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Q: Pointer as member or Reference as member I need one clarification in c++ linux.
I have class C1 and another class C2. C1 will have the reference of C2.
class C1
{

   C2 &obj ;

}

i am thinking of two choices here ,

*

*Directly holding the reference of C2 as  C2 &obj;

*Creating the pointer of C2, as c2* obj;
Which is good ? what is the difference in it ? when choose either?

A: Avoid using a reference member as much as possible.
The same differences as that of references and pointers apply here,
If you have a reference member then it must be initialized at the time of creation of your class object you cannot have a lazy initialization as in case of pointer member because references cannot be NULL and cannot be reseated, while a pointer member can be made to point to a C2 instance lazily as and when required.
Also, note that there are other side effects as well, Once you have a reference member the compiler will not generate the copy assignment operator(=) & You will have to provide one yourself, It is cubersome to determine what action your = operator shall take in such a case.
For most practical purposes(unless you are really concerned of high memory usage due to C2 size) just holding an instance of C2 as member of C1 should suffice, instead of pointer or reference member, that saves you a whole lot of worrying about other problems which reference/pointer members bring along though at expense of extra memory usage.
If you must, use a pointer make sure you use a smart pointer instead of a raw pointer, that would make your life much easier with pointers.

A: a pointer has two main advantages to references. the pointer can be null and a pointer can be moved (with ++ operator for example).
The moving doesn't help you here.
If your class C2 is not known when you instantiate C1 then you should use a pointer because you have no way to initialize the reference, but the pointer can be initialized to null.
Like Als said, i would also recommend using pointers when the C2 instance may change. You can uses references in this case but i think pointers are a 'cleaner' solution.

A: Neither is good. If you have any pointer or reference member variable pointing at something allocated outside your class, it most likely means that the program design is flawed somehow.
One case I can come up with where it is justified, is when you have some sort of peculiar, external garbage collector functionality. (For example C++ Builder's automatic allocation/deallocation of VCL components on the heap.)
Another case is where it could be valid, is when you are emulating a C struct with a C++ class, or when writing a private class inside another class.
But then most likely, the need to point at something outside the class comes from flawed program design. I would think twice of why my code needs to do this, and at the very least try to add as much const correctness at possible to the pointer, ie const *c2 const obj;
If you have peculiar member pointers like this, you must also most likely manually write a copy constructor, assignment operator and destructor for your class.
Edit: The rationale for why this is bad practice is the concept called private encapsulation, which is one of the cornerstones of the program design concept called object-oriented design.

A: Which one you are going to use, depends on what you exactly need.
For example, you can use a reference member variable if you need some kind of dependency injection. Even then, you can use pointers. However, keep in mind that classes with reference members should generally be non-copyable.
In most cases, you should either use pointers or value member variables.

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Russian Escape Artist
From Russia With Angst: In his two dystopian novellas, Vladimir Makanin wrestles with enigmatic nightmares.
Novella author Vladimir Makanin finds no solace in the near future
By Harvey Pekar
IN THE SECOND half of the 19th century, Russia produced an abundance of outstanding fiction writers. Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov and Gogol just begin a list that includes lesser-known greats such as Goncharov, Leskov and Garshin. Having become aware of these writers, I also learned of early 20th-century avant-garde Russian musicians (Stravinsky) and visual artists (Kandinsky) of equal stature and aesthetic daring. But where were the Russian literary experimenters of the post-1900 era?
At the time, I didn't know, because I hadn't developed much of an interest in the evolution of modernist literature. Eventually, I did get involved in the subject and found that Russia/U.S.S.R. had produced as many or more excellent modernist authors as any nation until 1935: Bely, Pilnyak, Zamyatin, Olesha, Khlebnikov, Bulgakov, Mandelstam. But these men had been silenced, and their works taken off the market so quickly by Soviet politicians that one had to dig hard to find them; they were unfamiliar to even most literary academics not specializing in 20th-century Russian writing.
From 1935 to 1985, Socialist Realism was the only acceptable literary style in the U.S.S.R. Following Stalin's death, there emerged a literary underground that produced some excellent novelists and poets, several of whom were jailed or exiled. Finally, with Gorbachev, censorship was lifted, but by that time, most Russian authors, having lost touch with evolutionary developments in world literature, were conservative or reactionary stylists.
They've been recovering lost ground, however, as Vladimir Makanin's Escape Hatch demonstrates. The book, which contains two dystopian novellas (written in 1991), indicates that, directly or indirectly, Makanin has been influenced by Evgeny Zamyatin, the author of We, a book that anticipated in great detail Brave New World and 1984. (Actually, Zamyatin's a better writer than Huxley or Orwell, who both appropriated details of We's plot.)
Zamyatin and Makanin (born 1937) also share a background in science and mathematics. Zamyatin worked for a while as a naval engineer, in fact. In the novella Escape Hatch, the protagonist, a mathematician named Klyucharyov, travels through a tunnel from a deteriorating aboveground city, where public order hardly exists, to an underground community where residents live comfortably and safely but seem on the edge of some crisis. The Long Road Ahead, set in a future Utopia, finds a young engineer traveling from Moscow to an isolated food-manufacturing plant in the steppes to install a machine he's invented.
BOTH WORKS display nightmarish, Kafkaesque qualities. Everyone in Escape Hatch seems terrified, waiting for the other shoe to drop. In The Long Road Ahead, the inventor is horrified to find that the plant he's visiting does not manufacture synthetic meat but actually slaughters cows, something considered barbaric in his society.
The inventor doesn't know what to do about the situation. He can't stay at the plant, but he's is afraid to leave, because, having been introduced to evil, he'd be a corrupting influence in Moscow. Eventually, he camps outside the plant on the steppe, keeping a bonfire going in hopes that a helicopter will see him and give him transportation to somewhere. Soon, he discovers that there are many people keeping similar bonfires going and calmly waiting--for what they do not know.
The Long Road Ahead has a story-within-a story construction. It turns out that the tale of the engineer has been made up by a narrator who appears in the middle of the novella and explains that he's composed it for his friend, Ilya Ivanovich, a schizophrenic who cannot bear to witness any living thing suffer. As the novella progresses, Makanin alternates between the two narratives, and the characters and events in each influence the other.
In these novellas, Makanin obviously draws on the experience of Soviet/Russian citizens now and in the recent past; the remote meat-producing plant, for example, could correspond to a prison in the Gulag archipelago. Makanin's works are allegorical, and it's difficult to discern where he stands on specific issues--possibly because he wants to provoke readers into asking questions rather than providing them with answers.
Makanin's protagonists are isolated and struggling with social, psychological, spiritual and political problems. Because he depicts their struggles so believably and poignantly, even in the context of fantastic plots, Makanin will appeal to a wide variety of readers. His stories can be dealt with on a number of levels. Even if you're not into speculating about the mysteries of the cosmos they may grab you, because Makanin, in addition to his erudition, is a top-notch storyteller.
Escape Hatch & The Long Road Ahead by Vladimir Makanin; Ardis Publishers; 193 pages; $24 cloth.
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In our prospectus, we set out the context, agenda and ways of working of the Ada Lovelace Institute.
Read a welcome from our Executive Chair, Sir Alan Wilson.
The Ada Lovelace Institute is an independent research and deliberative body with a mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society. Ada will promote informed public understanding of the impact of AI and data-driven technologies on different groups in society. It will guide ethical practice in the development and deployment of these technologies, and will undertake research and long-term thinking to lay the foundations for a data-driven society with well-being at its core.
Build evidence and foster rigorous research and debate on how data and AI affect people and society.
Convene diverse voices to create a shared understanding of the ethical issues arising from data and AI.
Define and inform good practice in the design and deployment of data and AI.
Be outward-facing and collaborative, acting independently of vested interests, and transparent about relationships and funding.
Be at the forefront of developing change needed to improve people's lives, through a focus on: rights-based approaches; establishing norms; influencing professional practice; technological innovation; regulation and the law; and public dialogue.
Recognise the potential value of data, algorithms, and AI for individual and social well-being, taking account of human capacity to adapt and respond to new technological challenges.
Combine reflective deliberation and rigorous research with the need to respond to a rapidly evolving social, technological and economic context.
Work with other organisations to situate its work in a global context.
We are living through the fourth industrial revolution, driven by computing power and information flows across the internet. This generates and stores huge volumes of data, both on and for, individuals and organisations. The analytics' tools of data science and AI transform both the way we live and business processes in all kinds of organisations – public and private. Some organisations are leaders in these developments, some have as yet barely engaged. Ultimately, these transformations will be all-embracing. No social policy or analysis of the conditions for future social well-being can be put forward without now acknowledging the fundamental and inevitably disruptive impacts that AI will bring.
The tools of AI generate new data and deploy existing data in a number of different ways. The data provides the basis for new analytics and computer modelling. 'Machines' – computers or networks of computers linked by the internet – can read, see, hear, translate languages and can use data to make decisions, often better than humans. These decisions are made on rules-based processes that can be automated.
When human responsibility for decisions is still needed, AI can be thought of as 'augmented intelligence'. Machines can't yet pass the Turing test and 'think' but they can 'learn'. Health care and many other areas of service delivery will be revolutionised by learning machines: receiving and linking data, and providing inputs for machine learning algorithms. For example, machines can generate precision medicine and rapid medical diagnosis. Treatment plans can then be evaluated and 'fed back' through the system thus creating the learning machine. This kind of application of learning machines is likely to become more prevalent in a range of different contexts.
Ada's first objective is to chart the impacts of these technological developments on people and society. Since these are rooted in the data-driven AI economy, analysis will begin there. We will seek to understand the full capabilities of the technologies – for the present and, through horizon scanning, for their future potential. There are benefits to individuals directly – for example through phone apps such as City Mapper or direct connections to taxi services such as Uber – and in the delivery of a wide range of services, for example in health, education, justice, financial services, retail and the sharing economy, and security. Combined, these benefits create smarter urban (and rural) environments.
Individual benefits sit alongside social consequences. The impact of digital reforms in the justice system, for example, raises concerns about the rights of the individual in relation to the state; and Uber, though beneficial to customers, has led to controversy relating to the workforce. Individual autonomy is simultaneously enhanced and challenged.
These developments therefore inherently generate ethical challenges. The data and the algorithms have to be accurate and reliable and we have to be aware of the consequences of failings in this respect. Many benefits can only be delivered effectively through use of personal data, with analytical power enhanced by linking of data from a variety of sources. This raises issues of privacy and consent. Machine learning-constructed decisions, especially those based on 'deep learning' algorithms, are typically not transparent; or, because of their training data, can be biased. Are the outcomes fair, and how can we test that? Are lines of what is acceptable being crossed? For example, while marketing and electioneering were relatively open, their methods, however contested, were not seen as a threat to the democratic process itself. But some contemporary methods are now clearly unacceptable – because of their deliberately covert nature, directing 'fake' news and information at targeted audiences to undermine the basis of shared public debate.
The speed at which these technologies change society, and the dynamism of the markets they fuel, mean that neither the research communities, nor the designers or developers have the space clearly to articulate the conditions for a successful AI-driven society. There is no shared discourse on how we can begin to measure or even account for the social value of data. In bringing together the disciplines of social science and the humanities with those of data and medical science and technical innovators, Ada's work will offer a deeper understanding of the impacts of technological innovation as they play out across the very different strata and cultures of our increasingly complex, connected, and fragmented society.
We need to identify which of these issues are capable of technical resolution – transparency for example – and which raise social and political issues that are more challenging. Indeed, insofar as politics is about the relativities of power, we need to explore the networks of control and influence in the collection and use of data, and in the exploitation of data in AI. We need to be able to articulate the costs and benefits of these developments for different groups – the distributive consequences – notably taking into account issues of gender and diversity. Concepts such as explainability, privacy, consent, bias, fairness and accountability all potentially have different meanings for different groups of people and different cultures; they all have value connotations.
Understanding and contributing to the ethics of data and AI involves unpicking these issues and sharpening our presentation of the vocabulary in multiple dimensions. Whose values? Can we set rules through establishing certain norms and principles, or are we forced into thinking through trade-offs in formulating best practice? All of these questions are priorities for Ada – through research and informed debate.
The agenda outlined here is substantial in all its sensitivities and nuances: charting the impact of data and AI on people and society; research and debate on ethics; and informing best practice. Ada, both of necessity and as a matter of principle, will work collaboratively – with the range of relevant research communities along the spectrum from data science to social science; with organisations deploying data and AI in the public and private sectors; and with different publics and their representatives in an increasingly diverse society.
The range of research topics is extensive and essentially multidisciplinary. As noted, we will seek to distinguish the challenges that are essentially technical from those that need social science and humanities lenses. The complexity of the research agenda implies that progress will be most rapid through the exploration of use cases. To develop our understanding of the almost ubiquitous impact of data and AI on people and society, we will review aspects of how people live – housing, work and incomes, education, health, retail and a wide range of services – along with the organisations delivering the data-driven AI innovations across these dimensions. At a broader scale, we will seek to articulate societal implications.
We are conscious that Ada will function within a complex landscape of exploration and research in these areas, including the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation established by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. We believe our focus of 'people and society' in the context of the impact and ethics of data and AI will be distinctive, and we will ensure that we collaborate widely, communicating and learning in both directions. We are independent, connected to the research frontiers, and hope to provide thought leadership for the longer term.
Undertake, commission and catalyse research projects and methodological innovation. We will produce working papers and contribute to journals and the media debate. We will work with different disciplines, and seek expertise in their related methods and domains, to build a shared vocabulary of issues.
Provide synthesis, analysis and communications to inform and engage in public debate on data use and its impacts, and to make the uses of AI and its impacts more visible. We will hold events and support fellowships to bridge the gap between academic and technical expertise, public values and practical action. We will initiate working groups around ethical 'test cases'.
Bring together the perspectives of industry, government and civil society to understand the complex systems interacting with data and AI and identify incentives and barriers to ethical practice. We will work towards the articulation of best practice in all sectors through our research on a variety of use cases.
1. How should society equitably distribute the power and benefits of data and AI while mitigating harm?
2. In whose interests, and to what purpose, should information be accessed or used?
3. What rights and protections should citizens have and how can they be realised?
4. How should we protect vulnerable, marginalised or disadvantaged groups in society?
5. How can we ensure those who have power to shape society act with public legitimacy?
As these questions show, our agenda is not only substantial but also urgent. The issues raised on impact, ethics and best practice are alive now, and connecting research communities to the the public interest is a high priority.
We are keen to hear from organisations and individuals who would like to engage with the work of the Ada Lovelace Institute.
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Conrad Black didn't want his Order of Canada membership, anyway
By Steve Kupferman | February 3, 2014
By Steve Kupferman | 02/03/2014
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Conrad Black was stripped of his Order of Canada membership late last week, but he doesn't care, because he technically resigned before they could kick him out. Take that, Canada.
In a remarkable op-ed in today's Post (meaning, remarkable by normal standards but totally expected from Black), the Lord spends 1,800 words trying to explain why this latest disgrace doesn't actually matter. The argument hinges on the supposed inadequacies of the U.S. court system that convicted Black of fraud and obstruction of justice. He makes the American judges who handled his case out to be maybe slightly less corrupt than the officiants at a Soviet show trial.
"Whether I continued to hold these distinctions was not significant," he writes, "but the process of Canada demeaning itself by robotic conformity to injustices inflicted in the United States (or any foreign country) on the holders of Canadian honours without any real review, is a matter of some general interest." Black is essentially writing about a personal slight as though it were a human-rights violation.
The strangest maneuver in the whole piece comes midway through, when Black reprints an entire letter he wrote to David Johnston, Canada's governor general. In the letter, sent in December, Black resigns from the Order—but he does it in a way that seems to leave the door open to his retaining his membership, if possible. ("If my surmise of the process is correct and you receive a recommendation that my continuation as an Officer of the Order of Canada is not appropriate, and you accept that recommendation, I would be grateful if you would take this letter as my retirement as an Officer of the Order of Canada.")
Black tries to settle the question for readers. "I in fact resigned," he writes, "but gave David Johnston the opportunity to do the right thing." It's a nice bit of face-saving, straight from the master.
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3 thoughts on "Conrad Black didn't want his Order of Canada membership, anyway"
boris moris says:
Black's op-ed piece is clearly a cry for help. The early onset dementia seems to be gathering steam…much like the steaming pile he is trying to sell in the op-ed.
As Hal Jackman foretold…hiz lardship has a death wish. It appears he wants very badly to be humiliated by someone other than Babs in the desperate hope that Babs will be dragged down along side him. To that notion I say Bon Chance and may the farce be with you.
HockeyDadof2 says:
If Black was a master of anything, he would not have been busted and the vast majority of Canadians would see him as something other than your typical tantrum prone absurd conservative elitist punk, on the order of Rob Ford. Tossing him under the bus when all else failed will not absolve the Harper gang..A truly pathetic little lot this cabal.
applesandoranges says:
He could have begged without writing an essay. Does this man never tire of whining?


Intuit is expanding the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning with the official release of the QuickBooks Assistant.
The AI-driven voice interface for the QuickBooks Self-Employed mobile app makes it easier for users to surface insights from their financial data by asking questions such as "how are my numbers this month?" The assistant understands the context and intent of the question and responds with the appropriate information.
"We know people who work for themselves have a lot on their mind with limited time to manage the day-to- day, let alone unearth information and insights about their business," explained Alex Chriss, chief product officer, QuickBooks at Intuit.
"By adding a virtual assistant with access to their business finances, people simply tap to ask questions and find answers - rather than running reports and analyzing data. QuickBooksAssistant represents a turning point in how work gets done today, with an eye toward improving success rates in the future."
Intuit also officially launched QuickBooks Capital, its direct business loan service for users of its accounting software. The company credits AI and machine learning with streamlining the application and approval process for users.
The QuickBooks Assistant is available today in QuickBooks Self-Employed for iOS and Android. Intuit said it plans to the assistant for QuickBooks Online in the coming months.
All signs indicate that Intuit has chosen the on-demand economy as its primary new frontier. Intuit first launched the self-employed version of QuickBooks in January 2015, touting the platform for its tax-specific knowhow for freelancers and contract workers -- or what it calls the on-demand economy. The platform can be used to connect financial accounts, track deductions and calculate taxes, in addition to organizing comingled business and personal finances.
Intuit continued to sharpen its focus on independent contractors throughout 2015. Last February Intuit inked deals with TaskRabbit, Fiverr, Uber, Lyft and UpCounsel to provide discounted QuickBooks Self-Employed to those platforms' contract workers. The company later added eBay, FlexJobs, Incorporate.com, Kelly Services, Moonlighting and NAHREP to its list of partner companies. Then last September Intuit announced the launch of Workforce, a product designed to help companies find, manage and scale their on-demand talent.
After 17 years at IDEO, Diego Rodriguez joins Intuit to lead its product management and design teams.


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In geology, a supercontinent is the assembly of most or all of Earth's continental blocks or cratons to form a single large landmass. However, the definition of a supercontinent can be ambiguous. Many earth scientists, such as P.F. Hoffman (1999), use the term "supercontinent" to mean "a clustering of nearly all continents". This definition leaves room for interpretation when labeling a continental body and is easier to apply to Precambrian times. Using the first definition provided here, Gondwana (aka Gondwanaland) is not considered a supercontinent, because the landmasses of Baltica, Laurentia and Siberia also existed at the same time but physically separate from each other. The landmass of Pangaea is the collective name describing all of these continental masses when they were in proximity to one another. This would classify Pangaea as a supercontinent. According to the definition by Rogers and Santosh (2004), a supercontinent does not exist today. Supercontinents have assembled and dispersed multiple times in the geologic past (see table). The positions of continents have been accurately determined back to the early Jurassic. However, beyond 200 Ma, continental positions are much less certain.
The following table displays historical supercontinents, using a general definition.
There are two contrasting models for supercontinent evolution through geological time. The first model theorizes that at least two separate supercontinents existed comprising Vaalbara (from ~3600 to 2500 Ma) and Kenorland (from ~2700 to 2450 Ma). The Neoarchean supercontinent consisted of Superia and Sclavia. These parts of Neoarchean age broke off at ~2300 and 2090 Ma and portions of them later collided to form Nuna (Northern Europe North America) (~1750 Ma). Nuna continued to develop during the Mesoproterozoic, primarily by lateral accretion of juvenile arcs, and in ~1000 Ma Nuna collided with other land masses, forming Rodinia. Between ~800 and 700 Ma Rodinia broke apart. However, before completely breaking up, some fragments of Rodinia had already come together to form Gondwana (also known as Gondwanaland) by ~530 Ma. Pangaea formed by ~300 Ma through the collision of Gondwana, Laurentia, Baltica, and Siberia.
The second model (Protopangea-Paleopangea) is based on both palaeomagnetic and geological evidence and proposes that the continental crust comprised a single supercontinent from ~2.7 Ga until break-up during the Ediacaran Period after ~0.6 Ga. The reconstruction is derived from the observation that palaeomagnetic poles converge to quasi-static positions for long intervals between ~2.7–2.2, 1.5–1.25, and 0.75–0.6 Ga with only small peripheral modifications to the reconstruction. During the intervening periods, the poles conform to a unified apparent polar wander path. Because this model shows that exceptional demands on the paleomagnetic data are satisfied by prolonged quasi-integrity, it must be regarded as superseding the first model proposing multiple diverse continents, although the first phase (Protopangea) essentially incorporates Vaalbara and Kenorland of the first model. The explanation for the prolonged duration of the Protopangea-Paleopangea supercontinent appears to be that Lid Tectonics (comparable to the tectonics operating on Mars and Venus) prevailed during Precambrian times. Plate Tectonics as seen on the contemporary Earth became dominant only during the latter part of geological times.
The Phanerozoic supercontinent Pangaea began to break up 180 Ma and is still doing so today. Because Pangaea is the most recent of Earth's supercontinents, it is the most well known and understood. Contributing to Pangaea's popularity in the classroom is the fact that its reconstruction is almost as simple as fitting the present continents bordering the Atlantic-type oceans like puzzle pieces.
The causes of supercontinent assembly and dispersal are thought to be driven by processes in the mantle. Approximately 660 km into the mantle, a discontinuity occurs, affecting the surface crust through processes like plumes and "superplumes". When a slab of crust that is subducted is denser than the surrounding mantle, it sinks to the discontinuity. Once the slabs build up, they will sink through to the lower mantle in what is known as a "slab avalanche". This displacement at the discontinuity will cause the lower mantle to compensate and rise elsewhere. The rising mantle can form a plume or superplume.
Besides having compositional effects on the upper mantle by replenishing the large-ion lithophile elements, volcanism affects the plate movement. The plates will be moved towards a geoidal low perhaps where the slab avalanche occurred and pushed away from the geoidal high that can be caused by the plumes or superplumes. This causes the continents to push together to form supercontinents and was evidently the process that operated to cause the early continental crust to aggregate into Protopangea. Dispersal of supercontinents is caused by the accumulation of heat underneath the crust due to the rising of very large convection cells or plumes, and a massive heat release resulted in the final break-up of Paleopangea. Accretion occurs over geoidal lows that can be caused by avalanche slabs or the downgoing limbs of convection cells. Evidence of the accretion and dispersion of supercontinents is seen in the geological rock record.
Phanerozoic (540 Ma to present) and Precambrian (4.6 Ga to 540 Ma) had primarily passive margins and detrital zircons (and orogenic granites), whereas the tenure of Pangaea contained few. Matching edges of continents are where passive margins form. The edges of these continents may rift. At this point, seafloor spreading becomes the driving force. Passive margins are therefore born during the break-up of supercontinents and die during supercontinent assembly. Pangaea's supercontinent cycle is a good example for the efficiency of using the presence, or lack of, these entities to record the development, tenure, and break-up of supercontinents. There is a sharp decrease in passive margins between 500 and 350 Ma during the timing of Pangaea's assembly. The tenure of Pangaea is marked by a low number of passive margins during 300 to 275 Ma, and its break-up is indicated accurately by an increase in passive margins.
Continents, in particular large or supercontinents, will affect the climate of the planet drastically. In general the interaction of supercontinents and climate is similar to the interaction between present-day continents and climate, just on a different scale. Supercontinents have a larger effect on climate than do continents. The configuration and placement of the continents has a larger influence on climate. Continents modify global wind patterns, control ocean current paths and have a higher albedo than the oceans. Because continents are higher in the elevation, the temperature decreases with altitude. The wind is redirected by mountains. The albedo difference causes a shift in climate by onshore winds. "Continentality" occurs because the center of large continents are generally higher in elevations and are therefore cooler and dryer. This is seen today with Eurasia, and evidence is present in the rock record that this is true for the middle of Pangaea.
During the late Ordovician (~465 Ma), the particular configuration of Gondwana may have allowed for glaciation and high CO2 levels to occur at the same time. However, some geologists disagree and think that there was a temperature increase at this time. This increase may have been strongly influenced by the movement of Gondwana across the South Pole, which may have prevented lengthy snow accumulation. Although late Ordovician temperatures at the South Pole may have reached freezing, there were no ice sheets during the early Silurian (~440 Ma) through the late Mississippian (~330 Ma). Agreement can be met with the theory that continental snow can occur when the edge of a continent is near the pole. Therefore, Gondwana, although located tangent to the South Pole, may have experienced glaciation along its coast.
Though precipitation rates during monsoonal circulations are difficult to predict, there is evidence for a large orographic barrier within the interior of Pangaea during the late Paleozoic (~250 Ma). The possibility of the SW-NE trending Appalachian-Hercynian Mountains makes the region's monsoonal circulations potentially relatable to present day monsoonal circulations surrounding the Tibetan Plateau, which is known to positively influence the magnitude of monsoonal periods within Eurasia. It is therefore somewhat expected that lower topography in other regions of the supercontinent during the Jurassic would negatively influence precipitation variations. The breakup of supercontinents may have affected local precipitation. When any supercontinent breaks up, there will be an increase in precipitation runoff over the surface of the continental land masses, increasing silicate weathering and the consumption of CO2.
Even though during the Archaean solar radiation was reduced by 30 percent and the Cambrian-Precambrian boundary by six percent, the Earth has only experienced three ice ages throughout the Precambrian. It must be noted that erroneous conclusions are more likely to be made when models are limited to one climatic configuration (which is usually present day).
Granites and detrital zircons have notably similar and episodic appearances in the rock record. Their fluctuations correlate with Precambrian supercontinent cycles. The U–Pb zircon dates from orogenic granites are of the most reliable aging determinants. Some issues exist with relying on granite sourced zircons, such as a lack of evenly globally sourced data and the loss of granite zircons by sedimentary coverage or plutonic consumption. Where granite zircons are less adequate, detrital zircons from sandstones appear and make up for the gaps. These detrital zircons are taken from the sands of major modern rivers and their drainage basins. Oceanic magnetic anomalies and paleomagnetic data are the primary resources used for reconstructing continent and supercontinent locations back to roughly 150 Ma.
The process of Earth's increase in atmospheric oxygen content is theorized to have started with continent-continent collision of huge land masses forming supercontinents, and therefore possibly supercontinent mountain ranges (supermountains). These supermountains would have eroded, and the mass amounts of nutrients, including iron and phosphorus, would have washed into oceans, just as we see happening today. The oceans would then be rich in nutrients essential to photosynthetic organisms, which would then be able to respire mass amounts of oxygen. (1: continents collide, 2: 'supermountains' form, 3: erosion of 'supermountains,' 4: large quantities of minerals and nutrients washed out to open ocean, 5: explosion of marine algae life (partly sourced from noted nutrients), and 6: mass amounts of oxygen produced during photosynthesis. There is an apparent direct relationship between orogeny and the atmospheric oxygen content). There is also evidence for increased sedimentation concurrent with the timing of these mass oxygenation events, meaning that the organic carbon and pyrite at these times were more likely to be buried beneath sediment and therefore unable to react with the free oxygen. This sustained the atmospheric oxygen increases.
During this time, 2.65 Ga there was an increase in molybdenum isotope fractionation. It was temporary, but supports the increase in atmospheric oxygen because molybdenum isotopes require free oxygen to fractionate. Between 2.45 and 2.32 Ga, the second period of oxygenation occurred, it has been called the 'great oxygenation event.' There are many pieces of evidence that support the existence of this event, including red beds appearance 2.3 Ga (meaning that Fe3+ was being produced and became an important component in soils). The third oxygenation stage approximately 1.8 Ga is indicated by the disappearance of iron formations. Neodymium isotopic studies suggest that iron formations are usually from continental sources, meaning that dissolved Fe and Fe2+ had to be transported during continental erosion. A rise in atmospheric oxygen prevents Fe transport, so the lack of iron formations may have been due to an increase in oxygen. The fourth oxygenation event, roughly 0.6 Ga, is based on modeled rates of sulfur isotopes from marine carbonate-associated sulfates. An increase (near doubled concentration) of sulfur isotopes, which is suggested by these models, would require an increase in oxygen content of the deep oceans. Between 650 and 550 Ma there were three increases in ocean oxygen levels, this period is the fifth oxygenation stage. One of the reasons indicating this period to be an oxygenation event is the increase in redox-sensitive Mo in black shales. The sixth event occurred between 360 and 260 Ma and was identified by models suggesting shifts in the balance of 34S in sulfates and 13C in carbonates, which were strongly influenced by an increase in atmospheric oxygen.
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Jose Mourinho has confirmed that Chelsea are done in the transfer market and will not be making any further signings this summer.
The Blues have brought in four players -- Diego Costa and Filipe Luis from Atletico Madrid, Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona and youngster Mario Pasalic from Hajduk Split.
"The transfer market closes on 31 August and we close our market on July 19. We finished the market today, the club did fantastic, we knew the targets, we knew the players and the club attacked them and their clubs at a very early stage," the former Real Madrid said, as quoted in talkSPORT.
"We got exactly what we need and what we want. The squad is one which I like very much and I look forward to starting the season.
"I dont think we will sign any more players. The market is open, but we are so happy with what we have. We feel that our squad is what we want," the Blues boss confirmed.
"I have to say my club did a fantastic job, and not just because of what we bought, but because we did it in almost record time," he said.
However, the former Porto and Inter Milan manager feels that too many signings will not allow for progress among the youth, something he is very keen to do in the upcoming season.
"We don't want a squad of only end products. We also want to bring to the first team, three or four under-21s, we are going to develop players and are happy with this balance we have," Mourinho added.
Meanwhile, the recent smoking controversy involving Jack Wilshere, has incited a response from the Portuguese manager, where he claims that a single cigarette smoked by the player on a holiday may not harm his game, but it will affect the 'millions' of kids watching.
"I'm not a specialist, obviously, but I don't think if a football player smokes one cigar or cigarette with friends in the summer when he is not training – I don't think it affects his performance.
"What gets affected is that a kid at home says if a top football player can smoke then I can smoke and it is not a problem," Mourinho concluded.


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My camera is undergoing some maintenance right now, which is the reason for the lack of posts, but this is a perfect time to present some pictures of a recent off-island excursion. Here are some interesting photos I took in the Everglades on my way to Key West. Enjoy!
Nature at work: Vultures eating a dead alligator!
How about an afternoon nap?
I snapped a pic of this gator by hanging the camera out of the top of the Jeep. Not bad, eh?
That's all for now. I'll get back to Beach Blogging now!
I was doing the scenic walk just off of Scenic Highway this morning and got some good shots of Pensacola Bay, and the train tracks. In the distance, you can see the Garcon Point Bridge.
This is looking north along the tracks. I think I was actually breaking a law by being down there, but hey whatever gets the good pictures, right?
The Pensacola Seafood Festival (Festival of Five Flags) happened this last weekend, Sep 26th – 28th. We went over to Seville Square on Sunday and got some good pics, and some good eats! As always, admission to the festival is free.
How about some southern fried goodness…?


Sweet Mandarin.......................... Baylis & Harding's Sweet Mandarin & Grapefruit Bathing Treats Tin makes the perfect pampering present and is guaranteed to be a hit with everyone. The fabulous gift tin contains a trio of bathing treats; a 300ml Shower Crème, 130ml Body Wash, 130ml Hand & Body Lotion all enriched with vitamins A, B and C to nourish skin. Presented in a festive white gift tin with classic gold wintry scene detailing this is a stunning looking gift, which is fragranced in Baylis & Harding's most popular scent – a refreshing and balancing perfume with spicy and zesty notes.


Our Luxury Lodges gave been designed to our specific requirements, ensuring they are ideal for our North-East weather conditions, making the lodges perfect for rental all year round.
While the lodges vary depending on the design and model, all our lodges have a spacious open plan living area with built in furniture, a flat screen TV and a comfortable sofa, making it easy to relax.
We all know how important it is to relax after a long day but let's not forget the cooking part of everyone's day. The open plan living area has a kitchen fitted with an electric or gas hob, an oven and grill as well as a fridge freezer and plenty of storage space. Making cooking in one of our lodges an enjoyable experience. You can enjoy your meals in the dining area that has been furnished with either a table and chairs or a breakfast bar and stools.
You can enjoy a full night's sleep in a king-sized bed in the master bedroom or in the single bed in the second bedroom. Both bedrooms have built in wardrobes and are equally comfortable.
Let's not forget the bathroom! Equipped with the full-size power shower, ceramic toilet and basin. Everything you need for your daily routine.
Our luxury lodges have all the qualities of a perfect little house.
While the inside of the lodges is absolutely stunning, we have not forgotten about the external look of the lodges. Creating private monoblock driveways for each lodge along with lovely landscaping. Making it the ideal space to enjoy some time outside.
We appreciate that everyone likes to stay connected, so the lodges also have free wi-fi access.


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This project includes the process of developing a business plan for opening a fitness center in the Perm market. The project will solve the problem of the lack of a business strategy for a specific idea for the opening of a fitness center locating at 6 1st Krasnoarmeyskaya street. The work consists of two chapters, a table of contents, an introduction, a list of literature, conclusions and annexes. The first chapter presents the theoretical foundations of business planning, its fundamentals and structure. The second chapter describes the process of preparing a business plan for a fitness center based on financial analysis and calculation of economic performance indicators of the project. Financial calculations proved the investment attractiveness of the project. This project is for the private implementation.
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Axe of the Blood God: Why Dungeons & Dragons is Enjoying a Mini-Renaissance
Dicebreaker's Sara Elsam joins the pod to talk about the state of D&D in 2019.
Google Says Next Stadia Connect Will Be "All About the Games"
Looks like Google's bringing even more games to the streaming platform.
Games Won't Be Any Cheaper on the Google Stadia
Just because it's in the cloud doesn't mean you'll pay any less.
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Here's all the games set for Stadia after its first Connect.
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Larian is set on keeping things open to as many players as possible.
Larian Studios Shares Its Vision for Baldur's Gate 3: "We Got the Keys to the Toy Box"
We talk to Larian founder Swen Vincke and D&D creative director Mike Mearls about reviving one of the greatest RPGs ever.
Larian Studios is Teasing What Appears to Be Baldur's Gate 3
Scrubbed data indicates it's more than just a cool numeral.


So, I kinda wanted to share a series, a series on some of the thoughts that go through the heads of girls struggling with eating issues, distorted thoughts and lies that are not true, but hard to put out off our minds.
There are these magazines in stores. They preach a wrong view of beauty. It's a vanity, a lie about what a woman's body 'should' look like. Women spend their lives dieting their way out of one body into the next, and my heart hurts for them because of all the silly, unrealistic bodily ideals into which they are pressured.
I have been right at that spot along with them. I couldn't get the images of thin ladies out of my mind, and often my heart even burned in a bit of a jealous way, wanting something that God had not given me, and putting it in the forefront of my desires.
You see, that's not what matters. God has gifted each women with a unique metabolism, a unique bodily structure, and it isn't right or beautiful to smash your body into a mold that God didn't mean it for, instead embracing the curves and the ability that God has given your body to work naturally, function normally, and even have babies, something which is difficult for un-naturally thin women.
These are not thoughts that you go through alone, and I want to tell you, girls, that these are LIES. Don't listen to the lies.
May this be our prayer. Psalm 86:11, "Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name." May God teach us His way, so we can walk in His truth and so that the lies of the world may fade away in the presence of His AMAZING truth.
Roadtrippin' and Being Anxious for NOTHING.
This may seem stupid, but just bear with me while I explain some anxious thoughts I struggle with that involves travel.
We are commanded to not be anxious about anything, but after a long time of rigidly controlling my habits regarding eating and being comfortable with my healthy way of eating I found it difficult and almost terrifying to anticipate road trips. I was afraid of road trip 'junk food', being sedentary, and fast food restaurants.
In truth, much of this fear has dissipated over the years, as I've been reminded that everything is in God's control, and I need to trust Him, be grateful, and remember that God gave me hunger signals for a reason. I can go on a road trip and eat when I'm hungry, and I won't gain weight.
However, there are a few things that REALLY help me when I go on a road trip to help not completely throw my body for a loop.
1. You've probably heard this before, but it's easy to get dehydrated while traveling, because you don't want to have to go to the bathroom all the time, but DRINK. It's better to drink than not, and get a headache and feel gross. Trust me. I've tried that before :D.
2. Keep a good balance on the food. I like a few handfuls of candy, but too much is just well… too much. I like to eat apples or order a salad at the fast food. I also enjoy the ice-cream from the gas station and thank God for the milkshakes.
3. When you get to wherever you're going if it's late get some good sleep. It really helps to re-set my rhythm to get in, go to sleep for a good solid 7-8 hours and get up again.
As part of this 'Beauty in Christ' blog which is my journey to encourage other girls on a journey to a deeper walk with God, above exercise and food, I also want to not neglect the fact that food and exercise are amazing gifts from God and not to be taken for granted.
Heat honey or sorghum, almond butter, vanilla, and brown sugar together till runny. Mix in oats, krispy cereal, and white chocolate chips. Freeze for a couple hours in a parchment paper lined pan.
1/2 cup brown sugar or more for more sweetness.
Mix wet ingredients. Mix dry ingredients together and add chocolate chips! Put into greased and floured 9×5 loaf pans. Bake at 375 for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. The loaf will be dense but moist and slightly sweet and delicious.


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State Games of America 2023/2025 RFP Released
NATIONAL CONGRESS OF STATE GAMES RELEASES STATE GAMES OF AMERICA 2023/2025 REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
Grand Rapids, Mich., November 18, 2019 – Officials with the National Congress of State Games (NCSG) have released the 2023 and 2025 State Games of America request for proposal (RFP). Organizations may bid on either or both of the years presented in the RFP. The cities that have hosted or will host State Games of America include Ames, IA in 2021, Lynchburg, VA in 2019, Grand Rapids, MI in 2017, and Lincoln, NE in 2015.
To view the RFP in its entirety and view the bid timeline, please click the link below.
If you have any questions regarding the RFP or State Games of America, please direct them to Kevin Cummings at kevin@baystategames.org.
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Levothyroxine and potassium iodide are both effective in treating benign solitary solid cold nodules of the thyroid.
Premenopausal women affected by sexual arousal disorder treated with sildenafil: a double-blind, cross-over, placebo-controlled study.
Internal jugular veins out flow in patients with multiple sclerosis:a catheter venography study.
Elevated incidence of hypospadias in two sicilian towns where exposure to industrial and agricultural pollutants is high.


Tea partiers suing the IRS for allegedly targeting them as political enemies are the country's best hope for reining in a powerful government agency that has turned against ordinary citizens, the lawyer behind the class-action lawsuit told Newsmax TV on Friday.
"We can try to count on congressional hearings and politicians, but we know that they never make a difference," Mark Meckler, president of Citizens for Self-Governance and a founder of Tea Party Patriots, told "MidPoint" host Ed Berliner. "It's up to us."
Meckler discussed the status of the pioneering lawsuit — which a federal judge last month refused to dismiss — and a culture of contempt for conservative Americans that he said is on display in e-mails uncovered by congressional investigators.
E-mails written by Lois Lerner — an IRS staffer at the center of the scandal over the targeting of tea party groups — referred to Republicans as "crazies" and "a--holes."
Meckler said IRS animosity is almost to be expected toward conservatives who seek tax-exempt status for their fundraising and activities.
"In a way it's natural," he said. "If you look at the slice of the American public that they're attacking — specifically the tea parties and liberty-oriented groups, small-government groups — these groups are inherently the enemy of large government."
But Meckler said that under President Barack Obama, "the federal government has now been weaponized against citizens that criticize it. … It's actually a government against the people."
Meckler said the people hurt by the IRS's ideological targeting are not deep-pocketed or well-connected, but "people who belong to or formed very small local organizations."
He said his lead plaintiff, NorCal Tea Party Patriots, "is headed by a couple in their late 60s, a retired couple, who are doing this on their own dime. They've also been audited personally. So they're the small folks that are being attacked by the IRS for their political views."
Meckler went on to describe what being "targeted" and "attacked" actually meant.
He said NorCal's petition for nonprofit status was met with "literally hundreds of questions … outrageous things like: name every speaker that's ever spoken at one of your events; provide us with a copy of everything that's ever been given out at one of your events; provide us with a copy of all reading materials suggested at your events.
"We had to give them literally everything; it was bankers' boxes full of materials," said Meckler.
Because NorCal also gave out stuffed toy bears — red, white, and blue — at one gathering, "We were required to send one of those teddy bears to the IRS, which I'm sure they're enjoying today," said Meckler.


Are you over wading through countless websites or traipsing around your local dealer in a laborious bid to compare and contrast the prices of the now large and diverse range of off-road motorcycles available from KTM and Husqvarna? What, for instance, is the price variance between a certain KTM you're interested in and its Husqvarna counterpart? How much have both brands increased their RRPs for 2019, if at all? Which models does each brand offer in cross-country guise, and how much cheaper are they than their enduro equivalents? Which models does KTM now offer in up-specced Six Days set-up, and what do they cost? Do you lash out pay a little extra for a Husky with a host of extras – rising-rate linkage, carbon-fiber polyamid subframe and airbox, Pro Taper bars, Magura clutch system, map switch, seat cover, and different bodywork, to name a few differences?


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Q: where is the source control->History menu going in xcode 9? i just install the xcode 9 beta version , and i found that i can't see svn's all checkin logs in xcode 9 which are available in source control->History in xcode 8 and before , how to get these infomation  in xcode 9?

A: They moved it to this tab on the left nav.

A: This works for a git repository:
Open Menu View/Navigators/Show Source Control Navigator (%2)
Commit details appear in the Utilities pane if Source Control Inspector is selected.

A: Xcode Version 9.2
View -> Navigators -> Show Source Control Navigator

or just
⌘ Command + 2


Read the original play, by Sophocles, here.
Here are some essay topics. We will return to these later in the unit.
It is important to understand the context of this play – or rather, contexts. There is the ancient Greek context of the original story of Antigone, for which it is important to understand the conventions of ancient Greek tragedy – of which the author, Sophocles, was a prime exponent. But then there is also the context of France in the 1940's when Jean Anouilh was writing – both the political context (occupied Vichy France) and the cultural context of French theatre at the time.
Each student will focus on one of these topics and present their research findings to the class. One period of class time will be given over for preparation. Watch Veracross for dates.
As you are reading the play, refer to the documents below to help your understanding.
This will be centered on the confrontation between Antigone and Creon. The exact details will be discussed in class so that the students have as much input as possible into the final product.
The final summative essay will be taken from one of the topics at the top of this page. Watch Veracross for dates.


The obnoxious left wing comedian Michelle Wolf has lost her Netflix series just three months after it was launched. Apparently there was a smaller market for her unfunny brand of humor than they thought.
Ahead of the show's launch, the comedian quipped it would bring "the types of jokes my former bosses would tell me we couldn't do on TV," according to The Hollywood Reporter.


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Exclusive Interview with International Sports Industry leader, Mr Martin Copus
Posted byAsh June 23, 2020 October 25, 2020 Posted inExclusive InterviewsTags:Abdul Lateef Jameel, Champions League, ESports, Exclusive Sports Industry Interview, Hockey, International Sports Business, Leo Burnett, Martin Copus, MBUZZ, MBUZZSPORT, North Africa, Premier League, Rowing, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Football League, Sports Business, Sports Industry Network, Sports Rev Arabia, Sports Revolution, TalkSport
Martin Copus, the CEO of Middle East based Sports Accelerator, MBUZZSPORT, has had a fascinating journey into and through the sports industry after starting his career at one of the world's leading advertising agencies, Leo Burnett. That took him all over the world from a London start… Chicago (during the days of the Bulls 2 three-peats of 'Last Dance' fame), Cairo, Hong Kong & Singapore to name just a few! Martin's whole family have always been big in sport – he and his wife Chris played international hockey, and their sons Rory and Jamie are both internationals in rowing.
So it was only a matter of time before 'my weekends met my weekdays' as Martin says, moving into leading sports media rights firm Sports Revolution in 2011 via his media industry friend – the then Woking FC chairman and Sports Revolution principal shareholder – Chris Ingram. Since then, Copus has played a significant role in Saudi Arabia's sport while helping MBUZZSPORT to global renown.
The MBUZZSPORT team has been involved in negotiating and managing deals with many of the 'big boys' across the sector, bringing an innovative marketing and business approach to the sports industry we haven't seen before. For example, Martin's colleague Youssef Abdellaoui negotiated a sponsorship deal with newly-promoted La Liga club Leganés, that included the right to change the shirt sponsor 3 times in the season so as to appeal to smaller businesses that otherwise couldn't afford a top-flight shirt deal!
So, without further ado, get comfortable for one interview you will not find anywhere else.
Q: How did your career in sport begin?
A: I worked at a big global advertising agency called Leo Burnett when I came out of college. This took me on a world tour, and I was there for about 20 years – including cutting my sports sponsorship teeth in IndyCar in the States. After Burnetts I did some interesting work in the digital space, again in multiple countries, and that's where I met Chris (Ingram). He asked me to bring digital innovation, mobile especially, into his Sports Revolution media and rights firm in London. The family and I have always been big on sport – competing, watching, and more recently coaching – so it was only a matter of time really before I'd take my marketing and digital experience into sport.
Sports Rev had always had an international skew and after a couple of years in the London business, I went to set up a joint venture in Dubai – Sports Revolution Arabia – with MBUZZ as our partners, an international Saudi telco services company. MBUZZ had realised the value and power of sport in fast-forwarding their core business when sponsoring Sheff United's shirt in their FA Cup semi at Wembley in 2014 – my first sponsorship deal, actually! After a couple of years running Sports Rev Arabia, I was headhunted into Abdul Lateef Jameel – who are possibly the biggest company you've never heard of, with tens of thousands of employees and the world's largest single Toyota customer, I believe.
The job was to manage the title sponsorship of the Saudi football league – at the time, the world's second most valuable title sponsorship of a football league in the world (after Barclays in the Prem), so a lot of value to be managed, and not really an opportunity to be turned down. Our partners MBUZZ totally understood – especially as the role would get me deeply involved in the Saudi sports scene where football is as much a passion as in Europe. I think Sports Rev didn't want to continue without me there to manage it, and hence the birth of MBUZZSPORT, with myself continuing as Advisor outside of my core working hours… approved by ALJ as long as no conflict of interest would result, which never did. The title sponsorship ended in 2018 and I moved into a 'back-to-the-future' role at ALJ, running a media division of the company.
At the end of last year though, the opportunity came up to move back into sport full-time and join MBUZZSPORT as CEO. One of the pillars of our business is taking (mostly minority) ownership positions in football clubs across Europe. We own a quarter of Sutton United in the National League, and have a similar position with a club in Segunda B (the third tier in Spain) – and we're busy right now looking into a couple of clubs in France and Sweden. We also have an early-stage player agency division – MBUZZSPORT Management. One of our players is from Canada and we're looking to move him to the Middle East or Scandinavia, while another has Champions League and Serie A experience and we're in process of finding him the right next opportunity on the football ladder.
Q: How have you progressed your career up the ladder in sport?
A: The first challenge was to demonstrate – including to myself! – how transferable my marketing and digital skillsets would be in the sports industry. I certainly had fairly in-depth knowledge and experience of multiple sports, but I still needed to showcase my ability. Luckily the industry was becoming increasingly digital and marketing-driven at the time… no longer were sponsorship decisions largely driven by 'Chairman's Choice', and technology was on a sharp upward curve, in football especially.
It was 2013 and we were fortunate enough to get the brief to wifi-enable Celtic Park, which was the first successful installation of full-stadium connectivity in the UK. The company sweated blood over that, not least as similar installations had failed at the time at some of the big English clubs. The launch was at Celtic v Ajax in the Champions League – with a heaving Parkhead connecting thousands and thousands of mobiles simultaneously to our platform! Luckily… well, skilfully really, it went off without a hitch. So I guess there's some learning in that – deliver what you say you're going to do.
Credibility and trust has always been a critical factor in my business dealings – and that's especially important in football, and especially in the Middle East. In my Burnett days, I'd worked in Egypt for two years and learned that while contracts and agreements are in place for the bad times, it's personal relationships that matter most. A handshake is almost always more important than signatures on paper in our part of the world, closely allied to respect for the other party.
Understanding cultural differences and nuances, and the ability to navigate new environments was particularly important when I took over running the Dawry Jameel (Jameel League). I'd inherited a number of tricky challenges to resolve – but we ended up running some world-first programmes… like bringing 5-metre tall puppets from Germany to play football in front of 62,000 fans in a season-closing show, or getting the entire league to wear shirts with seat-belts printed on them – even over their sponsors logos – in support of Road Safety Week.
I guess those examples highlight a couple of factors that've helped my career in sport – creativity and can-do, must-do delivery… both skills learned in my formative years at Leo Burnett, where the company's logo came from a saying of the founder's, "When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either".
Q: At Ash's Sports Talk, we love digital marketing. At MBUZZSPORT, how do you ensure you get the most out of your digital marketing channels?
A: During lockdown, I'm managing the MBUZZSPORT digital platforms myself – so in the absence of delegation, I'm getting a lot of hands-on experience I otherwise might not get! That said, I was pretty instrumental in bringing the Saudi league's digital activity up to speed back in the day. Part of our contract as title sponsors was that we had the right – actually the requirement – to manage all the league's digital channels, and we were able to re-invigorate the website and all the social media channels… Twitter, Insta, Facebook, etc. We even managed the league's Fantasy game aka Fantasy Jameel.
The good news about lockdown is that taking away travel and commuting time meant there were suddenly more hours in the day. Up to that point, I hadn't had time to properly review our digital presence, and quickly realised it could do with a revamp. I'm a great believer that digital media not only provides a company's shop window, it also creates and showcases its personality. So the first job was making it look consistent, current and personable. We're not there yet, but I think we've made solid progress. Over to the professionals as soon as we're past the corona crisis…
One thing to highlight, and that I'm pretty pleased with, is the NEWS section on our website. We've managed to backtrack and uncover articles from different sources, which really tell the story of MBUZZSPORT. I felt this would add some authenticity and illustrate – in the words of others, always better than your own! – what we've been able to achieve, and how far we've come. I guess it also shows we're worth writing about! It's at https://www.mbuzzsport.com/news/ if you're interested ;-).
Looking ahead on the digital side of things, we're planning to be in the rapidly expanding world of eSports as soon as possible – which is totally logical for a business with mobile technology at its core. It's also totally logical in Saudi Arabia, which is not only one of the countries with the highest social media usage in the world, it also boasts the number 1 FIFA player in the world. So watch this space…
Q: What conclusive feedback can you provide for someone who is wanting to break into the sports industry?
A: First and probably most important, assuming you're already in employment…remember your day job is paying the bills, so don't let this prejudice your enthusiasm for getting into sport. Same if you're in college – whatever the industry, employers want to see that you can finish what you started.
Second: figure out an initiative that you can take, that will impress or just catch the attention of a potential employer. Maybe try and evolve out of your current industry into a sport-based assignment, kind of like what happened to me – taking the skillsets of the advertising industry and experience in digital into a sports environment.
Thirdly, people do business with people they like to do business with. Make sure your approaches accurately reflect who you are. Be yourself. The worst thing would be that you manage to open a door, only for the club or federation or agency to think "this isn't at all the person I thought we were interested in". In so doing, never underestimate the power of networking. Don't sit back and wait for something to happen – think about the best way to deliver your message, and do whatever you can to build the best version of yourself.
Oh, and always look for something that makes you exclusive. Like Ash's blog!… who's now the first to know – ahead of our press release next week – that MBUZZSPORT just signed an agreement with talkSPORT to market Premier League Live Commentary across the Middle East and North Africa…
This was an incredible insight into Martin's journey to become an international sporting leader. The key themes that have led to his sports career success include thinking proactively about applying his external skill-sets in a sporting setting to add value. Appreciating the importance of networking by connecting the dots to create his sports career vision. Lastly, using creative approaches to help drive MBUZZSPORT's growth into game-changing industry innovators.
We hope you enjoyed this blog as much as we did – please leave a comment below sharing what you learnt from Martin's experience.
And If you're up for hearing more about Martin & MBUZZSPORT, make your way over to www.mbuzzsport.com and the MBUZZSPORT YouTube channel below.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAUO4j46WYk2dnL7qihNYFg/videos
Did you enjoy this interview? If so, leave us a rating and comment below so we can continue to work on satisfying your blogging needs!
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For more information about the qualifications to live at Village Christian Apartments, you can speak with Justin Redden (property manager) or Judy Witcher (assistant manager) at 512-459-9550. You can also email Justin at emailvca@gmail.com or Judy at jwitcher517@gmail.com.
For more information on activities/events, contact Linda Riedesel (resident services manager) at 512-459-0201 or email Linda at vcarsm@gmail.com.


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New Christian Chat Members (Introduce yourselves!!
My name is Mike and I truly have a heart for all people on this earth to know G-d and His Messiah Yeshua/Jesus. It is evident that the church has done a wonderful if not an excelling job at reaching various nations (especially in the last 50 years), and spreading the word of G-d to the best of their abilities. But does it not stump you for one minute, that we are not reaching Orthodox Jews? One needs to go no further than any of the Gospels or Romans 11 to recognize one major part of being a "Christian" or "Follower of the Messiah", is to reach the Jewish people about their 100% Kosher/Jewish Messiah. To go even further, we know that Yeshua/Jesus has not completed the FULL mission of what a Messiah must do and the Jews call this Mashiach Ben Yosef (Messiah Son of Yosef) and he will need to return as Mashiach Ben David. Now, this is not to disregard the teachings of Sha'ul/Paul to the Gentiles and their non-observance of the Torah, but as Colossians 1:9-13 teaches us, we even as Gentiles have the Spirit to KNOW G-d's wisdom (Torah), in order to "provoke" Jews back to their Messiah.
Question: Why are we either not reaching this goal of redeeming the Orthodox Jewish Community OR why are we not questioning ourselves for not fulfilling such a major part of our role, which will ring in the Messiah's 2nd coming?
Hello Mike, welcome to CC. I hope you'll enjoy your stay here.
Colossians 1:9-13 teaches us, we even as Gentiles have the Spirit to KNOW G-d's wisdom (Torah), in order to "provoke" Jews back to their Messiah.
I suspect because our sensitivity to His leading has waned. We gather, we publish, we go, we rise to accrue all the right work but the noise of His hand isn't esp-loud. We need Him not to accompany, but to empower to witness. For the Church itself is built and maintained by His presence! And that goes into the Body of His gifts, and that goes into the debilitating fact of His dis-jointed body, which is an impossibility though it seems many of us have made it our own heartfelt mission??
This belongs in the bible discussion forum, not the Introductions forum. Welcome to CC..
Sorry, one of those 'when the fires hot' moments. Can a mod move it?


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Stable Determination of Polyhedral Interfaces from Boundary Data for the Helmholtz Equation
Elena Beretta, Maarten V. de Hoop, Elisa Francini, Sergio Vessella
We study an inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. We consider piecewise constant wave speeds on an unknown tetrahedral partition and prove a Lipschitz stability estimate in terms of the Hausdorff distance between partitions.
Communications in Partial Differential Equations
Helmholtz equation
Inverse boundary value problem
Lipschitz stability
Dive into the research topics of 'Stable Determination of Polyhedral Interfaces from Boundary Data for the Helmholtz Equation'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Helmholtz equation Engineering & Materials Science 100%
Boundary value problems Engineering & Materials Science 75%
Helmholtz Equation Mathematics 70%
Partition Mathematics 50%
Lipschitz Stability Mathematics 47%
Inverse Boundary Value Problem Mathematics 45%
Dirichlet-to-Neumann Map Mathematics 43%
Hausdorff Distance Mathematics 41%
Beretta, E., de Hoop, M. V., Francini, E., & Vessella, S. (2015). Stable Determination of Polyhedral Interfaces from Boundary Data for the Helmholtz Equation. Communications in Partial Differential Equations, 40(7), 1365-1392. https://doi.org/10.1080/03605302.2015.1007379
Stable Determination of Polyhedral Interfaces from Boundary Data for the Helmholtz Equation. / Beretta, Elena; de Hoop, Maarten V.; Francini, Elisa et al.
In: Communications in Partial Differential Equations, Vol. 40, No. 7, 03.07.2015, p. 1365-1392.
Beretta, E, de Hoop, MV, Francini, E & Vessella, S 2015, 'Stable Determination of Polyhedral Interfaces from Boundary Data for the Helmholtz Equation', Communications in Partial Differential Equations, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 1365-1392. https://doi.org/10.1080/03605302.2015.1007379
Beretta E, de Hoop MV, Francini E, Vessella S. Stable Determination of Polyhedral Interfaces from Boundary Data for the Helmholtz Equation. Communications in Partial Differential Equations. 2015 Jul 3;40(7):1365-1392. doi: 10.1080/03605302.2015.1007379
Beretta, Elena ; de Hoop, Maarten V. ; Francini, Elisa et al. / Stable Determination of Polyhedral Interfaces from Boundary Data for the Helmholtz Equation. In: Communications in Partial Differential Equations. 2015 ; Vol. 40, No. 7. pp. 1365-1392.
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Google Fit rolling out camera-based HR and breathing tracking to Pixels this week
(Pocket-lint) – Back in February, Google announced that it's rolling out a new feature to Google Fit, allowing users to monitor their breathing and heart rate using the camera on the back of their phone.
That feature is rolling out to Pixel users from today, so at some point over the coming days and weeks you should notice the new tracking tools going live.
The heart rate monitoring works by lightly pressing your finger over the camera. The camera then monitors changes in colour in your fingertip to measure how the blood is flowing through it.
"While these measurements aren't meant for medical diagnosis or to evaluate medical conditions, we hope they can be useful for people using the Google Fit app to track and improve day-to-day wellness", Google stated in the original blog post.
As for the breathing measurement, you point the camera at your head and chest, and it then measures the rise and fall of your chest using your front-facing camera.
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As with most things Google does these days, the process and feature is all powered by its machine learning capabilities and the company claims it's accurate to within 2 per cent.
While we'll need to test it ourselves to find out if that claim is true, it's pretty clever tech and – while similar to other camera based trackers launched in the past – it promises to be more reliable.
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Pastora was the first Manzanilla ever to appear on the market in a bottled form, at a time when Manzanilla was mostly a local wine that was sold directly to consumers in bars (by the glass or in their own container). We're talking 1827, actually the same year in which the first mention of the word Manzanilla appeared in shipping documents. The old brand Pastora, or Divina Pastora as it was then called, was recently resurrected by Bodegas Barbadillo.
Pastora is a true Manzanilla Pasada, rooted in the solera system of the already well aged Manzanilla Solear but even older. Pastora spends six years in the Solear solera (bodega El Potro) until a selection of barrels is moved some fifty meters down the road, to the bodega La Pastora, where the wine spends an additional three years. It is around 9 years old at the time of bottling and brings back a style that was in vogue in the 19th century and slowly disappeared in recent times.
Nose: intense, with some sharp briney notes and piercing, almost acetatic green apple notes. Punchy yeast as well, including a hint of bitterness, but also mellow notes like hay and butter. Becomes a little rounder over time, with yellow apple and chamomile, as well as a subtle sweet touch.
Mouth: a really smooth entry, but with a lot of complexity, gradually growing wider, with more intense saline and savoury notes. Touches of herbal bitterness and mineral notes. Toasted hazelnuts. Very yeasty but at the same time some fruity notes before moving into a long, salty and warming finish.
Availability: recently launched, so mostly available in Spain for now. Around € 13 for a half bottle.
Summary: A very interesting and rewarding Manzanilla, with a lot of intensity and complexity. Less savoury than Solear, I'd say, and a little more towards balance but with a little more depth and a remarkable balance of smoothness and character. Certainly worth tracking down.