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12 best-selling PlayStation exclusives of the past decade
Which games come out on top?
Some of the best video games of all time are exclusive to PlayStation consoles, and the sales numbers reflect that.
Ghost of Tsushima developer Sucker Punch Productions announced on January 4, 2022 that the game had sold more than 8 million copies.
How does that compare to other major Sony exclusives on the PS4 and PS5 over the past 10 years?
These are the top 12 best-selling PlayStation exclusives of the past decade.
12. Final Fantasy VII Remake — 5 million
The critically acclaimed remake of the 1997 RPG has also been a commercial success, surpassing 5 million copies sold as of August 2020.
11. inFAMOUS Second Son — 6 million
One of the first PS4 exclusives reached 6 million copies sold as of 2019.
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10. Detroit: Become Human — 6 million
PS4 and PC versions combined have amassed over 6 million units sold as of July 2021.
9. Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales — 6.5 million
The PS5 launch game sits at a cool 6.5 million copies sold as of July 2021.
8. Ghost of Tsushima — 8 million
The figure Sucker Punch revealed in January 2021 will only go up from here.
7. Gran Turismo Sport — 8 million
Technically, Gran Turismo Sport has reached over 9.5 million players, but its last sales estimate places it around 8 million copies as of 2019. Either way, it's a success.
6. Days Gone — 8 million
The Bend Studio open-world game that's developed an impassioned fan following has, according to its game director, sold more than 8 million copies across PS4 and Steam. But that may not be accurate.
5. Horizon Zero Dawn — 10 million
Aloy's debut reached 10 million copies sold by February 2019, and that number's likely far higher today.
4. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End — 16 million
In October 2019, Analyst Daniel Ahmad revealed Uncharted 4 surpassed 16 million copies sold.
3. God of War (2018) — 19.5 million
As part of Sony's 2021 announcement of the God of War PC port , the company revealed the series reboot had sold 19.5 million copies.
2. Marvel's Spider-Man — 20 million
In 2020, a PlayStation employee indirectly confirmed on social media that Insomniac's swinging superhero adventure had sold over 20 million copies.
1. The Last of Us + Remastered — 20 million
Combining the PS3 version and PS4 remaster, sales cruised past 20 million as of 2019. It's safe to say that number is higher in 2022.
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Americans in the Bundesliga: Scally Subdued, Adams dips, Marsch earns first Bundesliga Victory
August 27, 2021 by Peter Vice Leave a Comment
The second round of the 2021/22 German Bundesliga left everyone feeling a bit topsy-turvy. Plenty of surprises left everyone either tumbling back down to earth or once again dreaming of success this year. For those who missed out on the latest hot-sheet, he's the re-post just in time for another intriguing weekend of league football.
We once again have seven graded sections in our second installment of the 2020/21 Bundesliga's "Americans" scouting column. In terms of the eagerly anticipated head-coaching battle between Jesse Marsch of RB Leipzig and Pellegrino Matarazzo of VfB Stuttgart, the two US trainers are scored equally. This is despite the fact that RB cruised to a 4-0 victory. On a basic tactical level, the two men essentially equaled one another in the Bundesliga's historic first ever meeting between American gaffers.
Concerning the five players who logged significant pitch time this past weekend, the news could stand to be better. Julian Green of Greuther Fürth and Giovanni Reyna of Dortmund maintain "B-level" thanks in large part to some hard hustle. To say that either player truly turned in a great performance would nevertheless be wholly inaccurate. Both players took on a disproportionate amount of work for their respective squads, yet often looked unpolished in execution.
John Anthony Brooks of VfL Wolfsburg returned home to Berlin to face his boyhood club at the Olympiastadion. While not ineffective by any means, a pair of reckless challenges brings him down to "C-level". Beneath Brooks we have two players who may be in store for some time on the bench. Tyler Adams of RB Leipzig continues to have issues making an impact within his coach's constellation.
All across Germany, there exists an outpouring of empathy for Joe Scally. The 18-year-old Gladbach professional received a rather rude smack in the mouth in just his second German football fixture. The young tyro looked totally unfit to hold his own during the 0-4 Leverkusen debacle and may need some time to regroup and adjust.
Julian Green, SpVgg Greuther Fürth
Minutes played = 90/90, Positions played = LW, AM
Grade = B+
A critically panned match gained some slight endearment on the re-watch. The Bavarian put in some fine work slanted left in head-coach Stefan Leitl's 4-3-1-2 diamond. Green did some decent work getting possession relays going within the constellation, though both he and strikers ahead of him truly lacked finishing skill.
Lineup—Greuther Fürth—Match Two (4-3-1-2)
It had some potential to it. The hosting Franconians even played reasonably well in the opening ten minutes. One can watch Green play a part in scoring chances in the 2nd, 5th, and 6th. The American also put himself in a good receiving position in the 15th with Branimir Hrgota unable to reach him. As the game settled into a bit of a midfield slog, Green still did well winning challenges in the 21st and 25th. There was also a nice carry in the 26th.
Plenty of backwards bend outs and lateral stalling took place within the Fürth ranks over the course of the first half's duration. Green did well passing-wise during this spell. The writer only recorded one wayward. Green got Abiama unlocked with a good vertical in the 33rd. He won a good ball in the lead up to another Fürth scoring chance at 45+1.
The American got the first of his own four shots at goal (none on target unfortunately) seconds after the restart. Abiama should have again done better with a sharp Green cross in the 48th. At least the sequence led to the handball penalty, converted by Hrgota to draw the Franconian hosts level with Bielefeld 1-1.
Green displayed some admirable fight as Fürth pressed for the winner down the stretch. The American pushed up into a four-attacker-set once Max Christiansen relieved Hans Nunoo Sarpei in the 71st. He earned his side a corner in the 80th and got off two more modest efforts between the 83rd and 85th. Another wild effort on target in injury time wasn't pretty, but two cutting passes that Hrgota could have finished were.
It should again be emphasized that Fürth-Bielefeld did not at all qualify as a Bundesliga game of football. Green's work unequivocally rendered him the best Kleeblatt player on the pitch. In the context of the weekend's unequivocally worst offering, however, that doesn't mean as much as one might hope.
Minutes played = 69/90, Positions played = LW, RW, ATTM
Grade = B
Gio's performance against Freiburg easy received as much attention as the Zapruder Film in this week's extended tactical review section. Juxtaposing the published text with the notes, there exists very little that hasn't already received coverage. Some of the solid defensive pressing/duel wins (13th, 26th, 36th, 38th, 48th, 53rd) got omitted. Apart from that, virtually every instance of the American's involvement in attacking plays is cataloged. The chronicler counts 61 forward-touches and 52 forward-passes.
Saturday proved one of those instances in which quite a deal was asked of the youngster. The BVB back-four–excepting Manuel Akanj–had an absolute nightmare day. Furthermore, strikers Erling Haaland and Donyell Malen truly let the team down with many poor touches and finishes. The average-to-subpar grades doled out to both Reyna and fellow teenager Jude Bellingham by most German publications would have been much higher had the team won.
Results frequently skew marks unfairly. This column accords Gio an above average score based mostly on persistent hustle and grit. Mistakes occurred. Additionally, Reyna cut-in central far too often. This American's day also left a lot to be desired creatively speaking. In light of how much of the burden for driving the attack was placed squarely on the teenager's, however, there exists little choice but to cut him some slack. Neither he nor Bellingham should regularly be placed in such situations.
Any sort of tangible signs of a form slide are not apparent. The writer recorded an astounding seven assisted shots on the day. Had Reyna's teammates finished just one or two of them off, Reyna would have found himself in team-of-the-week discussions. Set-Piece delivery (particularly on corners) remains strong. A performance on a similar level against Hoffenheim on Friday night will result in better overall marks from the punditry if the team emerges victorious.
Jesse Marsch, RasenBallSport Leipzig (Trainer)
Matches = 1, Result = W
The Bundesliga's second-ever American head-coach maintained a subdued mien on the sidelines even as his side ultimately ran up the score against Stuttgart en route to a 4-0 romp. The Wisconsin native appeared lost in deep thought throughout, ostensibly pre-occupied with how the many high-caliber pieces of the Leipzig puzzle might best fit together. Comparing the scoreline with the xG suggests that the result was a tad inflated, yet very much deserved.
Lineup—RB Leipzig—Match Two (4-2-3-1)
The previous 4-2-4 settles into a more clearly delineated 4-2-3-1. The sixes occupy a more advanced position and Emil Forsberg's more closely resembles that of a natural ten. Marsch clearly put it the right kind of work with the team over the course of the short week. He got his actors into more stable positions and emphasized the need for more sprints out of the back. Mohamed Simakan and Josko Gvardiol did the best job in answering this call.
We talked about how well Marsch's set-pieces were set-up last week. One didn't observe any equally impressive designs this time, but that hardly mattered as Dominik Szoboszlai converted one in a stunning fashion. Marsch deserves some credit for selecting the right taker and assigning him extra reps in training. The right amount of self-coaching also seemed evident in the team's handling of most dead-ball situations.
The manner in which the XI itself is set-up remains a work in progress. Pairing Tyler Adams with Amadou Haidara actually constituted a rather curious move that didn't abet midfield traffic control at all. In some respects, it seems Marsch fumbles a bit for solutions on that axis. Naturally, one doesn't wish to dock the American trainer too much for that considering how much uncertainty the Marcel Sabitzer situation lends him there.
Something to keep an eye on in the coming weeks concerns a potential benching of Adams. Marsch's upcoming opponents–Wolfsburg and Bayern–boast strong midfield tandems. The weekend adversaries present a very difficult challenge in the form of Maximilian Arnold and Xaver Schlager. Marsch's theoretical best counter to this looks to be Kevein Kampl and Konrad Laimer.
It shall prove interesting to see if the new trainer possesses the courage to sit one of his preferred actors when the situational circumstances call for it. After Wolfsburg and Bayern, the German Red Bulls face a resurgent Köln before a relatively easy four-round stretch affords Marsch the chance to undertake more experiments.
Pellegrino Matarazzo, VfB Stuttgart (Trainer)
Matches = 1, Result = L
The Bundesliga's historic first-ever duel between American trainers ended in a lopsided victory for Leipzig. In terms of the tactics put forth by the two head-coaches, however, one might as well call it a draw. It's very hard to fault Matarazzo for essentially the exact same XI that won the previous two competitive fixtures by a combined 11-1 scoreline. Sensible tactics were also inherent once the basic positional assignments crystallized.
Lineup—VfB Stuttgart—Match Two (3-4-3)
With Atakan Karazor unable to give it a go, Wataru Endo settled into a more stationary role ahead of the pivoted defensive line. Borna Sosa and Roberto Massimo pulled apart to establish the familiar "split-stagger". Philipp Förster and Philipp Klement shared short-striker duties on the rush and the team did get some chances off both flanks. An over timid posture in the early-going didn't seem to be a tactical problem in nature.
Hamadi Al Ghaddioui's miss in the 33rd cost the team dearly. Up until that point, Sosa and Massimo were holding their own on their respective wings. After a shaky start, Endo had his bearings and the squad began to look cogent playing out of the back. The initial Szoboszlai tally lifted the confidence of the Saxon hosts and reduced miscommunications in Leipzig's short passing game. Matters had hitherto been more even.
The total defensive meltdown seconds after the restart highlighted the need for a potentially radical systemic shift. Matarazzo likely needs to consider reverting to a back-four. The dire need for a right fullback became evident in that case. This poses a problem for the VfB trainer as he really doesn't have a good candidate on his roster. Matarazzo now faces even bigger problems at the striker position.
Grading may be a tad intentionally lenient in this case as this particular American trainer entered this particular fixture with an understandable and well-intentioned plan. The New Jersey native certainly has his work cut out for him against Freiburg on Saturday. We could easily see five to six personnel changes under an entirely new system. Whether it proves brilliant or inadequate, Matarazzo shall find himself under closer scrutiny.
Minutes played = 90/90, Positions played = CM
One could be forgiven for thinking that the RB New Yorker was one of the five Leipzig players subbed off after an anonymous final half hour. The chronicler himself only recorded two touches in the last 30 minutes. As noted above, the Adams-Haidara midfield partnership retained a consistently awkward feel to it. Neither player seemed to comprehend their roles in third axis cycle triangles. This American primarily provided lay-offs for Mohamed Simakan with 30 of his recorded 48 passes going rearward.
Adams' most notable forward involvement came in the 19th. Stuttgart defender Marc Oliver Kempf ultimately ended up blocking a worthy selected shot. He also involved himself favorably in advancers in the 23rd, 25th, and 27th. After a bad foul at the half-hour mark, he hit a pair of unbecoming stray passes in the 32nd and 34th. Occasionally, this American's general demeanor can really grate. He often reacts in a temperamental fashion when not receiving a ball he called for. This happened in the 40th and again in the 44th.
With some of his irritable crankiness on display, it came as something of a relief to see him less involved over the course of the second. After making a nice move on a forward sequence in the 48th, there were more poor touches in the 52nd, 54th, and 59th. Mark positioning on a 74th minute foul was particularly bad. While sufficient positives keep Adams above "D-level", it remains the contention of this column that Marsch should probably sit this American in subsequent rounds. Present form seems as sketchy as his current role within the team.
Minutes played = 90/90, Positions played = CB
Some good work from the Berliner got overshadowed by his involvement in the awarded penalty that initially put Brooks' former club Hertha ahead on Saturday. The VAR-awarded spot kick in the 58th counted as a subject call. Brooks made a wild sweep challenge for the ball that seemed reckless, but the all-too-easy manner in which Dodi Lukebakio went to ground calls into question how hard the contact ultimately was. Brooks' clip of Davie Selke in the 11th looked far more malicious.
Maxence Lacroix proved the better half of the central defensive tandem on this specific day. The Frenchman had to bail the American out in the 3rd, 24th, 37th, and 53rd. Brooks still stood tall on his own wins in the 4th and 44th. By the writer's count, only two of the J.A.'s 54 forward passes failed to connect. Despite some suspect mark posts, Brooks did a serviceable enough job getting the offense rolling on the back-builds and was involved in the sequence that led to Ridle Baku's equalizer.
The rather weak Hertha attack failed to test Brooks adequately, with the American really only engaged in seven direct defensive duels. He also got a relatively small number of touches (74) in on the day. This constituted a fairly paltry total for a center halve who ordinarily breaks the century mark. A straight average grade seems fair. The two poor challenges get counterbalanced by otherwise favorable play.
Joe Sally, Borussia Mönchengladbach
Minutes played = 90/90, Positions played = LB, RB
Grade = F
A very rough outing for the CFG New Yorker, who saw most of the fading admiration he received in the country's press completely eradicated quicker than Moussa Diaby scorched past him in the lead-up to Leverkusen's second goal. After lauding this American as one of the Bundesliga's budding breakout stars in week one, the general consensus regarding Scally in German footballing circles holds that Max Eberl must immediately seek a fullback with more experienced credentials posthaste. Our subject here appears nowhere near ready for prime-time.
Going through Scally's now notoriously bad performance with a fine-toothed comb did yield some positives. One was almost tempted to say that there enough in there to keep him just above failing marks. Some decent play observers might have missed included an incisive diagonal in the 5th and a good cross pick-out in the 69th. The 18-year-old's play did improve somewhat when Adi Hütter moved him over to the right-hand side for the second half. Regrettably, he did get beat again on the final two Leverkusen goals. Three of the four tallies came off his side.
Some duel wins during the second padded Scally's stats. Closer scrutiny of them nevertheless reveals that he only executed stellar tackles when opponents ran at a laissez faire pace and undertook handling experiments. Some hard running can't offset the two terrible shots on target (11th, 33rd) and the utterly deflated body language on display when he failed to play the ball in the 35th and 38th. One certainly feels for the youngster. No appraiser can honestly say that they would have reacted differently in such a situation, even with the added benefits of age, wisdom, and maturity.
We might see Scally in action again this weekend versus Union Berlin. Stefan Lainer's injury leaves Hütter in need of a right-back. The teenager will also encounter considerably less pressure against Urs Fischer's 3-5-2 double stack. On the other hand, Ramy Bensebaini or Luca Netz could play on the right. Louis Jordan Beyer–a proven defensive all-rounder who the club tellingly opted to keep this week–seems the most likely choice to take this American's slot.
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Q: Casting a column to JSON/dict and flattening JSON values in a column in pyspark I am new to Pyspark and I am figuring out how to cast a column type to dict type and then flatten that column to multiple columns using explode.
Here's how my dataframe looks like:
   col1    | col2        |
    -----------------------
    test:1  | {"test1":[{"Id":"17","cName":"c1"},{"Id":"01","cName":"c2","pScore":0.003609}],
{"test8":[{"Id":"1","cName":"c11","pScore":0.0},{"Id":"012","cName":"c2","pScore":0.003609}]
    test:2  | {"test1:subtest2":[{"Id":"18","cName":"c13","pScore":0.00203}]}

Right now, the schema of this dataframe is
root
 |-- col1: string (nullable = true)
 |-- col2: string (nullable = true)

The output I am looking to have is like this:
col1   | col2           | Id | cName | pScore  |
------------------------------------------------
test:1 | test1          | 17 | c1    | null    |
test:1 | test1          | 01 | c2    | 0.003609|
test:1 | test8          | 1  | c11   | 0.0     |
test:1 | test8          | 012| c2    | 0.003609|
test:2 | test1:subtest2 | 18 | c13   | 0.00203 |

I am having trouble defining the right schema for col2 to cast its type from String to json or dict. And then, I would like to be able to explode the values to multiple columns as shown above. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am using Spark 2.0 + .
Thank you!

A: Because of the different key name for each row in the JSON, defining a general schema for the json is not going to work well, I believe it's better to handle this via UDFs:
import pyspark.sql.functions as f
import pyspark.sql.types as t
from pyspark.sql import Row
import json

def extract_key(dumped_json):
    """
    Extracts the single key from the dumped json (as a string).
    """
    if dumped_json is None:
        return None

    d = json.loads(dumped_json)

    try:
        return list(d.keys())[0]
    except IndexError:
        return None

def extract_values(dumped_json):
    """
    Extracts the single array value from the dumped json and parses each element
    of the array as a spark Row.
    """
    if dumped_json is None:
        return None

    d = json.loads(dumped_json)
    try:
        return [Row(**_d) for _d in list(d.values())[0]]
    except IndexError:
        return None

# Definition of the output type of the `extract_values` function
output_values_type = t.ArrayType(t.StructType(
 [t.StructField("Id", t.StringType()),
  t.StructField("cName", t.StringType()),
  t.StructField("pScore", t.DoubleType())]
))

# Define UDFs
extract_key_udf = f.udf(extract_key, t.StringType())
extract_values_udf = f.udf(extract_values, output_values_type)

# Extract values and keys
extracted_df = df.withColumn("values", extract_values_udf("col2")). \
 withColumn("col2", extract_key_udf("col2"))
# Explode the array
exploded_df = extracted_df.withColumn("values", f.explode("values"))

# Select the wanted columns
final_df = exploded_df.select("col1", "col2", "values.Id", "values.cName",
                              "values.pScore")

The result is then as wanted:
+------+--------------+---+-----+--------+
|col1  |col2          |Id |cName|pScore  |
+------+--------------+---+-----+--------+
|test:1|test1:subtest1|17 |c1   |0.002034|
|test:1|test1:subtest1|01 |c2   |0.003609|
|test:2|test1:subtest2|18 |c13  |0.00203 |
+------+--------------+---+-----+--------+

A: Updating my answer, I used udf to put the key into array, then explode to reach the desired output
See the example below:
import json
import re

import pyspark.sql.functions as f
from pyspark.shell import spark
from pyspark.sql.types import ArrayType, StructType, StructField, StringType, DoubleType

df = spark.createDataFrame([
    ('test:1',
     '{"test1":[{"Id":"17","cName":"c1"},{"Id":"01","cName":"c2","pScore":0.003609}]},'
     '{"test8":[{"Id":"1","cName":"c11","pScore":0.0},{"Id":"012","cName":"c2","pScore":0.003609}]}'),
    ('test:2', '{"test1:subtest2":[{"Id":"18","cName":"c13","pScore":0.00203}]}')
], ['col1', 'col2'])

schema = ArrayType(
    StructType(
        [
            StructField("Col", StringType()),
            StructField("Id", StringType()),
            StructField("cName", StringType()),
            StructField("pScore", DoubleType())
        ]
    )
)

@f.udf(returnType=schema)
def parse_col(column):
    updated_values = []

    for it in re.finditer(r'{.*?}]}', column):
        parse = json.loads(it.group())
        for key, values in parse.items():
            for value in values:
                value['Col'] = key
                updated_values.append(value)

    return updated_values

df = df \
    .withColumn('tmp', parse_col(f.col('col2'))) \
    .withColumn('tmp', f.explode(f.col('tmp'))) \
    .select(f.col('col1'),
            f.col('tmp').Col.alias('col2'),
            f.col('tmp').Id.alias('Id'),
            f.col('tmp').cName.alias('cName'),
            f.col('tmp').pScore.alias('pScore'))

df.show()

Output:
+------+--------------+---+-----+--------+
|  col1|          col2| Id|cName|  pScore|
+------+--------------+---+-----+--------+
|test:1|         test1| 17|   c1|    null|
|test:1|         test1| 01|   c2|0.003609|
|test:1|         test8|  1|  c11|     0.0|
|test:1|         test8|012|   c2|0.003609|
|test:2|test1:subtest2| 18|  c13| 0.00203|
+------+--------------+---+-----+--------+

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Raymond Delisle (Ancteville, 11 de març de 1943 − Hébécrevon, 11 d'agost de 2013) va ser un ciclista francès. Va començar la seva carrera esportiva el 1961 com a ciclista amateur, passant al professionalisme el 1965. Es retirà el 1977. Durant la seva carrera esportiva aconseguí notables èxits, destacant dues etapes al Tour de França, una a la Volta a Espanya i un Campionat de França en ruta.

Palmarès
 1969
  Campió de França en ruta
 1r al Tour de l'Herault
 1r a la Polymultipliée
 Vencedor d'una etapa al Tour de França
 1970
 Vencedor d'una etapa al Dauphiné Libéré
 1972
 Vencedor d'una etapa de la Setmana Catalana
 Vencedor d'una etapa al Tour de Romandia
 1973
 Vencedor d'una etapa de la Setmana Catalana
 1974
 Vencedor d'una etapa a la Vuelta a Espanya
 1975
 1r al Tour de l'Haut Var
 1r de la Gènova-Niça
 Vencedor de 2 etapes a la París-Niça
 1976
 Vencedor d'una etapa al Tour de França
 1977
 1r a la Polymultipliée

Resultats al Tour de França
 1966. 23è de la classificació general
 1967. 26è de la classificació general
 1969. 37è de la classificació general. Vencedor d'una etapa
 1970. 11è de la classificació general
 1971. 77è de la classificació general
 1973. 11è de la classificació general
 1974. 12è de la classificació general
 1975. 16è de la classificació general
 1976. 4t de la classificació general. Vencedor d'una etapa. 1r al Premi de la Combativitat. Porta el mallot groc durant 2 etapes
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An off-duty sheriff's detective who was a 12-year veteran of the department was struck and killed by a vehicle Sunday after she helped an elderly woman cross the street in Los Angeles.
Bad weather in the weekend in the U.S.
Severe weather was predicted for the weekend, in the U.S. Widespread damaging winds and tornadoes, is beginning in the Southern Plains, and will spread through the Deep South through Saturday.
The most expensive Ford Mustang sold at an auction in America
A 1968 Ford Mustang GT named "Bullitt," from iconic 1968 film and driven by actor Steve McQueen was sold Friday at a Florida auction Mecum Kissimmee house for $3.74 million.
One woman was sentenced for preparing a terrorist attack in the U.S.
A Queens woman who plotted to build a bomb for a terrorist attack inside the U.S. was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a New York federal judge on Thursday.
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The United States National Junior Team will go for its second straight win in preliminary-round play at the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship with a Group A game Saturday against Slovakia at the Malmo Isstadion in Malmo, Sweden.
The Slovaks are coming off a 9-2 victory against Germany on Friday, led by two goals each from Milan Kolena and Columbus Blue Jackets 2013 first-round pick (No. 27) Marko Dano. The United States defeated the Czech Republic 5-1 in their tournament opener Thursday.
The U.S. leads the all-time series with Slovakia nine victories, three losses and one tie in 13 games. At the 2013 WJC the Americans beat Slovakia 9-3 in the preliminary round on the way to winning a gold medal. The U.S. has won the past three meetings against the Slovaks.
The only change to the U.S. lineup will come with the forward group as only 12 forwards will be in the lineup, rather than the 13 used in the opener.
Nashville Predators prospect Zach Stepan, who played left wing on the fourth line, exited the game against Czech Republic midway through the third period with an apparent lower-body injury. He did not practice with the team Friday and has been listed as day-to-day.
Stepan's absence will give more ice time to Thomas DiPauli (Washington Capitals), who saw limited ice time as the 13th forward Thursday but now will get a regular shift on the fourth line, alongside center Quentin Shore (Ottawa Senators) and right wing Vincent Hinostroza (Chicago Blackhawks).
On Thursday the United States got goals from five different players and goalie Jon Gillies (Calgary Flames) made 23 saves.
Forwards Riley Barber (Washington Capitals), Hudson Fasching (Los Angeles Kings), and Hinostroza, along with defensemen Will Butcher (Colorado Avalanche) and Jaccob Slavin (Carolina Hurricanes) scored for the United States. The U.S. received at least one point from 13 different players in the victory.


Two of India's top three cement makers are likely to post a drop in net profit for the quarter ended September 30, due to a fall in demand, lower prices and higher costs.
Among the three, UltraTech Cement Ltd, India's largest cement maker by capacity, may show a growth in sales, benefiting from its merger with Samruddhi Cement Ltd.
Goldman Sachs estimates that cement prices in India fell 10%-15% in the July-September quarter.
The June-September monsoon traditionally slows construction activity, and the impact was more pronounced this year as the rains in north India--a major cement-consuming region--was heavier than usual, Standard Chartered said in a report.
Capacity utilization for the industry during the July-September quarter was likely around 68%-70%, said Angel Broking.
UltraTech Cement will likely report a 5% rise in second-quarter net profit to INR2.63bn on revenue of INR32.21bn, according to the average of forecasts by 15 analysts.
A year earlier, the company posted a net profit of INR2.51 billion on sales of INR15.58 billion.
The results aren't strictly comparable, because, a year earlier, UltraTech's parent Grasim Industries had a separate cement division, which has now been merged with UltraTech. Credit Suisse expects UltraTech's average product price for the quarter to fall 17%-18% from a year earlier due to its exposure to the intensely competitive southern region, which saw the steepest price fall in the quarter.
For ACC, 17 analysts, on an average, expect the company's third-quarter net profit to fall 54% to INR2.02bn on sales that will likely shrink 14.6% to INR17.12bn. A year earlier, the company's net profit was INR4.36bn on sales of INR20.05bn.
Motilal Oswal Securities expects ACC's sales to decline along with its EBITDA margin, which may shrink to 19.5%, hit by lower realizations, negative operating leverage and higher freight costs.
Ambuja Cements' net profit will likely slide 33% to INR2.13bn with sales dropping 3% to INR15.83bn, according to a poll of 18 analysts. The company reported a net profit of INR3.18bn on sales of INR16.43bn a year earlier.
Ambuja Cements is likely to show a fall in sales, hit by lower product prices. Its profit margin may decline 230 basis points, according to India Infoline.


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The New York Times Quotes Greg Jenner Regarding Use of Private Activity Bonds to Finance Carbon Capture and Storage
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Stoel Rives attorney Gregory Jenner was quoted in The New York Times in an article titled "Senators Revive Financing Tactic From '70s for Carbon Emissions." The article discusses an effort by two U.S. Senators to fund projects for capturing and storing carbon emissions from industrial operations with a bill that revisits an idea used in the 1970s and 1980s to help clean up air pollution—funding the development with tax-exempt private activity bonds.
The capture of carbon dioxide has been performed by oil, gas and other industrial producers for decades. There is a market for it in oil fields, where it is injected underground to enhance the extraction of petroleum and then stored. But only a small number of large-scale carbon capture and storage projects exist in the world, partly because of the difficulty and cost in building them. Many more will be needed to meet global climate goals, and the bill would allow the projects to be financed with the bonds, which are municipal securities whose proceeds are used by one or more private entities.
Jenner sounds a cautionary note—that state limits on bond issues each year could limit other projects from proceeding. "By opening up a broader world for private activity bonds, you squeeze out other projects," he said.
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Singapore and Australian scientists build a machine to see all possible futures
In the 2018 movie Infinity War, a scene featured Dr. Strange looking into 14 million possible futures to search for a single timeline where the heroes would be victorious. Perhaps he would have had an easier time with help from a quantum computer. A team of researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Griffith University in Australia have constructed a prototype quantum device that can generate all possible futures in a simultaneous quantum superposition.
"When we think about the future, we are confronted by a vast array of possibilities," explains Assistant Professor Mile Gu of NTU Singapore, who led development of the quantum algorithm that underpins the prototype "These possibilities grow exponentially as we go deeper into the future. For instance, even if we have only two possibilities to choose from each minute, in less than half an hour there are 14 million possible futures. In less than a day, the number exceeds the number of atoms in the universe."
Unlike classical particles, quantum particles can travel in a quantum superposition of different directions. Mile Gu, together with researchers from Griffith harnessed this phenomena to design quantum devices that can generate a quantum superposition of all possible futures.
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What he and his research group realised, however, was that a quantum computer can examine all possible futures by placing them in a quantum superposition - similar to Schrödinger's famous cat that is simultaneously alive and dead.
To realise this scheme, they joined forces with the experimental group led by Professor Geoff Pryde at Griffith University. Together, the team implemented a specially devised photonic quantum information processor in which the potential future outcomes of a decision process are represented by the locations of photons - quantum particles of light. They then demonstrated that the state of the quantum device was a superposition of multiple potential futures, weighted by their probability of occurrence.
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"The functioning of this device is inspired by the Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman," says Dr Jayne Thompson, a member of the Singapore team. "When Feynman started studying quantum physics, he realized that when a particle travels from point A to point B, it does not necessarily follow a single path. Instead, it simultaneously transverses all possible paths connecting the points. Our work extends this phenomenon and harnesses it for modelling statistical futures."
The machine has already demonstrated one application - measuring how much our bias towards a specific choice in the present impacts the future. "Our approach is to synthesise a quantum superposition of all possible futures for each bias." explains Farzad Ghafari, a member of the experimental team, "By interfering these superpositions with each other, we can completely avoid looking at each possible future individually. In fact, many current artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms learn by seeing how small changes in their behaviour can lead to different future outcomes, so our techniques may enable quantum enhanced AIs to learn the effect of their actions much more efficiently."
The team notes while their present prototype simulates at most 16 futures simultaneously, the underlying quantum algorithm can in principle scale without bound. "This is what makes the field so exciting," says Pryde. "It is very much reminiscent of classical computers in the 1960s. Just as few could imagine the many uses of classical computers in the 1960s, we are still very much in the dark about what quantum computers can do. Each discovery of a new application provides further impetus for their technological development."
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Gen Z members are digital by default. They are both empowered and driven by their mobile devices. If they had to choose between their smartphones and television, friends, or money, they would take the smartphone. That is how ingrained they are in technology.
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When it comes to purchases, Gen Z is motivated by instant transactions. When they see something for purchase, they are more apt to buy immediately. They don't plan ahead for most purchases, so if this window of opportunity is missed, the process of selling to them will have to start over from the beginning at the next opportunity.
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Urgently CEO Chris Spanos Named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2019 Mid-Atlantic Region
Spanos' award in the Technology category is a reflection of Urgently's success in transforming mobility and roadside assistance through its seamless, end-to-end digital platform.
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EY today announced that Chris Spanos, CEO and cofounder of Urgently, the leading global mobility and roadside assistance platform, received the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2019 Award in the Technology category in the Mid-Atlantic region. The award recognizes entrepreneurs who are excelling in areas such as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities, while also transforming our world. Spanos was selected by an independent panel of judges, and the award was presented at a special gala event at The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, DC on June 13, 2019.
"It is an honor to be named an Entrepreneur Of The Year by EY, a recognized global leader in business advisory services," said Spanos. "I share this award with the entire Urgently team, whose commitment to and creativity in transforming roadside assistance and leading the development of the future of mobility assistance has allowed us to innovate and deliver better experiences for customers and partners across the rapidly evolving global automotive, insurance, fleet, logistics, delivery and mobility markets."
Since 1986, EY has honored entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, spirit of innovation and discipline have driven their companies' success, transformed their industries and made a positive impact on their communities. Now in its 33rd year, the program has honored the inspirational leadership of such entrepreneurs as:
Howard Schultz of Starbucks Corporation
Pierre Omidyar of eBay, Inc.
Jodi Berg of Vitamix
Robert Unanue of Goya Foods
Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn
Hamdi Ulukaya of Chobani
Kendra Scott of Kendra Scott LLC
Andreas Bechtolsheim and Jayshree Ullal of Arista Networks
James Park of Fitbit
J.W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr. of Marriott International, Inc.
Lonnie Moulder and Mary Lynne Hedley, PhD, of TESARO, Inc.
As a Mid-Atlantic award winner, Spanos is now eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 National Awards. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced at the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 16, 2019. The awards are the culminating event of the Strategic Growth Forum®, the nation's most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.
Founded and produced by Ernst & Young LLP, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards are nationally sponsored by SAP America and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
In the Mid-Atlantic region, sponsors also include JLL, PNC, SolomonEdwards, Cooley, DLA Piper, KELLY Benefit Strategies, the Washington Business Journal and the Baltimore Business Journal.
About Urgently
Urgently is the leading Global Mobility and Roadside Assistance Platform sitting at the center of expanding mobility and transportation options for consumers, automotive, logistics and technology companies. Analysts project travel miles to increase by one third globally by 2030, from new services, vehicles and uses. This means more things moving and more things breaking down. Urgently delivers assistance through a seamless, end-to-end digital platform, viewable by every stakeholder in real time. This is why Urgently is the choice of leading global brands trusted by millions of consumers across automotive, insurance, telematics and new technology transportation companies in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, visit http://www.geturgently.com or contact media@urgent.ly.
About Entrepreneur Of The Year®
Entrepreneur Of The Year®, founded by EY, is the world's most prestigious business awards program for entrepreneurs. The program makes a difference through the way it encourages entrepreneurial activity among those with potential and recognizes the contribution of people who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. As the first and only truly global awards program of its kind, Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates those who are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses, recognizing them through regional, national and global awards programs in more than 145 cities in more than 60 countries. ey.com/eoy
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EY's worldwide Growth Markets Network is dedicated to serving the changing needs of high-growth companies. For more than 30 years, we've helped many of the world's most dynamic and ambitious companies grow into market leaders. Whether working with international mid-cap companies or early stage, venture-backed businesses, our professionals draw upon their extensive experience, insight and global resources to help your business succeed. For more information, please visit us at ey.com/gm or follow news on Twitter @EY_Growth.
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I don't remember Ash, Misty, or Brock driving cars in their quest to be the very best, like no one ever was. And there aren't vehicles any in PokemonGO. At Urgent.ly, we love the game and just like you, we're prepared to travel across the land searching far and wide to catch 'em all, but we encourage you to put safety first in your travels! Remember that the power of Pokemon is awesome in augmented reality but automobiles are a powerful tool meant for use in the real world and require optimum focus to operate safely. In a world we must defend, you can start by driving safely, and catch and train 'em all when you're not operating a vehicle.
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The Vandalic and Berber Insurgencies – Procopius
Book IV of The Wars of Justinian by Procopius offers a narrative history of the immediate aftermath of the East Roman victory over the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa by the general Belisarius. Procopius was a witness to some of the events, and offers keen insights into the Vandal as well as Berber insurgencies that followed the departure of Belisarius. The insurgencies the Romans encountered were continuous and had flash-points of high intensity for about ten years.
Dispossessed of their country by the conquest of Belisarius the remaining aggrieved Vandal elite stirred mutiny within the Roman army in North Africa, and utilized puppet Roman commanders in an endeavor to reinstate an independent kingdom. Discerning the dichotomy in the Roman army the Berbers inaugurated their own rebellion, which escalated the atomized landscape. Ultimately, the East Roman army would be victorious and Byzantine North Africa would go on to become a citadel of order as well as prosperity in the following century for the empire.
"And it came about during this year that a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during this whole year, and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear nor such as it is accustomed to shed. And from the time when this thing happened men were free neither from war nor pestilence nor any other thing leading to death. And it was the time when Justinian was in the tenth year of his reign.
"In the Roman army there were, as it happened, not less than one thousand soldiers of the Arian faith; and most of these were barbarians, some of these being of the Herulian nation. Now these men were urged on to the mutiny by the priests of the Vandals with the greatest zeal.
"…when they had sailed into Carthage, Germanus counted the soldiers whom they had, and upon looking over the books of the scribes where the names of all the soldiers were registered, he found that a third of the army was in Carthage and the other cities, while all the rest were arrayed with the tyrant against the Romans.
"Solomon sailed to Carthage, and having rid himself of the sedition of Stotzas, he ruled with moderation and guarded Libya securely, setting the army in order, and sending to Byzantium and to Belisarius whatever suspicious elements he found in it, and enrolling new soldiers to equal their number, and removing those of the Vandals who were left and especially all their women from the whole of Libya. And he surrounded each city with a wall, and guarding the laws with great strictness, he restored the government completely. And Libya became under his rule powerful as to its revenues and prosperous in other respects.
"…the Moors did not think it advisable for them to fight a pitched battle with the Romans; for they did not hope to overcome them in this kind of contest; but they did have hope, based on the difficult character of the country around Aurasium, that the Romans would in a short time give up by reason of the sufferings they would have to endure and would withdraw from there, just as they formerly had done.
*All excerpts have been taken from The Complete Procopius Anthology, Bybliotech.
Posted on March 16, 2020 April 12, 2021 Categories Byzantine, WarfareTags Areobindus, Artabanes, Belisarius, Carthage, Gontharis, Hadrumetum, John Troglita, Justinian, Leptis Magna, Libya
The Punic Wars – Nigel Bagnall
Born in India in 1927, Sir Nigel Bagnall served as Chief of the General Staff in London for the British Army in the late 1980s. In his survey of the Punic Wars between the rival city-states of Rome, and Carthage he bestows upon the reader notable erudition of the subject paired with the employment of his vast practical experience as a soldier in the British Army. The blending of his learnedness in both capacities lends to manifest an uncommon narrative of the life and death struggle among the two ancient superpowers – with Rome emerging as the ultimate victor. Bagnall likewise intercedes his own narrative with a chunk of commentary following the telling of the events of the First Punic War, and it is in this commentary that the book sets itself apart from other histories.
"When comparing the constitutions of Rome and Carthage, Polybius concludes that Rome was at its zenith when the Senate was at the height of its power and that its decisions were usually sound because they were being made by the best men available. Carthage on the other hand, because its strength and prosperity had preceded that of Rome, was past its prime by the time of the Punic Wars, and the people had gained too much power. In making this assessment, Polybius, however appears to have only considered the constitution as it affected a city state and to have overlooked the wider fact that, whereas Rome had forged a confederation of states which held together even when gravely threatened, Carthage had merely created a feudal empire with no sense of corporate loyalty.
"Although there will admittedly never be any way of determining exactly why Carthage and Rome went to war, there are nevertheless two clearly identifiable factors which made such a war more probable. First, that the Romans saw an opportunity to advantage themselves, and second, that because they saw that the Carthaginians were unprepared militarily they succumbed to this temptation. Nothing appears to have changed in human nature during the last twenty centuries. Whether as individuals, or collectively, most of the human race displays an unfortunate proclivity for opportunism unless deterred by the threat of sufficiently painful consequences.
"Although the terminology is today's, it will still be helpful at this point briefly to distinguish between the three levels of war:
Strategic Level The definition of the strategic objectives to be achieved in fulfillment of government policy.
Operational Level The planning and execution of military operations to achieve stated strategic objectives.
Tactical Level The planning and conduct of battles in pursuit of the operational aim.
In nontechnical language: having decided what you want to do, you plan how this is to be achieved and coordinate the actual battles to be fought in its fulfillment.
"The effectiveness of Hannibal's administrative and constitutional reforms, however, is demonstrated by the continuing rise in Carthaginian prosperity even after his flight. In 191 BC, Carthage offered to pay off the whole of the war indemnity, while supplying large quantities of grain to provision the Roman armies – offers which either for reasons of hurt pride, or from a desire not to end symbols of Punic subservience, were disdainfully declined. No more than the fulfillment of her treaty obligations was expected of Carthage. But how far Carthage was prepared to go in order to placate the Romans and show her loyalty as an ally is indicated by the presence of Carthaginian contingents fighting alongside them in their wars against Philip, Antiochus and Perseus.
"Following the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus endeavored to ensure that Rome's attitude to Carthage was one of moderation. But he did not survive the political infighting, and with his departure came a reversion, under the leadership of Cato, to the earlier policy of vigorous confrontation with Carthage. After being threatened and having disarmed to demonstrate their willingness to placate Rome under almost any circumstances, the Carthaginians were obliterated. The lesson here is writ large and clear. It is the longterm predisposition of states which should govern our relationships with them, not the ephemeral appearances of some charismatic leader.
*All excerpts have been taken from The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage and the Struggle for the Mediterranean, Nigel Bagnall, Pimlico.
Posted on November 8, 2018 September 11, 2021 Categories Roman, WarfareTags Ancient Warfare, Carthage, Carthaginian, Hannibal, Nigel Bagnall, Polybius, Punic Wars, Republican Rome, Rome, Scipio Africanus


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Ant McPartlin 'In Tears And Comforted' By Dec After Britain's Got Talent Audition
by : Julia Banim on : 05 Feb 2018 21:49
It's during times of crisis when you discover who your real friends are. Luckily for Ant McPartlin, he has a true friend in Dec Donnelly.
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Show insiders have described how Ant wept at the side of the stage during last week's London auditions, with Dec on hand to comfort him.
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A source told the Mirror:
Ant got very emotional, which was unusual. This story seems to really strike a chord with Ant.
We wondered if the pressure has finally got to him? Was he letting out lots of tears about more than just this story.
Ant checked into rehab during summer 2016, in order to address his addiction to prescription drugs and painkillers. Some reports suggest the marriage was put under pressure as a result.
Last month, Ant and Dec showed they are still on top of their game career-wise, scooping up their 17th TV presenter prize at the National Television Awards.
A grateful Ant spoke with emotion as he accepted the award, stating:
It's been a tough year for me personally, quite an emotional night, so to kind of top it off with three awards has been … can I have a lie down now?
I had a very tough summer last summer, I had to face up to a lot of things and my one thing was just getting back to work with my best mate.
Watch Ant and Dec's reaction to receiving the well-deserved award below:
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All the very best wishes to Ant. With Dec by his side, there's nothing he cannot handle.
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Ant McPartlin burst into tears and had to be comforted by pal Dec Donnelly backstage at Britain's Got Talent


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