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Huawei MediaPad M6 Bewertung – Ein Biest einer Tablette
So I've got with me as you can see the huawei media pad m6. This is a promising looking premium tablet from them. That runs Android. 9 and by default doesn't have Google Play Store installed. Tatsächlich, when I first got this tablet a month ago, I couldn't install it there's, no way around that you can now get play. Google Play services on it to Play Store, which is great news. So now it is time for my full review. So all the specs are right up here, just to briefly mention that this has quite a potent chipset for a tablet. It'S the keren 980, which I was their previous flagship chip. So this is what you get here in the box. So not a lot. You'Ve got some instruction leaflets which are in Chinese L, Typ c, Kabel, 18 Watt-Ladegerät, which fully charges the tablet in just under 3 Stunden, and there is a symmetry tool as well. Now this lone unit has been supplied to make from trading Shin Jin. Now these guys installed Google Play services for me when I first had it about a month ago I tried every single method and at that time there was no way to install Google Play services, but Play Store is now on there and it's all set up ready To go so at the top of the media pad m 6. Here we have an 8 megapixel webcam on the right, a fingerprint reader which is working about 9 von 10 times for me, but more on that later, within this review, I'll be testing it out.
As well as the face, unlocking Huawei logo down the bottom, reasonable sized bezels and a glass it's all flush with a middle build all around the outside a complete unibody. Wie Sie sehen können, I roll the builders very good solid, but I don't like what they've done with the camera, which sticks out over one millimeter. This is our 13 megapixel sensor. It has an LED flash now. The camera itself does support 4k video at 30 Bilder pro Sekunde, but just like Huawei, so mobile phones, the keren 980 Nicht, maintain a solid 30 Bilder pro Sekunde, it always has frame dips, but let's face it. You'Ll probably be using your mobile and not your tablet. Here to be recording video, so up top, we have quad mics here two antenna lines, two of four speakers in total that you can see another two are located on the bottom of the tablet, so we have three pogo ports. This is for the keyboard, which I unfortunately do not have. This tablet also supports an optional M pen, which is huawei's stylus along the right there's. The sim tray takes two nano Sims or nano SIM micro SD card. It is metal, reinforced type C port metal volume up and down and power button and you'll see the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack in a bit of an awkward location, aber wirklich, where else could they put it on a tablet? Apart from maybe up on the top? The media pad m6 weighs 518 Gramm.
It is seven point four millimeters thick with the camera bump. That brings it up to nine point three millimeters thickness, so this tablet has faced unlocking and fingerprint unlocking so to unlock, with a face, unlocking simply tap the button. Erste, look at it and then you slide up and it has unlocked, Ich denke, you're getting even get rid of that slide up setting, so you can just go straight into it, but with the fingerprint reader always on. This is a little bit faster. So I just touch it now and you can see that took what under a second do it one more time and for me that's, actually a little bit slow, then so it's not always working a hundred percent at the time, which is odd because my fingerprint reader Um, Zum Beispiel, my Hawaii p30 Pro works great and normally these capacitive always on fingerprint readers are really good there. We go that's more like it, but for me, it's working about nine or eight times out of ten, also hoffentlich, with some firmware updates. They can't improve upon that just to get it a lot more accurate, so we have a screen that has a sixteen by ten aspect ratio. Die Entschließung ist 2560 durch 1600, and that is of course, a ten point. Eight inch diagonal screen now the bezels around the outside are not bad, but what I don't particularly like is this black border you get around here now. If they do happen to have one with black bezels, then you wouldn't notice that as much now, the bezels are not as small as the Samsung Galaxy Tab s5 either.
I reviewed and I don't really mind that they aren't that small, because the tab is five II. Almost had the Basil's, like it almost too small, because here you're not going to really have too many issues with any miss touches or your palm accidentally, touching it when you're gripping and holding it at least in landscape right here. So let's take a look at the Gama first, which checks out to be quite good: Ich bin, just going to lower the brightness here so it's, fast 2.2 es geht um 2.3. The gamma, was gar nicht schlecht ist 2.2, Ideal wäre. Natürlich, maximum brightness is just over 400 Lux and it does have in the settings options to tweak and adjust the white balance, your scaling as well, and your dpi that's all through the settings here, Das ist toll. Jetzt. If I take a look at some real world images, you can see that it does look very good. This is a nice IPS panel they have in here it is fully laminated and I think that pretty much everyone out there is going to be very happy with this screen. But I have to say my personal favorite still is the Samsung Galaxy Tab s 5e? That screen the Super AMOLED panel is really nice. That is a super screen that it has in here, but this one still not bad at all. That Huawei have selected and used iComfort motors in here as well, which removes the blue light.
A lot of tablets. Do this now even mobile phones, Natürlich, screen recorder, hotspot and various other modes that you'd expect to find on a premium flagship phone now, just like the offerings from Samsung, it does have its own desktop mode and you don't need to plug in an external display To run it it's simply from the toggles, so you had a very desktop like experience here and, Wie Sie sehen können, you can bring up the menu. So it looks a little bit like we're running Windows, something similar very similar in layout and in terms of what you can do just like. Samsung, dix, better life and information and other toggles are displayed here in the Notification Center. Controlling the brightness is also from there and all and all performs quite well and it's great to have this option. So the tablet is running. Android 9 we'll take a look at the performance I'm in full screen gestures at the moment, because I use my qua way. P30 Pro with full screen gestures and for me it's just easier. I like the fact that I can take full advantage of this 1440p screen so multitasking, very quick to swap between the apps I've had no issues with this. I just wanted to first show you that YouTube yes running and 1440p and I'm, not having any problems with it all with it at all there, but it doesn't have a wide vine level one. So here we have the RM info it's not pulling through all the details, so I had to go into Netflix and I've got Amazon Prime video here running at the moment, and you can tell that oh that's in standard definition, so it's not gon na look as Sharp does it mean that you cannot enjoy your favorite TV series like mr.
robot here? Nein, I mean you can still watch it. It'S fine sounds really great with the speakers it's, just not the sharp as it could be, which for some people may be a bit of a deal breaker there. So it's mention the performance is good with us. We'Ll. Take it out to a PDF file here at the moment, so this one should have been downloaded and you can see, looks very good double tap in here and you can see the ticks nice and clear there and swapping over the pages, not as fast as an Ipad pro okay, even though it does have the Karen Knight 80 hier, it is a very fast chip, 7 Nanometer. It still doesn't beat the custom silicon that we have with the Bionic chips from Apple, but that isn't too bad so I'll go through my typical. Sometimes I haven't actually noticed here a little bit of slowdown, so swiping up to home not slow down it's like an animation, I wouldn't call it a stutter, but the icons need to be rearranged for a few seconds and they sort themselves out. It actually is only many seconds that that happens so just jump here into gallery and go through some of the benchmarks that I have been running and testing with this. So read: speed here of the storage it's only using MMC 5.1, which is fine for a tablet. I think this is not going to bottleneck bottleneck it at all.
205 writes good random 4k reads there: GPS working very well okay, so we do have a hardware compass on this. It locks onto a lot of satellites and sees a lot as you can see. 32 accuracy is 4 meters and this will work really well with Google Maps and you could use it as a dedicated GPS and mapping program for that, so the camera. I don't think too many people going to be bothered by this it's camera2 api limited support so full or level. Three would be a lot better to use absolute open camera, but that really, I don't think is too much of an issue, so the wireless speeds. Sorry 4G speeds here that depends on your carrier: es ist, okay, Es ist gut – to have the dual SIM support and we also have micro, SD card support there as well. As I showed you in the beginning with the slot – and here is the Wireless so we're getting maximum speeds on average around 320 Megabit pro Sekunde, was gut ist, nicht die schnellste, I have seen and over the other side of the apartment, 154 Megabit pro Sekunde, which Is ideal some tablets struggle to get even a hundred there, also ist das in Ordnung, the antutu score and a lot of people would be interested in this one, so very fast for a tablet for an Android tablet. I know in the channel a lot of the tablets that I review get scores that are half this, so this is a high performance tablet and if we take a look now at the free available, storage on first boots get fifty two gigabytes free there and the Android security patch level, first of August, Nicht schlecht, and it is running a course Android 9.
zuletzt, the default apps we get so we've got a few bloatware apps on here. As you can see this one here, Zum Beispiel, they can be uninstalled. So do expect a little bit of bloat from quawi now onto audio. I wanted to point out the 3.5 Millimeter-Kopfhörerbuchse, as you saw in the start of this video, is in a bit of an awkward location. Now you need it to make voice calls really, weil, wenn Sie es nicht tun, when you're making voice calls it'll go through the speakers and use the mics here on the top, which they're good, because you've got four mics, but the problems that you lose privacy. So when you plug in a 3.5 millimeter headset, as you can see the location of it's a little bit in the way here, so when you're holding it like that, you kind of got this problem now, that's easily solved a course by simply just rotating the tablet. Around not an issue right, you've got the camera, then a bottom, but the problem is with Skype. Calls you need to have the camera on the top that's the only time really that that location of that 3.5 minute here phone jack is an issue for me right. dort, so if I go back and now into this video that I wanted to show you just quickly, how do the Harman speakers sound on this so common Harman speakers that has got very four of them so two downwards: two top firing and they're very loud they've Got some base of them but here's a very quick sample with one of my recent videos Music and give you a quick sample of voice for me just talking here in the beginning, amazing depth of 100 Meter.
So I have with me now the new release. This is a much smaller model, it's a lot cheaper it's only about so good bass. Really good sounding speakers on here, I have to say they're, probably almost as good as the Samsung Galaxy Tab. 5. The e version I reviewed so the s5 II. Tut mir Leid, that's got really good speakers on it as well. das, Ich würde sagen, is almost as good, if not probably just as good. So I have popped G here with GFX toolset on the highest absolute setting, so dass das 60 frames per second 1440p, and i got really lucky right here and it is so smooth. So when i zoom in here with the scope, does take a look at now and just how good this is when you zoom around there's, no lag running at the 60 frames per second on the highest settings, but that guy out of his misery there and shadow Gun Legends, another popular FPS game that I like to test out, because this one has some really demanding graphics, wie Sie sehen können, so, I've got it set on 60 frames per second it's on the highest possible visuals, und es sieht wirklich gut aus. You get the occasional little stutter, aber insgesamt, really good performance out of the media pad m6. Here when it comes to gaming. So with the front webcam, we do get to an ADP video 30 frames per second and it's even got electronic image stabilization, which has a bit of a crop as a result, so I'm holding it at arm's length right out here now and I don't really think It'S necessary for them to apply the electronic image stabilization with a tablet on mobile phones, definitely, but with at Albert.
Nein, nicht wirklich so. The audio you're listening to right now is from the quad mics and I do happen to like it. I think they've got decent audio quality, especially for a tablet, as well as the video quality, so in applications that I've been kissing out like Skype. Video does look good alright, so this is a solid offering here from qua way. We'Ve got a great screen. The bezels are slim they're, not super slim like the Samsung Galaxy Ted is 5e, aber es ist gut, a really good build to a unibody, the camera bulge. It sticks out a little bit which I don't particularly like, aber insgesamt, the performance of this tablet is what makes it stand out between all the rest of those tablets. Apart from save course, the Samsung Galaxy Tab s 6 with a Snapdragon 855. This one would have to be probably Android second fastest tablet with the keren 980 darin. It really is super smooth, fluid multitasks. Gut, the task manager is a little bit aggressive this mention, so you should lock apps that you want to keep on there now battery life, just to mention that that I'm losing nine point, seven percent every hour with the screen configured to 200 Lux. That is Chrome that is streaming with video services, was gut ist. Jetzt, when you step it up to gaming, more demanding you stare, then it's about 16 es ist, Tatsächlich, fifteen point nine or something that I was losing per hour, which is actually quite decent.
You put it on the performance mode and it will crease further, so bist du, probably only then gon na get about five hours of gaming time now, along the back here just below the camera, it gets warm now haven't broken out. My thermal probic is just touching, and I know that it's not getting hot enough to be an issue or concern at least not for me. Now it's got the Pogo port pins on the bottom, with an optional keyboard and stylus, because this is a lone unit. Leider, I do not have those accessories which would have been great to cover, because that would then make it more of a world with the desktop. No more of a practical tablet, Dann, because it's got koalas, Natürlich, desktop mode that they have just like. Samsung dicks. Very similar to to that, so the main thing is the performance. Very good screen, it's bright, fully laminated, but here comes the con. You can't take advantage of it. When you want to watch Amazon, Prime-Video, Netflix. Okay, you can install the apps but it's just standard definition, which is a real letdown, so hopefully there's gon na be a firmware update and over there update that comes through gives us Widevine level. 1 cert normally Huawei have it, but I guess what the media ped m6 they're just not bothering because they don't expect to sell this overseas. I don't even know if they do yet, but this is the Chinese ROM version.
So maybe if there is a global one, which probably won't of course, have Android Play, Google Play on there, Tut mir Leid, which you can now install on here, has been a seder running Android, 9 and yep. You can't install it now finally and it's running fine with no glitches or problems which is good or the apps you want. You can install, which I have done here. Sorry well that's to have late comes recommended from me, because it's got great speakers almost as good as an iPad pro well, wahrscheinlich ungefähr die gleiche, very loud good base to them. Just like the Samsung Galaxy Tab. S5E, the screen is not as good as the Samsung Galaxy Tab, s5e and that's. Another recommended tablet from me. So if you're in the same sort of price range and you don't care much about gaming performance or having absolute best performance but there's, another really good option. My review of that ones up here, but if you're gaming differently, if you're going to game a lot on tablet, we're pub G and demanding games, the Kirin 980 performs really well the Mele g76. The MP 10 TPU that hasn't here isn't the fastest in the Android ecosystem, but it, as has to be one of the top five three GPUs at the moment, so really good performance here.
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Megan Fisher is a Paralympic gold, silver, and bronze medalist from the Rio 2016 and London 2012 Games, a ten-time world champion, and retired member of Team USA. Megan's road to success has not been easy. At 19 years old, while travelling to start her second year in college as a Division 1 tennis player, Megan was involved in a tragic car accident that nearly killed her; leaving her in a coma and stealing the lower half of her left leg.
After the accident, Megan fought to overcome relatively simple challenges, like eating, standing, and relearning how to walk. Incredibly, less than a year after the loss of her leg, Megan returned to college and finished her first triathlon. That one race proved to her that she could overcome any obstacle.
Megan continues to explore her own physical boundaries. She uses these experiences to inspire and motivate as well as to raise awareness for a wide variety of causes and organizations. Today, she works as a Doctor of Physical Therapy, athletic performance coach, motivational speaker, and is in hot pursuit of other opportunities that demonstrate the capacity of the human body and spirit.


VILLOID — her new social style app — actually helps you celebrate the process of getting dressed. The app was designed to "make shopping easier," a wish shared by almost all who care about their appearance. VILLOID blends Pinterest and Instagram but specifically targets fashion and it even has a BUY button. You can simply browse street style looks and mood boards. Then, share your style by uploading products and photographs, follow friends and fellow style mavericks, love boards and individual items. And if there's something you absolutely must have , simply click on the buy button to purchase it. See…easy peasy!
The app is now available in App stores globally and the Android version is set to launch late 2015/early 2016.


Before I moved to China, my version of cooking was Trader Joe's frozen meals and mixing together a few things in an attempt to make Mexican food.
So when I crash landed in "The Middle of Nowhere China" and had only 3 restaurants within walking distance, I needed to learn how to cook fast. Most people eat out because they're too lazy to cook. Well, I learned to cook because I was too lazy to leave my campus, and I didn't always feel like eating dinner at 5pm in the school canteen.
I learned to cook in China, with fresh Chinese ingredients, a wok, and a rice cooker. Which is why I was so excited when Jessica reached out to me to tell her story about exploring Chinese culture through cooking in her own teacher's apartment.
Teaching abroad in China is an adventure, and so is learning to cook Chinese food!
It had been raining for a week, nearly nonstop, but as I rode my red, child-size bicycle across the street to the family-owned vegetable stand to buy the necessary ingredients for "something American," a strange feeling warmed me. I was excited to go home and cook.
Before I moved to China to teach English, those two words never would have been in the same sentence. I was not interested in the patience it took to prepare anything requiring the use of an oven or a stove. Putting hours into cooking was something I saw as a waste of time when I could quickly throw together a sandwich or salad or, better yet, meet the girls for happy hour and fill up on wine and hors-d'oeuvres.
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Over a year ago I accepted a teaching position at a university in Guangdong, China's southeastern-most province, and girls' night out transitioned from swanky wine bars and fancy restaurants on the river to sidewalk food stands and dinner served in miniature urinals (the literal tableware of a restaurant chain called Modern Toilet); the hors-d'oeuvres shifted from hummus plates, sliders, and bruschetta to chicken feet, stuffed snails, pig hooves, and larvae.
I'm adventurous when it comes to someone else's cooking, but overwhelmed by the process when I'm the one behind the counter. In China, my abilities are limited to boiling, frying, microwaving and heating food in a rice cooker. My apartment kitchen is equipped with exactly one pot, one pan, one wok and several small bowls, along with chopsticks.
I don't have an oven or a dishwasher. My kitchen sink is the size of the smallest drawer in my mother's fridge in Oregon (a fridge in a state-of-the-art culinary kitchen sure to make any professional chef jealous; a kitchen that I never once took advantage of before), and the table space surrounding it is shared with a gas stovetop, which leaves me no more than four inches of counter to use in any one direction.
My original ideas (chocolate chip cookies, pizza, brownies…if only to satisfy my own desires) were exhausted with the realization that I don't have an oven and my budget isn't large enough to allow for such "Western" commonalities as cheese and chocolate. I was forced to settle on something much less appealing but just as American: potato salad.
I tuned Pandora to the Eagles 50's Station, maxed out the volume and set my only pot on the stove to begin boiling water. I had 21 students to feed, which meant at least 12 large potatoes (I was aiming only for taster portions) and three separate rounds to boil them all.
As I washed the potatoes and peeled them with a knife, I sang and danced to tunes such as Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" and The Temptations "Ain't Too Proud to Beg." I felt warm, despite the temperatures that had bogged me down for days, and relaxed, despite my usual anxiety to be doing something more productive than cooking.
It took close to three hours before the potatoes were cooled, eggs boiled, bacon fried and celery chopped. I divided the salad into three mismatched bowls and placed them in the narrow refrigerator that stands as tall as my shoulders. I felt a feeling of accomplishment similar to the feeling I have after a daily four-mile run around the University's track; a rewarding sense of pride.
The potato salad was a huge hit in class. They gathered around the bowls and shared the meal like they do all others. The smiles I earned from my students were brilliant and appreciative, and whether it was genuine or polite affirmation, they all said they loved it. I was elated, and I never once felt it had been a waste of time.
Since that day, I've attempted to make breaded balsamic chicken, grilled eggplant, Chinese style fried egg and tomatoes, soy yogurt (in my rice cooker!), sweet potatoes with carrots, and a variety of pastas and soups.
Most were successful, others failed, but it's a learning process and it's going to take time. The patience I've found through cooking has transferred into a stress relief from other parts of my life as well, like teaching and writing.
Jessica J. Hill is a travel and outdoors writer/blogger/addict. She shares more stories at MissAdventureTravel, and is currently recruiting teachers to teach English in China and elsewhere abroad at TeachEnglishESL.com!
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This is a dream of mine – to take cooking classes around the world! It looks like the class you took was tons of fun.
Hey Stephanie, I actually learned to cook on my own in China but they do have some great cooking classes here!
I learned to cook when I moved to the Netherlands and needed to lose weight, lol. I actually found it really fun, and miss having my own kitchen. When my travels slow down next year, I'm looking forward to relaxing and cooking my own meals a lot more.
I definitely agree, cooking can really help with feeling healthy! Living in Beijing, everything is so oily, I cook a few times a week so that I feel better.
Love chines food and o lucky you learned how to cook it. the food makes me hungry looking at this article.
Hahaha I'm hungry now too! I definitely recommend testing out Chinese recipes if you have the chance. Chinese food is great!


A group of protestors from the nationalist ELAM movement tried to force their way into the Limassol Culture Centre where II President Mehmet Ali Talat was giving a lecture on the prospects of a solution in Cyprus.
Group of Turkish Cypriot musicians composed a song in memory of Berkin Elvan, who died after 269 days in coma. Berkin Elvan was 14 when he was shot by a riot police with a tear gas canister during Gezi apprising in Turkey.


The Milken Institute's first Japan Symposium is an exclusive, invitation-only event convening heads of large financial institutions, senior business leaders, top institutional investors, and high-level government officials from Japan, the Asia-Pacific region, and the United States. The gathering brings together the brightest minds and most influential figures to tackle critical geopolitical, economic, and social issues facing Japan.
A full day of programming is designed to stimulate thoughtful dialogue and produce constructive partnerships that will advance Japan's role in creating actionable solutions to economic and social challenges in the Asia-Pacific region. A mix of plenaries, breakout panels, and private sessions will engage participants in how to leverage the nation's underutilized pools of capital to increase competitiveness, achieve growth, and enhance prosperity amidst shifting global power balances and technological advancements.
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CIO Amber Boehnlein Takes Computing up a Notch
Boehnlein to head Jefferson Lab's new Computational Sciences and Technology Division, combining scientific computing and information technology in support of the lab's mission
18-Jun-2020 1:30 PM EDT, by Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Computer scientists, software developers and system administrators are coming together under one roof in the newly established Computational Sciences and Technology Division at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Amber Boehnlein, Jefferson Lab's chief information officer, has been promoted to associate director for computational sciences and technology, heading up the new division.
"This is a recognition that computational science is a cornerstone of the nuclear physics research that we do at Jefferson Lab," said Boehnlein. "The CST division includes a reorganization and additional staff that will strengthen the connection between computing at the lab and the other divisions, with computing as an equal partner."
The new division encompasses many of the lab's employees who specialize in information technology, including computing infrastructure, supercomputer systems, desktop support, cybersecurity, business systems, and the library. It also now brings together much of the lab's scientific computing expertise under the same umbrella.
Prior to the reorganization, the lab's expertise in scientific computing had been spread out across the lab, with some staff members working together in groups, while others worked individually on small projects. Going forward, the scientific computing team's efforts will be focused on projects that are key to the laboratory's scientific mission. These include the ongoing 12 GeV scientific program, as well as new opportunities in computational sciences both within the field of nuclear physics and in other mission areas, as well. Also, the division will now be positioned to bring to bear salient expertise in other areas, such as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, data sciences and quantum information.
Boehnlein is particularly well suited to helm the new division, as it sits at the intersection of bread-and-butter information technology and ultra-specialized computing. In her own career, she has often straddled the realms of both particle physics and computing. Prior to joining Jefferson Lab five years ago, she had led the Scientific Computing Applications Division at DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where she gained expertise in computational physics relevant to light sources and large-scale databases for astrophysics, as well as overseeing hardware computing systems.
She also spent three years at the DOE's Office of High Energy Physics as program manager for the U.S. Large Hadron Collider Detector Operations program and for three Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing programs. And she gained additional experience at DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory as a staff scientist responsible for computing and application support for all Fermilab-based experiments and as a member of the lab's DØ (DZero) experimental collaboration.
"My journey has given me the chance to work in multiple laboratories and to influence the interplay of scientific research and computing. The creation of this division feels like the culmination of what I have learned in each of those positions, and I'm looking forward to bringing all of that experience to bear," she said.
Boehnlein speaks well of the staff in the new Computational Sciences and Technology Division, many of whom she has managed as CIO since she came to Jefferson Lab five years ago.
"I am in awe of their technical abilities, productivity and how wonderful they are to work with. They are so open to new ideas, so creative and always, always, committed to the mission of this lab," she said. "With the reorganization, I have no doubt that our outstanding scientific computing team will be able to grow with Jefferson Lab's needs in computing and will be influential inside Jefferson Lab and beyond."
Jefferson Lab Director Stuart Henderson agrees, and he set his expectations of the new division in his announcement to lab staff.
"We are taking this step in recognition of the growing importance of computational sciences to our ongoing scientific mission, and also in recognition of the tremendous opportunities for growth, given the national priorities in high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, data sciences and quantum information," he said. "We are well-positioned to bring our expertise to these exciting areas of research and to have an impact. Under Amber's leadership, I am confident that we will."
Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, a joint venture of the Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc. and PAE, manages and operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, or Jefferson Lab, for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.
DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit https://energy.gov/science.
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TORRINGTON – The Torrington Blazers boys basketball team received two second-place votes, one third-place vote and a pair of fifth-place votes in the Wyopreps.com Preseason Coaches and Media Poll released Wednesday morning.
However, it wasn't enough for the Blazers to crack the top five in the first 3A poll of the season as Torrington is six points behind fifth place Newcastle.
Defending class champions, the Buffalo Bison, top the poll with 11 of the 14 first-place votes. Rawlins is second, while Lander Valley comes in third. Those two schools received the other three first-place votes. Worland is fourth.
Torrington joins Pinedale and Douglas as the other two schools on the outside looking in.
The Blazers open the season on Saturday, Dec. 8 at home against Chadron, Neb. Tipoff is scheduled for 6 p.m.
In Class 2A and 1A, Southeast and Lingle-Fort Laramie didn't pick up any votes.
Pine Bluffs tops the Class 2A poll, while Wind River, Wyoming Indian, Wright and Big Horn round out the top five.
The Cyclones travel south to the Burns Winter Classic on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 7-8.
In Class 1A, each team ranked in the top five got at least one first-place vote.
Burlington topped the list with three. Farson-Eden and Upton received two each to come in second and third, respectively. Encampment was fourth and Kaycee fifth.
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Paralympic Medalist Swimmer Sophia Herzog Has Another Reason to Celebrate
Hot on the heels of her bronze medal performance at Tokyo's Paralympic Games, swimmer Sophia Herzog turned to Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to announce her engagement to Para-cyclist boyfriend Nick Gibb.
The 24-year-old athlete posted two photos that prominently displayed her engagement ring, which features a round, brilliant-cut diamond set with four prongs upon a diamond-accented band.
Her caption simply read, "We got some exciting news to announce from this weekend… We are ENGAGED." Of course, she punctuated the post with an engagement ring emoji.
Living by the credo "Tiny but mighty," the 4-foot-tall swimmer competed in the S6 classification.
Her third-place finish in the 100-meter breaststroke earned the Colorado native her second Paralympic medal. She also captured a silver medal in the same event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Ironically, Herzog told her fans on Facebook this past Friday that the biggest 10 days of her life have come and gone and that the transition back to "normalcy" is happening.
Little did she know that the weekend would deliver another life-changing event.
Standing 6 foot 1, the 39-year-old Gibb is a former Para-cycling national champion in the MC5 class. The Colorado native also represented the U.S. at the 2018 Track World Championships in Rio.
According to TeamUSA.org, Herzog announced that her second Games would be her last. She will be pursuing a career that aligns with her degree in business communication.
"In addition, I hope to bring a level of kindness to the world," Herzog told TeamUSA.org in May. "As a minority in the U.S., I am usually the first to be squeezed out of opportunities. It can be hard at times, but kindness always wins. Plus, the world always needs more kindness."
Credits: Images via twitter.com / SophiaHerzog.


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Q: Hash function that can return a integer range based on string I am looking to create a simple c++ hash function which will return a number within a max range based on a string input.  So that, the same string will always return the same integer value.  Here is an arbitrary example where the max desired range is 36.
Fred Smith -> 25
tree -> 34
Frog -> 0
Fred Smith -> 25
fred smith -> 7

These numbers are arbitrary, but the function should use an algorithm that does a numeric calculation against the string and results in an integer within a defined range.  I will eventually rewrite this function for use in Python 2.7 as well.
I am using vs2008 (aka c++9) and std::hash is not available.
I need some advice on the approach.

A: Why not std::hash?
#include <iostream>
#include <functional>
#include <string>

int main()
{
    int max = 100;

    std::string str = "Fred Smith";
    std::hash<std::string> hash_fn;

    int num = (int) hash_fn(str) % max;

    std::cout << num << '\n';
}

Output:
33
If you need a custom hashing algorithm implementation that will work across languages, I suggest starting here or here.

A: Two important elements in creating good hashes are hash table sizes and salting the hash (adding your own unpredictable touch). Typically there will be an operation of the given string to hash, maybe adding the ASCII values of each character or something like the length of the string being involved in some operation. These are EXTREMELY simple hashing examples for strings.
Now assuming we used an algorithm that uses the ascii values of each character in the string, we can incorporate the two elements I mentioned above to create our hash function like so...
int hash(string s, int tableSize)
{
    int sum = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++)
        sum += int(s[i]) * 3 //<- * 3 being my salt to the hash

    return sum % tableSize;
}

Using prime numbers when do table size modulus and salting is good practice because it'll reduce the risk of creating patterns in your hashes.
I hope this helps get you on the right track!

A: #Very simple minded hash
def hashval(str, siz):
    hash = 0
    # Take ordinal number of char in str, and just add
    for x in str: hash += (ord(x))
    return(hash % siz) # Depending on the range, do a modulo operation.

print(hashval('stack', 33))

A: A hashmap in java uses the hashing function of the object to get a 32 byte hash and a second hashing function implemented by the hashmap implementation to further reduce the length of the hash. This is explained in the anwser of this question: What hashing function does Java use to implement Hashtable class?
You can look at the hashing function used by the HashMap implementation since it can generate hashed of desired length.
You could just take the integer representation of each character of the string and compute the sum modulo max. Where max+1 is the highest value you want the hash to be.
Edit:
This HASH is reversible easily so it depends on your requirements.

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Career Profile: Founders of Kip Hideaways: Liz Simpson and Sarah de Vere-Drummond
by Emily Eaves Sep 14, 2022
Kip Hideaway Founders Liz and Sarah
What inspired you to start Kip Hideaways?
Liz: Both of our backgrounds are in boutique travel, so it was a natural progression. Over the years that as friends and from working together, we'd both discovered some really gorgeous little hideaways for our own holidays, that were great value, and we always used to say, 'there should be a website just of these' – because they're not easy to find, and when you do, it's so rewarding because you have such a special holiday as a result. When we both found ourselves freelance at the same time, we made a pub-inspired decision to set one up ourselves – and amazed ourselves that we followed through with it the next day! Once we started, we became absolutely hooked on creating it, and now both work full-time on Kip, which feels like a dream come true.
Have you always wanted to work in this area?
Sarah: Absolutely. We are both hugely passionate about finding and sharing gorgeous hidden gems and so proud of Kip and everything it stands for. It was really important to us to build a brand around everything we truly loved about UK-travel and one that supported sustainable, grassroots places to stay. Our tagline is 'small places with soul' and we are hugely selective and take great care curating our collection and that's what we feel really sets us apart from other sites. To see both our membership and collection of hideaways grow over the last two years has been incredible.
What's your top piece of advice for anyone looking for a holiday or travel idea?
Liz: For us it's important to stay somewhere that truly inspires you, whether that's the decor, setting or experience. Holidays are such a wonderful opportunity to go somewhere that really excites you, so don't settle for mediocre. We also think it's important to really make the most of that time away, properly switching off and immersing yourself in the experience of it. Whether it's a cosy Cotswolds cottage or a cabin in the wilderness it's all about living in the moment and soaking it all up.
Which are your favourite areas to visit and why?
Sarah: We love off-the-beaten track places, particularly in Wales and Scotland, both of which are so empty compared to many of the English holiday hotspots. Wales's rugged Cambrian Mountains, stunning Llyn Peninsula, and the peaceful Vale of Glamorhan, and Scotland's epic West Coast and the Isle of Skye.
Liz: My parents. They are both incredibly hard working, positive and kind. They absolutely live life to the max, loving every day.
Sarah: I'm incredibly lucky to have a wonderful circle of friends, family and colleagues and especially through lock-down and difficult times I really learnt how important it was to cultivate and nurture those connections. I couldn't possibly choose just one but I think my message is to surround yourself with people who inspire you. Also, David Attenborough is and always will be my absolute hero, what a legend.
What do you think makes a successful trip/Kip hideaway destination?
Liz: Beautiful natural surroundings. We love to walk, cycle, swim, sea kayak and paddleboard, and to eat alfresco meals, all year round. The interiors of our hideaways are always incredible – that's why we choose them – but the surrounds are what we fill our days with.
Liz: Without a doubt, the work/life balance. We're both parents to young children, so want to be fully present for them when they are not at school, but it's very hard to switch off when the emails and work Whats'Apps constantly flood in. I work in the early morning whereas Sarah works in the late evening a lot, when the kids are (hopefully!) asleep.
Sarah: Yes, Liz sums it up perfectly, the juggle and that guilt you get from feeling you're never quite getting the balance right. But, we're working on it!
Sarah: Visiting all the hideaways and getting to know our owners, all of whom are so lovely. We feel very lucky to do what we do and every time we visit somewhere new it's like wow this is our job! And it's so exciting to be able to support our independent owners, by sharing their offering with our likeminded community. All round it's a win-win.
Liz: Absolutely not! See above. We are both trying hard to find a better balance, though, and vowing to take a bit of time for ourselves regularly too, which is always the first thing to go when you're mad busy. We feel super lucky to be living the lives we're living, but equally want to give more to both work and play!
Talk us through your typical day – from waking up to going to bed.
Liz: I'm an early bird, up at 6am to do some work before my daughter gets up at 8am. I then generally work while she's at school, bar the odd Pilates class or walk with a friend, then pick her up again at 3pm and hang out with her for the rest of the day. Activities / playdates / homework / supper / life admin, it's pretty chaotic (and my house is usually a mess!). I try to watch an hour of television with my husband before I go up to bed at 9.30pm, where I read for as long as I can before I start to panic about not getting enough sleep and pass straight out.
Sarah: Oh, that's actually a really tough one for me! It's quite hard to pin me down a typical day, they really vary so much in terms of where I am and what I'm working on – and dare I say, I like it that way. Working mostly remotely means I often have the freedom to be anywhere, and I try and take advantage of that as much as I can. But wherever I am, I like to try and start the day with a walk. Getting out into nature and stretching my legs always puts me in the best mood. And there's always coffee involved, lots of coffee!


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Le Isole Shetland Meridionali sono un arcipelago dell'Oceano antartico, situato a circa 120 km dalla Penisola Antartica, in una regione compresa tra 61° 00' e 63° 37' Sud, e tra 53° 83' e 62° 83' Ovest.

Descrizione

Le Shetland Meridionali consistono in 11 isole principali e diverse isole minori, per un totale di 3.687 km² di superficie. Tra l'80 e il 90% del territorio è coperto da ghiacciai. Il punto più elevato è il Monte Irving sull'Isola Clarence, alto 1.950 metri s.l.m.

Secondo la versione ufficiale le isole vennero "scoperte" dall'esploratore britannico William Smith il 19 febbraio 1819 e reclamate in nome di Re Giorgio III del Regno Unito. Lo sbarco sulle isole venne effettuato sulla più grande delle Shetland Meridionali, l'Isola di re Giorgio sempre da William Smith, il 16 ottobre dello stesso anno.

Le isole vengono tuttavia reclamate anche da Argentina e Cile. Sembra che nel 1818, precedentemente dunque allo sbarco dello Smith, Juan Pedro de Aguirre, avesse chiesto permessi al governo argentino, che dava concessioni di caccia e pesca nel territorio antartico, e operasse con la nave Espíritu Santo facendo base sull'isola Decepción, il cui nome resta tuttora in una piccola isola dell'arcipelago.

La caccia alle foche e alle balene si è svolta sulle isole nel XIX e all'inizio del XX secolo, ma le isole sono state abitate solo dal momento dell'installazione di una stazione scientifica di ricerca nel 1944. Una minima parte di turismo specializzato vi si svolge durante l'estate.

Da nord a sud, le isole delle Shetland Meridionali che possiedono un nome sono:

 Isola Cornwallis (minore)
 Isola Elephant
 Isola Clarence
 Isola Rowett (minore)
 Isola Gibbs
 Isola di re Giorgio (la più estesa)
 Isola Bridgeman (minore)
 Isola Penguin (minore - una delle molte Isole Penguin della regione antartica)
 Isola Nelson
 Isola Robert
 Isola Greenwich
 Isola Half Moon (minore)
 Isola Livingston
 Isola Rugged (minore - una delle tante della regione antartica)
 Isola Snow (una delle tante della regione antartica)
 Isola Smith
 Isola Deception
 Isola Low

Le Isole Aitcho, un gruppo di piccole isole nell'entrata nord dello Stretto Inglese (fra le isole Robert e Greenwich), appartengono alle Shetland Meridionali.

Mappa
 L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

Voci correlate
Isole antartiche e sub-antartiche

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• Banishing: My own elaborate formula. To discourage unwanted visitors, to rid yourself of a person's influence or presence in your life, to rid yourself of negative energy, conditions, presences, influences, hexes or curses from your life. Fragrance is black pepper, patchouli, cypress, clary sage, lavender, cedar, and much more.
• STFU (AKA Shut Your Mouth): To stop gossip in its tracks. To stop those who will lie about you or spread malicious gossip, talk about you behind your back, or try to say things to others to cause trouble for you. Don't be fooled by the pretty fragrance, this is a very potent formula. Fragrance is a combination of clove, rose geranium, lime, orange, galangal oils, and more.
•Mind Your Own Businessm: My own formula, made with a very specific combination of ingredients including one very hard to find one specifically to make someone go on their way, lose interest in causing you trouble or meddling in your life. Sometimes even causes events in the other person's life that require their undivided attention so that they forget about being interested in bothering you. Fragrance is a combination of oils to really pack a punch including spanish moss, calamus, hyssop, galangal, and more.
• Tied: To use on meddlesome people to stop their ability to interfere, or use on someone you need to control. Similar to binding, it ties up the person so they are not able to do you harm. Fragrance is Calamus, Devil's Shoestring, and other binding oils.
• Lost & Away: To send a person, problem, situation, or negative energy of any kind far far away from you. I use 4 Way Crossroads Dirt, Sulfur, and more. Fragrance is mistletoe, orris, clary sage, and more.
• Cut & Clear: To totally cleanse of residual negative energy and replace it with positive energy. Can help tremendously when suffering a loss, or when you just want to rid yourself of the stress of the day. It cuts the ties and works similarly to Lost & Away, and it can also help rid yourself of bad habits. Fragrance is a refreshing and cleansing scent with rue oil, lemon oils, and more.
• Keep Away Enemies: To keep away enemies or meddlesome people and have some peace and quiet in your life. Fragrance is a combination of pretty smelling oils such as lavender and bergamot, along with pungent and root based oils that pack a punch. Similar to the way the oil works: sweet peace for you and a punch to send them packing.
• Hotfoot: To send them away and makin' tracks in a hurry. This oil may look innocent and unassuming. But believe me, it will be like they're walking on hot coals. Hotfoot normally comes in a powder form for foot traffic workings. However, this oil can be used for more than sprinkling; it is very versatile and can be used on candles, or even discreetely on someone's shoes. So they won't notice a powder on their shoes. Put a little bit in the foot print of someone who has just left, and they won't want to come back. Can also be used for long distance workings with candle magick. Fragrance is potent and somewhat unpleasant, but I have also added some Isis oil along with myrrh and other floral essential oils.
• Bon Voyage: Does a person just keep hanging around and showing up, and you really want to send them on their way and discourage them from stopping by or staying too long? This can help when someone has worn out their welcome, discourage unwanted guests or situations, and send them on a long trip away from you. Fragrance is high john, ginger grass, rosemary, and more.
• Make Your Enemy Move: So what happens when the person causing you trouble lives right next door to you, or too close for comfort in any event? Don't start packing, make them move! This is a powerful formula for getting some relief from noisy, troublesome, or unwanted neighbors, even if they're family without you having to be the one to leave. Fragrance is a little odorous but it's not meant to be pleasant.
This collection is a packaged set designed to eliminate a problem, an influence, or even a person from your life. It can also be used to banish negative energy of any kind, no matter where it comes from. When you've had enough and just need to get rid of it, or them. Do not wear these oils on yourself as a fragrance. Use them only on the thing or representation of the person or thing you wish to banish.
These oils can be used in many ways, to aniont mojo bags, photos, paquets, letters, poppets, or anything that represents or belongs to your target. You can also use these for foot traffic magick, or use them on something you know your target will touch. For candle magick, use these oils on black candles.


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Chapter 2 Literature Review: Cultural Politics of User-Generated Encyclopaedias: Comparing Chinese Wikipedia and Baidu Baike
See all articles by Han-Teng Liao
Han-Teng Liao
New Media Research Center; Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Chapter 2 will introduce a number of observations and theories on the link between national boundaries and information/communication systems from various disciplines. The literature review covers the role of language and media technologies and thus paves the way for a theoretical framework to be developed which accounts for the ways in which elements of cultural-political boundaries have been reintroduced into the design and processes of information and communication spaces. The aim is also to review various research approaches so as to develop a feasible research design and methods to identify the factors and workings of such reintroduction of cultural-political boundaries to the Web. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which the research bias of relying too much on a national framework and/or unit of analysis, or "methodological nationalism"(Wimmer & Schiller, 2002), can be alleviated. This general research concern is especially important for this specific research on Chinese boundaries online because of the ambiguous yet complicated cultural-political boundaries among Chinese-speaking regions such as mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
2.1 National boundaries and communicative spaces 29 2.2 Chinese national boundaries and media technologies 38 2.3 Boundaries of media-language systems 51 2.4 Summary and implications 63
Keywords: boundaries, information/communication systems, media-language systems
Liao, Han-Teng, Chapter 2 Literature Review: Cultural Politics of User-Generated Encyclopaedias: Comparing Chinese Wikipedia and Baidu Baike (2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2508928 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2508928
Han-Teng Liao (Contact Author)
New Media Research Center ( email )
Department of Journalism and New Media
882, Wenquan Road, Conghua
Guangzhou, Guangdong 510970
HOME PAGE: http://newmedia.nfu.edu.cn/en/team-en/han-teng.liao/
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Definition of Narrative Essay
A narrative essay is a type of essay that has a single motif, or a central point, around which the whole narrative revolves. All incidents, happenings, and characters revolve around a single motif presented in the narrative. A narrative essay is similar to a simple five-paragraph essay, in that it has the same format. It is only different in that it is a narrative, having characters, incidents, and dialogues.
Difference Between a Narrative Essay and a Short Story
A narrative essay has a specific format, specific aspects to discover, and a specific motif. It revolves around that motif set by the writer prior to writing the essay. A short story, however, is different from a narrative essay in that it does not revolve around a pre-set motif, and that it does not have a specific format. Also, a short story always leaves readers at a critical juncture with the desire to discover more. In contrast, a narrative essay ends when the readers are fully satisfied. They do not wish to read anymore or do not want to discover anymore.
Elements of a Narrative Essay
A narrative essay has three required elements: character, theme, and dialogue:
Characters are an important part of a narrative essay. Even if the essay is autobiographical in nature, the person writing the essay is a character involving some other characters who act, behave, and do like all other characters presented in stories and novels.
Theme or Motif
A narrative essay revolves around a theme or a motif. This theme or motif is presented in its thesis statement, which breaks it down into three distinct pieces of evidence. These three distinct pieces of evidence are then further elaborated through characters in body paragraphs.
Dialogue is used to capture the conversation between characters. In a narrative essay, dialogue is the third important element, without which the characters lose their worth and liveliness.
How to Choose a Topic for Narrative Essay
There are four major steps to choosing the topic of a narrative essay:
Choose a theme or thematic strand around which to weave a story.
Outline the character, events, and happenings.
Think about the conversation of the characters and place them in a setting and plot
Synchronize the characters with the plot and the setting to see if they integrate with each other.
MLA and APA Formats in Narrative Essay
MLA and APA are used in all types of essays. However, APA is mostly used in social sciences, while MLA is used in humanities. Whereas the application of MLA in a narrative is concerned, it is used in the format, intext citation, and in the Works Cited page. The first page comprises the student's name, class, tutor's name, and date with the topic of the essay given after all of them. However, in APA, all this information appears on the cover page. Similarly, both MLA and APA differ in intext citation, with MLA having only the author's name and page without any comma. In contrast, APA has the author's name as well as page number with a comma and 'p' with a period before the number of the page, such as (Hardy, p. 45). Regarding the sources, MLA shows Works Cited page at the end, while APA shows Reference at the end.
Reflective Narrative Essay
As the name suggests, a reflection narrative is an essay that presents the reflections of a person who is writing that essay. He takes an incident from his life and gives it an organization on the pattern of an essay with a narrative having a beginning, middle, and an end. The essay may or may not have moral lessons, which does not make a lot of difference if the experiences carry the deeper meaning. What matters is that the writer reflects on his own life, taking out some significant moment to make it a storied essay or a narrative essay with a theme in it.
Examples of Narrative Essays in Literature
Example #1: New Directions (by Maya Angelou)
"Annie, over six feet tall, big-boned, decided that she would not go to work as a domestic and leave her "precious babes" to anyone else's care. There was no possibility of being hired at the town's cotton gin or lumber mill, but maybe there was a way to make the two factories work for her. In her words, "I looked up the road I was going and back the way I come, and since I wasn't satisfied, I decided to step off the road and cut me a new path." She told herself that she wasn't a fancy cook but that she could "mix groceries well enough to scare hungry away and keep from starving a man."
This paragraph is an example from a narrative essay of Maya Angelou. She has described how a girl looks, and how she behaves. She has also written direct dialogues to show that it is a narrative.
Example #2: Saturday Evening Post (by Russell Baker)
"When I burst in that afternoon she was in conference with an executive of the Curtis Publishing Company. She introduced me. He bent low from the waist and shook my hand. Was it true as my mother had told him, he asked, that I longed for the opportunity to conquer the world of business?
My Mother replied that I was blessed with a rare determination to make something of myself.
'That's right,' I whispered.
'But have you got the grit, the character, the never-say-quit spirit it takes to succeed in business?'
My Mother said I certainly did."
In this piece from a narrative essay by Russell Baker of the famed Saturday Evening Post, the author has fully described the efforts of his mother by her dialogue. Both character and dialogue are very clear.
Example #3: Only Daughter (by Sandra Cisneros)
"Once several years ago, when I was just starting out my writing career, I was asked to write my own contributor's note for an anthology I was part of, I wrote: 'I am the only daughter in a family of six sons. That explains everything.'
"Well, I've thought about that ever since, and yes, it explains a lot to me, but for the reader's sake I should have written: 'I am the only daughter in a Mexican family of six sons.' Or even: 'I am the only daughter of a Mexican father and a Mexican-American mother.' Or: 'I am the only daughter of a working-class family of nine.' All of these had everything to do with who I am today."
In this essay, the author has given a full description of a daughter – how she looks and how she behaves.
Function of Narrative Essay
A narrative essay describes people, presents their conversations, and narrates their experiences to teach lessons to readers. In fact, it is like a story, but different in that it is weaved around a motif. A motif is given before the incidents of the essay. Readers become aware of this single theme, central idea, or motif once they go through the essay. Its major aim is to provide information about life experiences and lessons learned from those experiences.
Synonyms of Narrative Essay
Some of the words closely related to the narrative essay are reflective account, chronicle, chronology, and historical narrative. However, these words cannot be interchangeably used to replace this title.
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Home » Politics » Baboons, Humans, and Aggression
Baboons, Humans, and Aggression
by Brendan|Published January 14, 2005
excerpted from 30 Dec. 2004 | Toronto Star
by GWYNNE DYER
The good news for humans is that it looks like peaceful conditions, once established, can be maintained. And if baboons can do it, why not us?
? Frans de Waal, Yerkes Primate Centre, Emory University
About 20 years ago, a disaster struck the Forest Troop of baboons in Kenya. There was a tourist lodge within their range, and the biggest and toughest males in the troop would regularly go to the garbage dump there to forage for food. Subordinate males, however, did not go — so when the brutal and despotic alpha males of Forest Troop all ate meat infected with bovine tuberculosis at the dump and promptly died, the less aggressive 50 per cent of the group's males survived. And the troop's whole culture changed.
Male baboons are so obsessed with status that they are always on a hair-trigger for aggression — and it isn't just directed at male rivals of equal status. Lower-ranking males routinely get bullied and terrorized, and even females (who weigh half as much as males) are frequently attacked and even bitten. You really would not want to live your life as a baboon.
Yet after the biggest, baddest males of Forest Troop all died off at once, the whole social atmosphere changed. When it was first studied by primatologists in 1979-82, it was a typical, utterly vicious baboon society, but after the mass die-off of the bullies the surviving members relaxed and began treating one another more decently.
The males still fight even today — they are baboons, after all — but they quarrel with other males of equal rank rather than beating up on social inferiors, and they don't attack the females at all. Everybody spends much more time in grooming, huddling close together, and other friendly social behaviour, and stress levels even for the lowest-ranking individuals (as measured by hormone samples) are far lower than in other baboon troops. Most important of all, these new behaviours have become entrenched in the troop's culture.
Male baboons rarely live more than 18 years: The low-status survivors of the original disaster are all gone now. All the current adult males of the Forest Troop are baboons who joined it as adolescents after 1982, so by now the range of male personalities in Forest Troop must have returned to the normal baboon distribution. But the level of aggression has not returned to baboon-normal.
"We don't yet understand the mechanism of transmission," said Robert Sapolsky, a biology and neurology professor at Stanford University who co-authored the 2004 report on the Forest Troop phenomenon, "but the jerky new guys are obviously learning: We don't do things like that around here.'"
Human beings are less aggressive and more co-operative than baboons or even chimpanzees, and a thousand times more flexible in our cultural arrangements: Most of us now live quite comfortably in pseudo-bands called nations that are literally a million times bigger than the bands our ancestors lived in until the rise of civilization.
War is deeply embedded in our history and our culture, probably since before we were even fully human, but weaning ourselves away from it should not be a bigger mountain to climb than some of the other changes we have already made in the way we live, given the right incentives. And we have certainly been given the right incentives: The holiday from history that we have enjoyed since the early '90s may be drawing to an end, and another great-power war, fought next time with nuclear weapons, may be lurking in our future.
…. Our task over the next few generations is to transform the world of independent states in which we live into some sort of genuine international community.
If we succeed in creating that community, however quarrelsome, discontented, and full of injustice it will probably be, then we shall effectively have abolished the ancient institution of warfare. Good riddance.
Gwynne Dyer is a Canadian journalist based in London whose articles are published in 45 papers worldwide. This is an abridged version of the last chapter in his updated book, War, first published in 1985. His latest book is Future: Tense. The Coming Global Order, published by McClelland and Stewart. Thanks to Leslie Moyer of the OK Progressives for passing this story along.
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Everybody, if you can, do the Bartman
Weekend before last (I'm falling behind, but because we're doing stuff) we went to Kalamazoo, for what seems to be the first time either bunny_hugger or I made it to that famous town, other than riding through it on the train. Our objective: Pinball At The Zoo, a three-day Pinball-based convention which inexplicably ran Thursday through Saturday. Well, some merchants mentioned the long drives they had to get to to get back home or to their next affair, so maybe Sunday is a conventional travel day. Unfortunately we set out late, because we thought the thing ran longer into the evening than it did, so we missed almost all of the last day of the contests we'd hoped to see.
Since we did get there for the last hours of the show the gathering was slowly dissipating, with vendors packing stuff up and people who'd brought their machines in starting to take them down and move them out. There was still plenty to wander about, though, and the chance to sample many pinball machines we'd not seen in a long while --- Rocky and Bullwinkle, for example, which was as great a use of theming for a mediocre game as I'd remembered from the late 90s when the Latham Circle Mall had an arcade and, for that matter, tenants --- or had heard about but never seen --- Hurricane, last of the roller-coaster-themed game sequence that brought us Comet and Cyclone and a fantastic game in its own --- or had never imagined --- Raven, whose backglass photo somehow isn't Internet famous; the game is mediocre but I loved its Trapper Keeper.
And then there were oddities: cocktail table pinball games, for example, which were turned off by the time we got to them but still looked like a fascinating experiment. Or Orbitor 1, a game we did get to play, that's several fascinating kinds of experiments none of which seemed to lead anywhere: the 1982 game has a distinctly non-level playfield, to go with its cratered-moon theme, so that the ball would not move in straight lines even if it weren't for the several magnetic blocks on the field. The result is an unnervingly strange game, not least because the ball rolling behind the flippers doesn't mean you're anywhere near the end of your turn, and that the playfield slowly changes color just makes it the more wondrous. It's probably not surprising there aren't many games like this --- there's very few targets and strategy has to be completely rethought since aiming is nearly futile --- but it is surprising that more of its gimmicks haven't been used somewhere. It's a fascinating outlier, one of those machines that comes from a Martian view of pinball.
We got to see some of our friends from the pinball league, including our league wizard, who won the Pinball Classics tournament shortly afte we arrived. (We may also have inadvertently helped him win, as we apparently distracted one of his opponents by encroaching too closely to his line of sight during a game, but if this produced any competitive pinball scandals we were shielded from the drama.) And at the snacks table the quirky selection included refrigerated Moxie, so, bonus points for that.
We didn't buy any serious pinball merchandise, even though vendors were selling (for example) a playfield from the Roller Coaster Tycoon pinball game that somehow exists, but I did manage to get my name on a high score table: that of the disappointing 1990 Simpsons pinball game. That game dates from a time when The Simpsons were so new they only had three catchphrases each, repeated endlessly, and in which Bart ended every single thing he said with ``man''. It's honestly kind of an annoying game to play, purely because of the sound effects, especially in pristine condition, where the ramp shots that would ordinarily often fail and punish you with a ball-drain don't do that. So, that's the machine I snuck briefly onto the high score table for.
Trivia: The first news of the attack on Fort Sumter (12 April 1861) reached London on the 25th of April. (It was telegraphed by a Reuters agent in Londonerry, who received the news from the Nova Scotian, bringing the unconfirmed report from Portland, Maine.) Source: The Power Of News: The History of Reuters, Donald Read.
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import requests, sys, json

sys.path.append('../../lda-siteserver/src')
sys.path.append('../../lda-serverlib/logiclibrary')
sys.path.append('../../lda-serverlib/mongodbstorage')
sys.path.append('../../lda-clientlib/python')
sys.path.append('../../lda-clientlib/python/test')
sys.path.append('../src')

from rdf_json import URI, BNode, RDF_JSON_Encoder
from base_constants import RDF, CE, VCARD, FOAF, AC, AC_R, AC_C, ANY_USER, ADMIN_USER
from test_utils import POST_HEADERS as CONTENT_RDF_JSON_HEADER
import test_utils

#DATASERVER_HOSTNAME = 'cloudapps4.me'
DATASERVER_HOSTNAME = 'localhost:3001'
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    DATASERVER_HOSTNAME = sys.argv[1]

HS_HOSTNAME = 'hostingsite.' + DATASERVER_HOSTNAME

ac_container_url = 'http://%s/ac' % HS_HOSTNAME
account_container_url = 'http://%s/account' % HS_HOSTNAME
mt_sites_container_url = 'http://%s/mt/sites' % HS_HOSTNAME

def run():
    #test_utils.delete(mt_sites_container_url)
    requests.delete(ac_container_url, headers=CONTENT_RDF_JSON_HEADER)
    requests.delete(account_container_url, headers=CONTENT_RDF_JSON_HEADER)

    body = {
        '' : {
            RDF+'type': URI(AC+'UserGroup'),
            AC+'who' : [
                URI(ANY_USER)
                ],
            AC+'may' : [
                URI('#permission_1'),
                URI('#permission_2')
                ]
            },
        '#permission_1' : {
            AC+'do' : AC_R,
            AC+'to' : [ URI('/') ]
            },
        '#permission_2' : {
            AC+'do' : AC_C,
            AC+'to' : [ URI('/account'), URI('/mt/sites') ]
            }
        }
    r = requests.post(ac_container_url, headers=CONTENT_RDF_JSON_HEADER, data=json.dumps(body, cls=RDF_JSON_Encoder), verify=False)
    if r.status_code != 201:
        print '######## FAILED TO CREATE user group! ' + r.text
        return
    print '######## POSTed resource: %s, status: %d' % (r.headers['location'], r.status_code)

    body = { \
        '' : {
            RDF+'type': URI(CE+'Account'),
            CE+'account_id' : 'explorer',
            CE+'password': 'cloud',
            VCARD+'email': 'explorer@us.ibm.com',
            CE+'user': URI('#owner'),
            VCARD+'adr' : BNode('_:address')
            },
        '#owner' : {
            RDF+'type': URI(FOAF+'Person'),
            FOAF+'givenName' : 'Juan Rodriguez',
            FOAF+'familyName' : 'Cabrillo',
            FOAF+'nick' : 'Johnny'
            },
        '_:address' : {
            RDF+'type': URI(VCARD+'Work'),
            VCARD+'street-address' : 'unknown',
            VCARD+'locality' : 'Seville',
            VCARD+'region' : 'Andalusia',
            VCARD+'postal-code' : '00000',
            VCARD+'country-name' : 'Spain'
            }
        }
    r = requests.post(account_container_url, headers=CONTENT_RDF_JSON_HEADER, data=json.dumps(body, cls=RDF_JSON_Encoder), verify=False)
    if r.status_code != 201:
        print '######## FAILED TO CREATE Account! %s' % (account_container_url + '/explorer : ') + r.text
        return
    print '######## POSTed resource: %s, status: %d' % (r.headers['location'], r.status_code)

    body = { \
        '' : {
            RDF+'type': URI(CE+'Account'),
            CE+'account_id' : 'admin',
            CE+'password': 'admin',
            VCARD+'email': 'admin@us.ibm.com',
            CE+'user': URI(ADMIN_USER),
            VCARD+'adr' : BNode('_:address')
            },
        ADMIN_USER : {
            RDF+'type': URI(FOAF+'Person'),
            FOAF+'givenName' : 'John',
            FOAF+'familyName' : 'Smith',
            FOAF+'nick' : 'Admin'
            },
        '_:address' : {
            RDF+'type': URI(VCARD+'Work'),
            VCARD+'street-address' : 'unknown',
            VCARD+'locality' : 'Seville',
            VCARD+'region' : 'Andalusia',
            VCARD+'postal-code' : '00000',
            VCARD+'country-name' : 'Spain'
            }
        }
    r = requests.post(account_container_url, headers=CONTENT_RDF_JSON_HEADER, data=json.dumps(body, cls=RDF_JSON_Encoder), verify=False)
    if r.status_code != 201:
        print '######## FAILED TO CREATE Account! %s' % (account_container_url + '/admin : ') + r.text
        return
    print '######## POSTed resource: %s, status: %d' % (r.headers['location'], r.status_code)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    run()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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What's the difference between elector and vote?
Elector
(n.) One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office.
(n.) Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.
(n.) In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.
(n.) One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President.
(a.) Pertaining to an election or to electors.
(1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters' forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(2) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(3) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(4) The publicity surrounding the Rotherham child exploitation scandal, which triggered the resignation of Shaun Wright, the previous PCC, did not translate into a high turnout, with only 14.65% of the electorate casting a vote.
(5) The two moves were seen as significant because the Electoral Commission had made clear that secondary legislation, which must be passed before the referendum can be held, should be introduced six months before the referendum.
(6) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(7) The same is also true of both local votes and byelections – and the electoral dynamics and relative turnout of these races is very different from a general election.
(8) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: "Nobody believes a liar, even when he's telling the truth." When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don't stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
(9) Old lefties who have failed to understand the imperatives of electoral politics for 40 years are never going to change their minds.
(10) The Conservatives have held back the development of garden cities on the scale necessary, but if Liberal Democrats are part of the next government, we will ensure at least 10 get under way – with up to five along this new garden cities railway, bringing new homes and jobs to the brainbelt of south-east England." The Lib Dems insist they are planning to act in the national interest and are not motivated by electoral considerations.
(11) If the Labour leader has his way, into the dustbin of history will go the "electoral college", the spatchcocked compromise that was a product of the Bennite wars of the 1980s.
(12) In some respects, the impasse is a vindication of the UK electorate's decision to leave the EU and pursue its own agreements." He said when the UK government was free to make its own trade deals after leaving the EU, it should target willing partners such as emerging markets.
(13) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
(14) Already much work has been done to re-establish enduring components for Labour's electoral success: clarity of strategy, effective rebuttal, and superior field organisation with our network of community organisers.
(15) In subsequent tweets , he added: "It would have been much easier for me to win the so-called popular vote than the electoral college in that I would only campaign in 3 or 4 states instead of the 15 states that I visited.
(16) Gillard faces an uphill battle convincing the electorate to back her.
(17) I thought the Wikileaks party presented an historic, strategic opportunity for an intervention into electoral politics.)
(18) You cannot now duck the fact that we have an electoral system which is completely out of step with the aspirations and hopes of millions of British people," he said.
(19) On Thursday in the capital of Naypyidaw, the Myanmar electoral commission announced two more batches of seats for the National League for Democracy (NLD), taking the party to within 38 of the 329 seats it needs for a majority across the lower and upper houses of parliament.
(20) The Jarman UPA score at electoral ward level is not related to psychiatric morbidity, and should not therefore be used for planning local service provision.
(n.) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
(n.) A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.
(n.) That by means of which will or preference is expressed in elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a ticket; as, a written vote.
(n.) Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence.
(n.) Votes, collectively; as, the Tory vote; the labor vote.
(v. i.) To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.
(v. t.) To choose by suffrage; to elec/; as, to vote a candidate into office.
(v. t.) To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution.
(v. t.) To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore.
(v. t.) To condemn; to devote; to doom.
(1) An "out" vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(2) The prospectus revealed he has an agreement with Dorsey to vote his shares, which expires when the company goes public in November.
(3) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(4) Are you ready to vote?" is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(5) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(6) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
(7) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
(8) She added: "We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders." The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(9) We didn't take anyone's votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign." Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: "To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
(10) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(11) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
(12) However, these votes will be vital for Hollande in the second round.
(13) The speaker issued his warning after William Hague told MPs that the government would consult parliament but declined to explain the nature of the vote.
(14) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
(15) Its restrictions are so strong that even many Republicans voted against it.
(16) He also challenged Lord Mandelson's claim this morning that a controversial vote on Royal Mail would have to be postponed due to lack of parliamentary time.
(17) And if the Brexit vote was somehow not respected by Westminster, Le Pen could be bolstered in her outrage.
(18) If I don't agree with the leadership of the party, I don't vote for it.
(19) At the People's Question Time in Pendle, an elderly man called Roland makes a short, powerful speech about the sacrifices made for the right to vote and says he's worried for the future of the NHS.
(20) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman's Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
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Home Food Hari Menon aims for the biggest share in India's grocery basket
Hari Menon aims for the biggest share in India's grocery basket
By Charu Lamba
The online retail market in India is expected to grow 250 per cent to touch Rs 1.8 trillion by 2020 fiscal. Over the next three years, the e-retail industry is expected to continue its strong run, growing over 2.5 times to $28 billion (Rs 1.8 trillion) by fiscal 2020, the global analytics firm Crisil has said. And among this, online grocery will be the fastest-growing segment (around 65-70 per cent CAGR between fiscals 2017 and 2020) in e-retail and almost quadruple over the next 3 years to Rs 100 billion in terms of revenues.
bigbasket which currently holds 37-40 percent share in the grocery delivery industry, followed by Amazon, Grofers and Flipkart, has started bracing itself to face competition – which is expected to intensify soon
Meanwhile, the stage is being set for a big battle in the US $1billion FMCG space. While established players like Amazon and Grofers are strengthening their positions, the recent acquisition of Flipkart by Walmart has also served to create a ripple effect in the F&G segment.
bigbasket which currently holds 37-40 percent share in the grocery delivery industry, followed by Amazon, Grofers and Flipkart, has started bracing itself to face competition – which is expected to intensify soon.
Hari Menon, Co-Founder and CEO, bigbasket says, "Despite a huge opportunity, the FMCG segment is still under-served as far as online grocery delivery is concerned in India. There are just a few players in the market. As more and more players will enter the segment and already present players will strengthen their presence, more customers will start shifting to online grocery buying. So, yes, competition is expected to intensify."
One of the main reasons that makes grocery an attractive segment online is the fact that firms have a massive opportunity for building a loyal customer base. The cost of acquiring customers and servicing them comes down over time, since the customer lifecycle is high. The main trial in the segment is shifting consumers from traditional buying habits to online purchasing.
Menon says, "One of the major challenges that we face today is to get people to move out of their comfort zone – leave their traditional buying habits and to move into a new way of buying. Since grocery is very dear to people, getting consumers to shift mediums is a tough task to say the least. bigbasket has managed this well so far since we deliver fresh and fast and serve our customers well."
"We have 8 million customers today and are growing very rapidly. However, this is still a very small number compared to the number of people who actually buy grocery in the market. I feel if more players step into the game, more people will shift to online grocery buying. And when more people will move online, it will benefit everybody. Hence, competition is good and healthy."
The Biggest Share of the Pie
Despite ever-growing competition in the FMCG space, bigbasket is confident of maintaining its fair share in the market.
According to Menon, "One of the biggest differentiators is that we are a grocery-focussed player and so we will do everything it takes to actually to make a good job of it. Our expertise is in fresh produce. We have very strong team that we have invested in, and strong processes. We are using technology, cold-chain to deliver fresh produce to the customer in the best possible manner."
Menon explains that the online medium is closest to 'farm-to-fork' because it comes from the farmer directly to bigbasket's processing centres and from there goes directly to the customer.
"The produce does not sit anywhere in the middle," he says.
Building a Strong Supply Chain
To conquer the FMCG space, bigbasket recently announced that it is planning to spend up to Rs 500 crore to strengthen its technology, customer service and back-end farmer supply chain as it looks to more than double its customer base to 20 million by 2020.
"These past few years we have settled down and got our back-end in place. We have a well-oiled system, from delivering on time, accuracy in delivery, and accuracy of stock levels," Menon states.
"We are focusing significantly on strengthening this programme, which is called Farmer Connect. Presently we are working with 1,800 farmers, and we will bring about 5,000 farmers within our fold in a year's time. We ensure farmers get better prices and are paid on time. About 85 percent of our produce comes directly from farmers and we are going to just increase this number," he explains.
"We also work closely with hotels, and restaurants as well as nearly 2,000 kirana stores and so, we want to deepen our engagement with farmers for supply," he adds.
Towards this, the brand has made sure all their hubs – 26 warehouses in 30 cities – are close to farming locations.
Treading the Path of Profitability
In 2017, bigbasket became operationally profitable in two cities – Bengaluru and Hyderabad. In the next few months, three more cities including Kolkata, Chennai and Ahmedabad will be operationally profitable ad according to Menon, they are now focusing on making sure every city they are present in breaks-even over the next few months on a standalone basis.
"This will enable the company to then allocate its resources towards media spending and other activities to achieve growth targets," he explains, adding, "However, we will continue investing in marketing till we have enough customers."
What the Future Holds
bigbasket has been growing Year-on-Year. First year, the brand clocked the turnover close to about Rs 30 crore and since then it has grown to become Rs 1,410 crore by 2017. In 2018, the brand has already crossed the Rs 2,000 crore mark.
"I think the next thing for us is to just keep growing because we have got our backend in place, we have got a very strong team, we have got most of our processes in place. And we will keep enhancing that as we move ahead," says Menon.
He further adds, "We are present in 30 cities, we are not expanding anymore. Our expansion is over. We are now going to consolidate and grow bigger in the cities we are in. So, no expansion of cities, no expansion of channels."
The brand is looking to grow deeper and becoming a billion-dollar company by 2020.
Partnering with Sri Sri Tattva
Sri Sri Tattva, one of India's leading health and wellness FMCG firm, announced a comprehensive strategic partnership with bigbasket.com at India Food Forum 2018 in January. The partnership announcement has enabled Sri Sri Tattva's products to reach customers across India with unprecedented precision and effectiveness through the online major's robust delivery network.
On the occasion of announcement at India Food Forum 2018, Tej Katpitia, Chief Executive Officer, Sri Sri Tattva said, "Sri Sri Tattva has always endeavored to ensure that quality products reach the maximum number of consumers across India and also across the globe. It is truly proud moment for us to announce that we will be tying up with bigbasket."
Hari Menon had said then, "We believe that this relationship is very strategic for us. The reason being that what we see in the food space – be it online or offline – that it is a conscious move by the consumers to look at health as something very important. We are trying to see how to create organic products in the same price range as regular vegetables and we believe that we will achieve this soon. We want to give this movement a huge push through our channel."
"This particular partnership is going to be very crucial for us. bigbasket has been popular channel in the groceries section from quite a long time. We are also concentrating on healthy food from quite a time for our consumers and of course this is one vision which bigbasket also has. I really feel that when value resonates, and the foundation and intentions are strong, then any sort of partnership would certainly see a lot of success and we are extremely excited on this," added Arvind Varchaswi, MD, Sri Sri Tattva.
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Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge, Silence) and Claire Foy (The Crown Amazon Prime series) star as Robin and Diana Cavendish who pioneered mechanical ventilator use for disabled/paralysed people in wheelchairs after Robin got polio at 28 years old. Andy Serkis' feature directorial debut tells their inspiring story based on true events. Tom Holland (Spider-Man Homecoming) also co-stars as David "Bloggs" Blacker.
This drama reveals a specific, personal narrative about life's toughest elements among the journeys of three main characters as a married couple befriend a homeless man while working at a local mission and soup kitchen. Stars Greg Kinnear (As Good As It Gets), Renée Zellweger (Cold Mountain, Chicago, Bridget's Jones's Diary) and Djimon Hounsou (In America, Blood Diamond).
DC Comics' ultimate ensemble begins their journey in their heroic universe with Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), The Flash/Barry Allen (Ezra Miller), Aquaman/Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) and Cyborg/Victor Stone (Ray Fisher). Co-stars include Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Connie Nielsen as Queen Hippolyta, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Amber Heard as Mera, Billy Crudup as Henry Allen, J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, Ciarán Hinds as Steppenwolf, and Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth.
This biographical musical is inspired by circus show innovator P.T. Barnum who is played by Hugh Jackman. Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Zendaya, and Rebecca Ferguson co-star.
Daniel Day-Lewis' apparent swan song? Yes, I'm there. The long running time might be a challenge, but Paul Thomas Anderson's filmmaking skills, including screenwriting, makes this one a must see. Set in 1950's London, this R-rated (for language) drama about a dressmaker who starts a romance with a young woman.


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