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#1 – Is College for You Right Now? A basic step that is often underappreciated is making sure that the student is ready to complete college. This must be an open and thoughtful discussion because young people often feel pressure to get higher education even if they do not feel a strong desire or interest in going to college right now. An important fact to know is that college students who leave school with debt, but no college degree, are actually worse off financially than most high school graduates. College is a great step in almost any career, but only if you complete it, and even better, with a low level of debt.
#2 – Select Higher Education Institutions That Are Local, Physical, and Have A Large Student Body. Value colleges are usually large, public universities with a physical campus in major cities. The reason that these colleges deliver good value is that public schools have large student bodies which translates to many available major fields of study, a large alumni network for hiring and mentoring opportunities, and very reasonable tuition and fee requirements. In addition, value colleges are used to serving both traditional and non-traditional student bods so they likely have on-line and traditional classroom options.
#3 – Evaluate Schools Based on Educational Outcomes & Not on Marketing Material. It is very, very easy to get drawn into the glamorous marketing material that colleges produce. Scenic ivy covered campuses, the ease of on-line classes, and nationally recognized faculty members all make the brochures and websites irresistible. Military veteran students need to choose a college based on outcomes and not on advertising.
1. Undergraduate Enrollment – Higher is better, especially if there are more alumni in your related career fields.
2. Retention Rate of Undergraduate Students – This percentage indicates how many students continue their education at the college.
3. Graduation Rate of All Students – The percentage of students who graduate.
4. Average Salary All Students – Salary following graduation.
5. Student Loan Repayment Rate of All Students – The percentage of students who successfully pay back their college debts.
6. Average Student Loan Debt – The average amount of student loan debt upon graduation.
7. In State Tuition Levels – The average amount of in-state tuition.
8. Educational Complaint Count – The number of educational complaints against the school, which may be a signal of poor financial standing, lack of compliance for accreditation, or deceptive financial/recruiting practices.
Once you have the information for these eight criteria, you should be able to compare the results against other academic institutions. This information is only valuable when you compare like measures against other institutions. The goal is to get the best outcome in all possible variables.
# 4 – Apply to 5 to 6 Schools That Meet Your Criteria with a Focus on Educational Outcomes. A focus on higher education is the only way to cut through the school’s marketing and advertising information to determine what your expected financial outcome will be from your degree. The goal is to find the school that costs the lowest amount, graduates their students on time, gets them employed, and has graduates that leave school with a low amount of debt.
Net College Expense = (Tuition + Expenses + Living Expenses) – Non-Loan Educational Assistance (Calculated Over a 4 Year Period).
#6 – Stay the Course & Graduate on Time. College is hard, graduate school is hard, and so are other professional programs. When you make the choice to start your degree, make that commitment in blood so that no matter what happens, you will finish. Degree completion is the secret to post college success.
Planning for college is best done by looking at the educational outcomes that a school has delivered over time to their graduates. Marketing materials do not provide the discerning information one needs to choose an educational institution. Pick your college with a high graduation rate, high average post college income, a low tuition level, and a low level of student debt. Finally, once you have made the commitment to college, make the commitment to complete your degree as fast as possible.
APPENDIX: The Top 4 Schools for Military Veterans in Each State by Educational Outcome Criteria. Listed Alphabetically by State.


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The inaugural ICEF Africa Workshop will take place in Cape Town and is set to be the premier networking and student recruitment event in Africa. As such, it will bring student recruitment agents from around the world interested in South Africa as a study destination and will connect international educators and service providers with agents from all over Africa.
In the 2016 i-Graduate ICEF Agent Barometer, nearly half of the agents surveyed said that they viewed South Africa as an attractive or very attractive study destination. ELT student numbers increased by 19% in 2016, and student weeks by 20%. With the November 2016 resolution of a two-year discussion regarding student visa eligibility for ELT students, the sector is now poised for further growth. South Africa has also established itself as a key study destination within Africa. Its proximity and affordability — along with the quality and reputation of South African higher education — continue to be important factors in attracting foreign students.
Africa is a major area of growth for outbound students and countries such as Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Botswana and Ghana are emerging markets complementing Nigeria.
In addition to meeting with agents during the workshop, participants are welcome to attend market intelligence seminars and networking receptions.
The ICEF Africa Workshop is the most dynamic and productive way to foster relationships with current partners and new representatives in a range of emerging markets.

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With the fast pace urbanisation of Dubai, the local government recognized its need to conserve Dubai's original habitat and hence created the Dubai Desert Reserve. The Al Maha Resort and Spa is the only resort in the reserve.
Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa, the centre of Dubai's heritage and conservation efforts, lies nestled within a green and verdant oasis amongst some of Arabia's most impressive dune and desert landscapes. Resembling an ancient Bedouin encampment this secluded, internationally-awarded hideaway resort offers personal and seductive experiences of the region's history and hospitality, in absolute comfort.
Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa is a tribute to traditional life in the Arabian Desert.
Built in the style of an ancient Bedouin settlement, the neutral toned 'tents' shade individual suites of understated, modern luxury. Each private suite is furnished with original, unique and rare collections of regional artwork and antiques.
Exploring the desert landscape for the first time is to discover a world of timelessness and silence. Covering a wide spectrum of interests, guests can select up to two different complimentary activities every day as part of their stay, which are designed to provide the greatest first-hand experiences of this sensory landscape.
A gentle drive through the beautiful Al Maha landscape gives you the unique opportunity to get close and take photos of the free-roaming wildlife in the reserve. Feel the surge of adrenalin as you put your Arabian horse through its paces whilst taking in the infinite beauty of the desert landscape. With numerous species of flora and fauna indigenous to the Al Maha reserve, amateur biologists and botanists can test their powers of recognition in guided nature walks led by our field guides. For a thrilling adventure, a four-wheel drive Desert Safari can quickly transport you to some of the more isolated parts of the Al Maha reserve.
Embracing the culinary cultures of the East and West, dining at Al Maha is a truly international experience. Using the finest ingredients sourced from around the world, guests are offered dining experiences at the signature Al Diwaan restaurant, Dune dinning, Deck Dining or In-suite dining.

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Purchasing a boat is a big financial decision. Fantasy Yachts hold their value extremely well. They can possibly qualify as a second home. Some people have ordered boats with an office in place of one of the staterooms complete with internet service! Obviously, contact your tax advisor for details. Right now, great rates are available! Check out either one of these companies.
You have to have it! These folks have treated our customers right!
This magazine and boat show is geared more for houseboating on lakes, but there is also good information on coastal cruising.
If you spend any time around the water, you will want to spend some money here. This business is like going into a candy store! If you go in to one of these places, you will certainly find something you must have, even if you didn't know you had to have it.


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I was at the corner grocery store buying some potatoes.
pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes.
(the store owner) and the ragged boy next to me.
‘Would you like to take some home?’ asked Mr. Miller.
‘Is that right? Let me see it’, said Miller.
‘I can see that. Hmm mmm, only thing is this one is blue and I sort of go for red.
Do you have a red one like this at home?’ the store owner asked.
at that red marble’. Mr. Miller told the boy.
Several years went by, each more rapid than the previous one. Just recently I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho community and while I was there learned that Mr. Miller had died. They were having his visitation that evening and knowing my friends wanted to go and I agreed to accompany them.
Upon arrival at the mortuary we fell into line to meet the relatives of the deceased and to offer whatever words of comfort we could.
Each of the young men hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke briefly with her and moved on to the casket. Her misty light blue eyes followed them as, one by one; each young man stopped briefly and placed his own warm hand over the cold pale hand in the casket. Each left the mortuary awkwardly, wiping his eyes.
We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds.
IT IS NOT WHAT YOU GATHER, BUT WHAT YOU SCATTER THAT TELLS WHAT KIND OF LIFE YOU HAVE LIVED !!!!

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If 2019 is the year you have resolved to get into the franchise business, probably the hardest decision is picking the best franchise to own.
There are a lot of factors that go into making a franchise successful. Here are some things to consider.
Unfortunately, cost will always be a big factor. Ask how much can you afford to put into your new business venture and still pay your bills and have enough to live off of? As you consider different franchise opportunities, be sure to keep track of the franchise fee and royalty fee and total investment of each company.
Another big factor is the size of the company and growth potential. Do you want to join a large company that already has a strong franchise presence or a newer growing one with less market saturation? Always look at the number of open and operating units, their growth rate and number of closures.
The best franchises also offer their franchisees a strong support structure so find out how much training and operational support they provide you. Also, how much marketing assistance do they offer? What kind of financing do they offer?
Also consider if they have a lot of litigation cases against them. That might be a red flag you don’t want to overlook.
Other factors to research include the strength of their brand and how many years they have been in business. Do they have a strong social media presence? And finally how strong is their future financial outlook based on their current revenue? Ask franchisors to provide their audited financial statements.
Now that you know what to look for, here are the best franchises to own in 2019.
Japanese food continues to be a big hit in the food franchise world and the Hibachi Grill is a rising star. Although they currently have just two company-owned stores, they are looking to expand through franchise units. And it is a reasonable business venture with startup costs ranging between $311,000 and $365,000. They offer both classroom training and on-the-job support.
In our stressful, fast-paced society, massage and facial spa services have become really popular and one of top ones is the Hand and Stone Massage and Facial Spa. They currently have 379 franchises and are growing by leaps and bounds. Their startup costs range between $500,000 and $604,000. Franchising since 2006, Hand and Stone has created a strong support structure for their franchisees including a strong national brand and a franchisee intranet system.
Painting studios for kids and adults are also on the rise. Color Me Mine Enterprises is a paint-your-own ceramics studio that has been around since 1992 and has 129 franchisees and 9 company-own stores. They are another one of the best franchises to own. They are currently looking for more franchisees. Startup costs range between $164,000 and $197,000. They offer in-house financing.
In the world of fitness, Planet Fitness is a well-recognized name with 1,540 franchises and 68 company-own locations. Startup costs range between $969,000 and $4.2 million. Plant Fitness focuses on connecting not only with the regular gym goer, but also the occasional gym goer who is still tentative about the whole gym membership thing. Each location holds monthly pizza nights and bagel mornings for their members and always have tootsie rolls available for snack attacks. They also offer a strong support structure for their franchisees. Between 2015 and 2018, the company saw about a 65 percent jump in membership.
Great Clips has been franchising since 1983 and has over 4,500 franchise locations. They are constantly trying to innovate to attract more customers. Recently they used Snapchat adds to boost salon sales. Startup costs range between $136,000 and $258,000. They still have a lot of territory available.
You are probably seeing more California Tortilla Mexican restaurants pop up. They are considered one of the top franchise. They now have four company-owned stores and 42 franchises and are looking to expand even more. Startup costs range between $378,000 and $697,000. They offer third-party financing options and both substantial training and on-the-job support.
Owning a McDonald’s franchise is one of the more expensive investments with startup costs ranging between $1.06 million and $2.23 million, but it is one of the strongest international brands and franchise system, making it one of the best money making franchises out there. During its 64 years of business, the company has always found a way to constantly reinvent itself.
Dunkin, previously known as Dunkin Donuts is going through its own reinvention with a new name and new store design and a new focus on beverages. Startup costs include a minimum liquid assets of $250,000 and a $500,000 minimum net worth per unit.
Chaps Pit Beef is the best franchise to own. Having been around for over 20 years, Chaps has built a strong loyal customer base that any Chaps franchisees can bank on. When you are building a new business from the ground up, you will have to create your own customer base. That is what is so great about joining Chaps. There are already a strong customer population craving your food.
What really makes Chaps Pit Beef franchise program so special is that they offer a strong support structure for their franchisees, giving them all the training and resources they will need to run their own successful Chaps unit.
Chaps designed its second location in Aberdeen, Maryland as its first prototypical BBQ franchise unit so they could map out for their franchisees every little nuance of designing the ideal Chaps location. As a franchisee of Chap’s, you will have access to all the site selection and layout specifications as well as a list of all the equipment you will need for your franchise unit.
At Chaps Pit Beef, the licensing fee is $25,000 and royalties are 7% (6% and 1% for advertising). Startup costs vary depending on the location, square footage, equipment, etc. Chaps offers single store opportunities, as well as development agreements for territories.

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Articular cartilage has little capacity to repair itself or regenerate. Therefore, cartilage defects repair by forming scar tissue from the subchondral bone.
These all are the techniques which have discussed above useful only for small knee cartilage defect and also called minor osteoarthritis treatment and not suitable for major cartilage defect because they form fibrocartilge which is not rigid to support complete weight.
There is one particular type of cells called “Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)” which we apply to regenerate cartilage tissue and we transplant MSCs by using arthroscopic technique which is another good option to treat major cartilage defect repair or osteoarthritis treatment because mesenchymal stem cell has the property to regenerate cartilage again which can support complete weight after some times. We transplant mesenchymal stem cells (mix with hyaluronic acid) into cartilage defect area by using arthroscopic technique. The goal of stem cell transplantation is to allow people suffering from "articular cartilage damage" to return to their old lifestyle, regaining mobility, going back to work and even practicing sports again.
1.	The knee should be in a brace for 4 to 6 hours to lock it straight out.
2.	After six hours, initiate exercise using continuous passive motion therapy. The passive motion helps to prevent stiffness in the knee joint while nourishing the cartilage and prevent the formation of adhesions.
3.	Before leaving the treatment facility, the patient must be advised regarding his/her knee so as to minimize weight on the healing knee.
1.	A leg brace is recommended for the first two to four weeks-even while asleep.
2.	Bracing the leg protects it from movements that might injure the knee, including twisting and turning.
3.	The brace should be removed during continuous passive motion therapy.
The doctor should advice specific physical therapy exercises, lists of do's and don't's and crutches which help restore motion to the knee.
1.	While the length of the recovery depends on many factors, most patients can perform normal activities like walking or driving relatively quickly.
2.	How soon one can return to work or other activities depends on how much stress those activities place on the healing knee.
3.	Patients may return to various sport activities as progress in rehabilitation and cartilage healing allows.
1.Wakitani et al. 2002 (Osteoarthritis and Cartilage). Human autologous culture expanded bone marrow mesenchymal cell transplantation for repair of cartilage defects in osteoarthritic knees.

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The Washkewicz College of Engineering invites your students in grades 9-12 to learn what engineering is all about by participating in the 2019 Engineer-For-A Day Job Shadowing program on Friday, February 22, 2019.
This program is open to high school students who are interested in the engineering profession. The program enables students to spend a day on the job with an engineer to learn about an engineering field that interests them. All students participating in the Job Shadowing must also attend a mandatory open house on February 16 from 10AM-1PM!
To participate please have students complete the below registration form no later than Monday, February 8, 2019.
Due to a limited number of shadowing spots available, not all students who apply for this program will be able to participate. 11th and 12th grade students are given priority placement with companies. Students will receive an e-mail no later than February 12, 2019notifying them of their placement status. Whether or not students are placed with a company they are still welcome to attend the Open House on Saturday, February 16. This meeting will include useful information to help prepare for the job shadowing experience. In addition, we will provide free parking, a tour of the Washkewicz College of Engineering, a continental breakfast, and lunch.
Please contact Hannah Milgrom, Coordinator of Engineering Student Programs and Recruitment with questions at 216/687-5267 or h.milgrom@csuohio.edu.


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Google assistant could achieve Larry Page’s vision for the ultimate search engine or become just another me-too chatbot. At this point, it’s up to users.
Google’s forthcoming assistant may be much more than a me-too reaction to the litany of artificial intelligence and chatbots flooding the web right now. It may signal the web’s next major evolution – if Google can actually get people to use it.
Users should expect to get their first real look at Google assistant very soon. Allo, Google’s messaging app is due for release “Summer 2016” and is the first Google product to include the artificial intelligence-powered assistant.
With Allo due to drop any day, is the age of the AI bot and “conversations as a platform” officially upon us?
In this post we will address this question, first exploring what Google assistant is, how it works and what its potential benefits to users – and to Google itself – are, as well as some of the potential downsides of the new technology.
But before we get too deep into this question, it’s worth backing up a little and taking a closer look at this unusual phrase: “conversations as a platform”.
Nadella goes on to describe an artificial intelligence that can converse with humans and learn more about us through our behaviour and context to assist us.
This is essentially what all the big players in tech are fighting to be the first-best at right now: Apple’s Siri, Facebook’s M, Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana and Soundhound’s Hound are just some of the best known examples.
But while Microsoft may be betting bigger on artificial intelligence than anyone else – steering their entire strategy towards becoming the leader in bots – there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that Google may already be poised to come out on top.
And it all starts with Google’s imminent assistant.
In its current form, Google assistant is essentially a significant evolution of their current Google Now.
This upgrade will let users make queries and receive answers in a way more conversational manner than they can with Google Now. Rather than the simple single question/answer way that traditional voice controlled personal assistants have worked, Google assistant has the ability to carry on with an extended conversation in a way that really pushes things forward.
Google assistant is undeniably an evolution when it comes to voice search and presents a shift towards more conversational interactions with technology: Google’s latest piece of wizardry will look to change the way that we interact with Google.
Assistant isn’t really a product, nor is it simply a platform either, it’s actually a whole new way of engaging with smart technology.
At Google’s 2016 annual I/O developer conference the company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai described assistant as a way of “building each user their own individual Google.” Pichai presented assistant as a platform that will extend across all devices and embed itself deeply into our lives.
Combining Google’s two biggest weapons: the information that it knows about the world and the data it collects about us, Pichai sees assistant as a step forward in how Google will engage with its 1.17 billion monthly users. “We truly want to take the next step in being more assistive for our users, we want to be there asking them ‘hi, how can I help?’,” he said.
There are some pretty powerful virtual assistants – many of them using artificial intelligence – out there already.
These are some of the biggest players and their key selling points that Google has to compete against if they want people to actually use assistant.
Apple’s iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and (at long last) Mac embedded virtual assistant has been with us the longest and is the best known of Google assistant’s competitors.
Over time, Siri’s become quite good at understanding natural language and responding quickly, often with colloquialisms, jokes and pop-culture references. Siri can even be trained to recognise just one user’s voice, but it’s likely a single Google assistant will go even further and be able to recognise and converse with multiple users in a group.
There’s a lot Siri can do by integrating with a huge range of Apple device features, but it doesn’t play particularly well with third party apps and, naturally, isn’t available on non-Apple devices at all.
Siri’s greatest weakness though, is its passivity. Siri doesn’t pre-empt what you might want and doesn’t really do anything without being explicitly asked; and don’t expect Siri to learn much about you via your interactions.
The Microsoft alternative to Apple’s Siri, Cortana (named after the Halo character and voiced by the same actor) is much younger but benefits from technological advances made since Siri’s release.
Cortana works best on Microsoft devices (although the virtual assistant is available on iOS in the U.S.), where it can tap into native applications and features and even some third party apps.
Where Siri is reactive, Cortana can proactively anticipate questions you might ask and provide information automatically while keeping track of topics users are interested in via a “notebook”. Cortana also has an edge over Siri by being able to respond to both voice and text entries.
Besides being pretty slow, Cortana’s main drawback is that it is too reliant on Bing for information and will often provide answers via links and not in context or even (and this is where Google assistant will have a huge advantage) conversationally.
Although we don’t know a single person who has experienced Facebook’s virtual assistant, M will someday be integrated in Messenger – and available to all its 1 billion monthly users.
Being embedded in a text-based messaging app M will likely respond to just written text, and is reportedly not very personable, interesting (by Facebook policy M doesn’t really have an opinion about anything), and often needs a human helping hand.
M learns (primarily) from a growing team of “Trainers” who step in when M doesn’t know what it’s supposed to do, or even understand what the user is saying. If all goes according to plan, M will be able to figure out how to perform new tasks and understand users better on its own.
This learning style shows the gulf between M and Google assistant, which has Google’s entire knowledge graph and 100 billion monthly searches to learn from too. As the only other messaging app-based virtually assistant (Google assistant will initially debut in Google’s own messaging app), it will be interesting to compare how M and assistant interact with users and enhance human-to-human conversations.
Google assistant will also become the backbone of another Google product. Home is a voice-activated speaker that can answer questions, control multiple devices in your home and assist with a variety of tasks.
If this sounds familiar, it could be Home’s striking similarity to Amazon Echo. Echo is powered by an AI called Alexa, and as a virtual assistant it’s a market leader by quite a margin in smart home integration.
Most of its strength derives from the sheer number of integrations and partnerships the Echo has – including Pandora, Spotify, Uber, WeMo, Nest and even Dominos Pizza. It remains to be seen whether Google Home and (by extension) assistant will be able to compete with the Echo on these counts.
If there’s one advantage assistant has over Echo – besides total access to the search behemoth – it will be its ability to carry on a conversation and understand context.
The greatest virtual assistant you’ve probably never heard of is Soundhound’s Hound.
It only launched in March 2016 to little fanfare but, like Google assistant, Hound has more than a decade of development behind it.
Thanks to this long gestation, Hound is extremely good – and super fast – at understanding complex queries and even follow-up questions. The secret is Hound’s Speech-to-Meaning technology.
While most natural language processing technologies need to convert spoken language to text before parsing it, Speech-to-Meaning can understand spoken words directly.
The result is that you can often get answers to certain types of questions through Hound than you could by typing it into the Google query box.
Hound also has a strong API, called Houndify, which gives developers access to Hound’s Speech-to-Meaning technology for apps on a range of platforms.
While Hound has partnerships with companies like Yelp and Uber that enable it to do more, it’s important to keep in mind that Hound is an independent player – and this can have its drawbacks. Hound doesn’t use Google. It has its own Knowledge Graph, so it won’t always know the answer to (or even understand) a question. When this happens, the app will refer you to Bing search results or just tell you it doesn’t understand.
Backed by the biggest search engine and second most valuable company in the world, it’s not likely that Google assistant will have the same issue.
Now we have some understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of Google assistant’s biggest competitors, let’s take a look at how assistant works – and how it will prove itself against the others.
Google assistant is tipped to make its first public appearance as part of Google’s new Allo messaging app for Android and iOS. Scheduled to be released sometime in the next two weeks, Allo will allow users to chat with the assistant as if it were another person in the chat.
But this isn’t a stand-alone messaging app. Allo will tie into the existing search capabilities of Google’s devices and operating systems. Plus, it will tap into a range of third party apps like Spotify and Uber to proactively offer advice to you during your chats.
Over time, it will learn about you and build its own identity as one of your friends in your contacts. It will suggest places to eat, music to listen to and hotels you can stay in.
“Google Assistant appears to tie into the Search capabilities already baked into Google’s various devices and operating systems, bolstered by the power of Google’s vast cloud and summoned by your voice. Much like Gmail, Photos, and Google Now, Pichai envisions Google Assistant as ‘an ambient experience that extends across devices,’ so that you can tap into its power anywhere—including Google Home, a new Amazon Echo rival scheduled to release later this year”.
Although we’ll initially only experience assistant via Allo, where it will learn a lot about how its users think and speak, Google are not exactly strangers when it comes to gathering and exploiting big data.
Google’s been studying and investing in machine learning for more than a decade now, and there’s little doubt that assistant will help push Google’s machine learning endeavours further forward than ever before.
As reported by The Guardian last June, the tech giant announced that it was opening a specialised Machine Learning group. The highly skilled team will conduct research into three key areas of machine learning: machine intelligence, natural language processing and machine perception. All three areas have been specially chosen to help Google create a machine that can behave like a human being.
Due to its vast experience when it comes to search, Google are already extremely familiar with NLP.
Currently used to fine tune and beef up its search engine, NLP is one of the areas where the company has been focusing much of its attention. From helping develop voice search to improving its translation software, NLP will play a key in helping Google design an artificial intelligence that can pass the Turing Test – Alan Turing’s gold-standard test for any AI.
But while Allo and Google assistant are clearly a part of Google’s grand artificial intelligence agenda, they will still be providing tremendous value to users in the short term.
If the vision for assistant is to be “an ambient experience that extends across devices”, what does this mean for how this new tech will be used?
Assistant will put Google search and voice interaction inside a wealth of devices including the aforementioned Google Home, your smartphone and a new piece of wearable tech currently in development with Google.
In fact, the meteoric rise of wearable tech, home automation and the rise of the ‘internet of things’ more broadly, is a key reason Google is venturing into this space.
A report released earlier this year by the market research firm, IDTechEx shows exactly how big the wearable tech industry is becoming. According to IDTechEx the wearable tech market will be “worth over $30bn in 2016, and growing in three stages”. The report concludes that the industry may reach more than $150 billion within 10 years.
Assistant, will of course, be an integral part of your Android smartphone, but with Google planning on launching two new Nexus smartphones before the end of the year it may be more central to the mobile experience than previously thought.
One of the most talked about features of the new Nexus phones and their Android 7.0 operating system is its new ‘flower-like’ home button.
As it stands the rumours currently circulating about this enigmatic little button are that it is in fact part of the promotion of Google assistant (possibly via Now / On Tap functions), and will be a key part of both the new phone’s search functionality and Google’s new smartwatch.
The rise of semantic search and the increased sophistication of Google’s search algorithms is tailored made for voice search.
Searches are far more complex than they were in five years ago and with the rise of voice search and platforms like Google assistant will see search queries not only getting more complex, but increasingly more conversational.
Even without the invention of a complete virtual assistant, voice search has continued to grow. As reported by Search Engine Watch, a recent study by artificial intelligence technology firm MindMeld shows that 60 percent of smartphone users in the U.S. had begun using voice search within the past year, with 41% of those surveyed saying that they’d only started using voice commands in the past 6 months.
Semantic search takes a much wider view of a search query than traditional search and uses many factors to return the best results. And assistant is yet another part of the semantic and universal search puzzle that is seeing Google move towards creating a future where search transforms devices into smart machines that use “connected knowledge” to answer complex questions.
Voice search, using natural language, is exploding in popularity and by taking advantage of this – as well as by making assistant available virtually everywhere, Google make their high hopes for the usefulness and adoption of their AI apparent.
You can see some evidence of this in the Home demo – debuted at I/O 2016 – as an upscale family of four get ready for their days and converse mostly with Google assistant (for every word the family says to each other, they say another 3.5 to Google assistant).
But it’s Bhavik Singh’s presentation introducing the Awareness API (shown below – the first 6 minutes are essential viewing) that gives us the full sense of just how assistive and deeply integrated in our lives Google aspires to be.
Google assistant promises huge benefits to users, but there’s very little doubt that the platform will provide massive value to Google itself – even if the company has no real idea how they’re going to monetise it yet.
That said, there’s no way Google would launch a product without some way of making money from it.
A voice-activated home product that allows you and your family to get answers from Google, stream music, and manage everyday tasks.
Although the page doesn’t mention that the brain and living heart of Home is Google assistant, it does make it perfectly clear that this is a product. A product you can buy to put in your house – and (okay – we may be extrapolating this next bit from the video) the more rooms you put it in, the better.
Google hasn’t indicated a price, but Amazon Echo, its Alexa-enabled prime competitor, retails at $179.99. The virtual assistant will also become a key selling point of other saleable devices including smartphones and (especially) wearables like smart watches.
Tapping into our conversations, our homes and most of our day-to-day tasks exposes Google to a much richer pool of data on how (and, in real time, exactly when) users really talk and interact with the physical world and other people around them. All this helps Google develop “a deeper profile of the customer” that can be used to improve the profitability of Google’s existing revenue streams – most notably Google AdWords and Google Shopping.
One of the most obvious ways Google can take advantage of this data is by, potentially, solving the problem of user intent.
Search in the last decade has moved from give me what I said to give me what I want.
For anyone whose entire business model relies on giving people the results they need as fast possible, this problem of matching what users really meant, rather than what they appear to have said is absolutely vital.
The issue is that words and phrases can have a range of meanings besides the one “true” meaning intended by the person who originally said them. Some of the leading thinkers and philosophers of the 20th century, like Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes and Jacques Lacan, have addressed this issue at length. They argue that it is impossible to know exactly what someone really means by using certain words or phrases unless you make a hypothesis and verify it by asking the original speaker or writer if that interpretation is right.
Doing just that – by including a disambiguation box in some search results – is something Gary Illyes, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst, has suggested in the past.
Of course, adding such a box to search results pages may just be too interruptive improve the search experience for users. But if it was simply asked by a virtual assistant during the natural flow of a conversation, there may not be any detriment to the user experience.
Pair this with assistant’s artificial intelligence and over time it will be able to improve its abilities to accurately interpret your words to arrive at the correct meaning.
By doing this, Google can ensure that the AdWords and Google Shopping results it delivers across the board are more relevant and therefore more likely to result in the clicks that advertisers pay for.
These improvements in matching results to searches – and the greater click through rates that result – are surely good news for advertisers too.
It doesn’t end there, though. With unprecedented access to new data and new types of data, it’s only a matter of time before Google discovers revenue streams that no one has been aware of – or that even existed – until now.
As recently as a few years ago, Google was the unassailable king of the internet. But that’s largely because search was king of the internet.
Today, the online landscape is very different. Facebook accounts for more than 20% of the time Americans spend online, there’s an app for everything, virtual assistants retrieve information without users needing to perform a search themselves, and every man and his dog can make a chatbot.
The harsh reality is that Google is fighting against all of these things for market share. Every piece of information retrieved by an assistant, bot or app is one less Google search. Every piece of content served and every connection made via social media (or again: an assistant, bot, or app) is one less that Google can help with.
Google may still have 100 billion searches per month (and voice search now accounts for about a fifth of them), but search is not as big a part of the internet pie as it once was.
So for Google to remain competitive, they must either broaden the scope of what “search” is or look beyond it.
Google seem to be doing both. If search is essentially a process of telling Google what information you need followed by Google finding and serving you that information; an intelligent, conversational assistant is essentially augmenting that process. Assistant will work with you to home in on the information you need before the assistant itself searches for and retrieves that information.
The other side of the equation – looking “beyond” search – becomes apparent when you consider the entire ecosystem to be populated by Google assistant. By placing their assistant everywhere users might otherwise go before (or instead of) conducting a search, Google blurs the lines between engaging with the web via search and engaging with it any other way.
There’s no doubt that Google’s virtual assistant has the potential to not only be best-in-class, provide tremendous value both to users and Google itself, but also revolutionise the online landscape altogether.
There is one question left to answer: will people actually use it?
We will almost certainly first meet assistant in Allo, Google’s new messaging app – and this may be a problem.
One of Allo’s key selling points is a Smart Reply feature (which is also likely one of assistant’s key learning mechanisms) that scans all your and your friends’ messages in order to suggest replies for you.
A demo at Google’s I/O 2016 show just how powerful this feature is, but it has a cost that may deter many users.
For Google be able to read and analyse all those messages, however, they must be sent without end-to-end encryption. Google’s decision to disable this encryption by default has been broadly criticised, including in statements by Edward Snowden who warns that the “new Allo chat app is dangerous” and cautions against using it.
An Incognito mode available to Allo users does feature end-to-end encryption, as well as a Snapchat-like ability to “expire” messages after a certain amount of time, but this mode will not feature Smart Reply.
Inertia may prove a much bigger challenge.
It’s obvious why Google is launching a fancy new messaging app – messaging apps are now bigger than social, and this massive market is still in its infancy with plenty of room to build.
But there’s still no guarantee that if you build it, the people will come.
With most people already using messaging apps like Facebook Messenger or Slack that they’re happy enough with, is Google assistant’s AI enough of a drawcard to convince them – and enough of their contacts to make it worthwhile – to switch to something new?
It certainly does not help the case for Google that their attempt to do the exact same thing in social media (with Google Plus, but also Google Buzz, Google Friend Connect and Orkut before that) when they thought Facebook was going to kill them.
Despite Google’s best-in-industry work to date, it’s clear they still have an uphill battle to demonstrate its assistant’s usefulness and get people to actually use it. If Google can pull this off, they may very well usher in the next evolution of the web.
If they can’t, it’s entirely possible that someone else – like Facebook and their ever-expanding walled garden or Microsoft with their aspirations to a human-assist-bot-search engine for bots system – will.

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text: Prayagraj (Kumbhanagari) : Young generation of this country is forgetting our culture and limits and drifting away from Dharma and culture. Sanatan’s ‘Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalaya’ is a very good concept from that point of view. Information on ‘sadhana’ for God-realization and materialistic world is available in this exhibition. A human being doesn’t know the purpose of life; he just keeps on working to earn money. This exhibition will give the right direction in that context. Information on the protection of cows, cleaning of River Ganga, religious rituals, ‘sanskars’ etc are also available in the exhibition. My best wishes are with Sanatan. I shall help you with my body, mind, and money, stated Swami Pranavapuri Maharaj, ‘Kathavachak’ from Mathura, after visiting books and ‘Dharmashikshan’-boards’ exhibitions held by Sanatan Sanstha and Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) at Kumbhanagari. Shri. Anand Jakhotia, State-Coordinator of HJS for Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan briefed Swamiji on various books kept on display. ‘Pujya’ Nilesh Singbal, HJS-Guide for North-East India welcomed Swamiji and presented to him a HJS-sponsored book.


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Pre-heat your oven to its highest setting. Take a baking tray and slice the red pepper in half lengthways. Lay the pepper cut side down on the tray. Place in the oven for about 15 minutes, until its skin starts to blacken. Cooking times will vary depending on your oven.
As soon as the pepper is done take it out and using a set of tongs, place it in a large mixing bowl. Immediately cover the mixing bowl tightly with cling film to stop steam from escaping. Letting the pepper sweat in this way will help its skin peel off easier later on. Set aside for 40 or so minutes to cool down.
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Investigators must be quick-witted and in good physical condition.
Criminal investigators work in a variety of workplaces, including police departments and federal agencies. A college degree is necessary if you hope to become an investigator in a federal agency, but might not be required for some other jobs. Investigative work requires a variety of skills, including computer skills and knowledge of criminal law.
Strong investigative skills are one of the key skills required for this job. As an investigator, you review evidence to piece together the chain of events that lead to a crime. You also must understand how to investigate a crime without overlooking evidence or inadvertently destroying the chain of evidence. Investigators interview suspects and witnesses to a crime and examine the scene of the crime for clues and evidence. In some cases, it might take weeks or months until you have enough evidence to make an arrest. During that time, you might gather evidence by conducting surveillance missions, reviewing incriminating records, interviewing experts, examining telephone records and reviewing fingerprint and DNA evidence.
Computers provide many benefits, but they also make it easier to commit certain crimes, such as credit card fraud. Investigators must have a basic familiarity with computers and be able to use them to access state and national crime databases, complete reports and request information from driver’s license bureaus and other agencies. Large agencies or departments might employ computer technicians to perform more complicated types of work, but you will still be expected to have basic computer skills.
Criminal investigation can be a dangerous line of work. In order to protect yourself, you must know how to shoot a gun, safely restrain suspects and learn defensive driving techniques. It’s important to understand and follow criminal law. For example, you must understand what types of evidence a judge will require before he will issue you a search warrant. Failing to follow the law can result in dismissal of charges against a perpetrator and end your career as an investigator. You also must learn what to say when you are called upon to testify in a court case.
Curiosity is particularly important when you work as a criminal investigator. In some cases, it will be very clear how and why a crime occurred, but in others, you’ll use critical thinking skills and deductive reasoning to piece together the clues to determine possible scenarios. Good communications skills also are important. Investigative work requires significant contact with other people, including suspects, witnesses and other departments and agencies. If you are a polite person who can put others at ease, you might be more likely to obtain the information you need than if you behave like the stereotypical bad cop from television shows and movies.
McGurgan, Holly. "What Are the Key Skills for a Successful Criminal Investigator?" Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/key-skills-successful-criminal-investigator-28597.html. Accessed 23 April 2019.
How Can I Become a Detective Without Being a Police Officer?

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Additional space for your home is always a hard thing to come by for anyone. That is why the Universal Furniture Broadmore Queen Bed with Storage Drawer is a practical piece of furniture for anyone's bedroom. If you're going to already have a bed, you might as well get this one because it comes with two drawers. The storage space it gives you is equivalent to having an extra small dresser. And what's great is that these two drawers create more storage space without taking up new space that a dresser would occupy. You can put extra clothes in these drawers. Most of the time the space under the bed isn't even utilized, so you might as well take advantage of this valuable space that you weren't using.
Hello @Anonymous, thank you for your review for the Universal Furniture Broadmore Queen Bed with Storage Drawer. Although I don't doubt the symptoms and problems your family has had as a result of this piece of furniture, the thing is a lot of furniture are probably made in China. I'm sure a lot of banned chemicals can still be found in these products and in everyday items in many people's homes. Some people may react differently and may experience symptoms as severe or none at all, but in either case I hope you and your family get better soon.
The july 2016 comment by anonymous is correct. It is toxic with ill health effects. I have experienced it also. Migraines or nose/throat irritation until I removed myself first as a test, and then the bed. Thanks Costco for selling us furniture that will eventually kill us. It looked nice, seemed well built but comes with toxic Chinese dragon glues/finish.
Hi @Anonymous, sorry to hear that the Universal Broadmoore Queen Bed with Drawers has made you ill with several adverse events. In cases like these it's definitely better to err on the side of caution. If your health is affected, then better to just return it and hope that you get better.

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A.J. Farragher rode Konig Hall (GB) (late nomination- see enquiry below) ,trained by Anthony McCann (Race 8).
D.P. McDonogh, rider of Esprit De Lumiere trained by Joseph Patrick O'Brien, reported to the Clerk of Scales that his mount was tight for room.
D.P. McDonagh, rider of Avalanche (GB), trained by T.J. O'Mara, reported to the Clerk of Scales that his mount got no run in the straight.
The Stewards enquired into an incident in the early stages of this race involving Ellaat (GB), ridden by K.J. Leonard, Tigray (USA), ridden by A.C. Persse and All About Maddy (GB), ridden by K.J. Manning, where it appeared that Tigray ran short of room and checked. Evidence was heard from the riders concerned. Having viewed the recording of the race and considered the evidence, the Stewards took no further action but did, however, remind K.J. Leonard and A.C. Persse of their responsibilities under Rule 213 to report anything which might have affected the running of their horse in a race.
The Stewards advised David Kenneth Budds, trainer, that a repeat performance of the behaviour of his charge Here for the Craic, who refused to race from stalls, could render his charge liable to a future suspension.
The Stewards fined Richard Brabazon, trainer, €350 for lodging a passport in respect of Path Of Silver, in which the vaccinations did not conform with the provisions of Rule 91. The Stewards ordered the withdrawal of Path Of Silver in accordance with the provisions of Rule 90.
The Stewards interviewed Anthony McCann, trainer, in relation to his failure to nominate a rider for his charge Konig Hill at declaration time. Evidence was heard from the trainer concerned who stated that he had difficulty in finding a suitable rider until the withdrawal of Ten Bears from this race. Having considered the evidence, the Stewards noted the explanation offered and reminded Anthony McCann of his responsibilities in this regard. The Stewards allowed the late nomination of A.J. Farragher to ride Konig Hill.
The Stewards interviewed D.M. Simmonson, rider of Effernock Fizz, concerning his use of the whip in the closing stages of this race. Evidence was heard from the rider concerned. Having viewed a recording of the race and considered the evidence the Stewards were of the opinion that D.M. Simmonson was in breach of Regulation 10 (3)(b) in that he used his whip unnecessarily when his chance of winning or being placed was clearly gone. Having considered his record in this regard, the Stewards cautioned D.M. Simmonson.

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This article lists computer monitor screen resolutions that are defined by standards or in common use. Most of them use certain preferred numbers.
✪ You're doing "Cinematic" aspect ratios ALL WRONG!
For a list of resolution standards in computer monitors, see graphics display resolution.
The combination (which occurs by multiplication) of both the pixel aspect ratio and storage aspect ratio giving the aspect ratio as experienced by the viewer.
For television, the display aspect ratio (DAR) is shown, not the storage aspect ratio (SAR); analog television does not have well-defined pixels, while several digital television standards have non-square pixels.
The below distinguish SAR (aspect ratio of pixel dimensions), DAR (aspect ratio of displayed image dimensions), and the corresponding PAR (aspect ratio of individual pixels), though it currently contains some errors (inconsistencies), as flagged.
^ LCD panels' resolutions are often quoted in terms of raw subpixels, misnamed "pixels" in manufacturer's specifications. Each real pixel includes one subpixel for each of three colors, so calling subpixels "pixels" inflates the claimed resolution by a factor of three. This bit of marketing obfuscation is calculated as horizontal resolution × vertical resolution × 3. For example: 640 × 480 VGA is 921,600 subpixels, or 307,200 pixels, 800 × 600 SVGA is 1,440,000 subpixels, or 480,000 pixels, and 1024 × 768 XGA is 2,359,296 subpixels, but only 786,432 full-color pixels.
^ 16:9 anamorphic available with some hardware.
^ Joris van den Heuvel. "Timex Datalink USB". Retrieved 2013-12-18.
^ "Apple IIc Flat Panel Display". Shrine Of Apple. 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
^ "NEC LCD Technologies Develops 3.5-Inch New System-on-Glass LCD Module Boasting Industry-Leading Picture Quality". Free Online Library. 2006-11-13. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
^ John Gruber (2010-04-19). "Why 960 × 640". Retrieved 2013-12-18.
^ "iPhone 4S Tech Specs (Apple)". Apple. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-04.
^ "iPod touch (4th generation) - Technical Specifications". Apple. 2011-11-21. Retrieved 2014-01-04.
^ Ricker, Thomas. "NEC CRV43: 43-inches of curve on sale July". Engadget. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
^ "Ostendo CRVD". Crvd.com. Archived from the original on 21 June 2012. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
^ Dybwad, Barb. "Alienware curved display rocks Crysis at 2880 × 900". Engadget. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
^ Brown, Rich (2008-01-06). "If you're a gamer, you want this monitor". CNET. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
^ "Avielo Optix-SuperWide235" (PDF). February 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
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^ "Huawei MateBook X Pro review". TechRadar. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
^ Steve Wright (2012). Digital compositing for film and video, Volume 10. Taylor & Francis. p. 342. ISBN 9780240807607. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
Myers, Robert L. (4 October 2002). "Format and Timing Standards". Display Interfaces: Fundamentals and Standards. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. p. 132. ISBN 0-471-49946-3.
Rosch, Winn L. (21 February 2003). "Display Systems". Winn L. Rosch Hardware Bible (6th ed.). Que Publishing. p. 827. ISBN 0-7897-2859-1.
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Empire of the Magic Beanstalks – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 4pm show at The Palmerston Theatre (FringeKids!) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Empire of the Magic Beanstalks contest” by 7pm on Wednesday, July 4, 2012.
Dina: The Burlapped Crusader – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 6:30 pm show at Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace (Venue 10) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Dina: The Burlapped Crusader contest” by 7pm on Wednesday, July 4, 2012.
snug harbor – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 7:30pm show at The Centre (316 Dupont St.) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “snug harbor contest” by 7pm on Wednesday, July 4, 2012.
Life in the Raw – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 10:30 pm show at George Ignatieff Theatre (Venue 6) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Life in the Raw contest” by 7pm on Wednesday, July 4, 2012.
CHARLIE: A Hockey Story – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 10:30pm show at The Annex Theatre (Venue 5) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “CHARLIE: A Hockey Story contest” by 7pm on Wednesday, July 4, 2012.
From Press release: The Little Mermaid and Rapunzel join forces in an epic and hilarious tale to bring down the corrupt Empire of the Magic Beanstalks, controlled by Jack and his mother, before its pollution destroys the world for good.
This show is full of energy and excitement, with a healthy dose of sarcastic wit and is great fun for audiences of all ages!
This piece plays at the Palmerston Library. Performances: July 05 04:00 PM, July 06 06:15 PM, July 07 11:00 AM, July 08 02:15 PM, July 10 11:00 AM, July 11 04:30 PM, July 13 11:15 AM, July 14 07:30 PM.
From Press release: She’s out to save Toronto – one depressed & decaffeinated citizen at a time. In a city vexed by congestion, pollution, smart phones, and one angry mayor, Toronto cried out for a hero. Dina is that hero! Will you join the cause? Armed with a twitter feed, rain boots, and 5 of her dearest friends, Dina takes on the city as only a girl in burlap can.
he disappears. Forever. Best of Toronto Fringe. Audience Choice NYC’s Frigid Fest. CRITIC’S PICK NYC’s Backstage Mag.
This piece plays at the Centre, 316 Dupont St. Performances: July 04 07:30 PM, July 05 07:30 PM, July 06 07:30 PM, July 07 07:30 PM, July 08 03:00 PM, July 10 07:30 PM, July 12 09:30 PM, July 13 07:30 PM, July 14 07:30 PM, July 15 03:00 PM.
From Press release: Music & drama intertwine as 3 sisters dream of a better life in 1930s Montreal. As their mother struggles to keep family dignity and put food on the table, barely hidden secrets and tensions threaten to shatter all their dreams. Set during the Great Depression, a story of love and loss, courage and hope, but most of all love. Based on family memories.
This piece plays at George Ignatieff Theatre. Performances: July 05 10:30 PM, July 07 12:30 PM, July 08 12:30 PM, July 09 04:15 PM, July 11 09:45 PM, July 12 02:15 PM, July 14 09:45 PM.
From Press release: Hockey meets Shakespeare for a rock ‘em, sock ‘em theatrical experience! Jim’s story is about his love of Shakespeare, his father’s love of hockey, and how he learned an important lesson in forgiveness by exploring the old-time hockey career of his uncle, Charlie Sands. “A human story about relationships and perseverance and family …” – Plank Magazine.
This piece plays at the Annex Theatre. Performances: July 05 10:30 PM, July 07 01:45 PM, July 08 05:45 PM, July 10 06:15 PM, July 12 05:15 PM, July 13 02:15 PM, July 15 05:15 PM.
Thank you so much for the ticket to snug harbour.
I knew going in that this would be a different show from “The Burning Bush” because I’d heard Tracey on CBC’s The Current. It is a very poignant show combined with a workshop. I was very moved. There are several funny moments but what you get is Tracey expressing raw emotion, grief and anger over the loss of her dad. And it’s so much more than talking about grief, but also gives insight into how those of us who are slaves to “goal lists” live our lives.
This is well worth getting there early and waiting in line for since it’s sure to sell out for the rest of the run. So go see it now!


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This story on the documentary feature race first appeared in The Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.
Italian director Gianfranco Rosi, whose “Fire at Sea” is competing for Oscars in both the documentary and foreign-language categories, shook his head when talking with TheWrap recently about the state of nonfiction filmmaking. “Right now, the thin line between documentary and fiction is really thinning, thinning, thinning,” he said.
He’s definitely right about that thin line, which is thinning and blurring in a variety of ways. It’s now blurred between fact and fiction, between documentary and narrative, between film docs and television docs.
“I think nonfiction filmmakers are excited to throw off convention and traditional expectation of length and form and style and to push themselves to challenge previously held notions of what makes a documentary,” filmmaker A.J. Schnack told TheWrap.
And all of those blurred lines are visible in this year’s awards race.
Rosi’s film is a cinema vérité gem that uses what he calls “the language of cinema” to tell the story of the island of Lampedusa, where refugees by the thousands arrive on their way from Africa to Europe. It is one of four documentaries competing in the Oscar foreign language race.
The other straight docs are “Ukrainian Sheriffs,” Roman Bondarchuk’s look at two small-town law-enforcement officers in a region changing from Ukrainian to Russian control; and Pietra Brettkelly’s “A Flickering Truth,” which documents the revival of the Afghan film archives.
Luxembourg’s entry, “Voices From Chernobyl,” is a less straightforward doc; it’s a powerful viewing experience in which actors read eyewitness accounts of the nuclear disaster drawn from Svetlana Alexievich’s nonfiction book, while Pol Crutchen’s camera roams the deserted landscape of Pripyat, and the director also stages sometimes surreal tableau amidst the abandoned cityscapes.
Here’s where lines are almost erased. In the Oscar documentary race, for instance, Robert Greene’s “Kate Plays Christine” is competing for the big prize. The film chronicles indie actress Kate Lyn Sheil’s preparation to play newscaster Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself on camera in 1974 — except that the film about Chubbuck for which Sheil is preparing doesn’t actually exist (unlike Antonio Campos’ “Christine,” in which Rebecca Hall plays the role).
Sheil is simply “preparing” for a “role” in a fake movie whose clips are never intended to be anything other than scenes in “Kate Plays Christine”; this “documentary” is documenting a fiction. But the Oscars say it’s a doc, and so did the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards and the Cinema Eye Honors.
Then there’s the brain-teasing “Houston, We Have a Problem,” which is Slovenia’s entry in the Oscar foreign- language race. It’s a documentary about how a faltering NASA bought the entire Yugoslavian space program in the early ’60s in an effort to jump-start their own program — except that while it looks and acts like a doc, it actually just uses the nonfiction format to show how easily myths and conspiracies can be created and can spread.
If you like this year’s Oscar doc race, we’ve got some good news: Next year’s Emmy race will look very similar. Among the films that are now competing for Oscars and should soon be competing for Emmys: Ava DuVernay’s “13th,” Werner Herzog’s “Into the Inferno,” Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk’s “Audrie & Daisy” and Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn’s “Amanda Knox,” all on Netflix; “Defying the Nazis” on PBS; “Tickled,” “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures,” “Jim: The James Foley Story,” “The Music of Strangers,” “Everything Is Copy” and “Mavis!” on HBO; and “O.J.: Made in America” from ESPN.
This has been going on for a while: Three of the five Best Documentary Feature Oscar nominees earlier this year–“Cartel Land,” “Winter on Fire” and “What Happened, Miss Simone?” were subsequently nominated for Emmys, as was “The Hunting Ground,” which followed its Oscar song nomination by winning in that category at the Emmys.
Director Brett Morgen told TheWrap that he didn’t like the double-dipping when his doc “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck” was campaigned for Emmys in the wake of its Oscar campaign. “I might get in trouble for saying this, but I think you should have to choose one or the other,” he said.
A few years ago, the Academy’s Documentary Branch passed new rules designed to keep TV entities like HBO from sneaking their films into theaters for a quiet one-week qualifying run before rolling them out for splashy television premieres. It didn’t stop the practice, though it perhaps reduced the number of films that HBO tried to qualify that way.
But in a field in which TV money has often been more easily accessible than film-studio money, the Academy rules can’t keep out docs that were financed by and made for television networks as long as it’s possible to qualify those films via theatrical runs. And particularly with the rise of Netflix, which really wants to win an Oscar and is willing to spend what it takes to get one, the field is awash in TV-bred films.
The biggest example of TV/film confusion this year is probably ESPN’s “O.J: Made in America,” which was financed by the network and aired as a five-part installment in its 30 for 30 series. Before its TV airing, director Ezra Edelman edited it into a single seven-and-a-half hour theatrical version that premiered at Sundance and had qualifying runs in Los Angeles and New York; it got around the rule requiring four screenings a day, an impossibility given its length, by booking multiple screens in the same venues.
Or maybe the Academy will simply give up and embrace those blurry lines. “More and more, support for new thinking [in nonfiction filmmaking] is coming from people who have traditionally been thought of as part of a television landscape: HBO, Netflix, ESPN, Showtime, etc.,” said Schnack.
“The Academy is certainly free to create rules for entry — but if these networks and platforms can push boundaries and fulfill the Academy’s eligibility requirements, I think it’s good for all involved.
Read more of TheWrap Magazine’s The Race Begins Oscars Issue.


text: I love doing events with model Selena Breed, who is just about the coolest girl I know. When we speak together, I read excerpts from the Violet books, and she shares her real-life fashion world experiences. It's a blast. (Also, I think it's funny how we both automatically do the fashion stance of hand on hip, tilted shoulder when someone takes our picture!)Here's a report from a reading we did at the Rye Free Reading Room in Rye, NY this fall. We had a great time and met some awesome girls in the audience. Selena's in LA now, but we'll still do events together whenever we can! Happy Tuesday. PS-Thanks to Lindsey at Sarah's Stars Book Reviews for the review of Violet in Private. PPS-Thanks to Mrs. Magoo for the review of Violet by Design!


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Influence is one of the key themes of this years We Are Podcast conference. And one of the keys to building influence is by connecting on a deep and personal level with your audience or tribe. So, just how do we do this?
Well, this is where Angela Henderson comes in. We like to consider Angela as part of the family here at Amplify and we’re so pleased that she’ll be presenting more of her very special insights at We Are Podcast 2018 in October.
This year, Angela will be showing us how to humanise our brands and build that human connectedness that so many people are longing for on the web. Angela’s ‘connector’ of choice in this presentation will be Facebook Groups. She’ll show us exactly how she does it, and you how you can replicate her success. And, believe me, as her many business-consulting clients will testify, few people do it so well.
The beauty of Angela’s approach is that it requires an advertising budget of exactly $0. Who doesn’t love that? Let me have a hell-yeah!
But we know Angela and it’s definitely not going to be a bunch of woo-woo and kumbaya. It will be packed with practical strategies to grow your business through a Facebook Group. She’ll be covering topics such as the business benefits of a Facebook Group; why it’s a different beast to a Facebook page; how to set up a Facebook Group properly; how to grow your group; and the best ways to market your business to your group.
There’s really no better person to be speaking about connecting with people and humanising your brand. That’s because Angela has a very unique skill set. Before becoming a very successful entrepreneur with her online store Finlee and Me, and following that a much-sought-after business consultant, Angela was a highly-qualified mental health clinician, so you know when it comes to connecting with people that you’re getting the benefits of a wealth of experience unlike any other. More recently, Angela has been featured on radio and TV including Inside Small Business and Talking Lifestyle, as well as numerous podcasts both in Australia and internationally.
If you want to make a serious connection with your audience, build a passionate tribe of advocates and drive your brand and business forward (without spending big advertising dollars. Oh, yeah!), you won’t want to miss this session with Angela Henderson at We Are Podcast 2018.


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This MLST scheme was developed by Yinping Guo and Ying Huang (State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, CAS, China). The project was funded by NSFC grant number 30670002 - Molecular systematics of Streptomyces.
Database curated by Ying Huang.
This publication made use of the Streptomyces MLST website (https://pubmlst.org/ streptomyces/) sited at the University of Oxford (Jolley & Maiden 2010, BMC Bioinformatics, 11:595). The development of this site has been funded by the Wellcome Trust.

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I was searching for a Property and found this listing (MLS® #2011393). Please send me more information regarding 9581 Liberty Church Rd Lot 2, Brentwood, TN, 37027. Thank you!
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With all the concerns about the economy in the news today, it’s probably normal to wonder if you can still afford plastic surgery. The answer is yes.
There are many options as long as you and your doctor can; list priorities, explore possibilities and accept some compromises. For example, if you are looking into facial procedures, you probably already know about BOTOX®. But what about dermal fillers like Restylane® and Perlane? These are just two of several affordable dermal fillers that restore skin volume to wrinkles. While you may want a facelift, discussing other options with Dr. Peña might give you the same desired result without an economic strain.
The key is to have well defined objectives prior to coming in to the office. Though Dr. Peña will help you with many of the details, knowing what you want, as well as what you don’t want, is important. This may also help defray some of the costs in the long run. Know that while some procedures may be done together, you don’t have to have everything done at once.
Finally, Dr. Peña offers the option of financing your plastic surgery with the help of CareCredit. CareCredit has several repayment plans that are set up and tailored to your economic means.
If you have any questions about how you can affordplastic surgery or about the procedures in general, please contact Manuel Peña, MD for an initial consultation. Dr. Peña serves the areas of Naples, Fort Myers, Bonita Springs, and Estero, Florida.


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Prazgodovinski junaki se soočajo z novimi življenjskimi izzivi. Scrat se še vedno trudi ujeti vedno izmuzljivi orešek, obenem pa se zaljubi v drzno veverico Scratte, medtem ko se Diego odloči zapustiti svoj trop in zaživeti po svoje. Mamut Manny in njegova Eli pričakujeta naraščaj, zato se Manny na vso moč trudi izpolniti svoje očetovske dolžnosti. Lenivec Sid, ki bi prav tako rad imel mladiče, pa se odloči ukrasti dinozavrova jajca.
After the events of "Ice Age: The Meltdown", life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own, and so steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in a strange underground world where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left and right, and meeting up with a one-eyed weasel known as Buck who hunts dinosaurs intently.


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You search in ads posted for all over of Canada. Choose an location.
Roots Pest Control provides Residential pest control services and is the name you can trust and deal with any kind of pest problems with in your area.
Copyright © Canada free classifieds ads 2012. All rights reserved.


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Pink Lemonade blends zingy lemonade with the perfect amount of red fruit to give this blend an extra boost in flavour.
Inhaling this gives a tangy and tasty flavour and the exhale gives you a beautifully smooth citrus taste. The subtle hints of red fruit are prominent within both the inhale and the exhale which creates an extra layer of depth for this eLiquid.


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A raw vegan diet consists of fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, all in their original state, meaning that they are not heated above 118°F. This diet/lifestyle excludes meat, dairy, eggs, fish, beans, rice, and all packaged foods. But rather than focusing on what is excluded, it is important to notice all of the positive qualities and characteristics of this way of eating. Raw plants are a plentiful source of vitamins, minerals, nutrients, enzymes, and oxygen! When produce remains in its natural state, not only does your body use it in the most efficient way, but your mind does too. This diet has cured many people from bi-polar disorder, depression, anxiety, and many other mental disorders. When people choose to participate in eating a raw food diet as well as additional healthy habits, they seldom develop problems with weight, short-term illnesses, or chronic diseases. Fruits and veggies include viable amounts of carbs, protein, and fat; even for athletes! When food is cooked its genetic make-up becomes altered – protein, fats, and carbohydrates are denatured and stripped of nearly 80% of their vitamins and minerals. This is why the concept of eating fully raw is so important. Not only is the food easier to digest, absorb, and better for your health in general, but it is also less of an environmental impact to eat a diet like this. Many people in the raw food movement equally value their health, the environment, and the lives of animals.
There are many contributing factors that make a fully raw diet so worthwhile. The numerous benefits that come along with this lifestyle are surely a leading reason why thousands of people around the world have adopted this diet. Not only is a raw vegan diet known to cure illness and disease, but it also contributes to heightened energy, extreme mental focus and cognitive clarity, improved physical ability, clear skin, effortless digestion, optimal nutrient absorption, the list goes on... Some raw vegans state that they literally feel like they're living life in High Definition and that they feel like a "Super Human". I can personally attest to these statements. It's difficult to describe the contrast of eating cooked food and raw food in detail. If you're intrigued and curious in how good you can really feel... I highly recommend eating raw vegan for 7 days and documenting how you feel along the way.
How Can I Eat Raw On A Budget?
It is very common that when first considering a raw vegan diet you are filled with doubt regarding the possibility of eating this way on a budget. But this is just a common misconception when it comes to healthy eating. It is possible to purchase an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables for one week with $70 or less. Not to mention, when eating a raw vegan diet, you are potentially saving hundreds or even thousands of dollars in doctor/medical bills in the future. I'm a strong advocate of investing in my health before investing in anything else. Your state of well being literally affects every single other aspect of your life. Spend the money required to nourish yourself with fresh living food, because you are worthy of feeling amazing.
How Can I Eat Raw With A Busy Schedule?
How Can I Deal with Opposing Opinions of Family and Friends?
You may find yourself in difficult situations with loved ones if they do not understand your dietary choices, and it is important that you know what techniques to use when this occurs. It is really quite simple; remember why you started in the first place. It can be fairly easy to fall into old habits/give in to temptations by allowing the ridicule of others to get to you. It is SO important to stay true to yourself and continue doing what makes you feel best. By surrounding yourself with like-minded people, this diet will become more of a lifestyle and you will find that it is much easier to follow through with on a daily basis. Dealing with the opinions of family and friends might be difficult at first, but just because they are satisfied with simply ‘surviving’, does not mean that you should be too. If you know what it takes to THRIVE, why would you hold yourself back from feeling and functioning at your optimal potential? Everything in life takes practice and time before it gets easier. Eating a fully raw vegan diet is surely going against the norms of our Western society, but when you look at the broader picture, it is one of the most sensible choices that you can make. Caring for your body and health, the lives of animals, and the environment is a beautiful thing. You have 100% control over all of your own choices. As days become weeks, and weeks become months, you will soon see that this is one of the best decisions you have ever made.
How Can Raw Food Cure Illness And Disease?
Oxygen heightens circulation, which permits vital nutrients to get into your cells. The more oxygen that is present in your body, the less likely it is that your cells will be subject to illness and disease. Since raw food is living food, it still contains an abundant amount of oxygen. Therefore, when consuming only living plants, your bodies naturally obtain more oxygen, which helps fight off any illness and disease that you may otherwise be prone to. In addition to this, every single function in your body is controlled by water. If you do not consume enough water, your body will not be able to transport necessary elements, hormones, chemical messengers, and oxygen, to their designated destination. Water also helps eliminate toxins and get waste out of our cells. By consuming a raw vegan diet, enough water is never a question! Eating this way truly assists our natural healing process.
Will Eating Raw Help My Athletic Performance Improve?
When we nourish our bodies with the proper nutrition, we can function better, not only cognitively, but physically as well! Eating a raw vegan diet provides you with a plentiful source of energy in the form of carbohydrates and this is the fuel that our bodies require to function. We literally run on carbs, and that is why eating an abundance of them provides us with more mental and physical energy. Fruits provide us with the glucose that our cells need to survive and THRIVE. Therefore, if we truly want to feel alive, we must eat living food aka plant food. And as our cells become healthier and stronger, our bodies will naturally begin to function optimally!
Watch my videos about eating raw!
Watch my "What I Eat" videos!
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Latitude and longitude coordinates are: 23.111567, 113.326889.
Haixinsha is the name of a small district and an island in Tianhe area of Guangzhou city in China. The island is located on the Zhujland River and administratively it belongs to Haizhu district. It is connected with the city by two old bridges, Xinguag Bridge and Luoxi Bridge. There is a large park Hai Xin Sha Ya Yung Gon situated on the island, and it is an important landmark of the area. There is also a small marina where local ferries land, so it is possible to reach the island by ferries as well. There is a large sport facility on the island, with the capacity close to 35,000 places. It was constructed as a governmental facility after lasting litigation processes related to the land owners.
The latitude of Haixinsha Island, Tianhe Qu, Guangzhou Shi, China is 23.111567, and the longitude is 113.326889. Haixinsha Island, Tianhe Qu, Guangzhou Shi, China is located at China country in the Islands place category with the gps coordinates of 23° 6' 41.6412'' N and 113° 19' 36.8004'' E.
Haixinsha Island, Tianhe Qu, Guangzhou Shi, China elevation is 32000 meters height, that is equal to 104,987 feet.
Coordinates of Haixinsha Island, Tianhe Qu, Guangzhou Shi, China is given above in both decimal degrees and DMS (degrees, minutes and seconds) format. The country code given is in the ISO2 format.


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‘The Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club’ has achieved its prestige by the unique combination of the world’s greatest players and horses, premier UK tournaments and a distinguished social hub.
They successfully provide a broad spectrum of polo from beginner through to High Goal (22); combined with the first arena polo in the UK and the foremost arena tournament in Europe.
With new world-class fields currently under construction and revolutionary infrastructure projects, a new era for ‘The Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club (RCBPC)’ has begun.


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Concierge service has evolved! Sky Remote is the future of concierge service, using advanced video conferencing technology. Remote Concierge can manage multiple buildings at the same time by complementing or replacing a manned desk with the most advanced security and communication technology available on the market today.
Without compromising on the quality of service, Remote Concierge can reduce your manpower expenses by 30%-70% per year. The functionality can be modified to meet your specific requirements and budget. Sky Remote manages all concierge services throughout the building and interacts live with residents and guests in the lobby through HD video conferencing technology.


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Tempo Software provides a set of integrated modules for employee driven HR-related tasks including timekeeping, employee profile, grievance management, expense tracking, and training for more than 25,000 government employees in two states. For years Tempo software has provided web based HR and business intelligence solutions for the State of Nevada. Since 2015, Tempo has experienced rapid growth in the California market with their HR timekeeping module and data warehousing for organizations such as California’s Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and Orange County. Their public sector software solutions are customized using Java, Oracle, SQL Server, Linux, Windows and open source tools. Tempo is so successful they began struggling to keep up with the growing demand for their software solutions in California. Tempo recognized that their market opportunity as a top-tier application development company could not be fully realized without a partner who could quickly deploy their programs to a growing client base.
Infiniti provides AWS (Cloud IaaS) Managed Service Provider services for Tempo, including AWS Solution Architecture, DevOps, and SysOps support and guidance for Tempo so they can quickly deploy their software to new clients as well as automate testing and installation of new software versions. Tempo’s software engineers are now able to focus on new product features and software application development while leaving the DevOps and SysOps to Infiniti’s team. Infiniti’s team is also providing solution architecture guidance to Tempo’s architects and engineers to help them fully leverage the AWS services such as Lambda, EFS, and RedShift.
Tempo is experiencing rapid growth with electronic timekeeping in California with growing national interest. With the help of Infiniti’s MSP support, Tempo is now rapidly deploying to new clients in California, including most recently the Department of Fish and Wildlife, with an ever-growing pipeline. Leveraging Infiniti’s AWS services such as Lambda, EFS, and RedShift means Tempo’s government client can take advantage of AWS Infrastructure as a Service’s (IaaS) scalability and flexibility as their needs evolve over time.
Infiniti is currently working with Tempo to setup AWS environments for several large California government departments. For these clients Infiniti’s team has helped Tempo utilize cross-region replication, load balancing, auto-scaling in addition to realizing the cost savings of consolidated billing.
Currently, Infiniti is analyzing spot instance methods to provide very low cost performance testing environment for Tempo.
Infiniti’s AWS certified staff have provided guidance to Tempo software’s engineers on many aspects of AWS. These services include AWS solution architecture, security architecture, performance architecture, as well as DevOps and SysOps. The first step was creating EC2 instances with snapshots on S3 storage. An initial area of focus was security, which included architecting and implementing highly secure access, managed firewalls, establishing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls, leveraging multi-factor authentication (MFA), and private subnets through Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Furthermore, Infiniti is using a combination of security groups, Network Access Control Lists (ACLs) and routing table rules to ensure that access to Tempo’s servers is rigidly protected.
Within the web tier and application tier Infiniti’s team has set up AWS auto-scaling groups, elastic load balancers, and Route 53 DNS Health Checks and DNS Failover.
On the database tier, Infiniti has set up database backups and disk snapshots to AWS S3 to ensure Tempo is fully covered from a disaster recovery standpoint. Infiniti’s team is now working with Tempo to make changes to the application to allow Tempo to use Amazon’s RDS rather than a Windows Server base instance with a separate SQL Server ISO/license. This will allow Tempo to take advantage of the RDO replication system that supports replication to another RDS instance on a different availability zone to increase resilience or automate failover. Cost savings are also expected with RDS.
Tempo, as a software development company, follows an Agile development process, so using DevOps processes is a natural extension of their existing processes. For DevOps, Infiniti’s Cloud System Engineers are using a combination of tools, including AWS ECS, Docker, Jenkins, and Salt to set up Tempo’s DevOps processes.


text: Of all our newly released wines, the Firebelle has by far the most inviting aromatic profile. Burnt matchstick gives way to plum skin and accents the wine's ripe, red, fleshy core. Further investigation reveals scents of flowers, a touch of spice, some clove and sassafras bark that linger in the glass, even after the wine is consumed. In the mouth, the Merlot dominates the supple core of this wine, but - as with the ever-shifting aromatics - the palate is similarly changeable: nimble and ethereal with one sip, smooth and charming the next. The young vine Cabernet that makes up a quarter of the blend adds to the red fruit tones and makes for a bright, fresh finish. Though always a wine that provides early pleasure in the glass, the Firebelle will also reward cellaring. With 10- 15 years of age, this wine will show its classic Bordelaise plum character wrapped in dried tobacco and cigar ash. Drink now and over the course of the next 15-25 years.


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Xi Jinping has said China's friendship with Russia guarantees "strategic balance and peace" in the world, on the second day of his trip to Moscow.
Mr Xi, on his first official overseas trip as leader, has already met President Vladimir Putin.
He described the Russian leader as a "good friend".
On Friday, Russia's state-owned energy firm Rosneft agreed to triple oil supplies to China in return for a $2bn (£1.3bn) loan.
The two countries also agreed a preliminary deal for a gas pipeline to be built, although analysts say they are still a long way from agreeing terms.
Russia is one of the world's biggest energy producers, and China is the world's top energy consumer.
Bilateral trade reached a record $88bn last year, but the figure is still a fraction of China's trade with the EU and the US.
In recent years, the two nations have also been closely aligned on global political issues.
They have vetoed attempts by other members of the UN Security Council to authorise tougher action against Syria's government.
And they have been largely in agreement over North Korea's nuclear programme.
Mr Xi told students at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations that China would continue to oppose interference in the internal affairs of other countries.
"We must respect the right of each country in the world to independently choose its path of development," he said.
"Strong high-level Chinese-Russian ties not only meet our interests, but serve as an important, reliable guarantee of international strategic balance and peace."
During the Cold War the two countries, while both nominally Communist, were bitter rivals.
But both sides have been full of praise for each other during Mr Xi's visit.
"We can already say this is a historic visit with positive results," Mr Putin said.
Mr Xi was confirmed as China's president last week, concluding a lengthy transition process that saw him assume the Communist Party leadership in November 2012.
Commentators say he is much more charismatic than his predecessor, Hu Jintao.
On the first day of his trip to Russia, Mr Xi stepped off the plane with his wife, well-known singer Peng Liyuan.
Ms Peng's appearance was widely reported in China's state media, and caused an outpouring of debate on microblogs.
One message on the Sina Weibo website said: "China's quest for a graceful first lady is over."

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Hours after the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Ecuador's police here on Thursday detained his accomplice.
"A person who is close to him lives here, we have convincing evidence that he maintained contacts with former Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino. He was detained this afternoon," TASS news quoted Ecuadorian Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo as saying.
The person has been identified as Ola Bini, a Swedish national. Reportedly, he works as a software developer with Wikileaks.
Assange was arrested earlier in the day on Thursday, in London in connection with the INA paper leaks.

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