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Global ESG survey: Asset managers reveal greater engagement with underlying investments, as asset owners identify climate change as their top ESG concern
- 90% of respondents in Russell Investments' global survey of 369 asset managers include ESG in discussions with underlying investments
- 60% of managers globally identify climate change/environmental issues as their clients' top ESG concern
- 80% of managers highlight governance as the most important ESG factor, but Continental European and Canadian managers put greater focus on environmental issues
SEATTLE, November 10, 2021 — Asset managers are placing greater emphasis on active ownership of their investments and increasingly engaging on ESG issues with the underlying companies in their portfolios, according to a newly released survey conducted by Russell Investments. Ninety percent of respondents said they cover ESG in meetings with the senior management of companies that they invest in, up from 80% in the 2018 survey. Overall, 35% of respondents report they always cover ESG in their meetings, up from 21% in 2018.
Russell Investments' seventh-annual ESG Manager Survey reflects the views of 369 global asset managers, representing US$79.6 trillion in assets under management across a broad range of asset classes including equity, fixed income, real assets and private markets. The survey, conducted by the firm's investment manager-research team, assesses managers' attitudes toward responsible investing and how they integrate ESG factors into their investment processes.
Survey respondents said they hear from clients (asset owners) more on climate risk/environmental issues (60%) than any other issue, followed by diversity & inclusion/social issues (20%). While climate risk/environmental issues topped the client-engagement list globally and in all regions, including 97% of respondents in Continental Europe, U.S. respondents were more balanced with 46% selecting climate risk/environmental issues and 29% picking diversity & inclusion/social issues.
Similar to previous years, managers continue to rank "governance" (80%) as the most important ESG factor that impacts their investment decisions, reflecting the importance of company management in delivering long-term enterprise value regardless of industries. Meanwhile "environmental" has increased over the past four years from 5% in 2018 to 14% in this year's survey. This steep rise reflects the increased focus on tackling climate risk as well as the impact of regulations. It is mostly attributable to managers in Continental Europe, where 30% selected this factor (up from 4% in 2018) and Canada, which rose from 4% in 2018 to 27% this year. "Social" continued to lag at 6%, which was roughly in line with the 2020 survey results. (While social issues such as diversity, healthcare availability, and affordable housing have received greater attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, social factors are harder to quantify and there are very few investment opportunities directly tied to these issues.)
Russell Investments' survey also found asset managers are increasingly incorporating ESG-specific considerations into their investment activities. Over 80% of managers surveyed explicitly incorporate qualitative or quantitative ESG factor assessments into their investment processes. This is reflected in the extent to which ESG factors are now influencing investment decisions, particularly with respect to risk. Forty-six percent of respondents noted the material role ESG factors such as climate change play in assessing potential security risk (an increase of 11 percentage points since 2018). Furthermore, 29% of managers highlighted the influence of ESG considerations in driving positive returns, a rise of 9% since 2018.
Indeed, almost all regions surveyed showed a steady uptick in the extent to which ESG considerations are regularly embedded into investment practices. Every UK manager surveyed said they now integrate ESG into their investment processes, a 13% jump from 2020, and 97% of managers in Continental Europe said likewise. While managers in the U.S. lag in this regard, the percentage among U.S. respondents has grown from 67% in 2019 to 82% in this year's survey.
While ESG factor integration is seemingly approaching its peak globally, investment professionals specializing in sustainable and responsible investing are in high demand. Firms have invested in resources across the industry, with sizeable percentage increases in the number of dedicated professionals who spend more than 90% of their time on ESG matters. More than half of Canadian asset managers (52%) employ dedicated ESG professionals, up from 26% in 2020. In Europe and Japan 88% of managers have dedicated ESG professionals, followed by the UK with 63%.
Overall, the 2021 survey reveals an increased number of firms are actively increasing their efforts with respect to ESG initiatives and are adding dedicated ESG or responsible investing personnel, particularly those firms with larger assets under management.
Commenting on the 2021 survey:
Yoshie Phillips, Director of Investment Research — Global Fixed Income at Russell Investments, said:
"ESG integration within asset management investment and business practices has continued to evolve at a fast pace, with forward-looking materiality assessments being the key consideration. Asset managers are applying more rigorous ESG-related analysis and seeking to provide greater transparency. However, there is still much progress to be made, particularly with respect to climate change, which is increasingly defining ESG agendas and ranks as the number one concern among underlying clients."
Jihan Diolosa, Head of Responsible Investing at Russell investments, added:
"In last year's study, we noted that ESG is no longer an optional 'add on' but rather an essential part of decision-making. Asset managers have certainly taken this to heart, which is reflected in the improvements we have continued to see over the last twelve months. We are also starting to see the potential beginnings of an evolution in how managers prioritise ESG in several regions, most notably Continental Europe and Canada, increasingly focusing on environmental factors, which is largely being driven by clients. With climate change in particular becoming such a critical issue, managers will have to demonstrate a clear focus and active efforts to make improvements in this area or risk being left behind."
For more information on the survey findings, please see this blog by Yoshie Phillips.
About Russell Investments
Russell Investments is a leading global investment solutions firm with $330.1 billion in assets under management (as of September 30, 2021) and $2.9 trillion in assets under advisement (as of June 30, 2021) for clients in 32 countries. The firm provides a wide range of investment capabilities to institutional investors, financial intermediaries, and individual investors around the world. Building on an 85-year legacy of continuous innovation to deliver exceptional value to clients, Russell Investments works every day to improve people's financial security. Headquartered in Seattle, Russell Investments has offices in 19 cities around the world, including in London, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai.
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How To Increase Google Crawl Rate For Your Website?
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Google crawl rate is the frequency at which Googlebot visits your website. It will vary according to the type of your website and the content you publish.
If Googlebot can't crawl your website properly, your pages and posts will not get indexed.
Keep in mind that you cannot force Googlebot to love you. Instead, send an invitation to show how amazing you are.
Without further adieu, here are some of the measures you can take to increase Google crawl rate.
One of the most important criteria for search engines is content.
Websites that update content on a regular basis have a good chance of getting crawled frequently.
To improve Google crawl rate, it is recommended that you post content three times in a week.
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To increase your website load speed, have smaller pages with fewer images and graphics.
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Every content on the website should be crawled but, sometimes it'll take a long time or worse never be crawled.
Submission of sitemaps is one of the important things you have to do make your site discoverable by Googlebot.
With a sitemap, a website can be efficiently and effectively crawled.
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It doesn't matter if your webpages are optimized for speed. If your server response time is slow, your pages will display slowly.
If this is the case, Google will actually point this out on the 'crawl rate' page of Google Search Console. You can set it to 'Faster'.
Additionally, use the hosting you have efficiently and improve your site's cache.
Copied content will decrease crawl rate as search engines can easily identify duplicate content.
Duplicate content is clear evidence that you lack purpose and originality.
If your pages have duplicate content beyond a certain level, search engines may ban your website or lower your search engine rankings.
If you have a large website, you may have content that you don't want search engines to index. Example, admin page and backend folders.
Robots.txt can stop Googlebot from crawling those unwanted pages.
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Only if images are optimized, they will be displayed in search results.
Crawlers will not be able to read images directly like humans.
Whenever you use images, make sure to use alt tags and provide descriptions for a search engine to index.
The same notion is applicable for videos. Google is not a fan of 'flash' because it can't index it.
If you are having trouble optimizing these elements, it is better to use them minimally or avoid using them altogether.
When you interlink blogs within your own blog, Googlebot can crawl deeply in your websites.
Interlink old posts to new ones and vice versa. This will directly improve Google crawl rate and help you get higher visibility.
Whenever you add new content to your website, use ping services to inform bots about the update.
It is equivalent to waving a flag and asking the search engines to check out the new content.
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If you have included any black hat SEO tactics, you must remove all the related outcomes as well.
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Usage of black hat SEO techniques translates to a low-quality site for crawlers. Only use white hat techniques to increase Google crawl rate.
High-quality backlinks will improve crawl rate and indexation speed of your website. It is also the most effective way to rank better and drive more traffic.
Even here White hat link building is a reliable method. Refrain from borrowing, stealing or buying links.
The best way is to earn them by guest blogging, broken link building fixes, and resource links.
There is no proof that social shares will influence search ranking but, they help new content to get indexed quickly.
For instance, Facebook doesn't allow bots to crawl information that isn't public and Twitter doesn't allow any results to be crawled at all. If you perform a quick robots.txt check on their files to verify.
Still, Googlebot and Bingbot can access publicly available information on social media. Hence getting a decent amount of shares for your content will help in quick crawling and indexing.
According to Google, Crawl rate is not a ranking factor.
You will get more organic search if your website is in a good place on SERPs. This will happen if you have a decent crawl rate. So every search engine marketing strategy must consider a website's crawl rate.
It is possible to increase Google crawl rate but, it will not happen overnight. You have to be patient.
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What are the techniques you follow to improve crawl rate for your website? Feel free to comment below.


When undertaking the task of providing pure water to drink, the Corps of Engineers began at the top—by providing it to the president of the United States and the first family. In 1824 Army engineers piped water from a spring on K Street to supply the White House, previously dependent on shallow wells. Engineer work then expanded to the rest of the nation's capital. In the 1840s, future Chief of Engineers, Lt. Andrew A. Humphreys, assisted in work that included installation of the first sanitary sewer in Washington, on 15th Street. The climax of the Corps' efforts was, of course, Capt. Montgomery C. Meigs' efforts in the next decade to build the Washington Aqueduct—the foundation of the capital's water system, most of it still functioning today. In a growing urban area plagued by a host of filth-borne diseases, the Corps' work laid an indispensable foundation for the future eradication of typhoid and cholera.
After the Civil War, work expanded. The raising of the Potomac and Anacostia flats saved thousands of lives, especially among the city's poor, who lived in malaria-scourged riverside neighborhoods. In the twentieth century, working with top civil consultants, the engineers directed the building of a system to pump the city's sewage under the Anacostia by means of an inverted siphon and constructed the sewage treatment plant at Blue Plains. Meanwhile, in the late nineteenth century, other American cities called on the Corps for assistance in solving their own water problems. Detailed by the Chief of Engineers, Col. George H. Mendell served during the 1870s as consultant engineer to the water commissioners of San Francisco and the state of California. In the 1880s, Capt. William Ludlow helped give Philadelphia its modern water system despite the opposition of some local politicians.
As the end of the century approached, Army engineers carried their cleanup work to U.S. possessions and administered areas overseas. Now a brigadier general, Ludlow as Governor of Havana (1898-1900) directed a full-scale sanitary reform of this disease-ridden tropical port. Work included plans for sewers, pumping stations, and an improved water system. Lt. Lytle Brown, a future Chief of Engineers, helped to carry out similar improvements in Manila, the Philippine Islands.
The record of the engineering profession as a whole is a distinguished one in the field of public health. Long before the true causes of epidemic disease were understood, engineers moved out ahead of medical researchers to provide practical solutions to pressing public problems. In that record of service, Corps members have shared fully. Today, human health remains an important aspect of the efforts to preserve the total web of life through environmental engineering, and the Corps continues to support the improvement of urban water facilities around the world.


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Gmina Gjinaj (alb. Komuna Gjinaj) – gmina położona w północno-zachodniej części kraju. Administracyjnie należy do okręgu Has w obwodzie Kukës.  W 2011 roku populacja wynosiła 1106 mieszkańców – 565 mężczyzn oraz 541 kobiet.

W skład gminy wchodzi sześć górskich miejscowości: Gjinaj, Pusi i Thatë, Myç-Has, Domaj, Pogaj, Kishaj.

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Venue overview
The St Martin's Theatre was built as a pair with the Ambassadors Theatre, both opening in 1916. Tucked away in the Seven Dials, the intimate venue has been home to many small-scale productions, before hosting the world's longest-running play The Mousetrap, where it has continued to play into its 60th year. The small, intricate space is perfect for Agatha Christie's thriller, which has been entertaining audiences for over half a century.
The auditorium is smaller than most West End venues, and is split across three levels. Views of the stage are particularly good from most areas, although safety rails and overhangs can cause restriction. The seats are not the most comfortable, so aisle seats are recommended if you require additional leg room.
Good value seats
Sit in the Upper Circle for some great views at a discounted price. Views are unobstructed, especially in the back row, and chances are you will be allowed to move down into the more expensive seats just before the show starts. Even if you are not so lucky, these seats are good value for money as the theatre is small enough to enjoy the play without obstruction.
The best seats in the house are located towards the front of the Dress Circle. The section feels relatively low, and so views from this level are almost direct with the stage. Aim to sit in the central section, perhaps two rows from the front.
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Banks need Boundaries! hat diese Petition an the people and the political representatives gestartet.
Society must set the rules for the financial system and not vice versa. Banks should serve the people.
Money should be accumulated according to individual achievement. Workless concentration of capital widens the gap between rich and poor. One must take decisive steps to heal this growing rift.
The first step is to separate commercial and investment banks. States may not give guarantees for the speculative business of investment banks. States should never bail out investment banks. Shadow banks, offshore financial institutions, hedge funds and derivatives create nothing of real value. Experience shows clearly that they in fact harm society.
It's a waste of time to debate monetary policy without taking into account how money is created. Profit-oriented private banks should not be allowed to create money. The money supply should be controlled by non-profit institutions.
Financial speculation with food and commodities, which represents blackmail of people and the real economy, must end. The securities market must become a zero-sum game, not a tool to siphon off assets from useful businesses. Sensible forms of investment should lead to a flow of money towards the real economy. States may not go into debt for this.
The Euro and many international treaties were pushed through over the heads of those very citizens who bear the consequences. We evoke the right to self-determination and demand referendums. Every country has the right to decide on its budget, its economy, and thus on its own currency. ESM treaty, fiscal compact and institutions that are not democratically legitimized should be rejected.
Banks need Boundaries! benötigt Ihre Hilfe zur Petition "Banks need Boundaries!". Jetzt machen Sie Banks need Boundaries! und 280 Unterstützer/innen mit.


Ideas. I get ideas. Some of them are extensions of my earlier robots stories, but others have been knocking around inside my brain for quite some time. Now that I'm becoming more comfortable in giving those thoughts a tangible expression, I want to branch out and try different types of stories.
Here's what I've come up with so far. All of the titles are provisional.
If you've read The Rescuers, you know it ends with a lead in to the next story in this series. What happens when a Three-Laws driven Positronic brain is put in charge of automating many or most of the administrative and security functions of the main campus of a major business, the National Robotics Corporation, the company that created the brain in the first place? It may sound like a boring premise, but remember, how humans do business, the good, bad, and ugly of it, is very different from how a Three Laws synthetic intelligence would.
This is the start of an entirely new and original series. A man wakes up in an unfamiliar room. He doesn't know his name and the person he sees in the mirror looks "wrong" to him. He discovers his only hope of finding out about his past is a mysterious woman called Zoel. But she's not interested in his past, only his future.
My seven-year-old grandson has a terrific imagination. His favorite game to play with me is to act out elaborate scenarios based on games, TV shows, books, and comic books. He'll start out telling part of the story and then I have to tell the next part. We go round and round until we come up with a resolution to our problem (which typically involves defeating some sort of monster). I'm thinking about writing a series of children's stories based on our "adventures" together. Oh, I'm not comfortable using his actual name, so I chose an adaptation of his middle name (yes, he's named after me…awwww).
This tale will be part of my robots series, but it's set some years in the future compared to the other stories. One of the concepts of manned missions to Venus is not to send astronauts to the surface where they would face hazards that would almost certainly prove fatal, but to have them explore the planet from an airship sailing high in the atmosphere. My premise is to have the first airships be flown by Positronic robots whose task is to build long-term flying platforms for later human explorers. Of course, something goes wrong.
Let me know what you think and feel free to make suggestions.


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You are here: Green Needham > Projects > Living Green in Needham > Legislative and Policy Advocacy
Green Needham recognizes that legislation and public policy provide the basis for local projects such as Solarize Needham, the RTS Solar Array, and the availability of no-cost home energy assessments and weatherization rebates. While we don't have a specific legislative advocacy team, we work with and support organizations that are focused on advocacy.
In October, 2018, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report indicating we have only 12 years to drastically upgrade our energy policies if we wish to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Citing more than 6,000 scientific references, the report calls for "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented" actions to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Centigrade by cutting carbon emissions in half by 2030 and reaching "net zero" around 2050. According to the report, these actions could have "clear benefits to people and natural ecosystems" and "could go hand in hand with ensuring a more sustainable and equitable society."
Green Needham is committed to working with other organizations to advocate for the bold actions needed — actions that have multiple benefits for human health and well being
2019-2020 Environmental Legislation
Green Needham is a member of Mass Power Forward, a grassroots network of over 200 organizations supporting climate action. Mass Power Forward supports many bills that promote clean, local, and healthy energy for Massachusetts. They have prioritized five bills that promote 100% renewable energy, provide for equitable investments in Green Infrastructure (using mechanisms such as equitable carbon pricing or the transportation climate initiative), and do so while ensuring that underserved, often low-income, communities share in the benefits of green jobs and community investment.
SD 1885/HD 3878 and SD 1824/HD 3523 – An Act relative to Environmental Justice – Sen. DiDomenico / Rep. Madaro and Sen. Eldridge/ Rep. Dubois & Rep. Miranda. Rep. Denise Garlick & Senator Becca Rausch have cosponsored. Read More.
SD 1625/HD 3092 An Act Re-powering Massachusetts with 100% Renewable Energy – Sen. Eldridge / Rep. Decker & Rep. Garballey. Rep. Denise Garlick & Senator Becca Rausch have cosponsored. Read More
HD 2370 An Act to Promote Green Infrastructure and Reduce Carbon Emissions – Rep. Benson. Rep. Denise Garlick, Senator Becca Rausch, and Senator Mike Rush have cosponsored. Read More.
SD 1541/HD 3009 An Act to Advance Modern and Sustainable Solutions for Transportation – Sen. Lesser / Rep. Ehrlich. Rep. Denise Garlick & Senator Becca Rausch have cosponsored. Read More.
Other bills to watch
HD 3577: An Act to create a 2050 roadmap to a clean and thriving Commonwealth Sponsored by: Representative Joan Meschino. Rep. Denise Garlick & Senator Becca Rausch have cosponsored.
Bill Summary: This bill would establish a new framework for the fair and efficient achievement of the Commonwealth's climate goals by requiring Massachusetts to develop and implement a comprehensive plan to achieve our carbon emission reduction goals by 2050 while maintaining a thriving economy.
Mass Power Forward Lobby Day, January 24, 2019. Members of Green Needham, the Needham League of Women Voters and First Parish in Needham, Unitarian Universalist, participated in the Lobby Day, visiting Representative Denise Garlick, Senator Mike Rush, and Senator Becca Rausch.
Previous Legislative Advocacy
During the 2016 legislative session, as Massachusetts lawmakers mapped out the energy future of our State, environmental organizations mobilized citizens to contact their legislators about energy policy. An Act to Promote Energy Diversity, signed into law by Governor Baker in August, is everything environments wanted, but it does require utilities to obtain 1600 MW of electricity from offshore wind — the largest commitment to offshore wind in the nation. The bill also requires utilities to repair environmentally damaging gas leaks, creates a panel to guide the decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, and moves the state forward on energy efficiency and energy storage.
Green Needham has supported and participated in the efforts of the Mass Interfaith Coalition for Climate Action (MAICCA) and the Needham League of Women Voters in advocating for renewable energy during the discussions of the energy bill. In meetings with legislators and actions at the State House, citizens stressed the need to direct our energy legislation toward clean, renewable power, and equal access to energy conservation measures for all citizens of Massachusetts.
MAICCA members march in December, 2015 at the end of the Climate talks in Paris.
Needham residents meet at the office of Rep. Denise Garlick in October, 2015.
Local policy
Green Needham has advised and supported Needham high school students Christopher Thomas, Vinh Truong and Bony Ganuagpanta as they prepare to petition the May 2017 Town Meeting to pass a plastic bag ban. Their initial efforts include getting signatures on a petition supporting the ban.


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Q: Unable bind Array values retrived from Excel import in angular I am trying excel import functionality using xlsx.
I got the array from the below code
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    Reader.onload = (e:any)  => {
      const fileData : string=e.target.result;
      const wb : XLSX.WorkBook = XLSX.read(fileData,{type:'binary'});
      const wsname : string = wb.SheetNames[0];
      const ws : XLSX.WorkSheet = wb.Sheets[wsname];
      this.data =(XLSX.utils.sheet_to_json(ws,{header:1}));
      console.log(this.data)
      let x = this.data.slice(1);
      console.log(x)
    };
    setTimeout(() => {
      if (this.data.length > 0) {
         this.UploadedFileView(this.data);
      }
   }, 500);
    Reader.readAsBinaryString(target.files[0]);
  }

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Q: Wrong counting while using dictionary replacing multi-if statement My target is to count offers to specified companies in Excel.
I used plenty of if statements to do counting work before.
codes like below
ipl=gs=gt=0
for file in glob.glob('*.xlsm'):
    wb=load_workbook(file,data_only=True)
    ws=wb["Tim"]
    client=ws['B2'].value

    if client=='Injection Parts Ltd.':
        ipl+=1
    if client=='Gulf Sample Ltd':
        gs+=1
    if client=='Great test Ltd.':
        gt+=1

Above worked.
Considering there are more than 20 if statments and it takes a long period time to finish checking,I used dictionary as below
ipl=gs=gt=0
for file in glob.glob('*.xlsm'):
    wb=load_workbook(file,data_only=True)
    ws=wb["Tim"]
    client=ws['B2'].value

companypool = {'Injection Parts Ltd.':ipl,
            'Gulf Sample Ltd':gs,
            'Great test Ltd.':gt}

if client in companypool:
    print(companypool[client])
    print(client)
    companypool[client]+=1

The result is that companypool[client] always being 0 and failed to count.
Any codes wrong?
I am newbie to Python,thank you in advance.

A: Are your indents correct? The block beginning with
if client in companypool:

doesn't look to be correctly indented. And the line
companypool = {'Injection Parts Ltd.':ipl,
    'Gulf Sample Ltd':gs,
    'Great test Ltd.':gt}

is going to reset your dictionary values to 0 each iteration. Move it to the start of the script.
Overall it looks like you want:
companypool = {
    'Injection Parts Ltd.': 0,
    'Gulf Sample Ltd': 0,
    'Great test Ltd.': 0,
}

for file in glob.glob('*.xlsm'):
    wb = load_workbook(file, data_only=True)
    ws = wb["Tim"]
    client = ws['B2'].value

    if client in companypool:
        print(companypool[client])
        print(client)
        companypool[client] += 1

ipl = companypool['Injection Parts Ltd.']
gs  = companypool['Gulf Sample Ltd']
gt  = companypool['Great test Ltd.']


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title: Open problems in Tetrahedral mesh generation
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As has been the nature of articles listing _Open_ problems in any domain, expect this post to be under construction _forever_. I want to enter in the field of Tetrahedral mesh generation for which I am gathering the list of open problems. In this pursuit I have found some useful resources some of which I have listed [here](http://qr.ae/jW8pz). But I am expecting list to grow as I become more familiar with this field over time.

**Constrained Delaunay tetrahedralization(CDT)**
* Is there any lower bound on number of _Steiner points_ required for edge recovery?
* What is the _optimal_ number of Steiner points for a CDT?

**Quality tetrahedral mesh generation**
* Proof for Minimum/Maximum bound on dihedral angle in a Delaunay refinement is still unknown.

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"Hockney," by Hunter Biden, mixed media on metallic paper, 50 in x 38 in.
Hunter Biden's art: Shades of Klimt but sans the soul and depth
BY STEPHEN DiLAURO | Hunter Biden has an art exhibit in Soho right now, at the Georges Berges Gallery, at 462 West Broadway (by appointment only).
Hunter Biden is President Joe Biden's son. Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma Holdings — a Ukrainian natural gas company. A lot was made of this by Donald Trump, while he was president, and by Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
Hunter Biden trained as a lawyer, and, apparently, he was paid quite a bit for his consulting at Burisma. Now Hunter Biden and his dealer are asking for up to half a million dollars for the paintings on display.
Untitled, by Hunter Biden, mixed media on YUPO #43, 27.5 in x 29 in.
Democrats will point out that various investigations found no wrongdoing on Hunter Biden's part when he was on Burisma's board. Republicans will contradict that without any evidence to support their claims. I'm a Green Party member.
It's not hard to see why Senator Joe Manchin is stiffing President Joe Biden on legislation at every turn: Biden wants to stop Manchin from making money on coal. Joe Biden, meantime, is overseeing a government that gives the oil industry $11 million in subsidies and tax breaks every minute of every day and night, according to a recent report by the Guardian in London.
Joe Biden is calling for increased oil production while calling for reduction in carbon emissions, especially from other countries. Joe Biden's son Hunter made a heap of money, by my standards anyway, working for a fossil fuel company. So, Manchin appears to be standing pat. Why wouldn't he?
What do I think about all this? Well, for starters, there's not much difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to the influence of energy companies. That's as nicely as I can put it. Now on to Hunter Biden's paintings.
Paintings that look like they would be more at home in a Jazz Age bordello or furniture showroom.
Clearly, Biden has a knack for painting and some good technique. There's a sense that Biden was influenced somewhat by Gustav Klimt, whose most famous painting is "The Kiss." There is a certain richness to Biden's work that Klimt, an Austrian, also employed in his paintings. Unlike Klimt, though, Biden's paintings are without whatever it is — call it passion, soul, intensity or depth — that separates great paintings from decorative work.
Untitled, by Hunter Biden, mixed media on metallic paper, 50 in x 38 in.
Some of the works in the exhibit are quite pretty. Not surprisingly, I detected some Art Nouveau and Art Deco influences, as well. A pair of paintings of stylized serpents would have been right at home in the sitting room of one of the Jazz Age bordellos of the famed New York City madam Polly Adler. These were painted and inked on a special Japanese paper.
There are paintings on canvas. There are paintings with compositions on both sides of steel panels that the art dealer and an assistant turned for my viewing pleasure.
As a friend who attended the exhibition with me said afterward, "There's nothing offensive but I wouldn't want to own anything there."
A lot of work has gone into these pieces, that much is clear; and Biden is very much in command of his materials and his craft. But these paintings look as though they would be more appropriate in a furniture showroom, rather than a high-end gallery. Are they worth up to half a million dollars? Not unless something else is at work, like being the son of the president. Jean-Michel Basquiat was never paid anything even close to that amount while he was alive, and Biden is certainly no Basquiat.
It's often said that Americans love a redemption and comeback story. Apparently, Hunter Biden's recently published memoir is an attempt to position him in such a narrative. I haven't read the book. I certainly do not see redemption in these Sunday paintings by a rich guy.
Untitled, by Hunter Biden, mixed media on YUPO #49, 54.5 in x 29.5 in.
When art historians of the future look back on the art world now, where greed is all the rage, with its money laundering, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other Ponzi-like schemes (own a portion of a Picasso or Dali as an investment?), Hunter Biden and his paintings are sure to be remarked upon, at least as a footnote. Of course, that's if there is a future after Biden, Manchin and their fossil-fuel cronies burn up the planet.
One last thing, the Joseph Campbell quote that greets visitors to the gallery seems to me totally unwarranted and insensitive. The positioning and inclusion of the quote is as audacious as it gets. No surprise.
DiLauro is a playwright, critic and musician. He lives in Greenwich Village.
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Ros Marsh November 5, 2021
So what did you think of his appropriation of Indigenous Australian art, the black-and-white dot painting of the serpent in the gum tree. The serpent, and in particular painted with white ochre, is a very important Aboriginal symbol.
Stephen DiLauro November 5, 2021
Thank you, Ros. I was unaware of the connection. I appreciate you pointing it out.
JQ LLC November 8, 2021
Biden didn't paint those works.
I'd love to see proof of your claim, and write about it if it proves true.


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Ask journalists – or simply look at our sparse list of big debuts – and you'll often assume that the Chicago Auto Show is a dead zone. Squeezed between Detroit and New York, it rarely has any major new-car introductions; it's usually used for truck refreshes and tons of special editions. Yet the Chicago show remains hugely important because of its broad appeal to the general public – you know, the people who actually buy cars.
That's the message from the auto show's organizers. Dave Sloan, president of the Chicago Auto Trade Association and general manager of the auto show, won't release any specific numbers but says, "This is the best-attended show."
He also says that members of the public who attend the Chicago show tend to be highly interested in shopping for new cars. More than 65 percent of them, the show's data say, are planning to buy a car within the next 12 months.
"Just because we don't have the Camry reveal that was in Detroit, doesn't mean we don't amplify it."
"Auto shows attract shoppers," Sloan says. "Just because we don't have the Camry reveal that was in Detroit, doesn't mean we don't amplify it."
Michelle Malcho, manager of cars and crossovers for Chevrolet Communications, agrees that the show is valuable from a shopping perspective.
Chicago is an important sales market for the Chevy brand, so the ability to show off dozens of new models, from a Corvette to a Silverado to a Volt, helps build awareness among consumers.
That customer appeal is part of why so many automakers use the Chicago show to introduce so many special-edition cars: They help pique interest in a vehicle that someone could actually go and buy at a dealership. For Nissan, that's in part because there's enough floor space to show off "extra" models, like the brand's new Midnight special editions.
Chevy also brought several special-edition Redline models; Malcho says that they, too, have a big appeal to customers even if they're not as flashy as some major Detroit or New York introductions.
"We know consumers are looking for packaging that meets their needs," she says of Chevy's many special-edition vehicles. "In some ways those models are just as important" as the flashy debuts you'll see at other shows.
Jim Morrison, head of FCA's Ram brand, agrees that special-edition vehicles – sometimes known as buzz models – work well at a consumer-focused show. Ram, for instance, used the Chicago show to reveal its 1500 Copper Sport and Night packages for the 2500 and 3500 HD trucks.
So while the Chicago Auto Show doesn't always have the biggest, most eye-catching debuts, its worth lies in how well it actually sells cars to customers. For automakers, that's equally or maybe even more valuable than getting far-out concepts in the headlines.


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Scrappers blow huge lead
August 3, 2018 at 12:08a.m.
BATAVIA, N.Y.
A five-run, first-inning lead wasn't enough for the Mahoning Valley Scrappers on Thursday.
The Batavia Muckdogs (20-25) rallied for an 8-7 victory, scoring twice in the seventh and eighth innings.
The Scrappers (28-16) scored twice in the ninth inning.
Cameron Mingo tossed five innings, allowing five hits and four runs. He struck out six and walked three.
Jordan Scheftz (1-1) was charged with a blown save and the loss after allowing two runs in the one-and-a-third innings he pitched.
Mitch Reeves led the Scrappers' offense with two hits, three RBIs and two runs scored.
The Scrappers pounced on Muckdogs starter Chris Vallimont, scoring five eearned runs on four hits.
In the first inning, Tyler Freeman's one-out double ignited the five-run outburst.
Reeves and Hosea Nelson also doubled and Clark Scolamiero walked. A wild pitch allowed Nelson to score. Henry Pujols smashed a two-run homer.
The Muckdogs climbed back into the game by scoring twice in the first inning. They added two more in the third inning to slice the Scrappers' lead to 5-4.
The Muckdogs took the lead on Jejar Encarnacion's two-run single in the seventh inning off Scheftz.
Manuel Rodriguez earned the win by tossing four scoreless innings of relief. Tyler Mitzel earned the save even though he allowed two runs in the ninth inning when Reeves connected for a two-run homer.
The Scrappers play the Muckdogs again tonight.
The Scrappers return home on Sunday to open a three-game series with the State College Spikes.
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Scrappers win back-and-forth game with Batavia
Scrappers win series vs. Muckdogs
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Scrappers sweep, clinch date in postseason
August 1, 2017 midnight
Scrappers tied for league lead in wins
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Latest City of York Council news, advice and guidance on COVID-19
A new application scheme is opening so eligible York businesses can access the Omicron Hospitality and Leisure grants.
City of York Council is set to organise a Young Entrepreneurs Evening on Thursday 3rd February 2022 from 6 to 7 pm.
New integrated housing IT system to launch this month
To further improve residents' experience of working with City of York Council's housing services, a new integrated ICT system is launching.
Bootham junction roadworks to improve cyclist and pedestrian facilities
From Monday 17 January, City of York Council will begin works on Bootham at its junction with St Mary's to remove the existing pedestrian crossing and to introduce a new traffic signalised junction.
Update on Tadcaster Road walking, cycling and bus improvement scheme
At a Decision Session on 18 January the Executive Member for Transport will be asked to approve further details of a £1.4m package of measures designed to support cycling, walking and bus use along the Tadcaster Road corridor.
To support people to choose the right service while protecting essential services, the council is asking people needing social care to seek help from a variety of sources, depending on their level of
It's never been more important to focus on health and wellbeing and City of York Council's Health Trainer support service is offering residents a change to be a 'healthier you' in the New Year.
A report outlining how City of York Council proposes to manage weed treatment on the city's highways, will be taken to a public meeting for approval next week.
A two year weed management proposal for York's highways
Council set to invest £7.7 million in York's Libraries
City of York Council is set to commit to a £7.7 million investment in the city's libraries in a programme of city wide improvement.


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Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 Hits RTM
Microsoft reached its Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 release-to-manufacturing (RTM) product milestone last week.
It's not clear when products will be available from Microsoft's original equipment manufacturing partners. However, the 60-day evaluation edition RTM software can be downloaded and installed on hardware today via this page. This evaluation edition software can be reset three more times for a total of 240 days. It's possible to activate this RTM installation later with a product key when the product is publicly available, according to Microsoft's announcement.
MultiPoint Server 2012 is a shared-resource computing solution for classroom-like settings. It enables a single PC to act as a server to multiple terminals. The aim is to reduce equipment costs, complexity and maintenance costs for organizations lacking IT personnel. A single server connects to multiple "dumb" terminals consisting of screen, keyboard and mouse via various access devices, such as "zero clients" or "thin clients." Microsoft's partners sell new host computers and access devices, although MultiPoint Server allows older PCs to be reused in the network. A new feature in MultiPoint Server 2012 is the ability to virtualize Windows 7 or Windows 8 desktops using Hyper-V, which can help in cases where there may be some device incompatibility issues.
It doesn't appear that many new features were added to MultiPoint Server 2012 since the beta was announced in July. The server supports Windows 8 touch experiences for terminals with "direct video connect stations," according to Microsoft's announcement. Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs can be added to a MultiPoint network via a software connector.
IT management and classroom administration tasks are now separated in MultiPoint Server 2012. Management is carried out by administrators through the MultiPoint Manager interface. Classroom tasks are allocated by instructors using the new MultiPoint Dashboard. With the new server, it's now possible to share the MultiPoint Dashboard with other users without also sharing network administration capabilities.
Another perk in MultiPoint Server 2012 is the ability to set up "disk protection" for the network. This feature will remove any changes made during a session and restore the system back to "a known good state on every boot," according to Microsoft's announcement.
It's not clear if Microsoft will have any new licensing changes with MultiPoint Server 2012. The licensing described for the earlier product followed the model of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services licensing. The server requires a MultiPoint Server license. Each individual station requires both a Windows Server Client Access License (CAL) and a Windows MultiPoint Server CAL. Application licensing, such as Microsoft Office, is an extra licensing cost.
MultiPoint Server may not be able to run all apps. However, in general, it can run apps that are known to work with Remote Desktop Services, according to Microsoft's description.
The earlier MultiPoint Server product was capable of supporting up to 20 stations. However, the hardware has to be more robust to support more users on the network or to support video-intensive applications, according to this Microsoft blog post.


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A closer look at Comic-Con San Diego
With Comic-Con San Diego just around the corner, it's easy to forget that comic books, comic book movies and toys were originally targeted at kids.
Comic-Con's origins hearken way back to 1970, when it was launched by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, and Mike Towry as the San Diego Comic Book Convention. The show was subsequently held in a variety of locations before moving to the San Diego Convention Center in the early 90's, including the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California San Diego and Golden Hall.
Things have grown infinitely bigger since the early days, prompting overcrowding concerns, as the Convention Center may no longer be big enough to house the hoards of geeks who come out every year.
Remember, back in the 70's before Star Wars busted open the convention scene for the major studios, conventions were considered strictly nerd territory. Now the convention scene is a huge industry unto itself where the major studios bring their new movies, and over a hundred thousand fans make the annual pilgrimage to Comic-Con every July.
Yet, even as concerns mount over the lack of space, Comic-Con is attempting to be more family friendly than ever.
As a report in Variety tells us, Comic-Con this year will also be geared to appeal to a younger audience as well, and not just adults obsessed with all things geek. In fact, Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and The Hub are all bringing shows to the convention, especially Tron: Uprising, which will hopefully appeal to Tron fans of all ages.
Disney will also be showcasing new shows for kids like Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Gravity Falls and Wander Over Yonder, along with series like Phineas and Ferb. And of course, our beloved heroes in a half-shell, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who just got delayed for the big screen, will also be there.
The Ninja Turtles show reboot will be on Nickelodeon. The Hub also has a Transformers Prime show, and it seems like there's a definite attempt to get kids started on franchises like Transformers and Tron so they can get into the movies as they grow towards grade school.
Cartoon Network will also have the Star Wars Clone Wars show at Comic-Con, as will Spongebob Squarepants, which quite a few adults, myself included, also enjoy. In addition, there will be a Children's Film Festival, as well as a panel called Kids Can Draw Cartoons. This is all definitely cool stuff as far as I'm concerned, because when you're raising the future geeks of America, it's always good to start 'em off right at an early age.
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'Virginia is for Lovers' slogan hits milestone
Posted: Jan 3, 2019 / 04:22 AM EST / Updated: Jan 3, 2019 / 04:22 AM EST
The iconic slogan found on billboards, bumper stickers, tee shirts and other merchandise is celebrating 50 years.
In 1969, the Virginia State Travel Service adopted the slogan.
'Virginia is for Lovers' was inducted into the Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame in 2009.
The slogan originally debuted in an issue of "Modern Bride."
by WFXRtv.com Digital Desk / Jan 17, 2021
GILES COUNTY, Va. (WFXR) - Virginia State Police have identified the individual killed in the crash on Route 460 on Friday morning.
According to police, James E. Sanders, 64, of Pembroke was driving a 1990 Chevrolet S10 pickup truck was traveling west on Route 460, a short distance from Route 758 when it ran off the left side of the road, crossed the median and into eastbound traffic where it left that side of the road and overturned.
RICH CREEK, Va. (WFXR) - Police in Rich Creek are urging citizens to be mindful about scams that may sound too good to be true.
According to the department, citizens say they are receiving scams by phone and by email that say Netflix is giving away a year subscription due to the pandemic.
VisitMartinsville announced as presenting sponsor of September's Henry County Fair
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (WFXR) - The Henry County Fair has announced that VisitMartinsville will be the presenting sponsor of the fair, held Sept. 22-25, 2021 at the Martinsville Speedway.
VisitMartinsville is the Designation Marketing Organization for the City of Martinsville and Henry County and is a division of the Martinsville-Henry County Economic Development Corporation that focuses on tourism in the area.
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Toyota Corolla vs Honda Civic vs VW Golf drag race
If you're in the market for a new hatchback then you might be considering either the Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic or Volkswagen Golf. We decided to put them head-to-head in a three-way drag race to see which one would come out on top.
Tap the video to watch the race.
Watch our Toyota Corolla v Honda Civic v Volkswagen Golf drag race
First up is the new Toyota Corolla, which has just recently returned to the UK having been temporarily replaced by the Auris. The Corolla GR Sport comes with a 1.8-litre petrol hybrid engine, which produces 120hp and 142Nm of torque, and drives the front wheels through a CVT automatic gearbox.
Watch our Toyota Corolla review
The Corolla least powerful car in this race and, thanks to the additional battery required for the hybrid system, it's also the heaviest of the three cars, weighing in at 1400kg. The car is priced on par with the Golf and, in our car's spec, will set you back £28,025.
Next up is the Honda Civic, which was first launched in 1972. The car has come a long way since then but the ethos remains the same – fun, affordable and reliable transport. The new Civic model is the lightest of the three cars racing, coming in at just 1300kg. It has the smallest engine in terms of displacement, it's only a three cylinder 1.0-litre turbo petrol engine that's joined to a CVT gearbox, but despite this it has more power on paper than the Corolla, producing 126hp and 180Nm.
Watch our Honda Civic review
Another plus point for the Civic is the fact that it's the cheapest of all three cars racing, with the price of our car topping out at just £26,910.
Last but not least is the ever-popular Volkswagen Golf. The model racing here is the 1.5-litre four-cylinder turbo petrol engine, with mild hybrid system. It's also front-wheel drive and while the Corolla and Civic both have CVT gearboxes, the Golf has a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission.
Watch our Volkswagen Golf review
On paper, the Golf has the highest power output at 150hp and 250Nm but it's also the second heaviest, tipping the scales at 1380kg. The car in our race costs approximately the same as the £28,000 Corolla.
Which of these three practical, front-wheel drive hatchbacks will cross the finish line first? You'll have to watch the video to find out.
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These bot shoppers are every sneakerhead's nightmare
Security researchers have to contend with millions of bot attacks every day. The most persistent irritant? Shoes.
Alfred Ng
Oct. 25, 2018 8:46 a.m. PT
The next time you're at your computer waiting for the newest pair of exclusive Yeezy sneakers to drop, keep in mind that you're surrounded by bots that are faster and more effective at hitting the buy button on those limited-edition shoes.
One bot, called CyberAIO, has gained notoriety as a surefire way to nab the most coveted collectibles in the $42 billion sneakerhead business. You think iPhones are hard to get on launch day? Expect fans to tussle over the chance to buy a pair of Kanye West's Yeezy Wave Runners, which retail for $300 but have sold for as much as $2,000 in the secondary market. CyberAIO will go to work when a new pair comes out on Saturday.
The bot is so effective at buying exclusive sneakers online that the people tasked with supporting it don't even want a salary. They just want to use the bot to nab the latest pair of sneakers themselves.
CyberAIO's speed and its ability to stay one step ahead of companies' defenses give fans a leg up on the competition. But using it isn't cheap. Lucas, the bot's creator, charges people £200 (about $256) up front for the right to use the bot, with another £50 subscription fee charged every six months. (Think of it as a sort of Netflix, but purely for buying shoes.) Lucas, however, grants no more than 100 licenses a month, which keeps them a hot commodity.
On one Slack channel for sneakerheads, a user offered to pay $2,750 for a CyberAIO license.
When these very big sales are going on, close to 100 percent of the traffic is bots alone.
Akamai's Moshe Zioni
Cyber AIO represents just one way bots are invading our lives, in this case competing against us online for that latest pair of Nike Air Maxes. It's not just shoes -- the same happens with streetwear and even Funko Pop figurines. Bots represent a hot trend in the tech world, touted by the likes of Google and Facebook. They're already widespread across the internet, offering useful features like helping you fall asleep. Others have more nefarious purposes, like scooping up all those Kendrick Lamar concert tickets in seconds, before you even have a chance.
Since bots can move at a pace no human can match, scalpers online are taking advantage of their skills to make massive profits. In May 2017, the New York attorney general's office went after six companies that used bots to resell hundreds of thousands of concert tickets after hiking up the prices.
One company bought 1,012 tickets to a U2 concert at Madison Square Garden in a minute -- nearly 17 tickets a second.
In 2016, Congress passed the Better Online Ticket Sales Act (BOTS Act -- ha ha, get it?), but the legislation only outlawed bots for buying tickets. Everything else is still fair game. And it means that when you try shopping for rare items online, you've got some serious competition.
"When these very big sales are going on," said Moshe Zioni, a director of threat research at security company Akamai, "close to 100 percent of the traffic is bots alone."
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Bot imitating life
Given people's obsession with sneakers, it's no surprise a bot that focuses on footwear inspires such awe.
"Sneaker bots have a really big community. They're probably one of the more popular bot communities out there," said Ali Mesdaq, director of digital risk engineering at cybersecurity company Proofpoint. "There's storefronts; there's markets online; there's so many places."
On a WTB (want to buy) Slack channel from Shoeplex, a user offers to buy Cyber AIO for $2,750.
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For months, one unnamed bot identified by Akamai had been gearing up to fool security software designed to make sure only real people were buying sneakers off a major shoe company's website.
The programmers knew what Akamai's detection program looked for, and spent hundreds of hours recording thousands of "human" interactions on the same website. Think mouse movements, clicks and typing patterns that reflect how you and I use a computer -- not the immediate and automatic way a machine would.
When it came time to buy sneakers, this bot could slip by, insert prerecorded actions from a real human, dart to checkout and clear the shelves. Akamai's software couldn't tell the difference because the bot was so sophisticated, said Josh Shaul, vice president of web security at Akamai.
The attacker clearly had inside information, he said. The bot's creators knew that Akamai's detection remembered data for only 30 minutes at a time, so even if a bot was blocked, it could return in 30 minutes and appear to be a completely new visitor. The attacker also knew what the detection program looked for and how to work around it perfectly.
After months amassing all that human interaction data, the bot struck in July, successfully faking out Akamai's software. All this for multiple pairs of sneakers.
"They waited and waited until there was an actual moment with a sale to happen, and they used all the tools in their tool kit," Shaul said. "We have not seen that level of investment and time and energy and building for exploits or bypasses in other markets."
There was a major sale almost every day in March. And -- surprise -- during the same month, the people at Akamai saw one of the year's highest rates of bot activity.
Sole Collector's sneaker release calendar listed an Adidas collaboration with musician Pharrell Williams, Nike's collaboration with NBA star LeBron James and several Air Jordan releases.
Nike was also celebrating its "Air Max Day" campaign, in honor of a pair of sneakers released on March 26, 1987. With that came a series of rare releases, including a pair of Sean Wotherspoon Air Max 1/97s, which Complex ranked as the best sneaker of 2018.
They sold for $160. Resellers put them on the market for as high as $600.
Akamai provided CNET with data on bot traffic versus human traffic on one of the key release dates (though because of client confidentiality, it didn't offer details). The chart shows bot traffic completely eclipsing the efforts of humans to buy sneakers throughout the day.
Traffic from a sneaker release in March, showing bot traffic eclipsing human traffic.
One prolific unnamed botnet sent more than 473 million requests to visit the website. Two other bots that weren't as popular still managed to hit the website with 18 million and 9.4 million requests.
Because the sneakers are so valuable to resellers and collectors, the bots designed to snag them are also in high demand.
"In the past, these bots would be in the hands of specific hackers that know their stuff," Zioni said. "But now it's a prolific business to release it or sell it for others to use."
Proofpoint's Mesdaq said that CyberAIO is constantly popping up as a highly recommended bot on social media. For a bot to work, it has to be in limited supply -- if everyone had the bot, no one would really have an advantage. That's why CyberAIO keeps the number of new licenses each month steady at 100. However, the 16-year-old from England faces a daunting, if perhaps unsurprising, challenge.
"We have to try to stop these bots trying to get our bots, which is quite ironic," Lucas said.
Shop till you bot
Despite how lucrative CyberAIO is, Lucas looks at the sneaker bot as a part-time job -- he's still a student. He said his parents know about his side hustle and are perfectly fine with what he's doing.
Lucas doesn't see any issues with the bots either, though he's seen people complain to companies, saying it isn't fair they can't buy these shoes without paying for an expensive bot. If anything, he noted, the hype around sneakers selling out only helps the companies. He's just helping them get there faster, he said.
"If a pair of Yeezys were released tomorrow and they didn't sell out, the hype around Yeezys would die down," he said.
He officially launched the bot last June, and it now has about 1,700 subscribers. Lucas attributes his success to speed. As in Olympic racing, being able to shave off seconds is crucial for sneaker bots.
"If you want a bot to succeed, it needs to be the best -- faster and more reliable," he said. "It'll check out in 3 or 4 seconds compared to 11 seconds. It drastically improves your chances of getting what you want."
CyberAIO's features, listed on its website.
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He first created his own bot in February of 2017, to get a pair of Yeezys. Lucas saw his friends reselling clothes for three times their value, and he wanted in. He then started selling the bot to his friends and improving its features.
When he started, CyberAIO supported only one store. Now customers can use it to buy immediately from 130 different shops.
Nike and Adidas didn't respond to a request for comment. Foot Locker, which also owns the Footaction site, didn't respond to a request for comment. Lacoste, which is also listed on Cyber AIO's page, didn't respond either.
Lucas' staff of two developers and six customer service representatives are paid to keep ahead of security researchers trying to protect sneaker sales from bots. Cyber AIO updates itself every three days with new workarounds and fixes for paying customers.
"They catch up to you and it's a cat-and-mouse game where you're trying to improve your product," Lucas said. "If you find the right opening, you should be able to get the edge."
First published Oct. 25, 5 a.m. PT
Corrections, 6:15 a.m.: This story initially misidentified the source of a quote. The quote about the size of the sneaker bot community is from Ali Mesdaq; 8:45 a.m.: The price of CyberAIO is £200.
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Juan Williams, Islamophobia, and Journalistic Fairness
Jamil Khader
Should Juan Williams have been forced to resign after his unfortunate remarks about "Muslim garb"? Although I believe that something should have been done, I'm not sure firing him was the right answer. NPR could have taken him at his own word, demanding that he lives up to his "I'm not a bigot, but . . . " remark… [continue reading]
Author researcherPosted on 27th October 2010 Categories UncategorisedTags Islamic Discourse, Jamil Khader, Juan Williams, NPR, right
By Jamil Khader
Stetson University, Florida
Should Juan Williams have been forced to resign after his unfortunate remarks about "Muslim garb"? Although I believe that something should have been done, I'm not sure firing him was the right answer. NPR could have taken him at his own word, demanding that he lives up to his "I'm not a bigot, but . . . " remark. Instead of turning this into an opportunity to confront the mostly irrational fears many Americans have about Islam and Muslims, NPR perhaps inadvertently fueled that fear even more. While he could have been easily turned into an ally in the fight against prejudice in all its forms, Williams is now instead basking with a 2 million dollar contract with Fox news.
First of all, we have to acknowledge the existence of this visceral fear that many Americans have about Islam and Muslims after 9/11, while at
the same time insist that public discourse must remain rational and devoid of absurd statement like the ones Mr. Williams has made. Mr. Williams is entitled to his own emotional visceral response, but he could have found a more productive way of articulating that fear. As a Muslim myself, I'm not really sure what Williams means by "Muslim garb" especially, since none of the 9/11 terrorists was wearing anything remotely close to the stereotypical Islamic garb Mr. Williams had in mind. In fact, from what I clearly remember of the security feed, these terrorists looked completely western. Nothing about their clothes was Islamic. Moreover, I have not come across any criminologist or sociologist who has made a link between clothing and criminal behavior, not even among Goth teens and tattooed bikers. Mr. Williams' bias against Arabs and Muslims is clearly irrational, making it, in the words of the conservative republican commentator, Andrew Sullivan, "anti-religious bigotry in its purest, clearest form."
By pandering to O'Reilly, Mr. Williams has unfortunately contributed to the demonization of all Muslims, those who are for him total strangers—they do not look like us and, therefore, they terrify us just by their looks. What makes this dangerous and irresponsible on his part is that Muslims are the most maligned ethnic/religious groups in the US today, and that his comments, or most of the bigoted comments that are continuously streamed in the media and public culture, could not have been made about any other ethnic or religious group in the country. It would be instructive to examine the reaction of those who came to Williams' defense with and against the firestorm of condemnation and protest following the bigoted comments recently made by other journalists such as Helen Thomas, Rick Sanchez, and Octavia Nasr. As salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald states, "If we're going to fire or otherwise punish people for expressing prohibited ideas against various groups, it's long overdue that those standards be applied equally to anti-Muslim animus, now easily one of the most — if not the single most — pervasive, tolerated and dangerous forms of blatant bigotry in America." It is not really difficult to understand the reason why Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Pam Geller, Karl Rove and Newt Gingrich, among others, stayed silent when Thomas, Sanchez, and Nasr, but not Williams, were forced to resign. Again, our culture today condones racist and insensitive comments about Muslims, but not about other groups. Muslims, it seems, have not been granted entry into the gates of PC culture.
Unlike other recent cases of conspicuous journalistic bigotry, Williams' remarks subtly condoned and legitimized prejudice against Muslims. What he seems to say to O'Reilly, in fact, is that the latter is certainly justified in his view of all Muslims as potential terrorists. Having publicly expressed such bigotry, Williams has lost all the credibility, fairness and objectivity that are the foundations of his profession (but obviously in some news outlets like Fox news this does not matter). Should he have been forced to resign over one comment? He clearly violated his employer's ethical code, but he should have been at least given a chance to explain himself. More importantly, NPR like all other power institutions in the country cannot just demand from American citizens to be sensitive to diversity without providing them with the necessary training and the tools to deal with such touchy topics with the sensitivity and cross-cultural competence needed. Such an educational effort requires the continuous planning, cooperation and investment of everyone not through one diversity training session or day, but throughout the year. As one educator said, "Diversity is everybody's everyday work."
Author researcherPosted on 26th October 2010 Categories UncategorisedTags America, comments, fear, Fox, Islamic Discourse, Juan Williams, NPR, potential terrorists, prejudice, Special Coverage, terrorists, training
"A Week of Dialogue" At Mosques, Inviting Non-Muslims Inside to Ease Hostility Toward Islam
This week, hundreds of mosques and Islamic organizations across the country have been encouraging their members to invite non-Muslims to attend prayers, discussions and tours of Islamic centers as a way to defuse hostility toward the Muslim population. "A Week of Dialogue," materialized from a summit of Islamic leaders last month in New York and was, in part, a response to the furor surrounding a plan to open a Muslim community center and mosque near ground zero.
A New York Times poll in August found that 75 percent of New Yorkers had never visited a mosque, and that those who had, or who had a close Muslim friend, were more likely to support the Muslim center planned in Lower Manhattan. "In terms of rectifying this Islamophobia and bigotry, we should focus on our relationship with our neighbors," said Zaheer Uddin, executive director of the Islamic Leadership Council of Metropolitan New York, an umbrella group of mosques and Islamic groups in the city.
Juan Williams gave voice to such concerns this week when he said on the Fox News Channel, where he is a political analyst, that he got "nervous" when he saw people in "Muslim garb" on an airplane. National Public Radio, where Mr. Williams had also worked, terminated his contract on Wednesday; Fox gave him a new contract on Thursday. The organizers of the weeklong dialogue said the open houses were intended to help dispel just the sort of concerns that Mr. Williams expressed.
Author researcherPosted on 26th October 2010 Categories News by Country, News by Issue, Discrimination and Xenophobia, Immigration and Integration, Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement, Islamic Practice and Jurisprudence, Issues in Politics, Muslim Advocacy and Organizations, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, UncategorizedTags Dialogue, Fox, Fox News, Juan Williams, Lower Manhattan, Mosques, New York, New Yorkers, Zaheer Uddin
Fired by NPR, Juan Williams Begins Bigger Role at Fox, Keeps up Criticism of Ex-employer
Juan Williams was fired Wednesday over comments he made on "The O'Reilly Factor." "When I get on a plane," he said, "I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous." After his remarks, Fox announced it had re-signed Williams, who has been with the network since 1997, to a multi year deal that will give him an expanded role–while, NPR terminated his contract.
In an interview on Friday, Vivian Schiller, NPR's chief executive, defended the decision to dismiss Mr. Williams and said it was not the product of political or financial pressures. "And that is the sole reason," she added. "This is not a First Amendment issue." The public radio organization has come under severe criticism — largely from people who are not listeners, it believes — for having fired Mr. Williams. Some have said his comment was bigoted, but others have rallied to Mr. Williams's defense, and many conservatives have seized on his firing to resurrect their war against public broadcasting.
NPR radio stations are independently owned and operated and, like the nation's public TV stations, receive government funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which got about $420 million this year from Washington. As for NPR's headquarters operation, federal grants account for less than 2 percent — or $3.3 million — of its $166 million annual budget. It is funded primarily by its affiliates, corporate sponsors and major donors.
Author researcherPosted on 26th October 2010 Categories News by Country, News by Issue, Discrimination and Xenophobia, Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement, Issues in Politics, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, UncategorizedTags comments, fired, Fox, government funding, interview, Juan Williams, NPR, radio, Reilly Factor, Vivian Schiller


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Florence Merlevède () é uma matemática especialista em teoria das probabilidades francesa, cujos interesses de pesquisa se concentram em variáveis aleatórias dependentes e fracamente dependentes, incluindo desigualdades de Bernstein e teoremas de limite central para essas variáveis. É professora no laboratório de análise e matemática aplicada da Universidade Gustave Eiffel, associada ao grupo de pesquisa sobre probabilidade e estatística.

Merlevède obteve um doutorado na Universidade Pierre e Marie Curie em 1996, orientada por Denis Bosq e Magda Peligrad. Com Peligrad e Sergey Utev, é coautora do livro Functional Gaussian Approximation for Dependent Structures (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Em 2021 foi nomeada fellow do Institute of Mathematical Statistics, "por excelentes contribuições para o campo das variáveis aleatórias dependentes, especialmente por resultados fundamentais relativos aos teoremas do limite condicional, taxas de convergência no teorema do limite central e grandes matrizes aleatórias".

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Turkey-EU Refugee Deal Dead as Ankara Demands Visa-Free Travel or They Walk
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The Turkish Foreign Ministry demands that the European Union provide immediate Visa-free entry throughout the Eurozone or Ankara will back away from a deal to stem the flow of migrants.
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Turkish Police Block Access to NATO's Incirlik Air Base - Home of US Nukes
On Sunday, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told German daily newspaper Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) that "if there is no visa liberalization, we will be forced to distance ourselves from the (migrant) readmission agreement."
The Minister also required the European Union to provide a set time for visa-free entry saying that "it can be the beginning or the middle of October, but we expect a firm date."
The agreement for Turkey to take in as many as 1 million additional Syrian refugees in return for substantial financial compensation and a fast-track approach to the country's accession into the European Union has long rested on the issue of Visa-Free travel for Turkish citizens.
Conditions on the ground have fundamentally changed since the agreement was first penned on March 18 at the behest of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, herself under siege by domestic opposition to her "open door" policy that has seen some 2 million war refugees flood into the country.
Since the agreement, Turkey has faced a number of major security incidents including the terror attack at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport and the failed coup attempt of July 15. Europe's mood towards cooperation with Turkey, which was already a good deal wanting, has all but collapsed in the wake of the post-coup purge that has seen over 60,000 soldiers, police officers, teachers, and judges forced to resign from their positions.
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Additionally, some 18,000 individuals have been arrested in the aftermath of the coup and have been forced to reside in prison conditions that have raised alarms for international human rights groups.
The situation between the West and Ankara has further devolved in recent weeks with the Erdogan regime bombarding the United States and NATO forces with repeated claims that they aided and abetted purported coup leader US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.
The original deal also faced considerable scorn from the human rights community in that it calls for Europe to keep those refugees who can provide in a skilled-labor economy while relegating migrants lacking specialized training to questionable conditions in Turkish camps with sporadic reports that Ankara has forced hundreds of refugees back to Syria to die.
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At the time of the agreement, former British Prime Minister David Cameron scoffed at the notion that Turkish residents would receive visa-free travel and EU membership asserting that they would not be prepared to be a part of the European Union for at least another thousand years.
In the wake of the coup, the security situation inside of Turkey is such that the cost-benefit for Europe of admitting Turkish residents without a visa requirement has fundamentally shifted with the EU bound to worry whether opening their border to Ankara may, in fact, increase the threat of terror.
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Do you enjoy having fun? Cool -- you'll like Zigadoo Moneyclips.
This band is a refreshing change from bar room troubadours. They also fit the motto of this blog: music like your life depends on it. To make a long story short, the band's founding members, Zak Baker and his wife, Leigh, met through their musical projects. As often happens, though, life came up and the couple were ready to relegate music to a nice hobby. However, they soon realized that what they needed to do was create music. (You can read the full tale here -- as far as press releases go it's beautifully written.) That deep-seated need gushes through their music, whether it's the tortured, existentialist ballad of "Animals" or the reggae/ska/bluegrass (yes -- it works) "Sweet," or the exuberant kickoff to the album, "Telephile."
There's no easy way to classify Zigadoo Moneyclips -- they inhabit their own space between rock, pop, soul, hip hop, country, and jazz. It's not schizophrenia -- there's a sense of purpose behind each musical decision and it coalesces into a unified, determined voice. I feel an overwhelming sense of love and joy while listening to this album, but not because it's simply a collection of upbeat songs. The palpable dedication and exuberance from each member of the band shines through. This might not be the kind of thing you normally listen to, but trust me -- you have to listen to it at least once.


I designed and performed an experiment for a recent class and I'm posting the results here simply for the purpose of record keeping. The stated goal of the experiment was to monitor and analyze the ageing of an electrolytic capacitor. The real purpose of the assignment was to design, build, test, and refine a data collection apparatus for this purpose, as the actual ageing process would take a fairly long time using the equipment available to us. Other experiments in this area were able to "kill" electrolytic capacitors in as little as one week, by charging and discharging them at 100MHz. Our lab did not possess any RF equipment, so this was not achievable for us. For our experiment, we designed and built a charge/discharge/monitoring circuit using a microcontroller that cycled a 0.33μF electrolytic capacitor between 5V and 0V at 100kHz.
Our final report is available here, and results are summarized below.
and we collected data over the course of several weeks.
Data was inline with expectations. Other experiments that cycled at 100MHz saw 1% change after 24 hours. Operating at 100kHz, we would expect 1% change after perhaps three years.


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Media release: United States accepted as member of resource transparency body
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Oslo, 19 March 2014 - The United States was accepted today as a 'Candidate' country to the global transparency standard EITI. It joins the over 40 countries that have committed to improved transparency of government revenues from the extraction of natural resources.
By joining the EITI, the US government is now committing to full transparency of extractives revenues from federal lands, such as from extraction of its offshore oil. They are also pledging to work together with business and civil society organisations to ensure an informed debate about how its natural resources are being managed.
Clare Short, Chair of the EITI said:
"Citizens in the United States of course expect that government owned natural resources are managed properly and that the revenues are put to good use. Through the US EITI, they will be able to follow the natural resource money from the ground into government coffers, and use this information to hold the government to account."
US Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, said:
"Today's announcement underscores President Obama's continued and unwavering commitment to leading by example in promoting transparency, accountability, and good governance both domestically and globally. As stewards of the natural resources owned by every American citizen, the U.S. Department of the Interior is proud to lead the USEITI effort to build on the existing transparency and accountability reforms to our natural resource management that were launched under this Administration. This milestone is also a testament to the collaborative and participatory work of the USEITI multi-stakeholder group, which worked hard on the complex issues presented by the U.S. extractive sector to come to unanimous consensus on the USEITI candidacy application."
As a Candidate country, the United States has three years to implement the EITI transparency standard in full and reach EITI Compliance.
The EITI is a coalition of governments, companies, civil society groups, investors and international organisations. Learn more at www.eiti.org
EITI is chaired by the Rt. Hon. Clare Short. Ms Short was the UK Secretary of State for International Development (1997-2003).
44 countries are now implementing the EITI standard, and recognised as either EITI Compliant or EITI Candidate. See the list of countries at www.eiti.org/countries.
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The international EITI Board approved Sao Tome and Principe's application for EITI Candidate status at its meeting in Lusaka on 26 October 2012. As an EITI Candidate country, it has to start disclosing payments from its extractives sector, and meet all the requirements in the EITI Standard within 2.5 years to become EITI Compliant.
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Since Apple changed their subscription pricing options for App Store developers back in 2016, several high-profile apps that have made the switch from fixed pricing to the subscription model. TextExpander, Day One, and Ulysses are just three that I know of and use.
I may be biased as I've been building and selling subscription software for years, but I love that the Apple ecosystem is supporting this now. Ulysses provides a great example: their fixed model had the price at $45 for the Mac app and $25 for the iOS app. Their new subscription is for universal access on both platforms for either $5 per month or $40 per year, plus a 14-day free trial for new users. I'd long heard that Ulysses was a great editor for writing, but held out forever on really using it because, for one, there are a ton of great text editors, but also I didn't know how much I'd really use it once I dropped the coin. At a $5/month subscription, I don't have to feel bad, I can just cancel if I'm not using it enough and be out a $10 or $15.
Users don't like change — We've experienced this time and again with our product. Even when we release new features that seem universally fantastic, we'll still get naysayers wanting a checkbox to "make it work like it used to." Change that makes the price higher, even if it's only perceived to be higher, or even when the alternative is the developer is no longer able to support the app, there are those that still can't accept it.
Users don't get continued (or enough) value from the product — Even if the recurring price is super low, like $1.99 per month, some users will feel like they don't use the app enough to warrant that price forever. A flat $10 might be okay. A fair enough reason. It comes down to who the developer wants as a customer. Are they building something for the few, higher-value niche customers, or a mass market?
Most people are cheap — There are a shocking number of people who are willing to have subpar experiences to save some money. The frustrating part for developers is when users want the savings part, but don't want to make that sacrifice in quality. The glut of free replacements out there makes it challenging for developers to charge anything at all for many users.
Of course it's possible for a developer to misprice their app, to overpredict the value delivered to a user. I've seen it happen with SaaS products: something I use a little changes their pricing model a bit, it becomes not worth it to me anymore so I cancel. But I'm a believer that developers will tend to get this right more often than not (at least eventually). With subscription pricing, small pricing adjustments are easier decisions for a developer to make. Going from $5 to $2.50 a month is less momentous a choice than going from $50 to $25 in fixed price model. It's better for the user, too; there's less feeling of being ripped off, and no need for promo codes and refunds.
But hands-down the best feature of subscription models is that the apps you love get to stick around for the long haul. At this point we've all been burned by services we rely on disappearing on us. I'm happy to pay to keep things around that I use regularly.


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