What a run it's been so far for the Phoenix Fuel Masters.
Currently sporting a 4-0 record in the 2019 Honda PBA Philippine Cup, they're the only remaining undefeated squad in the league. They're coming off a dominating 114-95 victory over the Blackwater Elite, continuing to build on their best start in franchise history. It's been one of the better stories this season for a team that has built itself through wise choices in the Draft, plus a stunning trade, to rise to the top of the standings, especially in a conference that has been dominated by San Miguel for the past four years.
How has Phoenix achieved this? There are a few ways to answer this. Let's take a look at some of them.
It goes without saying that a great way to guarantee team success is to be great on both offense and defense. But in the past, there have been teams that have struggled on either offense or defense, despite being excellent on the other end. Case in point: Ginebra in their title run in the Commissioner's Cup, and the Magnolia Hotshots in the Governor's Cup. They didn't set the world on fire with their scoring prowess, but they were so disciplined and relentless on offense, teams simply couldn't score enough to defeat them. Their defense compensated for their offensive issues.
A team like the Fuel Masters is different, though. What they're doing this conference is being rock solid on both sides. They're averaging 102 points, which for 4th in the league and only two points lower than the number one scoring team, the NorthPort Batang Pier.
On defense, the team surrenders 92.3 points per contest, which ranks them 8th overall. While that doesn't seem like too impressive a number, consider the point differential between the squad and its opponents, which is 9.7 points. Amongst all three teams either with winning records or at an even .500, that's the highest by a considerable margin.
It becomes even more impressive if you consider what the Fuel Masters were doing a year ago. In the 2018 Philippine Cup, Phoenix only averaged 93.1 points, while giving up a whopping 96.5 which was second-worst behind only the then-Kia Picanto.
The improvements have come on both ends of the floor in the second season under Coach Louie Alas. Slowly but surely, he has given the team its own identity - unselfish basketball with no superstars hogging possessions, quick substitutions to ensure energy on defense, and a relentless, hounding full-court press with the purpose of making games a miserable slog for opponents.
There's no easy way to put this - Phoenix's games can be difficult to watch at times. Sure, there's always the chance of a vintage Calvin Abueva game, or an offensive shooting clinic from Matthew Wright, but more often than not, Phoenix is looking for something else. All game long, they're hunting for easy baskets, and relentlessly aiming to break down defenses and score in the paint.
And the best way to get easy points? Head to the free throw line.
There's simply no team in the PBA that can match Phoenix's eagerness to get to the charity stripe. Not even June Mar Fajardo and San Miguel, or the hard-driving Stanley Pringle and NorthPort Batang Pier are at their level.
They average a whopping 35.8 free throw attempts per game, and make an average of 25.5. That's so much more than the other squads, it's not worth comparing, but the team with the second-most free throw attempts is Rain or Shine, averaging 25.8 attempts and 18.2 makes per contest.
Player with most free throws attempts per game? Calvin Abueva with a league-leading 9.5 attempts.
Number one in free throws made? Calvin Abueva again with 6.2 makes per contest.
Guess who the top rebounder is? If you guessed Calvin Abueva, then you're absolutely right. He averages 12 rebounds per contest. Not only does he lead his team in those three categories, Abueva leads the entire league.
He's been the biggest difference in the Fuel Masters' engine. Improved play from Jason Perkins, Justin Chua, and a rejuvenated JC Intal have greatly helped matters, as has Matthew Wright's consistency and the injection of Alex Mallari in the lineup. But at the end of the day, so much of what Phoenix is doing right now can be attributed to Abueva's impact on the floor.
His playing style makes Phoenix a hard-nosed relentless squad. He displays a unique confidence and brashness on the floor has seeped into everything the team does. Wright attacks the rim like he knows that he can get buckets against anyone, Doug Kramer is throwing 'bows like it's 2015, LA Revilla is throwing no-look passes and behind-the-back dimes, and Justin Chua is shooting one-legged fadeaways that no one in the league is attempting.
All this is to say that it's looking like Phoenix's gamble of acquiring "The Beast" has paid off big time. But times are about to get rougher. Coming up for Phoenix are dates against a rejuvenated NLEX squad, a red-hot Rain or Shine crew, and the Beard Bros of NorthPort. Now we'll see just what this squad is made of. Odds are that if you have Abueva on your side, you know the answer.


Offered at the new Leadbetter Golf Academy (LGA), which went into full swing in October, students who attend the academy will also benefit greatly with the use of several technologies to help them with their swing and game.
With over two decades of coaching experience and 12 years working for LGA globally in Korea and Indonesia, Stephen Moriarty, Director for Leadbetter Southeast Asia explained LGA's strategy, "We really wanted to create a unique learning environment for academy students and to help them truly understand what breaks down in the different parts of their games. Technology plays an important role and helps provide the coach with a better understanding of student faults."
Elaborating on the technology employed at the LGA, Moriarty explained, "We have two different teaching rooms. One is used by multiple people featuring cameras, a high-resolution pressure plate and launch monitor technology. The other is a dual-purpose room with an indoor putting studio using SAM Putt Lab and high-speed cameras. SAM Putt Lab lets us look at over 40 different putting parameters and helps to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of students. It also provides simple visual feedback for students. We have also GEARS golf, which is an optical tracking system that captures body and club movements. It is one of only a handful of the systems being used in Asia and provides the most accurate information for coaches. The system creates an avatar similar to what you see in the movies and allows us to look at the student's movements in 3D from all angles. The room can also be turned into an indoor hitting studio when the weather is bad by utilizing Trackman."
The pressure plate Moriarty refers to is the SAM Balance Lab, which evaluates balance and weight transfer during the golf swing. The 2D/3D pressure distribution signals and synchronized video are recorded in parallel and then interactively analyzed in detail. This helps to correct poor balance and irregular weight shifts that are responsible for swing flaws, often resulting in a bad golf shot. The left/right foot and heel/toe balance analysis and center of pressure and weight transfer analysis can even help to improve footwork to gain some extra distance.
The SAM Putt Lab helps to accurately measure a player's putter path, face angle, rotation and putting tempo to highlight flaws and areas for improvement in one's putting stroke. It can even help determine a choice of putter design to fit one's putting stroke characteristics.
A technology that many may not be familiar with is the GEARS Golf Optical tracking system.This system is a full-body optical motion tracking system that measures and analyzes every aspect of the golf swing movement. It will assist the teaching professional in the study of a player's movement mechanics and their corresponding performance measurement, accurate to 0.2mm. The science of golf now allows for precise improvements to the golf swing for maximum performance.
Staffed with a full complement of accredited LGA professionals, the academy is housed in Laguna National Golf & Country Club's new practice facility, which boasts 2 levels with a total of 50 hitting bays, each with its own precise yardage displayed on the bay dividers. Rounding out the facilities is a dedicated short game area for putting and chipping that is second to none, including 5 bunkers that cater to a variety of bunker shots. The standout of this short game zone is that it is large enough that players may practice hitting wedge shots from up to 80-yards out to flags on the chipping green.
The driving range itself is open to the public, with the exception of the dedicated short game area, which is exclusively for club members and students of the academy.
During an illustrious career spanning more than four decades, David Leadbetter has coached many of golf's best-known professional players. In total, the players who were under his wing have won 24 Major Championship titles and over 100 individual worldwide tournament victories. Seven of these players at one time held the No.1 spot on the Official World Golf Rankings. The honour list is not short with Major champions such as Nick Faldo, Ian Baker-Finch, Nick Price, Ernie Els, Se Ri Pak, Lydia Ko, Danielle Kang and Michelle Wie topping the list.
Leadbetter is widely credited with inventing the modern method of golf instruction. Through his passion, Leadbetter has pioneered innovations in the field of instruction that continue to have a lasting impact, on both how the game is played and taught. His interest in the techniques, mechanics, and intricacies of the game saw him authoring eight books on these topics, which have since sold two million copies, making him one of the world's best-selling golf instruction authors. His latest book, The A Swing, released in May 2015, proposed yet another alternative theory to transform the golf swing.
Leadbetter remains a notable voice in golf instruction and continues to coach several top PGA, LPGA, and European Tour players whilst also bringing the same innovative and elite level of instruction to players everywhere through his golf academy.


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I'm not even slightly ashamed of the cheese involved in the title. It works! This weekend, 3 friends from Hockaday (and just best friends in general) came to visit me. We had been anticipating this trip since January, when Andrea, Alison, Sarah (who I will refer to as Skee from now on) and I would all be reunited. And I was so happy they chose Amsterdam as the place! I'd say this round of visiting was different from visitors I've had in the past. We all just wanted a break from our hectic study-abroad lives, a time to just be ourselves, relax, laugh uncontrollably, and decompress. So as I sit in my bed on this Sunday, eating "drop" (licorice) and avoiding the ones with thyme in them, I'll give the highlights of the weekend.
I picked up Andrea and Skee from central station on Friday morning, which was unfortunately grey. The past week had been absolutely beautiful, so I was very confused why winter had decided to return! After excusing the weather on behalf of Amsterdam, we went to my apartment then to get some coffee and wait for Alison. It was so nice to have a group hug and didn't feel any different between us. We walked down the street to Cafe Walvis for lunch, a neighborhood favorite. We all got broodjes (sandwiches) and even some bitterballen to start the weekend off right. After taking some time at my apartment, we headed to Museumplein so the girls could check out the Van Gogh museum and I could sit an admire the grey outdoors. We were hanging by the I Amsterdam sign and saw Carrie, a fellow hockadaisy that none of us had seen since graduation! She's studying in Seville, and was visiting for the weekend as well. I had forgotten my phone, a rarity, so I don't have any of my own pictures from that day. We walked to De Pijp afterwards, and went to the Albert Cuyp market for fresh stroopwafel with chocolate covering half of it. I had heard about the yumminess which is fresh stroopwafel, and this was the perfect afternoon snack. Afterwards we went to Scandinavian Embassy, a coffee place on my bucket list, and enjoyed a few cups. We also cooked a nice dinner together that evening, explored the Red Light District, then grabbed a drink at the ever-cute Cafe het Schium on Spuistraat, where umbrellas hung from the ceiling and enjoyed a super sweet disco vibe.
Throughout the day we were reminiscing and laughing and enjoying ourselves. We saw a TON of Amsterdam, and I was happy to not be bogged down by schoolwork, so I could enjoy myself too. I still can't figure out if something significant was happening in the city or if tourist season has just officially started, because the streets were PACKED on friday night. This might also be because I don't frequent the Red Light District on Fridays or Kalverstraat on Saturdays and never see the groups, but it was so overwhelming! Oh well, I'll just keep enjoying my little neighborhood.
Saturday was a huge day for the girls but it actually passed incredibly slow. This was so nice, as we fit in everything we could have wanted to. They trekked off to the Anne Frank Huis while I stayed behind and met them there a little later. We then went to Pancakes! for a big breakfast. While there, the sun started to peek out and the day transformed into something out of a dream! It got really warm and happy, just for us. After a canal photo shoot, we walked around the nine streets, picked up matching bracelets from Young Label Atelier and then headed to Bloemenmarkt, the flower market. I had actually never been. Alison and Andrea bought cute wooden tulips there, but the real flowers looked nice too.
2/3 girls at the flower market!
We headed to East Amsterdam where I dragged them into Jacob Hooy & Co, a somewhat holistic store that sells tons of licorice. We all tried some and the girls tried to be nice about the taste. I still picked up a little bag, and for the most part it was yummy. To get that taste out of their mouths, I took them to Ijschuypje, the best ice cream chain in Amsterdam, and we explored Nieuwmarkt. Since it was a beautiful day, we walked all the way home, down my favorite Haarlemmerdijk, and then camped in Westerpark for a while and enjoyed the sun.
We decided that a picnic for dinner was the best option, and gathered yummy food from the grocery store and headed down to Vondelpark. It was also incredibly busy, probably because it was a Saturday and the weather had taken a turn for the better. We ate good food, laughed, watched birds, saw ducklings, and then trekked back. The girls had to get up early for their flight, but we still went to Bloemenbar and got Vlaamse fries afterwards. It was a long, but perfect, day.
Perhaps the silliest part of the trip was remembering that we will all be seeing each other this coming weekend in Barcelona. That made our trip light-hearted, knowing this wasn't goodbye for a few more months. I can't describe how nice it was to be with such great friends and able to discuss all of our times abroad after coming from the same place. What a great weekend!
For added fun, here are the macarons Alison brought from Laduree, a famous bakery in Paris!
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It's sooo super easy to be hard on ourselves. But it takes some serious discipline to practice self love.
As a solopreneur who doesn't know everything, I definitely spend a great deal of time breathing deep to let these disempowering thoughts flutter away. This is a critical life skill for each of us, especially when you have a dream.
Dreams are super fragile. We have to be fearless in protecting them.
Sometimes friends and family cannot make that bold stretch with you. And that's ok.
You are the key to fan your inner flame and keep going. You are what gives it life. We each have a story to live and tell.
Part of our human experience is to move forward, to be the container for what is sacredly placed within. There will be ups & downs.
Times where you feel the container is glass, ready to shatter (sometimes at the hand of others… sometimes to the notorious me, myself, & i).
Yup, I get those moments. Sometimes our inner voice is the one that does the most damage.
But be gentle with yourself. It's the only way to move through that energy. Love yourself. Celebrate every single win that comes your way.
Learn this over & over. Rinse, repeat.
To keep your dreams alive, be relentless. Keep them safe. Be extra selective with who you share them with.
What you hold is so very precious. Realize that with all your heart and soul. Be this for your dreams.
Hands down, I'm a work in progress. Next time I'm jotting something in my planner and mean thoughts pop up, I'll catch myself, take a deep breath and reconnect.
You're exactly where you are meant to be. With a story perfectly tailored to you. You have purpose and a place here. So give yourself the love and elbow room to do what you came here to do in this lifetime. Practicing self love along the way just helps get you there.
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Q and A with brand founder Darrell Wilson...
What made you want to create your own home fragrance line?
"I've always been inspired by scent. Just as some people find music, or the taste of a particular meal would evoke memories, for me the sense of smell has a powerful effect in conjuring nostalgia. The earthiness of a tomato plant transports me to my Grampa's greenhouse, the hit of campfire smoke takes me back to family holidays under canvas. I think scent can be a beautiful way to recapture the happy times.
In my past career within the retail industry I worked for big fragrance brands which taught me some of the foundations of creating fragrance stories and I wanted to take that further by developing my own brand, marrying my love of scent and travel."
How do you go about creating the specific scents?
"For us, the memory or story always comes first, and we set about curating the fragrance blend to capture it. For example, we always knew we wanted to evoke that feeling of driving down Route 1 and exploring Big Sur, and spent a long time finding the right blend of oils to take us back there. Recreating the essence of where the shoreline meets the forest which Highway 1 cuts through, it took us a while!"
Tell us about your favourite travel destinations?
"I got my first camera when I was 8 years old, and seeking out new places to experience and photograph has been a passion since then. North America and particularly the National Parks has been a big part of our travels in recent years. Our Wilderness scent is inspired by some of those great moments of just being alone in the woods. The feeling of escaping the everyday is my passion, be it on a glacier in Iceland, or lost in the crowds of Mexico City."
Which is your personal favourite scent?
"It's too hard to pick! They all serve different moods or occasions. I like to burn Big Sur to feel energised, Mulholland Drive is saved for more laconic evenings with friends sharing a cocktail. Birdsong works great on summer evenings, but in the depths of dark winter I like to use it to take me back to the halcyon days too! Hebrides of course transports me back to my magical homeland."
What's your main hope when someone buys a Lost In Scent product?
"I hope that when they burn one of our candles they can be taken away with their own memories of travel, or good times. That sense of continuing to enjoy the journey, or feel inspired to take a new one. Each candle comes with a 'travel ticket' giving you a little extra. We've curated a Spotify playlist for each scent to immerse you even further. It's also important to us that our products look beautiful in the home too and we hope it sits pretty wherever you burn it."
Where do you see the Lost In Scent journey taking you next?
We're working hard on expanding our scent line. This includes a new size of candle and small batch scents that take our storytelling further. We are refining new journeys via our scents for Spring and Summer 2019. In the future we would love to offer lifestyle products that enhance the scent journey along with online content that satisfies our customers wanderlust and sense of adventure.


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Under Armour, Inc. (NYSE:UAA)- Stocks Rallying on Investment Valuation: General Mills (NYSE:GIS)
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Under Armour, Inc. Class A Comm (NYSE:UAA) keeps its position active in context of investors' investment valuation, price per shares knock down -1.86% to $31.67 with volume of 3.4 Million.
Valuation of Investment
Looking forward to the ratio analysis, the co has price to earnings ratio of 46.97, which is indicating if firm is fluctuating between 15 to 25 than its lies on average position; but sometimes if it's under this value some experts consider it as undervalue security. Looking on other side, Forward Price to Earnings ratio of UAA persists on 46.84. The firm has price to earnings growth of 2.33, which is a valuation metric for determining relative trade-off among price of a stock. Slightly noticeable ratio of firm is current ratio, which is standing at 2.40.
Moving toward other technical indicators, stock is wondering in considerable region as it has 20 days moving average of 0.90% and struggles for 50 days moving average of buoyant run is -5.19%. The firm presented substantial 200-days simple moving average of -17.97%. Taking notice on average true range by J. Welles Wilder, it was 0.94. It is useful indicator for the long-term investors to monitor.
Waking on tracing line of previous stocks, General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS) also making a luring appeal, share price swings at $62.87 with percentage change of -1.36% in most recent trading session. The firm attains price to earnings ratio of 23.20 and its current ratio stands at 0.80. The price to current year EPS has 40.60%. To see more absolute value, taking notice on its price to next year's EPS that cloud be 10.17%, according to Thomson Reuter. The co has dividend yield of 3.01% that is also considered as effective indicator. To see the ratio analysis, the debt to equity ratio appeared as 1.81 for seeing its liquidity position.
Always volatility measures make charm for active trader; price volatility of stock was 1.60% for a week and 1.33% for a month. The price volatility's Average True Range for 14 days was 0.98. On these bases, analysts would recommend this stock as an "Active Spinning Stocks." GIS's institutional ownership was registered as 70.20% while insider ownership was 0.40%. The firm attains analyst recommendation of 2.80 on scale of 1-5 with week's performance of 4.44%.
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Stocks Turns High on Retreated Views: Under Armour, Inc. (NYSE:UAA), G-III Apparel Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:GIII)
Stocks Shining Bright on Wall Street: General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS), Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE:FLO)
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Having a teenage daughter and a demanding job keeps Sandy Carter Templeman, 57, busy every day — but not so busy that she forgets her diabetes management.
Templeman, a Portland, Ore., resident, says she's found ways to manage both a hectic schedule and type 2 diabetes. "I made the choice to change the way I live," she says.
Templeman was diagnosed with diabetes in 2000, the same year she adopted her daughter, Angelina. "My sedentary lifestyle, my high-stress job, and poor food choices made me a textbook case for diabetes," she says. "When you have a child come into your life, you want to be a good role model. I wanted to be healthy and positive and a fun mom for her to grow up with."
Managing Diabetes at Work
Templeman's daily diabetes management strategy starts the minute she gets out of bed. Workout clothes are the first things she puts on in the morning. That way, she's not tempted to skip her morning gym workout and head to work instead. She shares a healthy breakfast with her daughter, drops her off at school, and then goes to the gym for an hour.
Once at work as an adoption counselor, Templeman takes every opportunity to add more physical activity to her day. She parks her car farther away from the door, walks over to talk with co-workers rather than emailing them, and takes the stairs instead of the elevator.
When lunchtime comes, Templeman eats a healthy meal she's brought from home. It's usually leftovers from the previous night's healthy dinner, or something simple such as a salad or half of a turkey sandwich. "It's healthy eating, and it's a lot cheaper to bring my lunch than buying it every day," she says.
Choosing Healthy Snacks
Snacks are another important part of her daily diabetes management routine. Templeman keeps healthy snacks at work, and when she gets home in the evening, she'll often have a light snack before dinner, such as a piece of fruit and string cheese or hummus with pita crackers.
"That's a tough time for me, that 4 o'clock hour," she says. "That's a good time to go to the wrong foods."
But planned healthy snacking is a good strategy, says Don Kain, a certified diabetes educator at Oregon Health & Sciences University. "It's not a requirement if people can eat every 4 to 5 hours, but if a meal is delayed, a healthy snack is a good idea," he says.
Staying Active All Day
Templeman's late afternoon often involves driving her 14-year-old daughter to sports or dance class. "She's a pretty active kid, which is great for me because it keeps me moving, too," she says.
Then she completes her day with a neighborhood walk with friends, which usually lasts about a half an hour. She also tries to stay active even when watching TV, popping up during commercials to do some quick chores.
That's an average workday, but Templeman says her daily diabetes management actually begins on the weekend. She and her husband plan the week's meals and do the grocery shopping to avoid the temptation for bad eating that comes from an empty fridge and poor meal planning. Then her husband helps out by cutting up fresh fruit and veggies for ready-made snacks that are easily available.
A healthy meal plan doesn't need to include special foods. Eating a balanced diet that avoids unhealthy ingredients, like sugar and saturated fat, will not only help control your condition and reduce diabetes symptoms, but it can also give you other benefits, such as reducing risk for heart disease.
Forming New Good Habits
If you're newly diagnosed with diabetes, don't try to incorporate these kinds of lifestyle changes all at once, Templeman says. "You're making a lifetime commitment, and it can take a while to change an old bad habit into a new good one," she says. "Take little bites out of it. I think people get too enthusiastic and try to change everything all at once, and it's hard to maintain it."
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David and Goliath
Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Paperback, Spanish (1/19/2021)
Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia.
In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwellchallenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks.
Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms—all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity.
In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers—The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw—David and Goliath draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.
Praise For David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants…
"Truly intriguing and inspiring, especially when Gladwell discusses 'desirable difficulties'....Gladwell's account of the journey of Dr. Emil 'Jay' Freireich is unforgettable." ---Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times
"Provocative....David and Goliath is a lean, consuming read....The book's most crafty, engaging chapter ties together the Impressionist movement and college choices to highlight the fact that gaining admission to elite institutions, which we typically perceive as an advantage, is no guarantee of success." ---John Wilwol, San Francisco Chronicle
"As always, Gladwell's sweep is breathtaking and thought-provoking....I've long admired Gladwell's work." ---Joe Nocera, New York Times
"David and Goliath readers will travel with colorful characters who overcame great difficulties and learn fascinating facts about the Battle of Britain, cancer medicine and the struggle for civil rights, to name just a few topics upon which Mr. Gladwell's wide-ranging narrative touches. This is an entertaining book." ---Christopher F. Chabris, Wall Street Journal
"Fascinating....Gladwell is a master of synthesis. This perennially bestselling author prides himself on radical re-thinking and urges the rest of us to follow suit." ---Heller McAlpin, Washington Post
"What propels the book, like all of Gladwell's writing, is his intoxicating brand of storytelling. He is the master of mixing familiar elements with surprise counter-intuitions, and then seasoning with a sprinkling of scientific evidence....Gladwell is a master craftsman, an outlier amongst authors." ---Rob Brooks, Huffington Post
"Gladwell sells books by the millions because he is masterful at explaining how the world works---the power of critical mass, the arbitrariness of success, etc.---packaging his ideas in fun, accessible, and poignant vignettes." ---Lionel Beehner, USA Today
"Gladwell's most provocative book yet. David and Goliath challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, drawing upon history, psychology, and powerful narrative talent to rethink how we view the world around us and how to deal with the challenges life throws at us." ---Susanne Jaffe, Columbus Dispatch
"The bestselling author behind the inventive Outliers, Blink, and The Tipping Point is back with another thought provoking theory that fascinates, entertains, and informs. He gives underdogs their due this time, challenging everything readers believe about facing-and conquering-life's stumbling blocks, using the 'real' story of David and Goliath and more to make his point." ---Celeste Williams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"Gladwell has made a career out of questioning conventional wisdom, and here he examines the allegedly unlikely triumph of the weak over the mighty and shows it's not so unlikely after all. 4 stars." ---Judith Newman, People Magazine
"The 50-year-old Canadian is a superstar, the most popular staff writer on The New Yorker and a hero in the frequent-flier lounge where journalism, social science, business management, and self-help hang out....It's a good story and he's got plenty more." ---Jeff Baker, The Oregonian
"Pop culture pundit Malcolm Gladwell is an idea blender, mixing concepts from vastly different sources (everything from business to science to the Bible) to produce new ways of seeing the world." ---Barbara O'Dair, Reader's Digest
"Engrossing.... Gladwell's singular gift is animating the experience of his subjects. He has an uncanny ability to simplify without being simplistic: clean and vivid Strunk and White prose in the service of peerless storytelling." ---David Takami, Seattle Times
"Contemporary society can't escape history when Malcolm Gladwell explains the world as he does with David and Goliath."---Jane Henderson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell explores the dynamics that inform and effect our everyday lives. By analyzing the Biblical account of the clash between David and Goliath, Gladwell presents a bold new interpretation of the lessons we should apply from it." ---Today Show
Little, Brown and Company, 9780316204361, 320pp.
Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point,Blink, Outliers,What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and Broken Record, where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included in the Time 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy'sTop Global Thinkers.
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Vacuums aren't just for cleaning carpets and floors anymore. There are many surprising things that you can clean using your vacuum, but never knew you could! Miele HomeCare Collection vacuums come with some amazing attachments, including two additional accessories: the Universal Dusting Brush and the Flexible Crevice tool. Each attachment can be connected directly to the handle as well as to the telescopic wand to get that closer clean you've been looking for. So now you can use your vacuum to clean your home from top to bottom, and banish dust and dirt from every nook and cranny. It's sure to become your favorite household cleaning tool.
Your sofa and chairs are likely to be used more than any other piece of furniture in your home. They can become an unwanted haven for dirt, crumbs and pet hair. It's easy to clean your sofa and chairs using the upholstery tool. To clean under the cushions where crumbs and dirt can gather, use the flexible crevice tool.
When to Clean: Give it a good vacuum weekly.
The upholstery tool can also be used to clean your mattresses, which can hold not only dust, but dust mites that can cause allergies and asthma. To freshen your mattress, sprinkle it with baking soda and vacuum after 10 minutes.
When to Clean: Vacuum both sides of your mattress as well as your box spring once every six months.
The dusting brush is a handy tool that can be used to gently clean delicate surfaces like lamp shades, wicker baskets, fabric bins, and silk plants and flowers. The soft bristles will help to gently loosen any surface dust, while the vacuum pulls away the dust.
When to Clean: It's a good idea to clean these delicate surfaces every 1 to 2 months to remove dust, pet hair and cobwebs.
Cleaning curtains is a breeze when you use your vacuum. There is no need to take them off of the rod for cleaning if you use the universal dusting brush. Simply vacuum your curtains from top to bottom, allowing the natural bristles to do the work for you!
When to Clean: You should clean your curtains once a month to keep dust buildup and allergens at bay.
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When to Clean: Cleaning your fans once a month will help keep dust and allergens from being dispersed around your home when fans are in use.
One of the most forgotten areas to clean are those areas that we don't really think about, like our home's closets and drawers. You can easily remove any dust and debris that can accumulate in the nooks and crannies of your drawers and closets using the crevice tool. This tool makes cleaning tight spaces a breeze! You can also use the crevice tool to clean the insides of kitchen cabinets and drawers, as well as bookcases, entertainment centers and desk drawers.
When to Clean: These areas should be cleaned every couple of months.
The most important thing in your home that should be vacuumed often is your dryer's lint trap. Lint is highly combustible, and can easily cause a fire. While cleaning your lint trap in between uses of your dryer can help deter fires, it's a good idea to clean your dryer's lint trap compartment thoroughly as well. To clean this area, simply remove the lint trap from your dryer and set aside. Attach the flexible crevice tool to your vacuum and use it to clean the area thoroughly, removing any lint or debris that may have bypassed the lint trap. The flexible crevice tool's length enables you to clean difficult to access, narrow crevices like the lint trap compartment of your dryer, and it can also be used to clean your dryer's vent hose.
When to Clean: Be sure to clean this once a month.
Using your vacuum to remove dust and debris from every part of your home will help keep allergies at bay and leave your home smelling and feeling fresh and clean all year round!
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Much like Game of Thrones, winter is here and we're big fans of taking refuge from the cold, wind and rain in a cosy pub. Now, what constitutes a cosy pub? Decent pints, a friendly atmosphere and some good company can always help, but in our opinion, a roaring fire can make a huge difference.
It definitely beats freezing your arse off while wishing that you were anywhere else.
Here's how the Top 10 looks. Had a pint in any of these places?


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The New Moon Is Entering Aquarius – Here's What That Means
BY Emmalea Russo
IN Living
Two minds are better than one, and four minds are better than two. This is one of the Aquarian mantras. We shoot lightning-quick into the future perfect when we put our heads together and operate as a mind-meld, one collective Aquarian unit. Along the same lines as this, and on the heels of MLK day, is the idea that we need to walk together – to do it for love and to define love as something having to do not only with personal feelings but also with groupthink and humanity. Let's enter Aquarius season through the new moon portal.
Anyone else have trouble sleeping last night? There's that extra whir of wintry (or summery, if you're in the southern hemisphere) air. Aquarius blasts us with something mega-electric, futuristic, humanistic, and revelatory. Aquarius' rep is the water bearer which confuses some people, but that water is meant for something. The water in the trippy vessel which pours out in electric zigzags is for washing away the past and catapulting us into the unknown. Farewell, sentimentality. Adieu, hometown blues. Aquarian waters want us to ditch whatever mechanism keeps making us look back – whatever's preventing us from clearing a path for a solid future.
Today's new moon has something to do with hitting the refresh button on your brain. What can you wash away? It's like washing your face with cold water after a night of partying. It's when the sun streams in and accidentally shines a light on whatever you don't feel like dealing with. Harsh, necessary, electric. And then: that cool, detached electronica after you've set yourself free. I once drove through the Mojave desert blasting Gorillaz after leaving some guy. It's like that.
The Aquarius new moon is the great gift of the Capricorn season hangover. The Moon, Sun, and Mercury hang out together in Aquarius today. Mercury lends the new moon a microphone – so we can all translate our freakiest, most Aquarian ideas using Mercury's linguistic skills. Write, speak, set ideals and intentions for the next two weeks. Enter the portal with an open mind, ready to be refreshed.
Meanwhile, Venus and Neptune dream together in Pisces – so conscious, dream-weaving, oceanic love is on the menu. Neptune infuses Venus with hits of higher octave LOVE from the outer reaches of the galaxy. Translation: be nice. Better yet: be good. Better still: just be.
Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn remain the hard-partying holy trinity of Capricorn. Together, they restructure our social systems and remind us that lots of things must get torn up from the root in order for us to collectively elevate. May the patriarchy feel these ancient reverbs and tumble. It's holding a long base note. Just keep dancing.
Lastly, Mars is in Sagittarius, adding a dose of fire to the zodiacal mix. Mars in Sag is the most bombastic warrior who wants to fight for the big picture world peace stuff so long as his ego can get out of the way for a sec. The Sagittarian points up towards the heavens, so the sky vibrations are very we're not in Kansas anymore and whoa, so like, is this the dawning of the Age of Aquarius?
Between now and February 8, when the moon is full in Leo – build something with an eye toward the future. And first, define "future." These next two weeks are a cooler kind of galactic scene – the glacier that melts so that we can see what's underneath. The revolutionary at her most irreverent. Let us be the emotional technicians of our lives and build something made of Love and Vision.
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Emmalea Russo is a writer and astrologer. Her work appears in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Cosmopolitan, The Thirlby, Los Angeles Review of Books, Hyperallergic, and elsewhere and her books are G (2018) and Wave Archive (2019). She has been a writer-in-residence at 18th Street Arts Center (LA) and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (NY). Emmalea writes and podcasts on astrology and art at The Avant-Galaxy. Book an astrology reading here or follow her on Instagram: @emmaleaXrusso
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Meet the Soloist: Emmanuel Bach
10/03/2020 /in News /by London Firebird Orchestra
Virtuoso Emmanuel Bach describes his mission as communicating through music and to bring music to wider audiences. He will be doing just that on 22 March when he performs Mendelssohns's famous Violin Concerto….
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Tell us a little about yourself as a musician…
Photographs of Emmanuel Bach by Chris Christodoulou
Growing up with music in the home, I found my feet through having a pianist mother, taking lessons with a Russian teacher Natasha Boyarsky, for many years, including studies at Oxford, Royal College London, and later studying with Radu Blidar.
My mission is communicating through music and to bring music to wider audiences. Symphony, opera, chamber music, and other art genres have long brought me interest and helped me to develop as a musician.
What are your career highlights to date?
Winning the Royal Over-Seas League String Competition and working in performances and masterclasses with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Vengerov.
Do you see yourself as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician or all three?
My focus is solo and chamber music, which presently involves performing concertos, giving recitals and playing in duos.
What about your future ambitions in music?
To maintain interest in and support for the arts, by bringing music to wide audiences and communities who can benefit. To that end, I aim to perform more internationally, and hope to support interest in some more unusual composers. I also look forward to more work encouraging music-making in young people and communities here and abroad.
What is the value of London Firebird to younger professional musicians like yourself?
Firebird offers a fantastic opportunity for soloists to play with an orchestra of young professionals and students in a prominent venue, working together to perform for a committed audience.
The First Cuckoo: Nature Unwrapped
Sunday 22 March, 6.30 pm
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
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Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo
Delius Spring Summer Night on the River
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Mozart The Queen of the Night Arias: Der Hölle Rache & O zittre nicht (from Magic Flute)
Haydn Symphony no. 83 in G minor, Hob.I:83 (La Poule)
Conductor George Jackson
Violin Emmanuel Bach
Coloratura Samantha Hay
This concert has been organised in collaboration with the London Chamber Music Society
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Tag: Jamal Khashoggi
Saturday, July 16th 2022 - 10:15 UTC
Khashoggi case mentioned during Biden talks in Saudi Arabia
The murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi took center stage when US President Joseph Biden and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) met during one of the stops of the Democratic leader's crusade to build bridges across the region.
Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 10:20 UTC
Five get death sentences in Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi's assassination
Five people have been sentenced to die by Saudi Arabia's judiciary system while the other three were handed down jail terms for the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Chief Prosecutor Shalaan al-Shalaan announced Monday.
Thursday, December 12th 2019 - 03:35 UTC
Greta youngest ever winner of Time Magazine's POY Award
Swedish climate change teenage activist Greta Thunberg was chosen Wednesday as Time magazine's 2019 Person of the Year (POY) award, the New York-based publication announced, thus becoming the youngest person ever to receive the accolade.
Wednesday, April 10th 2019 - 09:27 UTC
Saudi's oil company Aramco plans to borrow US$ 12bn in its debut bond sale
Saudi Aramco is planning to borrow US$12 billion in its debut bond sale as the oil giant pulls off one of the most oversubscribed debt deals of all time. Investor orders for the dollar bonds reached an excess of US$100 billion at the peak on Tuesday, according to market experts
Friday, December 14th 2018 - 08:52 UTC
US Senate blames Saudi prince Salman for Khashoggi's death and votes to stop military aid in Yemen
The US Senate has voted to withdraw US military aid for Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen and to blame the kingdom's crown prince for the murder of a journalist. The historic vote is the first time any chamber of US Congress has agreed to pull US forces from a military conflict under the 1973 War Powers Act.
Wednesday, November 28th 2018 - 12:57 UTC
Saudi Prince arrives in BA as preparations for G-20 Summit gain momentum
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman arrived in Buenos Aires at around 7 am on Wednesday and, thus, became the first international dignatary to touch Argentine soil for the G-20 Summit.
Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 14:41 UTC
HRW wants Saudi Crown Prince tried in Argentina over Khashoggi, Yemen crimes
As Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is about to arrive in Argentina for the upcoming G-20 Summit, a US-based human rights NGO Monday filed a request before Buenos Aires Federal Judge Ariel Lijo that the Universal Justice criteria be applied to him as intellectual author of the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, October 2 last, and for crimes against humanity in Yemen.
Wednesday, November 21st 2018 - 09:28 UTC
US Senators demand from Trump a second investigation into Khashoggi's death
United States President Donald Trump has been asked to ascertain whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman played a role in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Republican and Democratic leaders of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday sent a letter demanding a second investigation.
Khashoggi syndrome: Crude prices at their lowest since 2017; fears of further market volatility
Crude prices hit their lowest level since 2017 on Tuesday, sliding further into a bear market after President Donald Trump signaled the US would not punish Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, over the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate.
Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman will attend G20 summit in Buenos Aires
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will attend the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires later this month, Saudi media reported Monday, potentially bringing him face-to-face with world leaders from the United States, Turkey, Canada and European countries for the first time since the slaying of Jamal Khashoggi.


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Welcome to Flash Pulp, episode four hundred and forty-nine.
The rear door of the chugging hatchback opened with a hushed click, and Tori Garza, thirty-eight, felt her Honda shift and tilt under the mountainous stranger's settling weight. She'd known something like this visit was coming, yet the newcomer had caught her sitting in the driveway as she waited for her two children to finish filling their pockets with electronics, gum, and beloved formed-plastic figures.
The invaders eyes' were covered in the thick black plastic of a style that wouldn't have been out of place on a blind man, and his brow was lost beneath the low-hung brim of his maroon flat cap.
Across the street, in front of the Mitners' empty house – Peggy being at work and Anthony having taken their little ones out for an afternoon of overpriced pizza and ancient videogames at the local Chuck E. Cheese – stood a second intruder. Though he too wore tinted glasses, his bald head was exposed to the sun and his dark jacket a little too tight to be buttoned without making the bulge beneath his left armpit noticeable.
"If you're here to murder me then get it over with before the kids come out, please," said Tori, but, though a cold blade did come up to touch the side of her neck, she received an answer even more horrifying than that which she'd expected.
"You won't get away with this," she replied. His brow stiffened at her tone. The fear he'd heard before placing the weapon to her neck was suddenly gone – now that the mother knew she herself was in no immediate danger, she seemed calm. Was she as cold as his client, who'd employed the pair to murder his own children?
Mr. Backseat wouldn't have called the chill along his spine fear – he might have laughed it off as something like professional admiration if he'd thought on it at all – but his attention was on his partner's slow progress.
His gloved hand tightened its grip on the knife's handle nonetheless.
He cleared his throat. "I'm sorry, but YOU won't get away with this. You're going to claim two large men did it while you were forced to sit and watch, but there will be no prints, no unsightly signs of violence. No one is going to believe you. Better yet, if you resist or attempt to stop us, I get to rough you up a little. I hold a degree in applying self-inflicted injuries and a doctorate in ensuring only those witnesses I want are on hand.
As the fisherman expects a tug on his line when he knows a potential meal is nibbling at his bait, the cap-wearing man instinctively expected some physical response – a twitch, knuckles whitening on the steering wheel, perhaps a slow move to unbuckle her belt – but he received no such satisfaction.
Instead Tori simply sat and watched the front door.
The intended murderer knocked twice, ignoring the bell entirely, and there was a pause both in the car and upon the stoop as he awaited some reaction from inside.
It was Luther, five, who answered. He was small for his age, his brown eyes too big for his tiny face. He might be a heartbreaker someday, if he lived that long, but he currently reminded his mother of nothing so much as one of the characters from the saccharine mangas his older sister, Selina, obsessed over.
Those within the car could not hear the transaction between child and intruder. The man in the backseat braced his arm and tightened his legs, his reflexes working to keep the situation under control should the boy's mother attempt to run, scream, or otherwise provide some warning to the too-friendly kindergartener.
The killer's lips moved into a wide grin as he offered his hello, and Luther's response seemed short and welcoming. Reaching out a smooth-skinned hand, he wrapped his fingers around two of the visitor's thick digits, then, with little more than a glance at his waiting mother, showed the stranger into the house.
"I'm fine," answered Tori. Her words floated out on a breeze, as if she were instead more concerned with formulating a mental grocery list or what movie to rent to fill up her newly-single evening.
"Are you?" asked the professional, his occupational pride pushing him to press his weapon further into her flesh. A single droplet of blood drained along its stainless steel edge.
"Are YOU?" replied the woman, her eyes finally coming to focus on the black plastic across the bridge of his nose. It seemed to him in that moment as if she could see through the tint as clearly as the windshield before her.
That was when his plan began to fall apart.
It began with music – familiar, yet he couldn't place it. Behind his sunglasses, the goon stiffened.
Every orifice of the house was forced wide. Screens were popped from their frames and doors were left swinging to the wind. Even through the Honda's glass the thick rhythm of Casio keyboard and guitar began to overwhelm the hardened intruder.
As human forms began to splash from the home's now gaping mouths, the ruffian's hand, distracted, slipped away from its tight position against his victim's skin.
Men, women, children – even a dog in a custom-crafted uniform – began to tumble onto the grass, their landings quickly turning into an ongoing frolick. Some took each other's hands and formed rings, dancing to the thick percussion of the tune. The shorter among them ran circles in and out of such gatherings, and the tallest took to a hand waving dance that bordered on a war strut.
Each one wore a small paper sign set upon a string about their neck.
Two dozen figures turned into a count of nearly a hundred, and finally the man in the black nylon jacket reappeared. He was held aloft, his arms and legs bound to one of Tori's kitchen chairs, his sunglasses lost somewhere within the shadows of the darkened home.
Luthor led the parade that carried him onto the lawn, his arm flailing with a wooden spoon counting out the music.
The man in the backseat was suddenly certain that he was, in fact, suffering an aneurysm and end-of-life hallucination, or that his youthful indiscretions with high-powered narcotics had finally come back to haunt him with an atomic-level flashback.
It was neither case, but his trepidation was distraction enough to allow Tori to unbuckle and slip from her seat, joining her son in his victory march.
Though she wore the plain jeans and pink hoodie she'd intended to sport at the mall, Selina was there as well, her own oversized disguise bouncing about on her capering head. Otherwise each shape – tall, small, round, or slender – wore the same outfit: A cheap black suit and a rubber mask displaying a pasty face sporting large black mutton chops.
Two weeks previous the despondent mother had wept upon her keyboard as she crafted her plea: Would The Achievers help in such a mundane, yet so threatening, situation? She had read Internet whispers that the group might, but she had not even truly believed in their existence until the first of the volunteer vigilantes had arrived: A college student of twenty-three, her mask out of sight and a sleeping bag beneath her arm.
What had been a slow moving and lonely divorce, filled with threatening late night phone calls and tears carefully hidden from her children, had then turned into an unexpected two-week sleepover. The basement floor had become a game of slumbering Tetris, the laundry room an industrial operation cheerily handled by more hands than Tori had ever housed previously, the oven a constant source of handcrafted stews and homemade breads.
Without warning the assailant still seated in the Honda recalled where he had encountered the music before: It was the extended theme to a show his father had watched religiously, Law & Order.
The sirens he heard soon after were not from the soundtrack, however, but by then the dancing mob had disappeared, leaving two duct-taped monsters, a memory stick containing Mr. Backseat's unknowingly recorded blatherings, and a story the police would never believe.


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Wednesday 02 Dec 2020 @ 11:25
techUK
Over £20 million boost to digital adoption and business support provided by the Scottish Government
The funding will provide financial incentives and expert advice to support businesses to invest in digital.
The Scottish Government has announced an over £20 million funding package to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) adopt digital technology in order to improve productivity, increase resilience, and create new market opportunities.
Of the £23.6 million announced £11.8 million will go to help businesses adopt digital technology and boost their digital capability, while a further £10 million will be provided to bolster financial incentives and provide expert advice to support SMEs to invest in digital solutions.
A further £800,000 will be given to Highlands and Islands Enterprise to help its Digital Enablement Grant to reach more SMEs, while the Data Lab will receive £1 million to help businesses invest in advanced technologies like data analytics and artificial intelligence.
techUK has called for new grant funding to be made available to support the uptake of digital technologies. This is particularly important at a time when due to the impact of COVID-19 budgets are stretched, but businesses see the opportunity to utilise the power of digital technology to increase their productivity.
A recent survey by Sage found that while 71% of SMEs in the UK say investing in technology will increase their profitability and create jobs, 1 in 2 said that they would be unable to do so due to severe cash constraints.
Importantly the support offered also ensures financial assistance for expert advice. This will be vital as it is by using a combination of technologies and digital services to transform how a business operates that delivers the real benefits. A Lloyds analysis found that businesses using a combination of cloud-based IT systems, online accounting software and digital training tools to develop new products and services had on average £262,000 higher annual turnover than those using none.
This is an area where progress still has to be made as despite 65% of businesses in Scotland using new technology to find new methods of communication, just 18% had used new tech to find new ways of selling, and just 16% had utilised tech to develop new products or services. According to research by the Fraser of Allander Institute.
The funding increase provided by the Scottish Government is therefore welcome progress to supporting businesses reach their potential and will help remove financial barriers preventing SMEs from adopting and fully utilising digital technologies. This will not just boost productivity growth among SMEs but also support the wider economic recovery.
The announcement by the Scottish Government can be found here.
Channel website: http://www.techuk.org/
Original article link: https://www.techuk.org/resource/over-20-million-boost-to-digital-adoption-and-business-support-provided-by-the-scottish-government.html
£3m to fund new wave of Artificial Intelligence for the Military
techUK members have won funding as part of the DASA Intelligent Ship Phase 2 competition.
Defence Digital and techUK publish joint list of signatories to collaboration Code of Practice
Following the recent launch of a new Code of Practice for collaboration, techUK and Defence Digital are delighted to share a joint list of MOD and industry signatories to the code.
Avon and Somerset Police Proof of Concept (PoC)
Guest Blog: Phillip Ridley, Senior Business Development Consultant at 1Spatial and 'Interoperability in Policing' Working Group member shares his recent work with Avon & Somerset Police in the world of spatial data.
Ofcom report: Technology Futures
The UK's communications regulator Ofcom has published a new report, Technology Futures, that shines a spotlight on the innovative, emerging technologies that could shape the communications industry in the future.
5G Create trials to utilise Open RAN
The UK Government's 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme has announced the latest projects to receive funding for innovative new uses of 5G, following the 5G Create competition.
Digital Ethics Summit 2020 Day One- Lessons to be learnt from 2020
Summary of day one at techUK's Digital Ethics Summit 2020.
Digital Ethics Summit 2020 Day Two- Moving Forward in 2021
Summary of day two at techUK's Digital Ethics Summit 2020.
Contribute a case study to techUK's landmark digital twins report!
techUK is aiming to kick-off 2021 in style with the release of a landmark report 'Unlocking value across the UK's digital twin ecosystem'.
'An Hour to Skill' campaign launched by Government and supported by business to boost job prospects
The Government has launched a new campaign to help more people boost their skills from home, support their mental wellbeing and help build a better working future.


If now, after a while in the shade, external hard drives are regular part of peripherals of computers, both desktop as a portable, the NAS will do it inside of very little. Synology It is helping it with its new Disk Station models for home and small business.
The last to arrive was the Synology DS409, available with 4 Bay that can accommodate each hard disks up to 2 TB, with a total of 8 TB in the system if we use RAID 0 or JBOD configurations.
The DS409 is equipped with a processor 1.2 GHz, 256 MB DDRII RAM, one Gigabit LAN, two USB 2.0 ports port and an eSata port.
The energy-saving It is an element that have worked with this team, getting less than 45 W consumption when the Synology DS409m work under normal conditions, counting also on standby in hibernation mode.
This station can connect hard drives both 3.5 and 2.5 inches, and in both cases we will have software Disk Station Manager 2.1. to manage them. This software allows us to different backup systems of security of the data, as well as to share files between platforms, acting as FTP server, or even as a corporate mail server. If we're Mac users, We can use this system with Time Machine.


A pressure injury, or bed sore, often shows up as a red, warm, tender area that does not go away, or as a blister that is filled with blood or clear fluid. If you have a bed sore upon admission or develop a bed sore, notify a member of your health-care team. Information on preventing bed sores and helping to heal them is available from your health-care team.


Asda is to invest at least £20 million into a partnership with food redistribution charities with the aim of helping more than one million people out of food poverty over the next three years.
The supermarket is to fund development of the distribution infrastructure used by FareShare and The Trussell Trust to make fresh food the norm in foodbanks.
Currently, both charities struggle to transport and store fresh food, which needs to be chilled, and means those using food banks are reliant on mainly tinned and packet foods.
The investment will also fund support services in food banks, such as debt counselling and job advice, allowing people to begin to get themselves out of food poverty.
The partnership will enable FareShare and The Trussell Trust to provide an additional 24 million meals every year, give 500,000 more people access to fresh food in the UK and help one million people get themselves out of food poverty over the next three years, Asda said.
In a blog post, Andy Murray, Asda's chief customer officer, said: "Right now in the UK, 8.4 million people are struggling to afford to eat. One in 10 people in the UK are missing meals to pay their bills - and one in four of those are children.
"And yet, four million tonnes of perfectly decent food is wasted each year in the UK.
"We simply cannot - and will not - accept food being wasted whilst people in our communities go hungry. We've listened to our customers and want to take on their challenge to fight hunger and create change."
Mark Ward, interim chief executive at The Trussell Trust, said: "Asda's investment means they can expand their reach and develop new projects bringing very real, tangible benefits to local communities and to anyone struggling with food insecurity in a way that simply has not been possible before."
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C&G Building Contractors were instructed by the DC Leisure Group to carry out a range of leisure centre refurbishment works at the Taro Centre in Petersfield, Hampshire. Due to the nature of the projects, careful logistical and environmental planning was necessary to ensure the leisure centre was able to remain fully operational throughout the duration of the works.
Installation of new showers in the changing rooms.
Refurbishment of whirlpool in main bathing area.
Floor and wall tiling in swimming and changing areas.
Replacement of existing below ground drainage to car park.
Refurbishment of the existing changing rooms.


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Q: sklearn C-SVC with iris dataset to get classes I am willing to use a SVM to predict the classes of the IRIS dataset of sklearn. Using WEKA I could get a 100% prediction using LibSVM. In Pyton, LibSVM seems to be implemented in SVR. So I tried to use SVR but the results I get are not classes (0, 1, 2) but numbers (result of the regression).
If I execute this code with same parameters as WEKA LibSVM:
import numpy
from sklearn import svm, datasets

# import some data to play with
iris = datasets.load_iris()
X = iris.data
y = iris.target
model = svm.libsvm.fit(kernel = 'rbf', svm_type=0, X=iris.data,
Y=iris.target.astype(numpy.float64), C=10, gamma = 10, epsilon = 0.01,     coef0=0, random_seed=0)
pred = svm.libsvm.predict(iris.data, *model)
pred = pred.astype(numpy.int)
print(pred)

I get the following result:
[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2
 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2
 2 1]

while WEKA will probably produce [ 0, ..., 0, 1, ... 1, 2, ..., 2]. I was wondering why I couldn't get the same results using the same parameters ?

A: You want to use SVC, not SVR, or a choice from among the other SVM classifiers.
What constraint do you have that forces you to use specifically libsvm? Can you not also use liblinear? I am not sure this matters though, since the support vector classifiers inherit from the abstract base class BaseLibSVM, meaning that SVC will also use libsvm by default.
It also looks like you can use the svm.libsvm subpackage if you like. There, even though the input data are treated as float64, the default mode is C_SVC, which means it will treat the float target values like they are class labels, and the predictions will be class labels.

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The higher end single hung windows are normally from a well-known manufacturer such as Pella, Andersen or Marvin, to name a few. They have a superior frame made of vinyl with a wooden interior, wood or steel and the glass will have foam insulation, an argon fill, be triple or double panes and the glass will also be low-E glass, which is energy efficient.
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While Sydney Seau, the daughter of late San Diego Chargers linebacker Junior Seau, wasn't given the opportunity to speak at her father's Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony Saturday, she did share her heartfelt speech with The New York Times.
Hall of Fame's rules prohibit family members from delivering speeches on behalf of deceased inductees, but after watching the following testimonial -- recorded in Sydney's hotel room in Canton, Ohio -- said rules should be reconsidered. Immediately.
"His athleticism and talent made him extraordinary enough to make it into the Hall, but it is his passion and heart that make him truly legendary and deserving of this tremendous honor," said Seau, who turned 22 on Friday.
"I know at times it seemed as if everything you accomplished in life wasn't enough, but today and every day since you held me in your arms for the first time, you weren't just enough; you were more than enough. In fact, you were everything," she said in her speech.
You can watch her entire speech in the player above.


Voyager 1 and 2 have been in space for 33 years and have traveled 11.5 billion and 9.5 billion miles respectively.
It was a threshold crossed in the deepest reaches of space: A spacecraft launched from Earth has now entered new and unexplored territory that may or may not be outside our solar system. A press release issued at 11:05 a.m. Wednesday morning by the American Geophysical Union noted that Voyager I had exited our solar system, sparking excitement in the scientific community.
NASA, which quickly denied the original report, sees nothing wrong with AGU's science, merely how it phrased its findings. "The headline on the press release seemed to go beyond the study," said Veronica MacGregor, spokeswoman for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). But not all that far beyond: Voyager 1 has been at the frontier of the solar system for a long time, and unlike borders on the Earth—which are clearly drawn and, even in terms of sea and sky, have firmly fixed airspace and coastal limits—the official edge of the solar system is a mystery. NASA and the AGU agree that two recent discoveries about changes in the charged particles surrounding Voyager 1 put it at the very doorstep of interstellar space. JPL scientists are waiting for a third indicator, regarding the direction of magnetic lines, before they will officially announce that Elvis has indeed left the building. Said JPL in a statement released at 2:01 p.m. ET.
What's not in dispute among any of the scientists is that the spacecraft is now, undeniably, in a new and unexplored region—pushing the reach of humanity farther than it's ever gone before. What we call that place is, in many respects, less important than the fact that we're there at all.
According to new scientific findings set for publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, Voyager I has pushed into the great unknown.
For years, scientists have speculated as to when Voyager would finally leave all traces of our sun behind — officially exiting the heliosphere, and entering the great undiscovered country beyond.
The original article has been updated to include an initial response from NASA.


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Q: CP violation from the Electroweak SU(2)$_{weak,flavor}$ by $\int \theta F \wedge F $ Question: Why there is NO Charge-Parity (CP) violation from a potential Theta term in the electroweak SU(2)$_{weak,flavor}$ sector by $\theta_{electroweak} \int F \wedge F$?
(ps. an explicit calculation is required.)

Background:
We know for a non-Abelian gauge theory, the $F \wedge F $ term is nontrivial and breaks $CP$ symmetry (thus break $T$ symmetry by $CPT$ theorem), which is this term:
$$
\int F \wedge F
$$
with a field strength $F=dA+A\wedge A$.
$\bullet$ SU(3)$_{strong,color}$ QCD:
To describe strong interactions of gluons (which couple quarks), we use QCD with gauge fields of non-Abelian SU(3)$_{color}$ symmetry. This extra term in the QCD Lagrangian:
$$
\theta_{QCD} \int G \wedge G =\theta_{QCD} \int d^4x G_{\mu\nu}^a \wedge \tilde{G}^{\mu\nu,a}
$$
which any nonzero $\theta_{QCD}$ breaks $CP$ symmetry. (p.s. and there we have the strong CP problem).
$\bullet$ Compare the strong interactions $\theta_{QCD,strong}$ to U(1)$_{em}$ $\theta_{QED}$: For U(1) electromagnetism, even if we have $\theta_{QED} \int F \wedge F$, we can rotate this term and absorb this into the fermion (which couple to U(1)$_{em}$) masses(?). For SU(3) QCD, unlike U(1) electromagnetism, if the quarks are not massless, this term of  $\theta_{QCD}$ cannot be rotated away(?) as a trivial $\theta_{QCD}=0$.
$\bullet$ SU(2)$_{weak,flavor}$ electro-weak:
To describe electroweak interactions, we again have gauge fields of non-Abelian SU(2)$_{weak,flavor}$symmetry. Potentially this extra term in the electroweak Lagrangian can break $CP$ symmetry (thus break $T$ symmetry by $CPT$ theorem):
$$
\theta_{electroweak} \int F \wedge F =\theta_{electroweak} \int d^4x F_{\mu\nu}^a \wedge \tilde{F}^{\mu\nu,a}
$$
here the three components gauge fields $A$ under SU(2) are: ($W^{1}$,$W^{2}$,$W^{3}$) or ($W^{+}$,$W^{-}$,$Z^{0}$) of W and Z bosons.
Question [again as the beginning]: We have only heard of CKM matrix in the weak SU(2) sector to break $CP$ symmetry. Why there is NO CP violation from a potential Theta term of an electroweak SU(2)$_{weak,flavor}$ sector $\theta_{electroweak} \int F \wedge F$? Hint: In other words, how should we rotate the $\theta_{electroweak}$ to be trivial $\theta_{electroweak}=0$? ps. I foresee a reason already, but I wish an explicit calculation is carried out. Thanks a lot!

A: Your question is riddled with ^'s in equations making it hard for me to understand the body of your question.  If I understand your question "why is there no weak isospin vacuum angle in analogy with the one in QCD?,"  then I can answer it easily:
Suppose we write that CP-odd term in the Lagrangian.  Then, to remove it, all you need to do is to look for a U(1) transformation of the fermion fields that triggers the anomaly in SU(2) of weak isospin [c.f. Fujikawa], but classically leaves the Lagrangian invariant.  In other words, we need to look for classical symmetries that are anomalously violated.  In the standard model, we have the vector baryon or lepton transformations.  So, just do a U(1) lepton transformation by just the right right amount, and the CP-violating term will go away.
What if the neutrinos are Majorana so that lepton transformations are no longer a classical symmetry?  No problem!  Just do a baryon transformation instead.  You can make the CP-odd term go away like that, too.


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Maurice Goldman (born 1 March 1933) is a French physicist and member of the French Academy of Sciences, who is at the origin of developments in the theory of nuclear magnetic resonance.

Biography
Engineer with a degree from the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (70th class), he joined the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique where he held the position of physicist and then Scientific Director from 1955 to 1993. From 1969 to 1983, he was head of the nuclear magnetism laboratory at the Collège de France. He was a scientific advisor at the CEA from 1993 to 2004. Maurice Goldman is the author of important work in nuclear magnetic resonance, including statistical thermodynamics of spin systems, nuclear relaxation and dynamic polarization, and high-resolution NMR theory in liquids.

Scientific work
Maurice Goldman, after studying isotopic separation and mass spectrometry, joined the Magnetic Resonance Laboratory created by Anatole Abragam at the CEA. Its main work, some of which has led to applications of practical interest, has focused on three main areas.

He first conducted studies related to the theory of spin temperature at high temperature: thermal mixing experiments deepened all aspects of this theory, in particular the concept of spin temperature in the rotating referential, extended to quadrupole interactions, the concept of negative absolute temperature, the extension of the theory of the dynamics of thermal coupling between distinct energy reservoirs, as well as many practical applications of this theory in the form of experimental or theoretical tools.

He then studied the nuclear magnetic order in high magnetic field, under the effect of "truncated" dipole interactions. This vast domain was the ultimate extension of the spin temperature concept and led in particular to the prediction and observation of magnetic structures unknown to conventional electronic systems, such as the rotating transverse helical order. These properties were studied by NMR and neutron diffraction.

Finally, he studied and developed magnetic relaxation under radiofrequency irradiation of molecules in solution, which led to a general method for determining local mobility in large molecules in solution, in particular biomolecules.

In shorter studies, he has also demonstrated different diffusion rates of the same ions at different crystalline sites in single crystals, studied the fractal structure of polymers by magnetic relaxation, developed an illustration of the "Berry phase" in electron resonance, as well as a new formulation of relaxation theory.

Distinctions
 Winner of the Henri de Parville Prize of the Academy of Sciences in 1969
 Winner of the Grand Prix Cognacq-Jay of the French Academy of sciences with Anatole Abragam and Maurice Chapelier in 1970
 Winner of the Holweck Prize of the French Physical Society and the Physical Society in 1977
 Maurice Goldman was elected correspondent of the Academy of Sciences in 1986 and then a member of the Academy of Sciences (physics section) in 2004.
 Maurice Goldman is a Commandeur in the Order of Academic Palms.

Books
 Spin Temperature and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Solids, Oxford University Press, 1970
 Nuclear Magnetism: Order and Disorder with Anatole Abragam, Oxford University Press, 1982
 Quantum Description of High-Resolution NMR in Liquids, Oxford University Press, 1988

References

1933 births
Living people
ESPCI Paris alumni
French physicists
Members of the French Academy of Sciences

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Ravens' Elam agrees to rookie contract
By Terry McCormick
The Baltimore Ravens announced that they have come to terms with first-round pick Matt Elam on his rookie contract.
Elam, a hard-hitting safety from the University of Florida, is ticketed to start in the Ravens' secondary as both Ed Reed and Bernard Pollard left Baltimore as free agents in the off-season.
The interesting part of Elam's deal is that the rookie did not hire an agent to negotiate his contract, instead working without an agent and with the advice of his brother Abram Elam, who played last season for the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Some years ago I designed and built my first hi-fi vacuum tube amplifier. The entire process took almost one year, designing, simulating, and prototyping, before actually building the amplifier.
After the first one, the second came, the third, and so on… I become somehow addicted 🙂 .
Eventually, I decided to put the experience that I acquired in a simple guide.
In this web site you will find my guide to Hi-Fi vacuum tube amplifier design. Hope you might appreciate it.
You will also find some information and schemas of my works.