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I have a simple app, when the activity is paused and resumed works fine in the following scenarios:
when it is by tapping the home button, recents, back button and any other event
BUT when the power button is used to lock the screen and unlock the UI is freezed.
So I lock the device and I unlock it and the app does not behave correctly Ui not working, etc.
And this strange behaviour is fixed by pausing and resuming the activity by for example tapping home and then the app icon, or recents.
Some apps I have installed don't have this behavior so it must be fixable.
How can I fix it?


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July 19, 2019 /0 Comments/in Blog /by Molly Holmberg
It was not the kick-off to a "Lonely Weekend" in New York this morning. New Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves performed four of her incredible songs from her latest album, Golden Hour on the Today Show. Dressed in a simple floral dress and her signature guitar, the singer-songwriter impressed fans and even made a huge announcement.
Today Show host Savannah Guthrie introduced Musgraves to the audience before the show saying a simple, "Ladies and gentlemen here she is, Kacey Musgraves." The crowd's loud applause went right into the first song "Slow Burn," which set the mood for the rest of the show. As soon as she started singing, Musgraves' sweet voice filled the air and created a sense of community with the crowd. Other hits sung were "Lonely Weekend, "Oh What A World," and "Happy and Sad." Musgraves had each member of the audience in complete awe of her talented voice, as she sang each word with so much heart and soul packed behind it.
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PAKISTAN: CHRISTIANS BURNED TO DEATH IN ISLAMIST ATTACKS
Posted on August 9, 2009 by particularkev
14 believers reportedly killed; more than 100 homes burned in Gojra town, Korian village.
GOJRA, Pakistan, August 1 (Compass Direct News) – Islamic extremists today set ablaze more than 50 houses and a church in this town in northeastern Pakistan following an accusation of "blasphemy" of the Quran, leaving at least 14 Christians dead, sources said.
The dead include women and children, with several other burn victims unable to reach hospitals for medical care, according to the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS). The attack came amid a protest by thousands of Muslim Islamists – including members of banned militant groups – that resulted in another six people dying when participants shot at police and officers responded with tear gas and gunfire.
The same rumor of desecration of the Quran that led to today's massive protest and attack in Gojra, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Faisalabad, also prompted an arson assault on Thursday (July 30) by Islamic extremists on the village of Korian, seven miles from Gojra, that gutted 60 houses.
Punjab Minister for Law Rana Sanaullah reportedly said an initial investigation of allegations of the Quran being blasphemed indicated "there has not been any incident of desecration."
Because of the earlier assault in Korian, Pakistani officials were already in the area and had sought reinforcements to help control the 11 a.m. demonstration today in Gojra, but security forces were slow to respond, according to CLAAS.
"There were unaccountable people in the mob and they were out of control because only four police constables were trying to stop the mob of thousands of people," a CLAAS report said.
Crowd size and attacks grew, and Islamists managed to block main roads and railways to keep fire brigades from fighting the house fires, according to CLAAS.
With authorities also blocking roads to keep more Muslim extremists from entering from neighboring villages, clerics at local mosques broadcast messages that those "who love Muhammad and Islam should gather with them to defend the Islam because it is in danger," according to CLAAS.
Asam Masih, a Christian in Gojra, said that that women and children were severely burned and had no way to get to a hospital, according to CLAAS, which was helping to transport victims for medical care.
Islamists set on fire a Catholic church on Sumandri road and destroyed it using firearms and explosives, according to CLAAS.
"50 houses are burned and totally destroyed," the CLAAS statement read. "14 people including children, women and men are expired."
Wedding and Funeral
As Christians have begun defending themselves against the onslaughts, mainstream media have already begun referring to the overwhelmingly Islamist aggression as "Christian and Muslim rioting."
Compass investigated the facts of the trigger incident in the village of Korian, where more than 500 Muslims, responding to calls from a mosque, attacked Christians in Toba Tek Singh district. Local sources said nearly all village Christian families fled. The fires destroyed their homes – collapsing their wooden roofs or melting T-iron roofs – and all belongings within that the attacking Muslims had not first looted.
"Our house is burnt and everything is gone, but Muslim neighbors around are not willing to give us a loaf of bread or a sip of water to us," 80-year-old Baba Sharif Masih told Compass.
He and his wife Hanifa Bibi, 73, were the only Christians left in the village in the northeastern province of Punjab. Masih, who is paralyzed, said the attackers let them live when they pleaded that they were unable to run away.
Two church buildings were ransacked but not burned, Compass sources said.
One Christian resident of Korian identified only as Shabir said the blasphemy accusation grew out of an incident at a wedding on Sunday (July 25). During the ceremony, Christian wedding guests tossed currency notes and coins into the air according to custom, with children catching most of them as they fall. Shabir told Compass a Muslim funeral was taking place at the same time, however, and that mourners told wedding celebrants to stop their music; they apparently declined.
The next day, Muslims met with the parents of the bride, Talib and Mukhtar Masih, and told them that their sons had cut pages of the Quran the size of currency notes and had been throwing them in the air the previous night, Shabir said.
"Talib said that nothing like this has happened, but that if there was anything, 'I'll call my son and he will definitely apologize for it,'" Shabir said. "But then they immediately began beating them and left Talib when he fell unconscious."
Shabir said that afterward when Christian women went to the Muslims and told them that they were wrong to beat Talib Masih, the assailants yelled at them and tried to attack them, but they were able to flee to their homes.
On Thursday (July 30), Shabir said, Muslim clerics announced from the village mosque that "if any infidel Christian wanted to save his or her life, then get out of here or they would be killed."
As the Muslim mobs gathered, he said, Christians immediately fled – leaving their meals prepared and fires burning in stoves.
"These assailants first looted these houses and then set them on fire and closed the door," he said. "Since then, not a single Christian is left there except a very old couple."
Islamist's Version
Village Muslims declined to open their doors when Compass reporters called on them.
But one of three Muslim leaders standing with a crowd of turban-clad Islamists at the entrance to the village, Qari Noor Ahmed, told Compass the story of the alleged cut pages of the Quran at the marriage ceremony.
"Because it was night, no one noticed, but in the morning we saw that the pages of the Quran had been cut to currency note size, and they were trampled under people's feet," he said.
Ahmed said that village authorities later met and called in Talib and Mukhtar Masih. He said that council authorities decided that their son should apologize.
"But when his son came in the meeting, he by no means seemed apologetic, rather he was aggressive," Ahmed said. "This was the root cause, and we told Talib and Mukhtar to tell their children to apologize."
Ahmed said that afterwards they searched for Talib and Mukhtar Masih and their sons but could not find them.
"Then Muslims became furious that first they had profaned the Quran, and now they had fled and were not apologizing," Ahmed said. "Then the villagers attacked their houses. All the Christians who are visiting here are armed, and we are sitting here to avoid any untoward incident. It is better for you to leave now or you may be attacked."
Munawar Masih, a 20-year-old Christian in Korian, said that he was preparing supper around 7 p.m. when he heard the announcement from the mosque that "infidel Christians had profaned the Holy Quran, and let's teach them exemplary lesson."
He looked outside as his family was about to sit down to dinner and saw a large mob approaching.
"We just fled from there to save our lives, and since then we are hiding in Gojra," he said.
Private TV channel reporter Ghulam Muhauddin told Compass that after the Korian houses were set on fire, the Islamic extremists blocked the Faisalabad-Gojra Highway to keep firefighters from arriving.
"When the attack was unleashed, several people were injured and even some domestic animals were killed," he said.
Muhauddin said that after negotiations between the District Police Officer and the protestors, Station House Officer (SHO) Jamshed Iqbal Nasir was suspended for not properly handling the incident.
Christians Accused
Officials at the Sadar Police Station, in whose precincts the attack took place, were not available for comment, but a deputy called Imam Din said that a First Information Report (FIR) had been filed under Section 295-B, or blasphemy of the Quran, against Talib and Mukhtar Masih.
He said that the complainant in the case was Muhammad Ashraf, and that police had possession of the alleged burnt or cut papers of the Quran. Din said that after SHO Nasir was suspended and Ashiq Hussein replaced him, Hussein was willing to file an FIR against those who had ransacked and burned houses of Christians. He said the accused were still at large and that police would arrest them after Christians returned to their homes.
Asked if police were under pressure from Islamists or the government, Din declined to comment.
Advocacy group Community Development Initiative (CDI) field officer Napoleon Qayyum said that the group had informed high officials about the Korian attack, including the presidency, and that soon afterward the president issued a notice. Qayyum noted that the Korian and Gojra attacks follow a July 1 attack in Kasur, where swarms of Islamists ransacked and damaged 110 homes.
"It is a clear sign that violent attacks against Christians have dramatically increased in recent days," he said, adding that CDI would provide legal help to victims. CDI works with assistance from the American Centre of Law and Justice.
Muhauddin of the private TV channel added that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had taken the notice of the attacks and was forming an investigative team comprising the Faisalabad Regional Police Officer and Faisalabad Commissioner, which will send a report to him.
A spokesman from the Pakistani president's office, former Sen. Farhatullah Babar, told Compass that President Asif Ali Zardari had taken a notice of the attack and had asked the provincial government to investigate. He said the president has condemned the attack and that there was no justification for anyone taking the law into their own hands.
Asked why the committee constituted by the provincial government did not have any Christians on it, he responded that it was the discretion of the provincial government to determine the make-up of the panel and that the federal government was concerned only about the report. Asked why an FIR had been filed against Christians and not Muslims for ransacking and vandalizing, he said only that appropriate action would be taken after the inquiry.
Member of National Assembly Farahnaz Ispahani, wife of Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani, told Compass that President Zardari had directed Federal Minorities Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti to visit the area and "express sympathy with the victims."
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CHINA: CHRISTIANS WARY AS RECESSION, UNREST HIT
Posted on February 28, 2009 by particularkev
Beleaguered government officials could view church as threat – or a force for stability.
BEIJING, February 25 (Compass Direct News) – With China's central government last December issuing a number of secret documents calling on provincial officials to strive to prevent massive unrest in a rapidly collapsing economy, observers are watching for signs of whether authorities will view Christian groups as a threat or a stabilizing influence.
While the Sichuan earthquake last May proved that Christians were willing and able to assist in times of national crisis, raids on house church groups have continued in recent weeks.
The secret reports have come in quick succession. A central government body, the Committee for Social Stability (CSS), issued an internal report on Jan. 2 listing a total of 127,467 serious protests or other incidents across China in 2008, many involving attacks on government buildings or clashes with police and militia.
"Recently every kind of contradiction in society has reached the level of white heat," the CSS warned in an earlier document issued on Dec. 16.
The document said some officials had "ignored the welfare of the masses … piling up pressure until the situation exploded," and concluded that, "The relevant Party and State organs must … give daily priority to the task of getting rid of all the maladies which produce social instability and the present crisis."
On Dec. 10, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the National People's Congress issued an internal document calling on senior provincial officials to make every effort to alleviate social and political problems exacerbated by the current recession.
On Dec. 12, the Ministry of Public Security authorized provincial officials to tighten control of all communications in the sensitive period prior to Chinese New Year, which this year fell on Jan. 25. Fearing turmoil as millions of newly-unemployed factory workers headed home for New Year celebrations, the government cancelled all leave for Public Security Bureau (PSB) officers, placed them on high alert and mobilized an additional 150,000 police and armed militia for the holiday period.
On Dec. 15, the public security ministry issued a further document calling for tightened security at government ministries, military bases, armament stores, state borders, airports and railway stations.
In its Dec. 16 report, the CSS warned that provincial authorities must try to resolve grievances by non-violent means before protestors begin attacking factories and government offices or stealing, looting and burning property.
The scale of demonstrations and riots has already reached frightening proportions. In the Jan. 2 internal assessment leaked in Hong Kong, the CSS said the 127,467 serious incidents across China last year involved participation of around 1 percent of the population. Of these cases, 476 consisted of attacks on government and Party buildings, while 615 involved violent clashes with police and militia, leaving 1,120 police and Party officials and 724 civilians killed or injured.
Church as Subversive
Concerned by the growth of unregistered house church groups in an uncertain political and social climate, the Chinese government has ramped up efforts both to identify Christians and to portray Christianity as a subversive foreign force.
Local governments in China last year reported on continued measures to prevent "illegal" religious gatherings and curb other criminalized religious activities, according to reports from the U.S. Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC) on Dec. 20 and Feb. 2. (See "Tortured Christian Lawyer Arrested as Officials Deny Abuses," Feb. 11.)
In recent months authorities have quietly gathered data on church growth using surveys at universities and workplaces, and called meetings at various institutions in the capital to discuss the supposed dangers of foreign religious influence. (See "Officials Grapple with Spread of Christianity," Feb. 4.)
Raids on unregistered church groups have continued in recent weeks, with police perhaps prompted to ensure tighter controls on church activity. On Feb. 11, police arrested two South Korean pastors and more than 60 Chinese house church leaders from four provinces who had gathered for a seminar in Wolong district, Nanyang city, the China Aid Association (CAA) reported. The police also confiscated personal money, cell phones and books, and forced each person to register and pay a fine before releasing some of the elderly leaders.
Authorities held six of the detained leaders for several days but by Sunday (Feb. 22) had released all of them, Compass sources confirmed.
In Shanghai, police and members of the State Administration of Religious Affairs on Feb. 10 ordered Pastor Cui Quan to cancel an annual meeting for house church leaders, and then ordered the owner of the hall used by Cui's 1,200-member congregation to cease renting it to Cui within 30 days, according to CAA.
Senior staff at Beijing's Dianli Hospital on Feb. 6 ordered elderly house church pastor Hua Zaichen to leave the premises despite being severely ill, CAA reported. Government officials had refused to allow Hua's wife, Shuang Shuying, an early release from prison to visit her dying husband unless she agreed to inform on other Christians, according to Hua's son. After refusing their offer, Shuang was finally able to visit Hua on her release date, Feb. 8; Hua died the following day.
Both Shuang and her husband have suffered years of persecution for their involvement in the house church movement.
On Feb. 4, police seized Christian lawyer and human rights defender Gao Zhisheng from his home in Shaanxi province, CAA reported. At press time his whereabouts were unknown.
While other incidents have gone unreported, house church leaders in northern China told Compass in January that despite tighter restrictions in the current economic and political climate, they were optimistic about the ability of the church to survive and flourish.
Disenchantment, Dissent Spread Across China
In December, China celebrated the 30th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's "open door" economic reform policy, which had led to a high annual growth rate of some 10 percent. While Party leaders publicly congratulated themselves, an internal party document warned that 75 percent of the financial benefits had gone to only 10 percent of the population, mainly high and middle-ranking Party members and some entrepreneurs.
With the growth rate now seriously dented, relations between Party members and the general public were "about to explode," the document warned.
The document also referred to an "ideological vacuum in Party and state," a "moral vacuum in upholding regulations," and a "vacuum in spiritual civilization," in stark contrast to the moral and spiritual values held by religious groups.
According to the Research Institute of the State Council, urban unemployment among young people had already risen to 10.5 percent by last June. If foreign investors continued to withdraw funds, the institute warned, this figure could rise to 16 percent or higher, sparking more outrage against the government.
Tens of thousands of factories closed down in the first six months of 2008, well before the full impact of the global recession hit China. By November, 10 million migrant workers were unemployed; most recent estimates put the figure at 20 million, and officials admit this figure will reach at least 35 million by the end of 2009.
Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu, responsible for agricultural affairs, warned in a recent report that 30 percent of all villagers have set up peasant organizations to challenge local government officials and crime bosses. Some groups also have plans to launch armed insurgencies and their own peasant governments.
Several million university graduates will also face unemployment this year, potentially lending their voices and leadership skills to mass protest movements.
An increasing number of intellectuals have already signed Charter 08, a petition issued in December calling for multi-party elections, human rights, press freedom and the rule of law.
On Jan. 7, a prominent Chinese lawyer, Yan Yiming, filed an application with the Finance Ministry demanding that it open its 2008 and 2009 budget books to the public. On Jan. 13, more than 20 Chinese intellectuals signed an open letter calling for a boycott of state television news programs because of "systematic bias and brainwashing," while a Beijing newspaper ran an article arguing that freedom of speech was written into the constitution, The Washington Post reported in late January.
In response, Public Security Minister Meng Jianzhu warned China's leaders via state media that, "The present situation of maintaining national security and social stability is grave."
Many analysts agree that the Chinese Communist Party may be facing its greatest challenge to date.
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MUMBAI/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Demand for physical gold in India rose this week as jewellers stocked up for a major exhibition, allowing dealers to cut discounts to the lowest in two months, while the Lunar New Year holiday kept activity subdued in other major Asian hubs.
Dealers in India, the world's second biggest gold consumer after China, were offering discounts of up to $1.5 an ounce over official domestic prices, the lowest since the second week of December, as against $4 discounts last week. The domestic price includes a 10 percent import tax.
Demand improved as jewellers made purchases for next week's exhibition, said Mukesh Kothari, director at bullion dealer RiddiSiddhi Bullions in Mumbai, referring to the India International Jewellery Show that kicks off in India's financial capital on Sunday.
Earlier this week gold prices in India jumped above 34,400 rupees ($482.65) per 10 grams, not far from a record high of 35,074 rupees hit in August 2013. Local prices have jumped more than 13 percent in the past six months.
The rally has, however, been prompting many retail consumers to postpone purchases, said a Mumbai-based dealer with a bullion importing bank.
"Some retail consumers are selling gold instead of buying. They are cashing in on higher prices," the dealer said.
Scrap gold supplies in India may increase this quarter as a rally in local prices has prompted consumers to sell old trinkets and jewellery.
Markets in China were closed for the entire week for the Lunar New Year.
Customer business was "less than normal" this week across much of Asia because of the holiday, said Gregor Gregersen, CEO of Singapore retailer Silver Bullion Pte Ltd.
"However, in the run up to the holiday, there was considerable activity in products such as the 'Lunar Year of the Pig' bullion coins and other bullion products for gift-giving."
Activity was subdued in Singapore and Hong Kong as well.
"There is some retail buying, but jewellers and wholesalers are closed," said Brian Lan, managing director at dealer GoldSilver Central in Singapore.
Premiums of around 80 cents were being charged over the benchmark in Singapore, unchanged from the previous week, Lan said.
International benchmark spot gold prices were on track for their first weekly decline in three, but were still supported above the $1,300 an ounce level.
In Hong Kong, premiums of 50 cents-$1.20 were being charged, said Ronald Leung, chief dealer at Lee Cheong Gold Dealers in Hong Kong.
In Japan, dealers offered discounts of about 50 cents for a second week, a Tokyo-based trader said.


The word gnocchi comes from the word nocchio, meaning 'knot in wood', and the same root for where Carlo Collodi got the name for his character Pinocchio, a puppet made from wood. Gnocchi have been a staple in Italy since Ancient Roman times, but have changed over time. Our potato gnocchi are made by hand using a traditional wooden roller, where the dough is formed into little pieces and rolled on the board to give them their shape.
Gnocchi alla Sorrentina is a classic dish hailing from Sorrento, which is on the west coast of Italy close to Naples. Gnocchi made in the Sorrentina style are covered in tomato sauce with delicious mozzarella cheese and fresh basil on top. Obicà Mozzarella Bar brings you homemade potato gnocchi with fresh tomato sauce, basil, and hand-pulled, authentic buffalo mozzarella flown in directly from Italy! We have made the tomato sauce with fillets of La Motticella tomatoes, from Mr. Paolo Petrilli, in Lucera, a small town in Puglia. The field where they are grown provides for a very limited number of tomatoes that are very rich in flavor; a big part of the harvest is purchased by our friends at Obica'.
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Discussion in 'All Other Sports' started by Canadian_Rugger, Dec 6, 2005.
My bet would of been on Cuba but the Cuban government is not allowing any of its major league stars to play for their team because they say they are traitors.
personally I think the dominican is gonna take it now especially with all their star talent.
anyways i will be watching the world baseball classic and expecting it to be a final of the Dom. Rep. vs USA..
Baseball seasons are too long and too much money involved in the sport.
yah man Alex Rodrigues makes about 5x more money then the whole guinness premiership which is quite disgusting.
Cuba is out of the tourny.
thats why you play minor leaguers, or college kids, theyll play... one, most minor league clubs would love for there players to play for the national team against other national teams, gives them experience, and the same goes for college kids as well, any college coach would love to have there players play a few games for the national team..


Just reading The Age online, and really really really needed to jot down these 'Wish List' dishes via the article '50 Best Dishes' as they look delicious!!!!!!!!
It arrives piping hot on an iron plate with tiny sweet figs tempered by a balsamic reduction. The usual rubbery incarnations of this oft-abused standard should hang their heads in shame.
Almond and barberry-stuffed zucchini flowers keep their crunch under the tangy sauce.
Imagine a Crown croupier with miso‑stained dunked fingers shuffling thick cards of creamy cooked eggplant and slippery tofu and you have this beer-friendly cavort of texture and warm flavours.
Yes, cold peas. But beautifully swaddled in a tumble of shallots, mint, basil and shredded air-dried ricotta.
Sublime and simple, this dish illustrates three Ben Shewry fundamentals: reverence for produce (spud was never so heroic), gobsmacking technique (Maori hangi meets lab coat) and narrative (the dish is a poem to Shewry's native New Zealand). Oh, and it's delicious.
but none sings so harmoniously as his tomato salad, a showcase for pure flavour that tastes like 10 types of sunshine.
Soft and pungent Soignon goat's cheese and feta folded into soft egg in a buttery pastry husk, topped with chives.
A two-hander, springy stone-ground bun with avocado mashed with lemon, thick slices of cucumber, basil, house-made mayo, Austrian cheese and crunchy cos lettuce. Prime summertime food.
If you're from Melbs, have you eaten at any of these places? I NEED TO GO BACK RIGHT NOW!
oooh, thanks for that, will be there on the weekend, and have been focusing on clothes, but food just as good!!


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Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band put on a big damn performance in the Windy City on Friday night.
If you have not yet come across Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, now is the time. It won't be hard to catch them in a city near you, as they seem to be constantly on tour. Having just returned to the US from New Zealand, they will be continuing on tour throughout the US before heading over to the UK.
Last February, when they rolled into Chicago, the severe weather prevented a lot of fans being able to come along and enjoy the show. This time around, they were out in force. However, it has to be said that Reverend Peyton does seem to bring the snow with him whenever he comes to town.
Chicago was delighted to be privy to a set list that combined both older material, such as Left Hand George and Devils Look Like Angels, and newer material from their 2015 album, So Delicious, including fan favorites, "Raise A Little Hell" and "Pot Roast and Kisses". Fans were also treated to a sneak peak of a couple of songs from an upcoming album which they recently recorded during their time in New Zealand.
For a three-piece band, their sound and presence on stage pack a punch. It's great to see something different to the norm, with Breezy on her washboard and Ben on his drum kit consisting partly of an upside down plastic bucket. Fans of slide guitar should look up Reverend Peyton himself. He plays some of the best slide guitars you will ever see, whilst making it all look effortless. As the song says, he was "Front Porch Trained."
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I worked with our friends from Campaign to style up some of their super cute throw pillows along with some of the velvet cushions I already had on our vintage Army cot. I chose their vegan leather Arcata pillow + striped canvas Jackson pillow. I also have the Elia Gunn & Swain blanket for a pop of mint.
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Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War
Gabrielle Hecht
The Cold War was not simply a stand-off between the two superpowers. Its theaters were not just in Washington and in Moscow, but also in the social, economic, political, and cultural arenas of geographically far-flung countries emerging from colonial rule. Moreover, tensions surrounding the Cold War were manifest not only in global political disputes but also in the struggles over technology. Technological systems and expertise offered a powerful tool to shape countries—politically, economically, socially, and culturally. This book explores how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial ... More
The Cold War was not simply a stand-off between the two superpowers. Its theaters were not just in Washington and in Moscow, but also in the social, economic, political, and cultural arenas of geographically far-flung countries emerging from colonial rule. Moreover, tensions surrounding the Cold War were manifest not only in global political disputes but also in the struggles over technology. Technological systems and expertise offered a powerful tool to shape countries—politically, economically, socially, and culturally. This book explores how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became enmeshed in technologies and considers the legacies of those entanglements for today's new global order. It addresses such topics as the the taking over of islands and atolls for military and technological purposes by the supposedly non-imperial United States, efforts to achieve international legitimacy as a nuclear nation by South Africa during apartheid, international technoscientific assistance and Cold War politics, the Saudi irrigation system that spurred a Shi'i rebellion, and the "technopolitics" of emergency as signified by the portable medical kits used by Medecins sans Frontières in the killing fields of the Cold War. The contributors—coming from such diverse fields of study as anthropology, the history of development, diplomatic history, international history, imperial history, and science and technology studies (STS)—chart the course of these historical and geographical entanglements with technology during the Cold War.
Keywords: Cold War, Washington, Moscow, imperialism, United States, South Africa, Saudi irrigation, Medecins sans Frontières, diplomatic history, science and technology
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2 Islands: The United States as a Networked Empire
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4 On the Fallacies of Cold War Nostalgia: Capitalism, Colonialism, and South African Nuclear Geographies
5 Rare Earths: The Cold War in the Annals of Travancore
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6 Nuclear Colonization?: Soviet Technopolitics in the Second World
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7 The Technopolitical Lineage of State Planning in Hungary, 1930–1956
Martha Lampland
8 Fifty Years' Progress in Five: Brasilia—Modernization, Globalism, and the Geopolitics of Flight
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9 Crude Ecology: Technology and the Politics of Dissent in Saudi Arabia
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10 A Plundering Tiger with Its Deadly Cubs? The USSR and China as Weapons in the Engineering of a "Zimbabwean Nation," 1945–2009
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11 Cleaning Up the Cold War: Global Humanitarianism and the Infrastructure of Crisis Response
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Electrochemical lead recycling firm Aqua Metals was named the winner of the Rising Star category in the 2016 Platts Global Metals Awards program.
Aqua Metals was recognised for its AquaRefining process, the industry's first commercially viable alternative lead-acid battery recycling technology.
The company was also named a finalist in the Industry Leadership Award – Base Metals category. All finalists and awardees were chosen from more than 100 nominees across 17 countries.
"It is an honor to earn the accolades of such a highly respected organization for our work to revolutionize the lead industry," said Dr. Stephen Clarke (pictured), chairman and CEO of Aqua Metals.
"As we enter a 'Battery Age,' lead-acid technologies can experience continued market dominance with the development of a recycling method that is economically sustainable and environmentally responsible. This distinction affirms that Aqua Metals has developed just that."


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Join us at this information session to learn more about laneway housing and how it can affect Parkdale! Speakers: Co-founder of Lanescape, Andrew Sorbara and Evergreen group will give a presentation on laneway housing with a Q&A at the end.
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Past winners are set to defend their title at Houston Marathon and Half Marathon
Organizers of the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon have revealed the elite fields for the World Athletics Gold Label road races on January 19.
The city's marathon has now joined the half marathon as a Gold Label event, making Houston the only city in the world to host Gold Label marathon and half marathon races on the same day.
Defending marathon champion Biruktayit Degefa will try to become the first woman to win in Houston four times. Bahrain's Hassan El Abbassi, the Asian record-holder for the men's marathon, is the fastest in the men's field.
Three former winners of the half marathon will be back in Houston to contest the 13.1-mile race: defending men's champion Shura Kitata and 2018 winners Ruti Aga and Jake Robertson. Ethiopian record-holder Jemal Yimer and Kenya's Caroline Kipkirui, the eighth-fastest woman of all time, have the quickest PBs of the half marathon fields.
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The Chevron Houston Marathon offers participants a unique running experience in America's fourth largest city. The fast, flat, scenic single-loop course has been ranked as the "fastest winter marathon" and "second fastest marathon overall" by Ultimate Guide To Marathons. Additionally, with more than 200,000 spectators annually, the Chevron Houston Marathon enjoys tremendous crowd support. Established in 1972, the Houston Marathon...
Eric Kiptanui was involved in Eliud Kipchoge's record-breaking feat in Vienna, and now he is set to run the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon
Kiptanui was part of a 41-member pacemaking team at the Vienna event that ran in front of Kipchoge in a V-formation, protecting him from drag caused by wind, allowing the main runner to save energy in the process — a technique known as drafting or slipstreaming in running events and in motorsports.
"My family was happy. Everybody at home was happy. Eliud is a friend to me, always encouraged me to train. Has done a lot for me. So I think it's very special for me and for my family," said Kiptanui at an event in New Delhi in the build-up to the 15th edition of the event certified as an IAAF Gold Label Road Race.
When asked about his standout memory from the record-breaking feat, Kiptanui picked the moment when his compatriot finally crossed the finish line to complete the historic feat. The sight of Kipchoge raising his arms in celebration, as did his pacemakers behind him, before embracing his wife on the other side of the finish line has now become an iconic sporting moment.
Can a feat like this be achieved without a team of in-and-out pacemakers? Kiptanui replied by saying: "It's possible, and even now it's possible. Even now one can say 'I want to run alone, maybe one pacemaker along the course of the 30k.'"
Life however was far from easy for Kiptanui. Early in his career, the runner resorted to washing toilets to make ends meet, which he now says has been a learning experience and has only made him a stronger person.
"In college, I had nothing. I had no money. I had to look for a job. I got a job for washing toilets. That experience made me a stronger person, because where I am today, and what I did some time back, it tells a lot. I believed in myself, that one day, one time, I will be somebody. No matter who I am now, I will be somebody one day one time," said Kiptanui.
Being part of Kipchoge's 41-member team of pacemakers at Vienna however, isn't his only claim to fame, for he is a serious contender himself as far as long-distance IAAF events are concerned. Kiptanui enjoyed a good run in 2018 by winning the Berlin (58.42 seconds) and Lisbon (60.05 seconds) half marathons, and had won the Barcelona half marathon earlier this year.
For Kiptanui, part of his training for the Delhi half marathon came in the form of his pacemaking duties at Vienna, and has had a fair bit of training in the build-up to the Delhi event in order to keep his body in shape.
East African runners have dominated long-distance running events across the world for decades now, and the Delhi Half Marathon is no different — nearly all the winners in both the men's and women's categories in the event hailing from either Ethiopia or Kenya — both titles being won by an Ethiopian last year.
Come Sunday, Kiptanui will face a stiff challenge from defending champion Andamlak Belihu and debutant Hagos Gebrhiwet. In the women's category, its defending champion and course record-holder Tsehay Gemechu will be in the spotlight along with Kenya-born Kazakh runner Caroline Kipkirui. Over 40,000 are expected to take part in the upcoming event, which begins in the wee hours on Sunday in the national capital, across five categories — Half Marathon (21.097 km), Great Delhi Run (5 km), Open 10K, Senior Citizens' Run (3.2 km) and Champions with Disability (3.2 km).
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Airtel Delhi Half Marathon
Ethiopia's Birhanu Legese and Almaz Ayana took the honours at the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, crossing the line in the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in 59:46 and 1:07:11 respectively to win, world and Olympic 10,000m champion Ayana was making her debut over the half marathon distance but hardly looked like a novice as she led home an Ethiopian clean sweep of...
Ethiopia's Andamlak Belihu and Tsehay Gemechu are ready to defend their men´s and women´s Airtel Delhi Half Marathon titles
Ethiopia's Andamlak Belihu and Tsehay Gemechu will return to defend their men's and women's titles respectively in the 15th edition of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on October 20.
Belihu won men's half marathon title of this prestigious IAAF Gold Label Road Race last year in 59:18, just missing out on the course record of 59:06 which remained since 2014 in the name of compatriot Guye Adola.
"Immediately after last year's race I said that I was going to come back to Delhi in 2019 as I had unfinished business with the course record and I am keeping my promise," commented Belihu, who will still be just 20 on race day.
He returned to India in May earlier this year to also win the TCS World 10K title in Bengaluru, another IAAF Gold Label Road Race promoted by Procam International.
Last year, Belihu had to work hard to hold off his fellow Ethiopian Amdework Walelegn to win by four seconds. Walelegn will also return with the ambition of going one better in this year's race.
No less than eight men in the ADHM 2019 elite field have run under the world class benchmark of one hour but much of the attention will be on a man who has yet to run the distance, Hagos Gebrhiwet.
Gebrhiwet had planned to make his half marathon debut in Delhi last year but a late bout of illness curtailed his training. However, he will stand on the start line this year. He won a bronze in Rio Olympics 5000m race.
The fastest man in Delhi this year will be Erick Kiptanui. The Kenyan notched up two impressive half marathon victories in 2018 when winning at high-quality Lisbon and Berlin races, coming home in the German capital in a personal best 58:42, and he is currently equal seventh on the world all-time list.
Kiptanui has been concentrating mainly on the track but had a solid win at the Barcelona Half Marathon earlier in the year.
In the women's elite section last year, Gemechu made a huge impact in her debut over the distance when she set an ADHM women's course record of 66:50 and in 2019 she has shown it was no fluke with a string of sparkling performances both on the roads and the track, including taking the African Games 10,000m title.
The third and fourth-placed women from the ADHM 2018 also return with Ethiopia's Zeineba Yimer and Kenya's Stacy Ndiwa coming back to do battle.
The fastest woman in the ADHM 2019 elite field will be Caroline Kipkirui. The Kenyan-born runner, who now competes under the Kazakhstan flag, set a personal best of 65:07 in the 2018 Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon.
Kenya's Agnes Tirop will return to the Garden City to defend her title
In 2018, Agnes Tirop set a course record of 31:19 at the TCS World 10K after managing to shake off Ethiopia's Senbere Teferi with just 250 meters to go.
Teferi, who won the RAK Half Marathon earlier this year in a national record of 1:05:45, is also back in Bengaluru while other familiar faces on the start line include Kenya's Caroline Kipkirui and Ethiopia's world half marathon champion Netsanet Gudeta, who were third and fourth in 2018.
Add into the mix the presence of Kenya's world record-holder Joyciline Jepkosgei and Ethiopia's Tsehay Gemechu, who leads the 2019 10km world list after her win in Valencia in 30:15 and it promises to be every bit as exciting as the men's contest.
"Every year the quality of the elite fields for the TCS World 10K Bengaluru gets better and this year is no different," said Vivek Singh, joint managing director of race promoters Procam International.
"We have world record-holder Joyciline Jepkosgei and five male athletes whose personal best is well below the course record."
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Fast times were run at the Prague half marathon today
Kenyan runner Bernard Kimeli won Prague Half Marathon in men's race Saturday at 59:07, setting a new personal best, and Kenyan runner Caroline Kipkirui, who represented Kazakhstan, was best in women's competition in 1:05:44.
"I was well prepared, and I am also happy with the time," said Benard Kimeli after the race. He has improved his best record by 40 seconds compared to last year's victory.
As usual, The race was dominated by African runners mostly born in Kenya.
Kimeli was followed by Felix Kibitok and Stephen Kiprop, both Kenyan runners.
Kipkirui won ahead of Lonah Salpeter, Kenyan runner representing Israel. Lydia Njeri finished with a bronze at 1:07:52 as the first for Kenya.
Kenyan runner Fancy Chemutai, the second best woman in half marathon in the world, did not finish the race. Chemutai injured her ankle in May 2018.
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Kenyan´s Stephen Kiprop will lead the men´s field at Prague Half Marathon
The field of 11,500 will include nine men with personal bests under one hour and two of the fastest women in history.
Stephen Kiprop, who won this year's RAK Half Marathon in a world-leading 58:42, leads the men's field. His challengers will include defending champion Bernard Kimeli, but any one of a dozen others could step up to the top of the podium.
Sondre Moen will return to Prague. The Norwegian is one of the top Europeans with a PB of 59:48. He set his 10km PB of 27:55 in Prague in 2017 and then three months later set a European marathon record of 2:05:48 in Fukuoka.
After dealing with injuries and health problems in 2018, he returned to action last month and set a national 5km record of 13:37 in Monaco.
The race will feature the second and sixth-fastest women in history, Kenya's Fancy Chemutai and Caroline Kipkirui, who have respective PBs of 1:04:52 and 1:05:07.
Former World Half Marathon bronze medalist Fancy Chemutai will compete in her second half marathon in Prague
Fancy Chemutai, who injured her ankle in May 2018, announced her return to action in January, finishing second at the Houston Half Marathon in a time of 66:48, and believes she will be strong enough to challenge the course record in Prague, currently held by compatriot Joyciline Jepkosgei in 64:52.
"I have been in good form for some time after the injury healed. It is a challenge for me in Prague but when I say I am back to my full potential, it means I have gauged myself. I will still fight for medals. I have sat down with my coach and I believe I have a chance to race again," said Chemutai, who currently trains in Iten.
The Kenyan, whose personal best time is 64:52, and last year's Prague runner-up Caroline Kipkirui (65:07), a Kenyan now competing for Kazakhstan, will lead Kenya's delegation to the Czech Republic capital.
However, they will also be up against strong opposition from Asian record-holder Alia Mohammed Saaeed (66:13), European 10,000m champion Lonah Chemtai Salpeter (67:55) of Israel and world marathon bronze medalist Amy Cragg from the United States (68:27).
"I have plans to run the full marathon, but the injury slowed me down," Chetumai said. "Now that I am back in action, I will discuss with the coaches and see how fast I can move to the marathon."
Best Racing Moment of 2018 and My Best Runs 2019 World Best 100 Races were announced today
My Best Runs "Best Racing Moment in 2018" and the My Best Runs "2019 World Best 100 Races" were announced today in Mountain View, California at the My Best Runs (MBR) headquarters.
First on the agenda was the announcement of the 2018 Best Racing Moment. MBR founder Bob Anderson stated, "Eluid Kipchoge was all smiles as he crossed the finish line at the Berlin Marathon September 29."
"He had just smashed the world marathon record clocking 2:01:39. Eliud ran the last 17k without pacers, pushing himself, taking off one minute and 18 seconds off of Dennis Kimetto's record."
"The world has rarely seen one event so dominated by one man, Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge," says Bob who also was the founder of Runner's World magazine (1966) and publisher for 18 years.
Eliud has won many awards this year including World Athletes of the Year at the IAAF Awards.
Next up on the agenda was the annoucement of the 4th Annual My Best Runs 2019 World Best 100 Races.
"There are so many good races in the world. This list could easily be much bigger. However, as we have done now for four years, we have narrowed it down to the top 100," stated Bob.
The featured race at 44 of the best 100 are marathons. There are 20 half marathons and 14 10ks. There is the Western States 100 miler and the Comrades Ultra marathon in South Africa.
The shortest race is the New Balance 5th Avenue Mile in New York City. The longest is the 156 mile Marathon Des Sables coming up March 5 in Morocco.
Most offer prize money totally million of US dollars. The Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon coming up January 26 is offering $1,316,000. This marathon which was first held in 2000 top four men at the 2018 race all ran under between 2:04:00 and 2:04:06. Four women ran between 2:19:17 and 2:19:53.
"It is good to see over $21 million (from races MBR are featuring) in prize money being offered runners," says Bob. "Running is what these runners do and the money is well deserved and important for our sport."
Of course the Berlin Marathon is one of our top 100 but so is the Valencia Half Marathon (Spain) where Abraham Kiptum broke the world half marathon record in the 2018 race by clocking 58:18.
The Birell 10k Race in Prague, CZE also made the list again for the 4th year. 18-year-old Phonex Kipruto from Kenya clocked 26:46 while Caroline Kipkirui clocked 30:19. "This is one fast evening race and obviously belongs on our top 100 list," stated Bob.
The list has races from 23 different countries.
"You can not go wrong in running any of these races," says Bob Anderson. "Your biggest challenge in many of these races will be to be able to be on the starting line. But if you can get in, you will have a blast."
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Kenya's Caroline Kipkirui and Ethiopia's Worknesh Degefa, will go head-to-head in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2018
The two fastest women in the ADHM elite field, Kenya's Caroline Kipkirui and Ethiopia's 2016 ADHM winner Worknesh Degefa, will go head-to-head again after a memorable duel in the Prague Half Marathon back in April. Kipkirui – who set a personal best of 65:07 in Ras Al Khaimah in January – prevailed by just one second on that occasion to take second place in the Czech capital and it's certain that Degefa will have that in mind ahead of her fourth ADHM appearance. Two other highly-rated Ethiopian women will also be on the start line in Delhi: Yeshaneh Ababel and Senbere Teferi. Ababel was second at the ADHM 2017 and has since been victorious at the Istanbul and Yangzhou half marathons while Teferi, who will be making her half marathon debut, has won world championship medals on the track and at cross country in the past and will arrive in Delhi fresh from setting a 3000m personal best when representing Africa at the recent IAAF Continental Cup. All the leading runners will also have in their sights first prize cheques of US$27,000 with a total prize money purse (combined men and women) of US$280,000. "We have two outstanding races in prospect for this year's Airtel Delhi Half Marathon with Eric Kiptanui and Caroline Kipkirui leading the field," commented Vivek Singh, joint managing director of race promoters Procam International. "Once again, we brought some of the best distance runners in the world to India with the aim of entertaining, thrilling and inspiring the Indian distance running community. ADHM's standards and popularity is well-established across the globe, something we are very proud of, and with fields of this calibre 2018 edition should be no different." he added. (09/26/2018) ⚡AMP
Teen runs the second fastest road 10K ever, Phonex Kipruto clocked 26:46 at the Birell Prague Grand Prix
18-year-old Rhonex Kipruto from Kenya runs 26:46 Saturday evening at the Birell Praque Grand Prix. This is the second fastest-ever road 10k, while his compatriot Caroline Kipkirui moved to third on the women's world all-time list.
Phonex Kipruto – who was third in Prague last year in 27:13 and then ran 27:08 in New York before claiming the world under-20 10,000m title in Tampere – clocked 26:46 for a dominant win. It was a Kenyan top three as Geoffrey Koech ran 27:18 in second and Mathew Kimeli 27:26 in third.
A total of 11 athletes dipped inside 28 minutes. The women's race was much closer and Kipkirui won in 30:19 ahead of Fancy Chemutai (30:22) and Diana Chemtai Kipyokei (30:23) to complete another Kenyan clean sweep. Running alone with his opponents rapidly dropping back, Kipruto went through 5km in 13:31 before clocking a negative split of 13:15 to take 22 seconds off his PB.
Only his compatriot Leonard Komon has run a faster time with his world record 26:44 set in 2010.
Strong elite women's field set for World 10K Bengaluru 2018 on Sunday
A strong women's field with elite runners from across the globe has been assembled to challenge Ethiopias IAAF World Half Marathon Valencia 2018 winner Netsanet Gudeta at the TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2018 Sunday. Gudeta's rivals this weekend will include the Kenyan pair of Agnes Tirop and Pauline Kamulu. Tirop, still only 22, won the 2015 world cross country title and has proven herself to be a formidable competitor on the track as well. She won the IAAF World Championships 10,000 metre bronze medal in London last summer and showed she is in excellent form earlier this month when she finished second over 3000m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Doha with a personal best of 8:29.09. Kamulu, 23, has spent several years based in Japan but this will be her first trip to India. She surprised many when she took the bronze medal at the IAAF World Half Marathon Valencia 2018. A third Kenyan, Caroline Kipkirui, doesn't have the international championships credentials of her two compatriots but has shown stunning form recently while winning the Doha 3000m in a personal best of 8:29.05 and also running a 10km best of 30:28 when finishing second in Prague last month, which makes her the fastest woman in Bengaluru and the equal-seventh fastest ever. (05/21/2018) ⚡AMP
Half Marathon World Records were just missed by seconds at RAK
The RAK Half Marathon in UAE delivered. In the women's race Fancy Chemutai from Kenya just missed the world record by two seconds. She ran 1:04:53 just beating out Mary Keitany (1:04:55) and Caroline Kipkirui was third in 1:05:07. In the men's race Kenya's Bedan Karoki set a new course record in 58:42, just 19 seconds off the world record. In second running his first half was Jemal Yimer from Ethiopia (59:00) and third was Alex Kibet 59:06. Seven men broke one hour. RAK indeed delivered. (02/08/2018) ⚡AMP
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Q: How to solve this minimax matrix optimization problem? Recently, I want to know how well can a $\ell_1$ ball be approximated by the image of a $\ell_2$ ball under a linear transform. I formulate this problem as the following optimization problem.
\begin{aligned}
&\min_{\mathbb{H}\in \mathcal{M}_{n}} \max_{\left\|  \mathbf{x}\right\|_2 \le 1} &&\left\|\mathbb{H}\mathbf{x} \right\|_1 \\
&\quad\quad\text{s.t.} &&|\det(\mathbb{H})|=1
\end{aligned}
where $\mathbf{x}\in \mathbb{R}^n$ and $\mathcal{M}_{n}$ denotes the set of $n\times n$ square matrices in $\mathbb{R}$.
Asymptotic analysis (in terms of $n \to \infty$) and numerical algorithms are also appreciated.

A: $\newcommand{\1}{\mathbf 1}\newcommand{\ep}{\varepsilon}\newcommand{\tr}{\operatorname{tr}}$The min-max value is $\sqrt n$.
Indeed, take any real $n\times n$ matrix $H$ with $|\det H|=1$. By the singular value decomposition,
\begin{equation}
    H=U^TDV,
\end{equation}
where $U$ and $V$ are some orthogonal matrices and $D$ is the diagonal matrix with diagonal entries $d_1,\dots,d_n$ such that $d_1\cdots d_n=1$. Then
\begin{equation}
    \max_{\|x\|_2\le1}\|Hx\|_1=\max_{\|z\|_2\le1}\|U^TDz\|_1.
\end{equation}
So,
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
    &\min_{H\colon\,|\det H|=1}\max_{\|x\|_2\le1}\|Hx\|_1 \\
    &=\min_{U,D}\max_{\|z\|_2\le1}\,\max_{\ep\in\{-1,1\}^n}\sum_{i=1}^n e_i^T D_\ep U^TDz \\
    &=\min_{U,D}\max_{\ep\in\{-1,1\}^n}\,\max_{\|z\|_2\le1}\,\sum_{i=1}^n e_i^T D_\ep U^TDz \\
    &=\min_{U,D}\max_{\ep\in\{-1,1\}^n}\,\|DUD_\ep\1\|_2,
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
where (i) $\min_{U,D}$ denotes the minimum over all orthogonal matrices $U$ and all diagonal matrices $D$ with diagonal entries $d_1,\dots,d_n$ such that $d_1\cdots d_n=1$; (ii) the $e_i$'s are the standard basis vectors; (iii)  $\ep:=(\ep_1,\dots,\ep_n)\in\{-1,1\}^n$ and $D_\ep$ is the diagonal matrix with diagonal entries $\ep_1,\dots,\ep_n$; and (iv) $\1:=\sum_{i=1}^n e_i$.
Now the crucial point: considering $\ep$ as a random point uniformly distributed on $\{-1,1\}^n$, we get the expected value of $E\|DUD_\ep\1\|_2^2$:
\begin{equation}
E\|DUD_\ep\1\|_2^2=\1^T ED_\ep U^T D^2 U D_\ep \1
=\tr U^T D^2 U=\tr D^2=\sum_{i=1}^n d_i^2\ge n,
\end{equation}
since $d_1\cdots d_n=1$. Hence,
\begin{equation}
    \max_{\ep\in\{-1,1\}^n}\,\|DUD_\ep\1\|\ge
E\|DUD_\ep\1\|_2\ge\sqrt n.
\end{equation}
So,
\begin{equation}
    \min_{H\colon\,|\det H|=1}\max_{\|x\|_2\le1}\|Hx\|_1\ge\sqrt n.
\end{equation}
On the other hand,
\begin{equation}
    \min_{H\colon\,|\det H|=1}\max_{\|x\|_2\le1}\|Hx\|_1\le
\max_{\|x\|_2\le1}\|x\|_1=\sqrt n.
\end{equation}
Thus,
\begin{equation}
    \min_{H\colon\,|\det H|=1}\max_{\|x\|_2\le1}\|Hx\|_1=\sqrt n,
\end{equation}
as claimed.


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Q: How do output shape in cntk? I write this code:
matrix = C.softmax(model).eval(data).

But matrix.shape, matrix.size give me errors. So I'm wondering, how can I output the shape of CNTK variable?

A: First note that eval() will not give you a CNTK variable, it will give you a numpy array (or a list of numpy arrays, see the next point).
Second, depending on the nature of the model it is possible that what comes out of eval() is not a numpy array but a list. The reason for this is that if the output is a sequence then CNTK cannot guarrantee that all sequences will be of the same length and it therefore returns a list of arrays, each array being one sequence.
Finally, if you truly have a CNTK variable, you can get the dimensions with .shape


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Q: Eigen split's validation score and test score are so different (self-supervised depth) I am a student who studies depth estimation.
I am studying by referring to monodepth2, but the difference in score between validation dataset and test dataset is too severe.
Like monodepth2, learning used train dataset of eigen_zhou, and validation also used split of eigen_zhou.
Why is the test score so different from the validation score?
After the training, the test used test dataset, which is the split of eigen.
train, val
test

Thanks.


At the end of September, CGS and Social Enterprise Institute Chief Operating Officer Stephanie Pronk hit the skies to make her way down to Christchurch, New Zealand, for the Social Enterprise World Forum. As the world's largest annual conference on social enterprise, it couldn't be missed. This year's event boasted 1500 delegates, took place from September 27th-29th, and marked its 9th year running.
Steph's introduction to the Social Enterprise World Forum came last summer, when she spent August of 2016 working for the Scottish social enterprise intermediary, Community Enterprise in Scotland. The UK country is a world leader in social enterprise, and CEIS CEO Gerry Higgins, who has more than 30 years of experience in community economic development, helped to inaugurate the World Forum in 2007. He was one of the hosts of the first conference in Edinburgh, in 2008. It's been held successfully in a different location every year across multiple continents ever since (including Calgary, Alberta in 2013), and will return to Edinburgh next year for its 10th anniversary.
"Ka Koroki Te Manu" was the theme of this year's conference, which in the New Zealand Maori Indigenous language means "Creating our Tomorrow." Steph expanded on this, explaining that "social enterprise is a way to look at sustainably growing and developing business in a future where the social sector and the business sector must be very intertwined, and work together to operate business holistically within the confines of society and the environment." Traditional business doesn't usually consider itself as being constrained by the environment--rather, the environment is viewed as a cache of resources to be distributed and consumed. The conference suggested the creation of a tomorrow where the human activities of commerce and social services operate within, and with, the environment, without destroying it.
The event featured the format conference-goers are well familiar with: large plenary sessions, workshops, concurrent sessions. You could pick and choose what you wanted to attend, but the really cool parts, said Steph, were those aspects of the conference that made it a collaborative and co-creative process. "Participatory streams" were large informal sessions where anyone could share ideas and comments in an active, facilitated conversation. "Open streams" offered delegates the chance to get up and share on whatever topic they could offer advice on, or even ask for help in the form of coaching or mentoring.
What struck me as the most interesting, however, was the "transitional city stream," which, at least to me, was an entirely new concept. Christchurch was affected by a series of earthquakes about six years ago, and is still in a process of rebuilding, which has led them to call themselves a "transitional city." Marveling at the SEWF's organizational proficiency, Steph explained that the transitional city stream "allowed for any business around that was interested or engaged in social enterprise to offer tours of their business or deals on food and the like, and post their offerings on a website attached to the conference." This feature, which was also available as a phone app, allowed participants to schedule such visits alongside conference events; either before, during or after. By extent, the whole city of Christchurch became involved in the Social Enterprise World Forum--"you could make a whole tour of social enterprise out of your time there," said Steph.
Although she got to do some touring of the city herself, Steph's main goal at the conference was to showcase the newly redesigned website for the Social Enterprise Institute, one of CGS's child companies. SEI offers online courses, tools and coaching for social entrepreneurs to succeed--and this would be their introduction to the global stage.
Work out is right! Steph told me that feedback from other social enterprise intermediaries--organizations doing similar work to CGS--gave her "overwhelmingly positive responses." For some potential partners, it seemed to be exactly what they were looking for. They expressed thanks that someone out there had taken the time to develop such a service, and that they were interested in getting involved.
Putting Nova Scotia on the world stage in social enterprise policy development, showcasing the province's dedication to healthy people and healthy communities.
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Another outstanding example of what Nova Scotia's youth can do when given the opportunity to stay in Nova Scotia.
That international scope may be happening already. If you know Steph like I do, you'd know she works fast. We're all looking forward to seeing the Social Enterprise Institute grow and partner with organizations around the world. I can't wait to see what they do next.
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Treasury Prices Post Decline
Investors Keep Eyes
On Yield Curve;
Inversion Run Ends
By Laurence Norman
The Federal Reserve's move to soften its bias toward raising interest rates ended a seven-month long yield-curve inversion -- one of the longest seen in U.S. markets.
The reversal of the benchmark yield curve -- the gap between 10- and two-year yields -- was immediate: from negative 0.05 percentage point just before the statement Wednesday, when the two-year yield was 4.63% and the 10-year rate stood at 4.58%, the curve hit a positive 0.02 percentage point within minutes.
Yesterday, the benchmark 10-year note ended down 18/32 at 100 9/32 with a yield of 4.589%, while the two-year note was down 4/32 at 100 10/32 with a yield of 4.587%. Yields move inversely to prices. An inverted yield curve is a bond-market anomaly in which short-term rates are above long-dated ones. In the past, this has signaled a recession, but policy makers say that is no longer the case, pointing to an array of factors including global capital flows that have kept long-term interest rates low.
For some investors, Wednesday's steepening yield curve seemed the first step in a long-predicted trend, which they expect to gather pace as the Fed starts easing policy. Rate cuts tend to pressure short-term yields most. And with the European Central Bank also getting close to neutral, it is tempting to conclude that years of global curve flattening will soon come to an end.
There is no clear consensus among investors. In the U.S., there are as many cheerleaders of renewed flattening as steepening. The direction of the European and Japanese yield curves also seem opaque.