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Learn 'agility' to compete with robots
While schools struggle to teach basic 20th-century skills, 21st-century students will need to compete with robots for work in The Age of...
Education pays — but there's more than one way
Education is a path to upward mobility, writes Fordham's Mike Petrilli in response to Rachel Cohen's Atlantic story, Education Isn't the...
A debt-free path to a good job
While some states offer "free college" or "free community college" to build a skilled workforce, Virginia is funding vocational...
Schools vs. poverty: Poverty usually wins
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University of California at Irvine tops Educate to Career's college rankings, which compares how well colleges improve students' labor...
Free college? Voters aren't sold
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Internships motivate — but scores are low
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Learn now, pay later
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Colleges face shortage of students
Enrollments are way down at small, private nonprofit colleges, report's Hechinger's Jon Marcus. Even lower-cost public universities are...
Apprenticeship: Will it work in the U.S.?
The much-admired German apprenticeship system "relies on a very stratified education system along with regulated and heavily unionized...
2 years to prosperity: nursing, aviation, tech trades
A two-year degree in nursing or a technical trade can lead quickly to a middle-class wage, reports Forbes in a story on top trade...
After high school, what's next?
In Out of High School, Into Real Life, the New York Times profiles recent graduates who aren't enrolling in college. Many seem quite...
Gift for grads: Digital clean-up service
Looking cool — or stupid? Getting ready for college now means cleaning up your online image, writes Taylor Lorenz on Mashable. Many high...
P-TECH grows, but is it working?
IBM is scaling up the wildly popular P-TECH model,reports Jenny Abamu on EdSurge. But the original Brooklyn school is struggling to raise...
Job market is strong for '17 college grads
A new survey shows 74 percent of employers plan to hire recent college graduates this year, up from 67 percent last year. Thirty-nine...
Most teens say 'no' to summer jobs
Most teenagers won't be working this summer, reports Ben Steverman onBloomberg News. The summer job has gone from rite of passage to...
Where are the college men?
Fewer men are choosing college, reports Monte Whaley in the Denver Post. In 2015, 61.2 percent of Colorado's female high school graduates...
When a can-do town can't find middle-class jobs
Amy Goldstein's Janesville, the story of a Wisconsin town that lost its General Motors factory, isn't just "decline porn," writes J.D....


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Indian IT training market grows 46% YoY; at Rs. 2,135 Cr in 2006-07
Asia's No. 1 trainer & leading Global Talent Development Corporation—NIIT strengthens its leadership in the Indian training market
With revenue growth of 77% YoY, NIIT is double the size of next 6 players put together
New Delhi, August 10, 2007: The Indian IT training market is on the upswing, recording a 46% YoY growth to log revenues of Rs. 2,135 Crore in 2006-07, reports leading IT magazine Dataquest.
Asia's No. 1 trainer and leading Global Talent Development Corporation, NIIT has further strengthened its leadership position in the Indian IT training market. With revenues of Rs. 795 Crore, up 77% YoY in FY 2006-07, NIIT grew to become double the size of next 6 players put together.
According to Mr. Vijay K. Thadani, Chief Executive Officer, NIIT, "We are pleased to be No. 1 yet again. The strong growth in revenue reflects the wide acceptance of the GNIIT and Edgeineers programs by the students and industry, alike.
NIIT will continue the growth momentum through new offerings, enhanced capacity and global partnerships." adds Mr. Thadani.
As per the annual survey conducted by Dataquest, the IT training industry is on a growth path with corporate training and exports being the key drivers. Last year, nearly 60% of NIIT's revenues came from its overseas operations.
The growth in hiring by IT companies, increasing requirement for newer skill-sets and the rapid change in technology, continued to spur the Individual Training segment. NIIT's flagship GNIIT program recorded an increase of 112% YoY, reports Dataquest. To cater to the manpower needs of ICT industry, NIIT targeted engineering students and launched 'NIIT Edgeineers' series to make them 'job-ready'.
The report also highlights the need for skilled manpower in the Infrastructure Management space. During the period, NIIT also introduced its industry-endorsed NetworkLABS curriculum to help build skilled manpower for this segment.
As per the report, the corporate training business contributed 64% of the total training market. With the added strength of Element K, and new initiatives such as NIIT Litmus, NIIT's corporate learning business witnessed strong growth from the developed countries such as the US.
As part of the corporate training initiative, NIIT recently announced its partnership with technology giant Intel to launch multi-core training curriculum, globally. The curriculum has been developed jointly and will be deployed by NIIT using its global delivery capability for the benefit of the software developer community.
Recent Accolades for NIIT:
The DQ Top 20 series also features NIIT among the Top 50 IT companies and the Top 20 Fastest Growing Companies in the Indian IT sector.
As per Avaya GlobalConnect and Economic Times, customers have ranked NIIT as "India's Most Customer Responsive Educational Institution", for the 2nd consecutive year.
NIIT was ranked amongst India's Top 50 Most Trusted Services brands in a survey conducted by The Economic Times Brand Equity in 2007, for the third time.
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How to Watch the Brewers vs. Cubs and Rockies vs. Dodgers Tiebreaker Games Online for Free Today
By Brad Tuttle
Major League Baseball is making history today with not one but two tiebreaker games scheduled to determine the National League Central and National League West division winners.
Before today, there have been 15 such tiebreaker games — which are played when two teams in the same division end the regular 162-game season with the same record and must face off for a playoff spot. But today marks the first time in MLB history that there will be two tiebreaker games on the same day: Milwaukee Brewers vs. Chicago Cubs, and Colorado Rockies vs. Los Angeles Dodgers.
The tiebreaker games determine which teams will be named division winners and move on to the 2018 National League Division Series, which begins on Thursday. The two losers in today's tiebreakers will play against each other in a National League Wild Card game on Tuesday, and only the winner of that game gets to play in the 2018 NLDS.
Here is everything you need to know about how to watch the Brewers vs. Cubs and Rockies vs. Dodgers games today.
What Time Does the Brewers vs. Cubs Game Start Today?
The Chicago Cubs host the Milwaukee Brewers today at Wrigley Field to determine the National League Central division winner. The first pitch is scheduled for 1:05 p.m. ET (12:05 p.m. Central Time), and while Jose Quintana will be the starting pitcher for the Cubs, the Brewers hadn't named a starter as of Monday morning.
One game to rule the Central. pic.twitter.com/BGJumaaC2c
— MLB (@MLB) September 30, 2018
The Cubs vs. Brewers game is being broadcast on ESPN. It's a pay TV channel, of course. If you have ESPN in your cable, satellite, or streaming TV package, simply find the channel and tune in. You can also live stream the Cubs vs. Brewers game today on the WatchESPN app, but doing so requires that you log in with your subscription account info and password.
If you don't have cable and want to watch the Brewers vs. Cubs game online for free, consider signing up for a free trial of a streaming TV service that includes ESPN. Hulu Live, DirecTV Now, PlayStation Vue, YouTube TV, and Sling TV's Orange package all include ESPN. All allow streaming on any device you want, with free trials of five to seven days for new subscribers.
Packages from these services start at $25 to $45 per month. If you're a new subscriber, you could sign up today and watch the Cubs vs. Brewers game online for free during the free trial period. But if you don't want to become a paid subscriber, you must remember to cancel the service before the trial period ends or you'll be charged for the first month in full.
What Times Is the Rockies vs. Dodgers Game Today?
The Colorado Rockies and Los Angeles Dodgers play today to determine the winner of the National League West, with the first pitch scheduled for 4:09 p.m. ET (1:09 p.m. PT).
History tells us today will be EPIC. #Game163 pic.twitter.com/WB5EFwMHBJ
— MLB (@MLB) October 1, 2018
The Dodgers are hosting today's game in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium. The starting pitchers are expected to be German Marquez for the Rockies and Walker Buehler for the Dodgers.
Like the earlier game, today's National League West tiebreaker game is being broadcast on ESPN. To watch the Rockies vs. Dodgers on TV — or online for free — consider all of the same options listed above for the Brewers-Cubs game.
How to Listen to the Brewers vs. Cubs and Rockies vs. Dodgers Games Today
ESPN Radio is broadcasting both National League tiebreaker games today. Fans can listen to the Brewers-Cubs and Rockies-Dodgers games on their local radio station broadcasting ESPN's play call, or stream ESPN Radio online.
Anyone can listen to ESPN Radio free of charge. There is no requirement to subscribe to a service or log in with a pay TV account.
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Tennis star Querrey explains COVID escape
6 January 2021, 1:28 am ·2-min read
American Sam Querrey, who was sanctioned by the ATP for breaching COVID-19 protocols at the St Petersburg Open in October, has defended his actions, saying he did what he felt was right as a father and a husband.
Querrey left Russia in a private jet with his wife and baby son after all three tested positive for the virus before the start of the tournament, sneaking out of their hotel early in the morning without informing reception.
The ATP, the men's governing body, handed the 33-year-old a suspended $20,000 fine which will be lifted if Querrey does not commit further breaches of health and safety protocols related to COVID-19 within a probationary six-month period.
"I ... had to make a decision between 10pm and 10am the next day," Querrey told Sports Illustrated in an interview.
"I had my wife there, and I had my baby there, and as a human decision, I was like, 'Hey, I don't feel comfortable with this.' So we made the decision to charter a plane and leave."
Querrey said he was ready to quarantine in the tournament hotel for two weeks after testing positive but after two days he was told he was no longer welcome at the hotel and doctors would determine if they had to quarantine in a hospital instead.
The American said lack of clarity made it necessary for him, his wife and their seven-month-old son to fly to London and quarantine at an Airbnb.
"I felt as a father and a husband there's a human element to this, and I had to do what I feel like is right," he said, adding the flight had cost him about $40,000 plus and he had to also pay for the stay in London for two weeks.
"I wasn't willing to let our family go to a hospital for a minimum of two weeks where we were at."
Querrey said he was "frustrated" with the media coverage of the incident.
"It made it seem like I just got COVID and bounced. I didn't feel how it was portrayed after that was fair," Querrey said.
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using Glav.CognitiveServices.FluentApi.TextAnalytic.Domain;
using Glav.CognitiveServices.FluentApi.TextAnalytic.Domain.ApiResponses;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

namespace Glav.CognitiveServices.FluentApi.TextAnalytic
{
    public static class LanguageAnalysisContextExtensions
    {
        public static ScoreLevelBoundsDefinition Score(this LanguageAnalysisContext context, DetectedLanguage languageResult)
        {
            return context.ScoringEngine.Evaluate(languageResult.confidenceScore);
        }

        public static int NumberOfResponses(this LanguageAnalysisContext context, string languageConfidence)
        {
            var allLangResults = context.AnalysisResult.ResponseData.documents.Select(d => d.detectedLanguage);
            return allLangResults.Count(d => Score(context, d).Name == languageConfidence);
        }

        public static LanguagesResultResponseItem GetResult(this LanguageAnalysisContext context, long id)
        {
            return context.AnalysisResult.ResponseData.documents.FirstOrDefault(a => a.id == id);
        }

        public static IEnumerable<LanguagesResultResponseItem> GetResults(this LanguageAnalysisContext context)
        {
            return context.AnalysisResult.ResponseData.documents.AsEnumerable();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Find any results that match the textual descriptor of the Score level. eg. Find all results matching have a score of 'Positive'
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="context"></param>
        /// <param name="languageConfidenceDescriptor"></param>
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        public static IEnumerable<LanguagesResultResponseItem> GetResultsThatContainConfidenceLevel(this LanguageAnalysisContext context, string languageConfidenceDescriptor)
        {
            var results = new List<LanguagesResultResponseItem>();
            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(languageConfidenceDescriptor))
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                return results;
            }

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            });
            return results;
        }

        public static string GetInitialErrorMessage(this LanguageAnalysisContext context)
        {
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    }
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Gwyneth Paltrow goes country, and that's okay
Jeffrey Remz | July 30, 2010
A number of people making a go of it in other fields have done country music in recent years. Earlier this year, Laura Bell Bundy released her debut disc after gaining acclaim as a Broadway actress. She has gotten airplay and press for her single Giddy on Up. When you listen to the new [...]
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The future of Taylor Swift
The wait is on for Taylor Swift's third studio CD, "Speak Now," which does not reach your local retailer until Oct. 25. Swift also will release the first single, Magic, Aug. 16. Swift made the announcement during an on-line session with thousands of her fans earlier this week. [...]
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Americana fest hosts excellent line-up
The Americana Music Association fest is a few months away, but for those going, the roster of entertainers is quite impressive. The AMA announced this week that the following folks would be showing up: Emmylou Harris, Avett Brothers, Rodney Crowell, Wanda Jackson, Rosanne Cash and Patty Griffin. [...]
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Jaron Lowenstein's prayers have been met
Jeffrey Remz | July 9, 2010
When we last heard from Evan Lowenstein, he was one-half of Evan and Jaron. In that lifetime, they were an Atlanta-bred pop duo - twins, who had a hit with Crazy For this Girl back in 2000. That was by far their biggest hit. They took four years to release another disc, "Half Dozen," [...]
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Deja vu all over again and again for Trailer Choir
The first Trailer Choir full-length CD - "Tailgate" - was just released this week, but there's a feeling of deja vu all over again with this trio. The group consists of lead singer Butter (aka Marc Fortney), who has a nice voice. Crystal (Hoyt), the blonde chick in the group, lends [...]
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Ho hum summer
It's sure a tough being in the music business. I have already commented about declining CD sales, something that's been going on for a good five years now. As of yesterday's report at Billboard.com, sales were down about 11 percent from a year ago for all types of music. The [...]
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My path to OpenAI
I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I'd read Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and was inspired by the notion of writing code that could understand something that I, as the code's author, did not. I started writing a chatbot — how hard could it possibly be?
I managed to build something that could talk about the weather very convincingly. But no matter where I looked, it seemed that no one had any techniques that could make my bot really work.
I soon shelved my chatbot pursuits. I decided to focus on creating systems that can have a real impact, and have been doing that ever since.
College #
In college, I found a field that captured what drew me to AI: programming languages. I was thrilled that a compiler or static analyzer could "understand" a program in a way that I couldn't, and then apply that understanding to do something very useful (such as generate fast code or prove correctness).
I kept trying to find time for programming language research. But I also kept getting distracted by new startup ideas (generally pretty bad), and new people to work on them with (generally pretty good). I'd started out at Harvard and transferred to MIT, trying to constantly surround myself by people who I could learn from and build something useful with.
Junior year, I decided that it didn't make sense to try to do a startup while still in school. Instead, I was going to meet with people doing startups, and over time pattern match what works and what doesn't. In the meanwhile, I finally started my programming language research, securing research funds from a professor and recruiting some of my friends for a static buffer overrun detection project.
A few weeks later, I was contacted by an unlaunched startup in Palo Alto. Normally I would have discarded the email, but I'd decided to start meeting startups. The team and I instantly clicked, and I knew that these were exactly the kind of people I'd been looking for all along. So I left school, never to actually get our buffer overrun detector working.
Stripe #
That company is now Stripe. I helped scale it from 4 to 250 people, and in the year since I left it's continued scaling without any of my help to over 450.
When I considered leaving, it was primarily because I felt like the company was in a great place, and it would continue to do great things with or without me. I cared most about working with great people to make something amazing happen — but developer infrastructure wasn't the problem that I wanted to work on for the rest of my life.
However, there was one problem that I could imagine happily working on for the rest of my life: moving humanity to safe human-level AI. It's hard to imagine anything more amazing and positively impactful than successfully creating AI, so long as it's done in a good way.
Leaving Stripe #
Before I finalized my decision to leave, Patrick asked me to go talk to Sam Altman. He said Sam had a good outsider's perspective, had seen lots of people in similar circumstances, and would probably have a good recommendation on what I should do.
Within five minutes of talking to Sam, he told me I was definitely ready to leave. He said to let him know if he could be helpful in figuring out my next thing.
I replied that AI was top of my list (and it was definitely my life goal). However, I wasn't yet sure whether it was the right time, or what the best way for me to contribute would be.
He said, "We've been thinking about spinning up an AI lab through YC. We should keep in touch."
Initial exploration #
I left Stripe about a week or two later, and started digging into AI to try to better understand what was happening in the field. Even just from watching posts that made it onto Hacker News (such as char-rnn), it was clear that there was mounting excitement and activity around AI generally and deep learning particularly. But I approached the field with healthy skepticism: I wanted to be sure things were really working before diving in.
My first goal was to figure out what deep learning actually was. It turned out this was surprisingly hard. For example, deeplearning.net just says "Deep Learning is a new area of Machine Learning research, which has been introduced with the objective of moving Machine Learning closer to one of its original goals: Artificial Intelligence" — which sounds exciting but isn't very descriptive [1].
Fortunately, I had some friends working in AI, Dario Amodei and Chris Olah. I asked them for some pointers, and they gave me some good starter resources. The most useful of these was Michael Nielsen's book, and after reading it I practiced my newfound skills on Kaggle. (I was even number 1 for a while on my first contest!)
Kindling #
Along the way, I kept meeting super smart people in AI, and reconnected with some of my smartest friends from college, such as Paul Christiano and Jacob Steinhardt, who were now working in the field. This was a strong signal.
The more I dug, the more I became convinced that AI was poised for impact. Deep learning capabilities are incredibly impressive: for example, we can now classify objects in images with extreme accuracy (despite this 2014 XKCD), speech recognition has gotten very good, and we can generate surprisingly realistic images. That being said, these technologies are new enough that they haven't yet changed how anyone lives: their impact today is limited to powering certain product features.
I remember saying this to one of my friends who had built Facebook News Feed back in the day. His reply was skeptical. "Simple algorithms, lots of data." Everyone tries to peddle cool new AI algorithms, but in reality, if you just scale up a logistic regression it works really well. I then pulled out the Google Translate app from my pocket, put it in airplane mode, and demonstrated how it translates the text under the camera directly on the image. He was suitably impressed, and admitted simple algorithms wouldn't help there. (It's mostly but not 100% deep learning, but that's not the point — the point is it works.)
Initial spark #
In June, Sam pinged me asking if I'd figured out yet what to do next. I told him my current plan was to start an AI company within the next year. We jumped on a call, where he mentioned that they were moving forward with the YC AI project. I asked Sam what the purpose of the lab was.
"To build safe human-level AI", he said.
At that moment I knew he was the right partner to build my next company with. Very few people today would have the audacity to explicitly try building human-level AI. I realized that sometimes an effort needs only someone bold enough to pronounce a goal, and then the right people will join them.
The dinner #
About a month later, Sam set up a dinner in Menlo Park. On the list were Dario, Chris, Paul, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, Sam, and a few others.
We talked about the state of the field, how far off human-level AI seemed to be, what you might need to get there, and the like. The conversation centered around what kind of organization could best work to ensure that AI was beneficial.
It was clear that such an organization needed to be a non-profit, without any competing incentives to dilute its mission. It also needed to be at the cutting edge of research (per the Alan Kay quote, "the best way to predict the future is to invent it"). And to do that, it would need the best AI researchers in the world.
So the question became: would it be possible to create from scratch a lab with the best AI researchers? Our conclusion: not obviously impossible.
This was my first time meeting Elon and Ilya, and I strongly remember my impressions of both. I was struck by how inquisitive Elon was, and how much he sought others opinions and really listened to them. Ilya on the other hand was a source of grounding: he was a clear technical expert with a breadth of knowledge and vision, and could always dive into the specifics of the limitations and capabilities of current systems.
After the dinner concluded, Sam gave me a ride back to the city. We both agreed that it seemed worth starting something here. I knew it would only happen if someone was willing to go full-time on figuring out exactly what that would be and who would be a part of it. I volunteered myself as tribute.
And so the next day, I had something impactful to build once again.
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The goal of supervised deep learning is to solve almost any problem of the form "map X to Y". X can include images, speech, or text, and Y can include categories or even sentences. Mapping images to categories, speech to text, text to categories, go boards to good moves, and the like, is extremely useful, and cannot be done as well with other methods.
An attractive feature of deep learning is that it is largely domain independent: many of the insights learned in one domain apply in other domains.
Under the hood, the model builds up layers of abstraction. These abstractions get the job done, but it's really hard to understand how exactly they do it. The model learns by gradually changing the synaptic strengths of the neural network using the incredibly simple yet mysteriously effective backpropagation algorithm. As a result, we can build massively sophisticated systems using very few lines of code (since we only code the model and the learning algorithm, but not the end result).
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday's Benchmark event: "We're here to watch humans and AI play Dota, but today's match will have implications for the world. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that when we can build... Continue →


Where do we develop our research into products, and where do we deploy them? Read more about Kolmården Wildlife Park and Ngulia.
Ngulia is our deployment site.
Ngulia is a rhino sanctuary situated in the south-eastern part of Kenya. It is a rather flat area on 800m altitude, surrounded by mountains. On a bright day, the silhouette of Mount Kilimanjaro can be seen in the west. The ground is on most places covered with bushes, including the ones the black rhinos prefer to browse. There are many natural waterholes, but during the dry season, the rhinos get fresh water at one of four artificial waterholes, where fresh water is pumped and distributed in pipelines.
The borderline of the sanctuary consists of a fence with five wires, of which three are electrified. The purpose is not only to keep the rhinos inside, but also to keep elephants and buffaloes, competitors of the same food, outside the sanctuary. Other animals can easily pass. On each side of the fence, there is a road, both for patrolling by car, but also to provide a firebreak.
There are a number of stations inside the sanctuary where the rangers on duty are staying. The Ngulia headquarter is located outside the sanctuary, close to the main gate.
Kolmården is our test site and research lab. It is here we evaluate new technology and implement our research in a realistic environment. The wildlife park features the same four out of the big five as Ngulia (rhino, lion, elephant, buffalo but not the hippo). The rhino density is much higher on the Kolmården savannah, which is of course an advantage for test purposes. Kolmården has many unique features as an outdoor research lab, with its large fenced enclosure, ICT infrastructure (Internet via cable and Wifi, 4G network), hotel with meeting facilities, etc. It is closed to visitors a larger part of the year, and when there are no visitors, we have permission for drone tests and camera surveillance.


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Мангонви́ль () — коммуна во французском департаменте Мёрт и Мозель, региона Лотарингия. Относится к  кантону Аруэ.

География

Мангонвиль расположен в 28 км южнее Нанси. Соседние коммуны: Ровиль-деван-Байон на севере, Вирекур на востоке, Бенвиль-о-Мируар на юге, Лемениль-Митри на западе, Ланёввиль-деван-Байон на северо-западе.

Демография
Население коммуны на 2010 год составляло 228 человек.

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Коммуны департамента Мёрт и Мозель


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Caráusio II () é o nome dado por historiadores modernos a um possível usurpador na Britânia romana entre os anos de 354 e 358, na época do governador Alípio de Antioquia. Moedas apareceram neste período com seu nome, que é o mesmo de um antigo usurpador, Caráusio, responsável pela Revolta Carausiana anos antes. Estas moedas trazem a inscrição CARAVSIVS CES; CES pode ser uma corruptela de CAES ("césar") ou, segundo outra interpretação, uma forma abreviada de CENSERIS (responsável pelo censo).

Nenhuma outra evidência sobre sua existência é conhecida, mas sabe-se que a Britânia nesta época era um lugar instável e perigoso e, portanto, a existência de pretendentes ao trono não era improvável. Contudo, há historiadores que defendem que esta figura jamais existiu e que estas moedas seriam falsificações.

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The idea of dreams coming true is so important. The stories reflecting that this idea is real are essential to feed our faith and belief that it can happen. I know there are more heroes out there than thugs, and it's so important for all of us to keep the spotlight on those heroic stories to inspire our young people that they CAN do it and they CAN realize their dreams if they dedicate themselves.
Visioning your dreams is a core component of the Lifeplan program. For many of the young people going through Lifeplan, it is the first time someone has asked them what their dreams are. We then help them plot a course with SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely). Then they learn how to build a personal board of directors who can help them achieve their goals and dreams.
It was so validating to watch a key scene in the movie when the teacher was challenged to explain what a "better school" would do for starters. This inspired, dedicated teacher expressed that that school would inspire young people to have dreams, to express them, to believe in them, and to help them grow a plan to achieve them. As you can imagine, we silently added, and to have a Lifeplan!
This movie earned the chagrin of the teacher's union, lobby, some faculty members, etc. for their portrayed role in battling change in deference to complacence and perceived security. These were not insignificant "speed bumps" to our heroes' journey, yet they battled on. In the Lifeplan program, we emphasize that speed bumps do occur and it's how we respond to them that will truly define our character.
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Interview with Volker Blandow: China focuses heavily on hydrogen
Will electromobility be the future of driving or will vehicles with fuel cell or E-fuels prevail? Volker Blandow is Head of E-Mobility at TUV SÜD in Hong Kong and is involved with both electric mobility and hydrogen-powered fuel cells. In this interview he explains the advantages and disadvantages of the different technologies.
Mr Blandow, will electric or fuel cell cars prevail?
V. Blandow: First of all, a vehicle with a fuel cell is also an electric car, because the drive is electric. But to answer the question: For me, fuel cell vehicles are an integral part of electromobility. We need both battery-electric vehicles and fuel-cell vehicles to decarbonise traffic in the future. With both technologies, we could completely cover the mobility needs that we see on the roads today.
Critics complain about the fuel cell's lower efficiency compared to battery-powered electric cars. Why should we focus on this form of drive?
V. Blandow: From a purely efficiency point of view, nothing can beat the battery-electric vehicle. It is two to three times more efficient than a vehicle with a fuel cell. We lose 30 percent of energy due to the loss of conversion in the production of hydrogen. In the vehicle itself, we lose another 50 percent of the energy. I still believe that both technologies are needed, because there are areas in which the fuel cell will be an essential addition to a fully electric drive.
What is the reason for vehicles with fuel cells?
V. Blandow: There are several arguments in favour of the fuel cell: Much fewer materials, chemicals and even less mass. A fuel cell vehicle with the same driving capacity is 500 to 600 kilograms lighter than a battery-operated electric vehicle. In addition, in the future, ranges of more than 800 kilometres will be possible, but the filling process takes only three minutes, unlike the battery-powered electric vehicle.
Nevertheless, in Germany, hydrogen is mainly considered outside the transport sector.
V. Blandow: In my opinion, a technology such as hydrogen cannot be limited from the outset to specific sectors. We need hydrogen in industry as a clean raw material and as a seasonal energy store.
If it makes sense, hydrogen will also prevail in the transport sector and then naturally also in the passenger car. At the moment, I am seeing more new hydrogen ideas in the passenger car and truck sector in China – and that by the bucketload. This gets you thinking, especially when the Chinese government is introducing a quota for hydrogen vehicles.
Why are Chinese manufacturers focusing on hydrogen?
V. Blandow: In China, this is part of the five-year plan that the government has drawn up. But the regional plans that have recently been announced are surprising: Beijing has announced a strong hydrogen program. Other cities have followed suit and similarly ambitious programs have been put in place. This has turned the tide much more towards hydrogen.
Do you think it is a mistake that the car industry in Germany is only focusing on battery-electric mobility?
V. Blandow: German industry would be well advised to push ahead with hydrogen technology in order to remain on par with China. We are very good in Germany with regard to the development of components for the fuel cell. We are gambling away this lead somewhat because the Chinese are tackling this so intensively. They will catch up with us at some point. I hope that the industry will recognise the potential. Perhaps it is simply not the right time at the moment, because the German industry wants to sell electric cars.
Tesla is promising a range of almost 850 kilometres for the new Model S Plaid. Do we still need the fuel cell?
V. Blandow: If you want to achieve this in all conditions and with all driving profiles, you have to try very hard or have to keep huge charging power available. However, there are also situations that are difficult to address with a battery-electric vehicle. Imagine a typical day on the motorway, when tens of thousands want to set off on holiday by car. How many rapid charging stations would we have to provide at the motorway service stations and what peaks would the network have to cope with? Here the hydrogen has advantages. Especially if we want to move large and heavy vehicles, I see the fuel cell as a good alternative.
And where will we get the energy for the production of green hydrogen?
V. Blandow: Of course, you have to think global. In Germany, we are already doing quite well with around 50 percent of renewable energy. Other countries still need to catch up. Hydrogen will come because we will need it as a storage medium in our electricity grid, which is based on renewable energies - both as long-term storage and as large-volume storage. I can also store and buffer short-term load peaks in stationary batteries. In the case of a seasonal store, the battery doesn't make sense, because I need a chemical store. And it looks like it will be hydrogen. Hydrogen will also become an elementary raw material of our industry. Therefore, the aim is to ensure that hydrogen is as cheap as possible. This is being worked on.
Will the infrastructure for hydrogen filling stations not be very expensive?
V. Blandow: With regard to the infrastructure for electric vehicles, we still do not know how many charging columns we actually need. Do people prefer to charge at home or use the streetlight or do we need lots of rapid chargers? And in which ratio? In contrast, we are well aware of the figures for hydrogen filling stations. We need at least 1,000 filling stations to supply hydrogen to the whole of Germany. At 2,000 filling stations, we would then be in a comfortable situation. That would cost around 2,2 billion Euros to build.
Is the service requirement for hydrogen cars higher than for battery-powered electric cars?
V. Blandow: Not significantly, which won't be good news for car workshops. Both battery-electric vehicles and vehicles with fuel cells will require significantly less maintenance. An electric motor is likely to last one million kilometres without needing to be serviced. Even accident damage will decrease, as high-quality assistance systems are integrated. The hydrogen system, on the other hand, is somewhat more maintenance-intensive. There is the gas part that has to be monitored and is subject to wear. I expect that the inspection of the gas system will become an integral part of maintenance.
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Driving Change and Creating a Better Future for All
Aneel Bhusri and Carin Taylor from Workday joined Michael C. Bush, CEO at Great Place to Work, to discuss equality, social justice, closing the opportunity gap, and the work leaders must do to ensure employees feel a sense of value, inclusion, and belonging.
Ellen Murphy August 14, 2020
The year 2020 has brought about tremendous change. COVID-19 has impacted our daily lives dramatically, and the systemic inequalities that directly affect our society, both in our professional and personal lives, have brought into the spotlight a critical conversation. In the past few months, Workday and many other organizations shaping the future of work have recognized our unique roles in making a positive impact in the movement toward creating equal opportunity, driving real change, and creating a better future for all.
In a recent fireside chat, "Coming Together on the Path to Equality – Part 2," Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and CEO at Workday, connected with Carin Taylor, chief diversity officer at Workday, and Michael C. Bush, CEO at Great Place to Work and a Workday board member. The three discussed equality, social justice, closing the opportunity gap, and the work company leaders must do to help ensure all employees feel a sense of value, inclusion, and belonging.
Evolving the Role of the Chief Diversity Officer
Early on in the conversation, Taylor discussed a shift that's happening not only in communities around the country, but also for leaders in diversity and inclusion roles. According to Taylor, "The recent activities around racism and injustice have awakened people. They care about what's happening now, but they're also facing the idea that they may have turned a blind eye to issues that have happened in the past."
Now more than ever, said Taylor, there is "pressure on chief diversity officers to help companies think about addressing the issues at hand, including racism, inequities, and the emotional impact to our employees on top of COVID-19."
But chief diversity officers can't do this work alone. The change needs to happen across the company, with buy-in from the top of the organization. "We need to engage leaders, our employee belonging groups, and middle managers who play a critical role in the experiences that employees are having," she explained.
To live the vision of valuing inclusion, belonging, and equity (VIBETM) spearheaded by Taylor, "All employees must play a part in owning the accountability for how they shift our culture to make sure that this is a place of inclusion and belonging for all people," she said.
"All employees must play a part in owning the accountability for how they shift our culture to make sure that this is a place of inclusion and belonging for all people."
Carin Taylor Chief Diversity Officer Workday
Sharing Data About the Employee Experience
Recent data from a global Great Place to Work study of four million employees highlights differences in demographic groups within organizations, explained Bush, and shows that there's still a lot of work to do before companies can reach that place of universal inclusion and belonging that Taylor talked about.
Findings show white men, for example, already feel a sense of belonging at organizations because they cite wanting things like more work-life balance and more stock. These concerns reveal that this group has its basic needs met and mainly wants to make a good situation better.
Data reveals Black men, on the other hand, are concerned with a lack of diversity and lack of promotional opportunities. Bush explained these results indicate that Black men are "trying to get some of the basics in place, so they feel they belong."
Bush also shared this data point: "The highest scores, in terms of pride, come from Black employees. They are proud to be at the company and they care about the company; they're just wondering if the company cares about them."
Bridging Employee Belonging Councils With the Power of Data
Great places to work have employee belonging groups, which allow employees to connect with each other on issues they personally care about. Companies that support the formation of these groups, which go by different names, directly support improving their employees' sense of belonging. Bush said, "Employee belonging groups are important because they're a place for people to come together who are having a common experience." And, Taylor added, they "help us understand how we can do better in the workplace and what's happening within that employee population."
"Employee belonging groups are important because they're a place for people to come together who are having a common experience."
Michael C. Bush CEO Great Place to Work
In a diversity and inclusion strategy session, Taylor asked leaders of Workday employee belonging councils for ideas on how the company could improve, and the group suggested creating specific measurements for VIBE. To gather these metrics, Taylor said, "We ask questions around fairness and equity in the workplace and how employees are feeling in terms of belonging." Psychological safety is also a critical piece; it indicates if employees feel they can bring their authentic selves to work.
Workday's senior leadership sees the data gathered from these questions and uses it to deploy changes, so these employees "can now have a direct influence on decision making at the highest level in our company," said Taylor. Furthermore, business success naturally follows when employees feel emotionally and psychologically safe—key contributors for inclusion, belonging, and equity.
Bhusri emphasized the importance of data as well. "We have a unique vantage point as a cloud finance and HR provider where we have visibility into that data. All companies can do better, and it comes back to measurement," he said.
Next Steps on Valuing Inclusion, Belonging, and Equity
At Workday, Taylor and team are starting a 12-month initiative with dedicated resources focused on belonging and diversity, and creating systemic change. Four guiding principles will be the driving force behind this work: hiring and developing diverse talent, cultivating a culture of belonging, strengthening our communities, and building inclusive products and technology for our customers.
"I think it is a time for companies to step up and show that leaders of companies have a soul and want to do the right thing."
Aneel Bhusri CEO Workday
On the issue of diverse talent, Taylor said, "As a society, we've created barriers that make it difficult for underrepresented groups to gain thriving wage jobs. We need to remove barriers, so we can enable these communities to have stronger workforce and economic empowerment."
Bush insisted that we must "open ourselves up to find a way that we can talk to everyone about these issues, get rid of old notions, and find a way to go forward." Creating a great place to work for all is everybody's responsibility, he said. It requires bold leadership that encourages all employees to value inclusion, belonging, and equity.
"As I think about what we're doing at Workday and as I talk with other CEOs, I think it is a time for companies to step up and show that leaders of companies have a soul and want to do the right thing. I am optimistic that we are going to see real change," Bhusri said.
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The Archbishop of Lusaka, Telephone Mpundu, meets President Edgar Lungu
"Our country is now all, except in designation, a dictatorship and if it is not yet, then we are not far from it.
Our political leaders in the ruling party often issue intimidating statements
that frighten people and make us fear for the immediate and future."
Archbishop Mpundu, President, Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops
Divine Mercy Sunday 2017
Zambia, according to its 1996 constitution, is officially Christian. Just over three-quarters of the population profess allegiance to various Protestant denominations; while just over one-fifth is Roman Catholic. The rest of Zambia's 16 million population are a combination of Animist (2.5%), Atheist (1.8%) and Muslim (0.5%).
Since its political independence in 1964, Zambia has enjoyed relative stability, despite its many challenges related to its landlocked location in Southern Africa. The past decade has seen Zambia's economy struggle with low commodity prices, mine closures, rising unemployment, power shortages, a widening budget deficit and diminishing foreign-currency reserves.
President Edgar Lungu (right) meets Archbishop Mpundu
Since the start of the decade political tensions have deeply divided the country. Two recently disputed Presidential elections, in 2015 and 2016, narrowly won by President Edgar Lungu of the Patriotic Front (PF), have been bitterly disputed by the President of the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND), Hakainde Hichilema.
Hichilema (54) is a millionaire and the second-largest rancher in Zambia. Lungu (60) is a lawyer by profession who, in 2010, had his law practicing license suspended by the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ), having been found guilty of professional misconduct.
On 9 April 2017 an incident in Mongu, in the Western Province, involving rival cavalcades of both President Lungu and Mr Hichilema has resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of Hichilema, accused of treason.
In an opinion piece published on 24 April 2017 in Zambia Reports, journalist Peter Adamu, was scathing in his critique of both men:
Hakainde Hichilema, President, UPND
"For genuine dialogue to take off, both parties must take some responsibility and acknowledge their part in the current unfolding scenario. Otherwise, two quarrelsome adults cannot drag the entire country into their egoistic shenanigans.
President Edgar Lungu and Hakainde Hichilema are behaving like two high school students fighting for the attention of the hottest cheek in school. That stunt in Mongu should never have happened but equally the amount of force unleashed in response has been as reckless.
Let those with ears listen, for the church has spoken."
Adamu's reference to 'the church has spoken', followed a statement issued the previous day by the Archbishop of Lusaka, Telesphore Mpundu, President of the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB).
The letter, addressed 'To all Catholic faithful and all people of good will in Zambia' is headlined with a quotation from Pope Paul VI:
IF YOU WANT PEACE, WORK FOR JUSTICE
Referring to the Mongu incident the Bishops, while making it clear they do not condon illegality, are critical of the 'disproportionate' response of the Government and the unnecessary force used by the police to apprehend Hichilema. The statement said the heavy handed approach of the Zambian police "has only served to heighten the already considerable tension in the nation particularly between supporters of the UPND and PF."
Their statement is also critical of both judicial corruption and pressure exerted on the judiciary to act corruptly. Zambia, the statement said, is, except in designation, a dictatorship:
"Our country is now all, except in designation, a dictatorship and if it is not yet, then we are not far from it. Our political leaders in the ruling party often issue intimidating statements that frighten people and make us fear for the immediate and future."
The Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) said this must be stopped and reversed henceforth.
In an ominous warning to politicians, Archbishop Mpundu's statement concluded:
"Let the politicians of both parties take it from us since we always have our ears close to the ground that our country now stands on the edge. It is no use playing an ostrich game by burying our heads in the sand thinking that the storm will pass away. It will not, at least not before it has done great harm to this nation.
The use of force and intimidation are not the solution whatsoever. Only genuine and sincere dialogue aimed at national reconciliation is the long-term solution. This reconciliation must be firmly rooted in the Christian values of Truth, Forgiveness, Peace, Unity, Social Justice and Freedom. Let us learn to bury our immediate past and rise again to new life."
Read the full statement from Bishops' Conference by clicking here
SMA and Zambia
The Society first established a presence in Zambia in 1973 when Fr Michael Igoe (Co Westmeath) and Sexton Doran (Co Down) arrived to minister in Ndola diocese at the invitation of the then Bishop Agnozzi OFM Conv. Both had been missionaries in Nigeria for many years. Fr Doran had also served as Vocations Director and Local Superior in Dromantine. They were involved in pastoral work in Francisdale Mission, on the outskirts of Ndola, the second-largest city in Zambia.
Today, our SMA missionaries minister in the Archdiocese of Lusaka and the dioceses of Kabwe and Ndola. Several Zambian SMA priests are on mission in other parts of Africa. The Society has a Formation House for training Zambian seminarians in Kabwe, Zambia. The Regional Superior for Zambia is Fr Gustave Mukosha who resides in the SMA Regional House in Ndola. He is assisted by Fr Martin O'Farrell SMA, from Cork City, Ireland.
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Families of French fishermen who died off Cornwall will have to wait for answers
Inquest adjourned until 2020
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The three partners of crew members of the Bugaled Breizh visit Lizard Point where the fishing boat was lost 12 miles out to sea with all crew. Pictured Martine Bovaziz, Martine Chartier and Suzanne Cille
The families of French fishermen who drowned off the coast of Cornwall in 2004 will have to wait for answers about their deaths.
An inquest opened last week into the deaths of two of the five men who died when the French fishing vessel Bugalen Breizh sank 14 years ago off the Lizard.
The crew comprising Yves Gloaguen, Pascal Le Floch, George Lematayer, Patrick Glogauen, and Eric Guillament all lost their lives when their boat sank on January 15, 2004, off the Lizard.
However, only the bodies of Yves Gloaguen, 45, and Pascal Le Floch, 49, were recovered to enable an inquest to take place into their deaths.
The French fishing boat Bugaled Breizh
The families of the victims have been fighting for answers ever since the tragedy and have previously claimed that a Nato submarine involved in a military training exercise was responsible.
Acting senior coroner for Cornwall Andrew Cox opened the hearing at the Health & Wellbeing Centre at Treliske, Truro, last Monday (November 25).
He said: "There are a lot of conspiracy theories around this case and I want to work hard to dispel as many of these as possible."
The inquest was adjourned on Friday until a date to be set in 2020.
Fishermen saw submarine in area when French trawler sank killing five crew
Several fisherman in the area at the time told the authorities they had seen a submarine on the surface.
Following the incident, French fisherman Serge Cossec gave evidence to his local authorities and a report they wrote was made available to the inquest.
In the report, Mr Cossec said how he had been fishing alongside the Bugaled Breizh and both boats had taken shelter in Newlyn when conditions worsened.
He noted that the Bugaled Breizh was in good condition with no obvious defects, and the two boats returned to the fishing area when the weather improved.
The wreck of the fishing vessel Bugaled Breizh is lifted to the surface by the salvage vessel Discovery in sheltered waters off Falmouth
The next Mr Cossec heard from the Bugaled Breizh was in the form of a distress call, when skipper Mr Gloaguen said: "Come quickly, I'm capsizing."
When Mr Cossec asked Mr Gloaguen to repeat himself, the skipper simply said: "I'm capsizing, come quickly" and Mr Cossec noted he had an element of panic in his voice.
He later said that Mr Gloaguen was a competent fisherman who wouldn't take unnecessary risks and that if he didn't mention why the ship was sinking then he probably didn't know why.
When he arrived at the last known location of the doomed ship, they found an "expanse" of diesel and oil, and some floating debris.
After his initial report, which was written while at sea, Mr Cossec wrote a second statement.
In it he said that his first mate had checked the radar at the time of the incident which showed there was not another vessel within a six mile radius.
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He also added that when he returned to the wreck he had seen a submarine in the area.
He said: "There was a submarine on the surface. I did not see an identification mark. I tried to approach it twice without success.
"It went away and I don't know if it was trying to slip away or if it was following precise search directions."
A statement from Marc Cariou, a professional fisherman on-board the Eridan, which also responded to the distress signal, was also read out.
He said: "We found a spill of diesel oil, it was enormous.
"There was a submarine on the surface. I noticed that it kept out the way and we tried to approach it.
"We did not see it again."
Supporters of the Bugaled Breizh from Cornwall and France outside the coroner's court in Truro, including Dominique and Claudine Launay (in white), Thierry Lemétayer (blue shirt) and Charles Hattersley (far right)
A statement from another fisherman, Frederic Stephan, was also read out.
He said: "We saw a submarine on the surface. We tried to approach it but we were not able to. I did not see anything notable about this submersible.
"I was of the impression there was a flag on the side. I did not see it.
"It did not seem to me that it was going to hang about on the scene. This seemed to me because there were so many vessels on the scene it would have been difficult for it to manoeuvre."
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Cyril Blondin, skipper of the Herheim, a trawler that was fishing nearby, said: "In the morning I was fishing 20 miles away from the place of the incident.
"I arrived on scene with the other vessels at around 1400 hours.
"After 10 minutes we saw a life raft, it was empty – I went to recover it, it was partially deflated.
"I spent about 80 per cent of my time fishing in this area, it is not dangerous.
"When we were at the scene one of my lads took a picture of the submarine."
No family members attended the first day of the inquest, with claims in the French media in recent days that they only received an invitation within the past few days, but two members of the French press were in attendance - with the aim of making a podcast about the incident.
The wreck of the fishing vessel "Bugaled Breizh" is lifted to the surface by the salvage vessel
Families of the crew members have claimed in the past that a submarine was responsible.
That claim has been denied by British authorities and rejected by French courts.
The trawler went down 14 miles off the Lizard peninsula and relatives believe that a submarine became snagged in its nets.
The sinking happened a day before Nato military exercises officially began in the area.
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At a pre-inquest hearing it was said that the full inquest would consider four points.
The four points are whether a submarine was involved, if there had been a fishing accident, had there been contact with another surface vessel and if there was another reason.
The inquest, which was scheduled to last around three weeks, will now continue in the new year.