Just in time to mark its 65th anniversary, Peter Pan is being inducted into the Walt Disney Signature Collection with a release on Digital and Movies Anywhere (May 29) and on Blu-ray (June 5). Fans will be able to return to Neverland to experience one of the classics of Disney's golden age, accompanied by more than two hours of bonus features and brand-new extras.
Based on the stories by Scottish novelist and playwright J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan follows the Darling children — Wendy, John and Michael — as they are whisked away by the heroic Peter Pan to the magical world of Never Land. After flying with Peter and the delightfully impish Tinker Bell past the "second star to the right and straight on 'til morning," they explore the enchanted island and Peter's secret hideout with the Lost Boys, and leap into high-flying battles with swashbuckling pirates and the infamous villain Captain Hook.
The traditionally animated feature was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske and produced by Walt Disney. It featured the voices of Bobby Driscoll (Peter Pan), Kathryn Beaumont (Wendy), Paul Collins (John), Tommy Luske (Michael), Hans Conried (Captain Hook) and Bill Thompson (Mr. Smee); the late, great June Foray also leant her voice to one of the mermaids and Tiger Lily's mother. Margaret Kerry performed the live-action reference for the silent Tinker Bell under the supervision of animator Marc Davis.
Stories from Walt's Office: Walt & Flight – "Think of the happiest things, it's the same as having wings." One thing you'll notice inside Walt Disney's office are all of the models and pictures of airplanes. Walt loved planes and was an aficionado of flying. As a continuation of the "Stories from Walt's Office" series, we'll soar into the world of one of Walt's favorite pastimes and look at the history behind the company airplane he used to scout Central Florida looking for the perfect place to build his second theme park.
"You Can Fly" – A new "Oke" rendition and graphic look of the classic Disney song, "You Can Fly," with fun lyrics on screen and lots of your favorite Peter Pan characters.
"Never Smile at a Crocodile" – A new "Oke" rendition and graphic look of the deleted song, "Never Smile at a Crocodile", with fun lyrics on screen and highlighting the relationship between Captain Hook and Tick-Tock the Crocodile.
While Peter Pan has been one of Disney's best loved films for more than half a century, the adaptation and source material have come under scrutiny in recent years due to the racial stereotyping and slurs against the Native American "Indians." Peter Pan has nevertheless received multiple theatrical re-releases over the years and is the 130th top-grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation, according to BoxOfficeMojo.


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Kelly Ripa and Andy Cohen just got a whole lot closer.
The blonde, 48, was caught accidentally grabbing her fellow host's, 50, private parts while the pair co-hosted LIVE! With Kelly And Ryan on Monday together in New York City, which Andy hilariously posted about on Instagram.
In the snapshot of the cringe-worthy moment, Andy is seen with his mouth wide open, stunned at what had just unfolded.
We've all had awkward moments, but for the mother of three, this may be the one she'll never forget.
Apparently, according to Cohen's caption, the wife of Mark Consuelos was reaching around to grab Andy's hand, when instead, she horrifyingly landed on his crotch.
The incident was perfectly captured on camera, with both TV personalities dropping their jaws in utter shock.
Cohen threw his arms wide in surprise as Kelly realized her mishap even before turning around.
Outside of the laugh inducing moment, the rest of the show, which Andy was filling in for Ryan Seacrest on, was full of excitement from start to finish.
Ripa topped things off by showing pictures of her and her family visiting Cohen's newly born son, Ben.
In one, her eldest son, Michael, 21, cradled the dark haired boy as Kelly explained he got a bit panicky when the baby started being fussy.


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49ers is the debut album by Italian Italo house dance act 49ers, released in 1990 on the Island record label. It features the hit singles "Touch Me" (UK No. 3, AUS No. 18), "Don't You Love Me" (UK No. 12, US No. 78, AUS No. 61) and "Girl to Girl" (UK No. 31).

Critical reception

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Alex Henderson gave the album four out of five stars, describing most of the various singers on the album as having "big, substantial voices" and that the album's producer, Gianfranco Bortolotti, "sees to it that vocal personality is a prime ingredient of such exuberant offerings as "Girl to Girl," "Touch Me," and a remake of [Gloria] Gaynor's "I Will Survive"".

Track listing

Charts

References

External links
49ers at Discogs

1990 debut albums
4th & B'way Records albums
49ers (group) albums

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"No, you may not, I'm satisfied with what we have. Let's just enjoy what we've created and spent the rest of our lives thinking and enjoying the peace,' the man replied.
"Oh Ustratia," Vivantes sighed. He had to admit he was a bit bored with Ustratia being the only other companion he had in the universe. However, he should be careful in admitting that to her.
Naturally, Ustratia felt the exact same way. Now that her Vivantes had finished his creation, he had lost his purpose. He was becoming a bitter man.
Vivantes hovered and turned away from his wife to look into the endlessness of his universe. He was enjoying the beauty of her idea. A lifeform. Development. Simple yet elegant, only conceivable by a woman. Although he knew he mustn't give her too much credit yet. An idea occurred to him as well. He found a purpose again, a way to create. The only thing was, he shouldn't tell his Ustratia yet. That would spoil the fun.
"Which planet would you like to give me?" Ustratia asked.
"My guess is that Earth would be the most habitable," Vivantes replied.
"What's that supposed to mean? What are you going to do, Vivantes?" she asked, suddenly suspicious.
And so they played. Ustratia opened the game and created life. She used all the elements created by her husband and connected cells and atoms. She swallowed a concoction of that mixture and gave birth to a lifeform she modeled after some of the beasts already inhabiting planets Earth, which were created by her husband. Now, she would give them much more, Ustratia bestowed the lifeforms with body, soul, and reason.
There would be no game without stakes and something to play for. Together, Ustratia and Vivantes would build a society. They set up some ground rules. After that, they made the rules up by playing, millennium after millennium.
Ustratia wanted her creation to live peacefully among each other and cooperate, grow and prosper. If she managed to do that, she'd win. Vivantes, on the other hand, was curious to see if he would be able to corrupt the minds of Ustratia's creation and destroy the species. If he succeeded, he would beat his wife.
"Let's give them love and other wonderful things. I will call them virtues," Ustratia said. She created love, compassion, respect, honor, courage, honesty, loyalty and grace, among others. Above all, she gave her creation faith and hope.
She provided them with all the virtues she admired in herself and Vivantes. When she was finished, all she could do was wait for them to evolve. It may very well take the beings thousands of years, hundreds of thousands even, but to her, that felt like minutes.
Now it was time to study how the lifeform would cope. Could these lifeforms figure out why they were here?
Would they obey the rules of the game?
Would they find the ultimate purpose?
Would they be able to coexist?
Vivantes had to admit he was astonished at the sight of his wife's gifts. True, he had created the universe, but this was something far more advanced. It was a part of them both, created in their spirit. Individuals who - within reason - could evolve. In fact, he was so mesmerized by Ustratia's craft, he forgot it was his turn.
"Come on, Vivantes, you're making it too easy," his wife teased.
He focused and made his move. He could only guess at all the virtues his wife granted the life form. He had to counter them somehow and make the life form conflicted and weak. Unknown to Ustratia, her husband created opposite emotions to the ones she created, he called them vices.
He shrank himself to their size and landed on planet Earth. By now, the species had turned into a being that didn't reflect the beasts known as the apes anymore, they were more advanced already. The male and female beings his wife had put onto Earth had bred quickly, for a whole town had already emerged. They looked at Vivantes with curiosity and suddenly he remembered it was his turn.
He gave them all the vices he thought of. Vivantes created hate, cruelty, disdain, dishonor, cowardice, dishonesty, disloyalty, crudeness and many more. Most importantly, he created fear and despair. Vivantes had always understood the universal truth that lay in those emotions. He experienced it once when he found Ustratia. Besides, these vices were part of him and Ustratia too.
When he induced them with fear, he noticed a difference in their behavior. They panicked at his sight and grew violent. Vivantes smiled to himself and was pleased with his move before he joined his wife again.
"What did you do, Vivantes?" Ustratia frowned.
"Is there one?" Vivantes asked with glinting eyes.
Ustratia had an idea, she fueled the beings with ingenuity. Immediately, the pace of their evolution increased. They started fires, build more advanced weaponry, cooked their meat and invented valuable possessions made of metals. But the seed planted by her husband was equally fast in its course to corrupt their souls.
With a nudge from Vivantes, they turned on each other using their inventions. Fire to burn down houses, weapons to kill and valuables to steal.
"You're tearing them apart. The poor beings." It was Ustratia's turn again. She used her hands to pull on Earth and with a hint of strength, she pushed around the tectonic plates. Lands moved closer. The beings mingled.
"Original, I must say," Vivantes said in amusement, "but I can undo that with a snap of my fingers. And so he did. Life on Earth met nature's wrath. Completely oblivious of the one pulling the strings. Slowly, the beings drifted apart.
Ustratia thought for a while. She was buying herself and her creatures some time to roam safely, sparing them from the conniving moves made by her husband. "Homo Erectus," she decided.
Ustratia looked down on the planet and was shocked to see her husband was right. They needed some form of organization. Leaders to take care of the herd. That would be her move.
"Interesting, but what's the purpose?" Vivantes asked.
"You shouldn't have said that. I can work with that," Vivantes smiled as he lifted Homo Erectus's greed and need for power.
The two of them stared at Earth. They saw kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall. Prosperity made way for destruction.
Ustratia liked the game. Her husband was a good match, but she was spurred by her creativity and had an idea. They needed good storytelling, perhaps some people to look up to with messages of hope. Scattered across the world she appointed some men to accept her inspiration and become spiritual leaders.
Vivantes looked at how his wife's move unfolded on the playing field. They were dancing and Earth was their dancefloor. He could see that the beings had become more beautiful with time. More distinct and sophisticated. The art of stories and something to believe in had lifted their spirits and reduced their misery. However, he knew that those spiritual men needed adversaries. Vivantes appointed powerful men to claim the lives of the spiritual leaders and he would use storytelling to his own advantage. Vivantes whispered lies into the minds of many men and women to taint the legacy of the spiritual leaders. One by one these leaders were corrupted or killed. Ustratia had made a small win nonetheless because their stories of sacrifice and hope would remain a source of hope forever.
Ustratia looked at the universe and its majesty. The colors, the movement, the lights, it was magical. She had noticed that the men and women on Earth had created beautiful art in moments of bliss and wonder. She thought it would be a good idea to spark their curiosity, to let the people explore other lands and other cultures even more. To create more and share it. Expeditions were born. Art was shared and people mingled once more.
The population started to grow exponentially and Vivantes did not like that. The more of them there were, the higher the chance his wife would win. So he created the most deadly disease Earth had ever encountered.
People grew weak with fever and shock. Their skin turned black. Contagion spread and a black mist decimated the population.
"I already have," he replied as they both watched people fall en masse.
Ustratia panicked, she had no idea how to counter her husband's move. People died by thousands at a time. She needed to act quickly or she and her creation would lose the game. She couldn't grant her husband that satisfaction. She planted seeds of insight in the people's minds. Through inventiveness and cooperation, the humans managed to quarantine themselves and slowly the dust of the burned bodies settled.
Vivantes hit her with more power struggles, famine, and war. She deflected his attacks with creativity, resilience, and enlightenment. Art found its way through the ranks of warfare and into the heart of the struggling species. Words and teachings spread through books and more and more people connected. Works of hope and useful inventions came to existence. Songs, paintings, and plays entertained the people, inciting hope and faith into their minds.
Vivantes was briefly unsettled for he was once again astonished at his wife's skill and the development of mankind.
"I'll call them humans now. As in the 'Man of Earth'," she said.
"As you wish," Vivantes replied while coming up with a new idea. He would turn one of the humans' strengths into their biggest weakness. Their urge to develop could be speeded up by giving them more of an incentive to grow: the accumulation of wealth. New political structures erected, causing the humans to bicker and seek fortune. Inequality took yet another dive. The same creativity granted by his wife helped humans develop guns and other weaponry in the face of fear, power and wealth.
Ustratia thought her husband had made a mistake with his move, but she would only realize the brilliance of it when the game would finish. She further fueled the human's need for growth and the age of invention and progress had begun.
Vivantes laughed without showing his wife. His plan was slowly folding out in front of them. He'd used the human spirits to destroy themselves, for when they caused their own demise, he would win the game. If mankind would prosper, however, and coexist in peace amongst each other, his wife would win.
He made another move. He stretched his hands and twisted his fingers as if he was pulling invisible strings. Vivantes cut the cords of unison and stirred further hate in the heart of man.
"Making my move, dear." Cut. Cut. Cut. Vivantes had another surge of inspiration, funnily enough, it was one of his wife's greatest gifts to humanity. He toyed with the people's emotions. Unrest, envy, intolerance, and disagreement were all given a more prominent stage in the minds of man.
"Yes, it seems I'm growing rather fond of this game." Vivantes smiled.
Ustratia felt anger rise up in her stomach. Planet Earth roared and rampaged. Inadvertently, she was hurting her own creation.
"Make it stop, Vivantes!" she cried.
Ustratia tried to pull herself together. She wove the threads of human connection, but the damage done by her husband had been too destructive. She tried stimulating love and compassion in order to create a union, but it cost her too much of her strength.
"You've poisoned them with vices and fear. You've fueled greed and envy. You've corrupted their minds!" Ustratia spat.
Ustratia turned away from her husband and watched the other planets. She'd been too naïve. She shouldn't have started this game. Why couldn't she just be content with her husband's creation of the universe and study it or think? Now they were just occupying themselves to pass the time, but it only caused her heartache and pain.
She turned back to face planet Earth and she looked at what was becoming of her creation. Things had spiraled out of control and became more complex with every millennium. Genocides, totalitarianism, terrorism, unrest, diversions, lies, rising intolerance, alienation, the rise of empires and dictators. On top of that, they had stretched the capacity of Earth, causing the planet to unsettle.
Ustratia looked at what she and Vivantes had done. Because of her need to do good and her selfish desire to win, Vivantes was inclined to do the same. Her species now stood at the threshold of self-destruction. The only way they could be saved was to help them go back to their origin. The origin she created. The humans needed to recognize each other's humanity. The problem was, she could flare the hope in humankind and even fuel gratitude and love, but all minds had already been corrupted with fear induced by Vivantes. It was all she could do for now. They could only act out of their own free will. That's where her husband had created his opportunity to win.
Vivantes watched as mankind was on their quest to enlightenment. He enjoyed their struggle. His last move would be to speed up the planet's deterioration. This, he argued, created fear beyond the people's control. Unfortunately, he was right.
Ustratia felt tears burning. She was unable to stop the planet from destroying itself. Her last move aided the humans in finding their reason for existence. Every move she'd made had been part of that process and invited humans to join each other on the path for spiritual growth.
"They're coming to terms with their fate, Vivantes," she replied calmly.
"Oh, to hell with it then!" he replied with anger. Vivantes took the Earth in his hands and threw it up into the universe. He was a sore loser. And with that, all the pieces of the game of reason were catapulted into the endlessness of the universe.
"Now you'll never know, dear," Ustratia said.
"They were all being fooled anyway," Vivantes replied as he sat back to enjoy his own creation.
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Obec Páleč (dříve Velký Páleč,  Gross Paletsch) se nachází v severní části okresu Kladno mezi obcemi Vraný a Zlonice asi deset kilometrů severně od města Slaný. Žije zde  obyvatel. Dominantou obce je gotický kostel Narození Panny Marie.

Historie

Název obce nejspíše souvisel s tím, že obec vznikla na místě vypáleného lesa při kolonizaci ve 13. století. První písemná zmínka o obci pochází z roku 1316. V obci stála tvrz, na níž sídlil místní zeman. V první polovině 14. století patřila alespoň část obce biskupu Janu z Dražic, který ji daroval nově založenému klášteru augustiniánů v Roudnici nad Labem. Ten měl nejpozději roku 1338 také patronátní právo ke zdejšímu kostelu postavenému v letech 1333–1338. Po husitských válkách přešla obec do majetku českých panovníků, kteří ji propůjčovali. V 16. století ji získali od císaře Ferdinanda I. páni Hrobčičtí z Hrobčic, kteří ji drželi do roku 1623. Ještě v roce 1928 bylo možno pozorovat asi 40 m široké a 36 m dlouhé původní zdivo základů vlastní tvrze, tvrz samotná zřejmě zanikla ve třicetileté válce, kdy bylo jmění Hrobčických zkonfiskováno.

Jednou z nejvýznamnějších postav v dějinách obce byl bezpochyby Štěpán z Pálče, syn místního vladyky, který byl přítelem mistra Jana Husa. V době svých studií jezdili společně do Pálče na prázdniny. Společně působili také na univerzitě v Praze, kde patřili k reformní straně. Do sporu se oba dostali po Husově vystoupení proti prodeji odpustků v Praze, vyhlášeném papežem Janem XXIII. a po Pálčově návratu z Itálie. Páleč se i přes dlouholeté přátelství na Kostnickém koncilu roku 1415 postavil v Husově procesu na stranu žalobců a podílel se tak na jeho odsouzení. Později nemohl zůstat v Čechách a zemřel ve vyhnanství v Polsku.

Územněsprávní začlenění
Dějiny územněsprávního začleňování zahrnují období od roku 1850 do současnosti. V chronologickém přehledu je uvedena územně administrativní příslušnost obce v roce, kdy ke změně došlo:
 1850 země česká, kraj Praha, politický i soudní okres Slaný
 1855 země česká, kraj Praha, soudní okres Slaný
 1868 země česká, politický i soudní okres Slaný
 1939 země česká, Oberlandrat Kladno, politický i soudní okres Slaný
 1942 země česká, Oberlandrat Praha, politický i soudní okres Slaný
 1945 země česká, správní i soudní okres Slaný
 1949 Pražský kraj, okres Slaný
 1960 Středočeský kraj, okres Kladno

Rok 1932
Ve vsi Páleč (430 obyvatel) byly v roce 1932 evidovány tyto živnosti a obchody: holič, 3 hostince, kapelník, kolář, 2 kováři, 6 rolníků, řezník, 3 obchody se smíšeným zbožím, spořitelní a záložní spolek pro Páleč, trafika.

Pamětihodnosti
 Kostel Narození Panny Marie
 V jihovýchodní části vesnického jádra se dochovalo tvrziště zvané Na Hrádku, které je pozůstatekm pálečské tvrz. Ta byla založena snad již koncem třináctého století a zanikla po třicetileté válce.
 Kříž na návsi

Doprava
 Silniční doprava – Do obce vedou silnice III. třídy.
 Železniční doprava – Železniční trať ani stanice na území obce nejsou. Nejblíže obci jsou železniční stanice Zlonice a Vrbičany, oboje ve vzdálenosti 4 km ležící na trati 110 z Kralup nad Vltavou a Slaného do Loun.
 Autobusová doprava – Obcí projížděla v červnu 2011 autobusová linka Slaný – Zlonice – Vraný (8 spojů tam i zpět) .

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Externí odkazy

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Obce v okrese Kladno
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General Wesley Clark (in 2001): "We're Going To Take Out 7 countries In 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran
General Wesley Clark (in 2001): "We're Going To Take Out 7 countries In 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran
By Mike Sygula,
Originally published in March 2007 General Wesley Clark: "Because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, "Sir, you've got to come in and talk to me a second." I said, "Well, you're too busy." He said, "No, no." He says, "We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq." This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, "We're going to war with Iraq? Why?" He said, "I don't know." He said, "I guess they don't know what else to do." So I said, "Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?" He said, "No, no." He says, "There's nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq." He said, "I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down governments." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail." So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" — meaning the Secretary of Defense's office — "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me." And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He said, "Sir, I didn't show you that memo! I didn't show it to you!"
Written by: Mike Sygula
Mike Sygula is a blogger, entrepreneur and activist promoting alternative ideas to raise public consciousness of the important issues facing humankind. He is the founder of Truth Theory. Read More stories by Mike Sygula
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You can often spot these black, wingless, beetle-like creatures on the leaves of indoor and outdoor plants. The signature semi-circular-shaped notches along the sides of leaves, caused by adults as they feed, are another tell-tale sign of a vine weevil infestation. The pale cream-coloured larvae meanwhile feed on the roots of plants destroying the root system and causing them to wilt and die.
Both the adults and their larvae can be one of the most destructive pests to shrubs, small trees, garden and house plants. They can be a particular problem in pot grown plants and adults seem particularly keen to lay their eggs in peat based compost.
Adult vine weevils are 1cm in length and wingless. They're dull black with light-coloured patching running down their backs.
Adults are mainly nocturnal and only feed at night.
Adult vine weevils appear between March and April from the soil of indoor pots, and between May and June from outdoor pots and borders.
After mating, each female lays between 500 to 1, 500 eggs into the soil around their favourite host plants.
Eggs hatch ten-15 days later into white C-shaped larvae with brown heads, which begin feeding on roots, tubers, corms and the lower stems of susceptible plants. They grow to around 1.5cm in length.
The larvae remain in the soil until they emerge as adults.
Most adults will die in late autumn when cold weather sets in. Although those in houses can often survive into the next year.
Overwintering larvae will feed on the deep roots in the soil and pupate around late April to early May.
Check plants every week to prevent vine weevil infestations becoming out of control and deal with early signs immediately.
Remove and destroy newly-hatched adults to reduce the numbers of eggs laid in the soil. This is best done at night, with a torch, when the weevils are most active.
Use netting and fleeces to stop adults moving between plants and laying eggs within pots.
Replant perennial pot plants in the spring and look for and remove any vine weevil larvae you find.
Use commercially available nematodes (microscopic worm-like creatures) Steinernema kraussei and Heterorhabditis megidis that can be watered into pots or surrounding soil to control vine weevil larvae. The nematodes seek out and kill vine weevils.
Quarantine or dispose of any soil from pots where vine weevil have been found. Don't reuse this or throw on the garden because it may still contain vine weevil eggs, larvae or pupae.
Remove plants that have unexplainably wilted and died and examine the roots. If they appear eaten, then search the surrounding soil and destroy any vine weevil larvae that you find.
Look for leaf edge notching on garden plants to indicate where adult vine weevils are feeding. Then treat the surrounding soil with nematodes during the summer months to control any larvae that appear.
Avoid using broad spectrum insecticides which will kill soil-dwelling predators of vine weevil larvae, such as centipedes and carab beetles.
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Crypto Investments in Italy to Hit 14,000B USD by 2023
Feb 19, 2019 at 15:26	// News
It is predicted that, by 2023, alternative assets such as crypto (Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, Litecoin and others), precious metals and other collectables will amass 14,000 billion USD of the Italian market with a growth rate (GR) of 59% as compared to 2017, gathered and managed by 34,000 investment firms and managers worldwide (up 21% compared to last year) - according to the Prequin report.
Italy is likely to join this international drift with Individual Savings Plans, that should lift and increase VC - venture capital (risk capital), Economyup reports. The country now needs to focus on implementing financial decrees.
In a situation where the indicators that measure the country's potential to generate wealth is uncertain and doesn't cause the intensity of feeling among the public, then the future becomes unpredictable. But here comes the good news for investors, thanks to digital currencies investment is showing unstoppable growth.
The Prequin report, where over 120 institutional investors and around 300 portfolio manager across the globe took part in the interview, anticipates appealing and striking global growth in crypto assets.
Reasons Behind the Estimates Include:
performances recorded by private funds with respect to, for instance, listed markets;
technologies, especially blockchain, that will enable consolidation of networks, assist investors/fund managers to invest and monitor their portfolios, hence lowering costs compared to listed markets;
A cumulative willingness from investors to control their investments, which is more possible and feasible with "private capital";
expansion of emerging markets
The assets that are under management are soaring in alternative assets since they have been able to show positive returns for investors as time passes.
However, as Coinidol reported, banks in Italy are changing to blockchain technology due to the conservative response that is focusing at reducing technological developments may last in the market, according to Carmelo Barbagallo – head of supervision Bank of Italy.
The Opportunity for RIPs
In 2017, Italian RIPs gathered over 11 billion, collected 4.2 billion in 2018, and are forecasted to collect around 2.8 billion in 2019. RIPs are individual savings plans introduced in Italy by the 2017 Budget Law. Nevertheless, much will be collected depending on the decrees being implemented - as it will be soon issued.
The optimism of players of the "open funds which manage RIPs" is that these limitations are now unstiffened, and the nervous Italian venture capital community claim that this very regulatory framework is confirmed. This will make it largely possible to allow major capital into the cryptoasset industry, which could help to raise the number of operators available. The equation is simple: more capital for fundraising = new operators are born = more capital for investing = greater number of investments in startups = greater probability of exit with returns to investors.
In the long run, if alternative assets like cryptocurrency, venture capital & private equity accumulate returns, according to the Prequin report, then the legal purpose of 3.5% of RIPs in VC investment funds is highly welcome in Italy.
Source text: https://it.coinidol.com/crypto-investments-italia/
Cryptocurrency USD Italy Assets Report Market Litecoin
Ethereum Consolidates above $3,200 Support as Buyers Regroup for a Rebound
Bitcoin Is Trapped below $44,000 as the Crypto Risks Further Decline


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Q: Uncaught ReferenceError: function is not defined. Onclick/ onChange TL;DR
getTotal should give me a total of these 2 functions summed together but it's throwing me an error instead:
Uncaught ReferenceError: getTotal is not defined
onchange http://127.0.0.1:3211/XyZPage/Untitled-1.html:1
Uncaught ReferenceError: getTotal is not defined
onclick http://127.0.0.1:3211/XyZPage/Untitled-1.html:1
code:
var service_prices= new Array();
service_prices=["0"]= 0;
service_prices=["1500"]= 1500;
service_prices=["4000"]= 4000;
service_prices=["8000"]= 8000;
function getServicePrice(){
    var serviceOptionPrice=0;
    var form = document.forms["formulario"];
    var selectedOption = form.elements["servicePrice"];
    serviceOptionPrice = service_prices[selectedOption.value];
    return serviceOptionPrice;
}
//checkbox calculation//

function extraPrices(){
    var extraPrices=0;
    var form=document.forms["formulario"];
    var selectedBox = form.elements["selectedBox"];
    if(selectedBox.checked==true){
        extraPrices=400;
    }
    return extraPrices;
}

//total final calc//

function getTotal(){
    var finalPrice = getServicePrice() + extraPrices();
    document.getElementById("result").innerHTML= "eddies" + finalPrice;
}

I've tried couple fixes from threads here but nothing worked so far. JS alongside html https://jsfiddle.net/j1t68npf/

A: You have a several syntax errors in your JS which prevent the parser from reaching the getTotal() definition. So it remains undefined.
The offending sections is:
service_prices=["0"]= 0;
service_prices=["1500"]= 1500;
service_prices=["4000"]= 4000;
service_prices=["8000"]= 8000;

If you repair this you will no longer get the undefined error.
After this is fixed there are several other coding errors which, when resolved will get you this:

//reference the form by it's ID//

//Dropdown list calculation//
var service_prices = new Array();
service_prices["0"] = 0;
service_prices["1500"] = 1500;
service_prices["4000"] = 4000;
service_prices["8000"] = 8000;

function getServicePrice() {
  var serviceOptionPrice = 0;
  var form = document.forms["formulario"];
  var selectedOption = form.querySelector("#servicePrice");
  if (service_prices[selectedOption.value]) {
    serviceOptionPrice = service_prices[selectedOption.value];
  }
  return serviceOptionPrice;
}
//checkbox calculation//

function extraPrices() {
  var extraPrices = 0;
  var form = document.forms["formulario"];
  var selectedBoxes = form.querySelectorAll("#selectedBox");
  selectedBoxes.forEach(box => {
    if (box.checked == true) {
      extraPrices += 400;
    }
  })

  return extraPrices;
}

//total final calc//

function getTotal() {
  var finalPrice = getServicePrice() + extraPrices();
  document.getElementById("result").value = "eddies" + finalPrice;
}
<form id="formulario">

 Type of Service

  <select name="serviço" id="servicePrice" onchange="getTotal()">
    <option value="none">Select a service</option>
    <option value="1500">1500€</option>
    <option value="4000">4000€</option>
    <option value="8000">8000€</option>
  </select>

DESIRED EXTRAS

  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox" value="4" id="selectedBox" onclick="getTotal()"> Who we are
  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox" value="5" id="selectedBox" onclick="getTotal()"> Where we are

  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox" value="6" id="selectedBox" onclick="getTotal()"> Gun Gallery
  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox" value="7" id="selectedBox" onclick="getTotal()"> eCommerce

  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox" value="8" id="selectedBox" onclick="getTotal()"> Internal Mangement
  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox" value="9" id="selectedBox" onclick="getTotal()"> News

  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox"> Social Network

Estimated Total

  <input type="text" class="InStyle" disabled id="result">

</form>

It bears mentioning that you should not re-use ID values in html, they are supposed to be unique.

A: This is a corrected version of your code, as stated in comments there were multiple syntax errors, but most importantly, you're handling the checkbox collection as if it were a single checkbox.
In this version I iterate all checkboxes and accumulate 400 for each checked one.

//reference the form by it's ID//

//Dropdown list calculation//
var service_prices = new Array();
service_prices["0"] = 0;
service_prices["1500"] = 1500;
service_prices["4000"] = 4000;
service_prices["8000"] = 8000;

function getServicePrice() {
  var serviceOptionPrice = 0;
  var form = document.forms["formulario"];
  var selectedOption = form.elements["servicePrice"];

  if (selectedOption.value != "none") {
    serviceOptionPrice = service_prices[selectedOption.value];
  }
  return serviceOptionPrice;
}
//checkbox calculation//

function extraPrices() {
  var extraPrices = 0;
  var form = document.forms["formulario"];
  var selectedBox = form.elements["selectedBox"];
  selectedBox.forEach(el => {
    if (el.checked) {
      extraPrices += 400;
    }
  })
  return extraPrices;
}

//total final calc//

function getTotal() {
  var finalPrice = getServicePrice() + extraPrices();
  document.getElementById("result").value = "eddies" + finalPrice;
}
<form id="formulario" name="formulario">

 Type of Service

  <select name="serviço" id="servicePrice" onchange="getTotal()">
    <option value="none">Select a service</option>
    <option value="1500">1500€</option>
    <option value="4000">4000€</option>
    <option value="8000">8000€</option>
  </select>

DESIRED EXTRAS

  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox" value="4" id="selectedBox" onclick="getTotal()"> Who we are
  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox" value="5" id="selectedBox" onclick="getTotal()"> Where we are

  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox" value="6" id="selectedBox" onclick="getTotal()"> Gun Gallery
  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox" value="7" id="selectedBox" onclick="getTotal()"> eCommerce

  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox" value="8" id="selectedBox" onclick="getTotal()"> Internal Mangement
  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox" value="9" id="selectedBox" onclick="getTotal()"> News

  <input type="checkbox" name="selectedBox"> Social Network

Estimated Total

  <input type="text" class="InStyle" disabled id="result">

</form>

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Home RegTech Anti-Fraud Visa is launching an AI-powered solution to fight the risk of fraud...
Identification/Background checks
Visa is launching an AI-powered solution to fight the risk of fraud facing financial firms
From: RegTech Analyst
As billions of data records have been stolen through the years, payment giant Visa has announced a new tool in the fight against fraud.
Advance Identity Score is developed to combat the rising tide of identity fraud that costs US financial institutions roughly $10bn per year.
The new tool leverages Visa's artificial intelligence and predictive machine learning capabilities with application and identity related data to generate a risk score for new applications. Visa says that this score is based on virtually all approved and declined bank card application data in the US. This score can then help banks and other financial institutions prevent fraud and the negative fallout that follows.
Visa also hails the new solution as an alternative to the jigsaw of different legacy solutions many financial institutions use today, solutions that the payment giant argue are riddled with "gaps and limitations that may create customer friction or false positives."
"Visa's mission to connect the world and enable individuals, businesses and economies to thrive is more important than ever with Covid-19 affecting communities and all parts of the economy," said Melissa McSherry, senior vice president and global head of data, security and identity products and solutions at Visa. "As consumers, financial institutions and merchants focus on controlling expenses during uncertain times, the cost of new account fraud in terms of money and time lost can be significant.
"Advanced Identity Score offers financial institutions a powerful tool to use on top of existing systems and processes to prevent identity related fraud. This is the latest example of the value that Visa brings with its scale and expertise in combining data with AI to deliver advanced services that benefit participants in the digital economy."
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Fluctuating Fish – The 64th Yorkshire Three Peaks Race
By Rock & Ride OutdoorsMay 26, 2018 No Comments
Big Fish, Small Pond
I love the Northern Irish mountain running scene, although of late I've been rather invisible within it. It's buoyant, flourishing and boasts many brilliantly organised events, from the iconic Slieve Donard race to the prestigious Mourne Skyline, with many other classics between. With evening club races attracting over 350 runners, it's clear to see that fell running in N.I. is no longer solely the preserve of the grizzled minority, and many new faces are being lured away from the gimmick laden world of compulsory finishers medals and garish t-shirts towards the purity of the open hills.
Big Fish – Small Pond. Breaking records on Slieve Donard
If there's one thing lacking though, and I hope I don't cause offence here, it's genuine competition at the top end. The same faces repeatedly take the accolades and although a new name creeps through occasionally, there's never the strength in depth to guarantee that every race will be a gruelling fight to the line. My heart lies in the Mournes, and hours of every week are spent sweating through this granite wonderland, but competitive motivation comes from being measured against the best of the best, on courses long enough to provide challenge regardless of pace. The soul is in Ireland, but ambitions lie further afield.
The Yorkshire Three Peaks Race needs no introduction. A self-proclaimed 'marathon with mountains', it covers a punishing 37.4km, with a considerable 1608m of ascent and descent over a multitude of surfaces and gradients. Probably best described as three separate fell races with lengthy and speedy transitions between, it's a unique challenge, and one I've long had on the radar. As a Yorkshireman by birth, there's something doubly alluring about the Dales, with many legends of the fells, past and present hailing from this land of the hardy. Here is where I chose to pit myself against the best, expecting a sobering experience and hopefully a grand day out in that bizarre combination of pleasure and pain.
Tiny Fish, Big Pond
Competition is what I sought, and competition is what I was guaranteed! This years entry list boasted six previous winners, several former world champions, up and coming international stars and some of the most talented British fell runners of this generation. As the qualifier for the GB World Championships squad, everyone with aspirations of bagging a precious national jersey would be planning to peak for this particular effort. Being this far out of my depth, and with zero knowledge of the course, pitting myself against rivals seemed pointless, but thankfully the organisers give an alternative target, a sub 3:15 time which would categorise my performance as 'Elite', and if achieved would normally guarantee a top 25 finish.
Slow Fish, Fast Pond
With my folks living just down the road in Settle, I enjoyed a leisurely morning without excessive travel, able to soak up the atmosphere on site, happily wandering round enjoying the views, blissful ignorance allaying any particular pre-race nerves. Positioning myself near the front of the 900+ runners gave opportunity for a quick chat with Tom Owens, Karl Gray, Jack Wood and Murray Strain, acquaintances from previous World Championships, who's rapidly disappearing heels would no doubt be my view for the next few minutes. Not wrong! The pace out of the start field was more akin to a Cross Country race than this epic, and I was forced to fight hard to not get swamped from behind whilst avoiding wasting energy that I'd definitely need later.
Pen-Y-Ghent is the first peak, with a highly runnable surface layered over an increasingly un-runnable gradient. I took it very steady, marvelling at the pace of the leaders and keeping breathing controlled. It felt like I was in the high-twenties by the time I bleeped the summit dibber but was apparently 17th, rapidly slipping a few more places preserving quads on the battering descent.
The next ten miles or so were fast and undulating with a speedy man-made track allowing a good leg stretch. I felt strong throughout, despite a comedy fall in a rare boggy field, split seconds after enquiring after the health of a fellow competitor who also decided on an impromptu bum-slide. It seemed like very little time before we exited on to the road, and my only familiar section up to the incredible Ribblehead Viaduct, recognisable from many photos and a quick scope out from the car the day before.
There was a great buzz around the gazebo planted there, assisted by live commentary giving some info on the runners as we passed. I was delighted to be slightly ahead of both GB International Robbie Britton, a former 24 hour World Champs medallist and Jethro Lennox, former Three Peaks winner and World Long Distance champ, very esteemed company indeed! Pacing past the crowds gathered at the imposing stone structure we began to ascend the lower slopes before the leg-sapping steeps of Whernside.
Like a Fish, Slippery River
I'm still baffled what possessed me to seek a dry route over the river at the base of Whernside's grassy slopes. Needless to say, the second X-Talons touched greasy bedrock I was face down, spilling gels into the flow and cursing the shot of pain from my knee. The ensuing adrenaline was more than welcome though and I ate into the climb with glee, sharing conversations with spectators, waxing lyrical about the race and surroundings. On the ridiculously steep summit ramps, a victim of over-pacing was swallowed rapidly, gratifying to be the passer and not the passed, he no doubt had a torrid time from there on. To the contrary, I was strengthening and after backing off the gas to avoid further straining my damaged leg on the rocky descent, I re-found rhythm and paced to the Hill Inn checkpoint where I was delighted to be told I was 14th.
Taking a dip at the base of Whernside – Photo Credit Estelle Willis
Foreign Fish, Home Lands
I'm a proud Yorkshireman who through family and residency is an Irish international, so why the Australia vest? Truth is, it's the tightest fitting singlet I own, a trade from last year's Worlds, and I figured it'd be the most comfortable top for this race. It certainly elicited some surprised reactions, most of which were immediately dampened by my Northern Hemisphere accent as I thanked the support. Apologies to anyone left under the impression I'd flown in for the day, sometimes I was puffing too hard to chat!
Flying Fish, Impressive Times
The final peak is Ingleborough, a progressive curve of a ramp, lulling you in with shallow field entrances before twatting you in the face in the final few hundred metres of suffering. Fortunately, I'd watched Victoria Wilkinson's top tips on YouTube and she'd told me to keep energy in the bank for this very section. Final gel swallowed at the base and a gradual warm-up before simply maintaining the pace on the tortuous and uneven steps. It was one of those rare and beautiful occasions where the body simply responds to will, and I had puff to spare whilst running all but a handful of metres in the steepest section, even able to converse with onlookers who told me I looked the fastest yet! Needless to say I checked later and Tom and Murray still battered me between Hill Inn and the summit, but I was up with Ricky and Jack and took ninety seconds out of one of my fell-running heroes, Calder Valley's Karl Gray. The effort gained five places and dipped me into the top ten, hitting my most ambitious of expectations. With hindsight, I wish I'd pushed harder from the bottom, I certainly could've gone a couple of minutes quicker, but then who knows if it'd have impacted the loooong descent to the finish.
Dancing up Ingleborough – Photo Credit Andy Jackson
Slightly Bigger Fish, Huge Ocean
And what a finish it is. A run in so lengthy it was probably directed by Peter Jackson (Google it!). The tricky surface and tiring legs combined with the only moments of navigational panic to make for uncomfortable moments as I sought the track down to the railway crossing in Horton-in-Ribblesdale. Underpass safely navigated and a sprint to savour, squeezing out the dregs to minimise the seconds. Over the line, 9th place, 3:05:32, not bad for a first-timer and I'd be confident of a sub-three if I can find a similar performance to add to my new-found knowledge. Delighted with my time and pleased with the result, a slightly bigger fish now in this ocean of talent.
Top-ten put me on to the extended podium and so I stuck around, watching my Dad's band put in a herculean two-hour set in the searing heat of the tent, probably as hard an effort as the race itself! With a flight back to Dublin leaving imminently, I was sweating over the delayed proceedings and am eternally grateful to the organisers who let me skip the queue to collect my voucher. About to exit stage left, I was accosted by the ladies on the top table who dragged me back up to be awarded the stunning Jack Bloor trophy for best newcomer, adding my name to some extremely talented athletes including N.I.'s own legend, Robbie Bryson.
Fastest Newcomer! – Photo Credit Dave Woodhead
Not Flying Fish, Ryanair to Blame
A rushed drive to Leeds Bradford was rendered unnecessary by a delayed flight that gave time in the airport to digest the day. What an event! A brilliant course through breathtaking scenery and over breath-robbing hills; precision organisation and awesome marshalling, hundreds of vocal and friendly supporters, the Three Peaks definitely delivered! Ten minutes within 'Elite' time is gratifying, sixteen off the win less-so, but Tom is a different breed. Congratulations to everyone who completed the course and huge thanks to all involved. I think I'll be back again but before that it's all about Poland and the World Long Distance where I definitely won't be wearing the Aussie vest.


Abstract: The achievements of social-welfare arrangements in Western Europe are well known: considerable income security, relatively little poverty and, in some countries, ample supply of social services. But there are also well-known weaknesses and hence considerable scope for improvement. Three types of weaknesses are considered in this paper: social-welfare arrangements are often not financially robust to shocks; individuals make undesirable behavioural adjustments in response to welfare-state arrangements and their financing; and social-welfare arrangements are often poorly adapted to recent changes in socio-economic conditions and preferences of individuals. I discuss these weaknesses, and alternative methods to mitigate them, in the context of various types of welfare-state arrangements that the individual may encounter over the life cycle.
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From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Married Life!
Ever since I was a child, my parents fed my precocious reading ability. The real treat was every Thursday afternoon. My father and I would drive into town to make deliveries for his watch repair business and we would stop at Clay's News Agency. There, I would always choose the same thing: a coveted copy of The Wall Street Journal.
And ever since that childhood, I have been a newspaper hoarder.
As a child, each of those newspapers was a precious gift. The articles were written for and about important people — people who'd made something of themselves; people who made decisions and ran the world. I had to savor every succulent morsel of that paper. Even if it would take me the rest of the week, I'd read every article, sometimes three or four times. I'd internalize the business leaders and politicians and all the important decisions they made. I imagined what I would do in each situation, what decisions I would make in each case. As I devoured the contents, I dreamed that one day I would be among the decision-makers of the world. I would leave my parents' one-horse town and make my mark on society.
Each Thursday, when I brought home the latest edition, I couldn't bear to part with its predecessor. Not all the articles, the people, the friends I'd made in my mind as I travelled their lives with them! And so instead of discarding the previous week's edition, I stowed it under my bed.
There they remained until my parents cleaned out my bedroom when I went away to college.
Fast forward some fifteen years, and I'm married.
In the apartment my wife and I shared, I could justify the stacks of newspapers: the apartment complex did not offer recycling, so we stacked the newspapers behind the door of our spare bedroom. When we had a trunkful, we drove to the recycling center with my precious cargo.
My wife never knew how much it pained me to recycle them. In fact, I'm sure she attributed my hesitancy to the physical labor involved in moving the stacks from our third-floor apartment to the parking lot below. Not wanting to scare my new bride, I never told her the truth.
But the truth came out nonetheless. When we moved into our first house, the recycling truck came by once a week. And it accepted newspapers.
Attending graduate school and working, I had little time to spare. The newspapers delivered each morning started to pile up near the front door. At first, with moving and packing, my wife was lenient. She understood that I wanted to catch up on reading before recycling the papers. She was content, at first, with the slow trickle of newspapers leaving the house. But with two papers delivered each day, they were coming in faster than I could read them.
"Just recycle them," she told me. "By the time you read them, it'll be old news. Start fresh with tomorrow's paper."
How could I explain to her that childhood feeling of solidarity I'd had with each news story and its participants? My engagement with the goings-on in the world had lifted me, inspired me to be the first in my family with a college degree, the first in my family with a job in the city. It was the stories of those business leaders and politicians, their successes and failures, which served as the foundation for my own decisions. They had given me so much. How could I simply abandon them without a second thought? I wondered as I gazed at the growing stack that had now intruded into the corner of our dining room.
It didn't take long for my wife to guess at my hoarding tendencies. Relieved that it was limited to newspapers, she allowed me to use our home's spare bedroom as my office, which she told me I could use for "newspaper storage." She promised it would be my own room and that, as long as the newspapers stayed there, she wouldn't bother me about them.
A few years later, a layer of newspapers lined the floor. Precarious stacks stood like unwieldy skyscrapers. There was a narrow and dangerous path from the door (which could no longer close) to the desk. But still, my wife kept her promise: she never bothered me about the papers.
That is… until the mice.
One autumn day, I heard a skittering about in the newspapers. Peering behind one of the piles, I saw that a family of mice had nested in the soft shredding of our paper shredder's basket. Peering back there, I saw that mice had invaded my office and found comfort in the stacks of warm newspapers and all the cozy nooks they offered.
It was when we covered the paper shredder, my wife and I, and drove out to the reservoir to release the mice back into the wild, that it dawned on me that hoarding newspapers might not be the best idea. We didn't tell my wife's parents about the mice, but we borrowed their SUV and cleared out the papers nonetheless.
I'll admit — it was difficult. As I watched those stacks disappear from my office, I felt like I was murdering a friend. Every now and then I'd read a headline of an ancient edition and say to my wife, "Maybe just…"
But she'd shake her head, pick up the stack, and continue out the door. "There's always the Internet," she said.
When the shock of it wore off, it dawned on me that I liked having a clean office, a room in which I could move about. Every now and again, a small stack would grow in the corner, but a certain look would come across my wife's face — for she now used the office along with me — and I knew it was time to recycle.
It is still a challenge for me, and I think it always will be. Each day when the newspaper arrives, I can't help but feel a tinge of that childhood adrenaline, the wonder at the possibility of the world. But then I think of how far I've come, how much I've learned of the world since leaving home, all the decisions I've made and people I've impacted. When I think of these things, it isn't so hard to make that trip to the recycling bin.
Besides, there's always the Internet.
~Eric Allen
Title: Reprinted by permission of Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC © 2012. In order to protect the rights of the copyright holder, no portion of this publication may be reproduced without prior written consent. All rights reserved.
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The Impact of Cost on Feature Selection for Classifiers
by McCrae, Richard, Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University, 2018, 181; 13423087
Supervised machine learning models are increasingly being used for medical diagnosis. The diagnostic problem is formulated as a binary classification task in which trained classifiers make predictions based on a set of input features. In diagnosis, these features are typically procedures or tests with associated costs. The cost of applying a trained classifier for diagnosis may be estimated as the total cost of obtaining values for the features that serve as inputs for the classifier. Obtaining classifiers based on a low cost set of input features with acceptable classification accuracy is of interest to practitioners and researchers. What makes this problem even more challenging is that costs associated with features vary with patients and service providers and change over time.
This dissertation aims to address this problem by proposing a method for obtaining low cost classifiers that meet specified accuracy requirements under dynamically changing costs. Given a set of relevant input features and accuracy requirements, the goal is to identify all qualifying classifiers based on subsets of the feature set. Then, for any arbitrary costs associated with the features, the cost of the classifiers may be computed and candidate classifiers selected based on cost-accuracy tradeoff. Since the number of relevant input features k tends to be large for typical diagnosis problems, training and testing classifiers based on all 2k – 1 possible non-empty subsets of features is computationally prohibitive. Under the reasonable assumption that the accuracy of a classifier is no lower than that of any classifier based on a subset of its input features, this dissertation aims to develop an efficient method to identify all qualifying classifiers.
This study used two types of classifiers—artificial neural networks and classification trees—that have proved promising for numerous problems as documented in the literature. The approach was to measure the accuracy obtained with the classifiers when all features were used. Then, reduced thresholds of accuracy were arbitrarily established which were satisfied with subsets of the complete feature set. Threshold values for three measures—true positive rates, true negative rates, and overall classification accuracy were considered for the classifiers. Two cost functions were used for the features; one used unit costs and the other random costs. Additional manipulation of costs was also performed.
The order in which features were removed was found to have a material impact on the effort required (removing the most important features first was most efficient, removing the least important features first was least efficient). The accuracy and cost measures were combined to produce a Pareto-Optimal Frontier. There were consistently few elements on this Frontier. At most 15 subsets were on the Frontier even when there were hundreds of thousands of acceptable feature sets. Most of the computational time is taken for training and testing the models. Given costs, models in the Pareto-Optimal Frontier can be efficiently identified and the models may be presented to decision makers. Both the Neural Networks and the Decision Trees performed in a comparable fashion suggesting that any classifier could be employed.
Advisor: Mukherjee, Sumitra
Commitee: Laszlo, Michael, Mitropoulos, Francisco
School: Nova Southeastern University
Department: Computer Science
School Location: United States -- Florida
Source: DAI-B 80/04(E), Dissertation Abstracts International
Subjects: Artificial intelligence, Computer science
Keywords: Classification, Cost, Feature selection


Today I´m announcing a translation project for Hero Chronicle: Project Olympus. This is a crossover RPG from Winkysoft and Banpresto, who you´ll know from Super Robot Wars. In fact, Masaki Andoh and Shu Shirakawa make appearances as playable characters, and this features the very first appearance of Gilliam Jaeger, a character who will go on to appear in several Super Robot Wars titles. The title screen music from this game actually became Gilliam´s SRW theme starting with the PS2 Super Robot Wars Original Generations titles.
This game looks interesting for sure. Will look out for it in the future.