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The dessert naming scheme was one of the best-loved legacies from Google past. Every time the company got ready to release a new version of the mobile operating system, speculation would mount about which sweet foodstuff on which the company would ultimately settle. With that giant question mark waiting for it with the next release, the company's opted instead to abandon the beloved naming scheme.
Multiple reports this week claimed Google had quietly rolled out a more in-depth app review process to all developers -- changes designed to keep the Play Store safer from spam, malware and copycat apps. Instead, the company is giving itself more time to review apps from new, unestablished developers on the Play Store, as previously announced, but this hasn't been extended to all developers. The post cited a conversation with Google Support as the source for its claims.
Tesla Autopilot is usually in the news due to crashes. In August, a Tesla car crashed in Russia when the autopilot feature was turned on.
British tech firms brought in a record amount of funding in the first seven months of 2019, and over half was from the U.S. and Asia.
(Bloomberg) -- Tokyo is about to get another mound of capitalism.Mori Building Co. is spending 580 billion yen ($5.4 billion) on a new, 20-acre hub of commerce in the city's core. Similar in size to New York's Rockefeller Center, the complex will have shops, restaurants, 213,900 square meters of office space, 1,400 residences, a world-class hotel, an international school and the city's biggest food court.If this capital of 14 million has a king of the hills, it's the Mori real-estate empire. The new project will eclipse the builder's signature development, Roppongi Hills — home to Google and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. offices, and a magnet for shoppers and international visitors. The closely held company, whose late founder was once the country's richest man, is betting that more people — especially foreigners — will flock to live and work in Tokyo over the coming years."Japan's office market is behind in relative size and depth," Mari Kumagai, head of research at Colliers International Group Inc. "If you're serious about making money from buildings, you have to do this."Set to open in 2023, the new endeavor doesn't yet have a name. For now, it's called the Toranomon-Azabudai project, from the neighborhoods Mori will gobble up in Minato-ku, one of Tokyo's toniest enclaves. Starting with the 1986 debut of nearby Ark Hills, the real-estate developer has been relentless in its push to transform Tokyo's skyline with hefty buildings clad in steel and glass.Mori's properties often cater to foreign businesses and visitors, offering sanctuaries for them to stay, work and shop in a megalopolis that can be difficult to navigate. Signage and restaurant menus in the city still often lack English or other languages. Green spaces are still few and far between, and the view from the 52nd floor of Roppongi Hills betrays a sea of drab, gray low-rise homes and buildings that stretch to the horizon."This is going to become Tokyo's newest landmark," said Shingo Tsuji, Mori's chief executive officer. "We've spent 30 years thinking about this project, and how cities should be created."Mori's goal is to create a city within a city that people can "escape to, rather than flee from." Ground broke this month on the big new project, which will connect two subway stations and create a new arterial road to relieve the development's impact on vehicle traffic. Although the total footprint will be smaller than its predecessor, the new complex will have more floor space, with a 64-story main tower and two residential towers.When Mori embarked on its Roppongi project almost two decades ago, developers were jumping over each other to put up new buildings in Tokyo. Land prices were down 75% after Japan's economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, interest rates were on their way to zero and new zoning laws made it easier to combine lots for big projects.That bet may have paid off. Mori's new project is being built under a different scenario, coming after a long run-up in office space demand. Tokyo's real-estate market is thriving, with vacancy rates near record lows below 3%, according to Colliers, the real-estate investment and services firm.The big question is whether that trend will continue, as well as Mori's ability to keep riding the wave of mega projects. Although rental growth has been robust, Colliers predicts it will peak at around the current 5% before easing to an average of 0.8% over the next few years. All told, central Tokyo will have 70 major real-estate projects breaking ground from 2018 through 2023, according to the firm."The office market is doing really well, vacancies are coming down," said Patrick Wong, a Bloomberg Intelligence analyst. "The issue is whether rents can keep going up further."Tokyo isn't the only frothy real-estate market in the region. Singapore and Sydney are also seeing low office-leasing vacancies as companies hire more people. Last month, the government of Singapore clamped down on speculative buying and selling, with the central bank citing "euphoria" in the property market.At the same time, protests in Hong Kong have put the brakes on demand for central office space in China's special administrative region. Spooked investors are turning elsewhere to places such as Singapore, which saw private home sales surge a sequential 43.5% in July. Although no multinational corporations have said they're leaving Hong Kong, it's probably on their mind, according to Wong. "This could be an opportunity for Tokyo," he said.That's music to the ears of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who in 2014 pushed to establish new strategic special zones in Tokyo and other cities as part of his Abenomics revitalization plan. The areas of Tokyo that fall under those zones, which offer deregulation and other incentives, are right where Mori has been developing properties for decades.No surprise, then, that the Toranomon-Azabudai mega project has been 30 years in the making. Work on it started even before Roppongi Hills. For its major projects, Mori's employees spend years going door to door, persuading local residents and property owners to hand over their land in exchange for prime residential space in the new buildings.It's hardly a coincidence that Mori's suffix for its biggest developments — there's also Toranomon Hills and Atago Green Hills — harks back to that other chichi neighborhood, Beverly Hills. It's also a nod to the Japanese word, Yamanote. Transliterated as "the hill's hand," the term refers to the more desirable, hilly neighborhoods west of the Imperial Palace in feudal Tokyo that now include Mori's properties."We've poured everything we've learned from our Hills projects into this new development," Tsuji said.Mori's ultimate vision is to link up all of its properties into an uber-complex of offices, homes and retail space. Although the developer is going to unveil the project's name just before it opens for business, odds favor it will end with "Hills."(Updates with analyst's comment in fourth paragraph. A previous version of this story corrected the timeframe of projects.)\--With assistance from Hiromi Horie.To contact the reporter on this story: Reed Stevenson in Tokyo at email@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Emma O'Brien at email@example.com, Reed Stevenson, Jeff SutherlandFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
(Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc. removed hundreds of accounts linked to the Chinese government this week meant to undermine the legitimacy of Hong Kong protests. It also said it would no longer allow state media to purchase ads on its platform.What Twitter didn't mention in its series of blog posts this week was the increasing number of Chinese officials, diplomats, media, and government agencies using the social media service to push Beijing's political agenda abroad. Twitter employees actually help some of these people get their messages across, a practice that hasn't been previously reported. The company provides certain officials with support, like verifying their accounts and training them on how to amplify messages, including with the use of hashtags.This is despite a ban on Twitter in China, which means most people on the mainland can't use the service or see opposing views from abroad. Still, in the last few days, an account belonging to the Chinese ambassador to Panama took to Twitter to share videos painting Hong Kong protesters as vigilantes. He also responded to Panamanian users' tweets about the demonstrations, which began in opposition to a bill allowing extraditions to China.China's ambassador to the U.S. tweeted that "radical protesters" were eroding the rule of law embraced by the silentmajority of Hong Kongers. The Chinese Mission to the United Nations' Twitter account asked protesters to "stop the violence, for a better Hong Kong," while social media accounts of Chinese embassies in Manila, India and the Maldives shared articles from China's state media blaming Westerners for disrupting the city. "Separatists in Hong Kong kept in close contact with foreign elements," one story says above a photo of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence."We know China is adept at controlling domestic information, but now they are trying to use Western platforms like Twitter to control the narrative on the international stage," said Jacob Wallis, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's International Cyber Policy Centre.It's unclear if any of these diplomats were set up on the service by Twitter, but the state-backed attempt to discredit Hong Kong protesters continues to reach millions of global Twitter users. In many cases, the Chinese officials are promoting views similar to those in 936 accounts Twitter banned on Monday.The practice of supporting Chinese officials who use Twitter to spread the Communist Party agenda highlights how difficult it is for the social media company to balance its commitment to root out disinformation and allow the expression of varying opinions. It also raises concerns around why Twitter is helping Beijing make its case to a global audience when the service is banned in China, where dissenting voices are prohibited and officials sometimes detain users accessing the platform through virtual private networks.Twitter's recent effort to curtail China's government-directed misinformation campaigns, which provoked outrage from state media, seems at odds with continuing to welcome pro-Beijing accounts that attack Hong Kong protesters, said Wallis."There's a clear tension for Twitter here having seen that Beijing is willing to use the platform in deceptive and manipulative ways, whilst desiring to use the platform for state diplomacy," Wallis said.The tweets are part of a broader campaign by China to reshape the narrative over Hong Kong, particularly in Western nations more sympathetic to the democratic aspirations of protesters. China this week also sent a 43-page letter to senior editors at foreign news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Bloomberg.Twitter says it works with public officials and politicians around the world, not just in China, and that everyone deserves a voice in the public discourse, as long as they follow its rules and policies. The company has used the same argument to defend hosting tweets by U.S. President Donald Trump, which some users have questioned. Twitter has said it aims to "advance global, public conversation" and that public figures "play a critical role in that conversation because of their out-sized impact on our society," in a blog post last year.On Monday, Twitter said in a blog post that it would block more than 900 accounts because they appeared to be part of a "coordinated state-backed operation" to "sow political discord in Hong Kong." Some of the accounts accessed Twitter from unblocked IP addresses within mainland China, it said, suggesting the state condoned their activities. Twitter also said it would stop accepting advertising from state-controlled media: "Any affected accounts will be free to continue to use Twitter to engage in public conversation, just not our advertising products."Twitter's embrace of Chinese officials on the platform also highlights how some American tech companies try to make inroads in the enormous market, despite government restrictions on their services. Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg, for example, has repeatedly expressed a desire to enter China. Twitter oversees the China business from offices in Hong Kong and Singapore.Like Google, Facebook and other sites blocked in China, Twitter sells advertising to Chinese companies like Huawei Technologies Co. and Xiaomi Corp. that are trying to reach overseas users. Before Twitter's policy change this week, it had also sold ad space to Chinese state media companies that used them to push the narrative that Hong Kong protests were orchestrated by foreign forces and angry mobs unrepresentative of the city's majority.Facebook said it has trained Chinese state media entities to use its services, but declined to comment on whether it also works with government officials. "We provide a standard set of guidance and best practice training to groups around the world including governments, political parties, media outlets, and non-profits so they can manage their Facebook Pages," the company said in a statement, noting that their guidance is publicly available online.YouTube, part of Alphabet Inc., doesn't have a specific policy that bars state-funded media, but the company's ad policies require government-funded channels to be labeled as such. This week, state media including the Global Times published videos about the Hong Kong demonstrations, including an interview with a police officer who said he was "critically injured by violent protesters." The company didn't immediately respond to requests for comment on the matter.Both Twitter and Facebook have established programs to make sure public figures around the world sign up for their sites and understand how to use them effectively. The idea is that people who have a following — athletes, actors or singers — will create interest for their other users in the website. For years, the work has extended to politics, with the social networks signing up and training political figures. For example, Facebook has embedded staff with or trained Trump; Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, known for encouraging extrajudicial killings; and Germany's anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party (AfD) in how to most effectively use the platform, Bloomberg News has reported.Twitter and Facebook have implemented terms of service that ban certain practices, including bot accounts that appear to be real people and promote misinformation. But government officials and state media still have wide latitude to say what they want."If Trump is going to use Twitter to deliver his message to the Chinese government, then it makes perfect sense China should be using this medium to send signals back," said Samm Sacks, cybersecurity policy and China digital economy fellow at think tank New America. "But then we get into this coordinated state misinformation domain and it raises problematic questions around what is propaganda and what is misinformation."(Updates with Facebook's comment five paragraphs from the bottom.)\--With assistance from Mark Bergen, Kurt Wagner and Daniel Ten Kate.To contact the reporters on this story: Shelly Banjo in Hong Kong at email@example.com;Sarah Frier in San Francisco at email@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Peter Elstrom at firstname.lastname@example.com, Edwin ChanFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Teleportation sounds cool. Cybersecurity in public spaces is even cooler.
Advances in technology can allow you to order food by voice or unlock your phone with your face, but those new capabilities could take a toll on the environment.
San Jose lawmakers have created a zone next to Diridon Station in which the city will charge an impact fee on top of building permits there to pay for an estimated $74 million in infrastructure expenses the city expects to incur. The new fee is likely to be the first of many new levies the council will be asked to charge as Google and other developers work on big projects in the area.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is down 0.4% YTD, lagging the S&P 500's 14.3% gain. For such an established company, the stock has seen a lot of movement in the past year.
Hey Google, who is the best digital assistant? If you ask your Google Assistant that question, it would be able to immodestly proclaim itself the best — though if it's being honest, it should give its competitors credit and say they're pretty good too. The test posed 800 questions to each assistant.
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The DOJ's antitrust chief said he was working with several state attorneys general to investigate alleged anti-competitive behavior of big tech companies.
Hedge funds soured on technology stocks such as Alphabet in the second quarter, but increased their exposure to potentially politically sensitive health-care stocks.
News of Waze adding YouTube Music to its list of audio partners is good for commuters.Source: Piotr Swat / Shutterstock.com According to a recent press release, YouTube Music is now available to some users of the Waze app. However, not everyone has access to it just yet. The release notes that support is being added over time and that all 50 markets where YouTube Music is available will have the feature soon.Waze adding YouTube Music to its service comes as it expands audio options for users. This gives them the ability to choose between various music and podcast streaming services for listening to while they drive.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading TipsWaze users that want to make use of the YouTube Music option will have to have a subscription to YouTube Music Premium or YouTube Premium. Anyone new that wants to try it out can check out a one-month free trial of the music streaming service."All of the albums, playlists, personalized mixes, and more that fans love to listen to are now available with a couple of quick taps as they navigate to where they need to go," Lawrence Kennedy, Product Manager for YouTube Music, said in a statement. "With YouTube Music and Waze together in one experience, there has never been a more entertaining way to get around." * 10 Marijuana Stocks to Ride High on the Farm Bill YouTube Music coming to Waze doesn't come as much of a surprise. It was only a matter of time with both of the companies belonging to Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOG,GOOGL) Google. More From InvestorPlace * 2 Toxic Pot Stocks You Should Avoid * 10 Marijuana Stocks to Ride High on the Farm Bill * 8 Biotech Stocks to Watch After the Q2 Earnings Season * 7 Unusual, Growth-Oriented REITs to Buy for Your Portfolio As of this writing, William White did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.The post Waze Adding YouTube Music to Its List of Audio Partners appeared first on InvestorPlace.
(Bloomberg) -- The co-founder of DeepMind, the high-profile artificial intelligence lab owned by Google, has been placed on leave after controversy over some of the projects he led.Mustafa Suleyman runs DeepMind's "applied" division, which seeks practical uses for the lab's research in health, energy and other fields. Suleyman is also a key public face for DeepMind, speaking to officials and at events about the promise of AI and the ethical guardrails needed to limit malicious use of the technology."Mustafa is taking time out right now after 10 hectic years," a DeepMind spokeswoman said. She didn't say why he was put on leave.Suleyman did not return multiple email requests for comment. He founded DeepMind in 2010 alongside current Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis. Four years later, Google bought DeepMind for 400 million pounds (currently $486 million), an ambitious bet on the potential of AI that set off an expensive race in Silicon Valley for specialists in the field.DeepMind soon began working on health-care research, eventually creating a division dedicated to the area. Suleyman, nicknamed "Moose" and whose mother was a nurse, led the development of the DeepMind Health team, building it into a 100-person unit.But DeepMind was heavily criticized for its work in the U.K. health sector. DeepMind Health's first product was a mobile app called Streams that was originally designed to help doctors identify patients at risk of developing acute kidney injury. In July 2017, the U.K.'s data privacy watchdog said DeepMind's partner in the project, London's Royal Free Hospital, illegally gave DeepMind access to 1.6 million patient records. Suleyman apologized in a statement at the time.In late 2018, Alphabet Inc.'s Google said the team that created Streams would join a new Google division called Google Health. The DeepMind Health brand was shelved, and Suleyman was removed from the day-to-day running of the unit.Suleyman sat on an external panel of experts Google created to review thorny ethical issues related to AI. Bloomberg News also reported that he served on a smaller group within the company to vet particular projects, formed after an uproar over a Google AI contract with the Pentagon.To contact the reporters on this story: Giles Turner in London at email@example.com;Mark Bergen in San Francisco at firstname.lastname@example.com contact the editors responsible for this story: Tom Giles at firstname.lastname@example.com, Alistair BarrFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Shares of Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) posted stellar earnings when they reported two weeks ago, but have since fallen along with the rest of the market. The GOOGL stock chart shows the big spike after earnings and since then, the stock has drifted lower.So what does this mean for investors? Strong Results for GOOGL StockAnalysts were expecting revenues of $38.21 billion and GAAP EPS of $11.17 per share. Alphabet stock crushed expectation by reporting revenue of $38.94 billion and GAAP EPS of $14.21 per share. InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading TipsSource: TradingView.com The strong results led to shares of Alphabet being up more than 10% the day after they reported earnings. This was the largest single day gain since July of 2015. Looking beneath the headline numbers for each major segment, you can see that each area showed growth above what analysts were expecting. The clear source of growth came from the "Google Other" segment, which is where the cloud division data is. In addition, YouTube was a strong point of growth as well. Two quotes from the conference call show the importance of YouTube and the cloud business. * 10 Marijuana Stocks to Ride High on the Farm Bill The first comes from Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai: "Q2 was another strong quarter for Google Cloud, which reached an annual revenue run rate of over $8 billion and continues to grow at a significant pace."And CFO Ruth Porat said, "In the second quarter, YouTube was again the second largest contributor of revenue growth. And really pleased with the ongoing momentum that we're seeing here."Just look at the numbers they reported:-Properties, $27.34 billion vs. est. $27.26 billion-Ads, $32.6 billion vs. est. $32.58 billion-Other, $6.18 billion vs. est. of $5.63 billion Alphabet Share Buybacks and Regulatory RisksOne of the items investors may have overlooked in the earnings press release is the fact Alphabet authorized the repurchase of $25 billion in Alphabet class C stock, which is the ticker GOOG.When you look at cash flow and the balance sheet, it is easy to see that Alphabet can support large share repurchases. Over the last year, Alphabet has generated over $27 billion in free cash flow, and as of the most recent earnings report, Alphabet noted that it had about $121 billion in cash and marketable securities.Even with all the positives Alphabet has, one of the main risks in the stock is regulatory risk. "The head of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said he's prepared to break up major technology platforms if necessary," according to a Bloomberg article.In addition, as election season heats up over the next year, there will be continued talk on the Democratic side of aisle about breaking up large companies. Then on the other side of the aisle, President Donald Trump recently made news by accusing Alphabet of illegal actions. Therefore, GOOGL stock could be in the crosshairs of both political parties over the next year as the 2020 election approaches. Bottom LineThe bottom line for Alphabet is they reported strong results, generate a ton of cash and have a stellar balance sheet. While there is a potential for regulatory risk and political risk, the company looks compelling right now. Buybacks only sweeten the pot. For now, pullbacks are opportunities in GOOGL stock.As of this writing, Brad Kenagy did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. More From InvestorPlace * 2 Toxic Pot Stocks You Should Avoid * 10 Marijuana Stocks to Ride High on the Farm Bill * 8 Biotech Stocks to Watch After the Q2 Earnings Season * 7 Unusual, Growth-Oriented REITs to Buy for Your Portfolio The post Market Pullback Creates Opportunity In Alphabet appeared first on InvestorPlace.
(Bloomberg) -- Three companies — Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. — quietly dominate the world of cloud computing.With more more than 100 giant data centers worldwide, they rent out computing power to all manner of customers, making billions of dollars along the way. In fact, cloud computing has done more to fuel Amazon's earnings in recent years than its e-commerce business.But there's a threat looming on the horizon, quite literally at the edge of the network. With so many mobile devices and sensors now connected to the internet — and relying on artificial intelligence — more people and companies need their computing power close to them. For everything from fast analysis of road conditions to streaming holographic concerts, remote data centers are just too far away.That's going to hand a huge opportunity to wireless carriers, which are building fast 5G networks to handle the task. And create a threat for the dominant cloud-computing players, according to telecom analyst Chetan Sharma. "Over time, cloud will be primarily used for storage and running longer computational models, while most of the processing of data and AI inference will take place at the edge," said Sharma, who just wrote a report on the topic sponsored by software provider AlefEdge Inc. He pegs the size of this so-called edge-computing market at more than $4 trillion by 2030.Wireless carriers and the owners of cell towers have a big advantage in the edge-computing race: Not only do they control access to high-speed telecommunications networks, they have valuable real estate, such as tens of thousands of cell sites all over the country.Cloud computing isn't going away by any means. But there's more pressure on the industry's Big Three to team up with wireless carriers, so they're not left out of the burgeoning edge market."The big players realize that at a minimum they need to partner up with operators to get access to their real-estate property," Sharma said.Already, AT&T Inc. — the second-largest U.S. wireless carrier — has joined forces with Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp., two cloud providers."Our goal is that our partners are wildly successful," said Sam George, a cloud executive at Microsoft. "If our partners are wildly successful, we'll be wildly successful. There's a lot of money to be made for partners."Amazon and Google declined to comment on their plans.AT&T has hundreds of workers focused on edge computing, and it's "a core part of our 5G strategy," said Mo Katibeh, chief marketing officer of AT&T's business division."This is one that takes a village."IBM, meanwhile, is also working with carrier Vodafone Group Plc in Europe."The networks are essentially themselves becoming a cloud," said Steve Canepa, IBM's global managing director for the telecom industry. "The telcos today have a point of presence at the edge, and that becomes a great place to have an extension of the platform."Cloud providers in China — such as Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. — invested in carrier China Unicom two years ago. And more such investments and partnerships could be coming, Sharma said.For other tech companies, including chipmakers like Intel Corp., the hope is the shift leads to a bigger opportunity for everyone."We see a rapid convergence between the cloud providers and connectivity providers," said Caroline Chan, a general manager at Intel. "In our view, it's a bigger pie."Other telecom players are angling to team up with both carriers and cloud providers. Crown Castle International Corp., which owns fiber lines as well as more than 40,000 cell towers in the U.S., is in talks with the two camps, said Paul Reddick, a vice president at the company.Crown Castle also is an investor in startup Vapor IO, which is deploying edge computing this year in six metro areas, including Chicago."I would say this is one that takes a village," Reddick said.Other projects are already well underway. At CenturyLink Inc., about 100 facilities that used to store telecom equipment are now outfitted with servers. And it's making them available to corporate customers in sectors like retail and industrial robotics."We've already sold these facilities to a number of customers that need to get that compute closer to the network edge," said Paul Savill, a senior vice president at CenturyLink. "We've seen enough activity in this space that we can confidently build out this infrastructure."To contact the author of this story: Olga Kharif in Portland at email@example.com contact the editor responsible for this story: Nick Turner at firstname.lastname@example.com more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Google's (GOOGL) search dominance is about to increase. The Internet giant has made its much-awaited Google Go Search app available worldwide.
Google LLC plans to sublease Akamai Technologies Inc.'s current headquarters when the Cambridge-based internet giant moves into its newly constructed home across the street. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) will occupy floors two through nine at 150 Broadway, and plans a fall 2020 move in. Akamai will keep the first floor, but plans to move into its new headquarters at 145 Broadway this November, a spokesperson said. "Google has finalized a deal to sublease office space from Akamai at 150 Broadway," a Google spokesperson said in an email to the Business Journal. "This will serve as additional space to accommodate our continued short-term and long-term growth in Cambridge." Office and lab vacancy in Cambridge's Kendall Square has been near zero for some time, as tech and biotechnology tenants flood the neighborhood in search of skilled talent and proximity to nearby institutions like MIT and Harvard University.
Gamescom 2019 began this week with the announcement of some exciting cross-platform games. Developers certainly didn't disappoint.
Roku (NASDAQ:ROKU) unquestionably has had an incredible 2019. Earnings continue to beat expectations. Growth has impressed. The ROKU stock price has soared, climbing 348% to this point. Among stocks with a market capitalization over $4 billion, not one has come close. Snap (NYSE:SNAP) is in second place, with a paltry-by-comparison 184% gain.Source: jejim / Shutterstock.com Even after those gains, ROKU stock looks reasonably cheap -- at least by the standards of this tech market. The midpoint of revenue guidance for 2019 suggests a roughly 14x enterprise value/revenue multiple. In a market where Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) is getting 25x+ and double-digit EV/sales multiples aren't uncommon, that figure isn't necessarily out of line.With Roku's pole position among cord-cutting and international possibilities, that type of multiple seems merited. But I'm no longer sure that's the case. The issue isn't necessarily the headline multiple. Investors mostly have done well by paying up for growth in this market. It's that, looking closer, Roku's current valuation for several reasons looks highly questionable -- even if, admittedly, I've made that argument before.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Player Revenue Shouldn't Count for the ROKU Stock PriceAgain, 14x revenue isn't that crazy in this market, even if that statement alone makes some investors wonder if the entire market has gone crazy at this point. But it's important to remember, as I've noted before, that not all of Roku's revenue is worth paying up for.The company's guidance, updated after this month's second-quarter earnings report, is for revenue of $1.1 billion at the midpoint. But roughly one-third of those sales are coming from Roku players -- which are actually unprofitable. * 10 Undervalued Stocks With Breakout Potential Player gross margin in the second quarter was just 5.5%. Gross profit dollars for players over the past four quarters total just $23 million -- suggesting 6.5% gross margins. Given that research and development spending alone has been over $200 million during that stretch, the player business obviously is a loss leader for the company's platform business.And that's fine. Platform revenue is growing at an exponential rate: 79% year-over-year in Q1 and 86% in Q2. But investors shouldn't be paying 14x revenue -- or really, anything, for the player revenue.Back out those hardware sales, and the ROKU stock price now sits above 20x this year's revenue. That is a multiple that, on its face, looks questionable. It's a multiple assigned to companies that have the potential for dominance of their market. Roku isn't necessarily one of those companies, at least not yet. The Market Share QuestionWhat's interesting about Roku is that it's driving growth while facing competition from absolute giants. This is a company going directly against Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) -- three of the four most valuable companies in the world. It has leading market share in terms of streaming devices in use.But it's still a relatively fragmented market. And in smart TVs, which is where Roku management itself believes streaming is going to go, its share in the first half of this year was "more than one in three," according to the shareholder letter.To be sure, Roku may be able to take share over time. More users means more data, which combined with the company's machine learning capabilities improves the experience. The Roku Channel increasingly looks like a gateway to streaming. It also looks like a business in which Roku can take dollars from streaming services, take dollars from advertisers and potentially take eyeballs (and maybe at some point dollars) through its own content.Still, Roku seems potentially unlikely to ever truly dominate the space. Competition is always going to be a factor -- and those larger rivals can find a way to undercut on pricing for streaming services and for advertisers. At 20x+ platform revenue, an investor should at least think she's buying the clear winner in an industry. That's not yet guaranteed to be the case. Where Does Streaming Go?The broader question is that this remains an industry still in the early stages -- which means Roku's long-term role in the ecosystem may change over time. Right now, there are dozens of streaming services of all sizes -- with more on the way. Disney (NYSE:DIS), Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA), and AT&T's (NYSE:T) unit WarnerMedia all are launching major efforts within the next 12 months.But many of the existing services -- and possibly one or two of the larger offerings out there -- are going to go by the wayside at some point. The glut of so-called virtual multi-channel video programming distributors like YouTube TV, Sling, DIRECTV NOW and others will ease.Roku's potential base of advertising customers, in particular, is likely to peak in the next 12-18 months. A less-fragmented streaming universe would give more power back to the winners -- and lower overall demand and pricing power for Roku.From a broad standpoint, there are simply a lot of questions here. Roku certainly is going to grow going forward. This is not the next TiVo (NASDAQ:TIVO). But, again, this is a stock selling at 20x its key revenue stream -- and something like 400x 2019 adjusted EBITDA.It's a valuation that leaves little room for questions. And it's a valuation that is likely to recede if, at some point, those questions are raised.As of this writing, Vince Martin has no positions in any securities mentioned. More From InvestorPlace * 2 Toxic Pot Stocks You Should Avoid * 10 Marijuana Stocks to Ride High on the Farm Bill * 8 Biotech Stocks to Watch After the Q2 Earnings Season * 7 Unusual, Growth-Oriented REITs to Buy for Your Portfolio The post Why the Roku Stock Price Needs to Pull Back appeared first on InvestorPlace.
The 13F filing showed that George Soros bought almost 500,000 Slack (WORK) shares at an average price of $37.5 per share during the second quarter.


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Age, distribution & lithology of the Sheldon Creek Formation, north central Iowa; Geological Society of America, South-Central Section, 41st annual meeting; Geological Society of America, North-Central Section, 41st annual meeting
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New data is presented concerning the distribution, lithology, and age of glacial diamicton of the Sheldon Creek Formation of northern Iowa. This mid Wisconsin unit is exposed at the land surface with a thin loess mantle in northwest Iowa (the "Tazewell Till Plain"), and as "extramorainic drift" east of the Des Moines Lobe. The Sheldon Creek Fm. is buried either by glacial diamicton of the Dows Fm. or by Peoria Loess beneath the Des Moines Lobe in north central Iowa. The unit does not appear to exist beneath the Des Moines Lobe south of the Altamont I Moraine. Radiocarbon ages obtained from wood and organic-rich sediment found below, at the base of, within, and at the top of the Sheldon Creek Fm. indicate that the unit was deposited by at least two Wisconsin glacial advances dating from approximately 40,000 to 26,000 years before present. The Sheldon Creek and overlying Dows Formations share many lithologic characteristics, with both units containing clasts of Cretaceous Pierre Shale. However, these clasts are more abundant in the Dows Fm. than they are in the Sheldon Creek Fm. The presence of Pierre Shale indicates that both the Des Moines Lobe and the glacial ice that deposited the Sheldon Creek Fm. advanced from the northwest. Current work involves detailed analysis of the lithologic characteristics of the 1-2 mm sand fraction, and the clay mineralogy of these two units.
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Thanks for reading my post that will probably not be a help to anybody but me. I am designing a mid level undergraduate course that uses human disease to teach genetics and technological advances in researching these diseases. For example sickle cell anemia for protein sequencing and adaptative tradeoff and hemophilia A for sex-linked diseases and blood disorders. I am looking for a well known disease that had the disease causing gene or pathway identified by proteomics. Preferable something that could have only been discovered this way. This is a basic genetics course so I have been having problems finding clear cut cases.
Best example of proteomics contributing to understanding human disease
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Here's one possibility. Around 2000, DNA sequencing had progressed to the point that a multi-center study investigated the genomes of 21 different human cancer cell lines. Three were melanomas. All three melanoma lines proved to have defects in the same protein: B-Raf. This is the kinase downstream from the RAS kinase in the RAS phosphorylation cascade. They then scrutinized the gene for B-Raf in a large numbers of melanomas, and 60% of those had defects in that gene. A company called Plexxicon was started to hunt for small molecules that could inhibit the mutant form of B-Raf but not the normal one. They found one: PLX4032, cf. the story in Chemical & Engineering News on Sept. 8, 2010. This drug caused tumors to shrink in 81% of melanoma cases that had stopped responding to other treatment, an unheard-of response rate. Subsequently some of the melanomas developed resistance to the drug. Further investigation via proteomics revealed the existence of pathways in the RAS cascade that bypassed the blocked B-Raf step. Mapping the networks of protein interactions like this is a hot topic in proteomics research at the moment. Does this example serve your purpose?
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That seems like a good one.
Thanks. I will use this as an example.
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Wednesday evening
Monday evening
Opening response
Favor us, Lord, and deliver us.
Lord, come quickly and help us.
In your resurrection, O Christ,
let heaven and earth rejoice. Alleluia.
Prayer of thanksgiving
Blessed are you, Sovereign Lord,
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
to you be glory and praise forever.
From the deep waters of death
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Blessed be God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Blessed be God forever.
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Silence is kept.
As our evening prayer rises before you, O God,
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now and forever.
Abba, Father, Hear Thy Child
Charles Wesley
Abba, Father, hear thy child,
Late in Jesus reconciled;
Hear, and all the graces shower,
All the joy, and peace, and power;
All my Savior asks above,
All the life and heaven of love.
Lord, I will not let thee go
Till the blessing thou bestow:
Hear my Advocate divine;
Lo! To his my suit I join;
Joined to his, it cannot fail;
Bless me; for I will prevail.
Heavenly Father, Life divine,
Change my nature into thine;
Move, and spread throughout my soul,
Actuate, and fill the whole:
Be it I no longer now
Living in the flesh, but thou.
Holy Ghost, no more delay;
Come, and in thy temple stay:
Now thine inward witness bear,
Strong, and permanent, and clear:
Spring of life, thyself impart;
Rise eternal in my heart
Confession of sin
Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor.
Silence may be kept.
Most merciful God,
we confess that we have sinned against you
in thought, word, and deed,
by what we have done,
and by what we have left undone.
We have not loved you with our whole heart;
we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ,
have mercy on us and forgive us;
that we may delight in your will,
and walk in your ways,
to the glory of your name. Amen.
Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins
through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all
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Psalm 128
How abundant is your goodness, Lord.
Everyone who honors the Lord,
who walks in God's ways, is truly happy!
You will definitely enjoy what you've worked hard for—
you'll be happy; and things will go well for you.
In your house, your wife will be like a vine full of fruit.
All around your table, your children will be like olive trees, freshly planted.
That's how it goes for anyone who honors the Lord:
they will be blessed!
May the Lord bless you from Zion.
May you experience Jerusalem's goodness your whole life long.
And may you see your grandchildren.
Peace be on Israel!
Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning is now
and will be forever. Amen.
How abundant is your goodness, Lord.
Psalm prayer
O Christ, our true vine,
may we your branches
be ever fruitful in your service
and share your love and peace with all your children,
in the power of the Spirit and to the glory of the Father.
Psalm 129
I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise will always be in my mouth.
From youth, people have constantly attacked me—
let Israel now repeat!—
from youth people have constantly attacked me—
but they haven't beaten me!
They plowed my back like farmers;
they made their furrows deep.
But the Lord is righteous—
God cut me free from the ropes of the wicked!
Let everyone who hates Zion be ashamed, thoroughly frustrated.
Let them be like grass on a roof
that dies before it can be pulled up,
which won't fill the reaper's hand
or fill the harvester's arms.
Let no one who passes by say to them:
"May the Lord's blessing be on you!
We bless you in the Lord's name!"
Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning is now
and will be forever. Amen.
I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise will always be in my mouth.
Psalm prayer
Jesus our redeemer,
you bore the cut of the lash
for us and our salvation;
help us to bear our sufferings
and to share in the affliction
of all who suffer for your holy name.
Psalm 130
My whole being waits for my Lord.
I cry out to you from the depths, Lord—
my Lord, listen to my voice!
Let your ears pay close attention to my request for mercy!
If you kept track of sins, Lord—
my Lord, who would stand a chance?
But forgiveness is with you—
that's why you are honored.
I hope, Lord.
My whole being hopes,
and I wait for God's promise.
My whole being waits for my Lord—
more than the night watch waits for morning;
yes, more than the night watch waits for morning!
Israel, wait for the Lord!
Because faithful love is with the Lord;
because great redemption is with our God!
He is the one who will redeem Israel
from all its sin.
Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning is now
and will be forever. Amen.
My whole being waits for my Lord.
Psalm prayer
Father, we commend to your faithful love
those who are crying from the depths;
help them to watch and pray
through their time of darkness,
in sure hope of the dawn of your
forgiveness and redemption;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Psalm 131
Israel, wait for the Lord.
Lord, my heart isn't proud;
my eyes aren't conceited.
I don't get involved with things too great or wonderful for me.
No. But I have calmed and quieted myself
like a weaned child on its mother;
I'm like the weaned child that is with me.
Israel, wait for the Lord—
from now until forever from now!
Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning is now
and will be forever. Amen.
Israel, wait for the Lord.
Psalm prayer
Eternal God,
calm and quiet our souls;
keep us humble and full of wonder
and trusting as we live in your love;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Old Testament reading
Numbers 16:36-50
The Lord spoke to Moses: Tell Eleazar, Aaron the priest's son, to raise the censers from the fire and scatter the ashes about, because they are holy. Hammer the censers of those who sinned and lost their lives into thin plates for the altar. Since they presented them in the Lord's presence, they had become holy. They will be a sign for the Israelites.
Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been consumed by fire and hammered them into a covering for the altar, just as the Lord instructed him through Moses. This was a reminder for the Israelites that no outsider who isn't one of Aaron's descendants should approach to burn incense in the Lord's presence, so as not to be like Korah and his community.
On the next day the entire Israelite community complained to Moses and Aaron, "You killed the Lord's people." When the community assembled against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the meeting tent. At that moment the cloud covered it, and the Lord's glory appeared. Moses and Aaron came to the front of the meeting tent, and the Lord spoke to Moses: Get away from this community, so that I may consume them in an instant.
They fell on their faces, and Moses said to Aaron, "Take the censer, put fire from the altar on it, place incense on it, go quickly to the community, and seek reconciliation for them. Indeed, the Lord's anger has gone out. The plague has begun." Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the middle of the assembly, for the plague had already begun among the people. He burned incense and sought reconciliation for the people. He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague stopped. Those who died from the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, in addition to those who died because of Korah. Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the meeting tent once the plague stopped.
Silence may be kept.
New Testament reading
Luke 6:39-49
Jesus also told them a riddle. "A blind person can't lead another blind person, right? Won't they both fall into a ditch? Disciples aren't greater than their teacher, but whoever is fully prepared will be like their teacher. Why do you see the splinter in your brother's or sister's eye but don't notice the log in your own eye? How can you say to your brother or sister, 'Brother, Sister, let me take the splinter out of your eye,' when you don't see the log in your own eye? You deceive yourselves! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother's or sister's eye.
"A good tree doesn't produce bad fruit, nor does a bad tree produce good fruit. Each tree is known by its own fruit. People don't gather figs from thorny plants, nor do they pick grapes from prickly bushes. A good person produces good from the good treasury of the inner self, while an evil person produces evil from the evil treasury of the inner self. The inner self overflows with words that are spoken.
"Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord' and don't do what I say? I'll show what it's like when someone comes to me, hears my words, and puts them into practice. It's like a person building a house by digging deep and laying the foundation on bedrock. When the flood came, the rising water smashed against that house, but the water couldn't shake the house because it was well built. But those who don't put into practice what they hear are like a person who built a house without a foundation. The floodwater smashed against it and it collapsed instantly. It was completely destroyed."
Silence may be kept.
Gospel canticle
The Magnificat (The Song of Mary)
The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. Alleluia.
With all my heart I glorify the Lord!
In the depths of who I am I rejoice in God my savior.
He has looked with favor on the low status of his servant.
Look! From now on, everyone will consider me highly favored
because the mighty one has done great things for me.
Holy is his name.
He shows mercy to everyone,
from one generation to the next,
who honors him as God.
He has shown strength with his arm.
He has scattered those with arrogant thoughts and proud inclinations.
He has pulled the powerful down from their thrones
and lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things
and sent the rich away empty-handed.
He has come to the aid of his servant Israel,
remembering his mercy,
just as he promised to our ancestors,
to Abraham and to Abraham's descendants forever.
Luke 1:46-55
Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning is now
and will be forever. Amen.
The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. Alleluia.
Brief silence.
The Apostle's Creed
Let us unite in this historic confession of the Christian faith:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
Thanksgiving and intercession
Thanksgiving may be made for the day.
Intercessions are offered
for peace
for individuals and their needs
Prayers may include the following concerns:
The people of God, that they may proclaim the risen Lord
God's creation, that the peoples of the earth may meet their responsibility to care
Those in despair and darkness, that they may find the hope and light of Christ
Those in fear of death, that they may find faith through the resurrection
Prisoners and captives
Other intercessions and supplications may be offered as the Holy Spirit leads.
Lord of life
In your mercy, hear us.
Silence may be kept.
Collect of the day
God our redeemer,
you have delivered us from the power of darkness
and brought us into the kingdom of your Son:
grant, that as by his death he has recalled us to life,
so by his continual presence in us he may raise us
to eternal joy;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and forever.
The Lord's Prayer
Rejoicing in God's new creation, as our Savior taught us, so we pray
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours
now and forever.
May the risen Christ grant us the joys of eternal life.


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Who's Phil?
Phil is a proud AEA actor and even prouder native Brooklynite. In NYC, he's performed Off-Broadway at the Irish Rep, Abingdon, Theatre Row, The Sheen Center, Axis Theatre Company. Phil was a 2014 founding company member of Drunk Shakespeare, which continues performances today Off-Broadway and in Chicago. He's played Hamlet twice professionally, and has worked regionally with a variety of theater companies. He's appeared on TV, in films, and in national commercials.
Where's Phil?
"The Price for Silence"
Hollywood, NYC, Amazon
This award-winning Indie Film will play in Hollywood at Arena Cinelounge starting on July 23. Starting July 26, it will also play for two weeks in NYC at Cinema Village. The film is also now available on Amazon - click here to rent, buy, or stream with Amazon Prime!
"Picket Fence"
Greenpoint Film Festival
Phil plays a lead role in this film, which premiered at the Big Apple Film Festival in February. It will also be screening on May 4th at the Greenpoint Film Festival.
"The Price for Silence"
Film Festivals Worldwide
Phil plays a supporting role in the SAG Feature "The Price for Silence." The film continues its festival tour through winter and spring of 2019, with stops at the Garden State, London Indie, LA Cinefest, Beaufort, Idyllwild, Great Lakes International, Wales Film Festivals, and more! It was the winner of the Accolade Global Film Competition, and has taken home various awards from its many festival appearances. Distribution news to come.
Picket Fence
Big Apple Film Festival
Phil plays a lead role in this film, which will be premiering at the Big Apple Film Festival on Wednesday, February 6th. More info here.
Strangers in the World
Axis Theatre Company
Phil is excited to join his friends at Axis Theatre Company for their next show, a new play about a pre-America Puritan settlement. More info and tickets soon at http://axiscompany.org/.
Perdue Farms
Now airing on national TV! The commercial can be seen here.
Two By Friel
Off-Broadway @ Irish Rep
Phil is thrilled to return to the Irish Rep in the 50th Anniversary Production of Brian Friel's Lovers: Winners in an evening entitled Two By Friel. The show runs Nov 7 - Dec 23. More info and tickets: https://irishrep.org/show/2018-2019-season/two-by-friel/.
High Noon Returns
Back by popular demand, this experimental staging of the classic Western runs Oct 3-27. More info and tickets at http://www.axiscompany.org/.
Chelsea Film Festival
"The Price for Silence"
Phil plays a supporting role in this fantastic film, premiering in NYC at 9pm on Friday, October 19th. You can purchase tickets and learn more at https://www.chelseafilm.org/the-price-for-silence/.
The Property
Off-Broadway @ Theatre Row
Phil can't wait to appear in this new play, directed by Broadway's Robert Kalfin, June 16th - July 14th. Tickets & info here: http://www.newlighttheaterproject.com/the-property.
Pandora's Box: Unleashing Evil
Investigation Discovery
Phil's episode of "Pandora's Box" will be airing on March 29th at 9pm! Visit investigationdiscovery.com/schedule for more information, or to watch live. If you don't have access through a Cable provider, you can also watch the episode at amazon.com.


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EPAS is based on Allscripts Sunrise (https://www.itnews.com.au/news/sa-health-confirms-legal-spat-with-allscripts-391183). Be interesting to know if Sunrise locations experience similar issues. Also, it seems the article may be whitewashing the story abit by making it sound like the format of print-outs. The testimony (a link within the article) seems to imply there is an issue with timestamps in the data.
Morning Headlines 4/12/17
How Washington's favorite cancer fighter helps himself
A Politico investigative report on Patrick Soon-Shiong finds that the majority of funds distributed by the healthcare billionaire's non-profit, NantHealth Foundation, ultimately flow back into his own businesses. Shares fell 14.4 percent after the report was published Monday, and dropped another 4.7 percent Tuesday. This follows a STAT investigative piece published in March that uncovered similar practices and drove shares down 35 percent following publication.
Association Between Hospitals' Engagement in Value-Based Reforms and Readmission Reduction in the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
A longitudinal study published in JAMA finds that participation in one or more of Medicare's value-based reimbursement programs is associated with reductions in 30-day risk-standardized readmission rates.
SA Health CIO defends EPAS following coroner's criticism
South Australia Health CIO Bill Le Blanc defends the health system's EPAS after the state coroner publically complained that the readability and formatting of printed reports are preventing clinicians from effectively doing their jobs.


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Hearts sold 10,000 tickets for their Betfred Cup semi-final inside the first few hours of sales today.
READ MORE: Hearts' Betfred Cup semi-final ticket allocation confirmed
Seats for the tie with Celtic at BT Murrayfield went on sale at 9am this morning and, within an hour, 5000 had gone, with the total now sitting at 10,000.
The Edinburgh club were issued 30,000 tickets in a 50-50 split with Celtic for the match on Sunday, October 28. Hearts officials want to "create a sea of maroon" at the 67,000-capacity home of Scottish Rugby and supporters are responding in huge numbers to the plea.
The semi-final was switched to Murrayfield last week and the move has been warmly received by Hearts and their fans. They were outraged at the original decision to stage the match at Hampden Park at 7.45pm after the first semi between Aberdeen and Rangers.
Hearts supporters can purchase tickets in Murrayfield's East, West and South Stands, with prices at £25/£35 for adults and £10 for concessions.
Season-ticket holders are able to buy a maximum of two tickets each for the club's first semi-final since 2014. A general sale will then take place starting at 9am on Thursday, October 18.
READ MORE: All Hearts fans need to know about Betfred Cup semi final tickets


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India's Jewel Sees Family Feud
Two Ambani Brothers Fight to Gain Control Over Reliance Conglomerate
BOMBAY, India -- The power struggle between the brothers atop the Reliance group -- India's largest closely held conglomerate -- may be unsettling to the growing number of investors in India Inc. But the fight probably won't derail the textiles-to-telecommunications company's underlying fundamentals, which are likely to thrive along with the Indian economy, people close to the situation say.
Although the group itself is closely held, it has several listed units. Among them are Reliance Industries, India's biggest petrochemicals...


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day 134: I woke up in the morning feeling like I had been hit by a truck, oh wait I was hit by a car yesterday so I guess thats close enough... ahah. So I just felt so sore and bruised, and after getting out of bed, I finally got to calling the lady who hit me yesterday. She was so sweet and said that she had been worried about me all night hoping I was okay. After reassuring her, I asked her to call Allianz and to make a claim, and so after she did, I called the insurance company to find out what my next steps were.
Joey then picked me up in his car and dropped me off at my place, everyone has been so kind offereing up their time to ferry me around town. So I went home, ate some nutritious fruits with oats, then made a video update for Youtube telling the tale of yesterdays events. Then Wendy, Jen's (my chiropractor) wife, picked me up to bring me to the practice for some much needed chiro. He adjusted me for a good 20 minutes, and after I felt much more aligned and much much better.
Then I came home and just sat staring at my computer in a sort of coma, listening to an audiobook of Eragon my fav childhood book and just trying to relax. And after my family friend dropped off a heap of groceries, I made dinner, had cereal, then went to bed before 9 :)


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Municipality Novo mesto, which is part of the Jugovzhodna Slovenija statistical region, measures 236 km2; this ranks it 20th among Slovene municipalities.
Statistical data for 2015 reveal the following:
In the middle of 2015 about 36,350 people (about 18,050 men and 18,300 women) were living in the municipality, which ranks Novo mesto 6th among Slovene municipalities. The population density was 154 people per square kilometre, which was higher than the national average of 102 people per square kilometre.
The number of live births was higher than the number of deaths, which means that natural increase per 1,000 population in the municipality was positive. It was 2.1 (in Slovenia 0.4). The number of people who moved from the municipality was lower than the number of people who moved into the municipality, so net migration per 1,000 population in the municipality was positive. It was 1.4. The sum of natural increase and net migration per 1,000 population in the municipality was positive. It was 3.5 (in Slovenia 0.6).
The mean age of people in Novo mesto was 41.3 years, which was lower than the national average (42.6).
As in most Slovene municipalities, in Novo mesto the number of old people was higher than the number of young people: there were 103 people, aged 65 or more, per 100 people aged 0–14. This ratio shows that the value of the ageing index was lower than the national average of 123. It also shows that the mean age of people in Oplotnica is growing more slowly than in Slovenia as a whole. Data by sex show that the ageing index for women was in all Slovene municipalities higher than the ageing index for men. In Novo mesto – as in most Slovene municipalities – more women were 65+ years old than 14 or less; for men the situation was the same.
In the school year 2015/2016 basic schools in Novo mesto were attended by about 3350 pupils, while various upper secondary schools were attended by about 1,400 pupils. There were 50 students and 10 graduates per 1,000 people in the municipality; in Slovenia the averages were 39 per 1,000 and 9 per 1,000, respectively.
Among people aged 15–64 (i.e. working age population) about 61% were persons in employment (i.e. persons in paid employment or self–employed persons), which is more than the national average (58%).
The registered unemployment rate was 10.8%, which is less than the national average (12.3%). As in most Slovene municipalities, more women than men were unemployed.
In Novo mesto, average monthly gross earnings per person employed by legal persons were about 14% higher than the annual average of monthly earnings for Slovenia; and net earnings about 23% lower.
In 2015, there were 376 dwellings per 1,000 population. About 58% of dwellings had at least three rooms. Average size of dwellings in the municipality was 83 m2.
Every other person in Novo mesto had a car (54 passenger cars per 100 population); cars in this municipality were on average 8.6 years old.
In 2015, 327 kg of municipal waste per person was collected in Novo mesto, which is 12 kg more than on average in Slovenia.


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In a marvellous blog I read called It's Finally Lunch, one of the authors (there are two) said that it is "just about beanie time". She was in Lake Tahoe though – I don't think that it is quite time to start wearing hats and gloves in London yet.
I love beanies and keep buying new ones in my Quest For The Perfect Beanie.
I also have a dark pink beanie which I bought at the same time as the last one pictured. Both were from Harwoods (the chandlers in Yarmouth). I've left the pink beanie in the IoW as it looks a bit matchy-matchy with my pink Landsend mac (but looks great with my purple IoW Berghaus jacket) so I haven't got a picture of it here.
What I really want is the sort of beanie that Lisbeth Salander wore in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (English language version). Having a look at Google, I don't think I'm the only one.
Although it is still really quite warm in London, I have started seeing people wearing beanies. Either they (1) are from hot countries and feel the cold, (2) are making a style statement and don't mind if their head gets sweaty or (3) feel that their hair is not presentable (beanies are super for disguising this not-very-serious problem).
Update: I took a photo of the pink beanie I leave in the IoW because it was bugging me to leave it out. Yeah, I know I'm weird.


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Self-defense class helps those vulnerable to attacks
The attacker reached across the coffee table with a knife in his hand, ready to stab Christine Vigliotti. Determined not to let this happen, she deflected the weapon, pulled the attacker by his elbow and pushed him onto the couch. Maneuvering for control, she then elbowed him in the neck until he dropped the knife.
Vigliotti, 49, of Copiague, was not in any real danger. The attacker was played by martial arts instructor Phil Messina and the struggle was part of a self-defense training class called Silverbacks, designed for people 55 and older and those with permanent disabilities who are often more physically vulnerable to attacks.
"People commit predatory crimes on people they perceive to be weaker than themselves," said Messina, a retired New York City police officer who is the owner-instructor at Modern Warrior in Lindenhurst, where classes are held. "People don't have to be in good physical condition to do these moves," Messina said. "It depends on tricks and deceiving the other person. You can use an attaché case or a water bottle. You have to learn how to use these things as a distraction." he said.
Silverbacks students wear street clothes and practice in a simulated living room and bedroom, complete with rubber furniture. Messina doesn't always recommend fighting back. It depends on the circumstances, he said.
"If it's a robbery and the person takes the precaution to wear a disguise like a ski mask, he probably intends to let you go," he said. "If a person stops you and asks you for your wallet, you give it to him. If he asks you to get in the trunk of your car, that's a different story."
While in some situations, Messina's approach is more aggressive, the Nassau and Suffolk County police departments advise against fighting back.
"Look around," said Nassau police spokesman Det. Lt. Kevin Smith. "If you see a dark corner with people that look threatening, leave and call the police."
A Suffolk police spokeswoman, who wouldn't give her name, offered this: "The elderly need to take greater control of their own personal security. They should walk or shop in busy areas, during busy times of the day. They should walk down busy, well-lit streets and avoid shortcuts. They [women] should carry handbags close to the body and not carry unnecessary cash."
If you are attacked, she said, "Be alert. Look for distinguishing characteristics . . . such as scars, tattoos, accents or a limp. Compare the robber's height to your own."
While Messina doesn't disagree with the police departments' advice, he believes one of the best ways to reduce crime is to toughen the targets of crime.
In the Silverbacks class, students learn what they can do if an intruder breaks into their home. But clearly, these actions are not for the fainthearted. For example, Messina demonstrates how students could defend themselves if someone was coming at them with a knife. He grabs a nearby chair - one hand holding the seat and the other holding the back of the chair. With a firm grip, pick up the chair with the legs facing the intruder. Charge the intruder while twisting the chair to better deflect the knife and get the attacker off balance, Messina said. Put the chair across his body and kick him.
Even a book can be used as a deflector, Messina said. Hold it closed with the pages facing your palm., then use the spine of the book to hit the intruder's eye, chest or the bridge of the nose. A strike in the right place can affect vision and leave the attacker winded.
"With an older person, running away is not an option," Messina said. Messina, who has been doing martial arts for 50 years, teaches the class three times a week to students who pay $59 a month.
Christine Vigliotti takes the class with her husband, Joe. "They really teach you how to use your surroundings," Vigliotti said. "As a woman you're always taught to back off. This teaches you to be more assertive. It's easy to learn and it becomes common sense."
Joe Vigliotti, 53, said, "I always wanted to take a self-defense class . . . This gives you a little more self-confidence in different situations. It makes you more aware."
There also are other martial arts that can be used in self-defense, such as Tai Chi Chuan. Bob Klein, owner-instructor at the Tai Chi Chuan School in Sound Beach, teaches traditional forms of the art along with a "Push Hands" technique. Klein's theory is similar to Messina's. Keep your center of gravity low and throw your attacker off balance. Klein's class is open to all ages, but he also teaches older adults in senior centers in Setauket and St. James.
At Klein's school, soft music plays while students go through the forms that look like dancing. But the students are learning to use the attacker's force to make him lose balance.
"You use every part of your body," Klein said. "If somebody stronger is attacking you, you can stop them by weaving around and throwing them off balance." His classes are $75 per month for one class per week and $125 per month for two classes per week.
For retired dietitian Janni Van Steenbergen, 79, who has been taking Tai Chi Chuan for 13 years, the lessons had a practical application.
"It's very good for balance," Van Steenbergen said. "I don't think anybody easily gets me off center." She used what she learned while taking care of her late husband, who had Parkinson's disease, helping him in and out of bed and lifting him out of chairs.
"I knew how to use my body," she said. "I used my lower body and legs. Tai Chi prepared me for that."
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