![]() ![]() By immersing yourself in the landscape of Eastwood’s mining heritage, it’s easy to see how the location itself was a huge inspiration to DH Lawrence’s writing. Literary enthusiasts of his works: Sons and Lovers, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley’s Lovers regularly make the pilgrimage to this popular site. In fact, the very building of his birthplace has been converted into the DH Lawrence Museum. ![]() Famed English writer and poet DH Lawrence began life in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. Then from around the mid-1200s “Robin Hood” become a popular nickname for outlaws – so it’s likely that Nottingham has seen a number of different Robin Hoods in its time - just as Hollywood has!īow-shooting outlaws aren’t the only figures that’re famous for their Nottingham origins. The legend actually began as early as 1225 when a fugitive known as ‘Robert Hod’ became infamous for robbing travelers moving between Nottingham and Yorkshire through Sherwood Forest. You’ve seen him portrayed by many famous stars, from Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner to Errol Flynn. Whether it be film, TV or print media you’re probably familiar with the Robin Hood mythology already. The legend of this folklore hero has captivated people across the world. No list would be complete without mentioning the most iconic historical figure to be associated with Nottingham – Robin Hood. The caves are ideally located within the city centre – so you’ll have ample time for a bit of shopping too! 3. ![]() So few people are aware of the fascinating history lying hidden in the limestone caves beneath their feet. The immersive 45-minute audio tour enhances the ancient atmosphere surrounding you. Nottingham boasts the UK’s largest network of over 800 subterranean caves that has history chiseled into its limestone structure, from WWII air raid shelters to medieval tannery. The Caves of Nottingham are a network of endlessly winding passages below the streets of the city. A feast for the senses that comes with a beautiful 360-degree view of Nottingham city. Until the year 1831, when the castle was torched by rioters during the Industrial Revolution.įortunately, the spirit of Nottingham’s creativity would blossom through the ashes of these charred remains and the castle rose again as a municipal art gallery for our viewing pleasure! Today you can visit the castle for a selection of informative talks, tours and exhibitions. and so began the brutal English Civil War! A war through which the strong walls of Nottingham Castle managed to endure. Then in 1330, the castle became the setting of a bloody coup by the loyal supporters of Edward the III, using the complex network of caves hidden below the castle floors to stage a cunning siege!Īnd then in 1642, King Charles hoisted his flag high above the castle to rally his army. In 1068, William the Conqueror first ordered the construction of Nottingham Castle to establish a presence of Norman power and superiority over central England. Nottingham Castle is a popular tourist attraction and a huge draw for people that love their history! So many fascinating stories of the past have played out within the castle walls - riots, rebellions and royal rows, take your pick! ![]() If you look across the Nottingham city skyline there’s one landmark that always catches your eye. ![]()
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Using inSSIDer from the same locations where people use the Wi-Fi will shed light on the best channel for every user. With this in mind, inSSIDer has been reimagined to be as informative and educational as possible.īy performing a quick survey of your environment with inSSIDer Home, you’ll be able to ensure you’re operating your network on the best channel possible.Ĭhannel decisions should not be made from just the access point’s perspective. The first step to increasing your network performance is understanding your wireless environment. Please view the User Guide below to learn what all those acronyms mean. OR, filter by “Vendor” to track down potential rogue access points. Filter by “Signal Strength” to see only the strong nearby networks. 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As wireless networks are becoming more popular, skills in analysing and troubleshooting wireless systems are becoming more important for a modern network engineer. This is mainly due to the rise in mobile devices like Wi Fi enabled mobiles and tablets. Wi Fi networks are getting more popular in the home and in enterprise networks. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, despite defeating their Black Knights, Fraga proved incapable of defeating the Emperor, whose strength surpassed his own, succeeding simply because his foe's sword couldn't withstand their battle lasting three days and nights. During this time, their main foe would be both the Evil Emperor and his legion of Black Knights. Despite her talents, Fraga never allowed Sarasha to enter the battlefield, despite knowing her potential, because of just how dangerous it would be to fight entire armies. ![]() He would became hailed as the Strongest Swordsman and Guardian of the Holy Sword, Salatiga, to remain close to his sister, the Holy Sword Maiden, who were lovers too. His first life, he was born as Kensei Fraga, born as the crowned prince of a small region and the older brother of Sarasha, the past life of Satsuki Ranjou. It was also seen that he has feelings for Shizuno at the end of the series when they almost kissed each other until Satsuki interrupted them. Later in the series, it was shown that Moroha and Shizuno's relationship has gotten closer because of Shizuno's understanding of his worries and bothersome times, especially when Satsuki goes nuts about him. He explained that if the man thought the Japanese were weak, it just goes to show how very little he knew about them. When a subordinate of the Russian Terror called the Japanese and Moroha weak because Moroha was unwilling to kill him, Moroha drew his sword and stabbed the man in the gut, while torturing him with the blade. Moroha does not tolerate being underestimated or called weak and when serious, he can surprise his opponents with his powers. This is shown when the Russian Terror pleads for her life and to remain in power, and Moroha responds with the idea that they simply need to stop taking if they don't want to be taken from. Moroha also demonstrates a strong distaste and anger towards those who take from him and others. Even if it meant that he would have to sacrifice his freedom in becoming an S-Rank and fighting Sir Edward Lampard to prove it. He also doesn't like being given credit for his actions as he didn't want to be promoted for defeating the Hydra as Shizuno Urushibara's brother continued to push him to do so.Īlthough Moroha tends to have respect for those higher ranked than him, he won't hesitate to go against them if it means protecting his friends since he disobeyed Jin Isurugi's choice to not initially assist Shizuno or Satsuki Ranjou breaking inside of the mansion of Tadanori Urushibara, the Chairman of Akane Academy due to her transfer to England on the orders of her brother and taking her, much to her pleasure. Though if those who are close to him are in danger or are messed with, then he won't hesitate to stand up for them, which stems from the time he was unable to save his parents with a blood transfusion as a child. In spite of his strength and abilities, he doesn't desire to be known as the "number one" in class ignoring the constant provocation from Gen Isurugi. He is an honorable young man willing to protect the weak and his friends which he has done in his previous lives. He does not consider himself a hero of justice nor does he enjoy fighting, but due to his past and being unable to save his parents, he does not want anyone else to go through the feeling of losing a family member or someone loved, which is demonstrated when he wanted to help Elena Arshavina. He is a kind person, but at the same time he is lazy and does not enjoy being recognised or praised much. Moroha is usually shown as a normal good-hearted young man. –Moroha before defeating the Nine-Headed Hydra I.WILL DEFINITELY NOT FORGIVE ANYONE WHO WILL TAKE THOSE TWO FROM ME!!!! Most of the time, he is usually seen wearing either the Akane Academy school and/or combat uniform. Moroha is a fifteen-year-old young man of average height with short purple hair that has a particular white streak in the front down the center of his bang and violet-blue eyes. ![]() ![]() They are not taught to understand what those words actually mean, nor to understand the social, moral and ethical dimensions of those words. He missed entirely that the problem was a sociological and philosophical one which unless addressed from that perspective, will always result in technology that sounds superficially human but will always stop well short of displaying any real intelligence.Ĭhatbots are designed to learn about how language is constructed and to use that knowledge to create words that are contextually correct and relevant. The disturbing outcome of Tay was that Microsoft’s Peter Lee saw the problem with the Tay “experiment” as being a technological one that could be solved with a simple technology fix. There hadn’t been enough testing of the bot and certainly the developers of the technology did not have the sociological skills to understand the range of communities on the Internet and what they would do once the technology was released into the wild. Tay was taken down and the tweets deleted but not before some of the most offensive of them were captured and spread even further on the Internet.Īpparently, the researchers at Microsoft thought that because they had successfully developed a similar AI chatbot called XiaoIce that has been running successfully in China on the social network Weibo, that Tay’s experience on Twitter with a western audience would follow the same path.Ĭaroline Sinders, an AI interaction designer working on IBM’s Watson computer has written a good explanation of how the developers of Tay should have anticipated this outcome and protected against it. This time it was down to Peter Lee, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research who had to say: “We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for ” What happened however was that the experiment was hijacked by a group of people from the notorious “pol” (politically incorrect) bulletin board on 4chan and 8chan who set about training Tay to say highly inappropriate things. The idea was that the artificial intelligence behind Tay would learn from others on Twitter and other social media networks and appear as an average 19 year old female person. The matter was being dealt with internally and so we don’t know who would have been responsible and why they might have thought this was going to be a good idea.īut things were going to get much worse for Microsoft when a chatbot called Tay started tweeting offensive comments seemingly supporting Nazi, anti-feminist and racist views. ![]() That was unequivocally wrong and will not be tolerated”. He said that having the dancers at this event “was absolutely not consistent or aligned to our values. It started with the head of Microsoft’s Xbox division, Phil Spencer, having to apologise for having scantily clad female dancers dressed as school girls at a party thrown by Microsoft at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). It has been a nightmare of a PR week for Microsoft. ![]() ![]() ![]() They had launched a campaign seeking $US500,000 in donations through fundraising site Kickstarter, but failed to reach their goal and have returned the approximately $US90,000 they did collect. If successful, Mr Lee said, he planned to use the site to raise money for readers' preferred charities.Ī group of former Gawker employees this week abandoned their effort to bid, one of the sources said. Kevin Lee, the co-founder and executive chairman of Didit, a marketing firm, said he also submitted a bid, without disclosing its value. The value of Thiel's bid could not be learned, though the sources said Gawker was only now worth a few million dollars. If Holden excludes Mr Thiel's bid, Mr Thiel could ask the judge to consider it if it is higher than rival offers. ![]() ![]() Holden will choose a winner as soon as this month, and then request approval for the deal from a US bankruptcy court judge, the sources told Reuters. Multiple bidders have submitted offers for the site, Mr Holden said. Gawker's bankruptcy plan administrator administrator Will Holden has tried to block Mr Thiel's bid, according to court papers. Normally a permanent resident has to spend more than 70 percent of their time in New Zealand over five years - more than 1300 days - before they can apply for citizenship. He was Facebook's first major investor and a co-founder of online payment service PayPal. Mr Thiel was granted New Zealand citizenship in 2011 despite only having spent 12 days in the country in the previous five years and having no intention of living here. Thiel has not said why he wants Gawker, though the potential acquisition would let him take down stories regarding his personal life that are still available on the website, and remove the scope for further litigation between him and Gawker. In 2007 Gawker published a story about Thiel's homosexuality. The former wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, won a $US140 million judgment against the site, and later settled for $US31 million. Mr Thiel funded former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker after the site published a sex tape featuring Hogan. Most of its assets, including its sister pages Deadspin, a sports site, and Jezebel, a feminist blog, were bought in 2016 for $US135 million by media company Univision Holdings Inc. As a new Gawker gets going, here’s how the spirit of the siteand siblings like Jezebel and Deadspinhas spread. The original Gawker gossip blog was launched in December 2002 by former British journalist Nick Denton, who ran the website from his apartment in the Soho neighborhood of New York City.Gawker, which has been inactive for more than a year, is conducting an auction of its remaining assets including its domain names and nearly 200,000 archived articles. From the New York Times newsroom to the Succession writers room, the kids once shooting spitballs at the establishment now have seats at the table. The company was first incorporated in Budapest, Hungary, where it maintains a small office with several programmers. In August 2003, Spiers left Gawker to write for New York magazine and her position was replaced by art dealer Choire Sicha. In August 2004, Denton promoted Sicha to the newly created position of editorial director for Gawker Media and hired Jessica Coen, a film studio assistant, to replace Sicha. In mid-2006, Coen left Gawker to work for Vanity Fair and was replaced by Emily Gould. In 2008, an office space was set up for Gawker employees in the Nolita neighborhood of New York City. On October 3rd, 2008, the Gawker rumor blog Valleywag published a memo from Denton announcing the layoff of 19 of the 133 editorial positions at Gawker Media. In late 2002, Gawker's first sister site Gizmodo was launched as a technology news blog under the editorship of Engadget cofounder Peter Rojas. In November 2003, the sex-oriented blog Fleshbot was launched. In 2004, Denton launched the left-leaning political blog Wonkette, the celebrity gossip blog Defamer, the news aggregator blog Kinja, the car culture blog Jalopnik and the videogame blog Kotaku. In 2005, geek lifestyle blog Lifehacker and the sports news blog Deadspin were launched. In January 2008, the sci-fi blog io9 was launched. Hulk Hogan’s smashing legal victory shows us that publishing the truth may no longer be enough. #Gawker site softwareĪccording to Wikipedia, Gawker Media sold the sites Idolator, Gridskipper and Wonkette on April 14th, 2008.Īs of October 2012, Gawker Media is comprised of eight daily weblogs specializing in different beats: its flagship blog Gawker, sports blog Deadspin, consumer tech blog Gizmodo, videogame blog Kotaku, software blog Lifehacker, sci-fi and futurist blog io9, automobile blog Jalopnik and women's interest blog Jezebel. Gawker’s Demise and the Trump-Era Threat to the First Amendment. Gawker Media's flagship blog typically publishes anywhere from 30 to 50 posts a day, covering a wide range of topics like celebrity and media industry gossip, news media criticisms and other news stories that are relevant to the New York metropolitan area. ![]() |
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