High-growth entrepreneurship and technology innovation hold the promise of a better tomorrow. But success isn't as simple as news headlines make it sound. All along a startup's journey, from the initial idea to the growth of a venture into a mature business, challenges arise. This collection focuses on how to navigate the hurdles entrepreneurs face when launching and leading tech startups.
In Brief: Write your values in pen and your strategies and tactics in pencil.
Entrepreneur Tracy Young and Doug Leone, global managing partner at Sequoia, discuss the nature of a harmonious relationship between a startup's founders and the VC firm investing in them. Young is co-founder and CEO of PlanGrid, which allows construction managers to oversee projects via their device. She and Leone speak with Toby Corey, a lecturer in Stanford University's School of Engineering.
Business classes are not a prerequisite for entrepreneurship, and yes, some of the most storied startup founders were college dropouts. But many others say they benefited from academic courses and experiential learning opportunities that focused on the fundamentals of entrepreneurship.
Joshua Reeves, the soft-spoken CEO of a payroll and benefits startup called Gusto, began one talk on entrepreneurship by saying he attended the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar at Stanford University 14 quarters in a row while majoring in electrical engineering.
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the founders of Instagram, met as students in an entrepreneurship work/study program that combines classes, mentoring and other immersive experiences. They and other entrepreneurs who went through the nine-month Mayfield Fellows Program, also at Stanford, say it was the most insightful experience they had as students.
Other alumni of the program include startup founders like Kit Rodgers of Cryptography Research, Avid Larizadeh of Bottica and Google Ventures, David Merrill of Sifteo and Bobby Lee of BTCC. Each one of them possesses innate talents and drive, that along with insights they gained as students, propelled them to entrepreneurial success.
Elon Musk may embody the notion of a naturally gifted entrepreneur, but the aforementioned founders are proof that the necessary skills and mindset can be learned. The thought-leaders seminar and fellowship program are both offered through the entrepreneurship center in Stanford's Department of Management Science & Engineering.
the ability to empathize with and inspire those around you.
When it was published in 2005, entrepreneurship education had exploded to more than 2,200 courses at over 1,600 schools around the country. Kuratko also counted more than 100 established and funded entrepreneurship centers at the time, noting emerging trends in "experiential learning" such as class projects, startup competitions and field trips exposing students to industry.
However, Kuratko notes — as do others — that more progressive universities are offering entrepreneurship courses across a wide range of schools and departments. In particular, "it is critical to expand entrepreneurship education to engineering and science departments where most of these technologies originate," entrepreneurship professors Tom Byers (Stanford) and Andrew Nelson (University of Oregon) state in the Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship.
At the university that spawned Silicon Valley, Stanford's engineering school offers courses, fellowships and other learning opportunities to help students develop the knowledge, skills and behaviors to be entrepreneurial in life. And through Stanford's involvement with the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation – known simply as the Epicenter – students and faculty far beyond the valley have brought entrepreneurship and innovation to their campuses and curriculum.
Funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Epicenter led initiatives that turned thousands of college students and faculty around the country into inspired advocates for bringing a focus on entrepreneurship and innovation to engineering education — touching about 300 U.S. institutions over the past five years.
The Epicenter's leaders recently sat down and discussed how far entrepreneurship education has come in the last 20 years, and what the future holds for integrating more of it into engineering curriculum.
In one instance, an entire engineering college is devoted to graduating innovators by tearing down the academic silos that have historically kept students narrowly focused on their major. Olin College of Engineering, in Needham, Mass., does this in recognition that the next Steve Jobs won't be an expert in just one discipline — and that the late CEO of Apple didn't even major in engineering.
At a recent Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders talk at Stanford, the president of Olin College described how the traditional model of higher learning separates the disciplines and forces like-minded students to stick together. When instead, Richard Miller said, what aspiring innovators need is to be exposed to a diversity of perspectives.
Citing research out of Stanford, Miller explained that innovation happens where three objectives overlap: feasibility, viability and desirability. But at a typical university, most of the students who focus on feasibility (can it be done?) are in the engineering school, while the students concerned with viability (is it financially possible?) are working on MBAs. Meanwhile, the students who care most about desirability (people's emotions) are usually found in the humanities and social sciences.
The point is that the most important traits in entrepreneurship aren't necessarily inherited or the result of total luck. While charisma and happenstance certainly play a role, prominent educators agree that people can learn to be entrepreneurs.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of programs, organizations and universities that want to prepare the next generation of innovators – and the need for them has never been greater.
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Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, describes how she learned to lead companies big and small to success by adjusting to different environments, building on what a business does best, and approaching work with urgency and initiative. In conversation with Stanford Professor of the Practice Tina Seelig, Whitman recounts the explosive growth during her time as president and CEO of eBay, the challenging turnaround of storied tech giant HP, and her 2010 run for California governor that revealed deep political insights that still resonate.
Is 'Lean' the Secret to Startup Success?
In Brief: Every sector can benefit from agile thinking. Get out the building and start talking to your customers.
Today, the cool factor of entrepreneurship has spread around the world as technology startups have grown from fledgling ventures into global forces that can redefine our times. The founders of Facebook, Google, Tesla and Uber are practically celebrities.
For better or worse, all this entrepreneur worship has given rise to the "wantrapreneur," someone who seeks to launch a startup just for the money and acclaim. Never mind that they don't have a great product idea — or more importantly, the business skills to spend capital wisely or responsibly lead a team of hardworking early employees.
So, if there were a step-by-step process that any aspiring entrepreneur could follow, would that be a good or bad thing? In the tech sector, some say such a formula is being taught: the lean-startup methodology, an approach to entrepreneurship that consists of clearly defined steps for discovering customers and developing a product or service.
Over the past five years, the lean movement has spread beyond the traditional tech sector to being taught within the government to publicly funded scientists so they can better translate their research into commercial innovations. At the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, this entrepreneurship-training program is called I-Corps (Innovation Corps).
Now the Lean LaunchPad is being used to address national-security and foreign-policy concerns. After a successful pilot class at Stanford University last spring, the course "Hacking for Defense" will be taught to college students around the country as a way to develop solutions to critical national security problems for the national-defense and intelligence communities. And this fall, another lean-startup course at Stanford debuts, called "Hacking for Diplomacy," where students will work on challenges faced by the U.S. State Department.
From tech startups to government-funded research and now national defense and international diplomacy – are there no limits to the lean approach? Devotees say its widespread adoption and track record of success are proof that it works. Others say the methodology doesn't make sense for certain sectors. So, who's right?
By then, Blank had become an educator, teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford. He combined Osterwalder's business-model canvas with the customer-development process he defined in Four Steps and began teaching what he called the "Lean LaunchPad" methodology in 2011.
Today, countless students and entrepreneurs who have come across his books, including the 2012 bestseller The Startup Owner's Manual, credit their success to Blank's insights. The movement was also advanced by the 2011 book The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries, and continues to grow as the federal government now teaches the lean-startup methodology to scientists at its national labs using the curriculum Blank developed.
An eight-time serial entrepreneur, Blank is the first to admit there is no rule book in Silicon Valley. What his Lean LaunchPad approach does is help entrepreneurs avoid some of the most egregious failures, which he explains are often caused by hubris.
using "agile development" to adjust the product or service based on all the feedback, and then launching a "minimum viable product" to find product/market fit.
The approach worked for Jason Oberg, who, in 2013, was working on a Ph.D. in computer science at UC San Diego. Along with a post-doc at UC Santa Barbara and professors from both campuses, Oberg was researching a basic technology that would help computer-chip makers find vulnerabilities that could result in data leaks and other security issues.
That year, they received a research grant from the National Science Foundation and went through NSF's I-Corps training program. They followed Blank's core mandate to "get out of the building" and talk to at least 10 people per week — potential customers and other stakeholders. For Oberg's team, this meant venturing off campus and chatting up chip makers, chip buyers, potential partners and more. By the end of the 10-week I-Corps program, Oberg realized that his team could indeed build software that finds chip vulnerabilities, and that customers would pay good money for it.
Oberg is now CEO of San Diego-based Tortuga Logic, a startup founded by the members of his I-Corps team. They now have nine employees, secured phase two of the NSF grant and are bringing in both early investment money and revenue from clients.
The NSF offered the first I-Corps training in 2011 and has since grown into a huge success: Over 800 teams from 192 universities in 44 states have completed the NSF training, according to Tom Kalil, deputy director for technology and innovation in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Each I-Corps team includes a university faculty member who is a research scientist and acts as the principal investigator (PI), a graduate student (entrepreneurial lead) working in the PI's lab, and a mentor from their local area with domain expertise.
However, some feel that would-be entrepreneurs are becoming overly concerned with following the formula, while losing sight of more practical business matters. Mike Pozmantier, a technology-transfer expert who managed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transition to Practice program, says he has seen a number of dabblers over the years adhere to the process in lieu of actually solving the issues they encounter.
From his time in government, Pozmantier is well aware of its enormous efforts to understand and adopt the mindset of the private sector. And he acknowledges that I-Corps does a good job of pushing researchers to get out and speak to people — and of teaching one of the few well-defined methodologies for putting people on an entrepreneurial path.
Instead, critics say the lean approach is increasingly skewing entrepreneurship toward the creation of products and services that lend themselves to rapid market releases, iterations and exits. Why embark on the daunting journey of developing some heavy technology that could take years and many millions of dollars just to prototype, when you could design the next Pokemon Go? The smartphone and app ecosystems have already been built, and thumbs are literally twitching for that next digital distraction.
One field that seems to defy the lean methodology is med-tech. Setting aside biometric-tracking devices, wellness apps and the like, much more time and capital are needed to build a product or service that will diagnose or treat a medical condition, says Gordon Saul, executive director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign.
He acknowledges the value of the customer-development process's mandate to walk out of the lab and talk to as many people as possible — especially when it comes to academic research, which Saul says can be "very inward looking." But in the case of, say, a Class 3 medical device — a category that includes the highest-risk products such as surgical implants — the wide array of stakeholders, regulatory issues and immense development costs don't fit into rapid iteration and pivot cycles.
"Developing medical technology is enormously expensive," said Saul, adding that costs to get a Class 3 medical device to market can soar as high as $80 million. He notes that a significant proportion of those costs are spent clearing regulatory hurdles, some of which arise early in the development cycle, such as the documentation of design controls and decisions.
The result is that it's just not that simple to build, test and iterate a minimally viable product in the med-tech field, Saul says.
In fact, the center teaches its own proven, repeatable process for health-technology innovation – a step-by-step approach for identifying and evaluating important unmet healthcare needs, inventing new technologies to address the most compelling ones, and then helping innovators prepare to bring those technologies into patient care.
Since 2001, the center's trainees have founded 41 health-tech companies from projects originated within the program, and treated over half-a-million patients with technologies invented at Stanford Biodesign. The innovations range from a neonatal resuscitation device to solutions for arrhythmia, enlarged prostate and post-menopausal challenges in women.
"We do adapt some of the lean methodology's focus on outward discussions and disciplined gathering of input to help drive decisions, but in a more typical framework that we would see in medical-technology development," Saul said.
Adaptation has also been key in teaching the lean approach to publicly funded researchers working in the life sciences. Tom Kalil at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy said the National Institutes of Health have successfully tailored the NSF's I-Corps program in order to train teams that receive NIH grants to develop therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. But it wasn't a simple copy-paste.
Blank blogged about prototyping I-Corps for life-science innovators. The 10-week class was held in 2014 at the University of California, San Francisco, and in his post, Blank includes video of a physician who described how valuable the customer-development process was for his team's medical-device startup.
But again, Blank says the Lean LaunchPad does not guarantee a successful startup. He points to outliers like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, whose achievements resulted more from their unique talents than any formal education. What made the lean methodology stand out, Blank explains, is that it wasn't a better version of something else — but a radical shift in thinking described as never before.
Today, technology entrepreneurship and the arts are often characterized as clashing forces in society. As tech startups proliferate in a city, we hear the familiar cry that gentrification will sterilize the creative and artistic soul of the community – and that rising housing costs will put artists out on the street.
But both disciplines play a crucial role in shaping our world, so wouldn't it be better to start from a place of empathy, rather than rivalry? Artists and entrepreneurs have so much in common: Each discipline requires creativity and vision to bring an idea to life, and whether you're a musician or a technologist, without passion you've got nothing. Even the underlying strategies and satisfaction felt from a dream realized are similar.
Take Meow Wolf, a Santa Fe-based art collective and production company. It started as a group of artists with a desire to create a space to host music shows, make art, and be expressive in their community. As their installations started gaining traction, the artists began looking for a way to support the collective financially, which was the beginning of their journey into the world of scalability and entrepreneurship.
Spider sculpture 'TaranTula' by Christina Sporrong at the Meow Wolf Art Complex in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In one of his blog posts, entrepreneurship educator Steve Blank begins by presenting two kinds of artists: composers and performers, where the former are the ones who create and latter are those who execute that creative vision. "Founders fit the definition of a composer: they see something no one else does. And to help them create it from nothing, they surround themselves with world-class performers," Blank writes.
Blank's colleague, Stanford Professor Tom Byers, concurs. The holder of the Entrepreneurship Professorship endowed chair in the university's engineering school, Byers has taught students the art and science of technology venture formation for over 20 years – drawing from his faith in higher education and experience in the startup world before coming to academia.
Beyond these feelings of individual joy and passion, Byers explains that the two biggest components of innovation – creativity and teamwork – are the foundation of both music and entrepreneurship.
Stanford is a familiar theater in this supposed war for relevance, with much ink spilled in the debate over whether the emphasis on a liberal-arts education has been overshadowed by Silicon Valley's need for technical innovators. The university has launched numerous interdisciplinary initiatives in recent years that have brought arts and humanities departments closer to engineering, but even at the level of individual faculty members, the spirit of mutual respect is obvious.
Rich Cox, a lecturer at Stanford in the engineering school and Graduate School of Business, takes the intersection of art and science to heart in his own venture, a management-design firm he founded.
Indeed, unique disciplines can literally go hand in hand. In his book The Innovators, Walter Isaacson explains how no less than Leonardo DaVinci, Albert Einstein and many other geniuses engaged deeply with both the arts and sciences at the peak of their inventiveness – themselves citing this interplay as the reason for their success as innovators.
"When Einstein was stymied while working out General Relativity, he would pull out his violin and play Mozart until he could reconnect to what he called the harmony of the spheres," Isaacson writes.
Perhaps the best example of arts and startup communities coming together is the emergence of incubators outside the high-tech sector. Alice Loy, co-founder of Creative Startups, founded the company in 2007 because she realized the potential for innovation in the often-overlooked creative population.
Beyond their innate entrepreneurial abilities, "creatives" also have ideas and perspectives that Loy believes benefit society in the long run. She mentions data showing that entrepreneurs make social change happen. This begs the question: Who are the chosen entrepreneurs who get to shape the future? What kind of world do you want to see?
Loy adds that given how creative expression such as art, music and film are the foundation of the communities we all love to live in, we should invest in artistic entrepreneurs to build more of the world that we want to live in.
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So I've been thinking about magic systems (not sure why, lol) and was wondering what you all thought was the "best" or "ideal" magic system. Doesn't have to be within Morrowind necessarily, but that's how I'm framing it in my mind.
I guess it depends on how you think about things, but it seems like Morrowind has spells kind of like recipes. There are a lot of recipes that all kind of do the same thing, usually with different variations. I'm not really a huge fan of this, because to me magic users would be able to intuit their way through using the energy. Practically, this comes down to learning spell effects rather than actual spells. So instead of having 20 variations on fireballs with different damages and area of effects, you'd learn a single fireball and as you level up, it does more damage and affects a larger area. Maybe you'd even learn fire separately from a generalized AoE, then once you know both, you'd be able to do an AoE fire spell. The only downside is possible lack of customizability, which was a huge plus for Morrowind, but carefully planned, I think it would work.
I've also always been annoyed with needing to recast the same spell over and over again. I'm thinking about things like shield or night eye or invisibility etc. I've played a few games where these kinds of effects are toggles that then decreases your maximum mana. This of course really only works in systems where your mana regens over time, but I think it makes sense that your mental and magical concentration would be maintained, but decrease your ability to do other things at the same time. It never made sense to me that magicka didn't regen, except when you slept. Invisibility would probably still have to trigger off when you interact with something to avoid being OP, but it's a lot nicer to not have to keep casting stuff all the time.
From a more abstract angle, another system I've always liked I actually learned about from the book Eragon. Without getting into the merits of the book itself (lol), I think it actually had one of the more realistic magic systems. Basically, the idea is that doing something magically takes just as much energy as doing something physically, with the action taking more energy the further away you're trying to cast the spell. This means your mana pool is really just your fatigue (if we're comparing to Morrowind), which I think makes sense since mages don't really use much in the way of physical stuff that would deplete fatigue. I realize some things don't translate well, but it makes more sense to me intuitively. The other cool bit to this is that, while it may take the same amount of energy physically, the more you know about what you're trying to accomplish, and the more creative you are, you're still able to do really effective stuff with relatively little energy. For instance, just using a healing spell will work, but it will take a lot of energy. But if you know anatomy and what is actually wrong, you can word the spell more precisely and focus the energy you are spending much more efficiently. For Morrowind, this might mean that your security skill level will help your unlock spells affect higher level locks. From the creativity standpoint, using a very small rock as a high velocity projectile is a lot easier than lifting a bolder and dropping it on someone's head. Similarly, if you know what arteries are vital, you can simply cut that artery to kill, rather than compress their entire body until their head explodes.
I don't necessarily think all or most of this would translate well to Morrowind, but I thought I'd ask to see what systems you've come across or thought up. Figured you all probably had some cool ideas that would be worth discussing.
Creating a good magic system is both a game design task and research of mythology. Former part has to take in account things like media (eg. tabletop game vs computer rpg), flow, ui, gaming psychology etc. while latter is more focused on what the world view of the current fiction is. It's a matter of preference and style too, what might be ideal for Morrowind might not be ideal for scifi-oriented alien magic. Culturally there's also a very interesting aspect in magic, as there are countless theories of magic and myth in human history, and there are multiple views on why this is so, whether it's mankinds urge to explain world around them, or psychological explanations hidden inside human psyche (e.g. theories of Carl Jung). This creative side of designing a magic system can potentially get very deep. Nice topic!
If we are fantasizing of future OpenMW, it would be great for code to allow some customization of magic system too, to be able to expand from simple mana-based spell system into effect based system, or perhaps dynamically changing spell magnitude or effect, but it's a bit tough to create an all-around framework that could support all kinds of magic systems imaginable. In desing document (I think...) there was a goal of building a system for Morrowind-like systems, limiting the scope quite a bit, still allowing plenty of space for modders / game creators.
So instead of having 20 variations on fireballs with different damages and area of effects, you'd learn a single fireball and as you level up, it does more damage and affects a larger area.
I once saw someone posit an idea similar to this, but rather than "level up" the spell, you have some kind of real-time control over casting. That is, you could cast the spell weakly for little magicka, then cast it again strongly for a lot a magicka, without having to learn or select a different spell. You could also control the AoE size in the same way. Your skill in a given school could determine the casting efficiency for spells in that school (i.e. a low skill level means you have to spend more magicka to get the same strength of effect compared to a high skill level).
I do like the idea of sustained spells being made into a toggle that puts some kind of constant drain on you while the effect is on. This would not only help avoid having to constantly recast such spell, but it would also help when you want to end the spell early (a low-power levitate spell that lasts a while, but you only need to cross a small gap, and you're stuck flying slowly until the spell expires; or night-eye that still has a bunch of time left when you walk out from a dark cave into the bright outdoors).
On the topic of magic, I would also like to see spell creation completely revamped. As it is, it simply feels like an in-game spell record editor. It doesn't make me feel like I'm studying or learning arcane mysteries, just ordering from a take-out menu. Considering that magic in the TES universe is unstable and unsafe when pushing the limits of your skill (NPCs immolating themselves from an effect being too strong, losing control of summons, or getting a completely different result than what you thought you were casting), it just feels very sterile and absolute the way you make and use spells in-game. I'm just not quite sure how to really design a replacement here because there is gameplay to consider, as you can't really have a risk of spells misfiring at random during play without unnecessarily aggravating the player. It's not only because it's annoying when the only reason you die and have to reload is because of RNG, but also because it muddies the sense of difficulty; am I only having trouble with this because of bad RNG? did I get through a seemingly difficult encounter because of good RNG?
I've understood that OpenMW already has a pretty good support for Morrowind mods, so I wonder if there are some good magic overhaul mods out there? Has anyone tested them on OpenMW?
Having real-time control on spells would require some features that are not in Vanilla. Any idea how would the AoE or spell strength be controlled? By length of keypresses? By extra keys? Key combinations? Maybe mouse or gamepad analog signals?
I don't think you'll find much that doesn't require MWSE. Vanilla's magic system isn't all that flexible. It wasn't until Oblivion that you got "proper" scripted spells, though that was still limited by the script system. Skyrim is when the door was really opened to extensive magic mods.
I don't think the length of keypresses would be a good way. That makes the weakest and strongest easiest to cast, leaving the medium-strength versions hardest to control. It would also mean stronger spells will always take longer to cast, which you may not want, and creates issues where if you hold it down just a bit too long causing the spell to fail from lack of magicka/skill.
I'm not sure what the best approach would be, but perhaps some sort of key combination. Maybe something similar to Arx Fatalis, where you can draw out "runes" with the mouse to cast different variations (strong or weak, confined area or large area, instant or over time, on touch or at distance, etc).


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I don't believe when Baldwin used "rage" here that he meant some mindless, violent blind fury - a reckless, hulk-like aggression that swings into the void, striking nothing. No, I believe the rage Baldwin was referring to here was the feeling when one understands - by any degree - the overwhelming, ever present, inescapable reality that is white supremacy. White supremacy is what established our 13 colonies and the bedrock upon which our government stands. White supremacy undergirds our economy, the structuring of our neighborhoods and schools. White supremacy provides the mark by which we measure acceptable behavior, language and dress. It is what makes diversity and inclusion programs necessary -- if only for window dressing -- at our jobs. It is what makes Living Corporate, LLC relevant. Baldwin states that rage is consciousness for the marginalized, and I agree.
Eventually, I had to ask myself what I was going to do with my rage. If you are reading this blog, you are seeing it. Living Corporate is a space that was created by a group of relatively conscious people representing a wide array of perspectives, religious beliefs, nationalities, sexual identities and cultures. This space isn't to comiserate with one another, screaming against instiutions too expansive to wrap our arms around. This space is meant is to provide a platform to celebrate, educate and empower underrepresented identities in Corporate America in authentic, approachable ways. As we've said before, we want to engage with other voices that often go unheard and have our conversations out loud.
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Bloomberg pointed to China's active desire for de-dollarization
The PRC authorities are taking more and more measures that will allow the country to subsequently abandon the use of the dollar. On Thursday, January 5, Bloomberg reported.
China's latest efforts to expand interest in its domestic foreign exchange market show a strong commitment to bolstering the yuan's global appeal as Beijing works on its approach to weakening the hegemony of the US dollar.
In particular, observers drew attention to the increase in trading time for the yuan. The window for foreign exchange transactions now includes more convenient hours from the West's point of view. The move supports previous initiatives to promote the Chinese national currency in transactions with major energy and commodity exporters.
It is noted that additional stimulating factors for Beijing are the unstable situation in the world, geopolitical tensions and rising hostility from Washington. Strengthened integration of the PRC into the global financial markets can further strengthen the position and independence of the republic in the international arena.
Earlier, on January 3, it was reported that China's desire to move to settlement in yuan when purchasing oil from the Persian Gulf states is leading to the formation of a new international energy order. Thus, according to experts, Beijing will accelerate the process of de-dollarization against the backdrop of Washington's attempts to manipulate with the help of foreign exchange reserves.
On December 25, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called one of the main achievements of the country in 2022 the successful fight against American hegemony. He stressed that for this, China used the platform of the UN, where it defended its own national interests, which attracted many states to its side.
On December 15, Pavel Zakharov, a leading researcher at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, assessed the prospect of de-dollarization of economic relations between China and Saudi Arabia (SA). According to him, China is actively entering the Middle East and is ready to oust the United States.

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We have to move the ball quicker! – Sarri frustrated by low-key Chelsea
SoccerNews in English Premier League 10 Mar 2019
A frustrated Maurizio Sarri felt his Chelsea side did not move the ball quick enough against an opponent that "didn't want to play" as Eden Hazard rescued a late 1-1 draw with Wolves.
The Blues fell behind to the first shot on target they conceded at Stamford Bridge with Raul Jimenez completing a fine counter-attack for Wolves, who set up to frustrate their hosts, in the 56th minute.
It took a moment of brilliance from Hazard in injury time to finally break down the resilient visitors, but head coach Sarri was unhappy with Chelsea's tempo in Sunday's Premier League encounter.
"We were unlucky because we conceded a goal in the first situation inside our box – the first and the last, I think, in the whole 90 minutes – so we were unlucky for that," he said.
"But, on the other hand, we need to improve with our attacking. The team could defend in the last 20 metres with 11 players.
"We needed to move the ball faster, we needed more movements without the ball, more movements into space, behind the line.
"We played at five touches. And so, if there are no spaces, it's very difficult to score if you play with five or six touches against a very physical team with 11 players in the last 20 metres. We need to improve in this kind of situation."
Sarri opted to change system to a 4-2-3-1 to break Wolves down.
Explaining his motivation for doing so, he added: "For the first time, we were playing against a team who didn't want to play.
"They didn't counter-attack in the last 20 minutes. So, we had to try, I think."
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Chelsea have garnered momentum in recent matches, with back-to-back Premier League wins prior to this draw boosting their top-four hopes.
Sarri concedes Chelsea missed a great opportunity to further enhance their cause on this occasion, but insists all is still to play for.
"When you have to play only 10 matches, every match you are not able to win is a missed opportunity," he added.
"Today was a great opportunity. We were not able to take the opportunity by taking three points. But, in the last six matches, we won four matches and drew the other two.
"So there is a little bit of consistency at this moment. We have to think only for the next match. We need to recover two points immediately."
Opposite number Nuno Espirito Santo praised the work ethic of his team, but acknowledged it was Hazard's brilliance that cost Wolves.
"Yeah, we performed well," he said.
"The first half, we were very organised and didn't allow many things to Chelsea, who are a good team, have good possession of the ball.
"We stayed compact, the second half we started well, got the goal and stayed in shape until the individual quality of one Chelsea player allowed them to score."
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When Criterion announced Burnout Crash!, many immediately thought it would act as a bridge between what the developer did last (Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit) with what's to come. And it would appear these speculations might have had a grain of truth behind them judging from a blog post published on the official site.
Criterion is now looking for new talent to fill a number of vacant roles, including AI programmer, lead software engineer, audio software engineer and senior physics programmer among others. For what? "Our current ambition requires an innovative programmer to deliver killer entertainment experiences with believable, open world AI Racing Drivers," says the AI programmer opening. "Help create a new extension to the existing Criterion team focusing on developing on new platforms," says the lead software engineer opening.
Open world AI racing drivers and new platforms. Whether these are to be combined or not is anyone's guess at the moment. Regardless, we can already see a new Frostbite 2-powered Burnout game coming our way. How about you?


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"Bread, freedom and social justice" was one of the slogans chanted by thousands on the streets of Cairo in 2011, part of the revolution that triggered the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak. Bread is a matter of life and death in Egypt. It's a recognised staple in the diets of most Egyptians and its demand and supply has major social and political implications. With Egypt entering into foreign policy agreements which arguably favour other countries but not ordinary Egyptians, plus new laws subsidising wheat production and its sale, how is Egypt's wheat problem likely to play out for those most affected by it?
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Chris Williams and Ehsan Mokhtari explain the pros and cons of in-line and in-parallel processes for dealing with bots and spiders.
By Chris Williams and Ehsan Mokhtari
The Media Ratings Council has released its Invalid Traffic Detection and Filtration Guidelines and has put a 180-day deadline on planning and implementation for digital media metric providers.
With so many different schemes to get invalid traffic into the supply chain, it shouldn't come as a surprise that there are many different ways to get it out of the supply chain as well. The MRC divides invalid traffic detection into two buckets, general and sophisticated. Think of the general as a checklist of previous offenders while the sophisticated is detective work over time.
General methods of examining traffic include the use of lists of known problems such as data-centre traffic, specific spiders and bots on industry lists, or bot activities, which no human would do. This filtering occurs within ad servers, web analytics or any other ad tech that provides a counting service. It's important to point out it's all invalid traffic but not all of it is fraud, some of it could just be sloppy work. This points to the requirement for process audits to tighten up the work done on the supply side ensuring the list-based approach is applied throughout the supply chain.
The MRC's other bucket is Sophisticated Invalid Traffic. Here fraudsters seek to install malware on people's computers, steal ad tags, re-direct users away from their desired sites, stuff their cookies with fake data and much more. JICWEBS identifies 16 categories of malicious activity.
The general method is consistently applied, however sophisticated methods operate differently depending on where they reside in the ecosystem. Sophisticated methods involve trying to block bots before they generate pages sometimes called Reverse Proxy, presenting challenges such as captcha, pre-load or pre-bid for programmatic transaction environments, and serving third party pixels on ad creative. It's important to underline that all methods are valuable to the overall ecosystem as long as their strengths and weaknesses are understood.
One of the most important distinctions about sophisticated methods is whether they occur "in-line" or "in-parallel." In-line is a sequential process: the browser makes a request, the traffic verification method has a very short period of time to determine human versus bot, after which pages, ads, etcetera, are delivered. In-parallel works by activating a script at a certain point and then separating the delivery of ads and pages from the verification decision which can take as long as necessary.
In-line systems protect downstream users. No publisher wants to give a malicious bot access to scraping its pages for content or code. No programmatic buyer wants to obtain real-time ad placements only to find out later they weren't valid even if they don't get billed for them; they are lost opportunities. However, the challenge is that user experience is determined by page load times and hence any in-line method must balance speed versus the number of operations performed.
In-parallel methods excuse themselves of the user experience challenge and focus on accuracy and depth of operations performed. Some will take milliseconds and others will take considerably longer. Skip to page eight of the MRC's Invalid Traffic Detection Guidelines: "… [D]etection procedures for Sophisticated Invalid Traffic take time to execute and may not be feasible to apply to real-time processes."
Fast-forward now to page 25: "Requirement for Backward Looking Assessments and Correction." The MRC mentions a 14-day window that can be extended longer depending on campaign duration or customer service requirements.
Clearly the in-parallel approach isn't the one to apply to programmatic buying decisions, however it is the one to apply to reporting and billing. No one really cares if their ads were shown to bots but they sure as hell don't want to get a bill for it.
Another advantage of in-parallel methods is the feedback time lag to bots. The MRC raises its concerns about reverse engineering invalid traffic detection secret sauce on page eight: "Measurement organizations that apply Sophisticated Invalid Traffic techniques are likely to need to remove identified Sophisticated Invalid Traffic downstream from original detection at later times to protect detection procedures from reverse engineering."
In-line processes with immediate feedback could be used to train better bots as they trigger positive and false responses.
The point is success against fraudsters and the invalid traffic they generate is a multi-layered approach with specific defences for specific points. The system becomes more effective as it incorporates learning from one point to be applied somewhere else.
However detecting and filtering invalid traffic is only one part of the picture. Beyond that lies the coming arrangements of tracking back to unscrupulous businesses, setting terms and conditions, standards of operations, reconciling billing workflow to provide advantages to audited media suppliers and benefits to advertisers focused on quality. Digital media, like any supply chain, is going through the growing pains of securing its marketplace. This is just the beginning.
Chris Williams is the former president of IAB Canada, and currently works as principal at Chris Williams Consulting. Ehsan Mohtari is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Sentrant, a security company focused digital media integrity. He is also a PhD Candidate at the University of New Brunswick.
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Now that it's legal to stream your music via an FM transmitter, it is logical that manufacturers will start to produce MP3 players for the UK that take advantage of the technology. And they have – with the Inovix Imp-22.
That means you can use the player to stream music to your home stereo or car stereo without having to buy a bulky add-on. The Imp-22 is the entry-level model to take advantage of the technology, offering basic playback of WMA and MP3 files, along with lyric display – and not much else. But if you just want a budget player, that should suffice.
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Having two decades of experience in women's and pelvic health as a physical therapist and functional nutritionist, plus owning a private women's health clinical nutrition and coaching practice, gives her a unique perspective on the integrative, conservative options for pelvic pain management, hormone balance, preconception and fertility support, postpartum recovery, and chronic pain and fatigue management. She regularly lectures on topics such as integrative pelvic pain management, natural fertility options, optimal hormone health, and functional and integrative nutrition for rehabilitation, nutrition, wellness, fitness, and medical professionals.
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The earlier blog post discussed at length on the Honda WRV interiors and exteriors and the drive experience. If you missed it you can read it here.
This post discusses the accessories that the WRV comes with and the different customization options provided by Honda to make your WRV ownership even more exciting.
Side and front body decals make the car look even better than normal. The front bumper guard will protect the car's underside from scratches and dents while the roof rails lend a SUV style appeal to the car. The logo projector is similar to puddle lamps in cars like XUV which help you to understand what you are stepping on at night. There is also a rear bumper protector which makes it useful. There are also body side molds which helps in congested places like mall parking lots to prevent people from banging their car doors against yours.
Some other stuff include seat covers of different types and garnishes all over the body at different places. Nifty door handle protectors, parking sensors with buzzer and rear camera on rear view mirror means that you do not need a separate stereo system for the same.
Honda also provides rear spoiler, front armrest, wifi device for car, steering wheel covers, different types of mats, and rear tray nets besides mud guards and car covers.
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In 1912, one hundred years after attaining state status, the legislature of Louisiana adopted its official state flag, featuring an image of a mother pelican feeding her three baby pelicans in their nest. The symbol of the pelican family has its origins in the earliest days of Louisianas settlement. Legend has it that the states first residents were impressed with the way the mother pelicans would peck at their own breasts until they bled to provide nourishment for their young when food sources were scare. Even though the symbolism of the blood being shed indicated the sacrifices of the people of the state, often the blood drops were absent or the number of drops of blood was inconsistent in many of the official and historical illustrations. After the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a bill was enacted by the state legislature to specify that _three drops of bloodÓ appear on the mother pelicans breast. That law was suggested and promoted by an eighth grade student from Houma, LA, who had noticed inconsistencies in various images and flags he had seen. In 2009, two citizens of the state volunteered to create and donate the artwork to meet the letter of the new law as well as preserve the nearly 200-year tradition and history of the pelican image on the states official seal and flag. On November 11, 2010, the Secretary of State of Louisiana accepted the artwork and unveiled the new flag. Our was proud to be the company selected to create that new, official flag of Louisiana. Our state flags are made from 100% SolarMax nylon. This material, developed especially for the flag industry, is engineered to resist damage from the sun's UV rays. Ouroutdoor state flags are stocked in sizes 12 X 18 inches, 2×3 ft., 3×5 ft., 4×6 ft., 5×8 ft., and 6 X 10 ft. Indoor flags with pole sleeve and gold fringe are available in sizes 3×5 ft. and 4×6 ft. Miniature desk flags are available in sizes 4×6 inch and 8 x 12 inch.
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Zdenka Fantlova, who had been a prisoner at Belsen, met for the first time George Leonard, a British soldier who had been among those liberating the concentration camp seven decades ago. Photo BBC.
An Incredible Survival Story
The Tin Ring
Somehow, the remarkable Zdenka defied all the odds, all the horrors of the Holocaust Concentration camps, and somehow survived.
Somehow, she retained and has never been separated from the tin ring which Arno, the boy she loved, had secretly passed to her in the camp.
And, somehow, this troth serves as a repudiation of the visceral hatred and violence represented by Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen Belsen and all the other monstrous Nazi extermination centres.
Zdenka Fantlov?'s childhood in Czechoslovakia was one of great happiness and love and her life was like that of any other teenager. However, her peaceful existence was soon to be shattered and she was sent to Terez?n concentration camp. Here she was given a home-made tin ring by her first love Arno with 'Arno 13.6.1942' engraved on it. When he gave her the ring he said, 'That's for our engagement. And to keep you safe. If we are both alive when the war ends I will find you'. Arno was sent East on a penal transport later that same day; she never saw him again. After surviving six concentration camps, risking her life for the tin ring and death marches Zdenka found herself, in the last chaotic days of the war, at the hell that was Bergen Belsen.
Zdenka is one of the few living eye-witnesses to the horror of the Holocaust. She survived six concentration camps, lost her entire family and endured unimaginable horrors.
When she was just 17-years-old a simple tin ring made for her by her boyfriend became central to her will to live, until he was selected for one of the early trains ?to the east.???Though her boyfriend died, Zdenka clung to the simple tin ring as a symbol of hope. Her tin ring that she risked everything to keep through all the horrors till liberation, until she was surrounded by the dead and dying and close to becoming one of them herself.
?Then, everyone was on his own,?? she says. ?What most people are interested in [now] is the art of survival, and there is a secret to it. . . . I was 17, I was young, healthy, I was single, I was in love – and that is a tremendous power. To be in love and to have hope was something that gives you strength.
?It?s actually quite simple. Most people who came in felt like a victim. If you feel like a victim you become one. It takes a lot of energy out of you. You are afraid, you worry about what?s going to happen,?? she says. ?I never felt like a victim. I actually felt as though it has nothing to do with me. I was an observer looking out at the barbed wire, the guards, and the dogs. And if you don?t feel like a victim you have a chance.??
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Orange County Crime Statistics from 2015 are shown on the map above. As of the date of this writing (2016) the last available statistics show that Orange County Crime Statistics have risen, after years of falling. In 2015, the overall crime rate rose 23% for Orange County.
As the Orange County Register noted in an article about the increase, much of it was theft crimes, and it was the greatest jump in crime in one year in at least a decade, if not more:
"…police officials blame the surge on a state law they say makes it difficult to keep drug addicts and other low-level offenders locked up, leaving them on the streets to repeat the same crimes and steal to feed their addictions.
Criminologists say that link is speculative, at best, and has not been supported by research of the complex variables that may affect crime rates. They also warn against faulting a major criminal justice initiative before its effects have been fully evaluated."
The biggest increases were in Rancho Santa Margarita, where crime went up over 50%, followed by Garden Grove, where crime rose over 40%, and then Fountain Valley, also over 40%.
Quoting from the above article regarding reasons for the increase: "
Local criminologists warn that anecdotal evidence and short-term increases in crime have been used in the past by police, prosecutors and others to attack legislation they oppose – regardless of whether a causal link has been established.
Charis E. Kubrin, a UC Irvine professor of criminology, said that was the case in 2011, when police departments around the state predicted a new state law, AB109, would cause a crime wave. The legislation, intended to reduce California prison crowding, shifted some state inmates and ex-inmates to the supervision of county agencies.
Nearly five years later, the predictions of increased crime tied to the change were largely discredited in numerous studies by the nation's top criminologists. The collected studies were published this month in a volume of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science that Kubrin co-edited.
"Prop. 47 has become the new scapegoat, just like realignment was a few years ago," Kubrin said. "There has not been one single study that has linked rising crime rates to Proposition 47. If I'm going to make a bet, I'm going to say that this is not related to Prop. 47 because of what we found with realignment, which is a much more drastic measure because of its size."
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Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If…
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A retired lawyer becomes friends with a young wife who has just moved in the adjacent apartment with her family.
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A former police officer goes under cover in the mafia.
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Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return…
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In Paris, a motley group of young people engineer a deadly plan to spread shock and awe in the city. Each plays their own role. Then they all hide in…
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A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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A woman, who gets released from prison and reunites with her sister, discovers she is in an online relationship with a man who may be "catfishing" her.
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
A British Army Captain is plucked from the trenches of WWI in the final chapter of the 12th Doctor's story, in which the Time Lord must face his past to…
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, TV Movie
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Inside I'm Dancing
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the…
Country: UK, Ireland, France
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Country: France, Austria, Germany
When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.
The Zookeeper's Wife
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Set in the southern USA, a racist white man, Hank, falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically, Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who…
An FSB officer fall in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Kickboxer: Vengeance
Eric and Kurt Sloane are the descendants of a well-known Venice, California-based family of martial artists. Kurt, the younger of the two, has always been in his brother Eric's shadow,…
After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
Country: USA, Hungary
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Trailer: Blind


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Every cyclo tourist has come across fascinating stories during these renowned cyclo's: some regarding the fantastic ambiance, others on the melting pot of nationalities or over the stunning and challenging courses, including the ascents of 4 legendary cols of the Alps. Conclusion: this Marmotte Alps has everything a cyclo-lover is looking for!
On the first week end of July all heroes of the bike are awaited on the starting line for what has become an unmissable international cycling event. After the Tour de France the Marmotte Granfondo Alps is the most important tourist event of the summer in the French Alps.