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7:40pm, Saturday 22 September, Alliance Stadium. This is the last rugby league game at this ground.
In 31 seasons there have been some cracking games at Allianz Stadium. The Roosters featured in the very first game here, a 24-14 loss to the Dragons in round one 1988.
The second game at the ground was a 16-14 win to the Rabbitohs over the Roosters.
Now – after 708 games of top grade rugby league, including international and State of Origin matches – the old SFS will host its last league game. It is fitting that a ground that sits in the no man's land between the Souths and Roosters turf should host this game as its finale.
This game pits the season's best defensive side against the year's best attacking side.
However, the crucial factor in this game is carry over points. Greg Inglis had none, so he'll play in spite of his crusher tackle. Latrell Mitchel conversely had some and will sit out suspended.
That Inglis will be there – with his outstanding experience and leadership – while Mitchell and his stellar attacking game won't is likely to be the crucial factor that decides this game.
Let's look at why.
Team Stats – average per game 2018
Team stats
Line breaks conceded
+0.4 Rabbitohs
Missed tackles
+3.5 Rabbitohs
Tries conceded
+0.8 Rabbitohs
+0.4 Roosters
Meters conceded
+58.8 Roosters
Penalties conceded
+0.2 Rabbitohs
11.1 (#16 in NRL)
+2.5 Roosters
With the exception of their errors and offloads conceded, Easts have been the number one defensive side this season. While in no way miles ahead of the Rabbitohs, the tricolours consistency in defence is notable.
Further, if offloads conceded were a telling defensive stat how is it that the number one defensive side would be worst in that category?
Maybe it is about the quality of the offloads I guess, and the Bunnies have quality offloads.
Player Stats
Tackles made
J. Friend – 42.9
R. Matterson – 30.7
B. Cordner – 26.8
D. Cook – 38.6
A. Crichton – 30.7
C. Murray – 28.5
S. Burgess – 28.2
Missed tackles
J. Friend – 2.1
L. Keary – 2
B. Cordner – 2
V. Radley – 1.9
S. Burgess – 3.2
D. Gagai – 3.1
D. Cook – 2.1
T. Burgess – 2
Penalties conceded
L. Mitchell – 1
D. Napa – 0.9
J. Friend – 0.8
J. Waerea-Hargreaves – 0.7
S. Burgess – 1.1
A. Crichton – 1.1
G. Burgess – 0.9
A. Reynolds – 0.8
C. Murray – 0.8
B. Ferguson – 1.3
D. Tupou – 1.3
L. Keary – 1.2
J. Tedesco – 1.2
A. Reynolds – 1.3
C. Walker – 1.2
S. Burgess – 1.2
A. Crichton – 1.1
There are some awesome defenders in both of these sides. Jake Friend is tackling crazy and Damien Cook is not far behind him. Where Sam Burgess' and Dane Gagai's missed tackles are a worry for the Rabbits – and they will be targeted – no Rooster is a liability in the defensive line.
Here is one advantage for the Roosters of Latrell Mitchell and Dylan Napa being out: they are the club's worst penalty conceders. A bit of cold comfort there really.
From these stats, the Roosters are highly likely to win the penalty count. Gus Crichton and Sam Burgess will concede them.
Further, Sam Burgess and Crichton will make errors. He has been averaging four missed tackles and two errors a game over the last six games.
Conversely, the Roosters errors are predominantly committed in attack, not in their own red zone – as evidenced by their leading error merchants.
Team Stats – average per game 2017
Line breaks
4.6 (#5 in NRL
+1.2 Rabbitohs
Tackle breaks
+1.4 Rabbitohs
Tries scored
3.7 (#3 in NRL)
4 (#1 in NRL)
+0.3 Rabbitohs
Metres made
+14 Rabbitohs
Penalties received
+0.5 Rabbitohs
+3.1 Rabbitohs
If the Roosters are the season's best defenders, the Rabbitohs are certainly the year's best attackers.
When put against each other their strengths virtually nullify each other. The only two things where and real advantage can be gleaned is that the Rabbits overall are 69 metres and 5.5 offloads to the good of the Roosters.
Player Stats
Tackle breaks
J. Tedesco – 5.7 (#1 NRL)
L. Mitchell – 4.4 (#4 NRL)
D. Tupou – 3.3
B. Ferguson – 3.1
B. Cordner – 1.4
J. Manu – 2.5
D. Gagai – 3.4
D. Cook – 3.1
A. Crichton – 2.8
C. Walker – 2.8
R. Jennings – 2.7
Line breaks
B. Ferguson – 23
J. Tedesco – 19
L. Mitchell – 18
L. Keary – 10
J. Manu – 10
R. Jennings – 18
A. Johnston – 18
C. Walker – 18
C. Graham – 12
Metres gained
B. Ferguson – 189 (#1 NRL)
J. Tedesco – 181 (#2 NRL)
D. Tupou – 151 (#6 NRL)
B. Cordner – 113
S. Burgess – 132
R. Jennings – 129
A. Crichton – 117
G. Inglis – 117
Tries scored
B. Ferguson – 17
L. Mitchell – 16
J. Tedesco – 9
J. Manu – 7
R. Jennings -19
C. Walker – 12
G. Inglis – 10
A. Johnston – 8
Try assists
L. Keary – 19
J. Tedesco – 18
C. Cronk – 15
C. Walker – 17
A. Johnston – 14
A. Reynolds – 14
D. Cook – 10
Line break assists
L. Keary – 17
J. Tedesco – 17
C. Cronk – 10
J. Manu – 8
C. Walker – 27
A. Johnston – 18
A. Reynolds – 14
D. Cook – 11
J. Tedesco – 1.1
L. Mitchell – 0.9
J. Waerea-Hargreaves – 0.7
R. Matterson – 0.7
J. Manu – 0.6
S. Burgess – 1.7
A. Crichton – 1.5
D. Cook – 1.1
How will the Roosters go without Latrell Mitchell? His tackle breaks, line breaks and tries have been essential to their success this year.
However, look at Blake Ferguson and James Tedesco's attacking stats – they are awesome. The question is how much positive influence does Mitchell's presence have on their stats? I think it is a fair bit.
A lot rests on Tedesco, Cooper Cronk and Luke Keary to make up for Mitchell's absence. They certainly have the credentials to do it too.
Cody Walker and Adam Reynolds are such a huge factor in Souths chances. If they are on song, I believe they will win this game.
However, if they struggle – and they can – their opponents will feed on that. Tedesco was made for matches like this.
The wild card is whether Damien Cook can inject his considerable X-factor from dummy half.
The Danger Men
James Tedesco
The number one tackle breaker and the number two line breaker in the NRL this year. Last outing he made 240 metres and eight tackle breaks, while laying on three line break assists and two try assists. He could bust this match wide open.
Blake Ferguson
He may be leaving the Roosters after this season but he's giving his all to the club. The number one metre gainer in the NRL this season, he has 17 tries to his name. The only question is whether he can do it without Latrell Mitchell on his inside. The Rabbitohs will be hoping the answer is no.
What can Ferguson achieve without Mitchell? (AAP Image/Paul Miller)
Luke Keary
The words – as reportedly delivered by Russell Crowe – "You didn't earn your money last year" signalled the beginning of Keary's exit from the Rabbitohs, with whom he won the 2014 premiership.
It is a safe bet that Keary would really love to show Crowe just what his value is in this game. His 19 try assists, 17 line break assists and ten tries in just 21 games this season show he is definitely earning his pay from Uncle Nick this year.
Sam Burgess
I reckon big Sam is going to put all of the distractions behind him and show us all just how good he is at football this week. That will mean huge trouble for the Roosters if I'm right.
Damien Cook
As above, Cook needs to have a big match here. He must be at his attacking best. I reckon he's due for a blinder.
Greg Inglis
This will be Inglis' 24th finals appearance. He has won 15 of those. He has won four out of the five that he has played at centre. As he demonstrated in this year's Origin series, his leadership and big game experience can be incredibly influential. Expect him to assert his dominance in this game.
Tom and George Burgess
If the Rabbitohs want to win this then the twins must dominate. It is as simple as that. They must hurl their huge bodies at the Roosters pack relentlessly and cause havoc. Will they?
The Burgess brothers must rise. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts)
The History
The Roosters overall record
This will be the Roosters 2378th competition game. They've won 1255 of them (52.8 per cent)
The Rabbitohs overall record
This is the Rabbitohs' 2372nd game since entering the competition. The have a 52 per cent win rate.
Overall between the sides
No two Australian Rugby league sides have played each other more than these two. Dating back to 1908, this will be the 241st game between the sides in all competitions. Easts have won 110, the Bunnies 124, and there have been six draws.
In the Sydney premiership – and its subsequent iterations – this will be the 219th game between the sides. Souths have won 113, the Roosters 99, and there have been five draws.
The last ten
The Chooks have won six of the last ten. That includes four of the last five. The latest match between the two – round 22 at ANZ Stadium – saw the tricolours run out 18-14 winners. However, the Rabbits were without Campbell Graham, Robert Jennings and Greg Inglis, and the victors had Latrell Mitchell and Dylan Napa playing.
At this Venue
This will be the 39th game between these sides at Allianz Stadium. The Roosters have the upper hand, winning 24 of them (63.1 per cent). The last ten have been split five a piece.
Here's a weird stat for you: in spite of the massive number of games these sides have played against each other, this will be only their 11th finals match. So, just 4.6 per cent of their encounters have been finals. Further, this will be only their second finals game against each other in the last 80 seasons.
In 2014, the Rabbitohs beat the Roosters 32-22 in the Preliminary final at ANZ Stadium.
The final before that was on August 27th 1938 at the SCG, with Eastern Suburbs triumphing 19-10. That means the two sides have played each other 167 times in 80 seasons with only one finals game in that time.
Last time these sides played in a prelim, the winner went on to taste the ultimate success. (AAP Image/Action Photographics, Robb Cox)
This is the very last game at this stadium and also the first finals game between these two sides here.
By round 11 of this season, the Roosters were sitting in seventh position, having won six and lost five of their games. They only lost three of their remaining 13 games to storm home to the minor premiership.
They've played 12 games against the other finalists this season, winning six and losing six. Four of those six losses have come at home. They've played other top four sides five times for a three and two record.
The Rabbitohs have won six of their last ten, but three of those losses were against other top eight sides (Sharks, Panthers and Storm).
South Sydney have played 13 matches against the other finalists this season – including the qualifying final and last week's semi. They've lost seven and won six of them. However, against other top four sides they have won three and lost two. Their average score against the other top four sides is a 24-17 win.
The Roosters also have a three and two winning record against the other top four sides but their average score is only an 18-14 win. This suggests a 19-18 win for the Rabbitohs in this game.
Ashley Klein, Adam Gee
These two have never officiated a Roosters-Rabbitohs game together before, finals or otherwise. This is not surprising, as there has only been one final between these sides in 80 years.
Ashley Klein has run three games between these teams, and Easts have won all three, the last being the 14-12 win here at Allianz in Round 18, 2017.
Adam Gee has run one game. In Round 1, 2016 the Bunnies flogged their rivals 42-10 here at Allianz. There are only five members of the losing side backing up for this match, compared to seven winners.
Klein has controlled 34 Roosters games since 2009. The Roosters have won 19 of them (55.9 per cent). He has controlled 41 Rabbitohs games with the Cardinal and Myrtle winning 20 of them (48.8 per cent).
Adam Gee has controlled 12 Rabbitohs games – including their recent final loss to the Storm – and the Bunnies have won six of them (50 per cent). Under Gee's control, the Roosters have won five of nine (55.5 per cent).
The Roosters lost their only finals game they've had under Adam Gee. That was last year's Preliminary Final loss to the Cowboys at the venue. Conversely, the Rabbitohs have lost their only finals match under Ash Klein, their 2015 qualifying loss against the Sharks, also at Allianz Stadium.
Easts' 40-14 2013 Preliminary final win over the Newcastle Knights was controlled by Klein, and it was also at Allianz Stadium.
Who is going to win and why
The Latrell Mitchell out is a big one, but the minor premiers still have Cronk, Cleary and Tedesco, so it's not exactly like they are without extreme attacking class.
If that triumvirate gets on to,p then the Roosters will win. However, their pack is not stellar. They are very good and dependable, but they aren't match winners.
Their opponents' pack can definitely be match winners.
I've felt that this year the Roosters have won matches because their backline venom was so damn good it compensated for their lesser pack.
The removal of Mitchell dampens that venom – and gives the Rabbitohs a target in Joseph Manu.
If Souths are able to put off field distractions out of their minds – if – I think they'll win narrowly.
Statistically predicted score: Roosters 20.4 – Rabbitohs 19.6
Prediction: Rabbitohs 1-12


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Free Month at the HoF
Why is the Reds Hall of Fame free?
The Reds have turned a great building created to honor and preserve the
history of the team into a cheap amusement park.
You used to be able to come in on a gameday and learn about the team,
watch a film that got you fired up for baseball and finish by reading the plaques of the greats of Reds history.
Now you are herded like cattle 100's at a time through the building.
You are no longer in the company of fellow fans. You are surrounded by
fat, sweaty "fans" who entered the game with their free tickets.They are bored with the game(real fans huh?) and are just
walking around. These people give " two sh*ts" about the history of the Reds.
The Reds hall of Fame is " A place for the fans"(according to their website)
A true fan would have no problem spending just 5 dollars to see
the history of their team!
These "non-fans" will drop $6.00 on a beer or $7.50 for a fried twinkee, but can't
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His images of damaged reefs, thriving ecosystems, and close-encounters with wildlife have inspired people, and helped lead to the creation of Marine Protected Areas around the world. They are also gathered in his new National Geographic book, Ocean Soul in stores and online now.
Brian will also be presenting photos from Ocean Soul in a National Geographic Live! event this Monday in Washington, D.C.
While he's here at NG Headquarters, he'll be joining us for a live conversation with you on the National Geographic Facebook page Monday, November 14 at 2:30pm ET (7:30pm UTC). Post your questions there or in the comments section of this blog post. Then tune in for the live interview and post more questions as the conversation develops.
To start your brain thinking of what you'd like to ask this renowned photographer, take a look at some of his recent work from National Geographic magazine, and watch the video below to hear him talk about catching the spectacular image above.
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Scott Hill of Brazil is the newest trustee of Clay Community Schools. In a brief meeting Wednesday night, Hill was nominated by Dr. Fred Froderman; the nomination was seconded by Shane Wiram. The vote was 6-0 with school board members Wiram, Amy Burke Adams, Ron Scherb, Froderman, Kevin Kumpf and Tom Reberger voting for the nomination...
Girl Scouts in northern Indiana receive grant to digitize Girl Scout history
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FORT WAYNE -- Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana -- Michiana (GSNI-M) and the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library have received a grant in the amount of $18,000 to digitize materials from the GSNI-M collection. These materials, dating back to 1920's, provide a written and pictorial history reflecting the importance of Girl Scouts in the lives of girls and women in northern Indiana...
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Trash collection for the city of Brazil will be behind one day after Tuesday's municipal elections. Trash collection will stay the same for Monday, but there will be no collection on Tuesday and it will be one day behind schedule the rest of the week...
U.S. 40 project uncovers historic relics
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Drivers patiently travel side streets, avoiding U.S. 40 through Brazil when traffic is heaviest. Some drivers are not as patient but everyone we have spoken with say they hope the downtown will be visibly improved when the work is complete next year...
Public invited to be a part of Relay For Life
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The following blurb from The Cumberland Evening Times dated 11 February 1955 is both a sad story and a bit of a mystery. It details the grisly demise of a fishing lure maker, but the mystery is what exactly is the Chamberlain Spoon? Has anyone seen one before? I sure would like to know what one looks like...
Friends Collect Funds To Bury Fish Lure Expert
ST. MICHAELS, Md. Friends have begun collecting a fund to pay for the funeral of Joseph Ennels Muse Chamberlain, a fishing lure expert who killed himself yesterday. County Medical Examiner Louis A. Welty said Chamberlain shot himself in the head with a .22 caliber rifle.
The 69-year-old Chamberlain gained fame in the fishing world in 1939 after fashioning the Chamberlain spoon, a lure which proved tremendously effective with bluefish. He also invented and patented the first spoon used for trolling.
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Which intrigued me, so I bided my time as is my wont.
The point: last night I slipped into the conversation, why would she impose such a condition? She freely answered : she would feel very vulnrable and precarious wearing dress / skirt/ robe without pantoids.
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There are a variety of possibilities emerging from the edge automation platform, and so this concept has been developed leveraging the OpenNESS platform.
The enables simplification of application lifecycle in 5G-MEC node with OpenNESS - Intelligent Traffic Management.
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The Intelligent Edge -Scaling resilient virtualized services with Edge Analytics
May 19 2020
50 mins
Brian Lappin - BT, Matt Olson - Splunk, and Bill McDonald - Intel
The applications for uCPE are growing as the edge grows in importance for customers looking to take advantage of Digital Initiatives, but success with these remote deployments is dependent on cost-effective management of these systems. Brian makes the case as to why the Edge is important to BT's enterprise customers, how customers want to use these services at the edge and why data telemetry and analytics are critical to the successful scale-out of uCPE to these customers.
Splunk offers a powerful analytics platform that enables communications service providers (CommSPs) and the enterprises that they serve to gain end-to-end visibility of their uCPE infrastructure, WAN connections, security and other applications, with automatic response when network events violate network policies.
Although SDN and NFV have been around for a number of years, there have been fits and starts due to a variety of different reasons. What's different this time around is there's finally an integrated solution with partners aligned, working with service providers to help solve problems. However, as IoT devices continue to grow by some estimates, to 20B+ at the edge, the need to make data-driven decisions at the edge and the ability to deploy uCPE at scale are becoming increasingly vital.
Matt highlights Splunk's Data to Everything platform, and how his team helps turn real-time data into doing. Splunk helps service providers bring real-time data to every question, decision, and action that affects their organization so they can turn that data into successful outcomes.
Learn more about the types of analytics that customers are requiring, how is Splunk making it easy for the customers to consume that data and scale their deployments.
Brian Lappin, Head of uCPE Product Management at BT
Matt Olson, Global Telecom, Media, and Technology Strategist at Splunk
Bill McDonald, Segment Manager for the Enterprise Edge / uCPE at Intel
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IO-optimized Architecture from Dell: CDN and High Performance Storage
May 15 2020
39 mins
Robert Tung, Dell PowerEdge; Tushar Gohad, Intel CDN/Storage; Nash Kleppan, Intel CDN/Storage
This webinar will review industry leading performance on a CDN workload featuring Nginx in Dell's new Fully Balanced R640 server. This architecture has implications for other High Performance Storage. This architecture features improved latency and 200GbE throughput with Intel NVMe SSDs and Intel 100GbE NICs. The POC features Intel® Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters, HQM and the NUMA balanced 1U platform from Dell, our first solution of this type from a Tier 1 OEM. This platform supports Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors for added performance.
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Which Form Factor for an SD-WAN Appliance?
May 12 2020
52 mins
Marc Bouteyre, Head of Virtualization at Ekinops
Over-the-top SD-WAN providers are all leveraging x86 appliances as default appliances and very few are using x86 platforms with virtualization. This indeed makes a lot of sense when new devices are needed on the Edge of the network however this is more challenging from a TCO perspective and may limit SD-WAN adoption. While Intel offers a large range of platforms and solutions to optimize their usage, which make those relevant at the Edge, they must be complemented for the entry level with cost-effective solutions in order to extend the overall SD-WAN market. The end game with an extended SD-WAN market being to enable additional network services.
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Elastic Security for Business Continuity
May 8 2020
45 mins
Stefan Brodin, Clavister Commercial Solutions Manager
As the world races to create connectivity for remote workers and maintain business continuity for firms that are threatened by this tsunami, important lessons are being learned. The need for cloud elasticity to deliver security use cases has become critical; the need for a highly redundant VPN mesh across various platforms and user scenarios is an absolute must and of course a strong push to introduce easy and effective authentication to create a zero trust landscape of real cybersecurity. In short, the call is for an Elastic Secure SD-WAN that will solve immediate problems such as getting remote workers up and running securely but also start all companies down a path of sustainable SD-WAN architecture that they can build and scale into.
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Open from Cloud to Edge
Apr 28 2020
39 mins
Steven Hwang, Exec. Dir., Sales Enablement; PJ Lin, Technical Software Mgr; and Ted Pang, Exec. Dir., Software Dev. at Wiwynn
The fast deployment of 5G network and low latency applications have pushed the CoSPs and CSPs to work hand in hand to provide a flexible edge computing solution with agility and scalability.
Wiwynn has abundant cloud product and technologies expertise. We have extended our product pipeline from cloud to edge to support customers who are ready to ride the 5G tide and adding the edge infrastructure.
Network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) is the foundation for 5G RAN/core and edge computing. In this webinar, we'll demonstrate the data plane performance boost of layer2 forwarding throughput of OVS-DPDK with Intel SST-BF technology and DPDK. Meanwhile, we will showcase the 5G RAN and MEC implementation on our edge server, EP100, to demonstrate the flexibility of Wiwynn's edge solution for various edge applications.
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Changing the Mobile Networks Economics with Parallel Wireless OpenRAN
Apr 21 2020
44 mins
Zahid Ghadialy, Sr. Director, Strategic Marketing; Amit Miron, Sr. Director, Product Management; Jason Tiner, Sales Engineer
The entire telecom industry is going through a dramatic change that can be only compared to the change that Data Centers went through in the 2000s; all driven by Moore's law. This is driving the need to move from costly, proprietary solutions to COTS and Open-based ones, and create a broader vendor supply chain. Vodafone recently noted that "the global supply of telecom network equipment has become concentrated in a small handful of companies over the past few years. More choice of suppliers will safeguard the delivery of services to all mobile customers, increase flexibility and innovation and, crucially, can help address some of the cost challenges that are holding back the delivery of internet services globally. In this webinar, Parallel Wireless speakers will discuss how the cloud-native and software-based Parallel Wireless OpenRAN approach across ALL G significantly improves network economics by converging 'ALL G', including 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, on to one unified software platform that is easy to manage. We will showcase how this eliminates the need for operators to maintain siloed legacy networks dedicated to just one G service resulting in up to 60% OPEX cost reduction to maintain networks. This approach allows MNOs to modernize legacy networks for cost reduction and is essential to reduce the complexity and integration expense of rolling out multi-vendor 5G systems. We will go in more detailed in different types of Intel-based OpenRAN (integrated and split) and supported coverage and capacity use cases. We will close the session off with some real-life deployments of OpenRAN by Parallel Wireless across the globe from Vodafone, Telefonica, MTN, Etisalat, Zain and CCA members in the US.
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Enabling Vendor Agnostic Disaggregated WiFi Orchestration
Apr 14 2020
36 mins
Nazneen Shaikh, Founder, Sanctum Networks
-Concept of Disaggregated WiFi Networking
-Embracing Open Source for Service Differentiation
-Enabling Affordable Multi Vendor WiFi Platforms
-Value creation for Home WiFi Segment
-Breaking Vendor lock in for Enterprise WiFi
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Lenovo's Solutions Offer Customers the Edge
Apr 8 2020
58 mins
Priya Natarajan, Sr. Director, Global head of Telco GTM at Lenovo and Anand Gorti, Telco / NFV Solution Architect at Lenovo
Join us to learn how you can quickly deploy and benefit from Lenovo's solutions designed for the modern needs of Communication Service Providers (CoSPs). Our workload-optimized solutions simplify implementation and accelerate time to market. We will share real life examples and customer applications.
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MEC Edge Computing Platforms Facilitate 5G NR Transport Network Transformation
Mar 27 2020
38 mins
Julian Ye, Director of ADLINK Technology Network and Communication Business Center
Telecommunications operators worldwide are accelerating 5G deployment to deliver on their promises to significantly reduce latency, increase connection speed, enhance network security, and improve quality of service for end users. Evolving from 4G/LTE to 5G New Radio (NR) transport architecture facilitates Radio Access Network (RAN) virtualization by splitting the original Baseband Unit (BBU) into Central Unit (CU) and Distributed Unit (DU). Coupled with Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), the architecture transition provides operators with a solid foundation to build an optimized network by effectively implementing network slicing and spectrum sharing, and therefore helps them open up enormous new application and service opportunities based on varying customer needs and requirements. Join us in this webinar to learn more about the advantages and benefits from the transformation to 5G NR architecture, the technical requirements of MEC edge computing platforms, and the business opportunities for platform suppliers like ADLINK that provide white-box solutions with standardized interfaces for the industry.
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Securing Networks from Edge-to-Cloud
Mar 24 2020
55 mins
Vinod Sundarraj, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Cloud and MSSP at Fortinet
Adoption of Cloud and WAN Edge technologies is rapidly on the rise in both Enterprise and Service Provider markets. Cloud technologies are used to deliver various multitenant services and Edge technologies accelerate the connectivity to the Cloud. But this increases the surface area of attack and therefore poses significant risk.
Virtual firewall solutions provide comprehensive protection, deep visibility and consistent security controls across a variety of deployment models. In this webinar you will learn how the Industry leading FortiGate Virtual Firewall enables key use cases such as Segmentation, Threat Protection, Security automation, and Secure SD-WAN to protect networks from Edge to Cloud.
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Multi-Access Edge Computing with Network Programmability
Mar 3 2020
55 mins
Sven Freudenfeld - CTO Telecom Application BU at Lanner and Jesper Eriksson - VP of Product Management at NoviFlow Inc.
Cloud Services, IoT, 5G and MEC are driving applications ever closer to the network edge, challenging existing network/cloud edge infrastructure to scale into the multi-Tbps range as well as to meet severely reduced latency requirements. Using traditional fixed function network technologies to deliver this enhanced Multi-access Edge Computing unfortunately adds latency to packet flows, multiplies networking costs, limits scalability and drives expenses through the roof. Programmable match-action data planes, combined with programmable compute resources, make it possible deploy Multi-access Edge Computing as an intelligent resource that brings the network into full partnership with applications and coordinates flows across enterprises and global networks.
In this webinar, Intel, Lanner and NoviFlow will present an all-in-one MEC solution that demonstrates these principles by uniting Intel scalable compute node, Intel/Barefoot Tofino programmable networking, and NoviFlow's NoviWare and CyberMapper programmable networking software. They will also present how this solution optimizes information flows, minimizes latency, and makes the best possible utilization of all network and compute resources, thus reducing hardware costs, operating expenditures and even energy utilization. Use cases for PE-Router, Mobile Edge Computing, Service Chaining with SRV6, Private LTE and IPTV will be presented and discussed.
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White Box Strategies for ISP Border Routers
Feb 18 2020
31 mins
Kelly LeBlanc, VP of Marketing at 6WIND and Yann Rapaport, VP of Product Management at 6WIND
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are replacing legacy hardware Border Routers with software on white box servers. Through advancements with Border Router software and Intel® Xeon® server architecture, ISPs can now benefit from virtualized software solutions without sacrificing features and performance. Join the Webinar to learn how global ISPs are transitioning to white box strategies for BGP-based border routers.
For more information, read the Intel / 6WIND Solution Brief:
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Open Edge Cloud for Content Delivery
Jan 23 2020
53 mins
Mark Fisher, VP Marketing and Business Development at Qwilt and Jeff Gilbert, VP Strategy and Business Development at Qwilt
Streaming video continues to grow at staggering rates with a whole new wave of service offerings from Disney+, DAZN, CBS and NBC's Peacock set to accelerate consumer adoption and flood mobile and broadband networks with even more streaming traffic. Learn about the new ways streaming video is being consumed and how communications service providers can use Qwilt's Open Edge Cloud, an edge computing solution, as a new architecture and business model to scale content delivery capacity in their networks. Hear how the Open Edge Cloud drives the deployment of a massive compute infrastructure based on Intel architecture at the last mile edge of ISP networks. You will also hear how and why major communications service providers and content publishers have adopted this new model for content delivery.
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NFV is Winning!
Jan 21 2020
55 mins
Prayson Pate - SVP Solutions Marketing and CTO Edge Cloud, ADVA
The telecom industry has been working on network functions virtualization (NFV) for seven years. It has been a slow process, but now NFV is succeeding in the marketplace. We will ask and answer some key questions:
•Why has it taken so long?
•What's changed?
•How is it being deployed, and with what key applications?
•Who is deploying it?
•And what's next?
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One Core, One Radio, Every Generation - Bring Connectivity Anywhere with NIB®
Dec 19 2019
48 mins
Jay Salkini, President and CEO, Tecore Networks
Tecore Networks will discuss how the iCore™ Software Defined Core Network brings Mobile Network Operators (MNO's) an OpenRAN platform that supports simultaneous operations of 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G from a common x86 based system or Cloud RAN in a single radio. Tecore Networks will also discuss how the Network in a Box® (NIB) is the industry's first all-in-one, transportable and ready-in-minutes network that provides operators with the most compact, adaptable, and cost-effective platform for deploying, extending, and evolving their networks.
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Safeguarding the Edge of 5G and Multi-cloud
Dec 18 2019
54 mins
Yasir Liaqatullah, Vice President, Product Management and Paul Nicholson, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at A10 Networks
We are entering a new era of 5G and Multi Cloud connectivity. There is a massive proliferation IoT, and new 5G and Multi Cloud applications are forcing an architecture evolution. Edge computing is rapidly emerging to realize the full potential of these new use cases dependent on low-latency. Simultaneously, the connected devices are getting ever more powerful and much more widely deployed. Security is becoming paramount to protect these edge applications, efficiently and effectively. Traditional defenses are not possible in this new age and a new breed of ML based consolidated security is required.
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DPI: The Key Technology for Application Performance Monitoring Solutions
Dec 17 2019
44 mins
John Hallett, Sales Manager EMEA at ipoque GmbH, a Rohde & Schwarz company
When it comes to managing application performance, most enterprises today use application performance monitoring (APM) tools. APM is a unified monitoring technique that uses analytics to provide visibility into the end-to-end performance of an enterprise application, measuring it against pre-determined performance, security and QoE targets.
By using deep packet inspection (DPI) technology, APM tools are able to go beyond the usual simple network management protocol (SNMP) and flow-based traffic monitoring to detect performance issues. DPI is a technique for monitoring network and application traffic at packet level. Using response time metrics for packets sent between clients and servers, enterprise administrators can regulate traffic flows and differentiate between network and application issues.
This is necessary for a converged, end-to-end overview of enterprise application performance, which requires real-time analytics on enterprise network links and connectivity such as LAN and WAN, as well as on user devices and external connectivity.
Discover in this webinar why DPI is crucial for achieving an up-to-date overview of system traffic, determining root causes of performance issues, detecting inappropriate traffic and security risks, and reacting to network slowdowns (which often remain undetected) before they impact end users.
By the end of this session, attendees will have learned:
•How application delivery creates challenges for enterprises related to managing their applications' performance and security
•How APM solutions help enterprises to monitor and diagnose application delivery issues
•Why packet-level analytics provided by DPI have become a crucial technology for APM solutions
•What the benefits of DPI are for APM use cases
•What sourcing options are available for DPI solutions
•How to evaluate and answer the key aspects when deciding whether to build or buy DPI technology
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The Intel® Network Builders webinar program is a recurring webcast series in which ecosystem members and Intel technology experts delve into the technologies, topics, and issues facing the networking industry. Presenters delve into the network transformation taking place through the adoption of software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) across telecommunication and enterprise organizations.
Intel Network Builders also offers a comprehensive NFV and SDN training program through the Intel Network Builders University, which offers a broad collection of online content for technical professionals in the network industry. Learn more at http://networkbuilders.intel.com/university.
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The burger: After taking a brief, spring-is-finally-here hiatus, Burger Friday is back, and taking your calls.
Variations on "What's your favorite burger?" have been peppering my inbox for several weeks, and despite my reputation as The Thing That Won't Shut Up, I'm challenged to come up with a response for that one. Only because limiting my answer to a single example is darned near impossible.
So I'll cheat it and offer, in no particular order, five burger-makers that immediately come to mind: Rabbit Hole, Borough, HauteDish, Victory 44 and the crazy-good (and crazy-inexpensive) sliders served at the Rookery.
Wait, let me add another to the list: Lake & Irving.
One reason why is that, at their new-ish Uptown restaurant, brothers Chris and Andrew Ikeda took no chances on their path to burger nirvana.
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And they do. At least the more-than-a-handful of times that I've devoured it. That admirable consistency is a result of an exhaustive research-and-development process, one that led the Ikedas to their alert-the-Patent-Office formula.
It starts with a steakhouse-style short rib-chuck blend, imported from New Jersey's Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors and a grind so flavorful that it barely needs salt and pepper. Although the end result very nearly comes off as a single patty, each burger doubles up a pair of three-ounce-ers. Picture it this way: rather than a clearly delineated double patty, a la the Big Mac, imagine a thick-ish single patty, albeit one with a slightly off-kilter shape.
Here's the fascinating part: Each patty is cooked on a 500-degree flattop grill for a precise (as in, down to the second) amount of time, a figure determined by a ton of trial and error. Forgive me for not being able to clear the opening credits of 60 Minutes from my train of thought.
While immersed in their R&D period, the brothers stumbled into an ah-ha moment: During that quick cooking period, each patty benefits from a hard press with a spatula, a la Smashburger.
"It's counter-intuitive, I know," said Andrew. "At the CIA [Culinary Institute of America], we were taught that if you ever take the back of a spatula to a patty, the patty will lose moisture. But on a hard flattop, it doesn't. It's the fattiness in the short rib, which locks all that flavor and moisture into the patty."
Another integral element is a Wisconsin cheddar, and no, it's not an artisanal, meticulously aged product. And that's OK.
"We're purists," said Andrew with a laugh. "A foie burger is one of the most sublime things I've ever had. But we're about doing the basic things really well. We don't want to over-complicate and detract from what makes a good burger a good burger."
Well said. It helps that this very basic cheddar has all the flavor and melty texture that anyone requires in a hamburger-bound cheese (true to form, that long-lasting melt is achieved through a careful baste that's also measured in seconds). The sense of restraint continues with the burger's other garnishes, a few marvelously made pickle chips, a modest sliver of red onions and a lettuce leaf, all served on the side.
The two-patty formula is genius, in part because the thin shape requires next to no cooking time before each center reaches a picture-perfect pink. These burgers very nearly fly out of the kitchen, making L&I a smart lunch destination for the time-pressed.
(Another benefit of the two-patty system: Flavor. A pair of patties has twice the amount of surface that has been seared on the grill, and when that beef comes in contact with that heat, transformative deliciousness ensues. Now multiply that, times two.)
There's a nostalgia-dipped backstory, too. The brothers (that's Chris, left, and Andrew, right, from a Star Tribune file photo) wanted to pay homage to the burgers that fueled them from grade school through college.
"We're trying to get back to our roots," said Andrew. "We grew up on Lions Tap – that's what I ate after soccer games when I was 14 -- and other old-school burgers, with their smaller, thinner patties. But we also looked around, and we see a lot of these big, thick, medium-rare patties, and we don't see anyone else doing two patties. So we thought we'd try it out."
I nearly forgot about the crowning touch, a brioche bun from Patisserie 46, a golden, flaky, buttery thing of beauty that has quickly become the bun by which all others are measured. At L&I, it's lovingly split and grilled in butter, caramelizing until it reaches the color of dark butterscotch.
"A lot of the credit goes to Patisserie 46, because that bun is dynamite," said Andrew. Agreed.
Not convinced? Consider the numbers. The L&I cheeseburger (it's served on every menu: lunch, dinner, late-night and brunch) is outsold only by the kitchen's category-killing fried chicken sandwich. The latter has developed a (well-deserved) cult following. In my opinion, the burger merits similar standing.
Price: $11. For a criss-cross of expertly fried bacon (highly recommended), add $2.
Fries: Included, and on par, quality-wise, with the burger.
At the bar: The Ikedas are clearly beer aficionados, and their eclectic, always-on-the-lookout list is bound to have a few choices that pair beautifully with burgers. Andrew is partial to Expat, the rye saison from Fulton Brewery, "although you can't go wrong with Bell's Two Hearted, that's always money," he said. "Or if you're really going heavy, have the North Coast Old Rasputin Nitro, that's going to stand up to the burger really well." See what I mean?
Address book: 1513 W. Lake St., Mpls., 612-354-2453. Open 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. weekends. Reservations accepted for parties of six or more.
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by Prof. Maria Piñango, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Yale University
Humanities Lecture Series
The focus of the talk will be a model of metonymy composition that characterizes the contextual differences in terms of degrees of underspecification of contextual cues; thus allowing both metonymic processes to stem from the same conceptual compositional principles. In this model then metonymy is analyzed as perspective shift in conceptual structure triggered by the assignment of an incongruent semantic role to the explicit participant. This "shift" amounts to the creation of a situation connecting two entities, explicit and implicit, such that the previously incongruent semantic role apply instead to the implicit/intended participant. Contextualization is thus operationalized as the induction of a generalized situation (event/state) that confers participant roles to both explicit and implicit entities. In doing so the model sheds light on the possible organizing principles of conceptual structure at play during real-time composition. Finally, from a conceptual structure perspective, differences across metonymic interpretations are thus of degree and not necessarily of kind, suggesting that the traditional "literal/figurative" distinction is not categorical but a matter of degree and describable in terms of context lexica-ability. The less lexicalized the context, the more "figurative" it would appear.


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Previously on Once Upon a Time, half of Storybrooke spent five episodes running around in circles in Neverland, which was rather annoying, except that we got a weekly dose of SwanQueen interaction.
We open in a happier time, albeit not a simpler one, with Snow White in her badass tunic sliding and running through the forest away from some of the queen's henchmen. She gets to a cliff and they think they've caught her. She laughs in their faces and leaps off the cliff and into the water.
There, a lovely little redhead comes to her rescue, and Snow looks down to see that this girl is a mermaid. And not just any mermaid. It's Ariel.
She wants to be where the people are.
Present day Regina is in the forests of Neverland, yelling at Emma, trying to teach her magic. Finally. Regina tells her she needs to reach deep down inside her and access her anger, and Emma snaps and says there has to be another way. Regina calls her weak, Emma calls her a monster, but right before they start angrily making out, Emma realizes she started a fire with her mind.
Hook comes creeping back to camp and whispers to the Charmings that Neal is alive. David thinks it's one of Pan's tricks, but Mary Margaret believes him. The boys decide that it would be best to not tell Emma in case it isn't true, not giving Mary Margaret much say in the matter.
Flash back to Snow and Ariel, sitting on some rocks and chit chatting about boys and the like. Ariel tells her that once she saved a handsome prince from a shipwreck and empties out a seemingly waterproof bag full of gadgets and gizmos aplenty to show Snow a flyer she found for Prince Eric's annual ball honoring the legend of the sea goddess Ursula. Snow gently points out that she doubts the ball takes place in an Olympic-sized pool when Ariel pulls her tail out of the water, and it promptly turns into a pair of legs. Every year at the highest tide, the goddess Ursula grants mermaids the ability to walk about on land for 12 hours, just enough time to attend a prince's ball.
Flippin' your fins, you don't get too far.
Snow White is very excited to help someone find their true love, but Ariel pleads with her to keep her mermaid identity a secret. Snow points out that he'll probably figure it out sooner rather than later, but Ariel wants him to fall for her before she tells him.
Hopefully that fares better than Hook's secret, because Mary Margaret blurts out that they think Neal is still alive not ten seconds after she was told not to tell Emma.
Meanwhile, Peter Pan finally finds Rumple, who has apparently been sitting on the same log since two episodes ago. He tries to feed him eggs? I don't know, it's weird. Pan tells Rumple he doesn't know why he bothers, Neal and Henry will never forgive him anyway. Pan then turns up his creep-o-meter to MAX and tells Rumple to go back to Storybrooke to be with Belle because "she looks fertile" and can probably just give him new kids who won't keep getting themselves almost killed. The grossness of this is only amplified by the egg-eating.
Back at Camp Charming, Mary Margaret keeps finding footprints in the dirt, and even though they're probably her own, she takes it as proof that Neal is alive. Regina is not so easily convinced. She decides to get the hell out of dodge and when Emma asks where the hell she's going, Regina replies, "To save our son."
Emma turns to the group and says Regina might be right, that Pan might be lying, but Mary Margaret says they need to be sure.
Back in the Enchanted Forest, Ariel and Snow arrive at the ball. Snow quizzes Ariel about some human stuff, but Ariel calls a dinglehopper a salad trident and pockets it. Before Snow can teach her anything else, they see Prince Eric, and Ariel positively swoons. Eric swoons right back, so Snow shoves Ariel in his general direction and they dance. Eric totally steals Prince Philip's line and says, "I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream." He thinks Ursula saved him from his shipwreck, then gave him dreams about Ariel as a sign of his future. He then asks her to travel the world with him. Now, lesbians get a pretty bad rap when it comes to moving quickly, but the guys on this show seem to fall harder and faster than any lesbians I'VE ever met.
In her nearby castle, watching this unfold via mirror, Evil Queen Regina is pissed. She had sent her henchmen to KILL Snow White, not introduce her to a mermaid. But she has an idea of how to set things right.
Hang a sign on my castle door that says "Gone Fishin'."
In present-day Neverland, Not!Belle shows up again and tells Rumple to listen to Pan and come home to Storybrooke with her. Suddenly, she starts to choke, and Regina steps out of the brush, her hand magically wrapped around Not!Belle's throat. Rumple starts to panic, because he's not ENTIRELY sure it's not the real Belle, but soon Not!Belle turns into Pan's ShadowMan and flies away.
Across the forest, the rest of Team Storybrooke is following the trail that could be Neal's and Emma pulls Mary Margaret aside to tell her that she kissed Hook. Snow responds with the voice of the fandom and says, "Uh…why?" Emma says it was just a kiss, and quickly changes the subject. She doesn't want to hope that Neal is alive, in case he isn't. Mary Margaret tells her that she has to, because all happy endings start with hope.


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China's merger review practice has not been negatively affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. According to public statistics, in the first quarter of 2020 the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) completed 111 filing reviews, with a slight year-on-year growth of 0.9%. The current economic downturn raises the question of whether the SAMR will relax its antitrust scrutiny to encourage M&A activity. However, recent merger review practice in China suggests that this has not been the case in the semiconductor sector.
The year 2019 marked the 11th anniversary of the implementation of the Anti-monopoly Law and was also the first full calendar year since the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) became China's single centralised antitrust enforcement agency. Evidently. the SAMR has become more stringent and detail oriented with respect to the analysis of relevant markets and the competition impact of mergers.
The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) recently published the Draft Amendment to the Anti-monopoly Law (AML) for public comment. The draft amendment demonstrates the SAMR's strong stance on monopoly behaviour and is based on 12 years of antitrust enforcement. It conveys to the public that the Chinese authorities will strengthen enforcement relating to monopoly conduct. This article provides a summary of the draft amendment's main changes and the practical implications thereof.
The State Administration for Market Regulation recently released a revised draft of the Anti-monopoly Law (AML) for public comment. In general, the revised draft follows the current AML's basic framework; however, it significantly enhances the legal liability of AML violators. This article highlights key changes proposed by the revised draft and discusses why these changes matter for business entities from a practical point of view.
China's antitrust enforcement agencies were reorganised in 2018. As such, new legislation and enforcement actions in 2019 attracted significant attention from practitioners and in-house counsel, with a view to gaining an insight into the new agency's enforcement trends and priorities (if any). This article underlines the most significant developments in legislation, public enforcement and private litigation in 2019.
The topic of whether antitrust civil disputes are arbitrable has been hotly debated in China in recent years. There are few case law precedents in this regard and local courts have taken different positions regarding this issue. That said, the Supreme People's Court made its stance clear in a recent decision which found that an arbitration clause could not exclude the jurisdiction of Chinese courts in antitrust civil disputes.
A violation of the notification or standstill obligation is commonly called 'gun jumping' and can have significant legal consequences. This article examines Canon's acquisition of Toshiba Medical and the legal consequences of gun jumping in China, as well as the risks of implementing a transaction 'by steps' to circumvent the standstill rules. Recent strengthened enforcement measures are also briefly examined.
The State Administration for Market Supervision recently promulgated the Interim Provisions for Prohibiting Monopoly Agreements. Although the draft provisions introduced a safe harbour clause for non-IP-related monopoly agreements, this has been removed from the final version. As debate continues as to whether to introduce a safe harbour clause to Chinese legislation, this article examines the history of the safe harbour rule and the potential reasons why it would not apply to all monopoly agreements.
The Ministry of Commerce of China recently announced the establishment of an Unreliable Entity List (UEL) targeting foreign entities and individuals that (among other things) fail to comply with the principles of the market economy or threaten China's national security. It is anticipated that the UEL will rely heavily on the Anti-monopoly Law, especially in relation to foreign entities with a noticeable market presence in China.
The Shanghai Market Regulation Bureau (SMRB) recently issued a penalty decision addressed to Eastman (China) Investment Management Co, Ltd, a Chinese subsidiary of US Chemical firm Eastman Chemical Company. Since this is the first antitrust enforcement decision to be issued by the SMRB since its establishment, it has drawn significant attention from commentators who have attempted to identify the bureau's enforcement approach.
Although still fairly new, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) diligently investigated and penalised monopolistic behaviour in 2018, publishing a dozen cases alongside its local enforcement agencies which attracted media attention. Notably, livelihood-related industries (including the pharmaceutical industry) and trade associations appeared to come under the SAMR's spotlight.
The National People's Congress recently passed and published revisions to the Anti-unfair Competition Law. The revisions focus primarily on trade secret infringement, as trade secrets are regarded as one of the core competitive advantages in today's business world. The main amendments include widening the definition of 'infringer', increasing penalties for infringement and alleviating the burden of proof for plaintiffs.
The refusal of the Chinese antitrust authority to green light the Qualcomm/NXP merger garnered significant attention and shone a spotlight on China's merger review practice, particularly with regard to the chip industry. This article provides an overview of Chinese merger control by examining the major chip industry mergers that the former Ministry of Commerce and the current State Administration for Market Regulation have approved with remedies to date.
In 2018 the newly formed State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) maintained a rigorous and prudent attitude towards merger control review. There was a significant increase in the number of cases concluded and the efficiency with which they were done so. As regards the cases which were conditionally approved, the SAMR imposed various tailored conditions. In addition, the SAMR investigated more non-filing cases and imposed more penalties on non-filers compared with 2017.
China reached a number of Anti-monopoly Law enforcement and development milestones in 2018. For example, the newly established State Administration for Market Regulation completed the consolidation of the country's former government antitrust agencies and amended a number of Anti-monopoly Law regulations. Although this institutional reform took a significant amount of time, public enforcement remained active. In addition, there were a number of private antitrust enforcement developments.
The newly established State Administration for Market Regulation recently embarked on its first major overhaul of procedural rules by publishing the draft Interim Provisions on Administrative Penalty Procedures in Market Regulation and the related interim measures for public comment. Unsurprisingly, market observers and practitioners promptly examined the draft documents in an attempt to deduce any changes to the intended-to-be-repealed State Administration for Industry and Commerce rules.
The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court recently issued its judgment in the private antitrust litigation brought by domestic software company Shenzhen Micro Source Code Software Development Co Ltd (SMSCSD) against tech giant Tencent. SMSCSD had alleged that Tencent possessed a dominant position in the China mainland market for mobile instant messaging and social platform services and had abused this dominance by blocking its WeChat Official Accounts and engaging in discriminatory practices.
China's rise to prominence as an antitrust regime of major importance for companies engaging in global M&A activity has granted it considerable leverage to influence the landscape of the industries in which its domestic companies participate. However, recent events have raised the prospects for greater activism by the national regulators in determining whether a merger or acquisition should go ahead and, if so, on what conditions.
The State Administration for Market Regulation recently fined two Shenzhen tally companies a total of Rmb3,163,108 for entering into a horizontal monopoly agreement. This is one of the first cases to be announced by the newly established antitrust law enforcement agency and may therefore indicate its attitude towards certain industries and behaviours. In particular, the way in which the competitors in this case were identified could raise new compliance challenges for companies doing business in China.
The finalised three-pronged plan for consolidating China's antitrust agencies under the State Administration for Market Regulation was recently released. This initiative has been anticipated and speculated on since the central government's release of its structural reform plan in March 2018. According to the government's plan, the three-pronged plan should have been released in June 2018, but this was substantially delayed due to differences of opinion regarding the reform.


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Son of Hussain and Seema Nawab
For Fahid's parents, he was something of a gift. He was their only child and they cherished every moment they spent with him.
His parents shifted from their village to Peshawar so Fahid could get a good education. He wanted to be an Air Force pilot.
He loved sports, especially basketball and cricket. He was part of the school team and also played in the neighbourhood. He prayed to God to give him another sibling to practice with.
His parents are devastated by the death of their son.


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Another New Sponsor- The Apex
We are very pleased to announce that we have agreed a contra-deal with The Apex in Bury St. Edmunds. The Apex is an award-winning music & entertainment venue in Bury St Edmunds which offers a wide variety of music events, from classical to pop, rock, jazz, blues, world, country and folk, plus comedy, dance and many free events throughout the year. The contemporary art gallery and coffee bar are open every day for visitors to enjoy a drink and relax in the comfortable sofas and beautiful surroundings.
Alongside the extensive entertainment programme, The Apex is also available for hire. This beautiful state-of-the-art building provides a unique and attractive backdrop, and can be tailored to suit you, whatever your requirements. For more information see www.theapexconferencing.co.uk
They currently have a large and very wonderful exhibition of paintings by the Littleport Artist and Poet, John Lyons. The exhibition is called Mythlore and runs until 11th November. It's well worth a visit. John Lyons (image below) will be represented at Cambridge City Art Fair 2013 by Blue Contemporary on Stand L19 in the Large Hall.
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Michael Li games out how the Texas redistricting litigation may go from the anticipated court ruling to final resolution.
So, in short, Texans could end up with a new set of maps (drawn by the Texas Legislature or drawn by the court or drawn by the legislature and then tweaked/modified by the court). Or the whole process could be put on hold [until] the Supreme Court rules on whether there are underlying violations that require redrawing of the maps.
In any event, maps may not be final until early 2018. That would mean, at a minimum, that candidate filing deadlines for state house and congressional races will be moved (and potentially much angst for those thinking about running for those offices). Depending on how long it takes for the Supreme Court to rule, it is possible that the entire March 2018 Texas primary might have to be moved or, in the alternative, that the primary might be held in two parts – one part for congressional and state house races and one part for everything else).
I jumped ahead to the conclusion in Li's piece. Go read the whole thing to see how he arrived there. Along the way, he cited this Upshot post about possible outcomes in the Congressional map.
Texas' defense seems simple. How could it have discriminated in adopting a court-drawn map? The problem: Two of the districts found to be in violation in the April ruling were unchanged on the court-drawn map.
Short of victory, the best case for Texas Republicans might be a ruling confined to those two districts. It would probably cost them one seat in the Austin area, most likely the one belonging to Roger Williams.
But the challenge is far wider.
A third district was found to be in violation in April; it was altered on the temporary map, but only slightly. That district belongs to Will Hurd, already one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the country. He won both of his elections by the margin of the high-turnout Republican suburbs of San Antonio, which were said to dilute the power of the district's low-turnout Hispanic majority. Without those high-turnout Republican suburbs, Mr. Hurd's re-election chances would look bleak, especially in what is already shaping up as a tough year for Republicans.
The April decision also left open the possibility that Texas might be required to draw an additional minority opportunity district — where the goal is to give racial or ethnic minorities the sway to elect the candidate of their choice — in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. If that happened, a Republican seat would need to be sacrificed here as well, most likely Joe Barton or Kenny Marchant, or perhaps the district held by Sam Johnson, who is not going to seek re-election.
What would "Armageddon" look like? Well, the likeliest version is the possibility that such changes to a few districts ripple across the map, endangering additional Republican incumbents.
The "Armageddon" scenario was reported on by the Trib in late May, which I blogged about here. The worst case scenario for the Republicans is a loss of six, maybe even seven, seats. That's unlikely, but the low end is two seats, and that may not be much more probable. We won't know what the scope may be for a few more weeks, when the court's ruling comes down, and we may not know for certain until January or February. If you thought the 2012 primaries were fun, just you wait for 2018.


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The Indian Army recently said that they are now using MARCOS, the elite Special Forces unit of the Navy, for quickly combating terror units operating in the Kashmir valley. This extensive drive to eliminate the terrorists is mostly concentrated on the islands in Jhelum River, which is being used as a hideout spot by the terrorists. In view of the demand from the Indian Army, the Navy has permanently deployed around 30 of its MARCOS personnel under the supervision of a Lieutenant Commander in the Wular Lake are for thwarting any militant activities operating in the region.
The Army has increased its assault on the militancy operating in Kashmir with several successful attempts in thwarting terrorist activities in the many volatile regions. It has carried out numerous raids on far areas such as the backwoods for eliminating any hiding terrorists. Recently, the Indian Army sought assistance from the MARCOS team for a search and destroy operation carried out in the Jhelum River in order to clear out terrorist activity from the area.
MARCOS, also known as Marine Commandos, is the Elite Special Forces unit of the Indian Navy. They are specialists in special operations and are well versed in amphibious warfare, reconnaissance, hostage rescue, close quarter combat, and counter terrorism.
The MARCOS were formed in 1983 to cater to the need of an amphibious fighting force capable of operating in multiple aspects of conventional and unconventional warfare. They were earlier deployed in Kashmir's Wular Lake region back in 1995. Known as Operation Rakshak, the MARCOS were successful in foiling militant activity operating on the lake. At present, the MARCOS team has teamed up with the 5 Rashtriya Rifles of the Indian Army stationed in the Watlab area of Kashmir.
The Marine Commandos are highly feared among the militants operating in Kashmir due to their excellent combat skills. As per an Army source, "The MARCOS have the capability to dive under water and carry out extensive searches in these areas and they have proven to be efficient in this task."
The MARCOS personnel are expertly trained in all kinds of weapons and instruments. They are equipped with modern assault rifles and other key weapons for dealing with all sorts of combat scenarios. The Indian Army's decision to induct MARCOS in the volatile regions of Kashmir will significantly assist them in flushing out all kind of terror and militant activities operating in the region.


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Age, Education and Occupational Earnings Inequality
Edward N. Wolff, Dennis M. Bushe
NBER Working Paper No. 149
In this paper, we will investigate the effect of six factors on occupational earnings inequality across all occupations in our sample and across occupations in five major Census subgroups. Those six factors are: differences in tasks, different levels of efficiency, institutional factors, time worked, the demand for labor and discrimination. Age and schooling will receive primary attention in our work and it will be shown that they are important determinants of earnings inequality among professional and clerical occupations but not among skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled occupations. Ability is also hypothesized as an important factor, but no measure of ability is provided in our sample. Differences in time worked and labor demand conditions, as measured by industrial and urban-rural mix, will also be analyzed, and their effect on earnings inequality is strong in most of the occupational subsamples. Differences in the race and sex composition of occupations do not appear to be significant factors in occupational earnings inequality, and the explanation offered is that discrimination takes the form of occupational segregation rather than differences in pay for similar work. In the conclusion a sketch of a "structural" theory of income distribution is proposed to account for our results.
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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w0149
Published: "Schooling & Occupational Earnings." Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 23, No. 3, (September 1977), pp. 259-278.
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Worship at St. Ann's
St. Ann's is an active, Episcopal congregation and we welcome people from all faith traditions to participate in Sunday services. There is no official dress code; people dress tidily but you needn't wear a suit or a big flowery hat.
Mid-June through Labor Day
8 AM at the Seaside Chapel – Holy Eucharist (In the event of rain, the service is held inside the Stone Chapel)
10 AM inside the Stone Chapel – Holy Eucharist on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays; Morning Prayer on the 2nd and 4th Sundays
After Labor Day Weekend until the end of September
9:30 AM inside the Stone Chapel – Holy Eucharist
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A few years ago, I participated in one of the Facebook status games. The point of the game was to reveal something about yourself, something that some people might not know or that you think they should know. Among the list, I included that I struggled with fairly severe body image issues. A friend of mine responded that she was surprised to learn that because she always believed me to be very confident. Since I have a tendency to hide my body, even as a nudist, and a tendency to show discomfort around my appearance, I was quite surprised to learn that she believed me to be confident. I asked her why she thought so and she replied: Yours always posting pictures of yourself.
It wasn't meant as a criticism of me, it wasn't meant to shame me, and it was simply an observation. I post pictures of myself, I take several pictures of myself, so therefore I must be confident.
As a culture, we've created this idea that selfies are a sign of vanity, and we are terrified of vanity. So much so, that we have built an entire culture predicated on teaching everyone to hate their appearance. We create impossible standards and then tell everyone that regardless of circumstance we must achieve it and maintain it. We've so thoroughly pervaded our social bias towards people who fall outside the "acceptable standards of beauty" that we as a society no longer treat them as fully human. Perversely, in an attempt to avoid the appearance of vanity we have instead created a cultural obsession towards an obsessive hatred of one's self.
Ultimately, that is all that vanity is. It is an appreciation for one's own appearance. It is a love for what you see when you look at yourself. It is a comfort in your own skin. Yes, excessive vanity can be dangerous, just like excess in anything is dangerous. But vanity, by itself? It is an act of self-love.
But selfies? They're not an expression of vanity, they are a lifeline that reminds myself that I am not worthless. That I am not hideous. It is what allows me to replace my internal image of myself from one of loathing to one of acceptance. Because I don't love how I look. I hate it. I can't look in the mirror without desperately wanting to cut off some pieces of myself. Without wondering how anyone can possibly be attracted to me, and wondering if every sexual interaction I've ever had was a lie. My body, my appearance, was the weapon used to cut at my psyche over and over and over again. I was told it was the reason I was alone.
Those words, those cuts to my self-esteem are part of the reason why I let myself be taken in by users and abusers when I went out into the dating world. It was the excuse for every negative interaction with people I was interested in. They're the reason that I sat like this, to avoid my rolls showing up through my shirt, because then people would think of me as fat.
It is what made me think for years that the girl in this picture was fat.
Then I figured out that if I was careful I could take pictures that highlighted the few things that I do like about myself. The contrast of my features against my sk
So no, I don't need you to tell me that I am pretty. Because I have my selfie, so that I can tell myself what I need to hear.
Because that's what they are. They're selfies, and they have nothing to do with you.