Hagley, Tapply Win MascomaMan Triathlon
Enfield — Lebanon’s Greg Hagley and Tim Tapply, of Sherborn, Mass., crossed the finish line ahead of the field in their respective disciplines to win Saturday’s MascomaMan Triathlon.
Hagley, a member of the Lebanon-based Upper Valley Running Club, won the sprint triathlon — consisting of 500-yard swim in Mascoma Lake followed by a 16-mile bike segment and five-kilometer run — with an overall time of 1 hour, 6 minutes, 4.7 seconds, besting Concord’s Brian Lavoie by just less than a minute (1:06:57.0). White River Junction’s Ross McEntarfer claimed third in 1:07:22.4). Danielle Keaney, of Seabrook, N.H., claimed the women’s division, finishing 18th overall in 1:20:44.3.
The half-Ironman division — with its 1.2-mile swim followed by 56 miles of bicycling and a 13.1-mile run — went to Tapply in 4:08:23.5., with UVRC member Mike Barton, of White River Junction, following in 4:08:49.7. Boston’s Adam Kosmicki was third (4:08:59.9), and Sarah Kelly — a Mascoma High graduate who is the field hockey coach and wellness coordinator at Western New England College — won the women’s division in 4:42:10.8, good for seventh place overall.
Further results can be found in the chart on this page.
On the Run
Hanover — The Western New Hampshire Trail Running Series will return on Aug. 10 with the Stoaked Trail Run at the Storrs Hill Recreation Area.
The run, a part of the weekend’s Xterra Stoaked triathlon festivities, begins at 9 a.m. and will cover a 12.5-kilometer route around Storrs Pond’s cross country ski trail network. Online registration is available through Aug. 8 at a cost of $15, with race-day registration increasing to $20.
Stoaked triathlon events will complete a busy schedule at Storrs Pond. A trail run-mountain bike-trail run duathlon (2.5K/10K/4K) starts on Aug. 10 at 1 p.m., with a standard tri (half-mile swim, 10K bike, 4K run) also starting at 1 p.m. A childrens’ race (50-yard swim, 3.3K bike, 1.6K run) follows at 4 p.m. The Xterra tri (1K swim, 20K bike, 8K run) is set for a 9 a.m. start on Aug. 11. More details on the triathlon weekend can be found at www.stoakedtri.com.
The remainder of the WNHTRS schedule:
∎ Farnum Five.5, Lebanon, Sept. 7.
∎ Lost a Lot Trail Race, Lebanon, Sept. 21.
The cost of each WNHTRS race is $15 in advance and $20 on race day. For more information on the series, visit www.wnhtrs.com or contact series director Chad Denning at 603-558-2352 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
On the Field
Lebanon — The Lebanon Parks and Recreation Department is accepting registrations for its fall youth sports programs.
The department will run programs for soccer, field hockey and flag football this season, with the following registration deadlines:
∎ Grades K-2 soccer: Aug. 23
∎ Grades 3-4 soccer: Aug. 21.
∎ Grades 5-6 soccer: Aug. 14.
∎ Grades 3-6 field hockey: Aug. 6.
∎ Grades 2-5 flag football: Aug. 20.
For details on practice schedules, locations and fees, visit recreation.lebnh.net or call 603-448-5121.
On the Trails
GMC Hikes on Tap
Thetford — The Ottauquechee section of the Green Mountain Club has a pair of hikes scheduled in the coming days.
Debbie Marcus will lead a 10-mile round-trip hike up New Hampshire’s Mount Garfield on Sunday. Hikers will ascend the 4,500-foot peak by way of the Garfield and Garfield Ridge trails on this strenuous hike. Contact Marcus at 802-457-9047 or email@example.com for more information.
Peter Hope will lead trip to Whiteface Mountain and Morse Mountain in Morristown, Vt., on Tuesday, a strenuous, 9.7-mile round trip via the Beaver Meadow, Whiteface, Long and Chilcoot trails. Contact Hope at 603-863-6456 for details.
In the Saddle
GHMA Eventing Clinic
South Woodstock — The Green Mountain Horse Association has scheduled its first festival of eventing clinic for Aug 5-8 at its home facility in South Woodstock as a run-up to the Aug. 9 one-day competition for elementary, beginner novice and novice riders and the Aug. 10-11 meet for novice through intermediate equestrians.
The clinic will offer riders and horses instruction, briefings, unmounted sessions and fun in such areas as dressage schooling, stadium exercises and cross country gallops. There will also be opportunities to experience fast-pace work on GMHA’s steeplechase course. Registration opens on June 25.
Contact GHMA’s Molly Hutchins at 802-457-1509, ext. 219 or firstname.lastname@example.org for more information.


The reason for this recall is some problem with the reflectors of these vehicles. Therefore, vehicles manufactured between November 2019 and January 2021 have been recalled.
If you have Honda vehicles, then this news can be of use to you because the Japanese automaker has recalled many vehicles. The company has recalled those vehicles which were manufactured between November 2019 and January 2021. The recall covers commuter models like Honda Activa 5G/6G, Hornet 2.0, CB Shine, X Blade. Apart from this, the company has also recalled the models CB300R, H’ness CB350 sold by its Big Wing dealership.
The reason for this recall is some problem with the reflectors of these vehicles. Therefore, vehicles manufactured between November 2019 and January 2021 have been recalled. Apart from this, vehicles in which reflectors have been changed during this period have also been recalled. The company said that this is a minor problem and it will not cause any major problems. The main reason for this is the wrong positioning of the reflector, due to which some change in the reflection of light can be seen.
How to check your vehicle’s fault
If you have purchased your vehicles between November 2019 and January 2021, then your scooter or bike can be recalled. You can visit the websites of Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India and Honda Big Wing to check the same. Here you have to enter the 17 digit Unique Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) frame number of your vehicle and then you will get the information whether your vehicle is affected or not.
Vehicle owners are being contacted through SMS, call and email
If your vehicle is part of the recall, you can select an authorized dealership/service center near you. After this you will get an appointment from the dealership. Apart from this, the company has asked the dealerships to contact the vehicle owners through SMS, call or email so that the affected vehicles can be checked in time. Apart from the website, you can also get information about your vehicle by visiting your nearest dealership.
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The recent quality improvements [bojar2017findings, bojar2018findings] of neural machine translation (NMT) [sutskever2014sequence, bahdanau2014neural] opened the way to commercial applications that can provide high-quality translations. The assumption is that the sentences to translate will be similar to the training data, usually characterized by properly-formed text in the two translation languages. Poor-quality sentences are usually considered “noise” and removed from the training set to improve the final quality [junczys2018microsoft]. This practice is so common that a shared task has been devoted to it [koehn2018findings], which got attention from major industrial players in MT. Thus, the major weakness of NMT lies in coping with noisy input, which is an important feature of a real-world application such as speech translation.
The degradation of translation quality with noisy input has been widely reported in literature. Belinkov and Bisk [belinkov2017synthetic] showed that the translation quality rapidly drops with both natural and synthetic noise. Karpukhin et al. [ruiz2017assessing] have observed a correlation between recognition and translation quality in the context of speech translation. In both cases the degradation is mainly due to word errors, and following works have shown that inserting synthetic noise in the training data increases the robustness to the same kind of noise [karpukhin2019training, sperber2017toward].
|Most of the time, travellers worry about their luggage.|
|Most of the time travellers worry about their luggage.|
In practice, ASR transcripts are not only noisy in the choice of words, but also come without punctuation.111ASR services generally include punctuation as an option. Thus, in order to feed MT systems with ASR output there are two main options: i) use a separate model that inserts punctuation (pre-processing) [peitz2011modeling]; or ii) train the MT system on non-punctuated source data to resemble the test condition (implicit learning). The first option is exposed to error propagation, as punctuation inserted in the wrong position can alter completely the meaning of a sentence (see example in Table 1. The second option has shown to increase systems robustness [sperber2017toward] when the input is provided without punctuation. The two approaches have shown to be equivalent in handling text lacking punctuation [vandeghinstecomparison]
, probably because they both rely only on plain monolingual text to recover the missing punctuation.
We consider here application scenarios (e.g. subtitling) where the same NMT system has to operate under both clean and noisy input conditions, namely post-edited or raw ASR outputs. We start from the hypothesis that word and punctuation errors compound and should be addressed separately for an increased robustness to errors. To verify our hypothesis we use a strong NMT model and fine-tune it on a recently released speech corpus222Available at https://ict.fbk.eu/must-c/ [mustc19] of TED Talks.
Our findings are the following: implicit learning of punctuation helps to recover part of the errors in the source side, but training on ASR output is more beneficial. Training on clean and noisy data together leads to a system that can translate both clean and noisy data without supervision on the type of sentence and without degradation.
|Gen||32.3 (30.7)||24.5 (24.0)||20.6 (22.4)|
|Ada||34.9 (32.9)||25.9 (25.6)||21.8 (24.6)|
2 Robust NMT
In this paper we are interested in building a single system to translate speech transcripts that can be either raw ASR outputs, or human post-editing of them. We define our problem in terms of domain adaptation, and use the method known as fine-tuning or continued training [luong2015stanford, farajian2016fbk, chu2017empirical]. A parent model is trained on large data from several domains and used to initialize [thompson2018freezing] models for spoken language translation (TED talks) on two input conditions: clean, and noisy. The clean domain is characterized by correct transcriptions of talks with proper punctuation, while the noisy domain can contain machine-generated errors in words and punctuation. In-domain data can be given with or without punctuation (allowing implicit learning). In a multi-domain setting, i.e. translating both clean and noisy data with a single system, models can suffer from catastrophic forgetting [kirkpatrick2017overcoming] by degrading performance on less-recently observed domains. In this work we avoid catastrophic forgetting by fine-tuning the model on both domains simultaneously.
3 Experimental Setting
We use as a parent model for fine-tuning a Transformer Big model [vaswani2017attention] trained on public and proprietary data using label smoothed cross entropy [szegedy2016rethinking], for about 16 million English-Italian sentence pairs. The model has layer size of , hidden size of on feed forward layers, 16 heads in the multi-head attention, and layers in both encoder and decoder. This model is then fine-tuned on the EnIt portion of TED Talks in MuST-C. We keep the same training/validation/test set split as provided with the corpus (see Table 2). In all the experiments, we use Adam [kingma2014adam] with a fixed learning rate of , dropout of , label smoothing with a smoothing factor of . Training is performed on Nvidia V100 GPUs, with batches of tokens per GPU. Gradients are accumulated for batches in each GPU [ott2018scaling]. All texts are tokenized and true-cased with scripts from the Moses toolkit [koehn2007moses], and then words are segmented with BPE [sennrich2015neural] with 32K joint merge rules.
While our main goal is to verify our hypotheses on a large data condition, thus the need to include proprietary data, for the sake of reproducibility we also provide results with systems only trained on TED Talks (small data condition).
We transcribed automatically the entire TED Talks corpus with with a general purpose ASR service. 333Amazon Transcribe: https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe The resulting word error rates on the test set is 11.0%. The used ASR service provides transcribed text with predicted punctuation. In the experiments which assume noisy input without punctuation, we simply remove the predicted punctuation.
All the results are evaluated in terms of BLEU score [papineni2002bleu] using the multeval tool [clark2011better].
|Clean + Clean-np||34.9||26.9|
|Noisy + Clean||35.1||28.1|
|Noisy + Noisy-np||34.0||28.2|
|Noisy-np + Clean||35.0||28.2|
|Noisy-np + Clean-np||34.5||27.9|
|Noisy[-np] + Clean[-np]||34.9||27.7|
4 Experiments and Results
At first, we evaluate the degradation due to ASR noise for systems trained on clean data. In Table 3 we show the BLEU scores of our baseline system, respectively, trained on large out-of-domain data (Base) and fine-tuned on clean TED Talks data (In-domain), with three types of input: manual transcripts (Clean), ASR transcripts with predicted punctuation (Noisy), and ASR transcripts with no punctuation (Noisy-np). As these models will hardly generate punctuation when it does not appear in the source text, we also report (in parentheses) BLEU scores computed w/o punctuation in both hypothesis and reference.
Our results show that in-domain fine-tuning is beneficial in all scenarios, but more with clean input (+2.6 points) than with noisy input (+1.4 points). Translating noisy input results in a 26% relative drop in BLEU, which is apparently not due to punctuation errors (drop when evaluating w/o punctuation is 22%). Providing noisy input with no punctuation works even worse, probably due to the larger mismatch with the training/tuning conditions.
|Clean + Clean-np||29.7||27.9||22.9||22.9|
|Noisy-np + Clean||30.1||27.9||24.0||24.2|
|Clean||when I ’m not fighting poverty , I ’m fighting fires as the assistant captain of a volunteer fire company .|
|Noisy||when I ’m not fighting poverty . I ’m fighting fires . is the assistant captain with volunteer fire company .|
|Base NMT||Quando non combatto la povertà . Combatto gli incendi . È l’assistente capitano di una compagnia di pompieri volontaria .|
|Robust NMT||Quando non combatto la povertà , combatto gli incendi come assistente capitano di una compagnia di pompieri volontaria .|
|Clean||that means we all share a common ancestor , an evolutionary grandmother , who lived around six million years ago.|
|Noisy||that means we all share a common ancestor - on evolutionary grandmother - who lived around six million years ago.|
|Base NMT||Ciò significa che tutti condividiamo un antenato comune - sulla nonna evolutiva che ha vissuto circa sei milioni di anni fa.|
|Robust NMT||Ciò significa che tutti condividiamo un antenato comune e una nonna evolutiva che è vissuta circa sei milioni di anni fa.|
|Clean||and we in the West couldn’t understand how anybody would do this , how much this would restrict freedom of speech.|
|Noisy||— we in the West . I couldn ’t understand how anybody would do — - how much this would restrict freedom of speech.|
|Base NMT||— Noi occidentali . Non riuscivo a capire come chiunque avrebbe fatto — - quanto questo avrebbe limitato la libertà di parola.|
|Robust NMT||— In Occidente non riuscivo a capire come chiunque avrebbe fatto — , quanto questo avrebbe limitato la libertà di parola.|
Next, we evaluate systems fine-tuned on data similar to the Noisy test condition. Table 4 lists the results of all fine-tuning experiments, when test input is either clean with punctuation or noisy with punctuation as in training. The first part of Table 4 shows that fine-tuning the Gen model with clean data and no punctuation (Clean-np) improves over the Ada model (Clean) when testing on Noisy-np (+0.7) but degrades when testing on Clean (-0.7). Fine-tuning the same model on Clean data with both punctuation condition (Clean + Clean-np) improvement by 1 point on Noisy input without any loss on Clean input. This result shows that is possible to make a model robust to noisy text, while preserving high quality on proper text.
The second part of Table 4 lists results of fine-tuning on noisy data, with and/or without punctuation. In all cases, BLEU scores on the noisy input improve from 1 to 2 point over the best systems tuned on Clean data only, reaching values above 28. However, scores on clean input degrade by 0.7 and 0.9 points (i.e. 34.2 and 34.0). If we adapt on both clean and noisy data, the score on the two input conditions reach a better balance. In particular, training on both Noisy-np and Clean data scores on the two input conditions 35.0 and 28.2, which results in the best overall working point on both conditions (together with Noisy+Clean). It is worth pointing out that this configuration obtains 33.2 points (not in the table) with the best possible noisy input, i.e. no errors and no punctuation, which is still 1.7 points below the score on Clean input.
Finally, if we expose the system to all types of data (Noisy-np +Noisy+ Clean + Clean-np) we do not see any improvement over our top results, which means that Clean-np data do not provide additional information to Noisy-np.
For the sake of replicability, we also trained our systems from scratch on the TED Talks data only. The results, listed in Table 5, show the same trend as the results discussed so far. We did not evaluate *-np systems on input with punctuation as all the punctuation would represent out of vocabulary words. The main difference resides in the result on Clean input with the Noisy system ( points), which is much worse than the result with the Noisy-np+Clean system ( points), i.e. more than 4 points. This result suggests how training on noisy data can affect the model negatively if it is not balanced with clean data.
|ASR w ties||ASR w/o ties|
|ASR-np + Clean||21.7||67.2|
5 Manual Evaluation
We carried out a manual evaluation444We used crowd-sourcing via figure-eight.com. to assess the quality of Noisy-np + Clean against Clean, the reference baseline, under the Noisy input condition. We ran a head-to-head evaluation on the first 10 sentences of each test talk, for a total of 260 sentences, by asking annotators to blindly rank the two system outputs (ties were also permitted). We collected three judgments for each output, from 11 annotators, for a total of 780 scores. Inter-annotator agreement measured with Fleiss’ kappa was 0.39.
Results reported in Table 7 confirm with high confidence the differences observed with BLEU: output of system Noisy-np+Clean is preferred 10% time more often than output of system Clean, while almost 68% of the time the two outputs are considered comparable.
From some manual inspection, we found that translations by the robust system that are unanimously ranked best show that error recovery most likely occurs on punctuation and non-content words like articles, prepositions and conjunctions (see Tables 6). In general, errors on content words that affect the meaning are not recovered.
6 Related works
A recent study [chen2017mitigating] proposed to tackle ASR errors as a domain adaptation problem in the context of dialog systems. Domain adaptation for NMT has been widely studied in recent years [chu2018survey]. In [khayrallah-etal-2018-regularized], fine-tuning was used to adapt NMT to multiple domains simultaneously, while in [britz2017effective] adversarial adaptation is proposed for avoiding degradation in the original domain. Training on multiple domains simultaneously to prevent catastrophic forgetting is inspired by [stojanov2019incremental]. They proposed an incremental learning scheme that trains the network with the data from previous tasks when a new task is learned, which we adapt to our multi-domain scenario.
Punctuation insertion based on monolingual text has attracted research works for a long time [huang2002maximum, matusov2006automatic, lu2010better, ueffing2013improved] and obtained recent improvements with deep networks [cho2012segmentation, cho2015punctuation, tilk2015lstm, tilk2016bidirectional, salloum2017deep]. However, this approach, which is meant to make the output of ASR more readable for humans, cannot solve ambiguity due to missing punctuation.
A more recent research line aims at using pauses and audio features to better predict punctuation [christensen2001punctuation, klejch2017sequence, zelasko2018punctuation, nanchen2019empirical, yi2019self] although it has been shown that the use of pauses is highly dependent on the speaker [igras2016structure]. In [peitz2011modeling], it is shown that implicit learning of punctuation in MT systems is at least as good as inserting punctuation either in the input or output text, but they only studied the effect on correct input that has been deprived of punctuation, not on noisy input. On the other side, [sperber2017toward] studied how to improve the robustness to misrecognized words, but did not study the effect of MT systems that are only robust to punctuation errors. We close the gap by studying the combined effect of misrecognized errors and missing punctuation, besides studying the robustness to noisy data affects the translation quality on clean input.
We have studied the robustness to input errors of NMT systems for speech translation with a fine-tuning approach. We have observed that a system trained to learn implicitly the target punctuation can recover part of the quality degradation due to ASR errors up to 1 BLEU point. Fine-tuning on noisy input can instead improve by more than 2 BLEU points. A system tuned on ASR errors does not obtain a further improvement by more data for implicit punctuation learning. Finally, when fine-tuning on clean and noisy data, the system becomes robust to noisy input and keeps high performance on clean input.


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Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan visited Naypyitaw, the capital of Myanmar, on Friday (Sept 15) and met Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
They discussed the situation in Rakhine state and how Asean could support Myanmar in providing humanitarian assistance to all affected communities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press statement on Saturday (Sept 16).
Dr Balakrishnan is on a two-day working visit to Myanmar.
The unfolding violence in western Myanmar's Rakhine state "is a complex inter-communal issue with deep historical roots", the Singapore Government had said on Sept 8, as it called on all parties involved to avoid any action that would worsen the situation on the ground.
Nearly 400,000 Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar have crossed into Bangladesh since Aug 25, fleeing a Myanmar government offensive against insurgents that the United Nations has branded a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
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NFTs have taken the digital world by storm, with many collectors and creators joining the NFT industry. The high popularity of NFTs has led to the sprout of a great NFT community that is active on forums, blogs, and social media platforms. This can be attributed to the fact that NFTs have provided a new way of defining the ownership of digital assets. NFTs are also a great way of making money today. With NFTs, artists and consumers can transact directly without the need to involve an intermediary.
Keeping up with the latest NFT news can be a challenge, especially considering the high number of NFTs that are created daily. A lot of events also happen daily in the NFT world. The good news is that there are many blogs and websites to keep you updated on the latest NFT news.
In this article, we will discuss the best NFT news sites found on the internet.
Best NFT News Sites
NFT fans should follow NFT news sites to keep them ahead in the dynamic NFT market. The NFT news sites can help them to discover the latest NFT games news, crypto art drops, price updates, and more. This can make it easy for NFT users to navigate the NFT market with ease and confidence.
However, it is not about finding any NFT news site, but a site that you can trust. The following are some of the best NFT sites for NFT news:
NFTCrypto is a website that gives safe and profitable trading signals for in-demand NFTs. They require you to subscribe to their trading signal service and join a community of successful traders. You will then start receiving buy and sell signals through Telegram. You can then execute your trades based on those signals and grow your cryptocurrency earnings.
NFTCrypto has a blog section where you can get the latest NFT news. They also guide you on how to invest in NFTs and earn profit to attain your financial freedom.
#2: NFT Plazas
NFT Plazas is an NFT news site launched in 2018 and it provides up-to-the-minute news about NFTs and Web3. To those new to NFTs, NFT Plazas has comprehensive guides to equip you with adequate knowledge about how NFT marketplaces work and all you need to know about NFTs and the metaverse.
After visiting its website, you will realize that it has news categories for different types of NFTs including NFT games news.
#3: NFT Evening
NFT Evening is one of the best NFT news sites. It covers everything about NFTs, including blockchain gaming, crypto art, music, and NFT collections. Its news is also accurate, hence, it can be trusted. It is a good NFT news site to help you discover upcoming NFT drops. You can get quick and digestible Web3 news from the platform.
If you are an NFT creator, you can add your event to its calendar. NFT Evening also has fantastic guides on how to create, collect, and invest in NFTs. The guides are suitable for beginners to NFTs.
OpenSea is the largest NFT marketplace today. After visiting this marketplace, you will find several NFTs belonging to different categories listed for sale. OpenSea also allows you to mint your own NFTs from scratch, provided you have the digital file to be turned into an NFT. You can then list the NFT for sale.
OpenSea also has a blog section that lets you learn more about NFTs. You can learn how to invest in NFTs. The blog also discusses the blockchain in depth.
#5: NFT NOW
NFT Now is a great NFT news site where you can find new cryptocurrency artists. It also releases daily NFT news that covers a wide variety of topics that are rare on other NFT websites as well as topical opinion pieces.
Some of the recent topics are about the mental health issues in the NFT community and why there is no justification for anger about NFTs and their impact on the environment. You can also check their podcast for high-profile interviews with well-known individuals in the NFT community such as Steve Aoki and Reese Witherspoon. It also features interviews with CEOs from popular NFT marketplaces such as SuperRare and OpenSea itself.
Reddit is also a great source of NFT news. On Reddit, users from different geographical areas but with common interests hold discussions in forums known as subreddits. Here, you will find NFT fans discussing NFT topics and the latest NFT news. The NFT news Reddit also provides you with a great platform where you can ask questions about NFTs and get answers from different NFT enthusiasts. It also gives you a platform to air your opinions as far as NFTs are concerned. This is possible by answering questions asked by other NFT users on the platform.


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After difficult negotiations, a European emergency fund was put together to support countries most affected by the containment efforts due to the outbreak of the corona crisis. Prime Minister Mark Rutte was praised in the national press for being so steadfast on insisting stricter rules for money to be handed out: countries using the fund have to implement economic reforms. Besides, an ’emergency brake’ procedure has been included in the treaty: if reforms are inadequate, payments from the fund will stop.
Critics however, label the emergency package as a step towards a transfer union, a mechanism that will permanently channel money from the rich countries in the north to the poorer ones in the south. Moreover, critics think the emergency brake is a sham because this procedure can easily be circumvented. The emergence of a European transfer union will not stop with the funds of this emergency package, simply because new institutions will have to be set up to oversee the distribution of emergency funds, and thus will become part of the European bureaucracy.
Although the emergency package is only a first step towards a permanent transfer union, there is more than meets the eye. The package may also cause geopolitical relations in the world to shift. It can give substance to European geopolitical ambitions. To clarify this, we have to pay attention to the changing financial and political role of the United States in the world.
Undisputed leadership US
The U.S. has been the undisputed leader of the Western world since the Second World War. Globalization and the rise of emerging markets since the 1980’s have naturally reduced the relative size of the US economy. However, its leading role remained undisputed. As a result, global financial markets have been centered around the U.S. dollar and the U.S. government bond.
In an earlier article I wrote that government bonds have gained an increasingly important role in the global banking and financial system in recent years. They are used as collateral in financial transactions and credit creation. The construction resembles a pawn shop: you bring valuables and get cash in return. At a later stage, you return the cash and your assets are returned. The assets in greatest demand are the most secure and liquid government bonds: US Treasuries.
Due to the central role of government bonds, financial markets expanded on an unprecedented scale. The global credit economy financed globalization. The amount of debt owed by governments, companies and private individuals has risen sharply in recent decades due to the ease with which loans can be taken out – even after the 2008 debt crisis and the current corona crisis. Apart from this build-up of debt, there are two important consequences.
Firstly, the financial system is becoming inherently unstable. The monetary and financial system appears to be more of a ‘work in progress’ than one of insight and control. In a remarkably frank lecture at the time, ECB Vice-President Vítor Constâncio stated that the international monetary and financial system is prone to crises that cannot be prevented and can only be stabilized afterwards. Governments are then forced to prop up things with taxpayers’ money. To put it mildly, this is not a satisfactory observation.
Secondly, the fate of governments and financial markets is being intertwined. The value of government bonds must remain stable at all times. Price volatility or a sudden drop in the value of government bonds can cause great panic on financial markets, because they can no longer be used as pristine collateral. Central banks of course are trying to stabilize government bonds through their quantitative easing programs. This is the financial side of government bonds.
US leadership not self-evident
However, the political side of government bond markets – the trust one has in the political leadership of a country – cannot be influenced by central banks. And this is exactly where things get problematic. Financially as well as politically, the undisputed leadership of the US is no longer self-evident.
Since the financial crisis of 2008, dissatisfaction with the financial leadership of the US has increased. I already wrote about China’s criticism of the international role of the dollar. They see it as the direct cause of the financial crisis. Moreover, the Americans are increasingly using the dollar as a geopolitical weapon. They are for example trying to bring Iran to its knees by limiting its access to the dollar system.
This subject came into the public domain during a public session in the American Congress on the libra, the digital currency of Facebook. One congressman stated that the international role of the dollar enables the US government to get other countries in line without using military power. Threats to the dollar make the U.S. very nervous, the congressman said. Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to severely curtail Facebook’s digital monetary ambitions. Dissatisfaction with the international role of the dollar is now a widely shared sentiment. It is an important driving force behind countries’ attempts to evade its role.
This movement away from the US dollar as reserve currency gained political momentum with the presidential elections won by Donald Trump in 2016. With his nationalist and isolationist agenda, Trump did everything he could to alienate his European allies. His stance has also spoiled domestic political relations. Every statement or decision made by Trump is disputed both in mainstream media and by the Democrats.
In the meantime, there has been a political riot over postal voting during the upcoming presidential elections. Because of Corona, Americans are encouraged to vote by mail. However, Trump is not happy with this and points to the vulnerability to fraud and logistical problems at the postal services. The elections could end in stalemate if the result is not recognized by one of either parties. The already present social unrest could then turn into riots and possibly even a civil war between supporters of Democrats and Trump Republicans.This can result in so-called fiscal instability: questioning the legitimacy of the government and its abilityof collecting taxes. It is the biggest nightmare for central banks and financial markets. It can discredit US government bonds as being inherintly safe. This poses a major threat to the stability of the global financial system, because US government bonds still play a central and dominant role in it.
The geopolitics of the European emergency fund
And now back to the European emergency fund. By zooming in on political negotiations among European leaders, a crucial geopolitical element can easily be overlooked. Of course, it’s also about transfers of funds to weaker member states. More importantly however, it is a monetary and financial framework that is being set up to achieve a European political union with global power.
With the introduction of the emergency fund, politics and financial markets are closely working together. This is the first time that the European Commission (EC) will enter the capital market on a large scale on behalf of the member states. With the sum of €750 billion to be raised, the EC immediately becomes the fourth largest player in the European capital market. The loans will be guaranteed by all member states, which means that they are in fact Eurobonds.
Eurobonds are an alternative to US government bonds on the financial markets. This also explains why the ECB and the EC are so strongly in favor of them. Although the fund has not yet been set up, financial markets have reacted positively. Since then, the euro has risen sharply against the dollar. Former ECB President Mario Draghi even went a step further in his first speech as former central banker by advocating a European Finance Minister. Self-confidence is visibly increasing.
The combination of global dissatisfaction with the role of the dollar, looming American political instability and the introduction of Eurobonds could lead to a shift in global geopolitical relations. It could give wings to European ambitions.


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Ohio State defensive end Joey Bosa is saying he's sorry after getting ejected for targeting Notre Dame's quarterback in the 1st quarter of the Fiesta Bowl.
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The latest consumer price index report from the U.S. Department of Labor shows that inflation is still at a record high and continuing to climb. Inflation rose 8.5% in March over the last 12 months, the department announced on Tuesday. This is up from the 7.9% annual rate in February and the largest 12-month increase since the period ending December 1981.
Spurred by rising food and energy prices, constraints in the supply chain, and increased consumer demand, inflation has now been more than 6% — well over the Federal Reserve’s 2% target — for six consecutive months.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drove up oil and gasoline prices 11% in March from the prior month, while the cost of groceries rose 1.5% in March from a month earlier.
Richard F. Moody, chief economist at Regions Financial Corp., told the Wall Street Journal that rising prices could lead to a pullback in consumer spending.
“There’s an element of sticker shock when people go to fill up their tank or go to the grocery store,” said Moody. “Lower- and middle-income households are already having to make choices about what to buy because they’re having to pay so much more for food and energy.”
The core price index, which excludes food and energy, increased 6.5% in March from a year earlier. This marks an increase from February’s rise of 6.4% and the steepest 12-month climb since August 1982. The overall consumer price index accelerated at a seasonally adjusted 1.2% last month, from 0.8% in February, the fastest monthly increase since 2005.
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PROVO, Utah (ABC4) — Provo Police are asking the public for help finding a suspect in the hit-and-run incident that killed Isabella “Izzy” Parr on Dec. 1, 2022.
The Provo Police released an announcement on social media asking for the public’s help investigating the hit-and-run that killed a jogger on 850 W and 800 N. in Provo last winter.
Isabella Parr, 21, was jogging outside around 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 1 when she was hit by a vehicle and killed. The vehicle did not stop and fled the scene.
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Munich's Automatica trade fair showcases people-friendly robots.
Europe's top court has ruled that airlines are within their rights to charge passengers for checked luggage. The decision overturns a Spanish ban that runs contrary to European Union law.
The maker of Aspirin has said it wants to hive off its Material Science division in a stock market flotation. The unit has bounced back sharply after major restructuring.
South Korean carmaker Hyundai's Thursday purchase of land in the capital Seoul's swank Gangnam district has angered shareholders. They say the money should be used for dividends and investment.
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The military learned about the bodies via a tipster. But soldiers couldn’t actually get them for 12 hours because the approach had been booby-trapped with bombs. “They were intentionally targeting the recovery force,” said one commander.
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The LAT also mentions the following from the town where the GIs were captured: “An Iraqi army officer stationed in Yousifiya said that U.S. forces withdrew from the area on Tuesday and as they departed, set fire to warehouses near the electricity plant where the bodies were discovered. Yousifiya residents extinguished the fires after the Americans left, the officer said.”
About a dozen civilians were killed in Baghdad by what the Post says were “four explosions detonated within an hour” of one another.
The WP also mentions the military saying it killed 15 “terrorists” in Baquba, while”witnesses, family members of the dead and a Sunni Muslim member of the Iraqi parliament” said they weren’t insurgents, didn’t have weapons, and two kids were among the dead. A U.S. spokesman said there were no civilian causalities in what was a “an extremely long firefight.”
Finally, from the once relatively peaceful southern city of Basra, a suicide bomber attacked an old-age home, killing five.
The LAT, NYT, and WP all front House Republican leaders putting off negotiations to reconcile the House’s strict immigration bill with the Senate’s more lenient one. That will probably push any overhaul to immigration law until after the November elections, which the papers suggest is a bummer for Bush. (On the other hand: Doesn’t it also put off the prospect of a big, unseemly Republican-on-Republican showdown?)
Instead there will be smaller ones: In lieu of working on an agreement, the House GOP leaders will hold hearings around the country, where they will “listen” and, as the NYT puts it, “try to expose what they saw as failings in the Senate bill.” That’s the bill the president supports.
The NYT fronts Senate Democratic leaders being less than thrilled with Sen. Kerry’s call to withdraw (or as the resolution charmingly puts it, “redeploy“) from Iraq within a year. The Democrats are trying to push their rank-and-file to unite behind a plan that calls for some troops to leave this year but doesn’t set a date for withdrawal. Democratic leaders scheduled debate for Kerry’s proposal for “the evening, too late for the nightly television news.”
An LAT piece looks at the limited options the U.S. faces if North Korea does go ahead with a missile test. South Korea has already suggested it’s not interested in helping further isolate its northerly neighbor. In fact the latest “signal” South Korea is sending Pyongyang: broadcasts of the World Cup.
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As one Saudi official recently told Reuters, it would be “a happy day” for the Middle East if the nuclear deal stopped Iran gaining a nuclear arsenal. After all, no one in the region and the world will reject the deal if it succeeds in “freezing” Iran’s military nuclear program. This indeed seemed to be the case based on the details of the deal announced on Tuesday after Tehran agreed to the majority of the conditions it had previously opposed, intransigence which lead to the years-long imposition of sanctions on its economy and a freeze on its assets. The deal has increased the so-called “breakout time”—time it would take Iran to enrich enough uranium to build a nuclear weapon—to at least one year from two to three months. Although it has not thwarted Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the deal would keep Tehran under international supervision to make sure it is incapable of manufacturing nuclear weapons.
The question remains, however, whether it is a good or a bad deal. In my opinion, it is a wonderful deal for the administration of US President Barack Obama, who has long fought to conclude his second term in office with a final deal with Iran. Obama even threatened the US Congress on Tuesday to veto its rejection if it decided to disapprove the deal. It is also a good deal for the Western powers who do not wish to see the Middle East’s major powers involved in a nuclear arms race that would plunge the region into further turmoil. As for Iran, it has returned to square one: Tehran has neither achieved its goal of building its own nuclear program nor benefited from its oil boom to ease the sanctions that slowed down its economic growth. In other words, Iran has suffered the most from this deal. Iran’s propaganda machine has fabricated terms not even included in the deal, promoting it as a triumph of Iran’s foreign policy. Iran’s “fifth column” in the Gulf states would probably receive the news of the deal in the same way, cheering and welcoming the so-called Iranian “triumph.”
If the deal has limited the nuclear capabilities of Iran and forced it to bow down, at least temporarily until it catches its breath, the real concern is what it will produce and whether the Iranian regime will use it as a political card. No wise person would believe that Iran will give up its policy of destabilizing the region. Similar fears have even been voiced by senior US officials, including David Patreus, the former director of the CIA, who said that the most dangerous threat facing the region comes from the Iran-backed militias rather than from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
If we show good faith in Obama’s pledges and assurances that Iran will not be given concessions at the expense of other countries in the region, Western governments will be under great pressure to make the deal succeed and therefore turn a blind eye to many of Iran’s destabilizing policies as well as Tehran’s blatant interference in the domestic affairs of its neighbors. Moreover, the West will also have to neglect Tehran’s support of extremist militias, such as Iraq’s Popular Mobilization forces, also known as the Hashid Sha’abi, that have gradually become almost part of Iraq’s military. Iran has established a policy based on the equation of fighting terrorism with terrorism amid deafening silence from the West.
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Samsung has officially taken the wraps off its much-rumored Galaxy Tab S, unveiling two powerful tablets with top-notch Super AMOLED displays.
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Mediterranean cultures are shown to haunt American and British culture and artistic productions. The relation between British and American literature and art on the one hand, and Mediterranean arts on the other goes beyond the mere inscription of British and American culture in a Mediterranean tradition. British and American culture and art come out as unearthing a wide variety of Mediterranean artistic forms, renewing and transforming them.
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CHRISTINE REYNIER Confronting Mediterranean and English Values in Clive Bell’s Civilisation and Art: Towards a Redefinition of Formalism When Roger Fry was asked by Chatto and Windus to write a book about modern art, he declined for want of time and asked Clive Bell to do it: the result was Art, a now famous essay in art criticism. What is less known is that the book was initially meant to be part of a trilogy entitled The New Renaissance, which ‘was to have given a picture of contempo- rary art, thought, and social organisation’ (Bell 1928, ‘Dedication to Vir- ginia Woolf’: V). Art was first published separately in 1914;102 in 1919, another chapter was extracted from the manuscript and published under the title ‘On British Freedom’;103 and finally, an essay on civilisation was extracted from it and published in 1928. While Art has been influential from the first and is still a reference in art criticism, Civilisation is rarely mentioned today, even if it attracted some critical attention when it came out,104 and a few years later, Leonard Woolf’s response in Barbarians at the Gate which denounced the political solution advocated by Bell. The focus here is not so much the political regime Bell praises at the end of Civilisation – which is certainly debatable – as the bulk of his es- say which bears on civilisation, its Mediterranean roots and values. And since Civilisation and Art were planned simultaneously and meant to be part of the same volume,...
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We were taken by surprise as Unique Salonga dropped his debut release as a solo artist, following his departure from the neo-soul/funk band IV OF SPADES. Past all the speculation surrounding the hushed up proceedings of the former frontman’s split from the ex-quartet, we’re given a clear explanation as to why Unique went his own way with this 12-track record.
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It seems that our aloof, mysterious frontman needed the split to exercise his inner groove through another outlet. Soul runs deep in UNIQUE’s touch as an artist, but while his former band brought it to frenetic energy and thumping beats, UNIQUE roams a more controlled musical space. The difference was clear as day in the contrast between his Midnight Sky, and their In My Prison. Although the quiet ballad signalled that a calm, restrained record would follow, we were actually given an album with range, from borderline new-wave sounds on sparse beats to ethereal, stripped down arrangements. Though the influences and styles come from a similar place, the paths the songs take onwards diverge further from each other.
“Grandma” as a title seems quite apt; the imagery conjures up an old soul recounting stories and giving advice.
“Grandma” as a title seems quite apt; the imagery conjures up an old soul recounting stories and giving advice. OZONE (Itulak Ang Pinto), tells the story of the 1996 disco tragedy with a groovy bassline and infectious guitar riffs. The track hides its spooky core in the same way the Eraserheads’ Spoliarium did. He literally takes up the persona of a lola in the two-part combo of Paalala: and Goodnight Prayer. UNIQUE’s soothing echo-y vocals accompanied by an almost ghostly strings section comes forward as a direct address to “Grandma”’s diyos.
I must commend the production and overall sound of “Grandma”. Its quality is clean, clear, and consistent with the record’s musical language. Is it the most cohesive record? Maybe not. Sonically, there’s a dissonance between the first and second half: the energy clearly drops off, and we get detached thematically towards the end. It’s also noteworthy that the more memorable tracks were the ones with a deeper energy to it, such as Cha-Ching!, OZONE (Itulak Ang Pinto), and Sino.
Sonically, there’s a dissonance between the first and second half: the energy clearly drops off, and we get detached thematically towards the end.
This tight 43-minute record clearly takes influence from classic artists like Simon & Garfunkel and The Beatles, as well as the more contemporary Orange & Lemons. The deep, spacious Apoy Ng Kandila strikes as a somber mix between The Boxer and Blackbird, while the dainty piano-led I’ll Break Your Little Heart comes forward as something fresh out of a Paul McCartney solo record.
It’s this easy drawing of comparison to such artists that makes a chunk of “Grandma” almost forgettable. UNIQUE hasn’t brought much fresh, new material to the table. While IVOS made waves with their radio-friendly funk-pop, which hasn’t been that present in today’s local music scene, UNIQUE, in his strong effort to delineate himself from his old band, sounds like he got lost in trying to build his world and strike out on his own. Strangely though, Cha-Ching!, despite its catchy pa-pa-ra-pa-pas, opens almost like Mundo does. Though, where his originality and memorability in sound lacks, UNIQUE makes up for this with his cryptic lyricism which provides for the complex storytelling either as himself or the eponymous Grandma.
Nonetheless, this release proves to us what a blessing UNIQUE’s departure and rebirth as his own act is. The music we get from “Grandma” is only possible by his own accord, without other boundaries to limit UNIQUE and his mysterious aura.
Nonetheless, this release proves to us what a blessing UNIQUE’s departure and rebirth as his own act is. The music we get from “Grandma” is only possible by his own accord, without other boundaries to limit UNIQUE and his mysterious aura. We get a decent record which barely falls short of solid, almost in the same fashion as Harry Styles’ debut solo release. At least now, we’re painted a clear picture of who UNIQUE wishes to be. But as to what only he could become, we won’t know just yet.

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Remote Sensing of Explosives-Induced Stress in Plants: Hyperspectral Imaging Analysis for Remote Detection of Unexploded Threats
AbstractExplosives contaminate millions of hectares from various sources (partial detonations, improper storage, and release from production and transport) that can be life-threatening, e.g., landmines and unexploded ordnance. Exposure to and uptake of explosives can also negatively impact plant health, and these factors can be can be remotely sensed. Stress induction was remotely sensed via a whole-plant hyperspectral imaging system as two genotypes of Zea mays, a drought-susceptible hybrid and a drought-tolerant hybrid, and a forage Sorghum bicolor were grown in a greenhouse with one control group, one group maintained at 60% soil field capacity, and a third exposed to 250 mg kg−1 Royal Demolition Explosive (RDX). Green-Red Vegetation Index (GRVI), Photochemical Reflectance Index (PRI), Modified Red Edge Simple Ratio (MRESR), and Vogelmann Red Edge Index 1 (VREI1) were reduced due to presence of explosives. Principal component analyses of reflectance indices separated plants exposed to RDX from control and drought plants. Reflectance of Z. mays hybrids was increased from RDX in green and red wavelengths, while reduced in near-infrared wavelengths. Drought Z. mays reflectance was lower in green, red, and NIR regions. S. bicolor grown with RDX reflected more in green, red, and NIR wavelengths. The spectra and their derivatives will be beneficial for developing explosive-specific indices to accurately identify plants in contaminated soil. This study is the first to demonstrate potential to delineate subsurface explosives over large areas using remote sensing of vegetation with aerial-based hyperspectral systems. View Full-Text
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Manley, P.V.; Sagan, V.; Fritschi, F.B.; Burken, J.G. Remote Sensing of Explosives-Induced Stress in Plants: Hyperspectral Imaging Analysis for Remote Detection of Unexploded Threats. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 1827.
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Preparing for the arrival of a new baby is exciting and daunting for everyone involved. [...]
Spoiling grandchildrenCreated by Charlotte in Being a Granny-carer
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source url According to the survey, here are the top 10 ways grandparents spoil their grandchildren:
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- الخيارات الثنائية حساب كبار الشخصيات Let them stay up late
- الخيار الأفضل عصام ثنائي Let them off if they don’t want to eat all of their lunch or dinner
- الفوركس في اليابان Let them eat whatever they want
- http://www.livingwithdragons.com/?printers=%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%87%D9%85&a18=6d Let them eat their lunch/dinner in front of the TV
- http://dinoprojektet.se/?kapitanse=arbeta-hemifr%C3%A5n-f%C3%B6rs%C3%A4kring&c94=15 Let them do whatever they want
- كيف تحصل على المال مجانا عبر الإنترنت Don’t tell them off if they are naughty
- http://asandoc.com/?dwonsnow3=%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B3-1st-contact&7f1=09 Let them eat whenever they want
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It all sounded a bit too much like parents had started to demonise grandparents, so when Grannynet was offered the chance to mull the issue over with agony aunt Denise Robertson we jumped at the chance. As Grannynet is all about combining modern knowledge with traditional values, hopefully our grandmothers aren’t being caught out by the challenge that Artie and Diane, from Parental Guidance, were. Sometimes it’s very difficult when old fashioned grandparenting methods are combined with a 21st century parenting approach as the film shows.
We put our members questions to Denise, click below to listen to the interview (12mins long):
Parental Guidance is released on Blu-ray and DVD on 27th May from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment


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