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You may have noticed that some coffee bag labels brag about the fact that their coffee beans are 100% Arabica. Although it does sound like something magicians say, it isn't gibberish – it refers to the type of coffee species in which the beans are from.
There are over 100 coffee species, however the two main ones that are widely produced and sold are: Coffea Arabica and Coffea Canephora (also known as Coffea Robusta).
Here's a list featuring 10 differences between the two coffee species:
All of these factors help bring up the supply and lower the input costs for farmers to produce. With this more attractive price point, a lot of roasters back in the day would add Robusta to their blend in an attempt to reduce their costs and increase their profits. When coffee was initially sold in the 1900s the quality of coffee slowly and slowly deteriorated in an effort for companies to squeeze the most profit.
One thing to note is despite the association with Arabica of being higher quality, and Robusta as being lower quality, it's not always the case. Top notch specialty Robusta coffee will usually taste as good as or better than low end Arabica. However, high end Robusta isn't widely used or available. Rather, Robusta is usually used as a filler or cost reducer.
Well, this post ended up being a bit more robust than intended.
P.S - Want to read some brewing tips for your coffees? We highly recommend this awesome brew guide by Geoff Woodley, 2011/2012 Central Regional Barista Champion & current lead coffee roaster at Detour Coffee!
Thanks a lot for this post, it's really helpful!
An Excellent article on Arabica and Robusta coffee beans. I recently got a similar lecture from a friend who has managed a coffee estate in Indonesia for several years.
I totally agree that the taste of Arabica beans is better (for me) that Robusta. I notice that supermarkets here in Australia are selling very low cost beans..as low as $US8 a kilogram. I assume these are Robusta as they are not labelled, and the taste of them is very bitter.
I recently purchased some Arabica beans from Ethiopia from Oxfam. These are excellent and highly recommended.
Thanks, very helpful
Am from Malawi-Central Africa,working for Mzuzu Coffee. There is no Robusta whole of Malawi but we just need to try it.My CEO just arrived from Brazil on duty and he has talked highly of this coffee.
Thanks for the information.
Great article, explained everything I wanted to know,thank you!!!
Thanks for the facts!
very nicely explained, thank you, I bought coffe from Vietnam and it was robusta
Thank you, very much, for the education and article. I consider myself a coffee "snob", though I will drink anything available (reactions and faces not withstanding). I've started to read the packaging and have noticed the "Robusto" (blends or not) do have a burnt taste, like coffee sitting on a warmer too long. Thanks again!
Thank you very much. Very useful information.Great article
Thanks for the article, being from Switzerland I have always been told Arabica is good, Robusta bad, but after a trip to Cuba and experiencing pure Robusta coffee I fell in love. It has a much more robust ;) flavour, who said burnt tires taste bad? Personally I would say its more like BBQ smoke than tires and I love the floral herby flavour. Good coffee isn't about the bean species as much as your personal taste and the quality/roasting of them.
Well, I disagree with the "don't care about the taste" part when talking about instant coffee. In Brazil we drink a lot of instant coffee as well, it's all made of arabica coffee and taste delicious. We are very serious about our coffee, you'll often note that when we Brazilians taste coffee sold in North America we find it disgustingly unflavored.
Thanks your basic information about coffee arbica vs roubsta cofee.
Thanks very much for this good information. Am from Uganda. Now I can tell my community about coffee.
Thank for a very insightful lecture about the difference between the two beans. Now I know the rest of the story.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I tried today Robusta coffee and was wondering what is wrong with that coffee, now I know. Never will buy it again!!!!
No wonder the coffee in Vietnam did such a good job of keeping me awake! The beans have higher caffeine content!
Much thanks for this wonderful knowledge of this coffee for real am so proud of Arabica coffee .
Thanks for giving a very special and useful knowldege for us about coffee because I love coffee…………..
Haha, thanks very much for this contrast. The game I'm playing, Mystic Messenger, had a question on it, so I'm glad I found this page. Interesting!
Thank you very much. Very useful information. Now I know my coffees.
Arabica coffee thrive in our place Julongan, Kiangan ,Ifugao,Philippines. Harvest after 3-5 years.
Thank you for the brief yet beneficial post. thumps up!
Great article, explained everything I wanted to know,thank you!!!
Thanks for this article. It really enhance my perspective of coffee.


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Net 1on1 has announced that it has added two new products from Empire Labs to its portfolio. Net 1on1 took on the company's Clone-A-Pussy chocolate moulding kits last year, which enabled customers to cast their own edible vaginas, after stocking the vibrating and silicone dildo Clone-A-Willy kits for several years. Now both the Clone-A-Pussy and Clone-A-Willy kits are available in a new hot pink colour.
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text: #8476: Spare HDA jacks available - how can we address them? ---------------------------------+---------------------------- Reporter: dsuden | Owner: korli Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: R1 Component: Drivers/Audio/HDA | Version: R1/Development Resolution: | Keywords: Blocked By: | Blocking: Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All ---------------------------------+---------------------------- Comment (by SeanCollins): I don't have much to add except that a api similar to asio would be smart to implement. It should be completely feasible to route inputs and outputs via some api mechanism to and from audio/media applications. I think Asio "if a external api were to be adopted" would be the Best choice to use as its widely adopted and well documented and a proven design.though asio could be a media add-on exsposing the lower levels of the mixer driver interface which might be preferable to the system mixer ????? A native api obviously is prefferable likely easier to implement. I don't think the short coming is the drivers as much as the system mixer not having the capability currently. I know that work was done in ice1712 to allow multi input output similar to the ticket description. I don't see a way to do so however at the mixer level. Which imho is the best place to do this. Allow the mixer to push available inputs and outputs to applications allowing for easy syncronization, vrs adding a alien low level frame work that add more software complexity. Of course, some of this could be ignorance on our parts as maybe the functionality exists but is poorly documented. Someone should Ping Pete Goodeve and Stippi they know bowels of the media system and would be fiarly helpful. We should also put a mail on the development list so this ticket doesn't get crowded. -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8476#comment:4> Haiku <http://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.


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Brilliantly Birmingham, the jewellery festival which is now in its tenth year, will be opening an exclusive temporary boutique from Saturday 5 December till Christmas Eve. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Win VIP tickets to the Mixmag Tour in Birmingham
The Mixmag tour 2009 is arriving in Birmingham and we've got a pair of VIP tickets to giveaway. Continue reading
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Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide To The Orchestra
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Jibbering 10th Birthday Bash
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Swishing Event in Birmingham
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The Dell XPS 400 is a desktop computer that runs with the Windows operating system. If you can't boot Windows on your XPS 400, and you know that it is because you need to update your BIOS, also known as flashing BIOS, it is still possible for you to do this without booting Windows. BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System and it is the most important functions of your computer's central processing unit (CPU).
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2. Copy the BIOS driver download onto a USB thumb drive. Note that as of 2010, the latest BIOS update for the XPS 400 (created in 2007) is 514 KB and will fit in any thumb drive that is at least 1 GB
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(CNN) - In his most critical comments to date of the Obama administration's policies, former President George Bush Wednesday warned against the nationalization of healthcare, government overreach in the country's financial system, and the potential effects of closing the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
"I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in," the former president said during a speech to business leaders in Erie, Pennsylvania, according to the Washington Times. "You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money."
"Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States," he also said in the closed-door speech, according to the paper.
During the remarks — one of Bush's first in the United States since leaving the White House - the former president commented on a wide-range of issues currently confronting the Obama administration, including the new president's push for universal healthcare.
"There are a lot of ways to remedy the situation without nationalizing health care," Bush said. "I worry about encouraging the government to replace the private sector when it comes to providing insurance for health care."
Asked directly if he thought his successor was embracing "socialist" polices, Bush stopped short of weighing in one way or the other, instead saying: "We'll see."
In a vigorous defense of his own national security policies, the president appeared to take issue with the new administration's early decision to close the detention center in Guantanamo Bay and ban the use of aggressive interrogation techniques.
"I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor," he said, according to the paper. "I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind."
Bush, in contrast to former Vice President Dick Cheney, has largely remained silent on the new administration's decision to prohibit the use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques. But during his speech Wednesday the former president insisted he used "every technique and tool within the law to bring terrorists to justice before they strike again."
Bush also appeared to take a broad swipe at the tone of American politics in general, noting that partisan vitriol dates back to the founding fathers when Vice President Aaron Burr shot and killed Alexander Hamilton.
"At least when my vice president shot somebody, it was an accident," Bush said.
George W makes Palin look smart ...
And thats a tough task even for the Dumb'est of us ...
I knew never seeing him or hearing him again, was too much of a prayer ... to be answered
Simply not interested at all in anything Bush or Cheney have to say. It's a complete waste of time. Their opinions have no place in today's politics after the mess they've left our country in. I thought Bush had chosen to remain silent? His words mean so little. And Cheney...he hid for 8 years & now has so much to say. His words mean even less. Amazing stuff. stefi b
All Presidents have many issues that the public do not like. The thing with Obama is that hes going too fast and getting into everything everywhere. He does not come out and say the things he should to denounce things like this Iran stuff going on now. At least President Bush would make statements RE: evil tyrants. Where Obama Clown. Out on a date night....
Is it just me or does he look kind of baked in that photo? Have a nice day!
Oh no! And we thought he would be a gentleman!
some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1
Have a nice day!
NOBODY cares what bush says.It is an insult to print or take seriously any thing he says because he will always be the worst president of the United States of America.
""I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in...."
Like EnRon, AIG, Exxon, Big Pharma, GM .... just follow those million dollar CEO's into the promised land:
How do you think we got into the current economic times we are in? Or is that a foolish question?
Okay.........Bush inherited a 'surplus' and created a deficit leaving out the cost of his chosen war and what it costs. YOU LEFT A MESS!!!!!!!
That along with Cheney's Halliburton raping all of us American taxpayers. Then, there is the diplomacy around the world from giving neckrubs to high profile figures of other countries to being hated all over the globe.
What a joke! The wife and father seem to have the class in that family. Jeb seems to have a brain as well.
The Government created wealth for Halliburton when Bush was president. After what America experienced in the 60's it is in very poor taste for Bush to talk about the assassination of Hamilton as it relates to modern politics. I guess Bush's interpretation of the constitution would be to hold people at GITMO forever, without any due process review of their detention. Sounds like Bush loves dictatorships.
You are a wise owl. Do you pay foe your health care? No is payed for by the tax payers, so you have government payed health care but no on else?.
I will NOT dignify his comments with a response
Bush's government added to and aided wealth with it tax cuts, perks for big business and the wealthy, lack of regulations and oversight, no bid contracts, billions spent in Iraq for those providing "special" services and no doubt, many practices we do not know about.
With the republicans popularity in the gutter you would think they
would want Bush to keep his ideas to hisself as they did nothing
but create diasters these last eight years,.
...and we should listen to this moron why? If it wasnt for the family resemblance I would never believe that a fine gentelman like Bush Sr. could have spawned such an idiot. The man makes the mess, and has the nerve to critisize Obama for it? I guess that Bush is afraid that if Obama can fix the mess, it will make him look evem more like the idiot he is. I wish Bush, Chenney and the rest of these idiots would just go away.
listen to george bush and then do the exact opposite.
Bush needs to go hiding becasue we still blame you for this mess and torture. So if I was Bush, I wouldn't be co cricial of President Obama after the mess you left us AMERICAN WITH.
W is the last person on earth who should be giving Obama advice. Without him and his cronies, we wouldn't be in this mess. Shut up!!!
go somewhere and read a dictionary
Please, this guy got us into this mess.
Kudos to former Pres Bush. Obama is trying to push everything down our throats at whatever the expense. Try to explain his crazy spending to your grandchildren. Obama needs to start taking blame for somethings....HE CANNOT KEEP BLAMING, "THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION."
Health care should of never been about "making money" that's what's wrong with our system today. Too many drug companies pushing this & pushing that influencing doctor's to push this drug & that when not neccessary.... Insurance companies screwing people out of their health care & hiking rates because their profit marjin is shrinking...don't you see the problem here? Health care should be about "helping" people not "making money". GREED is the number one problem with everything in this country and at the very least Health Care needs to be taken out of the "Profit" group and put into a "People" group."
Keep talking W. You are helping dems along with Limbugh, Cheney and Gingrich.
Who's Bush?
What Bush says is common sense, too bad it will fall on deaf Democratic ears with NO common sense. The majority on this board think Obama is doing a great job. Unfortunately it will take time for you to wake up and smell the coffee. Use your brain and understand how the economy works, it isn't big government. Who pays for big government? The more people jumping on the freebie band wagon, means less people paying to support all this spending. Get it? Unless you are jumping on the band wagon thinking the free ride is great!
Now if "W" is against what President Obama is doing, then President Obama MUST be on the right track!


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While some prefer the comforts of an interior church setting, others appreciate the spirituality of nature.
Outdoor Sunday service in Hyannis welcomes all
While some prefer the comforts of an interior church setting, others appreciate the spirituality of nature. In an effort to connect with such folks, St. Mary's Church in Barnstable has created a new way to worship.
Dubbed the "Common Cathedral," St. Mary's will begin hosting weekly non-denominational services each Sunday on the green adjacent to Town Hall, known as both South Street Green and Ruth Rusher Park.
According to organizer Hilary Greene, the "Common Cathedral" idea was born in Boston when Debbie Wyman, an Episcopal priest, began holding outdoor services on Boston Common.
Greene said the goal of the Hyannis event is similar.
"The goal is to invite everybody who might be there," she said. "People who wander by, homeless people, whoever. It attracts everybody."
Greene said that while hosted by an Episcopal church, the services will have a broader focus.
"It's part of St. Mary's Church in Barnstable," she said. "We're trying to reach out to the community and not just stay in our little enclave. We want to be a bigger part of the community. It's not an Episcopal service. It's for everybody."
The outdoor services will be held each Sunday at the green beginning at 3 p.m.
"We'll be out there each week," said Greene. "Through snow, through sleet, rain, whatever."


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When it came up with 1950s,, the most common association related with that period was including things like leather jacket, rock and roll style, greaser and more. However, this is also including of 1950s mens hairstyles that bring you into something nostalgic but still popular. In fact, there are some men which like to get slicked back or combover at the top. Men in 50s had long covered from World War II. However the cold war was still closer. This is make the fashion for older male was getting more conservative. As did, shorter haircuts and hairstyle.
However, not all of men in 50s were used to get pompadour or rebellious cut. This is also can give you limps about the past. There are some 1950s mens haircuts that bring you to get classic still look great in this modern era:
1. They used to get some pomades product that hit on 1950. Those products were consist of oil and wax based that make your hair look shiny, neat and getting creative haircut as possible. So, it was gone with slick hairstyle, tall and sometime getting wave, curls and swoops.
2. You can work with the dry or wet hair. On 50's, they usually part their hair on the side then begin working with hair which across the other side.
3. For retro style which give you more conventional look, there were always slick hair whether with or without shine effect. You can go with undercut sides that suit for formal occasion, especially when go with some sheen on it. For men with thick hair, this is can be your smart option.
Those references 1950s mens hairstyles can make your enjoy the past in different way. Even, you also able to combine this 50's men that creates you in modern look.


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Two-year HLF funded community project. 2013-2015
Community history, touring exhibition, schools craft and living history activities. Documentary DVD.
Sight Lines: Festival of Fenland Films. 2016.
With funding from the Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership The Field created the 1st ever Festival of Fenland Films as part of the summer's Ouse Fest.
The Field brought together a diverse and fascinating mix of films, from spooky shorts to animations and drama documentaries.
The featured film-makers ranged from school pupils, film students, community groups and established production companies. The programme included the three HLF funded films produced by The Field Theatre Group, all of which highlighted the history and heritage of the Fens, its people, places and landscapes.
With a programme of talks by regional film-makers The Field has helped to raise the film and film-making profile of our rich and diverse region.
Littleport Festival Fourteen. 2014.
HLF funded community project. Creative art and writing project in schools. School pupils exhibition. School living history day. Community 'Show and Share' exhibitions.
Poetry competition. Community poetry anthology. Community play. Tutoring in period songs and music, performance skills, exhibition mounting.


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The Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, November 6, 1903
Description: Weekly newspaper from Hereford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 6, 1903
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Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is the author of the novel, Perfecting. She teaches at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies and online through the New York Times Knowledge Network. The referenced story is "The Legend of St Julian Hospitator" found in Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert, translation by Richard Baldick, Penguin Books, 1961. A different translation of the same story can be read online here: http://www.online-literature.com/gustave-flaubert/2122/


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As an Oakland Raider (1967-75), George Blanda set team records as the all-time scoring leader, with 863 points, and the single-season record, with 117 points. He was AFC Player of the Year in 1970 for his last minute heroics, which brought the Raiders the championship. Blanda holds the NFL scoring record of 2,002 points; most PATS, 943; and most games, 340. He was with the Chicago Bears from 1949-58 and the Houston Oilers from1960-66. Blanda was elected NFL Hall of Fame in 1981.
Inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in 1989.
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AdvertisementNEW DELHI: Idea Cellular said that it will launch Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services in a phased manner for its customers from May 2018, having introduced the service for own employees in select circles. Currently, Reliance Jio is the only pan-India VoLTE service providers, while Vodafone and Bharti Airtel offer the service in select circles.
Idea and Vodafone, currently in a process of merging operations, are under 'Active infrastructure sharing' programme and '2G & 4G ICR arrangements' across various service areas, share around 49,000 sites, according to a statement.
The merger of Idea and Vodafone India is in the final leg of regulatory approvals and is expected to complete in H1CY18. Idea said that a planned fiber and PoP sharing programme is also underway in top 220 cities across the 22 telecom service areas.
The proposed new leadership team of merged entity was announced in March 2018. Both the companies, have set up respective project management teams, preparing for the merger and initiated detailed planning for identified capex and opex synergies.
Idea's overall capex spend for the year was Rs 70 billion, majority of which was utilised for 4G expansion. The Aditya Birla Group-led telco said that it started deploying 2300 MHz TDD spectrum in its leadership circles of Maharashtra & Kerala and 2500 MHz TDD spectrum in Andhra Pradesh to further augment its wireless data capacity. The company expanded its fibre network from 115,500 km (31st March 2016) to 156,800 km as on 31st March 2018.
During the last fiscal year, Idea said that it continued aggressive expansion of its wireless broadband infrastructure, adding 44,856 broadband sites (3G+4G) during the year. The broadband sites increased from 110,054 as of March 31, 2017 to 154,910 sites as of March 31 2018, taking the overall network footprint on EoP to 286,356 sites (GSM+3G+4G).
The wireless broadband population under coverage now expands beyond 650 million Indians spread across 164,000 towns and villages in 22 service areas.
The company's Gross Investment in Fixed Assets has risen to nearly Rs. 1,255 billion. "The monetisation of this front loaded large investment in spectrum & equipment is inevitable as Digital India mission gathers momentum and mobile internet penetration improves," the telco said.
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Friday, August 1, 2014
Peacefully Perched
After enduring the clash of "booms and strikes" during a rather wild thunderstorm thru the night, it was a pleasure to see this seagull rather content with its world and peacefully perched on a fence post! August has officially arrived and although it is still officially summer, the changes that occur in August always signify that Autumn is lingering in the near future!
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The next two feature focal elements which I created in the process of making birth announcements for my grand daughter last fall. For the left hand card I layered the laser printed and embossed background onto the front of a lavender card after I had added a length of purple seam binding. I added the cute little elephant layered element over the seam binding using 3D foam tape and tied a short piece of seam binding with one single knot to the one on the front to simulate a bow.
I layered my laser printed greeting onto a label punchie (SU) and adhered it to the card using 3D foam tape. For the right hand card, I created a background using colour printed background paper in purples on lavender cardstock, punched the one side using an eyelet border punch (SU) and then embossed a line using my score tool which helps add texture and define the edge of the colour printing. To add still more texture I embossed it with the Swiss Dot embossing folder. I added a length of white gros grain ribbon to the background before adhering it to my white card front. I layered my laser printed greeting punchie to a purple label punchie (SU) and adhered it over the ribbon with 3D foam tape after I added my little elephant focal element to the right hand side. Was fun to work with different colours and supplies!! Therese


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The department store chain Macy's announced Wednesday that it will be closing 40 of its 770 existing stores and cutting thousands of jobs to trim costs and reverse what it refers to as a "disappointing 2015 sales and earnings."
Four of the stores have already been closed and the remaining 36 are set to shut down early in the year. Final clearance sales will begin on Monday, Jan. 11 and run for eight to 12 weeks (with the exception of North Dekalb Mall, Westfield Century City and Roseburg Valley, where final clearance sales have started) at the stores set to close. See if your store made the list below:
Irvine Spectrum, Irvine, Calif.
Country Club Plaza, Sacramento, Calif.
Westfield Century City, Los Angeles, Calif.
Enfield Square furniture/home/men's store, Enfield Conn.
North Dekalb Mall, Decatur, Ga.
Kailua, Hawaii
Palouse Mall, Moscow, Ind.
Northwoods Mall, Peoria, Ill.
Cortana Mall, Baton Rouge La.
Valley Mall, Hagerstown, Md.
Berkshire Mall, Lanesborough, Mass.
Eastfield Mall, Springfield, Mass.
The Shoppes at Stadium, Columbia, Mo.
Middlesex Mall, South Plainfield, N.J.
McKinley Mall main store, Buffalo, N.Y.
McKinley Mall home store, Buffalo, N.Y.
Arnot Mall, Horsehead, N.Y.
Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston, N.Y.
Eastern Hills Mall, Williamsville, N.Y.
Cary Towne Center, Cary, N.C.
Chapel Hill Mall, Akron, Ohio
Midway Mall, Elyria, Ohio
Quail Springs Mall, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Pony Village Mall, North Bend, Ore.
Roseburg Valley Mall, Roseburg, Ore.
Suburban Square, Ardmore, Pa.
Century III Mall, West Mifflin, Pa.
Ridgmar Mall, Ft. Worth, Texas
Chesapeake Square, Chesapeake, Va.
Virginia Center Commons, Glen Allen, Va.
Peninsula Town Center, Hampton Va.
Military Circle Mall, Norfolk, Va.
Regency Square main store, Richmond, Va.
Regency Square furniture/home/men's store, Richmond, Va.
Downtown Spokane, Spokane, Wash.
Owings Mills Mall, Owings Mills, Md.
Bedford, N.H.
Essex Green Shopping Center, West Orange, N.J.
Downtown Pittsburgh, Pa.
Macy's expects that closing these stores, along with cutting employees, will help to reduce its expenses by $400 million annually, beginning in 2016. The company will cut roughly 3,000 sales associate positions and additional call center and back-office jobs. But, some of those employees will be used elsewhere, according to NBC News.
The company will take $200 million in charges related to restructuring during the fourth quarter, and Macy's predicts its fourth quarter earnings to be $2.18 to $2.23 per diluted share without those charges.
Macy's said that its comparable sales decreased 4.7 percent in November and December combined on an owned plus licensed basis, according to NBC. And that same metric decreased 5.2 percent on an owned basis.
Shares fell up to 4 percent in extended trading before turning around and increasing by 2 percent. But the stock struggled in 2015 and has decreased more than 40 percent in the last year. As a result, Macy's has been under big-time pressure from shareholders.


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Welcome to Inspiring Monday VOL 285 – Weekly inspirational blog featuring the best child photography from all over the world!
CPC Team wants to thank all photographers who submitted their fantastic work for a chance to be featured in this week!
In case you want to be featured and inspire other photographers, don't hesitate to submit your work! You can do that in several ways:
- Use #cpcfeature hashtag on Instagram
- Submit your work to our Facebook Group
- Submit your work to our Flickr Group
- CPC Portrait Awards – September Contest is OPEN for SUBMISSIONS! Enter it HERE. Deadline for submission: September 30st, 2019!
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AAII Sentiment Survey: Optimism Rises to Nearly 37%
Optimism among individual investors about the short-term direction of stock prices is at a level not seen in over four months, according to the latest AAII Sentiment Survey. Meanwhile, neutral sentiment and bearish sentiment both declined.
Bullish sentiment
Expectations that stock prices will rise over the next ^ months, jumped 5.8% to 36.9%. Optimism was last higher on 9 March 2016 (37.4%). Even with this week's increase, bullish sentiment remains below its historical average of 38.5% for the 36th week running and the 69th out of the past 71 weeks.
Neutral sentiment
Expectations that stock prices will stay essentially unchanged over the next 6 months, pulled back by 3.6% to 38.7%. Neutral sentiment is above its historical average of 31.0% for the 24th week running.
Bearish sentiment
Expectations that stock prices will fall over the next 6 months, declined 2.2% to 24.4%. Pessimism was last lower on since 20 April 2016 (23.9%). The historical average is 30.5%.
Since registering 22.0% on 22 June 2016, optimism has rebounded by 14.9%. Though it's a big move, some context is needed.
1st, as noted above, Bullish sentiment remains below average.
2nd, this is just the 2nd time since last November that optimism has exceeded 30% on consecutive weeks. Bullish sentiment was above 30% during the 3-week span of 24 February through 9 March 2016.
The rebound in stock prices and the new record highs set by the S&P 500 have had a positive impact on some individual investors.
Others are encouraged by the sustained economic growth.
A view that there is there is no good alternative to stocks is contributing to the optimism.
Giving reason for caution or pessimism is global economic uncertainty (including Brexit), the prevailing level of valuations and disappointment with corporate earnings growth.
The US Presidential election and monetary policy are also impacting individual investor sentiment.
This week's AAII Sentiment Survey results:
- Bullish: 36.9%, + 5.8%
- Neutral: 38.7%, – 3.6%
- Bearish: 24.4%, – 2.2%
Historical averages:
- Bullish: 38.5%
- Neutral: 31.0%
- Bearish: 30.5%
The AAII Sentiment Survey has been conducted weekly since July 1987 and asks AAII members whether they think stock prices will rise, remain flat or fall over the next 6 months. The survey period runs from Thursday (12:01a) to Wednesday (11:59p).
By Charles Rotblut, CFA
AAII Journal
Paul Ebeling, Editor
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CORVALLIS — Cadyn Grenier went 4-for-6 with two doubles and five RBIs, and No. 4 Oregon State racked up 18 hits to lead the Beavers to a 23-6 victory over San Diego in a nonconference game that was cut to seven innings on Monday at Goss Stadium.
Adley Ructschman, Steven Kwan and Tyler Malone had three hits apiece for the Beavers (39-8). Rutschman homered and drove in two runs. Trevor Larnach also homered for the Beavers, driving in five runs. OSU scored 11 runs in the sixth inning to break the game open.
The Beavers and Toreros (23-31) play again at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.


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10 Simple Steps to A Less Toxic Home
Is your home toxic? Some experts say the average home contains about 62 toxins. Blerg, what? I've made great progress in removing toxins from my diet and am obviously selective about my beauty regimen—but my home? That's somewhere I haven't completely ventured yet. For this topic I called in an expert. Meet Laura Ehlers from Laura's Natural Life! Laura is a Holistic Wellness Coach and non-toxic lifestyle enthusiast based in my neighboring state, Wisconsin. I'm excited to have this guru here today to walk us through 10 simple things we could do right now to cultivate a safer living space. Here's Laura:
Hey guys! Excited to be here and to give you a simple action plan towards a healthier abode. We are only as healthy as our environments and sadly, our homes can contain toxins that we aren't even aware of. Possible home toxins include cleaning products, beauty products, electromagnetic waves and home fragrances. Even your home's building materials might contribute, as varnishes, drywall, flooring and paint can off-gas substances such as formaldehyde and VOC's for up to a decade.
With all of these sources, it definitely can seem daunting to create a safe living space, but it doesn't have to be that difficult. Here are 10 simple ways to help make your home less toxic.
- Cleaning Products. Many cleaning products contain phthalates, triclosan, ammonia, chlorine and even formaldehyde. Good news is that this is one of the easiest swaps to make as there are a number of readily available non-toxic brands (we like Seventh Generation and Method Home) and DIY cleaners like vinegar and water.
- Laundry Detergent. I know it's easy to associate the smell of laundry detergent with the scent of cleanliness. It's time to break this association! Laundry products (detergents, fabric softener and dryer sheets) are made up of carcinogens in the form of synthetic fragrances, optical brighteners and harsh cleansers. Swap your dryer sheets for wool dryer balls, ditch the fabric softener and try a non-toxic, unscented detergent. If you miss that fresh scent in your laundry, add a few drops of essential oils to your dryer balls.
- Candles and air fresheners. Often these contain synthetic fragrance, a carcinogenic that also can disrupt the endocrine system. Fragrance can be highly allergenic, too! Try using an essential oil diffuser with pure essential oils to scent your home instead.
- Paint. It's not only toxic just when it wet, but dry too! When it comes time to redecorate, opt for a No-VOC paint option. Paint can off gas VOC's (Volatile Organic Compounds, aka scary toxins) into your home's air for many years.
- House Plants. House plants are not only beautiful and an easy way to bring life to a room, but they can actually clean the air! Not a green thumb? Try Aloe Vera or a Snake Plant; they're virtually impossible to kill.
- Open the Windows. There is nothing better for your indoor home environment than fresh air. Open your windows often to get an influx of fresh air into your home to dilute any toxic air that has accumulated.
- Turn Off Wifi At Night. Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) are getting a lot of heat these days with more people realizing that they are interfering with our health. They can prevent you from getting good sleep as well as prevent healing. The simplest way to mitigate EMFs is by turning your Wifi off for the night before you go to bed.
- Skip the "Antibacterial". Products that boast antibacterial qualities often containt triclosan which has been shown in studies to disrupt the thyroid. It has also been linked to liver toxicity. Opt for products with naturally antibacterial ingredients, like herb-based essential oils, or use plain soap and water.
- Buy the Floor Model. When it's time to replace your couch, ask to purchase the floor model. The foam and flame retardants used in new furniture are shockingly toxic and often smell strongly of formaldehyde. By purchasing the floor model, you're ensuring that a good chunk of the off gassing has already happened before you bring your new couch into your home.
- Invest in an Air Purifier. An air purifier might be a big investment, but it is one that you won't regret. There are so many choices on the market, but consider one that meets your needs. If you live in new construction, you might want one that has a large carbon filter to remove VOC's. Trusted brands of air purifiers include Austin, Foust, I.Q. Air and AirPura.
Any one of these steps can be taken towards a healthier, safer home environment. The effort will be well worth it!


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Me experience with charisma is of a person who everyone wants to be around--they tell exciting stories, good jokes, have an intriging accent, or even make seemingly valid complaints with great articulation, emotion, and emphasis. Thinking back on my work life (32 years in the same organization)I was one of those who wanted to hang out with the above described people. And now I realize that most of these people were very self-centered and poor leaders. And I wonder how many of my co-workers figured out that these "charismatic" people were not the best people to be influenced by. Unfortunately, I suspect, not many--especially because many of these "charismatic" people were promoted to positions of power and usually became even more self-centered.
Celebrity vs. Charisma: What's the Difference?
What makes people charismatic?
Posted Apr 07, 2012
Kim Kardashian, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton, Madonna, and Mick Jagger are some of the well-known people who are labeled "charismatic" by much of the public. They seem to have that special gift that draws people to them, and keeps them in the public eye. But do they truly possess charisma, or is it simply that they are popular, attractive, and lead interesting lives?
As one of a small group of social scientists that have studied personal charisma, I can tell you that charisma and celebrity are not the same, although they are often confused. For some individuals, however, charisma and celebrity go hand-in-hand.
The earliest discussion of charisma was by German sociologist, Max Weber, who discussed the charisma of leaders. He asserted that in times of need a person with "special qualities" can arise on the scene and people are captivated by the person and willingly follow. He is talking about both charisma (the "special qualities") and a sort of celebrity that captivates the followers. But the celebrity is a social construction: It is what the followers essentially create for the leader. In the same way, the public "creates" celebrities, but only some celebrities are truly charismatic.
The "special qualities" of truly charismatic individuals are sophisticated social and emotional skills that allow the charismatic person to engage others in a deep, and often meaningful, way. When someone meets a truly charismatic person, such as a Bill Clinton or Oprah Winfrey, there is a feeling that a "connection" is made. People often say, he/she "made me feel like I was the only person in the room."
What are these special skills? 1) Ability to express felt emotions to others in a genuine way; 2) Ability to "read" emotional signals in others and respond to them; 3) Skill in controlling the emotional tone of the interaction; 4) And a sophisticated self-presentation and understanding of social situations that we are calling "savoir-faire." You can read more about charisma here.
It is important to emphasize that charisma isn't limited to celebrities and politicians. In all likelihood, you have one or several friends who are charismatic: they are able to "light up the room" when they enter. They make people feel good and good about themselves.
So, the difference between celebrities and true charismatics is that when we meet the non-charismatic celebrities there is a sense of disappointment. The veil of celebrity is lifted, and you realize that the person is nothing special.
Can the special qualities associated with charisma be learned? Certainly, but it's not easy. It takes a great deal of time and dedication, but we've found that when people develop their emotional and social skills, they are able to make deeper and more meaningful connections with others. They have more satisfying social interactions and relationships.
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A new problem for the automated off-line programming of industrial robot application is investigated. The Multi-Goal Path Planning is to find the collision-free path connecting a set of goal poses and minimizing e.g. the total path length. Our solution is based on an earlier reported path planner for industrial robot arms with 6 degrees-of-freedom in an on-line given 3D environment. To control the path planner, four different goal selection methods are introduced and compared. While the Random and the Nearest Pair Selection methods can be used with any path planner, the Nearest Goal and the Adaptive Pair Selection method are favorable for our planner. With the latter two goal selection methods, the Multi-Goal Path Planning task can be significantly accelerated, because they are able to automatically solve the simplest path planning problems first. Summarizing, compared to Random or Nearest Pair Selection, this new Multi-Goal Path Planning approach results in a further cost reduction of the programming phase.
The task of handling non-rigid one-dimensional objects by a robot manipulation system is investigated. To distinguish between different non-rigid object behaviors, five classes of deformable objects from a robotic point of view are proposed. Additionally, an enumeration of all possible contact states of one-dimensional objects with polyhedral obstacles is provided. Finally, the qualitative motion behavior of linear objects is analyzed for stable point contacts. Experiments with different materials validate the analytical results.
This paper deals with the robust manipulation of deformable linear objects such as hoses or wires. We propose manipulation based on thequalitative contact state between the deformable workpiece and a rigid environment. First, we give an enumeration of possible contact states and discuss the main characteristics of each state. Second, we investigate the transitions which are possible between the contact states and derive criteria and conditions for each of them. Finally, we apply the concept of contact states and state transitions to the description of a typical assembly task.
This paper deals with the problem of picking-up deformable linear workpieces such as cables or ropes with an industrial robot. First, we give a motivation and problem definition. Based on a brief conceptual discussion of possible approaches we derive an algorithm for picking-up hanging deformable linear objects using two light barriers as sensor system. For this hardware, a skill-based approach is described and the parameters and major influence factors are discussed. In an experi- mental study, the feasibility and reliability under diverse conditions are investigated. The algorithm is found to be very reliable, if certain boundary conditions are met.
In this paper, we investigate the efficient simulation of deformable linear objects. Based on the state of the art, we extend the principle of minimizing the potential energy by considering plastic deformation and describe a novel approach for treating workpiece dynamics. The major influence factors on precision and computation time are identified and investigated experimentally. Finally, we discuss the usage of parallel processing in order to reduce the computation time.
We present a parallel path planning method that is able to automatically handle multiple goal configurations as input. There are two basic approaches, goal switching and bi-directional search, which are combined in the end. Goal switching dynamically selects a fa-vourite goal depending on some distance function. The bi-directional search supports the backward search direction from the goal to the start configuration, which is probably faster. The multi-directional search with goal switching combines the advantages of goal switching and bi-directional search. Altogether, the planning system is enabled to select one of the pref-erable goal configuration by itself. All concepts are experimentally validated for a set of benchmark problems consisting of an industrial robot arm with six degrees of freedom in a 3D environment.
We present a parallel control architecture for industrial robot cells. It is based on closed functional components arranged in a flat communication hierarchy. The components may be executed by different processing elements, and each component itself may run on multiple processing elements. The system is driven by the instructions of a central cell control component. We set up necessary requirements for industrial robot cells and possible parallelization levels. These are met by the suggested robot control architecture. As an example we present a robot work cell and a component for motion planning, which fits well in this concept.
Enhancing the quality of surgical interventions is one of the main goals of surgical robotics. Thus we have devised a surgical robotic system for maxillofacial surgery which can be used as an intelligent intraoperative surgical tool. Up to now a surgeon preoperatively plans an intervention by studying twodimensional X-rays, thus neglecting the third dimension. In course of the special research programme "Computer and Sensor Aided Surgery" a planning system has been developed at our institute, which allows the surgeon to plan an operation on a threedimensional computer model of the patient . Transposing the preoperatively planned bone cuts, bore holes, cavities, and milled surfaces during surgery still proves to be a problem, as no adequate means are at hand: the actual performance of the surgical intervention and the surgical outcome solely depend on the experience and the skill of the operating surgeon. In this paper we present our approach of a surgical robotic system to be used in maxillofacial surgery. Special stress is being laid upon the modelling of the environment in the operating theatre and the motion planning of our surgical robot .
This paper is based on a path planning approach we reported earlier for industrial robot arms with 6 degrees of freedom in an on-line given 3D environment. It has on-line capabilities by searching in an implicit and descrete configuration space and detecting collisions in the Cartesian workspace by distance computation based on the given CAD model. Here, we present different methods for specifying the C-space discretization. Besides the usual uniform and heuristic discretization, we investigate two versions of an optimal discretization for an user-predefined Cartesian resolution. The different methods are experimentally evaluated. Additionally, we provide a set of 3- dimensional benchmark problems for a fair comparison of path planner. For each benchmark, the run-times of our planner are between only 3 and 100 seconds on a Pentium PC with 133 MHz.
In this paper, the problem of path planning for robot manipulators with six degrees of freedom in an on-line provided three-dimensional environment is investigated. As a basic approach, the best-first algorithm is used to search in the implicit descrete configuration space. Collisions are detected in the Cartesian workspace by hierarchical distance computation based on the given CAD model. The basic approach is extended by three simple mechanisms and results in a heuristic hierarchical search. This is done by adjusting the stepsize of the search to the distance between the robot and the obstacles. As a first step, we show encouraging experimental results with two degrees of freedom for five typical benchmark problems.


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Long time readers of AiB will realise that over the year's I've enjoyed various Flashmob enterprises ... from one that was staged in Paddington Station many years ago, to the Manchester Passion (Good Friday 2006) and last Christmas' Liverpool Nativity that told the familiar story using modern characters in very a familiar city setting.
Tim Norwood is an Anglican minister in Milton Keynes ... not sure if that makes him chaplain to the massive Amazon depot down the road!
Locally they took the idea of the Liverpool Nativity and gave it an MK twist ... and so the Shenley Nativity was born. Tim explains ...
Mike Geaney did an incredible job brining it all together. Paul Randall revealed some more of his technical genius. The cast were on good form, the homeless choir looked appropriately ragged but sang like angels, and the soup was just the ticket!
Highlights included: Joseph's dream sequence - projected on a screen above his head as he slept - Mary's song - from the steps of the church - the homeless choir outside the homeless shelter (the vestry) - the birth cry of the baby (from the shed) - the video link to Herod's Palace - and the star on top of the vestry roof!
A huge effort – but hopefully hugely meaningful for those involved and those watching. Some online hunting to be done to find if there's any video footage from their creativity.


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For the past few months, we have eagerly been awaiting the beginning of the 2017 golf season. Spring is finally here and opening day is on its way! Muskoka Bay Resort has set its opening date for the 2017 season – let the countdown begin!
For those keen to tee off, mark Friday, May 12th on your calendar! That is the first day this year you'll be able to tee up your ball, blast a drive down the rolling fairway, chip onto the perfectly manicured green, and drain that breaking put. We know that feeling you've been craving all winter long and we're equally as excited to get golfing! After you finish up your round, be sure to grab a bite at one of two on-site restaurants as both the Cliffside Grill & Terrace as well as the Muskoka Room also are set to open their doors on the 12th!
Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the Cliffside Grill welcomes you and your friends for a round, after a round of golf.
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WASHINGTON — How do Democrats get a Republican-controlled Congress to spend more money on fighting the national opioid epidemic?
Compare the heroin scourge to a terrorist threat, suggested Senator Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat.
Shame them, offered Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, and U.S. Representative Ann McLane Kuster, a New Hampshire Democrat.
Hold a giant cable-ready press conference with families suffering from the impacts of addiction and make it a presidential campaign issue, other lawmakers added — a plan the White House quickly approved.
Welcome to the conclave where Democratic powerbrokers huddled with White House officials on Tuesday to plot how to pry more money out of Republican hands.
The White House invited half a dozen Democrats to the meeting in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, located across the street from the West Wing and opened it to a few print reporters.
President Obama has proposed $1.1 billion over two years to increase access to addiction treatment. Representing the White House were Cecilia Munoz, Domestic Policy Council director, Shaun Donovan, director of the Office of Management and Budget, Michael Botticelli, director of National Drug Control Policy, and Amy Rosenbaum, Legislative Affairs director.
In addition to Markey, Warren and Kuster, Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, and Representatives Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico were present.
Republicans say they want to support the fight against opioid addiction — just not outside the normal budget appropriations process, which Democrats have called a "false promise." Representatives for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
"How are we planning to turn the heat up under the Republicans who just keep on saying no?" Warren asked.
Markey suggested putting the opioid crisis in terms that regular Americans could understand — terrorism.
"The terror for ordinary families of America is not Aleppo; it's not Fallujah; it's this epidemic coming down their streets," Markey said. "I would use the terror metaphor, but put it in a domestic context. The same way this self-radicalized person killed 49 people in Orlando, the same kind of terror is coming in from China, through Mexico, up to the streets of America."
Obama, he said, should make his case directly to citizens that "he's on the front lines, he's fighting it, and will provide the weaponry at the local level."
"You have to elevate this to the level of warfare," Markey said.
Kuster, cofounder and co-chair of the 80-member Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic, called it "political malpractice" for Republicans to make speeches about combatting heroin abuse without allocating the money necessary to treat addiction.
She said she's spoken about her concerns with Senator Kelly Ayotte, a New Hampshire Republican up for re-election who has crossed party lines to support Obama's request for more funding. Ayotte also co-sponsored a Shaheen amendment for $600 million in emergency funding to help combat the prescription opioid abuse and heroin epidemic, but the measure failed.
"You could really focus in politically on a couple of people and Senator McConnell would need to deliver," Kuster said.
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Digitization will make new demands on operations managers: On Oct. 3, ING Group joined a growing number of big European banks when it announced a big investment in digital technology (800 million euros) and a big reduction in force (11% or 5,800 jobs). "Unfortunately digital transformation means less jobs," CFO Patrick Flynn told Bloomberg Television not very ruefully.
But perhaps not fewer management jobs. "Even as organizations balance lower investment in traditional operations against greater investment in digital, the need for operations management will hardly disappear," write McKinsey consultants Albert Bollard, Alex Singla, Rohit Sood, and Jasper van Ouwerkerk in a new article in McKinsey Quarterly. "In fact, we believe the need will be more profound than ever."
In the near term, the challenge will be the ability of companies "to embrace digital innovation and operations-management discipline at the same time." That, the authors say, will require figuring out how to combine digital and human resources, modify employee roles to showcase and sustain digitization, support customers as they figure out how to work with the organization, and develop leaders and managers with "much stronger day-to-day skills in working with their teams."
VR products for tactile training: Last week Google announced a long list of consumer products — smart phones, wifi routers, voice-activated speakers, TV streaming devices — including a VR platform and headset. One thing it didn't announce was the robotic arm that it had developed to experiment with cloud robotics (more in the next item below) because, as Mark Bergen reports in Bloomberg Technology, "it failed Chief Executive Officer Larry Page's 'toothbrush test,' a requirement that the company only ship products used daily by billions of people."
As frustrating as that might be for the folks in Google's robotics division, it should come as welcome news to companies, like Dextarobotics, that are developing VR products for the commercial market. Dextarobotics, reports Simon Parkin in MIT Technology Review, makes the Dexmo glove, which lets you handle virtual objects as if they were actually in your hand. "A virtual baseball feels firm in the hand, an egg fragile. Pick up a digital rubber duck while wearing the Dexmo, and it can be squished pleasingly between the fingers," writes Parkin.
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Dexmo, which is still in development, has a variety of applications. CAD design, for instance, and a variety of training situations involving surgery, bomb disposal, and maintenance — anything in which tactile experience is difficult, risky, or expensive to obtain.
Tomorrow's self-training robotic workforce: With all the hoopla over Google's new consumer products, the Google Research blog post on cloud robotics didn't get much attention. Cloud robotics is the ability of robots to instantaneously transmit their experience to other robots over a network, explain Sergey Levine of the Google Brain team, Timothy Lillicrap of DeepMind, and Mrinal Kalakrishnan of X. It's a critical ability, because we won't be able to get to scale with robotics if we have to wait for each robot to learn how to perform jobs like flipping burgers or welding car frames on its own. So, naturally, Google is trying to figure out how robots might train each other.
Toward that end, Google's researchers conducted three experiments that used different approaches to skill learning — "learning motion skills directly from experience, learning internal models of physics, and learning skills with human assistance" — that the robots then shared among themselves. The result: "In all three cases, multiple robots shared their experiences to build a common model of the skill," report the authors. "The skills learned by the robots are still relatively simple — pushing objects and opening doors — but by learning such skills more quickly and efficiently through collective learning, robots might in the future acquire richer behavioral repertoires that could eventually make it possible for them to assist us in our daily lives."
Since it will be a while before you can order up a robotic workforce that trains itself, you might use the time to listen to the provocative talk by Sam Harris recently posted on TED.com. The neuroscientist and philosopher makes a bleak but entirely plausible argument that our forays into AI will eventually yield a superintelligence that will destroy us.
"The moment we admit that information processing is the source of intelligence, that some appropriate computational system is what the basis of intelligence is, and we admit that we will improve these systems continuously, and we admit that the horizon of cognition very likely far exceeds what we currently know, then we have to admit that we are in the process of building some sort of god," Harris concludes. "Now would be a good time to make sure it's a god we can live with."
How can we ensure that? Harris doesn't have a lot to say on the subject — except that we might launch a sort of Manhattan Project (echoing a 2015 suggestion from The Brookings Institute) aimed at understanding how to build a superintelligence in a way that is aligned with human interests. It sounds like a good start. Otherwise, who knows what concessions tomorrow's robotic workforce will demand at the bargaining table?


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bahahahaha you get hit on by high schoolers. awesome. i mean not surprising though, you're hawt.ReplyDelete
HAHA this is awesome - personally, i'm jealous of your footies PJs. i'm 26 and normally get mistaken for a little younger... but don't really get ID'ed anymore.ReplyDelete
The other day I got asked at Old Navy if I was 18 yet; I lied and said no just so I wouldn't have to listen to them try and sell me on signing up for a credit card. So I agree sometimes looking young has its advantages. And I like to think I just look young because I take good care of my skin haReplyDelete
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I love this post and I have never had this problem. I feel a sense of victory when I get carded and I'm 26. Gawd, feels old.ReplyDelete
STORY of my life. I'm 20 and look like I'm 12. Not kidding. I got hit on the other day, excuse me, *harassed* by middle schoolers in the coffee shop the other day. I finally turned to them and said "I am at least 11 years older than you. So shut up."ReplyDelete
I think I finally grew into looking my real age, but it took a long time to get there. I remember specifically when I was 19 and was flying home for Christmas break, I was seated in the exit row and the flight attendant said, "I'm gonna have to ask you to move; you have to be at least 15 to sit here." Sigh.ReplyDelete
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this was fabulous. I didn't look my age until about this time last year when I decided to start my own business. I no longer sleep, ever. And no sleep makes one look old as shit. I still get hit on by high schoolers & dirty old men though. And that's unfortunate. I also have to answer quiz questions about my id. But mostly because in said picture I have black hair & my hair is currently blonde.ReplyDelete
I used to work at Perkins during University and I was working the morning shift on a Tuesday when I didnt have class and i was scolded by an old lady for not being in school. I told her that I was in fact 21 and she didn't believe me. She was convinced i was 16 and had dropped out.ReplyDelete
I'm 30 and I get I.D.ed all the time still! (Unless I'm with my boyfriend - I never get IDed then!) I work at a college, and earlier this year they were having High School preview days and I got asked if I was a senior - so apparently I can pass for 17?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 28, 2014 at 7:38 AM
I've always had this problem too. It was obnoxious in my early 20s, but since crossing 30 I'm so pleased to have this problem instead of looking OLDER than I amReplyDelete
hahaha this is awesome! I've never had that problem. I look older than I am apparently... I get the "OMG you're SO young!"ReplyDelete
I def feel you on the young boys hitting on you part, I am 25 but I look 16 and it happens to me all the time lol.ReplyDelete


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