Marketing & Technology Summit Will Share Secrets of World-Class Sales Success in Real Estate – PR Web

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Club Wealth, the producer of leading real estate industry events, is hosting a Mid-Summer Marketing & Technology Summit, learn more at https://clubwealthmandt.com?utm_source=pressrelease&utm_medium=pressrelease&utm_campaign=pressrelease&utm_term=pressrelease.

This two-day virtual event will be held on July 15th & 16th 2020 from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST each day. At this event, real estate professionals can learn from over 50 of the most influential thought leaders, mega agents, and technology experts in the industry!

Influencers like Michael Hellickson, Keri Shull, Joshua Smith, Tristan Ahumada, and many others will come together to share groundbreaking strategies and tactics they are using to finish strong in 2020 and position themselves for the future, whatever it may bring.

Isaiah Colton, CEO, RAP Success Systems and a scheduled presenter at the summit, said Covid-19 caused a lot of setbacks for even the strongest among us. And with more uncertainty expected over the next 12-24 months as pent up demand dries up and PPP money runs out, it is essential that agents position themselves to weather the storm under any market conditions. Marketing and technology are the keys to putting them in that guarded position.

With two full days planned, the agenda is fully loaded and presents a exceptional opportunity for networking. These industry-leading sales and marketing coaches and trainers are ready to inspire and energize the folks who attend this event, said Isaiah. Besides speakers, several marketing and technology vendors will showcase their latest solutions with free trials of most.

Some highlights of the event:

1. Lead Generation and Lead Conversion MasteryThree sales and marketing funnels that high-performing teams are using to capture and close leads faster.

2. Real Estate Technology of the FutureTop 10 Technologies to automate your business for maximum efficiency and profit.

3. Actionable Strategies and PlansMarketing Funnels you can implement right now. Up-and-comer sessions for new technologies, new vendors, new marketing strategies, and fresh ideas!

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Preferential treatment policy for women professors at Eindhoven University of Technology: The end does (not) justify the means – Innovation Origins

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Although the goal of attracting more women to the highest academic positions is commendable, the TU/e womens quota is in contravention of the Dutch Equal Opportunities Act. This conclusion was reached last week by the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (CRM) in response to a complaint from the RADAR anti-discrimination agency. Incidentally, the Institute also made recommendations for improving matters at the University. Meanwhile, the TU/e has promised to do better.

The disadvantaged position of women in science has been a thorn in many peoples side for years, and with good reason. The three Technical Universities of Delft, Twente, and Eindhoven, as well as the Erasmus University, are doing particularly poorly in this area. The TU/e, for example, has long been dangling at the bottom of the list in the annual monitor of the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH).

The percentage of women scientists at TU/e was low across all levels in 2018: 14 % of professors, 13 % of university senior lecturers (UHDs), and 24 % of university lecturers (UDs). Even within Europe, Eindhoven has the lowest number of women professors. Where, as the CRM also acknowledges, there is a serious underrepresentation of women in scientific positions.

The womens quota set up in July last year as part of the Irne Curie Fellowship program has been used by the university as a last resort to bring about the much-needed change. For a period of five years, for the first 150 vacancies, female applicants must be given priority over male applicants. Only when six months of intensive recruitment have failed to produce a suitable female candidate can this be deviated from.

Does the end now justify the means? Well, no. At the time, the introduction of the Eindhoven womens quota led to fierce discussions between supporters and opponents. There were even parliamentary questions and a procedure initiated by RADAR on the basis of more than 50 complaints and reports. However, opinions about the necessity of such a solution remain divided.

For example, Janneke Plantenga, professor of economics, dean, and chairman of the Task Force on Discrimination and Inclusion at Utrecht University, recently stated that she herself was not in favor of quotas. In some departments of the university, 70 percent of the staff are women. Should we set a male quota then? She, therefore, preferred awareness and charisma.

Thats exactly one of the points where criticism has been leveled. In the opinion of the CRM, the proportion of women at the TU/e is not equally low in all faculties. For that reason, such a drastic solution is not considered necessary across the board. Also, according to the Board, the TU/e has not sufficiently demonstrated that other solutions were tried first, such as linking the allocation of financial resources to achieving the goal of attracting more women. Finally, the assessment of candidates did not take sufficient account of their qualifications rather than just their gender. This puts male applicants at a disadvantage compared to female applicants. According to the CRM, the way in which the Eindhoven University of Technology formulates its preferred policy goes too far in this sense, and is contrary to the Dutch Equal Treatment Act.

By way of comparison: In 2012 the CRM confirmed the policy of TU Delft in a similar case, after it had opened ten positions only for women. However, the need for those ten additional vacancies was considered sufficiently substantiated, all the more so because all other vacancies in Delft at the time were open to both men and women. The Board, therefore, considered TU Delfts preferential policy to be less broad and extensive than the quota applied by TU/e. Things are now going much better in Delft. The proportion of women has increased in almost all faculties, in Architecture even to as much as 34 percent.At TU Twente, too, the proportion of female professors rose by 1% in the past year as a result of a similar preferential measure, whereby ten new professorships were opened exclusively to female candidates.

Fortunately for the TU/e, the Colleges report not only contains bad news but also suggestions for improvements. The Board proposes a number of measures, from which not only Eindhoven but also other universities can benefit: Training selection committees to become aware of their own, often unconscious, prejudices, and their effects on the way they judge people. Setting up the recruitment and selection procedures in such a way that gender stereotypes have less impact on the selection of candidates. Set up internal career development and coaching programs for women by senior colleagues. The strict requirements for preference policies mean that men are not excluded. However, working conditions that bias women are legally allowed under certain conditions.

Nevertheless, the judgment of the CRM does not have a binding legal character but is only a recommendation. In practice, however, such advice is followed more often than not. For example, the TU/e now promises to improve and indicates that it will carefully study the recommendations of the College. At the same time, the university states that it will continue to do its best to work on gender equality.

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NRTI, Indias First Railway And Transportation Technology University, Announces Admissions For Academic Year 20-21 – Swarajya

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Vadodara-based National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI), Indias first university focused on railway and transport technology related education, multidisciplinary research and training established by Indian Railways, has announced admissions for Academic year 2020-21.

A Deemed to be University under the de Novo category, this will be third year of intake at NRTI, which has seen significant progress over these years towards its vision of being among the top Universities in the country that can help power the growth and transformation of Indian transportation sector.

NRTI will admit students to its established B.Sc. and BBA programmes in Transportation Technology and Transportation Management respectively, as well as two new B.Tech. programmes, two new MBA programmes and four new MSc programmes.

Most of these are unique programmes offered exclusively at NRTI. The new programmes also include an international Masters in Railway Systems Engineering & Integration offered in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, UK where students will spend one year at University of Birmingham.

The last date for application is July 31, 2020 for BBA, BSc and post-graduate programmes. Entrance test for these programmes will take place on August 23, 2020 at multiple centres around the country.

B.Tech admissions will be based on JEE Mains score, last date of application is September 14, 2020.

NRTI has augmented teaching with quality online courses and summer internships in view of Covid 19 as courses for all programmes and batches were conducted online by the faculty using latest technology and pedagogy and teaching was completed without compromising quality and safety of students.

Students were also provided free access to a library of 4,000 online courses from leading Universities around the world to supplement classes. These included courses in Data Science, Microeconomic Principle and Understanding Research Methods.Besides, students of NRTI will be awarded digital certificates from the offering university, as well as credits by NRTI.

A six-week online industry internships organized for the second year students with leading private as well as public sector organisations in the transportation sector.

NRTI follows government's regulations with respect to reservations for SC, ST, OBC and EWS. Supernumerary seats will also be considered for PwD, Kashmiri Migrants and Ex-Servicemen, as per the government regulations.

According to railways, students can obtain further details at http://www.nrti.edu.in. Only Online applications are accepted as details of fees, financial aid etc. are available on NRTI website.

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The Global Autonomous Train Technology Market is expected to grow from USD 6,903.67 Million in 2019 to USD 14,307.43 Million by the end of 2025 at a…

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On the basis of Train Type, the Autonomous Train Technology Market is studied across GoA1 + GoA2, GoA3, and GoA4.

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On the basis of Technology, the Autonomous Train Technology Market is studied across Automatic Train Control, Communications-based Train Control, European Rail Traffic Management System, and Positive Train Control.

On the basis of Geography, the Autonomous Train Technology Market is studied across Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa. The Americas region is studied across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States. The Asia-Pacific region is studied across Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand. The Europe, Middle East & Africa region is studied across France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom.

Company Usability Profiles:The report deeply explores the recent significant developments by the leading vendors and innovation profiles in the Global Autonomous Train Technology Market including Alstom S.A., Ansaldo STS, Bombardier Transportation, CRRC Corporation Limited, General Electric, Hitachi Ltd., Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric, Siemens AG, and Thales Group.

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The FE News Channel gives you the latest education news and updates on emerging education strategies and the#FutureofEducation and the #FutureofWork.

Providing trustworthy and positive Further Education news and views since 2003, we are a digital news channel with a mixture of written word articles, podcasts and videos. Our specialisation is providing you with a mixture of the latest education news, our stance is always positive, sector building and sharing different perspectives and views from thought leaders, to provide you with a think tank of new ideas and solutions to bring the education sector together and come up with new innovative solutions and ideas.

FE News publish exclusive peer to peer thought leadership articles from our feature writers, as well as user generated content across our network of over 3000 Newsrooms, offering multiple sources of the latest education news across the Education and Employability sectors.

FE News also broadcast live events, podcasts with leading experts and thought leaders, webinars, video interviews and Further Education news bulletins so you receive the latest developments inSkills Newsand across the Apprenticeship, Further Education and Employability sectors.

Every week FE News has over 200 articles and new pieces of content per week. We are a news channel providing the latest Further Education News, giving insight from multiple sources on the latest education policy developments, latest strategies, through to our thought leaders who provide blue sky thinking strategy, best practice and innovation to help look into the future developments for education and the future of work.

In May 2020, FE News had over 120,000 unique visitors according to Google Analytics and over 200 new pieces of news content every week, from thought leadership articles, to the latest education news via written word, podcasts, video to press releases from across the sector.

We thought it would be helpful to explain how we tier our latest education news content and how you can get involved and understand how you can read the latest daily Further Education news and how we structure our FE Week of content:

Our main features are exclusive and are thought leadership articles and blue sky thinking with experts writing peer to peer news articles about the future of education and the future of work. The focus is solution led thought leadership, sharing best practice, innovation and emerging strategy. These are often articles about the future of education and the future of work, they often then create future education news articles. We limit our main features to a maximum of 20 per week, as they are often about new concepts and new thought processes. Our main features are also exclusive articles responding to the latest education news, maybe an insight from an expert into a policy announcement or response to an education think tank report or a white paper.

FE Voices was originally set up as a section on FE News to give a voice back to the sector. As we now have over 3,000 newsrooms and contributors, FE Voices are usually thought leadership articles, they dont necessarily have to be exclusive, but usually are, they are slightly shorter than Main Features. FE Voices can include more mixed media with the Further Education News articles, such as embedded podcasts and videos. Our sector response articles asking for different comments and opinions to education policy announcements or responding to a report of white paper are usually held in the FE Voices section. If we have a live podcast in an evening or a radio show such as SkillsWorldLive radio show, the next morning we place the FE podcast recording in the FE Voices section.

In sector news we have a blend of content from Press Releases, education resources, reports, education research, white papers from a range of contributors. We have a lot of positive education news articles from colleges, awarding organisations and Apprenticeship Training Providers, press releases from DfE to Think Tanks giving the overview of a report, through to helpful resources to help you with delivering education strategies to your learners and students.

We have a range of education podcasts on FE News, from hour long full production FE podcasts such as SkillsWorldLive in conjunction with the Federation of Awarding Bodies, to weekly podcasts from experts and thought leaders, providing advice and guidance to leaders. FE News also record podcasts at conferences and events, giving you one on one podcasts with education and skills experts on the latest strategies and developments.

We have over 150 education podcasts on FE News, ranging from EdTech podcasts with experts discussing Education 4.0 and how technology is complimenting and transforming education, to podcasts with experts discussing education research, the future of work, how to develop skills systems for jobs of the future to interviews with the Apprenticeship and Skills Minister.

We record our own exclusive FE News podcasts, work in conjunction with sector partners such as FAB to create weekly podcasts and daily education podcasts, through to working with sector leaders creating exclusive education news podcasts.

FE News have over 700 FE Video interviews and have been recording education video interviews with experts for over 12 years. These are usually vox pop video interviews with experts across education and work, discussing blue sky thinking ideas and views about the future of education and work.

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If you want to write a thought leadership article, share your ideas and vision for the future of education or the future of work, write a press release sharing the latest education news or contribute to a podcast, first of all you need to set up a FE Newsroom login (which is free): once the team have approved your newsroom (all content, newsrooms are all approved by a member of the FE News team- no robots are used in this process!), you can then start adding content (again all articles, videos and podcasts are all approved by the FE News editorial team before they go live on FE News). As all newsrooms and content are approved by the FE News team, there will be a slight delay on the team being able to review and approve content.

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Advancements in Technology to Aid the Growth of the RT-PCR Kits Market Over the Forecast Period 2020-2030 – 3rd Watch News

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Advancements in Technology to Aid the Growth of the Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery Devices Market Over the Forecast Period 2015 2025 – Cole of Duty

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Advancements in Technology to Aid the Growth of the Flat Cable Assemblies Market Over the Forecast Period 2017 2025 – Cole of Duty

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TUCSON (KVOA) - NASA technology is being installed at businesses around Tucson, with the hopes of removing contaminants from the air. Contaminants including the Coronavirus.

Inside the walls of Brother John's in Tucson, there's more than just beer, Bourbon and BBQ. Brother John's is one place using the new technology.

John Aldecoa, the owner of Brother John's, said he was excited about this new technology.

"We were turned on to this technology that has been around for almost 20 years," Aldecoa said.

The technology from NASA is called "USA Nanacoat Lumaclean." Researcher Jason Field from the University of Arizona said the technology removes harmful pathogens in the air.

"It was developed by NASA to solve an issue they were having to produce food in a contained environment for a trip to Mars," Field said. "It was later found this technology can be used in medical facilities and food processing facilities."

"So instead of having the air recirculated that could have virus in there, this will actually neutralize that and purify the air," Aldecoa said. "We joke and say you're going to leave brother johns cleaning than you got here."

The new technology has also made its way into dental offices. Field says the light-activated advanced filtration system is effective on all viruses of all sizes.

"Hepifilters are not effective on particles less than 0.3 micros," Field said. "The Coronavirus is 0.1 microns inside."

Officials say COVID-19 won't pass through USA Nanacoat Lumaclean.

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Advancements in Technology to Aid the Growth of the Fish Meal Market Over the Forecast Period 2019 2029 – 3rd Watch News

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Increasing life expectancy rates and growing demand for preventive and long-term care are the major drivers for the growth ofwearable technologies healthcare market. Data privacy and data traffic management is a challenge for the market. Major players in the Wearable Technologies healthcare market include Medtronic, Dexcom, Abbot, Biodevices, Cardiac Science.

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By: Bloomberg | Published: July 11, 2020 12:57:56 pm The new policy will be implemented globally on August 11

Alphabet Inc.s Google is changing its policies next month to restrict advertising for spyware and other unauthorized tracking technology.

The change will prohibit the promotion of products or services that are marketed or targeted with the express purpose of tracking or monitoring another person or their activities without their authorization, according to the company.

While ads for these products already violate Googles Enabling Dishonest Behavior policy, the change will make the ban on tracking technology explicit and lead to increased enforcement, a company spokeswoman said.

The policy will prohibit advertisements of spyware and malware that can be used to monitor texts, phone calls, or browsing history, according to Google. It will also ban ads for GPS trackers specifically marketed to spy or track someone without their consent and of cameras or recorders marketed with the express purpose of spying.

The new policy will be implemented globally on August 11, and the accounts of advertisers that violate it will be suspended, according to Google.

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Will Vanguard step on the SPDR? This technology ETF just dethroned the industry leader – MarketWatch

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In mid-May, assets in the Vanguard Information Technology ETF VGT, -0.19% overtook those in a competing fund from the company thats long dominated exchange-traded fund sector investing, the SPDR suite from State Street Global Advisors.

It was a small industry shift that perhaps only an ETF enthusiast would have noticed, yet it may speak volumes about how the investment-management world is evolving.

The Sector SPDRs were the first ETF products to track the S&P 500s sectors groupings of companies according to their business activities and remain the industry giants, in large part because their scale enables institutional investors to use them to make big trades, said Todd Rosenbluth, head of ETF and mutual fund research for CFRA.

If Vanguards assets are catching up to State Streets, it means one of two things, Rosenbluth told MarketWatch: either institutional investors are starting to get comfortable enough with Vanguard to rely on it as a trading tool or that individual investors, who have traditionally comprised most of Vanguards customer base, are turning to tactical ETF strategies.

Vanguard cut its teeth in what the fund industry calls core products simple index funds that track the overall S&P 500 SPX, +1.04%, for example. But individual investors are getting increasingly comfortable with exchange-traded funds, and increasingly using them to express more targeted views.

The attached chart shows 10 fund pairings of the currently existing 11 sectors. The 11th sector, real estate, was created in 2016; SPDR launched a fund to track the sector shortly before that. In contrast, Vanguards original sector lineup, which dates from 2004, has always included real estate. That fund has nearly $29 billion in assets, compared with $4.1 billion in the newer SPDR fund.

Its only fair to point out that Vanguards footprint in the other sector funds remains quite small, compared against the corresponding SPDR funds. Next to real estate VNQ, +0.30% and technology XLK, -0.02%, health care VHT, -0.24% is the sector in which it has the largest presence, and there, its assets are still less than half those of the SPDR fund.

But Vanguards explosive growth rate is a story unto itself. The firm, once considered a financial-services underdog, now has more assets under management than its next three competitors combined. Thats thanks largely to individual investors.

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Currently, OPPOs 65W SuperVOOC Flash Charging technology is the fastest charging technology available commercially. The same technology is also available on Realme phones like the Ace2 and the Reno4 series that went official in June in China. Fresh information shared by reputed tipster Ishan Agarwal reveals that Realme is currently working on a 100W+ fast charging solution. This tech may get announced this month.

Realmes 65W fast charging tech is dubbed as SuperDart, but the upcoming 100W+ rapid charging tech is expected to get announced as Ultra Dart. The tipster revealed that it can charge 1/3rd of a 4,000mAh battery in just 3 minutes.

The above image shared by the tipster reveals that a 4,000mAh battery can be completely charged in around 10 minutes. The 11660mA mentioned in the image indicates that the technology can offer almost 120W charging speeds.

Realmes former Vice President for China named Xu QI recently interacted with netizens saying that the 100W fast charging is a bit slow. It indicated that the company could be planning to offer a faster charging solution than 100W. While the 120W Ultra Dar could be debuting this month, it remains to be seen when it will be made available to the users.

Last month, Xiaomis 120W charger was spotted at the 3C certification platform. The charger has a model number of MDY-12-ED and it was also spotted in a leaked video in real. A reliable Chinese tipster had claimed that Xiaomi could be the first brand to launch a phone with a 100W+ charging solution. Last year in June, Vivo had showcased its 120W Super FlashCharge technology that could charge a 4,000mAh battery in 13 minutes. There is a possibility that Vivo may too launch a smartphone with 120W charging support.

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Written by Gaurav Bhatt | Updated: July 12, 2020 11:10:00 am Raffaele Marciello grew up playing Gran Turismo on PlayStation 2 (Source: AP)

exPress Start is a weekly online column on the intersection of gaming and culture. Level up with Gaurav Bhatt every Saturday as he explores the creative and competitive sides of video games. This week, a look at the evolving relationship between real and virtual racing.

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Last weeks podium at Austrian GP was a sight for sore eyes. Not only was Formula 1 back after four months and seven cancelled events, but the top three featured a former gamer and two Twitch streamers.

Finishing third was McLarens Lando Norris the self-appointed liaison between the sim racing and professional driving. Cant believe I went from a Full time @Twitch streamer to 3rd youngest ever F1 podium finisher in a matter of days the 20-year-old tweeted after the race.

Over on Twitch the Amazon-owned streaming platform where he can regularly be found playing games Norriss bio states: TEMPORARAYAYRLY FULL TIME STREAMER, drives in Formula 1 every now and then too

Second was Charles Leclerc the Ferrari driver who began the sim racing era with four major wins in a row and has 500,000 Twitch followers of his own. After one such virtual GP win in April, Leclerc, 22, had posted: Im actually enjoying very much playing, and streaming. And I enjoy it even more when I win. But the post race celebrations are somehow feeling a bit different. Switching off the computer and go cook white pasta is a bit less glamour than spraying champagne on the podium.

Then there was the winner.

Mercedes Valtteri Bottas, at 30, is a senior citizen in gaming years and admitted last year that he had stopped virtual racing. Then Covid-19 struck, and the Finn broke out a swanky simulator.

Dig deep enough and you can find Bottas posts on obscured racing game forums from ten years ago, apologising to fellow gamers for his inactivity after being signed as a test driver by Williams in 2010. His inactive profile lists 6,000 completed laps and 230 race wins.

Do gamers win races?

False equivalences aside, the podium in Spielberg effectively showcased the symbiotic relationship between the two worlds. There still remains a generational divide between racing fans as the detractors want young punks off their screens, while gamers think sim racing is the greatest thing since Brawns double diffusers.

To find the happy medium between the perspectives and dispel myths about the correlation of sim and professional racing, we called upon champion racer and gamer Raffaele Marciello.

Sim racing makes you a good driver

Sinking three-pointers on the basketball court or doing skill moves on the football turf is not as simple as holding or rotating buttons.

Sim racing, however, preserves the man and his machine element of motorsport, and buttons correspond to virtually identical inputs.

Lando Norris swears by the training imparted by video games. Max Verstappen was among the drivers who spent hours in simulators to keep themselves sharp. Former world champion Jenson Button, an avid gamer, has started his own esports team.

Raffaele Marciello, too, grew up with a steering wheel in his hand, playing Gran Turismo on PlayStation 2. A former member of the Ferrari Driver Academy and a test driver for the Sauber Formula One team, Raffaele switched to GT racing in 2017. The Italian won the FIA GT World Cup last year, and during the lockdown, lapped up several wins in a simulator.

Speaking shortly after a podium finish in Nurburgring last week, Marciello told the Indian Express: For a young, coming driver who wants to improve his braking technique, who wants to learn more about the tracks, its a great tool.

Last month, Marciello won the inaugural 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual race. The 25-year-old along with fellow professional driver and Haas Formula 1 reserve Louis Deletraz and sim racers Niko Wisniewski and Kuba Brzezinski was part of the team jointly fielded by Williams Esports and World Endurance Championship squad Rebellion Racing.

The race ran over what supposed to be the original Le Mans weekend of June 13-14. And Marciello prepared by doing 800 laps of the digitally-recreated iconic 13.626km circuit.

Louis and I were doing 50-60 laps every day. We always wanted to win, but first of all, we didnt want to be too much lower in performance than the sim racers, says Marciello. Kuba and Niko know the game very well and they helped us in the setup.

Marciellos team finished ahead of 196 other competitors, including Norris and Verstappen and former F1 champion and two-time winner of the actual 24 Hours Le Mans, Fernando Alonso.

Does it mean Im better faster than them? Our preparation was good. And I have spent a lot more time in simulators than other drivers who were maybe coming in, says Marciello. Sim racing is a different world. You should remember that (Michael) Schumacher never liked simulators. He got sick in the simulators.

Recruited to the Ferrari Driver Academy in 2010, Marciello was extensively working with the teams simulators when then Mercedes driver and seven-time champion Schumacher expressed his dislike for the technology. The German, who made his F1 debut in 1991, years away from the PlayStation generation, insisted that almost all drivers suffer from motion sickness.

Marciello, who spent close to eight hours in the drivers seat for the virtual Le Mans, believes you dont need simulators to be a good driver.

So, maybe it is good for a bit of technique, sharpening skills, learn tracks and stay in shape, but it doesnt make you a good or bad driver in my opinion, says Marciello.

Data-hungry F1 drivers, however, are known to pore over numbers from their gaming sessions. For one of the sim races, Norris called up his former McLaren engineer.

Being able to look at the data in-depth and actually having my F1 engineer from last year going through things, understanding how to really work on different areas (helped). A lot of the things I was doing and my characteristics on the actual race track, I was actually replicating on the simulator, some are good, some are bad, but its very good in terms of being able to work on those things, Norris told Autocar. Its getting more and more scientific, getting more data involved, and the programmes are getting better and better.

There are no risks in sim racing

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Barnaby Conrads quote is often wrongly attributed to his contemporary Ernest Hemingway, but its safe to assume that both believed sport to be an activity where ones life is at stake.

But if youre not a chest-thumping modernist writer or an actual thrill-chasing professional racer, and your reason to scoff at sim racing is because of its low-risk nature have a long, hard look in the mirror. Hasnt 2020 been enough of a car wreck for you?

It would take a particularly sadistic developer to invent a simulator capable of infliction physical pain, and no driver has ever crashed in a game and wished it was real.

They do wish for more feedback though.

While high-end wheel and pedals and a supported video game can replicate accurate feedback, its still not like being in a vehicle flying down the track at 350kmph. A racer thus has to keep his eyes peeled.

You dont have the g-force and everything, so you have to focus a lot with your eyes, says Marciello. Because you have less feedback physically, you have to know mentally the braking points.

Marciellos setup, a quite expensive remnant from his Formula testing days, has three monitors for better immersion. Its still easy to get distracted by the outside world.

Your girlfriend passes by. You look above and theres no car, only your house roof. Sometimes the doorbell or the phone goes, laughs Marciello. But it is also good training because you learn how to keep your focus for many hours at a time. When youre in an actual car on the track, keeping focus is not a worry.

Though not physically, sim racing has adverse real-life implications.

Bubba Wallace lost a sponsor for ragequitting an event, and fellow NASCAR driver Kyle Larson was fired for using a racial slur during a live stream. Audi driver Daniel Abt struggled to migrate to the virtual track and roped in a professional sim racer to secretly compete in his stead. When discovered, the German tried to play off the ruse as a joke and was fired by Audi.

The highest-profile scandal came in virtual Indianapolis. In a bizarre attempt at guarding his turf, former Indy 500 and IndyCar champion Simon Pagenaud deliberately crashed into Lando Norris to prevent an F1 outsider from winning. The incident sparked a row and Norris went off.

I know its virtually and people class it as a game its become quite a bit more than that over the last few weeks Youd still expect people to act professionally for someone to be so selfish and just to not care about other people was disappointing at that time, and to see from such a driver, Norris said on the ESPN podcast.

On a somewhat related note, there may not be injuries in sim racing, but crashes and dangerous driving are still looked over by actual stewards and drivers are punished if judged guilty.

Motorsport doesnt need sim racing, or vice versa

Professional racing has long been a niche sport. Hundreds of events, with confusing formats and complicated rulesets, render it inaccessible to many. And no matter the format, racings audience continues to skew older, and last year Formula 1 revealed that only 14 per cent of their viewers are under 25.

Barring superstars, a Formula 1 driver is a fancy helmet in a fancier car. Riding on the momentum generated by the crop of sim racers/Twitch streamers, the administrators can learn to market the drivers and make them more than just an interchangeable face behind the visor.

The thing Ive seen that is very striking to me is how because the real drivers have become involved in these initiatives and these events, how well theyve been able to engage with the fans, F1 managing director Ross Brawn said during last months FIA eConference. The message was constantly coming across from the fans that they wanted to know more about the drivers. They see them in the car with the helmet on, see them interviewed formally, but what are the drivers really like? What do they do? How do they live? Of course with Esports, youve got a much better insight into the drivers personalities and their characters and their nature. Thats been a real boom.

As for the sim racing events that bandied about their viewership numbers this year, the ratings have been consistently declining. And with real-life events continue to come back, virtual racing will again settle into what is a rabid, but limited, fanbase. Marciello, however, believes the medium proved its potential.

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They grew up in participation. But with real world coming back, sim races will go back to the numbers before the pandemic, says Marciello. This was a good time for media attention and more driver participation, but sim racing has been popular before the pandemic too. This year it has shown that it deserves every spot.

Developers can use the extensive sample size of races featuring professional drivers and their feedback to fine-tune the games. Potential sim racers meanwhile would love to take up the steering wheel to go bumper-to-bumper with stars.

Marciello concludes with a message to the naysayers.

Its not mandatory to watch it. Sim racing is for people who are maybe not able to do it in real life, or even dont like it. Its easy to set up, and now even professional drivers know it is not very simple, Marciello says. I have also heard people go, oh this is boring. this is no fun, not real. Its very simple. Change the channel.

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The forest trail I was hiking into the Kiso Mountains of Japan had the dreamlike beauty of an anime fantasy. Curtains of gentle rain, the tail-end of a typhoon in the South China Sea, were drifting across worn cobblestones that had been laid four centuries ago, swelling the river rushing below and waterfalls that burbled in dense bamboo groves. And yet, every hundred yards or so, a brass bell was hung with an alarming sign: Ring Hard Against Bears. Only a few hours earlier, I had been in Tokyo among futuristic skyscrapers bathed in pulsing neon. Now I had to worry about encounters with carnivorous beasts? It seemed wildly unlikely, but, then again, travelers have for centuries stayed on their toes in this fairytale landscape. A Japanese guidebook I was carrying, written in 1810, included dire warnings about supernatural threats: Solitary wayfarers met on remote trails might really be ghosts, or magical animals in human form. Beautiful women walking alone were particularly dangerous, it was thought, as they could be white foxes who would lure the unwary into disaster.

Modern Japan seemed even more distant when I emerged from the woods into the hamlet of Otsumago. Not a soul could be seen in the only laneway. The carved wooden balconies of antique houses leaned protectively above, each one garlanded with chrysanthemums, persimmons and mandarin trees, and adorned with glowing lanterns. I identified my lodgings, the Maruya Inn, from a lacquered sign. It had first opened its doors in 1789, the year Europe was plunging into the French Revolution, harbinger of decades of chaos in the West. At the same time here in rural Japanfeudal, hermetic, entirely uniquean era of peace and prosperity was underway in a society as intricate as a mechanical clock, and this remote mountain hostelry was welcoming a daily parade of traveling samurai, scholars, poets and sightseers.

There was no answer when I called in the door, so, taking off my shoes, I followed a corridor of lacquered wood to an open hearth, where a blackened iron kettle hung. At the top of creaking stairs were three simple guest rooms, each with springy woven mats underfoot, sliding paper-screen doors and futons. My 1810 guidebook offered travelers advice on settling in to lodging: After checking in, the author suggests, locate the bathroom, secure your bedroom door, then identify the exits in case of fire.

The only sign of the 21st century was the vending machine by the front doorway, its soft electric glow silhouetting cans of iced coffee, luridly colored fruit sodas and origami kits. And the antique aura was hardly broken when the owners, a young couple with a toddler and a puppy, emerged with a pot of green tea. Their elderly parents were the inns cooks, and soon we all gathered for a traditional country dinner of lake fish and wild mushrooms over soba (buckwheat noodles). Looking out through the shutters later that night, I saw the clouds part briefly to reveal a cascade of brilliant stars. It was the same timeless view seen by one of Japans many travel-loving poets, Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), who had also hiked this route, known as the Nakasendo Road, and was inspired to compose a haiku:

From 1600 to 1868, a secretive period under the Tokugawa dynasty of shoguns, or military overlords, Japan would largely cut itself off from the rest of the world. Foreign traders were isolated like plague-bearers; by law, a few uncouth, louse-ridden Dutch barbarians and Jesuits were permitted in the port of Nagasaki, but none was allowed beyond the town walls. Any Japanese who tried to leave was executed. A rich aura of mystery has hung over the era, with distorted visions filtering to the outside world that have endured until recently. There used to be an image of Japan as an entirely rigid country, with the people locked in poverty under an oppressive military system, says Andrew Gordon of Harvard University, author of A Modern History of Japan: from Tokugawa Times to the Present. But the 270-year-long time capsule is now regarded as more fluid and rich, he says. A lot of the harshest feudal laws were not enforced. It was very lively socially and culturally, with a great deal of freedom and movement within the system.

It was the Eastern version of the Pax Romana. The new era had begun dramatically in 1600, when centuries of civil wars between Japans 250-odd warlords came to an end with a cataclysmic battle on the mist-shrouded plains of Sekigahara. The visionary, icily cool general Tokugawa Ieyasua man described in James Clavells fictionalized account Shogun as being as clever as a Machiavelli and as ruthless as Attila the Hunformally became shogun in 1603 and moved the seat of government from Kyoto, where the emperor resided as a figurehead, to Edo (now Toyko), thus giving the era its most common name, the Edo period. (Tokugawa is about to receive a renewed burst of fame next year on FX with a new adaptation of Clavells novel.) He immediately set about wiping out all bandits from the countryside and building a new communication system for his domain. From a bridge in front of his palace in Edo, the five highways (called the Tokaido, Nakasendo, Nikko Kaido, Oshu Kaido and Koshu Kaido) spread in a web across crescent-shaped Honshu, largest of Japans four main islands.

Expanding in many areas on ancient foot trails, the arteries were first constructed to secure Tokugawas power, allowing easy transit for officials and a way to monitor the populace. Although beautifully engineered and referred to as highways, the tree-lined paths, which were mostly of stone, were all designed for foot traffic, since wheeled transport was banned and only top-ranking samurai, the elite warrior class, were legally permitted to travel on horseback. An elaborate infrastructure was created along the routes, with carved road markers placed every ri, 2.44 miles, and 248 post stations constructed every five or six miles, each with a luxurious inn and a relay center for fresh porters. Travelers were forbidden to stray from the set routes and were issued wooden passports that would be examined at regular security checkpoints, kneeling in the sand before local magistrates while their luggage was searched for firearms.

Among the first beneficiaries of the highway system were the daimyo, feudal lords, who were required by the shogun to spend every second year with their entourages in Edo, creating regular spasms of traffic around the provinces. But the side effect was to usher in one of historys golden ages of tourism. The shoguns were not trying to promote leisure travel, says Laura Nenzi, professor of history at the University of Tennessee and author of Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan. But as a means of social control, the highway system backfired. It was so efficient that everyone could take advantage of it. By the late 1700s, Japan had a whole travel industry in place. Japan was by then teeming with 30 million people, many of them highly culturedthe era also consolidated such quintessential arts as kabuki theater, jujutsu, haiku poetry and bonsai treesand taking advantage of the economic good times, it became fashionable to hit the road. Now is the time to visit all the celebrated places in the country, the author Jippensha Ikku declared in 1802, and fill our heads with what we have seen, so that when we become old and bald we will have something to talk about over the teacups. Like the sophisticated British aristocrats on grand tours of Europe, these Japanese sightseers traveled first as a form of education, seeking out renowned historical sites, beloved shrines and scenery. They visited volcanic hot baths for their health. And they went on culinary tours, savoring specialties like yuba, tofu skin prepared by monks a dozen different ways in Nikko. Every strata of society was on the road, explains the scholar William Scott Wilson, who translated much of the poetry from the period now available in English. Samurai, priests, prostitutes, kids out for a lark, and people who just wanted to get the hell out of town.

The coastal highway from Kyoto to Edo, known as the Tokaido, could be comfortably traveled in 15 days and saw a constant stream of traffic. And on all five highways, the infrastructure expanded to cater to the travel craze, with the post stations attracting armies of souvenir vendors, fast-food cooks and professional guides, and sprouting inns that catered to every budget. While most were decent, some of the one-star lodgings were noisy and squalid, as described by one haiku:

Fleas and lice,the horse pissingnext to my pillow.

Japans thriving publishing industry catered to the trend with the likes of my 1810 volume, Ryoko Yojinshu, roughly, Travel Tips (and published in a translation by Wilson as Afoot in Japan). Written by a little-known figure named Yasumi Roan, the guide offers 61 pieces of advice, plus Instructional Poems for beginners on the Japanese road, covering everything from etiquette to how to treat sore feet.

There were best-selling collections of haikus by celebrated poets who caught the travel bug, pioneered by Matsuo Basho (1644-94), who was wont to disappear for months at a time roughing it, begging and scribbling as he went. His shoestring classics include Travelogue of Weather-Beaten Bones and The Knapsack Notebook, both titles that Jack Kerouac might have chosen. Even famous artists hit the road, capturing postcard-like scenes of daily life at every stoptravelers enjoying hot baths, or being ferried across rivers by near-naked oarsmenthen binding them into souvenir volumes of polychrome woodblock prints with tourist-friendly titles like The Sixty Nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road or One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. Many later filtered to Europe and the United States. The works of the master Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) were so highly regarded that they were copied by the young Vincent van Gogh and collected by Frank Lloyd Wright. For travelers, following the remains of the shogun age provides a tantalizing doorway into a world rarely seen by outsiders. The five ancient highways still exist. Like the pagan roads of Europe, most have been paved over, but a few isolated sections have survived, weaving through remote rural landscapes that have remained unchanged for centuries. They promise an immersion into a distant era that remains laden with romanceand a surprising key to understanding modern Japan.

* * *

My journey began as it did centuries ago, in Tokyo, a famously overwhelming megalopolis of 24-hour light and surging crowds. I felt as disoriented as a shipwrecked 18th-century European sailor as I rode speeding subways through the alien cityscape. Japan is still very isolated from the rest of the world, noted Pico Iyer, a resident for over 30 years and the author, most recently, of A Beginners Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations, adding that it ranks 29th out of 30 countries in Asia for proficiency in English, below North Korea, Indonesia and Cambodia. To me, it still seems more like another planet. It was some comfort to recall that travelers have often felt lost in Edo, which by the 18th century was the worlds largest city, packed with theaters, markets and teeming red-light districts.

Luckily, the Japanese have a passion for history, with their television full of splendid period dramas and anime depictions of ancient stories, complete with passionate love affairs, betrayals, murder plots and seppuku, ritual suicides. To facilitate my own transition to the past, I checked into the Hoshinoya Hotel, a 17-story skyscraper sheathed in leaf-shaped latticework, creating a contemporary update of a traditional inn in the heart of the city. The automatic entrance doors were crafted from raw, knotted wood, and opened onto a lobby of polished cedar. Staff swapped my street shoes for cool slippers and secured them in bamboo lockers, then suggested I change into a kimono. The rooms were decorated with the classic mat floors, futons and paper screens to diffuse the citys neon glow, and there was even a communal, open-air bathhouse on the skyscrapers rooftop that uses thermal waters pumped from deep under Tokyo.

Stepping outside the doors, I navigated the ancient capital with an app called Oedo Konjaku Monogatari, Tales From Edo Times Past. It takes the street map of wherever the user is standing in Tokyo and shows how it looked in the 1800s, 1700s, then 1600s. Clutching my iPhone, I wove past the moat-lined Imperial Palace to the official starting point of the five Tokugawa-era highways, the Nihonbashi, Japan Bridge. First built in 1603, it was a favorite subject for artists, who loved the colorful throngs of travelers, merchants and fishmongers. The elegant wooden span was replaced in 1911 by a stolid granite bridge, and is now overshadowed by a very unpicturesque concrete expressway, although its zero milestone plaque is still used for all road measurements in Japan. To reimagine the original travel experience, I dashed to the cavernous Edo-Tokyo Museum, where the northern half of the original bridge has been recreated in 1:1 scale. Standing on the polished wooden crest, jostled by Japanese schoolkids, I recalled my guidebooks 210-year-old advice: On the first day of a journey, step out firmly but calmly, making sure that your footwear has adapted itself to your feet. Straw sandals were the norm, so podiatry was a serious matter: The book includes a diagram on how to alleviate foot pain, and suggests a folk remedy, a mash of earthworms and mud, be applied to aching arches.

* * *

Of the five highways, the Nikko Kaidoroad to Nikkohad special historical status. The serene mountain aerie 90 miles north of Edo was renowned for its scenery and ornate Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. One of the shrines, Toshogu, is traditionally held to house the remains of the all-conquering shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who founded the dynasty. This balance of nature, history and art was so idyllic that a Japanese saying went, Never say the word beautiful until you have seen Nikko. Later shoguns would travel there to venerate their ancestors in processions that dwarfed the Elizabethan progresses of Tudor England. Their samurai entourages could number in the thosands, the front of their heads shaven and carrying two swords on their left hip, one long, one short. These parades were a powerful martial spectacle, a river of colorful banners and uniforms, glittering spears and halberds, their numbers clogging up mountain passes for days and providing an economic bonanza for farmers along the route. They were led by heralds who would shout, Down! Down!, a warning for commoners to prostrate themselves and avert their eyes, lest samurai test the sharpness of their swords on their necks.

Today, travelers generally reach Nikko on the Tobu train, although it still has its storybook charm. At the station before boarding, I picked up a bento box lunch called golden treasure, inspired by an ancient legend of gold buried by a samurai family near the route. It included a tiny shovel to dig up bullionflecks of boiled egg yolk hidden beneath layers of rice and vegetables. In Nikko itself, the shoguns enomous temple complex still had military echoes: It had been taken over by a kendo tournament, where dozens of black-robed combatants were dueling with bamboo sticks while emitting blood-curdling shrieks. Their gladiatorial cries followed me around Japans most lavish shrine, now part of a Unesco World Heritage site, whose every inch has been carved and decorated. The most famous panel, located beneath eaves dripping with gilt, depicts the Three Wise Monkeys, the original of the maxim See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil.

As for the ancient highway, there were tantalizing glimpses. A 23-mile stretch to the west of Nikko is lined by 12,000 towering cryptomeria trees, or sugi, that were planted after the death of the first Tokugawa shogun, each nearly 400-year-old elder lovingly numbered and maintained by townsfolk. Its the longest avenue of trees in the world, but only a short, serene stretch is kept free of cars. Another miraculous survivor is the restored post station of Ouchi-Juku, north of Nikko. Its unpaved main street is lined with whitewashed, thatch-roof strutures, some of which now contain teahouses where soba noodles are eaten with hook-shaped pieces of leek instead of spoons. Its most evocative structure is a honjin (now a museum), one of the luxurious ancient inns built for VIPs: Behind its ornate ceremonial entrance, travelers could luxuriate with private baths, soft bedding and skilled chefs preparing delicacies like steamed eel and fermented octopus in vinegar.

These were vivid connections to the past, but the shogun-era highway itself, I discovered, was gone. To follow one on foot, I would have to travel to more remote locales.

* * *

During the height of the travel boom, from the 1780s to the 1850s, discerning sightseers followed the advice of Confucius: The man of humanity takes pleasure in the mountains. And so did I, heading into the spine of Japan to find the last traces of the Nakasendo highway (central mountain route). Winding 340 miles from Edo to Kyoto, the trail was long and often rugged, with 69 post stations. Travelers had to brave high passes along trails that would coil in hairpin bends nicknamed dako, snake crawl, and cross rickety suspension bridges made of planks tied together by vines. But it was worth every effort for the magical scenery of its core stretch, the Kiso Valley, where 11 post stations were nestled among succulent forests, gorges and soaring peaksall immortalized by the eras intrepid poets, who identified, for example, the most sublime spots to watch the rising moon.

Today, travelers can be thankful for the alpine terrain: Bypassed by train lines, two stretches of the Nakasendo Trail were left to quietly decay until the 1960s, when they were salvaged and restored to look much as they did in shogun days. They are hardly a secret but remain relatively little visited, due to the eccentric logistics. And so I set out to hike both sections over three days, hoping to engage with rural Japan in a manner that the haiku master Basho himself once advised: Do not simply follow in the footsteps of the ancients, he wrote to his fellow history-lovers; seek what they sought.

It took two trains and a bus to get from Tokyo to the former post station of Magome, the southern gateway to the Kiso Valley. Edo-era travelers found it a seedy stopover: Sounding like cranky TripAdvisor reviewers today, one dismissed it as miserable, another as provincial and loutish, filled with cheap flophouses where the serving girls doubled as prostitutes. In modern Magome, framed by verdant peaks, sleepy streets have a few teahouses and souvenir stores that have been selling the same items for generations: lacquerware boxes, dried fish, mountain herbs and sake from local distilleries. My guidebook advised: Do not drink too much. / Yet just a little from time to time / is good medicine. Still, I ordered the ancient energy food for hikers, gohei, rice balls on skewers grilled in sweet chestnut sauce, and then I set off into a forest that was dripping from a summer downpour.

Once again, I had heeded the Ryoko Yojinshus advice for beginners: Pack light. (You may think that you need to bring a lot of things, but in fact, they will only become troublesome.) In Edo Japan, this did not mean stinting on art: The authors list of essentials includes ink and brush for drawing and a journal for poems. For the refined sightseers, one of travels great pleasures was to compose their own haikus, inspired by the glimpse of a deer or the sight of falling autumn leaves, often in homage to long-dead poets they admired. Over the generations, the layers of literature became a tangible part of the landscape as locals engraved the most beloved verse on trailside rocks.

Some remain today, such as a haiku by Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902):

A modern sign I passed was almost as poetic: When it sees trash, the mountain cries. Wooden plaques identified sites with enigmatic names like The Male Waterfall and The Female Waterfall, or advised that I had reached a lucky point in numerology, 777 meters above sea levela powerful spot of the happiness. Another identified a baby bearing tree: A newborn was once found there, and women travelers still boil the bark as a fertility tea.

But their impact paled beside the urgent yellow placards warning about bear attacks, accompanied by the brass bells that were placed every hundred yards or so. Far-fetched as it seemed, locals took the threat seriously: A store in Magome had displayed a map covered with red crosses to mark recent bear sightings, and every Japanese hiker I met wore a tinkling bear bell on their pack strap. It was some consolation to recall that wild animals were far more of a concern for hikers in the Edo period. My caution-filled guidebook warned that travelers should be on the lookout for wolves, wild pigs and poisonous snakes called mamushi, pit vipers. The author recommends striking the path with a bamboo staff to scare them off, or smearing the soles of your sandals with cow manure.

A half-hour later, a bamboo grove began to part near the trail ahead. I froze, half-expecting to be mauled by angry bears. Instead, a clan of snow monkeys appeared, swinging back and forth on the flexible stalks like trapeze artists. In fact, I soon found, the Japanese wilderness was close to Edenic. The only bugs I encountered were dragonflies and tiny spiders in webs garlanded with dew. The only vipers had been drowned by villagers in glass jars to make snake wine, a type of sake considered a delicacy. More often, the landscape seemed as elegantly arranged as a temple garden, allowing me to channel the nature-loving Edo poets, whose hearts soared at every step. The Japanese still have the pantheistic belief that nature is filled with gods, Iyer had told me. Deities inhabit every stream and tree and blade of grass.

As the trail zigzagged above the rushing Kiso River, I could finally imagine the ancient road culture in all its high theater. A traveler would pass teams of porters clad only in loincloths and groups of pilgrims wearing broad-rimmed straw hats adorned with symbols, sometimes lugging portable shrines on their backs. There were wealthy travelers being carried in palanquins, wooden boxes with pillows, decorations and fine silk curtains. (My guidebook suggests ginger tea for passengers who suffer from motion sickness.) One could meet slow processions of zattou, blind masseurs, and goze, women troubadours who played the samisen, a three-stringed lute, and trilled classical songs. There were monks who banged drums and tossed amulets to bemused passersby; shaven-headed nuns; country doctors in black jackets, lugging medicine boxes filled with potions. Near the post station of Tsumago, travelers would also encounter vendors selling fresh bear liver, a medicinal treat devoured to gain the animals strength.

Today, Tsumago is the crown jewel of post stations. During its restoration, electricity lines were buried, TV antennas removed and vending machines hidden. Cars cannot enter its narrow laneways during daylight hours, and its trees have been manicured. Even the mailman wears period dress.

* * *

The shogunates time capsule began to crack in 1853 with the arrival of U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry, who cruised into Edo Bay in a battleship and threatened bombardments if Japan did not open its doors to the West. In 1867, progressive samurai forced the last shogun to cede his powers, in theory, to the 122nd emperor, then only 16 years old, beginning a period that would become known as the Meiji Restoration (after enlightened rule). Paradoxically, many of the same men who had purportedly restored the ancient imperial institution of the Chrysanthemum Throne became the force behind modernizing Japan. The Westernization program that followed was a cataclysmic shift that would change Asian history.

The old highway systems had one last cameo in this operatic drama. In 1868, the newly coronated teen emperor traveled with 3,300 retainers from Kyoto to Edo along the coastal Tokaido road. He became the first emperor in recorded history to see the Pacific Ocean and Mount Fuji, and ordered his courtiers to compose a poem in their honor. But once he arrived, the young ruler made Edo his capital, with a new name he had recently chosen, Tokyo, and threw the country into the industrialization program that sealed the fate of the old road system. Not long after Japans first train line opened, in 1872, woodblock art began to have an elegiac air, depicting locomotives as they trundled past peasants in the rice fields. And yet the highways retained a ghostly grip on the country, shaping the routes of railways and freeways for generations to come. When the countrys first bullet train opened in 1964, it followed the route of the Tokaido. And in the latest sci-fi twist, the new maglev (magnetic levitation) superfast train will start operations from Tokyo to Osaka in 2045 largely passing underground, through the central mountains, following a route shadowing the ancient Nakasendo highway.

As for me on the trail, jumping between centuries began to feel only natural. Hidden among the 18th-century facades of Tsumago, I discovered a tiny clothing store run by a puckish villager named Jun Obara, who proudly explained that he only worked with a colorful material inspired by sashiko, once used for the uniforms of Edo-era firefighters. (He explained that their coats were reversibledull on the outside and luridly colored on the inside, so they could go straight from a fire to a festival.) I spent one night at an onsen, an inn attached to natural hot springs, just as foot-sore Edo-travelers did; men and women today bathe separately, although still unashamedly naked, in square cedar tubs, watching the stars through waves of steam. And every meal was a message from the past, including one 15-course dinner that featured centuries-old specialties like otaguriboiled horses intestine mixed with miso sauce.

But perhaps the most haunting connection occurred after I took a local train to Yabuhara to reach the second stretch of the trail and climbed to the 3,600-foot-high Torii Pass. At the summit stood a stone Shinto gate framed by chestnut trees. I climbed the worn stone steps to find an overgrown shrine filled with moss-coated sculpturesimages of Buddhist deities and elderly sages in flowing robes who had once tended to the site, one wearing a red bib, considered a protection from demons. The shrine exuded ancient mystery. And yet, through a gap in the trees, was a timeless view of Mount Ontake, a sacred peak that Basho had once admired on the same spot:

Soaring abovethe skylark:the mountain peak!

By the time I returned to Tokyo, the layers of tradition and modernity no longer felt at odds; in fact, the most striking thing was the sense of continuity with the ancient world. Japan changes on the surface so as not to change on a deeper level, Pico Iyer explained. When I first moved to the country 30 years ago, I was surprised by how Western everything looked. But now I am more shocked at how ancient it is, how rooted its culture and beliefs still are in the eighth century. This time, back at the Hoshinoya Hotel, I took the elevator straight to the rooftop baths to watch the night sky, which was framed by sleek walls as paper lanterns swayed in the summer breeze. Even though Tokyos electric glow engulfed the stars, the great wanderers of the Edo era might still manage to feel at home in modern Japan, I realized. As Basho wrote in the poetry collection Narrow Road to the Interior, The moon and sun are eternal travelers. Even the years wander on...Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

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Bitcoin, BTC to USD, slid by 2.32% on Thursday. Reversing a 1.94% gain from Wednesday, Bitcoin ended the day at $9,248.9.

It was a bearish start to the day for Bitcoin. Bitcoin fell from an early morning intraday high $9,451.7 to a late morning low $9,374.0 before finding support.

Steering clear of the first major support level at $9,302.93, Bitcoin recovered to $9,440 levels before hitting reverse.

Continuing to fall well short of the major resistance levels, Bitcoin fell to a mid-afternoon intraday low $9,175.0.

Bitcoin fell through the first major support level at $9,302.93 before finding support.

Steering clear of the second major support level at $9,158.87, Bitcoin moved back through to $9,200 levels.

The near-term bullish trend remained intact in spite of the early July pullback to sub-$9,000 levels. For the bears, Bitcoin would need to slide through the 62% FIB of $6,400 to form a near-term bearish trend.

Across the rest of the majors, it was a mixed day on Thursday.

Moneros XMR (+1.87%), Stellars Lumen (+6.11%), and Trons TRX (+3.41%) bucked the trend on the day.

It was a bearish day for the rest of the majors.

Tezos led the way down, with a loss of 4.62%.

Binance Coin (-2.60%), Bitcoin Cash ABC (-1.84%), Bitcoin Cash SV (-1.44%), Ethereum (-2.07%), Litecoin (-2.25%) also struggled.

Cardanos ADA (-0.81%), EOS (-1.15%), and Ripples XRP (-1.13%) saw a relatively modest loss on the day.

In the current week, the crypto total market cap rose from a Monday low $254.55bn to a Wednesday high $274.58bn. At the time of writing, the total market cap stood at $265.78bn.

Bitcoins dominance fell from a Monday high 65.58% to a Thursday low 63.55%. At the time of writing, Bitcoins dominance stood at 63.93%.

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Bitcoin Cash 4 Hour Price Update

Updated July 10, 2020 07:19 AM GMT (03:19 AM EST)

Bitcoin Cash came into the current 4 hour candle down 1.41% ($3.33) from the open of the last 4 hour candle, marking the 2nd candle in a row it has gone down. Out of the 5 instruments in the Top Cryptos asset class, Bitcoin Cash ended up ranking 4th for the four-hour candle in terms of price change relative to the last 4 hour candle.

238.14 (USD) was the opening price of the day for Bitcoin Cash, resulting in the day prior being one in which price moved down 2.14% ($5.22) from the day prior. The change in price came along side change in volume that was down 6.88% from previous day, but up 38.65% from the Thursday of last week. Those trading within the Top Cryptos asset class should know that Bitcoin Cash was the worst performer in the class during the day prior. Here is a daily price chart of Bitcoin Cash.

Notably, Bitcoin Cash crossed below its 100 day moving average yesterday. Trend traders will want to observe that the strongest trend appears on the 14 day horizon; over that time period, price has been moving up. Or to view things another way, note that out of the past 30 days Bitcoin Cashs price has gone down 18 them.

For laughs, fights, or genuinely useful information, lets see what the most popular tweets pertaining to Bitcoin Cash for the past day were:

@vinarmani How feasible would it be for a bunch of libertarians to turn Saipan into a Bitcoin Cash island? (Or USDH island)

#how to invest in bitcoin cash how do bitcoin paper wallets work

Bitcoin Cash BCH Current Price:$243.311 Hour: -0.11 % | 24 Hours: 1.16 % | 7 Days: 8.52 %#bch #bitcoin cash

As for a news story related to Bitcoin Cash getting some buzz:

Bitcoin Cash price analysis: range top may be tested

Bitcoin Cash price analysis shows that bulls could start to test towards the top of the BCH/USD pairs established trading range, around the $280 level.Bitcoin Cash technical analysis indicates that a rally towards the top of the cryptocurrencys trading range, around the $280 level, may be unfolding.

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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Down $3.33 Over Past 4 Hours, Fares the Worst Out of Top Cryptos to Start the Day; But Still in an Uptrend Over Past 14 Days -...