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NBA Week 6
Donovan Mitchell leaves game with injury, Utah Jazz lose third straight
Jazz go cold from the floor, lose 5 of 6.
By Daniel West Nov 24, 2018, 12:09am MST
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When a novice jazz musician is trying to improvise, it doesn't usually sound good. When he finds something that does sound good, such as a particular note or scale, he tends to latch onto it and stick to it. And it works. For a few measures, anyway. But then the rhythm section moves on to a different chord progression and the notes the soloist is playing no longer fit. Sometimes he panics and starts playing something different and completely wrong, but sometimes he sticks with what was working before, which also sounds terrible.
That's what's happening with the Jazz. Remember that continuity we were all raving about? Other teams have figured out what we were doing to succeed, while our team is still stuck doing what worked in the 2017-18 season. It's not completely the same, to be sure. There is far more "hero ball" going on, with players taking low-percentage three-pointers with 9 seconds left on the clock instead of making the extra pass, for example.
Or take the lineups in general: sometimes going big when they go small works. Sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, it's better to adapt and change your own lineup rather than hope the other team starts missing shots.
One lineup change happened right before halftime, and it wasn't a welcome one:
.@kristenkenney reports that Donovan Mitchell will not return vs. Lakers after the rib contusion.
— Andy Larsen (@andyblarsen) November 24, 2018
It's not like Donovan was having a great game—or even a good game—before his injury. In 12 minutes of play, his made shot to turnover ratio was 1:1.
Ricky Rubio, Jae Crowder, and Donovan Mitchell combined for 16 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, and 6 turnovers on 7-33 shooting. The trio accounted for 13 of the teams 23 three-point attempts and made zero. Ouch.
Rudy Gobert got wrecked in the paint for the most part, but that was because the Jazz perimeter defense, which was solid last season, kept getting beaten, putting him in defensive situations ranging from difficult to impossible.
On the whole, this particular game was bad for both teams. The Jazz shot just 39% from the floor, and the Lakers hit 45%. Neither team must have eaten many turnovers at their respective Thanksgiving feasts, because they brought them all to this game as leftovers: 24 for the Lakers and 19 for the Jazz.
Lakers have 23 turn overs and the Jazz can't score more than 83. That spells TROUBLE my friends, TROUBLE with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for PUTRID
— Ryan Bevan (@ryan_bevan) November 24, 2018
The unfortunate part about all this is that the Jazz were within a few points for most of the game—even taking the lead near the end of the third quarter—but it never felt like they really had a chance.
Alec "Government Name" Burks had a decent game, and led to this quality tweet by Lakers commentator Bill Oram.
Lakers win 90-83 against the jazz aficionados from Utah. Brandon Ingram scores 24 points for the Lakers. LeBron 22 points, 10 rebounds, 7 assists. Alex Bork leads Utah with 17 points.
— Bill Oram (@billoram) November 24, 2018
Will the Jazz be fine? Maybe. Maybe not. We've played through roughly 25% of the season, and they're three games underwater. Definitely doable. For those wondering how doable, check out this thread on Twitter:
Here we go--as requested--a list of teams over the past 10 seasons that were 3 games under .500 19 games in and their final finishes.
Utah Jazz - 48-34
LA Lakers - 35-47
Orlando Magic - 25-57
Charlotte Hornets - 36-46
— SLC Dunk (@slcdunk) November 24, 2018
The good news is that the Jazz theoretically have more firepower than the 2017 Lakers, Magic, or Hornets. Certainly more than the 2015 Suns. The question is whether or not they have the leadership and intestinal fortitude to overcome their struggles. Is the strength of the team really the team? We'll find out.


What is price pack architecture (PPA) and how do consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies choose innovative PPA that makes sense — not only for the consumer but for their bottom line? Rob Wilson, L.E.K. Managing Director, provides examples of PPA innovations that have hit on consumers' needs with great success, and he details how CPG companies can successfully differentiate products by retail channels.


ATLANTA, GA – February 24, 2016 – PwC US today announced that James C. (Jim) Kennedy, chairman of privately-held Cox Enterprises, will be inducted into the Technology Hall of Fame of Georgia at the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) 2016 Georgia Technology Summit on March 17, 2016. The event will take place at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta. Cox Enterprises is headquartered in Atlanta, and its major divisions focus on communications, automotive, and media.
Under Kennedy's leadership, the company has diversified and grown, increasing in annual revenues from $2.1B to $18B by continuously embracing new developments and disruptions in technology to deliver innovation. The company's broadband communications and entertainment subsidiary was early in the adoption of offering commercial services to small business and larger enterprises such as healthcare, education and government. Cox Enterprises was also at the forefront of digital classifieds when it launched an online marketplace for car shoppers and sellers in 1997.
Most recently, Cox Enterprises has invested heavily in infrastructure upgrades to deliver video, phone and high-speed Internet and home security and automation services to homes and businesses in the company's service area. The company's broadband subsidiary is a leading gigabit residential service provider, offering speeds 100 times faster than the average speed in the US. Notably, the company's Connect2Compete program provides low-income students and families deeply discounted internet service to help close the digital divide.
Cox Enterprises' global automotive business subsidiary has transformed the way the world buys, sells and owns cars, and has received numerous accolades for initiatives that span mobile, seller dashboard applications and personalized recommendation engines for customers. Cox's media properties are leaders in delivering content across digital platforms and are the first in their local markets to utilize drones for newsgathering. Locally, Cox Enterprises is collaborating with Techstars, a startup accelerator to broaden and deepen Atlanta's vibrant startup community and empower entrepreneurs to build great businesses.
Kennedy holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Denver. He was inducted into Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business Hall of Fame in 2004 and was bestowed an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Kennesaw State University in 2003.
Each year an inductee is chosen by the current Technology Hall of Fame of Georgia members in recognition of his or her contributions to the industry and impact on the state. PwC has been a sponsor of the Technology Hall of Fame of Georgia since its inception in 1993.
The Georgia Technology Summit is TAG's flagship event that brings together local executives, entrepreneurs, technology professionals and academia to celebrate and recognize Georgia's technology community. This year's theme builds upon TAG's public awareness campaign to promote Georgia's technology industry through an emphasis on the fastest-growing tech clusters in the state, including health IT, information security, financial technology, logistics and communication services.
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TAG is the leading technology industry association in the state, serving more than 30,000 members through regional chapters in Metro Atlanta, Athens, Augusta, Columbus, Macon/Middle Georgia and Savannah. TAG's mission is to educate, promote, and unite Georgia's technology community to foster an innovative and connected marketplace that stimulates and enhances a tech-based economy.
The association provides networking and educational programs; celebrates Georgia's technology leaders and companies; and advocates for legislative action that enhances the state's economic climate for technology. TAG hosts over 200 events each year and serves as an umbrella organization for 34 professional societies. For more information visit the TAG website at http://www.tagonline.org.


"What happens when you successfully gain control of an abandoned spacecraft after decades? Disbelief, a happy dance, and hugs, of course. The unedited video of the moment the engineering team realizes the craft is doing what they want is totally cute, even if the sound quality makes me want to apply a bandpass filter."
"Luckily for the group, their preparation worked: first contact went off without a hitch, with the spacecraft responding to a tone exactly as expected. "I'm doing my happy dance," Cowing said."
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Woodstock Impresario Michael Lang Useless at 77
Michael Lang, the live performance impresario who served conceive the landmark, technology-defining 1969 new music festival Woodstock, died Saturday evening at Sloan Kettering healthcare facility in New York. He was 77.
Michael Pagnotta, a rep for Lang and longtime relatives mate, verified the promoter's loss of life to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause was a rare type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Along with businessmen John Roberts and Joel Rosenman and audio market promoter Artie Kornfeld, Lang, who experienced formerly promoted the 1968 Pop and Underground Pageant in Miami, co-developed the Woodstock Audio and Artwork Fair the subsequent calendar year. Famously billed as "Three Times of Peace and Songs," the upstate New York competition drew up to 400,000 folks to Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, NY from August 15-18, 1969 and featured dozens of rock's most important names, such as Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Who, Jimi Hendrix and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Youthful.
"There's a instant when Michael Lang adjusted the globe," the Lovin' Spoonful frontman John Sebastian tells Rolling Stone. "At Woodstock I was standing upcoming to him when a person of his minions way in the length came operating towards the phase and we believed, "This simply cannot be great.' He will get to Michael and claims, 'The fence is down. Individuals are coming more than the prime.' And Mike normally takes this lengthy look in excess of the entire circumstance and virtually to himself he states, 'Well, I guess we now have a totally free competition.' It was the unique, 'What could quite possibly go incorrect,' but he could pivot and see the light-weight."
Carlos Santana stated in a statement to Rolling Stone Sunday, "Michael Lang was a divine architect of unity & harmony. He gave beginning to Woodstock, the pageant that manifested 3 glorious days of peace & freedom. He will no doubt be orchestrating an additional celestial party in Heaven. Thank you Maestro. You and Monthly bill Graham are now united in the light of our divinity and are supreme love."
Lang was only 24 when he helped conceive the competition, which would go on to develop into a massively influential counterculture touchstone, thanks in aspect to a documentary on the celebration unveiled the subsequent 12 months. Above the several years, Lang's name grew to become synonymous with the Woodstock manufacturer, as the promoter aided helm subsequent iterations of the festival in 1994 and 1999. (When Pollstar requested Lang in 2019 what it is like to be the "Woodstock poster kid for eternity," he replied, "Life is comprehensive of experiences, and not all the things works out. But you hold seeking or almost nothing functions out … That's generally been my mind-set.") A 50th anniversary concert in 2019 was mired in controversy and authorized challenges and was canceled ahead of it could go on.
Lang, a indigenous New Yorker, moved to Coconut Grove, FL in the late 1960s and opened a head store. "The local climate is ideal, persons are into a stimulating wide range of inventive items and there was no put for them to get alongside one another," Lang claimed in creator Ellen Sanders' 1973 ebook Trips: Rock Existence in the Sixties. He applied that very same ethos to audio festivals, starting off with the Pop and Underground Festival in Might 1968. The pageant, attended by 25,000 individuals, featured sets by Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry and the Moms of Invention, among the others.
Soon after transferring back to New York, Lang fulfilled Kornfeld, then a vice president of Capitol Data, and began Woodstock Ventures with Roberts and Rosenman. Right after a sequence of prepared spots fell via, the quartet was famously capable to arrange the pageant at the 600-acre farm of Max Yasgur, a dairy farmer in Bethel, NY immortalized in Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 1970 address of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock." In 2004, the celebration acquired a place on Rolling Stone's "50 Times That Adjusted the Record of Rock and Roll."
"Woodstock came at a really dim moment in America," Lang informed Rolling Stone in 2009. "An unpopular war, a govt that was unresponsive, heaps of human legal rights challenges — points had been starting to edge toward violence for folks to make their details. And alongside arrived Woodstock, which was this instant of hope."
"We thought we were being all specific, scattered hippies," David Crosby instructed Rolling Stone in 2004. "When we bought there, we said, 'Wait a minute, this is a great deal even larger than we believed.' We flew in there by helicopter and noticed the New York Condition Thruway at a useless cease for 20 miles and a gigantic crowd of at least half a million men and women. You couldn't truly wrap your thoughts all-around how a lot of persons had been there. It had never ever took place right before, and it was form of like having aliens land."
"Everybody was outrageous," Joan Baez, who performed the pageant, advised Rolling Stone in 2009. "I guess the collective reminiscences that people have, I have in a perception. It is the mud and the cops roasting warm dogs and persons wandering all around in the nude. And the fact that, looking back again, it was in reality a enormous offer. It was like a best storm and I recognized that Woodstock was like the eye of the hurricane because it was unique. It was this weekend of love and intimacy and makes an attempt at splendor and at caring and at currently being political."
The authentic Woodstock was, in Kornfield's terms, "a monetary disaster." On the other hand, in Michael Wadleigh's 1970 documentary that captured the fest, Kornfield and Lang are demonstrated smiling when talking about the pageant with a news reporter. "Look at what you acquired there. You could not invest in that for something," Lang mentioned.
Graham Nash explained in a assertion to Rolling Stone Sunday, "This man played an significant position in the growth of the 'Musical Festival.' His part in bringing the Woodstock country to the forefront of American tunes is very well regarded and he will be missed by his family members and mates."
Immediately after Woodstock, Lang was recruited at the past moment to support aid with what grew to become the infamous Altamont Free of charge Concert in California in December 1969, where viewers member Meredith Hunter was stabbed to dying for the duration of the Rolling Stones' established. "My belief of Altamont is that it was a skipped chance and the outcome of a absence of preparing," Lang mentioned in a Reddit Q&A in 2014. "It was thrown collectively at the previous moment, it had to transfer at the previous minute, and truly wasn't assumed all over. There really wasn't any stability, and the Hells Angels were pressed into a role they weren't suited for. And so what could have been a fantastic day of songs degenerated into a horror show."
Lang later grew to become the manager for Rickie Lee Jones and Joe Cocker — the latter providing one of Woodstock's famous performances — and founded Just Sunshine Records, which introduced albums by Karen Dalton and Betty Davis, among the other individuals.
20-five many years after the iconic competition, Lang returned to Woodstock — albeit in Saugerties, New York, and not Yasgur's farm — to create Woodstock '94, billed as "2 A lot more Days of Peace and Audio." The 1994 lineup was a "bridge" among the initial fest and additional contemporary tunes, Lang mentioned, with primary Woodstock acts like Cocker, Santana, Crosby, Stills & Nash, members of the Grateful Lifeless and the Band, State Joe McDonald and extra becoming a member of Red Sizzling Chili Peppers, Eco-friendly Working day, Aerosmith, Metallica, 9 Inch Nails and Bob Dylan.
Michael Lang in 1969 from 'Woodstock,' 2019. © PBS Distribution / courtesy Everett Selection
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When not as historic as its predecessor, the accomplishment of the 1994 fest — coupled with its MTV broadcast and the rise of audio festivals in general — led Lang and his fellow producers to host another fest five many years afterwards. That was Woodstock '99, which in the long run hewed closer to the chaos of Altamont than the peace and enjoy of the past two installments.
"My takeaways from Woodstock '99 are a bit intricate," Lang claimed in the Reddit Q&A. "A whole lot of men and women experienced an amazing time. There was tons of remarkable songs. It was sadly an exceptionally scorching weekend, and currently being on that air pressure foundation where by the heat was mirrored from that tarmac was truly problematic. With out the rain in all that warmth was a challenge. And frankly, as I reported previously, a large amount of the music was form of indignant, and the audience was young and of the similar headspace, so I'm a tiny bit conflicted about Woodstock '99."
In the mid-2010s, right after the aftermath of the maligned Woodstock '99 had mostly dissipated, Lang began envisioning a 50th anniversary competition, with Watkins Glen, New York — web-site of festivals like 1973's Summer months Jam and Phish's Magnaball in 2015 — the supposed site. The fest's cross-generational lineup was declared in March 2019, bringing jointly Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus and the Killers with Woodstock vets like Santana, Useless & Organization, David Crosby and John Fogerty, whose Creedence Clearwater Revival was the to start with band booked for the unique Woodstock.
"I was looking forward to seeing how it would get reworked 50 years afterwards," John Fogerty, who experienced performed Woodstock with Creedence Clearwater Revival, told Rolling Stone. "What the youthful individuals would imagine about it and what the young artists would consider. It's not each working day you get to go back again to a 50-yr reunion."
On the other hand, quickly soon after the fest was disclosed and tickets revenue were being postponed, one particular of Woodstock 50's chief traders — international media organization Dentsu Aegis — introduced the fest had been canceled, sparking a legal fight with Lang and other producers that finally authorized the fest to continue. Nonetheless, the fest's location in Watkins Glen, New York next nullified its deal with organizers, creating Woodstock 50 to test unsuccessfully to go the competition to Vernon Downs, New York and Maryland's Merriweather Post Pavilion. A single by just one, the booked acts dropped off the invoice, and Woodstock 50 was at last canceled just two months before it was scheduled to start.
"I imagined he bore that burden remarkably very well," Sebastian states of Lang carrying the Woodstock identify. "We would do these numerous Woodstock events, telling stories, and he had that smile – not stress, but a kind of disappointment which is element of figuring out about lifestyle. I would see that now and then."
Adhering to the cancelation of Woodstock 50, Lang was requested whether or not he was worried that the failed fest experienced tarnished the legacy of the manufacturer. "It's not a little something I take into account," Lang told Rolling Stone in 2019. "What we did in 1969 was in 1969 and that is what has endured and will carry on to endure. We're not heading absent."
Additional reporting by David Browne
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Even the title struggles to roll off the tongue and the film is a complete reflection of this. A jumbled mess with an incoherent plot and five more main characters than it needed, the latest Wizarding World film is further testament to the problem with movies today. Everything must be big. Everything must be a cinematic universe. Everything must be Marvel. But why can't it just be its own thing? When it works, it works well and recaptures some of the (if you pardon the pun) magic of the original Harry Potter films yet instead these sparks are crammed between constant exposition and dumb action that's simply trying to set up the next installment. I'm afraid the spark has gone out.
First, let's address what works. The production is, of course, beautiful with outstanding visual effects and set design: the one constant throughout this whole franchise. The performances are also stellar with Eddie Redmayne charming as always returning as the awkward wizard zoologist Newt Scamander. He is supported by Jude Law as a younger Dumbledore and Johnny Depp as the titular Grindelwald. Both are extremely engaging and give the film some of its most captivating moments. I admit it's strange to see an actor like Depp in such a British franchise but he thankfully restrains himself from giving one of his more outlandish performances. Behind these three are a large ensemble cast that is unfortunately left in the dark for most of the film. With so many characters it becomes hard to emphasize with their choices and the allegiances they picked in the final confrontation honestly left me baffled. It seemed to be made simply on the convenience of setting up the next chapter; the next part of a story we already know the end of.
For such a formulaic plot on the surface, the audience is thrown into a tornado as it unfolds, jumping between so many strands that we have nothing to latch on to and are left feeling somehow both bored and shocked when the final battle finally rears its head out of nowhere. One particular scene in a mausoleum seemed to go on forever and felt neither earned nor entertaining; as proven by the snores from either side of me. If the focus was kept on the smaller moments, detached from this convoluted main plot, then the film wouldn't feel so rushed or empty. These short scenes may just feature Newt taming one of his creatures or Dumbledore reflecting solemnly yet they are brimming with the magic fans and filmgoers want and need from this kind of film.
The Crimes of Grindelwald is not a terrible film, it is simply misguided. Yet another franchise has fallen into the alluring trap of the cinematic universe and has lost what made it special in the first place. What makes this so much harder is the remaining slither of magic that can still bring wonder to the eyes of the audience; now trapped in a cage of convolution.
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The 14 best players from the 2016 college season.
We are pleased to announce the 2016 All-America teams. These 14 players were selected for their performance in the 2016 college season, looking at both the regular season and the full college series, including Nationals. Please join us in honoring the best college players of this season.
Hear more about the selections in our live podcast from earlier today.
It should come as no surprise that the 2016 College Men's Player of the Year tops the first team All-America list. Stubbs was a killer all season long, whether he was leading the offense or marking up on the opponent's biggest weapon. With a full toolkit of throws, hops, and field savvy, Stubbs won nearly every matchup he was put in this season. After a strong regular season, he led Harvard to the National final with a brilliant individual performance and was the best player at Nationals.
The most dominant athlete in college, Jeff Babbitt swarmed discs all on his own, gobbling up hanging hammers and layout blocking passes you never thought possible. Babbitt was the regular season's most potent force despite playing hardly any O-line points. Perhaps no player was better at using their body positioning to make plays, whether on offense or defense, or bending the other team's strategy to fit their paradigm.
Surely hundreds of people signed up for gold memberships to the Jagt Club this weekend as Ben Jagt put up a scintillating performance at Nationals. That came after an excellent regular season where he led the way for the country's best offense. Jagt's maturation from a year ago was clear: no more was he a simple deep cutter. He gobbled up yards underneath and delivered continuation throws on the money while maintaining his reputation as an extremely dangerous deep.
Pitt's do-it-all cutter Trent Dillon did whatever was needed of him as he took Pittsburgh back to the semifinals. Dillon's unstoppable motor is common knowledge at this point and the one of just two collegiate members of the USA Men's National Team (the other: John Stubbs) grinded out excellence all year long. From dime hucks to jaw-dropping defensive plays, Dillon is right there with Stubbs as the country's most versatile player.
While Stubbs may get the buzz, Mark Vandenberg does the dirty work. The Boston Ironside handler was phenomenal this year as the most effective facilitator in college. It is wrongly said of many players, but it may well be true for Vandenberg: he is unstoppable. He will find a way to get open and he will rarely make mistakes. His 65 touch, zero turnover game in the College Championships final was a cherry on the top of a tremendous season.
Where Jagt left off, Osgar picked up on the Minnesota O-line. Osgar was as effective a distributor as Jagt was a scorer and finished in second at Nationals in assists, despite not playing in the semifinal due to an injured knee. Then he turned around on Monday, pounded ibuprofen, slapped on a knee brace, and delivered an outstanding performance including two assists, a block, and two goals including the game-winner.
The defensive stopper for Georgia, Sam Little was the most consistent player on the field for one of the best teams this season. Little led the way for the D-line offense, pulled double duty at Nationals due to widespread injuries, and still managed to put up stifling defense on the opposition's biggest threats. While he was not the flashiest player on Georgia, he was the guy that made everything tick.
The lightning-fast Aaron Speiss was a breakout star for Wisconsin this season and gave defenders fits as he breathed life into an O-line that clunked their way through the season last year. Speiss seemed to always be open in the end zone and was, in true Wisconsin fashion, a workhorse up and down the field.
With the departure of Matt Bennett, Dalton Smith took the reins of Texas A&M and delivered some of the most impressive offense there was to see in the College Division. With scoobers, blades, and pinpoint hucks, Smith carved up defenses and took an athletic, but low skill team back to Nationals. His abilities stood out so much on offense that he earned OPOTY runner-up honors and an article about his awesomeness.
Khalif El-Salaam has already become a household name in the Club Mixed Division thanks to some incredible performances with Seattle Mixtape. He really fulfilled his potential as a college player this year at Nationals with an excellent tournament, using his athleticism to come up with big plays one right after the other. He finished the tournament first in a crude measure of overall effectiveness — (goals+assists+blocks-turnovers) / (games played) — with 6.4. Stubbs was second with 5.1.
Chris Strub was this season's best one-on-one defender, offering blanketing coverage of the opposition's top handler game after game. He was also a speedy attacker after the turnover and clearly the best player on the Oregon D-line. Although Oregon had a muted Nationals, Strub was excellent and played the best defense against Vandenberg of anyone in Raleigh.
UConn star John Wodatch is still a little known commodity outside of the Northeast, but he made a name for himself this season as he delivered a Nationals appearance for a UConn team that hasn't been able to get over the hump. Add to that a monster nine-assist game to knock off UNC Wilmington and you've got a breakout star on your hands. Wodatch also may have single-handedly brought back the visor in ultimate fashion.
With Charlie Lian hurt and Xavier Maxstadt mostly on D-line, Jack Williams had to step up on the Wilmington offense. Although the team had a rough Nationals, Williams was clearly the best player on the field for the team and came up with some insane plays in Raleigh. He has one of the highest athletic potentials of anyone in college ultimate.
Holcombe was considered by many as an All-America snub a season ago when Florida State reached the semifinals behind the play of 2015 POTY Chris LaRocque. This year, he lands on the list after leading a rebuilding FSU team back to Nationals (and a 2nd place finish in the Southeast). Holcombe was the do-everything offensive star for FSU and could only hope to be limited by opposing defenses. With giant hucks and strong aerial skills, Holcombe was a standout on a team that had big shoes to fill.
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Pūnana Leo o Wai'anae is now located in Māʻili on the grounds of the Community Learning Center at Māʻili. The school first opened its doors on February 8, 1993 in Waiʻanae. Pūnana Leo o Waiʻanae also has a Hiʻipēpē (infant toddler) program on site.
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What is Insomne?
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The artist Raquel Córcoles, better known as 'Moderna de Pueblo', together with El Terrat, producer of Andreu Buenafuente, are behind the creation of this animated series that tells the experiences of two young people born between 1980 and 1999, who Reflect the concerns, goals and insecurities of this "generation."
The series of animated episodes is broadcast on TV3 as part of a program produced by El Terrat, and can also be viewed through its Youtube channel.
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By Ian Karamanov
Prospectus of Bitmain Shows Interesting Data After the Company Filed for an IPO
Bitmain shows no signs of slowing down this year. Earlier this week, the mining behemoth filed an official application to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX). The prospectus offers some insight on how far the company can reach.
This move didn't go without issues as the highly-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) got its fair share of controversy. Many major firms denied their involvement in the pre-IPO funding phase. This development further increased speculation and shed negative light on the company.\
Despite this small predicament, everything seems to be going well for Bitmain. The company recently opened a huge 20 000 square feet office in San Jose, CA. The application to HKEX is still in its draft form, pending further hearings. At this time, it's impossible to determine on the value, which will be placed on the mining giant. The application has many redacted details, which include the shares that will be offered and the timetable.
The prospectus does shed some light into the company's current financial standing, structure and inner workings. The filing notes that the company made a total of $2 517 719 000 in revenue for 2017. This is a staggering increase from 2016 when the revenue was $277 612 000. By the latest data, the company has made $2 845 467 000 this year for the first six months.
Of the above mentioned revenue, the company's total profits amounted to $1 212 750 000 in 2017. The first 6 months of 2018 gave Bitmain an estimated profit of $1 030 151 000. The company also reported its balance of $886.9 million cryptocurrencies with a prevalence of bitcoin. The other coins, which the company held were ether, litecoin and dash.
In 2015 Bitmain saw the start of a huge increase in hardware sales. Those sales continue to generate profits to this day. 2015 saw Bitmain generate about $107 million in profit from ASIC chip sales. The first 6 months of 2018 saw about $2.6 billion in profit. By projections, the 2018 total earnings will more than double the $2.26 billion generated in 2017.
The data shown by the prospectus can make many other companies envious
With ASIC chips becoming more and more prevalent, Bitmain sold 230 000 miners in 2015. 2016 saw 260 00 miners sold, with 1.62 million in 2017 and 2.56 million for the first half of 2018. The majority of the funds, which the company received came in the form of crypto.
Bitmain has also been buying land in China and around the world to set up mining farms. The company also has rented 15 200 square meters of land across 5 different locations. The total amount of properties is 50 and amounts to 99 700 square meters according to the prospectus. There are also mining farms in Canada and the United States, which are projected to open in the beginning of 2019.
The prospectus also shares information about the inner workings of the firm. Information like the company employing 2 594 people, 840 of which were assigned to research, 701 to product management, 535 to farm management, 235 to administration, 209 to customer service and 74 to sales and marketing.
Additionally, the prospectus lists the companies who cooperated and adviced on the IPO deal. Among the included companies are Hong Kong Securities Limited, China International Capital Corporation and Commerce and Finance Law Offices on the finance side of the IPO.
Bitmain also owns a 3% stake in the Opera browser after investing $50 million in Opera Limited. $1 million was given to Digital Mercantile Ltd. for a 5% stake as well.
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Captain Gault Back For Season 5
Posted on December 19, 2018 December 3, 2018 by admin
Thanks to DarkUFO reader Shelly for the following and to Petor23 for the scan.
Grant Bowler who play Captain Gault has mentioned in an article this morning that he will be filming more scenes for lost later this year even though he died.
Source: NZ Dominion Post
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Captain Gault, Casting, Grant Bowler, Season 5
Carbonell Confirms That He Is Returning To Lost
Nestor Carbonell who plays Richard Alpert, in a recent interview about his role in the upcoming The Dark Knight, confirmed that he will be returning to LOST in August.
August is when production of Season 5 is supposed to begin filming, so it seems some recent rumors of Carbonell being a Series regular for Season 5 may be true after all?
I think this is great news because I love his character and it seems like we will get some more answers about the island!!
Here are the details, thanks to Mitchell for the heads up. What do you all think??
Latino Review has an interview with our favorite Dorian Gray himself, Nestor Carbonell aka Richard Alpert. In the interview, Nestor is asked what he has lined up, and he states, "I'm working on 'Lost' so I will be returning to that in August." So, fellow Losties, it would seem that, since production on Season 5 begins in August, our man may just be promoted to series regular (fingers crossed).
LatinoReview: What do you have coming up next after this?
Carbonell: I'm working on 'Lost' so I will be returning to that in August. I'm also current working, coincidently, on the Batman cartoon. This is called 'Batman: The Brave and the Bold'. It's the next Warner Brothers version of Batman, the cartoon.
Read Full Interview Here: Latino Review
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Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cast News, Nestor Carbonell, Richard Alpert, Season 5
Carlton Cuse Interview From China Tv/Film Forum
LOST writer Carlton Cuse, along with Ugly Betty writer were a part of a TV and Film Forum in China to discuss their shows and answer some questions about the industry.
Here is a little summary of the key moments from Cuse including some of the spoilers he revealed for Season 5. There is also a tidbit about OGR at Comic-Con.
Thanks to EJ for the details and the heads up about the videos.
1) Jack v Locke (Science v. Faith) – One of the mendasar themes of show. In Season 5 Jack will become more a Man of Faith and Locke will become more a Man of Science. Locke believes his destiny is tied to this island. This will be a story line that we will explore in the upcoming seasons.
2) We will learn what happened to Locke and the others. Also, now what is Locke's destiny since he is in "charge" of the island? He has committed his destiny to this island and thinks that it will lead him to enlightenment. We will eventually see if he is right or not.
3) Locke's story is not over. There is a famous guy named Jesus Christ that was resurrected.
4) We already know what Bandar Ceme our path is and people make mistakes in theories, because there is no simple answer and they do not have enough information
5) Sawyer is his favorite: Handsome, charming and dangerous, everything he would want to be.
6) He gives a shout out to Skaters and Jaters and then mentions that we call them Darlton. Kate will end up with one of the two eventually.
7) New LOST interactive game start at Comic-Con, register to become a member of Dharma Initiative. Depending on how you do on the test you will be a Physicist, Chemist, or even a Workman.
8) Production starts in August and Season 5 will air from January to May 2009.
9) Talks a about Piracy, online downloading, some things about writing and more.
10) Does being a producer affect your story writing? No, we write first with out being a producer and then put on producers "hat". Explains this is the reason why we got an extra hour for Season 4 finale. Do not want to censor themselves as producers.
11) Discusses picketing during the writers strike and why it happened.
NOTE: LOST informasi is spread over both clips and some information for Ugly Betty mixed in.
Source: Sina
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Carlton Cuse, Interviews, Jack, Kate, Locke, Sawyer, The Others
Naveen On The End Of The Show
Thanks to Lyly for translating the magazine scan below.
Do you know how will end the show ?
The finale will be on the island, apart from that, I don't know any thing in advance, This is what makes the job fascinating but frustrating. I just hope all mysteries will be resolved in a smart way.
Do you make suggestions to the writers?
Rarely. During season1, i suggested that Sayid lived a romance with someone on the island, and they created his relationship with Shannon. But it wasn't very long…I would like my character to live a new romance in Season 5.
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Interviews, Naveen Andrews, Sayid, Shannon
Keamy For Season 5?
Here is a small quote from actor Kevin Durand from a recent interview.
And while his Lost character was seemingly killed off in this season's finale, Durand said he wouldn't be surprised if audiences saw Keamy again next season.
"The guy just doesn't want to die," he said.
Source: Full Article @ Thunderbay
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Interviews, Keamy, Kevin Durand, Online Article, Season 5
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Question: I'm dying to have some juicy Lost tidbits. I'll take anything I can get. — Brittany
Ausiello: Damn straight you will! Team Darlton is doing their annual "radio silence" thing, so Lost scoop is at a premium these days. Luckily, I managed to unearth this little morsel: John Terry (Christian) and Alan Dale (Widmore) are in talks to return next season on a recurring basis. Big frakkin' whoop, right?
Well, here's where it gets interesting: In the fine print of both their contracts, it states that Lost has the right to pick up series regular options on both actors for the show's sixth and simpulan season. For insight into what this could possibly portend for Lost's endgame, please join me in welcoming the man, the myth the legend, guru of all things Lost, Mr. Doc Jensen! "The prospect of expansive roles for Jack's maybe-dead dad and Penelope's dastardly deep-pocketed pop suggests a theory about the Island's true significance. Here is a seemingly-magical place where the lame can walk anew, the impotent can once more shoot bullets, and anyone can crank o! n ancient donkey wheels and leap through time. In other words, the Island provides the means for death-spooked mortals to cheat the grim reaper. I'm betting that's why Old Man Widmore is so desperate to find it. As for Ghost Dad, the Island allows him to stick around in his inexplicable spectral state and might even be facilitating a full-blown bodily resurrection; either scenario represents a violation of the natural order of things. In the end, Jack will no doubt have to convince his father — and possibly his maybe-dead half-sister Claire, too — that they need to move on. Regardless, keeping Terry around portends an emotional climax to Jack's father issue arc." Really? You got all of that from my one little casting item? Cool.
Source: EW
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alan Dale, Casting, Christian, John Terry, Widmore
More Cheech For Season 5?
It took awhile to meet Hurley's dad on Lost, but when we did it was an unlikely but very fun piece of casting, as none other than Cheech Marin showed up as David Reyes. We first met David during Season 3, seeing what a deadbeat dad he was via Hurley's flashbacks. Near the end of Season 4 we saw David again, as the flash-forwards revealed the details of Hurley and the rest of the Oceanic Six's rescue, which reunited him with his father.
Today at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour, I spoke to Marin, who was there to promote his new Lifetime movie The Miracle of Dommatina. I asked how his role on Lost came about, and Marin told me it all went back to his 1990s series Nash Bridges, which was executive produced by Carlton Cuse. Explained Marin, "It's great, because the executive producer [of Lost] was the executive producer on Nash Bridges, so he called me up and asked me if I wanted to do it. I said, 'You know, that sounds like a lot of fun… It's in Hawaii, right? I can do that!'"
So will there be more appearances from David Reyes when the show returns for Season 5 next year? "I think there is going to be," Marin told me, remarking, "It's amazing the way they manipulated time and the timeline with the flash-forwards."
Marin laughed that working on Lost has led to unusual circumstances, such as seeing an actor getting ready to shoot a scene and asking, "'How can you be in the script? You died two weeks ago!' It's interesting." Marin said he's learned not to ask Cuse any questions about what's to come, knowing nothing will be revealed. However, he did note that, "I said to [Cuse] the other day, 'Do you know where this is going' He says, 'Kind of!' I said, 'Okay, that's good enough!'"
Marin said that when it comes to working on Lost, "The funniest thing is when you're in the makeup trailer and you see the other actors. I don't watch the show religiously, but I hear their storylines." Marin said that he will get curious and begin to ask questions about what's happened so far, "And they say these convoluted [stories] and then the next person has an equally convoluted story. I say, 'Don't tell me anymore! I'll figure it out.'"
Source: IGN
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Casting, Cheech Marin, David Reyes, Season 5
Season 5 Casting Update – Will Abaddon Return?
Kristin at E! Online who recently interviewed JJ Abrams.
Abrams new show cast Lance Reddick (Abaddon on LOST) on his new show Fringe. so many fans were worried about Reddick's availability for both shows.
Of course as expected, it helps that Abrams knows the LOST producers just a bit. 🙂
Here are the details, Thanks to LyLy for the heads up:
Meanwhile, for those of you wondering about the casting of Lance Reddick (Lost's Matthew Abbadon) as a series regular on Fringe, J.J. said it's a safe bet he'll reappear on the Island. "When we were casting him, we hesitated because of his Lost character," J.J. admitted. "But then I realized if he goes and does another show, he'll be less likely to do Lost, so let's get him on this one, because I know the producer."
Read More of Interview Here: E! Online
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abaddon, Cast News, JJ Abrams, Kristin, Season 5
Snippet From The Abc Live Press Tour
Thanks to ackermaniv for the following.
"Cuse hints that "the journey about how those six return to the island" will be a major thrust of Season 5. Adds Lindelof: "You have to break your characters up to create conflict… but you can't play that too long because the audience will get frustrated…. And we have that intensely in mind as we proceed.""
Cuse teases we'll see more of Daniel Dae Kim "in some form" this season despite Jin's apparent death.
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Carlton Cuse, Daniel Dae Kim, Jin, Season 5
More Details From Lost Producers At Tca Press Tour
LOST producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, confirmed once again that part of the focus for Season 5 will be on the O6 trying to get back to the island and how the island is "drawing them back."
They also used an analogy calling Season 5 The Two Towers (part 2) of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Basically a season that will setup Season 6.
Speaking at ABC's TCA press tour today, LOST executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse explained how giving an end date for the series last year has truly reinvigorated the writing staff and streamlined how they're going to get to the end.
"I think it completely changed our storytelling approach," says Cuse.
Last year's writer's strike also gave LOST the ability to air the finished episodes and return to the show after the strike and utilize fan and friend feedback in the writing and completion of the remaining episodes of the season.
"We got feedback from audience and we were able to course correct," says Lindelof who notes this year they won't have that benefit, since the series will air in January, and they'll be done writing shortly after that. "We're done by writing the show at end of February, so there's not an opportunity to get any feedback, which quite frankly scares the sh*t out of us."
Most importantly, Cuse notes it's a "tricky year for us," since Season 5 is the linking mechanism to the selesai season the following year.
"This is year is the 'TWO TOWERS year,'" explains Cuse in his reference the middle chapter of THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy that set everything into motion for the selesai chapter. "This is the year that links us to the past and the present. We knew what we wanted to do for a long time. The challenge for us is how to make this engaging and exciting, where everybody is really excited about the selesai season of LOST."
As for teases on the new season, as usual the executive producers are tight lipped, but they do reveal this season will be about the Oceanic 6 getting back to the island.
"The people that are off the island, the island seems to be drawing them back and Ben [Michael Emerson] makes it clear they need to go back to the island," says Cuse. "So hopefully that's a lot of what you'll see of in Season 5 — the journey how those six return to the island."
And for Lindelof, he notes "the worst thing we can do on the show is be boring," and he prides himself on the fact that people are still talking about LOST after last year's reinvigorated season and that the writers themselves are still engaged with the show's twists and turns.
"Season 5 is very exciting for us," says Lindelof. "At 86 hours into the sow, we're going into Season 5 and the fact people are asking us, 'what is the show going to be next year, how are you going to tell stories next year?' It has been exciting."
Source: IF Magazine
Posted in UncategorizedTagged Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Oceanic 6, Season 5, Season 6, The Island
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Home Auto News Volvo Cars Announce 3 New Initiatives For Greater Safety
Volvo Cars Announce 3 New Initiatives For Greater Safety
Earlier this week, the world was invited to tune in for a big 'Moment' in Volvo's history. Well, that moment has come. Here's what it's all about.
Volvo Cars made three anouncements, all with the aim of increasing safety standards in cars. They are the E.V.A. Initiative, In-Car Cameras, and the Care Key. We'll run through each below.
E.V.A. Initiative
Short for 'Equal Vehicles for All', the E.V.A. Initiative is Volvo sharing their research on safety free of charge with all car makers. Most manufacturers rely on test dummies that are designed to represent the average male. For the last 40 years, Volvo has been doing crash tests that apply to all humans regardless of gender, height, weight or shape.
In-Car Cameras
Don't worry, this isn't some Orwellian nightmare slowly unfolding in the automotive world. Volvo cites research that states that 30% of all American car crashes involve an intoxicated driver.
To address this (and the issue of distracted drivers), they will be using in-car cameras and other driver monitoring software to detect and react to such situations. Say you have a driver who has not given any steering input for a long period of time or one who has their eyes closed. Future Volvos will be able to detect this and slow the car down, perhaps even bring it to a safe stop (using semi-autonomous driving) before any harm can be done.
These in-car cameras will come to SPA2, the next generation Volvo chassis coming in the early 2020s.
Care Key
Earlier in the month, Volvo Cars announced that their future cars would have a self-imposed 180km/h speed limit. Now they want to take it a step further by giving owners a special Care Key that will allow them to set their own self-imposed speed limit. They may use this key for themselves or for younger, more inexperienced drivers or even valets. It's a bit like Ford's MyKey in that sense.
Volvo Cars is hoping this will make cars safer and reduce insurance premiums on their vehicles.
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Gene Drive Technology Eliminates Malaria-Transmitting Mosquito Population
Researchers introduced a sterilization mutation that wiped out lab populations in seven to 11 generations
Meilan Solly
Associate Editor, History
Females that inherited two copies of a mutated gene developed antenna and claspers similar to males, rendering them unable to lay eggs or bite their prey Wikimedia Commons
Researchers from London's Imperial College have employed a Trojan Horse-like form of genetic engineering in a lab setting to wipe out a population of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in less than 11 generations.
Armed with a CRISPR gene-edited sterilization mutation, biologists infiltrated a group of Anopheles gambiae and introduced the deadly gene modification to just a few of the unsuspecting insects. As Megan Molteni reports for Wired, the mutation completed its insidious task within seven to 11 generations, rapidly spreading sterility across the population and signaling the rise of a powerful—albeit controversial—tool in the worldwide fight against malaria.
The Imperial team's findings, newly published in Nature Biotechnology, represent one of the first successful deployments of the "gene drive" technique. Gene drives defy the laws of genetics by greatly increasing the odds of a trait being passed down to offspring.
According to Science News' Tina Hesman Saey, the researchers' gene drive worked to alter the mosquitoes' doublesex gene. Females that inherited two copies of this mutated gene developed antenna and claspers similar to males, rendering them unable to lay eggs or bite their prey. Males and females that inherited just one copy were largely unaffected.
To test the success of their gene drive, the biologists filled two cages with a mixture of 300 female mosquitoes, 150 unaffected males and 150 genetically modified males. In one caged population, the altered gene spread to all of the mosquitoes by the seventh generation, leaving the eighth and final generation unable to produce any offspring. The second population took 11 generations to similarly die out.
Under normal circumstances, offspring have a 50 percent chance of inheriting a parent's given gene. If, for example, a male mosquito carries an altered gene, he might pass it down to one of his two children. Then, the new altered gene carrier could, in turn, pass down the gene to one of his two children, and so on. When gene drives enter the picture, however, altered genes have a much higher chance of spreading to offspring. The aforementioned male mosquito might pass his modified gene down to both children, increasing the likelihood of his distant descendants inheriting the gene, too.
The Imperial team was able to bypass "resistance"—one of the major issues associated with gene drives—by targeting the doublesex gene, which does not tolerate mutations. According to an Imperial College press release, previous gene drive experiments have been thwarted by genes that adapt to researcher-induced alterations, enabling them to function normally and resist the drive.
"We are not saying this is 100 percent resistance-proof," lead author Andrea Crisanti tells The New York Times' Nicholas Wade. "But it looks very promising."
Replicating the study's results in the wild could help scientists fight malaria, a disease that runs rampant across the African continent. The World Health Organization states that a staggering 216 million cases (with a death toll of 445,000) were recorded across the globe in 2016.
Still, the technology poses significant risks: Once a gene drive is released into the wild, it can't simply be recalled. And, Wade notes, the effects likely can't be contained to a single country, meaning that global insect populations could face unwanted side effects.
Biologist Ricarda Steinbrecher tells NPR's Rob Stein that the eradication of an entire species could lead to ecosystem crashes or the emergence of other potentially harmful insect groups. Jim Thomas, co-executive director of the technology-centered ETC Group, adds that the defense industry could even transform gene drives into weapons of war that spread "toxic" substances across populations.
Before these concerns can be addressed, researchers will need to spend several years fine-tuning the technology. As BBC News reports, the scientists' next step will be testing their technique on larger populations housed in less artificial settings.
The worldwide eradication of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes may remain a relatively distant objective, but Kevin Esvelt, a biologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was not involved in the study, tells The New York Times' Wade that advancing gene drive techniques may be the key—despite the potential risks associated with the technology.
Esvelt concludes, "The known harm of malaria greatly outweighs every possible ecological side-effect that has been posited to date, even if all of them occurred at once."
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#BBNaija Day 23 – Eloswag wins HoH once again
Level 1 Housemates have maintained a winning streak when it comes to the HoH Games, and they did not disappoint again this week as Eloswag wins the title again. Eloswag won with the fastest hands and shapest eyes as he assembled what Biggie called "a simple jigsaw puzzle." The win continues to be a big disadvantage for the Level 2 Housemates who have been going home for the past two weeks. Khalid and Ilebaye are the latest two to join the Eviction list after Christy O and Cyph were the first to be Evicted.
This is a big blow for them, as Beauty was also Disqualified from the Game for exhibiting violent behaviour towards Ilebaye and Grovy respectively. This win has big repercussions for them, as more Level 2 Housemates will be Nominated for possible Eviction.
The Level Up Housemates gathered in the Arena another week for the HoH Games. Today, Level 2 Housemates were two men down, going in as nine Housemates. As they gathered in the Arena, Biggie informed them of the rules of the Game they would play after excluding Adekunle as the incumbent HoH.
First off, the Housemates were given a bucket full of puzzle pieces. They were given seven minutes to complete the jigsaw puzzle. Ninjas would show them a picture of the completed puzzle, placing a few pictures in the middle of where they stood.
The buzzer went off and the Housemates started putting the pieces together, some moving slower than others.
Adekunle, in true HoH style, hyped up his fellow Housemates, encouraging them to increase their pace. Housemates kept looking at the reference picture.
The buzzer went off again, and Biggie asked the Housemates to freeze. Deji made a little prayer after his instruction and was subsequently disqualified for disobedience.
The top six Housemates whose puzzles were almost completed were Bryann, Diana, Daniella, Pharmsavi, Hermes, and Eloswag. They were given a minute to complete the puzzle, and they went for it.
Eloswag completed the puzzle first, raising his paper first, and then the other housemates followed. Diana, Daniella, and Pharmsavi were asked to sit down and Bryann, Hermes and Eloswag went through to the next round.
In the next game, the three Housemates were given sticks to count and were required to count how many sticks were in the bunch. They all counted and put down their numbers. The Housemates with the closest number would be the winner, and that was Eloswag who had the number 390, and there were 450 sticks in the bunch.
Eloswag reigned as the winner and took the title again after winning the first HoH Game.
This is the fourth time the Level 1 Housemates would have an HoH. Eloswag was followed by Hermes, then Adekunle, and now he takes it one more time.
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Concentration is a not so popular 2 player card game of both skill and luck. The standard Concentration game is played with one or two 52-card decks, however, for the sake of the problem, we will look at a variation of Concentration.
A card is represented by a single integer. Two cards $i$, $j$ are considered "similar" if and only if $\lfloor i/2\rfloor =\lfloor j/2\rfloor $. A deck consisting of $2N$ cards is used for each game. More specifically, a deck of $2N$ cards contains exactly one copy of card $i$ for all $0\leq i <2N$.
All cards are initially facing down on a table in random positions, i.e. neither players know what any cards are. Players take turns making moves. Player 0 goes first, then player 1 goes, then player 0 goes, and so on.
During each turn, a player chooses two cards and reveals them. If the two cards are "similar", then they are removed from the table and the player gets to keep them, the player is then granted another turn; this can happen infinitely as long as the player always finds two "similar" cards. If the cards are different, the player's turn ends.
When there are no more cards on the table, the player with more cards wins the game.
Anthony and Matthew like to play this boring game and share an identical play style: whenever they are to choose a card to reveal, if they have knowledge of two "similar" cards, they will pick one of the two "similar" cards; otherwise they will pick a random unknown card to reveal.
Anthony and Matthew are both extremely intelligent and have perfect memories, i.e. they remember every card that has been revealed.
Before the game starts, both Anthony and Matthew make up their minds about in which order they will choose random cards to reveal, in case when they do not have knowledge of two "similar" cards.
Each player's choices of revelation can be represented by a permutation of numbers $[0,\ldots , 2N-1]$. For example, let $\sigma _0$, a permutation of $[0,\ldots , 2N-1]$ be the "random" choices of Anthony. When Anthony is to choose an unknown card, he will choose the smallest $i$ such that $\sigma _0(i)$ is not revealed, and reveal $\sigma _0(i)$.
Similarly, let $\sigma _1$ be the choices of Matthew.
Having knowledge of $\sigma _0$ and $\sigma _1$, we should be able to perfectly determine the winner (and win lots of money by betting on that player), and it is your job to do exactly that!
The first line of input contains one integer $1\leq N\leq 10^6$.
The second line contains $2N$ integers, with the $i$-th integer being $\sigma _0(i)$. This line defines $\sigma _0$.
The third line contains $2N$ integers, with the $i$-th integer being $\sigma _1(i)$. This line defines $\sigma _1$.
Output a single line with $0$ if Anthony wins, $1$ if Matthew wins, or $-1$ if the game ties.


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05 October 2021 — Deloitte has reported aggregate global revenue of US$50.2 billion for the fiscal year ending 31 May 2021 (FY2021), a 5.5% increase in US dollars (USD).
"Investing in our people, making positive changes in society and serving our clients have long been the pillars by which we make decisions and operate at Deloitte. Deloitte has taken the opportunity throughout this unique, complex and challenging year to drive positive change to our people through new and creative work solutions, help our clients respond to the pandemic, recover and thrive, and helping communities in need access better educational opportunities" says Mutasem Dajani, CEO, Deloitte Middle East.
Staying resilient, responding to clients' evolving needs
Deloitte successfully served clients, leveraging investments in technology that helped it stay connected, expand alliance relationships, invest in innovation, and serve the public interest.
Among the businesses, Financial Advisory grew fastest at 12.9% in USD, followed by Audit & Assurance, which grew 6.1% in USD. Government & Public Services was the fastest growing industry, followed by Technology, Media & Telecommunications. Financial Services clients contributed 27% of Deloitte's total revenue. Among the regions, Asia Pacific (APAC) grew fastest at 14%, followed by Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA), which grew at 11.3% (both in USD). Deloitte also expanded its global alliance and ecosystem business by 24%.
Additionally, in FY2021, Deloitte intensified efforts to help clients advance their ESG and sustainability efforts. Employing innovative approaches, digital solutions, deep industry insights, and lessons learned from our own experiences, Deloitte worked with clients to develop their strategies and adapt their operations for success in a changing marketplace.
For the third consecutive year, Brand Finance recognized Deloitte as the strongest and most valuable commercial services brand in the world. And industry analysts continued to acknowledge Deloitte's leadership in many service areas including cloud, cyber, strategy, and analytics.
Living our Purpose by making a positive impact for people and society
As the world's largest professional services organization, Deloitte is guided by its purpose to make an impact that matters. For Deloitte professionals, that means working to address the increasingly complex challenges society faces and creating a future where trust in institutions and systems is restored and progress is made on major societal challenges—including systemic racial injustice, social inequity, climate change, and economic inequality.
In FY2021, Deloitte made significant progress on ESG reporting; education; health equity; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); mental health; and the environment. Deloitte's FY2021 societal impact investment was $223 million USD, bringing our five-year investment total to $1.15 billion USD.
ESG reporting: This year, the Deloitte Global Impact Report includes in-depth reporting of our impact on the environment and on society, as well as a more detailed look at the structures and processes of our organization.
In FY2021, Deloitte began reporting against the World Economic Forum's Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics. This effort builds on the critical work Deloitte is doing as part of the Forum's International Business Council (IBC) to lead and promote the adoption of a common set of ESG reporting metrics. These metrics enable companies to measure value-creation factors, increase reporting transparency and comparability for stakeholders and drive action to achieve sustainable long-term performance.
Education and skills building: While the pandemic has accelerated trends such as reskilling and leveraging technology to improve educational outcomes, it has also exposed widening inequalities. Recognizing these challenges and the life-altering outcomes an education can provide, Deloitte doubled its commitment to supporting those being left behind in school and at work by increasing our WorldClass goal from 50 million to 100 million individuals reached by 2030. In FY2021, we reached 8.2 million individuals, and since 2017, we have reached 20 million individuals. In the Middle East region, the D-180 digital mentoring program launched in 2020 targets university graduates in their first few years in the workforce to provide them with mentoring and real work exposure to Deloitte volunteer professionals.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and mental health:
The events of FY2021 highlighted the growing recognition of mental health as a critical component of overall well-being. To meet the needs of its people, Deloitte established a mental health baseline for measuring well-being factors, made a global commitment to mental health within the organization and in society at large, and became a Founding Partner of the Global Business Collaboration for Better Workplace Mental Health, which aims to raise awareness of the importance of mental health in the workplace and facilitate the adoption of best practices that enable employees to thrive in the workplace.
Expanding commitment to the environment
Deloitte believes deeply that climate change is one of the defining global challenges of our time. Through Deloitte's WorldClimate strategy, responsible climate choices are being driven within the organization and beyond.
"As Expo 2020 Dubai gets underway and seeing the innovative solutions that countries in our region have taken to combat the pandemic while remaining successful and achieving new milestones, we are constantly reminded of the resilience of the human spirit and how working together can break extraordinary new grounds, which will foster a better future for the next generations," concluded Dajani.
To learn more about Deloitte's societal impact and FY2021 performance, please read our 2021 Global Impact Report.
Nadine El Hassan
Public Relations Regional Leader
Deloitte Middle East
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Rock Engineering provides a comprehensive explanation of the geological principles and ground investigations involved with geotechnical design and engineering of underground projects.
It offers an internationally applicable, practical guide for engineers and geologists responsible for considering different ground conditions, design and planning for excavation and underground projects. This informative and highly illustrated resource combines theoretical knowledge and practical examples of rock engineering with detailed case studies of tunnelling and hydropower projects. Theories and realities of risks and uncertainties are discussed to provide an understanding of the considerations needed for successfully planning and executing underground projects.
This fully updated edition has added focus on rock engineering applications in design, planning and excavation. Special chapters have been added dealing with the practical use of the Euro Code in rock design, the design principles of some special underground projects and three case histories. The ambition is to better cover the complex engineering geological process in rock construction from ground investigation to execution.
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The 2023 East–West Shrine Bowl was the 98th edition of the all–star college football exhibition to benefit Shriners Hospital for Children. The game was played at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, on February 2, 2023, starting at 5:30 p.m. PST and televised on the NFL Network. It was one of the final 2022–23 bowl games concluding the 2022 FBS football season. The game featured NCAA players (predominantly from the Football Bowl Subdivision) and one invitee from Canadian university football—Theo Benedet, an offensive lineman from the UBC Thunderbirds.

Coaches
Organizers, in cooperation with the National Football League (NFL), announced that coaching staffs for the game would be provided by the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots.

Note: additional members of the coaching staffs are not listed here

Game summary

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The Delicious History of Pizza
Cassandra BrooklynUpdated: Mar. 21, 2022
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Not only is pizza one of the most popular foods in the world, but it also has a fascinating history.
Growing up 90 minutes north of Chicago, I first discovered deep dish pizza as a teenager. It was thick, rich, ooey gooey, and full of everything I loved. Well, call me a traitor in the Chicago vs. New York pizza war, but 17 years in New York City has solidified my preference for a thinner crust. Don't get me wrong: I'll still demolish a deep dish and have a great appreciation for the sort of crust and topping variety the person who invented pizza probably never imagined. But since my Chicago days, I've come to appreciate the simpler things in my pizza-loving life.
Given that I travel about four months out of the year, I'm lucky to be able to try pizza around the world, including in Naples, Italy. There, I experienced Italian pizza for the first time. Unlike American-style pies that often come loaded with a dozen types of meat, cheese, and vegetables, the two-ingredient pizza I discovered in Naples was made with nothing more than good dough and great sauce.
To answer your question: Yes, it was delicious. But that should come as no surprise, considering Naples is the birthplace of pizza. As for the genius Italian who invented pizza, well, his or her identity is—much like the person who invented ice cream and the person who invented the hamburger—a bit of a mystery. While the origin of the first-ever pizza restaurant may never be known, there are some fun food facts about the dish that we do know.
Where was the first pizza made?
Though most people point to Italy when they think of the first-ever pizza, historians agree the dish has an even longer history—provided you define pizza broadly. Consider, for instance, flatbreads. Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians ate these topped with various oils and herbs. Even as far back as the sixth century BCE, Persians were baking flatbreads covered in cheese and dates, pizza toppings that would be at home at a modern artisanal pizza place.
But pizza as we know it today started off as a sort of flatbread that was popular in poor sections of Naples, Italy.
When was pizza originally invented?
Historians haven't pinpointed an exact date for the creation of pizza, but they've been able to narrow down the window quite a bit. Tomatoes originated in the West but didn't make their way to Europe until around the 1500s (they weren't initially embraced because they were thought to be poisonous), so pizza couldn't have come into existence until after that time.
A book from 1799 narrows pizza's birthday even further: It describes pizza as being a dough with tomato sauce and cheese, so we know it was invented by at least then.
And thanks to an Italian census taken in the late 1700s, which listed a handful of people as "pizolas" (pizza makers) in Naples, we know the dish was well enough known to give rise to a profession.
Who invented pizza margherita?
Like many of the greatest origin stories, the creation of this pizza is a little murky. One version of the story claims that your favorite Friday night meal was created when the soon-to-be king and queen of Italy visited Naples in 1889. In an attempt to be a sort of "queen of the people," the future monarch insisted on eating as the common folk did. And that meant pizza: the food of the poor.
Margherita of Savoy summoned the preeminent pizza maker in Naples, Rafael Esposito, and tried several of his pies. One topped with garlic. Another dotted with anchovies. And yet another covered in tomato sauce and sprinkled with mozzarella cheese and basil. The final pizza (which conveniently had the colors of the Italian flag), was her favorite, so Esposito named it "pizza margherita" after his future queen.
Granted, some of these details can't be confirmed, and other versions state that Margherita was already the queen and tried pizza because she was bored with the French cuisine at court. The former story does seem just a little too good to be true, but the establishment (known as Pizzeria Brandi today) still features a plaque pronouncing it the birthplace of pizza margherita.
When did pizza come to America?
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Pizza could be found in the United States as early as the 1910s. It popped up on the East Coast and in the Midwest—places like Omaha, Nebraska, and Racine, Wisconsin. But if we're talking about where pizza became famous in the United States, then we're talking about New York City, even if it's not always ranked number one for the best pizza in America.
While Lombardi's in Manhattan became the first licensed U.S. pizzeria in 1905, pizza historian Peter Regas says there's no evidence to confirm that it was the first pizzeria in New York City. He believes that pizzerias may have first opened across the river in the borough of Brooklyn.
Who invented pepperoni pizza?
Unlike the origin of pizza, which can be traced back to Naples, the origin of pepperoni pizza couldn't be further from Italy. In fact, Italians frown upon pepperoni, which you'll never find as a topping in the country.
Michael Harlan Turkell, host of the Modernist Pizza Podcast, says the Ezzo family began making the sausage in Canastota, New York, in 1906, and may have been the first to sell it pre-sliced. But food historians believe it wasn't until the 1950s, when a pizza place in New Haven put pepperoni on a pie, that the spicy sausage became a pizza topping.
Still, it wasn't a national phenomenon—at least not yet. The rise in popularity has Domino's to thank. Yes, that Domino's. It may not be America's favorite pizza chain or the best pizzeria in your state, but it certainly became a major player.
"In the 1980s, Ezzo [Sausage Company] began making pepperoni for a small chain called Domino's," Turkell says. The rapid growth of Domino's pizza, combined with the popularity of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, firmly positioned pepperoni as a favorite pizza topping. According to Turkell, some statistics show pepperoni being used as a topping on nearly 50 percent of pizzas nationwide these days.
How did Hawaiian pizza originate?
Love it or hate it, Hawaiian pizza is sure to spark debate, and not just about taste. There's a dispute about its origin as well.
You've probably guessed that, unlike Italian pizza, Hawaiian pizza didn't come to your local pizzeria by way of Italy. But you'll probably be surprised to learn that the dish—which is typically topped with canned pineapple and ham, but may also include peppers, bacon, and/or mushrooms—doesn't come from Hawaii either. The sweet and savory pie is actually believed to have originated in Canada. Yes, Canada.
According to the Modernist Pizza book collection, French Canadian Sam Panopoulos is often credited as having invented the Hawaiian pizza in 1962. But the authors note that a 1957 ad for Francine's Pizza Jungle in Oregon advertised a Hawaiian pizza topped with pineapple, papaya, and green peppers. Who gets credit for inventing it first: the earlier Oregonian version that included various fruits but no ham, or the Canadian version that may have pioneered what we now consider to be the standard Hawaiian pizza? You be the judge.
If the idea of chowing down on pineapple-topped pizza is off-putting, go with a classic like green peppers, mushrooms, or eggplant. Or pick a pizza topping based on your zodiac sign the next time you decide to order a pie or pick up a frozen pizza.
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Cassandra Brooklyn is a writer, guidebook author, and international tour leader based in New York City. She writes regularly about travel, food, health, and tech and has been published in Reader's Digest, The Daily Beast, Fodor's, AAA, Lonely Planet, Matador Network, The Culture Trip, Travel + Leisure, Moon Travel Guides, Medium, and Far & Wide, among others. She earned her Master's degree in Psychology from New York University and her BBA in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin. You can follow her on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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#Corset Diet, yes or no?
Also called "waist training" has hit mainstream and the Hollywood crowd over the last few years. For centuries women were FORCED to "widdle their middle" into these tight, restrictive and unbearable contraptions. Now, celebs like the Kardashians and Jessica Alba swear by these "devices". Jessica Alba stated she wore hers day and night for 3 months after giving birth and credits wearing this contraption for her weight loss.
Do you lose weight with a corset? Well, science says NO WAY. I have worn one of these, and actually have it in my closet. It is great to help you nip and tuck away what you are trying to hide, but can become quite disappointing when you squeeze yourself into a sausage and find your "excess" spills over the top… not a pretty look ladies!
Next, these things are painful! It hurts to have a contraption wrapped around you so tightly you can barely sit down. The more expensive ones have metal boning in them that keeps everything pretty upright, which isn't all bad for sitting at a desk all day because it definitely improves your posture. I found I had difficulty breathing in it. The tighter you cinch the corset the more you constrict your diaphragm, so don't even think about working out in it… that can be dangerous because it restricts you from taking a full breath.
Oh, one theory on weight loss is because everything is slammed together in your gut you eat less and aren't as hungry. Well, yes and no. You for sure can't eat as much food because there is no room for it in there, but this can also cause acid refluxing because too much food may find it's way back up into your esophagus and that simply is not pleasant. Be prepared to run to the bathroom more often, because when everything is squished together, it pushes your colon along a little more.
Finally, and this is the worst of all the things I experienced, it compresses your rib cage which can be dangerous. A slight turn in the wrong direction while contorted and compressed can result in a torn intercostal ligament (between ribs) which is excruciating and will result in weeks of missed gym days and many sleepless nights. If it gets REALLY bad, you can actually crack or break a rib, which sets you back even further. Why do I tell you this? Because I suffered torn intercostal 3 times and 2 cracked ribs in the several months I wore this contraption. Bottom line, though it looks like the next best thing since buttered bread, please think twice. Abs are not made in a waist trainer, they are made at the dinner table and at the end of your fork. Hard work, consistent exercise, plenty of sleep and rest and consistency and dedication is why creates that beautiful waist ladies!