotion and precision. The different textures of the vocals give this track wings and help it soar.
"Lean On Me" is a departure from the more known versions, relying heavier on the vocals and less on instrumentation. The voices come together to create a lush sound that builds the chorus into a full sound that wraps itself around the listener. "My Fathers Son" is a beautiful track that falls along the lines of my preconceived notion of what this group and their songs would sound like. The arrangement is full and gives the vocals room to shine alongside the orchestration that sets the mood for the song. "Angels Calling" is another beautiful track that allows the vocals to really direct and carry the track from start to finish. The lead vocal and piano duet during the first verse draws you in and allows you to enjoy the shift in vocals at the choruses and bridge. This song is built for live performance. "You Are So Beautiful" has been done by different artists from different genres over the years, but this moving version adds the vocals of Kelly Levesque to the mix and gives the track and disc a different feel. The strength of the vocals set against the milder arrangement help this track stand out against other interpretations. "Drowning In Love" opens with a sweet piano interlude that soon swirls with the vocals in the mix, as the song builds and you feel the crescendo hit as the chorus kicks in. The groove of this song should get people on their feet with a dance-floor beat and vibe. Title track "Under One Sky" wraps up the disc and nicely ties the different tracks together, with a perfect balance of vocals and musical accompaniment in the mix, as well as a great tempo that drives the track from open to close.
If you are so inclined, the deluxe edition adds three tracks and a Tenors-only version of "You Are So Beautiful." The inclusion of their take on the Eric Clapton ballad "Tears In Heaven" is worth the step-up. "When Worlds Collide" is a great track that should not be considered a B-side, as this song is as good as any of the tracks on the discs standard version.
Tracklisting: A New Day's Begun – Besame Mucho – Lean On Me – I Remember You – My Fathers Son – Who Wants To Live Forever – Angels Calling – Granada – You Are So Beautiful (w/ Kelly Levesque) – Nella Fantasia – Drowning In Love – Love Will Never End – Under One Sky
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I don't think we've ever met. You always seem so patient and calm!
Sometimes 'Displeasing Drew' rears his head and surprises everyone. I guess we all have our 'disappointing' moments. My goal is that he doesn't come up as often as 'pleasant Drew' shows up.
On that note, I want to be jolly-holiday Drew. Wow, I-just-learned-something-from-you-Drew.


iPhoto for iOS launched, bringing with it a slew of great features. One feature is the ability to Beam photos from one iOS device to another. Here's how to get your beam on.
iPhoto for iOS is a great tool for editing your photos on your favorite iOS device. I covered the basics of the app yesterday, but today I want to show you how to the Beam feature.
In iPhoto for iOS you can beam a photo from one iOS device to another, as long as they are both on the same wireless network. Watch the video below to see Beam in action.
The good thing about this feature is that if you are in the middle of editing a photo, and you beam it to another device, it opens just as it was on the initial device. This allows someone else to finish editing it, or perhaps for you to finish editing some of the finer details on your iPad.
As ZahidMaqbool points out below in the comments, you can also use Bluetooth for the Beam feature. This takes away the need to be connected to a Wi-Fi network, while still allowing you to transfer photos directly between devices. Just make sure Bluetooth is enabled on both devices, no need to worry about pairing, and Beam the photos using the same method laid out in the video above.
What's your favorite feature of iPhoto for iOS so far?
Update, March 19, 2 p.m. PT: Updated to reflect Bluetooth capabilities.


Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years from 1856 to 1950. He also played a significant role in establishing the town of Sheffield as a major industrial centre.
Bessemer had been trying to reduce the cost of steel-making for military ordnance, and developed his system for blowing air through molten pig iron to remove the impurities. This made steel easier, quicker and cheaper to manufacture, and revolutionized structural engineering. One of the most significant innovators of the Second Industrial Revolution, Bessemer also made over 100 other inventions in the fields of iron, steel and glass. Unlike most inventors, he managed to bring his own projects to fruition and profited financially from their success.
Bessemer's father, Anthony, was born in London into a Huguenot family, but moved to Paris when he was 21 years old. He was an inventor who, while engaged by the Paris Mint, made a machine for making medallions that could produce steel dies from a larger model. He became a member of the French Academy of Science, for his improvements to the optical microscope when he was 26. He was forced to leave Paris by the French Revolution, and returned to Britain. There he invented a process for making gold chains, which was successful, and enabled him to buy a small estate in the village of Charlton, near Hitchin in Hertfordshire, where Henry was born. According to Bessemer he was given his name by his godfather Henry Caslon, who employed his father as a punchcutter.
The invention from which Bessemer made his first fortune was a series of six steam-powered machines for making bronze powder, used in the manufacture of gold paint. As he relates in his autobiography, he examined the bronze powder made in Nuremberg which was the only place where it was made at the time. He then copied and improved the product and made it capable of being made on a simple production line. It was an early example of reverse engineering where a product is analysed, and then reconstituted. The process was kept secret, with only members of his immediate family having access to the factory. It was a widely used alternative to a patent, and such trade secrets are still used today. The Nuremberg powder, which was made by hand, retailed in London for £5 12s per pound and he eventually reduced the price to half a crown £ – 2 / 6, or about 1/40th. The profits from sale of the paint allowed him to pursue his other inventions.
Henry Bessemer worked on the problem of manufacturing cheap steel for ordnance production from 1850 to 1855 when he patented his method.
On 24 August 1856 Bessemer first described the process to a meeting of the British Association in Cheltenham which he titled "The Manufacture of Iron Without Fuel." It was published in full in The Times. The Bessemer process involved using oxygen in air blown through molten pig iron to burn off the impurities and thus create steel. James Nasmyth had been working on a similar idea for some time prior to this. A reluctant patentor, and in this instance still working through some problems in his method, Nasmyth abandoned the project after hearing Bessemer at the meeting. Bessemer acknowledged the efforts of Nasmyth by offering him a one-third share of the value of his patent. Nasmyth turned it down as he was about to retire.
Bessemer licensed the patent for his process to five ironmasters, but from the outset, the companies had great difficulty producing good quality steel. Mr Göran Fredrik Göransson, a Swedish ironmaster, using the purer charcoal pig iron of that country, was the first to make good steel by the process, but only after many attempts. His results prompted Bessemer to try a purer iron obtained from Cumberland hematite, but even with this he had only limited success because the quantity of carbon was difficult to control. Robert Forester Mushet had carried out thousands of experiments at Darkhill Ironworks, in the Forest of Dean, and had shown that the quantity of carbon could be controlled by removing almost all of it from the iron and then adding an exact amount of carbon and manganese, in the form of spiegeleisen. This improved the quality of the finished product and increased its malleability.
When Bessemer tried to induce makers to take up his improved system, he met with general rebuffs and was eventually driven to undertake the exploitation of the process himself. He erected steelworks in Sheffield in a business partnership with others, such as W & J Galloway & Sons, and began to manufacture steel. At first the output was insignificant, but gradually the magnitude of the operations was enlarged until the competition became effective, and steel traders generally became aware that the firm of Henry Bessemer & Co. was underselling them to the extent of UK£10-£15 a ton. This argument to the pocket quickly had its effect, and licences were applied for in such numbers that, in royalties for the use of his process, Bessemer received a sum in all considerably exceeding a million pounds sterling.
W M Lord has said with regard to this success that "Sir Henry Bessemer was somewhat exceptional. He had developed his process from an idea to a practical reality in his own lifetime and he was sufficiently of a businessman to have profited by it. In so many cases, inventions were not developed quickly and the plums went to other persons than the inventors."
Bessemer also obtained a patent in 1857 for the casting of metal between contrarotating rollers – a forerunner of today's continuous casting processes and remarkably, Bessemer's original idea has been implemented in the direct continuous casting of steel strip.
Bessemer died in March 1898 in Denmark Hill, London. He is buried in West Norwood cemetery, London SE27. Other influential Victorians such as Sir Henry Tate, Sir Henry Doulton and Baron de Reuters are buried in the same cemetery.
Bessemer was knighted by Queen Victoria for his contribution to science on 26 June 1879, and in the same year was made a fellow of the Royal Society. An Honorary Membership was conferred on Bessemer by the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland in 1891. In 1895, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sheffield's Kelham Island Industrial Heritage Museum maintains an early example of a Bessemer Converter for public viewing. A street was named after him in the town of Hitchin (Bessemer Close) bordering the village of Ickleford in 1995, and Bessemer Way in Rotherham is so named in his honour. In 2009, the public house "The Fountain" in Sheffield city centre was renamed "The Bessemer" in homage to Henry Bessemer, who had a huge impact on the Steel City's development. In Workington, Cumbria, the local Wetherspoons pub is now named after him. In 2002 the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) was established from mergers encompassing historical organisations including the Iron and Steel Institute, of which Bessemer was President from 1871-73; the latter organisation instituted the Bessemer Gold Medal under his tenure and IOM3 still recognises Bessemer's legacy with an annual award of the medal for outstanding services to the steel industry; recent recipients include Indira Samarasekera. In 2003 Bessemer was named among the top 10 technological innovators in Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950. That a man who did so much for industrial development did not receive higher recognition from his own government was a source of deep regret for English engineers, who alluded to the fact that in the United States, where the Bessemer process found much use, eight cities or towns bore his name.
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Katie Price admits to setting up paparazzi shoots after topless romp with Kris Boyson
Mel Evans and Katie BaillieThursday 19 Jul 2018 11:08 am
Katie previously praised boyfriend Kris Boyson for being an ordinary guy (Picture: BACKGRID)
Katie Price has admitted to setting up paparazzi shoots, after she was photographed getting hot and heavy with her boyfriend Kris Boyson earlier this week.
The model and personality was on BBC Woman's Hour when she made the admission, speaking alongside Trevor Adams, CEO of photo agency Matrix.
Earlier this week the 40-year-old was photographed topless with her boyfriend Kris Boyson while on holiday in Thailand in quite the display.
Now she's admitted that while she 'never had to' set up such shoots in the past, she now has no choice as paps manage to track her down without her knowledge – this way she has more control over the images and their context.
'You would know, I never set up pictures, I'm not one for that because people got them,' she said on Thursday morning. 'But it's got to the point where you want to set them up so people don't take them off you and write what they like.'
Was this set up? (Picture: BACKGRID)
'I'm going to say one thing, I do have a relationship with the media, but at the same time, I am a human being and some people do have a right and you're allowed your privacy,' she said. 'Yes you can't pick and choose, that's part and part, you're either in the industry or you're out.'
She had earlier said: 'I get bored of seeing myself, she said. I'm not moaning about everything, but there is at time and a place.'
Speaking about shots that might be taken of her 'speaking to a man' when she's in a restaurant she said there is a sinister side to being captured in that light.
Katie said setting up pap shots 'give back some of the control' (Picture: BACKGRID)
'Someone prints a picture, I'm talking into a man's ear, they might say I'm snuggling up,' she said. 'That ruins lives, that ruins relationships. I might be talking into his ear because the music is loud.'
She added: 'Just because I'm in a nightclub, it looks like my eyes are half shut, [they say] I'm drunk.
'Why don't they say the truth? "She was in the club, she was drinking water and she was paid to be in the club". My image gets tarnished because my fans want to see me at a public appearance late at night.'
Katie Price heading into BBC offices where she spilled the tea WENN.com
In staging the shots, it's all about steering her own message.
When pressed on whether the Thailand shots were indeed staged, though, she said: 'These days, back in the day, no, but these days a lot of people do set up the pictures as they'll get rid of the paps that will try and intrude on you. It gives you a bit of control.'
Katie spoke about a trip to Barbados last year which culminated in her having shots taken, seemingly unaware, when she believed she was staying in a private resort.
'The day I was leaving, I saw all these topless pictures and I was meant to be in a private resort,' she said, before adding she took the images to the hotel manager and asked: 'Where do I stand?'
Katie added: 'I had to be spread all over the papers not knowing I've been stalked and watched,' as she said there are 'men hiding in the bushes' in her driveway to get a shot.
In apparently candid images taken this week that were sent out to the press, the personality and mother-of-five straddled new boyfriend Kris as they hung out under a waterfall.
She and Kris threw out some seriously over-the-top moves – at one point, Katie straddling Kris and leaning back in an extreme back bend, her bikini top cast aside.
The quality of the shots and the extreme nature of the posing made it quite clear that KP and Kris were well aware the photographer was there – in fact, at one point, she appears to look directly down the lens.
Katie said: 'Just because of my job why is it any different with a man making me feel uncomfortable with a camera…I don't think I'm being unreasonable.'
Matrix's Trevor chimed in on his thoughts on snappers as he spoke with Katie on the programme.
'I do think they should have to go through some sort of regulation to get their press card and I think they should carry one,' he said, though he stopped short of saying photographers should 'make themselves known' to the celebrity they intended to snap by wearing a badge.
But he added: 'To do the job professionally you should adhere to the code of conduct.
Still, he admitted, the industry is still not very well regulated. 'Press cards are issued to anybody who asks for one,' he says. 'It's not worth anything.'
HOW A 'STAGED' CELEBRITY PAPARAZZI PHOTOSHOOT IS SET UP - AND WHY THEY DO IT
What chats are had about the set up of a staged photoshoot like this?
Dermot McNamara – Managing Director of Candid Publicity, whose clients include Samantha Mumba, Talulah-Eve and Sinitta, told us: 'The scenario is usually discussed from the outset.
'When setting up the shoot anyway. Sometimes a celebrity would want the shots to be taken more discreetly [so it's not clear they were in on the job – think Thomas Markle and his pre-wedding staged shoot, for instance. The Taylor Swift-Tom Hiddleston kiss on a rock pics, were widely thought, though never proven, to have been staged too, as Taylor is usually so ], but some, like with this case, are blatantly obvious.'
'There would have been at least a month of planning,' Hayley Smith, Director Boxed Out PR, explained. 'Finding the right location, choosing the right moment and the right angle. Management would have had a say in what goes into them and there would be planning into how to get the right exposure.
'Also, with Kris Boyson, he would have required media training. Katie is a pro at this, but Kris not so much so he would have needed thorough prepping. If you notice, there isn't any real intimacy in the images, and the focus is on Katie. Kris would have been prepped to act as a model, rather than a boyfriend.'
She added: 'There would also be time afterwards where Katie will review the photos, deleting the ones she doesn't like and choosing which ones to send.'
Is there always a shoot involved?
Not always. Sometimes staged or fake candid pics are less about a carefully staged photoshoot and more of an arranged tip-off to one or more paps. If a celebrity has a good relationship with the pap, they will alert them of their whereabouts so that their preferred pap gets the exclusive.
The celeb will let their insider pap get the shots, then will select the shots to be photoshopped and sent out, and take a cut.
Sydney pap Jayden Seyfarth, who has photographed the Kardashians, among others, for years, claims that Kim Kardashian has such a deal with picture agency Splash.
He suggested Kim took 60% of sales of the pics, though a former Splash photographer said it was more like 40%.
Kim has never confirmed any such agreement – but Seyfarth said he wanted to reveal the details to show it's not just D-list celebs who are doing 'stuff like this'.
How much money can the celebrity expect to receive?
'On the whole the money is split 50/50,' Dermot explains. 'It's a good way for many celebrities to maintain relevance and keep their bank balances topped up.
'The public sometimes think every celebrity is minted and that's just not the case, so many of the reality stars earn from doing stuff like this.'
This makes sense, given Katie has reportedly put most of her beloved animals up for sale to make ends meet.
Hayley added: 'Staged pap shots of the right celebrity can make thousands. Enough to buy a small house. And it depends if there's an endorsement attached as that increases the fee – maybe the swimwear, or even the cosmetic surgeon as she is baring all – so a brand representative and manager might have been on hand to make sure they get the shots they need.'
She continued: 'Most staged pap shots aren't without a story. Katie knew that press would be more interested with a story attached so she brought Peter in to it as it still peaks interest. This would have made more money and got more photos published.'
Why they do it?
'From a brand point of view, it's powerful because the celebrity and/or its team get to control the image and what gets released,' he said. 'Even a lot of the "dodgy angle weight gain" pictures are more often than not, approved by the celebrity.'
[In fact, you'll often see the 'dodgy angle, running on beach in luminous green bikini' photo set will be followed swiftly afterwards by a weightloss DVD telling all about how they lost the weight].
How awkward is it on the shoot?
The source, who's worked on similar shoots although based in a studio, revealed: 'Celebs such as Katie Price, particularly being a glamour model, are pros at this kind of thing, but to make the images look flawless there is definitely a lot of awkwardness at the crew getting up close and personal with the celeb.
'I was once assisting on a photoshoot with Lucy Pinder for a lads mag,' they continued. 'She knew exactly what she was doing in the process, but I was inexperienced and shocked at how they perfected the shot.
'For instance, I assisted with the style department, and it was her stylist's job to oil up her boobs and make sure they glistened perfectly for the camera.'
They added: 'At one point she lay sprawled chest down across the bonnet of a Mustang with her feet in the air, and it was my job to go and swap the shoes on her feet for the different shots.'
Hayley added: 'Staged shots are all about control, and celebs release stage shots to help them keep control of their brand and appearance. Beyonce and Taylor Swift are great examples of this. The shoots themselves are awkward, they involve a lot of planning and arrangement, as well as lot of people to manage.
'It's also awkward during the shots. Having to fake and manage body language and intimacy is awkward and makes the shots look un-genuine and insincere.'
How many people were likely to have been there?
Our source told us: 'On the [staged, faux candid] shoots I assisted on there'd be the photographer and their assistant, or assistants, the stylist and their assistant, potentially a journalist if the celeb wants to give them an exclusive at the time of the shoot, a publicist, possibly a manager and sometimes a videographer.'
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Melrose Area Residents Are Finding Cookies Distasteful
Thursday - August 13, 2020 by Former Staff | 57 Comments
Cookies, 8360 Melrose Ave. at Kings Road
Cookies, a cannabis store on the southwest corner of Melrose Avenue and Kings Road owned by a prominent hip hopper and a destination for Black customers, has drawn criticism from residents nearby, including those on either side of Melrose Avenue within West Hollywood.
In complaints to the Los Angeles Police Department, the L.A. County Sheriff's Station, to L.A. City Councilmember Paul Koretz and West Hollywood Councilmember Lauren Meister, residents have said the Cookies customers illegally park on Kings Road, where parking is reserved for residents, and make a lot of noise, with radios blasting and people shouting and laughing. They also have complained about customers of Cookies urinating and vomiting and throwing trash in their yards. They also have complained that some Cookie's customers and security guards aren't wearing the mandated face coverings.
"These people are Urinating all over our Homes Apts Tree's Cars Everywhere," said Susan Kraut in a post on the West Hollywood Tri-West section of Nextdoor.com. "aside from being Disgusting it's a Major Health Hazard for All of Us Our Families and Friends. Trash is being thrown all over the streets. Some of these people have Records and Weapons. They are in groups in the streets smoking marijuana."
Cookies was founded in 2012 by hip hop artist Berner (aka Gilbert Milam Jr.) and his partner Jai "Jigga" Chang, a Bay Area cannabis cultivator and breeder. The two cultivated and marketed new brands of cannabis and also created a streetwear company under the Cookies brand. It sells apparel and accessories products for both men and women as well smoking supplies. The Melrose store and one on Maywood in Los Angeles are the brand's flagship stores. There are many more across the United States.
Both the LAPD and the Sheriff's Department and Koretz's office and West Hollywood City Councilmember Lauren Meister have responded to the complaints. Cookies has changed its operating hours, which originally were from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Now it is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Cookie's manager, who goes by the name of Z, told WEHOville that he has engaged a crew to clean litter off nearby streets for three to four blocks north and south of Melrose. Cookies also has increased the size of its security staff. Z said security staffers actively discourage people from parking on residential streets, instead steering them to Cookies' parking lot and to space on Melrose Avenue. Cookies also has agreed to urge customers to order online for curbside pickups, which would reduce the number of customers coming into the store.
The interior of Cookies on Melrose Avenue
The City of West Hollywood has taken other steps to keep Cookies' customers from parking on its streets. One of those is temporarily extending to 24 hours the period during which people must have a city permit to park as of Aug. 17 on the 500 block of Kings Road and on the 8300 block of Clinton Avenue and as of Aug. 20 on the 500-600 block of Orlando Avenue south of Melrose. The city also is said to be considering installing speed bumps on Kings Road.
Most of those who commented on Kraut's post on Nextdoor, known for hosting inflammatory allegations, agreed with her. However, several questioned whether the complaints were inspired by racism. "this sounds like a race thing," said Christopher Sullivan on Nextdoor. Someone else in the area, who asked not to be identified by name, said he also thought the complaints had a racist tinge.
"As most of the businesses in the area mentioned above are currently closed, I immediately knew this was a response to Cookies, the cannabis retailer on Melrose and Kings that has attracted a large and noticeably Black customer base in recent months," he said in an email to WEHOville. 'Since the opening of the store, I have welcomed the increase in Black customers in the area. However, I have also noticed a major increase in police presence surrounding the shop."
"…the concept of 'No parking any time except for permitted 11R residents,' in a sense, is a thinly veiled racist attack on a business and its customer base––a way of saying "If you don't immediately live here, you don't belong."
Tags: berner, cannabis, cookies, gilbert milam jr., jai chang, jigga, lauren meister, nextdoor.com, paul koretz
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Collene Copeland
They are also ripping people off I paid almost 200 bucks and have receipts but now they have blocked me after waiting since December for my package cookies extract is a joke a rip off
John Daniel Harrington-Tyrell
I hope all that comment get involved in local politics and attend city meetings including Public Safety meetings, therefore you can attempt the change you want.
WehoFan
Drove by the other day and it was packed. Say what you will but Cookies is bringing in a lot of money + taxes for the city. Good for them.
Reply to WehoFan
Great, so then the City should just let any business operate, without vetting it and without any concern as to whether it's dangerous to the surrounding neighborhood and it's citizens? I think not. That's ridiculous.
It is not in West Hollywood. It's in LA. So LA get the taxes and West Hollywood gets the troubles
I have lived on Orlando Ave 30+ years…cookies customers at large are very rude, disruptive, inconsiderate and self-centered. They will park anywhere with no regard to the neighborhood and/or residents. I have seen cars parked illegally with infants, toddlers and minor children in general waiting in cars, with other adults, for the customer to return…they bring their children to a marijuana dispensary!!! They sit in their cars smoking then drive off. They are too lazy to walk to the stoplight on Orlando which makes the jay walking out of control. Cookies trash and a lot of fast food trash litters… Read more »
Bill Skywatcher
Reply to Rick
If the illegal parking situation is so bad, sounds like a great place for parking enforcement can hang out on Kings Rd and bring in oodles of additional cash for the city!
You can't even drive by at 10:30am without narrowly avoiding the obnoxious jaywalkers. I have seen fights and people making u turns and cutting lanes. It's just a mess. Meanwhile, the other pot store just a few blocks away has none of these problems.
anyone who lives by this place knows what a mess it is. One can only hope the city shuts it down. 600 a week does buy a lot of weed…
It is so clearly transparent and obvious that S. Madison and others on here that are defending this horrendous establishment are commenters who were either planted by Cookies, employed by Cookies or Cookies' patrons. And what is also so clearly transparent and obviously is that none of this is about race or whether you smoke or not and also that Cookies needs to have it's license taken away ASAP as any business should that is a direct threat to any neighborhood for so many reasons that have been proven over a million times.
Reply to Jackie
My apologies * garbage article lol
Reply to Chris p
I agree with Jackie on all of the above. Of course Cookies needs to have it's license taken away ASAP. Any business of any kind that is a direct threat to any neighborhood, needs to have thier license taken away ASAP; Plenty of businesses have had thier licenses taken away for this reason.
S Madison
Marijuana tax revenue hit 2 billion in 2 years so I suggest you people adapt to your new environment. learn to take a few minutes out of your day to go out and pick up the so called litter off the street. Money talks Karen's and Chads walk
Landon Calrissian
….. Uh? This article is clearly written by someone with a deep-seated racism. All of these points could have been made without bringing race into it. Seeing people justify their racism with these petty middle-class complaints is very saddening. How can you argue it is not racist when race was dragged into this for no reason, with phrases like "THEY probably have records and weapons." WHAT???????????? The author knows what they said is hurtful and wrong, that's why they hid their own identity. The lack of introspection and empathy in America is frightening, and disheartening.. As a black male in… Read more »
Cat Man
You get what you vote for.
integrity, use your name if you mean it
the authors brought race into this, and they hide behind the name "staff" – this publication has no integrity.
Buckwheat Bertha
All you white people need to calm down. Melrose is one of the busiest areas of the city. It was nearly impossible to find parking before COVID along that stretch. And yes, people used to park on the residential streets, risking a ticket. You constantly dealt with people and transient traffic. But were you complaining then? No. You only complain now because it's Black people who are in the neighborhood. All you Hollywood hasbeens and never-weres need to get a life. No one has designated you the police or neighborhood enforcement squad. Your sad, pathetic life has led you to… Read more »
Reply to Buckwheat Bertha
Thank you. So true. They are unhappy with their lives, and if these were white folks lining up it would be A Okay. They'd even offer them lemonade
Reply to S Madison
It has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with behavior. There's no excuse for people getting high on the sidewalk, blatant littering, reckless driving, etc. If the patrons of this store had any respect for others there wouldn't be an issue. I used to live in this neighborhood and was shocked to see what's going on when I visited today. My heart goes out to the neighbors and small businesses that are subjected to this – times are tough enough as it is.


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