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\section{Introduction}

Quantum correlations  are nonlocal in that they  can violate Bell-type
inequalities \cite{bell,chsh} that  classical correlations cannot, but
are themselves bounded by the Tsirelson bound \cite{cir}. It was shown
in Ref.   \cite{prb} that there exist  super-quantum correlations that
can  exceed  this  bound,  violating  Bell-type  inequalities  to  the
algebracally   maximally  allowed   degree,   while  still   remaining
non-signaling. This meant  that nonlocality and relativistic causality
were insufficient as axioms  to derive quantum mechanics, and provoked
the   natural  question   of  why   such   super-quantum  correlations
(Popescu-Rohrlich (PR) boxes and ``nonlocal boxes'') were not observed
in  Nature. This  has  spurred a  great  deal of  research devoted  to
elucidating   the  nature   of  non-signaling   nonlocal  correlations
\cite{bar,piro,gis,rel,qua,gar,resource}     in     general,     their
applications  to cryptography  \cite{gis}, to  simulating correlations
\cite{anne},  and  an  examination  of  possible  or  actual  physical
principles that may preclude the  occurance of nonlocal boxes, such as
the non-triviality of communication complexity \cite{van}, information
causality \cite{inf}, or bounds  implied by the Heisenberg uncertainty
\cite{weh}.  Ref.  \cite{indra}  shows  that  PR  boxes  can  lead  to
superluminal  signaling when one  of the  input bits  has access  to a
closed time curve (CTC).

A PR-box is described by the action
\begin{equation}
P(a,b|A,B) = \left\{
\begin{array}{l l}
  \frac{1}{2} & \quad \mbox{if $ a \oplus b =A \cdot  B$ }\\
  0 & \quad \mbox{otherwise}\\ \end{array} \right.
\label{eq:nlb}
\end{equation}
where $A$ and  $B$ are the respective (binary)  inputs of two players,
Alice and  Bob, and $a$ and  $b$ their respective  outputs. By design,
the  box (\ref{eq:nlb}),  or any  other equivalent  obtained  by local
relabelling, satisfies the no-signaling condition
\begin{equation}
\sum_b P(a,b|A,B=0) = \sum_b P(a,b|A,B=1) \equiv P(a|A).
\label{eq:nosig}
\end{equation}

In order to  be able to answer the question raised  above, it would be
useful  to set  quantum theory  within the  framework of  more general
probability  theories,  a problem  considered  by several  researchers
recently  \cite{bar,gis,rel,weh}. In  Ref.  \cite{qua},  it  was shown
that  assuming that quantum  mechanics holds  good locally  -- meaning
that  probabilities for  any  local measurement  from reduced  density
operators are obtained in the standard non-contextual way --, and that
the  no-signaling  principle  is   true,  then  the  correlations  are
necessarily  quantum mechanical.  This  entails that  if super-quantum
correlations  exist,  then  either  local quantum  mechanics  will  be
invalidated   or  the   no-signaling  principle   will   be  violated.
Therefore, if  quantum mechanics is valid  locally, then super-quantum
correlations necessarily leads  to superluminal signaling.  We present
a   specific   instance   of   this   situation   in   the   following
Section.   Assuming   local   validity   of  quantum   mechanics   and
no-signaling,  this  provides another  perspective  into why  nonlocal
boxes are not found in Nature.

\section{Superpositional inputs of local quantum mechanics}

Traditionally,  the  inputs  $A$  and  $B$  to  the  PR-box  represent
measurement choices,  but here  it will be  helpful to regard  them as
abstract  (binary)   variables  \cite{piro}.   In   that  spirit,  and
considering  that  an experiment  here  is  performed  in a  (quantum)
physical world, if  Alice inputs 0 and Bob inputs  1, then their joint
input can surely be represented as the state vector $|01\rangle \equiv
|0\rangle|1\rangle  \equiv  |\Phi_0\rangle$   living  in  an  abstract
Hilbert space ${\cal H}_A \otimes {\cal H}_B$, and represented here in
the computational  basis. That is, the  inputs can be  considered as a
two-qubit state rather than  two qubit-measurements.  The nonlocal box
(\ref{eq:nlb}) acting on $|\Phi_0\rangle$ yields
\begin{equation}
|\Psi_0) = \frac{1}{2}(|00\rangle \odot |11\rangle),
\label{eq:psi0}
\end{equation}
where $\odot$ represents an incoherent sum, and Eq. (\ref{eq:psi0}) is
a vector-like representation for the resulting density operator.

If  Alice rotates  her input  state  even slightly  using the  unitary
$\left(  \begin{array}{cc} \cos\theta  & \sin\theta  \\  -\sin\theta &
  \cos\theta \end{array}\right)$, then the joint input to the nonlocal
box is the  superposition $|\Phi_1\rangle \equiv \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(\cos|0\rangle +
\sin|1\rangle)|1\rangle$.   We  consider a  PR-box  that accepts  such
superposition (to whatever small degree) states as input data and acts
linearly on them.

The  application  of Eq.   (\ref{eq:nlb})  to vector  $|\Phi_1\rangle$
input to such a PR-box produces the mixture
\begin{equation}
  |\Psi_1) \equiv \frac{1}{2}\left(\cos\theta(|00\rangle  \odot |11\rangle)
   +
  \sin\theta(|01\rangle \odot |10\rangle)\right).
\label{eq:strang}
\end{equation}
It may  be noted that $|\Psi_1)$ is  a coherent \textit{superposition}
of a  \textit{classical} mixture.  Although  perhaps somewhat unusual,
such superpositions occur in standard quantum mechanics.  For example,
consider  an atom with  both its  ground state  and the  first excited
state having two-fold degeneracy.  A  basis for the ground subspace is
denoted by $\{|g,0\rangle, |g,1\rangle\}$,  and similarly that for the
excited  subspace  by  $\{|e,0\rangle, |e,1\rangle\}$.   Two  unbiased
random classical  bits, $G$  and $E$, are  generated and input  into a
state   preparation  apparatus,   which   outputs  the   superposition
$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(|g,G\rangle + |e,E\rangle)$.  The output state may equivalently
be  written  as  $\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left(\frac{1}{2}(|g,0\rangle  \odot  |g,1\rangle)  +
\frac{1}{2}(|e,0\rangle    \odot    |e,1\rangle)\right)$,    similarly    to
Eq. (\ref{eq:strang}).

The superposition operator `+' can be interpreted as a logical AND and
operator `$\odot$' as logical OR, allowing us to distribute the latter
through the former, and thus re-write Eq. (\ref{eq:strang}) as
\begin{eqnarray}
|\Psi_1)    &=&    \frac{1}{4}    \left(    (\cos\theta|00\rangle    +
\sin\theta|01\rangle)        \odot       (\cos\theta|00\rangle       +
\sin\theta|10\rangle)        \odot       (\cos\theta|11\rangle       +
\sin\theta|01\rangle)        \odot       (\cos\theta|11\rangle       +
\sin\theta|10\rangle)       \right)       \nonumber       \\       &=&
\frac{1}{4}\left(|0\rangle  |\phi_0  \rangle  \odot |\phi_0\rangle  |0
\rangle    \odot   |\phi_1\rangle    |1   \rangle    \odot   |1\rangle
|\phi_1\rangle\right)
\end{eqnarray}
The    second   register    is   in    the   state    $\rho_1   \equiv
\frac{1}{2}\left(    \begin{array}{cc}   1    &   \cos\theta\sin\theta
  \\ \cos\theta\sin\theta & 1 \end{array}\right)$.  On the other hand,
this register  in Eq. (\ref{eq:psi0})  is in the state  $\rho_0 \equiv
\frac{1}{2}\left(    \begin{array}{cc}    1     &    0    \\    0    &
  1  \end{array}\right)$.   Thus  by   choosing  her  input  to  be  a
non-application  or  application   of  the  superposition,  Alice  can
transmit a probabilistic superluminal bit to Bob. By sufficiently many
repetitions,  the  transmission probability  can  be made  arbitrarily
close to 1, even for arbitrarily small superposition ($\theta \ll 1$).

\section{Poverty of the dynamics of the nonlocal box world}

Our result  can also  be interpreted in  another way.  Although  it is
known  that  the  set  of  allowed  dynamical  transformation  in  the
box-world theories,  and more  generally, GNST \cite{bar},  is trivial
\cite{gross} (convex  combinations of  outcome relabelling), it  is an
interesting  question in  what way  a given  disallowed transformation
leads  to invalid  states.   For  example, it  could  lead to  invalid
results by virtue of  negative probabilities or loss of normalization.
Our result shows that  even slight superpositions lead to superluminal
signaling, though  they remain positive  and normalization preserving.
This more  general than trivial  dynamics is thus  inconsistent within
the no-signaling framework.   While this signaling property presumably
makes it physically  unviable, it may nevertheless be  relevant to the
question of deriving  quantum mechanics from computational assumptions
\cite{sri}.

\section{Conclusions and Discussions}

We provide a  concrete instance of local quantum  mechanics taken with
superquantum  correlations leading to  superluminal signaling.   It is
worth  noting that  the two  assumptions that  rule  out super-quantum
correlations, namely  that of local validity of  quantum mechanics and
of no-signaling, are themselves  closely related in quantum mechanics.
In   Ref.     \cite{himanshu},   it   was    shown   that   Gleasonian
non-contextuality, a  facet of local quantum  mechanics, together with
the assumption of tensor product structure, implies no-signaling. This
provides yet another insight into  why nonlocal boxes are not found in
Nature.

\acknowledgments

SA  acknowledges  support  through   the  INSPIRE  fellowship  by  the
Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

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Home / Features / Tottenham: What has happened to Dele Alli and Harry Kane?
Dele Alli has scored or assisted a goal in the Champions League and Premier League every 151 minutes this season.
Last season in those two competitions, the number was at 138. A minor difference, I hear you scream, but a difference nonetheless.
Harry Kane has scored just twice in his last four Premier League matches, netting a brace against Stoke.
Spurs are not having a disastrous campaign, neither are Alli and Kane, yet the three point gap to fourth-placed Liverpool is a point of concern.
Last season, Kane was injured for a period and Alli stepped up, scoring regularly.
As a thin Spurs squad has been stretched in the hectic December, fatigue has seen Kane and Alli hit poorly-timed dips. Kane's, in part, could be down to a knock he picked up a few weeks ago, Alli's likely due to a relentless schedule in the past 18 months.
Alli has not scored since Spurs' historic victory over Real Madrid on November 1st. That's hardly a woeful run for a midfielder, is it?
Well, for Alli, it is. His game has been based around goal-scoring since he broke through at Spurs.
His role has had to alter at times during that run, often filling in slightly deeper. His all-round game, though, has been short of the standards we have come to expect. Misplacing passes and too frequently quiet, in a relative barren spell for Kane, his trusty sidekick has been nowhere to be seen.
Of course, some of this comes down to greater Spurs dysfunctions.
The success of Tottenham has been built on Toby Alderweireld and Jan Vertonghen. The absence of Alderweireld has left the defence unsettled, and far from the impenetrable unit of last season.
The midfield has been struck by injuries, meaning Christian Eriksen and Alli have had to adapt. And, of most relevance to Kane, Fernando Llorente is yet to have a telling impact, which has forced Mauricio Pochettino into leaning heavily on his golden boot winner.
To label it all under the blanket of fatigue is easy.
Systematic issues at Spurs have begun with their wing-back troubles, which has allowed teams to crowd them centrally. Alli has suffered from this, having less space to attack, while Eriksen carries such a creative burden.
Without Kyle Walker and Danny Rose exploding down the flanks, stopping Eriksen quickly leaves Spurs scratching their heads in the final third.
Chances for Kane are then of lower quality. The England international has been just short of his lethal self, but dips in form of that sort are expected, as Alvaro Morata and Romelu Lukaku have shown.
Spurs are still in an okay position to finish in the top four. Their season is not the disaster we might have thought if we were told in August that they would be behind Burnley in December.
Alli and Kane will be back to their best, but their workload for consecutive seasons must be a worry for Gareth Southgate as much as their form is for Pochettino at the moment.


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For this week's archive feature, here's part of our Prince cover story from August 2018 – this time digging deep into his posthumous album, Piano & A Microphone 1983.
Announced on what would have been Prince's sixtieth birthday, Piano & A Microphone 1983 is a unique, intimate portrait of an artist in full flood. Taped in January 1983 at his Kiowa Trail home studio, it's a remarkable 35-minute window into Prince's creative process, featuring nine songs performed alone at his Yamaha acoustic piano: some classics, some covers, some in the throes of being written, some unheard until now.
"Can you turn the lights down a little?" he asks engineer Don Batts at the start, before launching into an astonishing seven-song medley, recorded in a single take. On "17 Days", he pumps out the beat on his piano pedal, before transitioning into a verse and a chorus of an embryonic "Purple Rain" and a beautiful version of Joni Mitchell's "A Case Of You".
There's a full-blooded gospel take on "Mary Don't You Weep", a nineteenth-century spiritual which occasionally popped up in his live set, and an early attempt at "Strange Relationship" in which he struggles to negotiate the transition between verse and chorus. The song finally found a home on Sign O' The Times. After a raw "International Lover" comes "Wednesday". Written for protégé Jill Jones and briefly in the running for Purple Rain, it's sung by Prince in an unfamiliar style, unadorned and oddly innocent. The album ends with two unreleased tracks, the funky "Cold Coffee And Cocaine" and "Why The Butterflies".
Discovered while tapes were being moved from Paisley Park, Piano & Microphone 1983 is the first in what promises to be a tantalising series of releases from Prince's infamous Vault. This is where the legacy industry is heading, transitioning from deluxe expanded editions of classic albums, fleshed out with demos, alternate takes and live cuts, towards entire 'lost' works conceived as discrete entities. Recent examples include David Bowie's The Gouster, an early sketch for Young Americans, and Neil Young's 1976 album Hitchhiker.
The post-Revolution era was perhaps even more productive. Among other conceptually unified projects that could potentially see the light of day are the New Year's Eve 1987/88 session with Miles Davis, and the albums laid aside in favour of Sign O' The Times: Crystal Ball, Dream Factory and Camille. There's also a stack of material recorded with the New Power Generation and 3RDEYEGIRL. Prince was dazzlingly productive while he was alive. In death, he's destined to be even more so.


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Good News and Bad News for a Defendant Sentenced under a Rule 11(c)(1)(C) Plea Agreement Who Subsequently Moved for a Sentence Reduction under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2)
In United States v. Jamahl Leonard, No. 15-2232-cr (Dec. 14, 2016) (Circuit Judges: Raggi, Chin, Droney), the Circuit, in a published opinion, vacates a district court's ruling that the defendant is ineligible for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) and remands for further proceedings. But it also holds that the defendant cannot receive a sentence reduction to the extent he was seeking.
At the initial sentencing, the district court determined that the Guidelines range was 121 to 151 months. But the court sentenced Leonard under a plea agreement pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P.11(c)(1)(C) using an agreed-upon range of 97 to 121 months. Under Rule 11(c)(1)(C), the parties agree to a particular sentencing range (Fed.R.Crim.P.11(c)(1)(C)), but if the sentencing court rejects the agreement, it must "give the defendant an opportunity to withdraw the plea." Fed.R.Crim.P.11(c)(5)(B). Applying the range of the 11(c)(1)(C) agreement, the district court imposed a sentence of 114 months — which is in the middle of the 97-to-121 month range.
The Sentencing Commission later made a retroactive amendment to the Guidelines to lower the offense levels for drug offenses (like Mr. Leonard's) by two levels. Thus, the initial 121-to-151-month Guidelines range would yield an amended range of 97 to 121 months — the range in the 11(c)(1)(C) agreement. But if the amended Guidelines were applied to the drug quantity calculations in the 11(c)(1)(C) agreement, that range would be lowered to 78 to 97 months.
The district court found that Leonard was ineligible for § 3582(c)(2) relief because the amended Guidelines range (of 97 to 121 months) is not lower than the range of the 11(c)(1)(C) agreement, which the court used in sentencing him to 114 months.
The Circuit reversed the district court and held that Leonard is eligible for § 3582(c)(2) relief. But he was limited to the range resulting from applying the amended Guidelines to the range calculated by the court (of 121 to 151 months), which yielded a range of 97 to 121 months. So "Leonard is at least eligible for a reduction in his 114-month Guidelines-based sentence, but not to any term lower than 97 months[.]" Op. at 39.
The defendant's eligibility for a § 3582(c)(2) reduction. To be "eligible" for a sentence reduction, Leonard had to show two things. First, he had to show that he was sentenced to a prison term "based on the Sentencing Guidelines." Op. at 11 (emphasis added); 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) (the defendant must have been sentenced to a term of imprisonment "based on" a sentencing range that was "subsequently lowered by the Sentencing Commission").
Second, he had to show that a retroactive amendment to the Guidelines "lowered" the Guidelines range "applicable to [him] at the original sentencing." Op. at 11 (emphasis added); U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10(a)(2)(B) (defendant is not eligible for § 3582(c)(2) relief if an amendment "does not have the effect of lowering the defendant's applicable guideline range"). The government argued that Leonard's sentence was not "based on" the Sentencing Guidelines, but on the 11(c)(1)(C) agreement and this made him ineligible under § 3582(c)(2). The Circuit rejected this argument.In deciding whether Leonard's sentence was "based on" the Sentencing Guidelines, the Circuit discussed the plurality opinion in Freeman v. United States, 564 U.S. 522 (2011)(plurality opinion) (construing § 3582(c)(2) in context of an 11(c)(1)(C) plea agreement). And it discussed approaches to analyzing fragmented Supreme Court decisions to discern the majority holding. Op at 12-24. But the Circuit did not decide "which of Freeman's rationales for decision is narrower, or which is more persuasive, because we conclude that Leonard's 114-month sentence is properly recognized as 'based on' the Sentencing Guidelines under the reasoning of either the plurality or the concurrence." Op. at 17. It concluded that, because the Sentencing Guidelines were used both in the court's calculation of the Sentencing Guidelines (of 121 to 151) and in the parties' calculations of the ranges in the 11(c)(1)(C) agreement (of 97 to 121 months) and both calculations would now be lower under the amended Guidelines, Leonard's 114-month sentence necessarily was "based on" the Sentencing Guidelines. The Circuit also held that the Guidelines range that was "applicable" at the initial sentencing was the 121-to-151-month range calculated by the court, which the retroactive amendments lowered (to 97 to 121 months). "The applicable range having been lowered to 97 to 121 months, the district court — in its discretion — could reduce Leonard's sentence to anywhere from 97 to 113 months. Thus, Leonard is at least eligible for a sentence reduction to that extent." Op. at 25.
The extent of the sentence reduction under § 3582(c)(2) is based on the "applicable" range "as calculated by the district court … before it accepted an 11(c)(1)(C) agreement." Leonard argued that once the court accepted the 11(c)(1)(C) agreement, the sentencing range in that agreement became the "applicable" range for determining the extent of the sentence reduction permitted by § 3582(c)(2). See U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10 (b)(1) ("whether and to what extent" a sentence may be reduced is determined by "the amended Guideline range that would have been applicable . . . if the amendment(s) had been in effect at the time the defendant was sentenced") (emphasis added). The retroactive amendments to the Guidelines, if applied to the drug quantity calculation in the 11(c)(1)(C) agreement, would result in a range 78 to 97 months (instead of 97 to 121). Thus, Leonard argued, because the retroactive amendments would have lowered the range in the 11(c)(1)(C) agreement, he was eligible to have his sentence reduced to a floor of 78 months (from the 114 months he was serving).The Circuit rejected Leonard's argument. It held that the Guidelines range "applicable" at the initial sentencing was the range of "121 to 151 months, as determined by the district court before it accepted the parties' 11(c)(1)(C) agreement specifying a 97-to-121 month range." Op. at 39; see id. at 24-35; U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10(b)(1). Its view is that the court's acceptance of the 11(c)(1)(C) agreement is equivalent to a departure or variance. And the Guidelines concerning § 3582(c)(2) relief provide that the applicable range is the range determined before a court considers any departure or variance. Op. at 27-28; U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10 cmt. n.1(A). It also construed language of U.S.S.G. § 1B1.1(a) as "plainly assign[ing] responsibility for determining the applicable Guidelines range to 'the court,' not the parties[.]" Op. at 26.Thus, the "relevant Guideline amendment reduced the originally applicable 121-to-151-month range to a 97-to-121-month reduction," and "Leonard is eligible for a reduction of his 114-month sentence, but to no less than 97 months' incarceration." Op. at 5.
Circuit rejects government's harmless error argument. The government argued that any error in the district court's understanding of Leonard's eligibility for a sentence reduction was necessarily harmless because, "'having already used' a 97-to-121-month sentencing range — pursuant to the parties' 11(c)(1)(C) agreement — to determine an appropriate sentence, 'it is beyond cavil that the district court would have imposed the same 114-month sentence' in the exercise of its § 3582(c)(2) discretion." Op. at 35-36. The Circuit concluded that the conclusion the government urged was not certain "because we do not know what weight the district court gave the initial applicable Guidelines range in granting the variance reflected in the parties' agreed-to lower range. Thus, we cannot be certain that if the district court were presented with a lower applicable range equal to the agreed-to range, it would not sentence at the lower end of the range." Op. at 36. Moreover, a court exercises its discretion to reduce a sentence under § 3582(c)(2) "only 'after considering the factors set forth in section 3553(a)," which can be informed by post-sentencing behavior. Op. 36, 37 (citations omitted). So "the § 3553(a) factors may present differently on remand and be accorded different weights than at the initial sentence." Op. at 37.
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CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Certiorari dismissed. Reported below: 377 Mass. 552, 387 N. E. 2d 527.
Barbara A. H. Smith, Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts, argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the briefs were Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General, and Stephen R. Delinsky, Assistant Attorney General.
David A. Mills argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Walter J. Hurley.


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package fpt.qa.mdnlib.resources.regexes;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Regex {
    private static Map<String, Pattern> numberPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> datePtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> timePtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> currencyPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> percentPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> emailPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> urlPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> ipPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> schkPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> degreePtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> currencyunitPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> firstnumberPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> firstcapPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> firstlowerPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> initcapPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> allcapPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> alllowerPtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> namePtrns = null;
    private static Map<String, Pattern> shortformPtrns = null;

    static {
        schkPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("specialcharschunk");
        datePtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("date");
        timePtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("time");
        numberPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("number");
        percentPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("percent");
        degreePtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("degree");
        currencyunitPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("currencyunit");
        currencyPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("currency");
        emailPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("email");
        ipPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("ipaddress");
        urlPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("url");
        firstnumberPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("firstnumber");
        firstcapPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("firstcap");
        firstlowerPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("firstlower");
        initcapPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("initcap");
        allcapPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("allcap");
        alllowerPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("alllower");
        namePtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("name");
        shortformPtrns = RegexMatcher.getPatterns("shortform");
    }

    public static List match(Map<String, Pattern> mapPtrns, String str) {
        return match(mapPtrns, str, false);
    }

    public static List match(Map<String, Pattern> mapPtrns, String str, boolean find) {
        List<String> res = new ArrayList();

        for (Map.Entry<String, Pattern> entry : mapPtrns.entrySet()) {
            String regexID = entry.getKey();
            Pattern regexPattern = entry.getValue();

            if (find) {
                if (regexPattern.matcher(str).find()) {
                    res.add(regexID);
                }
            } else {
                if (regexPattern.matcher(str).matches()) {
                    res.add(regexID);
                }
            }
        }

        return res;
    }

    public static boolean matchAnyThing(Map<String, Pattern> mapPtrns, String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(mapPtrns, str, false);
    }

    public static boolean matchAnyThing(Map<String, Pattern> mapPtrns, String str, boolean find) {
        for (Map.Entry<String, Pattern> entry : mapPtrns.entrySet()) {
            Pattern regexPattern = entry.getValue();

            if (find) {
                if (regexPattern.matcher(str).find()) {
                    return true;
                }
            } else {
                if (regexPattern.matcher(str).matches()) {
                    return true;
                }
            }
        }

        return false;
    }

    public static boolean matchAnyRegex(String str) {
        if (isNumber(str)) {
            return true;
        }

        if (isDate(str)) {
            return true;
        }

        if (isTime(str)) {
            return true;
        }

        if (isCurrency(str)) {
            return true;
        }

        if (isPercent(str)) {
            return true;
        }

        if (isEmail(str)) {
            return true;
        }

        if (isURL(str)) {
            return true;
        }

        if (isIPAddress(str)) {
            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

    public static List<String> getSpecialCharsChunk(String str) {
        return match(schkPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("specialcharschunk", str);
    }

    public static boolean isSpecialCharsChunk(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(schkPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("specialcharschunk", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsSpecialCharsChunk(String str) {
        return (match(schkPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("specialcharschunk", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getDates(String str) {
        return match(datePtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("date", str);
    }

    public static boolean isDate(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(datePtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("date", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsDate(String str) {
        return (match(datePtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("date", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getTimes(String str) {
        return match(timePtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("time", str);
    }

    public static boolean isTime(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(timePtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("time", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsTime(String str) {
        return (match(timePtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("time", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getNumbers(String str) {
        return match(numberPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("number", str);
    }

    public static boolean isNumber(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(numberPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("number", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsNumber(String str) {
        return (match(numberPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("number", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getPercents(String str) {
        return match(percentPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("percent", str);
    }

    public static boolean isPercent(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(percentPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("percent", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsPercent(String str) {
        return (match(percentPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("percent", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getDegrees(String str) {
        return match(degreePtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("degree", str);
    }

    public static boolean isDegree(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(degreePtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("degree", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsDegree(String str) {
        return (match(degreePtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("degree", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getCurrencyUnits(String str) {
        return match(currencyunitPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("currencyunit", str);
    }

    public static boolean isCurrencyUnit(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(currencyunitPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("currencyunit", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsCurrencyUnit(String str) {
        return (match(currencyunitPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("currencyunit", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getCurrencies(String str) {
        return match(currencyPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("currency", str);
    }

    public static boolean isCurrency(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(currencyPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("currency", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsCurrency(String str) {
        return (match(currencyPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("currency", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getEmails(String str) {
        return match(emailPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("email", str);
    }

    public static boolean isEmail(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(emailPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("email", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsEmail(String str) {
        return (match(emailPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("email", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getIPAddresses(String str) {
        return match(ipPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("ipaddress", str);
    }

    public static boolean isIPAddress(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(ipPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("ipaddress", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsIPAddress(String str) {
        return (match(ipPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("ipaddress", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getURLs(String str) {
        return match(urlPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("url", str);
    }

    public static boolean isURL(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(urlPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("url", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsURL(String str) {
        return (match(urlPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("url", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getFirstNumbers(String str) {
        return match(firstnumberPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("firstnumber", str);
    }

    public static boolean isFirstNumber(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(firstnumberPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("firstnumber", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsFirstNumber(String str) {
        return (match(firstnumberPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("firstnumber", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getFirstCaps(String str) {
        return match(firstcapPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("firstcap", str);
    }

    public static boolean isFirstCap(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(firstcapPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("firstcap", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsFirstCap(String str) {
        return (match(firstcapPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("firstcap", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getFirstLowers(String str) {
        return match(firstlowerPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("firstlower", str);
    }

    public static boolean isFirstLower(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(firstlowerPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("firstlower", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsFirstLower(String str) {
        return (match(firstlowerPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("firstlower", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getInitCaps(String str) {
        return match(initcapPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("initcap", str);
    }

    public static boolean isInitCap(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(initcapPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("initcap", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsInitCap(String str) {
        return (match(initcapPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("initcap", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getAllCaps(String str) {
        return match(allcapPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("allcap", str);
    }

    public static boolean isAllCap(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(allcapPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("allcap", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsAllCap(String str) {
        return (match(allcapPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("appcap", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getAllLowers(String str) {
        return match(alllowerPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("alllower", str);
    }

    public static boolean isAllLower(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(alllowerPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("alllower", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsAllLower(String str) {
        return (match(alllowerPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("alllower", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getNames(String str) {
        return match(namePtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("name", str);
    }

    public static boolean isName(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(namePtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("name", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsName(String str) {
        return (match(namePtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("name", str, true).size() > 0);
    }

    public static List<String> getShortForms(String str) {
        return match(shortformPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.match("shortform", str);
    }

    public static boolean isShortForm(String str) {
        return matchAnyThing(shortformPtrns, str);
        // return RegexMatcher.matchAnyThing("shortform", str);
    }

    public static boolean containsShortForm(String str) {
        return (match(shortformPtrns, str, true).size() > 0);
        // return (RegexMatcher.match("shortform", str, true).size() > 0);
    }
}


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China cuts a key interest rate as trade hopes boost Asian markets
Posted November 4, 2019 9:49 p.m. EST
Updated November 5, 2019 4:36 a.m. EST
By Sherisse Pham and Jill Disis, CNN Business
CNN — China's central bank on Tuesday slashed a key interest rate for the first time since it was introduced three years ago, a move that could pave the way for more policy action as the country tries to protect its slowing economy.
Meanwhile, Asian markets broadly advanced as investors digested the latest news about US-China trade talks. Investors also shrugged off disappointing economic data out of China and Hong Kong.
Japan's Nikkei rose nearly 1.8%, while South Korea's Kospi ended up 0.6%. China's Shanghai Composite and Hong Kong's Hang Seng each edged up 0.5%.
China's central bank cuts a key loan rate
The People's Bank of China cut the one-year rate at which it lends to banks through its medium-term lending facility from 3.30% to 3.25%. It was the first cut to that rate since it was introduced three years ago, according to Julian Evans-Pritchard, senior China economist at Capital Economics.
Evans-Pritchard noted that the cut indicates that China is starting to take more direct steps to push down borrowing costs, and he suggested that the central bank could make even more rate cuts in the future.
"The cut could well precede reductions to the rates on the rest of the PBOC's lending facilities," Evans-Pritchard wrote in a research note, adding that policy decisions "tend to move in tandem."
He also said the cut should lead to a lower Loan Prime Rate. China recently introduced the LPR as a tool to gradually replace its existing fixed benchmark lending rate and make it easier for companies to borrow money. The LPR, which will become the new benchmark for banks to price loans, is supposed to better reflect changes in market rates.
China has taken several steps in recent months to boost its slowing economy, and analysts have repeatedly pointed out that more aggressive measures could be on the way. Chinese officials, meanwhile, have said they have enough tools available to bolster the economy as needed.
New economic data shows that growth is still soft. China's services sector grew at its weakest pace in eight months, according to private survey data released Tuesday by the media group Caixin and the research firm Markit.
The Caixin/Markit services purchasing managers' index (PMI) dropped to 51.1 in October from 51.3 in September. That's its lowest reading since February.
But the fallout "should be limited" for investors, according to Jeffrey Halley, a market analyst with the research firm Oanda. He said markets will instead concentrate on industrial PMI data and their potential to rebound if an interim trade deal is signed soon.
Markets climb on trade hopes
New reports on Tuesday gave reason for hope on US-China trade talks. The Financial Times reported that Trump administration officials are debating removing some existing tariffs on Chinese goods to help seal a partial deal that would pause the trade war with Beijing as early as this month.
That news sent markets climbing. The Wall Street Journal reported later in the day that both the United States and China were "actively considering" tariff rollbacks.
The United States is assessing current tariffs as it works to finalize "phase one" of a trade deal, officials told CNN, but no decisions have been made beyond the tariff relief announced last month.
Over in Shanghai, Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke at an economic event on Tuesday, where he again stressed Beijing's commitment to a multilateral global trading system and a more integrated global economy. He also promised to further open up China's market and improve its business environment.
One of the key messages from the event "is that China remains open for business," said Stuart Tait, HSBC's head of commercial banking for Asia Pacific.
"The dialogue that took place stressed the importance of reducing tariffs and setting up new free trade zones. This is music to the ears of Asian companies," he said.
Hong Kong data disappoints
Meanwhile in Hong Kong, manufacturing data plunged. Growth output from the financial hub's manufacturing sector fell in October, the latest sign that five months of massive protests are hitting Hong Kong's economy hard. The latest purchasing managers index (PMI) fell to 39.3 in October, from 41.5 in September, according to data published by research firm IHS Markit. The protests have pushed Hong Kong into its first recession since the global financial crisis.
IHS Markit said the rate of decline for business activity was the fastest since the survey began over 21 years ago.
The uncertainty surrounding a resolution to the political crisis "will likely mean that the Hang Seng underperforms the rest of the region for the foreseeable future, especially some of their big-name banks," Oanda's Halley said.
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CORE JURY MEMBERS
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GRZEZORZ PIECHOTA (United Kingdom & Poland) is Researcher-in-Residence at the International News Media Association, a research fellow at Harvard and Oxford universities in the U.S. and the U.K. and a prize-winning practitioner of youth engagement strategies for news media. Among the projects he led while at Gazeta Wyborcza was the rallying of young people to save a river from destruction by a proposed highway and the massive overhaul of digital literacy in Poland's schools. His emphasis now is technology-enabled disruption patterns across industries, including news media.
DARA ROSEN (USA) is a former chief editor at The Eagle Eye, the newsmagazine of Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida, which was the co-recipient of the first, honorary Global Youth & News Media Prize in 2018. The other co-recipient was The Guardian US. She is now a journalism student at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers and a speciall correspondent with Global Youth & News Media for Spring semester 2021.
WENDY TRIBALDOS (Panama) is a journalist, educator and museum studies specialist and co-author of News Literacy and News Publishers, a 7-part report and database. She is also a prize-winning practitioner of youth engagement strategies for news media. While at La Prensa in Panama, she developed several award-winning initiatives, including highly effective and enjoyable introductions to news for children. She is a board member at Global Youth & News Media.
GUEST CORE JURY MEMBER FOR FOR 2021
KYLE PLANTZ (USA) is a journalist specializing in media literacy, science, politics and solutions journalism. He is the educational program coordinator at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York. Previously he was the program assistant for the National Association for Media Literacy Education and a solutions specialist focused on environment, agriculture, and climate change at the Solutions Journalism Network. Previously, he was a political reporter in New Hampshire covering the 2016 presidential election and then a journalist at Science News, a nonprofit magazine covering advances in science, medicine and technology. He has a degree in journalism, history, and political science from Boston University.
GUEST JUDGES:
2023 JOurnalism Category
FOCUS: TEENAGE JOURNALISTS' PROFILES OF CLIMATE CHAMPIONS
JAZMÍN ACUÑA (editor) and ALEJANDRO VALDEZ SANABRIA (general manager) founded El Surtidor (Paraguay) in 2016 as a Facebook page with a small team of designers and journalists. It has since become a compelling digital news outlet and a benchmark for visual journalism in Latin America. It was the top laureate for The Planet Award of the 2018 Global Youth & News Media Prize for its illustrated series about deforestation in the Chaco region, the second most important ecosystem in South America. That work also received the Gabriel Garcia Márquez Gabo Award for innovation. El Surtidor has since devoted a full section to the coverage of the climate crisis: https://elsurti.com/futuros.
NICK CLARK (Qatar) is the chief environment editor and a senior presenter at Al Jazeera English, where he has worked since 2006. He also hosts "Plan It Green," a series of short, sharp examinations of current environmental issues. In addition to a rich background in broadcast and print journalism, he studied ocean science during a Knight Science Journalism Fellow (2013-2014) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
JOHNNY DABROWSKIi (POLAND) became a climate activist at Fridays For Future Poland in 2019 and now coordinates the international Climate Education Coalition. The group, led by Earthday and launched during COP27, joins 100 organizations in a quest to get the world leaders to give adequate funding and attention to education about the largest crisis any generation has had to face. The coalition also aims to create a youth movement around climate education.
SUE PHILLIPS (UK, France) is a trustee at News Decoder, which is Global Youth & News Media's partner for this competition. She has spent more than three decades in senior leadership posts in media and public affairs and is a lifelong defender of the environment. At the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, she held senior production roles in London, Moscow, Rome and Washington before serving as CBC's London Bureau Chief. At Al Jazeera, she worked as London Bureau Chief and then as Director of Foreign Bureaux, Doha. She held senior positions at the Doha Film Institute and the National Museum of Qatar. As a media consultant for the African Wildlife Foundation she produces content for a variety of global platforms. In 2017 she founded Wildlife Workshop and delivers Conservation Journalism training in Africa and Borneo. Sue is a Patron of the Borneo Nature Foundation supporting the protection of tropical rainforests and biodiversity.
BELLA LACK (UK) has been an environmental activist since age 11 when she saw a video about the effect of palm oil on orangutans. She is the author of Children of The Anthropocene (Penguin, 2022), which describes youth who are combating the environmental crisis. She is an ambassador for the Born Free Foundation, RSPCA and Jane Goodall Institute. She co-starred in the 2021 documentary ANIMAL, directed by Cyril Dion (Demain/Tomorrow) and also featuring French climate activist Vipulan Puvaneswaran and Jane Goodall, the British primatologist and anthropologist She has been the Youth Ambassador for the Born Free Foundation since 2018 and is also part of the Ivory Alliance, which is a group of political leaders and other influencers working to combat the Illegal Wildlife Trade.
MALGORZATA "Gosia" LUSZCZEK (Denmark) directs Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE), which gives more than 400,000 young people ages 11-25 worldwide a platform to research environmental issues and promote solutions through investigative reporting, photography, and video journalism. After graduating with an environmental engineering degree in her native Poland, she spent more than two decades promoting environmental education there, including instilling a nationwide school environment program. YRE was a Planet Award laureate for the 2018 Global Youth & News Media Prize.
KATINA PARON (USA), an editor, author and journalism educator, has created byline opportunities for youth reporters for nearly three decades. She specializes in running journalism program focused on environmental and feminist issues. She was a founding director of the Institute for Environmental Reporting, a summer program for teenage journalists run by Inside Climate News. She edits a monthly teen-written feature in Ms. magazine and served as senior project editor for the teenage journalists who profiled the 1200+ young victims of gun violence in "Since Parkland," the top Journalism Award laureate of the 2019 Global Youth & News Media Prize. She is the author of "A NewsHound's Guide to Student Journalism'' (McFarland), a comic book-style resource for classrooms and newsrooms.
KATRINA SURQUIN (Finland) is a student and videojournalist specializing in climate activism. While at the European School Brussels II she created several videos documenting the activism of her classmates and teachers, including this and this. She is now a philosophy major at Cambridge University.
RINA TSUBAKI (Belgium) leads various science media initiatives under the Lookout Station at the European Forest Institute. Currently, she is involved in online mapping analyses, including exploring how environmental issues are brought up on social media. The most recent project on the Amazon rainforest fires explored online 'recycling' practices of media content and the role of science on Twitter and media coverage. She also designs and develops the Solution Hack for Journalism series, a journalist training programme that focuses on solutions to climate and environmental crises. Previously, for the European Journalism Centre, she implemented a wide variety of initiatives, including the Verification Handbook, a step-by-step guide for verifying user-generated content, and the News Impact series with the Google News Initiative.
CATHY WATSON (Kenya) is head of partnerships at the World Agroforestry Centre CIFOR-ICRAF, a center of science and development excellence that harnesses the benefits of trees for people and the environment. She has lived in East Africa since 1986, working first as a BBC journalist and then setting up Straight Talk Foundation, which pioneered social and behavior change communication in Uganda through award-winning newspapers for 25,000 schools, radio in 17 languages and face-to-face programmes. The initial focus was HIV prevention among youth, but it broadened into other challenges and demographic groups. She also set up Mvule Trust which provided education to over 3400 young Ugandans, including hundreds of health workers, agriculturalists, foresters and teachers.
FOCUS: PANDEMIC NEWS FOR CHILDREN
XUE BAI (China) is the originator of From My Window: Children at Home During COVID-19, a United Nations free, downloadable book for children (also available in print) that looks at the lives of housebound children during the coronavirus epidemic. This year, she will finish a graduate degree in art and culture management at the Pratt Institute in New York, where she is a researcher and heads that school's chapter of Net Impact, a global movement of leaders using their skills and careers to build a more just and sustainable world.
HELEN LEE BOUYGUES (France) is founder and president of the Reboot Foundation, which is devoted to elevating critical thinking through advocacy, research and resources. A former partner at the McKinsey & Company international consulting firm, she has served as interim CEO, CFO, or COO for more than a dozen companies. She is a columnist for Forbes magazine and is working on a book about critical thinking.
SANTHOSH KUMAR (India) is a specialist in gamification using game-like elements in non-game scenarios to make serious matters more memorable. He is managing partner at The BS Lab in Chennai, a design agency that helps brands connect to their customers through memorable fun engagements. During the initial days of pandemic, his company The Gamification Republic, created quizzes using Indian mythology as a theme to convey the protocols to be followed. He is also founder of Mooremarket, a closed group community for conscious consumption with more than 85,000 members.
ALISON MESTON (France) is communications director at the International Science Council. Prior to joining the ISC, she worked in the Communication and Information sector at UNESCO, as director of Press Freedom for WAN-IFRA (the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers), and as a public affairs officer for the British Red Cross. She also spent 12 years in the labour movement in Australia and the UK, organizing campaigns in sectors such as nursing, care homes, education, and the food and airline industries.
GUGULETHU NDEBELE (South Africa) became chief executive officer at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in 2019. The academy opened in 2007 with a mission "welcoming talented, underprivileged girls to a new lifestyle; a world filled with knowledge, social skill development and possibilities." Previously she spent five years as CEO of Save the Children South Africa and 18 years in the Department of Basic Education where, since 2007, she had been deputy director general responsible for social mobilisation and support services (including a range of health-promoting programmes).
SWETA PAL (INDIA) is communications director at It's Ok To Talk, an initiative of the Goa-based youth mental health research organization Sangath, where she also leads the India chapter for the global Speak Your Mind campaign. She also co-leads Outlive! with Gonsalves, a national youth suicide prevention public engagement initiative. Previously, she was communications officer at Public Health Foundation of India (Gurgaon) and a journalist for Prevention magazine.She is an expert in health communications, development of online and offline mental health campaigns, setting up and supporting youth advisory groups and youth training programmes especially for youth with lived experience of mental health needs.
MARIANE [VAN NEYENHOFF] PEARL (Spain) is a journalist based in Barcelona whose work often focuses on people who are often overlooked, particularly the women and children who live in communities plagued by poverty and conflict. In 2019, she co-founded The Meteor, a platform built by a collective of activists, journalists, and creators to focus on modern feminist work. She is the widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who was kidnapped and assassinated in Pakistan in 2002 and a board member of The Daniel Pearl Foundation, which promotes mutual respect and understanding among diverse cultures through journalism, music and dialogue. She is author of A Mighty Heart, a celebration of her husband's life and a call for peace and In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl, a collection of her columns for Glamour. She is managing editor emeritus at the Chime for Change Foundation, which fosters empowerment of women and girls around the world via access to education, health and justice.
DR. KRISTI WESTPHALN (United States) is a PhD-prepared pediatric nurse practitioner and child health expert with over 15 years of clinical expertise caring for children and families. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and practicing at the University Hospitals Rainbow Center for Women and Children. As a senior fellow with the George Washington University Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, she was a host and co-producer for Healthcetera radio and co-authored studies exploring the presence of nurses as sources for health news stories (Woodhull Study Revisited). Since 2019, she has served as a health consultant for Cleveland's public broadcast affiliate, Ideastream, where she hosts and co-produces the Health's Up podcast that focuses on healthy choices through the voices of children and teenagers.
IAN YEE (Malaysia) is co-founder of The Fourth, a not-for-profit social enterprise focusing on investigative and impact journalism projects which use video-driven multimedia content and activism campaigns to create positive change on social justice issues. He is also executive director of the Environmental Reporting Collective, a network of investigative journalists from across the globe who collaborate on massive cross-border environmental reporting projects. He is also co-founder of As a journalist, editor, and producer, Ian's work has concentrated on stories of interest to and with an impact on young people (particularly with the R.AGE team in Malaysia). He and the R.Age team at the Malaysia Star won nearly 40 awards and two Peabody Award nominations. Ian is also currently an Obama Foundation Leader and Acumen Fellow.
GUEST Jurors:
2021 NEWS/MEDIA LITERACY CATEGORY
FOCUS: Inaugural Scott C. Schurz Press Freedom Teacher Award
ZAFFAR ABBAS is a Pakistani journalist, who has been the editor of Pakistan's English-language daily DAWN, since October 2010. DAWN is the country's oldest and largest English-language publication and now a multimedia enterprise. Mr. Abbas was the 2019 honoree of the Committee to Protect Journalists' Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award, for extraordinary and sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom. DAWN, founded in 1941, has a long history of aiding education in Pakistan and regularly teaches its readers about the importance of press freedom, most recently in this article published on World Press freedom Day 2021.
Dr. DOAN VIET HOAT (USA). Before the Vietnames government sent him to jail for a total of 22 years, Doan Viet Hoat had received a Ph.D. in education from Florida State University (Tallahassee) and was a professor and then vice president of Van Hanh University (a Buddhist private university in Saigon). Before, during and after his incarceration, he has worked constantly to advance the cause of freedom of expression and to help his native land. For example, when he met with the leadership of The World Association of Newspapers, which had awarded him its Golden Press of Freedom, he asked them to organize a continuing education program for Vietnamese journalists. This interview, meant as a resource for teaching human rights, offers a glimpse of what this man is all about.
JAN-WILLEM BULT (Netherlands) is head of Children, Youth & Media at Free Press Limited, a global media development NGO based in Amsterdam and chief editor of its WADADA News for Kids which has provided a global journalistic voice for children around the world since 2004. He is founder of the Children in the Centre Foundation, which assists child enrichment projects worldwide, and past president of the Eurovision Children's and Youth TV Experts Group. After a 14-year career as head of children's programming for Dutch public broadcasting (NPO), he founded his own company in 2014 to create films for children and adults around the world.
MELISSA FALKOWSKI (USA) is faculty adviser to The Eagle Eye student newsmagazine at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida, where she has taught all levels of secondary English since joining the faculty in 2004. Along with The Guardian US, The Eagle Eye was co-recipient in 2018 of the first Global Youth & News Media Prize in recognition of their joint coverage of the March for Our Lives demonstration that year in favor of gun control. In 2019, she was named National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year by Columbia University's Scholastic Press Association for her courage during and after the shooting deaths of 17 students and faculty at her school on February 14, 2018 and her ability to "inspire her student staff to report through the tragic aftermath." She is co-editor with Eric Garner of We Say #NeverAgain: Reporting by the Parkland Student Journalists. She has degrees in English education (Florida Atlantic University ) and journalism (Kent State University).
SOLOMON ELLIOTT (United Kingdom) founded The Student View in 2016 as a media literacy charity to train teenagers across the United Kingdom about how to spot misinformation and as local news reporters. Previously he was a community organizer and teacher of English and politics in South London. In 2019, he became a member of the BBC's Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group to improve BBC on how it portrays all of the UK's communities. That same year, The Student View received the top News/Media Literacy Award in the 2019 Global Youth & News Media Prize.
SHAELYNN FARNSWORTH (USA) s national director of educator outreach and success at the News Literacy Project, based in Washington DC, which was a news/media literacy laureate in the 2019 Global Youth & News Media Prize. Her more than 20 years of experience in education began when she taught secondary school English in Conrad, Iowa, where she focused on information consumption skills, creating innovative ways for students to demonstrate understanding, and inspiring healthy skepticism about digital content. She was recruited by a regional state education agency in Iowa, where she spent seven years supporting districts throughout the state in literacy, technology, artificial intelligence and systemic change. She was a member of the state's literacy, social studies, and technology leadership teams. She holds two degrees in English from the University of Northern Iowa.
Dr. PAUL MIHAILIDIS (Austria, USA) is an associate professor of civic media and journalism and assistant dean in the school of communication at Emerson College in Boston, MA, where he teaches media literacy, civic media, and community activism. He is founding program director of the MA in Media Design, Senior Fellow of the Emerson Engagement Lab, and faculty chair and director of the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate Magazine, the Nieman Foundation, USA Today, Newsweek, CNN, and others. He sits on numerous Editorial Boards, and the advisory board for iCivics.
Dr. CRISTIANE PARENTE DE SÁ BARRETO (Portugal, Brazil) is a global consultant, researcher and columnist on media and education. She is managing director at Comunicação e Educação (Portugal and Brazil) and has conducted studies and programmes for universities, media and NGOs all over the world. She is the author of the Educação & Mídia for Gazeta do Povo since 2012 and, since 2021, commentary for Observatôrio de Midia of the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro. Previously, she coordinated 60 news in education programmes for the Brazilian publishers association, Associação Nacional de Jornais. Her doctorate is in media education from Universidade do Minho (Portugal) with an emphasis on media literacy
CHIDO ONUMAH (Nigeria and Canada) is coordinator of the African Centre for Media & Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), set up in 2008. He is chair of the Pan-African Alliance for Media & Information Literacy (PAMIL). He has also worked for over two decades as a journalist, rights activist and media trainer in Nigeria, Ghana, Canada, India, the US, the Caribbean and Spain.
MARGARET HOLBORN (United Kingdom) is head of secondary and higher education at the Guardian Foundation and manages the Behind the Headlines programme, which is based at the Education Centre at the Guardian newspaper offices in London and empowers young people to understand, critically analyse, engage with and participate in the media. Since 2002, 146,000 young people, teachers and adults have taken part in their activities. Prior to setting up the Centre she was a teacher and manager in a South London secondary school, where she taught history, politics and citizenship along with careers and business studies.
ANDREW HESLOP (France & Germany, UK) is executive director of media freedom at WAN-IFRA, The World Association of News Publishers. He has been with WAN-IFRA since 2010 and was previously responsible for editorial and communications in the Press Freedom and Media Development team. Based in Paris, he has worked throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia as part of WAN-IFRA's on-going efforts to defend press freedom and support independent news publishers. Andrew, who is British, previously worked for over 10 years as a journalist and editor in the UK, Spain and France.
SOTIRIA TSALAMANI (Belgium) is a part of the multicultural team of EAVI- Media Literacy for Citizenship as a learning designer. EAVI aims to empower individuals to be active, engaged citizens in today's increasingly challenging media environment. She is the author of several articles at EAVI including, Press Freedom: One of the pillars for democratic societies. She holds a degree in modern Greek language & literature (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece), is pursuing a master's in educational sciences (Vrije Universiteit, Belgium), and holds a British educator certificate. Sotiria's work focuses on promoting media literacy skills and ensuring the fundamental human rights to establish democratic and balanced societies. EAVI stands for European Association for Viewers Interests.
GUEST JUDGES: THE PLANET AWARDS
JAZMÍN ACUÑA (Paraguay) is editor at El Surtidor, a visual news digital outlet that was the top laureate for The Planet Award of the 2018 Global Youth & News Media Prize. With her team, she also received the Gabriel Garcia Márquez prize in innovation in 2018 and the Peter Benenson award by Amnesty International. She previously worked in public broadcasting and did research on the role of media in the justice and reconciliation process in South Africa. She will do her judging with Alejandro Valdez Sanabria, El Surtidor general manager.
BASANT RATHORE (India) is senior vice president for strategic planning, brand and business development at the Jagran Group, whose Dainik Jagran organization was the silver award laureate for The Planet Award of the 2019 Global Youth & News Media Prize. Previously, he worked at agencies such as Ogilvy, Mudra, Mindshare and Madison where he has planned and bought media for leading brands. He has conducted over 30 media workshops for professionals and has taught Media Management at several marquee management institutes across India. He has been with the Jagran group for the last 14 years. Under him, Dainik Jagran has emerged as the most awarded newspaper brand in India .
BELLA LACK (UK) has been an environmental activist since age 11 when she saw a video about the effect of palm oil on orangutans. Most recently, she co-stared in the documentary ANIMAL, direced by Cyril Dion (Demain/Tomorrow) and also featuring Jane Goodall, the British primatologist and anthropologist Her upcoming first book, 'Children of The Anthropocene' (Penguin, June 2022) describes youth who are combating the environmental crisis. She is an ambassador for the Born Free Foundation, RSPCA and Jane Goodall Institute. She has been the Youth Ambassador for the Born Free Foundation since 2018 and is also part of the Ivory Alliance, which is a group of 'influencers' and politicians working to combat the Illegal Wildlife Trade.
DAVID CALLAWAY (USA) founder and editor-in-chief of Callaway Climate Insights, which provides news, critical analysis and original perspectives at the intersection of global finance and the challenges of climate change. He is a former president of the World Editors Forum and worked at Bloomberg News, Marketwatch and the Boston Herald before spending six years as editor-in-chief of USA Today, the internationally distributed American daily.
SUE PHILLIPS (UK, France) is a trustee at News Decoder, which is a partner for the Global Youth & News Media Prize. She has spent more than three decades in senior leadership posts in media and public affairs. At the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, she held senior production roles in London, Moscow, Rome and Washington before serving as CBC's London Bureau Chief. At Al Jazeera, she worked as London Bureau Chief and then as Director of Foreign Bureaux, Doha. She held senior positions at the Doha Film Institute and the National Museum of Qatar. As a media consultant for the African Wildlife Foundation she produces content for a variety of global platforms. In 2017 she founded Wildlife Workshop and delivers Conservation Journalism training in Africa and Borneo. Sue is a Patron of the Borneo Nature Foundation supporting the protection of tropical rainforests and biodiversity.
RORY RUSNAK (Ireland) founded Youth for Positive Change in 2019 at age 14, which spotlights young people who are making an impact in their communities and beyond. The organization also provides advice and resources to young people who want to get involved in activism.
RINA TSUBAKI (Spain) founded The Lookout Station at the European Forest Insitute, where the science and journalism communities use a scientific approach to explore new ways to tell climate change stories at @europeanforest. Previously, for the European Journalism Centre, she designed, developed and implemented a wide variety of initiatives, including the Verification Handbook, a step-by-step guide for verifying user-generated content, and the News Impact series for editors, newsroom managers, start-ups, developers, designers all across Europe.
CATHY WATSON (Kenya) is chief of programme development at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), a center of science and development excellence that harnesses the benefits of trees for people and the environment. She has lived in East Africa since 1986, working first as a BBC journalist and then setting up Straight Talk Foundation, which pioneered social and behaviour change communication in Uganda through award-winning newspapers for 25,000 schools, radio in 17 languages and face-to-face programmes. The initial focus was HIV prevention among youth, but it broadened into other challenges and demographic groups. She also set up Mvule Trust which provided education to over 3400 young Ugandans, including hundreds of health workers, agriculturalists, foresters and teachers,
KATINA PARON (USA), a journalism professor at Hunter College (City University of New York), has created byline opportunities for youth reporters for nearly three decades. She edits the monthly teen-written feature in Ms. magazine and served as senior project editor for the teenage journalists who profiled the 1200+ victims of gun violence in "Since Parkland," the top Journalism Award laureate of the 2019 Global Youth & News Media Prize. She is the author of "A NewsHound's Guide to Student Journalism'' (McFarland), a comic book-style resource for classrooms and newsrooms.
KRISTEN DAVIS (France) is founder and CEO of CinqC.co (France), which uses technology to help enterprises and societies evolve. Previously, she was director of information technology and innovation director at The International New York Times after working at Ziff-Davis APN in Australia and for Future Publishing in the UK. She also heads the USA board of APOPO, a global nonprofit using scent detection animal technology to detect landmines and tuberculosis to save lives. She is a board member at Global Youth & News Media.
WITH THANKS TO THESE PREVIOUS GUEST JURORS
BENEDICTE AUTRET (France) joined the Google Syndication team in 2005 and has since embraced the world of partnership with news organizations. Initially working with some of the largest UK print companies, broadcasters and telcoms she now serves as Google's head of strategic relations for news & publishers for the United Kingdom, Ireland, France & Benelux. Prior to joining Google, she worked for WILink Europe. She holds a degree from the EDHEC Business School in France. [She did not have a vote in cases with Google involvement.]
ANNE COLLIER (USA) is a youth advocate and executive director of The Net Safety Collaborative, the national non-profit organization that is piloting the new social media helpline for U.S. schools and helping Google update its global Be Internet Awesome digital literacy initiative. She has served on three national task forces on youth internet safety, most recently for the Obama administration, and now serves on the safety advisory boards of Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and YouTube. Earlier in her career, she worked on print, radio, TV, and web editions of the Christian Science Monitor and was editor of its first web site in the mid-'90s. She has been writing about children and connected media at NetFamilyNews.org since the late-'90s. [She did not vote in cases with Google involvement.]
ADNAN KAKA SHAFI (Kenya) is the founder and CEO of Sauti Afrika, a podcast that aims to help youth talk about difficult issues in their communities. The podcast is based in the African Leadership Academy and continues to work under a new team to chase it's vision to 'Foster tolerance through conversation'. He represented African Leadership Academy as a student ambassador and content contributor with News Decoder for the 2018-2019 academic year.
BARBARA MCCORMACK (USA) is vice president for education at the Freedom Forum Institute in Washington DC. She leads the team responsible for creating NewseumED: quality, educational resources and programs on First Amendment freedoms and media literacy. Through on-site and virtual classes and its website, NewseumED reaches 10 million students. She works to promote access to media literacy resources as a member of the steering committee for the North American subchapter of GAPMIL, UNESCO's effort to promote media and information literacy worldwide. A former middle and high school teacher, she and her team have been recognized by the Journalism Education Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Education Commission for the States for their contributions to the teaching of the First Amendment and news and media literacy.
ADAM THOMAS (Netherlands) was director of the European Journalism Centre (EJC) (departure set for summer 2021), an independent European non-profit connecting journalists with new ideas based in the Netherlands. In his previous role as Chief Product Officer at Storyful, he led five teams of developers and designers, creating products for world's biggest media organisations. Previously, he was Head of Communications at the international nonprofit Sourcefabric and worked on media development projects in over 50 countries worldwide. [He did not have a vote in cases with EJC involvement.]
JO WEIR (Canada, UK) - Based in London, she is a media development expert and currently serves as editorial director at Al-Fanar Media, which covers education, research and culture in the Arab World. She spent 25 years at the Reuters Foundation where she was the director of Journalism Training and Media Development. During that time she directed projects in over 90 countries where training and mentoring was provided to over 13000 journalists, including helping set up Iraq's first independent news agency, Aswat al-Iraq. As a consultant, she works with Chime For Change and others on humanitarian projects which empower women and girls, and with UN agencies, the European Union, NGOs and companies on media development projects. She was a co-founder of the Global Youth & News Media Prize with Aralynn McMane.


To incorporate juicy and tender ground beef to your recipes, the first step is to learn how to cook it. Read the following article for a step by step explanation.
Ground beef is easier on the wallet as it is less expensive than other beef cuts. It is better to use ground beef as compared to any other form as the fat content is greatly reduced when this method is used, however, sometimes the flavor may also be lost when the grinding is used on the meat. We will see the method of cooking ground beef, so that we are able to enjoy this delicacy to the fullest.
People often go are intimidated and worry whether to use frozen or room temperature meat. It is absolutely possible to cook frozen beef, however, you will have to be patient as it takes a longer time to cook thoroughly.
When you buy the meat, which is high in fat content, you will have to compromise on the quantity of meat. On the other hand, if you buy lean meat, it often becomes very dry. Hence you will have to work out a middle path when you buy your meat.
To cook ground beef, it is recommended that you thaw the meat in the microwave for about 3 minutes and then leave it in the refrigerator overnight. When you follow this procedure, you will get perfectly thawed meat in 15 hours.
When you start cooking the meat, it is important you break the meat apart with your hands. Very often it is seen that people start cooking the block of meat without breaking it. If you do this, the meat cooks in the same shape and then it is very difficult to break. As a matter of fact, if you break it way ahead of time, you will see it cooks in the traditional granule shape. You can choose to break meat with your hands as well, but make sure you dip your hands in cold water before you handle the meat.
Most people are not able to estimate the size of the pan required to cook the entire quantity of meat they have. After you have chosen the right size pan, heat the pan and melt 1 tablespoon of either fat or butter in the pan to fry the beef. Keep separating the meat chunks with a spatula and cook till you see the water evaporate from the pan. Make sure you are cooking it on low to medium heat.
After the beef has cooked thoroughly, drain the fat from the pan. You can make use of a mesh colander to drain the fat. I will recommend you do not let the fat go down the drain as there are chances of it clogging your kitchen sink. Some also choose to save the fat while it is being drained from the colander for use in some other dish.
An important point to remember is NOT to add water to the beef, until the above mentioned steps are completed. Why, you ask? It is because water has a tendency to dry out the meat, if added so early in the process. Similarly, it is recommended not to cover the pan when you are browning it. This creates steam inside the pan and turns the meat dry. If you want to add any spices, add them at the beginning so that the flavor is evenly mixed properly.


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McQueen Guestlist & Tables
Mcqueen is a stylish high end nightclub located in the heart of trendy Shoreditch. The venue is 280 capacity and features 2 floors – a bar area and restaurant on the ground floor and downstairs is the club. Access to Mcqueen is via a Mcqueen guestlist or Mcqueen table booking.
Mcqueen club London's theme is inspired by American movie star Steve Mcqueen as can be seen by the wall decorations and vibe of the venue. As well as the intricately designed walls, the tables are comprised of large chesterfield couches and large chandeliers hang from the ceiling. The club boasts top of the range lighting and sound systems to enhance the experience for guests on the Mcqueen guestlist or Mcqueen table guests.
Mcqueen has won numerous awards over the past years including Best London Bar at the London Lifestyle awards. It truly deserves the title of one of the top clubs in the Shoreditch/City of London area. It is also one of the top restaurants in the City of London.
In 2016 Mcqueen guestlist and table bookings club added a large roof terrace across the road from the original venue, featuring graffiti inspired artwork and an outdoor grill and cocktail bar.
As well as it's hugely popular nightclub events featuring a wide array of musical genres and top DJs, Mcqueen has also acted as a venue for other events such as comedy nights, fashion shows and awards events.
We highly recommend visiting Mcqueen for a night out at one of Shoreditch's premium nightspots.
What's The Dress Code?
Smart/Elegant
How Much is Entry Price?
Ladies are free before midnight, £20 thereafter. Gentlemen £20 throughout the night.
What are the Drink Prices?
Drink prices vary from £5 for a bottle of Lager, £14 for a Spirit Mixer to £250 for a bottle of Champagne.
Open: Daily
McQueen – 55-61 Tabernacle St, London EC2A 4AA | Guestlist@capitalalist.com | +44(0)2072052245


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Make words from letters that are on a straight line. The game is free and available in English and Russian. The goal is to find the words on the playing field. It is an excellent trainer of attention and development of visual memory.
The game does not require a lot of space and that will be comfortable for phones that have little space.
The game is for those people who like to solve crossword puzzles, search for words, make words from words and letters or just to guess them.
Smart Words is a useful entertainment, as well as exciting and it contains interesting games that do not require a lot of storage on your phone. They will provide you with many hours of fun!


I occasionally sell on eBay and I found that the empty boxes from stuff like video game consoles or Apple products are worth a few dollars. It's not a lot but it's my take-out money . If anyone is just throwing out a box like from a Playstation or iPad or something like that, I'd like it. It might pay for chicken and broccoli.


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Child Support (C.S.S.A.)
Anticipating Future Finances when Agreeing to Support Obligations
By Neil Cahn | July 12, 2021
From divorceny.com It is not rare, and may be commendable, to resolve child support obligations based upon anticipated future circumstances: an expected job, obtaining a degree or license, etc. However, when doing so, care must be taken to anticipate not meeting those expectations. When is relief available? The issue is complicated if the parties "opt out"…
Terminating Child Support While Child Away at College
By Neil Cahn | June 14, 2021
From divorceny.com It is common for child support to continue to be paid while a child is away at college. A child often will return home for perhaps four months of the year. What happens when the student just stays there year round? Often in divorce stipulations of settlement, the parties will define when a child…
Father's Promise to Help Pay for Private College Enforced
From divorceny.com Are verbal promises and statements of intention relating to child support enforceable? It is a basic tenet of family law that to be enforceable, agreements between parents must be in writing and acknowledged before a notary; except, it appears, when they don't have to be. In Manfrede v. Harris, Nassau County Family Court Support Magistrate…
Considering a Step-Parent's Income and Assets on Child Support Awards
By Neil Cahn | April 17, 2017
From divorceny.com Under what circumstances may a step-parent's income and assets be considered by a court when deciding whether awarding the formula amount of support would be unjust or inappropriate? When may a court deviate from the formula because of a parent's obligation to support the children of another relationship? These were the issues discussed by…
Children Refuse to See Father; Child Support Suspended
By Neil Cahn | January 16, 2017
From divorceny.com The parties, who were never married, have two children together, the younger of whom is now 17 years old. The parents have been litigating custody and visitation issues for almost the entire lives of their children. In its December 28, 2016 decision in Matter of Sullivan v. Plotnick, the Appellate Division, Second Department, addressed a…


Kubo and the Two Strings was a very underrated animated film and I am shocked that it took this long for the characters from the film to get captured in Pop! form. Check out the figures below and look for them in stores in October.


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This repository demonstrates the pysaliency framework with
jupyter notebooks. You can explore these notebooks interactively
with [![Binder](http://mybinder.org/badge.svg)](http://mybinder.org/repo/matthias-k/pysaliency-examples).