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GAME NIGHT Movie Review
Posted By: Gautam Sahijwala February 23, 2018
Jason Bateman (the Horrible Bosses films, Arrested Development, Ozark) and Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams (Spotlight, Dr. Strange) team up in New Line Cinema's action comedy Game Night.
Bateman and McAdams star as Max and Annie, whose weekly couples game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's charismatic brother, Brooks, arranges a murder mystery party, complete with fake thugs and faux federal agents. So, when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all part of the game…right? But as the six uber-competitive gamers set out to solve the case and win, they begin to discover that neither this game—nor Brooks—are what they seem to be.
Over the course of one chaotic night, the friends find themselves increasingly in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn. With no rules, no points, and no idea who all the players are, this could turn out to be the most fun they've ever had…or, it's game over.
Also starring are Billy Magnussen (Bridge of Spies, American Crime Story), Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe), Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Kylie Bunbury (Pitch), Jesse Plemons (Black Mass, TV's Fargo), Danny Huston (Wonder Woman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Chelsea Peretti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), with Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under) and Kyle Chandler (Manchester by the Sea, Bloodline).
Game Night was directed by John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, marking their second film as co-directors, following the comedy Vacation.
The film was written by Mark Perez (Accepted), and produced by John Davis (Joy), Jason Bateman, John Fox (The Blacklist), and James Garavente (Bad Words). Toby Emmerich, Richard Brener, Michael Disco, Dave Neustadter, and Marc S. Fischer served as executive producers.
The behind-the-scenes team included director of photography Barry Peterson (Central Intelligence, We're the Millers), Oscar-nominated production designer Michael Corenblith (How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Apollo 13), editors Jamie Gross (Vacation), Gregory Plotkin (Get Out) and David Egan (Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return), and costume designer Debra McGuire (Vacation, Ted). The music was composed by Cliff Martinez (The Foreigner, War Dogs).
The film will be released worldwide beginning February 23, 2018.
New Line Cinema presents a Davis Entertainment/Aggregate Films Production, Game Night, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
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Paenitemini Apostolic Constitution of Pope Paul VIon Penance February 17, 1966 Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Be converted and believe in the Gospel.(1) It seems to us that we must repeat these words of the Lord today at a moment when—with the closing of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council—the Church continues along its path with more vigorous steps. Among the grave and urgent problems which in fact summon our pastoral concern, it seems to us that not the least is to remind our sons—and all religious men of our times—of the significance and importance of the divine precept of penitence. We are prompted to this by the fuller and more profound vision of the Church and its relationship with the world given us recently by the supreme ecumenical assembly. During the council, in fact, the Church, in an effort to arrive at a more profound mediation on the mystery of itself, examined its own nature in all its dimensions and scrutinized its human and divine, visible and invisible, temporal and eternal elements. By first of all examining more thoroughly the link which binds it to Christ and His salvific action, it has underlined more clearly how all its members are called upon to participate in the work of Christ and therefore to participate also in His expiation.(2) In addition, it has gained a clearer awareness that, while it is by divine vocation holy and without blemish,(3) it is defective in its members and in continuous need of conversion and renewal,(4) a renewal which must be implemented not only interiorly and individually but also externally and socially.(5) Lastly, the Church has considered more attentively its role in the earthly city,(6) that is to say, its mission of showing man the right way to use earthly goods and to collaborate in the consecration of the world. But at the same time it has considered more attentively its task of prompting its sons to that salutary abstinence which will forearm them against the danger of allowing themselves to be delayed by the things of this world in their pilgrimage toward their home in heaven.(7) For these reasons we should like today to repeat to our sons the words spoken by Peter in his first speech after Pentecost: Repent . . . then for the forgiveness of your sins.(8) And at the same time we want to repeat once more to all the nations of the earth the invitation of Paul to the Gentiles of Lystra: Turn. . . to the living God. (9) Chapter I The Church—which during the council examined with greater attention its relations not only with the separated brethren but also with non-Christian religions—has noted with joy that almost everywhere and at all times penitence has held a place of great importance, since it is closely linked with the intimate sense of religion which pervades the life of most ancient peoples as well as with the more advanced expressions of the great religions connected with the progress of culture.(10) In the Old Testament the religious sense of penitence is revealed with even greater richness. Even though man generally has recourse to it in the aftermath of sin to placate the wrath of God,(11) or on the occasion of grave calamities,(12) or when special dangers are imminent,(13) or in any case to obtain benefits from the Lord,(14) we can nevertheless establish that external penitential practices are accompanied by an inner attitude of conversion, that is to say of condemnation of and detachment from sin and of striving toward God.(15) One goes without food or gives away his property (fasting is generally accompanied not only by prayer but also by alms(16)) even after sins have been forgiven and independently of a request for graces. One fasts or applies physical discipline to chastize one's own soul,(17) to humble oneself in the sight of his own God,(18) to turn one's face toward Jehovah,(19) to dispose oneself to prayer,(20) to understand more intimately the things which are divine (21) or to prepare oneself for the encounter with God.(22) Penance therefore—already in the Old Testament—is a religious, personal act which has as its aim love and surrender to God: fasting for the sake of God, not for one's own self.(23) Such it must remain also in the various penitential rites sanctioned by law. When this is not verified, the Lord is displeased with His people: Today you have not fasted in a way which will make your office heard on high.... Rend your heart and not your garments, and return to the Lord your God.(24) The social aspect of penitence is not lacking in the Old Testament. In fact, the penitential liturgies of the Old Covenant are not only a collective awareness of sin but constitute in reality a condition for belonging to the people of God.(25) We can further establish that penitence was represented even before Christ as a means and a sign of perfection and sanctity. Judith,(26) Daniel,(27) the prophetess Anna and many other elect souls served God day and night with fasting and prayers,(28) and with joy and cheerfulness.(29) Finally, we find among the just ones of the Old Testament those who offered themselves to satisfy with their own personal penitence for the sins of the community. This is what Moses did I the 40 days when he fasted to placate the Lord for the guilt of his unfaithful people.(30) This above all is how the character of the Servant Jehovah is presented, who took on our infirmities and in whom the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.(31) All this, however, was but a foreshadowing of things to come.(32) Penitence—required by the inner life, confirmed by the religious experience of mankind and the object of a particular precept of divine revelation—assumes in Christ and the Church new dimensions infinitely broader and more profound. Christ, who always practiced in His life what He preached, before beginning His ministry spent 40 days and 40 nights in prayer and fasting, and began His public mission with the joyful message: The kingdom of God is at hand. To this He added the command: Repent and believe in the Gospel.(33) These words constitute, in a way, a compendium of the whole Christian life. The kingdom of God announced by Christ can be entered only by a change of heart (metanoia), that is to say through that intimate and total change and renewal of the entire man—of all his opinions, judgments and decisions—which takes place in him in the light of the sanctity and charity of God, the sanctity and charity which was manifested to us in the Son and communicated fully.(34) The invitation of the Son to metanoia becomes all the more inescapable inasmuch as He not only preaches it but Himself offers an example. Christ, in fact, is the supreme model for those doing penance. He willed to suffer punishment for sins which were not His but those of others.(35) In the presence of Christ man is illumined with a new light and consequently recognizes the holiness of God and the gravity of sin.(36) Through the word of Christ a message is transmitted to him which invites him to conversion and grants forgiveness of sins. These gifts he fully attains in baptism. This sacrament, in fact, configures him to the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord,(37) and places the whole future of the life of the baptized under the seal of this mystery. Therefore, following the Master, every Christian must renounce himself, take up his own cross and participate in the sufferings of Christ. Thus transformed into the image of Christ's death, he is made capable of meditating on the glory of the resurrection.(38) Furthermore, following the Master, he can no longer live for himself,(39) but must live for Him who loves him and gave Himself for him.(40) He will also have to live for his brethren, completing in his flesh that which is lacking in the sufferings of Christ . . . for the benefit of his body, which is the church.(41) In addition, since the Church is closely linked to Christ, the penitence of the individual Christian also has an intimate relationship of its own with the whole ecclesial community. In fact, not only does he receive in the bosom of the Church through baptism the fundamental gift of metanoia, but this gift is restored and reinvigorated, through the sacrament of penance, in those members of the Body of Christ who have fallen into sin. Those who approach the sacrament of penance receive from the mercy of God forgiveness for offenses committed against Him and at the same time become reconciled with the Church on which they have inflicted a wound by sinning, and the Church cooperates in their conversion with charity, example and prayer.(42) And in the Church, finally, the little acts of penitence imposed each time in the sacrament become a form of participation in a special way in the infinite expiation of Christ to join to the sacramental satisfaction itself every other action he performs, his every suffering and sorrow.(43) Thus the task of bearing in his body and soul the death of the Lord affects the whole life of the baptized person at every instant and in every aspect.(44) Chapter II The preeminently interior and religious character of penitence and the new wondrous aspects which it assumes in Christ and in the Church neither excludes nor lessens in any way the external practice of this virtue, but on the contrary reaffirms its necessity with particular urgency (45) and prompts the Church—always attentive to the signs of the times—to seek, beyond fast and abstinence, new expressions more suitable for the realization, according to the character of various epochs, of the precise goal of penitence. True penitence, however, cannot ever prescind from physical ascetism as well. Our whole being, in fact, body and soul, (indeed the whole of nature, even animals without reason, as Holy Scripture often points out) (46) must participate actively in this religious act whereby the creature recognizes divine holiness and majesty. The necessity of the mortification of the flesh also stands clearly revealed if we consider the fragility of our nature, in which, since Adam's sin, flesh and spirit have contrasting desires.(47) This exercise of bodily mortification—far removed from any form of stoicism—does not imply a condemnation of the flesh which sons of God deign to assume.(48) On the contrary mortification aims at the liberation(49) of man, who often finds himself, because of concupiscence, almost chained(50) by his own senses. Through corporal fasting(51) man regains strength and the wound inflicted on the dignity of our nature by intemperance is cured by the medicine of a salutary abstinence.(52) Nevertheless, in the New Testament and in the history of the Church—although the duty of doing penance is motivated above all by participation in the sufferings of Christ—the necessity of an asceticism which chastises the body and brings it into subjection is affirmed with special insistence by the example of Christ Himself.(53)

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For other uses, see Samphire (disambiguation).
Find sources: "Samphire" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Norfolk Samphire (Salicornia europaea)
Samphire is a name given to a number of succulent salt-tolerant plants (halophytes) that tend to be associated with water bodies.
Rock samphire, Crithmum maritimum is a coastal species with white flowers that grows in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man.[1] This is probably the species mentioned by Shakespeare in King Lear.[2]
Golden samphire, Limbarda crithmoides is a coastal species with yellow flowers that grows across Eurasia.
Several species in the genus Salicornia, known as "marsh samphire" in Britain.[3]
Blutaparon vermiculare, Central America, southeastern North America
Tecticornia, Australia
Sarcocornia, cosmopolitan.
Originally "sampiere", a corruption of the French "Saint Pierre" (Saint Peter),[4] samphire was named after the patron saint of fishermen because all of the original plants with its name grow in rocky salt-sprayed regions along the sea coast of northern Europe or in its coastal marsh areas. It is sometimes called rock samphire or seafennel. In North Wales, especially along the River Dee's marshes, it has always been known as sampkin. Also in Italy, along the Adriatic coast, there is a great heritage about rock samphire (or sea fennel) in local dishes.
Following the construction of the Channel Tunnel, the nature reserve created on new land near Folkestone made from excavated rock was named "Samphire Hoe".[2]
Fresh samphire from the River Loughor estuary for sale at Swansea Market
Marsh samphire ashes were used to make soap and glass (hence its other old English name, "glasswort") as it was a source of sodium carbonate, also known as soda ash.[4] In the 14th century glassmakers located their workshops near regions where this plant grew, since it was so closely linked to their trade. Many samphires are edible. In England the leaves were gathered early in the year and pickled or eaten in salads with oil and vinegar. Marsh samphire (Salicornia bigelovii) was investigated as a potential biodiesel source that can be grown in coastal areas where conventional crops cannot be grown.[5]
Rock Samphire is another kind of samphire, also called Seafennel. It is mentioned by Shakespeare in King Lear:
Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade!
—  Act IV, Scene VI, Lines 14-15
This refers to the dangers involved in collecting rock samphire on sea cliffs.
Also Aboriginal Australians have long used samphire as bush tucker, due to its abundance, flavour and nutritional value. It is high in Vitamin A and a good source of calcium and iron. Other Australians have recently discovered the potential of the species as a food plant and it has begun to appear on restaurant menus across the country.[6][7]
There is a very well known kind of rock samphire even in Italy along the Adriatic coast. It's named Paccasasso del Conero and this is a very typical product used in local recipes such as a mortadella and paccasasso sandwich, pasta with mussels and paccasassi, or in fresh salad.
^ "Rock Samphire – Identification, Edibility, Distribution". Galloway Wild Foods. 1 July 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
^ a b "What's in a name?". Samphire Hoe. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
^ "Marsh Samphire – Identification, Edibility, Distribution". Galloway Wild Foods. 17 July 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
^ a b "Samphire; A Mermaid's Kiss". Our Norfolk. 6 July 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
^ Clark, Arthur (November–December 1994). "Samphire: From Sea to Shining Seed" (PDF). Saudi Aramco World. Saudi Aramco. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2011. Retrieved 2008-11-17.
^ "Samphire". Native tastes of Australia. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
^ "Native blackseed samphire". Slow Food in Australia. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
Buying and cooking samphire
Rock Samphire in Italy: history and recipes
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Burna Boy Behind Barz Freestyle. Nigerian Afro-fusion artiste called Burna Boy is out again with another banging freestyle song which is titled "Behind Bar", after the success of his sold-out show in the UK and the release of his latest single Gbona.
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Simon Batchelor of Gamos writes on his experiences with the Dar Es Salaam rapid transit system (the DART).
When SAMSET started in 2014, its first network meeting was in Dar Es Salaam alongside an ICLEI conference. At the conference there was an offering by the mayor of Dar for attendees to have a field trip to see the Dar es Salaam bus rapid transit system called DART. At that time there was little more than road works to see, but what was impressive was the ambition to carve out whole highways that would be bus only roads.
Like most city wide infrastructure projects, the system has been in the planning for more than a decade. Discussed in 2003, JICA encouraged Dar municipality to consider the system, and designs started in about 2005. Consultations with the public and those affected by the construction, social and environment impact studies, ongoing economic feasibility studies all take time, so it wasn't until 2012 that the road works started to appear. It will eventually be 6 phases, but phase 1 was completed in April 2015 (about 6 months after our first network meeting – so we didn't get to ride it then).
So when we were in Dar for other business last week, we took the opportunity to ride the buses. Phase 1 is said to be a single 23 km line from a station called Kimara Terminal down to the CBD. However we found ourselves at the end of a branch line, at Morroco Terminal. The system is said to have cost around $180 million so far. Since there are branches one has to choose the right bus. We got on at Morroco, and were advised to take the No 3 bus in order to get to the Zanizbar ferry terminal.
It runs some 140 Chinese made buses that in themselves are unusual. Each station or terminal sits raised at about stomach height. The buses have floors and doors at that height on the right hand side. On the other side for emergencies they have one door that has steps down to road level – mainly for the driver since no one ever gets on that left hand side.
The terminals have gates and one purchases either a seasonal ticket and gets a Contactless smart card or at the counter and gets a printed ticket with a bar graphic. Placing the ticket under the gate scanner gets you through the gate or like many other rapid transport systems in cities one taps the card and the price of the journey is taken from it. At the moment there are staff to help people get through the gates as the whole system is still being nurtured among the general population.
We entered the bus at one end of the line (Morroco), and found a clean air conditioned No 3 bus that would not have felt out of place in any modern bustling city. By mid journey the bus was full and the heat radiated by so many bodies had overwhelmed the air conditioning and people had opened the windows. This was not rush hour but was middle of the day, so I can imagine it gets pretty cramped at peak times. However while it declined in comfort by the end of the journey, it was indeed quick. We had sat in a taxi the day before for an hour in a very slow moving traffic jam; this trip took us only 20 minutes. It felt impressive to look ahead of the bus and see the completely open highway.
We have talked a lot in this blog about the growing needs of municipalities, and SAMSET is focused on long term solutions. Dar es Salaam is a fast growing commercial capital, producing 70 percent of Tanzania's gross domestic product and is the hub of economic activity with an estimated daytime population of close to six million. Analysis in 2014 showed that some private 5,200 passenger buses were operating on the city roads, and traffic congestion was already having an impact on the economic well-being of the city. A metro was not possible, and the rapid bus system seemed viable. It is said it will transport 300,000 a day in this interim phase.
Having now ridden the system, I can see how it can avoid the traffic problems. I think it probably already gets overwhelmed in rush hour and be uncomfortable to ride at those times (much like most mass transit systems in most capital cities! I try to avoid the London underground at peak times!). I wish the municipality of Dar the best for its subsequent phases and will be interested to see its longer term use of lower carbon buses.
This entry was posted in Gamos and tagged BRT, Bus Rapid Transit, CBD, Cities, Dar Es Salaam, Economic Development, Gamos, Low Carbon Infrastructure, Low Carbon Transport, Municipal Transport, Municipalities, Public Transport, Tanzania, Traffic, Transport Management, Urban Energy, Urban Mobility, Urban Traffic, Urban Transport on February 14, 2017 by danielkerrucl.
Xavier Lemaire from UCL and Simon Bawakyillenuo & Innocent Agbelie from the University of Ghana ISSER recently collaborated on this post for the UrbanAfrica.net website. The original post can be found at: http://www.urbanafrica.net/urban-voices/waste-to-energy-african-cities-can-transform-their-energy-landscapes/, reproduced in full below.
Waste management is a critical issue for most African cities as a result of the huge generation of mountains of waste stemming from increases in urban populations over the last few decades, coupled with access to consumer goods by a fast-growing middle class. And waste generation is expected to increase rapidly in the future. City authorities are therefore faced with the challenge of managing urban waste with limited resources at their disposal.
The extent of this challenge is made clear by an Africa Review Report on Waste Management in African cities, which notes that less than half of waste is being collected, the rest being dumped in the urban landscape . Accra alone generates approximately 1000 tonnes of waste per day at an annual generation rate of 3.7×104 Tons/year while the existing collection capacity can only keep up with about 55% of this amount (Fobil (2000). This means that an excess of 1.7×104 Tons/year is left to accumulate in the core areas of the city for several months . In the wake of this finding, Obour (2012) described the city of Accra as almost engulfed in filth .
Unsustainable waste management has adverse consequences on the environment including the breeding of mosquito and related diseases, emission of obnoxious odours and methane, and flooding through choked drainage systems . These waste-related problems are not uncommon in most African cities and city authorities are seeking sustainable waste-management solutions. Indeed, unraveling sustainable solutions for efficient waste management is one of the top priorities of the two municipalities in Ghana that are partners to the "Supporting Sub-Saharan Africa's Municipalities with Sustainable Energy Transitions (SAMSET)" project.
The most sustainable waste management practices are waste reduction and waste recycling as shown in Figure 1 below.
Source: Adapted from Rodriguez, 2011.
Effective waste recycling ultimately leads to waste reduction. It is possible to recycle completely a waste product only when the production and marketing processes themselves have integrated the target of 100% recycling as the ultimate goal of the design of the value chain, making it possible to generate money from the recycling activity itself (and allowing the recycling activity not just being an end of chain cost).
In most African cities, little is done and far little is happening currently in the areas of waste reduction and waste recycling as waste management practices. Sadly, waste management practices in Africa can be placed in the first and second rungs from the bottom of the hierarchy of sustainable waste management (Figure 1). It has to be noted that, another waste management practice that is common in African cities is composting, that is, turning the by-products of organic waste into manure for agricultural activities. Most companies that have taken such initiatives have quit in many countries due to low patronage of such compost products. It is, however, flourishing in other countries such as Uganda and parts of South Africa, like Cape Town.
Using waste to create energy is a viable option for most African cities. Waste can be incinerated to produce heat or electricity; and methane can be collected from landfills and be used to, again, generate heat or electricity.
There is high level of organic content of waste generated in most African cities. In Ghana, for example, about 66% of the total waste generated is organic, as shown in Figure 2 below.
Source: Zoomlion Ghana Limited (2013).
Any organic waste from urban and rural areas as well as industries is a resource due to its ability to degrade and release methane, which can be used for energy generation. The problems caused by solid and liquid wastes can be significantly mitigated through the adoption of environmentally-friendly waste-to-energy technologies that will allow treatment and processing of wastes before their disposal.
Waste-to-energy is a win-win endeavour. As a sustainable waste management system it produces energy that can be sold for economic gains for the producer. It also provides green jobs. While it is thought that such projects are highly technical and often require imported skilled labour and technology from developed countries, local people, especially "waste scavengers," can be employed and use their skills. It seems unlikely that municipalities themselves or international corporations can deal with waste. Involving local entrepreneurs in the process is fundamental  and can be extended to entrepreneurs from informal settlements .
Most cities in Africa already use landfill waste disposal systems. City-owned vehicles, such as trucks, can be used for waste-to-energy projects to cut costs. The problem in most African cities, however, is waste sorting. Waste is often not sorted at the collection points hence all kinds of waste end up at the depositing site. Tying economic benefits to sorting of waste at the households level and effective education of the general public on the need for proper waste sorting can help the course of waste-to-energy in most African cities.
All landfills generate methane, so there are many opportunities to reduce methane emissions by flaring or collecting methane for energy generation. As mentioned previously, there are two main technological options to transform waste into energy, both of which can be used to create heat or electricity: incineration or collection of methane. Often proposed by Western companies, the incineration technology can be quite costly to build, relies on imported technologies, and requires the collection of huge amount of waste from vast catchment areas. Huge catchments areas imply that there will be high costs related to logistics, while fleets of trucks could contribute to road congestion.
Production of energy from landfill requires certain technical skills, which can only be acquired through training and experience. Methane is a potent heat-trapping gas (more than 20 times stronger than carbon dioxide) and has a short atmospheric life (10 to 14 years) . Therefore, reducing methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills through a Landfill Gas project is one of the sustainable means to lessen the human impact on global climate change. In addition, a Landfill Gas project, during its operational lifetime, will capture an estimated 60 to 90 percent of the methane created by a landfill, depending on system design and effectiveness. The methane captured is converted to water and carbon dioxide when the gas is burned to produce electricity or heat.
Unfortunately, there is no one best technological fixed solution. Each municipality has to find a specific mix of options, combining the appropriate technologies with existing social agencies to be able to tackle progressively – after a series of trials, successes and errors – this problem. Indeed, there have been many trials and failed waste to energy projects in Africa. That notwithstanding, many opinion groups, private organisations, international organisations and governments in most African countries are still enthusiastic about sustainable waste management practices.
It is therefore imperative for city authorities to make strategic choices about the types of socio-technical solutions that can be implemented realistically, taking into account their financial and social long-term sustainability. This is to avoid repeats of failure of waste-to-energy projects funded by international organisations in Africa. Suffice to mention that waste management is a complex issue that must involve contributions from a variety of stakeholders from local communities to policy-makers including industries and farmers for success to prevail.
Key among the ways African cities can transform their energy landscape through waste-to-energy is political and institutional commitment. It is encouraging to note that in recent times a lot of governments in Africa are gradually embracing the Green Growth development pathway, with some having already mainstreamed Green Economy actions in their national development plans. These steps give signal great prospects for waste-to-energy development in Africa because Green Growth developmental actions entail foster economic, social and environmental development. Thus, in the not too distant future, it is envisaged that a wave of different waste-to-energy projects could spring up across African cities when emphasis is not only placed on the cost component of waste-to-energy, but both the environment and social benefits as well.
 Fobil, J. N. (2002). Proceedings of International Symposium on Environmental Pollution Control and Waste Management 7-10 January 2002, Tunis (EPCOWM'2002), p.193-205.
 Obour, S.K. (2012). "Accra Sinks under Filth". The Mirror, Saturday, September 15, 2012, pp.24.
This entry was posted in ISSER - University of Ghana, UCL - Energy Institute and tagged Africa, African Cities, African Municipalities, Cities, Composting, Ghana, Incineration, Landfill, Landfill Gas, MSW Energy, Municipal Waste, Municipal Waste Management, Recycling, SAMSET, South Africa, Sustainable Waste Management, Waste Disposal, Waste Management, Waste Reduction, Waste-to-Energy, Waste-to-Heat on August 7, 2015 by danielkerrucl.
Why Should I Invest, It Doesn't Produce Extra Income?
Simon Batchelor from Gamos offers his thoughts on energy investment and the concept of "temporariness".
It reminded me of a report I read on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), created by the International Housing Coalition back in 2007. MCC at that time was an initiative of US foreign Assistance, and was championing a new approach to development assistance. They were (I have no idea whether they still are – perhaps someone could help me in the comments section), very focused on Economic Rate of Returns (ERRs) i.e. the increases in income or value added as a result of a project. The report focused on housing projects and asked the question whether the benefit of improved housing in urban situations could truly be measured by increases in income? In the same way that the extract from the book suggests that people may not invest in their housing and 'situation' because it doesn't necessarily generate more income for them (preferring presumably to send home remittances that support schooling and agricultural production); so too in this report, the donors and development assistance might also question investment because it doesn't give an immediate 'extra income' return.
They note that "The 'benefits' of well-designed urban and shelter reforms can have repercussions not only on the incomes of the individuals served, but also on the larger economy. There are large positive externalities to improved shelter in terms of health and life expectancy." However, the report argued – these benefits may not be captured in traditionally calculated ERRs. They say "Urban shelter and infrastructure investments may indeed have direct economic benefits such as an increase in the rental value of housing, significant improvements in health, or increases in the productive capacity of the household……investments in urban areas can make non-trivial contributions to economic growth from a macro-economic perspective by adding to productive capacity of the city as a whole. Such benefits are also virtually impossible to enter in an ERR calculation." (My emphasis).
Mark seems to have highlighted an important point about short term thinking or 'temporariness' – something we need to keep in mind as we explore energy investments in urban areas as a part of SAMSET.
This entry was posted in Gamos and tagged Africa, Cities, Confidence, Developing Countries, Economic Rates of Return, Energy, Energy Investment, ERR, Gamos, Indirect Benefits, Indirect Economic Benefits, Infrastructure, Investment, Investment Climate, SAMSET, Short-Term Thinking, Sub-Saharan Africa, Temporariness on June 27, 2014 by danielkerrucl.
Xavier Lemaire from UCL summarises the second SAMSET Network Meeting.
The second SAMSET network meeting took place in Ghana on the 14-16 May 2014. During this meeting, representatives from each municipality partner of the project have described the situation of their town and their expectations for this research-action project.
The six African municipalities – Cape Town and Polokwane (South Africa), Kasese and Jinja (Uganda), Ga East and Awutu Senya East (Ghana) – tend to face considerable difficulties to exert control on land use due to important internal and international migration combined with an important internal population growth rate.
In all countries, power supply does not cope with the demand and power cuts can be frequent which raises the question of the effectiveness of demand-side management policies; some municipalities also face constraints in terms of supply of water which will become even more acute in the near future; waste management can be an important unresolved issue; traffic congestion is also widespread due to the lack of public transport and cannot be solved by just implementing more infrastructure.
It was also emphasized during this meeting how data used by municipalities were inaccurate and misleading because of the importance of the informal sector, and that municipalities were always behind the fast changing situation on the ground. With yearly budgets planned according to the situation at a given time, but implemented with delays, flexibility in planning procedures was needed to allow the taking into account of changes that have occurred in the recent past, and not just to factor the growth rate of the municipality.
It has been underlined that data to be collected for the research did not need to be complete at the beginning of the project, because data collection was an on-going process and that data will get better once they have been started to be collected.
Each of the municipalities have taken the opportunity of this meeting to detail their specific issues and how they try to deal with them, particularly detailing and starting to compare their approach in terms of planning and electrification. After these first exchanges, further network meetings will help to design and implement effective strategies.
This entry was posted in UCL - Energy Institute and tagged Africa, Built Environment, Cities, Data, Developing Countries, Energy, Infrastructure, Municipalities, Network Meeting, News, SAMSET, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sustainable Energy, UCL, Urban Planning on June 20, 2014 by danielkerrucl.
Simon Bawakyillenuo and Innocent Komla Agbelie from the University of Ghana on the recent IPCC "Key Roles of Cities in Climate Resilience" report.
Indeed, evidence abounds today, manifesting that cities such as Chicago in the U.S.A, Leicester in the UK, and Ekurhuleni in South Africa have made huge investments in retrofit programmes for public buildings as a way of reducing energy use, since energy consumption is a key driver of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Other innovations such as the Bus Rapid Transit system in Mexico City, biogas-powered buses in Lille, France and the solar-powered municipal bus fleet in Adelaide, Australia are all green strategies being introduced into city structures to enhance the mitigation of GHG emission as well as improve the resilience of these urban areas. The adoption of these clean and efficient technologies by the cities, which serve the dual purposes of climate change mitigation and adaption strategies are in sync with Dr. Debra Roberts' views. Since cities are the highest contributors of GHG emissions, strong leadership and institutional set-ups are required to initiate innovative approaches that will embrace the dual purposes of adaptation to climate change and mitigation of GHG emissions. While existing mega cities will need to reorient their strategies and approaches, the lessons and opportunities, perhaps for local authorities of smaller cities and municipalities are that, they can leapfrog the fundamental mistakes of mega cities by pursuing development agenda that will involve meticulous planning, adoption of policies that will be clean and efficient technology driven as well as improving resilience to climate change.
It goes without saying that today's mega cities are more complicated, structurally and institutionally compared to smaller cities; which therefore make it difficult to apply the same technologies, processes and scientific approaches to tackling what may seem homogeneous problems facing the two types of cities. Thus, a more proactive approach to building climate conscious cities and municipalities is the need for them to adopt adaptation and mitigation measures that are within their means, resource-wise. While mega cities need to integrate more climate friendly technologies into their existing structures in order to upgrade them to climate compatible levels, smaller cities and municipalities, having not developed complicated structures can just begin developing their structures with climate compatible elements, being mainstreamed in them.
The SAMSET project's approach of supporting municipalities from three countries with varied setups in terms of size, structure and institutional arrangements, with sustainable energy transition paths, is laudable in building climate resilience in the selected municipalities and, therefore speaks to the views of Dr. Debra Roberts. The selected smaller municipalities on the SAMSET project, which are considered alongside other larger cities, are obviously potential mega cities in the future. Thus, these smaller municipalities are well placed in shaping their development trajectories in the right directions and protecting their fragile infrastructure by drawing lessons from the bigger municipalities that have faced numerous climate change issues. In effect, the SAMSET project has an enviable opportunity of impacting positively on climate change resilient approaches of all partner municipalities especially, the smaller cities through building the capacity of their personnel to come up with informed decisions, strategies and approaches to develop clean and efficient technologies.
This entry was posted in ISSER - University of Ghana and tagged Adaptation, Cities, Climate Change, Developing Countries, Future Proofing Cities, Ghana, Infrastructure, IPCC, Mitigation, Municipalities, SAMSET, Urban Development, Urban Energy Transitions, Urban Governance, Urban Planning on May 9, 2014 by danielkerrucl.
Prof. Simon Marvin from Durham University reports on the Durham SAMSET team's recent work in Uganda.
We met the Municipal Town Clerks – the equivalent of a Chief executive in UK – from our two case study cities. These municipalities have few formal responsibilities for energy issues with policy making priorities and capacity being exercised at a national level – through the energy ministry and the actions of an unbundled energy system of generation, transmission and distribution. Consequently, there was very limited capacity in the local authority to focus on energy issues – with only one member of staff employed to deal with all environmental issues – including working on forests, wastewater etc. While municipalities were concerned about a range of energy issues in their cities including high costs, disruption, health and air quality plus access of households to formal energy system – there are few formal mechanisms for them to interact with, or shape, the energy system.
Mapping the urban energyscape revealed a wide range of local energy initiatives around lighting, fuel-efficient stoves and a range of decentralised technologies. But these responses were strongly dependent on the actions of external intermediaries – NGOs and private companies – who worked with local households and community-based organisations to develop local energy initiatives. What was striking about these was the ways in which these responses tended to connect to international financial mechanisms, agencies and particular national contexts involving private companies, universities and NGOs to a particular local context – household, sewage works etc. There was strong sense that these initiatives largely by-passed the municipal and national contexts within which they were inserted according to external priorities – a form of transnational governance of local energy.
While the energyscape was incredibly fragmented there was one example of an energy strategy at a municipal scale in Kasese that WWF has chosen as the " Champion District". The imitative involves working with a cross-sectoral partnership designed to accelerate energy access for off grid communities through cooking and lighting. A number of different pathways are being experimented with including working with not-for profit NGOs and commercial models. A private solar provider had report significant up lift in monthly solar installations from 2 up to 400 a month after the scheme provided enhanced access to the market through CBOs. In contrast an efficient stove NGO reported that the scheme had been less successful in providing access to households.
This entry was posted in University of Durham and tagged Africa, Built Environment, Capacity Building, Cities, Climate Change, Developing Countries, District Champions, Durham University, Energy, Local Government, Municipalities, Netmapping, Planning, Renewable energy, Uganda, Urban, Urban Energy Transitions, Urbanization on April 22, 2014 by danielkerrucl.
Mark Borchers from SEA comments on the C40 City Mayors Summit, held in Johannesburg in February.
There are plenty of ideas about low carbon urban development. These tend to circulate in policy documents, reviews and conference presentations. The challenge is to take these ideas and let them take root and gain life in the messy engine rooms of cities where the aircon may have been broken for many months, the average qualification basic, a receptionist painting their nails, the engineer gone and the finance officer unwilling to do anything new. It may take 3 months just to appoint a staff member; up to six months to issue a tender and appoint a contractor. I have heard of instances where money for retrofit of public lighting ended up paying staff salaries; and funds for solar water heating installation could not be spent as there was no engineer to sign off that the houses could structurally bear the load.
Scratch the surface, however, and there is also a wealth of experience, irreplaceable on-ground technical knowledge and institutional memory. I have also experienced, across almost every municipality in South Africa at least, a massive commitment to meet the environmental challenges facing us.
In February city leaders met in Johannesburg for the C40 City Mayors Summit. Political analysts Richard Calland and Jerome van Rooij ('African cities need to work together') posed the question: will African cities be able to 'catch the wave' of cities being "where it's at" with regard to sustainable development and green-growth, given their fiscal and political/legal limitations? Not without a major gearing up, they conclude.
SAMSET aims to address this, following a model that has been enormously successful in South Africa to date: taking an sustainable energy/urban development idea, working on it hand in hand with city staff; when it hits a snarl-up, deepening the investigation, exploring a number of possibilities and moving closer to a solution – a programme of real intervention. As the work happens, the finance begins to flow in, the capacity to do the work expands, new offices develop and the institution reconfigures itself. Incremental, but potentially powerful.
This entry was posted in Sustainable Energy Africa and tagged Africa, Built Environment, Capacity Building, Cities, Climate Change, Developing Countries, Energy, Infrastructure, Local Government, Low Carbon Development, Peri-Urban, Planning, SAMSET, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Urban, Urban Energy Transitions, Urban Governance, Urban Management, Urban Planning on March 18, 2014 by danielkerrucl.
Homepage of the SAMSET project, including outputs, meetings, events and current research.


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Movement (Classic)
A variety of advanced movement techniques are utilized in the Team Fortress Classic series of games. They are listed below.
1 Bunnyhopping
1.1 History of BunnyHopping
2 Wall strafing and Strafe jumping
3 Chopping
4 Ramp sliding
5 Sharking
6 Pipebomb jumping
7 Grenade jumping
8 Handheld grenade jumping
9 Dispenser jumping
10 Sniper jumping
11 Napalm Jumping
Bunnyhopping
The game engine has a feature called "air acceleration" that increases and changes the direction of momentum when a strafe key is held while in the air and the mouse is moved evenly in that direction. At the same time, movement speed is based upon a friction-based system, therefore being midair does not subject players to the same rules as regular movement. The exploitation of these rules allows players to quickly move across open ground using a technique called bunnyhopping.
To bunnyhop, first jump and then strafe to the side, moving the mouse in that direction about 45 degrees while in the air; the moment the character touches the ground, immediately jump again and repeat the process in the opposite direction. Jumping must be performed as early as possible to preserve as much speed as possible.
A patch has limited the speeds that can be obtained while bunnyhopping to about 525 Hammer units per second or about 170% medium movement speed. Once the ground is touched at those speeds, momentum will instantly be reduced to about 50% or about 150 Hammer units a second before picking up again. Players must keep just below this cap to bunnyhop successfully on most maps.
Note that the forward key must not be used while bunnyhopping at the risk of losing all of the momentum and speed that has been gained.
A fairly common technique is to grenade or concussion jump into the max movement speed, and then begin BunnyHopping to keep momentum.
Bunnyhopping was patched so you can gain only a small amount of speed but it still can be done. Team Fortress 2, still has a way to bunny hop normally but you must use obscure server settings, although air strafing can still be performed by explosion jumping classes like the Soldier and Demoman.
History of BunnyHopping
Bunnyhopping was first introduced in Team Fortress, then was made popular in Team Fortress Classic once it started catching on. Very few people knew about BunnyHopping in Team Fortress Classic when the game was first released, but it slowly started catching on until it became very popular. At first, in Team Fortress Classic, there was no movement speed increase cap, meaning you could speed your character up to as fast as you could react. Later, Valve added a patch in which movement speed increase was capped to ~170% of the character's running speed.
Wall strafing and Strafe jumping
To perform wall strafing, you must run along a wall, hold forward, and then strafe into the wall. This is useful in tight corridors where there is not enough room to do a full strafe jump.
With strafe jumping, you can increase your speed a little bit while in a jump. Unlike bunnyhopping, which does not use the forward key, if you hold the forward key + strafe key + move the mouse in the same direction as the strafing, you will increase your jump distance and speed for that one jump. Strafe jumping is probably the most common movement technique among players, however, bunnyhopping is the most commonly used technique among veteran players. It increases the player's speed, while also allowing them to fight any enemies they encounter.
Chopping is when a character crouches after running, sliding forward a small distance. By repeatedly crouching with good timing, a player can move faster than the normal running speed. This technique is not commonly used as it is slower than strafe jumping. It can be used to conserve a lot of momentum after a rocket and/or grenade jump.
Ramp sliding
By propelling yourself forward by any means into a ramp, your character will start ramp sliding provided that you have enough speed. However, at the top of the ramp, your character will appear to hit a "lip" and either stop or fly straight up. In order to get past the "lip", you must crouch just as you reach the top of the ramp in order to keep your momentum.
Sharking
Sharking is the term used for the technique of skimming the surface of water to preserve movement speed. Holding the jump key while in water and moving forward causes characters to stay on the surface of the water without slowing down as they would while swimming. This is analogous to the use of bunnyhopping to preserve momentum on land, and can be combined with it to skim over water in a similar manner.
This is an especially common technique due to the ease at which it can be used and the extreme speed slowdown while swimming.
Pipebomb jumping
Pipebomb jumping can be performed by using the Pipebomb Launcher to lay out a pipebomb and then detonate it while jumping over it (similar in manner to a grenade jump). There is a greater degree of control when attempting a pipebomb jump as the Demoman can choose when to detonate the pipebomb.
Grenade jumping
Grenade jumping is performed with a Concussion or Frag Grenade. First, throw a grenade on the ground. Second, when it is about to detonate, run over it and jump. The knock back will send you flying through the air at a decent speed. Grenade jumps can be combined with a Soldier's rocket or a Demoman's pipebomb to increase the speed and distance. Once airborne, use air strafing to increase your distance. With good timing, a player can chain multiple grenade jumps in the air by releasing the grenade just as it is about to explode. On some maps, Scouts and Medics can cross the whole map without touching the ground.
You can also do HH (hand-held) grenade jumping. You will always be boosted vertically if you aren't moving forward. If you are moving forward as you jump, you can propel yourself great distances at great speeds.
Grenade jumping can also refer to the use of the Grenade Launcher to conduct a similar jump to the above pipebomb jump. While a jump can be preformed, it is less than optimal and requires precise timing. The jump should be used as a means of escape rather than a means of movement as using the Grenade Launcher will give you a shorter distance and lower height jump compared to pipebomb jumping.
Concussion jumping is the preferable mode of movement considering that it deals no damage to the user and its equal or greater knock back.
Handheld grenade jumping
Handheld grenade jumping (hh jumping) is closely related to the regular grenade jump. Instead of throwing the grenade, keep it held the entire time. Right as it is about to explode, jump. The exact timing will change the outcome of your jump. This allows for a much more flexible jump that can be fine tuned to the player's liking. Many times, however, the grenade ends up boosting one more vertically than it should. This can, however, be used to one's advantage on some occasions.
Dispenser jumping
The Engineer does not have enough health to make full use of grenade jumping or concussion grenades. Dispenser jumping allows the Engineer to reach a larger range of heights. When a Dispenser is destroyed, it will create an explosion proportional to the amount of ammo in it. Stand on the Dispenser, jump, and then detonate the Dispenser to effectively create a weaker grenade jump. This takes some practice as a Dispenser can easily hold enough ammo to kill the Engineer.
Sniper jumping
Sniper jumping is the use of a Sniper Rifle to propel a teammate through the air. This technique takes advantage of the fact that the Sniper Rifle can hit teammates and the powerful knock back that the Sniper Rifle possesses. Unlike other special movement abilities, the Sniper is unable to benefit from this action himself.
Napalm Jumping
Napalm jumping (or IC/Napalm Jumping, IC/Nap Jump, etc.) involves using a Pyro's Napalm Grenades and Incendiary Cannon to propel a Pyro to great distances or heights. It involves laying out napalm grenades, letting them explode, and rocket jumping with the Incendiary Cannon in the flames at the perfect time to propel the player upward and a little forward. The Napalm Grenade deals a set of damage about every 1 second for 9 seconds. You have to IC jump in between these sets of damage the grenade deals to do the jump properly. You can also IC jump at the moment the Napalm Grenade goes explodes, as it hasn't dealt out a set of damage after the explosion. It is generally a tricky maneuver, and not as practical as using a frag grenade to jump but it gets easier with practice and can be of some use. You can also do the easier HH (hand-held) napalm jump, which is a lot more practical.
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Current: Worldwide Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Search Software Forecast, 2019–2023
TECH SUPPLIER Oct 2019 - Special Study - Doc # US45572019
Worldwide Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Search Software Forecast, 2019–2023
By: Hayley Sutherland Senior Research Analyst, AI Software Platforms, David Schubmehl Research Director, Cognitive/Artificial Intelligence Systems
This IDC Special Study presents a view of AI-enabled search software revenue from the historical year 2018 through to the five forecast years of 2019–2023.
"The AI-enabled search market grew significantly from 2017 to 2018, and we expect this area to continue to grow annually over the forecast period, approaching nearly $2.1 billion in revenue by 2023, with a five-year CAGR of 18.2%," said Hayley Sutherland, senior research analyst at IDC. "We are seeing a widespread shift toward AI-enabled search that can generate personalized insights and recommendations, as opposed to merely presenting users with a specific data point, thereby improving productivity and augmenting the capabilities of knowledge workers."
Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Search 2019
Sinequa SAS, IBM, LucidWorks Inc., Coveo Solutions Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corporation
Cognitive/artificial intelligence, Search and discovery, Text analytics
Table of Contents (8 pages)
List of Tables (3)
List of Figures (3)


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ALP (53%) lead over the L-NP (47%) narrowed slightly before Sydney re-opened this week
Source: Roy Morgan Single Source. Average interviews per fortnight n=2,000. May 2019–Oct. 2021. Base: Australian electors 18+.
ALP support has dropped to 53% (down 1% point since late September) cf. L-NP on 47% (up 1% point) on a two-party preferred basis according to the latest Roy Morgan Poll on Federal voting intention conducted over the last two weekends.
The 1% point swing to the L-NP came after Prime Minister Scott Morrison met foreign leaders including US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington in late September as part of a series of security meetings. However, the swing to the L-NP in recent weeks has merely acted to reverse the similarly sized swing away from the L-NP in September.
If a Federal Election were held now the ALP would be elected with a similar margin to that won by Bob Hawke at the 1983 Federal Election (ALP 53.2% cf. L-NP 46.8%).
Interviewing for the latest Roy Morgan Poll was conducted over the weekends of October 2/3 & 9/10, 2021 with a nationally representative cross-section of 2,794 Australian electors using a combination of telephone and online interviews (multi-mode).
Primary Voting Intention shows the L-NP gaining the edge over the ALP
Primary support for the L-NP increased 1.5% points to 37.5% in mid-October and is now just ahead of the ALP which is unchanged on 36%. Greens support has dropped 1% point to 11.5%.
Support for One Nation was down 0.5% points to 3% while support for Independents/Others was unchanged at 12%.
Voting Intention by State shows ALP still leading in Victoria, NSW, WA, SA & Tasmania
Voting analysis by State shows the ALP again leading on a two-party preferred basis in five States including Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. In contrast, the LNP leads only in Queensland.
The ALP leads in Victoria on 56% (unchanged since late September) compared to the L-NP on 44% (unchanged) on a two-party preferred basis. This result represents a swing of 2.9% points to the ALP in Victoria since the 2019 Federal Election.
There has also been little change in NSW over the last two weeks with ALP support steady at 53.5% cf. L-NP on 46.5% (unchanged). This result represents a swing of 5.3% points to the ALP since the 2019 Federal Election.
The LNP has its strongest result in Queensland and has increased its lead over the last two weeks with the LNP on 55% (up 2.5% points since late September) cf. ALP 45% (down 2.5% points) on a two-party preferred basis. Despite the LNP's lead this represents a swing of 3.4% points to the ALP since the 2019 Federal Election.
The ALP has gained ground in WA with the ALP on 55% (up 0.5% points since late September) well ahead of the L-NP on 45% (down 0.5% points) on a two-party preferred basis. This result reprensents a massive swing of 10.6% points to the ALP since the 2019 Federal Election.
The ALP's lead in SA has narrowed over the last two weeks with the ALP 54.5% (down 4% points since late September) ahead of the L-NP 45.5% (up 4% points) on a two-party preferred basis. This represents a swing of 3.8% points to the ALP since the 2019 Federal Election. The ALP leads in Tasmania with the ALP 53% cf. L-NP 47% - a swing of 3% points to the L-NP since the 2019 Federal Election.
Roy Morgan Government Confidence down by 1pt to 95
The Roy Morgan Government Confidence Rating has dropped 1pt to 95 in mid-October. An unchanged 40% of Australians say the country is 'heading in the right direction', while 45%, up 1% point, say the country is 'heading in the wrong direction'.
However, there is a wide divergence of nearly 30pts between different States with Government Confidence well below 100 in Victoria and the tourism-dependent Tasmania, around the neutral level of 100 in NSW, Queensland and Western Australia and at a high level in South Australia.
Government Confidence is at only 80 in Victoria in mid-October with the State recording the highest daily count of COVID-19 cases of any State so far during October. Government Confidence is also well below neutral in tourism-dependent Tasmania at 79.
Government Confidence has continued to recover over the last two weeks in NSW and was almost neutral at 99.5 on the eve of the State's re-opening this week. Government Confidence in Queensland was also just below neutral at 99 while it was slightly above neutral in Western Australia at 101.
South Australia now has the highest Government Confidence at 109.5 in mid-October. Adelaide has been the city which has consistently been 'closest to normal' since the COVID-19 pandemic began with average movement levels in the Adelaide CBD at 74% of pre-pandemic averages in early October – higher than any other Australian Capital City.
Michele Levine, CEO, Roy Morgan says the L-NP has regained some of the ground it lost during September but the ALP still retains a strong election-winning lead in mid-October:
"Today's Roy Morgan Poll on Federal voting intention shows the ALP 53% (down 1% point since late September) with a clear election-winning lead over the L-NP 47% (up 1% point) on a two-party preferred basis.
"One month ago, before Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the new 'AUKUS' defence agreement with the US and UK and before Morrison travelled to Washington DC to meet with world leaders including President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Indian Prime Minister Nardendra Modi, the ALP 52.5% had a similar lead over the L-NP 47.5%.
"The implication to draw from these results is that the international diplomacy and defence agreements have had a negligible impact on the voting intentions of Australians – it is the domestic issues dealing with COVID-19, ending lockdowns and re-opening State borders that will be the important issues over the next few months.
"On the domestic front voting intention was unchanged in mid-October in Australia's two largest States – both in lockdown at the time of interviewing. The ALP holds leads in both NSW: ALP 53.5% cf. L-NP 46.5% and Victoria: ALP 56% cf. L-NP 44%.
"NSW has this week emerged from a long 106-day lockdown and will be the first State to resume international travel in early November. This is good news for the Federal Government as the decline in support for the Federal Government accelerated in early July following the beginning of the Greater Sydney lockdown on the last weekend of June.
"By late June the Government had almost recovered the support it lost following the rape allegations made by former ministerial staffer Brittany Higgins earlier in the year. At the time Greater Sydney entered lockdown the potential election result was 'too close to call' with the ALP 50.5% cf. L-NP 49.5%. Since Sydney's lockdown began L-NP support has not been higher than 47.5%.
"The gain in support for the L-NP in mid-October came based on solid increases in both Queensland: LNP 55% (up 2.5% points since late September) cf. ALP 45% (down 2.5% points) and South Australia: ALP 54.5% (down 4% points) cf. L-NP 45.5% (up 4% points). The L-NP Government is heavily reliant on a strong performance in Queensland to have any hope of winning next year's Federal Election – at present the LNP holds 23/30 seats in Queensland."
Electors were asked: "If an election for the House of Representatives were held today – which party will receive your first preference? and "Generally speaking, do you feel that things in Australia are heading in the right direction or would you say things are seriously heading in the wrong direction?"
Australian Federal Voting Intention: Two-Party Preferred (2019-2021)
This Roy Morgan Poll on Federal voting intention and Roy Morgan Government Confidence was conducted via telephone and online interviewing last weekend. Roy Morgan interviewed 2,794 Australian electors aged 18+ on the weekends of October 2/3 & 9/10, 2021. A higher than usual 7.5% of electors (down 0.5% points from late September) can't say who they support.
ALP (54%) increases lead over the L-NP (46%) after 'AUKUS' submarine deal i ...
ALP support has increased to 54% (up 1.5% points since mid-September) cf. L-NP on 46% (down 1.5% points) on a two-party preferred basis according to the latest Roy Morgan Poll on Federal voting intention conducted over the last tw...
L-NP (47.5%) gains ground on the ALP (52.5%) after PM Morrison calls on Sta ...
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What do Americans really think about U.S. foreign policy? We take a deeper look at complex views on this complicated issue.
This is a sampling of comments from focus groups exploring American attitudes on foreign policy and on the crisis in Ukraine in particular, conducted this spring (before the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17) by the FDR Group and the Kettering Foundation. National polls over the last few years pick up responses similar to those captured above.
So what does this mean for U.S. foreign policy? The crisis in Ukraine, heartbreaking violence in the Middle East, the unraveling �Arab spring,� disintegrating relations with Russia, gang violence and turmoil in Central America--these are just a few of the tough international challenges we face. Do people really want the U.S. to step back from the world stage? Has the country become more isolationist? What happens when people begin to weigh the implications of U.S. disengagement?
Understanding public thinking on foreign policy is a complex assignment, whether you rely on surveys, focus groups or on community discussions such as National Issues Forums. Events abroad are in constant flux, and there are few policy issues where the public learning curve is steeper.
Americans are in fact quite worried about what happens abroad. They�re just not sure that U.S. assertiveness makes us any safer.
Polls capture people�s reactions about foreign policy questions whether they understand the stakes involved or not. Even in focus groups, it takes prolonged discussion to help participants consider the costs of getting involved in an international crisis versus the costs of staying out. And focus groups contain an important warning for anyone looking at the polls. People routinely assume that �involvement� or �action� means military combat. Most are unfamiliar with other diplomatic and economic tools the country might employ.
Yet despite these caveats, a closer look at recent polls and focus groups reveals some important themes.
Isn�t it time to work on our own problems?
Both surveys and focus groups show an authentic conviction among Americans that the U.S. needs to reduce its footprint abroad and take better care of business at home.
Why are we always out front?
According to surveys, only 12 percent of Americans want the U.S. to be the �single world leader� compared to 72 percent who want us to have a �shared leadership role.� More extended focus group discussions underscore this concern. Even when reminded that wars abroad can endanger us here at home, many participants still wanted to know why the U.S. so often seems so eager to step forward.
Surveys suggest the public is considerably more open to foreign policy initiatives when the U.S. works in concert with other countries, an idea that also emerged in the focus groups.
Does U.S. involvement abroad really make us safer?
One key insight from the research is that many Americans see �costs� to military action on top of the heavy human and financial toll. Some worried that the U.S. is now seen as a bully or an aggressor, and that this in itself endangers us.
Experts sometimes assume that public hesitancy about U.S. involvement abroad stems from indifference or a sense that what happens outside our borders doesn�t matter. But a closer look from the FDR/Kettering research suggests that many Americans are in fact quite worried about what happens abroad. They�re just not sure that U.S. assertiveness makes us any safer.
Who can we trust? Can anything really make any difference?
Perhaps the most troubling observation from the focus groups is the profound sense of weariness, mistrust, and cynicism evidenced by so many Americans.
Attitudes like these strongly suggest that rebuilding public confidence in this country�s foreign policy will require much more than replacing one set of strategies with different ones.
And yet despite the pervasive discontent in the focus groups, there were also sparks of curiosity and interest beneath the surface. Most participants delved into discussions about Ukraine even though they didn�t think we should get involved. Many listened intently to other people�s views. As the conversations progressed, some acknowledged their own lack of certainty about what the country should do.
Given the supreme difficulty of America�s foreign policy challenges, an open mind, a little humility and a desire to hear what other people think isn�t the worst place to start. Perhaps some of the TV talking heads who so insistently push their own �just do it my way� policy options should take note.
As a kind gesture I would assume those who were asked if foreign policy was important might be uneducated or was misinformed from the get go. The Iraq war and the justification of cost is one example. We as a country were well aware of the threat Iraq's leader was and the cause for our intervention was definitely needed. As for the mainstream media depicts a one sided viewpoint does not bold well for the American people. Why is it, that media is never held accountable for misleading the American public? Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was found but was not released until almost 12 years later. Is that a bias view or premeditated agenda? I believe strongly that the U.S. should be directly involved in foreign policy and develop strong relationships with our allies. Its absurd to think if the U.S. clearly ignores what is going on abroad that it will soon remedy itself.


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The enhanced appMailer platform also provides the ability to share lead generation campaigns through social media.
Security-focused email hosting provider AppRiver has added a new lead generation module to their appMailer platform, which lets partners run turnkey co-branded email marketing campaigns at no cost to them.
Earlier this year, AppRiver announced a major upgrade to this tool, expanding it beyond Office 365 to cover a broader range of solutions, and providing a more dynamic range of content. At that time, they indicated that there would be more to come, and this announcement is all about that.
Vilanova said that since the expansion of appMailer in January to incorporate more campaigns, usage has picked up, and the number of campaign templates has increased from 12 to 56.
The new lead generation module allows partners to build a lead-generation campaign around the content available through the Partner Portal.
To attract users to the landing page, AppRiver offers a free whitepaper, providing the customer provides their contact info on the landing page.
"The tool collects the data, lets the partner know that the white paper has been downloaded, and saved the information to an Excel form that the partner can download," Vilanova added.
This version of appMailer also enhances the ability to track different types of partner marketing campaigns. A new column that has been added to the dashboard shows campaign type as well as how many of the partner's clients have interacted with the campaign.
The appMailer tool's security has been improved as well.
"We've added HTTPS / SSL encryption to the platform, something that was not previously there," Vilanova said.


The man suspected of murdering Officer Bronson Kaimana Kaliloa was killed in a shootout with police on Friday, ending a three-day-long manhunt, according to Fox News.
Members of the Hawaii County Police Department Special Response Team (SRT) discovered Justin Waiki hiding under a blanket in the back of an SUV at a checkpoint. The suspected cop killer opened fire, wounding an officer. Officers returned fire, killing Waiki.
The wounded officer has been identified as Sergeant Bryan Tina — he is reportedly in stable condition.
Three individuals who police say were helping Waiki were arrested for hindering prosecution in the first degree, according to KHON-TV.


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Home Technology Barbara Caputo: "From artificial intelligence the next Italian unicorn"
Barbara Caputo: "From artificial intelligence the next Italian unicorn"
Barbara Caputo will be guest of the Panel on Artificial Intelligence with Fabio Ferrari of Ammagamma; Michele Grazioli; Giampaolo Colletti of VedrAI. The appointment is at the Ogrs of Turin, on 29 September at 12:20 in the Duomo.
"Italian students have an advantage over others: they are used to synthesis, to see things in perspective, they do not think in terms of multiple questions and answers", says Barbara Caputo, full professor at the Polytechnic of Turin, where she directs the Hub AI @ PoliTo, as well as researcher and co-founder of ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems). "And they know how to get by, they don't stop at the first obstacle". He has about a hundred doctoral students and undergraduates in his laboratory, but the number varies rapidly, because school dropout is quite high. Contrary to what usually happens, however, in this case it is a positive sign: the young researchers in his laboratory, in fact, often leave classes because a company has offered them a job.
"There is much more demand than supply in our industry," he comments. And there is the risk of devoting time and energy to training Italian artificial intelligence specialists, only to see them end up in non-Italian research centers or companies. "Every training investment in AI is a gift we are giving to our competitors, because we train people and then they go to produce for others, and that's not good," she says.
The theme is all the more felt in Turin, where one of the national centers for artificial intelligence is about to rise, with a specific focus on automotive and aerospace, two historically excellent sectors of the city. It should be shortly: the drafting of the statute is expected by the end of the month, then the legal entity must be established. But in the last electoral campaign, when artificial intelligence existed, it was relegated to a few footnotes at most, and it is not even clear whether the Draghi government or the new one will take the first step for the Turin Center. executive. "I have two hopes: while we proceed according to the directives expressed in the National Plan for artificial intelligence, without deviations or new beginnings; there is a path, let's follow it. And then that the whole sector is placed under the direct control of the Prime Minister, to give it the importance it deserves ", comments Caputo. AI has a strategic value for the country. We are submerged by data, we produce more of it every day: at best they will become digital garbage, at worst it will not be us who will handle them, but someone else will take care of them ".
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There is an illustrious precedent, and also a recent one: for some months the powers of direction, coordination, programming and supervision of the Italian Space Agency have been in charge of the Presidency of the Council, while the Ministry of the University has remained the sole supervision of the scientific activity. "This is why I am cautiously optimistic, it is a significant precedent", comments Caputo.
But in what does Italian research on artificial intelligence stand out? "In what we call symbolic artificial intelligence, in computerized vision, where Italy has visibility and authority worldwide, and machine learning is also growing rapidly. Without saying that the Italian robotics community is historically among the strongest in the world. Here there are many peaks of excellence, what is missing is the critical mass, we are struggling to take the next step, due to the structural weaknesses of our academic system. The first concerns the methods of recruitment, which are very strict, the second the salary. In general, the salaries of Italian researchers are lower than abroad, and moreover it is not possible to recognize that for some disciplines the labor market is different from others ". And after the pandemic, with the spread of remote work, being hired by a multinational does not necessarily mean leaving your city: at most you will take a plane a few more times.
The Politecnico has a long tradition of collaboration with industry, but we often see the two worlds as opposed to each other: on the one hand pure research, on the other the product. "Instead – underlines the professor – putting themselves on the line opens up opportunities never seen before. And the right time is now, with the paradigm shift of artificial intelligence that is passing from the possibility of using almost infinite quantities of data to the need to obtain results even with less data ".
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For those who stay in Italy and deal with AI at an academic level, there are essentially three ways: to continue within the university, to accept the offer of a company, or to found one of their own. And many do it: "Among the Italian startups today there is not a unicorn that deals with artificial intelligence. I believe it will arrive in the next few years ", concludes Caputo.
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Home Security DEFENDERS, A Home Security Company With 1,600 Complaints, Maintained Highest Better Business...
DEFENDERS, A Home Security Company With 1,600 Complaints, Maintained Highest Better Business Bureau Rating
CHICAGO (CBS) – Home security is a 1000000000 dollar business, and one organization, ADT, is viewed because the gold is well-known. However, a six-month CBS 2 research discovered serious questions about the practices of ADT's biggest authorized supplier. CBS 2 Investigator Brad Edwards discovered that the provider became the concern of extra than 1,600 proceedings over three years to the Better Business Bureau.
CBS 2 observed a common subject matter: Hundreds of frustrated customers stated they had been duped, in a few instances, into overpaying through heaps of dollars. Despite that, the BBB of Indiana continued to present the organization its maximum score – until converting it only a few days before this record was posted.
Lisa of Leaf River, Ill., said she believed it would price $27.Ninety-nine a month to comfy her domestic, plus a $ ninety-nine set upcharge. When a consultant got here to her home, he stated it'd value an additional $3,000. Matt of Shreveport, La., said he anticipated a "loose package" that protected numerous hundred bucks in the security system as promised within the advertisements. Then "a tech came, and the guy talked me into about $1,400 really worth of system," he said. CBS 2 is withholding the final names of customers and former employees interviewed for this story.
One former installation technician, Stephen, supported the one's accounts.
Stephen says his teacher once bought a veteran on set profits, approximately $5,000 really worth of safety devices for his domestic. Stephen said he as soon as offered some other patron $12,000 well worth of device—when, in line with Stephen, the house owner simplest really needed about $3,000.
In the case of the veteran?
"I believed we ought to have met all of his wishes for approximately $250," Stephen stated. "I went outside for the rest of the deploy due to the fact I couldn't look that guy in the eyes."
Customers say they frankly didn't even realize who they had been signing up with.
"I replied what I concept turned into an ADT advert," said Johanna of Chicago. Numerous different clients advised CBS 2 the equal element.
"It says ADT everywhere in the region," stated Rebecca, additionally of Chicago.
ADT might be plastered over the advert, but it wasn't ADT in line with se. On the twelfth line of important points on the very back side of the ad—there's a reference to the actual agency, DEFENDERS, an Indianapolis company.
"I ended up getting service from an enterprise referred to as DEFENDERS that I had by no means heard of earlier than," stated Marcus of Pasadena, Md.
According to an enterprise spokeswoman, Whitney Ertel, DEFENDERS is ADT's pinnacle authorized provider with about 2,800 employees. The employer says it has established more than two million domestic safety systems within the United States., and itsitsbiggest markets are Illinois, California, New York, Florida, and Texas.
According to a profile inside the Indianapolis Business Journal, the enterprise topped $600 million in sales in 2018. Ertel did no longer disputed the reported wide variety but could not offer the one's figures to CBS 2. "DEFENDERS is a privately held organization and, as such, does no longer reveal particular economic or operational information," she said.
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Q: How to return a specific value every nth time of a consecutive call with Gmock In the code Google Mock test snippet there is an EXPECT_CALL that returns True and an argument reference for 200 times.
How can I let the test only return True every nth time. For example return True each 10th call and otherwise return False.
class MockHandler : public Handler
{
    public:
        MOCK_METHOD1(RxMsg, bool(Msg &msg));
}

TEST(TestDispatcher, HandlePing)
{
    auto mockedHandler = make_unique<MockHandler>();
    Msg rxMsg = { REQUEST::REQ_PING, sizeof(DefaultMsg_t), rxMsg.rx,(uint8_t*)"0"};

    EXPECT_CALL(*mockedHandler,
        RxMsg(_)).Times(checkValue).WillRepeatedly(
            DoAll(SetArgReferee<0>(rxMsg), Return(TRUE)));

    Dispatcher dispatcher(10, mockedHandler);

    for (int i = 0; i < 199; i++)
    {
        dispatcher.RunToCompletion();
    }
}

A: There are few approaches that might work for you. I like the solution with Invoke as a default action, because it is the most flexible. You didn't provide mcve in your question, so I wrote very simple implementations for the classes you use. Also you made a mistake using unique_ptr for the mock. In 99% of cases is must be shared_ptr, because you are sharing it between testing environment and your System Under Test.
class Msg {};

class Handler {
public:
    virtual bool RxMsg(Msg &msg) = 0;
};

class MockHandler: public Handler
{
public:
    MOCK_METHOD1(RxMsg, bool(Msg &msg));
};

class Dispatcher {
public:
    Dispatcher(std::shared_ptr<Handler> handler): h_(handler) {}
    void run() {
        Msg m;
        std::cout << h_->RxMsg(m) << std::endl;
    }
private:
    std::shared_ptr<Handler> h_;
};

class MyFixture: public ::testing::Test {
protected:
    MyFixture(): mockCallCounter_(0) {
        mockHandler_.reset(new MockHandler);
        sut_.reset(new Dispatcher(mockHandler_));
    }
    void configureMock(int period) {
        ON_CALL(*mockHandler_, RxMsg(_)).WillByDefault(Invoke(
            [this, period](Msg &msg) {
                // you can also set the output arg here
                // msg = something;
                if ((mockCallCounter_++ % period) == 0) {
                    return true;
                }
                return false;
            }));
    }
    int mockCallCounter_;
    std::shared_ptr<MockHandler> mockHandler_;
    std::unique_ptr<Dispatcher> sut_;
};

TEST_F(MyFixture, HandlePing) {
    configureMock(10);
    for (int i = 0; i < 199; i++) {
        sut_->run();
    }
}

At the beginning of each test you should call configureMock method that will Invoke ON_CALL macro setting the default action for your mock. Function passed to Invoke can be any function matching the signature of the method you are overwriting. In this case it;s a function that counts how many times mock has already been called and returns appropriate value. You can also assign some particular object to the msg output argument.


The knowledge we gathered is no longer useful.
The system you understand shifts and makes no sense.
And this is the body you spent years getting used to.
Tomorrow, the light will not recognize it.
Light has no language for it.
Light has no language for what is smaller than a hairpin turn of a chromatin.
Light must be choked in order to name the smaller things.
with this our native speech.
I should not have learned it.
punched open to the ceiling lights.
These aren't our salad days.
And in the end, the body could believe in little.
and in the hours it took to digest that material.
it was planning to take.
When I need more time, I freeze down the material I am working.
and the enzymes, loaded, slower to release their fruit.
while the world is loosening around with care.
it will take the heart nearly three beats to pump blood back to the brain.
At the window, watching one flower bloom for the entire afternoon.
by shining it through a heavy species of glass. It does not slow down at all.
Matter is ongoing in widening distances.
just to learn of course.
It is right to remember the sun.
They have invented poems with algorithms.
They can now be done with objectivity.
There is a chance it won't work.
who were kicked to death by their horses.
The man who discovered this had a name that means fish.
Fish feel pain as I feel pain but fish do not hurt.
lifted on one side and cannot go back down.
fearless fish lidless sleek are the same value.
ahead of me. The letters look like the scales of a fish.
of flowers. Fish feel as lonely as I feel.
Angelo Mao is a research scientist in biomedical engineering at Harvard University and a writer for the Boston Classical Review.