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Event 1 (Day 1F): Long Island Iced
POSTED BY: Tropical Steve
|CATEGORY: 2016, BorgataPoker.com, Event 1, Event 1 (Day 1F)
Dean (Long Island)
Blinds 500 / 1,000 / 100 Ante
Total Event 1F Entrants: 1,451
Total Event 1 Entrants: 5,101
Dean from Long Island (who preferred not to use his last name) just busted another player, also from Long Island. It's a shame when hometown players have to send each other to the rail. That's what happened here when {Ks}{Qc} got ahead of {Jh}{Jd} on a {5c}{5h}{Kd}{Qs}{6h} board.
Event 1 (Day 1A): 'Lucky Chucky' Lucky to be Indoors Today
|CATEGORY: 2016, BorgataPoker.com, Event 1, Event 1 (Day 1A)
Level 11: Blinds 600/1,200/200 ante
Total Event 1 Entries: 713
The unofficial entry count for Flight A is 596.
Only 29 tables are still in action, leaving 290 players in this flight.
Chuck Seitchick (Egg Harbor Twp, NJ)
One of those players doing well is 'Lucky Chucky' Seitchick. He brought his own miniature Royal Flush to keep an eye on his cards for him. Chucky is up to about 120,000 (100 big blinds) and cruising with six levels left to finish tonight.
Chucky owns World Roofing and says "There are lots of roofers here today." I guess with a high today of 26 degrees Farenheit in Atlantic City, no one wants to be on top of a house laying shingles.
ICYMI: Results From The Start Of The Open
POSTED BY: Will OC
|CATEGORY: Event 1, Event 1 (Day 3), Event 2, Event 2 (Day 2), Event 3, Pre-Event
It's been an exciting first few days of the Borgata Winter Poker Open, with three titles already being awarded.
The first was on Thursday, when David Thurston (Fort Wayne, IN) won his first non-Hold'em event of his career, taking down the Event 3 Omaha H/L event for just under $15,000.
Next up was the $2,000,000 GTD Event 1, which was "live streamed" yesterday and saw David Hom (Brooklyn, NY) make the biggest tournament score of his life and take home just under $340,000 for the victory.
The third and final trophy awarded so far, was for the Event 2 $100 Black Chip Bounty, which was won by Thai Ha (Factoryville, PA), taking home $43,359.
The complete results from all three completed events can be found by clicking the above links.
Event 1 (Day 3): 1st Place – Hom ($339,501)
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Level 39 (Blinds 500,000/100,000/100,000)
Chip Average: 83,580,000
Final Table Hand: 98
David Hom (Brooklyn, NY) – Winter Poker Open Event 1 Champion
We came into this $2,000,000 GTD Event 1 Final Table knowing one thing, that one of the ten remaining players were going to write their way into the Borgata Poker history books and make the biggest tournament score of their career.
We just weren't sure which one was going to do it.
At first, it looked like chip leader Ryan Jones would, as he came in as the big stack and held that mark for much of the early going.
Then, Byung Yoo looked like the "favorite" as he peaked and ran over the table for a solid stretch, knocking out opponents left and right to move to the front of the pack.
But, in the end, those two players were sent to the rail by David Hom, who turned it on at just the right time, picking up massive hands in critical spots and making great calls when it mattered the most to take home his first major tournament title.
Hom notched the first knockout of the day and then seemed to sit back and let it all unfold in front of him, going almost dead quiet for most middle portion of play.
We then got to four handed play and a timely pair of pocket Kings and Aces on back to back hands got him to heads up play.
Hom has been in this spot before, in fact, just a month ago he was heads up for a WSOP Circuit Ring and would end up in 2nd place.
This time, he would not be denied, battling Byung Yoo and taking a sick beat that crippled him to 20 big blinds in stride, then recovering to get back to even and eventually winning the title and the $339,501 that comes with it.
This concludes the Event 1 coverage from the Winter Poker Open blog, but there are still three tournaments running in the Event Center and we will be crowning another champion here tonight as the Event 2 $100 Black Chip Bounty plays down to a winer.
If you missed any of the Event 1 Final Table action, you can re-watch the live stream of this event any time by clicking the link above.
Event 1 (Day 3): 2nd Place – Yoo ($220,324)
Byung Yoo (Norwood, NJ)
After a back and forth heads up battle, the $2,000,000 GTD Event 1 ended with in a flash, as David Hom hero called an all-in shove from Byung Yoo and had the young player slightly covered and held to win the hand and his first major tournament title.
The action was picked up with Hom making a pre-flop raise from the small blind and Yoo would call from the big blind.
The flop came down {8c}{Qh}{4s} and Yoo would lead out for 7,000,000.
David would flat call to see a turn card and the dealer would place down the {10d}.
Yoo would take a moment to think and then announce himself "all-in", with Hom wasting no time to make the call and turn over his hand.
He acted like he had a monster, but he turned over {6d}{4c} for bottom pair.
It didn't matter what pair he held, as Yoo immediately shook his head once Hom had called, turning over {Ac}{2h}.
He'd need another miracle card on the river, but it wouldn't come as the {3h} completed the board and would confirm the pot as Hom's.
There would be a few moments of uncertainty though, as the dealer and tournament staff would count out the chips and eventually confirm that Hom had Yoo covered by just under 2,000,000 chips, meaning Yoo would shockingly be eliminated in 2nd place.
It was a bluff gone wrong in the end, but Yoo had bossed much of the Final Table up until about an hour ago when David Hom started to get hot.
Despite for one runner-runner savior, Hom was nearly unstoppable over the last level, knocking out the final three players from the field, lastly Yoo who will take home just over $220,000 for his efforts, his largest score to date.
Event 1 (Day 3): Hom Gets Back To Even
David Hom has recovered well from the runner-runner bad beat he took to get back to even in this heads up battle for the Event 1 title.
The stacks are not that deep here, as there are just over 80 big blinds in play and before David Hom doubled up to get back to an even chip stack, he was sitting with only twenty of them.
Hom would move all-in over the pre-flop raise of Byung Yoo and get snap called, Yoo tabling {Qc}{Jh} and needing to improve to win against the {Ks}{8h} of Hom.
The board would run out {Ac}{9s}{8c}{Ad}{7h} with Yoo picking up a gut shot draw on top of his pair outs on the flop, but bricking out over the turn and river.
The players are now playing nearly identical stacks and will continue through Level 39.
A quick update on payouts, the runner up in this event will make $220,324 with $339,501 being held up top for the winner.
These two scores trump both players previous career earnings total by a large margin.
Event 1 (Day 3): Runner Runner Saves Byung
Oddly enough, we've only seen one "dirty" river card at this Final Table, but we just saw a pretty "dirty" runner-runner turn and river to prolong this heads up battle.
The action was picked up with David Hom raising from the small blind and getting three-bet by Byung Yoo.
Hom would think for a second before announcing himself all-in, with Byung snap calling, putting himself at risk.
In a flash, nearly all the chips were in the middle, with Hom one flip away from his first major poker title.
Hom held {9s}{9h} and would be an even runner in this race against Byung Yoo's {Kh}{Qd}.
The board came down only how it could in a "televised" event, {Kd}{Kc}{9d} with Yoo flopping trips and Hom flopping a full house.
The hand got even more "television" worthy as the {6d} came on the turn and then the {6h} came on the river, sending a groan throughout the tournament area, as the only few people celebrating the runner runner superior full house were Yoo's supporters on the rail.
It was a sick run out and we imagine that the twittersphere is blowing up after that hand, one that will not only give the chip lead to Byung Yoo, but also may give him the Event 1 title, as Hom is now cut down to under the 20,000,000 chip mark.
Event 1 (Day 3): 3rd Place – Muriqui ($145,526)
Elvir Muriqui (Bronx, NY)
We said David Hom wasn't done and he definitely wasn't, as there was just one hand of three handed play, with Elvir Muriqui moving all-in from the button and getting snap called, almost sheepishly by Hom in the big blind.
We say sheepishly, because it's almost like Hom couldn't believe his luck, as he turned over {Ad}{Ah}, after just being dealt pocket Kings in the previous hand.
Elvir was a big dog, as he held just under 20% equity in the hand with {8c}{8s}.
Elvir was confident, as was his rail, that the eight would come, even calling out that it would be the "middle card on the board".
It wasn't the middle, in fact it didn't show up at all, as the board ran out {Ks}{Jd}{6h}{5c}{4h} and Elvir, who has dished out dozens of knockouts in his professional boxing career, was being dealt one himself, which certainly must have stung as he was so close to his first major poker title, but will be sent to the rail in 3rd place, for just under $150,000.
Elvir said before the action started today, that this experience "felt like walking into the ring", showing the energy and excitement the "live streamed" Final Table can bring.
We are now heads up for the Event 1 title, with David Hom holding close to 50,000,000 chips. Byung Yoo is sitting with just over 30,000,000.
Event 1 (Day 3): 4th Place – Jones ($119,582)
Level 39 (Blinds 500,000/1,000,000/100,000)
Ryan Jones (Burlington, NC)
We've lost two players in back to back hands, both getting sent to the rail by David Hom and the two best starting hands in poker.
The first saw the short stacked Ryan Jones move all-in from the button or just under 6,000,000 chips and get snap called by Hom in the small blind.
Hom would turn over {Ks}{Kh} and be a huge favorite to make the elimination as Jones held {Kc}{9h}.
Jones was visibly frustrated as his roller coaster ride of an Event 1 Final Table looked like it was coming to a sudden and abrupt halt.
He'd pick up some hope on the flop as the board came down {Jd}{Qc}{3d}, giving himself outs to a straight.
They wouldn't get there, as the board would double pair as the {Jh} and {3h} completed the community and would eliminate Jones in 4th place.
Jones had the "best" tournament resume of the entire Final Table coming in and he has certainly improved on that here today, besting his previously biggest score by close to $80,000 as he will make just under $120,000 for his 4th place finish.
We'd update David Hom's chip count, but he wasn't finished eliminating players just yet…
Event 1 (Day 3): This Time, Blind Versus Blind Cuts Down Jones
David Hom (Brooklyn, NY)
The last blind versus blind encounter Ryan Jones was involved in, he was crippling Brian Wilson, but he was not as fortunate this time, as he moved all-in from the small blind and would get snap called for less by David Hom in the big blind.
Jones rolled his eyes and looked towards the sky when he saw Hom turn over {Ah}{8h}, as he held {Ac}{4d}.
The board would run out {6h}{10s}{9c}{Qh} giving Jones some chop outs on the river, but that wouldn't happen, as the {3h} would complete the board to give Hom a winning flush.
Had the river not been a heart, and lower than an eight, Hom would have won the pot anyway, but he certainly appreciated the improvement as he is now playing an average stack of 20,000,000 chips.
Jones has been on a wild ride for the last few levels and is now sitting with just over 7,000,000 chips, playing a sub-10 big blind stack for the first time today as we move into Level 39.


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My name is Panida Mookdasnit, I am 41 years old. I was born in Las Angeles, CA. I lived in Thailand for 9 years. My Dad took me and brother away from our Mom and dropped us off in Thailand to live with our Grandmother. It was not his plan to leave us there for that long, but when you are in addiction you lose sight of a lot of what is important. I know this to be true, because I also have lived that life. I grew up with no Mom or Dad, no family to show me Gods love. I was abandon, physically and mentally abused and molested as child. From the age of 2 to the age of 7, my Grandmother physically abused and try to kill me. Although my Mother and Father have forsaken me, my Lord took me into His arms and carried me through those years.
Because I was never shown love, I grew up feeling unloved, unwanted, without self-worth. I was suicidal from the age of 14-37 years old. For years I allowed the enemy to tell me lie after lie as he tried to steal, kill and destroy my life. I was an enemy of God and even allowed my-self to be used by the devil. I really believed at one point of my life I was possessed by demons.
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Today, Hugh generously shares his work with Matt, a man whose job, has been a part of many people's fantasy's. Many photographers and film makers have created a variety of sexy scenario's involving someone opening their door, and finding a hot hunk like Matt delivering the pizza they had ordered. The story usually ends the same way, with that pizza, usually warm or most likely cold, by the time it finally gets eaten.
'I saw Matt on-line and was taken by his clean cut good looks. His profile pic stood out from the usual. I reached out to him with my usual offer - 'I do male model photography. I'd love to photograph your handsome face. Not a scam, not porn, a legitimate offer. I'll give you the pics for free.'
With a bit of research, Hugh found out that Matt worked at the Domino's Pizza close to where he lived. Although Hugh didn't order a 16 inch pie, he did set up a time to get together with Matt for a shoot. Hugh shares that Matt was very comfortable in front of the camera which made it easier for him to attend to the technical details of lighting, exposure and focus. They started, as Hugh usually likes to, with just some close up headshots.
'I believe Matt had done some other modeling in the past, which put us both at a great advantage. He knew how to address the camera, which poses put him in the best light, and what made him look good. Since I work in a makeshift studio in my garage, when it came to props, I just used whatever I found on the walls - a step ladder, extension cords, tool belt, heavy chain, tools. Matt was very comfortable with the props - and with being naked.'
One of this things that drew me to Hugh's work with Matt was the erotic sensuality in many of the images and poses captured. Matt exudes a sweltering and sultry vibe through his beautiful eyes and way in which he positions his body beside, and with the props that Hugh provided. I especially love the images that Hugh captured of Matt leaning seductively on the stool. The combination of his body position and facial expression is incredibly sexy and effective.
Hugh says that he used the simplest of lighting;, and in a few shots, just a bare bulb for some side lighting. I've learned that you don't have to have a lot of money invested in tons of equipment to get a good shot. For Hugh, his work with Matt was both fun and successful resulting in some incredible images. Matt has since moved Florida, and Hugh is glad that he 'snagged' a shoot with pizza driver while he was still doing most of his delivering within his neighbourhood.
Matt too, equally enjoyed the experience and his work with Hugh. Matt describes the shoot as seamless and not a bit awkward or forced. He also shares that their collaboration resulted in images that have become his favorites, and the best images that he has seen taken of himself.
'Hugh just knew how I should pose, and the pics, as you can see, came out great!'
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Blast From The Past: The Eighties
I am not sure how many of you watched CNN's The Eighties on Thursday, but for me, it was the ultimate blast of my eighties past. I watched much of the television that influenced my early life in the eighties, and entered my teen years about the time the 80's were ending. It was still a time of 3 networks and for most of it, our house was still without a VCR. Although we ended up buying one, after much begging and pleading of our parents, it was a Betamax, and a machine I wasn't even allowed to touch until the 90's rolled around.
I have written a few times about my affinity for the prime time soap Dallas. I didn't really watch it so much in the 80's, but I have intensely emotional memories of watching my parents watch the show. Friday nights were really the only night, they both sat down and watched television. I remember at first, I was ushered off to bed before the show started at 9pm, but after a few years was able to stay up and watch with my parents.
I didn't actually watch the series, this time paying attention, until years later when it aired on the old The Nashville Network (TNN) and subsequently on DVD. The show, though dated, it a great window to the greed of the 80's and the first six or seven seasons were fun to re-watch. I loved me some Sue Ellen and Lucy Ewing and the many men who went in and out of their.... lives. One of Lucy's main loves was Mitch, played by the talented and beautifully blonde, Leigh McCloskey.
Mr. Lucy Ewing on Dallas (1980)
Mitch didn't stay on the show too long, maybe because Leigh didn't always fit in with the rest of the cast. I am sure he got along ok with them, but the actor and artist always seemed a little too serious for all the silliness that surrounded him. With CNN's The Eighties, and it's focus on Dallas, and television of the decade, in it's first episode, I thought April might be a good time to look back at some of those 80's hunks who introduced me to the wonderful world of men.
Leigh & Gregory Harrison
Cruising on The Love Boat with James McNichol and William R. Moses
Leigh's only nude scene, mooning with Matt McCoy in Fraternity Vacation (1985)
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Home States Andhra Pradesh
Telangana, Seemandhra ministers to meet today
Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy agrees to host joint meeting at camp office in order to discuss contentious issues
Published: 11th September 2013 11:54 AM | Last Updated: 11th September 2013 12:23 PM | A+A A-
In a significant development, chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, after a representation by Telangana ministers, has agreed to convene a joint meeting of Telangana and Seemandhra ministers at his camp office here on Wednesday to discuss the state bifurcation issue.
According to sources, the chief minister promised Telangana ministers that he would chair the meeting and allow the ministers to air their views on sharing of river waters, revenue, energy, employment and access to higher education. When the Telangana ministers told him of their decision to organise a public meeting in Hyderabad, he did not object to it.
After a meeting at the Congress Legislature Party office, the Telangana ministers called on the chief minister at his camp office and requested him to ensure that the party's T-decision is implemented.
The chief minister, according to information and public relations minister DK Aruna, said he was neither a supporter of Samaikyandhra nor an opponent to Telangana and that he was open to suggestions.
At the CLP, Telangana Congress leaders proposed to organise a massive public meeting in Hyderabad soon, apparently to take wind out of the sails of Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) which has announced a public meeting on Sept 30.
According to sources, the Telangana Congress leaders were worried over their Seemandhra counterparts having their way with regard to the status of Hyderabad. To stall this, the Telangana leaders want to make efforts to prevent the Centre acceding to the demand of Seemandhra leaders to convert Hyderabad into a Union Territory.
According to DK Aruna, a wide-ranging meeting has been called on Sept 15 in Hyderabad with the participation of not only ministers, but also MLAs, MLCs, DCC presidents and others from the Telangana region to decide on the date and venue of the public meeting.
The Telangana leaders want resolutions passed at district and mandal level meetings of the party for the implementation of the CWC decision, which said Hyderabad would remain the joint capital for the two states for 10 years. The Telangana ministers too want to meet exclusively to pass a resolution for the implementation of the CWC decision without any amendments.
The meeting, attended by ministers K Jana Reddy, DK ARuna, J Gita Reddy and P Sudharshan Reddy, and several MPs and MLAs, expressed unhappiness over the chief minister championing the cause of Samiakyandhra and the support extended by the government to the APNGOs public meeting in Hyderabad recently.
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Q: Why cant login to couchbase? I'm new with couchbase, and i install it with dpkg -i couchbase-version but when i go to localhost:8091, I can't settings or something like that,  just the login screen and about, i can not set up cluster or server or anything.
Is there a default user-password pair?
I Tried the followings:
admin-admin,root-root but i cant login.

What can be a problem, can anyone helps to me? Thanks a lot.
Ohh, and im using jessie debian 8.

A: are you sure there wasn't a previous install of couchbase on that machine?
maybe that previous version was uninstalled via dpkg, but the data files weren't deleted? on Debian they should be under opt/couchbase... See the doc on uninstalling on Debian.
If they're still here, you could follow the steps in the link above. For the last paragrap about data files, you'd need to delete the opt/couchbase/ folder. Then reinstall and you should be able to do the setup.
ONLY DO THAT IF you're positive losing the data isn't a problem of course (eg. dev machine).

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Tadeusz Marian Klimowski ps. "Ostoja" (ur. 15 października 1911 w Krakowie, zm. 12 września 1981 w Londynie) – major Armii Krajowej. W trakcie powstania warszawskiego dowódca batalionu "Ostoja".

Życiorys
Od 1925 do 1932 był uczniem Państwowego Seminarium Nauczycielskiego Męskiego w Warszawie. Od 1935 był aspirantem Straży Granicznej. W 1939 roku jako porucznik, był dowódcą kompanii Straży Granicznej w Grupie pułkownika Stefana Hanki-Kuleszy.

Po wojnie obronnej 1939 został internowany na Węgrzech. Przedostał się do Francji, a następnie do Wielkiej Brytanii. Został żołnierzem 1 Samodzielnej Brygady Spadochronowej. Po złożeniu akcesu do pracy w kraju, został przeszkolony w dywersji. Jako "cichociemny" złożył przysięgę 10 listopada 1941. Został zrzucony do Polski z 6 na 7 stycznia 1942. Początkowo pełnił funkcję zastępcy dowódcy, a następnie dowódcy II odcinka "Wachlarza". Od stycznia 1943 był komendantem Inspektoratu Rejonowego Równe w Okręgu Wołyń AK. Od jesieni 1943 został szefem Oddziału III w sztabie Okręgu. Od lutego 1944 był oficerem operacyjnym, a od maja szefem sztabu 27 Wołyńskiej Dywizji Piechoty. Po przedostaniu się dywizji na Lubelszczyznę, w lipcu 1944 wyjechał na leczenie do Warszawy. Po wybuchu powstania warszawskiego początkowo był zastępcą dowódcy batalionu "Iwo", a od 12 września dowódcą batalionu "Ostoja". Od 18 września został awansowany do stopnia majora.

Po powstaniu w niewoli niemieckiej w oflagu Sandbostel jako "Bazyli Świryd". Od 1945 w Polskich Siłach Zbrojnych. W 1946 skończył VI kurs Wyższej Szkoły Wojennej. Po wojnie na emigracji. Był pierwszym prezesem Zarządu Głównego Koła b. Żołnierzy AK od 1947 do 1948. 8 września 1950 został powołany przez Prezydenta RP na uchodźstwie Augusta Zaleskiego na stanowisko sędziego Sądu Obywatelskiego w Londynie. Od 1966 do 1980 pełnił funkcję wiceprzewodniczącego Rady Studium Polski Podziemnej w Londynie.

odznaczony.

Za walki podczas powstania warszawskiego odznaczony Krzyżem Srebrym Orderu Vi

Ordery i odznaczenia
 Krzyż Srebrny Orderu Virtuti Militari nr 11670 (za powstanie warszawskie)
 Krzyż Walecznych – za walkę czynną jako dowódca oddziału partyzanckiego w rejonie Ostroga i Sławuty

Przypisy

Bibliografia

 Stork M., Bataliony "Iwo" i Ostoja", Pruszków 2004

Linki zewnętrzne
 Biogram na stronie elitadywersji.org

Cichociemni
Członkowie Komend Okręgów AK
Dowódcy oddziałów partyzanckich Armii Krajowej
Oficerowie dyplomowani II Rzeczypospolitej
Oficerowie 27. Wołyńskiej Dywizji Piechoty AK
Polacy internowani na Węgrzech w czasie II wojny światowej
Powstańcy warszawscy
Żołnierze Wachlarza
Sędziowie Sądu Obywatelskiego w Londynie
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Walecznych
Urodzeni w 1911
Zmarli w 1981
Ludzie urodzeni w Krakowie

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Understanding strategic planning and the formulation and implementation of strategic plans as a way of knowing: The contributions of actor-network theory
John M Bryson, BARBARA C. Crosby, JOHN K. Bryson
This article has two purposes: first, to take seriously the notion of strategic planning as a way of knowing, and second, to argue that actor-network theory provides a particularly apposite method for understanding whether and how strategic planning works in particular circumstances. Pursuit of these purposes also helps illuminate possible contributions of strategic planning to inclusive, participative, and democratic public management. The paper is illustrated with examples from the 1995 and 2007 strategic planning and subsequent implementation efforts of MetroGIS, an organization created to foster widespread sharing of geospatial information primarily among public organizatons serving the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota, USA, and further, to enhance their individual and collective effectiveness. The Metropolitan Council, the regional government, is the primary sponsor of MetroGIS, which is comprised of over 300 organizational partners across the region. Conclusions are offered about the importance of viewing and studying strategic planning as a way of knowing and as a potential vehicle for inclusive public management in a democratic society.
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Bryson, J. M., Crosby, BARBARA. C., & Bryson, JOHN. K. (2009). Understanding strategic planning and the formulation and implementation of strategic plans as a way of knowing: The contributions of actor-network theory. International Public Management Journal, 12(2), 172-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/10967490902873473
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Michael is a member of the Society of Construction Law, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and is an RICS Accredited Mediator.
Having graduated with a MSc in Construction Law and Arbitration, Michael has completed an I-GDL at the University of Law.
He enjoys travel, which is fortunate as the MPG network of offices grows across Europe and the Middle East. Michael spends his time away from work competing in triathlons, playing golf, watching West Ham and looking after his twins, although not necessarily in that order.


The OFC Champions League, also known as the O-League, is the premier men's club football competition in Oceania. It is organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), Oceania's football governing body. It has been organized since 2007 under the current format, following its predecessor, the Oceania Club Championship. Eleven OFC Champions League titles have been won by teams from New Zealand, with Papua New Guinea being the only Pacific nation to have won the competition.
During the 2014–15 season, the tournament became sponsored by Fiji Airways, therefore renaming the competition as the Fiji Airways OFC Champions League. Trophies for OFC tournaments, made by London-based silversmiths Thomas Lyte, are awarded to winners.
At first, this competition was played as a single playoff match between champions of New Zealand and Australia. That competition was held in 1987 and Adelaide City won the inaugural season. Then 12 years pause came, until OFC organized next, all Oceania Cup. In January 1999, the Oceania Club Championship was held in the Fijian cities of Nadi and Lautoka. Nine teams took part, with Australian side South Melbourne winning the trophy. They also qualified for the following year's FIFA Club World Cup. The next competition was held two years later, with an Australian team again winning the title. Wollongong Wolves won it, beating Vanuatu representative Tafea in the final. Two more editions were held under this name and format, with Sydney and Auckland City winning titles. OFC decided to change the competition format and name, so that since 2007 the competition is known as the OFC Champions League.
The Oceania Club Championship was played on one or two venues, in one host country. It was played with two or three groups with single round-robin format, semifinals and final. It usually lasted about 10 days, with matches being played every 2 days.
OFC decided to change competition format, to make its main competition more interesting and more important to competing clubs.
The first two seasons saw competition with two groups of three teams each, and from the third edition onwards it consists of two groups of four teams each. Group winners progress to the final, played in double playoff format, with the winner taking the title. Unlike its previous format, O-League lasts more than a half year, starting in October and ending next year, in April. The O-League winner qualifies to FIFA Club World Cup, entering the competition in playoff round.
For the 2012–13 season O-League changed its format with the introduction of qualifying stage, with the champions of the four weakest leagues competing for a play-off spot with the representative of country with the worst record from the previous tournament. Later rather were also scheduling and format changes for the main tournament .That competition was played between March and May 2013 with introduction of semifinal stage and final played on neutral venue. First O-League one-legged final was played in Auckland, and was the first O-League final between two teams from the same country, with Auckland City defeating Waitakere United to win its 5th title.
OFC Champions League saw another change for 2013–14 season with group stage played on pre-determined location with semifinal and final played on home and away basis. Fiji was selected as host. Preliminary stage was played six months before group stage, and the winner entered the group stage.
Another change came in 2017 when group stage was expanded to 16 teams with whole competition being played in the same year (preliminary stage followed by group stage and later knock-out stage). Each of four groups was hosted by one of teams from the group meaning more countries and people included. Group winners qualified to semifinal. Semifinal and final were played on home-away basis. Following success of 2017 season, OFC added quarterfinal round for 2018 edition, meaning top two teams from each group qualified to knock-out stage.
Starting from 2014, both finalists of the OFC Champions League will also participate in the OFC President's Cup, an invitational tournament organized by the OFC. However, President's Cup was held only once.
Australia is no longer an OFC member.
* Number in brackets show number of participations.
^ "OFC teams up with Fiji Airways". OFC. 2 April 2015. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ "Past tournaments". oceaniafootball.com. Archived from the original on 28 April 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
^ "Oceania Club Cups - Overview File". RSSSF. Retrieved 17 April 2012.


A drug that promotes weight loss in obese mice by causing them to burn off excess calories is reported in a study published in Nature Communications this week. The drug causes the mice to generate more brown and beige fat, which are specialised tissues that burn lipid molecules to generate heat.
Alexander Pfeifer and colleagues have now shown that a cellular signalling pathway driven by the enzyme soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) activates the formation of brown and beige fat in obese mice. After treatment with an experimental drug that stimulates sGC the mice burn off more lipids; this then causes them to become leaner due to a reduction in white (storage) fat.
Although the drug has not been tested in humans, the authors speculate that it may have a favourable safety profile as it is chemically similar and belongs to the same class as the drug riociguat, which has recently been approved for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension. The authors hope that their findings may provide a potential candidate for the treatment of obesity and certain associated illnesses.


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Os Incríveis - (2004) - Netflix
Quando um ex-super herói que se tornou um corretor de seguros recebe uma missão misteriosa, é hora de vestir novamente a fantasia.
Director: Brad Bird
Reparto: Elizabeth Peña, Brad Bird, Spencer Fox, Sarah Vowell, Wallace Shawn, Jason Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Craig T. Nelson, Elizabeth Pena
Disponible desde: 10/02/2015
Synopsis Bob Parr (A.K.A. Mr. Incredible), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world's greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville. Always saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. But fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they have no choice but to retire as superheroes to live a 'normal life' with their three children Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack (who were secretly born with superpowers). Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.
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Love - it can be a blessing or it can be your downfall. You think you have the most beautiful relationship; you take pride in it when you talk about your "soul mate" to your friends; you let it become your reason to get up each morning and your every thought. The story of Samson is one of lessons about love and lust. From his mistakes we can learn a lot about love and lust.
Samson was a special man from his birth. His mother, having not been able to have children was visited by an angel in Judges 13 that told her that she would have a child, and that she should "drink no wine or similar drink, nor eat anything unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death." Before his birth, God had decided to set Samson apart for a special purpose.
· Drink wine, grape juice, vinegar, eat raisins or fresh grapes, or anything coming from the grape vine.
· Never cut his hair.
· Never go near a dead body, including that of his family. And if anyone died suddenly while with him, he had a specific offering to give, and would cut his hair as a sacrifice before going back under the vow.
· Never go near or have unclean food. Leviticus 11 outlines what was considered unclean and specifically states that "whatever goes on all fours" was considered unclean.
The vow was usually taken voluntarily, and for a set time, but Samson was ordained to be a Nazirite by God. Because of that God gave him special favor, in that he made him extremely strong. The book of Judges repeatedly tells us that the Spirit of the Lord was active with Samson, meaning God was with him.
But Samson was just a man. And as a man, he had weaknesses, and most of them dealt with women. Samson acted somewhat like a spoiled child when it came to women. His first encounter with women is told in Judges 14:2 he says "I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife." Doesn't that sound like a spoiled child? A saw it. I want it. Go get it for me NOW!
Samson's desire for this woman was out of lust – not love. He did not know this woman – he had only seen her. Any time you let lust be your driver, you've put recklessness at the wheel.
But lust took over and Samson would have it no other way! He started down to Timnah and came to the vineyards, a place where temptation was all around him for he was not to have anything that came from a grape vine. But God had actually led him there as Judges 14:4 says "He was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines. For at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel." God always gives us a way to escape temptations, as he did Samson at the vineyard. As he neared the vineyard, a lion came against him.
Samson, acting with the strength God had given him, tore the lion apart with his bare hands and left it's carcass to rot. He then enters Timnah to visit the lady he desired, and we're told that "she pleased him." I think we can figure out what that means. Later he brings his father to Timnah, which may have been for a wedding.
When he returned to the place where he'd killed the lion, he found bees had been inside the carcass, and there was honey in it. Samson scooped the honey from the carcass and ate it. But he didn't tell anyone, not even his own parents. He even brought the dripping honey comb to his parents to eat.
The reason he didn't tell anyone was that he had just broken the Nazirite vow. The lion was unclean, and he had gone near it and eaten from it. But rather than giving the sacrifice that was required, he turned his sin into a riddle. At the wedding party, Samson tells them his riddle saying "Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet." He then vows that whoever can solve the riddle he would give 30 changes of clothing and 30 linen garments. Did Samson have the clothing to give? No. He wasn't acting like a man being led by God – he was acting out of his flesh.
God was not pleased. With God, sin is never folly. He allowed the Philistines to come against his wife and threaten her that she should find the answer to his riddle or they would burn down her father's house.
His wife then acts out of the insecurity that comes from knowing you're involved in a lustful relationship not build on love. She says to Samson, "You only hate me! You do not love me! You have posed a riddle to the sons of my people, but you have not explained it to me." Had their relationship been built on love, she would have known he loved her. And if their relationship would have been built on true love, there would have been no secrets between them. But she knew she wasn't loved. She cried for seven days.
After the seven days Samson couldn't stand it anymore. No one wants to live with a crying woman! His lustful desires were not going to be filled while she cried. So Samson told her the riddle, and in turn, she told those that threatened her.
This put Samson in a predicament. Having told these men that if they solved the riddle he would give them thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes, which he did not have, he now had to pay up!
Samson, being blessed by the Spirit of God, went to the town of Askhelon and killed thirty men, and took their clothing. Now in killing them and taking their clothes it only stands to reason that he must have come in contact with the dead. For a second time, he has betrayed the Nazirite vow.
Samson has now broken his Nazirite vow twice, and murdered thirty men. He is a broken man in a broken relationship. He goes back to his father's house alone, and his wife is given to the very man that was his best man. Samson lived James 1:15, which says "Then, when desire (lust) has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death."
Lust is not for the Christian to deal with. This is why we should not go seeking a mate. We will always find one that we desire, but not always find the one that God would give us. The one God gives us will lead us closer to Him. God has planned for us a future that is full of blessings. But if you short-cut God's plan by taking the lead, then you can expect heartache. You're just not as good a match maker as almighty God.
If you want a mate, pray for one – don't go picking one out on your own. Don't become so desperate for love that you forget the one that provides unconditional love. That desire to be loved, lust, leads to brokenness and sin, neither of which is in God's plan for His children.


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Q: Usage of EnsureSuccessStatusCode and handling of HttpRequestException it throws What's the usage pattern of HttpResponseMessage.EnsureSuccessStatusCode()? It disposes of the Content of the message and throws HttpRequestException, but I fail to see how to programmatically handle it any differently than a generic Exception. For example, it doesn't include the HttpStatusCode, which would have been handy.
Is there any way of getting more info out of it? Could anyone show relevant usage pattern of both EnsureSuccessStatusCode() and HttpRequestException?

A: For .NET 5.0 or later, HttpRequestException returns HttpStatusCode property, and you should be using that instead.
Below is my proposed solution for pre-.NET 5.0. The only flaw is that since the ASP.NET Core framework resource manager is internal to the framework, I cannot directly re-use Microsoft's internationalized message strings, so I'm just using the verbatim English message literal here.
Pros

*

*Logs the content for an 5xx server error

*

*Sometimes, a server error is actually a client error in disguise, such as a client using a deprecated endpoint that finally got shut off.

*Makes it easier to uncover errors when writing integration tests using ConfigureTestContainer<T>
Cons

*

*Inefficient.

*

*If you read the response content, and the content is very long, you will slow the client down.  For some clients, with soft real-time response requirements, this jitter may be unacceptable.

*Incorrect responsibility for error logging and monitoring.

*

*If this is a 5xx server error, why does the client care, since the client did nothing wrong?  Just call response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode(); and let the server deal with it.

*Why not just check the server error logs when there is an Internal Server Error?

*Requires reading the Content property prior to checking the status.  There may be situations where this is not desirable, one of which is inefficiency.

Usage
using (var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "controller/action"))
{
  using (var response = await HttpClient.SendAsync(requestMessage))
  {
    var content = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
    response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode2(content);
    var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ResponseClass>(content);
  }
}

API
    public static class HttpResponseMessageExtensions
    {
        public static void EnsureSuccessStatusCode2(this HttpResponseMessage message, string content = null)
        {
            if (message.IsSuccessStatusCode)
                return;
            var contentMessage = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(content) ? string.Empty : $"Content: {content}";
            throw new HttpRequestException(string.Format(
                System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
                "Response status code does not indicate success: {0} ({1}).{2}",
                (int)message.StatusCode,
                message.ReasonPhrase,
                contentMessage)
                );
        }
    }

A: I use EnsureSuccessStatusCode when I don't want to handle the Exception on the same method.
public async Task DoSomethingAsync(User user)
{
    try
    {
        ...
        var userId = await GetUserIdAsync(user)
        ...
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
        throw;
    }
}

public async Task GetUserIdAsync(User user)
{
    using(var client = new HttpClient())
    {
        ...
        response = await client.PostAsync(_url, context);

        response.EnsureSuccesStatusCode();
        ...
    }
}

The Exception thrown on GetUserIdAsync will be handled on DoSomethingAsync.

A: The idiomatic usage of EnsureSuccessStatusCode is to concisely verify success of a request, when you don't want to handle failure cases in any specific way. This is especially useful when you want to quickly prototype a client.
When you decide you want to handle failure cases in a specific way, do not do the following.
var response = await client.GetAsync(...);
try
{
    response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
    // Handle success
}
catch (HttpRequestException)
{
    // Handle failure
}

This throws an exception just to immediately catch it, which doesn't make any sense.  The IsSuccessStatusCode property of HttpResponseMessage is there for this purpose. Do the following instead.
var response = await client.GetAsync(...);
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
    // Handle success
}
else
{
    // Handle failure
}

A: Since Feb 24, 2020 the HttpRequestException.StatusCode property is set by EnsureSuccessStatusCode. IIUC the suggested extensions in this question are not needed anymore.

A: I don't like EnsureSuccessStatusCode as it doesn't return anything meaninful.
That is why I've created my own extension:
public static class HttpResponseMessageExtensions
{
    public static async Task EnsureSuccessStatusCodeAsync(this HttpResponseMessage response)
    {
        if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
        {
            return;
        }

        var content = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

        if (response.Content != null)
            response.Content.Dispose();

        throw new SimpleHttpResponseException(response.StatusCode, content);
    }
}

public class SimpleHttpResponseException : Exception
{
    public HttpStatusCode StatusCode { get; private set; }

    public SimpleHttpResponseException(HttpStatusCode statusCode, string content) : base(content)
    {
        StatusCode = statusCode;
    }
}

source code for Microsoft's EnsureSuccessStatusCode can be found here
Synchronous version based on SO link :
public static void EnsureSuccessStatusCode(this HttpResponseMessage response)
{
    if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
    {
        return;
    }

    var content = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();

    if (response.Content != null)
        response.Content.Dispose();

    throw new SimpleHttpResponseException(response.StatusCode, content);
}

What I don't like about IsSuccessStatusCode is that it is not "nicely" reusable. For example you can use library like polly to repeat a request in case of network issue. In that case you need your code to raise exception so that polly or some other library can handle it...


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Workplace Jargon: "One-Three-Five"
The Social Security Administration may not try to win all of its cases, but it does keep a lid on employee bonuses
Every job has its own language. "Workplace Jargon" is a new feature in which employees from a variety of fields — public defenders, doctors, miners, mental health counselors, members of the military, etc. — talk about the vocabulary of their careers, and the sometimes-irrational bureaucracies that rule their work lives.
An attorney for the Social Security Administration — we'll call him Sam — was invited to a regional management seminar.
"It was a two-day event, and most of it was meetings and discussions," he recalls. "But in one small part of it, they showed a little video."
The video, he recalls, showed actors in the roles of SSA managers and employees, playing out various common workplace scenarios. The concept of the video was to show managers how they might best handle tricky situations. In one section, Sam says, "they had an 'employee' asking how to improve his work evaluation."
Background: most of the Administration's 66,000 employees are graded once per fiscal year using "PACS," or the "Performance Assessment and Communications System." Under "Interpersonal Skills," "Participation," "Demonstrates Job Knowledge," and "Achieves Business Results," employees may receive one of three scores — a one, three or a five. As Sam explains. "A one means, 'Does not meet expectations.' A three means, 'Meets expectations.' And a five means, 'Exceeds expectations.'" He notes that, "People mostly get threes."
In the acronymized hell that is service in an organization as large as the SSA, one may achieve a bonus called an ROC (Recognition of Contribution) for doing well on these evaluations. Specifically, getting two fives in the same evaluation earns kudos and sometimes also a small financial reward. Meanwhile, poor performance might force superiors to attach to you the yoke of shame known as an "OPS" or "Opportunity to Perform Successfully," a kind of improvement plan that has to be worked off to put the employee back in good standing.
Sam was watching the video with, at best, mild interest, when he saw something odd. "In one case, the question came up, 'What do we do when an employee asks how they can get a 5?' he recalls. "They had the actor playing the employee asking things like, 'What can I do to improve from a 3 to a 5? How can I meet that standard?'"
Sam pauses. "And the directive was basically, don't tell them how they can improve. Managers were told to say things like, 'I can show you the manual that explains the ratings…' Basically, they were hiding the ball — actively not telling employees how they could do better."
He pauses. "I looked around. Not a single person objected. There was no pushback."
Why not help threes become fives? Sam speculates that maybe managers are worried about litigation, i.e. "You told me I needed to do this to become a 5, and I didn't get it." (There have been lawsuits involving the SSA and PACS). Maybe it was a monetary issue involving bonuses, although Sam thinks that's unlikely.
Mostly, he says, the SSA is an unwieldy, change-resistant organization that operates according to its own logic and probably always will. Incidentally, he adds, "managers talk about employees like they're numbers. You'll hear them say things like, 'This guy thinks he's a five, but he's such a three.'"
Sam has one of the odder legal jobs in the United States, working in the biggest court system you probably never heard of.
The state of California has over 1,800 judges, and claims to be the largest judicial system in the country. The federal judiciary had 792 active judges as of this summer. In between, with a little over 1,400 judges as of this summer, is the enormous, mostly hidden court system of the SSA. Though it lags behind California both in terms of judges and dispositions, the Supreme Court in 2003 concluded that "the social security hearing system is probably the largest adjudication agency in the western world."
The SSA's proceedings, which mostly involve disputes over disability claims, are "administrative law courts," making them not a true judiciary. These belong to the executive rather than the judicial branch, and both the judges and the attorneys representing the SSA are technically SSA employees.
Administrative law courts pepper a lot of big government bureaucracies, sometimes as a mechanism for resolving arbitrations or other claims involving workers. I've visited a few, including the NYPD's much-maligned APU unit, an airless closet stuffed in the bowels of One Police Plaza in downtown Manhattan, where civilian complaints against police officers mostly go to die.
Sam works in a national organization teeming with hundreds of lawyers, but few of them got there on purpose. "No one grows up saying they want to be an SSA attorney," he laughs.
A lot of his colleagues dropped out of the corporate law track, where working a million hours a week as an associate-slave for the far-off reward of a maybe-partnership quickly stops seeming worth it, the first time you notice your kids growing up without you. At the SSA, he notes, lawyers give up the dream of future riches from defending deep-pocketed corporate villains, but, "I work basically nine to five, I've got benefits, security, and a home life."
The job of an SSA lawyer, generally, is to present the government's side of a disability claim. When claimants appear before SSA judges, the hearings are closed to the public, a fitting metaphor given the similarly out-of-sight disabled population. The CDC says one in four adults in America lives with some kind of disability, and the SSA is currently paying disability benefits to 8.2 million workers, plus another 13.2 million receiving SSI disability benefits, making about 21.4 million people overall receiving some kind of federal disability benefit. Depending on what metric one uses to count America's employed equals roughly 16% of the workforce. Those millions of beneficiaries are receiving an average of about $1,260 apiece monthly, working out to about a $10 billion monthly payout, and over $100 billion a year.
That doesn't sniff the military's base annual payout of $732 billion, but it's a big enough number, and the SSA court system exists, in theory, to keep the number manageable. A private insurance company might simply deny all claims and force applicants to climb a bureaucratic Everest to get every dime. The SSA, thank God, does not do that, but its thinking on this issue isn't exactly clear, either.
One main reason is that the agency has a lot of eyeballs on it. It is perennially in the middle of a tug-of-war, between mostly Republican members of congress who watch its payouts like hawks in search of fraud — why worry about unnecessary jet fighter contracts when you can kick ordinary people off the disability rolls? — and Democrats who push it to resolve its case backlog to make sure as many claimants as possible get paid. Somewhere in the middle is a reality, where a great many people are genuinely disabled and need help, but there are also fraudulent claims the taxpayer should be protected from having to pay.
The SSA officials who manage the legal staff are mostly incentivized to clear cases one way or another, as opposed to worrying primarily about winning. Spend too much time fighting cases, and a manager might see the Washington Post write a scathing headline about how 10,000 people died waiting for benefits. For a long time, it was rare enough to hear about an SSA office focusing on winning its cases that when one tried, it attracted academic notice.
In one study conducted by Penn Law, researchers talked about how SSA attorneys in the District of Maryland reacted after 2008, when claimants won 70% of their cases in actual judicial proceedings (i.e. not before Administrative Law Judges). "To reduce this rate," the researchers wrote, "an OGC lawyer formed a team of colleagues to focus on District of Maryland litigation." The lawyers "met frequently to strategize" and settled on groundbreaking new techniques, like: "if an argument about a particular issue proved persuasive to one judge, the team would then use this argument when the issue next arose." As a result of this new "focus," attorneys in that district reduced their loss rate from 70% to just under forty percent in two years.
As for the judges, even a quick glance at the case disposition list shows that just as in the regular civil judiciary, some are "deniers" and some are "awarders":
If you think this is because some judges are sympathetic to workers and others are not, you might be right, but you also might not be. According to Sam, because of the peculiarities of the system, it "takes about 2-3 times longer to write a decision denying benefits than it does approving benefits."
This might be because there are few appeals of decisions to award benefits, so judges don't have to spend as much time making sure their decisions are airtight. Thus a heavy "awarder" might be a friend of the people, or he or she might just be lazy.
In one example that made headlines, the SSA in 2010 lauded a series of judges for clearing cases. One Atlanta-based judge was hailed for disposing of 867 cases in three months, while just behind him was an Oklahoma City-based judge named Howard O'Bryan, Jr., who disposed of 348 cases in that same time period. This somehow drew the attention of Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, who launched a study and denounced the Oklahoma judge for approving about 90% of claims. Within a few years after being called out, the judge began denying more than twice as many claims as he approved.
All of which speaks to the SSA being one of the odder court systems in the world. An army of lawyers represents a single client, the United States government, that seems largely disinterested in winning, at times seeming more content to pay over a hundred billion dollars a year in claims than to give out gold stars in employee evaluations.
Depending on your point of view, this may not be a bad thing, especially if the agency is focusing on actually processing claims over contesting them. Though the agency still struggles for a variety of absurd reasons (including a failure to update documentation it needs to judge cases) to clear its massive backlog, it has done better in recent years at reducing the size of its case mountain. Whether you're a one, a three, or a five, "it's a weird place," Sam laughs.
I reached out to the SSA about its training video, and it hasn't commented.
Ryan K. Rigney
Writes The Rig ·Nov 19, 2020
I love this. A deep-dive into the actual goings-on of an American institution. So many people have strong opinions on the disability system, but have no idea how it works. Please, continue doing work like this. It's necessary.
Harold Delaney
SSA probably deserves a long form investigative piece, even this short one is ridiculously interesting to read.


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The latest trend in India's books and music market is "instrumentals".
This is where Indian classical music, jazz, folk and hip-hop are popular and are being recorded in studios in Mumbai.
The most popular instrument for musicians is the instrument of choice for the Indian music industry, the mandolin.
Mandolins are used in traditional Indian music, and can also be found in pop music.
The Indian mandolin has been around for thousands of years.
Its use in India is a major reason why it has been the instrument for thousands and is also the instrument that has survived into the present.
Its use in the West is less well known.
Its popularity in the U.S. has increased in recent years, with a few new mandolins coming on the market, such as the Jazz-Lamborghini and the Gibson-Nassau.
Its influence is being felt in India, where its popularity is felt in the music business.
Mandolin instruments are popular in the United States, and have been the subject of several books.
The New York Times Book Review called the mandolin "a new form of music".
A book titled The Musical Instrument of India, by a young Indian, Shri Subhash Kulkarni, has sold over 30,000 copies and is the most popular Indian mandolina book to date.
The book is available in English, Spanish, Arabic and Hindi.
The other major instrument that is popular in India in the bookstores is the Indian violin.
It is a beautiful instrument, with great sound and great performance characteristics.
The instrument has also been the focus of several films and television shows, such Asurajya: Music of the Indian Windwind.
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2018 Was the Year That Tech Put Limits on AI
Tom Simonite
As employees and researchers push back, companies including Google and Microsoft are pledging not to use powerful AI technology in certain ways.
An Axon police body camera. The company has said it does not intend to deploy facial recognition on police-worn camera.CAITLIN O'HARA/The New York Times/Redux
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For the past several years, giant tech companies have rapidly ramped up investments in artificial intelligence and machine learning. They've competed intensely to hire more AI researchers and used that talent to rush out smarter virtual assistants and more powerful facial recognition. In 2018, some of those companies moved to put some guardrails around AI technology.
The most prominent example is Google, which announced constraints on its use of AI after two projects triggered public pushback and an employee revolt.
The internal dissent began after the search company's work on a Pentagon program called Maven became public. Google contributed to a part of Maven that uses algorithms to highlight objects such as vehicles in drone surveillance imagery, easing the burden on military analysts. Google says its technology was limited to "nonoffensive" uses, but more more than 4,500 employees signed a letter calling for the company to withdraw.
In June, Google said it would complete but not renew the Maven contract, which is due to end in 2019. It also released a broad set of principles for its use of AI, including a pledge not to deploy AI systems for use in weapons or "other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people." Based in part on those principles, Google in October withdrew from bidding on a Pentagon cloud contract called JEDI.
Google also drew criticism after CEO Sundar Pichai demonstrated a bot called Duplex with a humanlike voice calling staff at a restaurant and hair salon to make reservations. Recipients of the calls did not appear to know they were talking with a piece of software, and the bot didn't disclose its digital nature. Google later announced it would add disclosures. When WIRED tested Duplex ahead of its recent debut on Google's Pixel phones, the bot began the conversation with a cheery "I'm Google's automated booking service."
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The growth of ethical questions around the use of artificial intelligence highlights the field's rapid and recent success. Not so long ago, AI researchers were mostly focused on trying to get their technology to work well enough to be practical. Now they've made image and voice recognition, synthesized voices, fake imagery, and robots such as driverless cars practical enough to be deployed in public. Engineers and researchers once dedicated solely to advancing the technology as quickly as possible are becoming more reflective.
"For the past few years I've been obsessed with making sure that everyone can use it a thousand times faster," Joaquin Candela, Facebook's director of applied machine learning, said earlier this year. As more teams inside Facebook use the tools, "I started to become very conscious about our potential blind spots," he said.
That realization is one reason Facebook created an internal group to work on making AI technology ethical and fair. One of its projects is a tool called Fairness Flow that helps engineers check how their code performs for different demographic groups, say men and women. It has been used to tune the company's system for recommending job ads to people.
A February study of several services that use AI to analyze images of faces illustrates what can happen if companies don't monitor the performance of their technology. Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru showed that facial-analysis services offered by Microsoft and IBM's cloud divisions were significantly less accurate for women with darker skin. That bias could have spread broadly because many companies outsource technology to cloud providers. Both Microsoft and IBM scrambled to improve their services, for example by increasing the diversity of their training data.
Perhaps in part because of that study, facial recognition has become the area of AI where tech companies seem the keenest to enact limits. Axon, which makes Tasers and body cameras, has said it does not intend to deploy facial recognition on police-worn cameras, fearing it could encourage hasty decision-making. Earlier this month Microsoft president Brad Smith asked governments to regulate the use of facial recognition technology. Soon after, Google quietly revealed that it doesn't offer "general purpose" facial recognition to cloud customers, in part because of unresolved technical and policy questions about abuse and harmful effects. Those announcements set the two companies apart from competitor Amazon, which offers facial recognition technology of uncertain quality to US police departments. The company has so far not released specific guidelines on what it considers appropriate uses for AI, although it is a member of industry consortium Partnership on AI, working on the ethics and societal impact of the technology.
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The emerging guidelines do not mean companies are significantly reducing their intended uses for AI. Despite its pledge not to renew the Maven contract and its withdrawal from the JEDI bidding, Google's rules still allow the company to work with the military; its principles for where it won't apply AI are open to interpretation. In December, Google said it would create an external expert advisory group to consider how the company implements its AI principles, but it hasn't said when the body will be established, or how it will operate.
Similarly, Microsoft's Smith worked with the company's AI boss Harry Shum on a 149-page book of musings on responsibility and technology in January. The same month, the company disclosed a contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and promoted the potential to help the agency deploy AI and facial recognition. The project, and its potential use of AI, inspired protests by Microsoft employees, who apparently had a different interpretation of the appropriate ethical bounds on technology than their leaders.
Limits on AI may soon be set by regulators, not tech companies, amid signs that lawmakers are becoming more open to the idea. In May, new European Union rules on data protection, known as GDPR, gave consumers new rights to control and learn about data use and processing that can make some AI projects more complicated. Activists, scholars, and some lawmakers have shown interest in regulating large technology companies. And in December, France and Canada said they will create an international study group on challenges raised by AI modeled on the UN's climate watchdog, the IPCC.
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So last Tuesday I finished reading Sun Warrior, the second book in P.C. Cast's Tales of A New World series. A series that I only discovered about three weeks ago and I absolutely love it!
Once from rival clans, Mari, an Earth Walker, and Nik, a Companion, now find themselves fighting to save each other and their people from destruction.
Thaddeus has betrayed his own people, killing Nik's father and destroying their entire clan. But he wants more. He wants the power he believes Mari has stolen from him and his people, and he will do anything to get it back, even if it means destroying everything in his path. There is only way to stop Thaddeus, and it means a harrowing journey for Mari and Nik into the heart of darkness. Meanwhile, Dead Eye becomes a willing vessel for the newly awakened god, Death. Death has plans of his own and he, too, will use whatever and whomever he must, including the mad Thaddeus.
Admittedly, after I finished reading this book I wanted to wallow around in the intense fantasy-filled book hangover that I was submerged in but I'm moving on past that stage now and steadily making my way through Nalini Singh's upcoming release Cherish Hard, which I'm really enjoying. It's a look back at the Bishop/Esera men before Gabriel met Charlotte in Rock Hard. The story I'm most looking forward to reading is Jake's book though. I really, really want to read his story.
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