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From MasterMind To Misuse In Four Years: Who Owns Our Data?
Kalev LeetaruContributor
AI & Big Data
I write about the broad intersection of data and society.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
One of the most intriguing elements of the Cambridge Analytica story is just how much public sentiment has turned against social media and especially social media analytics in just four years and just who "owns" our digital personas. From breathless headlines just a few years ago of "masterminds," "dream team" and "groundbreaking," social media data miners are now described using adjectives like "exploited," "misuse" and "surveillance." Does this represent the beginning of something bigger, perhaps the end of social media analytics? Unlikely.
In all of the media coverage, policymaker statements and public conversation of the Cambridge Analytica situation of the past few days, there seem to be four major allegations of concern emerging: 1) millions of users had their information harvested who did not consent to it being collected, 2) an academic transferred data collected for academic use over to a commercial enterprise in violation of Facebook's rules, 3) the company did not delete the data when asked to do so by Facebook and 4) that profiles compiled from that data were so powerful that they changed the outcome of the election of the most powerful person on earth.
As I detailed on Monday, it was actually the Obama campaign that pioneered the mass harvesting of data from unwitting users on Facebook at a national scale. As the Post summarizes, the campaign "built a database of every American voter using the same Facebook developer tool used by Cambridge, known as the social graph API. Any time people used Facebook's log-in button to sign on to the campaign's website, the Obama data scientists were able to access their profile as well as their friends' information. That allowed them to chart the closeness of people's relationships and make estimates about which people would be most likely to influence other people in their network to vote." Or, as one of the campaign's data leads put it, "We ingested the entire U.S. social graph … We would ask permission to basically scrape your profile, and also scrape your friends, basically anything that was available to scrape. We scraped it all." This was coupled with a wealth of offline data, including what individuals were watching in the privacy of their own living rooms.
Thus, when it comes to the concern that millions or tens of millions of users had their data unwittingly and potentially unwillingly harvested in bulk simply because someone they were connected to on Facebook granted permission, there is nothing here that is any different than 2012 or indeed different from any of the countless companies that relied on this feature to promote their apps.
In fact, when Facebook rolled out platform changes in 2014 that removed the ability of apps to harvest friend data, media reports of the time noted the especial impact it would have on campaigns, with Yahoo originally titling one article "Facebook slams the door on political campaigns." In its announcement of the changes, Facebook itself acknowledged user concerns over how their data was being shared without their knowledge, conceding that "we've heard from people that they're often surprised when a friend shares their information with an app."
In the case of Cambridge Analytica, Facebook claims that the company acquired Facebook data from an academic who had collected it for academic research, while the Obama campaign has been careful to emphasize that the campaign itself collected the data, rather than receiving it from a third party. There is a lot here to unpack and most of it hinges on the specific license text that users agreed to when handing over their data, one's definition of "academic research" and just what kind of data was handed over (if any) to Cambridge Analytica.
Herein lies one of the most frightening aspects of the whole story: Facebook's suspension of Cambridge Analytica is, according to Facebook, not because of the existence of the dataset of 50 million users or what was done with it, but rather that under its terms of service, the company was required to have collected the data itself, rather than buy it. In short, if you collect it yourself, its fair game – you just can't pay someone else to acquire the data for you.
If Cambridge Analytica had run the original personality app itself, there would have been absolutely nothing Facebook could have done to halt its use and there would have been no story here at all. It is truly astonishing that data on 50 million people could be compiled and the only thing Facebook says is wrong is that they acquired the data from someone else and then didn't delete it when asked, rather than collecting it themselves. The Obama campaign's use of a very similar workflow to harvest data on millions of unwitting friends was, according to media reports of the time, both known by Facebook and fully approved by it.
What does this mean for the future of analytics? The vast "social media analytics" industry exists solely to mine all of this rich social data to help companies and governments make decisions. Most large social analytics firms offer some kind of Facebook analysis, typically through Facebook's own anonymized data offering or geotagged user-level feeds like that formerly used by Geofeedia. Facebook itself computes a wealth of indicators about its users and purchases reams of commercially available information to complete its picture of each user. Countless companies offer similar psychological profiling tools of social media users, typically based on Twitter data, but academics have focused extensively on estimating extraordinarily sensitive (and in some countries extremely dangerous) attributes about unwilling and unwitting users on Facebook, while the company itself experiments on its users like lab rats.
Moreover, by creative use of ad targeting, very high resolution maps can be constructed of highly sensitive demographics without ever needing to download anything from Facebook or other platforms.
By Facebook's reckoning, the only additional thing Cambridge Analytica did wrong was not deleting the data it had acquired when it promised Facebook it would (the company strongly denies this).
This raises the crucial unspoken question that no-one seems to be talking about: what about the myriad other repositories of Facebook data that have been collected by academics, governments and companies over the years, many of which are openly advertised for download? When I asked Facebook for comment on whether it would be reaching out to demand that other large archives of Facebook data delete their holdings (including the remnants of the Obama campaign) or restrict access to them, the company did not respond to comment. (Though shortly ago Zuckerberg alluded that the company would be examining "suspicious" apps that had used its bulk harvesting capabilities, though no mention of bulk scraping or non-API harvesting).
Academia in particular is filled to the brim with data collected from Facebook - some collected through formal informed consent, but much of it scraped at will without any notification to the users' whose information has been archived. To put another way, an incomplete and unknowably large cross-sectional archive of Facebook exists scattered across the file servers, databases, cloud accounts and personal laptops of university researchers all across the world. Zuckerberg makes no mention of all this data in his statement. Indeed, just days before the Cambridge Analytica announcement, researchers on one prominent academic mailing list were lamenting Facebook's improved privacy settings that limited the amount of data they could harvest at once and discussing workarounds.
While Twitter data still reigns supreme as the dominant social dataset for data mining due to its machine friendly API, Facebook data is widely used, especially for more sensitive kinds of demographic and psychological profiling due to its more intimate place in our lives.
When users communicate with friends and family on Facebook, they see it as a private living room in which they can have intimate and personal conversations amongst loved ones. The actual reality is that that living room has a one-way mirror to millions of data scientists across the world observing all of that behavior and using it to model and even manipulate us based on activities we never truly understood were being observed to target us.
In short, when you stare down at your phone using Facebook, behind your screen are millions of data scientists staring back up at you, clipboards in hand, recording everything you do, building rich psychological profiles of you that you have no right to control or even view and using all of that data to exert invisible control over your life in an infinite number of unseeable ways.
Yet, all of this focus on Facebook is misplaced. Our personal, private and sometimes highly sensitive daily life activity is already bought and sold in bulk by a nearly uncountable number of companies and Facebook itself partners with some of the largest to integrate their wealth of holdings on our offline lives that occur beyond Facebook's reach. Facebook is just one tiny piece of this massive ecosystem of data that commercializes us into products to be bought and sold. After all, you can buy a database of 4.7 million "Suffering Seniors" with medical ailments over the age of 55 for pennies per name or a list of 10 million diabetes sufferers, complete with a free price quote - no need for Facebook.
Why is it then that we are so concerned about Facebook data being used for voter targeting when campaigns and companies have long bought a myriad other highly intimate data points about us? This is perhaps the most interesting question and likely revolves around just how little consumers understand about all of the data that is bought and sold about them every day. For all the talk of "#deletefacebook," withdrawing entirely from the social media world will do nothing to stem the flow of data that is commercialized about each of you each day.
Moreover, even those who genuinely want to give up social media entirely will find it difficult at best. Government agencies, local businesses, schools, clubs, public transportation and public safety agencies and nearly every other organization you interact with today likely will at some point tell you to visit their Facebook page for some piece of information. Going dark from social media today is like saying you are going to give up using the web: it's a feel-good thought to toss around, but the way our modern world is designed, it is becoming more and more difficult to fully free yourself from the tentacles of social media and even those that do are still tracked around the web via embedded tools from the services, while your data is being compiled by data brokers and sold to companies like Facebook even if you never touch a computer or smartphone.
Assuming that Facebook data did indeed play some role in Cambridge Analytica's work for the 2016 campaign, it is important to remember that Ted Cruz' campaign used the same data and it didn't end well for him. While I personally have never seen any data or products from Cambridge Analytica, I have been subjected to myriad product pitches from an uncountable number of firms offering the same kind of psychological profiling, influence and targeting products and the results I've seen have been nothing short of worthless in terms of indicators and accuracy. Indeed, it is important to remember that Cambridge Analytica is just one small firm in a vast world of companies that offer highly sophisticated user profiling and influence services to companies and governments every day. If we are truly concerned about privacy and ownership of our digital selves, we would do well to widen our conversation far beyond one single company.
Of course, Friday was not the first time Cambridge Analytica and its alleged use of Facebook data has been mentioned – those headlines came and went with little fanfare during campaign season. Just four years ago the use of Facebook data for voter modeling and manipulation was heralded as a heroic modernization of the campaign world.
Why then are we suddenly talking about all of this in the same language used to describe cybersecurity incidents? Perhaps, as Wired put it, "the data leakage hadn't helped Unilever sell mayonnaise. It appeared to have helped Donald Trump sell a political vision of division and antipathy." Could it be that the public is suddenly worried about Facebook's influence because they see it as the only possible explanation for an election they cannot otherwise understand? Given that our obsession with "fake news" and "filter bubbles" sprung into being as direct outcomes of how the press and public digested the election outcome, that is certainly a possibility and would suggest that the current maelstrom of negative coverage will soon pass with little long term impact. Indeed, as Bloomberg notes, Facebook has weathered countless privacy furors over its tenure and each time the public eventually accepted the new order of things.
After all, there is little to this story that Facebook can offer concrete solutions to. The company itself has acknowledged that the initial harvesting of unwitting users' data from the platform was entirely permissible at the time and that it was well aware of and approved the activity, both for the dataset under discussion and the work of the Obama campaign. Facebook has emphasized that this bulk export capability was disabled years ago and so this will never happen again and thus their defense has been not to worry, this was a one-time issue that can't be repeated. The ability of a single researcher to box up data on 50 million users and hand it over to a commercial company that allegedly failed to delete it is a harder problem for Facebook to solve. Even at the time the activity allegedly occurred, Facebook already required developers to sign legal agreements prohibiting such actions. The sheer number of developers that build apps that have access to Facebook user data is so vast that the company could not possible audit them all (the company promises to audit "suspicious" apps without giving further detail as to what warrants that label). Moreover, despite the original harvesting mechanism being disabled, researchers, academic and corporate, all across the world are harvesting material from Facebook at this very moment using any number of different tools, making it all but impossible for Facebook to stem the flow of information from its platforms.
As I've recounted again and again and again, academia is a particular vulnerability for Facebook in that university researchers tend not to understand or adhere to licensing and copyright law when it comes to accessing and sharing data, while the institutions that employ them have largely codified policies that exempt them from the precise kinds of legal agreements that govern the use of Facebook's data. The increasingly blurred boundaries between academic and commercial research at US institutions means that in future a Cambridge Analytica could simply hire a university to conduct its work using data they had collected for academic research and be entirely within Facebook's terms of use (since no data is being "transferred"). Moreover, as the academic world is increasingly vocal about demanding access to Facebook data and the company begins to work more closely with academia, it is likely that the number of repositories floating around will only increase, rather than decrease.
Putting this all together, the narrative that has emerged is that of an academic researcher who legitimately gathered data on 50 million people with the full knowledge and consent of Facebook, but who the company claims went rogue and handed the data to a commercial firm that didn't delete it on demand (though the company denies this). Indeed, Zuckerberg's first statement on the matter largely passes the blame to Cambridge Analytica, though at least acknowledges how many other vast archives of Facebook data may be out there. What's notably missing, however, is what precisely will count as "suspicious" activity that the company will audit and what precisely it will do about the unknown ocean of data collected and distributed by the academic world – the very narrative that is at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica story. At the end of the day, the public and press focus has cast this as an isolated incident by a few bad actors (though Zuckerberg's statement acknowledges that there could be many more groups), rather than an indictment of the broader field of social media analytics. Moreover, even the coverage that has acknowledged the broader commercialization of our data has largely focused on Silicon Valley, rather than the vastly larger ecosystem of companies that buy and sell our most intimate data every day, assembling profiles that even Facebook itself purchases to track us offline and ensuring that even those that "#deletefacebook" will still be tracked without mercy. Congratulations Mark Zuckerberg, George Orwell would be proud.
Kalev Leetaru
Based in Washington, DC, I founded my first internet startup the year after the Mosaic web browser debuted, while still in eighth grade, and have spent the last 20 years
Based in Washington, DC, I founded my first internet startup the year after the Mosaic web browser debuted, while still in eighth grade, and have spent the last 20 years working to reimagine how we use data to understand the world around us at scales and in ways never before imagined. One of Foreign Policy Magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013 and a 2015-2016 Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud Platform, I am a Senior Fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber & Homeland Security. From 2013-2014 I was the Yahoo! Fellow in Residence of International Values, Communications Technology & the Global Internet at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where I was also adjunct faculty. From 2014-2015 I was a Council Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of Government. My work has appeared in the presses of over 100 nations.


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Snaptrip.com continues to expand its growing team with two senior hires
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Last-minute rental property provider Snaptrip.com has continued to expand its growing team with the appointment of Josh James as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Matthew Witt as Board Director.
Josh joins the business with 12 years of digital marketing experience, having worked across brands including VoucherCodes.co.uk, Quidco, EarnAway and Moneyfarm. His appointment brings the London-based team, launched in 2014, to 18 staff members.
Josh James, Chief Operating Officer
As COO, Josh will be responsible for driving further growth for Snaptrip.com, through helping to shape the company mission and leading the team to deliver a fantastic customer experience every time.
On his new role, Josh said: "Over the past four years the Snaptrip.com team has laid an incredibly strong foundation upon which to grow. I can't wait to work with such an enthusiastic group of people and get stuck in.
"With more and more people choosing to take a staycation rather than go abroad it felt like the perfect time to join and I'm really looking forward to making my mark and harnessing the huge potential of Snaptrip.com. The road is seldom straight but I'm sure we'll overcome anything that stands in our way."
Snaptrip.com is also welcoming Matthew Witt to the team as a Board Director and Investor. Matthew has a strong background in travel, having been COO of Active Hotels, and played an instrumental role in rebranding it into Booking.com where he then worked as COO before taking on a number of Non-Executive and Advisory roles in travel and related industries.
Matthew Witt, Board Director
The appointments are yet more successes for the ever-growing business. Matt Fox, CEO and Co-founder of Snaptrip.com, commented: "Both Josh and Matthew bring an impressive array of experience to the business and we're looking forward to having them both on board. It's an exciting period for Snaptrip.com and their knowledge, experience and expertise will really strengthen the company so that we can help even more customers find the perfect UK holiday destination."
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Welcome to the 108th Weekly Bites!
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This week's silly speech was submitted by myself.
In anticipation of next week's holiday, I had the opportunity to have quite the intersting conversation with Aurelli, an expert in all aspects of romance. I begged her to share with our community some tips on successful dating interactions. She eagerly replied: "You must laugh at their jokes and order them a plate of fries, and if they show you a picture on their phone, never swipe to the left!" It is clear that many of us will have to drastically change our lifestyles to accommodate her recommendations. I asked her if she had any other hidden talents up her sleeve and she answered: "I like photoshopping stuff using Microsoft Excel, building habbo movie themed rooms and karaoke singing." Clearly, her expertise has no limits.
You can check out her profile here and stay tuned for another Member Spotlight next week!
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Sheeran submits plans to have garden burial plot built on his £3.7m estate | Music | Entertainment
Plans to add a "burial zone" to a new chapel on his £3.7 million estate have been submitted to the charttopper's local council.
The Castle On The Hill singer's proposals for the boat-shaped place of worship have already been approved – but he now hopes planners will also let him have a crypt.
Latest plans state the 2metre by 1.8metre burial zone will be "beneath penetration through slab" in the Anglo Saxon-style chapel.
Original designs for the twostorey building included a 48ft tower, pews and stained glass windows. The burial zone will be in the nave, in front of the pews.
The private prayer retreat will be warmed by an eco-friendly air source heat pump and Ed now wants permission to alter the service enclosure that will conceal it. He also wants two more windows in the chapel and a 30cm extension to its stair tower. Ed, 30, who has notched up 13 No1 singles, won permission in 2019 to build his "private place of retreat" which will be for "contemplation and prayer, for celebration of key life and family milestones, family and social gatherings, marriages, christenings".
The chapel will be built towards the eastern boundary of his 16-acre property, Wynneys Hall, in Dennington, East Suffolk, which he shares with wife Cherry, 29, and their 16-month-old daughter, Lyra.
Explaining its position, Ed's fatherin-law Matthew Seaborn wrote in a planning document: "The rising of the sun is relevant both in the Abrahamic and oriental traditions and in the more environmentally led philosophies of the present day."
It will also mean Ed's guests can "meet, celebrate and meditate in peace and safety from disturbance".
Getting a thumbs-up for the chapel was a victory for Ed. His plans were nearly thwarted when Dennington Parish Council grumbled about the "unusual" use of the building.
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Newsroom JLL arranges $8.3M sale, $5.1M loan for industrial property
JLL arranges $8.3M sale, $5.1M loan for industrial property
The Buffalo, New York, warehouse and distribution center is fully leased to a products supplier
PHILADELPHIA, November 7, 2019 – JLL announced today that it has closed the $8.3 million sale of and arranged $5.1 million in acquisition financing for Bunzl Distribution Center, a fully leased, 152,000-square-foot industrial warehouse and distribution center in suburban Buffalo, New York.
JLL marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Foxfield Industrial. A private investor purchased the asset. Additionally, working on behalf of the new owner, JLL placed the long-term, fixed-rate acquisition loan with a life insurance company. JLL will service the loan.
Bunzl Distribution Center is fully leased to Bunzl Midatlantic LLC, a division of Bunzl USA Holdings LLC, a products supplier, which has operated at the property since 2006. The light industrial facility features 25-foot clear heights, 27 front-loading dock doors, deep trailer court, low office finish and 117 parking spaces. Situated on 8.38 acres at 3366 Walden Avenue in Depew, the property is in Buffalo's East Industrial submarket. As part of the Buffalo Niagara Region, Bunzl Distribution Center is in the second busiest logistical hub of the 328 inland ports throughout the United States and features ready access to multimodal transportation, including Interstate 90 and the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, which is less than five miles away, as well as the internationally critical Port of Buffalo and Class I rail system.
The JLL Capital Markets team representing the seller was led by Senior Director Steve Forte along with Senior Managing Director Jose Cruz and Director Tyler Peck.
The JLL Capital Markets debt placement team representing the borrower included Director Michael Pagniucci, who also led a team in 2017 in securing acquisition financing for the seller to purchase the asset.
About Foxfield Industrial
Foxfield Industrial, a joint venture between Novaya Real Estate Ventures and Foxfield Ventures, is a real estate operating company focused on the acquisition and operation of industrial properties throughout the Mid-Atlantic and the Southeast United States. The partnership aims to provide compelling, absolute investment returns while maintaining a margin of safety.
Foxfield and its affiliates currently manage three million square feet in existing assets and development projects.
Learn more at Foxfieldindustrial.com or follow Foxfield on Instagram: @foxfieldindustrial, LinkedIn or Twitter @foxfieldind.
About Novaya Real Estate Ventures
Novaya Real Estate Ventures is a leading real estate investment firm based in Boston. Driven to be its clients' most trusted and dependable real estate investment partner, Novaya Real Estate Ventures applies its vast collective interdisciplinary experiences to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns. Bringing a valued market perspective, and a proactive investment strategy, Novaya looks over the horizon to uncover opportunities and unlock potential.


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Baltimore Ravens NFL Betting Preview: Jackson Delivers Action
Posted on: August 17, 2020, 07:12h.
Last updated on: August 18, 2020, 07:50h.
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Expertise: Sports Betting, Sports.
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson's childhood nickname was "Smiley Face." In winning NFL MVP honors and leading Baltimore to an NFL-best 14-2 record last season, Jackson's second year was a giant ear-to-ear grin.
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was the second unanimous MVP in NFL history (Image: Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY Sports)
Other than a miserable performance in an upset loss to Tennessee in the playoffs, Jackson was incredible. He set a bunch of NFL records, including becoming the first player to throw for 30-plus touchdowns with 1,000-plus rushing yards. Conventional wisdom suggests Jackson can't replicate that success. The trend-setting Jackson, however, doesn't care about such things.
"They're preparing for me. But I'm preparing even more for them," he told Sports Illustrated.
The Ravens are the consensus second-best bet to win the Super Bowl, behind only the defending champs, Kansas City. The Ravens are +600 at William Hill and PointsBet, +650 at MGM and DraftKings, and +700 at FanDuel.
Over/Under: 11.5 Wins
The reason why sportsbooks are so bullish on Baltimore runs beyond Jackson. The Ravens finished first in points scored, third in points allowed, and first in point differential last season. Combined with esteemed coach John Harbaugh, the Ravens can win in every which way imaginable. Moreover, based on last year's winning percentages, the Ravens have the easiest schedule in the NFL.
With so many factors in their favor, FanDuel established an over/under of 11.5 wins (+100 on the over; -120 on the under).
Regardless of the sportsbook, the Ravens are heavy favorites to win the AFC North again. At William Hill, for instance, they are -260 with Pittsburgh a distant second at +380.
The Ravens finished last season with the best regular-season record and the best odds to win the championship entering the playoffs," an analyst from William Hill told Casino.org. "With most of their roster returning and only two 'elite' teams in their conference, Baltimore remains a clear favorite to win it all."
Some off-season additions will help their cause. They added defensive linemen Calais Campbell and Derek Wolfe in free agency, and drafted linebackers Patrick Queen (first round) and Malik Harrison (third round), running back JK Dobbins (second round), and receiver Devin Duvernay (third round). That's the rich getting richer.
Reason to Smile
The Ravens are a well-rounded powerhouse. Last season, they tied a record with 12 players selected to the Pro Bowl. In this year's NFL Network "Top 100 Players" series, Baltimore and New Orleans were tied for first with seven selections. Running back Mark Ingram was No. 44, cornerback Marcus Peters was No. 53, left tackle Ronnie Stanley was No. 74, safety Earl Thomas was No. 75, Campbell was No. 79, and cornerback Marlon Humphrey was No. 86.
Jackson was No. 1 on the NFL Network list, and he's No. 2 on PointsBet's MVP board at +600, trailing only Kansas City's Patrick Mahomes (+400).
Queen, who is projected to start at middle linebacker, is No. 3 on PointsBet's Defensive Rookie of the Year list at +1,000. With such a talented roster, Harbaugh is merely +2,000 to win Coach of the Year.
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Q: OAuth2 Google Fit Consent Screen Infinite Loading I'm interested in trying out the Google Fit API on Android to get some data from sensors, but I can't test it out due to the OAuth2 screen loading infinitely.
What I've done:

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*Enabled the Google Fit API on the automatic Firebase-generated Google Cloud project that is related to the app.

*Have properly set up the app name, SHA1 fingerprint hash, and package name.

*Have set up the OAuth2 screen with my email being one of the testers and appropriate scopes added.

*Enabled the Google Sign-In method on the Firebase console, added both my SHA1 and SHA256 fingerprints, ensured my support email was selected in the Firebase project settings and replaced the google-services.json file in my project.

This is the code where I'm trying to get the user's permission for their Fitness data:

    GoogleSignInOptionsExtension fitnessOptions =
                FitnessOptions.builder()
                        .addDataType(DataType.TYPE_HEART_RATE_BPM, FitnessOptions.ACCESS_READ)
                        .addDataType(DataType.TYPE_STEP_COUNT_DELTA, FitnessOptions.ACCESS_READ)
                        .addDataType(DataType.TYPE_SLEEP_SEGMENT, FitnessOptions.ACCESS_READ)
                        .addDataType(DataType.TYPE_ACTIVITY_SEGMENT, FitnessOptions.ACCESS_READ)
                        .addDataType(DataType.TYPE_LOCATION_SAMPLE, FitnessOptions.ACCESS_READ)
                        .build();

        GoogleSignInAccount googleSignInAccount;

        @Override
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            permissionUtil = new PermissionUtil(requireContext());
            permissionUtil.requestFitPermissions();

            googleSignInAccount = GoogleSignIn.getAccountForExtension(requireContext(), fitnessOptions);

            if (!GoogleSignIn.hasPermissions(googleSignInAccount, fitnessOptions)) {
                GoogleSignIn.requestPermissions(Objects.requireNonNull(getActivity()),
                        GOOGLE_FIT_PERMISSIONS_REQUEST_CODE,
                        googleSignInAccount,
                        fitnessOptions);
            } else {
                accessGoogleFit();
            }

        }

        @Override
        public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                                 Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            // Inflate the layout for this fragment
            return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_moods, container, false);
        }

        @Override
        public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, @Nullable Intent data) {
            super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
            if (requestCode == GOOGLE_FIT_PERMISSIONS_REQUEST_CODE && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
                accessGoogleFit();
            }
        }

        private void accessGoogleFit() {
            Fitness.getSensorsClient(requireContext(), GoogleSignIn.getAccountForExtension(requireContext(), fitnessOptions))
                    .findDataSources(
                            new DataSourcesRequest.Builder()
                                    .setDataTypes(DataType.TYPE_HEART_RATE_BPM,
                                            DataType.TYPE_STEP_COUNT_DELTA,
                                            DataType.TYPE_SLEEP_SEGMENT,
                                            DataType.TYPE_ACTIVITY_SEGMENT,
                                            DataType.TYPE_LOCATION_SAMPLE)
                                    .setDataSourceTypes(DataSource.TYPE_RAW)
                                    .build())
                    .addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<List<DataSource>>() {
                        @Override
                        public void onSuccess(List<DataSource> dataSources) {
                            for (DataSource i : dataSources) {
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Endless Wars Have Cost Americans $1.6 Trillion, Report Finds
Post-9/11 military operations are second only to World War II in terms of financial cost—and 'the costs go on.'
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
The Human Cost of War Exhibition at a downtown mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Photo: Bob Mical/flickr/cc)
The United States has spent $1.6 trillion on post-9/11 military operations, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, weapons procurement and maintenance, and base support, according to a report (pdf) issued earlier this month by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
As some analysts point out, that's more money than the U.S. spent on the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991 all rolled into one.
According to International Business Times, "the $1.6 trillion estimate, which comes to $14 million per hour since 9/11...is up roughly half a trillion dollars from its 2010 estimate, which found that the post-9/11 military operations are second only to World War II in terms of financial cost."
Of the $1.6 trillion total, CRS specialist Amy Belasco estimates that the funding breaks down as such:
$686 billion (43%) for Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan);
$815 billion (51%) for Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn (Iraq);
$27 billion (2%) for Operation Noble Eagle (providing enhanced security at military bases and military operations related to homeland security);
$81 billion (5%) for war-designated funding not considered directly related to the Afghanistan or Iraq wars.
The report, dated December 8, states that about 92 percent of the funds went to the Department of Defense, with the remainder split between the State Department, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and other agencies. The key factor determining the cost of war during a given period over the last 13 years has been the number of U.S. troops deployed, according to the report.
To that end, the document says that predicting "future costs of the new U.S. role in countering the Islamic State is difficult because of the nature of the air campaign and uncertainties about whether the U.S. mission may expand."
To curtail costs moving forward, the CRS analysis recommends: "Congress may wish to consider ways to restrict war-funding to exclude activities marginally related to war operations and support, and to limit the use of ground troops in Operation Inherent Resolve," referring to the U.S. military intervention against the Islamic State, or ISIS.
Writing at the Federation of American Scientists blog—where the report was first posted—Steven Aftergood says: "Ideally, the record compiled in the 100-page CRS report would serve as the basis for a comprehensive assessment of U.S. military spending since 9/11: To what extent was the expenditure of $1.6 trillion in this way justified? How much of it actually achieved its intended purpose? How much could have been better spent in other ways?"
Mother Jones notes that "[o]ther reports have estimated the cost of U.S. wars since 9/11 to be far higher than $1.6 trillion. A report by Neta Crawford, a political science professor at Boston University, estimated the total cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—as well as post-2001 assistance to Pakistan—to be roughly $4.4 trillion. The CRS estimate is lower because it does not include additional costs including the lifetime price of health care for disabled veterans and interest on the national debt."
Speaking to The Fiscal Times, American University professor of international relations and military history Gordon Adams argues that the costs of war are much higher than any report could show.
"All of these figures do not take into account the long-term consequences, in terms of post-traumatic stress disorder or long-term veterans' bills," he said. "The costs go on. Iraq and Afghanistan will end up being the gift that keeps on giving because—as we did with Vietnam—we will be living with the consequences for many, many years."
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Census shows Canada's 'demographic dividend' is coming to an end
A "demographic dividend" is owning a growing labour force while other country's shrink, and Statistics Canada says we have just a few years to enact policies that will stop the coming crush of retirements from triggering an economic slowdown
May 3, 2017	by Jordan Press, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA—After nearly four decades in the workforce, 64-year-old Louise Plouffe is looking ahead to retirement. But Tristan Plummer, 23, is looking for work.
Plouffe and Plummer represent opposite ends of the age demographic that defines the Canadian labour force, which is in the throes of unprecedented change, according to Statistics Canada's latest census figures released May 3.
The proportion of Canadians aged 15 to 64 grew just 0.4 per cent between 2011 and 2016, its lowest rate since 1851, comprising 66.5 per cent of the population.
The agency expects that proportion to decline to about 60 per cent by 2031, when the youngest baby boomers turn 65. By then, the proportion of seniors domestically would rival the level currently seen in Japan, currently home to the oldest population in the G7.
That gives Canada a few more years to benefit from what Statistics Canada calls a "demographic dividend": a growing labour force while other countries watch theirs shrink. Eventually the numbers will decline in Canada as well, once populations age and retirements take hold, said Statistics Canada demographer Andre Lebel.
Projections about how long Canada will benefit from those dividends depends in part on immigration, which is the key to the modest gains thus far in the labour force, said Doug Norris, chief demographer at Environics Analytics.
Much will also depend on the sorts of policy decisions officials have wrestled with for years as they seek to prevent a coming crush of retirements from triggering an economic slowdown.
Wednesday's figures, the second batch of numbers from last year's census, focused on the age and sex of the country's population—the latest layer of a national portrait that Statistics Canada is painting throughout the year with the five-year data gathered in 2016.
The ranks of seniors grew by 20 per cent between 2011 and 2016, the fastest rate the census has recorded in 70 years, the numbers show. The census counted 5.9 million seniors and 5.8 million youth in 2016, marking the first time there were more Canadians over 65 than 14 and under.
Plouffe, who happens to be director of research with the International Longevity Centre Canada at the University of Ottawa, said governments need to tap into that growing natural resource and find ways to help older workers stay in the workforce for as long as they need.
"It's novel in human history. Older people are healthier than they have been in the past and represent a tremendous resource," she said.
"Policies have to be adapted to help people remain healthy, active and independent as long as possible."
The federal government has been considering options since shortly after taking office. A draft briefing note to Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, dated October 2015, made a key point: Canada is among a minority of OECD countries where 65 is the age of eligibility for public pensions. Among 34 OECD countries, 23 countries have either increased the age or plan to do so.
Retirement ages "will be at least 67 by around 2050 in most OECD countries," officials wrote in the document, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.
Plummer, who lives on Toronto's eastern flank in the region still known to many as Scarborough, says he routinely bumps into older workers who are stalling their retirement for various reasons.
The common perception is that older workers staying in the labour market longer are going to make it harder for Plummer to find a good job, but research suggests otherwise, says Vass Bednar, who headed the federal government's expert panel on youth employment.
"When we are talking about older people exiting so that younger people can move up, I think intuitively that only works if you think about those kinds of hyper-formalized, almost old-school firms," Bednar says, pointing to banks and governments as examples.
Federal research released to The Canadian Press paints a nuanced picture of local labour markets.
Rural, resource-rich areas of the country like Alberta or northeastern B.C. have a positive impact on employment rates for young and old. The census data show that growth was high in some of the economic regions that make up these areas: a 2.2 per cent jump in northeastern B.C., and 11-point-plus increases in Edmonton and Calgary.
Researchers from Employment and Social Development Canada also found that employment opportunities in Atlantic Canada, which saw the largest drop in the proportion of people 15 to 64 in the census, remain low for everyone.
And in a finding that bucked national trends, youth employment rates in major cities like Toronto and Montreal remained low, with the opposite finding for older workers.
The researchers believed this was due to a few factors, including fewer opportunities for young people who leave school compared to those who do so in resource-rich areas. They also concluded that older, white-collar workers living in urban centres like Toronto and Winnipeg stay in the labour force longer, boosting their employment rates.
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A new horizon for solar appliances: Recommendations for growing and scaling electric pressure cookers, cold storage, milling equipment and e-mobility
© Bejun Bakrania, Chris Beland, Wendy Hado, Makena Ireri and Ruth Kimani
This blog is the third in a four-part series featuring key findings from Efficiency for Access' 2021 Solar Appliance Technology Briefs. This series provides a synthesis of cross-cutting trends for 11 off-grid appropriate appliances, equipment and enabling technologies, grouped by relative market maturity. Category groupings include near-to-market appliances (TVs and fans), emerging appliances (SWPs and refrigerators), horizon appliances (electric pressure cookers, cold storage, milling equipment and e-mobility) and enabling technologies (permanent magnet motors, ICT equipment and interoperability).
In this blog, we explore the key differences and similarities between electric pressure cookers, cold rooms, e-mobility and milling equipment. We categorise these products as "horizon" appliances because they show promise for applications in off- and weak-grid areas, but are generally nascent in comparison to near-to-market appliances (TVs and fans) and emerging appliances (SWPs and refrigerators) (Figure 1). While some regional distinctions exist (e.g., cold storage, e-mobility and solar milling are all further developed in India), there continues to be a lack of both quantitative and qualitative data on which to perform comparisons across all technologies in this category. When considered against the typical product life cycle, horizon appliances fall squarely in stage 1 (market development), with some products on the cusp of stage 2 (market growth). These technologies are characterised by unproven demand, technology that has not been fully proved and low but steady sales. Once demand and sales begin to accelerate, horizon technologies are primed for "take-off" and market growth.
Figure 1: Relative Market Maturity of Select Off-Grid Appliances
Horizon Appliances: The Future of Energy Access
Over the last decade, we have witnessed increasing electrification rates in emerging economies in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia from expanded grid connections and access to distributed energy solutions (i.e., solar home systems and mini-/micro-grids). From 2010–2021, the global population without access to electricity dropped from 1.2 billion to 759 million.
As more people gain access to electricity, a new class of appliances and equipment has emerged that have the potential to reshape the way we deliver energy access. By catalysing nascent markets for these technologies, we can advance multiple SDGs and achieve greater food security, gender equality and more equitable social and economic outcomes in off-and weak-grid communities.
EPCs, for example, can leverage increasing electrification rates to improve and expand access to clean cooking for the 2.6 billion people who primarily rely on biomass and other polluting cooking fuels. Approximately 4 million premature deaths occur each year due to adverse health impacts from cooking with biomass stoves. Women's socio-economic livelihoods are disproportionally impacted by time drudgery associated with cooking (e.g., fuel collection and tending cookstoves). EPCs have the potential to improve health outcomes and livelihoods and also reduce household energy expenditure depending on the electricity tariffs and cost of local fuels. A forthcoming Efficiency for Access report surveyed Kenyans who purchased an EPC through the Global LEAP results-based financing program; 92% of respondents said their EPC improved their quality of life. Of that 92%, 35% attributed their EPC to a decrease in expenses, 31% attributed it to improved time savings and 29% to increased cooking convenience.
Solar-powered mills offer health benefits and improved livelihoods for women, particularly for rural off- and weak-grid communities. Solar mills allow rural enterprises to save money by lowering operating costs, which can increase incomes. By reducing diesel fuel use, solar mills can help lower greenhouse gas emissions and improve ambient air quality. Emissions from the production of components such as batteries and solar panels are usually small compared to the manufacturing of a diesel engine and the continuous emissions from fuel combustion required to run it.
Walk-in cold rooms and e-mobility can improve food security by sustainably transporting and preserving crops. Food spoilage is a major challenge worldwide: 1.3 billion tons of food spoil each year. Cold storage solutions have the potential to reduce post-harvest losses and enable better commercialisation of agricultural produce in national, regional and international markets. Fresh produce is able to be of higher quality when transported quickly, and therefore of higher value, allowing sellers to earn more money. Start-ups targeting rural agricultural productive use appliances offering e-cargo three-wheelers are helping farming communities to transport their produce faster and more easily to markets by allowing up to 400kg of cargo on the vehicle.
Finally, e-mobility can also help prevent global CO2 emissions and localised air pollution by reducing tailpipe vehicle emissions. Renewable energy sources are key in ensuring that manufacturing is low-carbon. 2- and 3-wheelers are the fastest growing transport mode in many low and middle-income countries. Analysis from UNEP found a rapid global shift to battery-electric motors could reduce CO2 emissions by 11 billion tons between now and 2050 while lowering fuel and maintenance costs by USD 350 billion.
State of Play: Nascent Markets, Uncertain Futures
Despite their strong potential to unlock higher tiers of energy access and economic and social development, horizon technologies remain far from achieving scale in off- and weak-grid markets (Figure 2):
Over 70% of all EPC sales take place in developed economies with reliable grid connections. Not only does the cost of the product makes it out of reach for consumers in weak and off-grid communities, but there is also an outstanding lack of commercially available, efficient and high-quality DC-powered EPCs for those served by solar home systems.
In 2018, the Sub-Saharan Africa addressable market value for all small-scale (<1kW) agro-processing was estimated at USD 1.5 billion. The serviceable market, accounting for affordability and access to financing constraints, however, was estimated at merely USD 87 million. The serviceable market is projected to grow to USD 417 million by 2030 if product costs are reduced and the proportion of people who can afford the agro-processing units increases.
With over 7000 walk-in cold room installations, the cold storage market for India is more advanced than that in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, the majority of these installations are on the grid and unknown how many are in off- and weak-grid settings. In distributed energy settings for the Sub-Saharan Africa market, less than 100 installations are estimated owing to among other things high CAPEX cost of these technologies.
India's e-mobility market is more advanced than in Sub-Saharan Africa. Electric 2- wheeler sales reached 152,000 in 2020. However, the market penetration of all e-mobility solutions in India itself is less than 1%, demonstrating the nascence of the market. Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, while growing, are also quite young. One in four e-mobility companies active in Kenya is less than a year old.
Figure 2: State of Play for Four Horizon Technologies
Looking Forward: Creating Strong Commercial Markets
Ultimately, the maturity of these nascent, horizon technologies will benefit greatly from an enabling environment fostered by a diverse set of stakeholders with aligned objectives including governments, energy service providers and the private sector, actors who have traditionally not engaged frequently in the off-grid solar appliance market.
Our 2021 Solar Appliance Technology Briefs provide several pathways on how off- and weak-grid markets can jumpstart the commercial markets for these technologies.Important considerations include:
1. Continued R&D will be imperative in developing and scaling the nascent markets for horizon technologies. For EPCs, cold storage units and solar milling, the limited product performance data gathered from laboratory and/or field-testing show potential for efficiency gains and design improvements to increase product viability across geographies. E-mobility technologies, however, are merely emerging in Sub-Saharan Africa and require on-the-ground piloting specific rural demographics and terrains. Extensive R&D is required to identify and meet the various mobility needs of rural communities, as well as test the foundations for the wider system operation, involving the consideration of renewable energy sources, charging infrastructure and interoperability.
2. Increased financing for both consumers and suppliers. The high capital cost of the limited commercially available cold storage units (up to USD 6,000) and EPCs (up to USD 350) hinders access to low-income consumers. Suppliers, on the other hand, continue to find it difficult to access working capital and grants due to quickly evolving business models and the perception of high-risk investment by private and public investors. Emerging e-mobility business models using battery-swapping units and imported vehicles for testing have required high capital investment. The markets for these products need long-term investment and patient capital by donors and investors that will incentivise consumers to utilise the products, while also allowing suppliers to explore resource-efficient and financially sustainable business models.
3. Governments, in partnership with energy service providers and donors, can grow the nascent supply and value chains by supporting policy instruments and developmental mechanisms including financing such as end-user subsidies and results-based financing tied to the SDGs. For example, this can take the form of encouraging financial institutions to provide financing packages attractive for small businesses and enterprises dedicated to walk-in cold rooms solutions, redirecting subsidies and incentives from polluting fuels (i.e., diesel and kerosene) toward solar-powered mills and EPC and implementing policies to grow local e-mobility manufacturing.
For more insights on cold storage, EPCs, e-mobility milling equipment and more off-grid appropriate appliances, please see our full collection of long-form technology briefs and snapshots. We will continue to launch these for other technologies throughout the summer. Up next in August are enabling technologies (ICT equipment, interoperability and PM motors). We will also publish a full synthesis report that summarises the state of play for the entire off-grid appliances market. Please be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be notified of all new releases.
About the 2021 Solar Appliance Technology Brief Series
The 2021 Solar Appliance Technology Briefs synthesise the latest market intelligence and chart the pathway to commercialisation for 11 disruptive technologies, including refrigerators and SWPs. New collections of technology briefs will be released monthly from May 2021 through August 2021, with groupings based on our assessment of their market maturity level. Each release will include a summary blog post, highlighting key similarities and differences across the featured technologies and the interventions needed to scale. Category groupings include near-to-market appliances (TVs and fans), emerging appliances (SWPs and refrigerators), horizon appliances (electric pressure cookers, cold storage, milling equipment and e-mobility) and enabling technologies (permanent magnet motors, ICT equipment and interoperability).
By Bejun Bakrania (Energy Saving Trust), Chris Beland (Energy Saving Trust), Wendy Hado (CLASP) Makena Ireri (CLASP) and Ruth Kimani (CLASP)
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Doon International School, Riverside Campus, Dehradun
About Doon International School, Riverside Campus, Dehradun
Doon International School, Riverside Campus is a co-educational residential and day boarding school that is located in the serene environment on the outskirts of Dehradun city. Being amongst one of the best boarding school in India Doon International School has been providing quality education and is producing great results ever since. The school offers education from Class I to Class XII. It was established in 2015 by the Doon International Education Society and is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi. The school has a sprawling campus at Paundha, Dehradun.
The School aims at providing a happy, caring and stimulating learning environment where children could recognize and achieve their fullest potential so that they can make their best contribution to the society. Doon International School is committed to the cause of quality education, where faculty, staff and administration, in partnership with the parents, students and community are committed to provide a safe and disciplined learning environment that promotes the academic, intellectual, personal and social development of the children.
Curriculum of Doon International School, Paundha, Dehradun
Doon International School follows the guidelines as laid down by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi. The CBSE Board envisions a robust, vibrant and holistic education that will engender excellence in every sphere of human endeavour. The school also offers the option of Cambridge IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) qualifications to students who wish to enrol for the same.
Co-Curricular Activities at Doon International School, Paundha, Dehradun
The school in addition with great academics also provides a spectrum of extra curricular activities which help the students to enhance their overall physical and mental growth. These co-curricular activities include Indian and Western Music, Folk and Classical Dance, Art and Craft, Dramatics and Public Speaking. The school also has clubs and societies including the Quiz Club, Debating Club, Hindi and English Literary Society, Chess Club, Photography Club, Reading Club, Eco Club, Adventure Club and Clay Modelling. All of these give children the opportunity to hone their skills in their chosen activity.
Facilities at Doon International School, Paundha, Dehradun
World Class Campus- The school has a gigantic 30 acre campus which beholds a great picturesque view and modernised infrastructure. The campus has modern facilities for sports, academics, dining and co-curricular activities. The campus has boarding house facilities which are equipped with facilities like smart classes, laboratories, studios for art, craft, music and dance. The campus also has a well built infrastructure like Olympic size main field, a hockey field, a 25 meter swimming pool, a gym, a yoga hall, turfs for tennis, basketball, volleyball, cricket, football, table tennis, skating, karate and indoor games.
Residential Facilities- The Riverside campus has well appointed hostel buildings with independent spaces for each student. There are separate hostels for housing primary school and senior school boys. The girls are housed in a separate hostel located on another side of the campus. The spacious school boarding houses have been designed to provide a neat, safe and comfortable living environment for the children.
Meals & Dining Facilities- The school serves delicious meal which has a high nutritional value. The meals are freshly prepared at the times of each serving. The school has International students and therefore the food served is of various cuisines like Indian, Continental, Chinese and Thai and vegetarian and non-vegetarian.
Medical Services- The medical care of the students is always in check by the permanent nurse at the school and a doctor is appointed for regular visits.
Guidance & Counselling- The school has many counsellors which provide the students the guidance to develop themselves into great human beings.
Admission in Doon International School (Riverside Campus) Paundha, Dehradun
The admission is done by registration and submission of application form at the school's office. The following documents are to be submitted along with the registration form.
Copy of Birth Certificate
Copy of mark sheet of last two years from the previous school.
Fitness Certificate from a qualified medical practitioner.
A copy of the passport (in case of foreign applicants).
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Contact Address of Doon International School, Riverside Campus, Dehradun for 2018 Admission and other Required Information
Paundha
Dehradun-248007
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That's when I knew that I knew this hotshot executive. I went to school with him. Suddenly, I realized how irrational my fear of selling to executives was. They were normal human beings too…people like you and me. Sure I had to have a different conversation with them, but I didn't have to be scared. Remember, you're selling to people – not a position. And you know how to talk with people!


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Cobra Kai Season 3 Ending: Where Things Left Off For Each Character
Sarah El-Mahmoud
Starting our year with a new season of Cobra Kai was a load of fun. We missed the tangled web of characters at the center of it and getting to see the cliffhangers play out into a complicated and high-stakes new chapter of the series made for an exciting binge watch. But ten episodes later, the Cobra Kai Season 3 ending does feel kind of like we've taken one step forward and two steps back. There's even more tension at play and a ton of questions we have for Season 4 when it does come on Netflix.
So here's where we get into the ending of the most recent season of Cobra Kai and discuss what could be coming next. Suffice to say, if you have not yet streamed Season 3 strike first and strike away from this page until you have. SPOILERS are ahead. Here's where things left off for each Cobra Kai character following that ending:
Daniel And Johnny Are Teaming Up Against Kreese
Thus far, Cobra Kai has greatly leaned on the differences and rivalry between Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, but Season 3 became the first time that the pair seemed to really align the most and start fighting on the same side. Each of them had their own journeys this season, between Daniel's trip to Okinawa to save his dealership and Johnny going on his nostalgia trip with Elizabeth Shue's Ali amidst realizing his true role as a sensei. By the end of the season, both Daniel and Johnny face off against John Kreese at Cobra Kai and decide they'll end the fight at the next All-Valley Tournament.
In order to have the strongest team, Miyagi-Do and Johnny's newly established Eagle Fang team look like they'll be combining to become an air-tight and powerful team that can really stand against Cobra Kai for the tournament. It'll be really interesting to see how Daniel and Johnny butt heads and likely learn from one another as tight allies against Kreese's chaos.
Robby Is Training With John Kreese And Cobra Kai
On the other side of the big finale fight was John Kreese and his new pupil, Robby Keene, who is the biological son of Johnny and Daniel's original Miyagi-Do student. Robby was having a real rough time in Season 3 coming off his accident that put Miguel in the hospital and nearly paralyzed him. Robby was majorly on the defense in Season 3, taking Daniel and Johnny's attempt to help him out as personal attacks and betrayals. By the end of the season, he ended up in the care of John Kreese, who has taken him under his wing (likely as a point of leverage for Johnny and Daniel) and to build up his Cobra Kai team.
Robby fought off Johnny during the final fight and pulled no punches in his anger. As the fourth season (which the creators have already mapped out) approaches, we'd imagine Robby will once again fight on the polar opposite side of his father, but this time he's also turned his back on Daniel and Sam. Following the patterns of the show, I wouldn't be surprised if Robby and Tory form a relationship too.
Miguel And Sam Start To Rekindle Their Relationship
An interesting twist that played out in Season 3 of Cobra Kai was Samantha's increasingly complicated love triangle between Miguel and Robby. At the end of the second season, Samantha and Miguel kissed while he was with Tory and she was dating Robby. It caused some major jealousy from Tory, leading to that major fight at the high school at the end of that season. And in Season 3, Miguel and Sam grew closer as he spent time away from Cobra Kai's influence and Robby was away.
By the end of Season 3, it looks like Sam and Miguel could be drawn together again in a more substantial way as they train together for the tournament against Cobra Kai. Sam's relationships at this point are giving us whiplash, it's tough to side with either, but we're here for the drama and excited to see how Miguel and Sam's second chance could play out.
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Tory's Terror Tactics Against Migayi-Do Do Not Work
Peyton List's Tory has been a major firestarter throughout the season, but we can understand some of where she's coming from too. Her path in Cobra Kai has only continued to get darker as John Kreese hooks his fangs into her further by being a father figure to her. In Season 3, she instigated some major violence by being part of the attack that led to Hawl breaking Demetri's arm and terrorizing Sam. It all ended this season with a final fight in Daniel's house where Tory and Sam faced off again and Sam was able to face her fears and come out on top.
Coming into Season 4, Tory will be instrumental in Cobra Kai with Robby as they get ready for the tournament. If Miguel and Sam do get back together, emotions may run higher, and as I mentioned, I could see her turning to Robby to cope with their mutual heartbreak over the situation.
Hawk Quit Cobra Kai To Fight The Good Fight
Hawk has had one of the most interesting storylines in Cobra Kai, as he began as a bullied kid and friend to Miguel and Demetri before undergoing a major transformation when he learned karate. For the past few seasons he has been loyal to Cobra Kai and to Kreese, but he's finally realized the corruption of Kreese's teachings by the end of Season 3. During the final fight between Miyagi-Do and Cobra Kai, Hawk decides to switch sides and rekindle his friendship with Demetri.
I'm really excited to see Hawk finally end his dark journey with Kreese and join Miguel, Demetri and Sam to fight in the tournament on the Miyagi-Do side of things now. He has a lot of unlearning to do and it'll be nice to see the high-schooler hopefully tap into his good nature instead of Kreese's toxic masculinity.
Kreese Calls Terry Silver For Backup
And in terms of Cobra Kai's central villian, even though he seems to be knocked down, he seems like he still has a fair fist in the fight. John Kreese was banged up pretty good by Daniel and Johnny in the finale, but he also caught them off guard with the reveal that Robby was with him now. After they showed him mercy, he told them that he would leave once and for all if they beat Cobra Kai in a tournament. And since Kreese intends to win, he was seen calling an old army buddy.
Season 3 spent a lot of time telling Kreese's backstory and among them was the revelation that one of his buddies was Twig aka "Silver" in the flashbacks. Therefore, it seems as though the finale is teasing the return of Terry Silver to The Karate Kid saga. And as we know from Part III, Silver is his army buddy and a key component to Cobra Kai. We'll have to wait and find out if Terry Silver does come back, but that's where everything stands right now.
Stay tuned here on CinemaBlend for more on Cobra Kai. In the meantime, check out what's coming next to Netflix in February.
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This project provides a library which takes a TrueType font as the input, remove its bytecode instructions (if any), and return a new font where all glyphs are bytecode hinted using the information given by FreeType's autohinting module. The idea is to provide the excellent quality of the autohinter on platforms which don't use FreeType.
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