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Presidente Orsi a Silvio Rodríguez: gracias por años de compromiso

Imagen principal: Silvio Rodríguez dejó una impronta aquí con dos conciertos en el Antel Arena y su reencuentro con Uruguay, incluido el saludo del presidente Yamandú Orsi.El mandatario uruguayo asistió el sábado al último concierto del cantautor cubano en compañía del reconocido músico de su país, Rubén Rada.Resultaba este el recital original de la etapa uruguaya de la gira que Silvio inició en La Habana y prosiguió por Santiago de Chile y luego Buenos Aires, adonde regresó para otra presentación en tierra argentina.

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Keeler: CSU Rams football doesn’t need another Deion Sanders. It needs its own Niko Medved. It needs Collin Klein
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Keeler: CSU Rams football doesn’t need another Deion Sanders. It needs its own Niko Medved. It needs Collin Klein

Five words of advice, CSU: There’s only one Deion Sanders. Celebrity football coaching hires are a Hail Mary into a shark tank. Coach Prime brought a gold jacket, two Heisman Trophy-level talents in his luggage and national talking heads in his back pocket, ready to throw down for dear old CU. Or whichever school Sanders landed at. But Bill Belichick? All soap opera. No substance. Trent Dilfer? Fired after a 9-21 record at UAB. Eddie George? 3-4 at Bowling Green. TBD. DeSean Jackson? 4-3 at Delaware State. TBD. Tim Tebow? A Rocky Mountain Showdown of Superman vs. Coach Prime would send ESPN into nuclear meltdown every six minutes. Jay Norvell was finally let go in FoCo on Sunday after a month of awkward, uncomfortable speculation. The Rams need a football coach and a splash. Not necessarily in that order. Speaking of splash, in August, I asked Broncos legend Terrell Davis, known pal of CSU president Amy Parsons, if he’d ever want to follow in Coach Prime’s footsteps. “College coaching, I’ve never done that after I’ve played the game,” TD said, pondering as we spoke. “Unofficially, I’ve worked with some college kids. I did high school coaching. “So I would never say ‘never.’ I’m a ‘never, never, say never’ guy. But highly unlikely that I would actually coach. Highly unlikely. Like, be a coach-coach? Full-time coach? Highly unlikely.” OK, so that’s a ‘no.’ For now. Call him anyway. Chase your Deion. Just don’t forget to chase your Niko, too. If I’m CSU athletic director John Weber, I want the kind of juice in my football program that Medved brought to men’s basketball. I want the next rising star in coaching circles. I want an up-and-comer who, if he does what I want and what the fans want, will probably be plucked by a Big Ten or SEC suitor one day. I want someone I have to scrap to hire and fight to keep. Someone hip enough to relate to kids, young enough to evolve, confident enough to delegate and stubborn enough to chase championships. I want Collin Klein. Klein is Texas A&M’s offensive coordinator. Let’s get this out of the way: He’s not Mike Bobo. He just turned 36. He played football at Loveland before turning into a Tebow-esque Heisman Trophy finalist for Kansas State. He’s called plays for Bill Snyder. His offense under Chris Klieman won K-State a Big 12 title in 2022. His crew at College Station started the week averaging 36.1 points, 464.3 yards and 197 rushing yards per game. He also knows the territory. He’s lived here. He’s recruited here. He’d open doors locally that Bobo, Steve Addazio and even Norvell either dismissed or ignored entirely. And no, you can’t build a regional power, let alone a national one, on the backs of Colorado prep products. But you could start some pretty good offensive lines and linebacker rooms with them, last I checked. CSU isn’t a great job. It’s a good one. A tricky one, too. The Rams are framing the Pac-12 as a leap, but it’s more of a logistical hop. Any Pac-12 without USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington isn’t the Pac-12 — it’s Mountain West-plus. And among the schools that will comprise the new-look MW+, the Rams might be the fourth-best job out of an eight-team mix. Washington State and Oregon State have decades of deeper coffers. Boise State offers better brand value. On facilities, CSU should blow San Diego State, Fresno State and Utah State out of the water. On the field? Flip a coin. Meanwhile, college football is working against CSU, and its soon-to-be Pac-12 peers, on multiple fronts. Just as the Big Ten and SEC treat the Big 12 and ACC rosters as minor-league feeder clubs, the Big 12 and ACC feel free to raid the Pac-12, AAC, and on down the line. When money and television drive the train, instability is the only constant. CSU can either pull a CU and turn the athletic department over to an independent media empire, or it can counter-program and double down on the grass-roots approach, the eternal verities that Medved espoused. Niko also out-worked, out-recruited and out-coached most of his peers. And he delivered what Rams faithful want first and foremost: dominance in their league and promises delivered. Norvell, in hindsight, fell short on both counts. CSU never found its Carson Strong, a quarterback who could elevate the Rams the way Strong elevated Norvell’s Nevada squads. If you’re wondering where the Jay Era went wrong, start there. Clay Millen was supposed to be the franchise. Then Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi was supposed to save it. The former was shell-shocked by one of the worst offensive lines imaginable in 2021 and eventually flat-lined. The latter peaked as a redshirt freshman. Norvell was — and is — a good soul. But an old one. He despised the ideas of pay-for-play, of agents, or third parties, of the lines between Power 4 football and the NFL blurring more by the day. Norvell fell reasonably on the curve, but where the curve was in 2018. Not long after he was hired, the landscape shifted in ways CSU claimed they saw coming and in other directions — read: Deion — that no one in FoCo could have envisioned in Thanksgiving 2021. Norvell was true to his beliefs and slow to adapt. A collegiate play-caller forever, he refused to give up the sheet, even when multitasking created game-management cracks that his talent simply couldn’t pave over. Although in 2023, Norvell’s second season, that talent should have. CSU had arguably the best offensive player (Tory Horton) and best defensive player (Mo Kamara) in the Mountain West. The Rams that season went a disappointing 5-7, losing three of those games by eight points or fewer, including a double-overtime loss at CU on Sept. 16 — an outcome that, if the Rams had held on, might have changed the short-term fortunes for both programs. CSU was promised the Air Raid. But instead of balls in the air the last three seasons, there were mostly yellow flags. It was too many weeks of watching the Rams find new, creative ways to sabotage themselves via a turnover or penalty. Norvell last offseason hired a general manager to handle the emerging personnel stuff he disliked, but even that felt a little late. And somewhat coerced. “I’ve told him this,” Rams GM Alex Collins said to me a few months back. “Because he always talks about, ‘Oh, my Nevada teams, my Nevada team.’ “I said, ‘Coach, if we would have moved the timeline a little bit, and you would have had that Nevada team, you would have had (your best players) for one year. Romeo Doubs would have been a UCLA Bruin. Cole Turner would have been a Washington Husky. And Carson Strong, bless his heart, probably would have finished at Cal.'” Boum Jock, one of the stars of last year’s 8-5 Rams, is currently playing at Cal. Two of Jock’s 2024 CSU running mates, Gabe Kirschke and Nuer Gatkuoth, are now at Wake Forest. Chase Wilson, another ex-Rams linebacker, is now at West Virginia. Wideout Caleb Goodie? Cincinnati. “If there was a phone call that came in tomorrow and it was interesting enough, I would entertain it,” Davis said of the coaching life. “It depends on where the phone call came from. And what they’re asking me to do.” There’s only one Coach Prime. Call Collin. Before somebody else nabs him first. Want more sports news? Sign up for the Sports Omelette to get all our analysis on Denver’s teams.

Sean Keeler

Enhanced Hippopotamus Optimization Algorithm for Tuning Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controllers

In control engineering, effectively tuning the parameters of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers has long been a persistent challenge. Traditional tuning methods and existing intelligent algorithms often face issues such as slow convergence, susceptibility to local optima, and insufficient optimization accuracy, which limit their performance in complex control systems.

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Building accurate translation-tailored large language models with language-aware instruction tuning

Large language models exhibit remarkable capabilities in various natural language processing tasks such as machine translation, but the large number of parameters leads to significant inference costs. Previous studies have tried to train moderately sized translation-tailored large language models by fine-tuning on translation data, yet when dealing with zero-shot translation directions not present in the fine-tuning data, these models often ignore instructions and produce off-target translations in the wrong language, a problem that remains unsolved.

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Bryce Young Injury Update: Panthers QB Out Next Week as Doctor Shares Latest Report
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Bryce Young Injury Update: Panthers QB Out Next Week as Doctor Shares Latest Report

The Carolina Panthers finally have a winning record (4-3), after grinding out a low-scoring 13-6 win over the winless New York Jets (0-7). But that victory came with a gut punch: quarterback Bryce Young left the game in the third quarter with what looked like a painful ankle injury. And while the Panthers walked away […]The post Bryce Young Injury Update: Panthers QB Out Next Week as Doctor Shares Latest Report appeared first on EssentiallySports.

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Nuggets Journal: The Nikola Jokic backup center timeline, now featuring Jonas Valanciunas
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Nuggets Journal: The Nikola Jokic backup center timeline, now featuring Jonas Valanciunas

Nikola Jokic’s historic career has been characterized in part by the Nuggets’ painstaking, ongoing search for his backup — a center capable of holding down the fort when he’s not playing. This summer, that search led them to a trade with the Kings: Dario Saric to Sacramento, Jonas Valanciunas to Denver. As Valanciunas prepares for the most thankless job in the NBA, here’s a look back at the precedent of failure he’s trying to break. Dec. 15, 2016: Jokic usurps Nurkic Jusuf Nurkic became Jokic’s first backup center in unceremonious fashion, getting benched by Michael Malone 25 games into his third season. That decision has aged, uh, pretty gracefully. But at the time, it sparked tension between Nurkic and the Nuggets. Drafted 16th overall on the same night Denver selected Jokic 41st overall in 2014, Nurkic coveted his playing time and didn’t take well to the demotion. While waiting to be traded to a team that would start him, he averaged 13.9 minutes, mostly off the bench, in his last 20 games in Denver. February 2017 – 2019-20 season: Plumlee’s steady hand A period of relative stability for the Nuggets’ center depth began when they traded Nurkic and a first-round pick to Portland, hoping to secure a replacement more open to a long-term backup role. Mason Plumlee was exactly that for three years and change. He and Jokic started together occasionally, with Jokic’s ability to spread the floor making him a suitable four when Denver wanted to play big. But mostly, Plumlee was his steady understudy. The Nuggets avoided drowning with a minus-1.4 net rating in 3,561 regular-season minutes with Plumlee on the court and Jokic on the bench, according to PBP Stats. In fact, during their watershed 2020 playoff run to the Western Conference Finals, the Plumlee minutes without Jokic (while limited) were more productive than vice versa. 2020-21 season: What could’ve been As Jokic took the leap to MVP status, the depth chart behind him regressed into an era of uncertainty. Plumlee left for greener pastures in Detroit. The Nuggets drafted Zeke Nnaji to join Bol Bol as a developmental project, then signed Isaiah Hartenstein and JaMychal Green to give themselves options. Hartenstein was the most traditionally size-appropriate center in a carousel that also included Paul Millsap. But in arguably the biggest failure of Malone’s coaching tenure — at least with the benefit of hindsight — the 7-footer was painfully underutilized. Denver’s net rating exceeded seven with Hartenstein on the court despite his underwhelming individual production, and that was with him playing all of his minutes separate from Jokic. Even so, he averaged only 9.1 minutes per game. Hartenstein appeared in 30 contests before the Nuggets sent him to Cleveland with two future second-round picks at the trade deadline. They got back JaVale McGee, who was in and out of the lineup for the rest of the season, eventually sitting out six of Denver’s 10 playoff games. Hartenstein went on to sign an $87 million contract with the Thunder three years later and helped Oklahoma City win its first championship. “You’re playing 10 minutes, and it doesn’t matter what you do in your minutes,” he said this summer in a guest appearance on Paul George’s podcast. “You’re not doing what Jokic is doing.” 2021-22 season: Boogie bridges the gap The Nuggets went into the season without a bona fide backup big man and planned to play small. Millsap and McGee were both gone, leaving Jeff Green and JaMychal Green as options. Then Michael Porter Jr. underwent back surgery, and Jeff was needed as a starting forward. It took until January 2022 for Denver to find help in the form of DeMarcus Cousins via a 10-day contract. Before “Boogie” debuted, the team’s net rating without Jokic on the floor was minus-12.5 — a resounding 22.2 points per 100 possessions worse than Jokic’s on-court net rating. That margin shrank late in the season thanks to Cousins, who eventually earned a full-time roster spot. Without Porter and Jamal Murray, this was still as close to a gap year as the Nuggets have ever been during Jokic’s career. But Cousins also fleetingly established a blueprint for Denver’s bench — being able to build a style of offense around the backup center — that has been on David Adelman’s mind three years later. 2022-23 – 2024-25 seasons: The DJ years Denver continued to cycle through once-great, past-their-prime big men by acquiring DeAndre Jordan in 2022. He won his first career NBA title with Denver and stuck around for three years, in large part because he was a beloved locker room presence. But the Nuggets never meant to depend on him as much as they ultimately did in Jokic’s rest minutes. Nnaji’s development stagnated, particularly when he was used as a center, boxing him in as a third-string power forward instead. Thomas Bryant was a trade deadline pickup in 2023, but he played in just 18 games. Dario Saric played in 16 after he was brought in to emulate Jokic’s play style for two years and $10.4 million — an idea that instantly crashed and burned. Aaron Gordon slotted in as a five during the playoffs, but to expect that of him in the regular season was too taxing a proposition. And so Denver kept on turning to Jordan for assistance, even as his Lob City athleticism faded further into the past. He played 131 regular-season games as a Nugget. Never sharing the court with Jokic, his net rating was minus-6.4 in 1,672 minutes. 2025 – present: Can Big Val break the curse? On paper, Valanciunas might be Denver’s best hope of returning the non-Jokic minutes to the standard set by Plumlee. It’s been half a decade since he left Denver — and three different front-office regimes. Valanciunas was acquired the same way as Plumlee and McGee, via a direct swap of centers with another team. He’s played 937 NBA games and started 91% of them. He’s been a double-digit scorer for 12 consecutive seasons. He’s a reliable rebounder, substantial screener and perceptive passer. Adelman wants to use him as both a traditional post-up center and as a Jokician play-maker from the elbows. He’ll also give Denver its first double-big look since Plumlee. “He’s so consistent down there and strong, and gets his own rebound if he does miss,” Murray said this preseason. “I think he’s going to be a problem for the other team.” That would be a refreshing change for the Nuggets at a position that has long been a problem for their own team. ‘Man’s search for meaning’ Former Nuggets coach Michael Malone once turned existential when attempting to describe Nikola Jokic’s rest minutes, referring to it as “man’s search for meaning.” Denver is routinely faced with a chasm between its net rating when Jokic is on the court and when he’s off it. The team hopes that trading for Jonas Valanciunas can shrink that gap. Source: NBA.com

Bennett Durando
Russia, China will determine gas market architecture in the near future — Gazprom CEO
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Russia, China will determine gas market architecture in the near future — Gazprom CEO

MOSCOW, October 20. /TASS/. The architecture of the global gas market in the near future will be shaped by Russia as the largest producer and China as the largest consumer, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel. "If we talk about the regional aspect, then, without a doubt, the architecture of the gas market in the very near future will be determined by Russia as the largest gas producer and China as the largest gas consumer," he said. Miller noted that this situation is due to objective market factors. He stressed that these two countries will determine the further development of the gas market. In his analysis, the Gazprom CEO paid special attention to the countries of the Global South, noting the impressive growth rates of gas consumption in this region. He cited statistics showing that these countries' share of the global gas balance has increased from 45% to 60% over the past 25 years. Miller predicted a further strengthening of the Global South's role in the gas industry, suggesting that within 25 years their share will reach 70% of the global gas balance.

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Podcast Monday’s Nine Til Noon Show

  The Nine ’til Noon Show  – Weekday’s 9am to 12noon Magazine type mid morning chat show which aims to inform and entertain listeners and to platform their views and issues: Michaela Clarke was in for Greg Hughes this morning. In the first hour she was joined by Independent Councillor Jimmy Brogan and Donegal Town […]The post Podcast Monday’s Nine Til Noon Show appeared first on Highland Radio - Latest Donegal News and Sport.

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