UK based, Boohoo.com has rapidly made a name for itself in the intensely competitive UK ecommerce market as a potential challenger to ASOS. Known for their Millennial and GenZ shoppers, Boohoo listens to what their shoppers want, and develops UX and product to meet their needs. In January, its umbrella company U.K -based Boohoo Group — which also owns BoohooMan, Pretty Little Thing and Nasty Gal — reported that group revenue for the last four months of 2017 had almost doubled year over year, reaching $308.6 million.
Agile to innovate and adopt new models and UX, Boohoo has become an example for retailers everywhere of what can happen when technology is innovatively deployed.
Boohoo's 'broad but shallow' inventory offers a vast selection of styles and options that sell out fast but are seamlessly replaced by many visually similar items. Their Millenial, Gen Z customer is very Instagram and image oriented, requiring immediate, highly visual inspiration led by mobile.
Boohoo was looking for a way to enhance their users' journey and allow a more natural way to discover and style their products.
Syte and Boohoo worked closely to cultivate a package of UX solutions that would enhance their online experience and drive growth. Boohoo were the first to test and launch Syte's visual search Camera Button live on their site, allowing users to search any image, and shop the most visually similar pieces available at Boohoo. Boohoo also created convenient, instantly visible carousels of product suggestions automatically populated by Syte's "Shop Similar" and "Shop the Look" technology, leveraging user's propensity to purchase related items.
Collaboration in the QA process led to a refined algorithm nuance as well as very specific UX in AB testing. Both parties had input into creating and fine tuning the specific 'tech products' eventually crystalised for the retailer. In the past year Boohoo worked closely with Syte to introduce several adaptations of visual search to its test audience.
Now, Boohoo is experimenting with Syte's deep tagging solution, enhancing their textual search performance whilst providing detailed back-of-house data and significantly reducing the cost of both. Boohoo are also testing a new Syte feature allowing shoppers to upload a garment and receive a feed of social media influencers sporting the same piece. This new feature, titled InstaSearch, will allow Boohoo to connect it's Millennial user base with social media, where they are already spending up to 6 hours a day.
Syte's features have proven to be not only a fun addition to Boohoo's eCommerce site, but also showing substantial conversion to purchase rates.
Implementation of visual search solutions has allowed boohoo to connect with their target audience in a more personalized way- showing their users only what interests them while increasing inventory discoverability.


"Pha Khao Ma" or the loincloth handcrafted with the very traditional style has become more than a regular piece of cloth found in all regions of Thailand. From clothes-like usage to baby hommock, this very piece of art is what really is amazing!
Literally, "Pha Khao Ma" is not a Thai word. It came from the Pursian word "kamarband", meaning a waistband or a belt. As weaving is mostly done by women, the products are intended to be used predominantly by females. However, there is a kind of cloth uniquely used by Thai men. The distinctive Pha Khao Ma is a cultural symbol existing along with Thai males, old and young, for hundreds of years.
The evidence has suggested that the Pha Khao Ma has been used for a long time for many purposes such as a weapon wrap, a storage bag, a sleeping pad, a bathing wear and a towel for drying the body. With stripe patterns and a rectangular shape, the Pha Khao Ma is woven using cotton yarns. Good things about this very piece of cloth are that it is very light and can easily get dry. You can basically use it as a bathing wear and a towel at the same time.
Nowadays, Pha Khao Ma is significantly an approach to conserve and add value to the Thai product. The loincloth has become a trend for "vintage" style amongst people at all ages, especially the teenagers who see great potential in it. The government has even launched numerous campaigns to promote this part of Thai culture to wear the Pha Khao Ma. Additionally, we can still see the Pha Khao Ma used in making household items, decorations, or bags.
This is another pride of Thailand to bring our products to a higher level. Products made from Pha Khao Ma have now been exported to foreign markets both in ASEAN and other regions.
Find Thailand's unique products in every souvenir shop or shopping mall. This might be a good new year gift.
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Why UCL's NUS referendum was a sham
This evening, the results for UCL's NUS referendum were announced, though you'd be hard-pressed to find a student who actually knew that such a vote happened in the first place.
So much so, the results have been deemed invalid as only 903 people voted. To put that into context, UCL is the second largest university in the country with approximately 40,000 students.
The Cheese Grater revealed earlier this summer that a referendum on membership to the NUS would be held after a vote in Union Council spearheaded by two sabbatical officers, one of whom has graduated from the university, and the other, who failed to take part in this term's referendum campaign at all.
Meetings for those interested in campaigning for either side in the referendum took place about two weeks ago.
The meeting only attracted two students. One of whom was second year History student Sam Sherwood, a member of Tory Soc and who became the de facto leader of the leave campaign. He said that he felt a sense of duty to ensure that both sides were represented.
Sherwood told The Cheese Grater yesterday that he had spent £9 on blu-tac and £10 on printer credits so far (who spends equal amounts on blu-tac and printing?!) and that he and three other students had spent the last week sticking up posters.
How seriously, on the other hand, the Remain campaign felt about the referendum is up for debate.
Jack Kershaw, the leader of the Remain campaign, and Fossil Free activist, opted to not spend any of his £500 budget allocated to him by the Union on campaign materials till the last day or two of campaigning. This was because, he too believed the vote would not valid due to a lack of votes.
Regardless of how little was spent by both sides, 903 votes is still more votes than senior sources in the Union had expected, with one sabbatical officer telling the The Cheese Grater last week that they didn't expect more than 500 votes.
The vote will now be carried onto something called an "Extraordinary General Assembly" which must be held within the next two weeks. For the vote to be binding there, it must attract 800 students, which of course, no room in UCL can hold.
And if somehow at least 200 students turn up, a vote on membership to the NUS will be "indicative and not binding".
And then the vote goes to another arbitrary Union meeting.
Democracy at UCL, eh?
Sasha Basker and Katerina Edgar
Additional Reporting: Jason Murugesu
A version of this article appeared in CG Issue 58.
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Microsoft is offering Windows Phone developers a free two day online training course hosted by two Windows Phone MVPs, designed to offer training to those devs looking to create applications and games working on the next generation of the software giant's mobile platform.
"Mango is an important leap forward in Microsoft's overall mobile strategy and the developer community has taken notice. Now is the time to embrace the "tile-and-app" UI and reap the rewards Mango provides your development team and user community," reads an excerpt from the Jump Start class' official description.
The Jump Start class is scheduled to kick start on August 23, 2011, between 8am-5pm PDT. There will be no less than eight hours of live online training.
According to the official schedule, the training will continue the next day, on August 24 also between 8am-5pm PDT.
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Pete was a very knowledgeable guide. Down to earth, obviously knows lots about the local area which we wouldn't have otherwise come across. Nice mix of historical and social information.


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A: This might help How do I resolve "Run-time error '429': ActiveX component can't create object"?
However, meanwhile you can try some other solutions to use that statement, like:
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I've have a Kindle 3 for a month or two now, and I can confirm that it's a thing of beauty. The ebook revolution might not necessarily start here, but momentum is certainly building.
Alas, the Kindle 3 is not perfect. There are some clever design touches but if the designer had presented the Kindle to, say, Steve Jobs, then it would have been hurtled back in the direction of the designer's head. It's a good product, but it's not a great product. I find myself wishing things were just a little different here and there.
The Kindle is a personal electronic device, just like a cell phone or an iPod. But it's far more sharable than either of those two. For example, my partner wants to read an ebook I'm just finishing off, and I intend to lend her my Kindle when I'm done. I'll just switch to a dead tree book until she's finished. But it would be nice if she could have her own account on the Kindle, with her own bookmarks/last page read setting. This way, if she saw the Kindle lying about while I'm not at home, she could pick it up and read any ebooks on the device without messing-up my reading.
Yes, Kindles are dirt cheap, but not yet cheap enough for every family member to have one.
2. Where Are the Apps?
A Web browser is built-in, which is about as good as it can be, but I anticipated finding a calculator, a notepad application, maybe a simple calendar, and perhaps a to-do list. None are present. None would stretch the Kindle either. The Kindle might have an e-ink display that prefers static rather than dynamic content, but I can easily imagine how these apps would function, even if there was occasional flashing and blanking of the screen. I could live with that.
Of course, the next question is: Where's the app store? I hear there's an SDK toolkit out there, making it easy for programmers to create new stuff, but where's the interface allowing users to put apps onto the Kindle, and manage them?
Looking-up words in Kindle's built-in dictionary is stunningly useful for an illiterate such as myself. All the user needs to do is move the cursor to the word, and a definition pops-up instantly. However, it's impossible to look up phrases of two or more words without manually searching the dictionary --which involves temporarily closing the current book and opening the dictionary app.
For example, looking up the phrase "drawing room" is impossible; Kindle would simply give the definition for "drawing". Even hyphenated words are ignored, despite the fact the cursor jumps past the hyphenated phrase as if it's a single word.
Buy an eBook or download your own from Gutenberg and, once you open it, you'll be taken to the first page of the first chapter (or the prologue, if there is one). Great! Or maybe not. I love books. Because of this, I want to see the cover art before getting started on the novel. I want to see who, if anybody, the book's dedicated to. I want to see how many chapters there are. Hell, I even want to take a look at the verso page (i.e. the copyright page).
Don't worry, Amazon - I'll skip through these if I want to. But don't assume I want to ignore them. Of course, I can get to them using the Go To option on the menu, but that's a pain. Show me the full majesty of a book as soon as I open it! And why aren't the covers displayed on the Home screen? Instead, all we get is a dull text list. The Home screen could be so much more beautiful.
Kindle displays two toolbars. The one on the top shows the name of the book, along with the battery life and wifi/3G signal strength. The one at the bottom shows the progress through the page, as a percentage and as a "Location" figure (equivalent to page numbers). The top toolbar disappears as soon as you advance the page. The bottom one never disappears. It's showing important information, for sure, but its inclusion reminds me that I'm glaring at a computer-based ebook reader. I'd like to forget about all that and immerse myself in the book.
There's no way to turn off the progress display. In fact, taken as a whole, the Kindle 3 has remarkably few configuration options.
You can choose between sans-serif and serif fonts, and both are very readable. But why aren't more fonts built-in? I imagine this is a frustration for ebook creators too, especially those who design textbooks. I'd like the freedom to be able to choose between, say, five different serif fonts to find the one that works best with my eyes.
"Free 3G Wireless!" boasts Amazon in its Kindle advertising. This would be wonderful if true. The delivery of books over 3G is free if you buy books from the Amazon Kindle store. They're beamed to you wherever you are via Amazon's Whispernet service. If you send your own books to the Kindle via Whispernet, you'll be charged 15 cents per megabyte. Sending files is done by sending the ebook as an email attachment to a special email address Amazon gives you.
Yes, you can transfer books for free using the USB cable, and, yes, you can send the book to an alternative email address Amazon give you that will only send the file when you're using wifi (and therefore for free). But the fact remains that the "Free 3G" isn't actually free. If you intend to use your Kindle to do little more than read Gutenberg titles, and rarely if ever buy anything via the Kindle store, then the 3G model is a waste of money.
If I'm reading a book that has an odd layout, perhaps one with pictures, I might choose to alter the size or spacing of the text to make things more readable. This is done easily using the text-size controls. However, any changes in font settings are applied globally, to all books.
Why can't each book have its own settings? I might choose to read a textbook with a small font size, for example, but choose to read a novel with larger text to make it easier on my eyes.
The important "back to base" Home button, which brings-up a display of your ebook titles, should be at the top of the keyboard, so it's nice and accessible. Instead, it's buried on the bottom row of keys, to the left of the Back key, and to the right of the text-size key.
The primo top-right position on the mini keyboard is occupied with the Menu key. This is undoubtedly important, but switching the Home and Menu keys would make a lot more sense.
10. I've Lost My Page!
Unless you're missing a few fingers or have a Harry Potter ability to Accio! inanimate objects towards you, every time you pick up the Kindle you're going to hit the page turn buttons. They're right in the middle of the Kindle, duplicated on both sides of the unit, exactly where your fingers want to grip the device. Fitting a flip cover to the Kindle helps avoid this somewhat but perhaps surprisingly the Kindle doesn't come with one out of the box.
I've yet to find a way of comfortably holding the Kindle so that I can tap the page turn buttons comfortably. After a few hours' use my fingers begin to ache. Again, a flip cover helps give some additional purchase, but those buttons are just in the wrong place.


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Each year thousands of Edinburgh's alumni support the University by making a donation. Alumni of all ages, from all walks of life, come together to help us ensure the next generation of students benefit from a university experience that changes their lives forever.
Charles Barkla Bursaries
This fund has been created to mark the centenary of our first Nobel Prize winner: Charles Barkla, who made fundamental advances in understanding X-ray spectroscopy. Charles Barkla came from modest circumstances and relied on bursaries and scholarships to fund his education.
The Charles Barkla Bursaries will be used to support undergraduate students who are most in need of a helping hand in order that they can pursue their dreams.
As Edinburgh has become one of the most expensive cities to live in the UK and living costs continue to rise, new students face more financial challenges and anxieties than previous generations. These are problems that all too clear from the experiences of students such as Carol, as described below. She is clear that the help and encouragement of a bursary allows her and similar students to fulfil their potential during this hugely important stage in life.
"Currently studying towards a BSc in Physics with an integrated Masters, I grew up being home educated in South Cheshire as the only child of a single mum for whom I have been the sole carer since I was 14. She is fighting cancer and is also partially disabled. I chose to apply to and attend the University of Edinburgh because it was the best university with easy transport links for me to return home in case of emergencies. Receiving a bursary means I have peace of mind should there be an emergency - being from a low income family, it's a relief to not have to regularly ask my family for extra financial support. The bursary has helped reduce my day-to-day stress levels, because it means I can budget for normal life without having to worry about keeping some of that aside for travelling."
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SUNI SANDS
A 9.8-ACRE PARCEL WITH WATERFRONT ESTUARY
9.8 ACRE PARCEL
Located on the south side of the Loxahatchee River between Clemons Street and Dubois Park is a parcel of land commonly known as Suni Sands. Suni Sands is an important part of local history, as it was the site of some of the first activity in the Jupiter area, including homes, commerce and the start of the Celestial Railroad. This land is also known to be archeologically significant. Suni Sands, contains the "Suni Sands Shell Midden," which is listed on the Florida Master Site File survey as an archaeological site that is eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. Christian Davenport, Palm Beach County Archeologist, recently explained, "people have been living in Jupiter since 6,000 years ago . . . Suni Sands is located on top of a pre-historic Indian Village site - a rare 'double platform mound' where the biggest of chiefs once lived."
The Foundation believes that an area with this much history and importance should be preserved for the benefit of the public. Development of this parcel would destroy this rare double platform mound forever. Establishment of a field study school, along with an artifact museum and educational programs would make this history accessible to all and would complement the activities of the adjacent Jupiter Lighthouse and Museum.
Photography Courtesy of Jim Abernethy
WATERFRONT ESTUARY
The Waterfront Estuary is a marine habitat, situated water-ward of the Suni Sands property. The submerged land is filled with Sea Grass, which is the food source and nursery ground for a variety of rare, endangered and threatened sea creatures. Turtles, Conch, Juvenile Sawfish, Manatees, Star Fish, and Sting Rays make their home in these waters. Corresponding birdlife, such as Great and Little Blue Herons, Great and Snowy Egrets, Ospreys, Red Shouldered Hawks, Double Crested Cormorants, Brown Pelicans, Green and yellow-Crowned Night Herons, and Black Bellied Whistling Ducks are frequent visitors.
The Town of Jupiter has slated this area for development, including dredging of this sensitive area to accommodate large motorized boats and the construction of a hotel and other tourist attractions that will disturb this important eco system. There are currently no restrictions to keep powerboats from cutting across the sea grass. Palm Beach County, while recognizing the abundance of marine life, is promoting the area to nature lovers. However, steps must also be taken to ensure that visitors interact with the living environment in a manner that protects it from overexposure.
The Foundation believes that this estuary should be protected from both development and overexposure. The Foundation is interested in ensuring that public access is managed in a way that protects the estuary and in providing for educational and conservation related activities.
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Home Deep Learning Deep Learning personalization of Internet is next big leap
Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning and it comprises several approaches to tackling the single most important goal of AI research: allowing computers to model our world well enough to exhibit something like what we humans call intelligence.
On a basic conceptual level, deep learning approaches share a very basic trait. DL algorithms interpret the raw data through multiple processing layers. Each of these layers takes the output of the previous one as its input and creates a more abstract representation of it. As a result, the more data is being fed into the right algorithm, the more general are the rules and features that it's able to infer in relation to a given scenario and, therefore, the apter it gets at handling new, similar situations.
Google Translate's science-fiction-like "Word Lens" function is powered by a deep learning algorithm and Deep Mind's recent Go victory can also be attributed to DL – although the triumphant algorithm AlphaGo isn't a pure neural net, but a hybrid, melding deep reinforcement learning with one of the foundational techniques of classical AI — tree-search.
Deep learning is an ample approach to tackling computational problems that are too complicated to solve for simple algorithms, such as image classification or natural language processing. However, its current business uses are very limited. It is quite possible that a large portion of the industries that currently leverage machine learning hold further unexploited potential for deep learning and DL-based approaches can trump current best practices in many of them. For instance, one could read several articles in the past couple of months about how DL is going to revolutionize search, with Google's former head of AI John Giannandrea taking over the company's search department (and how this could potentially transform the field of SEO, as a whole).
DEEP LEARNING FUELED RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS – THE FUTURE OF PERSONALIZATION
We are pretty sure that deep learning is going to be the next big leapfrog ahead in the field of personalization as well. Personalization constitutes more and more an area of focus for businesses ranging from eCommerce stores to publishers and marketing agencies due to its proven potential to drive sales, increase engagement and improve overall user experience. If data is the fuel of personalization, than recommender systems are its engine. The advances in these algorithms have a profound effect on the online experiences of users across domains and platforms.
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CENTERBROOK, Conn. – Centerbrook Architects & Planners has announced a series of promotions, including three to associate principal.
David O'Connor, Agatha Vastakis Pestilli and Andrew Santaniello were elevated to associate principals, joining the firm's leadership group. The trio has a combined 50 years at Centerbrook.
"Agatha, David and Drew exemplify the qualities that we value most. They are thoughtful designers and collaborators, they care about getting the details right, and consistently guide us toward excellence," said Todd E. Andrews, Centerbrook principal. "We are delighted to recognize their contributions to Centerbrook and look forward to many more to come."
O'Connor came to Centerbrook in 2006, and has been a key contributor to large-scale institutional projects like the Outpatient Pavilion and Academic Building Addition at the UConn Health Campus in Farmington, Connecticut. He has worked on projects for a pair of Fortune 500 companies – United Technologies and Welltower – and is one of the senior staffers currently designing the expansion and renovation of Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Pestilli joined Centerbrook in 2003, and has worked extensively on projects at Quinnipiac University during her tenure. Most notably was the Center for Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, a major undertaking at the North Haven Campus. She was recently involved in conceiving a campus master plan for Springfield College and is currently working on a renovation and facilities master plan for Goodspeed Musicals.
Santaniello has been at Centerbrook since 1996. Among the top quarter of longest tenured architects at the firm, he has lent expertise to numerous projects through the years. Santaniello worked on the team for the Sullivan Museum and History Center at his alma mater, Norwich University, earlier on in his time at Centerbrook, and a career highlight was serving as the project manager for The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine. He is currently immersed in the Peabody Museum renewal as the project manager for the extensive endeavor.
Other senior promotions announced by Centerbrook include the elevation of Brian Adams, Matt Montana, Alan Paradis and Andrew Safran to senior associates. The four have combined for nearly 60 years of design work at Centerbrook, and are currently managing projects in Connecticut, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Canada.
Rounding out the Centerbrook architectural staff updates, Aaron Emma, Frank Giordano, Hugo Fenaux, David Petersen, Anna Shakun and Aaron Trahan all received promotions.
Centerbrook, which recently announced the hiring of nine new employees, now has a roster of 63 and growing. The firm, named a "Top Workplace in the Greater Hartford Area" by the Hartford Courant in 2018, has more than 50 active projects across North America.
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Wisconsin Community Gathers to Mourn, Pray as Christmas Parade Tragedy Suspect Identified
Air date November 22, 2021
Tags: Currents Catholic, Children, Christians, Christmas, Faith, World News
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A little girl dances as the Christmas parade marches down the streets of Waukesha, Wisconsin, when all of a sudden, an SUV flies by just inches from the child and slams into the crowd ahead.
At least five people were killed, dozens more injured including a Catholic priest, parishioners and Catholic school children. Archbishop Jerome Listecki of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee is asking people to join him in prayer for the victims.
"When confronted with the shock and the grief encountered by our brothers and sisters in Waukesha, it is now important for us to turn to our faith which offers us God's loving presence and consolation," said Archbishop Listecki.
The parade is an annual tradition in this small city where people line the streets for a joyous celebration kicking off the Christmas season. But that joy turned to sorrow when police say 39-year-old Darrell Brooks intentionally drove his SUV into the crowd.
"The subject was taken into custody a short distance from the scene and we're confident he acted alone," said Waukesha police chief Dan Thompson. "There is no evidence that this is a terrorist incident."
The Milwaukee resident is known to police in the area. He has been charged three times in less than two years with recklessly endangering the safety of others, most recently, on Nov. 5, but was released on bail just six days later. Just before plowing into the crowd, police say Brooks was leaving the scene of a domestic disturbance.
"Last night, our wonderful Waukesha parade became a horrific tragedy," said the police chief. "Last night, that parade became a nightmare."
Now the community is coming together to grieve. A Catholic high school is holding a prayer service.


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Thursday 09 April 2015 8:49 pm
Rocky Creek can give Nicholls a second Grand National win
By: Express KCS
BILL ESDAILE PREVIEWS THE CRABBIE'S GRAND NATIONAL
THIS is the most eagerly awaited Crabbie's Grand National in years as it is the last time we will see the greatest ever jumps jockey ride in the world's greatest steeplechase.
Never again will a rider come along like AP McCoy. His guts, determination and sheer addiction to winning have elevated him above his peers. And wouldn't it just be the perfect send off for him to land his last Grand National and then retire there and then in the Aintree winner's enclosure?
The soon-to-be 20-time champion jockey hasn't often shown much emotion during his career, but winning this famous contest in 2010 on Don't Push It saw him celebrating like never before. It is the biggest race in the world and he would dearly love to win it again.
Racing UK will refund new annual memberships if he does it and he has a decent chance as well. Shutthefrontdoor won last season's Irish Grand National and he has won his only start since on his seasonal reappearance at Carlisle in November.
Jonjo O'Neill's eight-year-old suffered a setback during the winter, but this race has been the plan all along and his trainer is a master at preparing staying chasers for their big day.
Betway, who are paying five places on the race, offer a best-priced 15/2 on McCoy's runner and you can be sure that he will be sent off nearer to 5/1 after punters up and down the country have filled their boots.
However, emotion doesn't come into it as a punter and he is too short for me in such a competitive race. I'm happy to leave him alone but will celebrate as much as everyone else if the fairytale becomes a reality.
Paul Nicholls has had an incredible season and will be crowned champion trainer for the ninth time at Sandown, alongside McCoy, later this month.
He has had big winners practically every Saturday and it is his ROCKY CREEK who I think has the best chance of winning tomorrow.
Sam Twiston-Davies' mount ran an absolute cracker in this race 12 months ago, jumping impeccably before tiring late on and finishing fifth. He may have been ridden slightly too prominently then and I imagine Twiston-Davies will bide his time a little more.
He was only eight last year, an age bracket that has a bad record in this race, and now that he is a year older and stronger, he should have all the weapons he needs for this brutal test.
The 11 stone mark used to be an insurmountable barrier, but four of the last six winners carried 11 stone or more so I'm not worried about his burden of 11st3lb at all.
In fact, he is very attractively weighted following his romp at Kempton in February after the National weights had been published.
If the handicapper could re-assess him he would be carrying top weight so if he's ever going to win the big one, this year is probably it.
The 9/1 with Betway isn't huge but he reminds me very much of Hedgehunter, who won this in 2005, and I think he will go very close.
My next selection is ALVARADO who finished one place in front of Rocky Creek last year. His jockey Paul Moloney has a brilliant record over these fences and will probably be the first to admit that he gave his mount too much to do that day.
He has been trained with this race in mind all season and was given an easy time of it on his reappearance at Doncaster in February. Fergal O'Brien's horses are in decent form and this 10-year-old has a lovely racing weight of 10st3lb.
There is a nagging doubt that he might not be quite good enough to win it, but he looks a very solid option to finish in the frame.
FIRST LIEUTENANT is a horse I've followed for practically all of his career and, although he isn't the force of old, he has now slipped to a competitive mark for trainer Mouse Morris and jockey Nina Carberry.
Rated as high as 170 in the past, he is now down to 153, and he has excellent course form having won the Grade One Bowl here two years ago.
He loves decent ground and has always had a touch of class which I think is a big help in this race. In fairness, he has been very disappointing this season and he may just have fallen out of love with the game.
But I just have a feeling that Morris has targeted him at this race and he wouldn't have to improve much to be competitive. See if you can get some 33/1 as that is a fair each-way price.
My final pick is another horse who likes it round here. SAINT ARE has only won three races in Britain but two of them have come at this meeting.
He won a Grade One hurdle in 2011 when trained by Tim Vaughan and then followed up in a Listed handicap chase the following season.
He finished ninth in the National two years ago when only seven, but I would expect him to do better than that this time.
He is now trained by Tom George and finished third in three competitive handicaps, including the Becher Chase, before bolting up at Catterick.
He's another who will like decent ground and the 33/1 with Betway is worth taking.
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1 Rocky Creek
2 Alvarado
3 First Lieutenant
4 Saint Are


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Album Review: White – White
May 21, 2009 | 9:35am ET
In ancient China, a complex color symbology dictated appropriate attire. Yellow, a color to ward off evil, was associated with the imperial class and its servants. Red, a color for good luck, was traditionally worn at weddings. A man in a green hat was said to have an unfaithful wife. And white, the symbol of both purity and the unknown, is worn at funeral ceremonies as the color of mourning. In modern China, there is a band called White. A dream team duo from the core of the Chinese "No Beijing" noise-rock scene, White makes music that is pure and unknown. Pure and unknown, until recently.
Having come to the attention of ex-Bad Seed/Einsturzende Neubaten frontman Blixa Bargeld, who coached and produced the band's debut, White went from being a side-project jam session with once-in-a-while releases (as both members are full-time in successful bands in Beijing) to having a full-length LP, a touring schedule, and a sizeable amount of underground press. Besides CarSick Cars, the Beijing band who opened a number of dates in Asia and Europe for Sonic Youth, White are one of the first Chinese bands to make an impression in Western media–which unceremoniously dumps on White's shoulders the responsibility of telling the world "what does Beijing sound like?" Pure? Unknown? Or in mourning?
White, made up only of guitarist Shou Wang (of CarSick Cars) and synthesist Shenggy (of Cosmic Shenggy), makes that description with a limited pallete. Splitting the difference between being a "real band" which writes songs, rehearses, and plays instruments, and being an autonomous creator/composer like an Aphex Twin or Steve Reich, Shou Wang and Shenggy base most of White's songs on a template of noisy guitar squalls and guttural synth-rhythms from Shenggy's Korg MS-20. This minimalist setup allows White to subvert a number of tired rock cliches: firstly, while some songs, such as "Spring House" feature actual drums, there's no pretense of a "beat" or a trap kit. There certainly aren't any fills. Instead of a drummer with a six piece kit and a forest of cymbals shredding away in the background, White fills up the same amount of earspace with minimalist loops and textures: chanted vocals, humming guitars, and metal percussion all help build mostly-instrumental songs like "Space Decay" from what may well have started as a sparse rehearsal-room jam to a dense tapestry of pulsating sound.
This isn't exactly unmined territory. The drum samples that drive tracks like "Conch Crunch" and "Roswitha Strunk" don't go too far beyond the sonic libraries of 80's industrial bands like Throbbing Gristle or Einsturzende Neubaten. And while being a mostly synth-and-vocals duo with no traditional guitar parts or any sort of drummer unsurprisingly garners immediate Suicide comparisons, Shenggy's programming on the aforementioned "Conch Crunch" and the follow-up "Build a Link" is probably best described as "Alan Vega lost in Chinatown". White's debt to no-wave goes even deeper–taking more than just a few plays out of Brian Eno's book; (his compliation No New York defined the genre and was the sole recorded output of some of its greatest bands). White draw more from his later days as an ambient composer, shaping the layered flow of their one-chord (and sometimes even one-note) songs in a way not unlike Eno's Music For Aiports and the Ambient series. Shou Wang and Shenggy also take time to worship at the real altars of minimalism, paying tribute to Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and a host of other minimalist and electronic composers, without whom, White would suddenly cease to exist.
Already re-contextualized by their importation to Beijing, many of these 20+ year-old sounds and approaches are freshened by the lyrical themes and content. Like Einsturzende Neubaten before them, even subtle lyrical gestures are enough to politicize White's tremendous noise. Where Neubaten's earsplitting clamor represented the frustrations of a recovering Germany (especially with the fall of the Berlin Wall), White take a slightly different tack. With China as the capital of the manufacturing world, the repetitious loops of "Train Song" and "Spring House" seem to describe workaday Beijing as a Marxist Limbo of piecework for export and gridlocked public transportation.
Commercialization seems to be another major theme of White: much like Sigue Sigue Sputnik before them, Shou Wang and Shenggy break up samey-sounding album tracks by including fictional commercials between songs: White's "Beijing Beer" is definitely one of these, with its pop-top samples, as well as opener "Really Real German" and "English School". While the specifics of the last two are lost in translation, there's also a good bit of English on White's album. Mirroring the trend for English-for-business, and the taking of English-sounding "business names" in China, "Conch Crunch" and "Build A Link" have just enough English to give the songs a slightly political edge: the former might well be (but in fact is not) a popular brand of Chinese snack, and the latter song comes on like a board meeting for a new English-language corporate slogan: "time alone left to think:/Build A Link/pushed too far on the brink/no one there to help to think:/Build A Link/Build…A Link".
One lyric in particular stands out as a theme for the album, one from the first real song, "Space Decay". Over a quivering bed of synths and through what sounds like a train intercom, Shou Wang extends his greeting: "welcome back to the real world!" he shouts. And nothing could be more fitting. In his Pitchfork review of the 4AD indie-for-charity compilation Dark Was the Night, Scott Plagenhoef bemoans the fact that in 2009, "rock is less central than folk in underground North American music". Seeing as charity organization Red Hot's 1993 compilation, No Alternative, was a genre-defining 90's watershed, packed with tracks from Nirvana, Pavement, and the Smashing Pumpkins, that's saying more than just a little.
Dark Was the Night is glutted with earnest folkiness and 70's covers, with the likes of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings doing them nearly up to spec. And while there's certainly room in the world for retroism and folk-rock, and even charity albums, Shou Wang's lyric keeps coming back to me. "Welcome back to the real world," he shouts, as Shenggy warms up her MS-20. And from there on, it's 40-odd minutes of synth loops and chants that numb the mind as much as they bend the ears–all of which hints at a message beneath the surface. A metal file baked into the birthday cake. Just as Black Sabbath's blistering grind captured the drudgery of Ozzy's native steel-mill-town of Birmingham, England, White describes a Beijing struggling with ever-increasing globalization and mechanization. Rather than retreating to the comfortable grounds of rich musical history, or picking time-tested 70's songs to cover, White pushes forwards with its true colors run up the mast–with a commitment to purity, a taste for the unknown–and perhaps not just a little sense of mourning.
"Space Decay"
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Wyżnia Sucha Polana (, , ) – polana w Dolinie Suchej w słowackich Tatrach Bielskich.

Polana znajduje się w dolnej części doliny, około 700 m powyżej Niżniej Suchej Polany. Przecina ją koryto Suchego Potoku, zgodnie z nazwą zazwyczaj suche. Przechodzi przez nią szeroka droga leśna odgałęziająca się od Drogi Wolności, oraz ścieżka Dookólnej Perci. Wyżnia Sucha Polana ma około 200 m długości i jest największą z trzech polan Doliny Suchej. Oprócz Niżniej i Wyżniej Polany w dolinie tej jest jeszcze Lapisdurowa Polanka. Cała Dolina Sucha znajduje się na obszarze Tatrzańskiego Parku Narodowego i to na obszarze ochrony ścisłej.

Autorem nazwy polany jest Władysław Cywiński.

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On the beautiful West Coast of the South Island and minutes from the town centre of Hokitika and the main tourism thoroughfare is Woodland Glen Lodge. The driveway sweeps past native bush, a three bay shed and turns towards this commanding country house surrounded by colourful gardens and large outdoor courtyards with views of the Southern Alps in the distance. Currently trading as an upmarket bed and breakfast our owners have made the decision after 13 years to move on giving buyers a lifestyle tourism business opportunity.
Built in 1987 the house is completely double glazed and has a diesel heating system throughout as well as two log burners for added cosiness. The upstairs master suite is generous, with views, an ensuite and is quite separate from the guests suites of which there are five to choose from (three with ensuites). As well as the bed and breakfast business, Woodland Glen has catered to weddings and could be used as a function or small meeting venue as there are spacious guest lounge and dining areas complimenting the accommodation on offer. The property is situated on three titles and there may be potential to subdivide or develop the property further in the future.
Birdsong from the large stand of native bush is clear and frequent and many guests have enjoyed listening to and watching the Wood Pigeons flying display at the end of a day's travelling. Extensively fitted throughout with native Rimu timberwork, there are many added features included in this sale and the recent refurbishment and maintenance work carried out will reassure the next owners. Woodland Glen is an impressive residence where you can walk in and add your own business ideas and flair or fill it up with family who will enjoy the expanse and space.
To be sold as a freehold going concern and comes complete with an extensive list of chattels and everything needed to continue the business with good supplier relationships in place.


You don't have to push a button to send a signal. Services like Twitter keep tabs on your behavior even if you aren't prodding your touchscreen to "like" or "retweet" things, and they use all that precious data to serve you #content that's tailor-made to attract your eyeballs.
As Slate's Will Oremus explains in a new feature about Twitter's algorithms, the company pays attention to a variety of cues from its users to deliver information using its "best tweets" and "in case you missed it" functions. A lot of this is expected—you're more likely to see tweets that are recent and frequently retweeted, or from an author you engage with a lot — but one element should catch your eye: "How much time you spend reading tweets by that author, even if you don't engage."
In other words, Twitter pays attention to what you're paying attention to, even if you never tap a button in the app. If you often linger on beautiful tweets from author X, Twitter is more likely to immediately show you tweets from that person when you open the app in the morning.
Nothing about this is particularly surprising, though Oremus notes this is "the first public peek into the algorithm's workings." Facebook, for example, draws upon roughly 8 zillion different data points to ensure it's serving content to you effectively — including how long you spend reading a story that you encountered on your News Feed.
But the story about Twitter's algorithms should serve to remind you that, yeah, you're basically always being watched by your favorite social networks in a variety of ways that don't even occur to you. Which is fine, sometimes! A social network that understands how you consume information is a social network that knows how to spoon-feed it to you just right.
Taking more into consideration than retweets and favorites is part of this effort. A Twitter spokesperson explained to me that a Bay Area resident might never interact with the Caltrain account she follows for its service updates. But Twitter's software can learn over time that she tends to stop scrolling long enough to read a Caltrain tweet before moving on. It could then make sure to show her a noteworthy Caltrain update in her ranked timeline during commute hours.
That's handy. But of course, the "dark side" to all of this is that a company that knows how to serve you content with laser precision also knows how to target you for marketing.
Cause for alarm? Not necessarily — but it's worth keeping in the back of your mind as more and more of our lives unfurl across social media. You may think you're gazing into a void when you're scrolling through your phone, but in 2017, that void is gazing right back.


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2003 Elizabeth II Proof Gold Sovereign
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A gold proof 2003 Sovereign, offered in its original presentation box with a numbered certificate of authenticity. Struck by The Royal Mint from 7.98 grams of 22 carat gold, all Sovereigns are made to the exacting specifications established in 1817. This 2003 Sovereign features Ian Rank-Broadley's official portrait of Elizabeth II with Benedetto Pistrucci's iconic Saint George motif to the reverse. The proof finish, achieved with multiple strikes of hand finished dies means that you can appreciate the fine detail of both these designs. This example is one of 12,433 issued in this year.
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A limited edition gold proof 2003 Sovereign to add to your collection.
The Story of the Sovereign
The first Sovereigns were struck during the reign of Tudor king Henry VIII. Centuries later, a new gold coin bearing this name was introduced, following a major overhaul of British coinage. This Sovereign, first minted in 1817, established specifications that are still strictly followed today.
All Sovereigns weight exactly 7.98 grams and are composed of 22 carat gold. That's a gold weight of 7.32 grams or .2354 troy ounces. Sovereigns measure 22.05 millimetres in diameter and have a nominal face value of one pound sterling though their gold content means they command significantly higher prices.
Sovereigns once circulated across the globe but production ceased with the outbreak of the First World War. Reintroduced in 1957, annual issues attract investors and collectors with limited edition proof Sovereigns - hand-finished for a flawless effect - the most sought-after.
12,433 gold proof Sovereigns were issued in the year 2003, including those offered in sets.
Saint George and the Dragon
For much of its history the modern Sovereign has featured an iconic reverse design, crafted by Italian artist Benedetto Pistrucci. His instantly-recognisable Saint George and the Dragon design shows England's patron saint mounted on a horse, slaying a dragon underfoot.
It's a powerful image that has become synonymous with the gold Sovereign. These coins don't carry their denomination on their face as part of their legend like most currency, so the Saint George motif is an easy identifier for many collectors. The coin's date appears below the dragon.
Pistrucci's reverse is paired with Ian Rank-Broadley's portrait of Her Majesty the Queen. In use between 1998 and 2015, this fourth official effigy shows a greater degree or realism than its idealised predecessors. Broadley's initials - IRB - appear below the truncation of Elizabeth II's neck.
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Your 2003 proof Sovereign comes in its original packaging from The Royal Mint. This consists of a velvet lined presentation box in which the coin is presented inside a capsule. Also included: a numbered certificate of authenticity.
If you're in the market for a 2003 Sovereign there are several alternate options to consider:
If you're not worried about the year and are looking to invest in gold then our best value Sovereigns - offered in good to fine condition - are your best choice
Our top-quality bullion 2003 Sovereigns offer the same amount of gold as proof coins but are much more affordable. Ours are all graded about Extremely Fine or better
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All Sovereigns, including those struck in 2003, are exempt from Capital Gains Tax as UK legal tender and free from VAT in the UK and EU as investment grade gold.
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Steeped in more than 1,100 years of history, The Royal Mint supplies all of the United Kingdom's coinage as well as currency for nations around the world. Renown for craftsmanship and thoughtful design, The Royal Mint also produces commemorative coins, favoured by investors and collectors.
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HOME > Past issues > 2020 December 9 - 15 > Gov't decision to suspend 'Go To' travel campaign in 2 weeks' time is too late: JCP Koike
2020 December 9 - 15 TOP3 [POLITICS]
Gov't decision to suspend 'Go To' travel campaign in 2 weeks' time is too late: JCP Koike
The Suga government on December 14 at a meeting of its COVID-19 task force decided to suspend its travel subsidy program, the "Go To" travel campaign, nationwide. The government, however, will put off the implementation of this measure for two weeks.
Along with the temporary halt to the "Go To" campaign (from Dec. 28 to Jan. 11), the government also decided to exclude trips to Tokyo and Nagoya from the campaign between December 15 and 27 and requests people in the two cities not to use the subsidy program for their trips departing from these areas. Furthermore, under the government plan, the ongoing removal of Sapporo and Osaka as destinations from the travel subsidy program continues until December 27.
Later in the same day at a press conference in the Diet building, Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Koike Akira said, "The government has been too slow to take action. It should put a halt to the tourism promotion campaign immediately and provide direct financial assistance to relevant sectors."
Koike said, "Since August when the COVID-19 second wave began hitting Japan, the JCP has criticized the government stance to continue the "Go To" travel campaign which facilitates the movement of people for hampering the fight against COVID-19. The party has called for a suspension and review of the campaign." Koike went on to say, "The suspension of the campaign from December 28 is too late. In order to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed by a further virus case spike, the government should declare a moratorium on the campaign without delay."
Various opinion polls also show that most of the public are critical of the continuation of the travel subsidy program. In a Mainichi poll, 67% of respondents said that the campaign should be halted. In an NHK survey, the percentage of those who agreed to suspend the campaign temporarily reached 79%.
> JCP Koike criticizes gov't decision to review 'Go To' campaigns as too little, too late [November 22, 2020]
> Tamura demands review of 'Go To' travel subsidy campaign [November 14, 2020]


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Q: UICollectionView Horizontal align scroll first cell center alignment not exactly placing center position very first time using Swift My scenario, I am trying to Implement UICollectionView horizontal scrollview first and last cell center alignment based on selection. Here, Very first time CollectionViewCell first cell not showing exact center position. If I didselect once everything working fine.
I need to fix very first time app open first cell not showing exact center position.
NOTE: I didn't added header and footer also I am done my designing using storyboard.
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, sizeForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGSize {
        let text = self.items[indexPath.row]
        let cellWidth = text.size(withAttributes:[.font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 14.0)]).width + 10.0
        return CGSize(width: cellWidth, height: collectionView.bounds.height)
    }

    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, insetForSectionAt section: Int) -> UIEdgeInsets {
        let inset: CGFloat = collectionView.frame.width * 0.5 - 52 * 0.5
        return UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: inset, bottom: 0, right: inset)
    }

A: You cannot use 52 directly since as the cell width, since the width of each cell is dynamic.
You need to calculate the leftInsets and rightInsets of the collectionView based on the actual width of first and last cell.
You can calculate the width of first and last cell the same way you did in collectionView(_:layout:sizeForItemAt) method using the first and last element of items array, i.e.
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, insetForSectionAt section: Int) -> UIEdgeInsets {
    //Calculate width of first cell
    var firstCellWidth: CGFloat = 52.0
    if let textAtFirstIndex = self.items.first {
        firstCellWidth = textAtFirstIndex.size(withAttributes:[.font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 14.0)]).width + 10.0
    }

    //Calculate width of last cell
    var lastCellWidth: CGFloat = 52.0
    if let textAtLastIndex = self.items.last {
        lastCellWidth = textAtLastIndex.size(withAttributes:[.font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 14.0)]).width + 10.0
    }

    //Calculate leftInset and rightInset
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Skinny Bitch Collective: The unconventional exercise class with a controversial name
By Emma Cluley
From the section Sport
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/49891889
An unconventional exercise class with a controversial name disappeared in a storm of outrage earlier this year. But what does its short life tell us about the fitness world it leaves behind?
Skinny Bitch Collective's downfall was sparked after the group posted a video of a retreat in Kenya
More than half the British population barely say a word to their neighbours - in a 2018 poll, 68% described them as strangers. Birthday cards? Two thirds of us couldn't guess the ages of those living next door.
And yet online, we are apparently more connected than ever.
In the world of fitness, brands are increasingly employing digital tactics to attract new recruits. And the classes that succeed in bringing strangers closer together seem to be flourishing the most. They might even pose the biggest threat to Britain's more traditionally popular sports.
Among this developing field, one class emerged as more extreme than the others - certainly in name. The Skinny Bitch Collective. Controversial, highly selective, it was an exercise class reserved for the celebrity elite.
Russell Bateman was behind it. A former writer turned Mayfair personal trainer, he claimed the name of the female-only fitness group, which was established in 2013, was meant as a term of endearment.
Based in London, it quickly became known as the most exclusive exercise class on the planet. Singer Ellie Goulding signed up, so did TV personality Millie Mackintosh and a plethora of Victoria's Secret supermodels.
It was said that Bateman specifically targeted the modelling industry and young, aspiring actresses by promising to help them get in shape before events and shows.
Jenny, a former SBC member, emphasises how difficult it was to get in.
"You couldn't just turn up," she says. "I'm pretty sure they looked at your Instagram following, which I definitely didn't have.
"I remember having to email and say exactly why I wanted to go to SBC. It took weeks for me to actually get into a class.
"People wanted to show others what they were doing as it was so exclusive and you were one of the ones who made it in. Even though I didn't love the workout I still posted about it - it was the 'cool' thing to do. Thinking about this now makes me cringe."
You'd be forgiven for thinking that a class this exclusive would take place somewhere off-limits to mere mortals. The reality couldn't have been more different.
"You could say I was a little surprised when I realised it was inside a Fitness First," Jenny adds. "We were shuffled straight through the door and into a private room."
Once in dimly lit secrecy, the 30 or so women present would stand in a circle and perform a number of activity 'sets' to the hypnotic beat of electronic music, but with a less regimented feeling to that of your typical high intensity interval training (HIIT) class.
Described as 'animalistic' in online comments, the pace was quick. With no equipment besides gravity, your bodyweight, and that of your class-mates, it left participants wondering 'what's coming next?'
Just as the name was extreme, so was the content. A former editor of The Cut also attended a class and wrote: "My partner was a girl from Italy who punched me in the stomach on Bateman's command. As we took turns treating each other's abs like punching bags, she cheered me on: 'Don't worry, you can do it harder!'"
Keen not to 'dilute the brand', Bateman led every session himself to ensure SBC retained its 'unique style'. It was said one session would set you back £42, plus an annual £300 membership fee.
But then - in March this year - SBC imploded, disappearing almost as quickly as it had shot to fame.
Classes featured unusual training methods - some were described as 'animalistic'
Its downfall was sparked by a video of an SBC retreat in Kenya posted online. In it, young, white women were performing Bateman's cave-girl-like exercise programme while Maasai tribespeople stood on in watch.
The fashion industry's whistle-blowing Instagram account, Diet Prada, re-uploaded some of the videos, and fiercely criticised SBC for its "colonial mindset".
It accused the group of using "local Maasai people as literal props in their fitness routines", adding: "Screenshots appear to show the girls writhing around them like an obstacle course."
Batemen quickly apologised, claiming the idea had been designed to promote "cross-cultural exchange". He said the SBC had been "required to be accompanied by the tribe at all times" because of the land the retreat was taking place on.
More than 10,000 comments on Diet Prada's post suggested his words had fallen on deaf ears. The public had seemingly made their mind up. SBC was dead.
Now all that remains of Bateman's brainchild is a handful of online articles. His website reads 'currently down for maintenance' and any trace on social media has disappeared into the ether.
Over email correspondence, he says he "wanted to make people feel better and experience highs and a unique style of workout".
He adds: "There was a sense of family and friendship. People have become best friends after training together at SBC and that's a great feeling."
Bateman has also described SBC as the wake-up call the fitness industry needed. It seems like a controversial thing to say - but you could certainly argue that its rise reflects a trend that appears to be gaining momentum. A trend in contrast to the stuffy classes of the past that featured little interaction or engagement among members.
Take Australian-born F45. It made its way to Britain in 2015, starting out with just two London studios. There are now 35 in the UK, with a further 50 set to open this year.
The concept is simple: Activity is 'functional', hence the 'F'. It features movement and exercises that prepare the body for real life (think squatting and pulling). You make your way around the 20 or so stations, following the instructions on the screens in front of you. Each class lasts precisely 45 minutes and is different to the last.
Its founder, Rob Deutsch, says F45 has a strong community element. 'Team training, life changing,' is its slogan.
It has had a positive reception. Online blog Whatever your Dose wrote: "Everyone is in it together, helping each other out, chatting away about their weekends. It's so much more than just a training session, it's a community."
Many other online responses appear to agree - that motivation is boosted by support from fellow attendees.
"The immediate impact of the cappuccino withdrawal amazed me, but the WhatsApp group I'd been added to told me I wasn't alone," blog user Refinery29 wrote.
And those wanting to see 'results' even faster could opt to take on the F45 Challenge; as many sessions as you can fit into eight weeks, with a diet plan and regular measurement-taking to boot.
Lucy, a former attendee, is less positive about the regime - especially the diet plan. She says: "I mean, it works - I lost weight and got into shape. I don't know whether it's healthy though - it felt a bit like malnourishment.
"Then after the eight weeks that's it really. You go it alone. There wasn't much advice on how to reintroduce all these things you'd banished for the previous two months."
But F45 is far from the most popular among this new wave. That would be CrossFit: 'Constantly varied, functional movements, executed at high intensity.'
CrossFit has taken the health and fitness industry by storm since it was created in the early 2000s. There are now more than 17,000 affiliate gyms ('boxes') worldwide - maybe more once you've finished reading this - and an annual CrossFit Open contest that saw 358,646 registrations in 2018.
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Enter and you can begin to see - and hear - clues to its power. CrossFit has its own unique vocabulary; a language reserved only for those in the know. WODs tell you your workout of that particular day. AMRAP? Get ready to work to exhaustion in 'as many rounds as possible'. Chipper no longer refers to a state of mind but rather an intense combination of long repetitions which you 'chip' away at. 'The workout from hell' it's been likened to online. It's been described as both punishing and euphoric online - sometimes in the same sentence.
And where CrossFit prides itself on the ability to modify WODs depending on your fitness level, the exercise elite will only be looking to 'Rx' them. This means 'as prescribed', meaning that you completed the workout with no modifications to movements or weight.
Classes seem to possess a form of magnetism. Some have even gone so far as to describe CrossFit as a cult. When questioned about this by American news channel CNBC, CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman said: "Call it whatever you want. We're making a difference — a profound difference."
Fitness activities attracted 13.4 million Britons in 2018, according to the Active Lives survey - more than double the number of those going for a jog and only second in popularity to walking.
The survey showed a five-figure growth for gym-goers on the previous year, running numbers remained largely the same, while team sports and cycling participation had a slight decline.
And 2018 stats published by the National Governing Body for Group Exercise show a one million increase of weekly exercise class participants compared with 2016.
While Bateman is clear we won't be seeing an SBC revival anytime soon, he believes it is still influencing the exercise scene.
"I think the landscape is way more community driven than it ever has been, which is great," he says.
Perhaps he is right. Maybe we are seeing fitness fads evolving into something else: fitness families?
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The recent trailer of 90ml movie turned out to be a big time controversy in Tamil cinema. Unlike previous adult movies in Tamil cinema which are majorly based on Male characters such as Iruttu Arayil Murattu Kuththu or Trisha Illana Nayanthara, this movie seems to portray the female characters in such situations.
Oviya who is known for her participation in Tamil reality show BIGG BOSS hosted by Kamla Haasan, appeared as the lead in this film. This is her first film after BIGG BOSS which premiered 2 years ago. 90ML trailer is bold in so many ways in terms of content. It has many double entendre dialogues, intimate and steamy shots of the lead actresses making out with their male counterparts.
As soon as the trailer released, Internet saw various response from the audience. Those who loved the trailer stayed calm it seems which is evident through the majority number of hatred comments surfaced in social media platforms. Even Producer Dhananjayan expressed his disappointment on seeing the trailer .
Now the actress herself asked her fans to wait till the release of the movie before passing comments. She suggested her fans that the movie has been censored and asked her fans to enjoy the adult trailer.
ஓவியா பிக்பாஸ் போய்ட்டு வந்து 18+ படம் நடிச்சிருக்கா….
Earlier Oviya in an interview said "Our film has a bold content but I'm expecting both positive and negative comments from the audiences". Directed by Anita Udeep, the film has music composed by STR aka Silambarasan and Arvind Krishna of Kadhal Kondein and 7G Rainbow Colony fame has handled the cinematography.
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Have you ever played an online BMX / FMX stunts game or roller coaster game and thought – 'I could design a better track than that'? Well, if so, the time has come to back up that great opinion of your track editor talents by testing your creativity and engineering skills in one of the most popular track designing games online! Line Rider 2 is based on a simple idea yet is a very challenging and interactive physics-based game where you have the opportunity to design awesome "do it yourself" stunt & racing courses for a super-cool, daredevil sled rider known as Dude. Use a virtual drawing tool to create the kind of track that others could only dream of, and that you believe would provide an absolutely thrilling ride for your new scarf-wearing, sled-riding buddy. If Dude likes your creations, he'll keep returning to your theme park landscape for more and more..
As well as being a great game for artistic kids and for encouraging all young drawing enthusiasts to practice and improve drawing & design skills, and logical thinking, this fun and addicting DIY game is based on the laws of physics and gravity, and also could be used as a good, interactive classroom exercise for older kids and teens to help learn and get enthused about terms such as motion, dynamics, and spatial awareness. Ok Top Track Designers out there, are you ready? Let's see your amazing artistic skills in full flow!
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This surprisingly-challenging and informative mouse-clicking game could be a good activity for little children learning about the state geography of the US, or anyone interested in the various state borders, shapes and sizes. It could also be used as an online activity to help to exercise / improve memory skills and cognitive ability (If a child places a state in an incorrect position on his/her first attempt, he/she can strive to remember its position in future plays)!
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There are 4 stages to get through, and you can choose from three levels of game play (easy, medium or hard). Certain letters will have different destructive effects on the bugs. You can choose which ones you want to delete or purchase before you start the level. The more secrets you have kept, the more letters you can purchase.
Type For Gold is a funny and innovative typing game for kids, teens, adults & senior citizens where you get to practice or use your super-fast typing skills to make a quirky onscreen character run as fast as he can. The faster you type - the faster your character runs! This fun-filled learning to type game provides hours of enjoyment and will put a smile on your face. Type your way to first place through Round 1, Round 2, the Semi Finals and Finals in the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m race and you will have proven your typing skills beyond a shadow of a doubt!
Be warned; when you get to the 1500m race, lightening-quick typing skills are required to keep up with the onslaught of awkward words. First place is your goal! Typing the correct words will make your character run faster but if you type the wrong letter, you will lose the word and slow down! OK, are you ready? Are you steady? On your marks. Get set. Go! Get turbo-typing!
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This survival-based game should help to exercise your creative engineering skills and your spatial awareness. There is a lot of potential trial and error required in this game. However, this educational activity also teaches you the importance of finding the solution to a problem first time around and acting under pressure. Now, load up those lifebuoys and let's save these guys!
Magic Library is a fun game to help children and players of all ages to improve your typing and keyboard skills, by testing your familiarity and memory of where each letter is on your computer keyboard, and also developing your fast-reactions skills. You are challenged to learn your keyboard letter keys by heart, and gain fast typing skills while enjoying a fun online activity at the same time. Books in the magic library are falling from the shelves in piles. You have to catch as many books as you can by clicking on the corresponding letter on your keyboard.
All of the books are marked with one or another letter that you have to find and click on your keyboard before the book lands on the ground. Some books are falling faster than others, some slower. Tip: Try catching the fast ones first as it will slow down others as well. When you see a scrolled paper or a furry little monster appearing on the screen, press the spacebar button on your computer and you will see an assignment.
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Want to impress your family and friends with some amazing knowledge about Mongolian history and culture? Well, by playing this game - you're on your way to becoming an expert on the subject! Race Across the Steppe of Mongolia is an interactive educational quiz game where you have to answer questions about facts (history and customs) of Mongolia - a land-locked country in Asia between China and Russia. Mongolians love everything equestrian, especially horse-racing - and the questions in the game reflect this. You aren't just answering questions for the sake of it – you are actually helping someone!
Each time you correctly answer a question, your friend Togi advances a spot in an authentic Mongolian horse race. Answer enough questions correctly to ensure Togi wins the race – bringing pride to his family, and his community of nomadic herders. The answers to the questions are 50-50, so even if you don't know the answer - you can just guess! Keep playing to gain some cool general knowledge that will dazzle your friends. Are you ready to expand your mind, and learn some awesome facts about Mongolia? Good, it's time to saddle up Quiz Master.
Math Scramble is an interactive math game for everyone from elementary school age kids to high school teens to grownups. It requires quick-thinking under pressure, where you have to solve scrambled math puzzles by rearranging the numbers with your computer mouse so that they create the correct equation before time runs out (and you lose). The equations involve addition, subtraction and multiplication. Math Scramble appears easy to begin with but can become very testing indeed!
This stimulating, problem solving & learning game is perfect for anyone who wants to practice his or her math skills, boost their mental agility or just spend some fun time mastering numbers! Don't let the simple arcade style graphics fool you! These crafty equations have more to them than meets the eye! OK, time to put your thinking cap on! Have fun Mastermind!
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