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A La Crosse barber is an inspiration on so many levels
LA CROSSE, Wis. -- It's early morning on La Crosse's north side, the time of day things really start hopping for 83-year-old Ken Garves. "Ken's Barber Shop."
Ken has been been in the barber business for longer than most of us have been alive.
"Since 1946. I've been cutting Harold's hair for...we won't tell them how long will we Harold?"
At 20 minutes per haircut, Ken's revolving chair will house 25 different customers or more on any given day. "Most of them go 'same as usual.'" "Same as before? Yep you know the routine."
A lot has changed over the years, but a lot hasn't. Yes, gone are the days of the 65 cent haircuts (that was the price when Ken first started). And, of course, there's the changing styles. "A lot of flat tops. These younger kids are wearing it very long. Brett here, he likes it short."8985810
But while things around him change, Ken remains the constant. Like sitting down with an old friend. "Used to have a beautician. You don't have the comradery like you do a barber."
"If you can't have fun getting your haircut, there's no sense in getting a haircut. So you pick the biggest clown around to get your haircut from. You didn't have to add that little part!"
"You get to know them and the conversations are whatever they want to talk about or whatever I like to talk about."
But there's more to Ken Garves than meets the eye. Because this barber is a lover of all things outdoors. Hunting, fishing, golfing, but especially, skiing.
In fact, when Mount La Crosse opened up 53 years ago, it was Ken and three others that started the Ski Patrol - a group of volunteers, all well trained skiers - ready to help in any situation. "When take care of someone that's injured. Today we're doing a lot of flagging for the bumps that the haven't had a chance to groom yet."
He tackles the hills with ease, in fact watching him it's easy to forget he's 83 years old! "We put in a lot of miles in a day."
"I've got 20 some years yet to patrol to catch up with him. He's an inspiration to keep going and be active. He still shoots on a trap team. He'll take trips and ski 5 days in a row all day and he's the one mixing the drink at night!"
"We have a lot of fun. It's not really work. What do you enjoy more, cutting hair or skiing? Well there's money in cutting hair!"
But what strikes you most about Ken is not how active he is, it's how he lights up the room just by being in it. "Everybody still looks to Ken for guidance and leadership. It's his attitude. It's always great."
"He's an inspiration on more that just the skiing. He's one of these gentleman that every day is a good day. "
But the sad truth is, every day is not a good day for Ken Garves. In fact, in recent years, he's had a lot of really bad days.
It turns out, just behind the smiles and the personality. Behind this 83 year old so full of life - is a life full of tragedy.
Watch News 8 at 6 next Thursday for the conclusion of our in search of spotlight on Ken Garves.
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I've got a new job! I'm no longer travelling the nation chasing robots. Nowadays, I'm doing more network-PC stuff. My exposure to Windows-based systems has increased, but that's what happens out here in the wilds of the IT industry.
braden's been doing some serious work on OpenVRML. I think I'm finally beginning to understand some of the profound architechture changes he's been focused on. It's a big project, but if you can wrap your brain around some of the code you'll learn some C++.
SGL finally crashed and burned, and I must admit that the final conflagration was Much more impressive than I thought it would be. It's lead developer kinda went nuts and tried to claim that his GPL'd code was his proprietary stuff. That was strange to see. Currently, I'm running Linux From Scratch. It was an educational transition. I don't think I could go back to a binary-based distro if I had to...
Now that I've been free of travel a while, the house is fixed up (now more leaks in the roof, painting, etc), my wife is happier, and I've begun decompressing from the mercenary robot-wrangling lifestyle. Yowsa! Things are much better than they were. I've even joined a local LUG. Spooky, innit?
I'll try and post more to this site. It's nice to have a venue that's passively attentive. Pax --

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James D. Shwartz, editor of The Urban Country, has made this great video of an early morning (and chilly) ride along the West Toronto Railpath:
An Early Ride Along the West Toronto Railpath
Cut a Ribbon and the Cycling Begins
Old rail corridor opens to new recreational use
West Toronto Railpath Park officially open
The long-awaited West Toronto Railpath Park officially opened with a little pomp and circumstance Friday afternoon, Oct. 30.
Davenport Councillor Adam Giambrone hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony along with representatives from the City of Toronto, Scott Torrance Landscape Architect Inc., artist John Dickson and Friends of the West Toronto Railpath group.
"It's already changed the neighbourhood," said nearby resident Kevin Putnam who, undeterred by the rainy weather, attended the festivities at the Wallace Avenue Railpath entrance with his toddler son. "(The park has) quickly become a focal point."
The pedestrian, in-line skating, cycling and skateboard park pathway stretches 2.1 kilometres of land between Cariboo Avenue to the Dundas Street West and Lansdowne Avenue area to the south of Bloor Street West. The city acquired the land in 2001 to develop the multi-use trail for both recreational and commuter purposes. Construction began in June of this year and was completed in September.
"Good things come to those who wait," said Putnam. "My son, he's got a place where he'll be able to ride his bike car-free. For a lot of people it really facilitates a car-free lifestyle."
The new railpath winds its way along the abandoned railway beds that have been out of commission for more than four decades. Because the rail corridor has a substantial width, the railpath will not get in the way of existing train routes. The railpath park's features include a system of wayfaring signs indicating each access point along the route.
"I'm very glad to be here as we inaugurate the West Toronto Railpath… This is a neighbourhood that has a lack of green space. This railpath will add to the green space and community space," said Giambrone. "The community has pushed for this for a long time."
During the construction, the City of Toronto took an inventory of flora and fauna in an effort to protect and enhance the land, which is already a sanctuary for birds, animals, insect and plant life. As part of the project, the city planted a wide variety of trees, shrubs, grasses and perennials.
"It was a day like this that two years ago I collected seeds from plants growing here," said Landscape Architect Scott Torrance. "We started this project in 2006. It takes a real team to complete something like this. One of the most rewarding times for me was when I came this summer. The trail was so well used by parents and children out for an evening stroll."
Toronto artist Dickson created four sculptures, collectively named Frontier, inspired by the changing landscape of the Junction and Railpath Park area. They are constructed of galvanized steel, erected at the south end of the pathway, said Dickson.
"The sculptures' proportions came about through the proportions of the railpath. I wanted a large scale so you could see them from the trains," said Dickson. "I'm looking forward to seeing them incorporate into their environment."
Along the 2,100 metre path, which translates into about 20 walking minutes or five cycling minutes, there is the Wallace Avenue pedestrian foot bridge and the Bloor Street GO Station entrance in addition to several bike stations.
"The neighbourhood is blown away," said Scott Dobson of the Friends of the West Toronto Railpath group. "You hear people talking about this, people are meeting on this trail. It's very incredible."


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Open Compute Keynote de Philippe Dewost a USI 2015 Unexpected Sources of Inspiration - Philippe Dewost's light sources
L'édition 2015 de la Conference USI (Unexpected Sources of Inspiration) s'est tenue début Juillet au Carrousel du Louvre et a confirmé son statut de meilleure Conference Tech sur Paris, combinant un site exceptionnel, une audience de plus de 1200 participants très diverse et de très bon niveau, et une palette de speakers dans plusieurs disciplines délivrant une quarantaine d'interventions sur les deux jours. La Caisse des Dépôts était de nouveau partenaire de cette édition avec plus d'une cinquantaine de participants dans le cadre de son programme de transformation digitale.
François Hisquin, CEO d'Octo et Curateur de la conférence, m'avait demandé d'intervenir sur la thématique d'Open Compute, dont la contribution aux enjeux de la transition énergétique n'est toujours pas correctement appréciée en Europe alors même que nous hébergeons des entreprises extrêmement talentueuses dans ce domaine.
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CHECy's curator insight, November 25, 2015 12:15 PM
Intervention de Philippe Dewost, Président d'honneur du CHECy, lors de la conférence USI 2015.
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If you ask a passerby about France, you are likely to get bombarded with clichés — you'll get the wine, the cheese and the baguette thrown back at you within 30 seconds. If you're lucky, you may get something on Camus or Baudelaire (but then you have really lucked out, so do pinch yourself). French tech is probably the last thing that would come up in the conversation. This, though, has been quietly, and rapidly, changing — the tech scene in France is gaining massive traction.
Now, it would be untrue to say that this is a completely new trend and that tech investors have entirely neglected France. Many, like ourselves, have been a fixture at the (sadly defunct) LeWeb, we invested in early French startups like Seesmic and Jolicloud, were avid readers of Rude Baguette (and its author's subsequent thoughts and insights), and its predecessor Tech Baguette. After all, the first institutional round of Criteo was over 10 years ago. What has really changed, though, is the rate of change. France is rapidly entering an acceleration. So watch your backs, Silicon Valley, Sentier is after you!
Conscious of the accelerating pace of change in France, which we first flagged publicly in our 2016 State of European Tech Report, a large portion of the Atomico team headed to Paris last week to meet the with start-ups, investors and the wider founder and tech community.
Did I mention we are really excited about French tech? L-R Bryce Keane, Sophia Bendz, @nzennstrom, Yann de Vries, Evgenia Plotnikova (that's me :-)), dmhynes, Niall Wass and alexis bonte
Have we seen a tipping point, a déclic? The indications are clear. France is now challenging the UK as an investment destination, having surpassed Germany for the first time in years. $2.7 billion was invested in France in 2016, up 63% on the previous year, vs $2.1bn raised by German start-ups in the same period and $3.7bn invested in the UK. With €472m already put to work across 169 rounds to date (according to Dealroom.co), 2017 is looking good. I, for one, tend to think that although the pace of change is accelerating, conditions for it have been fertilizing the French soil for a number of years.
Below are some of the reasons I think the time is now ripe for French entrepreneurs to take centre stage.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Great «paper» with a trove of valuable insights.
Given this, it is paradoxical to see 2 significant omissions :
1/ La French Tech was born from a Government initiative in 2013, heralded by former Minister Fleur Pellerin (now founder of Korelya Capital) following a report ordered by the Prime Minister to Caisse Des Dépôts (disclosure : I wrote it with a Shadow Advisory Board including Tariq, Richard, and a few others).
Fleur Pellerin came up with the brand, secured 215 M€ public money from the Investments for the Future Program, and gave responsibility to Caisse Des Dépôts to deploy.
2/ Speaking of public money, the "paper" also misses one of the key reasons for La French Tech and its funding rises : since 2010, a huge amount of public money has been injected in sustaining French Startups, both directly and indirectly (funds of funds). The Investments for the Future Program (again) is deploying 2+Bn € of investment money into funds, covering from early stage to growth capital. (Disclosure: I represent Caisse des Depots as the sole LP in these various funds).
They have invested either as an LP (in 25 seed funds nation wide, as well as in growth funds like Partech, KeenSight, Sofinnova to name a few), or as a minority co-investor in dozen of startups like Scality, Netatmo, SigFox, Actility, Ynsect to name a handful…
All these investments are since 2012 operated by Bpifrance, the French Public Investment Bank (and Caisse des Depots's larger subsidiary)
Such massive public money injection had therefore created an equally massive leverage effect.
Both points should hence have deserved IMHO a mention in this remarkable post as well as Bpifrance...
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How to translate "scaling" in the shipping world #ShipTech #Hardware
Astronomy: Strange signals from the sky may be signs of aliens - Or maybe something equally weird, but not alive | The Economist
ON AUGUST 24th 2001 the Parkes Observatory, in Australia, picked up an unusual signal. It was a burst of radio waves coming more or less from the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a miniature galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. This burst was as brief as it was potent. It lasted less than 5 milliseconds but, during that period, shone with the power of 100m suns. It was, though, noticed by astronomers only in 2007, when they were poking around in Parkes's archived data. As far as they can tell, it has never been repeated.Similar unrepeated signals have since been noted elsewhere in the heavens. So far, 17 such "fast radio bursts" (FRBs) have been recognised. They do not look like anything observed before, and there is much speculation about what causes them. One possibility is magnetars—highly magnetised, fast-rotating superdense stars. Another is a particularly exotic sort of black hole, formed when the centrifugal force of a rotating, superdense star proves no longer adequate to the task of stopping that star collapsing suddenly under its own gravity. But, as Manasvi Lingam of Harvard University and Abraham Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics observe, there is at least one further possibility: alien spaceships.Specifically, the two researchers suggest, in a paper to be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, that FRBs might be generated by giant radio transmitters designed to push such spaceships around. With the rotation of the galaxies in which these transmitters are located, the transmitter-beams sweep across the heavens. Occasionally, one washes over Earth, producing an FRB.This idea is not completely mad. Human rocket scientists have toyed with something similar, in order to overcome one of the biggest problems of spaceship design: that a craft propelled by a rocket motor must carry its fuel with it. Fuel has mass. That mass must be moved by more fuel—which adds more mass to the craft, which thus needs still more fuel. And so on. For this reason, 90% or more of a conventional rocket's launch mass is its fuel.It is possible, though, to separate the fuel from the craft. That is the principle behind a solar sail, which employs the gentle pressure exerted by sunlight to propel a vehicle. A nippier alternative is to use focused light beams to provide the pressure. Yuri Milner, a Russian billionaire with a long-standing interest in science, is paying for research into such a machine. He proposes to drive a tiny probe to Alpha Centauri, one of Earth's nearest stellar neighbours, using banks of powerful lasers.Dr Lingam and Dr Loeb suggest FRBs might be the result of vastly bigger takes on the same principle, except that they employ the radio portions of the electromagnetic spectrum rather than visible light. The two researchers have worked out what would be needed if the transmitter behind such a burst were solar-powered. They calculate that the amount of sunlight falling onto a planet about twice the size of Earth, and at the right distance from its star to have liquid water on its surface, would yield enough energy to accelerate a spaceship weighing a million tonnes or so to a speed close to that of light before the propulsion beam became too attenuated to propel it any faster. This would be perfect for ferrying large numbers of beings from one star system to another, as long as there was an equivalent device at the other end to slow the craft down again.To check whether such a machine is technologically plausible, the two researchers calculated that the necessary planet-sized array of radio transmitters could be kept cool by nothing more exotic than ordinary water. So, as far as they can see, while building such a machine would be a heroic feat of engineering, nothing in the laws of physics actually forbids it.Saying that the features of FRBs are consistent with their being signs of an alien space-propulsion system is not, of course, the same as saying that this is what they actually are. One early explanation of pulsars—regular cosmic radio signals first observed in 1967 was that they were alien radio beacons. They later turned out to be caused by fast-spinning neutron stars. For physicists, though, that explanation was almost as interesting. A neutron star is one whose protons and electrons have merged with each other to create neutrons. These, together with the star's pre-existing neutrons, result in an object that has no atoms in it. Since atoms are composed mostly of empty space a neutron star, instead of being star size, is just a few kilometres across. If FRBs turn out to be even a fraction as curious as that, most astronomers would forgive them for not being artificial.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
As we are not on April 1st, and The Economist's reputation is at stake, this is worth a read. Even if we are alone...
Intel inked a deal to acquire Mobileye, which the chipmaker's chief Brian Krzanich said enables it to "accelerate the future of autonomous driving with improved performance in a cloud-to-car solution at a lower cost for automakers".
Mobileye offers technology covering computer vision and machine learning, data analysis, localisation and mapping for advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving. The deal is said to fit with Intel's strategy to "invest in data-intensive market opportunities that build on the company's strengths in computing and connectivity from the cloud, through the network, to the device".
A combined Intel and Mobileye automated driving unit will be based in Israel and headed by Amnon Shashua, co-founder, chairman and CTO of the acquired company. This, Intel said, "will support both companies' existing production programmes and build upon relationships with car makers, suppliers and semiconductor partners to develop advanced driving assist, highly-autonomous and fully autonomous driving programmes".
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Intel is going mobile (again), and this time in the car.
The target (the Israeli Mobileye) was a former Tesla partner until September 2016 when they broke up "ugly".
In terms of volumes, according to Statista, some 77.73 million automobiles are expected to be sold by 2017 and global car sales are expected to exceed 100 million units by 2020 : depending on the growth of the autonomous vehicle segment, it will still be a fraction of the (lost) smartphone market, even if the price points are expected to be somewhat different...
The bet and race are now between vertical integration and layering the market. Any clue who might win ?
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight, March 13, 11:47 AM
Intel is going mobile (again), and this time in the car.
The target (the Israeli Mobileye) was a former Tesla partner until September 2016 when they broke up "ugly".
In terms of volumes, according to Statista, some 77.73 million automobiles are expected to be sold by 2017 and global car sales are expected to exceed 100 million units by 2020 : depending on the growth of the autonomous vehicle segment, it will still be a fraction of the (lost) smartphone market, even if the price points are expected to be somewhat different...
The bet and race are now between vertical integration and layering the market. Any clue who might win ?
Fully homomorphic encryption, or how to perform operations over encrypted data | Orange Research blog
Can we outsource medical analysis without giving away our medical information? Can we do biometrical identification without revealing our characteristics? Can we make statistics on data that we do not know? Yes we can, thanks to a cryptographic mechanism called "homomorphic encryption".
Cryptography has known many transformations over the years. Many centuries ago, it was first used to protect military and political communications. Though very simple, the mechanisms then devised are still the foundation of current cryptography. The introduction of the computer during Second World War considerably increased the computation capacity. This increase reflected on cryptography in the late 70's, when public key cryptography was invented. Cryptography became a thriving scientific field. Numerous academic works were produced, commercial standards were set and cryptographic algorithms began to secure our daily life. Today, cryptography is everywhere: in our credit cards, in our phone communications, in our internet browsing, etc.
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight, February 14, 10:57 AM
Here is a fantastic "paper" by Orange Research that deciphers homomorphic encryption in a very clear way, and outlines its future and challenges.
Among the variety of non-financial use cases, blockchain technology can be applied to identity applications in areas such as digital identities, passports, e-residency, birth certificates, wedding certificates, IDs, online account logins, etc. Creating an identity on blockchain can give individuals greater control over who has their personal information and how they access it.
By combining the decentralized blockchain principle with identity verification, a digital ID can be created to act as a digital watermark which can be assigned to every online transaction of any asset. Here are some of the pioneers in building blockchain-based identity management and authentication solutions for cross-industry applications
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Interesting array of use cases at the crossing of trust and privacy.
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight, February 13, 10:37 AM
Interesting array of use cases at the crossing of trust and privacy.
Fort du grand succès d'une première édition au printemps 2016, Le Monde organise deux concours, l'un pour les candidats des pays membres de l'Union européenne, l'autre ouvert aux candidats des autres pays du monde, tous porteurs de projets en matière d'innovation urbaine.
Ces prix sont ouverts aux projets entrés dans une phase de réalisation, qu'ils émanent de particuliers, d'associations, d'entreprises ou d'organismes publics ou privés.
Les candidats doivent postuler à l'une des six catégories suivantes:
· Innovation urbaine : innovation technologique appliquée à la ville.
· Participation citoyenne (Prix Le Monde-Inta) : décerné à un processus dans lequel les citoyens assument un rôle dans l'élaboration et la gestion des espaces et services urbains physiques et/ou virtuels ;
· Habitat : projet innovant en matière d'espace de vie urbain (résidentiel, bureaux, matériaux nouveaux, etc.) ;
· Mobilité : projet facilitant une circulation à dimension plus humaine et plus économe ;
· Energie : projet visant à réduire l'empreinte carbone des villes ;
· Action culturelle : innovation sociale et numérique de dimension culturelle et urbaine.
Les candidatures européennes sont à envoyer (en français, en anglais ou en espagnol) à email@example.com, avant le 19 février 2017 à minuit.
Les candidatures des pays non-européens sont à envoyer (en anglais si possible) à firstname.lastname@example.com avant le 2 avril 2017 à minuit.
Les éléments à envoyer pour postuler sont les suivants :
· un lien vers une vidéo de trois minutes maximum qui présente la solution;
· un texte de 3 000 signes maximum avec un descriptif de l'initiative, son ou ses objectifs, la nature de l'innovation, le calendrier prévu, les acteurs, le coût et le financement ;
· un document officiel justifiant de votre identité et de l'existence juridique de votre structure.
Un jury international composé de personnalités qualifiées examinera les candidatures et choisira les lauréats. Chacun des six prix est doté de 1 000 euros. Le jury sélectionnera parmi l'ensemble des candidats le lauréat du Grand Prix Le Monde- L'Atelier BNP Paribas, doté de 2 000 euros.
Les prix européens seront remis le 7 avril 2017 à Lyon. Les prix internationaux seront remis à Singapour début juin
En savoir plus sur http://www.lemonde.fr/les-prix-de-l-innovation/article/2016/11/24/appel-a-candidatures-prix-europeens-de-l-innovation-2017-le-monde-smart-cities_5036994_4811683.html#6q8tid6Ao79uVqQy.99
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
La CDC sera cette année partenaire des Prix Le Monde Smart City. N'hésitez pas à candidater pour :
Over the last seven years, France's Banque publique d'investissement, or Bpifrance, has been the world's most active sovereign wealth fund investing in private tech companies. Bpifrance was originally set up as a sovereign investment fund in 2009.
The government of Singapore owns the world's second and third most active funds. These two funds are Temasek Holdings, which distributes dividends solely to Singapore's Ministry of Finance, and GIC, the private equity investment arm of the government of Singapore Investment Corporation.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Very proud to see our largest subsidiary deploying the "Investments For The Future" (the €35 Bn plan launched in 2011) funds across the french economy, and proud to see its Mother Company being also part of the ranking in such a prestigious crowd !
Disclosure : I work for Caisse Des Dépôts representing it as the sole LP in the Bpifrance funds managed for the IFF/PIA program.
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight, January 26, 5:54 AM
Very proud to see our largest subsidiary deploying the "Investments For The Future" (the €35 Bn plan launched in 2011) funds across the french economy, and proud to see its Mother Company being also part of the ranking in such a prestigious crowd !
Disclosure : I work for Caisse Des Dépôts representing it as the sole LP in the Bpifrance funds managed for the IFF/PIA program.
The iPhone's 10th birthday was a happy opportunity to look once again at Steve Jobs' masterclass in storytelling and positioning, and to contemplate, with incredulous gratitude, the enormity of the consequences. As Horace Dediu, our nonpareil tech historian and poet, recently remarked with his trademark humor, The First Trillion Dollars is Always the Hardest [as always, edits and emphasis mine]:
"In its first 10 years, the iPhone will have sold at least 1.2 billion units, making it the most successful product of all time. The iPhone also enabled the iOS empire which includes the iPod touch, the iPad, the Apple Watch and Apple TV whose combined total unit sales will reach 1.75 billion units over 10 years. This total is likely to top 2 billion units by the end of 2018.
[…] iOS will have generated over $1 trillion in revenues for Apple sometime this year.
In addition, developers building apps for iOS have been paid $60 billion. The rate of payments has now reached $20 billion/yr.
No one saw it coming, Apple execs included. For their part, the high tech incumbents made many infelicitous statements, only to be steamrolled when the iPhone and, later, Android changed everything. The Smartphone 2.0 wasn't just a one-to-one communication device, it influenced media creation and consumption, transformed everyday commerce with in-phone wallets and touch ID, turned social networking into a ubiquitous tool. It even forced Enterprise information systems to completely rethink and retool their infrastructure — this wasn't simply a computer with a "smaller form factor".
In retrospect, the ascendency of Smartphone 2.0 and the way it has shaped our culture seems obvious and natural. But the celebration and contemplation overlooks a crucial Sine Qua Non, a necessary (but not sufficient) condition: Unlocking the carriers' grip on handset specifications, marketing, and content distribution.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Fascinating Monday Note by Jean-Louis Gassée, reminding us that while much has been said about the original iPhone's success factors (an innovative multi-touch interface, a never-seen-before combination of cell phone, iPod and Internet "navigator") we are often missing one crucial element: removing the carrier's control on the iPhone's features and content.
Quoting Horace Dediu, "In its first 10 years, the iPhone will have sold at least 1.2 billion units, making it the most successful product of all time. The iPhone also enabled the iOS empire which includes the iPod touch, the iPad, the Apple Watch and Apple TV whose combined total unit sales will reach 1.75 billion units over 10 years. This total is likely to top 2 billion units by the end of 2018."
After he left Tamale, Fawcett started spending time with quantitative traders (i.e., quants) and the more he learned about how they created trading algorithms, the bigger and bolder his next idea became. The outcome of his thinking led him to a pivotal insight: the time had come to disrupt the exclusive world of quantitative hedge funds. How would he do it? By harnessing the power of crowdsourcing to build a community of quants, feeding that community with lots of data and incentivizing the community (through regular contests and events) to produce new strategies that could be used in live trading. Today, that unique approach has been transformed into one of the mostly closely watched fintech companies in America. For the company's next act, Fawcett and his co-founder, Jean Bredeche, are hard at work in laying the foundation to launch an in-house hedge fund utilizing strategies generated from its 100,000+ member community. The FR's Gregg Schoenberg recently sat down with Fawcett to learn more about his company and the bold moves he's making to level the playing field in one of the most lucrative — and heretofore undisrupted — corners of the investment management universe.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
When Quantitative Trading mingles with the Crowd. Will 2017 see the advent of new types of investment funds backed with thousands of LPs ?
Flying cars have long been the centerpiece of fantastical future visions, but personal flying machines never quite materialized. One startup, however, is looking to change that.
Lilium Aviation has today announced a €10 million ($10.7 million) funding round from Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström's Atomico, to create a world "in which everyone can fly anywhere, anytime," the company says. But the electric Lilium jet isn't a car as such — it doesn't have wheels.
The jet remains a prototype for now, but with its latest funding round the company is looking to expedite development, with flight-testing kicking off in early 2017 ahead of commercial production.
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A child's dream moving closer to reality ?
We are at the very beginning of a fundamental shift in the way that humans communicate with computers. I laid out the beginning of my case for this in my essay The Hidden Homescreen in which I argued that as Internet-powered services are distributed through an increasingly fractured set of channels, the metaphor of apps on a "homescreen" falls apart.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Very interesting post. User Interfaces have indeed moved into User Experiences and as products/services saturate our free/idle moments, context management and focus on relevance will be indeed core.
Plus we won't manage the dozen of objects in the smart home with dozens of apps and screen interactions. This is where http://hayo.io could step in.
Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) network specialist Actility raised $75 million in new capital, as it looks to enhance its portfolio of industrial IoT solutions across different verticals, accelerate in the US and boost its position in China.
The company, which is a co-founder of the LoRA alliance and developed its global IoT solutions on the LoRaWAN standard, raised the capital as part of its Series D funding round, which attracted a group of new investors; Creadev, Bosch and Inmarsat.
Actility said a second closing later this month would see additional strategic investors join the company "in support of this over-subscribed capital raise".
It already counts major players as backers including KPN, Orange Digital Ventures, Swisscom and Foxconn, after raising $25 million in its Series C funding round, completed in 2015.
Actility bases its offering around its ThingPark platform, which it said is powering "most national and large scale LPWA rollouts worldwide".
The company revealed the platform had also grown more industrial, to not only support the LoRaWAN standard, but also other standardised LPWA technologies including LTE-M and NB-IoT.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Un très bel investissement du Programme d'Investissements d'Avenir via le Fonds #EcoTechnologies souscrit par la Caisse Des Depots pour le compte de l'Etat et de l'ADEME, et géré par notre plus grosse filiale Bpifrance. Et une superbe équipe emmenée par Olivier Hersent, Mike Mulica, Christophe François et Boris Lacroix.
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is backing a brain-computer interface venture called Neuralink, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company, which is still in the earliest stages of existence and has no public presence whatsoever, is centered on creating devices that can be implanted in the human brain, with the eventual purpose of helping human beings merge with software and keep pace with advancements in artificial intelligence. These enhancements could improve memory or allow for more direct interfacing with computing devices.
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We are getting closer, totally unprepared : individuals, philosophers, society and even worse, politicians and policy makers are dramatically lagging behind, showing very limited interest, attention and focus...
A few announcements that came out of last week's Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara and the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco however showed that while Intel's lead may be massive, it's under bigger threat than may have appeared.
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight, March 20, 2:37 AM
Wintel coming to an end. ARM's rise in the server space was forecasted yet totally misunderstood in France. Hoping that we will draw the lesson and look way more seriously into OpenRisc-V.
Kalray Announces the Release of an Efficient Manycore Processing Solution Dedicated to Deep Learning
Roundingout its embedded technology offer, Kalray has expanded its processingcapabilities to the world of artificial intelligence. The company is introducinga highly optimized deep learning solution targeting embedded applications likeautonomous cars, avionics, drones, robotics and more. The solution is capableof supporting all of the most commonly-used deep learning neural networks andframework, such as GoogleNet, Squeezenet, CAFFE and more.
Kalray's deep learning solution includes:
In terms of pure performance, Kalray is able to leverage the288 cores of its MPPA®2-256 Bostan processor in order to efficiently processnotoriously compute-heavy deep learning algorithms. To do this, the solutionuses the extensive on-chip memory of the Bostan processor and it spreads thecompute-heavy aspects of deep learning – data dependent layers and weightparameters – across the MPPA®'s numerous cores. The result is particularlyefficient processing – up to 60 frames per second while running "GoogleNet"– outperformingthe most efficient GPUs addressing today's embedded market.
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Impressive to see that #HardwareIsNotDead
Actility, the industry leader in low power wide area networking, today announces that Tom Wheeler, former chair of the US Federal Communications Commission in the Obama Administration, has joined the Actility Board. Wheeler is a passionate advocate to the development of internet solutions that increase productivity, believing that the value-add in Web 3.0 will come in leveraging information collected from connected sensors that enhance business processes across all industries, and monetization will no longer be driven only by targeting content at consumers. Wheeler's appointment demonstrates Actility's determination to achieve a leading role in that Web 3.0 future
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Une très belle participation du Fonds Ecotechnologies (souscrit par la Caisse des Dépôts pour le Programme d'Investissements d'Avenir et géré par sa filiale Bpifrance) recrute une pointure à son Board. Il va falloir leur faire rencontrer Accor ...
Among the variety of non-financial use cases, blockchain technology can be applied to identity applications in areas such as digital identities, passports, e-residency, birth certificates, wedding certificates, IDs, online account logins, etc. Creating an identity on blockchain can give individuals greater control over who has their personal information and how they access it.
By combining the decentralized blockchain principle with identity verification, a digital ID can be created to act as a digital watermark which can be assigned to every online transaction of any asset. Here are some of the pioneers in building blockchain-based identity management and authentication solutions for cross-industry applications
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Interesting array of use cases at the crossing of trust and privacy.
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight, February 13, 10:34 AM
Interesting array of use cases at the crossing of trust and privacy.
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Just looking at numbers :)It's probably irrelevant to compare those two separeted events. 5 years have passed, there are two times more smartphones and Facebook has successfully managed to become a highly growing & profitable company through incredible strategic moves: Instagram, Oculus, Whatsapp just to name a few.In May 2012, Facebook was valued 104 billions, after having raised 2.5B in venture capital and 16B at the IPO. Many people said it was overvalued. Now it's easy to say it, but I remember at the time how impressed I was by the moves of Mark Zuckerberg and how obvious it felt to me that Facebook would be worth more than 200B in less than 2 years. It actually happened. And it's now worth close to 400B.
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Must read analysis by Kima's Jean de la Rochebrochard for those who like me are still puzzled by the next mega-IPO
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Amazon's voice-controlled personal assistant is creating chaos for people called Alexis, Alex and Alexa; TV sitcom tried to order milk — Life has been complicated ever since Alexa Sussman and her parents started using Amazon's Echo and its built-in 'Alexa' assistant."Alexa, stop!" Joanne Sussman screamed in her living room.Immediately, the computer living inside her Amazon Echo speaker stopped playing her favorite music station. Simultaneously, Mrs. Sussman's 24-year-old daughter, Alexa, froze on the stairs.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
AI first collaterals : girls named "Alexa", "Siri", or "Cortana". Unless we (or the IA giants) do something, these names will disappear from the charts soon while existing humans wearing these names will experience a nightmare.The short term winner ? "OK Google" as no child has been given such name... yet.
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Eight men now control as much wealth as the world's poorest 3.6 billion people, according to a new report from Oxfam International.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Half of the 8 men controlling as much wealth as 3.6 Billion people come from High Tech
Les West Web Awards sont ouverts à tous.
Vous travaillez dans le secteur public ou privé, vous êtes community manager d'une association, ou encore Chief Digital Officer d'une entreprise traditionnelle, lead developper dans une startup, UX designer en freelance… Alors déposez votre candidature !
Douze trophées à emporter, qui sera le meilleur dans sa catégorie ?
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Douze trophées vont récompenser les talents du numérique territorial lors de la cérémonie des West Web Awards le 9 février 2017 à Brest : en ferez-vous partie ? #FrenchTech #WestWebValley
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Silicon Valley giant Apple Inc. on Wednesday confirmed that it is investing $1 billion (approximately Rs 6,793 crore) in Japanese telecom major SoftBank Group's Vision Fund, an estimated $100-billion (approximately Rs 68 lakh crore) venture that will oversee the development of new technologies. Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn and the family of the Oracle corporation's chairman Larry Ellison are also expected to invest in the fund, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Apple believes the move "will help 'speed the development of technologies that may be strategically important" to it, company spokesperson Kristin Huguet said. Apple has rarely ever invested in venture capital companies before.
While SoftBank will itself invest approximately $25 billion (approximately Rs 17 lakh crore) in its Vision Fund, it will be back largely by the Saudi Arabian government. American telecom equipment company Qualcomm Inc is also expected to put in an investment.
The SoftBank Vision Fund is expected to close its fundraising efforts by mid-2017.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
When $1Billion buys you 1% of a funding round #OrderOfMagnitude
Today, we are thrilled to announce that Infinit and Docker are joining forces.
To anyone following the container space, this may not come as a surprise because persistent storage remains the number one challenge when it comes to container technologies.
Still, for Infinit, this is a huge milestone, closing the loop that has taken the team through quite an incredible journey.
Docker has changed the way developers work. By providing an ecosystem of tools based on container technologies, developers and operators have been able to gain in agility and security. At the same time, Docker has succeeded at reconciling operators and developers (through what has been dubbed the DevOps movement) by making them speak the same language.
This whole revolution is still in its early stages even though both ends of the spectrum, startups and enterprises, have jumped on the train. Indeed, at this point, containers have been used primarily to deploy stateless applications because these can be stopped and relaunched easily, allowing for easy scalability.
Unfortunately, this is no longer enough as developers want more. Namely, they want the ability to scale stateful applications, such as databases, as easily as their stateless counterparts.
With stateful applications being the next natural step in this evolution, Infinit comes into play by providing the Docker community with a storage platform that is scalable, resilient and easy to deploy.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Congrats to the Infinit team for this amazing home run !
SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by the Mars-hungry tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, just made a big move to enshroud the planet in high-speed internet coverage.On November 15, the company filed a lengthy application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch 4,425 satellites. (We first heard about the filing through the r/SpaceX community on Reddit.) That is a hell of a lot of satellites.
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One day we might no longer see the stars or even the clouds but only The Cloud #WelcomeToTheMatrix
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My aim is to cosplay all of Sakura Kinomoto's battle costumes. At least those from the anime. Any from manga promo art is just a bonus or for a little break.
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I got into cosplay back in 2005/6. My first costume was Lisianthus from Shuffle.
I like to cosplay as magical girls or idol characters.
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Over the last few days I've been moving back to Sheffield as term time starts again *boo*
On the up side, I now have the room to work on fabric heavy cosplays!
I only managed to get away with one evening of using the long table at home, so I spent that making my fiancés Syaoran cloak from Tsubasa. It's not exactly finished so I'm not all that ready to put pictures up for it yet.
If anything my attention has been strongly directed towards something that often goes neglected - SHOES!
Seriously, if you go to a con or cosplay event you will find that the most common inaccuracy to the costume in question is the shoes. Some people try, for example uniforms expect smart black/brown shoes, and they usually go for something appropriate. But if it's something a little more obvious to notice then I quickly begin to tear my hair out inwardly, for the number of boot cover tutorials out there are immense, and can be made from the smallest scraps of fabric. Ebay sellers have also upped their game in the past year, and you can pretty much find anything, even on cosplay goods vending sites which are not ebay. They can be pricey, but again, you have the budget version of boot covers which can also look incredibly sexy on your pins.
Anyway, now that I have my camera lead back, I'll upload progress pics!
Pair 1:
Bought from an Ebay seller...they smell kinda funky in the way that fake leather does, but I'm hoping to purge this somehow. They're a bit long so I'm also expecting them to rub the back of my calves a little bit, but all in all they should do the job!
Also, I would have liked them to at least go over the knee, but I think the proportioning between the boots and the skirt would have been a bit odd, so I'm happy with them as they are for now.
Pair 2 (final judgement)
I found this pair in TKMaxx with my other half, and after a lot of complaints on his part, I finally managed to convince him that I would be able to get the correct paint job. I would just need a lot of layers. I hate how the camera makes it look a lot worse than it is! but I went around without being the typical perfectionist that I am (which can be seen on the next pair) as I can correct it later.
So far its not too bad.
Pair 3:
I'm starting to love these pair mainly because I found the base by accident, and I think I still need one more coat and a bit of tidying up before I start putting the studs on. These are so much better than my first pair, which is probably why I prefer to mod through paint jobs rather than fabric.
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Center Valley, PA, March 26, 2007- Olympus, a precision technology leader, creating innovative opto-digital solutions in healthcare, life science and consumer electronics products, today announced the 2007 winners in the Olympus Innovation Award Program: Dr. Deborah Streeter, Cornell University; Burt Swersey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI); and William Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The program recognizes individuals who have fostered and demonstrated innovative thinking in higher education. The winners received their awards from George Steares, vice president emeritus, Olympus America, in Tampa, Fla., at the 11th Annual Meeting of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), Olympus' partner in conducting the program.
"Congratulations to the 2007 winners of the Olympus Innovation Award Program," said Steares. "I was most impressed with their innovative teaching methods and the profound impact they have had on so many students to become successful inventors and entrepreneurs. Fostering innovation and entrepreneurship, a key element of Olympus' management philosophy, is essential for companies to succeed in the U.S. and even more so internationally."
Phil Weilerstein, NCIIA executive director, added, "The 2007 winners once again illustrate the essential role that higher education can play in grooming this country's next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs. We are pleased about the visibility and the high quality of applications the Olympus Innovation Award Program is enjoying and look forward to continuing our partnership with Olympus to make the program even more successful."
Streeter, 54, the Bruce F. Failing, professor of personal enterprise in Cornell University's Department of Applied Economics and Management, won the Olympus Innovation Award in recognition for her contributions to Cornell and, more broadly, for being a pioneer in innovation and entrepreneurship education. The judges were particularly impressed with Streeter's "e-Clips" initiative, a collection of more than 6,000 digital video clips on entrepreneurship, the world's largest such online collection.
Created from in-depth interviews or presentations by entrepreneurs; venture capitalists, bankers and other start-up capital providers; as well as employees of start-up companies, e-Clips provides rich media curricular material (video, audio) to easily help educators share rich information on entrepreneurship with their students. To date, the database has attracted users from 70 countries and nearly 800 different universities. As part of her award, Streeter will receive $10,000.
Swersey, 70, lecturer in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at RPI, won the Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award for his dedication to innovative thinking and his commitment to his students and their learning. Prior to joining RPI, Swersey was a successful innovator in the medical field. He developed a number of important inventions, including an extremely accurate scale to weigh patients, including bed and instrumentation, revolutionizing the treatment of water losses in patients with severe burns. For the past 18 years, Swersey has taught the ideals and methods of innovation and has served as a role model to students. Many of these students have made significant impacts, either as entrepreneurs or as product designers for well-established companies, accumulating patents and business plan competition awards. Swersey's award includes a $2,500 prize.
Grant, 54, program manager of the Technology Management Program at UCSB's Center for Entrepreneurship & Engineering Management, received the Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award for his work at UCSB in creating and managing extracurricular activities that enable students to network and share knowledge and experience with successful scientists, entrepreneurs and other business experts. Grant facilitates this dialogue through intimate working luncheons, small seminars, lectures and his "On the Edge" radio program on KCSB91.9FM. Created and hosted by Grant and UCSB students, the weekly show features successful entrepreneurs and innovators and discusses how ideas become inventions. In recognition of his work, Grant will receive $1,000.
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Scintilla wrote:So will Project Genius FINALLY be done by then?
I'm getting a little sick of waiting, frankly. How many years has it been now? Five?
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Pwolf wrote:Scintilla wrote:So will Project Genius FINALLY be done by then?
I'm getting a little sick of waiting, frankly. How many years has it been now? Five?
nope... 2012
Allowing Project Genius's release will be Duane Johnson's first act as President.
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Kosmit wrote:Castor Troy wrote:Project Genius will be out before Duke Nukem Forever!
Back in 2000, in a polish gaming magazine, there was an article entitled "How will computers look like in 10 years". One of the points made there was "Duke Nukem Forever will finally be released". Looking at it now I think they might've been overly optimistic...
If the situation is about the same with Project Genius then I might not live long enough to see this epic work.
How much worse can it get than SOAD2?
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Thought this was the funniest thing I've seen.
I don't get it..
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Yeah, I am afraid I am lost on this one too. And I like to think that I have a great, open sense of humor. Are you trying to make a dig at X-Box? I just don't see what's funny.
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Where's the humor? Step away from the computer and get some fresh air punchy... Your Jeanie pic is kinda funny though... You can tell where masters first wish went.
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I take you guys dont have the xbox live game, Mech Assult.
If you did, you'd know of the horror of the controversial "Down Loadable Content" that was promised on Jan. 1st then delayed to sometime in the beginning weeks to Jan then delayed to the 15th then delayed to the 31st and then it was delayed to a somewhat "in a few days or so" ...most people who are talking about this really dont care about the DLC coming out for the game , but they're basically upset or laugh at the fact, that its been promised to come out so many times. Now its an on going joke that it'll never come out...or that it might come out on Feb 29th. ....and thats a joke too...
Ok sunblind, thanks for the explaination. Mr. Miller, QLD, and I all have XBOXs and are fans of the system but we just didn't know what the heck you were talking about.
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Bob Gutermuth
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Bob, if you are so concerned about the Constitution, where was your outrage when 43 said
Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'
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You might as well quote SNL. Your source is nothing but a leftwing mouth piece with unnamed sources. If they told you the tooth fairy was real would you by into that also?
The president claims an inherent power to imprison American citizens whom he has determined to be this countrys enemies without obtaining a warrant, letting them hear the charges against them, or following other safeguards against wrongful punishment guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Under his administration, the government has engaged in inhumane treatment of prisoners that amounts to torture, and when Congress passed legislation to ban such treatment, he declared he would simply interpret the law his own way. Although the Constitution says treaties are the supreme law of the land, the president has abrogated them on his own. And, we now know, he ordered a secret program of electronic surveillance of Americans without court warrants.
I fell for the one in economics class that if a third party paid your bills
you wouldn't care what the cost was.
Bush ain't POTUS today,Osama is. When will the left realize that?
Bob Gutermuth
Canvasback Chesapeakes
True, Bush ain't president anymore, but Obama didn't run up this $11 Trillion debt he inherited either.
Yet another legacy of the Bush years will be the number of good paying American manufacturing jobs that were exported overseas, thus decreasing tax revenues. That will make it harder for Obama, or any other subsequent president to balance a budget until we figure out how to get our job base back in America. As a fair-minded Independent, I will acknowledge Mr. Bush did not invent NAFTA, although it was greatly expanded under him. Dick Armey, through his consulting firm also contributed greatly, by showing companies to to move offshore to dodge taxes, even after Mr. Bush cut them, supposedly creating millions of jobs.
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
When does Osama begin to take responsibility for what happens during his term? After it is over?
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A federal appeals court in California yesterday reached a decision about baseball that had implications regarding the privacy rights of every American—another example of sports and society intertwining. Phillies union rep Jimmy Rollins weighed in on the situation today.
The case demonstrated the conflict between civil liberties and the effort to rid baseball of performance-enhancing drugs. Drug testing for one's employer is an infringement on personal privacy, of course, though one many of us are willing to endure. In this particular case, the court ruled that U.S. Attorneys had gone too far in sezing a list of 104 players who had failed an ostensibly anonymous drug test in 2003.
Most of you know this background, but quickly: The tests were meant to gauge how many players were using performance-enhancing drugs; because more than five percent tested positive, a full testing program was instituted the following season.
The prosecutors were investigating whether 10 players, including Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi, had testified accurately in a case against the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative. During a 2004 raid of the company that oversaw drug tests for those players, the prosecutors stumbled across the 2003 list, and seized it.
That's how A-Rod, David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez and Sammy Sosa were outed as PED users of one kind or another.
As a journalist and citizen, I've been of two minds on this: I like when the truth comes out, but these players were obviously violated. When the court ruled that the prosecutors were wrong to seize the list, they reached a decision that could limit the government's ability to get its hands on your medical information. At the risk of getting all Ron Paul on ya, that strikes me as a good thing.
Here's some of what Rollins had to say: "The leaks didn't surprise me. If a President's cabinet leaks to the media, anything will come out this day in age. But to my eyes, this was an easy case. How do you rule any other way? We took the test with the assumption it was protected."
Rollins also said that he did not see a conflict between cleaning up the sport and maintaining personal privacy.
"No, they don't have to be in conflict," he said. "You just have to respect the way things are done. In 2003, the rules were different and it was meant to be kept private. Now, it's okay to name players who test positive, because the rules have changed."
Back to on-field matters, Brett Myers is expected to make his next appearance for Reading on Saturday.
Pedro Martinez starts tomorrow at the Bank, and Charlie Manuel said this afternoon that the next few Pedro starts will be key in determining what the guy can contribute. "We'll get a real good read on him in a couple more starts,' Manuel said. "That's when he'll get stretched out. The next two starts will really determine where we can take him in the game, and where he can take us.
In talking with Ruben Amaro yesterday and his assistant GM Scott Proefrock today, I'm not getting the feeling that the Phils are likely to make a trade before the Sept. 1 postseason eligibility deadline.
But one also has to keep in mind with the Phils that they are always on the hunt for ways to tweak the club—that's the Pat Gillick influence—so if something appealing comes up five seconds from now, the team could jump on it. But they don't see any glaring positions of need. They expect to get Greg Dobbs back, and the biggest question mark (you get one guess, rhymes with Lad Bridge) is a problem they're more likely address internally, if they address it.
Charlie on J.A. Happ: "I think that Happ should definitely be Rookie of the Year." Agreed.


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An international showcase and cuisine will provide a sampling of cultural heritage from around the world during Hope College's "IMAGES: A Reflection of Cultures" on Saturday, Nov. 21.
"Images" will begin with a dinner featuring international cuisine from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Phelps Hall dining room. For those not on the college's meal plan, admission to the dinner will be $5 per person, payable at the door.
The international showcase, to which admission is free, will begin at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre. The showcase will feature an array of songs, dances, instrumental performances and other clips of culture in multiple languages and fashions. More than 30 students will participate from countries such as Burma, China, Ghana, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
"IMAGES: A Reflection of Cultures" is sponsored by the Hope College Office of International Education and will conclude the college's International Education Week, which will feature a variety of events planned around the theme "A World Without Walls." More information about the activities may be obtained by calling the office at (616) 395-7605.
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SuperKombat: Frank Munoz Receives a Wild Card in SK WGP
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Many fans felt that at this weekend's SuperKombat event in Romania that Sebastian Ciobanu was given a dreaded "hometown decision" against Frank Munoz in the Finals of the tournament. They explained on their official site today that there were not even Romanian judges to declare it a hometown decision, they had an international team judging the event. They have gone back to review the fight and feel like the fight was indeed a close one, but they cannot overrule the decision by the judges and the referee.
So therefore, to make everything square with Munoz and his team they have given him a Wild Card spot in the SuperKombat World Grand Prix, as Sebastian Ciobanu already had a spot because of him being in the Final 4 of last year's tournament. Munoz seems happy with this decision.


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I believe that my fascination with Romantic and Neoclassical sculpture stems from my childhood, when I was occasionally taken on school excursions to various stately homes around England. Blissfully unaware of the inherent symbolism and inferred sense of social hierarchy contained in the artworks, I stared wide-eyed at what to me at the time was a completely different world to mine, to the rows of terrace houses in my home town. With a child like naivety, I imagined that the world portrayed in Romantic art actually existed somewhere, and was of course preferable to that in which I lived on a day-to-day basis. An educated adult perspective is that there is, of course, only one world and one reality but within the minds of different people exist numerous different perceptions. In science, our aim is to see objective reality with no prejudice, but as human beings it is only our personal inner reality, with all its inherent distortions, that is truly meaningful.
My current body of work aims to explore these different perceptions of reality. As a vehicle for this I model Neoclassical-style figures and patina their surfaces with digital images or other contemporary materials. The forms present a Romantic, idealised view of the world. The surface depicts a colder, more contemporary perspective on the same subject matter.
Someone Else's Children is a piece about the differing perceptions and experiences of children in different parts of the world. The work comprises a group of child figures, modelled in romantic style, with a wheat pattern over their surface. One child, with her hands full of wheat grains, stands on grass behind a neat picket fence. The others are empty-handed and wear bird masks reminiscent of those worn in Medieval Europe during the plagues. The sweetness of the forms is contrasted with the macabre masks and barren earth, which hint at the stark reality that a large proportion of the children in the world endure famine, drought and disease.
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Attached to the letters in each case was a sizeable cheque in the recipient's name. The cheque was to cover their wages and operating expenses related to this role.
As part of the deal, the "Mystery Shopper" was then to return a large portion of the cheque to the sender using common money transfer services. The letter stated that the money transfer was intended to test these money transfer businesses to ensure that they are following the correct protocols.
The letters bore the letterheads of a legitimate business based out of Ontario. These businesses are not believed to have any involvement with the attempted frauds.
Members of the general public should be aware that cashing cheques of this nature often results in the cheques being rejected at some point and the "Mystery Shopper" is then left holding responsibility for any money spent or transferred.
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Greetings all! My name is Naomi Gonzales and I am so delighted to be the newest member of the fabulous NN/LM South Central Region team as the Public Health Coordinator. I graduated in spring of 2012 with my MLS from the University of North Texas (UNT) but I've always had a passion for outreach and literacy. I've been working with the public (in all kinds of settings) since 2006 and quickly learned to love the rollercoaster ride that is creating lasting connections with community members.
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ARM Linux is coming along of course, as it always does. After trying to get pre7 going, I discover that pre8 is already out, and includes the patches I sent to Linus.
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Rawlings, a 1970 Princeton graduate alum and the winner of this year's James Madison Medal, the top award for graduate alumni, will give a lecture at 9 a.m. Sotomayor, a member of Princeton's Class of 1976 and winner of this year's Woodrow Wilson Award, the top honor for undergraduate alumni, will give a talk at 10:15 discussing Princeton's informal motto, "In the Nation's Service," and how living that motto has guided her life.
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According to the Henry County Sheriff's Office, around 5:10 Saturday afternoon, the Sheriff's Office received a call of possible human remains being found along Old Highway 34 near the Henry-Jefferson County line. The children noticed a white object lying in the ditch between the road and railroad tracks.
Upon investigation by the Henry County Sheriff's Office, Division of Criminal Investigation, Mt. Pleasant Police Department and the Henry County Medical Examiner, the skeletal remains of a human body were found.
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Eagle Falls is an 18 hole mini-golf course and a 2500 sq foot indoor Laser Tag arena. Located in Eagle River, WI. Two great activity for all ages to enjoy. Laser Tag opened Spring 2013! Located in downtown Eagle River Eagle Falls Adventure Golf and Laser Tag. Two great activity for all ages to enjoy. 18 holes of mini golf. Great landscape. Fun course. Activities on many holes. Slide on the ranger tower, musky hole, talking outhouse hole, cave, tons of water. 16 vest Laser Tag arena. Black Light, electronic laser game of hide and seek! Team or individual play.
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RE:Comparing fly rods.
Welcome Rojo!
I haven't yet cast the SSF but will cast that and more at the show coming to my part of the country this weekend. I am very familiar with the VPS though, formerly known as the RPL in so far as the general blank design is concerned.
I'll reserve judgement on the SSF for now, but here's what I see as the merits of the Sage VPS rods:
They are "fast", but not stiff. They are not super-fast, like the XP series, but by no means could you put them in the mid-flex or slow category. What I really like about them is the control you feel in the rod throughout the entire casting stroke. I never did understand the interest in mid-flex; you only feel the dynamics of the cast at the endpoints. I suppose it helps those who are trying to find the loadpoints but once registered the section I refer to as the "heart" of the blank has no guts and long line aerialization is out of the question. The Sage VPS on the other hand is so lively that you feel every nuance of the cast. Stiff rods tend to negate that lively energized feel of the cast as well, although for those who cast less frequently over the course of a day (from a boat for instance) or run deep heavy lines need broomstick rods and they have their place (like the old RPL-X 10wt 9ft 3pc, a big favorite for this purpose).
Guys like me typically make a lot of casts and fish long hard days, most often from shore. I rely on a rod that does the work for me, and total distance is not nearly as important as a rod that lulls me into a rhythm of many, many casts without fatigue. Stiff rods kill me, I don't enjoy fishing them like some guys do. Soft rods kill me too - I get too frustrated not having the recoil that is, as you know, the operative physical element of the forward cast.
So to summarize, the endearing aspect of the Sage VPS (formerly RPL) is that it gives the angler a light, lively, not stiff / nor soft, all-day casting tool with a deceptive recoil hidden in the heart of the blank that does the work so you don't have to.
I'll let you know what I think of Jim Murphy's new creations after the show. He certainly is busy bringing great products to us consumer types, much to his credit. He also belts out one hell of an Irish Ballard too.
Comparing fly rods.
I recently received a new Redington (Red Start)RS2 9082. Being fairly familiar with this rod I decided to trade up to a Redington SSF 9082.My purpose was to get a faster rod for more distance and power casting in the wind. The dealer I spoke with convinced me to get a Sage 89VPS instead. Now that I've become used to the Sage I'm convinced it isn't a whole lot faster than the Red Start. A distance cast for me was about 65' with the Red Start and is about 75' with the Sage. I'm wondering if I should have stuck to my original game plan. Anyone care to comment on the Sage VPS Vs. Redington SSF?
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For u...who was the better pilot between Han and Luke??
Although Luke was the hero of the saga i stay with Han.
Your thoughts...
For u...who was the better pilot between Han and Luke??
Although Luke was the hero of the saga i stay with Han.
Your thoughts...
As always...........L
Han, because he didn't even need the Force.
Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis
I agree. The only reason Luke was good at anything was because of the Force.Originally posted by Fulit
Han, because he didn't even need the Force.
Definaley Han. He is a cooler character, he flies without the force, and his best friend is a Wookiee. And he made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs!
Here's a harder one...
Who's the
betterworst pilot, Porkins or Hobbie (snowspeeder pilot from ESB)?
"I'm just a YES man trying to make my way in the universe." - Jango McCallum
"Good dialogue and smooth editing are no match for a good YES man by your side, kid." - George Lucas
Better pilot: Han, because Luke hardly pilots. He just flies. Straight in the trench. Has to have Biggs bail him out. Flies into a huge fire ball! Crashes into a swamp. Gets hit by an AT-AT cannon without swerving. Yawn...
Betterworst pilot: Hobbie. Why? I don't know. Just guessing. I have a 50% chance of being right.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
Whoever told Porkins to eject was a pretty stupid pilot...HELLO??!? They are in OUTER SPACE!!! Sheesh...
Luke, because he was the hero (and he had 2 lightsabers, that sort of thing matters to you when you're a kid ), oh, and he kicked Darth Vader's arse!
Han's cool too in my book, but he relies on his friends, especially Chewie, too much for my tastes.
Porkins could have ejected, the X-wing pilot flightsuit has a quick mask to cover the face for emergency eject in much EU, plus, the line wouldn't be in the film if they couldn't eject. Porkins is the worst pilot though IMO because he gets splashed RIGHT AWAY.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Between Hobbie and Porkins?? Hobbie...hands down, hey he is in Rougue Squadron!!
As always...........L
What would've happened to Luke, though, had Han not come back and saved him? Daddy would've turned him into space junk, that's what!Originally posted by JediTricks
Han's cool too in my book, but he relies on his friends, especially Chewie, too much for my tastes.
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STARKVILLE – In a sense, this is no longer Dan Mullen's offense. It's Tyler Russell's offense.
The Mississippi State quarterback has shown the kind of command, in every facet, that suggests a quarterback who's not only at ease in his role, but fully engaged in it. He has performed at a high level, but he's also displayed the essential intangibles at a high level.
But to start with his play, Russell has completed 58.2 percent of his passes for 651 yards, eight touchdowns and no interceptions in three games. His completion percentage would be higher if not for several dropped passes in Saturday's 30-24 win at Troy.
The drops clearly frustrated Russell, who finished the game 11 of 26 for 244 yards and three TDs. And this is where the intangibles come in.
He didn't lash out at his receivers or walk away from them and sulk. He simply talked to them.
"Drops are going to happen," Russell said. "Stay focused, we've still got a lot of time left in the game. We've got to go down the field and score. That was the main focus."
He also told tailback LaDarius Perkins at halftime that he was going to need to carry a heavier load because "we can't really complete anything right now." Perkins responded by gaining 99 of his career-high 179 yards in the second half, and he had a big 30-yard run as MSU ran out the clock in the fourth quarter.
Head coach Dan Mullen thought Russell's leadership and poise in the second half was a huge factor. And he liked that Russell didn't change his approach when passing the ball.
"A lot of times guys, if guys start dropping balls, they're just going to look to other guys, and Tyler doesn't do that," Mullen said. "He continues to stick with his reads, he trusts his receivers, and he continues to throw the ball where it's supposed to go."
No blame
He's not one to cast blame. In fact, Russell has taken responsibility for the one time he's been sacked this season, which happened in the Auburn game. He's had nothing but praise for the offensive line.
Russell gained a good bit of experience the two previous seasons in part-time duty, and that's aided him now as the No. 1 QB. The Troy game was much too close for comfort for No. 23 MSU, but Russell calmly made some big throws late, including a 25-yard touchdown to Chad Bumphis on a fourth-and-5, making it 30-21 Bulldogs.
It was up to Russell to make the proper read on that play.
"We had that route all day long. We ran it three times," he said. "Chad did a good job of sticking the guy and I looked at Chad and the guy didn't know where he was at, so I took a chance on fourth down and it paid off."
It was one of those calculated risks Russell has become adept at taking. His coaches have complete faith in him to make such decisions, and the fact he has yet to commit a turnover is one thing that affirms that faith.
His teammates believe in him, too. They know who's running the show.
"Tyler, he's come a long way," tailback Nick Griffin said. "It's like he's so smart now, he knows everything. He's calm and relaxed, just dissecting defenses."