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Touchscreens might represent the future of computing, but the present is still ruled by more-or-less conventional desktop and laptop PCs, each equipped with a keyboard and a mouse or touchpad. For that type of device, the desktop is where you'll likely spend most of your time, and it's what we concentrate on in this section. We discuss Tablet Mode separately, later in this chapter. (See "Using Windows 10 on a touchscreen device.")
Using and customizing Start
The interface element popularly known as the Start menu is officially called Start in Windows 10, although you'll find references to both terms scattered throughout Windows 10 and its online help files. You open Start by clicking the Windows icon at the far-left end of the taskbar or pressing the Windows key. Start is divided into three segments. At the very left is a thin column, near the bottom of which appear the current user's name and picture and icons for the Documents and Pictures folders, as well as for Settings and Power. You can display descriptive labels alongside each of those icons by hovering the mouse pointer anywhere within this column.
Next to the thin column is a wider column that includes a list of any recently added apps, the apps you use most often, and a scrolling list of all your apps. In the app list, you'll find the names and icons for your programs, listed in alphabetical order. You can move through the list by swiping directly on a touchscreen, using two-finger scrolling gestures on a touchpad, or using the scroll wheel with a mouse. Often the quickest way to get from one part of the list to another is by clicking any of the letter headings. That produces an index menu, like this:
You can click or tap any letter or symbol in this menu to jump to the associated part of the all-apps list.
INSIDE OUT: HOLD THE SUGGESTIONS
Below the Most Used list and above the app list, you might occasionally find a suggestion from the Store. Windows tries to make these suggestions congruent with your usage habits, and it's possible you'll welcome them. If you don't, they're easy to eliminate. Go to Settings > Personalization > Start. Then deselect Show Suggestions Occasionally In Start.
Obviously, you can launch any item in the app list by tapping or clicking it. Alternatively, if you're comfortable typing, you can skip all the scrolling, tap the Windows key to position the insertion point in the search box, and then begin typing the name of an item you want in the search box, directly to the right of the Start button. (Refer to Figure 3-1.) What you're looking for will soon appear at or near the top of the search results. This approach is especially handy when you're not sure exactly where in the app list the item you desire is located. (Where's Notepad, for example? Its default location is within the Windows Accessories folder, several clicks or taps away from the top of the list. You'll get to it more quickly by typing.)
INSIDE OUT: CHANGE YOUR START PICTURE
The picture that appears on the left side of Start is the one associated with your user account (the one that also appears on the Welcome screen). If you're not happy with that picture, click it, and then click Change Account Settings. That takes you to the Settings page for your account, where you can choose a different picture or snap one with a webcam.
The remainder of Start consists of tiles. This is the remnant of the Start screen that filled the desktop in Windows 8. As in Windows 8, tiles can be live or not. The live ones update their appearance periodically with relevant content. Windows gives you some tiles to get you going (including some that you might want to get rid of), but, of course, this part of Start is completely customizable, as we discuss shortly.
You can change the size and shape of Start by dragging it up (to a maximum height that is 100 pixels below the top of the display), to the right, or both ways.
Customizing the contents of Start
If you're accustomed to the extensive array of customization options for items on the Start menu in earlier Windows versions, you'll need to make some adjustments. You can remove programs from the Most Used section, but you can't pin program shortcuts to the left side of Start.
You can, however, add or remove certain folder shortcuts from the narrow column of options at the left edge of Start. The Documents and Pictures folders are there by default, but you can put various others there as well. You might want to have File Explorer or Network accessible on the narrow strip, for example. To see the list of possibilities, go to Settings > Personalization > Start, and then click or tap Choose Which Folders Appear On Start.
What if you actually prefer the visual style of Windows 8.1 and would rather work only with tiles instead of program names? To express this preference, visit Settings > Personalization > Start, and turn Show App List In Start Menu to Off. To emulate the look of Windows 8.1 more closely, turn on Use Start Full Screen. Windows 10 will respond by spreading your Start tiles across the full expanse of your screen.
If you choose to hide the alphabetical app list, you can easily redisplay it when you need it. With the app list absent, Windows adds two new buttons, called Pinned Tiles and All Apps, near the top of the narrow strip at the left of Start. Clicking All Apps produces a display comparable to the one shown in the following illustration. Clicking Pinned Tiles then restores the visual style of Windows 8.1:
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INSIDE OUT: USE THE POWERFUL "OTHER" START MENU
Here's some good news for anyone who misses the system shortcuts from earlier iterations of the Start menu. Most of those tools are available as part of a hidden menu, called the Quick Link menu, that appears when you right-click the Start button or press Windows key+X, as shown here.
Most of the major system management and troubleshooting tools are on that list, including Disk Management, Event Viewer, and the Computer Management console.
Windows traditionalists will appreciate the fact that the Shut Down Or Sign Out menu item is here, along with links to Settings and Task Manager. The menu also includes the current command-line shell (Windows PowerShell or Command Prompt). The default in Windows 10 version 2004 and later versions is PowerShell. If you're not a PowerShell user, you can use an option in Settings > Personalization > Taskbar to replace the two PowerShell options with Command Prompt equivalents.
INSIDE OUT: WHICH PROGRAMS ARE INCLUDED IN THE MOST USED LIST?
The list of most-used programs—the items that appear at or near the top of the left side of Start—is controlled by Windows. Several types of items are excluded by default, so you won't see things like setup programs, installer and uninstaller packages, Control Panel modules, and MMC consoles. You can find a list of what's excluded in the AddRemoveApps value of the registry key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileAssociation
We do not recommend trying to edit these values manually.
Adding and arranging tiles
Clicking a tile has the same effect as clicking a program shortcut on the Start menu's apps list or a pinned taskbar button. What makes tiles different is the variety of sizes and their ability to display information or notifications from the app, making a tile live.
To pin a program as a tile to the right side of Start, drag it from the app list or the Most Used list on the left side of Start into position. As an alternative, right-click its entry in the app list or the Most Used list on the left side of Start, and then click or tap Pin To Start. The item will take up residence as a medium-sized tile in the first available empty space, and from there you can move and resize it as needed.
To remove a program from the right side of Start, right-click it and then click Unpin From Start.
You can adjust the size of any tile by right-clicking the tile to see the menu shown in Figure 3-3.
Figure 3-3 These options are available for most modern apps, including those you acquire from the Microsoft Store. Not all apps support this full list of sizes.
Note that not all tiles support the full range of sizes shown in this figure. Windows desktop programs and Progressive Web Apps pinned to Start, for example, offer only the Small and Medium options.
On a touchscreen, you can accomplish the same tile customization tasks with a long press on the tile. That produces two options shown in white circles on the right side of the tile. Tapping the top option unpins the tile, while tapping the ellipsis at the bottom right reveals the same shortcut menu you get with a right-click. (The options on the right-click menu vary slightly depending on the type of app.)
For an explanation of the differences, see Chapter 6, "Installing and configuring modern apps and desktop apps."
Tiles can be arranged into groups, with or without custom group names. Drag tiles, one at a time, into the position you prefer. If the position you choose is sufficiently far from the edge of an existing group, your tile ends up in a new group of its own. You can move it back to an existing group or add other tiles to the new group.
A slim bar sits above every group of tiles. Click (as we have in Figure 3-4) to display a text box where you can type a group name of your choosing. (We created a group named Useful Accessories.) Click the horizontal lines to the right of the name box to drag the entire group to a new location.
Figure 3-4 Click above any group of tiles to give that group a descriptive label.
Gathering tiles into folders
Another technique for grouping tiles is to create a folder. A folder of tiles looks like an ordinary tile with small icons inside, representing the contents of the folder. The following is a folder of Microsoft Office apps:
When you click or tap a folder, the folder opens to reveal the individual tiles contained within, like this:
With the folder thus expanded, you can launch any of the apps it contains in the usual way, or return the folder to its former state by clicking the upward arrow.
To create a folder, drag one tile and drop it on top of another. To drop additional apps into the folder, drag them to the existing folder. To remove an app from a folder while leaving it available on the Start menu, expand the folder and then drag the app to the place where you want it to appear.


403b plans are commonly used by tax-exempt organizations to provide retirement benefits for their employees. Generally, plans that are established or maintained by private tax-exempt organizations are subject to ERISA. However, there have always been questions about ERISA coverage for plans funded only with employee contributions. There are four requirements under the safe harbor and all must be met in order to claim an exemption from ERISA.


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Die schmalspurige Kleinbahn Leer–Aurich–Wittmund (LAW; heute Kreisbahn Aurich GmbH) führte in  Meterspur von Leer über Aurich nach Esens und Bensersiel. Eine Zweigstrecke führte von Ogenbargen nach Wittmund.

Die Kleinbahn erschloss so die ostfriesische Halbinsel, deren Bewohner über diesen Transportweg einerseits landwirtschaftliche Produkte in die Städte liefern und sich andererseits mit technischen Gütern und Kolonialwaren versorgen konnten.

Im Volksmund wurde die Kleinbahn mit einer typisch ostfriesischen Wortschöpfung als Jan Klein bezeichnet. Die Busse der aus der Kleinbahn hervorgegangenen Verkehrsbetriebe Kreisbahn Aurich tragen diesen Namen noch heute.

Geschichte

1898 wurde die Kreisbahn Aurich GmbH von den Landkreisen Leer, Aurich und Wittmund gegründet, bereits ein Jahr später wurde der erste Streckenabschnitt der Gesellschaft zwischen Wittmund und Aurich mit einer Spurweite von 1000 mm eröffnet. Bis 1909 wuchs das Streckennetz auf rund 85 Kilometer, wodurch die Kreisbahn eine der größten Kleinbahnen im Nordwesten Deutschlands wurde. Am 28. April 1930 meldete die Gesellschaft den Konkurs an. Der Betrieb wurde jedoch in kleinem Rahmen weitergeführt. Mit finanziellen Mitteln der Provinz Hannover und des preußischen Staates wurde am 3. September 1931 die Kleinbahn Leer–Aurich–Wittmund GmbH gegründet, die den Betrieb weiterführte.

Die Betriebsführung unterlag ab 1933 dem Landeskleinbahnamt Hannover, 1959 übernahm die Bentheimer Eisenbahn die Betriebsführung bis zum Ende des Schienenverkehrs. 1964 wurde die Gesellschaft erneut umbenannt, seitdem firmiert sie als Kreisbahn Aurich.

Der inzwischen regelspurige Abschnitt Ogenbargen–Wittmund wurde am 1. Oktober 1951 zwischen Ogenbargen und Ardorf und am 1. Dezember 1951 zwischen Ardorf und Wittmund stillgelegt, der Abbau begann noch im selben Jahr. Am 17. Mai 1953 wurde der Personenverkehr zwischen Esens und Aurich eingestellt, am 1. April 1956 auch auf der Strecke Aurich–Leer. Personenverkehr gab es nur noch im Bäderverkehr nach Langeoog nach Tidefahrplan auf dem Streckenstück Esens–Bensersiel. Dieser endete am 6. Februar 1967. Der Güterverkehr war hier schon am 15. September 1966 eingestellt worden, so dass 1967 mit dem Abbau der Gleise begonnen werden konnte. Am 30. Dezember 1969 fuhr der letzte Güterzug zwischen Esens und Leer. Nach der Stilllegung am 31. Dezember 1969 wurden die Gleisanlagen im Laufe der 1970er Jahre entfernt.

Strecke
Zwischen Wittmund und dem neuen Zeppelinflughafen Wittmundhaven wurde 1916 im Ersten Weltkrieg ein Vierschienengleis angelegt. Nach 1925 wurden die Regelspurgleise zunächst nicht mehr befahren. 1940 wurde der Abschnitt Wittmund–Wittmundhaven aus militärischen Gründen komplett auf Normalspur umgespurt, zwischen 1948 und 1950 auch der Abschnitt Wittmundhaven–Ogenbargen.

In folgenden Stationen bestand Anschluss an die Staatsbahn:
 Leer: Hannoversche Westbahn/Emslandstrecke Rheine–Lingen–Meppen–Emden und nach Oldenburg. Nördlich des Bahnhofs Leer, an dessen Westseite sich der Endbahnhof der Kleinbahn befand, kreuzte diese niveaugleich die zweigleisige Hauptstrecke nach Norddeich.
 Aurich: nach Abelitz und Emden. Der Bahnhof der Kleinbahn lag parallel unmittelbar neben dem fünfgleisigen Staatsbahnhof. Er wies zwei Kopfgleise an einem Zungenbahnsteig auf, von denen das staatsbahnseitige in den 1950er Jahren bereits abgebaut war. Sein Empfangsgebäude, ein verwinkelter Bau mit Fachwerkanteilen, stand quer zu dem der Staatsbahn.
 Esens und Wittmund: Ostfriesische Küstenbahn Esens–Wittmund–Sande (–Oldenburg)

Fahrzeuge

Dampflokomotiven
Der Betrieb wurde 1899 mit sechs zweiachsigen Dampflokomotiven der Firma Hagans eröffnet, später kamen noch acht weitere Maschinen verschiedener Bauarten zur Kleinbahn, die letzte 1941 aus Bayern. 1957 wurden die letzten Dampfloks abgestellt und fortan der gesamte Verkehr mit Triebwagen abgewickelt.

Triebwagen
Ab 1933 übernahmen Triebwagen, darunter zwei Wismarer Schienenbusse (SK 1 und SK 3) und ein Wismarer Triebwagen Typ Friesland (der einzige bekannte Wagen dieses Typs) (T 4), nach und nach die Personenzüge.

Der T4 ging beim Brand am 7. Januar 1947 verloren. Er unterschied sich durch die zweiachsige Bauart und die wie beim Typ Hannover abgeschrägte Front (ohne Motorvorbauten!) vom Typ Frankfurt. Angetrieben wurde er durch einen unter dem Wagen montierten Dieselmotor sowie Mylius-Getriebe auf eine Achse.

Wismarer Schienenbusse
Die beiden "Schweineschnäuzchen"  SK 1 und SK 3 hatten einen Achsstand von 4,00 m, sie waren zunächst über Stoßfänger 10,10 m lang. Ihre Wagenkästen hatten eine Länge von 7,24 m, sie waren 2,43 m breit und ca. 2,70 m hoch. Angetrieben wurden die Triebwagen von Ford-LKW-Benzinmotoren des Typs AA, von denen jeweils einer unter den beiden Motorhauben untergebracht war. Je nach Fahrtrichtung war nur der vordere Motor in Betrieb, da keine Wendegetriebe vorhanden waren. Nach dem Zusammenstoß mit einem LKW am 31. März 1938 wurde der SK 3 in der Waggonfabrik Wismar umgebaut und – unter Beibehaltung des Achsstands – um ein Abteil verlängert. Zudem wurde er mit neuen Motoren (Typ Ford-BB) ausgestattet und für den Betrieb mit Treibgas umgerüstet, die vier Gasflaschen wurden auf dem Dach untergebracht.

Die Triebwagen wiesen zunächst 24 gepolsterte Sitze in der Sitzteilung 2+2 auf, dazu mehrere Klappsitze in den Einstiegsräumen.

 SK 1: Fabriknummer 20204, ausgeliefert am 28. Januar 1933. Nach einem Auffahrunfall im Bahnhof Hesel am 3. Februar 1941 in der Waggonfabrik Wismar zum Beiwagen TA 1 umgebaut, wobei das Untergestell verkürzt wurde und die Motoröffnungen verschlossen wurden. Wiederinbetriebnahme am 13. März 1942, danach vor allem mit dem T 4 eingesetzt. 1957 an die Spiekerooger Inselbahn abgegeben; verschrottet.
 SK 3: Fabriknummer 20251, ausgeliefert am 10. Mai 1935. Wiederinbetriebnahme nach Umbau am 9. Januar 1939. Das Fahrzeug verbrannte am 7. Januar 1947 im Auricher Triebwagenschuppen.

T 47
Mit dem T 47 besaß die Bahn ab 1956 einen Güterschlepptriebwagen, der für den Rollbockverkehr ohne Zwischenwagen mit zusätzlichen Kupplungshaken und Puffern ausgestattet war. Es handelte sich um einen zweiachsigen Eigenbau, der 1955/56 in Aurich aus dem bei Herbrand gebauten Drehgestell-Personenwagen 573 entstand. Er hatte einen unterflurig angebrachten, 150 PS leistenden Büssing-Dieselmotor, der über ein hydromechanisches Voith-Diwabus-Getriebe und Kardanwellen beide Achsen antrieb. Zwischen den beidseitigen Führerständen wies das Fahrzeug ein durch Schiebetüren in der Fahrzeugmitte erreichbares Packabteil auf. Der T 47, der bis zu acht Güterwagen ziehen konnte, blieb bis zur Einstellung der Strecke vorhanden und wurde 1972 verschrottet.

Diesellokomotiven
Erst nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg setzte die Kleinbahn auch Diesellokomotiven ein, zunächst nur für Rangierdienste, später auch im Güterverkehr. Für die umgespurte Strecke nach Wittmund wurde eine zweiachsige normalspurige Lokomotive erworben, die vorher auf dem Fliegerhorst Wittmundhafen eingesetzt war. 1951 und 1953 kamen die ersten Schmalspurdiesellokomotiven. Für den Rollbockverkehr wurde 1961 eine Lokomotive von der Kleinbahn Selters–Hachenburg erworben, und unter der Bezeichnung D12 eingesetzt. Sie wurde 1968 verschrottet. 1967 wurde eine größere Diesellok gebraucht erworben, die 1959 gebaute D 08 des Typs MaK 400 BB. Die grün lackierte Lok, die Puffer und Kupplungshaken erhielt, konnte wie der T 47 aufgebockte Regelspurwagen ohne Zwischenwagen bewegen. Sie wurde 1971 an die Brohltalbahn verkauft und ist seit 1989 bei der Rhätischen Bahn (RhB) im Einsatz.

Nach der Stilllegung
Seit der Stilllegung der Kleinbahn im Jahr 1969 betreibt die Kreisbahn Aurich Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH einen Busverkehr in der Region, wobei jeweils die Bahnhöfe in Leer, Aurich, Esens, Wittmund und Sande als Endhaltestellen benutzt werden. Einige dieser Buslinien verlaufen abschnittsweise entlang der ehemaligen Kleinbahnstrecken. Ab 1980 war Alleingesellschafter des Unternehmens der Landkreis Aurich.

Es stehen heute zahlreiche Busse verschiedener Bauarten sowie Servicefahrzeuge zur Verfügung. Außerdem betätigt sich die Firma als Bus-Reiseunternehmen.

Die ehemalige Trasse wurde Ende der 1970er Jahre als Ostfriesland-Wanderweg ausgebaut, auf dem alljährlich der Ossiloop, ein Volkslauf, ausgetragen wird.

Literatur

Weblinks
 Homepage der  Kreisbahn Aurich Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH
 Eisenbahnromantik Folge 579

Einzelnachweise

Kleinbahn LeerAurichWittmund
Kleinbahn LeerAurichWittmund
Kleinbahn LeerAurichWittmund
Bahngesellschaft (Deutschland)
Bahnstrecke in Niedersachsen
Spurweite 1000 mm
Spurweite 1435 mm
Kleinbahn LeerAurichWittmund
Kleinbahn LeerAurichWittmund
Verkehr (Landkreis Leer)
Verkehr (Leer (Ostfriesland))

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Drinks vending gets a fresh look and feel with KLIX
Basingstoke, May 19, 2010: The KLIX drinks vending website has been transformed with a fresh look and easy to use navigation. The new website has been designed in order to ensure that prospects and customers have a simple, hassle-free platform through which to easily access information about the vending machines and drinks available.
KLIX is the UK's number one in-cup vending solution and is part of Mars Drinks, the specialist drinks division of the Mars Group of companies. As the market leader in drinks vending, the new KLIX website reflects the changing needs of customers and has been built with this in mind.
To increase ease of use, the new features also include a secondary navigation bar to make moving around the website more intuitive, thereby ensuring information is easily accessible, and ideal for those new to drinks vending.
This new platform allows for the further development of web 2.0 tools and utilities. Customers already have the option of getting in touch via Twitter and following updates from the team on the KLIX blog, and there are more innovations in the pipeline.
Shabbir Dungarwalla, UK e-business manager, Mars Drinks explains the thinking behind the updated website:
"As one of the leading innovators in the vending industry, we are continuously developing our online presence to allow our customers to interact with us in the way they prefer. We hope the new website reflects the KLIX ethos of simplicity and reliability and that our customers and prospects are able to access all the information they need with ease. If customers choose to go online because it is more convenient for them, we want to give them as many options to contact us as possible and embrace the new technologies that allow that."
To find out more about KLIX, please visit the new KLIX website http://www.klix.co.uk or call us on 0870 600 20 30 or get in touch via Twitter @MarsDrinksUK
For further information, please contact Jenifer Davis, jdavis@thebluedoor.com / Grace Park gpark@thebluedoor.com, 01252 899 969.
Mars Drinks (marsdrinks.co.uk) is a segment of Mars, Incorporated, a private, family-owned company founded in 1911 and employing 70,000 associates in 67 countries worldwide. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, USA, Mars, Incorporated is one of the world's largest food companies, generating global revenues of $30 billion annually and operating in six segments that produce some of the world's leading brands. In addition to the Drinks brands above, popular Mars, Incorporated brands include: in the Chocolate segment, M&M'S®, SNICKERS®, DOVE®, GALAXY ®, MARS®, MILKY WAY®, and TWIX®; in the Petcare segment, PEDIGREE ®, WHISKAS ®, SHEBA ®, CESAR ® and ROYAL CANIN ®; in the Wrigley segment, ORBIT ®, EXTRA ®, STARBURST ®, DOUBLEMINT ®, and SKITTLES ®; in the Food segment, UNCLE BEN'S ®, DOLMIO®, ELBY®, MASTERFOODS ® and SEEDS OF CHANGE®; and in the Symbioscience segment, COCOAPROTM, WISDOM PANELTM MX, and SERAMIS®.

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Justice Department Never Fully Examined Trump's Ties to Russia, Ex-Officials Say
Aug. 30, 2020 at 11:43 am Updated Aug. 30, 2020 at 12:49 pm
Michael S. Schmidt
This article is adapted from the book "Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President," being published Tuesday by Random House.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department secretly took steps in 2017 to narrow the investigation into Russian election interference and any links to the Trump campaign, according to former law enforcement officials, keeping investigators from completing an examination of President Donald Trump's decades-long personal and business ties to Russia.
The special counsel who finished the investigation, Robert Mueller, secured three dozen indictments and convictions of some top Trump advisers, and he produced a report that outlined Russia's wide-ranging operations to help get Trump elected and the president's efforts to impede the inquiry.
But law enforcement officials never fully investigated Trump's own relationship with Russia, even though some career FBI counterintelligence investigators thought his ties posed such a national security threat that they took the extraordinary step of opening an inquiry into them. Within days, Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general, curtailed the investigation without telling the bureau, all but ensuring it would go nowhere.
A bipartisan report by the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee released this month came the closest to an examination of the president's links to Russia. Senators depicted extensive ties between Trump associates and Russia, identified a close associate of a former Trump campaign chairman as a Russian intelligence officer and outlined how allegations about Trump's encounters with women during trips to Moscow could be used to compromise him. But the senators acknowledged they lacked access to the full picture, particularly any insight into Trump's finances.
Now, as Trump seeks reelection, major questions about his approach to Russia remain unanswered. He has repeatedly shown an openness to Russia, an adversary that attacked U.S. democracy in 2016, and refused to criticize or challenge the Kremlin's increasing aggressions toward the West. The president has also rejected the intelligence community's finding that Russia interfered in 2016 to bolster his candidacy and the spy agencies' assessment that Russia is trying to sabotage this year's election again on his behalf.
Rosenstein concluded that the FBI lacked sufficient reason to conduct an investigation into the president's links to a foreign adversary. Rosenstein determined that the investigators were acting too hastily in response to the firing days earlier of James Comey as FBI director, and he suspected that the acting bureau director who approved the opening of the inquiry, Andrew McCabe, had conflicts of interest.
Rosenstein never told McCabe about his decision, leaving the FBI with the impression that the special counsel would take on the investigation into the president as part of his broader duties. McCabe said in an interview that had he known Mueller would not continue the inquiry, he would have had the FBI perform it.
"We opened this case in May 2017 because we had information that indicated a national security threat might exist, specifically a counterintelligence threat involving the president and Russia," McCabe said. "I expected that issue and issues related to it would be fully examined by the special counsel team. If a decision was made not to investigate those issues, I am surprised and disappointed. I was not aware of that."
Rosenstein declined to comment. The disclosure about the counterintelligence investigation is based on interviews with former Department of Justice and FBI officials.
Installing Mueller as special counsel in May 2017, Rosenstein ordered him to examine "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government" and the Trump campaign. Many Democrats embraced the appointment as a sign that law enforcement would complete a full accounting of Trump's ties to Russia.
But privately, Rosenstein instructed Mueller to conduct only a criminal investigation into whether anyone broke the law in connection with Russia's 2016 election interference, former law enforcement officials said.
"I love Ken Starr," Rosenstein told Mueller, according to a new book by journalist Jeffrey Toobin that first reported the conversation. "But his investigation was a fishing expedition. Don't do that. This is a criminal investigation. Do your job, and then shut it down."
If Mueller wanted to expand his investigation, Rosenstein told him, he should ask for additional authorities and resources.
But the special counsel built a staff — some inherited from the DOJ and FBI, some of whom he hired — to investigate crimes, not threats to national security, which is the purview of counterintelligence investigations.
Simply investigating crimes, McCabe said, was a mismatched approach for a national security threat.
"It was first and foremost a counterintelligence case," McCabe said. "Could the president actually be the point of coordination between the campaign and the Russian government? Could the president actually be maintaining some sort of inappropriate relationship with our most significant adversary in the world?"
Members of the special counsel team held early discussions led by agent Peter Strzok about a counterintelligence investigation of the president. Those efforts fizzled when Strzok was removed from the inquiry three months later for sending text messages disparaging Trump.
Questions about the president's ties to Russia dated to his presidential campaign.
Trump has sought to build a Trump Tower in Moscow for at least two decades, including during the campaign. His son Eric once said the Trump Organization relied on Russia for "all the funding we need" to purchase several golf courses in the United States. And the Senate report this month revealed the allegations of Trump's potentially compromising encounters with women in Moscow in 1996 and 2013.
The FBI's mounting concerns about Trump reached a crescendo in the days after he fired Comey. Officials questioned whether Russia had leverage over the president and had dismissed the FBI director to thwart any investigation that might reveal more. Their suspicions prompted agents including Strzok to open the counterintelligence inquiry.
The investigation was separate from the broader inquiry into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, code-named Crossfire Hurricane, that the bureau opened in the summer of 2016 to try to understand Russia's operations to interfere in the election and whether Trump's associates were conspiring with them.
The president and his allies have ramped up their attacks on that inquiry, misleadingly casting it as an illegitimate attempt by Democrats to spy on his campaign; independent reviews have found that investigators had sufficient reason to open it.
McCabe, convinced that Trump would likely soon fire him, approved the opening of the inquiry into Trump, believing he was making it more difficult for anyone to interfere with or close the case without justifying doing so.
McCabe pushed Rosenstein to appoint a special counsel to conduct the investigation into Trump and the broader examination of Russia's interference in the election. Two days later, Rosenstein appointed Mueller.
"It was the most enormous exhale of my life," McCabe said. "I had been holding my breath" since the night Comey was fired, he added.
That day, Rosenstein joined McCabe while he briefed lawmakers about matters including the counterintelligence investigation and raised no objections.
The next day, McCabe briefed Mueller and his top deputies on the investigation into the president. But McCabe did not know that Rosenstein also gave his instruction to Mueller around that time to focus on whether crimes were committed.
Mueller later told Congress he did not conduct a counterintelligence investigation. The Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, said in a memo released last week that he had reason to believe "that the FBI Counterintelligence Division has not investigated counterintelligence risks arising from President Trump's foreign financial ties."
McCabe acknowledged that he underestimated Rosenstein's willingness to conceal from him that he had curtailed the investigation. He remained at the FBI for 10 months before being fired over displaying a lack of candor with internal watchdogs.
As McCabe left the bureau, he believed that Mueller was investigating Trump's personal and financial ties to Russia.
This story was originally published at nytimes.com. Read it here.


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Call for steps to conserve indigenous livestock breeds
September 27, 2010 08:53 pm | Updated 08:53 pm IST - KOTTAYAM:
The national conference on 'native livestock breeds and their sustainable uses' held here on Monday emphasised the urgent need for indigenous livestock breed conservation movements in the country.
The conference was organised by the Advanced Centre of Environmental Studies and Sustained Development, Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU), in association with the National Biodiversity Authority and the Vechur Conservation Trust.
Inaugurating the function, MGU Vice-Chancellor Rajan Gurukkal said that the lack of integrated community support has led to the extinction of many livestock breeds. "Various movements for cattle breed preservation have been successful in certain parts of Africa and the developed countries. The Conservation Research Initiative (CRI) that was implemented in Samburu, Kenya, is an example of this. This has been immensely effective in preserving many breeds," he said. Prof. Gurukkal called for a similar system to be implemented in the country. Delivering her presidential address, Sosamma Iype, managing trustee, the Vechur Conservation Trust, pointed out the bleak future faced by many breeds in the world. "Domestic animals face extinction at the rate of two breeds a week. A major reason for this has been the standardisation of agriculture. Moreover, corporatisation has led to patenting of many breeds. This has led to the preservation of a very few economically-viable breeds," she said.
Azim Bhattobyal, Joint Commissioner, Department of Animal Husbandry, opined that the proposed conservation system should encompass people from all spheres.
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Holly Martin always manages to put a big smile on my face whenever I read her books. This is no different with The Holiday Cottage by the sea. Chick lit lovers, you need to read this one. It's got everything a chick lit lover needs.
Series: Sandcastle Bay series #1. Standalone.
Holly Martin always manages to put a smile on my face through her books. Sure, some of them follow the same pattern and the only difference is characters, but the places she takes me to makes it so that these similarities don't matter. Her stories are uplifting, light, funny, heartfelt, and utterly charming. Her characters are delightful, a breath of fresh air, and downright adorable. And the sparkle of romance? Well, it may be fast, but is completely satisfying. If you are in the mood for a lighthearted chick lit novel, Holly Martin is a good "go to" author. Just like the other books I have read by her, this is a winner.
Enter Aidan Jackson. He's smart, ruggedly handsome, and as charming as they come. He's not looking for a relationship at all especially considering the heartbreak he felt when his fiance left him at the alter. But sometimes, when that one person walks into your life... Things change... Will Agitha's prediction of happily ever after come true? Or will Tori and Aiden simply have a little fun in the sun before she has to go back to London. You'll have to read to find out!
The Holiday Cottage by the Sea is exactly what I wanted and needed in a novel. It's a sweet and fun read with lough out loud moments, as well as emotional ones. But what sets the book apart? Is the gorgeous setting that author incorporated into the story. I wish it were real because I would be on the first plane to Sandcastle Bay.
Each of the books in this series can standalone. They are interconnected but revolve around different characters.


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Overkill's The Walking Dead postponed but not cancelled
Recently reports have been making the rounds stating that Overkill's The Walking Dead game has been canceled. However, publisher 505 Games has confirmed that the game is not canceled, but the console version has been delayed.
The reason many consumers believed Overkill's The Walking Dead to be canceled is that many PlayStation 4 users, who had pre-ordered the title, received an email telling them that their order is being refunded. According to these users PlayStation told them that the publisher, 505 Games, had notified them that the game had been canceled.
505 Games posted on their official Twitter account to clear up the confusion. They stated that the console version of Overkill's The Walking Dead, which they are responsible for, hasn't been canceled. They added that the game has been postponed whilst development continues. Finally they ended by saying that any further news would be conveyed as soon as possible.
Originally Overkill's The Walking Dead was due to release on consoles in February 2019, but an announcement made in January made it clear that this wouldn't be happening. It's not clear whether the delay 505 Games has talked about here is the same delay mentioned in January, or an additional one.
In the past PlayStation have cancelled pre-orders for games that did eventually release. The reason for the cancellation of these orders is due to the absence of a clear release date. It's possible that this is why Playstation canceled Playstation 4 pre-orders of Overkill's The Walking Dead, but they have yet to confirm whether this is the case.
Since it launched in November 2018 Overkill's The Walking Dead for PC has been underperforming, bringing in just $3.7 million revenue. Towards the end of last year the developer Starbreeze Studios was facing insolvency, at which point they re-dedicated themselves to the games development and publishing side of their business. In order to do this they have moved away from VR, an area in which they had invested heavily.
Starbreeze Studios recently sold the publishing rights for System Shock 3 to the original owner, OtherSide Entertainment. This helped them recoup the costs they had incurred during the game's development.
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Joel Embiid has gotten off to a hot start this season. The Philadelphia 76ers might need even more production from their star center if their floor leader is sidelined on Tuesday.
The Sixers are 2-1 with Embiid averaging 28.3 points, 10.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists. He had 32 points in a 116-115 win over Orlando on Saturday.
Philadelphia played most of the game without Ben Simmons, who departed with back tightness. Simmons didn't practice on Monday and is listed as questionable to play at Detroit on Tuesday.
Shooting guard JJ Redick played extended minutes in his absence and poured in 31 points, including a game-winning 3-pointer.
"I told him the other day that (Redick) is the best player, he was the best player I've ever played with just because we always understand each other so well," Embiid told The Athletic. "I'm able to get him open and I love especially when it comes to sharing the ball, I know that when I'm going to set the screen or hand it off, I know I'm going to be happy with the outcome."
Reserve big man Mike Muscala, who has yet to play this season due to a left ankle sprain, is also listed as questionable.
The Pistons won their first two games but they haven't been overly impressive. They defeated two of the projected weaker teams in the Eastern Conference, Brooklyn and Chicago, both of whom were playing without two of their starters.
Detroit eked out a 118-116 victory over the Bulls on Saturday after squandering a late five-point advantage. Ish Smith's finger roll with 5.4 seconds left proved to be the game-winner.
Like Embiid, Pistons power forward Blake Griffin is off to an impressive start, averaging 29.5 points, 10.0 rebounds and 5.5 assists. He's gone 6-for-8 on his 3-point attempts.
Griffin was rehabbing from injuries in his last two seasons with the Los Angeles Clippers. He was in better health this offseason and used that time wisely.
"The last two summers I didn't get to start working out until mid-August, and that was 15 minutes of spot shooting. So, you can imagine the frustration for me personally - you know for being so limited in working on my game, because that's always been a big thing for me," Griffin said. "So that's not to say this season I'm going to shoot 70 percent from three this season, but being able to at least put in that time gives you confidence to take shots like that at the end of the game."
Griffin also had the benefit of a full training camp with the Pistons and new head coach Dwane Casey after being acquired in a blockbuster trade in late January.
"He's an All Star. He's a superstar in our eyes," Smith said. "Any time we need a big shot, we need that from him every night and he is going to give us that every night."
Casey has at times paired up his top point guards, Smith and Reggie Jackson, and that has boosted the offense. The Pistons scored 43 points in the 11-plus minutes that duo was on the court together at Chicago.
"Our two (point) guard lineup is something we'll see more of," Casey said. "With Reggie, he's one of our best standstill 3-point shooters so we can utilize him (off the ball)."
Philadelphia swept the four-game series last season.


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Hi all, and welcome to the 2023 CQ Ranking Manager Game! This is the 13th edition of the game! Please see below for some history, basics, and more specific rules related to dates, dopers, etc.
The game was launched on December 8th 2010 by cyclingnews forum poster Hugo Koblet. His idea was to have a game where you build a cycling team from the website cqranking.com and its comprehensive numerical rankings of riders. What was originally meant to be a 25-team max competition that Hugo reserved the right to cancel if there was lack of interest became the most successful game in cyclingnews forum history, and has expanded to velorooms forums as well.
Hugo successfully ran the game for 3 years, and it bred various offshoots, such as a youth game, seasonal games (classics and GTs), emerging riders and riders in decline games. I took over organizing the main game for 2014 when Hugo got too busy, and have done so since then. See the second post in this thread for a roll of honour of yearly champions.
That is it for preamble. Let's go through the more comprehensive set of rules:
The game is based on the point system developed by the website www.cqranking.com. Based on this system you will have to select a team of between 25 and 33 riders whose combined value doesn't exceed 7500 points. 7500 points is normally under the mean for the ProTour teams; the median for 2022 is 8070. 7500 is closest to the amount of points team Movistar made this season, the 11th ranked of the 18 WT teams.
Your aim then is to select a team of riders who will increase their 2022 score the most during the 2023 season. The winner of the game is the one who has selected the team with the highest combined value when the game ends.
1. How the game works
1.1. Start & Finish
The season starts when the first major race (.1 or higher) giving CQ points is held and ends when the last major race is held. The winner will be crowned when the next update after the last major race is out.*
*An extension will be granted to the end of season if it is very close at the top. If any teams are within 100 points of the leader after the last major race, the season will be automatically extended until the final race of the year unless all teams within 100 points explicitly concede. As well, anyone in the top 10 can extend the season by PMing me a request to do so before the last major race starts.
(The reason for this second rule is that although minor races go through December, it is rare to have a rider in the game participate in these races, so it is sensible to end the season when people are still generally watching cycling. But if it's a very close race, it's important to crown the person who picked the best team for the year.)
1.2 Updates
Each week we will publish an update with a top 10 and a list of the high scorers and high jumpers. This will sometimes be by me, and sometimes by others – I will be setting a tentative schedule based on volunteers.
2. On doping
2.1. On ex-dopers
All riders are available to choose, except for riders who are provisionally suspended by the UCI (as of their most recent list).
Riders who have been suspended for doping and had that affect their 2022 score will not be available simply for their 2022 score. Instead, a rider's value will be equivalent to that of his last full season; or, if he has more recently had a (not full, due to suspension) season in which he has earned more points, that season represents his value. Riders who have been suspended by the UCI (ie. Not merely provisionally suspended) are on this list.
Therefore, you can pick any rider you like, but if you want to take Michele Gazzoli, for example (his suspension ends in 2022), he got 20 points in 2022 prior to his suspension. This means his last 'full' season was 2021, in which he scored 45 points, which would be his cost for this game.
Hopefully the lists I've provided and the rules are clear enough, but if you make an error I will try to let you know if any of your submissions fall into this category.
2.2. Riders getting caught during the season
If you include a rider in your team who gets caught with his hands in the cookie jar, nothing happens right away. Your rider keeps his points unless the cqranking.com deletes his results before the end of the game.
Basically, the value of a rider on cqranking.com always stands.
3. Submitting your team
3.1. How do I?
You pick between 25 and 33 riders whose combined value doesn't exceed 7500 points and send the list to me.
As I will manually have to copy/enter the teams into the Microsoft Excel file which keeps track of the scores, please be careful that you send your team to me based on the correct formula. I don't take any responsibility for any error you might make. If I spot an error I will do my best to contact you but I can't guarantee anything. Of course, if you have any questions feel free to ask either here in this thread or by sending a personal message.
The layout you need to use is this:
ROGLIC Primoz
POGACAR Tadej
Nothing else. No point scores after the name. Also, be careful that there is no "space" after the name, because I will have to delete it manually, but can't always detect these things in time for the game. If there is an error that isn't discovered until after the game starts, and that error makes your team ineligible (eg. if it puts your team over the limit) the rider will simply be deleted from the team without replacement.
To make things easier for both you and me I will link to a file for you to download in which you can type in your team and it will automatically show you the value of each rider as well as the aggregated value of your team. Then you will just have to copy your team (names only) directly from this file and send it to me.
Hopefully this clears any misunderstandings of a rider's value as well as reduces the number of errors made in a team sent to me.
3.2. When do I?
The first race of the season will start January 8, so I want to have your team in hand on January 7 at the latest.
There are two deadlines: a submission deadline and a revision/publication deadline, spaced 24 hours apart. This is to address the issue brought up in recent years about whether it is 'fair' to allow changes after teams have seen the teams of other players, and for 'late' submissions. I would like to make this a game that is accessible to as many people as possible, yet preserve that element of fairness. So, the submission deadline will be when I want to have received all the teams. The revision and publication deadline is to allow a 24-hour period for me to look over the teams and allow a chance to people to change their team in case of error, before having access to a list of riders that other teams picked. If you get mixed up with the time zone or unexpectedly don't have internet access around the submission deadline, I will accept teams up to the revision deadline at my discretion, but if allowed those teams will not have the chance to revise in case of error.
The submission deadline is 23:59 (CET) January 6th, so early January 7th for Aussies and sometime earlier on January 6th for North Americans. The revision and publication deadline is 24 hours later; I would ask that people refrain from posting the riders on their team until after that, so midnight CET on the start of January 7th.
Please note that even though the racing season is over, it is always possible that CQ will adjust points for an earlier season race for whatever reason (eg. readjusting points for suspended dopers) Be mindful of these changes.
cqranking.com usually uploads the final update of the season on December 31, and the values in this update are the ones we're using. However, the changes are usually very small so there's no reason why you can't start selecting your team already today!
Disclaimer: ensuring your team is full of eligible riders and is on budget is your responsibility. If I notice you are over budget or have an ineligible rider I will send you a message, but if you don't get back to me in time, or I don't catch it before the deadline, I will simply remove one rider to make your budget work. Obviously it is to your advantage to be able to choose all your riders, so please be diligent.
Create Your Team
Hugo created a very helpful file in 2012, referred to above, that helps avoid any errors in calculation and helps ensure you are formatting your rider names correctly. I would encourage everyone to use this option, especially if you are not confident in your spreadsheet creating skills. Please use the file attached here to create your team, then copy and paste the rider names to send to me by PM once you have it correct. Thank you.
note: the 'create your team' file has not yet been manually updated to include different scores for dopers as per rule 2.1, so it is currently wholly your responsibility to account for this.
I think that about covers everything. If you have any questions or if I forgot to add or explain anything, please let me know.
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I'm going to reserve the second post in the thread for a list of teams who have submitted, as they come in, as well as list an honour roll of top finishers throughout the years.
Here are the 73 confirmed teams as of 2:30am CET on January 6th, 2023:
1 comodoro
2 Bonimenier
3 Jumbo Visma Fan
4 Lortnoc
5 Salvarani
6 RedheadDane
7 ArmchairCyclist
8 AupaPyama
9 BlueRoads
10 EvansIsTheBest
11 zigzag wanderer
12 Jpettersen
13 DJ Sprtsch
14 laarsland
15 NielsB
16 Sneekes
17 firefly3323
18 search
19 trackstand
20 bminchow
21 Nakazar
22 DJW
23 vladimir
24 Joelsim
25 azazel
26 Eddy Evenepoel
27 Leadbelly
28 scrooll07
29 Kazistuta
30 zaka fan
31 King Of The Wolds
32 vickyriso
33 Total Package
34 R_O_Shipman
35 armchairclimber
36 LosBrolin
37 slow_climber
38 Crevaison
39 Blues in the Bottle
40 ray10
41 Berflamand
42 Otoxiep87
43 SafeBet
44 Object
45 Eric10
46 Earns1985
47 AlfaLum
48 Anderis
49 Fivezzz
50 Nevs
51 Panda Claws
52 escartin
53 jon_ezeitza
54 del1962
55 jsem94
56 the asian
57 Rufs
58 Popchu
59 waku waku
60 Gotland
61 Whoops
62 karaev*
63 Riverside
64 HoudiniCycling
65 triley36
66 MADRAZO
67 Kryvo
68 LaFlorecita
69 adamski101
70 18-Valve(pithy)
71 NorthAmericanScum
72 Londonpat
73 Devil's Elbow
2011 – 87 participants: ingsve – 13897 points
2012 – 129 participants: skidmark – 19345 points
2013 – 132 participants: SteelyDan – 13094 points
2014 – 150 participants: Pentacycle – 14367 points
2015 – 155 participants: Cykeltyven – 16209 points
2017 – 131 participants: fauniera – 15867 points
2018 – 129 participants: ruvu75 – 16513 points
2019 - 114 participants: fauniera - 14579 points
2020 - 113 participants: bminchow - 10010 points
2021 - 93 participants: Object - 19129 points
2022 - 91 participants: EvansIsTheBest - 18662 points
armchairclimber
Thank you skidmark for organising this again. I started work on my eam this week after a pretty woeful 2022.
One question about the file; do we need to use the CQ formula when typing in the names? Probably better if I use the file, rather than add up the numbers myself, even with a calculator, I might mess up.
Yes, I'll be using my "successful" method from the various sub-games the last few years; the trusty Random Number Generator! I've pre-selected 33 riders, and if they're below budget; lucky me. If they're not, I'll just RNG riders away until I go below budget, and hopefully before I go below 25 riders.
jsem94
I have 25 riders set in stone. Those eight other riders though, there are so many of them that could have enormous upside. Every year is also about not missing the obvious picks. I ought not to have missed one, but you never know.
It could be a fun year, with very different teams I reckon.
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Salvarani said:
Definitely agree on the fun part! Had a bit of extra motivation this time, so I've started earlier than what has been the case over the past few seasons. Thought that would make my life easier. Not the case! Haven't even settled on the major team-defining decisions. Keep changing it up every time I revisit the team.
Decisions, decisions ...
And thanks again to skidmark for keeping this awesome game going!
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EvansIsTheBest
Add me to the list of people that started working on their team earlier than usual. I didn't want to follow up last year with a dud. Probably the easiest time I've had when it came to building the general structure of my team (a lot of back and forth on the last few guys on the roster though) but now I'm starting to second guess myself.
I agree that this year should see some diverse team strategies (but we'll have to wait for the team reveals to get to the why there are multiple strategies available). There's three riders' popularity numbers that I'm especially looking forward to because that will define how popular the main strategies are (it would be four but I very much doubt a significant number of players will pay the price for the fourth guy).
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During the covid-ruined 2020 season I lost a bit of interest in both cycling and anything CQ related, so I stopped updating my aggregate spreadsheet and never picked it up again. Until now, when I've finally found some time and motivation to do it. So here's a look at some game statistics and a bit of trivia!
(here you can read my previous post from the 2019 thread)
Top overall score
Rank Name Total score
1 skidmark 165940
2 MADRAZO 159860
3 Hugo Koblet 158396
4 EvansIsTheBest 157505
5 Kazistuta 157059
6 Object 153156
7 Jpettersen 150181
8 Armchair cyclist 146821
9 will10 146579
10 shalgo 145209
skidmark's lead stays more or less unassailable, and I think it has been that way since their dominant 2012 win. The rest of the top five is very close. MADRAZO took back 2nd place from Hugo Koblet in 2022, after having relinquished it to the game founder in 2019.
shalgo is the only one in the top ten who hasn't taken part in all 12 editions of the game. Impressively, shalgo is ahead of three of the remaining dozen who have participated in all editions. These being Blues in the bottle, Mellow Velo and Jakob747, who make up 11th, 12th and 13th on this list, respectively.
There is only one instance where a player outscores a competitor who has two more participations. Nyssinator with their 7 participations is 52nd on the overall ranking, outscoring Josedin (56th), who has 9 participations, by 2113 points. This feat is greatly helped by Nyssinator having finished 3rd in the high-scoring 2012 edition, where Josedin didn't take part.
Average placement (3+ participations)
Rank Name Participations Average placing
1 The Hitch (5) 16
2 TheArt (3) 18
3 skidmark (12) 20
4 SafeBet (6) 22
5 Kryvo (3) 22
6 Squire (10) 23
7 gustienordic (4) 24
8 tobydawq (4) 24
9 Hugo Koblet (12) 26
10 MADRAZO (12) 26
If you don't play, you can't mess up. And that's what keeps The Hitch on top of this ranking despite not having taken part since 2015. When I last compiled this list in 2019, Hakkie2 had a very impressive average placing of 11th from their first 4 participations, but they have since tumbled down the list due to some bad years. Special shoutout to the ever-consistent skidmark, who has steadily improved on their average placing each year since 2018.
Top weekly scores
Rank Name Weekly score After which race
1 Object 2551 Vuelta a Espana 2022
2 Crevaison 2484 Vuelta a Espana 2022
3 Rakim 2377 Vuelta a Espana 2022
4 skidmark 2223 Vuelta a Espana 2022
5 repre 2209 Vuelta a Espana 2022
6 rote_laterne 2160 Vuelta a Espana 2022
7 Ben1376 2146 Giro d'Italia 2014
8 fauniera 2101 Giro d'Italia 2014
9 Bonimenier 2100 Vuelta a Espana 2022
10 CQmanager 2063 Tour de France 2015
The 2022 season really turned this list on its head! Not only did Object and five other players smash the old weekly record following Evenepoel's Vuelta win, the year also brought another 2000+ week when bminchow got 2032 points after the Giro d'Italia, currently the 13th highest weekly score. bminchow is also to be found among the ten players reaching 2000+ for the Vuelta, making it a year for the record books despite no significant overall success for the 2020 game winner.
So far nobody has managed to reach 1500 points in a non-GT GC week (all the 1500+ weeks make it into my list). I think the one who has come the closest has been myself, scoring 1495 points in a wild Colbrelli-fueled week in September 2021, just before the Worlds, with a bunch of high-scoring Italian, Belgian and German one-day races and some minor stage races to boot.
Top yearly scores
Rank Name Points Year
1 skidmark 19372 2012
2 Object 19129 2021
3 Squire 19015 2021
4 Total Package 18676 2021
5 EvansIsTheBest 18662 2022
6 Northerner 18293 2021
7 Kvinto 18106 2012
8 Jon_Ezeitza 18009 2021
9 Nyssinator 17785 2012
10 Otoxiep87 17643 2021
Despite the winning scores edging closer over the past couple of years, skidmark's legendary 2012 still reigns supreme.
Until 2022, skidmark's 2012 team was also the winning team with the lowest 'year-before' score (meaning 2010 rider values in their case), indicating some very good predictions about emerging riders, and not just picking established riders who had an off year. skidmark's 33 trusted men clocked in at a 2010 CQ value of only 12253, as if the record wasn't impressive enough already. For comparison, the winning team with (unsurprisingly) the highest 'year-before' score was Object's 2021 team. Taking advantage of 'artificially' low 2020 scores for a lot of riders, that team had a 2019 score of a staggering 24438 points, indicating just how much talent was available for the 2021 game. Most winning teams have had a 'year-before' score of around 15000-17000.
The main reason why I'm mentioning all of this, is because of the extreme outlier that is EvansIsTheBest's winning team of 2022. With a 'year-before' score of 7499 points, that could have been a CQ team within budget in 2020! Of course, when the comparison year happens to be 2020, a lot of riders scored less than normal. But I'd argue that it still indicates quite a different approach compared to most other game winners and some very impressive eye for talent from EvansIsTheBest! Even if low 2020 scores across the board accounts for the low number to an extent, the game-winning picks still had to be found with a lot less data to rely on compared to normal years. For reference, my own 2022 team had a 2020 score of 9166, and I'm also someone who doesn't just look at riders' past glory.
Rank Name Percentage of teams Year
1 DUMOULIN Tom 96% 2020
2 BOONEN Tom 92% 2014
3 KITTEL Marcel 92% 2016
4 SCHLECK Andy 90% 2013
5 HUSHOVD Thor 89% 2013
6 BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley 89% 2021
7 CAVENDISH Mark 89% 2018
8 DEGENKOLB John 89% 2017
10 NIZZOLO Giacomo 86% 2018
Tom Dumoulin is the most popular pick in CQ history, having been chosen by 96% of all the players in 2020. Marcel Kittel has the distinction of placing in the top ten twice. 2022's most popular pick, Lennard Kämna, is all the way down in 23rd place, having been on 81% of all teams this year. Some of the nearly ubiquitous riders have been quite unsuccesful, but the relatively recent entry of Egan Bernal (89% of teams in 2021) has the highest increase in points of all riders who've been picked by more than 70% of teams in any given year, adding 1286 points on his cost. Bernal scored 1736 points at a cost of 450. The highest percentage return among riders picked by more than 70% of teams is the 3990% increase for Joe Dombrowski (scored 399 at a cost of 10) in 2015. Of course the 2019 0-pointer Remco Evenepoel, who scored 952 points, is mathematically unavailable for this comparison. The Evenepoel that came straight from the junior ranks is found in 32nd place on this list, having been picked by 78% of players. He is the most popular 0-pointer in the game's history.
Total overall picks
Rank Name Total picks
1 CAVENDISH Mark 445
2 ARU Fabio 433
3 CHAVES RUBIO Jhoan Esteban 375
4 PHINNEY Taylor 362
5 DOMBROWSKI Joseph Lloyd 356
6 EWAN Caleb 353
7 BETANCUR GOMEZ Carlos Alberto 351
8 MOSER Moreno 333
9 LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel 324
10 GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando 316
Mark Cavendish is the most-picked rider in CQ game history across all the game editions. He took over the lead from Taylor Phinney in 2020 (where also Aru and Chaves passed Phinney) and extended it in 2021. Nobody picked him for 2022. The most-picked rider who was also picked in 2022 is Jhoan Esteban Chaves. One solitary player put their trust in him for 2022, which, as has been the case for most years, turned out to be a not so good idea.
2020 was the last year where we still had riders who had been picked in every single edition of the game up to that point. Carlos Betancur, Luke Durbridge, Yoann Offredo and Taylor Phinney were the last survivors, having been picked in 2020 and every preceding year. Nobody picked any of them in 2021, so now we unfortunately don't have any more ever-presents. Interestingly though, two riders who had been ever-presents up to and including 2019, but were not picked in 2020, has continued to be picked in 2021 and 2022. These are Mikel Landa and Nairo Quintana. When six players took Landa at a cost of 1336 points in 2018, it wouldn't have been inconcievable that someone took him for 967 points when he moved to Bahrain in 2020. But nobody did. In just a slightly alternative reality he'd still be an ever-present in the CQ game. As for Quintana, nobody wanted him anymore when he moved to Arkea in 2020 and cost 1257 points, but he has made a reappearance at a discount in the past two years.
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Squire said:
The 'year before' analysis is interesting but you are giving me far too much credit. It's really just a combination of Covid in 2020 and some obvious young guys performing exceedingly well (Evenepoel, Ayuso, Uijtdebroeks, Girmay). I'd argue that Zingle and Van Gils to a lesser extent are the only obscure young guys on my team to have a breakthrough which hardly explains why my team is such an outlier. I've also had plenty of whiffs like picking Abner Gonzalez and Hugo Toumire and not including Arnaud De Lie or Magnus Sheffield as well.
Loving all the stats!! Great work
Why not just pick 33 riders you think will do well?
I'm interested to see if Koronin will pick Valverde.
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tobydawq said:
I think it has been well-established that I don't actually know much about cycling - apart from Women's Cycling, apparently - and besides; the RNG is fun! Think of it as the guarantee that none of the rest of you are gonna end up last.
Hugo Koblet
Awesome stuff, Squire! That's really fun and interesting to read. Unfortunately, I won't be participating this year for the first time ever. I love the game but I have a lot of other obligations this winter which is gonna be very busy for me, so I've decided to spend the little cycling time I'll have on another cycling game (we all know how time consuming trying to create the perfect CQ team is).
I'll definitely keep checking in on this thread though. Good luck to everyone and thanks once again to skidmark for keeping the game going!
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Hugo Koblet said:
It took me less than an hour to create the team that gave me an 8th place in my first season.
But life has caught a little bit up with me too, so I'm not quite as knowledgeable and up-to-date this year as is usually the case, so that will probably make the process a lot longer.
For me it's not really about winning, but to have 33 riders to cheer for during the season.
Of course I want to be in the top ten, but it's not why I'm joining the game.
After spending a long time thinking about who might do good in the season to come, I usually end up picking riders that I want to do good, but that I do not really expect to be part of the winning move.
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Hmm... can't seem to get the file to work, says I need to log onto the "Drop Box", but I don't have the drop box...
So, just to be clear; it's the "overall total" number I have to use? Or the "overtall 2022"?
CQ Ranking - KOLZE CHANGIZI Sebastian
The 2022 number. For Kolze Changizi it's 58.
DJ Sprtsch said:
Thanks, cool!
Btw, @skidmark ,apart from having to use the CQ naming formula when sending in teams, do you have any other preferences? Such as riders being listed alphabetically, or by CQ points? Or by height?
There might be some automatic sorting formula in the spreadsheet, but I've seen some teams not be sorted correctly as well. So you'll cause the least amount of trouble if you sort your riders by CQ points, most expensive ones at the top. But submit them to skidmark without the points tally, only a clean list of names (and sometimes if you copy/paste names from a spreadsheet or whatever, a "space" could sneak in at the end. Make sure you avoid that, because that will make the spreadsheet unable to connect the names to the point scoring).
bminchow
Great stuff Squire!! I love the numbers. I guess the only thing missing is avg total points/year, which is kind of covered by avg place/entry.
I agree, way more fun
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bminchow said:
I'm trying to, but I'm already way above budget, and I'm down to 25 riders!
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Will Your Ark Sustain The Journey? 343. Oct 3, 2021
But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
- Matthew 24:37 (New King James Version) (For the actual story of Noah, read Genesis 6-9)
In our scripture above, the Lord outlines the trap awaiting the unprepared right now, as it did in Noah's time. Verse 37 doesn't tell much of a story, so we need to read Genesis). What it does tell us is that two groups of people, one in Genesis and one now, were and will be unprepared for God's judgment on the world in their respective times.
Noah had preached the Word of God to them for years as he built his vessel, but they laughed and dismissed him as another religious nutter and maintained their current lifestyles. We all think our lifestyles are okay, but they are measured, not according to how we see them, but how God sees them. Every life on earth is under the watchful eye of the Lord every day, as He measures our lives against His Word.
In the days of Noah, corruption, brutality, oppression, deception, and sexual deviance peaked. God was closing down their world, but they still wouldn't listen to the warnings. They created an ending to their lives entirely of their own design.
Today, many preachers are calling people to repentance, as the days of this earth are coming to an end. But, like the people in Noah's time, most now are not listening. We are complacent, thinking it won't happen in our time. We go about our lives as if God isn't there at all.
Much of humankind today don't consider the Lord. They neither give thought to the creation or creator. Like Noah's neighbours, they simply exist in a world of continually degrading wickedness which they misinterpret as normal.
In Noah's time, the stench arising from their way of life filled the Lord's cup of wrath, and he took measures never seen before. As odd as it seems, nobody had seen or heard of rain until it arrived. Dew watered the earth. They dismissed Noah until the day it rained. It was only then they found his prophecies accurate, after all.
Genesis chapters 6-9 outlines the story of the great flood and Noah's Ark, which kept safe the inhabitants during the earth's most trying event to date.
At 500 years old, God called Noah to build an Ark. For those 500 years, his life pleased the Lord. The things he said, how he thought and acted, treated his wife, raised his children, and conducted his business affairs were all pleasing sacrifices of a sweet-smelling savour. Noah loved and lived righteousness. He loved his Lord and is a true example of how to live a life of promise.
Noah built the Ark for one purpose only. To sail through a prolonged monumental event never seen before or since. This begs the question, is your spiritual Ark capable of doing that for you?
There are many illustrations in the Ark story, but I'll focus on only two: the Ark's impenetrability and the food storage.
After many years in building, the Ark was watertight, despite the rain hammering continuously for forty days and nights. Could your faith in Jesus Christ be strong enough to withstand continual hammering without cracks appearing?
Once the constant rain produced enough water to float the Ark, its direction was then at the mercy of God for the next few months. Is your faith strong enough that you could leave your direction up to God for a prolonged period, without fear or apprehension? With the same relaxed peace that Daniel had in the lion's den?
Noah loaded sufficient provisions for a long journey, the end of which he never knew. Is your knowledge of scripture and understanding of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit strong enough to withstand prolonged journeys? If your Bible was removed from you now, do you have enough knowledge to sustain yourself?
How do we build strong faith to get through big trials? How did our heroes of faith do it?
David and Goliath? David was small in comparison, but his faith was bigger than Goliath's size. David decided that God was omnipotent and the only ruler of life. On that conviction and the confidence that came from that, he not only challenged Goliath to a battle but ran at him.
The Apostle Paul made a similar decision of faith at the beginning of his ministry, that whatever happened, his Lord was in charge. This great belief sustained him through years of brutal adversity and affliction.
Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego made the same decision long before being thrown into the fire. They basically laughed at Nebuchadnezzar's thought that he held the power over their lives.
Wait! What about Peter when he stepped out of the boat and walked on water but then sank?
Peter stepped out in faith on the spur of the moment, which was amazing, but I don't think he had made a decision he could stand on, one that would carry him through. Therefore, he feared and fell at the same juncture that Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego stood—at the point where continued faith was required.
In Ephesians 6:13, Paul wrote of his experiences, "Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand."
Noah didn't fear because he built the Ark to God's blueprint and had faith in that. As he was putting the Ark together, his faith got stronger. Our faith should also develop like that. When we read scripture, we cannot afford to doubt God Word, even if we don't understand it at times. Doubt brings shaky faith, like Peter sinking on the water, the same as an Ark with a big hole in it.
Noah had no test runs for the flood nor his building of the Ark, and many of our trials haven't allowed test runs either. But isn't that what faith is? Isn't this what it's all about?
When we make that one great decision that God is in charge, faith doesn't need test runs. It's right the first time. We simply need to stand on it and ride the trial through.
Today's prayer: Dear Lord, thank you again for the reminder that I need to decide that you are my God through all my trials as well as good times. Thank you for the power given me when I stand on my decision of faith, and use faith properly.
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Paris is a city to see on foot. There a many great walking tours and options, all of which involve time well spent in Parisian cafés. Sites you won't want to miss in Paris are the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, The Sacred Heart Basilica, Museum d'Orsay and the Louvre National Museum. Give yourself plenty of time to visit the sites because there is an overwhelming amount of fascinating art and history to take in.
Paris is perhaps one of the most filmed and photographed cities in the world. The "City of Light" is inundated with romance, intrigue and elegance.
There are enough museums in Paris that you could easily spend your entire visit admiring the art of world-famous artists such as Rembrandt, Van Gough and collections from Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Etruscan history.
You'll also want to take time to relax at a sidewalk café and enjoy the French cuisine.
The Eiffel Tower was unveiled in 1889 at the Paris Exhibition, despite a multitude of protests. Today, more than 2 million people climb the tower's stairs each year to take in the breathtaking panorama view of the city. Most people walk up the 747 steps, but in 2002 Hugues Richard rode a bicycle to the top in 19 minutes.
The Latin Quarter received its name because it's where scholars studied in Latin during the Middle Ages. The area surrounds Sorbonne University.
It took over 180 years to complete Notre Dame Cathedral. The building was cleaned in 1990s with lasers that burned off the grime. Parisian officials decided to leave a portion of the cathedral dirty to remind people what it used to look like.
Pere Lachaise Cemetery opened in 1804 but didn't have any customers because people felt it was too far from the city. Eventually the bodies of the famous medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise, were transferred to the cemetery. Since then, the cemetery became a popular graveyard and tourist destination.
Paris is often called the City of Light, although the nickname has nothing to do with the city's actual light. Instead, the name refers to intellects and artists who came to the city, making it a place of enlightenment.
Paris is a city proud of its history. The landscape is still based around the Ile de la Cite where Celtic tribes first settled over 2,000 years ago. Years later, the Romans showed interest in the area until the English ruled from 1420 to 1436. Around the same time a consecutive order of French kings centralized France with Paris at its heart.
As one of the most popular destinations in the world, Paris receives 45 million tourists a year. Sixty percent of the visitors are foreigners.Hotels in Paris are rated into category by prices ranging from 100 Euros to over 400 Euros.
The Black Sea is an inland sea in Eastern Europe, surrounded by Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania. It is connected to the Mediterranean by the Bosphorus Strait. A Black Sea cruise will take you to lands known for their history, terrain, unique cultures and long-standing traditions.
Port stops in the Ukraine, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania are featured and sailings are typically 7 to 14 nights in length sailing from April through October. Favorites are the sunny Crimean Coast, the colorful day-to-day activities of Istanbul, or the therapeutic resorts of Odessa.
Most cruisers have not considered a Black Sea cruise and undoubtedly the question comes up – is it worth it? Absolutely! But, go there soon before the modern plague of commercialism starts to erode its unique characteristics.
The Black Sea is one of the best-kept secrets of the cruising world. It offers a perfect antidote to the crowds that clamor to the Mediterranean. It offers every bit as much history and culture, alongside fabulous white sand beaches and increasingly sophisticated cities.
You can look forward to a wide variety of experiences on a Black Sea cruise – one day soaking up the sun on the beaches of Varna in Bulgaria, the next exploring the cobbled medieval streets of nearby Nessebur. Perhaps the magnificent parks and fine architecture of Odessa, the region's most sophisticated city piques your interest. Or if some real world history is your Black Sea thing, visit Sevastopol – where the Light Brigade made its legendary Crimean War charge. Yalta is where Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill gathered and re-drew the map of Europe at the end of World War II.
For the foodies in the group, a Black Sea cruise should not disappoint. Local dishes abound including pelmeny (meat dumplings), vareniki (a sweet version of pelmeny but stuffed with cherries or ricotta cheese). And if you are VERY adventurous, a plate of barbecued sheep's testicles are sure to hit the spot; or not. And like every bizarre food that few have the courage to eat, they supposedly taste (wait for it) just like chicken.
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Ni5-2 Maria Nicholas (1780 - ? ) 17 March 1804 married Col. Thomas D. Owings of Kentucky in Lexington Ky.
Ni5-8 Margarette Gailbraith Nicho1as (1789 – Aug.13, 1819) married first Gen. J.C. Bartlett, second Gov. Thomas Fletcher, died without issue. She was portraited by Jouet; the portrait in the posession of Gen Charles Parsons Nicholas Ni3-5-4 in 1975.
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with her husband, George Nicholas, as an emigrant from Albemarle county. This was in 1790, when they moved to Kentucky. She was a widow for about six years after her husband' s death in 1799. During that time she continued to live in Kentucky, where she died when her youngest son, Samuel Smith Nicholas, (Ni5) was about eight years old. Her brother, General Samuel Smith of Baltimore, (who reared her son Samuel Smith Nicholas in Baltimore), and. Wilson Cary Nicholas, later Governor of Virginia, both visited Kentucky during the settlement of the George Nicholas estate. 'This process was of long duration, and was a very involved affair. The large estate was much dep1eted - by debts - and fees.
Mary Smith Nicholas' son, Samuel Smith Nicholas, married the great niece of his mother and of his father, who was also named Mary Smith (Sm4.), after the death of his first wife (See page Ni5).
The Smith family originally came from Ireland and settled in Pennsylvania. The line from the original settlers to Mary Smith is well known, but was not included in this Appendix because the information was not available in form suitable for Mrs. George Nicholas (Ni3-5) to type it in 1948.
Baltimore was named for Cecilius (Cecil) Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore and the proprietor of Maryland, who in turn took his title from his barony estates in Longford County, Ireland.
By the 1650's when settlement began, Baltimore County was primarily a geographical entity more than a political one. Its territorial limits consisted of Baltimore City, Cecil and Harford Counties, as well as parts of Carroll, Anne Arundel, Frederick, Howard and Kent Counties. The legal origin of Baltimore County is not known, but it was in existence by January 12, 1659, when a writ was issued to the county sheriff. Formal county boundaries were mentioned when Cecil County was formed out of Baltimore County in 1674. Thus early county history is more a story of the settling of northern Maryland than a history of the county. Most of the early land grants were situated along the coastal region. Since few if any roads existed, the navigable waterways such as Back and Middle Rivers of the seventeenth century carried most commerce and transportation. The Gunpowder Falls area became a choice area for land grants. "Old Baltimore" on the Bush River (in what is now Harford County) became the first permanent county seat. In 1712, Joppa near the mouth of the Gunpowder River became the second county seat and a thriving tobacco port. In 1768, as Joppa's commercial influence faded the influence of the port of Baltimore Town, now known as Baltimore, resulted in it being named the county seat. Baltimore separated from Baltimore County in 1854. The city remains an independent jurisdiction. In 1854, Towsontown, now known as Towson, became the current county seat. The cornerstone of the courthouse was laid on October 19, 1854.
After the invasion and burning of Washington, DC in August 1814, Rear Admiral George Cockburn reloaded the British troops of Major General Robert Ross to prepare for seizing Baltimore, a chief privateering nest in the United States. The location of Baltimore made it necessary to defend the city from both land and sea attack. Major General Samuel Smith was placed at the head of the city's defenses. The Baltimore harbor defenses rested on Fort McHenry. On September 11, 1814, the British fleet appeared off North Point in Baltimore County. The British strategy was to approach the city from the North Point and enter Baltimore by way of Hampstead Hill, now known as Baltimore's Patterson Park.
The attacks by land and water would be simultaneous.
Smith ordered General John Stricker's 3rd Brigade of about 3,200 militia down the North Point Road to the narrow neck of the peninsula. A stronger fortified line ran along Hampstead Hill. Stricker intended to execute a delaying action along North Point Road before withdrawing into Hampstead Hill's fortifications.
On the morning of September 12, Major General Ross' troops advanced slowly yet confidently up North Point Road. Ross predicted that the American militia would run when fired upon and initially they did pull back. However, significantly a major casualty was General Ross. Legend has it that two sharpshooters, Daniel Wells and Henry McComas, made Ross their target. Whether they actually fired the shots will never be known. The boys fell almost immediately to British bullets. A monument immortalizes their valiantry. Carried to the rear, Ross died a few hours later.
The British forces advanced and that afternoon, Colonel Arthur Brooke, Ross' second in command, charged. The center and right wing of Stricker's line held before retreating to the reserve units a mile behind the lines. Stricker than moved his forces to the fortification on Hampstead Hill to reorganize.
Colonel Brooke, lacking confidence in his new position, halted his troops. The British fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, maneuvered into the Patapsco River in preparation for the attack on Fort McHenry. While the fleet fired on Fort McHenry during the day, Colonel Brooke prepared for a night assault on Hampstead Hill. Brooke was again certain that the militia would flee. Later that night he cancelled the plan upon seeing the fortification. Admiral Cockrane's fleet would need to subdue Fort McHenry before they could help the land forces take the Hill. The tactic failed. The dawn of September 14, immortalized in our National Anthem, showed the success of the American defense. September 12 continues to be celebrated as a Maryland legal holiday, Maryland Defender's Day. An annual reenactment of the battle takes place at Fort Howard Park, Edgemere, Maryland.
Source: Neal A. Brooks and Eric G. Rockel. A History of Baltimore County.
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Carl Pei oder Pei Yu (chinesisch: 裴宇; Pinyin: Péi Yǔ; * 11. September 1989 in Peking) ist ein in China geborener schwedischer Unternehmer. Er gründete OnePlus zusammen mit Pete Lau im Jahr 2013 und war der Direktor von OnePlus Global. Er verließ das Unternehmen im Oktober 2020, um ein neues Hardware-Unternehmen namens Nothing zu gründen.

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Kindheit und Jugend
Pei wurde 1989 in Peking geboren. Kurze Zeit später zog seine Familie in die Vereinigten Staaten und danach nach Schweden um, wo dieser aufwuchs. 2008 begann Pei ein Bachelor-Studium an der Handelshochschule Stockholm, brach dieses aber 2011 ab, um Vollzeit in der chinesischen Smartphone-Industrie zu arbeiten.

Beginn der Karriere
Pei kam 2010 zu Nokia und arbeitete drei Monate lang für das Unternehmen. Nach Nokia erregte die Fan-Website, die Pei über Meizu erstellt hatte, die Aufmerksamkeit der Hongkonger Niederlassung des Unternehmens. Darauffolgend begann Pei 2011 im Marketingteam von Meizu zu arbeiten. Im November wechselte er zu Oppo als Manager für internationale Märkte, wo er direkt unter Pete Lau arbeitete.

OnePlus
Pei gründete zusammen mit Pete Lau im Dezember 2013 das Unternehmen OnePlus  in Shenzhen. Ihr erstes Smartphone, das OnePlus One, wurde 2014 fast eine Million Mal verkauft, obwohl das Verkaufsziel nur bei 50.000 Stück lag. Im Juli 2015 stellte Pei das OnePlus 2 in einem Virtual-Reality-Video auf YouTube vor. Es war die erste Produkteinführung in der virtuellen Realität gewesen und wurde bis August 2022 über 304.800 Mal angesehen. Nach der Vorstellung des OnePlus 3 im Juni 2016 behauptete Pei, es sei das beliebteste Smartphone des Unternehmens, basierend auf dem Net Promoter Score. Auf Nachfrage im November 2016 sagte Pei, der Grund für das Upgrade nach nur drei Monaten sei gewesen, dass man nicht warten wollte, um die Hardware zu verbessern. Pei behauptete, das OnePlus 5 sei kurz nach seiner Veröffentlichung im Juni 2017 das bis dato am schnellsten verkaufte Smartphone.

Pei war bis zu seinem Ausscheiden aus dem Unternehmen im Oktober 2020 für Design und Marketing der OnePlus-Smartphones verantwortlich.

Nothing
Nach seinem Weggang von OnePlus kündigte Pei am 27. Januar 2021 Nothing an. Laut Pei besteht die Mission von Nothing darin, Barrieren zwischen Menschen und Technologie zu beseitigen, um eine nahtlose digitale Zukunft zu schaffen. Das Unternehmen hat seinen Sitz in London und umfasst eine Reihe namhafter Investoren, darunter iPod-Erfinder Tony Fadell, Twitch-Mitbegründer Kevin Lin, Reddit-CEO Steve Huffman und YouTuber Casey Neistat.

Das erste Produkt von Nothing, die ear (1), wurden am 27. Juli 2021 auf den Markt gebracht. Im September 2022 folgte das erste Smartphone, das phone (1).

Öffentlichkeit
Im Juli 2015 sagte Pei in einem Interview mit dem Wall Street Journal über die Entstehung von OnePlus: "Wir haben uns alle Android-Telefone auf dem Markt angeschaut, und es gab kein einziges Telefon, das uns selbst gut genug war, um es zu benutzen." 2014 und 2015 sagte er gegenüber der New York Times und Forbes, dass "OnePlus anfangs nicht dazu gedacht war, ein globales Unternehmen zu werden. Das Hauptaugenmerk lag darauf, den chinesischen Markt zu erobern. ... Das Team für die globalen Märkte bestand aus einem Haufen junger Leute ohne viel Erfahrung. Es war wie ein Experiment: 'Hey, macht die globalen Märkte und schaut, was passiert. Macht, was ihr wollt.' Wir nennen unsere Gruppe 'ein Shenzhen innerhalb unseres Unternehmens', oder ein Start-up innerhalb eines größeren Unternehmens" und "Sehr bald werden unsere Umsätze außerhalb Chinas die Umsätze in China übertreffen."

Auszeichnungen
Im April 2016 war Pei in der Marketing Week Vision 100-Liste aufgeführt, Im Januar 2016 wurde er aufgrund seines Einflusses in der Technologiebranche in die 2016er-Ausgabe der Forbes-30-Under-30-List aufgeführt. 2019 war er Teil der Fortune 40 Under 40-Liste aufgeführt.

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Unternehmer (21. Jahrhundert)
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What would you do for $24,000?
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We bring this up because San Francisco 49ers cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha recently offered teammate Anthony Dixon that sum in exchange for Dixon's jersey No. 24.
That's crazy. Even crazier? Dixon refused the offer.
"We tried to go $24K for 24, but I told him, 'No, I'm going to keep my 24,' " Dixon said Tuesday, according to CSN Bay Area.
Asomugha and Dixon both wore No. 24 this summer (repeating numbers are commonplace with 90 players in training camp). When the roster shrunk to 53, Asomugha formally approached Dixon.
No dice. Asomugha will begin the season wearing No. 28.
"I worked hard to get that number when I first got here," said Dixon, who will earn $630,000 this season. "I worked hard to get it off somebody else. I've been No. 24 since high school and college."
This is the type of stuff that seems impossible to fathom from the outside, but many professional athletes view their number as an aspect of their identity. It's easier to understand when you look at it that way.
Still, $24K can score you a pretty sick Honda Civic.


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