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Liverpool's comeback over Barcelona on their way to their sixth European Cup is likely to overshadow all other clashes between the two clubs for the forseeable future.
Lionel Messi's performance in the first leg is pretty much already wiped from the memory, the control of Barcelona's signature passing style in a group stage victory in 2001 pales in comparison to such a thrashing, and a Liverpool win tucked in amongst those clashes is likely to get overlooked when thinking of Liverpool's great European nights.
In December 2006, holders Barcelona were drawn against the previous holders Liverpool in the last sixteen of the Champions League. Barcelona had been pipped to top spot in their group due a narrow 1-0 loss to Chelsea, while Liverpool, now stronger than when they had won the competition, had topped theirs.
In preparation for the tie, Liverpool spent a mid-season break in Southern Portugal. "The idea was to give the players a chance to relax," then-Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez claims, "to spend some time together and to do some training sessions the week prior to the first leg".
On the Thursday night, Benitez pushed the players' curfew back to midnight to give them an opportunity to go out for a few drinks in town. A few hours later, he was called down by the hotel staff to settle an argument between two players. John Arne Riise had refused to have a go at karaoke, to which Craig Bellamy took offence, and, having begun their bickering in the bar, the night ended with Bellamy swinging a golf club at Riise back at the hotel, with the commotion gaining the attention of the hotel staff, who contacted Benitez. Presumably it wasn't quite what Benitez had in mind when he allowed the team out hours before.
When the match rolled around though, Liverpool looked unfazed by the drama. Benitez sent them out in a 4-4-2 formation, with Dirt Kuyt partnering Bellamy up front and Steven Gerrard playing out on the right wing. Barcelona lined up in their usual 4-3-3 shape, with Javier Saviola replacing the injured Samuel Eto'o as the lone striker.
Liverpool's main focus was on stopping Barcelona's wide attackers. Retrospectively the main interest is on Lionel Messi, partially because he's gone on to become the greatest player to have played the game, partially because of the creative way Benitez solved the problem he posed. With the Argentinian looking to pick up the ball out on the right flank then cut inside on his stronger left foot, Benitez gave a debut to the new signing from Deportivo La Coruna, Alvaro Arbeloa, at left-back.
Naturally right-footed and from then on a right-back, Messi would be cutting inside onto Arbeloa's favoured side too. The Spaniard was an intelligent and mobile defender, so he could stick tight to Messi and stop him from embarking on his slaloming runs inside. He was helped by Riise ahead of him, who, playing just as frequently at full-back as in midfield, was comfortable tracking back to double up on Messi.
A few times Messi managed to cut inside and pass into Saviola's feet in the first half, but that was the extent of his influence on the game and even that dried up once Daniel Agger got tighter to Saviola.
At the time, the greater worry was probably over Ronaldinho, who was still at the peak of his powers, whereas Messi, although already talked about as one of the world's most exciting players, was only in his first season as a proper starter for Barcelona.
"It seems strange now, but playing Barcelona then was not simply a matter of doing anything we could to stop Messi," Benitez says. "We were just as concerned with how to cope with Ronaldinho. The Brazilian played on the left wing nominally, but would drift inside, occupying space between the lines.
"That would create a problem for Steve Finnan, our right-back. If he tracked Ronaldinho, he would leave space for Barcelona's left-back, Gianluca Zambrotta, to exploit. The threat of Barcelona's number ten, though, was more important. I instructed Finnan to follow his man, to push him, not to allow him a moment to play the sort of penetrating pass which could cut a defence apart in a second."
Finnan played his part perfectly when Ronaldinho was in the attacking third, stopping him from turning regardless of whether he received the ball out wide or through the centre, and more than once timing runs so that he darted in to intercept the ball just before Ronaldinho received it to feet.
Early on, Ronaldinho was able to confuse Liverpool's right flank by dropping deep. Finnan would follow him high up the pitch and stop him from turning, however Gerrard would look to take over covering Ronaldinho when he moved into his zone, presumably under the assumption that Finnan should drop off as he normally would. This allowed Zambrotta to burst forward untracked a few times early on, with both Gerrard and Finnan following Ronaldinho – the Brazilian couldn't turn but he didn't need to when he could just flick the ball away to the Italian in space.
It didn't take long for them to clear this up though, as Finnan just stayed tight to Ronaldinho and Gerrard began following Zambrotta back into defence. This can be seen in Barcelona's opening goal:
Gerrard gets a touch on the ball but it bounces back off Zambrotta's foot into his path, enabling the full-back to nip past Liverpool's captain and send in a cross. The scouser was in the right position to defend against the overlapping full-back though, and would have stopped Barcelona's attack were it not for some pinball physics.
While Liverpool quelled the threat posed by Messi, Ronaldinho and Zambrotta after some teething problems, Deco's runs from midfield posed a constant issue throughout the first half, as his goal perfectly illustrated. It wasn't so bad when Ronaldinho and Messi tucked inside, as then the back four could easily stay narrow, but if the pair hugged the touchline, Finnan and Arbeloa were forced into quite wide positions so that they could stay close to them. This left spaces between the full-backs and centre-backs for Deco to make runs through, constantly popping up with perfect timing to force one of the defenders into scrambling across.
Barcelona also had some success building up through the middle. Thiago Motta wasn't as calm on the ball as he would become in his later years and the attention of Kuyt and Bellamy was more than enough to force more than one heavy touch from the Brazilian, although he was often able to drag them off to one side, opening up space for Xavi Hernandez or Deco to drop in alongside him and collect the ball from the defenders. It was best when Xavi dropped back as this allowed Deco to stay in a more attacking position, where he could make those threatening runs that Xavi didn't really have the skillset to replicate.
Without the threat of Eto'o's pace to worry about, Liverpool wanted to press Barcelona high up the pitch, however Barcelona generally found it quite easy to play around it in the first half.
Benitez also came up with a plan to trap Barcelona in their third: "We wanted to allow Carles Puyol, their captain, to have the ball. He was playing as a left-sided centre-back, despite being right-footed. If we could cut off his options for a pass, we would be able to stifle a lot of Barcelona's attacks." This didn't work in practice though, as Puyol would simply look to move the ball on quickly as soon as he received it – not giving Liverpool the time to cut off his options in possession.
The goal had been a blip in an otherwise excellent defensive performance from Liverpool, however they also weren't creating a lot themselves. Their main idea was to counter-attack, aiming to catch Barcelona's full-backs high up the pitch, however the passes forward were often too far ahead of the intended recipient or, if they did receive it, they would hit it too far ahead of themselves trying to get space to cross – either way Barcelona's defenders could come across and sweep up the ball. Bellamy was the only one who consistently got in behind Barcelona, but too often his runs were poorly timed, getting flagged offside.
Wanting to avoid Barcelona's high press, especially Arbeloa getting caught on his weaker foot, Liverpool's defenders generally looked to hit the ball long, however Motta would frequently win the headers.
Finnan proved a threat out on the right flank though, and thanks to him Liverpool equalised just before half-time. Liverpool sent a long ball forward but Rafael Marquez moved up to contest it with Kuyt as well as Motta – it was a nothing flick-on by Kuyt that Puyol easily mopped up, nevertheless Liverpool won a free-kick for the way Marquez and Motta had both clashed with the Dutchman. Liverpool spread the ball wide to Finnan, who crossed it to Bellamy at the back post. Victor Valdes caught the Welshman's header yet seemed to carry the ball across the line and, with the goalkeeper having quickly pushed it out of his hands to get it as far away from the goalline as possible, Kuyt was on hand for a tap-in. Bellamy had already wheeled away in celebration though, practising his golf swing.
After half-time, Liverpool tightened up their pressing. When Xavi dropped back alongside Motta, Mohamed Sissoko stuck tighter to him, so that he couldn't turn out and pass. This left a gap in the centre for Barcelona's defenders to play a pass through, however as Liverpool's defenders were already sticking tight to the attackers in expectation of them receiving the ball to feet, this didn't really pose any threat to Liverpool's defence that they hadn't already been dealing with. As a result, Barcelona struggled to work the ball out of defence and force Liverpool back into their own half.
Ten minutes into the half Motta was substituted for Andres Iniesta and not long after that Xavi was replaced by Ludovic Giuly, with Barcelona switching to some kind of 4-2-3-1. Messi came more into the centre, however Arbeloa remained stuck to him so the teenager still couldn't get any space to work in. Riise's willingness to drop in at left-back meant that Arbeloa didn't have to worry about leaving the left flank exposed, although Juliano Belletti rarely got forward to pose the same attacking threat as Zambrotta on the opposite wing.
Despite upgrading Motta for Iniesta, Barcelona couldn't easily build up through the midfield anymore. Sissoko would still step up and stop his direct opponent from turning out, while the double pivot didn't have the same effect as the single had. Previously Kuyt and Bellamy had been simply trying to stop Motta, staying relatively close and trying to block passes into him, and had then been outflanked by Xavi or Deco dropping back. Now Deco and Iniesta were starting deep, so Liverpool's attacking pair split up and took one man each, one sticking close and blocking the passes into Deco and the other doing the same to Iniesta. Deco playing deeper also meant he wasn't able to make runs forward as he had before, replaced by the easier to track Giuly, who was lacking the supply that Deco had received in the first half.
Iniesta may have been a creative upgrade on Motta but he was also significantly weaker in the air, and neither he or Deco were natural holding players. Liverpool found themselves pressing more successfully in the second half, spending more time in Barcelona's half, yet the removal of Motta made only worsened the situation for Barcelona. Liverpool could now send long balls forward and have a much greater chance of them not just getting headed back in the other direction, making it easier to pin back Barcelona, while their counter-attacking runs weren't getting picked up by the midfielders and they were able to break in behind Barcelona's attacking full-backs with greater frequency.
Two of these issues are seen clearly in the build-up to Liverpool's winning goal. Zambrotta is positioned high up the pitch, allowing Liverpool's attack to outnumber Barcelona's defence and Liverpool take advantage. Finnan plays the ball in behind Zambrotta to Gerrard, while Bellamy makes a run behind Puyol, dragging Marquez wide to make space for Kuyt in the centre. Deco has checked his shoulder multiple times and is aware of the danger but is reluctant to drop back to fill in the gap before it's too late: Gerrard plays in Kuyt and, although a heavy touch and Valdes coming swiftly out ruins the chances of a goal for the Dutchman, the loose ball falls to Bellamy, who squares the ball to his karaoke foe Riise to take the lead.
Benitez soon brought on former Barcelona man Boudewijn Zenden and Jermaine Pennant for Sissoko and Bellamy, switching to a 4-5-1 that shored up the midfield and added pace on the counter. Liverpool dropped off to protect their lead but Barcelona couldn't muster any reply, forced into taking a goal disadvantage and two away goals to Anfield for the second leg, where they were knocked out of the competition as Liverpool made it to the final again.


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The Comedy of Errors
An Introduction
By Dennis Abrams
It is, I imagine with just a hint of relief among the followers of this blog that we turn from the plotting and counterplotting, conspiracies, and murder upon murder upon murder that made up Shakespeare's glorious Minor Tetraology (The Henry VI plays +Richard III) and turn to what can honestly be described as one of the greatest farces ever written: The Comedy of Errors.
When was it written? A play sounding very much like The Comedy of Errors was performed at the law college of Gray's Inn on December 28, 1594. However, there is some internal evidence that it might have been written earlier – perhaps as early as 1591.
This indeed is one of those plays in which there is disagreement as to how it falls into the chronology. There are some, in fact many, who believe that it was one of his earliest plays, perhaps even his earliest. I, along with the editors of the Oxford edition of the plays, Garber, and Harold Bloom among others, don't quite buy that. As Bloom states,
"The shortest and most unified of all Shakespeare's plays, The Comedy of Errors is regarded by many scholars as his very first, which tend to doubt. It shows such skill, indeed mastery – in action, incipient character and stagecraft – that it far outshines the three Henry VI plays and the rather lame comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona. It is true that in comedy Shakespeare was free to be himself from the start, whereas the shadow of Marlow darkens the early histories (Richard III included) and Titus Andronicus. Yet, even granted Shakespeare's comic genius, The Comedy of Errors does not read or play like apprentice work. It is a remarkably sophisticated elaboration of (and improvement upon) Plautus, the Roman comic dramatist whom most of our playgoers know through the musical adaption A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Shakespeare himself was adapted splendidly by Rogers and Hart, whose The Boys from Syracuse took The Comedy of Errors as their source, much as Cole Porter later was to utilize The Taming of the Shrew for his Kiss Me Kate.
In The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare compounds Plautus's The Two Menaechmuses with hints from the same dramatist's Amphityron, and gives us the wonderful absurdity of two sets of identical twins. We are in Greece, at Ephesus (where we will be again at the other end of Shakespeare's career, in Pericles), and we never go anywhere, in the play so carefully confined in space and time (a single day). Antipholus of Syracuse arrives in Ephesus with his bondman, Dromio. His twin brother, Antipholus of Ephesus, also has a bondman named Dromio, identical twin to the first. The merchant of Syracuse and his servant have arrived in Ephesus not on a commercial mission but on a familial quest to find their missing brothers. This quest is also the purpose of the merchant Egeon of Syracuse, father of the two Antipholuses, who enters Ephesus only to be immediately arrested in the name of its Duke who sentences the hapless Egeon to be beheaded at sundown. Syracuse and Ephesus are fierce enemies. That gives The Comedy of Errors a rather plangent opening, not at all Plautine:
Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall,
And by the doom of death end woes and all.
Duke Solinus regretfully but firmly assures Egeon that indeed it will be off with his head, unless a ransom of a hundred marks can be paid. In response to the Duke's questioning, Egeon tells us the fantastic, really outrageous yarn of a shipwreck some twenty-three years before, which divided his family in half, separating husband and one of each set of twins from the wife and the other infants. For the past five years, Egeon says, he has searched for the missing trio, and his anguish at not finding them informs his wretched readiness to be executed:
Yet this is my comfort; when your words are done,
My woes end likewise with the evening sun.
These scarcely are the accents of comedy, let alone of the knockabout farce soon to engulf us. But Shakespeare, who was to become the subtlest of all dramatists, already is very ambiguous in The Comedy of Errors. The twin Antipholuses are dead ringers but inwardly are very different. The Syracusan Antipholus has a quasi-metaphysical temperament:
He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
I to the world like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
(Unseen, inquisitive) confounds himself.
So I, to find a mother and a brother,
In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.
These often-quoted lines belie our usual first impressions of The Comedy of Errors as a purely rambunctious farce, just as the laments of Egeon clearly transcend the expected situations of farce."
Shakespeare…ambiguous? Shakespearean farce being something…more than just farce?
Tony Tanner elaborates on Bloom:
"It is remarkable that Shakespeare's (possibly) first comedy opens with an old man under sentence of death, so that the long shadow of mortality falls over all that follows. The Syracusian Egeon submits, without hope, to the sentence passed on him for having entered Ephesian waters. The Duke of Ephesus, explaining this harsh judgment, speaks of 'enmity and discord' between 'our adverse towns', leading to 'rancorous outrage,' 'intestine jars'; and invokes 'law' and 'rigorous statutes' while specifically excluding 'all pity from our threat'ning looks.' He evokes a little world in which all the normal, nourishing 'traffic' between two geographically related places has been blocked — trade replaced by violence, communication by contestation, love by law, and pity by 'penalty.' All the normal life-maintaining, life-enhancing, circulations and modes of meeting and exchange, have gone, somehow, fatally awry. It offers an opening glimpse of a world of sterility, oppugnancy, and death. This is the start. It is just such a world that comedy conspires to break up and uncongeal, by restoring the normal channels of communication and relationship to their proper flowings, leading to the reestablishment of a better appreciated amity and concord. This is all to come."
As we read the play over the next couple of weeks, we'll look at how Shakespeare transformed his source material for his own purposes, examine in the ways in which, as Bloom insists, "Exuberant fun as it is and must be, this fierce little play is also one of the starting points for Shakespeare's reinvention of the human," try to define what exactly is comedy, and learn how in Shakespeare, even something as seemingly straightforward as a farce can be much much more than that.
And as an added bonus…we'll look at how the play has been adapted over the centuries, starting with this:
Our reading: The Comedy of Errors, Act One
My next post: Thursday evening/Friday morning.


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ACTOR Daniel Newman has come out as gay to his online following in an emotional online video.
The Walking Dead star revealed in a six-minute long video that he decided to go public with his sexuality after a chance meeting with a homeless girl at a youth centre convinced him to.
The 35-year-old actor, who has also appeared in The Dark Knight and the 2009 film adaptation of Children of the Corn, admitted that he was open about his sexuality to his family and friends but had never said it to his fans.
He told his followers: "I realised how important it is in this day and age to be visible – to let people who know you are," after he was "hit like a gut punch" when the girl thanked him for supporting the LGBT community and had assumed he was straight.
Daniel then corrected her, and she asked: "Why have you never said that publicly before? You could help change our lives."
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Daniel added that he was born and raised in an Irish Catholic family in Georgia, so felt he needed to keep his sexuality to himself.
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Galaxy Tab 8.9 is a smaller Galaxy Tab 10.1, keeping the 1280 x 800 pixel resolution and the same hardware specs: 1GB of RAM, a dual core 1GHz CPU and Android 3.1 Honeycomb with Samsung TouchWiz UI. $469 is the price applied to the 16GB unit and $569 to the 32GB slate. The reason to pick one of these up?
First of all, you have no Android tablet in your house, else this would be useless. Also, in case you have a Honeycomb device and too much money to spend, maybe you're looking into a more portable device, since the 10 inchers are not always something easy to carry with you. And finally, this product isn't as controversial as the Galaxy Tab 10.1, at least not yet…


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May 7-10, 2017 Asilomar, California
Type soundness is an important property of modern programming
languages. In this talk, we set forth the idea that an appropriate
typing discipline over a language definition can guarantee that the
language is type sound, that is, that well-typed languages are sound.
We have instantiated this idea for a certain class of languages defined using small-step operational semantics. In this talk, I will describe a meta type system that works over the components of a language definition (value declarations, typing rules, reduction rules, evaluation contexts and so on) to ensure that type soundness automatically holds.
We have implemented these ideas in the TypeSoundnessCertifier, a tool for type checking language definitions and certifying their soundness. For those languages that pass our type checker, the tool generates a proof of type soundness that can be machine-checked by a proof assistant. For those languages that fail our type checker, the tool pinpoints the design mistakes that hinder type soundness.
Our research programme strives to demonstrate that ''well-typed languages are sound'' is a scientific perspective that, just like Milner's ''well-typed programs cannot go wrong'', applies across languages and approaches to semantics. Our aim is also to devise type checkers (on language definitions) and automatic certifiers that ensure language properties other than type soundness.


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When I am stressed out, it soothes me to walk up and down whilst on the phone.
After a long and stressful day at work, I find it relaxing to catchup with friends and talk, where I tend to lose track of time regularly.
When I am stressed out, and have to work indoors at my desk, I am annoyed.
When I am stressed out, I cannot sit still for long. I constantly feel I should be doing something, and I feel restless.
I can lie on the couch reading a book for hours on end.
If my diary is empty, I actively seek activities.
When I am stressed out, I do prefer the lift over the stairs.
Hang out with friends once a week is satisfying when I am running low on energy.
When I feel depleted, I best recharge by enjoying a calm and placid location.
To go on a sports date, I find rather tiresome, when stressed out.
Especially when I am really stressed out, I enjoy the solitude in my activities.
In stressful times I enjoy redecorating my house by myself.
I become aggressive, when deprived of Me-Time during stressful periods.
In a stressful week, I often feel tired and exhausted already in the morning, if I don't get enough Me-time.
In stressful times, diversity in my group activity schedule provides me extra energy.
Sport provides short-lived energy. Afterwards I often feel completely exhausted.
In stressful times, I do prefer going out with friends over spending my time at home alone.
When I am stressed out and there's no Me-time, I become erratic and easily tired.
When I am stressed out, I find company after a sports event very relaxing.
When I am deprived of active Me-Time, I become unorganised and chaotic.
When I am stressed out, I often delay replying to messages up to several days.
During a stressful phase, I do prefer doing sports as group rather than by myself.
When I am super busy I tend to socialise more.
In particularly stressful times, I rejoice in parties and being amongst a lot of people.
When I am stressed out, and I cannot do my sports activities by myself, I turn into a monster.
I really enjoy stepping out with company, in particular when I am running low on energy.
When I am stressed out and have to miss out on my sports, I am very unhappy.
During stressful times, I need background noise, like TV or radio. That really makes me relax.
When my week was stressful, I do enjoy company on weekends.
When I am stressed out, I recharge when people come over and stay for long.
My energy levels rise quicker when I engage in sports activities with others.
I was out and about a lot during a stressful week, but I am always looking forward to catching up with my peers.
It makes me feel restless when things go quiet.
After being heavily stressed, I best recoup when I am left in peace.
After a stressful week, I am looking forward to the silence solitude on the weekend.
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To make the best of my holiday, I really enjoy doing completely nothing at all.
I enjoy working with other people in the same room when times are stressful.
My mobile flat rate makes telcos cringe, especially during stressful times.
When I am stressed out, and there is no way to do sports, I am deeply annoyed.
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When it comes to measuring an an institution's financial stability, capital is useful. It acts as a buffer against losses and provides protection for depositors when a bank is experiencing economic instability. From a safety and soundness perspective, more capital is better.
On our test to measure capital adequacy, Israel Discount Bank of New York received a score of 10 out of a possible 30 points, falling short of the national average of 13.13.
One way to measure this buffer is looking at a bank's Tier 1 capital ratio. Israel Discount Bank of New York's Tier 1 capital ratio was 13.45 percent, above the 6 percent level regulators consider adequate, but below the national average of 25.65 percent. A higher capital ratio means the bank will be better able to stand up to economic difficulties.
Overall, Israel Discount Bank of New York held equity amounting to 9.60 percent of its assets, which was lower than the national average of 12.03 percent.
Bankrate uses this test to determine the effect of problem assets, such as unpaid loans, on the bank's loan loss reserves and overall capitalization.
Having extensive holdings of these kinds of assets means a bank could have to use capital to absorb losses, decreasing its cushion of equity. Many of those assets are also likely to be in non-accrual status and thus aren't earning interest for the bank, resulting in reduced earnings and potentially more risk of a future failure.
Israel Discount Bank of New York scored 40 out of a possible 40 points on Bankrate's test of asset quality, better than the national average of 37.49.
The percentage of problem assets a bank holds compared to its total assets is a handy indicator of asset quality.As of December 31, 2017, 0.32 percent of Israel Discount Bank of New York's loans were noncurrent -- in other words, they were more than 90 days past due or were in non-accrual status. That's below the national average of 1.01 percent.
Banks maintain a reserve known as an "allowance for loan and lease losses" to deal with troubled assets . How large that reserve is can be a handy indicator when evaluating a bank's ability to manage troubled assets, especially when compared to the total amount of problematic loans. Unfortunately, the FDIC did not provide information on Israel Discount Bank of New York's loan loss allowance in its most recent filings.
A bank's earnings performance has an effect on its long-term survivability. A bank can retain its earnings, giving a boost to its capital buffer, or put them to work addressing problematic loans, likely making the bank better prepared to withstand financial shocks. Losses, on the other hand, diminish a bank's ability to do those things.
Israel Discount Bank of New York scored 12 out of a possible 30 on Bankrate's earnings test, failing to reach the national average of 15.12.
Return on equity, calculated by dividing net income (profit, basically) by total equity, is one important way to measure a bank's earnings. The most recent annualized quarterly return on equity for Israel Discount Bank of New York was 5.59 percent, below the national average of 8.10 percent.
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2017, the bank reported net income of $49.9 million on total equity of $894.4 million. The bank reported an annualized return on average assets, or ROA, of 0.54 percent, below the 1 percent deemed satisfactory in accordance with industry standards and below the average for U.S. banks of 1.00 percent.
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Because Tyrese currently has dibs on hanging with Optimus, you should make your way to Ocean Prime, a wood-/stone-walled comestible complex with three private dining areas (one sectioned off by a see-through fireplace), and an indigo-lit, grand piano-flanked room called the Blu Lounge offering nightly vocalists singing in the style of the Rat Pack, which to be Frank, is a great idea. Create your own shrimp/crab/oyster Smoking Shellfish Tower from the raw bar, or nab apps like the short rib & sea scallop Surf n Turf, before asking for one of their aged USDA prime steaks (7oz filet to 16oz rib eye), the crab-crusted blue tilapia, or the Prime Feature, which treats you right with fried shrimp, lobster coleslaw, and seedless watermelon, so you'll have to come up with a new excuse for when your stomach looks like there's one growing inside it. There're 50 wines available by the glass, ranging from $7 Folonari Pinot Grigio up to CA's Rubicon Estate Cask Cab, plus 150 more by the bottle like the French Chateau Haut-Brion 2001, which they say is "very balanced at its peak", but unfortunately the Mr. Universe judges thought its obliques looked a little puffy. You'd be crazy not to end the meal with desserts like chocolate peanut butter mousse pie or caramelized sugar-topped creme brulee, while sipping smooth ports like Graham's 40yr Tawny -- just be careful, as Miss Kitaen herself has been known to reveal the Dark Side of the Loon.
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Revista Matemática Iberoamericana
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Potential estimates and gradient boundedness for nonlinear parabolic systemsTuomo Kuusi[1] and Giuseppe Mingione[2] (1) Aalto University, Finland
(2) Università di Parma, Italy
We consider a class of parabolic systems and equations in divergence form modeled by the evolutionary $p$-Laplacean system $$ u_t - \operatorname{div} (|Du|^{p-2}Du)=V(x,t) , $$ and provide $L^\infty$-bounds for the spatial gradient of solutions $Du$ via nonlinear potentials of the right hand side datum $V$. Such estimates are related to those obtained by Kilpeläinen and Malý [22] in the elliptic case. In turn, the potential estimates found imply optimal conditions for the boundedness of $Du$ in terms of borderline rearrangement invariant function spaces of Lorentz type. In particular, we prove that if $V\in L(n+2,1)$ then $Du \in L^\infty_{\mathrm{loc}}$, where $n$ is the space dimension, and this gives the borderline case of a result of DiBenedetto [5]; a significant point is that the condition $V \in L(n+2,1)$ is independent of $p$. Moreover, we find explicit forms of local a priori estimates extending those from [5] valid for the homogeneous case $V \equiv 0$.
Keywords: Nonlinear potentials, $p$-Laplacean, parabolic equations
Kuusi Tuomo, Mingione Giuseppe: Potential estimates and gradient boundedness for nonlinear parabolic systems. Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 28 (2012), 535-576. doi: 10.4171/rmi/684


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Embarking to a new culture is not something to say easy but accepting it helps. Some people tends to ignore it and just do as they please without thinking of the consequences and I have to say I am surprise to see some Women dressed inappropriately (not the locals of course) especially in the Holy month of Ramadan where notices saying no sleeveless, short shorts or skimpy clothing was allowed and I wonder if those women didn't take time to read and throw the letter of the hotels notifying them about it or just playing blind ignoring the notices in every door of every establishments or building. I believe there is a time to flaunt and a time to pay respect especially to a country very different in culture than yours.
Celebrating Eid al Fitr – a celebration of breaking the fast and I have seen people giving gifts of different types of dates in colours and tastes. They tend to wear nicer or new clothes and giving donations in terms of clothing or toys that you can see anywhere in the malls or any participating establishments. It is actually a feast of the sights and senses. Happiness is in the air especially for children same thing happens when it is Christmas time. So yes there is a similarity. I am still like a tourist in this Country, enjoying every minute of it and trying to be positive in every way. Same thing with the plant … how can they withstand the heat of summer in a desert country? You don't want to be outside for long I tell you… Anyway, I remember my husband always says similar to this quote… quote from gingersnapsorganic.com


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Welcome to my free Wolves Vs Newcastle Predictions, every week I post up free football tips and betting advice for all the biggest football matches that week. So if you want free football tips for today on the Premiership and other leagues follow me now for more of the same. Please ensure you enable notifications from Tipster Reviews in order to get updates on the newest big match previews.
Wolves Vs Newcastle Predictions
Wolves come into this game having won 4 of their last 5 home matches and having scored nearly a third of all their goals in their last 3 games.
Alarm bells must be ringing for Newcastle having to come here and try to get a result, a result I don't think they will get.
Jimenez and co are reaching peak form at the right time and look capable of more than a top half finish in their very first season as a newly promoted side from the Championship.
Nuno has done a sterling job and tonight should be more of the same from Wolves who have beaten some of the best sides in this league at their home ground already this season.
Often they have faltered against teams you would not expect but as the experience grows I feel it will be hard to beat Wolves at home from now on this season anyway.
Newcastle have struggled on the road somewhat but do have goals in their squad with the likes of Rondon providing the chief threat.
I think Newcastle can try to make a game of this early doors but if they go a goal down the flood gates could open. Wolves are justified favourites here and I say get on them tonight for the win.
Wolves Vs Newcastle Predictions
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- Wolves, who won the reverse fixture back in December, are looking to achieve a league double over Newcastle for the first time since the 1991-92 campaign.
- Newcastle have lost only two of their last 10 meetings with Wolves in all competitions (W4 D4).
- Newcastle are unbeaten in their last four away games against Wolves in all competitions (W2 D2), winning the last two. They have never won three consecutive away matches against Wolves.
- Wolves have lost all four of their Premier League games played on a Monday, last winning such a top-flight match in May 1984 (1-0 vs Leicester).
- After a run of 10 straight Premier League defeats in games played on Monday, Newcastle have won two of their last three such matches, including their last one at Burnley in November.
- Wolves are looking to win four consecutive top-flight games for the first time since January 1972. They've scored a total of 10 goals in their last three games
- Newcastle have won six points from their last three Premier League games (W2 D0 L1), as many as they had in their previous nine in the competition (W1 D3 L5).
- Raul Jimenez is Wolves' highest Premier League goalscorer this season with nine. He could become just the second Mexican player to reach double figures in a single Premier League campaign (Javier Hernandez in 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13).
- João Moutinho has registered five assists in his last three Premier League games, providing the assist for 50% of Wolves' total goals in that time (5/10).
- Jose Salomon Rondon's six Premier League goals have been worth nine points to Newcastle this season, with each of his goals being worth at least one point in every game he's scored.
Wolves Vs Newcastle Predictions And Betting Tips For Todays Match
A tough game this for Newcastle and a game which I am certain they will lose tonight.
Main Tip: Wolves to win
Will Both teams to score? = NO
Correct score prediction = 3-0 Wolves or 3-1 to Wolves
Anytime goalscorers = Jimenez (Wolves)
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OnePlus has announced that it will be launching a McLaren Edition phone for the OnePlus 6T model next month. The interesting thing about this upcoming device is that it will be the company's first phone to have 10 GB RAM and is also expected to come with a massive 256GB of storage. Fans of the British supercar brand McLaren are in for a treat with this limited edition smartphone that will be unveiled on 11th December. Read More


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Many Michigan veterans are eligible for benefits like healthcare and pensions, but may not know this and haven't yet applied for them.
In a state that ranks in the bottom five in the U.S. for federal spending per veteran, there are hundreds of thousands of Michigan vets who qualify for military benefits, like healthcare and pensions. Surprisingly, many don't know they qualify, and others simply haven't filed for the benefits due them.
Aside from the traditional health-and-pension benefits, other Michigan Veterans Benefits include home loans as well as educational subsidies via the GI-bill; also, vets may qualify for disability claims and life insurance. What's more, Michigan vets can tap the Michigan Veterans Trust Fund Agency (MVTFA) to receive vocational training at the state and local levels.
Vietnam vets among those who may have chosen not to receive their benefits…
Indeed, Michigan vets, particularly those who fought in the Vietnam war, may have chosen not to receive the benefits due them after their military discharge simply because they received excellent health care benefits and pensions from their employer after they came home.
Back then, that usually meant Michigan jobs in the automotive sector, or other industries, that provided them with a full suite of benefits.
Moreover, as reported in the Detroit News, some of those vets never thought of even applying for their military benefits because they didn't think they qualified. One vet said he thought he needed to be disabled from war injuries to qualify. Later, though, he learned he could qualify for treatment of his post-traumatic stress disorder.
Small-percentage are using their benefits…
Overall, a mere 22 percent of the state's 660,800 veterans are using what's coming to them from the coffers of the U.S. Veterans Administration, according to 2013 figures—about 13 percent do receive a disability check.
For Michigan vets, their rights to these benefits are a head-scratcher and begs the question as to 'How can this be?" "Who's looking out after those who gave so much for their country?"
Michigan was on the bottom for average fed spending per vet…
Five years ago, before Gov. Rick Snyder established the MVAA, the state was on the bottom rung among all the states in terms of dollars spent per vet: less than $3,000. Now, as of 2013, that has increased to an average of $5,001 per vet.
In an effort to make things right, the state offers a 24-hour hotline at (800) MICH-VET along with its website (michiganveterans.com) as a center for information on emergency housing to "veteran-friendly colleges in Michigan," for example.
Rural counties may be out of luck for veteran counseling offices…
Rural counties, unlike metro areas, often lack the services of a veterans counselor who can offer vets information about federal, state and local benefits. Unfortunately, counties once lucky enough to have a veterans office are not only facing staffing shortages and funding cuts
Part of the frustration among vets in the past is simply trying to unravel the complexity of the system, notes The Detroit News columnist, Melissa Burke:
"Vets often have difficulty navigating the process on their own…Certified counselors and veterans service officers often help vets (receive) compensation quicker."
Community action teams' help veterans.
As such, and before 2013, about 93 percent of the disability claims submitted by Michigan veterans required more paperwork than was submitted in order to meet eligibility requirements.
But thanks to the state's renewed focus on educating its vets on how to navigate the system that number has dropped to 59 percent just last fall, according to a spokesperson from the Detroit Regional Office of Veterans Benefit Administration.
A major reason for this success has to do with "regional 'community action teams'" set up by the MTVFA to open up lines of communication with regional services directly serving its veterans.
Over the past five years, the number veterans in the state have declined, but Metro Detroit remains home to one-third of Michigan's veteran population.
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School District to Request Voters Reinstate MoneyFebruary 6, 2015
by Jay Hobson
The Salem School Board, by a 4-1 vote at their last meeting, agreed to ask voters at the Feb. 5 deliberative session to reinstate a $424,186 reduction to the school district budget made by the budget committee.
The lone vote against restoration was budget committee representative to the board Michael Carney.
"In a $61 or $62 million operating budget, it may seem to most people that $400,000 is not a significant amount of money," said Superintendent of Schools Michael Delahanty.
He said that the board was aware that the operating expenses had been reduced significantly before factoring in principal and interest on the debt that the district is dealing with.
Delahanty said that individuals have commented on the decline in enrollments that the district has faced and asked if a reduction in personnel costs was reflected in those numbers.
"We are planning to reduce our staff by a number of teachers, we've reduced our staff by over 40 over the past several years, but we can't not provide the type of academic program and extracurricular programs we want our students to have," Delahanty said.
He commented that the proposed budget presented to the budget committee was a thoughtful budget and a reasonable budget.
Board member Pamela Berry said that she supported the full restoration of the funds.
"I believe what we sent to the budget committee was a cut budget to begin with and was a sound budget," Berry said.
Board member Peter Morgan said that if it wasn't the will of the board to request full reinstatement, that there were at least four items that he wanted restored.
"A high school teacher, the wage pool for the non-bargaining unit people, the overall 100 series cut and the SEA retirement which is a contractual obligation," Morgan said.
Bernard Campbell said that he supported the full restoration and didn't feel "that the budget committee should drive decisions."
Carney said that he would support whatever the board decided but was in favor of Morgan's option of saving a few items but not all of the cuts.
"It's a budgetary game; we budget this amount and return this amount," Carney said.
According to Berry, "There is a fundamental difference between how we budget and the decisions the budget committee makes. We worry about programming and what we are offering our students for classes where the budget committee looks at money and cuts. It comes down to a fundamental difference on how we look at the budget."


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Marriage Counselor; Factors to Consider When Finding the Right Marriage Counselor.
Two people who are married should be able to work the same journey in agreement with love and by understanding each other. However, when two people are living together, for one reason or another there might be some disagreements which are normal in marriages, but if you will not take time to resolve the issues that you are having in your marriage, this can lead to the breaking of your marriage. Therefore, it will be good for you if you can look for the services of a marriage counselor, who helps people to resolve the issues that they are having in their marriages, and when you go with your partner and talk to him he will be able to help you as well. You will find that in your city there are a number of marriage counselors who you can go and see, but it is always good to conduct a thorough research on the available marriage counselors, so that you can select that counselor who is most qualified among them all when it comes to marriage counseling. In this article, we are going to discuss two of the important factors that you should consider when selecting the right marriage counselor in your city.
1. The experience level of a marriage counselor.
The level of experience as one of the most important thing that you need to put into consideration when you are searching for the right service providers in your city. In this case, when you are searching for the available marriage counselors in your city, it is important for you to consider that counselor who has been offering his marriage counseling services for a number of years. The fact is that when a marriage counselor has been in the industry offering his services for a longer period of time, he has been able to come across many different issues in marriages, and in the process he has acquired the relevant knowledge and skills which will help him to offer the best counseling services. Find a number of marriage counselors in your city, so that you can proceed to their website where you will find more details about them, which will help you to know more about their experience. From there you can compare different marriage counselors in your city, and select that counselor who you feel will be the right one for you and your partner.
2. Reputation.
It is good for you to consider that marriage counselor who is reputable in the city for offering the best marriage counseling services because when you hire his services you will have confidence with the counseling that he will offer you. You will also be able to determine the quality of services of a marriage counselor through his reputation.
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Y.O.L.O. bike is a speculative design project that focuses on the design of the embodiment of autonomous intelligence and its agency, applied to a bike in a futuristic context. Nowadays technologies claim to connect people. The rise of the Internet and our networked society has indeed brought people closer together and made communication easier, but specifically in a virtual way. For example, people using dating app are actually sometimes suffering from the lack of contact in real life. While commuting, people in the train are staring at their mobile phone screens, and are not really open for a talk in the physical world anymore. Also, we noticed that with the rise of autonomous vehicles, people would no longer have to drive and pay attention to the road. They may spend this time to submerge themselves into their online worlds again. And this physical isolation can have negative aspects on humans' well-being as well. It seems like biking is and will be the only mean of transportation where people are still present and focused on the ride, so we explored it.
Biking is an experience on its own, as people use their body to make the bike move and it all happens in the social context of the city: people pass by each other and can interacting for the sake of the traffic. Technology did not yet have a significant impact on cycling, because people prefer cycling as it is now, autonomous. However, we believe that with all the online data available, we could contribute to the offline cycling experience.
We imagine the future of biking, taking advantage of this context while augmenting the bike experience thanks to smart technologies, in order to make people meet in physical world again. We are introducing you to Y.O.L.O. well-being bike of the future.


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In recent years Gibraltar has become increasingly popular as a port of call for cruise liners, and this week the TUI Discovery 2 joined the list of nautical visitors to the Rock.
This ship was built in 1995 and operated by Royal Caribbean as the Legend of the Seas until it was sold in 2016 to Thomson Cruises. It is a Visions Class cruise ship weighing 69,472 tonnes, with a length of 264 metres, accommodation for approximately 1832 passengers and a crew of 771.
All inaugural cruises are welcomed to Gibraltar with a special ceremony and an exchange of plaques between the ship's captain, the representatives from the Gibraltar Tourist Board, the Port Authority and local shipping agent Incargo.
The Minister for Tourism, Gilbert Licudi , said , "As one of the largest tourism groups in Europe it is always great to welcome ships from the TUI fleet and in particular TUI Discovery 2 on her first call. It is encouraging to see the major cruise lines continuing to show their commitment to our unique product and our attributes as one of the most popular cruise ports in the Mediterranean."
Last year, 225 cruise ships visited Gibraltar, carrying around 350,000 passengers, and making it the third most visited port in Andalucía. The number is expected to increase this year.
Such is the success of Gibraltar as a destination for cruise passengers that neighbouring La Línea appears to be hoping to follow suit. According to reports, the council has plans to create a huge marina and facilities for these enormous ships at a cost of approximately 35.8 million euros.
The mayor of La Línea, Juan Franco, is reported as saying that the construction work could begin this year and that "this will be our Guggenheim", a major attraction for visitors.
The authorities believe that Gibraltar will eventually reach the point where it has no more capacity for the increasing number of cruise liners and La Línea can absorb the overflow.
However, reactions to the news have been mixed. Although some residents of La Línea believe the project would be beneficial for the town, others think it could backfire because passengers are likely to walk across the border to Gibraltar instead of spending their money locally.
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3 education groups. 2 historic sites. 1 digital platform designed to uncover deeper levels of engagement and exploration.
Over the last six months, Cadw and pyka have been working together to explore the potential of our pyka_walk platform to enhance visitors' experience of historical sites and enable new forms of digital learning.
pyka_walk is our proprietary creative platform which enables users to design and construct their own interactive digital experiences called 'storyworlds'. Each storyworld is assembled using audio, visual, and textual materials which users capture, remix, and curate through a digital story creation process. Finished storyworlds are then shared for other users to interact with and experience.
The development of _walk began some 18 months ago when we set out to explore the development of more expressive and creative digital tools for PMLD learners within SEN education. Along the way, we've made more and more valuable learning for how _walk is able to support various priorities through meaningful creative activity in a wide variety of contexts.
Our recent R&D project with Cadw was designed to explore the capacity of the _walk platform and introduce creative, digital interpretation of Cadw heritage sites in a portable and scalable platform that supported key strategic learning priorities of the organisation. This included:
To support the exploration of these priorities, the R&D sessions involved 3 education groups: Phillipstown Primary (mainstream), Ty Gwyn Special School (SEND), and home educators. The sessions took place at 2 contrasting Cadw sites: Blaenavon Ironworks and White Castle.
White Castle and the Ironworks are imposing sites that immediately struck the participating groups. By establishing a creative purpose to the workshops through the use of pyka_walk, learners immediately established their own role at the site and engaged with its visual and historical attributes on their own terms. Digital photography and storytelling encouraged many to physically explore the site in new ways, and seek out inspiration for their own works. Beginning with their own abstract visual collages, participants tended to then view the site at deeper levels and in more surprising ways, which then led to more creative perspectives upon the site - for example, learners considered how the history of 500 years may have looked from the point of view of the stones in the walls, or the trees and surrounding hills, and began crafting storyworld content to reflect this concept.
"I wouldn't really be as interested in exploring facts about history. The chance to create art and weave stories that are inspired by the places I visit is much more exciting to me." Madeline H. Home education learner.
For all participating SEN students, this was the first time they had ever visited a heritage site. The experience was a positive one for all participants. Compared to mainstream learners, the SEN participants focused particularly on the collection and arrangement of physical textures of the site (brick, grass, wall), and worked to arrange them with surprising focus. Of particular interest was the way in which the digital tool enhanced participant's physical experience of the site. Even though severe disability prevented some from fully exploring the sites physically, the opportunity to photograph distant points and then spatially recreate the site within pyka_walk enabled them to imaginatively and meaningfully engage with all areas of the site.
"What's great about testing this tool out with special needs students today is that it provides them with total experiential access of the ironworks... because access doesn't have to mean physical access." Prudence Williams, Blaenavon Joint Custodian.
The workshops culminated in the creation of 2 digital storyworlds, representing each of the sites (see video below for a playthrough of the Whitecastle storyworld experience).
Finally, the facilitation processes we've explored on this project have been reviewed in collaboration with Arts Award. The multimedia approach inherent with our pyka_walk platform has unlocked a wide array of artistic focuses when it comes to supporting the research components of Discover award attainment at heritage sites. We will be working more closely with the Arts Award team to make it possible for education groups and young individuals to utilise _walk and attain awards via Cadw sites in the future.
...and all of this is just the beginning! As we move closer the first public version of pyka_walk we'll be looking to bring the platform to more and more Cadw sites across Wales, engaging a wider audience of users and encouraging that wonderful ethos of lifelong learning.


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Aer Arann has taken delivery of the first of eight new aircraft it ordered under a €144m deal.
The airline – majority owned by UK transport group Stobart and Invesco Asset Management – operates all its flights under the 'Aer Lingus Regional' brand as part of a franchise agreement with the larger carrier.
The new aircraft purchase is part of Aer Arann's new strategy that aims to make it one of Europe's top-tier regional airlines. Aer Arann hopes to more than double its annual passenger numbers to two million over the next five years.
It ordered the eight aircraft from French manufacturer ATR and yesterday took delivery of the first plane in Toulouse, where ATR is headquartered.
The remaining seven new aircraft will be delivered to Aer Arann over the next 11 months. The turbo-prop planes will be used to operate existing key routes from Dublin to destinations such as Manchester and Birmingham.
"The arrival of these new planes will enable Aer Arann to further expand our regional offering and to support the addition of new routes and frequencies on existing routes," said Aer Arann interim chief executive Sean Brogan.
"We already have plans in place to increase frequencies on our Dublin-Edinburgh and Dublin-Glasgow routes."
Aer Lingus and Aer Arann recently agreed a 10-year extension to their franchise agreement.
While Aer Lingus chief executive Christoph Mueller has ruled out taking a direct stake in the smaller carrier, Aer Lingus has taken a 33pc equity stake in the company that has been used to acquire the eight ATR aircraft that are in turn leased to Aer Arann.
Aer Arann has had a troubled time over the past few years and went into examinership following the volcanic eruption in Iceland that closed swathes of European airspace in 2010.
Last year, Stobart approached former Aer Arann chairman Padraig O'Ceidigh about buying out most of his remaining stake in the airline.
It had taken an initial stake as part of the plan to exit examinership. It now owns 42pc, as does Invesco.
Mr O'Ceidigh retains a 5pc stake but no longer has any direct involvement with Aer Arann. London-based Cenkos Securities is also listed as owning about 10pc of the airline.
Irish Independent