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Crewe Alex: Loan keeper John Ruddy keen to make a difference
KEEPER John Ruddy reckons he can bring stability to Crewe's leaky defence.
The 22-year-old has joined the Alex on a month's loan from Everton and was largely untroubled on his debut in the 2-1 win over Tranmere on Saturday.
He said: "I'm delighted to be here. It is just the opportunity I was looking for. I hope I can help out.
"I hope to bring stability. I've seen the recent results and a lot of goals have been conceded, but I think I can help to stop the rot. We've got some big games coming up."
Ruddy has been at Everton since 2005 after moving to Goodison Park for a transfer fee of £250,000 from Cambridge United, where he had impressed during his 39 appearances.
During his time at Goodison Park, the 6ft 4ins stopper has enjoyed loan spells with Walsall, Chester and Stockport. He has made just one appearance for the Toffees.
Boss Gudjon Thordarson was delighted with the capture. He said: "He has done well in loan spells before and he is a man on the way to bigger and better things.
"David Moyes agreed it would be healthy for him to come here. He knows the player will be treated and coached well."
Crewe FC
Crewe Alexandra FCOpinion: Crewe Alex must break more than one pattern when Bury visitThe verdict on another blank on the road
Crewe Alexandra FCCrewe Alex: 'We're working hard to improve away form' - Nicky HuntDefender says the Railwaymen must do better on the road
Crewe Alexandra FCCrewe Alex: 'Victory was a big relief, now we have no fear' - Nicky HuntDefender says win over Swindon is 'massive' for the players
Crewe Alexandra FCCrewe Alex reaction: 'We played into Port Vale's hands' - David ArtellBoss laments long ball game
Crewe Alexandra FCThe Match: Crewe Alex 0 Port Vale 1Sports editor PETER MORSE reports from Gresty Road

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I Love My Rainbow Loom!
Color is awkward but always by the real Rainbow Loom bands!
Reviewer: This game is the most fun i can ever have.
1 of the 43 reviewers has reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. While this is more Brand Loyalists than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Loyalists and non-loyalists isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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In total, we found that 16 reviews (or 37%) are within an overrepresented word count group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented word count groups than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between reviews with overrepresented word groups and all other reviews isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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Hi all, I am interested in finding out what is the best ratio of Long Chain Triglycerides to MEdium Chain Triglycerides in the diet. I was recently informed by Dr.K on this site that LCFAs are not useable as an energy source by the brain. Would this behoove the cerebrally-concious person to stick to MCTs exclusively? But surely animal fat predominating in LCFAs is a staple in many hunter-gatherer diets and thus humans had evolved consuming such animal fats-at least to some extent. If so, to what extent and what is the optimal ratio of Long to Medium or Short Chain Triglycerides in the diet. Any thoughts?
Good to know. Energy is not the absolute after all, health is an issue and thats why we're here. No gallstones for me hooray! I assume that mimicking the ratio of Fats in animals is best as recommended by someone on this site? Perhaps after a workout/quick energy MCTs predominate, then LCTs for the remainder of a waking period. My question is transit time of the Fats in the digestion: how quickly they metabolize. I will research this and return when armed with more info.
What if you liked your gallbladder just fine, but your gallbladder didn't like you and now you don't have one? I know MCTs are recommended when you have no gallbladder, but how important is it to avoid other types of fatty acids?
"eating lots of animals" lol.
The long answer is this. I have read that MCFAs can in fact make it into the brain (here, p. 507), though what you will usually read is that only glucose and ketones can make it in. I am not sure about the amount of MCFAs that are being used as fuel directly by the brain; I would guess it is not very much, given that most authors don't talk about it. But here I'm out of my depth.
Practically speaking, this tells us a few things. One is that you can maintain ketosis with a higher degree of carbohydrate if you are also consuming a lot of MCFAs. Another is that MCFAs might be a good thing to consume when you are fasting (or "fat fasting"), to make things easier on your body; presumably your body will need to convert less protein into glucose if you have a ready source for ketones. (If your brain needs either one or the other, glucose or ketones, then if you increase the amount of ketones you can decrease the amount of glucose.) Both of these points and others are made by the Jaminets in their book, Perfect Health Diet (see pp. 84-91).
So to wrap it all up in order to answer your specific question, I'd say that in everyday conditions what is best for your brain is what is best for your body: eating real food, getting exercise, sleeping, eating lots of animals, and so on. Your brain runs on glucose and there are all kinds of reasons why you'll have plenty of it floating around. In fact one of those reasons might be ... that you're eating it. But if you are fasting or eating very low carb then coconut products will help your brain out. Again, they'll be helping your brain out because they'll be helping your body out in general -- but you can see that in this case it has a lot to do with the specific fuel needs of the brain.
All of that said, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a study showing that MCFAs increase your brainpower directly in some way or other, and maybe someone else on the forum can find one. But it's not like your brain will go starving for fuel if you don't eat MCFAs.
"Would this behoove the cerebrally-concious person to stick to MCTs exclusively?"
My understanding is that if you like your gallbladder, you don't want to stick with too-easily-assimilated fats all the time. What I've read on it in mainstream sites is that it releases bile no matter what the fat is but I would imagine it's working a bit harder with longer fatty acid chains that have to be broken down. Don't quote me on that, I may be wrong, but just in case, don't give up on the LCFAs yet. I did see a piece on gallbladders indicating that they have found insulin-producing cells in the gallbladder--not enough to stave off type 1, obviously, but still more useful than we had traditionally held gallbladders to be. Anything you can do to keep yours happy would be a good thing. Gallstones form from too little activity. If they are more active with LCFAs then going exclusively MCT would slow them down.
This article explains more about the different fatty acids and where we get them from.
I have not heard any recommendations about ratio. I can say that I haven't heard anything about the brain using fatty acids for fuel. I have heard that fats are important in maintenance of the nervous system but that's a structural issue, not an energy issue.
If it were me I'd just eat whatever saturated fat I felt like eating. If you feel short on energy then hit the MCTs. But try to get the LCFAs at least once a day.


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Q: Why weak law of large number still alive? I know the difference between WLLN and SLLN in terms of a convergence type. Then, as revealed in any statistical textbook saying sufficient conditions to two theorems are the same, I think that we do not need WLLN anymore. I also know that there is some example for which WLLN holds but SLLN not. Then, From this examples we would have needed to establish another conditions only needed for SLLN, still I could not find any explanations for this.
Is there anyone to explain difference between WLLN and SLLN in terms of this issue?
Thanks!

A: Feller's WLLN says $X_n$ are i.i.d and let $S_n=\sum X_i$. Then $\exists C_n$(finite) such that
$$\frac{S_n-C_n}{n}\overset{P}{\rightarrow} 0 \hspace{10pt} \iff nP({X_1}>n)\rightarrow 0$$
In such a case $\frac{C_n}{n}=E(X_1I\{|X_1|\leq n\})+o(1)$.
Kolmogorov's SLLN says $X_n$ are i.i.d and let $S_n=\sum X_i$.Then
$$\frac{S_n}{n}\overset{a.s.}{\rightarrow} c \hspace{10pt}\text{for some finite c}\hspace{10pt}\iff X_1\in L_1$$
In such a case necessarily $c=E(X_1)$.
Result: $X\in L_p \Rightarrow n^pP(|X_1|>n^{1/p})\rightarrow 0$. But the otherway IS NOT TRUE!
Thus $X_1\in L_1$ means we can apply SLLN and WLLN both. The following example depicts WLLN holds but not SLLN
Let $X_n$ i.i.d with density $f(x)=\frac{c}{x^2\log{|x|}} I\{|x|>e\}$. Show that $E(X^{+})=\infty=E(X^{-})$ implying $E(X)$ does not exist. We can not apply SLLN. But it's not hard to show $nP(|X_1|>n)=o(1)$. Hence by WLLN we've
$$\frac{S_n}{n} -E(X_1I\{|X_1|\leq n\})\overset{P}{\rightarrow} 0$$
Since $X_1$ is symmetric the above expectation is $0$, i.e. $\frac{S_n}{n}\overset{P}{\rightarrow} 0$.
In this example you can also show
$$\limsup \frac{S_n}{n}=\infty \hspace{10pt}\text{and}\hspace{10pt}\liminf \frac{S_n}{n}=-\infty\hspace{3pt}\text{almost surely}$$
Thus it's clearly false that $\frac{S_n}{n}\overset{a.s.}{\rightarrow} 0$.

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Class AbstractCodePointMapping

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  org.apache.fop.fonts.AbstractCodePointMapping

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CodePointMapping

public class AbstractCodePointMapping
extends java.lang.Object
implements SingleByteEncoding

Abstract base class for code point mapping classes (1-byte character encodings).

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.apache.fop.fonts.SingleByteEncoding

NOT_FOUND_CODE_POINT

Constructor Summary

AbstractCodePointMapping(java.lang.String name,
                         int[] table)

          Main constructor.

AbstractCodePointMapping(java.lang.String name,
                         int[] table,
                         java.lang.String[] charNameMap)

          Extended constructor.

Method Summary

protected  void
buildFromTable(int[] table)

          Builds the internal lookup structures based on a given table.

 java.lang.String[]
getCharNameMap()

          Returns the array of character names for this encoding.

 short
getCodePointForGlyph(java.lang.String charName)

          Returns the index of a character/glyph with the given name.

 java.lang.String
getName()

          Returns the encoding's name.

 java.lang.String
getNameFromCodePoint(int idx)

 char[]
getUnicodeCharMap()

          Returns a character array with Unicode scalar values which can be used to map encoding
 code points to Unicode values.

 char
getUnicodeForIndex(int idx)

          Returns the main Unicode value that is associated with the given code point in the encoding.

 char
mapChar(char c)

          Maps a Unicode character to a code point in the encoding.

 java.lang.String
toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

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AbstractCodePointMapping

public AbstractCodePointMapping(java.lang.String name,
                                int[] table)

Main constructor.

Parameters:
name - the name of the encoding
table - the table ([code point, unicode scalar value]+) with the mapping

AbstractCodePointMapping

public AbstractCodePointMapping(java.lang.String name,
                                int[] table,
                                java.lang.String[] charNameMap)

Extended constructor.

Parameters:
name - the name of the encoding
table - the table ([code point, unicode scalar value]+) with the mapping
charNameMap - all character names in the encoding (a value of null will be converted
                  to ".notdef")

Method Detail

buildFromTable

protected void buildFromTable(int[] table)

Builds the internal lookup structures based on a given table.

Parameters:
table - the table ([code point, unicode scalar value]+) with the mapping

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Returns the encoding's name.

Specified by:
getName in interface SingleByteEncoding

Returns:
the name of the encoding

mapChar

public final char mapChar(char c)

Maps a Unicode character to a code point in the encoding.

Specified by:
mapChar in interface SingleByteEncoding

Parameters:
c - the Unicode character to map

Returns:
the code point in the encoding or 0 (=.notdef) if not found

getUnicodeForIndex

public final char getUnicodeForIndex(int idx)

Returns the main Unicode value that is associated with the given code point in the encoding.
 Note that multiple Unicode values can theoretically be mapped to one code point in the
 encoding.

Parameters:
idx - the code point in the encoding

Returns:
the Unicode value (or  (NOT A CHARACTER) if no Unicode value is at that point)

getUnicodeCharMap

public final char[] getUnicodeCharMap()

Returns a character array with Unicode scalar values which can be used to map encoding
 code points to Unicode values. Note that this does not return all possible Unicode values
 that the encoding maps.

Specified by:
getUnicodeCharMap in interface SingleByteEncoding

Returns:
a character array with Unicode scalar values

getCodePointForGlyph

public short getCodePointForGlyph(java.lang.String charName)

Returns the index of a character/glyph with the given name. Note that this
 method is relatively slow and should only be used for fallback operations.

Parameters:
charName - the character name

Returns:
the index of the character in the encoding or -1 if it doesn't exist

getNameFromCodePoint

public java.lang.String getNameFromCodePoint(int idx)

getCharNameMap

public java.lang.String[] getCharNameMap()

Returns the array of character names for this encoding.

Specified by:
getCharNameMap in interface SingleByteEncoding

Returns:
the array of character names
                  (unmapped code points are represented by a ".notdef" value)

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:
toString in class java.lang.Object

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It's the time of year to switch your phone off, put the kettle on, grab a blanket and get between the covers – of a good book that is.
But what to choose? 2018 promises a cornucopia of treats for lovers of fiction and non-fiction alike, with everything from twisty thrillers to big-hearted stories of friendship.
Here's a selection of some of the books from big names – and hotly-anticipated debut writers – that you'll be seeing on the shelves this year.
Debut author Libby Page has turned her love of swimming into a novel centred around London's Brockwell Lido – and the unlikely friendship that forms between two women who try to save it. Young journalist Kate is lonely and unhappy when she is sent to interview 86-year-old Rosemary, who swims there every day and doesn't want developers getting their hands on it. But far from it being a straightforward assignment, it ends up changing her life for the better.
It's already been lined up to make a splash at the cinema too, with a film version in the pipeline.
All James wants to do is find The One – but as anyone dating in 2018 knows, that's easier said than done. His long-term relationship with Adam has come to an end and his best friend is moving to Russia. But before she goes, she urges James to set up a dating blog (much like the author Justin Myers did himself – you might know him as The Guyliner) – and when he dates an Olympian, he finds himself going viral.
The self-declared Black Girl Bible takes the form of a series of interviews from leading black women who have succeeded in a variety of fields – including director Amma Asante and author Malorie Blackman. Best friends Yomi and Elizabeth decided to write the book because they realised there was a huge gap in the market – these were the stories they wanted to read about, so they decided to write it themselves. They also scatter in anecdotes from their own lives in their bid to tackle the challenges facing black women today, and plenty of advice.
Transport yourself with a sumptuous, mysterious story set in Georgian London. It starts in September 1785 when merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his merchants at his door – saying that he's exchanged Jonah's ship… for what appears to be a mermaid. (Just an everyday, run-of-the-mill swap, then.) Everyone wants to see this creature and Jonah finds himself thrust into the whirl of high society, where he meets courtesan Angelica Neal. But how will the mermaid affect their life together?
Synaesthesia (that's when someone's senses work in such a way they hear" colours or "taste" words) and face blindness fascinated education journalist Sarah J Harris so much that she researched the matter, eventually coming up with the character of a teenage boy with both conditions. Jasper experiences sounds in colours, and now he's seen a new one – the colour of murder – in his neighbour's scream. He knows something terribly wrong has happened to Bee Larkham but he can't quite work out what. It doesn't help that he doesn't recognise faces, not even his own father's. An unusual and insightful read.
This memoir is a dazzling example of what you can achieve if you set your mind to something. Tara was raised in a survivalist family in Idaho and taught to prepare for the End of Days. Isolated from society, she wasn't even allowed to seek medical treatment if she needed it. She spent her days stewing herbs for her healer mother or salvaging metal. The first time she set foot in a classroom was at the age of 17 – and yet 10 years later, she had a PhD from Cambridge. Tara's story is an inspirational, truly unique coming-of-age tale.
Imagine knowing you have a stalker – and the problem being that they live in the flat underneath yours. That's the premise of Dirk Kurbjuweit's chilling novel, loosely based on the real-life experience he and his family suffered. The neighbour leaves notes under their door, puts a ladder under their window to spy on them and posts notes on a communal board, leading Randolph to conclude there's only one way out of the situation. A claustrophobic and unsettling read.
An alcoholic unreliable narrator sees a crime being committed – or does she? If you think the premise sounds familiar, well, in some ways it does. But Anna, like a modern-day Lady of Shallott, is confined to her home by agoraphobia and has been for 10 months, giving a new twist in this tense thriller. Fun fact – AJ Finn is actually the pen name of publishing executive Dan Mallory, who submitted the manuscript under the pseudonym.
Originally published in French as Chanson Douce and already a bestseller, Lullaby opens with a couple returning home to find their nanny has murdered their children. Louise had seemed like the perfect nanny when Myriam and her husband Paul hired her to care for their children in their Paris apartment. But that turns out not to be the case. Lullaby explores the relationship between the couple and their nanny – but be warned, it's not for the faint-hearted.
This tells the true story of freelance writer Rebecca, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 30s. Two years later, and after months of treatment, she discovered a love of gliding. It took her around the world, from Wales' Black Mountains to New Zealand's Southern Alps. She started to write about her new passion, and the history of gliding – the result is Skybound. Sadly she became ill just as she was finishing the book, and died in September 2016.
Thrillers don't get much more twisty and turny than this one. Vivian Miller works for the CIA, rooting out Russian agents. So it's a slight problem then when she uncovers a network – and sees the photograph of someone very, very familiar to her looking back. With the safety of her three young children at stake, she's got to make some life-changing decisions. If you don't mind staying up reading til 3am, this is the one for you.
Having a feel-good war-time novel may seem like a contradiction – but that's exactly what AJ Pearce has pulled off here. Emmeline Lake is a budding journalist in London in 1940 who gets a job typing up letters for an agony aunt (not quite the war correspondent role she's been after). When Mrs Bird refuses to reply to any containing "unpleasantness", Emmie decides to do just that herself. This is AJ Pearce's first novel, and she was inspired by discovering a 1939 women's magazine.
There are many books from established authors to look forward to in the new year too. Anne Tyler's Clock Dance (Chatto and Windus, August) is about a woman who uproots her life to help her son's ex-girlfriend after she is shot. Kate Mosse brings us The Burning Chambers (Mantle, May) – the first instalment of a trilogy spanning three decades, based around the French Wars of Religion.
Kate Atkinson's Transcription (Doubleday, September) tells the tale of a young woman recruited to the secret service during the war – and how her life unravels when she then joins the BBC when the war is over. Jim Crace brings us his new work The Melody in February (Picador), the story of a renowned musician attacked in his home by who he describes as an "innocent and wild" child.
There's also a new novel from Julian Barnes, with The Only Story, out in February (Jonathan Cape).
Sophie Kinsella fans will rejoice at the release of Surprise Me (February, Bantam) about a couple who find out at a health check that they could have another 68 years together – so they set out to, you guessed it, surprise each other to keep the spark alive.
Crime writer Jeffery Deaver also releases his latest book, The Cutting Edge (Hodder & Stoughton), in May.
Lovers of short stories also have Curtis Sittenfeld's first collection in that genre to look forward to, with You Think It, I'll Say It (Random House, April). Then there's Rose McGowan's memoir Brave (HarperCollins, January) – about being born into a cult and then living in the cult of Hollywood.
And, marking the centenary of women over the age of 30 getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst – the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst – brings us Deeds Not Words (Hodder & Stoughton, February). It looks at how women's rights have changed over 100 years, and how far there is still to go.


Touring New England in an attempt to call all Americans to take action and join the fight to help slow climate change, Iowa state Sen. Rob Hogg visited Central Connecticut State University Thursday.
He was blunt when talking about the issue and the importance of combating it.
The fight against climate change, he said, means slashing greenhouse gas emissions by moving beyond fossil fuels, and at the same time safeguarding people and property from more frequent and severe climate disasters — extreme storms, floods, drought, wildfires and general ecological disruptions.
For more on this story, visit: The New Britain Herald : New Britain, Conn., and surrounding areas (newbritainherald.com).


Watch live Max Verstappen and Lando Norris on the same team at the iRacing Bathurst 12hrs – The two are pairing up this weekend when they race the 12 hours of Bathurst sim race. They'll be racing for the BMW team and will also have BMW factory driver Catsburg in the team.
"We all like sim racing. It's off-season and we've been on the sim a lot this winter", Catsburg told Motorsport.com.
"[Redline boss] Atze Kerkhof has been in the epicentre of all this. With that team, we have trained a lot together in the winter. And that has lead to this.
"We share a BMW Z4, just like you would in real life. So Max virtually gets out of the car and I get in, then I drive a couple of stints and then the rotation continues.


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So many hearts make a school
the centenary of the George Palmer Schools Reading
Author: Daphne Barnes-Phillips
Illustrator: Jim Barnes-Phillips
Published by: Corridor Press in October 2007
to commemorate the centenary of George Palmer School.
Price £12.95 now just £7.50
Daphne Barnes-Phillips was born and raised in Reading, spending her formative years living in the Basingstoke Road, just a quarter of a mile from George Palmer Infant and Junior Schools where she was a pupil from 1949 to 1955.
In So many hearts make a school, she tells not only her own memories of her time there, but has collected memories from 50 other pupils and staff across the 100 years that are celebrated in this book.
Many hours of research at the Berkshire Records Office and Reading Central Library have unearthed facts and figures previously unknown to most pupils and staff throughout the century that the George Palmer Schools have existed on the site between Basingstoke Road and Northumberland Avenue.
When it was known that the original buildings were to be demolished in 2004, Daphne organised 3 reunions in those buildings and 4 in the new George Palmer Primary School. At those gatherings, former pupils and staff were encouraged to bring along photographs, many of which have been used in this publication and in George Palmer School in photographs.


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I bought a pack of Suttons 'Rapid Green' Grass Seed on 4 September 2018 from a local garden centre. Like many, my front lawn had gone to straw in the summer heatwave and although most had recovered there were bare patches with no grass at all.
So I decided to buy Suttons "Rapid Green" with a stated "Germination in 7 to 10 days" even though it was more expensive because I wanted it to germinate quickly and establish before the temperatures dropped.
I first used a lawn rake to take out the dead grass. Added Westland bagged topsoil to the bare patches to bring them level. Then added the grass seed as per Suttons instructions, raked the seed in and watered it in and then re watered every other day which cost me a fortune in water.
The first attempt was in the afternoon on 4 September. I tried again on the 20 September and as you can see from the photos the seed has failed. Not only have I wasted £9.99 buying the seed but also the cost of water, around £8 and a few hours of my time.
So I wrote to David Robinson e mail David.Robinson@suttons.co.uk the managing director of Suttons seeds as I thought he should know about this issue. I even offered to return the pack to them with the remaining seed for analysis if they sent me a stamped addressed envelope!
At the very least I expected a garden centre voucher to cover the cost of the seed.
Our Head of customer care was unaware of any recent complaints on Rapid Green but I have nonetheless also checked our complaints log and over the last 12 months I can confirm that we have indeed received none at all..
It has been a popular product for a number of years, both via garden centres and direct to Suttons own database of online customers, so if there was a problem with the formulation or quality of seed, it really would have been expected that we would have received further complaints beyond yours.
Whilst I can sympathise with your disappointment I'm afraid that your complaint really should be directed to the retailer of the product which in this case, is the garden centre from whom you bought it.
I'm sure that you will have done everything required and followed the instructions, however you will notice that the back of the pack states that germination should be within 7-10 days in ideal conditions, so it is still just possible that with adequate watering over the next few days you may still see the grass start to germinate. If not, then as I previously mentioned, please do speak to the retailer of the product.
Well as of today it has now been 34 days and it is still not germinated. Just because no one else has taken the considerable time to complain about the seed, does not mean it perfect Mr Robertson.
I wholeheartedly suggest everyone boycotts Suttons seeds products!


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Sulaiman proposes tournaments to crown only one world champion
New WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman is moving swiftly with his own ideas as he adapts to the role handed to him upon the passing of his long-serving father Jose.
In his latest move, Sulaiman is looking to discuss having just one world champion for each of the seventeen weight divisions with each of the World Boxing Organisation, World Boxing Association and the International Boxing Federation organisations.
Those three, along with the WBC, are the widely recognised bodies that can claim to crown fully-fledged world champions, although the straight-talking Sulaiman is eyeing big changes in the title structure going forward.
"We will work on this proposal. The word "world champion" has lost its meaning," Sulaiman explained.
"We have a proposal to make a tournament to have one world champion. If the other organizations want to have a champion from their organization it's ok, but let's have a one an only world champion," he added.
Sulaiman's efforts are understood to have been greeted favourably by the other three organisation heads, with further and more in-depth negotiations set to take place once all four finally meet in the same room sometime in the future.


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Q: Does anyone know how logs were calculated before calculus? I am curious as to how the original log tables were generated. How did they determine that log base 10 of 7 were approximately 0.845...
I've seen various hand calculations of square roots and sine and come up with my own and I have found they help me understand the nature of those functions. I was wondering if I could strength my intuitions of logs beyond the simple notion of what exponent raises the number to the correct value.

A: Here's one simple solution using bisection:
Assume that it is known how to calculate $b^x$ for any $x$, or at least for any rational $x$.  Then, note that:
$$10^0<7<10^1$$
Thus, we know that $\log_{10}(7)$ is between $0$ and $1$.  We can also calculate $10^{1/2}$ and we know that
$$10^{1/2}<7<10^1$$
We then "bisect" the interval $[1/2,1]$ and find that
$$10^{3/4}<7<10^1$$
And again:
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Stir together first 9 ingredients in a large bowl; stir in shrimp and celery. Spoon shrimp mixture onto bottom half of endive leaves.
Pair with: Sancerre Sauvignon Blanc or Vermentino.
I made this as a Christmas appetizer and it was very good. The problem I had was the endives were really small so the leaves were pretty narrow. I'm not a huge endive fan so that presentation was great for me. The shrimp salad it great and could be used in other preparations such as a sandwich of small appetizer open face sandwich.
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Modjeski, Ralph
"It remains today one of the great bridge engineering accomplishments for railway and highway bridges built in the country."
- Historic American Engineering Record, Southeast Regional Office, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2005
By the late 1880s, New Orleans was being served individually by multiple railroad trunk lines. A committee of citizens decided that this wasn't the most efficient and economical way to provide rail service to the port area along the river. They decided that a belt railroad was needed to provide switching among the different trunks. Prior to the construction of the Huey P. Long Bridge, railcars and trucks had to be ferried across the river. With the construction of this bridge, the Port of New Orleans became better connected to the rail infrastructure on both banks.
Many conditions, such as the "gumbo soil" in and around the river, low land approaches, strong river currents, and the need for high navigation clearances required for ocean-going vessels, made the design and construction of this bridge difficult. Dr. Karl Terzaghi, who had developed a science of soil mechanics based on investigations of the permeability and compressibility of soil samples, concluded that the caissons of the four main piers should be sealed in a sand layer at a depth of approximately 170 feet snd that the fatigue loading should not be more than 5.5 tons per square foot. Prior to Dr. Terzaghi's involvement, it had been recommended that the main piers should be founded from 225 feet to 250 feet below Gulf level. Even when the widening of the bridge was started in 2006, it was determined that no changes to the caisson foundations were needed.
Designed by the firm of Modjeski, Masters and Chase, the Huey P Long Bridge was the first bridge to cross the Mississippi River at New Orleans. Its dual-track railroad portion was the longest, highest railroad bridge in the world at the time with a total length of 22,995 feet. The highway portion, 8,076 feet long, consisted originally of two lanes cantilevered off each side. This bridge opened up the southern portion of the country to improved transportation of commerce and people.
The Huey P. Long Bridge was the first bridge to span the Mississippi River at New Orleans. The dual-track railroad portion, with its total length of 22,995 feet, was the longest, high-level railroad bridge in the world at the time.
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THE CHURCHGOER: A Novel
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"The story of a very mortal and bemused former pastor turned private detective, The Churchgoer faithfully partakes of a California noir that will win over fans of the genre and make quite a few converts, too. It is, above all, the arrival on the scene of an excellent new talent in Patrick Coleman."
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A haunting debut literary noir about a former pastor's search to find a missing woman in the toxic, contradictory underbelly of southern California.
In Mark Haines's former life, he was an evangelical youth pastor, a role model, and a family man—until he abandoned his wife, his daughter, and his beliefs. Now he's marking time between sunny days surfing and dark nights working security at an industrial complex. His isolation is broken when Cindy, a charming twenty-two-year old drifter he sees hitchhiking on the Pacific Coast Highway, hustles him for a breakfast and a place to crash—two cynical kindred spirits.
Then his co-worker is murdered in a robbery gone wrong and Cindy disappears on the same night. Haines knows he should let it go and return to his safe life of solitude. Instead, he's driven to find out where Cindy went, under stranger and stranger circumstances. Soon Mark is chasing leads, each one taking him back into a world where his old life came crashing down—into the seedier side of southern California's drug trade and ultimately into the secrets of an Evangelical megachurch where his past and his future are about to converge. What begins as an investigation becomes a haunting mystery and a psychological journey both for Mark, and for the elusive young stranger he won't let get away.
Set in the early 2000s, The Churchgoer is a gripping noir, a quiet subversion of the genre, and a powerful meditation on belief, morality, and the nature of evil in contemporary life.
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"Nothing is sacred in Patrick Coleman's utterly original debut—not religion, not faith, not love, not family—all of it can be lost at a moment's notice. The one thing left standing in Coleman's sun-bleached noir is hope, even for a cast of characters who are never quite what they seem. (And if hope fails, a little violence might do the trick.) This is pulp-fiction of a higher order, and maybe of a higher calling, the world of God and man clashing in a California beach town as unglamorous as the people who live in it, like if Kem Nunn found religion and then lost it, just as quick."
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"[R]eaders will be curious to see what the author does next." —Publishers Weekly review.
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An icon that sums me up.
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A tattoo on my lower back of the two fingers almost touching from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.
...bizarrely enough, I have an Ezra/Josiah WiP that mentions a goat. But alas, no Ezra/Buck.
But I'd be glad to try my sorry best at an icon.
On the CDs - do bootlegs count?
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Bootlegs are fine and dandy.
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This wish list thing is lovely.
Sneak preview: "I've always thought the goat was a very noble animal," Josiah said.
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I love the unusual design of the bottles! I was sent the bottles with a slightly squared shape (as per the larger picture above) and I really like the shape and feel of the bottle (which is BPA free and 100% recyclable). You can also buy glass bottles if you are avoiding plastic.
All in all a great taste which I would recommend. Pretty silky AQUA Carpatica! Prettty, prettty silky (said in a Larry David-voice).
As well as the Still, there is a Sparkling Mineral Water available in the range which is derived from a naturally occurring sparkling spring, the spring organically carbonates the water which is pretty cool, and different to the artificially produced sparkling water found in many other brands (which can taste a little odd).
AQUA Carpatica is available throughout the UK and Ireland in places like Tesco, Amazon, Whole Foods Market , Harrods and over 300 independent outlets. Give it a go!
I received two free samples but no payment for this review. It is independently written and honest.


I think I have inspired Mr., he saw this sale and then proceeded to buy 12, yes 12 new polo shirts. And the best part, they're not all solid colors, he bought some colors he's NEVER bought before, see the red, orange and green? Added bonus? He even got some with print on them...suffice to say I'm one happy girl, after being together for almost 10 years, I'm starting to rub off on him!
LOL That pile of shirts is great! :) Your trip sounds wonderful... have fun!


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Jumbo opens third e-fulfilment centre
Retail Transport & Logistics
Food retailer Jumbo opened its third e-fulfilment centre (EFC) in Bleiswijk, near Rotterdam, on 4 January. Like its first two EFCs, operations are managed using Locus WMS developed by Centric, which was enriched with new features especially for this purpose. With each new EFC, processes become smarter and more efficient, as Supply Chain Director Karel de Jong reports. "This is where store logistics meets warehousing."
In 2020, Jumbo's online sales exceeded €500 million for the first time. When coronavirus struck in mid-March last year, many consumers unexpectedly took advantage of the opportunity to order groceries online and have them delivered to their homes. "As soon as the virus broke out, we had to scale up our EFCs in Den Bosch and Raalte to maximum capacity. We were fully booked up for weeks," says Karel de Jong.
Jumbo's Supply Chain Director is delighted that the firm's third EFC was opened two months ahead of schedule. "We started filling the stock in December last year, and then by 4 January we were processing orders. Only then could we strike a better balance between supply and demand. If we'd known what we know today, we would've opened our third EFC a year earlier," laughs De Jong.
Separate distribution network
In addition to the distribution network for supermarkets, Jumbo has built up a completely separate distribution network for its online channel in recent years. That was a conscious decision when its first EFC opened in Den Bosch in 2015. "One alternative was to arrange delivery from the stores, but not every store offers the full range. At our food markets, there are no fewer than 32,000 different items. That's the range we want to offer to all our customers."
Fulfilling online orders in existing distribution centres wasn't an option either, says De Jong. "These were set up to handle trade quantities. But consumers only want to buy one or two packs of rice at once – not twelve. So, delivering from our existing distribution centres would mean having to reserve two picking locations for each item: one for trade and one for end consumers."
Separate EFCs for the online channel is the best option, De Jong is convinced. "An EFC is a combination of a large store and a warehouse in terms of the technical, system and organisation aspects. This is where store logistics meets warehousing. That combination is crucial to making our operations efficient."
A day and a half
The EFCs mirror the way stores work when it comes to design and restocking. The new one in Bleiswijk is equipped with pallet racks, with shelves at ground level. In fact, these are just like regular supermarkets, but on a blown-up scale. "We refill the stock from the existing distribution centres three times a day. What we deliver has to fit onto the shelf in one go to prevent us from having anything left over. We use the same forecasting replenishment software as we do for the stores. This helps us to identify and predict consumer behaviour."
Jumbo uses the same principles used in every other warehouse for the layout of the shelves: fast-moving products at the front, slow-moving ones at the back. "When you're in-store, you'll see all the different types of pasta next to each other, so you can compare them. But that's not how we do things in the EFCs. We only look at the turnover rate, so our staff don't need to go back and forth all day."
"This EFC is where store logistics meets warehousing"
Karel de Jong Supply Chain Director at Jumbo
To manage operations in the EFCs, Jumbo uses the same warehouse management system (WMS) as in its existing distribution centres – Locus WMS. But it wasn't a done deal right away, explains De Jong. "When we decided to build a separate EFC in 2015, we looked at the systems available on the market. For the online food sector, there was very little standard software available at that time. Because we were already working with Locus, we discussed whether Centric could manage to build a suitable WMS based on that system. And they did."
The result is a completely new version of Locus with features developed specifically for the EFCs. "Centric not only knows how to manage a complex warehouse, but also how to run a store. They brought that knowledge into the process, and that's where their added value lies," explains De Jong.
Wrist-mounted scanners
The process in the EFCs starts with planning the routes for home delivery. Once that is done, Locus knows which orders should be ready for transport to the home delivery hubs at what time. The software then divides each order into partial orders, one for each zone. De Jong says, "We have five zones in total. For each zone, Locus combines the different partial orders into batches, so staff can gather multiple partial orders at the same time. They use a cart with space for fifteen to eighteen orders."
Unlike at the regional distribution centres, EFC employees are equipped with wrist-mounted scanners instead of headsets. "Voice-picking is a highly efficient solution for collecting store orders. But when we pick online orders, we want to be 100% sure that every customer gets the right product. That's why we scan not only every single item, but also the crate that it goes into."
Managing leftover stock
With each new EFC, there is an improvement to both the operations and the WMS. De Jong points out the marshalling area, where the partial orders from the different zones come back together and are merged. "It was a very fragmented process in Den Bosch. In Raalte, we did improve it, including through barcode scanning. In Bleiswijk, we've made things even smarter by linking Locus to our route planning system."
Another learning point concerns replenishing the picking stock. "We do our best to prevent leftover stock, but not everything fits on the shelf all the time. In Den Bosch, we had to find somewhere else to store all that, without any help from the WMS. In Raalte, we have made a distinction in the WMS between the bulk and picking locations. Leftover stock is kept in bulk locations, and the WMS notifies us if a picking location needs to be restocked. In Bleiswijk, we've gone a step further, and we now keep the leftover stock on the bottom or top shelf as standard. That saves us a lot of walking and also increases availability."
What is also unique about the EFC in Bleiswijk is that it has also been designed as a back-up for retail distribution. "A distribution centre being completely out of action, due to fire for example, is every large retailer's nightmare. How fast could we get distribution back up and running again?" De Jong asks himself out loud.
The EFC in Bleiswijk occupies a logistics building. Despite being 12 metres high, only the lower 2 metres are currently used. "But we decided to completely equip the building with pallet racks including beams with the correct load capacity anyway. We purchased additional voice-picking headsets and are now working to obtain a copy of the Locus version we use in our regional distribution centres. So, if we do lose capacity at the distribution centre in Woerden or Breda, for example, we can empty the EFC completely and set it up for retail distribution within a week. From there, we can stock 150 stores."
Fourth EFC
It is not clear where the market for online food will go from here. Overall sales are likely to continue to grow, but perhaps not as rapidly as last year. And it remains to be seen what the impact of delivery start-ups like Gorillas and Flink will be. "According to the latest market figures, we're the third biggest player in online food, after Albert Heijn and Picnic. But we want to become number two, just like we are in the physical supermarket sector. That means putting our foot down on the accelerator," says De Jong.
Jumbo's online distribution network continues to grow. This year, the company is expanding its number of home delivery hubs from six to sixteen. It's not a question of whether a fourth EFC is needed, but when. And whether this will be a manual operation or an automated one, De Jong doesn't know yet. If Jumbo opts for the latter, it must be tried-and-tested technology. "But setting up a mechanised EFC typically takes three years. I expect we'll need a fourth EFC well before that."
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AP Pushes Ahead with Rights Microformat
July 27, 2009 · by Bill Rosenblatt · in Fingerprinting, Rights Licensing, Standards · 4 Comments
Details are emerging about the scheme that the Associated Press, the world's largest newsgathering organization, announced back in April to protect its content and crack down on "free riders" that use it without permission. Last Thursday, the AP's board approved a plan to integrate a set of technologies to address the problem, including a set of metatags or "microformat" called hNews and Attributor's text fingerprinting.
The AP developed its microformat in house as a means of accomplishing two things: providing standard metadata to search engines to help them improve search results, and specifying rights. HNews is based on the microformat hAtom. One of its components is a rights expression language called hRights, which in turn is based on ccREL, the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language. CcREL is able to express Creative Commons terms such as required attribution as well as extended commercial licensing terms.
The AP is building a news registry around the microformat, and it hopes that some of its affiliates will use the news registry to facilitate discovery and tracking of their content as well. It claims that the effort is complementary to other standards efforts, most notably ACAP.
It's true that ACAP is designed for a slightly different purpose than hRights. The purpose of ACAP is to indicate rights that search engines have to index content and display it in search results; for example, an ACAP tag set may specify that a search engine can display a snippet of a news story in search results and only for a week after the publication date. In contrast, hRights is a more general-purpose rights expression language.
Nevertheless, I can't help but feel that the AP's impressive effort will eclipse ACAP. The main reason is that hNews offers something fundamental that ACAP doesn't: an incentive for search engines to adopt it. The standard metadata in the microformat is an actual benefit to search engines, and Google has expressed interest — at least in theory.
There are other reasons why hNews should eclipse ACAP. One is that hNews is built on technology with ties to Creative Commons, which could make it applicable to a flood of user-generated content from sites like Flickr. Another is that news publishers can only support a limited number of metatag sets on their content, and hNews/hRights is more general-purpose than ACAP.
The hNews microformat will contain what the AP calls a "beacon," which a web-crawler will use to find its content throughout the web and flag unauthorized uses. The AP has not yet said what steps it will take when it finds free riders or how it intends to allow for potential fair uses.
Of course, this scheme doesn't actually protect content; it only attaches searchable metadata to it — metadata that a determined free rider can easily strip off. That's where Attributor comes in. Attributor's technology uses "text fingerprinting," or sophisticated pattern matching, to find instances of its customers' content throughout the web and flag it in similar ways. The AP was one of Attributor's original customers; Reuters is also an Attributor user.
The AP intends to launch the news registry and hNews technologies in phases over the coming year. It is offering the technology as an open standard and has gotten the endorsement of the Media Standards Trust, a UK-based nonprofit organization for advancing the cause of journalism.
If the AP can launch this scheme successfully over the coming year, it should easily emerge as the publishing industry's preferred approach to online rights management. It has all the right pieces in place, including technology that is built on open standards, is designed to solve practical problems rather than boil the ocean, and has incentives for almost every legitimate entity that wants to participate.
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Instable and dangerous occurrences affecting specific communities or whole societies can be devastating to systems of goverance and state function. Crises are 'emergencey events' deemed to be negative changes in security, economic, political, societal or environmental affairs, especially when they occur abruptly. A deeper understanding of the path to resolving these 'emergency events' or 'crises', are central to CIC's efforts to help actors effectively navigate new risks and find opportunities for effective cooperation.
Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding
Region/Country: Middle East, Libya, Syria
Justice for All and the Public Health Emergency
Justice systems are vital to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigating its worst effects. This new Pathfinders briefing, the first in the Justice in a Pandemic series, draws on input from over 50 justice experts from around the world and calls for urgent action to build and maintain justice for all in the face of the unfolding pandemic.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): David Steven
Co-Author(s): Maaike de Langen
Topic(s): Crises, Global Governance, Rule of Law
Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies
Food for Thought – Talking Points on Food Prices
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, one urgent issue that CIC is watching is the price of food around the world. In this short talking points memo, Sarah Cliffe and Nendirmwa Noel highlight specific country situations, emerging risks, and practical recommendations.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Nendirmwa Noel, Sarah Cliffe
Topic(s): Crises, Food Security, Global Governance
Program(s): Multilateral Reform, Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies
CIC and COVID–19: A Message from the Director
The NYU Center on International Cooperation, like our partners and colleagues around the world, is adapting our work to cope with the impact of the COVID–19 pandemic and contribute within our own areas of expertise. This message from CIC Director Sarah Cliffe explains how our work on peace, justice, inclusion, and reducing inequalities will continue, as we also strive to to contribute to the global conversation about how governments, multilateral institutions, and civil society can respond to COVID–19.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Sarah Cliffe
Topic(s): 2030 Agenda, Crises, Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises
Program(s): Humanitarian Crises, Multilateral Reform, Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies
Not Just in Transit: Drugs, the State and Society in West Africa
Getting to Peace: New Approaches to Ending Conflict
Kofi Annan, Syria and the Uses of Uncertainty in Mediation
Bringing Development to Fore of Refugee Response
The Mess Obama Left Behind in Iraq
The Roots of America's Mideast Delusion
Challenges of using multilateralism effectively
UN General Assembly High-level Week: The Challenge of a Lifetime: Ensuring Universal Access to COVID-19 Health Technologies
The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that ensuring the right to health of all citizens in all countries is a matter of utmost urgency, and that no one will be safe until everyone is safe. The high-level event, co-hosted by the President of Costa Rica, will explore ways to enhance international cooperation through initiatives like C-TAP (the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool) and ensure universal access to health technologies, including a vaccine.


This week I'm posting free patterns and a tutorial for sewing a Barbie/fashion doll quinceañera dress. Of course, this pattern can also be used to make your fashion dolls a wedding gown, prom dress, or just a lovely long dress.
Yesterday I posted the skirt pattern, today I'm posting the re-designed bodice pattern, and tomorrow I'll post a tutorial showing you how to sew the whole thing together.
So be sure and come back tomorrow to see what I've got planned next!
Sadly, I won't be spending Valentines with Jack due to our long distance relationship, however I thought I'd share the lovely weekend we had together a few weeks ago, when I went to visit him in Aberystwyth.
Aber is a town in West Wales (UK) which is quite historical, has a beautiful beach front and a quaint yet modern town. It has a ruined castle, a harbour, and a variety of bars and clubs, one of which is on the pier.
Despite the cold, the views I managed to capture are truly stunning, and I came back to Leeds feeling like I'd had a mini seaside break.
Michael Marks, a Russian born Polish refugee, opened his first penny bazaar in a covered arcade in Leeds in 1884. His slogan was 'Don't ask the price, it's a penny' and after successful trading, went into partnership ten years later with Tom Spencer, creating the beginnings of the company we know today.
To celebrate the company's 100th birthday in 1984, Marks & Spencer collected together many historical artefacts to create the company archive. This archive now contains more than 70,000 items from 1884 to the present day and is now located on the Leeds University campus in the Michael Marks building, approximately 20 minutes walk from Leeds railway station. Further details can be found on the Marks in Time website.


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January 14 th 2020 Comment
Author: Susie Lindsay, The Law Commission of Ontario
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The impact of Automated Decision-Making in the Civil and Administrative Justice System requires deliberate and considerate policy and legal guidance.
On December 10th the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) brought together lawyers, developers, policymakers, academics and community advocates for an informal and collaborative discussion of the issues and implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) in Ontario's civil and administrative justice system.
These issues are important because of the examples of AI being used in civil and administrative government decision-making in the U.S. and Europe. AI technologies are being deployed in the areas of government benefits, public health, education, housing, child welfare, immigration, and numerous criminal justice applications.[1] What's notable about these examples is that they are the areas of greatest concern to access to justice advocates: "poverty law", human rights law, child welfare law, criminal law, and refugee/immigration law.
To date, it appears Canadian governments have taken a more deliberate approach to introducing AI and ADM systems. The most notable example in Canada is a system developed by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) that automates decision-making to assess a "portion of the temporary residence business process by training a model capable of recognizing key factors at play in decision making on visitor visa e-Applications."[2] This system automatically triages applications and "recommends" applications that should be approved at this step or further reviewed.
The LCO believes that AI and automated decision-making systems represent a new frontier for access to justice. These technologies present significant challenges – and opportunities – to traditional models of human rights, legal regulation, dispute resolution, and due process. It is incumbent on policy-makers, advocates, and justice system leaders to understand the impact of this technology and to act thoughtfully.
The December 10th forum was organized around three major, related issues:
How to ensure due process/procedural fairness in the use of these systems;
How to address issues of bias and discrimination; and,
What is the most effective way to regulate these systems.
The forum started with presentations of three significant cases where AI has been deployed to assist with or replace government decision making: the determination of Medicaid benefits in Arkansas; evaluating teachers in Houston; and to investigate potential benefits fraud in the Netherlands. We then had a discussion with administrative law and human rights experts on the legal issues that arise in this context such as disclosure, notice, transparency, bias and discrimination. Finally, we heard about efforts made to date regarding establishing regulations of these systems. A focus of the discussion was on the the Government of Canada's Directive on Automated Decision-Making (the Directive)[3] and Algorithmic Impact Assessment (AIA)[4] as an important, concrete initiative designed to address due process/procedural fairness in AI and automated decision-making. We also looked at The New York City Automated Decision Systems Task Force as an important American example of regulatory initiative.[5]
Attendees participated in an afternoon workshop to apply their specific expertise to these issues. Overarching themes developed through all discussions. Concerns with the use of such systems were widespread and all encompassing, though opportunities emerged as well.
Many participants commented on the need for clear disclosure of the use of new AI tools and the rationale and objective for introducing them. Comprehensive participation in the creation and rollout of ADM systems in government decision making was another focus. Specifically, the populations affected by the new tools should be consulted about their development. However, there was some apprehension as to how such participation could best be achieved. The role of the decision maker, the impact of new systems on humans involved in the process, and the need for reasons to understand how a decision was made were all addressed. Data management was another big issue. AI tools are only as good as the data they rely on. Is the data valid? reliable? current? sufficient? Existing data that is bias or discriminatory is going to produce results that are bias or discriminatory. However, this concern could be balanced with the idea that AI tools may offer potential to track and expose bias. Further, introducing a new method of making government decisions introduces an opportunity to scrutinize existing regulatory systems.
The LCO notes significant law reform take-ways include comments such as:
Discussions and creation of guidelines for "Ethical AI" and "AI Policy" are not sufficient. New legislation and regulations are needed.
The areas most urgently in need of new law include: clarity regarding liability for AI systems; rules about government procurement; regulations around transparency and disclosure.
New rules or regulations should focus on government action, not technology. They should include clear definitions and should be focused narrowly so as to be effective.
The LCO is drafting a report about the event and emerging issues which is expected for release in early 2020. For more information, please go the LCO website at https://www.lco-cdo.org/en/our-current-projects/law-reform-and-technology/
Susie Lindsay
Counsel, Law Commission of Ontario
[1] For examples in the U.S. see https://ainowinstitute.org/nycadschart.pdf. For examples in Europe see Automating Society – Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU, Algorithm Watch https://algorithmwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Automating_Society_Report_2019.pdf
[2] IRCC, "Augmented Decision-Making @ IRCC", Presentation to the Symposium on Algorithmic Government (April 24, 2019), online: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/documents/pdf/english/services/ai-agenda/cantin-eng.pdf (IRCC Presentation).
[3] Government of Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat, Directive on Automated Decision-Making, available online: https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=32592.
[4] Government of Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat, Algorithmic Impact Assessment, currently published as Beta v.0.7, available through https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/modern-emerging-technologies/responsible-use-ai/algorithmic-impact-assessment.html.
[5] See generally, https://www1.nyc.gov/site/adstaskforce/index.page
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Castelldefels Castle and Piratia
Who hasn't wanted to be a pirate for a day? Let yourself be surprised by the history behind the walls of the castle of Castelldefels and its spectacular views from the terrace. Enjoy a pleasant walk through its gardens and a visit to PIRATIA, the new pirate attraction where you will put yourself in the shoes of a cabin boy who embarks on a pirate attack on the city's coast. The audiovisuals will guide you through the deck of a ship, its cabin and you will even talk to the ship's captain! By docking in Castelldefels, you will be able to test your skill in the use of cannons, fortify the coast, plan a pirate attack and even dress up as a character from the time. Family activity.
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Recently, I have come across many people asking me about computer vision and self driving cars and various online MOOC that address the same topic. You have many options available like AppliedAI course which is a pretty exhaustive course for DS and AI, Coursera has its own self driving cars module offered by university of Toronto. But I would say that Udacity's SDCE is a lot more specific, to the point and has various projects which gives students a hands on experience on how a self driving car is built and how your code is integrated into an actual self driving car.
The main motto behind this series is to learn how to build a self driving car myself and convey that knowledge to all the interested researchers, engineers and all the others who are interested in this world of computer vision and self driving cars so that they can benefit from it.