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Q: impossible to remove a ppa I just upgraded to xubuntu 18.04 LTS from 16.04, and I have an issue while trying to remove old obsolete PPAs :
nicolas@nicolas-UX530UX:~$ sudo ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d
deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list          dropbox.list.save            nilarimogard-ubuntu-webupd8-xenial.list.distUpgrade  skype-stable.list          teamviewer.list.save
deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list.distUpgrade  google-chrome.list           nilarimogard-ubuntu-webupd8-xenial.list.save         skype-stable.list.distUpgrade
deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list.save         google-chrome.list.distUpgrade       ondrej-ubuntu-php-xenial.list                skype-stable.list.save
dropbox.list                       google-chrome.list.save          ondrej-ubuntu-php-xenial.list.distUpgrade        teamviewer.list
dropbox.list.distUpgrade               nilarimogard-ubuntu-webupd8-xenial.list  ondrej-ubuntu-php-xenial.list.save           teamviewer.list.distUpgrade

Here we can see that I have the PPA

deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list

So I try to delete it somehow :
nicolas@nicolas-UX530UX:~$ sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list/ppa
        Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list/ubuntu/ppa'.
        ERROR: '~deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list' user or team does not exist.
nicolas@nicolas-UX530UX:~$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list/ppa
Updating packages lists
PPA to be removed: deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list ppa
Warning:  Could not find package list for PPA:
deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list ppa

Any idea of why I am not able to remove it?

A: try using,
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:deadsnakes/ppa

It's works to me.

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General Principles of Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning
Category: Behavior
Though classical conditioning and operant conditioning are both techniques involving learning and the acquisition of behaviors, they have contrasting–but sometimes complementary– ways of training. However, with pioneers in each conditioning practice believing in the general principle, "Psychology should be based on experimental investigation of behaviors," the two fields often intersect.
Classical conditioning was brought to the forefront of psychology via Ivan Pavlov's experiments with dogs. His theory suggested that an organism could learn to associate one stimulus it expected and responded to automatically with a stimulus that held no prior importance to the organism. In his experiments, Pavlov would have the original stimulus, or the unconditioned stimulus (UCS), follow the non-important stimulus, or neutral stimulus (NS), when presented to the dogs. He would then observe the innate reaction to the UCS, or the unconditioned response (UCR), to the original UCS. Eventually, through repetition of the pairing (association) of the NS and the UCS, the dogs would begin to demonstrate the same innate behavior to the NS alone. This was a major breakthrough: the NS was no longer neutral; it became a conditioned stimulus (CS), and the once-unconditional response now became a conditioned response (CR).Through further experimentation with this base knowledge, Pavlov identified five major conditioning processes: acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization and discrimination. Acquisition defined the initial stage of the conditioning process when the association of the NS with the UCS took place. The organism acquires an expectation that the NS comes to signal a UCS, and consequently responding accordingly. When a CS is no longer followed by the UCS, extinction occurs and the CS will eventually cease to elicit a CR. In simpler terms, the number of responses decreases, or becomes extinct. An extinguished CS can, however, make a random appearance after a 'rest period' between the applications of conditioned stimuli. This is called spontaneous recovery, and it led Pavlov to understand that extinction suppressed the CR, rather than eliminating it. Generalization and Discrimination both involve the distinguishing of outside stimuli and whether or not they will signal a response: generalization is a tendency to associate similar stimuli with the original CS, and discrimination is when an organism can discriminate between the CS and other stimuli.
Let's say that a child is sitting at the dinner table with a plate of pizza before him. Pepperoni pizza is his favorite food, and it always has been. This time, however, the pepperoni tastes a little funny. Shortly after dinner, his stomach becomes a little upset, and a little upset quickly accelerates into full-blown sick. The poor, sick boy is in the hospital for a week with what the doctor tells him is food poisoning. He doesn't really care what it is, just as long as it doesn't happen again. While in the hospital bed, he thinks and thinks what made him sick, and the only drawn conclusion is, "Oh, it must have been the funny-tasting pepperoni". Once recovered, the boy no longer desires pepperoni pizza. Au contraire, he absolutely abhors the thought of it.
This is an example of classical conditioning. The boy acquired the association of nausea and the horrible stomach pain with the pepperoni pizza. If he continues to eat pizza, only those with sausage or vegetables, he's learned to discriminate between the pepperoni he believes made him sick and other types of pizza. If he decides never to eat pizza ever again, he's made a generalization that all pizza will make him sick. He can spontaneously recover his learned response if he begins, again, to eat pizza (which would be the extinction of his of his acquired behavior) until one day he, all of a sudden, decides not to because he remembers that "one time…"
Another major type of conditioning is called operant conditioning, and instead of associating two events or stimuli (as in classical conditioning), it allows an organism to learn through the expectations of a reinforcement or punishment. B.F. Skinner was a pioneer in the field of behaviorism and in operant conditioning, believing that external influences, not thoughts or feelings, shaped behavior. He believed in these principles so strongly that he even used his own child to demonstrate his points.
Operant conditioning revolves around two major aspects: reinforcement and punishment. According to Edward L. Thorndike's law of effect, a rewarded behavior is most likely to recur. For instance, a rat in an operant chamber will learn to press a bar or a button if he 'thinks' or expects to get food. This is an example of positive reinforcement, which aims to encourage behavior. If the rat expects to be shocked when he touches the bar, he will avoid it. This is an example of positive punishment, which acts to decrease the frequency of a behavior. There is also another type of reinforcement, as well as punishment: Negative reinforcement removes an annoying, or aversive, stimulus from an organism's environment to reward. Negative punishment, along the same lines, removes a desired or pleasurable stimulus to punish. These are all examples of how a creature's behavior can be shaped.
As is in classical conditioning, similar processes as mentioned above occur in operant conditioning as well. Though slightly differing to the principles of the conditioning type, they have the same basic definitions. Acquisition, here, is the association of one response with a consequence, such as a reinforcement or punishment. Extinction occurs when a response is no longer reinforced. Spontaneous recovery, in operant conditioning, is demonstrated by the organism's continued response to a behavior that is no longer reinforced. Generalization would occur, for instance, if a dog was rewarded for responding to a number of tones when he was only conditioned on one tone. He would have generalized the tone. This is the opposite of discrimination, where that dog would only respond to the first tone, and not to the similar ones.
A good example of operant conditioning would be any given superstitious behavior, where a person thinks–even if unjustly–that one random stimulus triggered something great to happen. For instance, a man is walking through a mall when he comes upon a face-up penny. He picks it up, and seconds later he runs straight into Claudia Schiffer. She tells him how cute he is, gives him her cell phone number, and walks on. The man now thinks, "Wow! That never would have happened to me if I hadn't have found that 'lucky penny'. I need to keep this with me always so good things like this will happen to me."
The penny was a stimulus that the man believed triggered positive reinforcement (Claudia Schiffer). He has acquired the association of the penny with getting Claudia Schiffer's phone number. If he knows that only that penny will bring him luck, he has discriminated between stimuli. If he now thinks that all pennies are lucky, he has generalized. If Claudia Schiffer doesn't return his calls and no more pretty girls come up to him, this belief, or behavior, will likely become extinct. However, if one day he finds another penny and picks it up with the faint hope of running into Miss Schiffer once again, then spontaneous recovery has now occurred.
The most distinguished difference between classical and operant conditioning would be that in classical conditioning, the organism receives an automatic reinforcement that is always associated with a NS+UCS or a CS. This is contrasted in operant conditioning where the organism has to perform for the reinforcement, and is punished for not responding or responding counter-accordingly. Classical conditioning applies to a behavior that is always encouraged in one way or another: there is always a positive or a negative reinforcement. No punishment, as in operant conditioning, is applicable in classical conditioning.
While similar and different simultaneously, both classical and operant conditioning prove to be rather reliable ways in encouraging or discouraging an organism into learning a behavior or response.
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5 Books | by Bethany Ramirez
~THE PRINCE OF NO VALUE~Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined.~THE NOBLEWOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE~Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn't just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she's known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light.Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart.
"You will never mention me or my favors, nor will you disclose what favors we trade. I am a ghost to you."Or a genie. I think a genie is way less scary, don't you?Kristy Marie brings you a laugh out loud comedy about what happens when a hot mess of a girl takes down the resident bad boy. It's official.I, Ainsley James, am crazy.Desperate and crazy. It's the only explanation as to why I'm nauseous, standing outside Maverick Lexington's door.I mean, it's possible the stories about his deck of playing cards-with the words IOU scrawled across the back-are just rumors of the ruthless quid pro quo deals he barters. But the flutters in my stomach know better. Maverick is as cold as they come. But, I need one of those cards. I NEED to owe Maverick Lexington a favor... ReviewsI devoured this book!!! The tension! The alphaness! The banter! The sexiness! The laugh out loud moments! The secondary characters are EVERYTHING! Serena's Must Have Book BoyfriendsIOU deserves well over 5 stars!! I could not fault it!!This book was EVERYTHING!!!! Holy Mac and cheese. This is making it high on my favourite books of 2020 because I absolutely LOVED this book!! Book ObsessionThis story delivered a fresh and original storyline with laughter and feels that I have come to expect from the author. Keri, Goodreads ReviewerBest romantic comedy I have read in 2020. No question. Bailey, Goodreads ReviewerYes yes yes! IOU is a nonstop page turner that had me laughing nonstop and adoring these characters. Tre, Goodreads ReviewerI have just found myself a new author to obsess over. This book was so far beyond exceptional. Sharon, Goodreads Reviewer
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He's the hottest player in Major League Baseball, the most notorious playboy in all of Manhattan...And my fake fiancé for the next three months....I was drunk-dialing my ex the night I met him.Six-three, sexy as sin and so incredibly rude I could smack the asshole smirk right off his face. Long story short, we got off to a bad start. But when the tabloids interpret our sparring as Drew Maddox "groveling" with a "mystery brunette," his agent presents us both a proposal: Shacking up as a couple this summer.It's an alleged "win-win." I need to prove to my ex that I'm fine. Drew needs to prove to his team that he's stable. Thanks to his on-field brawling and never-ending lady drama, Drew Maddox has suddenly found himself on the trade block - which means he needs a fast, easy way to show the team that he's settled down.Hence this fiance thing. Our fights are real, our kisses are fake, and thanks to the nonstop heat between us, I'm starting to mix up all my signs. But whether it's real or fake, there's one thing I do know: I'm already addicted.
When the man you worshipped as a kid becomes your coach, it's supposed to be the greatest thing in the world. Keywords: supposed to.It didn't take a week for twenty-seven-year-old Sal Casillas to wonder what she'd seen in the international soccer icon--why she'd ever had his posters on her wall, or ever envisioned marrying him and having super-playing soccer babies.Sal had long ago gotten over the worst non-break-up in the history of imaginary relationships with a man that hadn't known she'd existed. So she isn't prepared for this version of Reiner Kulti who shows up to her team's season: a quiet, reclusive shadow of the explosive, passionate man he'd once been.Nothing could have prepared her for the man she got to know.Or the murderous urges he brought out in her."Sal, please don't make me visit you in jail. Orange isn't your color."This was going to be the longest season of her life.
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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Jun 9, 2019 June 9, 2019
"It's an outrage!"
It is now more than 3 years since I heard the above presentation at this Continuing Medical Education (CME) event:
Dr Christmas considered the over- and under- prescribing of antidepressants and shared the official Scottish Government figures for 2015 which indicated that approximately 1 in 9 of the adult Scottish population were taking an antidepressant:
Dr Christmas then shared a number of slides of media reports on these figures which expressed their disquiet using headlines which he summarised as "It's an outrage!":
This was a clear reminder that the research into the appropriateness of prescribing of antidepressants in Scotland needed more work to clarify the true picture.
A year later, in the Scottish Parliament on the 26th April 2017, Dr Christmas stated:
This statement was made on this occasion without acknowledging the on-going gap in research.
A further two years on and official Scottish Government figures indicated that approximately 1 in 5 of the adult Scottish population were taking an antidepressant:
This increase in prescribing of antidepressants in Scotland, along with many personal testimonies submitted to PE1651: Prescribed Drug Dependence and Withdrawal, has contributed to the Scottish Government's decision to update the following document. A short-life Working Group is being set up to do this and will be chaired by Chris Johnson, Pharmacist for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde:
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Hysterically funny, essentially an updated 70's version of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad", etc..., as a troupe of greedy heirs to a millionaire game- magnate's (A comical Vincent Price in a wordless cameo--) fortune compete in the titular activity to receive their inheritances. Some VERY amusing sequences, & the cast is hilariously on point, especially Scatman Crothers (As a mild-mannered Security Guard-), Richard Mulligan (As obtuse cabbie Melvin Dummitz--), Cloris Leachman (Price's predatory Harpy-of-a-sister-), Roddy McDowall as Price's prim-&-proper butler, James Coco (As Price's flamboyantly temperamental cook-), & Richard Masur (As Leachman's gigantic & slobberingly-spoiled Man-Child-). The museum scenes with the clumsily-stumbling suit-of-armor & the rampaging mummy are priceless! Replete with amusing cameos by Meat Loaf, Ruth Gordon, Avery Schreiber, & AH-NOLD before his "Conan" days!
A confusing and very messy film. The plot involves time-travel, alternate universes and possibly reincarnation. I dunno, it was hard to keep track. The film had some unique visuals. Unique in the sense that it was made in the 00's and looks like it came out of the 70/80's. I'm pretty sure this is mostly on purpose. It looks old and even the music sounds like pieces of cheesy piano solo's and synth action beats. The performances come dangerously close to soap opera standards and it all has a thick layer of cheese that is hard to cut through. And as we all know cheese is pretty soft, that's HOW cheesy this film is. It was intriguing at first as I was trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Then I realised, if the film didn't know what it was doing, then my chances were slim.
Reach Me will likely be remembered for its all-star cast, but not much else. It's another fairly empty entrant into the multi-character/multi-story line/everything-converge-at-the-end style that's been done to death in recent years, particularly around the indie scene, and to varying results. Reach Me might embody the genre through-and-through, but it doesn't go anywhere with its potential or leave the audience feeling any wiser, or better, for having watched it. There's no room for real, tangible character growth, leaving most of the players jumping from points rather than following a better defined arc. It's worth a watch, but most won't reach out for it again.
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Each year Columbia Technology Ventures files about 250 patents based on discoveries at Columbia University, and about 100 patents are licensed to larger companies.
But increasingly, "many of our faculty and students want to start companies of their own, based on their science," said Orin Herskowitz, executive director of Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV), at the 2018 Startup Columbia entrepreneurship festival.
CTV is involved in 20 to 30 Columbia startups each year, and more women at Columbia are getting involved. At the festival, two women entrepreneurs at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons–Angela Christiano, PhD, and Tilla Worgall, MD–joined Columbia engineer Michal Lipson, PhD, to share their experiences in the festival's "Spinning Out, In Control" panel. Moderated by Herskowitz, the panel was sponsored by Columbia's Women Inventors Network and Women in Science at Columbia.
Read excerpts from the discussion below, or watch the full panel discussion.
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CHICAGO -- The Cubs have signed first-round pick Nico Hoerner, inking the Stanford shortstop for $2.724 million, which was his full slot value for the No. 24 pick. Hoerner was to report to the Cubs' facility in Mesa, Ariz., and then join Class A Short-Season Eugene.
"Here's a guy we're excited to get," Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer said Wednesday. "I think he's going to have the ability to play shortstop and also the ability to play all over the diamond. He hits the ball hard. He puts the ball in play. We love the makeup. ... We feel he's a guy who will grow into some power."
Hoerner was busy with final exams last week at Stanford, which delayed the signing.
Hoerner batted .345 in 57 games with Stanford this past season, hitting 17 doubles, six triples and two home runs, while driving in 40 runs. A right-handed hitter, the junior from Oakland, Calif., was named to the All-Tournament team in the NCAA regional.
The Cubs have had success with position players taken in the first round as of late. That list includes Javier Baez (2011), Albert Almora Jr. ('12), Kristopher Bryant ('13), Kyle Schwarber ('14) and Ian Happ ('15), who are all on the current Cubs roster.
According to MLB.com's Jim Callis, the Cubs also have signed eighth-round pick Zach Mort, a right-handed pitcher from George Mason, and ninth-round selection Derek Casey, a right-handed pitcher from Virginia. Mort signed for $140,000, while Casey signed for $130,000.


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From long-term capital gains tax on equity investments to higher interest income exemption for senior citizens to introduction of dividend distribution tax on dividend received from equity mutual funds, this year saw many changes in income tax rules. Many of these were introduced as part of Budget 2018-19. This year also saw the introduction of standard deduction for salaried employees. Senior citizens were also allowed higher deduction on health insurance premiums.
Here are some of the important changes in income tax rules:
Higher interest income exemption for senior citizens :- For senior citizens, the government increased interest income exemption limit on bank and post office deposits to Rs 50,000, from Rs 10,000 earlier. In addition, for senior citizens, tax deduction at source (TDS) will not be triggered if interest income is up to Rs 50,000.
Dividends distributed by equity mutual funds, which were earlier tax-free, attracted tax at the rate of 10%. Remember that dividends from equity mutual funds are tax-free in the hands of investors. But dividends from equity mutual funds are paid after deducting a dividend distribution tax (DDT) of 11.648% (including cess), which reduces the in-hand return for investors.
From 1 April 2018, a new long-term capital gains (LTCG) tax regime on equity instruments – listed shares or equity-oriented mutual funds – came into effect. Earlier such gains on equity were exempt from tax. Now investors have to pay 10% tax on gains exceeding Rs 1 lakh a year. Equity holding beyond a year is considered long term. However, to soften the blow, the government introduced a grandfathering provision, which means that if listed shares or equity funds were acquired before February 1, there would be no levy of long-term capital gains tax.
Standard deduction was introduced in this year's budget in lieu of the earlier exemption in respect of transport allowance and reimbursement of miscellaneous medical expenses. Unlike other deductions and exemptions, to claim standard deduction, one need not provide any documents and proof. A salaried individual or pensioner can claim standard deduction up to Rs 40,000 from his/her income.
The government raised the cess on income tax to 4% from 3% for individual taxpayers on the amount of income tax payable.
Employees contributing to the National Pension System (NPS) were allowed to withdraw up to 40% of the total corpus without any tax at the time of maturity or closure of the account. The same benefit has now been extended to self-employed subscribers.
Long-term profits from real estate sales are tax-free if invested in specified bonds under Section 54EC. Till last year, you had to stay invested in the 54EC bonds for at least three years to enjoy the tax break, but from this year, your money will be locked in for five years.
Senior citizens now can avail deduction of up to Rs 50,000 for health insurance premium under Section 80D. Earlier the limit was Rs 30,000. Also, the deduction available for payment towards medical treatment of specified disease has been hiked to Rs 1 lakh for senior citizens.
The Union Cabinet recently approved many changes in the NPS to make it more attractive for investors. NPS will be made fully tax-free on withdrawal. Subscribers will get full tax exemption on the 60% of the corpus that an investor is allowed to withdraw on maturity. This will help bring the NPS on a par with other tax-saving instruments like the PPF where withdrawals are fully tax-free. This is likely to be effective from April 1 next year. (Read: NPS rule changes explained in 10 points)
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Based on US Youth Soccer U10 Playing Recommendations – {with amendments for Holliston}
Law 1 – The Field of Play:
Dimensions: The field of play must be rectangular. The length of the touchline must be greater than the length of the goal line.
Length: minimum 45 yards maximum 60 yards
Width: minimum 35 yards maximum 45 yards
Field Markings: Distinctive lines not more than five (5) inches wide. The field of play is divided into two halves by a halfway line. The center mark is indicated at the midpoint of the halfway line. A circle with a radius of eight (8) yards is marked around it.
The Goal Area: Conform to FIFA.
The Penalty Area: A penalty area is defined at each end of the field as follows: Two lines are drawn at right angles to the goal line, ten (10) yards from the inside of each goalpost. These lines extend into the field of play for a distance of ten (10) yards and are joined by a line drawn parallel with the goal line. The area bounded by these lines and the goal line is the penalty area. Within each penalty area a penalty mark is made eight (8) yards from the midpoint between the goalposts and equidistant to them. An arc of a circle with a radius of eight (8) yards from each penalty mark is drawn outside the penalty area.
Flag posts: Conform to FIFA.
The Corner Arc: Conform to FIFA.
Goals: Goals must be placed on the center of each goal line. They consist of two upright posts equidistant from the corner flag posts and joined at the top by a horizontal crossbar. The maximum distance between the posts is eighteen (18) feet and the maximum distance from the lower edge of the crossbar to the ground is six (6) feet. {Holliston: 6.5×12 foot goals are provided}
Safety: Goals must be anchored securely to the ground. Portable goals may only be used if they satisfy this requirement.
Law 2 – The Ball: Size four (4).
Law 3 – The Number of Players:
A match is played by two teams, each consisting of not more than six players, one of whom is the goalkeeper. A match may not start if either team consists of fewer than five players.
{Holliston: the game is played as 6v6; 5 players plus a goal keeper; accomodations may be made to increase the number of players due to large rosters, but it is discouraged}
Substitutions: At any stoppage and unlimited. {Holliston: the referee will be asked to allow substitutions; substiutions will be made from the center line; substitutions are allowed on any goal kick and on a team's own throw-in; if a team makes a substitution, the opponent may also substitute}
Playing time: Each player SHALL play a minimum of 50% of the total playing time.
Roster Size: Six to eight players per team is recommended. At ten to twelve players, you are encouraged to run two parallel games.
Coaches should allow players from the team with sufficient numbers to 'loan' a player or two to the team that is short players and then PLAY.
Law 4 – The Players Equipment:
Conform to FIFA. Non-uniform clothing is allowed based on weather conditions, but uniforms must still distinguish teams.
Law 5 – The Referee:
Registered referee, especially Grade 9 or parent/coach or assistant coach. All rule infringements shall be briefly explained to the offending player.{Holliston: provides intramural referees for U10; coaches may officiate in their absence}
Law 6 – The Assistant Referees: Not required.. {Holliston: dual referees may be used to train new officials}
Law 7 – The Duration of the Match: The Duration of the Match: Conform to FIFA with the exception of the match being divided into two (2) equal halves of twenty-five (25) minutes each. There shall be a
half-time interval of five (5) minutes. {Holliston: the coaches may agree to extend play to two (2) 30 minute halves to accomodate the number of players; four (4) 12 minute quarters maybe used to accomodate extra hot conditions}
Law 8 – The Start and Restart of Play: Conform to FIFA with the exception of the opponents of the team taking the kick-off are at least eight (8) yards from the ball until it is in play.
Law 9 – The Ball In and Out of Play: Conform to FIFA.
Law 10 – The Method of Scoring: Conform to FIFA.
Law 11 – Offside: None.
Law 12 – Fouls and Misconduct: Conform to FIFA with the exception that an indirect free kick is awarded to the opposing team at the center spot on the halfway line if a goalkeeper punts or drop-kicks the ball in the air from his/her penalty area into the opponents penalty area.
Law 13 – Free Kicks: Free Kicks: Conform to FIFA with the exception that all opponents are at least eight (8) yards from the ball.
Law 14 – The Penalty Kick: The Penalty Kick: Conform to FIFA with the exception that the penalty mark is made eight (8) yards from the midpoint between the goalposts and equidistant to them.
Law 15 – The Throw-In: Conform to FIFA.
Law 16 – The Goal Kick: Conform to FIFA.
Law 17 – The Corner Kick: The Corner Kick: Conform to FIFA with the exception that opponents remain at least eight (8) yards from the ball until it is in play.
Other Recommendations:
Opposing coaches, players and parents should shake hands after each match. {Holliston: as the teams line up, the referee will be present and the players and coaches will thank the referee}
Parent/coaches, non-participating players and spectators should be there to enjoy and encourage the activity of the youngsters.
Spectator and team benches should be on opposite sides of the field.
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'Frustrated' Mahrez in talks with Leicester City boss ahead of Tottenham clash
Claude Puel says Algerian needs support as he is club 'most important player'
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Riyad Mahrez during the Leicester City training session at Belvoir Drive on Tuesday. (Photo by Plumb Images/ Leicester City FC via Getty Images)
Riyad Mahrez must be shown support to become Leicester City's match-winner again.
That is the view of City boss Claude Puel, who hailed Mahrez as the team's most important player alongside striker Jamie Vardy.
Mahrez has struggled to recapture the consistency of two seasons ago which saw him named PFA player of the year during City's Premier League title win.
The Algeria international was subbed with 20 minutes left in the draw at West Ham, prompting him to trudge off the field muttering to himself in frustration.
Mahrez had shown flashes of neat tricks and skills but had been too greedy when it mattered, refusing to play in both Demarai Gray and Marc Albrighton in better positions.
Puel spoke to Mahrez at training and said there was no problems between the fellow French speakers ahead of the game against Tottenham tomorrow night.
"I think he was a little frustrated in the second half without the possibility to get on the ball and to play," said Puel. "It's a good thing when a player is not
happy. Now it's important to help him have more consistency once again because he is an important player for us and it's important he can play on his part of the pitch with all his qualities.
"He is the most important player with Jamie Vardy and it's important he can show his quality."
Puel has developed a strong relationship with Mahrez since his arrival at the club, with the manager able to pass on his instructions and discuss his ideas in French.
Leicester City injury news update ahead of Tottenham clash
Mahrez spent the summer announcing his desire to leave and "move on to a new experience" while spending deadline day at a European airport in hope that a move would go through.
He has since said he is happy at Leicester, and even hinted he would be content to stay at the club.
"All the players have to find good consistency in their game – game after game," said Puel. "It's the most important thing. He's a talented player and if he can show his quality game after game then it ill be fantastic for him and also the squad.
"I am here also to help the players and squad to find a good balance in their game and consistency, it is the most important thing. We will see for the future but it is important to give them more opportunities to find a good balance and consistency."
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Charles Ghigna
Cynthia Quinn White, University of Montevallo
Known as "Father Goose," poet Charles Ghigna (1946- ) is the author of more than 5,000 poems and has published more than 100 books for children and adults. He is best known for his work in the genre of children's literature. His work focuses on the details of life, using concrete imagery to vividly convey personal scenarios—a technique that carries through into his children's poetry.
Charles Ghigna was born in Bayside, New York, on August 25, 1946, to Charles and Patricia Ghigna and took up writing at an early age. He attended Florida Atlantic University, in Boca Raton, Florida, earning a B.A. in 1968 and an M.Ed. in 1970. In 1974, Ghigna became poet-in-residence and taught creative writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA) in Birmingham. In 1976, while continuing at ASFA, Ghigna worked on the children's television show Cabbages and Kings. In 1979, he also taught creative writing at Samford University, in Birmingham. In 1989, Ghigna published his first book of poetry, Returning to Earth, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
In 1992, Ghigna published his first books of children's poetry, Good Dogs/Bad Dogs and Good Cats/Bad Cats. Ghigna left ASFA the following year, but he remained in Alabama and devoted his creative energy to children's literature full time. Also in 1992, and likely linked with critical and popular success of his Good Dogs/Bad Dogs and Good Cats/Bad Cats books, Hyperion, a Disney subsidiary that publishes children's books, signed Ghigna to a four-book contract. Since then, Ghigna has published numerous books of children's and adult's poetry. His work has appeared in such major outlets as Cricket, Highlights, The New Yorker, and Harper's. Embraced by the general public, his work also has won critical acclaim, receiving honors such as the Helen Keller Literary Award and the Alabama Library Association Book Award, Juvenile Division.
Charles Ghigna Reads to Students
In addition to his children's poetry books, Ghigna published Snickers (1993-1998), a newspaper featuring light verse. The creators of ACT and SAT tests used his work as texts for their language-comprehension sections. Ghigna also served as poetry editor of The English Journal, a publication of the National Council of Teachers of English. His many and popular works for children have earned Ghigna the nickname Father Goose. He currently lives and writes in a treehouse in Homewood, Jefferson County.
Selected Works by Charles Ghigna
Plastic Tears (1973)
Returning to Earth (1989)
Good Cats/Bad Cats (1992)
Good Dogs/Bad Dogs (1992)
Tickle Day: Poems from Father Goose (1994)
The Best of Snickers (1994)
The Day I Spent the Night in the Shelby County Jail (1995)
Love Poems (1999)
One Hundred Shoes: A Math Reader (2002)
The Alphabet Parade (2002)
A Fury of Motion: Poems for Boys (2003)
Animal Tracks: Wild Poems to be Read Aloud (2004)
Score! 50 Poems to Motivate and Inspire (2008)
Snow Wonder (2008)
Ghigna, Charles. Charles Ghigna Papers. de Grummond Children's Literature Collection. The University of Southern Mississippi. 1965-2003.
Published: May 12, 2010 | Last updated: May 14, 2014


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Munich, February 14, 2019 – Devexperts, a financial software developer, announces the enhancement of their AI-powered chatbot Devexa with a voice trading capabilities.
Devexa is an AI-powered live assistant developed by Devexperts for retail brokers. It is available on Facebook Messenger, Viber, Telegram and soon to be launched on WeChat. With the new voice control update, traders can communicate with Devexa over Google assistant. Anthropomorphic communication with chatbots allows for first line support automation for brokerages, saving manpower to focus on more complex tasks. Its integration with CRM and back office systems helps to retain the broker's existing clients, and to onboard new traders.
Devexa ChatBot is a software with conversational voice and text UIs, and an AI technology to understand natural language. The users can request real-time quotes, charts and fundamentals from the chatbot, reach out to the broker's help desk instantly, and save time by texting and voice typing. For brokers this chatbot represents a new engagement channel, which is aimed at boosting their clientele base and their affiliate business.
In messaging applications Devexa has enhanced NLP capabilities and is able to understand typos and ambiguous text. There is no need to download and install a specific app to access market data, the users need to simply add Devexa ChatBot to a messenger of their choice, and they will be able to obtain market updates, check their balance, pending orders, positions, and even execute trades. The chatbot can also reply with UI elements, such as charts for different time periods. There are shortcuts in form of buttons for common requests, such as requests to receive quotes for most-traded shares, futures, cryptocurrencies or FX pairs. The chatbot tracks a user's input from one interaction to the next, allowing the broker to take advantage of previously entered information when offering personalized offers.
Devexa can be white-labeled and tailored to a broker's preferences. This includes not only the branded widget integrated into the trading platform of a broker, but also for different work-flows, knowledge bases, and data sources. Devexa can educate new users, assist them in an expedited on-boarding, and demonstrate their chosen platform in a hands-free, natural way.


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Deus Ex: Collector's Edition detailed
by Steven Williamson on 20 April 2011, 14:20
Tags: Square Enix (TYO:9684), Action/Adventure
Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qa5nn
Square Enix has confirmed it will release a Deus Ex: Human Revolution Collector's Edition, an extremely limited, exclusive product releasing in select European countries on August 26, 2011 and in Australia and New Zealand on August 25, 2011.
Available now for preorder on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution Collector's Edition will include the following:
· Highly collectable Adam Jensen action figurine designed by Play Arts Kai
· Explosive Mission Pack: An entirely new mission with a special cameo appearance from one of the original DEUS EX characters
· Exclusive in-game weapons: Automatic Unlocking Device, M-28 Utility Remote-Detonated Explosive Device (UR-DED), Linebacker G-87 multiple shot grenade launcher, Huntsman Silverback Double-Barrel Shotgun, SERSR Longsword Whisperhead silenced sniper rifle
· 10,000 extra credits to buy or upgrade weapons
· DVD featuring a 44-minute "making of" special, 30-minute game soundtrack, motion-comic (adapted from DC Comics' official series), E3 trailer and animated storyboard
· 40-page art book
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is due for release on 26, August, 2011.
2 Microsoft enhances Red Dead Redemption for Xbox One X
Alongside 5 other Xbox 360 titles, & 19 original Xbox games become backwards compatible.
6 Microsoft ceases production of Kinect motion control cameras
The firm has sold approx 35 million Kinect units since 2010.
7 Microsoft Xbox 360 mass production ends
The console celebrated its 10th year of availability last November.
Microsoft lists 104 Xbox 360 games compatible with Xbox One New Xbox One Experience, Xbox 360 compatibility arrives 12th Nov Panasonic and Square Enix team up for SoundSlayer wearable Outriders is the biggest Steam launch success for Square Enix Square Enix games return to the GeForce Now streaming service
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Posted by Garrus - Sun 08 May 2011 20:34
Can't wait for this… The original Deus Ex is still one of my favourite games of all time.
The Collector's Edition doesn't sound bad at all either. Well worth a look.


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Quarterback Cade Phillips is putting up record numbers for Cheraw football
Dan Mohrmann November 12, 2020, 8:00 AM
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In the midst of an unprecedented season, Cheraw quarterback Cade Phillips is putting up unprecedented numbers.
The sophomore has been getting better with each week this season and has the Wolverines sitting at 4-1 heading into the final week of the regular season. Perhaps the unordinary part of his story is that he's getting it done through the air, an unconventional method when it comes to the 6-man classification.
In five games, he's thrown for 945 yards, 24 touchdowns and has yet to be intercepted by opposing defenses.
He ranks second in all of 6-man for total passing yards and first in touchdowns. In all, just three players have over 900 passing yards in the classification and just two have over 20 passing touchdowns. That honor goes to Phillips and Granada's Dominic Coleman.
"It's crazy, honestly," Phillips said. "First off, I have to thank my blockers and receivers for catching the ball. You see a lot of 6-man teams rushing for big numbers and for Coleman and I to start turning the 6-man game to more of a passing game is crazy."
As luck would have it, those two battled in what will go down as an all-time regular season 6-man classic. Phillips threw for 271 yards and Coleman bettered him with 294. But each threw seven touchdown passes which set a state record for combined touchdown throws in a game.
Granada won the game 67-60 but it was a show that was well worth the price of admission.
"That was a fun game to be a part of on both sides," Cheraw coach Brad Phillips said. "It was two fairly high-ranked teams going at it. It was amazing, even for 6-man, how quick both those teams were able to score at some point and both of them have good defenses."
The next game, against Manzanola, he threw for seven touchdowns again. His 14 touchdowns in consecutive games is a 6-man record, and his 18 TDs in the past three games is also a 6-man record.
This is far from a one-man show. Both coach and quarterback, father and son, praise the effort of the team as a whole. Trey Pearce leads the receiving corps with 384 receiving yards and 11 touchdowns.
If there was any indication that the shootout was a one-off performance for Cade, that went out the window the very next week as he threw for 292 yards and seven more touchdowns in an 82-38 win over Manzanola. This time, however, he added 157 yards and a touchdown while running the ball.
It wasn't really ideal to have to see those numbers again, but there came a level of comfort knowing that if Cade needs to take to the air, he's more than capable of effectively slinging the ball around the yard.
"We were hoping he wouldn't have to," Brad said. "We were hoping our defense would slow Manzanola down a little more so we wouldn't have to put up the kind of numbers we did. He has really good receivers and really good blocking and he's capable of doing that on any evening that we need him to."
It's a fun way to play the game.
One of the greatest appeals of the 6-man game is the wide-open nature of the field which tends to allow for several exciting scoring plays in a game. Add in what a kid like Cade can do when he's generating offense through the air while a teammate like Braeden Harris is balancing the attack on the ground and it makes for some of the most exciting football in the state.
"Our team can score 36 points in a quarter and come back from a 20-point deficit pretty fast," Cade said. "It's amazing what we can do when we're clicking on all cylinders."
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OnePlus 10 Pro is expected to be released on January 11 in China. Many of its specifications were revealed by OnePlus CEO Pete Lau before of its introduction. A tipster has now revealed pricing details for the next smartphone, as well as various RAM and storage configurations. Separately, some OnePlus 10 Pro sample photographs have appeared online, demonstrating the capabilities of the Hasselblad-powered back camera configuration. The second-generation Hasselblad Pro Mode with RAW+, a 150-degree field-of-view for the ultra-wide-angle sensor, and 10-bit color photography are all touted for the OnePlus 10 Pro.
1 Price of the OnePlus 10 Pro (estimated)
2 Specifications for the OnePlus 10 Pro (teased)
3 OnePlus 10 Pro Review
Price of the OnePlus 10 Pro (estimated)
WHY LAB, a tipster, has revealed the OnePlus 10 Pro's rumored price. JD.com has offered a price range for the three rumored models of the next OnePlus smartphone, according to screenshots shared by the tipster. According to reports, the OnePlus 10 Pro will be available in three different configurations: 8GB RAM + 128GB storage, 8GB RAM + 256GB storage, and 12GB RAM + 256GB storage. The base variant is priced between CNY 3,000 and 3,999 (approximately Rs. 35,000 and 46,600) on JD.com, while the mid and premium variants are priced between CNY 4,000 and 4,999. (roughly Rs. 46,600 to 58,300).
The base 8GB RAM + 128GB storage edition of the OnePlus 10 Pro will cost CNY 3,999, the 8GB RAM + 256GB storage variant will cost CNY 4,599 (approximately Rs. 53,600), and the top-of-the-line 12GB RAM + 256GB storage variant will cost CNY 4,999, according to the tipster.
Specifications for the OnePlus 10 Pro (teased)
The photography features of the OnePlus 10 Pro have purportedly been touted by OnePlus. The 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera on the forthcoming smartphone will feature a 150-degree field-of-view. A Fisheye Mode is also available for the ultra-wide-angle sensor. With AI distortion correction, this camera sensor will have a traditional 110-degree field-of-view.
Users will be able to take 12-bit RAW photos with the OnePlus 10 Pro's second-generation Hasselblad Pro Mode. With RAW+ support, the smartphone should be able to take both JPEG and RAW photographs at the same time. The forthcoming smartphone will also feature Movie Mode, which will let users to adjust ISO, shutter speed, and other settings. Users will be able to shoot in LOG format without needing to use a preset photo profile.
The OnePlus 10 Pro is the first smartphone from the Chinese tech titan to have 10-bit color photography across all three rear cameras. This will allow the smartphone to have a larger color gamut, resulting in smoother color transitions and fewer instances of color banding, according to the company.
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Q: ELI5: Django Migrations - Do they change the SQL database? My company has tasked me with creating a small proof-of-concept web app where we would like to read and display a few columns from one of our tables in our microsoft sql server. I have set up my django project and installed the django-mssql-backend etc. However I found the explanation of migrations rather vague

Migrations are Django's way of propagating changes you make to your models (adding a field, deleting a model, etc.) into your database schema. They're designed to be mostly automatic, but you'll need to know when to make migrations, when to run them, and the common problems you might run into. Django migrations documentation

I'm not allowed to alter the database in any way as it would break some legacy systems so I want to make sure that migrating does not alter the database. Thus my question is rather simple, would executing the "python manage.py migrate" alter the database or is it only locally in my django project?

A: Yes, it alters the database.
Since you're working with an existing database, check out https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/howto/legacy-databases/ to ensure your models match exactly.
At the end of the page it says:

Next, run the migrate command to install any extra needed database records such as admin permissions and content types:

In particular this will create new tables, not alter your own. If adding new tables isn't OK, then don't run the command. However you won't be able to use the built in Django authentication system.

A: If you can't alter the database then you probably want the inspectdb utiality to build models from the exisiting database.


People need to connect to communicate.
And they need to share their ideas.
The fifth TIM lecture of 2012 was presented by Giovanni Pizzoferrato, Senior Manager of Technology Strategy at TELUS, who described the approach TELUS has taken as a telecommunications company entering the healthcare market. The event was held at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, on July 5th, 2012.
This report summarizes the presentation and its key messages, including the lessons learned and actions identified by audience members. The slides from his presentation are available here.
Giovanni Pizzoferrato set the scene for the audience by describing the market and industry realities that TELUS must face when developing its healthcare "game plan": many of the challenges that must be overcome are from outside forces, that is, they are beyond TELUS' control. Accordingly, TELUS has responded with an "outside-in" approach to innovation, which requires an outward-looking perspective where consumer trends, demands, and behaviours are carefully considered when developing internal innovation. This outside-in approach was a recurring theme throughout the presentation, as Pizzoferrato described case studies where TELUS had used this approach to innovate "on top of" existing waves of innovation to better meet the needs of its customers.
As a telecommunications company, TELUS has identified three consumer demands, which are the need to connect, communicate, and collaborate. Underpinning these three demands are the driving forces that determine the pace of evolution and define consumer needs: i) social media; ii) mobilization; iii) consumerization; and iv) hyper-connectivity.
Social media is not just about being connected, it is about making a meaningful connection. Social media is a powerful outside force that has led to non-traditional user behaviour and usage, which in turn has led to rapid growth in mobile traffic. However, in Canada, we are missing the ability to use social media to effect change in healthcare. TELUS has used the outside-in approach to assess how the behaviours and needs associated with social media can be applied to the enterprise in the healthcare market. The outside-in approach has led TELUS to change its processes and develop closer relationships with its customers.
The proliferation of smartphones and mobile apps is a disturbance that enterprise cannot ignore. Current and future growth in this area is fueled by existing market bases in both e-commerce and feature-phone devices; the easy transition to m-commerce and smartphones is further accelerating the growth in mobile traffic. Although the mobile Internet is fragmented by a challenging array of app stores, application types, device capabilities, platforms, and platform versions – also known as the "splinternet" – TELUS believes that this situation can be overcome and will change if enough value can be provided to customers.
We are moving from a context of limited connectivity, fixed primary devices, IT-led control, and management and security inside firewalls to a context of "always on, anywhere", mobile primary devices, user demands for agility and freedom, and boundary-less security and manageability. Thus, the consumerization of IT is fueling innovation, and this is yet another outside force. Established industry players can no longer control the sources of change and must respond to a faster pace of innovation.
Hyper-connectivity refers to the demand for "superfast" Internet access that is everywhere and always on. In addition to the overall increases in demand, the patterns of usage have also changed. In the past, telecommunications companies needed to manage the "busy hour", which refers to peak network demand; now, the increasing demands that mobile devices put on the network through signaling result in constant high levels of network traffic, even when users are asleep. TELUS, through extensive network resource planning, realizes that it takes more than "adding more pipe" to meet the needs of consumers.
These challenges explain why TELUS has entered the healthcare market; TELUS believes that, "to support a profound healthcare transformation agenda, investment in health IT needs to focus first and foremost on providing solutions that will address these key issues in a sustainable way" and that TELUS is well positioned to provide these solutions.
Health regions and Hospitals: electronic health records, clinical information systems, business analytics relating to public health, medication reconciliation, integrated beside terminals, human resources outsourcing, etc.
First-line care: electronic medical records, drug information systems, eReferrals, care coordination, telehealth, etc.
Home care and self care: remote patient monitoring, chronic disease management, personal health records, consumer applications, etc.
Pharmacies: pharmacy management systems, point-of-sales, consumer portals and applications, mobile applications for prescription renewal and online shopping, business analytics relating to drug prescriptions, etc.
Insurers and employers: claims management, provider management, business analytics relating to benefit program costs, human resources outsourcing, etc.
Today, healthcare information must move securely across organizations, not reside in individual silos where it cannot be shared. TELUS develops "care continuum" solutions (e.g., portals and platforms) to connect applications for securing information sharing.
Through its services in healthcare, TELUS is able to connect physicians, pharmacists, and allied healthcare providers, but the telecommunications company is also able to connect to its large consumer base, which includes patients. This reach enables more rapid acceptance and adoption of health IT solutions.
Through its business intelligence tools and expertise, TELUS provides analytics and insights to help make health information meaningful.
In the second half of the presentation, Pizzoferrato described two case studies to illustrate the outside-in approach used by TELUS in developing their healthcare solutions: remote patient monitoring and mobility for pharmacies.
This solution encourages continuity of healthcare interventions. For patients, an additional advantage to this new solution is that it does not depend on proprietary or landline technology – if they wish, patients can use their own devices, including tablets or smartphones. This point further demonstrates the outside-in approach because TELUS recognizes that patients may be more comfortable integrating the monitoring solution into the way they live their life already, with devices they are already familiar with. This solution increases compliance and gives patients the option to continue using some of the applications after the clinical intervention is over.
TELUS Pharmacy integrates a pharmacy's website and mobile applications with tools and web services that provide: i) communication with healthcare professionals; ii) online prescription renewal; and iii) access to personal health data and a pharmacological profile. For patients, medication management becomes simplified through one-click prescription refills, access to their medication history, and information about medications. For the pharmacy, their business can be enhanced with the option to add real-time product promotions, including geolocation of points of sales.
In the discussions that followed the first and second parts of the presentation, audience members shared the lessons learned they learned from the presentation and injected their own knowledge and experience into the conversation.
There is great value in engaging directly with customers, including observing how they work and how they use (or do not use) technology.
The healthcare system in Canada needs a unified platform.
There are huge gaps in the healthcare system, which means there are a lot of opportunities provided we can build a bridge over the conservatism of healthcare.
There are gaps in security, and therefore there are opportunities there.
Existing innovations in technology provide opportunities to make further innovations within and beyond healthcare.
Hospitals are very concerned with the bottom line.
Good information saves lives and reduces costs.
Consumers highly value recommendations from other consumers. This has implications for opportunities and it suggests that word-of-mouth marketing lends itself to mobile applications and connectivity.
Despite recent innovations in wireless and mobile, the healthcare system still has low-tech dependencies (e.g., some home care solutions still depend on landlines).
There are a number of different providers that control various pieces of data about us, but we are not taking ownership of that data.
We are seeing the democratization of product development.
The focus is on outcomes, not technology.
It is important to be "device agnostic" wherever possible.
There are many opportunities to create applications for individual and personal care, not just hospital systems.
The remote-patient monitoring solution has been well thought out.
The outside-in approach has great potential for developing great patient health records.
TELUS works with incubators and startups – this can be a way for small startups to build relationships and access the healthcare market.
Giovanni Pizzoferrato is a seasoned telecom leader with over 10 years of experience building Wire Line and Wireless Networks across Canada. Giovanni is currently focusing on the mHealth application platforms at TELUS to enable mobile health in Canada. Giovanni also has built and led numerous successful engineering teams at TELUS. Giovanni was also responsible for the TELUS National Labs team, which built national standard development environments for all of TELUS products and services. Giovanni was also an influential leader in the Innovation Centre Program and the Graduate Engineering Program at TELUS.


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Three new Chinese partnerships for Deutz
By Andy Brown2018-12-18T11:51:00+00:00
German-based engine manufacturer Deutz is restructuring its market presence in China, entering into partnerships with three Chinese companies: Sany, Horizon and Beinei.
Xiang Wenbo, President of Sany, (middle) and Dr. Frank Hiller, CEO, Deutz, (third from right) at the signing ceremony
"China is the largest individual market for engines in the world," said Dr Frank Hiller, Chairman of the Deutz Board of Management.
"Thanks to its new partners, Deutz now has the ideal production network for efficiently supplying local customers with Deutz drive systems. At the same time, we have access to an extensive service network that we will systematically enhance with digital solutions."
Deutz and Sany, one of China's largest construction equipment manufacturers, recently signed a memorandum of understanding in Beijing. The two companies are forming a joint venture in which Deutz will be the majority shareholder, with a stake of 51%.
Initially, Deutz will supply Sany with around 75,000 new engines for off- and on-road applications in 2022. These engines will comply with China 4 and China 6 emissions standards. Deutz's initial investment in the new joint venture has not been disclosed.
Liang, a member of the Sany Group's board of directors, said, "In this joint venture, we will benefit from working with an agile company that is looking to the future and driving forward technological innovation. Deutz thus brings to the table exactly what we need for our engine development."
The latest Yellow Table – International Construction's ranking of the top 50 original equipment manufacturers in the world by revenue – saw Sany ranked at number eight, with revenues of just under US$6 billion.
In addition to Sany, Deutz is entering into a cooperation agreement with Horizon, one of the leading companies in the Chinese construction equipment rental business. Horizon will become a local service partner for Deutz, servicing engines in the field and taking over the aftermarket sales business in China.
The third Chinese partnership is a local contract manufacturing alliance with engine manufacturer Beinei, which will act as a production hub for the Asian market. The Deutz management team is to oversee the manufacturing of approximately 20,000 engines in 2022 at a new factory in Tianjin, in the north of China.
In October 2018, Deutz sold its shares in Deutz Dalian, the Chinese joint venture that it had entered into with First Automotive Works. The new strategy enables Deutz to overhaul its market presence so that it can meet the growing demand for sophisticated engines, in China and other Asian markets.
Following these new partnerships, the company is aiming to generate revenue of approximately half a billion euros in China in 2022.
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A major crossword puzzle editor may be plagiarizing from The New York Times
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Crossword editor Timothy Parker helms the USA Today puzzle as well as Universal Crossword, a widely syndicated puzzle. In 65 instances, he replicated puzzle themes and answers from The New York Times' crossword, a new FiveThirtyEight report finds.
FiveThirtyEight looked at a database assembled by a crossword editor and a software engineer. In addition to appearing to copy distinct elements from other puzzles, Parker published crosswords under pseudonymous bylines in both series he edits.
While Parker admitted to using pseudonyms, he denied accusations of plagiarism.
"To me, it's just mere coincidence," he said. "We don't look at anybody else's puzzles or really care about anyone else's puzzles."
The experts FiveThirtyEight spoke with suggested the similarities between Parker's puzzles and others go beyond coincidence. Read the full report here. Julie Kliegman


In the 1990s, science fiction writer Nancy Kress envisioned a world where an elite few never had to sleep. Her Hugo and Nebula award-winning Beggars series posited a gene-therapy fix to sleep, dreamed up by gifted children let loose in a lab. The Sleepless were not only more productive but also more intelligent and emotionally stable while the sleep-dependent Beggars became an underclass of serfs.
Writer and video artist R.M. Vaughan also predicts a society that reveres lack of sleep, but his imagined future is yet more dystopian and in some ways has already begun. Vaughan has been cursed with insomnia since he was a small boy. That curse has come to define him as special, and he wonders how much of it was learned—a bid for attention perpetuated by a morbid attachment to complaining, one that he sees all around him.
The city that never sleeps has become every city and every home. Twenty-four hour urban bustle has been globalized, internalized and personalized, typified by the smart phone, which independently encourages late-night wakefulness.
"If the world around us is being run, ordered, financed and even entertained by people who are not sleeping well…," he muses, "what kind of culture will we be sharing in the future?" In Bright Eyed: Insomnia and Its Cultures, Vaughan contends it will be a culture in which sleep deprivation is viewed as normal—and even desirable. When nobody can sleep, it is easier to face ourselves if we tell the world we do not need to.
Persistently lacking in this slim volume is any real awareness of the serious research already done on insomnia. A total of eleven sources grace the list of works cited, including such tangentially relevant works as Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. Subjective experience is notoriously unreliable as a form of psychological research, and when Vaughan wonders what the basis of his sleep problems are, the reader is tempted to suggest: Let's just look that up—perhaps in the Journal of Sleep Disorders and Therapy. That might be a start on an evidence-based approach.
That is not to say Vaughan needs to take a medicalized approach. He roundly and rightly mocks the quackery sold to insomniacs and claims he has tried every pillow, every pill and every noise machine on the market. Trouble is, the best therapy for insomnia is not a pill at all; rather, the most effective treatment has been a round of cognitive behavioural therapy. In person or over the phone, a therapist educates the insomniac about sleep hygiene—keeping a dark bedroom, forgoing coffee at night—but also works to get to the bottom of perpetuating behaviour.
Often a sleep problem will start with an inciting stressor such as job loss or injury but continues for other reasons. The patient is instructed to keep a sleep diary and a consistent wake time even on weekends and, crucially, even after a sleepless night. But for cognitive behavioural therapy to work, one has to be serious about it, and Vaughan's book places the locus of control squarely outside of the insomnia sufferer, in the surrounding cultural milieu. He refuses to believe that people can reliably implement best sleep practices, and so the most effective response is summarily dismissed.
For the author, though, insomnia problems are compounded by restless leg syndrome: the irresistible urge to get up and walk around, or at least move one's legs in bed. It is painful and chronic, and is a truly intractable problem in medicine. Vaughan is not wrong to be despondent about his own prospects of near-term relief from sleep problems. It is just that his case is not representative of the rest of the sleep-deprived world.
The danger of relying on a single source—the author's daily life—is that we come away with the impression that insomnia's primary dangers are irritability and loss of mental acuity. While these may be the most salient and troubling symptoms for a young person, they are far from the most worrying if insomnia is as much of an epidemic as Vaughan asserts.
Let a healthy person sleep only four hours for three nights in a row and that person will function as a pre-diabetic. The glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity will be severely compromised, and the blood pressure and heart rate will rise. Not just that, the concentration of leptin in the blood—the hormone that communicates satiety to the brain—will drop at the same time as the appetite-stimulating hormone ghrelin rises. The adrenaline in that person's plasma as well as the stress hormone cortisol will be elevated. All of this takes a long-term toll on the body and contributes to obesity in our society.
"Seems" must be the operative word, because four hours of sleep a night delivers a cognitive impairment equivalent to legal intoxication. On a couple of days of four hours of sleep, it is inadvisable to operate heavy machinery. In fact, far from Coupland's claim that one needs less sleep as one ages, much of the cognitive decline we see in normal aging may be explained by the decline in sleep quality. The reason is that the prefrontal cortex, which coordinates executive functioning such as judgement calls, attention management and planning, is the most sensitive to sleep loss. A four-hour sleeper is not a vigilant driver, or doctor … or nuclear power plant technician.
If we are to have a less accident-prone, obesity-ridden and distractible society, we must face up to the cultures Vaughan describes, and then we must recognize that the solution is as close as our own bedrooms.
Jessa Gamble is the author of The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time (Penguin, 2011). She lives in Yellowknife.


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Tilray reported an average net selling price per gram of $7.52, up from $6.21 in the prior quarter and $7.13 a year ago. By comparison, Aurora Cannabis Inc.'s average selling price fell 26 per cent for dried cannabis and 18 per cent for cannabis extracts in the final quarter of the yearCost of sales rose to $12.4 million from $2.2 million a year earlier, the result of higher operating expenses related to growth initiatives, expansion of international teams, and financings and M&A activity, the company said.
Tilray sold 2,053 kilograms of cannabis, up from 1,613 kilograms in the third quarter. Eight Capital analyst Graeme Kreindler estimated that Tilray captured 4 per cent of Canada's $307 million (Canadian) legal cannabis market in the quarter, but expects that share to increase as new facilities ramp up production. That compares to about 20 per cent for Aurora and an estimated 30 per cent for Canopy Growth Corp.


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Kashmir cleric body condemns 'offensive statements' on internet, calls for unity among Muslims
Photograph by Abrar Fayaz for The Kashmir Walla
In connection with the holy days of Ashura in the ongoing month of Muharram-ul-Haram, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday held an emergency and extraordinary meeting of the Shia-Sunni Coordination Alliance at the office of the Central Jama Masjid Srinagar, which was presided over by the MMU district president Islamabad (Anantnag) and famous scholar Dr Peerzada Muhammad Sameer Shafi Siddiqui.
Among the scholars and personalities who participated and expressed opinion during the meeting included Agha Syed Mujtaba Abbas of Anjuman Shari'an Shia Jammu and Kashmir, Haji Ghulam Muhammad Nagoo, Bashir Mohsin of Jammu and Kashmir Shia Association, Haji Muhammad Amin, Muhammad Yusuf Wani, Sajid Hussain Mir, Moulana Khursheed Ahmed Qanungo of Anjuman Himayat-ul-Islam, Syed Yousuf Rizvi of Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen Jammu and Kashmir, Peer Rehmatullah of Bazm-e-Tawheed Ahle Hadith, Moulana Syed Waris Shah Bukhari, the head of the Markazi Raabta Aima Wa Masaajid Jammu and Kashmir (Central Coordinator of the Imams of the mosques of Jammu and Kashmir), Mufti Ghulam Rasool Samoon of Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar, Civil Society Kashmir's Syed Shakeel Ahmed Qalandar, social leader Haji Showkat Ahmad Khanyari, Qari Muhammad Aslam Raheemi, Syed Ghulam Nabi Bukhari Trali, renowned journalist Imdad Saqi, Abdul Qayoom Wani, Muhammad Ashraf Dar, Tariq Ahmad Zagar, Tariq Ahmad Khan, Farooq Ahmad and the MMU Secretary Moulana M S Rehman Shams and others.
The speakers on the eve, as per a statement issued to a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS), stressed the consolidation and promotion of unity between the two major sections of Muslims – Shia and Sunni, and in this context, they strongly condemned the uploading of offensive and seditious statements by some evil elements on social media.
It was made clear that there is no option but to rein in such unrestrained elements and called for moral action against those elements who from time to time are seeking to create divisions and sow the seeds of disunity between the Kashmiri nation.
"In the meeting, the distinguished speakers presented several concrete and important suggestions to strengthen the cause of inter-Muslim unity in Jammu and Kashmir at all levels, which will be followed in the near future."
The speakers in the meeting emphasised that during Ashura, Muslims must keep the torch of unity among them lit at all costs and thwart the plans of the anti-unity elements with their thoughts and actions. (GNS)
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As we win more, our skills improve and we get more attached to the game. These days, if we want to short-cut the process and level-up more quickly, we simply spend real money to buy virtual currency via in-app purchase.
The Stir Fry iPhone game includes a great example of a compelling compulsion loop, along with an entertaining premise and fun interactions.
The core idea is that you can't let your veggies burn up in their frying pans. You can flip them and hit other similar veggies to score points, and if you are lucky, you could get a fortune cookie, which earns you coins at the end of the game. You can buy potholders, fire extinguishers and other tools to improve your ability to keep your veggies from burning up. The addition of other elements to the game play also keeps you from getting bored once you get good.
There are two aspects to this compulsion loop that deepen engagement and increase effectiveness. First, the creative variety and story telling aspect of the props deepens engagement in the game. Secondly, including an aspect of chance and randomness in the reward system makes it more addictive.
Mr. Howard-Jones said that research has shown that the introduction of a chance or game element into any reward system increases dopamine production. "For generations, we educators have done everything we can to maintain a consistent relationship between reward and achievement, but the neuroscience is telling us something different," he said in an interview.
According to Mr. Howard-Jones, students learn more, and are happier to continue learning, when they are offered the chance of a reward rather than a guaranteed reward.
While it seems illogical, I think we've all experienced playful activities from games to sports where the element of chance adds to that edgy, uncertain anticipation that makes the reward that much more sweet. If only we could apply the same philosophy to all aspects of our lives, since there is an element of chance in everything we do. Of course, I think one of the reasons games are fun is simply because they are a diversion meant only for entertainment and the game play is a gift to ourselves.
Check out Stir Fry iPhone game for a neat new example of well-thought out game dynamics or just for a fun diversion.
Now that is interesting. I would never have guessed that a chance at a reward would TRUMP a guaranteed reward. I would have thought it would be competitive, but not victorious. Cool post.
I downloaded the game and am letting my 5 yr. old 'test engineer' give it a go.
This obviously has impacted the world of games, but this element also affects other areas of real business, things like customer retention and marketing. Think about the introduction of chance into a loyalty rewards program. Imagine if you had a 'chance' for a free first class upgrade when you booked a flight with reward miles. Elements along those lines seem to extend this chance phenomenon to more than just games.
Hi Sarah, i discovered your blog doing research on compulsion loops. I like how you've laid it all out here with a good example & an upbeat take on the mechanic! Great Article!


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Q: First adjacent difference larger than a value I have a Series of measurements. I want to select the first measurement in that series where the adjacent difference is greater than a certain number and index it's position.
For example, if I set the max difference to be 4 and I have
values = [5,6,5,10,17,11,13]
I want it to return 5 and 3
Because 5 is the first difference between two adjacent numbers that is larger than 4, and 3 is the index where the difference occurs.
Is there a simple command to do this in Python?

A: There's no command, but you can do this:
l = [5,6,5,10,13,11,13]
diffs = [y-x for x, y in zip(l, l[1:])]
next(x for x in enumerate(diffs, start=1) if x[1] > 1)

This outputs: (3, 5)