Last week, we discovered that utilizing our strengths is yet another way to bolster resilience and bounce back in the face of adversity (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)! Engaging our strengths buffers against psychological vulnerabilities that decrease well-being and drain resilience (6, 7, 8). This is particularly helpful when life gets challenging as development and use of character strengths enables perseverance and well-being in moments of difficulty.
I hope you accepted my invitation to engage your strengths tool belt in sticky situations and build resilience. Did you pause To Notice, Get Accurate, and Get Creative? If so, what did you discover? How were your strengths helpful in sticky situations?
Even though I have been working with my strengths for quite a while now, I really enjoyed engaging my tool-belt last week. I realized just how much my strengths help me persevere in moments of challenge and transition. They engage me, energize me, calm me, and guide me. They connect me to my core values and ground me in the midst of change. They are a reminder of my priorities and an actionable way to live in alignment. Pretty powerful stuff!
How can your strengths help you in moments of challenge and transition?
I've spent that last few weeks singing the praises of strengths. So, this week, I wanted to discuss some of the limitations that arise when using our strengths in action.
Despite all of the wonderful benefits that strengths can bring into our lives, I would be remiss to say that more is always better. Things are rarely an always or never proposition. And strengths use is no different. A strength is only a strength when it is used well. Some call this the Aristotelian mean or "golden mean" (9). For Aristotle, the golden mean was a desirable average between two extremes: deficiency and excess. It was a place of virtuous impact on along a continuum between underuse and overuse. Think about it. What is the difference between bravery and recklessness?
Remember, the VIA strengths represent values in action. Yet, these pathways to virtue are only beneficial when applied in the right degree for a particular situation (10). Understanding our strengths and applying them appropriately is a ongoing process.
I love this quote, because it points to the possible overuse of strengths.
Overuse can have unintended, undesirable negative effects. It's one reason that strengths use is not always a more is better scenario. We've all seen the funny guy use humor inappropriately or in the wrong moment and make others uncomfortable. It's usually unintentional, and this sort of thing can happen to all of us in moments.
Remember, overuse is not weakness. It is a natural occurrence of a strength that hasn't been applied to it's best use. It just needs a little more perspective and nuance to bring out your best. So, the next time you fall into overuse, give yourself some grace and work to modulate the intensity of your strength or leverage a different strength that may be more appropriate to the situation in order to bring balance and find your "golden mean".
Our strengths can be "hot buttons".
Everyone has particular triggers or pet peeves. When tripped, our "hot buttons" can make us emotional and reactionary. Because our tool belt represents signature strengths, it is inherently a collection of virtues that we deeply value. Therefore, when our strengths are challenged by or absent in others, offense can occur. One thing to bear in mind when using your strengths tool belt is that not everyone shares your values. For instance, some folks may value kindness over honesty. While others, value the reverse.
If you find yourself in angry in the next week, check your tool belt. Has a value of yours been trespassed? If this happens, I invite you to take the opportunity to engage curiosity and aim to understand the difference in values that may have popped up. If you are seeking resolution in a moment of conflict, it can be helpful to talk strength-to-strength. Try to hear and validate the other person's perspective while owning your personal values.
What about underuse? Well, I'm glad you asked.
Underuse is a also a common occurrence with strengths use. This tends to happen when a strength is being applied in one domain of our lives, but not translating into another. Perhaps you show gratitude at work, but less at home? Or vice versa. Or perhaps your kindness easily extends to others but is difficult to show yourself?
Does this resonate with you? If so, I invite you to practice engaging a strength in an area where you notice underuse. Remember, you have the skills. It's just a matter of translating that strength into a new situation or domain of your life. So, why not make the effort to engage your strength in a new context as you seek your "golden mean".
Another limitation that can pop up as we use our strengths overtime is adaptation. Human beings have evolved to expect the familiar. Generally, adaptation is a wonderful thing that helps us function more efficiently by automating frequent input and adjusting expectations. However, adaptation can also make us take things for granted. It may even lead to strengths blindness or the inability to see your strengths at work because they are so automatic that you aren't aware your using them. In cases like this, it can be helpful to ask someone close to you for feedback. What do they see as your strengths? Perhaps you've missed something. So go on and ask. The answer just might surprise you!
As we've learned today, our strengths have limitations. Sometimes strengths use can have unintended consequences especially when they are not applied to their "golden mean" (9). I hope this helps your understand why strengths are a highly contextual phenomenon (11).
So this week, I invite you to search for your golden mean. Take a moment to consider a limitation of your strengths. Do you want to explore overuse, hot buttons, underuse, adaptation or strengths blindness? Choose one limitation this week and dive in. Draw your awareness to the situation. Be curious and discover as you go on a quest for the golden mean of your strengths.
I hope you accept this call to use search for your golden mean, and I look forward to next week as we explore finding strengths in others!
1. Gander F, Proyer R, Ruch W, Wyss T. Strength-based positive interventions: further evidence for their potential in enhancing well-being and alleviating depression. Journal of Happiness Studies. 2012; 1-19.
2. Lester P, Harms P, Herian M, Krasikova D, Beal, S. The comprehensive soldier fitness program evaluation. Report 3: Longitudinal analysis of the impact of master resilience training on self-reported resilience and psychological health data. Anchorage, AK: TKC Global Solutions, LLC; 2011.
3. Peterson C, Seligman M. Character strengths and virtues: A handbook and classification (Vol 1). Oxford University Press; 2004.
4. Reivich K, Seligman M, McBride S. Master resilience training in the US Army. American Psychologist. 2011; 66(1), 25-34.
6. Hutu V, Hawley L. Psychological strengths and cognitive vulnerabilities: Are they two ends of the same continuum or do they have independent relationships with well-being and ill-being? Journal of Happiness Studies. 2010; 11, 71–93.
7. Park N, Peterson C. Methodological issues in positive psychology and the assessment of character strengths. In A. D. Ong & M. van Dulmen (Eds.), Handbook of methods in positive psychology (pp. 292-305). New York: Oxford University Press; 2006.
8. Park N, Peterson C. Character strengths: Research and practice. Journal of College and Character. 2009; 10(4), n.p.
9. Crisp R. (Ed.). Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics. Cambridge University Press; 2014.
11. Biswas-Diener R, Kashdan T, Minhas G. A dynamic approach to psychological strength development and intervention. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 2011; 6(2), 106-118.
* Special thanks to the VIA Pro Practitioner Guide, 2011.


The Rev. John Crow, Associate Minister of Epworth Chapel on the Green, is offering an online Greek or Hebrew study group for anyone who is interested. The goal of the course is to equip those in the group so that they can eventually translate a passage of Scripture.
No prior experience is necessary to join the group, and Crow will teach either Greek or Hebrew, depending on which one has the most interest. The course is open to anyone, anywhere. A minimum of three people is required. There is no charge.
Crow says, "Don't be intimidated. We will take it nice and slow, and because it's online, you can do the work when it's convenient for you.
"Having a basic understanding of an original language, along with some tools to assist in using that language can open up possibilities to grasp Scripture, and some of the challenges that translators face, in a way that isn't possible otherwise. Translating Scripture is also surprisingly exciting. Learning an original language isn't a quick journey, but it is worth it!


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Before the Age of Steam, American farmers hand-threshed wheat or oats with a flail. Threshing machines powered by horses or portable steam engines increased daily production of threshing by a hundred times.
In the 1800s, the large number of horses required for farming consumed a lot of grain. Starting in the 1860s, farmers began threshing grain to feed those horses with a cousin of the "iron horse" - a steam traction engine like the Port Huron Thresher shown above.
As a Michigan farm boy, Henry Ford recorded his first sight of a traction engine: "I remember that engine as though I had seen it only yesterday, for it was the first vehicle other than horse drawn that I had ever seen. It was intended to drive threshing machines and power sawmills and was simply a portable engine and a boiler mounted on wheels." The steam traction engine inspired Ford to design and manufacture automobiles. To other rural people it represented a grand transition in American agriculture, and a new community activity.
In 1873, Merritt and Kellog of Battle Creek, Michigan, became the first company to manufacture self-propelled steam traction engines. These engines moved from farm to farm under their own steam. Though some horse-drawn portable steam engines continued in use, the transition to these new engines was under way, and from 1880 to 1930, steam traction engines were a state-of-the-art power source for grain threshing. On larger farms in the Great Plains and West, farmers used horse-drawn or steam-powered combines, but most farmers in the oat and wheat producing sections of the Midwest relied on the steam traction engine and the separator. In the late 1910s and early 1920s, when American tractor companies geared up to transform the American farm with internal combustion tractors, tractor-drawn combines started to replace steam traction engines and grain separators. In less than a hundred years, the nature of grain production in America had changed from intense hand labor to almost total mechanization.
1916 Port Huron Steam Traction Engine, "Longfellow"
Manufacturer: Port Huron Engine & Thresher Company
Date of Manufacture: December 22, 1916
Serial Number: 7920
Power off the Draw Bar: 19 horsepower
Power off the Flywheel: 65 horsepower
Steam Pressure: 175 p.s.i.
Fuel: Wood to start operation, coal to operate
Joseph Freund of Westphalia, Mich., purchased the machine in July 1917. He and his partner, Herman Fox, used it to power a Port Huron "Rusher" thresher-separator. How Henry Ford acquired the thresher is unclear, but it may have been purchased for use at one of the Ford farms rather than for the museum. The engine weathered the elements for a number of years outside the Armington & Sims Machine Shop in Greenfield Village. The Historical Operating Machinery specialists of Greenfield Village restored the engine to operating condition in 1981, and it has been maintained ever since.
The Port Huron Engine & Thresher Company began manufacturing threshing machines in Battle Creek, Michigan, as the Upton Manufacturing Company. Its best known product was the "Michigan Sweepstakes" thresher-separator. In 1884, the company relocated to Port Huron, Michigan, and built its first steam engines. In 1890, it became the Port Huron Engine & Thresher Company, and continued manufacturing agricultural steam engines until the 1920s, producing more than 6,000 engines.
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Avenged Sevenfold message about conflict with Warner Bros. Records
Avenged Sevenfold posted a message on their Facebook page about the conflict with their record company, Warner Bros. Records. You can read the message below.
"We recently exercised our rights under California law and notified Warner Bros. Records we would no longer record for them. Few of the executives who have been integral to our continued success are still at the label, and we love and are grateful to them for their hard work. However, since we signed with the label, Warner Bros. has had 3 different regimes, multiple heads of marketing, and none of the senior management or A&R executives who were at the company and responsible for signing us are still there.
Whatever the activity, it takes a full team to compete, and we no longer know most of our teammates. In the coming days, you may read about the lawsuit our label filed against us for exercising our legal rights, rights the State of California granted specifically to protect artists. You may see mistaken facts or worse.
One such error we want to make sure you know about: Avenged Sevenfold has never renegotiated its original recording agreement with Warner Bros. Records. Billboard has now corrected its story to reflect the real facts.
Most importantly, we want our fans to know this: we are in the middle of writing a record we cannot wait for you to hear. We expect to go into the studio very soon, and look forward to releasing our new album later this year.
Until then, we wish all of you a happy, healthy 2016."
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Ask Dr. Robertson 3 — Social and Psychological Sciences Gone Wrong
Image Credit: Dr. Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Dr. Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson is a Registered Doctoral Psychologist with expertise in Counselling Psychology, Educational Psychology, and Human Resource Development. He earned qualifications in Social Work too.
His research interests include memes as applied to self-knowledge, the evolution of religion and spirituality, the Aboriginal self's structure, residential school syndrome, prior learning recognition and assessment, and the treatment of attention deficit disorder and suicide ideation.
In addition, he works in anxiety and trauma, addictions, and psycho-educational assessment, and relationship, family, and group counseling. Here we talk about different notions of empirical and ethical wrongness (and rightness) in science in general and then in psychological and social sciences in particular.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: When do social and psychological sciences go wrong? In that, the hidden premises of the field poison the research questions asked and skew the findings in response to the questions.
Dr. Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson: The first part of your question, Scott, is "when do sciences go wrong?" The answer, of course, is "all the time." Science is, at its core, careful observation. It is always possible that our observations are imperfect, or that our interpretations of well-observed phenomena are mistaken. Therefore, scientists will always acknowledge that their knowledge claims are provisional, dependent on further evidence. This is why, in modern science, replication and peer review are so important in identifying any biases that may have affected interpretations placed on research.
You may have been referring to Thomas Kuhn with respect to the second part of your question on hidden premises. Kuhn said that for a discipline to become a science it had to be united by a paradigm which he defined as a body of intertwined theoretical and methodological belief. In 1970 he declared psychology to be a proto-science because it lacked such a unifying paradigm. A quarter of a century later Pat Duffy Hutcheon examined three possible paradigmic formulations in psychology — the psychoanalysis of Freud, the developmentalism of Piaget, and the classical behaviourism of Skinner — and she found all had failed to establish themselves as the dominant paradigm in psychology for various reasons. I believe that since then a fourth paradigm has implicitly taken root in the field and that is the subject of the final chapter in a book I am writing about the evolution of the self. That paradigm is based on our self-definition as a species that includes our selves as discreet, relatively stable, volitional, reflective and rational beings. At this time results within the field of psychotherapy are overwhelmingly interpreted from this cognitivist paradigm. Consistently obtained scientific results that cannot be understood within this paradigm would force a scientific revolution replacing this paradigm with another more inclusive one. I suppose you could say the research and interpretations of findings are "poisoned" by the assumptions built into the more primitive paradigm. The classical example of this would be the pre-Copernican notion that Earth was the center of the universe. Using this paradigm, the planets exhibited complicated orbits around Earth, sometime speeding up or slowing down, performing strange loops and so on until the paradigm shifted placing our sun in the center of the solar system. I have argued that an emerging paradigm in psychology includes a self-definition of us as a species as volitional and capable of rational choice (see: https://www.hawkeyeassociates.ca/images/pdf/academic/Free_Will.pdf). It has been argued that such a view favours the construct of individualism and "poisons" the individuals so-counselled against collectivism. I do not happen to share that view. But that is an academic debate.
I do not believe the general public perceives the self-correcting tentativeness built into science. Instead of viewing science as a method for obtaining knowledge, they often view it as a belief system like a religion or an ideology. Religions and ideologies encourage this misunderstanding because they identify Truth, with a capital T, as authoritative and absolute. If scientific evidence runs counter to what they take as authoritatively true, then science is seen as a defective belief system that has "gone wrong." An example of this would be the attack on the theory of evolution by people who want to believe Earth is only 6,000 years old. A second example would be people who believe environmental scientists are part of a great conspiracy to fake evidence related to global warming. A third example would be people who wish to think that evidence debunking notions that our minds are a "blank slate" when we are born are part of a patriarchal backlash. In an interview with the late Carl Sagan, the Dalai Lama said that if science proved reincarnation was impossible, then Buddhism would have to change. We need to carry something of that understanding into all our belief systems or we end up becoming the mindless servant of those belief systems.
Jacobsen: If we look at some aspects of interests for you, and if we look at some long and dark periods in Canadian history for some demographics within Canada, have social and psychological sciences been utilized in such a way to impact Indigenous communities disproportionately negatively? If so, how so?
Robertson: When I was Director of Health and Social Development for the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations during the 1980s, many chiefs repeated the refrain that they had been "studied to death." They were, of course, not claiming that they had been physically harmed. They were claiming that there had been numerous studies and they had not seen any positive results. In some cases, studies were conducted but the results were not communicated back to the communities in question. I believe that knowledge should be "open access" and shared between all stakeholders.
The question as to how psychological knowledge has been utilized is, of course, a different question. While I was Director of Health and Social Development, a band education authority in a reserve in northern Saskatchewan hired a psychometrician from Edmonton to assess the intelligence of their elementary students. Sixty percent of the students were labelled mentally handicapped. My master's thesis is on cultural bias in intelligence testing, and I know the reserve community in question and I can tell you that the psychometrician must not have followed test protocol with respect to testing children whose second language is English and who come from cultural traditions do not favour speeded, timed tests. At first, the band education committee was happy with these results as they received considerable extra funding for special needs children. But this was, in my opinion, a false economy with a negative impact. You see, educational programming for mentally handicapped is quite different from what was needed. When I was Director of Life Skills for the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College during its early years, we educated students from often remote communities in those habits of mind and organizational skills that were needed for academic success. The program added an extra year to the student's university education, but it was incredibly successful. Teaching students cross-cultural skills for academic success in a modern industrial society is better than teaching independent living skills aimed at the mentally challenged in such cases.
Jacobsen: Using the same sciences but asking better research questions with the greater good of society and individuals in mind, what may alleviate some of the impacts of phenomena including residential school syndrome?
Robertson: A good research question is one that when answered extends our knowledge in some way. Accumulated knowledge may then be used to bring improvements to society but that is beyond the purview of scientists in their role as scientists. I am suspicious of power-brokers limiting research based on some notion of the "greater good." For example, a former prime minister limited research into climate change presumably because he and his party felt this was in the greater good. Decisions by authorities on what constitutes the greater good are often ideologically based. That being said, research into ways to alleviate human suffering interests me, and as you have alluded, residential school syndrome has been one of my interests.
As a kid who stayed with the families of friends on reserve in the 60s, I knew something about the dark history of Indian residential schools. So, I was surprised when chiefs in Saskatchewan commissioned me, along with my colleague Perry Redman, to do research into keeping one of these schools open after they had been closed elsewhere in the country. Later, I was hired as a school psychologist with a specialty in youth suicide prevention at a different Indian Residential School that was kept open under an Amerindian administration. About a decade after that I was commissioned by Indian Child and Family Services in Lac La Ronge to assess the students at one of the last remaining residential schools in the country. Then, at the turn of the millennium, I accepted a contract with the Aboriginal Healing Foundation to provide psychological support to various projects aimed at alleviating the effects of residential schools in northern Saskatchewan. I have published articles on residential school syndrome and the related concept of historic trauma.
Residential school syndrome is a form of post traumatic stress disorder that affects a minority of people who attended residential schools and is characterized by symptoms like extreme rage, lack of emotional connection with one has children, and aggressive alcohol and drug abuse in addition to those symptoms that are normally associated with PTSD. I have found a combination of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy coupled with aspects of Narrative Therapy that draws on the tradition of aboriginal storytelling as a way of meaning making to be effective. Treatment needs to be individualized. Some clients have benefited from learning and practicing aboriginal traditions, but others have a different worldview. In one of my articles I describe how the elders in one community found attempts by their band health administration to introduce Aboriginal Spirituality to be oppressive (see: https://www.hawkeyeassociates.ca/images/pdf/academic/ColonizationStanley.pdf)
A concern I have is the tendency of some to essentialize and universalize experience. One woman approached me worried that she might be "in denial." She had good memories of her residential school experience and was leading a happy and productive life, but the negative media reports about these schools had led her to question her remembered experiences. Not all residential schools were the same and not all students at such schools suffered or witnessed abuse. Even worse, in my opinion, is the concept of historic trauma, where a whole race of people is said to suffer from a psychological condition irrespective of when, where and under what conditions colonization occurred. In my mind, undo psychologising is destructive of peoples' mental health.
Jacobsen: Thank you for the opportunity and your time, Dr. Robertson.
Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson
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THE ANALYSIS OF THE RELIABILITY OF MULTI-STATE DEVICE NETWORKS.
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Niger Delta Politicians in Buhari's Government Blackmailing Jonathan – Ijaw Youth Council
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The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC Worldwide has claimed that politicians from the Niger Delta serving in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari are desperate to rope former President, Goodluck Jonathan into the formation of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA.
In a statement issued by its spokesman, Mr. Eric Omare, the group noted the desperation came to the fore with reports in the media that intelligence report indicated that Jonathan was one of the persons behind the formation of the NDA.
The IYC strongly condemned the maligning of Jonathan, advising the former president to explore legal options to bring such irresponsible publications and blackmail to a stop.
The statement reads, "The characters behind this desperate plan are politicians of Niger Delta extraction who are in the present government and do not want a peaceful resolution of the renewed militancy in the region.
"They prefer a military option that would result in the killing of innocent Niger Deltans. The genesis of these frivolous accusations against former President Jonathan started after he visited President Buhari few weeks ago.
"And after the meeting and while speaking with the media, Jonathan said that everybody desired peace and that the leaders of the Ijaw nation were working hard to achieve peace in the Niger Delta region including himself.
"This did not go down well with these party chieftains and political office holders in the Federal Government from the Niger Delta region because they did not want a peaceful resolution of the crisis.
"Secondly, they don't also want Jonathan's intervention to resolve the crisis for obvious political reasons. So, this is the reason why they have orchestrated all sorts of lies to drag Jonathan into the formation of the NDA. It is deliberate and we are sure the top hierarchy of government knows this fact."
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Tom Barabas and Melissa Harmon attended the SCUP 2017 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Princeton, NJ. The event examined, in detail, various aspects of higher education pedagogy, planning, technology and various challenges. The central theme of the conference was how all aspects of planning are affected by the reality that higher education is changing significantly and rapidly. Several case studies were presented, as well as a tour of the beautiful Princeton campus. The conference was full of interesting information and great opportunity to discuss higher education with our peers.


If you did not have payment protection insurance and you missed even one of the loan premium or credit card bill, you can be in a legal problem. But, if you have signed up for PPI, your payment will be covered for a period of 11 months. While this insurance may seem to help a number of people, a large section of people felt cheated since they were not informed of any such insurance being provided to them as add-ons and they felt cheated. This resulted in a growing number of people looking to get refunds on the PPI premiums that they were paying for years.
The PPI scam became so big, because the customers were unwilling to learn more about PPI and how the banks were misusing customers' trust.
The lack of awareness among the consumers is one of the major reasons why the PPI scam became so big.
The banks' were minting billions year after year through PPI, and they had absolutely no interest in letting the milking of public stop.
The agents and the banks' representatives were making a lot of money on incentives and commissions, and this motivated them to continue to fool customers into buying PPI by any means possible.
The non-intervention of the bank, even when they knew that their agents are using mischievous ways to sell PPI was also one of the reasons why PPI scam continued to scale up.
These are the few reasons that contributed to making PPI scam such a big one. Even when the product was actually a good one, it went on to become an ill-famous one, especially due to the ill-marketing techniques of the bank and their representatives. The consumers also played a vital role in making PPI scam so big, because they never actually took much interest in knowing where they are signing, what they are paying for, or looking through the documents broadly.
If they would have done their research on time, and would have raised their voice at the right time, the PPI scam would have stopped much earlier. People who want to know how to claim their PPI refund back in a very clear and concise manner, can visit http://www.howtoclaimppi.org.uk to learn more about it. Once you get the details on how to claim PPI, make sure that you follow the process to get back the money you rightfully deserve.


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Another year, another Call of Duty, another surprisingly good game
Tom Chick, November 16, 2012 | Game reviews
Although the campaign begins with Activision's usual "hey, we're going to get super edgy and we might offend you!" disclaimer, Black Ops II is an almost entirely harmless war story, except for a few grim burn victims. Okay, so a skyscraper collapses. But it's free of any civilian massacres or conspicuously killed children. Pretty much everyone who gets killed deserves it.
After the jump, world conquest, undead mass transit, and bronze leagues
The plot is a mostly typical supervillain-gets-revenge-on-teh-world yarn. Like the original Black Ops, it alternates between the past and present. Well, in this case, the past and near future. By bopping between the 80s and 2025, the boyishly yee-haw action maintains a peppy half Rambo, half Clancy schizophrenia with a splash of Crysisesque chrome. The futuristic stuff snaps the towel just enough to keep it from feeling like a rehash. It even connects to the first Black Ops, just in case you actually remember any of that story.
Sam Worthington's voice is back, again hilariously miscast as an American. Michael Rooker and Tony Todd lend their faces and voices to the game, and they're both a welcome presence. Tony Todd has to be the goofiest admiral this side of Alan Hale. I kept waiting on him to chest bump me after a mission. I know he wanted to. And Michael Rooker is exactly the guy I want by my side if I have to shoot a few hundred bad guys. Late in the game, he lets loose with a hearty, "Fuck yeah!" It is the greatest B-list celebrity encouragement since David Cross' "Seriously, sir, that was awesome" in Halo 2. In a surprising advance for equal opportunity, there are more than twice the usual number of women in this Call of Duty, which features a pilot who will need you to cover her shift, a nagging wife you hear inside a house, an 80s hacker chick who accidentally finds her way into the 2025 storyline, and a McGuffin. Also the President, who is Hillary Clinton in everything but name, is a chick.
Although the shooting and spectacle are familiar, many of the levels have a welcome amount of openness, or at least left or right wiggle room. The concept of using a slot to equip an "access kit" lets Treyarch play with optional doo-dads and gimmicks. Now that Call of Duty no longer relies on cheap tricks like infinite spawns and pushing you into enemy fire to hit a trigger point, the cinematic presentation is as relaxed as ever in the pursuit of easy thrills. Unfortunately, occasional optional strategy levels, called Strike Force missions, are mostly awful. These AI players are far too braindead to pretend at RTSing.
But the best thing about this Call of Duty campaign is how Treyarch designs around the traditional once-and-done structure. Previously, replay value relied on you being a masochist willing to eat facefuls of grenades on the harder difficulty levels. As a replayable game with scoring, challenges, and unlocks, Black Ops 2 is on the right track to keep the single player relevant after a first playthrough. If you want a better score, or if you intend to finish certain challenges, you're going to have to play Black Ops II like a game instead of an interactive movie. I particularly like how the scoring is clearly explained after each level. This makes it all the more galling that you can't check the challenges while you're playing the game. And it's also annoying that you can't skip the long stretches of cinematic hoo-ha that have no bearing on the gameplay. I don't want to have to hang out in the backyard and have a manly beer with the guys every time I want to beat my friend's score in the Panamanian invasion mission.
Because you get to pick your loadout before a mission, much like when you play multiplayer, you can bring different toys into missions, particularly when you're replaying them after having unlocked more goodies. Okay, so the gameplay is a bit too loosey-goosey to make many of the more nuanced toys matter. It's kind of cute how Treyarch pretends that the same detail that drives the multiplayer might conceivably make a difference in their single-player Hollywoodized hoedown. It's the thought that counts. But the real difference comes from the advanced scopes and explosives. A folding stock? A suppressor? Whatever. Now I have a grenade launcher ho ho ho.
And if you care one iota about the plot — there are actually a few things in here worth caring about — the branching storylines will leave you wondering "what if?". These "what if's?" are drawn with the same broad strokes that gave Alpha Protocol its replayability. I'm not sure what ending you'll get, but I felt my ending was well worth the playthrough (at least until the post-ending ending, at which point I have to wonder if Treyarch is just laughing at us all the way to the bank).
Although I really miss Modern Warfare 3's dedicated co-op multiplayer, which included the superlative horde mode and some spectacular reinterpretations of the single-player game ("Fall back to the Burger Town!"), Black Ops II's more developed zombie mode is a fine consolation prize. The familiar zombie killing spreads out admirably in "tranzit" mode, with a bus running a route among four maps scattered with inventory puzzle pieces. Over successive DLC packs, the previous zombie modes got increasingly complex (i.e. inscrutable) and tranzit brings focus to the sprawl. The new grief mode, which supports up to eight players divided into two teams, is a welcome bit of new chaos and competition. Also, I couldn't be happier that those infernal dogs are turned off by default. I'm happy to see zombie mode can be always and only about actual zombies. And the occasional laser gun.
You mostly know what to expect from the competitive multiplayer by now. A lot of running around, with an emphasis on getting quickly to the shooting bits. It's traditional run-and-gun at its carefully calculated more-actions-per-minute adrenaline-fueled best. Some modes and game types excepted. As you'd expect, the integration with Elite is much smoother than it was this time last year. The new loadouts that limit players to ten doo-dads force hard choices and flexibility, which is a much better way to reward progression than the previous system of leveling up your favorite perks. You still have to grind your favorite guns to earn the accessories, but since accessories count against your ten slots, gun grinding doesn't subvert the new system so much as play neatly into it.
And bravo to Activision for their willingness to divorce Call of Duty from the RPG unlockable system that arguably made it so successful. Previously, you could set up custom matches, which let you use everything in the game. Black Ops II goes further with this concept by introducing leagues. Because you have access to every single doo-dad in league matches — the ten-item limit on loadouts comes into play very prominently here — the idea is that the multiplayer is more about skill than unlockables, more about getting better than grinding, more about practicing than persisting. And since you're playing against similarly ranked players, the idea is that you're going to be fairly matched. Ideally, as with the league play in Starcraft II, this should mean that you win half the matches. I think. We'll see how that goes. After losing four of my five placement matches in the 4v4 series because teammates dropped out (at least that's what I'm telling myself), I'll be playing that season in the bronze division. It's as bad as it sounds, but that's absolutely where I belong. However, for some strange reason, I was put in the gold division for the 6v6 series. Is there some way to appeal the decision? I think someone has made a terrible mistake. But however it turns out, Activision has the right idea. There are enough of us playing Call of Duty that the little kids who don't play so rough should get our own side of the playground.
And speaking of us little kids, I really miss the old killstreak rewards that didn't reset your killstreak when you died. The new system, called scorestreak, rewards you for quotidian activities like capturing flags, occupying headquarters, planting bombs, and other things that actually win matches. But it reverts to the old ways of taking away all your progress when you die! As someone who dies a lot, this means I won't get to fly quad drones, call in superjet bombing runs, set up that pulse turret thing, or summon a stealth helicopter very often, if at all. In theory, this should balance out when I'm playing my fellow bronze leaguers. But like the emphasis on a player's kill/death ratio (don't ask), Black Ops II still subtly pushes everyone into a deathmatch mentality. I suppose you're just going to have to play Battlefield 3 if you want to take the "me" out of "team".
But minor objections about design decisions aside, Black Ops II is another great shooter in a year of great shooters. It's a competent, confident, generous package, true to its core values, but with enough new to carve out its own identity, enough variety to appeal to a wide range of players, and enough content to belong on your shelf for more than just a quick playthrough. This is the way to do a yearly installment without just phoning it in.
September 12, 2011: elevated wallet threat (PC only)
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Industry October 2014
Pass the cheese, please
By Julian Ryall
UK firms take slice of tough Japan market
The proud noses of our friends across the English Channel have been out of joint ever since it was revealed that the approximately 400 different types of cheese produced in France is a pale shadow of the more than 700 varieties now made in the UK.
Moreover, a renaissance in demand for top-quality, niche British cheeses means that figure is still growing.
While we may not produce the most in terms of volume—the Americans take that particular title, thanks to their vast appetite for processed and mass-produced mozzarella and cheddar—or consume the most per head—the average French person eats a whopping 26.3kg of cheese every year—British cheese-makers are at the top of the craft when it comes to taste, texture and variety.
This makes it even more annoying for Brits in Japan to be confronted by a limited range of limp and lifeless processed cheese in an average Japanese supermarket.
"I couldn't claim that we had any experience when we set the company up three years ago. We were just enthusiastic and massive consumers [of cheese]", said Sean Brophy, managing director of I Love Cheese Co., Ltd. "And I couldn't get what I wanted here".
After starting on a limited scale, the firm is now importing up to 60kg of top-quality, artisan cheeses from the UK every month, said Stephen Davies, president.
Sourced from specialist makers covering the highlands of Scotland to Cornwall, I Love Cheese is selling to individuals through its website, and increasingly building contacts with restaurants throughout Tokyo to stock British dairy products.
"The business grew out of a conversation I had with Stephen about four years ago. We initially talked about opening a specialist shop for British cheese, but when we looked into it more closely, the costs were simply prohibitive", said 54-year-old Brophy, a freelance technical translator who is originally from Coventry but has been in Japan for 24 years.
There followed a fairly steep learning curve on British cheeses, the local market here, and forging relationships with manufacturers in the UK.
The pair also had to figure out the complicated process of importing what the Japanese tax authorities consider to be a luxury foodstuff, on which they impose heavy duties.
"It has been tricky", admits 43-year-old Davies, from Bromsgrove in the West Midlands, who balances the cheese business with his job in a specialist travel agency.
"We are taxed under CIF [Cost, Insurance and Freight], which means that the rate is determined by combining what we paid for the cheese plus the freight costs", said Davies. "And that obviously makes our costs higher and the price for the consumer higher.
"What we find puzzling is that the tax authorities do not use the same calculation for other goods that might be considered luxury items", he said.
British beer and wine, for example, are exempt. Equally, cheese that is imported in bulk from some of the largest manufacturers, such as Australia and New Zealand, is also exempt from all taxes if it is to be used in other types of processed food here.
"The high taxes obviously mean that there is a limit on how low we can go on our prices, but we are hopeful that something positive might come out of the international trade agreement that is being discussed between Japan and the European Union", Brophy added.
Around 80% of the people who purchase on-line are British expats who would simply not otherwise be able to get their hands on something like a Berkswell Artisan ewes' milk cheese, coated in its distinctive thick rind, or a Yarg that has been wrapped in the leaves of nettles.
The remaining 20% are Japanese, said Davies. The business partners are aiming to build up a solid base of expat customers at the same time as sharing their love for British cheese with more Japanese people.
In time, they anticipate that the split will be reversed, with perhaps even 90% of their business coming from high-end restaurants across Japan.
One method of doing that is by holding regular cheese-tasting events at bars and restaurants around Tokyo. The I Love Cheese roadshow made an appearance at The White Fox restaurant near Oji Station, opened by classically trained British chef Trevor Blyth in 2006.
"It has always been quite difficult to get good British cheese because there is one major importer of top-quality European cheeses, but they focus on French and Italian makers, and have a very limited selection of British cheeses", said Blyth. "And they're expensive.
"The food we serve here is tapas-style, a fusion of French and Japanese cooking, but it also fits very well with British cheeses and wines, and our sales of UK cheese varieties are doing very well now", he said. "We are even finding that some older Japanese people are stopping in here as they change trains on their way home and having a glass of wine and a selection of cheese".
Arrayed on his counter are just some of the I Love Cheese offerings, including a dark and crumbly Aged Leicestershire Red, a round of the very popular Capricorn Somerset goat's cheese and a Lincolnshire Poacher. Veins course through the dark orange of a Blue Shropshire, while the Sage Derby is flecked with green.
"I really believe there is a great deal of potential demand for these sorts of cheeses here", Blyth said, adding that new scientific research is helping, as it is debunking some of the myths about cheese being unhealthy.
Cheese that is made in a traditional way and only contains natural fat is actually good for the human digestive system, according to studies, although the stabilised fat typically found in processed cheese is a different matter.
The Alvis family, owners of Lye Cross Farm in Somerset, have already made substantial inroads into the South Korean market with their hand-made West Country Farmhouse Cheddar, and are looking to build on the contacts they have in Japan.
"We have found that one of the difficulties is that the channels to market are very heavily structured", Tim Harrap, head of collaboration for the firm, told BCCJ ACUMEN. "They have been in place for so many years that the distribution networks are pretty rigid and difficult to break out from".
Harrap took part in a three-day trade mission to Japan with Dacian Ciolo, European commissioner for agriculture and rural development.
The aim was to promote Lye Cross Farm's organic cheeses and its Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) cheese, a label that indicates a foodstuff that originates in a specific town or region, which has characteristics linked to that place and is produced in a defined geographical area. Lye Cross Farm's production facilities are a mere 10km from the village of Cheddar.
"I went on a similar trade mission to China a few years ago and it proved successful", Harrap said. "We are now doing a lot of business with our PDO cheese in South Korea and we would like to develop other markets, such as Japan.
"I'm hoping this trip helps to build our credibility in the market, builds the profile of Lye Cross Farm, and that we can take things forward from there", he explained.
While cheese has traditionally been considered a French speciality among Japanese consumers, Blyth believes a new generation of cheese-lovers here might be favouring imports from the UK.
"Until now, a lot of Japanese didn't even realise that Britain makes cheese—and that it can be so good", he said.
www.ilovecheese.jp
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< Consumer & Gaming
Xiaomi, Gree face off in smart home appliances battle
Ko Tin-yau March 22, 2019 09:56
There were two high-profile bets among Chinese business tycoons in recent years. One was a 100 million yuan bet between Alibaba founder Jack Ma and Wang Jianlin, head of Dalian Wanda Group. By 2020, if online consumption has surpassed 50 percent of total retail volume, Wang said he would give Ma 100 million yuan or vice versa.
China's online retail sales reached 9 trillion yuan last year, accounting for 23.6 percent of the nation's total 38.1 trillion yuan of retail sales. That marks a big jump from 6.2 percent in 2012. However, it seems the share of online retail sales is unlikely to hit the 50 percent mark next year.
Another bet is between Lei Jun, chief executive of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi and Gree Electric chairwoman Dong Mingzhu.
The wager between Xiaomi and Gree dates back to December 12, 2013, when the two high-profile entrepreneurs were both named "people of economic achievement of the year" by CCTV. At the time, Lei claimed that Xiaomi's revenue would surpass that of Gree in five years, and suggested a bet of one yuan.
Dong immediately accepted the challenge, but lifted the stake to 1 billion yuan.
Back then, Gree was already one of the nation's top three home appliance manufacturers with annual sales revenue of 120 billion yuan. By contrast, Xiaomi's revenue was only 30 billion yuan, less than one third of Gree's.
Over past five years, Lei has managed to boost Xiaomi's revenue by nearly five times. Xiaomi reported revenue of 174.9 billion yuan last year, but that still lags behind Gree's 210 billion yuan.
When asked about the bet Wednesday, Lei joked that Dong had already contacted him.
Dong revealed late last year that she would donate that 1 billion yuan to charity if Lei paid her.
Aside from the bet, a lot more is at stake as the two companies are facing off each other as they have both set sight on the fast-growing smart home appliance market.
Xiaomi has leveraged on its popular low-cost smartphones to tap into the smart appliance market, and its ultimate goal is to build a massive ecosystem using Internet of Things to connect TVs, air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, etc.
Meanwhile, Gree is grappling with saturating traditional home appliances market and trying to look for new growth points, smart home appliances being one of them.
China's smart home appliance market was worth 325.5 billion yuan last year, and the market is expected to zoom to 1.5 trillion yuan by 2025, according to a report released by iResearch.
This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on March 20
Translation by Julie Zhu
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Ko Tin-yau
Hong Kong Economic Journal columnist


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Q: Why does the classical Noether charge become the quantum symmetry generator? It is often said that the classical charge $Q$ becomes the quantum generator $X$ after quantization. Indeed this is certainly the case for simple examples of energy and momentum. But why should this be the case mathematically?
For clarity let's assume we are doing canonical quantization, so that Poisson brackets become commutators. I assume that the reason has something to do with the relationship between classical Hamiltonian mechanics and Schrodinger's equation. Perhaps there's a simple formulation of Noether's theorem in the classical Hamiltonian setting which makes the quantum analogy precisely clear?
Any hints or references would be much appreciated!
Mathematical Background
In classical mechanics a continuous transformation of the Lagrangian which leaves the action invariant is called a symmetry. It yields a conserved charge $Q$ according to Noether's theorem. $Q$ remains unchanged throughout the motion of the system.
In quantum mechanics a continuous transformation is effected through a representation of a Lie group $G$ on a Hilbert space of states. We insist that this representation is unitary or antiunitary so that probabilities are conserved.
A continuous transformation which preserves solutions of Schrodinger's equation is called a symmetry. It is easy to prove that this is equivalent to $[U,H] = 0$ for all $U$ representing the transformation, where $H$ is the Hamiltonian operator.
We can equivalently view a continuous transformation as the conjugation action of a unitary operator on the space of Hermitian observables of the theory
$$A \mapsto UAU^\dagger = g.A$$
where $g \in G$. This immediately yields a representation of the Lie algebra on the space of observables
$$A \mapsto [X,A] = \delta A$$
$$\textrm{where}\ \    X \in \mathfrak{g}\ \ \textrm{and} \ \  e^{iX} = U \ \  \textrm{and} \ \  e^{i\delta A} = g.A$$
$X$ is typically called a generator. Clearly if $U$ describes a symmetry then $X$ will be a conserved quantity in the time evolution of the quantum system.
Edit
I've had a thought that maybe it's related to the 'Hamiltonian vector fields' for functions on a symplectic manifold. Presumably after quantization these can be associated to the Lie algebra generators, acting on wavefunctions on the manifold. Does this sound right to anyone?

A: Consider a quantum field formalism, where fields are operators.
For instance, consider, for simplicity, a charged scalar  field , with action $S = \int d^4x \partial_\mu \phi \partial^\mu \phi^*$, with a field :
$$\phi(x) = \int ~ \frac{d^3k}{2E_k} ~(a(p)e^{-ip.x} + b^+(p)e^{ip.x} )\tag{1}$$
$$\phi^*(x) = \int ~ \frac{d^3k}{2E_k} ~(b(p)e^{-ip.x} + a^+(p)e^{ip.x} )\tag{2}$$
where $a^+(p), a(p)$ are creation/anihilation operators for the particle, and $b^+(p), b(p)$ creation/anihilation operator for the anti-particle.
If we have a infinitesimal  transformation,  $\delta \phi(x)$ , leaving unchanged the action $S$, the conserved current is $j^\mu(x) = [\frac{\partial L}{\partial(\partial_\mu \phi)}~\delta \phi(x) + \frac{\partial L}{\partial(\partial_\mu \phi^*)}~\delta \phi^*(x)]$ (skipping the infinitesimal parameters), and the conserved generalized charge is $Q =~:\int d^3x~ j^0(x): ~= ~:\int d^3x ~[\Pi(x)~ \delta\phi(x) +\Pi^*(x)~ \delta\phi^*(x)]:$ - where the $\Pi(x),\Pi^*(x)$ are the conjugated momenta of $\phi(x),\phi^*(x)$, and the sign $:$ is for normal ordered product (putting anihilation operators at right).
We see, of course, that $Q$ is an operator.
An example : the standard (electric) charge is the conserved quantity which corresponds to the (global) transformation $\phi(x) \rightarrow e^{-i\Lambda}\phi(x)$, here the infinitesimal transformation  is $\delta \phi(x) = -i\epsilon ~\phi(x)~$, so we have :
$$Q = -i:\int ~ d^3x ~(\Pi(x) ~\phi(x) - \Pi^*(x) ~\phi^*(x) ): \tag{3}$$
Or, equivalently :
$$Q = \int ~ \frac{d^3k}{2E_k} ~(a^+(p)a(p) - b^+(p)b(p) )\tag{4}$$
And we have : $$[Q,\phi(x)]=-\phi(x) \tag{5}$$
(This can be checked from the fundamental commutation relations between operators, like $[a(k),a^+(k')]=\delta^3(k-k')$)

A: The canonical quantization after Dirac should fulfill the following axioms:

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*Q1: The map $f \to \hat f$ that assigns a operator to every function on the phase space is linear and the constant 1-functions get mapped to the 1-operator

*Q2: The Poisson bracket maps to the commutator decorated with $\hbar$

*Q3: A complete system of functions in involution maps to a complete system of commutative operators.
It is the last condition which ensures that $G$ is a symmetry on the quantum side (the assignment  $f \to \hat f$ needs to be a irreducible representation of the symmetry generators).
But the No-Go theorems of Groenwald und Van Hove shows that a quantization for all observables with Q1-Q3 is not possible. The two mayor solutions are: Weaken Q2 and only require that it holds only up to first order of $\hbar$ - this leads to deformation quantization. On the other hand, geometric quantization modifes Q3 in the sense that it should hold only for some reasonable subalgebra of functions (eg which contains momentum ect.).

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Marcel Castenmiller, a NY based Photographer, will hold photography exhibition at WAREHOUSE Tokyo from September 1st.
He works as a model internationally, but shows his great sense on photography skill finally comes to Tokyo. In addition to the two weeks of the exhibition, WAREHOUSES will hold the reception party on the 3rd September.
Although he bases in NY, he has visited Japan many times, his photography reflects daily life in Japan. His images of these Japanese daily life conveys a little bit differently into our eyes, but it is probably go through non-Japanese point of views.
Marcel's surroundings, environment and his daily life gives us conformity. Please come to WAREHOUSE to check out his work! Marcel Castenmiler will provide a chance to look back your daily life and tells something important you have been forgetting these days.
Wooly interviewed Marcel and Ali, a model in his images, in 2014 for "Wooly issue" is also available with the link below.
Model and photographer. Born in Alberta, Canada. He studied fine arts at Emily Carr University.He moved to New York in 2007. He works as model for DIOR HOMME, HERMES, Alexander MaQcueen RUNWAY, and model for magazines such as i-D,DAZED&CONFUSED and DUNE. But he also has exhibited his photography at cafe in Tokyo.


There comes a point in every person's life, where you become less focussed on fuel efficiency and legroom, and more focussed on performance, handling and styling. Of course we do not under any circumstances advocate driving 'in excess of the speed limit', but for those who are accustomed to flouting the rules; there's no hope anyway, so we'll just take you through ten of our favourite rule breakers.
Mecedes-Benz has referred to it as, 'Possibly the finest way of turning a drop of fuel into peak performance', and we might have to agree with that.
By combining a lightweight and powerful 2.0 TFSI engine, Audi have created an agile sports hatch. It has some great specs to complement its beastly engine, such as duel clutch transmission and the Quattro permanent all-wheel drive which provides incredible stability and improved traction to each of the 4 wheels.
Volkswagen always proves itself to be a reliable competitor, and this magnificent golf is no exception. This top of the line golf comes standard with more than a handful of performance enhancing specs.
With timeless styling and suburb performance, this is quite possible all the car you'll ever need. Book a test drive today!
The Scirocco doesn't fall far behind the Golf, with at least 90% of the same specs, the differences are minimal. The Scirocco really is a looker, but the 0.6 of a second that it takes to get you to 100km may just be the deal breaker. Don't forget, the Scirocco is a two door (technically it's a coupe), but that's always a bonus if you aren't a fan of backseat drivers.
Limited slip differential, efficiently distributes power between the two wheels.
As expected, Volvo offers more than mere performance. Luxury and comfort appear to be right at the top of the list… but it's also fuel efficient, and it comes standard with 8 airbags. But let's get back to the performance; in collaboration with Polestar, Volvo has boosted every aspect of their engines power. The result is that it is both fit for the family AND exceptional performance.
Sitting at the more conservative end of our list, the Ford Focus manages 0-100km in 6.5 seconds, but that's hardly slow. Put together the sports suspension, the Torque Vectoring and high performance disk brakes and you get brilliant control and flawless cornering. Not to mention the 2.0ℓ direct injection EcoBoost engine, leaving you with a powerful responsive and fuel efficient speed machine.
This car is undoubtedly the best value for money, never mind the fact that it's just soooo easy on the eye. There are few cars which can compete with the Clio in this price bracket, if any. This Clio is not only automatic, but also allows for manual driving thanks to the 6 speed dual clutch EDC gearbox. With the help of Renault Sport, the Clio's specially developed engine boasts incredible cutting edge technology.
Lastly, poor little Alfa Giulietta, only manages to go from 0-100km in 6.8 seconds; because we all know how important 0.5 of a second is in real life. This car is not just pretty; it also has some incredible performance enhancing features. The transmission in the Giulietta can select automatic or sequential mode depending in the needs of the driver.
The exclusive Alfa scavenging technology controls and optimises fuel metering, bettering both of performance levels and fuel consumption, ultimately resulting in faster engine response speed and outstanding pick-up performance.
So now that you know which cars are the most fun to drive, come in to your nearest Supergroup Dealership to test them out for yourself.
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Specializing in DHA Real Estate Only!
Faraz Ali August 14, 2014
Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has Launched New Housing Project on one side of main Ferozepur Road Lahore and other side touched or entrance from Defence Road or Raivind Road . It will be a beautiful Housing Society in Future like johar town , wapda town , behria town and defence DHA Lahore. LDA City Lahore is an upcoming Housing Scheme that will prove to be Lahore's biggest housing scheme. LDA is planning for its upcoming project while LDA Metropolitan has completed the survey of Land in this regard. The project is proposed on Ferozpur Road with entrance form Butcher Point Canal. Moreover, the Metro Bus Terminal is located nearby the proposed location. The Northern side of LDA City Lahore is located towards Kahna Kacha Road.
The mega project cover following seven regions or Mouzas of Lahore including Kahna Kacha, Toor Warriach, Sidhar, Rakh, Jhedu, Thay, Haloki and Panju.
LDA City Lahore will offer a comprehensive living plan to its residents with all living facilities and amenities. The amenities at LDA City Lahore includes wide road network, boundary wall, own water treatment plants, parks, landscapes, hospitals, schools, colleges and community centers.
The project will includes separate boys and girls colleges of 100 Kanal of land while four high schools of 100 Kanal, two community centers of 40 Kanal and two fully equipped hospitals of 100 Kanal. The Main Boulevard will be 300 feet wide.
About LDA History
Lahore Development Authority (LDA) is responsible for new planned development in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It also regulates and issues permits for new construction and housing projects, private houses, and commercial development. It also manages Lahore's parks and green areas.
Its website states that it plans on making Lahore "one of the thirty leading educational, cultural, commercial, industrial, and information technology centres of the world by 2020".
The Punjab Legislative Assembly established the Lahore Development Authority under the LDA Act of 1975. It had previously been called the "Lahore Improvement Trust".
On May 9, 2013, five days after International Firefighters' Day, the LDA Plaza building in central Lahore caught fire, killing 25 people. The fire started on the seventh floor, and media coverage revealed people jumping out of the building to their death. The fire highlighted the irrelevance of fire safety regulations, considering the fact that the very agency whose responsibility it is to ensure compliance with fire safety regulation; the 35-year-old building's staircases were poorly designed and hampered rescue efforts. The fire was finally extinguished after 20 hours.
It has three main wings:
Urban Development Wing
Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA)
Traffic Engineering Planning Agency (TEPA)
The LDA Board of Governors is chaired by the Zila Nazim of the Lahore City District. Its members include the following:
Director General of the Authority
Town Nazims of all the Towns of Lahore City District
District Coordination Officer of Lahore City District
Representative of the Planning and Development Board Punjab not below the rank of Additional Secretary/Deputy Secretary
Representative of the Finance Department not below the rank of Additional Secretary/Deputy Secretary
Representative of the Housing Urban Development and Public Health Engineering Department not below the rank of Additional Secretary/Deputy Secretary
Representative of the Local Government and Rural Development Department not below the rank of Additional Secretary/Deputy Secretary
All the Heads of the Agencies established by the Authority (M.D. WASA & M.D. TEPA)
LDA is unable to carry out its duties efficiently and effectively due to "excessive delays in plan preparation and approval process, weak institutional set-up, lack of coordination among government departments, inadequate financial resources, legal lacunas, lack of dissemination of plans, and above all lack of political will".
Government of Punjab (Pakistan)
Metrobus (Lahore)
"About LDA". Lahore Development Authority. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
"LDA Plaza: 'Former LDA Chief Ignored Fire Safety Suggestions'". The Express Tribune. 14 May 2013.
Hameed, Rizwan; Obaidullah Nadeem (2008). "Challenges of Implementing Urban Master Plans: The Lahore Experience". World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology .
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Tesla is moving forward with some major expansion plans that will double the size and add thousands of workers to the company's Fremont assembly plant.
FREMONT, Calif. (KGO) -- Tesla is moving forward with some major expansion plans that will double the size and add thousands of workers to the company's Fremont assembly plant.
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Katie Bouman Helped Create the Black Hole Image. You Know What Followed.
Women at the forefront of scientific achievements continue to be targets of trolling and misogyny online.
Katie Bouman. Credit: Facebook. Image of black hole courtesy Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
New Delhi: The first direct image of a black hole was celebrated as a significant scientific and technological knowledge. But the trolling of Katie Bouman, a researcher who helped create the image, showed that women continue to be harassed online and face barriers that prevent their contributions from being recognised.
Soon after the photo of the M87 black hole went viral on social media on Wednesday, Bouman also gained internet fame. A photo of the 29-year-old researcher was circulated over Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp together with notes recognising her role in obtaining the image.
This led many to believe that she was solely responsible for the image's creation, though in reality, 215 people were part of the project. Bouman also clarified in a Facebook post that "no one algorithm or person made this image".
However, trolls soon began advancing false claims that she did not have "much of a role" in the project. On Reddit, YouTube and Instagram, several users claimed that it was a male colleague who deserves the credit for the image instead.
While Bouman's colleagues have since come to her defence, the incident highlights the trolling and misogynistic comments that women face on the social media that attempt to diminish their contributions.
According to NBC News, by Friday, falsehoods surrounding Bouman's role in the project overtook "legitimate coverage in search results on YouTube and Instagram".
Twitter users pointed out that the top search result for "Katie Bouman" on YouTube was a video titled "woman does 6% of the work but gets 100% of the credit". Reports said the video is inaccurate and is based on falsehoods pushed by a "men's rights" community.
YouTube later corrected its algorithm and the top search result now is a video of Bouman delivering a TED talk.
The inaccurate video claims that Andrew Chael, a "straight white male", did most of the work. The assertion was based on a number of publicly available lines of code published on the Github repository.
Responding on Twitter, Chael, an astrophysicist who has worked with Bouman, called the theory theory "awful and sexist". He also clarified that he was in fact gay. While rumours claimed that Chael had written 850,000 lines of code, the Harvard University graduate student said there were only 68,000 lines of code in the software's current version.
He added that he was thrilled Bouman was being recognised for her work and that she was inspiring people as "an example of women's leadership in STEM".
"I'm also thrilled she's pointing out that this was a team effort including contributions from many junior scientists, including many women junior scientists," he said.
A YouTube spokesperson told NBC that the platform was working to "change its system to value authoritative content".
We've taken a number of steps to address this including surfacing more authoritative content across our site for people searching for news-related topics, beginning to reduce recommendations of borderline content and showing information panels with more sources where they can fact check information for themselves," the spokesperson said.
Becca Lewis, a research affiliate at Data & Society, a nonprofit research institute, also told the channel that the incident proves YouTube's algorithm rewards engagement and time spent on the site to "maximise advertising revenue" instead of facts.
On Instagram too, the top search for "Katie Bouman" was an account impersonating her. According to reports, it was created late on Thursday night and makes false claims about her.
The incident highlights the vitriol female scientists face on the social media, but should also serve to remind that their bad experiences aren't restricted to such platforms alone. For example, studies have found that papers with female first authors receive 10% fewer citations than comparable papers with male first authors.
A paper published in 2013 found that reviewers who were assigned abstracts ostensibly written by females or males rated male authors with greater scientific quality.
When scientists analysed peer-review scores for postdoctoral fellowship applications in Sweden, they found it to be "riddled with prejudice". Women were also given lower competence ratings than men who had less than half their publication impact.
In 2017, when three scientists won the Nobel Prize for the first direct detection of gravitational waves, Popular Science pointed out that 1,011 people had been involved in the experiment. It listed their names, calling them the "legion of unsung", while also drawing attention to how the prizes help the deleterious myth of the 'lone genius' persist.
But as The Verge argues, highlighting the role of a female scientist in such a historical project showcases "a different model for a scientist than the one most of us grew up with". It is also why movies like Hidden Figures are required to highlight the contributions that three black women – Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson – made during the "space race".


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With a stay at Best Western Holiday Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Coos Bay, within a 15-minute drive of Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area and Coos Bay Boardwalk. This hotel is 20.7 mi (33.3 km) from Bandon Dunes Golf Resort and 25.3 mi (40.7 km) from Bandon Beach.
Make yourself at home in one of the 84 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Flat-screen televisions with cable programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and complimentary weekday newspapers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Don't miss out on the many recreational opportunities, including an indoor pool, a spa tub, and a fitness center. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, gift shops/newsstands, and a television in a common area.
Best Western Holiday Hotel allows pets to accompany their people at their pet friendly accommodation. Up to 2 pets are welcome. The pet weight limit is 80 pounds and the pet fee is $15 per accommodation, per night. Only Dogs Are Allowed.


Championing Lincolnshire is Lincolnshire's brand for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Whilst organisations in the county are unable to use the Olympic Rings or London 2012 logo, Active Lincolnshires Partnership actively encourages anyone celebrating the Games to use the Championing Lincolnshire brand for their events or programmes.
Highlights of this include the Live and Learn like a Champion programme developed by CfBT, Ambitions Personnel who are Championing Lincolnshire on every letter they send out, and the official 'Championing Lincolnshire' magazine.
Developed by Active Lincolnshires Partnership and the Lincoln School of Journalism, the online Championing Lincolnshire magazine celebrates the London 2012 Games in our county.
It is written by journalism students at the University for the people of Lincolnshire and will publish five issues from its launch date in July 2011 to the end of the Games in September 2012.
Click here to view Championing Lincolnshire.


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Netflix Nabs Phil Rosenthal's Food And Travel Show
Food Republic January 9, 2017
Netflix is the new home of Phil Rosenthal's food and travel show.
Creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, Phil Rosenthal announced on Twitter that his new show will be exclusively produced for Netflix. The show has yet to be named, but Rosenthal is currently using the hashtag #NetflixAndPhil in reference to it.
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The passionate food lover is known around his adoptive hometown of Los Angeles for investing in restaurants and frequenting hot spots with celebrity friends. In a 2014 interview with Food Republic, comedian Andy Kindler suggested that while he himself never gets preferential treatment, dining out with Rosenthal has its advantages: "He created Raymond," Kindler said of Rosenthal. "So he has seven billion dollars in his savings account. So he can just walk in and buy Spago. And then we eat."
Now, Rosenthal will be eating his way around the world on Netflix. More details on the show as we get them.
Dear people, this is happening: pic.twitter.com/WtWnPLaNAQ
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