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IOC awards broadcast rights in Germany, the Koreas and France
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently awarded the broadcast rights for future Olympic Games in the countries of Germany, the Republic of Korea and France.
ARD and ZDF were granted the broadcast rights in Germany for the XXII Olympic Winter Games (2014) in Sochi, Russia, and the Games of the XXXI Olympiad (2016) in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
ARD and ZDF have acquired the broadcast rights across all media platforms, including free-to-air television, subscription television, internet and mobile.
IOC President Jacques Rogge said "We are very pleased to continue our relationship with ARD and ZDF. They have provided fantastic broadcast coverage of the Games to the widest possible audience in Germany for many years and have demonstrated a strong commitment to the Olympic Movement."
"ARD and ZDF have proven to be excellent broadcast partners for the Olympic Movement" said IOC Executive Board member Thomas Bach, who led the negotiations. "This is the first time we have negotiated broadcast rights directly in Germany, as opposed to through a broadcast union, and we are delighted to continue our relationship with the experienced teams at both ARD and ZDF."
Ulrich Wilhelm, CEO Bayerischer Rundfunk and Director General for Sports Rights in the ARD said, "We shall continue to cover the Olympic Games in a way which will fully preserve its outstanding and unique character."
Markus Schächter, Director General of ZDF, said, "The Olympic Games are part of the world's biggest live events. ZDF and ARD highly appreciate the award of the rights by IOC which confirms the high level standards we have reached in sports coverage."
The International Olympic Committee has awarded SBS the exclusive broadcast rights in the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in 2018 in PyeongChang, the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in 2020, the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in 2022 and the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad to be celebrated in 2024, the latter three of which have yet to be awarded to a host city.
SBS have acquired the broadcast rights across all media platforms, including free-to-air television, subscription television, internet and mobile. The agreement also includes a commitment to broadcast the Youth Olympic Games during the same period.
IOC President Jacques Rogge said, "We are delighted to continue our partnership with SBS through to 2024. SBS have been our broadcast partner in the region for many years and I would like to thank them for their commitment to the Olympic Movement."
"This is the first broadcast agreement we have reached for the period running to 2024." said IOC Executive Board member Richard Carrión, who led the negotiations. "This long term agreement is testament to the continuing appeal of the Olympic Games, and we are delighted that SBS will continue to provide fantastic coverage of the Games well into the next decade."
SBS Chairman Se-Young Yoon expressed his "great pleasure to be the first broadcaster in the world to extend our contractual partnership with the IOC through 2024." He added that "SBS will gladly continue the support for the Olympic Movement overall and young Olympic athletes in particular."
France Télévisions has won the exclusive broadcast rights in France for the XXII Olympic Winter Games (2014) in Sochi, Russia, and the Games of the XXXI Olympiad (2016) in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, as well as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (2018) in PyeongChang and the 2020 Olympic Games, which have yet to be awarded to a host city.
France Télévisions have acquired the broadcast rights across all media platforms, including internet and mobile.
IOC President Jacques Rogge said "We are very pleased to continue our partnership with France Télévisions. We are confident they will continue to do a fantastic job of providing the best possible broadcast coverage of the Games to the largest possible audience in France across a variety of media platforms."
IOC Executive Board member Thomas Bach, who led the negotiations, commented "Traditionally the IOC has negotiated broadcast rights on a pan European basis, however the media landscape is changing quickly and we have adapted our approach in recent years by negotiating directly in certain markets. We are delighted to reach this agreement directly with our long term partner France Télévisions and look forward to continuing our work with them."
Rémy Pflimlin, Chairman of France Télévisions, said "The Olympic Games are part of the DNA of our Group, and are one the cornerstones of sports programming of France Télévisions, that is known in France as the "widest field of sports" on free-to-air television. We are very pleased to renew our long time partnership with the IOC, with this agreement which is, for the first time, signed for four Olympic Games, and which will allow us to provide the Olympic Games with the widest possible coverage on all media platforms. Through this agreement, which secures our presence on the Olympic Games for the upcoming decade, we confirm our continued support to the Olympic sports."
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Good to hear your thoughts about this. I agree with your postscript: when we get a go AI that's much stronger than the top professionals, we will start seeing things like new computer-discovered joseki.
Still, the matches with Fan Hui and Lee Sedol are just a stuttering beginning. For now, the hardware requirements of AlphaGo are quite stunning (170 GPU's, 1200 CPU's), and as far as I know, all currents methods for scaling down the complexity of such "deep ANN's" incur a significant loss in performance. As Moore's law is now fading away, this cannot be fixed just by waiting.
The "dozens of years" you mentioned might still be a realistic guess for how long it will take before you can run a pro-level go AI on your own hardware.
Yes and no, software advances still beat hardware, and I'm pretty sure there is a *lot* to be improved in ANN techniques from what AlphaGo uses, not to mention adding compact heuristics that are discovered from experience with AI players.
Someone in an IRC channel is testing a part champion Fritz against modern player Stockfish in chess, and Stockfish can beat Fritz with three pawn handicap 10 games out of 10, using tenth of the processing power.
Where's that number from? I believe the running one against Fan Hui was 8 GPUs/48 CPUs (about $2/hour on Amazon EC2, incidentally). Training does require a lot more computing power, of course.
> as far as I know, all currents methods for scaling down the complexity of such "deep ANN's" incur a significant loss in performance.
Cite? My impression was the opposite, that model compression of a final trained model offered staggering savings, like easily 80% of parameters/bits with no noticeable loss of accuracy, and this has been known for quite a while now (eg the 2006 paper http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~caruana/compression.kdd06.pdf ). Consider the savings reported in one of the most recent papers http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.00149 : "reduce the storage requirement of neural networks by 35x to 49x without affecting their accuracy…On the ImageNet dataset, our method reduced the storage required by AlexNet by 35x, from 240MB to 6.9MB, without loss of accuracy. Our method reduced the size of VGG-16 by 49x from 552MB to 11.3MB, again with no loss of accuracy. This allows fitting the model into on-chip SRAM cache rather than off-chip DRAM memory. Our compression method also facilitates the use of complex neural networks in mobile applications where application size and download bandwidth are constrained. Benchmarked on CPU, GPU and mobile GPU, compressed network has 3x to 4x layerwise speedup and 3x to 7x better energy efficiency." I don't know any particular reason that the NNs used in AlphaGo would not compress well, although I admit I've never seen anyone specifically establish that RL NNs can compress as well as more common tasks like image recognition.
That's the distributed version of AlphaGo. The one who won against Fan Hui is the single machine version: 48 CPU, 8 GPU.
The last paragraph on pp. 10 (continues to pp. 13) does seem to say that the version that played against Hui was distributed.
I am sure that my English ability is not sufficient for reading this paper. Perhaps the two guys are kind enough to correct my interpretation.
I was particularly interested in your assessment of the game, so thank you. It would be nice to hear your comments on the last four games as well. Judging from Fan Hui's resignations and the way the games went and my limited understanding of the game, it looked a bit like Fan Hui had trouble orienting himself to perform on top level.
Thanks for you thoughts Antti! You found a few mistakes by Fan, but do you think AlphaGo made any mistakes in the game?
2. Mi Yuting (world champ) – appears to be a 'chong-duan-shao-nian (kids on the path to pros)', ~high-level amateur.
Well, we know those Ke Jie 5% estimations can make for tight matches.
Ke Jie is probably accurate. Based on estimated ELO ratings for Fan Hui and Lee Sedol, the chance of the former winning is about 3.1%. The question is really how much stronger than Fan Hui the gobot is.
I agree, once the computer is stronger than human players, then we can start to learn from the computer on how to make our go better. Since go in more abstract than chess, then it will be easier to take away notions and concepts than the simple brute force strength that computers can offer in chess.
Where can I find information about the inofficial matches? I have not read about them anywhere else. Where they with the same time constraints? Also one game per day?
The inofficial games were played with 3×30 second byoyomi, without main time. There was one inofficial game per day, and AlphaGo won 3 out of 5. I think it's interesting that the program clearly had more difficulties with the shoter time settings. It perhaps indicates that AlphaGo uses it's thinking time very efficiently.
What's your opinion on Black 29? After Black 27, I thought black would invade the top to split white's formation. Allowing white to link two groups with L17 seems too easy on white.
Is there a 3 faction variant of weiqi?(black vs gray vs white) with same rule set as Google was following (on android would even be better ?
Yes, there is. At least there is on iOS. I'm not sure about Android. On iOS, the app is called Go Toucher. It has a 3-sided variant like you describe which it calls "Gochaos." I don't know if it follows Google's rule set though.
I hope that eventually, AlphaGo can provide commentary on its moves…!
With regard to its playing strength being only "low pro level", it is important to note that AlphaGo _oblitarated_ the strongest bots even at 4 stone handicap, which even Yoda Norimoto 9p couldn't do. Yes, Yoda Norimoto 9p is not Lee Sedol, but it's another indication that the program could be stronger than it looks. And as everyone has been saying, that was in October.
Also the AlphaGo Nature paper says the Neural Network (NN) for estimating the most probable next move was build using a high level KGS game database. Which might be why the feeling of "strong level amateur" might come from. I am eager to see if it would show even more brilliance if the NN was trained on the best pro kifus.
I just love this achievement for all the possibilities it offers. And not just for the understanding of the game. You could teach AlphaGo different playing styles based on the kifu databases used for the NN. Hikaru no Go raised the question of "how would Honinbou Shusaku fair against modern pros?". Well now we might know!
Moore's law may be broken, but that's not relevant to this problem in my opinion. While it may not be possible to create more powerful CPU's as we have done in the past, it's possible to use more cores. I think this problem should be suitable for such parallel calculation. I could be wrong of course, as the details of AlphaGo's algorithms are not clear to me.
In chess provided very little insight into game. Some details like g2-g4 might playable more often. Biggest insight is that concrete variations are far more important than general principles.
Obviously opening theory advances faster now as just about anyone can do research on them.
In Go it might be hard to extract even that much. New Joseki -dunno , joseki is joseki only if it matches surroundings? And new move by MonteCarlo/DCNN could be just artefact of concrete variations and hard to evaluate by human.
Was the YLE interview about you becoming a pro? Do you know if it can be viewed anywhere?
So now we now how things turned out. Have you encountered any reactions from pros after Lee's defeat?


2018-19: Made her collegiate debut in the Elon Opener (8/31), posting a 17th-place overall finish with a 4K time of 15:15 as the first Blue Devil to cross the finish line in a fifth-place team finish for Duke … finished fifth for the Blue Devils in the Queens City Invitational (9/28) with a 5K time of 18:24 to help Duke earn a first-place team victory.
2017-18: Redshirted her freshman season at Duke.
Prior to Duke: Lettered for four years in cross country and track and field under Trent Sanderson at Atlanta International School…Named Atlanta International School Female Athlete of the Year as well as earning the Coaches Award for Track in 2017…Most Valuable Player for Cross Country in 2014, 2015, and 2016…All-Metro Cross Country 1st Team Member in 2015…Won the Al Woodham Best Performance Award for the 1,600m and 3,200m races at the 2014 State Meet…Also won the Bob Fowler Award for setting new state records in the 1,600m and 3,200m races at the same meet…Valedictorian of her high school class…Harvard Book Award Winner…Math Kangaroo 2th Place Winner…Earned a Georgia Certificate of Merit.
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Ozzy Osbourne's discussion with a pony incited him to surrender LSD
The 1970s is important for the quantity of melodic figures (particularly heroes) who characterized a time, including Ozzy Osbourne.
Ozzy Osbourne is a stunningly unusual figure whose way of life once in a while eclipsed his music vocation.
During the level of his profession, Osbourne tended to dive into liquor and medications. As of late, he shared how he quit taking corrosive.
Exemplary Rock returned to Black Sabbath's ascent and the making of the 1972 exemplary collection, Volume 4 when Osbourne described how he hit the brakes on corrosive.
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"Around then in America, individuals were extremely partial to binding your beverages with corrosive. I couldn't have cared less. I used to swallow modest bunches of tabs all at once. Its finish came when we returned to England."
"I took ten tabs of corrosive then, at that point, took a stroll in a field," he proceeded.
"I wound up remaining there conversing with this pony for about 60 minutes. Eventually, the pony turned round and advised me to fuck off. That was all there was to it for me."
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Dark Sabbath and their encounters with drugs
Ozzy Osbourne was in good company to dig into hallucinogenic medications as the other individuals additionally related their experience.
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Guitarist Tony Iommi told Classic Rock in 2016 that LSD was the most horrendously terrible medication he'd taken.
"I disdain being crazy. With cocaine, I believed I was in charge, I realized what was happening. Be that as it may, corrosive… "
"I was in America and I had a horrendous cerebral pain, and this young lady said she had two or three pills for it. What's more, she gave me some corrosive," he uncovered.
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In 2020, bassist Geezer Butler related his most memorable outing to Metal Hammer, saying:
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What are the pros and cons or using a hydrocarbon gas from a nearby well for generating the initial pulse?
This document discusses the various gas pulse sources that are available for determining acoustic liquid level depth in a well. An acoustic pulse is generated at the surface of the well that travels through the casing annulus gas and reflects from all anomalies including tubing collars and the liquid level. The reflected acoustic pulses are converted to an electrical signal by a microphone. The electrical signal is either recorded on a strip chart or digitized and stored in a computer for software processing.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) gas, nitrogen (N2) gas, well gas, and sometimes, hydrocarbon gas from a nearby well are used to generate the initial acoustic pulse. Normally, a gas gun volume chamber is charged to a pressure in excess of well pressure. The gas is suddenly released into the well to generate an acoustic pulse. This is an explosion technique that results in a compression wave. Also, an implosion technique can be used where high-pressure gas from the well is rapidly released into a lower-pressure volume chamber. This creates a negative (rarefaction) pressure pulse that travels through the gas and reflects from anomalies, as does the positive or compression pulse. Both compression and rarefaction pulses travel at the same velocity in the same gas.
The remote fire gas gun operates in the explosion mode only. The compact gas gun and the 5,000 PSI gas gun operate in the explosion or implosion mode. The 15,000 PSI gas gun operates in the implosion mode only.
The pressure will be 1072 PSI at 88°F, 650 PSI at 50°F, 300 PSI at 0°F and 100 PSI at -57°F. The CO2 pressure in the cylinder will be above 1050 PSI when the CO2 temperature is above 88°F and the cylinder is full.
A standard 5 lb. aluminum CO2 cylinder has dimensions of 5.25" O.D. X 15" long. The full cylinder contains 44 cubic feet of CO2 gas at standard conditions. The cylinder has a service pressure of 1800 PSI and a test pressure of 3000 PSI. The volume of the remote fire gas gun chamber is 12.5 cubic inches. A full 5 lb. CO2 cylinder will charge the remote fire gas gun to a pressure of 200 PSI for approximately 500 tests. The cylinder is equipped with a USA industry standard CGA-320 valve with 0.965-14 NGO R.H. female threads. A ¼ " hose and quick connector are supplied with the 5 lb. CO2 cylinder to charge the gas guns.
Nitrogen gas can also be used to charge the gas gun volume chambers. Nitrogen gas is commonly available throughout the world and is normally supplied in cylinders at a pressure of approximately 2200 PSI. Echometer Company offers a portable N22 aluminum cylinder that contains 20.8 cubic feet of N2 gas at a service pressure rating of 2216 PSI. The cylinder length is 17" and the O.D. is 5.25". The cylinder weighs 9 lbs. or 4.1 Kg. This cylinder will charge the remote fire gas gun to 200 PSI for 200 tests. A larger N88 aluminum cylinder weighs 30 lbs. with a length of 33" and an O.D. of 7.25". The N88 cylinder holds 83.3 cubic feet of N2 gas at a service pressure of 2216 PSI. This cylinder will charge the remote fire gas gun to 200 PSI for 800 tests. Also, the N88 cylinder can be used to supply gas for pressure build-up testing where the Well Analyzer is left unattended. The cylinder should be used with a pressure regulator to obtain a reasonable number of shots during the pressure build-up test. The pressure regulator is used to control the maximum outlet gas pressure to 1500 PSI or to the maximum pressure required on the gas gun during the pressure transient test. This regulator conserves N2 gas. This cylinder will supply gas for one pressure transient test containing 120 data points with an initial well surface pressure of 200 PSI and a final well surface pressure of 1,000 PSI. Both cylinders have a service pressure rating of 2216 PSI and a test pressure of 3694 PSI. Both cylinders are equipped with a USA industry standard CGA-580 valve that has 0.965-14 NGO R.H. internal threads.
The CO2, N22 or the N88 cylinders can be used to store high-pressure hydrocarbon gas from a well or a pressurized hydrocarbon gas source if CO2 or N2 is not available. The gas gun volume chamber can be charged with the hydrocarbon gas if the use of hydrocarbon gas is required. Hydrocarbon gas from a nearby well will contain water vapor which will corrode the inside of the cylinder. Do not exceed the pressure rating of the cylinder when filling the cylinder. The maximum pressure in the cylinder should be limited to the pressure rating of the gas gun or to the service pressure of the cylinder or to the pressure rating of the hose and fitting, whichever is less. A ¼" hose and fitting are supplied for the cylinders.
For pressure transient testing, nitrogen gas is recommended. The pressure in the nitrogen cylinder and the gas gun volume chamber must exceed the well pressure in order to obtain an acoustic test. Carbon dioxide gas is not commonly used because the CO2 gas pressure in the cylinder may not exceed the well pressure during the later portion of the pressure transient test if the outside temperature is low.
A 5 lb. CO2 aluminum cylinder with valve, hose and connector are supplied standard. The customer may desire the N22 cylinder instead of the CO2 cylinder at an extra cost. The N88 cylinder can be supplied instead of the 5 lb. CO2 cylinder at an extra cost. The pressure regulator is also available at an extra cost. Contact Echometer for details.
Note that various combinations of CO2 gas, N2 gas and hydrocarbon gas with various gas guns can be used to generate an acoustic pulse to measure liquid level depth. Always be certain that the pressure within the cylinder is less than the service pressure of the cylinder and is also less than the ¼" hose and fitting ratings as well as the gas gun ratings. The compact gas gun has a maximum pressure rating of 1,500 PSI. The maximum pressure rating of the remote fire gas gun is 2,000 PSI. The maximum pressure rating of the ¼" hose and fitting to charge the compact gas gun or the remote fire gas gun is 2,000 PSI. A quick connect for the 5,000 PSI gas gun has a pressure rating of 3,000 PSI.
Hydrocarbon gas is a hazardous explosive material. If a cylinder is filled with hydrocarbon gas, the cylinder should be considered hazardous. Be extremely careful carrying this cylinder in a car or storing in an enclosed environment. If the container should leak the hydrocarbon gas, an explosive mixture could result which would result in hazardous conditions. Also, if hydrocarbon gas from a well is utilized, the hydrocarbon gas will probably contain water vapor that will corrode the inside of the cylinder. The equipment should be checked and tested more often if used with hydrocarbon gas containing water vapor. Always, operate with safe equipment.
Blank guns that utilize hazardous black powder were formerly used to generate the initial acoustic pulse. Some violent explosions have occurred with the use of black powder blanks that resulted in damage to the well and to the environment. Do not allow air (containing oxygen) to enter the casing annulus during workover or during any operation, and then use black powder blanks to measure liquid level depth. The use of black powder blanks is not recommended except when required.


we have been back home for a couple weeks. this past tour was tons o' fun. met some new folks and got to play some shows with our friends. now we're gearing up for a short tour at the end of the month and an EP release. The Book of Matches will be in stores May 6. however, we will have some available at our shows before that.
the EP features two songs from the upcoming full-length, one b-side from those sessions, and two songs we knocked out ourselves at home. hope-y you like-y.


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Navy Fraud Case: Contractor Suspension Lifted
By Chris Riback
Posted January 31, 2014 at 11:51am
The New York Times reports that "the Navy has quietly lifted the suspension of a shipping contractor under investigation for possible fraud, allowing the company to compete for new work. In exchange, the company has agreed to pay for an independent audit that could help the Justice Department determine how much it may have overcharged the government, as the Navy has claimed."
"Records show that the Navy this month decided to reinstate Inchcape Shipping Services, a company based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The move came after a federal judge questioned whether the service had performed a thorough enough examination of evidence to justify the suspension."
"Contracting experts said it was unusual for the government to turn to an outside auditor in this type of case, and some questioned whether an independent firm could do as thorough a job as federal agents."


I'm not one for wearing bright bold colours, I love my neutrals and my brown shades but it's always nice to try something new. I like makeup and I like experimenting hence why I got the two Multicolour palettes from Morphe Brushes. Very inexpensive and a perfect way to experiment with different bold colours that you normally wont wear. Thinking about incorporating some yellows, greens and purples into my looks from now on.
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After several years of relative calm, France has been in an uproar since the beginning of March.
The motto of the ineffable billionairess came to mind recently with the publication of the Panama Papers. This huge set of files leaked from a Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, documented the tax haven dealings of the world's richer denizens.
Up until the crisis of 2008, racial inequality in the United States was showing signs of improvement. Poverty and unemployment among blacks had fallen sharply in the 1990s, and the wages of black and white workers had begun to converge.


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Hollywood's baby bump club grew after Amal Clooney announced she was pregnant with twins, according to several sources confirmed by PEOPLE. As if Beyoncé's pregnancy wasn't enough, the music moguls can now have playdates with the Clooneys.
George Clooney, a notorious playboy for most of his career, will now take on the role of fatherhood. In the meantime, pregnancy hasn't slowed down Amal, who continues to jetset around the world as a human rights lawyer and visit her husband on set.
While working with Clooney last fall, Matt Damon learned of the couple's pregnancy. Damon almost started crying when he heard the news, but cautioned Clooney not to spread the word until Amal was at least 12 weeks along, according to US magazine.
"I'm thrilled for him. She's amazing. He hit the jackpot. Just on every level. She is a remarkable woman. They're gonna be great. They're gonna be awesome parents. Those kids are lucky," Damon told "Entertainment Tonight Canada."
After being hospitalized for less than a week following an all-terrain vehicle accident, Jamie Lynn Spears's 8-year-old daughter, Maddie, is back home and recovering, PEOPLE confirmed.
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"Maddie Aldridge, 8-year-old daughter of entertainer Jamie Lynn Spears, has been discharged from the Children's Hospital in New Orleans," the hospital told PEOPLE in an exclusive statement. "She is breathing well and interacting with loved ones. Doctors say she is on the way to a full recovery."
Spears took to Instagram to thank all the first responders that helped her daughter's speedy recovery. Maddie's aunt, Britney Spears, also used social media to thank fans for their prayers, citing that her niece's recovery was a miracle.
Over the weekend, Adam Levine received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Maroon 5 frontman was joined by wife Behati Prinsloo and 4-month-old daughter, Dusty Rose, for the momentous occasion.
"I have a daughter, I have the most beautiful wife in the entire world," Levine said during the ceremony. "I'm one of the luckiest people who's ever lived, and it has nothing to do with me, it has to do with the people who love me the most. So, I thank all of those people."
Levine wasn't the only lucky one this week. Thanks to College Spokesperson Dave Muha, the entire campus enjoyed a well-needed snow day on Thursday, Feb. 9.
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After Dominating at Every Level, Cubs RP Prospect Dakota Mekkes Ready to Make Push for Bigs
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Dakota Mekkes is a big dude with a big fastball (well, it's more deceptive than big, but let's go with it)…and a big head. He stands 6-foot-7 and tips the scales at around two-and-a-half bills, towering over hitters from the mound and daring them to beat the heater. The Jenison, Mich. product is plenty confident, though that's not what the latter "big" is about. No, Mekkes literally has a large dome.
When asked what nickname he'd use on his Players' Weekend jersey should he get that opportunity in the future, Mekkes went with CABEZÓN. That's Spanish for "Big Head," a moniker bestowed upon him by his Latin teammates in the Cubs organization.
Mekkes taking that nickname in stride and owning it probably doesn't come as a surprise to anyone who's known him as long as a phone conversation and it lets strangers know what he's about. It's clear from his tone that the good-natured ribbing is just another dimension of the joy he finds playing baseball. That's been the case since he was a kid, and he's never lost that childlike exuberance for the game.
No one's mistaking the hulking reliever for a kid these days, though, especially not the opponents he's mowed down at every stop along the way. Neither brash nor boastful, he simply goes out there armed with the belief that his stuff is better and the willingness to make hitters prove him wrong.
"I think for me the biggest thing is just keeping the confidence that I can get anyone out at any time," Mekkes said. "Obviously as you go up levels the hitters are a lot better. And I think the biggest thing I noticed was the adjustment hitters make and the approaches they have at the higher levels, especially in Triple-A.
"Those are a lot of legit, big league guys. And for me, I just try to continue to throw with confidence and just continue to do what I do."
Just continuing to do what he does, delivering from a low arm slot that creates deception and makes the ball really sneak up on batters, has resulted in a 1.16 ERA over 147 total innings for six different teams in the system. Mekkes hasn't lingered at any one level for even 43 innings and his 25 appearances for the Iowa Cubs this season are the most he's made for any Cubs affiliate.
He'll tell you he's done it by going out there and pitching with as little thought as possible, but it takes a lot of work between outings to make that happen. While the former Michigan State Spartan hasn't had to make any big mechanical adjustments along the way, his repertoire has undergone an overhaul prompted by the organization's advanced analytics.
"The two big things that I've kind of adjusted, especially the past year, is that I've worked a lot more on throwing my changeup," Mekkes offered. "You could probably count on one hand the amount of times I threw it to righties the last 20 years of my life before this year.
"This year I kind of like had to work it in, especially in Triple-A, and learn to throw it to both righties and lefties. Same with my slider. Just try to add a third pitch in there that those guys have to think about and kind of try to give me a little extra advantage.
"I used to throw a lot of two-seams to lefties and mostly four-seams to righties. But with our analytical work through the Cubs organization we've kind of realized that my two-seam gets hit a lot more than my four-seam because my four-seam kind of has like, I don't want to say rise, but it has ride to it. And it just kind of plays up in the zone.
"So we've tried to scrap the two-seam and throw a lot more four-seams. I still throw a two-seam every now and then to go into righties, but it's just trying to make that adjustment to mainly four-seams."
In addition to what he throws, there's also the matter of how he throws. Specifically, going after hitters and becoming the kind of strike-thrower the Cubs have long coveted in their bullpen. After striking out 30 and walking 13 (2.31 K/BB) in 22.1 innings for AA Tennessee this season, Mekkes posted 41 K's with 16 walks (2.56 K/BB) over 31.1 AAA innings.
He can also work more than an inning at a time, a real luxury as starters are being lifted earlier than ever these days. Mekkes recorded at least four outs in 19 of his 41 appearances in 2018 and went two innings on eight occasions between Tennessee and Iowa.
"I've always kind of been, not effectively wild, but I'll pitch a walk every now and then," he said. "And I've tried to cut down on that and just attack every single hitter. It's a lot easier to get hitters out when you're ahead in the count than it is behind in the count, so I learned pretty quick that you've just got to attack hitters.
"I'm comfortable really going as many innings as they tell me to. I'm definitely a batter-to-batter guy, I don't look too far ahead. I'm not too worried about who's on deck or who's coming up that inning, I just kind of take it one batter at a time until they say I'm done pitching."
Mekkes's laid-back demeanor and desire to improve on the field make him receptive to coaching and what the metrics are saying about his performance. When it comes to other aspects of the organization's development plan, however, he isn't quite so bullish. Though he understands the value of the Cubs' ballyhooed mental skills program, he doesn't necessarily subscribe to its tenets as readily as others in the system have since its inception.
"I've never really been someone that is too much into like meditation and stuff like that," he said. "I try to think as little as possible, especially when I'm pitching. So I definitely see the benefits in all of it but I've never really been someone that's been too into it."
But while thinking as little as possible might be a good strategy on the mound, it isn't exactly an option these days. After finishing up the minor league season with Iowa, Mekkes headed back to East Lansing to finish up his degree in interdisciplinary studies. You can bet he won't stay there any longer than he has to, as the siren song of diamonds that don't have to be shoveled in the winter is far too powerful to avoid.
"I've played baseball since I was four years old and I know it's kind of clichéd to say, but ever since I was probably 10 in Little League, I started thinking seriously that all I ever wanted to do was play baseball for the rest of my life.
"The offseason for me is probably the worst time of the year because I just get bored. The first two weeks, I enjoy being home, seeing my family. But after that I just start looking forward to spring training again because I don't know what else to do with myself."
The next three months or so are going to be all about hitting the weight room and staying in shape, since the reliever will give his right arm a break from throwing until late December. Then it's a matter of putting in work to improve upon what is already a strong resume, perhaps by working to better leveraging his massive frame.
"I don't really use my height too well, more just my legs," Mekkes admitted. "So I guess I've never really gotten used to using the height factor of it, but I've just kind of tried to focus more on the length and using my size the best I can."
But no matter what he works on or how those secondaries develop, there's no question as to where Mekkes is going when he's got to get an out with the game on the line.
"Fastball, fastball," he said with conviction. "Because I've always been someone that if you're going to beat me, you're going to beat my best pitch and my best pitch is my fastball. So he might be ready for it but I'd rather he hit that than he hits a hanging slider or something else."
There's so much to love about baseball, but is there anything better than those mano-a-mano exchanges where everyone knows the deal and it's just about who does it better. It reminds me of Kerry Wood facing Barry Bonds or Rick Vaughn squaring off against Clu Haywood. Don't think, just throw. That's what Mekkes is all about.
It's worked pretty well so far for the 24-year-old who has already proven himself in the minors and still has plenty of room to learn and grow as a pitcher. And if he's just able to keep doing what he's done at every stop along his baseball journey so far, his next destination could well be Chicago. That'll be the case if he has anything to say about it.
"I'm going to try and do everything I can to come into camp ready and make a push for the bigs out of camp," Mekkes said. "So we'll see what happens there."
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Can you sway someone's vote with 140 characters? Hard to tell. But you can get them to cough up some money for your campaign.
That's the thrust of a new study from Twitter and Web traffic tracker Compete out this afternoon. It says its numbers prove that Tweets can lead directly to political donations.
Twitter users in general are 68 percent more likely to visit a campaign donation page than the rest of Web surfers.
Twitter users exposed to political Tweets are 97 percent more likely than other Twitter users to visit donation pages.
Twitter users exposed to political Tweets are more likely to visit donation pages than generic political sites.
More exposure to political Tweets increases the likelihood Twitter users will visit donation pages.
Note: The survey doesn't seem to track whether people actually took out their credit cards. But it implies that increased visits equals increased odds of that happening.
Twitter's summary of the study doesn't specifically call out the efficiency of political advertising on Twitter vs. unpaid messages, but you can easily see what Twitter is getting at: Twitter is running the post on its advertising blog, and it's attributed to Peter Greenberger, who left Google to head up Twitter's political ad unit last year. Greenberger says there are more than 100 politicians and political issue advertisers running campaigns on Twitter this cycle.
I talked to Greenberger about this stuff in general last month. When I suggested that Twitter might be better for direct response ads — mobilization and donations — than branding — convincing someone to support a candidate or position — he insisted that his platform was a great place for persuasion, period.
But for today, at least, he's playing up the immediate benefits of his ads. Perhaps we'll know more about the big picture stuff after the votes are counted.


So, I did not have a place to stay in Santa Monica when I visited, so I decided to sleep outside. I met an older woman there who supposedly had an apartment and a wonderful Armenian caretaker. She also she said she was from a day care center in Pomona. I do not know if this is the fault of not being able to pay, she escaped, or some other cause, but when I looked up a day care in Pomona this is the only one that came up. Her name was Sandra and seems like she has dementia, and I would presume homeless. Just in case there was someone wondering where she was. I called and no one picked up. I also work at a nursing home in New Jersey so I hope she finds her way back to you.


A number of people have followed our home page link to read Suellen's write up of the Windows for Cory project. In that story there is an internet link that used to show pictures of the various windows that were created by various local artists on the 150 year old parsonage windows when they were replaced in 2006. The windows were created as a fundraising event to benefit the Cory Taber Memorial Field behind the church. The auction of the windows raised more than $20,000.
You may recognize the picture above. It hangs in the parsonage. That is another story.
There were 44 windows, 36 of which are shown in the slideshow. Thanks to Sue Kelley for letting me borrow her scapbook of the project. Sue and Russ did not have the winning bid on son Steven's "Covered Bridge with Mt. Ascutney", but Steve painted another one for them!
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Q: In SDL, how do I move a rectangle without clearing screen? If I draw a rectangle, and render it to the screen, then change the position of the rectangle, and render it to the screen, it draws two rectangles: the previous one is still there.
I could clear the window in-between these two actions, but that seems a bit silly. Imagine having a million points and only needing to move one of them. Would I then have to redraw the entire image again?
How do I just move ONE object? From x,y to x+1, y+1 say?

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Camp Pineta is situated in Petrčane, 12 km northwest of the city of Zadar near the popular hotel Pinija. With its 3000 sq. meters area and 30 camp units, camp Pineta is considered to be a small family camp. Situated right next to the sea, surrounded by pine trees and with plenty of sunlight it is ideal for all of those which want to spend their vacation tightly connected with nature, see and its rhythm.
Zadar was elected the best European destination 2016 by voting conducted on website "European Best Destinations"!
Zadar, a city on Croatia's Dalmatian coast, is known for the Roman and Venetian ruins of its peninsular Old Town. There are several Venetian gates in the city walls. Surrounding the Roman-era Forum is 11th-century St. Mary's Convent, with religious art dating to the 8th century. There's also the grand, 12th-century St. Anastasia's Cathedral and the round, 9th-century pre-Romanesque Church of St. Donatus.
The Kornati National Park is often mentioned as "nautical paradise" in tourist publications. And really, in "slalom" sailing through the 89 unforgettable islands, islets and reefs in the Kornati National Park, you will test all of your nautical skills, particularly if the weather puts in some effort… You'll need a valid ticket to sail through the National Park.
Due to its unique natural features, magnificent forests and extraordinary geomorphologic structures, the area of Velika and Mala Paklenica was proclaimed a national park in 1949. The main reason for proclaiming this area a national park was the protection of the largest and best preserved forest complex in the territory of Dalmatia, which was threatened by overexploitation. The Paklenica National Park stretches on the area of 95 km2 , on the littoral slope of South Velebit under the zone of highest mountain peaks Vaganski vrh (1752) and Sveto brdo (1753).
Including the submerged part of the river at the mouth, the Krka River is 72.5 km long, making it the 22nd longest river in Croatia. It springs in the foothills of the Dinara mountain range, 2.5 km northeast of Knin. With its seven waterfalls and a total drop in altitude of 242 m, the Krka is a natural and karst phenomenon.
PETRCANE, a village and harbour on the coast of the cove bearing the same name, in the Zadar Channel, 15 km northwest of Zadar. Chief occupations are farming and fishing. Petrcane has a beach with a pine forest. The harbour is well protected; smaller yachts may dock in the harbour. Petrcane lies on the local road, branching off from the regional road Zadar – Nin.


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LoA Update: United Therapeutics' Unituxin for osteosarcoma tumbles 12 points in FDA regulatory potential after NCI-sponsored Phase II results
As of 11 May, the Likelihood of Approval (LoA) for United Therapeutics' (NASDAQ:UTHR) Unituxin (dinutuximab) for osteosarcoma dropped 12 points, according to GlobalData's LoA data.
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This news is the result of a Phase II trial, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), that showed Unituxin was ineffective in patients with recurrent osteosarcoma. Credits: BlurryMe/Shutterstock.com.
As of 11 May, the Likelihood of Approval (LoA) for United Therapeutics' (NASDAQ:UTHR) Unituxin (dinutuximab) for osteosarcoma dropped 12 points, according to GlobalData's LoA data. This news is the result of a Phase II trial, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), that showed Unituxin was ineffective in patients with recurrent osteosarcoma, in a 7 May update to ClinicalTrials.gov.
Though 41 patients enrolled in the Phase II, 32 did not complete the study, including 28 patients who dropped out due to a lack of efficacy, according to ClinicalTrials.gov. In addition, 30.77% of patients experienced serious adverse events, including eye disorders and vomiting. Unituxin previously received FDA approval for treating neuroblastoma in March 2015 and had sales of $123m in 2020 for that indication, according to GlobalData.
While the LoA prior to this news was 15%, GlobalData's analysis using a combination of machine learning and a proprietary algorithm has dropped the LoA to 3%. Unituxin is an intravenously administered monoclonal antibody.
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Q: How do I include dependency file, put in target, into Java code using Maven? I'm a little stuck because I'm not sure I'm going down the right path.
Currently, I have multiple projects - one project that distributes a .zip file containing several other files including an XML file and a JSON file. This is already in the Maven local repository we're using, and isn't an issue at the moment.
The problem is now we have another project that needs to use this file, at compile as well as runtime. So, we need to load this as a resource. However, including these files in the jar using:
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>copy-scripts</id>
                        <phase>compile</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>unpack</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <outputDirectory>target</outputDirectory>
                            <artifactItems>
                                <artifactItem>
                                    <groupId>mygroupidhere</groupId>
                                    <artifactId>myartifacthere</artifactId>
                                    <version>myversionhere</version>
                                    <overWrite>true</overWrite>
                                    <classifier>sources</classifier>
                                    <type>zip</type>
                                </artifactItem>
                            </artifactItems>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

does extract the required files to target/sources, and includes them in the top level directory of the built jar. However, I am struggling to actually load these files using the Java code in the project that it is in. This needs to be compatible with building (with unit tests) as well as at runtime from the jar file (in the jar, the files are placed in sources/ as one would expect).
I've tried using Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("sources/examplefile")) but the unit tests fail (at this point, it's in target/sources/examplefile, which works, but obviously won't work at runtime because it'll just be in sources/examplefile).
I've tried getResourcesAsStream from the class as well, which makes sense at runtime, but won't work in the unit tests because it'll be in target as it is taken from the dependency. The unit tests have to be compatible with the files in the dependency directly (so they're more like integration tests really), otherwise we do want this project to fail to build.
Anyone know the answer?

A: That sounds like a bad design.

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*Create a maven artifact (jar file) with your resources and then add it as a dependency to your project. Have a simple class file in it as well (e.g Loader).

package something;
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Home U.S Dad and son were fishing when they found 'unique' elk antler, Missouri...
Dad and son were fishing when they found 'unique' elk antler, Missouri officials say
LILLY LYRA
A dad and his son were fishing in Missouri when they discovered a rare elk antler, wildlife officials say.
The Missouri Department of Conservation says the "unique" elk antler was attached to the animal's skull plate, as seen in a photo shared on Facebook. This means the elk did not shed the antler, as male bulls do each year.
Sam Clarkson and his dad, Ben, were fishing at Sowards Ford Access on the Grand River when they found the antler, officials say. They alerted a conservation agent, who then "issued a Wildlife Disposition for the pair to legally keep the antler."
In Missouri, "any person who finds and takes into possession a dead elk with antlers still attached to the skull plate must report it to a conservation agent within twenty-four (24) hours to receive possession authorization." This is not the case for antlers that were shed before they were found.
"Congratulations to Sam and Ben on this rare find," officials said.
Many people who came across the Facebook post were impressed with the Clarksons' nature discovery.
"That would be so cool to find," one person replied.
"Very cool," said another. "I've done a lot of walking along creeks and rivers and found a few interesting things but nothing like that. That's something he will always remember."
"Absolutely incredible especially the location," replied another.
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In Missouri, conservation officials say you are most likely to find elk in parts of Carter, Reynolds and Shannon counties. Those are all in the southeast portion of the state, but the antler was found in northwestern Worth County.
While elk are not common in Missouri, they are believed to have once roamed the state.
"Before the coming of Europeans, elk, or wapiti, probably ranged over the entire region of what is now Missouri," the Department of Conservation says. "By 1830, elk were becoming scarce; they eventually were limited to just the northwestern and southeastern parts of the state. By the 1880s, they were extirpated.
"Today, elk have been reintroduced, in large part, because of their popularity for hunting and ecotourism."
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Roger Goodell: Michael Vick to serve as Pro Bowl captain despite petitions
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Former New York Jets quarterback Michael Vick served 18 months in federal prison for his involvement in a dog fighting ring. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Despite online petitions calling for his removal over his 2007 dog fighting conviction, former NFL quarterback Michael Vick will serve as one of the league's honorary Pro Bowl captains this year.
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Despite those pleas, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters Wednesday at the league's quarterly ownership meetings that he doesn't plan to remove Vick from the event, saying he has made progress since the conviction.
"Over the last, what is it, nine years or so, we have supported Michael in his recognition of the mistake he made," Goodell said. "He's paid a heavy price for that. He's been accountable for it.
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"I know there are people out there who will never forgive him. He knows that. But I think this is a young man who's really taken his life in a positive direction, and we support that, so I don't anticipate any change, no."
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A Teleoceras az emlősök (Mammalia) osztályának páratlanujjú patások (Perissodactyla) rendjébe, ezen belül az orrszarvúfélék (Rhinocerotidae) családjába tartozó fosszilis nem.

Tudnivalók

A Teleoceras Észak-Amerika kihalt orrszarvúféléinek egyike. Az állat a középső miocéntől a kora pliocénig élt, vagyis 16,9—4,9 millió évvel ezelőtt.

A Teleoceras lábai sokkal rövidebbek voltak, mint a mai fajoké. Teste hordó alakú volt, ami inkább vízilószerű megjelenést adott. Mint a víziló, a Teleoceras is idejének jó részét a vízben tölthette. Az állatnak csak egy kis szarva volt az orra hegyén.

Ez az ősi orrszarvúféle a leggyakoribb kövület a nebraskai Ashfall Fossil Beds lelőhelyen. Sőt, ezen a helyen olyan sok Teleoceras maradvány került elő, hogy az épületet, amely óvja a lelőhelyet, "Orrszarvú Istálló"nak becézik. A csontvázak többsége jó állapotban kövesedett meg. Olyan kövület is előkerült, amely egy borjút mutat szopás közben.

Rendszerezés
Alul a "The Paleobiology Database" szerint vannak a fajok:

†Teleoceras felicis
†Teleoceras fossiger - szinonimák: Paraphelops rooksensis, Teleoceras schultzi
†Teleoceras hicksi - szinonimák: Paraphelops yumensis, Peraceras ponderis, Teleoceras ocotensis
†Teleoceras major típusfaj
†Teleoceras medicornutum - szinonimák: Aphelops planiceps, Teleoceras thomsoni
†Teleoceras meridianum
†Teleoceras minor
†Teleoceras proterum - szinonimája: Eusyodon maximus
†Teleoceras snowi

Alul azok a fajok vannak, amelyek nincsenek meg a "The Paleobiology Database"-ben, de megvannak az angolwikiben:

†Teleoceras americanum
†Teleoceras brachyrhinum
†Teleoceras guymonense

Jegyzetek

Források
McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp.
Prothero, Donald R. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 218 pp.
Paleobiology Database

Fordítás

További információk
Ashfall Fossil Beds

Orrszarvúfélék
Emlősnemek
Észak-Amerika állatvilága a miocénben
Észak-Amerika állatvilága a pliocénben
Fosszilis páratlanujjú patások