OK... Red wire or black... *Clickety* You've emailed the schematic? Yes, got it! It's opening. And... WHAT? NO!
Perennial complaints about crap internet connectivity feel like the digital equivalent of people grumbling about potholes. So it's no surprise that six in 10 of us have moaned to Which? of problems in the last year.
In a survey of just over 2,000 by the consumer action group, nine in 10 to have experienced problems said they felt "frustrated" as a result, with four in ten forced to stop their online activities.
One in five said that connection problems have had a negative financial impact on them, with three in 10 unable to bank or pay bills online.
Of all the age groups surveyed, 18- to 24-year-olds were most frustrated by poor broadband. Presumably they were forced into the tedium of having to have a conversation as a consequence.
Dan Howdle, consumer telecoms analyst at broadband advice site Cable.co.uk, said the majority of us experience some sort of internet issue within the space of a year, so the results of the survey were "not entirely surprising."
He said: "It is worth adding, however, that 'problems' as a general category vary greatly in severity, from the odd bit of Netflix buffering during peak periods, to full-blown local (or even national) outages."
Ofcom has introduced new rules to allow consumers to more easily switch provider if they have failed to provide an acceptable level of service.
"Just as consumers are required to meet monthly payments, providers are obliged to deliver the service we pay for – failure to do this is a breach of contract and may mean you can vote with your feet without fear of cancellation fees," said Howdle.
Alex Neill, Which? managing director of home services, said the body has launched a free tool to help people improve their connection.


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Jenn Raskauskas, PhD, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Jenn Raskauskas earned her B.S in Education and B.A in English from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA; her M.A. in International and Transcultural Studies with a specialization in language, literacy, and technology from Teachers College Columbia University in New York, NY; and her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Writing Studies from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has taught in Milton, Pennsylvania; Rome, Italy; Harlem, New York; and Urbana-Champaign, IL. Her research interests include children's writing, with particular interests in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms and children who work together to compose one text; sociocultural and new literacy studies perspectives; and international education.
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Looking for something deliciously cute for a new baby gift? This yummy blanket cake is a fun, stylish and practical gift for a new mum or a scrumptious centrepiece for a baby shower. Completely free from calories, this snuggly cake is made up of a luxurious knitted blanket in grey and a super soft snuggle wrap in white. The cake is decorated with three gorgeous rosebuds in white and cream, that unfurl to reveal a pair of our exclusive 'stay on' baby socks and our very own snuggly bunny sits proudly on top to make this gift really special.
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In a Northeast Minute...Everything Can Change - Rover and Other Marcellus/Utica Takeaway Projects to the Midwest, Canada
Thursday, 06/01/2017Published by: Sheetal Nasta
A record amount of natural gas supply — close to 8.0 Bcf/d — from the Marcellus and Utica shale plays is making its way to the broader U.S. market. That's happened with the help of a substantial build-out of pipeline infrastructure to reverse gas flows out of the now oversupplied Northeast, which has allowed regional production to grow to nearly 23 Bcf/d from less than 8 Bcf/d five years ago. One of the major target markets for this gas has been the Midwest. About a third of current outbound flows is heading to the Midwest, primarily via the reversal and expansion of Tallgrass Energy's Rockies Express Pipeline, completed earlier this year. Moreover, midstream companies are due to install an additional 5.5 Bcf/d or so of takeaway capacity to target the Midwest and Canada by late 2020, with 70% of that due this year alone, starting with Energy Transfer's Rover Pipeline. However, many of these expansion projects have been embattled by regulatory, environmental and political hurdles during the approval process. Today we provide an update of Rover and other Midwest- and Canada-bound takeaway projects.
This is a continuation of our series updating our analysis of pipeline expansions out of Appalachia. RBN's Midstream Infrastructure Database Interface (MIDI) is currently tracking 20 takeaway projects with the potential to add about 17.5 Bcf/d of incremental outbound capacity for Marcellus/Utica producers: 2.8 Bcf/d along what we refer to as the East corridor targeting the Mid-Atlantic and New England markets, 5.2 Bcf/d to the Southeast via the Atlantic Coast, close to 4.0 Bcf/d headed to the Gulf Coast from Ohio, 5.0 Bcf/d to the Midwest and another 530 MMcf/d targeting Canada (see Figure 3 in Part 1 of this series for the map of the corridors).
Today, we focus on the projects making up the 5.5 Bcf/d targeting the Midwest and Canada.
Midwest Corridor
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Against All Odds- ETP's Rover Pipeline Sends More Marcellus/Utica Shale Gas West
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Too Much Pipe On My Hands?- Marcellus/Utica Takeaway Capacity to the Midwest, Canada
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Too Much Pipe On My Hands??- Marcellus/Utica Takeaway Capacity to the Gulf Coast
Bat Out of Hell- Bat-related Delay in Rover Pipeline A Godsend for Canadian Gas?
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So I love this show, and highly recommend everyone watch it regardless. That said, spoilers for Season 2, Episode 11 (or 10, Season 2 is weird, it's the one that aired tonight).
The gang hide out in a museum in the Bad Place, which features animatronic people reenacting the first 'worst' things to ever be done. They're frozen when not in motion and people just acting like old mechanical displays. This includes depictions of the main characters, their display is more mundane.


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Raptors 113, Celtics 97: How Celtics learned a valuable lesson against Raptors
The Raptors avenged their Christmas Day loss to the Celtics in emphatic fashion Saturday night at TD Garden.
Toronto kept the Celtics at bay throughout the night en route to a 113-97 win, snapping the Celtics' five-game winning streak and Brad Stevens saw this coming Friday night after seeing his team dominate the Cavaliers. He wasn't impressed with his team's defense against Cleveland nor has he liked what he's seen on that end of late in general, despite Boston's impressive winning streak.
"If we play like we did today, tomorrow, we'll get beat," Stevens said Friday night after complaining about seeing the Celtics give up too many layups and easy buckets against the Cavaliers.
And while the Celtics managed to force 22 Raptors turnovers, their defense couldn't slow Toronto down in the half court set and fell behind in trying to defend the pick-and-roll. Stevens saw hints of this prior to Saturday, it was something he says often comes with the territory of a winning streak -- when a team can start to pick up bad habits and resort to letting up instead of locking things down on the defensive end.
"That's always the case with winning," Stevens said Saturday after losing to the Raptors. "You use all year as a coach to objectively look at your team. You don't ride the roller-coaster. We talked about things we didn't do well yesterday before the game so that we could try to do them little bit better. We talked about what to expect that would be different from an energy and attack perspective from them and they met every expectation. They were awfully good."
The Raptors wasted no time getting out in front of the Celtics. They constantly challenged Boston in transition -- where they bypassed Boston's coverage with few dribbles in open spaces and other fast break opportunities.
It didn't take long for Toronto to earn its first double-digit lead and momentarily grabbed a 36-22 advantage before Marcus Smart's buzzer-beating 3-pointer trimmed the Raptors' lead at the end of the opening frame. Kyle Lowry's 30 points, 7 assists led the way, Serge Ibaka finished with a double-double (20 points, 10 rebounds) while Fred VanVleet (5 assists, 5 steals) and Patrick McCaw (8 assists) each scored 18.
Toronto managed to top Boston without its best player in Pascal Siakam, veteran Marc Gasol and Norman Powell. Still, the Raptors prevailed.
After finding themselves on the wrong end of an 11-4 run, the Celtics responded with a 9-0 run in a hurry to pull to within three (70-67) midway through the third quarter but the Raptors responded immediately with defensive stops and transition buckets. Toronto scored 52 points in the paint and eventually stretched its lead to 17 points.
The Raptors shot 52.4 percent from the floor, including 14 3-pointers -- Lowry drained five of them.
"I haven't felt like we've been great on that end recently," Stevens added. "We've had our moments, certainly, but we had our moments tonight on defense but they absolutely destroyed us in transition, which was bad. Those transition layups in the first half -- they're up five but they got eight points that are uncontested on run outs. You just can't allow that, it's not good.
"They were great in the pick-and-roll all night, they destroyed us. We have to be much better defending that. I don't think we were very good at it yesterday either. We got a lot of work to do to be the best version of ourselves. I don't think tonight was much about us. I think our guys did some good things and had some moments but they deserve a lot of praise."
Whenever they got close to tying things up, the Celtics struggled to stop the bleeding. They managed to string together scoring runs in the second half but failed to even things up or pull ahead, especially in the fourth quarter -- when it mattered most. Boston never led once.
"We gotta get back to being a better defensive team," Stevens said. "We got to find the right mix of guys that'll defend well together, that will complement our best players to defend well and just get back to that."
Kemba Walker led with a team-high 30 points, Jaylen Brown added 17 points while Gordon Hayward finished with 13 and Jayson Tatum added a dozen. In the past, Stevens' most successful teams relied heavily on its defense to reach newfound heights that were typically either unforeseen or deemed unlikely.
It shouldn't come as a surprise to see Stevens' concerns throughout a winning streak met with validity in lieu of celebrating his offense averaging 115.7 points in the past four games. It goes to show that throughout a winning streak, a team's most glaring flaw can be deceiving for its players until they've met their match and are handed a dose of reality.
Celtics will look to return to their winning ways Tuesday night when they take on the Hornets in Charlotte on New Year's Eve.
The Raptors dominated the Celtics on the glass -- where they out-rebounded Boston, 53-31, including 15 offensive rebounds that they managed to turn into 23 second-chance points.
Photo used is courtesy of the Associated Press
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Can date file write be forced while MC is running.
Hi, It appears that when MC 2.1.999.999 aborts it writes out the datafiles before it closes. However I am not sure if absolutely every type of abort does this. Is there a way to force MC to write out to the datafiles from the cash while MC is still running well. At the very least it could save time in the event that the computer looses power.


Until recently, parameters of vector charmoinia lying above the open-charm threshold were determined from the inclusive cross section of the electron-positron annihilation to hadronic final state. However, the parameters of the resonances obtained this way are model-dependent and they suffer from large uncertainties. On the other hand, measurements of exclusive cross sections of the e+e- annihilation to charm hadrons should provide important missing information about strong interaction in this region so that the results of such measurements are of large intrest both developments of experimental methods, and theory.
In particular, the aforementioned measurements should shed light on the nature on the charminia states with quantum numbers 1--, which are not fully understood yet. Determination of the masses and widths of these resonances in a model-independent way and extraction of their coupling constant to elastic open-charm channels will allow to obtain information on the wave functions of the vector charmonia and to verify the phenomenological models for heavy hadrons.


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require 'base64'

module SAML2
  module Bindings
    module HTTP_POST
      URN ="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST"

      class << self
        # Decode and parse a Base64 encoded SAML message.
        #
        # @param post_params [Hash<String => String>]
        #   The POST params. Will check for both +SAMLRequest+ and
        #   +SAMLResponse+ params.
        # @return [[Message, String]]
        #   The Message and the RelayState.
        def decode(post_params)
          base64 = post_params['SAMLRequest'] || post_params['SAMLResponse']
          raise MissingMessage unless base64

          raise MessageTooLarge if base64.bytesize > SAML2.config[:max_message_size]

          xml = begin
            Base64.decode64(base64)
          rescue ArgumentError
            raise CorruptMessage
          end

          message = Message.parse(xml)
          [message, post_params['RelayState']]
        end

        # Encode a SAML message into Base64 POST params.
        #
        # @param message [Message]
        # @param relay_state optional [String]
        # @return [Hash<String => String>]
        #   The POST params, including +RelayState+, and +SAMLRequest+ vs.
        #   +SAMLResponse+ chosen appropriately.
        def encode(message, relay_state: nil)
          xml = message.to_s(pretty: false)
          key = message.is_a?(Request) ? 'SAMLRequest' : 'SAMLResponse'
          post_params = { key => Base64.encode64(xml) }
          post_params['RelayState'] = relay_state if relay_state
          post_params
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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"HARRY POTTER & THE SORCERER'S STONE"
Chris Columbus knew this movie would seen on video far more times than in the theater and shot accordingly. It shouldn't lose much entertainment value when shrunk to fit your TV.
Another entertaining but unnecessary scene involves a giant CGI-rendered troll storming around the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry until it's knocked out cold with a spell cast by Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and friends.
So much screen time is burned on these passages -- and on trumpeting a red herring bad guy (Alan Rickman in the singular great performance as a sinister potions professor) -- that the story suffers and the real antagonist is almost entirely absent from the film until the finale.
Admittedly, Columbus ("Mrs. Doubtfire," "Bicentennial Man") goes through such motions with great panache.
"Harry Potter" is a very glossy and exuberant adaptation of J.K. Rowling's smash hit novel about an orphaned young conjurer, raised by his cartoonishly cruel aunt and uncle until he's whisked away to Hogwarts to begin his education in the dark arts. Once the magic begins, the picture has an infectious charm as unassuming Harry learns he's a legend in the parallel world of witches and wizards because the evil warlock that murdered his parents (who were wizards as well) was unable to kill baby Harry. The warlock's powers were consumed in the attempt and he mysteriously vanished, but not before leaving a lightning-bolt scar on Harry's forehead.
Harry receives his invite to Hogwarts via carrier owl (several carrier owls, actually, since his anti-magic guardians keep tearing up the missives) and is soon accompanied by burly, bearded, friendly giant Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) to a London's Kings Cross train station. There he passes through a brick wall between boarding platforms and finds himself in another world.
Once at school, befriended by fellow wizardry students Hermione Granger (Emma Watson, who steals scenes as the story's adorably brash bookworm) and redheaded Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint), who gets picked on for wearing hand-me-down cloaks.
Their arrival at Hogwarts provides the movie's best moments of wonder, as the campus is a spectacular castle outside and in. Enormous gothic halls are lit by clusters of candles that magically float in mid-air and contain paintings that come to life and staircases that arbitrarily detach from their moorings and change destinations.
Fan-satisfying trivia is established in nifty scenes like Harry's shopping trip to acquire his first magic wand, which he's told has a mystical connection to the wand of the evil warlock. But there's rarely any follow-through on such particulars -- in fact, Harry uses his wand a couple times but never speaks of it again.
The movie is so busy being loyal to the minutiae of the novel that it's at least an hour into the 2-hour, 32-minute run time (what kid will sit still that long?) before the Sorcerer's Stone of the title is even mentioned ("Finally some plot!" I wrote in my notes). This gemstone holds the power of immortality and it's being guarded in the bowels of the school by a 20-foot tall, three-headed attack dog called Fluffy.
"Harry Potter" suffers most from the fact that Columbus hardly takes time to flesh out his characters. Of the three lead children, only Hermione has a distinguishable personality. Daniel Radcliffe shows a lot of dash as brave but unsure, bespectacled young Harry. But he's a bit of a blank slate and we never see him actually learning any magic or honing his skills (which, for some reason, he never remembers to use when he's in danger). Columbus expects us to just take it as read that he's naturally adept at such things and fast-forwards to more chapters of requisite stage business.
Harry Potter fans at the preview I attended seemed to enjoy the picture's attention to detail and came away generally pleased. I must admit I was never bored, but I came away feeling as if I'd just watched a long-winded version of the novel's Cliff's Notes -- not a fully fleshed-out version of book so vivid and wonderful that it's enamoured post-MTV children to want to read again.


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"But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you… For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel…" (Philippians 2:19-23, KJV).
We have all heard the saying, "Give people their flowers while they are still living," in reference to a deceased person. When people die, loved ones and friends send bouquets of flowers to show their respect. But the person lying in the casket cannot see or smell them. The idea is to give them their flowers while they are still alive, so they can cherish them. This phrase is a metaphor reminding us to say encouraging words to others while they are still in the land of the living and can appreciate them. It is good to say nice things about a deceased person for others to hear, but the words do not encourage the dearly departed.
Timothy was Paul's son in the faith. From Paul's words about Timothy in Philippians 2:19-23, it is obvious he had profound respect and deep appreciation for him. As Paul was hoping to send him to the Church in Philippi, he was letting them know about the godly character of his protégé. Paul was letting Timothy 'smell his roses while he was still alive' by immortalizing his gratitude for him in a letter. Is there someone who is meaningful to you? How about that person who has been a source of blessing? Why don't you take the opportunity through a phone call, an email, a text or a letter to let them know? Maybe it is your spouse, an old classmate, a special friend, a co-worker or a unique someone in your life. Why don't you take this wonderful opportunity to give them their roses while they are still alive?
Dear Lord, please show me today the person (or persons) to whom I can give roses.


Fashion's Sweethart: Are You Being Served?
There is one thing that every little girl dreams of achieving when they "grow up". For some it's the pretty house, for others it's the real life doll, and for many it's a man who can fill your pretty house with pretty things. I may sound like a fifties housewife, or your grandmother but I am definitely one of these girls, and for me the thing I wanted most as a "child" and "adolescent" was a Chanel 2.55 Quilted Handbag. Yes i am now very aware that they cost thousands of dollars, and for someone whose current handbag is a $139 quilted faux leather tote, it may just be a little out of my budget.
This week Queens Plaza, on Queen st in the city, cut the ribbon of a very special boutique; the first Chanel boutique to make it's way to Queensland. By lunchtime there was a cue to take a look inside as both shoppers and tourists anticipated the decadency that they would find inside. I watched from the side lines as an Asian lady tried on a pair of black suede leather court shoes and asked the shop assistant for a size larger. I watched as two young university students ooooooh-ed and aaaaah-ed at small gold key chains in the display cabinet closest to the counter.
Luxury products aren't all that Chanel is famous for though. Customer service is very much associated with the luxury brand, and when you walk out of the shop with your little or slightly bigger package of decadence you feel exceptional, just as a customer who has walked out of an Apple store with a new laptop (cue applause). Unlike a computer though, you can wear your purchase on your sleeve and maybe your shoulder too. Chanel's customer service begs the question though, should we always be treated as number one when it comes to spending our money? After all your purchase is funding their company, keeping the sales assistant (and all other's involved in the process) in a job.
There are those specific stores who have customers come in and the shop assistants immediately pounce on you, telling you you have a pretty dress or that there's some amazing sale on. These stores cause me to quickly divert my tour to another store. Then you have the stores where you are barely acknowledged and have to call out for some attention with a polite "excuse me" or "hello" on your end. Should we not, as the economy is pushing us to spend more and more of our hard earned money, expect a little more from our sales associates?
Next time the twenty-something yawning assistant pushes your needs behind the need to tell another assistant about her latest fling, walk out of the store and up to somewhere like Chanel, just so you can see what real service feels like.


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a quote by proust stays with me when i travel. "the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." when i'm afforded the luxury of new landscapes, i feel an extra sense of responsibility to see things with new eyes.


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package org.bitcoins.core.dlc.testgen

import java.io.File

import play.api.libs.json._

import scala.concurrent.Future

object DLCTestVectorGen extends TestVectorGen[DLCTestVector, ValidTestInputs] {

  override val defaultTestFile: File = new File(
    "core-test/.jvm/src/test/scala/org/bitcoins/core/dlc/testgen/dlc_test.json")

  override val testVectorParser: DLCTestVector.type = DLCTestVector

  override def inputFromJson: JsValue => JsResult[ValidTestInputs] =
    ValidTestInputs.fromJson

  override val inputStr: String = "testInputs"

  override def generateFromInput: ValidTestInputs => Future[DLCTestVector] = {
    inputs =>
      Future.fromTry(DLCTxGen.successTestVector(inputs))
  }

  override def generateTestVectors(): Future[Vector[DLCTestVector]] = {
    // Happy Path
    val numOutcomesTests =
      Vector(2, 3, 5, 8, 100).map(DLCTxGen.randomSuccessTestVector)

    val nonP2WPKHInputTests =
      DLCTxGen.nonP2WPKHInputs.map(DLCTxGen.successTestVector(_))

    val multiInputTests = DLCTxGen
      .multiInputTests(Vector(1, 2, 5))
      .map(DLCTxGen.successTestVector(_))

    Future.sequence(
      (numOutcomesTests ++ nonP2WPKHInputTests ++ multiInputTests).map(
        Future.fromTry))
  }
}


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Hi everyone! My name is Shari Marshall and I began working for the Wyatt Aerospace team in 2015 as a sales support representative. Before working at Wyatt I had no previous knowledge or experience in the aerospace field, but I have to say I'm enjoying it.
I moved to Arizona in 2011 from beautiful New Mexico….again that's New Mexico not Mexico, and yes, it's a part of the United States (I get that a lot). My husband and I make many trips back home to N.M. as much as we can, especially when the overwhelming desert heat kicks in. I love DIY projects, whether it be refurbishing furniture, reupholstering chairs, or even redecorating our entire home; nothing feels better than restoring things back to their former glory. I know my husband absolutely LOVES it when I surprise him and bring home old furniture or vintage goodies….as long as I can get it into our home before he says, "No" then I know I'm in the clear. Another avocation that I'm passionate about is to fly with my husband. He's currently in the process of getting his commercial pilot license, so it's fun to just hop in the plane and take a flight to someplace new.
Thank you for taking the time to get to know me and my passions, If you ever need any sales assistance or have any questions, feel free to contact me at smarshall@wyattaerospace.com.


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Founder and Editor in Chief of State of Digital Publishing. My vision is to provide digital publishing and media professionals a platform to collaborate and...Read more
WHAT LED YOU TO START WORKING IN THE TECH AND PUBLISHING INDUSTRY?
Previous to Hindsight, I was in the finance industry working at banks like Goldman Sachs and Macquarie. My role was industry agnostic, so I was looking at many new businesses across different industries. With each new business, I would leverage digital news to help with the diligence process. As a power reader of the news, I realized most news stories did not have enough context and only a small portion of the story was used to provide background. The original problem I was trying to solve with Hindsight was to provide a stronger context in news via automated hyperlinking – think of the robust hyperlinking strategy of Wikipedia and applying that to news content.
HOW DID THIS LEAD YOU TO DEVELOP "HINDSIGHT"?
The problems that Hindsight solves today and the product that we've built is a result of a few pivots over the past three years and continuous improvement on the understanding of the market. As I more closely looked at revenue models of publishers and what was happening with the winding down of third-party cookies, I realized the need for a better, more user-friendly model for advertising. With this idea, the Hindsight team repurposed our technology stack, which fundamentally understands the core context and topics of an article to serve an experience, to drive our Adaptive Ad framework.
WHAT DOES A TYPICAL DAY LOOK LIKE FOR YOU? WHAT DOES YOUR WORK SETUP LOOK LIKE? (YOUR APPS, PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS, ETC.)
I start my morning around 8 AM checking emails, Slack, and my calendar to roughly plan out my day. My workspace is my desk in my living room, which overlooks the Hudson River and NYC Skyline, so it's not a bad view to motivate myself throughout the day. Our product and technical teams have a daily call at 10 AM and after that my day varies depending on priorities which currently is mainly scaling our publisher products and managing R&D on our Adaptive Ad technology. I hit the gym around 4 PM to beat rush hour, work for a few more hours until dinner and then try to go to sleep around midnight. In terms of productivity tools, we use Slack for communication, Asana for business development tasking, Jira for technical roadmap management, and Google for email, storage, and the other tools they offer.
WHAT CHANGES HAVE YOU SEEN IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY SINCE THE PANDEMIC AND WHY?
The pandemic had several impacts on the publishing industry. The biggest revenue impact was tied to brand safety when a lot of advertisers did not want to advertise against COVID-19 content, and when advertisers in pandemic affected industries like travel shut down their budget, which materially impacted CPMs. Another impact was the importance of fact-checking and fake news algorithms (but you can also credit that to the Trump Administration versus the pandemic itself). However, the biggest impact in the past year is not pandemic related but relates to the deletion of the third-party cookie. With this new movement, both publishers and advertisers need to change their monetization and targeting strategies to rely heavily on first-party and contextual data to maintain revenue growth.
MAY YOU INTRODUCE OUR AUDIENCE TO HINDSIGHT'S CONTEXTUAL TARGETING PLATFORM?
Hindsight is a technology company that moves beyond the boundaries of traditional contextual advertising to leverage contextual intelligence to make smarter, intuitive ads that meld into the content around them to drive the flexibility and results that advertisers and publishers need. Our proprietary technology combines intelligence and adaptive creative to power a reader-first message that drives better results — with no dependence on the cookie — and simultaneously solves for monetization and retention. What makes our ads adaptive is our platforms ability to identify key topics and terms in an article and use that understanding to automatically update the content of the ad to match the content of the article. For example, in an article about Beyonce and another article about Madonna is it enough to serve an ad about Apple Music in both articles? Or is it more powerful to serve an ad about Beyonce and an ad about Madonna in the respective articles? That type of granularity is hard to achieve using segment or keyword targeting but can be achieved using tech enabled adaptive creative. The content alignment that adaptive creatives provide also makes the ads much more editorial. With the various brands that we've launched with including FanDuel, FOCO, and Apple/Amazon Music, this one-to-one alignment drives on average a 0.5% click through rate, which is 10x increase to industry-standard display CTRs of .05%. Adaptive creative is what native advertising was supposed to look like, providing benefits for the user, publisher and advertiser.
CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT HOW PUBLISHERS CAN MONETIZE AND ENGAGE AUDIENCES IN A COOKIE-LESS WEB? WHAT ARE YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS?
Publishers are not going to find a one-stop-shop for their contextual targeting needs. To be truly effective, it will be important for advertisers to leverage contextual targeting across an array of use cases. From traditional segment targeting to location/weather targeting, and the more innovative formats like adaptive and shoppable content, publishers should incorporate the different use cases of contextual to create an effective strategy. In addition, contextual by itself is not the panacea. Combining contextual targeting with first-party data will allow publishers to reach and improve on the targeting capabilities they were seeing with third-party cookies. Push for users to provide personal information with promotions, surveys and contests. Provide incentives for readers to communicate preferences on subjects of interest with topic specific email newsletters. With the death of the cookie, digital media will be able to drive forward with innovation and disruption to create a stronger ecosystem for brands, users and publishers.
FORBES ANNOUNCED HINDSIGHT'S MOST RECENT $1.3 MILLION RAISE. WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS?
The main use of proceeds for our $1.3mm raise will go to research and development for our Adaptive Ad technology. The platform is data science heavy and we need to build and deploy extremely accurate models for the different verticals, brands and publishers we support. In addition, some of the spend will also be utilized to boost our brand and marketing presence to solidify the importance of the new ad creative technology we are creating. We really want to push towards having a self-service software platform to power brand creatives in all major performance verticals by 2022.
WHAT'S THE PROBLEM THAT YOU'RE PASSIONATELY TACKLING AT "HINDSIGHT" AT THE MOMENT?
We're trying to solve the disconnect between advertising, publisher content and readers. It's very fragmented because publishers need ads to make money, but readers ignore ads because they are intrusive and often irrelevant. With our Adaptive Ad technology, we leverage contextual intelligence to make the content of an ad closely match the content of an article. With this strategy, we can ensure the needs of advertisers, publishers, and readers are all aligned. Hindsight is working on delivering a better future for digital advertising where a superior experience for consumers delivers the results brands and publishers need — with zero dependence on cookies.
DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE FOR AMBITIOUS DIGITAL PUBLISHING AND MEDIA PROFESSIONALS ON HOW THEY CAN USE TARGETING TO OPTIMIZE AND GROW REVENUE?
The biggest advice I can give is to treat your digital media company as a technology product. Whether it's leveraging contextual targeting, first-party data, subscription services, etc., always A/B test different strategies and use data to determine what works best. An amazing aspect of running a digital publication is the vast amount of behavior data you can get in a short amount of time. Use reader behavior data with A/B tests to quickly figure out what's working and what's not and test new concepts and strategies to optimize performance.
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Written by Lindsey German
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The crisis for Theresa May and the Tories continues to deepen, their only lifeline would be a second referendum, argues Lindsey German
Is this the week when the Tory party finally explodes over Brexit? Certainly Theresa May is running out of room to manoeuvre. The summit in Brussels will have to make concrete decisions but any such decisions are likely to break May's fragile parliamentary majority and lead to civil war within her party and her cabinet.
Already she has lost two very high profile cabinet ministers – Boris Johnson and David Davis – as a direct result of her Chequers deal. There are threats of further resignations this week. Davis has called for a revolt of the Cabinet against May, and Jacob Rees-Mogg has declared that he is not going to blink over Brexit.
Meanwhile, Arlene Foster, head of the deeply unpleasant DUP, is threatening the government that it will vote against the budget later this month unless its dictatorial and dogmatist demands over the Irish border are met.
That border is one of the main – but not the only – points of issue between May and her pro-Brexit critics in the Tory Party and the DUP. They fear that the backstop deal with the EU over Ireland will effectively be open-ended, meaning that the UK would remain in the customs union indefinitely. The DUP in particular – whose whole existence is based on the notion that a part of Ireland is in reality part of Britain – is furious at the thought of a border in the Irish Sea. Foster has already declared that she would rather there was a no deal Brexit than accept this.
As May casts around for support for her increasingly desperate and unpopular position, she may be thrown a lifeline from a group who should be doing absolutely nothing to help a Tory prime minister – right wing Labour MPs. According to media reports, up to 30 Labour MPs are prepared to defy Jeremy Corbyn and vote with May to get the Chequers deal through parliament.
It should be made absolutely clear to these people now that if they do so they will immediately lose the Labour whip. There should be zero tolerance of Labour MPs from working class constituencies voting with an anti-working class government and allowing May to continue her rule. Many of these people have been discussing forming a new party – if that is what they want, they should have the honesty to do so rather than masquerade as Labour supporters.
Some of Labour's right will also be out in force later this week, on a demo for a 'people's vote' – or for a reversal of the 2016 referendum as it would be in reality. It will be by all reports a large demo. However, its goal is not justified – if we want a decisive vote then we should have a general election rather than trying to reverse the 2016 vote – and it seems to me, it is in reality an attempt to organise people who oppose leaving the EU in uncritical support of an institution which has very little to recommend it and which embodies neoliberal principles throughout its institutions.
The campaign also involves the political rehabilitation of Alastair Campbell who spun the lies about WMDs in Iraq, of the Lib Dems who gave us austerity and tuition fees, and of David Miliband who presided over extraordinary rendition.
There will be a number of left wingers on it regardless, promoting the myth that 'another Europe is possible'. It certainly is, but not if you pin your hopes on the EU. The position of 'stay in and change the EU' is simply utopian, since there is no democratic mechanism for doing so, and relies on a wilful refusal to look reality in the face. The growth of the far right in Europe is being fuelled by EU policies, and the resultant victories for far right politicians are blithely accepted in most cases. Flexibility at work, low wages, shameful treatment of migrants, all are deliberate policies from the EU. So it's not the time to be sowing illusions in it, or giving failed politicians a leg up.
Anti-fascism: four steps to a united campaign
The rise of far right and fascist politics across Europe is a major cause for concern for everyone on the left. In some countries – Italy, Austria, Hungary – far right politicians are in extremely powerful government positions. In Germany, the far right AfD has more than 90 MPs. In France, Marine Le Pen's fascists are a major force. Throughout the EU, next summer's European parliament elections will almost certainly bring a sizeable increase in far right support.
Here in Britain, there has been relatively little electoral success for the far right in recent years, and as a result we have seen a growth in fascists and right wing organisations on the streets. Partly this has been fuelled by UKIP's turn towards street organising following electoral failure, partly by the encouragement and funding by the US alt-right and the role of Donald Trump, and partly from the demagogic Tommy Robinson campaign around grooming and Muslim terrorism. The so-called Democratic Football Lads Alliance marched last weekend in London around these questions and that of migration.
It should go without saying that the left should not accept these arguments. The threat of terrorism is real, but it has increased massively since the War on Terror began, as those of us who opposed that war always made clear. Bombing, war and invasion have helped create and perpetuate the things it was supposedly meant to end. We are also seeing a rise of far right terrorism – Anders Brevik in Norway, who targeted socialists at a youth camp, a far right murder gang in Germany who targeted migrants, and here a whole number of racist attacks and murders including that of Jo Cox MP and the attack on Finsbury Park Islamic centre, which was aimed originally at Jeremy Corbyn.
Grooming of young and often very vulnerable girls should be condemned whoever the perpetrators. But sexual attacks of this sort are not mainly carried out by Muslim men – they exist throughout society and have been prevalent in many institutions including the Catholic church and the BBC. The cases involving Muslims are criminal cases and should be dealt with appropriately but they should not be politicised to justify racism against all Muslims.
The far right have been successful in a number of countries in banning women wearing certain items of Muslim clothing, and in highlighting women as the targets of Islamophobia.
Last weekend I took part in a counter demo against the DFLA in Westminster. The very good news was that the fascists and far right only mustered around 1000 – far fewer than their previous outings in the summer, and a sign at least in part that increased awareness of their true nature is beginning to hurt their mobilisations. We need much more exposure of who and what they are, what is wrong with their arguments, and why no one should be taken in by their 'concerns' over these issues. They are out to build a fascist movement which sees as its central enemy the organised working class.
The bad news I suppose is that although our own side mustered more than them, our demonstrations were divided. I was on the Stand up to Racism one, which had a very short march and then a static protest with speeches. The other one marched from the BBC and managed to halt or break up the DFLA march. I think credit is due for doing that, but I also think we need to look at how we build an effective movement. The demo I was on was 2000 at most, perfectly respectable but not massive; the other demo was according to reports a similar size. Both good and all credit to everyone who went on either of them. But it is obvious to me that one united demo would have attracted more than the sum of those two.
So step one is we need a united campaign. There are many tactical differences and differences of politics involved here. But those have to be resolved or at least resolved sufficiently so that we can work together, otherwise we will not mobilise the numbers we need.
Step two is that we need a mass campaign. The numbers are, let's face it, only a small fraction of those who agree with us on this and who could potentially come to a demo. We have to reach layers of people who might not have heard of our campaigns but who dread the rise of the far right and everything it stands for. They certainly don't know the ins and outs and histories of the left which sometimes divide us.
Step three is that we have to leave sectarianism at the door. The division on Saturday is not between those who want to confront the fascists and those who don't, as some have suggested, ludicrously. The differences are about how you do it – and there is room for these differences as long as we unite around the main aims.
To me, the real standouts in the history of anti-fascism have been where protests combined mass mobilisation with direct action or confrontation with police and/or fascists. This was true of Cable Street, Lewisham, Welling, and it can be true again. There is no shortcut to building this. I would like to see a broadening out of the movement so that we try to go much deeper into working class communities and involve all sections of the left, and this is a big challenge, which can't be dealt with by just carrying on doing the same thing.
But it also means mobilising large numbers who may not necessarily agree on every tactical nuance but who hate racism. That was the major success of the Anti-Nazi League in the 70s. We face very different political circumstances today, but that idea of a mass – and militant – movement is crucial. One road we should not go down is that of what is sometimes called 'squaddism' – or small groups of people going around engaging in fights and skirmishes with the fascists.
This was a big argument on the left in the late 1970s, as I well remember. I lived in London Fields, which was very much run down, relatively white and with a lot of racism, and we had a local ANL group that met in my living room. South Hackney overall was not good, with pockets of fascists, some of whom traced their allegiances back to Mosley and the 1930s. The temptation of some was to get into effectively street fighting with groups of fascists. It ended very badly, both politically and personally for many individuals, some of who ended up in prison, because this action was a substitute for building a movement. We can't let that happen again.
Step four is we have to build the November 17th demo against racism and fascism as widely as possible. Everyone, whatever their attitude on all this, should see it as a major step in organising to defeat the fascists. And we should take heart this weekend from Germany when over 200,000 marched in Berlin with the wonderful slogan Unteilbar – Indivisible.
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namespace As3\Modlr\Persister\MongoDb\Tests;

use PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase;
use Doctrine\MongoDB\Configuration;
use Doctrine\MongoDB\Connection;
use As3\Modlr;

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{
    protected static $dbName = 'modlr_mongodb';

    protected $connection;
    protected $smf;
    protected $persister;

    public function setUp()
    {
        // Initialize the doctrine connection
        $config = new Configuration();
        $config->setLoggerCallable(function($msg) {});
        $this->connection = new Connection(null, array(), $config);

        // Initialize the metadata factory
        $typeFactory = new Modlr\DataTypes\TypeFactory;
        $validator = new Modlr\Util\Validator;

        $config = new Modlr\Rest\RestConfiguration($validator);
        $config->setRootEndpoint('/modlr/api/');

        $entityUtil = new Modlr\Util\EntityUtility($config, $typeFactory);
        $this->smf = new Modlr\Persister\MongoDb\StorageMetadataFactory($entityUtil);

        $formatter = new Modlr\Persister\MongoDb\Formatter();
        $query = new Modlr\Persister\MongoDb\Query($this->connection, $formatter);

        $hydrator = new Modlr\Persister\MongoDb\Hydrator();
        $schemaManager = new Modlr\Persister\MongoDb\SchemaManager();

        $this->persister = new Modlr\Persister\MongoDb\Persister($query, $this->smf, $hydrator, $schemaManager);
    }

    public function tearDown()
    {
        $collections = $this->connection->selectDatabase(self::$dbName)->listCollections();
        foreach ($collections as $collection) {
            $collection->drop();
        }

        $this->connection->close();
        unset($this->connection);
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    public function testPersisterValues()
    {
        $this->assertEquals('mongodb', $this->persister->getPersisterKey());
        $this->assertEquals('_type', $this->persister->getPolymorphicKey());
        $this->assertEquals('_id', $this->persister->getIdentifierKey());
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    {
        $this->assertInstanceOf(
            'As3\Modlr\Metadata\Interfaces\StorageMetadataFactoryInterface',
            $this->persister->getPersistenceMetadataFactory()
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    }

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     * @expectedExceptionMessage    ID conversion currently only supports an object strategy, or none at all.
     */
    public function testConvertIdInvalidStrategy()
    {
        $this->assertInstanceOf('MongoId', $this->persister->convertId('test', 'blag'));
    }

    /**
     * @expectedException           As3\Modlr\Persister\PersisterException
     * @expectedExceptionMessage    ID generation currently only supports an object strategy, or none at all.
     */
    public function testGenerateIdInvalidStrategy()
    {
        $this->assertInstanceOf('MongoId', $this->persister->generateId('blag'));
    }

    public function testConvertIdObject()
    {
        $test = '49a7011a05c677b9a916612a';
        $id = new \MongoId($test);

        $this->assertEquals($id, $this->persister->convertId($id));
        $this->assertEquals($id, $this->persister->convertId($id, 'object'));
    }

    public function testGenerateIdObject()
    {
        $this->assertInstanceOf('MongoId', $this->persister->generateId());
        $this->assertInstanceOf('MongoId', $this->persister->generateId('object'));
    }

    /**
     * @expectedException           As3\Modlr\Persister\PersisterException
     * @expectedExceptionMessage    ID conversion currently only supports an object strategy, or none at all.
     */
    public function testConvertIdIncrementId()
    {
        $test = 12345;
        $this->assertEquals($test, $this->persister->convertId($test, 'incrementId'));
    }

    /**
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     * @expectedExceptionMessage    ID generation currently only supports an object strategy, or none at all.
     */
    public function testGenerateIdIncrementId()
    {
        $val = $this->persister->generateId('incrementId');
        $this->assertGreaterThan($val, $this->persister->generateId('incrementId'));
    }

    public function testNameIsAppendedToSchemata()
    {
        $metadata = $this->getMetadata()->persistence;

        foreach ($metadata->schemata as $schema) {
            $this->assertTrue(isset($schema['options']['name']) && !empty($schema['options']['name']), 'index name was not applied to schema');
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        }
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     * @expectedExceptionMessage    At least one key must be specified to define an index.
     */
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    {
        $schemata = [['options' => ['unique' => true]]];
        $metadata = $this->getMetadata($schemata);
    }

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     * @expectedExceptionMessage    At least one key must be specified to define an index.
     */
    public function testSchemaRequiresAtLeastOneKey()
    {
        $schemata = ['keys' => [], ['options' => ['unique' => true]]];
        $metadata = $this->getMetadata($schemata);
    }

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     */
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    {
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        $manager = new Modlr\Persister\MongoDb\SchemaManager;

        $schemata = [
            ['options' => ['unique' => true]]
        ];

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    }

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    }

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        }
    }

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Comcast Business is really looking to take a chunk of the SMB space. Analysts say almost 20% of SMB in-region will be Comcast Business customers. I think that the RBOCs (ATT and VZ) don't really care - as long as they get the business cellular accounts. But the other ILECs - Fairpoint, Frontier, Windstream and C-Link - do care and cannot afford the loss in that lucrative market that they have always owned by default. The other big losers are national CLEC's like Windstream (who is an ILEC and a CLEC), XO, Cbeyond and EarthLink.
BTW, Comcast has $47 Billion in debt on $15.3 Billion in quarterly revenue ($60B/yr).
Fast internet starting at 16/3 going up to 100/10.
Diverse network form the LEC, Comcast owns the first and last mile. We do not use a LEC CO anywhere.


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History of Ssangyong
The original name of the company was to have Dong-hwan, which started in 1954, South Korea. For 1966, the company started exporting buses to Brunei, the following year its place of export would be Viet Nam. Then step known as Dong-A Motor in 1977, the company would be devoted to other businesses, such as the construction and petroleum refining. Business began with the construction of exclusive jeeps for the US military, then commercial vehicles such as buses, trucks and special vehicles such as mixers and fire, becoming the first producer of vehicles in the country would be built.
The twin dragons
In 1986, the automotive would definitely change of name and would become "SsangYong Motor Company", whose meaning is "twin dragons". This same year launch to the market the first series of trucks called Korando, which is a compact SUV 4WD, known as the first SUV manufactured entirely in Korea, since then has a very good reputation at the time of filing SUVs in the Asian country. At the beginning of the 1990s, SsangYong acquires 100% of the British company "Panther", entering the world of the automobile with extremely expensive and exclusive vehicles, using the model Kallista and turning it into SsangYong Kallista, from that moment this model is highlighted by a good quality/price ratio, which opens the doors to new markets.
SsangYong and Mercedes Benz
In 1992, Mercedes-Benz AG decided to invest in the capital of Ssangyong Motors, establishing a strategic alliance and creating cooperation in technologies, management and distribution with the mentioned company. Through this partnership, Ssangyong Motors begins to develop luxury cars, commercial vehicles lighter and diesel engines. Which allowed him to establish new ways of distribution support to its increasingly sophisticated products, crossing the borders of their country. A year later, the company shipped a production known as SsangYong Musso, who was a pickup truck 4 X 4 SUV, which had a personal style and high performance. For 1994 he inaugurated a plant in Changwon, exclusively for the manufacture of engines.
At the end of the 90s, a new model known as Chairman is introduced into the market of high-end vehicles. SsangYong building a second plant in Changwon, dedicated exclusively to the manufacture of Mercedes Benz engines. Then the crisis hit them, forcing them to join Daewoo until the year 2000.
After the crisis, SsangYong undergoes restructuring, receiving all the support from its creditors and independent, which serves to launch new models, with a better quality, good customer service and a large distribution network. Among the models that appeared on that date were the Rexton (2001), the Rodius (2004), (2005) Kyron and Actyon (2006). At the end of 2004, the Chinese group "Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC)" acquired almost 50% of the shares of SsangYong. SsangYong Motor currently has two plants, one in Changwon, which is dedicated to the manufacture of gearboxes and engines and another located in Pyungtaek, where the nucleus, the center of research and development. The firm produces 210000 vehicles per year and has more than 7,000 employees, offering to the highest bidder more than 50% of its shares, valued at 430 million euros.
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Besides others, the Korean giant automobile manufacturing company has also manufactured a mid-sized SUV. The vehicle is in production since 2001. The SUV is named SsangYong Rexton.
A unique sports utility vehicle, SsangYong Korando was manufactured by leading South Korean automotive Company Ssang Motor. Initially the vehicle was launched in the year 1983 and remained in the market till 2006 in its first phase.
Technical characteristics of Ssangyong Models
№ Name Year Power Fuel
1 Ssangyong Actyon 4WD Automatic 2005 163HP (120 kW) @ 4000 rpm 9.9 l/100km
2 Ssangyong Korando 2.0D AWD Automatic 2010 175HP (129 kW) @ 4000 rpm n/a
3 Ssangyong Rodius 270 Xdi Automatic 2006 163HP (120 kW) @ 4000 rpm 9.9 l/100km
4 Ssangyong Korando 2.0D AWD 2010 175HP (129 kW) @ 4000 rpm n/a
5 Ssangyong Korando 2.0D 2010 175HP (129 kW) @ 4000 rpm n/a
6 Ssangyong Rexton II RX320 2011 220HP (162 kW) @ 6100 rpm 14.4 l/100km
7 Ssangyong Chairman H 500S 2008 101HP (74 kW) @ 3000 rpm 3.4 l/100km
8 Ssangyong Rexton II RX270 2011 165HP (121 kW) @ 4000 rpm 8.6 l/100km
9 Ssangyong Chairman CW600 2011 225HP (166 kW) @ 6600 rpm n/a
10 Ssangyong Chairman V8 5000 2011 306HP (225 kW) @ 5600 rpm n/a
11 Ssangyong Chairman Cm600L 2006 101HP (74 kW) @ 3000 rpm 13.1 l/100km
12 Ssangyong Chairman CW700 4TRONIC 2011 250HP (184 kW) @ 6600 rpm n/a
13 Ssangyong Rodius 270 Xdi 2006 163HP (120 kW) @ 4000 rpm 8.6 l/100km
14 Ssangyong Chairman CW700 2011 250HP (184 kW) @ 6600 rpm n/a
15 Ssangyong Korando 2.0D Automatic 2010 175HP (129 kW) @ 4000 rpm n/a
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Enter a 360° hostile and inaccessible universe at the Musée des Confluences with Luc Jacquet's latest exploration of Antarctica. Extreme thrills in a polar oasis!
10 years after March of the Penguins, award-winning director Luc Jacquet returned to the Antarctic Ocean, in Adélie Land, with an impressive crew. He brought back many technical achievements, world firsts and unique images, on or below the ice fields as well as deep into the seabed. 9,000 different species of fish, mollusc, crustacean and corals live there, and some of which were observed for the very first time.
Today, the Musée des Confluences offers Luc Jacquet and his own Wild-Touch NGO a new immersive way to tell a story, in order to raise awareness regarding this habitat and its highly fragile nature. Surrounded by several-meters-high 360° screens, visitors will discover a circuit on and below the ice fields, along Weddell seals and Emperor Penguins. You are sure to be thrilled!
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