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Brendan Adams walked onto the UConn campus, and like many visiting recruits, was struck by the banners, the ones signifying championships, the ones commemorating All-Americans, NBA players, lottery picks.
"When I visited, I just loved the whole atmosphere," Adams said, after committing to UConn. "You see the banners, the championships and the history — you can feel a great program when you walk onto that campus. … I'm going to be working very hard to get UConn back where it needs to be."
Adams, 18, is in a unique position to facilitate that process. He is Dan Hurley's first recruit, the only Class of 2018 recruit joining the Huskies this season. He will be the first block in what UConn is trying to build, or rebuild — a role model, a year or two ahead of the young players the coaching staff is working to land for 2019 and 2020.
"He shares the same passion and desire and obsession with the game that I do," said Hurley, offering what, from him, is the ultimate compliment.
Adams, a combo guard, 6-foot-4 and 196 pounds, averaged 18 points, five rebounds and four assists for Calvert Hall in Baltimore last season, after he had committed to play for Hurley at Rhode Island in the fall of 2017. "At the time we recruited him, he was considered a high-major recruit," Hurley said.
When Hurley left for UConn, Adams de-committed. Considered a top-150 player, closer to three-star than four, he looked around some, but it was late in the process for a 2018 recruit. Within two weeks he chose to follow Hurley to Storrs.
"I think he's a guy that's going to surprise people, because he didn't get a lot of attention when we signed him," Hurley said, "and he's a really, really good player. Good size, very athletic, shoots the ball very well, which is a major need with our program."
So Adams comes in as a freshman, but with the mark of being Hurley's type of player. The more experienced guards in front of him will be pushed for minutes; healthy competition UConn has been missing the last couple of years. He earned the chance to start the exhibition game against Southern Connecticut on Nov. 2, and led the Huskies with 17 points.
"You just watch practice and you don't think 'freshman' in practice," Hurley said. "He's a guy we're going to be able to play this year and he can give us some really good minutes."
And Brendan Adams comes from a basketball family ready to mix it up. His older brother, Jaylen (not to be confused, of course, with UConn's Jalen), played at St. Bonaventure and now has a two-way contract with the NBA's Hawks and their G League affiliate. Brendan grew up playing against his brother and cousin, former Cincinnati guard Troy Caupain, in their Baltimore driveway. They were four years older.
"For the most part, Brendan's a quiet, reserved kid," Jaylen Adams said. "He's an animal, though. He just works. At this point in his life he's working harder than he ever has in his life, and now that he's got something in front of him, he'll go even harder. He's a scorer first, a real big guard, good at using his body, getting into the lane. But he can score at all three levels and we kind of play opposite. Me, I was a point guard first. He was a scorer first, and a point guard. He brings those intangibles while just learning how to score."
The day he committed to UConn, April 14, Adams was joined by Tarin Smith, a grad-student transfer from Duquesne, and the next day Kassoum Yakwe, grad student from St. John's, announced he was coming, too. That, in one weekend, wrapped up Hurley's catch-up recruiting for 2018, putting his first imprint on UConn, replacing the three recruits who de-committed when Kevin Ollie left and freeing up the coaches' time to go for the future.
The Huskies' newcomers:
Tarin Smith
The Basics: 6-3, 185. Guard. Age 22. Grad student.
Last played for: Duquesne in Atlantic 10, where he was the conference's sixth man of the year.
Known for: Solid, all-around play. Played for Hurley's father at St. Anthony in Jersey City, for Nebraska before transferring to Duquesne.
Smith says: "I never thought coming in to college I'd be bouncing around three places. I did what I had to do, made the best decisions for myself and my family. But some things hold true. … You don't settle for less. Greatness is the only option."
Dan Hurley says: "You come in here in the morning and the ball is bouncing. You look out on the court and Tarin's working on ball-handling drills. You've worked out, you maybe have a meeting, you go back into your office — the ball's bouncing. He's working on his shooting. … That's what you get when you recruit a guy who played for a coach like my dad, in a place like St. Anthony."
What to expect: With his pedigree, Smith was brought to UConn to help Hurley install his system and mindset at UConn. On the court, he will need to offer an example of the grit and aggressiveness on offense and tenacity on defense that the coach wants in all his guards.
Kassoum Yakwe
The basics: 6-7, 212. Forward. Age 21. Grad student.
Last played for: St. John's in the Big East.
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Known for: Shot-blocking; led Big East as a freshman 2015-16.
Yakwe says: "It's very calm [in Storrs], it's not like New York. Outside of campus, there is nothing to do. I like it because all I do is go to school, study and focus on basketball. I think this is the perfect place for me."
Dan Hurley says: "He brings a lot of value to our front court because he's an athletic shot blocker. Our guards will occasionally get beat off the dribble, so it's essential to me to have somebody who could affect shots at the rim, challenge shots, block shots. … That falls in line with Kassoum's strengths, so I feel that he will have a chance to have a big impact on the program."
What to expect: Yakwe, recovering from a foot injury, will help on defense if healthy. Whether he can contribute enough offensively to stay on the floor will be an early season question mark.


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Lemonade, Taxis, Victims and a Comment Rescue or Two
In a recent post by Tod about privilege, a discussion emerged regarding the role of government in providing privilege via the enforcement of monopolies. As noted, such privilege does not just belong to the initial rent-seeker, but also to anyone who subsequently decides to purchase that monopoly, that privilege.
These people asked for no favours from the government, they just recognized the game the government was playing, learned the rules and decided to play along. The question then arises, is it fair for the government to suddenly remove that privilege, to pull the rug out from underneath these people? Regular commenter Roger spells this out using a hypothetical lemonade stand:
I find this a fascinating topic. Once privilege is granted, it can often cement itself into society. An example: A lemonade salesman lobbies (unfairly) for monopoly status as the only permitted peddler of lemonade in town. He then sells his business at fair market value to a fine and fair minded citizen. Now we have a situation where the fair minded person will be harmed by the loss of privilege (the loss of monopoly).
The point being that once privilege is granted, it becomes hard to take it away. Incumbents of privilege may actually have something to lose. They were just playing by the rules at the time, changing the rules mid game can actively and, from their perspective, unfairly harm them.
From this scenario, my mind jumped to a real world example where this very matter is wrestled with, the taxi market. And specifically, the taxi market in my hometown of Ottawa. As I wrote elsewhere*, the Ottawa taxi market is a mess. The city has decided to issue a specific number of taxi plates, thus limiting the number of cabs that can roam the streets of Ottawa. The city is pretty under-served in terms of taxis, thus cabbies (or, more likely, cab companies) can reap some pretty decent profits. As a result, the taxi plates are quite valuable, and a grey market has emerged on which the plates will be bought sold at prices in the five or six digits.
Recently, there has been a little more talk of opening up the market, but the combination of a city council that tends toward the technocratic and a very influential taxi lobby has ensured that no meaningful reform is on the horizon. But what if, as I propose, Ottawa opens up the market. There will likely be financial hardships for those who bought there way in to the monopoly**, but have not held the plates long enough to recoup there investment. Is it fair to them to suddenly take away their expensive privilege?
In the comments thread of that post, there is some back-and-forth about this. Would these people who never lobbied for monopoly status but were willing to buy into it be considered victims? Have they been harmed? Addressing this point, commenter Jamez Aitch argues:
It's true that the lemonade seller shouldn't have had the monopoly privilege, but the point of Rogers's post is that he has done nothing wrong, hasn't even sought out that privilege (Roger made him the second owner to keep him "innocent" for purposes of discussion). He's made a good faith investment, so the rules change does in fact harm him.
I see where James is coming from here, and I'm generally sympathetic to this argument, but there's something that just doesn't sit right. I think it's the use of the word, "harm", and this isn't just semantic issue. The paragraph suggests that harm is done to this secondary lemonade seller. He is adhering to the rules of the game, so changing those rules is unfair to him… even though there's general agreement that the initial rules were unfair.
In this sense, I can't get behind the idea that the seller has been harmed, specifically that the government has harmed him. This person will have suffered loss. His expected revenue stream has been blown up and it was that expected revenue stream that dictated the price he was willing to pay for the monopoly (this is where the econ profs will start talking about present value and future value and most people's eyes glaze over). So, yes, he has suffered loss, just as any investor whose investment goes south suffers loss.
But this is a far way from an innocent being harmed.
To keep with our sporting analogy, the secondary lemonade seller certainly was playing a game, but that game was not extracting monopoly rents for delicious refreshing lemonade. The game he was playing was a political game. In our scenario, the secondary seller knew that he was buying a government-enforced monopoly***. He knew that the money he was planning on earning would be gifted to him by politicians. He knew that this was a privilege that the politician giveth and the politican can taketh away. Don't tell me he was innocent. He knew the game, and he knew he could lose.
Now, we can't fully blame the secondary lemonade seller for jumping into the game. He didn't set the rules and he didn't create the initial market distortion. He was just responding to incentives. Further, after buying that specific privilege, it's quite understandable that he'll want to recoup the money he spent. He is suffering a financial loss.
So, yes, we can worry about the harm that he is suffering, but we shouldn't consider him an innocent, and we shouldn't let this cloud our judgement when it comes to repealing such a bogus monopoly****. As with Ottawa's cabbie's, the wrong that is being perpetrated on the consumer is far worse than the harm that the secondary seller is suffering. If we must think of anyone in this scenario as "innocent", it is the consumer.
Ottawa needs to sort out its taxi industry, and it needs to get rid of the plate system. This will cause hardship and will cause the current plate holders to feel some pain. When we are fixing these sorts of markets, we should concern ourselves with the monopoly sellers, not because they are innocent victims (they're not), but because, simply, we should try to help alleviate suffering.
As James notes, the economic benefits of opening up these markets should be greater than the specific loss suffered by the monopoly sellers. Consequently, we can compensate them to help with the adjustment. Further, we can implement a gradual transition to an open market. The monopoly seller will then have time to prepare for the change.
Finally, we must remember that we'll never be talking about lemonade stands. We'll be talking about industries like Ottawa's cabs. If the market were to open up, starting a cab company wouldn't be as easy as setting up a lemonade stand on your front lawn. There barriers to entry. There are regulations that have to be followed. There are investments that must be made and funding that must be arranged. As the established provider, the monopoly seller will still have an advantage in this newly open market.
So, no, we needn't worry ourselves too much with the trials of poor old monopoly sellers, whether they're schlepping sweetened lemon juice or giving us a lift across town.
*And yes, this is a shameless plug for my blog on Ottawa politics… though I'm aware most of our readers won't really have the vested interest in the subject matter that I do.
**Okay, it's not a monopoly like in Roger's example, but it's a closed market and I wanted to stick with Roger's initial wording. Sue me.
***If our secondary seller did not know that he was buying a government-enforced monopoly, then he had no reason to assume that he would be able to extract monopoly profits from the lemonade industry, and thus he wouldn't have used that information in determining what price he would pay for the lemonade business. Consequently, he would have suffered no loss in expected revenue.
****And Roger and James aren't defending the perpetuation of the monopoly, it should be noted, but they are more sympathetic to the secondary seller than I.

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April 9-13, 2014
Charleston, USA
What's It All About?
The Charleston International Film Festival (CIFF) brings people together through the art and science of film. The purpose of the festival is to promote the exchange of ideas and create greater cross-cultural awareness.
The festival has an international film and screenplay competition dedicated to emerging filmmakers and writers from the US and around the world. Over the five-day event, all genres of film and a wide range of subjects are explored. The latest sneak previews and premieres of some of the best new documentaries, features, shorts and animations of local, national and international filmmakers are screened. After the shows, participants are invited to after-parties and deal-making opportunities.
The festival closes on a high note at the formal Awards Gala, when the finest in filmmaking and writing displayed during the competition are recognised and honoured for their outstanding effort.
Watch Out For!
Opening Film
Draft Day
The film features Jennifer Garner and Kevin Kostner and is about the General Manager of the Cleveland Browns as he struggles to acquire the number one draft pick for his team.
A huge number of documentaries will be screened at the fest, including:
The Dog, the story of the man who inspired the film Dog Day Afternoon, a true story about a bank robbery gone haywire and Burt's Buzz, a film about an eccentric multi-millionaire are some of the highlights. The award-winning When Jews Were Funny along with Our Man in Tehran, the true story of the events depicted in last year's Oscar-winning movie Argo and the Oscar award-winning documentary, The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life will also be screened on the last day of the fest.
The other documentaries to be screened are:
• The Last Safari
• Fishhooks
• The Doll Dilemma
• Bittersweet
• Godka Circa
• The German Who Came to Dinner
Four films to be screened under this year's South Carolina Film Commission Indie Grant Program are:
• Last Night At The Ellington
• Dustin & Hoffman
• Coffee Date
• The Masque Of Red Death
Shorts Programme
• A Lasting Sorrow
• The Gift
• White Shoe
• Karaganda
• The Hero Pose
• Me + Her
• Reservations
• A Life for a Life
• Ravi & Jane
• LiFi
• Insomniacs
• Volti


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A cast and crew of 55 students and two brave directors gave two performances of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Nebraska City High School Aug. 4.
The students from kindergarten through 12th grade auditioned Monday morning July 30 and spent the week rehearsing daily for the show.
Missoula Children's Theatre has been coming to Nebraska City for over 20 years and has continued thanks to the Nebraska City Fine Arts Committee, the Nelson Family Foundation, and the Nebraska Arts Council. Saturday, parents and friends enjoyed watching a great performance of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" with characters Snow White, Mirror, King, Queen, Phineas, Foxy, Fernando, Dwarfs, Henchmen, Black Forest Creatures, Forest Animals, and Bats.
Seven Syracuse students participated in the program. Upcoming freshmen Hannah Knox (Mirror) and Anden Werner (Forest Creature) have been in the Missoula programs for years.
Upcoming freshman Madison Krueger (Foxy) participated for the first time this year and really enjoyed the experience. Fourth grader Brylar Werner (bunny) has participated multiple times. Third grader Sarah Ganzel (squirrel), first graders Chella Werner (bat) and Spencer Werner (bat) were all first time performers and had a blast!
The play was performed with song, group lines, choreography, and individual lines. It was a great opportunity for the students to play a part in a professional production complete with a set, costumes, and musical accompaniment.
The Nebraska City Fine Arts Committee would like to thank accompanist Tammy Partsch, Lighting Technician Oliver Borchers-Williams, Videographer Carla Roettger, Directors Allie Nichols and Gustavo Brito. Additionally, the Whispering Pines Bed and Breakfast and Best Western Inn housed the tour directors through the week, Valentino's made arrangements for the final cast party, and the Nebraska City Public Schools were very accommodating to the production throughout the week. The funding is made possible by the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nelson Family Foundation.
Missoula Children's Theater play draws 55 students at NC
A cast and crew of 55 students and two brave directors gave two performances of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Nebraska City High School Aug. 4.


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Hi Jirka, Big, big welcome -- very glad to see you're joining the TC --Mike Jirka Kosek <firstname.lastname@example.com> writes: > Hi folks, > > I have joined OASIS and DocBook TC right now and I think that it is > decent to briefly introduce myself to other members of this TC. Many of > you probably know me from docbook-apps lists, but for others here goes. > I contributed to DocBook XSL stylesheets by adding HTML Help and Eclipse > output formats, profiling and internationalized indexing code. I also > prepared HTML Help version of DocBook: The Definitive Guide. I do a lot > of DocBook, XML and XSL training, evangelizing and consulting in my home > country. As the DocBook is my favorite DTD since 1998 and almost all my > documents and slides are created in DocBook I think it will be fair to > help with DocBook maintenance and evolution and thus I'm joining TC. > > I hope that phone lines will be kind to me during next Wednesday and I > will be able to join telecon. As it will be my first telecon at all and > not in my native language please doesn't expect big rhetoric performance > from me. I hope it will be OK with you if I will mostly just listen in > order to absorb telecon rules and overall atmosphere. I definitively > don't want to disrupt meeting and TC work, I want smoothly sail into TC > and help with its assignments. > > Jirka > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Jirka Kosek > e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > http://www.kosek.cz
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Human: Fall Flat [PC / Mac Steam Code]
About the game
Discover the funniest cooperative physics-based puzzle-platformer!
In Human: Fall Flat you play as Bob, a wobbly hero who keeps dreaming about surreal places filled with puzzles in which he's yet to find the exit. Exploration and ingenuity are key, challenge your creativity as every option is welcome! Bob is just a normal Human with no superpowers, but given the right tools he can do a lot. Misuse the tools and he can do even more!
The world of Human: Fall Flat features advanced physics and innovative controls that cater for a wide range of challenges. Bob's dreams of falling are riddled with puzzles to solve and distractions to experiment with for hilarious results. The worlds may be fantastical, but the laws of physics are very real.
- ONLINE MULTIPLAYER UP TO 8 PLAYERS: Fall into or host private/public lobbies with your friends and watch Bob fall, flail, wobble and stumble together. Need a hand getting that boulder on to a catapult, or need someone to break that wall? The more Bob the more Mayhem!
- THE WOBBLY ART OF PARKOUR: Direct and complete control of Bob. Nothing is scripted and no limits imposed. Bob can walk (kinda straight), jump, grab anything, climb anything, carry anything.
- LOCAL CO-OP: Play with a friend or a relative in split-screen, work together to achieve any task or spend an hour throwing each other about in the craziest ways possible.
- CUSTOMISATION: Paint your own custom Bob, dress him with silly suits or even import your face onto his via webcam.
- SURREAL LANDSCAPES: Explore open-ended levels which obey the rules of physics. Interact with almost every available object in the game and go almost everywhere - like playground of freedom.
- UNLIMITED REPLAY VALUE: Fall into Bob's dreams as many time as you want, try new paths and discover all secrets. Think outside of the box is the philosophy! Fall into Bob's dreams and see how are your catapulting skills!
Internet connection and Steam account required.


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Relationship help extends to the workplace where we can find ourselves thrust together with other folks we may or may not like, respect or appreciate.
Hopefully, you are in the perfect place with the perfect people, but, just in case you're not, I'm going to share a few thoughts about managing workplace conflicts with tips for warming a cold office climate.
What to do? There is someone at work you really have difficulty liking. It may be mild or it may be on your mind long before you get to the office in the morning. This can have a devastating effect on your day, not to mention on your career. Recently it was reported that, aside from promotion and better salary, most people leave their positions because of expressed or unexpressed conflict at work. So, you're in good company!
That information is stunning because it demonstrates the need for pro-active communication and conflict management training in the workplace. Equip yourself with these skills. They will be endlessly useful in all areas of your life. When I work on these skills with corporate and business groups, you can feel the relief in the air. Folks feel a greater sense of self-confidence when they have the skills to confront difficulties. Makes sense, doesn't it? If your workplace is suffering, work with your employer to have the issue recognized and addressed. Just one or two days of training can make an enormous difference.
Think of the lack of productivity that the stress of conflict creates. Who can attend to their work when they are concerned about possible confrontations, accusations or 'cold shoulders'? People have feelings. Feelings are powerful. Fear is one of the most powerful, and that's what's showing up when you work in a tension-filled environment. There is enough tension in the creativity and the deadlines that normal, productive work creates. Who needs tension caused by fear, poor communication and small minds?
The first and most important thing to do is to examine your own behavior.
- How are you treating that person you perceive as difficult?
- Is there anything in your posture, facial expression or tone of voice that prevents friendly interaction?
- Are there any previous misunderstandings that you've left floating on the air?
- Have you said anything to anyone about the person in question that could have gotten back to them?
- Do you have resentments with good reason, e.g., they took credit for your work, or,they are lazy and it makes more work for you?
- Are you angry at yourself for not having the skills, competence, confidence or willingness to talk things out with them?
Often, when you have already decided that you don't like someone, or that they don't like you, that attitude is conveyed in your non-verbal communication. Work on yourself first.
Invite the other person out to lunch or coffee.
Are I kidding? No, I'm not. Bite the bullet and ask them. This is a discovery time. Learn more about them.
- Are they having difficulties in their life outside the workplace?
- What interests them?
- What have they done in their career to date?
- What have their greatest successes been?
- What might you have in common that could move your relationship in a better direction?
Spend this time learning. When you're quiet and they talk, you learn. P.S. This is true in every relationship!
OK, you have nothing in common. They were miserable and close-mouthed. Nothing good came from it. Good. You now know that you made the effort and can rest comfortably with that.
Next step, ask them for a meeting in the office.
This takes courage, but, how much courage is it currently taking just to show up every day in the face of these difficulties anyway? NOTE: this is not a 'let-me-fix-you' type of meeting. Prepare for the meeting by creating a list of open-ended questions that will hopefully create discussion between you. Open-ended questions are ones that cannot be answered with a simple yes or no. They require thoughts, opinions and ideas, such as:
- How can we improve the relationship between us?
- What can we do to work together more collaboratively?
- (If you've had a previous altercation) ...What would it take for us to make a fresh start together?
Indicate your willingness to create a workable relationship.
What if the other person is not even mildly interested in conversing about change?
That is when you have a decision to make. Live with it, or take it to the next level. The next level involves bringing a third person into the conversation, a person who is willing to manage the situation because it is in the best interest of the workplace. A mediator may be offered. There may be other people on your team who are experiencing the same difficulties with the same person. This makes change more imperative for your superior. Point out the benefits of managing this issue to the company.
No matter how it seems, no one really likes conflict. Some people create it because it makes them feel they have a modicum of control. Others create it as a cover for how little they are doing. Others have their own reasons and needs for keeping things in an uproar. You, though, are always at choice. You can always do something to remove the tension somewhat. Sometimes, yes, it might even mean making a career shift. Sometimes, it's worth it, but only after you have done everything in your power to improve things.
Confrontation is not a four-letter word, but 'cold' is! Communicate in positive ways and see if you can warm it up a little around your office.
If I can help with training, coaching, consulting or mediation, give me a call!


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Porsche Taycan – new pictures revealed
New pictures of the Porsche Taycan have been revealed in one of the strangest press releases you'll read this year.
The pictures show portions of the car, which is wearing what looks like a glow-in-the-dark-wrap, and the
#SoulElectrified hashtag so you can follow the Taycan's development – including Mark Webber stress testing it on track. The Taycan is Porsche's first purely electric sports car and, with four-wheel drive and a 0-62mph time of under 3.5 seconds, it should feel it. On a more practical note, it's set to have a range of around 300 miles and its battery can be fast charged from empty to 80% in just 15 minutes.
For now though, strap yourself in for the official press release. It's a goody:
"It is a warm early afternoon, around 1 pm, in an inconspicuous hall in an industrial zone on the edge of Stuttgart. The windows of the building are completely covered up, the gates are carefully locked so that nobody can look in or come in without authorisation and nothing is leaked to the outside. Inside is a bewilderingly camouflaged test model of the Taycan. In 70 years of sports car history, it is the first purely battery-powered Porsche from Zuffenhausen. At this point, only rough outlines are known about; the trade journals are outdoing each other with more or less futuristic phantom images, but one thing is clear: the Taycan will enter a completely new dimension of the Porsche brand, which traditionally draws its power from high-performance combustion engines. A quantum leap. And, like any radical change, not without risk.
Right next to it, in the dark, the new Porsche 911 is parked – the classic which, since its première in 1963, has been engraved in the collective consciousness, whether as the absolute core, synonym or heart of the Porsche brand. A myth, with more than a million cars built, a phenomenon of contemporary, cultural, technology and design history, an automobile which is constantly new and yet so provokingly unchanged. Two worlds collide – but they have a single origin. And a common goal: to define what Porsche is in a new way. What the brand stands for. And what it means to the two men who are now circling the vehicles, busy in discussion.
August Achleitner, a lean, rather boyish-looking 63-year-old, is more or less the brain of the 911. The automotive engineer has been head of the model line for 18 years; the eighth generation of the 911 will be his last. He has constantly preserved this inheritance by carefully developing it in line with the Porsche values of tradition and innovation: transition yes, radical change no. He has shaped the 911 as few others have done, although he would scarcely admit it. If you mention his role to him, his answers quickly meander towards "my team" or "my people". "The development of the 911 is always an evolution, never a revolution", he says. "At the same time, we have created each new generation in such a way that it will not devalue its predecessors. This explains why Porsches are so timeless."


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I'm sure you are upset when losing the photos from your camera, mobile phone or computer hard drive. In face of devastating situations like this, people often turn to the Internet for help and try to find solutions to recover the photos. The best solution is to use a dependable program to solve the problem professionally. However, most of the program that enables you to get the photos back are not free. Since you haven't used it yet, you don't know whether it is worth to buy the program or not.
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This doesn't have the roughness of Acrobatic but a clean fuller sound. The main complaint I have with this record is that the background vocals are to low. The emotional feel is a darker and moodier tone. One gets the feeling of rain and candles or a night of outcasts walking, mixed with cheap wine and broken glass. The highlights are "Winter Month Novelty", "Speechless" and "Picket Fence Cartel".
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The Voice UK 2017 will see five rounds of live shows for its first series on ITV.
That's two more than the previous four series of The Voice UK on BBC One but one fewer than the first series back in 2012.
It's hoped the compromise will allow the finalists to get to connect with viewers better without dragging on for so long that ratings tumble.
While The Voice's blind auditions have always rated well - reaching highs of 12 million viewers in 2012 - the live shows have often seen numbers dip.
After the first series, the BBC cut the live shows to just three: A Quarter Final, Semi Final and Grand Final.
This short run may have kept viewing numbers respectable but resulted in weekly eliminations of four acts and it always felt like a rushed end to the series.
It's also perhaps one reason why The Voice UK winners have often struggled with success compared to acts from The X Factor.
Two extra live shows are just one of many little changes made by ITV as the channel takes over the show.
On the coaching line up, ITV have undone the BBC's controversial work to bring back Sir Tom Jones to the show alongside Will.i.am and two new names: American singer Jennifer Hudson and British rocker Gavin Rossdale, lead singer of Bush.
There's also a brand new look set and the blind auditions have an extra twist this year.
Previously once an audition was over, all the chairs turned so the coaches who didn't hit the buzzer still saw acts and offered them advice or reasons why they hadn't spun.
But now those coaches that don't press their buzzer will NOT get to speak or even see the act who auditioned.
Host Emma explained: "If you don't push your button for a contestant, you don't get to see them… If nobody turns then nobody gets to see who's sung."
Another change is in the prize: The winner of The Voice UK 2017 will scoop a life changing record contract with music giants Polydor Records. The label is home to global music stars Take That and Ellie Goulding, as well as The 1975 and Years & Years.
But will any of the tweaks make for a better show?
The Voice UK 2017 starts this Saturday night, January 7 on ITV from 7PM.


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NUS to invest S$1.5 million to co-create 15 deep-tech startups
NUS to invest S$1.5 million to co-create 15 deep-tech startups
THE National University of Singapore (NUS) will invest up to S$1.5 million to help 15 teams of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and research staff establish their own deep-tech start-ups.
The teams took part in the inaugural run of NUS' Graduate Research Innovation Programme (GRIP), which nurtures start-ups tapping on deep technologies developed in the university.
Each team will receive up to S$100,000 in funding from NUS, with the first S$50,000 to be awarded over the next two months.
The remainder will be disbursed when the start-ups secure external investments or grants of at least S$50,000.
The teams have developed deep-tech innovations in the areas of engineering, biomedical science, infocommunications and lifestyle.
One team, HiCura, has created an AI-based system to help anaesthetists accurately administer epidural in women before childbirth, while another, BeeX, has built an autonomous underwater vehicle for the maritime industry.
Yet another team has come up with an algorithm that can boost video streaming quality and minimise buffering.
Last September, NUS committed S$25 million to co-create up to 250 deep-tech start-ups over five years through GRIP.
The first batch of 15 start-ups selected for funding shows strong market potential, Professor Freddy Boey, NUS Senior Vice President (Graduate Education & Research Translation), said in a media statement.
"We are pleased to give them a big push in their start-up journey and, in turn, accelerate the transfer of these innovations to the market, both locally and globally," he said.
Prof Boey reiterated NUS' commitment to invest in up to 50 GRIP startups annually over the next five years.
"In the long run, we hope that many of these NUS GRIP startups could become successful deep-tech companies and create innovation-based jobs in Singapore, as well as produce a sizable number of entrepreneurs for the Singapore economy," he added.
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Happy New Music Friday (November 9 – 11)!
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New Music Friday is lit! Now that we're nestling into the winter months, artists are opting to release slow jams. We've included some favs in our weekly roundup because we know how lazy everyone is on the Internet (so many tunes).
Backstreet Boys – "Chances" (Video)
The Backstreet Boys just dropped their Chainsmokers-esque new tune, "Chances," off the groups' forthcoming 9th LP titled DNA (out January 25th, 2019). The song starts out like an electro-ballad, but picks up steam when the guys join forces. Sonically, "Chances" sounds like it's cut from the same cloth as their previous release, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart." "What's a guy like me doing in a place like this / I could have just walked by, who would have thought," they ask. Very valid questions. "What are the chances that we'd end up dancing / Like two in a million / Like once in a life." Still valid. I love me a meaningless guilty pleasure pop song about love, and the Backstreet Boys have mastered it.
Little Mix – "Told You So" (Song)
Little Mix cool down with new LM5 track, "Told You So." It's refreshing to hear something from them that's not an F U anthem. On it, the ladies band together in times of heartbreak. "Girl just come round mine tonight / I've got wine and make-up wipes," they sing in complete unison over somber production. "I'll hold you. I'll hold you… I told you, but I'm never gonna say I told you so." I love me a passive aggressive lyric. In other words: guys ****.
Sabrina Carpenter – Singular (Album)
Sabrina Carpenter has wracked up millions of spins on Spotify with several Singular tracks, and now the budding pop star has another reason to celebrate. Her new LP is officially available to stream, and it's filled with bops and bedroom bangers (I see you, "Mona Lisa"). Read BreatheHeavy's interview with Sabrina here.
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Cheryl – "Love Made Me Do It"
Cheryl released her first song/video in three years. It's called "Love Made Me Do It," a moody, mid-tempo cup of delicious tropical juice. Upon first listen, I wasn't impressed, but the track quickly grows legs a couple of listens in (the best kinds of songs, am I right?). On it, Cheryl sings about love's intoxicating persuasion to lose all inhibition. Relatable queen. "I took the fast lane all of my life I've been the bad girl / I've been the good wife I don't stop to think, when I go in I go in I've fallen hard like a million times," she sings. "On number seven of my nine lives." Same, sis. I'm this close to losing it, and I blame love, too. Liam Payne is somewhere balled up in the corner of his shower crying.
CNCO with Meghan Trainor & Sean Paul – "Hey DJ" (Song)
If they threw out Sean Paul, this collaboration would be real fire. CNCO added him and Meghan Trainor to a remix of their massively popular song, "Hey DJ," a track that amassed more than 500 million streams on Spotify. The remix will certainly breathe new life into the track. I'm just messing with you. It's not great. Click play anyway, will ya?
Imagine Dragons – "Bad Liar" (Song)
Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds says the band's new tune, "Bad Liar," details his near-divorce with wife Aja Volkman. The two never signed the divorce papers – instead they put their pen to paper and wrote "Bad Liar," a severely earnest anthem about that terrible, sinking feeling when a relationship nearly goes down in flames. The track is the opener on the group's new album, Origins, out now. Now you know:
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Paolo Nutini Takes to the 'Streets'
ALEX COHEN, host:
Back now with DAY TO DAY.
(Soundbite of song, "Last Request")
Mr. PAOLO NUTINI (Singer): (Singing) Slow down, lie down. Remember it's just you and me.
COHEN: This is the voice of Paolo Nutini. His name sounds Italian, but the singer-songwriter hails from Scotland. His voice sounds like it belongs to someone who's been singing the blues for decades.
(Soundbite of song, "Last Request")
Mr. NUTINI: (Singing) Grant my last request and just let me hold you, don't shrug your shoulders. Lay down beside me.
COHEN: But he hasn't. His debut album, "These Streets," came out just this year. Paolo Nutini is currently on tour. Tonight he plays at the Moore Theatre in Seattle. I recently caught up with him at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Texas, where despite severe heat and humidity, thousands of fans came to hear him.
(Soundbite of crowd cheering)
COHEN: When Paolo Nutini walked on stage, the predominantly female audience screamed - Beatlemania-like screams. No surprise considering Paolo Nutini is pretty dreamy. His dark shaggy hair hangs down over saucer-like eyes. His lips are so full he could make Angelina Jolie jealous. He beamed a huge smile at the crowd as he launched into this song called "Alloway Grove."
(Soundbite of song, "Alloway Grove")
Mr. NUTINI: (Singing) However much you use me baby, come on use me more.
I love performing that song live because, you know, I love just being able to sing I love you more and more and more and over and over and over again. You know, hopefully, people are smiling, and that's it.
(Soundbite of song, "Alloway Grove")
(Singing) I love you more and more. I love you more. Oh, I love you more and more and more and more.
COHEN: When I met up with him backstage, Nutini told me he grew up listening to the Drifters, Jackie Wilson, Solomon Burke - not exactly the kind of stuff that other kids of his generation were playing on their iPods.
Mr. NUTINI: It was in '87 when I was born so I'm 20.
COHEN: Your voice doesn't sound like it's 20. I think a lot of people when they first hear it think that you're at least twice that age. When you started singing, did - was there anything that you did to try to make that voice sound older?
Mr. NUTINI: No, I mean, the thing was - when I first started, my voice is pretty smooth - very smooth and the tone was a little even. But I hadn't done anything, you know, I hadn't experienced anything (unintelligible)
COHEN: What he's experienced now includes a world tour, playing Carnegie Hall, opening for the Rolling Stones. All of which is pretty remarkable considering how he got started.
When he was 15, Paolo got a pair of tickets to see the winner of a show called "Fame Academy." It's the Scottish equivalent of "American Idol." The main attraction was running late. So the theater decided to hold its own talent competition. Paolo won.
Mr. NUTINI: I got noticed by a guy called Brandon, who asked me if I wrote songs. I said yes. He set me up in a room in a studio with a drummer. And really ever since then I've been writing songs and performing them.
(Soundbite of song, "New Shoes")
Mr. NUTINI: (Singing) Take me wandering through these streets, where bright lights and angels meet. Stone to stone they take me on. I'm walking 'til the break of dawn, hey.
COHEN: Nutini wrote this song, "New Shoes," and the nine other tunes that make up the album "These Streets" when he moved to London. He was just 18 then and most of the songs drew on his experiences of being in a big unfamiliar city - all alone.
(Soundbite of song, "Rewind")
Mr. NUTINI: (Singing) And I'm not sleeping at night. But I'm going from bar to bar. Why can't we just rewind? Why can't we just rewind? Why can't we just rewind? Why can't we just rewind? Oh.
COHEN: With his current tour schedule, Paolo Nutini no longer has weeks at a time to sit and write songs.
Mr. NUTINI: (Unintelligible) there's no consistency to it. I can't finish songs, you know. I start a song and then instead of being able to reflect on it the next day, you know, you've got a whole new thing on your plate.
COHEN: This is not the only thing that worries him. He's seen how fast young stars like him can fall.
(Soundbite of crowd cheering)
Mr. NUTINI: It's easily done, you know. I mean, especially if you're taking drugs and stuff and, you know, drugs.
COHEN: And there he pauses for a moment, twiddles a pair of sunglasses between his fingers. Paolo goes on to talk about the pressure he faces to use drugs and alcohol. He says most of his time on the road is spent with band mates and crewmembers who are young, who want to have fun, but they don't have to do what he does - be the main attraction, perform night after night, show up for interviews like this one.
Mr. NUTINI: And it really doesn't feel great not to go and get drunk and tour; it just doesn't feel great. You know, because there were so many other people that may be doing that, having (unintelligible) for you to be guy that's sort of got the sensible head on and says, you know, I've got to be up at this time to do promotion; it just doesn't feel great. That's the thin line between being able to do that and then being a train wreck.
COHEN: Does it scare you?
Mr. NUTINI: Oh, it scares the hell of me.
COHEN: What keeps him on track is home, the Scottish town of Paisley, where he says life is much calmer, where his dad still runs the local fish and chip shop.
Mr. NUTINI: Something about that simplicity that does, you know, appeal to me, and it really does - I look at my father, I look at the way he's worked since 15; he's now 50. Same place, same amount of service every day, 12 hours a day. And you know, he's just given me so much (unintelligible) part of me says that that's the way that a real man does it.
COHEN: As he says that, the door opens. Paolo's manager shows up and tells him it's time to move on to the next appearance. And so memories of Paisley and his father's chip shop are stashed away, and Paolo Nutini goes back to being a rock star.
Paolo Nutini's debut album is called "These Streets." His tour will wrap up this fall in London, where he'll appear with Led Zeppelin.
(Soundbite of song, "These Streets")
Mr. NUTINI: (Singing) And I'm wondering around with a half pack of cigarettes. Searching for the change that I've lost somehow. These streets have too many names for me. I'm used to Glenfield Road and spending my time down in Orchy. I'll get used to this eventually. I know, I know. These streets have too many names for me. I'm used to Glenfield Road and spending my time down in Orchy. I'll get used to this eventually. I know, I know, I know, I know. I used to keep telling these songs.
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Whether the ruling party factored in the response of its allies and others now on the streets in Assam and elsewhere in the North-East is not known, but their reaction shows that whatever homework was done before pushing through the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha was not adequate. The passage of the controversial bill on Wednesday coincided with protests and has opened fresh wounds about identity and ethnicity in a region which was already riven by deep social and religious divisions. However, contrary to the consensus in the secularist-liberal sections, we find it hard to question the objective behind the bill.
After all, if persecuted minorities settled in foreign lands, distant or neighbouring, with a close religious affinity to this country cannot find shelter in India, which other country are they expected to turn to? It is clear as daylight that Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, etc, are treated as second class citizens in some countries, especially in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Even friendly Bangladesh has a poor record in protecting its Hindu population which since its birth in 1971 has dwindled sharply. Therefore, granting citizenship to Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Jains, etc, who were forced to leave their countries due to persecution and entered India before 2014 is an onerous duty of the government.
To read into this any communal intent is to mistake the basic fact that India is a Hindu-majority country, even though it is not a secular country, and it cannot abdicate its responsibility to shelter those whose roots, old or new, lie in the local soil. The persecuted people with roots in this country have a claim on this land. Besides, none of these denominational groups singly or collectively engage in waging a war against this country. We make bold to say that the case of Muslim infiltrators is entirely on a different footing. They might be economic refugees but they have played havoc with the demographic character of the entire Northeastern region. The numbers of persecuted Hindus, Sikhs and others sought to be accorded citizenship rights is a small fraction of the Bangladeshis who have virtually overrun large parts of Assam, transforming several districts of the State into Muslim-majority.
The same is the case in West Bengal where districts bordering Bangladesh have become Muslim-majority thanks to the unremitting infiltration from across the international border. Such infiltration aside from posing an economic challenge has become a huge headache for the security set-up as well which must keep special vigil against agents provocateur among the illegals who can foment trouble and help ISI push its anti-India agenda.
Yet, the political costs of giving succor to the persecuted minorities threatens to upset the BJP applecart in the Northeast. The party has expanded its footprint in the entire region with governments in Assam, Manipur, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh while its allies are in power in Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram. The passage of the citizenship bill has led to the exit of the Asom Gana Parishad, one of the oldest allies of the BJP in the state, from the NDA. The BJP government in Guwahati might survive but the AGP's move has had a dominoes' effect in the entire region. Several other allies of the BJP have threatened to leave the NDA. Civil society activists and the opposition groups have come out on the streets to protest the citizenship bill.
The AGP insists that the cut-off for determining non-Muslim residents should remain 1971 as it is under the Assam Accord. The AGP and other local groups seek to protect old demographic and ethnic sub-national identity whereas the BJP seems to take a wider, pan- national view. In this clash between region-specific and nation-specific identities, the immediate danger is to the electoral prospects of the ruling party which was hoping to increase its tally in the coming general election. It is remarkable that the AGP looks at the Bengali settlers from West Bengal with as much hostility as it does at the Bangladeshi infiltrators. The BJP will find it difficult to pander to this ultra local identity.
Hence, its refusal to buckle under pressure from its allies in the Northeast. Once the bill passes muster in the Rajya Sabha, the process of weeding out the illegals from the 40-lakh people who were found to be without bona fide citizenship documents is set to begin. Pushing the cut-off year for non-Muslims from 1971 to 2014, the BJP's allies fear, will enable a large number from those listed for deletion from the national citizenship register to claim citizenship. Even now it is not too late for the government to persuade the misguided allies to see reason.
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In this article, we would be focusing on Cortex A76 vs A75 both of which are based on the ARMv8.2-A microarchitecture.
The newest processor design from ARM concentrates on enhancing the efficiency of its processors at its peak value. Most of the recent development of ARM Cortex processors are dedicated to provide laptop-class performance on various form factors including smaller devices like a smartphone. The two latest performance oriented processors are the Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A75. The Cortex-A76 is the successor of A-75. There are key differences between these processors when it comes to architecture, memory system, operation speed, and many more.
Take a look at the details of these two processors and their comparison:
Comparison of Cortex A76 vs A75:
|Cortex A76
|Cortex A75
|Designed by
|ARM Holdings
|ARM Holdings
|1–4 Cortex-A76 cores per cluster, with extra Cortex-A55 cores to make 8 cores maximum, multiple clusters
|1–8 per cluster, multiple clusters
|Max number of CPUs in the cluster
|Physical Addressing (PA)
|Bus interfaces
|AMBA ACE or CHI
|ACE or CHI
|Functional Safety Support
|ASIL D systematic
|Safety package
|The maximum CPU clock rate
|Up to 3.0 GHz in phones and Up to 3.3 GHz in tablets/laptops (TDP – 2 Watts)
|Up to 3.0 GHz
|L1 cache
|128 KB (64 KB I-cache with parity, 64 KB D-cache) per core
|128 KB (64 KB I-cache with parity, 64 KB D-cache) per core
|L2 cache
|L3 cache
|ARM Cortex-A75, A73, A72
|ARM Cortex-A73, A72, A17
|ARM Cortex-A76
Cortex A76:
The Cortex-A76 CPU is dedicated to delivering laptop-class performance through smartphone efficiency. It intends to convey a similar experience to most classes of smart mobile computing devices. The processor conveys the mobile experience that includes faster responsiveness, and it is always connected. A-76 is built on similar v8.2 architecture as its predecessor. Moreover, it showcases the latest microarchitecture designed for presenting tremendous performance and excellent power efficiency. The Cortex-A76 is known to be the second-generation premium core included inside the DynamIQ big.LITTLE combination.
In this processor, through the assistance of excellent energy efficiency and greater single-threaded performance, it improves the battery life using efficiency. Moreover, it enhances the user experience for delivering continuous high performance regardless of the complexity of the tasks. It is found that Cortex-A76 sustains Arm's innovations within the laptop space. This adds value and enables the users to accomplish tasks quickly that were never envisaged on a mobile phone. As per ARM, the Cortex-A76 is anticipated to deliver twice the performance of A73 processor. The comparative results show that the memory bandwidth increased by 90% as compared to the A75.
Cortex-A76 is found to be potent enough for the laptop space. It is because of the performance boost facilitates excellent delivery of the essential productivity apps like the Microsoft Office suite. So, ultimately it would offer a smoother, faster user experience.
- Within the execution core, the processor Cortex-A76 features two simple arithmetic locus units (ALUs) for accomplishing basic math and bit-shifting. Moreover, there is a multi-cycle integer and unified, simple ALU to achieve multiplication. Also, there is the inclusion of a branch unit.
- It intends to convey the always-on functionality of mobile devices to large screen devices. Thus, it prolongs battery life for delivering more extensive experiences.
- Cortex-A76 is the first 4-wide decode superscalar core from Arm that enhances the maximum instruction per cycle potential. Maximum 8 operations per cycle could be sending out to the out-of-order core. In this way, this processor supports a power-optimized instruction window.
- In the A-76 processor, the full cache hierarchy is excellently optimized for bandwidth and minimize latency. The optimization is facilitated with an upgraded 4th generation prefetcher, deep memory-level parallelism.
- The quad-issue integer units are incorporated inside the core comprising of 3x simple ALU as well as a 1x multi-cycle integer.
- Cortex-A76 provides support for dual-issue native 16B (128-bit) vector as well as floating-point units (FPU). This is double the throughput of any preceding Arm CPU.
- It could seamlessly deliver the 4x ML performance improvements.
Cortex A75:
Recognized as the successor of A73, the Cortex A75 delivers 16–48% better performance than an A73 processor. The Cortex-A55 could be employed as a "LITTLE" power efficient CPU to the Cortex-A75 through DynamIQ big.LITTLE. In this way, it offers great flexibility to poise performance with power efficiency.
ARM not just enhances the A75's performance for additional instructions to be performed in a single cycle, it uses a 3-wide decode out-of-order superscalar pipeline to deliver superior performance. In addition to that, ARM has designed a micro-architecture which is competent in maintaining the core fed with instructions. Moreover, the Cortex-A75, for the first time, employs the latest DynamIQ Shared Unit as an essential portion of its design. The design facilitates advanced cache stashing, fine-grain power management options into the core and low latency access to peripherals.
The processor is most appropriate from cloud to edge, offering significant improvements in terms of efficiency, performance, and architecture compared to its predecessors like A72 and A73 processors. There is a noticeable improvement in the integer performance, and considerable improvements in the memory workloads and floating point performance.
So, undoubtedly, the Cortex-A75 processor is one of the most potent Cortex-A processors in the present time. This extra compute potential, consolidated with enhancement for machine learning and several other advanced use cases would allow the applications to operate more smoothly. Furthermore, it would offer a new foundation for developing more complex workloads.
- The functioning of Cortex-A75 showcases a private L2 cache, executed as either 256KB or 512KB. This is accompanied by a shared L3 cache accessible while performing a DynamIQ multi-core cache coherent solution. It is found that the majority of the data in such caches would be exclusive.
- Unlike 20 cycles in the Cortex-A73, the A75 comes with just 11 cycles, so it is faster in operation than its predecessor.
- Taking a look at the clock speed, the Cortex-A75 works at 3 GHz on a 10 nm process node; the rate could be enhanced in future on optimized 7 nm designs.
- For enhancing the integer performance, the Cortex-A75 comprises of a basic ALU and an ALU/MAC.
To let your device operate smoothly and quickly, the Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A-75 are the recommended designs for next-gen mobile processors. They incorporate the latest core design and come with sufficient storage capacity to make sure the users do not face any lags or performance bottlenecks in executing demanding tasks.


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