There is something so splendid about the beginning of a new year. Bookstores display gorgeous 2012 diaries, cafés and restaurants delight gourmands with their festive menus, and the skies are illuminated with fluttering fireworks. It also gives us time to reflect and celebrate moments that were etched in our hearts from the previous year, and people start planning for that new year and how to improve themselves. The author Phyllis Nicholson says, "And what does January hold? Clean account books. Bare diaries. Three hundred and sixty-five new days, neatly parceled into weeks, months, seasons. A chunk of time, of life… those few first notes like an orchestra tuning up before the play begins".
Think back to your childhood when you still had a sense of wonder and envisaged how your life would play out before the naysayers popped those dreams like arrows piercing multicolored balloons. Is there something on your wish list that you always wanted to do but never got a chance to? Many people go through life mistakenly thinking that to live spiritually means that they cannot revel in life's abundance. If these thoughts ever crossed your mind, it is reassuring to read the Quran and ponder on the many verses where God encourages us to be happy.
This morning, spend a glorious hour putting a vision for the upcoming year. Curl up in your sunken sofa, sip a luscious cup of banoffee hot chocolate, and paint a vision of your wishes in your notebook. Go wild. After you finish, take little steps to ensure you do your part in the plan and luxuriate in waiting for God to do the rest, trusting that He is All-Loving and All-Merciful.
Love God more and get closer to Him by enlightening myself and always trusting that He equally loves me.
Shower my family with unconditional love and blissful times.
Bless the hopeful and cheerful children who are waiting for glimmers of hope, be it through a scholarship, nourishing meals, a library of books, or kind and uplifting words.
Devour books on children's literature, contemporary women's novels, travelogues, gourmand cooking, self-help and parenting guidebooks, and historical fiction set in the Andalusian and Ottoman eras.
Handwrite my epiphanies and reflections. Mythologist Joseph Campbell (author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces) says that wonders are revealed in sacred spaces, be they in the form of a garden, a poem, a painting, or a book. My library is my sanctuary.
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The team of children who best resemble their Cardiff City heroes and make the winning line-up will be treated to a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet their Cardiff City heroes at the stadium and also take part and create a unique team photo alongside their boys.
Peter's partnership with Cardiff City has been successfully shortlisted as a finalist for Club Sponsorship / Partnership of the Year at the upcoming Football Business Awards 2013 and follows the club's recent 'Family Club of the Year' win at the Football League Awards.
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Join us for an interior decorating class on Smarter, Smaller Living with the always lovely Cathy Chitwood - Tuesday, July 21st from 6-7PM. Stick around after the class and talk with our builder, Casey, or tour the neighborhood!
Advanced registration is required. Email cathythedesigner@gmail.com or call 317.566.6500 - class size is limited. Please make a check out to "CC Designs", $10 in advance or $15 at the door.
Join Interior Decorator Cathy Chitwood from Drake Interiors and the Inglenook Team for a complimentary Mantle and Bookshelf design class. Cathy's class will be open to Inglenook friends and families and will be held on Thursday, April 24th from 6 - 7 pm! To reserve a spot please call 317-566-6500 or email cathythedesigner@gmail.com. Tours of Inglenook's latest homes will be offered directly before (5-5:45PM) and following (7-7:45PM) the class.
Thanks to all who came out to help celebrate Mardi Gras with us! We had a wonderful time visiting with friends new and old. The day was kicked off with the inaugural Krewe of Inglenook parade complete with a grand marshal, band, and a float!
The weather is warming up and houses are going up! Basements have been dug for home sites #5, 6, and 7 – a custom-built extended Ellis, Iris, and the final Betty Sue respectively. The East Side neighborhood construction is wrapping up with finishing touches being put on the sold Betty Sue and first ever Iris!
This Spring we're playing host to the lovely ladies of the Indianapolis Junior League, as well as interior decorator Cathy Chitwood. Cathy will be holding an interior decorating class that focuses on built-ins! Cathy's class will be open to Inglenook friends and families on Thursday, April 24th!
Come experience the only pocket neighborhood in Indiana! Join current Inglenook residents and friends Saturday, February 22nd from 1:00-4:00 PM in the Ellis.
Take a private tour of our newest cottage homes, experience life in a pocket neighborhood, & meet our builder, Casey.
We'll be celebrating Mardi Gras with an Inglenook touch with beads, food, drinks and Dixieland Jazz; there might even be a little parade!
Stop by beforehand for a sneak peak at our homes! Our sales office is open Wednesday-Friday, 1-5PM and Saturday-Sunday, 1-4PM.
Please save the date for an upcoming porch party on Thursday, September 26th from 6-8PM. Stop by Inglenook and tour the latest constructed Ross Chapin homes – the Ellis, an extended Plumrose, and a Madison.
Experience the community, talk with our builder, Casey, and enjoy the beautiful art from Kathryn Elizabeth from Blue Skies Original Paintings!
This is a night you're not going to want to miss! Come on by and check it out!


I have been a quiet for a few days, but hopefully this giant photo diary makes up a little. Happy to finally have visited Berlin, going there was on my wish list for a long time.
Inviting, friendly, creative, relaxed and full of inspiring people and initiatives...Berlin is OFT: Ohne Frage Toll.
Loved the huge amount of small coffee places (with really cute terraces, as you can see in the picture it looks like random chairs and tables are set together) and bakeries.
Besides cycling through the city, two peaks of the trip were seeing Florence and The Machine perform and shopping at the Flohmarkt am Mauerpark on Sunday morning. The park is not a typical leafy oasis but the vibe is great and the crowd visiting the market fashionable.
Shopping and outfit post will follow, so stay tuned!


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If you have a bike, you can bring it with you on the Long Island Railroad from Manhattan. Otherwise, rent a bike for the day from Piccozzi's Garage and Bike Shop for $25. You'll find the shop easily – walk about five minutes from the ferry terminal to Bridge Street, near the Mobile gas station. While riding, keep your eyes peeled for fast-moving cars, as there are few shoulders and sidewalks on the route.
Being new to Shelter Island, I started out following a mapped trail, soon discovering that some of the most intriguing sights—tucked away beaches and charming little side streets—revealed themselves once I deviated from the path. The island is known for its stunning natural beauty, but once you've met your first chatty local, you'll learn that tasty food and progressive art is also easy to find here, so expect to make a few stops along the way. There are 8,000 acres to explore on Shelter Island, but there's no need to feel overwhelmed—the hills are gentle, yet challenging enough for the average cyclist. To see the island's finest attributes, follow the 8-mile loop from leafy Shelter Island Heights to Crescent Beach, where you'd be wise to try a delicious cocktail at the trendy Sunset Beach Hotel -- look for the orange beach chairs. As the route progresses, you'll find off-the-beaten-path Shell Beach and Bootleggers Alley, a remnant of the island's wily past.
Cultural High Points
Shelter Island's proximity to the small city of Greenport presents visitors with plenty of artistic diversions. Just a leisurely five-minute ferry ride away, Greenport touts a creative community of artists, chefs and vintners, the fruits of whose labors dot each attractive street. There are numerous galleries showing everything from artisan furniture to multimedia art, murals, sculpture and pottery. Consult the Greenport Gallery Walk website for event listings and gallery locations. Back on Shelter Island, the Boltax Gallery livens up on Friday nights, hosting a salon-style, artist-created event and reception every week. The gallery hosts a mix of local and international, young and mid-career artists. The Perlman Music Program is another point of pride for Shelter Island residents. The program, set on a rolling property just across the street from Crescent Beach, hosts a select group of talented young musicians who perform in New York City, the Hamptons and on the Shelter Island campus throughout the year – they've even played at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
Hiking the Coastline
Shelter Island's vast empty shores and stunning green landscapes are enough to make even the most harried city resident forget where she came from, I found. High on the fragrant, fresh air and sight of so much water, I took things further by visiting Mashomack Preserve, a 2,100-acre property overseen by the Nature Conservancy. With ten miles of coastline, and a textbook array of ecosystems – creeks, forests, salt marshes and meadows – the preserve begs for a visit. I left my bike at the rack at the visitor center before taking to the trails; choose from an easy 1.5-mile trek, or a more rigorous 11- mile hike. Giant, dinosaur-like birds called Ospreys nest here, so keep your eyes peeled. Guided hikes are available if you call ahead. Hiking the preserve adds another level of depth to your Shelter Island experience, revealing an array of plants and animals not found elsewhere on the island. Although it's best to attempt the longer trail with a partner, I encountered several friendly solo walkers during my 1.5-mile outing.
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There are a range of comfortable lodgings on Shelter Island, including historic inns, modern homes and cottages reminiscent of Grandma's house. Most places require a two-night stay, and rooms fill quickly, so try to book far in advance.
For a chic and quiet place to rest, the Shelter Island Hideaway is a gorgeous, European-inspired option. The Hideaway features two properties on one-acre of perhaps the most exquisitely landscaped grounds on the island. Both the larger house and smaller (but still roomy and airy) cottage are fashionably sophisticated in both layout and decor. There is plenty of privacy on both properties, and each has its own swimming pool and luxurious outdoor patio area. The cottage touts crystal clear Koi ponds filled with goldfish, while the house features an expansive front deck, vegetable garden and large swimming pool. Kitchens in both properties are top-notch, ideal for a week or month-long stay during which you'll want to do your own cooking. The Hideaway is in an ideal location, just across the street from Bootleggers Alley and a lovely beach where you'll likely never see more than five or ten people.
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Billie Eilish is perhaps one of the most successful artists of this year. With her recent Grammy Award win, the young singer is due to only get more popular as her career continues. However with fame comes criticism, and a lot of Eilish's critics have mentioned her style. While the way Eilish dresses certainly does not define her art, she has recently brought the ongoing criticisms to light.
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Feel Like a Muse even if your guy isn't a poet. Have you ever wondered how some people wind up together? Have you seen these beautiful, accomplished women dating guys that are jerks? We've all seen those women who are not just good looking and accomplished, but they are also generous, sweet, intelligent, and influential in the community, Some women keep dating bad boyfriends perpetually.
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Looking for Mr. Meeting guys has never been easier thanks to dating sites like Match. But going from "swiping right" to love? That's trickier, says Tina B. Tessina , PhD, aka Dr. Still, plenty of guys are looking for love, too. We asked three relationship experts to share their best dating tips. Here's their advice. What you share online "reflects who you are and may cause your future date to think of you in a certain way, or pre-judge without the full picture.
Avoid rants about exes, scandalous photos, or any other content that could scare a great guy away.
And yes, it can, but it is the exception rather than the rule. Coronavirus has rewritten the rules of dating online, and though dating apps have rushed to meet the new parameters – rolling out special features to encourage video and long-distance dating – there are unique pitfalls to dating in the era of social distancing. Relationship author Kerri Sackville says try not to get emotionally invested in any one person until you meet face to face.
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Audiences have seen what these characters are like in relationships, which demonstrates whether they are good to have as a boyfriend or girlfriend. Some of them seem horrendous to be in a relationship with for various reasons, while others could make the perfect romantic connection. Here are 5 characters we'd hate to date and 5 from other relationships that would make a perfect partner. Cho Chang hasn't exactly had a great run of love. Her first boyfriend was killed by Voldemort and her second was more of a rebound that quickly fizzled out and resulted in Harry Potter dating Ginny instead.
Cho needs some time to find out who she is now and so she wouldn't be great to date in the near future. She needs to take a break from boyfriends and genuinely get over Cedric first. She's an incredibly bright witch with a brilliant future. She's also genuinely kind, as shown by her work with the house elves. Her and Ron's relationship is magical to watch and although it has had its ups and downs there would definitely be a great foundation to build upon if anyone started dating someone like Hermione.
Harry Potter is impulsive, a bad listener, and pretty reckless. He gets into trouble quite a lot and doesn't seem to be able to work on a relationship very well. He wouldn't be a great boyfriend.
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Millie Bobby Brown has made a name for herself in the entertainment scene at a tender age. The Spanish-born British actress is making major career moves that have seen her rise to prominence and gain a number of followers. Most of her fans are particularly interested in knowing about Millie Bobby Brown's relationships, with most of them asking, who is Millie Bobby Brown dating?
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Many women may casually date multiple guys, but some modern-day women are practicing polyandry: having multiple husbands or, in a contemporary, repurposed definition, several serious or life-long partners. Polyandry, the female-focused version of polygamy, is technically illegal in the United States ; thus, those who practice it do so without literally getting married. Denise Renye , a San Francisco-based psychologist who specializes in sex and intimacy.
But that doesn't mean a woman can't dream of putting a ring on those many male partners. I even asked my mother about it, and she laughed said it would be way too much work," a year-old woman from Boulder, Colorado, who goes by Jislaaik tells Broadly. Very active in her local kink community as a mistress, Jislaaik is currently seeking three husbands in a scenario she likens to Big Love, only with "a higher level of control and authority on my part, and way better sex.
While some women like Jislaaik relish the chance to celebrate polyandry, other women in polyamorous communities view having multiple male partners as simply an inherent facet of the general polyamorous lifestyle.
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Ashley Olsen and her twin Mary-Kate Olsen have kept their lives as private as two world-famous child stars-turned-adult designers can manage. But while the girls haven't spoken about their love lives, the tabloids and paparazzi have gotten some details on who they're with. Mary-Kate has been married to Olivier Sarkozy since but requested an emergency divorce in May , during the coronavirus pandemic. Ashley, meanwhile, is currently dating a year-old artist, Louis Eisner.
The two have been photographed together a couple times. Louis is a bicoastal artist who grew up in California. His mother Lisa is a famous fashion photographer and jewelry designer, so there's art in his blood. He wrote a glowing caption about her on his Instagram last Mother's Day. He was featured in Interview back in December , where the outlet noted that Louis went to Columbia University and studied art history.
He was part of Still House Group , a collective of young artists, for years after he graduated. You can see some of his paintings formerly on auction at Artnet. He has a more abstract style. Apparently Ivanka Trump bought an Eisner piece in , so his work is part of her art collection. Louis was born on July 31, , so he'll be 32 this summer.
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November is a month of rediscovering your true essence and remembering what you have always known: that you are perfect as you are.
November is a highly spiritual month, thanks to Neptune which is very active throughout November.
If in September Neptune had challenging aspects, unleashing natural disasters and bringing chaos all around the world, this time around Neptune makes mainly positive aspects to other planets: a trine to the Sun, a sextile to the Full Moon, and a trine to Venus. On November 22nd Neptune stations and turns direct, bringing Neptunian themes into our consciousness.
Neptune will ask you to find a higher order in your life, to upgrade your existence to the next level of consciousness.
Water and Fire are the dominant energies in November, asking you to tune into your feelings, connect with the deeper current of your life and to allow inspiration to guide you.
This is not a month of new beginnings – wait until January 2018 to start your big, brave project. November is the month when you need to look inside – what truly defines you? What is the missing, overlooked element? How can you bring it to the next level of awareness?
Transformation is a process that most of us fear – it feels like we have to amputate a part of ourselves. But transformation is not always about destroying the old.
Transformation also means remembering who you really are – bringing into awareness that which has been unconscious or unknown, that part of you which has been forgotten.
November is a time to dig inside you, to find a higher order, an order that resonates better with the person you've become, who you've developed into.
On November 11th we also have the 3rd and final trine between Saturn and Uranus. Saturn in positive aspect to Uranus facilitates change and restructuring of the old self. The change is harmonious, this time you won't resist it – you will embrace it effortlessly.
Change does not have to be about becoming someone else, but about rearranging the pieces of the puzzle in your life in a way that better serves your purpose.
Maybe it is not 'something' that is missing from your life – it is how everything fits in the bigger picture of your life that makes the difference.
Take what you already have and find a higher order, a better arrangement.
Deep inside our hearts, we all long for the lost paradise, for that place we all emerged from. We chase it all our lives: the perfect job, the perfect home, the perfect lover, the perfect relationship.
Neptune will show you that if you keep chasing it outside, it will keep on slipping through your fingers. But if you realize you have it inside you, if you realize you are already perfect – you will finally find it.
On November 3rd Sun is trine Neptune. Today you will be more idealistic than usual and you will want to bring your best self forward. And because you put your best self forward, because you act from your higher self – one of your dreams can come true today, one of your goals can be made real.
The good thing is that you don't even have to put too much effort into it. You will simply attract it towards you. With Sun in aspect to Neptune, you have to take it easy. Neptune brings a very subtle, soft energy. Now is time to pull, rather than push.
On November 4th we have a Full Moon at 11° Taurus. This is a sweet full Moon making beautiful aspects to Neptune – the Moon is sextile to Neptune and Sun is trine to Neptune.
But that's not the full story. The Full Moon ruler, Venus is exactly opposite Uranus, the planet of surprises. This makes the Full Moon in Taurus a great time for love and romance – don't be afraid to venture yourself through unknown territories.
On November 5th Mercury enters Sagittarius. After spending several weeks in the deep waters of Scorpio, Mercury is now ready for a new adventure.
This placement favors big endeavors, big picture thinking, and is not so good for detail work. Sagittarius is about "believing without seeing", about higher knowledge, beyond proofs and facts.
That's why Mercury is in detriment in Sagittarius. Mercury is all about facts, and proofs, is about what you can see, hear, and touch. Our mind can get a bit confused in the coming weeks – the best way to deal with this transit it to allow your intuition to take over.
On November 7th Venus enters Scorpio. Love becomes ALL or NOTHING, more private, more mysterious, more intense. In the next weeks, making a deep, true connection with someone who understands you becomes more important than ever.
This is a good transit to boost intimacy in relationships. Just be aware that Venus in Scorpio needs trust. Be ready to offer your trust first. Don't wait for the other to give it to you. They are going through the same process – someone has to make the first step.
On November 11th Saturn trines Uranus for the 3rd and last time. Saturn trine Uranus is one of the most important transits of the year. Saturn represents our foundations, our security. Uranus is the pioneer of change. Saturn and Uranus represent the old and the new coming together.
You can now let go of some duties or responsibilities which restrict you. You can let go of some old habits which don't serve you anymore and introduce new habits, new routines in your life. The transition will be smooth thanks to the positive aspect between Saturn and Uranus.
You will feel the benefits of this transit especially if you have planets or angles around 25° in Fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) or if your ascendant is Capricorn or Aquarius.
On November 13th Venus is conjunct Jupiter and Mercury is square Neptune.
Today you will be more open than usual to the good things in life. You will feel more appreciation and gratitude for what life has to offer, and focus much more on the positive aspects of things.
You will also be more generous and more open not only to give, but also to receive love. Your self-worth will improve and you will feel more content about yourself, more at peace with who you are. As a result, the others will start appreciating you even more.
On November 16th Venus in Scorpio is trine Neptune in Pisces. Venus is the planet of love and Neptune is the planet of higher love. Needless to say that love vibrations will resonate at a higher frequency today.
If you are born in a water sign or if you have many planets in water signs you will feel like a fish in the water during this transit.
On November 18th we have a New Moon at 26° Scorpio. The New Moon is quincunx Uranus in Aries and the ruler of the New Moon, Pluto, is square Mars in Libra. This New Moon is Scorpio is pretty challenging and will ask you to find healthy ways to assert your power.
If you are the type of person who imposes their will on others, the New Moon will be particularly tough, because it will ask you to surrender to a higher power.
If in contrary, you have issues in asserting yourself, the New Moon will help you get in touch with your inner power.
On November 19th Mars is square Pluto, bringing our anger and frustration to the surface. We all have anger inside ourselves. Mars square Pluto will ask us to deal with it in one way or another.
Mars represents our self-will. Pluto is the higher octave of Mars, representing the Universe's will, the higher power which is beyond our control. Because the two will clash, power struggles are inevitable.
Try to find a way to assert your will without entering into conflict with God. If frustration becomes overbearing, physical exercise can be a good way to deal with it.
If you have planets around 17° in Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) you will be especially effected by this transit.
On November 21st Sun enters Sagittarius. Happy birthday to all Sagittarius out there! Now is that time of the year to seek the truth, to search for meaning. Go into the world with faith – the Universe has your back!
On November 22nd Neptune goes direct at 11° Pisces. You will be reminded that you are part of something larger than yourself.
On November 25th Mercury in Sagittarius is trine Uranus in Aries. Writing, media, communication, crafting, DYI are favored. The quantity of emails, phones, internet activity can increase. If you have a trip planned today it will be particularly exciting.
This is a great day for inspirations of any kind. You mind will start downloading brilliant ideas from a higher source. Divine inspiration can come to you in the flash of a moment.
On November 27th Mercury is conjunct Saturn. This is a good day to organize, make plans, study, learn, do research, or any kind of activity which requires focus. If you have a project you've been postponing – this is a good time to tackle it and bring it to a completion, because your discipline, your concentration, your focus are at an all times high.
If you have planets or angles around 27° Sagittarius, or if your ascendant is Gemini, Virgo or Capricorn you will especially benefit from this transit.
Venus conjunct Mars in transit marks the start of a new relationship cycle.
The Venus Mars conjunction happens once every 2 years and marks a new beginning in relationships and partnerships. Like a New Moon, new planetary cycles offer a fresh beginning.
Venus Mars cycles repeat themselves every 32 years. The last Venus Mars conjunction was 32 years back, on October 5,1985. Try to remember what happened back then, as this conjunction will have a similar energy.
Even people who are not very familiar with astrology know that Venus stands for the feminine, and Mars, for the masculine. The astrological symbols for Venus and Mars are identical to those used in biology to identify sexes.
One of the most famous books of all time is "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus".The book shows the polarity of the two energies – Mars, the assertive, masculine energy, and Venus, the feminine, receptive energy.
If you look at the sky, it makes sense that Venus and Mars are all about relating. Venus is the next planet inward from Earth, and Mars is the next planet outward. In astrology, we take the Earth as the center, and Venus and Mars are two planets on the right and on the left.
While Mars relates to the world by taking the lead, acting, doing, Venus relates to the world by sending subtle messages and choosing what she likes, and rejecting what she doesn't. Mars rules war, Venus rules the law of attraction.
It is not that Venus does not take the lead. In fact, Venus is the one that chooses and invites Mars to get closer. In courtship, it is Venus who sends the courtship signals, makes eye contact and smiles to Mars. And only then Mars is "allowed" to approach Venus.
When Mars comes to Venus without being invited, he might get some success, but all research and studies show that this "success" is short-lived. It takes two to tango.
To have a long lasting attraction, Venus and Mars need to express their role in a natural way. Venus sends the signal, Mars approaches, Venus chooses and the courtship goes on.
Venus and Mars are planets of polarity, irrespective of one's gender or sexual orientation. In homosexual couples usually one of the partners takes the Venus role, and the other the Mars role.
It is so important that polarity exists in relationships, that life cannot be created without it. We won't be here without Mars and Venus. Is it the passion between Venus and Mars, the "secret mix" between the two, that allows creation to take place.
Without a "chemical reaction" between Venus and Mars, we cannot create anything. The world around us is made out of polarities, we have yin and yang, 0 and 1, the North Pole and the South Pole.
The opposite poles of two magnets attract each other, but their similar poles repel each other. That's why we need both Venus and Mars to create a "magnetic field".
And as no magnet has only one pole, we both have a Venus and a Mars inside us.
Most creative people in the world tend to have Venus conjunct Mars in their natal chart.
Van Gogh, Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi, Bette Davis, Al Pacino, Amy Winehouse, Kanye West, Bruce Lee, Joaquin Phoenix, Bruno Mars – they all have the Venus conjunct Mars signature.
In Astrology, Venus conjunct Mars is a great time to start new relationships, especially when Venus and Mars rise in the morning sky.
When Venus and Mars rise before the Sun, they have not been "burned by the Sun", they have not got into the "Ego zone" yet, and can express their qualities freely.
This does not mean evening conjunctions are not benefic, but they express different planetary qualities. For new beginnings, morning rise planets are the best.
Venus is the Divine Feminine and Mars is the Divine Masculine, so when these two planets meet, they express a special energy that we can all benefit from.
When we master the Divine Feminine, when we master the Divine Masculine, when we allow them to blend into one another, this is when we become "one" with the divine consciousness.
Venus conjunct Venus will ask us to balance our masculine and feminine energy. When the masculine and the feminine energies are in balance, we experience a state of easiness, flow, and great vitality.
If you feel tired or unmotivated it could well be because there is an imbalance in the expression of the Mars energy, of the Venus energy, or both.
You can balance your Mars energy by surrounding yourself with good masculine role models, by watching hero movies or reading hero books, by asserting yourself when you are taken for granted.
You can balance your Venus energy by spending time with good Venusian role models, by discussing relationships with people you trust, by developing compassion and appreciation.
Look at where Venus and Mars are in your chart. Is Venus in a feminine sign or in a masculine sign? What about Mars?
Venus and Mars are also crucial in synastry when you want to assess the potential of a romantic relationship.
There are many indicators which describe compatibility, such as Sun and Moon. But if you want to understand the potential for intimacy, passion and sexual chemistry in a relationship, look at your Mars and Venus placement and at your partner's Mars and Venus placements.
If you are a woman or take the feminine role in a relationship, and your Venus or your Mars are in feminine signs (Yin), a good match for you is a partner who has Venus and Mars in masculine signs (Yang).
If your Venus and Mars are in masculine signs (Yang), again, you are still better off with a partner who also has Venus and Mars in masculine signs, especially Mars.
When a woman is Yin, she needs a stronger man, with more masculine energy. When a woman is Yang, she needs an even stronger man.
If you are a man or take the masculine role in a relationship, and your Venus or your Mars are in feminine signs (Yin), look for a partner who has their Venus and Mars in feminine signs (Yin). If your Venus or Mars are in masculine signs (Yang), both partners with feminine or masculine Venus and Mars are a good match.
When a man is Yang, he needs a softer partner, with more feminine energy. When a man is Yin, he needs an even softer partner.
A Yang Woman with a Yin man is the most difficult combination, but it can be overcome with awareness and acceptance. Physical chemistry is not a "make or break" element anymore in an enlightened, mature relationship.
You will feel the energy of the Venus conjunct Mars stronger if you have Aries, Taurus, Libra, Scorpio ascendant.


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            var picture = value["picture"];
            var date_of_birth = value["date_of_birth"];
            var score = parseInt(value["score"]);
            var country = value["country"];
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            var is_favorite = value["is_favorite"];
            var is_match = value["is_match"];
            var is_blocked = value["is_blocked"];
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Boophis reticulatus est une espèce d'amphibiens de la famille des Mantellidae.

Répartition et habitat
Cette espèce est endémique de Madagascar. Elle se rencontre entre 800 et  d'altitude sur la façade Est de l'île. Elle vit près des cours d'eau dans la forêt tropicale humide. Elle ne survit pas dans des habitats dégradés.

Publication originale
 Blommers-Schlösser, 1979 : Biosystematics of the Malagasy frogs II. The genus Boophis (Rhacophoridae). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde - Contributions to Zoology, , .

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Notes et références

Anoure (nom scientifique)
Boophinae
Faune endémique de Madagascar

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Why does some tea cost more than fine wine and occasionally exceed the price for its weight in gold? While researching her latest novel, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, author Lisa See sampled many cups of tea, including some of the world's rarest and most expensive. To set the scene for characters whose destinies are entwined with China's wild Pu'er trees, See met tea farmers, tea masters and high end purveyors, who shared their vintage varieties, including a cup made with tea that cost $1,000 an ounce.
Pu'er is a microbially fermented tea from the southwestern province of Yunnan, obtained through the action of molds, bacteria and yeasts that live on the trees. The finest Pu'er tea, which at a recent auction sold for $300,000 a kilo, is not even China's most expensive tea. That honor belongs to Da Hong Pao (Big Red Robe), a dark oolong tea, which recently sold for $1.5 million per kilo. Rarity is key.
"Like diamonds or fine wine, Pu'er is expensive because of its rarity," said See.
The most expensive tea leaves are not harvested from cultivated, manicured and cloned shrubs found on plantations, but instead grow on wild trees, often in remote mountain locations. Such wild trees have a distinctive genetic makeup, grow without human intervention, and derive some of their flavor from neighboring vegetation. Wild tea trees can live for more than 1,000 years; the longer the lineage, the more valuable the leaves.
The aging process contributes to the pedigree and the price tag. Naturally aged teas, processed without artificially altering the normal timeline of oxidation or fermentation, will command a higher price, in part because it lengthens the wait before a tea grower can earn a return on investment.
Some rare teas are said to confer health benefits, attributed to the tree's ability to survive for centuries.
When See began writing The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane there were 200 studies underway about Pu'er's health benefits, including the tea's ability to lower cholesterol and blood pressure. When she turned in her manuscript, there were over a thousand studies.
Not all expensive teas are fermented. Da Hong Pao is a heavily oxidized dark oolong tea, grown in the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian Province in China's southeast. Cuttings taken from the original plants have been used to produce similar tea from genetically identical plants, but tea that is harvested from the original bushes, now estimated to be nearly 1,000 years old, come with a much higher price tag.
Processing plays a part in Vintage Narcissus, an oxidized Chinese oolong tea that tastes of flowers and chocolate, priced at $6,500 per kilogram. Also cultivated in the Wuyi Mountains, the tea is fired once every two years, to help any extra moisture dry out.
Another factor affecting tea price is the number of times the leaves can brew a flavorful cup. The same Pu'er tea might be used fifteen times before the flavor is diluted.
Tieguanyin, named after Guan Yin, the Mahayana Buddhist goddess of mercy, sells for about $3,000 per kilo, but the blend of green and black tea can be brewed up to seven times and still retain its flavor and fragrance.
Korea's rarest teas also derive their distinctive flavor from growing on "wild isolated bushes, often in steep places, sometimes amid thick strands of bamboo," said Brother Anthony of Taizé, the co-author of The Korean Way of Tea. Their remote location rules out machine processing but also means the tea is free of chemicals.
There are conflicting stories about how tea arrived in Korea. One says an Indian princess brought shrubs when she married Korean royalty, while another credits Korean envoys to the Chinese court. However tea came to Korea, by the time Queen Seon Duk (606-647) ruled the ancient kingdom of Silla tea was served at court and associated with Buddhist ceremonies.
With the rise of Confucianism during the Chosun Dynasty (1392-1897), tea culture was suppressed, but there has been a recent resurgence of interest in tea culture and the rarest, most expensive varieties. According to Sharyn Johnston, Australian Director of the World Tea Organization, the most expensive Korean tea is Bohyung Gold Tea.
Even an ardent, well-funded tea aficionado might find it difficult to sample some Korean teas, because they are not for sale.
Many of the finest artisan teas continue to grow near and contribute to the economy of some Buddhist temples.
Park, who grew up in the U.S., became fascinated with tea and teaware while exploring his Korean heritage. The potter and retired university professor now seeks to share his knowledge of Korean tea culture by leading tea tours and sharing select teas, mostly artisan and temple teas.
There are subtle differences between the traditional tea ceremonies found in China and Korea. Compare this simple Chinese tea ceremony by artist Si Chen and to this traditional Korean tea ceremony on Park's blog Morning Earth Korea.
Savoring tea – in Seoul or Shanghai, with great ceremony or simply with friends – allows you to appreciate the moment.
Lisa See, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Scribner, March 2017); Brother Anthony of Taizé and Hong Kyeong-hee, The Korean Way of Tea: An Introductory Guide (Seoul Selection USA, 2011).
The story was originally published on the Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel.


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Home Sport NFF sacks Rohr, appoints Eguavoen as interim
NFF sacks Rohr, appoints Eguavoen as interim
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has announced the termination of the appointment of Gernot Rohr as Super Eagles coach and has named former national team captain, Austin Eguavoen the interim.
The NFF said this in a statement yesterday while appointing Eguavoen the current technical Director as the Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles on an interim basis with immediate effect.
Rohr has been in charge of the Super Eagles for the past 64 months and holds the title of the longest-serving coach for the national team.
In the statement, the NFF said: "Following a virtual meeting of the NFF Executive Committee on Sunday, it was decided that Eguavoen will work with Salisu Yusuf (Chief Coach); Paul Aigbogun (Assistant Coach); Joseph Yobo (Assistant Coach); Dr Terry Eguaoje (Assistant Coach) and Aloysius Agu (Goalkeeper Trainer).
"Former Nigeria captains, Augustine 'Jay Jay' Okocha, Nwankwo Kanu and Garba Lawal have been appointed to provide technical and ambassadorial support for the crew."
Dr Mohammed Sanusi, NFF General Secretary said: "The relationship between the Nigeria Football Federation and Mr Rohr has come to an end. We thank him for his services to the Super Eagles and Nigeria.
"We also want to thank the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports for their collaboration and guidance all through."
A former Nigeria captain, Eguavoen was the coach of the team when the Super Eagles finished third in Egypt at the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations. He was the captain when the Super Eagles lifted the Africa Cup for the first time away from home, 27 years ago in Tunisia.
Until the appointment of a substantive head coach, he will lead the three-time African champions as preparations begin for the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon from January 9 to February 6, 2022.
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Deeply flawed economic analysis exaggerates the cost of FDA's produce rule
Lisa Heinzerling | November 14, 2013
One of the healthiest things a person can do is to eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Unless they're contaminated with dangerous pathogens, that is. Contaminated produce has been responsible for an alarming number of deaths and illnesses in recent years, from Listeria-tainted cantaloupes that killed up to 43 people in 2011 to a Cyclospora outbreak linked to salad mix and cilantro that sickened 631 people in 25 states this past summer.
For this reason, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to set standards to ensure the safety of the fruits and vegetables in our food supply. The FDA's proposed rule on produce safety would address some of the most likely sources of contamination on farms, including tools and equipment, water used in agricultural activities, and worker health and hygiene. At the Center for Progressive Reform we submitted comments to the FDA, urging the agency to issue the final produce rule as soon as possible, in its strongest, most protective form.
We focused most of our attention on the economic analysis that accompanied the FDA's proposal. The FDA found that the rule is easily justified on economic grounds, estimating annual benefits of $1.04 billion—representing 1.75 million avoided illnesses in the United States—and annual domestic costs of $460 million.
But once we looked behind these numbers, it became clear that the rule's benefits will be even more significant, and its costs considerably smaller, than the FDA suggests. The agency's estimates are built on flawed assumptions, and those flaws were greatly exacerbated by the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) during the 13 months that it spent marking up the proposal and delaying its release. By misrepresenting the rule's impacts, these distortions help to fuel needless negativity towards the rule, from members of Congress, produce-industry associations, and farmers themselves.
Below are some examples of how the analysis overestimates the rule's costs.
$113.5 Million for … Washing Your Hands Before You Handle Food?
Fully one-quarter of the rule's total cost – the largest single category of cost – is attributed to the rule's requirement that farm personnel wash their hands before handling food. If a farm worker is just beginning work for the day, or donning gloves, or returning to work after using the bathroom, or has just touched a farm animal, the FDA's proposed rule would require her to wash her hands before handling food. The FDA estimates that the vast majority of farm workers do not now wash their hands before work or after being away from their work station, and that fully a quarter do not wash their hands after using the toilet. The agency believes that requiring the simple act of hand washing – a rule parents everywhere can understand – will help protect our produce from contamination.
So far; so good. However, after reaching this common-sense conclusion, the agency does something quite strange: it calculates the economic costs of hand washing. Even though most everyone would agree that people who handle food should – even without a federal rule on the subject – be washing their hands after visiting the bathroom or touching a farm animal, the FDA effectively reverses this common-sense presumption by treating hand washing as a departure from the existing norm and, as such, an imposition of costs on the farm worker's employer. Reversing the presumption in favor of hand washing makes even less sense when one recalls that most farms are already required to allow their workers "reasonable use" of hand-washing facilities.
How does hand washing end up "costing" $113.5 million? According to the FDA, it's the cost of "lost productivity": Every hand-wash supposedly takes two minutes out of a worker's time—most of it taken up with walking to and from the hand-washing facility—depriving the farm of 47 cents' worth of the worker's labor. Multiplied by all the farm workers in the country, this individually trivial cost adds up to $113.5 million per year.
OIRA played a major role in this wildly exaggerated estimate: Originally, the FDA assumed each hand-wash would take one minute, but OIRA – without explanation – increased the time to two minutes, which doubled the total cost from $56.8 million to $113.5 million. Far from an overwhelming financial drain, hand washing should be treated as what it is: part of the regular course of everyday farm activities. One farm, after joining a voluntary food safety program, started towing a few hand-washing stations behind a trailer, moving them around to different fields so they would be easily accessible to workers. The new requirements were an adjustment at first, but soon became part of the daily routine. The exotic suggestion of the FDA's economic analysis is not that people who handle food should wash their hands regularly, but that – depending on how the numbers come out – perhaps it would be best if they didn't.
The Cost of Testing Agricultural Water
The proposed rule would require farmers to regularly test certain kinds of water sources for signs of fecal contamination, if the water is used for irrigation or if it directly contacts produce. The FDA assumes that laboratory analysis of water samples would cost each farm thousands of dollars per year.
But given the extended compliance dates for these water requirements—up to six years beyond the rule's effective date for very small farms—it's almost inevitable that the rule will spur the development of low-cost testing kits that can be used with little training "on farm," and will increase competitiveness among suppliers of testing products and services. These developments, already in the making, will make testing significantly more affordable for small farms than the agency suggests.
The Cost to Exempt Farms
A farm that is exempt from the rule's growing and harvesting standards would still have to let consumers know its name and business address. A farm that does not put labels on its food (labels that might already contain this information) will need to find another way to let consumers know its name and address. The FDA believes that very small farms that sell directly to consumers will likely put up a sign near the point of purchase. The FDA estimates the cost of this simple requirement to be $1,134 per year, per farm.
Before going into the details, let us pause for a minute to consider what appears to be the FDA's operating assumption, which is that these farms do not already display their name and address at the point of purchase, and that only the FDA's rule will induce them to do so. It seems reasonable to assume the opposite, which is that farms have an incentive to lure consumers and build their loyalty by posting their name and address. If that's right, the FDA's requirement may not cost anything.
Originally, the FDA estimated that a farm that sells directly to consumers would spend five minutes every two weeks to write its name and address on a piece of poster board, at an annual cost of $101 per farm. The agency thought it reasonable to assume that the farm operator would buy and prepare one poster board every two weeks because the poster "can get tattered and worn-out." It seems equally reasonable to assume that, upon seeing this tattering and wearing out, the farm operator would choose a more durable method for displaying the farm's name and address.
But OIRA veered in the opposite direction. It took the FDA's exaggerated cost to a whole new level by insisting that it would take a farmer an hour every two weeks to prepare the sign stating the farm's name and address – bringing the cost up to $1,134 per farm. Unless a farmer chooses to write her name and address in Burgues Script – and needs to relearn this calligraphic font every time she uses it – it is hard to see how this trivial task could take an entire hour.
Reading the FDA's analysis, one wonders whether the agency itself recognized the ridiculousness of it all. The agency pointedly observes: "We do not estimate a cost for the use of a marker to write on the poster since it is expected that this cost is minimal since the farmer will likely use something he has on hand." Hilarious – if it were a segment on The Colbert Report rather than part of a serious attempt to assess the costs of food safety in this country.
On Exemptions
The proposed rule already provides a number of exemptions and special provisions intended to ease burdens on small and low-risk farms. Some have argued that the proposed exemptions don't go far enough, urging the FDA to expand them further. It is completely understandable for small farms to be anxious as this new, unfamiliar regulatory framework is put into place, and they try to figure out where they fall among the various exemptions or how they have to modify their practices while operating on slim profit margins.
But there is evidence that many farms may be overreacting out of mistrust and uncertainty, misjudging just how broad these exemptions really are. As it is, 79 percent of all U.S. farms would be exempt from the rule, and those small farms that are still covered would have significantly extended compliance dates. In a survey of farmers conducted this past spring by an NYU graduate student, some of the respondents who made the most negative comments about the rule and suggested it would put them out of business actually turned out to be exempt.
For all these reasons, we believe that continuing the FDA's outreach efforts and clarifying points of confusion would be more effective, and more protective of public health, than expanding these exemptions any further.


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Passport Introduces Campus Parking App for Simon Fraser University
Passport Canada app launches on the Burnaby campus
Students at Simon Fraser University will soon have an easier way to pay for parking on campus.
The university has announced the launch of Passport Canada, an app that will allow students, faculty, and visitors to easily pay for parking from their smartphones. Users can purchase parking with a debit or credit card, monitor their session, extend time remotely, and receive email receipts using the app. This will make parking easier on campus and save users the time previously spent at the parking pay station.
The parking app is powered by leading global parking app provider, Passport, provider of parking and transit apps for major cities across North America and Europe including Toronto, Vancouver (EasyPark), Westminster, and Chicago. The Passport Canada app is also available in other Vancouver locations including Victoria, Surrey, New Westminster, and Robbins Parking.
Beginning this summer, Passport Canada will be available at the following parking locations on campus:
Central Parkade - Zone 150
South Parkade - Zone 151
East Parking - Zone 152
North & South - Zone 153
West - Zone 154
"We look forward to introducing the Passport Canada app on campus this summer," said David Agosti, Director, Parking and Sustainable Mobility Services at Simon Fraser University. "Passport Canada will save our students time and also help to make the parking process as smooth as possible. We've seen the success of similar programs at other universities and expect our students to quickly adopt this mobile option for payment."
"We're seeing more demand from universities to add mobile parking payment solutions," said Nathan Berry, Sales at Passport. "As technology advances, millennials no longer appreciate the ability to pay for parking with their smartphone, but expect to have that option. We're excited to play a part in the launch of a campus-wide parking solution."
Simon Fraser University joins other universities across North America that are introducing mobile pay technology to their campuses. Passport already powers a growing number of universities, including some of the largest schools in North America such as North Carolina State, Michigan State University, University of Michigan, The University of Nebraska, The University of Central Florida, and The University of Florida.
Passport Canada is free to download from the App Store and Google Play. The app is available for use where Passport Canada signage is displayed and users can also manage their parking at ppprkca.com.
Passport is North America's leading mobile technology company specializing in enterprise business applications and payments for the public and private sector. Passport's product lines--parking payments, transit payments, enforcement and permit management--collectively serve to deliver dynamic tools for agencies to better connect with their communities. Its services have been adopted by over 20 of the top 50 cities in North America and over 2,000 locations including Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Portland, and Miami. Passport's mission is to reduce operational complexity and deliver intelligent data to improve decision making for its clients.
Passport is backed by a group of investors, including Grotech Ventures, Relevance Capital, and MK Capital. For more information, please visit www.passportinc.com.
Kimberly Kufel
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Mr. Bendis is a distinguished and successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, venture capitalist, investment banker, innovation based economic development (IBED) leader, international speaker and consultant in innovation and economy building.
Mr. Bendis currently serves as the founding President and CEO of BioHealth Innovation Inc., a Central Maryland innovation intermediary focused on accelerating the growth of commercially relevant research from universities , Federal Labs and entrepreneurs focused in the biohealth industry.
He is also Founder, President and CEO of Innovation America (IA), a Global Innovation Intermediary focused on accelerating the growth of the entrepreneurial innovation economy in America.
Global advocate for accelerating awareness of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Early Stage Capital in stimulating Innovation Based Economic Development (IBED);
International speaker on Building Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (Voted a 2012 Top 5 Innovation Speaker by Speakers Platform)
International Consulting on IBED
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Mr. Bendis is currently or has previously served as a board member and representative to the following organizations: National Association of State Venture Funds (NASVF) Founding Board member and Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee; State Science and Technology Institute (SSTI) Founding Board member: Eisenhower Fellowships Nominating Committee, the Ernst and Young Entrepreneurial Institute Member and as a past EOY winner as well as a national/regional Judge, Advisory Board member of the Technopolicy Network.
Mr. Bendis has provided global consulting services to over 18 countries and 24 states, several cities and regions, along with international organizations including the United Nations, NATO, UK Trade and Industry, European Commission, French Embassy, the German Marshall Fund, The Canadian Consulate, COTEC, TechnoPolicy, Science Works, METI, AKEA, the International Science Parks and Innovation Expert Group and other global entities. Mr. Bendis is an International speaker, focusing on Innovation , Entrepreneurship, and Developing and implementing Innovation Based Economic Development Strategies.
Mr. Bendis founded the Bendis Investment Group LLC, (BIG), a financial intermediary and consulting firm, along with managing his own angel investment portfolio. Mr. Bendis also founded and served as the founding President and CEO of Innovation Philadelphia (IP), a three state regional public/private partnership dedicated to growing the wealth and workforce of the Greater Philadelphia Region. IP managed a portfolio of programs in four distinct areas: Direct Equity Investment/Financing Assistance; Technology Commercialization; Global/Regional Economic and Workforce Development; and Market Research and Branding. Mr. Bendis currently serves as the Chairman of the innovation Philadelphia, Board of Directors.
Previously, Mr. Bendis successfully leveraged a career in the private sector (with Quaker Oats, Polaroid, Texas Instruments, Marion Laboratories and Kimberly Services) and the venture capital industry (RAB Ventures) to lead the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC). As its president and CEO, he developed KTEC into a globally recognized model for technology-based economic development. Mr. Bendis also successfully built an Inc. 500 healthcare software company, Continental Healthcare Systems, Inc., which he took public on NASDAQ and later sold to an international conglomerate. He was a nominee for the 2005 Ernst and Young National Entrepreneur Supporter of the Year Award (EOY) and was the 1996 recipient of the Regional Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.


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Study Warwick Summer School
Game Theory and Competitive Strategy
The WSS Experience
Discover London
Conflict exists not just in most economic scenarios but in almost every human interaction, be it economic, political or social and this course will adopt that broad perspective in developing analyses, results and insights.
This course is designed for students with a background in microeconomic theory and will be taught at the intermediate level. The topic of this course, Game Theory, is an essential tool for analyzing strategic interactions between economic agents. It can help us explain anything from why farmers overgraze a common piece of land to the price at which a buyer and seller agree to trade. This course equips students with the skills to use game theory to model real world scenarios and apply game theoretic methods to solve these models.
As will be seen, in many games like the Prisoner's Dilemma, game theory predicts suboptimal outcomes, since each agent acts in their self-interest, which may not be the common interest. One way to escape this is to allow agents to write binding contracts with each other, which enables us to shift the focus from strategies to payoffs. We take a brief venture into cooperative game theory to see how agents will split the gains from forming coalitions.
One common application of game theory is to bargaining. This pertains to any situation whereby two or more agents have an incentive to reach a mutually beneficial agreement, but conflicting interests over the terms of such an agreement. Students will see some of the myriad of situations bargaining theory can be applied to and learn what predictions bargaining theory can help us make about how these situations will be resolved.
The course covered a wide range of topics and the lecturers were really friendly and helped you out if you needed anything during the three weeks. I would definitely recommend the programme to others.
Aly Elgaby (Egypt)
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Fees: Please see fees page
Teaching: 62 hours
Expected independent study: 68 hours
Optional assessment: Dependant on course
Typical credit: 3-4 credits (US) 7.5 ECTS points (EU)*
* Please check with your home institution
For more information on exams and credit, please see our Teaching and assessment page
Professor Peter Buisseret
Andrew Harkins
Dr James Massey
Federico Trombetta
Syllabus and Outcomes
Course Aims
Structure and assessment
Syllabus and Course Overview
During this course students will be exposed to non-cooperative game theory, evolutionary game theory and cooperative game theory. Throughout the majority of the course, we assume hyper-rational agents acting in their own interest as we give students a firm grounding in the logic and methods of non-cooperative game theory. We apply standard techniques such as domination of strategies, Nash Equilibrium and backwards induction across a wide variety of games. When relaxing this hyper-rationality assumption, students will then see how evolutionary game theory gives very similar predictions and thus offers a second justification of Nash Equilibrium. Although, we go slightly further to argue that some equilibria are more stable than others.
The topics to be covered include:
What game theory is about and why it is "right"
How to translate a real world scenario into a game theoretic model
Simultaneous and sequential move games
Domination of strategies
Backwards Induction
Games of Incomplete Information
Models of bargaining
Bertrand Model
Cournot Model
Repeated Games
Electoral competition
Government coalition formation
Strategic voting
As students will discover, game theory is an essential tool for understanding of a wide range real world phenomena. Among others, this course aims to answer three vital questions:
What is game theory about?
How do I apply game theory?
Why is game theory right?
Students should develop an appreciation for how the details of a game such as when players move and why they know can have a large impact on outcomes.
This course aims to equip students with a wide range of game theoretic skills, which will be used in formulating and solving models of their own. By exposing students to a wide variety of topics and applications, this course gives students some idea of the vast range of phenomena one can use game theory to model and explain. This course will also improve powers of logic and encourage students to think strategically in their future everyday life.
By the end of this module, students should be able to:
Understand the different types of games and their uses in strategic thinking.
Analyse different games and use a variety of tools to find equilibria.
Understand expected utility theory and the role of probabilities in explaining behaviour.
Construct models of bargaining and negotiation and how they can be applied to models of competition.
Distinguish between the different strands of game theory.
Justify the predictions of non-cooperative game theory an evolutionary perspective.
Assess the importance of information in games an dhow this can change behaviours.
Understand the way in which game theoretic models can be applied to a variety of real-world scenarios in economics and in other areas.
For this course, there will be 4 hours of teaching on most weekdays, comprised of lectures and small group teaching. The structure will be:
3 hours of lectures.
A 1 hour seminar in small groups.
Students will also be given time each day for independent study. Towards the end of the third week, students will be provided with time for revision.
Course Assessment
The module will be assessed via a 2-hour examination. It should be noted that the exam is not compulsory. Everyone who completes the course – whether or not they sit the exam - will receive a certificate of attendance. However, by taking the exam you will also receive a grade/mark for the course which can be helpful to you.
The main course text is:
K. Binmore; "Playing for Real (coursepack edition)"; 2012; Oxford University Press.
Below are some further readings that students may find helpful for some parts of the course:
H. Peters; "Game theory: a multi-leveled approach"; 2008; Berlin, Springer.
J. Weibull, "Evolutionary Game Theory"; 1995; MIT Press.
A. Muthoo; "Bargaining Theory with Applications"; 1999; Cambridge University Press
This course is open to students who are studying or have previously studied Economics or Mathematics at University level. You should attach your most recent transcript or provide a screenshot of your modules from your student portal as evidence when you apply. Students should also meet our standard entry requirements and must be aged 18 or over by the time the Summer School commences and have a good understanding of the English language.
Please note changes to the syllabus and teaching team may be made over the coming months before exact set of topics are finalised.
Take a look at our other related courses:
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Page contact: Warwick Summer School
Last revised: Wed 22 Jul 2020


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Q: Measure Performance Enhancement using HTTP2 I am using Tomcat 8.5.29 and using the respective configuration, i have enabled the HTTP2 support for the site. Below is the configuration in server.xml file.
<Connector port="443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol"
           maxThreads="150" SSLEnabled="true"
           compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/css,text/javascript,application/javascript,application/json" compression="on" compressionMinSize="1024"
           >
    <UpgradeProtocol className="org.apache.coyote.http2.Http2Protocol" />
    <SSLHostConfig>
        <Certificate certificateKeyFile="conf/localhost-key.pem"
                     certificateFile="conf/localhost-cert.pem"
                     certificateChainFile="conf/cacert.pem"
                     type="RSA" />
    </SSLHostConfig>
</Connector>

When i tried to compare the page load time for the site which is supporting HTTPS 1.1 and HTTP2, it is not consistent. Sometime it is taking more time to load and sometime it is taking less time to load compare to HTTPS 1.1.
To measure the page load time i am using httpwatch.
I am looking for information on
A) Which are the tools can be used to measure the performance enhancement using http2 ? Our is not public website so cant use the some of the tool available online.
B) Are there any other configuration needs to be done apart from enabling the HTTP2 in tomcat to get the better result ?
Regards,

A: HTTP/2 aims to address some inefficiencies of loading many resources over HTTP by changing to a binary format with multiplexing.
Under HTTP/1, requesting many resources over a high latency, long distant network (as much of the Internet is) means downloading website assets are slower than they need to be. This is because each HTTP/1.1 connection can only handle one resource at a time and cannot use that connection to handle another request while it's waiting around for the first to be sent back.
So for your use case I am presuming this is on an intranet and the servers are probably located quite close to you with high speed links to them? If so HTTP/2 is unlikely to give you a huge performance boost to be honest, as the resources will likely be sent back quite quickly anyway. So I am not surprised that you are not seeing improvements for this scenario.
Additionally downloading multiple assets is only one part of using a website. If the website requires a lot of server side processing to produce then the downloading side (which HTTP/2 should improve) may be such a small part of the load time that it might be negligible and even drastic improvements to that might be unnoticeable. Similarly if the website is slow even after downloading (because it uses a tonne of JavaScript for example) then that's not going to be fixed by moving to HTTP/2.
To me HTTP/2 makes more sense for serving static resources (images, CSS and JavaScript) than dynamic resources from an application server (Java based or otherwise) so I'm not convinced there is a real pressing need for HTTP/2 on Tomcat and the like. Even if you are using Tomcat to serve static resources you're probably better sticking a faster HTTP/2 webserver (Apache, Nginx) in front of it and offloading them to that and only proxying genuinely dynamic content on to Tomcat.
So while HTTP/2 is a great improvement to the protocol (for most cases), it is not a magic fix to make your site 10 times faster. Saying that HTTP/2 is the future IMHO so there is little reason not to move to it (the primary one being lack of support of HTTP/2 in many implementations - especially if running older versions of server software, but you've already solved that issue).
Anyway, back to your question: The easiest way I would suggest would be to use developer tools in browser to see how long it takes to load he site with and without HTTP/2 - that's ultimately what your users are experiencing. If you can do this programmatically (e.g. record the time taken to fully load the page with JavaScript and report that back some how) to allow for larger scale analysis then so much the better. This takes a bit more setup than running something like Apache's ab tool or the like, but those won't triply measure the improvements due to HTTP/2 if they are only downloading the main page and not the resources, and also won't measure the whole load time the user experiences.


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John McCain's Response To Cancer Diagnosis Is So Him
by Gillian Walters
On Wednesday, CNN reported that doctors diagnosed Sen. John McCain with an aggressive form of brain cancer. Following the upsetting news, many politicians on both sides of the aisle sent their condolences to McCain and his family. Although the messages of support noted the seriousness of his condition, they also credited McCain for his strength and fighting spirit. As one might expect, John McCain's response to his cancer diagnosis on Thursday shows he is ready to fight so he can return to Congress... and keep on fighting.
Since the launch of McCain's political career in 1982, he has been described as someone who doesn't give up easily. Although there has been a fair share of debate surrounding McCain's depiction of himself as a "maverick" while on the presidential campaign trail in 2008, there's often little disagreement about his tenacious personality. When politicians discuss McCain's fighting spirit, they often bring up his five-year stint as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough said, according to The Hill:
He served his entire adult life, for the United States people, of course, and Vietnam. Being a prisoner of war, someone who is allowed by the North Vietnamese to leave because his father was a powerful admiral in the U.S. Navy. But John McCain refused — while he was being beaten — refused to leave and said he wasn't going to go until all of his men could come home with him ... He's been a fighter his entire life.
In McCain's tweet responding to his cancer diagnosis, he exemplified the strong-willed character described by Scarborough and others.
Although it's reasonable to assume McCain would take some time off from Washington, D.C. following his severe diagnosis, it looks like he's not going to give up on politics anytime soon. It's pretty incredible when you consider McCain is an 80-year-old man recovering from a major surgery.
Following McCain's initial surgery on July 14, his colleague and friend Sen. Lindsey Graham said, according to CNN:
I think they relieved the pressure, and he sounded like the old John McCain, dying to get back and talking about driving across the country. I said, 'No.' He's got to heal up or he'll take a step backwards. I think they don't want him to fly for a week. But I think he would walk back if they'd let him. ... He's dying to get back, and for the sake of his family I hope he doesn't have to stay there over a week.
Obviously, there's no telling how long McCain will stay active in politics as he battles his diagnosis. For now, however, it's clear he's not going anywhere.
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Q: AWS SageMaker data preparation I am trying to understand how to implement a machine learning algorithm, where the preprocessing and postprocessing is an heavy taskm inside AWS Sagemaker.
The main idea is to get data from S3, each time the data change in S3, Cloud watch triggers a lambda function to invoke a SageMaker endpoint.
The problem is that, once the algorithm is trained, before predicting the new data, i need to preprocess the data (custom NLP preprocessing).
Once the Algorithm have done the prediction, i need to take this prediction, do a post-process and then send the post-processed data to S3.
The idea i have in mind is to create a docker:
├── text_classification/                - ml scripts
|   ├── app.py
|   ├── config.py
|   ├── data.py
|   ├── models.py
|   ├── predict.py                        - pre-processing data and post-processing data
|   ├── train.py
|   ├── utils.py

So i will do the pre-processing and the post-processing inside "predict.py". When i will invoke the endpoint for prediction, that script will run.
Is this correct?

A: Take a look at using Step Functions to orchestrate the entire workflow for you.
Have the CloudWatch event trigger a Step Function that would do the following:

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*Preprocess data

*Create predictions (if its a batch process why not use batch transform instead).

*Use a retry loop to check if inference has been completed.

*Once it has been inferred run post processing of data and copy to S3.

A: You can also explore Amazon SageMaker Inference Pipelines.

An inference pipeline is an Amazon SageMaker model that is composed of
  a linear sequence of two to five containers that process requests for
  inferences on data. You use an inference pipeline to define and deploy
  any combination of pretrained Amazon SageMaker built-in algorithms and
  your own custom algorithms packaged in Docker containers. You can use
  an inference pipeline to combine preprocessing, predictions, and
  post-processing data science tasks. Inference pipelines are fully
  managed.


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