If you are a frequent event attender like myself, you have probably gotten a handful of emails with the subject line “Schlesinger v. Ticketmaster Settlement.” This was a class-action lawsuit where someone actually took ticket monopoly Ticketmaster on and sued them for all their excessive and deceptive “processing” fees. For once, the good guys won … Continue reading "Even in Losing, Ticketmaster Sets the Terrible Rules"

Pearl's beheading opened the door to more violence against journalists. Those who abducted him should remain in prison.

The actress played the legendary Maria Callas at the Mark Taper Forum in L.A. before moving on to Broadway and winning her final Tony for the role.

A Malibu beach house designed by noted moderist architect Jerrold Lomax gets a makeover from Lomax's onetime protégé Zoltan E. Pali.

In our latest quarantine diary, Charles Finch contemplates Kierkegaard, watches "Love Is Blind," gets the Led out and develops a candle habit.

Sunday is when Tiger Woods made golf history, but Saturday is when he won the 2019 Masters and reestablished himself as golf's king.

The ticket retailer Ticketmaster is finalizing plans to issue refunds for up to 18,000 postponed events in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tiger Woods was originally scheduled to defend his Masters jacket in Augusta this weekend.

The Masters is all about the roars that sweep around Augusta National on the back nine on a Sunday but sometimes it is a different noise that carries through golf's most evocative landscape. The collective gasps of thousands of patrons; the soundtrack to calamity.

The Masters was scheduled to take place this weekend until it was called off due to the coronavirus outbreak - but would Tiger Woods have defended his title?

For 15 years, Lucas Oil Raceway's Wild Wednesday has offered residents around Indianapolis the opportunity to drive fast, drag race — legally.

Johnson County commissioners adopted in September a master plan for a county-wide trail system.

Have fun and learn new words with the BBC Wordmaster game.

Ireland captain Laura Delany says she gained valuable insights into the importance of mental preparation as Meg Lanning joins Isobel Joyce for a virtual batting session.

Working with unbounded and fast-moving data streams has historically been difficult. But with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, building stream processing applications is easy and fun. This practical guide explores the world of real-time data systems through the lens of these popular technologies and explains important stream processing concepts against a backdrop of interesting business problems.

The spools of wire below contain the only known live recording of the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie. A mathematician, Kevin Short, was part of a team that used signal processing techniques associated with chaotic music compression to recapture the live performance, which was often completely unintelligible. The modern techniques employed, instead of resulting in a cold, digital output, actually retained the original concert.s warmth and depth. As a result, Short and the team received a Grammy Award for their remarkable restoration of the recording. To begin the restoration the wire had to be manually pulled through a playback device and converted to a digital format. Since the pulling speed wasn.t constant there was distortion in the sound, frequently quite considerable. Algorithms corrected for the speed variations and reconfigured the sound waves to their original shape by using a background noise with a known frequency as a "clock." This clever correction also relied on sampling the sound selectively, and reconstructing and resampling the music between samples. Mathematics did more than help recreate a performance lost for almost 60 years: These methods are used to digitize treasured tapes of audiophiles everywhere. For More Information: "The Grammy in Mathematics," Julie J. Rehmeyer, Science News Online, February 9, 2008.

Musée d'Orsay -- Exhibitions.

Schools in Idaho are moving towards competency-based education in order to provide more personalized learning for all students. Read more from Tom's recent visit.

Recent advancements in diagnostic learning and development of gesture-based human machine interfaces have driven surface electromyography (sEMG) towards significant importance. Analysis of hand gestures requires an accurate assessment of sEMG signals. The proposed work presents a novel sequential master-slave architecture consisting of deep neural networks (DNNs) for classification of signs from the Indian sign language using signals recorded from multiple sEMG channels. The performance of the master-slave network is augmented by leveraging additional synthetic feature data generated by long short term memory networks. Performance of the proposed network is compared to that of a conventional DNN prior to and after the addition of synthetic data. Up to 14% improvement is observed in the conventional DNN and up to 9% improvement in master-slave network on addition of synthetic data with an average accuracy value of 93.5% asserting the suitability of the proposed approach.

Thieves pilfered "The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884" from the Singer Laren in the early hours of Monday morning

McMaster University is planning for fewer international students, more deferred acceptance offers and online teaching for the thousands who are attending as the start of a new school year looms in the near future and in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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It was 50 years ago this week that one of the greatest golfers ever to grace the greens set out on his quest to win his first US Masters championship.

We analyse how Latvia secured a point against Germany at UEFA EURO 2004.

It no longer looks like a syringe, so parents can stop being suspicious their kid is doing drugs.

UEFA has produced a free to download flier 'Master the Ball' in 11 languages explaining the benefits and laws of futsal with testimonies from the likes of Lionel Messi.

WhatsApp tricks 2020 for iPhone includes some advanced tips such as how to schedule WhatsApp messages, how to hide online status, and how to send WhatsApp message without adding a contact.

Agency: GSS Closing Date: 5/20/2020

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After the implementation of new regulations the odds of MBA candidates increased by more than 10% to get the US work visa.They are burdened with student debt heavily and will be in a position to settle it. They can expect an attractive return on investment…

Introduction

Contract management is one of the core activities of a modern day organization as majority of an organization’s operation being under contracts with customers, suppliers, service providers, vendors and consultants. It’s vital that contracts should be aligned with the business expectation and professionals should be well versed with the drafting techniques and expertise to foresee the associated risk and design the contracts in the best interest of their organization. The importance of understanding contractual agreements has considerably increased since most business processes are governed through contractual relationships.

Edvancedge Knowledge Ventures upcoming initiative “Commercial Contract Masterclass – Negotiation, Drafting and Dispute Management” aims towards essential updates in commercial and legal issues pertaining to commercial agreements and helps improve the negotiation and drafting skills of the professionals involved. This full day masterclass will help organizations to reduce exposure, avoid litigation and implement dispute management by being fully conversant with the knowledge, skills and strategies in ensuring that the contracts are well negotiated, drafted and managed. Participating professionals will get a chance to hear and interact with experts on: 

• How contracts have been drafted today and,what are the potential alternative drafting strategies and structures?
• How contracts are negotiated including techniques for negotiation on contract variations and claims.
• Effective risk control measures to minimize legal exposures and avoid disputes.
• Necessary skills required to effectively manage contractual pitfalls and implement dispute resolution mechanism.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Increase efficiency and effectiveness within organisational processes
• Possess knowledge on the latest best practices in contract strategy
• Build strong and effective contracts
• Improved supplier performance
• Improved understanding on legal issues which allow for more effective management of legal rights
• Possess confidence in discussing contract issues with lawyers and different parties
• Effective risk reduction and conflict resolution

Who Should Attend?

A must attend workshop for anyone who has to negotiate, manage, transact or resolve disputes with third parties, including but not limited to:

• Contract Administration & Management Professionals
• Legal Heads & General Counsels
• Legal Managers & Legal Executives
• Corporate Legal Advisors
• Deal Makers
• Company Secretaries
• Corporate Lawyers
• Arbitrators & Mediators
• Procurement & Purchasing Managers
• Relationship Managers

Experts

• Bhumesh Verma, Managing Partner - Corp Comm Legal
• Tejas Karia, Partner and Head of Arbitration - Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.
• KPS Kohli, Partner - Dhir & Dhir Associates

To read more in details, click here

A group of business stalwarts, top academics and senior bureaucrats will invest Rs 300 crore to build the Masters’ Union School of Business, a business school in Gurgaon, near Delhi. It’s a B-school where classes will be taken by CXOs; campus in Cyber City, Gurgaon

Master & Dynamic has partnered with Kevin Durant to celebrate a new Nike KD13 release with some really unique audio products... and they're giving them away!

The way you need blocks of different sizes and styles to build great Lego masterpieces, a complex WSP-based design requires stitching together routing regions with multiple patterns that follow different WSSPDef periods. Let's see how you can achieve this. (read more)

Transfer Master version 3.3 for iOS suffers from a denial of service vulnerability.

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Registration Now Open for Microchip’s 22nd Annual Worldwide MASTERs Conference

Registration Now Open for Microchip’s 23rd Annual Worldwide MASTERs Conference