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White House slaps 25% tariff on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods
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The China tariffs are back on.
On Tuesday, the White House said the administration would proceed with its proposal to impose 25% tariffs on $50 billion worth of goods from China, and place new limits on Chinese investments in US high-tech industries.
The decision comes after top administration officials have tried to dampen fears of a trade war.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said a trade war with China was "on hold" less than 10 days ago. And Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is expected in Beijing on Saturday to help ease trade tensions between the two major trading partners.
Beijing has previously pledged to retaliate against the 25 percent tariffs.
In a brief statement, the White House said the president plans to take "multiple steps" to protect domestic technology and intellectual property from certain "discriminatory and burdensome trade practices by China."
The latest step follows a March report by the US Trade Representative Office, which undertook a seven-month investigation of China's handling of technology transfers and intellectual property, according to the White House's statement.
"The United States will implement specific investment restrictions and enhanced export controls for Chinese persons and entities related to the acquisition of industrially significant technology, the White House said in a statement.
The final list of covered imports subject to tariffs will be announced by June 15. Those tariffs will take effect "shortly thereafter."
Proposed investment restrictions will be announced by June 30 and also take effect at a later date.
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Q: derivative of a gradient just a very simple question:
I have a continuous and differentiable function $\phi$ defined on $R^3$ with its gradient $\nabla\phi$.
Could you please tell me if it makes sense to take a derivative of this gradient with respect to $\phi$?
So:
$\frac{\partial}{\partial{\phi}} \nabla \phi = ?$
Would it make sense to say $\frac{\partial}{\partial{\phi}} \nabla \phi = \frac{\partial}{\partial{\phi}}(\phi_{x}, \phi_{y},\phi_{z}) = (\phi_{xx}, \phi_{yy},\phi_{zz}) $?
Thanks for your time,
Matt

A: Well from my point of view, you are thinking something but your notation of expression is describing other thing !!!! Like, what does it mean by $\nabla \phi $ ? We know in multi-variable calculus we can not express the derivative of a multi-variable function with just one scaler valued function.we need the help of vector valued function or expression .and here the $\nabla \phi$ comes into action.so derivative of $\phi$ is not a single expression (scalar valued function). So, by the derivative of $\phi$ you are just meaning $\nabla \phi $.
Now coming to your question. here, what does it mean by $\partial \phi $ ?
It is not a appropriate notation here,because here you wanting to say how $\nabla \phi$ changes as I change $\phi$ a little bit.Now,the problem is,this $\phi$ is not a single variable rather a scalar valued function.So you have to work on variable after variable of $\phi$ and component after component of $\nabla \phi$ (As,now it is a vector valued function) you can't express the whole expression as
$$\color{red}{\frac{\partial}{\partial{\phi}} \nabla \phi = \frac{\partial}{\partial{\phi}}(\phi_{x}, \phi_{y},\phi_{z}) = (\phi_{xx}, \phi_{yy},\phi_{zz})}$$
rather.if  $$\nabla \phi=
    \begin{bmatrix}
    \phi_x \\
    \phi_y \\
    \phi_z \\
    \end{bmatrix}
$$
then you should compute $\frac{\partial \phi}{\partial{x}}$ and $\frac{\partial}{\partial{x}}\nabla \phi$ individually.
And finally after dividing them then we may  say something like that you want. But that would yields,
$$\frac{\partial}{\partial{\phi}} \nabla \phi=\frac{1}{\phi_x} \begin{bmatrix}
    \phi_{xx} \\
    \phi_{yx} \\
    \phi_{zx} \\
    \end{bmatrix}\text{(differentiating partially with respect to $x$)}$$
But it is not a completed answer though.you have to follow the procedure in respect of y and z also,to get a compact answer.It will be somehow a rigorous computation.

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One of the changes I did for Fedora 29 adding using ZRAM as swap on ARM. The use of compressed RAM for swap on constrained single board computer devices has performance advantages because the RAM is an order of faster than most of the attached storage and in the case of SD/emmc and related flash storage it also saves on the wear and tear of the flash there extending the life of the storage device.
The use of ZRAM as swap isn't limited to constrained SBCs though, I also use it on my x86 laptop to great effect. It's also very simple to setup.
Oct 09 22:13:24 localhost systemd: Started Enable compressed swap in memory using zram.
When I was researching the use of ZRAM there was a lot of information online. A lot of implementations sliced up the zram into multiple slices to enable the balancing of the slices across CPUs, but this is outdated information as the zram support in recent kernels is now multi threaded so there's no performance advantage to having multiple smaller swap devices any longer, and having a single larger swap space allows the kernel to be more effective in using it.
In Fedora all the pieces of the Fedora implementation are stored in the package source repo. So those that are interested in using zram for other use cases are free to test it. Bugs and RFEs can be reported as issues in pagure or in RHBZ like any other package.
Some time ago I backed the UDOO Neo Kickstarter as it looked like a nifty, well featured, IoT device. I got the full option which came with 1Gb RAM and both wired and wireless Ethernet and some add-on sensors. It was a well run kickstarter campaign and the device was well packaged with a fab box. It has both a Cortex-A9 processor to run Fedora and a Cortex-M4 embedded processor to enable you to do Arduino style functionality which should be interesting to experiment with.
For various reasons it has sat around gathering dust, it's been a bit of a long drawn out process with me randomly poking it as time allowed.. Primarily this was because there was no decent upstream U-Boot and kernel support, and I'd not had the time to hack that up myself from various downstream git repositories, but even without Fedora support their forked Ubuntu distro in the form of UDOObuntu has an experience that is truly terrible!
Late 2016 the problem of a lack of upstream support for U-Boot and kernel changed with initial basic support landing upstream for all three (Basic, Extended and Full) models so with a few cycles over a weekend it was time to dust it off to see if I could get Fedora 26 (did I mention this has been long running?) running on it and to see what worked.
The first thing for me to do was to setup a serial console for easy debugging. The UDOO Neo documentation is generally outstanding and the pins for the UART1 TTL are documented. Two things to note here is that the headers are female rather than the usual SBC male pins so I had to bodge my usual usb to serial TTL with some male-male jumper wires and you'll need a ground for the TTL which is undocumented on their page, I used one of the GNDs as documented on connector J7 and all was good.
So after an initial set of fixes to the U-Boot support it saw my Fedora install and started to boot! Success! Well sort of, as mentioned above the initial support is rudimentary, it started to boot the kernel and very quickly managed to corrupt and destroy the filesystem not making it much beyond switch root. That wasn't good. In the last week or two I've had a little time to look again, similar issues, it was better than it was a year or so ago but it still ended up with corruption. I reached out to one of the maintainers from NXP that deals with a bunch of the i.MX platforms and I got directed to a handful of patches, a test kernel and image later and a test boot… all the way to initial-setup! SUCCESS!
The core support for the i.MX6SX SoC and the UDOO Neo is pretty reasonable, with the MMC fixes it's been very stable, all the core bits are working as expected, included wired and wireless network, thermal, cpufreq, crypto and it looks like the display should work fine. There's a few quirks that I need to investigate further which should provide for a fun evening or weekend hacking. There has also been recently merged support for the i.MX6SX Cortex-M4 land upstream in Zephyr upstream for the 1.13 release, so getting that running and communication using Open-AMP between Fedora and Zephyr should also be an interesting addition. I think this will be a welcome addition to Fedora 29, and not a moment too soon!!
With the IoT Working Group and Edition moving forward I've been looking for an x86_64 device suitable for testing IoT related use cases. I was originally planning on using the MinnowBoard or Joule but given Intel has killed those product lines off it was back to the drawing board. I eventually settled on the UP², in particular I chose the UP² Pentium-4GB-32GB-PACK as it had everything I wanted in one box.
The on paper hardware specs show a recent generation Intel Apollo Lake core, reasonable memory and storage options, an onboard FPGA, USB-3, dual ethernet and various other bits. The kit comes with options for active or passive cooling and the later the heatsink is massive, for the moment I'm running it on the passive cooling. The case is OK, I wouldn't rave about it though. The power connector on the other hand is terrible, the PSU cable doesn't seat well into the board and I've bumped it already and had it lose power, the power button is also tiny, so small in fact I mistook it for a reset button.
As you would expect the support in Fedora 27 is decent, accelerated 4K graphics, wired RealTek ethernet NICs, Intel m.2 PCI-e WiFI/Bluetooth, although the later is only 4.2 for IoT I would have appreciated Bluetooth 5, all work out of the box as expected. The firmware is uEFI and in theory supports secure-boot but I couldn't work out how to turn it on in the firmware menus as it was greyed out, it also has a TPM2 module I've not had time to investigate. They eagle eyed would also note that I mention Fedora 27 even though Fedora 28 has been out a few days. Well for some reason F-28 doesn't boot, I tried the network installer and the Workstation live image, they both get to the grub menu, then I get no output and nothing for a moment then it resets and we start again. I need to investigate this further but Fedora 27 Workstation livecd booted and installed fine so that's what it's got for the moment. Ultimately this is going to a host to test Fedora IoT so while I tested the general support this is fine.
Reasonably priced with a reasonable feature set.
Multiple network interfaces, reasonable WiFi and Bluetooth support.
Industrial IO sensors via an onboard Intel Sensor Hub. lsiio is reporting 9 sensors of various types. I've not checked this further yet.
USB-3, a Raspberry Pi HAT compatible connector and other options to add IoT related functionality or interfaces.
Support for ARM 64 bit (aarch64) Single Board Computers (SBCs) has been one of the most highly requested features along side the Raspberry Pi. It's something I've been working towards almost as long too. Finally with Fedora 27 I felt we would have enough of the bits in place for a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
You'll note from the Fedora change linked above I was very cautious with what we planned to achieve. The change has a very focused list of images: Server, Workstation and Minimal and a limited list of devices: basically the Raspberry Pi 3, the 96boards Dragonboard 410c and HiKey, and a handful of AllWinner devices with a focus on the Pine64 series of boards. The reason for this was I knew there was going to be a lot of low level boot and kernel bits that needed focus and polish and the Fedora 27 cycle was severely limited time and resource wise so the plan was to focus on getting all the core bits into place for Fedora 27 and have a couple of well polished devices and then expand that rapidly for Fedora 28.
The key functionality we were aiming for was a well polished uEFI implementation in u-boot to enable a single install/boot path in Fedora on aarch64 using uEFI/shim/grub2 to boot Fedora on both SBCs and SBSA compliant aarch64 platforms. We now have that platform in place, primarily due to Herculean efforts of Rob Clark and Peter Jones, as well as many others who have provided insight into the deep dark details of the uEFI specification. Fedora 27 will ship with a quite heavily patched, well by Fedora's standards anyway, u-boot 2017.09 which provides us the core of this functionality enabling us to use a vanilla upstream shim and grub2 to boot a standard Fedora. All this work is already upstream, or making it's way there in 2017.11. In Fedora 28 there will be even more improvements that will enable us to do a bunch of other cool stuff (that'll be a post for later!) and also enable much quicker upstream board enablement now all the core bits are in place.
The support for the Raspberry Pi3 is the equivalent to the ARMv7 support but with boot via uEFI/grub2. The memory isn't quite as good as on 32-bit but that's to be expected, overall it's pretty reasonable for a device of the specs and cost. Like on 32 bit support we're seeing regular improvements each release and throughout the releases. The aarch64 support for the RPi3 is just an evolution to this.
The support for the DragonBoard 410c is looking pretty decent. Qualcomm has been doing a pretty decent effort to get stuff upstream, we have firmwares for the GPU and for video decode/encode upstream as well, along with kernel drivers and the open freedreno 3D drivers, HDMI audio should work as well. The WiFi firmware isn't yet upstream but I'll document how/where to get that and hopefully that should be in linux-firmware soon as well. Overall I'm quite happy with the status of this device, although like all devices with 1Gb RAM it's a little constrained, but that should make the newly announced 820c with 3Gb of RAM a decent device ;-). All the details for getting it running will soon be in the Fedora 96boards wiki page.
Most features and functionality of the HiKey are supported, note this isn't the HiKey960 (look to F-28 for support for that), except accelerated graphics due to the use of a MALI GPU. Other than that the functionality is pretty decent. You'll likely want the latest tianocore firmware and the details for that can be found on the Fedora 96boards wiki page.
I've had reports that other aarch64 SBCs boot on Fedora just fine. I've not listed those where I can't verify whether they boot with our uEFI enabled u-boot. Looking around on my desk I do have a number of devices that I expect us to be supporting in Fedora 28, or maybe even just enabling u-boot bits in a F-27 update.
Overall I'm pretty happy with the state of Aarch64 SBCs for Fedora 27 and what we've managed to achieve is such a short cycle!
I'm not going to do a day by day outline of what I did at flock, if I did it would basically be "blah blah blah I talked a lot to a lot of people about a lot of tech topics" and anyone that's ever met me would have guessed that! It was, as in the past, a great conference. A big shout out to the organisers for an excellent event with two excellent evening events! So I'm going to give a brief summary to my talks and link to slides and video recordings.
My second talk was about using Fedora as a base for IoT. Slides are here but the talk was quite a bit different to the slides and is more interesting so I suggest watching the video.
Finally I loved the Keynote Be an inspiration, not an impostor by Major Hayden. He's published a follow up blog post with a FAQ too.
The least memorable bit was the terrible Amtrak ride back to New York City. On the plus side it makes the worst of the British National Rail service seem amazingly on time! NEVER AGAIN!
So with Fedora 22 well and truly out for both ARMv7 and aarch64 lets have a look at the release in general and also at the 4.0 kernel it ships.
Firstly I'd like to shout out to the AMAZING job done by the web team on the new sites for Spins, ARM and Labs. They really do look awesome!
It's all to easy to get bogged down in the actual technical components that make up the actual release and not forget that there's work that goes on all over the place that contributes to making the release easy to use even before you begin the download.
Anyway! On to ARMv7. We shipped GA with the 4.0.4 kernel and u-boot 2015.01. This combination gives us improved support for numerous devices primarily through new DT support and improvements to drivers. The 4.0 kernel from an ARM HW support PoV really was a minor revision. With the fully packaged and updated fedora-arm-installer it's even easier to get a device up and running.
We were hoping to get enough time to rebase this to 2015.04 but we just plain ran out of time, although we do have a plan to be able to update the u-boot when writing an image to card/stick without the need to regenerate the images. More details on the improvements we're planning for fedora-arm-installer for another post!
From an aarch64 point of view the big change, although one an average user won't notice, was we went from carrying a rather large (around 65K lines) enablement patch for the kernel to a small collection of 4 bug/problem specific patches! This is a massive change where in the F-21 cycle we had a gigantic architecture enablement patch! This makes it much more straight forward and less stressful for both myself as the architecture maintainer and the core Fedora kernel developers. In terms of the rest of aarch64 we still support VExpress, APM Storm platform primarily with the Mustang boards, and the AMD Seattle platform.
Overall the Fedora 22 release on the ARM platforms is a really nice release, there's been some good changes there to enable easier and quicker updates in the future and easier means of adding decent support to new devices mid cycle. AArch64 is maturing and hopefully we'll start to see some more platforms land and the architecture start to depart the niche status!


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I've been learning about 'The Red Bag Scheme'. Sensible folk have been putting their heads together, working with enthusiasm within our care system. 'The Red Bag Scheme' has been developed in partnership with Epsom and St Helier Hospital Trust, Sutton and Merton Community Services, London Ambulance Service and staff from Sutton care homes. Across these disciplines, they have met regularly and agreed on a proven protocol that will ease essential communication at the interface of the NHS and Social Care.
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From time to time, unfortunately, anyone can require the additional acute care, diagnostics and medical interventions provided by the NHS. Should your home be a care home, by definition, it is likely you may need additional assistance in preparing for travel to an acute healthcare setting in order to receive specialist support.
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Norwalk woman charged with DUI
By Humberto J Rocha
Published 12:34 pm EDT, Thursday, April 25, 2019
FAIRFIELD — Ornella Mattera, a 53-year-old Norwalk resident, was operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and and failed to stay in her lane, police said.
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EU must immediately restore funding to Palestinian Authority - Bairbre de Brún
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has this morning urged the European Union 'not to ignore the plight of the Palestinian people'. Ms de Brún made her calls before the Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas was due to address assembled MEPs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Speaking from Strasbourg Ms de Brún said:
"I want to welcome President Abbas to the European Parliament today. Of course, this first address was due to take place in March of this year but had to be cancelled at the last minute when Israeli forces attacked and demolished Jericho Jail. Many believe this was timed to prevent President Abbas from addressing the European parliament in solemn session.
"Today the President will have an opportunity to address MEPs and outline the worsening situation in the country. At present the Palestinian Authority is facing a severe humanitarian crisis. Following the Hamas election victory at the beginning of the year, both the European Union and the United States have frozen aid payments to the authority.
"Even though the Hamas victory was achieved in a free and fair election, of which I was an international observer, the people of Palestine are being punished because of those they chose to elect. The freezing of EU funding is affecting people on the ground most with reports emanating from Palestine suggesting food and medicine shortages. Public sector workers are also going without pay which is starving whole neighbourhoods of revenue.
"I want to call on both the European Commission and Council to reverse their decision on funding the Palestinian Authority. Ordinary people are suffering because of a political decision made in the corridors of Brussels." ENDS


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Season 1 History Episode Dublin
Da: Frederick Nutty: 1897 — 1973 in his WWI Royal Flying Corps uniform
My 9 year old mind sensed something amiss when a bright blue boat turned and took a direct line to us. Maybe it was because the three men in the boat had no fishing rods on a lake where that was the only meaningful thing to do and normally such men would be trolling for the big lumpers of trout which inhabited the deeper sections of the lake. On that bright beautiful day in August 1973, a colleague of my Dad, who had introduced him to the superlative trout fishing in Loch Mask, had tracked us down to tell us that "Da", Frederick Nutty, my grandfather had passed away.
II have no recollection of my Dad's reaction to the news. There was no slumping of shoulders nor apparent sorrow emanating from him as we fired up the outboard motor to return to our Cushlough Bay campsite.
Cuslough Bay on Loch Mask: A modern day view courtesy of Google Maps
I don't remember if there was any regret in our talk as we dismantled the tent, packed up our gear and loaded the Austin's roof rack and trunk. Nor, as we made the 180 mile trip back to Malahide, do I remember any nostalgia, or sense of grief. All of this was entirely normal in my family. My Da had been old and fading the prior few years, so while it was sad, it was not a surprise. I had no doubt that some of the older folks at the funeral would soon be nodding knowingly as they murmured about a "merciful release". Fortunately, my Dad was not given to these kind of unctuous platitudes. He had a full throttled lust for life and such talk would have been ludicrous to him whether his own father was involved or not.
The truth was, that all I'd ever known was an unspoken distance between my Dad and Da. By the time I became aware of Da, he was already slipping away into some version of dementia. There was whispered talk of "hardening of the arteries". I remember him, with his head of thick iron brillo pad hair, sitting quietly in a corner chair; his mouth slightly agape as the conversation, dominated by my Nana, swirled by his unregistering face.
My Dad: Fred Nutty: 1925–2012. Taken around the time of Da's death
Now over 46 years later I wonder at this distance. I remember my mother giving my Dad the occasional bollicking for failing to visit his parents in Dun Laoghaire where they lived in a granny flat at my Uncle Bob's place. One time, she had told him that he didn't know how lucky he was to still have a mother and father, she had lost her mother nine days after she was born and had virtually lost contact with her father when she was turned over to be raised by her maternal grandparents.
While my Mom yearned for her unknown mother, my Dad sought to avoid his. My Nana, Emily Behan, was a formidable, short, square-figured matriarch who filled up the room with tales of her IRA rebel family's life. Like her stalwart brothers, who had fought to free Ireland from the English yoke, she was forceful in her opinions and would leverage some of the same guerrilla tactics, if necessary, to maintain her unchallenged rule of the home. By all accounts, gentle quiet Da was no match for her. Nana, instinctively understood that control of the purse strings was fundamental to dominance. At the end of every week, all earners in Nutty household surrendered their wage packet to her and she distributed and disposed of it as she saw fit.
My Nana: Emily Behan: 1896–1979
Knowing my Dad, I imagine he found this level of control to be intolerable. I expect when he reached early adulthood and the opportunity presented, he fled, never to return and live under tyranny. However his wariness of, and fealty to, matrilineal autocracy never left him and once, late in Nana's life, when she was enfeebled by age, my father made light of her devotion to the Third Order of St Francis. In a nano second she sloughed off 50 years and turned on him; sharply commanding him to repeat what he'd said while signaling the countenance of no such repetition. Shockingly, my dominant Dad, backed down, cowed, a momentary child under the onslaught of an angry parent. Attempting to save face later, he dryly remarked how "the old bird's hearing was better than he expected".
Da and Nana's burial plot at Deansgrange
I did not get to go to Da's funeral, which was a disappointment. I'm not sure what rational was behind that decision or even if I was a consideration. From my perspective, it was a missed opportunity to observe distant quasi-legendary relatives in one of the their native habitats: the big Irish Funeral. There would have been sandwiches and red lemonade after the body was in the ground, at this point in my life I had only truly mercenary interests. And there would have been the opportunity to visit with cousins, rarely sighted, due to my father's extended family wariness. All this I missed, but shortly after the funeral, my father packed us up again and back we went to Loch Mask to resume our fishing trip. The funeral, however, seemed to hover over us, unspoken, seemingly scolding and suppressing any joy that might have been had on the beautiful watery limestone wilderness that was Loch Mask.
Nobody who knew Da, before his decline, had an unkind word to say, which makes my Dad's seeming ambivalence at his death more perplexing. Could it have been simply that my Dad lost respect for a father dominated by his wife? Such a state of affairs would not have been that rare, but in patriarchal Ireland it would have been considered shameful in the smoke fugged male pub bastions. I will never know the precise truth, but now all these years later I feel an obligation to the memory of Da, his family and those who came before, to retell their history in an imperfect way so that those that follow may know something of their struggles and without which, I would not exist.


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Matchroom Launch Global Nineball Ranking System For Pool
Matchroom is thrilled to announce the inauguration of the Nineball World Rankings
. The rankings will become the cornerstone of the game globally to recognise Nineball as the primary discipline of pool, sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association. The establishment of the Nineball World Rankings propels Matchroom's further commitment to the growth of pool globally.
The Matchroom Nineball World Rankings will promote clear, fair, and concise rules to develop the professional aspect of the sport across the world and will:
• Promote pool as a major professional sport
• Create a clear structure throughout the game
• Form qualification for all Matchroom promoted events
• Feature Nineball events outside of Matchroom events, including established and professional event organisers of Diamond Billiards, Pat Fleming, the EuroTour, and more
• Be open to all ambitious players worldwide whilst establishing a fair platform for women in the sport
• Produce fair seeding from rankings throughout all scheduled events
Matchroom's recent expansion into Open fielded Nineball events is with the aim to increase participation numbers on the professional side of the sport and across the world, with further additions to the roster: US Open, UK Open, and the European Open. Field sizes of 256 players, guaranteed prize money, and now a seeding structure, as well as ranking points earnt, strengthens Matchroom's commitment to the sport of Pool.
Matchroom President Barry Hearn said: "We are going to make Pool a major global sport and together we're going to show what can be achieved and what dreams can be created for the players all around the world already playing this wonderful game."
"For the first time, you have a major global company looking after players and making sure the opportunities are second to none. Get involved either as player or fan. We need everyone to pull in the same direction and under Matchroom's leadership Nineball Pool will shock the world over the next few years."
"The game needs to make that quantum leap into the big time and Matchroom are ready to take it there in 2022. This is going to be electric."
From January 2022, the Matchroom Nineball World Rankings will:
• Feature the primary rankings list of an initial Top 32 ranked players with a top-up of a further 8 players, this list will be used throughout the 2022 events for qualification and seeding to the Matchroom Nineball schedule of events
• Feature the secondary rankings list of live actual ranking points of prize money earnt that will come into effect December 2022 as well as contribute towards the Mosconi Cup 2022 team qualification
• Feature 8 Matchroom promoted events
• Have a Rankings Committee who together initiated the official Top 32 of players and will continue to monitor the status of the primary rankings throughout 2022 to ensure they fairly reflect performance
Matchroom Multi Sport Managing Director Emily Frazer explained: "Finally players have a clear and transparent entry system to the biggest staged events in the world. With the support of the WPA, the Nineball world rankings is the perfect opportunity to bring together the whole pool community. It is time we create structure and organisation in this sport."
"This announcement of structure is exactly what the sport of pool has needed to push forwards and commercialise. Now there will be a clear structure on our website, that will be detailing our schedule of events, how you qualify, how you earn ranking points, and when the cut-off is. Tournament seedings is a key part of the Nineball world Rankings; an advantage and benefit to the players tis to be ranked in events on order of merit."
"In the last couple of years, we have gone from three events to eight in 2022. It was vital and integral to the sport of pool for us to bring the pool community together and to work with other event organisers as part of our Nineball World Rankings. Thanks to the likes of Diamond Billiards for the Derby City Classic. Pat Fleming for the International Open. EPBF President Gre Leenders for the EuroTour to create a bigger ranking system for our players."
"In 2022, we are bringing you a total of $1.7million of prize money. What a journey we are on and what a journey we are starting. This announcement of the Nineball World Rankings is exactly what pool has needed to turn this into a global recognised sport. This is the motivation that every single person that loves this game just as much as we do to pick up a cue and start playing. This is time for everyone in the community to come together and professionalise this sport."
From December 2022, the Matchroom Nineball World Rankings will:
• Be formed on prize money won at events with ranking status set out as part of the Matchroom Nineball Schedule
• Be based on a 2-year rolling period to ensure a fair sample size
• Be displayed on the Matchroom Pool website throughout 2022 and see how it will impact the 2022 Mosconi Cup
Ranking status will be awarded by prize money and therefore events will be categorised into the below tiers, this will establish a clear Tour for the players to participate in:
Event Status (subject to change and review on a yearly basis)
• Blue Ribbon > $300,000 +
• Major Events > $150,000 - $299,999
• Ranking Events > Up to $149,999
The Matchroom Nineball World Rankings are open to any tournament recognised by Matchroom and given the approval of Matchroom and sanction of the WPA. To be a part of the rankings, tournament organisers must follow the overall standards set out by the Matchroom Nineball World Rankings to raise the profile of the sport. Whilst this will be flexible for 2022, the aim will be to standardise the professional rules of the game of Nineball producing fairness for players throughout all organised events as well as generating an easy understanding of the game: increasing awareness across the globe.
The 2022 Matchroom Nineball schedule will begin with the Diamond City Classic 9-Ball on January 26 promoted by Diamond Billiards before Matchroom's first-ever Premier League Pool at the Morningside Arena, Leicester in England from Sunday, February 13 to Sunday, February 20.
Read more on Premier League Pool replacing Championship League Pool and how it works here.
The full 2022 Matchroom Nineball Schedule can be found in full here.
Current World and International Open Champion Albin Ouschan is the first Nineball World No.1. To see the first Matchroom Nineball World Ranking Top 32 as sanctioned by the WPA head here.


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