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=pod

=head1 NAME

libtap++ - C++ unit tests for the Test Anything Protocol

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  #include <tap++/tap++.h>
  #include <string>

  using namespace TAP;

  int foo(int ronkle = 1) {
    return ronkle;
  }

  std::string bar() {
    return "a string";
  }

  int main() {
    plan(4);
    ok(true, "This test passes");
    is(foo(), 1, "foo() should be 1");
    is(bar(), "a string", "bar() should be \"a string\"");

    TODO="Foo is not completely implemented";
    is(foo(2), 5, "foo(2) should be 5");
    TODO="";

    return exit_status();
  }

=head1 DESCRIPTION

C<libtap++> is a TAP producer for C++ programs.

=head1 FUNCTIONS

All functions and variables are defined in the C<TAP> namespace.

=head2 I love it when a plan comes together

Before anything else, you need a testing plan.  This basically declares
how many tests your script is going to run to protect against premature
failure.

=over 4

=item B<plan()>

  void plan(int number_of_tests);
  void plan(skip_all, const std::string& reason="");
  void plan(no_plan);

The function C<plan> is used to indicate the plan of your test run. Usually you
will just give it the number of tests as argument.

Alternatively, you can give it the C<skip_all> or C<no_plan> constants as
arguments. The first means you will not run the tests at all, the second means
you will run an unknown number of tests (the latter is not recommended).

=item B<done_testing()>

  void done_testing();
  void done_testing(int number_of_tests);

If you don't know how many tests you're going to run, you can issue the plan
when you're done running tests.

number_of_tests is the same as plan(), it's the number of tests you expected to
run. You can omit this, in which case the number of tests you ran doesn't
matter, just the fact that your tests ran to conclusion.

This is safer than and replaces the "no_plan" plan.

=back

=head2 Test names

By convention, each test is assigned a number in order.  This is
largely done automatically for you.  However, it's often very useful to
assign a name to each test.  Which would you rather see:

  ok 4
  not ok 5
  ok 6

or

  ok 4 - basic multi-variable
  not ok 5 - simple exponential
  ok 6 - force == mass * acceleration

The later gives you some idea of what failed.  It also makes it easier
to find the test in your script, simply search for "simple
exponential".

All test functions take a name argument.  It's optional, but highly
suggested that you use it.

=head2 I'm ok, you're not ok.

The basic purpose of this module is to print out either "ok #" or "not
ok #" depending on if a given test succeeded or failed.  Everything
else is just gravy.

All of the following print "ok" or "not ok" depending on if the test
succeeded or failed.  They all also return true or false,
respectively.

=over 4

=item B<ok()>

  bool ok(bool condition, const std::string& test_name = "");

C<ok> is the basic test expression in TAP.  It simply evaluates any expression,
for example, I<got == expected>, taking a true value to mean that the test
passed and a false value to mean that the test failed.

C<test_name> is a very short description of the test that will be printed out.
It makes it very easy to find a test in your script when it fails and gives
others an idea of your intentions. C<test_name> is optional, but we very
strongly encourage its use.

=item B<is()>

=item B<isnt()>

  template<typename T, typename U> bool is(const T& got, const U& expected, std::string& test_name = "");
  template<typename T, typename U> bool isnt(const T& got, const U& expected, std::string& test_name = "");

Similar to ok(), is() and isnt() compare their two arguments
with C<==> and C<!=> respectively and use the result of that to
determine if the test succeeded or failed.  So these:

    # Is the ultimate answer 42?
    is( ultimate_answer(), 42, "Meaning of Life" );

    # foo isn't empty
    isnt( foo, "",     "Got some foo" );

are similar to these:

    ok( ultimate_answer() == 42, "Meaning of Life" );
    ok( foo != "", "Got some foo" );

(Mnemonic:  "This is that."  "This isn't that.")

So why use these? They produce better diagnostics on failure. ok() cannot know
what you are testing for (beyond the name), but is() and isnt() know what the
test was and why it failed. For example this test:

    std::string foo("waffle"), bar("yarblokos");
    is( foo, bar, 'Is foo the same as bar?' );

Will produce something like this:

    not ok 17 - Is foo the same as bar?
    #   Failed test 'Is foo the same as bar?'
    #          got: 'waffle'
    #     expected: 'yarblokos'

=item B<pass()>

=item B<fail()>

  bool pass(const std::string& test_name = "");
  bool fail(const std::string& test_name = "");

Sometimes you just want to say that the tests have passed.  Usually
the case is you've got some complicated condition that is difficult to
wedge into an ok().  In this case, you can simply use pass() (to
declare the test ok) or fail (for not ok).  They are synonyms for
ok(true, test_name) and ok(false, test_name).

Use these very, very, very sparingly.

=back

=head2 Conditional testing

=over 4

=item B<skip()>

  void skip(int number, const std::string& reason = "");

C<skip> tells the TAP harness that you're skipping a I<number> of tests for the
given I<reason>.  Note that you have to do the skipping yourself.

=item B<TODO>

  {
  todo_guard why;
  TODO="why"
  my_tests_here ...
  }

C<TODO> is a global string variable that tells TAP harness the reason
the current test is expected to fail.  You set TODO before a block of
tests that you expect to fail and then unset it afterwards.  When TODO
is the empty string, then the harness considers that there is no
reason for the test to fail.  However, when TODO is non-empty, any
failing test is not counted against the test suite and any succeeding
test is reported as an unexpected success.

The nice part about todo tests, as opposed to simply commenting out a
block of tests, is it's like having a programmatic todo list. You know
how much work is left to be done, you're aware of what bugs there are,
and you'll know immediately when they're fixed.

Note that TODO manipulates a global variable.  Thus, you should be
careful to set it to "" before going to another section of the
program.  An easy mistake to make is to have a failing section of code
that throws an exception, taking you out of the current scope without
resetting TODO. To make it easier to deal with this in a thread-safe
manner, the todo_guard class is provided. Objects of this class will
reset TODO when they fall out of scope.

=back

=head2 Diagnostics

If you pick the right test function, you'll usually get a good idea of
what went wrong when it failed.  But sometimes it doesn't work out
that way.  So here we have ways for you to write your own diagnostic
messages which are safer than just C<print STDERR>.

=over 4

=item B<diag>

  diag(diagnostic_message...);

Prints a diagnostic message which is guaranteed not to interfere with
test output. The arguments are simply concatenated together.

Returns false, so as to preserve failure.

Handy for this sort of thing:

    ok( has_user("foo"), "There's a foo user" ) or
        diag("Since there's no foo, check that /etc/bar is set up right");

which would produce:

    not ok 42 - There's a foo user
    #   Failed test 'There's a foo user'
    # Since there's no foo, check that /etc/bar is set up right.

You might remember C<ok() or diag()> with the mnemonic C<open() or
die()>.

B<NOTE> The exact formatting of the diagnostic output is still
changing, but it is guaranteed that whatever you throw at it it won't
interfere with the test.

=item B<note>

  note(diagnostic_message...);

Like diag(), except the message will not be seen when the test is run
in a harness.  It will only be visible in the verbose TAP stream.

Handy for putting in notes which might be useful for debugging, but
don't indicate a problem.

    note("Tempfile is ", tempfile);

C<diag> simply catenates its arguments to the error output, while C<note>
prints diagnostics to the TAP stream.

=item B<set_output()>

=item B<set_error()>

  void set_output(std::ofstream& new_output);
  void set_error(std::ofstream& new_error);

These set the filehandle of the TAP stream and the error stream. They default
to C<std::cout> and C<std::cerr>, respectively. These can only be set before any
output is written to them.

=back

=head2 Ending a test run

=over 4

=item B<exit_status()>

If all your tests passed, Test::Builder will exit with zero (which is
normal).  If anything failed it will exit with how many failed.  If
you run less (or more) tests than you planned, the missing (or extras)
will be considered failures.  If the test died, even after having
successfully completed all its tests, it will still be considered a failure
and will exit with 255.

So the exit codes are...

    0                   all tests successful
    255                 test died or all passed but wrong # of tests run
    any other number    how many failed (including missing or extras)

If you fail more than 254 tests, it will be reported as 254.

=item B<bail_out()>

  int exit_status();
  void bail_out(const std::string& reason);

B<bail_out> terminates the current test program with exit code 255, indicating
to the test harness that all subsequent testing should halt.  Typically this
is used to indicate that testing cannot continue at all.

=back

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<http://www.testanything.org>

L<Test::More> and L<prove(1)> are the traditional perl client library and TAP
harness, respectively. This library is modeled after Test::More.

=head1 AUTHORS

Leon Timmermans wrote C<libtap++>. He stole much of this documentation from
Test::More. Mike Pomraning also contributed this documentation.

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010 Leon Timmermans.

See the LICENSE file for details.

=cut

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Everything is good and right here.
Into beauty; into form easily accessed.
I am lifted toward the Divine.
A place of clearness and serenity.
The four upper colors are each about Love in some way. The opened heart experiences earthly love in a balanced give and take. After a while the opened heart starts to become sensitive to higher forms of Love which manifest as Beauty and Truth. Beauty is primordial love energy made visual or aural. Truth is love energy experienced intellectually. At a deep level they are the same thing.
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The realization of higher influences inspires beings with intelligence toward higher ethical behavior: honesty, responsibility, kindness, respect, etc. In terms of society, the ideal we call democracy is a striving toward implementing equality and fairness in societal structures.
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Blue music has a deliberateness and a simplicity that encapsulate its power. Most often, the tempo is moderate or slow. There is often a recognizable, singable melody; a beautiful one. Think Shubert's Ave Maria or Bach's Air on the G String, or Beethoven's Sonata No. 8. Deliberateness, purity, simplicity and structure by themselves are not sufficient to create Blue power, but they do seem to be necessary to convey that power. Whereas Green music is entirely at the heart level, Blue involves the intellect to some extent, or at least it awakens a higher awareness. Blue carries an intent that is not found in Green. When you hear blue music, if you are sensitive you will feel the depth of the longing for wisdom.
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MANAGER: It will be as hard a game as we face this season
Steven Pressley ahead of tonight's game against Dulwich
Hall / Nixon
United are live on TV tonight for the Emirates FA Cup first round meeting with Dulwich Hamlet [BBC2 – kick off 7.55pm] and gaffer Steven Pressley spoke again about the magic of the FA Cup, and about the type of game he expects to see as the teams get ready to play in front of a sell-out crowd.
INTERVIEW: These ties are good ties and it's what the cup is all about
"I love this competition," he said. "I think it's well documented worldwide just how well regarded the FA Cup is.
"It's probably regarded as the best competition of its type and it's definitely got a real excitement about it. That's why we're all looking forward to the game.
"What I will say is that we know that if we don't turn up with our A game it will be a very difficult night. They'll be fully up for it and we're giving them every bit of respect they deserve."
"We have to be absolutely maxed out from the moment we kick off for us to win this game," he added. "The reason our players are playing professionally is that they have good quality, there's no doubt about that, but we have to make sure we don't turn it into a typical FA Cup game.
"We need to impose our way on things, but the other aspect of it is that if you don't stand up to what they ask of you, then you won't win, it's as simple as that."
"I stressed to our players at the Tuesday morning meeting that they're in for a real test," he confirmed. "We all want to be part of an exciting cup run, and I know this club was at Anfield in a cup competition in recent years.
"That's the kind of thing we want to be part of. We want to progress in the FA Cup and get to the latter stages. That has to be our aspiration. It brings an excitement to the city because it is such a great competition, and we also have to remember that it's not often that this club gets to play live on national TV, so that's another great thing."
MANAGER: Dulwich are very experienced
With more on the preparations for the game, he told us: "We can only prepare as we do for every game, but it comes down to the mentality of the players and how they play on the night.
"They have to handle the occasion and what Dulwich throw at us, then they have to deliver what we've been working on. Being on TV does bring added expectation, but that's part of being at this club and part of playing against teams in the lower leagues.
"You have to win these games and handle that type of pressure. That's why this cup competition is such an exciting one. For many of our lads this will be their first ever game live on the TV, which is fantastic, and this will also be their first experience of FA Cup football.
"There are a lot of things to enjoy about tonight but we'll only really enjoy it if we get the right result, that's the bottom line. We have to go there and make sure we're not making back page headlines for the wrong reasons."
But what is he expecting to see from the home side?
"They've got a good setup," he commented. "It's a small ground, not the biggest of pitches, so it will be tight and they get terrific support. They're very vocal so it will be a really good atmosphere and it has the makings of a great cup tie.
"We watched them at the weekend and we have numerous video clips of them, which we've studied, and nothing changes in terms of how we analyse the opposition. Along with that we have to be focused on the job we need to do.
INTERVIEW: They'll be looking for a scalp
"We've watched as much footage as we can but it can be hard to get a grip on how teams like this will play. When we watched Worcester in the run up to that game I mentioned when I was with Coventry, they didn't play particularly well prior to the cup tie and they hadn't been a team who pressed the game, but they were the polar opposite when they faced us.
"I expect Dulwich to press us and play with high energy. I expect them to put the ball on top of us and ask a lot of questions of us. We have to answer those questions, but on top of that we have to impose what we're good at on the game.
"They've got some good size in their team, they're a physical team, so it will really test us and we have to stand up to that. We have to do the bread and butter really well, but we have to make sure we don't lose sight of what we are as a team. I don't think either of the side's league form will be a factor in the game.
"I think we'll see a Dulwich team who will play without any fear and with full commitment, and it will be a high energy performance from them. I've experienced these kinds of game before, and it will be as hard a game as we face this season, so we've got to be ready."
And the sell-out of the stadium includes the full allocation of 500 which has been snapped up by the Blue Army.
"The numbers going on Friday night are phenomenal," he said. "I spoke about it after the Leyton Orient game because it really is fantastic.
"I know we'll have a good following from the London Branch again, but for the majority of our supporters to go down there on a Friday night shows the commitment. That's why it's important that we get the right result for them."
Click HERE to watch an interview with Steven Pressley on iFollow United now.
MANAGER: It looks like he'll be out for while
The Thursday afternoon pre-Forest Green press conference gave United boss Keith Millen the opportunity to provide an update on defender Kelvin Mellor, who left the field of play during the first half...
MANAGER: A group that knows what it's about
Chances came and went for the Blues on Tuesday night, but it was a stalemate come full time as the spoils were shared after a full-blooded encounter.
MANAGER: It doesn't look good
There was a real injury concern for the Blues in the first half of the Hartlepool game on Tuesday night when right back Kelvin Mellor felt the full weight of Marcus Carver when the pair came together...

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Daily Post Ghana
Alex Ferguson sends powerful message to Cristiano Ronaldo
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Legendary Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson has sent a message to Juventus superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo, after the 34-year-old won a record 10th Portuguese Player of the Year award.
DAILY POST had reported that Ronaldo beat Atletico Madrid's Joao Felix and Manchester City's Bernardo Silva, to win the award on Tuesday.
Ferguson was among the first to congratulate Ronaldo.
In a touching video message, Ferguson was quoted by Talksport as saying: "Congratulations on a great achievement and a wonderful night you're going to have in Portugal.
"I'm really sorry I can't be with you, but I look back and see you as a young lad at 17 years of age who came to Manchester United, how you have progressed as a human being and a fantastic sportsman.
"I want to say to you, and your mother, and all your family, and all of your kids; well done.
"You have been an absolute pleasure for me to have known, to have worked with, and to have seen you progress into the footballer you were.
"So, good luck, have a great night, and well done."
Ferguson signed Ronaldo from Sporting Lisbon in 2003.
Ronaldo spent six years at Manchester United before he joined Real Madrid.
His relationship with Ferguson is well known with the forward claiming he 'taught me everything' and that 'he was like a father to me'.
Ronaldo was recently included in FIFA's final three-man shortlist for the Men's Player of the Year award.
He missed out on the UEFA Player of the Year award to Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk last week.
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EPL: What Mourinho told Man Utd about signing Van Dijk
Inter Milan vs Juventus: Pirlo blasts Cristiano Ronaldo, others after Serie A 2-0 defeat
EPL: Alex Ferguson singles out one Arsenal player, Kieran Tierney for praise
Liverpool vs Man Utd: I don't play mind games like Alex Ferguson – Klopp
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The Chelsea hierarchy has informed manager Frank Lampard, that he is expected to reach the top four this season if he intends to still be in charge of the team, the UK Mirror reports.
Senior officials at Stamford Bridge want to give under-pressure Lampard time to turn the club's fortunes around and not make a decision mid-season.
However, they are believed to be considering Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl, RB Leipzigs Julian Nagelsmann and Thomas Tuchel who was just sacked at Paris Saint-Germain.
Ex-Juventus boss Max Allegri has also admitted he wants to manage in England.
Chelsea may be seen moving towards a German or German speaker if they replace Lampard, because of the makeup of the dressing room with the likes of Timo Werner, Kai Havertz and Antonio Rudiger among prominent squad members.
But Lampard is likely to be judged on whether he can get Chelsea back into the Champions League next season.
Having spent £200m last summer, the hierarchy believes the Blues should be in the top four and among the contenders.
The Premier League on Wednesday confirmed it will try the use of concussion substitutes during matches.
However, no date for it to be implemented has been announced.
This comes amid growing concerns about the impact of head injuries and ball heading in football.
The new law, when implemented, will see teams make up to two changes in a match for players who have suffered or are suspected of having a concussion.
These substitutions will be added to the three substitutions currently allowed in Premier League fixtures and teams will be allowed to sub a player with concussion even if they have already made all their regulation changes.
"Premier League shareholders today formally agreed to introduce the International Football Association Board's (IFAB) additional permanent concussion substitutions trial.
"The trial will be confirmed when the implementation of the reporting processes, including private medical information, has been resolved with IFAB and FIFA.
"With player welfare the Premier League's priority, the protocols will allow a maximum of two concussion substitutes to be used per team, with the opposition side able to use the equivalent number," a Premier League statement read in part.
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Lea Michele probably won't be carpooling or vacationing on a cruise ship anytime soon.
"I really don't like to be in a car with more than five people," the "Scream Queens" actress admits in the November Issue of Women's Health. "That really freaks me out because I'm always afraid the tires are going to pop."
A boat with too many people also terrifies the 29-year-old actress.
"It's this super weird thing that I'm afraid of," she said.
Michele doesn't have to worry about enduring those fears while working on the set of her new show "Scream Queens," but she is facing a storyline about a campus-wide murderer specifically attacking members of her sorority, which is terrifying in a different way.
"Doing a horror television show, you're always going to be there late at night and you will have to be scared constantly," she said in the issue, out Oct. 20. "We did this one scene where I was like buried up to my neck. We literally were in tubes underground with just our heads popping out and it was so scary."
The former "Glee" star continued, "If you're claustrophobic — I legitimately had spiders crawling up my face because it was the lawn. These huge spiders and [creator] Ryan Murphy would have to come and whack them off my face. I was like 'Only for you, Ryan, would I literally be buried in the ground, with my head sticking out, with spiders crawling on my face.'"
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September 2019 — Jared Agyemang
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Jared Agyemang of the Brock Badgers men's soccer team is the U SPORTS Male Athlete of the Month for September 2019.
The fifth-year striker lit up the scoreboard as he's taken a commanding lead on the U SPORTS scoring lead during the month of September with 10 goals in nine games played.
Agyemang, a Psychology student from Brampton, Ont, has a new outlook on the game this year as he's already eclipsed his total of five goals last season.
"My focus has come a lot from being in my last season," said Agyemang. "I have personal goals and team goals I want to accomplish. I just want to be a leader on the field, leave my mark on the league, and have an impact on my teammates."
The Badgers are 4-2-3 in OUA action as they sit only behind Guelph, York and Windsor in the West Divisional standings.
"Jared is such a warrior for us," said Brock men's head coach Lucio Ianiero. "He's very aggressive in going to the net and it's paying off."
He also leads the conference in game-winning goals, which have helped Brock pull off upset victories over McMaster when they were the No. 8-ranked team in the country, Windsor and Western.
Agyemang is currently on a four-game scoring streak which consists of six goals in that span.
"I think the atmosphere has changed around me and my teammates this year," said Agyemang. "We know we are a good team and I think we go into every game believing we can play with anyone we're up against. Now, it's just about proving it every time we step on the field."
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The Seattle expansion franchise had reported interest in both Kelly McCrimmon and Ken Holland, but with both of those options now gone—one promoted in Vegas and the other hired in Edmonton—they have to move on to other candidates. One of those is Columbus Blue Jackets AGM Bill Zito, who according to Jordan Schultz of ESPN is in Seattle interviewing today.
Zito was included in a list of potential options when Craig Custance of The Athletic (subscription required) recently broke down the Seattle situation, and for good reason. He has been part of a successful program in Columbus for the past several years as AGM for the Blue Jackets and GM of the Cleveland Monsters, was GM of Team USA at the 2018 World Championship—which took home the bronze medal—and was previously one of the most successful player agents in the game. Zito founded Acme World Sports in 1995, an agency that still represents NHL players like Tuukka Rask, Teuvo Teravainen and Valtteri Filppula among many others.
That experience negotiating contracts from both sides makes Zito one of the most uniquely qualified people in hockey, and one that should be given the chance to manage a team before long. Whether that fit will be in Seattle is still to be seen, but it's no surprise that his name has come up in the interview process.
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Borussia Dortmund midfielder Jadon Sancho has revealed that he is ready to step up in his international football career and is willing to put in the necessary work required to establish himself on the world stage.
Sancho made himself a permanent feature in the England national team after he put on one of his most explosive performances for the Three Lions all while scoring a brace in the side's 5-3 victory against Kosovo in September and if reports are anything to go by, he is set to start on Wednesday night in the Euro 2020 qualifier match against Montenegro.
However, the 19-year-old is believed to not be at his usual form in the Bundesliga after he was substituted after 36 minutes of actions in Borussia Dortmund's 4-0 defeat against Bayern Munich on Saturday, November 9.
In an interview with The Independent, Sancho was asked if he felt otherwise about his move from England to Germany considering the vast differences between the two nations.
"Yes," he said, "It was very difficult but if you love what you do and make such a big decision then you have to stick to it. I stuck to it and I was happy to adapt and learn the culture."
"It's not unusual," he said. "Every foreign player who comes to England has to learn English. Spanish players find it different to home. I felt like I'd enjoy adapting and learning a different language."
The teenage sensation has since adapted to the culture of Germany and he feels that if it wasn't for his teammates, he would have taken a good while to get to this point - understandably so.
"The players at Dortmund give me loads of advice because they're so experienced," he said. "Marco Reus is a great player and he keeps telling me that I need to keep working hard in training because someone can take your place at any time.
"I really listen to that because I believe what he says. There's always someone below you who wants to take your position. If you work hard week-in and week-out it makes it hard for them to get picked instead of you. Football's very competitive and you can't afford to slacken off.
Ideally, Sancho should be a great example for young players who are in a similar setup that he is in but he has affirmed that he quickly became used to being away from home considering the fact that he joined Watford at the tender age of seven and he was to eventually move into the accommodation provided by the Hornets, and furthermore attend Harefield Academy as a boarder at the age of eleven.
"It's different for individuals and it depends on their personality," he said. "My situation is that I've always been away from home since I was 11. It's about how you handle situations by yourself. There'll be many days when it's difficult. It's not for everyone. But it's a good option. You've just got to make sure you get the decisions right if you do make the move."
As his career has progressed from his youth days at Watford and Manchester City and now Dortmund; The Independent also found out that Sancho always tried to model his style of play to that of Brazilian legend Ronaldinho. "Ronaldinho was the main guy I used to watch on YouTube," he said. "But I liked Frank Lampard quite a lot and Didier Drogba when they were playing for Chelsea. They were the three players I looked up to."
However, despite various clubs having shown interest in the youngster at the time, Sancho revealed why he eventually chose to settle with Watford and what that did for him as he was being moulded into the world-class star that he is now plying his trade in the German topflight.
"I was comfortable at Watford," he said. "I didn't really see it like I should be going anywhere else. I just liked Watford and I still have close friends from there. It was the right place for me to develop."
Sancho has also been praised for his tenacity and dedication to his craft that has enabled him to handle the life of a footballer in Germany especially when the language is still a massive barrier. "I've picked up the training terms really well," he said. "When everyone's speaking German in sessions I understand what they're saying. Obviously, speaking it fluently is a bit difficult at the moment but I'm picking it up slowly but surely."
In conclusion, Sancho exclaimed that despite the growing success he is currently experiencing, he will not rest on his laurels and will be always aiming to be consistent in mastering his art - which is his game of football - his bread and butter. The world is surely yet to experience more explosive performances from the England international.
"All you can do is work hard every day and hopefully you'll get a chance," he said. "When you do get the chance, grab it."
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I can get a direct flight from Cardiff airport to Paris. Now, at one point in my life I thought the only decent song to come out of France was Ça Plane Pour Moi by Plastic Bertrand. Then I bought Air's second album and realised I was wrong. Besides, Plastic Bertrand was Belgian. More recently, a few other French bands have come to my attention. Alcest is a very good shoegaze outfit who started out as a black metal band. The Plastiscines is an all-girl band whose first record was a wonderful mess of short, punchy, lo-fi garage punk tunes. They've become a rather hipster-sounding pop band now, sadly.
And then there's Woodkid. Yoann Lemoine is a French music video director, graphic designer and singer-songwriter. His music is of such a grand scale, I'm not sure the medium of the internet is big enough to contain it. As for his videos, well take a look at this clip for Iron, his first single, and see why it blew my mind.
Extraordinary. Nip over to YouTube and watch the follow-up clip for Run Boy Run if you enjoyed that. Right, now I've a train to catch. Next stop is the sixth smallest nation in the world - Andorra. Situated in the Pyrenees on the border of France and Spain, its capital Andorra la Vella is the highest in Europe. (Hard to believe now, but in the qualifying stages of Wales' Euro 2016 campaign, they struggled to beat Andorra, who haven't ranked higher than 198th out of 209 in the past seven years.) It also has a music scene. Madretomasa make Americana most American Americana artists would be proud of. A real surprise find this, can't recommend them enough.
Right, off to Barcelona airport as we're crossing continents for next week's leg. See you in Africa!
 I want to point out for the record that I haven't stolen that idea, I'd already planned this series long before that. Honestly, guv.
Great idea for a series Robster. Woodkid doesn't lack self-confidence does he? Madretomasa is, as you say, good Americana, but I think Mourn are the pick of the bunch for me. I look forward to tagging along on your travels.
A brave task, very clever to leave out Italy ... can't think of any halfway good band from there ... looking forward to Africa then!
Brilliant. I look forward to reading this series.
Executed to perfection, Robster. Tough to follow your Wales series, but this is a hell of a stab at it. I guess you have noticed my fondness for Elefant. Don't forget your shots before the trip to the Dark Continent.


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Mick Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, the train drivers' union, has welcomed new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's commitment to bring Britain's railways back into public ownership.
He said: 'Jeremy has made the right decision about the future of Britain's railways. Because it's crystal clear to those of us who work in the rail industry that privatisation – an ideologically-driven decision taken by John Major twenty years ago – hasn't worked. It's a flawed, and failed, model, and Jeremy has recognised this. It's time to bring the railways back into public ownership where every penny and every pound can be spent investing in our transport infrastructure rather than disappearing into private pockets.
'It's a popular policy, too.The vast majority of voters, when polled, and this includes Conservative voters, too, are fed up with paying sky high fares so the privatised train companies can take their slice. Commuters travelling into London from Kent and Sussex know their £5,000 a year season tickets would be slashed under public ownership.
'The railways cost the public purse about £1 billion a year under British Rail. But that figure has since soared, under privatisation, to more than £4 billion a year. That's the real cost to the taxpayer of privatisation; although it's not one you will hear the train operating companies, or their friends in the Conservative government,shouting from the rooftops.
'When John Major privatised the railway he promised three things – competition, innovation, and investment.But there is no competition – with the model we've got, the privatised train operating companies all have protected routes, private monopolies – there is precious little innovation – the TOCs were against the introduction of Oyster cards – and all the investment in the industry comes from central government. I know why the train operating companies like privatisation – because when they talk about "risk and reward" they mean there is no risk, it's all reward – but the model is broken. It's no way to run a modern railway.
'The Tories were determined to rush the East Coast – which brought £1 billion back to the Treasury – back into private ownership before a general election earlier this year they feared they would lose. We need to ensure the Tories don't sabotage Jeremy's plans with more direct awards (the secret sweetheart deals they love) or longer franchises to frustrate reform.
'We need to ensure that Network Rail is not broken up and privatised – the last thing the railway needs in this country is more fragmentation – which would take us back to the dark days when accidents, deaths and injuries, were more common than they are now.
'And we need to find a way of bringing the freight sector, so vital for Britain's economy, back into the public sector, too.
'But Jeremy Corbyn is right when he says he wants the next Labour government to put our fragmented, privatised railway back together as a modern, integrated, and publicly-owned railway fit for the 21st century.'


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Digital platform regulation: What are the proposals across Europe?
Dr Gunnar Niels
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Calls to 'do something' about tech giants are getting louder. Some suggest that breaking them up is the best way to go, but such far-reaching interventions are absent from the most developed regulatory proposals seen so far. Looking at recent prominent reports from (or for) the European Commission and several national competition authorities, what are the main proposals on the table?
This article is based on an Oxera Economics Council meeting in November 2019, with its academic members and guests from the European Commission and the German and French competition authorities. This article is written by Oxera and does not reflect the views of the Council members or its guests.
The hours and pages that regulators and politicians are dedicating to digital platforms suggest that the turn of the decade could bring material changes to the rules of the game. Reports from (or for) the European Commission and several national competition authorities are making the case for more proactive measures to increase competition in (and for) the market. While these reports generally acknowledge the substantial benefits created by digital platforms, they also identify various concerns.
One such concern is that the characteristics of digital markets mean that the major players enjoy enduring market power. For instance, online platforms (a subset of the firms operating in digital markets) may exhibit strong network effects (either direct or indirect), provide free intermediation (matching) services to consumers, and rely on big data as a key input of production to power their algorithms.
Oxera is closely involved with the developments in digital platform regulation. In September 2019, our roundtable event in London served as a forum for prominent stakeholders to discuss the future of digital regulation.1 The Oxera Economics Council met in November to consider similar issues through an academic lens. By drawing insight from academia, regulators, and digital platforms themselves, we hope to help shape the future regulatory framework for digital platforms.
In the article, we focus on five prominent reports:2
'Competition policy for the digital era', or 'the Vestager Report';3
'Unlocking Digital Competition', or 'the Furman Review';4
'Competition Policy and the EU's strategic interests', or 'the French Report';5
'A new competition framework for the digital economy', or 'the German Report';6
'Stigler Committee on Digital Platforms: Market Structure and Antitrust Subcommittee' or 'the Stigler Report'.7
First, we discuss what the reports say about when to intervene. We then summarise the remedies proposed, focusing on interoperability and data-sharing, codes of conduct, modifications to ex post competition rules, and merger control.
Threshold for intervention
Before looking at the types of intervention in the digital platform market, it makes sense to ask when such interventions should take place, and which companies should be encompassed within their scope. Drawing that line is a complex exercise. It is key to ensure that, regardless of where the line is ultimately drawn, all firms have a reasonable degree of certainty about which side of the line they are on. This requires a clear, well-defined legal test that provides a 'threshold' for the point at which an operator in the market may be susceptible to ex ante regulatory obligations.
Legal and regulatory findings of dominance and significant market power (SMP) have traditionally served as thresholds for intervention (through ex post competition rules or ex ante regulation, respectively). Both concepts require a relevant market to be well defined.
Some national competition authorities already have additional standards for intervention, such as that of economic dependency. In Germany, for example, section 20 of the Act against Restraints of Competition (ARC) creates a lower intervention threshold than the corresponding European rules on abuse of dominance.8 The German standard acknowledges that for a distortion of competition to take place, absolute market power may not be a necessary condition if there is a material difference in relative market power. For economic dependency to be established, the smaller firm—which may be a victim of an alleged abuse—must not have a reasonable alternative trading partner. Other countries that penalise the abuse of economic dependency in a similar way are Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Hungary, Italy and Portugal.9
In the UK, the Furman Review proposes that its remedy recommendations be applied to firms with 'strategic market status' (SMS).10 This threshold is not defined in detail in the Furman Review's report itself. However, the report describes some characteristics that would be expected in a firm with strategic market status, including:
enduring market power over a strategic bottleneck;
the ability to control others' market access;
the ability to charge higher fees;
the ability to manipulate rankings or prominence;
the ability to influence the reputation of others.
Other reports also discuss the standard that must be met before applying new regulation. The German Report adheres to the concept of dominance to determine which online platforms should comply with a new code of conduct. The Stigler Report discusses mainly the balance between false negatives and false positives when it comes to judging conduct. It also differentiates 'bottleneck' firms when it comes to certain types of regulation by a yet-to-be-created 'Digital Authority'.11
The Vestager Report ventures yet another change to the general framework of competition analysis. It suggests that in light of the difficulty of measuring consumer harm, strategies aimed at reducing competitive pressure should be forbidden even where consumer harm cannot be precisely measured, as long as there are no clearly documented consumer welfare gains. This would entail sanctioning dominant platforms when their practices have the 'potential to exclude competitors' or the 'tendency to restrict competition'.12
Interoperability and data-sharing
Data mobility or portability are often mentioned as a tool for countering the dominance of digital platforms.13 Data mobility or portability can in theory contribute to lowering switching costs, facilitating entry, and easing lock-in effects. This would increase the contestability of the market. Several reports (including the Vestager Report, the Furman Report, and the Stigler Report) push for interoperability of systems and greater personal data mobility to increase competition and consumer choice, for example by a common application programming interface (API).14
The Vestager Report suggests stringent data portability rules for dominant platforms to facilitate consumer switching. GDPR15 has already taken a step in that direction, giving consumers greater control over their personal data. The Vestager Report states that complementing this control with sector-specific regulation or the application of Article 102 TFEU could have a positive effect.16 Under Article 102, competition courts or authorities would need to specify the cases in which firms can access dominant firms' data (and specify the data they can access).
The German Report proposes that dominant platforms should be obliged to allow users to port their user and usage data in real time and in an interoperable data format, and to ensure interoperability with complementary services.17
In terms of competition enforcement, the Stigler Report goes even further. It suggests allowing the US Federal Trade Commission to access dominant platforms' internal databases and studies; perform its own research on the impact of platforms using this data; and moderate independent researchers' access to the data.18
A code of conduct for (dominant) platforms
The Furman Review suggests the development of a code of competitive conduct, to be applied to companies with strategic market status and to be developed with their cooperation. This would lead to the agreement of ex ante rules of behaviour towards smaller companies, aimed at avoiding lengthy and uncertain antitrust procedures.
Similarly, the Vestager Report and the German Report express the view that dominant platforms are responsible for setting their rules such that they do not impede competition without objective justification.19 The rules suggested by the Vestager Report and the German Report include prohibitions on self-preferencing, the application of mechanisms to port data and the promotion of interoperability. No new rules are deemed necessary for non-dominant platforms.
There are calls for the creation of codes of conduct that follow the concept of 'participative antitrust'. The term, attributed to Professor Jean Tirole, refers to the active engagement of firms in the design of their own regulation.20 In digital markets, such a code of conduct would incentivise firms to participate, as they would benefit from clear rules that allowed them to innovate without the uncertainty that broader antitrust prohibitions might entail.
Exactly what participative antitrust could look like in practice has yet to be specified. The Furman Review considers that industry parties, consumer bodies and other affected stakeholders should take part in devising the proposed participative regulatory model.21
Critics of participative antitrust have suggested that participants could use this process to serve their own interests. The Furman Review recognises that restricting one's own behaviour might not be in line with firms' natural incentives; therefore, there also needs to be scope for regulatory enforcement when 'a participative approach is not effective'.22
Modifying ex post competition rules
Various reports and commentators have suggested a number of modifications to competition rules dealing with anticompetitive agreements or abuse of dominance to tackle digital platforms specifically. The Furman Review suggests stronger use of interim measures to prevent damage to competition while a case is being investigated. In general, the aim should also be to speed up procedures and focus on remedies to anticompetitive behaviour, rather than relying on fines and 'cease and desist' decisions.23
In the case of self-preferencing by a dominant vertically integrated platform, or other conducts in markets characterised by strong network effects and high barriers to entry, the Vestager Report suggests that the incumbent should bear the burden of proof to demonstrate that its actions are procompetitive.24 This is similar to the suggestion in the German Report, as discussed above.
Regarding predatory pricing—which is difficult to assess in the case of multi-sided platforms owing to skewed pricing between the different sides—the Stigler Report suggests adapting the law to allow for meaningful assessment in the case of digital platforms.25
Changes to merger regulation and guidelines
In addition to the considerations set out above, authorities are pointing to mergers as a source of concern. One of the questions they are asking is whether the current framework to assess mergers is appropriate.
The French Report suggests that specific guidelines be developed, and that a second-opinion procedure be introduced to assess efficiencies.26 The German Report proposes the introduction of a voluntary notification procedure at the EU level for new forms of business cooperation in the digital age. This would give firms the right to receive a decision in a shorter period of time than is currently the case.27 It also recommends developing specific guidelines for data-based, innovation-based and conglomerate theories of harm.28
The Furman Review proposes a review of the UK Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) merger guidelines. In particular, it questions the fact that, under the current framework, the CMA can block a merger only if it considers that the smaller firm 'was more likely than not' to be able to succeed as a competitor. In the authors' view, this is 'unduly cautious', in that some mergers are being cleared that should be blocked. Instead, the report calls for the CMA to assess whether, on balance, a merger is expected to be beneficial or harmful, accounting for the scale of the impacts and their likelihood.29
The Vestager Report proposes a new set of questions to assess acquisitions that involve a dominant platform or ecosystem.30
Does the acquirer benefit from barriers to entry linked to network effects or use of data?
Is the target a potential or actual competitive constraint within the technological/user's space or ecosystem?
Does its elimination increase market power within this space, notably through increased barriers to entry?
If so, is the merger justified by efficiencies?
In line with its suggestions regarding abuse of dominance, the Stigler Report proposes shifting the burden of proof or relaxing the proof requirement when a dominant platform is involved in the acquisition.31
It is difficult to say how the recommendations in the reports discussed above will make their way into the future European regulatory frameworks. The reports pay special attention to data sharing and interoperability as remedies that could increase contestability. Similarly, discussion of the application of new sets of rules and thresholds for intervention is prominent.
Other areas for reform, such as changing the rules that guide merger control, or shifting the burden of proof to the platforms to show that their actions are procompetitive, are less developed, and feature in only some of the reports.
Given that digital platforms transcend borders, regulatory consistency is a crucial part of avoiding distortions in the competitive landscape across Europe.
Andres Caro
Caroline Franzen
1 Oxera (2019), 'The future of digital regulation', Briefing paper and questions for discussion, Oxera roundtable event, September.
2 Other reports on similar questions include Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (2018), 'Digital Platforms Inquiry: Preliminary report', December; and one for Which?: Oxera (2018), 'Which? report—consumer data in online markets', June.
3 European Commission (2019), 'Competition policy for the digital era', May. Written by three leading academics at the request of European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager. Oxera notes that the views set out in the report do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the Commission.
4 Digital Competition Expert Panel (2019), 'Unlocking digital competition', March.
5 Perrot, A. and Blonde, V. (2019), 'Competition Policy and the EU's strategic interests', April.
6 Commission Competition Law 4.0 (2019), 'A New Competition Framework for the Digital Economy', September.
7 Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State (2019), 'Stigler Committee on Digital Platforms: Market Structure and Antitrust Subcommittee', July. The Stigler Center published four reports, one of which focused on competition. The chair was Fiona Scott Morton, Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at Yale School of Management.
8 Norton Rose Fulbright (2017), 'German competition law update: New revised act against restraints of competition entered into force'.
9 Garzaniti, L., Janssens, T. and Oeyen, T. (2019), 'Abuse of economic dependence: Belgian Competition Authority adds another tool to its enforcement toolkit', Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
10 Digital Competition Expert Panel (2019), 'Unlocking digital competition', March, pp. 59–61.
11 Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State (2019), 'Stigler Committee on Digital Platforms: Market Structure and Antitrust Subcommittee', July, p. 32.
12 European Commission (2019), 'Competition policy for the digital era', May, p. 42.
13 A distinction between mobility and portability is warranted. Data mobility refers to the ability to move data freely and easily across platforms. Data portability refers to the ability to jump from one platform to another. Hence, while portability may encourage one-off switching, it would not be as helpful as mobility when it comes to promoting multi-homing.
14 The French Report mentions interoperability of data as a potential solution to limit market concentration of digital markets, but it discusses this possibility much less than some of the other reports.
15 The General Data Protection Regulation is the EU's regulation on dataprotection and privacy for citizens.
16 European Commission (2019), 'Competition policy for the digital era', May, pp. 8–10.
17 Commission Competition Law 4.0 (2019), 'A New Competition Framework for the Digital Economy', September, p. 55.
Commission Competition Law 4.0 (2019), 'A New Competition Framework for the Digital Economy', September, p. 54.
20 Meagher, M. (2019), 'Who gets to Participate in "Participative Antitrust"?', Medium.
21 Digital Competition Expert Panel (2019), 'Unlocking digital competition', March, p. 61.
22 Digital Competition Expert Panel (2019), 'Unlocking digital competition', March, p. 39 and p. 63.
23 In a recent paper from the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), Feasey and Kramer (2019) suggest taking more proactive measures in implementing remedies after cases of intermediation bias by vertically integrated platforms. They highlight the value of experimentation when devising remedies. See CERRE (2019), 'Report: Implementing Effective Remedies for Anti-competitive Intermediation Bias on Vertically Integrated Platforms', October.
24 European Commission (2019), 'Competition policy for the digital era', p. 51.
27 Commission Competition Law 4.0 (2019), 'A New Competition Framework for the Digital Economy', September, pp. 62–63.
31 Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State (2019), 'Stigler Committee on Digital Platforms: Market Structure and Antitrust Subcommittee', July, pp. 16–17.
All for broadband and broadband for all
In the run-up to last week's UK General Election, the main political parties supplemented headline-grabbing policy announcements around Brexit policies and the NHS with outlines of their plans for supporting investment in key national infrastructure. Among the announcements were those in support of ensuring that all homes and businesses should have access to very high capacity broadband. With the Conservative Party now in power and promising to deliver gigabit-capable networks for all by 2025, we ask how can this be achieved?
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Businesses increasingly use consumer data to offer better and more targeted digital products and services. Many of these new business models rely on data to facilitate transactions and generate revenues in a way that was not previously possible. Access to personal data has understandably raised concerns about privacy. Based on a study commissioned by Which?, we investigate the delicate balance between privacy and the value of digital services
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Pharmacovigilance (abbreviated PV or PhV), also known as Drug Safety, is the pharmacological science relating to the collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention of adverse effects with pharmaceutical products. The etymological roots - "pharmacovigilance" are: pharmakon (Greek for drug) and vigilare (Latin for to keep watch). As such, pharmacovigilance heavily focuses on adverse drug reactions, or ADRs, which are defined as any response to a drug which is noxious and unintended, including lack of efficacy, which occurs at doses normally used for the prophylaxis, diagnosis or therapy of disease, or for the modification of physiological function. Medication errors such as overdose, and misuse and abuse of a drug, are also of interest because they may result in an ADR.
"The information in a Medication Guide is very important when it comes to getting the most benefit for your health from a medicine," says Paul Seligman, M.D., M.P.H., former Associate Director for Safety Policy and Communication in FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "These guides address issues that are specific to particular drugs and drug classes, and they contain FDA-approved information that can help patients avoid serious adverse events."
Over 240 products that contain a medicine individually or in combination have Medication Guides available for them. To see a list of these, as well as online links to each Guide, visit the Medication Guides web page.
patient adherence to directions for the use of a product are essential to its effectiveness.
What is this drug and what does it do?
What's the most important information that I need to know about the medication?
What are the risks involved in taking this?
Who shouldn't take the drug?
What ingredients are in this medication?
How are Medication Guides different from Consumer Medication Information?
A Medication Guide is not the only handout that you may get with your prescription medicine. There is also the Consumer Medication Information.
The purpose of the Consumer Medication Information is to help all consumers understand key information about their prescription medicine, including how to take it, how to store it, and other general information. It also gives information on precautions and warnings, as well as symptoms of serious or frequent adverse events and what to do if you experience one.
"The Consumer Medication Information offers broader information on how to appropriately use a medicine, when compared to a Medication Guide," says Seligman.
In contrast, the Medication Guide is part of the labeling. Regulations require that manufacturers produce them and alert pharmacists of their existence for certain medications. And pharmacists are required to distribute them to consumers.
Adverse drug reaction (ADR) is a side effect occurring with a drug where a positive causal relationship between the event and the drug is thought, or has been proven, to exist.
Benefits are commonly expressed as the proven therapeutic good of a product but should also include the patient's subjective assessment of its effects.
Control group is a group (or cohort) of individual patients that is used as a standard of comparison within a clinical trial. The control group may be taking a placebo (where no active drug is given) orwhere a different active drug is given as a comparator.
Dechallenge and Rechallenge refer to a drug being stopped and restarted in a patient,respectively. A positive dechallenge has occurred, for example, when an adverse event abates or resolves completely following the drug's discontinuation. A positive rechallenge has occurred when the adverse event re-occurs after the drug is restarted. Dechallenge and rechallenge play an important role in determining whether a causal relationship between an event and a drug exists.
Event refers an adverse event.
Harm is the nature and extent of the actual damage that could be caused.
Implied causality refers to spontaneously-reported AE cases where the causality is always presumed to be positive unless the reporter states otherwise.
Phase refers to the four phases of development: I - small safety trials early on in a drug's development; II - medium-sized trials for both safety and efficacy; III - large trials, which includes key (or so-called "pivotal") trials; IV - large, post-marketing trials, typically for safety reasons. There are also intermediate phases designated by an "a" or "b", e.g. Phase 2b.
Risk factor is an attribute of a patient that may predispose, or increase the risk, of that patient developing an event that may or may not be drug-related. For instance, obesity is considered a risk factor for a number of different diseases and, potentially, ADRs.
Signal is a new safety finding within safety data that requires further investigation. There are three categories of signals: confirmed signals where the data indicate that there is a causal relationship between the drug and the AE; refuted (or false) signals where after investigation the data indicate that no causal relationship exists; and unconfirmed signals which require further investigation(more data) such as the conducting of a postmarketing trial to study the issue.
Triage refers to the process of placing a potential adverse event report into one of three categories:1) non-serious case; 2) serious case; or 3) no case (minimum criteria for an AE case are not fulfilled).
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Inventions fascinate many. I would venture to say, almost universally. The even more we judge some sort of invention from currently within our use capabilities to produce, the more attracted we are through it. I suspicion I would buy ever thought of the aerofoil. Perhaps even simpler inventions win from us your own sort of applause for the one who did that that easily could quite possibly have been me, had I also been a little more rapid. If the hot sticky-note inventor bought not been birthed I am sure many other employees would have theory of it.
Most of me have heard currently the phrase, "necessity is usually the mother including invention." This purportedly American proverb (actually it is any older) is agreed on as an required explanation for inventhelp inventions, while saying nada at all for what "is" a very invention. The French, in a oddly similar manner, are convinced "Fear is a great inventor." Actually Mark Twain endured compelled to case an abstract link to inventing when he said, "Accident is the subject of the ideal of all designers." While necessity, fear, and accidents would all be observable and materially provide preceding the introduction of an invention, none of these defines an invention; none of why these tells us the simplest way a human becoming invents. At best, these phrases explain a catalyst or maybe a a motivator, all of these are not finish descriptions. These may very well be not definitions.
The word "invention" means finding because discovery, if my very own introduction to Latina is of any other value. This would certainly give us a number of them insight initially nevertheless , let us peek into whether that which is discovered is probably original or i would say the result of a quantity of previous input. The words of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), both objective and sincere, appear worthy of investigation: "Invention strictly speaking, will little more for you to a new combination of those paper prints which have within the gathered and put into the account in the memory; nothing can appear from nothing." The specific key contention proffered by Sir Joshua Reynolds is, nothing can come by nothing.
The human kind of response often elicited and also by an invention when perceived initially illustrates some universal reach a decision worth noting. Towards often thereat most people hear exclamations sort as, "That fellow was thinking!" or just "what a smooth idea!" If most of these two exclamations have value, we may want to then say any thoughts and pointers are essential that would inventions. What could a thought? What is an belief? If we agree to that thoughts are actually the work using the mind, in addition to the if we even further allow that suggestions are that during which the minds works we in many cases can readily explore and even formulate a sensible doctrine about inventing, even if so it is done always on a hypothetical conclusion. That which is ordinarily hypothetical in i would say the formula is not at all at all far-fetched or irrational. Is us first appearance at the material substance of an act of thinking, the idea. By there we will most likely easily grasp exactly how this thing identified the idea can sometimes be manipulated.
The idea is the mind's manifestation of a inescapable fact. This is some common understanding on the inside western civilization. Typically the mind acquires and therefore accumulates ideas, first from sense information after said skill passes through the process of abstraction. Often, with the actual theater of the world's experiences, sense sensation is stored wearing the proper potential but abstracted essences arrived at by the mind performance upon sense experience, are stored present in another faculty, one particular intellectual memory. Those same abstracted essences are ideas.
Ideas are categorised under several sorts but let our business briefly consider your current category of difficulty. An idea will either simple and / or maybe compound. A simply idea needs sole one note to assist you to describe it. "Dark" or "fast" or "wet" or "yellow" are examples together with simple ideas. An important compound idea uses multiple simple advice to describe the concept. Most of each of our ideas are chemical substance that is cause we have dictionaries listing the specific of simple tips which define a meaningful compound idea. Interior of this realm associated with activity lies a person's process of creating. Thus we see, by the very simple fact that dictionaries exist, that we should be capable of taking apart compound programs into the people of specific simple ideas describing being said compound idea. Our organization call this "taking apart" analysis. I can also perceive that simple principles can be used to construct the latest and original material ideas. This "combining" is called synthesis. I think specific observant reader immediately knows by this point what an inventor is or how much it means to actually invent.
Analysis and activity are two ordinary acts of the actual mind and these kind of two actions incorporate the heart related to inventing. Inventing has always been essentially an work of synthesis. Exactly is synthesized? Present in the act behind inventing that which is synthesized is an arrangement together with simple ideas as well as a this arrangement compensates a new add to idea. While all the arrangement may feel original the constituent parts are not too original. Similarly one specific very common thing like a pack of bricks can possibly be rearranged in so doing producing a construction unlike any original arrangement of brick. The bricks include not an nouveau idea. The interesting structure could be very original. Who really then, is best likely to develop?
Every man made being that has functioning mental faculties would invent. One single need definitely perform its simple do things of all of the mind called abstraction with order in which to store, inside beginning from sense experience, inventhelp commercial your own library of simple policies. These programs thus retained are valued and sorted in a trustworthy new product idea and as a consequence original scheme that most likely responds on to a ought to. What an inventor is progressing first is regarded as define your need. She or he then states to operate arranging ideas until he still finds a fantastic arrangement because works. Each disposition inventing, regarding is the willingness to make sure you define any kind of need, due to the fact well so the readiness to study within and in addition without during order that can discover an arrangement that may solves the need, is without a doubt of progression essential to the inventor's personality. In just addition to this required disposition is also the hefty library having to do with simple ideas, abstracted and therefore stored via many over projects.
Due to the full-size variety attached to life activities from in which he is going to draw, currently the seasoned developer sometimes appears way because confident roughly the challenge in entry of your boyfriend or girlfriend. Just inquire him to tell that you about of generally things he made which unfortunately didn't succeed. You would likely not mostly enjoy a brand new good laugh, you will most likely also fall to remember that solid inventors possess failed traditionally. They completed not face a setback permanently since every crash added to actually their local library of ideas. Failing intelligently is fundamental to really being a decent inventor.


Dean Robert Blocker was honored at the New Haven Symphony Orchestra's 125th Anniversary Gala on Jan. 25, along with former Yale University Vice President for Global and Strategic Initiatives Linda Koch Lorimer. The NHSO cited Blocker's steadfast support of the symphony and his dedication to the arts in the New Haven community.
The NHSO has been closely tied to Yale since its inception in 1894, the same year the Yale School of Music was established. Yale provided financial and organizational support, as well as composers and performers, to the growing ensemble. Woolsey Hall, commissioned by Yale in 1901, has served as the NHSO's chief performance venue. Another important figure in the shared histories of the Yale School of Music and the NHSO is Horatio Parker, who not only served as the School's first Dean, but served as the first conductor of the NHSO and was responsible for transforming the orchestra into a nationally acclaimed ensemble. The Yale School of Music will celebrate the 125th anniversary of its founding from summer 2019 through fall 2020.


The First Grade Color Math Teacher's Manual contains easy-to-use daily lesson plans. Lesson objectives are clearly stated at the beginning of the lesson so you'll know exactly what you're teaching. The Materials section of the lesson plan states the materials and manipulative used in the lesson so you'll be fully prepared to teach. Most lessons require very little advanced preparation.


This week's Bloomberg Businessweek had an article titled On China's Electricity Grid, East Needs West, that explained the mega cities of China's east coast are consuming resources from the coal rich areas in the country's far western provinces resulting in lengthy transmission lines and growing instability among the minority ethnic groups there.
One of the biggest problems with having cities so far removed from the natural resources that power those cities is transmission. In China, freight railroads and river barges are already overloaded and overcrowded. This led party leaders to push for development of interior regions of the country and build high voltage transmission networks called the West-East Electricity Transfer Project. By 2020 the total capacity of this project is projected to equal 60 Hoover Dams.
The second problem with this large-scale coal driven buildup is the lack of water resources available to produce steam in these plants. Many of these planned coal plants are located in water scarce regions including Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia and has led to tensions with ethic Mongolians and Uighurs who depend on farming and herding for their livelihood. By tapping already stressed aquifers and wetlands, there could be a larger problem looming.
Coal currently generates 80% of China's electricity and the country is responsible for half of the annual consumption of coal worldwide. Following the traditional model of building coal plants located far away from the end users is simply not the answer. While high-voltage transmission lines are more efficient that shipping coal by rail or barge, much of the electricity produced is still lost in transmission.
A better idea would be harness China's production capacity of solar PV cells and adopt a domestic policy of distributed generation. DG is sited near the end user of the electricity and therefore less vulnerable to losses during transmission. PV cells can be placed vertically up the sides of the country's many skyscrapers eliminating the need to clear land for ground-based systems. Smart building design is another idea that could drastically reduce demand for electricity and save the country from building expensive, inefficient, centralized power plants.
China's massive infrastructure build out has been nothing short of extraordinary. Now it has the opportunity to leap ahead of other developing nations by committing resources towards building the next generation cities. Distributed generation, microgrids, and smart integrative building design can all help to make this idea a reality.
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Brose Baskets 83
Local time: 20:00 PALAIS DES SPORTS JEAN WEILLE
SLUC Nancy was protagonist of two big comebacks, first with a 16-0 run and later from 49-59 to jump ahead for good in the last quarter and get rid of Brose Baskets at home on Tuesday night by 93-83. Brose Baskets was superior in rebounds during most of the game even though it lost the battle in the end by 40-39, but was also better in the steals-turnovers ratio, but the 25 converted free throws of nancy were no match for Brose Baskets' 9. The win allows Nancy to climb to a 4-2 record in Group A tied for first place with Lietuvos Rytas and Hemofarm, while Brose Baskets drops to 1-5 and is at the bottom of the standings with a very complicated future ahead. Cedrick Banks led the winners with his 23 points including 5 of 8 triples, Branko Milisavljevic and Tariq Kirksay added 15 apiece, while Cyril Julian posted 11 of his own for Nancy. Darren Fenn was the best scorer for the losing side with 17 points, DeJuan Collins added 15, Chris Ensminger posted 12 and Derrick Zimmerman nailed 11.
Despite a starting 2-0, K'Zell Wesson sparked a 0-7 run with his triple and DeJuan Collins capped it with a layup for 2-7. The burst reached a 2-10 and it wasn't until Dan McClintock appeared with his layup for a Nancy basket and a 4-10. However, a triple by Collins and a three-point play by Derrick Zimmerman made a 4-16 for the guests. Nancy's offense had real problems trying to play over the guests' defense, while Adam Harrington blasted a new triple and Ivan Pavic left a layup for a 10-23 forcing Nancy's timeout. That worked as Nancy managed to forge a small 4-0 run capped by Maxime Zianveni but the guests dis the same as Pavic closed the first period for a 14-28. Harrington opened the second quarter with a three, but then the hosts reacted with a 13-0 run sparked by two straight triples by Cedrick Banks and Aurelien Salmon, finishing at 27-31 after another Salmon three. There was time for a new Nancy triple by Banks that made it a 1-point game, 30-31. Collins finally gave some air to Brose Baskets with a jumper, and after that it looked like the German team resisted the stroke. Harrington blasted a new three for a 38-44 Brose Baskets edge but two free throws by Branko Milisavljevic left things with a 40-44 at the break.
For the start of the second half, Brose Baskets was still alive with a new triple by Wesson but McClintock replied with a three-point play for 45-49. Darren Fenn had also a fast reply on his hand with a new triple, as the 15 turnovers of Nancy were proving to be too heavy a burden to resist. Brose Baskets was low with 6 and that showed when Collins score again and Fenn posted his second triple for a new doule-digit lead, 49-59. Milisavljevic found space for a three and Banks added a bucket for a 5-0 that made it 56-62. Chris Ensminger's three-point play however, made it 59-68 after 30 minutes. The last period started with Nancy focused on the game. Tariq Kirksay posted a three-point play and Banks punished a technical foul of Brose Baskets with four straight free throws to make it 70-72. In the end, two free throws by Cyril Julian and a new three by Kirksay allowed Nancy to tie the game at 76-76 with 3 minutes to go. Starting from there, the hosts found way for a 4-0 burst, but Fenn stopped the bleeding with a triple. Julian forced a three-point situation and then Milisavljevic hit four free throws to put Nancy ahead by 8 points, 88-80, in the last moments of the game as Nancy cruised to th efinal win in the last plays and Brose Baskets saw how a good chance slipped from its hands.
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Referees: GARCIA, JOSE RAMON; JASEVICIUS, TOMAS; KOWALSKI, MARCIN
Nancy 14 26 19 34
Brose Baskets 28 16 24 15
4 BANKS, CEDRICK 37:15 23 2/3 5/8 4/4 1 2 3 4 1 1 1 2 2 27
6 NJOYA, SAIDOU 0:30
7 JULIAN, CYRIL 24:45 11 3/5 5/5 2 6 8 2 4 3 14
8 McCLINTOCK, DANIEL 10:30 8 3/4 2/3 2 1 3 1 1 1 4 12
9 SOLIVER CARRASCO, RICARDO 24:45 5 1/3 1/1 1 1 3 1 3 3 2 4
10 ZIANVENI, MAXIME 21:15 8 3/5 2/4 3 6 9 2 2 2 3 2 14
11 SALMON, AURELIEN 14:00 8 1/1 2/4 2 2 2 2 2 1 11
13 SAMNICK, VICTOR 8:45 0/1 0/1 1 1 1 2 2
14 HAYES, DERON 8:45 0/1 1 1 2 1 -3
15 KIRKSAY, TARIQ 30:45 15 4/12 1/3 4/6 12 12 2 1 5 3 1 3 7 19
16 ABOUBAKAR ZAKI, AMADOU 0:45 1 1
17 MILISAVLJEVIC, BRANKO 18:00 15 2/2 1/2 8/8 2 2 2 4 20
Totals 200:00 93 19/36 10/20 25/30 8 35 43 16 5 18 10 1 21 27 122
Head coach: MONSCHAU, JEAN-LUC
Brose Baskets
4 ENSMINGER, CHRIS 21:30 12 4/8 4/7 3 3 6 2 2 2 3 6 12
9 ANDERSON, JERMAINE 1:15 3 1/1 1 1 4
10 FENN, DARREN 26:00 17 4/11 3/5 2 2 4 3 2 2 5 1 11
11 PAVIC, IVAN 8:15 6 3/5 0/3 2 1 3 1 1 2 6
15 COLLINS, DeJUAN 36:30 15 4/9 1/8 4/5 3 3 6 4 1 2 2 6 13
21 HARRINGTON, ADAM 14:15 9 0/1 3/6 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 1
22 YARBROUGH, VINCENT 32:30 0/3 0/3 3 3 5 2 2 1 4 1
24 ZIMMERMAN, DERRICK 33:45 11 5/11 0/1 1/1 1 5 6 4 3 1 2 3 3 14
31 BEGLEY, TIM 7:30 2 1/1 0/3 2 2 1
44 WESSON, K'ZELL 18:30 8 1/3 2/5 3 4 7 2 3 5 2 6
Team 3 2 5 1 4
Totals 200:00 83 22/52 10/32 9/16 20 24 44 21 9 10 1 10 28 21 72
Head coach: BAUERMANN, DIRK
MONSCHAU, JEAN-LUC
"Tonight, we saw why Bamberg played the Top 16 last season. Dirk Bauermann is a talented coach, he made a great job. It's a collective victory and I want to mention the good game of Aurelien Salmon, he helped us to come back. We did a good game from the three-point line and my new point guard made a strong first game."
BAUERMANN, DIRK
"Congratulations to Jean Luc and his team. They made a great job, they played a very good fourth quarter. My team is very proud, I think we made a good game overall and we had to give a lot of credit to Nancy because they came back after a bad start."
KIRKSAY, TARIQ
"We started ugly, it was incredible. We lost too many balls. But we came back more aggressive in defense and offense after the halftime. Bamberg is a proud team. They wanted to take a revenge after their home loss. But we won the battle on the court and we won the game."
BANKS, CEDRICK
"It's was a hard game. We played together during all the game, so it's a good win for us. Bamberg is a great team. I wish them all the best. Tonight, both teams played good, but we won, that's basketball."
YARBROUGH, VINCENT
"We played well during 25 minutes, after that, Nancy came back. They shot well from the 3-point line and we didn't."
Hemofarm 76
Lietuvos Rytas 69
Besiktas Istanbul 74
Anwil Wloclawek 78
Hapoel Migdal 75
Khimki 85
Montepaschi 73
Oostende 60
Crvena Zvezda 81
PAOK 85
Dexia Mons 106
Unics Kazan 108
EiffelTowers 61


Typically, the Predators starting goaltender - either Pekka Rinne or Juuse Saros - will lead the team onto the ice for warm-ups.
Neither of the puck stoppers assumed that role on Tuesday night at Bridgestone Arena. Rather, the honor was reserved for a soft-spoken, 19-year-old from Quebec, about to make his NHL debut.
Indeed, Samuel Girard leapt from the entryway to the frozen sheet and took a couple solo laps, much to the enjoyment of his teammates, before they joined the rookie defenseman.
From there, it was business as usual, almost as if he had done it more than a few times in the top League in the world. But Girard, Nashville's second-round pick in 2016, already has that much skill, that much poise, that much confidence in his abilities.
Sure, mistakes were made and there are lessons to learn - but one assist in 18:52 of ice time in a 6-5 win over Philadelphia is a fine place to start.
"I grew up watching the NHL games and I was there yesterday, so it was kind of weird to be there and to play against those guys," Girard said the day after. "But when I'm on the ice, I think about nothing, I only think about hockey. It was a great feeling to be there on ice with those guys and to perform with them and have the two points. I feel great."
Mattias Ekholm, who was paired up alongside Girard on the blue line, was impressed with the rookie's efforts throughout the evening. Ekholm, who has a younger brother just a year older than Girard, said it was hard to fathom Girard is only 19. He sure didn't play like it.
"I thought the main key with him was that he actually talks out there," Ekholm said. "For a young guy, he's very mature. I think a good defenseman shows what he's capable of when you see that he talks. Usually when they talk, they understand the system and they know what to do, and he can even tell me where to go. I thought we had a good partnership and he had a really good game."
Girard had seven family members in town for his debut, and after not seeing them over the past month, the reason that brought them back together couldn't have been better.
"They were very happy to be here with me, to live this moment with me," Girard said of his family. "To be there and to see me after the game… it was a great moment for me and my family yesterday."
Predators Head Coach Peter Laviolette said after Tuesday's dramatic, back-and-forth, 6-5 win he was a bit confused.
From being up 3-0, then down 5-3 and ultimately walking away with two points, it wasn't exactly how he and his staff had drawn it up.
So, were the ins-and-outs of the game any clearer 12 hours later? Well, not necessarily. There was the good, the bad and the ugly from throughout the evening to dissect, but one thing Laviolette is certain of after his club's first win of the season is that it can only help leading into Thursday's outing against Dallas.
"There was a different range of emotions that went through the game, but in the end, it was a good come-from-behind win for us," Laviolette said. "Our guys didn't stop competing and didn't stop working and we found a way to win a game… I don't know if what we watched today was exactly good from start to finish, but if you left the building last night, you probably felt pretty good."


When the beat dropped inside Alabama State University's Acadome, students danced and clapped, and university President Gwendolyn Boyd celebrated "good news" for the Hornet Nation.
"I want everyone to be clear on the state of the university. All is well," Boyd said Tuesday during the school's annual fall convocation. "I didn't say all is perfect. I said all is well."
Boyd acknowledged the university still is struggling with problems, adding that it's everyone's responsibility as a school family to help advance ASU's image, spirit and future success.
The annual convocation is a long-held tradition for the student body and staff to rally in welcoming a new semester. The convocation included performances by the ASU Dramatic Guild, University Choir and the Mighty Marching Hornets Band.
The event also provided a chance for Boyd to give a State of the University address, imploring staff, students and supporters to stick together.
"I need you to love Alabama State University just like I do. I need you to understand and embrace the spirit of victory in the face of those who would say otherwise … and around all our challenges and issues," Boyd said.
ASU currently faces two grand jury investigations into into alleged financial misdealings as well as a forensic investigation of school finances. The university also has been hit by three credit downgrades and is on warning from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Expanding on her vision for the new school year, Boyd said she wants to grow enrollment and increase curriculum offerings as well as more access to internships for students.
Trenyla Brewer is a sophomore transfer student to ASU and said she's very excited to start her first year at the university. After hearing Boyd's speech, Brewer was encouraged.
"She encourages me every time I hear her speak. Dr. Boyd is very powerful. I love her presence. She's a very diverse lady and her religion speaks for itself. … You'll feel the Christian vibe coming from her that she is very real," Brewer said. "I hope this is a good year for her, and I'm expecting big things from her."
Boyd is expecting bigger and better things this year as well. She told the audience about recent funds given to the school, including $1 million in federal funds and grants and an excess of $150,000 in donations from her inauguration week earlier this month.
She said the $150,000 will go toward the university's gap fund to help students who can't get enough financial aid to cover tuition and other fees.
"I really appreciate that she is putting the money toward financial aid for the students and not just for a parking lot or something that doesn't really matter. She supports the students," said Darius Marshall, a sophomore dance major at ASU.
Another student, Tyneisha Robinson, is a senior at ASU. She said she really likes how Boyd shows concern for the issues that matter to students, such as parking problems and the need for more social activities.
"I'm glad she's here. She's made a lot of changes and is always trying to be for the students. That's what we really appreciate, that she listens to our concerns and she wants to change the school for the better."