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Ideas Abu Dhabi 2019 took place on 27-28 March 2019 at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Saadiyat Island and featured a lineup of Emirati and international speakers from across government, business, academia, and media. The Forum tracks examined the challenges to the current global order; the latest efforts to understand and even enhance the human brain; the impacts of the oncoming revolutions in transportation; and the dangers of a new cyber battleground.
Featured Sessions Featured Sessions
Reformists v Populists: The Dangers of Difficult Change
Sen. Matteo Renzi, Italian politican and former Prime Minister of Italy, discussed the reformist approach as a reaction to populism, and proposed education as the best method of combatting it.
How Hyperloop will Transform Society
National Cyber Strategies: Challenges and Solutions
Tracks Tracks
From New World Order to none?Evolution & crisis in global relations
The Brain:Unfolding the mystery
Cyber:The new battleground?
Faster, further, for all?The future of transport
After the fall of the Soviet Union, US President George H. W. Bush declared a 'new world order'. Decades on and the system of international institutions and global relations that has defined the post-World War II era is under pressure. A fast-growing Asia and re-assertive Russia are pushing for change and exploring alternatives. Will the existing system limp along until a crisis forces it to adapt, or can it evolve to reflect new realities? This track will explore these and related questions.
The brain is the most complex structure in the known universe. Despite decades of research and millions of dollars spent on scientific research we still have a limited understanding of how it truly works. Significant efforts are underway to revolutionize the way we understand, treat, and perhaps even enhance the brain. This track will explore pressing questions related to the science of the brain including: 'how far away are we from any real progress in curing brain diseases?' and 'what potential is there for upgrading our own cerebral hardware?'
The exponential growth of Internet connectivity – from phones and homes to businesses and governments – has created tremendous advances in knowledge, commerce, and education. At the same time, it poses new dangers to our personal and national security. High-profile cases have shown just how vulnerable our online lives have made us. Millions of people globally have seen their personal details go on sale on the dark web while hackers have locked out entire hospital systems seeking ransom payment in bitcoin. The culprits are no longer visible, are scattered around the globe, and often have opaque motivations. This track will seek to shed light on these emerging threats and what can be done to counter them.
From self-driving cars and Hyperloop to the return of supersonic air travel, the way in which we travel is set to be revolutionised. With new modes of transport come new ways for us to live and work. This track will seek to explore whether these future technologies are achievable, the impact they could have, and the challenges they pose against a backdrop of urban congestion, climate change, and a rising population.
H.E. Dr. Anwar Gargash
UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
H.E. Dr. Anwar Mohammed Gargash is a member of the Federal Cabinet of the United Arab Emirates and has served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs since 2008. Between 2006 and 2016, Dr Gargash was the Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs.
In addition to his ministerial portfolio, Dr Gargash was Chairman of the National Elections Committee, overseeing the UAE's first elections which took place in 2006 and the subsequent elections in 2011 and 2015. He is also the Chairman of the National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking; the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Al Owais Cultural Foundation; Member of the Board of Trustees of the Emirates Diplomatic Academy; and leads the UAE team for the Human Rights Periodic Review.
Dr Gargash previously served in several other senior positions in both the state and federal government, including as a board member of the Emirates Media Establishment from 1999 to 2007, and was a board member of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1997 to 2006.
Dr. Gargash received his Ph.D from King's College, Cambridge and holds Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from George Washington University.
Mina Al Oraibi
Editor-in-Chief, The National
Mina Al-Oraibi is the Editor in Chief of The National, a daily English language regional newspaper based in Abu Dhabi. An Iraqi-British journalist, Mina has over 15 years of experience covering Middle Eastern, European and American affairs. Prior to assuming her role at The National, Mina was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for State Effectiveness (ISE) and a Yale World Fellow. At ISE, Mina is working on developing policy recommendations for improved governance in the Arab world, with a focus on Iraq and Syria.
Before starting her fellowship at Yale, Mina was the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Asharq Alawsat, the international Arab-language daily newspaper 2011-2015. She has written extensively on US and European policies in the Middle East, in addition to conducting several high profile interviews including with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Iraqi President Barham Salih, and UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi.
Mina is an Advisor to the Global Dignity Day Movement and a trustee of the American University in Iraq – Sulaimani. Mina was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Bill Emmott
Author; Chairman, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Worlds Order
An independent writer, lecturer, and consultant on international affairs. He was formerly Editor of The Economist from 1993 until 2006, having worked there since 1980 in Brussels, Tokyo, and London. He is an author and documentary film maker, and chairs The Wake Up Foundation, a charity dedicated to education and communication about the decline of western societies, which he co-founded with Italian film-maker, Annalisa Piras. In 2016 the Japanese government awarded him the "Order of the Rising Sun: Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon" for services to UK-Japan relations.
3 Question Interview
Rise of Populism
The Fate of the West
Prof. Kishore Mahbubani
Professor in the Practice of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Formerly Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and later Dean of the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, he is now Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at NUS. He was listed as Foreign Policy magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2011 and Prospect magazine's Top 50 world thinkers in 2014, and has recently published a book titled 'Has the West Lost It?'.
America's Misunderstanding of China
Conversation with Kishore Mahbubani
Three Global Revolutions
Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown
UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Gordon Brown is the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010 and is widely credited with preventing a second Great Depression through his stewardship of the 2009 London G20 summit. Previously, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007, making him the longest-serving Chancellor in modern history.
The Great Disruption (3 mins)
Wiring a web for global good (17 mins)
What makes a successful Brexit (65 mins)
Sen. Matteo Renzi
Former Prime Minister of Italy
Matteo Renzi is an Italian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from February 2014 until December 2016. Renzi served as President of the Province of Florence from 2004 to 2009 and as Mayor of Florence from 2009 to 2014.
Renzi is the youngest person to serve as Italian Prime Minister and was the youngest leader in the G7. He was also the first serving Mayor to become Prime Minister. In 2014, the American magazine Fortune ranked Renzi as the third most influential person under 40 in the world, and Foreign Policy listed him as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. Moreover, Renzi is nicknamed il Rottamatore (the Scrapper) due to his ambition of renovating the Italian political establishment. Renzi, who did not hold a seat in either house of Parliament during his tenure as Prime Minister, became a member of the Senate as a result of the 2018 general election. Following the 2018 election, Renzi announced his resignation as Secretary of the Democratic Party, effective 12 March 2018.
Dr. Syed Hussain
Chair, Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Syed Irteza Hussain, MD is the Chair of the Department of Neurology in the Neurological Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. Dr. Hussain is a Consultant Neurologist with 17 years of experience. After completing his medical degree from the prestigious Aga Khan University he underwent extensive post graduate training in the US. He is American Board certified in Neurology, Vascular neurology, Neurocritical Care and Neuroendovascular surgery. He has been involved in setting up clinical and training programs related to disorders of circulation of the Nervous system in the United States. He has been working at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi since 2016. His research interests are related to stroke and acute neurological illnesses. He has special interest in the historical depiction of neurological conditions in history, literature and the arts.
Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen
CEO and Founder, Openwater; Co-founder of One Laptop per Child; former Executive at Google and Facebook
A technical executive and inventor in the fields of display, imaging, and computer hardware, Mary Lou has been a project leader at Intel and Google X, and more recently an executive at Facebook on their Oculus VR project. She is founder of OpenWater a startup working on fMRI-type imaging of the body using holographic, infrared techniques, which led to her being named to CNN's top 10 thinkers in science and technology.
Inventor, entrepreneur
Could future devices read images from our brains?,
How we use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains
Daniel Tammet
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, London
A novelist, poet, translator and autistic savant with Asperger's syndrome who has incredible mental abilities as a result of a childhood injury
The language of numbers
Different ways of knowing
The boy with the incredible brain
Jose del R. Millán
Defitech Chair, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Defitech Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) where he explores the use of brain signals for the development of non-invasive brain-controlled robots and neuroprostheses. In this multidisciplinary research effort, Dr. Millán is bringing together his pioneering work on the two fields of brain-computer interfaces and adaptive intelligent robotics
Mind-controlled machines,
Telepresence robots give people with disabilities a feeling of being home
Brain-machine interfaces
Anthony Geffen
CEO and Creative Director, Atlantic Productions
Anthony Geffen is one of the world's leading documentary film makers and a pioneer in multi-platform storytelling. He has won four British Academy awards (BAFTAs) and eight American Emmy Awards. He followed Ang Lee and James Cameron to be presented in Hollywood with the Charles Wheatstone Award for his outstanding contribution to film and television. His diverse films include eleven projects with Sir David Attenborough including the BBC series The Great Barrier Reef, the theatrical film The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest and the recently acclaimed The Coronation with The Queen. He is considered by the media as a visionary for storytelling across different digital multi-platforms in 3D, interactive apps, and now immersive VR, AR and AI experiences. These include Space Decent, The Munduruku, First Life and Health VR. In 2007 he received the first British Academy Award for VR storytelling. Anthony is a fellow at St. Cross College, Oxford University.
Dr. Harold Bursztajn
Co-Founder, Harvard Medical School's Psychiatry Program
Harold J. Bursztajn, M.D., a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, has served as senior Harvard Medical School faculty for over 25 years. He has been honored with Harvard Medical School's highest award for medical-faculty mentorship, awards for psychiatric research, and national recognition via the Abraham Flexner Distinguished Medical Education Lectureship at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine. Internationally, Dr. Bursztajn's service includes the Presidency of the American Unit of the UNESCO Bioethics Chair. Dr. Bursztajn, a Founder of the Harvard Medical School Program in Psychiatry and the Law, practices nationally and internationally as a clinical and forensic neuropsychiatrist, psychoanalyst, risk manager, and advisor on artificial intelligence-empowered complex decision making under conditions of uncertainty. He has authored 5 books and over 80 scholarly journal articles. Dr. Bursztajn continues to confidentially advise the risk management, virtual reality, and arts communities. He served as a founding investor in S2Security Systems and consults to officers and boards of both established enterprises and start-ups.
Philip Alvelda
CEO, Brainworks
Nick Thompson
Editor, WIRED
American journalist and editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, one of the world's leading monthly publications on technology, culture, and the economy
25 years of Wired and what's next for tech
A look into the future
The future of being human
Cassandra Kelly
EU Global Tech Panel; Co-Founder Pottinger, CChange
Cassandra Kelly is a global thought leader, speaker and coach to leaders who dare: corporate and political. A tech entrepreneur and former CEO, Cassandra has served as advisor, board director and chair for some of the world's most influential organizations.
She has worked in most of the world's continents. She co-founded the multiple award-winning global corporate advisory firm, Pottinger, and subsequently CChange. Pottinger works with leaders to help them solve their most complex problems through creating destination-led strategyTM and assisting on inorganic growth. CChange accelerates meaningful outcomes by working with influencers and leaders to make change happen quickly.
Cassandra's ability to compel organizations to embrace new opportunities, challenge the status quo and seize opportunities has resulted in numerous accolades.
She works with the B20/G20, was appointed as an international expert advisor to China's One Belt One Road initiative and is a member of the European Union's Global Tech Panel.
Toomas Ilves
Former President of Estonia
Toomas Ilves served as President of Estonia from 2006 to 2016. In this post, he was key in driving the initiatives in e-government and cyber security for which the country has been acknowledged as a world-leader. Educated in the United States, President Ilves graduated from Columbia University in New York City in 1976 and received his Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. From 2002 to 2004, Ilves was a Member of the Estonian Parliament; in 2004 he was elected a Member of the European Parliament. During his presidency, Toomas Ilves was appointed to serve in several high positions including chair of World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Cyber Security. Since November 2016, Ilves has co-chaired The Global Futures Council on Blockchain Technology, a working group set up by the World Economic Forum focusing on how blockchain technology can be used to improve the security of the internet.
Admiral (ret.) Mike Rogers
Former Director, US National Security Agency, former Commander, US Cyber Command
Admiral Michael Rogers is the former director of the National Security Agency (NSA), the former chief of Central Security Service, and the former commander of US Cyber Command. He served under both Presidents Trump and Obama and oversaw the NSA and Cyber Command responses to both the Snowden leaks and Russian interference in the 2016 US Presidential election.
Previously, Rogers was a surface warfare officer, a fleet information operations officer and fleet cryptologist. He has led direct support missions focused on signals intelligence aboard U.S. submarines and surface units in the Arabian Gulf and Mediterranean.
Rogers is an Auburn University graduate, he is also a distinguished graduate of the National War College and a graduate of highest distinction from the Naval War College. He is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI fellow; Harvard Senior Executive in National Security alum; and holds a Master of Science in National Security Strategy.
Jack Stewart
Journalist, 'Marketplace' Radio
Jack Stewart is a senior reporter at Marketplace, an American Public Media radio show heard by 14.8 million people across the US, and available by podcast around the world. Based in Los Angeles, he covers transportation and sustainability, examining how new modes of mobility will impact our lives, cities, and wider environment.
Previously Jack was a senior transportation writer at WIRED. He has a degree in engineering which makes him a good fit to report on autonomous and electric vehicles.
Before WIRED, Jack spent 15 years working for the BBC, initially in London, from where he was sent to Baghdad and Basra in 2003 to cover the conflict in Iraq. In 2006 he was asked to become the host of Science in Action, the longest running program on BBC World Service radio.
Jack's been a speaker and moderator at SXSW, The Aspen Ideas Festival, The Atlantic's Big Science Summit, and the BBC's World Changing Ideas Summit. He is a co-author on a scientific paper "On the future of transportation in an era of automated and autonomous vehicles," published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Amin Toufani
CEO, T Labs and Chair of Finance and Economics, Singularity University
Amin is the CEO of T Labs. He was formerly the director of strategy and Vice President of Strategic Relations at Singularity University. He brings a unique set of technological, entrepreneurial and policy perspectives to the dialogue of innovation on campus.
Before Singularity, Amin founded for-profit and social impact organizations in a range of domains including: artificial intelligence, peer to peer lending, bitcoin, human rights, international development, carbon offsetting, and solar energy.
Google Search ranks him as the world's best guitar player – a title he readily rejects. In addition to his work at Singularity, he is building the World's first hedge fund for the poor, as well as Reversopedia – a reverse encyclopaedia composed of things we know we don't know.
Amin has a degree in artificial intelligence from the University of British Columbia, an MBA from Stanford, and an MPA in economic policy from Harvard. He attended Harvard and Stanford concurrently and graduated an Arjay Miller Scholar.
Josh Giegel
Co-Founder and CTO, Virgin Hyperloop One
Josh Giegel is the CTO and Co-Founder of Virgin Hyperloop One, leading a world-class team of engineers making Hyperloop a reality.
Josh's background is unmatched in thermodynamics, heat transfer, compressible fluid mechanics, power cycles, turbomachinery, nonlinear structural analysis, and hardware-based development. He leads the design, analysis, and innovation for thermodynamic elements of the Hyperloop system.
Previously, Josh led research activities at Echogen Power Systems. Josh was the sole inventor of four novel supercritical CO2 power cycles. He developed custom multi-objective, nonlinear optimization software, drastically reducing engineering man-hours.
Prior to Echogen, Josh worked at SpaceX as lead analyst on six successfully tested rocket engines including Merlin 1D and Super Draco. Josh's analysis was critical to the success of the Dragon spacecraft where microgravity propulsion systems are an integral piece in docking and deorbiting from the International Space Station. He received an "Ass-Kicker" award for identifying and replicating the Falcon 9 first flight anomaly.
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L E T T E R S T O T H E E D I T O R
Cameron's words of regret
We should not get into the rigmarole of words (wanting an apology), but the spirit and sense behind the act (editorial 'Regretting a massacre', February 21).
Life is an endless cycle of resentment, retaliation and remorse, without forgiveness. Forgiving and seeking forgiveness, both are equally important and acts which can be done by the strong only. An Urdu couplet says it all " Kuch zindagi ko is tareh aasan kar lia, kisi se maafi maang lee, aur kisi ko maaf kar diya'.
We must admire what is good in others. See this example of British character. When Tony Blair was the PM, his son was detained for a minor offence. The parents were duly informed; Tony Blair accompanied by his wife came to the police station, paid the fine and left after profusely complimenting the police officer.
Mahatma Gandhi always said, "But for denying freedom and subjugating Indians, I love and like English people".
BM SINGH, Amritsar
The editorial 'Regretting a massacre' (February 21) has rightly argued that British Prime Minister David Cameron's visit and his comment are but a logical progression of the visit of Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Phillip 16 years ago.
It appears that the British Prime Minister did not want to set a precedent by issuing an apology which could have resulted in a volley of demands for apologies from across the globe for several events perpetrated by British colonial rulers in the past. However, his comments on the Punjabis' extraordinary contribution to British life during his visit to the Golden Temple made up for the verbal apology.
GREGORY FERNANDES, Mumbai
British Prime Minister David Cameron's statement while laying a wreath at the Jallianwala Bagh memorial that the massacre was a deeply shameful event which can never be forgotten will have some soothing effect on the minds of the Indians. He has been bold enough to write it in the visitors' book. His gesture will be highly appreciated although it has come after 94 years of the British post-colonial guilt. Some of the earlier top British leaders, including former PM Gordon Brown, never acknowledged the wrong doing.
DILBAG RAI, Chandigarh
Over nearly a century now, British protagonists have approached the 1919 massacre ground of Jallianwala Bagh thumbing the thesaurus for an appropriate word to pick. "Sorry" is not one among them. And British Prime Minister David Cameron too has joined the fair queue of compatriots to hang their heads standing at the ringside of the most ignoble theatrics of colonial rule, but returned without shaking it in regret.
The expectation that a British PM on a trade mission would apologise for a 94-year-old tragedy is more than a little off-key. Political apology has a chequered history of intents and purposes. Often, they tend to be motivated by desperation to brush wrongdoing under the carpet and move on.
JS ACHARYA, Hyderabad
There should be no fear in the minds of Indians of the kind created by the East India Company as gone are the days of colonialism, because of global bodies like the UNO and the WTO (editorial 'Partner in progress', February 21). There is a strong case for students from UK to come to India for learning philosophical values of education more than earning livelihood.
Let there be a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indian universities like Kurukshetra University for developing human values based on spiritual inputs from our epics, like the Bhagvad Gita, which provides motivational pills. Let the teachers from UK attend orientation and refresher courses in spiritual economics which possess the potential of re-establishing economics as a queen of social sciences as Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson, called it long back.
Dr M M GOEL, Kurukshetra
Timely action
Unwarranted acts of violence and damage to public and private property are unjustified and highly condemnable (editorial 'Unrest among workers', February 21).
But we need to acknowledge the fact that the worker class has been expressing its resentment to government policies for the last two years. Had the ruling UPA combine seriously looked into their genuine demands and taken corrective measures in time, this strike and the corresponding loss could have been averted.
It should be realised that growing social unrest can assume alarming proportions as witnessed during the Anna Hazare movement and the protests against the Delhi gangrape case.
Therefore, the government will do well to ease prevailing social tension by checking rising inflation, generating employment and ensuring social security.
DS KANG, Hoshiarpur
Class culture shows
It is laudable that the Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Kumari Selja has underlined the importance of inclusive city planning for a vibrant social life (editorial 'City life' February 20). The term 'inclusive' has become a buzz word these days in developmental parlance and everyone talks about it without much ado.
In the present situation, urban conglomerates are divided into slums, lower class colonies, middle class and posh colonies; then how is inclusive city planning possible? The only way out is that all land plots in a proposed urban habitation should be of equal size, say 10 or 16 marlas or whatever.
Concessions should be given to the economically weaker sections for purchase of plots. Then only can the rich and the poor mix up with each other and enrich the social life. Otherwise, the spatial distance between them will further widen and inclusive city planning will remain a mere rhetoric.
Dr PURAN SINGH, Nilokheri

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Q: determine if two scalars are the inner product of two vectors with the same vector Given scalars, $y_1,y_2$ and vectors $X_1$,$X_2$, can we determine whether there exists a vector $V$ such that $y_1$ = $\left\langle X_1,V\right\rangle$ and $y_2$ = $\left\langle X_2,V\right\rangle$
thank you.

A: The question is easy if $X_1=\mathbf{0}$ or $X_2=\mathbf{0}$, so I exclude these cases.  It is also easy if $X_1$ and $X_2$ are linearly dependent, so I assume independence.
Suppose there exist vectors $X_3, X_4$ such that $$
<X_1,X_3>=0\\
<X_2,X_3>\neq0\\
<X_2,X_4>=0\\
<X_1,X_4>\neq0$$
Then it is easy to verify that $$V=\frac{y_2}{<X_2,X_3>}X_3+\frac{y_1}{<X_1,X_4>}X_4$$
does the trick.
So, when can we find such $X_3, X_4$?  If the dimension of the space is $n>2$  then the orthogonal complement of $X_1$ has dimension $n-1$, and the orthogonal complement of $\{X_1,X_2\}$ has dimension $n-2>0$ so we can find $X_3$ orthogonal to $X_1$ but not $X_2$, and similarly we can find a suitable $X_4$.
If the dimension of the space is $2$, and if $X_1$ and $X_2$ are not themselves orthogonal, then any nonzero vector orthogonal to $X_1$ serves as $X_3$ and any nonzero vector orthogonal to $X_2$ serves as $X_4$.
Now we must consider the case where $n=2$ and $<X_1,X_2>=0$, so that we can't find $X_3$ and $X_4$.  I'll leave that one up to you.  Here's a hint, though.  Under these conditions, $X_1$ and $X_2$ form a basis. You should also do the easy cases I excluded at the beginning.
NOTE
I'm just using "we can find" as an informal equivalent of "there exists."  I don't mean to say anything about constructibility, although of course, we can actually construct suitable vectors.

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OFW-themed films Triangle of Sadness, Plan 75 win top awards at Cannes Festival
Margo Hannah De Guzman Quadra
Dolly de Leon in "Triangle of Sadness" and Stefanie Arianne in "Plan 75." Photos from Triangle of Sadness film via Variety, Plan 75 Twitter.
Triangle of Sadness and Plan 75, two films featuring Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) have won top prizes at this year's Cannes Film Festival in France.
"Triangle of Sadness," the social satire commentary tackling privilege and greed by Swedish director Ruben Ostlund won the Palme d'Or, the highest award at the prestigious annual film festival.
The film stars FAMAS-winning Filipino actress Dolly de Leon (Verdict) who plays Abigail, a toilet manager working on a cruise ship that gets stranded on a deserted island. De Leon's highly-lauded performance in the film was a homage to OFWs.
Filipino co-produced film "Plan 75" starring Filipino-Japanese actress Stefanie Arianne as a Filipina caregiver, received the Cannes Camera d'Or Special Mention Award.
The film, directed by Hayakawa Chie, is co-produced by Filipino producer Alemberg Ang and Filipino production company Fusee headed by Will Fredo. The dystopian drama focuses on Japan's ageing population and also features Filipino actress Sheryl Ichikawa.
The films were among the top winners in the recently concluded 75th annual Cannes Film Festival which took place from May 17 to 28, 2022.
Another Filipino iconic film "Itim" by Mike de Leon was screened in Cannes as part of this year's Restoration World Premieres offerings.
Also at this year's annual festival, filmmaker Arvin Belarmino's first feature film project, RIA, won the CNC Award at the Cannes Residency pitch.
SEND CHEERS in the comments below to the teams behind the films "Triangle of Sadness" and "Plan 75" for honoring Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and their stories.
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Margo is a voracious reader - some might even say she reads too much for her own good. She majored in BS Psychology and hopes to become a forensic psychologist one day. She's also an aspiring writer, mental health advocate, and a staunch believer of equality.


Dancers, like football players, obey an unwritten law: They perform until pain, age or injury make it impossible to go on. Only then do they step back to coach or go into management. Jessica Lang broke that law. She joined Twyla Tharp's company after graduating from Juilliard School of the Arts, grabbing a secure and respected position in the modern dance world. But in her 20s, she abruptly walked away and plunged into choreography. In her 30s, she started Jessica Lang Dance, which will bring six of her works to Knight Theater Nov. 12.
A commission for Pennsylvania Ballet put her on the dance map nearly 20 years ago. Now, at 43, she has won a Bessie Award (sort of the dance world's Tony) and has been hired from East Coast to West Coast and in Japan.
She has created more than 100 pieces over the last two decades, most outside the company she founded in 2011. Lang could have bounced around successfully as a freelance dancemaker, once her work caught on. But she needed her own set of bodies to realize her dream.
In fact, she says, dancers are the last thing she works with most of the time: She has already gathered ideas for sets, costumes, music and lights – often working with visual collaborators – and sketched out a piece in her mind before entering the studio. There she may ask dancers to play games or move for them herself, getting them to improvise variations on her steps.
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12.
Jessica Lang walked away from dance to be a choreographer.
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Анис Бен Слиман (; ) — тунисский футболист, полузащитник клуба «Брондбю» и сборной Туниса. Участник чемпионата мира 2022 года.

Клубная карьера

Слиман — воспитанник клубов «Вестиа», КБ, ФА 2000, «Херфёльге», Б-93, «Люнгбю», «Брондбю» и «АБ Гладсаксе». В 2018 году он дебютировал за основной состав последних. В 2019 году Слиман вернулся в «Брондбю». 16 февраля 2020 года в матче против «Оденсе» он дебютировал в датской Суперлиге. 8 марта в поединке против «Норшелланна» Анис забил свой первый гол за «Брондбю». В 2021 году он помог клубу выиграть чемпионат. 17 августа 2021 года Слиман дебютировал в Еврокубках в матче раунда плей-офф Лиги чемпионов УЕФА против австрийского «Ред Булла», который закончился поражением 1:2. 29 августа 2021 года он забил свой первый гол в сезоне в ворота «Мидтьюлланна».

Международная карьера
9 октября 2020 года в товарищеском матче против сборной Судана Слиман дебютировал за сборную Туниса. В этом же поединке Анис забил свой первый гол за национальную команду. В 2022 году Слиман принял участие в Кубке Африки в Камеруне. На турнире он сыграл в матчах против команд Мали, Мавритании, Гамбии, Нигерии и Буркина-Фасо.

В том же году Слиман принял участие в чемпионате мира в Катаре. На турнире он сыграл в матчах против команд Дании и Франции.

Голы за сборную Туниса

Достижения

Командные

 «Брондбю»
 Победитель датской Суперлиги — 2020/2021

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Футболисты Дании
Игроки сборной Туниса по футболу
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Игроки ФК «Брондбю»

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Игор де Карвальо Жулиан (; родился  в Леополдине, штат Минас-Жерайс, Бразилия) — бразильский футболист, защитник клуба «Визела». Выступал в молодёжной сборной Бразилии.

Клубная карьера
Игор Жулиан, начавший карьеру на позиции полузащитника, попал в клуб из Рио-де-Жанейро в 2003 году. В молодёжной команде «Флуминенсе» он начал играть на правом фланге, пока тренер Абел Брага не перевёл в основную команду Уолласа, бывшего игрока юношеской сборной Бразилии. Даже играя на более оборонительной позиции, Игор не выключался из атакующих действий команды, показывая хорошую игру в полузащите во время атаки. Он внёс большой вклад в победу юношеской команды «Флуминенсе» в чемпионате штата Рио-де-Жанейро среди юношей до 17 лет, забив два гола.

Будучи физически сильным и умея подключаться в атаку, молодой защитник поразил ворота соперников пять раз, в том числе в дерби против «Васко да Гама», в котором он убежал от двух футболистов противника и забил гол, принеся своей команде победу 2-1.

Благодаря выступлениям в юношеском чемпионате Рио-де-Жанейро Игор попал в молодёжную команду «Флуминенсе», что позже привело его в основную команду клуба. 2 декабря 2012 года он дебютировал в чемпионате Бразилии в матче против «Васко да Гама», завершившемся победой «адмиралов» со счётом 2-1.

Международная карьера
В январе 2013 года Игор Жулиан попал в заявку сборной Бразилии для участия в молодёжном чемпионате Южной Америки. Он принял участие в трёх матчах команды, став основным игроком защиты.

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Ссылки
 Профиль Игора Жулиана на Goal.com
 Blog do Rica Perrone

Футболисты Бразилии
Игроки ФК АБС
Игроки ФК «Макаэ»
Игроки ФК «Спортинг Канзас-Сити»
Игроки ФК «Ферровиария» Араракуара
Игроки ФК «Флуминенсе»


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Nintendo: Lucrative Cash Cow But Limited Upside For Now (OTCMKTS:NTDOF)
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Nintendo's (OTCPK:NTDOY) competitive strengths as a videogame powerhouse remain untainted, but short-term supply-side issues will make festive season trading difficult. Operating as a steady cash cow has its attractions, but without a new product cycle, we believe there is a limited upside risk. We retain our neutral rating.
Quick primer
Nintendo is a leading franchise in electronic entertainment. We estimate its latest Switch game console will reach over 119 million hardware unit sales this festive season – the bestselling console for the company to date since the Wii which sold 103.51 million units.
Key financials with consensus forecasts
Key financials with consensus forecasts (Company, Refinitiv)
China's zero-tolerance policy over COVID-19 has hit Zhengzhou, where Foxconn's (OTCPK:FXCOF) factories assemble the Apple (AAPL) iPhone, affecting shipment availability into the festive season. Nintendo's key assembly partner Hosiden (OTCPK:HOIEF) revised down FY3/2023 guidance in November 2022, citing uncertain procurement conditions for semiconductors and other electronic components.
We want to assess the short-term impact of supply constraints into the key festive quarter, as well as the outlook for the next-generation hardware as the Switch enters its sixth Christmas season.
Not an ideal environment
Whilst the company has already telegraphed supply issues for the Switch hardware in Q1-2 FY3/2023 results (page 3) by decreasing shipment volume targets, we believe conditions have deteriorated further, underlined by Hosiden's recent statement. Into the sixth festive holiday season, the hardware should be making a relatively healthy margin, and its comprehensive software library should still make it an ideal stocking filler.
The fall in hardware sales YoY will hurt software sales – both real and digital. Although the tie ratio (the proportion of software versus hardware units) is expected to rise slightly for FY3/2023 post-company revision, it nevertheless highlights that the key aim of growing the installed base is under some pressure. This is not helpful given the post-COVID normalization of demand, the relative lack of new blockbuster first-party software releases, and the cost-of-living crisis which is affecting key markets such as the U.K., Japan, and to some extent, in the U.S. We have already witnessed some evidence of a slowdown in the electronic entertainment market overall.
Whilst the game industry has exhibited signs of being 'recession-proof' in past cycles, we believe there is an element of truth to this as market growth is driven by products as opposed to economic cycles. However, when we take into account that the size of the global industry is approaching USD 200 billion, we feel that it is more susceptible to economic downturns due to its mass-market appeal – the industry is no longer primarily driven by a core audience thanks to smartphones and Nintendo.
Running a cash cow for the next two years
If you were running a platform where there are over 106 million playing users, with 36 million online account holders, would you switch (excuse the pun) it off? Nintendo has spent the last 6 years scaling the Switch franchise, and it has become a major cash cow operation despite becoming ex-growth and appears to be in no hurry for a next-generation machine. Management continually suggests that this platform will have a long shelf life (page 11), from which we infer two things. Firstly, there may be some hardware upgrades to come, but the company is unlikely to embark on a new product cycle in the next two years at least. This is fairly neutral to the shares in our view, but since new product cycles and expectations can drive the share price, the upside risk looks limited. Secondly, an ex-growth earnings profile will continue, meaning a share price appreciation will have to come from significant multiple expansions or a major increase in shareholder returns – neither of which we believe is likely.
We believe the company is in a position to allocate capital more towards shareholder returns, but as we saw in FY3/2022 when dividends were cut YoY, the company likes to have a major cash reserve given the difficult times experienced when product releases were unsuccessful (such as the GameCube and Wii U). This attitude to hoarding cash is unlikely to change.
On consensus forecasts, the shares are trading on PER FY3/2024 16.7x on a flat to falling earnings profile YoY. With a dividend yield of around 3.0%, investors are not paid significantly to wait for the next big product release, and with FX market volatility coming down, a depreciating yen will become less of a tailwind for growth.
Upside risk comes from a major new product announcement in the next 6 months, which could reinvigorate interest in the franchise. In the shorter term, supply-side issues being addressed will be positive for sentiment as the key festive season will become operationally smoother to do business. Management could also consider increasing shareholder returns, although current priorities appear to be investing in capex (expanding office space in Kyoto) and JVs.
Downside risk comes from a poorer-than-expected performance in the key festive quarter, resulting in another revision for FY3/2023 company guidance. Weak guidance into FY3/2024 would be a negative, although we believe market expectations are not that high.
Investors like Nintendo shares given its sustainable free cash flow generation with the hit Switch platform giving it low downside risk. However, we believe the risk of making a current investment is opportunity cost, particularly from a product cycle point of view. The company's competitiveness and its ability to continue creating stellar intellectual property with a global appeal remain steadfast – but we do not expect any major developments soon. We retain our neutral rating.


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Giacometti's extraordinary Chariot is his masterpiece and ranks among the definitive achievements of 20th century art. With its painted surface and rich, golden patina, the present sculpture is perhaps the most important bronze that the artist created. His biographer James Lord, while discussing what is considered Giacometti's "great period" of the late 1940s and early 1950s, identified Chariot as his finest accomplishment: "There are many extraordinary sculptures of 1949 and 1950," he wrote. "Among them all, however, there is one, perhaps, more extraordinary than the others by reason of having required him to be extraordinary. It asks the beholder to be extraordinary, too" (J. Lord, Giacometti, New York, 1985, p. 304). Chariot had a profound personal significance for Giacometti, reflecting an epiphany in his creative development. The image came to him in a memory from his Surrealist period of the late 1930s. Like other sculptures from those years, it was a product of his unconscious mind, an "automatic" image that arrived fully-formed and unmediated. In accounts of its origin, the artist explained that Chariot derived from his souvenir of 1938 when, recuperating in Bichat hospital after an accident, he had "marveled" at nurses' pharmacy wagons with their "tinkling" bells. This sensory image stayed with him, and he drew several sketches that would lead ultimately to the present work. As he explained in a letter to his dealer Pierre Matisse, "In 1947 I saw the sculpture before me as if already done, and in 1950 it was impossible not to realize it, although it was already situated for me in the past" (A. Giacometti, 1950, quoted in J. Lord, ibid., p. 306).\nWhen cast in bronze in 1950, Chariot would become a heroic emblem of Post-War renewal. Locked in place despite the large apparatus of propulsion, the figure is Giacometti's attempt to crystallize the Existentialist philosophy which dominated Post-War Paris. His charioteer exists in a state of perpetual immobility yet her strength remains intact. She raises her arms in a commanding gesture, much like that of the gleaming sentinel in front of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. A figure of perseverance and a beacon of hope, she stands for all eternity upon her chariot, steadfast in her mission. The spirit of victory prevails over adversity and with this glorious sculpture Giacometti made his triumphant mark on history.\nThe genesis of the sculpture was in fact more complex than Giacometti implied. His hospital stay resulted after injuring his foot in a late-night traffic accident beside the gilded sculpture of Joan of Arc in the Place des Pyramides. It was perhaps his remembrance of looking up at the image of the saint that inspired him to create this sculpture in gold. As Laurie Wilson points out in her biography, "gold was the substance of the magically alive mechanical servant girls of Vulcan who helped the lame smithy walk." Wilson continues to describe Giacometti's work on this sculpture, which she likens to that of a goddess figure for the artist: "Implying movement in the charioteer cost Giacometti much effort, and he repeatedly revised the position of her arms. By raising her above the multitude, Giacometti made the woman of the Chariot into an object of worship. She stands in direct contrast to his numerous immobile or encaged women of that year who were simultaneously enticing and threatening.... Giacometti momentarily triumphed over death with his contemporary image magic, just as ancient Egyptians believed that the shining sun triumphed every day over the darkness of night and death.... in 1950, at the height of his powers he could afford to carry out a project that secretly celebrated one of his profoundest fantasies – an apparently inanimate creature could be seen as vital" (L. Wilson, op. cit. p. 261).\nScholars also note that Giacometti's Chariot draws its formal inspiration from several art historical precedents. Most obvious of these, according to Reinhold Hohl, is the Egyptian chariot that Giacometti saw at the Archeological Museum in Florence. Another possible source, given his fascination with classical statuary, is the Delphic charioteer whose hands extend to hold the reigns in a manner similar to the figure in the present sculpture. The idea of the obsolete wheel also invokes Marcel Duchamp's famous Bicycle Wheel, which challenged the fundamental role of a utilitarian object. But the most direct antecedent is Giacometti's own Femme au chariot I, a 1942 sculpture of a woman standing on a small-wheeled dolly. While the woman in that sculpture could not control her mobility, the rotating wheels of her cart could be moved by an exterior force. For his 1950 Chariot Giacometti grossly enlarged the proportion of the wheels and precluded their motion entirely. The woman on this chariot is going nowhere, yet she is a harbinger of times to come. Over the following years, motionless women and aimlessly walking men became the main characters in Giacometti's drama of humanity, and his identity as an artist became inextricably linked with these images.\nJames Lord suggests the following interpretation in his biography on the artist: "Like a dream, the Chariot moves inward upon itself even as it seems to rush ominously forward, and in our perspective this motion signifies that the sculpture was not created by accident. Art uses life, and the extent of the use gives the moral of the work. The Chariot leads us to look more closely than usual at this interaction. It is fascinating but frightening. Where first there was nothing, suddenly there is everything" (J. Lord, op. cit., p. 307).\nThe present cast of Chariot is among the rare sculptures that Giacometti painted meticulously to enhance the textural quality of the bronze, adding precise details of to the face, lips and body. This technique alludes to the polychrome empyreal funerary figures of ancient Egyptian statuary, whose timeless stance Giacometti also invokes. Only the present work and another in the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, are treated in this unique way. Perhaps inspired by the gilt of Joan of Arc, Giacometti favored an unusual golden patina for this composition. James Lord argues that this appropriate since "Chariot called for association with the metal most prized by man, the first to be worked in the pre-dawn of history, the one most often used to make or enrich the effigies of heroes, saints and deities (J. Lord, ibid., p. 306).\nThe scale of his sculptures was an important component of Giacometti's creative vision and one that he discussed frequently with his companions. Sculptures that were too big "infuriated" him because they relied too much on imagination rather than on existential experience. On the other hand, he found works that were too small to be "intolerable" because they were difficult to handle and materially unsustainable. The present work, standing about a meter and a half high, was purely a concrete object in a clearly defined space, relatable in scale to its viewer. With its connotations of stoicism, resilience, strength, vulnerability, perseverance and stasis, it calls to mind a passage from Samuel Beckett's classic of Existentialism, Waiting for Godot: "Why are we here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come."\nReferring to the cast in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, curator Anne Umland has written about the significance of Chariot in relation to the Existentialist philosophy popular among intellectuals within Giacometti's circle. "Giacometti was preoccupied with the elusiveness of contour, with the uncertain boundary between the object and the space that surrounded it. Jean-Paul Sartre influentially wrote about figures such as this as existing in some liminal state between being and nothingness. The figure's arms are tentatively outstretched; she diminishes as your eye travels up her rail thin legs to a slight swelling of the hips, to small breasts and head. No matter how close you get to her, she is always going to retreat thanks to the play of light and touch across the mottled, gnarled, knotty surface…. The pencil-thin woman is frozen in position, balanced on a platform attached to the axle of a chariot whose wheels are raised on tapered blocks. Yet her stance, with arm extended, looks unstable, raising the likelihood of sudden movement. But in which direction? Our uncertainty is heightened by the disparity in size between the figure and the huge wheels and pedestal. Looking at her, it's not clear if she's about to come toward us, or to move away. Paradoxically, the woman's reduced dimensions only add to her stature. We are drawn to her vague features. But no matter how carefully we look, we cannot quite make them out" (excerpt fromwww.moma.org).\nChariot was cast in a bronze edition of six numbered 1/6-6/6, according to the Fondation Giacometti in Paris. Of these six, only two bronzes, including the present work, remain in private collections. The four other casts are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Kunsthaus, Zurich; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, MO.\nInscribed with the signature A. Giacometti, with foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris and numbered 2/6
Painted bronze on wooden base
The work is in excellent, original condition. The painted enhancement is beautifully intact and also original condition. The bronze structure is sound. Overall the work is in superb condition. In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion. NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Height: 57 in.
Paris, Musée d'Art moderne, Alberto Giacometti, 1969-70 Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Highlights, 1972, no. 8, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Lionel Abel, Lettre à Pierre Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, New York, 1950, pp. 3, 12 Christian Zervos, Cahiers d'Art, 26e, Paris, 1951, illustration of another cast p. 79 Jacques Dupin, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1962, p. 57 Franz Meyer, Alberto Giacometti: Eine Kunst existenstieller Wirklichkeit,. Frauenfeld/Stuttgart, 1968 p. 104, 173 Carlo Huber, Alberto Giacometti, Zürich, 1970, p. 68 Carlo Huber, Alberto Giacometti, Zürich, 1971, p. 142 Reinhold Hohl, Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Stuttgart, 1972, p. 133 Michael Francis Brenson, The Early Work of Alberto Giacometti: (1925- 1935) Ph D. Diss. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1974, p. 167 Bernard Lamarche-Vadel Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1984, p. 132 James Lord, Alberto Giacometti, A Biography, New York, 1985, discussed p. 305 Valerie J. Fletcher, Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966, Washington, D.C., 1998, discussed p. 148; illustration of another cast p. 149 Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Giacometti, Paris, 1991, no. 125, pp. 98, 362 Laurie Wilson, Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic and the Man, New Haven, 2003, discussed pp. 259-261, illustration of the plaster cast p. 260 Angel Gonzalez, Alberto Giacometti, works, writings, interviews, Barcelona, 2006, illustration of another cast p. 94 Timothy Matthews, Alberto Giacometti, The Art of Relation, London, 2014, illustration of another cast in color on the cover
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist) Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zadok, New York (acquired from the above in 1952) Galerie Beyeler, Basel Acquired from the above in 1973
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Q: Moving window thru list Let say I have list [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] I need produce output like (moving window):
0  1
8  2
16 3
24 4
32 5

0  2
8  3
16 4
24 5
32 6

0  3
8  4
16 5
24 6
32 7

0  1
8  2
16 3
24 4
32 5

when 5-row-height window get to last element of list (7 here) we need start 1, and I need first column be generated like i * 8.
I came with something like this (but not quite):
def w(l):
    global lines
    for i in range(lines - 1, lines + 4):
        location = (i % 5) * 8
        print(f'{location} {l[i]}')
        if lines >= len(l) - 4:
            lines = 1

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ll = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
    for i in range(1, 4):
        lines = i
        print(f'-- {i} --')
        w(ll)

Output is:
-- 1 --
0 1
8 2
16 3
24 4
32 5
-- 2 --
8 2
16 3
24 4
32 5
0 6
-- 3 --
16 3
24 4
32 5
0 6
8 7

Maybe deque is an answer?

A: To fix the location part, you can just add enumerate and multiply with 8.
def w(l):
    global lines
    for p,i in enumerate(range(lines - 1, lines + 4)):
        location = p * 8
...

A: You can use sliding_window_view() from numpy:
import numpy as np
sliding_window = np.lib.stride_tricks.sliding_window_view([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], 5)
for i in sliding_window:
    for j, k in enumerate(i):
        print(j*8, k)

Output:
0 1
8 2
16 3
24 4
32 5
0 2
8 3
16 4
24 5
32 6
0 3
8 4
16 5
24 6
32 7


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Unexpected results are sort of the point of lab experiments. Laboratory studies reveal the unforeseen and if they didn't, there would seldom be a reason to perform lab studies. It can be problematic when scientists don't get the results they wanted or thought to expect but other times new data can be the result of the unexpected, and lead to discoveries no one thought to check for in the beginning. Some famous discoveries happened on total accident throughout scientific history. The latest unintentional discovery might make one of the most aggressive types of cancer more treatable than ever before.
Scientists at Stanford recently discovered a way to force leukemia cells to become mature immune cells do something amazing. The researchers were actually trying to stabilize cancer cells so they could keep them alive longer in order to study them. The method of keeping the cells alive allowed the cells to develop into immune cells that may one day help the immune system attack cancerous tumor cells!
You can read the study in full at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is the name for a particularly rapidly-progressing cancer where the immature cells that should differentiate and become white blood cells or lymphocytes instead become cancerous. ALL has several classifications based on which kind of lymphocyte (B cell or T cell) the mutated cancer cell originated from.
The scientists were simply investigating a common type of lymphoblastic leukemia, an acute cancer called precursor B cell ALL, aka B-ALL. B-ALL starts as a rogue B cell mutating away from usefulness during an early part of its maturation. The immature cells can't fully differentiate and become the B cells they were otherwise destined to be. The flawed B cells lack the transcription factors required for normal development. Transcription factors are basically proteins that attach themselves to sections of DNA and are then supposed to switch designated genes on or off, depending on the type of transcription factor. Did you follow that? It's a bit technical for the layman but most of us understand DNA. Transcription factors are basically a DNA reader than helps the cell decide which part of your DNA it should use to become a specific type of cell.
So, when a transcription factor messes up and activates the wrong section of DNA or doesn't activate the correct section, it can cause mutations where the cell doesn't develop or develops poorly. B-ALL is one of the most nasty types of cancer and the prognosis for victims is not good. The Stanford U team wanted to study this villain but had trouble keeping the cancer cells alive outside of the victims body.
One of the techniques they used to attempt to keep the cancer cells from dying involved exposure to a certain transcription factor. The exposed cells began to grow and change shape, and the new morphology was a type of white blood cell called a macrophage, normally responsible for attacking damaged, mutated cells or foreign material.
The team recognized the cancerous cells behaved the same as macrophages in various ways such as surrounding and engulfing bacteria. Most notably, the pseudomacrophages from the cancer cells of mice added back into the cancerous mouse did not behave as a cancer cell, and the mice who did not have cancer did not develop cancer after being exposed.
The Stanford researchers believe the newly converted cells are no longer cancerous. Furthermore, they might even help the body's immune system regroup and attack other, still cancerous cells. It could work because macrophages normally collect DNA tags from abnormal cells they encounter and also mark foreign material so that other cells in the immune system know what to attack. Since the false macrophages were originally cancerous cells, they will, in theory, already possess the correct signals that recognize the same kind of cancer.
Now that this principle has been identified as a possible method of treating one cancer, it might open the door to helping the immune system combat other cancers.


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Q: Laravel 8 - unsupported_grant_type I have a problem with the following:

*

*I am creating an API (I'm new with this)

*With this API I want to consume another API or WebService

*In Postman I make a get request to the URL and it returns OK the access_token, but in the Laravel project it returns: "error" => "unsupported_grant_type".
This is my code:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

$response = Http::withHeaders([
            'content-type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
        ])->post('http://url:52904/Token', [
            'userName' => 'menganito',
            'password' => 'pepito',
            'grant_type' => 'password'
        ]);

        dd($response->json());

I tried installing ** Laravel Passport **, but I'm not using a DB for now.

A: The problem was x-www-form-urlencoded.
This solved my problem (asForm)
$response = Http::asForm()->post('http://url.com', [
                'userName' => 'user',
                'password' => 'pass',
                'grant_type' => 'password'
        ]);

dd($response->json());


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Dennett as Synthetic Philosopher.
There is much more to be explored in this evolution of cultural evolution and its role in creating our minds, but first we should look more closely at how it got started. Like the origin of life, this is an unsolved problem, and a very difficult one. Our minds are in some regards as different from other minds as living things are from nonliving things, and finding even one defensible path from our common ancestor with the chimpanzees is a challenging task. There is no shortage of competing hypotheses, and we will consider the best (by my lights). Which came first: language or cooperation or tool making or fire tending or stone throwing or confrontational scavenging or trade or . . .? We shouldn't be surprised if there proves to be no single "magic bullet" answer, but rather a coevolutionary process with lots of contributing factors feeding on each other. The fact remains that we are the only species so far that has developed explosively cumulative culture—yet another replication bomb—and any speculative story that explains why (both how come and what for) we have culture must also explain why we alone have culture. Culture has obviously been a Good Trick for us, but eyesight and flight are also obvious Good Tricks, and they have each evolved several times in different species. What barriers have stood in the way of other evolutionary lineages developing the same Good Trick?--Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back; The Evolution of Minds, 149.
The evolutionary origin of language is an unsolved, but not insoluble, problem, and both experimental and theoretical work has made progress in formulating testable hypotheses about gradual, incremental evolutionary processes, both cultural and genetic, that could transform the more primitive talents of our ancestors into the verbal dexterity and prolixity of modern language users. The arrival of language then set the stage for yet another great moment in evolutionary history: the origin of comprehension.
In the next chapter we will see how, as linguistic competence grew, it not only accelerated cultural evolution; it permitted the process itself—the process of cultural evolution—to evolve into something less Darwinian, less bottom-up, paving the way for top-down comprehension, one of the most recent fruits on the Tree of Life, and the inauguration of the age of intelligent design. The creativity of individual human beings can be seen to echo, at high speed and in concentrated forms, the R&D processes that created it.--Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back; The Evolution of Minds, 281.
Despite Dennet's training in philosophy (at Oxford, no less, under Ryle), his appointment in a well-regarded philosophy department, and his continued self-identification as a philosopher ("Philosophers, like me" (407)), I suspect that many professional philosophers find Dennett's From Bacteria to Bach and Back, if they read it all with any care, barely philosophy. Dennett offers few structured arguments (with carefully numbered premises), no clear dilemmas/trillemas (etc.) nor the apparent paradoxes that are the staple of our profession nor does he deploy the conceptual distinctions that populate, say, recent philosophy of mind. With a few notable exceptions (Peter Godfrey Smith, Ruth Millikan, Dan Sperber, Bryce Huebner, Jody Azzouni, etc.) Dennett rarely mentions other living philosophers whose work he draws upon.
In some respects Dennett is a legacy philosopher, our intellectual celebrity in the world of public intellectuals, admired or reviled (due to his association with New Atheism). One can easily imagine that Dennett's latest work shares the fate of Rorty's late work: mainstream professional philosophers recognizing the name, and paying respectful lip-service to his importance while ceding engagement with his ideas to other disciplines and TED audiences. This would be a mistake. Dennett's late work is brimming with new ideas (developed in more scholarly publications for over a decade) and insightful changes of heart. (Some other time I offer examples; but recall here.) Along the way, Dennett has become an exemplar for an entirely different way of doing philosophy. I call this (recall here and here): synthetic philosophy.
Synthetic philosophy is the enterprise of bringing together insights, knowledge, and arguments from the special sciences with the aim to offer a theoretically (reasonably) unified, coherent account of complex systems and connect these to a wider culture or other philosophical projects (or both). It may, in turn, generate new research in the special sciences or a new science connected to the framework adopted in the synthetic philosophy. I am not going to define a complex system, but I operationalize it by suggesting it is, in turn, studied by multiple sciences.
Synthetic philosophy, which shares kinship with what was once known as 'natural philosophy,' is made possible by, and a response to, the intellectual division of labor within and among the scientific disciplines. It is, thus, a modern phenomenon of the last two centuries. I call it 'synthetic' in order to distinguish it from analytic philosophy.
In Dennett's case, Darwinisms provides the synthesizing glue. This is no coincidence because Darwin himself is the hard-to-classify (among the) last natural philosopher(s)/naturalists or (among) the first synthetic philosopher(s) (if Spencer had not jumped ahead of him). Darwin had brought together insights from a whole number of distinct sciences (geology, botany, paleontology, morphology, entomology, animal husbandry, climate science, etc.) and, in turn, self-consciously revolutionized them with his ideas and opening up new avenues for research. Dennett draws on some of Darwin's own examples or very cleverly recasts them. For example (of the latter), as I noted a few days ago (recall), Darwin deploys a trope from Mandeville and Hume in which the slowly evolved complexity of a ship stands for the unintended functionality of bottom up effectiveness of the division of labor; this example is recast by Dennett in an extended analysis of Leslie Groves top-down design of the Manhattan Project, which involved thousands of competent workers who had no comprehension of what they were contributing to.
A reader, familiar with my fondness for coining fancy new memes, may well suspect that I am at odds with Dennett's self-understanding. This would be no objection to my purposes -- we all have a right to use Dennett's writings for our own ends --, but as it happens while Dennett does not use the term 'synthetic philosopher,' his self-understanding (or the project's) fits the concept:
[One may object that:] genes can't explain adaptations (structures, organs, instincts, etc.). That's true; that's why we need molecular biology, physiology, embryology, ethology, island biogeography, and all the other specializations of biology if we are going to explain how particular adaptations work and why they are adaptations. We also need these other fields to explain how parasites exploit their hosts, how spider webs are cost-effective food traps, how beavers build their dams, why whales vocalize, and all the rest. Similarly, [in memetics] we need psychology, anthropology, economics, political science, history, philosophy, and literary theory to explain how and why cultural features (good and bad) work the way they do.....Pre-Darwinian natural history at its best was well-developed, systematic science, with hypotheses to test and explanations galore, but Darwin enriched it with a host of questions that put all its generalizations in a new light. My overarching claim in this book is that the evolutionary perspective in general and the memetic perspective with regard to culture transform many of the apparently eternal puzzles of life, that is, meaning and consciousness, in ways inaccessible to those who never look beyond the manifest image that they grew up with and the disciplines they are trained in.-- From Bacteria to Bach and Back, 242-3 [additions in square brackets added by Schliesser].
That is to say, Dennett brings Darwinian theory to bear on and connects existing work in offering empirically informed, but still speculative accounts of the origins of mind, language, and life (most of which already deeply influenced by Darwinism) and to open up a new meta-science of culture, memetics, that can draw upon and re-orient existing cultural studies and human/social sciences. The focus on (hard to know) origins is not just the philosopher's sly tactic to avoid empirical refutation, but it is the application of Darwin's own claim that "all true classification is genealogical; that community of descent is the hidden bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking," (Chapter 13, The Origin of Species.)
As Dennett himself admits (see the quoted passages at top of this post), his book is a list of as-of-yet unsolved problems. There is an irony lurking here; in the philosophy of mind, Dennett is known for being quite critical of the mysterians (373; Searle, Chomsky, etc.) and the folk who embrace variants of the explanatory gap (p. 20; e.g., Levine) or hard problem (p. 318, Chalmers, etc.). In a way, his main criticism is not that they give up too early or too easily (although surely he believes that as well as that they have underappreciated how much he has done toward explaining consciousness), but rather that the difficulty of the problem of consciousness is, in fact, under-appreciated because it involves not the characterization and location of some dividing line, but rather many multi-dimensional problems about how our embodied and (linguistically and materially) en-cultured competences -- many, but not all, without comprehension hang together in various not-so-seem-less (even if the gaps are often obscure to the first person) ways. And despite the famous title of Dennett 1991, at best Dennett has sketched the contours of a possible explanation (in part by telling a plausible origin story and by relating our kinds to other kinds of minds).
How, then, does one judge the merits of synthetic philosophy? Ye shall know them by their fruits, that is, not just by how synthetic philosophies instantiate various theoretical virtues, but primarily by the new cognitive tools they supply for the special sciences and philosophical reflection, including (ahh) the development of useful new myths.*
*This last point comes out of the blue--but Dennett writes (a) "The work on reason-giving and normativity descended from Sellars at Pittsburgh, via Brandom, McDowell, and Haugeland, has never stressed, to my knowledge, that these all-important human practices are systematic generators of false ideology whenever the demand for reasons exceeds the available supply" (314 n. 97) and (b) "By shielding your precious experience from probing, you perpetuate myths that have outlived their utility." (351) This suggests Dennett thinks there may be true ideology and, more plausibly, some myths that are useful.
Posted at 01:07 PM in Daniel C. Dennett, Jody Azzouni, Philosophical Traditions, Philosophy of Science, Political Economy of Science, Professional Philosophy | Permalink
Thanks for this post! I agree that "synthetic philosopher" is a useful category, and that Dennett fits well within it.
Out of interest, did you get the term from Philip Kitcher, who uses it in almost precisely the same way here https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/74992/ ? I think Kitcher also fits the model well. It's probably no coincidence that another of the synthetic philosophers that you mentioned - Peter Godfrey-Smith - is a former student of Kitcher's.
Posted by: Max Khan Hayward | 09/01/2018 at 09:06 PM
Thank you for the link to the interview with Kitcher, Max.
I am pretty sure (as I hint in this post) I got the term from Spencer, who is a kind of synthetic philosopher in my sense (and Kitcher's), although sometimes uses it to refer to a slightly different project. (Over the years, I have seen others use the term for projects that unify philosophy--that's not this notion.)
It's such a good term that I am happy to share it with others!
Posted by: Eric Schliesser | 09/01/2018 at 09:17 PM
Interesting to contrast the style of this important book of Dennett's with that of his teacher Ryle. The Concept of Mind has I think no references to Ryle's contemporaries in philosophy and although it has some discussion of 'behaviourism' no actual behaviourist psychology is cited or referenced (no Watson, Hull or Skinner). Philosophy of mind could then be conceived of as not deeply grounded in scientific or experimental work. Dennett has quite often railed against the technical seclusion and over-elaborate methodology of much contemporary philosophy, perhaps the wide-ranging and broad-brush nature of his argument is one reason for the relative popularity of his books. This one was not written primarily for a philosophical audience though it merits one, as you point out.
Posted by: Adamhodgkin | 09/03/2018 at 04:11 PM
Thank you Eric for pointing out that Dennett thinks there may be some myths that are useful. Some myths, even as they seem to be solved (consciousness: Julian Jaynes, life: Nick Lane) seem to be more useful when they are not solved. The idea that there are answers to why questions is, however, not a myth but a misconception. I am looking forward to Dennett`s next book, where hopefully he will entertain and educate us about solved myths and beautiful new ones.
Posted by: Roland Sassen | 09/15/2018 at 01:05 PM


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Sanjit Bedi was an Indian television actor who played the role of Dr. Omi Joshi in Indian television show Sanjivani. He began his career as a model, before transitioning into theatre and, eventually, into television. He died on 24 June 2015, after failing to emerge from a coma, induced by a brain ailment.
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In addition to his role in Sanjivani, he also starred in such programs as Jaane Kya Baat Hui, Kyaa Hoga Nimmo Kaa and Kasautii Zindagii Kay.[1][2][3]
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How Two Women Are Trying to End the Ridiculous Tax on Tampons
They want to bring gender equality to Cali's tax code.
By Sade Strehlke
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Two legislators in California want to save the women in their state from paying sales tax on a very basic necessity — feminine hygiene products, such as tampons and menstrual pads.
Dubbed the "tampon tax," Democrat Cristina Garcia and Republican Ling Ling Chang joined forces this week to introduce a new measure to exempt feminine hygiene products from the California sales tax. They're arguing that the extra cost is an undue burden on women, especially poor ones, and that tampons are an unavoidable purchase for most women. Garcia and Chang also see the measure as a move to bring "gender equity to California's tax code."
"Basically we are being taxed for being women. This is a step in the right direction to fix this gender injustice," Garcia said in a press release. "Women have no choice but to buy these products. You can't just ignore your period, it's not like you can just ignore the constant flow."
Garcia would even love to go a step further, and would love to see these products be made free. In the press release, she said that California currently collects $20 million annually from sales tax on tampons and sanitary napkins, with women paying an average of $7 a month for 40 years. If we can't make the free, she said, "at least make them more affordable."
"This is not insignificant to women, especially poor women on a tight budget who struggle to pay for basic necessities," Garcia finished. And in a Facebook post about her initiative, Garcia added, "Having your period when you're poor means that once a month you have the added stress of finding a way to pay for these essentials.
If the measure is successful, California will join five states in the country with a similar law on the books and five other states that don't have a sales tax. The call for change is also spreading internationally in places like Canada, France, and Australia. But while Garcia, the media, and activists around the world are calling this an issue of gender equality and have created petitions to "Stop Taxing our Periods," it should be noted that in America, at least, the tax on tampons is really just a sales tax. As Samantha Allen writes for The Daily Beast, "To be extra clear, there is no additional tax imposed on tampons." Yes, men don't have periods, so they don't have to pay for tampons at all, but the 40 states that tax tampons also tax other (unisex) general hygiene products like toilet paper.
Nonetheless, periods are unavoidable for most women, and any effort to make tampons and pads more accessible and affordable is a good one, which we fully support. When Aunt Flo comes for a visit, she doesn't ask for an invitation, so why should we have to pay a tax for the pleasure of her company?
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When Margaret Alva called Verghese Kurien an MCP
[Editor's Note: In Verghese Kurien's autobiography (I too had a dream), he recounts his first encounter with Margaret Alva in 1984, when she accompanied the Queen of Netherlands. The Queen wished to visit Anand, meet Kurien and find out the truth behind the torrent of accusations that were being thrown at NDDB and him — …
Verghese Kurien's answer to Lal Bahadur Shastri and the genesis for NDDB
This story (from Verghese Kurien's I too had a dream) continues from Why Lal Bahadur Shastri wanted to spend a night in a Kaira district village. I assured the Prime Minister that all his observations were absolutely correct but that there was one difference, which he had failed to notice. The solitary difference was that Amul dairy …
Why Lal Bahadur Shastri wanted to spend a night in a Kaira district village
This story (from Verghese Kurien's I too had a dream) continues from When an Indian Prime Minister spent a night in a village..unannounced..in 1964. He visited the huts of Harijans in the village. He sat with them and talked to them. He visited the Muslim families in the village. Till two o'clock in the morning, …
Verghese Kurien On a Roll
I'm reading Verghese Kurian's autobiography I too had a dream – an authentic account of his life's work, as told to Gauri Salvi. The following excerpt from the chapter On a Roll might persuade you to go buy the book. There is nothing wrong in building flyovers in Delhi. What is not fair is when …


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Thomas Zeitheim on the 'danger' of using a standard translation tool
"We spice up your words"
Nowadays, in the Covid-19 era, internet has become more important than ever, but how to bring over the right message in English. The simple use of "Google translation" is not enough anymore and can even result in wrong interpretations. For this reason, Thomas Zeitheim, who has been involved in horticulture for more than 36 years and started his own consultancy service (tz professional) 5 years ago, launched a new service: "check-out-service" a couple of years ago. "'We spice up your words' and correspondence so that everyone in the sector can understand them exactly," he says.
Thomas Zeitheim
For several years now, the check-out service is being offered by Thomas Zeitheim and it is increasingly more asked for and especially now. "During the pandemic, many sit more often in front of the computer and are looking at web pages from abroad and have communications in a foreign language. When looking at it, we have the impression, but also the confirmation, that simple "Google translations" are very often used. We don't have to tell you that this can be very dangerous. So many web pages are not understandable at all and the visit sometimes does not know what it is about. Sometimes a wrong letter is enough to give a text a totally wrong or different meaning."
Check-out service,
For this reason, Zeitheim decided to start offering been offering our "check-out service". Zeitheim has many years of experience in the horticulture industry, so has a good knowledge of the jargon that is being used in the sector. For the last 5 years, he has been working as a freelance consultant in this sector. "In my work I advise company owners in Asia, Europe and in some Arab countries. Mainly we are connecting supplier, producer with the user of different products like professional growing mediums, Greenhouses and Hatchery equipment, and so on."
When talking about the check-out service, they correct all their clients correspondence with their partners as well their your website into the correct and sector-specific language and expression. "We spice up your words' and correspondence so that everyone in the sector can understand them exactly."
What they do specifically?
"We do correspondents control, introductions and also normal text module control and correction, we offer control and correction, web pages control and rectification." This service is currently offered for the following languages: English, German, Italian, French and Russian.
According to Zeitheim, this service is offered at ridiculously low costs. "Considering the costs of a professional translator who does not even come from the sector and knows the specific contexts. The costs are calculated as follows: Per single page, per web page, per communication or text modules (everything after mutual and confidentiality agreement...)."
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Hi Maria, hope all's well with you all… Your stuff looks lovely. If you have any left would like to order…. 3 calendars 2 bags with long handles 2 zipper bags. Please let me know what I owe you, I can leave the money with Hilary on our way home or phone with Visa info for you. Love D.