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Oil magnates in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan oil magnates played especially positive role in the development of oil work in Azerbaijan and whole Russia. We should note great services of Hadji Zeynalabdin Tagiyev (1838-1924), Musa Nagiyev (1842-1919), Shamsi Asadullayev (1840-1913), Ejderbekh Ashurbekov (1855-1921), Isabekh Hadjinski (1861-1919), Murtuza Mukhtarov in the late XIX – early XX century, several famous foreign companies (Nobel Brothers, the Rothschilds, Mantashev, Shibayev and Unanov) operated in Baku. Nobel and Rothschild Brothers' companies were more famous among them.
Here is one of the most famous and respectable oil magnates of all Muslim world and Russia. He was born in a poor family, passed an honorable way from a simple mason to a millionaire businessman. "H.Z.Tagiyev" firm established in 1875 became a powerful oil industry association and connected all fields of oil business in the course of 25 years. Tagiyev invested to all fields of national economy: oil production, construction of trade centers and flour grinding factories, fishing, etc. H.Z.Tagiyev established "Caucasus Joint-stock Community on the procession of fibrous materials" in 1897. In 1914 he founded Baku Commersion Bank to conduct trade operations with other local entrepreneurs and was elected representative of the bank's adminstrative stoff. In 1916, Tagiyev founded "Tagiyev Fishing Industry Joint-Stock Company" that operated in Azerbaijan and Dagestan.
Musa Nagiyev is a famous oil magnate. He was born in a very poor family and became a millionaire with the help of his acute mind and competence. In 1915-1916, if Tagiyes's capital was equal to 6 million rubles, M.Nagiyev's capital was several times more than that.
M.Nagiyev allocated a great amount of money to the foundation of partnership on the draining of Bibi-Heybet Bay, and to the conduct of construction works for the draining that was carried out fast enough (in 1917, 70% of the project works were completed).
Shemsi Esedullayev
He was a renowned oil magnate and respectful businessman not only in Baku, but beyond its lenuts as well. Shemsi became a millionaire with the help of oil boom, his own mind and competence. In 1893, he founded "Shemsi Esedullayev" oil production firm with 500 rubles, in 1913, the capital of his firm was already 10 million rubles. Esedullayev's marine ships traveled in the Caspian and Volga; Shemsi only compromised to the Nobel firm on the tonnage of ships for the transportation of oil and oil products. So, after Nobel's "Zoroaster" ship appeared in the Caspian, Esedullayev bought 3 tankers called "3 A" – Asia, Africa and America. The total length of oil pipelines in Nobel firm was 17 versts, in Sh.Esedullayev 12.5 versts in 1907. He opened representation in Russia, Turkey, Iran and several European countries.
Ejderbekh Ashurbekov
He is an oil magnate, a brilliant representative of Ashurbekovs dynasty in Baku. Due to his intellect respect and great wealth, he was a very respectful person among well-known people of the country and Russia. In October 1888, Ashurbekov was among those who greeted Emperor Alexander III in Baku. In the late XIX century, Ashurbekov was engaged with oil: in 1893, the oil gusher in one of his wells in Surakhane made Ejder bekh a millionaire. Later he bought 5 new wells. Two of them he managed himself, the remaining three on character: two wells he rented out to "Nobel Brothers" company, one to "S.M.Shibayev" company. Like the other oil magnates, E.Ashurbekhov also played an important role in the economic, social and cultural development of Baku until the revolution.
Murtuza Mukhtarov
He is an oil magnate who was born in a poor family, and passed a difficult way from being a worker, then a team leader, and finally to the owner of a firm. He became wealthy with the help of oil as other Baku millionaires, but modern technology and equipment for oil production is connected with his name. Without any special education, he was a compenent discoverer who learned by himself discovered a drilling equipment called "Mukhtarov". It was famous in the world, and exported to a number of countries (Besides "Murtuza Mukhtarov" company, "Molot", "Rapid", "Votan", and "Robur" companies may be included to the large companies of the drilling contracter and mechanical workshops of Russia as well).
Nobel Brothers
The establishment of "Nobel Brothers oil production partnership" firm ("Nobel Brothers" firm) falls on May 18, 1879, but the Swedish family began working in Absheron earlier than this date (In 1879, "Nobel Brothers oil production joint-stock company with "Brabonel" telegraph title was founded by Emperor Alexander II).
In 1873, elder brother Robert Nobel (1829-1896) came to the Caucasus on the assignment of wood purchase for the rifle stocks bought from the middle brother Ludwiq (1831-1888). After analyzing "oil" conditions in Absheron peninsula, he invested his capital to the oil sector. This was of course a venture, but he had some experience on the organization of kerosene in Finland. He thought that, oil business had great perspectives, for the Russian market was full of import (American) oil products.
Beginning from 1875, Nobel Brothers took an active part in Azerbaijan oil industry. In its first year main capital of the firm, the founders of which were Robert, Ludwiq and Alfred (1833-1896) Nobel and others, was equal to 3 million rubles. The Brothers supervised all processes in the firm from defining the oil field to the sale of final oil products.
Only in 1894, "Nobel Brothers" company purchased up to 10 million poods of oil on the basis of 21 contracts. Due to these works, L.Nobel became a real "Black oil King" of Russia in the late XX century.
As a result, the activities of "Nobel Brothers" in Baku gave an impulse to the rapid development of all areas of oil industry in Russia. Baku oil region was a foundation for the Nobels marvelous building later called "oil empire".
In 1900, "Nobel Brothers" firm and Rothschild's "Caspian Black Sea Company" realized 21% of oil production and 40% of oil export from Baku. In those years, if the greatest 6 oil processing plants processed 44%kerosene, only "Nobel Brothers" company possessed more than 22% of it.
"Nobel Brothers" company had main capital equal to 30 million rubles, more than 13 plant (6 oil processing plants as well) in 1914-1917. Their total oil production was 76 million poods in 1916.
These, main part of material resources of Nobel prize – currently the worthiest prize in the world – is based upon the capital gained from Baku Oil.
Rothschild brothers
Rothschild brothers, who were co-owners of Banking House in Paris were interested in Russian oil fields in the late 70s of the XIX century. However, only on May 16, 1883 on the basis of Batumi oil industry and trade company that went bankrupt, a new firm – "Caspian – Black Sea oil industry and trade company" (hereinafter called "Caspian – Black Sea Company") was established in Baku. Since the date of foundation, the company rapidly developed by purchasing kerosene from 135 small and medium-sizeв enterprises to export to the inner regions of Russia and the foreign countries. In addition, the Rothschilds signed compromised agreements with some companies on the commercial sales of kerosene and it led to the following: if in 1884, the amount of product carried to the foreign countries from Baku by the company was 2.4 million poods, in 5 years, this figure reached nearly to 30 million poods. "Fergusson" steamer that carried kerosene from Baku to Antverpen played the role of cornerstone for the Rothschilds' becoming famous; later kerosene was even exported to London ("Fergusson" ship was built in the plant in Motala city, Sweden; earlier, "Zoroaster" ship of Nobels was built in this plant).
To note, the Rothschilds began to work with a special activeness with the initial capital of 6 million gold coin and 25 million Franks in the Russian safes.
"Caspian – Black Sea Company" had to be thankful to Rothschild's' (earlier Nobels') contacts with the top authorities of Russia for the success it gained. Together with the "Nobel Brothers" Company, Rothschild's' "Caspian – Black Sea Company" became one of the leading oil firms in Russia.
It is worth to noting that Rothschilds' "Caspian – Black Sea Company" placed 300 carriage – tanks by getting permission to place special carriage-tanks that were not enough for meeting the explicitly required number of transportation means (600 units) in the South Caucasus railways; moreover, the company gave credits (2 million rubles) to a number of plant owners for installing more than 1500 carriage-tank provided that 6% of the debt given for 5 years term would be paid per year.
As a result the Rothschild's' firm received 1800 out of 3932 carriages of kerosene sent to Baku in December 1888.


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Yang Hyun Suk's Past Interview About Denying Rumors Of Blocking Drug Scandals Resurfaces
As Yang Hyun Suk was recently accused of interfering with iKON B.I's drug case back in 2016, his old interview has come to light where he denied all accusations about him using his influence to block drug scandals about his artists from being released.
In the interview from 2012, the host asks if rumors about YG Entertainment using its influence to block and interfere with YG artists' drug scandals. He denied it all.
I think the public overestimates my capabilities. They think too powerful of Yang Hyun Suk, who is just a human. I honestly can't meet their expectations.
All I do in YG is talk with my artists about their music and give them advice.
— Yang Hyun Suk
He claimed it was ridiculous to accuse him of it because he's never had any experience with drug cases before. He also mentioned how it was impossible to use influence when the whole public had their eyes on it.
You need to have had some kind of relative experience to be able to block or interfere with these cases. The whole society had their eyes on the case. How would I have any say?
— Yang Hyun Suk
Most importantly, he predicted that if you try to use influence to block a criminal case, you'd end up in bigger trouble.
If you try to block these cases, you'd end up in bigger trouble. That's how the world works these days.
— Yang Hyun Suk
Over 7 years later, Han Seo Hee claimed Yang Hyun Suk personally threatened her to change her testimony about B.I's drug case. Yang Hyun Suk is currently being investigated by the police and prosecution about Han Seo Hee's claims.


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Title: Learning-based Control and Applications
Speaker: Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang (New York University, Fellow of IEEE & IFAC)
Date and Time: 15:00-16:00, 15th June 2021 (Tuesday)
Seminar link:
This talk presents a new design paradigm, called "learning-based control", that is fundamentally different from traditional model-based control and model-free machine learning. Learning-based control is aimed at learning real-time optimal controllers directly from input-output data, for stability and robustness of dynamical systems in uncertain environments. Novel tools and methods for data-driven control are proposed as an entanglement of techniques from reinforcement learning and control theory. The effectiveness of learning-based control design is demonstrated via its applications to network systems such as connected and autonomous vehicles and neural science problems such as computational principles of human movement.
Zhong-Ping JIANG received the M.Sc. degree in statistics from the University of Paris XI, France, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control and mathematics from the Ecole des Mines de Paris (now, called ParisTech-Mines), France, in 1993, under the direction of Prof. Laurent Praly.
Currently, he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. His main research interests include stability theory, robust/adaptive/distributed nonlinear control, robust adaptive dynamic programming, reinforcement learning and their applications to information, mechanical and biological systems. In these fields, he has written six books and is author/co-author of over 500 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.
Prof. Jiang is a recipient of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship Award from the Australian Research Council, CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, JSPS Invitation Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Distinguished Overseas Chinese Scholar Award from the NSF of China, and several best paper awards. He has served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Senior Editor and Associate Editor for numerous journals. Prof. Jiang is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IFAC, a Fellow of the CAA and is among the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers.


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From: Tom Brinkman (reportbase_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-07 01:19:12
We need volunteer review managers for most of the libraries
in the review queue. If your interested, let us know.
Preferably, you would have a background in the problem domain,
but no association with the library and a contributer
to the boost mailing list.
The review schedule is available here:
http://www.boost.org/more/formal_review_schedule.html .
You can read the "review manager"
requirements at the following link:
Most of the libraries are located at the Boost Sandbox Vault,
located here:
Maintainers of the Review Queue:
Ronald Garcia (garcia (at) cs.indiana.edu)
Tom Brinkman (reportbase (at) gmail.com)
If there is any errors or ommisions in this report,
please send them to Ron or Tom.
Here is a summary of the libraries that are in the queue.
Library: Exception
Author: Emil Dotchevski
Location: http://www.revergestudios.com/boost-exception/boost-exception.zip
Review Manager: Needed
Date: Needed
The purpose of Boost Exception is to free designers of
exception classes from having to consider what data needs to
be stored in exception objects in order for the catch site to
be able to make sense of what went wrong. When Boost Exception
is used, arbitrary values can be stored in any exception. This can be
done directly in the throw-expression, or at a later time as the
exception object propagates up the call stack. The ability to add
data to any exception object after it has been thrown is important,
because often some of the information needed to handle an
exception is unavailable at the time of the throw.
Library: Bimap
Author: Matias Capeletto
Location: Boost Sandbox Vault
Review Manager: Ion Gaztañaga
Date: February 15 2007- February 25, 2007
With Boost.Bimap you can create associative containers
where both types can be used as key. You can think a
`bimap<X,Y>` as a merge of a `std::map<X,Y>`
and a `std::map<Y,X>`. The learning curve of bimap is
almost zero if you know how to use standard containers.
A big effort was put in mapping the naming scheme
of the STL in Boost.Bimap. The library is designed to
match the STL common containers.
Library: Globally Unique Identifier
Author: Andy Tompkins
Location: Boost Sandbox Vault
Review Manager: Needed
Date: Needed
A guid, or globally unique identifier, is an identifier
standard used in many disciplines including computer networks,
distributed computing, and databases. They can be used to tag
objects with very short lifetimes, to reliably identify very
persistent objects across a network. An attractive feature of
guids is their relative small size, of 128-bits, compared to
alternatives. Also the creation of guids does not require
a centralized authority.
Library: Intrusive Containers
Author: Ion Gaztañaga
Location: Boost Sandbox Vault
Review Manager: Joaquín Mª López Muñoz
Date: March 1, 2007 - March 10, 2007
Existing practice have shown the need for
intrusive containers. Widely used C++ libraries, such
as C++ Standard Library and Boost have long
missed such facilities so that users had to refrain
from using those due to mandatory element copying
or fall back to techniques like two phase construction to
insert logically non-copyable elements in containers
and initialize them after that or insert pointers to
dynamically allocated objects which is rather
inelegant and inefficient since containers also dynamically
allocate nodes. The most common use cases for intrusive
containers are, when one would like to store non-copyable
elements in a container when it's beneficial to
avoid needless data copy in performance critical applications.
The most prominent example of both the use cases,
although written for the most part in C rather than C++,
is Linux kernel built solely upon intrusive lists, hash
tables and trees.
Library: Scope Exit
Author: Alexander Nasonov
Location: Boost Sandbox Vault
Review Manager: Needed
Date: Needed
The scope-exit-arg-pp-seq is Boot.Preprocessor sequence
of identifiers that can be used inside scope-exit-body.
The direct-declarator is declarator-id followed by optional
argument of type boost::scope_exit_group (inside brackets or
after the equal sign). This construct executes scope-exit-body
at the close of the current scope.
Library: Finite State Machines
Author: Andrey Semashev
Location: Boost Sandbox Vault
Review Manager: Needed
Date: Needed
The Boost.FSM library is an implementation of FSM
(stands for Finite State Machine) programming concept.
There are many cases when a developer would like to distinguish the
behavior of a given object depending on some conditions or its
internal state. For example, when making software to control
an underground charging tourniquiet a programmer would like to
separate states in which the tourniquiet may persist: an idle state,
when the device awaits for another passenger that would like to
pass; a processing state, when the passenger have come
and put his ticket into the device; and the passing state,
when the tourniquiet lets the passenger pass through. In
fact, each state describes different reaction of the machine
at the same events (a passenger may only pass after paying
for ticket). Obviously, the tourniquiet have to be able to
change its internal state in order to function properly,
this is called state switching or transitions between
states (or just transitions for short).
Library: Statistical Distributions
Author: John Maddock
Location: Boost Sandbox Vault (math-toolkit)
Review Manager: Needed
Date: Needed
Provides many of the tools required to implement
mathematical special functions: hopefully the
presence of these will encourage other authors to
contribute more special function implementations in the future.
There are helpers for the evaluation of infinite series,
continued fractions and rational approximations.
There is a fairly comprehensive set of root finding and
function minimisation algorithms: both with and
without derivative support. A Remez algorithm
implementation allows for the locating of minimax
rational approximations. There are also (experimental)
classes for the manipulation of polynomials, for testing
a special function against tabulated test data, and
for the rapid generation of test data and/or data
for output to an external graphing application.
Library: Floating Point Utilities
Author: Johan Råde
Location: Boost Sandbox Vault
Review Manager: Needed
Date: Needed
Proposed Additions to the Boost Math Library
Functions for floating point number classification:
fpclassify, isfinite, isinf, isnan, isnormal. Follows TR1.
Functions for floating point number sign bit access and modification:
signbit, copysign, changesign. Follows TR1.
Facets that parse and format infinity and NaN according to the C99 standard.
Used for portable handling of infinity and NaN in text streams.
Library: mcs::units
Author: Matthias Schabel
Location: Boost Sandbox Vault
http://www.boost-consulting.org/vault/ (units)
Review Manager: Needed
Date: Needed
mcs::units is a library providing zero-runtime overhead dimensional
analysis for unit and quantity
calculations. It provides support for
1) unit systems comprised of arbitrary sets of base units
2) arbitrary user-defined value types
3) support for heterogenous operator algebras (i.e. Z op(X,Y))
4) support for basic outputting of quantities
5) optional support for implicit unit conversions
It does not support
1) runtime units or quantities
2) input or parsing of quantities
Library: Switch
Author: Steven Watanabe
Location: Boost Sandbox Vault
Review Manager: Needed
Date: Needed
Summary: Needed
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…all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end…
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ulysses
Here's how dull that pause — that end we call the front page — has become:
And yet every newspaper needs one. So it's not going away. But to stay current — literally — papers need something else as well — something Net-native that bridges the static page and the live flow of actual news.
Twitter isn't it.
Yes, these days it's pro forma for news media to post notifications of stories and other editorial on Twitter, but Twitter is a closed and silo'd corporation, not an institutional convention on the order of the front page, the editorial page, the section, the insert. Most of all, Twitter is somebody else's system. It's not any paper's own.
But Twitter does normalize a model that Dave Winer called a river, long before Twitter existed. You might think of a river as a paper's own Twitter. And also the reader's.
In the early days Twitter was called a "microblogging" platform. What made it micro was its 140-character limit on posts. What made it blogging was its format: latest stuff on top and a "permalink" to every post. (Alas, Twitter posts tend to be snow on the water, flowing to near-oblivion and lacking syndication through RSS —though there are hacks.)
Dave created RSS — Really Simple Syndication — as we know it today, and got The New York Times and other publications (including many papers and nearly all Web publishers) to adopt it as well. Today a search for "RSS" on Google brings up over two billion results.
Now Dave has convened a hackathon for creating a new river-based home page for newspapers, starting once again with The New York Times. On his blog he explains how a river of news aggregator works. And in a post at Nieman Journalism Lab he explains Why every news organization should have a river. There he unpacks a series of observations and recommendations:
- News organizations are shrinking, but readers' demand for news is exploding.
- The tools of news are available to more people all the time.
- News organizations have to redefine themselves.
- Users have a special kind of insight that most news orgs don't tap.
- Therefore, the challenge for news organizations has been, for the last couple of decades, to learn how to incorporate the experience of these users and their new publishing tools, into their product — the news.
- Like anything else related to technology, this will happen slowly and iteratively.
- The first thing you can do is show the readers what you're reading.
- Having the river will also focus your mind.
- Then, once your river is up and running for a while, have a meeting with all your bloggers.
— and then offers real help for getting set up.
I want to expand the reach of this work to broadcasting: a business that has always been live, has always had flow, and has been just as challenged as print in adapting to the live-networked world.
I want to focus first on the BBC, not just because they're an institution with the same great heft as the Times, but because they've invited me to visit with them and talk about this kind of stuff. I'll be doing that in a couple of weeks. By coincidence Neil Midgley in Forbes yesterday reported that the BBC News Division would be cutting five hundred jobs over the next two years. I'm hoping this might open minds at the Beeb toward opportunity around news rivers.
In the traditional model, reporting works something like hunting and gathering. A reporter hunts on his or her beat, gathers details for stories, and then serves up meals that whet and fill the appetites of readers, viewers and listeners. This model won't go away. In some ways it's being improved. Here in the U.S. ProPublica and the Center for Public Integrity are good examples of that. But it will become part of a larger flow, drawing from a wider conceptual and operational net.
A river for media as major as the Times and the BBC flows in the center of a vast watershed, with sources flowing inward through tributaries. Each of those sources can be lakes, streams and rivers as well. At their best, all of them sustain life, culture and commerce along their banks and in the areas surrounding them.
For institutions such as the Times and the BBC, what matters is maintaining their attraction to sources, destinations, and lives sustained in the process. That attraction is flow itself. That's why rivers are essential as both metaphor and method.
To help with this, let's look at a watershed in the physical world that works on roughly the scale that the Times and the BBC do in the journalistic regions they serve:
That's the Amazon River basin. Every stream and river in that basin flows down a slope toward the Amazon River. While much of the rain that falls on the basin sinks into the earth and sustains life right there, an excess flows downstream. Some of the water and the material it carries is used and re-used along the way. Much of the activity within each body operates in its own local or regional ecosystem. But much of it flows to the main river before spilling into the sea. The entire system is shaped by its boundaries, the ridges and plateaus farthest upstream. Its influence extends outside those boundaries, of course, but what makes the whole watershed unitary is inward flow toward the central river.
In his Nieman piece, Dave identifies bloggers as essential sources. (Remember that blogs have a river format of their own: they flow, from the tops to the bottoms of their own pages.) Email is another source. So are comments on a news organization's own stories. So are other publications. So are news agencies such as the Associated Press. So are think tanks, industry experts and investigative organizations such as the Center for Public Integrity.
Missing from that list are ordinary people. All of those people are in position to be sources for stories, and many already contribute to news flow through the likes of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Every one of those intermediary systems cries out for improvement or replacement, both of which will be happen naturally if they feel the by the gravitational pull of rivers at central journalistic institutions such as the Times and the BBC.
But the most important challenge is leveraging what Dan Gillmor famously said many years ago, when he was still at the San Jose Mercury News: "My readers know more than I do."
As a visiting scholar in Journalism at NYU for the last two years, I have participated in many classes led by Jay Rosen and Clay Shirky. (Most of those were in the Studio 20 program, which Jay describes as "a consultancy paid in problems.") One subject that often came up in these classes was the institutionalized power asymmetry between news media on one hand and people they serve on the other — even as the preponderance of power to provide news material clearly resides on the side of the people, rather than the media. You can see this asymmetry in the way comments tend to work. Think about the weakness one feels when writing a letter to the editor, or to comment under a story on a news site — and how lame both often tend to be.
This last semester I worked for awhile with a small group of students in one of Clay's classes, consulting The Guardian — one of the world's most innovative news organizations. What the students contemplated for awhile was finding ways for readers with subject expertise or useful knowledge to bypass the comment process and get straight to reporters. I would like to see future classes look toward rivers as one way (or context within which) this can be done.
The Guardian is far more clueful than the average paper, but it would still benefit hugely from looking at itself as a river rather than … well, I'm not sure what. It used to be that http://guardian.co.uk went to the paper itself, but now it detects my location and redirects me to http://www.theguardian.com/us. And when I click on the "About us" link, it goes to this front-page-ish thing. In other words, packed with lots of stuff, as front pages of newspaper websites tend to be these days. Which is fine. They have to do something, and this is what they're doing now. Live and learn, always. But one thing they're learning that I don't like — as a reader and possible contributor — is made clear by several items that appear on the page. One is the little progress thingie at the bottom, which shows stuff behind the page that is still trying to load (no kidding) long after I went to the page ten minutes ago:Another is this item at the bottom of the page:And another is this piece — one among (let's see…) 24 items with a headline and text under it:
The operative word here is content.
John Perry Barlow once said, "I didn't start hearing about 'content' until the container business felt threatened." But fear isn't the problem here. It's the implication that stories, posts and other editorial matter are all just cargo. Stuff.
The mind-shift going on here is that's a huge value-subtract for both paper and reader alike. (Yes, I know there is no substitute for content, other than the abandoned "editorial," and that's a problem too.)
Speaking as a reader of the Guardian — and one who reads it in the UK, the US and many other countries on the World Wide Freaking Web — I hate being blindered by national borders, and regarded as just an "audience" member valued mostly as an "influential" instrument to be "engaged" by "branded content," even it's laundered through a "Lab."
This kind of jive is the sound an industry makes when it's talking to itself. Or worse, of editorial and publishing factota dancing on the rubble of the Chinese wall that long stood between them, supporting independence and integrity on both sides.
If the Guardian saw itself as a river, and not as a cargo delivery system, it might not have made the moves in the U.S. that it has so far. To fully grok how big a problem these moves have been (again, so far), read The Guardian at the Gate, by Michael Wolff in GQ.
Newspapers and broadcast networks tend to be regional things: geographically, culturally, and politically. The Guardian's position — what Reis and Trout (in Positioning: the Battle for Your Mind) call a creneau — has been its preëminence as the leading newspaper for culture and leftish politics in the UK. Creating something new and separate in the U.S. was, and remains, weird. It would be even more weird if the BBC tried the same thing. (Instead, wisely, it's just another program source for U.S. public radio. And its voice is clearly a UK one.)
Another term from the marketing world that's making its way over to the production side of media (including news) is "personalization." At the literal level this isn't a bad thing. One might like to personalize, or have personalized, some of the stuff one reads, hears or watches. But the way marketers think about it, personalization is something done by algorithms that direct content toward individuals, guided by the crunchings of surveillance-gathered Big Data.
Some of that stuff isn't bad. Some might actually be good. But the better thing would be to start with the role of the paper, or the broadcast system, as a river that flows through the heart of an ecosystem that it also defines. That role is not just to barge content downstream, but to collect and grow shared knowledge.
We're at the beginning of the process of discovering all the things a river can be. This is why Dave's hackathon is so important.
RSS gave newspapers a new lease on life at a time when the old one was running out. Rivers will do the same if newspapers, broadcasters and other essential media leverage them with the same gusto.
It helps that, at the heart of both RSS and rivers, there are old and well-understood concepts. For RSS it's syndication. For rivers it's publishing. Both RSS and rivers use these old concepts in new ways that work for everybody, and not just for the media themselves.
Curation is another one. It comes up nearly every time I talk to a news organization about what only it can do, or what it can do better than any other institution. Some curation should be done by the media themselves. But it should be done in the context of the new world defined by the Net and the Web. That's why I suggest flowing rivers into the free and open Web. Don't lock them behind paywalls. My one-liner for this is Sell the news and give away the olds. It's off-topic for rivers, syndication and the Live Web, but it's a topic worth pursuing, because old news can always have new value, if it's free.
And that's what the Net and the Web were born to be — for everybody and everything: free. Just like the sea into which all rivers flow.
Back to Tennyson:
Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.


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Easter's just around the corner and so while at the store yesterday, I picked up our absolute favorites. These are also your favorite varieties because we know you. We know you all too well. How? Don't ask. You don't have time because you're telling everyone you know about our fantastic content. We appreciate it – sort of.
Episode #92: Easter Under Attack
Cadbury Mini Eggs – United States
These are the holy grail of delights for Kit when it comes to Easter chocolate. The thin shell and the chocolate are tops in her opinion.
Kit – 5 out of 5 stars
Hans – 4.5 out of 5 stars
Reese's Pieces Peanut Butter Eggs – United States
First off, I meant to grab the variety which lays bare; sans pieces. The pieces are so maintaed in the peanut butter grease that it's kind of just a little bit of broken glass in there. Regardless, they are quite satisfying. But not for Kit who loathes peanut butter.
Hans – 5 out of 5 stars
Kit – 0 out of 5 stars


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welcome to notice the LITTLE things. i am so happy you are here!
i'm guessing you've heard this phrase before…
it's the little things in life.
you've probably seen it printed on planners, mugs, and frames. you've probably said it, most likely with a smile and a wish for more of those exact kind of moments.
because it's the LITTLE things in life that make it all worth it, right?!
especially when it comes to being a mom. mom life is a unique kind of busy with a unique set of demands. somedays {ok, lots of days} can feel like you're just barely making it. and then there's a spark. some small tiny moment that catches your eye, surprises you, or makes you smile.
- maybe one child gets a bag of goldfish for another and you can take a break from your full-time snatch-fetching job
- perhaps you pour yourself a third cup of coffee without feeling guilty
- maybe the sun comes out from behind a cloud just when you need a boost
- or your ice maker suddenly starts working again
these are the LITTLE things. i like to think they are God, popping into my day to remind me He is always there cheering me on. they can look all kinds of ways on all kinds of days but the LITTLE things all have one thing in common…
they help you feel more grateful for the life you are living!
so what if you could bottle them up? what if starting a simple LITTLE habit could actually help you see more of those happy kind of moments. and what if the LITTLE things had the power to change what you see when you look back on your day (even the messy-nothing-is-going-right kind of days)?
it would be a mom-life game changer, right?!
imagine, looking back on your day and seeing the LITTLE positive things first, before the things that didn't go well, you wish you could redo, or you can't wait to forget.
imagine streamlining systems and routines in your home so that you have the time and space to notice more LITTLE things AND do more of what brings you and your family joy {instead of endless laundry and looking for missing shoes}.
imagine surrounding yourself with sights, styles, colors, and even smells that you love so that the space where you spend the most time is filled with things that bring you comfort, make you better at your job, or that you just like to look at and feel grateful!
are you ready Mama?
well pull up a chair! sign up HERE to join our LITTLE community. you'll get the inside scoop on simple, practical ways to build a habit of gratitude, simplify your home life, and surround yourself with sights and comforts that bring you joy!
PLUS, you'll gain instant access to the FREE LITTLE resource library, full of helpful materials to help you {and your family} live your most grateful life!
we can't wait to have you.
and don't be shy! as you look around, feel free to contact me via email with questions or come hang out on pinterest, instagram, and facebook. i can't wait to get to know you better.
to learn more about notice the LITTLE things, check out these next right steps…
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GMAC vs Esurance - Find Out Which Car Insurance is Best
Comparing consumer reviews of both GMAC and Esurance is a good first step in choosing a good insurance company for your vehicles. Insurance companies pump a ton of money into TV advertising, so it's often difficult to look past the bells and whistles and find the true customer opinions of some car insurance companies.
Quickly compare rates from top auto insurance companies like GMAC and Esurance to find the cheapest rate!
To compare auto insurance rates in your area, simply click the free quote button above and complete the quick form.
Customer Satisfaction Results for GMAC and Esurance
|GMAC Ratings
|Esurance Ratings
|Policy Offerings
|Billing and Payment
|Contacting the Insurer
|Overall Satisfaction
|Compare Rates Now
|Click to Get Your Free Price Comparison
Data source: J.D.Power 2011 National Auto Insurance Study
GMAC scored lower Esurance on policy offerings. Policy offerings rates the variety of insurance coverages consumers can buy from each insurance company. Having better policy offerings means you can get potentially better coverage such as special perils coverage on your home contents or a disappearing deductible on your car insurance.
GMAC and Esurance Price Comparison
GMAC scored similar to Esurance on consumer price ratings. This doesn't mean that GMAC will always have similar pricing on car insurance than Esurance. Quoting rates from both GMAC and Esurance will help you determine which company can offer you the best deal on car insurance.
GMAC vs Esurance - Find Out Which Car Insurance is Best
Many factors impact what you pay for car insurance, and GMAC and Esurance may prefer one type of driver over another. One way to discover whether Esurance or GMAC has the lowest car insurance rates is to compare rates now.
GMAC scored about the same as Esurance on billing and payment satisfaction. Companies can score higher on this rating if they offer more flexible payment options such as quarterly payments or pay-in-full discounts.
Being able to get in touch with your company at claim time is extremely important. Consumers felt that GMAC was the same as Esurance when it comes to being able to contact the company.
Summing it Up
Does the overall satisfaction rating mean one company is truly better than the other? The overall satisfaction rating of GMAC shows the same number of stars as Esurance, but different consumers have different experiences with the same company.
Keys to Finding the Best Car Insurance
- Not filing small claims can earn you a claim-free discount on your car insurance
- Make sure you compare apples-to-apples coverages
- Better credit means lower car insurance rates
- Consider packaging your home and auto insurance to save money


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The Vietnamese have traded their Nom script that was based on the Chinese Han ideographs for a Latin alphabet long ago.
The new Vietnamese alphabet of Latin letters with up to two accents is too large to fit into ISO 8859. The best encoding for Vietnamese is therefore Unicode (ISO 10646). If you cannot use Unicode yet and need to use an Vietnamese 8bit charset, try VISCII:
charset=VISCII [TXT] [BDF]
VISCII was developed in 1993 by the Vietnamese Standardization Working Group alias email@example.com. Their FTP site and RFC 1456 tell you a lot more about VISCII and the Vietnamese Quoted ASCII Representation VIQR.
There are other Vietnamese encoding standards that require your computer to know how to combine accents onto variable glyphs to produce the less frequent accentuated capital letters: VN5712-1, VN5712-2 (VSCII, ISO-IR-180) and CP1258.
I have added a Vietnamese.kmap to the Unicode text editor Yudit for the X Window System.


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The F.E. Line to Backing Connection
Background & Materials
I have used this connection over many years fishing for steelhead, salmon & arctic char; strong fish that often take you into your backing.
The knot is smooth, lacking external points that can catch the guides. As well, it is secure because the wraps serve as a shock absorber to the end of backing / line connection.
It is reasonably easy to make & requires only simple tools & material:
Step One
With the dull point of needle fray the end of backing for ½
Step Two
Insert the needle into the fly line making sure that it follows the hollow center of the core (the rounded point of the needle makes this easy).
Then, exit to the side of the line and slide the needle out leaving the eye exposed.
Step Three
Grab the needle with the pin vise (or vise grip pliers) and thread both ends of the Kevlar thread or dental floss through the needle.
Step Four
Pull the thread through the line leaving a small loop out.
Step Five
Insert the frayed end of backing into loop.
Step Six
Pull the frayed end of the backing through the fly line and out approximately 10.
Step Seven
Insert the needle 3/8 up from the last exit hole and follow the core center another ½ into the line and exit.
Step Eight
Repeat steps 3 & 4.
Step Nine
Separate ¼ or 1/3 of fibers and cut at base.
Step Ten
Wrap the backing 3 turns around the line. Apply glue to the frayed end and place into a loop.
Step Eleven
Pull both ends of thread slowly making sure that you stop just before the backing reaches the exit hole.
Then let one end of thread go and pull the thread alone out.
Line up the wraps between two holes in line and tighten by pulling the backing out.
You can mark the line with permanent marker to indicate its weight.
STUFF to TIE FOR
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Due to the filtering process of various internet providers, email may not be received by either me or you.If you do not hear from me within two days, please consider contacting me by telephone.


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With savory dishes like ramen, tempura, and sushi found in restaurants all over, we probably don't need to tell you about Japan's rich culinary heritage. But there's one Japanese food tradition you probably haven't heard of: every Christmas in...Read more
Full of antioxidants, matcha is a popular and nutritious way to enjoy green tea. It's frothy, has a distinct taste, and delivers a burst of energy that rivals coffee. A standard offering at many tea shops and cafes, matcha...Read more
Humankind has been eating since the beginning of time. And we've been drinking for just as long. No matter where you are in the world, you'll find that every culture has found ways to make the most of fermentation,...Read more
Curry? Ask an average person on the street in India where you can get it. In all probability, you'd be met with a blank stare. The truth is, there ain't no such thing! At least, not as it's cooked...Read more


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Jeep Wrangler JL Lift Kit 2018 - Present 3.5 Inch Neon Green
Make: Jeep
Model: Wrangler
Years: 2018 - Present
Kit includes the following:
(2) - 3.5" Front lift coils
(2) - 3.5" Rear lift coils
(2) - Front Lower control arms, double adjustable, poly bushing on one end and Rebuildable on the other
(2) - Front Upper control arms, double adjustable, clevis on one end and heim on the other
(2) - Rear Lower control arms, double adjustable, both ends have rebuildable ends
(2) - Rear Upper control arms, double adjustable, poly bushing on one end and rebuildable on the other
(1) - Adjustable front track bar, Chrome Moly
(1) - Adjustable rear Panhard bar
(2) - Adjustable front end links
(2) - Adjustable rear end links
Note: Shocks not included
Made in the USA: Our springs, control arms, track bar, Panhard bar, end link rods, and track bar are made entirely in the USA. Even better, the control arms, track bars, Panhard bars, and sway bars are made all in the same facility. That means our steel cutting, bending, machining, welding, powder coating, AND EVEN rubber and polyurethane molding for the control arm bushings are ALL DONE IN THE SAME FACTORY, ensuring quality and seamless integration and assembly of components. Steinjäger's vertically integrated manufacturing system means that a high value, high quality, American-made lift kit is now available for Jeep owners


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Auto-Owners Insurance vs Amica Mutual - Compare Car Insurance Rates and Reviews
Car insurance from Auto-Owners Insurance or Amica Mutual may be cheap in your area, but it's important to find out if the company's service is as good as their prices. Finding out how other insureds have fared with car insurance companies is a good indication of how your experience will be with the same company.
Quickly compare rates from top auto insurance companies like Auto-Owners Insurance and Amica Mutual to find the cheapest rate!
Most consumers like saving time AND money, and you can do that simply by clicking the button above and getting a quick free car insurance quote.
Auto-Owners Insurance and Amica Mutual Consumer Ratings
|Auto-Owners Insurance Ratings
|Amica Mutual Ratings
|Policy Offerings
|Billing and Payment
|Contacting the Insurer
|Overall Satisfaction
|Compare Rates Now
|Click to Get Your Free Price Comparison
Data source: J.D.Power 2011 National Auto Insurance Study
Auto-Owners Insurance scored lower Amica Mutual on policy offerings. That rating factors in the types of coverages offered and additional endorsements and features that can be added to your insurance policy. The ability to add more coverages to your policies makes it easier to custom-tailor an insurance program that meets your needs.
Auto-Owners Insurance and Amica Mutual Price Comparison
Consumers often compare car insurance based solely on price, and Auto-Owners Insurance came in rated lower than Amica Mutual on pricing. Auto-Owners Insurance will not always have higher prices on car insurance than Amica Mutual, however. It's important that you compare car insurance rates of both Auto-Owners Insurance and Amica Mutual and not just assume one will be better.
Auto-Owners Insurance vs Amica Mutual - Compare Car Insurance Rates and Reviews
Better drivers pay lower car insurance rates, and Auto-Owners Insurance and Amica Mutual may give steeper discounts to good drivers. Getting a car insurance comparison quote is the only way to know for sure which company gives the lowest rates to good drivers.
Auto-Owners Insurance was rated worse than Amica Mutual on billing and payment satisfaction. By offering more flexible payment options and discounts, they can score higher on this rating factor.
Being able to talk to a company representative at claim time is an important consideration when choosing a car insurance company. For ease of contacting the insurance company, Auto-Owners Insurance ended up worse than Amica Mutual.
Which Company is Right for You?
Does more stars actually translate into a better consumer insurance buying experience? The overall satisfaction rating for Auto-Owners Insurance shows fewer stars than Amica Mutual, but that isn't indicative that it is truly a worse company.
Keys to Finding the Best Car Insurance
- Better credit means lower car insurance rates
- Make sure you compare apples-to-apples coverages
- Better drivers pay lower car insurance premiums
- Every year, shop your car insurance coverage around to find the lowest rate


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Media stories demonising migrants have dangerous real-life consequences. What can you do if you spot hate online?
For many, their vote to leave the EU was a vote against immigration. Following the referendum, the government introduced the EU settlement scheme which all EU citizens are required to apply to in order to continue living lawfully in the UK. As a result, many from the EU feel vulnerable, uncertain of their future here, and questioning their own sense of belonging in the UK.
We have come together with Stop Funding Hate, a community-driven human rights campaign, based on a philosophy of open, inclusive and participatory campaigning on a mission to advance human rights by making hate unprofitable, to develop resources for EU citizens when it comes to understanding and reporting hate online.
We have developed a step-by-step guide on how to report hate online. In addition to this, we have created an educational resource detailing the different kinds of hate speech, how Stop Funding Hate tactics work, and what you can do take further action.
"EU citizens have been at the heart of the #StopFundingHate supporter community since our earliest days, and have played a vital role in the success of our campaign. Together we've helped to bring about a significant reduction in anti-migrant hate within the UK press – but there's still a way to go. With uncertain times ahead, it's crucial to continue building solidarity between communities, and standing together to challenge all forms of hate within the media. We're proud to be partnering with New Europeans UK in this initiative."
Richard Wilson, Director at Stop Funding Hate
If you are struggling to make use of these resources, please contact us on email@example.com.


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Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) is an end-to-end Alibaba Cloud monitoring service for Application Performance Management (APM). You can quickly develop real-time business monitoring capabilities using the frontend monitoring, application monitoring, and custom monitoring features provided by ARMS.
Application Performance and Anomaly Monitoring
Implements APM performance and anomaly monitoring in distributed applications, based on tracing information
Frontend Monitoring for User Experience
Reflects user webpage browsing behavior in real time using dimensions such as geological regions, ISPs, and URLs
Advanced Custom Monitoring
Allows you to create real-time monitoring alarms and dashboards based on your business needs
Centralized Alarm and Report Platform
Integrates custom monitoring, frontend monitoring, and application monitoring into a centralized alarm and report platform
Application Monitoring
Real-time monitoring of distributed applications.
Application Topology Discovery
Automatically generates a topology of distributed applications based on the call references through dynamic analysis and intelligent computing of tracing information.
Drill-down of Metrics for Typical Diagnostics Scenarios
Performs drill-down analysis of the metrics, such as the application response time, number of requests, and error rate. You can view the analysis results by application, event, or database.
Capture of Unusual and Slow Transactions
Analyzes timeouts and exceptions based on traces and automatically identifies them in the relevant call operations, such as SQL statements or MQ API operations.
Transaction Snapshot Query
Intelligently collects trace-based unusual transactions and identifies the sources of exceptions or errors by troubleshooting detailed data.
Frontend Monitoring
Real-time user experience monitoring.
High Time-efficiency
Detects the real-time response time and error rate of the websites that users access.
Monitoring Analysis Using Multiple Dimensions
Analyzes user access rates and errors by geological region, ISP, or browser.
Page Exception Monitoring
Monitors and diagnoses the performance and success rate of asynchronous API operation calls.
Custom Monitoring
Advanced custom business monitoring.
Diversified Data Sources
Supports multiple types of real-time data sources, such as logs, SDKs, Message Queue, and Loghub.
Real-Time Orchestrations of Computing and Storage Resources
Allows you to orchestrate real-time computing and storage modes based on the specified dimensions and calculations.
Allows you to orchestrate real-time computing and storage modes based on the specified dimensions and calculations.
Quickly integrates the monitored datasets with the ARMS alarm and dashboard platform to provide monitoring capabilities in multiple scenarios.
Alarm and Dashboard Platform
Centralized alarm and dashboard capabilities.
Alarm Customization
Allows you to configure alarm policies based on the comparison results and metrics of various datasets.
Dashboard Customization
Presents monitored data in real time by using various visualizations, which can be applied to multiple scenarios such as online analysis and full-screen display.
How it works
Quick Building of Business Monitoring Capabilities
Quickly Build Business Monitoring Capabilities with Fast Response
Provides quick access to multiple data sources to help users quickly build multiple types of business monitoring capabilities and integrate with downstream applications.
Multiple Data Sources
Supports diversified data sources for monitoring.
Complex Aggregate Computing
Supports aggregate computing and storage to monitor distributed data.
Multiple Monitoring Result Presentation and Alarm Methods
Provides a centralized platform that integrates dashboards, alarms, and APIs.
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Complete Business Troubleshooting in Distributed Application Scenarios
Build a complete business troubleshooting system based on the trace information in a distributed environment.
Business Monitoring in a Distributed Environment
Quickly build a business monitoring system in a distributed environment.
Business Trace Query in a Distributed Environment
Allows you to query traces by BizIDs and trace IDs in a distributed environment, and query the relationships between BizIDs. For example, you can query the orders and logistics about a specific transaction, or you can query unusual transactions and the related commodities.
IoT Monitoring
IoT Monitoring for Large Amounts of Data
ARMS can quickly collect, calculate, demonstrate, and generate alerts for large amounts of IoT data. This can improve the compute and monitoring capabilities of IoT networks.
Mobile Terminals
PV and UV statistics on mobile apps, user region distribution statistics, and new and returning user statistics.
IoV statistics including the vehicle online ratio and faults.
Industrial Internet of Things
Production equipment statistics, including the production status, overall power, and information about unusual equipment.
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Sounds of Denmark
Maniscalco/Bigoni/Solborg with Special Guest Evan Parker
Last Show: Monday 19 th September 2016
PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)
Emanuele Maniscalco (piano), Francesco Bigoni (sax & clarinet) & Mark Solborg (guitar) create a melodic chamber-musical expression, contrasted by textures, preparations and microtonality. This is music with authenticity and presence, not attached to a particular genre or style. It is about musical conversation made for ears interested in dialogue. The trio will feature guest pioneering British free-improvising saxophonist Evan Parker.


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In 2015, Afrikan Magick Temple collaborated with Middlebury College's Centre for Careers and Internships (CCI) to create internship (volunteer) opportunities to serve our cause: the preservation and education of traditional West African spirituality and medicine. This unpaid internship opportunity is not limited to Middlebury College students.
The primary objective of the internship is to generate content for and promote our website. Interns will work with healers to create short clips, photo albums, podcasts, blog posts, etc. about specific themes in Vodu - gender, drum and dance, spirit possession, herbal medicine and more. Secondarily, they will digitally organize already existing shrine records.
Spanish and French speakers will be asked to translate some documents into English. Our efforts will be geared towards strengthening our online presence to facilitate the understanding and further research of Vodun as well as to generate a positive image for an age-old tradition that has been widely stigmatized and misunderstood.
We are looking for students adept in photography, filmmaking, web and app development, writing, social media marketing, or other pertinent fields. Above all, we are looking for creative interns who think critically and have an interest in learning about Vodun.
During their first few weeks in Ghana, interns will be immersed in the life of the Ewe people through various rituals, drum and dance sessions, as well as interactions with several Vodun priests (they are welcome but not required to practice with us). Interns will also have the opportunity to explore the rich culinary traditions, tropical landscape, and urban lifestyle of Accra, one of the most exciting and rapidly developing cities on the African Continent.
The shrine will accommodate for up to a month, ideally from July to August, however, dates are flexible. Food will be provided if requested, but at an additional cost.
Email Christopher Voncujovi (email@example.com) if interested with your resume and a short essay (400 words max) about why you want to volunteer with us. College students should get a letter of recommendation from a faculty member at their institution.