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This post is by Manish Singh from TechCrunch
EBay said today it is buying a 5.5% stake in e-commerce marketplace Paytm Mall as the global firm makes another push to gain footprint in India's fast-growing e-commerce market.
The two firms did not disclose financial terms of the deal, but a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch that EBay has invested between $150 million to $200 million in Paytm Mall at a valuation of $3 billion, up from under $2 billion last year. Paytm Mall had raised about $650 million prior to today's announcement, the source said.
The agreement will see more than a million products of EBay be made available for purchase to users on Paytm Mall, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and CEO of Paytm said in a statement. "We will jointly select the inventory we want to bring here. It will be done in a month's time," he added. EBay will continue to operate its
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As Facebook continues to lay the foundation for getting some of the world's largest payment processing and technology companies a seat at the global monetary policy table, the company faces significant obstacles to enacting its plans from both sides of the Congressional aisle.
In the second of what's sure to be many (many many many) hearings in front of Congressional committees, David Marcus, the chief executive of Facebook's new digital payments subsidiary, Calibra, faced hours of questions from Representatives on the House Financial Services Committee about the how and why of Facebook's digital currency plans.
Facebook's critics had questions about both sides of the company's two-pronged approach to transforming the global financial services industry.
Marcus was able to avoid answering some of his toughest questioning by taking advantage of the grey area between Facebook's role as the chief architect behind Libra (a financial instrument that uses blockchain technology to enable
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Wavecell, a cloud-communications platform for companies in Southeast Asia, announced today that it has been acquired by 8×8 in a deal worth about $125 million. The acquisition will help San Jose, California-based 8×8 expand in Asia, where Wavecell already has offices in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Hong Kong.
Wavecell's cloud API platform, which includes SMS, chat, video and voice messaging, is used by companies such as Paidy, Lalamove and Tokopedia. It has relationships with 192 network operators and partners like WhatsApp and claims its infrastructure is used to share more than two billion messages each year.
The terms of the deal includes $69 million in cash and about $56 million in 8×8 common shares. Founded in 2010, Wavecell's investors included Qualgro VC, Wavemaker Partners and MDI Ventures.
In a prepared statement, 8×8 CEO Vik Verma said "8×8 is now the only cloud provider that owns the full,
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Taylor Host has been operating his artificial intelligence startup out of Hong Kong for more than two years. The American entrepreneur has clients from Europe, North America and Asia, but he settled in the city for its adjacency to Southeast Asia and mainland China's massive market.
Miro, which Host co-founded in 2017 with a British software engineer, had bootstrapped to six employees before raising a small note investment. Backed by Silicon Valley-based SOSV, it's now seeking $2 million in a new funding round. As trade tensions between China and the U.S. drag on, the company is considering relocating for the first time because being a Hong Kong entity starts to turn off western investors.
Miro uses computer vision to tag images and videos of runners for the brands they wear. It then attributes that data — sporting goods purchases — to consumers profiles that are part of its
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This post is by Devin Coldewey from TechCrunch
It's been hard to get away from FaceApp over the last few days, whether it's your friends posting weird selfies using the app's aging and other filters, or the brief furore over its apparent (but not actual) circumvention of permissions on iPhones. Now even the Senate is getting in on the fun: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has asked the FBI and the FTC to look into the app's data handling practices.
"I write today to express my concerns regarding FaceApp," he writes in a letter sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray and FTC Chairman Joseph Simons. I've excerpted his main concerns below:
In order to operate the application, users must provide the company full and irrevocable access to their personal photos and data. According to its privacy policy, users grant FaceApp license to use or publish content shared with the application, including their username or even their real name, without
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Toyota needs more than a secure and steady supply of batteries if it hopes to meet its ambitious global sales goal for electric vehicles. If it hopes to compete, the Japanese automaker will need better quality lithium-ion batteries that don't squeeze profit margins.
The automaker is turning to Chinese EV battery supplier CATL for the answer. The companies announced Wednesday a wide-ranging partnership that covers the gamut of the battery ecosystem from developing new technology and locking in supply to improving product quality and reusing and recycling batteries.
Toyota said in June that it would partner with CATL, also known as Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd and EV maker BYD for battery procurement. This new agreement widens the scope of the relationship.
The companies said the partnership was borne out of a shared belief that a stable supply of batteries is critical and that battery technology must be further
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This post is by Greg Kumparak from TechCrunch
Would the Internet be a better place if we all paid a little less attention to fake Internet points? Instagram is still trying to figure it out.
Just a few months back, Instagram started testing a design tweak that would no longer show the total number of "likes" other user's posts had received. You could still see everyone that liked your photos and videos – but anyone else's stuff? Don't worry about it.
While the company hasn't said much about how the tests are going so far, it seems they're going well enough to expand them. Initially rolled out in just Canada, it'll roll out to users in six more countries starting today:
Curiously, some users in Canada (the first country where hidden likes were tested) reported yesterday that likes had returned to their feed. Instagram confirmed to us that the testing
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Apple gives a sneak peak of its new Peanuts series with 'Snoopy in Space' trailer
As the U.S. commemorates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, Apple took to the internet to give audiences a peak into the first of its new Peanuts series, "Snoopy in Space".
The series will follow Charles M. Schulz's characters as they take afield trip to a NASA location where Snoopy and . Woodstock are selected for a space mission.
Charlie Brown and the rest of the characters will staff mission control, while Snoopy and Woodstock fly into the great beyond.
The series is set to launch on Apple TV+ in the Fall.
Netflix reports first net subscriber loss in the U.S., misses global subscriber growth predictions
This post is by Darrell Etherington from TechCrunch
Netflix's continued subscription price hikes might finally have reached the end of some customers' patience in the U.S., judging from an overall paid subscriber decline the company reported in its quarterly earnings for its fiscal second quarter 2019 results. The company's overall growth for paid subscribers climbed by 2.7 million worldwide, but it actually added 2.83 million new subscribers around the world – while losing around 130,000 net in the U.S. to account for the difference.
Netflix's price for consumers went up from $10.99 to $12.99 during its fiscal Q2 reporting period, which definitely could account for some of the fall-off. The company doesn't seem to have anticipated such a strong reaction, however, since it had anticipated a net 5.0 million subscriber growth number as of last quarter, based at least in part on the 5.5 million it added in paying
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Twitter officially launches its 'Hide Replies' feature, initially to users in Canada
This post is by Sarah Perez from TechCrunch
Twitter today is beginning its test of a radical and controversial change to its service with the launch of a new "Hide Replies" feature. Effectively, this option gives users the ability to wrestle back control over a conversation they've started, by hiding any replies they feel aren't worthy contributions — for example, replies that are irrelevant or outright offensive.
One of the problems with Twitter — and with many social networks, for that matter — is that an otherwise healthy conversation can easily be disrupted by a single individual or a small number of people who don't contribute in a positive fashion. They come into a thread to start drama or they make inappropriate, rude or even hateful remarks.
Of course, users can choose for themselves to either Mute or Block people like this, which limits their ability to affect their own personal experience on Twitter. But this doesn't remove
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For World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium redesigns its site to be more user-friendly
Ahead of World Emoji Day on Wednesday, July 17, Apple and Google announced plans to bring an expanded set of emoji to their respective platforms. Today, the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization responsible for determining which emoji get the greenlight, is relaunching its website with an updated, modern design that aims to make its information more accessible to the general public.
Before, its website design was very basic — just text and links to various pages about the Consortium itself, the standard, miscellaneous FAQs, projects in progress, and other information. It looked like a technical resource, and certainly one that hadn't been updated in years.
With an outdated layout, ancient social share buttons and boring font choices, it really looked more like an ancient government website than a resource designed for public consumption.
Above: the old site
That changes with the redesign. Not only is the site more mainstream-friendly,
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Facebook is leaning on fears of China exporting its authoritarian social values to counter arguments that it should be broken up or slowed down. Its top executives have each claimed that if the U.S. limits its size, blocks its acquisitions, or bans its cryptocurrency, Chinese company's absent these restrictions will win abroad, bringing more power and data to their government. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg, and VP of communications Nick Clegg have all expressed this position.
The latest incarnation of this talking point came in today and yesterday's congressional hearings over Libra, the Facebook-spearheaded digital currency it hopes to launch in the first half of 2020. Facebook's head of its blockchain subsidiary Calibra David Marcus wrote in his prepared remarks to the House Financial Services Committee today that:
"I believe that if America does not lead innovation in the digital currency and payments area, others will. If we
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Daily Crunch: Neuralink prepares for brain-computer testing
This post is by Anthony Ha from TechCrunch
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch's roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you'd like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here.
1. Elon Musk's Neuralink looks to begin outfitting human brains with faster input and output starting next year
Musk said that in the long term, Neuralink really is about figuring out a way to "achieve a sort of symbiosis with artificial intelligence."
For now, however, the plan is to use a robot that operates somewhat like a "sewing machine" to implant threads, which are incredibly thin, deep within a person's brain tissue, where it will be capable of performing both read and write operations at very high data volume.
2. AI photo editor FaceApp goes viral again on iOS, raises questions about photo library access
In this current wave of virality, some new questions are floating
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AT&T signs $2 billion cloud deal with Microsoft
This post is by Ron Miller from TechCrunch
While AWS leads the cloud infrastructure market by wide margin, Microsoft isn't doing too badly, ensconced firmly in second place, the only other company with double-digit share. Today, it announced a big deal with AT&T that encompasses both Azure cloud infrastructure services and Office 365.
A person with knowledge of the contract pegged the combined deal at a tidy $2 billion, a nice feather in Microsoft's cloud cap. According to a Microsoft blog post announcing the deal, AT&T has a goal to move most of its non-networking workloads to the public cloud by 2024, and Microsoft just got itself a big slice of that pie, surely one that rivals AWS, Google and IBM (which closed the $34 billion Red Hat deal last week) would dearly have loved to get.
As you would expect, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke of the deal in lofty terms around transformation and innovation. "Together, we
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'New Girl': Both Jess and Nick Are Based on This 1 Real-Life Person
Madilyn Zeegers
New Girl is no longer on the air, but when it was, it was heralded as one of the funniest sitcoms of the 2010s. Fans of the show loved the unique characters and hilarious storylines the likes of which they couldn't find anywhere else on TV.
Imagine the show Friends if every character was about 50 percent weirder, and you've got the recipe for the sitcom New Girl. What made it work so well were two of the main characters: Nick and Jess. So who were the couple based on? Let's take a closer look at the one person who actually served as the real-life inspiration for both.
What is the premise of the sitcom 'New Girl?'
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According to IMDb, New Girl ran from 2011-2018. The series starred Zooey Deschanel as the main character. The show centered around an offbeat, quirky young woman experiencing a bad breakup.
After picking up the pieces and moving on, she decides to move in with three equally quirky men. The clash of personalities makes for plenty of hilarity. It focused on the various hijinks the group got into around the apartment, using their living space as the main set for the majority of the show.
Elizabeth Meriwether, the writer of the romantic comedy film No Strings Attached, was the show's creator. The talented ensemble cast included Deschanel, Max Greenfield, Jake Johnson, Lamorne Morris, Damon Wayans, Jr., and Hannah Simone. Megan Fox also had a 15 episode run replacing Deschanel for a brief spell.
Who are Nick and Jess on 'New Girl?'
Deschanel played Jess Day, the show's main character. Johnson portrayed Nick Miller, an on-again, off-again love interest, friend, and roommate of Jess. While the entire cast made the show work, the depiction of this relationship is definitely what drove the show.
According to Meriwether's comments captured in New York Magazine, an early screening of the show highlighted that the show resonated with people. Women saw themselves in Jess, and men saw a sister or friend-figure they couldn't help but gravitate toward:
"It was a Friday night, and we had this group of just like sad, tired people from the Valley who came in and laughed the whole way through. That was an amazing feeling, when you're like, 'Okay, I'm getting through to a random assortment of people that you found on the street. It's cool also that guys, at least so far, are finding it just as funny as women. They saw her as a little sister and just wanted to take care of her."
Nick and Jess were quite a pair, but what is it that made them seem to click so much from a comedic perspective? The answer lies in the person both characters were largely based on.
Both Nick and Jess are based on one real-life person
The cast of 'New Girl' | FOX Image Collection via Getty Images
The basis for the character of Jess is the series creator: Meriwether. But did you know that she also serves as the inspiration for Nick as well? It makes sense, as both have a unique personality with some similarities.
According to Mental Floss, many of Nick's characteristics on the show (particularly the funnier ones) are based on Meriwether in real life. Meriwether often pulled her hoodie over her head, much like Nick. She would also sing to herself when she found herself in an awkward or uncomfortable spot – the same as Jess.
Using Meriwether's personality to build the characters of Nick and Jess is what made them such an irresistible pair on the show. The two are distinct in their own respects, but they also share a lot in common. That made pairing them together in a relationship an easy decision, and one that viewers quickly fell in love with.

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Q: how to establish a TCP connection of two nodes in different LANs using Java or any other pl There are two restrictions on this question:
Nodes do not have public IP addresses. They are in different LANs. For example, A is in LAN1 with ip 192.168.0.100, B is in LAN2 with ip 10.0.0.2, the connection between A and B can't be established by invoking new Socket("192.168.0.100",port)
Configuring routers or NAT is not practicable. I mean that there is no port mapping from NAT to the node in LAN. I am thinking about how to implement a p2p chatting system ,in which any nodes can join at any time. All nodes have their  routers/NAT configured is impossible.And the ip addressof nodes can even change dynamically.

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*Is it possible to establish a TCP connection of two nodes in
different LANs under two restrictions above?

*If possible, how?

*If not, how to implement a p2p chatting system ? how can two nodes
in different LANs communicate directly rather than transfer messages
by a central server?

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\section{Introduction}
In recent years the question of security in public spaces has been attracting an increasing volume of attention. While the use of surveillance equipment has steadily expanded with it so has the range of problems associated with the way vast amounts of collected data are used. The inspection of video recordings by humans is a laborious and slow process, and as a result most surveillance footage is used not preventatively but rather \textit{post hoc}. Research on automating this process by means of computer vision aided inference has the potential to be of great public benefit and radically change how surveillance is conducted.

Public spaces such as squares and shopping centres are unpredictable and challenging environments for computer vision based inference. Not only are they rich in features, texture and motion, but they also continuously exhibit variation of both high and low frequencies in time: shopping windows change as stores open and close, shadows cast by buildings and other landmarks move, delivery lorries get parked intermittently etc. The focus of primary interest, humans, also undergo extreme appearance changes. Their scale in the image is variable and usually small, full or partial mutual occlusions and occlusions by other objects in the scene are frequent, with further appearance variability due to articulation, viewpoint and illumination.

As evidenced by a substantial corpus of published work, much computer vision work on the
modelling and understanding of human behaviour focuses on the recognition of articulated actions
\cite{YilkShah2008,DaviTyag2006,FarhTabr2008,TranSoro2008,HuanWangTanMayb2009,VeerSrinRoyCChel2009,LianShihShihLiao+2009}.
Although the analysis of crowds -- including their detection \cite{Aran2008}, tracking
\cite{AliShah2008} and counting \cite{ChanLianVasc2008} -- has started to develop some research momentum,
behaviour analysis in crowds on a more global level of holistic motion has
not been adequately addressed yet. Most previous work in this area considers scenarios far simpler
than we do in this paper --  camera viewpoint is often chosen so as to minimize occlusion of
objects of interests \cite{BrosCipo2006}
and only such specific types of scenes are considered which greatly restrict the variability of possible
motion patterns \cite{NguyPhunVenkBui2005,BranKett2000}. An often considered problem
is that of novelty detection in traffic \cite{ZhanHuanTanWang2007,HuXieTanMayb2004,HuXiaoFuXie+2009},
where motion constraints are much tighter. Not only does this greatly reduce
the space of possible motions over which learning is performed but it also makes it possible to
see in training all possible ``normal'' motion patterns, largely turning the problem to that of
achieving robustness to noise (usually through some form of clustering).

\section{Low-level building blocks}
The approach we describe in this paper can be broadly described as bottom-up. We first extract
trajectories of apparent motion in the image plane. From these a vocabulary of
elementary motions is built, which are then used to canonize all observed tracks.
Inference is performed on tracks expressed in this fixed vocabulary of motion primitives.
In this section we address low-level problems related to motion extraction and
its filtering, and the learning of motion primitives vocabulary.

\subsection{Motion Extraction}
As the foundation for inference at higher levels of abstraction, the extraction of motion
in a scene is a challenging task and a potential bottleneck. The key difficulty stems from the
need to capture motion at different scales, thus creating the compromise between reliability
and permanence of tracking. Generally speaking, the problem can be approached by
employing either holistic appearance, or local appearance in the form of local features. Holistic,
template based methods capture a greater amount of appearance and geometry, which can be
advantageous in preventing tracking failure. On the other hand, in the presence of frequent
full and partial occlusions, these methods are difficult to auto-initialize and struggle
with the problem of gradual bias drift as the tracked object's appearance changes due to
articulation, variable background and viewpoint, etc. All of these difficulties are very
much pronounced in the scenario we consider, motivating the use of local features.

Focusing on computationally efficient approaches, we explored several methods for detecting
interest points. Recently proposed Rosten-Drummond fast corner features \cite{RostPortDrum2008}
and Lowe's popular scale-space maxima \cite{Lowe2004} were found to be unsuitable due to lack of
permanence of their features: for an acceptable total number of features per frame, features that were
detected at some point in time remained undetected in more than 80\% of frames. Success was
achieved by adopting a simple method of tracking small appearance windows, in a manner similar
to Lucas and Kanade \cite{LucaKana1981}. Image region corresponding to the window $\mathcal{W}$
in frame $F_i$, is localized in subsequent frame $F_{i+1}$ by finding the translation which
minimizes the observed error between the two regions:
\begin{align}
  d_i^* = \text{arg}\min_d \int \int_{\mathcal{W}} \left[ F_{i+1}(x + \frac{d}{2}, y + \frac{d}{2}) - F_i(x - \frac{d}{2},y - \frac{d}{2}) \right]^2dx
  \label{e:klt}
\end{align}
This criterion is similar to that originally formulated by Lucas and
Kanade, with the difference that the expression is symmetrized in
time (i.e.\ with respect to $F_i$ and $F_{i+1}$). Further robustness
in comparison to the original method is also gained by performing
iterative optimization of \eqref{e:klt} in a multiscale fashion,
whereby $d_i^*$ is first estimated using smoothed windows and then
refined by progressively less smoothing. The best features (windows)
to track were selected as those corresponding to the $2 \times 2$
gradient matrices with the largest magnitude eigenvalues, as
proposed by Shi and Tomasi \cite{ShiToma1994}.

\subsubsection{Trajectory filtering.}
Following the basic extraction of motion trajectories, we filter out uninformative tracks.
These are tracks which are too short (either due to low feature permanence or due to occlusion
of the tracked region) or which correspond to stationary features (possibly
exhibiting small apparent motion in the image plane due to camera disturbances, such as due
to wind), as illustrated in Figure~\ref{f:tracks}. We accept a track $\left\{(x_1,y_1),\ldots,(x_N,y_N)\right\}$
if $N \geq 30$ (i.e.\ it lasts for at least 30 frames, or 1.2s at 25fps) and:
\begin{align}
  \frac{1}{N-1}\sum_{i=1}^N \left[(x_i - \bar{x})^2 + (y_i - \bar{y})^2 \right] \geq \sigma_{min}^2,
\end{align}
where $\bar{x} = \sum_{i=1}^N x_i / N$ and $\bar{y} = \sum_{i=1}^N y_i / N$.

\begin{figure}[t]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.47\textwidth]{tracks_01.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=0.47\textwidth]{tracks_02.pdf}
  \caption{ (a) The first 100 feature tracks extracted by our feature tracker. Notice that there
            are many \emph{temporally} long tracks with minimal spatial extent due to the
            apparent motion of stationary features caused by small deflections of the camera by
            the wind. Filtering using the minimal displacement constraint can be used to reliably
            detect and discard such tracks. (b) The first 100 feature tracks after filtering.  }
  \label{f:tracks}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Tracklet motion primitives}\label{ss:primitives}
People's motion trajectories in a scene can exhibit a wide range variability. However, not all of
it is relevant to the problem we address. For example, motion of interest is corrupted by noise and
at a short scale modulated by articulation. To reduce the effects of confounding variables on observed
motion, we represent all tracks using the same vocabulary of elementary motion primitives, inferred
from data, as illustrated conceptually in Figure~\ref{f:primitives}~(a).

\subsubsection{Inferring primitives.} We construct the vocabulary of motion primitives by clustering
\emph{tracklets} -- local, linear approximations of tracks. We extract a set of tracklets $t_i$ from a feature track
$T = \left\{(x_1,y_1),\ldots,(x_N,y_N)\right\}$ by first dividing the track into overlapping segments
$\left\{(x_{s(i)},y_{s(i)}),\ldots,(x_{e(i)},y_{e(i)})\right\}$ such that:
\begin{align}
  \Delta D = \sum_{j=s(i)}^{e(i)-1} \left\| \left(
                                         \begin{array}{c}
                                           x_j \\
                                           y_j \\
                                         \end{array}
                                       \right) -
                                       \left(
                                         \begin{array}{c}
                                           x_{j+1} \\
                                           y_{j+1} \\
                                         \end{array}
                                       \right)
                                        \right\|,
\end{align}
where $\Delta D$ is the characteristic scale parameter of the corresponding tracklet model. The $i$-th
tracklet is then defined by a numerical triplet consisting of its location and orientation $t_i = (\hat{x}_i, \hat{y}_i, \theta_i)$,
where:
\begin{align}
  &\hat{x}_i = \frac{1}{e(i)-s(i)+1} \sum_{j=s(i)}^{e(i)} x_j\\
  &\hat{y}_i = \frac{1}{e(i)-s(i)+1} \sum_{j=s(i)}^{e(i)} y_j\\
  &\hat{\theta}_i = \tan^{-1}\frac{y_{e(i)} - y_{s(i)}} {x_{e(i)} - x_{s(i)}} \hspace{10pt} (\text{mod } \pi)
\end{align}

All tracklets extracted from training data tracks are clustered using an iterative algorithm. In
each iteration, a new cluster is initialized with a yet unclustered tracklet as the seed. The
cluster is refined further in a nested iteration whereby tracklets are added to the cluster under
the constraint of maximal spatial and directional distances, respectively $\Delta Q$ and
$\Delta \Theta$, from both the seed and the cluster
centre. Cluster centre is then set equal to the mean of the selected tracklets and the procedure
repeated until convergence.

Note that the equivalence of directions $\theta$ and $\theta \pm \pi$ introduces some difficulty
in the estimation of the cluster centre orientation. Specifically, it is \emph{not} appropriate
to average member directions using modulo $\pi$ arithmetic. First, note that the
problem is not always well posed, i.e.\ that it does not always have a unique solution.
Thus, we require that $\forall i.~\Delta \hat{\theta}_i < \pi/4$, where:
\begin{align}
    \Delta \hat{\theta}_i = \min\left \{(\hat{\theta}_i - \theta_c ) (\text{mod}~\pi), |\hat{\theta}_i - \theta_c| \right\}.
\end{align}
This condition ensures that the range of directions in a cluster is sufficiently constrained
that the mean direction is unambiguously definable. It is sufficient that $\Delta \Theta < \pi /4$
for this to be the case, which is certainly true in this paper, as a directional spread of over $\pi / 2$
within a cluster would produce meaningless tracklet groupings. Provided that a unique solution
exists, the following pseudo code summarizes the algorithm which correctly updates the cluster centre
direction $\theta_C$, given a list of directions $\hat{\theta}_1, \ldots, \hat{\theta}_N \in [0,pi)$ of the cluster
members:\\\\
\begin{tabular}{l}
\line(1,0){30}\\
  \hspace{8pt}$\Delta \theta = 0$ \\
  \hspace{8pt}for $i=1\ldots N$\\
  \hspace{18pt}$\Delta\hat{\theta}_i = \hat{\theta}_i - \theta_c$\\
  \hspace{18pt}if $(\Delta\hat{\theta}_i > +\pi/2)$ then $\Delta\hat{\theta}_i = \Delta\hat{\theta}_i - pi$\\
  \hspace{18pt}if $(\Delta\hat{\theta}_i \leq -\pi/2)$ then $\Delta\hat{\theta}_i = \Delta\hat{\theta}_i + pi$\\
  \hspace{18pt}$\Delta \theta = \Delta \theta + \hat{\theta}_i$\\
  \hspace{8pt}end\\
  \hspace{8pt}$\theta_c = \theta_c + \Delta \theta / N$\\
\line(1,0){30}\\
\end{tabular}\\\\\\
Figure~\ref{f:primitives}~(b) shows an example of tracklets grouped together and the corresponding
cluster centre which becomes a \emph{tracklet primitive}.

\begin{figure}[t]
  \centering
\begin{tabular}{VV}
  \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{tracklet_decomposition1.pdf} \hspace{25pt} &
  \includegraphics[width=0.37\textwidth]{tracklets.pdf}\\
  \vspace{-10pt}(a)\hspace{25pt} & \vspace{-10pt} (b) \\
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{ (a) By extracting a small set of motion primitives, all tracks can be expressed as
            sequences of primitives from the same vocabulary. (b) A motion primitive is
            estimated by clustering fragmented tracks -- \emph{tracklets} -- by spatial
            distance and directional agreement, and computing the mean (location and angle)
            of each cluster. }
  \label{f:primitives}
\end{figure}

\subsubsection{Expressing tracks using primitives.}
A track is expressed in a particular tracklet model by diving it into overlapping segments,
computing the location and direction of each segment as before and, finally, associating
each segment $t_i = (\hat{x}_i, \hat{y}_i, \theta_i)$ with the most similar tracklet
$\mathfrak{T}_{j(i)} = (X_{j(i)}, Y_{j(i)}, \Theta_{j(i)})$:
\begin{align}
  t_i \longrightarrow
  \mathfrak{T}_{j(i)}:~~~j(i) = \text{arg} \min_k \epsilon(\mathfrak{T}_j, t_i),
\end{align}
where:
\begin{align}
  \epsilon(\mathfrak{T}_j, t_i) = (X_{j(i)} - \hat{x}_i)^2 + (Y_{j(i)} - \hat{y}_i)^2 +
  \left[ \frac{\Delta Q}{\tan(\Delta \Theta)} \tan(\Delta \hat{\theta}_i) \right]^2.
\end{align}
This functional form ensures that the angular contribution to distance is infinite for orthogonal
tracklets and approximately linear for small $\Delta \hat{\theta}$ (from Taylor's first order
expansion around zero: $\tan\alpha \approx \alpha$), whereas the proportionality factor ensures
that relative scaling of spatial and angular distances corresponds to the spread of cluster
tracklets.

\section{Two tracklet based motion models}
In the previous section we described our approach to extraction and
representation of motion in a scene. We now turn our attention to
the problem of learning a motion model from these low-level
representations and applying it to infer novelty in unseen data.

\subsection{First order Markov chain ensemble}\label{ss:ensemble}
The first model we introduce in this paper utilizes an ensemble of $K$ complementary
first order Markov chains
models to learn ``normal'' behaviour in a scene. The idea is that each model learns
behaviour on a different characteristic spatial scale. While this idea is now new,
it should be noted that our approach is different in that the
ensemble we construct is (in general) not a hierarchial one -- states describing behaviour on
longer scales do not consist of sequences of lower scale states. Rather, each model is built
independently by extracting tracklets and the corresponding motion primitives using different
characteristic scales, $\Delta D_1 < \ldots < \Delta D_K$, as proposed in Section~\ref{ss:primitives}.
The $k$-th model thus comprises learnt prior probabilities $P(\mathfrak{T}_i^{(k)})$ and
transition probabilities $P(\mathfrak{T}_j^{(k)} | \mathfrak{T}_i^{(k)})$ for tracklet
primitives at the corresponding scale.

Consider a particular novel feature track $T = \left\{(x_1,y_1),\ldots,(x_N,y_N)\right\}$.
In our model, the track is expressed independently in each of the $K$ vocabularies of
tracklet primitives:
\begin{align}
    T
 \longrightarrow
    \begin{cases}
       ~T_1 = \left\{ ~\mathfrak{T}_1^{(1)},~\ldots~,~\mathfrak{T}_{M_1}^{(1)}~\right\}\\
       \vspace{-10pt}\\
       ~T_2 = \left\{ ~\mathfrak{T}_1^{(2)},~\ldots~,~\mathfrak{T}_{M_2}^{(2)}~\right\}\\
       ~\hspace{35pt}\vdots \\
       ~T_K = \left\{ ~\mathfrak{T}_1^{(K)},~\ldots~,~\mathfrak{T}_{M_k}^{(K)}~\right\}\\
    \end{cases} \text{ where \hspace{5pt}} M_1 < M_2 < \ldots M_K,
\end{align}
where $T_1$ corresponds to the smallest scale of interest and $T_K$ the largest. Each of
the chains can then be used to compute the log-likelihood estimate corresponding
to its scale, which we average to normalize for differing track lengths:
\begin{align}
   R_k(T)= \frac{1}{M_k}
       \left[ \log P(\mathfrak{T}_1^{(k)}) + \sum_{i=2}^{M_k} \log P(~\mathfrak{T}_i^{(k)}~|~\mathfrak{T}_{i-1}^{(k)}~) \right].
    \label{e:logl}
\end{align}
Thus, the task of deciding if motion captured by $T$ sufficiently conforms to behaviour
seen in training is reduced to inference based on log-likelihoods $R_1(T),\linebreak[1]\ldots,\linebreak[1] R_K(T)$.
This would not be a difficult problem if both positive and negative training data (i.e.\ both unusual and normal motion patterns) was available, or if log-likelihoods corresponding to different models were directly comparable. However, a representative amount of positive training data is difficult to obtain in this case. Furthermore, although each $R_i(T)$ is normalized for track length in \eqref{e:logl}, the range of variation of its value is dependent on the model's characteristic scale. This is a consequence of lower entropy (generally) of larger scale models, which have fewer states (tracklet primitives).

To solve this problem, we transform the average log-likelihoods of all models to conform to
the same cumulative distribution function of the lowest scale (highest entropy) model:
\begin{align}
   R_k \longrightarrow \hat{R}_k = \mathcal{C}_1^{-1}\left[~\mathcal{C}_k(R_k)~\right]
\end{align}
where $\mathcal{C}_k(R)$ is the cumulative distribution function of the
average log-likelihood of the $k$-th Markov chain model, estimated from the training data set:
\begin{align}
   \mathcal{C}_k(R) = \int_{-\infty}^R p_k(r)~dr.
\end{align}
We then compute the conformance of the track to the overall
multiscale model as the minimal conformance to models over different
scales:
\begin{align}
   \rho_1(T) = \min_k \hat{R}_k
\end{align}

\subsection{Pursuit-constrained motion model}\label{ss:cmm}
In the previous section we described an approach to learning the range of normal motion in a
scene which treats a feature trajectory as a sequence of states corresponding to
extracted tracklet primitives. To make the parameter estimation practically tractable,
the sequence of states was modelled as a first order Markov chain which inherently restricts
the scope of the model to aggregating single-step behaviour. Progressively less spatially
constrained behavioural characteristics were captured by multiple tracklet models, each with
a different characteristic scale.

What this approach does not exploit is the structure of observed motion governed by the
of \emph{intentionality} of persons in the scene (whether they are on foot or using a vehicle).
While it is certainly the case that if unlimited data was available the described purely
statistical model would eventually learn this regularity, this insight can help
us achieve a higher degree of generalization from limited data which is available in practice.
Our idea is based on the simple observation that people perform motion with the aim of reaching
a particular goal and they generally plan their it so as to minimize the invested effort,
under the constraints of the scene (such as the locations of boulders and paved areas, or places
of interest such as shopping windows). Consequently, we concentrate on learning the distribution
of traversed trajectory lengths between two locations in a scene, rather than the exact paths taken
between them (a far greater range of possibilities).

Unlike in Section~\ref{ss:ensemble}, we now express a feature track $T$ as a sequence of tracklet
primitives \emph{only} in the vocabulary of the smallest scale of interest:
\begin{align}
    T \longrightarrow T_1 = \left\{ ~\mathfrak{T}_1^{(1)},~\ldots~,~\mathfrak{T}_{M_1}^{(1)}~\right\}.
\end{align}
For each pair of tracklets $\mathfrak{T}_i$ and $\mathfrak{T}_j$ ($i,j=1,\ldots,M_1$)
from the sequence we compute the corresponding distance $L_{ij}$ between them along the path. Since the
tracklet primitives were estimated using a single scale model with the characteristic scale parameter
$\Delta D_1$ (see Section~\ref{ss:primitives}), by construction this distance is given by:
\begin{align}
  L_{ij} =  (i-j)~\Delta D_1/2.
\end{align}

The track is thus decomposed into  $M_1(M_1-1)/2$ triplets $(\mathfrak{T}_i,\mathfrak{T}_j,L_{ij})$.
We wish to estimate $p(\mathfrak{T}_i,\mathfrak{T}_j,L_{ij})$. By expanding the joint probability as:
\begin{align}
  p(\mathfrak{T}_i,\mathfrak{T}_j,L_{ij}) = P(\mathfrak{T}_i)~~P(\mathfrak{T}_j~|~\mathfrak{T}_i)~~p(L_{ij}~|~\mathfrak{T}_i,\mathfrak{T}_j),
\end{align}
we can see that the first two terms -- the prior probability of the $i$-th primitive and the
probability of $i\rightarrow j$ transition -- can be learnt in a similar manner as for the Markov
chain based model described previously. On the other hand, the last term corresponding to the distribution of
possible path lengths between the $i$-th and $j$-th primitive, is computed by modelling it using a normal distribution:
\begin{align}
  p(\mathfrak{T}_j ~|~ \mathfrak{T}_i, L_{ij}) = \mathcal{N}( L~|~\bar{L}_{ij}; \sigma_{ij}).
\end{align}
We estimate its parameters -- the mean $\bar{L}_{ij}$ and standard deviation $\sigma_{ij}$ -- using
transitions between primitives observed in the training data set.

Finally, the conformance of a novel track to the learnt motion model is computed as the log of the lowest
probability tracklet primitive transition contained within the observed motion:
\begin{align}
  \rho_2(T) = \min_i \min_j \bigg[\log p(\mathfrak{T}_j, \mathfrak{T}_i, L_{ij})\bigg].
  \label{e:rho2}
\end{align}

\section{Evaluation}
Using a stationary camera placed on top of a small building
overlooking a busy city marketplace we recorded a video sequence
which we used to evaluate the proposed methods. This footage of the
total duration of 1h:59m:40s and spatial resolution $720 \times 576$
pixels contains all of the challenging aspects used to motivate our
work: continuous presence of a large number of moving entities,
frequent occlusions, articulation and scale changes, non-static
background and large variability in motion patterns. A typical frame
is shown in Figure~\ref{f:frame}~(a) while Figure~\ref{f:frame}~(b)
exemplifies some of the aforementioned difficulties on a magnified
subregion.

\begin{figure}[t]
  \centering
  \subfigure[]{\hspace{3pt}\includegraphics[height=0.28\textwidth]{frame.pdf} \hspace{3pt}}
  \subfigure[]{\hspace{3pt}\includegraphics[height=0.28\textwidth]{region.pdf}\hspace{3pt}}
  \subfigure[]{\hspace{3pt}\includegraphics[height=0.28\textwidth]{dominant_novelties_04.png}\hspace{3pt}}
  \caption{ (a) A typical frame extracted from the video footage used in the evaluation of this paper,
            showing a busy city marketplace, and (b) a magnified image region containing examples of
            multiple moving objects, mutual occlusion and occlusion by other objects in the scene
            (car and lamppost), background clutter and shadow patterns which
            change over time. (c) A synthetic track (green) which our \emph{pursuit-constrained motion model}
            based algorithm identifies as unusual, its representation as a sequence of tracklet primitives
            (yellow) and the pair of primitives (red) corresponding to the most novel behaviour
            detected in the traversed path. }
  \label{f:frame}
\end{figure}

For the Markov chains ensemble model we used four different characteristic scales, with the
corresponding scale parameters $\Delta D_1 = 50,~\Delta D_2 = 75,~\Delta D_3 = 110,~\Delta D_3=150$.
The lowest scale tracklet model (with $\Delta D_1 = 50$) was used for the pursuit-constrained
motion model. The estimation of motion primitives from tracklets was performed using clustering
parameters $\Delta Q = 25$ and $\Delta \Theta = \pi/16$.

\subsection{Results}
After training each of the proposed methods using the 113,700
extracted tracks, we computed the corresponding histograms of
conformity measures $\rho_1$ and $\rho_2$. From these we
automatically selected thresholds for novelty detection, $R_1$ and
$R_2$, such that 0.05\% of training tracks produce lower
conformities. An examination of these tracks revealed that the two
algorithms generally identified the same tracks as being the least
like the rest of the training set with several typical results shown
in Figures~\ref{f:res1} and~\ref{f:res2}. A common aspect which can
be observed between them is that they correspond to motions which
include sharp direction changes \emph{at locations in the scene
where there is little reason for them}. This motion not only novel
by the construction of our model but it also conforms to our
intuition about what constitutes unusual behaviour. Note the
scene-specific, contextual aspect of the learnt motions: many
extracted tracks contain sharp turns (e.g.\ at the end of the row of
marketplace stalls or at the corner of the buildings) which are not
deemed unusual because the constraints of the scene made such turns
(comparatively) frequent in the training data.

Next, to evaluate how our algorithms cope with unseen data, by clicking on the
image of the scene we generated a series of synthetic tracks which a human might consider unusual
in the context of the marketplace in question. Here, the two methods produced different results.
Specifically, consider the examples shown in Figure~\ref{f:synth}, which the Markov chains ensemble
does not classify as novel, unlike the pursuit-constrained motion model. The discrepancy can be
explained by observing that in the ensemble approach, a trade-off is made between the precision of
motion localization by tracklet primitives and the ability to capture behaviour at a larger scale.
Such compromise does not exist in the proposed pursuit-constrained model.

Lastly, since the conformance measure $\rho_2$ in \eqref{e:rho2} is effectively dependent
only on a single pair of primitives (those which are explained the worst by the path length model),
we visualized these for a series of tracks in which novelty was detected. This is useful as a way
of ensuring that the model is capturing
meaningful information and potentially in practice as well, by drawing attention not only to a
particular behaviour on the whole but a particular feature. This is illustrated with an example
in Figure~\ref{f:frame}~(c) which shows a
synthetic track identified as unusual by the pursuit-constrained model, its decomposition into
tracklet primitives and the pair of primitives corresponding to the track's conformance score.

\begin{figure}[t]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=1.00\textwidth]{synthetic_tracks.png}
  \caption{ Examples of three synthetic tracks which the Markov chains ensemble model
            does not classify as novel, and the \emph{pursuit-constrained motion model} does.  }
  \label{f:synth}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[ht]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular*}{1.00\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}cc}
    \multicolumn{2}{c}{Unusual track 1 \vspace{10pt}}\\
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res05_01.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res05_02.pdf}\\&\\
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res05_03.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res05_04.pdf}\\&\\
  \end{tabular*}
  \begin{tabular*}{1.00\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}ccc}
    \multicolumn{3}{c}{Unusual track 2 \vspace{10pt}}\\
    \includegraphics[width=0.31\textwidth]{res02_01.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.31\textwidth]{res02_02.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.31\textwidth]{res02_04.pdf}\\&&\\
    \multicolumn{3}{c}{Unusual track 3 \vspace{10pt}}\\
    \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{res03_01.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{res03_02.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{res03_03.pdf}\\&&\\
    \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{res03_04.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{res03_05.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{res03_06.pdf}\\
  \end{tabular*}
  \caption{ Examples of behaviour detected as unusual by our algorithms. Also see Figure~\ref{f:res2}. }
  \label{f:res1}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[ht]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular*}{1.00\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}cc}
    \multicolumn{2}{c}{Unusual track 4 \vspace{10pt}}\\
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res04_01.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res04_02.pdf}\\&\\
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res04_03.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res04_04.pdf}\\&\\
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res04_05.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res04_06.pdf}\\&\\
  \end{tabular*}
  \begin{tabular*}{1.00\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}cc}
    \multicolumn{2}{c}{Unusual track 5 \vspace{10pt}}\\
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res06_01.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res06_02.pdf}\\&\\
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res06_03.pdf}&\\
  \end{tabular*}
  \caption{ Examples of behaviour detected as unusual by our algorithms. Also see Figure~\ref{f:res1}. }
  \label{f:res2}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[t]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular*}{1.00\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}cc}
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res07_01.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res07_02.pdf}\\
    Feature discovery & Successful tracking \\&\\
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res07_03.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res07_04.pdf}\\
    Successful tracking & Incorrect feature matching\\&\\
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res07_05.pdf}&
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{res07_06.pdf}\\
    Incorrect feature is tracked & Incorrect feature is tracked\\&\\
  \end{tabular*}
  \caption{ The principal source of errors of our algorithm arises not at the higher level of processing,
            concerned with how motion is modelled, but rather at the lowest level of motion extraction.
            Reliable many body tracking in crowded scenes is an outstanding problem.
            }
  \label{f:err}
\end{figure}

\section{Summary and conclusions}
In this paper we addressed the problem of unusual behaviour detection in busy public places by means of novelty detection in holistic body motion. Our general approach is bottom-up. We argued that in the scenario of interest scene motion is best extracted using local features. The obtained feature tracks are segmented into tracklets, which are used to infer scene-specific tracklet primitives using a custom clustering algorithm. Finally, we described two motion models based on tracklet primitives: a multi-scale but non-hierarchial ensemble of Markov chains and an alternative which takes into account human motion planning by learning the distributions of paths lengths between tracklet primitives.

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Now I was curious to find out what caused this to happen so I kept jumping and punching, trying to recreate what I did and to my surprise it happened quite often. After ten minutes of recording I have made a compilation and I took damage after repeating the action multiple times.
That's just too much ping to work with. The server/client can't sync properly. We have not design the game to run at such high latency (I think I have said in the past we have designed it to run up to 100 in ping or something). We're probably going to force server-side-only movement for players with latency above a certain threshold just to avoid this kind of stuff in the future. Strange things are to be excepted when you have monster ping.


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An extra 3m of boulders was installed at the corner bend to stabilize the bank and reduce the amount of erosion occurring at this site.
Manitoulin Streams-Blue Jay Creek & Manitou River Enhancement Strategy, a large scale initiative to rehabilitate the aquatic habitat of these streams. Assessment, engineering & site design was conducted to improve and protect fish habitat features in the lower reaches of the Manitou River. Improvements needed to be implemented on Site M-02 as identified in the strategy. Documented stream bank erosion was evident by the meander cutting into the unprotected bank. The significant erosion was subsequently infilling downstream pools and covering high quality spawning substrates with sediment, thus reducing the total available critical fish habitat features. Therefore, the objective was to repair erosion at the outside bend and create cover for a shallow pool (<0.6m) at this site and downstream spawning substrate. Large boulders were placed along the corner bend to add support and reduce erosion from occurring. The boulders also provide habitat for juvenile fish and aquatic invertebrates to use. Along these boulders placement of clean, smooth ½" average diameter, glacial origin spawning gravel to a depth of 0.3 m was placed over an area of approx. 200 m2.
This project had up to 19 volunteers from Manitoulin Streams working on this project at various times. A total of 60 volunteered hours was dedicated by "Manitoulin Streams" committee members attending meetings to discuss planning procedures. Manitoulin Streams had numerous meetings and email communications to discuss the details about this project including sending out Site Design Request for Proposals, Tenders, and Site Supervision to ensure proper delivery of site design and issuing a winner of the bids. Overseas communication (by phone and email) with the landowners had to take place in order to rehabilitate this site. Also, meetings with employees of the Royal Michael's Bay Resort on behalf of the landowners to gain access to the property for site rehabilitation took place. A Grade 12 student from Germany volunteered 30 hours to conduct invertebrate sampling at various sites along the Manitou River to gain baseline information about the diversity of invertebrates before rehabilitation efforts take place. Future studies at this site will determine if there is an improvement as a result of the rehabilitation of M2. The Lake Manitou Area Association volunteered 5 people to transplant 231 trees and shrubs once the boulders were installed. These trees will provide shade/cover as well as leaves and debris that will increase habitat and provide a food source for the beginning of the food chain (i.e. invertebrates, fish). A total of 21m of shoreline was repaired. The work was completed according to the site plans through the cooperation of the landowner, consulting expertise of Great Lakes Environmental Services (GLES) and equipment, material, and services of C. Pearson & Sons Ltd. Funds from various sources were used to complete this project from DFO for site design, CFWIP and COA funding for rehabilitation construction work completed and from Eco-Action for Site Supervision by a certified engineer.
Erosion of the stream bank had caused sediment to be displaced down stream over critical fish habitat and there was a potential of the corner bend breaking through to the other side of the river and changing the course of the river.


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Home Auto news Industry The green era begins – Four Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles by 2020
With the world slamming the cars with high emissions, Mercedes-Benz is going into the opposite direction. The premium car company is working around the clock to build four Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles by 2020.
The decision comes after the German government announced its palns to offer sales subsidies on all electric vehicles priced at less than 60,000 euros. The Research and Development head, Thomas Weber, has been toying with the idea of building for new electric models by 2020, with the S-Class and the C-Class saloons being an inspiration for them.
Two sedans and two SUVs with zero emissions are expected to hit the market in less than four years from now, with details to mark them as no pollution vehicles. The new cars are set to put an ace up the Mercedes sleeve in their card games with Tesla Motors, that is already inching closer in the sales race. Rivals have also been forcing their way into the green zone, with Audi planning a production version of the e-tron quattro concept and with BMW making the best of their i3 and i8 super car.
Mercedes was planning to build the new Evs on the platforms of the already existing models. Yet, the high costs of development turn to be discouraging and impossible to fit the 60,000 euros maximum price imposed by the German goverment. The GLA, the C-Class, the S-Class and the GLC were temptive when it came to the base of the EVs, but the company will instead make use of the MEA (Modular Electric Architecture), an EV applications-orientated MRA platform. The GLC Fuel Cell, set to join the eco market in 2017, will be the first vehicle to use it. The MEA is a flexible platform, able to offer either rear-wheel drive or four-wheel drive.
It is shown in a report by Autocar, the Research and Development center in Stuttgart has confirmed the company is already working on its own range of electric motors, with outputs ranging from 75 kW (101 bhp) ad 400 kW (536 bhp). A new generation of lithium-ion battery cells manufactured by Accumotive will supply the EVs with a range of more than 250 miles (approximately 400 km). Last March, Daimler announced its plans to invest half a million euro to expand its battery production in Germany.
With the B-Class Electric Drive already on the market and wih the smart fortwo and forfour electric on the way, the German car maker will add the four new EVs to the range and will have no less than 6 such cars by the end of the decade.
The zero emission cars are expected to be produced by the company's plants in Germany: Rastatt, Bremen and Sindelfingen, while the newly modernized Hamburg plant, after getting the 500 million euros investment, will supply the new range of electric cars with components.
Source: Autocar.
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Watford has again agreed to take part in a pilot scheme, facilitated by the Cabinet Office, meaning voters within the borough will need to show ID before they can vote on 2 May 2019.
Voters in Watford Borough will be required to show their poll card before they can vote in the 2019 Watford Borough Ward Elections.
Everyone voting at a Watford polling station at this year's elections should bring the current elections poll card with them in order to vote. Poll cards will be delivered around 23 March 2019 to electors within the borough. Keep it safe and bring it with you when you go to vote on 2 May 2019.
What happens if I don't have my poll card?
You should receive your poll card by 1 April 2019. If you have not received or misplaced your poll card after this date and before polling day, please complete our online form to let us know.
Why is there a voter ID pilot?
The pilots are being conducted to identify the exact impact of voter ID, including its cost, before it is introduced nationally. All the additional costs for conducting the pilot are being fully funded by the Cabinet Office.
Joining Watford are Braintree, Broxtowe, Craven, Derby, Mid Sussex, North Kesteven, North West Leicestershire, Pendle and Woking who have volunteered to take part in various pilots scheduled for the May 2019 local elections, which will require voters to similarly produce forms of ID before being issued with a ballot paper.
To find out more about the voter ID pilots, visit the gov.uk website.
For media enquiries call the Cabinet Office on 020 7276 2210 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm). The Cabinet Office has an out-of-hours service for urgent media enquiries – journalists can call 07074 667 000. Please note, this number cannot receive text messages.
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Q: How to implement Android Notification with overview like WhatsApp? I want to implement a notification with overview when the device is in use like WhatsApp:

I know the basic implementation this way:
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0,
    new Intent(this, MainActivity.class), 0);

Notification notification = new Notification.Builder(this)
                .setContentTitle("Title")
                .setContentText("Message")
                .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_notif)
                .setContentIntent(mPendingIntent)
                .build();

NotificationManager notificationManager =
    (NotificationManager) getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
notificationManager.notify(1, notification);

But in that case, I don't have the overview. I only have a small icon in the notification bar:

A: Finaly, it's just about a Priority level:
notificationBuilder.setPriority(Notification.PRIORITY_HIGH);


Some Friday nights are for dancing and drinking away the cares of the week, while some Friday nights are for quietly enjoying the beauty and intimacy of live music. Friday at 7th Street Entry was a perfect blend of both.
Kicking off the evening was Philadelphia (by way of Paris) based duo The Dove & The Wolf. The Dove & The Wolf is the project of Paloma Gil and Louise Hayat. This folk meets pop duo started the evening with a quiet and heartfelt set. "It's great to be back in Minneapolis, the last time I was here I had strep throat, so this is way better," said vocalist/guitarist Paloma Gil.
There was an undeniable seriousness to The Dove & The Wolf's set, but behind each lyric seemed to be a sense of pensiveness. There is no shortage of depth from this duo both musically and lyrically. Gil and Hayat's ethereal harmonies were absolutely chilling., which had the audience in the Entry rapt. "You guys are really great, you're quiet. That's nice, we like that," Paloma went on in between songs.
Part of this air of somberness that hung thick in The Entry was undoubtedly from the fresh wounds of the massacre in Las Vegas just a few days earlier. It was a somber week across America and particularly the music community. There was a tangible sense of both mourning and celebrating the beauty of live music that was felt during The Dove & The Wolf's set.
This sense of mourning is something The Dove & The Wolf is seemingly all too familiar with. "This next song is about how Paris felt after the attacks of 2015," said guitarist/vocalist Louise Hayat ahead of Seven Days. "It's strangely beautiful how people can come together after tragedies like that," she went on.
And that is just what The Dove & The Wolf's set was in Minneapolis – a sense of togetherness, though heavy-hearted, celebrating the beauty of live music.
Headlining the evening was New York-based TORRES who has been one of perhaps one of the biggest breakout artists of 2017. Her name has been swirling the blogosphere for the past couple years but she's hit a sweet spot on her latest release Three Futures, which was released just a few weeks ago to wide reception.
TORRES definitely kicked the vibe up a notch in the Entry with her heavy guitar and electronic synthesizer driven set. "Thanks so much! It's an honor to be here. I'm having so much fun and we're only three songs in," Mackenzie Scott aka TORRES said towards the beginning of her set. That feeling was mutual at The Entry with the crowd much livelier than they were during the opener, though just as attentive.
Perhaps the most captivating element of TORRES' set was Scott's vocals – growly and visceral at times and electronic-poppy at others. From song to song, Scott seamlessly blends industrial goth sounds with synthy electro-pop sensibilities, sometimes even on the same track.
Though Friday night marked the end of a somber week, both The Dove & The Wolf and TORRES created a space at the Entry to reflect on the week, celebrate the intimacy of live music, and even dance away the cares of the week a bit.
TORRES tour continues 10/11 in Portland.
I went to The Church at The Cedar on Sunday, but it's not what my mother had in mind…….


Where Does Whole Foods Deliver Groceries?
Anything that checks something off your to-do list without any effort is a plus for busy parents and now Amazon is making it even easier to stock your fridge by offering Whole Foods grocery delivery service in even more cities across the country.
So how do you know if you can get your Whole Foods Market groceries delivered to your doorstep? Amazon has steadily added dozens of cities since it first rolled out Whole Foods delivery in February 2018. And now, with the new additions, there are nine more! That makes a grand total of 75—with plenty more to come soon.
Check back often as we'll continue to update this list as Amazon adds more cities.
If your city isn't yet on the list, don't worry. Amazon and Whole Foods are adding new regions at an almost-constant rate—and you can always check Amazon's Prime Now website for updates, too.
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A list of scholarships that don't require proof of citizenship or legal permanent residency.
This is a list of scholarships that don't require proof of citizenship or legal permanent residency.
This is a glossary intended for undocumented individuals who are attempting to identify and navigate possible forms of immigration relief.


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Juggernaut Receives Permit for Goldstandard Discovery
November 16, 2020 07:45 ET | Source: Juggernaut Exploration Ltd Juggernaut Exploration Ltd
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Juggernaut Exploration Ltd. (TSX-V: JUGR) (OTCQB: JUGRF) (FSE: 4JE) (the "Company" or "Juggernaut") is pleased to report it has received its five year advanced exploration permit for drilling its 100% controlled Goldstandard property. The property contains multiple extensive newly discovered outcropping orogenic gold veins including the Goldzilla vein that measures up to 20 meters wide and has been traced at surface for 938 meters along strike with 300 meters of vertical relief and remains open to the southeast. The fully funded inaugural drilling will focus on the Godzilla Hinge Zone that is part of the large-scale Goldzilla orogenic vein system where channel cut assayed up to 6.00 g/t AuEq (gold equivalent) over 12 metres including 5 metres of 13.03 g/t AuEq true width.
The planned inaugural drill program will be designed to test the Goldzilla hinge zone both along strike and to depth. The discovery zones are located in alpine areas of recently exposed bedrock due to glacial and snowpack abatement. The Goldzilla Zone is an original new orogenic gold discovery located in a world-class geological setting (high strain zone) that remains largely unexplored, providing tremendous additional untapped gold potential. This discovery has already garnered the attention of the miners and institutions alike, further demonstrating the potential of the Goldstandard property and surrounding area to evolve into a new orogenic gold camp. Approximately 67 % of Canadian gold production comes from this world class geologic setting. (Link to Video)
The company also successfully completed a property wide LiDAR and orthophoto survey in Sept 2020 covering both its Goldstandard and Goldstar properties located in the same area. This data will used to assist in future exploration on both properties.
The Goldstandard property is located in the Central Coastal region of British Columbia Canada, only 4km from major infrastructure and 1km to tidewater and logging roads, providing excellent, cost-effective exploration.
GOLDZILLA HINGE ZONE
Detailed mapping and surface sampling, identified a 100m by up to 20m wide hinge zone containing high grade gold mineralization of up to 6.00 g/t AuEq over 12m including 5m of 13.03 g/t AuEq and 1m of 31.66 AuEq (schematic of hinge zone). This hinge zone is part of the large-scale Goldzilla orogenic system that is traced on surface for 938m with 320m of vertical relief and remains open (hinge zone Image)
The Goldzilla hinge zone planned inaugural drill program will target the high grade gold mineralization discovered at surface and trace it to depth. Drilling will be designed to unlock the full potential of this newly discovered high-grade orogenic vein system and to understand the relationship between the multiple other newly discovered large en-echelon gold bearing orogenic veins at depth.
HIGHLIGHTS OF OTHER OROGENIC VEINS ON GOLD STANDARD:
The Leviathan Vein: has been traced on surface for 500 m with 50 m of vertical relief and remains open. Channel sampling from 2019 returned grades of up to 3.65g/t AuEq over 3 m including 10.55g/t AuEq over 1 m true width. (Leviathan Video) (Leviathan Schematic)
The Kraken Vein: has been traced on surface for 1000 m with 520 m of vertical relief and remains open. Channel samples from 2019 returned grades of 29.48g/t AuEq over 0.7 m and a 1m chip taken 305m along strike grading 6.52g/t Au. (Kraken Video) (Kraken Schematic)
The East Vein: is a newly discovered large vein system with grab samples up to 7.22 g/t Au and a 3 m chip sample grading 5.75 g/t Au. The discovery of this vein system has increased the Big Show High Strain zone from 2 km by 1 km to 4.6 km by 1.5 km. (East Vein)
In addition several other en-echelon gold bearing orogenic veins have been found within the Big Show high strain zone that has been expanded in 2019 from 2km by 1km, to 4.5km by 1.5km, containing multiple large en-echelon gold bearing mineralized quartz veins and shear zones. Exploration has further confirmed the extent of gold mineralization within multiple quartz veins and shear zones, within the Big Show high-strain, confirming an extensive orogenic gold system within the property. (link to image)
This mineralized orogenic system is part of a regional high-strain zone, a brittle and ductile, sub-vertical shear zone system that is proximal to the boundary between the Intermontane and Insularsuperterranes, demarked by the Coast shear zone. Localization of high-strain zones within the system are associated with sheeted, oxidized, sulphide-bearing quartz veins and shear zones that have been identified in outcrop with a strike length of 4.6 km and 1.5 km wide, which remains open in all directions. Discrete gold bearing quartz veins and shears trend up to ~1 km in strike with 500m of vertical extent and are up to 15m in width. They host variable amounts of gold mineralization, oxidized pyrite and disseminated pyrite with chalcopyrite.
GEOLOGIC MODEL - NEW OROGENIC GOLD SYSTEM
Exploration programs have confirmed the extent of high grade gold mineralization within multiple quartz veins and shear zones, within the Big Show high-strain zone confirming an extensive orogenic gold system within the Gold Standard property. The prolonged faulting and shearing within this structural corridor on the Gold Standard property provided extensive conduits for mineralizing fluids and favorable sites for mineralization (link to image). Within the Big Show Zone, veins occur in an en-echelon pattern to the regional north-northwest orientation of the major shear zones. These orogenic characteristics are consistent with gold-bearing mineralized veins and shear zones in several mining districts globally.
Orogenic gold systems are often deep rooted and are mined to depths of 1 to 3 kilometres (orogenic Model 1). Approximately 67 % of Canadian gold production comes from this type of geologic setting, with examples including nearby to the south Talisker Resources Bralorne Pioneer camp in British Columbia (4.17 Moz) with depths to 2km, and Couer Mining's Kensington mine just to the North in Juneau Alaska also including many regions within the Canadian shield including Kirkland Lake (>40 Moz), Timmins (>70 Moz), Val d'Or/Noranda (>69 Moz) and Red Lake gold camps (>29 Moz). These gold deposits typically contain average mining grades of ~5 gpt Au to ~15 gpt Au, similar to what is found at the Gold Standard property. Other orogenic systems are currently being explored such as Great Bear Resources Dixie project that confirm similar grades in drilling (orogenic model 2).
Dan Stuart President and CEO states:
"The Goldstandard property has demonstrated its tremendous gold potential with the discovery of the Goldzilla hinge zone and several other high-grade orogenic gold veins. These orogenic gold systems are commonly mined to depths of 1 to 3 kilometres. This geologic setting and model have proven to host several world-class, high grade, multimillion ounce deposits. Future exploration has excellent potential to expand on these discoveries both along strike and at depth. This project has already garnered the interest of several miners and institutions alike confirming the significance of this discovery. We look forward to the inaugural drill program designed to trace the discovery zone to depth and along strike."
Rein Turna, P. Geo. is the qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, for Juggernaut Exploration Ltd., and supervised the preparation of, and has reviewed and approved, the technical information in this release.
All samples were crushed and pulverized at ALS Global ISO 17025:2005 accredited geochemistry lab in North Vancouver, BC. Drill core samples were crushed, split and pulverized to 250 g pulp. The sample pulps were analyzed for gold by fire assay method (Au-AA24) and were also assayed using multi-element aqua regia digestion. Samples were analyzed using ALS assay procedure ME-ICP41m and MS-ICP61m. ME-ICP is an aqua regia (partial) digestion with inductively-coupled plasma (ICP)mass atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES) finish for 36elements. MS-ICP61m is a four acid digestion with ICP mass spectrometry finish for 49 elements. Over-limit samples for copper, lead and zinc were reanalyzed by fire assay with a gravimetric finish (OG46 and OG62). Rigorous procedures are in place regarding sample collection, chain of custody and data entry. QA/QC samples including blanks, standards, and duplicate samples were inserted regularly into the sample sequence.
Juggernaut Exploration Ltd.
Dan Stuart
Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
www.juggernautexploration.com
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENT
Certain disclosure in this release may constitute forward-looking statements that are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties relating to Juggernaut's operations that may cause future results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by those forward-looking statements, including its ability to complete the contemplated private placement. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these statements. NOT FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES OR TO U.S. PERSONS OR FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES. THIS PRESS RELEASE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR AN INVITATION TO PURCHASE ANY SECURITIES DESCRIBED IN IT.


The Live laugh life wish hope love sterling silver charm stands for essential qualities of human life. As they say, live your life to the fullest, laugh at all things that don't matter, hope that all your wishes will come true and love as if there's no tomorrow. Does your life partner believe in giving 100% to her life? Support her by expressing your feelings in the form of this bead that once more lets her know that you only live once and she is doing it correctly. Your loving gesture will make her heart flutter and she will realise your feelings for her one more time.


This article was published 2/1/2015 (1566 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Premier Greg Selinger touted his government's achievements and refused to comment on the promises of his leadership rivals as he submitted his nomination papers at NDP headquarters today.
"I think we have a record of strong achievement in this province," he said. "We have one of the strongest economies in Canada right now."
Selinger is the third -- and likely last -- candidate to declare his candidacy to lead the provincial NDP. He challenged all comers last fall to a leadership contest following a caucus revolt, with five cabinet ministers calling for him to step down. The party will hold a leadership vote March 8 as part of its annual convention.
Today, Selinger answered media questions after filing his nomination papers. He will host an official campaign launch at a later date, likely next week.
Selinger is the third — and likely last — candidate to declare his candidacy to lead the provincial NDP. He challenged all comers last fall to a leadership contest following a caucus revolt, with five cabinet ministers calling for him to step down. The party will hold a leadership vote March 8 as part of its annual convention.
In 2011, he won the largest majority of seats ever for the NDP.
Asked if he felt it was surreal for a sitting premier to be running for the leadership of his own own party, he said: "Not at all, It's part of the... democratic process."
Selinger had been exceedingly quiet over the holidays, as rivals Theresa Oswald and Steve Ashton held news conferences and announced policy planks. It had led to some speculation he may not enter the race at all.
Selinger is being forced into an leadership election to keep his job following an unprecedented revolt within his own party that led to the resignation of five cabinet ministers. The dissidents demanded Selinger resign to give the party a better chance in the next provincial election, now scheduled for April 2016.
Greg Selinger will make his candidacy for NDP leader official today at 12:15 at the party's offices on Portage Avenue.
Updated on Friday, January 2, 2015 at 1:13 PM CST: Adds details from announcement.


The other revelation of recent years is the Esprit Blanc de Neisson 70%, 70% of intense pleasure produced within the last independent distillery Martinique by a purist and great whisky connoisseur, Grégory Vernant. Even sensitive palates can give it a try despite the high ABV, and this is the great strength of high quality distillates: even at extreme levels, balance and richness tame the fire of alcohol.
Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion Island… I thought I knew it all. But this was before experiencing further the talents of Luca Gargano, a worthy heir to Christopher Columbus, set out to discover Haiti and its gems: Clairins. Sajous, Vaval and Casimir are pure cane juice distillates from spontaneous fermentations, and they are like their eponymous owners: authentic and full of characters. In a sip, they reveal strong personalities, from really fruity with absolute purity (Sajous), to almost maritime freshness (Vaval), but also inimitable notes of white truffle (Casimir).
Finally, there is the youngest: Chalong Bay. This pure cane juice pot still rum has been created by a passionate and fascinating French duo, Marine Lucchini and Thibault Spithakis. It is distilled in Thailand on the island of Phuket, the original birthplace of the sugar cane. Another gem to discover.


Caribbean Export is seeking the professional services of a consultant whose primary goal will be to design, develop and maintain the OCC 2019 website. The website will serve as a tool to raise awareness and promote the OCC 2019 event that will be held on 25-29 March 2019 in Curacao. It will also be used as the premier tool for visibility and communication between potential delegates and event organizers.
Under the 10th EDF, Caribbean Export in collaboration with CAIPA developed the Regional Investment Promotion Strategy (RIPS) with one of the main priority sectors for joint promotion of the Caribbean being the Outsourcing Sector. The promotion of the sector began in late 2015 and continued into 2016 with outward missions to target markets such as the UK, Mexico and the USA. In 2016, data on the outsourcing sector in the Caribbean was collected and work on defining the region's value proposition began in earnest with the development of a promotional booklet on the sector in the region, developed with funding from the Inter-American Development Bank. The priority sectors for the Caribbean that have been identified are: Contact Centers; Finance and Accounting; Human Resources Outsourcing; Legal Process Outsourcing; and Shared Services.
Create a platform for public and private sector dialogue on issues related to the outsourcing sector, of interest to all stakeholders.
In 2017, a similar event was hosted, and a website was developed for this event. It is envisaged that the new website to be developed under this consultancy, will serve to archive the information on the website developed in 2017, showcase information for the 2019 event and host information on future events.
The site will be used by delegates interested in participating in the OCC2019 event including but not limited to: potential investors, connectors, outsourcing sector service providers including telecommunications firms, training institutions, site selection advisers and influencers, among others, interested in the proposition of the Caribbean as an Outsourcing destination.


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Acacia Mining CEO, chief financial officer quit
A miner inside the Bulyanhulu gold mine in northern Tanzania. PHOTO | FILE
Acacia announced Thursday that its chief executive Brad Gordon and the chief financial officer Andrew Wray have resigned.
The resignations by the two executives come as the gold miner is negotiating with the Tanzanian government over a tax dispute and ban on exports of its mineral concentrates.
By ALLAN OLINGO
Acacia Mining chief executive officer Brad Gordon has resigned barely two weeks after its parent company Barrick Gold Plc struck an initial $300 million tax settlement deal with the Tanzanian government without involving him.
The firm's chief financial officer Andrew Wray also resigned in moves that point to differences in the boardroom on how to resolve the dispute in Tanzania. Acacia said the two would leave at the end of the year.
"Mr Gordon will be returning to Australia for family reasons, while Mr Wray is pursuing an opportunity elsewhere," the firm said in a statement.
Mr Gordon will be replaced by Peter Geleta, the head of organisational effectiveness, as the acting CEO, while Jaco Maritz, the finance general manager, replaces Mr Wray.
"Both appointments will be effective from 1 January 2018," the firm said.
Acacia's chairman Kelvin Dushnisky said the exiting executives were instrumental in the operational and financial turnaround of Acacia over the past four years.
Barrick Gold seeks deal with Dar to lift ban on gold
Activists want rights abuses included in Tanzania, Acacia talks
Magufuli winner in deal with Acacia, other miners next
Acacia unable to pay $300m upfront to Tanzania
Barrick, which holds a 63.9 per cent stake in Acacia, last month agreed with Tanzania that Acacia would cede 16 per cent stake to the government, pay $300 million in tax arrears, split economic benefits from the business halfway as well as infrastructure development.
But Mr Wray said in a call with analysts that Acacia had no capacity to pay the $300 million as President John Magufuli had agreed with Barrick executives.
Last week, Barrick Gold said it was counting on Tanzania's government lifting the gold export ban to help Acacia raise the money from cash flows over a period of time.
"Payment would be conditional on Acacia's ability to sell concentrate. Barrick will also be working with the Government of Tanzania to establish the basis upon which the concentrate export ban can be lifted as expediently as possible, including protocols for joint oversight and verification of concentrate shipments," the firm said in a statement.
Tanzania placed the mineral concentrates export ban in March and in July slapped Acacia with a $190 billion tax bill accusing it of understating.
The Tanzania's largest miner reported that gold production for the third quarter fell to 191,203 ounces, down 8.3 per cent quarter-on-quarter.


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A founding member of FSU, Bubba Hollenhorst has been playing, writing, and performing music since the age of 4. Formerly of the country and western group 'The Wheeler Country Ramblers', and Portland based pop group 'The Big Ideas'; Bubba currently performs with the Minneapolis based Pop/Funk group 'Chief O'Brien' as well as Minneapolis based Folk/Rock group 'Bunkin' Cousins'. He also hosts a weekly comedy podcast, 'The Weekly Awesome', with fellow Unbeatable Bill and former FSU member Louie. In his free time, Bubba likes to play sports, board games, normal Nintendo, & adventure through space and time.
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Some things in life are just favourites. Whether it's a pair of shoes, a coat, your dog or even an old relative you just seem to get more back from certain things. This is how we feel about the Chatsworth bed.
It's not too big so it looks good in almost any bedroom. It's not too small so you can still make quite a statement with it.
It's a real favourite for people who want a paint finish on their furniture, and it works really well with the accompanying bedroom furniture – The Revival bedroom Suite.
Its construction is completely traditional, with panels set in a rail and stile framework in just the same way they would have been in the 17th century. The bedposts are topped off with a Regency style urn.
It's available in all sizes from 3'0" right up to 8'0" including 4'0" or three quarter beds; but. it's most popular sizes are 5'0" king size or a 6'0" superking size bed.