Why do things taste and smell the way they do?
Flavor is an expression of olfactory and gustatory sensations experienced through a multitude of chemical processes triggered by molecules. Beyond their key role in defining taste and smell, flavor molecules also regulate metabolic processes with consequences to health. Such molecules present in natural sources have been an integral part of human history with limited success in attempts to create synthetic alternatives. Given their utility in various spheres of life such as food and fragrances, it is valuable to have a repository of flavor molecules, their natural sources, physicochemical properties, and sensory responses. FlavorDB (http://cosylab.iiitd.edu.in/flavordb) comprises of 25,595 flavor molecules representing an array of tastes and odors. Among these 2254 molecules are associated with 936 natural ingredients belonging to 34 categories. The dynamic, user-friendly interface of the resource facilitates exploration of flavor molecules for divergent applications: finding molecules matching a desired flavor or structure; exploring molecules of an ingredient; discovering novel food pairings; finding the molecular essence of food ingredients; associating chemical features with a flavor and more. Data-driven studies based on FlavorDB can pave the way for an improved understanding of flavor mechanisms.
Publication: Neelansh Garg†, Apuroop Sethupathy†, Rudraksh Tuwani†, Rakhi NK†, Shubham Dokania†, Arvind Iyer†, Ayushi Gupta†, Shubhra Agrawal†, Navjot Singh†, Shubham Shukla†, Kriti Kathuria†, Rahul Badhwar, Rakesh Kanji, Anupam Jain, Avneet Kaur, Rashmi Nagpal, and Ganesh Bagler*, 'FlavorDB: A database of flavor molecules', Nucleic Acids Research, gkx957, (2017).


The migration of channels to the new Astra 2E satellites European beam began last night at 2am. The first to be switched were those on the near-end-of-life 2A satellite. Reports from across Europe indicate improved reception in Spain, The Canaries, Italy and some eastern parts of Europe, this has not been the case for viewers in Cyprus, Finland and the Eastern Mediterranean, where reports suggest the loss of previously received services.
Reports from Spain show an increase in signal levels for the default transponder used by Sky, 11.778, good news for Sky subscribers.
Currently no channels have transferred to Astra 2E's UK spotbeam.
More channels are expected to move over the coming weeks.


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Best Supernatural Stories of H.P. Lovecraft Edited, with an introduction by August Derleth
Cleveland : World Publishing Company, 1945. First Tower Books Edition April 1945. Hardcover. 307 pages ; 21 cm. In original dust jacket with lots of rips and tears around the dust jacket edges. Pages toned and unmarked. Binding is firm.
Chillingly weird tales...
BEST SUPERNATURAL STORIES OF H. P. LOVECRAFT
Edited, and with an introduction by AUGUST DERLETH
A modern master of horror is becoming famous, ironically enough, after his death. Howard P. Lovecraft, little known before he died in 1937, is taking his place now with the great tellers of weird tales. If you have read and shuddered over the macabre stories of Poe, of M. R. James, of Bram Stoker, you will appreciate this unique collection of Lovecraft's tales, published for the first time in a popular edition. But let him speak for himself:
"It was the faces, Eliot, those accursed faces, that leered and slavered out of the canvas with the very breath of fife! By God, man, I verily believe they were alive! That nauseous wizard had waked the fires of hell in pigment, and his brush had been a nightmare-spawning wand." From Pickmaris Model.
"So I say that I have not murdered Edward Derby. Rather I have avenged him, and in so doing purged the earth of a horror whose survival might have loosed untold terrors on all mankind." From The Thing on the Doorstep.
"I know not where I was born, save that the castle was infinitely old and infinitely horrible, full of dark passages and having high ceilings where the eye could find only cobwebs and shadows. The stones in the crumbling corridors seemed always hideously damp, and there was an accursed smell everywhere, as of the piled-up corpses of dead generations." From The Outsider.
A Time When : Being a tale of young Lord Jaxom, his white dragon, Ruth and various fire-lizards by Anne McCaffrey
The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay (3 Vol. Set)
Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
Dreamsongs by George R.R. Martin (Volume Two)

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Chicago's own Jesse White Tumblers celebrate 60 years of acrobatics, community and legacy
By Darcel Rockett
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has lived a life.
Stepping into his Thompson Center office in Chicago reveals just that, and he jokes that if you venture to Springfield, there are three sites to see (two feature Lincoln, the other is his office). During his 85 years, White served in the military, played for minor-league affiliates of the Chicago Cubs, was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives for 16 years, and was the recorder of deeds of Cook County for six years. He has been secretary of state since 1999.
But it was his mentoring of young people for a gym show that led to his Chicago namesake — the Jesse White Tumblers. White recalls teaching children how to tumble, wrestle and use gymnastics equipment at the Rockwell Gardens Fieldhouse during the off-season from baseball. After two months, the participants showed off their skills to the community.
"I told the parents that was my first and last show. And they said, 'You know, our kids are staying away from gangs and negative aspects just to be with you,'" White said. "I said OK, I'll try one more year. It kept going on, and every year I would say this is it. Now, it's 59 years later."
Emannuel McGhee, a longtime member and coach of the Jesse White Tumblers, receives a hug after the group's performance at halftime of a Chicago Bulls game.
The Jesse White Tumblers group turns 60 this month and will celebrate "60 years of doing right by kids and giving them a wholesome experience" at a gala Thursday evening at International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399, where White says guests will see how the tumblers "help our young people grow tall and straight."
White is still so integral to JWT's work that it's hard to separate the man from his namesake. According to White, there are approximately 250 performers in eight teams who perform about 1,500 shows a year. Children can become members as young as 6 and as late as their early 20s. Minors must maintain a minimum C average in school to perform with the team. Since its creation, the group has traveled the world, performed with professional sports teams, and spawned other tumbling groups.
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White rides on the side of a van with his group, the Jesse White Tumblers, in the Columbus Day Parade on Oct. 14, 2019. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
When people talk about their first encounter with the tumblers, they speak in a tone of hero worship. Men in their 50s recall hardly being able to wait until they were old enough to follow in a brother's footsteps after he made the team. Others recall seeing a show and wanting to be that person soaring in the air above the heads of their peers.
Perry Browley, 56, said he was about 5 when White called him up from the audience to jump on the mini-trampoline for a demonstration. Browley has been hooked ever since; so many years later, he's a JWT coach helping kids learn difficult moves and combinations.
"He grabbed my hand and said: 'I need you to bounce on the mini-tramp three times and turn over. ... You're going to tuck your head, and I'm going to help you over.' And when I went over, I was hooked," Browley said. "A lot of people don't understand that it's just those little minor things that can actually structure an individual's life."
Browley was so enamored with tumbling, he created his own group, Tumbling For Success, a nonprofit that mirrors the lessons JWT and White taught him. On a late December evening on the South Side, Browley was passing that knowledge on to the next generation for free, teaching children ages 5-9 basics like somersaults, cartwheels and how to hold your hands before you do a backward flip.
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Woodlawn resident Benita Taylor was in tow with her 7-year-old daughter Phoenix Smith and two young nieces. She'd sought a program like Browley's to help her daughter develop confidence, structure and discipline.
"A lot of gymnastics classes were expensive, or I'd have to drive across the city to put her in because they aren't offered on the South Side," Taylor said. "Unless we get up and start doing it ourselves, it won't get done."
Leandrew Collins, 27, joined the tumblers in 1996 after seeing a number of his uncles excited over their performances. He got hold of one of their taped shows, and soon was on the playground, trying to re-create the things he'd seen.
"I think it's the adrenaline rush you get," Collins said about the fascination with tumbling. "Some people like to jump out of airplanes. I think that's what it is — the rush you get and the people that you get to meet and the smiles that you get to put on people's faces. There's nothing like doing that."
Collins says he's a fifth- or sixth-generation Jesse White Tumbler. He already has his 2-year-old and 9-year-old children tumbling.
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"Jesse White Tumblers is nothing but family," he said. "After one person leaves, their daughter or son is becoming a tumbler. It's like a revolving door — it closes for one person and opens for the next generation."
The Jesse White Tumblers perform during the Opening Ceremonies for the 2008 Special Olympics at Soldier Field on May 6, 2008. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)
Emmanuel McGhee, 32, knows that feeling. The seed for tumbling was planted while watching Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes, but he got hooked on tumbling at age 8 after watching a performance by the JWT team at Tuley Park.
"I tried out in 2000 for the Jesse White team and made it in 2000, and I've been a coach and driver ever since," McGhee said. His older brother made the team in 2002, and his younger brother in 2003.
It was with younger brother Joseph, that McGhee, a South Loop resident, formed their own tumbling group in 2014 — the Chicago Bulls Flippers , a group that tumbles during game breaks with other Chicago Bulls entertainment groups at the United Center and Sears Centre Arena. And McGhee still tumbles and performs with the Jesse White Tumblers. His 13-year-old son made the team in 2018.
"The tumbling team has made a great impact on my life," McGhee said. "It's a different generation now. We have less boys doing gymnastics and tumbling and more girls doing it now. The kids are more laid-back, but our generation, we would tumble for fun and because we knew the girls were watching and because our family was watching. It's something we grew up doing, and I still have a love for it to this day."
"The majority of the teams are men, but there are probably four to five girls in each unit," said Star Johnson, a 24-year-old tumbler who joined the team at age 14. "You're seeing a lot of girl tumblers because they can do the same things as guys."
The Wrightwood resident saw the team during a holiday festival and thought she could join, having been in gymnastics since age 7. "Making the tumbling team motivated me to do more because I was like: 'I already have these skills. What can't I do?'" Now, Johnson tumbles with the team on weekends. "So many girls come up to me and say, 'You inspire me,' because they don't see a lot of women doing that," she said. "People don't know who I am until I put a uniform on — the uniform really speaks for itself."
When you walk into the Jesse White Park and Community Center on a weekday, you see toddlers with their parents coming in for gym time. The parents sit while the kids bounce around. White greets the children and takes time for selfies with parents.
The site is also a practice space for the tumblers. The space, built in 2014, is where White says he wants kids to be better human beings and use their time in a positive way. That includes trying out for a spot on the tumbling team. Tryouts are typically held in September, training starts in October and when the tumblers' skills are refined, graduation is in May, coach McGhee said.
To join the team, tumblers must be "leafless, pipeless and smokeless" (read: no drugs) and able to execute a forward roll, backward roll, round-off, flip and cartwheel during their tryout. Training is offered two days a week at the Jesse White Park and Community Center for kids from the North and West sides, and two days at Tuley Park for kids from the South Side and suburbs. There is no charge. If they make it through the training, the tumblers do shows and earn money for their performances.
Members of the Jesse White Tumblers wait to transport their mats out onto the floor for a performance at halftime of a game between the Chicago Bulls and the Brooklyn Nets on Nov. 16, 2019. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)
"Some places, we perform free of charge; most places, we charge a fee, and the kids share and share alike in the fee, whether it's $500 or $3,000," White said. He makes the call on how much money the group charges, but White comes free of charge "primarily because all my life, someone has raised their hands to help me, and I never forgot. You get it, you give it back and you do something good with someone every day."
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White says when he leaves office in 2022, he'll still work with his tumblers. He admits that he's busier now than when he was younger because "there are more young people out there that are looking for something to grab onto."
Since the team's inception, over 18,000 youths have benefited from the program, according to the Jesse White Foundation.
"Everything that I've done, I've enjoyed, and I want these kids to enjoy the fruits of my labor and the fruits of their labor," he said.
drockett@chicagotribune.com


Kylie Minogue has opened up about her mental health a year after she split from her husband-to-be.
The Australian pop star, 49, is adored by millions around the world as the princess of pop, but her personal life has not been so lucky.
On the cusp of releasing her 14th studio album, Golden, she told gay magazine Attitude: "There are a lot of voices in my head.
"[When I'm feeling anxious] I put the kettle on and make a cup of tea… But if I knew the answer I would do it and I would have no anxiety.


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David A. Bell's "Napoleon: A Concise Biography"
David A. Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Department of History at Princeton. Born in New York and educated at Harvard, Princeton and the École Normale Supérieure, he previously taught at Yale and Johns Hopkins, where he also served as Dean of Faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of three prize-winning books, most recently The First Total War (2007).
Bell applied the "Page 99 Test" to his new book, Napoleon: A Concise Biography, and reported the following:
Napoleon: A Concise Biography is a very short book, so page 99 actually brings us close to the end. It covers events in the spring of 1815, when Napoleon Bonaparte had already been defeated and sent into exile on the island of Elba. But then he dramatically escaped, landed on the French coast, and marched to Paris He attracted enthusiastic support along the way and returned triumphantly to power. He would not stay there for long, however: just one hundred days. In June he would lose the battle of Waterloo, and be forced back into exile, this time on the small South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, where he would die in 1821.
The principal paragraph on page 99 recounts the beginning of the Hundred Days. It also refers back to a particularly dramatic confrontation between Napoleon and the army of the restored Bourbon dynasty (the "encounter at Laffrey") with which I opened the book:
It was under these conditions that Napoleon fled Elba on February 26, 1815, easily evading lackluster British and French patrols and landing on the French coast three days later. As he marched north to Paris, he met with an increasingly enthusiastic response from stunned onlookers, and his talent for stage-managing dramatic events for maximum effect, as in the March 7 "encounter at Laffrey," had not deserted him. More such events followed. His longtime subordinate Marshal Michel Ney had sworn an oath of loyalty to Louis XVIII, and on hearing of Napoleon's return promised to bring the emperor to Paris in an iron cage. On March 14 Ney changed sides again and tearfully embraced his old master. Five days later, the army defending Paris declared its loyalty to Napoleon as well. Louis XVIII, who had pledged to die rather than abandon his capital, abandoned his capital and fled the country. On March 20, tens of thousands of Parisians, many of them weeping hysterically with joy, welcomed Napoleon back to the city.
Learn more about Napoleon: A Concise Biography at the Oxford University Press website.
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National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Washington, DC. & National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Washington, DC. (1986). Sickle Cell A Selected Resource Bibliography. [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED292900
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Washington, DC. and National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Washington, DC. Sickle Cell [microform] : A Selected Resource Bibliography Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse [Washington, D.C.] 1986 <https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED292900>
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Washington, DC. & National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Washington, DC. 1986, Sickle Cell [microform] : A Selected Resource Bibliography Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse [Washington, D.C.] <https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED292900>
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Sickle Cell [microform] : A Selected Resource Bibliography
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Washington, DC
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[Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986
This annotated, selective bibliography lists the following types of educational and informational material on both sickle cell disease and trait: (1) professional education materials; (2) fact sheets, pamphlets, and brochures; and (3) audiovisual material. A selected list of references is provided for the following topic areas: (1) genetic counseling; (2) overview for allied health professions; (3) pathophysiology, diagnosis, and medical management; (4) pregnancy and sickle hemoglobinopathies; (5) prenatal diagnosis; (6) psychological aspects; (7) public policy; (8) screening: ethical, legal, and social aspects; and (9) sickle cell trait. Appendices present the following information: (1) source list; (2) comprehensive sickle cell centers; (3) screening and education clinics; (4) regional medical libraries; (5) selected online data bases on the Medlars network; and (6) state genetic service coordinators. (BJV)
Sponsoring Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Office for Maternal and Child Health Services.
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Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
Audiovisual Aids. | Clinical Diagnosis. | Databases. | Diseases. | Genetics. | Health Education. | Health Materials. | Health Programs. | Medical Libraries. | Medical Research. | Public Policy. | Screening Tests. | Sickle Cell Anemia. | Maternal Health | Child Health Care Health Counseling
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France third most innovative nation in 2017 - France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.
As it was in 2016, France was ranked one of the most innovative nations in the world in the listing published on January 11 by Clarivate Analytics, a consultancy firm specializing in scientific information and industrial property, which provides an annual listing of the top 100 most innovative firms and public entities.
France is the third most innovative nation in the world, with 10 firms or research bodies included in this ranking.
France has therefore been globally recognized for the vitality of its start-up ecosystem. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, France was the leading European delegation—the third largest delegation after the United States and China.
On January 16, more than 150 innovative foreign business leaders will be received in Paris for the launch of the second edition of "French Tech Ticket," an international start-up competition offering a one-year program in one of the French incubators promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development through its diplomatic network.


Reading progress report template – As a project manager one of your tasks will be maintaining upper management or your investors current on the progress of the project you're working on. The most common way of doing this would be to use a status report template to provide them with a transparent picture of where the job is in a timely fashion. The frequency of these reports is normally decided at the outset of this project and they need to be filed on time in order for any changes in the way things are being done to be made. Most managers are familiar with the concept even if they have never filed this type of report before.
The typical status report is used to inform upper management of the progress made during the reporting period. This information can help them to make decisions like if more workers are required to accelerate the project or that it's time to order the materials for the next phase so that everything continues to run in time. It may also be used to show where there are issues and what the possible answers to them may be. Your report has to be highly detailed, yet it must still be concise so that people who are reading can see at a glance where the project stands.
Your status report should include your present costs and project whether you are in budget, if there are any variances this is the opportunity to let the investors know about these. The same applies to the project timeline, if you are running behind schedule your document needs to show the reasons why for example lack of materials or perhaps key employees being sick and unable to work. It should go on to project how the project is expected to progress during the next reporting period and provide enough information that upper management understands where their job is at and where it's likely to be in the future.
If you have never had to fill out this type of report you can look online for a status report template. Most companies require that you file your reports in a particular format every time. Simply writing your information on a piece of paper won't do as it makes it hard to comprehend the information efficiently. Different projects require their own formats and you may choose to keep several templates available to be certain you are going to have one that matches the demands of the project you are in charge of.


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Brucepattersonius iheringi é uma espécie de roedor da família Cricetidae. Pode ser encontrada na Argentina, na província de Misiones, e no Brasil, nos estados de Santa Catarina e Rio Grande do Sul.

O seu nome é uma homenagem ao ornitólogo teuto-brasileiro Hermann von Ihering.

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Mamíferos descritos em 1896

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COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. — A perfectly executed second half and a phenomenal 30-point performance from senior Eric Williams Jr. was what it took for the Ursinus College men's basketball team to take down No. 10 Swarthmore, 94-88, in front of a full house at Helfferich Hall on Saturday.
In a matchup between the two of the top shooting teams in the Centennial, Ursinus (10-7, 7-3) posted its third win against a top-10 opponent in program history. With the victory, the Bears climbed up the CC standings to a tie with Swarthmore in second place. Ursinus also snapped a nine-game drought against the talented Garnet and ended their 10-game winning streak in the process.
The Bears trailed by five points at the break, 42-37, after a seesaw first half with five ties and four lead changes. After intermission, Ursinus could do no wrong.
In the second half, the Bears shot the lights out from the field at 65.2-percent from the floor (15-for-23) and 88.9 percent from the free throw line (24-of-27). Ursinus proved to be incredibly difficult to stop even against a stingy Garnet defense that ranked fourth in Division III in points allowed and ninth in field-goal percentage defense. The Bears showed impressive poise down the stretch, making one critical free throw after another on a day where they shot an impressive 33-of-37 (89.2%) from the charity stripe.
Williams led the potent Bears with five makes on eight shots from beyond the arc. Even with hands in his face, Williams made numerous contested deep balls to keep Ursinus close in the first half and eventually power the hosts to a signature victory. The sharp-shooter finished 8-of-11 from the field and made all nine free-throw attempts. In total, Ursinus efficiently hit 9-of-14 (64.3%) from beyond the arc and started the contest making their first four 3-point tries.
The Garnet also shot well from deep and from the line, making 13-of-30 (43.3%) from 3-point range and 15-of-18 (83.3%) from the line.
After a Garnet triple a minute into the second half, the Bears went on a 13-0 sprint within a four-minute stretch to grab the lead at 52-45. During the run, Williams drove to the basket for a finish at the rim. Williams then found back-cutting junior Ryan McTamney for a reverse layup. McTamney, who finished with 19 points, converted an old-fashioned three-point play.
Williams handed out another dime to junior Shane Stark, who played superbly in the low post for the Bears. Stark put together a 21-point, nine-rebound game on 7-of-10 shooting and a perfect 7-of-7 from the line.
Swarthmore's Cam Wiley made a jump shot at 14:13 to snap a scoreless streak of just under five minutes. Nate Shafer pulled the Garnet to within a point at 52-51 at the 12:46 mark.
The Bears hung on to a slim edge for much of the second half as the Garnet were difficult to put away. McTamney knocked down a deep ball out of an Ursinus timeout to swing momentum and give the Bears a lift of four points.
With about nine minutes to play, freshman Ryan Hughes dribbled into the paint and kicked to an open McTamney for three to go up 68-60.
The Bears clung to a 77-71 lead with four minutes to play, but a mini-run put the Bears up double digits for the first time at 81-71 when senior Zack Muredda's spin move and pass found Stark for a floater.
With 1:47 left, Williams made a nice reverse layup to go up 83-71, the Bears' largest lead of the game.
It looked like the game was in hand but a few miscues including turnovers, fouls, and a four-point play allowed the door to open as the Garnet worked valiantly to try to take the game late. Swarthmore extended the game, eventually getting themselves within four points at 90-86 with 35 seconds to play. But down the stretch, the Bears stepped to the free throw line with confidence, making all 10 free throws to stave off a late Garnet rally.
Shafer scored a team-high 19 points to lead a contingent of Garnet double-figure scorers. Wiley finished with 18 points. George Visconti and Conor Harkins each had 12 points. Justin Tucker and Zac O'Dell scored 11 and 10 points, respectively, and O'Dell tacked on nine rebounds.
In the first half, shots were falling early and often to begin play. The teams combined for seven 3-pointers in the first four minutes. The Garnet jumped out to an early 10-3 lead less than three minutes in after two triples and two layups.
Ursinus followed up the Garnet's early edge with three straight 3-pointers. The Bears led 20-13 before the Garnet closed the half by outscoring the home side, 29-17.
The Bears outrebounded the Garnet, the top rebounding team in the conference and one of the nation's top ten in rebounding margin, by a 33-28 count.
Hughes finished with 13 points on an 11-of-13 effort from the line, which included several critical makes in the closing minutes. Muredda had 11 points, six rebounds, and four assists.
The Bears look to carry the momentum to Muhlenberg for a conference tilt at 8 p.m. next Thursday.


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Grab forges strategic cloud partnership with Microsoft to drive innovation and adoption of digital services across Southeast Asia
October 8, 2018	 | Microsoft News Center
Grab will adopt Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform.
Microsoft will make a strategic investment in Grab.
The five-year agreement will see both parties collaborate on a range of technology projects, including big data, artificial intelligence and mobility solutions.
Ming Maa, president of Grab (left), with Peggy Johnson, Executive Vice President of Business Development, Microsoft.
SINGAPORE and REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 8, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. and Grab, the leading on-demand transportation, mobile payments and online-to-offline services platform in Southeast Asia, announced on Monday a strategic partnership that will transform the delivery of digital services and mobility in the region by leveraging Microsoft's world-class expertise in machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. As a first step in the broad collaboration between the two companies, Grab will adopt Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform and Microsoft will make a strategic investment in Grab.
"This partnership signals a deep collaboration with Microsoft on an array of technology projects, including big data and artificial intelligence, that will transform the delivery of everyday services and mobility solutions in Southeast Asia," said Ming Maa, president of Grab. "As a global technology leader, Microsoft's investment into Grab highlights our position as the leading homegrown technology player in the region. We look forward to collaborating with Microsoft in the pursuit of enhancing on-demand transportation and seamless online-to-offline experiences for users."
"Our partnership with Grab opens up new opportunities to innovate in both a rapidly evolving industry and growth region," said Peggy Johnson, executive vice president at Microsoft. "We're excited to team up to transform the customer experience as well as enhance the delivery of digital services for the millions of users who rely on Grab for safe and affordable transport, food and package delivery, mobile payments, and financial services."
As the top mobile online-to-offline platform in Southeast Asia, Grab operates in 235 cities across eight Southeast Asian countries, and Grab's digital wallet, GrabPay, is the leading player in Southeast Asia.
Through this partnership, Grab will adopt Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform, tapping into Microsoft's intelligent cloud and AI capabilities to scale Grab's platform efficiently and increase its capacity and capabilities. Through this collaboration the companies will explore a number of innovative deep technology projects that will enhance and transform the Grab experience for Grab's users, driver-partners, merchants and agents. These special innovation projects include:
Big data, AI and machine learning
To help improve passenger and driver safety and security, Grab will work with Microsoft to explore new authentication mechanisms such as mobile facial recognition with built-in AI for drivers and customers who opt in, as a replacement for checking IDs, that help match both driver and passenger identities to the reservation.
Grab will explore utilizing Microsoft Azure's data analytics and fraud detection services to better predict and prevent fraudulent transactions on Grab's platform.
The companies plan to leverage Microsoft's natural language processing capabilities to provide customers with contextualized real-time translations and create an AI chatbot so Grab users can engage in interactive experiences.
Microsoft's machine learning and AI capabilities will be used to power Grab's advanced "recommendation engine" that analyzes user data and behavior to provide personalized services and content recommendations through the Grab application.
Grab also plans to work with Microsoft to explore image recognition and computer vision technologies that will improve the user and driver pickup experience. For example, passengers will be able to take a photo of their current location and have it translated into an actual address for the driver.
To improve map creation and quality, Grab plans to tap into the power of Microsoft's machine learning capabilities.
Other areas of collaboration
Microsoft Outlook integration. Grab will provide on-demand transportation booking options to Outlook users so they can seamlessly book rides directly in the application and be alerted with calendar reminders.
Microsoft Kaizala. Grab will pilot Microsoft's Kaizala, a mobile app and service for large group communications and work management, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Grab's Customer Service teams.
In-car solutions. The companies will collaborate on the deployment of in-car entertainment and productivity solutions across Southeast Asia.
Rewards integration. Microsoft will explore integrating Microsoft Rewards Gift Cards into the Grab Rewards loyalty program.
About Grab
Grab is one of the most frequently used O2O mobile platforms in Southeast Asia, providing the everyday services that matter most to consumers. Commute, eat, deliver shopping – and pay with one e-wallet. Grab believes that every Southeast Asian should benefit from the digital economy, and the company provides access to safe and affordable transport, food and package delivery, mobile payments and financial services. Grab currently offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia. For more information, please visit www.grab.com.
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Stray From The Path: Subliminal Criminals
Eclectic punk stalwarts fire up their flamethrower
By Luke Morton published 21 July 15
Now well into their stride, these Long Island punks have spat out their eighth album chock-full of the piss and vinegar their fans feel about the world today.
Staying true to their hardcore roots, SFTP have created one long battle-cry for the world to pick up their arms and rage against the machine (a band who, coincidentally, this lot owe much to musically).
Pulling in favours from two of the most politically minded musicians in our world – Architects' Sam Carter and Enter Shikari's Rou Reynolds – the NY noiseniks take aim at subjects including the NSA and the war on terror. Sometimes lyrically the music loses focus and the album becomes one anti-establishment rant, but when picking out certain problems with society (such as the #blessed generation in First World Problem Child), SFTP thrive. There are elements of hip hop, funk, punk and metal in this melting pot of vitriol and judging by the protest anthems bubbling inside, we're about to hit boiling point. Look out.
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Did you guys make the nursery rhyme? It's awesome and the game seems really fun too. Would definitely try this with my class, problem is ... the parachute. Is there any possible substitute to that?
The parachute is perfect as it is colourful and has the handles. You can order it on Amazon.
You also can use a round tablecloth, just fix some handles to it. Cut eight pieces of shoelaces. Sew the shoelaces around the tablecloth.


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How to Help Depressed or Suicidal People
Dr. Lorna M. Breen, a top ER doctor who treated virus patients in a Manhattan hospital, recently died by suicide. According to her father, her job treating Coronavirus patients in an overwhelming wave killed her. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/nyregion/new-york-city-doctor-suicide-coronavirus.html)
During this pandemic, your friends, coworkers, or family members may be experiencing similar stress, anxiety, and even severe depression. Of course, other causes lead to similar outcomes: My ex-husband suffered from severe depression as a result of childhood abuse. My brother attempted suicide after getting a stage 4 cancer diagnosis—a disease that eventually took his life at age 57. Sheree, a friend of mine and consultant to public schools, is severely depressed because a medical mistake resulted in permanent damage—while her husband's entrepreneurial business is suffering due to the pandemic.
Psychiatrists predict that the emotional consequences of all these situations can be catastrophic for years to come.
As a leader, you contribute significantly to the organization's culture—as well as serve as a go-to person for those in distress who need a listening ear and for bosses who recognize a team member's performance has tanked.
Here's how to communicate your concern to those coworkers and their supervisors.
Be Alert to the Signs of Depression and Suicide
Laura Stack woke with a start. 1:03 AM. Thursday, November 20, 2019. She reached to pick up the buzzing phone, fully expecting to see her Johnny's name on the screen again. Instead, it said Douglas County Sheriff's Office. The voice on the other end said, "Hello, ma'am, this is (officer name) with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. I'm at your front door; please come down."
Slightly irritated, Laura asked, "Do you have Johnny with you again?"
"No, ma'am. I'm sorry—I do not."
Laura rolled over, shook her husband, John, awake and whispered loudly, "The police are at the door. It's Johnny." They threw on robes, hurried downstairs, and opened the door.
"Mr. and Mrs. Stack, may we come in?" the woman standing behind the uniformed sheriff asked. "I'm with the coroner's office. I'm so sorry to tell you that your son is deceased."
Laura stared at her for a millisecond, not comprehending what she'd heard. "Deceased? What do you mean, deceased?"
As a result of his earlier experimenting with drugs, Johnny developed schizophrenia. He suffered from delusions. He heard voices telling him that the mob was after him, that his college was an FBI building and the FBI thought he was a terrorist. Based on his journals found after his death, the voices were telling him to end his life. So on November 20, 2019, he left his apartment and drove to the parking garage, where he jumped from the 6th level.
As soon as a state in America legalizes marijuana, the drug dealers head to the middle schools and high schools. Buying pot becomes as easy as getting a hamburger in the drive-thru. Johnny started experimenting his freshman year when he was 14 years old. As he became older, he tried other forms and eventually settled on "dabbing," the term for inhaling the vapors from wax, a high-potency chemical form of marijuana with 80 percent or higher THC (the element in marijuana that causes the "high").
Like Johnny, addicted and/or mentally ill employees later join organizations such as yours, where they may or may not experience later episodes of mental illness.
What are the signs of suicide?
Roller-coaster emotions and statements
Withdrawal from friends, family, coworkers
The desire and verbalization to draw closer to God or a Higher Power
Extreme fatigue, punctuality problems, unexplained absences—or real or imagined illnesses
Attempts to making amends with family, friends, and coworkers. (Examples: Texting or calling long-ignored friends, talking over former, fun times, apologizing for past real or imagined wrongs.)
Sudden drastic changes—often an urgency to leave or escape
Final arrangements for death—giving away prized possessions or secrets
More Resources on signs for suicide and info on schizophrenia and suicide.
https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-and-suicide#1
https://afsp.org/risk-factors-and-warning-signs#suicide-warning-signs
Investigate the Effects of Drugs on the Brain
Your organization may offer courses on drug addiction—the hard drugs. The problem? Some consider marijuana "safe." But Johnny found out otherwise. His poisonous "dabbing" choice wrecks the brain—particularly the brains of teens and young adults. Because of the high concentration of THC, dabs can cause psychotic, paranoia, or delusional episodes like Johnny suffered.
You'll find additional resources about dabbing, TCH, and related mental illnesses here: https://johnnysambassadors.org/thc/
Probe for Problems
Communicate compassion to those under stress and depressed by giving them an opportunity to talk through their situation. Ask, "How are you feeling lately?" "How's life treating you these days?" "How's your job going?" "How can we help?" Just simply make the attempt to reach out when you suspect someone is struggling.
Sometimes the individual knows and can verbalize what they need to break through. At other times, they do not. In those situations, you'll need to investigate to provide them with the resources (counselors, education) and/or recommendations about dealing with their depression (whatever the cause).
In addition to your personal efforts, encourage leaders in your organization to volunteer, donate, or educate others alongside the many nonprofits whose mission is to support the drug-addicted or the mentally ill. For example, Laura and John Stack have founded a nonprofit (www.JohnnysAmbassadors.org) to do just that: To educate teens, family members, and employers about the dangers of dabbing high-potency marijuana extracts and the impact on adolescent brain formation, mental health, and suicide.
Theirs as well as other related nonprofits aim to educate, spread the word, and save lives. When you have opportunity, join their efforts to do the same.
If you or somebody you know is in immediate danger of committing suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.
Learn more about how to communicate with people in a variety of situations with Communicate With Confidence!: How to Say It Right the First Time and Every Time.


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It can feel like drinking from a firehose – every single day, 24/7. There is just SO much new information flying at you.
And then, the biggest platforms you know you must master — like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and Google+ — are constantly changing and competing with one another. Just when you get the hang of one feature, it goes away or gets replaced with something new.
And, there are only so many hours in the day. How do you know what to delegate? When you outsource some of your business and marketing tasks, how do you measure your ROI (return on investment)?
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Roman Polanski | WHAT A FEELING!
One of the things Roman Polanski is so good at (and, as one of the world's finest film artists, Polanski is good at a lot of things) is capturing the look and feel of a certain locale. Especially cities: the London of Repulsion, the New York of Rosemary's Baby, and especially the Los Angeles of Chinatown.
This is all the more remarkable since so much of Polanski's work takes place in claustrophobic interiors. Now, Polanski tackles Paris, which has been his home base since he fled the United States on that nasty morals charge more than a decade ago.
The film is Frantic, and it's an exercise in the Hitchcockian form, co-written by Polanski and Gerard Brach. A visiting American doctor (Harrison Ford) loses his wife (Betty Buckley) in the first hour of their stay and Ford is forced to scour the city to find out why this happened and how to get her back. "Cherchez la femme" is the phrase of the day.
Polanski is our greatest purveyor of anxiety and dread, and this effective setup allows him to draw out all the disoriented helplessness of Ford's situation (the film's first line, and overriding theme, is, "Do you know where you are?"). Naturally, Ford speaks no French, and just as naturally police and American Embassy officials are no help. Polanski takes delight in throwing the poor chap to the werewolves of Parisian nightlife.
As Ford pieces some clues together, he's drawn to the nightclubs and especially to a girl (Emmanuelle Seigner) who holds the key to his wife's disappearance. Seigner is another of Polanski's lovely young protégées (like Nastassja Kinski and others); she's even poutier than usual, but she fulfills her role capably.
Although Frantic is adequate in expressing the increasing mania of the husband, it's not really an actors' movie. This is a director's film, and Polanski has some terrific moments, such as Ford's crawl across an apartment roof (unexpectedly played for laughs), as well as two separate hostage exchanges, nail-biters both. And the opening scene, when the doctor and his wife settle into their swanky hotel, is eerily deliberate, as Polanski establishes the normalcy just waiting to be broken apart.
Time and again, Polanski displays his characteristic scrupulousness. Each camera placement draws the maximum possible effect, nowhere better demonstrated than the moment the lady vanishes; the camera is in the shower with Ford looking out while the water drowns out the woman's words and she disappears.
For all that is good about Frantic, I have to admit it's a disappointment overall. It doesn't go far enough; there's something minor and bland about it, and the central character lacks the sort of depth and ambiguity that have marked Polanski's characters in the past. It is, nevertheless, an advance over Polanski's previous film, the misbegotten Pirates.
Well, it seems there might have been another sentence there at the end, but what happened to it I don't know. This film really has not stayed in my mind in a significant way; even the oddball Bitter Moon left more of an impression on me. But the opening hotel sequence is a great Polanski set-piece: "nothing" happens, and you feel utterly creeped out by all of it. He married Mme. Seigner, of course.


My dog's breath smells horrible, is there something wrong with his teeth?
Bad breath is usually caused by significant infection in the mouth and is a sign that your pet may need veterinary attention!
It is important to have your dog examined on an annual basis for overall health, including their dental health.
During an annual check-up I assess every body system, including dental health. I see if there are any signs of early gingivitis or bone loss around the teeth that would be caused by underlying infection. If we are able to catch periodontal disease early, then we can perform more routine periodontal cleanings instead of having to do major dental extractions.
I recommend brushing your dog's teeth once every day! If you start when they are puppies it can actually become an enjoyable experience for them, believe it or not!
For older animals, I often recommend running routine lab work in order to find early disease processes before they become unmanageable.
Just as aging people require more dental work, older animals, too, have more wear and tear on their mouths and usually require more dental work. Without appropriate attention, dental disease becomes worse with age and major extractions become necessary as the level of infection becomes too high.
Besides regular brushing and periodontal cleanings at the vet's office, I recommend Maxiguard products for my patients. These medicated wipes and gel are applied to the teeth to prevent calculus and bacteria from building up!
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Alone Together: Technology as the Architect of Our Intimacies
Technology proposes itself an architect of our intimacies. And these days, technology offers us substitutes for direct face-to-face connection with people in a world of machine-mediated relationships on networked devices. As we instant message, e-mail, text, and Twitter, technology redraws the boundaries between intimacy and solitude. As we instant message, e-mail, text, and Twitter, technology redraws the boundaries between intimacy and solitude. We talk of getting "rid" of our e-mails, as though these notes were so much excess baggage. Besides, it takes too long; across the generations, we would rather text than talk.
The world of our connections comes with so many bounties. But we begin to see that some things are amiss: sometimes we are too busy communicating to think, too busy communicating to create, and paradoxically, too busy communicating to connect with the people who matter. This has implications for children as they grow up, for grownups as they form relationships, and for institutions as they try to do their work.
The goals of this presentation is to sketch out the most important challenges facing both individuals and institutions as we face the new challenges of our digital age and to provide new tools for thinking through and addressing these issues. It is time to start a new kind of conversation - in our families, in our places of business, in our political institutions.
Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Prof. Turkle has published eight books, including "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other." Prof. Turkle writes on the "subjective side" of people's relationships with technology, is an expert on mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics. She has been named "woman of the year" by Ms. Magazine and among the "forty under forty" who are changing the nation by Esquire.
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by Elizabeth Scott
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Release Date: January 28th 2014
Life. Death. And...Love?
Emma would give anything to talk to her mother one last time. Tell her about her slipping grades, her anger with her stepfather, and the boy with the bad reputation who might be the only one Emma can be herself with.
But Emma can't tell her mother anything. Because her mother is brain-dead and being kept alive by machines for the baby growing inside her.
Meeting bad-boy Caleb Harrison wouldn't have interested Old Emma. But New Emma-the one who exists in a fog of grief, who no longer cares about school, whose only social outlet is her best friend Olivia-New Emma is startled by the connection she and Caleb forge.
Feeling her own heart beat again wakes Emma from the grief that has grayed her existence. Is there hope for life after death-and maybe, for love?
Brace yourselves, Book Addicts, to cry and smile like never before with a book.
In the story we meet Emma, the main character, who's mother is brain dead but is kept alive to maintain the baby she was carrying when she collapsed alive. Before that she was a happy teenage girl, studious and falling in love with intelligent and petulant boys. Now she doesn't care anymore about the things that once were important and she is definitely full of anger. She's furious with her stepdad for keeping her dead mom half-alive, she's furious with the unborn baby for the risks her mother put herself on to have him or her in order to make Emma's stepfather happy and she's furious with the unfair world.
As you can imagine, Ms. Scott brought a difficult subject to this story. A moral one. Would you keep your mother alive even if she's brain dead, gone forever, to save an unborn baby? Is it wrong for Emma to hate the baby even if it's not his/her fault? Is it wrong to blame her stepdad for her mother's dead? And, is it wrong to feel that much anger?
Emma's mother was, what we could call, old to have carefree pregnancy. She was in her mid-forties so this means that the baby could have difficulties. Plus Emma's mom had health problems and the doctors told her it would be too risky.
I understood Emma's attitude towards the world and specially towards Dan, her stepfather. He never asked what she wanted, what she thought her mother would like to do. He just made his decision right away. Plus she's an amazing main character. She's someone you can relate yourself and put yourself in her skin. It's really easy to understand her situation and you are unable to judge her.
Caleb is also what I like to call a lost soul. Her sister died when he was watching her and his parents blame him for what happened. And he also blames himself. He did a serious of bad choices and end up building that anger that Emma's so familiar with now.
It's really nice to read how two people surrounded by grief, guilt, anger and a world that seems to not understand them, find themselves and in the process they find love after death. Ms. Scott beautifully wrote the process of understanding each other and finding a friendship thanks to their own grief and anger. After that, they started to need each other. And then they find each other and fall in love. So, yes, Elizabeth Scott created a romantic story in the most hopeless situation: suffering the death of a loved one and loose your path in life.
I truly recommend this book and hope that you give Emma's story a chance, because I know you're going to love it. But first, make sure you have tissues with you!
- Excerpt from Chapter 3 -
"Hey," Olivia says, and I know it's her because I would know her voice anywhere. We've been friends since fifth grade, and we've been through period trauma, boy crap, bad hair, her parents and their ways. And now Dan and his baby.
"Hey," I say. I wipe my eyes and look at her. "How's the car?"
Olivia makes a face at me but also wraps an arm around my shoulders, steering me toward our lockers. Her parents gave her a fully loaded convertible when she got her license, one with a built-in music player, phone, navigation system—you name it, the car had it. Could do it, and all at the touch of a button.
Olivia sold the car—through the one newspaper left in the area, which is basically just ads—and bought a used car. It's so old all it has is a CD player and a radio. We bought CDs at yard sales for a while, but all we could get was old music, which we both hate, and the radio is just people telling you that what they think is what you should think, so we mostly just drive around in silence.
It used to bother me sometimes but now I like it. The inside of my head is so full now that silence is…I don't know. There's just something about knowing Olivia is there, and that we don't have to talk. That she gets it. Gets me and what's going on.
Her parents were unhappy about the car, though. Really unhappy, actually, but then there was a big crisis with one of their server farms at work and by the time they surfaced for air they hadn't slept in four days. And when they said, "Olivia, that car was a gift," she said, "Yes, it was. A gift, meaning something freely given, for the recipient to use as she wanted to, right?"
As we hit her locker, we pass Anthony, and he says, "Ladies," bowing in my direction. A real bow too, like it's the nineteenth century or something.
"Ass," Olivia says.
"A donkey is actually not as stupid as people believe. However, you are entitled to your own beliefs about asses. And me." He looks at me. "Hello, Emma."
I sigh. "Hi, Anthony."
"If you ever want to talk about your grades, do know that I'm here."
I can't believe I ever thought the way he talked was interesting. It's just stupid, like he's too good to speak like a normal person. "I know, Anthony."
"I really would like to be of assistance to you. I believe in helping everyone. I'm talking to Zara Johns later. I think she feels threatened by the fact that I've been asked to help her organize the next school blood drive." Translation: he's butted in, and Zara's furious.
"Either that or she just doesn't like you. Emma, let's go," Olivia says, slamming her locker shut, and we head for mine.
"You okay?" she says, and I nod. Anthony doesn't bother me at all anymore, just like Mom said would happen. I look at him and feel nothing. Well, some annoyance, but then, who wouldn't after listening to him talk?
Of course, I didn't always think that he was annoying. I open my locker, deciding not to go down the Anthony road, and hear the guy next to me say, "No way! I mean, everyone knows what'll happen to Caleb if he steals another car."
Olivia and I glance at each other. If Anthony is the ass end of the smart part of the school, Caleb Harrison is the ass end of the stupid part. He's a total druggie and three years ago, when we were freshmen, he came to school so high he couldn't even talk. I heard that stopped last year, but then, as soon as school got out, his parents sent him off to some "tough love camp," which is rich-people code for boot-camp rehab.
He came back seemingly off drugs but newly into stealing cars. He started by grabbing them at the mall and parking them in a different spot, but then he stole a teacher's car.
And then he graduated to a school bus. It was empty at the time, but still, I heard that got him a couple of weeks in juvie, or would have except for his parents, who intervened. I guess now he's taken yet another step forward and by lunchtime, I know what Caleb stole.
His father's brand-new, limited-edition Porsche. And he didn't just steal it. He drove it into the lake over by the park, drove right off the highway and into the water. The police found him sitting on the lake's edge, watching the car sink. They were able to pull it out, but water apparently isn't good for the inside of a Porsche.
"You think he'll go to jail this time?" Olivia asks as we sit picking at our lunches. I love that we have lunch together this semester, but it's the first lunch block, and it's hard to face food—especially cafeteria food—at 10:20 in the morning.
"I guess it depends on his parents," I say. "Last time they talked to the judge or whatever. They'll probably just ship him off again. He must hate them, though."
"Yeah. To sit by the lake and watch the car sink like that—"
"Even when my parents are sucking their lives away with all their computer crap, I'd never do anything like mess with their stuff," she says. "How can you hate someone who raised you, who loves you so—" She breaks off.
"Dan didn't raise me," I say tightly. "And he doesn't love me. Or Mom."
Olivia nods and I think about hate. I understand what can make someone do what Caleb did, although I don't think a bored, rich druggie really gets hate. Not real hate.
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Hong Kong is well-known for it's modern skyscrapers, well-preserved Colonial buildings and massive shopping malls. However, Asia's World City is also rich in natural attractions including beautiful mountains, breathtaking waterfalls and idyllic beaches.
Surrounded by over 700km of coastline, Hong Kong is also home to a unique underwater topography teeming with a wide range of reef fish species, hard and soft corals, and other marine life. While Hong Kong's diving sites may not be as impressive as those from Australia and Hawaii, these underwater wonderlands are still worth visiting.
East Ping Chau Island around Mirs Bay is a great area for turtle spotting, anemone fish and a wide variety of soft and hard corals. Drift diving is popular in this area due to the ever-present current.
Nearby is Port Island which offers a rocky bottom and hard coral patches.
Located in the center of Mirs Bay is Shek Ngau Chau or Breaker Reef which is home to some spectacular coral patches. Many large fish species and sharks are often seen at this site, however it is also popular with fishermen so divers need to be aware of fishing lines and nets whilst underwater. Hoi Ha Wan is a pleasant shore dive that is perfect for training dives. Easily accessible if driving by car, this area also features a wreck site where anemones and nudibranchs have made their homes.
Ninepins is one of the best diving sites in all of Hong Kong. Located to the east of Clearwater Bay, this site is a uniquely shaped rock formation where divers can spot all sorts of marine life such as frogfish, seahorses, cuttlefish, nudibranchs and scorpion fish.
Pedro Blanco is a fantastic and worthwhile pinnacle dive about 2 hours by boat from Hong Kong Island. Here divers can spot some of the ever-popular pelagic species such as rays, blue marlins and even whale sharks if visiting between April and July. Pedro Blanco is often used as a training site for technical and deep divers. As with many of the great sites in Hong Kong, Pedro Blanco is subject to illegal dynamite fishing. Due to its remote location it is difficult for authorities to monitor the illegal fishing activity going on here.
Aberdeen, located in the south west between Hong Kong Island and Ap Lei Chau, is another good diving spot. This relatively shallow site is popular with macro diving enthusiasts but it should be noted that on the western side lies a shipping lane which can be hazardous to divers not paying attention. The site lies at a depth of between 8 and 18 meters and divers can spot crustaceans, nudibranchs and other odd-looking critters.


Serena Williams reached her tenth straight U.S. Open quarterfinals on Sunday after defeating Estonia's Kaia Kanepi in three sets.
Following her 6-0, 4-6, 6-3 victory, the 36-year-old superstar will next face the eighth-seeded Czech veteran Karolina Pliskova on Tuesday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Six-time U.S. Open champion Williams, this year's No. 17 seed, last won the tournament in 2014 and is chasing her first Grand Slam trophy since giving birth in September 2017. Pliskova reached the women's singles final in Flushing, Queens in 2016 — after defeating Williams in the semifinals — but lost to German star Angelique Kerber in three sets.
Williams also needs just three more victories to match Margaret Court's record 24 Grand Slam singles titles.
Third-seeded American Sloane Stephens — the defending U.S. Open champion, who seems to have gained strong support from the local crowd — and 19th-seeded Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia will face off in the earlier women's quarterfinal at 12 p.m. EST on Tuesday.
Williams and Pliskova are scheduled to play at 7 p.m. EST. Both this and the earlier match will air on ESPN. The other two women's semifinals — which include 14th-seeded American Madison Keys facing 30th-seeded Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro — will be held on Wednesday.
On the men's side, Roger Federer is out of the competition after losing in four sets to unseeded Australian John Millman — the World No. 55 — in Monday's fourth-round match. The No.-seed Swiss reportedly blamed humidity and poor air circulation for his defeat. Federer dropped the last three sets, two of them via tiebreak.
Third-seeded Argentine Juan Martin del Potro — the 2009 champion — will face 11th-seeded American John Isner in Tuesday's first quarterfinal, while top-seed Rafael Nadal and ninth-seeded Austrian Dominic Thiem will play each other in the second match of the day.
No. 6-seed Novak Djokovic, No. 7-seed Marin Cilic and Japan's Kei Nishikori are also through to the last eight.


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The two cities named the most expensive to live in
Two cities have been named jointly the most expensive to live in this year, as the world battles the rising cost of living.
Perhaps surprisingly because of its reputation, New York reaches the top spot for the first time ever, joining frequent pole sitter Singapore at number one. The latter returns to the summit for the eighth time in 10 years.
They pushed down last year's most expensive city, Tel Aviv down into third. Hong Kong and Los Angeles sit joint fourth.
The Worldwide Cost of Living 2022 rankings from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) measures the prices of over 200 goods and services in 172 cities worldwide. The survey was conducted between August 16 and September 16.
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It found on average prices have risen by 8.1% year-on-year in local-currency terms, the highest inflation rate recorded since its digital surveys began almost 20 years ago.
The biggest increases came in petrol prices, rising by 22% year-on-year on average in local-currency terms amid higher global oil prices and a stronger US dollar.
New York joins Singapore at the top of the most expensive cities list.
An increase in gas and electricity prices, particularly in Western Europe, due to the Ukraine-Russia war also saw costs jump.
In its methodology, EIU said: "A stronger currency will tend to see a city rise in the rankings, as prices are higher when expressed in international common currency. Structural factors such as competition or high demand play a key role in determining the cost of living as well. Because we convert local currency prices into US dollars to calculate each city's index, our rankings are also driven by exchange rates against the dollar."
The effect of sanctions saw the Russian cities of Moscow and St Petersburg shoot up the rankings by 88 and 70 places respectively.
At the other end of the scale, Syria's Damascus was the cheapest city, with Tripoli in Libya and Iran's capital Tehran just above it.
The EIU uses a different methodology than ECA International, which also produces a list of the world's most expensive cities. It looks at more than 200 cities around the world, measuring a range of criteria including the costs of food, household products, general purchases like clothing and petrol, utilities and public transport. Hong Kong was named the priciest city to live in and visit, ahead of New York, Geneva, London and Tokyo.
The world's 10 most expensive cities
1. New York (US), Singapore
3. Tel Aviv (Israel)
4. Hong Kong, Los Angeles (US)
6. Zurich (Switzerland)
7. Geneva (Switzerland)
8. San Francisco (US)
9. Paris (France)
10. Copenhagen (Denmark), Sydney (Australia)
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Countries where more people choose to invest in private schools may have other attributes, such as higher income levels or a greater commitment to education, that lead to better achievement. If this is the case, any positive correlation between private schooling and student achievement could reflect a country's income or educational commitment rather than any beneficial effects of competition. Or it may be the case that low-quality public schools increase the demand for private schooling. If so, then it could seem that competition lowered public school quality when in fact the causal connection could be in the opposite direction.
To solve for this, West and Woessmann exploit a technique that economists call an instrumental variables approach. Essentially, they found a new variable — the size of a country's Catholic population in 1900 — which is a useful predictor for the current share of schools that are private. Because the new variable is a good predictor of the variable they are really interested in (share of schools that are private), but is presumably not influenced by higher income levels or greater commitment to education, using this new variable is more useful for determining causality.
Our results indicate that the share of schools that are privately operated has an economically and statistically significant positive effect on student achievement in mathematics, science, and reading, even after controlling for the current levels of Catholics and for the share of funding that privately operated schools receive from the government. Larger historical Catholic shares that translate into a ten percentage point larger private school sector today increase average student achievement on the math test by 9% of an international standard deviation. Science and reading achievement increase by roughly 5% of a standard deviation. These patterns are evident despite the fact that the contemporary share of Catholics in each country is negatively related to student achievement, suggesting that distinctive cultural features of traditionally Catholic countries are unlikely to be driving these results. Importantly, much of the positive effect of private school shares accrues to students in public schools, suggesting that the overall effect is not simply due to privately operated schools being more effective, but rather it reflects benefits of competition.
It's not clear how applicable these results are to private school competition within only the United States or within individual states such as Missouri. However, if the same pattern holds for educational institutions in Missouri, then policies that encourage private school competition, like vouchers or tuition tax credits, will have spillover benefits for public school students as well — not just the recipients of educational aid.
By the way, those readers who are now beginning to suspect that I spend most of my free time perusing the economics of education literature would be correct in that suspicion.


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Save the Date to Join Us in Los Angeles in 2023!
The WICT Network has formed a strategic partnership with the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in support of the 2023 Signature Awards Luncheon. The luncheon will take place in Los Angeles at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, marking the first time the event has been held on the West Coast in over a decade. The partnership with the MPA underscores The WICT Network's dedication to fortifying its new, more inclusive name and brand. Read our December 13 press release to learn more.
The WICT Network is pleased to announce its 2022 Top Companies for Women to Work based on the results of the most recent PAR workplace diversity survey. The WICT Network will recognize the following top operators and programmers for their strong gender DEI efforts during the upcoming Signature Awards Luncheon, based on data collected by the survey administrator, PwC.
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The 2022 PAR Top Operators for Women to Work:
Cable One
Midco
The 2022 PAR Top Programmers for Women to Work:
A+E Networks
For more information about the 2023 Signature Awards Luncheon, please contact Cindy Key.
2022 Signature Luncheon Recap
The WICT Network hosted a sell-out crowd with over 20 sponsor companies at The Plaza Hotel in New York City for its 2022 Signature Awards Luncheon, one of the organization's key gender diversity platforms. An impressive roster of industry executives and leaders from across the media landscape celebrated the 50th anniversary of Title IX. Below you'll find pictures from our event.
A Look Back at The WICT Network's 40th Anniversary
Industry leaders from across the country and abroad filled the Plaza Hotel's Grand Ballroom to celebrate our 40th anniversary in 2019, during a very special luncheon designed to honor the past, celebrate the present, and imagine the future of the organization and the industry we represent.
View our 2019 Signature Luncheon webpage to relive this momentous event in The WICT Network's history.


I think it was Eley and they had put 7 shot in a case that professed to be 5, but it was a long time ago.
Go old school and get 7x57, got a Ruger No 1 in this calibre and works well on all deer and fox. As above the .243 hardly ever goes out.
Thank you for the replies. Still not sure which way to go. I like the fact that the Mossberg has the safety in the ' normal ' place, but the Benelli seems to be better made. Toss a coin I guess.
Thanks for the reply, We have been asked to shoot a lot of geese this winter and my stock of 3" Tungsten is getting low and do not fancy 3" steel through my AYA No.2. The long arm thing is a bonus for me as I shoot a 15 1/2" stock.
As above, thoughts from those that own or have owned would be much appreciated.
I use mostly full bodied flocked decoys from A1 plus a dozen shells also flocked, I am lucky enough that I can get the truck to where I want to shoot so put 70+ decoys with a rotary with extended arms and speed controller with two Sillosocks. Now that does pull them !
I find Hull Pro one very good, but then I rarely shoot clays.
Spot on it is a No2, I have a 117 with hand detachable locks.
Has anyone tried these for ducks over decoys?


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