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Fairfax CEO: Guardian an 'asterisk'
With The Guardian about to launch its Australian edition, is the move by one of Australia's biggest newspaper brands to throw up paywalls on its sites a free gift?
Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood has lashed out at claims that The Guardian's Australian launch could derail his company's plans to implement paywalls this year, claiming the British media brand will be a bit player in the local media sector.
'This is a bit of an asterisk in my life really,' Mr Hywood told RN Breakfast this morning. 'The Guardian's a good brand in London... it's a good brand in a few suburbs in London.'
'The fact is both us and News Limited provide hundreds of journalists—we provide a depth of journalism every day through our coverage. And to set up a website with a handful of people and bought-in content is not really a player in this game.'
Fairfax is planning to introduce metered paywalls for its Sydney Morning Herald and The Age websites later this year, with paywalls for international users to be thrown up in March, and domestic paywalls rolled out over the following months. The Guardian announced in January that it plans to launch its own Australian-focused site later this year, which is likely to provide its content for free, in line with the media brand's global approach. Earlier this month the British company poached two senior journalists from Fairfax's Canberra press gallery—Lenore Taylor and Katharine Murphy—and installed them as its political editor and deputy political editor.
Mr Hywood defended allegations that Fairfax was stepping back from its commitment to political coverage, and claimed the paywalls would not radically affect most readers' experience of Fairfax sites. He said that Fairfax is still working out the number of free articles readers will be allowed to access a month, but the plan is to force only heavy users of the site to subscribe.
'We think it will probably impact 10 per cent of our readership,' Mr Hywood said.
Fairfax delivered its interim financial report yesterday—showing another decline in underlying net profit due to falling advertising revenues in the print business. On the surface of yesterday's result, half-year profit soared—from $96 million to $386 million in the six months to the end of December. But this was flattered by the sale of Fairfax's remaining 51 per cent interest in New Zealand auction website Trade Me and its US agricultural business. Excluding these asset sales, underlying net profit was down 39 per cent to $83 million.
While Fairfax's radio business had a strong half, metro print business continued to bleed, with print advertising revenue down a further 24 per cent (to $171 million), only partly offset by a 5 per cent rise in digital ad revenue (to $81 million).
Fairfax is growing its digital circulation—the SMH now has 3.2 million digital readers, up 40 per cent in the past decade, with The Age up 60 per cent. One million Sydney Morning Herald and The Age iPad apps have also been downloaded. But this readership growth hasn't translated yet into major revenue growth, forcing Fairfax to cut 1900 jobs last year (10 per cent of its workforce), outsource functions like subediting, close printing presses and (from March this year) reduce the size of its broadsheet newspapers.
Fairfax Media publishes 400 metropolitan, regional and suburban newspapers and magazines, including flagship broadsheets the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the business newspaper the Australian Financial Review. It also owns radio stations in Australia including Melbourne's 3AW and Sydney's 2UE.
Listen to Fran Kelly's full interview with Greg Hywood on RN Breakfast.
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Edward Black :
22 Feb 2013 12:18:31pm
'The Guardian Weekly' is the most intelligent newspaper published in Australia. Am delighted they are building here to fight Murdoch's 'Australian' and any diminution of the 'SMH' besieged by mining corporations.
ccb :
22 Feb 2013 12:23:35pm
I read the Guardian especially on international events.
I am glad the Guardian is coming to Aus and I can assure you, I will be reading it.
It is probably one of the more balanced media outlets globally
Elwyn Davies :
22 Feb 2013 12:25:41pm
The Guardian (or Grauniad as Private Eye would call it) On Line is a benchmark for many newspapers. They have a raft of good writers and contributors / and links to other articles. I will be very interested in seeing an Australian version. I stopped subscription to UK version because not enough local info. If they can rectify that I will be a subscriber
Arewethereyet :
22 Feb 2013 12:29:39pm
Mr Hywood may be right in his opinion of the Guardian and its overall impact in Australia. My opinion is, the Guardian's approach to news and current affairs has a style and view that is not subject to political allegiances, spin (and they can lean to the Right when they need to) and petty mindedness that Australia's press tends to sink to. Bring on the Guardian and fearless reporting with a view to the future!
Anne T :
22 Feb 2013 12:50:17pm
Mr Hywood's comment that "The Guardian's a good brand in London... it's a good brand in a few suburbs in London" sounds like wishful thinking. It is also a bit worrying that the CEO of Fairfax is so ignorant of one of the important mainstream publications.
The appeal of The Guardian is not based on geography but based on quality journalism. For instance Paul Sheehan and Gerard Henderson would be unlikely to get a look in at The Guardian because of the low quality of their journalism. Perhaps Mr Hywood should pay a little more attention to who he employs.
Graeme Harrison :
22 Feb 2013 12:56:00pm
As someone who reads both SMH and Guardian online editions most days, (and with a Harvard MBA background), let me suggest that the Fairfax CEO is plain wrong.
A HUGE fraction of the SMH readership (not 10% cited by an out-of-touch CEO) will go elsewhere if Fairfax adds paywalls. Unfortunately, national/state news is just not that valuable... and Fairfax covers 'general news', though AFR does have some highly-valuable commercial news.
Plus, The Guardian already has LOTS of Australian commentators. Part of the reason is that Fairfax is driven by old-fashioned journalist types, who believe good reading material can be written only by journalists. Fairfax allows user comments on only a small fraction of its less-contentious articles. Then Fairfax adds an 'approval delay' of hours, so there is little feedback and no chance of 'dialogue'. With The Guardian, one's comments go live immediately and there is active dialogue between commentators. Accordingly, the Fairfax sites look like journalist output with a few reader comments attached, whereas The Guardian simply starts a dialogue, then allows unpaid writers to add almost all the content. And the comments are infinitely better reading material than the media releases reprinted as news stories.
Fairfax needs to 'open up' its commentary, and not put much content behind paywalls. They should ask if something is truly 'unique' before deciding to charge for it. As Google+Facebook proved, you need the users before any consideration of how one makes money from websites. Any action that causes a 30% loss in on-line readership will spell the end of Fairfax. And while the finances of The Guardian are not that secure, it is capable of really shaking-up Australian newsites.
James :
22 Feb 2013 1:35:43pm
Hywood's claims would be more plausible if Fairfax didn't rely on syndicated Guardian articles to fill out its ever sparser newspapers.
Fairfax as a respected news source is dead. It's now repositioning itself as a click-bait general entertainment website. Hopefully the Guardian's Australian venture can take on the role once played by Fairfax.
King Coultas :
22 Feb 2013 1:45:26pm
It's a bit worrying he thinks the Guardian is a London-centric newspaper. If you were talking about the London Evening Standard, Greg, you might be right. The Guardian? I don't think so - it's a global brand. Oh, and good luck with the paywall, Greg.
aunty dora :
22 Feb 2013 2:13:42pm
The Guardian is indeed agood brand in London it is also a good brand here in Astralia.
Its where we get the news the day before it is printed in Australia.
Its where we have the opportunity to comment on just about every article.
It has been around since the Battle of Peterloo and would make a very good friend.
Friendships are cultivated and don't just happen. Good Luck to all.
The Good Dr :
22 Feb 2013 2:35:05pm
I think it's cute that Fairfax thinks that people will pay for their "quality journalism". Unless you have an obsessive interest in Masterchef, whatever weather event is currently occurring in Melbourne or in real estate agents blowing hot air to keep the market afloat, The Age has about as much substance as a blancmange. You kids at the ABC must be rubbing your hands in delight.....
Sylly :
22 Feb 2013 2:46:37pm
Thoroughly excited about a new news brand to come to Australia. The market has been monopolised by News and Fairfax for too long, and frankly after 3 years, I'm sick of reading spin about the Rudd-comeback! Fairfax should be scared, a new outlet may actually force them to start reporting with basic integrity and nous.
PeterM :
22 Feb 2013 3:04:48pm
Somewhat weird over-confidence close to bluster, I would think.
Having chopped key staff, lost print revenue, foreshadowed charges for net readers for services that have been free, and then proclaimed how wonderful the Fairfax / News services have been, you belittle the Guardian's prospects for readers of internet-delivered readers?
Sounds like someone's been drinking bottled hubris...
22 Feb 2013 4:36:44pm
Can't see what difference it would make. The Age at least is simply a facsimilie of the Guardian already, in spirit and content, the same biases and tendencies, syndicating its articles and apeing its worldview.
Doha Diva :
22 Feb 2013 4:47:15pm
I'm not British and I'm not a resident of the UK but I find the comment 'This is a bit of an asterisk in my life really,' Mr Hywood told RN Breakfast this morning. 'The Guardian's a good brand in London... it's a good brand in a few suburbs in London' just a little dismissive given the overall level of coverage dished out to the Australian public by most sections of Fairfax Limited. It's often a shock to return to Australia to read or listen to what passes for news here; five minutes of real news and then on to sport seems to be the way it goes (I don't include the ABC or SBS in this as a general rule; they're not perfect but they do make a real effort to provide us with balanced, intelligent, informative,interesting and wide ranging coverage of both national and international importance). I personally appreciate the free access to the Guardian and a couple of US papers and while I would be willing to pay for access to quality articles, I certainly draw the line at most of what's on offer locally.
Thank you.
Guardian reader. :
22 Feb 2013 6:14:07pm
I'm a Guardian reader and I live in Australia. That is the power of the internet Mr Hywood. As for paywalls they need to be better than the dud one on the New York Times site. I only have to clear my history and cookies and I get another set of 10 free articles. I used to read the Australian until they put up paywalls, there are too many good sites with out paywalls to waste my time with mediocre sites with paywalls.
Alan W. :
22 Feb 2013 6:39:30pm
An asterisk?
Mr. Hywood from your dismissive response to the Guardian starting an online Australian edition news site you appear not to well informed about the world about you or anything outside Australia.
The Guardian UK web site is constantly accorded the title of best news site on the web and is acknowledged certainly in the northern hemisphere, which you don't appear to know much about, as the news source that is the best researched and one of the few titles in the MSM with ethics and scruples. The Guardian, when shown to be wrong in their reporting , promptly publish a predominant retraction and apology which is something that the Australian media is not very familiar with.
Mr. Hywood, you may very well be dismissive in your attitude to the Guardian at this time but maintain that blinkered view and you and the rest of the slovenly Australian media will do so at your peril.
Marie Lockyer :
23 Feb 2013 9:38:26am
I am really looking forward to The Guardian down-under. As an avid reader of The Age, once print and now on-line and a skimmer of The Australian and Herald-Sun I have tired of the spin in the daily metropolitan newspapers. I have watched with sadness the slow but inexorable decline of standards in The Age particularly in the field of political reporting. Not only pieces poorly collated with grabs from outside news sources but more significantly, the failure to report the passing through the Houses of most significant bills that will impact upon the lives of Australians. It's not so much what you print as what you DON'T print. So bring on The Guardian. We, the readers are hungry for their type of reporting.


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|Application number
|Publication date
|Dec 25, 1979
|Filing date
|Mar 1, 1978
|Priority date
|Mar 1, 1978
|Also published as
|Publication number
|Richard L. Eby
|Original Assignee
|Anderson Power Products, Inc.
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (42), Classifications (12), Legal Events (7)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present invention relates to instruments for use with lead acid storage batteries and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for determining the capacity of a lead acid storage battery.
Lead acid storage batteries are used as motive power on fork lift trucks, tow tractors, mining vehicles, golf carts and other electric vehicles. In many of these uses, particularly industrial materials handling, the batteries are not continuously charged as they are, for example, in automobiles. Instead, they are normally discharged in operation and then recharged and readied for another discharge cycle.
The need for some form of battery protection against damage from overcharging and progressive undercharging has been recognized for many years. Existing devices for this purpose have been available under such names as discharge warning indicator, battery condition indicator, battery energy saver, battery discharge control, expanded scale voltmeter, battery protector, and battery fuel gauge. Such devices are generally used in combination with a hydrometer reading of the specific gravity of the battery electrolyte. Generally, this measurement is taken just prior to changing on a single "pilot" cell selected on a rotational basis. This measurement is used to monitor the accuracy of whatever other battery protection device is installed.
Typically, such devices have, in practice, proven inadequate or impractical for one or more of the following reasons:
1. If fitted with a gauge or meter, the device may be over-sensitive to the application or workload. Heavy lifting, higher stacking, frequent lifting, and driving rapidly up a ramp with a load, can cause a sudden voltage drop that makes the meter indicator needle swing erratically.
2. If given only a simple warning light, the operator has no way of judging how close he is getting to the warning point. Such lights usually indicate the beginning of a preset period of time, normally two to fifteen minutes, before a relay acts to disable lifting and possibly other truck functions. This time may be insufficient for the operator to reach a convenient point in his work before charging. In addition, it is not uncommon for the operator to react to the building time pressure with aggression by damaging or sabotaging the device.
3. Generally such devices measure or monitor cell voltage under load; I.E., during truck operation. As indicated above, momentary surges in this voltage due to lifting, etc. tend to trigger the lift lockout switch as the battery approaches 50% discharge. To avoid this, in recent years such devices have commonly averaged the voltage under load over some period of time such as, three minutes. However, the devices may still trigger the lockout switch prematurely because the loaded voltage is affected by the discharge rate. In other words, a given battery may exhibit a given final voltage over a broad range of levels of charge, i.e., from 90% charge to 20% charge. Lift lockout, therefore, remains premature or unreliable and the battery may still be damaged by excessive discharge.
4. Some devices can be manually reset or overridden by the operator. Sometimes a manual "reset" button is provided for the purpose, or the operator may find he can "fool" the device into sensing it has been connected to a recharged battery by simply unplugging and replugging from the battery which needs recharging. Other devices provide for adjustment of the warning and/or reset point which can be counter-productive. Finally, operators may simply short out the device in a way that makes it difficult to determine whether vandalism has occurred.
5. Devices that require or permit calibration by the user may not be properly set for the battery type and workload conditions under which they are employed.
6. Some devices may either not sense or not indicate the temporary increase in available capacity due to "recovery" or rest. If such increases in capacity are not recognized, they tend to go unutilized.
7. Many battery protection devices restrict operations by requiring a battery that is 80-100% recharged before they will reset after lift lockout. While it is generally not considered good practice to send a truck out with a partially charged battery, this could be desirable near the end of the final shift of the day.
8. Finally, battery protection devices that are properly adjusted for new batteries may fail to operate as desired when connected to older or less well-maintained batteries. Such batteries typically exhibit a lower specific gravity when fully charged and reach the specific gravity equivalent to their recharge point in less time.
It is a general object of the invention to provide a method and apparatus for determining the capacity of lead acid storage batteries.
It is a specific object of the invention to provide battery capacity indicator that avoids all of the above-listed shortcomings of the prior art battery capacity determining apparattii.
It is another specific object of the invention to provide a display of battery capacity as a stable, linear, proportional function.
It is still another object of the invention to optionally provide a warning indication of low battery capacity and switch cut-out means at preselected levels of capacity indication.
It is a feature of the invention that the battery capacity determining apparatus can be used during the charging cycle of a lead acid battery as well as during the discharge cycle.
The method and apparatus of the present invention utilizes two battery parameters to determine battery capacity during the discharge cycle. The battery parameters are the open circuit voltage and the voltage under load. The open circuit voltage has a linear type correlation to the charge level of the battery under a defined set of circumstances. The voltage under load when compared to the corresponding open circuit voltage at any charge level is an indication of the rate of discharge of the battery at that time.
The open circuit voltage characteristic is used as the battery capacity correlation. The open circuit voltage is presented by the battery upon initial connection of the battery to the indicator for each period of discharge. The open circuit voltage may be presented by the battery during periods of non-discharge although these periods are not necessary for the indicator's operation. After the initial connection of the battery to the indicator, the discharge rate or rates, as indicated by the loaded voltage, is detected and supplied to the indicating means in values of open circuit voltage. This manufactured open circuit voltage value or the open circuit voltage value supplied by the open circuit voltage detector is then used as a reference to the loaded voltage detector to maintain its ability to detect discharge rates.
For the charge cycle operation, the two battery parameters used are the open circuit voltage and the voltage during charge. The voltage exhibited by the battery during charge when compared to the corresponding open circuit voltage value is an indication of the rate of charge of the battery. The initial open circuit voltage value reference is supplied as a result of the discharge period.
The charge rate as indicated by the charge voltage value is detected and supplied to the indicating means in values of open circuit voltage.
The objects and features of the invention discussed above and other objects and features of the invention will best be understood from a detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof selected for purposes of illustration and shown in the accompanying single FIGURE which depicts in block diaphragm form the circuitry of the invention.
Turning now to the single FIGURE of the drawings, there is shown in block diagram form an apparatus for determining the capacity of a lead acid storage battery that is constructed in accordance with the present invention and indicated generally by the reference numeral 10. The apparatus 10 will be referred to as a "battery capacity indicator" or "BCI". The battery under test is connected to input terminals 12 and 14 of the battery capacitor indicator. If the battery is accidently connected with reverse polarity, a reverse voltage protection circuit 16, such as a properly poled diode, prevents operation of the battery capacity indicator.
Assuming that the battery under test is correctly connected to the input terminals 12 and 14, a positive voltage is applied through voltage divider 18 to an "OFF" time delay circuit 20, a comparator 22, a negative voltage detector 24, a positive peak detector 26 and a switch 28. If the battery capacity indicator 10 is used in the "discharge" mode to determine the battery capacity under load, switch 28 is closed and the divided down voltage from the battery under test is also applied to a positive clamp circuit 30.
If the battery under test has been disconnected from the BCI 10 for a predetermined length of time that is established by the "OFF" time delay circuit 20, the delay circuit 20 will produce an output that is applied to one input of an AND gate 32. The other input to AND gate 32 is the differentiated output from comparator 22 through differentiator 24. The comparator 22 compares the voltage of the battery under test with a reference voltage derived from voltage reference 36. The voltage reference 36 can be a separate voltage source or it can be a voltage that is derived from the battery under test by means of a suitable zener diode. The voltage difference between the divided down battery voltage and the reference voltage is differentiated by differentiator 34 to produce a pulse input to the AND gate 32. Given an output from the previously mentioned "OFF" time delay circuit 20, AND gate 32 produces an output to memory set 38, the output of which is inputed to an OR gate 38. The output of OR gate 40 is used to set a memory 42 to a predetermined voltage value below that of a fully discharged battery.
When the battery under test was initially connected to BCI 10, the divided down, open circuit, positive battery voltage was applied not only to comparator 22, but also to the (+) peak detector 26. The applied open circuit battery voltage is integrated by integrator 44. At the end of the integration period, the memory 42 is supplied with a total open circuit voltage value of the battery under test. Since the reference voltage to the (+) peak detector 26 is supplied by the output from memory 42, when the memory output voltage value is equal to the open circuit voltage value, the (+) peak detector 26 will produce no output.
When the battery is placed under load, the difference between the open circuit voltage value from the memory output and the loaded voltage value presented to the (-) voltage detector 24 determines the rate of discharge of the battery. The loaded voltage battery value is detected by the (-) voltage detector 24 and supplied to the negative or the low side of memory 42 through integrator 46 and OR gate 40. The difference value supplied to the (-) memory input corresponds to the change in value of the open circuit voltage during discharge.
As previously mentioned, when the battery capacity indicator 10 is in the battery "discharge" mode of operation, switch 28 is closed and the divided down battery voltage also is applied to the (+) clamp circuit 30. The clamp circuit 30 prevents an indication beyond full charge due to a nonlinear value of the open circuit voltage exhibited by the battery at or near full charge. This voltage is commonly referred to as the "surface charge".
The output of memory circuit 42 can be used in a variety of ways to provide an indication of battery capacity and a low battery capacity and/or to operate appropriate protective switching equipment when the battery capacity reaches a predetermined level. These three functions are shown in block diagram form in the single FIGURE of the drawing.
The output from memory 42 is inputted to a capacity indicator drive 48 that produces an appropriate drive signal for a conventional capacity indicator 50. The capacity indicator 50 can be calibrated in terms of percentage of battery capacity or in the conventional "fuel gauge" nomenclature of "full", three-quarters, half, quarter and "empty". The capacity indicator 50 also can be instrumented to provide an analog output and/or a digital display of battery capacity.
It is often advisable to provide a warning level indication in visual and/or audible form. For this purpose, the voltage from reference source 36 is divided down by a divider 52 and applied as one input to a comparator 54. The other input to comparator 54 is obtained from the output of the capacity indicator drive 48. The output from comparator 48 is applied to a warning level indicator drive 56 that provides an appropriate drive for an indicator 58. The indicator 58 can be a visual indication and/or an audible indication that the battery under test has reached a predetermined discharge level.
In battery motive applications, it is often desirable to provide an automatic disconnection of the vehicle's battery system* when the batteries have reached a predetermined level of discharge. For this purpose, the reference voltage from source 36 is divided down by divider 60 and applied as one input to a comparator 62. The other input to the comparator is the output from capacity indicator drive 48. The output from comparator 62 actuates a switch drive 64 that operates switch 66 to disconnect the vehicle's battery or the selected vehicle function.
The preceeding discussion has been directed to the use of the battery capacity indicator 10 in the battery "discharge" mode. The apparatus also can be used to determine the capacity of the battery during a "charge" mode. In the "charge" mode, the open circuit voltage value i.e. the output of memory 42 and the charge value presented to the (+) peak detector 26 determines the rate-of-charge of the battery. The charge voltage value is detected by the (+) peak detector and supplied to the positive input of memory 42 through integator 44. The value supplied to the positive memory input corresponds to the change in value of the open circuit battery voltage at different levels of charge. In this mode, switch 28 is in the open position as previously mentioned.*
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Holiday and French in Evian
I'd love to take an intensive French course around Evian in September for about a week. Has anyone experience about language holidays?
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Can I secure a long term let in Evian for a family of 5 from August 2014 in a house and what is this likely to cost me? Can you recommend an appropriate agent? We will need to travel daily to Lausanne for work & school
Travel into the mountains in winter
We are planning a week in Evian in January for a winter trip and we wonder about the roads up into the mountains in winter, are they well maintained and cleared of snow ? is a 4x4 essential for this trip ? we are thinking of going up into the ski resorts such as Chamonix for a day trip or two, is this viable in January on the roads like the D902 (main road from Thonon. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome, thanks. Darrell
Trains at Lake Geneva
We need to travel from Evian Les Bains to Geneva.The SNCF wensite only offers a train via Bellegarde then back to Geneva,taking over 2 hours.Is there a more direct,maybe local train or bus?I m thinking it should only take 1 hour?
Can I get transport to morzine daily
golf rates at evian masters golf club
anyone know what the green fees are at th evian masters golf club ?
when is the slow season in Evian?
would like to go, play golf and stay In nice yet affordable accommodations.
starting to plan a girls golf outing to Evian in the spring. Help!
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Gourmet restaurant in and around Evian?
Could anybody please tell me if there is a nice upper-class restaurant in and around Evian, but on the French side. I know there are many in Switzerland, I would however like to visit one in France. Thanks!
Lausanne to Evian ferry
Can you tell me the cost of one way ferry ticket from Lausanne to Evian (Wed 8th July about 1700 hrs
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There are not so many hotel rooms in Devin, just 5, still everyone can find an offer to suit his choice. The most common offers in this city are 3 и 4 stars, they count 2 out of 5, and their prevalent location is central district. According to our practice, it is the most profitable to book a hotel in the east of Devin, as it is the location of the hotels with optimal cost and quality offers along with the cheap hotels. Taking into account the small size of the city, there is no need to dwell hotel reservation on the location: the road to the city center would take less then half an hour, so one can book a hotel in any district of Devin. The most populated with hotels district of Devin is the north, 60% of cheap hotel rooms are concentrated here. Devin is an ideal place for couple and solo, such travellers rate hotels there 7.5 out of 10 on average. In Devin one can enjoy the beauty of Devinska Kobyla and Devin Castle. Moreover, there is a choice of 1 hotels, located within a walking distance from these attractions, however they might not be the cheap ones. Apart from all these, hotels in Devin offer their customers pets allowed, business centre, bar and restaurant/cafe. The most appreciated amenities in Devin hotels are location and comfort. According to the visitors reviews, hotels in Devin has great location, rather comfortable and best value for money. Take a look at our selection of the cheap hotel rooms in Devin to make a well-informed choice for your reservation!
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Beautiful beach lapped by warm water, what is not to like. Can be difficult to reach by land so is best by boat.
The road to get there will be accessible once more for summer 2017 and onward!!!! Go and enjoy this amazing beach!
Egremni is a must see / visit beach when visiting Lefkada and this year will be reachable again from the usual road, pathway and steps down. All works of restoration of the access way are almost complete.
So if you enjoy a bit of walking up and down then a visit to Egremni is a must.
Amazing beach. Every beach in Lefkada is beautiful but this one is my favorite. Can't wait to go back there!
This is a beautiful beach with breathtaking views on your way down. Unfortunately due to an earthquake it's almost not possible to reach the beach. You can try it by foot. Don't wear slippers. The last part down is quite difficult, there's a climbers rope what you can hold as you're going down along a very steep part. From what...
Nice white sand and crystal clear water. Arm yourself with patience because you have to descend 350 stairs to the beach. I do not know if the beach is available right now because it was destroyed by an earthquake in November 2015.
One of the greatest beaches around Greece, a must see place!! Αccess is difficult but believe me it's worth it!
I my opinion i could say that it's the best beach i've ever visited in lefkada. Lefkada is unique but Egremni is breathtaking. I would go back for sure. You can go there by boat and is a great place to swim for 1 hour and a half.
The only way to go at the beach this year was with a boat. fantastic way and so beautiful beach maybe the best one
Because of earthquake from the past, the stairs who make the link with thea beach does'n exist anymore.The single way to visit this wonderfull beach is...cruz trip
How is repair work coming along for Egremni beach? Is the road passable with transport and how much of the beach has actually been lost. Are the steps down to the beach still available or is Egremni going to be a boat trip only option for summer 2016.
Can i travel by car from Kathisma beach to Porto Katsiki, is that road (through egremni beach) ok, or should I go through Nidri and Vassiliki?
We have quad's when in zanti but never been here. How do you get there many thanks
Hi, I have read that there was an earthquake in the Lefkada (November 2015) and Egremni beach is not accessible from the road. Does anybody know actual situation? We are going there beginning of July 2016 and we would like to go to the Egremni by scooter and I am afraid that it will not be possible :( Egremni is my most favourite beach on Lefkada. Thank you very much.
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By 2013, search engine marketers will spend an estimated $3.85 billion on search engine optimization programs, an increase of 111.5% from an estimated $1.82 billion in 2009, eMarketer reports.
Everyone knows the power of search engine marketing, but many retailers still struggle with the mysteries of optimizing their web sites for natural or organic search rankings. That's why many retailers as well as other marketers will be dedicating more time and resources over the next several years sprucing up their search engine optimization strategies, research firm eMarketer Inc. says in a recent report.
By 2013, search engine marketers will spend an estimated $3.85 billion on optimization programs, an increase of 111.5% from an estimated $1.82 billion in 2009. "Marketers who do search engine optimization within their companies likely choose that option to keep costs down," eMarketer senior analyst David Hallerman says.
Despite the economic benefits and higher page rankings that effective natural search can generate, many retailers and other marketers still struggle with implementing an effective program. "Marketers sometimes find the search engine optimization process complex," Hallerman says. "Many often call it a 'black box' technique, since optimization requires deciphering the hidden ranking algorithms of search engines. For some marketers, that means full-blown search engine optimization depends on help from an agency."
At the same time that web retailing and other marketers are implementing more natural search options, they also will be spending more on other forms of search engine marketing, including pay-per-click and contextual advertising, eMarketer says.
Overall spending on paid search advertising will total an estimated $14.72 billion in 2013, up 65% from $8.9 billion in 2009, it says. Spending on contextual advertising programs, which scan the text of sites for keywords and return ads to a web page based on what the user is viewing, will increase by 46.9% from $2.45 billion in 2009 to $3.60 billion in four years, the research firm says.
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- Free hotel pickup and drop-off included
- Scenic air tour
Your day trip begins with pickup at your Waikiki hotel and a drive to the airport, where you'll board a private airplane and fly to Molokai's Kalaupapa peninsula. When you land, you'll be met by a guide who will take you on a tour of Kalaupapa, infamous for its past as a leprosy colony. You'll hear about Father Damien de Veuster, a Belgian missionary who moved to Molokai and devoted his life to those suffering from leprosy, or Hansen's disease as it is properly termed.
Back at the airport, you'll re-board your plane for the flight back to Oahu. As you soar above Molokai, you'll get the views of a lifetime: the dramatic sea cliffs, the sparkling Pacific Ocean, and the mountains, valleys and waterfalls that make up this tropical island paradise.
Your day trip ends as you are driven back to your hotel after you land. A box lunch and bottled water are included in this tour; snacks and souvenirs can be purchased.
You must be 16 to enter Kalaupapa.
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Kalaupapa and Molokai Day Trip from Oahu
- Box lunch and water provided
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- Hotel pickup and drop off
- Gratuities (optional)
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Minimum age is 16 years
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel between 3 and 6 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is a 50 percent cancellation fee.
If you cancel within 2 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.
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Reviewed by: Beth C, February 2016
My sister and I booked this day trip having read Moloka'i by Alan Brennert, and falling in love with the island of Molokai and its history. After a beautiful flight from Oahu be prepared for a tiny airplane, we arrived at the Kalaupapa Airport. While there is some downtime waiting for other tour members, we just enjoyed the idyllic setting of the island and the true peace and quiet that can only come from a place like Molokai. Our tour guide, Norman, was the most authentic human being I've ever met. The tour was a little slow off the start, and I was anxious to get to more of the history and story of the island, but that came eventually. If you haven't read the aforementioned book before booking this tour, do so. You will have a greater appreciation for all that you are seeing and experiencing. I re-read the book immediately afterward and fell in love with the history all over again and especially loved having true scenery to connect to what I'd read. A very special experience!
Reviewed by: Adrienne H, September 2015
The flight to and from Mololai was a great experience, providing the three of us with some great views of Honolulu and of Molokai. A bonus benefit was meeting at the Kalaupapa airfield an old friend of mine whom I had not seen for forty years, plus a couple of other folks from our home state of Michigan . We were joined on the bus tour by the hikers and the mule riders who made the trip up and down the trail instead of flying in and who joined us for the bus tour. The gentleman tour guide and driver of the 1992 school bus was very informative, insightful, and inspiring. All in all, I consider this day trip the highlight of my entire ten days in Hawaii.


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Mobile Operators Lack Visibility Into Messaging Routes
In 2013, it is estimated that more than 300 billion spam messages were sent, with the average mobile user receiving at least one per day.Three-quarters of mobile network operators lack visibility into two-thirds of application- to- person (A2P) messaging traffic due to illegal grey route traffic terminating its network, according to a survey of 25 mobile operators conducted by Tyntec and MobileSquared. The main driver for mobile operators considering SMS firewall deployment is network security, anti-spam and fraud prevention, ahead of A2P messaging monetization opportunities. In 2013, it is estimated that more than 300 billion spam messages were sent, with the average mobile user receiving at least one per day. Stefan Kuehne, director of carrier relations at Tyntec, told eWEEK there are no major security concerns, as a grey route is just a technical solution that senders devised to avoid having to pay. "Therefore it's a business issue. It's only the commercial agreement that is missing--and that's what defines a gray route," he said.
The majority of mobile operators are experiencing year-on-year A2P growth of between 6 percent and 36 percent, and more mobile operators have experienced A2P messaging traffic growth in the last 12 months (surveyed in Sep. 2015) compared to the same period in 2014, with 56 percent of mobile operators reporting an increase compared to 49 percent over the prior 12 months.
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To effectively sort and present relevant information pieces (e.g., answers, passages, documents) to human users, information systems rely on ranking models. Existing ranking models are typically designed for a specific task and therefore are not effective for complex information systems that require component changes or domain adaptations. For example, in the final stage of question answering, information systems such as IBM Watson DeepQA rank all results according to their evidence scores and judge the likelihood that each is correct or relevant. However, as information systems become more complex, determining effective ranking approaches becomes much more challenging.
Prior work includes heuristic ranking models that focus on a particular type of information object (e.g. a retrieved document, a factoid answer) using manually designed features specific to that information type. These models, however, do not use other, non-local features (e.g. features of the upstream/downstream information source) to locate relevant information. To address this gap, my research seeks to define a ranking approach that should easily and rapidly adapt to any version of system pipelines with an arbitrary number of phases.
We describe a general ranking approach for multi-phase and multi-strategy information systems, which produce and rank significantly more candidate results than the single phase and single strategy information systems to achieve acceptable robustness and overall performance. Our approach allows each phase in a system to leverage information propagated from preceding phases to inform the ranking decision. By collecting ranking features from the derivation paths that generate candidate results, the particular derivation path chosen can be used to predict result correctness or relevance. Those ranking features can be detected from an abstracted system object graph which represents all of the objects created during system execution (e.g. provenance) and object dependencies. This ranking approach has been applied to different domains including question answering and biomedical information retrieval. Experimental results showed that our proposed approach significantly outperforms comparable answer ranking models on the two domains.
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In this talk, I will give an overview of some research projects at MSR aiming at building an open-domain neural dialogue system. We group dialogue bots based on users' goals into three categories: task completion bots, information access bots, and social bots. We explore different neural network models and deep reinforcement learning technologies to build response generation engines for all the bots. We will review our experimental settings, recent results tested on simulator users and real users, share the lessons we learned and discuss future work.
Jianfeng Gao is a Partner Research Manager in Deep Learning Technology Center (DLTC) at Microsoft Research, Redmond. H works on deep learning for text and image processing (MS internal access) and lead the development of AI systems for dialogue, machine reading comprehension, question answering, and enterprise applications. they have developed a series of deep semantic similarity models (DSSM, also a.k.a. Sent2Vec), which have been used for a wide range of text and image processing tasks.
From 2006 to 2014, he was Principal Researcher at Natural Language Processing Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, where he worked on Web search, query understanding and reformulation, ads prediction, and statistical machine translation. From 2005 to 2006, he was a research lead in Natural Interactive Services Division at Microsoft, where he worked on Project X, an effort of developing natural user interface for Windows. From 1999 to 2005, he was Research Lead in Natural Language Computing Group at Microsoft Research Asia, where together with he colleagues, he developed the first Chinese speech recognition system released with Microsoft Office, the Chinese/Japanese Input Method Editors (IME) which were the leading products in the market, and the natural language platform for Windows Vista.
While acoustic signals are continuous in nature, the ways that humans generate pitch in speech and music involve important discrete decisions. As a result, models of pitch must resolve a tension between continuous and combinatorial structure. Similarly, interpreting images of printed documents requires reasoning about both continuous pixels and discrete characters. Focusing on several different tasks that involve human artifacts, I'll present probabilistic models with this goal in mind.
First, I'll describe an approach to historical document recognition that uses a statistical model of the historical printing press to reason about images, and, as a result, is able to decipher historical documents in an unsupervised fashion. Based on this approach, I'll also demonstrate a related model that accurately predicts compositor attribution in the First Folio of Shakespeare. Next, I'll present an unsupervised system that transcribes acoustic piano music into a symbolic representation by jointly describing the discrete structure of sheet music and the continuous structure of piano sounds. Finally, I'll present a supervised method for predicting prosodic intonation from text that treats discrete prosodic decisions as latent variables, but directly models pitch in a continuous fashion.
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick joined the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2016. Previously, he was a Research Scientist at Semantic Machines Inc and, before that, completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Taylor's research focuses on using machine learning to understand structured human data, including language but also sources like music, document images, and other complex artifacts.
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Information retrieval and machine learning approaches are running in the background of most of the applications we use in our daily digital life. The assistance they are providing is manifold, but relies on a set of core content processing tasks requiring compatible representation formalisms. However, this is rarely the case in real-world scenarios. This talk is concerned with shared representation formalisms for information encoded in heterogeneous modalities. The heterogeneity may result from intra-modal varieties, like text in different languages for the modality of natural language, or by the different modalities themselves, like when relating text to images or to knowledge graphs. I will discuss three ways to obtain a joint representation of heterogeneously represented content. The first one is based on explicit semantics as encoded in knowledge graphs, the second one extends this approach by adding implicit semantics extracted from large data sets and the final one relies on joint learning without utilizing explicit semantics. The presented approaches contribute to the long standing challenges of braking the language and modality barriers in order to enable the joint semantic processing of content in originally incompatible representation formalisms.
Achim Rettinger is a KIT Junior Research Group Leader at AIFB where he is heading the Adaptive Data Analytics team. His research areas include Data Mining, Information Extraction, Knowledge Discovery, Ontology Learning, Machine Learning, Human Computer Systems, and Text Mining.
Joint video-language modeling has been attracting increasing attention in recent years, signifying a return to early AI goals of cooperative cognitive systems. However, many approaches fail to leverage the complementarity and structure across vision and language. For example, they may rely on a fixed visual model or fail to leverage the underlying compositional semantics inherent in language. In this talk, I will discuss indeed seek to explicitly jointly capture structure across modalities, and to capture this structure at a low-level. The work explores sparse modeling as a means for bridging across vision and language. These are low-level models that capture a joint, generative embedding using paired and composition dictionary learning. We also overcome a historical limitation of such sparse models by showing how they can be embedded directly within a deep artificial neural network. Results for both of these works will be provided and discussed in detail.
Jason Corso is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD and MSE degrees at The Johns Hopkins University in 2005 and 2002, respectively, and the BS Degree with honors from Loyola College in Maryland in 2000, all in Computer Science. He spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.
From 2007-14 he was a member of the Computer Science and Engineering faculty at SUNY Buffalo. He is the recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award 2015, the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award 2010, NSF CAREER award 2009, SUNY Buffalo Young Investigator Award 2011, a member of the 2009 DARPA Computer Science Study Group, and a recipient of the Link Foundation Fellowship in Advanced Simulation and Training 2003. Corso has authored more than one-hundred peer-reviewed papers on topics of his research interest including computer vision, robot perception, data science, and medical imaging. He is a member of the AAAI, ACM, MAA and a senior member of the IEEE.
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Interaction in rich natural language enables people to exchange thoughts efficiently and come to a shared understanding quickly. Modern personal intelligent assistants such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Echo all utilize conversational interfaces as their primary communication channels, and illustrate a future that in which getting help from a computer is as easy as asking a friend. However, despite decades of research, modern conversational assistants are still limited in domain, expressiveness, and robustness. In this thesis, we take an alternative approach that blends real-time human computation with artificial intelligence to reliably engage in conversations. Instead of bootstrapping automation from the bottom up with only automatic components, we start with our crowd-powered conversational assistant, Chorus, and create a framework that enables Chorus to automate itself over time. Each of Chorus' response is proposed and voted on by a group of crowd workers in real-time.
Toward realizing the goal of full automation, we (i) augmented Chorus' capability by connecting it with sensors and effectors on smartphones so that users can safely control them via conversation, and (ii) deployed Chorus to the public as a Google Hangouts chatbot to collect a large corpus of conversations to help speed automation. The deployed Chorus also provides a working system to experiment automated approaches. In the future, we will (iii) create a framework that enables Chorus to automate itself over time by automatically obtaining response candidates from multiple dialog systems and selecting appropriate responses based on the current conversation. Over time, the automated systems will take over more responsibility in Chorus, not only helping us to deploy robust conversational assistants before we know how to automate everything, but also allowing us to drive down costs and gradually reduce reliance on the crowd.
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Alexander Rudnicky
Niki Kittur
Walter S. Lasecki (University of Michigan)
Chris Callison-Burch (University of Pennsylvania)
Adam Berger is an accomplished technology executive and team leader in the software arena. He founded and grew two companies, both of which extend the capabilities of mobile devices past voice into compelling, usable new data services. He has also worked within two world-leading information-technology firms, Nokia and IBM.
Along with three other Ph.D. students from Carnegie Mellon, Berger co-founded Eizel Technologies Inc. in 2000. Eizel was a venture-backed software firm that developed a corporate mobile email system. The mobile phone company Nokia purchased Eizel in 2003 and made it a component of its newly-formed Enterprise Systems division. Within Nokia, Berger and the team grew the Eizel product line into the Nokia One Business Server™ product. At Nokia, Berger led an innovation team that interfaced between U.S. and European offices to bring product and intellectual property concepts from the research and venturing wing into the product units. Berger left Nokia to co-found Penthera Technologies in 2005, where he served as chief technology officer, vice president, and director. In 2007 Berger co-founded Penthera Partners and participated in the management buyout of the assets of Penthera Technologies.
During his years in the software industry, Berger has served as a public speaker at major venues and technology advisor and board member to startups and technology investment firms. He holds degrees in physics and computer science from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a recipient of an IBM Graduate Fellowship, a Harvard College Scholarship and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Berger has published more than 20 refereed papers and holds 10 U.S. patents.
Duolingo is a language education platform that teaches 20 languages to more than 150 million students worldwide. Our free flagship learning app is the #1 way to learn a language online, and is the most-downloaded education app for both Android and iOS devices. In this talk, I will describe the Duolingo system and several of our empirical research projects to date, which combine machine learning with computational linguistics and psychometrics to improve learning, engagement, and even language proficiency assessment through our products.
Burr Settles develops and studies statistical machine learning systems with applications in human language, biology, and social science. Currently, he is most excited about using these technologies to help people learn languages and make music.
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Language is socially situated: both what we say and what we mean depend on our identities, our interlocutors, and the communicative setting. The first generation of research in computational sociolinguistics focused on large-scale social categories, such as gender. However, many of the most socially salient distinctions are locally defined. Rather than attempt to annotate these social properties or extract them from metadata, we turn to social network analysis, which has been only lightly explored in traditional sociolinguistics. I will describe three projects at the intersection of language and social networks.
First, I will show how unsupervised learning over social network labelings and text enables the induction of social meanings for address terms, such as "Ms" and "dude". Next, I will describe recent research that uses social network embeddings to induce personalized natural language processing systems for individual authors, improving performance on sentiment analysis and entity linking even for authors for whom no labeled data is available. Finally, I will describe how the spread of linguistic innovations can serve as evidence for sociocultural influence, using a parametric Hawkes process to model the features that make dyads especially likely or unlikely to be conduits for language change.
Jacob Eisenstein is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. He works on statistical natural language processing, focusing on computational sociolinguistics, social media analysis, discourse, and machine learning. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, a member of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program, and was a SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His work has also been supported by the National Institutes for Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Google. Jacob was a Postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Illinois. He completed his Ph.D. at MIT in 2008, winning the George M. Sprowls dissertation award. Jacob's research has been featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, and the BBC. Thanks to his brief appearance in If These Knishes Could Talk, Jacob has a Bacon number of 2.
Faculty Host: Alex Hauptmann
One of the desiderata in machine intelligence is that computers must be able to
comprehend sounds as humans do. They must know about various sounds, associate
them with physical objects, entities or events, be able to recognize and categorize them, know or discover relationships between them, etc. Successful solutions to these tasks is critical to and can have immediate e ect on a variety of applications including content based indexing and retrieval of multimedia data on web which has grown exponentially in past few years.
Automated machine understanding of sounds in speci c forms such as speech, language and music has become fairly advanced, and has successfully been deployed into systems which are now part of daily life. However, the same cannot be said about natural occurring sounds in our environment. The problem is exacerbated by the sheer vastness of number of sound types, the diversity and variability of sound types, the variations in their structure, and even their interpretation.
This dissertation aims to expand the scale and scope of machine hearing capabilities by addressing challenges in recognition of sound events, cataloging large number of potential word phrases that identify sounds and using them to categorize and learn relationships for sounds and by nding ways to eciently evaluate trained models on large scale. On the sound event recognition front we address the major hindrance of lack of labeled data by describing ways to e ectively use the vast amount of data on web. We describe methods for audio event detection which uses only weak labels in the learning process, combines weakly supervised learning with fully supervised learning to leverage labeled data in both forms and nally semi-supervised learning approaches which exploits the vast amount of available unlabeled data on web.
Further, we describe methods to automatically mine sound related knowledge and
relationships from vast amount of information stored in textual data. The third part once again addresses labeling challenges but now during evaluation phase. Evaluation of trained models on large scale once again requires data labeling. We describe ways to precisely estimate the performance of a trained model under restricted labeling budget.
In this proposal we describe the completed works in the above directions. Empirical evaluation shows the e ectiveness of the proposed methods. For each component framework described, we discuss expected research directions for successful completion of this dissertation.
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Bhiksha Raj (Chair)
Alex Hauptmann
Louis-Philippe Morency
Rita Singh
Dan Ellis (Google)


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