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James Hole, 1820-1895
Writer and activist for social reform
Next time you climb the steps to the Leeds City Museum, look up at the proud inscription above: 'The Leeds Institute', overlooked by the helmeted head of Athena, goddess of wisdom, crafts (and owls). This imposing building, designed by Cuthbert Brodrick of Town Hall fame, was opened in 1868 as the new, purpose-built headquarters of the Leeds Mechanics' Institute. One of the distinguished speakers at the opening ceremony was James Hole, who over many years had devoted himself to the cause of workers' education. He had urged a raft of reforms to improve the lives of working people, and had been a pioneer in the Leeds cooperative movement. A distinguished writer, thinker, and activist, he had won a national reputation as 'Mr Hole of Leeds'.
In fact he came originally from Manchester, where he was born in 1820, the son of a tailor. All his education, he said, was gained through the opportunities offered by his local Mutual Improvement Society and the Manchester Mechanics Institute – no wonder these institutions were close to his heart. He came to Leeds in his early twenties to take up a post as bookkeeper with a firm of cloth exporters. In 1843 he married, and with his young wife Elizabeth, the daughter of a Blackburn schoolmaster, settled in Alfred Place, Little London. Over the following years they moved house as their family grew, settling finally with their seven children in Cliff Road, Woodhouse. He remained steadily employed, leading a conventional life, but he was inspired by the new radical thinking of the time, by ideas of cooperation and socialism which could free the working classes and empower them to improve and transform their lives and their communities. And he carried his ideas into action.
He was a founder member of the Leeds Redemption Society which aimed to set up an ideal self-governing community of workers (and did so, in Wales); and he was a leading light in the Leeds cooperative movement. Most people have heard of the Rochdale cooperative pioneers, but Leeds had its pioneers too, and he was one. From small beginnings in 1847, when workers from Benyon's Flax Mill set up their own flour mill to provide affordable, unadulterated flour, grew the mighty Leeds Industrial Cooperative Society which 50 years later could claim to be the largest cooperative society in the world, dealing in goods ranging 'from clog-irons and pickles to pianos and clothing', with over 37,000 members. His significant contribution was remembered in the Jubilee celebrations.
He numbered among his friends and correspondents many of the radical thinkers of the day. He was often invited to speak on his social principles, but his voice was strongest in writing – clear, concise, backed up with statistics, practical and organised. Alongside articles for various journals, he published in 1851 'Lectures on Social Science and the Organisation of Labour', setting out his social and economic theories, his belief in the achievability of progress and justice for the working classes. It was thought-provoking material.
Other causes engaged him too, particularly working class education and training – he believed passionately in education as 'the business of a whole life'. He served for years on the Committee of the Leeds Mechanics' Institute, and, most influentially, as Secretary (unpaid) of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics Institutes. In 1853 he published a prize-winning work on adult education which had considerable impact and resulted in the introduction of new practical examinations. He wrote too on schooling, a political hot potato of the time: his essay published in 1860, 'Light, More Light', included a survey of education in Leeds and urged the vital need for a national system to provide for every child – achieved 10 years later.
The provision of decent, healthy housing was also close to his heart. In 1866 he published his prize-winning study of working class housing, advocating a range of practical measures for the improvement of the appalling slums in Leeds and elsewhere (many later put into effect), with details of model housing schemes like Saltaire. He was himself a director of a model housing association and the Leeds Permanent Building Society.
One of his lasting legacies was the village library scheme, which he proposed in 1852. Boxes of books were sent out to outlying Yorkshire villages cut off from library access. The scheme won royal support and lasted many years.
In 1867 James Hole left Leeds for London, to become Secretary to the Association of Chambers of Commerce. There he pursued further causes – the preservation of common land, and (his last book) the nationalisation of the railways. He died in 1895, remembered as an unassuming, kind and generous man. While his name is mostly forgotten, his ideas helped to bring about reform and still resonate today.


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The Ogun State Government has announced the appointment of Professor Ganiyu Olatunji Olatunde as the new Chief of Staff to the State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun.
According to a press statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Taiwo Adeoluwa, the new chief of staff hails from Ikenne Local Government Area of the state.
A Professor of Entomology, Olatunde was at various times the Acting Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-chancellor of the Osun State University, Osogbo.
He has a Doctorate (PhD) and Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Agriculture and Agricultural Biology from the University of Ibadan respectively. He also has a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Zoology from the University of Lagos.
The 57 year old Prof. Olatunde has spent over 24 years in the academia and has over 40 publications to his credit.
Professor Olatunde replaces the former Chief of Staff, Emmanuel Ademola Ogunnaike, who resigned his appointment.


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Sachsenring GP 1999 for GTR2
Original Track converted from F1 Challenge to rFactor by Weber
GTR2 Conversion by philrob
updated by Team PBB
Track Infos from Wikipedia :
The Sachsenring motorsport racing circuit is located in Hohenstein-Ernstthal near Chemnitz in Saxony, Germany. Among other events, it features the annual German motorcycle Grand Prix of the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championship.
The first race was held on 26 May 1927 on an 8.7 km layout on public roads, running also through the village of Hohenstein-Ernstthal itself. It was dubbed "Sachsenring" in 1937.
The East German motorcycle Grand Prix was held there from 1962 to 1971. The local two stroke MZ bikes of Zschopau were competitive during this time. The quickest lap was achieved by 15 time World Champion Giacomo Agostini on a MV Agusta with a 180 km/h average. After West German Dieter Braun won in 1971 and the East German fans sang the West German National Anthem in celebration (as is the case in sport, the winner's National Anthem is played after the event), the event was limited to East European entrants for political reasons.
In 1990, with faster Western machinery now available, racing through the village became too dangerous with some fatalities (this can be compared with the Isle of Man TT).
To accelerate redevelopment of eastern Germany in the new unified Germany, a 2.9 km (1.8 mi) short track berg corner was built in the 1990s to bring international motorsport to the newly freed eastern part of Germany. In 1996, IDM motorcycle racing and the ADAC Super Tourenwagen Cup resumed racing here. The DTM raced here in 2000, with Klaus Ludwig winning at age 51, but the DTM did not return after 2002, preferring international venues.
Since 1998, the German motorcycle Grand Prix moved to the Sachsenring from Nürburgring. In recent years, the track has been made faster and longer again, with the length now being 3670m. Since 2007, the Sachsenring is part of the regular schedule of ADAC GT Masters. In 2011 the FIA GT1 World Championship held one of its race weekends at the Sachsenring.
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here is another version of your conversion i have taken it further this time. I have corrected bias settings, spec power, specular colour etc. and have changed these to rFactor standards. I have reset object Normals to their correct settings. The F1/C settings have all been changed, also replaced the X sectors to match the newer AIW. I have redrawn most of the textures and saved as DDS, with multitexturing where required. I have added new models and removed others in keeping with the track of 99.Shadows have been implemented where needed. The Jumbotrons now show a movie.
The skyboxi and sky have also been changed along with a rewrite of the GDB and SCN file, the lighting has also been modified. The track is still slow to load and slows at about 80%. I think this is an AIW error as this is an F1/C aiw. The AIW has been tweeked a little in the editor. I have added a new rfactor type loading screen…and lots more that i have forgotten.
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quick conversion to GTR2 as requested :
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– Files renamed (for online problems) 99Sachsenring
– Start light fixed
– RoadDryGrip = 1.00
– new Loading Screen by die_Locke & FrankyBB
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There's also a reversible denim jacket to celebrate the brand-new collab.
You don't need us—or James Dean or Ryan Gosling or A$AP Rocky—to sell you on wearing denim. But wearing shoes made of the tried-and-true fabric has never really caught on with the average guy. Even among sneakerheads, denim kicks are a divisive topic—some love the All-American look, while others shudder at the thought of wearing sneakers that resemble a pair of jeans. That didn't Jordan Brand and Levi's from diving in jeans-first for a denim-heavy collaboration, though. While the Wild West vibe isn't for everybody, if you're looking to get in touch with your inner cowboy, this isn't a bad place to start.
And just like your favorite pair of jeans, the limited-edition sneaker and jacket are designed to get better with age. The more you wear them, the more the denim will slowly crease (normally a Jordan nightmare) and fade which will give your kicks a one-of-a-kind feel. Just because footwear made of Bruce Springsteen's favorite fabric has never quite caught on with the sneaker world doesn't mean you should be afraid to give the look a shot. One word of advice: don't wear denim sneakers with jeans unless you're going for the literal head-to-toe Canadian tux—which is a macho style move, to say the least.


I'm going to teach you a little trick — one you can use to impress your friends at dinner or your co-workers at your next meeting. What you're going to do is draw four shapes on a piece of paper: A triangle, a circle, a square and a squiggly line. Don't let your friends see [.].
does your Net Promoter Score tell you enough to make a difference? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Net Promoter Score®, or NPS, measures customer experience and predicts business growth.
Customer experience repair and improvement can be completely overwhelming! There are so many areas to tackle. Those surveys don't develop and send themselves. Then you simply must understand the journey by undertaking a robust customer journey mapping process.
My daughter, Claudia, and I have a tradition when we eat ice cream at home: it's always topped with chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and sprinkles. One day not long ago, Claudia asked me if I'd make her a bowl of ice cream.
Some call centers struggle to have a stellar reputation, but it doesn't have to be that way.
This year, Ian Golding (that's me), will officially become the author of a book. A lifetimes ambition, I am beyond excited!! However, I would never have got to the point of being on the brink of achieving my ambition without the support of many people.
The post How Much Would You Pay For Outstanding Customer Service? Burberry's Flagship London Store Is Put To the Test appeared first on Frank Reactions.
Did the title about data make you curious? Great! Of course, in today's data-rich environment I'm not really suggesting that you actually ignore it!
Vuzix today announced they'll be unveiling their latest smartglasses at this year's CES in Las Vegas.
When it comes to delivering exceptional customer experiences, true omnichannel service and quick resolution go hand-in-hand.
Running a successful business requires more than just a great product — it also means that you need to please your customers and ensure their satisfaction. However, knowing whether or not you are delivering service that meets their expectations can be difficult if you don't reach out to them.


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Jimmy Wilkins (* 27. August 1947 in San José, Kalifornien; † 6. Januar 2012 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Basketballspieler. Wilkins konnte sich nach Studienende nicht in der am höchsten dotierten US-Profiliga NBA durchsetzen und spielte anschließend in der deutschen Basketball-Bundesliga, wo er auf Anhieb mit dem SSV Hagen 1974 Deutscher Meister wurde. Nach dem Pokalsieg 1975 war er noch drei Jahre Spielertrainer beim USC Münster, bevor er in seine Heimat zurückkehrte und dort später als Einkaufsleiter eines Informationstechnologie-Unternehmens arbeitete. Wilkins, der mit einer Deutschen verheiratet war und sich auch als Trainer einer lokalen Schulmannschaft engagierte, starb an den Folgen eines Herzinfarkts im Alter von 64 Jahren.

Karriere
Wilkins studierte unter anderem an der San Diego State University, für dessen Hochschulteam Aztecs er in der damaligen Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA) in der NCAA spielte. Die PCAA und ihre Mitglieder gehörte ab 1970 offiziell der Division I und der damit wettbewerbsstärksten Klasse der NCAA an. Bis Wilkins' Studienende 1972 erreichte man jedoch keine Meisterschaften in dieser Conference. Im NBA Draft von 1972 wurde Wilkins in der elften Runde als insgesamt 157. Spieler von den Portland Trail Blazers ausgewählt. Ihm gelang es in der Folge nicht, sich einen Platz im Kader des NBA-Teams zu erspielen.

1973 ging Wilkins daraufhin nach Deutschland und schloss sich der Erstligamannschaft des Spiel- und Sportvereins (SSV) in Hagen in Westfalen an. Der Verein war zuvor in der Basketball-Bundesliga 1972/73 Meister der Gruppe Nord in der höchsten Spielklasse gewesen, aber in der Zwischenrunde vor dem Erreichen des Halbfinales um die Deutsche Meisterschaft ausgeschieden. Mit Wilkins wurde der SSV Hagen in der Saison 1973/74 erneut Sieger der Gruppe Nord und konnte diesmal bis in die Finalspiele um die Meisterschaft gegen Titelverteidiger USC Heidelberg einziehen. Hier gewann man beide Spiele, wobei Wilkins in beiden Finalspielen Topscorer seiner Mannschaft war, und sicherte dem Verein seine erste und einzige Meisterschaft. In der folgenden Spielzeit 1974/75 schied man als Titelverteidiger erneut in der Zwischenrunde aus und musste dem USC Heidelberg und dem MTV Wolfenbüttel den Einzug ins Halbfinale überlassen. Wilkins war zum Saisonende verletzt und wurde durch seinen Landsmann "Pinky" Smith vertreten, weshalb er beim Pokalsieg der Hagener Mannschaft wenige Wochen später nur peripher beteiligt war.

Nach seiner Verletzung kehrte Wilkins nicht mehr zurück zum SSV Hagen und wurde 1975 Spielertrainer des Regionalligisten USC in Münster, mit dem er 1976 in die ein Jahr zuvor geschaffene 2. Basketball-Bundesliga Gruppe Nord aufstieg. In Münster lernte der schon in Hagen sehr beliebte Wilkins auch seine deutsche Ehefrau Susanne kennen, mit der er 1978 nach dem Ende seiner aktiven Karriere als Basketballspieler in seine kalifornische Heimat zurückkehrte. Sein Sohn Dominik (* 1988) trat in die Fußstapfen seines Vaters und wechselte nach dem Studium ebenfalls als Basketballer nach Hagen und Dorsten am Rande des Münsterlandes.

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# Toffees
Everton appoint Marco Silva as new boss, club confirm
The Portuguese manager joins the Toffees after reaching an agreement to replace Sam Allardyce this summer
May 31st 2018, 3:31 PM
MARCO SILVA HAS been appointed Everton manager.
Everton's new director of football, Marcel Brands, has been involved in the decision to hire the 40-year-old, who was also the first choice of the owner Farhad Moshiri.
Silva tried to leave Watford for Everton to replace Ronald Koeman last autumn, but the Hornets resisted their rival's offer of around £12 million (€13.7m).
Everton turned to Sam Allardyce instead as a rough start to the season saw them threatened with a relegation battle, but despite keeping his team in the Premier League, he left at the end of the campaign after proving unpopular with the fans.
Watford believed that Everton's approach unsettled Silva, who was subsequently sacked in January, but their complaints to the Premier League for the Merseyside club's "unwarranted approach" haven't proven to be an obstacle.
Silva had other offers but had always seen Everton as his first choice, having been keen to join them a few months ago. Brands begins work on Friday after joining from PSV and will work with Silva to overhaul the Everton squad following a disappointing season. He gave an insight into the strategy around the hiring of their new manager.
"I think it is important that he wants to work in the new philosophy, the new strategy of how we want to work with a director of football," Brands said. "I think it is important that he creates the environment for the long-term, and I think it is important that he is a modern coach. If you think about what Everton's plans are, I think a modern coach will fit into that profile."
Paulo Fonseca was also linked with the Everton job, but he agreed a new contract at Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk. Bill Kenwright was thought to have preferred making an approach for Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe.
As well as Watford, Silva has worked with Estoril, Sporting, Olympiakos and Hull City.
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house to cook dinner for her.
1. I don't know any of these people.
After finishing our dessert (cream & strawberry with meringue) we did some tarot card reading.
Turned out we got a bit emotional at the end! Do you believe in tarot reading?
A cute and spiritual teabag with different messages behind!
Oh XD Kinda hard to forget that there will be 8 people?
Stay cool with this weather!
Oh! That was quite a situation you got pushed into but I'm glad it turned out well! I haven't tried tarot reading but am interested just to give it a shot. I'm quite neutral - don't really believe or not believe it! I heard it can really have some emotional/deep impact though!
I love love love eating, and of course also foodpics!!!!
feeling the same as you, going to die in this heat :'). Niet zo slim om te vergeten dat er 8 mensen kwam, maar oké ;'). We leuk dat ze het lekker vonden!
lol its hot in canada too but not as hot as wher u are i bet!
I like your pictures a lot! and this desert sounds delicious!
yoummie , so nice photos and everything look delicius! im fallowing you!
8 people? Oh my, I'd fail for sure, haha. But the food looks delicious nevertheless!
Ohhh your food looks delicious, you did such a brilliant job! And the dessert, ohhh I luuurvve Eton Mess! - How did you manage to fix all this in this heat!!?
It was really good spirited of you to cook for so many! I might have backed out.
Woah, eight people? Hah! But I'm so proud of you! You seriously need a lot of confident to do that!
i will send you a ticket so you can fly to my house and cook me dinner!!
Gald i found your blog..
Wow it looks like you managed to get it all together nicely in the end! I like the look of that dessert.
i enjoyed these photos a great deal!
Waarom zei ze dat niet? Toch goed gedaan :)!
Cute chickens!! Are they yours?
lovely pictures. looks like a great party.
well looks like you whipped up a delicious meal. and cute chickens!!!


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NEW HAMPSHIRE DELEGATION ANNOUNCES $8 MILLION IN DISASTER RELIEF FOR LINCOLN, LEBANON
(Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Congresswomen Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) and Annie Kuster (NH-02) announced today that critical disaster relief resources have been awarded to Lincoln and Lebanon for road and bridge repair as a result of severe storm and flooding damage. "These New Hampshire communities have been devastated by severe storms and are still in need of assistance to rebuild," said Shaheen, Ayotte, Shea-Porter and Kuster. "This as… Continue Reading
BIPARTISAN COALITION OF SENATORS INTRODUCE RESOLUTION HONORING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - In advance of International Women's Day on March 8, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) led a bipartisan coalition of Senators to introduce a resolution Thursday commemorating the 103rd International Women's Day. The International Women's Day Resolution was co-sponsored by U.S. Senators Mark Begich (D-AK), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Benjamin Cardin (D-MD), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Patty Mur… Continue Reading
SHAHEEN: FIXING OUR NATION'S BRIDGES CRITICAL FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, ECONOMY
(Washington, DC) - Citing a need to upgrade and update our roads and bridges, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) has introduced legislation that will both maintain public safety and provide businesses and consumers with the infrastructure necessary for a 21st century economy. The Strengthen and Fortify Existing Bridges Act of 2014 (SAFE Bridges Act) would establish a program to provide funding specifically dedicated to repair and replace aging and deteriorating bridges. "The condition of our b… Continue Reading
SHAHEEN: WE MUST FIX OUR BROKEN MILITARY JUSTICE SYSTEM
(Washington, DC) - U.S. Senator Shaheen (D-NH) went to the Senate floor this afternoon to call for passage of the Military Justice Improvement Act of which Shaheen is an original cosponsor. As a member of the Senate Armed Service Committee Shaheen has been a leader in the fight against military sexual assault. A vote on the Military Justice Improvement Act is expected as early as this afternoon. Senator Shaheen's remarks as prepared for delivery are included below: Thank you Madam President.… Continue Reading
BIPARTISAN GROUP OF SENATORS INTRODUCE RESOLUTION CONDEMNING RUSSIAN AGGRESSION IN UKRAINE
Washington, D.C. - A bipartisan group of Senators, led by Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Roger Wicker (R-MS), introduced a resolution today condemning the Russian military siege of Crimea, calling for a withdrawal of those troops, and a negotiated settlement to any concerns regarding the Crimea. It also urges the administration and European Union to use a range of economic and diplomatic leverage against Russia should it fail to abide by these basic economic norms. "Russia m… Continue Reading
SHAHEEN STATEMENT ON BIPARTISAN HOUSE VOTE PASSING ENERGY EFFICIENCY BILL
(Washington, DC) - U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the co-author of the Shaheen-Portman Energy Savings and Industrial Competiveness Act, released the following statement applauding the House of Representatives' vote today approving (375-36) a bipartisan energy efficiency bill sponsored by Reps. David McKinley (R-WV) and Peter Welch (D-VT): "With energy efficiency, we have the fastest, most cost-effective way to address our energy needs all the while creating jobs and growing our economy. I'… Continue Reading
SHAHEEN, JOHNSON, MANCHIN, AYOTTE INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF MOTORCYCLE RIDERS
(Washington, DC) - U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) today introduced bipartisan legislation that would prohibit the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) from issuing grants to states for motorcycle-only checkpoints. The NHTSA initiated the Motorcycle Law Enforcement Demonstration Program in 2009, which provides states with funds to conduct discriminatory, motorcycle-only checkpoints where riders are specificall… Continue Reading
In Case You Missed It: Shaheen-Portman Energy Efficiency Bill Gains Momentum
(Washington, DC) - The bipartisan Shaheen-Portman Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act is picking up momentum; since last week, the bill has been endorsed by both Democrats and Republicans as well as environmental groups, utility groups and industry leaders. In total, the reintroduced legislation has ten bipartisan cosponsors. In case you missed it, here's what people are saying about the bill that will create jobs, protect the environment, and save people billions: "Commercial t… Continue Reading
AT ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE HEARING SHAHEEN REITERATES OPPOSITION TO BASE CLOSURE PROPOSAL
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IN ADVANCE OF ARMED SERVICES HEARING, SHAHEEN RAISES CONCERNS OVER BASE CLOSURE RECOMMENDATIONS, NATIONAL GUARD REDUCTIONS
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SHAHEEN, PORTMAN RENEW EFFORT TO PASS BIPARTISAN ENERGY EFFICIENCY BILL
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FRIDAY IN LACONIA: SHAHEEN TO DISCUSS NEW ENERGY EFFICIENCY LEGISLATION AT LAKES REGION COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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SHAHEEN FILES CHARLIE MORGAN ACT AS AMENDMENT TO COMPREHENSIVE VETERANS BILL
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SHAHEEN ANNOUNCES DISASTER RELIEF FUNDING AWARDED TO NEW ENGLAND
(Washington, DC) - U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) announced this morning that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will give $32.8 million in disaster relief funding to coastal communities in New England that have been suffering severe economic losses in recent years due to declining fish populations. "This morning's announcement is great news for New Hampshire's fishing industry," Shaheen said. "These disaster relief resources that I've long fought for will provide cr… Continue Reading
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(Washington, DC) - As part of their ongoing efforts to protect New Hampshire's fishing industry and mitigate industry-wide economic losses, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) are calling on U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to waive the state matching requirements for federally declared disaster relief funds for the Northeast Multispecies Groundfish Fishery. In a letter sent Wednesday, Shaheen and Ayotte along with a bipartisan group of New England Senators, urge… Continue Reading


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Whitby  est une ville portuaire du Yorkshire du Nord, en Angleterre. Situé à  de York, à l'embouchure de l'Esk, c'est un port de pêche et une destination touristique. Sa population est de  habitants en 2001.

La ville s'est développée autour de l'abbaye de Whitby, fondée en 655, et où se tint le concile de Whitby en 664.

C'est à Whitby que le célèbre roman de Bram Stoker Dracula met en scène le naufrage au cours d'une tempête du Demeter, navire à bord duquel se trouvait le comte Dracula lors de son arrivée en Angleterre.

Le capitaine James Cook est né à Marton, Middlesbrough, et a fait une formation d'apprenti à Whitby dans la marine marchande.

Ce fut dès le , la première station baleinière du pays.

Histoire
Whitby s'est appelée Streanæshalc, Streneshalc, Streoneshalch, Streoneshalh, et Streunes-Alae in Lindissi durant les  et  siècles. Prestebi, qui signifie la «demeure des prêtres» en vieux norrois, est un nom du . Son nom historique était Hwitebi et Witebi, qui signifie la «colonie blanche» en vieux norrois, au , Whitebi au  et Qwiteby au .

Abbaye
Un monastère a été fondé à Streanœhealh en 657 par le roi Oswiu (ou Oswy) de Northumbrie, en guise de remerciement, après avoir vaincu Penda, le roi païen de Mercie. À sa fondation, l'abbaye était un double monastère Anglo-Saxon pour homme et femme. Sa première abbesse, la princesse royale Hild, a par la suite été vénérée comme une sainte. L'abbaye est devenu un centre d'apprentissage et Cædmon le vacher y a miraculeusement été transformé en poète d'inspiration ayant rédigé des textes modèles dans la littérature anglo-saxonne. L'abbaye est devenue le premier couvent royal du royaume de Deira, et la nécropole de sa famille royale. Le Concile de Whitby, en 664, a choisi le jour de Pâques du calendrier romain pour la Northumbrie plutôt que la version celte.

Le monastère a été détruit entre 867 et 870 par les Vikings dans une série de raids venu du Danemark et menés par Ivar et Ubbe. Son site est resté en désolation pendant plus de 200 ans jusqu'à la Conquête normande de 1066. Après la conquête, la région a été accordée à Guillaume de Percy qui en 1078 a donné la terre pour fonder un monastère bénédictin dédié à saint Pierre et sainte Hilda. Guillaume de Percy a aussi fait don de terres pour le monastère, la ville et le port de Whitby et l'église Sainte-Marie et des chapelles dépendantes à Fyling, Hawsker, Sneaton, Ugglebarnby, Dunsley et Aislaby, cinq moulins dont Ruswarp, Hackness avec deux moulins et deux églises. Vers 1128, Henry I a accordé le burgage de l'abbaye à Whitby et la permission d'y organiser une cérémonie à la sainte Hilda le . Une deuxième cérémonie a aussi été organisée durant la période hivernale aux environs de la foire Saint-Martin. Les droits de commerce ont été accordés à l'abbaye ainsi qu'à la liberté. L'abbaye Whitby a été rendue en décembre 1539 lorsque Henry VIII a dissout les monastères.

Le peintre Turner représente l'abbaye au loin dans le tableau Whitby qui fait partie de la série Les Ports d'Angleterre vers 1824. C'est une aquarelle sur papier conservée à la Tate Britain à Londres

Ville
En 1540, la ville avait entre 20 et 30 maisons et sa population était d'environ 200 habitants. La bourgeoisie, qui avait très peu d'indépendance face à l'abbaye, avait essayé d'obtenir son autonomie après la dissolution des monastères. Le roi avait ordonné que des lettres patentes soient rédigées pour leur accorder leurs demandes, mais elles n'ont pas été appliquées. En 1550 la Liberté de Whitby Strand, sauf pour Hackness a été accordé au Comte de Warwick qui en 1551 l'a transmis à Sir John York et son épouse Anne qui a vendu la concession aux Cholmleys. Sous le règne d'Élisabeth , Whitby était un petit port de pêche. En 1635 les propriétaires de la liberté dirigeaient le port et la ville où 24 bourgeois avaient le privilège d'acheter et de vendre des biens par voie maritime. La location du burgage a continué jusqu'à l'Acte du Parlement de 1837 qui a confié le gouvernement de la ville à une Commission d'Amélioration votée par les contribuables.

À la fin du  Thomas Chaloner a visité les ateliers d'alun dans les États pontificaux où il a pu observer que le rocher que l'on y transformait était similaire à celui de son domaine de Guisborough. À cette époque la production et les ventes d'alun, qui était important pour la médecine, le corroyage du cuir et la réparation de tissus teints, était sous le monopole de l'Espagne et des États Pontificaux. Chaloner a fait venir des ouvriers en secret pour développer l'industrie dans le Yorkshire, où l'alun y a été produit près de Sandsend Ness à  () de Whitby sous le règne de Jacques . Une fois l'industrie établie, les importations ont été interdites et bien que les méthodes de production étaient laborieuses, l'Angleterre pouvait être auto-suffisante. Le commerce de l'alun ainsi que l'importation du charbon provenant des bassins houillers de Durham ont fait grandir le port de Whitby de façon importante.

Whitby a grandi de par sa taille et ses richesses et a développé ses activités dont la construction de navires à l'aide des chênes de la région. En 1790-91 Whitby a produit  de transport ce qui en faisait le troisième plus grand chantier naval d'Angleterre, après Londres et Newcastle. Les taxes sur les importations qui entraient au port ont levé les fonds pour améliorer et développer les doubles quais de la ville, ce qui a amélioré le havre et a permis d'accroître encore plus le commerce. En 1753 le premier baleinier est parti pour le Groenland et en 1795 Whitby devenait un important port baleinier. L'année 1814 a été la plus bénéfique lorsque huit navires ont permis de capturer 172 baleines, et la pêche du Resolution avait produit  d'huile. Les carcasses ont donné  d'os de baleines utilisés pour fabriquer et vendre des corsets jusqu'à ce qu'ils soient passés de mode. La graisse que l'on faisait bouillir permettait de produire de l'huile pour les lampes de quatre phares le long du quai. L'huile était utilisée pour l'éclairage des rues jusqu'à l'arrivée du gaz qui a fait diminuer la demande puis la Compagnie d'Huile et Gaz de Whitby est devenu la Compagnie de Charbon et Gaz de Whitby. Comme le marché des produits de baleine chutait, les prises devenaient trop petites pour être économiquement viables et en 1831 il ne restait plus qu'un baleinier, le Phoenix.

Whitby a bénéficié du commerce des bassins houillers de Newcastle avec Londres, à la fois en construisant les navires et en assurant le transport. Dans sa jeunesse l'explorateur James Cook a appris à commercer sur des charbonniers, en transportant du charbon depuis le port de Whitby. L'Endeavour, le navire dont il était le commandant pour son voyage vers l'Australie et la Nouvelle-Zélande, a été construit au départ à Whitby en 1764 par Tomas Fishburn sous le nom de Comte de Pembroke (Earl of Pembroke) pour le transport du charbon. Il a été racheté par la Royal Navy en 1768, réaménagé et rebaptisé.

À l'époque géorgienne, Whitby a développé sa station thermale lorsque ses trois sources ferrugineuses étaient recherchées pour les vertus toniques et médicinales. Les visiteurs étaient attirés vers la ville qui menait aux maisons et hôtels surtout ceux de West Cliff. Puis en 1839, la construction de la Whitby and Pickering Railway a relié Whitby à Pickering et jusqu'à York et a joué un rôle dans le développement de la ville comme destination touristique. George Hudson, qui a promu la ligne vers York, était chargé du développement du Royal Crescent qu'il a en partie achevé. Pendant 12 ans à partir de 1847, Robert Stephenson, fils de George Stephenson, ingénieur de la Whitby and Pickering Railway, était le membre conservateur de la ville soutenu par Hudson son compatriote protectionniste.

Le jais minéraloïde noir, restants comprimés d'ancêtres d'araucaria du Chili, qui est découvert dans les falaises et dans les landes est utilisé depuis l'Âge du Bronze pour fabriquer des perles. Les Romains sont connus pour avoir exploité cette matière dans la région. Pendant l'époque victorienne on apporte du jais à Whitby par poney pour en faire des décorations, surtout avec le pic de popularité au milieu du  lorsque c'était la joaillerie de deuil choisie par la reine Victoria après la mort du prince Albert.

L'avènement des navires en tôle à la fin du  et le développement bâtiments portuaires sur la Tees ont conduit au déclin des petits ports du Yorkshire. Le Monks-haven mis à l'eau en 1871 était le dernier navire en bois bâti à Whitby et un an plus tard le port s'est envasé.

Le , le navire-hôpital Rohilla a coulé en heurtant les rochers juste au large de Whitby avec les côtes de la baie de Saltwick en vue. Parmi les 229 passagers à bord, 85 ont perdu la vie dans la catastrophe; la plupart sont enterrés au cimetière de Whitby. Lors du bombardement de Scarborough, Hartlepool et Whitby de , la ville a été encerclée par les cuirassés allemands Von der Tann et Derfflinger. Pendant l'assaut final sur les côtes du Yorkshire les navires ont pointé leurs canons sur la borne de signalisation tout au bout du promontoire. L'abbaye de Whitby a essuyé des dégâts considérables dans cette attaque qui a duré dix minutes. L'escadron allemand à la tête de l'attaque a pu échapper malgré les tentatives de la Royal Navy.

Pendant le début du  la flotte de pêche a préservé l'activité du port et quelques cargos ont continué à utiliser le port. Il a été revitalisé en 1955 après l'attaque sur les docks de Hull lorsque six navires ont été redirigés et ont déchargé leurs cargaisons sur les ports de pêche. L'Endeavour Wharf, près de la gare ferroviaire, était ouvert en 1964 par le conseil. Le nombre de vaisseaux utilisant le port en 1972 était de 291, puis seulement 64 en 1964. Le bois, le papier et les produits chimiques sont importés tandis que de l'acier, des portes et des briques sont exportés. Le port est détenu et géré par le Scarborough Borough Council depuis que les dirigeants de la Harbour Commission ont abandonné leurs responsabilités en 1905.

En 1979, la construction d'une marina a débuté en draguant le grand port et en installant des pontons. Les terres avoisinantes sont occupées par de petites industries et des parkings. De nouveaux pontons ont été installés en 1991 et 1995. Le Centre de la Marina de Whitby a été ouvert en .

Gouvernance
À la suite de l'Acte de 1837, la gouvernance de la ville a été confiée à une Commission d'Amélioration élu par les contribuables. Un comité régional s'est formé en 1872, et a duré jusqu'à la formation du Whitby Urban District Council à la suite de l'Acte de Gouvernance régionale de 1894. Les cités de Whitby, Ruswarp et Hawskercum-Stainsacre se sont réunis dans un borough parlementaire avec l'Acte de Réforme de 1832 revenant à un membre jusqu'à l'Acte de 1885 de redistribution des sièges.

Depuis 1974 Whitby est dirigée par le Scarborough Borough Council, l'un des sept conseils de districts du Yorkshire du Nord. Pour les besoins du borough, la ville compte trois secteurs, Mayfield, Streonshalh et Whitby West Cliff. Le borough est un district non-métropolitain, chargé du logement, de l'administration, des loisirs et divertissements, du ramassage d'ordure, de la santé environnementale et des impôts. Le North Yorkshire County Council est un comté non-métropolitain chargé de l'enseignement, des transports, des autoroutes, des incendies, de la gestion des ordures, des services sociaux et de la bibliothèque. À son plus bas niveau de gestion, la ville de Whitby a un conseil qui, pour les besoins électoraux et administratifs est divisé en six secteurs représentés par 19 conseillers qui ont la charge des sépultures, des lotissements, des aires de jeux et de l'éclairage public. Les élections du conseil municipal se tiennent tous les quatre ans. Actuellement le maire de Whitby est Madame Noreen Wilson.

Au niveau national, la ville est représentée par un Conservateur, Robert Goodwill, qui a été élu membre de la circonscription de Scarborough et Whitby en 2010. Whitby fait partie de la circonscription de Yorkshire et Humber qui a élu trois députés UKIP, deux Travaillistes et un Conservateur aux élections du Parlement européen de mai 2014.

Géographie et géologie

Whitby se situe sur la côte est du Yorkshire face à la Mer du Nord au bout de la vallée de l'Esk. Elle constitue un point tournant depuis au moins l'époque médiévale et plusieurs ponts enjambent la rivière. L'actuel pont, construit en 1908, est un pont tournant avec une largeur de  qui sépare les grand et petit ports qui ont une superficie totale d'environ 80,1 acres (), Les maisons sont bâties en brique ou pierre, souvent avec des tuiles rouges, le long de petites rues escarpées de part et d'autre de la rivière.

Côté terre, la ville est encerclée par les landes du Parc national des North York Moors et son littoral est bordé par la Mer du Nord. La partie maritime fait partie intégrante du programme Heritage Coast du Yorkshire du Nord et de Cleveland. Cette étendue de côtes, appelée la Côte Dinosaure ou Côte Fossile ou encore Côte Jurassique, fait environ  () de long, allant de Staithes au nord, et jusqu'à Flamborough dans le Yorkshire de l'Est. À Whitby des empreintes de dinosaure sont visibles sur la plage. La couche de roche contient des fossiles et des restes organiques dont du jais. On y trouve les os pétrifiés d'un crocodile quasiment intact ainsi qu'un spécimen de plésiosaure mesurant  (15' 6") de long et  (8' 5") de large découvert en 1841. Des fossiles plus petits dont des ammonites, ou des pierres en serpent provenant des schistes d'alun et à Whitby Scar et des nautilus dans les strates du liasique. Le genre d'ammonite Hildoceras a reçu son nom en l'honneur de sainte Hilda de Whitby. Le Rotunda Museum de Scarborough présente une collection détaillée de fossiles datant de cette période.

Le port et la bouche de l'Esk sont sur une faille géologique. Côté est, la falaise atteint les 57m (187') et se compose de couches alternées de schiste, de grès et d'argiles. Côté ouest, la falaise est beaucoup plus petite et se forme d'une importante couche d'argile pierreuse recouvrant son socle de grès ce qui la rend moins stable et plus enclin aux glissements. Les deux côtés de la falaise s'érodent à grande vitesse.

Parc nationaux
Le parc national North York Moors traverse le territoire de Whitby. En effet les côtes de l'agglomération sont intégrées à ce parc national.

Transport

Whitby est situé sur la route A171 allant de Scarborough à Guisborough et qui passait autrefois par-dessus le pont suspendu. Un pont de haut niveau a été construit en 1980 pour éviter le pont et faciliter la circulation dans le centre-ville. L'A174 donne accès aux villes du littoral au nord et l'A169 traverse les landes vers Pickering. Whitby est desservie par la ligne de bus Yorkshire Coastliner, au départ de Leeds, Tadcaster, York, Scarborough, Bridlington, Pickering et Malton avec des correspondances au-delà du Yorkshire. Arriva assure les bus reliant Whitby à Scarborough et Middelsbrough. L'aéroport le plus proche, à environ  () de Whitby, est l'aéroport de Durham Tees Valley, qui des vols réguliers depuis l'aéroport de Schilphol à Amsterdam.

La ville est desservie par la gare ferroviaire de Whitby qui est le terminus de la ligne Esk Valley de Northern Rail depuis Middlebrough. Autrefois il s'agissait du terminus nord des lignes de Whitby, Pickering and York, puis en 2007 la North Yorkshire Moors Railway a ouvert une ligne pour l'été entre Pickering et Whitby avec des trains à vapeur. La Scarborough and Whitby Railway qui suit le trajet pittoresque le long de la côte a été construit en 1885 et a nécessité la construction en brique rouge du viaduc de Larpool à travers la vallée de l'Esk vers Whitby. La ligne a été fermée en 1965 en raison du Beeching axe et son tracé est utilisé comme piste pour la randonnée piétonne, équestre et pour les cyclistes. La Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway avait une gare à la falaise de Whitby West qui s'approchait près des falaises au nord de la ville. Elle a été en service de 1883 jusqu'à 1958.

La partie littoral des  () de la ligne Cleveland Way National Trail traverse Whitby.

Le port de Whitby est placé de manière stratégique pour commercer avec l'Europe, en particulier la Scandinavie, et peut accueillir des cargos pour les céréales, la sidérurgie, le bois et la potasse. Le quai reçoit des vaisseaux dont le port en lourd atteint les , et peut charger et décharger deux navires en même temps. Courant 2004,  (54000 sq.f.) de docks sont disponibles pour stocker des cargos par tous les temps et il y a un entrepôt de  (17000 sq.f.) pour les conditions météos difficiles. Enfin, le port est doté de plusieurs phares.

Médias
Au niveau des informations locales , on trouve à Whitby le Whitby Gazette fondé en 1854.

Religion

On retrouve à Whitby l'Église Sainte-Marie (Church of Saint Mary) qui dessert une paroisse anglicane dans la ville de Whitby. Cette église est un lieu décrit dans le roman Dracula de Bram Stoker.

Gastronomie
On retrouve bien sûr des fruits de mer à Whitby. On trouve aussi de la cuisine maison et britannique. Des chocolatiers et des cafés (qui servent aussi des pâtisseries) prennent aussi place à Whitby. De plus des produits fumés, comme du poisson, sont également disponibles. Enfin, Whitby est célèbre pour ses sticks of rock, ses kiss-me-quick et ses fish and chips.

Éducation
On retrouve 31 écoles de toute sorte qui se situent à Whitby.

Notamment on retrouve : le Caedmon College, la Eskdale School, l'école primaire catholique romaine de St Hilda et l'école primaire communautaire de Stakesby.

Enfin on retrouve aussi à Whitby, une école de formation spécialisée dans l'industrie de la pêche.

Villes jumelées

Whitby est jumelée avec plusieurs villes autour du monde. La plupart d'entre elles ont été visitées par le Capitaine Cook à bord de navires qui ont été bâtis à Whitby – et une également baptisée Whitby par des colons venus d'Angleterre.

  Anchorage, Alaska, États-Unis
  Porirua, Nouvelle-Zélande
  Port Stanley, Îles Malouines
  Whitby, Canada
  Nukualofa, Tonga
  Comté de Kauai, Hawaï, États-Unis
  Osterode, Allemagne

Notes et références

Liens externes

  Site touristique de la localité de Whitby
  Site du Conseil de ville de Whitby
  Site du député pour Whitby, Robert Goodwill
  Site du Borough de Whitby, Scarborough
  Le Whitby Gazette
  Parc national North York Moors
  Abbaye de Whitby

Ville dans le Yorkshire du Nord
Station baleinière
Station balnéaire en Angleterre
Paroisse civile dans le Yorkshire du Nord


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Archive for indirect inference
likelihood-free and summary-free?
Posted in Books, Mountains, pictures, Statistics, Travel with tags ABC, arXiv, Australia, Cramèr-von Mises distance, curse of dimensionality, energy, Gaussian mixture, indirect inference, information, kernel density estimator, likelihood-free methods, mean discrepancy, summary statistics, Wasserstein distance on March 30, 2021 by xi'an
My friends and coauthors Chris Drovandi and David Frazier have recently arXived a paper entitled A comparison of likelihood-free methods with and without summary statistics. In which they indeed compare these two perspectives on approximate Bayesian methods like ABC and Bayesian synthetic likelihoods.
"A criticism of summary statistic based approaches is that their choice is often ad hoc and there will generally be an inherent loss of information."
In ABC methods, the recourse to a summary statistic is often advocated as a "necessary evil" against the greater evil of the curse of dimension, paradoxically providing a faster convergence of the ABC approximation (Fearnhead & Liu, 2018). The authors propose a somewhat generic selection of summary statistics based on [my undergrad mentors!] Gouriéroux's and Monfort's indirect inference, using a mixture of Gaussians as their auxiliary model. Summary-free solutions, as in our Wasserstein papers, rely on distances between distributions, hence are functional distances, that can be seen as dimension-free as well (or criticised as infinite dimensional). Chris and David consider energy distances (which sound very much like standard distances, except for averaging over all permutations), maximum mean discrepancy as in Gretton et al. (2012), Cramèr-von Mises distances, and Kullback-Leibler divergences estimated via one-nearest-neighbour formulas, for a univariate sample. I am not aware of any degree of theoretical exploration of these functional approaches towards the precise speed of convergence of the ABC approximation…
"We found that at least one of the full data approaches was competitive with or outperforms ABC with summary statistics across all examples."
The main part of the paper, besides a survey of the existing solutions, is to compare the performances of these over a few chosen (univariate) examples, with the exact posterior as the golden standard. In the g & k model, the Pima Indian benchmark of ABC studies!, Cramèr does somewhat better. While it does much worse in an M/G/1 example (where Wasserstein does better, and similarly for a stereological extremes example of Bortot et al., 2007). An ordering inversed again for a toad movement model I had not seen before. While the usual provision applies, namely that this is a simulation study on unidimensional data and a small number of parameters, the design of the four comparison experiments is very careful, eliminating versions that are either too costly or too divergence, although this could be potentially criticised for being unrealistic (i.e., when the true posterior is unknown). The computing time is roughly the same across methods, which essentially remove the call to kernel based approximations of the likelihood. Another point of interest is that the distance methods are significantly impacted by transforms on the data, which should not be so for intrinsic distances! Demonstrating the distances are not intrinsic…
sequential neural likelihood estimation as ABC substitute
Posted in Books, Kids, Statistics, University life with tags ABC, AISTATS 2019, AMIS, autoregressive flow, Bayesian inference, Gaussian copula, Gaussian processes, indirect inference, JMLR, Kullback-Leibler divergence, MCMC, neural density estimator, neural network, noise-contrastive estimation, normalizing flow, Scotland, synthetic likelihood, University of Edinburgh, variational Bayes methods on May 14, 2020 by xi'an
A JMLR paper by Papamakarios, Sterratt, and Murray (Edinburgh), first presented at the AISTATS 2019 meeting, on a new form of likelihood-free inference, away from non-zero tolerance and from the distance-based versions of ABC, following earlier papers by Iain Murray and co-authors in the same spirit. Which I got pointed to during the ABC workshop in Vancouver. At the time I had no idea as to autoregressive flows meant. We were supposed to hold a reading group in Paris-Dauphine on this paper last week, unfortunately cancelled as a coronaviral precaution… Here are some notes I had prepared for the meeting that did not take place.
"A simulator model is a computer program, which takes a vector of parameters θ, makes internal calls to a random number generator, and outputs a data vector x."
Just the usual generative model then.
"A conditional neural density estimator is a parametric model q(.|φ) (such as a neural network) controlled by a set of parameters φ, which takes a pair of datapoints (u,v) and outputs a conditional probability density q(u|v,φ)."
Less usual, in that the outcome is guaranteed to be a probability density.
"For its neural density estimator, SNPE uses a Mixture Density Network, which is a feed-forward neural network that takes x as input and outputs the parameters of a Gaussian mixture over θ."
In which theoretical sense would it improve upon classical or Bayesian density estimators? Where are the error evaluation, the optimal rates, the sensitivity to the dimension of the data? of the parameter?
"Our new method, Sequential Neural Likelihood (SNL), avoids the bias introduced by the proposal, by opting to learn a model of the likelihood instead of the posterior."
I do not get the argument in that the final outcome (of using the approximation within an MCMC scheme) remains biased since the likelihood is not the exact likelihood. Where is the error evaluation? Note that in the associated Algorithm 1, the learning set is enlarged on each round, as in AMIS, rather than set back to the empty set ∅ on each round.
"…given enough simulations, a sufficiently flexible conditional neural density estimator will eventually approximate the likelihood in the support of the proposal, regardless of the shape of the proposal. In other words, as long as we do not exclude parts of the parameter space, the way we propose parameters does not bias learning the likelihood asymptotically. Unlike when learning the posterior, no adjustment is necessary to account for our proposing strategy."
This is a rather vague statement, with the only support being that the Monte Carlo approximation to the Kullback-Leibler divergence does converge to its actual value, i.e. a direct application of the Law of Large Numbers! But an interesting point I informally made a (long) while ago that all that matters is the estimate of the density at x⁰. Or at the value of the statistic at x⁰. The masked auto-encoder density estimator is based on a sequence of bijections with a lower-triangular Jacobian matrix, meaning the conditional density estimate is available in closed form. Which makes it sounds like a form of neurotic variational Bayes solution.
The paper also links with ABC (too costly?), other parametric approximations to the posterior (like Gaussian copulas and variational likelihood-free inference), synthetic likelihood, Gaussian processes, noise contrastive estimation… With experiments involving some of the above. But the experiments involve rather smooth models with relatively few parameters.
"A general question is whether it is preferable to learn the posterior or the likelihood (…) Learning the likelihood can often be easier than learning the posterior, and it does not depend on the choice of proposal, which makes learning easier and more robust (…) On the other hand, methods such as SNPE return a parametric model of the posterior directly, whereas a further inference step (e.g. variational inference or MCMC) is needed on top of SNL to obtain a posterior estimate"
A fair point in the conclusion. Which also mentions the curse of dimensionality (both for parameters and observations) and the possibility to work directly with summaries.
Getting back to the earlier and connected Masked autoregressive flow for density estimation paper, by Papamakarios, Pavlakou and Murray:
"Viewing an autoregressive model as a normalizing flow opens the possibility of increasing its flexibility by stacking multiple models of the same type, by having each model provide the source of randomness for the next model in the stack. The resulting stack of models is a normalizing flow that is more flexible than the original model, and that remains tractable."
Which makes it sound like a sort of a neural network in the density space. Optimised by Kullback-Leibler minimisation to get asymptotically close to the likelihood. But a form of Bayesian indirect inference in the end, namely an MLE on a pseudo-model, using the estimated model as a proxy in Bayesian inference…
ABC in Les Diablerets
Posted in Statistics with tags ABC, ABC convergence, CUSO, indirect inference, Les Diablerets, likelihood-free methods, PhD course, random forest, short course, slideshare, Switzerland on February 14, 2017 by xi'an
Since I could not download the slides of my ABC course in Les Diablerets in one go, I broke them by chapters as follows. (Warning: there is very little novelty in those slides, except for the final part on consistency.)
Although I did not do it on purpose (!), starting with indirect inference and other methods inspired from econometrics induced some discussion in the first hour of the course with econometricians in the room. Including Elvezio Ronchetti.
I also regretted piling too much material in the alphabet soup, as it was too widespread for a new audience. And as I could not keep the coherence of the earlier parts by going thru so many papers at once. Especially since I was a bit knackered after a day of skiing….
I managed to get to the final convergence chapter on the last day, even though I had to skip some of the earlier material. Which should be reorganised anyway as the parts between model choice with random forests and inference with random forests are not fully connected!
Bayesian Indirect Inference and the ABC of GMM
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags ABC, ABC-PMC, consistency, convergence, generalised method of moments, importance sampling, indirect inference, kernel density estimator, likelihood-free methods, local regression, noisy ABC on February 17, 2016 by xi'an
"The practicality of estimation of a complex model using ABC is illustrated by the fact that we have been able to perform 2000 Monte Carlo replications of estimation of this simple DSGE model, using a single 32 core computer, in less than 72 hours." (p.15)
Earlier this week, Michael Creel and his coauthors arXived a long paper with the above title, where ABC relates to approximate Bayesian computation. In short, this paper provides deeper theoretical foundations for the local regression post-processing of Mark Beaumont and his coauthors (2002). And some natural extensions. But apparently considering one univariate transform η(θ) of interest at a time. The theoretical validation of the method is that the resulting estimators converge at speed √n under some regularity assumptions. Including the identifiability of the parameter θ in the mean of the summary statistics T, which relates to our consistency result for ABC model choice. And a CLT on an available (?) preliminary estimator of η(θ).
The paper also includes a GMM version of ABC which appeal is less clear to me as it seems to rely on a preliminary estimator of the univariate transform of interest η(θ). Which is then randomized by a normal random walk. While this sounds a wee bit like noisy ABC, it differs from this generic approach as the model is not assumed to be known, but rather available through an asymptotic Gaussian approximation. (When the preliminary estimator is available in closed form, I do not see the appeal of adding this superfluous noise. When it is unavailable, it is unclear why a normal perturbation can be produced.)
"[In] the method we study, the estimator is consistent, asymptotically normal, and asymptotically as efficient as a limited information maximum likelihood estimator. It does not require either optimization, or MCMC, or the complex evaluation of the likelihood function." (p.3)
Overall, I have trouble relating the paper to (my?) regular ABC in that the outcome of the supported procedures is an estimator rather than a posterior distribution. Those estimators are demonstrably endowed with convergence properties, including quantile estimates that can be exploited for credible intervals, but this does not produce a posterior distribution in the classical Bayesian sense. For instance, how can one run model comparison in this framework? Furthermore, each of those inferential steps requires solving another possibly costly optimisation problem.
"Posterior quantiles can also be used to form valid confidence intervals under correct model specification." (p.4)
Nitpicking(ly), this statement is not correct in that posterior quantiles produce valid credible intervals and only asymptotically correct confidence intervals!
"A remedy is to choose the prior π(θ) iteratively or adaptively as functions of initial estimates of θ, so that the "prior" becomes dependent on the data, which can be denoted as π(θ|T)." (p.6)
This modification of the basic ABC scheme relying on simulation from the prior π(θ) can be found in many earlier references and the iterative construction of a better fitted importance function rather closely resembles ABC-PMC. Once again nitpicking(ly), the importance weights are defined therein (p.6) as the inverse of what they should be.
consistency of ABC
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC, consistency, convergence diagnostics, Ian Potter collection, identifiability, indirect inference, MA(p) model, Melbourne, Monash University, ODEs on August 25, 2015 by xi'an
Along with David Frazier and Gael Martin from Monash University, Melbourne, we have just completed (and arXived) a paper on the (Bayesian) consistency of ABC methods, producing sufficient conditions on the summary statistics to ensure consistency of the ABC posterior. Consistency in the sense of the prior concentrating at the true value of the parameter when the sample size and the inverse tolerance (intolerance?!) go to infinity. The conditions are essentially that the summary statistics concentrates around its mean and that this mean identifies the parameter. They are thus weaker conditions than those found earlier consistency results where the authors considered convergence to the genuine posterior distribution (given the summary), as for instance in Biau et al. (2014) or Li and Fearnhead (2015). We do not require here a specific rate of decrease to zero for the tolerance ε. But still they do not hold all the time, as shown for the MA(2) example and its first two autocorrelation summaries, example we started using in the Marin et al. (2011) survey. We further propose a consistency assessment based on the main consistency theorem, namely that the ABC-based estimates of the marginal posterior densities for the parameters should vary little when adding extra components to the summary statistic, densities estimated from simulated data. And that the mean of the resulting summary statistic is indeed one-to-one. This may sound somewhat similar to the stepwise search algorithm of Joyce and Marjoram (2008), but those authors aim at obtaining a vector of summary statistics that is as informative as possible. We also examine the consistency conditions when using an auxiliary model as in indirect inference. For instance, when using an AR(2) auxiliary model for estimating an MA(2) model. And ODEs.


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It took several hours to cross the border. The Iranians seemed reluctant to see us go. There are just many formalities. The Pakistanis were very organised and, when all was finished, gave us a cup of tea.
The drive was spectacular through mountains and across desert. We had an interesting incident when a friend got stuck in the sand and one of the colourful Pakistani trucks towed him out. We arrived safely in Quetta rather late - the hotel is fantastic.


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Le Fudbalski klub Dečić Tuzi (en ), plus couramment abrégé en FK Dečić Tuzi, est un club monténégrin de football fondé en 1926 et basé à Tuzi, une banlieue au sud de Podgorica, la capitale du pays.

Histoire

Bilan sportif

Palmarès

Bilan par saison

Bilan européen
Note : dans les résultats ci-dessous, le score du club est toujours donné en premier

Légende

Notes et références

Liens externes

Club de football à Podgorica
Club de football fondé en 1926