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The latest evolution of the Porsche 718 Boxster S drops the previous generation's naturally aspirated six-cylinder boxer engine for a turbocharged 2.0L boxer four-cylinder. A controversial move indeed, but one that has seen engine output reach new heights of up to 350 hp and 309 lb-ft of torque.
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With that kind of raw power on hand, the Porsche 718 Boxster S makes zero to 60 mph in as little as 4.0 seconds for a top track speed of 177 mph. The take-home is that you'll make passes even faster between Orland Park and Frankfort or cruise the lanes of Crown Point or Central Chicago with unprecedented grace and agility. A net-type wind deflector keeps the interior surprisingly calm when the top is down, while sport-look pedals accent the cabin and a Porsche Communication Management (PCM) system with Sound Package Plus comes as standard to enhance your ride.
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How to buy the best sound bar
By Haddi Browne
A sound bar is the simplest and often the most cost-effective way of giving your TV a much-needed audio boost.
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A sound bar is a compact speaker system designed to improve your TV's audio. Sound bars contain several speakers in one long bar-shaped box - much easier to set up than a full home cinema system.
We've tested the latest models from all the biggest brands to help you avoid making a costly mistake.
In this article:
- What to consider when buying a sound bar
- Sound bar features to look for
- Best sound bars for 2020
- Best sound bar under £200
- Do I need a sound bar with a subwoofer?
Just want to see which sound bars we recommend? Take a look at our best sound bar reviews.
Video: how to buy the best sound bar
Watch our video to find out which type of sound bar is best for you.
What to consider when buying a sound bar
A great sound bar will take your home entertainment to the next level, giving you exciting bass and audio clarity that means you won't ever miss a word of dialogue.
- How much are you willing to spend on a sound bar? Find the best model within your budget by reading our sound bar reviews or our guide to the best cheap sound bars
- How big is your TV? Some sound bars are only suitable for TVs of a certain size
- How big is your room? Check whether your chosen sound bar is designed to work best in a small, medium or large room
- Where will the sound bar go? Can it sit comfortably in front on your TV? Does it need to be wall-mounted?
What's the single most important thing you're looking for in a sound bar? Do you need:
- To make dialogue sound clearer?
- A simple model to enhance TV programmes?
- A model that makes films sound great?
- Certain features such as the ones discussed below (e.g. wireless connectivity, surround sound, a subwoofer)?
If your TV isn't wall-mounted and you have enough space, you may be better off with a sound base because they have larger speakers so they tend to have better sound quality. For more information, check out our top three best sound bases in 2019 guide.
Sound bar features to look for
Beyond great audio quality, there are a few things you should expect from a good sound bar.
Wide listening angles and high maximum volume
Many sound bars have a 'sweet spot'. This might sound like a good thing, but it actually means there's one specific sitting position at which the sound bar sounds best, and quality deteriorates as you move away from it.
If you regularly share your TV viewing with friends or other family members sitting around your living room, you'll want to pay attention to our 'different angles and distances' scores in our sound bar reviews. This tells you how versatile a sound bar is when you're not sitting front and centre.
Good speech quality
A common reason for getting a sound bar is to make speech in TV and films sound clearer.
Typical TV speakers can make dialogue sound muffled and unclear. Most sound bars come with an external or built-in subwoofer for extra bass. But the bass can sometimes be too harsh and overpowering, which can leave you straining your ears to make out what characters are saying.
Some sound bars have a voice enhancement setting designed to sharpen dialogue. Not all actually work well though. We evaluate the speech sound quality of each sound bar to weed out models that have below-average speech quality and will leave you resorting to pressing the subtitles button. Our best sound bars make speech sound crystal clear in TV and films.
Wireless connectivity
In addition to wired connections, most sound bars come with Bluetooth. This is great if you want to use your sound bar for listening to music without having to turn on your TV.
More sound bars are coming equipped for wireless multi-room music streaming. By pairing speakers together around the house, you can enjoy seamless access to your music library in multiple rooms.
Sound bars with wi-fi are able to become part of a multi-speaker, multi-room music system. You'll need other compatible speakers of the same brand in your home to make use of this.
Ease of use
A sound bar that's easy to use will be a great long-term investment. Look out for fiddly remote controls in particular, as these are easily lost and often have tiny, hard-to-press buttons.
If you're buying a big sound bar, it might block the signal between your remote control and your TV. Sound bars with built-in IR (infra-red) repeaters negate this problem by forwarding the signal from your remote control to the TV.
Sound bars that have a display and controls on the device tend to be easier to use.
Many sound bars now have simple LED displays that let you switch audio sources and adjust sound settings. But some can be very hard to use, which is something we pay particular attention to in our reviews.
Good-quality connections
Any good sound bar will have at least one digital connector: optical, coaxial or HDMI. These minimise interference compared with lower-quality 3.5mm audio jacks that you find on cheaper sound bars, and allow for special features such as virtual surround sound. The best sound bars will offer HDMI ARC connections. Additionally, models with HDMI-CEC will allow you to use one remote to control both your TV and the sound bar. For more information, read our guide to setting up a sound bar with a TV.
Attractive and practical design
They sit in front of your TV, so sound bars should be well-designed with at least some thought given to style, without making them stand out so much that they become a distraction.
Furthermore, any buttons on the sound bar itself should be within easy reach and not require you to have to contort your body into an uncomfortable position to make adjustments or change audio sources.
Sound bars with Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos is the newest innovation in surround sound and is one of the most sought-after sound bar features. A sound bar with Dolby Atmos should create a convincing surround sound experience that matches a multi-speaker home cinema set-up.
Originating from cinema theatres, it's described as object-based sound meaning that the movement of objects in films will sound very realistic and it bounces sound off the walls and ceiling to create an immersive surround sound experience. So rain and bullets in films and TV can be heard and felt above and around you.
We've tested these models that have Dolby Atmos. Some also have DTS:X, another ground breaking surround sound format. Among these are a Best Buy – and a Don't Buy.
- Sony HT-ZF9, £539
- Samsung harman/kardon HW-N850, £999
Sound bars with voice assistants
Built-in voice control is becoming an increasingly popular sound bar feature. A sound bar with built-in Amazon Alexa works as a voice assistant in the same way that an Amazon Echo or Echo Dot would, allowing you to use voice-control to play, pause and rewind TV.
You can use your voice as an alternative to the remote. Just 'speak to the room' to manage your day and get information. Find out how these models with built-in Alexa did in our tests:
- Sonos Beam, £399
- Polk Audio Command Bar, £349
- Bose Soundbar 500, £500
- Bose Soundbar 700, £800
Some sound bars are compatible with Alexa-enabled products, meaning that if you own an Alexa product like an Amazon Echo, you can use it to control the sound bar. Unlike with models that have Alexa built-in, you'll have to speak to the Alexa-enabled product rather than directly to the sound bar.
If you already have an Alexa product, take a look at these sound bars that are compatible with Alexa to see if we recommend them:
- Samsung harman/kardon HW-N850, £999
- Yamaha YMS4080 MusicCast Bar 40, £500
- Yamaha MusicCast Bar 400, £600
Additionally, some sound bars have Google Home built-in or are compatible with it so, if you own a Google Assistant, you can use it to control the sound bar with your voice.
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This model provides powerful, dynamic sound and clear speech. It's able to create an immersive and authentic surround sound experience, making music, TV and music sound excellent. And the straightforward set-up, simple remote and display make it very easy to use.
Canton DM 60
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This excellent model sailed through our tests, impressing our listening experts with its ability to create a true surround sound experience. It has a speech setting which makes dialogue sound sharp. And it also has a Music Mode which we found makes music sound brilliant.
Samsung harman/kardon HW-N850
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This high-end sound bar makes whatever you're watching or listening to sound amazing. It does a perfect job of creating believable and immersive virtual surround sound. Speech sounds clear and sharp plus this model has many impressive features. We struggled to find anything bad to say about it.
Sonos Playbar
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It's been a while since we tested this model but it's still one of the best sound bars we've experienced. Not only is it stylish but it has high-quality, captivating sound and great speech clarity, especially when using the speech setting. However, it's not the easiest model to set up and using more advanced features could be daunting for some.
Best sound bar under £200
This is our cheapest Best Buy and it did better in our tests than most of our other best sound bars.
Do I need a sound bar with a subwoofer?
Sound bars can offer the complete package when it comes to sound quality, and many people will be happy with the depth of base a standalone sound bar can provide. Sound bases in particular are capable of delivering great bass all by themselves.
Most sound bars these days come with a subwoofer and some have it built-in. Sound bars that don't come with a subwoofer can usually be paired with a compatible one that can be bought separately. These external boxes do all the bass work, dramatically increasing the punch of your audio setup.
They can come at an extra cost and it's yet another object in your living room, which might negate the practicality of having a simple sound bar in the first place.
Nonetheless, external subwoofers are common and the majority of them connect to the sound bar wirelessly, meaning you can place it anywhere in the room without having to trail cables around your lounge.
Our reviews have found these to be a very mixed bag, with some subwoofers totally overpowering the sound no matter where you're sitting and others delivering the bass notes so late it's distracting. It pays to do a little research.


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Maricopa Community College Board Considers Future Of Red Mountain Campus
The Maricopa County Community College District governing board met Tuesday night and discussed, among other things, the future of the Red Mountain campus in Mesa.
Board President Laurin Hendrix said he added the agenda item late last week to "discuss Mesa Community College's Red Mountain Campus."
Hendrix cited two emails sent to the board, from 2015 and 2017, about declining enrollment and revenue at the Red Mountain location.
He suggested that several initiatives meant to help enrollment failed. Hendrix asked whether it's time to consider closing the campus.
Red Mountain Vice Provost Nora Reyes spoke in front of the board and contended her college, which has an enrollment of about 4,000, offers important services for East Valley students.
"I believe the community around Red Mountain will tell you that we are value added to our East Valley community."
Reyes said the Red Mountain campus has several partnerships, including with Arizona Game and Fish and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, that have benefited the college.
She also said funding from enrollment has been creeping up.
The board made no decision on the agenda item. The MCCCD Chancellor said she will discuss things further with Red Mountain leadership and possibly suggest a work session about the future of the Mesa Community College campus.
EDITOR'S NOTE: KJZZ is licensed to the Maricopa County Community College District.MCCCD Governing Board Meeting - June 26, 2018


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In my tv-magazine there is an art every week and this week I was lucky to have "seven a.m" from Edward Hopper. I like this picture very much, but in fact it doesn't look perfect in this scene.The red carpet was hard to clean. On the shelf you see the closures of my mini-perfumbottles
and the agate disk I bought on the market today.
Meanwhile in the neglected kitchen and bedroom.
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It's time to see whether Mercedes will continue their Monte Carlo dominance and extend their lead at the top of the standings. Even for casual Formula 1 fans, the Monaco Grand Prix is an unmissable race on the motor racing calendar. The good news is that you can watch the super challenging Monaco Grand Prix in all its glory and this guide will show you exactly how to watch the race with an F1 live stream from anywhere in the world.
Monaco Grand Prix 2019 – where and when
Monaco is the venue for the sixth Grand Prix of the season, with a track 2 miles/3.3km long that winds its way around the narrow streets of the city.
The Monaco Grand Prix race itself is today (Sunday, May 26) at 3.10pm local time (so that's 2.10pm BST, 6.10am PT, 9.10am ET).
The 2019 F1 season has reached that inevitable point where the streets of Monaco are shut to Sunday drivers and, well, all drivers except the very best of Formula 1. Last year Daniel Ricciardo was the winner of this race with Sebastian Vettel taking the top spot the year before, Hamilton the year before that and Rosberg before that. So this is clearly an exciting race where the winner could be anybody. That said, Hamilton and teammate Valtteri Bottas are absolutely crushing the competition and have yet another one-two at the front of the grid today.
If Hamilton can win the 2019 Monaco Grand Prix, that will be his third time taking the title which puts him alongside only two other legendary British drivers and knights of the realm: Sir Stirling Moss and Sir Jackie Stewart.
You can catch all the Monaco Grand Prix racing action live from anywhere you are, using this guide. Read on to find out how to live stream this F1 race.
How to watch the Monaco Grand Prix from outside your country
To see how you can stream F1 live from the Monaco Grand Prix in the UK, Australia, the US, Canada and New Zealand, then scroll a little further down this page to see the broadcast options. But if you try and tune in to your native stream from outside your country, you'll quickly discover that it's geo-blocked.
That's where a VPN can come in really handy. It's a piece of software readily available to download and install that allows you to simulate the IP address on your laptop (or mobile phone, tablet, streaming device, console, etc) so that it appears to be in a completely different country. Ideal, assuming that it doesn't breach any Ts&Cs from the broadcaster you're trying to tune in to.
That might sound complicated, by VPNs – or Virtual Private Networks – are actually surprisingly easy to operate. Simply select one of our top three best VPN picks below (or opt straight for our number one favorite ExpressVPN), open it up and pick out your country of choice from the 'choose location' menu, and then start watching as if you were sat back at home. Easy!
The best 3 VPNs for streaming F1 online
1. ExpressVPN: the best all-round VPN for streaming, comes with 30-day money back guarantee and 3 months FREE when you sign up for an annual plan
2. NordVPN: one of the most affordable choices for streaming and really effective, too
3. IPVanish: super secure and able to work on a whopping 10 devices, at the same time
How to stream F1 live from Monaco in the UK:
Sky Sports F1 has all the coverage exclusively this year (except the British Grand Prix), so ideal if you're already subscribed to Sky Sports. Using the Sky Go app will let you watch on various other devices, too, including laptops, Apple and Android mobile devices and via your PlayStation or Xbox.
If you don't want to subscribe to Sky just to watch this Grand Prix, then you can grab a Now TV Sports Pass instead. It costs £8.99 per day or £14.99 for a whole week that will let you catch all the practices, qualifying and the race itself. And if you want to stream all the F1 races live this season, then the promotional Season Pass costs £195 for nine months of Sky Sports.
Not in the UK this weekend? Fear not, check out our advice on using a VPN above, and it will let you watch the UK coverage from wherever on Earth you are.
How live stream the Monaco Grand Prix in Australia
The action will be shown on the paid-for services that will be showing the rest of the Formula 1 races this year – Fox Sports and Kayo Sports. The Kayo Sports Basic Package costs $25 per month and allows users to stream across two devices simultaneously. Alternatively, the service also offers a Kayo Sports Premium Package, which provides three concurrent streams for $35 per month.
Their apps mean you can access this from your chosen device wherever you are (although you'll need a VPN if you're taking that abroad).
How to watch the Monaco Grand Prix in the US:
In the US, ESPN has the rights to show the F1 live (using Sky's UK coverage). That's great news if you have cable, but if you're a cord-cutter you could try a free trial to another streaming service like Sling and Fubo and watch on there.
Out of the US and want to watch the coverage? No worries – just use a VPN and register to a location showing the race.
How to watch a Monaco F1 live stream in the Canada:
RDS and TSN have the rights to show the Formula 1 north of the border in 2019. Alternatively, you could try services like Sling or Fubo which have free trials and don't require cable.
For those travelling, you can use a VPN to change your virtual location and still enjoy the race as if you were back in Canada.
How to get an F1 live stream in New Zealand
Just like in the UK, Sky Sports has bagged exclusivity to show all 2019 F1 live streaming. As you'll no doubt be aware, it doesn't come cheap. But there are ways of getting some cheap access.
You should be able to get a Fox Sports package via a great offer if you want to enjoy it for less. The Foxtel Now app works with this, so you can live stream to your preferred device – anywhere using a VPN.


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2009-04-21 Update: LXTerminal and fbpanel have a clock built in which does the job nicely.
The basic idea is to call up a terminal whose title is the current date and time. Think of it this way.. I don't need to have a clock staring me in the face all the time, so I just need to bring it up occasionally and then dismiss it, and so I don't need to worry about fancy things like it staying updated.
This was for Blackbox. See also bbtime
Intro ∞
This is my way of pulling up a clock. I never need to look at a clock for more than a few seconds, so a permanent clock is a waste of time. Why would I need to see a graphical clock, when text displays the information I need? So I combined these ideas by using a dirty trick on a terminal's title.
The old bbkeys:
KeyToGrab(C), WithModifier(Control+Mod1), WithAction(ExecCommand), DoThis(rxvt -name "`date +%a\ %b\ %d,%l\:%M\ %p`" -geometry 24x0+0+0) ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 1 2 3 4 5
The new bbkeys:
[Execute] (Mod1-Control-C) {rxvt -name "`date +%a\ %b\ %d,%l\:%M\ %p`" -geometry 24x0+0+0}
1) I used a hotkey in bbkeys. The above is an excerpt from my .bbkeysrc file.
2) I used rxvt as the terminal I open. Another choice could be used, although that may change things.
There are ways to not open a terminal window, but to instead paint a generic window with some other program. I chose a terminal window because it then gives me some interesting flexibility. I thought up this trick back on my p2 266 when I had resource and speed concerns of running yet another application, this trick was as fast or faster than any other method I experimented with.
3) One of the available switches to rxvt is to set the name of its title. This is one method to call the title. A commandline can also do it:
echo -e "\e]2;This is the new window title\a"
And this gives two other ways to set the title. Most terminal program can be told to run a certain command when they start. So I could put the above
echo as that command, or I could tell the terminal to run a script, within which has that echo string.
Instead of using a
-name switch like this, I could use
-e <command> switch to run a command. This would let me run a script. I bring this up because it would be an interesting thing to have this clock come up and close down automatically after 10 seconds or something.
4) This is the date string which I use as my clock. Basically what I'm doing is executing the
date program. Because bbkeys is really just executing this command on the commandline, I can use
backticks to surround a string to execute an arbitrary program and pass its results back to the string. In this case, the results of the date program are being given to the -name tag (item 3)
5) rxvt allows me to set the geometry of the window by way of the
-geometry switch its startup string.
One could also manipulate the window title with
resize -s <rows> <colums>:
resize -s 1 24
The unfortunate thing with this is it limits the user to 1 row.
resize -s 1 24 works, but
resize -s 0 24 gives full-height. I want 0 height so I can only show the title bar.
Quirks ∞
my prompt automagically overwrites the title of an rxvt window, destroying this trick. I don't know how to fix this. =(
- 2009-04-21 update: I could force rxvt to read an alternate config file, maybe a nonexistant one, to have no title auto-updating.
- I have experimented with
-exec while a=a; do echo ok; donebut I dunno how to get that to work either.
- I can see in
/etc/bashrcthat the prompt is set.
- I need to make the prompt non-interactive to fix this.
I can no longer use a multi-word title. I don't understand why.
There is still some part of the input area shown, and so I use -fg and -bg switches with "SteelBlue", the colour of my title bar, to try to hide things. I don't know if this is an rxvt or a Blackbox thing.
Evolution ∞
This could be redone such that a small script just opens up a title bar. In theory it would be even lighter and simpler than this solution. Maybe I'll persue doing this in Ruby somehow.
- I don't want to rely on extra "parts" though. =(
For Blackbox and bbkeys I used to do this:
KeyToGrab(C), WithModifier(Control+Mod1), WithAction(ExecCommand), DoThis(rxvt -name "`date +%a\ %b\ %d,%l\:%M\ %p`" -fb vga -bg SteelBlue -fg SteelBlue -geometry 24x0+0+0)
For the newer blackbox/bbkeys, I could do this:
[Execute] (Mod1-Control-C) {rxvt -title "`date +%a\ %b\ %d,%l\:%M\ %p`" -geometry 24x0+0+0 -e sleep 3}
I had to add the
-e sleep 3 because my recent Bash preferences will overwrite the title with the directory which I'm in.
I now just do this with kdialog:
kdialog --msgbox "`date +%a\ %b\ %d,%l\:%M\ %p`" [Execute] (Mod1-Control-C) {kdialog --msgbox "`date +%a\ %b\ %d,%l\:%M\ %p`"}
but kdialog required KDE, which is slow to load!
Try something really simple like:
xmessage "`date +%a\ %b\ %d,%l\:%M\ %p`"
.. but maybe that would have to be piped through another program to force the window to appear in a sane place. With Xdialog"
Xdialog --title " " --timebox "Time" 12 25 Xdialog --title " " --calendar "Calendar" 15 32
Could be done a lot easier with a simple infobox.
kdialog --passivepopup "`date`"


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Srinagar, India
Srinagar has some nice 5 star hotels that offer the best of luxury. Choose from the best 5 star hotels in Srinagar to make the best of your holiday. 5 star hotels in Srinagar are luxurious and affordable besides being easily accessible. They offer the best in class experience and an easy access to the entire city of Srinagar. If you are looking to enjoy the best in class service and experience on you holiday, then these 5 star hotels are the ones that you should choose.


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Abstract: Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a prominent field of applied mathematics organising collections of knowledge - formal concepts - as conceptual landscapes of knowledge. FCA proved to be a promising theory to extract, analyse and visualise conceptual structures arising from various data structures. One of the strengths of FCA is the elegant, intuitive and powerful graphical representation of landscapes of knowledge as concept lattices. The purpose of this paper is to present FCA Tools Bundle and its various features, which is a bundle of tools for dyadic, many-valued, triadic and even polyadic FCA.
Keywords: Formal Concept Analysis, FCA Tools Bundle, Knowledge, concept lattice


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Desktop-as-a-Service Designed for Any Cloud ? Nutanix Frame
[ Thanks to Jason
Perlow for this link. ]
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Breaking Windows
Will a Microsoft Break Up and .Net Strategy be a Boon for
by Wendy Goldman Rohm
Are everyone's favorite Microsoft apps coming soon to a Linux
box near you? Between a potential government breakup and a
newly-announced .net strategy, that possibility seems more and more
The Tuxies
Linux Magazine's Editor's Choice Awards
by The Editors of Linux Magazine
The Linux market is exploding with all kinds of great new (and old)
products. We decided it was time to round up our editors and pick
our favorites. Here are the results.
Eazel on Down the Road
The Guys Who Made the Mac So Pretty Have Discovered Linux
by Robert McMillan
Three core members of the original Apple Macintosh team are
building the next generation GUI for Linux. And reinventing the
open source business model along the way.
Using DNS
You Know My Name, Look Up My Number
by Bill von Hagen
Is managing the host name and IP address information on your
network getting to be a hassle? We explain configuring the Domain
Name Service (DNS) in plain English.
by Bill McCarty
Installing Software Packages Part II
In the Trenches
by Bob Young
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
On the Desktop
by Jason Perlow
Installing Helix GNOME 1.2
Guru Guidance
by AEleen Frisch
Keeping Track of What Goes On, Part I
Gearheads Only
by Dirk Hohndel
The XFree86 Architecture
Perl Of Wisdom
by Randal L. Schwartz
A Forking Parallel Link Checker
Tech Support
by Gaylen Brown
HTML Editors and E-mail Clients for Linux
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Partizan pleasure, pain and paranoia
by James Moor
Pitch Publishing, £12.99
Reviewed by Marcus Haydon
From WSC 322 December 2013
The collapse of communist-era structures had a profound effect on football in central and eastern Europe, but the ethnic wars in the former Yugoslavia created even deeper fault lines. Modern-day Serbia, which was home to Europe's best team 22 years ago, now has the continent's 25th best (or 29th worst, depending on your perspective) league according to the UEFA coefficients. Its historic powers, Partizan and Red Star Belgrade, perpetually battle for supremacy in a competition whose numbers are topped up by minnows from the country's provinces and capital's suburbs.
With the competitiveness of the Yugoslav era gone, the corruption and off-field problems that blight the game seem to carry added importance. Clubs are no longer arms of the state but continue to be exploited for political and commercial reasons. On the terraces xenophobia is a persistent issue, leading to attacks founded on race or, as is more common in this part of Europe, ethnicity. For James Moor, an Arsenal fan posted in Belgrade by the Foreign Office, football presented him with a conduit through which to observe and attempt to decode Serbia's complexities. Initially it is his way of making local friends – it is they who are responsible for his allegiance to Partizan – but it ends up taking him across the country to experience firsthand the varied ethnic tapestry and supporter culture.
The book is presented chronologically, following Partizan during a season in which they are eliminated from the Champions League qualifiers by Shamrock Rovers, lose three times to rivals Red Star, sack their management team mid-season and see their two main supporters' groups at constant loggerheads. Oh, and they win the league. Taking his posting seriously, Moor engages quickly with the country and its language, and while his anecdotes about watching Arsenal title successes on television and a clumsy description of the "English Championship League One" can leave you suspicious of his credentials, he makes up for it in the context of his new surroundings with a strong awareness of regional history and contemporary politics. A trip to Novi Pazar, where the population has a Bosniak (Slav Muslim) majority, is carefully framed with valuable non-footballing context and his detailed translations of chants, banners and terrace conversations add cultural currency to what are otherwise just descriptions of Serbian league matches from two years ago.
Despite making a living from diplomacy, Moor manages to avoid the occupational trait of using a great number of words to say very little of note on complex or controversial issues. Equally, he is also not guilty of simply feeding the reader polemics from his terrace acquaintances without first coupling them with some objective analysis of his own. The prose can at times get drawn a little too much into the "banter" of the matchday experience – a questionably large number of things are "awesome" – but the enduring feeling is that it's heartening to see work such as this published.
As Jonathan Wilson points out in the foreword, this is essentially "a book about the second most famous team in Belgrade" and, accordingly, both Moor and his publisher deserve great credit for bringing it to print at all. Hopefully the knowledge and insight offered in this example will inspire more publishers to show similar faith.


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Discussion in 'General Martial Arts Discussion' started by arnisador, Aug 16, 2009.
Great fight ends as first round horn sounds, Cyborg punches too much
It was interesting to see Carano perform when faced with an opponent of similar weight. Carano notoriously has always come into her fights weighing more than what the weight class was supposed to be.
I new this was coming..matter of fact I made some nice coin on it, ( bet 1st round stoppage to the tune of 500 in my pocket! Carano IMHO is a gorgeous woman who used fighting as a spring board to other things, and it worked. Television, Maxim magazine etc...no cutting her for that..she did what she felt was right to better her situation in life. Cyborg on the other hand is a fighter..pure and simple...and in that ring you had better be all fighter. Carano looked tentative and down right scared in there.....she was beaten by a fighter! Cyborg is the real deal.
I didn't watch the fight--was ending it with only one second left reasonable?
Yeah it was reasonable and necessary..she was in the fetile position getting smashed by power shots...no defense at all ( unless you call the dead o'possum technique defense)...as I said she was totally out gunned..she nailed Cyborg a few times but to no avail. Cyborg simply kept coming and coming...Carano on a few occasions even turned her back to get away....it was a beat down IMHO.
I've since seen the video of it and I now agree with you:
The fight is on youtube.com, sorry i didn't get the link. Type in Carano vs Cyborg. Carano didn't train for this fight like she should of.
Perhaps but in all honesty I don't think it would have mattered much. Cyborg is the blood and guts fighter here, she lives for it..she trains at Chute Box in Brazil...spars with the guys there..and in that school they are rough and mean..Anderson Silva..The Rua boys...Vanderlei Silva..etc. Carano is a model, a future actress a celebrity...she just happened to use fighting as the platform to launch it..and that's cool by me, more power to her. But when she finally stepped into the ring with a real blood and guts, rockem sockem fighter she got dealt...So many people are quick to jump off that band wagon now...I was never on it...Cyborg yes is a rare breed and so many idiots always say oh shes a dude etc...but guess what..that chick can scrap...like it or not the model got her ass waxed! and what a lovely bum it is....Hollywood will do her right..watch and see....as for Cyborg...who ever comes calling better pack a lunch.. that chick will bring a world of hurt on you real quick, and she digs dishing the pain.
Yes there are many good lookers in the MAs, but few are like you say are real fighters.
So has Santos, in fact in her April 2009 fight there were allegations that her team tried to tamper with the weight scales. The fight was actually called off due to the weight issue and then an agreement made between the two fighters (I can't remember the other woman's name, but she was Asian and looked VERY small compared to Cyborg).
I think Santos is not really well known for coming in over weight. Carano on the other hand is notoriously known for this. Pretty mute issue though as we all saw the result of this particular fight.
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Igbo men are misogynistic and love to control women – Lady
A lady has taken to Twitter to state that Igbo men are very misogynistic and worse than men in Northern Nigeria.
According to her post, Igbo men love to marry a lady with a minute d if her own but would want t to tame her with their obsession of being in control.
She shared:
Igbo men are generally insufferable and very misogynistic, subtly or not. You'd be lucky to find one who isn't.
I actually don't know who's worse between them and men from the north.
At least, the Northern ones like to marry women who can manage their rubbish. Igbo men? Lol
They'll want to marry a woman with a mind and spirit of her own then "tame her" or "call her to order".
The obsession with being in control is wild.
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In designing the
dexFreight token model, we have taken a business model first approach. First design our business model, that is how we are going to create and capture value. Then design a high-level token model and finally design the specific mechanisms to implement the design.
This article sets out the first two stages of this process: the dexFreight platform business model and high-level token model design. In subsequent posts we will detail the token model and specific mechanism designs.
About dexFreight
dexFreight is a decentralized platform for the logistics industry. It provides stakeholders with an end-to-end solution to book, contract, move loads locally and globally within a community-owned marketplace powered by an ecosystem of open source protocols using smart contracts, blockchain technology, and machine learning.
Platform structure
dexFreight is a multi-sided platform comprising:
- Shippers- who send freight
- Brokers- intermediaries who connect carriers with shippers
- Carriers- who deliver freight
- Consignees- who receive freight
Our approach
Our approach is to design token-powered, network-effects business models which combine the now traditional science of platform, loyalty and gamified business models with the emerging field of cryptoeconomics and mechanism design.
Some examples…
1 Web 2.0 saw the rise of the platform as the dominant business model. However, the biggest challenge when building a platform is overcoming the bootstrapping problem. Since, the value of a network typically rises in accordance with nlogn, where n is the number of users; when n is low, the network utility and incentive to join is also low.
Web 3.0 introduces a powerful new tool for bootstrapping networks: tokens. As Chris Dixon points out, by rewarding early users, crypto-networks can net-off the initial lack of network value with an early adoption bonus.
2 Whereas cryptoeconomics assumes that actors behave in an economically rational way. Loyalty business models rely on providing customers with high-perceived value versus low actual cost. Instead of discounting a $100 product by $1, a loyalty program might reward with 100 loyalty points each worth a cent. These points can then be used to redeem products and services- giving a much higher perceived value to the customer than discounting.
Thus our approach is closely allied with the nascent field of behavioural cryptoeconomics which proposes to extend cryptoeconomics' assumptions of economic rationality to:
"an understanding of the complex, nuanced, illogical ways in which humans actually behave " [
The vision for dexFreight is to become the decentralized platform that powers global freight. Our goals for this break down into:
- increase adoption– key to this is overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem
- increase engagement– in order to drive retention, usage and virality
- increase usage– in order to increase transaction and network value
- attract investment– to fund development of platform
- decentralize ownership– in order to create a community-owned network
In order to achieve the platform goals, we have formulated the following strategies:
Platform strategies
- Incentivize early adoption of brokers- as brokers bring concentration of volume of shippers, carriers and transactions.
- Reward early users– to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem.
- Partner with load boards as concentrated sources of supply.
- Seed platform via broker standalone mode — 'come for the tool, stay for the network' strategy, (Chris Dixon).
- Distribute via widgets and integrations- with transportation and fleet management systems.
- Create a goldrush effect — by rewarding brokers, who refer high transaction volumes, with equity.
Business model strategies
- Freemium business model- to drive usage of the platform via 'free' and then upgrade to ''core' premium services provided by dexFreight.
- App store business model, where third parties build 'non-core' apps on dexFreight platform- captures value from external innovation.
- end goal: become a fully decentralized organization
- start in God-mode, and distribute control
Triple token model
The dexFreight token model is designed to optimise for our goals and to synergise with our platform strategy. The token model comprises three tokens:
- a stable coin, dexFuel
- a utility rewards token, dexMiles
- an equity token, dexCoin
One potential disadvantage of a triple token model is complexity, we would have preferred to have one, maximum two, tokens. However, all three tokens perform a necessary and distinct function within the network, and also interact with each other as an integrated system. So we take the view that our token model is necessarily complex, and therefore our job is to hide this complexity from our users in much the same way that complex, tiered loyalty programs do.
Token functions
We provide below, a high-level description of functions and desired attributes of each token. A detailed specification of each token will be provided in subsequent posts.
dexCoin security token
The benefits of the dexCoin security token include:
- access to global pool of investors via emerging security token exchanges.
- rewards investors & founders with equity in the underlying company and captures value from company profits, rather than just a portion of network value as for utility tokens
- grants voting and dividend rights to holders
- provides increased liquidity from secondary markets and 24/7 trading
- provides automated compliance, e.g. to ensure that KYC/AML is followed and that investors are accredited (where appropriate)
- can be an interoperable redemption item for the dexMiles loyalty program, whilst decentralizing ownership.
For more on security tokens check-out Jesus Rodriguez, Stephen McKeon and Bruce Fenton.
dexFuel stable coin
As a global logistics platform, dexFreight needs a mechanism for enabling cross-border transactions which supports fast settlement and low transaction fees, and which is stable against fiat for the duration of a freight transaction.
We are researching a number of stable coin options including implementing an external stable coin, as well as the development of our own stable coin. Our preference is to focus on our strategic objectives of building and scaling the platform, whilst partnering with experts in this complex field, rather than building a stable coin ourselves. We are in conversation with a number of teams including MakerDAO and MoneyOnChain and will provide more detail on our stable coin in a subsequent post.
With billions of dollars of transactions projected to flow through the platform, one research area for our economists is the use of freight invoices as collateral for dexFuel. A number of protocols have emerged which are doing similar things. For example, the integration between Dharma and Centrifuge protocols is enabling off-chain invoices to be tokenised by Centrifuge, and then used as collateral for onchain loans within Dharma, as an alternative to invoice factoring and trade finance.
dexMiles, rewards token
The dexMiles token is a utility token that aligns the incentives of the platform and its participants, by creating a vested interest through decentralising network ownership and rewarding target behaviour. As Chris Dixon points out in his seminal article 'Why decentralization matters', platforms tend to start-out cooperating with their network participants, but invariably they move to a zero-sum game of competition.
However, Dixon asserts that by providing a vested interest in the form of a utility token: "cryptonetworks align network participants to work together toward a common goal — the growth of the network and the appreciation of the token".
Why rewards tokens?
Rewards tokens are an abstraction mechanism that removes the need to set and describe the reward for every action. For example: instead of the offer 'If you onboard a shipper, for their first transaction you receive a month of free insurance benefit', we can simply assign a dexMiles value to the earn activity and then separately assign rewards for the burn side.
dexMiles will leverage the RSK equivalent of ERC-20 tokens, and will have the following advantages over standard loyalty points:
- enable earning, holding and trading of reward currency
- capture and potentially appreciate with network value
- gain increased utility from use outside of the ecosystem
- do not no expire
- have a fixed monetary policy, preventing devaluation
- value increases when demand exceeds supply
The earning of rewards tokens is mapped against the target behaviours of the system, and also the the platform tactics and strategies. Below is a draft of the rewards points to activity map.
The rewards token also enables us to tune and control the flow of value in order to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem.
dexFreight Triple Token Network effects
The chart below maps the expected value to users versus number of users for the dexFreight triple token model. The red line, dexFreight platform utility, is an nlogn curve that shows the delayed onset of user value as per the Chris Dixon chart above. The green line shows the value of dexMiles kicking-in before platform utility, as we reward early users with dexMiles. However, the value of dexMiles will primarily be derived from accessing premium services on the platform. These services will go-live over a 6 month period after platform launch, and the value of services such as machine learning and load optimization depends on data, which is correlated with the number of users. Therefore, the onset of user value for dexMiles will also be delayed . This is where the dexCoin redemption path comes into play.
The dexMiles system will be constructed to create a goldrush mechanism for early adopters. The primary target for this redemption mechanism will be brokers, due to their role as mavens within the freight network, however key shippers and carriers will also be targeted. Brokers who join early, and bring shippers and carriers who then transact on the platform, will be rewarded via a redemption path to dexCoin equity tokens. A detailed description and specific mechanism for the dexMiles token model will be provided in a subsequent post. An overview of the equity redemption path is provided below:
- join the platform early
- refer many shippers and carriers, who then make transactions (referred transactions)
- earn dexMiles for actions and referred transactions
- are promoted through rewards tiers
- earn rate is multiplied in higher tiers (positive feedback)
- earn dexMiles at an accelerated rate
- exhaust their supply of new shippers and carriers
- rate of earning dexMiles subsides (negative feedback)
Brokers who have reached the top tier of the rewards program, will be able to redeem their large balances of dexMiles for equity tokens via a reg-compliant process (note: this process and the interchangeability between rewards and security tokens is subject to final legal and regulatory approval.) Thus we meet two key objectives of overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem and decentralizing ownership of the platform to its users.
System-level view: how the three tokens interact
As we stated above, as well as an individual function, the three tokens each play a role in an overall system. The diagram below depicts the standard interactions between tokens (the goldrush equity redemption path should be viewed as a special process used to jump-start the network).
- Fiat is deposited.
- Fiat may be exchanged for dexFuel stable coin
- dexFuel may be used to transact on the platform
- Transacting with dexFuel earns dexMiles
- dexMiles may be redeemed for premium platform services
- dexMiles may be redeemed for dexCoin equity token
The above design follows a business model first approach and uses tokens as a powerful tool to tune and operationalise well-established platform and loyalty business model mechanisms. We have shown that the additional complexity due to three tokens is justified. Each token has a necessary and distinct role to play, as well as a role within an overall system.Through tokenising platform and loyalty business models we intend to capture the power of network effects, whilst overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem by rewarding early users with a goldrush mechanism for earning equity. In so doing we also meet a core philosophical objective of decentralizing ownership to platform participants.
Subsequent posts will dive deeper into the specifics of the token models and their mechanism designs.
About the author: As well as being an integral member of the dexFreight leadership team, Justin Banon is CEO and Founder of meltfactory, a blockchain venture architecture and strategy consultancy specialising in the design of token-powered, network-effects business models and ventures. Having previously built and led a billion dollar global rewards business, Justin is also an academic and researcher in the area of token-powered network effects business models.
Previous posts by Justin Banon: https://hackernoon.com/the-nature-of-the-crypto-technological-revolution-4eb883c54d56


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No, I'm not talking about real estate. I'm talking about the book title variety.
Sometimes the title to a book comes first.
That's how it happened with my picture book Snuggle Mountain, I was watching my daughter climb my bed one morning and I thought, I bet my bed looks like a mountain. Boom. I drafted a story about a little girl's metaphoric climb up her parent's bed to wake the two headed giant. There was never any question. Snuggle Mountain was the title.
Evidence of Things Not Seen has had a much different journey.
My first stirrings of this book came from a dream that woke me up. A boy was standing in the middle of a pull out by the side of a road. Just standing there. Alone.
I remember getting up and writing the first bits of a story. (It is still in the novel.) Gradually, I began to place other people in that pull-out, building the world of the novel in that strange patch of dirt.
When I finally came to the end of the first draft, I titled it The Stillwell Pull-out because the Stillwell Ranch butted up against that pull-out. Truth be told, I had called it The Pull-Out but if you Google those words you will find pornographic pictures, not a patch of dirt by the side of the road.
Title aside, I tucked back into another revision of the novel because I'd found a problem with the ending. Namely, that I'd wrapped it up too neatly. And the whole story was being choked by a big red bow at the end.
Thing was, that last section of the novel was called Particles and it held the key to my next draft. I dug into the next revision and remembered that original dream. The boy standing in the pull-out. Tommy.
He was missing. He'd gone missing from the pull-out and he was the thread that connected all these stories. Not only that, he was a physics geek, mostly recently obsessed with particle physics. No one had any idea of where Tommy was but because of his obsession with physics, some kids dealt with his disappearance by speculating that he went into another dimension.
I took the novel down to the floorboards and rebuilt it.
When it was "finished," I titled it Particles because of Tommy's obsession with particle physics and because I wrote the novel in multiple viewpoints like particles in space. I sent it to Erin Murphy who sent it to Joy Peskin at Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers who loved it (see The Call).
After the acquisitions meeting, Joy told me that the sales and marketing folks were not wild about the title and that she'd said, "No problem. There are lots of title possibilities on the pages of the novel." I love that she met their hesitation with a positive attitude. It helped me not worry. I knew we'd find a title and I wasn't attached to Particles. (Word to the wise: Unless it's perfect, don't get attached to the title).
Sure enough, when she sent me the first edits, she had circled a bunch of possible titles that were right there in the pages: Anything is Possible; Everything Can Be Explained; The Space Between.
I tried them on. I polled friends. Anything is Possible sounded like that Stephen Sondheim musical Anyone Can Whistle. I wasn't sure I could carry off the irony of a title like Everything Can Be Explained (ahem) by Lindsey Lane. And while I liked The Space Between, sales and marketing was 'meh' about it.
Back to the drawing board. Fortunately, Joy went to the drawing board with Angus Killick, associate publisher. She threw out about hundred title ideas, read sections of the book and talked about the ideas in the book. (I still can't decide if I would have like to be in that meeting.)
And then she hit upon it. Evidence of Things Not Seen. It comes from a quote in the Bible: "Faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1) From the moment I read it, I knew it was perfect.
Because the book is about mystery, about faith, about carrying on, about finding small things that buoy us up even in the face of hardship.


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