How to Upgrade the Operating System That Runs Your Brain
Essential Reading! Get my 3rd book: Eat Their Lunch “The first ever playbook for B2B salespeople on how to win clients and customers who are already being serviced by your competition.” Buy Now Are you still running the old You 1.0 operating system? Does your operating system need an upgrade to the You 2.0 operating system (or some greater version) to be able to run the new “Brand You” program?If your old “You 1.0” operating system doesn’t produce the results that you need it to, if it doesn’t allow you to run the latest and greatest Brand You 2.0 program, you are need of an upgrade. Here’s how to upgrade.Beliefs InsideThe operating system that runs underneath all of the programs you run is your belief system. The great results you produce are driven by your underlying beliefs. Those beliefs lead you to take a certain set of actions, and those actions produce results. This is true for all of the not-so-great results you produce too; they are running on some part of your belief system.If you want to run better programs and produce better results, you have to upgrade to a better operating system. This isn’t as easy at it sounds. Before you can upgrade, you have to uninstall the beliefs that are already running on your brain. It’s likely these beliefs have been there a long time, and they aren’t very easy to uninstall.You have to be willing to shut off old belief systems that no longer work for you. You have to shut down the belief systems that never served you—and that probably weren’t even yours to begin with. You have to uninstall the malware that was installed when you came into contact with negative people, the cynics, the critics, and the naysayers.You have to be willing to give up what you believe. Are ready to take the red pill?Expose Your Brain to New IdeasIf you want new beliefs, you have to explore new ideas. If you are going to upgrade your belief system to the latest and greatest version of the You 2.0 Operating System, you have to seek out ideas that make you uncomfortable. You have to explore ideas that you reflexively disagree with, and you have to seek the truth.If you only believe what you have always believed, you will always run the same programs you have always run (and always produce the same results). Unless and until you are willing to have those beliefs challenged, you won’t take new actions. The new operating system is installed when you shed an old belief and install a new, more effective belief in its place.If you aren’t uncomfortable, you aren’t growing. If you aren’t shedding old beliefs for new beliefs, you aren’t growing. If you aren’t seeking the truth, you are running the same old You 1.0 operating system, and you are stagnating.You install the new operating system when you allow new ideas to provide you with new beliefs.Expose Your Brain to New PeopleCharlie “Tremendous” Jones once said, “You’re the same today as you’ll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.” You will find the new ideas in the books you read, for sure. You will also find those new ideas by bringing new people into your life.The people you meet have a different set of experiences than you. They have developed different beliefs because of their experiences. They have also been exposed to a lot of different ideas. When you bring new people into your life, you get the great benefit of sharing their experiences and their beliefs. But you have to be open to their beliefs—even the beliefs you have always disagreed with.The broader and more diverse the people you bring into your life, the more you are exposed to new ideas and potential new beliefs. It’s shocking how small your worldview seems when someone shares an experience that shatters all you think you know.Upgrading your operating system to You 2.0 means seeking out new relationships with people with a different set of experiences and different beliefs, especially people with whom you disagree.New Beliefs, New Actions, New ResultsRunning the You 2.0 operating systems means installing the new beliefs that allow you to take new actions. You won’t take new actions until you have new beliefs. New results require new programs.Stop and think about it. When you try some new activity, when you run a new program, it is always because some part of the blueprint that it is your belief system has changed. I’ll wait while you think this one out . . .If you want new results, you have to run new programs. Those new programs require a new operating system. You have to install a new belief system if you want better results.Go ahead and shut down the old You 1.0 Operating System. You are eligible for an upgrade.QuestionsWhat beliefs make up your existing operating system?How easy is it for you to shed old, unhealthy beliefs and adopt new beliefs?Where do you encounter the ideas that change your beliefs?How open are you to ideas that you reflexively disagree with?Do you have freaky friends with whom you disagree? Have you learned from them?
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Messi scores for ArgentinaIn the early hours of Monday, June 16, Lionel Messi pirouetted down the field at the Estadio do Maracana in Rio de Janeiro. A ballerina in the middle of an allegro, he glided on the edge of the penalty box, leaving two opponents toppled in his wake,,Messi scores for ArgentinaIn the early hours of Monday, June 16, Lionel Messi pirouetted down the field at the Estadio do Maracana in Rio de Janeiro. A ballerina in the middle of an allegro, he glided on the edge of the penalty box, leaving two opponents toppled in his wake, and fired a left-footer that miraculously curled into the back of the net. Football fans in India joyously erupted across the unifying terrain of social media. He trended on Twitter, Facebook was overrun, and the footprint of Messi mentions covered metros and B-towns in almost every corner of the country.It was 4.43 a.m. Why was India even awake? Neither did Messi belong to us, nor was there anything to gain by Argentina’s 2-1 victory over Bosnia-Herzegovina in Group F of a tournament involving the golden elite of a sport in which India is ranked an inglorious 154th. What was it that had made football, the greatest celebration of modern sport, and Messi, its finest exponent in this generation, so important in our supposedly cricket-mad country?There are times when sport becomes a celebration of human endeavour stripped of all its biases. At that moment, there is no team jersey, no national pride, no club loyalty; just a man with a ball at his feet and a target in his eyes. But the true romance of sport, the ‘meaning’ if you will, can come only from context. It is on this front that India’s relationship with football has changed so dramatically over the last three decades.advertisementGrowing up in India in the ’70s and ’80s, football touched us very rarely, very lightly. Temporary heroes were born once every four years, at the World Cups, and favourites were picked on the basis of hazy mugshots on black-and-white newspaper pages. For some, Michel Platini’s winning smile worked; for some, Rudi Voeller’s blonde mane.We knew a little about legends such as Pele, Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Cryuff through half-hour biographical shows on Doordarshan. But only some people in some pockets of the country-Kolkata, Goa, perhaps Kerala-could really connect with international football. Then, in 1986, a magician with feet of gold and the hand of God changed everything. Diego Maradona erupted on the whole world, even its farthest corners, at one go. Running across the length of the pitch, turning, falling, rising, scoring, he bridged the gap between the hard-nosed fanatic and the curious bystander. You didn’t have to be a follower of the sport, just a follower of Maradona, to experience the joy of football.Today, 28 years since he won the World Cup for Argentina in Mexico City, international club football has become a part of urban life in liberalised India. Enticed by television, young football junkies feel a sense of belonging that transcends their geographical disconnect with Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal. Every game is live-EPL, La Liga, Champions League. Players are put to the test, shaken, stirred, beaten with a stick, before a genuine hero can emerge.Now football in India is about loyalty rather than wonderment. If Robin van Persie leaves Arsenal, he becomes immediately loathsome. If Cesc Fabregas moves to Chelsea, he transforms into a hero overnight. It is in this new, vibrant-but-biased universe that the World Cup comes along to breach an invisible barrier. Like Maradona’s exploits in 1986 broke the shackles of nationality, Brazil 2014 temporarily releases us from the manacles of club loyalty.FIFA may be a bully like most monopolies are, but on the field, the World Cup is the only form that remains pristine and unsullied in football’s commercial age. At a time when team jerseys are selling thick and fast (shipped directly from online stores of our favourite clubs), galaxies are built with mega-million transfers. If you have the right Russian billionaire or the bejewelled Arab sheikh to back your club, it can become a champion overnight.The World Cup doesn’t work that way. You can’t throw wads of cash to lift the 2014 trophy in the shadow of Rio’s Christ the Redeemer. To win it, you have to be born alongside other great countrymen in a Golden Generation.It is this gilt-edged speciality that the world is now celebrating. Money can buy you everything, perhaps even love and loyalty, but not the awkwardly synchronised chemistry of 11 professionals who discard their workplaces for a month to be part of something larger than plying their trade. That’s why the World Cup is special. Even to us Indians who stay up all night to watch. We may not play top football yet, but are finally beginning to understand it. nadvertisement
World number two Dustin Johnson has become the latest golfer to withdraw from next month’s Rio Olympics due to fears over the Zika virus, the American announced on Friday.The 32-year-old joins world number one Jason Day, fourth-ranked Rory McIlroy and world number eight Adam Scott as top 10 golfers who have opted out of Rio.”This was not an easy decision for me, but my concerns about the Zika Virus cannot be ignored,” Johnson said in a statement.”(Fiancee) Paulina and I plan to have more children in the near future, and I feel it would be irresponsible to put myself, her or our family at risk.” Johnson’s exit is yet another blow to Olympic golf which has returned to the Games for the first time since 1904.South Africans Branden Grace and Louis Oosthuizen along with Japans Hideki Matsuyama have also declined to make the trip.Johnson is currently the hottest golfer in the world, having won the US Open and WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in his last two starts. He is the first American to remove his name from consideration, though third-ranked Jordan Spieth has said he is “uncertain” about going.Zika is a mosquito-borne virus that the World Health Organization says is spreading rapidly in the Americas.Qualifying for the 60-man field ends on July 11.
Indian women dished out an all-round performance to stun China 4-1 and register their second consecutive victory at the women’s Asia Cup hockey tournament in Japan on Monday.Goals from Gurjit Kaur (19th minute), Navjot Kaur (32nd), Neha Goyal (49th) and skipper Rani Rampal (58th) enabled the Indians to keep their winning momentum in Pool A at Kakamigahara Kawasaki Stadium.India had earlier defeated Singapore 10-0 in their tournament opener.The Indians were quick to get off the blocks as they won a penalty corner in the first 15 minutes of the match to put China on the back foot.The first quarter ended in a stalemate after India wasted the chance.But four minutes into the second quarter dragflick specialist Gurjit Kaur convert a splendid goal to give India a 1-the lead.Two minutes after the change of ends, India doubled their through Navjot Kaur’s field strike.But a defensive error in the circle saw India concede a penalty corner in the 38th minute and the Chinese were quick to capitalise on the opportunity and pulled one goal back through Qiuxia Cui’s successful conversion.Down by a goal, China pushed hard in search of the equaliser in the final quarter but failed to break the resolute Indian defence.The Indians made life more difficult for their opponents when Neha Goyal found the back of the Chinese net with a variation from a set piece to make the scoreline 3-1.In the last 10 minutes of the match, both the teams traded penalty corners.advertisementWhile India won two penalty corners and China secured one but both the sides failed to utilise the chances.The action, however, didn’t end there as skipper Rani scored a sensational field goal in the 58th minute to secure a commanding 4-1 win for India.India will next play Malaysia in their last pool match tomorrow.
Virat Kohli is now in a league of his own among Indian batsmen as he aggregated over 600 runs in a single Test series for the third time. With scores of 0, 104 not out, 213, 243 and 50, he finished with 610 runs from the three-Test series against Sri Lanka.Back in 2014-15, Kohli had scored 639 runs against Australia in a four-Test series. Later in 2016-17, he smashed 655 runs in a five-Test series against England. This is the first time he has scored over 600 runs in a three-Test series.The Indian captain has broken several records in the longest format of the game over the last 15 months. On Tuesday, he became the only Indian to aggregate over 600 runs in a Test series thrice. Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid had achieved the feat twice.Earlier in 2017, he became the first man to score double hundreds in four successive series. After a lean patch against Australia, Kohli scored a solitary hundred in Sri Lanka before coming to his own in India.Dismissed for a duck in the first innings of the opening Test at Eden Gardens, Kohli hit back with a hundred in the second (103 not out). In Nagpur, he smashed 213 and then hit a classy 243 in the third Test in Delhi. In the second innings, he hammered an aggressive 50.Most runs in a series after starting with a duck:625, J Kallis v Eng, 2004-05615, M Vaughan v Ind, 2002610, VIRAT KOHLI v SL, 2017-18Tests played- Kallis 5, Vaughan 4, Kohli 3)#INDvSL #INDvsSL #SLvIND- Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) December 5, 2017The Feroz Shah Kotla double ton happened to be his sixth and it has now placed him on top of double century scorers for India alongside Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.advertisementKohli also broke Brian Lara’s record for most double hundreds as captain and was well on his way to a triple century when Sri Lanka’s complaints over the poor air quality in Delhi affected his concentration.Virat Kohli’s scores in #INDvSL series:0104*21324350Total 610 runs (avg 152.50)Only one captain has scored more runs in a 3-match series: Graham Gooch (752 v Ind, 1990)- Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) December 5, 2017Meanwhile, Sri Lanka continued to suffer due to the Delhi pollution. After repeated interrptions on Sunday, the Lankans had more cause for concern when Suranga Lakmal vomitted on the field early on Day 4 before walking off as Delhi’s notorious smog, which may rob the Indian capital of future winter Tests, continued to plague the third and final match on Tuesday.Kohli, who had a nightmarish time in England back in 2014, came back strongly with 639 runs in Australia later that year. He hit four hundreds in four Tests. His tally is the most by an Indian in a Test series in Australia. The record was earlier held by Rahul Dravid (619).After taking over as India’s full-time Test captain, Kohli scaled newer peaks with the bat and he was in his elements against England at home, smashing 655 runs in a five-match series at home.Against Sri Lanka, Kohli would have been disappointed to start with a duck but he responded with a record-breaking spree to finish the year on a high with 1059 runs in 10 Tests.
TweetPinShare0 Shares NEW YORK — Sidney Crosby woke up, and so did the Pittsburgh Penguins.Crosby scored twice and the Penguins evened their first-round playoff series with the New York Rangers with a 4-3 win on April 18.The Rangers won Game 1 by making Crosby virtually invisible and keeping Evgeni Malkin out of the danger zone. Both of them and the Penguins as a whole showed more jump, possessing the puck and keeping New York off-balance.Forcing turnovers in the decisive second period, shutting down the Rangers’ power play and generally controlling the pace, the Penguins got even.“You play well, that’s all you want,” the Penguins’ star center said. “We wanted to make sure we went home with one.”Crosby, naturally, was at the center of the turnaround. He broke a 1-1 tie by knocking in a rebound of Patric Hornqvist’s shot in the second period.Then Crosby made a diving deflection past Henrik Lundqvist of a pass from Chris Kunitz on the right wing boards following a Rangers giveaway in their zone.At that point, Crosby had four shots on goal in the series, with two going in. “There’s always pressure to score,” said Crosby, who had 28 goals and 84 points this seasonGame 3 is Monday night in Pittsburgh. The Rangers had the league’s best road record this season while also winning the Presidents’ Cup for top overall record.“It’s important in the playoffs to make sure you can play in a home building and in a road building,” Derek Stepan said. “We have to make sure we get ourselves refocused and get ourselves ready for Game 3.”The Rangers have not won a home Game 2 since beating Vancouver in the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals.Marc-Andre Fleury finished with 23 saves for the Penguins, while Lundqvist had 18.The resilient Rangers got back in it early in the third period on, of all things, their previously sputtering power play. Derick Brassard knocked in a rebound from short range after strong pressure with Blake Comeau penalized early in the third.Stepan hit the goal post on the first shot of another power play less than three minutes later. And while killing a penalty, Martin St. Louis and Carl Hagelin both couldn’t get to a loose puck behind Fleury in the crease.On that same power play, Kunitz made it 4-2, sweeping in the rebound of Brandon Sutter’s short shot.“I thought our second power-play unit was effective for us when it was out there,” Penguins coach Mike Johnston said.Rick Nash scored with 5.1 seconds to go for New York.The Rangers opened the scoring in the first period. Stepan was robbed by Fleury from the slot, but on New York’s next rush, Ryan McDonagh fed J.T. Miller on left wing, and his perfect pass to nearly the same spot in the slot hit Stepan in stride. He beat Fleury to the far post this time — one of only three Rangers shots in the period.While the Rangers’ power play struggled, Sutter nearly tied it midway in the second with a short-handed wrist shot that clanged off the goal post. Then he did tie it with a rebound off a deflection on a Pittsburgh power play.Special teams were critical, of course, with Pittsburgh going 2-for-4 on power plays, New York 1-for-7.“You have to save you energy to kill penalties off,” Crosby said when asked if the Penguins were getting frustrated by so many calls against them. “It’s not worth wasting your energy.”Nash recognized the Rangers’ urgent need to pick up the power-play production.“I think we were overpassing a bit tonight,” he said. “It didn’t seem like we were getting enough looks, enough shots there in the shot lanes, and we weren’t working to get through the shot lanes and get the shots on net.”(BARRY WILNER, AP Sports Writer)
RIO DE JANEIRO — Thirteen rowers on the 40-member U.S. team came down with stomach illness at the World Junior Rowing Championships — a trial run for next summer’s Olympics — and the team doctor said she suspected it was due to pollution in the lake where the competition took place.The event took place amid rising concerns about the water quality at venues for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, now less than a year away.The Americans were by far the hardest hit at the regatta that concluded over the weekend, with reports of vomiting and diarrhea.Other teams in the competition reported some illnesses, according to World Rowing, the sport’s governing body, but those were about as expected at an event that featured more than 500 young rowers.On July 30, The Associated Press published an independent analysis of water quality that showed high levels of viruses and, in some cases, bacteria from human sewage in all of Rio’s Olympic and Paralympic water venues, including the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake, where the rowing competition took place.U.S. coach Susan Francia, a two-time Olympic gold-medal rower, said in an interview with the AP that 13 athletes and four staff members — including herself — suffered various gastrointestinal symptoms during the team’s two weeks of training in Rio.Dr. Kathryn Ackerman, the U.S. team physician, said athletes from several other countries stayed in the same hotel as the Americans, but did not seem to get as sick as her rowers.“I don’t know if it was the water bottles in the boats, or hygiene precautions that some athletes are really good about and others weren’t,” she said.Officials did not rule out that the Americans could have gotten ill from food or drinking water. “We’re not really sure. My personal feeling is, I think it’s from the lake,” Ackerman said.Francia said she lacked the data and information to directly blame the illness on the venue, but added: “It just doesn’t seem normal.”She warned athletes coming for the Olympics that “you should know when you’re coming next year that you have to be smart about how you are preparing.”Francia said the U.S. team had taken precautions about competing in the polluted lake beneath Rio’s picturesque Christ the Redeemer statue, “but maybe we were not as strict in enforcing them as we should have been from the beginning.”“As soon as kids started going down, we were bleaching oar handles, we were immediately washing hands after coming off the water,” she said. “Other countries didn’t allow water bottles at all. Other countries had water bottles in zip-locked bags.”US Rowing, which oversees the sport in the United States, said it is investigating what sickened the athletes, who range in age from 16-19. None are likely to be Olympians next year.Rowing officials will debrief the athletes when they return to the U.S., likely through the rest of the week. They will talk to the athletes, review protocols for cleanliness.Ackerman said she became worried when one U.S. boat tipped over in the lake, although the athlete who got thrown into the water was not among those who became ill.“Obviously we were all concerned because we know the water’s polluted,” she added.The Americans’ experience is almost certain to raise more concerns for the Olympics. About 10,500 athletes will attend the Summer Games, and 1,400 will participate in rowing, sailing, triathlon, canoeing and distance swimming in the waters around Rio.“You don’t want to see athletes in the boat-park vomiting,” Francia said, recounting that the competitor she saw get sick was not an American. One of the U.S. rowers did faint in a dining area, she added.The AP analysis of water began in March and was performed by noted Brazilian virologist Fernando Spilki, coordinator of the environmental quality program at Feevale University in southern Brazil.It showed dangerously high levels of viruses from sewage in all Olympic venues. The samples were checked for three types of human adenovirus, as well as rotavirus, enterovirus and fecal coliforms.These are viruses that are known to cause digestive and respiratory illnesses, including explosive diarrhea and vomiting, but can also in rarer cases lead to more serious heart, brain and other diseases, such as hepatitis A.The AP testing, which will continue through the Olympics, also checked for bacterial fecal coliforms — which at times during the study peaked at the Olympic lake to 10 times the acceptable limit for secondary contact per Brazilian regulations.In two separate emailed statements following the AP study, the World Health Organization affirmed it was advising the International Olympic Committee “to widen the scientific base of indicators to include viruses.”The WHO underscored that it’s actually up to the local Olympic organizing committee in Rio to order that viral testing be done.However, in an emailed statement Aug. 10, the organization reversed course and said that “WHO has not and will not issue an ‘official recommendation’ on viral testing.”The local committee has not responded to repeated requests for information on whether it will order the viral testing.Matt Smith, the head of World Rowing, said he wants the IOC and local organizers to ask the state of Rio de Janeiro to do viral testing in the run-up to the Olympics.However, the Rio state environment agency does not have the equipment or the trained personnel to carry out viral testing of water, according to local virologists.The agency confirmed it only does bacterial testing, since that is all Brazilian law, like that of most nations including the U.S., demands.Smith said the rowing, sailing, swimming, canoeing and triathlon federation could unite to test if the Rio state officials declined to.“If they don’t agree, or don’t want to, we will discuss together what to do and probably finance our own test,” Smith said.Peter Sowrey, the CEO of sailing’s world governing body ISAF, told AP he would seek independent testing for viruses “to understand exactly what we are dealing with.”Sailing will take place in Guanabara Bay, rowing and canoeing in Rodrigo de Freitas, and triathlon and swimming off Copacabana Beach.Peter Cookson, the high-performance director for the Canadian team, said he had “absolutely no problems” at the regatta. But he had questions about risks.“I’m not an expert in viruses. We’ve never encountered this,” he said. “I’m struggling with what the right answer is to protect the rowers.”Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes and IOC member Carlos Nuzman, who heads the local organizing committee, appeared at the venue over the weekend.Paes, who has repeatedly acknowledged that Rio “missed an opportunity” to clean its waters for the Olympics, said he would follow the IOC’s lead on viral testing.“The IOC needs to tell us that we need to,” he said. “The Brazilian law doesn’t tell us to do that (viral testing). They just tell us to do the standards of the Brazilian law. And if the IOC wants it, we’ll do it.”Swiss rower Katharina Strahl, noting that the lake was “smelly in a few places,” was able to joke about the pollution.“I don’t think in this lake they’ll be throwing the coxswain into the water,” she said.___By Stephen Wade, AP Sports Writer. AP writer Brad Brooks contributedTweetPinShare0 Shares
Virat Kohli struggled to get going in his first two innings on Australian soil during India’s 2011-12 tour. Frustration had crept in and the fiery cricketer kicked up a storm by flashing his fingers at the Australian crowd.However, the memories of the Delhi batsman struggling to put bat to ball seems a distant past as he has never looked back since scoring his first century in Australia in Adelaide in the last Test of the 2012 tour.In 2014-15, Kohli took his love for Australia to another level as he slammed four centuries, including a twin ton in Adelaide. He had finished the series, which India lost 2-0 with 692 runs at a staggering average of 86.50.As Kohli prepares for the much-anticipated four-Test series against Australia, the India captain is set for another record-breaking spree.Kohli, who has scored 992 runs from eight Tests Down Under, is bidding to reach 1,000 runs on Australian soil, faster than batting great Don Bradman, who reached the four-figure mark in his 10th Test at home.Even some of Australia’s big names, including Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Matthew Hayden, Allan Border, and Steve Smith needed more than 10 innings to reach 1,000 Test runs at home.Kohli is also set to join an elite list, consisting of four Indians – Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag – who have amassed 1,000 runs in Australia.If Kohli gets to the 1,000-run mark in the opening Test of the upcoming series in Adelaide, he will become the fastest India to do so. Laxman currently holds the record as he got to the landmark in his 10th Test.advertisementWhile Kohli has 992 runs after eight Tests in Australia, Laxman had scored 783, Tendulkar 646, Dravid 735, and Sehwag 907 after eight matches each Down Under.Can Kohli shatter Tendulkar’s record Down Under? Sachin Tendulkar scored six centuries in Australia during his two-decade-long career (Reuters Photo)Kohli is also bidding to shatter Tendulkar’s record for the most Test centuries by an Indian batsman in Australia as the India captain is just one behind his idol’s tally of six. He is now second on the list, tied on five centuries with Sunil Gavaskar.There is no doubt the narrative leading up to the four-Test series has been centered around Kohli. The India captain has headed into the series on the back of scoring in bulk in India’s two previous overseas tours of the year in South Africa and Australia.While Kohli scored 286 from three Tests in difficult batting conditions in the Rainbow Nation, the skipper was peerless in the Old Blighty, amassing a chart-topping tally of 593 runs, 244 more than second-placed Jos Bultter in a five-Test series.Also Read | India in Australia: Why Australia are wary of Virat KohliAlso Read | India will win Test series in Australia 3-0: Sunil GavaskarAlso Read | Australia under pressure while India flying under Virat Kohli: Brendon McCullumAlso See:
APTN National NewsInuit Liberal candidate Yvonne Jones appears to have beaten former Innu leader and Conservative candidate Peter Penashue who was attempting a comeback.The first poll results from Newfoundland and Labrador showed that Jones had 77 per cent of the vote early on in the race for the Labrador riding. The gap of her lead led to a quick projection call handing the seat to Jones.Penashue resigned his intergovernmental affairs minister post in the Stephen Harper government and his seat after it emerged there were donation irregularities with his federal campaign during the 2011 election.Penashue’s former campaign manager Reg Bowers pleaded guilty earlier this month to two counts under the Canada Elections Act. Bowers pleaded guilty to accepting illegal campaign contributions and for discounted airfares during the 2011 campaign.news@aptn.ca@APTNNews
OTTAWA – Federal Liberals have shared details about a $100,000 pilot project undertaken for their caucus research bureau by the Canadian data scientist who triggered an international uproar with allegations that Facebook users’ data was inappropriately harvested for political gain.Christopher Wylie came forward in recent days with accusations that a voter-profiling company improperly collected private information from some 50 million Facebook users. The effort helped seal 2016 victories for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in the U.S. and in the U.K.’s Brexit referendum, he said.Wylie has insisted in media interviews that he not only played a key role in developing the data-mining technique, he also helped establish the Cambridge Analytica firm he alleges was behind it.Political parties depend heavily on access to quality data about voters when fine-tuning their pitches, but Wylie has insisted in interviews that the profiling approach he helped create went too far.His allegations have forced policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic to wrestle with growing public concerns that data collected by Facebook and other social-media companies is being misused to influence elections.After The Canadian Press revealed Wylie was contracted by the Liberals in early 2016, the party released more information Wednesday about the short-lived agreement — and they insist that after seeing a sample of his services, they decided not to move forward.The issue emerged as a dominant theme during question period in the House of Commons, where political rivals repeatedly questioned the government on the contract and the issue of protecting online privacy.Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer led off by demanding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explain Wylie’s exact role with the Liberal government.“Protecting the personal and privacy information of Canadians should be a top priority for government,” said Scheer, who noted how Wylie had also worked for previous Liberal leaders about a decade ago.“Yet the prime minister has failed to be honest with Canadians about the Liberal party’s relationship with an individual who has exploited the private information of millions of people around the world.”Speaking about the issue in Toronto, Trudeau told reporters that all politicians need to make sure they’re using modern digital tools in a responsible and appropriate way that respects privacy of citizens and provides information so they can make better choices at the ballot box.“That’s something that I’ve actually asked our minister of democratic institutions to lean in on and to develop tools to protect both Canadians and our electoral processes.”Shortly before question period, the Liberals issued a statement saying Wylie’s company, Eunoia Technologies, conducted preliminary work for the caucus research bureau at a cost of $100,000 in a contract done in accordance with House of Commons procurement rules.The statement by the bureau’s managing director, Melissa Cotton, also said Wylie’s firm was contracted for several purposes, such as setting up social-media monitoring tools and the creation of samples of Canadians to help the party better understand the public’s opinions on government policies and other issues of national importance.Earlier this week, The Canadian Press spoke with an acquaintance of Wylie’s who described having drinks with the data expert in Ottawa in November 2015, a few weeks after the federal election.The acquaintance said Wylie talked about his plans to shop his Facebook data-mining techniques in the national capital, including with the Liberals and also in Washington with the Republican party.Wylie described using a Facebook survey as an entry point to collect user data and the pair discussed the ethical concerns surrounding the method, according to the acquaintance.By 2009, during Wylie’s stint working for the Liberal leader’s office, he had already begun to develop strategies on how politicians could capitalize on information collected through social media, another former Liberal insider said earlier this week.At that time, Wylie was pushing a fledgling form of the data-harvesting technique, but the idea was considered too invasive and raised concerns with the Liberals, who decided they didn’t want anything to do with it and chose not to renew his contract, said the insider, who discussed the matter on condition of anonymity.Wylie has not responded to interview requests by The Canadian Press.The federal privacy commissioner has formally launched an investigation to determine whether any personal information of Canadians was affected by the alleged unauthorized access to Facebook user profiles.Facebook Canada released a statement Wednesday saying it was “strongly committed to protecting people’s information” and would answer any questions from the privacy commissioner.Meanwhile, the Trudeau government is asking the Communications Security Establishment and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to take a closer look at the situation to better ensure the privacy rights of Canadians are protected.Brison has said he’d be open to strengthening federal privacy laws even further to better protect those who share their information online.Facebook has denied the data collection involving Cambridge Analytica was a breach, because people gave their consent when they chose to sign up for a personality test via an app on the platform.The social-media giant, however, has faced widespread criticism over revelations about the leak and the fact the company has known about it since 2015, but didn’t disclose it. The issue wasn’t made public until recently.On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a post on the platform that his company had “made mistakes.”“We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve you,” Zuckerberg said.Cambridge Analytica has denied allegations that it had improperly obtained Facebook data.The company has also insisted Wylie was a contractor, not a founder, as he has claimed. The 28-year-old from British Columbia, left the firm in 2014.Follow @AndyBlatchford on Twitter
Rothschild, an author and philanthropist, said the public had twice protected the art work from vandals in recent times, saying the necessary lack of insurance was “shocking but true”.Sir Nicholas Serota, former head of the Tate galleries, said it too did not insure works hanging on its own walls, saying there was “every confidence” in the measures in place to protect them.Asked how much the paintings hanging in the National Gallery were worth by Sir David Tang, during a talk at the China Exchange, Rothschild replied: “I wouldn’t have a clue.“Incidentally, this isn’t something that we widely publish, but the fact is that the paintings at the National Gallery are not insured.“Because we couldn’t possibly afford to insure them. They are priceless. How could you possibly insure even just The Ambassadors?”She added of art galleries in general: “Nothing is insured in this country. You couldn’t possibly afford to insure them. The moment they go off-site on tour then they become insured.“They’re too valuable, they’re priceless. Shocking but true.” Speaking to Sir David during a later public talk, Sir Nicholas Serota was asked the same question.”The only things that are insured at the Tate are the works that are being lent to us,” he said.”We’re not allowed to insure because the cost to the Exchequer would be huge. And I think there’s every confidence in our security.”He added: “Which is not to say that nothing has ever disappeared from the Tate and not to say nothing has never been introduced to the Tate.”A spokesman for the National Gallery said: “The National Gallery takes every precaution to ensure the safety of its Collection, its visitors and staff.”However, we never discuss our security measures in detail as to do so could compromise our security.”The Gallery’s collection, when it is displayed on site, is not commercially insured consistent with the principle that Government property (including the whole of the British National Collection) is self-insured.”When we lend works we require borrowers to insure the works to their full value. Also, when the Gallery borrows from third parties the works we borrow are insured under the UK Government Indemnity scheme.” Works of art in the National Gallery are “really vulnerable”, the institution’s chairman has admitted, as she said members of the public are their “greatest defenders”.Hannah Rothschild disclosed none of the works at the gallery are insured because they are worth so much that no institution could afford the premiums.Instead, she said, room attendants are “extremely highly trained” in protecting the works, including on “how to intercept lunatics”. The fact is that the paintings at the National Gallery are not insured. Because we couldn’t possibly afford to insure themHannah Rothschild Room attendants are “extremely highly trained” in protecting the works, including on “how to intercept lunatics”Credit:UniversalImagesGroup 
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Rothschild, an author and philanthropist, said the public had twice protected the art work from vandals in recent timesCredit:View Pictures/UIG via Getty Images On the question of what would happen if someone attempted to damage a painting, or there was a fire, she conceded: “Yeah, you’re in trouble.“The room attendants are extremely highly trained in all sorts of things including how to intercept lunatics. And there are CCTV cameras and everything else.“But yeah, it’s really vulnerable.”“Very recently, somebody did have a go at a picture and I think what happened was the attendant went and launched themselves at them and so did members of the public.“I think it was an instinctive reaction. You wouldn’t say to somebody, put yourself in danger. But actually instinctively what happens is that the room wardens get so protective over paintings, and the members of public love them so much, that they don’t want members of the public attacking them.“The public sometimes are the greatest defenders of the work of art. It’s happened twice now it’s been the public which has protected a work of art.
ABB recently completed commissioning of the integrated electrification and automation system for the first process line of Northland Resources’ Kaunisvaara iron ore concentrator plant. The site is located approximately 100 km north of the Arctic Circle, in Sweden. The initial orders were awarded in the first quarter of 2012 by Metso Minerals and Northland Resources. The extremely tight schedule made this project distinctive – ABB delivered its first equipment only two months after the contract was awarded and production started merely seven months later on December 4, 2012.“This is truly a remarkable achievement by the Northland team together with our key suppliers. They have been able to keep up with the demanding time schedule that we set up”, said Karl-Axel Waplan, President & CEO of Northland. “This has only been possible thanks to the tremendous dedication of the project management team and the competent staff. The close partnership with our contract partners has played a vital role in our success.” ABB’s electrification and automation solutions will allow Northland Resources to achieve optimal operational conditions to reach highest production at lowest energy costs. The scope of supply included nine containerized electrical rooms with embedded medium- and low-voltage switchgear, variable-speed drives and motor control centers, integrated with a plant-wide process automation system using ABB’s Extended Automation System 800xA. ABB’s delivery also included fibre optic network equipment cabling, cable trenching, installation material, engineering, commissioning, installation supervision and project management services.A previous order included one sophisticated dual pinion low-speed mill drive system (2 x 5,800 kW). This drive system consists of converter transformers, the frequency converter ACS6000 and synchronous motors and is currently in its final commissioning stage. Northland plans to produce 1.4 million dry metric tonnes (dmt) of high-grade iron ore concentrate in 2013 and 3 million dmt in 2014. The company expects to reach a production capacity of 4 million dmt per year in the beginning of the third quarter of 2014.
And while the game didn’t go his side’s way, U17s boss Tom Mohan welcomed the unscheduled visit.“It was an absolute pleasure to have Roy along to our training camp in Everton,” said Mohan. “He made an inspirational speech to the lads, which saw them energised ahead of their clash against Everton Tuesday.“The result didn’t go our way, but they pulled together and put n a fantastic display. I’m looking forward to working with Roy again in future.”It’s great to see that he is taking an interest in the future of the game in this country.Anderson claims quotes about Man United exodus were made upIs Eden Hazard the best young player in the world? He then watched on as the team took on Everton’s academy squad in a spirited display, which saw them lose 3-2 to their hosts.” WITH IRELAND NOT in action until March, assistant manager Roy Keane has been busy scouting at games across the water, taking in some grassroots football and making a couple of surprise visits in recent weeks.This afternoon, the Cork native showed up at Everton’s Finch Farm where a three-day Ireland U17 training camp is currently taking place ahead of the upcoming UEFA elite mini-group qualifiers with Germany, Georgia and Serbia.“The legendary Ireland midfielder gave an inspirational speech at Ireland’s team base, lasting over an hour to the young hopefuls on his playing career, and opportunities he grasped from a young age,” said the FAI.