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After the drawdown
US President Donald Trump's announcement to pull out 7,000 US troops from Afghanistan took both his allies and adversaries by surprise. As expected, Trump ran out of patience due to the lack of progress on his South Asia policy announced in September 2017 and the worsening security situation in Afghanistan.
The announcement came in the middle of the US-Taliban talks in the UAE to find a politically-negotiated end to the war. It prompted James Mattis, the principal architect of Trump's South Asia policy, to resign.
Trump's announcement will change the calculus on the ground in Afghanistan, with far-reaching consequences for regional peace and security. However, it remains to be seen if this change is for better or for worse. In any case, it is the beginning of the end of the 17-year war in Afghanistan.
Broadly, Trump's announcement to withdraw troops from Afghanistan has generated two kinds of reactions among the strategic and diplomatic communities. Some policy experts believe that the US has lost the war in Afghanistan and there is no point wasting more blood and treasure on it. They have welcomed the announcement with cautious optimism and viewed it as part of the ongoing peace CBMs between the US and the Taliban.
A credible timeframe of US withdrawal from Afghanistan has been the longstanding demand of the Taliban for a ceasefire agreement. This school of thought believes that troops reduction would bridge the trust deficit between the US and the Taliban, and incentivise the latter's participation in future peace talks. Furthermore, it will reduce US troops casualties and expenditures in Afghanistan.
The bulk of US troops, about 100,000, left Afghanistan in 2015. Since then, the Afghan security forces have been responsible for security maintenance in Afghanistan with training, assistance and advice from the Nato-led Resolute Support Mission (RSM). If the withdrawal of 100,000 troops did not lead to a civil war in Afghanistan, then reducing the 14,000 US troops by half will not change the situation dramatically – particularly when the Taliban are engaged in peace diplomacy with the US. As a matter of fact, the announcement constitutes a step in the direction of peace, not war.
The growing footprint of the Islamic State of Khorasan (ISK), the formal franchise of the IS, has also compelled the Taliban to engage in the peace process. If the war continues and the fight escalates, then the ISK will benefit from it and dent Taliban's credibility as a jihadist organisation.
The common criticism levelled by the ISK against the Taliban has been their Afghan-centric approach and refusal to participate in jihad elsewhere, and the exploitation of Islam to restore their toppled regime in Afghanistan. Following battlefield losses and territorial setbacks in Iraq and Syria, as many as 69 members of the IS core and between 300 and 400 fighters have relocated to Afghanistan. Given this, further conflict perpetuation in Afghanistan will not favour the Taliban.
The contending view is that the war was deadlocked. Therefore, the US has given the Taliban exactly what they wanted by announcing a unilateral drawdown. The drawdown has eroded any leverage that the US had over the Taliban in negotiations. It is naive to assume that the Taliban are genuinely interested in peace talks. The Taliban are clever as they are trying to achieve on the negotiation table what they could not gain on the battlefield.
Buoyed by their recent territorial gains, they are using peace negotiations as an opportunity to gain political legitimacy and present themselves as Afghanistan's rightful future ruler. As such, the Taliban are not interested in power-sharing with other political groups in Afghanistan.
Operationally and structurally, the Taliban are an insurgent and jihadist organisation, and don't have a robust political wing like the Hezbollah in Lebanon or Hamas in Palestine, which transformed into political parties and participated in elections. For the sake of argument, even if the Taliban had a political wing and were willing to enter Afghanistan's fragile and fractious political system, they would only exacerbate the existing ethnic, political, tribal and regional faultlines.
In 2018, Afghanistan overtook Iraq as the country most affected by terrorism. With the presence of over 20 insurgent and terrorist groups, Afghanistan has the highest concentration of violent extremist organisations in the world.
The announcement of a sudden drawdown will create a triumphant jihadist narrative in the region that another superpower, after the former Soviet Union, has been defeated in Afghanistan. It will mobilise worldwide terrorist recruitment. The Taliban's field commanders are already in a celebratory mood and treating the announcement as a victory of sorts. Trump's announcement will harden the Taliban's position and embolden them to stick to their maximalist positions during peace talks.
At the same time, Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan is far from defeated and has grown in size in recent years in Afghanistan. The American fixation with the emergence of the IS in Iraq and Syria allowed Al-Qaeda to stay under the radar of the intelligence and quietly rebuild its organisational infrastructure and augment its operational capabilities. It has proven to be resilient, adaptive and agile, with tremendous regenerative capacity. The group is on the rebound and closely allied with the Taliban. The reduction in US troops will further ease the military pressure on Al-Qaeda and allow it to expand further in Afghanistan.
Since the war on terror began, the US has been part of the problem as well as part of the solution in Afghanistan. The paradox of the Afghan war is that conflict resolution is not possible regardless of whether we keep the US in the equation or remove it altogether. No country other than the US has the diplomatic clout, military wherewithal and economic resources to keep the myriad Afghan political groups within the existing democratic framework.
The manner in which the US withdraws from Afghanistan will directly affect the future political order in Afghanistan. A phased withdrawal coinciding with political settlement will lead to stabilisation while a sudden pullout with a premature peace deal will be the recipe for a civil war.
The war in Afghanistan is at a crossroads and requires deft handling and leadership skills. Instead of searching for a hasty withdrawal through political quick-fixes, the US and other regional powers should ensure a political termination of the conflict that ushers in a stable political order. If history is anything to go by, what happens in Afghanistan doesn't stay in Afghanistan.
The writer is an associate research fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.

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Reading captain Paul McShane has been happy to get back to the training ground and preparing for this weekend's visit of Brighton & Hove Albion.
After the disappointment of falling to defeat from a winning position last weekend at Fulham, he hopes that the team can bounce back by becoming the first team to defeat the league leaders in the Championship this season.
"It's good to get the cobwebs off in training, get amongst the lads and get working on the game ahead," he said. "We know Brighton will be a tough game; it will be a big challenge they have had a great start to the season and are top of the league – so it's sure to be another tough one.
"We are preparing as we always prepare in the week leading up to a game, but it's a good game to have coming off the back of the Fulham match because we can really go from being down in the dumps after that result to a real high if we beat Brighton. We're three points off second so if we win the game we know we will be up there again. So we're aiming for three points on Saturday.
"We know we can mix it with anyone; we've had a good start to the season and played some really nice stuff as well as looking solid as a team. It's going to be a big game on Saturday where two good teams are coming up against each other. It's going to be an interesting game for the fans and hopefully we can come out of it with a positive result.
Despite feeling a little down in the dumps after last week's result at Craven Cottage, the Irishman has been keen to ensure that the isn't a hangover effect going into this weekend.
"It just goes to show that we are in a tough league here, and the moment you take your eye off the ball you can get punished," he explained. "We certainly got punished on Saturday so we need to learn our lessons from that game and move on.
"If you dwell on a result like that, it lingers and it's difficult to get over. So we have to put it to bed, look forward to then next game and move on.
We kick off against the Seagulls at 3pm this Saturday at Madejski Stadium – are you coming to get behind the team? Click here for ticket information, including how to buy and a table of prices.


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Jackrabbits have very large ears that help them to radiate heat into the environment, which helps them avoid overheating in the hot desert. Additionally, while they do not dig burrows, jackrabbits rest in the shade of shrubs and trees to help keep their temperature low. Jackrabbits have thinner fur than rabbits and hares that live in cold climates, which also helps them to avoid overheating.
Jackrabbits are actually a type of hare rather than a rabbit. In contrast to true rabbits, which give birth to their young in nests, hares do not construct nests. Instead, they simply give birth to their young in the open. This is possible because young jackrabbits are born fully furred with their eyes open. This allows the newborns to flee danger and protect themselves better than the helpless young of species such as cottontail rabbits, who are born naked with closed eyes.


The K-Style Hub is an extremely useful attraction that may be unknown to many international tourists! This one-stop complex has information to meet all tourists' needs, from a tourist information center to various experience zones, exhibition halls and even sales of local specialty products! The hub is spread out over four levels, with the Tourist Information Center found on the second floor, Korean Culinary Culture Exhibition Hall and Korean Cuisine Culture Center on the third and fourth floors respectively, and the Regional Tourism Experience Hall on the fifth floor. Although each floor has its own range of fun experiences to enjoy, there are eight experiences that you cannot miss! Following our guide, you will lose yourself in the hidden charms of K-Style Hub!
The Tourist Information Center (TIC) found on the second floor offers a wide range of useful travel information and services to tourists visiting Korea; it also serves as a great resting place for travelers who need a short break while sightseeing around the city. Visitors can ease their travel fatigue while reading up on Korea tourism through the broad selection of tour-related brochures, guide books and maps provided.
In addition to travel brochures and maps on Seoul's attractions, travel information on attractions and festivals in other regions is also widely available. If you have trouble finding what you need, the staff at the tourist information desk are ready to attend to all travel inquiries.
TIP) Need help with accommodations or transportation?
If you need help purchasing train tickets or making reservations for accommodations, simply head to the Travel Service desk. Professional travel agents are available to provide consultation and help in reserving train tickets, flight tickets, accommodations and processing payments on-site. In addition, the sale of transportation cards exclusively for international visitors, Wi-Fi eggs (portable Wi-Fi), and even SIM cards are offered here.
Instead of reading a typical brochure or guidebook, visitors can experience about 40 major tourist attractions around the nation through the 360-degree panorama gallery. The views are so real it will feel like you're there in person! In addition to the panorama gallery, visitors can also enjoy the feeling of walking around popular sites like Gyeongbokgung Palace and Myeong-dong or even experience ski jumping in Pyeongchang through the VR Experience Zone.
For K-pop fans, the Hallyu Experience Zone is a section that you definitely should not miss! Visitors can take photos with top K-pop stars through advanced technology and at the photo zone. There are three types of photo-taking experiences available; ring the bell to visit the idol's house, imitate top idols' trademark gestures, or show your love for your favorite star. Take a variety of concept photos for the full experience.
Photos taken with stars at the experience zone only stay on screen for about 3-4 seconds before being erased. So, it is recommended to take pictures with your own camera for photo keepsake purposes.
There are countless activities that international tourists may find at the K-Style Hub, including the Medical Tourism Information Center. Although the center may not seem that exciting at first glance, there are in fact four experience programs hidden here.
The programs range from tests that find the most suitable medicinal tea for you, to a facial analysis and overall body check-up and even an assessment of your stress level. These programs are open to all with no reservations required. Take this chance to learn more about your body and health!
Visitors to the Medical Tourism Information Center can take part in making a scented medicinal pouch, one of the center's permanent experience programs. Visitors can choose medicinal herbs to create their very own herb pouch as a souvenir.
One of the most highly sought-after activities among international visitors to Korea is none other than trying on hanbok! Currently, a free hanbok experience is available on the fifth floor of the K-Style Hub. Whether it is traditional hanbok like those worn by royalty, or the recent trendy fusion-style hanbok, a diverse selection of designs is available for you to choose from. Unfortunately, the hanbok here are not permitted outside the center, but the photo zone is perfect for backdrops!
Each hanbok is available for thirty minutes, unless visiting after 17:40, at which point the rental time is limited to fifteen minutes. The experience is available on a first-come, first-served basis for up to six people per session. Groups of ten to 24 people can call (+82-2-729-9433 / English, Chinese) to make a reservation in advance. Please note that there is only space for one group visit per day, and reservations are not accepted on weekends or public holidays.
The entrance to the Korean Culinary Culture Exhibition Hall on the third floor has an eye-catching design. The long hallway is decorated with an authentic traditional Korean atmosphere. A total of 24 traditional lattice screens can be found, each exhibiting a section on Korea's seasonal food.
Beyond the entrance, visitors can find a variety of Korean grains and seasonings, as well as a performance of video projections displaying on the top of various onggi (Korean pottery). The famous Korean folk song "Arirang" can be heard playing in the background. This performance was an exhibition held at the Milano EXPO in Italy and was given high praises for displaying the beauty of Korea's traditional music and food.
The Korean Culinary Culture Exhibition Hall offers foreign language services (English, Japanese, Chinese) for international visitors. The service is available at all times upon request on-site.
After learning about Korean culinary culture on the third floor, visitors can cook their very own Korean food on the fourth floor. The Korean Cuisine Culture Center is divided into three sections. You can make a wide assortment of Korean foods at the Learning Space, enjoy a taste of representative Korean foods at the Festive Corner, or obtain valuable Korean recipes at the Korean Food Sarangbang. Please kindly note that separate program fees apply to the first two sections.
The Learning Space operates regularly, with cooking lessons varying according to the time and day of the week. For those who are interested, reservations via phone have to be made at least three days prior to the visit, and lessons may be cancelled if there are less than six people signed up for the program.
The last stop at the K-Style Hub is the Promotional Exhibit Zone, located within the Regional Tourism Experience Hall on the fifth floor. This large space has representative items from around the country gathered in one place. Visiting the exhibit will allow one to see outstanding products made by Korean designers and artists, as well as get a better understanding of the meaning and ideas behind the works. The Regional Tourism Experience Zone, located next to the Promotional Exhibit Zone, is an exciting way to experience major attractions throughout the country.
☞ Main programs: Provide tourism information, tourism product sales, experience programs (hallyu, virtual reality, hanbok, traditional craft, Korean cuisine), etc.
* This column was last updated in April 2019, and therefore information may differ from what is presented here. We advise you to check details before visiting.


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Gwilym Simcock, a Pianist with Vision and Versatility
By Michael Jackson I Aug. 2, 2017
Gwilym Simcock at Hyatt jam session with Macy Gray, Montreal, 2013.
(Photo: Michael Jackson)
Despite a formidable reputation in the U.K. and Europe and extensive touring with Anglo-American supergroup The Impossible Gentlemen (which originally included U.K. guitar great Mike Walker, bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Adam Nussbaum and currently features Walker, bassist Steve Rodby and keyboardist/reedist Iain Dixon), pianist Gwilym Simcock is little known on the North American continent. Yet the globally savvy Montreal Jazz Festival has been hip to the Welsh boy wonder (now in his mid-30s) even before he joined Pat Metheny's group, and the fest booked him to play solo once more this July, four years after his Montreal fest debut.
"It was a thrill to return to Montreal again," said the likable, gracious Simcock, "A privilege to play a solo concert for the extremely knowledgeable crowd at the festival."
This solo tour came after roughly seven weeks on the road with Metheny, Simcock's fifth tour with the quartet. "We've been playing many of (Metheny's) classic tunes in the concerts, which is especially a treat for myself, as his music was majorly responsible for getting me into jazz in the first place," stated the pianist, who originally studied classical forms (plus French horn and composition) at the U.K.'s prestigious Chetham's School of Music in Manchester and at Trinity College London before distinguishing himself at the Royal Academy of Music, where he is professor of jazz piano. "We've recorded a new album as a group which will hopefully be out next year, and I'm really excited and honored to be part of [Metheny's] legacy of recorded music that has been such a huge part of so many jazz fans' lives."
Both of Simcock's Montreal visits have been as a soloist, and the first was far from ideal (due to flight delays, he arrived over an hour late for his set at Cinquième Salle). Unable to wind down after his performance on that occasion, Simcock re-ignited the jam session, then held at the Hyatt, and threw down with local singers well past 3 a.m., ultimately duetting with Macy Gray on a touching version of "God Bless The Child."
Although on stage at Salle Ludger-Duvernay at the Monument National on July 3 this year, Simcock claimed he'd had an easier commute—he'd set off that morning from Toledo, Ohio, at 4 a.m. He commenced with "Every Time We Say Goodbye," noting it was a "strange one to start with." He followed with his "old-fashioned" original "Royalty" (he met Queen Elizabeth at a Diamond Jubilee bash at the Royal Academy and is a fan).
Simcock's playing has an iridescent quality; dense harmony and rhythmic surety allied to classical training lends it poise and gravitas. His improvisation on the adagio movement of Edvard Grieg's singular piano concerto (he only wrote one) exhibited the crystalline, halting touch of Keith Jarrett and indicated that, for all his chops, Simcock has that attribute, not so common in jazz, to significantly rein in licks and let the mood exquisitely resonate (to hear an earlier incarnation of this, check the double CD Blues Vignette on the Basho label from 2009). Simcock then telescoped back via his five-year stretch with Bill Bruford's Earthworks, with which he is connected, by osmosis, to prog rockers King Crimson (Bruford served three terms with Crimson in the '70s, '80s and '90s).
As he shared the piece "A Kind Of Red," composed for the Delta Saxophone Quartet's tribute Crimson! (Basho, 2016), Robert Fripp's latest incarnation of the epochal band was midway through a marathon three-hour show at the close by Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier.
As self-confessedly "chunky" as Simcock's left hand was on acoustic piano bolstering a Crimson-esque groove, one looks forward to him assembling an ensemble configuration for the festival next visit, as the breadth and clarity of his scoring for a variety of instrumental and choral formats is outstanding. The cruciate ligament in his right thumb, incidentally, was once torn playing soccer, so Simcock played left-handed for several months, strengthening that aspect of his technique. Perhaps to woo Canadians, there followed a blithe rendition of late ex-pat Toronto genius Kenny Wheeler's waltz "Everybody's Song But My Own"—a nice vehicle for the Welshman's own harmonic sensibility, since it seesaws between two keys.
Simcock introduced one of his final pieces with a playground refrain, describing how he bashed it out one time on a junk piano in London's Dalston neighborhood, accompanying a contemporary dance duo (part of a City of London Festival initiative that placed fifty pianos in various locations about the city for public use). According to Simcock, that al fresco concert had its trepidations since a posse of drunken locals gathered menacingly around the battered upright. When Simcock was about to leave, a member of this inebriated audience leaned into the car window and warned "When you come to East London, don't ever do that again!"
The following Montreal morning, bright and early, Professor Norman Cornett hosted Simcock for a "dialogic" workshop (Kurt Rosenwinkel and Jane Bunnett were other MJF participants) at the Red Roof Church on Avenue du President Kennedy.
Cornett, a passionately intense theologian and philosopher whose mantra is "Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?" preps these workshops by playing select tracks by a given artist to blindfolded lay listeners (those with little or no prior knowledge of the chosen musician). At the workshop, the artist is then privy to the unfiltered written responses.
Gwilym Simcock with Professor Norman Cornett at Red Roof Church, Montreal (painting by M.Fourcand), 2017
The first track they were subjected to was "Mezzotint" a densely layered, shimmering composition from Simcock's solo album Good Days At Schloss Elmau (ACT, 2011) which was recorded in Bavaria on a tasty Steinway D at a celebrated cultural retreat with a view of the Wetterstein mountains. The latter information was salient as several blindfolded listeners commented that they conjured "mountains" when listening to the track. Such uncanny revelations have proved quite the norm during these workshops, where Cornett insists "the only wrong question is the unasked question."
With that said, question time was offset by a moving, transparent testimony by Simcock, who went back to the beginning of his training in music, discussed his personal emphasis on harmony and the mixed blessing that is perfect pitch—how it essentially lays out the score in his mind's eye, making him unusually critical of any music casually heard. More poignantly, he mentioned how he suffered stultifying anxiety as a result of the competitiveness of classical performance, where the challenge to memorize lengthy pieces and render the same dots more profoundly than other pianists meant constant pressure. Bassist Steve Berry proved revelatory to his development as a jazz musician, when Berry visited Chetham's offering improv classes for classical scholars.
Rather than the beboppers, it was the likes of Jarrett, Metheny and Egberto Gismonti that caught Simcock's ear formatively, because of their expansive sound, freedom of expression and an emotional element. Simcock confessed cracking in the attempt to internalize the 25 pages of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which he challenged himself to do for a performance, ultimately experiencing a creative breakthrough by navigating the structure without slavish adherence to the manuscript. His insecurities hark back to a childhood concert when he got lost in the middle of a Bach recital, made a second attempt, failed again and had to leave the stage with his tail between his legs.
Such stories of stage fright seem preposterous to anyone who has witnessed Simcock perform, given the remarkable accuracy and precision of his playing and his aura of calm charm. An attendee at the workshop questioned whether the absence of nerves might actually have a detrimental effect on preparation levels or perhaps compromise urgency of execution, after Simcock described how anxieties caused buffering of brain function and focus. Meanwhile Cornett read out with nuanced emphasis more responses to "Mezzotint," such as "It feels like a massage therapist releasing a knot"; "Sounds like a gurgling river in a canyon or whirlpool"; "A tether to my purple cloud"; and "The perfect balance of manliness and tenderness," which won a smile from the dialogic honoree.
The eponymous cut from Good Days had also been put to the test and several respondents thought the track was substantially lengthier that it was, others much shorter. "I thought it was five days long!" joked Simcock, mimicking a listener who may have wished it was briefer.
The track that blew a few blindfolded minds was Simcock's audacious orchestration "Industrial (For Alan)," which features the City of London Sinfonia plus Russian bassist Yuri Goloubev and drummer Martin France. The song, from Instrumation (ACT, 2014), is a schizophrenic 10-minute tour de force, collaging mobile symphonic soundwalls, mechanized beats and jazz and classical elements colliding, just dodging each other, or coexisting. One dialogic respondent referred to as "Babette's feast for the ears."
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\section{Introduction}

A traditional cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) system consists of two components: machine translation and monolingual information retrieval~\cite{nie2010}. The idea is to solve the translation problem first, then the cross-lingual IR problem become monolingual IR. However, the performance of translation-based approaches is limited by the quality of the machine translation and it needs to handle to translation ambiguity~\cite{Zhou2012}. One possible solution is to consider the translation alternatives of individual words of queries or documents as in~\cite{zbib19,XuEMNLP00}, which provides more possibilities for matching query words in relevant documents compared to using single translations. But the alignment information is necessarily required in the training stage of  the CLIR system to extract target-source word pairs from parallel data and this is not a trivial task.

To achieve good performance in IR, deep neural networks have been widely used in this task. These approaches can be roughly divided into two categories. The first class of approaches uses pretrained word representations or embeddings, such as word2vec~\cite{tomas2013} and GloVe~\cite{pennington2014glove}, directly to improve IR models. Usually these word embeddings are pretrained on large scale text corpora using co-occurrence statistics, so they have modeled the underlying data distribution implicitly and should be helpful for building discriminative models.~\cite{VulicSIGIR15} and ~\cite{LitschkoSIGIR18} used pretrained bilingual embeddings to represent queries and foreign documents, and then ranked documents by cosine similarity. ~\cite{zheng2015} used word2vec embeddings to learn query term weights. However, their training objectives of trained neural embeddings are different from the objective of IR.

The second set of approaches design and train deep neural networks based on IR objectives. These methods have shown impressive results on monolingual IR datasets~\cite{XiongSIGIR17,guocikm16,mostafaSIGIR17}.  They usually rely on  large amounts of query-document relevance annotated data that are expensive to obtain, especially for low-resource language pairs in cross-lingual IR tasks. Moreover, it is not clear whether they generalize well when documents and queries are in different languages.

Recently multiple pretrained language models have been developed such as BERT~\cite{devlin-etal-2019-bert} and XLNet~\cite{xlnet2019}, that model the underlying data distribution and learn the linguistic patterns or features in language. These models have outperformed traditional word embeddings on various NLP tasks~\cite{xlnet2019,devlin-etal-2019-bert,peters-etal-2018-deep,Lan2019ALBERTAL}. These pretrained models also provided new opportunities for IR. Therefore, several recent works have successfully applied BERT pretrained models for monolingual IR~\cite{daiSIGIR19,akkalyoncu-yilmaz-etal-2019-applying} and passage re-ranking~\cite{Nogueira19}.

In this paper, we extend and apply BERT as a ranker for CLIR. We introduce a cross-lingual deep relevance matching model for CLIR based on BERT. We finetune a pretrained multilingual model with home-made CLIR data and obtain very promising results. In order to finetune the model, we construct a large amount of training data from parallel data, which is mainly used for machine translation and is much easier to obtain compared to the relevance labels of query-document pairs. In addition, we don't require the source-target alignment information to construct training samples and avoid the quality issues of machine translation in traditional CLIR. The entire  model is specifically optimized using a CLIR objective. Our main contributions are:

\begin{itemize}
\item We introduce a cross-lingual deep relevance architecture with BERT, where a pretrained multilingual BERT model is adapted for cross-lingual IR.
\item We define a proxy CLIR task which can be used to easily construct CLIR training data from bitext data, without requiring any amount of relevance labels of query-document pairs in different languages.
\end{itemize}

\section{Our approach}
\subsection{Motivation}
BERT~\cite{devlin-etal-2019-bert}  is the first bidirectional language model, which makes use of left and right word contexts simultaneously to predict word tokens. It is trained by optimizing two objectives: masked word prediction and next sentence prediction. As shown in Figure~\ref{pretraining_architecture}, the inputs are a pair of masked sentences in the same language, where some tokens  in the both sentences are replaced by symbol `[Mask]'. The BERT model is trained to predict these masked tokens, by capturing within or across sentence meaning (or context), which is important for IR. The second objective aims to judge whether the sentences are consecutive or not. It encourages the BERT model to model the relationship between two sentences.  The self-attention mechanism in BERT models the local interactions of words in sentence A with words in sentence B, so it can learn pairwise sentence or word-token relevance patterns.  The entire BERT model is pretrained on large scale text corpora and learns linguistic patterns in language. So search tasks with little training data can still benefit from the pretrained model.

Finetuning BERT on search task makes it learn IR specific features. It can capture query-document exact term matching, bi-gram features for monolingual IR as introduced in~\cite{daiSIGIR19}. Local matchings of words and n-grams have proven to be strong neural IR features. Bigram modeling is important, because it can learn the meaning of word compounds (bi-grams) from the meanings of individual words. Motivated by this work, we aim to finetune the pretrained BERT model for cross-lingual IR.

\begin{figure}
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{bert_pretraining.png}
  \end{center}

  \caption{BERT pretraining architecture \protect\cite{devlin-etal-2019-bert}. FFNN denotes feed-forward neural network.}
  \label{pretraining_architecture}

\end{figure}

\subsection{Finetuning BERT for CLIR}
Figure~\ref{finetuned_architecture} shows the proposed CLIR model architecture with BERT. The inputs are pairs of single-word queries $q$ in English and foreign-language sentences $s$. This is different from the pretraining model in Figure~\ref{pretraining_architecture}, where the model is fed with pairs of sentences in the same language. We concatenate the query $q$ and the foreign-language sentence $s$ into a text sequence `[[CLS], $q$, [SEP], $s$, [SEP]]'. The output embedding of the first token `[CLS]` is used as a representation of the entire query-sentence pair. Then it is fed into a single layer feed-forward neural network to predict the relevance score, which is the probability, $p(q|s)$,  of query $q$ occurring in sentence $s$.

There are three types of parameterized layers in this model: (1) an embedding layer including token embedding, sentence embedding and positional embedding~\cite{devlin-etal-2019-bert}; (2) BERT layers which are 12 layers of transformer blocks; (3) a feed-forward neural network (FFNN) which is a single layer neural network  in our implementation. The embedding layer and BERT layer are initialized with the pretrained BERT model~\footnote{We used the pretrained multi-lingual BERT model, which is trained on the concatenation of monolingual Wikipedia corpora from 104 languages. It has $12$ layers, $768$ hidden dimensions, $12$ self-attention heads and $110$ million parameters.}, while the FFNN is learned from scratch. During finetuning, the entire model is tuned to learn more CLIR-specific features. We only train the model  using single-word queries since the queries in MATERIAL dataset are typically short and keyword based,  but our approach can be easily extended to be multi-word queries or query phrases.  After finetuning, this model produces a sentence-level relevance score for a pair of input query and foreign language sentence.

For the CLIR task, given a user-issued query $Q$, the foreign-language document $Doc$ is ranked by its relevance score with respect to $Q$. The document-level relevance score $P(Doc \text{ is } R|Q)$ is calculated by aggregating the sentence-level scores with a Noisy-OR model:

\begin{align}
P(Doc \text{ is } R|Q) &= P(Q \text{ occurs at least in one sentence }  \text{ in } Doc) \nonumber \\
                        &= 1-\prod_{s \in Doc}(1-P(Q|s))  \\
                        &= 1-\prod_{s \in Doc}(1-\prod_{q \in Q}p(q|s)) \nonumber
\end{align}

Note that a multi-word query will be split into multiple single-word queries when computing document-level relevance scores. The individual query terms $q\in Q$ are modeled independently.

\begin{figure}
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=0.92\linewidth]{bert_finetuning.png}
  \end{center}

  \caption{Fine-tuned CLIR BERT model architecture. }
  \label{finetuned_architecture}
  \vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure}

\begin{table*}
\begin{center}

\scalebox{0.9}{
\begin{tabular}{|p{3cm}|p{8cm}|p{2cm}|}
        \hline
    Query in English & Foreign-language sentence & Relevant \\
        \hline
doctors & medikų teigimu dabar veikianti sistema efektyvi & Yes \\
allege &  medikų teigimu dabar veikianti sistema efektyvi & Yes \\
controller & medikų teigimu dabar veikianti sistema efektyvi & No \\
leisure & medikų teigimu dabar veikianti sistema efektyvi  & No \\
 \hline
\end{tabular}}
\end{center}

\caption{Four training examples derived from a bitext: \textit{Source-Lithuanian}: medikų teigimu dabar veikianti sistema efektyvi; \textit{Target-English}:~\underline{doctors} \underline{allege} that the system currently in operation is effective. }
\label{training-example}
\end{table*}

\subsection{Finetuning using Weak Supervision}
To finetune the BERT CLIR model, we start with bitext data in English and the desired foreign-language. We then define a proxy CLIR task to construct training samples: Given a foreign-language sentence $s$ and an English query term $q$,  sentence $s$ is relevant to $q$ if $q$ occurs in one plausible translation of $s$.  Any non-stop English word in the bitext can serve as a single-word query. The English word and its the corresponding foreign-language sentence constitute a positive example. Similarly, we randomly select other words from the English vocabulary, which are not in the English sentence, to be query words to construct negative examples. Table~\ref{training-example} shows an illustration of constructing four training examples from a bitext in Lithuanian and English.  We select `doctors' and `allege' in the English sentence as two single-word queries and use the Lithuanian sentence to construct two positive examples, and pick another two words "controller" and "leisure" in the English vocabulary, which are not in the English sentence, to construct negative examples. In this way, we can construct a large-scale training corpus for CLIR using parallel data only, which are much easier to obtain compared to query-document relevance annotated data.

\section{Experiments}
We report experimental results on the retrieval of Lithuanian text and speech documents against short English queries. We use queries and retrieval corpora provided by the IARPA MATERIAL program. The retrieval corpora have two datasets: an analysis set (about 800 documents) and a development set (about 400 documents). The query set $Q1$ contains $300$ queries.

To construct the training set, we use parallel sentences released under the MATERIAL~\cite{MATERIAL} and the LORILEI~\cite{LORELEI} programs. We also include a parallel lexicon downloaded from Panlex~\cite{kamholz-etal-2014-panlex}. These parallel data contain about $2.6$ million pairs of bitexts. We extract about $54$ million training samples from these parallel data to finetune BERT. The positive-negative ratio of  CLIR training data is $1:2$.  To finetune BERT, we use the ADAM optimizer with an initial learning rate set to $1\times10^{-5}$, batch size of $32$ and max sequence length of $128$. We report the results from the model trained for one epoch.The training took one week using a Telsa V100 GPU.

We also extract $877$K testing samples from the bitexts in MATERIAL Lithuanian analysis set to test the classification accuracy of different neural CLIR models. The positive-negative ratio of this test set is $1:1$.  In addition, we evaluate our model on the MATERIAL Lithuanian analysis set and development set in terms of Mean Average Precision ( MAP) and Maximum Query Weighted Value (MQWV) scores. MQWV is used in the MATERIAL program and denotes the maximum of the metric Average Query Weighted Value (AQWV): $AQWV=1-P_{Miss} - \beta P_{FA}$, where $P_{Miss}$ is the average per-query miss rate, $P_{FA}$ is the average per-query false alarm rate and $\beta$ is a constant that changes the relative importance of the two types of error. We use $\beta = 40$. AQWV is the score using a single selected detection threshold. MQWV is the score that could be obtained with the optimal detection threshold.

To verify the effectiveness of our BERT CLIR model, we compare against four baselines:

\textbf{Probabilistic CLIR Model}~\cite{XuEMNLP00} is a generative probabilistic model which requires a probabilistic translation dictionary. The translation dictionary is generated from the word alignments of the parallel data. We used the GIZA++~\cite{och-ney-2003-systematic} and the Berkeley aligner~\cite{Haghighi09} to estimate lexical translation probabilities.

\textbf{Probabilistic Occurrence Model}~\cite{zbib19} computes the document relevance score as the probability that each query term $q$ occurs at least once in the document. $P(Doc \text{ is } R|Q) = \prod_{q\in Q}\left[1-\prod_{f \in Doc}(1-p(q|f))\right]$, where $f$ is a foreign term in the document.

\textbf{Query Relevance Attentional Neural Network Model} (QRANN)~\cite{zhao-etal-2019-weakly} uses an attention mechanism to compute a context vector derived from word embeddings in the foreign sentences, followed by a feed-forward layer to capture the relationship between query words. The idea is similar to a single transformer layer. The QRANN models are trained on multi-word queries, which are noun phrases in the English sentences of bitexts, and single-word queries.

\textbf{Dot-product Model} is a simplified version of QRANN, that computes a context vector from the word embeddings of foreign sentence using multiplicative attention, followed by the dot product of between the query embeddings and the context vector. The dot-product model is trained using single-word queries only.

\subsection{Classification Accuracy of different neural CLIR models}
The QRANN and Dot-product models are trained using the same CLIR training data used to train BERT model described earlier. The classification results of different neural CLIR approaches are shown in Table~\ref{classification_accuracy}. The CLIR BERT model achieves the best result compared to  other two neural models. From the confusion matrix in the table, BERT significantly improves the performance of classifying relevant query-sentence pairs (\textit{i.e.}, true positives), while matching the performance of classifying irrelevant query-sentence pairs (\textit{i.e.}, true negatives).

\begin{table}[t]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
Approach & Accuracy &  \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Confusion Matrix}  \\
\hline
 \multirow{2}{*}{BERT}&   \multirow{2}{*}{\textbf{95.3\%}}  & 0.93 & 0.07  \\
 \cline{3-4}
 & & 0.02 & 0.98 \\
\hline
 \multirow{2}{*}{Dot-Product}&   \multirow{2}{*}{84.2\%}  & 0.74 & 0.26  \\
 \cline{3-4}
 & & 0.07 & 0.93 \\
\hline
 \multirow{2}{*}{QRANN}&   \multirow{2}{*}{87.3\%}  & 0.73 & 0.27  \\
 \cline{3-4}
 & & 0.003 & 0.997 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\vspace{0.2cm}
\caption{Performance of classification accuracy on the generated query-sentence pairs from the bitexts of the  MATERIAL analysis set. The first column in the confusion matrix corresponds to the positive class (\textit{i.e.}, relevant query-sentence pair) while the second the column is the negative class.}
\label{classification_accuracy}
\end{table}

\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
Approach & phrase query subset  &  entire query set  \\
\hline
Prob. CLIR & 57.4 & \textbf{61.2} \\
Prob. Occurrence & 51.4 & 56.9 \\
BERT & \textbf{61.3} & 56.8 \\
Dot-Product & 50.8 & 39.2 \\
QRANN & 55.8 & 45.5 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\vspace{0.2cm}
\caption{Performance of MAP scores on the MATERIAL analysis set and Q1 queries.}
\label{map_scores}
\end{table}

\begin{figure*}
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{neural_head_view_1.png}
  \end{center}

  \caption{Visualization of CLIR BERT model. Colors identify the corresponding attention heads, while the line weight reflects the attention score. Different heads from layer $12$  can capture different matching features. Word pieces` ra' , `\#\#šo' in Lithuanian correspond to `'write' in English while `ger', `\#\#ai' are for `well' in English. Head 12 and head 4 in (a)(c) can capture source-target word matching, head9 and head1 in (b)(d) could attend to its previous or next words (bigram modeling).  }
  \label{neural_head}

\end{figure*}

\subsection{MAP scores of different CLIR models}
We compare the MAP score of the BERT model with those of other CLIR models in Table~\ref{map_scores}. In the table, we report MAP scores on the phrase query subset and the entire query set separately, to see how our model trained with single-word queries performs on query phrases. In the model training stage, QRANN model is the only model that is trained with the query phrases directly, all other models (including BERT) in this experiment will split a multi-word query or query phrase into multiple single-word queries. Surprisingly, the BERT MAP scores for the phrase query subset is the best compared with the performances of other approaches. It shows that BERT model can produce  better relevance model for single-word queries and foreign-language sentence.The table also shows that BERT outperforms the other neural approaches over the entire query set.

\subsection{MQWV scores of different CLIR models}
We compare BERT models with other CLIR models in terms of MQWV scores. The results are summarized in Table~\ref{mqwv_scores}. The first row in the table shows the best results of non-neural CLIR models, which are probabilistic CLIR model and probabilistic occurrence model. In this table, we separate the results based on the type of source documents: text or speech. Speech documents are converted into text documents via automatic speech recognition~\cite{Povey_ASRU2011_2011}. The results of the BERT model on the speech sets are the best, compared with the non-neural CLIR systems, QRANN and Dot-product models,  while the results on the text sets are comparable to those from the non-neural systems, and better than the other neural systems.

\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
\multirow{2}{*}{Approach} &  \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Analysis Set} &  \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Development Set}  \\
\cline{2-5}
& Text& Speech & Text & Speech \\
\hline
Best non-neural system &\textbf{ 66.3} & 63.3 & \textbf{68.8} & 64.0 \\
\hline
BERT & 65.7 & \textbf{65.4} & 61.8 & \textbf{65.1} \\
\hline
Dot-Product & 61.0 & 60.4 & 56.1 & 63.7 \\
\hline
QRANN & 62.3 & 58.4 & 57.2 & 65.0 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\vspace{0.2cm}
\caption{MQWV scores  on the Lithuanian analysis and development sets and Q1 queries.}
\label{mqwv_scores}
\end{table}

\subsection{Analysis on attention patterns from BERT}
In Figure~\ref{neural_head}, we visualize the attention patterns produced by the attention heads from a transformer layer for the input English query `writing well' and the foreign-language sentence `mano nuomone ši autore rašo arba gerai arba blogai arba vidutiniškai'. The query term `writing' attends to the foreign word `rašo' (source-target word matching), while also attends to the foreign word `gerai' , which correspond to the next English word `well' in the query (bigram modeling). BERT CLIR model is able to capture these local matching features, which have been proven to be strong neural IR features.

\section{Conclusions}
We introduce a deep relevance matching model based on  BERT language modeling architecture for cross-lingual document retrieval. The self-attention based architecture models the interactions of query words with words in the foreign-language sentence.  The relevance model is initialized by the pretrained multi-lingual BERT model, and then finetuned with home-made CLIR training data that are derived from parallel data. The results of the CLIR BERT model on the data released by the MATERIAL program are better than two other competitive neural baselines, and comparable to the results of the probabilistic CLIR model. Our future work will use public IR datasets in English to learn IR features with BERT and transfer them to cross-lingual IR.

\section*{Acknowledgement}
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When there exist serious difference of opinion between or among substantial shareholders in the Company and when the required trust is lost, then, one group tries to oppress other in order to take control in the Company. For many reasons, when there is oppression and mismanagement in the Company, the aggrieved shareholders or the group may not resort to High Court for winding-up the Company on just and equitable ground. Instead, the minority or the majority in some cases approaches the Company Law Board seeking preventive and remedial measures in order to put an end to the matters complained of. The proceeding before the Company Law Board under section 397/398 is very complicated and there are many legal principles laid-down.
If a petition under section 397/398 of the Companies Act, 1956 is based on a Share Purchase Agreements and its validity, then, despite the pendency of a civil dispute or arbitration proceeding simultaneously, the proceeding under section 397/398 becomes so complicated and dealing with issue is really challenging. I would like to present a case study with typical facts. The analysis and my opinion on the issue follow the presentation of facts.
1. "ABC" is a Private Limited Company and entire shareholding is held by a family called "D". The Company is a going concern.
2. The Family "D" wanted to sell the Company and they were approached by "F" to buy the entire shareholding in the Company.
3. After thorough discussions, "D" and "F" agreed to enter into a written agreement listing out the respective rights and liabilities of Share Transfer.
4. The Written Share Purchase Agreement between "D" and "F" had a time-limit to complete the entire transactions.
5. "D" had transferred all the shares to "F" pursuant to the Share Transfer Agreement and "F" had taken actual control of the Company.
6. According to "D", "F" failed to fulfill the obligations in the Share Purchase Agreement and as such contend that the "Share Transfer" is not valid at all.
7. As the Share Purchase Agreement contained an Arbitration Clause, the dispute between "D" and "F" was referred to Arbitrator and the adjudication was going on.
8. "D" now alleges oppression and mismanagement in the Company and filed a Petition before the Company Law Board under section 397/398 of the Companies Act, 1956.
9. "F" contends that the petition filed by "D" under section 397/398 of the Act is not maintainable in view of the pendency of the dispute before Arbitrator and in view of the fact that "D" has transferred all their shares and not a shareholder of the Company at all.
In the case presented above, the issue was so complicated. "D" can approach the High Court to wind-up the Company on just and equitable cause, but, they did not want to wind-up the Company. Apart from "D" and "F", the interests of the creditors, suppliers and other interested parties to be taken note of. But, basically, the object of section 397/398 of the Companies Act, 1956 is to provide protection to the rights of the minority against oppression and mismanagement by the majority in the Company. There was no substantial reference to the other interested parties unlike the liquidation proceedings where the interested parties are taken note of in each and every liquidation proceeding. Can the Company Law Board favour entertaining the Petition in view of other interested parties despite the complicated issue of maintainability of the Petition in view of Arbitration Proceeding? The facts are so complicated and it would be challenging task for any adjudicatory forum to take a decision on the issue and to resolve the same. It may be difficult for the Company Law Board to give an instant finding on the issue if it chooses to entertain the issue in view of pendency of Arbitration Proceedings on the issue of validity of Share Purchase Agreement.


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S7HD reports 72 new COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths
The Southern Seven Health Department reported four new deaths as a result of COVID-19 in the Southern Seven Region on Wednesday. (Source: S7HD)
By Jessica Ladd | December 2, 2020 at 5:13 PM CST - Updated December 2 at 5:13 PM
SOUTHERN SEVEN REGION, Ill. (KFVS) - The Southern Seven Health Department reported four new deaths as a result of COVID-19 in the Southern Seven Region on Wednesday.
The individuals were a male in his 60s in Alexander County, a female in her 60s from Alexander County, a male in his 80s from Hardin County and a female in her 80s from Massac County.
There have now been 38 deaths in the Southern Seven region since the start of the pandemic.
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S7HD reported 72 new COVID-19 cases on Dec. 2. (Source: S7HD)
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Q: Expression after last specific character foo="/sdf/here/jfds"
bar="${foo##*/}"

Can anyone explain how the "${foo##*/}" expression works? I understand it will return the string after the last forward slash (i.e. jfds). However, I have no idea how it does or what this type of expression is called?

A: It is one of several shell features, generically called shell expansion.  This particular expansion is called parameter expansion*.
You can think of this particular shell expansion form as a left-truncate string function. You must use the curly braces as shown (that is not optional)..
When you use only  one #, it means left-truncate only the first occurrence of the pattern which follows (up to the closing }.   When you use two ##, it means left-truncate all consecutive pattern-matches.  The result of var="a/b/c"; echo ${var#*/} is b/c... echo ${var##*/} returns  c.
There is a complementary right-truncate. It uses % instead of the #...  (I "remember" which is which because # is like a bash comment; always on the left).
The * is treated as a bash wildcard expansion.
Here is a list of all shell expansions, presented in precedence order.
The order of expansions is:
1. brace expansion ... prefix{-,\,}postfix             # prefix-postfix prefix,postfix
                    .. {oct,hex,dec,bin}               # oct hex dec bin
                     . {a..b}{1..2}                    # a1 a2 b1 b2
                     . {1..04}                         # 01 02 03 04
                     . {01..4}                         # 01 02 03 04
                     . {1..9..2}                       # 1 3 5 7 9
                     . \$\'\\x{0..7}{{0..9},{A..F}}\'  # $'\x00' .. $'\x7F'

2. tilde expansion .... ~           # $HOME
                    ... ~axiom      # $(dirname "$HOME")/axiom
                    ... ~fred       # $(dirname "$HOME")/fred
                     .. ~+          # $PWD     (current working directory)
                     .. ~-          # $OLDPWD  (previous working directory. If OLDPWD is unset,
                                                        ~- is not expanded. ie. It stays as-is,
                                                          regardless of the state of nullglob.)
                                    # Expansion for Directories in Stack. ie.
                                    # The list printed by 'dirs' when invoked without options
                      . ~+N         #    Nth directory in 'dirs' list (from LHS)
                      . ~-N         #    Nth directory in 'dirs' list (from RHS)

3. parameter expansion .... ${VAR/b/-dd-}
                        ... ${TEST_MODE:-0}
                         .. ${str: -3:2}  # note space after :
                          . ${#string}

4. (processed left-to-right)
     variable expansion
     arithmetic expansion
     command substitution

▶5. word splitting          # based on $IFS (Internal Field Seperator)

▷6. pathname expansion
      according to options such as:
      nullglob, GLOBIGNORE, ...and more

# Note: ===============
▶ 5. word splitting     ↰
▷ 6. pathname expansion ↰
# =====================  ↳  are not performed on words between  [[  and  ]]


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Entries in silicon photonics (54)
Acacia eyes pluggables as it demos its AC1200 module
Tuesday, December 25, 2018 at 3:52PM
The emerging market opportunity for pluggable coherent modules is causing companies to change their strategies.
Ciena is developing and plans to sell its own coherent modules. And now Acacia Communications, the coherent technology specialist, says it is considering changing its near-term coherent digital signal processor (DSP) roadmap to focus on coherent pluggables for data centre interconnect and metro applications.
tagged 400ZR, 400ZR+, AC1200, ADVA, Acacia Communications, CFP2-DCO, Ciena, Optical Internetworking Forum, Teraflex, Tom Williams, silicon photonics Print Article
Acacia looks to co-package its coherent PIC and DSP-ASIC
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 9:19AM
Acacia Communications is working to co-package its coherent DSP and its silicon photonics transceiver chip.
The company is also developing a digital coherent optics module that will support 400 gigabit.
Acacia Communications is working to co-package its coherent DSP and its silicon photonics transceiver chip. The line-side optical transceiver company is working on a digital coherent optics module that will support 400 gigabits.
Acacia announced last November that it was sampling the industry's first CFP2 Digital Coherent Optics (CFP2-DCO) that supports 100- and 200-gigabit line rates. The CFP2-DCO integrates the DSP and its silicon photonics chip within a CFP2 module, which is half the size of a CFP module, with each chip packaged separately.
tagged Acacia Communications, Benny Mikkelsen, CFP2-ACO, CFP2-DCO, OSPF, coherent DSP, optical transceivers, silicon photonics in CTO interview Print Article
NeoPhotonics showcases a CFP2-ACO roadmap to 400G
Friday, April 29, 2016 at 9:33AM
NeoPhotonics has begun sampling its CFP2-ACO, a pluggable module for metro and long-haul optical transport.
The company demonstrated the CFP2-ACO module transmitting at 100 gigabit using polarisation multiplexed, quadrature phase-shift keying (PM-QPSK) modulation at the recent OFC show. The line-side module is capable of transmitting over 1,000km and also supports PM-16QAM that doubles capacity over metro network distances.
Ferris LipscombThe CFP2-ACO is a Class 3 design: the control electronics for the modulator and laser reside on the board, alongside the coherent DSP-ASIC chip.
At OFC, NeoPhotonics also demonstrated single-wavelength 400-gigabit transmission using more advanced modulation and a higher symbol rate, and a short-reach 100-gigabit link for inside the data centre using 4-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM4) signalling.
tagged 100-gigabit single lane, 400 Gigabit, 400 Gigabit Ethernet, CWDM4/ CLR4, Ferris Lipscomb, NeoPhotonics, PAM4, PM-32QAM, PM-QPSK, PSM-4, silicon photonics in OFC 2016, optical transceivers Print Article
Imec gears up for the Internet of Things economy
Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 9:48AM
Luc Van den hove is talking in the darkened ballroom in a hotel next to the brilliantly sunlit marina in Herzliya.
It is the imec's CEO's first trip to Israel and around us the room is being prepared for an afternoon of presentations the Belgium nanoelectronics research centre will give on its work in such areas as the Internet of Things and 5G wireless to an audience of Israeli start-ups and entrepreneurs.
Luc Van den hoveImec announced in February its plan to merge with iMinds, a Belgium research centre specialising in systems software and security, a move that will add 1,000 staff to imec's 2,500 researchers.
At first glance, the world-renown semiconductor process technology R&D centre joining forces with a systems house is a surprising move. But for Van den hove, it is a natural development as the company continues to grow from its technology origins to include systems-based research.
tagged 5G wireless, CMOS process, Internet of Things, Luc Van den hove, Moore's Law, biomedical devices, finFET, iMinds, imec, sensors, silicon photonics in semiconductors Print Article
US invests $610 million to spur integrated photonics
Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 9:52AM
The US government has set up its latest manufacturing initiative, the sixth of nine, to address photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The $610 million venture is a combination of public and private funding: $110 million from the Department of Defense, $250 million from the state of New York and the rest private contributions.
Prof. Duncan Moore
Dubbed the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics), the venture has attracted 124 partners includes 20 universities and over 50 companies.
The manufacturing innovation institute will be based in Rochester, New York, and will be led by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York. A key goal is that the manufacturing institute will continue after the initiative is completed in early 2021.
tagged AIM Photonics, Group IV photonics, indium phosphide, photonic integrated circuits, silicon photonics Print Article
Data centres to give silicon photonics its chance
Friday, September 4, 2015 at 6:26AM
Part 4: A large data centre operator's perspective
The scale of modern data centres and the volumes of transceivers they will use are going to have a significant impact on the optical industry. So claims Facebook, the social networking company.
Katharine Schmidtke
Facebook has been vocal in outlining the optical requirements it needs for its large data centres.
The company will use duplex single-mode fibre and has chosen the 2 km mid-reach 100 gigabit CWDM4 interface to connect its equipment.
But the company remains open regarding the photonics used inside transceivers. "Facebook is agnostic to technology," says Katharine Schmidtke, strategic sourcing manager, optical technology at Facebook. "There are multiple technologies that meet our requirements."
tagged CWDM4, Facebook, Katharine Schmidtke, LightCounting, mid-reach optics, silicon photonics in Feature Print Article
Verizon tips silicon photonics as a key systems enabler
Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 8:09AM
Verizon's director of optical transport network architecture and design, Glenn Wellbrock, shares the operator's thoughts regarding silicon photonics.
Part 3: An operator view
Glenn Wellbrock is upbeat about silicon photonics' prospects. Challenges remain, he says, but the industry is making progress. "Fundamentally, we believe silicon photonics is a real enabler," he says. "It is the only way to get to the densities that we want."
Glenn Wellbrock
Wellbrock adds that indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can also achieve such densities.
But there are many potential silicon photonics suppliers because of its relatively low barrier to entry, unlike indium phosphide. "To date, Infinera has been the only real [indium phosphide] PIC company and they build only for their own platform," says Wellbrock.
tagged Acacia, Cisco, Glenn Wellbrock, Infinera, Verizon, indium phosphide, packaging, silicon photonics in Feature Print Article
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As Service Champions technician Miguel was walking around a house with his customer in Anaheim, they came to a side yard with a walkway that had a lot of weeds.
Miguel made a mental note and then continued chatting with his customer.
Miguel completely understood. Toddlers can get into just about anything if you turn your head for even a second!
It also made Miguel think that it was probably pretty tough for this couple to find time to do things like weeding. So he decided that when he finished the tune-up, he would do the weeding for them.
Miguel slipped on some gloves and got to it. Once the weeding was done, he got a push broom and swept it all into a big pile on the walkway. He also hosed it down with water to clean up a few dirty spots.
"I wanted to make it look spotless," Miguel said. After about 30 minutes of work, it looked great!
Then Miguel went and found the homeowner. "Could you show me where your trash can is for green waste?" Miguel asked.
The customer went outside to show him and saw the big pile of weeds. His jaw dropped to the floor.
"He couldn't believe a heating and air conditioning company would do something completely unrelated to their service… well, you know, just to be nice," Miguel said.
The wife couldn't believe it either and was happy and excited to see how nice it looked.
Happy Coincidence: The Exact Right Technician For This Good Deed!


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He likes to share his experience with others and actively participates in the Micro Focus Adaptive Backup & Recovery Partner Technical Advisory Board (Micro Focus Data Protector), HPE Worldwide Partner Ambassador (Servers, Storage and Networking), HPE Storage Champions (Storage) and now joined the Micro Focus Knowledge Partners.
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Hello everyone, I want to show you my irrigation system based on the open sprinkler. I've been developing it for several years.
The general rule is that I have one centrally placed open sprinkler in the office that controls the others. There is a high-power omnidirectional antenna on the barn. Receiving stations are scattered in a radius of several kilometers, usually one station supports solenoid valves located up to 1000m, although this is not the rule. Each receiving station consists of a directional wifi antenna and of course an open sprinkler. In the stations I have placed the 24V AC power, the Open Sprinkler is powered with it. But the device does not give current directly to the solenoid valves, I have used the relays, thanks to them the open sprinkler is not overloaded.
The photos that I added show my first control box in one of the pumping stations. I placed there an inverter, a temperature sensor with hot air extraction and a professional alarm system. It cuts off the power supply after exceeding the maximum pressure, fire, and informs about the lack of electricity.
The control cabinet was created last year to prevent water from flooding electronics and rebuild the system after a fire caused by a broken pipe.
That's quite a setup! What do you grow and how big is your farm?
We mainly grow strawberry, haskap, raspberry, cauliflower, cabbage and carrots. The rest of the crop does not occupy a large area, we treat it as a test. The farm covers about 170 ha, of which open sprinkler manages irrigation for 70 ha. attached, I am sending a picture of my today's unfinished work which is supposed to manage 18 valves for 4 ha.
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Daring Club Motema Pembe este un club de fotbal congolez din orașul Kinshasa, capitala Republicii Democrate Congo.

Istoria clubului
Clubul a fost fondat pe 22 Februarie 1936 sub numele de Daring Faucon, apoi redenumit CS Imana în 1949. După independența Republicii Democrate Congo în iunie 1960, clubul a participat la campionatul național și a devenit primul maestru documentat în 1963. În anii următori, clubul a făcut parte din trio-ul care a dominat campionatul, cu AS Vita Club și Tout Puissan Mazembe. Jucătorii acestor trei echipe au constituit majoritatea echipei naționale din Zair la Cupa Mondială din 1974.

În 1936, clubul a fost fondat sub numele de Daring Faucon de către Reverendul Părinte Raphaël de la Kethulle de Ryhove, proprietarul stadionului Tata Raphaël. Acesta din urmă decide să înființeze un club de fotbal, astfel încât studenții din secțiunea avansată a colegiului Sainte Anne să rămână ocupați ca parte a activităților sportive.

Diferite denumiri

1936: înființarea clubului sub numele de Daring Faucon
1949: clubul este redenumit CS Imana
1985: clubul este redenumit DC Motema Pembe
2015: clubul își recapătă numele istoric DCMP Imana
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Suporteri
Comisia susținătorilor DCMP este prezidată de Amos Mbayo, care este detașat de primul vice-președintele Blanchard Leba. Trezorierul este Jérôme Ntangu. Principalele grupuri de susținători sunt "DCMP Ajax d'Afrique CAF", "DCMP Internationale" și "Bana Dora". Grupul de susținători DCMP are un site oficial.

Referințe

Legături externe
 Daring Club Motema Pembe, SoccerWay

Fondări în 1936
Cluburi de fotbal din RD Congo


Advocacy in public service settings.
APA's Council of Representatives met in San Francisco in August coinciding with the annual convention.
This past quarter, the section welcomed some new faces to the SMI/SED Section leadership. Members discussed focus of the section for the upcoming year, continuing the emphasis on membership, advocacy, and education/training.
Within the VA Section of Div. 18, we promote psychology, clinical care, training and research to serve veterans, their families and communities.
Establishment of a formal network of Psychologists of Color supporting each other in Veterans Health Administration.
Sandra Haldane: Words from a former APA congressional fellow.
Visit the SMI Psychology website for great information and resources about training, evaluation instruments, practice guidelines and how to become involved with the specialty council.
Public service psychology is a competitive and complex field. Mentoring is one way to ensure students' ongoing involvement, success and satisfaction in public health and Div. 18.


Yesterday my blog got its 100th follower. I have no goals for my blog but I thought it would be good to do a giveaway to celebrate and thank you all for supporting me.
I'm giving one lucky person the opportunity to get book(s) of their choice up to the value of £15 from the Book Depository.
Click here to enter via Rafflecopter. There are two opportunities for entry. The first is mandatory but easy. Just leave a comment on this blog post letting me know what book(s) you would choose if you won. Don't worry – if you win you can change your mind! No pressure!
The second is to follow me on Twitter (optional extra entry).
You still need to complete the Rafflecopter to be eligible! It will help me keep track of entries.
Entries will close at midnight (BST) on Friday 17th August 2018 and a winner will be chosen at random.
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Congratulations! That is a milestone worth celebrating. Thanks for the giveaway.
Congratulations on reaching this milestone. You should definitely celebrate all the milestones no matter how big or how small. Thank you for the chance I don't know what I would choose because there are so many books I want. Maybe something by Adam Silvera or Jay Kristoff.
Congrats!! I would probably get Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb.
Congrats! I entered! How fun!
congrats on your milestone! Id probably pick the seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle!
I'm thinking of Children of Blood and Bone or a beautifully illustrated picture book.