INDIA – India's government is preparing to seek damages from Nestle after a food scare involving excessive lead in its hugely popular Maggi noodles that have also been taken off supermarket shelves in Kenya.
The consumer affairs ministry is to seek an undisclosed amount of compensation from the Swiss giant for false advertising after the food safety regulator branded the noodles "unsafe" and "hazardous".
The move also saw the Consumer Federation of Kenya (Cofek) call for the removal of the products from Kenya's supermarkets for testing.
Ministry deputy secretary G.C Rout said the case would be filed in the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, a semi-judicial body that can levy fines against companies.
"We are going to file a case against Nestle and are presently collecting the material for the case," Rout told AFP, saying the minimum amount that could be sought was 10 million rupees ($156,000).
A Nestle spokesman said the company was not willing to comment as it had not yet seen the case.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) banned Nestle on Friday from making and selling the noodles after tests by some states found lead levels above statutory limits.
Nestle, which denies the charges and says the noodles are safe to eat, had already announced it was pulling the product from sale as it seeks to contain growing safety concerns.
At least six states including India's capital have announced temporary bans on the sale of the instant noodles in the past few days, after officials said test results showed high lead levels.
The case came as the FSSAI announced Monday it was ordering testing of other brands of noodles as well as packet pasta amid growing concerns over the food safety scare.
FSSAI said the 33 products made by nine companies including Nestle India and ITC (Indian Tobacco Company) will be tested for lead, arsenic and 19 other substances.
Nestle global chief executive Paul Bulcke said on Friday its noodles were "safe for consumption" after flying into India to try to reassure consumers over the safety scare.


HARI is pleased to announce the 2017-2018 Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellows: Martha Diaz and Kareem Jackson a.k.a. Tef Poe.
Martha Diaz is an award-winning media producer, social entrepreneur, archivist, curator, and educator. For twenty-five years, Diaz has traversed between the hip-hop entertainment industry, public sector, and academia. In 2010, Diaz formed the Hip-Hop Education Center to cultivate and formalize the field of hip-hop-based education. She has published research papers on hip-hop education and is co-editor of the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook, Vol. I (Hip-Hop Association, 2007) and Rebel Music: Resistance Through Hip-Hop and Punk (Information Age Publishing, 2015). Diaz has served as a fellow at the NYU Reynolds Program for Social Entrepreneurship, fellow at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation – National Museum of American History, resident curator/scholar at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Columbia University Community Scholar. Her latest archive/documentary project is the Untitled, Tupac Shakur Documentary, directed by Steve McQueen.
From public housing to the Silicon Valley and Harvard University, how did Nasir Jones, better known as Nas, become the celebrated rap artist and icon he is today? The Time Is Illmatic Project will delve into Nasir's history through small study groups that will introduce students for the first time to a digital humanities curriculum. Using media clips of the movie, never before seen interview footage from hip-hop luminaries, and other primary and secondary sources aggregated from the Internet and hip-hop archives, I will examine Nasir's life, musical journey, and legacy to understand his family background, upbringing, influences, and most important his skills and talents. Students will explore themes such as housing projects, gun violence, trauma, the school-to-prison pipeline, and the role of music and the arts. The main goal of the pilot project is to obtain feedback from the participants to make improvements on the curriculum before it is introduced to the public. Building on the Center's Jones collection, I will also archive the cultural material and media assets of the movie.
Tef Poe is an American rapper, musician, and activist. He is one of the co-founders of the Hands Up United movement. Tef has consistently advocated for grass-roots movements in racial justice within and outside the United States. In his art and activism, he insists on the value of local people taking charge of conversations about their own communities rather than relying on national organizations.
We are now poised with an opportunity to fully confront the inequalities of this country. Black Americans worked together as a collective to protect the Obama Administration's credibility. For the next four years, we will bear witness to a presidential administration that could care less about the energy we have invested. The cultural connections between hip hop and black resistance will never fade away. When protests and mobilizations don't work, we must learn to use music concerts as a resistance tool.
Learn more about the Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellowship here.


A healthier version of an all-time favorite. You can batch prep the meatballs in advanced to make this a quick weekday dinner. The meatballs are also great as an easy lunch item. This recipe sneaks in veggies, and is super tasty, making it a great recipe for the whole family.


Welcome to MargaretJane.org and we hope you find information and ideas here that will help your family! Even more, we hope you'll join us in talking about healthcare for children in Singapore.
Singapore has one of the best healthcare systems in the world, especially for children. We have amazing hospitals and clinics, excellent medical workers and the educational and social support to encourage healthy lifestyles.
But our system falls apart for families of severely ill or disabled children. They must put their careers and other children aside to care alone for their children, piecing together what financial and social support they can get from family, friends, the government and charities.
Extending free healthcare to our children would be a fractional increase of spending and a powerful and compassionate message that our country supports families and children, especially those most vulnerable through poverty and illness.
It would lift the silent burden on thousands of families, encourage parents to have more children and prevent the financial destitution of so many through no fault of their own except love for their child.
We spend 4% of our GDP on all our healthcare with just 36% of that coming from the public pocket. The Singapore government's budget is only 8% on healthcare. Among the top ten richest countries in the world for 2012 (Brunei, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Singapore, Switzerland, UAE and USA), Singapore's government contributed the lowest share for healthcare. Our total government budget for healthcare was second-lowest, beaten by Qatar who still contributed twice as much to healthcare for their citizens.
So we are urged to have more children in a country that demands long working hours, an exam-intensive academic system and where a healthcare crisis can send a family into financial ruin.
Medifund is often held out as the ultimate safety net – but to qualify for Medifund, you must "have exhausted all other means to pay their medical bills." The reality is that you must wipe out your savings and exhaust your family's mandatory healthcare savings before you can get help for your medical bills for your sick child.
Sick and disabled children are not the "individual responsibility" of their parents. They are the shared responsibility of a society that cares about its most fragile and youngest members.
How much would it cost to make healthcare free for all Singaporean children?
How can we make our healthcare system better for children and families?
What else can we do to help families of chronically ill or disabled children?
Please note that MargaretJane.org is a non-political and non-profit site to contribute to our national conversation on issues of healthcare for children in Singapore.


(NVR) - The label for La Moneda Malbec Reserva 2015 from Chile looks like nothing special, until you notice the small decal on the side touting 95 points and a platinum medal from Decanter magazine. Even if you don't know that Decanter is Britain's leading wine journal, 95 points is an impressive score for any wine, especially a cheap one. Last June, when it won best single-variety red costing under 15 pounds (about $18.75) in Decanter's annual World Wine Awards, consumer demand crashed the website of Asda supermarkets, La Moneda's exclusive retail outlet. Demand spiked so high that Asda's parent company, Walmart, decided to sell the wine in the United States.
So last fall, Walmart introduced the La Moneda Malbec into 577 of its 4,600 or so U.S. stores, priced at $6.96 a bottle. Having tasted a sample, I can tell you it is really good, and it was still delicious and lively three or four days after opening, my unscientific way of assessing wine quality.
Unfortunately, it is not available in Washington-area Walmart stores—or possibly in any Walmart. A company spokesman says the initial U.S. allotment "sold through" over the holidays. Furthermore, it's unclear whether U.S. customers will ever be able to buy La Moneda. The supplier is already selling Walmart the 2016 vintage, but only for the U.K. market, and the spokesman would say only that the company is always looking for "new opportunities" to offer similar values to its American customers.


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Kirsten Dunst Showed Off A New, Mysterious Diamond On Her Wedding Ring Finger
And it's absolutely gorgeous.
By Alexis Bennett
Wedding bells might be ringing very soon for Kirsten Dunst and actor Jesse Plemons. Last week, the Hidden Figures actress stepped out for the 28th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival wearing major bling, and we're not just talking about her Chopard earrings. Dunst showed off a sparkling diamond on her wedding ring finger, and it's stirring engagement rumors. That wasn't the only time she rocked the blinding diamond. The 34-year-old actress also flashed it for the cameras during an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
Related: 10 Unconventional Engagement Rings That Will Make You Say, 'I Do.'
Dunst and Plemons have kept the details of their relationship private, but they have pretended to be husband and wife for work. In the second season of the FX television show Fargo, the two played a married couple that met in high school. We can already imagine how chill Dunst and Plemons's wedding would be. Last May, Dunst told Instyle UK that she wants a "courthouse, dinner party, and a DJ with friends and family."
Scroll down for a close-up of Kirsten Dunst's diamond ring.
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"I never expected to fall in love with King. My captor, my tormentor, my lover, my friend, my world. But I did."
The final conclusion of King & Doe's love story is here! Holy shish I read an ARC of TYRANT & if you thought King was epic, then Tyrant will blow your minds! Not for the weak of heart because T.M. Frazier holds nothing back & I love her sick mind!
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Koulibaly Happy In Naples: Ancelotti
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Carlo Ancelotti Feels Serie-A Has Undergone A Huge Transformation
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An Asian subsidiary of a large international insurance firm had created multiple consumer-facing insurance platforms in the past, bringing challenges in providing a consistent customer experience and maintaining a single source of truth. Accenture was selected as digital transformation partner to help design and launch a single customer self-service platform.
The team helped the insurer take a customer-centric approach in redesigning the experience and requirements for a new customer self-service portal, matching customer and business insights to develop the best approach to redesign. Accenture helped digitize business processes, leading to the digitalization of information and enabling service delivery to be led by analytics. As the first fully paperless system for insurance application, automation of medical underwriting, and digitalization of corporate contracts in the national life insurance industry, the service provided an important step for this insurer.
The business had created multiple consumer-facing insurance platforms in the past, bringing challenges in providing a consistent customer experience and maintaining a single source of truth. Accenture was selected as digital transformation partner to help design and launch a single customer self-service platform for insurance. The long-term strategic context of the new platform is the development of a 360-degree customer view with self-service, omni-channel delivery, and paperless automation as cornerstones.
Accenture had served as a digital transformation partner in developing a precursor application based on new architecture, and leveraged that experience to assist with the next stage. The team helped the insurer take a customer-centric approach to redesigning the experience and requirements for a new customer self-service portal, matching customer and business insights to develop the best approach to redesign.
Accenture helped the insurer digitize business processes, leading to the digitalization of information and enabling service delivery to be led by analytics. Within six months of the introduction of the paperless and cashless processes, the rate of input error was reduced from 33 percent to five percent, and the lead time from application to issue of the securities dropped from 12 to four days.
" The rate of input error was reduced from 33% to 5%, and lead time from application to issue of the securities dropped from 12 to 4 days."


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Letter to U.S. Senate Urging Support For Safe Banking Act to Limit Size of Largest Financial Institutions
Congress now has the opportunity to erect new public structures guaranteeing stability, transparency and competition in banking.
Heather C. McGhee
Demos Urges Congress Members to Vote "No" on Three Major Deregulatory Bills
If passed, each of these pieces of legislation would destabilize a regulatory system that saves lives and improves our nation.
Letter to SEC Chair Mary Jo White Regarding the Dodd-Frank Act Pay Ratio Disclosure Mandate
More information about CEO-to-worker pay disparities is critical for investors.
Catherine Ruetschlin
A Brief History of the Glass-Steagall Act
Background on one of the landmark pieces of financial reform legislation associated with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
James Lardner
The Financial Infrastructure Exchange: From Short-Term Gains to Long-Term Needs
The Financial Infrastructure Exchange (FIX) is a federal tax-and-subsidy program to promote long-term investment in a financial system that otherwise prioritizes short-term gains.
Wallace C. Turbeville
What is the Volcker Rule?
The Volcker Rule is a requirement in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 that is sometimes referred to as a "mini-Glass-Steagall."
Bad Credit Shouldn't Block Employment: How to Make State Bans on Employment Credit Checks More Effective
This report examines the effectiveness of the employment credit check laws enacted so far and finds that unjustified exemptions included in the laws, a failure to pursue enforcement, and a lack of public outreach have prevented these important employment protections from being as effective as they could be.
Millions to the Middle
14 Big Ideas to Build a Strong & Diverse Middle Class
David Callahan
Federal Reserve Mandate For Full Employment
Support for Growth, Job Creation, and Career Development
Why Occupy Wall Street?
11 ways Wall Street is more than a symbol of inequities in our economy and our democracy
Why We Need To Restore The American Dream For The 99%
On Tuesday, December 13th, the Congressional Progressive Caucus unveiled the RESTORE the American Dream for the 99% Act. The bill, if passed, would create more than 5 million jobs and save more than $2 trillion. This is a comprehensive plan to put America back to work by reversing the failed policies of the past, which the "Super Committee" could not achieve.
The Cost of Regulatory Delay
Our current system is characterized by long delays before needed regulations are issued.
Ben Peck
Coalition For Sensible Safeguards
Six Principles for True Systemic Risk Reform: A Policy Brief
Comprehensive and meaningful systemic risk reform must undo many of the ill-advised deregulatory measuresof the past 20 years, including the four key changes wrought by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
Nomi Prins
The Consumer Financial Protection Agency
A primer on key CFPA amendments in the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Nancy K. Cauthen
Risking Our Future Middle Class: Young Americans Need Financial Reform
Young adults have an enormous stake in the financial regulatory reform debate. They have paid a high price for a banking crisis caused by lax regulation, and their economic futures will depend on rebuilding strong public structures for financial regulation going forward. This briefing paper addresses some of the key reforms and the impact of both the banking crisis and unregulated lending practices on young Americans' financial futures.
U.S. PIRG
United States Student Association
Public Offering, Private Wealth
What The Facebook IPO Really Says About America's Economy
Jack Temple
Social Security: It's Built to Last
Social Security remains our nation's key source of retirement income for most Americans. The program's overall health is sound and with relatively modest tweaks to the program's financing, we can strengthen the system for generations to come.
Robert Hiltonsmith
Does Growth Equal Progress? The Myth of GDP
While GDP has been steadily increasing, indicating a growing economy, other metrics of progress show a very different picture.
Lew Daly
Dan Thompson
Putting Vermont Money Back to Work for Vermont: Introducing the Vermont Partnership Bank
A Vermont Partnership Bank will generate new revenue for Vermont, save local governments money, and make our small businesses, farms and consumers less vulnerable to cutbacks in lending in our state.
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Blu-Ray Review: Reality Bites In "Brainscan" on Blu-Ray
Friday, August 17, 2018 | Blu-ray/DVD
By ROCCO THOMPSON
Starring Edward Furlong and Frank Langella
Directed by John Flynn
Written by Brain Owens (story) and Andrew Kevin Walker
Director John Flynn's BRAINSCAN feels like 976-EVIL meets THE LAWNMOWER MAN—two similarly reviled efforts that turned fears about buzzworthy popular technologies into full-blown horror stories in the waning days of the 20th century. Much like "Trickster," the punkish digital Mephistopheles that tempts the film's lead, Flynn's 1994 science fiction horror effort is itself tricky—a shifty, occasionally irritating, frequently entertaining techno-chiller. Though its internal logical is iffy, the film's impish sense of fun and would-be franchise icon have earned it a cult following, and the years have buffed its flaws into charms, converting BRAINSCAN into a retro-futuristic deep dive into digital depravity and adolescent malaise that deserves a second look.
In the story's original treatment, Michael was goaded into action by a mysterious voice over the phone (again, very 976-EVIL) and Smith was cast to play the offscreen character. Somewhere along the way, the voice became the Trickster character as he exists today, who emerged as BRAINSCAN's true centerpiece. This was lucky, as the infamously tumultuous Furlong is asleep at the wheel (Literally. Flynn has been quoted as saying: "You had to slap him awake every morning. I don't want to get into knocking people, but I was not a big Eddie Furlong fan.") and Langella similarly snoozes through his staid gumshoe role. T. Ryder Smith's performance, however, is like lightning in a bottle. The stage actor imbues the leather-pantsed, velvet-jacketed, mohawked, rock & roll computer demon with equal parts urbanity and ferociousness. With a skillfully modulated voice (Smith knows a calculated whisper can be more powerful than a shout) and a performance that radiates through Steve Johnson's eerily life-like prosthetics, Trickster had the charisma and gravitas to claim Freddy's throne had the film been more warmly embraced and the idea of the franchise horror icon not grown tiresome at the time of release.
Writer Andrew Kevin Walker's (SE7EN) script is sharp, if confused at times, betraying its origins as a first effort from a young, ambitious screenwriter working in low-budget horror, but there's a real wily quality to it that can be appreciated, if not fully embraced. Walker undercooks the story's more alarmist, news-headline-y elements ("Senseless violence is not entertainment!") and firmly roots his tale in the coming-of-age category. As a viewer, it's easy to wish that Walker had paid more attention to the themes of voyeurism, media violence and escapism that drift in and out of the narrative and go unexplored, but Michael's journey from spectator of the world to participant in it shouldn't be underestimated for its veracity, even if Furlong's performance is limp.
BRAINSCAN is on Blu-ray for the first time courtesy of Scream Factory. Though this isn't a "special edition," tentpole release, the folks at Scream have included a bevy of special features that should satiate fans who have clamored for a definitive edition of this cult classic. The film as presented on this disc isn't a new scan, but it looks solid. The muted color palette, populated by hazy purples and somber blues, gives the film a moody, oppressive flavor, and clarity is great without sacrificing the early 90s lo-fi-ness that gives the film its visual identity.
New special features include an audio commentary with assistant to the director Tara Georges Flynn, A VIRTUAL DEBUT: an interview with screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, TALKING WITH TRICKSTER: an interview with T. Ryder Smith, MERGING REALITIES: interviews with special make-up effects supervisor Steve Johnson and special make-up effects artists andy schoneberg and mike smithson, and MUSICAL VIRTUOSITY: an interview with composer George S. Clinton. Also included is TRICKIN' WITH TRICKSTER: vintage behind the scenes fun on BRAINSCAN, and the expected deleted scenes, teasers and photo galleries. All in all, an excellent package!
As comforting as the warm hum of a CD-ROM, John Flynn's BRAINSCAN is a worthy re-download for any fan of outmoded tech-based terror. This "interactive trip to hell" may not make a lot of sense, but its an ambitious take on video-game violence with a grand central performance by T. Ryder Smith as one of the great coulda-been horror icons. Scream Factory brings BRAINSCAN to the 21st century to a public nostalgic for just its type of VHS-era charms in a package that's sure to please old apologists and new fans alike. Boot it up, and, as Trickster would say, "enjoy the fear!"
BRAINSCAN is available on August 28th, 2018
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Rue Morgue's Online Managing Editor, Rocco is a Rondo-nominated writer and avid devotee of all things weird and outrageous.


With so many things to see and do in our area, we thought we'd give your our top 10 favourite ideas of things to do whilst you're staying in south Lincolnshire.
Rutland Water is an internationally famous nature reserve and provides one of the most important wildfowl sanctuaries in Great Britain, regularly holding in excess of 25,000 waterfowl. The Reserve is also home to the successful Rutland Osprey Project. It is also a great place for hiring a cycle or walking around.
To find out more see our Gardens And Wildlife and our Cycling And Walking pages.
The first stop for any student of Georgian architecture has to be Stamford (about 15 miles away). The streets are lined with house upon house of interesting features and classical lines. This brings with it boutique shops and good places to eat.
See our Cities and Market Towns page for more ideas.
3. Visiting Easton Walled Gardens.
An out of hours walk around the 12 acres of Gardens is what makes staying with us so special.
See the Gardens' website for more details.
Grimsthorpe Castle is truly a hidden gem. It is rarely crowded but the architecture, collections and landscape match some of our most famous houses. Designed by Vanbrugh and visited by Henry VIII, Grimsthorpe Castle is a 15 minute drive from Easton or 10 minutes from The School House in Burton-le-Coggles.
For more information see our Cathedrals, Castles and Country Houses page.
One of the finest cathedrals in the world, Lincoln Cathedral is, frankly, awe inspiring. Ruskin described the cathedral (once the tallest building in the world) as "out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles." Next door in the Castle, you can combine a visit to see Magna Carta in the vaults.
The Cholmeley Arms is an Award Winning Country Pub set in an acre of grounds in the centre of the pretty Conservation Area Village of Burton-le-Coggles. The Cholmeley Arms is independently run Estate Pub and has been run by John and Lesley Berry since 2009. Booking is essential, especially at weekends.
See our Eating page for more.
Owned and run by the National Trust also own Sir Isaac Newton's birthplace in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth is beautifully interpreted and has a small café and science room in the old stables.
8. Shopping for fresh bread and scones at the award-winning Hambleton Bakery.
Hambleton Bakery produces top quality traditionally made bread for Hambleton Hall and Hart's Nottingham. In addition to a growing list of wholesale customers (pubs, restaurants, delis, etc) the bakery now has retail outlets in Exton, Oakham, Market Harborough, West Bridgford, Stamford and Oundle. Its bread and scones form part of the welcome packs in our cottages and lofts.
For more information see our Cities and Market Towns page.
Easton Walled Gardens runs workshops from the Coach House throughout the year. Favourite courses include 2 day workshops such as willow weaving and botanical art courses.
Less than half an hour from the Easton Estate, Manor Farm Cookery School offers tailored courses and regular themed cookery days throughout the year.
See our Workshops And Courses page for more information.
Burghley House is a friendly, world famous house. Built by William Cecil, Queen Elizabeth I's closest adviser, it is still lived in by his descendants and boasts a fantastic collection of exciting murals and beautiful works of art.


Two of the hottest topics in PR today are social media conversations—à la Facebook and Twitter—and measurement. But let's not forget the power of online video. There, too, measurement looms large.
While video platforms, and YouTube in particular, are enjoying record numbers of views—on YouTube, over 2 billion videos are viewed every day, and YouTube Mobile gets over 100 million views per day—for communicators, views are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to measuring the success of online video.
New technologies and tools are changing the way PR pros are measuring video effectiveness, says Obregon. Now, it's not just how many, but where viewers are looking at a video; what they're viewing it on (smartphone, laptop); and what parts of the videos people respond to (such as turning up the volume).
But let's not get ahead of ourselves. The generation of meaningful video metrics should start with mapping out objectives before a video is uploaded, says Doug Simon of DS Simon Productions, a broadcast PR and video company. What are you trying to accomplish with the video? Is it to draw in new customers? Bring more people to your Web site? Or simply to create awareness around a new product or service? Setting the objective, says Simon, will have a big bearing on the kind of distribution you'll seek for the video, and ultimately in identifying the metrics you'll be tracking.
Engagement, however, is another story. Those are the metrics that count, says Kay. A video that is distributed across a variety of digital platforms should spark comments, likes, tweets and retweets. Those kinds of actions are what Kay and his digital team track.
There's nothing too complicated about the process, either. Grasshopper uses Google Alerts and TweetDeck to track comments across the digital spectrum. And YouTube, says Kay, now has excellent analytics capabilities. Combining both YouTube and Google Analytics allows you to see all the sites on which your video is landing.
Discovery: Find out how people discovered your video. See specifically which search terms on YouTube or Google led the user to your video, which related videos led to your discovery or which Web sites embed your videos. "Discovery lets you know if your video is being picked up by a different, sometimes unexpected audience, which may prove valuable to you," says Obregon.
Hot Spots: Informs how people are consuming a clip and where they are dropping off. The tool allows you to tell which parts of a video are hot or cold. "You can really get a sense of audience threshold, and where to tighten videos up," says Obregon.
In terms of effective external measuring tools, both Obregon and MWW's Hendler recommend TubeMogul, a free service that lets you upload your clips to video sharing sites and track them. "You can load multiple clips to multiple sites, and collect data all in one place," says Obregon.
Another company, Ooyala, measures viewership by platform—laptop, mobile, PC, etc. Obregon predicts that this metric will become more important as time goes on. And if that isn't enough, Nielsen, famous for its broadcast analytics, moved deeper into the online video space when it acquired GlanceGuide in 2010. Though the service isn't cheap, Nielsen can track a video's viewing duration, visibility and even audio volume and—just like it does with traditional broadcast channels—offer a composite effectiveness score.
"Because there are so many more sophisticated tools coming into the market there's less emphasis on views," says Obregon. This rightly puts more emphasis on video as an awareness tool.
While Hendler also recommends not putting your videos all in one basket, he takes a more measured tack.
1. Look beyond the numbers. Set a business goal for the campaign. Example: improve search results.
2. Create a tracking ID. Come up with a 59 character keyword optimized title you will use throughout the campaign. You can search Google with that title in quotes to inexpensively identify where your content has been placed in full.
3. All numbers are not created equal. Focus on maximizing earned media placement and the importance of those sites to your business.
4. Make YouTube the bait. Companies often say "check us out on YouTube." You're driving them away from your site. Do the opposite—drive them from YouTube back to your site.
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Studying Philosophy leaves a mark on you. And it is rewarding. If you don't believe us, look below and read what our graduates have to say.
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" I've completed an Advanced Major in Philosophy at Ashoka along with a Capstone Thesis. The topic of the thesis was Nagarjuna, who is a prominent Buddhist Philosopher.
Through campus placements, I got placed at Leo Burnett, where I will be joining next month. It is a prestigious advertising agency and I will be undertaking the role of a brand strategy associate. Having completed a degree in Philosophy also offered me the opportunity to join graduate schools such as Kings College London to pursue Law, but I declined the offers in part due to the ongoing situation.
I think that a training in Philosophy at Ashoka set a standard for the way I've approached any challenge. Along with provide me with the confidence to put a philosophical rationale behind the ideas and thoughts that drive our daily lives, it also helped streamline my thought process. Once you undergo Philosophical training especially with the distinguished faculty, you place emphasis on justifying every opinion you've ever had and every opinion you will form. You cannot accept ideas at face value anymore and the wheels start turning as soon as you are faced with one. It also changes the way you write in a way that is extremely useful when it comes to competitive and standardised examinations. The major also sharpens analytical skills and marries them with a unique approach to literature which ensures that one excels in fields such as the one I'm involved in."
~Devanshi Iyer, ASP 2020
Philosophy Major
"The best thing about the Ashoka philosophy program is the flexibility and independence it offers to navigate various sub-fields of philosophy. The program rigorously prepares us for graduate studies by giving us intensive training in writing philosophy and also allows to sharpen our pedagogical skill by working as TAs. Being a small department, the professors and students share a warm relation which adds to the outside classroom learning experience. I am also grateful for the support I received from my department (especially, Prof. Rosenhagen and Prof. Weltman) during my graduate school applications."
~Ritam Chakraborty, UG 2020, moving on to do an M.A. in Philosophy at SFU in Canada
"The program is challenging and fulfilling, the faculty erudite and kind, and the students passionate and welcoming."
~Anonymous, UG 2020, moving on to Oxford to do a BPhil in Philosophy
"It took me quite some time to figure out my major. I started with Psychology, then maybe literature, and then finally decided to do maths. I think the thing with me was that I liked the idea of training my mind. Wanted to level things up. I guess that's one of the consequences of growing up in this world obsessed with self-help. You always want to level up.
When I decided to do Philosophy, I got that. Leveled up, in part. Though, there were a few courses that did much more for me. You know how you think philosophy is going to be a bunch of people talking about life? That does happen sometimes here. On the other hand, there were some training courses. Core philosophy courses like Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and so on. A philosopher's training comes in seeing arguments for what they are. Realizing that we say or think things that are sometimes not quite right. Philosophy to me is about slowing down.
Whether about perception, happiness, existence, or even science, philosophers seem to see something that others don't. The professors train you to slow down. It seems so simple. Suddenly arguments unravel. If you slow down, you realize that we're jumping to conclusions all the time. Slowing down not only helps you understand when someone is inconsistent but also to interpret people charitably. Most of all, you get an idea of when you bullshit.
Honestly, if you're majoring in philosophy, I feel excited for you. These 3 or 4 years will be transformative. So, if you're anything like me and you feel pulled towards a variety of disciplines, I do suggest you give Philosophy a try.
I'm planning to get into filmmaking. I do think for making serious art, a certain amount of specificity is required. Philosophy builds that in you. Right now, I'm planning to come back for ASP and do a creative thesis in Philosophy. Let's see how it goes."
~Vanshaj Garg, UG 2020
PPE Major
"I studied Philosophy in the capacity of being a PPE major, having done an equivalent number of courses to achieve a Philosophy minor. Philosophy allowed me to approach the texts from other disciplines with a fresh perspective, and kept me grounded in that I was always aware that there exist counter-arguments to my own ideas. This pushed me to think in new and unique ways to come up with better arguments. It has greatly improved my writing and broadened my critical thinking skills.
Doing Philosophy also helped me understand that I really enjoyed critical engagement with academic texts, and pushed me to apply (and get into!) graduate schools in the United States and Europe. It was a pleasure to have studied under the amazing Philosophy department at Ashoka."
~Varsha Nitish, UG 2020
Second Major Equivalent
"I earned a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy & Economics, and used my ASP year to write a Capstone Thesis and earn a Second Major Equivalent in Philosophy.
I have since been accepted to an M.A. program in Linguistics at McGill University, on a full scholarship with a stipend. My acceptance was a result of my philosophy education at Ashoka. Philosophy both sparked my interest in the study of language and gave me the tools to conduct rigorous academic inquiry. I was also told that my writing sample, a reworked version of my Capstone Thesis, played the biggest role in the admission committee's decision.
On a broader note, my philosophy education taught me how to properly take in information, process it, and articulate whatever output I came to. Those are priceless, domain-agnostic skills that I've found useful in any work I've involved myself in."
~Gaurav Kamath, ASP 2020
Offers received: University of Oxford (BPhil in Philosophy); Indian Institute of Technology – Gandhinagar (MSc. Cognitive Science); offer accepted: University of Oxford
"The academic training and support that I received at Ashoka really helped me during my graduate application process. I'm extremely grateful for all the support I received, especially from the philosophy department."
~Mahati Garimella, ASP 2020
"I'm a graduate student in the philosophy department at USC (University of Southern California). I did a Second Major Equivalent in Philosophy (my UG Major was Math) with a Capstone Thesis and I'm now working towards a PhD in philosophy, so I owe a lot to Ashoka's philosophy department! My undergraduate studies in philosophy set me up for an academically rigorous environment. I had incredibly kind, supportive, and insightful professors to guide me along the way. The department taught me, amongst so many other things, how to think creatively and communicate clearly."
~Megha Devraj, ASP 2018
Capstone Thesis
"I have received an offer for a place in the MPhil program in Political Theory at Oxford. I have also been selected for a Felix scholarship, which covers full tuition and living expenses. Honestly, I couldn't have secured a place at my preferred school without all the help and support I received from the Philosophy Department, and especially from Professor Weltman. The Philosophy graduate school session also clarified a lot of things for me, and I am truly indebted to all my professors for everything!"
~Jyoti Shankar Nayak, ASP 2020
"I've had the good fortune of being associated with the Philosophy Department at Ashoka University as a student as well as a teacher and my experience on both sides has been only exceptional. As a student I had the opportunity to study under what is undoubtedly the best faculty in Philosophy in the country and their consistent, unfailing support at each step. As a TA (for Metaphysics) and a Teaching Fellow (for Environmental Ethics, Indian Civilisations, Mind and Behaviour, Existentialism, Philosophy of Love, also for Morality and the Good Life (YIF) and Love and Friendship (YIF)), I had the complete guidance of all my professors, and a wonderfully curious and excited bunch of students. The department is extremely active—there are always events to attend or classes to sit in on.
In September 2021, I will be heading to Simon Fraser University to pursue a fully funded two-year Masters in Philosophy, especially designed for those wanting to move into doctoral studies in philosophy. The MLS and the teaching opportunities thereafter have been monumental in allowing me to make this shift from my undergraduate discipline – i.e., History – to Philosophy at the graduate level, and have helped me secure admission into a fantastic programme such as the one at SFU. I could not possibly have asked for a more stimulating and supportive environment to nurture my academic interests."
~Reetika Kalita, MLS 2019
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"I completed a minor in Philosophy as part of my ASP degree. This September, I will begin my Masters in Political Science and International Relations at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Studying philosophy at Ashoka University has helped me hone my critical thinking skills, and sharpened my academic and non-academic writing. It has also broadened my repertoire of knowledge, which has in turn enhanced my thinking within the social sciences. While I might not study the discipline formally in the future, I am definitely a philosopher by attitude!"
~Nivedita Joon, ASP 2020.
"I completed a Philosophy Minor and am currently working on my thesis in Psychology about the causes and impact of discrimination faced by women in academia. My studies in Philosophy were invaluable when it came to teaching me how to think logically, write better, and finding ways to break down what was presented to me."
~Vidhika Gadia, UG 2020
"I've had the good fortune of being a TA for Professor Juliana's Philosophy of Mind (CTS) and Professor Raja's Philosophy of Love course. I have also had the opportunity to TF for Professor Raja's course on Love and Friendship – a YIF course offered by the Philosophy Department.
My experience with the subject matter of Philosophy is inseparable from how my Professors have taught Philosophy to me at Ashoka. The instruction of Philosophy here has encouraged me to embark upon a lifelong path of challenging my intellectual horizons, of learning to think with more confidence and direction, and of ensuring I apply my skills beyond academia to moments in my everyday life. It is true that Philosophy seeps into everything, and I have found that the phenomenal faculty and the talented Philosophy students of our Department embody that ethos.
As a student, and as someone who has engaged in Philosophical instruction to some extent at Ashoka, not one day has been dull. The stimulating and sparkling class discussions and the carefully curated coursework, coupled with the brilliant philosophical rigour of our Professors, birth actively curious, open, and hard-working individuals, who tread the path of success. Indeed, this unmatched learning environment has introduced me to a family of brilliant thinkers – whose zest I carry within me everywhere I go. Doing Philosophy at Ashoka has and will continue to make me a better thinker, writer, and human being.
The highlight of studying Philosophy at Ashoka, according to me, is that one learns that the great ideas of past Philosophers are just the beginning."
~Aadya Singh, UG 2020, moving on to pursue an ASP
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"I completed a minor in Philosophy, along with a major in Psychology. Philosophy is a discipline that teaches you skills that are important no matter what field you are in. It has taught me to be precise and clear in my thoughts and writing, which has helped me immensely in my research work. It also sharpened my analytical and logical skills, something that is really valued in the job market. I am currently working as a Research Associate in a company that is at the intersection of AI and Psychiatry. The skills I have gained from Philosophy are helping me in many ways – from problem-solving to understanding classification systems, to structuring content.
I have also had the wonderful opportunity of being a TA and a TF for Symbolic Logic, one of my favorite courses at Ashoka. It was a really rewarding experience to be able to teach and learn from such bright students. The guidance from Prof. Raja, the instructor of the course, also pushed me to think of ways to keep classes engaging and helped me learn to teach more effectively."
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COVID prompts Illinois Gov. to urge postponement of non-emergency surgeries
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Health & Hospital Association said Thursday that hospitals should postpone non-emergency procedures to maintain and expand bed capacity.
So far, the statement said, the close partnership between state health officials and healthcare professionals has prevented Illinois' healthcare system from being overwhelmed by rising COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. But omicron's steady rise and COVID transmission from holiday gatherings are expected to put additional pressure on the system as hospital admissions increase and ICU bed capacity becomes more scarce.
"We are preparing for a continuing post-holiday surge, and with hospital staff already working so hard, I appreciate the work hospital leadership is doing to assure capacity, including postponing non-emergency surgeries and procedures to ensure their ability to handle serious COVID cases and other emergencies without putting patients at risk," Pritzker said in the statement. "To all Illinoisans: please understand that the nation is experiencing high COVID transmission rates, and some surgeries in Illinois will be postponed. We're asking our residents to temporarily hold off on important medical care like tonsillectomies, bariatric surgeries and hernia repair. As we work to keep ICU beds open, I continue to applaud the efforts of our hospitals and healthcare workers across the state, who have been heroes for us all."
As of Dec. 29, about 17% of hospital beds were open, according to Illinois Department of Public Health data, with 5,689 COVID patients in hospital beds and 20,220 non-COVID patients in beds statewide, leaving 5,552 open beds.
The situation is worse for intensive-care beds. Just 313 ICU beds, about 10%, were open statewide as of Dec. 29. Of the 2,967 ICU beds in Illinois, 1,010 held COVID patients and 1,644 non-COVID patients.
Some hospitals in the Chicago area are still taking in all patients, but taking it day by day.
At Sinai Chicago, non-urgent procedures are still being scheduled, but administrators and staff "have meetings five or six times a day" about capacity and staffing at its two hospitals, Mount Sinai and Holy Cross, said Dr. Russell Fiorella, the system's chief medical officer. Sinai Chicago has about 60 COVID patients in beds right now, up from five to 10 just a few months ago, he said.
"Our highest at the beginning of the pandemic was in the 90s or low 100s, so we're about two-thirds of the way there," he said. "But the other side of the coin is that we're in a nationwide staffing crisis, so that really compounds the situation."
Sinai is operating on a four-level surge plan and is at level 2, with about 15% ICU capacity, Fiorella said. At level 3, there is 10% availability and at level 4 there is none. The system is on bypass, meaning it is not accepting patient transfers from outside hospitals, he said.
So as long as the science says it can keep serving all patients and the governor is still allowing individual hospitals to have flexibility, Sinai will perform non-emergency procedures, Fiorella said.
"In our patient population, primarily African American and Latinx, we see a lot of comorbidities and chronic conditions," he said. "So when we basically turn into a COVID hospital, we put these patients at risk. We have to balance that."
At Advocate Aurora Health, decisions are being made at the site level rather than instituting a policy across all hospitals in Illinois, or at its Wisconsin hospitals.
"Like health systems across the country, our COVID inpatient census is rising quickly with the vast majority of patients being unvaccinated," AAH said in an emailed statement. "We are monitoring the situation closely and remain prepared for continued increases in patients. At times, this has resulted in the need to pause or reschedule some non-critical or elective procedures, depending on local COVID case numbers, staffing scenarios and bed availability. Urgent and emergent services will continue to be available 24 hours a day, and it is critical that patients seek care when needed."
While not mandating an end to non-urgent procedures, the state is asking hospitals to continue to follow the IDPH's guidance on when to consider postponing elective surgeries and procedures that doctors think can be rescheduled without risking patient harm.
Also, in an effort to increase staffing to ensure care is available, Pritzker has already extended state waivers to allow out-of-state health care professionals to work in Illinois and has invited hospitals to participate in its staffing contract so that they can bring in additional available staff when needed to ensure capacity to treat COVID-19 patients, the statement said.
"Hospitals continue to be on the front line of this fight, and are doing everything in their power to maintain access to health care for all patients. But we need your help. Wear a mask. Social distance. Avoid large gatherings. And please get vaccinated and boosted. Vaccination remains the best way to prevent severe illness, hospitalization and death," Karen Teitelbaum, president and CEO of Sinai Chicago Health System and chair of the IHA Board of Trustees, said in the statement.
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Construction for Run of river power installation on the Ashlu. Photo by Bryan Smith, whose film '49 Megawatts' profiled the Ashlu Creek IPP project.
It all started on the Ashlu River.
A southern tributary of the Squamish River, and a whitewater paddlers' dream, the Ashlu was the site of one of the first run-of-river projects in the province and the jumping-off point of what would become one of the most controversial issues of the BC Liberal reign during the last decade.
In 2002, newly-elected premier Gordon Campbell announced the first call for power under a revamped energy strategy.
BC Hydro would no longer build its own energy-generating capacity, but buy the power from independent power producers, or IPPs. Although run-of-river (sometimes called micro-hydro) was still unfamiliar to most British Columbians, it quickly emerged as a leading technology.
On the surface, it seemed like the projects held promise for the economy and environment. Compared to a dam, they would leave a tiny footprint. Compared to a coal plant, they had zero carbon emissions. Of 16 contracts awarded in BC Hydro's first call for power, 14 were run-of-river projects.
Ledcor's $80-million Ashlu River project was one of them. Proponents extolled the 230 gigawatt hours of clean electricity -- enough to power 23,000 homes -- the project would produce.
Around 2004, when local kayakers and conservation groups caught wind of what exactly the project would entail -- the diversion of water from a seven-kilometre stretch of river -- they cried foul on the project's "green" label.
Even the Squamish Regional District was opposed. But with the Liberals' passing of the 2003 Significant Project Streamlining Act, it had little regulatory ground to stand on.
And it soon became apparent that the Ashlu was just a drop in the bucket.
By 2006 there were almost 500 applications for run-of-river water licenses (the first step in developing a project) across the province, including seven in the Ashlu drainage alone.
Concern shifted from individual rivers to the cumulative impacts of these projects -- not just on the rivers themselves, but on the surrounding wilderness. Run-of-river projects came with road construction and transmission line construction in parts of the province that had been previously untouched.
By 2008, around the same time BC Hydro issued the results of its second call for power (which awarded 29 of the 38 contracts to run-of-river firms, 10 of which made contributions to the Liberals totaling nearly $385,000), environmental concerns about IPP were beginning to take a back seat to broader concerns about privatization.
The Wilderness Committee aligned with organizations like Citizens for Public Power, the Council of Canadians, and the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union, and started to reframe the issue as one of public rights and social justice.
Together these groups called for a moratorium on IPP development in the province, a move that -- in conjunction with the NDP's opposition to a carbon tax -- alienated many in the environmental movement.
Including Andrew Weaver, a prominent climate scientist at the University of Victoria who's considered a strong contender for the riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head this election. An op-ed by Weaver in the Vancouver Sun chastised environmental groups that "have chosen to abandon abandon science and campaign against clean energy and climate policies."
The division between two environmental groups that might have been allies -- groups that David Suzuki referred to as "tree-huggers" focused on protecting wilderness, and "smokestack pluggers" focused on the rapid deployment of renewable energy -- came to define the 2009 election.
Tzeporah Berman, a tree-hugger turned smokestack plugger, emailed then-leader of the BC NDP Carole James to tell her that her party's climate policies have "more in common with George Bush's Republican playbook than with those of us who supported you in 2005."
Nonetheless, just weeks before the election James reaffirmed her party's position (from a helicopter over the Ashlu River project) that it would impose a moratorium on independent power development.
Ultimately, this position would cost her.
Just weeks before the election (and the day after her flight over the Ashlu), a contingent of environmental groups known as Conservation Voters of B.C. that included a slate of candidates issued an "Anyone But Carole" endorsement for her Victoria-Beacon Hill riding, declaring that "the decision to position the NDP campaign against world-leading climate policies while not putting forward improvements or better alternatives is on her shoulders."
In the end, Gordon Campbell's Liberals won the election by slightly more than 60,000 votes.
The results had a direct impact on the IPP industry (Plutonic saw its shares jump 20.7 per cent).
While run-of-river and in fact all IPP development has slowed (there hasn't been a call for power in five years, and reportedly isn't another one on the horizon), projects from the last 2008 call are still underway -- and still very much on the public's radar.
Right now, a coalition of conservation groups is asking a judge to force an environmental review of the Holmes River project in northern British Columbia, which will consist of 10 generation sites along a 40-kilometre stretch of river, each of which is being considered separately, and therefore exempt, from the BC Environmental Assessment Act.
And earlier this year, the Wilderness Committee, one of the earliest critics of run-of-river development, issued a damning report on non-compliance on various IPP projects. Among them: the Ashlu.


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At China's cartographic bullseye, Lánzhōu (兰州) marks the halfway point for overlanders trekking across the country. Growing up on a strategic stretch of the Yellow River (黄河; Huáng Hé), and sitting between competing Chinese and Central Asian empires, Gānsù's elongated capital city frequently changed hands, reflected today in its mix of ethnic groups and cultures. These days, Lánzhōu is perhaps most well known for its favourite food – Lánzhōu beef noodles (牛肉拉面; niúròu lāmiàn) – and with several excellent night markets, this is an excellent place to sample the delights of Chinese Silk Road fare. Lánzhōu's reputation as being hazy and traffic-choked is also changing with the building of a new metro, which should be open by the time you read this.
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Shailaja Patel RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS STUDENT ARCHITECTURE AWARD
We are delighted to announce that TAP volunteer Shailaja Patel has received the George W. Anderson, Jr. Award for her experience in Public Interest Design that she achieved as a part of the Anganwadi Project.
She was awarded the prize for both her immense talent and dedicated work with TAP on Bholu 14.
The George W. Anderson, Jr. Award recognizes graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture who demonstrate, through a completed project, "an exceptional level of attention to detail and dedication to beneficially impacting the community".
"A shortlist of six students was based on a 20 slide Presentation we each submitted," said Shailaja. "The project was presented at CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) in a pecha kucha format (20 seconds per slide) in front of various track-chairs and student body as well as other visiting members. It was a moment of pride for me to see the project being well received and the jury was really interested in how the organization works and gave many compliments to TAP."
The Award is a $3000 from the Anderson family, a part of which Shailaja very generously aims to use in further benefiting TAP.
"I cannot thank TAP enough for allowing me to have opportunities with TAP that helped me grow in the direction of my aspirations. This Award is for everyone who has been a part of this organization and their efforts in creating a better world." - Shailaja Patel
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Obituary for Vera Bell (Foster) Promise | Thatcher's Funeral Home, Inc.
Vera Bell Promise 98, passed on January 16, 2019 at K. U. medical center. Vera was born on February 12, 1920 in Ebenezer, Mississippi to Helien Foster and Annie Lee Fields. Vera grew up in Ebenezer where she received her education.
Vera accepted Christ at an early age and was baptized at Stranger Homes Baptist Church.
Vera was a homemaker where she had a hand is raising several generations of her family and neighborhood family, where she was affectionately called Big Mama.
Vera married L.C. Promise in 1952 in Lexington, Mississippi. To this union no children were born. Though no children of her own Vera was the mother figure for many. She enjoyed being a homemaker, fishing and she loved gardening.
Vera is preceded in death by her parents, Helien Foster and Annie Mae Fields. Her husband of 43 years, L.C. Promise; sisters, Jesse Coleman and Rebecca Morton; brother, Matrow Smith; a grandson she helped raise David Jones.
Vera is survived by her step daughters, Iriciel Gadson of Lee Summit, Missouri; Eva Mae Jones of Kansas City, Kansas; and her granddaughter, that she raised Dorothy Morton; a host of nieces, nephews, grandchildren, great grandchildren, great-great grandchildren and other relatives.


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2022 Ford Endeavour Render. Credit – Joao Kleber Amaral / AutoEvolution.
Next-gen Endeavour 2022 was slated for India launch, but hopes were dashed after Ford announced its exit plan
In international locations, Ford Endeavour (Everest) will mark its debut in 2022. It will be based on next-gen Ford Ranger, which will be using an updated ladder frame architecture. New Endeavour is expected to borrow some styling bits from recently updated F150. Initially, it will go on sale in ASEAN countries and Australia. To get a better idea of how it will look, Joao Kleber Amaral has come up with a digital render of next-gen Ford Endeavour 4×4 SUV.
2022 Ford Endeavour SUV styling
A number of cosmetic enhancements have been introduced to improve overall look and feel of the SUV. The blacked-out grille in the front enhances the SUVs stately presence. For a more rugged feel, the SUV gets prominent front skid plate in metallic finish. This shade extends to the sides to work as contrasting highlighters for fog lamp casing.
The SUV also gets dual tow hooks. Other key features such as projector headlamps and C-shaped LED DRLs have been left untouched. On the sides, the list of changes includes dual-tone rear view mirrors with top section in chrome finish, chrome door handles and a new set of alloy wheels.
Running boards have been tweaked slightly to ensure a better fit with the SUV's updated profile. At the top, the SUV gets roof rails in metallic finish. It has blacked-out B and C pillars. 2022 Ford Endeavour SUV render has been created in 4 new colours.
2022 Ford Endeavour SUV Render
Next-gen Endeavour (Everest) engine
New Ford Endeavour will be powered by a 2.0-litre twin-turbo diesel motor. A new variant with a 3.0-litre diesel motor could also be launched in specific markets. India-spec current-gen Endeavour is powered by a 2.0-litre diesel motor that makes 170 ps of max power at 3,500 rpm and 420 Nm of peak torque at 2,000-2,500 rpm. It is mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission. The SUV is available in 4×2 and 4×4 variants. Prices start at Rs 33.82 lakh.
Ford may not have been winning in volumes, but it was quite popular among a niche segment of users in India. It was among the first international car brands to launch operations in the country. It is quite disheartening to see that capable vehicles like Endeavour will no longer be manufactured in India.
At the time of announcing its exit, Ford had EcoSport, Freestyle, Figo, Aspire and Endeavour in its portfolio. Taken together, these five cars had market share of around 1.7%. As production has stopped, only those units that are in stock are currently available for sale.
Ford had stated that it will change its strategy for India by focusing exclusively on premium cars. In the future, India could get cars like Mustang Mach-E. These are likely to be imported as completely built units (CBUs).


The other side of community involvement in an open source project is the end users. It's hard to be a successful open source project if no one is using it! But aside from providing documentation and forums, how else can projects and users connect?
One way is a users group, a type of club where the members all share an interest in a particular arena. SHARE is one of the oldest computer users group around. The basic idea behind a users group is to provide more resources and share information among a local cell, provide support, encouragement, new ideas, mailing lists, and more. There are some challenges with belonging to a users group, managing a users group, and representing your open source project in a users group.
Kara Sowles is a Community Manager at Puppet Labs, a tech company in Portland, Oregon. She speaks on user groups, community, and planning great events. After working at Puppet Labs during the day, she goes home and makes stop motion animated films with real puppets at night (the irony is not lost on her). Kara spoke at OSCON, LinuxFest NW, OpenWest, and PuppetConf in 2014, and this year, she's speaking at SCALE13X with advice for growing a technology users group.
How did you land at Puppet Labs in community development? How did that lead you to users groups?
I stumbled on community management without knowing much about it, as so many do! Having a fantastic manager with a deep knowledge of community management made all the difference. When I started at Puppet Labs, there were a few Puppet user groups that a previous community manager had pulled together, but they hadn't met in a while. As I began to nurture them, and to encourage new groups, we grew from 5 user groups to 50 in a span of 2 years. They're run individually by community members in each area, and we provide support and advice. They quickly became one of my favorite parts of my work; watching them grow was so rewarding and tangible.
I've got a great local Linux user group (novaLug) that I hardly make time to attend, even if there's a speaker on the books I like. How can users groups get better traction with attendees?
First off: content. Groups should both schedule an interesting speaker or activity, and make it clear to attendees why it's going to be interesting. They can't read your mind, and they may have no idea what makes the speaker/topic worth attending for.
However, as you noted, it's hard to find time to attend user groups, even when it's a speaker you like! One of the hardest challenges for any group is to convince its members to take that step out the door and attend. The little things can make a large difference. A regular meeting cadence (for example, first monday of each month) helps members develop attendance habits. Sending reminders about the meeting both several weeks before the meeting, and a few days before the meeting, help get the event on the calendar for attendees, and remind them to actually come. I forgot the reminder email once, and a usually 30-person group had only 6 attendees, ouch!
These small, simple things come down to setting expectations for attendees. If attendees know when the meeting will end, if there will be food, if there's parking nearby, it makes the event more accessible to them. It lowers the uncertainty factors of: Will I enjoy it? Will I be hungry? Will I find parking? Those things often stop folks from stepping out the door. I know it sounds basic, but it's important!
Part of a successful open source project is adoption. Puppet, for example, is popular enough now to have it's very own users groups. How can projects use local user groups to get the word out?
User groups are an excellent way for projects to spread the word and find new users, long before they're able to create their own groups. It's important to remember that user groups in tech are very interested in quality technical content—and understandably sensitive about marketing. Offer to give a talk at a user group, but don't make it a pitch. Think about the audience for the user group, and design the talk with them in mind. Don't be afraid to ask the group organizer about their audience—what they're interested in, what they're familiar with—and look at what talks the group previously hosted. If there's a lot of interest after the talk, consider a hands-on follow-up meeting. People love to try things for themselves, especially when there's someone walking them through it and answering questions.
How do you know when the user community is involved enough to support a local user group? Are there moves to online users groups?
When I'm looking at starting a group in an area, I'll set up a page to test the waters by meeting 2x or 4x a year. Some areas aren't ready to support a user group every month, but can have great meetings a few times a year. If you set expectations on the group page by noting: "This group meets X times a year, our next meeting is X day/month", the page looks purposeful instead of abandoned. It depends a lot on the attendees, too. I've seen groups with eight regular members that are excited to meet every month, and groups with 20 regular members that decided to simply close down.
Online groups can be as tough as in-person ones—or as rewarding! The web is littered with ghost towns where online communities used to be. Online vs. in-person has a lot to do with the tool the group is centered around, and the members. Are folks attending to hear new concepts? To get help with daily problems? There's no hard rule for it, you have to consider your community's needs and habits.
"Coraline" was produced in by a Portland stop motion studio, is there a strong stop motion users group you belong to? Any other users groups you're involved with?
I wish! If there is an animator's user group in Portland, I haven't found it yet. There's a strong animation community in the city, stretching back to the original Will Vinton studios. "Coraline", and the studio Laika's other works, are some of the most breathtakingly intricate stop motion works every produced.
I co-run the Portland Puppet User group and the Portland Community Leadership meet up. Running a group is good for me, it's humbling and frustrating and wonderfully rewarding. Even when you know what best practices you're supposed to follow in running a user group, it's so easy to slip up. When you're busy with work and home life, finding time to do a great job running a regular group is tough. It's important to remember not to beat yourself up about it—just do your best.
I'm fond of saying "you get the culture you reward." What do you think? How does culture affect the health and success of a users group? How can you keep a users group from turning into an echo chamber?
You're right—culture is crucial! People don't need to take their precious free time to attend, and if the group isn't pleasant, they won't return. This is one of the reasons that having a Code of Conduct for user groups is so valuable. It sets the expectations for behavior, and it lets members know that they don't have to tolerate bad behavior from others. I've had a many folks mention to me, after talks, they they wish they'd adopted one sooner. One nasty member can ruin a group, so group leaders are responsible for removing members who are pushing other attendees out of the space with their behavior. I can definitely think of user groups I won't return to that were run by great people but had members who were disrespectful or wouldn't leave me alone.
One good technique for avoiding an echo chamber is to co-meet with other groups occasionally, as I've already mentioned. Another is to intentionally hold beginner sessions, and to promote them clearly. It's worth being very clear what the expectations / prerequisites are for beginner meetings—it's you vs. their impostor syndrome, and you want them to attend! If you don't list the prerequisites (no coding experience necessary, you can bring a laptop but you don't need to, etc.), people will imagine much scarier, more restrictive ones themselves, and rule themselves out. Setting expectations is a way of welcoming people.
Thanks for taking the time to interview me today, and I look forward to seeing folks at SCALE!


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Pierre de Fermat was a French lawyer and mathematician born in 1607...
Note that one of $a$, $b$ has to be odd and the other one even. If ...
If $y=n^2$ and $z=m^2$ it would be possible to construct a triangle...
- If $y$ is a square then, $z=a^2+b^2=(\sqrt{z})^2$ which is just t...
Let's assume we have a triangle with sides $A^2$, $B^2$ and hypoten...
Euclid's formula is a fundamental formula for generating Pythagorea...
The observation in the concluding paragraph is recognisable to stud...
Fermat's method of "descente infinie" - Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for n=4
Stan Dolan
126A Harpenden Road, St. Albans
Fermat proved the impossibility of finding positive in-
teger solutions of the equation x
+ y
= z
by a method
which he claimed would 'enable extraordinary develop-
ments to be made in the theory of numbers' [1], His
method was based upon the idea of using a supposed
solution to find another solution, smaller than the first.
Proceeding in this fashion he could therefore obtain an
infinite series of smaller and smaller solutions. At this
point he concluded his proof as follows:
'This is, however, impossible because there cannot be
an infinite series of numbers [positive integers] smaller
than any given [positive] integer we please. The margin
is too small to enable me to give the proof completely and
with all details [1].'
The margin referred to here was in Fermat's copy of
the Arithmetica, an ancient Greek text written by Dio-
phantus of Alexandria. The problems given in this text
provided the stimulus for many of Fermat's discoveries
in number theory. The equation x
arose from
problems concerning right-angled triangles
Fermat's proof
Fermat gave sufficient details of his proof to enable it
to be reconstructed. However, the purpose of this note
is not to reproduce the original proof faithfully but to
modify and simplify it whilst retaining the historical con-
nection with right-angled triangles.
Theorem: A right-angled triangle with rational sides
cannot have two sides each with a length equal to a square
or twice a square.
Proof. Suppose such a triangle did exist. By scaling
by a square number we can further assume the sides to
have integer lengths. Then, any prime factor p of two of
the lengths would be a factor of all three lengths. Fur-
thermore, if p were odd, then p
would be a factor of two
of the lengths and thus of all the lengths. By cancelling
down as necessary, we can therefore assume the lengths
to be coprime in pairs. Then, by Euclid's formula, there
are coprime positive integers a and b, one odd and one
even, such that the triangle is as shown.
FIG. 1:
Now y and z are both odd and so neither can be twice
a square. If they were both squares then the triangle
shown below would be a new solution.
Otherwise, just one of y and z is a square and x = 2ab
is a square or twice a square. Then each of a and b is a
square or twice a square and one of the triangles shown
below would be a new solution.
In all cases, the new solution has a smaller hypotenuse
than the original triangle. Since there cannot be an in-
finite series of decreasing hypotenuses, there can be no
triangle with the required properties.
A positive rational solution of any of the equations
− y
+ 4y
− 4y
would give rise to a right-angled triangle contradict-
ing the Theorem. All of these equations are therefore
insoluble.
It is worth noting that it is not obvious how to use a
supposed solution of x
to find another solu-
tion of the same equation. However, by strengthening
the conjecture as shown above it was possible to carry
out the proof relatively simply. This illustrates an im-
portant feature of Fermat's method of proof; that the
choice of conjecture can be crucial to the success of the
method. Sometimes it can be much easier to prove a
stronger result than the one which is needed.
[1] Sir Thomas L. Heath, Diophantus of Alexandria, Dover,
1964, p. 293.
``` We can repeat this operation which will lead to an infinite series of triangles with decreasing hypotenuses, thus not being possible. ``` I think the proof is not yet making this conclusion at this paragraph yet, it's merely generalizing the case where the sides have a common prime factor under the case where the sides are coprimes. Hence the following sentence: ``` By cancelling down as necessary, we can therefore assume the lengths to be coprime in pairs. ``` If $y=n^2$ and $z=m^2$ it would be possible to construct a triangle with the length of the hypotenuse equal to $\frac{y+z}{2} = \frac{a^2+b^2+a^2-b^2}{2}= a ^2 = \frac{n^2 + m^2}{2} $ and the other sides equal to $\frac{z-y}{2}= \frac{a^2+b^2-a^2+b^2}{2}= b^2 = \frac{m^2 - n^2}{2}$ and $2\frac{m}{\sqrt{2}}\frac{n}{\sqrt{2}} = \sqrt{yz}$. Note that the new sides follow the structure defined by Euclid's formula. Euclid's formula is a fundamental formula for generating Pythagorean triples (three positive integers a, b, and c, such that $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$) given an arbitrary pair of integers $m$ and $n$ with $m > n > 0$. The formula states that the integers $$ a =m^{2}-n^{2} \\ b =2mn \\ c =m^{2}+n^{2} $$ form a Pythagorean triple. The triple generated by Euclid's formula is primitive - one in which $a, b$ and $c$ are coprime - if and only if $m$ and $n$ are coprime and not both odd. Let's assume we have a triangle with sides $A^2$, $B^2$ and hypotenuse C. If 2 of the sides, for instance $A^2$ and $C$, have a common prime factor $p$, then $A^2=K_Ap$ and $C=K_Cp$ where $K_A,K_C$ are just the product of the rest of the prime factors. Using the Pythagorean Theorem $$ (A^2)^2+(B^2)^2=C^2 $$ and so $B^2=\sqrt{C^2-(A^2)^2}=\sqrt{K_C^2-K_A^2}p$ is also divisible by $p$. This way, it's always possible to divide all sides by $p$ getting a smaller triangle with integer lengths. We can repeat this operation which will lead to an infinite series of triangles with decreasing hypotenuses, thus not being possible. - If $y$ is a square then, $z=a^2+b^2=(\sqrt{z})^2$ which is just the Pythagorean theorem for the triangle on the right (Figure 3). - If $z$ is a square then, $y = a^2-b^2 \equiv a^2 = (\sqrt{y})^2+b^2 $ which is just the Pythagorean theorem for the triangle on the left (Figure 3). Note that one of $a$, $b$ has to be odd and the other one even. If $a$ is odd and $b$ is even, then $a^2$ is also odd and $b^2$ is even. Then both $a^2+b^2 = z$ and $a^2-b^2 = y$ are also odd, since odd +/- even = odd. The observation in the concluding paragraph is recognisable to students of mathematics. The method of 'infinite descent' is essentially a proof by induction, relying as it does on the well-foundedness of the natural numbers. Students will be familiar with the need to have a strong enough induction hypothesis to prove what is often a weaker statement. This corresponds to the 'choice of conjecture' of the article. Pierre de Fermat was a French lawyer and mathematician born in 1607 who is given credit for his principle for light propagation and his Last Theorem. In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (FLT) states that no three positive integers $a, b$ and $c$ satisfy the equation $a^n + b^n = c^n$ for any integer value of $n$ greater than 2. Fermat claimed in 1637 in the margin of a copy of Arithmetica that he had a proof for FLT that was too large to fit in the margin. It took however 358 years of effort by some of the most talented mathematicians before Andrew Wiles released the first successful proof in 1994. In the meantime there were several proofs for specific exponents, including the one for $n=4$ which is particularly interesting because it was the only complete proof left by Pierre de Fermat. ![](https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/og-pierre-de-fermat-5067.jpg)


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