Most conversations about taking good care of your body include an emphasis on the food you eat. At the IAWP, we know that our nutrition is a significant foundational part of our wellness practice. Healthy eating is crucial if we want to feel and look the best we possibly can.
Part of our philosophy is the idea that wellness is a holistic practice. We've created a system we call Wellness 360, which focuses on every aspect of our lives that contribute to our wellness. Each thing in that wheel we call an element and each element is an important piece of creating wellness in your life. Food is one of the elements in the Wellness 360 wheel.
Talking about the element of Food is important when it comes to wellness for many reasons. First, of course, is that nutrition is one of the hottest topics when it comes to being healthy.
What we eat impacts how we look, how we feel, and how we do a lot of things. It's also one of the most confusing and ever-changing elements. But it shouldn't be that hard. When you use the Wellness 360 wheel, Food becomes an element that is more simple than you think.
There are several aspects that make up the element of Wellness 360 Food.
The specific types of foods that we put into our mouths.
The amount and quality of the food.
How we eat that food, such as in a hurry or at a peaceful, slow pace.
Noticing whether the food gives us energy or makes us feel tired.
Checking in to see whether the food feels nourishing.
Paying attention to whether or not the food makes us feel good after eating it.
Our world today is filled with an overwhelming number of things to consider when it comes to food. Everywhere you turn, there's some new nutrition book, diet expert, or food guru telling you what you should and shouldn't eat.
You might find yourself wondering who to listen to and what to believe. Should you avoid genetically modified (GMO) foods or do they really matter? Are fats harmful or should you eat more of them? Are vegetables more nutritious when they're juiced or whole? Should you eat your veggies and fruits raw or cooked? You could spend an entire lifetime wandering through the metaphorical aisles of all the food philosophies out there.
Thankfully, our philosophy of the element of Wellness 360 Food is more simple and profound than just following a set of rules laid out by an expert. It isn't about diets, counting calories, or depriving ourselves. It's about finding a path of healthy eating that nourishes you and gives you energy. There are many ways of eating that can be healthy for the human body. It all comes down to finding what actually works for your body and for your lifestyle.
Every person on the planet has specific biochemistry, environment, and lifestyle. When combined, we are each quite unique. That means that each diet and nutrition plan out there isn't good for every person. The food you eat needs to be as unique as you are.
At the IAWP, we support the idea that each person has individual needs and we teach biochemical individuality in our Wellness Coach training. We know that a diet that works for one person might not work for another. There are many factors that influence which foods are best for you as an individual. It's important to remember this as you venture down the path of finding your own unique healthy eating lifestyle.
When you're trying to discover the foods that work best for your body, you can think of your body as a laboratory. This is also a helpful concept to use when you're helping clients determine which healthy eating paths they should take.
Luckily, our bodies are constantly giving us responses to the foods we eat. We can think from an experiment perspective, listening to the signals our bodies are giving us and then adjust our food choices accordingly.
Symptoms. Perhaps your tummy feels a bit gassy or you feel the burn of acid after eating.
Cravings. Maybe you've been really craving red meat out of the blue or you just know that a piece of fruit is what you need at that moment.
Energy levels. After eating, do you feel exhausted? Or maybe the food you ate was perfect for your needs, so suddenly you feel a rush of energy.
Each one of these signals can give us clues about whether what we're eating is pushing our bodies out of balance or if it was the right food for our needs. They tell us what we should do next in discovering our unique nutritional path toward healthy eating.
If you spend any time paying attention to food experts, you'll notice that there are always a lot of rules. There are rules about what you should be eating and rules about what you should never eat. Experts don't always agree, either.
These rules are also always changing, leaving us feeling more confused than before. For example, in recent decades food experts were pushing the idea of eating low fat. Now they've realized that advice wasn't healthy and now we're being told to eat fats again.
When it comes to working with clients, giving them rules may or may not be very helpful. Often, they just need to take the first step toward focusing more on healthy eating. They might just need a little support in understanding what healthy food is at its most basic level.
Helping clients get acquainted with eating whole foods is the best first step on their path toward wellness. There are always special considerations when it comes to health challenges and concerns, as well as goals and circumstances.
Whatever your own nutritional path has become, it's best to first support clients to get to the first stage of eating a higher quality diet. Advanced eating ideas can be useful conversations in the future, but for now, keep it simple and reduce the overwhelm that is common in the nutrition world.
Wellness is a journey of always seeking as much balance as you can achieve in your life. As a Wellness Coach, you get to help others find the strategies that will help them find balanced wellness.
Food is an important aspect to focus on when seeking wellness balance. So how to do you balance the Food element of the Wellness 360 wheel?
Here are a few ideas to help you get started in finding the balance for your Food element.
1. Let go of rules for a day.
If you've spent years in "diet" mode, you might not even remember what it feels like to tune into your body instead of obsessing over charts. When you let go of the rules, what happens? What does your body crave and what is your mind telling you that you "should" eat?
2. Experiment with new foods.
Sometimes the foods we've been telling ourselves is best for our body isn't the whole picture. Branch out and try something new. You might find yourself opening up to a whole new way of viewing your nutrition and healthy eating path.
3. Do a Wellness 360 check.
Take a look at the Wellness 360 wheel and think about how other elements in the wheel might be impacting what you're eating. Is stress in other parts of your life causing you to feel cravings for unhealthy foods? Do you find that you are emotionally eating or undereating? What other things do you need to take care of so you can eat with more intention and balance again?
This can be simple and non-scientific. Just briefly write down what you ate, how it made you feel, and any cravings you might have had. After a while, you'll be able to notice a pattern and make some changes based on what you see.
IAWP Certified Wellness Coach Danielle Luipersbeck recommends logging your food choices to keep you mindful and on track. "Many times we eat mindlessly during the day while doing other activities. We don't even realize when we've consumed calories and we end up stepping on the scale wondering where it all went wrong. You may find through your logs that late night snacking is your biggest challenge. When you understand your trigger areas, you can better address one behavior at a time." Danielle teaches her Wellness Coaching clients to be mindful about food using Wellness 360 to help guide them.
The journey toward healthy eating isn't a simple overnight experience. Part of tuning into your body is the understanding that you'll need to make changes throughout your lifetime. What works now may not be what your body needs in the future. The practice of balancing your Food element is a lifelong process.
Begin to see your body as your friend and to work collaboratively with it to achieve the wellness you deserve. When working with clients, it's transformative to help them learn to tune in, listen, and adjust as needed.
Are you ready to help others transform their relationships with food? Learn more about becoming an IAWP Holistic Health & Wellness Coach by clicking here.


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#4 Defenseman - UC Irvine
Hometown: Pleasanton, CA
High School: Foothill
Eligibility: Sophomore
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02/18/2012 Occidental L 6-8 6 0 0 0 0
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Q: Smallest substring consisting of maximum distinct characters of a String Given a string, I need to find the smallest substring that contains all unique characters in the string. Here are three examples:
Input: "AABBBCBB"    Shortest substring: "ABBBC"
Input: "AABBBCBBAC", Shortest substring: "BAC"
Input: "aabcaadcc",  Shortest substring: "bcaad"

The unique characters in the first substring are 'A', 'B' and 'C'. The substrings that contain those characters are 'AABBBC', 'AABBBCB', 'AABBBCBB', 'ABBBC', 'ABBBCB' and 'ABBBCBB'. The shortest of these is 'ABBBC'. If there are two or more shortest substrings any one can be returned.

A: Code
def doit(str)
  uniq_chars = str.each_char.uniq
  nbr_uniq_chars = uniq_chars.size
  last_idx = str.size - 1
  shortest = { idx: 0, size: str.size }
  last_start_idx = last_idx - nbr_uniq_chars + 1
  (0..last_start_idx).each do |start_idx|
    first_end_idx = start_idx + nbr_uniq_chars - 1
    last_end_idx = start_idx + shortest[:size] - 1
    (first_end_idx..last_end_idx).each do |end_idx|
      if (uniq_chars - str[start_idx..end_idx].chars).empty?
        shortest = { idx: start_idx,
                     size: end_idx - start_idx + 1 }
        break
      end
    end
  end
  str[shortest[:idx], shortest[:size]]
end

Examples
doit "AABBBCBB"   #=> "ABBBC"
doit "AABBBCBBAC" #=> "BAC"
doit "aabcaadcc"  #=> "bcaad"

Explanation
Suppose:
str = "AABBBCBB"

The steps are as follows.
uniq_chars = str.each_char.uniq
  #=> ["A", "B", "C"]
nbr_uniq_chars = uniq_chars.size
  #=> 3
last_idx = str.size - 1
  #=> 7
shortest = { idx: 0, size: str.size }
  #=> {:idx=>0, :size=>8}

shortest describes the shortest subtring found so far. It is the substring
str[shortest[:idx], shortest[:size]]

Initially it describes the entire string. Continuing,
last_start_idx = last_idx - nbr_uniq_chars + 1
  #=> 5

I will be fixing the starting index, start_idx, initially at zero, and then consider all substrings that begin with that index. There is no reason to consider start_idx > last_idx as in that case str[start_idx..-1].size < nbr_uniq_chars, and therefore is not a possibility.
enum1 = (0..last_start_idx).each
  #=> #<Enumerator: 0..5:each>
start_idx = enum1.next
  #=> 0
first_end_idx = start_idx + nbr_uniq_chars - 1
  #=> 3
last_end_idx = start_idx + shortest[:size] - 1
  #=> 7

enum2 = (first_end_idx..last_end_idx).each
  #=> #<Enumerator: 3..4:each>
end_idx = enum2.next
  #=> 2
a = str[start_idx..end_idx].chars
  #=> str[0..2].chars
  #=> ["A", "A", "B"]
b = uniq_chars - a
  #=> ["A", "B", "C"] - ["A", "A", "B"]
  #=> ["C"]
b.empty?
  #=> false, so do not update `shortest`

end_idx = enum2.next
  #=> 3
a = str[start_idx..end_idx].chars
  #=> ["A", "A", "B", "B"]
b = uniq_chars - a
  #=> ["C"]
b.empty?
  #=> false, so do not update `shortest`

end_idx = enum2.next
  #=> 4
a = str[start_idx..end_idx].chars
  #=> ["A", "A", "B", "B", "B"]
b = uniq_chars - a
  #=> ["C"]
b.empty?
  #=> false, so do not update `shortest`

end_idx = enum2.next
  #=> 5
a = str[start_idx..end_idx].chars
  #=> ["A", "A", "B", "B", "B", "C"]
b = uniq_chars - a
  #=> []
b.empty?
  #=> true

We now have found a substring that contains all unique characters in the string, but more than that we know that it is shorter than the previous shortest substring. (No need to test!) Therefore, we update shortest:
shortest = { idx: start_idx, size: end_idx - start_idx + 1 }
  #=> {:idx=>0, :size=>6}

which describes the substring:
str[shortest[:idx], shortest[:size]]
  #=> "AABBBC"

We no longer need to execute end_idx = enum2.next for this value of start_idx because we know that the associated substring would begin with the string just identified, and therefore would have all unique characters in str but would be longer than the substring just found. We therefore execute:
break

terminating the inner loop. The next step is to generate the second element of enum1 and go from there:
start_idx = enum1.next
  #=> 1
first_end_idx = start_idx + nbr_uniq_chars - 1
  #=> 3
last_end_idx = start_idx + shortest[:size] - 1
  #=> 6

This will result in shortest being updated (for the last time) to:
shortest
  #=> { idx: 1, size: 5 }

The remaining calculations are similar.

A: I have solved this algoritm with below approach.
def max_distinct_char(str)
  str.chars.uniq.count
end

def smallest_subset_str(str)
  str_length = str.length
  max_distinct = max_distinct_char(str)

  min_str_len = str_length

  for j in (0..str_length)
    for k in (0..str_length)
      sub_str = str[j..k]
      sub_str_length = sub_str.length
      sub_distinct_char_length = max_distinct_char(sub_str)

      if (sub_str_length < min_str_len && max_distinct == sub_distinct_char_length)
        min_str_len = sub_str_length
        sub_string = sub_str
      end
    end
  end
  sub_string
end

Using the above methods, we can get results as
smallest_subset_str "AABBBCBB"   #=> "ABBBC"
smallest_subset_str "AABBBCBBAC" #=> "BAC"
smallest_subset_str "aabcaadcc"  #=> "bcaad"

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>Update 2009-01-01: The first refactoring is done and attached to bug 259853. There is still more to do to break up some overly long methods, but it is now easier to test the various pieces.
I have been working on some refactoring of the current XML formatter code. It's taking a while to break up a roughly 2000 long line Class, but it's going well. The reason for the DOH moment was when I started running into having to apply the "Replace method with Method Object" refactoring on some of the various format methods in the code. I started getting away from running the unit tests and just kept doing the Replace Methods to get things to compile. I had been working on this for a day and half, and hadn't run the tests. As I was getting compilation errors, and figured I needed to clean that up. I eventually, realized, that even if I did get all the compilation errors cleaned up I would have no clue as to where any unit test failures would have occurred.
So, I scrapped everything, and replace my content with the last known time I had run the unit tests again, and proceeded again. It's a good thing too…as soon as I did the first Replace Method with Method Object refactoring an ran the tests, they failed. I had forgotten to make sure that the Preference settings that had been set earlier were passed to the new method object. So I fixed that, and all the current tests passed. Since I hadn't even run the tests before doing these type of refactorings and I had done many of these in a day without running tests, it would have been a night mare trying to figure out what wasn't working.
Moral #1: Fudge tastes good while you are eating it, but it makes you fat, slow, and dumb.
Moral #2: Eat the damned dog food. It'll save your posterior from your own maladroit decisions.
Particularly, I agree with Moral #2, use what you write in your day job. Ideally, if you work on an editor use that editor in your day job. You are more likely to fix things sooner if you are directly affected by it. It's why XSL Tools has become my primary XSLT Editor, it forces me to address the issues that affect my own use everyday. It's why JDT is such a good editor for Java development in eclipse. The JDT team uses it themselves to develop eclipse. The same goes for PDE.
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Dave Grohl May Release Nirvana Rock Hall After Party Show
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At Nirvana's 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, the band's surviving members -- Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, along with Pat Smear -- reunited to perform the songs of their old band. Joined by Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Joan Jett and Lorde, they ran through a four song set at the induction ceremony.
Grohl, Novoselic and Smear played an unannounced gig at Brooklyn club St. Vitus, where they were joined by Jett, Clark, Gordon along with J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. and John McCauley of Deer Tick. Grohl tells Rolling Stone that it may see the light of day.
"When we realized that we were going to do it, I just called the people from my production company and said, 'We need to film this,' and we loaded some cameras in there and and shot it without knowing what would ever come of it. But it would be a shame for that evening to be only a memory and and we've got it. And it was fucking great," said Grohl.
He continues, "It was cathartic and everybody involved, I think, understood that they were part of something like a dream ... I remember playing and looking and seeing Carrie Brownstein in the front row in the pit singing along to every song and, you know, getting to play drums behind Joan Jett or, god, playing 'School' or fucking 'Pennyroyal Tea' with J Mascis. It really was amazing. It was something else. Someday, I'm sure everybody'll see it."
Grohl, meanwhile, has his hands full with Foo Fighters. The band's North American tour dates pick up again right after the holiday, with the band playing Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md. this Friday (July 6). See all their dates here.
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1) We're There – Till The Job Is Done!
Some removals companies finish their working day at 5.30pm. If your home removal runs by that time, they will stay till the job is done – but they're on the clock from then on at between £45 & £75 – per hour. That's a lot of pounds – for who knows how many hours.
With Falkirk Van Hire & Removals, we understand that delays can and do sometimes happen – keys don't always arrive on time or access to your new property isn't always immediately available for whatever reason – or some other unforeseen circumstance prevents you from moving earlier than you would have liked.
With us though, you can rest assured that you will never pay a penny over your original quote – regardless of how long the guys are with you.
Falkirk Van Hire & Removals is one of only 4 professional, well established removal companies in the Falkirk area. With over a decade of unrivalled quality of service in Falkirk, if you book your move with us, it might as well be set in stone.
Every weekend, without fail, we get phone calls from not too happy individuals who are sitting waiting on moving day, on a removals company that has no intention of showing up.
Frantically, once they realise they've been had, they then begin searching Google to find any one of the local moving firms to come and save the day.
Well, usually it's because a customer has been duped or lured by an unbeatable quote somewhere online and of course, assuming they've bagged themselves a fantastic deal, went ahead and booked their home or office removal "removals company" based solely on the quote.
The usual culprits operate from Gumtree Ads, The Anyvan Website or a Facebook page with no website linked to it.
There is so much competition for removals work these days that everyone is under quoting everyone else so margins are slim to begin with.
But the 3 main reasons are these.
1) Drivers aren't motivated by hard work just for a few extra quid at the weekend, so sometimes they just decide it's not worth it and don't even bother.
2) They get a better offer elsewhere for that day so your job hits the back burner on the off chance they get to it later.
3) They've taken in too much for that day and realised they can't cope with the workload, so just serve the easiest ones.
This is the problem with unbeatably low online quotes these days, they're ten a penny. Some drivers use them for easy weekend drinking money and others just decide on the day whether or not they'll show up.
If they're only making buttons for the work they do, then they won't take your job seriously. We see it all the time.
Remember, your life possessions will be travelling from A to B in the back of a vehicle – with a reliable well established firm like Falkirk Van Hire & Removals though, you know you're home or office removal is good to go from the minute to book your move with us with a quality of service unrivalled anywhere in Falkirk.
All home removals are similar but no two are the same and we understand that your home removal also, is unique to you and your requirements on moving day.
With Falkirk Van Hire & Removals you can be sure that our guys will undertake your home move with a friendly reassuring approach – working to accommodate any special needs or conditions you might have whilst moving home.
With us, we're not just there to get to the end of the job, we're there to offer you a seamless, stress free service that you would be comfortable recommending to friends and family.
they know the industry and they understand the needs and requirements of our customers.
You can be sure that when booking your move with us, you can expect careful, considerate and fully trained porters to show up on moving day and you'll be served by one of the oldest and most trusted removal companies in the Falkirk area.
Of course like any legitimate business, we do have proper insurances in place. We carry goods in transit insurance to the value of £10,000 & public liability to the tune or £4,000,000.
We're yet to break a teacup – but it's always reassuring to know that your property is fully protected against accidental loss or damage – just incase.
Our prices are the cheapest – only because we're the busiest. Some other companies love to claim they're the leading firm locally – just because they're bigger, but when it comes down to it, we like to let the numbers speak for themselves.
It's very rare to see any of our vans sitting idle in the yard during working hours.
If leading means bigger then maybe so, but if leading actually means quality of service and a commitment to customer satisfaction then we would probably argue the point.
So there you have it. 6 Solid Reasons Why choosing us for your home removal makes perfect sense. If you would like to book your move with us, feel free to give us a call on 07845 296257 for a friendly no obligation quote.
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Top Five Vegan Easter Eggs | Viva!
As veganism popularises, cruelty free Easter eggs are taking off, so we have reviewed five of the eggs we stock at our Viva! Shop.
Review: These soft-centred little eggs are handmade and filled with a sweet vegan caramel that makes each small egg a big treat. You get 8 caramel filled Easter eggs in each 80g box. I absolutely loved them and had to share them with my friends so they placed their orders, in time for Easter.
Review: Each of these eggs comes in a differently decorated metal case that you can of course keep! I'm going to re-use mine and fill it with more treats for my vegan nieces Easter egg hunt. The salt to toffee ratio is perfect. If you haven't tried a salted chocolate before, I highly recommend you do. It's a tantalising taste.
Review: You may remember the dairy-based orange chocolate which I refuse to indirectly promote…hint, it broke up into segments. Well, this is better. Not only is it cruelty free but it is a light chocolate, with a rich orange flavour that melts in your mouth, and I couldn't stop eating it.
Review: The word fondant made me extra eager to get into the packaging – so much so, I was tearing the box open with my teeth. Shock horror, our canines tear through paper! Once I was in, I wasn't disappointed. The texture and taste contrast of the rich dark chocolate to the creamy smooth centre was a delicious drippy surprise that works perfectly.
Review: Peanut butter mini eggs! I was sold by the idea of these eggs alone. They have a reasonably firm chocolate shell and then your teeth sink into a softer and somewhat crumbly centre. If you are a peanut butter fan, then these are for you. Be warned, they are mightily moreish!
The list of Easter treats you can get from Viva shop doesn't stop here. For more scrummy Easter goodies, visit the Viva! Shop and browse our full range. Happy Easter everyone!
Claire is founder of Grow Up Vegan a platform made to inspire everyone and to encourage the younger generation to - Grow Up Vegan! She is our blog writer and creative content creator here at Viva!. Having an extensive background within the vegan community, and being vegan for over a decade, she began her journalism and creative career by writing for a popular well-being company as their 'vegan expert'. Claire now works closely with vegan charities, businesses and activists to spread the vegan message far and wide.


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Q: Undeclared query parameters @DS_START_DATE bigquery So, I have been trying to set parameters @DS_START_DATE and @DS_END_DATE to filter some data in Data Studio. The idea is to compare the year of a transaction with the year of the date selected by the parameter and create a column that saves the value of another one by using a CASE WHEN clause. The query extract goes as follows:
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THEN VlrBruto ELSE 0 END AS VlrBruto_Actual,
CASE WHEN EXTRACT(YEAR FROM fechaTransaccion) =  EXTRACT(YEAR FROM CAST(@DS_START_DATE AS DATE))
THEN VlrBruto ELSE 0 END AS VlrBruto_Anterior

I have tried adding a date filter on my data studio report and have already activated date parameters while doing the personalized consult and still is not working. When running the query in bigquery there's a box that says "Undeclared Query Parameters". While running in data studio the prompt says "unexpected consult error".
Any ideas how to solve it?
Thanks in advance

A: If you are using the BQ UI, it will not work, since it does not support parameterized queries.
If you are not using the BQ UI, have you declared and set the variables with the statements DECLARE and SET?
You can also look here for more info: Parameterized queries

A: Try using:
EXTRACT(YEAR FROM PARSE_DATE('%Y%m%d', @DS_END_DATE))

instead of
# EXTRACT(YEAR FROM CAST(@DS_END_DATE AS DATE))


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Prismata Ranked Play: The Final Stretch (part 2 of 2) 1
This entry was posted in Insight News Origins on June 2, 2016 by Elyot Grant
In my last post, I discussed how it's essential that we lock down a number of core Prismata unit designs for the purposes of developing our single player content, and called out to everyone in our community to help point out any remaining sore points in unit design that are deserving of our attention. The response was great, and a ton of suggestions popped up in our inbox.
Most of the discussion thus far has focused on a small set of 5-10 units. In many cases, these were units that we already had an eye on; nevertheless, hearing the community's input is very important as we decide which actions to take.
You can read many of my responses regarding specific units in this reddit thread, which contains dozens of posts on the topic. (I will be continuing to monitor and respond to this and other threads on the Prismata subreddit if you have anything to add.)
Today, I want to discuss a different facet of ranked play balance—all of the other Prismata gameplay aspects we've been investigating, beyond individual unit designs.
This post contains an announcement that may have some big implications for ranked play!
All will be explained today.
Casual Match, and what it means for Ranked Play
Currently, if you want to play a match-made Prismata game against another human, the Ranked Play tab is the only way to do so (outside of events). As we enter beta, this will be changing as we enable a new mode called Casual Match:
Casual Match will be a beginner-friendly mode that de-emphasizes ratings and rankings in favour of fun and interesting games aimed at newer players or those wanting a more chilled-out Prismata experience.
We're still ironing out all of the details (like which modes will be available, how events will be integrated, and so on), but here are some core features:
Matchmaking based on level, ranked tier, and other factors aimed at pairing newer players up with each other.
Smart unit selection so that newer players are exposed to more units as they unlock more blueprints.
A consolidated and simplified list of modes (perhaps featuring an event-of-the-day or something of that nature, still TBD).
A variety of bot personalities available as optional opponents.
We'll be releasing more info on Casual Match closer to its launch, but for our purposes today, it suffices to know the following: Casual Match will be designed to meet the needs of all newer Prismata players and those looking for a less serious game. Accordingly, we'll be able to focus on making Ranked Play offer one single thing: the most competitive Prismata experience possible.
Our philosophy toward Ranked Play
Prismata was, from the ground up, designed to be the ultimate competitive 1v1 strategy game. In this manner, it actually stands out among multiplayer titles—the vast majority of major multiplayer games in recent years have shifted away from competitive 1v1 and focused more on team-based and casual modes. There are a number of reasons for this (many of them relating to various unfortunate trends in free-to-play monetization), but regardless, we're happy to fill the void. We want our Ranked Play mode to be fiercely competitive. End of story.
That's a big part of why balance is so important to us. And with Casual Match satiating the needs of newer players or those wanting a break from competitive Prismata, we'll be looking to make whatever changes we can to Ranked Play to help balance the game.
The big balance patch in February actually got us pretty far in terms of fixing lingering unit imbalances. There aren't too many individual units that are leading to serious player advantage or large numbers of complaints from the community. However, after fixing the outliers in unit balance, we still feel that there are a few more small things that can be done.
The February 2016 balance patch contained a huge number of influential unit changes.
Can Ranked Play balance be improved further?
Unit rebalancing has helped us a great deal, but there have always been a few tiny systemic imbalances in Prismata. Chief among them are the following:
Player 2 still has a small winrate advantage at high ratings—since the last patch in February, the p1/p2/draw statistics are currently at 48.6% / 50.8% / 0.6% in games where both players are rated 1800 or higher. The exact number is much closer to 50/50 at lower ratings, and it tends to shift around a little bit as we make adjustments to individual units, but I don't ever recall a time when player 1 had more than 49% overall equity.
By analyzing thousands of replays, we can observe some trends in when players are winning—for example, a tiny uptick in player 1 winrates in games where players both play DDE on turn 2, or in games where both players buy certain key units like Defense Grid.
We often receive complaints about perceived imbalances in openings (e.g. those involving turn 2 Conduit or Animus favouring player 2), or the fact that player 2 effectively gets an extra Drone supply (a maximum of 27 instead of 26 Drones).
In some cases, it's not even really possible to prove or disprove the assertion that these factors lead to genuine balance problems. After all, there's no way to truly check whether p1 could have won if they had an extra Drone supply. Observational statistics can only tell us so much.
Moreover, it's not even clear that these addressing these imbalances would improve gameplay. One of the benefits of Prismata's asymmetrical starting positions is that they often lead to tech, econ, and build order diversity. Trying to "flatten out" all the little combinatorial bumps in the opening can reduce this effect, potentially leading to more "mirror games" where both players make the same tech purchases and unit choices.
We've had a large number of internal discussions (for years, in fact), about what version of Prismata might be the "most ideal" in terms of balance. There was actually a long period of Prismata's history where Conduit was priced at 5, and there was also quite a bit of experimenting done with a starting position in which both players began the game with 1 gold in the bank. Of course, neither of these changes ended up sticking, but we had no way of knowing whether or not they were beneficial (for two reasons: we didn't have a large enough community to gather any meaningful statistics to evaluate our success, and Prismata was still full of absurdly imbalanced units so the statistics would have been meaningless anyway.) Lacking any evidence-based reason to favour a 1-gold-in-the-bank starting position over the existing one, we defaulted to the simpler and more elegant option.
Of course, our experience has taught us that options like those described above would likely be too drastic, and would also force us to rebalance a lot of units! However, there are other, much milder options. One example is the following:
Possible, but unlikely change to Prismata's rules: Give player 1 an extra gold on turn 10 (and adjust the value of "10" to be smaller or larger until a 50/50 winrate is achieved).
Such a change would undoubtedly bring the winrate closer to 50/50. Whether or not it would improve the enjoyability of competitive Prismata is a different matter, but it seems that we're approaching the best possible time to conduct experiments on changes like these (with a sufficiently balanced unit pool to facilitate the collection of meaningful statistics, an engaged community to provide a subjective opinion, and casual match launching soon.)
This is where Vendium Scrap comes in…
Ideas to improve balance
Over the years, we've probably considered hundreds of changes to Prismata's Ranked Play ruleset for balance purposes. Here are some of them:
Pre-game phases? – NO.
We spent a lot of time in 2014 toying around with the idea of a "pre-game phase" where players could draft units or participate in an auction for choice of whether play first (using time or delayed gold as currency). We discarded the "pre-game" idea for a number of reasons: we didn't want to interrupt the flow of gameplay too much, and we didn't want "guessing which side is more favoured" to be a large part of the required Prismata skillset. However, you'll be seeing a pre-game phase appear in Raids when we start releasing PvE content. More on that in future months.
Adjusting Drone supply – MAYBE.
We're not convinced that it would do much to affect win rates or other measurable balance statistics, but we're open to the idea of giving player 2 one fewer unbought Drone than player 1 (i.e. 19 initial Drones in player 2's unit supply). Simply improving the perception of Ranked Play fairness is a good enough reason. Expect to see us experiment with it in the Prismata alpha soon.
Moving Base + 5 out of ranked? – POSSIBLY.
We've seen some statistical evidence that games involving larger numbers of Prismata units are more balanced—for example, there are many units that grow less p1-favoured or p2-favoured as the number of second-tab units increases. However, a number of players enjoy base + 5 games, so we're not too keen on forcing these players into unranked queues. We'll be asking about this in an upcoming survey.
Add Doomed Drone to the base set? – NO.
Another frequent suggestion we receive is to add more units to the Prismata base set. A common favourite is Doomed Drone—many players have suggested that the unit's presence helps to balance openings. We could add it to the base set (it would only involve a small amount of UI rearranging so that a 12th unit would fit in the column of purchasable units), but unfortunately, our statistics tell us that games involving Doomed Drone are no better balance-wise than games without it.
Create a completely new purchasable base set unit? – NOT QUITE.
We've also examined the possibility of adding a completely new unit to the Prismata base set. In fact, in late 2010 and much of 2011, Prismata actually had a third colourless unit in the base set beyond Drone and Engineer. The third unit was called a "Totem" and had various ways of comboing with other units to confer economic benefits.
Ancient units from a 2010-era Prismata set in which there were 3 colourless base set units. At the time, we prototyped everything using a tool called Magic Workstation. And Drones were 2E.
Totems provided some interesting ways to manipulate resources, but were eventually deemed unnecessary and their functionality was merged into that of Engineer. (There is a long story there… initially Engineer just had a "click, pay 3, construct a Drone" ability, then Energy became a resource, Energy's role slowly expanded, and Totems were eliminated when Engineers were eventually given the ability to block).
Nevertheless, we've long wondered if we could introduce a new unit (or click ability on Engineer) that could help smooth out Prismata's openings. Members of Prismata's community have even come up with suggestions, and a particular post by Aetherllama received a lot of attention last year. Back then, I mentioned that we'd be reconsidering the idea at a later time after achieving better unit balancing, and now is roughly the time.
That said, the idea of adding a 12th purchasable base set unit always seemed like overkill compared to a simple idea like "give player 1 an extra gold on turn 10". We spent a lot of time looking for something in between.
Change the initial starting position in Ranked 1v1? – POSSIBLY.
The ideas that we spent the most time mulling over were all of the form "what if one or both players started with X", where X was some kind of alternate Drone, one-time-use trinket, or other bonus. Such ideas have one great benefit—we don't need to devote an additional slot in the buy box to a new unit. In most cases, they also keep the Prismata gamestate relatively clean.
Other games have taken this approach, notably Hearthstone with its coin item.
Hearthstone developers addressed player advantage in their game by giving player 2 a "Coin".
Adjusting Prismata's starting position isn't out of the question, but we have to tread very carefully. We don't want to completely disrupt existing Prismata openings, introduce new problems, or overcompensate for existing balance issues (which are actually much smaller in magnitude than those that prompted Hearthstone developers to create the Coin). The status quo is already quite good—comparing Prismata's balance to the 55/45 bottom vs top winrate among top teams in season 4 of League of Legends, it feels like simply doing nothing is a totally viable option.
Time for an experiment?
After mulling over the idea for a while, we resolved to give it a shot. The plan: create a supplementary unit whose presence would result in a gentle adjustment in some of the situations where balance improvements felt possible. If we could find something promising, we'd show it to the community. If it was met with approval, we'd try it in Ranked Play on the Prismata alpha server. If the community liked it and the statistics showed favourable changes in balance, we'd consider keeping it.
Dozens of ideas presented themselves, and we spent a lot of time doing playtesting, theorycrafting, and consulting top Prismata players. Fortunately, we succeeded in step 1: finding something promising.
Alas, after months of experimentation, based on years of internal brainstorming/community suggestions/prior work, we present this:
Coming soon to the Prismata alpha ladder for a trial run…? Maybe.
V is for Vendium Scrap
If you've participated in the last few Prismata events, you'll recognize the Vendium Scrap (we were testing it out!) The proposal we're now considering is whether it (or a variation thereof) should be added to every match in Prismata's Ranked Play mode. Permanently.
The idea behind Vendium is simple: both players start with a Vendium Scrap as part of their initial forces (alongside Drones and Engineers). That's it. No new units in the buybox. Just an optional one-time-use ability to trade 2 gold for a very slow-building Drone. Here's what the start of a Prismata match looks like with Vendium Scrap enabled:
The lifespan value of the initial Vendium Scrap is still up for debate, as are a few other attributes.
At first, Vendium Scrap looks terrible. Unclickable. Impossibly weak.
Indeed, the ability is pretty lousy in the vast majority of situations (2 gold is almost always worth more than a Drone that doesn't arrive for 3 turns). However, in situations where you would otherwise be storing that 2 gold in the bank for a few turns, Vendium Scrap can sometimes generate a small amount of value.
Accordingly, if you're playing with Vendium Scrap and want a genuinely good rule of thumb concerning when to click it, just do the following: click it if and only if you would otherwise be leaving 2 or more unspent gold in the bank with no good plan to use it next turn.
In internal testing, Vendium Scrap excelled at doing a few key things (here V means "click Vendium Scrap"):
The unit provides player 1 with a weak-but-sometimes-playable option of opening DD/DDV, which can be useful with DDC or AC follow-ups in situations where player 2 has a strong DD/DDC opening, but DD/DC or DD/CC are not playable for player 1.
The unit provides player 2 with a weak-but-sometimes-playable DD/DDEV opening that strengthens player 2's position in high-econ games where Conduits are weak.
Of course, it's not a silver bullet for every Prismata balance problem. But it takes aim at the most egregious issues that we often receive complaints about, and felt great in test games. The fact that we're even considering adding it to Ranked Play is a testament to how well it actually works.
Vendium can now be used in private games!
In today's new Prismata patch, we've added an option to enable the Vendium Scrap in vs Computer and vs Friend modes. It looks like this:
The bots haven't yet been taught how to use the unit, so don't be surprised if they do a few silly things with it. It's mostly just there for testing openings and experimenting.
We also decided to make "V" an official key binding for the unit:
Vendium in Ranked Play?
As for Ranked Play, we're looking forward to conducting an experiment involving Vendium Scrap next week. More info to follow.
There are still a few unknowns, including:
Should Vendium be clickable on turn 1? We could give the Scrap a turn of buildtime if, e.g. we see an undesirable uptick in p2 winrates in games involving Wild Drone when Vendium Scrap is added.
Should Vendium be clickable multiple times? This is available as a potential balancing knob, as testing revealed a number of p2 openings in which it might be desirable to use Vendium Scrap on both turns 2 and 3. Should DD/DDEV/DDDV be allowed? We'll be looking to the stats for an answer to this one.
What about other variations? We also considered a Vendium Scrap that gave 4 gold instead of a Drone, or gave 3 gold in 2 turns instead of a Drone in 3 turns (which is quite close to what Aetherllama suggested last year). We're happiest with the Drone version for now, but we could change our mind.
One more thing: the name "Vendium Scrap" is not necessarily final; in particular, we'll likely change the unit's name and flavour if it becomes clickable multiple times. But that's where we're at for now.
That's everything… I think…
Apologies for the long article; it turns out that there was a lot to cover, which is why this article ended up being split into two parts. This is a big decision for us, so I really want to give a solid explanation of our motivations to help bring the community on board with our thought process. We'll be soliciting a ton of feedback.
On that note, I must go for now, lest blogging consume all my work hours. More blogs/vlogs and a few buff/nerf announcements coming in the next couple of days.
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Have you encountered problems with your computer freezing upon logging in since you installed the Windows 10 Anniversary Update? If so, you're not alone. And while there's no proper fix for the issue yet, Microsoft is aware of the problem and is addressing it.
According to a thread started by a Microsoft rep and posted on the company's discussion forums, the freezing issue occurs on machines "with the operating system stored on a solid-state drive (SSD) and apps and data stored on a separate drive." The issue does not present itself when you boot your PC into Safe Mode.
The freezing issue became apparent shortly after Microsoft released the Windows 10 Anniversary Update at the beginning of this month. Neowin first reported on this issue August 6 and pointed to a Reddit thread that had over 600 comments from users who encountered the freezes. That thread now has 865 comments as of this writing.
Although Microsoft is looking into what's causing this freeze-inducing bug, it doesn't have a patch yet. In the meantime, you can roll back to an earlier build of Windows 10 as a workaround, the company notes.
To do so, restart or turn on your PC. Then, when you get to the login screen, hold down the shift key while clicking the onscreen Power button and selecting Restart. Upon restarting, Select Troubleshoot, then Advanced Options, then Go back to the previous build. For full instructions, and for further updates on this issue, visit the thread on the Microsoft Community discussion forums.


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Title: The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze
Running Time: 1: 33
"Oh, boy! We're going around the world on our wits!" "With your wits, you won't get past the front door."
Phileas Fogg III, great-grandson of the original Phileas Fogg, accepts a bet to duplicate his great grandfather's famous trip around the world in response to a challenge made by Randolph Stuart III, the descendant of the original Fogg's nemesis. However, "Stuart" is the infamous con man Vicker Cavendish who made the bet in order to cover up his robbing the bank of England by framing Fogg for the crime.
This makes for a dangerous journey for Fogg and his servants (The Stooges) and Amelia Carter, whom they rescue from thugs during a train ride. Can they make it back to England in time?
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The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze Trivia
Many Stooge bits are replayed throughout this film, most famously the maharajah routine performed by Curly Joe (first seen in Three Little Pirates) and Curly Joe gaining strength when he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel" (first seen in Punch Drunks)
The film had multiple working titles, including The Three Stooges Go Around the World on Eighty Cents; The Three Stooges Circle the World on Ninety-Nine Cents; The Three Stooges Meet Phileas Fogg and Merry Go Round the World
The story incorporates several popular Stooges bits from prior films, including "the Maharajah" routine, and reworking the plot of Punch Drunks (1934), with Curly Joe turning into a fighting whirlwind everytime he hears the tune Pop Goes the Weasel.
Filming occurred over 13 days between May 9-27, 1963
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"Trying to play freely," Richards said. "Trying to play without a conscious. And, hopefully, you see the results that happen on the court."
The results were impossible to miss.
Tyler Herro has struck up a friendship with ex-Cats star Rex Chapman. Herro's play in his UK debut Wednesday drew comparisons to Chapman.
"Oh wow," UK Coach John Calipari said when asked about Richards' performance.
Calipari and Richards cited sports psychologist Bob Rotella as a difference-maker in the startling improvement on display. Richards said he speaks to Rotella at least once a week for a half hour or more. Rotella emphasizes the positive, said Richards, who acknowledged how he "really needed" to hear an upbeat message.
"Family members told me it looked like I wasn't having any fun out there," Richards said of last season. "It looked like I wasn't really into the game as much as I was."
When Richards watched video of his play last season, he could not dispute what his family said.
"It looked like I wasn't really excited to play basketball," he said. "Right now, I'm just happy to come back on the court."
As a native of Jamaica, it helped to be playing against another Caribbean nation, Richards said.
"I represented them today," he said of his fellow Jamaicans. "Not wearing the name on my chest, but just being a Jamaican."
Calipari advised Richards to move beyond last season. "I keep saying if things don't go well, it's not last year," the UK coach said. "You're way better."
Meanwhile, the veteran big man expected to make a difference struggled to find his basketball sea legs. Reid Travis, the graduate transfer from Stanford looked like a player still getting accustomed to new teammates and a new setting. He made two of nine shots and had almost as many turnovers (three) as points (four).
"I even said to Reid, 'Reid, it was like you were a freshman,'" Calipari said. "First time out. You can't believe this environment. But, I said, 'You're going to be fine.'"
Calipari corrected a reporter who suggested Travis looked uncomfortable.
John Calipari said it is premature, at best, to ponder reforms NCAA announced Wednesday.
"He didn't look uncomfortable all the time," Calipari said. "He went and got rebounds."
Travis had 14 rebounds.
Calipari faulted the way Travis prepared to shoot after receiving an entry pass in the post.
"Get it and get to the rim," Calipari said. "He was bringing it down and crouching. Then they're whacking (at the ball)."
Kentucky led 42-35 at halftime. The game's opening five minutes made such a competitive score seem unlikely.
Led by Richards, Kentucky roared to a 13-0 lead.
Richards, who faded down the stretch of last season, was active. He scored 10 points inside the first six minutes.
An ambivalent post player last season, Richards dominated the Bahamas Select Team from the post early. His 10 quick points included two post-up moves, plus two free throws produced by a post move. He also hit a soft jumper from the baseline en route to a team-high 15 points in the first half.
The Bahamas Select Team did not meekly submit. Three times down the stretch of the first half, the UK lead was reduced to two points. With three seconds left, Samuel Hunter drew a technical foul for shoving PJ Washington.
A free throw by Washington and two technical free throws by Tyler Herro set the halftime score.
Kentucky started five different players in the second half: EJ Montgomery, Ashton Hagans, Keldon Johnson , Herro and Travis.
The Bahamas Select Team got the best of this fivesome, scoring the first seven points. A layup by Jaraun Burrows put UK behind 44-43 with 16:44 left. That was UK's first deficit.
Less than a minute later, Herro drove to a basket and Kentucky did not trail again.
UK's defense — and an opponent's carelessness — helped restore a double-digit lead. The Bahamas Select Team committed four straight turnovers in one stretch.
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New Queensland rugby league hero Ethan Lowe says he doesn't have anything to prove against his former club this week, as he's already done that in his memorable Origin debut.
A 2015 premiership-winner with North Queensland, back-rower Lowe played 108 games in six seasons with the Cowboys before being granted an immediate release to join Souths back in February.
Lowe was demoted to the Queensland Cup for part of last season and felt he didn't fit into the Cowboys plans for 2019 and was happy to grab the chance offered by the Rabbitohs.
He played in a winning Rabbitohs side over the Cowboys in Magic Round in May and was adamant he had nothing to prove on Saturday in his first game back in Townsville on Saturday.
"I feel like if anything I proved my point of what I'm capable of on (last) Wednesday, and that's where I'm going to leave it," Lowe said.
Originally the Maroons' 18th man for last week's Origin decider, Lowe covered himself in glory after he was promoted to the starting side when Matt Gillett was ruled out.
He played the full 80 minutes, running 90m and making 52 tackles and kicking all four of his shots for goal as well as making a vital charge down that helped level the match.
'I didn't think confidence was something I really took out of it. I think I always had the faith and the belief that I was able to do that at that level and now that I've been able to prove it," Lowe said
A sore Lowe was rested from last weekend's 's win over Manly but will be back this weekend.
Souths will again be without inspirational captain and forward leader Sam Burgess.
Lowe said it would need a combined effort to get on top of a Cowboys pack spearheaded by his Maroons teammate Josh McGuire and the formidable Jason Taumalolo.
'We're going to have to work as a team to defend them, especially big Jason," Lowe said.
"He can beat you a lot of ways, go one out on you, so we're going to have work well together on those two guys especially."
Lowe copped some stick from his Rabbitohs teammates after his titanic effort in a losing Queensland side but had the perfect riposte to some sledging from halfback Adam Reynolds.
"I just let him know that I've kicked more goals than him in Origin, that shuts him up a little bit," said Lowe, referring to Reynolds' six points from two Origin appearances for NSW in 2016.
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Iranian soldiers in Tehran, Iran, on December 5, 2020.
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Iran has spent the last few years luring several dissidents that were being being protected by Western governments into locations where they could be kidnapped or killed.
Several security officials told Insider the cases will make it harder for Iran to negotiate with the US over its nuclear program during Joe Biden's presidency.
Iran executed Ruhollah Zam, who ran a dissident media outlet, over the weekend after he was captured after being lured to Iraq in October 2019.
And on Monday the US charged two Iranian officials with the kidnapping and disappearance of former FBI and DEA agent Robert Levinson, who has not been seen in 10 years.
Iranian government operatives lured several dissidents being protected by Western governments into locations where they could be kidnapped or killed in recent years.
The operations culminated in the execution over the weekend of Ruhollah Zam, who was captured in October 2019 after leaving France for Iraq.
Several security officials told Insider that Zam's killing, and similar cases, will prove a major barrier to Iran's hope of renewed negotiations over its nuclear program after President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
Iran has long been involved in detaining both foreigners and its own citizens throughout the Middle East:
Killed: Saeed Karimian in Istanbul, Turkey, in April 2017, where he had been living.
Detained: Masoud Molavi Vardanjani in Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2019, where he had been living.
Detained: Habib Chaab in Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2019. He had been living in Sweden.
Detained then killed: Ruhollah Zam in Karbala, Iraq, in October 2019. Executed in December 2020. He had been living in France.
Detained: Jamshid Sharmahd in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in July 2020. He had been living in California.
Zam was executed by hanging on Saturday, Iranian state media said, as punishment for running the dissident media outlet Amad News.
A French security official, who agreed to discuss Zam's case with Insider on condition of anonymity, said that France's efforts to protect him could not extend to Iraq.
"Zam was under our protection and we would have never suggested he travel to Iraq where the Iranians have many resources and we would be unable to protect him," the official said.
Zam was lured to Iraq in October 2019, according to French and Iraqi security officials, for a meeting with Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who is considered Iraq's most influential Shiite Muslim cleric.
Ruhollah Zam during his trial at Iran's Revolutionary Court in Tehran on June 2, 2020.
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Instead he was detained on arrival by Iraqi security officials working on behalf of the Iranian regime, the officials said.
An Iraqi official in Baghdad asked Insider not to be named, fearing for his safety if identified.
He told Insider: "Sistani's office had given him a visa to [the holy city of] Karbala for an interview but security officers with ties to [Iran] arrested him."
"He would have been safe in Sistani's office yes but I don't understand how he thought he could enter the most holy of Shiite cities, filled with Iranian pilgrims and Quds guys, and not disappear," said the Iraqi official.
Quds is a division of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responsible for special operations abroad.
"Sistani's office is very angry but there's nothing they can do, his influence is with Iraqis not Iranians."
Western officials condemned Zam's detention, but their protests did not stop his execution for running an anti-regime Telegram channel from France. He fled there after leading a series of protests against government austerity measures in 2017.
"The Iranians did this knowing that France would be angry," said the French official.
"This requires a geopolitical response and France will work with the incoming Biden administration to confront Iran on this and many other issues where we see them taking aggressive and even violent action in Europe."
The last reference was likely to a plot in which several Iranians are accused of seeking to bomb a meeting of dissidents in Paris.
Biden's picks Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Biden both condemned the execution of Zam on Monday, but face several other confrontations with Iran.
—Antony Blinken (@ABlinken) December 14, 2020
On Monday, US prosecutors charged two Iranian officials with the kidnapping and disappearance of former FBI and DEA agent Robert Levinson. They said he was detained on Iran's Kish Island in 2007 after he entered the visa-free trade zone to conduct interviews with sources for a controversial CIA program.
Levinson has not been seen in ten years and many assume he died in Iranian custody, though Iran has never formally acknowledged arresting him. It instead spent years claiming that he had been kidnapped by terrorists in neighboring Pakistan.
"Levinson isn't going away this round," said a former US official, who asked not to be identified as the expect to face Senate confirmation for a national security post when Biden takes office.
Daniel Levinson shows a picture of his father, ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson, at a press conference at the Swiss embassy in Tehran, 22 December 2007.
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"The last time we negotiated with the Iranians on the [nuclear deal] we were able to push for the release of multiple prisoners, but not Levinson because the Iranians refused to admit they had him at all," said the official.
"Eventually it became an issue of getting out who we could and getting a deal in place.
"But the Iranians have behaved in such a way the past three or four years it will be an issue: We can't ignore Zam, we can't ignore [Levinson], we can't ignore a bomb plot in Paris, we can't ignore two assassinations and a kidnapping in Turkey."
"If Iran wanted to see a new administration come in and slap the [nuclear agreement] back in place without any drama, they shouldn't have been such assholes," said the official.
A senior Hezbollah official in Lebanon with close ties to Iran scoffed that Iran's behavior was somehow beyond the pale compared to the West.
"The [Israelis] murder people in Tehran whenever they want," said the official, who asked to be identified by his nickname, Abu Hassan.
"The Americans murdered Hajj Qassem [Soleimani] in the Baghdad airport. These people [taken by Iran] are convicted terrorists in Iran, what does America do to catch terrorists? What's Guantanamo Bay? Who lives there? Iran and Hezbollah have faced the West's hypocrisy for 30 years; this is nothing new."
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France's Yellow Vest protests, which began as a reaction to a fuel tax hike and evolved into a broad national rejection of the centrist, pro-corporate policies of President Emmanuel Macron, have rocked the country for nine weeks, as over a thousand protesters have been detained and Macron's popularity plummets.
Yellow Vests is the consequence of the corporate world taking over and leaving France with the capital.
"French people are the most comfortable people in the world and they are starting to lose their privileges," he added, and the loss of that privilege has driven them to cynicism and riots.
The veteran filmmaker and musician also turned his attention to his home country, and its relationship with Russia.
"I share with President Putin the idea of an independent, neutral Serbia that has to stay however neutral as possible," he said. Still, Kusturica pointed out that the right of Serbs in Republika Srpska – one of the two entities that makes up Bosnia and Herzegovina – to forge closer ties with Russia must be respected.
Putin's visit to Belgrade was a short one, but during the one-day trip, the Russian leader was met with an honor guard by the Serbian military, paid respects to Soviet soldiers who died liberating Belgrade from Nazi occupation in 1944, met Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic for official talks, and visited the Orthodox Church of St. Sava.


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Netanyahu and the NeoCons – A Match Made in Heaven or Tel Aviv?
Posted by pakalert on April 13, 2009, filed in: Illuminati Dajjal, Latest News, New World Order, War of Terror
"After their humiliating defeat in the 2008 presidential and congressional elections, the vanquished neoconservative legions won a major political victory in one of the provinces of the American empire when the parliamentary election in Israel brought to power a veteran NeoCon activist".
Will Netanyahu and the neocons live happily ever after?
By Leon Hadar
Imagine that after Boris Yeltsin was elected president of a free post-Communist Russia in 1991, the Poles, residents of a former province of the Soviet empire, elected former Communist boss Edward Gierek as their new head of state. Then suppose that, upon entering office, he called on Moscow to forget about rapprochement with the West and prepare for military confrontation.
Improbable as it seems, some version of this scenario is playing out here. After their humiliating defeat in the 2008 presidential and congressional elections, the vanquished neoconservative legions won a major political victory in one of the provinces of the American empire when the parliamentary election in Israel brought to power a veteran neocon activist. He is calling on Washington to forget about changing U.S. policy in the Middle East and prepare for a military confrontation with Iran.
Initially, the neoconservatives envisioned a grander strategy. In November 2008, Americans would elect Norman Podhoretz's favorite American politician, Rudy Giuliani, as their new president, followed by a vote in Israel in which Norman Podhoretz's favorite Israeli politician, Benjamin Netanyahu, would be chosen as the Jewish state's new prime minister.
It would have been like Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire teaming in "Flying Down to Tehran" and dancing cheek to cheek in "Neocon Time." Not unlike FDR and Churchill uniting their nations in the struggle against Fascism during World War II, Rudy and Bibi would bring their countries together to fight Islamofascism. How about a special commemorative issue of Commentary to celebrate the day the two tied the knot at the White House?
Rudy didn't make it. But a stand-in was ready to play the part of neocon dummy, repeating the lines ("Bomb, bomb Iran") provided by the usual suspects. They were confident that mating the American Empire with a Greater Israel remained a viable option under President McCain and—God willing!—Prime Minster Netanyahu. But then McCain lost to a man of Muslim ancestry whose middle name was "Hussein." Worse, as Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg fretted, he didn't seem to have it in his "kishke" or "gut" when it came to Israel. Obama was willing to withdraw from Iraq, engage Iran, and work hard to achieve an Israel-Palestine peace accord—in short, to challenge the neoconservatives' first principles.
With Mac not back and Obama in the White House—after winning the majority of American-Jewish votes—it became clear that the American groom would not be showing up for the anticipated wedding. Yet the Bush administration's last foreign-policy decision—giving Israel a green light to launch a devastating assault on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip—helped ignite ultra-nationalist and anti-Arab sentiments among the majority of Israelis. This produced a mini earthquake in Israeli politics, changing the balance of power in the Israeli Knesset from 70-50 in favor of the center-left bloc to 65-55 for the Right, ultra-Right, and religious Right parties. Although Netanyahu's nationalist Likud Party took only second place in the election, behind the more centrist Kadima Party led by Tzipi Livni, which finished first by a miniscule margin, he was able to win the backing of all the 65 members of the right-wing bloc, including the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party and extreme Yisrael Beitenu Party of Avigdor Lieberman, ensuring that he will become the next Israeli PM.
The political and ideological love affair between Netanyahu and the neocons goes back to the Reagan presidency and the last years of the Cold War, when Bibi was serving first as Israel's representative to the United Nations and later as his country's ambassador to Washington. The first generation of neoconservative intellectuals—Richard Perle, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Elliott Abrams, Kenneth Adelman, and Max Kampleman—were occupying top foreign-policy positions in the Reagan administration. To the ruling Likud Party, the policies of the Republican Party seemed to offer Israel time to consolidate its hold on the West Bank and Gaza as it encouraged Washington to view the Arab-Israeli conflict through a Cold War lens and to identify Palestinian nationalism as an extension of Soviet-induced international terrorism. In that context, Washington could view Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands with benign neglect.
I was covering the UN for the Jerusalem Post in the early 1980s and recall how Netanyahu's speeches echoed the Likud-neocon line of that time: the PLO was a Soviet-controlled terrorist organization, Israel was America's "strategic asset" in the Middle East, and the American-Israeli alliance was containing the international terrorist threat advanced by Moscow and its Palestinian and other Arab allies. "The two countries are finding themselves increasingly alone in international organizations like the United Nations," I wrote in one of my reports for the Post. "A visitor from Mars to the UN headquarters in 1985 would have found it difficult to decide, after listening to Ambassadors Jeane Kirkpatrick and Benjamin Netanyahu, which of the two represented the United States and which Israel."
A reminder: the policies promoted by Likud and its neocon allies in Washington resulted in major costs for both Israel and the United States. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the Iran-Contra affair were among the harmful products, while the first Intifadah highlighted the destructive consequences of placing the Palestinian issue on the back burner.
Netanyahu returned to Israel, just as the Cold War was ending and Reagan was leaving office, to serve first as foreign minister and later as prime minister. He proved masterful in replacing the moribund Soviet threat with a new Middle Eastern bogeyman, persuading many Americans that with the Soviet Union gone, Israel could help protect U.S. interests in the Middle East against Arab nationalists (Saddam Hussein), Muslim fundamentalists (the mullahs in Iran), and the PLO, which was transformed in the Likud-neocon spin from a radical left-wing to a radical Islamic terrorist group.
George H.W. Bush and his realist foreign-policy advisers didn't buy into this narrative and decided to confront the Likud government over the issue of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank. That tough American approach antagonized the neocons while weakening Likud, which ended up losing the parliamentary election in 1992 to the Labor Party and its leader, Yitzchak Rabin.
Another reminder: Netanyahu, a strident opponent of the successful efforts by the Rabin-led government to reach a peace agreement with the PLO, culminating in the Oslo Process, played a major role in mobilizing Israeli opinion against the peace process. This included incitement against Rabin—who Likud propaganda likened to Hitler—which created the conditions for his assassination by an Israeli-Jewish terrorist and eventually for Netanyahu's election as PM in 1995.
"On July 8, 1996, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's newly elected prime minister and the leader of its right-wing Likud Party, paid a visit to the neoconservative luminary Richard Perle in Washington, D.C.," journalist Craig Unger wrote in Vanity Fair in March 2007. "The subject of their meeting was a policy paper that Perle and other analysts had written for an Israeli-American think tank, the Institute for Advanced Strategic Political Studies. Titled 'A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,' the paper contained the 'kernel of a breathtakingly radical vision for a new Middle East.'"
By waging wars against Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, the paper proposed, Israel and the U.S. could stabilize the region. But President Bill Clinton didn't sign on. Instead, he tried to slow down efforts by the Israeli prime minister to kill the peace process, which helped ignite Palestinian rage that led eventually to the second Intifadah. Clinton's successor, George W. Bush, gave a green light to the Israelis to suppress the Intifadah and went to implement the strategy proposed in "A Clean Break." No need to add a reminder about how that sad chapter ended.
Netanyahu ran this time on a platform of burying the corpse of the peace process and continuing construction of more Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Forget about negotiating a two-state solution with the Palestinians. Instead, he has been advancing a plan for an "economic peace" under which Israel, together with the Americans and the Europeans, would create an island of prosperity for the Palestinians, a Middle Eastern Hong Kong. In return, they would be persuaded to give up their aspirations for political freedom. Meanwhile, Netanyahu maintains his commitment to put an end to Iran's nuclear military program, even if military power—preferably American military power—is required to achieve that "existential goal."
Had there been no crippling financial crisis and had McCain been elected president, Netanyahu might well have been successful in integrating his Greater Israel project and plans to strike Iran into a new neoconservative strategic plan drawn up by Secretary of State Joe Lieberman and National Security Adviser Robert Kagan. But in the real world of 2009, the man occupying the White House has called for negotiations with Iran and Syria and has reiterated his commitment to revive the peace process, with America serving as honest broker. And our economic problems certainly make it difficult for Washington to join the Israelis in new military adventures in the Middle East.
Some pundits are speculating that Netanyahu will do a "Nixon goes to China," recalling that late Israeli prime minister and Likud leader Menachem Begin signed a peace agreement with Egypt. Netanyahu is going to visit China at some point—but don't expect him to go through an ideological metamorphosis.
Instead, he will probably activate his old neocon troops, led by Fox News and the Wall Street Journal editorial page and joined by Republicans on Capitol Hill. He will ask them to launch a major offensive against the "appeaser" in the White House, hoping to bring political pressure first on the Democrats on Capitol Hill and then on President Obama to demonstrate that he has it in his "kishke" when it comes to Israel. Obama could surprise him by proving that he does have it in his gut—by saying no to Netanyahu, a move that would be a blessing to both Israel and the United States. __________________________________________
Leon Hadar is a Cato Institute research fellow in foreign-policy studies and author, most recently, of Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East.
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Relating to the authority of certain public hospitals to construct certain facilities and to provide certain services.
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No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
There could be costs to a local governmental entity that chose to establish a hospital project. However, it is assumed that a hospital would establish a project only if sufficient funds were available or it would not result in a negative fiscal impact; therefore, no significant fiscal impact is anticipated.
The legislation would expand the list of permissible projects under Chapter 223 of the Health and Safety Code that a public hospital, hospital district, or authority may acquire, construct, or improve to include a nursing facility, assisted living facility, or multi-unit senior housing facility. The bill would remove a provision that a hospital project has to be within an issuer's geographic boundary. A hospital project would be able to be located anywhere in Texas, if the location of the project is consistent with the purpose of a hospital project and the project serves a legitimate public purpose of the issuer.
The bill would also remove a requirement that the bonds issued by a hospital, hospital district, or authority must be revenue bonds; the bill would authorize these entities to issue obligations, in addition to bonds and other notes, to acquire, construct, or improve a facility for the care of persons who are elderly or persons with a disability.
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The primary intention of the legislation is to update statutory language to clarify what entities can qualify for the new Health and Human Services Commission's (HHSC) voluntary Upper Payment Limit (UPL) Supplemental Payment Program. Participation in the UPL supplemental program is voluntary and is limited to non-state government-owned nursing facilities. Non-state government-owned nursing facilities are nursing facilities where a hospital authority, hospital district, healthcare district, city, or county holds the license and is party to the facility's Medicaid contract. The Texas HHSC website provides additional information regarding how a non-state government-owned nursing facility would receive funding.
Incorporating the nursing facility language into the Health and Safety Code is a measure intended to verify under state law that these facilities may participate in the UPL supplemental program.
While the policy changes proposed in the bill would potentially benefit rural areas that have limited access to long-term care facilities, expanding a public hospital, hospital authority and hospital district's jurisdiction outside their geographic boundary is problematic. This could set up public health care entities to compete outside of their geographic boundaries with private sector long term care providers.
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Composite Sketch Released Of Man Who Raped Girl At Crescenta Valley Skate Park In La Crescenta
By CBSLA Staff January 14, 2022 at 12:17 pm
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LA CRESCENTA (CBSLA) — Help is needed to identify and capture a man who raped a girl at the Crescenta Valley Skate Park in La Crescenta.
(credit: LA County Sheriff's Department)
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's "Attempt To Identify" bulletin was released Thursday with a composite sketch of a man authorities say raped a young girl at the La Crescenta skate park, 3498 Honolulu Ave., at about 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 12.
The girl had been coming out of the bathroom when she was grabbed and sexually assaulted, sheriff's officials said. The man was last seen running away on foot westbound, over the pedestrian bridge, toward the wash and out of sight.
The suspect was described as a Hispanic or white/Middle Eastern man between 25 and 40 years old, and between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-8, with a thin build and a light complexion. He wore a blue surgical face mask, a plain brown hat, sunglasses with green and blue reflective lenses on the bill of the hat, and a white hooded puffy vest, a long-sleeve white shirt with peeling reflective tape on the left arm sleeve from shoulder to wrist, and loose, dark-colored pants.
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Home » Sport » Solskjaer plans to promote 'one or two' more Man Utd youngsters to first-team next season after Mengi and Laird impress
Solskjaer plans to promote 'one or two' more Man Utd youngsters to first-team next season after Mengi and Laird impress
OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER believes "one or two" young players could be promoted from Manchester United's academy for next season.
The Red Devils have enjoyed great success in bringing Mason Greenwood and Brandon Williams into the senior side this campaign.
The 18-year-old forward has 16 goals in all competitions ahead of a likely starting role against Southampton on Monday night.
And a plethora of talented kids are waiting in the wings to follow in Greenwood's footsteps.
Solskjaer feels as though his current United squad, on a spell of five-straight wins, is close to completion but could benefit from a fresh injection of youth.
He told reporters: "We just have to focus. I don't think one second if any other team is worried about us, we have to worry about ourselves.
"If we keep on improving and building an environment in the training ground and keep building on the culture, add one or two youngsters, maybe add players who can challenge those who we have got here.
"Of course it's exciting, but we can't think that far. You don't really have the time or focus.
"You can't think three months ahead now with players who are in and around the first-team.
"Of course, there are youngsters who you know are going to go out on loan, that need exposure, game time.
"But those who are in and around the first-team now, they only have one focus, and that's Southampton, then it's onto the next one. We need to finish the season strong."
Along with Greenwood and Williams, Tahith Chong and James Garner have been around the first-team picture this season.
Di'Shon Bernard, Dylan Levitt, Ethan Galbraith and D'Mani Mellor all featured in a Europa League dead rubber at Astana earlier in the campaign.
However the pair hotly-tipped to make the step up are Teden Mengi and Ethan Laird.
Under-18 captain Mengi plays in central defence and is known for his rapid pace that has impressed club bosses in training.
Meanwhile Laird, also an 18-year-old defender, has been Solskjaer's first port of call in recent weeks and joined the senior squad after injuries to Phil Jones and Axel Tuanzebe.
Unlike late bloomer Mengi, Laird signed for United aged just nine and agreed a new contract until 2023 earlier in the year.
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That is particularly good advice to me. And encouraging, as just sitting and becoming aware of the internal dialogue, all the thoughts, memories and imaginations coming up is far from pleasant. But I guess going through it is what has been called "purgatory." It is not the hopelessness of hell, but not heaven yet either.
What is helpful to me is to remember that it is God experiencing it, out of love for me, that also my soul one day begins to enjoy the joy of God. And that it is so for everyone; God experiencing being but human, to lift the soul to Himself in union with Him.
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