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What's Inside A Shotgun Shell And Why
Wes Siler
A shotgun shell can achieve anything from lightly peppering a clay target at close range to taking down a deer at 35 yards. And that huge variance in capability can all come out the business end of a single gun. That's because you can precisely tailor what's inside a shell to your specific needs. Here's how.
The hammer gun my great-great-grandfather used to hunt and defend the family homestead (left), Lara's Rizzini and my "new" SKB (right).
I've used shotgun on and off since I was a Boy Scout, but have never been particularly good with one. That changed recently when the girlfriend's dad gifted us a nice pair and we decided to take that opportunity to enjoy the sport a little more seriously. We've been practicing at the range and, this weekend, I'm taking mine turkey hunting. It won't be my first upland bird hunt, but it is my first time going after a bird as big as a turkey, so I've had to learn a lot about shotguns and the shells you shoot with them in a short period of time. Turkeys are tough, wary birds with extraordinary eyesight (10x that of humans); should be an interesting weekend!
From left to right: primer (in center of base), base, powder, wad, shot, case (around the perimeter)
The Parts
Case: Holds everything together. Nowadays almost always made from plastic and crimped closed at the top to hold everything in; that part opens up when fired, allowing the contents to escape.
Base: Typically made from brass, the stronger base helps a shell retain its shape and holds the primer.
Photo: GFPeck
Primer: Located at the center of the base, the primer contains a chemical that explodes when struck by the gun's firing pin. When you pull the trigger, you're releasing that firing in.
Powder: Smokeless gunpowder burns, forming gases that rapidly expand, pushing everything above it out of the gun.
Powder Wad: A paper or plastic barrier that holds the powder in the bottom of the shell and helps push the shot out.
Here you can see Federal's "FliteControl" wad opening and releasing shot, upon exiting the barrel. Note the "air brakes" around its perimeter.
Shot Wad: A plastic cup or similar shape that holds the shot together as it exits the barrel; these can be tailored to help maintain a tight pattern of shot out to a longer range. The size and shape of the shot wad is often a major distinction between brands, you'll see these listed as "FliteControl" or similar. The wad is caught by the air once it exits the gun and falls behind the shot as that travels to your target.
Shot: The actual projectile(s). These can be anything from a single, large slug to hundred of tiny pellets and can be made from lead, brass, steel, plastic or, these days, bean bags or tasers or flairs or pretty much anything else anyone would ever want to shoot.
What All The Numbers Mean
On a typical box of shells, you'll find five prominent and important numbers. After all the marketing and branding, these are what actually distinguish any shotgun shell for another and are all that really matters.
Gauge: The diameter of the gun's barrel. In a confusing system that dates back to cannons, shotgun gauges are measured in the weight of a solid sphere of lead that will take up the entire bore. So a 10ga barrel fits a lead ball that's 1/10th of a pound and a 12ga fits one that's 1/12th of a pound. The larger the number, the smaller diameter the gun's barrel is. You can only shoot the correct gauge shell for your gun.
Shell Length: This corresponds to the chamber size of a gun; shotguns typically come with 2 3/4, 3 or 3 1/2 inch chambers. A larger chamber can shoot a smaller shell, but a smaller chamber will be damaged by shooting a larger shell due to over pressurization. Obviously a larger shell is able to hold more shot, so the larger sizes are becoming more popular with hunters.
Velocity: The speed at which the shot is propelled from the gun, as it's leaving the barrel. This is actually a user-friendly number, meaning you don't need to account "drams" of powder versus the amount and size of shot and shell to determine velocity. The higher the velocity, the further the shot will travel and the more punch it will pack at larger range, for its given size.
Shot Weight: The weight of the shot in the shell, measured in ounces. The higher the number, the more shot you're putting onto a target, but it will also create more recoil, which could effect accuracy.
Shot Size: And, this gets confusing again. The larger the number, the smaller the shot. Buck shot goes down to 000 though, which is larger than 00, which is larger than 0, which is larger than 1. The larger a single piece of shot is, the more momentum it packs and the harder it hits a target as a result. But given a set weight (amount) of shot per shell, a larger shot will also produce a sparser pattern, meaning you could miss the target even if you're aiming correctly.
When it comes to shooting, you need to consider the velocity, weight (amount) and size of your shot to balance power, pattern and accuracy. And that's in addition to the choke on your gun, which is how tight the barrel is, at its far end. So, for turkey hunting, Corey and I need to use a shot size (4, 5 or 6) capable of taking down a turkey with enough velocity to do so at up to 45 yards while creating a tight enough pattern that most of our shot can remain grouped around the bird's head and neck. To do that, we have to go shoot different shells with different chokes at targets set at different ranges to determine what works best in each of our guns; shooting a shotgun is not as simple as using a rifle!
Alternative Loads
So, thanks to the variance described above, a single gun is able to perform a multitude of tasks. That's a useful merit that can also be used by law enforcement, soldiers are sportsmen to achieve an even greater variety of uses out of a single tool.
We've all heard stories of olden day farmers loading up a shell with dry rice to run pesky kids off their property. That non-lethality was expanded by bean bags, which have been employed for riot control and non-lethal law enforcement tasks for decades. Now, that idea is getting a modern twist with a loads like the 500-volt taser pictured at the top of the article.
Or, lethality can be increased with flechettes (think darts or sabots) or by wiring buckshot together to create a traumatic wound channel.
And, a shotgun can be used for stuff other than shooting things. Signal flares can be installed in a shotgun shell, enabling boaters or outdoorsmen to signal for help in an emergency. Shells can be used to deliver "flash bang" rounds capable of temporarily stunning people or even as a very powerful delivery method for pepper spray.
That's an awful lot of work performed by what's ostensibly just a little plastic cylinder.
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Nice article. I would add that gauge makes a huge difference in function. A .410 and 12 gauge are as different as night and day. A .410 will work hunting doves, but a turkey will flat out laugh that tiny amount of lead. The photo shows a 45. cal pistol round and then a .410, 20, 12 gauge shotgun shell.
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Allergic Reaction to Cayenne Pepper With Swelling Lips
Cayenne Pepper Allergy
Swollen Lips
Written by Diane Marks
An allergic reaction to cayenne pepper that causes swollen lips is alarming. Lip swelling is a sign of a severe allergic reaction that could result in death if not treated. You can develop a food allergy to any food if your immune system fails to recognize the proteins in that food as safe. Cayenne pepper is not a common allergen, but it can trigger minor to severe symptoms if your immune system is hypersensitive to cayenne pepper proteins.
Consuming cayenne pepper may cause indigestion and heartburn in many people, but if you develop other symptoms you may have an allergy. An allergic reaction is the result of a malfunction in your immune system. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases explains that the immune system interprets molecules in cayenne pepper as intruders and the body responds by releasing immunoglobulin E antibodies to fight them off 1. This triggers various chemicals to be released, resulting in food allergy symptoms.
Consuming cayenne pepper may cause indigestion and heartburn in many people, but if you develop other symptoms you may have an allergy.
Common symptoms of a food allergy include nasal congestion, shortness of breath, skin rashes, hives and digestive complications. Facial swelling, lip swelling, tongue swelling and throat swelling are all symptoms of a severe reaction. During an allergic reaction, your body releases a chemical called histamine, which dilates your blood vessels and constricts your soft tissues. When the entire body overreacts to cayenne pepper consumption, you may develop a condition called anaphylaxis 3.
Common symptoms of a food allergy include nasal congestion, shortness of breath, skin rashes, hives and digestive complications.
When the entire body overreacts to cayenne pepper consumption, you may develop a condition called anaphylaxis 3.
During anaphylaxis the excessive release of antibodies, histamine and other chemicals causes the body to enter a state of shock, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology 3. Common symptoms of anaphylaxis include:
lip swelling
severe abdominal pain
faint pulse
the feeling of impending doom
a drop in blood pressure
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Anaphylaxis symptoms typically occur within seconds of ingesting cayenne pepper and can cause serious health complications within a matter of minutes 3. The patient needs immediate emergency care.
Treatment for a cayenne allergy that causes swollen lips is an injection of epinephrine. Epinephrine is a prescribed medication that is injected into the body as soon as symptoms of anaphylaxis begin 3. The medication causes blood vessels to constrict and restores the lungs to their normal state. If epinephrine is injected and your lip swelling subsides, you still need to go to the emergency room because the medication may wear off within 15 minutes.
Treatment for a cayenne allergy that causes swollen lips is an injection of epinephrine.
Epinephrine is a prescribed medication that is injected into the body as soon as symptoms of anaphylaxis begin 3.
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Diane Marks started her writing career in 2010 and has been in health care administration for more than 30 years. She holds a registered nurse license from Citizens General Hospital School of Nursing, a Bachelor of Arts in health care education from California University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Science in health administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Govt not redirecting CPEC funds, Senate told
Raza Rabbani criticises appointment of non-elected members in federal cabinet
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ISLAMABAD.: The government has assured the Senate that the funds allocated for the multi-billion dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project will not be redirected for any other purpose.
“Rs167 billion were allocated for CPEC and funds for seventy per cent of the projects have been released. Rs180 billion reserved for CPEC will not be transferred inappropriately. CPEC is an extremely significant project for the country,” Minister for Parliamentary Affair Azam Swati told Senate on Friday.
Azam Swati was responding to the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Raza Rabbani, who earlier claimed that the incumbent government had halted over 300 CPEC-related projects.
CPEC to open new vistas of success, progress: PM
“The government has also not taken the house into confidence over its talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout package,” Rabbani said. The IMF has been pushing the government to reveal the details of CPEC related investments.
On Friday, senators also protested against absence of Federal Minister of Planning Khusro Bakhtiar who was to respond to the lawmakers queries with regard to CPEC.
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Rabbani also criticised presence of non-elected advisers in the federal cabinet and said: “Formation of cabinet is prerogative of prime minister but such appointments would affect the affairs of the government and raise doubts that we are moving towards presidential system.”
Minister’s absences irks Senate panel on CPEC
He said five advisers and 17 special assistants in the federal cabinet are non-elected people. “Why special assistants have been made part of the cabinet meetings given the fact that they have not even taken oath,” he asked. Rabbani, who has also served as Senate chairman, said the Secretariat Act does not allow in special assistants attending cabinet meetings.
He also asked why Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, the PM’s adviser on finance and the de facto finance minister, was being tasked to estimate the defence budget. “The defence budget cannot be brought for discussion even in the parliament so how can the government claim that it is in safe hands.”
He said measures like these are paralysing the parliamentary system and a way for so-called technocrat system is being paved. “We will not accept any system other than the parliamentary system. We will not accept any measure against parliamentary system of governance.”
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Officials of the Health Ministry while presenting details of the health card scheme said over 10 million people will be able to benefit from health cards distributed in 2019-20.
Swati told the house that prime minister took personal notice of the issue of medicine prices. He said currently, the ministry has a supply of 30,000 doses of the vaccine against rabies and there is no need to procure medicines from India.
The members also reviewed Senator Ateeq Shaikh’s motion against excessive use of antibiotics and said such medicines should be included in the drug control list. Swati said it is a serious matter and the government is working on it. The Senate session was adjourned till Monday 3pm.
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ILS has provided a handy searchable archive of important decisions on discovery matters. We do so as a convenience and hope that you will find it interesting, helpful and informative. However, our case briefs are not intended to replace legal research or relieve counsel of their duty to independently evaluate the law as it applies to their particular cases.
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In Broussard v. Bd. of Supervisors of La. State Univ. & A & M Coll., No. 19-527-BAJ-RLB (M.D. La. Sep. 28, 2020), Plaintiff moved to compel and for sanctions under FRCP 37 on the grounds that Defendants failed to produce certain emails, among other discovery. The lawsuit arose from Plaintiff’s allegations that Defendants failed to
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On January 10, a 35-year-old man was transported by ambulance to a hospital’s emergency department (ED) reporting headache and dizziness. The patient had a history of hypertension and hypothyroidism.
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The on-call physician, Family Physician A, admitted the patient and documented his impressions as: status migrainosus versus complicated migraine; hydrocephalus and ventriculomegaly; nausea and vomiting; and headache. The physician felt the patient was stable and consulted neurosurgery and neurology.
After seeing the patient, Neurologist A ordered a brain MRI. On January 11, the MRI was completed and showed a stable cystic dilation of the patient’s fourth ventricle. A radiologist thought it was an arachnoid cyst, but Neurologist A thought it might be neurocysticercosis. Neurologist A consulted an infectious disease physician who then ordered serology testing. Family Physician A deferred patient management to neurosurgery and neurology.
On January 12, a neurosurgeon ordered a lumbar puncture to test for infection, and the patient’s cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was initially thought to show meningitis. The patient reported no headache, nausea, or vomiting. The infectious disease physician prescribed antibiotics for meningitis.
On January 13, the patient’s diagnosis was uncertain and confirmatory results for neurocysticercosis were pending. Family Physician A informed the internal medicine physician about the patient’s pending serologies and planned to discharge the patient the next day if there were no signs of fever.
Neurologist B did not think the patient had meningitis, so the patient’s CSF was retested after consulting the director of pathology. No organisms were seen. Neurologist B discontinued the patient’s meningitis antibiotics, and the infectious disease physician documented that the patient could be discharged with instructions to follow up.
On January 14, a physician assistant (PA) who worked with the neurosurgeon noted the patient’s headache had recurred and planned for the neurosurgeon to discuss this with the infectious disease physician. The patient was discharged and instructed to follow up in two weeks with the internal medicine physician while waiting for serology results.
On January 15, the patient went to a different hospital ED with a headache. After a CT scan, the patient was referred to neurosurgery and infectious disease for outpatient treatment.
On January 17, the patient saw Family Physician B, who concluded the patient had possible 4th ventricle neurocysticercosis and mild hydrocephalus. The patient was instructed to follow up with neurosurgery and infectious disease.
In Family Physician A’s discharge summary dictated on February 6, he noted that the results of the CSF serologies found positive IgG cysticercosis. The summary stated that the patient probably had the infection during initial testing, but IgM was not tested. Therefore, it was not possible to determine if the infection was acute.
The discharge summary stated: “However, more than likely, the patient’s radiological findings on MRI of the cyst, which was suspicious for neurocysticercosis. It is likely that the patient was infected in the past with taenia solium, and this is the reason for positive IgG titers.”
Family Physician A planned to ask if the infectious disease physician was told of these results, because the patient was not discharged on anthelminthic agents. Family Physician A did not follow up.
In August, the patient came to the ED with reports of syncope, dizziness, vertigo, and nausea. After neurosurgery was consulted, the patient underwent ventriculostomy and craniotomy due to the fourth ventricle brain cystic mass. A pathology report confirmed neurocysticercosis. Additionally, the patient received a ventriculoperitoneal shunt due to hydrocephalus.
The patient filed a lawsuit against Family Physician A and the internal medicine physician. The allegations included failure to properly diagnose and treat the patient, which would have avoided the craniotomy and the left frontal burr-hole ventricular puncture for shunt placement. It was also alleged that both physicians failed to inform the patient of laboratory results after he was discharged.
Legal implications
Consultants for TMLT had mixed opinions on this case. Two consultants believed both physicians met the appropriate standard of care. Family Physician A and the internal medicine physician were noted for making appropriate referrals to neurosurgery, infectious disease, and neurology.
One consultant observed that the patient was noncompliant by not following up with neurosurgery and infectious disease as instructed and with his prescribed medications. Another believed that even if the patient had been notified of the lab results in a timely manner, the outcome would have been the same, citing the patient’s subsequent ED visit at another hospital did not result in the prescription of an anthelmintic.
Two other TMLT consultants thought the case was difficult to defend. The treatment delay was apparent, and it was unclear if long-term deficits and issues resulted. One key weakness was the delayed shunt placement, which harmed the patient.
They believed that delaying the patient’s discharge by 48 hours would have allowed lab results to arrive and treatment to begin during the patient’s first hospitalization. But, the infectious disease physician’s failure to test for IgM antibodies in the spinal tap fluid led to a delayed diagnosis.
Others who reviewed the case agreed that Family Physician A should have followed up with the infectious disease physician after the results were finalized because the patient could have been directed to a neurosurgeon. The patient should have communicated his medical history during the subsequent hospital visits after discharge, since the discharge instructions clearly documented pending test results and past hospitalization. One consultant thought the patient was prematurely discharged, while another felt the discharge was appropriate as the patient was stable at the time.
One consultant thought both physicians were responsible for scheduling follow-up appointments before the patient’s discharge. This consultant also believed the patient should have been put on anthelmintics while waiting for serology results.
This case was settled on behalf of Family Physician A and the internal medicine physician.
Risk management considerations
Failure to follow up and failure to communicate were significant issues in this case. It was the responsibility of Family Physician A to ensure lab results were reviewed and followed. However, the patient was discharged early before all the laboratory test results were received.
The infection cysticercosis was probably still active when the patient was discharged, as it was diagnosed and treated later at another hospital.
In addition, the infectious disease physician did not order a cysticercosis IgM antibody on the LP (spinal tap) fluid, which may have shown the infection was acute and needed antiparasitic treatment. This lack of action may have led to the delay in diagnosis and treatment.
Family Physician A dictated on his discharge summary that he would touch base with the infectious disease physician regarding the test results, but it is not clear if he did. In addition, Family Physician A did not notify the patient of his lab results.
The use of a formal tracking and notification system could have helped to ensure ordered tests and labs were followed up on. If lab results are not reported in a timely manner and a definitive diagnosis is not established, it is not recommended a patient be discharged until the results can be obtained and evaluated. That way, timely treatment can be initiated if necessary.
If Family Physician A had waited to discharge the patient until after the lab results were obtained, there may not have been a delay in diagnosis of the patient’s cysticercosis and treatment could have begun during the first hospitalization.
When a patient is discharged early it is the physician’s responsibility to ensure outstanding labs, tests, referrals, etc. are followed up on. By implementing a standard follow up system for tests, labs, and referrals, physicians can ensure nothing “slips through the cracks” and treatment is initiated in a timely manner.
This case was also complicated by multiple care providers and a non-compliant patient. For optimal patient outcomes, it is important to carefully and comprehensively communicate, evaluate, monitor, and follow up on a patient’s condition.
Gracie Awalt can be reached at gracie-awalt@tmlt.org.
Karen Werth can be reached at karen-werth@tmlt.org.
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Frank Arthur Harris was born in Melbourne in 1853 and died in 19??. Harris became prominent in Preston in 1878 when he started The Fitzroy Steam Brick Pipe Tile and Pottery Works in Collier Street. His business was successful up until he sold his interest in 1888, getting out at the right time as the Maritime Strike of 1890 and the depression of the early 1890’s saw the new company, the Builders’ Brick and Tile Company, forced into liquidation in March 1893. Harris meanwhile devoted his time to municipal affairs, including a term as President of Preston Shire in 1892-93. He also built a mansion, "Barunah", also known as the Tower House, which is one of the grandest homes still standing in Darebin crnr Dundas & Newcastles Sts.
Carroll, Brian and Rule, Ian (1985) Preston: An Illustrated History. Preston: City of Preston
Forster, Harley W. (1968) Preston: Lands and People 1838-1967. Melbourne: FW Cheshire.
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JOE BIDEN MAKES CANNABIS INVESTORS NERVOUS WITH HIS NEW DRUG POLICY STATEMENTS
“The president wants to wage a war on drugs. If that’s true, we need another D-Day “
– Joe Biden
The doddering old school conservative LARPing as a Democrat Joe Biden said that marijuana should remain illegal during a debate earlier this week. He claimed that possession of marijuana should constitute as a misdemeanor, and that marijuana should be a schedule II drug.
Critics say Biden is trying to tread a narrow path that’s acceptable to both younger voters who favor legalization and older voters who remember his years helping wage the War on Drugs.
This puts Biden out of step with much of the rest of the party, and America as a whole. Biden has continued to be a left-center politician, often not taking the side of some of the more socialist policies put forward by his party by those further left than he.
Biden is your typical establishment Democrat, positioning himself as the safe bet. Many political pundits believe he will be Trump’s opposition for 2020, and will run on a ‘I am the normal guy here’ type of campaign against a much more erratic Donald Trump. It seems like a smart strategy, Hillary Clinton definitely thought it would work.
Democratic de ja vue
The Democrats want to go to bat again on being the safe, logical party in a time where attention spans have gone to zero, and controversy gains valuable media attention. Popular far left wing outlets like Armenian genocide denying ‘The Young Turks’, and’ Secular Talk’ have been extremely critical of the policies and strategies put forward by the establishment Democrats, stating they need to get more modern.
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Harris of California is one of the sponsors of the Marijuana Justice Act.
In a statement, O’Rourke’s campaign noted he’s been calling for legalization for at least a decade.
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Xbox Series X “World Premiere” Gameplay Exhibition on Inside Xbox is Coming Out in less than 12 hours.
May 6th, 2020 by Kurt "Chet" Christel
On Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 11am ET / 8am PT, Xbox will be streaming their big show.
Also they’re calling it Xbox 20/20. It’s going to be a Nintendo Direct kind of thing and happen monthly.
Here’s the tweet.
You want to see games for the Xbox Series X? We want to show you games for the Xbox Series X.
Check out First Look next-gen gameplay from our global developers partners within #InsideXbox on Thursday, May 7 at 8am PT. pic.twitter.com/xVdgIeRBJX
— Xbox (@Xbox) April 30, 2020
If that’s all you need to know there you are, you got it. Oh, wanna know where to watch it? We have that too. For all official Xbox streams, you can find them at:
Just pick your favorite platform and jump on it. Except Twitter. Stop giving people reasons to go to twitter. It’s already enough that I embedded to Xbox Series X tweets in this little article.
Of course, the top Juggernauts of the industry are also doing their own streams, name IGN and GameSpot. Maybe if we just ignore them they’ll go away? I’m not saying you should watch the official stream instead but…
Oh hey another tweet!
Boot up Xbox 20/20 with a new episode of #InsideXbox this Thursday, May 7 @ 8am PT for a First Look at Xbox Series X gameplay from our global developer partners.
More info: https://t.co/ummOmjwjP9 pic.twitter.com/3tyac72s7W
Whoa. That startup sound hasn’t given me the chills this intense since the Powermac G3. You know the one. That one. That one right there. But the Xbox Series X tone is obviously superior.
Also at the top I mentioned Xbox 20/20 and yeah, that’s a thing. Not sure if they’re going to keep it going past 2020. If it’s cringe, hope not. If it’s not-cringe, keep them coming!
Hope you’re ready for all the WORLD PREMIERE’s we’ll get bombarded with. HMG is going to do what it can to get you a cheat sheet on everything announced the moment the stream is over.
Hate reading? The audio version can be found HERE.
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The second worst AC game is now less terrible – Assassins Creed III Remastered Review
April 22nd, 2019 by Kurt "Chet" Christel
Despite what some online comparisons indicate, the remaster is the superior version of the game.
Let’s preface this one differently. I was a big Assassin’s Creed fan but AC3 greatly reduced my love for it. And Unity murdered it. When I played that game all those years ago, I was disappointed on all fronts. I was also setting really high expectations that could not be reached. And I wanted to beat the game before the real life “December 21, 2012” end of the word scenario so I rushed through all of it. Hated the difficulty, the setting was underused, Connor wasn’t a good protagonist, and lots of bugs and grievances with the detection settings for NPCs.
Well, I either completely sucked back then, or Assassin’s Creed III Remastered is a much better experience. This re-release comes with a remaster of Liberation HD (a remaster of a remaster?) as well. This remaster came out March 29, 2019 and either is free with your Assassin’s Creed Odyssey season pass or in the store for $40. The season pass for Odyssey costs $40 so you have almost no reason to not have that marvel of a game and its DLC packs. So, is it worth a revisit after so many years? Or perhaps, for those who haven’t played it, a decent entry?
GRAPHICS: 2/2
There will be a video on this in the near future but this title is the subject to a bit of controversy. If you look for graphical comparisons on Youtube, you will see that some of them imply it to be superior, yet others imply that it is worse. Whether it is misrepresenting the game on purpose or not, this review is from the “Xbox One X” version of the game, so the most graphically powerful console release. I can personally confirm that the release is highly superior in the graphical department. With the exception of a handful of faces, you’re getting better looks across the entire board. You have better color with HDR, lively landscapes, and incredible textures.
You can’t really change an entire story in a remaster, can you? What you CAN do is try to engage your player more this time around. AC3 tells the story of… Haytham Kenway? Yes, the game pulls a reverse Metal Gear Solid 2. A sizeable chunk of the game has you playing as a character who is completely absent from all of the marketing materials. After a while, you do finally get to Connor or Kanien’kehá:ka (don’t try to pronounce it, just give up). The problem with this character is the game gives him a very rich setup due to the events of the first hours of gameplay. Yet at every turn, Connor manages to remain as dull as humanly possible. More on that in audio.
The other issue is that the setting doesn’t really do a good job at expressing the ins and outs of the Revolutionary War. Sure, there’s a lot of text you can read, but in terms of the game on its own, you basically just jump in and out of several world-famous events. Funnier is that it implies that Connor was at the front of all of them. Paul Revere? Connor? Boston Massacre? Connor. Boston Tea Party? Connor. The freaking battle at Chesapeake Bay? Connor.
Really stretching the believability, but then again this series more firmly expresses itself as alternate history. This makes the second time around a lot more enjoyable. Not to mention, I personally was able to focus more on a lot of content I had to pass on because I was so eager to finish.
AUDIO: 1/2
It’s not every day you come across a voice actor who is a direct descendant of American indigenous tribes with a fine understanding of their languages, but here we are. Noah Watts, of the Blackfeet nation, voices our protagonist Connor. He speaks English and… not English. #OnlyTheFacts | Now, as said before, Connor is a dry and wooden protagonist. This is really not the fault of the actor. The dialog given for his character contains little in the way of flair or emotion. He speaks very directly at all times. He comes in two flavors, deliberate and agitated. That’s it. The rest of the cast wasn’t too great either. As for SFX? They’re mediocre. Nothing wrong about them but nothing to grab your attention.
I must make it painstakingly clear though, this game has one of the GREATEST original scores in the entire Assassins Creed franchise. That genuinely made the game a good experience overall. Quite emotional too, making up for some of the acting.
GAMEPLAY: 2/2
So, at the time it came out, AC3 had a bit of a difficult learning curve. A lot of the combat mechanics, controls, and gameplay style of the game change in the transition from the Ezio trilogy to III. However, coming directly off of AC: Odyssey, the game is retroactively easier to come to grips with. If anything, the game feels more limited. No dedicated stealth mode button. Combat is the old style of “counter-attack kills” that were prominent in most of the series. The simplicity of the game in comparison to the new game actually made it feel a bit more streamlined. It was almost arcade-like to play this game after every game we’ve had since.
It also seems as thought a lot of changes streamline the overall experience. Some redundancies were eliminated. Enemy detection appeared to be slower. The ship combat was easier to handle. Every step of the way, quality of life improvements are there, on every front. Oh, and the load times, those are some short load times. Especially for fast traveling and desynchronizing.
FUN: 2/2
The fact that I took my time to play through more of the game is a very big deal. This time around, I bothered to unlock all the fast travel locations in the underground. It was a bit grindy, but manageable. The silly “homestead” missions actually felt like they were worth the time. That is despite the fact that the “convoy” system of the game was an absolute waste of time and needlessly complicated. I did all the district liberations and recruited all 6 support assassins. I did several of the optional naval battles. Not everything could be helped. The almanac pages are still dumb, as are all of the other fetch items the game throws at you. But I must stress that above all else, I had a much, MUCH better time playing this game again. I was supposed to be playing other games, yet I kept coming back to this re-release time and time once more.
Assassin’s Creed III Remastered is a huge improvement on the original iteration. Between the streamlining of gameplay elements, the simplicity, and the visual quality? This is a good remaster that has been released at exactly the right moment. If it has been a while since you last played, give it another shot. If you’ve never played it, also give it a shot. And ignore the real world plot, it’s still crap.
If I find time, I would like to play the Tyranny of King Washington DLC as well as Liberation, but that will have to wait.
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Snowdrop From NYC to DC – The Division 2 Review
April 10th, 2019 by Vega Montanez
A Nation Divided.
Ubisoft and Tom Clancy have shared what is quite possibly the longest healthy relationship in all of gaming. Seriously, fact check it. And Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is the latest entry into this abstract marriage. Released on March 15th, 2019 on Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC The Division 2 is a third person multiplayer squad based action shooter. Developed by Massive Entertainment, The Division 2 aims to be the improvement of everything that was great about the first installment.
The Snowdrop Engine looked amazing 3 years ago when it was first used on The Division. Division 2 however, is the first true example of what the Snowdrop Engine is really capable of. As soon as the game launches everything looks incredibly amazing, but that’s not the big selling point. The big selling point is the amount of control, even on consoles, the player has over the visuals of the game. Ubisoft’s proprietary engine allows for so much customization to allow anyone to set the games visual to exactly how they’ll enjoy it most.
The freedom and control the Snowdrop Engine offers coupled with the fact that the game looks great is incredible. Every animation, from person to animal to explosion, looks fantastic. Nature blends itself well into the concrete settings of post apocalyptic destruction filled D.C. Character movements look and feel astonishingly natural, especially for a game so tethered to online. Take some time to kickback and just enjoy the scenery. It will not disappoint.
STORY/IMMERSION: 1/2
Within the world of the Division exist a major crisis. It’s been a little over half a yeas since the initial infectious outbreak that brought down the U.S. And now things are reaching anarchic levels of bad. Members of the Joint Task Force have defected and left the white house completely vulnerable to the Hyenas and the Outcast. The worst has literally come to fruition and there’s a lot of work ahead to make things better. The story itself is great however the presentation not so much.
Being an online multiplayer game diminishes the value of the story and makes it really hard to feel like a part of it. Lines between campaign missions and side missions are very blurred because the real gameplay goal is to become stronger. Very rarely does the game stop and allow for the narrative to position itself upfront and center. The focus was clearly on gameplay and shoot’em up mechanics over narrative delivery.
The Division 2 has a very unique sound design issue. The world is designed to be chaotic and feel unsafe. However, unless there is a nearby firefight the visual fidelity makes everything feel peaceful, somber, and a bit messy. It has a post car accident feel. Everything looks like something really bad happened, but that bad thing passed. The emptiness of the world makes space a very lonely audio feeling. The good news is this ambience is nearly perfect for an online squad based shooter. Considering most of the sound will be the nonsense chat amongst the squad.
Third person cover based shooters typically suffer from inconsistent character behavior. Everyone whose ever played has fallen victim to being completely exposed to the enemy because the game misunderstood your cover request. Division 2 has not entirely fixed this but it doesn’t suffer as much as other games. Not sure why, but not complaining. Outside of that major genre flaw, everything in the game feels great. The dynamics of weapon modification is pretty cool even if it suffers from the online game issue of racing to higher numbers.
A lot of the tactics of understanding weapon mods is removed because the overall goal is to increase the overall gear number. That number represents the truest strength of the character. The controls in action are super tight and have a vast number of customization options to fit any play style. And the development team is being super supportive of the community, listening to request and complaints.
Despite being a multiplayer game, The Division 2 is still incredibly fun as a single player game. The squad based combat with friends online is hands down the best way to experience this game. However, the experience alone is just as fun, especially if you don’t mind the added challenge of doing it alone. The frequency of ammo and supply restocks make it feel endlessly exciting. The thrill of an even match against enemies keep the action nonstop. Are far as third person shooters go, there really isn’t anything on the market as exciting as The Division 2.
The Division 2 is an incredible sequel and an incredible example of “games as service” done right. The load times could be better, but once the game is loaded hours could fly by without feeling gaming fatigue. Although Division 2 is an online multiplayer game, it is accessible to anyone who enjoys single player third person cover based shooters. Simply put, save for the lack of narrative focus, this is a great game.
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Fighting Fans Rejoice, It’s Time for a Samurai Shodown!
March 26th, 2019 by Vega Montanez
Back in the 90’s there were two prominent developers of fighting games coming out of Japan. In one corner we had the almighty Capcom, home of Ken, Ryu, and the rest of the Street Fight gang. And in the other corner was SNK. Although there library is extensive, with titles like Metal Slug and Fatal Fury, King of Fighters is likely the most recognized title. That is if you ignore them also being the masterminds behind the Neo Geo.
In recent years their focus has been on repackaging their glory days in numerous SNK Collections and keeping the King of Fighters series alive. But it seems they are ready for more. And they are coming in blades drawn. After more than a decade, Samurai Shodown is back.
Samurai Shodown (2019)
Samuria Shodown is a weapons based 2D fighting game. It’s like the Soul Caliber of 2D fighters. Anyway, the franchise is being rebooted for the modern era. SNK is even choosing to develop the game using Unreal Engine 4. The unexpected reboot is set to take place between the events of the original game and Samurai Shodown V.
Promising 13 of the original playable characters joined by 3 new challengers, SNK is ready to reenter the world of competitive fighting. Samurai Shodown will release sometime in June 2019 on PS4 and Xbox One. And PC and Switch versions will be coming later this year. Does this release window sound a bit scary? Fear not as skeptics are welcome to try out the new entry sooner.
Ready? Fight!
Anyone attending PAX East this upcoming weekend in Boston will be able to get their hands on the game. SNK will also be hosting a panel, “Samurai Shodown: Resurrecting a Legend,” on March 30 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. ET featuring producer Yasuyuki Oda, director Nobuyuki Kuroki, and original Samurai Shodown director Yasushi Adachi.
Are you excited for a brand new Samurai Shodown? I know I am.
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Crackdown 3 – Official Review
February 25th, 2019 by Kurt "Chet" Christel
Why did this take five years?
The original Crackdown game came out in 2007 and received a lot of attention after it was revealed that you would get access to the Halo 3 multiplayer beta if you bought it. That’s one way to get attention, and as a result, a decent number of Xbox fans got to play it. Crackdown 3 was originally teased at E3 2014 and has finally been released. It is a freeform sandbox action game developed by Sumo Digital and published by Xbox Game Studios. You play as an agent of “The Agency” a group of super-powered police, with extraordinary strength, aim, jumping, running, and others. Your goal is to take down a crime syndicate, and in this third installment, an oppressive corporatist regime. This particular game lets you play as, basically Terry Crews. Xbox fans have waited a long time for this console exclusive game, so how is it?
The graphics in the game are a bit odd. It seems like they were trying to be cel-shaded while not being cel-shaded. Some elements have that cartoon look while others have some very defined textures. Absolutely a mixed bag. But it’s not just the textures and bright neon lights, the cutscenes are inconsistent as well. In the beginning of the game you get a full animated, pre-rendered primer, which gets cut short. After that you get motion-comic cutscenes that seem rather low-effort. Then you also get in-game cutscenes here and there. The last are the worst. I’ve frequently had animations fail, with my agent glued to the air while a guy in a mech threatens you. Other in-game cutscenes stutter. And this is on the Xbox One X. The playable agents also appear to be a little lacking in quality. Terry Crews as Jaxon looks fine, but the rest of the characters look like they just used a face generator from Mass Effect. Andromeda. But with that weird inconsistent cel-look.
I don’t know how you can do worse with a story like Crackdown, but they managed to do the unthinkable. They added a plot to the game that actually made it less enjoyable. In the original games, the plot was basically “Here are the bad guys, go get ’em”. This game gives all the enemies their own stories, but they are all really half-assed and emotionless. I cannot remember a single character’s name or what their deal even was. This guy is the chemicals guy because reasons. This guy is the guards guy because reasons. This guy has captured monorails cuz reasons. That moonshine stand needs to be destroyed because reasons. It would genuinely be better if I were just told to go at it.
But they try to characterize it so hard, it becomes cringe inducing, with motivations that don’t make any sense and asinine monologues. Worse off is the over-arching plot. Short spoilers for the very beginning of the game, the Agency is sent to a city to fight some kind of “blackout” but get killed in the process and time passes by a few years (I think). Next, a character revives your agent of choice and unleashed you into the city. The story is simply that the blackouts caused everyone to flee to the city because it still has electricity. No really. And then it turns out the city is run by a ruthless corporation, TerraNova, who immediately enslaves all the refugees. Yeah, makes perfect sense to me.
If you don’t particularly like it when you hear a lot of useless banter over the radio while you’re doing stuff, you are going to have a bad time. The legendary “Voice of the Agency” played by Michael McConnohie returns with a vengeance. The whole shtick with his character, is he’s sort of the real protagonist of the story since your agent doesn’t talk much. Both in the original games and this one, he frequently says dumb things over the radio based on what you’re doing, such as:
Skills for kills, agent!
Sounds like there’s a hidden ability orb nearby, you should look for it.
Burn baby burn.
Wow, now that’s an explosion.
You’re unstoppable.
In the original game, this quirk was done every once in a while, and it has a certain charm about it. However in 3, he has something to say every five minutes. It would get annoying real fast for most players. I like it personally, but objectively, it’s super obnoxious. Still, his voice is amazing, and he needs to do audiobooks. As for the other characters? Largely forgettable. They did very little with Terry Crews other than the opening cutscene. The soundtrack sounds like a royalty-free selection of faux-dubstep tracks that fail to impress. Most of the guns and explosions are pretty satisfying. Also, the iconic sound of the agility orbs are still there.
Rather than having any campaign missions whatsoever, the game has you just complete a series of objectives. You just do this until you clear enough to fight the boss in charge of those battle locations. So, no real campaign here, you basically just make your way around the map, playing section after section. To give it some credit, the main map isn’t full of empty spaces between objectives. All challenges are located relatively near one another. You won’t spend a lot of time driving because it’s so easy to jump from one to the next. Honestly, it’s a welcome change to have a more tight-knit experience than most sandbox games. But a sandbox it still is, and it has plenty of flaws.
One activity has you liberating militia members by freeing them from holding cells around the city. This activity will literally take you one minute or less, as there aren’t that many guards, but even if there are, all you have to do is jump over to the prisoner release panel and hold LB. That’s it, you’ve freed the prisoners, and any enemy in the area freezes in place while you get a “mission success” screen. In another location, all you have to do is blow up either machinery or storage tanks of a substance called “Chimera”. I’d tell you more about it, but I can’t because I missed the one point where they said what the stuff was and it’s not really brought up again after that. Then in another, you have to capture monorail stations because an evil AI is using them to… move drugs? Don’t remember.
Had a hard time with glitches that were rather annoying. I’ve had input lag in sections where the screen gets busy, and other sections where the controls weren’t even responding. Also ended up getting an OP assault rifle in the middle of it the game. Once that happened, the game was barely a challenge. I might have to play it on harder modes to see if it’s better. Even then, once you piss off enough of the 3 different police factions? You get a city lockdown and are immediately inundated with enemies that are 4X as tough. When that happens, I just let myself die. It is more fun than dealing with that mess. The game’s idea of “challenge” is having you fight a boss while dozens of enemies spawn in at the same time.
I had fun in the 3 days it took to complete this game. Every achievement I got after the first boss was a RARE ACHIEVEMENT. That’s sad. The game is just out and I’m getting rare achievements because not enough people bothered to finish it? Oy. Anyway, playing Crackdown 3 felt like a retread of the original game. It was enough to take me back to when I had just started College and got the original game. But by the end of it, you get tired of the game. You may get bored after finishing a few bosses. It’s a pretty low effort affair. Then again if you just decide to start jumping around, collecting agility orbs and doing side activities, you may find a sort of Zen. Seriously.
Saints Row 4 took to this sandbox super-powers type game and made it an absolute riot. But this new title feels like it’s a huge step backwards. It’s less of a modern Crackdown and more of an Agents of Mayhem experience. Which also wasn’t very good (and that was the same devs as SR4). My roommate found the game fun because he had never played it before. So, don’t pay full price for this game. Don’t bother with it unless you have Game Pass. It’s cheap enough to get a three month pass for the amount of titles you get to play. It’s a mediocre experience but if you “rent” the game by getting game pass, you will find yourself with far superior titles to play afterwards.
Agents of Mayhem – Official Review
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Free 4 Me – December 2018
December 5th, 2018 by Kurt "Chet" Christel
Deck the halls, with free game glory.
Christmas time is approaching us yet again. Many have commented that the season seems to be approaching faster than usual. But there are two good reasons for that. One, my colleagues work in reatail so of course we get beat in the ass on it. But more importantly, with so many black friday, pre-black friday, cyber monday, and holiday sales, the time just seems shorter than ever, with good deals still abound. On top of all the sales that are inevitable, the big consoles are more than happy to give you some freebies.
Q.U.B.E. 2 – It’s portal but you move cubes around.
Never Alone – A kid and a wolf go on a great adventure.
Dragon Age 2 – It’s Dragon Age, but you’re just some rich kid who wants his house back.
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction – Off, this game is an old actioner.
Soma – A horror game where the scariest part is the looming existentialism.
Onrush – A high-style, balls to the wall arcade racer.
Steredenn – A considerably chaotic space shooter with an 8-bit color scheme.
Steinsgate – Wait, this was a game BEFORE it became an anime?
Iconoclasts – Oh look, another 8-bit game, but it’s an action scroller this time.
Papers, Please – A game where you serve as border control but don’t have any tear gas.
Nintedno Switch
Wario’s Woods
Adventures of Lolo
You got a lot of good ones here. QUBE is a great puzzler if you’re a fan. You have two fantastic 8bit games on PS4, and and anime game to boot. Dragon Age 2 wasn’t received well critically, mainly because it’s a very focused game that takes place in one city instead of a sprawling adventure. Papers Please is a big indie favorite with tough moral dilemmas. The real show stopper here is SOMA, the horror game. It was originally released on steam, and a mod was made to remove the “combat” sections where you have to hide from monsters. It was called “wuss mode”. This was officially added into the Xbox One and PS4 releases as “peaceful mode”. Trust me when I say, this game isn’t less scary just because you aren’t being chased by monsters. The dark depths of the mind that this game takes you to can be challenging. It often deals with themes that are very hard to think about, circled around existence, death, and what comes after. Do not miss it. I hate most horror games, but it’s an absolute winner.
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Fallout 76 vs Battlefield V
November 29th, 2018 by Kurt "Chet" Christel
A Battle of Mediocrities
The past week or so, we were faced with some really good games. Like Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee. And probably Warriors Orochi 4, I guess. But you know what wasn’t great? Fallout 76 and Battlefield V, two big ticket games. Both were set to make a splash in the crazy release season that is November. But neither could achieve what the wanted. Fallout 76 was vastly undercut by it’s monotony and lack of direction. Battlefield V was just the same Battlefield as always with a new coat of paint. BFV also had it’s critics for its inaccurate portrayal of WW2 by people on the internet, but that’s the internet. Everybody hates everything on the internet. Besides that, both games got major BETA playtests from regular users. This is honestly a good step, allowing the actual PLAYERS some advanced look at the game instead of some journalist who intends to write a giant think piece. Both of these games have a huge focus on multiplayer. Fallout 76 is the first major multiplayer game for Bethesda and Battlefield V is a multiplayer game with a campaign tacked on. Only their campaign was even shorter AND less interesting.
Either way, we haven’t finished enough of either to give you a consensus. But… if you are absolutely dying to play an online shooter game, we have something interesting for you. We are going to compare the games using our review system. But instead of the score, we are going to say which game did it better! Let’s start, shall we?
Battlefield V is flat out gorgeous, with heavily detailed maps and great lighting that really set the mood for a lot of maps. There are some glitches but it works for the most part. The smoke grenades set up some serious smoke particle FX. And the detail of the character faces is surprisingly detailed for a game that doesn’t have too much focus on what the player looks like. Fallout 76 looks… exactly like it did several years ago. Fallout 3 and New Vegas never looked that great. Fallout 4 didn’t look that great. Fallout 76? It’s markedly improved, sure. But does it look great? No way, it looks as trashy as its level design and full of all sorts of ugly textures. Several of the ugly textures have taken more than 20 seconds to pop in. Yikes.
Victor: Battlefield V
Battlefield V is one of the many, many, many, many iterations of World War II presented in game form. Somehow, it managed to make history even more boring, despite trying to spice things up with some creative historical fiction. What you get here is a mere 3 stories, as opposed to 5 in the previous entry. It’s really hard to feel anything for these characters because you spend such a small amount of time with them. It ends up being boring. Fallout 76 is boredom incarnate. Using the gaming worlds least interesting way of telling stories, any thing plot related in the game is played out in VERY LENGTHY audio logs. They can’t be paused or fast forwarded. If you interact with your pip-boy and click the wrong thing, the tape will stop and you have to start it over. Other than that, you only other window into the events of the game are logs written on terminal screens. In old Fallout games, this was done for lore. In 76, they are main story points. Super lame. All the same, when it comes down to brass tacks, it would seems that Fallout 76 still has a better overall story. Having a ton of lore is better than a bog-standard WW2 plot.
Victor: Fallout 76
Battlefield V has all the standard sounds you’re used to hearing. The audio was on autopilot in this regard. Every single gun sounds like it did in every other game. You will not in any way be inspired by the sound design of the weapons, nor will you be interested in the orchestral OST. It’s there because it’s supposed to be there, not because it wants to do something engaging. Fallout 76 surprisingly has a decent OST going for it. The ambient music that plays while you’re wandering the world is noticeably better then previous versions. It’s actually notable and really adds to the mood of the game being very lonely and desolate. And if that doesn’t tickle your fancy, there’s always the old sock-hop records to keep things going. The fantasy weapons also have wonderful unique sounds.
In Fallout 76, you are bombarded with nonstop activity. The game is always online, so that means no pause menu. If you want to look at the map, it’s realtime. If you need to sort your junk on your Pip-Boy, that is also real time. There is nowhere safe to be when you play this game. You absolutely will be bombarded by enemies at any and all opportunities, with very little time to rest and get a bearing on things. In Battlefield V, the campaign is atrocious. But the multi-player is on point. It weird, the game is so much better in multi than single. It makes you wish the they skipped the campaign, instead of Black Ops. Anyway, the game is direct and lets you “play it your way”, which is very important. Divided into four classes, you can spawn is as a specialist in Assault, Medic, Recon, and Support. Don’t let the names fool you, all of them are combat roles. It’s what you do with them that matters. Either way, BFV manages to be a great shooter while Fallout 76 stays wonky as ever.
To put it simply, there’s an easy dichotomy here. Fallout 76 has a “make your own fun” approach to game design. If you want to have any fun, you want to team up and do fun stuff together with your friends. Otherwise it’s a drag. Battlefield is good at grouping you with interesting colleagues that you help out during the many combat modes. Even if you aren’t on voice chat, the game finds a way to make you feel connected with your squad. It’s admirable that it manages to gel so well with random strangers. Meeting random strangers in Fallout 76 are few and far between. They are also as underwhelming as ever.
It is clear that the winner is Battlefield V with a victory spread of 3-2. We haven’t heard too much of the game in the blogosphere of gaming. But this may be because the game just… is fine. It’s not spectacular. It’s just fine. Despite early complaints, the bottom line is that BFV is a better experience than Fallout 76. If you need a brand new game to satisfy your itch for fast paced, online, multiplayer shooter action, you could do worse than picking up the latest Battlefield. Me? I got so bored during the campaign that I jumped into multi. I never do that. Not until this iteration. How surprising!
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Why we didn’t review RDR2
Red Dead Instead
Picture this. It’s the middle of August. Chet finishes his 3rd round of selecting new released to pre-order for Q4. The decisions were tough, and several interesting games had to be nixed. That’s when the big question hits. Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming out this year. For realsies. Chet and Vega stare at this and ponder who should cover the game.
Vega doesn’t like open world games for the most part. He also doesn’t like westerns very much. He has plenty of other Japanese games to play because he is an unabashed Sony fanboy. Chet has played so many open world games by then, he doesn’t want to play it either. He also doesn’t like westerns. So they asked some of their regular contributors to look at the game. One contributor hates all modern games so he was out. The other was stuck playing another game and didn’t want to stop, so he was out. Who will play this game?
Then we thought… do we actually have to review Red Dead Redemption 2? Do we REALLY have to? What crazy thing could we possibly say about this game? This game obliterated sales figures as expected. It sold 15 million units so far, and that’s just physical copies. We knew in our head that not even Call of Duty could touch the heaps of money that RDR2 would make (however, that said, Black Ops 4 did pretty good compared to the last few titles).
It was no surprise that the game sold what it did. It had to. It’s a Rockstar game. They are responsible for the most profitable piece of media ever made with their figures for Grand Theft Auto V. They know how to sell. But we just weren’t having it. But we did hit a bump on our way through the winter release madness.
Vega got a game he didn’t want to play since it required too much knowledge of the anime that it was based on. That got returned. But what did he get instead? RDR2? No, he got Warriors Orochi 4. A game he deserves because it follows the traditional roots of warriors game, and not the abomination of Dynasty Warriors 9. Good on him. Then Chet received Let’s Go Pikachu and he hasn’t played a pokemon game in decades. But, despite thinking that the game requires pokemon go, it’s actually a full experience on its own, so he was down to give it a shot too.
We don’t need RDR2. If you are reading this right now, its 95% likely that you already bought the damn game and came here wondering what was wrong with us. Nothing is wrong with us, we don’t like westerns and we all have shit we’d rather play. Vega has a ton of multi and figting games, Chet has Assassins Creed and Forza Horizon, both of which he cannot stop playing.
And that’s just it. Despite having several titles we have to miss and several titles that are must-plays, this game isn’t on the list. We don’t need it to be on the list. You’ve played it, you’ve seen the metacritic scores, that’s all there is to it.
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Assassins Creed Odyssey – Official Review
November 7th, 2018 by Kurt "Chet" Christel
By now I’ve found a missing person I’ve been looking for, killed a few “Templars,” found the lost city of Atlantis (sort of), and now have to win a war and compete in the Olympics. That’s right, I have four main quests to play on top of all the side quests I’ve been accumulating. The islands you can sail to in this game always have great side-stories that are totally optional. Now that I’m 44 hours in, I can safely say I might be done with one third of this game. Maybe. It’s possible. Give or take. The unfathomably popular Stealth/RPG (stealth optional) series developed and published by Ubisoft is now at its tenth main series game. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey adds even more elements to make it an even further evolution from the roots of the franchise.
This game is absolutely stunning, even on my sub-par Xbox One S. Stable frame rate, great coloration, variety, it’s all there at the baseline for a good looking game. What makes it look better is the sheer marvel of the whole thing. Ubisoft didn’t just make a few cities in Greece for their game. They made ALL OF IT. And it feels like they did, too. Everywhere you go there are gorgeous busts and statues, temples, altars, and residences that are all fully realized. I want to know where they got the time machine so they could take photos of Ancient Greece and use it as references for the designs. It’s the empire in all its glory. An absolute marvel to stand at the top of a mountain and look in every direction. In the distance, you can see all the ships in the water going about their business in real time. You can see other landmasses across the water and know that if you can go there if you want to. There… might be a few minor hiccups and glitches in some of the animation, but that is literally the only bad thing I can think of. And the sheer beauty and aesthetics more than excuse that.
STORY:2/2
I admit, at the beginning of the game, it’s hard to get into the plot. You are not really sure what you are supposed to be doing. The grand scheme of things is boiled down to simply leaving your home island to go on an adventure because you’re sick of being at home. There’s a goalpost, sure, but it’s far and not too tantalizing. This is definitely the type of game that you have to spend time with to get into the swing of things. The overarching narrative becomes far more clear well towards the 15-hour mark of the game. Once it does hit, it does so with ruthless efficiency. The way the game’s campaign works is the prime form of dangling the carrot in front of the player. It’s hard to imagine you would run out of things to do after being far enough in the game to really open up to the “go wherever you want” phase. Four main storylines. Every location story has its own stuff going on. I was on an island where I helped a young child make some friends while also meddling in “The Bachelor: Greece Edition”. Then I had to overthrow an evil ruler running another island ragged while hooking up with the sexy leader and her boyfriend if I so pleased. Hell, I had to take part in a gay orgy with a goat just to advance the plot. I’m not even remotely joking. A goat was involved. And Sokrates turns out to be the world’s first internet troll. Good times.
I’m going to mention one prevailing bug in the game that hurts the audio quality in a way. On a regular basis, around twice or more per hour, when you talk to an NPC, you or the character will interrupt each other mid-sentence and say lines on top of each other. It’s annoying. Some of the secondary characters don’t seem really committed to their parts, while other characters go full ham. The voice actress for the soundtrack gets old really fast. With such a big scope, I really, REALLY get tired of hearing the same music every time I open the menu. And the main “Assassin’s Creed Theme Leitmotif” is sprayed over every other song too. It gets old fast. I may eventually have to turn the music off and just play my own tunes or a podcast over it instead. Which would be great because I’m in the perfect setting to put my ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ collection on full blast. But still, this is just the soundtrack I take issue with. The actual sound FX and quality of sound is tremendously satisfying. I will give the full grade because I’m being too personally harsh on the OST, even though it’s objectively decent.
There are many on the internet who say this game has become too action oriented. Sure, the formula has been changed, but it’s been heading this way for a while now. The fact is, you can still play this game stealthy if you want to. There are just more rules to it because you can’t assassinate people who are at a higher level than you. The majority of the EXP you earn will be from completing quests, not kills. So if sneaking in and out of an enemy base is your idea of fun, there’s plenty of that to be had. Yes, open conflict is a bigger part of the game now. It’s the play-it-your-way model that prevails. But everything in the game works and does accommodate for all play styles. Shoot everyone with a bow, bludgeon people with a hammer, death from above, and Sparta-kick your enemies of a cliff. There’s plenty of gameplay to be had here, as iterated above.
Ship combat makes a return to the game and I boldly welcome it as a delicious appetizer to sate my hunger for a good pirate game until Skull & Bones arrives. But that said, it’s a bit more minimalist than it’s predecessor, as there was less maritime war tech in this setting. They have also implemented a mercenary hierarchy that mimics Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis system, but it is also bare bones by comparison. Hunting down a devious death cult is the replacement for the assassination quests, but you have to put in the legwork to identify who they are. There’s also a conquest mode where you can take part in a big fight between the Athenians and Spartans. You can also change whichever team you’re on for every battle. You can also fight mythical beasts from Greek folklore, because hey, why not? This all may make it sound like it’s quantity over quality. And to an extent, yes it is. But set in this game, it’s actually not a big issue, it just works.
And now for a bit of controversy. Ubisoft has no problem putting expensive microtransactions in their fully priced games. It gives them big money, they have a right to. However, as an experience, they nearly broke their goodwill on a portion of this game. That’s the progression system. In order to level up or afford things, you have to do more than just missions to get enough EXP to progress. You’ll have to do a lot of mundane-out of the way stuff like exploring caves and attacking small camps at question marks dotted all over the map. I found myself in a position where I was two levels too low to progress through the game because the game is harsh if you are under-leveled. Ubisoft remedied it by offering a buff that will get you 50% extra EXP and money for the whole game, including new games. You have to at least buy the 20 dollar helix credits pack to get this. If you don’t, the game can get very grindy. Plenty to do is one thing, being forced to do everything is another. I caved and bought this buff, and it feels like this is the way the game was supposed to be played. It seems as though this was intentionally done to goad extra cash from the player.
I am willing to forgive this transgression because it was on me to make that choice in the end. I could have bucked up and cleared out every single icon on the map to take the game nice and slow. But, be that as it may, I cannot stop playing this game. Even with the buff, I did manage to get myself into another situation where I was under-leveled. But I kept playing and playing and playing. I told myself I had to stop at 11 PM, then 2 AM rolls around and I’ve conquered another city. I am willing to accept that the price I paid to make this game more enjoyable is worth it because of the amount of fun I’m having with it. Before tax, I paid a total of $68 for the game with the helix credits. That is an acceptable price for this game. I don’t know if I will finish any time soon, and I’ve had plenty of time to play.
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Is Forza Horizon Better than Forza Motorsport?
Forza Horizon has spent a long time to become a fan favorite. The Forza Horizon racing series of video games have become one of the biggest racing game franchises in the entire industry. WIth the most recent Forza Horizon 4, has the game surpassed it’s progenitor, Forza Motorsport?
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Free 4 Me – November 2018
Battlefeels and Jacked Boxes for all!
Ladies and gents, once again it is that time where you are paid for your continuing service as a subscriber. Here, we have the free games given to Xbox Live Gold and PSN Plus members. No fuss, no buss, just brass tacks. Do you want to know what games you are getting? We have them here.
Battlefield 1 – Did you miss last year’s Battlefield entry? Trying to make the old wars cool again, Battlefield 1 was a breath of fresh air in a series that was starting to lose its way. Featuring a lot of anachronistic weaponry, high concept weapons, and outrageous single player stories, it was a blast. Literally too. Before Battlefield V drops, you have a FREE chance to catch up on all the exciting action from this previous entry. Yes, previous, I know, the numbers make no sense.
Race the Sun – This is a simple yet addicting game where you drive super fast on an endless route. Your goal is to make sure the sun stays on the horizon as you navigate difficult obstacles in your way. The game can be rather brutal with its checkpoint system, but it’s still fun. Free is nice too.
Assassins Creed – The original. The source of it all. One of the most popular franchises in the video game world got its start with this one. It’s a flawed experience with several nags that make it less than excellent. But AC2, of course, improved everything, molding it to what is today. That said, this version of the game is interesting because even though it is a 360 title, it has Xbox One X enhancement, including an improved resolution and texture details. It actually looks relatively good for its age.
Dante’s Inferno – No, not the book. The brawler game. This particular title was noted for some of the crazy publicity stunts EA pulled off during its release. It had a fake religious group protesting it at E3. And they sent a handful of copies to devs with some very bizarre circumstances that were related to the seven deadly sins. In fact, the crazy campaign was more memorable than the actual game was. It’s an okay brawler game.
BulletStorm: Full Clip Edition – This was a fun shooter that EA needlessly made a remaster for and charged full price. It features a game that puts a big focus on making the player get creative with their kills. You get points for killing enemies, but you get more points if you’re creative about it, like in midair, or hitting them with a whip, etc. This game had a unique marketing gimmick where EA released a fake Call of Duty game to advertise for it and HOLY CRAP I’M SEEING A PATTERN HERE. I’m onto you, EA!
Yakuza Kiwami – There’s never been a better time to dive head-first into the amazing Yakuza series. This remaster of the original classic makes the game look like a title that came out recently. It’s the kind of remaster that really put in the effort to make the game look better, rather than just upscaling the resolutions and calling it a day. Looking at you, Shenmue 1 & 2 ‘HD’.
Jackbox Party Pack 2 – The Jackbox games are a collection of party game that, while launched on a console, you actually play on your smartphone with up to 8 friends. The second party pack has two outstanding games that are great. It has Quiplash XL, a game where the player is prompted with a topic and has to come up with a funny response. Literally, the funniest person wins. It also has Fibbage 2, a game where tough and bizarre trivia questions are asked. As the player, you get to submit your own wrong answer, then everyone tries to guess the correct answer. You get points if you make people fall for your fake answer. A total blast at parties and the ease of use is fantastic.
Arkedo Series – This just looks like a series of indie pixel games. Whatever.
Burly Men at Sea – Okay Sony, first Arkedo and now this? What are you even doing?
Roundabout – This is not a song by 70’s prog rock band Yes, but is, in fact, a game where you drive a limo around a map. But the limo is constantly spinning and you have to time your movements to the rotation of the car in order to avoid obstacles. It’s a wacky game that features some fun live action cutscenes. The low budget of this game bleeds through it, and a ton of people gave the game a bad review just because it came out at the turn of a new generation of games and didn’t look stunning.
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All consoles have some friggin amazing titles on offer here. Battlefield 1 was a fine game with a very robust campaign, so even if you’re concerned that not many people are playing online, you still have a great single player experience. Race the Sun is a bit low rent, but having the enhanced Assassins Creed is a great piece of gaming history to have on hand. I mean, it literally INVENTED the tower climbing mechanic you see in every game now. It will be especially interesting to see how well it holds up. As far as Dante goes, it didn’t sell that well, but if you are curious as to what you missed out on, nows your chance to peep it.
PS4 has some strong current gen entries. Bulletstorm was also not a big hit and vastly overlooked. In fact, you probably didn’t know that they just randomly added Duke Nukem to the new version. Did you know that? You do now. And after that, Yakuza Kiwami 2 JUST CAME OUT, so it’s a great time to play it. That said, you may find that you don’t have enough time to play the sequel because Yakuza games are big. That said, with the exception of the Jackbox games, the rest of the Sony titles are considerably lackluster, I wouldn’t bother with the last 3 on the list.
NES on Switch, on the other hand, has a major game up its sleeve. The original Metroid is an all-around classic. I personally have never played a SINGLE MetroidVania title. Sad huh? But what better time to start than right now, while it’s free? If it’s free it’s for me right? That is the title of the series after all. The other games? Never heard of them.
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Let’s Discuss Forza Horizon 4
October 25th, 2018 by Kurt "Chet" Christel
What’s the big deal about this racing game?
The latest rendition of the Forza series, Forza Horizon 4 has everything. It welcomes you, no matter what. It rewards you for everything. Whether it be exploring, painting, buying, racing, tuning, photos, ANYTHING. In an era where racing games are vastly underappreciated and highly niche, this is a game that welcomes everyone. Forza plays however you want it to play, whether you want it to be a fun arcade racer or a hardcore simulator. This game also covers you with 8 different difficulty levels. And it has several assist options for control of the car. If you even partially like racing, this is an absolute must-see.
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Following the reissue of The Elenium Trilogy earlier this year, we are proud to announce that today marks the re-release of David Eddings’ classic Tamuli Series, in a brand new livery.
David Eddings was one of the original masters of epic fantasy. During a writing career that spanned more than three decades, David and his wife Leigh co-authored over thirty bestselling novels and created some of the world’s most loved characters. The Belgariad, The Malloreon, The Elenium and The Tamuli Series are among their most famous work.
Eddings has had worldwide success, and remained a huge-selling author consistently since first publication, so Voyager is introducing his work to a whole new set of fans in these fresh new designs.
The Tamuli Series follows on from The Elenium Trilogy, telling the tale of Pandion knight, Sparhawk, who, after saving Queen Ehlana and defeating the evil god Azash, is left to enjoy the hard-won peace of his kingdom. But peace is fragile and easily broken.
From the east, whispers of horrific armies being raised from the dead surface. Tales of ancient warriors and dreadful monsters who are tearing the kingdom apart.
Seeing the threat this poses to their kingdom and people, Ehlana and Sparhawk set out with a retinue to Matherion, the Tamuli capital. Little do they know that the enemy is already within the gates of fire-domed Matherion awaiting their arrival . . .
If you love epic fantasy, try David Eddings’ Tamuli Series, click here to order Domes of Fire, The Shining Ones, and The Hidden City. If you haven’t read the preceding books first, to catch up on the story, you can click here and order the brilliant reissues of The Elenium Trilogy: The Diamond Throne, The Ruby Knight and The Sapphire Rose .
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The Truth About Booze & Our Bodies
July 12, 2017 | by Haven Staff
How does booze really effect our brain, heart, and overall health of our body? We decided to take a closer look at whats really going on when alcohol is present in our systems. Even those "moderate" drinkers we may know and love, are still at risk for damage when consuming alcohol on a regular basis.
Booze and The Brain:
A recent study in the British Medical Journal following British civil servants over 30 years. As a group they may have a more consistent lifestyle than most. Coming out at an average age of 43, those who claimed to drink five to eight drinks a week were three times as likely to show a shrunken hippocampus on MRI than those who didn't. The more they drank, the smaller their hippocampi. The hippocampus is critical to memory function.
Not just anatomy was changed, however. The measure “lexical fluency,” how many words you can come up with from a single letter, got worse the more people drank to drink, in a fine dose response fashion.
The study has been criticized for involving mainly males (women metabolize alcohol quite differently) and for not showing a direct link to Alzheimer’s. What it and other studies have shown is that cognition takes a hit with even very low dose alcohol.
Booze and The Body:
Alcohol has long been recognized as increasing the risk of many cancers. The British (they are indeed interested in drink) Million Women Study tried to look at just how alcohol affected a very large cohort. In that group, average consumption was about eight grams of alcohol a day, what you might get in a small glass of wine.
Alcohol appeared to decrease the risk of kidney and thyroid tumors. However, the increase in breast cancer, oral cancer, and rectal cancer completely overwhelmed the small decreases seen in the less common tumors. One drink a day increased the risk of combined breast, rectal, and oral about 13 percent, while drinking two drinks doubled the risk.
Alcohol’s effect was far less than what would be expected from tobacco. Yet people in general know tobacco causes tumors. They are far less aware of alcohol’s effect on cancer.
Booze and The Heart:
For many years, physicians were taught that alcohol was a pan toxin. It killed muscle cells, heart cells, liver cells, and brain cells. Drinking might be fun, but if alcohol appeared as a new drug, the FDA would ban it quickly.
And then in the mid-nineties Richard Peto’s and Richard Doll’s study of British doctors born early in the twentieth century appeared. It argued that ischemic heart disease, the sort that causes angina and heart attacks, might decline as much as a third when people drank "moderately." Sir Richard Doll was then one of the most famous epidemiologists in the world. He had shown how tobacco caused lung cancer in the 1950s, and Richard Peto is now equally well known. Many other studies began coming out purporting to show low dose alcohol decreased ischemic heart disease, though not overall mortality. Longer term studies proved more equivocal.
So it was not a surprise when the NIH declared it would spend 100 million dollars to fund a study asking whether alcohol prevented heart disease.
The surprise came when it was recognized who was paying for it. Most of the money comes from distillers and drinks makers. The New York Times noted many of the people doing the study were formerly supported by the drinks industry. Further, the subjects to be looked at, folks of 50 and older who were or are at are high risk for heart disease, would set a rather low bar for determining whether alcohol “prevented” heart disease.
So we have to look at how this kind of research is funded. Would the NIH get $100 million directly from Congress for such a study? Don't bet on it. Is it probable alcohol researchers are sometimes supported by industry? Given lack of political support for epidemiologic research, it’s likely.
So this is an expected development, but not a welcome one. This kind of monetary support traditionally biases research, often in ways that the people doing the work at not conscious of. Plus it gets the imprimatur of the NIH. That industry wants to do this work makes sense, they have hundreds of billions at stake.
Booze on Our Overall Health:
Most people picking up a drink are not contemplating how it might decrease their risk of ischemic heart disease. People drink for myriad reasons; because they are depressed and anxious; to forget sorrows; to celebrate; to enjoy conversations with friends; to relax; to be sexually uninhibited; to enjoy the infinite tastes of fine wine; to get plastered.
Yet recently alcohol has received a relatively good health related press. That it might cut back on heart disease, presently America's number one killer, has been a great boon to industry. That it increases the risk of what may soon be the number one killer, cancer, particularly common cancers like colon and breast, is not something people want to hear. Nor do they like to know that alcohol may increase their risk of dementia, though it has been acknowledged for centuries that heavy drinking leads to a very specific form of alcoholic dementia. For Alzheimer’s scares people. A lot.
In the U.S., the average adult imbibes 1.6 drinks a day. In Europe, it’s more like 2 drinks a day. While moderate drinkers at risk of heart disease may benefit with less heart attacks and angina, there is little to suggest their overall mortality declines. If public health is the consideration, evidence is growing that alcohol, like radiation, may ultimately not have a “safe” dose. If the results of alcohol provoking dementia strengthen, the present public sense of safety may take another hit.
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Many smaller news startups would struggle with the complexities of technology selection, development, maintenance, hosting, and security, which in turn can be an obstacle to effective revenue generation. That’s why Automattic, the creator of WordPress.com, now teams with Google, Lenfest, Civil, and Knight to develop an open source publishing platform for digital news startups: Newspack by WordPress.com.
There is currently no common, cost-effective solution that allows “best-in-class” tools to be easily shared among different news concerns, according to Automattic. Newspack by WordPress.com, as the platform will be known, is designed to address those issues. The goal is to help small digital publishers get onto the platform quickly and provide them with an affordable system that incorporates the best editorial and business practices from across the industry.
Newspack by WordPress.com is designed to address some of the persistent obstacles to creating economically sustainable models for journalism, particularly at the local level. The founding partners have planned to launch a “robust” proof of concept with up to a dozen news sites by mid-2019 and then expand to supporting up to 60 sites by early 2020.
Local News Organizations, Funding
“Local news organizations are struggling to find sustainable models for journalism – a crisis that has very real implications for democracy,” said Kinsey Wilson, President of WordPress.com and a former senior executive at NPR and The New York Times. “We’re joining with industry leaders to bring technology, publishing and business expertise together in a single platform that can be shared by news organizations across the globe.”
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, and its partners Spirited Media and News Revenue Hub, have secured $2.4 million in funding for the first year of the project, which will be developed on WordPress.com’s cloud-based platform and incorporate many of the best practices in digital publishing. Google, through the Google News Initiative, is taking the lead in backing the project and has committed $1.2 million.
“Local newsrooms face many obvious challenges, but we do see new examples of success,” said Jim Albrecht, director of news ecosystem products at Google. “Unfortunately, the innovation in technology, editorial focus, and monetization necessary to achieve this success lies beyond the reach of many small organizations. By funding Newspack, we hope to extend the best practices of these market leaders to local publishers generally.”
Other funders include The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, which is contributing $400,000; ConsenSys, the venture studio backing Civil Media, which is contributing $350,000; and The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which is contributing $250,000. An additional $200,000 from a fifth source is expected to be contributed toward the project later this month.
In addition to Automattic, partners in the project include Spirited Media, which operates local digital news sites in Denver, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, and whose founder, Jim Brady, has led large digital news operations including Washingtonpost.com; and Mary Walter-Brown, CEO of News Revenue Hub, a spinoff of Voice of San Diego, which provides revenue solutions for digital publishers.
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism will be fiscal sponsor for the project, managing the grant funding process and reporting broadly in the public interest on the progress and results of the project. Lenfest will also provide guidance and expertise on the business needs of local newsrooms and the selection of beta sites for initial deployment.
ConsenSys, one of the world’s largest blockchain organizations, will be a financial sponsor for the project. The new publishing platform will include a native plugin for Civil, a ConsenSys formation. This would allow any interested newsroom using the platform to easily join Civil’s community-owned and operated journalism network and/or permanently archive content in decentralized, tamper-proof storage environments.
News organizations interested in being part of the pilot launch can go to newspack.blog to learn more.
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2020 ISH Global Hypertension Practice Guidelines
Thomas Unger, Claudio Borghi, Fadi Charchar, Nadia A. Khan, Neil R. Poulter, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Agustin Ramirez, Markus Schlaich, George S. Stergiou, Maciej Tomaszewski, Richard D. Wainford, Bryan Williams, Aletta E. Schutte
6 May 2020 | Hypertension
To align with its mission to reduce the global burden of raised blood pressure (BP), the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) has developed worldwide practice guidelines for the management of hypertension in adults, aged 18 years and older.
The ISH Guidelines Committee extracted evidence-based content presented in recently published extensively reviewed guidelines and tailored and standards of care in a practical format that is easy-to-use particularly in low, but also in high resource settings – by clinicians, but also nurses and community health workers, as appropriate. Although distinction between low and high resource settings often refers to high (HIC) and low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), it is well established that in HIC there are areas with low resource settings, and vice versa.
Herein optimal care refers to evidence-based standard of care articulated in recent guidelines1,2 and summarized here, whereas standards recognize that standards would not always be possible. Hence essential standards refer to minimum standards of care. To allow specification of essential standards of care for low resource settings, the Committee was often confronted with the limitation or absence in clinical evidence, and thus applied expert opinion.
In the Guidelines, differentiation between optimal and essential standards were not always possible, and were made in sections where it was most practical and sensible. The Guidelines Committee is also aware that some recommended essential standards may not be feasible in low resource settings, for example, out-of-office BP measurements, the requirement of multiple visits for the diagnosis of hypertension, or advising the use of single pill combination therapy. Although challenging to implement, these guidelines may aid in local initiatives to motivate policy changes and serve as an instrument to drive local improvements in standards of care. Every effort should be made to achieve essential standards of care to reduce hypertension-induced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
Full text of this guideline can be found at https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.15026.
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Review: Dragon Age 2
Game: Dragon Age 2
Recommended price: $5
Completion Time: 45 hours
Buy If You Like: More action-ish RPGs, Humorous party dialog, waves of trash mobs
Another day, another 30-dude ambush.
In light of the impending release of Dragon Age 3, I decided to go ahead and play through the much-maligned Dragon Age 2. Would it be really as bad as everyone says? Well… maybe.
When Dragon Age: Origins came out, it was a love-letter to the Baldur’s Gate generation, featuring tactical and brutal combat, an epic and lore-rich storyline, and plenty of morally questionable scenarios. Dragon Age 2 follows mostly along similar lines, but there are enough breaks from the formula that you start wondering if the devs wanted to make a different game altogether.
Combat in Dragon Age 2 has a much more action game feel, even though it shares many things with the original. The Tactics system is still in place for configuring the AI, for example, and you can still pause the action at any time to issue orders or directly control different party members. Indeed, in the beginning, it felt largely the same as Origins, albeit “quicker.”
The major problem though is that the game throws waves and waves of weak enemies at you, even when it doesn’t make any sense. You could be walking around the slums when BAM! Thirty dudes try to take you out, ten at a time. While superficially more exciting, the challenge in these sort of fights is extremely low; the only times in which my party died were when an enemy spellcaster dropped an AoE spell, which typically will one-shot everyone nearby before you realize what’s going on.
There’s self-deprecating and then there’s sad truths.
Bioware went a different direction with the plot and overall story structure as well. Instead of fighting another Blight or dealing much with Darkspawn at all, the story follows your character as he/she… well, lives in a city. On one level, it felt pretty novel to experience a former refugee’s rise to prominence, especially given how reasonable the path ends up feeling. I especially liked how each game Act fasts forward time by 3 years – all too often it feels like the average RPG sort of assumes all this character development and world-saving occurs within a week.
On the other hand, the lack of any discernible threat puts a lot of pressure on the incidental stories being interesting… which they are largely not. The underlying plot of Dragon Age 2 is an exploration of the Circle and Templar tension within the Dragon Age setting. While I always thought that bit lore was cool, it isn’t enough to carry a 40+ hour campaign. At one point, the only quest left I could complete was the plot quest to find some Blood Mages who ran away, and all I could ask is: who cares? Those Blood Mages have nothing to do with anything, even in context.
At least the dialog was refreshing.
Another major issue I had with the game was the rather outrageously blatant copy & paste job with the environments. Going into a cave? Guess what, it’ll be the same cave you always go into, except maybe certain passages will be blocked off this time. Given how the game takes place in one main location, I can understand reusing assets to an extent. But when every warehouse, every cave, every secret base all have the exact same map even when they have no rational reason to be shaped similarly? Call it what it is: developer laziness and cutting corners.
Overall, the online criticisms of Dragon Age 2 largely hit the mark. It is very clear that DA2 was an experiment, and it is equally clear that even Bioware acknowledged that things did not pan out quite as they had hoped. Although some characters from Dragon Age: Origins make cameo appearances, there isn’t a real reason to encourage that fans of the original game to play this one. It isn’t awful, in isolation, but it’s not compelling enough to deserve the Dragon Age title.
Posted on November 12, 2014, in Review and tagged Bioware, Dragon Age, Dragon Age 2, EA. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
Aenar | November 12, 2014 at 8:51 am
For me the main problem people had with the game was the ‘2’ in the name. It led many to expect another tale of the same epic scope as Origins and it was not that, though I’d argue that the consequences for the world are just as big if not greater. The copy-paste environments didn’t help its cause either.
Azuriel | November 12, 2014 at 9:48 am
Oh, yes, the lore implications at the end are rather staggering. At the same time, I felt so far removed from the events by the end that it almost didn’t register. All the “look at how bad mages have it” scenarios were seriously muddled by the 30 hours of completely unrelated side-quests.
Shintar | November 12, 2014 at 2:37 pm
I think a lot of the criticisms of Dragon Age 2 are justified, but from my point of view exaggerated. As someone who greatly enjoyed the character development and just generally puttering around and exploring the city, things like recycled caves were hardly enough to detract from my enjoyment.
I also thought that the game’s overall pacing was better than the one in Origins. I never managed to complete Origins more than once, because sooner or later I’d get stuck in a “combat slog” (such as the Deep Roads) where you’d do nothing but kill mobs for hours… until I got bored and gave up. DA2 may throw lots of enemies at you at times, but at least the action is regularly punctuated by story and dialogue.
Coppertooper | November 12, 2014 at 8:11 pm
Congrats on having the patience to get thru the entire game. The copy-paste job on environments killed this game for me. But I remember listening to a Gamers With Jobs podcast where one of wives of the GWJ crew stated she played it multiple times because she enjoyed the story arc and interaction between the characters so much.
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Mongabay Series: Conserving Agro-biodiversity
Enormous alien fish spotted in Kerala’s rivers after the 2018 floods
by Aathira Perinchery on 16 August 2019
Kerala researchers have found that alien fish species, arapaima and alligator gar, were caught from four rivers after the floods of 2018.
The fish probably escaped from aquaculture facilities during the floods, and are now ‘fugitives’ in the natural ecosystem, claim the authors.
These predatory species are much larger compared to Kerala’s native fish and have the potential to turn invasive. This could threaten the state’s high native fish diversity.
There is an urgent need for a nationwide scheme to eradicate such alien fish species, claim the scientists.
It was September 7, barely a month after the floods of 2018 had wrecked large parts of Kerala. Though life was far from normal in Thrissur’s coastal Kodungalloor, 48-year-old Jaison Kallarackal was at his Chinese fishing net at dusk to land the day’s catch. As he began to haul the net up, he realised that it was unusually heavy; something large was wriggling in the net, causing it to shake. When a final heave raised the net slightly above water, Kallarackal could not believe his eyes.
Squirming around at the base was a fish he had never seen before: flat-headed and sporting large scales tinted in pink and cream. It measured six feet long and weighed a whopping 41 kilograms.
WhatsApp photographs of the unusual fish brought Smrithy Raj, a doctoral researcher studying fishes at Thiruvananthapuram’s University of Kerala, to the spot in a couple of days. But all he saw of the fish was its severed head: it had already been sold in the market. His journey, however, was not in vain; he was able to procure a small piece of fish tissue from the head. Genetic tests revealed that it was the arapaima, one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, endemic to the Amazon in South America.
After a month’s such work of analysing news reports, social media photographs and videos of ‘strange’ fish caught after the 2018 floods, and re-confirming sightings with local fishermen and fish vendors, the team – of A. Biju Kumar (University of Kerala), Raj, C.P. Arjun (of Thiruvananthapuram’s Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management) and Unmesh Katwate and Rajeev Raghavan (of Kochi’s Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies – KUFOS) – also obtained information on the presence of the alligator gar, another fish never recorded in Kerala’s waters before. Like the arapaima, the gar too is alien: its native habitats are the freshwater lakes of North America.
These post-flood field surveys revealed that fishers had caught arapaima and gar from four flood-affected rivers in Kerala: the Periyar, Muvattupuzha, Kurumali and Chalakkudy. The presence of these alien fish – which are being farmed illegally in the state – could bode ill for Kerala’s native fish diversity, claim the scientists. In their communication in the journal Current Science in May this year, the team call for an urgent nationwide scheme to eradicate such alien fish species.
Arapaima (L) and alligator gar (R), two alien fish species found in Kerala’s rivers after the 2018 floods. Arapaima is one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, endemic to the Amazon in South America and the alligator gar is from the freshwater lakes of North America. Photos from Biju Kumar.
Kerala’s flood ‘fugitives’
Kerala’s river systems, which the authors study, are home to around 200 species of fish, 30 percent of which are endemic to the region. But this diversity is at risk due to ‘fugitive’ fish such as the arapaima and gar that escaped from aquaculture facilities and farms during the floods, claim the authors. Calling the 2018 floods one of the most “significant threats” to Kerala’s fish diversity, the team adds that the presence of alien arapaima (Arapaima gigas) and alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) here is a serious concern for several reasons.
Both alien species can grow to be enormous. While alligator gar can measure up to three metres in length, arapaima is five metres long and weigh up to a whopping 200 kg. Both species are also top predators in their native habitats, feeding on smaller fish (which puts Kerala’s small native species at risk). The arapaima and gar are dedicated parents too: their active care of their young increases the survival of their broods.
Additionally, arapaimas are air-breathers, a feature that could help them survive even in polluted habitats. Their large scales are tough for predators to break through. Arapaima introductions in some American countries have caused a decline in native species, which in turn has affected local fisher livelihoods. Alligator gar too are formidable predators; they are piscivorous generalists with an affinity towards live fish, said Raghavan, an assistant professor at KUFOS.
“This species could have a bigger chance to proliferate in Kerala’s freshwater habitats than the arapaima,” he says.
A man displays an alligator gar caught from a river in Kerala. The fish can measure up to three metres in length and could put the native fish species at risk. Photo from Smrithy Raj.
Are fugitives always foes?
However, there are no studies on the actual impacts these species could have on freshwater systems in India. And the team recorded only six arapaima and gar in total: a number that seems barely enough to ‘threaten’ river systems.
But though neither of the fish seems to have established “sustaining populations” in any of these river systems, their presence here is still a cause for concern, claims Kumar, professor and head of the Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries at the University of Kerala.
“These are hardy species and our water bodies are ecologically suitable for them to establish good populations,” he wrote in an email.
Alligator gar in Kerala’s waters could indeed be a potential concern because the species is primarily carnivorous and can feed on native fish, said V. S. Basheer, principal scientist at Kochi’s National Bureau of Fish Genetics Resources (NBFGR). But unless we know the numbers of these aliens in our river systems or their reproductive status, it would be impossible to make predictions, he added.
“Whether the species could turn invasive would depend on the number of breeding pairs that entered Kerala’s water bodies,” agreed Kumar. “However, there is no data on this, as most of the farms that were growing these fish are illegal and no one has background information on the number of fish stocked in these ponds along these flood plains.”
But not all exotic species become invasive, cautions Nachiket Kelkar from the Ashoka Trust for Research, Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) in Bengaluru, who has studied fish communities in the Western Ghats and north India.
The Chinese fishing net in Kodungalloor, Kerala, where Jaison Kallarackal caught the arapaima. The fish probably escaped from aquaculture facilities during the floods, and are now ‘fugitives’ in the natural ecosystem, claim researchers. Photo from Smrithy Raj.
“To be billed as an invasive, the species must proliferate to unnatural abundances in the habitats where they get naturalised, and also outcompete other species,” he wrote in an email.
Kerala does of course have its share of naturalised exotics and invasives. While tiny swordtails and the giant gourami (both ‘fugitives’ of the ornamental fish industry) have established themselves in some rivers and streams of Kerala but are not invasive, the same cannot be said of the African catfish Clarius gariepinus. The illegally-introduced species is fast becoming a major concern in the state, says Basheer, who is part of an NBFGR project to study the impacts of exotic fish species in Indian waters
“Populations of African catfish are rapidly increasing in some waterbodies in Kerala, such as the Mattupetty, Aanayirangal and Periyar reservoirs of Idukki district,” he says. “There are at least three native fish species endemic to Periyar Lake and the rising catfish populations could affect them.”
Other invasives include the guppy and mosquitofish (legally introduced to control mosquito populations). ‘Tankbusters’ – fish that are capable of outgrowing most domestic aquaria — are a problem too. Kumar, who documented how ornamental exotic South American suckermouth armoured catfishes (genus Pterygoplichthys) were invading the drain networks of Thiruvananthapuram city in a study in 2015, found that traders and aquarium hobbyists were releasing these fish into drains when they grew too large for their aquariums or tanks.
Similarly, there is a huge demand for arapaima and alligator gar among fish hobbyists but these fish quickly outgrow their aquariums and owners often release these fish in the wild, said Raghavan.
Read our story on using environmental DNA (e-DNA) to detect invasive fish.
A larger issue
But the larger problem of aliens turning invasive is not restricted to Kerala’s waters alone. Several fish introduced legally in India for aquaculture such as tilapia are thriving in many water bodies across the country. So are many illegally-introduced species (such as the red-bellied pacu and African catfish), which do not figure in the list of 92 species permitted to be imported into the country as per the guidelines laid down by the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. There are news reports of alligator gar sightings from waterbodies in the states of Maharashtra, Odisha, West Bengal, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
While existing laws such as the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 and the Environment Protection Act of 1986 have included provisions for managing invasive species as do some prevailing quarantine acts, there is no national policy to deal with these species, pointed out Kumar.
“There is no clear cut policy to handle invasive species in India, not to speak about a dedicated institution to foresee invasive species management, despite being part of international commitments such as the Convention on Biological Diversity,” he adds.
In their opinion note in Current Science, Kumar and his colleagues point out that this is in conflict with the Aichi Biodiversity Targets (which specify controlling and eradicating alien species as well as sustainable management of aquaculture, among others) that India has agreed to ratify as well. The team called for an urgent need to develop and implement a nationwide ‘alien species management and eradication scheme’. This policy, coupled with both an extensive database of invasive species with information on their invasion biology and an awareness campaign, would help in gradually managing the issue of invasive species, suggests Kumar.
At the state level, multiple government departments such as revenue, fisheries and district administrations would have to come together along with research institutes, the forest department and local authorities to implement management interventions, said Basheer.
The African catfish in a temple pond in Kozhikode. The illegally-introduced species is fast becoming a major concern in Kerala. Photo from V.S. Basheer.
Some species may need to be addressed specifically. For instance, in the case of the African catfish, identifying “recruitment areas” from where invasive fish fingerlings could be dispersing to other connected habitats such as swamps and wetlands (habitats with standing vegetation and slush where the catfish thrives very well and breeds) could be important, added Basheer. Physical removal of catfishes from these areas would also help counter the situation, he suggested; in Periyar, the NBFGR along with the Periyar Foundation has taken up a programme to remove African catfish from the lake by involving tribal fishermen, he said.
The government should also audit fish farms to see what alien species they are stocking, and make it compulsory for farms to declare these species and their numbers, said Raghavan.
“No new licenses should be given to farms for importing alien species,” he added.
There is a list of species that are prohibited from being imported into India, and the alligator gar does fall in this category, said Aneish P. Rajan, Kerala Joint Commissioner Customs (Preventive).
“The customs handle violations that occur at the frontiers such as seaports and airports and there have been recent instances of seizing some prohibited fish species too,” he said.
Indeed, stronger quarantine laws to completely restrict any foreign fish species from deliberate introductions hereafter are important, agreed ATREE’s Kelkar. Clear definitions of when a species is invasive in the real sense and causes ecosystem- and fisheries-level impacts are also crucial, he said.
A change in perspective could be key too. “For the police and customs staff checking on biological quarantines, fish are fish. This has to change, as we try to control truly invasive populations,” added Kelkar.
Floods 2019
With the floods that have once again occurred in some parts of Kerala over the past few days, there is indeed a chance that exotics held in captive facilities have moved into nearby natural waters once again, according to Raghavan.
“But the flood situation is still grim and fishing in rivers has not resumed,” he says. “Once it does, we can get information on new occurrence records again.”
The team plans to begin this work once again from next week to obtain more information on alien fish species that this year’s floods may have released into Kerala’s water systems.
Banner image: An alligator gar caught from a river in Kerala after the 2018 floods. Photo from Smrithy Raj.
Article published by Sandhya Sekar
Biodiversity, Endemic species, Fish, Fishing, Rivers
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Featured|Financial
Exclusive: Matt Blatt in talks to sell furniture business
April 8, 20202 mins read
Matt Blatt founder Adam Drexler
Replica furniture retailer Matt Blatt is working with advisors to facilitate a potential sale of the business as the full scope of the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic becomes clear.
“We felt that with all shops closed, and no income, no sales, it would be a hard slog to recover,” Adam Drexler, the founder of Matt Blatt, told Inside Retail.
Matt Blatt closed its 12 bricks-and-mortar showrooms for health reasons less than two weeks ago and stood down staff with access to leave entitlements until the JobKeeper payments kick in.
But Drexler said even with these cost-cutting measures and support from the Government, the prospect of keeping the business running was unrealistic.
“We can’t see our way clear to just hibernate and open up again,” Drexler said.
“I personally believe that things won’t return to normal. There will be a big recession for many years, and that’s when a lot of companies will struggle.”
The retailer has reportedly received multiple acquisition offers, ranging from a complete takeover of the business as a going concern, to the acquisition of its assets only.
“We have a couple serious contenders, others are on the sidelines,” Drexler said.
He declined to name the interested parties or the advisors facilitating the sale.
A sale is just one of the possible scenarios for Matt Blatt going forward.
Until recently, Drexler was contemplating closing the business permanently. Now, he said, he would also consider taking on a partner. And he hasn’t fully discounted the option of staying open: “That’s definitely a possibility,” he said.
In the meantime, Matt Blatt is facing an urgent stock issue. With stores closed, the retailer’s warehouse is at capacity, and it has 26 containers full of new furniture on their way to Australia, with nowhere to go.
The retailer is attempting to make room by clearing existing stock through the online auction site Grays Online. Matt Blatt’s own e-commerce site has been temporarily suspended because it can’t guarantee delivery.
“It’s not a pair of shoes or a book, it’s a sofa that needs to be carried up three flights of stairs and unwrapped,” Drexler said.
According to documents lodged with the corporate regulator in October last year, Matt Blatt generated $47.6 million in revenue in FY18, an 8.5 per cent increase on FY17.
Significant increases in the cost of wages, rent and freight, however, eroded its before-tax profit to just $291,812, a year-on-year decrease of 82.3 per cent.
According to Drexler, Matt Blatt has been self-funded for many years and has no debt.
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Taxation Interview Questions & Answers
Question 1. What Is Income Tax? How Is It Calculated?
Income tax is an annual tax charged on income of a person by the government. It is charged for the corresponding assessment year at the rates laid down by the Finance Act for the assessment year in respect of the previous year.
Income of the person is categorized under the following five heads
Profits and gains of business or profession
Income from other sources.
Income is calculated under these heads separately and accordingly tax is calculated using the income tax slab issued by the government every financial year.
Question 2. Define Assessment Year?
Assessment year is the period that starts from 1 April and ends on 31 march. It is the year immediately succeeding the financial year wherein the income of the previous financial year is assessed. Government use assessment year for calculating tax on the previous year.
For example : If the current assessment year is 2015-16, which starts from I April 2015 and ends on 31 March 2016. To this assessment year financial year is 2014-15, starting from I April 2014 and ends on 31 March 2015. You will be calculating income tax for financial year in the assessment year.
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Question 3. Define Previous Year?
Previous Year is the year in which the income earned becomes taxable in the following assessment year. It can be stated as the Financial year preceding the Assessment year. For example- If the present assessment year is 2015-16 then the previous year will be 2014-2015.
Question 4. Define Financial Year?
A twelve month period starting from 1 April and ending at 31 March which is used for calculating various annual financial statements in businesses and organization is known as financial year.
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Question 5. Differentiate Between Financial Year, Assessment Year And Previous Year?
Assessment year and previous year are the types of financial year which consists of twelve months starting from 1 April to 31 March. Previous financial year is the preceding year of assessment financial year.
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Question 6. Define The Term Person?
A “person” means an individual, an ordinary partnership, a non-juristic body of person and an undivided estate. The term “person” under the Income Tax Act includes an individual, a Hindu Undivided Family, a Company, a Firm, an Association of Persons, a Local Authority and Artificial Juridical persons.
Question 7. Who Is An Assessee?
An “Assessee” is a person who is liable to pay tax or any other sum of money under the Act.
Every person in respect of whom any proceeding under this Act has been taken for the assessment of his income or of the income of any other person in respect of whom he is assessable, or of the loss sustained by him or by such other person, or of the amount of refund due to him or to such other person;
Every person who is deemed to be an assessee under any provision of this Act;
Every person who is deemed to be an assessee in default under any provision of this Act.
Question 8. What Do You Understand By Total Income?
Total Income is the amount on which the Income Tax is paid. Total income include all income that accrue, arise, earned or received in India (except those income which accrues or arises outside India). Total Income is the total amount earned by an individual or organization, including income from employment or providing services, revenue from sales, payments from pension plans, income from dividends, or other sources. Total income is generally calculated for the assessment of taxes, evaluating the net worth of a company, or determining an individual or organization’s ability to make payments on a debt.
Question 9. How Many Heads Are There Under Total Income? Name Them?
There are five heads under total income. They are
Income from Salaries
Income from other sources
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Question 10. At What Rate Firms Are Required To Pay Tax On Their Income?
Income Tax is paid at 30% of taxable income. Surcharge is charged at 10% of the Income Tax, where taxable income is more than Rs. 1 crore. (Marginal Relief in Surcharge, if applicable) and Education Cess is 3% of the total of Income Tax and Surcharge.
Question 11. How Will You Decide The Residential Status Of An Individual?
As per the provisions of Income Tax Act residential status of an individual is categorized as Resident and Non Resident.
Under Section 6(1), an individual is said to be resident in India in any previous year if he satisfies any one of the following basic conditions:
He is in India in the previous year for a period of at least 182 days.
He is in India for a period of at least 60 days during the relevant previous year and at least 365 days during the four years preceding that previous year.
The above provisions are applicable only to those who are residents of India irrespective of their nationality otherwise they are included in Non resident.
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Question 12. Does The Tax Liability Of An Individual Get Affected Due To His Residential Status? If Yes, Explain.
Yes, tax liability of an individual does gets affected due to his residential status as per Section % of the Income Tax Act 1961 and is also dependent on place and time of accrual or receipt of income. You must understand the difference between Indian income and Foreign income as Indian income is always taxable in India in accordance with the residential status of the taxpayer.
Indian income is categorized as
Income received or deemed to be received in India during previous year and simultaneously accrual income or deemed accrual in India during previous year.
Income received or deemed to be received in India during the previous year but it accrues outside India during the previous year, or Income received outside India during the previous year but accrues in India during the previous year.
Question 13. What Are The Basic And Additional Conditions For Resident And Ordinarily Resident (ror)?
The basic conditions for being resident and ordinarily resident is the same condition that satisfies the residential status of an individual and additional conditions for Resident and ordinarily resident in India in a given previous year are mentioned below:
If you are resident in India in at least 9 out of 10 previous years as per the basic conditions that satisfies the residential status of an individual preceding the relevant previous year.
If you are in India for a period of at least 730 days during 7 years preceding the relevant previous year.
An individual or HUF becomes ROR in India if the individual fulfills at least one of the basic conditions that satisfies the residential status of an individual both the additional conditions.
Question 14. Who Are Resident But Not Ordinary Resident?
A resident but not ordinary resident is the one who is not the resident in India for 9 out of the 10 preceding previous years or he has during the 7 preceding years been in India for a period of, or period amounting to 729 days or less.
Question 15. Who Are Non Resident?
An individual who does not fulfill the below mentioned conditions in that previous year will be considered as Non Resident:
You have to be in India atleast 182 days in that year, OR
You have to atleast be in India for 365 days during 4 years preceding that year and atleast 60 days in that year.
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Question 16. Which Income Is Considered As Accrued Income?
Income which has been earned but not yet received is known as accrued income. Income is recorded in the same accounting period in which it is earned rather than in the subsequent period in which it will be received.
Question 17. What Is Fbt?
FBT stands for Fringe Benefit Tax which is a tax that an employer has to pay in respect of the benefits that are given to his/her employees.
Fringe benefits is something that an employer provides to his employees in addition to the cash salary. FBT is payable in lieu of the value of fringe benefits provided or deemed to have been provided by an employer to his employees during the previous year.
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Question 18. What Is Tax Audit?
A tax audit is assessment of an organization’s or individual’s tax return by Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in order to find out that the income and deductions are recorded accurately.
Question 19. What Is Tax Refund?
The excess tax paid by an individual than the actual owed is returned by the government which is known as tax refund. After taking into consideration income tax, withholdings, tax deductions or credits and other factors; you file income tax for the year, after that you will receive a tax refund.
Question 20. What Is Capital Gain? Explain Long Term Capital Gains And How Is It Different From Short Term Capital Gains?
Capital gains’ means the profit earned from the sale of an asset. When the Capital Asset is being sold or transferred, the profit or gains arising out of it or you can term that as the difference between the actual price at which the asset was acquired and the price at which it is sold or transferred.
A long-term capital gain is the profit that arises with the sale of an asset that has been on hold for a definite period. This period ranges from one year to three years across different asset classes.
It is different from short term capital gains because short term capitals are kept for short period only that is less than a years.
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Question 21. What Is Deferred Tax?
A tax liability that a company has to pay but does not pay at that current point and it will be responsible for paying it in future is termed a deferred tax. Deferred tax occurs due to the difference in a company’s balance sheet, due to the differences between accounting practices and tax regulations.
Question 22. What Is Working Capital?
Working capital is the difference between a company’s current assets and its current liabilities. Working Capital is used into day to day operations of any business.
WC= CA-CL
Question 23. What Is Taxation?
Taxation is one of the mode used by the government to finance their expenditure by imposing charges on citizens and corporate entities. Government levy tax on citizens to encourage or discourage certain economic decisions.
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Question 24. What Is Alternative Minimum Tax (amt)?
The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) is a way to restrict wealthy taxpayers from tax evasion. AMT uses a separate set of rules to calculate taxable income after allowed deductions. This is generally for higher income group as AMT sets a limit on certain benefits that reduces a taxpayer’s regular tax amount. As a result, if the benefits on tax reduce total tax below AMT limit, taxpayer has to pay the higher AMT amount.
Question 25. How Can A Taxpayer Get A Refund For An Overpayment Of Taxes?
There is a provision in India to get a refund for an overpayment of taxes along with interest. When you have to claim a refund you need to file the income tax return within a specified period. You can even track your refund status from the NSDL-TIN website by clicking in Status of Tax refunds and can track your refund by entering PAN and Assessment year for which the refund is to be claimed.
Question 26. What Are The Streamlined Sales And Use Tax Agreement?
The Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement was introduced in 1999 by the National Governor’s Association (NGA) and the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) in order to simplify the collection of sales tax as sales tax is second largest source of state revenue after personal income taxes. It resulted in decveloping a simpler and business friendly sales tax system.
The Agreement decreases costs and administrative burdens of sales tax collection on retailers, especially those operating in multiple states.
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Question 27. Explain Deferred Tax Asset?
When a firm has overpaid on taxes then the amount is recorded in the balance sheet as deferred asset tax which is also known as provision for future taxation. Deferred tax asset arises when the firm, pays taxes early or have paid excess of tax and is entitled to get some money back from the tax authorities.
Question 28. Define Deferred Tax Liability? What Items Come Under Deferred Tax Liability?
A tax liability that a company owes and does not pay at that current point, although it will be responsible for paying it at some point in the future. Deferred tax liability (DTL) is a balance sheet item that accounts for the temporary difference between taxes that will come due in the future and taxes paid today.
The unrealized tax that is put into account comes under deferred tax liability. Depreciation is the main source or the type of an item of deferred tax liability.
Question 29. Define Amortization & Impairment?
When the assets of the company are written off over a number of years for the purpose of their replacement or renewal and not depending on the life of asset is termed as amortization. It is different from depreciation, which is periodic writing off of the asset based on its normal life expectancy.
Impairment can be termed as the fall in the value of the asset due to any physical damage to the asset, obsolescence, or due to technological innovation. Impairments can be written off. Simply you can say that impairment is the difference between the fair value and the carrying value of an asset.
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Question 30. What Is Inter Company Reconciliation?
Every year commonly controlled company prepares a combined or consolidated financial statement for tax and reporting purposes. Inter Company Reconciliation (ICR) is the process that helps parent company to split from its subsidiaries companies by location. Each year, commonly controlled business must prepare a combined or consolidated financial statement for tax and reporting purposes. The inter company accounting process is an important process for parent companies with subsidiaries or companies split by location. ICR helps in avoiding double counting of transactions as it also helps in maintaining accurate reports. Even it helps the companies to avoid misrepresentation of a firm’s financial position.
Question 31. What Is The Securities Transaction Tax?
Securities Transaction Tax (STT) was introduced in India at time of 2004 budget and is applicable from 1 October 2004. STT is the tax which is payable on the amount of taxable securities transaction.
STT is just levied on purchase and sale of those securities that are listed on the Indian Stock Exchanges.
Securities Transaction Tax was introduced by the Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram to restrict people from evading tax on capital gains.
Question 32. What Is Permanent Account Number (pan)?
Permanent Account Number (PAN) is a ten-digit alphanumeric number, which is issued by the Income Tax Department in the form of laminated card as PAN enables the department to link all kinds of transactions of the person with the department. Transactions include tax payments, TDS/TCS credits, returns of income/wealth/gift/FBT, specified transactions, correspondence, etc. PAN helps the department in maintaining a fair record of every persons transactions through a ten digit number in order to avoid tax evasion in any case.
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Question 33. What Is The Difference Between Profit And Gain?
Profit is the amount that is left after deducting expenses from revenue that makes the receipt of revenue possible. There are two streams of earnings that is direct earnings and indirect earnings. Direct earnings are incurred from main activities and indirect earnings are incurred from other activities so the profits is calculated as gross profit and net profit.
Gross profit is the amount of revenue from which trading expenses has been deducted (expenses related to main activities of the business). Net profit is the amount of revenue that includes incomes from other activities.
Gain is the amount that is earned on selling assets which is not included in the inventory of the business. This sales activity is not the actual trading and these sales does not includes goods that are sold on regular basis.
Question 34. What Items Fall Under The Category Of ‘securities’?
‘Securities’ are defined under Section 2(h) of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 (SCRA) to include:
Shares, scrips, stocks, bonds, debentures, debenture stock or other marketable securities of a like nature in or of any incorporated company or other body corporate derivatives.
Units or any other instrument issued by any collective investment scheme to the investors in such schemes.
Security receipt as defined in Section 2(zg) of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002.
Such other instruments as declared by the central government and Rights or interest in securities.
Equity-oriented mutual funds (not debt-oriented mutual funds).
Question 35. When Deferred Tax Asset & Deferred Tax Liability Arises?
Deferred tax asset arises when the expenses are recorded in the income statement before they are required to be recognized by the taxing authority. Also when revenue is being taxed before it is taxable in the income statement.
Deferred tax liability arises from different depreciation methods being used for tax as depreciable assets are reported as non current.
Question 36. What Is The Difference Between Fund Flow Vs. Cash Flow?
Fund Flow
Fund flow is based on working capital.
Fund flows tells about the various sources from where the funds are generated.
Fund flow is useful for understanding long term financial strategy.
Changes in current assets and current liabilities are shown through the schedule of changes in working capital.
Cash flow is based on only one element of working capital that is cash.
Cash flow starts with the opening balance of cash and closes with the closing balance of cash.
Cash flow is useful for understanding short term strategies that affects liquidity of the business.
Changes in current assets and current liabilities are shown in the cash flow.
Question 37. If A Nri Buys Property In India, Does He Has To Pay Property Tax?
Any income or capital gain that the NRI generates from the sale/ rent or lease of a valued property or an asset based in India will be taxed as per the Income Tax rules. f the property is more than 3 years old, long term capital gains tax will be incurred on the sale of the property. On long term capital gains, tax is payable at 20%.
Question 38. Can A Person Fill A Nri In An Income Tax Form If He Has Been Out Of India For Six Months Though He Is Indian Citizen?
He can fill NRI in an Income tax form only if he does not satisfy any of these two conditions:
He is in India in the previous year for a period of 182 days or more or
He is in India for a period of 60 days or more during the previous year and 365 days or more during the four years immediately preceding the previous year.
Question 39. What Is The Difference Between The Excise Duty And The Sales Tax?
Excise Duty is an indirect tax imposed on goods that are manufactured and produced within the country. This is paid by the manufacturer on the finished good when it goes out of the factory. Excise Duty is levied on all goods, except certain goods that are exempted. There are three types of Central Excise duties collected in India namely: Basic Excise Duty, Additional Duty of Excise, Special Excise Duty.
Sales Tax is imposed on the finished product which is paid by the consumer. Sales tax is imposed on sale or purchase within the State. Different states levy different levels of sales tax, while there is a Central Sales Tax levied on sale or purchase in the course of interstate trade.
Question 40. What Do You Mean By Fair Rent?
Fair rent is the rent charged for a private property that is fixed and registered by a rent officer. Fair rent is decided on the basis of size, condition, and usefulness of the property. Fair rent is calculated in place of mortgage interest, other financing costs and depreciation related to certain property, including land, buildings and non movable equipment. It is calculated only once; at the time the facility begins operation.
Question 41. Explain The Procedure To Calculate Provident Fund, Esi, Vat And Sales Tax.
Provident Fund: Provident fund is calculated at 12% on the basic salary which is deducted from employee’s salary plus 12% on the basic is contributed by the employer. So, the aggregate 12% + 12 % is remitted to the Provident Fund Department.
ESI: Stands for Employee State Insurance and is calculated at 1.75% on the gross salary of the employees whose salary is below Rs. 10000 per month and employer contributes 4.75% on the gross salary of the employee and aggregate 1.75% + 4.75% is remitted to the ESI Department
VAT: VAT percentage is 1, 4, 12.5%. It is a tax which is charged on the basic value of the product by the seller from the buyer and the same is remitted to the Sales Tax Department.
Sales tax: Same as VAT
Question 42. What Is Excise & Service Tax? What Is The Difference?
Excise tax is an indirect tax that is imposed on the manufacture, sale or use on certain types of goods and products. Excise taxes are generally imposed on goods such as cigarettes or alcohol, also in the price of an activity such as gambling. Excise taxes may be imposed by both Federal and state authorities.
Service tax is an indirect tax imposed by the government on service providers on certain service transactions, but is actually paid by the customers. Services provided by air-conditioned restaurants and short term accommodation provided by hotels, inns, etc are included in the taxable services.
The major difference between excise tax and service tax is that excise tax is charged on manufactured goods and sales tax is imposed on certain services provided.
Question 43. What Is Luxury Tax?
A tax imposed on goods and services that are non-essential or not included in the necessities. Luxury tax is included in the indirect tax and is incurred by those who purchase or use the product. Ad valorem tax or progressive tax are some luxury tax that is imposed on high priced goods such as cars above a certain value or engine size, villas etc.
Question 44. What Do You Mean By Commercial Tax?
Commercial Tax is a tax imposed on the scheduled Commercial goods as indirectly collected by the seller or purchaser against his business transaction which now comprises of Sales Tax, Entertainment, Luxury Tax, Entry Tax and Profession Tax.
Question 45. What Are The Deductions Under Salary Head? Name The Items.
Deductions that are made under salary head are Entertainment allowance and Professional tax.
Entertainment Allowance- Entertainment allowance received is already included in the income of the employee and then a deduction is made only for government employees. A sum equal to 1/5th of salary (excluding all allowances, benefits and other perquisites) or Rs. 5,000, whichever is less is being deducted.
Professional Tax- Professional Tax is imposed by the government on employment by whatever name called, under Article 80C 276 of the Constitution and shall be allowed as a deduction.
Question 46. What Is Entertainment Tax?
Entertainment tax is imposed on every financial transaction that is related to entertainment such as movie tickets, major commercial shows and big private festivals, amusement parks, video games, exhibitions, celebrity stage shows, sports activities etc.
As per the Indian Constitution, entertainment is included in List 2. Revenue collected from entertainment tax is reserved primarily for the state governments.
Question 47. What Is Form C & D In Sales Tax?
The sales tax on inter-state sale is 4% or the applicable sales tax rate for sale within the State whichever is lower if the sale is to a dealer registered under CST and the goods are covered in the registration certificate of the purchasing dealer. The purchasing dealer is eligible to get these goods at concessional rate if a declaration in C form is submitted to the selling dealer.
Sale to government is taxable 4% or applicable sales tax rate for sale within the State whichever is lower. This concession on CST is applicable if Form D is issued by the government department which purchases the goods.
Question 48. What Is Excise Duty?
Central Excise duty is an indirect tax levied on those goods which are manufactured in India and are meant for home consumption. The taxable event is ‘manufacture’ and the liability of central excise duty arises as soon as the goods are manufactured. It is a tax on manufacturing, which is paid by a manufacturer, who passes its incidence on to the customers.
Question 49. What Do You Understand By Transfer Income?
Transfer of Income means when someone retains the ownership of an asset but makes an agreement to transfer its income, but still the income is considered as your income and it will be added to the total income.
Question 50. What Are The Types Of Provident Funds?
Below listed are the 4 types of provident funds
Recognized Provident Fund (RPF): RPF schemes must be approved by The Commissioner of Income Tax and pplicable to an organization which employs 20 or more employees.
Unrecognized Provident Fund (URPF): URPF are not approved by The Commissioner of Income Tax and is started by employer and employees in an establishment.
Statutory Provident Fund (SPF): This Fund is mainly meant for Government/University/Educational Institutes (affiliated to university) employees.
Public Provident Fund (PPF): PPF involves minimum contribution of Rs.500 per annum and the maximum contribution is Rs. 100,000 per annum. The contribution made along with interest earned is repayable after 15 years, unless extended.
Question 51. How Will You Calculate House Rent Allowance (hra)?
Minimum of following three amounts is available as HRA exemption:
Actual House Rent Allowance provided by employer to employee.
House Rent paid in excess of 10% of Salary.
50% of Salary in case House is located in Metro cities (Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai) or 40% in case of any other cities.
For all three conditions mentioned above relevant period is very important. Means if there is any change in Salary, HRA paid to employee, location of rented house and actual rent paid by employee HRA need to calculate from that relevant change Hence one should avoid calculating HRA on annual basis if there is any change in above factors.
Meaning of Salary for calculating HRA (Basic Salary + Dearness allowance if terms of employment so provide + fixed percentage of turnover achieved by employee)
Question 52. What Are Allowable And Dis-allowable Expenditure?
Allowable expenditure
the cost of goods bought for the business
the prime costs of running a business asset
wages and salaries of employees
heat, light and cleaning of business premises
repairs to and maintenance of business premises
postage and stationery
business telephone and rental
bank charges and interest on business loans and overdrafts
travel and entertaining if the sole purpose is to retain or acquire business
legal costs of defending business rights and renewing leases of less than 50 years duration
bad debts and specific doubtful debts
protective clothes necessary for the business
Dis allowable expenditure
private expenditure
clothes bought for ordinary everyday wear
acquisition and depreciation of business assets
your own wages or salary
your business partner’s wages or salary
payments to charities
travel expenses between your home and place of business
a general (non-specific) provision against doubtful debts
legal costs of acquiring land and buildings
fines for breaking the law
your own life, accident or sickness assurance
costs of alterations, additions or improvements to business premises
Question 53. What Do You Understand By Dissolution Of Firm?
Dissolution of firm means assets of firm are realized and liabilities are paid off and the surplus, if any is distributed among the partners according to their right. It is to be noted that ‘dissolution of Firm’ involves dissolution of partnership but dissolution of partnership may not lead to dissolution of firm.
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Lyorta: The Saga Of Retribution: Chapter 6: The Queen’s Errant
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868 CE “2nd Season, 5th Moon, 3rd Week, 4th Day”
~Far West Iest Kingdom, In The City Of Taber At Nightfall
The constant clanking and banging of cups and iron fill the dimly lit hall as small talk abounds. Good music and cheer saturate the air along with the chatter of a small fire crackling at its heart. The aroma of sizzling meat, fresh herbs and vegetables waft from the kitchenette. A buxom young lady dressed in a cobalt commoner’s dress stirred a charcoal skillet, swaying as she cooks. A joke causes a thick bartender’s hearty laughter to cover the local palaver.
Most everyone is in typical local attire. The women in simple dresses with brooch aprons of another color while the men in kyrtill tunics and belted trousers. That was except for a group of rather dirty looking foreign men. Not that people with soiled clothing did not come in, but the style they wore is of a reputable brand. Dressed in imperial coats, shirts made of delicate fabrics and studded leather armor. Blades forged by the best craftsmen hung on their sides carelessly without the proper honorifics. Yet, the condition of these things showed no respect for them. Altogether they were unkempt, with old stains of blood which set everyone who noticed with uneasiness.
“No place better than the east.” a rather gruff man garbles with a mouth full of chicken and rice. His voice loud and of the Azurian mainlander’s accent, not like a Marionian’s. That alone is not the odd part, but it is the thickness of it. He grabs a large mead cup and taking a full swig washing down his half-chewed food. “This is the life,” he declares slapping the back of the man next to him. His crow eyes are the most distinguishing feature about him. A dark mask so piercing it is unsettling.
“I agree. Finally, we made it to paradise,” says the other man grinning with a patchy smile. Just about every other tooth is missing and what is there is at least chipped. Three other men sat around the table. Each of them with plates of various foods and several tall glasses of ale. “I dare say this is the best times since leaving the mainland.”
One man has a missing eye. It was not a pleasant patch covering it either. More like an old piece of torn leather he had just slumped over it to keep the dust-out. One could tell behind that patch was nothing but a sunken hole. Part of it got sucked in by the pressure as he breaths if you paid any attention, you might see it bellow. “I am just glad King Grandor kept his word. I thought once we landed in port we’d be done for.”
“We are now the Blue Hammers lad. We own this region of Marion. Might as well be Kings.” the elder of the men laughs. The thing about their captain is that his gruffness could almost be excused. Perhaps with a good wash, he may have been a handsome old man. The grime though became layers built upon dirt painting over his features making him look a lot older than he is.
The people in the bar carry on trying not to pay attention to the obnoxious hollering. No one dares bother these men. Everyone knew about the Blue Hammers. That is now they are well feared in this region. It is perhaps only several moons earlier that the Blue Hammers were a no named band of thugs. These days they are a band of mercenaries known for their cruelty above all else.
The group of marauders chuckle as a curvy young waitress caught their eye. “That girl, she is a real cutie,” says the crow eyed man as a smile crept across his face. The other guys glance and nod their heads in agreement. Her milk chocolate colored hair is tied up in red ribbons forming two small rabbit-like ears. The rest is long curls streaming down to her mid back, short bangs just above her forest brown eyes. Her smile, sweet as she picks up the plates moving from table to table.
Growing up working with her father she had become a rather skillful tavern maid. Her grace given by years of practice. It is almost an art form how she bobs and weaves around everything as the lively hall stars. She sails the channels that are the wooden floorboards knowing every knot and imperfection. The waitress escaping miscellaneous stubs. Her feet dashing just next to them and all around them. Though she never trips, not once. Her control over her footwork is perfect. The maid’s crimson, white trimmed dress sways as she weaves around the room. Her frilly apron flows along with the lead of her steps.
“Would not mind tasting something like that.” the eye-patched man stuck out his tongue licking the corner of his mouth.
The crow eyed man then replies, “Bet she’s a clean one too. Not like those dirty clams whoring at the ports.”
The rude jest provoking a smirk from the man with the gap filled smile. “Hey, waiter girl! Over here,” he yells. She turns, once she saw the men in the blue cloaks, she felt a terror creep over her. He smiles showing his messed up face. What could they want with her? She thought to herself. She walks over perceiving the room to grow longer, and her body becoming petrified. “Com’mon we won’t bite,” he jokes.
As she approaches the table, she put on a fake smile. “How may I help you tonight? Done with your meals already?” she says in a cutesy tone.
The captain grumbles a little as he is much older than the other men. “You guys have your fun. Don’t mind me, I’ll be stepping out for a few.” Seeing the older man leave the table fills the girl with a new uneasiness she has never felt before. As if she knew what is coming next. She looks over to her father tending to the drunks at the bar. Then over toward the band but they shook their head at her.
The crow eyed man scoots his chair out. “Come on baby has a seat,” he laughs patting his lap. The other men peer at her as if they were dogs looking at a piece of meat. She could tell if she gets in these men’s grasp she will be with them for the night at the least.
She knew if she sat down most likely this man will grope her in front of everyone. As she looks over the man’s tattered muddy blue jacket, she notices the sword by his waist. She did not want to be in the arms of a violent man. Unable to control the situation she decides it would be best to evade this gesture. “I could not, I have other tables to tend to.” She musters the best smile she could given this situation. It is the smile her mother gave her.
“You been working hard all night. Honey, it’s all right, kick back a little, we want to talk,” says the man with the eyepatch. He takes a drink from his cup after wiping his mustache with a reflexive action.
“My father would be mighty upset if I slacked off.”
“Who’s your dad. We will shut em up,” says the crow eyed man sitting out on his chair. He licks his lips. She could not help but become repulsed by his actions. Spreading his legs, he motioned for her to sit. That is when she notices his palm on his sword handle tilting it as if to say “I’ll kill him if you don’t.” At least, that is how she took it.
Seeing they won’t take no for an answer she sits on the dangerous man’s lap. He shudders as her shapely rear presses against his leg. He steals a sniff from her hair. It is fresh. She shivers feeling his hand around her waist. Her skin twitches as his breath rolling across the back of her neck. To her it smells like the sludge they poured out of ships. His fingers press onto her hips as he whispers “See not so bad.”
She could feel his leg pressing against her crotch. He thrusts his leg again harder this time. Her face became painted flush with embarrassment. Something hard is press into her rear. Her eyes grew wide as she looks over towards her father who is just watching as he shines a glass.
Two men sitting at the bar glance over towards the men. Raising his jug, one man downs the rest of his ail. Long elf ears poke out from his faded white kinky hair. His face is handsome. His silver eyes glare towards the man as he rises to his feet. Placing a hand on the other man’s.
He looks down into his friend’s charcoal brown hair that hung against his stubble covered jawline. His skin is tan suggesting he was a foreigner from another land. It gave his brown eyes a dirty, muddy face. His build is thin but muscular. He turns his head to see the girl getting touched on the shoulders by the crow eyed man. There were scars on his face a sign of his many battles. The elf presses his fingers into his back before turning away from him.
“Elward… must you?” he asks in a tired tone. Elward looks even more piercingly at his companion.
“We’re looking for these. Rhomund come,” he turns to walk towards the men at the table.
“Sure,” Rhomund moans under his breath. Placing his thump on the leather holster of his dagger he unbuttons a small leather strap. He rolls his eyes before saying “I wasn’t planning on finishing my drink anyway.” with a long drawn out sigh as he stood up looking at the ail he had barely even touched.
Before he got away from the bar, the owner grabs his shoulder. His face is rosy, and his eyes filled with concern. “Wait, that is my daughter.” Rhomund nods his head as he takes several steps just behind Elward.
There is a moment of silence before the man with the wrong teeth says, “Pointer you got somewhere to be.” Elward narrows his eyes at the slur before Rhomund walks up resting his arm on Elward’s shoulder.
“Care if we join you,” Rhomund asks with a most charming look.
The man with the eye patch points his eating knife at Rhomund and rolls his wrist in a circle a few times. His index finger resting on the tang of the blade. “Who are you?” His face utterly unamused, his mouth hung agape. The waitress’s feverish eyes dart toward the two men. The girl’s fingers twitching as she grabs her knees working her nails into her tender skin.
She mouthed the word “No.” to the pair, but Elward just continues to lock eyes with the men. The man with the messed up teeth stood up from his chair placing his dirty hand on his sword. The surrounding people walked away with bent necks and hunched over shoulders.
“We are just two errands. Now now,” Rhomund stutters. “My friend here… he is rather concerned about that girl on your lap.”
This only causes the man to lick the girl’s ear putting his hand on her breast cupping it as he squeezes. “We are friends isn’t that right baby.”
“Yes!” she says not wanting to upset him.
“See she likes me. So go get yourselves lost,” the crow eyed man snarles at Rhomund. The man with the eye patch now grins, snickering as he looks over at his buddies.
Elward stood with his arms to his side clenching his fists. “Hey look at the pointer,” says the guy with the missing teeth. “Well, are ya gonna do something?”
“Ah, I see, you are not familiar with the customs here. She is a waiter. She must be more than generous to you.” the girl’s face etches in fear “You see this girl has signed her father several times. That bartender over there.” the man pointed to the brambly older gentleman. “And who I presume is her brother.” then points to a man over with a guitar on his lap.
The maid rasped her breathing as her lips quiver. “What’s it to you? You might be wise to know who you’re dealing with.” His crow looking face got even worse if it were possible as he scrunched it up in anger.
Rhomund gestures using both his hands with fingers splayed. “Ah, you see my friend here has a particular set of talents you may not know of.” his fingers close holding up only his two index fingers as he continued “I suggest you not upset him. Granted I understand you perfectly. She is cute.” he waves his hand open wagging it with each word before finish himself “Though my friend here. He thinks you’re not respecting her.”
“Yeah, your friend. The bloody pointer should know his place,” says the one-eyed man pointing his knife out at Elward.
Rhomund nodded his head. “I was saying the same thing. Men must be men. Though my friend… he does not see things our way. While I am fine with you, he is not.”
“You threatening me.” pushing the girl off his lap the crow eyed man rips out a sword from his side. He points the tip of the blade at Rhomund’s neck. Baring his teeth, he grunts. “I will put my sword clear through you.”
“You see,” Rhomund says placing his fingertip on the point of the sword. “That my friend was a mistake.” no sooner does Rhomund finishes his sentence he retches the blade out of the man’s hand. The man had no chance to even gasp before Rhomund drew himself in close. He folds his arm to have his elbow and the edge of the blade to the crow eyed man’s collar. Rhomund narrows his rocky eyes. “I suggest you and your friends leave. Live to fight another day. Am I understood, gentleman?”
The man backs up a step. Rhomund with graceful handling whirles the crow eyed man’s blade in a fanciful fashion. He then presents its handle to the crow eyed man. He reachs for it with a jerky and utterly unfluid motion. “You wait. We will burn down this place once my lords hear about this.”
“Is that so?” says Elward drawing a dagger from his side slitting the crow eyed man’s throat with inhuman speed. The man with the messed up teeth backs up, but Rhomund had already moved behind him. He bumps into Rhomund turning and reaching for his sword only to not feel it. His face is covered in surprise as Rhomund reveals its location to him as he inserts the blade through his throat. The one-eyed man tries to run only to find Elward’s dagger plant itself in the back of his head. He stops for a moment, felt the back of his head and tumble to the floor with a bang.
The girl looks at the bloody mess gasping for air. She backs up screaming as Rhomund wipes the blood off his coat with a stray tablecloth. “I apologize for the mess mam. I will clean it up myself.”
“Who are you two?” the girl asks looking at them both. “Do you realize what you have done?” Anyone inside the pub is now running out with great commotion.
“This is my friend Elward… and my name is Rhomund, we are the Queen’s personal errands.”
868 CE “1st Season, 5th Moon, 1st Week, 2nd Day”
~Iest Kingdom, Afternoon On A Merchant Road To Port Branderfel
“Damn it. The axle is broken. We ain’t goin’ nowhere for a while.” says an older man with a straw hat. The sun is beating down upon the caravan of travelers in the breezy canyon. “I don’t like being stuck in these parts. This canyon is known for having unsavory things lurkin’ about. I once saw a pack of wolves out here. They had already found their picking, though.” He is standing beside a wagon carriage. Its front wheel lays on the ground with a snapped wooden rod sticking out the bottom. The two brown horses pulling the carriage stand at ease.
A raven-haired youth looks over at the wagon master. “So does that mean we are stuck out here?”
“That’s how it’s looking girly. I said I’d bring ya to Port Branderfel and that’s what I attend to do. You have my word. It will just take a little to fix this. In the meantime, I suggest you wait in the back.” He bends down looking under the carriage. A man with tattered and dirty clothing got out of the back.
“If we will be here for a while, then I guess I’ll go take a leak.” he jokes as he walks over to some bushes.
The man under the cart shouts, “I warned ya already ‘bout the things out here. If ya get bitten, I won’t be able to get ya to help. I may haf’ta heft off your leg.”
The girl looks out over the canyon, sighs then walks to the back of the carriage. From above on the steep of the canyon several men holding sabers and pole arms watch the caravan below. Jumping down off the cliff to the ground they make themselves known to the stranded group. “Bandits. Diyano, you have cursed us.” the wagon master says looking up from under the cart his eyes wide with horror.
The raven-haired girl turns around to see the group of men approaching. “Looks like you need a little help. We might be able to help. It will cost you. After all, this highway has a tax to travel it.” says a man with a strip of torn cloth wrapped around his mouth and nose. He has long brown hair and a somewhat intimidating sword. His uncharacteristic armor is covered in ratty and torn rags. The other men are equipped similarly.
A man with a shrill looking sackcloth bag with eye holes cut out over his head grabs the girl’s arm with his brown leather gloved hand. “Aren’t you a cutie? Heh, old man, you want to live right. The girl is your tax.”
The girl wrenches her arm out of the man’s firm grip. She takes two steps back screaming “Get your hand’s off of me.”
A short guy with an ax in hand laughs. “She told you.”
“Yeah, but that’s all right. I like em feisty,” he laughs. “So what do you say, old man?”
The wagon master looks over at the girl with big eyes. “I am sorry.” He whispers closing them tightly.
“What!” she says in a terrified voice. The bandits grab hold of her as she twists and screams to get away. Instead, they pin her in their grip dragging her.
The other man dives in separating the group from the girl shielding her with his arms spread. “You can’t let them take her.” no sooner did he finish when the sac clothed man jabs his saber into his stomach. His eyes bulge as he drops to his knees holding his belly as it spills out onto the ground.
“I swear on my honor my queen. All up and down the merchant roads, there are bodies everywhere. I-I saw nothing like it. I thought it be wildlings. I was heading to Taber but after seen all the bodies, I grew too frightened.” says a man bowing down before the young Queen Gazalia. Achiles her advisor raises an eyebrow from the story. He looks over to Queen Gazalia and nods his head to her.
Gazalia stands up and puts her hand on his shoulder. “You have done well to return my precious servant. A wise man knows to avoid what he cannot prevail against. Be at ease for within these walls no harm will come upon you or your family.” She turns standing next to the man on his knees with her hand on his head still. “What do you say of this Lord Achiles?”
“Wildlings do not act in this fashion. They are ruthless in battle and in wartimes are a terror to the land. You said you came upon a family that was hung from a tree?”
“Yes my lord.” said the man whose head bowed.
“Wildlings skin their victims and tie the skins to trees to show intimidation. They do not hang people. It would only be wasted meat to them.” Lord Achiles says in a hoarse voice.
Gazalia removes her hand from the man’s head. “If not wildlings who else would dare do such a thing in my lands?”
“Humans. Bandits, not petty bandits, though. This group of bandits is sending a message my queen. They are claiming the merchant roads as their territory. Which suggests they have the backing of a much more powerful group, perhaps even one of the larger empires. Old tribal differences still exist in Iest. I have sure there are still factions of the old empire who have not declared themselves to us. We should pay attention and we put an end to this before the people see this as weakness.”
“Have my knights patrol the roads from the Kingdom to Port Branerfel. Have another group head west to Matrick. Give them the order to kill any bandit found without mercy or trial. Tell them to dress as commoners and hide their weapons and armor. We will show these crooks whose kingdom they are trying to rob.”
“At once my queen.” says Lord Achiles bowing before her throne.
“No one will threaten my people. Every traveler in my land must be protected by the shield of my kingdom. Achiles bring me my Lord Knights. I have an errand for those two.”
The night is lit by a dull violet light that glows over the horizon. From atop of the tavern reveals a city of ruins and decaying streets masks itself in the dark. Elward stands pointedly watching the outside for signs of any of the gangsters approaching. The sound of the balcony door opening with a creak diverts his attention to the side of him making his ears twitch. His silver eyes look seeing the young girl with a large horn mug and a pitcher of water. The scent of the water is clean and clear. “You should sleep,” he says to the young girl.
“I know, I thought you might be thirsty,” she says to him shyly as she pours water for him. She holds out the horn. Elward grasps it gently taking it from her. She blushes a little. “It was very you to protect me. Thank you. Sorry, I screamed.”
He smirks a little, “That is quite alright.”
She blushes more adopting a sheepish look before saying “Is it true… that you’re an elf.”
Elward shakes his head. “My father was human.”
“What about your mother?”
Elward looks up “My mother, people say she was an elf, but I do not know.”
“Really?” she questions.
He nods his head. “I do not remember her.”
“That is sad. If all elves are like you, then I don’t think they are so bad,” the barmaid says with a warmth in her voice that rubs Elward the wrong way.
Elward looks at her his eyes shining white. “Is that so?” he says with a smug grin revealing his true eyes to her. She raises her hands to her face. His eyes dim returning to normal. “I would be afraid of them, and that is my advice to you.”
“So who is that man you travel with?”
“That is the man who killed my mother.” He says coldly. “And I intend to return the favor as does he.” The girl’s face looks at him in shock. “We are under oath to work together however if truth be known we are enemies. Alas, child enough stories it is late, and you should be sleeping.”
“Aren’t you going to sleep?” the girl asks Elward.
He shakes his head before saying “I don’t sleep.
~The Next Morning~
“Thank you for saving my daughter,” says the bartender. Now the tavern hall is quiet, and everyone had left. There were no more fires, but the lingering smells of the nights dining are still wafting in the air. Rhomund and Elward sat at a large table with the father of the young girl. The morning light streaming through the pub’s windows. “Do you believe we are safe now? Do you think they will return?”
“We hope they do,” Elward says as he polished his blade.
The bartender scratches his head. “These Blue Hammers you called them they have become troublesome.” Rhomund gestured with his fingers in circles “To everyone.” On the table, the weapons the bandits carried lay spread out. A few articles of armor. The ornate designs and skilled craftsmanship suggest military armaments. “As you may have noticed these weapons are valuable. I doubt a group of bandits would have supplies like this.”
Elward nods his head. “I believe these are Azurian made weapons. From Flaggard.”
The middle-aged man looks at the two men. “Flaggard. Isn’t that on the other side of the world?”
“Never been there,” says Rhomund. “I can tell you though it is not close. Got a whole sky to travel to get to it. So why are they in the hands of these Blue Hammers? This is a port town, isn’t it? Travels to and imports from the Southern Kingdom as I understand it.”
The gruff man nods his head stroking his chin. “Yes. Though recently we have seen fewer merchants and more of these bandits. They are everywhere I am afraid.”
“Interesting. I am not familiar with the leadership of Taber. Tell me, where is the city guards?” Rhomund asks.
“That’s the shameful part. King Kerchov has himself hid up in his manor. The city guards for some time have only guarded the royals the northern province. The coward was the heir. His uncle died ‘bout two years ago. That’s when things fell apart here. When he claimed his place as the “lawful” Baron, he proved to be little more than a greedy man. Taxes and taxes and the loyal guards refused to follow his orders. He disbanded the old guard and hired marauders from the surrounding lands. Calls em’ common guards. So while he has real guards, he allows the common guards to do what they will. As long as it is not causing him any trouble that is. I am not even sure if he is the one who raises the taxes anymore.”
“Interesting, Taber does not have a King, it has a baron.” Elward comments
“Well, no offense to the two of ya but the Iest Kingdom has been long forgotten. Until now I believed the Iest Kingdom had forgotten us. If I speak with honor I do not trust the two of you.”
Elward grins “We are not to be trusted. Until some time ago Rhomund and I were traveling sellswords. More or less men who killed for the highest bidder. Yet we now are under the service of a different ruler. She has another vision of Iest Kingdom. One that lives up to the old glory it used to be or perhaps something more. Yet, she is but a child.”
“Elward enough, it appears we have business with this “King” of Taber,” Rhomund says before getting to his feet.
The main streets of Taber are ornate with stone pillars and baroque statues. Behind the mask of elegance was a maze of buildings. They appeared to have been brought forth from wood scraps. It is a web of streets that grew out of the ground. Elward could not help but be reminded of garbage. Anything like this in the Fae world would burn to the ground for being such an eyesore. The thick mud of waste lines the sides of the streets and the smell is far from pleasant.
Rhomund yet felt rather at home as the two weaved through the crowded passageways. It is almost as if he is perpetually about to collide with someone but never did. Elward, while more elegant with his steps had to focus on his maneuvering. It is a great deal of work for him to just not collide with another person. After several minutes through the tangles of streets, they arrive at their destination. They came upon a massive gateway with several somewhat gruff looking men in armor guarding it.
It did not take, but a moment for one the guards to call out stopping them pointing a spear at Elward. Rhomund raises his hand to explain, but the guard did not lower his spear. Elward gave the most unamused look of boredom he could muster. An older guard with his back against the wall of the gate takes several steps over and talks to the younger guard. Putting down his spear and then stepping aside the two to walk past him. The pair found themselves in what appeared to be another city. After crossing the threshold, the streets are full enough to fit several chariots. The buildings are well kept like the main streets.
The long white stone road leads to a palace with many domes. Surrounding the castle are spires that look like spikes reaching into the skies. They appear to be sharp against the heavens. To the south, you can see the open blue skies and the ports on the lower levels. Rhomund and Elward are mere silhouettes on a large bridge. After crossing, they enter into the midst of the palace’s courtyard.
It is a massive building with a large dome at its core. Around the sides of the building are towers and walls and spires. It could house an army Rhomund thought. While Elward is still intrigued by the structure. It appears as though it is not of Marionian architecture. Instead, it is of Azurian design with its paintings and appreciation for art. This is something those in Marion did not seem to care for. A part of it is a difference of values another is time.
“He likes to keep his guests waiting.” Elward nods. The two stood in a hall with many ornately carved pillars of ivory stone. The carvings are of local history. The three tribes, the first men arriving in Marion on gliders, the old queen who conquered the lands and the history of a man’s conquest over the dragons. A view of the city is between the pillars behind towering glass. The city is a reminder of the present and its history becoming one. Elward appeared to be rather entertained as he looks at the pillars. Rhomund slowly walking behind him pointing to a carved dragon. “Dragons,” he says in a sharp tone getting a small chuckle from Elward who then rolls his eyes as he looks away.
The two large doors to the court open as a meaty looking guard says, “His highness is ready to see you.”
Both Rhomund and Elward could not believe the extravagance of the throne room. The floor is made of polished stone that reflects like a mirror. Two decorative pillars of gold stood on each side of the throne holding up a balcony above. The throne itself is on a platform above the rest of the room with a staircase leading up to the top. Around the sides of the platforms paintings of the gods fighting against the primal forces. Even the walls were adorned with gold and painted imagery. “This is a shrine to history.” Elward blurted out.
“I see you noticed,” says a man standing by the throne. He walked down the stairs with open arms. His purple robes printed with golden dragons. His chest covered by a black toga tied off with a white and purple striped rope. “If I could do one thing for this world I would preserve its history.” He had the smile of a Howl movie star. “What brings the two of you here?”
Rhomund not as impressed as Elward is stood up straight before speaking. “I have orders from the Queen to ensure the safety of her territories. Baron Kerchov I presume.”
“Ah, yes.” Kerchov’s face becoming puzzled. “You are?”
“Queen Gazalia’s errands,” Elward replies in a tone that drips with pride.
“So, you are the two wandering knights. I have heard stories about you. Mighty fine warriors, duel to the death ended by a Queen’s orders. I must pay a visit to our Queen. She sounds most magnificent. And here you two are, legends in the flesh. So, what can I do for the two of you?”
“You can start by guarding your people. The two of us had the pleasure of meeting bandits within the city borders. They seemed to have no fear of city guards either. In fact, we killed em, and still, no guards showed up to even question us. This is a severe problem.”
“I see… that does sound like a trifling affair. I must get my guards to be more prominent in the lives of common folk.” he says. “Allow them some freedom and they become savage as wildlings.”
Elward looks over to Rhomund. “Well, we can assist you in this. There is already a patrol of guards from the Iest Kingdom establishing road checks. We can have them establish a city watch.”
Kerchov bit his lip as he turns away to face his throne. He takes a few steps before he turning back to look at Rhomund. “I could not bear to burden you with the problems of my city,” he paced the floor. Rhomund attempts to speak, but Kerchov raises his hand for silence as he appears to be in deep thought. He paces several more times over the polished floors. “I have a better plan of approach I believe. I must assist in setting up these road checks. This will give my guardsmen the proper training they need.”
“They will learn more from being within these walls with Iest Kingdom’s finest soldiers,” Rhomund says immediately after asserting his authority.
Kerchov shook his head. “There is a cultural aesthetic you are failing to appreciate, my dear Rhomund. I am sure such a nobleman as Elward would agree with me, seeing as how he appreciates… what I have done here. Taber is not merely a city. It is a sanctuary of culture! We may be a mere port but isn’t a port a grand cauldron to cultivate the ideals and ideas of the people. We are kindred spirits can’t you see.”
Rhomund’s eyes grew wide from the strange remark. “You’re joking? This city is falling apart.”
Kerchov grunts “Falling apart. It is steeping. You will see what will grow out of my kingdom.”
“Your kingdom. About that, I see you have a crown?” Elward says pointing to Kerchov’s head.
Kerchov nods his head blinking several times. Elward notices his strained effort to avoid all forms of eye contact. “That is punishable and considered treason you know,” Rhomund adds.
There was a short silence before Kerchov spoke “I am King of Taber, a crown is suitable for a king.” he rubbed the back of his neck.
“Really?” Elward says. “Last I knew Taber was under the rule of a baron and not a king. Queen Gazalia will be displeased when we return with news of a descent. Perhaps we should return you to her to explain yourself in person.”
“Really there is no need for this. It’s semantics anyway. So I won’t use the name King any longer.” Kerchov raises his hand rolling his head slightly. “I am Baron Kerchov, fine by me.”
Rhomund walks up backhanding him in the face knocking the crown off his head. “Put it on again, and you will wear it to the grave. Understood?”
“Of course. You clearly appreciate mercy.”
“Watch it. I could do worse still.”
Kerchov took a step back and cowers. “You would not dare. Remember whose halls you are in.”
“Rhomund, let him go. He is from Javel.” Rhomund get’s a look of disgust for a moment. Then steps back. Kerchov rubs his nose as a stream of blood flows out of his nostril.
“Javel, that explains things but how did you know that?”
“His appreciation of art and history. Yet he has no leadership skills, and he is a coward.” Kerchov looks on with an angry glare that folds into absolute terror. “Isn’t this true Kerchov?”
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CANTON — Superintendent Jill Rossetti is pleased to share that Blue Hills Regional Technical School's new restaurant, The Chateau, had its soft opening today.
January 28, 2020 Leah Comins Client News, School News
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Blue Hills Regional Technical School’s new restaurant, The Chateau, held its soft opening today. (Photo courtesy Blue Hills Regional Technical School)
CANTON — Superintendent Jill Rossetti is pleased to share that Blue Hills Regional Technical School’s new restaurant, The Chateau, had its soft opening today.
Work on the new restaurant began in June 2019 and will allow students in the school’s culinary program to train and work in a live restaurant setting.
Approximately five or six students will be assigned to each area – restaurant, bakery, line or catering – and will work under the direction of their teachers. The students are trained in the role of each area, which helps them to explore their interests and develop their hospitality and culinary skills. Students are able to switch areas at the beginning of each term, which gives them the chance to work in each role every year.
During this week’s soft opening, seniors and sophomores in the culinary program are working in the restaurant, which allows for experienced students to help mentor younger students. Next week, freshmen who are new to the culinary program will help out in the restaurant alongside juniors.
“We are so excited to be opening The Chateau to give our culinary students the opportunity to get valuable training toward their vocational program,” Vocational Director Michelle Sylvia said. “Many Blue Hills teachers and staff members are excited to try the restaurant for lunch, and we hope the students will take pride in the food they prepare and the creative recipes they will help make.”
The menu for the restaurant’s soft opening features appetizers, sandwiches and salads. The restaurant also has bakery and other prepared food items available for sale during the day. The menu may expand as The Chateau continues its operation.
The Chateau is open to the public Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. The restaurant’s dedicated entrance is located on the east side of the building and has dedicated parking.
Students in the school’s culinary program are assigned to train and work in an area of the restaurant which will allow students to work in a live restaurant setting. (Photo courtesy Blue Hills Regional Technical School)
Along with a menu of appetizers, sandwiches and salads, the restaurant also has bakery and other prepared food items available for sale during the day. (Photo courtesy Blue Hills Regional Technical School)
Students who work in the restaurant are trained in different roles, which help them to develop their hospitality and culinary skills. (Photo courtesy Blue Hills Regional Technical School)
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[1] The Verve, ‘Bittersweet Symphony’
For a couple of months in 1997 everyone loved The Verve. Then ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’ was a bit drippy (No.1 smash notwithstanding), the album underwhelmed and the whole shooting match fell to pieces amid lawsuits and general hatred, only for Richard Ashcroft to rise from the flames like a boring phoenix.
So, many evils were visited upon the world, but ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ is a classic. I love ‘Brimful Of Asha’ more, I find, but ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ is a classic. We need our rock classics. Without them, what would Virgin Radio’s listeners vote into the Top 10 ‘tracks’ of all time? What would our dads and brothers-in-law play in the car?
This is more inventive than your standard rock monster. For a start, there’s a *gasp* sample. Bet they regretted that. The strings don’t add pomposity, as they would to any number of Oasis singles of the time, they add urgency. Pompous as that sounds. Oh, blah blah blah. I love the wall of sound, getting wider and higher throughout.
And Junior swung her hips – which don’t lie – in exact time with the string stabs, and rocked back and forth with the Eastenders drums. She was wailing by the end, mind. Probably had a vision of Ashcroft’s solo career. Actually, the iDog was making funny noises as well. That’s one bad solo career.
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Histopathological Findings of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Undergoing Kidney Biopsy: Diabetic Nephropathy versus Non-Diabetic Kidney Disease
*Issa Al Salmi
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Aim: Kidney diseases are common among diabetes mellitus (DM) patients, including diabetic nephropathies (DN) and non-diabetic kidney diseases (NDKD). The clinical differentiation among them is usually not so clear. This study examined kidney biopsies in patients with type-2-DM who underwent native kidney biopsy. Materials and Methods: We analyzed retrospectively the reported histopathological findings of kidney biopsies obtained from 51 type-2-DM patients who underwent native kidney biopsy in our center between January 2005 and December 2016. Routine processing of kidney biopsies includes evaluation by light microscopy, immunofluorescence and electron microscopy. Results: There were a total of 51 DM patients, 28 males (54.9%) and 23 females (45.1%). The mean age was 50.8 (47.1-55.2) years, 86% of patients were between 25 and 64 years old. Histological findings showed that 43.1% of patients had diabetic nephropathy. While focal segmental glomerulosclerosis was present in 23.5%- primary in 9.8% and secondary in 13.7%. Lupus nephritis and drug induced interstitial nephritis were each present in 5.8%. MCD and IgA nephropathy were each present in 4%. Lastly membranous nephropathy, diffuse proliferative GN, ANCA associated glomerulonephritis, hypertensive nephrosclerosis and others accounted for 2%. Conclusion: This is the first study of its kind in Oman covering a period of more than ten years and is representative of the whole country. It showed that the prevalence of NDKD is remarkably frequent in DM patients in whom nephrologists consider kidney biopsy to be an appropriate measure. Among NDKD, FSGS was the most frequent diagnosis.
Diabetic Nephropathy, Diabetic Kidney disease, Diabetes mellitus, Sultanate of Oman, Chronic kidney disease, Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (e GFR)
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are worldwide public health problems that affect millions of people. The worldwide prevalence of DM is predicted to increase from 2.8% in 2000 to 4.4% in 2030, equivalent to almost 366 million people. The highest growths in prevalence are projected to occur in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and India. It was estimated that in 2013,382 million people had DM and this is expected to surge to 592 million by 2035. In addition, in the United States it is anticipated that there would be 165% increase in the prevalence of DM from 2000 to 2050. DM is a leading cause of CKD worldwide. Nearly 43% of diabetics in the United States have microalbuminuria, a marker of progression to CKD. According to data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), diabetic kidney disease (DKD) accounts for 39% of CKD. With the increasing prevalence of CKD, the costs of management are becoming a public health issue. In 2013, more than 30 billion dollars from Medicare expenditure were spent on management of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), 14 billion of which were due to DKD. Given these factors, clinical societies continue to offer strategies to diagnose and manage DKD to improve outcomes.
The prevalence of DM in Oman is high at around 11.6% [5, 6], a country with a total population of approximately 4.56 million, out of which 2.5million are Omanis [7]. In2000, the age-adjusted prevalence of DM among Omanis aged 30-64 years reached 16.1% compared with 12.2% in 1991, indicating an increasing prevalence [6].
Apart from DN, NDKDs are also common in the diabetic population and these require different treatment and follow-up regimen. The prevalence of NDKD is presumed to exist in between one-sixth and two-thirds of DM patients with overt proteinuria [8-9]. In South Korea, Kim et al. [10] reported 74 cases of kidney biopsy performed in diabetic patients, and nearly half of them had non- diabetic nephropathy. On the other hand, in patients with over 10-year history of type-1 DM, NDKD is a rare clinical condition with a rate of 2-3% [11].
The decision to perform a diagnostic biopsy should be considered very carefully. In patients with type-2 DM, there might be varied time interval between the onset ofthe disease and the time of the diagnosis; hence the exact duration from the time of onset of diabetes is generally not known. Clinical findings such as proteinuria could be attributed either to different kidney pathology superimposed on DN or be the manifestation of DKD itself. Many clinical features have been considered as predictive factors for NDKD: diabetic nephropathy not associated with diabetic neuropathy or retinopathy [12], hematuria [13], short duration of diabetes [14], deterioration of renal function more rapidly than expected [15], and the presence of acanthocyturia [16] but none of them is 100% sensitive or specific. Differential diagnosis between the various NDKD is important due to the differences in treatment and in clinical outcome regarding kidney function and patients’ survival.
The aim of the present study is to evaluate the findings of kidney biopsies performed on patients with type-2 DM with a clinical suspicion of NDKD and to highlight the pathological features other than diabetic nephropathy in the Sultanate of Oman.
After obtaining approval from the medical ethics and research committee at the Royal Hospital (RH), located in Muscat, Oman, we included in this study 51 patients with type-2 DM who were submitted to a kidney biopsy for clinical suspicion of NDKD from January 2005 to December 2016. The RH has an internationally recognized electronic medical record system called Al Shifaa that uses International Classification of Diseases.
Mohamed et al, had previously described the clinical and laboratory findings of patients with DM that underwent kidney biopsy. In this study, we describe the pathological findings in these patients.
The indications for the kidney biopsy were as follows:
1.Sudden onset of heavy proteinuria
2. Unexplained acute kidney injury
3. Hematuria
4. Proteinuria with no evidence of diabetic retinopathy on fundus examination
5. Other positive immunological or serological findings like IgA titer above normal, Autoantibodies, C3, C4, etc.
All kidney biopsy specimens were obtained via percutaneous needle biopsy according to Royal hospital – Nephrology and Renal Transplant Department Guidelines for Percutaneous Kidney Biopsy, which was approved earlier by Royal Hospital Policy Committee.
All kidney biopsies were submitted for light microscopic (LM), immunofluorescence (IF) and electron microscopy (EM) examination. For LM, the sample was fixed with neutral buffered formalin and processed overnight followed by paraffin embedding. Blocks were serially sectioned at 3micron thickness and were stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stain, Periodic-acid Schiff (PAS) and Jones’ silver stain to evaluate glomerular basement membranes (GBM). Scarring was assessed using Masson trichrome stain. Majority of cases were also stained with congo red stain to exclude amyloidosis. All compartments of the kidney were evaluated (glomeruli, tubules, interstitium and blood vessels) for injury, inflammation, scarring or accumulation of abnormal materials. The standard immunofluorescence panel was applied to all cases namely: IgA, IgG, IgM, C3, C1q, kappa light chain, lambda light chains and fibrinogen. The presence of each of these was assessed individually by the direct immunofluorescence (IF) technique on frozen sections.
For EM examination, tissue was processed and then embedded in resin blocks. Toluidine blue-stained 1-um thick semi-thin sections were used to assess for presence of glomeruli, any structural changes including mesnagial or endocapillary hypercellularity, segmental sclerosis or crescents. Representative 1 to 2 glomeruli were selected for further processing for ultrastructural examination. The features evaluated included the thickness and texture of the glomerular basement membranes, the appearance of the podocytes and extent of foot process effacement divided into either focal or diffuse. Focal was defined as area of foot process effacement involving less than 50% of the surface area of the glomerular basement membranes, whereas diffuse was defined as more than 50% of surface area showing effacement. The presence of subendothelial, subepithelial or intramembranous deposits was noted. The appearance of the endothelial cells, presence of subendothelial lucencies, and glomerular basement membrane duplication with mesangial cell interpositioning was also recorded. Mesangial areas were assessed for increase in cells and matrix and presence of any deposits. Careful examination for presence of organized deposits, particularly amyloid and for any abnormal intracellular accumulations was also performed. Biopsies were regarded as adequate if they contained at least ten glomeruli for light microscopy and at least one glomerulus each for immunofluorescence and electron microscopy.
Diabetic nephropathy was defined as findings of mesangial expansion, diffuse intercapillary glomerulosclerosis and/ or Kimmelstiel-Wilson nodule formation, GBM thickening, presence of fibrin cap, or capsular drops.
The data entry was rechecked by 2 researchers. Statistical analysis was done using Stata software (Chicago, Ill.). Descriptive statistics were used to present the distribution of the histological types of glomerulonephritis and their relative frequencies. Data were described as frequencies and percentages for categorical variables. Continuous variables were reported as median and ranges or as mean and standard deviations. A p-value equal to or less than 0.05 was considered to be significant.
During the period from January 2005 to end of December 2016, a total of 51 diabetic patients, 28 (54.9%) males and 23 (45.1%) females underwent a renal biopsy in the Royal Hospital.
Based on pathological findings, table 1 highlights the histopathological findings by LM. An adequate number of glomeruli was present in 62.7% of biopsies. The most common glomerular findings were the presence of glomerular mesnagial matrix expansion in 75.5%, glomerular sclerosis in 43.1%, and19.6% of cases showed endocapillary hypercellularity, while only 7.7 % of cases had crescents. Interstitial fibrosiswas presentin 76.5%and tubular atrophy and arteriolar hyalinosis was 72.5% for each.
Immunofluorescence examination was available for all biopsies. 54.8% of cases had some positive staining with IF, the most common being IgM in 11.7%, followed by C3 and C1q in 9.8%, IgG was positive in 5.9% and IgA in 4%, there was no light chain restriction by kappa and lambda in any of our biopsies.
Table 1: Histopathological Findings by Light Microscopy
Table 2 shows histopathological findings by EM. Foot process fusion was present in 96%, GBM thickening in 76% and mesangial expansion by matrix in 80%.There were no organized deposits in any of our cases.
Table 2: Histopathological Findings by Electron Microscopy
Based on light microscopy, immunofluorescence and electron microscopy findings, 43.1% of patients had diabetic nephropathy only with no additional pathology, whereas 56.9% of patients had some form of NDKD. The most common NDKD was focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in 23.5% of biopsies with primary FSGS being favored in 9.8% and secondary in 13.7%.Lupus nephritis and drug induced interstitial nephritis were each present in 5.8% of biopsies. 4% of patients had IgA nephropathy defined as dominant mesangial and/or capillary wall staining with IgA antibody. Also, minimal change disease (MCD) was diagnosed in 4% of our biopsies. Lastly membranous nephropathy, diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis (GN), ANCA associated GN and hypertensive nephropathy were each present in 2% of our biopsies (table 3).
Table 3: Final Histopathological Diagnosis.
There was no statistically significant difference between clinical diagnostic impression before biopsy and final pathological diagnosis. Table 4 shows the frequencies of clinical diagnostic impression. FSGS, especially secondary, was underestimated by the clinicians being suspected in 9.8% of cases whereas it was histopathologically identified in 23.5% of cases. IgA nephropathy was not suspected clinically in any of the cases but was diagnosed in 4% of biopsies. Drug inducing nephritis and lupus nephritis, were underestimated clinically in 2% of patients but accounted for 5.8% each on final histopathological diagnosis. While, crescentic GN was overestimated by clinical judgment compared to biopsy finding (5.8% vs 0%).Same for ATN, was entertained clinically in 9.8% but was not present in any of the biopsies.
Table 4: The Frequencies of Clinical Diagnostic Impression.
Clinical judgment and histopathological diagnosis came in agreement for minimal change disease, membranous GN and ANCA associated GN.
This study describes the pathological findings of patients with type II DM who underwent native kidney biopsy at Royal hospital, Sultanate of Oman in the period from 2005 to 2016. Almost 45% of patients had diabetic nephropathy histologically. However, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis was present in 23.5%, lupus nephritis and drug induced interstitial nephritis were present in 5.8%. MCD and IgA nephropathy were each present in about 4% of the biopsies. Lastly membranous nephropathy, diffuse proliferative GN, ANCA associated GN, hypertensive nephropathy and others were each present in 2% of the biopsies. In addition, there was no statistically significant difference between clinical diagnostic impression before biopsy and the final pathological diagnosis.
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the leading cause of ESKD world-wide [17]. Projections from the recent Indian Council of Medical Research–India Diabetes study has shown that India has 62.4 million people with DM making DN an important cause of CKD [18]. Studies from India and rest of Asia showed a high prevalence of DN as a cause of CKD [19-20]. The progressive rise in the number of patients with ESKD due to DN is a major social and economic problem in several countries. Furthermore, prognosis in such patients is poor compared to patients with ESKD due to other kidney diseases and hence special treatment guidelines are defined for this subset [21]. Proteinuria in DM patients is usually interpreted as a clinical manifestation of DN [22]. Although the renal biopsy is regarded as the gold standard method of evaluating proteinuria patients, it is rarely used in subjects with DM with isolated proteinuria [23] and the primary aim of the kidney biopsy in proteinuric patients with DM is to confirm and or exclude NDKD.
Worldwide, DN is the leading cause of ESKD, with a reported frequency of 10-15% in T2DM patients, however there is a great discrepancy between countries. In retrospective series of DM patients, NDKD was found in between 7-44% in accordance with patient selection criteria [24-25]. In different studies, the prevalence of NDKDs was reported as 22% in Caucasians. An Asian study reported that NDKD occurred in 26.7% [26]. A European study from Denmark reported it as 3% [13], whereas another study from Italy reported it to occur in 12% [27].
The indications for doing kidney biopsy in diabetic patients with CKD are; recently diagnosed DM within < 3 months in patients with CKD (52.9%), proteinuria with lack of diabetic retinopathy (37.8%), microscopic hematuria (77.1%) and positive immunological findings like high IgA, low C3/C4, positive ANA and ANCA (Mohammed et.al SJKDT).
A study from Iran, revealed that indications for biopsies in diabetic patients were as follows: unexplained rapidly increasing proteinuria (67.5%), unexpected serum creatinine (2.2%), active urine sediment and rising serum creatinine (8.7%), proteinuria and rising serum creatinine (19.7%), and all of them (2.2%). Urine sediment was active in (17.4%) patients. Nephrotic range proteinuria was observed in (58.7%) subjects [28].
Adequate glomerular number is important which reflects proper pathological diagnosis. In our study an adequate glomerular samplewas present in 62.7% of tissue submitted for LM and 100% of tissue submitted for both IF and EM.
An increase in GBM thickness leads to hematuria in 33% of patients with typical diabetic glomerulosclerosis [29].In our study GBM thickening was there in 76% of all biopsies while foot process fusion was there in 96%. In our study, we found 44.9% incidence of DN. These patients all had pathologic hallmarks of DN, including increased thickness of GBM and mesangial expansion. According to the new classification of glomerular lesions in DN, the degree from light to severe are presented as follows [29]:
I. Mild or nonspecific light microscopy changes and electron microscopy-proven glomerular basement membrane thickening.
II-a. Mild Mesangial expansion.
II-b. Severe Mesangial expansion.
III. Nodular sclerosis (Kimmelstiel-Wilson lesion).
IV. Advanced diabetic glomerulosclerosis
In our study, most patients’ glomerular lesions in DN were I, IIa or IIb. This reflects the clinical status of early diabetic patients being biopsied because of NDKD clinical features presentations, whereas diabetic patients with advanced disease were hardly biopsied and hence later stages were not found among our biopsy series.
By IF examination, positive staining was present in 54.8 % of all biopsies, indicating other findings other than DN. IgA positive stain was there in 2 biopsies (4.1%), IgM in 6 biopsies 11.7%, IgG in 3 biopsies (5.9%), and C3 in 5 biopsies (9.8%), C1q in another 5 biopsies (9.8%). Many biopsies showed a combination of positive staining; however interpretation was based on the pattern and intensity of staining.
In our study, histopathological findings supporting diabetic nephropathy were present in (43.1%) of all biopsies, while pathological findings other than diabetic nephropathy were present in 56.9% mainly with FSGS in (23.5%), lupus nephritis and drugs induce GN ,5.8% for each and IgA nephropathy in 4%. A study from Pakistan by Muhammad Arif et al [30], revealed that minimal change disease (MCD) and/or focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) were the most common NDKD. These results are similar to a study conducted in USA, which reported FSGS (21%) to be the most common lesion in patients with typeII diabetes followed by MCD (15.3%) [31]. Ghani AA et al [32], a study from Saudi Arabia, revealed that NDKD was detected in 45.8% of biopsies of diabetic patients. This was in concordance with previous studies where the prevalence of NDKD was found to range from 45% to 57% [33- 34]. Kittrawee Kritmetapak et al [35], Thailand, revealed that 49% of type 2 diabetes patients who underwent renal biopsy had NDKD, either isolated or superimposed on underlying DN. In another study from Taiwan, AIN was the most prevalent NDKD (46.5%), followed by membranous nephropathy and IgA nephropathy [14]. An Indian study found AIN to be the most common NDKD found in 18% of the patients with mixed renal disease (NDKD superimposed on DN), while membranous nephropathy (19.2%) was the most frequent diagnosis in patients with isolated NDKD [36]. IgA nephropathy is reported to be the most frequent type of NDKD in Chinese, Korean and Japanese population with diabetes [37, 38 and 39]. Keeping in mind that IgA nephropathy is the most common primary glomerulonephritis in the general population of these countries, with a prevalence of 28.3% to 50.6% [40].
In our study, comparing the clinical impression prior to biopsy with the final histopathological diagnosis showed that DN was underestimated clinically being suspected in 35.2% of cases but turned out to be the main diagnosis in 43.1%. On the other hand, the clinical impression of NDKD was entertained in 64.8%, but was present in 56.9% based on biopsy findings. FSGS was the clinical suspicion in 9.8% (7.8% presumed primary and 2% presumed secondary) but was diagnosed in 23.5% (9.8% primary and 13.7% secondary). IgA nephropathy was not the primary suspicion in any of the cases but was in the final diagnosis in 4%. Similarly lupus nephritis and drug induced GN,were suspected clinically in 2% of cases and this increased to 5.8% for each in the final diagnosis. While in the case of MCD the clinical impression and the final pathological diagnosis were very similar at 4% and 4%, same as for membranous nephropathy, diffuse proliferative GN and ANCA at 2% for each. However there was a striking difference between the clinical impression and the final diagnosis in the case of ATN and crescentic GN, which were suspected clinically in 9.8% and 5.8% of biopsies, respectively, yet both of them were not there in the final biopsy diagnosis.
The high prevalence of NDKD in our study (56.9%) supports the ongoing call for more consideration to biopsy diabetic patients presenting with the criteria stated above, as the finding of NDKD requires a different therapeutic approach (other than or in addition to conventional angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers) as steroids and other immunosuppressive medications. New therapeutic agents for the treatment of DN have recently been characterized. Endothelin receptor antagonists, sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors and agents targeting inflammation/fibrosis are probably the most promising candidates on top of the classical RAAS blockers [41, 42]. Therefore, it is mandatory that patients with diabetic kidney disease are adequately classified, differentiating clearly those with DN and those with NDKD. In addition, among those with DN, a reliable classification within different pathological categories [43, 44] will be of great value to individualize treatment strategies.
The present findings show that NDKD are a very common clinical condition in type-2 DM patients. The differential diagnosis of DNs and NDKDs is of considerable important because of their management approach and prognosis.
In Oman, among diabetic patients, pathological findings other than diabetic nephropathy were present in 56.9% mainly with FSGS in (23.5%), lupus nephritis in 5.8% and IgA nephropathy in 4% whereas diabetic nephropathy was the main finding in (43.1%) of all biopsies.
Therefore, there is a great need for more consideration to biopsy diabetic patients, as the finding of NDKD requires a different therapeutic approach. This, hopefully, will help to manage these patients better and therefore, ameliorate the progression to end stage kidney disease over time and therefore delay the need for RRT.
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My Experience with the Prototype Steam Hardware
Published 7 years ago • 7 minute read
On the 12th of November I received an email from Valve letting me know that I had been selected as a participant for the Steam hardware prototype beta.
Congratulations! You have been selected to receive one of the initial 300 prototype Steam Machines and Steam Controllers built by Valve! You were hand-selected to participate along-side a set of users selected randomly from a pool of over 400,000 users who completed the Eligibility Quest. We suggest that you also buy a lottery ticket this week, because you’re clearly a lucky person.
Initially I thought somebody was playing a joke on me, but after verifying it with someone from Valve it turned out to be the real deal, I was hand-chosen based on my community contributions and previous work I’ve done with Valve. It took a couple of weeks, but eventually a giant wooden crate arrived at my doorstep containing a prototype Steam Machine and Controller. These are Valve’s attempts at breaking into the console market so I was pretty excited to test them out.
Steam Controller
The Steam Controller is unlike anything I’ve ever used before, and at first it’s a little bit confusing. I’m not a stranger to gamepads and so far this is the most interesting one I’ve used. I wish there was some sort of interactive demonstration available when you first use it as it can be rather overwhelming.
The first challenge the controller presents to you is entering your account credentials. This is like throwing you into the deep end especially if you’re using a secure password. SteamOS uses the daisywheel chat interface from Big Picture mode and it utilizes both sides of the controller. I will admit at first I struggled with it, however after numerous login attempts I’m now a lot faster.
The second challenge is figuring out what does what in a game. Most games come with a set of predefined controller bindings. I quickly learned that you need to change these as they usually don’t make much sense. I was a little jaded after trying TF2 with the predefined bindings, but after creating my own things were much better.
It wasn’t until I started creating my own controller bindings that I discovered how configurable the Steam Controller actually is. I was not aware that you could adjust the blending or the dead zone settings. I also didn’t know you could change the style of input from a 4-way directional to an 8-way directional, allowing it to hold eight key bindings on a single pad.
There’s even a way to modify the outer ring of the pad which can be useful for games that require multiple inputs at once to be effective. An example of this is crouch walking.
One of the most important things to consider when configuring the Steam Controller is the sensitivity. There is no way to adjust sensitivity through the default SteamOS interface in the current build. It must be changed within the settings menu of each individual game, which can be a problem if the game doesn’t have it as an option.
Because of the way the Steam Controller simulates a mouse it can be rather sluggish if the mouse sensitivity is left at the default value. Like most games, the mouse sensitivity slider in Portal 2 starts off at around 50%. I’ve read a lot of comments on the Steam Controller where people believe their thumbs could become fatigued from too much use of it. In the first video you’ll see that it takes me several swipes over the pad to move the gun around and it does feel tiresome after a while. For a lot of FPS games this setup is very impractical and doesn’t allow for quick reactions.
I wanted to test the opposite so in the next video I cranked the sensitivity slider to 100%. This was far too sensitive and you can even see twitch-like movements on the screen due to my thumb slightly shaking over the pad. I can see some situations where this might be useful, but for me personally I felt having it so sensitive was more of a hindrance.
In the final configuration I set the slider to around 75%. This is definitely my preferred setup, it gives you enough mobility and allows you make precise movements. I’ve tested a similar level of sensitivity on a lot of different games now and I feel that this works best for me.
RTS Games
The Steam Controller works fine for First Person Shooter games, but despite the criticism I’ve been determined to come up with a playable controller configuration that works with RTS games too. I have been casually playing Wraith-Night since I got the Steam Machine and I think I’ve found a combination that works quite well. With the expected release of custom game modes in Dota 2 I think the Steam Controller could be a popular choice for these types of matches.
On the right pad I’ve chosen to use a dead zone of 30% which allows me to comfortably rest my thumb in the center of the pad. I’ve also set the outer ring modifier to shift which allows me to queue movements and abilities.
For the left pad I’ve set the input mode to 4-way directional with blending turned on, this allows me to make diagonal movements with the camera. I’ve also set a double click function that centers the camera on my hero. The reason I chose double click is due to how many times I accidentally clicked the button while moving my camera around.
I’ve put together a gameplay video of me playing Wraith-Night with the Steam Controller on normal difficulty. The video only goes up to round seven as my memory card couldn’t hold anymore space. In the video you’ll be able to tell that I struggled to react quickly to certain situations and I also made a fair number of newbie mistakes. I believe most of my struggles come down to the fact that I’m still relatively new to the Steam Controller, and making the jump from a mouse and keyboard is difficult at first. Although this begs the question, is the learning curve for this controller too high?
I’m not really sure where to start with SteamOS. It’s strange, and not really in a good way. Making gaming more accessible to Linux is a noble mission, but I’m not so sure that creating your own propriety operating system is the correct response either. I suppose if one thing propels the other it’s a good thing, but is there a limit to what’s supported? Will there eventually be SteamOS exclusive titles? Who knows.
SteamOS is basically a Linux operating system wrapped in the guise of Steam Big Picture mode. It works just fine until you want to play a game that isn’t widely supported, or if you want to do something that Steam just doesn’t do.
Most PC gamers use some form of software to communicate with friends while they game. Some popular examples of this would be Mumble, Teamspeak and Ventrilo. If the idea of the Steam Machine is to make PC gaming more accessible in the living room I can imagine there being a strong demand for this type of software to be natively supported on SteamOS.
Currently SteamOS has a built in voice chat function which comes packaged with Steam, this is cross platform and works anywhere you can run Steam. While this is convenient on paper I’ve never actually seen anyone use this feature. It also suffers from a number of drawbacks such as poor audio quality, and while using SteamOS you’re not actually able to invite users to a group chat unlike Windows and Mac users.
So the question remains; can you install third-party voice chat software? Yes, but it’s not simple. You need to enter the SteamOS desktop view which turns the console like interface into one most computer users would be familiar with. For this part I had to use a proper mouse and keyboard because the daisywheel was not enabled here. In order to install Mumble I had to run apt-get install mumble in the terminal after I had added the Debian repository which required me to give my system account admin privileges first. After rebooting the machine it detected my USB microphone and everything was working seemingly fine.
I like to use Push-to-Talk when using voice chat, so I assigned a shortcut key with the initial thought that I could bind a controller button to that key to activate Mumble in-game. Once everything was setup I exited the desktop and returned to the SteamOS main menu. It turns out inputs sent from the SteamOS interface to the desktop side don’t register meaning you’re unable to activate Push-to-Talk. The only workaround to this is using voice activation or open mic which is not practical for a living room environment. I tried testing this from the main menu with a keyboard instead of the controller and while playing a game, I had no luck despite my best efforts.
I feel Steam Music is a step in the right direction for inclusive SteamOS entertainment. The feature is very early beta and has a lot of room for potential. It makes for quite an awkward experience when you need to exit SteamOS and enter the Linux desktop to store your MP3s locally on the machine. I think Valve should focus on eliminating the need for the desktop mode entirely to make the experience more seamless for beginners. I would also like to see more integration with popular music streaming services such as Spotify and online radio stations such as Digitally Imported. With the way things are going with streaming services MP3’s will be obsolete by the time this is ready to ship.
After several years of usage the primary concern I have is that now the hype has gone down it feels like SteamOS has been rejected. The amount of games available for SteamOS is still lackluster and the majority of those which are supported don’t have any form of native controller support making the experience tedious. There’s also still no group voice chat, which bothers me a lot because that’s a feature you’d expect from a console.
Valve is due to make some announcements soon I’m looking forward to seeing what changes have been made to the Steam Controller since the prototype. Despite being optimistic about the device, I haven’t been able to adopt it into my regular arsenal of peripherals. The device has a very steep learning curve, and if you put it down for a week and pick it back up it feels like you’re starting from square one. I hope to see improvements to the controllers sensitivity options, along with some adjustments to the accuracy of the pads. It’s hard to gauge what the new Steam Controller will be like, but hopefully they have used the feedback they received wisely.
Big thank you to Valve for letting me test these devices, hopefully their pursuit into the hardware world doesn’t end here because this is a pretty solid first attempt.
What I Learned at RenderConf 2016 →
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Unbiased quantitation of Escherichia coli membrane proteome using phase transfer surfactants
Takeshi Masuda, Natsumi Saito, Masaru Tomita, Yasushi Ishihama
環境情報学部
We developed a sample preparation protocol for rapid and unbiased analysis of the membrane proteome using an alimentary canal-mimicking system in which proteases are activated in the presence of bile salts. In this rapid and unbiased protocol, immobilized trypsin is used in the presence of deoxycholate and lauroylsarcosine to increase digestion efficiency as well as to increase the solubility of the membrane proteins. Using 22.5 μg of Escherichia coli whole cell lysate, we quantitatively demonstrated that membrane proteins were extracted and digested at the same level as soluble proteins without any solubility-related bias. The recovery of membrane proteins was independent of the number of transmembrane domains per protein. In the analysis of the membrane-enriched fraction from 22.5 μg of E. coli cell lysate, the abundance distribution of the membrane proteins was in agreement with that of the membrane protein-coding genes when this protocol, coupled with strong cation exchange prefractionation prior to nano-LC-MS/MS analysis, was used. Because this protocol allows unbiased sample preparation, protein abundance estimation based on the number of observed peptides per protein was applied to both soluble and membrane proteins simultaneously, and the copy numbers per cell for 1,453 E. coli proteins, including 545 membrane proteins, were successfully obtained. Finally, this protocol was applied to quantitative analysis of guanosine tetra- and pentaphosphate-dependent signaling in E. coli wild-type and relA knock-out strains.
Molecular and Cellular Proteomics
https://doi.org/10.1074/mcp.M900240-MCP200
Published - 2009 12
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Masuda, T., Saito, N., Tomita, M., & Ishihama, Y. (2009). Unbiased quantitation of Escherichia coli membrane proteome using phase transfer surfactants. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 8(12), 2770-2777. https://doi.org/10.1074/mcp.M900240-MCP200
Unbiased quantitation of Escherichia coli membrane proteome using phase transfer surfactants. / Masuda, Takeshi; Saito, Natsumi; Tomita, Masaru; Ishihama, Yasushi.
In: Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Vol. 8, No. 12, 12.2009, p. 2770-2777.
Masuda, T, Saito, N, Tomita, M & Ishihama, Y 2009, 'Unbiased quantitation of Escherichia coli membrane proteome using phase transfer surfactants', Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 2770-2777. https://doi.org/10.1074/mcp.M900240-MCP200
Masuda T, Saito N, Tomita M, Ishihama Y. Unbiased quantitation of Escherichia coli membrane proteome using phase transfer surfactants. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. 2009 12;8(12):2770-2777. https://doi.org/10.1074/mcp.M900240-MCP200
Masuda, Takeshi ; Saito, Natsumi ; Tomita, Masaru ; Ishihama, Yasushi. / Unbiased quantitation of Escherichia coli membrane proteome using phase transfer surfactants. In: Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. 2009 ; Vol. 8, No. 12. pp. 2770-2777.
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South Texas Race Tracks Reopen for 2021
Tracks are back open this month after a brief break for the holidays. No, we aren't talking about those new year’s resolution tracks, so put those running shoes away.
Not only is our friend Alex a fantastic intern, but she also races imports like the rock star that she is.
The photo above is of Alex lined up at the track over the weekend. She told us about her weekend at the track which got us thinking we should let everybody know which tracks are back in business!
Texas race tracks have opened their gates, and cars have eagerly begun to flock in.
Que the grudge races:
Last week, Houston Raceway Park hosted it's first 'Fast Friday' of the year. Just about every Friday, this Raceway opens up the track to legal street racing. You can bring your car to run your friends or just to push yourself to get your best quarter-mile time. Fast Fridays at Houston Raceway start at 6 pm and runs end at midnight.
Just a head-up, there’s a sandpit at the end of the track, so you should probably exit before you hit it.
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Alamo City Motorplex gates are also open. They have racing events on most weekends. This track is a bit smaller compared to some other tracks, but honestly, that's what makes it so great. The lines are typically shorter; you don't have to wait forever for tech to inspect your vehicle or in line to race. Most nights, it's really smooth and fast; you get there and run.
If you find yourself a bit more north, there's another track in Ennis, TX. The Texas Motorplex in Ennis has plenty of opportunities for you to bring your car out to race.
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Remember to plan ahead and read the rules and regulations for each track. Nothing is worse than getting your car ready all week and showing up to the track, only to be told you can't run your car because it has a sunroof and you don't have a helmet; this has caused some messy and heated situations from uninformed drivers.
Check out each site to read about the rules and fees.
Houston Raceway Park https://houstonraceway.com/
Alamo City Motorplex https://acmplex.com/
Texas MotorPlex https://texasmotorplex.com/
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Details for: Analysis and Probability Wavelets, Signals, Fractals
Analysis and Probability Wavelets, Signals, Fractals [electronic resource] / by Palle E.T. Jorgensen.
By: Jorgensen, Palle E.T [author.]
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service)
Material type: TextSeries: Graduate Texts in Mathematics: 234Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006Description: XLVIII, 280 p. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780387330822Subject(s): Mathematics | Mathematical analysis | Analysis (Mathematics) | Applied mathematics | Engineering mathematics | Information theory | Probabilities | Mathematics | Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes | Analysis | Applications of Mathematics | Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering | Signal, Image and Speech Processing | Information and Communication, CircuitsAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 519.2 LOC classification: QA273.A1-274.9QA274-274.9Online resources: Click here to access online
Introduction: Measures on path space -- Transition probabilities: Random walk -- ?o vs. ? -- A case study: Duality for Cantor sets -- Infinite products -- The minimal eigenfunction -- Generalizations and applications -- Pyramids and operators -- Pairs of representations of the Cuntz algebras , and their application to multiresolutions.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book, combining analysis and tools from mathematical probability, focuses on a systematic and novel presentation of recent trends in pure and applied mathematics: the emergence of three fields, wavelets, signals and fractals. The unity of basis constructions and their expansions is emphasized as the starting point for the development of bases that are computationally efficient for use in several areas from wavelets to fractals. The book brings together tools from engineering and math, especially from signal- and image processing, and from harmonic analysis and operator theory. The presentation is aimed at graduate students, as well as users from a diverse spectrum of applications. Key features: • A hands-on approach for students, including tutorials and numerous exercises; • Excellent motivation throughout; • New pedagogical features: glossary of terms, their use in mathematics and in engineering, help for cross-audiences, image processing, visual presentation of key algorithms, structure and geometry of big matrix computations, explanation of uses of the theory in applications outside of mathematics; • Includes more than 50 figures with captions, illustrating the main ideas, plus engineering diagrams, graphic renditions of algorithms, and separate illustrations; • Separate sections in the book explain engineering terms to mathematicians, and operator theory to engineers; • Each chapter concludes with a helpful guide to the literature allowing students to follow up on the topics in the book. Palle E.T. Jorgensen is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Iowa. This book is based in part on interdisciplinary courses that he has taught over the last several years, and on his work with his current and former students. His most recent book was written jointly with Ola Bratteli and is entitled Wavelets through a Looking Glass, ©2002 Birkhäuser Boston.
This book, combining analysis and tools from mathematical probability, focuses on a systematic and novel presentation of recent trends in pure and applied mathematics: the emergence of three fields, wavelets, signals and fractals. The unity of basis constructions and their expansions is emphasized as the starting point for the development of bases that are computationally efficient for use in several areas from wavelets to fractals. The book brings together tools from engineering and math, especially from signal- and image processing, and from harmonic analysis and operator theory. The presentation is aimed at graduate students, as well as users from a diverse spectrum of applications. Key features: • A hands-on approach for students, including tutorials and numerous exercises; • Excellent motivation throughout; • New pedagogical features: glossary of terms, their use in mathematics and in engineering, help for cross-audiences, image processing, visual presentation of key algorithms, structure and geometry of big matrix computations, explanation of uses of the theory in applications outside of mathematics; • Includes more than 50 figures with captions, illustrating the main ideas, plus engineering diagrams, graphic renditions of algorithms, and separate illustrations; • Separate sections in the book explain engineering terms to mathematicians, and operator theory to engineers; • Each chapter concludes with a helpful guide to the literature allowing students to follow up on the topics in the book. Palle E.T. Jorgensen is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Iowa. This book is based in part on interdisciplinary courses that he has taught over the last several years, and on his work with his current and former students. His most recent book was written jointly with Ola Bratteli and is entitled Wavelets through a Looking Glass, ©2002 Birkhäuser Boston.
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Anatomy Of A Brutal God Of War Boss Fight
Kirk Hamilton
Weekends are a great time for relaxing, reading, or spending time with loved ones. Or, if you’re me, you can spend an entire weekend trying to beat the Valkyrie Queen in God of War.
Valkyrie fights are among the more straightforward of the many challenges in Sony Santa Monica’s fantastic Nordic murder-fest. Each one is a head-to-head boss battle against a raging, possessed winged warrior. Each one is difficult, and each one is slightly different. As you explore Midgard, you’ll find eight Valkyrie arenas. Some are hidden, some are sitting in plain sight. Each Valkyrie awaits you in her arena, and each employs distinct moves. Beat all eight of them, and you’ll unlock a final fight against Sigrun, the Valkyrie Queen.
I fought, and eventually defeated, Sigrun back in April. It was one of the most arduous and challenging boss battles I’ve ever encountered in a video game. Yet on reflection, it was also such a well-designed battle that I think more people should give it a shot. In the wake of the grueling Radiance fight in Hollow Knight, the toughest things I faced in Monster Hunter World, and my ongoing replay of Bloodborne, I’ve been thinking more and more about difficult boss fights. Feels like it’s time to go back to the Sigrun fight and look at what makes it tick.
It starts with a big F U.
Sigrun immediately lets you know exactly what to expect from her. Kratos walks up to a familiar realm tear in the middle of the circle at the Council of Valkyries. As a player, you’re probably thinking you know what to expect, since you’ve opened and closed a ton of these over the course of the game. You confidently approach this one, and…
Sigrun plows into Kratos like a 747 coming in for a particularly aggressive emergency landing. She starts the fight this way every single time. That means that every time you lose lose, you’ll have watch her grind your face into the pavement all over again. It’s subtle psychological warfare. The game is beating into you the idea that this foe is stronger than you are. Maybe you should give up. (Don’t give up!)
Kratos’ attacks do hilariously little damage.
I fought Sigrun with all but the final axe and blades upgrades, and was repeatedly galled by how little damage my attacks did to her. Check this out:
Looks like I’m really dishing out some punishment, right? Look at Kratos there, landing a series of heavy blows with his big axe. Now watch it again, but keep your eye on her health bar:
It barely moves. Sigrun’s many-segmented health bar is massive, and even if you think you’ve landed a devastating combination of melee and runic attacks, you’ll usually hardly make a dent.
Sigrun’s attacks, however, do tons of damage.
Here’s what it looks like when you screw it all up:
One minute, I had been doing fine. I had half health and was in a defensive position. Then I failed to dodge a simple red lunging attack, which is both one of Sigrun’s simplest attacks and, given its short windup, one of the hardest to dodge. As I’m recovering from the hit, she leaps up to go into her unblockable dive-bomb attack, and I screw up the timing on my dodge. All at once, it’s game over.
Throughout my fight with Sigrun I was wearing some of the best armor in the game, and I was only playing on Normal difficulty. Even then, her attacks were so ludicrously strong that a single screw-up could turn an otherwise flawless fight into failure.
She has loads of different attacks and constantly changes patterns.
That’s two vital aspects of the fight that could be said of a lot of difficult boss fights—her attacks do a ton of damage, and your attacks do little damage. There’s little room for error, so you have to play cautiously and defensively, only attacking at a few key moments of opportunity. The wimpiness of your attacks extends the length of the fight and leaves many, many opportunities for error.
I blew it a couple times after getting Sigrun’s health bar down to its segments, all because I got excited and thought I could burn her down faster than I could. Those last bits may look like a relatively small part of her health bar, but they’re actually enough for her to absorb several more combos while getting off a dozen or more attacks of her own.
The third part of the difficulty triangle is the variety of Sigrun’s move-set. At my count, she has around 16 different possible attacks. Here they are, broken into a few sub-categories.
A pair of standard wing attacks transitioning into a spinning attack.
UP-CLOSE MELEE ATTACKS
1. Standard wing attack.
2. Unblockable lunge. (Can also function as a rush attack.)
3. Spinning wing attack.
4. Closed wing turtle to open pushback.
A not-that-rare example of a ranged attack quickly becoming an unblockable close attack followed by a closed-wing turtle.
RANGED ATTACKS
5. Ranged wing-blade launch.
6. Long-range ground shockwave.
7. Long-range meteor attack w/ flaming aftermath.
8. Ice-blast attack w/ unblockable follow-up.
A classic flying scythe rush.
RUSH ATTACKS
9. Flying scythe rush.
10. Unblockable blinding dazzle attack, with follow-up.
11. Flying scythe spin, hits 2x. (Probably the most easily parried of all her attacks.)
An Aerial Damaging Shockwave, which does an absurd amount of damage.
AERIAL ATTACKS
12. Aerial blinding shockwave.
13. Aerial damaging shockwave.
14. Aerial ring-throw ending in mega-ring. (This is sort of a ranged attack.)
Nailed by a Swooping Dive-Bomb after a mistimed roll.
GRAB ATTACKS
15. Plunging drop-attack, chains up to 3x. (This is the most dangerous and infuriating move.)
16. Swooping dive-bomb, chains up to 3x. (Easy to dodge, but ruinous if she gets you.)
I think that’s her entire move-set, though it’s possible (probable?) that I missed one or two. When I put them back to back like that, they don’t seem that intimidating. Each one can be blocked, dodged, parried, or otherwise countered. But if you put them all in a blender and chain them together in unpredictable sequences, it becomes a lot to keep track of. Which gets to the last thing that makes this fight so hard…
She’s so, so fast.
Kratos is a beefy, slow-moving guy. He can run, and he has a few semi-ranged attacks. He’s also got Atreus, whose arrows can interrupt Sigrun’s worst area-of-attack spells. But by and large he’ll have to get up close to do damage, and most of his best non-runic attacks have a lengthy windup period.
Sigrun is ridiculously fast in comparison. She can cross the entire arena in a fraction of a second. She can escape combat and zoom to the far side of the arena, then close that distance for a heavy attack, all in about a second and a half. She’s hard to stagger, and recovers terrifyingly quickly. She combines her attacks in unpredictable ways, and a couple of them have ridiculously short telegraphs.
Here’s a clip from one of my many failures, which shows how quickly she can reposition herself and turn the tables:
I had her staggered with a runic attack, and then she was just gone. If I’d used the quick turnaround button, I could’ve been ready to block her follow-up. I didn’t, and she ate most of my health before I even saw what was going on. That kind of stuff happens all the time in this fight. You can’t get comfortable or greedy, because Sigrun can turn things around in the blink of an eye.
And yet, I really think you should try this fight if you haven’t.
After all that, you might think that I’d tell you to avoid fighting Sigrun. But I actually feel the opposite: the Sigrun fight is the toughest thing in God of War, but it’s absolutely worth your time. Each of God of War’s three side activities is a worthy challenge, and each tests you in a different way. The fire realm of Muspelheim tests your abilities against standard combat mobs, with a variety of twists and modifiers. The mist realm of Niflheim combines exploration skills with combat and resource management. And the Valkyrie fights are pure tests of combat prowess.
I’m guessing that a fair number of people played through most of God of War, finished the story, maybe dabbled in the optional stuff, then left the toughest challenges—like the Sigrun fight—incomplete. If that’s you, take the opportunity to dust the game off, return to Midgard, and hop into the ring with the Valkyrie Queen. You can do it. I believe in you.
...and if you’ve already beaten her and are feeling cocky about that, watch this video of Faraaz Khan beating her with no character upgrades, on the highest difficulty, without taking a single hit:
……..……………..……………..……………..……………..……………..jeez.
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Gene Jacket
I played through the game on normal and a few of the Valkyries gave me some trouble, but I managed best them all with practice and tons of trial and error.
Sigrun, however, just fucked me up all day and all night. It didn’t seem to matter what I did, how well timed my dodges and parries were or how much damage I did at any given stage of the fight, she always brushed it off and handed me my ass. After a couple of days worth of trying, I finally just said fuck it, dropped the difficulty down to easy, and crushed her in one go. Normally, that’s not something I would do, but by that point her fight was the only thing left to complete, and I was tired of bashing my head against the wall. #NoShame
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The Best WiiWare Games To Buy Before They All Disappear
Chris Kohler
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A Maximal Rowing Ergometer Protocol to Predict Maximal Oxygen Uptake
Kurt Jensen, Morten Frydkjær, Niels M.B. Jensen, Lucas M. Bannerholt and Søren Gam
Purpose: To examine the relationship between the maximal power output (MPO) in an individualized 7 × 2-minute incremental (INCR) test, average power in a 2k (W2k) rowing ergometer test, and maximal oxygen uptake (V˙O2max) and to develop a regression equation to predict V˙O2max. Methods: A total of 34 male club rowers (age 18–30 y) performed a 2k and an INCR test in a Concept2 rowing ergometer to determine and compare MPO, W2k, and V˙O2max. Results: No significant difference was found between V˙O2max measured during INCR or 2k test (P = .73). A very high correlation coefficient (r = .96) was found between MPO and V˙O2max and between W2k and V˙O2max (r = .93). Linear regression analyses were developed for predicting V˙O2max from MPO: (1) V˙O2max (mL·min−1) = 11.49 × MPO + 810 and V˙O2max from W2k: (2) V˙O2max = 10.96 × W2k + 1168. Cross-validation analyses were performed using an independent sample of 14 rowers. There was no difference between the mean predicted V˙O2max in the INCR test (4.41 L·min−1) or the 2k test (4.39 L·min−1) and the observed V˙O2max (4.40 L·min−1). Technical error of measurement was 3.1% and 3.6%, standard error of estimate was 0.136 and 0.157 mL·min−1, and validation coefficients (r) were .95 and .94 using Equation () and (), respectively. Conclusion: A prediction model only including MPO or W2k explains 88% to 90% of the variability in V˙O2max and is suggested for practical use in male club rowers.
Moving Beyond Models: Theorizing Physical Disability in the Sociology of Sport
James Brighton, Robert C. Townsend, Natalie Campbell and Toni L. Williams
In this paper we explore current theoretical approaches available from the discipline of critical disability studies (CDS) for conceptualizing physical disability and advocate how these understandings can advance sociological research on disability sport. After reviewing a dominant “models” approach that has historically been employed, we illuminate how theoretical architecture provided by selected sociological theorists (Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, and Zygmunt Bauman) and from aesthetic, cyborg, and new materialist approaches can help reveal the materialist conditions, sociocultural structures, and lived realities of disability. In doing so, we appeal to researchers of disability sport to develop critical understandings of why alternative theoretical approaches are valuable, what theoretical choices to make, and how we can use theory to highlight oppression and empower those involved in disability sport.
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Sustained Passing Performance of Elite and Subelite Female Soccer Players Following a Female Match-Specific Exercise Protocol
Mikayla J. Lyons, Jennifer Conlon, Amy Perejmibida, Paola Chivers and Christopher Joyce
Purpose: This study examined the maintenance of passing performance following soccer-specific high-intensity intermittent exercise in elite (n = 9) and subelite (n = 11) Western Australian female soccer players (19.5 [2.5] y). Methods: A total of 20 participants completed the Loughborough Soccer Passing Test (LSPT) prior to, during, and following 90 minutes of a modified, female-specific, individualized exercise protocol (Loughborough Intermittent Shuttle Test [LIST]) to simulate 2 halves of a soccer match. Performance in the LSPT was calculated by adding “raw time” to the accumulated “penalty time” for each test. Results: Elite players recorded greater distances (t 58 = 4.671, P < .001, effect size [ES] = 1.21) and higher derived VO2max values (t 58 = 4.715, P < .001, ES = 1.20) for the LIST exercise protocol over the subelite players. The total performance times for each LSPT were longer in the subelites in comparison with the elites, with a very large ES difference seen in post-LIST1 (t 18 = −6.64, P < .001, ES = 2.99) and post-LIST2 (t 18 = −9.143, P < .001, ES = 4.12). No between-groups differences were identified for “raw time” at any time point. Hence, all reported LSPT performance differences are attributed to “penalty time.” Conclusion: These data suggest that elite players can sustain their passing performance more efficiently throughout match play that can subelite female soccer players. These findings may contribute to future talent-identification testing by helping to distinguish between elite- and subelite-level players through sustained passing performance. Coaches may also use this information to better inform best-practice training methods through modification of male soccer-specific high-intensity intermittent exercise to a female cohort.
Adherence to the Class-Based Component of a Tai Chi Exercise Intervention for People Living With Dementia and Their Informal Carers
Yolanda Barrado-Martín, Michelle Heward, Remco Polman and Samuel R. Nyman
The objective of this study was to understand the experiences of people living with dementia and their informal carers’ taking part together (in dyads) in Tai Chi classes and the aspects influencing their adherence. Dyads’ experiences of taking part in Tai Chi classes for 20 weeks within the TACIT Trial were explored through class observations (n = 22 dyads), home-interviews (n = 15 dyads), and feedback. Data were inductively coded following thematic analysis. Tai Chi classes designed for people with dementia and their informal carers were enjoyable and its movements, easy to learn. Facilitators of participants' adherence were the socializing component and their enjoyment of the classes, whereas unexpected health problems were the main barrier. Finding the optimal level of challenge in the class setting might be crucial for people with dementia to feel satisfied with their progression over sessions and enable their continued participation.
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Educational Podcasts in Kinesiology: A Scoping Review
Scott W.T. McNamara, Matthew Shaw, Kylie Wilson and Angela Cox
Educational podcasts are developed specifically for learning purposes. Preliminary research suggests that many college courses and practitioners regularly use educational podcasts and that this medium is a beneficial tool to use to supplement the learning process. However, there is limited scholarly work examining the use of educational podcasts within kinesiology fields. Thus, the purpose of this study was to conduct a scoping review of the literature on the use of educational podcasts in the field of kinesiology. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews extension for Scoping Reviews Checklist guided this investigation. Six databases were searched. Fourteen articles met the full inclusion criteria. Of these, 11 were data-driven research articles, and three were practitioner articles. Much of the research identified lacked critical information related to research design, instrument development, and findings. Thus, the authors recommend that more rigorous research in this area be conducted to discern the impact of educational podcasts within the field of kinesiology.
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Exploring Feelings of Pleasure and Purpose Associated With Older People’s Activities Using Ecological Momentary Analysis: An Observational Study
Karen E. Hancock, Paul Downward and Lauren B. Sherar
Momentary feelings of pleasure and purpose can be sources of intrinsic motivation, but momentary purpose is rarely studied. Activities, contexts, and feelings of retired/semiretired adults (n = 67, aged 50–78 years) were captured using ecological momentary assessment. Participants provided 2,065 valid responses to six daily smartphone surveys for 7 days. Physical activity was measured by waist-worn ActiGraph accelerometer. Pleasure (measured by affective happiness) and purpose outcomes were regressed on activities, context, and potential confounding variables. Interactions between activities and contexts were explored. Participants were highly active: 98.5% met physical activity guidelines. Sedentary activities were negatively associated with sense of purpose, especially when indoors. However, social sedentary activities were positively associated with feelings of happiness. Active, social outdoor activities were positively associated with both outcomes. Less sedentary participants experienced greater happiness and purpose during all their activities. Context matters: active, social, and outdoor activities seem to be more appealing to older adults.
The First Global Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Guidelines for People Living With Disability
Catherine Carty, Hidde P. van der Ploeg, Stuart J.H. Biddle, Fiona Bull, Juana Willumsen, Lindsay Lee, Kaloyan Kamenov and Karen Milton
Background: The World Health Organization has released the first global public health guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behavior for people living with disability. This paper presents the guidelines, related processes, and evidence, and elaborates upon how the guidelines can support inclusive policy, practice, and research. Methods: Methods were consistent with the World Health Organization protocols for developing guidelines. Systematic reviews of the evidence on physical activity for health for people living with disability were appraised, along with a consideration of the evidence used to inform the general 2020 World Health Organization guidelines. Results: Evidence supported the development of recommendations for people living with disability, stressing that there are no major risks to engaging in physical activity appropriate to an individual’s current activity level, health status, and physical function, and that the health benefits accrued generally outweigh the risks. They also emphasize the benefits of limiting sedentary behavior. Conclusions: The guidelines mark a positive step forward for disability inclusion, but considerable effort is needed to advance the agenda. This paper highlights key considerations for the implementation of the new recommendations for people living with disability, in line with the human rights agenda underpinning the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018–2030 and allied policies.
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Influence of Cardiorespiratory Fitness on Risk of Dementia and Dementia Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies
Junga Lee
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to investigate the influence of cardiorespiratory fitness (CF) levels on dementia risk and dementia mortality. MEDLINE and EMBASE databases were used to search for eligible studies from January 1990 to September 2019. To be included, the study was required to be a prospective cohort study that provided CF measurements and indicated relative risk and confidence intervals for the associations between CF and dementia risk and mortality. A total of six studies were selected for this meta-analysis. Low-level CF was associated with nearly three times greater risk of dementia (2.93, 95% confidence interval [1.31, 6.57]; p < .05) compared with a high-level CF. Enhanced CF levels decreased the risk of dementia, and an increase of one metabolic equivalent of task in the CF level reduced the risk of dementia and dementia mortality. Maintaining more than 12 metabolic equivalents of task of CF level was required to substantially decrease dementia risk and dementia mortality.
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L. Jayne Beselt, Michelle C. Patterson, Meghan H. McDonough, Jennifer Hewson and Scott MacKay
Physical activity (PA) and social support have known benefits for the well-being and health of older adults, and social support is associated with PA behavior and positive affective experiences in PA contexts. The aim of this study was to synthesize qualitative research conducted on the experiences of social support related to PA among older adults (age ≥55 years). Following meta-study methodology, the authors searched nine databases and extracted information from 31 studies. Results were synthesized in terms of common themes and in light of theoretical and methodological perspectives used. The qualitative literature identifies supportive behaviors and social network outcomes which may be useful for informing how best to support older adults to be physically active. This literature rarely reflected the experiences of vulnerable populations, and future research should aim to further understand supportive behaviors which enable older adults to overcome barriers and challenges to being physically active.
Perspectives of Students With Disabilities Toward Physical Education: A Review Update 2014–2019
Katherine Holland and Justin A. Haegele
The purpose of this article is to review qualitative inquiries examining the perspectives of students with disabilities toward physical education (PE) published from 2014 to 2019, as an update to the 2015 review by Haegele and Sutherland. Keyword searches were used to identify articles from nine electronic databases, and seven articles met all inclusion criteria. The seven selected articles were subjected to a narrative analysis, and three thematic clusters emerged: (a) an “inconvenience”: the PE teacher’s influence on quality of experience, (b) “we play together and I like it”: friendships central to the quality of PE experience, and (c) “no lift access to the gym”: barriers to successful participation. Findings from this review support the notion that students with disabilities may have positive experiences in PE if they are offered appropriate modifications and accommodations and are provided with increased kind and supportive interactions with staff and peers.
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Hospital Laptop Thefts Compromise 700,000 Patient Files
by: shawnmcginnis, KTLA 5
Posted: Oct 22, 2013 / 09:47 PM PDT / Updated: Oct 23, 2013 / 12:48 PM PDT
The theft of two laptop computers from a hospital administration office in Alhambra has compromised the health information of 729,000 patients, including their social security numbers, officials said Monday.
Police are looking for Christopher Lee Brown in connection with the theft of two hospital computers, (Credit: Alhambra Police Department)
The laptops were stolen Oct. 12 and contain data from patients treated at AHMC hospitals: Garfield Medical Center, Monterey Park Hospital, Greater El Monte Community Hospital, Whittier Hospital Medical Center, San Gabriel Valley Medical Center and Anaheim Regional Medical Center.
The thieves swiped the laptops from a video-monitored sixth-floor office on a medical campus that officials said is “gated and patrolled by security.”
The suspects broke into the office and stole two password-protected laptops, they said.
Click here to read the full story at latimes.com.
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SMB388S: MAN NG363F Demonstrator
20 June 2017 19 September 2019 3 Comments
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The MAN NG363F is the first model of articulated bus acquired by SMRT Buses, having previousy inherited Mercedes-Benz O405G buses from its predecessor TIBS. The first of these buses, a demonstrator unit SMB388S, began service in 2013. This article will cover more about the unique demonstrator unit.
The bus is bodied with a MAN Lion’s City G bodywork manufactured by Gemilang Coachworks of Malaysia, under license from MAN. The bus was fully assembled by Gemilang in its Johor Bahru assembly plant before final delivery to Singapore.
In 2013, SMRT Buses received a MAN NG363F demonstrator unit for road testing and evaluation by MAN’s local dealer, ST Kinetics. The bus was registered on 2 April 2013 as SMB388S, the sixth demonstrator bus received by SMRT Buses. Sharing many technical similarities with its rigid bus cousin, the MAN NL323F, SMRT owned at least 400 MAN NL323F buses prior to the registration of SMB388S.
Basic Technical Specifications
Engine MAN D2066 LUH-33 engine
Inline 6-cylinder two-stage turbocharged with intercooling, 10518cc
Power/Torque output of 360 hp (265 kW) @ 1900 rpm / 1800 Nm @ 1000 – 1400 rpm
Emission Standard Euro V compliant
Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) technology combined with MAN’s own PM-Kat® exhaust treatment system, hence doing away with the need for diesel exhaust fluids, and achieving the the Euro V emission standard.
Transmission Voith DIWA 864.5 gearbox, four-speed automatic
Bodywork MAN Lion’s City G Bodywork
Chassis built in Germany, MAN’s Lion City G bodywork supplied and assembled by Gemilang Coachworks, licensed by MAN.
EDS Gorba imotion Electronic Display Signage (EDS)
Connected to a Gorba imotion CU8 controller
Air-conditioning Two Denso LD8i roof-mounted air-conditioning units
The bodywork used on this bus was similar to MAN’s integral Lion’s City G or Lion’s City GL buses, but manufactured by Gemilang Coachworks of Malaysia, under license from MAN. It was built using Alcan’s EcoRange® body structure system, which primarily uses lightweight aluminium for extrusions, sheets, and joining elements. The bus was fully assembled by Gemilang in its Johor Bahru assembly plant before final delivery to Singapore.
On the interior, the interior fixtures and their configuration are roughly similar to the Batch 2 NL323Fs, with identical seats, grabpoles, handgrips arranged in a comparable layout. SMRT retained the unique sliding plug doors supplied by Masats (previously used for MAN NL323F buses) for the middle and rear exit doors. A single wheelchair bay is located in the middle of the bus, and a manual wheelchair ramp is installed only on the middle door. A full-low-floor design offers step-free access between all doors, across the articulation unit and up to the last row of seats. Finally, a unique, translucent articulation bellow allowed for natural light into the articulation unit during daylight hours.
SMB388S made its revenue service debut on 18 April 2013, deployed on Bus Service 190 between Choa Chu Kang and New Bridge Road. It has since been under SMRT’s Kranji Depot and made appearances on a variety of bus routes, such as 61, 67, 106, 176, 180, 184, 188, 300, 302 and 700/700A.
SMRT MAN A24 (SMB388S) – Service 67
SMRT MAN A24 (SMB388S) – Service 190
SMB388S was acquired as a direct replacement for TIB838H, the very first articulated bus in Singapore, which was deregistered shortly before this bus entered revenue service. Breaking away with the tradition of registering buses in numerical order, the somewhat auspicious SMB388S registration bears resemblance to it’s predecessor.
The introduction of SMB388S is reminiscent of how TIB838H came about. TIB838H, a Mercedes-Benz O405G, was acquired by TIBS as a high-capacity version of the previously-introduced and highly successful Mercedes-Benz O405. Along with similarities in the chassis, bodywork was also very similar, both built by Hispano Carrocera. For SMB388S, the MAN NG363F chassis is a high-capacity version of the MAN NL323F chassis, and was also built to similar interior configurations as the previously-introduced and successful MAN NL323Fs.
SMB388S scored several firsts. It was the first bendy bus to be brought in by SMRT Buses, and the first fully-low-floor and wheelchair-accessible bendy bus in Singapore. It is the second transit bus in Singapore to use Gorba-manufactured EDS (after SMB136C and not including PA9588S), and the first transit bus in Singapore to have air-conditioning units supplied by Spheros.
SMB388S has a licensed capacity for 130 passengers: 54 seating and 76 standing passengers. Originally fitted with Spheros air-conditioning units, they were replaced by Denso LD8i units in 2016, similarly used on the Production Batch buses.
On the exterior, SMB388S shares many bodywork elements in common with SMRT’s MAN NL323F buses also assembled by Gemilang Coachworks, giving it an appearance of an elongated NL323F. However, unlike the NL323Fs, the bus was not fitted with the large, curved roof attachment.
The bus is fitted with a set of Electronic Display Signages (EDS) supplied by Gorba. Production batch buses would revert to Mobitec, which is more commonly used within the SMRT fleet.
In addition, the bus was fitted with Spheros roof-mounted air-conditioning units, unique to the SMRT fleet. They would later be replaced with Denso LD8i air-conditioning units in standardization with other MAN NL323F and MAN NG363F buses. The above photo shows SMB388S with Spheros units installed.
The interior of the bus has two cabins permanently joined by an articulation unit. The bus seats four-abreast with a central aisle running the length of the bus. Grab poles and round hand grips are located on both sides of the aisle, with additional handrails at the standing area, or stanchion poles near the exits or articulation unit. All seats also have hand grips to provide commuters with additional support.
Bus stopping bell-pushes are located around the bus cabin, either mounted to stanchion poles or on the pillars in-between windows. Emergency hammers are also located on these pillars.
MAN NG363F (SMB388S): Interior (Front to Rear)
The bus is fully-low-floor, offering step-less access throughout the length of the bus.
Interior panels and fittings are very similar to that used on MAN NL323F buses, such as polished metal stanchion poles, grey plastic handlebars and handgrips and Vogelsitze System 750/3 seats in blue and purple, with red for priority seats. The air-conditioning ducts, similar to the earliest batch of MAN NL323F buses, do not feature adjustable vents.
MAN NG363F (SMB388S): Interior (Mid to Front)
MAN NG363F (SMB388S): Front cabin interior
MAN NG363F (SMB388S): Wheelchair Bay
A single wheelchair bay is located opposite the middle door of the bus, doubling up as a standee area. It has space for one person-in-wheelchair, with wheelchair accessibility offered via a manually-deployed ramp at the middle door.
The wheelchair backrest doubles as a foldable seat for two people when not in use.
The rear cabin only has front-facing seats and a third exit door, and the last row of the bus has five seats.
MAN NG363F (SMB388S): Interior (Rear to Front)
MAN NG363F (SMB388S): Rear cabin interior
MAN NG363F (SMB388S): Articulation Unit turntable platform
Finally, the articulation unit consists of a turntable platform with two hinges in the middle, allowing for both pitch and yaw motion. Folding bellows help weatherproof the articulation unit. Stanchion poles are installed by the side of the central passageway.
While the bus was initially installed with translucent bellows (allowing for some natural lighting to enter the articulation unit), these were later replaced with opaque ones similar to the Production Batch of MAN NG363F buses.
Finally, the driver’s compartment has a similar layout to the MAN NL323F buses. However, it features two CCTV monitors for better monitoring of the surroundings. When the doors are opened, the monitors switch to a view of the exit doors, allowing the driver to monitor alighting activity.
MAN NG363F (SMB388S): Driver’s console
The turquoise unit on the bottom left is the New On-board Bus Equipment (NOBE) fare collection system. Next to it is the Farebox on the left, and the Trapeze Common Fleet Management System (CFMS) on the right. The two CCTV monitors are located behind the NOBE device.
The photo on the left shows SMB388S with its original Spheros air-conditioning units; they were later replaced with Denso units as shown on the right.
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3 thoughts on “SMB388S: MAN NG363F Demonstrator”
Joseph Modhu
Smb388s: smrt old white red black livery
Smb8001e-smb8010d: lush green livery (sbs transit, formerly smrt)
Smb8011b-smb8039y: smrt pixel livery
Useyourbrain
LTA should reregistered as SG…
SMRT spoilt market by deploying bendy on trunk svc like 169 & 184..The 3 A24 on 169 better off with 858 and the 184 should be for CCK Feeders..300 & 301 DDs is really a joke..
SMB388S
It’s a permanent bus on 184 now, although on some occasions it may do a Choa Chu Kang Feeder for it’s S1(morning split) shift
Rationalisation of Bus Service Operations (2019 – 2021)
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Bail application rejected by High Court - High Court direct the Magistrate to grant bail if accused surrenders before him - Order of High Court set aside
0 0 Puneet Batish Advocate
Before :- K. S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra, JJ.
Criminal Appeal No. 750 and 751 of 2012 (Arising out of S.L.P. (Criminal) No. 7281 and 7286 of 2011). D/d. 4.5.2012.
Rashmi Rekha Thatoi and another - AppellantsVersusState of Orissa and others - Respondents
For the Appellant :- Ms. Rekha Pandey, Ms. Ambika Das and Ms. Sailaja V., Advocates.
For the Respondent :- Ms. Sandhya Goswami, M.P.S. Tomar, Jabar Singh, Jitendra Mohapatra, Chandra Bhushan Prasad and Syed Rehen, Advocates.
JUDGMENTDipak Misra, J. - Leave granted in both the petitions.
2. "Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without Liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society."
Thus spoke Bolingbroke.
3. Liberty is the precious possession of the human soul. No one would barter it for all the tea in China. Not for nothing Patrick Henry thundered:
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death !"
The thought of losing one's liberty immediately brings in a feeling of fear, a shiver in the spine, an anguish of terrible trauma, an uncontrollable agony, a penetrating nightmarish perplexity and above all a sense of vacuum withering the very essence of existence. It is because liberty is deep as eternity and deprivation of it, infernal. May be for this protectors of liberty ask, "How acquisition of entire wealth of the world would be of any consequence if one's soul is lost?" It has been quite often said that life without liberty is eyes without vision, ears without hearing power and mind without coherent thinking faculty.
4. Almost two centuries and a decade back thus spoke Edmund Burke :-
"Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsel of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
5. Similar voice was echoed by E. Barrett Prettyman, a retired Chief Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals :-
"In an ordered society of mankind there is no such thing as unrestricted liberty, either of nations or of individuals. Liberty itself is the product restraints; it is inherently a composite of restraints; it dies when restraints are withdrawn. Freedom, I say, is not an absence of restraints; it is a composite of restraints. There is no liberty without order. There is no order without systematized restraint. Restraints are the substance without which liberty does not exist. They are the essence of liberty. The great problem of the democratic process is not to strip men of restraints merely because 'they are restraints. The great problem is to design a system of restraints which will nurture the maximum development of man's capabilities, not in a massive globe of faceless animations but as a perfect realization, of each separate human mind, soul and body; not in mute, motionless meditation but in flashing, thrashing activity."
6. Keeping the cherished idea of liberty in mind, the fathers of our Constitution engrafted in its Preamble : "Liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship." After a lot of debate in the Constituent Assembly, Article 21 of the Constitution came into existence in the present form laying down in categorical terms that no person shall be deprived of his life and personal liberty except according to the procedure established by law.
7. We have begun with the aforesaid prologue, as the seminal question that falls for consideration in these appeals is whether the High Court, despite the value attached to the concept of liberty, could afford to vaporise the statutory mandate enshrined under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short 'the Code'). It is not to be forgotten that liberty is not an absolute abstract concept. True it is, individual liberty is a very significant aspect of human existence but it has to be guided and governed by law. Liberty is to be sustained and achieved when it sought to be taken away by permissible legal parameters. A court of law is required to be guided by the defined jurisdiction and not deal with matters being in the realm of sympathy or fancy.
8. Presently to the narration. In these two appeals arising out of SLP No. 7281 of 2011 and 7286 of 2011, the challenge is to the orders dated 22.07.2011 and 05.08.2011 in BLAPL No. 13036 of 2011 and 12975 of 2011 respectively passed by the High Court of Judicature of Orissa at Cuttack in respect of five accused persons under Section 438 of the Code pertaining to offences punishable under Section 341/294/506 and 302 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code (for short "the IPC") in connection with Binjharpur PS Case No. 88/2011 corresponding to GR Case No. 343 of 2011 pending in the Court of learned SDJM, Jajpur.
9. The present appeals have been preferred by the sister of the deceased and the complainant, an eye witness, seeking quashing of the orders on the foundation that the High Court has extended the benefit of Section 438 (1) of the Code in an illegal and impermissible manner.
10. The facts that had formed the bedrock in setting the criminal law in motion need not be stated, for the nature of orders passed by High Court in both the cases have their own peculiarity. If we allow ourselves to say they have the enormous potentiality to create colossal puzzlement as regards the exercise of power under Section 438 of the Code.
11. While dealing with the case of accused Uttam Das and Ranjit Das, vide order dated 22.07.2011 the High Court, as stated, perused the case file and passed the following order.
"Considering the facts and circumstances of the case and the materials available on record, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. This court directs that if petitioner No. 1 Uttam Das surrenders before the learned S.D.J.M., Jajpur and moves an application for bai l in the aforesaid case, in such event the learned S.D.J.M. shall release him on bail on such terms and conditions as he may deem fit and proper.
So far as petitioner No. 2 Ranjit Das is concerned, this court directs him to surrender before the learned S.D.J.M., Jajpur and move an application for bail in connection with the aforesaid case, in such event his application shall be considered by the learned S.D.J.M., on its own merits.
The Bail Application is accordingly disposed of."
[Underlining is ours]
12. In the case of the other accused persons, namely, Abhimanyu Das, Murlidhar Patra and Bhagu Das the High Court on 05.08.2011 passed the order on following terms.
"Considering the facts and circumstances of the case this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Since there are some materials against Bhagu Das @ Sanjit Kumar Das petitioner No. 3, this Court directs that in case petitioner No. 3 surrenders before the leaned S.D.J.M., Jajpur and moves an application for bail, the learned S.D.J.M. shall consider and dispose of the same on its own merit in accordance with law.
So far as the prayer for bail of petitioner Nos. 1 and 2 is concerned since one of the co accused namely, Uttam Das has been released on bail in pursuance of order dated 02.07.2011 passed by this Court in BLAPL No. 13036 of 2011 and petitioner Nos. 1 and 2 stands on similar footing with co- accused Uttam Das, this Court directs that in case petitioner Nos. 1 and 2 surrender before the learned S.D.J.M., Jajpur and move an application for bail, the learned S.D.J.M., shall release them on bail on such terms and conditions as he may deem fit and proper with further condition that petitioner Nos. 1 and 2 shall give an undertaking before the Court below that they will not commit any similar type of offence. In case any complaint is received against them that will amount to cancellation of bail"
[Emphasis supplied]
13. On a perusal of both the orders it is perceivable that the commonality in both the orders is that while the High Court had expressed its opinion that though it is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners yet it has directed on their surrender some of the accused petitioners would be enlarged on bail on such terms and conditions as may be deemed fit and proper by the concerned Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate and cases of certain accused persons on surrender shall be dealt with on their own merits.
14. The learned counsel for the petitioner has contended that the High Court has gravely flawed in passing such kind of orders in exercise of power under Section 438 of the Code which the law does not countenance and, therefore, they deserved to be lancinated. It is his further submission that when the accused persons are involved in such serious offences the High Court could not have dealt with them by taking recourse to an innovative method which has no sanction in law.
15. The learned counsel for the respondent made a very feeble attempt to support the orders.
16. The pivotal issue that emanates for consideration is whether the orders passed by the High Court are legitimately acceptable and legally sustainable within the ambit and sweep of Section 438 of the Code. To appreciate the defensibility of the order it is condign to refer to Section 438 of the Code which reads as follows.
"438. Direction for grant of bail to person apprehending arrest. - (1) Where any person has reason to believe that he may be arrested on accusation of having committed a non-bailable offence, he may apply to the High Court or the Court of Session for a direction under this section that in the event of such arrest he shall be released on bail; and that Court may, after taking into consideration, inter alia, the following factors, namely :-
(i) the nature and gravity of the accusation;
(ii) the antecedents of the applicant including the fact as to whether he has previously undergone imprisonment on conviction by a Court in respect of any cognizable offence;
(iii) the possibility of the applicant to flee from justice; and
(iv) where the accusation has been made with the object of injuring or humiliating the applicant by having him so arrested,
either reject the application forthwith or issue an interim order for the grant of anticipatory bail :
Provided that, where the High Court or, as the case may be, the Court of Session, has not passed any interim order under this sub-section or has rejected the application for grant of anticipatory bail, it shall be open to an officer incharge of a police station to arrest, without warrant the applicant on the basis of the accusation apprehended in such application.
(1A) Where the Court grants an interim order under sub-section (1), it shall forthwith cause a notice being not less than seven days notice, together with a copy of such order to be served on the Public Prosecutor and the Superintendent of Police, with a view to give the Public Prosecutor a reasonable opportunity of being heard when the application shall be finally heard by the Court.
(1B) The presence of the applicant seeking anticipatory bail shall be obligatory at the time of final hearing of the application and passing of final order by the Court, if on an application made to it by the Public Prosecutor, the Court considers such presence necessary in the interest of justice.
(2) When the High Court or the Court of Session makes a direction under sub-section (1), it may include such conditions in such directions in the light of the facts of the particular case, as it may thinks fit, including -
(i) a condition that the person shall make himself available for interrogation by a police officer as and when required;
(ii) a condition that the person shall not, directly or indirectly, make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him from disclosing such facts to the court or to any police officer;
(iii) a condition that the person shall not leave India without the previous permission of the court;
(iv) such other condition as may be imposed under sub-section (3) of section 437, as if the bail were granted -under that section.
(3) If such person is thereafter arrested without warrant by an officer in charge of a police station on such accusation, and is prepared either at the time of arrest or at any time while in the custody of such officer to give bail, he shall be released on bail, and if a Magistrate taking cognizance of such offence decides that a warrant should issue in the first instance against that person, he shall issue a bailable warrant in conformity with the direction of the court under sub-section (1)."
17. The aforesaid provision in its denotative compass and connotative expanse enables one to apply and submit an application for bail where one anticipates his arrest in a non-bailable offence. Though the provision does not use the expression anticipatory bail, yet the same has come in vogue by general usage and also has gained acceptation in the legal world.
18. The Constitution Bench in Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia etc. v. The State of Punjab, AIR 1980 SC 1632, has drawn a distinction between an order of ordinary bail and order of anticipatory bail by stating that the former is granted when the accused is in custody and, therefore, means release from the custody of the Police, and the latter is granted in anticipation of arrest and hence, effective at the very moment of arrest. It has been held therein, an order of anticipatory bail constitutes, so to say, an insurance against Police custody falling upon arrest for offences in respect of which the order is issued. Their Lordships clarifying the distinction have observed that unlike a post- arrest order of bail, it is a prearrest legal process which directs that if the person in whose favour it is issued is thereafter arrested on the accusation in respect of which the direction is issued, he shall be released on bail.
19. The Constitution Bench partly accepted the verdict in Balchand Jain v State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1976 SC 366 by stating as follow :-
"We agree, with respect, that the power conferred by Section 438 is of an extraordinary character in the sense indicated above, namely, that it is not ordinarily resorted to like the power conferred by Sections 437 and 439. We also agree that the power to grant anticipatory bail should be exercised with due care and circumspection."
20. Thereafter, the larger Bench referred to the concept of liberty engrafted in Article 21 of the Constitution, situational and circumstantial differences from case to case and observed that in regard to anticipatory bail, if the proposed accusation appears to stem not from motives of furthering the ends of justice but from some ulterior motive, the object being to injure and humiliate the applicant by having him arrested, a direction for the release of the applicant on bail in the event of his arrest would generally be made. On the other hand, if it appears likely, considering the antecedents of the applicant, that taking advantage of the order of anticipatory bail he will flee from justice, such an order would not be made. However, it cannot be laid down as an inexorable rule that anticipatory bail cannot be granted unless the proposed accusation appears to be actuated by mala fides; and equally, that anticipatory bail must be granted if there is no fear that the applicant will abscond. The Constitution Bench also opined the Court has to take into consideration the combined effect of several other considerations which are too numerous to enumerate and the legislature has endowed the responsibility on the High Court and the Court of Session because of their experience.
21. The Constitution Bench proceeded to state the essential concept of exercise of jurisdiction under Section 438 of the Code on following terms :-
"Exercise of jurisdiction under Section 438 of Code of Criminal Procedure is extremely important judicial function of a judge and must be entrusted to judicial officers with some experience and good track record. Both individual and society have vital interest in orders passed by the courts in anticipatory bail applications."
22. In Savitri Agarwal v. State of Maharashtra and Anr., 2009(3) R.C.R.(Criminal) 792 : 2009(4) R.A.J. 516 : (2009)8 SCC 325, the Bench culled out the principles laid down in Gurbaksh Singh (supra). Some principles which are necessary to be reproduced are as follows :-
"(i) Before power under Sub-section (1) of Section 438 of the Code is exercised, the Court must be satisfied that the applicant invoking the provision has reason to believe that he is likely to be arrested for a non- bailable offence and that belief must be founded on reasonable grounds. Mere "fear" is not belief, for which reason, it is not enough for the applicant to show that he has some sort of vague apprehension that some one is going to make an accusation against him, in pursuance of which he may be arrested. The grounds on which the belief of the applicant is based that he may be arrested for a non-bailable offence, must be capable of being examined by the Court objectively. Specific events and facts must be disclosed by the applicant in order to enable the Court to judge of the reasonableness of his belief, the existence of which is the sine qua non of the exercise of power conferred by the Section.
(ii) The provisions of Section 438 cannot be invoked after the arrest of the accused. After arrest, the accused must seek his remedy under Section 437 or Section 439 of the Code, if he wants to be released on bail in respect of the offence or offences for which he is arrested.
(viii) An interim bail order can be passed under Section 438 of the Code without notice to the Public Prosecutor but notice should be issued to the Public Prosecutor or to the Government advocate forthwith and the question of bail should be re-examined in the light of respective contentions of the parties. The adinterim order too must conform to the requirements of the Section and suitable conditions should be imposed on the applicant even at that stage."
23. At this juncture we may note with profit that there was some departure in certain decisions after the Constitution Bench decision. In Salauddin Abdulsamad Shaikh v. State of Maharashta, 1998(2) R.C.R.(Criminal) 96 : AIR 1996 SC 1042, it was held that it was necessary that under certain circumstances anticipatory bail order should be of a limited duration only and ordinarily on the expiry of that duration or extended duration the Court granting anticipatory bail should leave it to the regular court to deal with the matter on appreciation of material placed before it.
24. In K.L. Verma v. State and Anr., 1997(1) R.C.R.(Criminal) 493 : (1998)9 SCC 348, it was ruled that limited duration must be determined having regard to the facts of the case and the need to give the accused sufficient time to move the court for regular bail and to give the regular court sufficient time to determine the bail application. It was further observed therein that till the bail application is disposed of one way or the other, the Court may allow the accused to remain on anticipatory bail.
25. In Nirmal Jeet Kaur v. State of M. P. and Another, 2004(4) R.C.R.(Criminal) 376 : 2004(3) Apex Criminal 557 : (2004)7 SCC 558, the decision in K.L. Verma's case (supra) was clarified by stating that the benefit of anticipatory bail may be extended few days thereafter to enable the accused persons to move the High Court if they so desire.
26. In Adri Dharan Das v. State of West Bengal, 2005(2) R.C.R.(Criminal) 32 : 2005(1) Apex Criminal 473 : (2005)4 SCC 303, a two-Judge Bench while accepting for grant of bail for limited duration has held that arrest is a part of the process of investigation intended to secure several purposes. The accused may have to be questioned in detail regarding various facets of motive, preparation, commission and aftermath of the crime and the connection of other persons, if any, in the crime. There may be circumstances in which the accused may provide information leading to discovery of material facts. It may be necessary to curtail his freedom in order to enable the investigation to proceed without hindrance and to protect witnesses and persons connected with the victim of the crime, to prevent his disappearance to maintain law and order in the locality. For these or other reasons, arrest may become inevitable part of the process of investigation. The legality of the proposed arrest cannot be gone into in an application under Section 438 of the Code. The role of the investigator is well-defined and the jurisdictional scope of interference by the Court in the process of investigation is limited. The Court ordinarily will not interfere with the investigation of a crime or with the arrest of accused in a cognizable offence. An interim order restraining arrest, if passed while dealing with an application under Section 438 of the Code will amount to interference in the investigation, which cannot, at any rate, be done under Section 438 of the Code.
27. After analysing the ratio in the cases of Salauddin Abdulsamad Shaikh (supra), K.L. Verma (supra), Nirmal Jeet Kaur (supra), Niranjan Singh and Anr. v. Prabhakar Rajaram Kharote and Ors., (1980)2 SCC 559 the Bench opined thus :-
"14. After analyzing the crucial question is when a person is in custody, within the meaning of Section 439 of the Code, it was held in Nirma l Jeet Kaur's case (supra) and Sunita Devi's case (supra) that for making an application under Section 439 the fundamental requirement is that the accused should be in custody. As observed in Salauddin's case (supra) the protection in terms of Section 438 is for a limited duration during which the regular Court has to be moved for bail. Obviously, such bail is bail in terms of Section 439 of the Code, mandating the applicant to be in custody. Otherwise, the distinction between orders under Sections 438 and 439 shall be rendered meaningless and redundant.
15. If the protective umbrella of Section 438 is extended beyond what was laid down in Salauddin's case (supra) the result would be clear bypassing of what is mandated in Section 439 regarding custody. In other words, till the applicant avails remedies up to higher Courts, the requirements of Section 439 become dead letter. No part of a statute can be rendered redundant in that manner."
28. In Union of India v. Padam Narain Agarwal, 2008(4) R.C.R.(Criminal) 665 : 2008(6) R.A.J. 10 : AIR 2009 SC 254 this Court while dealing with an order wherein the High Court had directed that the respondent therein shall appear before the concerned customs authorities in response to the summons issued to them and in case the custom authorities found a nonbailable against the accused persons they shall not arrest without ten days prior notice to them. The two-Judge Bench relied on the decisions in Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia (supra), Adri Dharan Das (supra), and State of Mahrashtra v. Mohd. Rashid and Anr., (2005)7 SCC 56 and eventually held thus :-
"In our judgment, on the facts and in the circumstances of the present case, neither of the above directions can be said to be legal, valid or in consonance with law. Firstly, the order passed by the High Court is a blanket one as held by the Constitution Bench of this Court in Gurbaksh Singh and seeks to grant protection to respondents in respect of any non-bailable offence. Secondly, it illegally obstructs, interferes and curtails the authority of Custom Officers from exercising statutory power of arrest a person said to have committed a non-bailable offence by imposing a condition of giving ten days prior notice, a condition not warranted by law. The order passed by the High Court to the extent of directions issued to the Custom Authorities is, therefore, liable to be set aside and is hereby set aside."
29. Be it noted, the principle of grant of anticipatory bail for a limited duration in cases of Salauddin Abdulsamad Shaikh (supra), K.L. Verma (supra), Adri Dharan Das (supra), Sunita Devi v. State of Bihar & Anr., 2005(1) R.C.R.(Criminal) 410 : 2005(1) Apex Criminal 244 : (2005)1 SCC 608 was held to be contrary to the Constitution decision in Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia's case (supra) by a two-Judge Bench in Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre v. State of Maharashtra and Ors., 2011(1) R.C.R.(Criminal) 126 : 2010(6) Recent Apex Judgments (R.A.J.) 581 : (2011)1 SCC 694 and accordingly the said decisions were treated as per incurium. It is worth noting though the Bench treated Adri Dharan Das (supra) to be per incuriam, as far as it pertained to grant of anticipatory bail for limited duration, yet it has not held that the view expressed therein that the earlier decisions pertaining to the concept of deemed custody as laid down in Salauddin Abdulsamad Shaikh (supra) and similar line of cases was per incuriam. It is so as the introversy involved in Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre (supra) did not relate to the said arena.
30. We have referred to the aforesaid pronouncements to highlight how the Constitution Bench in the case of Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia (supra) had analysed and explained the intrinsic underlying concepts under Section 438 of the Code, the nature of orders to be passed while conferring the said privilege, the conditions that are imposable and the discretions to be used by the courts. On a reading of the said authoritative pronouncement and the principles that have been culled out in Savitri Agarwal (supra) there is remotely no indication that the Court of Session or the High Court can pass an order that on surrendering of the accused before the Magistrate he shall be released on bail on such terms and conditions as the learned Magistrate may deem fit and proper or the superior court would impose conditions for grant of bail on such surrender. When the High Court in categorical terms has expressed the view that it not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the accused petitioners it could not have issued such a direction which would tantamount to conferment of benefit by which the accused would be in a position to avoid arrest. It is in clear violation of the language employed in the statutory provision and in flagrant violation of the dictum laid down in the case of Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia (supra) and the principles culled out in the case of Savitri Agarwal (supra). It is clear as crystal the court cannot issue a blanket order restraining arrest and it can only issue an interim order and the interim order must also conform to the requirement of the section and suitable conditions should be imposed. In the case of Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia (supra) the Constitution Bench has clearly observed that exercise of jurisdiction under Section 438 of the Code is an extremely important judicial function of a judge and both individual and society have vital interest in the orders passed by the court in anticipatory bail applications.
31. In this context it is profitable to refer to a three-Judge Bench decision in Dr. Narendra K. Amin v. State of Gujarat and another, 2008(2) R.C.R.(Criminal) 858 : 2008(3) R.A.J. 339 : 2008 (6) SCALE 415. In the said case a learned Judge of the Gujarat High Court cancelled the bail granted to the appellant therein in exercise of power under Section 439(2) of the Code. It was contended before this Court that the High Court had completely erred by not properly appreciating the distinction between the parameters for grant of bail and cancellation of bail. The Bench referred to the decision in Puran v. Rambilas and another, 2001(2) R.C.R.(Criminal) 801 : (2001)6 SCC 338 wherein it has been noted that the concept of setting aside an unjustified, illegal or perverse order is totally different from the cancelling an order of bail on the ground that the accused has misconducted himself or because of some supervening circumstances warranting such cancellation. The three-Judge Bench further observed that when irrelevant materials have been taken into consideration the same makes the order granting bail vulnerable. In essence, the three-Judge Bench has opined that if the order is perverse, the same can be set at naught by the superior court. In the case at hand the direction to admit the accused persons to bail on their surrendering has no sanction in law and, in fact, creates a dent in the sacrosanctity of law. It is contradictory in terms and law does not countenance paradoxes. It gains respectability and acceptability when its solemnity is maintained. Passing such kind of orders the interest of the collective at large and that of the individual victims is jeopardised. That apart, it curtails the power of the regular court dealing with the bail applications.
32. In this regard it is to be borne in mind that a court of law has to act within the statutory command and not deviate from it. It is a well settled proposition of law what cannot be done directly, cannot be done indirectly. While exercising a statutory power a court is bound to act within the four corners thereof. The statutory exercise of power stands on a different footing than exercise of power of judicial review. This has been so stated in Bay Berry Apartments (P) Ltd. and Anr. v. Shobha and Ors., (2006)13 SCC 737 and U.P. State Brassware Corporation Ltd. and Anr. v. Uday Narain Pandey, 2006(1) S.C.T. 77 : (2006)1 SCC 479.
33. Judging on the foundation of aforesaid well settled principles, the irresistible conclusion is that the impugned orders directing enlargement of bail of the accused persons, namely, Uttam Das, Abhimanyu Das and Murlidhar Patra by the Magistrate on their surrendering are wholly unsustainable and bound to founder and accordingly the said directions are set aside. Consequently the bail bonds of the aforenamed accused persons are cancelled and they shall be taken into custody forthwith. It needs no special emphasis to state that they are entitled to move applications for grant of bail under Section 439 of the Code which shall be considered on their own merits.
34. The appeals are accordingly disposed of.
Appeal disposed of.
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Geek Upd8 - Law Reporter: Bail application rejected by High Court - High Court direct the Magistrate to grant bail if accused surrenders before him - Order of High Court set aside
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2019 BMW X1: crossover gets a facelift and plug-in tech
Author: James Kelly | Updated: 29 May 2019 12:10
The BMW X1 has been updated for 2019, with the refreshed crossover boasting styling tweaks, additional in-car tech and a plug-in drivetrain option.
With prices starting from £28,795, deliveries ARE set to commence from mid-July. here’s what you need to know…
Externally, the design remains by and large the same. However, there are new bumpers and up front, a larger grille that brings the X1 in line with the newer BMW models.
Another highlight can be found at the driver’s-side exterior mirror, which projects a two- tone LED ‘X1’ image when the car is unlocked. A trio of new exterior colours are available, as well as a range of new 17in, 18in and 19in alloy wheel options.
M Sport models will feature styling changes to help them stand out from more mundane models. These include a 10mm drop in ride height, body-coloured trim and larger air intakes in the front bumper.
On the inside you’ll now find BMW’s latest iDrive infotainment system. All models will most likely boast an 8.8in infotainment screen, with a 10.25in unit available as an optional extra.
It also comes with BMW’s ConnectedDrive – a service that offers convenience-enhancing functions to assist the person at the wheel. For example, the BMW Connected app makes it possible to send destinations directly from your phone to the X1’s navigation system.
Three new upholstery options have been added, while trim alternations include some new contrasting stitching on the instrument panel. Another optional extra is a vivid Head-up display system, while a 5.7in driver info display is standard across the range.
The engine line-up from launch includes the sDrive 18i and 20i petrol units offering 140 and 192hp respectively. The sDrive 18d diesel produces 150hp and is also available with xDrive. The more potent 190hp 20d diesel comes with xDrive as standard.
However, from March 2020 the X1 will be available with plug-in tech in the form of the xDrive 25e. It’s the latest in a line of BMWs that are getting plug-in tech, and will offer 31 miles of electric-only range. Fuel consumption figures are to be confirmed, but this PHEV produces an average of 43g/km of CO2.
The BMW TwinPower Turbo engine, which generates 125hp and peak torque of 220Nm, will power the front wheels, while the electric drive system with rated output of 95hp and torque of 165Nm will channel its power to the rear wheels.
We’ll bring you more info on the plug-in when further details are revealed. In the meantime, you can read about another new BMW – the next-gen 1 Series hatchback.
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Scotland Loves Local
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The Scotland Loves Local campaign is a national initiative designed to encourage all those who live in Scotland to think local first and support their high streets safely and in line with public health guidelines. The outbreak of Coronavirus has caused significant challenges for our town centres, high streets and local businesses. They have lost out on vital trade because they had to close to keep us safe. Many of them have gone to enormous lengths to support the most vulnerable people in our communities.
As Scotland begins to ease lockdown restrictions and move into recovery, now is the time to support them to get back on their feet. However, we know coronavirus is still a significant risk to local communities and so it is important that people continue to follow the public health guidelines and take care.
Scotland’s towns are a gateway to our past. They are a rich tapestry of Scottish history and our journey to becoming the society and nation we are now. Scotland loves local.
But our high streets aren’t just a series of buildings where things are bought and sold. The people who run local businesses are our brothers and sisters, our friends, our aunts and uncles, our neighbours. Whether it’s an emergency pint of milk, catching up with old friends at Christmas in the local pub or offering a lovely coffee when there’s no big chain available, our high streets have always been there for us.
Our small businesses, whether a pub, cafe, tailor, butcher or a grocery shop, are the lifeblood of our Scottish economy. They take risks each and every day to create jobs and prosperity to maintain our way of life. Now is the time to support them to get back on their feet. Now is the time to be there for them. Now is the time to think local first. This isn’t just about keeping shop units occupied, it’s about supporting the very fabric of our society and community.
Whether it’s a book, or a pint of milk, a night out and a meal, a bedside table or some garden furniture, we’re asking you to take care and think local first.
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Lyon Photography, Photographs by James Alexander Lyon (Urban Curve), specialising in Corporate Portraits, Automotive, Travel Stock Images, Event Photography, Fashion and Video. Based in Milton Keynes for the UK and Europe.
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Natalie Page – The Face of Oxford Fashion Week
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Natalie Page – The Face of Oxford Fashion Week – Lyon Photography
Last night Natalie Page was announced as The Face of Oxford Fashion Week 2015 (#OFW2015) at Mal Maison in Oxford. Carl Anglim and Tiffany Saunders are seen here with Natalie Page and the OFW team, making their announcement at 9pm. Each image of the likely candidates (a lot taken by Lyon Photography) were voted on through social media. You can book your tickets here http://www.oxfordfashionweek.com/tickets.html
More images from the event are here on a slideshow below. The images will change every 5 seconds but to accelerate the transition, just click on the image.
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Oxford Mail Searching for The Face Of Oxford Fashion Week
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Oxford Fashion Week 2015 casting gets underway at The Varsity Club, Oxford, Printed article in the Oxford Mail Searching for The Face Of Oxford Fashion Week.
Below is a selection of images taken over the two days that I was there shooting for Oxford Fashion Week 2015. The images should scroll every 5 seconds but you can advance this by clicking on each image.
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Oxford Fashion Week 2015 Casting – Lyon Photography
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I spent last Friday and Saturday (6th and 7th of February) with the lovely people of Oxford Fashion Week. We were all set up in The Varsity Club in Oxford’s City Centre to cast for the forthcoming shows in early March. I’d set up at the far end of the club with a large studio strobe attached to an Octobox ready to shoot each hopeful candidate before they were put through their paces by the OFW2015 team. I hadn’t realised at the time that whilst photographing I was the one being photographed. Well more to the point, my arse was more of the star! The final image so I have just discovered was published in The Oxford Mail. The images form the casting can be seen HERE.
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The Launch of Oxford Fashion Week 2015
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The Launch of Oxford Fashion Week 2015 – Lyon Photography
This week I was invited to shoot at the Oxford Fashion Week 2015 Press Launch event at The Varsity Club in Oxford’s City Centre. Here are some images from the event. Its exactly a month till the event starts in early March. You can book your tickets here http://www.oxfordfashionweek.com/tickets.html
Here is the image used showing the launch with Carl Anglim and his team in attendance. It promises to be bigger and better than the last! You heard it here first…
You can see all the other images from the event below. Images with change every 5 seconds. To accelerate the transitions just click the image.
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Santa Run 2014 for Helen and Douglas House – Oxford
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I was privileged to be asked to shoot the Santa Run in Oxford’s City Centre last Sunday. The run, in aid of Helen and Douglas House Hospice in Oxford is an annual event with 1700 runners entering all dressed in Santa outfits. The 2 mile course through part of the city centre and parks brings both competitive club runners, novices, wheel chair users and dogs to take part in a very fun and worthwhile cause. It costs around £6.2m to run the full-time hospices of which around a quarter of this is funded by government, so events like this are essential to keep the hospice running to its full potential and exceptional level of care for babies through to young adults and their families.
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The image above made BBC Oxford’s News Page later that day. There are also some edited highlights on the slide show below.
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Helen & Douglas House promote their Santas Run with Stagecoach
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Pete West and I were asked to take images for the press launch, media and for the advertising banners to be sited inside the buses. The results are below.
If you are free on Sunday the 14th of December come and see the Santas running around Oxford early in the morning, it really is quite a site and you will be supporting a great local charity.
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Here is the final piece for the insides of the buses – Design and artwork by Annalise Taylor.
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Vivien Sheriff At Goodwood Revival
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This year I was at the Goodwood Revival for the full three days and the weather this time was glorious (last years was cold and windy)! I was covering the creative output of the wonderful Betty’s Salon under the creative leadership of Lisa George. One of her clients, Vivien Sheriff the talented and creative Milliner were in for a vintage make-over with three models to be photographed by the Pussy Galor (Bond) helicopter. I tagged along taking images of the lovely ladies getting ready and then on to the helicopter and some vintage cars for good measure. I’ve posted some of the images below with links to a couple of published articles. Thank you Vivien Sheriff and Anna Hickling for the opportunity.
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Revival story on Dorset Society website:
http://www.dorsetsociety.co.uk/features/11502424.Fashion__Vivien_Sheriff_design_team_step_back_to_1964/
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The Sun – Images from Models of Diversity, today’s issue of The Sun Newspaper (29-11-13) had three of my images of disabled models, Jack Eyers, Debbie Van Der Putten and Kelly Knox. Text credits for models and a quote from Chelsey Reynolds, no credit for poor old photographer! Great to see Models of Diversity getting more mainstream press! Onwards and upwards.
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Desirable Magazine is a Women’s Fashion and Lifestyle Magazine. This issue features Teen Pop Star/Miss Teen Asia USA Meeghan Henry, Color Splash, The End of the Male Supermodel , Destination Home with Max Tucci, Love The Skin your In, Harlot Hotel, Desirable Magazine’s Shop and Indulge Coverage, Review of Apple’s new Mac Book Pro and more.
Another editorial spin-off from the billboard campaign, back in September during the Paralympics. Desirable Magazine in California kindly published our images (Models of Diversity and Me) and also wrote an article about the campaign. I’m so happy to see the campaign start to spread its wings and take our message out to the world.
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Myanmar Muslims need humanitarian aid: UN
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UNITED NATIONS: Nearly half a million people, mostly Muslims, continue to require humanitarian assistance three years after inter-communal violence raked Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, the United Nations Humanitarian office said on Friday.
According to the UN’s over 416,000 people remain in need of relief, including almost 140,000 displaced people living in dire conditions in camps and many others without citizenship in isolated villages.
To that point, OCHA confirmed that up to 40,000 of the displaced people in Rakhine state live in camps within 500 metres of the coastline, leaving them vulnerable to the elements amid an imminent monsoon season.
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Citizen Assessment of 3 years of Delhi Government
• Majority feel Government has delivered improvement in areas of healthcare, water supply, power supply, school education and fighting corruption
• Majority feel air quality has deteriorated and not much done by Government to improve it
• Steady Improvement in performance on key parameters and promises made by the government
Feb 14th, 2018, New DelhiThe Delhi Government run by Aam Aadmi Party completes three years of governance on Feb 14, 2018, it is time to evaluate its impact on the life of Delhites. To get measurable performance data points, LocalCircles conducted a 7-point online poll among citizens in Delhi which received over 25,000 total votes. To understand the change comparison with last years’ poll are also given.
Overall the results indicate that the Delhi Government has delivered improvements on basic necessities like water supply, power supply, health and school education. The results also indicate deterioration in air quality and limited effort from the Government. On the corruption front, after 3 years people do feel that corruption in areas governed by Delhi Government which exclude law, order, traffic and sanitation has reduced.
However, the Government does suffer from the ‘high expectations syndrome’ where only 38% citizens feel that it has met or exceeded expectations. The first 49-day term of the current Government was a great trailer that led to building up of very high expectation. There have been misses too: an effective anti-corruption hotline still does not exist, the city does not have wi-fi system as promised, cases of rapes are still a daily occurrence, public toilets don’t function and garbage heaps are a regular sight across the city. Hence there are still areas of improvement for the next two years.
LocalCircles also conducted a similar exercise in Feb 2017 at the completion of 2 years of Delhi Government and the areas of basic necessities like water supply, power supply, health and school education, there has been steady improvement from year 2 to year 3. Pollution or Air quality is one area that has shown deterioration while corruption levels are still them same indicating no progress in the 3rd year.
Comparison: 2-years performance vs 3-years performance
LocalCircles had conducted a similar study when AAP’s Delhi Government had turned 2 years old. The results of the 2-year vs 3-year comparison are as follows:
• Availability, affordability and quality of healthcare services shows improvement
• Availability, affordability and quality of school education in Delhi shows improvement
• Availability, billing accuracy and quality of water supply shows an improvement
• Availability and affordability of power supply in Delhi shows improvement
• Pollution levels show deterioration
• Corruption levels are almost the same
Below is the breakdown of the report by individual polls:
Healthcare in Delhi – 55% believe there has been an improvement in healthcare services
The first question asked how people how they rate the improvement in healthcare services in Delhi in the last 3 years. They were specifically asked to keep availability, affordability and quality as key parameters. 26% said there was significant improvement and 29% said there was some improvement in this area. 35% felt there has been no improvement while 10% felt the situation has gotten worse. Mohalla Clinic project has been liked by citizens and the scheme by Delhi Government where patients coming to Government hospitals can get 13 high-end diagnostic tests free of cost at selected private centres has also been appreciated. Even in Delhi Government hospitals according to citizens, availability of Doctors has improved. However, cases of touts, bribes to Doctors for admission and supplies do continue in these hospitals and something that citizens want action on. Also, many citizens feel that the Government has not been able to restrict poor and unethical practices by private hospitals and pathology labs.
School Education in Delhi – 58% believe there has been an improvement in school education
The next question asked how citizens of Delhi rated improvement in school education in the last 3 years, keeping key parameters like availability, affordability and quality in mind. 36% felt there was significant improvement and 22% felt there was at least some improvement. 30% said there was no improvement at all and 12% said it had gotten worse. The AAP Government had promised to build 500 schools in Delhi when they came into power but noting substantial has been done on it till date. However, the Government according to citizens has done well on the fee increase issue in private schools and made sure that the yearly fee hike in private schools is under control. They have also doubled the education budget for the state last year and many schools are being upgraded. In addition, citizens feel that the Government has been able to improve accountability of teachers and principals in Government schools. On the EWS front, citizens feel that there are still many gaps as people in collusion with inspection officers are easily able to get classified in EWS category. Cases of people temporarily hiding their assets for EWS inspection regarding school admissions have also been reported.
Water supply in Delhi – 62% feel there has been an improvement in water supply
When it came to improvement in water supply in Delhi in the last 3 years, 34% said there was significant improvement and 28% said there was some improvement. 25% said there was no improvement at all while 13% said the situation had worsened. Citizens were asked to consider key parameters as availability, billing accuracy and quality. Lower water bills, availability of piped water as compared to tankers used previously has led to improvement in citizen ratings. However, the recent news of spike in ammonia levels in the waters of in Delhi already has people worried and has led to a water shortage in different part of the city. The Delhi Jal Board is equipped to treat up to 0.9 ppm of ammonia level in water, which currently stands at 2.23 ppm.
Power supply in Delhi – 55% feel there has been an improvement in power supply
Power supply has been an area of concern in Delhi for many years with peak summer season seeing long power cuts in different parts of the state. Considering availability and affordability as the key parameters, 33% citizens said that the situation of power supply has significantly improved in Delhi in the last 3 years whereas another 22% said that it had improved a little bit. 29% said there has been no improvement in power supply and 16% said it had gotten worse. Once again, lower power tariffs over a period of time have made people happy.
Pollution in Delhi – 70% feel there has been deterioration or no improvement in air quality
Delhi is constantly in news due to its poor air quality. People in Delhi were asked to rate the improvement in air quality in the last 3 years and 49% citizens said that that it had gotten worse. 21% said there was no improvement, 22% said there was some improvement and only 8% said that there was significant improvement in Delhi’s air quality. Though the Delhi Government blamed the air quality issues on stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana in October, the PM 2.5 in late December was found to be hovering in the 900 range. People feel the Government hasn’t taken any efforts at all after the Odd Even program in 2015. Working with Haryana so the small stretch in KMP highway is completed faster thereby leading to Haryana vehicles not passing through Delhi hasn’t been done. Also, not much progress has been made in implementing mechanized cleaning across Delhi or a zero-tolerance model for garbage burning according to people.
Corruption in Delhi – 59% feel there has been a reduction in corruption in workings of Delhi Government
Following question asked citizens to rate the state of corruption in the state in the last 3 years. 37% said the reduction in corruption was significant, 22% said it was minor, 33% said there was no reduction and 8% said corruption had increased. Citizens were clearly told that Police and Municipal governance does not come under jurisdiction of Delhi Government and it should not be included in the evaluation for fair assessment. People do feel that Corruption in the last 3 years has reduced in areas of Water Supply, Power Supply, Healthcare, School Education, Transport/RTO, Trade Licenses, etc. However, reports about collusive corruption keep coming up in LocalCircles anti-corruption community where Businesses and Administrators are colluding for tenders, contracts or simply transactional cases where both parties benefit and disclosure is in the interest of none.
Overall citizen perception – 38% citizens feel Delhi Government has met or exceeded expectations
Overall, 62% citizens said that the performance of Delhi Government in the last 3 years has been below expectation. 27% said the performance had met their expectation while 11% said it had exceeded their expectations. This is clearly due to the high expectations that the Government had set during its initial ’49-day’ stint and the big promises it had made to come back into power. Citizens believe that the Government has done some good work in the last 3 years in areas of basic necessities of citizens but would need to raise its standards soon to make Delhi a world class city in every aspect. People also feel that the Delhi Government leaders need to have a more collaborative approach in working with the Central Government and ensure they on their end are doing everything by the book.
• Citizen Assessment of 2 years of Delhi Government
• 69% of the Delhi-NCR citizens surveyed in favour of deploying CRPF in Punjab to enforce stubble burning ban
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When an astronaut on HADRIAN'S WALL is murdered, pill-popping detective Simon Moore is dispatched to investigate the ship's crew... including his own ex-wife. But if Simon's not careful, what he finds could make the interstellar Cold War go red hot. From the creative team behind the critically-acclaimed series C.O.W.L. comes a gripping, locked room murder mystery where the secrets of everyone involved are as dark as the space that surrounds them.
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Christian Publishers across Globe Serve Readers, Strategize amid Pandemic
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The coronavirus pandemic’s impact on global publishing and bookselling has been severe, but authors and publishers are seeking creative means to reach online readers and develop new strategies to stay afloat. Christian publishing leaders from seven nations, including China and Italy, gave updates and prayed for each other in MAI’s online “Global Townhall Prayer Meeting” with participants from 24 nations on March 31.
“For Christians this situation is a mirror to see and know ourselves better, to rely on God more,” reflected Larry Liu, general manager of Eight Blessings Communications in Beijing. Obtaining an ISBN in China and gaining approval for any Christian title was always challenging, but the process abruptly halted during the pandemic. Liu’s team seized the opportunity to launch audio books and a weekly online curriculum to help parents answer kids’ difficult questions.
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In Africa where the pandemic is just hitting, “most Christian publishers don’t offer ebooks or online products, so book sales will suffer,” said MAI-Africa Chair Rose Birenge of Kenya, director of partnerships for Biblica Africa. With 60 percent of Africans living below the poverty line, a lockdown means immediate distress due to lack of food and other basics. “Pray for the Church to be the hands, feet and heart of Jesus at this moment,” she asked.
Latin American publishers are also hampered by an inability to deliver books without bookstores or churches open, says Ian Darke, coordinator of Letra Viva, a network of 30-some Christian publishing houses in Spanish-speaking Latin America. He asked prayer for a large consignment of Bible commentaries heading to Cuba and Venezuela to bless readers there.
In North America, where more than 50 percent of sales for many Christian publishers comes from Amazon, which has dramatically trimmed its ordering books until April 21 or later, the impact of the global health crisis has been severe, said Jeff Crosby, publisher of Intervarsity Press USA and Board chair of ECPA. As sales slow following Amazon’s focus on health and home necessities over books and the temporary closure of Barnes & Noble and most Christian bookstores, many Christian publishing staff throughout the country fear for their jobs and wages. All but eight of IVP’s 90 employees are working remotely or not at all—if their jobs don’t allow it, Crosby noted, requesting prayer for publishers to honor their staff, authors and customers with all decisions that may need to be made.
Yna Reyes, left, at LittWorld2018 in Singapore with Ayelen Horowitz of Argentina and Frank Rodriguez of Colombia. By Jeam Wong.
Lebanese publishers were already reeling from the nation’s economic crisis. With 50 percent inflation before the coronavirus hit, Sawsan Tannoury had to cut staff wages at Dar Manhal al Hayat publishing house in Beirut. But bright spots exist: only two months ago the publisher launched an ebookstore on Kindle. And Syrian refugee families are finding hope via Christian publications and Bibles included with food boxes.
Filipinos describe their island nation as a social-media capital, so authors and publishers are busy creating daily resources for online readers. A free weekly ebook, a prayer guide, downloadable kids’ activities, children’s storytelling and video messages from authors comprise #RejoiceInHope, the social-media campaign launched by OMF Literature, Philippines.
“Pray for books, ‘our little missionaries,’ that are now in many households nationwide,” said Yna Reyes, OMF Lit publishing and communications director and an MAI-Asia trustee. “May our books be used by the Holy Spirit to encourage those who are anxious, give hope to those in distress, and draw our fellow Filipinos to the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Daniela Benevelli, Italy
Other writers and publishers echoed Reyes’s desire to find opportunities to spread God’s love in a time of despair. “What you’ve shared makes me feel less alone in the fight,” said MAI-Europe Trustee Daniela Benevelli, editorial and copyright manager of La Casa della Bibbia in Italy, the world’s deadliest hotspot of the pandemic. The Italian publisher has partnered with Samaritan’s Purse by sending a Christian book, a DVD and New Testaments to a field hospital for COVID-19 patients in the hard-hit northern region.
“It was an honor to have been with you all today from across the world,” Jeff Crosby wrote the other speakers after the online meeting. “You, your companies, teams and countries will remain in my heart and my prayers throughout the journey still ahead of each of us.”
With the pandemic affecting Christian publishing and bookselling worldwide, MAI President John Maust emphasized the ongoing importance of prayer. He led this closing prayer based on Colossians 4:2-4:
“Lord, you are in control. Open a door for our message to proclaim the ministry of Christ clearly. It’s hard to publish and write clear text; may we work hard at it. Help us to be wise in how we interact with those who don’t know you. May our words, books and conversations be full of grace and salt, not bland and lifeless, so we know how to answer the many people who have questions. Help us all to stay connected in communication and prayer of the Spirit. Thank you for the privilege of serving you in this period of world history.”
Watch a video of the online meeting, “At Such a Time as This: MAI global townhall prayer meeting.”
Top photo by Jeam Wong, Singapore
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File #: Int 0388-2004 Version: * Name: Including candidates for justice of the supreme court, surrogate's court or civil court in the NYC voluntary Campaign Finance Program.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Governmental Operations
On agenda: 6/7/2004
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to including candidates for justice of the supreme court, surrogate’s court or civil court in the New York City voluntary Campaign Finance Program.
Sponsors: David Yassky, Bill Perkins, Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., Charles Barron, Gale A. Brewer, Yvette D. Clarke, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Vincent J. Gentile, Sara M. Gonzalez, Robert Jackson, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, John C. Liu, Miguel Martinez, Hiram Monserrate, Annabel Palma, Christine C. Quinn, Philip Reed, Diana Reyna, Joel Rivera, Larry B. Seabrook, Kendall Stewart, Tony Avella
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Hearing Transcript
12/31/2005 * David Yassky City Council Filed (End of Session) Action details Meeting details Not available
11/30/2004 * David Yassky Committee on Governmental Operations Hearing Held by Committee Action details Meeting details Not available
11/30/2004 * David Yassky Committee on Governmental Operations Laid Over by Committee Action details Meeting details Not available
6/7/2004 * David Yassky City Council Referred to Comm by Council Action details Meeting details Not available
6/7/2004 * David Yassky City Council Introduced by Council Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 388
By Council Members Yassky, Perkins, Addabbo, Barron, Brewer, Clarke, Comrie, Gentile, Gonzalez, Jackson, James, Koppell, Liu, Martinez, Monserrate, Palma, Quinn, Reed, Reyna, Rivera, Seabrook, Stewart and Avella
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to including candidates for justice of the supreme court, surrogate’s court or civil court in the New York City voluntary Campaign Finance Program.
Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 10 of section 3-702 of the administrative code of the city of New York are amended to read as follows:
1. The term "participating candidate" shall mean any candidate for nomination for election, or election, to the office of mayor, public advocate, comptroller, borough president, justice of the supreme court, surrogate’s court or civil court, or member of the city council who files a written certification pursuant to section 3-703 of this chapter.
10. The term "covered election" shall mean any primary, runoff primary, special, or general election for nomination for election, or election, to the office of mayor, public advocate, comptroller, borough president, justice of the supreme court, surrogate’s court or civil court, or member of the city council.
§2. Paragraphs (b) and (f) of subdivision 1 of section 3-703 of the administrative code of the city of New York are amended to read as follows:
(b) be a candidate for mayor, public advocate, comptroller, borough president, justice of the supreme court, surrogate’s court or civil court, or member of the city council in a primary, special, or general election and meet the threshold for eligibility set forth in subdivision two of this section;
(f) not accept and his or her principal committee and any other political committee authorized by such candidate must not accept, either directly or by transfer, any contribution or contributions from any one individual, partnership, political committee, employee organization or other entity for all covered elections held in the same calendar year in which he or she is a participating candidate which in the aggregate: (i) for the office of mayor, public advocate or comptroller, shall exceed four thousand five hundred dollars, or (ii) for borough president, justice of the supreme court, surrogate’s court or county-wide justice of the civil court, shall exceed three thousand five hundred dollars, or, (iii) for member of the city council or district-wide justice of the civil court, shall exceed two thousand five hundred dollars; provided that a candidate and his or her authorized committees may accept additional contributions which do not exceed one half the amount of the applicable limitation for any run-off primary election, additional day for voting held pursuant to section 3-108 of the election law <http://www.westlaw.com/Find/Default.wl?rs= 1.0&vr=2.0&DB=1000300&DocName=NYELS3-108&FindType=L>, special election to fill a vacancy, or election held pursuant to court order which is a covered election and in which the candidate seeks nomination for election or election; and provided further that if state law prescribes a contribution limitation of a lesser amount, this paragraph shall not be deemed to authorize acceptance of a contribution in excess of such lesser amount. The maximum contributions set forth in this paragraph shall be adjusted in accordance with subdivision seven of this section;
§3. Subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 3-703 of the administrative code of the city of New York are amended to read as follows:
(iii) borough president, justice of the supreme court, surrogate’s court or county-wide justice of the civil court, an amount equal to the number of persons living in such borough or judicial district as determined by the last census multiplied by two cents in matchable contributions including at least one hundred matchable contributions of ten dollars or more from residents of the borough or judicial district, or ten thousand dollars, whichever is greater; and
(iv) member of the city council or district-wide justice of the civil court, not less than five thousand dollars in matchable contributions including at least fifty matchable contributions of ten dollars or more from residents of the district in which the seat is to be filled[, except that in regularly scheduled city council elections held in the year two thousand three at least seventy-five matchable contributions of ten dollars or more shall be required from residents of the borough or boroughs in which such council district is located].
§4. Subdivision 7 of section 3-705 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York is amended to read as follows:
7. Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, the amount of public funds payable to a participating candidate on the ballot in any covered election shall not exceed one quarter of the maximum public funds payment otherwise applicable under subdivision two of this section, unless:
(a) the participating candidate is opposed by another participating candidate who has qualified to receive public funds in such election; or
(b) the participating candidate is opposed by a candidate and the board has determined that such other candidate and his or her authorized committees have spent or contracted or have obligated to spend, or received in loans or contributions, or both, an amount which, in the aggregate, exceeds one-fifth of the applicable expenditure limit for such office fixed by subdivision one of section 3-706 of this chapter for participating candidates; or
(c) the participating candidate has submitted a signed statement attesting to the need and stating the reason for additional public funds in such election, in which case the board shall publish such statement at the time such additional public funds are paid, including on the board's internet website. This paragraph shall not apply to participating candidates who are candidates for nomination for election, or election, to any judicial office.
If any of the conditions described in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) occur in such election, the board shall pay any and all additional public funds due to the participating candidate up to the maximum total payment applicable in such election under subdivisions two or six of this section or subdivision three of section 3-706 of this chapter, except for participating candidates who are candidates for nomination for election, or election, to any judicial office, in which case such conditions described in paragraph (a) or (b) must occur to receive such maximum total payment.
§5. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 and subdivision 2 of section 3-706 of the administrative code of the city of New York are amended to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subdivision, in each primary election, in each special election to fill a vacancy, and in each general election, expenditures by a participating candidate and his or her principal committee for one of the following offices shall not exceed the following amounts:
mayor: $4,000,000
public advocate or comptroller: $2,500,000
borough president, justice of the supreme court, surrogate’s court
or county-wide justice of the civil court: $ 900,000
member of the city council or district-wide justice of the civil court: $ 105,000
2. The following limitations apply to all expenditures made by a candidate and his or her principal committee in the calendar year preceding the year of the election for which such candidate chooses to participate in the public funding provisions of this chapter and to expenditures made at any time prior to such date for services, materials, facilities, advertising or other things of value received, rendered, published, distributed or broadcast in such calendar year. Such expenditures by a participating candidate for one of the following offices and his or her principal committee shall not exceed the following amounts:
mayor, public advocate or comptroller: $180,000
or county-wide justice of the civil court: $120,000
member of the city council or district-wide justice of the civil court: $ 40,000
6. The board shall publicize, as it deems appropriate, the names of candidates for nomination or election to the offices of mayor, public advocate, comptroller, borough president, justice of the supreme court, surrogate’s court or civil court, or city council who violate any of the provisions of this chapter.
§7. Sections 2 and 5 of this local law shall not have any effect on any inflationary adjustments made prior to the effective date of this law pursuant to subdivision 7 of section 3-703 or paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 3-706 of the administrative code. Additionally, any such inflationary adjustments shall be applied to judicial participating candidates in full upon the effective date of this local law.
§8. This local law shall take effect immediately.
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When a dog passes
Dogs have a simplicity to them, they are so totally themselves and live so completely in the moment. Loving a dog is a very pure, satisfying kind of love — there’s no need to think about the dog’s motivations, or worry about what it thinks of you, whether it likes your career choices or your taste in music. There’s just the dog and you and the possibility of opening your heart as wide as it can go. Dogs challenge us and teach us to love and be present (though perhaps not if you’re a cat person).
The flipside of that is when a dog dies. The purity of love you have for your hound becomes pure grief. When a person dies, no matter how much we love them, there’s always other feelings — anger, abandonment, guilt — tied up with the grief and it’s complicated. Grieving for a person is a complicated process which, even when entered into mindfully, can take months, even years, to do properly; to really work out all the kinks and knots in how you feel until you’re just left with gratitude for that life and love.
Grieving for a dog is simple —they’re gone, you have a hole in your life where they used to be, it hurts like having your whole heart pulled out. So you weep and cry and howl because that’s how grieving is done when you’re a people.
I think the other thing about the simple grief for a dog is that it’s a lot quicker. It all comes pouring out and then it’s done. Sometimes it can feel like it hasn’t been enough, that you ought to be sad for longer, that they deserved more. But the contour of your grief is a testament to the purity of your love. It’s stronger but quicker and none the less for that.
And in the end, we all end up with the same thing: love and gratitude for that life you got to share. That’s what grief finally refines into, no need to rush it.
In honour of Tammy, Sara, Chino, Scamp, Max, Allie and all the good hounds of the world who are with us no longer.
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Bio Dr. Salyapongse is a board-certified, fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon. He is the medical director of Interventional Services, medical director of Joint Replacement, and chief of Orthopaedics for Stanford Health Care?ValleyCare. He is also a clinical associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Salyapongse performs the full range of orthopaedic surgery procedures to treat injuries and conditions related to the hip and knee. He has extensive training and experience in the diagnosis and use of advanced treatment techniques for disorders of the hip and knee, including meniscus tears, arthritis, avascular necrosis, and post-traumatic injuries.
Dr. Salyapongse does hundreds of knee and hip replacements annually. His goal with each patient is to help them recover quickly and safely, with durable, long-lasting joint replacements as a result. He specializes in tissuesparing techniques, including an anterior approach to hip replacement.
Dr. Salyapongse is a certified instructor of anterior hip replacement. He has performed more than 2,000 procedures and traveled nationwide to teach it to other surgeons. Anterior hip replacement offers the potential for faster recovery, as it involves a small incision that presents less of a disruption to the muscles. Dr. Salyapongse also specializes in techniques such as Anterior PATH, or percutaneous assisted total hip replacements.
For knee replacements, Dr. Salyapongse uses a variety of techniques, including robotic surgery. He also specializes in partial knee replacements for patients who may be experiencing arthritis in a localized area but who might not be ready for a full replacement. Partial replacements enable patients to have a faster recovery and a more natural feeling knee post-surgery.
Dr. Salyapongse welcomes referrals from specialists as well as primary care physicians. He sees patients at every stage of their care journey, but especially when their situation has progressed beyond interim interventions like physical therapy or injections. He views each of his patients as an individual with a unique set of goals and tailors each treatment plan to fit their specific needs. While Dr. Salyapongse will help patients first explore the alternatives, he may recommend surgery once activities of daily living
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In an effort to make outpatient care more accessible, Dr. Salyapongse has helped to pioneer the use of digital technology to prepare patients before, during, and after hip and knee surgery. His passion is to improve patient engagement and thus outcomes by letting patients know what they can expect at every stage of their care journey.
Dr. Salyapongse has co-authored articles on a variety of topics related to techniques, technologies, and outcomes in joint replacement surgery. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Orthopaedics, Journal of Arthroplasty, Current Sports Medicine Reports, and other publications.
He has made presentations on hip and knee replacement planning and surgery at meetings such as the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and Western Orthopaedic Association.
Dr. Salyapongse has won honors for his work, such as a Physician Champion Award for outstanding patient care. He is a member of the American Academy of Hip and Knee Surgeons and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
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Uefa turns to Sky Deutschland for ‘Final 8’ crowd noise
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Uefa has commissioned German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland to produce the crowd noise sound effects for this month’s Champions League and Europa League ‘Final 8’ tournaments.
With the remaining matches from this seasons Champions League and Europa League to be played behind closed doors, European football’s governing body has taken the decision to turn to Sky as its service provider for the artificial crowd noise.
When the German Bundesliga resumed after the Covid-19 suspension, Sky offered its viewers the option of playing recorded crowd noise during its coverage.
Alessandro Reitano, sports production director at Sky Deutschland, said that the broadcaster was honoured to be the service provider for the crowd noise option, which he described as “unique in this form”.
The sound is produced from sound recordings from previous matches of the clubs involved. Production will be split between on-site and from Sky’s facilities in Unterföhring on the outskirts of Munich. Sky will work in close cooperation with Uefa and the respective host broadcasters.
The Champions League quarter-final, semi-finals and final matches will all be played in Lisbon from August 12 to August 23, while the remaining round-of-16 matches will be played in the originally scheduled venues on August 7 and 8.
The Europa League quarter-final, semi-finals and final matches will all be played across four German cities (Cologne, Duisburg, Düsseldorf and Gelsenkirchen) from August 10 to August 21. The remaining round-of-16 matches will be played in the original venues, taking place today, August 6, and yesterday.
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German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has agreed a partnership with Liverpool and the English Premier League football club’s manager, Jürgen Klopp.
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Johnny Depp refused permission to appeal against loss of libel case and must pay publisher £630,000
Kim NovakWednesday 25 Nov 2020 7:06 pm
Johnny Depp has not been granted permission to appeal the decision in his case with Amber Heard (Picture: Getty)
Johnny Depp has been refused permission to appeal the loss of his libel trial after a judge concluded that he assaulted his ex-wife Amber Heard.
The actor, 57, had vowed to appeal the High Court Ruling after he lost his case against The Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers, who he sued over a headline that labelled him a ‘wife beater’.
Depp had brought legal action after the article in 2018 called him a ‘wife beater’ after Heard claimed he had assaulted her during their marriage.
Mr Justice Nicol, who had dismissed Depp’s claim, also refused him permission to appeal against his judgment, saying: ‘I do not consider that the proposed grounds of appeal have a reasonable prospect of success.’
Last week’s ruling, which was made public on Wednesday, saw Mr Justice Nicol give Depp until December 7 to appeal directly to the Court of Appeal to overturn his judgment.
He also ordered the actor to make an initial payment of almost £630,000 to cover News Group Newspapers’ legal fees after he lost the case, with the remainder to be paid after a detailed assessment of the costs.
The judge ruled in favour of Amber Heard (Picture: PA)
The main judgment, which was published earlier in November, said there was ‘overwhelming evidence’ that Depp did assault Heard on 12 of the 14 alleged occasions, putting her in ‘fear of her life’ during three of them.
Depp had released a statement after the ruling, vowing to appeal.
It read: ‘In light of recent events, I would like to make the following short statement.
Johnny Depp vowed to appeal the ruling (Picture: Instagram)
‘Firstly, I’d like to thank everybody who has gifted me with their support and loyalty. I have been humbled and moved by your many messages of love and concern, particularly over the last few days.
‘Secondly, I wish to let you know that I have been asked to resign by Warner Bros from my role as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts and I have respected and agreed to that request.
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‘Finally, I wish to say this. The surreal judgement of the court in the UK will not change my fight to tell the truth and I confirm that I plan to appeal.
‘My resolve remains strong and I intend to prove that the allegations against me are false. My life and career will not be defined by this moment in time. Thank you for reading.’
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Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI National WWI Museum and Memorial 2 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, MO 6410
13NovAll Day11AprSilk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI(All Day) National WWI Museum and Memorial, 2 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, MO 6410
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WWI exploded in the late summer of 1914. Armies took the field in bright uniforms. Navies steamed to sea flying the colors of their nations. For the ensuing years of
WWI exploded in the late summer of 1914. Armies took the field in bright uniforms. Navies steamed to sea flying the colors of their nations. For the ensuing years of global war until the peace treaty was signed on June 28, 1919, most history has centered on battles, leaders and destruction.
Throughout this time of global upheaval and a devastating war primarily fought by men, women around the world actively responded to the tumult by accepting, and at times actively pursuing, new responsibilities and roles. French women, like others, worked in war industries, in agriculture, in nursing, in transport, for suffrage and equal pay and respect. In France, recent scholarship has shown that the survival of women’s fashion also played an important role in life during the Great War. Women’s fashion needed to adapt to the necessities of new actions, scarcity of materials and ever-present societal morale needs. The fashion industry, particularly in France, responded.
Silk and Steel feature original dresses, coats, capes, hats, shoes, and accessories. Topics presented are the evolution of the war-time silhouette, Parisian designers during the war, military uniforms’ influence, women’s uniforms in France and America, war work, economics of fashion, and post-war emancipation.
This special exhibition, Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI, is presented by the National WWI Museum and Memorial from Sept. 25, 2020 to April 11, 2021 in the Wylie Gallery
Virtual Retreat: The Lord’s Prayer Conception Abbey 37174 HWY VV, Conception, MO 64433
15JanAll Day17Virtual Retreat: The Lord’s Prayer(All Day) Conception Abbey, 37174 HWY VV, Conception, MO 64433
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How often has this traditional prayer taught to us by Jesus been recited with little thought
How often has this traditional prayer taught to us by Jesus been recited with little thought of the powerful meaning of each line? Take time to reflectively grasp the deep spiritual meaning of this prayer that is prayed so often and by so many every day. Led by Fr. Roger Schmit, OSB
This retreat will be given in virtual format only. Abbey Guest Center (660) 944-2809
Price: $25 per computer connection or household.
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United for mothers and babies!
Join special guests Kristen Day, Executive Director of Democrats for Life of America, and Kim Borchers, Kansas Republican National Committeewoman, as they stand united for mothers and babies! Life is truly the winning coalition!
8:30 a.m. – REGISTRATION – Get info on legislative activities, maps, lobbying, capitol tours, pro-life booths and more
9:00 a.m. – WORKSHOPS 1 &2 – 30-minute educational workshop sessions provided by KFL
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12:15 p.m. – Rally for Life on the south Capitol steps
2:30 p.m. – WORKSHOPS 3 & 4 – 30-minute educational workshop sessions provided by KFL
All workshops will take place in the Capitol Visitor Center and are no charge.
Everyone is welcome for lunch any time between 11:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. for free-will donation in the Mater Dei Assumption Catholic Church basement. Mater Dei, 204 SW 8th Ave., is north and across the street from the Capitol.
If weather is a problem, the rally will be held on the 1st floor rotunda of the Capitol.
For details about the capitol building and parking information, visit www.kshs.org/p/kansas-state-capitol-plan-your-visit/18649. For emergency or media, please call KFL personnel Jeanne 785.383.8636 or Mary Kay 913.406.4446 Hosted by Kansans for Life
Women's Encouragement Day City Center Church 17500 West 87th Street Parkway, Lenexa, KS
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Join us for a restful day in the middle of the school year set aside just for you! Our morning starts with coffee or tea while enjoying a light breakfast
Join us for a restful day in the middle of the school year set aside just for you! Our morning starts with coffee or tea while enjoying a light breakfast over good conversation with other mama’s who homeschool. We will gather together to hear speakers, enjoy worship sprinkled throughout the day, and sit down to enjoy a delicious lunch – without any cleanup!!! You don’t want to miss this day to be encouraged as local moms share what it looks like for them to say “it is well” as they dwell in the Lord through different seasons of life while homeschooling. We can’t wait to see you! This year we will offer an online option for those that won’t be joining us in person.
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The March for Life
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The March for Life is an inspiring, peaceful. Every year, tens of thousands of pro-lifers converge on the National Mall and march on Capitol Hill on the anniversary of the
The March for Life is an inspiring, peaceful. Every year, tens of thousands of pro-lifers converge on the National Mall and march on Capitol Hill on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling which legalized abortion in all 50 states.
Pre-Rally Concert with Matthew West: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
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March: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Rose Dinner (virtual): 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Caravans leave from the Kansas City area. https://www.missourilifecaravan.org/ Also local events. https://www.respectlifekcsj.org/march-for-life.html
MRL Prayer Vigil Ilus David Plaza 400 E 9th St, Kansas City, MO 64106
29Jan1:00 pm2:00 pmMRL Prayer Vigil1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Ilus David Plaza, 400 E 9th St, Kansas City, MO 64106
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Come join us for a truly amazing experience. Join with pastors, students, and fellow pro-lifers to pray for the sanctity and protection of life in our country. Also, hear from
Come join us for a truly amazing experience. Join with pastors, students, and fellow pro-lifers to pray for the sanctity and protection of life in our country. Also, hear from various pro-life organizations that address issues such as education, legislation, lobbying, protesting, prevention, pregnancy, and healing.
Dress warm for cold and wind! Receive a goody bag to get informed and show off your pro-life pride!
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by nonnie9999 | December 7, 2010 · 1:12 am
It’s Comical, Part 1 (Updated)
Hey, kids, yesterday we focused on books. Today, I thought we’d cover a different kind of book–comics! When I was a kid, one of my favorite comic books were the ones about Chimpy Archie and his gang. The Betty and Veronica series was probably my favorite, but the Alberto Gonzales and Monica Goodling Berty and Monica ones were pretty funny, too!
Original comic book cover
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by nonnie9999 | December 25, 2009 · 12:13 am
Where Thinking Goes to Tank
From THE HUFFINGTON POST:
The George W. Bush Institute — the “action- oriented think tank” that is part of Bush’s Presidential Center — will co-produce a public television show hosted by its executive director, Ambassador James Glassman, in a rare convergence of public broadcasting and a partisan research organization.
“Ideas in Action” will premiere in February and will be co-produced by Andrew Walworth, who produces PBS’s “Think Tank.”
Because we all know how Chimpy always surrounds himself with geniuses.
(I think I know where Douglas Feith, Dana Perino, Alberto Gonzales, and Chimpy got their ice cream)
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by nonnie9999 | September 5, 2009 · 12:08 am
They mean what they say….until they take it back
From the raw story:
Either former Bush officials are being pressured to backtrack, or recent flip-flops are just more evidence that they had no convictions in the first place.
In a story entitled Gonzales backtracks on support for CIA probe, The Washington Times‘ Ben Conery reports, “Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said Thursday that his previous assertion that it was ‘legitimate to question and examine’ charges of CIA abuses of suspected terrorists did not mean he endorsed such an investigation.”
Anyone else think Don Corleone Deadeye Dick Cheney invited Little Abu and Tommy Boy to go on a hunting trip?
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Gonzogate: The Story That Never Dies
WASHINGTON — Thousands of pages of internal e-mail and once-secret Congressional testimony showed Tuesday that Karl Rove and other senior aides in the Bush White House played an earlier and more active role than was previously known in the 2006 firings of a number of United States attorneys.
Aides to former President George W. Bush have asserted that the Justice Department took the lead in the dismissals, which set off a political firestorm that lasted months. Mr. Rove played down his role in the firings in a recent interview and in closed testimony last month before Congressional investigators.
But the documents, released by the House Judiciary Committee after a protracted fight over access to White House records and testimony, offer a detailed portrait of a nearly two-year effort, from early 2005 to 2007, by senior White House officials, including Mr. Rove, to dismiss some prosecutors for what appear to be political reasons.
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by nonnie9999 | August 9, 2009 · 12:06 am
Gonzo’s doing interviews. A little Berty told me!
Hey kids! Gonzo is doing interviews! From The New York Times :
As the first Latino to have served as the attorney general, what are your thoughts as Sonia Sotomayor prepares to become the first Latina on the Supreme Court?
This is obviously a proud and historic moment for all Hispanics.
It has been two summers since you resigned, and you’re still living in Virginia?
I’ve got an apartment in Lubbock, Tex. We’re in the process of moving my family down to Texas. I’ll be teaching this year at Texas Tech University.
When does school begin?
My first day of class is Aug. 31. I’ve also been asked to help the chancellor and the president of the university in recruiting and retaining minorities.
Oh yeah, Gonzo! Send a Rethug to recruit minorities, especially after the Rethuglican senators from Texas, Kay Bailey Hutchsion and John Cornyn voted for Sonia Sotomayor! Oh wait, they voted against her! 😳
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Senator Carl Levin:
Today we’re releasing the declassified report of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s investigation into the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody. […] In my judgment, the report represents a condemnation of both the Bush administration’s interrogation policies and of senior administration officials who attempted to shift the blame for abuse – such as that seen at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and Afghanistan – to low ranking soldiers. Claims, such as that made by former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz that detainee abuses could be chalked up to the unauthorized acts of a “few bad apples,” were simply false.
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At Miller’s Landing we are committed to creating positive, productive work environments. That’s why we’ve partnered with Hospitality at Work (H@W) to provide an unrivaled customer service experience at our new 150,00 square-foot office building.
Miller’s Landing in Castle Rock, CO, is one of Southeast Denver’s newest and most innovative mixed-use commercial developments. We’re creating a dynamic town center that includes offices that meet new normal standards, exciting retail and restaurant options, a resort hotel, conference and meeting space, ample open space and easy access to one of the region’s leading outdoor recreation park.
Castle Rock is a growing and popular south Denver suburb located on the I-25 corridor. It’s consistently rated as one of the best places to live and locate a business in Colorado. It offers a charming small-town atmosphere with easy access to big city amenities in nearby Denver.
Creating Positive and Productive Work Environments
Our new multi-tenant building will offer innovative working spaces. The building will feature a modern HVAC system that provides a healthy indoor office environment that meets new normal standards. Abundant natural lighting and an interior lighting system that maximizes health and productivity will provide office users with versatile office spaces that meet modern health and safety demands in the era of COVID-19.
Yet it takes more than modern technology to create a positive and productive work environment. Today, many forward-thinking companies are integrating hospitality at work programs to enhance the work experience. Hospitality at work programs are gaining traction as more companies recognize the important role they play in fostering and maintaining healthy, collaborative work environments.
Hospitality at Work Delivers Benefits
Studies show that better employee engagement means better company performance. In a Gallup study, companies with the highest levels of employee engagement were22% more profitable and 21% more productive than those with low levels of engagement. Yet according to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report, only 33% of employees in the U.S. are engaged in the workplace.
A better workplace experience also means better employee engagement. Engagement goes beyond unlimited PTO and employee recognition programs. It includes physical amenities, access to the outdoors, on-site food services and community building events. These are critical components to achieving better employee engagement. And Miller’s Landing offers these.
The H@W team will deliver superior on-site management combined with hospitality inspired services and programming at this state-of-the-art building. An on-site building host will provide for company, employee and guest needs. But it goes beyond that. H@W will also offer a wide variety of programs including event hosting, health and wellness programs, seasonal activities, volunteering opportunities and donation drives and tenant service coordination.
These services are customized for each H@W managed property and foster a true sense of community and connection within an office building – not just with the office manager or CEO, but with every single person who sets foot in the building. This is critical to creating and maintaining positive, productive work environments that delight your employees and your customers.
Developing a Community at Work
According to the office furniture and design firm Haworth, work hospitality programs are a crucial component to creating positive work environments. In the Haworth blog Spark, they write, “These activities help employees develop a community at work and foster the culture that reflects an organization’s brand. And it’s all part of the new approach to hospitality where we work.”
According to commercial refrigeration firm, Refrigeration Design Technologies (RTD), Americans spend about 90,000 hours, or a third of our lives, at work over the course of a normal career. In their blog post titled What Is Workplace Hospitality and Why You Should Care, RTD emphasizes how important workplace hospitality programs are to employee morale and company performance.
Performance and Service Beyond the Expected
H@W delivers delightful experiences and engaging workplaces to authentically connect people to the places they work. Their talented team of hosts and managers are eager and empowered to make everyone feel valued and vital in the places they work.
Why did Miller’s Landing choose to partner with Hospitality at Work? We believe the H@W website states it best:
“We believe better outcomes begin with better environments. Our commercial, hotel and resort management background has taught us how to create a better workplace experience for tenants. Hospitality at Work offers the highest level of property management combined with hospitality-inspired service and programming. The result? Healthy, engaging workplaces that enhance productivity and employee well-being.”
Miller’s Landing offers more than healthy, innovative office spaces. We work with you to ensure your success. One of these services is our partnership with Hospitality at Work.
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The best smartwatches for women
We tested dozens of smartwatches to see which ones are best for women in terms of style, size, and function.
The Apple Watch Series 6 is the best high-tech smartwatch for women with its simple interface and attractive looks.
But there are plenty of other options that work on iPhone or Android, or for those who want something that looks more elegant or minimalist.
If you're looking for men's or unisex styles, check out our guide to the best smartwatches overall.
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The first smartwatches were bulky devices that only really appealed to the most ardent of tech addicts. But over the past few years, smartwatches have become much more fashionable.
As more luxury brands have come into the fold, more stylish smartwatches have started to arrive. Fossil, Skagen, and Kate Spade are just some examples of fashion houses that have launched wearables.
Apple was one of the first tech companies to make a smartwatch that anyone would want to wear, regardless of your design preferences. But it's also facing increased competition as rivals like Samsung and Fitbit have upgraded the form and functionality of their watches, too.
We've been reviewing smartwatches for the past six years, from the clunkier watches of years past to the sleek accessories of today that can almost pass as regular analog watches.
Our buying guide includes all kinds of watches to suit every style, so whether you like gold, silver, or a unique finish; chunky watches, slim ones, or high-tech styles, we've got you covered.
Here are the best smartwatches for women:
Best smartwatch for women overall: Apple Watch Series 6
Best smartwatch with a feminine design: Fossil Julianna HR
Best smartwatch with a minimalist design: Skagen Falster 3
Best smartwatch with fitness features: Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2
Updated in December 2020 by Lisa Eadicicco: Replaced the Apple Watch Series 5 with the Apple Watch Series 6 as our top pick, and added new testing notes for the Series 6.
The best smartwatch for women overall
The Apple Watch Series 6 has an improved always-on display, a great fit even on smaller wrists, and excellent fitness features.
Pros: Stylish and customizable design, wide selection of health tracking features, easy-to-use interface, attractive always-on display
Cons: Expensive, shorter battery life than Fitbit watches, less detailed sleep metrics than rivals
The Apple Watch is still our top pick, and the Series 6 brings improvements like a brighter always-on display, faster charging, and the ability to measure blood oxygen levels. Although not everyone may be interested in those deeper health metrics, we still think the Apple Watch offers the best combination of health tracking, general smart features, style, and customization options.
Just like the Series 5, the Series 6 comes in 40mm and 44mm size options. Apple also added two new finishes with its latest watch, blue and red, meaning the Series 6 comes in more color options than any other Apple Watch. Apple also added another layer of customization to its smartwatch in 2019 with the launch of Apple Watch Studio, which lets you pair any case with any strap to create your own style. It's rare to find this level of personalization on a smartwatch, making it a great choice for those who prioritize aesthetics.
But it's not just the Apple Watch's looks that make it our first choice. After testing plenty of Android Wear and Fitbit smartwatches, the Apple Watch is still generally the easiest to use and has the most polished software experience. Rivals like Fitbit do offer some benefits over the Apple Watch, particularly when it comes to battery life and the quality of its sleep tracking data, but the Apple Watch generally checks all the boxes most people need in a compact, attractive design.
For fitness fanatics, the Apple Watch allows you to log dozens of workout types, track metrics like calorie burn and exercise minutes, can detect hard falls, reminds you not to remain sedentary for too long, and can monitor your heart rate. For those that may need to keep a closer eye on their respiratory or cardiac health, the Apple Watch Series 6 can also detect oxygen levels in the blood and take an ECG from your wrist.
Otherwise, the Apple Watch comes with all of the features you'd expect from a smartwatch, such as mobile payment support, standalone GPS, water resistance up to 50 meters, the option for cellular connections on pricier models, and plenty of apps to choose from.
The Apple Watch isn't the only smartwatch to come with an always-on display. But Apple's execution of this feature looks more elegant, since it keeps a version of your watch face on screen that's optimized not to drain its battery. Fitbit's always-on mode is a bit more basic and mostly just shows the time and other information.
For those who don't want to spend $400 on the Series 6, Apple also sells the $280 SE. That watch is missing some of the bells and whistles found on the Series 6 — most crucially an always-on display and deeper health features like ECG monitoring and blood oxygen measurements — but still offers the same general experience.
In terms of battery life, you can expect the Apple Watch to last for more than a day, but probably not two full days. That can make it challenging to use as a sleep tracker since it's best to charge it nightly.
Even so, the Apple Watch combines style, functionality, and health tracking better than most rivals, making it our favorite smartwatch.
Not sure which Apple Watch is right for you? Check out our guide.
The best with a feminine design
The Fossil Julianna HR is a sleek smartwatch with a feminine design, a heart rate monitor, GPS, NFC, and the power of WearOS.
Pros: Classic watch design, stylish color options, lots of compatible watch straps, and it's compatible with iPhones and Android phones
Cons: It's a bit chunky, not as good with iPhone
If you're an Android user who wants a feminine smartwatch, you're in luck. Over the past few years, fashion brands and watchmakers have been making great Wear OS smartwatches. Fossil's smartwatch line continues to grow each year, and we are looking forward to testing its new Gen 5E watches, but until then, we still recommend the Julianna HR.
In the new version, the watch casing is smaller and less bulky, and there's also the latest tech like a heart rate sensor, GPS, and NFC for mobile payments.
Fossil offers several different finishes for the Julianna's watch casing. I love the simple rose gold casing and leather strap option, but you can also get one with a metal bracelet.
If you don't like any of the included straps, Fossil and other brands sell dozens of 22mm watch straps you can choose instead to really make the Julianna your own.
It's a chunky watch, which is great for those who like bigger watches. Even though it's stylish, this smartwatch is also waterproof up to 3 ATM, so you can swim with it on.
As for the tech inside, the Julianna runs Wear OS (previously known as Android Wear) and works with thousands of apps on the Google Play Store. You can answer texts, interact with notifications, and choose your own watch face — just like you would on any other smartwatch. Fossil has lots of nice watch faces in feminine colors, too.
It'll work with both Android phones and the iPhone, but it's best with Android devices. When Android Wear watches are paired to the iPhone, a lot of functions no longer work, and you're left with a pretty watch that gives you notifications.
The best for minimalists
The Skagen Falster 3 has a simple, attractive design, a heart rate monitor, Google Pay, and built-in GPS.
Pros: Cool design, simple mesh band, suits women and men, Wear OS, works with iPhone and Android, GPS, NFC, heart rate monitor
Cons: A bit pricey
Skagen is known for its minimalistic design choices, and the Falster 3, its third smartwatch, is a prime example. The Falster 3 looks very different from most other smartwatches with its unique lugs and simple bands. It's also slimmer than the original Falster.
It's an interesting smartwatch because it could easily suit just about anyone. I tried the Falster 3 on for size, and while it was still a bit large for my notoriously small wrists, it looked just fine on larger wrists. If you like bigger watches, it'll look right at home on you.
Just like all other Wear OS (previously Android Wear) smartwatches, the Falster 3 works with both iPhone and Android devices. As always, Wear OS is best with an Android phone; some functions simply don't work as well when you pair this watch to an iPhone. It also supports the Google Assistant, so you can ask Google for information or use voice commands. You can even take calls from your wrist, thanks to the built-in speaker and microphone.
You can download thousands of apps from the Google Play Store and get notifications on your wrist. This second-generation smartwatch also has GPS, NFC for Google Pay for mobile payments, and a heart rate monitor built-in, so it's more fully-featured and high tech than the original Falster. It's everything we wanted the original Falster to be. You can even go swimming with it, as it's rated for 5 ATM water resistance.
The best with fitness features
Samsung's Galaxy Watch Active 2 is a great smartwatch for women who want a good-looking wearable with solid fitness-tracking features.
Pros: Heart rate monitor, automatically tracks some workouts, offers helpful data for 39 different types of exercise, easy to use, good app selection, simple design
Cons: Some features may be limited on iOS
Many fitness-focused smartwatches are still bulky and relatively unattractive, so if you're looking for a smartwatch that looks subtle but knows its way around a workout, look no further than the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2.
It comes in two sizes (40mm and 44mm) so you can pick the one that suits your style and wrist-size best. You can also choose between several finishes, including black, silver, gold, a pink-ish gold, and a blue-ish silver. Plus, the 22mm straps are swappable, so you can change up the look of the watch to match your outfit on any given day.
The Galaxy Watch Active 2 is compatible with both iOS and Android phones, so you can get notifications, track your workouts, and even issue voice commands to the digital assistant Bixby on the watch. Samsung Pay works on the watch for mobile payments when you're on the go. Samsung's app store is quite robust, too, so you can have apps like Spotify, Twitter, Strava, and more on your wrist.
In terms of fitness features, the Active 2 not only tracks your activity, but it can automatically detect seven different types of workouts — "walking, running, cycling, rowing, elliptical trainer, dynamic workouts, and swimming" — and start tracking them without you having to do anything.
The watch can also track 39 types of exercise, though you will manually have to select the specific workout on the watch to get the specialized tracking and advice from the Health app. It's water-resistant up to 5 ATM — just like the Apple Watch — so you can swim with it on, too.
Its heart rate monitor helps to ensure that your stats are accurate, and the watch can also detect high or low heart rates. All told, it's an effective smartwatch that excels at fitness tracking.
What we are looking forward to testing
We're currently in the process of testing several other smartwatches that women might enjoy,and we'll update this guide accordingly after we do so. Here are the ones we're currently looking into.
Fitbit Versa 3: The Fitbit Versa 3 could be a great contender for the best smartwatch upgrade for people who have an old Fitbit tracker and want to try out a smartwatch for the first time. The previous generation of the Versa was our pick for fitness fans.
Michael Kors Access Gen 4: Michael Kors has been making smartwatches alongside Fossil for years now. If you like MK, you'll probably like this watch as it has many of the same features and a flashy feminine design.
Fossil Gen 5E: Fossil's new Gen 5E smartwatches look great with more size options to suit those with smaller wrists.
How we test smartwatches
To test smartwatches, we evaluate both the form and function of the device. Because these are pieces of tech that you'll wear every day, the design matters more than it does for a lot of other kinds of devices.
Style is obviously subjective, so we look at design elements we can objectively measure like having a few different sizes, multiple band options, and a wider variety of colors and finishes to choose between. The more options, the higher the likelihood that there will be a style for just about everyone.
Other design elements we look for are water resistance and comfort while exercising because you'll want to have both in a smartwatch if you're using it for workouts. To test, we dunk the water-resistant smartwatches in the designated depth of water for the amount of time they're rated to withstand. We also workout with these watches to see how comfortable they are to wear and how helpful they are during the workout.
We test all the tech specs and features to ensure that they are easy to use and actually work. Mostly, we just go through life and see how much value each smartwatch adds. How helpful are the notifications and apps? How good is music playback? How easy is the software to navigate? How helpful are the workout features?
We also track how long battery life lasts in different modes and how long the watches need to recharge. If the charger is annoying to use or easy to lose, that's another consideration.
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Three Christian families attacked, ostracized by villagers
Gumla, Jharkhand
Reported: Complicity of Authorities, Intimidation, Threats and Harassment, Physical assault
On 25.8.2016, in Jahut Village, Gumla District, Jharkhand, three families were beaten up and ostracized from the village. Their houses and properties were also destroyed. It was alleged by the villagers that these families are carrying out religious conversion work. In fact, these Christians conduct prayers in their homes.
On 27.8.2016 Christian families filed a complaint at the local Bishunpur police station, against the culprits. No action was taken on the complaint.
On 29.8.2016, the affected families visited the SP’s office and submitted a written complaint.
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Anthony Johnson's ex-girlfriend declined to pursue charges after March incident
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By Steven Marrocco | September 25, 2014 9:40 pm Follow @MMAjunkieSteven
MMAjunkie has learned an ex-girlfriend of suspended UFC fighter Anthony Johnson declined to pursue charges against him after an incident in March that prompted her to call Boca Raton, Fla., police.
On March 19, the woman called police to get Johnson to leave her place of employment, Park’s Taekwondo. According to the probable cause affidavit, she did not give a full account of the incident until the next day, when a teacher from the taekwondo school called police to document a text message he said he received from Johnson. The woman told police then that Johnson had showed up unannounced at Park’s Taekwondo on 15 separate occasions in the three months she had worked there, even though their sexual relationship ended in 2012.
The woman said Johnson knew she was working alone March 19. She said he demanded to speak with her, grabbed her shirt behind the neck, lifted her up from the chair by her shirt and grabbed her right arm. She showed the investigator “bruising on her right forearm and a reddish scratch mark near her right collarbone.” She told police she asked Johnson to leave several times, but he did not until police arrived.
When asked about the woman’s allegations, Johnson texted, “Um no never.” Asked why she would report the incident, he wrote: “No idea, and I don’t believe she said that cuz we talk everyday and great friends.”
Johnson’s lawyer, Frank Smith, wasn’t familiar with the police documents when contacted by MMAjunkie and declined comment.
This past week, the UFC suspended Johnson after the mother of his two children accused him of attacking her in 2012. UFC has enlisted its trial counsel, Donald Campbell, to investigate the fighter. A UFC official said Wednesday that the investigation is ongoing.
Johnson (18-4 MMA, 9-4 UFC), who’s ranked No. 5 in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA light heavyweight rankings, most recently fought in July at UFC on FOX 12, where he knocked out Antonio Rogerio Nogueira to earn his second consecutive win since returning to the octagon.
For more on the UFC’s upcoming schedule, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Redundancy plan: Société Générale to join the party
The announcements of job cuts in investment banking continues. After a year fueled by rumors, Société Générale has officially announced the implementation of a voluntary departure plan for approximately 880 investment bankers ...
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The management of Société Générale has announced to have signed on wednesday january 4th, an agreement with the Group’s most representative trade unions, outlining a series of social measures aimed at accompanying the project of reorganisation of the Ciorporate and Investment banking division and adaptation of its staff.
Layoffs at Société Générale: a hidden redundancy plan?
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The plan targets approximately 1500 job cuts worldwide, including 880 in France. According to the management, this agreement foresees a series of support measures and social guarantees for employees whose jobs are targeted by potential adjustments, which will then be submitted for information and consultation with the competent workers’ councils.
This move is far from a surprise. Indeed, many rumors were already circulating in the wake of numerous layoffs last summer. A nickname, "Romeo" has even been given to an informal plan of downsizing. The bank puts an end to all speculation with this agreement on voluntary departures without layoffs and forced departures, and which gives priority to internal mobility within the Group with the support of a Reclassification and Job Advisory Area ("Espace Conseil Reclassement et Emploi), enhanced training opportunities as well as help for the transition to new career opportunities.
A redundancy plan that is not new....
If the bank does not provide specific details on the plan, you can probably imagine that the terms will be quite similar to those of the original plan proposed in 2009 to employees of , SGAM AI (former alternative management subsidiary) following its merger with Lyxor (currently a subsidiary of Société Générale CIB). The philosophy was identical and the conditions included:
A breakdown of employees between those directly elligible to departure (canceled position) and the others (not canceled position) whose eligibility were subject to an exchange with a direct eligible employee
A departure conditioned by reclassification (new job, a personal or business project or even the completion of a complementary training program)
Front office had the lion’s share of directly eligible employees, with a severance pay calibrated on income earned in the 12 months preceding the effective date of the plan and seniority within the group (about one month of income per semester of service)
This last point can potentially include the choice of departure date: April 2012, just after the traditional month of March and the payment of "bonus". This can allow the group, which is likely to pay "bonus" insignificant or null (in line with the elimination of the dividend and the current banking environment) to minimize the income received in the last 12 months. In addition, the tax law on social ruptures conventional and plans to evolve and the impact could be significant for employees on the move
Collateral damage to be expected ...
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Unlike the Crédit Agricole, which has withdrawn from equity derivatives and commodities activities, Societe Generale is just "making concessions". But it will not be pain-free for some activities. Indeed, many consulting contracts (and CSD) found in CIB will not be renewed and it is likely that a wave of redundancy plan will hit the consulting industry as a result of restructuring of banks. Beyond finance, it is also a concern for the world of service, not to mention the many students who continue to dream about finance.
Moreover, given the decisions of both Societe Generale and Crédit Agricole Group, one can not help thinking to employees of joint ventures of the two groups: Newedge or Amundi. So far, nothing official, but there is no doubt that employees are under psychological pressure
a glimmer of hope?
Fortunately everything is not dark. Few opportunities are still open to experienced investment bankers, thanks to "small" new and growth-focused players who hire in major banks. One can mention Kepler Capital Markets or EFG Financial Products. As for the bankers who have developed a strong expertise essential for the functioning of a banking group, they can always become Solo Investment Banker.
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25 Amazing Internet Facts ready to Tweet
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According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Wikipedia page, “The first website built was at CERN within the border of France, and was first put online on 6 August 1991″ and ever since it has touched most of if not all of our lives and mostly with positive effects. The following article is a fascinating highlight of some of the most interesting facts;
There’s no doubt that the Internet has forced a fundamental shift in culture and buying behavior. Increasingly, search engines and social networks are people’s first stop for entertainment, education and product research. Everybody knows that, right?
Well, in an effort to tell you something you don’t already know, here are 25 incredible facts about Internet and social media use. Some useful stats, some fun trivia, all in a convenient, 140 character package, perfect for Tweeting. So collect them all and share with your friends.
Around 40% of the world population has an internet connection today. In 1995, it was less than 1%. http://bit.ly/1k9DSep [Tweet this]
The number of internet users has increased tenfold from 1999 to 2013.http://bit.ly/1k9DSep [Tweet this]
The number of websites nearly doubled from 2011 to 2012. At current rate, more than 1 Billion by end of 2014.http://bit.ly/1ju15NC [Tweet this]
The first-ever website (http://bit.ly/1lX8W0F) was published on August 6, 1991 by British physicist Tim Berners-Lee. http://bit.ly/1ju15NC [Tweet this]
In 2013 alone, the web grew by more than a third, from about 630 million websites to over 850 million.http://bit.ly/1ju15NC [Tweet this]
Google processes over 40,000 searches every second. That’s over 3.5 billion per day; 1.2 trillion per year.http://bit.ly/1mNXzOt [Tweet this]
In 1999, it took Google one month to index 50 million pages. In 2012, the same task took less than one minute.http://bit.ly/1mNXzOt [Tweet this]
16% to 20% of Google queries that get asked every day have never been asked before. http://bit.ly/1mNXzOt [Tweet this]
Every Google query travels about 1,500 miles to a data center and back to return the answer to the user.http://bit.ly/1mNXzOt [Tweet this]
A single Google query uses 1,000 computers in 0.2 seconds to retrieve an answer. http://bit.ly/1mNXzOt [Tweet this]
About 6000 Tweets are tweeted on Twitter every second. http://bit.ly/1q1NwYp [Tweet this]
Whether you are a regular tweeter or have tweeted only once, your “body of work” is part of the Library of Congress.http://bit.ly/1q1NwYp [Tweet this]
The first tweet (http://bit.ly/1oGFpLI) was sent on March 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsey @jack, the creator of Twitter.http://bit.ly/1q1NwYp [Tweet this]
The first tweet from space (http://bit.ly/TV9f56) was sent in January of 2010 by Astronaut Timothy Creamer @Astro_TJ http://bit.ly/1q1NwYp [Tweet this]
As of September 2013, 73% of online adults use social networking sites. http://bit.ly/1qNJdhd [Tweet this]
As of January 2014, 19% of online adults use Twitter. http://bit.ly/1qNJdhd [Tweet this]
In May 2013, 74% of women were users of social networking sites, compared with 62% of men. http://bit.ly/1qNJdhd[Tweet this]
Between Feb 2005 and Aug 2006, the use of social networks among young adults ages 18-29 jumped from 9% to 49%. http://bit.ly/1qNJdhd [Tweet this]
40% of cell phone owners use a social networking site on their phone, and 28% do so on a typical day.http://bit.ly/1qNJdhd [Tweet this]
There are 1158 photos uploaded to Instagram every second. http://bit.ly/1rYcQ1g [Tweet this]
There are 1382 Tumblr posts every second. http://bit.ly/1rYcQ1g [Tweet this]
There are 1483 Skype calls every second. http://bit.ly/1rYcQ1g [Tweet this]
There is 22,343GB of Internet traffic every second. http://bit.ly/1rYcQ1g [Tweet this]
85,443 videos are viewed on YouTube every second. http://bit.ly/1rYcQ1g [Tweet this]
There are 2,317,342 emails sent every second. 67% of it is spam. http://bit.ly/1rYcQ1g [Tweet this]
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Old Coffee Beans
A couple of days ago I found a 12 oz bag of Peet’s ‘Cafe Domingo’ beans by the coffee grinder. I assumed that daughter Sara bought them, opened the bag, and dumped them in the hopper.
Later I asked her. She said no, she found them in the kitchen cabinet along with some other beans. She showed me — there was also a bag of ‘Major Dickason’s Blend’. Both bags were almost a year old. In the spirit of inquiry, I made a cup for me (espresso) and a cup for CF (Aeropress).
In all honesty, I cannot recommend it, and, despite being averse to waste, I am seriously contemplating dumping the beans. (CF, on the other hand, said “I like it.” But she is famous for drinking almost anything, coffeewise.)
It is drinkable in the strictly literal sense, but the flavor has one note: harsh. No coffee aroma. Sad.
Fire across the Bay
Looking across South San Francisco Bay at an out of control wildfire.
This photo was taken from our balcony. Our development abuts canyonland that could turn into an inferno like this.
The final frontier?
If we establish a permanent human presence off the shoulder of Orion we will necessarily take an ecosystem with us. It won’t be humanity colonizing space, it will be Earth’s biosphere colonizing space. Life, in general, has an intrinsic property of opportunistic expansion, and we are life.
Under way, 2011-06-30
A test music post…
Opening bars of Menuet in G
https://mosqueeto.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/menuet1.mp3
Testing other media. This is from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, Menuet in G. Recorded as part of a project for my daughter Sara.
Taking photos around the house.
Sheltering in place, one must be inventive. A tiny african violet sitting on the windowsill in the kitchen.
Chicago Typewriter
“Chicago Typewriter” is a Korean drama currently streaming on viki.com. 16 one hour episodes . [Edit: Now available on Netflix!]
It starts as a slapstick romcom ghost story, transitions to an intense and tragic 1930’s Korean historical drama, and then returns to the present for a sentimental ending. Love triangle: two best friends love the same girl. All good. The story, the characters, the writing, the acting, the cinematography, the production values — all great.
What sets it apart from the flood of excellent productions coming from Korea these days, though, is the window it gives into the politics of the 1930’s. At that time Korea was a vassal state of Imperial Japan. In a way perhaps reminiscent of the US annexation of Hawaii, Japan “annexed” Korea in 1910. Korea didn’t regain its independence until the end of WWII, in 1945. For 35 years, Korea was ruled by a seriously exploitative foreign power , and through a large part of this time period there was an energetic Korean resistance. “Chicago Typewriter” depicts one of these resistance groups, and its passionate struggles with Imperial overlords.
The story is intensely nationalistic — the Japanese are represented as evil, and the Koreans (with the exception of despicable traitorous turncoats) are good. But while the series may not be precise in detail, there is no question that Imperial Japan acted very badly and made enemies throughout Asia. “Chicago Typewriter” makes it very clear that deep emotional wounds remain.
It is also an uncomfortable truth that many of the actions of the freedom fighters in the story would nowadays would be considered acts of terrorism. There were many in the Korean upper class who profited by the Japanese presence, and, in the story at least, some were murdered.
Large scale atrocities and systematic exploitation are historically common. Mao caused the death of perhaps 60 million of his own people. China has effectively “annexed” Tibet, and Xi may soon preside over a bloodbath in Hong Kong. Pol Pot killed a quarter of the population of his country. The Middle East. Rwanda. The Armenian genocide. Endemic racism in the US, and the endless US military actions throughout the world..
Dig back far enough in your own personal history, and you will likely find evil, no matter who you are.
[“Shuttle Love Millennium”, AKA “Love Through the Millennium 2”, is an excellent Chinese TV series that depicts the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in a similar way. ]
Resting Monk
Monk resting at Vinh Trang Pagoda, My Tho, Vietnam (home of the Giant Laughing Buddha)
Flowers in Black and White
The Chaos of Life
From my back yard…
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With COVID-19 cases spiking, Missouri exposes high school football players to risk
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Dr. Philip Ewell will serve as the Conservatory’s Virtual Scholar in Residence for 2020–21. He will give six virtual talks on “Confronting Racism and Sexism in the Music Academy.”
Record donations for music programs
In 2019-20, the Conservatory received a record-breaking $2.2 million in charitable gifts, 90 percent of which are dedicated to student access and success.
Scott Liggett '70 appointed to Pacific's Board of Regents
Conservatory alumnus Scott Liggett ’70, has accepted an invitation to join Pacific’s Board of Regents, the university’s highest governing body. He has extensive experience in the music industry as a musician, composer, producer and executive. Among many awards and accolades, he's recipient of an Emmy Award and Pacific's Distinguished Alumni Award for Professional Service.
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The Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific prepares tomorrow’s performers, teachers, therapists, composers, scholars and music industry leaders.
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Facebook closes dumb election loophole, but won't stop Trump's lies from spreading
Misinformation festers on Facebook.
Image: Bob Al-Greene / Mashable
By Brittany Levine Beckman 2020-11-04 07:01:06 UTC
UPDATE: Nov. 4, 2020, 1:58 p.m. PST: Facebook announced Wednesday afternoon that it would add a label to premature victory posts. The move comes after President Donald Trump declared victory in Pennsylvania, before major news outlets had. Too bad that label, which says votes are still being counted, won't do much to stop the spread of misinformation.
We are continuing to label all posts from both presidential candidates making it clear that votes are still being counted and a winner has not been projected. We are also applying these labels to other individuals who declare premature victory in individual states or overall. pic.twitter.com/gmGdn4q52s
— Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) November 4, 2020
Don’t trust what you see on Facebook should always be the rule rather than the exception.
That’s no different on Election Day, even after Facebook promised it would add context to posts declaring winners prior to official vote tally announcements.
The social media company made that policy earlier in the month because it was unlikely that all votes would be counted on Election Day due to an expansion of mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic. But now it’s wiggling out of it saying, oh we didn’t really mean it as a blanket statement on all premature declarations, just on ones about the overall race.
Here’s what Facebook said on Oct. 7: "If a candidate or party declares premature victory before a race is called by major media outlets, we will add more specific information in the notifications that counting is still in progress and no winner has been determined."
After the Trump campaign declared victory in Florida on Tuesday night — before major media outlets had — Facebook walked that back, according to the Wall Street Journal. Doing so created a loophole that seems either shortsighted or made up on the fly as the presidential race hinges on battleground states like Florida, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, and the country has known that for some time. Facebook has yet to return Mashable's request for comment about its new clarification.
After social media platforms played host to misinformation campaigns in 2016 with little oversight, the tech companies vowed to do better this time around. Facebook, Twitter, and others have enacted policies to add further context to misleading posts, outright block posts with warnings, or prevent people from sharing certain links. There have been mistakes along the way, and the question still remains about how hands off social media companies should be when misinformation has dangerous consequences.
SEE ALSO: Election Day is providing a lot of context for no-context Twitter accounts
When Trump tweeted that the Democrats were trying to steal the election — a political strategy meant to rally his base — Twitter added a label noting the tweet was misleading within minutes.
i guess twitter was waiting for this. they added labels and warnings within minutes of it going up pic.twitter.com/kxDQuIxAm9
— Ali Breland (@alibreland) November 4, 2020
It took Facebook nearly 25 minutes to do something similar. (Although Facebook's label about final results seems ill-fitting for this post.)
It took more than 25 minutes for Facebook to act with a label on the most watched account in the world. This is a company that's touted its election preparedness for months.
How many people saw that post without the label?
— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) November 4, 2020
These labels will not save us from misinformation. Facebook will always find a loophole.
WATCH: How to recognize and avoid fake news
Topics: 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, big-tech-companies, Donald Trump, Facebook, misinformation, social-media-companies, Tech
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Sony confirms that PlayStation 5 consoles will not be available in stores on launch day
The PlayStation 5 will launch on Nov. 12.
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By Dylan HaasMashable Shopping 2020-11-05 16:42:52 UTC
The next generation of gaming is set to start next week with the launch of the Xbox Series X and S (Nov. 10), as well as the PlayStation 5 (Nov. 12). The road to get here has been a long one, complete with slow information drops and a disastrous preorder fiasco, but many of us will soon have our next-gen machines in hand.
If you weren't able to secure a PlayStation 5 preorder when they dropped (and chances are you didn't) but plan on getting one as soon as a restock hits, Sony just released a statement that you'll definitely want to check out.
SEE ALSO: Sony's PlayStation 5 teardown shows how to add storage and clean out dust
In a statement posted to the PlayStation Blog this morning (Nov. 5), Senior Director of Content Communications at SIE, Sid Shuman, confirmed that PlayStation 5 consoles will not be available in stores next week on launch day. "In the interest of keeping our gamers, retailers, and staff safe amidst COVID-19, today we are confirming that all day-of launch sales will be conducted through the online stores of our retail partners," the blog post reads.
Shuman also added that those who were lucky enough to secure PlayStation 5 preorders for in-store pickup on the day of launch should still be able to do so — this news just serves to prevent any further in-person sales on Nov. 12, and to avoid excited shoppers lining up in droves at their local retailers. "Be safe, stay home, and place your order online," Shuman concluded.
You'll definitely need to have luck on your side when the PlayStation 5 and new Xbox consoles get restocked next week, but we'll be sure to let you know as soon as they do, so you'll have a fighting chance at scoring one.
How a gaming headset will change the way you play PS4 (for the better)
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Top live music venues in Portland
Music + Nightlife Trip Planning Portland, OR, United States
Portland’s music scene has never been big enough or nationally popular enough to define its own genre, like Seattle with grunge or LA with rap, and despite the city’s massive growth spurt, it seems like this is not going to change anytime soon.
However, this lack of being pigeonholed has offered Portland’s quirky, independent venues an unparalleled freedom to book whomever they please to do whatever they feel like. Wandering down East or West Burnside on a Friday night reveals a staging ground for a new generation of comedians, rockers, rappers and performance artists who play regularly in intimate venues on the cheap just to hone their craft. These venues rarely reveal the hipster swank that new Portland is famous for, but they display an avant-garde culture chugging away behind the dirty glasses, sweat-stained theatre seats and century-old stages.
Here are the best live venues in Portland:
1. Wonder Ballroom
Photo: Wonder Ballroom
An East Side classic in the vein of the Crystal Ballroom, the Wonder has been blessed with a well-built and designed old structure and continuous upkeep. Its downstairs lounge has always been a happening spot to hang before the main act, but would be a popular spot in its own right thanks to neighboring sandwich shop, Bunk Bar. While the space has lost some of its intimacy since the venue divided the main floor between minors and the +21 crowd, it is still one of the few places in Portland that draws fans from up and down the coast.
2. Revolution Hall
Rather than let a good thing go to waste, Portland has a tendency to save old buildings and turn them into something new. The creators of Revolution Hall have done just that in spectacular fashion. Located in the former Washington High School, this venue also hosts restaurant, bar and one of the best rooftop patios in the city (which has room for acoustic performances). The event space is in what used to be the high school auditorium and, despite that fact, has one of the better sound and display systems in town. Good for film festivals, comedy events, rock shows or just hanging around enjoying a fancy sandwich and a beer while watching the sunset behind Big Pink. Who knew you could make revisiting High School so appealing?
3. Roseland Theater
Photo: Roseland Theater
Growing up in Portland, your first show at the Roseland was a pretty big deal. Despite being middle-of-the-road in terms of acoustics and sound system, the Roseland still draws some of the biggest acts from every genre. This might have to do with the wild energy produced by the age range (18 and up for most shows), or maybe it just makes sense for managers to book the Roseland in the City of Roses. Whatever the reason, this venue remains a titan in the hefty live venue scene of Old Town/Chinatown.
4. Paris Theater
Photo: Paris Theatre
Out of all the performance venues in the city, the Paris might be the most renowned. Opened well over a century ago as a burlesque theatre, the Paris has alternated uses several times, from a cinema to rock venue to nightclub — it was even a porn theater once, replete with dungeons. In 2016, this mid-size venue was converted into a nightclub featuring cabaret décor and one of the most high-tech stage setups in the city. While the cover charges can be higher than the grungier venues in the neighborhood, the cost is worth the quality of the sound and displays — and the contemporary burlesque shows they put on. Despite its recent classing-up, the Paris remains a monument to Portland’s funky and free culture.
5. Mississippi Studios
Photo: Mississippi Studios
A younger Portland music hall has taken one of the smallest spaces on this list and turned it into the capital of the city’s freshest arts scene. Despite an exterior that suggests little more than a hole-in-the-wall, the intimate space has the energy of a 19th-century cabaret theater or jazz hall from the 20’s. A unique L-shaped balcony allows fans to almost dangle over the band (safely) and the simple floor space is no bigger than a McMansion’s living room with a well-stocked bar at the back. Created by artists for artists, the Mississippi has one of the best sound systems, and the line-up is always packed with local artists looking to make it big.
6. Doug Fir Lounge
Photo: Doug Fir Lounge
For over a decade, the Doug Fir at the Jupiter Hotel has been the most immaculately designed and maintained bar, restaurant, and venue in Portland. Trimmed and furnished to look like a logger’s fondest fantasy, the cozy basement music venue delivers some of the most intimate performances in town. Thanks to the general vibe of the place, it is hard to shake the feeling that you have stepped into the womb of Portland’s art scene, which these days, is comprised mainly of folk, alternative, and hip-hop. While the prices might be higher here compared to elsewhere on East Burnside, the top-notch small plates and cocktails are worth every penny. There are lots of places that folks want to check out on a first visit to Portland, but this might be the place Portland semesters most want to share with their buddies — and the world.
7. Bossanova Ballroom
Photo: Bossanova Ballroom
The website calls the Bossanova a “classy, beautiful, live event space” that hosts weddings, but I know it best as the setting for the dirtiest sort of metal and “clothing-optional” parties. I guess you can have the best of both worlds? Regardless, this space is exceptionally conducive to getting your freak on, be it on the dance floor, the balcony VIP area, or in the disconnected phone booth with a significant other (or two). The West Side venues have long been snagging the biggest names for their rosters, but the smaller Bossanova has developed a solid reputation for presenting Portland for the international underground.
8. Al’s Den
Photo: Ali’s Den
One of the newest editions to West Burnside’s music corridor is an extension of what used to be the bathroom of one of Portland’s coolest basement bars. Located underneath the fabled Crystal Hotel and Zeus Café, the Den is a warmly lit cocktail bar that exemplifies the “Portlandia” spirit with its oriental rugs and wall art from the 90’s. The stage is just big enough to host jazz, blues, folk and other smaller acts, including comedy, so is perfect for a date night. Al’s Den is named after Portland gangster Al Winter, who used to “operate” the city’s illegal pinball industry out of the building and was associated with mobsters like Meyer Lansky and Mickey Cohen. Not a bad story to tell over a dry Martini with a saxophone tootin’ off in the background.
9. Aladdin Theater
Photo: Aladdin Theater
Often overlooked for being outside of the West-East Burnside corridor, the Aladdin is the hidden gem of Southeast Portland. An Art Deco theater that has been modestly converted to host everything from thrash metal to one-person acts to “A John Waters Christmas, this venue is suited for just about any crowd. The seats may be beaten up and the sound nothing much to write home about, yet there are few venues in town as capable of headlining big acts from every corner of the entertainment industry.
The list of venues is constantly growing in Portland (five of the above spots opened in the last fifteen years), but represented above is a selection of venues representing every corner of our “live”. To spend a week in Portland without visiting a single one of them would be a mistake, and to live in Portland without befriending a single one of their managers, bartenders and bouncers would be a big loss.
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The extra airline fees that are absolutely worth the money this holiday season
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As well-respected travel advisors, we spend most of the year telling people how to avoid paying airline fees. “Hacks,” you might call them. And during the first 47 weeks of the year, that is all sound advice.
Then comes the final week of November, when people who only fly once a year clog airports, and all the rules go out the window. Whereas paying an airline for anything extra most of the time is insulting, during the holidays it can make the difference between smooth travel and a nightmare. If there was ever a time to pay for convenience, this would be it; the only key is knowing which fees are absolutely worth paying — and which are still a waste of money.
We spoke to Gabe Saglie, senior editor at Travelzoo, and he told us about seven airline fees that are wise investments during the holidays.
1. Airport lounges
During the holidays, bad weather combines with the biggest crowds of the year to create terminals with no seats, no space at the bar, and no place anyone would call “relaxing.” This is why the oasis of an airport lounge is an invaluable escape.
“It’s an investment in sanity,” said Saglie. “If you’ve got a family, having access to a lounge can alleviate a lot of that stress.”
Most major airlines have lounges that offer day passes for $39-$59. That includes food, an open bar, separate Wi-Fi, television, and big, comfortable seats. Of course, during peak times many airline lounges limit access to those with annual memberships, which can cost upward of $500 a year. If you don’t want to spend that much — and you’re in a large enough airport — ask the airport information desk if they have a private airport or third-party lounge, nearly all of which will sell day passes.
2. Priority boarding
Overhead bin space on airlines is at a bigger premium than Cuban Wi-Fi. With people crowding around gates, knowing you’ll be on the plane first can be a major stress-reliever. Especially when planes are running full and anyone past Group 5 generally has to gate check.
Though many of us skip over the option to pay for priority boarding when we check in for a flight, the holidays may be the time to read that screen a little more closely.
“You want to look for it, there’s a page people skip through to avoid fees, but during the check-in process, airlines will usually offer you an opportunity to better your experience at the airport and buy yourself in to Group 2, which guarantees you bin space,” Saglie said.
The price starts at about $20, and goes up depending on the length of your flight and the size of the aircraft. Some options offer expedited security as well, through the airlines’ premium lanes. Though it’s not the same as TSA PreCheck, it can still save a ton of time.
3. TSA PreCheck/CLEAR
Even for non-frequent fliers, TSA PreCheck is an invaluable investment. The ability to breeze by epic holiday security lines is worth a lot more than $85 for five years.
However, during busy times even PreCheck lines can be infuriatingly long, even if they do move quickly. For those who want to never wait in a security line there’s CLEAR, a private, TSA-approved company that basically expedites you to the beginning of any security line using fingerprints and retinal scanners. You can find it at over 35 airports and some sports stadiums. You don’t need TSA PreCheck to use it, and for $179 a year, it’s an excellent option if you fly often.
4. Baggage delivery
Saglie admitted he never checks a bag when he flies for work, but when traveling with his wife and three children, checking a bag is unavoidable. Ditto for anyone bringing Christmas presents larger than a gift card, or traveling with fine wine in containers over three ounces. Some airlines deliver checked bags fairly quickly. Others allow you to watch an entire World Series game in the time it takes for your bag to show up.
If you’d prefer to spend time with family instead of in the baggage claim, most airlines offer baggage delivery. Airlines partner with third-party companies who wait for your luggage, take it off the belt, and deliver it to you within a few hours. If you live within a reasonable distance from the airport, it’ll cost you anywhere from $35-50 a bag, though it’ll be more if you’re over an hour away.
“During the holidays, wait time at baggage claim is exorbitant,” Saglie said. “It’s paying for not wasting time, and if you need to get out of the airport quickly but still have to check a bag, it’s worth considering.”
Airlines sometimes offer this service when buying your ticket, but you can also ask a ticketing agent when you check in. If you tell the airline you want to give it money, people are amazingly helpful.
5. Better seats
We’ve said it already but it warrants repeating: Planes are packed during the holidays. And if you’re a person of size, or just a person who likes the concept of personal space, paying for a bigger, better seat might be worth it this time of year.
“A lot of people say they’ll never do this,” Saglie said, stating some prefer to play the seat-assignment game and hope to luck into an exit row. “But when you’re dealing with holiday planes more packed than usual, this is the season where the idea of paying a little more to get out of row 39 is a good idea.”
Not only does moving up in the cabin get you off the plane up to half an hour faster (for those with tight connections), but it can also land you in the plush Economy Plus sections, with more legroom, priority boarding, and sometimes free drinks. That extra legroom is especially welcomed when you’re stuck in an hour-long line for takeoff, or waiting out a weather delay on the tarmac.
“Families might want to pay more for bulkhead seats,” he added. “The kids can kind of hang out up there without bothering anyone in front of them.”
Those fees run anywhere from $19-$179 depending on the length of the flight and size of the aircraft.
6. Business class
We’re not all Uncle Pennybags who can just say things like “It’s worth an extra $1,000 to get a good night’s sleep on my flight to Spain.” But the holidays are the exception to nearly every flying rule, and it might be the one time you want to look into business class.
“This is slightly counterintuitive, but during holidays, business travel shuts down,” Saglie explained, “Where [business-class fares] are exorbitant during the year, during holidays, pricing for upgrade seats come down. Not to say it’s going to be cheap to get a first-class seat from New York City to London, but it will be a more affordable option.”
Since holiday coach tickets are already outrageously expensive, the difference might not be as much as you think. And since first-class tickets come with free bags, a better seat, lounge access, and priority boarding, you’re paying for a lot of the other convenience fees on this list, too.
Saglie said not to look for any first-class deals on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving or other high-volume days. But traveling days like Christmas Eve or New Year’s morning might land you in the front of the plane for a minimal upcharge.
7. Valet parking
In the Uber era, parking at the airport isn’t quite the necessary expense that it once was. But during the jam-packed holiday season, surge pricing and painfully long waits for rides can be the norm. And if you’re only traveling for a few days, parking your car at the airport can be faster, easier, and cheaper.
It gets even faster and easier if you opt for valet parking. Though it sounds like an unnecessary luxury, it only runs about $19-21 a day, and allows you to have your car delivered to you curbside at the airport as soon as you have your bags.
“You call them, you get your car, and you’re off,” he said. “You’re not waiting for shuttles to the parking lot. You’re not paying for parking at the airport, which is often more expensive.”
Be sure to book early, as valet lots fill up during the holidays.
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NASA Demonstrations: For who, for what?
nairobicool on Wed, 3rd January 2018 2:56 PM
American football is a brutal sport. To partake in the sport, players must invest a gazillion hours in the weight room, run quick dashes and toughen their bodies for brutal hits.
The sport is one of the most brutal sports in the history of sports. Many a player have died from injuries sustained in their playing years. In turn the National Football League (NFL) has fine-tuned the rules in order to shield and protect the players. From helmets to shoulder pads, the NFL has tried to mitigate the physical damages that often give the league a bad name.
Reports of former and current players suffering from illnesses occasioned by brain damage continue to be on the rise despite the stringent rules that some complain that have “softened” the game. American football entails hard hits on any offensive player reaching out to catch the ball or running with the ball. The architect on offense is the quarterback, a guy who is tasked with the responsibility of taking the signals from the coaches calling plays on the sidelines through the earpiece embedded on his helmet and then running the play to the offensive players on the field while the opposing team’s defense lays in wait for the guy with the ball to waylay him in a bid to stop him from scoring.
On the other hand, NASA, realizing that they have been outflanked, outgunned and outmuscled, have resorted to singing melodies to the faithful. The tunes have been like the high notes of Luciano Pavarotti to the local Ohangla soloists.
In the 1995 draft, the Philadelphia Eagles had a tough year, as such, they landed a huge offensive prospect who was importuned with the responsibility of carrying the offense to the playoffs and on to the national championship. The superstar prospect, Ricky Watters had the burden of lifting the whole team and the city of Philadelphia to glory. However as fate would have it, the Eagles were playing the Tampa Bay Bucs in a decisive game but the Eagles were trailing in a decisive fashion but on a play that was all academic and was not going to change the outcome of the crucial game, the quarterback, Randall Cunningham, facing oncoming pressure from the Bucs defense, threw the ball to Ricky Watters, thus exposing him for brutal hits from the defenders but Ricky demurred on the play and nobody touched him and the ball ( which was catchable) hit the ground as an incomplete pass and with that, the Eagles lost the game and were effectively out of championship contention.
The notorious Philadelphia media and fans all wanted a piece of Watters. They were furious! But they were not ready for Ricky’s post-game press conference! When asked by reporters why he did not stretch his hand to catch the ball, Ricky delivered what is now a Philadelphia sports artefact: “for who, for what? Lamenting that even if he would have reached out for the ball, the oncoming Bucs defender was poised to level him at a point where even if the Eagles scored, it would not have made any difference in the game. They would have still lost the game anyway. In other words, knowing that the game was essentially over, Watters chose to preserve his body for the next season! Predictably, Philadelphia fans were furious, accusing Watters of selfishness but the young player stuck to his guns and went on to play two more seasons with the Eagles. But he is forever remembered for uttering the classic “for who, for what” refrain as a way of exonerating himself from unnecessary pain in a meaningless endeavour.
NASA is a political juggernaut, no doubt. The team has given the Jubilee administration nightmare after nightmare and if it wasn’t for the sheer muscular nature of Jubilee, there could have been a regime change in Kenya. Jubilee has successfully utilized the power and perks of incumbency to retain power.
The Luo community are now making light of the whole thing thus: “If he can’t carry the bible to be sworn in, let him hoist a hymn book.” Yes, it has come to that!
“Nyinyi pigeni kura, zingine niwachieni.”
“muhula huu, wakihesabu, tunahesabu, wakitangaza, tunatangaza.”
“Wakati huu sitawakujia eti nimeibiwa.”
There were more classic reassurances delivered to the faithful and acted like a clarion call to action.
As fate would have it, the people voted and the even though there was a tactical vow not to hit the Supreme Court, a case was presented and history was made. But even then, the powerlessness was palpable. The supreme order to open servers was rejected with zero consequences. Later on, that very Supreme Court gave a clean bill of health to yet another lame electoral process and went on to swear-in the ‘victor.’ It was like the blatant contempt of court in not opening the servers never happened.
Still, the NASA faithful kept the faith. They heeded the calls to boycott the polls, participated in demos and were cruelly rewarded with brazen shootings of minors, toddlers, babies and adults. The Jubilee government set out to use deadly force and generously took out targets regardless of age and gender. The tactic worked.
The upshot was hundreds of dead bodies and no concrete points on the board for NASA. They have serenaded the faithful with tunes of a mythical swearing-in ceremonies that are now turning into a joke. The Luo community are now making light of the whole thing thus: “If he can’t carry the bible to be sworn in, let him hoist a hymn book.” Yes, it has come to that!
From the many grandiose pronouncements to the swearing in political strip tease, NASA leaders are flirting with the possibility of confronting a tired constituency. A people sick of empty promises that they know all too well. Some have lost siblings, some parents, some children and some, like baby Pendo’s family, a six-month old baby! Yet, they continue to hear more leaders piping up oath-taking events!
At this rate, the next time NASA’s top brass asks it’s supporters to come out and demonstrate, don’t be surprised when the faithful come out with a different clarion call: “for who, for what?”
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MM is a transparent masque for efficient, yet innocuous, cleaning and visible refinement of pores and impurities, resulting in immediate and maintainable visible reduction in both the number and the size of pores. (Note: It is not possible to modify the genetically-determined number or size of pores as apparent in optimal skin condition. However, pores do become more apparent in number and size with ageing and environmental exposure. MM works to restore the appearance of pores to an ideal state, within individual genetic limits.)
In line with yešti's commitment to traditional approaches to science, MM uses a highly-densified sap from Greek mastic trees. It is a dense gum that binds to congestion like gum would but it doesn't bind to oil or water just like gum wouldn't. It purifies and shrinks the look of pores without drying. The sap is a powerful anti-bacterial and anti-fungal. It's definitely Greek in every way but borrowed by Middle Eastern medicine and called Arabic Gum which should not be confused with the very common substance known as Gum Arabic. The sap in MM is sustainably sourced and is purified in a very precise bio-technology lab with extremely high purity.
yešti Ahead is not further than behind.
True learning is a form of love — it is humble. It respects that to look forward, it must look backward. The few observers of NIOD's childhood know that NIOD isn't a brand. It is a force and it has a soul. While NIOD's genetics are committed to science, its soul is ultimately rooted in learning. Perhaps the only flaw of modern science is that it grows proud and loses respect for our deserving past — but learning stays humble and looks back.
NIOD's journey will offer respect to our past with a series of formulations informally called yešti. NIOD's caretakers live with exhausting standards in science. The journey of NIOD's yešti formulations is not one of a lower standard — it is instead one that allows our collective past an overdue chance to speak.
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National Network for Children
Being a foster parent comes from the heart
Being a foster parent is something that comes from the heart. It is easy to spend the training, but the real work begins when the child is placed in the family.
That is what Svetozar Rusev said – a foster parent and a representative of the National Association of Foster Care (NAPG.eu) at a meeting between representatives of: the municipality, the project Foster care. Create the future, the media and NGOs in Stara Zagora.
He said he had become a foster parent after he and his wife saw a local advertising campaign. Now they are raising two children.
Most candidates do not completely realize what is to be a foster parent. They live with the awareness that they are adoptive parents. For many foster care is a shortcut to the adoption. Therefore,they imagine that they will get the perfect child. What they have to realize is that foster parents will be always the second one. Kids love us, but they love their biological parents, too (and there is nothing wrong), Rusev said.
Foster parents help the child, until he/she and his/her biological family are ready to assemble.
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Opening Doors for Europe’s Children
The Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign aims to support national efforts to develop child protection systems that strengthen families and ensure high-quality family and community-based alternative care for children, by leveraging EU funding and policy and building capacity in civil society.
More about the project
The National Network for Children’s annual report evaluates as in school whether the government and administration have fulfilled their commitments to the children in the last year.
Child Rights Hubs for Children in Conflict and Contact with the Law
The main objective of the project, funded by the Velux Foundation, is to establish four Centers for children’s rights and piloting services aimed at children in conflict and in contact with the law.
The National Network for Children founded the Golden Apple Awards to distinguish the contribution of public figures, ordinary people and organization, working to improve Bulgarian children live and welfare.
Child Participation
The child participation guarantees children rights and suppose that children not only share their opinions freely, but also they are active participants in community and social processes, related to child-adult bonding, to acquire communication competence and to empower children.
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Help us to build the House for Children. It will be a new, modern, contemporary House for Children from across the country. A place for events and training center for development of skills that will be needed TOMORROW in order our children to be successful people and leaders.
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Following the best practices in Iceland, the project aims to pilot comprehensive program of care in 3 countries – Bulgaria, Portugal, Cyprus in direction of recognition and empowerment of children and their parents and authorities leaving out the position of inert following the pattern of violence and initiate a process of self-awareness of personal own value of the youngest members of our society.
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Model-scale/full-scale correlation of NRC-OCRE’s model resistance, propulsion and maneuvering test results
View accepted manuscript: Model-scale/full-scale correlation of NRC-OCRE’s model resistance, propulsion and maneuvering test results (PDF, 640 KB)
Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2015-42114
Search for: Lau, Michael1
National Research Council of Canada. Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering
Proceedings of the ASME 2015 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2015, May 31-June 5, 2015, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
The ASME 2015 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2015, May 31-June 5, 2015, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
OMAE2015-42114
There are a variety of model ices and test techniques adopted by model test facilities. Most often, the clients would ask: “How well can you predict the full scale performance from your model test results?” Model-scale/full-scale correlation becomes an important litmus test to validate a model test technique and its results. This paper summarizes the modelscale/ full-scale correlation performed on model test data generated at the National Research Council - Ocean, Coastal, and River Engineering’s (NRC-OCRE) test facility in St. John’s. This correlation includes ship performance predictions, i.e., resistance, propulsion and maneuvering. Selected works from NRC-OCRE on the USCGC icebreaker Healy, the CCGS icebreaker Terry-Fox, the CCGS R-Class icebreakers Pierre Radisson and Sir John Franklin and the CCGS icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent were reviewed and summarized. The model tests were conducted at NRC-OCRE’s ice tank with the correct density (CD) EGADS model ice. This correlation is based on the concept that a “correlation friction coefficient” (CFC) can be used to predict full-scale ship icebreaking resistance from model test data. The CFCs have been compared for correlation studies using good-quality full-scale information for the five icebreaker models in the NRC-OCRE’s model test database. The review has shown a good agreement between NRCOCRE’s model test predictions and full-scale measurements. The resistance and power correlation were performed for five sets of full-scale data. Although there is substantial uncertainty on ice thickness and ice strength within the full scale data sets that contributes to data scattering, the data suggest a conservative estimate can be obtained to address reasonably this uncertainty by increasing the model prediction by 15% that envelopes most data points. Limited correlation for maneuvering in ice was performed for the USCGC icebreaker Healy. Selected test conditions from the sea trials were duplicated for the maneuvering tests and turning diameters were measured from the arcs of partial circles made in the ice tank. Performance predictions were then compared to the full-scale data previously collected. Despite some discrepancy in ice strength and power level between the model tests and sea trial, the model data agree well with the sea trial data except for three outliers. Otherwise, the maneuvering data show a good correlation between the model test and sea trial results.
The article from: V. 8, Ian Jordaan Honoring Symposium on Ice Engineerin
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numpy.where¶
numpy.where(condition[, x, y])¶
Return elements chosen from x or y depending on condition.
When only condition is provided, this function is a shorthand for np.asarray(condition).nonzero(). Using nonzero directly should be preferred, as it behaves correctly for subclasses. The rest of this documentation covers only the case where all three arguments are provided.
conditionarray_like, bool
Where True, yield x, otherwise yield y.
x, yarray_like
Values from which to choose. x, y and condition need to be broadcastable to some shape.
An array with elements from x where condition is True, and elements from y elsewhere.
The function that is called when x and y are omitted
If all the arrays are 1-D, where is equivalent to:
[xv if c else yv
for c, xv, yv in zip(condition, x, y)]
>>> a = np.arange(10)
>>> a
array([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])
>>> np.where(a < 5, a, 10*a)
array([ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90])
This can be used on multidimensional arrays too:
>>> np.where([[True, False], [True, True]],
... [[1, 2], [3, 4]],
... [[9, 8], [7, 6]])
array([[1, 8],
[3, 4]])
The shapes of x, y, and the condition are broadcast together:
>>> x, y = np.ogrid[:3, :4]
>>> np.where(x < y, x, 10 + y) # both x and 10+y are broadcast
array([[10, 0, 0, 0],
[10, 11, 1, 1],
[10, 11, 12, 2]])
>>> a = np.array([[0, 1, 2],
... [0, 2, 4],
... [0, 3, 6]])
>>> np.where(a < 4, a, -1) # -1 is broadcast
[ 0, 2, -1],
[ 0, 3, -1]])
numpy.nonzero numpy.indices
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Reading, Drinking and Dancing with a Chaser of Snark
Chronicles of a 50-something, overweight Latina as she ages disgracefully.
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5-Stars for Hayson Manning’s “Winning the Boss’s Heart” – Book Review
Posted on February 10, 2014 Updated on February 26, 2014
Mason Christian has twelve weeks to flip something old into something new, and then he’s getting the hell out of Footsteps Bay – a tiny New Zealand coastal town. Not even his temporary secretary and personal assistant–the feisty, luscious Billie McLeod–will deter him, but there’s no denying she makes him feel alive. More alive than he’s felt in three years…
Billie has one dream: save enough money to finish her degree. That’s why she’s agreed to work for hard ass, all-business-no-pleasure Mason Christian–a man who has every intention of destroying through modernization the town’s most cherished historical home. Before she can say ‘see ya’ she’s signed on the dotted line and is contractually bound to be Mason’s forty-second assistant. But working with male perfection every day is awesome with a capital A–as long as they can stick to a hands-off policy that gets harder every day…
42 Gives Magic Man the Last Offer He Will Ever Refuse
With her second book, Winning the Boss’s Heart, Hayson Manning took us to her beautiful home country of New Zealand. Set in the bucolic coastal town of Footsteps Bay, Mason Christian hired Billie McLeod to work as his personal assistant on a project he hoped would be completed quickly.
Billie was a heroine who knew her own worth. After suffering some personal setbacks, she was saving money to finish her degree, and working for Mason seemed like the fastest way to earn the most money. She fearlessly challenged Mason and the sarcastic nicknames she created for him, were inspired. Nothing like treating the boss with the same impersonal disdain, as he treated his employees.
Mason was a deeply broken man, sublimating his emotions in his work and keeping people at arm’s length. As his feelings for Billie grew, he was forced to confront some painful events from his past. Little did Mason know that fate would intervene, to give him a compelling second chance at love story. Ms. Manning beautifully constructed and sensitively handled, Mason’s heartbreaking past.
Billie and Mason’s interactions ran the gamut of emotions from trepidation, to antagonism, to friendship, and finally, acceptance, and love. Lovingly meddlesome townsfolk and growing spicy, sexy action rounded out this terrific story.
With Wife in Name Only, Hayson Manning became a must-read author for me. After, Winning the Boss’s Heart, she became a must-preorder or must-1-click author for me. I highly recommend her books for well-developed characters, richly illustrated locations and secondary characters and multilayered storytelling,
Links to my review on Amazon and Goodreads.
Hayson Manning grew up in a small New Zealand town in a family of scientists and engineers Hayson was told firmly that her ‘day dreaming’ phase would end. Soon, she’d be entranced by the inner workings of the periodic table and be spellbound by quantum physics. But Hayson loved living in the lands she created. Oh, the creatures that stopped by. The princes and princesses, unicorns and Frank a friendly chain-smoking shark.
It soon became apparent Hayson wasn’t going to be awarded the Nobel Prize for services to the atom.
She conformed and has worked as a demon word processor, sliced ham in a delicatessen, sorted freight, pulled midnight shifts in a bank and counted baked bean cans in a stock-take. She never stopped dreaming of writing alpha dudes and sassy woman.
She’s lived in Auckland, Brisbane, Melbourne, London, California and is now in Sydney. All she ever wanted to do was write fun and flirty people who aren’t perfect but will fight for that one person who will love them for who they are.
Represented by Nalini Akolekar of Spencerhill Associates, that dream has come true, writing for Entangled Publishing. She loves a good glass of wine, dreams of winning the lottery, cries while watching Antiques Roadshow and cannot speak she’s sobbing so much by the end of Undercover Boss. She is also an expert at finding new and inventive ways to avoid exercise.
Find out more about Hayson on her website, follow her on Twitter and like her Facebook page. She loves to hear from her fans.
This entry was posted in Book Reviews, Books and Authors, Contemporary Romance, Female Empowerment, Food, Romantic Comedy and tagged contemporary romance, Entangled Publishing, Hayson Manning, romantic comedy, tortured hero, Winning the Boss's Heart.
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Exploring ecological changes in Cook Inlet beluga whale habitat though traditional and local ecological knowledge of contributing factors for population decline
Brian T.G. Carter, Erik A. Nielsen
The Cook Inlet beluga whale, one of five Alaskan stocks, is genetically distinct and geographically isolated from other populations. Historically, Cook Inlet whales were hunted commercially, for sport, and for subsistence uses. The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) of 1972 ended commercial and sport hunting; in 1999, subsistence hunting voluntarily ended. In 2008, Cook Inlet beluga whales were listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act after annual aerial surveys indicated the population was not recovering as expected. A combination of natural and anthropogenic factors may be affecting this population's recovery. This study documented traditional and local ecological knowledge of Alaska Native subsistence hunters and fishers and commercial fishers through participatory research to explore ecological changes in Cook Inlet over time and to identify potential factors impacting this beluga whale population. Study results identified potential environmental and climate change factors including prey competition, health of beluga and their prey, and the presence of killer whales, the majority of which may indicate an ecosystem regime shift in the Cook Inlet region. Human-related factors included fisheries management and related prey reduction, water contamination, and anthropogenic-related noise. These results corroborate identified threats to beluga whales and also identify potential new areas of scientific investigation and management. As such this study demonstrates the value of incorporating traditional and local ecological knowledge into ongoing science and management.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2010.10.009
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Carter, B. T. G., & Nielsen, E. A. (2011). Exploring ecological changes in Cook Inlet beluga whale habitat though traditional and local ecological knowledge of contributing factors for population decline. Marine Policy, 35(3), 299-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2010.10.009
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In: Marine Policy, Vol. 35, No. 3, 01.05.2011, p. 299-308.
Carter, BTG & Nielsen, EA 2011, 'Exploring ecological changes in Cook Inlet beluga whale habitat though traditional and local ecological knowledge of contributing factors for population decline', Marine Policy, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 299-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2010.10.009
Carter BTG, Nielsen EA. Exploring ecological changes in Cook Inlet beluga whale habitat though traditional and local ecological knowledge of contributing factors for population decline. Marine Policy. 2011 May 1;35(3):299-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2010.10.009
Carter, Brian T.G. ; Nielsen, Erik A. / Exploring ecological changes in Cook Inlet beluga whale habitat though traditional and local ecological knowledge of contributing factors for population decline. In: Marine Policy. 2011 ; Vol. 35, No. 3. pp. 299-308.
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Tag: RAVENS
NFL Week 15: Thursday Night Football Pick & Prediction
New York Jets @ Baltimore Ravens, M&T Bank Stadium, 8:20 PM, FOX/NFLN (Ravens -17.5, O/U: 43.5)
The Jets haven’t really looked that great all year. Darnold has had his moments (good but mostly bad) in his sophomore year. Robby Anderson has come on as of late but he’s the only one really producing that much for the team, with 100+ yards receiving the last 2 games and 3 touchdowns the last 4 games. Bell has been a bust to say the least.
The Ravens are on cloud 9 after their huge win last week over the Bills. Don’t look at the numbers of the game since it was ugly in offense. The Ravens punted 7 times which was nearly 1/3rd of all of their punts in the 13 weeks leading up to last week. Lamar Jackson has been amazing and a lot if the time, unstoppable. Mark Ingram has done well with the shared rushing duties as he had 887 yards and 9 TD’s. The defense is alive and well, led by Earl Thomas.
It’s hard to believe the line could be covered but if any team could do it, it would be the Ravens. Take the Ravens to cover in the over, Ravens 31-13.
Author Jeremy KohlPosted on December 12, 2019 December 15, 2019 Categories Football, NFL, sports betting, UncategorizedTags AFC, Against the Spread, ANALYSIS, ATS, Baltimore Ravens, BETS, Betting, betting lines, conversation, JETS, New York Jets, NFL predictions, Picks, point spreads, Points Spread, Prediction, predictions, Preview, RAVENS, Spread, Spreads, Thursday Night, Thursday Night Football, Thursday Night Game, TNFLeave a comment on NFL Week 15: Thursday Night Football Pick & Prediction
NFL Week 13: Sunday Games Picks, Predictions & Colin Cowherd’s Blazin’ 5
Cleveland Browns @ Pittsburgh Steelers, Heinz Field, 1:00 PM (Steelers +2.5, O/U: 39.5)
The Browns are riding a three game winning streak and are back in the hunt for the division. Baker Mayfield, who’s play has been questionable all year long has thrown 7 TD’s and just 1 pick during the winning streak and OBJ finally snaps the 8 game TD drought last week. Steelers are banged up at the skills positions (Conner & Smith-Schuster are questionable). Hodges Will start after getting the team going last week after a poor start against a bad Bengals team. Even without Garrett, the Browns defense is solid and especially if Conner is listed as out. Take the Browns to cover in the over, Browns 24-20.
Green Bay Packers @ New York Giants, MetLife Stadium, 1:00 PM (Giants +6.5, O/U: 43.5)
The Packers come into this game losing 2 of the last 3 (both losses on the road) and really looked bad in LA and San Fran after ripping off 7 wins in their first 8 games. The 49ers defense looked alive and held Rodgers to 104 yards despite completing 20 passes. The third down parts of those games were not great for the Packers. Given that the Packers have been fine on the road versus bad teams, they should bounce back in New York. The Giants also had troubles on third down last week (1 for 12) against a struggling Bears team, and still, narrowly lost. Barkley has been having a hard time getting out of the gates in most games this year and the struggles have just continued throughout each week. Daniel Jones had an amazing game against the Jets before the teams bye week but came out flat last week on the road, post bye week. The Positives he can build off of, are that he went consecutive starts without throwing a pick for the first time in his career and in those last 2 games, he has 6 TD’s. Take the Packers to cover in the over, Packers 31-17.
New York Jets @ Cincinnati Bengals, Paul Brown Stadium, 1:00 PM (Bengals +3.5, O/U: 43.5)
Take the Jets to cover in the under, Jets 17-10.
Philadelphia Eagles @ Miami Dolphins, Hard Rock Stadium, 1:00 PM (Dolphins +10.5, O/U: 44.5)
Take the Eagles to cover in the under, Eagles 24-13.
San Francisco 49ers @ Baltimore Ravens, M&T Bank Stadium, 1:00 PM (Ravens -5.5, O/U: 45.5)
Take the Ravens to cover in the over, Ravens 27-21.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Jacksonville Jaguars, TIAA Bank Field, 1:00 PM (Jaguars +2.5, O/U: 47.5)
Take the Buccs to cover in the over, Buccs 27-23.
Tennessee Titans @ Indianapolis Colts, Lucas Oil Stadium, 1:00 PM (Colts -1.5, O/U: 41.5)
Take the Colts to cover in the over, Colts 24-20.
Washington Redskins @ Carolina Panthers, Bank of America Stadium, 1:00 PM (Panthers -10.5, O/U: 39.5)
Take the Redskins to cover but in the loss, in the under, Panthers 21-14.
Los Angeles Rams @ Arizona Cardinals, University of Phoenix Stadium, 4:05 PM (Cardinals +3.5, O/U: 47.5)
Take the Cardinals to cover in the under, Cardinals 21-17.
Oakland Raiders @ Kansas City Chiefs, Arrowhead Stadium, 4:25 PM (Chiefs -11.5, O/U: 49.5)
Take the Raiders to cover in the loss, in the over, Chiefs 31-24.
Los Angeles Chargers @ Denver Broncos, Broncos Stadium at Mile High, 4:25 PM (Broncos +3.5, O/U: 38.5)
Take the Chargers to cover in the over, Chargers 24-20.
New England Patriots @ Houston Texans, NRG Stadium, 8:20 PM, NBC (Texans +3.5, O/U: 46.5)
Take the Patriots to cover in the under, Patriots 24-20.
Colin Cowherd’s Blazin’ 5:
San Francisco at Baltimore – Baltimore (-5.5)
Washington at Carolina – Carolina (-9.5)
Oakland at Kansas City – Oakland (+9.5)
Philadelphia at Miami – Miami (+9.5)
LA Rams at Arizona – Arizona (+3)
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NFL Week 12: Monday Night Football Pick, Prediction & Colin Cowherd’s Blazin’ 5
Baltimore Ravens @ Los Angeles Rams, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 8:15 PM, ESPN (Rams +3.5, O/U: 47.5)
The Ravens are currently on a 6 game winning streak and while in those 6 hans, they’ve beaten the Bengals twice, they’ve also taken down giants like the Seahawks (in Seattle) and the Patriots (at home). The Ravens have a great balance of run and pass skill as Lamar Jackson has over 2,200 yards through the air and another nearly 800 on the ground. He and Mark Ingram have combined for over 1,400 yards alone. Mark Andrews and Marquise “Hollywood” Brown have lead the way in receiving to help make the team one of the top offenses in the league. The defense has come along as well, keeping opposing teams to at or less than 40% on 3rd down and 4th down conversions.
The Rams have lost the offensive identity they once had. Some of that is health issues on the offensive line, some if it is McVay not utilizing Gurley like he should and partly because Gurley’s production has dropped off when given carries. That’s not to say Gurley isn’t productive, he’s just not what he was when he got his most recent payday. Cooper Kupp remains Goff’s top target, leading the team in Targets (94), Receptions (61), Reception Yards (845) and Reception TD’s (5). The defense is still keeping them in games with Donald leading them in sacks with 8 and Matthews not far behind with 7. They’ve had a slow start to the second half if the season since they’re bye but hope to get going again at home tonight.
Author Jeremy KohlPosted on November 25, 2019 November 25, 2019 Categories Football, NFL, sports betting, UncategorizedTags Baltimore Ravens, ESPN MNF, Los Angeles Rams, MNF, Monday Night Football, RAMS, RAVENSLeave a comment on NFL Week 12: Monday Night Football Pick, Prediction & Colin Cowherd’s Blazin’ 5
NFL Week 12: Sunday Games, Picks, Predictions & Colin Cowherd’s Blazin’ 5
Carolina Panthers @ New Orleans Saints, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1:00 PM (Saints -10.5, O/U: 46.5)
Take the Saints to cover in the under, Saints 28-17.
Denver Broncos @ Buffalo Bills, New Era Field, 1:00 PM (Bills -4.5, O/: 37.5)
Take the Bills to cover in the over, Bills 24-17.
Detroit Lions @ Washington Redskins, FedEx Field, 1:00 PM (Redskins +4.5, O/U: 40.5)
Take the Lions to cover in the over, Lions 27-20.
Miami Dolphins @ Cleveland Browns, FirstEnergy Stadium, 1:00 PM (Browns -10.5, O/U: 45.5)
Take the Dolphins to cover in the loss, in the under, Browns 21-13.
New York Giants @ Chicago Bears, Soldier Field, 1:00 PM (Bears -6.5, O/U: 40.5)
Take the Giants to cover in the loss, in the under, Bears 20-17.
Oakland Raiders @ New York Jets, MetLife Stadium 1:00 PM (Jets +3.5, O/U: 45.5)
Take the Raiders to cover in the over, Raiders 28-20.
Pittsburgh Steelers @ Cincinnati Bengals, Paul Brown Stadium, 1:00 PM (Bengals +6.5, O/U: 37.5)
Take the Steelers to cover in the over, Steelers 23-13.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Atlanta Falcons Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1:00 PM (Falcons -3.5, O/U: 51.5)
Take the Falcons to cover in the over, Falcons 31-27.
Seattle Seahawks @ Philadelphia Eagles, Lincoln Financial Field, 1:00 PM (Eagles -1.5, O/U: 46.5)
Take the Seahawks to cover in the under, Seahawks 24-20.
Jacksonville Jaguars @ Tennessee Titans, Nissan Stadium, 4:05 PM (Titans -3.5, O/U: 41.5)
Take the Titans to cover in the under, Titans 21-17.
Dallas Cowboys @ New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium, 4:25 PM (Patriots -5.5, O/U: 44.5)
Take the Patriots to cover in the over, Patriots 31-24.
Green Bay Packers @ San Francisco 49ers, Levi’s Stadium, 8:20 PM (49ers -3.5, O/U: 47.5)
Take the Packers to cover in the over, Packers 27-24.
Denver at Buffalo – Denver (+3.5)
NY Giants at Chicago – NY Giants (+6)
Oakland at NY Jets – Oakland (-3)
Dallas at New England – Dallas (+6.5)
Seattle at Philadelphia – Seattle (+1.5)
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NFL Week 10: Sunday Games Picks, Predictions & Colin Cowherd’s Blazin’ 5 Picks
Arizona Cardinals @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Raymond James Stadium, 1:00 PM (Buccs -4.5, O/U: 52.5)
Take the Cardinals to cover in the win, in the under, Cardinals 24-20.
Atlanta Falcons @ New Orleans Saints, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1:00 PM (Saints -14, O/U: 51.5)
Take the Saints to cover in the over, Saints 31-16.
Baltimore Ravens @ Cincinnati Bengals, Paul Brown Stadium, 1:00 PM (Bengals +10, O/U: 44.5)
Buffalo Bills @ Cleveland Browns, FirstEnergy Stadium, 1:00 PM (Browns -3, O/U: 40.5)
Detroit Lions @ Chicago Bears, Soldier Field, 1:00 PM (Bears -4, O/U: 40.5)
Take the Bears to cover in the over, Bears 24-13.
Kansas City Chiefs @ Tennessee Titans, Nissan Stadium, 1:00 PM (Titans +6, O/U: 50.5)
Take the Chiefs to cover in the under, Chiefs 28-20.
New York Giants @ New York Jets, MetLife Stadium, 1:00 PM (Jets +3, O/U: 44.5)
Take the Jets to cover but the Giants to win, in the under, Giants 21-20.
Carolina Panthers @ Green Bay Packers, Lambeau Field, 1:00 PM (Packers -4.5, O/U: 47.5)
Take the Panthers to cover but the Packers to win, in the over, Packers 27-24.
Miami Dolphins @ Indianapolis Colts, Lucas Oil Stadium, 4:05 PM (Colts -10, O/U: 43.5)
Take the Dolphins to cover but the Colts to win, in the under, Colts 17-10.
Los Angeles Rams @ Pittsburgh Steelers, Heinz Field, 4:25 PM (Steelers +4.5, O/U: 43.5)
Take the Rams to cover in the over, Rams 28-17.
Minnesota Vikings @ Dallas Cowboys, AT&T Stadium, 8:20 PM, NBC (Cowboys -3.5, O/U: 49.5)
Take the Cowboys to cover in the over, Cowboys 28-24.
Carolina at Green Bay – Carolina (+4.5)
NY Giants at NY Jets – NY Jets (+3)
Arizona at Tampa Bay – Arizona (+5)
LA Rams at Pittsburgh – LA Rams (-4)
Seattle at San Francisco – San Francisco (-6.5)
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NFL Week 5: Sunday Games Picks, Predictions & Colin Cowherd’s Blazin’ 5
Arizona Cardinals @ Cincinnati Bengals, Paul Brown Stadium, 1:00 PM (Bengals -3, O/U: 46.5)
The Cardinals have looked choppy at times through games, mostly in the first half but have seemingly come out in the second half and putting things together on offense. The Bengals are going to be without Green and Ross on the outside and thus basically have no weapons. Both teams have bad offensive lines but Murray has the ability to move out of the pocket and still has Kirk and Fitzgerald to throw to. Take the Cardinals to cover and win outright, in the under, Cardinals 24-17.
Atlanta Falcons @ Houston Texans, NRG Stadium, 1:00 PM (Texans -4, O/U: 49.5)
No one can explain why the Falcons aren’t performing well with the personnel they have. Quinn seems to be on the hotseat given the weak start by the club. Their redzone figures are horrendous and their running game is non-existent which is why Ryan has thrown for over 300 yards in all 4 games. The Falcons have also committed the most penalties in the league. The Texans are coming off a bad loss to a backup quarterback at home. The Texans couldn’t move the ball and Watson was sacked 6 times which brings the season total to 18 times sacked in 4 games. Watson has taken care of the ball while completing 65% of his passes with 6 TD’s and 1 pick. The defense has been pretty good, ranking 10th in least points allowed while also forcing 8 fumbles, recovering 8 fumbles and snagging 13 sacks. Take the Texans to cover in the win and in the over, 28-23.
Baltimore Ravens @ Pittsburgh Steelers, Heinz Field, 1:00 PM (Steelers +3, O/U: 43.5)
The Ravens are coming off of 2 losses where Jackson has looked more human. He’s thrown for 596 yards for 7 TD’s and zero picks against the Dolphins and Cardinals but in the last 2 games against the Chiefs and Browns (better defenses) he’s thrown for 517 yards, 3 TD’s and 2 picks. They are still scoring (top ranked offense) but are allowing big time yardage on defense (bottom 3rd in the league on defese). The Steelers have been bottom 3rd in the league on offense as it’s evident that missing Ben, Bell and Brown have significantly hurt. Conner woke up a bit against the Bengals however it didn’t blow anyone away. The defense has kept the Steelers in 2 of 3 of their losses even though they’ve even been middle of the road compared to the rest of the league. Take the Ravens to cover in the over, Ravens 28-17.
Buffalo Bills @ Tennessee Titans, Nissan Stadium, 1:00 PM (Titans -3.5, O/U: 39.5)
The Bills Defense has really stepped up this season. They’re 5th in the league in least points allowed and 2nd in yards allowed. They’re passing has been middle of the road but the rushing duo of Gore and Singletary has been top 5 in most rushing categories. Allen has been shacky to start the season, with only having 3 TD’s against 6 picks. The Titans are an up and down team offensively, very inconsistent. The one consistent that has been very evident is that Mariota has thrown for 7 TD’s and zero picks. The offense has been pretty efficient, ranking 25 in yards but 13 in points scored. The defense is also ranked in the top half of the league. The one thing the Bills can do is make offenses make mistakes or stall their drives. Take the Bills to win outright and cover in the under, Bills 21-17.
Chicago Bears @ Oakland Raiders, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – London, 1:00 PM (Raiders +6, O/U: 40.5)
Take the Bears to win but the Raiders cover in the under, Bears 20-17.
Jacksonville Jaguars @ Carolina Panthers, Bank of America Stadium, 1:00 PM (Panthers -3, O/U: 40.5)
Take the Jaguars to cover in the win in the over, Jags 24-21.
Minnesota Vikings @ New York Giants, MetLife Stadium, 1:00 PM (Giants +6, O/U: 43.5)
Take the Vikings to win but the Giants to cover in the over, Vikings 27-24.
New England Patriots @ Washington Redskins, FedEx Field, 1:00 PM (Redskins +16, O/U: 41.5)
New York Jets @ Philadelphia Eagles, Lincoln Financial Field, 1:00 PM (Eagles -14, O/U: 43.5)
Take the Eagles to cover in the under, Eagles 27-9.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ New Orleans Saints, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1:00 PM (Saints -3, O/U: 47.5)
Denver Broncos @ Los Angeles Chargers, StubHub Center, 4:05 PM (Chargers -5.5, O/U: 44.5)
Green Bay Packers @ Dallas Cowboys, AT&T Stadium, 4:25 PM (Cowboys -3.5, O/U: 46.5)
Take the Packers to cover in the win, in the over, Packers 27-24.
Indianapolis Colts @ Kansas City Chiefs, Arrowhead Stadium, 8:20 PM, NBC (Chiefs -10.5, O/U: 55.5)
Take the Chiefs to cover in the over, Chiefs 35-23.
Arizona at Cincinnati – Arizona (+3)
Tampa Bay at New Orleans – New Orleans (-3)
Minnesota at NY Giants – Minnesota (-4.5)
Chicago at Oakland – Chicago (-4.5)
Green Bay at Dallas – Green Bay (+3.5)
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NFL Week 3: Sunday Picks, Predictions & Colin Cowherd’s Blazin’ 5
Atlanta Falcons @ Indianapolis Colts, Lucas Oil Stadium, 1:00 PM, CBS (Colts -1.5, O/U: 47.5)
Brissett is off to a great start even though he’s only thrown for 336 yards but he has completed 64% of his passes with 5 TD’s and only 1 pick. TY has been his biggest target, nearly racking up half of those passing yards and 3 of those TD’s. TY is listed as questionable but it’s the Colts’ first home game without Luck so expect that crowd to be very supportive of a 1-1 team looking to beat a solid Falcons team to move above .500. The Falcons looked horrible in Minnesota and barely held off a very banged up Eagles team at home. With essentially no running game, they’ve had to heavily rely on Matty-Ice very early on and he’s been up and down. Ryan has completed 67% of his passes but is 1:1 on the TD/INT ratio (5/5). Take the Colts to cover in the win, in the under, Colts 23-20.
Baltimore Ravens @ Kansas City Chiefs, Arrowhead Stadium, 1:00 PM, CBS (Chiefs -5.5, O/U: 52.5)
You can’t crown Lamar Jackson just yet. He’s taken it to the weak Dolphins and barely pushed past the lacking Cardinals. He’s played well, completing 72% of his passes for 596 yards, 7 TD’s and no picks. He’s going to go pass for pass with Mahomes but Mahomes has better weapons. It might not have looked like it but the Chiefs struggled 3 out of 4 quarters against the Raiders. A massive record breaking 2nd quarter pushed Patrick and the Chiefs to a lead they would hold the rest of the game. Back at home, the Chiefs will look to assert their explosiveness again. Take the Chiefs to cover in the win, in the over, Chiefs 34-24.
Cincinnati Bengals @ Buffalo Bills, New Era Field, 1:00 PM, CBS (Bills -6, O/U: 43.5)
I don’t know what to make of the Bengals. Dalton has over 700 yards, 4TD’s/1 INT and completed 66% of his passes. The running game has lacked severely which only has 54 yards between their 2 backs. John Ross has emerged as the top target in Green’s absence. A close lose to the Seahawks on the road but a bad loss at home vs the 49ers has everyone wondering who they really are. The Bills will be without stud rookie running back Devin Singletary. Josh Allen has been grinding through the first 2 games, not playing stellar but efficient enough to win both games on the road. The Bills Mafia will be in full hysteria over a 2-0 start. Take the Bills to win but the Bengals to cover in the under, Bills 20-17.
Denver Broncos @ Green Bay Packers, Lambeau Field, 1:00 PM, FOX (Packers -7.5, O/U: 43.5)
The Broncos have had a rough start to the season after an opening night loss to the Raiders and a heartbreaking loss to the Bears last week. Flacco has looked every bit as mediocre as his time in Baltimore but have had good support from the running game with the surprise leading rusher being Royce Freeman. The defense has not been able to record a sack even with star Von Miller. The Packers are off to a fast start even though the first game was very rocky for the new offense but to start 2-0 against a very good Bears and Vikings defenses is a huge start. A big issue with the offense is the sacks allowed and the pressure Rodgers has seen early on. They’ve allowed 7 sacks for negative 55 yards which has contributed to being 7/27 on 3rd downs and 9 three and out drives. The defense has proven how much their improved and that’s really what has helped them stay in games as they continue to get in sync with the new offense. Take the Packers to cover in the win, in the over, Packers 30-21.
Detroit Lions @ Philadelphia Eagles, Lincoln Financial Field, 1:00 PM, FOX (Eagles -5.5, O/U: 45.5)
The Lions are coming off a hard fought win against the Chargers at home. Stafford has been very efficient early on as Kerryon Johnson has a slower start to the season than he would like. Stafford has been hooking up with Golladay and rookie tight end sensation TJ Hockenson (even though he only had 1 catch on 3 targets for only 7 yards in week 2). The defense is off to a fast start with 6 sacks and 2 picks. The Eagles are really banged up, so banged up that they had to cancel practice and just do a walk through during the week. No Desean Jackson, Jordan Mailata, or Corey Clement after last weeks rash of injuries. Still banged up but at least probable or questionable to play is Alshon Jeffery and Dallas Goedert. All of whom were injured, most in the 1st quarter of last weeks game. Wentz has been rusty to start and even took a few shots that fans were hoping he’d be ok from but with fast starts with Jackson, Ertz and Agholor, it’s only a matter of time until he is on fire, so long as he can stay healthy. Take the Lions to cover in the win, in the under, Lions 23-21.
Miami Dolphins @ Dallas Cowboys, AT&T Stadium, 1:00 PM, FOX (Cowboys -22, O/U: 46.5)
In my opinion, no analysis is going to persuade you in this one. Take the Cowboys to cover and in the under, Cowboys 30-10.
New York Jets @ New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium, 1:00 PM, CBS (Patriots -21, O/U: 43.5)
I have a similar feeling about the Jets as I do the Dolphins except the Jets have Le’Veon Bell. Like my prediction with the Pats/Dolphins last week, expect the Pats to run up the score on a divisional foe. With Belichick, the uglier the score, the better. Take the Patriots to cover and in the over, Patriots 35-13.
Oakland Raiders @ Minnesota Vikings, U.S. Bank Stadium, 1:00 PM, FOX (Vikings -9, O/U: 43.5)
Take the Raiders to cover but the Vikings to win in the over, Vikings 27-20.
Carolina Panthers @ Arizona Cardinals, University of Phoenix Stadium, 4:05 PM, FOX (Cardinals -2.5, O/U: 44.5)
New York Giants @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Raymond James Stadium, 4:05 PM, FOX (Buccs -6, O/U: 47.5)
Take the Giants to cover in the win, in the under, Giants 24-20.
Houston Texans @ Los Angeles Chargers, StubHub Center, 4:25 PM, CBS (Chargers -3 O/U: 49.5)
New Orleans Saints @ Seattle Seahawks, CenturyLink Field, 4:25 PM, CBS (Seahawks -4.5, O/U: 45.5)
Pittsburgh Steelers @ San Francisco 49ers, Levi’s Stadium, 4:25 PM, CBS (49ers -6.5, O/U: 44.5)
Take the 49ers to win but the Steelers to cover in the under, 49ers 27-21.
Los Angeles Rams @ Cleveland Browns, FirstEnergy Stadium, 8:20 PM, NBC (Browns +3, O/U: 47.5)
Colin Cowherd’s Blazing 5:
Baltimore at Kansas City – Kansas City (-5)
Detroit at Philadelphia – Detroit (+6)
NY Giants at Tampa Bay – NY Giants (+6)
Pittsburgh at San Francisco – Pittsburgh (+6.5)
LA Rams at Cleveland – LA Rams (-3.5)
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NFL Week 2: Sunday Game Predictions & Picks
Arizona Cardinals @ Baltimore Ravens, M&T Bank Stadium, 1:00 PM, FOX (Ravens -12.5, O/U: 46.5)
The Cardinals are on the road so don’t expect any comeback miracles like last week. They played 3 quarters of bad football and pulled it together at home to tie the Lions. The Ravens brought it last week versus the Dolphins with Lamar Jackson going off with rookie receiver Marquise Brown. Expect the Ravens to do a similar thing to a similarly bad team although not on a similar level. Take the Ravens to cover in the win and in the over, Ravens 34-20.
Buffalo Bills @ New York Giants, MetLife Stadium, 1:00 PM, CBS (Giants +2.5, O/U: 44.5)
The Bills had a slow opening week 1 but bounced back to win against the Jets while also producing 6 20 yards or more plays. The Giants got drubbed by the Cowboys and now have their #1 receiver, Sterling Shepard in concussion protocol. The Giants also only went 2 for 11 on 3rd downs and the Bills defense is stingy, only allowing 3.4 yards per play, the best out of all of the teams in week 1. Take the Bills to cover in the win, in the under, Bills 24-16.
Dallas Cowboys @ Washington Redskins, FedEx Field, 1:00 PM, FOX (Redskins +5, O/U: 47.5)
Dallas looked really good in the opening week against the Giants. Cobb, scored in his debut with the team and Zeke also found the endzone after ending his contract disputes. The Redskins got up big early on the Eagles but allowed them to comeback and win the game, nearly covering the 10 point spread until Keenum lead a very late TD drive with 12 seconds left that was meaningless other than to the people who bet the Eagles to cover. Take the Cowboys to win and cover a more manageable spread in the over, Cowboys 31-20.
Indianapolis Colts @ Tennessee Titans, Nissan Stadium, 1:00 PM, CBS (Titans -3.5, O/U: 43.5)
The Colts pushed the Chargers to OT last week and Brissett looked pretty good (21/27, 190, 2TD’s). Mack also stepped up with 174 yards and a score on 25 carries. The Titans blew up everyone’s expectations of what the Browns hyped themselves up to be. Mariota was efficient and tossed 3 scores in the absolute beating of the Browns. Push the upset alert in this one. Take the Colts to cover and win in the over, Colts 24-21.
Jacksonville Jaguars @ Houston Texans, NRG Stadium, 1:00 PM, CBS (Texans -8, O/U: 42.5)
Gardner Minshew looked good filling in for the injured Foles and was really efficient (22/25, 275, 2 TD/1 INT) with his top receiver being DJ Chark. The Texans had an amazing game with the Saints last Monday night and nearly pulled it off with 2 huge 4th quarter throws from Watson, going 75 yards in 37 seconds, with less than 2 minutes to go. JJ Watt didn’t record a recordable stat other than a game played number but still made big impacts on the game with his pressure on Brees. Expect him to have his first tackle and sack of the year early in this one. Speaking of sacks, the Texans gave up 6 on Watson last week, which must improve if they want their young star QB healthy for 16 games. Take the Texans cover in the win and in the over, Texans 28-16.
Los Angeles Chargers @ Detroit Lions, Ford Field, 1:00 PM, CBS (Lions +1.5, O/U: 47.5)
Ekeler stepped into the roll as the feature back much like when he did when Gordon had injuries and looked really good (154 scrimmage yards). Ekeler had 3 scores with one of them being the game winning score in OT against the Colts. The defense was worrisome but had standouts individually. Stafford threw for 385 yards and 3 scores against the Cardinals but the team couldn’t hold on to the 18 point lead on the road and eventually tied the Cardinals. TJ Hockenson had 6 catches for 131 yards and a TD in his debut, making him the new record holder for receiving yards by a rookie TE. I know the Chargers are much better on the road than at home however they are still missing Derwin James and now will be without top TE Hunter Henry for 4-6 weeks. Take the Lions to win and cover in the over, Lions 27-24.
Minnesota Vikings @ Green Bay Packers, Lambeau Field, 1:00 PM, FOX (Packers -2.5, O/U: 43.5)
The Vikings scored all of their points off of short field turnovers by the Falcons last week which put that game out of reach early. Kirk Cousins was only 8/10 for 98 yards and a TD while Dalvin Cook had 21 carries for 111 yards and 2 scores. They travel to Green Bay where the Packers rarely turn the ball over and has been consistently one of the toughest places to play in the NFL for opponents. The Packers new look offense did not get off to the great start like many anticipated it would. They were only 2 of 12 on 3rd downs but scored the only TD of the game which proved huge. With 3 extra days of prep for the Packers, expect them to have sured up their flaws and mistakes to take one at home against a division rival. Take the Packers to win and cover in the over, Packers 27-24.
New England Patriots @ Miami Dolphins, Hard Rock Stadium, 1:00 PM, CBS (Dolphins +18, O/U: 48.5)
We have our first college football line of the year with this one. Not much to say for this matchup other than the Patriots are a finally tuned machine with tremendous coaching. Antonio Brown will get his first looks in the offense with a little over a week to prepare and study the playbook. Tom Brady looked as dangerous as ever throwing nearly 350 yards and 3 TD’s and spread the ball to 7 different receivers, 3 of which had at least 5 catches. The Dolphins looked absolutely atrocious last week. They deserve this line as they were stopped on the ground and forced through the air, where they completed less than 50% of their passes. The Patriots will not think twice about running up the score on a division rival. Take the Patriots to cover in the under, Patriots 34-10.
San Francisco 49ers @ Cincinnati Bengals, Paul Brown Stadium, 1:00 PM, FOX (Bengals Pick’em, O/U: 46.5)
The 49ers kept the mystery around Garapolo going another week as he tried to get his feet wet after missing all of 2018. He looked as expected in the opener but the defense looked great (not hard to do when Winston throws directly to your cornerbacks). The 49ers secondary outpaced ALL of 2018’s 2 picks with 3 and 2 of them being returned for TD’s. Richard Sherman had his first INT in over a year after having none last year and returned it to the house. 30 carries were spread out over 3 backs with Coleman spraining his ankle (out for week 2). AJ Green is still out for the Bengals as they gave the Seahawks fits in their own house, nearly pulling off the upset win. Dalton threw for over 400 yards as the run game was basically a non factor. John Ross went off with 7 cathces for 158 yards and 2 TD’s. I think the 49ers will eventually get better once Jimmy G gets some more games under his belt. Take the Bengals to win the pick’em in the over, Bengals 28-21.
Seattle Seahawks @ Pittsburgh Steelers, Heinz Field, 1:00 PM, FOX (Steelers -3.5, O/U: 47.5)
The Seahawks squeaked out a win at home, surprisingly having trouble with Andy Dalton even without AJ Green. The offense looked mediocre as the rushing game was fairly silent most of the game as well. Wilson was kept to less than 200 yards but I will give them the benefit of the doubt as rain was a factor in hindering the game. The Steelers looked horrendous on the road with the Patriots even though that is the M.O. on Brady versus the Steelers (beating the Steelers in the last 9 meetings). The line couldn’t help get James Conner going on his 10 carries (only 21 yards). Big Ben competed less than 50% of his passes and threw a pick. Going 3 for 12 on 3rd downs never helps. The Steelers do bounce back from bad losses like last week and usually play buttoned up the next week. Seattle has to cross the country to play what would be a morning game on the west coast. Take the Steelers to win in the under, Steelers 21-17.
Kansas City Chiefs @ Oakland Raiders, Oakland Coliseum, 4:05 PM, CBS (Raiders +7, O/U: 53.5)
The Chiefs lost Tyreek Hill in last weeks game for 4-6 weeks with a dislocated clavicle joint. His absence meant nothing as Sammy Watkins filled in nicely with 9 catches for 198 yards and 3 scores. LeSean McCoy torched the defense with 81 yards on 10 carries so you should expect him to get the feature work until he slows. The Defense however allowed 347 yards to a rookie quarterback last week. The Raiders offensive line looked stellar, not allowing a sack on Derek Carr against a stingy/tough Broncos defense, which allowed Carr to gel with new favorite target Tyrell Williams (6 catches, 105 yards and 1 TD). Josh Jacobs looked as good as advertised (23 carries, 85 yards and 2 TD’s). The defense even got in on the party with 3 sacks and a forced fumble. I was shocked by this line as Vegas thinks the Chiefs would be a 13 point favorite at home versus the Raiders. Take the Chiefs to win but the Raiders to cover in the over, Chiefs 31-27.
Chicago Bears @ Denver Broncos, Broncos Stadium at Mile High, 4:25 PM, FOX (Broncos +1.5, O/U: 40.5)
The Bears looked about as bad on offense as you could look in the opening week. Many penalties, Trubisky completing less than 50% of his passes, run game non-existent, 3 for 15 on third down. This is the second year between coach and QB so you would’ve thought it would’ve looked better by now. The defense held up its end of the bargain, keeping Rodgers out of the endzone most of the night. The Broncos also looked miserable in the opening week. After supposedly finding a decent QB to run this team in Flacco, he looked mediocre going 21/31, 268 yards and a TD. They probably should’ve ran more since the running back tandem of Freeman and Lindsay combined for 99 yards on 21 carries. Sutton and Sanders were the only standouts having 7 grabs for 120 yards & 5 grabs for 85 yards and a score, respectively. Take the Bears to cover with a win in the under, Bears 20-17.
New Orleans Saints @ Los Angeles Rams, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 4:25 PM, FOX (Rams -2, O/U: 52.5)
The Saints had a heckuva shootout showdown in the Dome last week against he Texans even with being hosed by the refs twice, again, in a big game. Brees had 370 yards, 2 scores and a pick while Kamara picked up where he left off having 97 yards on 13 carries. The nice complimentary play came from Latavious Murray, who broke off a 30 yard touchdown run. Ted Ginn (7 catches on 7 targets for 101 yards) and Michael Thomas (10 catches for 123 yards) both had big days. The defense combined for 6 sacks against a tough Watson. The only thing working against the Saints is going on the road to an outdoor stadium, to which they play as a different team all together. The Rams were back in form on the road in Carolina mixing the passing and run games well. No real standouts other than Gurley’s 97 yards on 14 carries and Malcolm Browns 2 TD runs. The defense racked up 3 sacks, a pick and 2 forced fumbles. Take the Rams at home to win and cover in the over, Rams 34-31.
Philadelphia Eagles @ Atlanta Falcons, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 8:20 PM, NBC (Falcons +1.5, O/U: 52.5)
The Eagles were able to overcome a 17 point deficit to the Redskins at home by pulling out to a 12 point lead late in the 4th quarter before allowing the Redskins to score a touchdown with 12 seconds left. Wentz eventually started to connect for big plays to DeSean Jackson starting late in the 2nd quarter with a 51 yard TD bomb and later with a 53 yard TD bomb, bringing Eagles fans to their feet for the days of old with D-Jax. Wentz finished 28/39 for 313 yards and 3 scores while Jackson finished with 8 catches for 154 yards and 2 scores. The running game saw shares of carries equally to Sproles, Howard and Sanders (9-47, 6-44, 11-25), whit Sanders having the longest rush of the day (19 yards). The Falcons turned the ball over way too much in their matchup against the Vikings in Minnesota. They gave the Vikings 4 touchdowns off of those turnovers and all of them on short fields. They were down 21-0 at the half because of those mistakes. Ryan’s stats look efficient going 33/46 for 304 yards and 2 scores but those 2 picks that he has put them in bad spots. Going down early, eliminated the need for a balanced run attack and therefore 9 different receivers were used to try and make a comeback. 2 late TD’s in the 4th quarter was all they could muster. Take the Eagles to cover in the win in the over, Eagles 31-24.
Buffalo at NY Giants – Buffalo (-2)
Seattle at Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh (-3.5)
Chicago at Denver – Denver (+2.5)
New Orleans at LA Rams – LA Rams (-2.5)
Philadelphia at Atlanta – Atlanta (+2)
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Week 11: Sunday Games with Colin Cowherd’s Blazing 5
Starting the week with a win on Thursday is something I’ve done quite a bit this year. Getting that first win sets the tone for my picks for the rest of the week. It’s not that I’ll be a little more risky with my picks after a Thursday win or more cautious if I had lost but the confidence is stronger and there’s less second guessing. I’m on my road to magical numbers and I haven’t lost sight of the overall goal (56%-60%) winners.
I told you the Steelers are just a different team at home, however I didn’t expect the cover win by 23! Mariota didn’t look too comfortale early and that ruined whatever confidence he had coming into the ketchup bottle. If you liked that pick and took it, you’re going to love these. On to Sunday’s games:
Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears, 1p (Bears +3, O/U: 41)
The Bears are coming off a shocking loss against the Packers. Mitch-a-palooza had to strap up his work belt extra tight given that his rushing game was non-existant. Howard had 15 carries for 54 yards (3.6 yards per carry) but one rush snapped off for 25 which puts his other 14 carries at just over 2 yards per carry. Bears can’t put that much on Trubisky’s shoulders and expect to win. The Lions had trouble putting the Browns away last week. Being tied with the Browns heading into the 4th quarter at home, has me nervous about them along with both teams record against the spread (5-4) and the Lions away ATS record (3-1) and the Bears home ATS record (4-1). Take the Lions to cover in the over, 27-20.
Jacksonville Jaguars at Cleveland Browns, 1p (Browns +7.5, O/U: 37)
The Browns come into this game with one of the lowest scoring offenses (15.9) in the league while facing one of the best defenses who has allowed the least amount of points to it’s opponents (14.9). The Browns held it together for three strong quarters agains the Lions in Detroit last week which tells me that they still repect their coach and will play hard, even being winless. The Jaguars pulled out an OT win against the Chargers who are a very strong road team. Bortles slipped into his old was with low completion percentage and more picks than TD’s but were able to steal a win. Take the Jaguars to cover in the under, 24-10.
Baltimore Ravens at Green Bay Packers, 1p (Packers +2, O/U: 38)
The Packers picked up a crucial win against the Bears last week, and right when I wrote off Hundley. Unfortunately for the Packers, Montgomery and Jones are both likely to miss this game meaning Jamaal Williams will have to fill in, which he did very successfully last week. Baltimore had a bye week but the week before, they nearly knocked off the Titans in their own house. This coming from a team that just seems very bland and not really excitting, especially on the road. Take the Packers to cover in the over, 21-20.
Arizona Cardinals at Houston Texans, 1p (Texans -2, O/U: 37.5)
In a league where your quarterback is the most valuable player on your team (and highest paid player), it’s inheriantly important that they stay healthy. With Palmer and Watson out, it becomes a battle between Stanton and Savage. Get ready for 50% completions and a bunch of running. These kinds of games make picking a winner very hard. You litterally have to go through the rosters and base it off of the position matchup and then if you’re still baffled, go to coaching. Here, I like the coaching and the offense of the Cardinals so take them to cover in the under, 17-13.
Los Angeles Rams at Minnesota Vikings, 1p (Vikings -2.5, O/U: 45.5)
This is an interesting matchup, one to watch. Both teams are 7-2, 6-3 ATS, at the top of their divisions, and have exceeded their pre-season expectations from day one. The Vikings had doneit with Sam Bradford in the first game but with Case Keenum ever since, which is impressive. The Rams success started with the change at head coach which seemed to have sparked Jared Goff. Both defenses are solid but expect this to be more of a shootout. Again, we have to matchup the QB’s and start spelling out who’s better where. The Rams just have a stronger team and will cover in the over, 31-27.
Washington Redskins at New Orleans Saints, 1p (Saints -7.5, O/U: 51.5)
Nothing to surprise you with here about the Saints. They have returned to their offensive prowess but also added some solid running to their game. Drew Brees isn’t throwing as many passes but still is effective while he has Ingram and Kamra behind him enjoying great seasons especially since Ap has left town. The Redskins followed up their huge win in Seattle by hanging along another of the leagues better teams, the Vikings but ultimately losing. The Redskins have a commitee backfield which is tough to get consistency running the ball. Take the Saints to cover in the under, 31-17.
Kansas City Chiefs at New York Giants, 1p (Giants +10.5, O/U:+45.5)
So this is where the Giants are at, they lost to the (at the time) winless 49ers. Eli kept it together and didn’t throw a pick but his defense (which is supposed to be their bright spot), broke down badly. Run game, pass game, the 49ers just had their way with the Giants defense. The Chiefs had to deal with Zeke who whittled their defense down for 27 carries. Andy Reid off of bye weeks is one of if not the best at coming away with a win. Take the Chiefs to cover in the under, 27-14.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Miami Dolphins, 1p (Dolphins +1, O/U: 42)
The matchup that was supposed to happen week one is finally on 11 weeks later. Given the way they both have played this year, I wouldn’t be mad if they just took another bye week. They both have disappointing offenses and to demonstrate how this game with go, grease your hand up with butter and try to turn a door nob. Take the Buccs to cover in the under, 17-14.
Buffalo Bills at Los Angeles Chargers, 4:05p (Chargers -6, O/U: 41)
The Bills are turning to their rookie quarterback (seems to be a growing trend lately), marking his first start and road game seeing action. McCoy hasn’t been his normal self. The Chargers have been pressing opponents lately, at home and on the road (mostly on the road). The Chargers nearly stole one in Jacsonville last week. This week the Chargers take over the rookie with their dangerous pass rush and to cover in the under, Chargers 24-10.
Cincinnati Bengals at Denver Broncos, 4:25p (Broncos -2.5, O/U: 38)
The Bengals just haven’t looked right all year. The frustrations seems to boil a few weeks ago when Green was throwing haymakers in the first half. Dalton looked better this week but with no running game, they can’t setup defenses for the pass. The Broncos are another example of why quarterbacks are important to your team. Not just important, vital! Siemianhasn’t worked since last year and to be so desperate to bring back Osweiller, says a lot about how they feel about their QB situation. I feel like the Bronceos defense won’t allow another loss at home. Take the Broncos to win in the under, 16-10.
New England Patriots at Oakland Raiders (MC), 4:25p (Raiders +7.5, O/U: 54.5)
Mexico City will see their first NFL game in live action and it’s two well respected and talented teams. I said this earlier and actually called it in my first game this year, I like the Patriots but 7 or more points are reserved for team like the Browns, Giants, Colts and maybe even the 49ers. Neutral field games for the Patriots (basically all of their super bowls), have mostly all been close but it is Tom Brady we’re talking about. The Raiders had a slip up in the beginning with Carr missing some games but are back on track with a couple of wins strunge together. Big bets are on the Pats and this being a neutral field, makes it that much tougher. Take the Raiders to cover but loss in the under, Pats 24-21.
Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys, 8:30p (Cowboys +6, O/U: 48)
The Eagles come into this one as one of, if not the hottest team in the NFL. Carson Wentz and his new additions have been lights out and the defense has been quite impressive as well, but offense always gets the head lines. The Eagles have shown consistency week in and week out and will continue to do so this week. The Cowboys have been on the Zeke roller coaster every week with news he’d be either in or out of the headlines. Well, Zeke is finally going to serve those 6 weeks and the ‘Boys will be down Sean Lee as well, whose the go to guy or the quarterback of the defense. This all coming as the season takes a turn to the finish line. Take the Eagles to cover in the over, 34-20.
Colin Cowherd’s Blazing 5 had an amazing start. Four weeks in, he was 15-5 (75% winners) but have calmed to a very respectable 30-20 (60%) but he is still picking gem weeks. He really likes Chiacago becasue he’s been burnt by the Lions before. Some advice, when I agree with betting on a team with Colin, my record is 21-10 (68% winners). This week, we’ll call them locks, Packers and Eagles. I actually would bet HEAVY on the Eagles if you get them anywhere near his line but even at 7 or less really. Here are his picks/lines from Friday:
Detroit at Chicago – Chicago (+3)
Cincinnati at Denver – Denver (-2.5)
Tampa Bay at Miami – Tampa Bay (+3)
Baltimore at Green Bay – Green Bay (+2)
Philadelphia at Dallas – Philadelphia (-3.5)
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Heavy to moderate rain predicted in Nagaland in next week
by BHADRA GOGOI
, October 1, 2020 9:35 pm
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Heavy to moderate rainfall activity is expected in Nagaland over the next week.
In its weather update on Thursday, the Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA), in coordination with the Regional Meteorological Centre, Guwahati, said rainy season is going to continue till about October 20.
The update said no extreme weather activity is expected but moderate rain and thunderstorms with lightening are likely to occur, mostly during evening and night till October 6.
Improvement of the weather is expected from October 7 onward and light weather activity between October 7 to October 10.
During this period, thundershowers and lighting accompanied by heavy rams are expected in Kiphire, Kohima, Longleng, Mokokchung, Mon, Peren, Phek and Tuensang district.
Moderate and light rain is expected in Dimapur district.
The update said a weather system has formed in the Bay of Bengal, which is likely to persist over the region for the next four to five days.
Nagaland registered rainfall deficiency of 26% during monsoon season from June 1 to September 30.
The NSDMA requested all the district disaster management authorities and other line departments to remain alert and attend to any emergencies caused by natural calamities to save lives and properties during this period.
It urged the public to be vigilant against lighting and heavy rainfall in the region during this period.
It also advised them not to shelter under large tress and near the river banks to prevent unnecessary risk to life from lightning and landslide.
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Netzarim Emunah
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The Dead Sea Scrolls provide the Jewish context of the early Netzari Faith, the sect of the Way. The Early Believers Called:
HaDerech(The Way)The Natsari Sect, Netzarim-Natzraya.
most all the Dead Sea Scrolls were fragmentary; not more than a dozen are intact. One of the fragmentary scrolls Is called 4Q246. If that’s too hard to remember, you can think of it as the Aramaic Apocalypse. 4Q246 or the Aramaic Apocalypse provides the context for a scholarly examination of the concept of the Son of God.
4Q246 says:
Affliction will come on Earth . . . He will be called great . . . ‘Son of God’ he will be called and ‘Son of the Most High’ they will call him . . . His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom . . . He will judge the Earth in truth and all will make peace.
This was written a hundred years before Jesus
(MarYah Yeshua Meshiakha) was born.
Luke 1:34-35, the famous Annunciation scene in which the angel Gabriel tells Maryam that she will bear a son, reads as follows:
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High . . . of his kingdom there will be no end . . . he will be called the Son of God.
Some three centuries later Epiphanius in his work
the Panarion which means “medicine-chest” (also known as Adversus Haereses, “Against Heresies”), presented as a book of antidotes for those bitten by the serpent of heresy. Gave us a look into the early sect of the Way.
Panarion Part 29 3:7~4:4
3:7 But with the transfer of the royal throne the rank of king passed, in , from the physical house of David and Israel to the church.13 The throne is established in God’s holy church forever, and has both the kingly and the high-priestly rank for two reasons.
3:8 It has the kingly rank from our Lord “Eashoa’ M’sheekha”, in two ways: because he is physically descended from King David, and because he is in fact a greater king from all eternity in virtue of his Godhead. But it has the priestly rank because M’sheekha himself is high priest and the founder of the office 14 of the high priests.
3:9 since Ya’aqub, who was called the Lord’s brother and who was his apostle, was immediately 15 made the first bishop.16 He was Yoseph’s son by birth, but was ranked as the Lord’s brother because of their upbringing together.
4:1 For this Ya’aqub was Yoseph’s son by Yoseph’s first wife,17 not by Miriam, as I have said in many other places 18 and dealt with more clearly for you.
4:2 Yoseph’s And moreover I find that he was of Davidic descent because of being Yoseph’s son, and that he was born a Nazirite—for he was Yoseph’s first-born, and (thus) consecrated.19 And I have found further that he also functioned as (high)-priest in the ancient priesthood.20
4:3 Thus he was permitted to enter the Holy of Holies once a year, as scripture says the Law directed the high priests to do. For many before me—Eusebius, Clement and others—have reported this of him.
4:4 He was allowed to wear the priestly tablet21 besides, as the trustworthy authors I mentioned have testified in those same historical writings.
We are restoring the ancient sect of Nazarene Judaism.
Why because Eashoa’ did not come to create a new religion;
He came to be the M’sheekha of Judaism.
The Name of Jesus Christ in the Ancient Aramaic language is:
“Eashoa’ M’sheekha” Also “Eil” is the name of the Father and
“Tla-qnumeh” is the Trinity in the Ancient Aramaic language.
We are Modern Nazarene Jews. For those who do not know,
Nazarene Jews are the original Jewish followers of Eashoa’
as the Jewish M’sheekha of Judaism.
We are returning to the Ancient Paths of “Eil.” YHWH, living unto “Eil.” YHWH as He writes His Torah upon our hearts (according to Jer. 31:31-34; Heb. 8:8-10; Heb. 10:16). Heb. 8:10 But this is the covenant which I will give to the family of the house of Israel after those days, says Master YHWH: I will put my Torah in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts; and I will be to them a Elohim, and they will be to me a people..
Who Were The Nazarenes ? (more properly, “Natsarim”)The Natsarim (watchmen, branches) were the sect of followers of Eashoa’ M’sheekha of Natsarith, (see Acts 24:5, where Rav Sha’ul was termed “a ringleader” of this sect).
Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 11:1. The Netzer is a small shoot that grows out from the line of Yishai (Jesse) the father of King David.
This small shoot represents M’sheekha (Messiah) Eashoa’ (Jesus) who brings the Kingdom of Elohim (God) to the world through the line of King David. The original Jewish followers of Eashoa’ M’sheekha were called the Netzarim.
The Netzari Faith is not a religion like either Judaism or Christianity. For example one does not observe Shabbat because of a theology, but rather because of an understanding of Divine Rest that connects man to his Creator. Yes there is a “religious Sabbath” that some Jews and Christians adhere to, but Shabbat isn’t about religion, it’s about experiencing the nature of Mashiyach (Messiah) within us. Most Christians reject Shabbat because they only see it through religious eyes and as a “Jewish thing”.
Most Jews reject Yeshua as Mashiyach because they have only heard of him through the religion of Christianity and often judge Eashoa’ M’sheekha by how Christians live and teach about him. Mashiyach however isn’t limited by a person’s choice of “religion”, but he is the divine connection point between “Eil.” (YAHWEH) and man.
Eashoa’ (Jesus) said that he did not come to abolish the Torah or Nevi’im and that both would endure as long as the physical universe is maintained (Matthew 5.18); and in Revelation 21.:8 states that those who violate the Torah are punished by suffering in the hereafter. The Gospel accounts report that this was not just lip-service, as Jesus kept Shabbat (Luke 4.16) and the Jewish Holy Days like Sukkot (John 7.2; 7.10; 7.37) and even Chanukah (John 10.22). The most well-known Jewish festival he kept was Pesach. We read proofs of this in his instructions to “keep the Passover” (Matthew 26.18), which is the equivalent of “eat the Passover” (Mark 14.14), which we are told he did (Matthew 26.21; Mark 14.18).
Netzarim Believers do not emphasize theology or doctrine as the standard of “Faith”, but righteous character and the action of true Faith. Torah observance by Faith is action demonstrating the anointing of the Ruach HaKodesh (Set Apart Spirit). If one says they have Faith, but has NO love for Torah, their Faith is vanity. Ya‛aqob 1:22
And become doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. “For a man says to you, „You and I have faith; I have deeds; Show me your faith without deeds and I shall show you my faith by my deeds. Ya‛aqob 2:18 .
So how can a person discern whether or not another person is of Elohim or not? Very simply; if they guard Eashoa’ M’sheekha Commands (Torah) – as you can see in 1 Yohanan for the evidence. Which ones? The big Ten for starters. A person cannot live in darkness, being a lawbreaker openly, and claim to be a believer, loving Yahuah:
“He that has My mitzvot, and keeps them, he it is that loves Me: and he who loves Me, shall be loved by My Abba, and I will love him, and will reveal Myself to him,” Yochanan 14:21.
We are embracing the “Way” Nazarene (Natzarim) sect of Judaism and following the true teachings of Eashoa’ M’sheekha, of Natsarith .
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Without knowledge of the Torah it is impossible to know or achieve holiness, and one is subject to defilement of their soul until they achieve a proper fundamental understanding of the Law given to Moses. It is also impossible to understand or read the Synoptic Gospels and works such as the Epistle of James and know what Eashoa’ M’sheekha meant without a familiarity with the Law. For example, in Luke, when Eashoa’ M’sheekha heals a leper, he commands him to ‘make a sacrifice as Moses commanded’ in reference to the Levitical offering mandated for the healing of foul conditions. There is no doubt that fairly all of the early “believers” were Torah-following Jews of the Way until the advent of the Pauline controversy that led up into “Western Christianity”. Even Paul however, as famous as he is for saying that “The Law Brings Death”, was excommunicated by James the Just, brother of Yeshua and First Bishop of Jerusalem under the pretext of heresy against the Torah.
In Luke 16:17, Eashoa’ M’sheekha says that “until Heaven and Earth pass away, not one letter of the Law shall fail”, similarly in Matthew 5:17-18, Eashoa’ M’sheekha states “he who speaks against even the least of the Commandments shall be regarded as the least in Heaven”, in other words, anyone who says that one needs not to follow even the SLIGHTEST commandment, such as that it is permissible to covet, or that it is permissible to worship an idol, or to eat an unclean animal, shall be called worthless/of no value ‘the least’. Indeed, even in the writings of the prophets such as in Isaiah and Jeremiah, nations that do not care for the Lord of the Law are deemed to be of ‘no value’ to Him except as tools of His anger. The Torah is all that is important, so important that it is commanded for those who take on the Covenant with the Lord to read it every day and to speak of it day and night and instruct it to one’s family. So sacred is the Law, yet rascals and weasels who have no desire to do as the Lord asks but seek their own method of entering the sheep’s pen have subverted the reins of authority for centuries to preach one variety of Torah-less-ness or another.
The matters pertaining to the Torah are quite black and white in most cases, but there is some vagueness and ambiguity as well. The formation of the Talmud and the modern day Pharisaic Rabbinic study of the Torah through unscriptural claims and “Oral Torah” that often includes decisions made well past 600 A.D. Struggles between Talmudists and Anti-Talmudists caused the formation of the “Karaite” sect, which was ostracized and even at times, attacked through skullduggery (Such as arranging for governments to exile and kill them) by the Talmudists who had completely subverted Jewish leadership after the destruction of the Temple. The Masoretic Text, of which is the oldest version of the modern Hebrew Canon, was arranged by medieval Karaite Rabbis.
Traditionally, belief and the scripture itself affirms that the prophet Moses did achieve completion of the Torah in his lifetime, some believe that the warrior-prophet Joshua who succeeded Moses finished the parts Moses didn’t.
So that The God of our Lord Eashoa’ M’sheekha, The Father of glory, would give you The Spirit of wisdom and revelation with his knowledge, And that the eyes of your hearts would be enlightened, that you will know what is the hope of his calling and what is the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in The Holy Ones, And what is the excellence of the greatness of his power in us, by those things which we believe, according to the action of the immensity of his power, Ephesians 1:17-19 (Rav Sha’ul).
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Sonic and Knuckles: "Into the Lava Reefs"
By The_Claudia,
April 2, 2007 in Post Your Game ReMixes!
The_Claudia
Slime (+5)
Frequently used song, I know. My first ReMix. Anyway I submitted it and it got teh rejectedzorz.
Constructive feedback much appreciated.
Link: http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/129292/Into-the-Lava-Reefs-mp3.html
darkmelee
Octorok (+25)
there's a great deal of pleasance to this, and I highly appreciate that. I'm a "wall of sound" person, but this was a nice and relaxing piece that seems suited as actual soundtrack music. I would suggest smoother instrumentation (like the "choir"), meaning the notes don't travel naturally...and I'm assuming that it's a midi csource (before effects?), which is why. Some filters and effects coulde real" that up pretty easy though, but it's not truly necessary. If you've got the gall, you could try to record your own source, vocally ...but I wouldn't will it if you wouldn't wanna.
sbf is a decent place, but the beauraucracy is annoying. also, I use it too.
gliyw1thdabangs
haha, yay someone else who did finale on a frequently used source! i'm not alone!
Needed a higher frequency intro playing the lead, the lead that starts at .59, imo.
I recognize the synth for the violin! Haha finale…
Slow intro, you could make it work but gotta do something.
1:36-1:51 was interesting solo. Sorta repeated, ok.
2:05-2:10 nice transition
2:10-2:25 little empty here, if you want it to sound like that maybe go quieter and drop the layers at this point
2:27-2:45-3:18 Melody of hidden palace and lava reef repeats and then goes to lower octave
3:06, liked that one sound there where you bring the violin up higher
2:45-3:20 I like the layering here, maybe use this layering earlier, I heard the lover reef motif at the end there
3:20- similar to beginning
Don't take my comment wholly serious because I am not very well acquainted with utilizing drums. I thought the percussion was a lacking in creativity; but perhaps the tenor of this piece calls for what sounds to me like 'the taps.' Didn’t especially like the ending because I couldn't hear the arrangement you had on the lead synth (which I wanted to hear), but it also felt repetitive hearing the hidden palace/reef riff repeated (just like in mine; it annoys the hell out of me). What I tried to do in my remix was alter the chord structures of some remixes/demos I'd heard of these two sources and played around (perhaps too liberally) with the many motifs that I found through MIDI's of this and also threw in some of my own interpretations of the lava reef melody.
Do you have the saved .mus file? It’d be interesting to see it. If you get a chance could you listen to my remix?
http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8586
Here's my advice (if i'm warranted on giving advice):
Take advantage of the rising melody! It'd raise my spirits to at least once have you bring in the higher octaves for the lava reef melody. Personally I think none of the lava reef remixes on this site exploit the strength of the lava reef melody, that is it's rising action and climactic ending. I think only the source captures that feeling best. Although if you listen to Rexy/Hetcenus' remix of lava reef on Project Chaos, entitled 'Beneath the Ashes,' they are partially able to bring out that strength. But even their remix doesn't pimp that strength; Secluded Stronghold on Project Chaos doesn't even use it. Lover Reef doesn't quite get it; Rayza's remix misses it and uses the chord structure instead to bring that action; Darkesword's 'Angel' misses it because of the flute solo; Lava Reach misses it because it over uses it and keeps it under wraps and is a long relayering of the entire melody so you never really get the full experience; hot ice is second closest but since it doesn't use primarily the lava reef source it misses it. You seem more musically inclined than I am so I think you got the best shot at getting a pass at this.
Blackwinged Saron
a lot of these lately. well, i guess this is the new gerudo theme.
This mix is not particularly well made, forgive me. it sounds very midi-ish and its almost as if i was listening to it through a road cone.
I think this has a great deal of potential. There is a lot of reverb that could be removed. there's too many things going on at once too, let the melody come to the front and drop the beats back a bit. its also a slow mix, and not all too powerful, this should be quieted down significantly to suit its speed and temper.
It's a good mix, but right now it just needs a good amount of work.
Scarlet IX
King Hippo (+15)
Be warned that if you make a Lava Reef mix, you'll need to have something particularly engaging and unique to get it past the judges. A song thats been mixes so many times has a high standard to live up to. I like the theme you started out with, but it just felt like it was lacking dynamic constrast. Something to take it to a different atmosphere temporarily, like a flute solo, would help to keep this interesting. Also in an orchestral mix, samples are EXTREMELY crucial. You'll need some better ones, or to work more effectively with the ones you have. Keep at it though.
electric concerto
Meat Boy (+250)
Wow... I'm biting my tongue... I agree with Blackwinged Saron on sound quality... To be frank, it's too..... boring? It's like you introduced all the instruments at once and kept them going the entire track... There isn't any dynamics going on, which is very crucial in this style of music...
These are my opinions, hope you can make use of them
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Mother Nature attacking her sweet tooth
(Chuck Muth) – The most outspoken opponents of the U.S. sugar program are of a mind that it doesn’t matter if the U.S. is flooded with cheap, subsidized imports of sugar that could cripple or even destroy the domestic sugar producing industry. Under the assumption that there will always be plenty of cheap, subsidized foreign sugar to import, these critics don’t care.
But everyone else should. Here’s why…
Two weeks ago, Australia – a large producer of sugar cane – was slammed by cyclone Ita, a Category 4 storm that wrecked havoc on the nation’s economy, particularly its agricultural sector, causing an estimated $1 billion in damage.
Although The Guardian reports “there was no loss of life or serious injury,” the storm “flattened canefields” and the damage “is expected to be felt in consumers’ hip pockets as demand begins to outstrip supply and pushes up prices.”
Meanwhile, a different type of natural disaster, yet no less serious, is underway in Brazil.
According to Bloomberg.com, the Center South region of the nation – “the world’s largest sugar producing region” – is suffering from a severe drought. “Crops in the Center South,” Bloomberg reports, “faced the driest and hottest summer in 70 years.”
As such, sugar output from the South American nation is expected to shrink by more than 5 percent. In response, reports Leslie Joseph of the Wall Street Journal, “Raw sugar futures rose to the highest level in nearly four weeks.”
“The estimates underlined market expectations that Brazil’s worst drought in decades damaged the cane while it was developing,” the Journal continued. “This could affect global supplies because Brazil produces and exports more sugar than any other country.”
Now consider how this tag-team of natural disasters in Australia and Brazil would have affected prices in the United States if we didn’t have our own domestic sugar industry.
Sure, the lure of cheap, subsidized imported sugar is strong and attractive today. But even Congress has no control over Mother Nature. Is it really in our nation’s national security interest to rely on countries such as Brazil, India, Thailand and Australia for sugar the way we continue to rely on OPEC for oil?
The only way to protect U.S. national interests, as well as the interests of consumers, is to assure a healthy U.S. sugar industry that competes globally with other nations on a level playing field with no government subsidies distorting the market. Anything less is as risky as predicting the weather.
(Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach)
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Tweets I Think About Sometimes, John Lewis Edition
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John Lewis wrote this tweet, which is not particularly surprising, if you've taken even five minutes to listen to him speak:
I was beaten bloody by police officers. But I never hated them. I said, 'Thank you for your service.'
— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) July 8, 2016
Forgiveness and always striving for peace, it's sort of Rep John Lewis' thing
But that's not the tweet I think about sometimes. This tweet, in response, is:
And then the cops were like “omg you’re welcome but it’s no problem at all!”
And he was like “no no I really appreciate it tysm”
And the cops were like “haha all in a hard days work”
And he was like “😌”
And the cops were like “👮♂️” https://t.co/obnQ4zuBqI
— Big Joel (@biggestjoel) April 8, 2020
Rarely do tweets stick with me, and this is definitely one to think about for a while. It's also worth explicitly stating: we should have two different emotional reactions to the John Lewis thing, one where he's just transparently lying to appear to be the person he wishes he was, and another where he's completely sincere and the Big Joel tweet is approximately historical. I'm not sure which one I would find more disturbing, but here's my homework question of the day:
When you see an injustice, it's not enough to just say, "that's wrong" and go home. When we look at the nightmare dictatorships, when we look at people cowing in fear, we have to acknowledge: you need to, at least, say that it's wrong. Police officers beating John Lewis for his civil rights protests is morally wrong. But John Lewis seems/claims to appreciate it – are we stuck between calling him a liar, or condemning him for supporting police brutality? Isn't it important that moral leaders say clearly when something is wrong, and shouldn't we turn against them when they refuse to condemn acts of brutality?
What would we say if John Lewis had that same reaction to the cop that killed Philando Castile? "Thank you for your service". How would you feel about him as a moral leader if that was his only response? Not forgiveness, not understanding, not ever feeling angry, of course, but also not feeling frustrated or upset. Only thanks.
John Lewis can forgive crimes against himself (and should be lauded for doing so, if there's any reason to think they asked or wanted forgiveness) – but his tweet is only partly about forgiveness. The other part is about the nature of service to the community. And I'm not sure we should desire John Lewis to so hastily embrace all police misconduct on all of our behalf.
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ACI Last Mile Network Announces Acquisition of CIPS Marketing Group
Long Beach, CA, July 18, 2017 –(PR.com)– ACI Last Mile Network (ACI), the nation’s fastest-growing provider of print media and parcel distribution, announced today that it has acquired CIPS Marketing Group (CIPS), a print-distribution joint venture of The Los Angeles Times and Digital First Media, both newspaper publishers. CIPS will expand ACI’s print media portfolio, increasing its customer base and geographic distribution.
“CIPS is an outstanding organization and our ownership group is thrilled to bring them into our family of companies. This acquisition will strengthen our ability to focus and serve existing customers, and it will enhance our capability to expand and service new clients in underserved geographies,” said Keith Somers, CEO of ACI Last Mile Network.
CIPS’ technology and processes along with ACI’s current robust distribution for Total Market Coverage (TMC) and other print media, will increase ACI’s agility in a highly competitive market. “This is a logical next step for us as we grow and expand,” Mr. Somers added, noting that each company will bring its respective strengths to the combined operation.
Advising ACI on the transaction were FocalPoint Partners LLC, an independent investment bank specializing in mergers and acquisitions, the law offices of Greenberg Glusker LLP and the CPA firm Windes.
ACI Last Mile Network print-distribution services include daily and weekly newspaper home delivery and single-copy sales, small parcel distribution, TMC packages, magazines, niche-publication distribution and phone-directory delivery. ACI’s major publishing customers include the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Orange County Register, Palm Beach Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Yellow Book.
About ACI Last Mile Network (ACI)
ACI Last Mile Network, headquartered in Long Beach, California and established in 1965, has the fastest-growing delivery network and provides home-delivery services to its e-commerce and publishing customers at considerable cost reductions. Their trademarked “Two Channels, Millions of Doorsteps, One Powerhouse” speaks to their ability to fulfill the growing demand for high-volume delivery to the “last mile.”
About CIPS Marketing Group
CIPS’s distribution portfolio includes daily and weekly newspapers, TMC packages and a wide assortment of direct-to-door products. Based in Los Angeles, the company was founded in 1972. Its publishing customers include the Los Angeles Times, Southern California News Group, Lexington Herald Leader, Sacramento Bee, Modesto Bee and New Haven Register.
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Ever at the forefront of hardware innovation, Samsung Electronics is empowering users wanting to create, collaborate and consume on the go with the newest smartphone in the Galaxy A series. After spending some time with the Galaxy A80, we found that the phone’s rotating camera array, full-screen New Infinity Display and ‘smart battery’ broke new ground as far as versatile, high-quality content interactions.
Samsung Newsroom got hands on to put the newest in the Galaxy A series to the test.
A Camera that Flips Around
Equipped with Samsung’s first rotating camera array, the Galaxy A80’s triple camera set-up features a 48MP main camera, an Ultra Wide Camera and a 3D Depth Camera. The camera array combines to produce a number of effects, some familiar and some new.
But the best part about the Galaxy A80 is that the range of camera effects aren’t just limited to the camera on the back of the phone. The A80 employs a slide-out panel on top of the phone that automatically extends upward and flips the camera around to face the user when they switch to the front-facing camera mode, allowing the powerful camera array to be used for selfie-mode photos too. The sliding module fitting seamlessly into the back of the phone when lowered, making the motor-driven raising and lowering of the camera array very sleek.
Taking a selfie with Wide mode on the Galaxy A80
The ability to use the phone’s 48MP main camera for front-facing photos struck us as a game changer. For shots where we wanted to take a selfie while still capturing a significant portion of the background, Wide mode on the selfie camera was ideal. To take the effect a step further, the Galaxy A80 is also equipped with Ultra Wide mode*, which has a viewing angle as wide as that of the human eye, and is perfect for taking wide scenery and nature shots. We had a lot of success using Ultra Wide mode to take front-facing photos too, as it worked well for taking selfies with large groups of people and taking pictures in front of things like large landmarks. What’s more, all of these images were captured in stunning Wide Quad HD quality due to the fact that we were able to use the 48MP main camera to take them.
Live focus mode was another favorite of ours. The feature uses the depth sensor and machine learning to apply a cinematic blurring effect on the background while keeping the subject in the foreground crisp and focused. The ‘bokeh’ blurring effect is adjustable, and leads to some artistic, professional looking shots.
We loved the content creation possibilities afforded by the Galaxy A80 too. When taking videos while walking or running, Super steady mode was a big help in reducing camera shake and smoothing out videos. We were even able to create some movie-like videos with bokeh backgrounds using Live focus video mode. The Galaxy A80 allows you to switch in and out of selfie mode in the middle of a recording too, with the phone seamlessly blending the footage on either side of the camera rotation so that you can switch back and forth between the front and rear-facing cameras without interrupting your video**. The newest in the Galaxy A line can even capture videos in stunningly crisp 4K Ultra-high definition mode (3840 X 2160 pixels).
A True Full-Screen Display
The Galaxy A80 features Samsung’s first full-screen display – a 6.7-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED New Infinity Display. Without a notch, waterdrop or cut-out, playing our favorite racing game was just how we’d always wanted it to be – big, bright and uninterrupted. While playing, we discovered that we were more likely to spot other players and in-game details on the bigger, unobstructed display, and that instances where we were hitting the wrong buttons by mistake were lessened because the controls were more spread out.
Intelligent Power and Performance
All the great features mentioned above are rendered useless without reliable battery life on the go. The Galaxy A80’s 3,700mAh smart battery and intelligent performance functions to be up to the task.
With its intelligent battery, the Galaxy A80 analyzes usage and automatically closes background apps that are unnecessarily using up battery life. To take battery conservation a step further, users can turn on Adaptive Power Saving, which allows their device to modify settings according to users’ expected daily usage. After giving the phone some time to get used to our usage patterns, we found that this feature really helped in preserving battery life. Once the battery does eventually tick down, the Galaxy A80 is equipped with Super Fast Charging**** technology to get users charged back up quickly.
The device is also equipped with an ‘Intelligent Performance Enhancer’, which allows the phone’s AI to optimize CPU and RAM usage and ensure that the amount of power being drawn is always a match for the user’s unique usage patterns. We additionally appreciated how the Intelligent Performance Enhancer would preload our most-used apps to ensure that they were able to be quick-launched when needed.
Cool Extras
In addition to getting lost in the Galaxy A80’s edge-to-edge New Infinity Display, now users can experience immersive sound too. The device is equipped with Dolby Atmos audio that allows for a 360-degree audio experience when using headphones or a Bluetooth speaker.
The Galaxy A80’s ergonomic curved back (available in Angel Gold, Ghost White and Phantom Black) makes it comfortable to grip in one hand. Likewise, the position of the power button lower down on the side of the phone, and easy-to-activate ‘One-handed mode’ made the phone easy to use when we had a lot going on.
Optimal for creating and consuming media, with a battery that can be counted on, the Galaxy A80 is the ideal companion for the content-hungry user living in the now.
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University College Creates Diversity Committee
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, By Eileen Jevis
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From left, Margaret Thompson, Marsha Senior and Christina Huerta
University College announces the appointment of three staff members to the University College Diversity Committee. As part of the continued commitment to creating a more welcoming, respectful campus climate, the Diversity Committee will work with the Syracuse University Inclusivity Leaders Assembly (an assembly of inclusion and diversity leaders from each of the schools and colleges) to articulate and enact the University’s diversity and inclusion goals and initiatives.
Margaret Thompson, Marsha Senior and Christina Huerta will be tasked with promoting diversity and inclusion among students, staff and faculty through training, awareness building and events. Committee members will serve a one-year term.
“University College’s commitment to diversity and inclusivity are expressed in our mission and vision statements, and are demonstrated every day in our service to all individuals who seek a Syracuse University education to transform their lives,” says Dean Michael Frasciello. “To focus on these commitments with more intentionality and align with Syracuse University diversity initiatives, we are confident that these three dedicated individuals, who were selected by their peers, will bring value, compassion, and understanding to this campus-wide initiative.”
University College offers a variety of online and residential degree and certificate programs. For more information, visit https://parttime.syr.edu/ or call 315.443.9378.
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Home » Tech » NASA seeks US partners to develop reusable systems for Moon mission
NASA seeks US partners to develop reusable systems for Moon mission
Updated on : Fri 14th December 2018, 01:45 PM
Washington, NASA is set to work with American companies to design and develop new reusable systems, in a major step to land astronauts on the surface of the Moon.
NASA is planning to test new human-class landers on the Moon beginning in 2024, with the goal of sending crew to the surface in 2028, the US space agency said in a statement on Thursday.
Through upcoming multi-phased lunar exploration partnerships, NASA will ask American companies to study the best approach to landing astronauts on the Moon and start the development as quickly as possible with current and future anticipated technologies.
“Building on our model in low-Earth orbit, we’ll expand our partnerships with industry and other nations to explore the Moon and advance our missions to farther destinations such as Mars, with America leading the way,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
“When we send astronauts to the surface of the Moon in the next decade, it will be in a sustainable fashion.”
To develop lunar robotic landers, NASA in November collaborated with nine commercial American companies namely Astrobotic, Deep Space Systems, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, Lockheed Martin, Mastern Space Systems, Moon Express, Draper and Orbit Beyond.
These companies are eligible for competing for NASA’s contracts valued at $2.6 billion, according to the US-based space agency.
The agency plans to send humans to the Moon using a system of three separate elements that will provide transfer, landing, and safe return.
Using the Gateway to land astronauts on the Moon allows the first building blocks for fully reusable lunar landers. Initially NASA expects two of the lander elements to be reusable and refuelled by cargo ships carrying fuel from Earth to the Gateway.
The agency is also working on technologies to make rocket propellants using water ice and regolith from the Moon. Once the ability to harness resources from the Moon for propellant becomes viable, NASA plans to refuel these elements with the Moon’s own resources.
This process, known as in-situ resource utilization or ISRU, will make the third element also refuellable and reusable, it said.
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Manchester United Eye Record Revenue Year Despite Shaky Premier League Start
Manchester United is predicting another year of record revenue despite a shaky start to the club’s Premier League season.
It forecast revenues up to £630m for the year to June while reporting its financial results for the 2017/18 year, in which it raked in £590m.
That already amounted to the highest revenue achieved by a world club and came despite a slowdown in broadcast and commercial revenues in the final quarter.
It was largely attributed to Jose Mourinho’s side being knocked out of the Champions League early last season.
United are currently only seventh in this season’s Premier League table.
Jose Mourinho is under pressure after United’s stuttering start to the season
Despite their domestic struggles, the club won its opening Champions League game of the season 3-0 last week.
Executive vice chairman Ed Woodward said: “Our increased revenue expectation for the year demonstrates our continued strong long-term financial performance which underpins everything we do and allows us to compete for top talent in an increasingly competitive transfer market.”
The squad, which includes World Cup winner Paul Pogba and David de Gea, is said to have become a source of frustration for Mourinho following a lack of transfer activity.
Mr Woodward sought to distance himself from reports of a rift with the manager over transfers by publicly supporting him during a call for analysts and investors after the financial results were released.
“Everyone at the club is working tirelessly to add to Manchester United’s 66 and Jose’s 25 trophies,” he said.
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Marxist Analysis: The Dubliners English 4 Bayview Secondary School Essay
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In the short story “The Boarding House”, an anxious, middle-aged man who goes by the name Mr. Doran, sets out to answer Mrs. Mooney - the head of the boarding house at which he resides. Hearing about Mr. Doran’s love affair with Polly, her nineteen-year-old daughter, Mrs. Mooney plots to ensnare Mr. Doran into marriage. This simple affair quickly evolves to become a tactical game of obligation and reparation that portrays marriage as a social standard, persuaded by the public’s perception instead of the mere feelings of love. Left with few choices, Mr. Doran reveals his dilemma through the question, “What could he do now but marry her or run away?” (41). Ultimately, Mr. Doran could choose to either marry beneath his class and suffer a hard-hit blow to his reputation or run away from his problematic relationship and lose all the respect he had built within his thirteen years of hard work. Contemplating his final decision after “the recollection of his confession last night” (41) to which “[his] priest had drawn out every ridiculous detail of the affair” (41) and “had so magnified his sin” (41), Mr. Doran descends the stairs propelled by a force of social pressure and anxiety. Although Joyce omits the final confrontation from the short story, readers may evidently assume that Mr. Doran goes through with the marriage in order to comply and please the strict regulations found within the Irish Catholic society.
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In 1998, Hugo Chávez ran for the Venezuelan presidency on a promise to “re-found” the republic. His pitch to the nation stressed a particular understanding of popular sovereignty. Sovereignty, Chávez stressed repeatedly in his legendarily long-winded speeches, belongs to the people, who place it temporarily in the trust of a particular set of governing institutions. The people can, by the same token, take it back at any time and exercise it directly, by means of the vote. In this pop-Rousseauian interpretation, the people’s will is the point of origin of the government’s legitimacy and so has to be considered “supra-constitutional.” In Chavista constitutional doctrine, when the set of state institutions that the people have constituted no longer fits the people’s needs, they are free to dissolve those institutions.
What matters is who embodies “the people”; and Chavez is of course certain that he does. His Rousseauist doctrine became the intellectual launching point for an aggressive constitution-making process in Venezuela in 1999. Then vastly popular, Chávez used it to legitimize a National Constituent Assembly in which his partisans held 94 percent of the seats despite winning just 65 percent of the vote. The assembly, in short order, made sure that Chávez himself could directly or indirectly appoint all state officers who would theoretically be charged with checking and balancing his power.
It hardly takes a constitutional scholar to realize the dangers implicit in such a sweeping view of popular power. Picking up this book by the noted Venezuelan constitutional scholar Allan Brewer-Carías, I expected an in-depth dissection of this debate from an unapologetically conservative standpoint. Long considered one of Venezuela's leading constitutional scholars, Brewer-Carías would more than likely be a leading member of Venezuela’s Supreme Court if Chávez had not come to power. A former minister with teaching stints at Cambridge and Columbia, Brewer-Carías is the epitome of a Venezuelan ancién rgime grandee.
Imagine my surprise, then, upon realizing that the book’s long discussion of the constitution-making process of 1999 never stops to discuss the idea of supra-constitutionality at all. Instead Brewer-Carías’s remarkably ill-tempered screed merely repeats, time and again, that the mechanism Chávez chose to re-write the constitution was not contemplated in the constitution of 1961. The absence of any clear acknowledgment of supra-constitutionality as a coherent and flawed constitutional doctrine will render large swathes of this book simply unintelligible to much of its intended audience: it is a long, detailed rebuttal to an argument that the reader has never heard. What should have been a brutal dissection of Chávez’s authoritarian impulses and muddy constitutional vision instead reads like a thin and pointless polemic. The heroic liberals and democrats who oppose Chávez deserve better than this book.
Brewer-Carías zips cheerily from an analysis of the constitution-making process of 1999 to a discussion of its implications in 2004 and beyond, entirely eliding the whole political crisis of 2002 and 2003 and, more specifically, his own role in the comedy of errors that had President Chávez unconstitutionally overthrown and imprisoned for forty-seven hours, only to be brought back by loyalist army units. Though he has steadfastly denied any direct participation in the failed coup, Brewer-Carías can hardly deny that the preamble to the statutes that would have constituted the new “transitional” government was almost identical to a document of his authorship, which circulated around Caracas days earlier. Eyewitnesses spotted his distinct Dalí moustache on the fifth floor of the Venezuelan Army Command Building in the pivotal early morning of April 12, 2002—suggesting that, however deep or shallow it may have been, Dr. Brewer-Carías had a clear part in decision-making at the critical moment. On this, though, as on the question of supra-constitutionality, his book is careful to elide every interesting question.
Perhaps Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela should be read not as constitutional analysis, but rather as a kind of archaeology of an entire displaced elite’s wounded sense of entitlement. Chávez has unfortunately been lucky in his opposition. Used to being treated with deference, the old guard could never reconcile itself with the legitimacy of a government that refused to even pay lip service to its predecessors. Instead, between 2002 and 2005, it happily played along with Chávez’s polarization strategy, embarking on an escalating series of adventures of questionable democratic legitimacy to try to dislodge him from power: first, the 2002 coup, then a bizarre walkout by dissident military brass, followed by a two-month long oil sector strike that cost the nation tens of billions and hugely disrupted livelihoods.
The anti-Chávez movement emerged weaker from each of these maximalist gambits, thus ceding more and more institutional space to Chavismo. Meanwhile they generally derided the people who supported him, alienating the kinds of everyday working Venezuelans whom the opposition most needed to win over. It was easy to see that the kind of reactionary politics that the old guard was intent on pursuing would rebound to Chávez’s advantage every single time—which helps explain why Chávez seemed so intent for so long on keeping his most reactionary critics front-and-center.
For much of the last twelve years, Chavez has found it easy to justify his illiberal and criminal governing style by holding out the prospect of the return to power of some of the more reactionary elements within the opposition. Those of us who have opposed him on liberal grounds from the start—and there are far more of us than the standard narrative would suggest—have been weighed down for years with association with ancién regime dinosaurs of the type that Allan Brewer-Carías has come to represent and to support.
Indeed, it has taken the Venezuelan opposition the better part of twelve years to begin to leave behind its reputation as a gang of out-of-touch plutocrats. A new generation of younger leaders largely free of association with the old system has slowly come to the fore. In regional elections in 2008, opposition leaders from this new generation won governorships in Venezuela’s two most populous states, as well as the race to be mayor of Venezuela’s largest slum. In September this year, dozens of new generation opposition leaders won election to Venezuela’s National Assembly, in a vote that saw anti-Chávez parties take 52 perent of the national popular vote. This younger crop of leaders have cut their political teeth organizing at the grassroots, doing the kind of community work that was once associated with Chávez. But their ability to challenge Chávez for power remains hobbled by the inevitable need to reach some kind of pragmatic accommodation with figures of the old regime.
As the Chávez movement founders on the shoals of its own incompetence and hubris, Venezuelans now more than ever need a movement able to act as a vehicle for the dashed dreams of the majorities that once supported Chávez. There are times when it is easy to conclude that the biggest obstacle in the path of the Venezuelan opposition is its own credibility, or lack of it. It is absolutely imperative that Chávez be opposed by people who hold the liberal values that he himself has so disgracefully trampled upon.
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Panama: CO2 Country Profile
by Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser
CO₂ and GHG Emissions
CO₂ emissions
CO₂ by fuel
Emissions drivers
Atmospheric concentrations
Per capita: how much CO2 does the average person emit?
What are the country’s annual CO2 emissions?
Year-on-year change: what is the percentage change in CO2 emissions?
Cumulative: how much CO2 has it produced to date?
Consumption-based accounting: how do emissions compare when we adjust for trade?
What share of global CO2 emissions are emitted by the country?
What share of global cumulative CO2 has the country emitted?
Coal, oil, gas, cement: how much does each contribute to CO2 emissions?
What share of CO2 emissions are produced from different fuels?
How are CO2 emissions from different fuels changing?
Other greenhouse gas emissions
Total greenhouse gas emissions: how much does the average person emit? Where do emissions come from?
Methane: how much does the average person emit? Where do emissions come from?
Nitrous oxide: how much does the average person emit? Where do emissions come from?
Carbon and energy efficiency
Has economic growth decoupled from CO2 emissions?
You can download our complete Our World in Data CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions database.
Many of us want an overview of how our country is doing in reducing CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions. This page provides the data for your chosen country across all of the key metrics on this topic.
The data will continue to update – often on an annual basis – with the latest global and country emissions estimates.
Panama: Per capita: how much CO2 does the average person emit?
How do per capita CO2 emissions compare when we adjust for trade?
Consumption-based CO2 emissions per capita
Annual emissions figures are often used to compare countries’ contribution to climate change. But this metric often reflects differences in population size across the world.
To understand the ‘footprint’ of the average person in a given country, this chart shows per capita emissions.
These figures reflect ‘production-based’ emissions, so do not correct for traded goods.
Panama: What are the country’s annual CO2 emissions?
This interactive chart shows how much carbon dioxide (CO2) is produced in a given year.
These figures are based on ‘production’ or ‘territorial’ emissions (i.e. emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, or cement production within a country’s borders). It does not consider the emissions traded goods (consumption-based emissions). You find consumption-based emissions later in this country profile.
These figures look specifically at CO2 emissions – not total greenhouse gas emissions. You find total, and other greenhouse gas emissions, later in this country profile.
Annual emissions can be largely influenced by population size – we present the per capita figures above.
Panama: Year-on-year change: what is the percentage change in CO2 emissions?
What is the absolute change in CO2 emissions each year?
Absolute annual change in CO2 emissions
This interactive chart shows the year-on-year growth in annual CO2 emissions.
A positive figure indicates that the emissions in a given year were higher than the previous year.
A negative figure indicates that emissions were lower than the previous year.
Year-to-year changes in emissions can vary a lot – this can create a particularly ‘noisy’ time series.
Panama: Cumulative: how much CO2 has it produced to date?
When we only look at emissions produced today, we fail to recognise historical responsibility for emissions in recent decades or centuries.
This interactive chart shows cumulative CO2 emissions – the sum of emissions produced since 1751 to the given year. This allows us to understand how much of the total CO2 emissions to date has been emitted by a given country.
Panama: Consumption-based accounting: how do emissions compare when we adjust for trade?
What share of domestic emissions are embedded in traded goods?
CO2 emissions embedded in trade
How do production- and trade-adjusted emissions compare?
Production-based vs. consumption-based CO2 emissions
When countries set targets, measure or compare CO2 emissions, they tend to focus on production-based emissions – CO2 emitted within a country’s own borders. However, this fails to capture emissions from traded goods – the CO2 emitted in the production of goods elsewhere, which are later imported (or the opposite: emissions from goods that are exported).
We can estimate consumption-based CO2 emissions by correcting for trade. These emissions are shown in the interactive chart. Note that the resolution of data needed to calculate this is not available for all countries.
→ We provide more detail on consumption-based emissions in our article ‘How do CO2 emissions compare when we adjust for trade?‘
Panama: What share of global CO2 emissions are emitted by the country?
Looking at a country’s annual emissions is useful, but it can be hard to put these numbers in context of the global total. Is 10 million tonnes of CO2 large or small; what about 100 million; or 1 billion tonnes?
This interactive chart shows annual emissions as a percentage of the global total in a given year.
Panama: What share of global cumulative CO2 has the country emitted?
Just as with annual emissions, simply presenting cumulative CO2 figures can be hard to contextualize. Has a given country’s contribution to the global total been large or small?
This chart shows the country’s cumulative emissions as a share of global cumulative emissions.
Panama: What share of CO2 emissions are produced from different fuels?
CO2 emissions are dominated by the burning of fossil fuels for energy production, and industrial production of materials such as cement.
What is the contribution of each fuel source to the country’s CO2 emissions?
This interactive chart shows the breakdown of annual CO2 emissions by source: either coal, oil, gas, cement production or gas flaring. This breakdown is strongly influenced by the energy mix of a given country, and changes as a country shifts to or from a given energy source.
Panama: How are CO2 emissions from different fuels changing?
The chart above allows us to see the breakdown of CO2 emissions by fuel type. But it makes it more difficult to see the absolute change in particular fuel sources over time.
This interactive chart shows the same data – CO2 emissions from coal, oil, gas, cement and flaring – but as individual lines to see clearly how each is changing over time.
In discussions on climate change, we tend to focus on carbon dioxide (CO2) – the most dominant greenhouse gas produced by the burning of fossil fuels, industrial production, and land use change.
But CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas that is driving global climate change. There are a number of others – methane, nitrous oxide, and trace gases such as the group of ‘F-gases’ – which have contributed a significant amount of warming to date.
Here we look at total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the world, plus breakdowns of other major gases including methane and nitrous oxide.
Panama: Total greenhouse gas emissions: how much does the average person emit? Where do emissions come from?
The charts above focused on carbon dioxide (CO2). But CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas. Others, including methane and nitrous oxide, have also had a significant impact on global warming to date.
The first interactive chart shows per capita greenhouse gas emissions. This is measured as the sum of all greenhouse gases, and given by a metric called ‘carbon dioxide equivalents’.
‘Carbon dioxide equivalents’ try to correct for the fact that one unit (e.g. a tonne) of a given gas doesn’t have the same same impact on warming as another. We therefore multiple the emissions of each gas by its ‘global warming potential’ (GWP) value: this measures the amount of warming one tonne of that gas would create relative to one tonne of CO2.
The other interactive chart shows where these emissions come from: the contribution of each sector.
→ We provide more detail on total greenhouse gas emissions in our sub-page ‘Greenhouse gas emissions‘.
How much greenhouse gases do countries emit in total when we include land use change and forestry?
Annual greenhouse gas emissions, including land use
How much greenhouse gases do countries emit when we exclude land use change and forestry?
Total greenhouse gas emissions, excluding land use
Where do its CO2 emissions come from? See the breakdown by sector.
CO2 emissions by sector
Panama: Methane: how much does the average person emit? Where do emissions come from?
Methane (CH4) is a strong greenhouse gas, mainly produced through agricultural activities (e.g. livestock and rice production), in addition to leakages from oil and gas production (called ‘fugitive emissions’).
This first interactive chart here shows per capita emissions of methane each year. This is measured in ‘carbon dioxide equivalents’.
→ We look at the breakdown of methane sources in our sub-page ‘Emissions by sector‘.
How much methane does each country contribute each year?
Annual methane emissions
Panama: Nitrous oxide: how much does the average person emit? Where do emissions come from?
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a strong greenhouse gas, that is mainly produced from agricultural activities (e.g. from the use of synthetic and organic fertilizers to grow crops).
This first interactive chart here shows per capita emissions of nitrous oxide each year. This is measured in ‘carbon dioxide equivalents’.
→ We look at the breakdown of nitrous oxide sources in our sub-page ‘Emissions by sector‘.
How much nitrous oxide does each country contribute in total each year?
Annual nitrous oxide emissions
Panama: Energy intensity: how much energy does it use per unit of GDP?
Since energy is such a large contributor to CO2, reducing energy consumption can inevitably help to reduce emissions. However, some energy consumption is essential to human wellbeing and rising living standards.
View this data on a world map: switch to a global map of energy intensity using the ‘MAP’ tab at the bottom of the chart.
Panama: Carbon intensity: how much carbon does it emit per unit of energy?
Panama: Has economic growth decoupled from CO2 emissions?
To reduce emissions and achieve increasing prosperity at the same time, we have to decouple economic growth from CO2 emissions. Several countries have achieved this in recent years.
The chart here shows whether this country has achieved this by showing the change in GDP per capita, and annual per capita CO2 emissions over time.
We show both production-based and consumption-based emissions (for countries where this data is available). This allows us to see whether the import of production from other countries – or the export to other countries – has affected this change in emissions.
Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (2017) - "CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions' [Online Resource]
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Dyslipidaemia in Rheumatological Autoimmune Diseases
Tracey E Toms1, Vasileios F Panoulas1, George D Kitas1, 2, *
1 Department of Rheumatology, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, West Midlands, UK
2 arc Epidemiology Unit, Manchester University, Manchester, UK
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* Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Rheumatology, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, Russells Hall Hospital, Pensnett Road, Dudley, West Midlands, DY1 2HQ, United Kingdom; Tel: +44-1384-244842; Fax: +44-1384-244808; E-mail: gd.kitas@dgoh.nhs.uk or g.d.kitas@bham.ac.uk
Autoimmunity forms the basis of many rheumatological diseases, and may contribute not only to the classical clinical manifestations but also to the complications. Many of the autoimmune rheumatological diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus are associated with an excess cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Much of this excess cardiovascular risk can be attributed to atherosclerotic disease. Atherosclerosis is a complex pathological process, with dyslipidaemia and inflammation fundamental to all stages of plaque evolution. The heightened inflammatory state seen in conjunction with many rheumatological diseases may accelerate plaque formation, both through direct effects on the arterial wall and indirectly through inflammation-mediated alterations in the lipid profile. Alongside these factors, antibodies produced as part of the autoimmune nature of these conditions may lead to alterations in the lipid profile and promote atherosclerosis. In this review, we discuss the association between several of the rheumatological autoimmune diseases and dyslipidaemia, and the potential cardiovascular impact this may confer.
Keywords: Autoimmune disease, dyslipidaemia, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, primary sjogrens syndrome, anti-phospholipid syndrome..
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The complexity and diversity of many rheumatological conditions is often attributed to their underlying autoimmune nature. Autoimmunity contributes to the clinical manifestations, as well as complications of disease and response to treatment. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have been found to associate with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) [1-3], resulting in a significantly shortened lifespan. As a consequence, much speculation and research has focused on the role of both traditional and novel, disease specific, risk factors. In the general population, dyslipidaemia has been shown to be one of the strongest predictors of CVD, with elevated levels of low-density lipoproteins (LDL) forming the primary treatment target according to national guidelines [4]. In this review we discuss the association between several of the autoimmune rheumatological conditions (RA, SLE, primary antiphospholipid sysndrome (primary APS), systemic sclerosis (SSc), and primary Sjogrens syndrome (PSS)) and dyslipidaemia, and the potential impact this has on cardiovascular risk, in particular atherosclerotic plaque formation.
ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE FORMATION: THE ROLE OF LIPIDS AND INFLAMMATION
Coronary artery disease develops due to the formation and rupture of atherosclerotic plaques. The term atherosclerosis covers a spectrum of disease ranging from endothelial dysfunction and fatty streak development, through to the formation and rupture of a mature plaque. The development of atherosclerotic plaques is complex. Inflammation is fundamental to all stages of atherosclerotic plaque [5], with an intense bi-directional interaction occurring between lipids and inflammation. Rheumatological autoimmune diseases are associated with a heightened inflammatory state in varying degrees, thus these processes may be accelerated.
Endothelial dysfunction is the initiating step in plaque development [6]. Healthy endothelium exerts a number of vasoprotective effects such as vasodilation, suppression of smooth muscle cell growth and inhibition of inflammatory responses, thereby helping to protect against atherosclerosis. Nitric oxide mediates many of these effects by inhibiting platelet aggregation and LDL oxidation, as well as opposing the effects of endothelium-derived vasoconstrictors [7]. Endothelial damage occurs when the fine balance between vasoconstrictive and vasodilatory pathways is disrupted. Although endothelial dysfunction is likely to be a multi-factorial process, the major cardiovascular risk factors such as hypercholesterolaemia, hypertension, diabetes and smoking have been implicated via their ability to increase the production of reactive oxygen species [8]. It is postulated that the increase in reactive oxygen species may in turn reduce endothelial nitric oxide (NO) availability [9, 10]. Multiple lipid abnormalities have been associated with endothelial dysfunction. Hypercholesterolaemia has been shown to cause focal activation of the endothelium in medium and large arteries and has been associated with an increased number of monocytes entering the intima [11]. High levels of oxidised LDL (oxLDL) may down regulate endothelial NO synthase (eNOS), thus reducing available NO and restricting coronary vasodilation [12]. High levels of circulating triglycerides (TGs) may also damage the endothelium via their oxidative charge and result in disruption of the normal NO pathway [13, 14]. Studies into the effects of lipoprotein (a) (Lp(a)) have shown elevated levels to be inversely correlated with small artery compliance and NO production [15, 16]. High levels of systemic inflammation may also disrupt endothelial homeostasis via the NO pathway, by reducing the expression of eNOS and increasing the expression of inducible NO synthase producing a net excess of NO [17]. Too much nitric oxide can also be deleterious to the endothelium, thus a very fine balance of NO needs to be maintained in order to preserve and protect the endothelium [18].
Due to the increased permeability of the dysfunctional endothelium, excess LDL infiltrates the artery wall and is retained in the intima by matrix components. LDL then undergoes modification and oxidation, inducing the endothelial cells to express leukocyte adhesion molecules [19] and initiating an inflammatory response in the artery wall [20]. The contribution of oxLDL particles to the development of atherosclerosis is summarised in Fig. (1).
Fig. (1).
The role of oxidised LDL.
Fig. (2a).
Fatty Streak formation.
Fig. (2b).
Advanced plaque formation.
The main mechanisms contributing to dyslipidaemia and atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis. IL-6: Interleukin-6, TNF: Tumour necrosis factor, CRP: C reactive protein, ROS: Reactive oxygen species, OxLDL: oxidised low-density lipoproteins, TC: total cholesterol, HDL: High-density lipoproteins, LDL: low-density lipoproteins, ApoB:ApoA: apolipoproteinB: apolipoproteinA ratio, TC:HDL: total cholesterol: high-desnity lipoprotein ratio.
The main mechanisms contributing to dyslipidaemia and atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus. HDL: Highdensity lipoprotein, ApoA1: apolipoprotein A1, APL Abs: anti-phospholipid antibodies, DsDNA: double stranded DNA, TG:triglycerides, LDL: low-density lipoproteins, TC: total cholesterol.
Common changes in the lipid profile amongst the autoimmune rheumatic disease and their impact on atherosclerotic plaque formation. LDL: Low density lipoproteins, TG: Triglycerides, Lp(a): Lipoprotein (a), Anti-LPL: anti-Lipoprotein Lipase, HDL: high density lipoproteins, ApoA1: Apolipoprotein A1, Anti-APL: anti phospholipid.
The first cells attracted to the activated endothelium are platelets [21]. They adhere via glycoproteins on their surface, triggering further endothelial activation resulting in leukocyte infiltration [22]. Once in the sub-endothelial space, monocytes are transformed to macrophages and subsequent incorporation of LDL via endocytosis by scavenger receptors (CD36 and others) differentiates them further into foam cells. The accumulation of foam cells, smooth muscle cells and T cells results in the formation of a fatty streak (Fig. 2a), the earliest recognisable lesion of atherosclerosis [23].
Fatty streaks can progress to form intermediate and advanced lesions (Fig. 2b), by amplification of the processes involved in formation of fatty streaks. The advanced lesions tend to form a protective fibrous cap that walls off the lesion from the lumen. Advanced plaques have a lipid-rich necrotic core containing an abundance of tissue factor, which plays a vital role in thrombus formation upon plaque rupture [24].
Plaque instability and rupture occurs due to uneven thinning or erosion of the fibrous cap. Destabilisation and degradation of the fibrous cap results from the production of inflammatory cytokines, proteases, radicals, coagulation factors and vasoactive molecules, from activated macrophages, T cells and mast cells [25]. The above events lead to plaque rupture, exposing the contents of the core of the plaque to the circulating blood and subsequent activation of the clotting cascade. As the thrombus forms and enlarges, the arterial lumen narrows and ischaemic symptoms may present.
RA affects approximately 1% of the adult population in the United Kingdom [26]. RA predominately affects the synovial joints resulting in joint pain, swelling and stiffness, but can also produce an array of clinical manifestations as part of the systemic nature of the disease, ranging from constitutional symptoms to organ involvement. Uncontrolled inflammation can confer a large personal, socio-economic, and psychosocial burden as a consequence of significant joint destruction and deformity.
RA patients have a reduced life expectancy and increased mortality rates compared to the general population [1, 3], with CVD accounting for approximately half of all RA deaths [27]. A recent meta-analysis has shown that the risk of death from CVD is almost 50% higher in RA patients compared to healthy controls [28]. Although CVD in RA can present in many guises (e.g. congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction (MI) and pericarditis), it is those with an underlying ischaemic pathology that pose the greatest mortality risk, as a consequence of atherosclerotic plaque formation [29-31]. Despite this, atherosclerotic disease remains under-diagnosed in RA due to an often atypical or silent presentation [32]. Although the mechanisms responsible for this phenomenon still need to be elucidated, differences in atherosclerotic plaque structure may be responsible. Atherosclerotic plaques of RA patients differ morphologically to those observed in the general population, with less histological evidence of atherosclerosis but far greater plaque instability [33]. Such differences may also offer a potential explanation for the higher fatality rates associated with MI in RA and the increases seen in post MI complication rates [34].
Atherosclerosis in RA may be enhanced through several pathways. Traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension [35, 36] and obesity [37-39] may occur more frequently in RA or be modified through disease specific mechanisms. In addition, novel risk factors such as systemic inflammation, hyperhomocysteinaemia [40] and activation of the coagulation pathway [41] may further escalate atherosclerotic plaque formation. In fact, the impact of systemic inflammation on CVD is so great it has now been recognised as an independent cardiovascular risk factor in the general population [42, 43]. Although there is a degree of interplay between all of the risk factors, systemic inflammation appears to be fundamental to virtually all. Furthermore, RA patients may be genetically predisposed to the development of atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction [44, 45].
Dyslipidaemia is highly prevalent in RA affecting between 55-65% of patients [46, 47] and can manifest in RA patients with both early [48] and advanced disease [49]. One retrospective study on 1078 blood donors has suggested that the lipid profile may be altered prior to the onset on RA [50]. This study demonstrated that the 79 blood donors who later developed RA had significantly higher total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), apolipoprotein B (apoB) levels, and lower high density lipoprotein (HDL) levels up to ten years prior to the onset of RA compared to matched controls. This suggests that alterations in the lipid profile may render people more susceptible to the future development of RA [51] or that RA patients are genetically predisposed to the development of RA related dyslipidaemia or that the transcription of these genes is altered by persistent inflammation.
Although dyslipidaemia in RA may be partially governed by a genetic predisposition, it is also influenced by an array of other factors including disease activity [52], reduced physical activity secondary to pain and disability [53], and drug therapy [54, 55]. In untreated RA the lipid profile is characterised by suppression of HDL and TC levels [51, 56, 57]. At first glance this appears to produce a less atherogenic profile, however, HDL levels fall disproportionately more compared to TC levels resulting in an increased atherogenic index (TC:HDL ratio) [48, 56, 58]. The largest study to compare the lipid profiles of untreated RA patients to a control group is the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) [54]. This study included 104 patients who were naïve to disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and glucocorticoids (GCs). It confirmed a significant fall in HDL and apolipoprotein A-I (apoAI) levels but failed to demonstrate any significant changes in other lipid levels. Current data exploring the effects of heightened disease activity on TG and low density lipoprotein (LDL) levels is conflicting with some studies reporting a positive association [56] and others a negative association [59, 60]. These discrepancies may be a consequence of limitations of study design, including small study size, differences in baseline characteristics, and incomplete adjustment for confounders.
For many years, apolipoproteins have been recognised as potential markers for CVD in the general population [61]. This is rather unsurprising, as apolipoproteins are found in conjunction with lipid particles (e.g. Apo-AI with HDL and Apo-B100 with LDL). However, emerging evidence now indicates a superiority of measuring apolipoproteins as CVD risk factors, rather than their lipid counterpart (e.g. ApoB rather than LDL) [62]. In RA, Apo-AI levels decrease [48, 52, 54, 63], mirroring the supression in HDL observed in active RA. Although, Apo-B levels have also been reported to be reduced with high levels of inflammation [64] this is to a lesser degree than Apo-AI levels [48, 52, 64].
For many years individual lipid levels have formed the basis of CVD risk stratification algorithms [4, 65]. However, the use of lipid and apolipoprotein ratios is gaining popularity as they have been shown to confer a greater predictive value of first myocardial infarction than individual lipid levels in the general population [66, 67]. The lipid ratios shown to be useful in risk stratification, include TC:HDL ratio [68], LDL:HDL ratio [69] and ApoB: ApoA1 ratio [70]. All three lipid ratios have been reported to increase in active RA [48, 56]. In addition, lipid ratios have been considered as an attractive alternative method of risk stratification in RA as they may overcome the inflammatory mediated fluctuations in individual lipid parameters [71].
Lipoprotein (a) (Lp(a)), is an LDL particle that is bound to apolipoprotein (a), by a disulphide bond with Apo-B100. Current evidence suggests Lp(a) is a key factor in the development of atherosclerosis [72, 73]. The structure of Lp(a) may mechanistically contribute to atherosclerotic plaque formation, through its structural similaririties with plasminogen. Lp(a) competes with plasminogen for its binding site, and stimulates the production of plasminogen activator inhibitor –1 (PAI-1), with the net effect of enhancing plaque thrombosis [74]. In addition, Lp(a) has been shown to interact with other established cardiovascular risk factors [75], including lipid parameters (HDL and LDL) [76]. In RA, several studies have demonstrated a significant increase in Lp(a) levels [48, 54, 56, 77, 78], which in the majority of studies appears to shadow changes in LDL [48, 54, 56]. Although inflammation may partially control these changes in Lp(a), genetic factors may also contribute [79]. Apolipoprotein (a) has several phenotypic variations, due to allelic differences. A recent study has demonstrated that RA patients have a higher frequency of the S3 allele compared to healthy controls (70% vs 39.5%) [79]. The presence of the S3 allele associates with a lower molecular weight of Apo(a) [80]. Furthermore, there is an inverse association between the molecular weight of Apo(a) and Lp(a) levels [81], thus potentially accounting for the increased Lp(a) levels observed in RA.
Further, intricate changes in lipid metabolism have been described in RA. High levels of oxidative stress can occur in conjunction with the chronic inflammatory burden of RA [66]. Lipid particles (in particular LDL) exposed to this environment both within the synovial fluid and the plasma of RA patients are susceptible to oxidative modification [82, 83]. Once oxidised, the LDL particles exhibit enhanced pro-atherogenic properties, through their ability to more readily infiltrate the arterial wall, form foam cells and initiate a localised inflammatory response.
Lipid/lipoprotein particles are not uniform and in healthy individuals are found in a range of sizes and densities. Such diversity is crucial for maintaining the normal pathways of lipid metabolism such as reverse cholesterol transport. However, these structural differences also dictate the atherogenicity of each of the particles. Small dense LDL particles (LDL3) are more prone to oxidation and more readily able to infiltrate the arterial wall than their larger counterparts [84], whereas smaller HDL particles (HDL2) are more successful in performing reverse cholesterol transport and thus confer greater cardio-protection [85]. In RA, the limited available data appears to suggests that RA patients have a more pro-atherogenic lipoprotein subfraction profile with higher levels of small dense LDL particles and lower levels of smaller HDL particles [86]. Alongside this, the balance of pro-atherogenic/anti-atherogenic HDL may be further disrupted through suppression of enzymes including paraoxonase 1 (PON) [87].
In summary, although we have a basic understanding of the effects of RA on the standard lipid profile (TC, LDL, TG and HDL levels) (Fig. 3), our understanding of dyslipidaemia in RA remains far from complete. Further large-scale studies are required to investigate the changes in lipid/lipoprotein structure and function and to establish the relative contribution of dyslipidaemia in its entirety to CVD in RA.
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem autoimmune disease that predominately affects premenopausal females, with a peak age of onset between 20-30 years. The condition can manifest with a broad spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms, ranging from relatively minor symptoms such as arthralgia to life-threatening organ involvement. SLE has a relapsing remitting course, often resulting in acute ‘flares’ characterised by a dramatic worsening of clinical symptoms, a heightened inflammatory response and elevated auto-antibody levels.
SLE confers a massive CVD risk, which is far greater than described in other autoimmune diseases. Patients with a disease duration greater than 5 years have been reported to have 52 times greater risk of suffering a myocardial infarction than matched controls [2]. In fact, the processes underlying atherosclerosis are so advanced that subclincal atherosclerosis has even been reported in the paediatric age range [88]. Thus, it is unsurprising that SLE has now been identified as an independent risk factor for the development of endothelial dysfunction, the earliest vascular change in the process of atherosclerotic plaque formation [89]. It is now clear that although traditional risk factors, including dyslipidaemia may be more frequent in SLE these alone do not fully account for the excess cardiovascular morbidity and mortality [90]. Several disease specific factors have been implicated including inflammation, oxidative stress and the presence of anti-phospholipid antibodies [91, 92].
The dyslipidaemia seen in conjunction with SLE is more typical of that described in the general population in relation to CVD, with elevations in TG, LDL, TC and ApoB and a parallel fall in HDL levels [93]. Although the alterations in the lipid profile appear to be exacerbated by active disease, significant changes have been observed in patients with inactive disease [94, 95], thus reflecting that factors other than inflammation may be at play (Fig. 4). Although the lipid profile seen in conjunction with active SLE (elevations in TC and LDL levels) appears to differ from that seen in active RA, there are also similarities (Table 1). Firstly, inflammatory mediators such as CRP and ESR have been shown to suppress HDL levels and increase TG levels [96]. Secondly, other markers of disease activity including the systemic lupus erythematosus disease activity index (SLEDAI) [94], C3d (a specific serological marker of lupus activity) levels [93], anti-double stranded DNA (dsDNA) levels [97] and levels of inflammatory cytokines have been found to associate with lipid levels [98, 99]. One potential inflammation-mediated mechanism that is thought to control some of the lipid alterations seen in SLE, is reduced activity of the enzyme lipoprotein lipase (LPL) [100], which may be governed by circulating inflammatory mediators (e.g. tumour necrosis factor and interleukin-6 (IL-6) [101], and antibodies directed against LPL (anti-LPL) [102]. LPL is responsible for the catabolism of chylomicrons and very low density lipoproteins (VLDL), thus suppression of LPL activity results in an accumulation of TG-rich particles [100]. The presence of cytokines including TNF-α and IL-6 also triggers hepatic production of CRP, which may further exacerbate HDL suppression. The high levels of circulating IL-6 have been shown to inversely correlate with HDL levels.
A Summary of the Classical Lipid/Lipoprotein Profile in Autoimmune Rheumatological Conditions
oxLDL
TC:HDL
LDL:HDL
ApoB:ApoA1
RA ↓ ↓↓ ? ? ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
SLE ↑ ↓ ↑ ↑↑ ↑ ↑
APS ←→ ←→ ←→ ↑ ←→
PSS ↓ ↓ ←→ ←→ ←→ ←→
SSc ←→ ←→ ←→ ↑ ↑ ↑
RA: rheumatoid arthritis, SLE: systemic lupus eythematosus, APS: anti-phospholipid syndrome, PSS: primary sjogrens syndrome, SSc: systemic sclerosis, TC: total cholesterol, HDL: high density lipoproteins, LDL: low density lipoproteins, TG: triglycerides, Lp(a): lipoprotein (a), oxLDL: oxidised low density lipoproteins, TC:HDL: total cholesterol:high density lipoprotein ratio, LDL:HDL: low density lipoprotein:high density lipoprotein ratio, ApoB: ApoA1: apolipoprotein B: apolipoprotein A1 ratio. ←→ = no change, ↓ = decreased levels, ↑ = increased levels, ? = conflicting data = no data.
High levels of systemic inflammation found in conjunction with SLE result in an increased burden of oxidative stress [103]. Increased oxidative stress can trigger a broad range of pro-atherogenic lipid modifications, including the formation of oxidised LDL (oxLDL), conversion of anti-inflammatory HDL into pro-inflammatory HDL [104], and altering the function of key enzymes involved in lipid metabolism and function [93]. The oxidation of LDL is particularly interesting in SLE, as oxidation affects not only the lipid component of the lipoprotein but also components such as cardiolipin. Antibodies directed against oxidised cardiolipin (anti-phospolipid (aPL) antibodies) are increased in a proportion of SLE patients, predominately those exhibiting features of co-existant anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS) [105]. There are three aPL antibodies found in SLE 1) Lupus anticoagulant 2) anti-cardiolipin antibodies and 3) antibodies to β2 glycoprotein [105]. The presence of aPL antibodies confers an increased thrombotic risk in SLE [106], thus atherosclerotic plaque rupture often has devastating implications due to vessel occlusion as a consequence of massive thrombus formation. The presence of IgG anti-cardiolipin antibodies have also been associated with low levels of HDL and apolipoprotein A-1, thus further escalating CVD risk [107].
SLE patients have high levels of antibodies against oxLDL, which may accelerate the uptake of LDL into the endothelial wall [108]. In addition, there is expanding evidence that antibodies against oxLDL may cross-react with IgM and IgG anticardiolipin antibodies [108, 109], thus further escalating CVD risk. Of particular interest oxLDL forms complexes with β2-glycoprotein I, which have been shown to amplify arterial thrombosis in patients with APS [110], and this may also be a pro-atherogenic mechanism in SLE patients who are positive for APS antibodies.
Several studies have investigated the lipoprotein subfraction profile in SLE, however, the impact of such changes on the development of subclinical atherosclerotic plaque formation and cardiovascular events remains to be established [93, 111, 112]. The first study determined the LDL lipoprotein subfraction profile in 53 patients with SLE and 53 age and sex matched healthy controls, using the method of disc polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis [93]. SLE patients had increased levels of small dense LDL subfractions, which were found to associate with high levels of oxidative stress and elevated CRP levels. Two further studies adopted the method of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, allowing quantification of both HDL and LDL subfractions [111, 112]. The study by Hua et al., examined lipoprotein subfractions in 26 female SLE patients with a history of CVD (myocardial infarction, angina, thromoembolic stroke, or intermittent claudication), 26 age matched SLE patients without CVD and 26 age and sex matched controls [112]. This study demonstrated that SLE patients with a history of CVD had higher levels of small dense LDL than the healthy control population, however the same was not found for SLE patients without CVD. Lower levels of the small ‘cardio-protective’ HDL subfractions were found in SLE patients (with and without CVD) compared to healthy controls. Chung et al. also performed lipoprotein subclassification using NMR spectroscopy in 105 SLE patients (without a history of CVD) and 77 healthy controls [111]. The levels of small dense LDL did not significantly differ between SLE patients and controls and were not found to associate with coronary calcification. The differences observed in the lipoprotein subfraction profile between these studies can be attributed to differences in baseline demographics, the underlying CVD risk, drug therapy and methodology, as well as small study size. Further longitudinal studies are required to elucidate the role (if any) of lipoprotein subfractions to CVD in SLE.
A further two studies have focused on HDL subfractions [113, 114]. Both have demonstrated an atherogenic profile with increased levels of HDL3 and reduced levels of HDL2 compared to healthy controls.
Lp(a) levels have been shown to be substantially increased in SLE patients with studies reporting them to be almost double those seen in matched control populations [115-118]. This appears to be independent of the effects of disease activity, thromobotic events, the presence of aPL antibodies and glucocorticoid use [115]. Furthermore, SLE patients with a history of vascular disease have been found to have higher Lp(a) levels than SLE patients without a history of vascular disease [117, 119], thus indicating a causative role. Unfortunately, all studies to date are limited by the small sample size and cross-sectional design, thus making it impossible to draw conclusions regarding the impact of Lp(a) on CVD in SLE. Similar to the findings in RA, genetic factors are major determinants of elevated Lp(a) levels in SLE, with only the small apolipoprotein (a) phenotypes found to significantly predict Lp(a) levels in SLE [118].
Data regarding changes in apolipoprotein levels and their relative contribution to CVD in SLE is sparse. One study comparing the lipid profile in 53 premenopausal SLE patients to 45 healthy controls reported significant elevations in both ApoA1 and apoB levels, with apoB levels found to associate with the presence of proteinuria [120]. A further study involving 46 SLE patients and 30 matched controls reported conflicting findings, with similar ApoA1 levels observed in both groups [113]. The effects of treatment with glucocorticoids on apoplipoprotein levels also remains a matter of some debate, with one study demonstrating no change in ApoA1 levels [113] and another demonstrating an increase in apoA1 levels [121]. To date there have been no studies assessing the predictive value of apolipoproteins in CVD risk stratification.
ANTI-PHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME
The Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is characterised by a combination of arterial and venous thrombosis, recurrent miscarriages, and thrombocytopenia. Although APS is most commonly found as an overlap syndrome with SLE, it is also recognised as an independent clinical entity (primary APS) [122].
To date, there is much speculation as to whether primary APS patients are at greater risk of atherosclerotic plaque formation than the general population. Some of this uncertainty stems from the significant limitations of the available study data, such as small study size and poor methodology [123], but may also be attributed to the lack of evidence to support a role of APL antibodies in atherothrombosis formation in non-SLE patients with MI [124, 125]. However, several studies on primary APS patients have demonstrated subclinical vascular changes consistent with endothelial dysfunction and early atherosclerotic plaque formation including impaired flow mediated dilatation and increased carotid intima-media thickness [126-128], respectively. Unfortunately, there is a lack of direct epidemiological evidence supporting a higher CVD morbidity or mortality in primary APS.
In line with a relative lack of available information on CVD in primary APS, data on dyslipidaemia in primary APS is also sparse. No studies have specifically been designed to assess dyslipidaemia in primary APS, however, a few small studies have commented on the lipid profile [128, 129]. The first study to comment on the lipid profile in primary APS, did not find any significant differences between TC, HDL, LDL, TG, ApoA1, ApoB, or Lp(a) levels compared to healthy controls [128]. A second study by Medina et al. [129] has reported conflicting findings with a significant increase in TG levels in patients with primary APS compared to healthy controls. These differences can be explained by differences in study size, baseline demographics, inclusion/exclusion criteria and auto-antibody status. Based on these studies alone we are unable to get a true representation of the extent of dyslipidaemia in primary APS (if any) and the impact this may have on CVD, thus further studies are required to address this.
Primary Sjogren’s syndrome (PSS) is characterised by chronic inflammation of exocrine glands, resulting in ocular and oral dryness. Although a systemic disease, the inflammation associated with the condition is much less than that seen with RA or SLE. The prevalence of CVD in PSS remains to be established. However, examination of the carotid intima-media thickness of patients with PSS compared to controls has demonstrated a higher prevalence of subclinical atherosclerosis (PSS 49% vs controls 11%) [130]. In this study, the presence of anti-SSA antibodies and leucopenia, but not alterations in the lipid profile, were found to associate with subclincal atherosclerosis.
Two investigators have specifically examined the lipid profile in PSS in relation to inflammation and autoantibody status. The first study conducted by Lodde et al. compared serum lipid profiles in 44 patients with PSS to 12 control patients with oral dryness failing to fulfil the diagnostic criteria for PSS [131]. This demonstrated significantly lower TC and HDL levels in patients with PSS. Other lipid parameters, including lipid ratios (LDL, TG, TC:HDL ratio and LDL:HDL ratio) were not different between patients and control subjects. The levels of TC and HDL in the PSS patients were not found to associate with inflammation (CRP or ESR), however both were found to associate with IgG levels. Alongside this, TC and HDL levels were found to significantly inversely correlate with anti-SSA and anti-SSB antibodies, respectively. A second small study (37 females with PSS and 35 age-matched female controls) confirmed a decrease in HDL levels in patients with PSS, but other lipid components did not significantly differ [132]. HDL levels did not associate with inflammation or auto-antibody status.
Although patients with PSS exhibit some alterations in the lipid profile that are typical of those seen in RA and SLE, including suppression of HDL levels, the mechanisms underlying this need to be examined in more detail. Inflammation appears to be an unlikely culprit due to a lack of association seen in these studies. However, due to the comparative low-grade inflammation seen in PSS much larger scale studies and more sensitive methodology (high sensitivity CRP) may be required to provide the power to detect such a relationship.
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a condition characterised by skin fibrosis that advances proximally from the distal extremities. In addition, patients with SSc can develop complications arising from organ involvement, including pulmonary fibrosis, renal failure and vasculopathy. The vascular involvement in SSc has traditionally been thought to be due to microvascular disease [133, 134], however, evolving data suggests an increased prevalence of macrovascular disease as well [135]. Patients with SSc have a fourfold increase in mortality compared to the general population, with approximately a third of all deaths due to cardiovascular causes [136]. Although, peripheral vascular disease (PVD) has been reported to be almost 5 times higher amongst patients with SSc than the general population [137, 138], carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis, has been found not to differ significantly between cases and controls [139, 140]. Irrespective of these findings, studies have demonstrated evidence of increased endothelial dysfunction in SSc patients compared to controls, as measured by flow-mediated dilatation [140, 141]. In addition, endothelial dysfunction has been shown to improve following endothelin receptor blockade in SSc [142]. Markers of arterial stiffness such as pulse wave velocity and aortic augmentation index have also been shown to be higher in SSc patients than in a control population [141].
Dyslipidaemia and its contribution to vascular disease/endothelial dysfunction in SSc remains relatively unstudied with only a handful of small studies attempting to address this [135, 139, 143]. The changes in the lipid profile in SSc appear to be subtle, with many of the conventional lipid parameters reported to remain unchanged and only a significant increase in TG levels being witnessed by some investigators [143, 144]. The hypertryglyceridaemia in SSc may be mediated through reduced LPL activity as a consequence of the formation of anti-LPL antibodies [144]. However, when delving deeper it is apparent that further potentially pro-atherogenic changes including enhanced oxidation of LDL [145] and increased Lp(a) levels [146] occur. Increased levels of circulating adhesion molecules have also been noted in SSc. Although these appear to occur in conjunction with endothelial dysfunction [147, 148], to date no direct associations have been made between adhesion molecules and atherosclerotic disease in SSc.
In summary, patients with SSc may have an increased risk of CVD, but this requires further clarification in large-scale studies specifically designed to assess this. In addition SSc patients appear to harbour several alterations in the arterial wall including increased arterial stiffness and endothelial dysfunction, however, the contribution of dyslipidaemia to such changes, if any, requires further investigation.
DRUG THERAPY AND DYSLIPIDAEMIA
The management of many of the autoimmune rheumatological conditions relies upon the use of immunosuppressive agents, which are broadly divided in to glucocorticoids (GCs), disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), and biologic agents (e.g. anti-TNF). However, the use of these agents differs significantly between conditions due to efficacy, drug licensing, and side effects. Many of these medications alter the lipid profile with the most widely reported change being an elevation in HDL levels [49, 149-151]. The most likely mechanism to account for such changes in the lipid profile is generic suppression of inflammation. However, some medications have been shown to exert drug specific effects on the lipid profile. For example, Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), a DMARD used in the management of RA and SLE, has been reported to produce a less atherogenic lipid profile by lowering TC, LDL and TG and increasing HDL levels [152, 153]. The advent of newer ‘potent’ biologic agents offering rapid anti-inflammatory effects has sparked interest surrounding their effect on the lipid profile. However, due to the contraindications of anti-TNF use in SLE patients, most of the data attempting to address this issue has been based in RA patients. The available data demonstrates an increase in TC and HDL levels, with out an overall change in the atherogenic index (TC:HDL) [151, 154]. Thus again potentially reflecting a reversal of the previously inflammatory-mediated suppression of the lipid profile. Despite these findings, very little data exists regarding the more intricate effects of these drugs on lipids, such as lipid subfractions, lipid modifications (e.g. LDL oxidation) and lipid function, and the impact that these may have on cardiovascular risk.
Autoimmunity plays a major role in the development of dyslipidaemia and atherosclerotic plaque formation in many rheumatological conditions. The mechanisms underlying these changes include the interplay of inflammation and auto-antibody formation. Although the pattern of dyslipidaemia appears to differ between the autoimmune rheumatological diseases outlined in this review, many of the underlying mechanisms are similar (Fig. 5). Thus treatment options to reduce CVD risk amongst these conditions share a common theme, with the use of disease-modifying anti-inflammatory medications paramount to all.
RA = Rheumatoid arthritis
SLE = Systemic lupus erythematosus
CVD = Cardiovascular disease
LDL = Low-density lipoprotein
APS = Anti-phospholipid syndrome
PSS = Primary Sjogrens syndrome
SSc = Systemic sclerosis
NO = Nitric oxide
eNOS = Endothelial nitric oxide synthase
TG = Triglyceride
Lp(a) = Lipoprotein (a)
OxLDL = Oxidised low-desnsity lipoproteins
ApoB = ApolipoproteinB
HDL = High-desnity lipoproteins
DMARDs = Disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs
GC = Glucocorticoids
NHANES = National Health and Nutrition Examination survey
ApoA1 = Apolipoprotein A1
PAI-1 = Plasminogen activator inhibitor
CRP = C reactive protein
TC = Total cholesterol
TNF = Tumour necrosis factor
IL = Interleukin
ROS = Reactive oxygen species
LPL = Lipoprotein lipase
NMR = Nuclear magnetic resonance
DsDNA = Double stranded DNA
ESR = Erythrocyte sedimentation rate
IMT = Intima-media thickness
HCQ = Hydroxychloroquine
The Authors declare that they have no competing interests
Tracey E Toms: Analysis and interpretation of data, drafting manuscript, approval of final version to be published
Vasilieos F Panoulas: Acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, Approval of final version to be published
Goerge D Kitas: Substantial contributions to the conception and design, revision of draft manuscript, approval of final version to be published
This work is supported by an Arthritis Research Campaign Clinical Fellowship grant (grant number 18848 to T.E.T), and an Arthritis Research Campaign infrastructure support grant (grant number 17682, given to the Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Rheumatology). Dr Vasileios F. Panoulas is supported by a PhD scholarship from Empirikion Institute, Athens, Greece.
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Real Talk on Fake People
by Avneesh Chandra · March 5, 2019
Check Twitter these days and you’ll see, in the form of real-seeming faces or funny texts of fake speeches, the potency of powerful computing tools and the ease with which they allow the generation of complete fabrications. Though the use of these media manipulation tools, the interesting verbiage of which has ascended (descended?) to meme-hood, has so far been largely gimmicky, it has papered over a dark reality – of which the 2018 epidemic of deepfakes was a stark reminder. The complicated future of media in the age of neural networks and machine learning has arrived, bringing with it media manipulation tools of endless sophistication and widespread availability. All this is happening at a time when the public’s faith in gatekeepers is low and keeps falling lower – so what could possibly go wrong?
“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on” is a fairly common phrase that you, if you’re like me, have spent most of your life believing originated with Mark Twain. Fittingly, however, even that origin story isn’t accurate. Benign inaccuracies like this and more sinister mistruths have always had an easy job getting around, while the truth and those after it have to labor for hours, days, and weeks getting their proverbial boots on. Thanks to the aforementioned advances in certain technologies and their ease of use, however, the job of a lie is only getting easier. For this, too, we can thank technology companies.
Take NVIDIA, for example. The giant known largely for the graphics card it puts in your laptops has displayed astonishing capabilities with its image processing tools. Inside papers that look unremarkably academic, it has demonstrated the ability to simulate different weather conditions of the same picture, and automatically repair damaged digital images. Audio hasn’t been safer either, from tools such as Adobe’s Voco, which elicited concern from experts well before its commercial release, prompting Adobe to consider a form of “watermarking detection” in order to prevent its abuse. Though neither Voco or its competitor WaveNet (another Google product) are yet commercially available, Canadian company Lyrebird has already made its product accessible to users in an online demo, paying little heed to how many bad actors it’s handing over its weapons-grade technology.
There are also academics pushing the bounds of what can be accomplished, like the researchers at the University of Washington who outlined in a paper how they were able to synthesize realistic video of former US President Barack Obama lip-syncing with audio of his older speeches and public appearances. The researchers made it a point to only synthesize video with words that the former President had already said, with researcher Steven Seitz stating, “We very consciously decided against going down the path of putting other people’s words into someone’s mouth.” If these assurances come off as comforting, prepare to be disappointed. Seitz had said in July of 2017, “You can’t just take anyone’s voice and turn it into an Obama video.” Less than a year later, Buzzfeed had done just that.
In one of the most chilling cases of the last year, there was the deepfake problem. Out of nowhere, it seemed, there were hordes of online users, through apps such as FakeApp, creating disturbingly realistic, sexually explicit videos of everyone from popular celebrities to unsuspecting former romantic partners. Recognizing the massive violations of privacy involved and started at the pace at which deepfakes were being generated, prominent websites rushed to ban such content. Over the ensuing days, as the issue spread among the broader public, the practice was met with widespread rebuke and revulsion. Unfortunately, the Internet is forever, and so both the technology and its products both remain far too accessible.
What does this mean for the media we consume? When anything can be warped and reshaped, is there any truth that can be trusted? Were even one of the main mitigating factors – sophistication, availability, public trust – to be meaningfully dealt with, the situation would not seem so dire. Unfortunately, it does not seem like we can close Pandora’s Box on the technology, and our failing trust in each other is a problem no one has yet been able to solve. When these issues in conjunction with each other all bear down on us at once, we must ask as Aviv Ovadya did: “What happens when anyone can make it appear as if anything has happened, regardless of whether it did or not?” If that sounds a little too Bradbury for you, he’s not the only one concerned.
Alex Champandard, AI expert and co-founder of CreativeAI, says there is an urgent need for “identifying and building trust in relationships — including with journalists and press outlets, publishers, or any content creator for that matter.” Among experts the consensus is quickly becoming clear – there is a significant threat posed to the public’s ability to trust its eyes and ears, and the society-wide danger of a growing inability to know what’s real only grows as these media manipulation tools become more sophisticated and widely available. As the integrity of information – the inherent value of it in describing the world as it is – fades, this breakdown of an integral piece of the social fabric will have wide-ranging repercussions.
The rule of law could stall as it becomes increasingly difficult for juries and judges to discern the real from the manufactured. Law enforcement and national defense may spend countless resources in chasing falsified but convincing information. Inter-societal rituals, from the most granular level of individual interaction to the macro level of international diplomacy will be compromised by the threat of malicious actors. The public at large will be unable to decide what has meaning and what doesn’t – conditions that could prove at best detrimental, and at worst fatal, to the democratic system. The likeliest outcome in the years ahead is not one where fact becomes indistinguishable from fiction and where the ordinary person cannot tell real from not, but one where the idea of what is true and what isn’t is made irrelevant, and the ordinary person simply ceases to care.
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Avneesh Chandra is a graduate student in International Public Affairs, and enjoys tennis, policy, and movies.
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Tracy Downey says:
I kid you not I literally woke up two hours ago feeling this at a subconscious level that we have the choice to partake in dumping toxic waste into the world and pollute calming waters or we can be mindful of what we say, how we say it, and realize those who want to anger us in drive by posts are feeding an addicted beast. Great post and I completely agree.Report
Avneesh Chandra in reply to Tracy Downey says:
Glad it spoke to what you were feeling! There’s definitely a side to this where the onus falls on us to be careful what we put out there.Report
Tracy Downey in reply to Avneesh Chandra says:
Yes. I’m definitely picking up on this more and more. Great read!👍🏻Report
Thank you!Report
Uh, we’re all clear that the fake speech linked in the first sentence was not produced by a computer, right? That was part of the joke.Report
Avneesh Chandra in reply to Chris says:
Yes! Sorry – I should’ve been clearer. I wanted to get a recent instance of the meme to illustrate the point. You can find the real thing and the reality of training neural nets on data here: https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1007061610005794817Report
Marchmaine says:
Yes, this will be a real problem.
No, we’re not sure how we’ll deal with it.
No, trust isn’t the answer… it will make things worse… this is basically trust betraying tech.
I’m not sure what kicks off the Butlerian jihad, but we’re experimenting with possible causes.Report
InMD in reply to Marchmaine says:
As long as Linda Hamilton survices 1984 we’ll be fine.Report
Here’s a canary in a coal mine for you: Look for groups clamoring for AI’s to be categorized as “White Males” or extensions thereof.
If this doesn’t happen, no problem.
If this does happen, holy cow, we’re on the brink of something.Report
How is it a violation of a person’s privacy to create a fake video of him? It’s reprehensible, and I can feel in my gut that it’s an offense against that person, but I can’t articulate a reason why.Report
Road Scholar in reply to Pinky says:
Yeah, it seems more akin to slander or libel to me.Report
Avneesh Chandra in reply to Pinky says:
I’m of course not a legal scholar, but the way I see it, your face and your likeness is intrinsically part of you. The kind of deepfakes that were out there were mainly pornographic, and sex is for most people a private thing. To mix those two things to me really feels like a violation – though, like you, I can’t exactly articulate why!Report
Road Scholar in reply to Avneesh Chandra says:
Well, slander/libel would be saying somebody did something like porn when in fact they had not done so. It’s basically a lie that damages that person. This is the same thing but with faked video/audio.Report
Avneesh Chandra in reply to Road Scholar says:
True – could someone insulate themselves from that charge by making tacking on a cursory note about how the content they created was fake, even if it then propagated over the internet without that context?Report
Stillwater in reply to Pinky says:
and I can feel in my gut that it’s an offense against that person, but I can’t articulate a reason why.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons.”Report
Avneesh Chandra in reply to Stillwater says:
There we go! Founders thought of everything.Report
There also seems to me an issue in copyright law and fair use. No one seems to be getting terribly upset about using the likenesses of celebrities, at least if it’s obviously meant as a parody. The intent seems relevant.Report
I believe there was also a smaller strain of “revenge porn”, where people were creating these with pictures of their exes or people they knew in real life.Report
Jaybird in reply to Avneesh Chandra says:
The “deep fakes” thing quickly ran into problems because it’s one thing to make a video of putting Nic Cage into a Superman movie…
Quite another to put your favorite actress’s face onto your favorite pr0n star’s body.Report
Pinky in reply to Avneesh Chandra says:
(serious) I would guess that if realistic but fake revenge pron became a thing, then a lot of people would be able to claim that authentic embarrassing videos were really fakes. It might be a relief.
(silly) Maybe Nicolas Cage died 20 years ago, and some psycho has been cutting and pasting him into increasingly crazy movies.Report
(serious) This is probably true, and maybe a minor upside?
(slly) I refuse to believe that National Treasure is not Nic Cage at his truest.Report
Pinky in reply to Pinky says:
One does not look directly into Nic Cage at his truest. It is best viewed through a hole in a piece of cardboard, like an eclipse.Report
veronica d in reply to Pinky says:
I can feel in my gut that it’s an offense against that person, but I can’t articulate a reason why.
It’s obviously wrong to fake someone’s image, for the simple reason that this will mislead people into thinking person X did Y, when in fact they did not. It’s dishonest, disrespectful, and undermines a person’s dignity.
“Face” is a real thing, which might be defined as social personhood. To attack a person’s “face” is to attack them in a fundamental way, inasmuch as we are social animals and our role in a community is a critical part of our life. To attack a person’s “face” is always an aggressive act. These “deep fakes” are a particularly egregious attack on “face.”Report
Burt Likko in reply to veronica d says:
Many states have torts analogous to California’s Midler tort. Arises out of a case in which an auto company hired a Midler “sound-alike” to do a commercial. Same thing happened in Waits v. Frito-Lay: that was not actually Tom Waits singing about potato chips. I’ve handled cases involving these rights myself.
It goes further in European and some Asian countries whose law involves a doctrine called “moral right” which extends control of how a piece of art can be used even farther than US copyright law.
My main woman @veronica-d has the core argument of it above: one’s image is an extension of one’s identity, of one’s self. If my image and voice were appropriated and altered, without my consent, to advocate the consumption of Coors Light, the voting-for of Donald Trump, or abandoning one’s grocery cart in the middle of the parking lot, I would feel as though I had been violated, trespassed upon, STOLEN FROM. Mutatis mutandis for you and your own deeply-felt convictions.Report
fillyjonk in reply to Pinky says:
I feel the same way: I can’t make a convincing legal argument (I am not a lawyer, though, the closest I get to law is teaching about environmental regulation) but it is something that on a very, very deep level repulses me, the thought that someone could (for example) take my sister in law’s face and use it to make a porno or something.
“Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.”
Though I guess some of the deepfakes do in some way enrich their dastardly perpetrator…It does seem akin to slander or libel.Report
Aaron David says:
Remember when you first saw CGI? 30 feet away and on the 20-foot screen, it was awesome. Now, at home, it looks cheap and tawdry. Is this because you are better at spotting it, or the skill of the average practitioner is not very good? This is how I see the level of deep fakes ending up. We will become better at spotting it, while at the same time less credulous of everything we see.Report
Avneesh Chandra in reply to Aaron David says:
Exactly! That’s a great point, and the last thing you said is exactly what makes me nervous. Getting to the point where we become immediately skeptical of whatever we see and hear (though at some level that’s probably wise) could be crippling for aspects of our lives that require a certain level of societal trust and good faith.Report
Jaybird in reply to Aaron David says:
The evolution of video games has similar.
The earliest upright video games I remember are Space Invaders and Asteroids. I couldn’t believe that we could make machines do this sort of thing.
And *THEN* we had games with color! Centipede! Pac-Man! Galaga!
And buttons! Defender! Stargate! STREET FIGHTER!!!!
And with each new generation of video games, we couldn’t believe how awesome the graphics were.
Now we’ve got Red Dead Redemption 2. Spider-Man.
And it’s hard to believe that, in a mere decade, we’ll see these games as “pretty but the graphics are really dated.”Report
Aaron David in reply to Jaybird says:
Remember Dragon Slayer from the ’80s? I think that was what it was called… At the time it was nice graphically, but playing it was super chunky.Report
Going back and trying to replay stuff like Bard’s Tale or the original Tomb Raider is always an interesting experience.
“I can’t believe I spent hours playing this, entranced! It’s downright unplayable now!”Report
And I think this is how the whole thing will play out. If it is your bag, say the Pr0n thing you mention or Trump/AOC bloviating, then you are motivated to believe it. If those aren’t your thing, then spotting it will be much easier. For the same reason I wasn’t entranced by Dragon Slayer, but my friend Mark was.
But, maybe I am being to Pipi Longstockingish here.Report
Road Scholar says:
Technological advance trips me out. An episode of ST TOS had Spock doctoring video like this. The assumption was that you would need ST level computing tech and a Vulcan computer specialist to pull it off.Report
Yes – and that assumption being shortcircuited here is what’s chilling, right? Imagine the same effect, but with widely available tech that requires little to no specialized training to pull off. (Also, the sheer number of things Star Trek was ahead of the curve on…)Report
Oscar Gordon in reply to Avneesh Chandra says:
Both ahead of the curve, and far too pessimistic of the time horizonReport
Road Scholar in reply to Oscar Gordon says:
But only in computer tech. The rest of it not so much. Of course, “the rest of it” may be/is probably physically impossible.Report
Reformed Republican says:
“The likeliest outcome in the years ahead is not one where fact becomes indistinguishable from fiction and where the ordinary person cannot tell real from not, but one where the idea of what is true and what isn’t is made irrelevant, and the ordinary person simply ceases to care.”
In other words, soon we will be living in a Philip K. Dick novel.Report
Avneesh Chandra in reply to Reformed Republican says:
And Bradbury too! Poor Orwell may have missed the mark a bit.Report
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Chapter Twenty-Six: Secret Message:
Hana wasn't the only one experiencing a change in her condition. Suddenly, Tatsumi's phone rang.
�Excuse me,� he said. The secretary reached into his jacket and answered his phone. "Hello?" he asked.
"Oi, Tatsumi!" a woman's raspy voice hissed.
"Lucy?" the secretary asked with an eyebrow raised. "How did you get this number?"
"Never mind that now!" she said. "It's Barbie!" Tatsumi paused.
"What about her?" he asked.
"It's her hand!" Becky shouted in the background.
"What about it?" the kagetsukai asked.
"It's moving on its own," Lucy said.
That took about five seconds for the news to sink into Tatsumi�s head. "What did you say?"
"Her hand is moving on its own," the Goth repeated.
"Moving how?" Tatsumi asked.
"Writing," Becky said in the background.
"What is it writing?" he asked.
"We don't know," Lucy said. "It looks like scribbles." Tatsumi took this all in.
"I see," he said. "I'll be right there." The shinigami hung up the phone and turned to Mike. "We have to so," the shinigami said.
"Why?" the demon asked.
"It's Anna," Tatsumi replied. "Her condition has changed." Both men rushed out of Hana's room.
They found Lucy, Hisoka, and Becky all crowded around Anna's bed. The woman herself sat up in bed. She was still in a catatonic state with blank eyes. Her right hand wrote on a piece of paper aimlessly. The trio turned to the men when they heard him walk in.
"How long has she been like this?" Tatsumi asked.
"Since midnight," Hisoka said.
"Midnight?" Mike asked.
"That's what the doc said," Lucy said.
"Any reason why this is happening?" Tatsumi asked. Becky shook her head.
"No," she said. "It just happened like this."
"I see," he mumbled. He glanced at Mike.
"Think the poison's wearing off?" the demon whispered.
"Seems that way," the shinigami replied. The men turned their attention back to the crew.
"Can we see what she wrote?" Tatsumi asked.
"Hang on," Hisoka said. He reached over to the side table and got the papers. He handed them to the older shinigami. The first two pages yielded nothing but scribbles. Tatsumi turned the page and found more scribbles. Given it was close to nine now, these really took a while. Around page seven, the scribbles tried form Kanji. Mike squinted for a better look.
"What does that say?" he asked. The shinigami took a closer look.
"That's what we're trying to find out," Hisoka said.
"That look like� what or why," the older shinigami replied. The other two tried to read what he was pointing at.
"Guys!' Becky shouted. "Look at this!" The men rushed over to her and Lucy. The former pointed forward. The Kanji started to take shape. The coherency started to kick in; a little sloppy, but clear enough.
"What does it say?" Becky asked. A puzzled look came onto Tatsumi�s face as he read the various lines.
"Why?" he read.
"Huh?" Lucy asked.
"That's what she's writing," he said.
"For what?" Becky asked.
"Can't say," the secretary replied. They all shifted their focus back over towards Anna. She still wrote on the many pieces of paper the nurses gave her.
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
Each time she wrote, the words got clearer, but what was she trying to say?
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Norwegian offers customers CO2-offsetting and becomes first airline to sign UN climate action initiative
Norwegian has partnered with climate company CHOOOSE to make it easy for customers to offset their carbon footprint when buying a ticket with the airline. The initiative has been welcomed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Norwegian adds new tool to reduce CO2 emissions by 140,000 tons per year
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Norwegian’s unit revenue increased by 18 percent in November
Norwegian’s traffic figures for November shows an increased unit revenue for the eighth consecutive month and was up 18 percent compared to the same month previous year. At the same time, the capacity was reduced, which is in line with the company’s strategy. The load factor was 83 percent, up by 4.2 percentage points.
Marty St. George appointed interim Chief Commercial Officer at Norwegian
Marty St. George has today been appointed interim Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Norwegian following changes in the company’s top management team. St. George has extensive experience from the aviation industry. Until recently, he held the position as CCO of Jet Blue Airways.
Norwegian sells Argentinian subsidiary to JetSMART Airlines
Norwegian Air Shuttle has signed an agreement for the sale of 100 per cent of its Argentinian subsidiary Norwegian Air Argentina (NAA) to JetSMART Airlines. “We’re taking necessary steps to return to profitability,” said acting CEO Geir Karlsen.
Jacob Schram appointed new CEO of Norwegian
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Norwegian to establish a joint venture for parts of its aircraft fleet with China Construction Bank Leasing Corporation
The purpose of the joint venture (JV) between Norwegian and China Leasing International Corporation DAC (CCBLI) will be to finance, own and lease aircraft that Norwegian has on order. The agreement will strengthen Norwegian’s financials considerably.
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Norwegian announces more capacity on key UK - US routes for Summer 2020
Norwegian today announced frequency increases between London Gatwick and key US destinations such as San Francisco and Tampa in response to demand. The increases will take affect from 29th March 2020 and run throughout the summer 2020 schedule.
Norwegian reports increased passenger traffic and higher revenues in September
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Norwegian’s loyalty programme reaches 10 million members – three new members every minute
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Bondholders vote in favour of Norwegian’s proposed amendments to its two unsecured bonds NAS07 and NAS08
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Norwegian reports increased unit revenue and higher load factor in August
Norwegian carried more than 3.5 million passengers in August. The unit revenue increased by three percent and the load factor was 90 percent, up 0.4 percentage points.
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Norwegian Air Shuttle (“NAS” or the “Company”) is executing on its strategic plan from growth to profitability and cash generation. To ensure successful operations and adequate liquidity headroom, NAS is requesting to extend the maturity dates of its two unsecured bonds in exchange of a security package backed by the attractive take-off and landing slots at London Gatwick Airport.
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