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Old Video Games
November 24, 2007 musings, theoryvideo gamesEwen
The Discovery Channel has started up a documentary series called Rise of the Video Game. I've read up on the history of video games before, but what makes this series so fascinating (so far) is that it puts a lot of emphasis on the place video games held in human culture. It's interesting that they brought up Godzilla, because like video games he's changed with the times. In the original 1954 Gojira, the monster was a symbol of the horrors of the nuclear bomb–and as far as I know no other kaiju movie has ever had a protagonist see a little girl about to die from the monster's radiation–but in the 60s and 70s he became a friendlier defender of Japan, and in the 90s and onward he became more morally ambiguous.
Video games started with guys finding new ways to use expensive military and educational equipment for fun after hours. Tennis For Two was a relatively simple repurposing of an oscilloscope (and even today those things are expensive). Games like Spacewar! not only moved video games forward, but reflected America's fascination with outer space and the fears of where the Cold War might lead. Space Invaders, on the other hand, could be said to have some grounding in Japan's fears and memories of outside attack.
The Magnavox Odyssey was especially important because as the first home console, it let people do something they never could before. In an era when the TV could only tune into a handful of channels, which (it being the time of the Vietnam War) always seemed to be brining ever more bad news, the Odyssey let people have some control over what was on their TV sets beyond changing channels or turning it off. As the show put it, in the early Cold War the words "push the button" could only mean the button that would bring about the end of the world. We take it for granted now in virtually every aspect of our lives–I press buttons on my computer, video games, to buy train tickets, my cell phone, iPod, etc.–but at the time it was revolutionary, and no wonder people found it so fascinating.
Going from early CRT war simulations to the prototype of the Odyssey is about 20 years of firsts in video games, but the beginning of the video game industry was with Nolan Bushnell starting up Atari. Pong was the first arcade game to catch on. The game didn't actually have a CPU; it was basically hard-wired, and when the time came to develop a home system (the 2600) they had to start over from scratch.
Especially in light of the recent stuff about Jade Raymond, some of the comments by Bushnell and Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani are particularly striking. According to Bushnell, when Pong was catching on as an arcade game, because women on the whole have better fine motor control than men, there were a fair number of women going around sharking people at Pong. Iwatani on the other hand was specifically trying to make a game that would appeal to women as well as the customary young male demographic when he came up with Pac-Man. Granted, he was going off of a stereotype ("Girls always want dessert after a meal"), but his intentions at least were to be inclusive. What went wrong?
Anyway, most of the rest of the first episode is about the industry crash of 1983, owing to ludicrous market oversaturation, owing partly to Warner's mismanagement on the assumption that video games would continue to rain money down on whoever put them out. Although it's not covered in the first episode, if you know the history, this is what set the stage for Nintendo to step in and dominate the industry.
Almost as an afterthought, the episode concludes with a few minutes on Tetris and Alexey Pajitnov. I loved Tetris from the first moment I saw it, and I've always liked everything I've heard about its creator. When talking about how the Soviet regime basically held the rights to Tetris until its fall, he basically said that the important thing to him was having been able to make something so many people enjoyed. I didn't know until I looked at the Wikipedia page just now that he designed Hexic. I'm going to have to try it out now.
Anyway, the fun part of this post is where I try to turn these ramblings into something to do with RPGs. It's pretty easy to draw parallels between the early histories of Atari and D&D, of course. Both were created by some impassioned guys doing their own thing, rather than following any kind of corporate plan. Both achieved meteoric success (albeit on different scales). And both were standing on the shoulders of giants. For Atari there were precedents in the form of Tennis For Two, Spacewar!, the Odyssey, etc., and for D&D there were all the different wargames that represent transitional forms from little counters representing the armies of Napoleon to character sheets representing wizards and swordsmen. For both video games and RPGs we're well past the point where you can just step in and do whatever and hope to turn a profit.
Although it's pretty niche compared to the legions of GTA and Madden players out there, there's a strong retro gaming community among video gamers. Some play emulators, some still have the old systems in working order, some buy those tiny "flashback" systems, and a tiny handful have actually made new games for consoles like the Atari 2600. I think a lot of the appeal of older video games is in their elegant simplicity. This I think is what RPGs can learn from retro games, and the design aesthetic of some of the best indie games is based on a simple but engaging gameplay mechanic–Dogs in the Vineyard is probably the best possible example. Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Tetris, etc. all do something that is ultimately extremely simple, but they do it extremely well. One of the guys from Bungie once said that the way to make a good video game is to create 30 seconds of consistently engaging gameplay, and make it work over and over. That's all of those games right there. Dodge the ghosts, eat the power pill, and come back to eat three at once before going on to clear out that corner of the maze. Hold on just a little longer until the 1×4 piece comes and gets you a tetris, etc. That's probably why the video game I've been playing most over the past few days is Super Mario World… ^_^;
Aside from the "some guys doing fun stuff in a basement" thing (not to be taken literally), what OD&D and many indie games have in common is simplicity. The earlier basic versions of D&D were stapled in the middle rather than perfect-bound, and the Rules Cyclopedia, which many seem to regard as the definitive version of basic D&D, weighs in at a mere 210 pages. Whether or not you agree with the "kill things and take their stuff" meme, there's a lot to be said for knowing what you want to do and making a game that serves it. Aside from creating a protagonist (as opposed to a paddle or a spaceship) that could be anthropomorphicized (channeling some Scott McCloud here), Pac-Man changed its essential verb from something like "shoot" to, of all things, "eat." While other kinds of tabletop games are perhaps better suited to one-verb designs than RPGs, I think there's (still) a lot to be explored here.
None of this is to say that I think that drawing on these things will "save" tabletop RPGs, or become "the future of tabletop RPGs." I think it's more important to think about what makes for good games. If the world of video games has room for both Metal Gear Solid and Cake Mania, the world of tabletop games can surely handle both Exalted and Primetime Adventures. The thing about RPGs is that if you try to strip them down as far as they'll go you wind up with either free-form role-playing or several different possible cornerstones.
(I just realized this goes back to a post of mine from last year about how video games divide genres up by how they play rather than what the story is about).
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The fun thing I like to point out to people who make the false accusation that video games are for children is that the video game boom, before the 83-84 crash, was mostly due to adults. The first Pong machine was installed at a bar that would eventually become a comedy club, Business men frequented arcades after work, and if you find old commercials, many of the target audience are certainly not kids (I've even seen one that featured the late, great Phil Hartman raving about Video Hockey).
Blame Nintendo, it's self-censorship and Chuck E. Cheese for that change and it severely needs a overdue general public image overhaul away from "kids toy".
As for RPGs, you're correct that each game has a different feel because of different elements. DnD started out as a suped up version of Chainmail, which was just the old war miniature games with a Lord of the Rings paint job slapped on. At it's base it's very tactical and conductive to war game style tactics (how far away is the target, what is the effectiveness of the poison to my troop, etc.)
I think we might get more wider branching if we take other game style's "handling". The idea of "trump cards" in card games or the "enclosed world" of board games, Both I think would be great additions to RPGs,(Like a game with a set map and general encounters or a deck of cards a player can draw from as a benefit of good role playing) but I'm sure there could be plenty more where that came from.
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There have already been some indie RPGs that tried that kind of thing — The Shab-al-Hiri Roach, Dogs in the Vineyard, Fastlane, etc. — though I think there could be more.
One of the games I've had on the back burner for a while is Moonsick, which for various reasons has been evolving towards being more like a card game with RPG elements. (Partly just because it need to be really visual). The cool thing is that recently Guild of Blades announced that they're going to start offering POD services for cards, which for me means my weird little game just got a lot more viable to make (and sell, if it comes to that).
Incidentally, as a designer I've been moving away from using stuff like rewards for "good roleplaying," at least for stuff that happens during gameplay, mainly because it's so fuzzy and even a generous and well-intentioned GM can forget sometimes. I like stuff like Primetime Adventures' fanmail mechanic (each player gets a token to give to another player who does stuff they think is neat), or providing rewards tied to the character/player doing specific and more concrete things (think of how you earn dice in InSpectres), or at the very least leaving the fuzzy stuff for after the game.
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King James Bible Dictionary > Reference List > Kadesh
King James Bible Dictionary
Bible Usage:
Kadesh used 18 times.
First Reference: Genesis 14:7
Last Reference: Ezekiel 48:28
Included in Eastons: Yes
Included in Hitchcocks: Yes
Included in Naves: Yes
Included in Smiths: No
Included in Websters: No
Included in Strongs: Yes
Included in Thayers: No
Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
H4480 Used 8 times
H6946 Used 14 times
Holy, or Kadesh-Barnea, sacred desert of wandering, a place on the south-eastern border of Palestine, about 165 miles from Horeb. It lay in the "wilderness" or "desert of Zin" (Genesis 14:7; Numbers 13:3-26; 14:29-33; 20:1; 27:14), on the border of Edom (20:16). From this place, in compliance with the desire of the people, Moses sent forth "twelve spies" to spy the land. After examining it in all its districts, the spies brought back an evil report, Joshua and Caleb alone giving a good report of the land (13:18-31). Influenced by the discouraging report, the people abandoned all hope of entering into the Promised Land. They remained a considerable time at Kadesh. (See HORMAH; KORAH.) Because of their unbelief, they were condemned by God to wander for thirty-eight years in the wilderness. They took their journey from Kadesh into the deserts of Paran, "by way of the Red Sea" (Deuteronomy 2:1). (One theory is that during these thirty-eight years they remained in and about Kadesh.)
At the end of these years of wanderings, the tribes were a second time gathered together at Kadesh. During their stay here at this time Miriam died and was buried. Here the people murmured for want of water, as their forefathers had done formerly at Rephidim; and Moses, irritated by their chidings, "with his rod smote the rock twice," instead of "speaking to the rock before their eyes," as the Lord had commanded him (comp. Numbers 27:14; Deuteronomy 9:23; Psalms 106:32, 33). Because of this act of his, in which Aaron too was involved, neither of them was to be permitted to set foot within the Promised Land (Numbers 20:12, 24). The king of Edom would not permit them to pass on through his territory, and therefore they commenced an eastward march, and "came unto Mount Hor" (20:22).
This place has been identified with Ain el-Kadeis, about 12 miles east-south-east of Beersheba. (See SPIES.)
Hitchcock's Names Dictionary
Naves Topical Index
Called also Kadeshbarnea.
A city on the southern boundary of Palestine
Smitten by Chedorlaomer
Abraham dwells by the wells near
Genesis 20:1; Genesis 14:7; Genesis 16:14
Israel encamps at
Numbers 12:16; Numbers 13:26; Numbers 20:1; Numbers 33:36
Canaanites defeated at
Kadesh(2)
The sacred city of the Hittites, on the left bank of the Orontes, about 4 miles south of the Lake of Homs. It is identified with the great mound Tell Neby Mendeh, some 50 to 100 feet high, and 400 yards long. On the ruins of the temple of Karnak, in Egypt, has been found an inscription recording the capture of this city by Rameses II. (See PHARAOH.) Here the sculptor "has chiselled in deep work on the stone, with a bold execution of the several parts, the procession of the warriors, the battle before Kadesh, the storming of the fortress, the overthrow of the enemy, and the camp life of the Egyptians." (See HITTITES.)
Kadesh, Kadeshbarnea
(Kadesh means holy ; it is the same word as the Arabic name of Jerusalem, el-Khuds . Barnea means, desert of wandering.) This place, the scene of Miriam's death, was the farthest point which the Isr'lites reached in their direct road to Canaan; it was also that whence the spies were sent, and where, on their return, the people broke out into murmuring, upon which their strictly penal term of wandering began. (Numbers 13:3,26; 14:29-33; 20:1; 2:14) It is probable that the term "Kadesh," though applied to signify a "city," yet had also a wider application to a region in which Kadesh-meribah certainly, and Kadesh-barnea probably, indicates a precise spot. In (Genesis 14:7) Kadesh is identified with En-mishpat, the "fountain of judgment." It has been supposed, from (Numbers 13:21,26) and Numbers 20:1 ... that there were two places of the name of Kadesh, one in the wilderness of Paran and the other in that of Zin; but it is more probable that only one place is meant, and that Zin is but a part of the great desert of Paran. (There has been much doubt as to the exact site of Kadesh; but Rev. H. Clay Trumbull of Philadelphia, visiting the spot in 1881, succeeded in rendering almost certain that the site of Kadesh is Ain Kadis (spelled also Gadis and Quadis); "the very same name, letter for letter in Arabic and Hebrew, with the scriptural fountain of Kadesh
the 'holy fountain,' as the name means
which gushed forth when Moses smote the rock." It lies 40 miles south of Beersheba and 165 northeast of Horeb, immediately below the southern border of Palestine. It was discovered in 1842 by the Rev. J. Rowlands of Queen's College, Cambridge, England, whose discovery was endorsed by the great German geographer Ritter, by E.S. Palmer in his "Desert of the Exodus," and by the "Imperial Bible Dictionary." Dr. Trumbull thus describes it:
"It is an extensive oasis, a series of wells, the water of which flows out from under such an overhanging cliff as is mentioned in the Bible story; and it opens into a vast plain or wadi large enough to have furnished a camping-ground for the whole host of Isr'l. Extensive primitive ruins are on the hills near it. The plain or wadi, also called Quadis, is shut in by surrounding hills so as to make it a most desirable position for such a people as the Isr'lites on the borders of hostile territory
such a position as leaders like Moses and Joshua would have been likely to select." "It was carpeted with grass and flowers. Fig treed laden with fruit were against its limestone hillsides. Shrubs in richness and variety abounded. Standing out from the mountain range at the northward of the beautiful oasis amphitheater was the 'large single mass or small hill of solid rock' which Rowlands looked at as the cliff (sela) smitten by Moses to cause it to 'give forth its water' when its flowing had ceased. From beneath this cliff came the abundant stream. A well, walled up with timeworn limestone blocks, was the first receptacle of the water. Not far from this was a second well similarly walled, supplied from the same source. Around both these wells were ancient watering-troughs of limestone. Several pools, not walled up, where also supplied from the stream. The water was clear and sweet and abundant. Two of the pools were ample for bathing."
ED.)
Kadesh-barnea
holiness of an inconstant son
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Broad Institute Releases Open-Source GATK4 Software for Genome Analysis, Optimized for Speed and Scalability
New version of the leading genome analysis toolkit increases analysis scope and includes enhanced machine learning algorithms for greater performance
[09-January-2018]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is releasing version 4.0 of the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK), the institute's flagship genome variant discovery package for analysis of high-throughput sequencing data. GATK4 is fully open-source and is available at no cost for academic and commercial research on local computing infrastructure, and is also designed for deployment on cloud environments. The reengineered GATK solves key bottlenecks, including an analysis step where GATK4 can analyze types of genomic sequence data 15 times faster than GATK3, while increasing input capacity by a factor of five.
USERS ARE INVITED TO JOIN A LIVE-STREAMED LAUNCH EVENT:
2 - 4 pm EST
Link: broad.io/facebook
The toolkit is developed by a team of software engineers and data scientists at the Broad Institute's Data Sciences Platform (DSP), who work directly with genomics researchers to ensure the GATK stays ahead of increasing demands for accuracy, speed, and complexity.
Broad Institute data scientists, GATK software engineers, and guest panelists will host a live-streamed launch event at 2pm EST today to discuss the expanded features, performance improvements, and cloud deployment of GATK4. The panel will include leaders from the University of California-Santa Cruz, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, Intel, IBM Watson, Verily Life Sciences, Amazon Web Services, Cloudera, Alibaba Cloud, and Microsoft Genomics.
Wider scope of analysis, machine learning, and a performance boost
GATK4 offers significant research advantages over earlier versions, which focused on germline short variant discovery only. GATK4 is the first and only open-source software package that covers all major variant classes (SNPs, indels, copy number, and structural variation) for both germline and cancer, and for genomes and targeted sequencing assays. In addition, GATK4 includes tools that take advantage of machine learning, including neural network algorithms, which improve accuracy in variant discovery.
Over the last 12 months software engineers at the Intel-Broad Center for Genomic Data Engineering have also incorporated major performance optimizations into GATK4.
"We completely reengineered GATK4 to optimize speed, scale, and flexibility, while maintaining the best practices pipelines and high quality of data output that have become the standard for genomics research around the world," said Eric Banks, Senior Director of the Data Sciences Platform at the Broad Institute. "Already, GATK4 has been put to the test internally at the Broad Institute for six months -- including by processing the 24 terabytes of sequence data our genomics platform produces and moves to the cloud every day.
"This major new version benefits from the combined experience of our team's scientific and operational expertise running genomic pipelines at scale, as well as the engineering excellence of computational industry leaders," Banks said. "Now, we are proud to freely share this toolkit with researchers everywhere."
"Intel collaborated with the Broad Institute to completely rewrite GATK4's core code for performance, flexibility, speed and scalability, with end-to-end pipeline scripts that can be run on any local or cloud compute infrastructure," said Kay Eron, general manager of Analytics Industry Solutions at Intel Corporation. "Additionally, these improvements allow users to call new variant types for both germline and somatic analyses."
Expanded and improved GATK4 features include:
somatic short variant calling with Mutect2, which combines a proven somatic modeling algorithm (the widely-used single nucleotide single nucleotide variant caller Mutect) with the haplotype-centric logic of the GATK's leading germline variant caller, HaplotypeCaller.
full discovery pipeline capabilities for somatic copy number variants (GATK CNV) using both coverage and allelic balance estimation. These pipelines are engineered to scale seamlessly from gene panels and exomes to whole genome sequencing (WGS).
advance versions of tools currently in development for structural variation discovery; germline CNV discovery using machine learning approaches; a functional annotation framework for both germline and somatic analyses; and a new pipeline for germline short variant filtering based on convolutional neural networks. (Learn more about deep learning in GATK4 in a December, 2017 blog post)
Powered by collaboration
Reflecting the collaborative nature of large scale-genomic research today, engineers from Intel, Google, Cloudera, Microsoft Genomics, IBM, Amazon, and Alibaba all made significant contributions to the development and cloud deployment of GATK4.
For instance, as described in a January 2018 video, Intel's development of the GenomicsDB datastore dramatically improved the scalability of GATK's GVCF-based germline joint-calling pipeline, allowing researchers to run full variant calling analyses of larger data sets significantly faster than previous versions.
Thanks to the contributions of Cloudera engineers, GATK4 now uses Apache Spark for both traditional local multithreading and for parallelization on Spark-capable compute infrastructure and services, such as Google Dataproc. "It has been a privilege collaborating with the Broad Institute over the last two years to ensure that GATK4 can use the power of Apache Spark to make genomics workflows more scalable than previous approaches," said Tom White, principal data scientist at Cloudera.
And in complementary work, engineers from Verily Life Sciences gave GATK4 the ability to stream data directly from Google Cloud Storage (GCS) through the NIO protocol, enabling considerable savings -- including of time and financial resources -- for cloud executions.
Users can run GATK4 locally or on the cloud
As announced in May 2017, the Broad Institute is making GATK4 available under a fully open-source BSD 3-clause license. Users can download the software on the GATK website or can run the tools via a cloud provider.
Researchers of all backgrounds, including those without computational training, can access GATK4's cloud-based pipelines through FireCloud, the Broad Institute's cloud-based analysis portal. These pipelines are fully configured and are ready-to-run on preloaded example datasets.
All users can access GATK4 through FireCloud free of charge, although cloud providers may charge their own fees for data storage and processing. Through a partnership with Google Cloud Platform, Broad is offering a $250 credit per user toward compute and storage costs for the first 1,000 applicants; interested users can learn more on the GATK website.
Live-streamed launch event on January 9, 2-4pm EST
The GATK development team and guest panelists will present key new features and highlights of GATK4 in a Facebook Live event held at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts and live-streamed at broad.io/facebook on January 9th, 2018 from 2pm to 4 pm EST.
Participants can ask questions and receive answers in real-time from the GATK team. See the GATK blog to learn more about the agenda and speaker lineup.
About the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was launched in 2004 to empower this generation of creative scientists to transform medicine. The Broad Institute seeks to describe all the molecular components of life and their connections; discover the molecular basis of major human diseases; develop effective new approaches to diagnostics and therapeutics; and disseminate discoveries, tools, methods, and data openly to the entire scientific community.
Founded by MIT, Harvard, Harvard-affiliated hospitals, and the visionary Los Angeles philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad, the Broad Institute includes faculty, professional staff, and students from throughout the MIT and Harvard biomedical research communities and beyond, with collaborations spanning over a hundred private and public institutions in more than 40 countries worldwide. For further information about the Broad Institute, go to https://www.broadinstitute.org.
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"After the contest, I will keep searching for spices throughout Vietnam to apply on my own dishes", according to Chef Le Vo Anh Duy – the winner of the Golden Spoon contest 2016.
It has been a busy yet inspiring year for the Golden Spoon contest. The most memorable moment stayed at the judge meeting on the day before the finale.
The New York Times International's World News features a full-color article on the chef competition, namely The Golden Spoon Awards, in which Ly's Horeca sponsored and organized for chefs from every corner of "the cooking nation", to unite and spice up the traditional cuisine.
Spices and ingredients with pure Vietnamese characteristics were skillfully used in dainty dishes of Binh Quoi 1 resort (HCMC), which helped this team to seized the championship of The Golden Spoon contest 2016.
A team of three chefs from Bình Quới 1 Tourist Area defeated 14 rival teams to win the fourth Golden Spoon Contest besides VNĐ1 billion (US$44,150) and a trophy.
This morning, Dec 6th 2016, 15 excellent teams had gathered at Military zone 7 Gymnastic (HCMC) to compete the championship of TGSA 2016. Who would encode the black box and conquer the jury to win the highest place?
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If chefs were artists and cooking was a performance, chefs from Naman Retreat Resort Da Nang attractively and notably performed their jobs at the northern semi-final round of The Golden Spoon Award 2016.
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Played (TV series)
Played is a 2006 crime film produced by Caspar von Winterfeldt, Nick Simunek and Mick Rossi, executive produced by John Daly, co-produced by Nigel Mead and Lenny Bitondo, written by Sean Stanek and Mick Rossi and directed by Sean Stanek. The film stars Val Kilmer, Gabriel Byrne, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin, Joanne Whalley, Bruno Kirby (in his final film), Anthony LaPaglia, Roy Dotrice, Patsy Kensit, Andy Nyman and Mick Rossi.
Originally intended to be a short, the film was shot without the use of a scripted screenplay and the director (Sean Stanek) allowed the actors to improvise a majority of dialogue as he shot the scenes. The picture was shot on location in London and Los Angeles and took three years to complete.
The story opens in Los Angeles with Dillon (Val Kilmer) who receives a phone call from Ray Burns (Mick Rossi) who has just been shot and desperately needs help. Dillon is a cleaner for a gangster named Eddie (Gabriel Byrne) and has been sent to assist Ray should he require it. After a colorful opening title sequence which follows Dillon's drive to the house, he finds Ray almost bleeding to death on a sofa. Removing all of the evidence, Dillon leaves carrying Ray to his car but not before he torches the house, destroying any evidence of Ray's presence. As Dillon and Ray drive away, Dillon struggles to keep Ray conscious and relates to him a story of a humorous encounter with a Mexican auto mechanic, which coins one of the catchphrases of the film: "I'm not gonna taco".
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Played is a Canadian action/drama television series which premiered on CTV on October 3, 2013. The series was developed and is produced by Greg Nelson (Rookie Blue), Adrienne Mitchell (Bomb Girls) and Janis Lundman (Durham County). It follows a team of undercover police officers belonging to the fictional Covert Investigations Unit (CIU). Each episode finds them risking their lives by going undercover on short term, high intensity assignments to infiltrate and bring down criminal organizations at a fast pace. Often having to think on their feet, they find it easy to lose track of who they really are, but smooth talking and quick thinking when things go wrong usually get them out of trouble. The series was cancelled after its first season.
Vincent Walsh as Detective John Moreland
Chandra West as Detective Sergeant Rebecca Ellis
Lisa Marcos as Detective Constable Maria Cortez
Dwain Murphy as Detective Constable Daniel Price
Agam Darshi as Officer Khali Bhatt
Adam Butcher as Officer Jesse Calvert
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Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) - Review
By Popflick Team07/04/2022
It was a foregone conclusion when Swiss Army Man (2016) came out that the directing duo 'The Daniels', Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, have a real talent for off-beat, unexpected stories with surprising emotional stakes. Well, the two have done it again and exceeded expectations with their sophomore outing, Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022), an action comedy starring an ensemble cast consisting of Michele Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jenny Slate.
Everything Everywhere All At Once revolves around a meek business owner Evelyn Wang (Michele Yeoh), who (after a chance encounter) discovers that there are infinite versions of her in as many universes. With a daughter who is estranged and a husband who is about to divorce her, Evelyn soon finds her troubles brewing further as the IRS begins investigating her laundry business. With Evelyn pushed in from all sides, she has no choice but to embrace the fantastical possibility that the multiverse presents before her. Her troubles only begin, as a horrific evil mastermind, fueled with the fire of rage and revenge, hops across every universe to kill every version of her. Desperate and alone, the original Evelyn will have to choose between family and saving the world if she is to rise above her potential and fix her life in the process.
Perfectly balancing drama, tragedy and comedy; the film is a breath of fresh air in the theatrical landscape
'The Daniels' have delivered a film that not only feels fresh but also tackles the science fiction concepts of multiverses and parallel identities really well. Perfectly balancing drama, tragedy and comedy; the film is a breath of fresh air in the theatrical landscape littered by caped crusaders, animated characters and wizards. From its first moment, the film sucks you into the fantastical and never lets go; each passing moment brings a cascade of challenges for Evelyn who has to step out of her comfort zone every time in order to have a chance at survival. In addition, where the film really surprises is in its infusion of comedy. The makers have managed to inject a multitude of comedic moments throughout the narrative with each joke feeling more original than the last.
Nowhere is the film's novelty more apparent than in the fact that it is as inspired by the kung fu films of Asian action cinema as it is by time travel stories of some of the greatest films out of Hollywood. In addition, the editing is fantastic, giving the audience a rapid sense of multiple characters in multiple dimensions without making everything so tedious. Juggling a large assortment of characters and storylines makes the narrative risk falling into an information overload of sorts but here, Dan and Daniel balance every aspect with an auteur like sensibility, creatively using audio visual tricks up their sleeves in this regard. The visual effects are a sight to behold and it is shocking to discover that all the effects were made by a team of five people which included the two directors. Kudos to the directors for juggling close to a dozen unique characters and their iterations to make a film that does not for a second feel overwhelming.
While Evelyn, played by Michele Yeoh, is the star on which the entire narrative rests, equally praiseworthy is Stephenie Hsu as her daughter Joy. We are given a peek into the conflict between mother and daughter in the opening moments of the film and this antagonistic relationship turns into a full blown war as the narrative proceeds. Kudos to the creative film for handling the nuances of the mother-daughter relationship in such a fresh manner. This conflict is the emotional centre of the entire story and not once does it waiver or yield. In addition, any talk of this film will not be complete without mentioning James Hong as Evelyn's father and Ke Huy Quan as the husband. Pulling double duty of both comedic relief and emotional drama, the two characters are not as terrific as the leads, they also steal some of the scenes that they are in.
Arguably the most famous Asian film since Crazy Rich Asians some years ago, Everything Everywhere All At Once is another celebratory milestone for Asian cinema. The film's continually growing box office and widespread acclaim amongst audiences will not only lead to more Asian led films being made, it will provide actors of Asian descent with greater opportunities in the industry as well. With Asian Americans coming out in larger numbers for films such as Shang Chi and Crazy Rich Asians, Hollywood can impress the demographic with authentic films that hit close to both home and heart.
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HERNDON, Va. — Communities across the region are providing resources to federal workers embroiled in the government shutdown, and Fairfax County is considering a way to alleviate some of their financial burden.
Fairfax County leaders will discuss at Tuesday's board meeting some possible help for homeowners who are hurting in the pocketbook because of the shutdown and facing property tax bills on Feb. 15.
D.C. area jurisdictions have rallied to the side of unpaid federal workers. Montgomery County, for one, offers temporary cash assistance to needy families with children. Loudoun County is offering food relief and also waiving fees for federal employees on transit and commuter bus routes.
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Was it a mysterious alien "hut"? Or remnants of a spacecraft from previous ground missions? Pilots rushed to consult scientists about the discovery, and were reassured. The object may just be a stone, and it appears to be located 80 meters from the motorized robot. Still, researchers want to go there and get a better look.
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Journalists. We pay them well; we rely on them to inform us; they're the "filter" through which most of us see and understand our world.
But there's a problem ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å a very big problem. Today, an overwhelming number of "mainstream" journalists, rather than serving the traditional role of the press as professional truth-tellers, have shifted 180 degrees in their mission, to become ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å as July's sensational Whistleblower issue proves ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å "ANTI-JOURNALISTS."
The subtitle says it all: "Not only do they refuse to report the truth ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å they attack you if you do."
As this groundbreaking issue shows, America's establishment press has progressed way, way beyond "liberal bias." It has morphed into a virtual branch of government, an unofficial "propaganda ministry" for the establishment elite. As such, it thrives ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å along with the increasingly aggressive "media watchdog" groups like Media Matters ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å on attacking those who dare to speak the truth or ask unwelcome questions.
And little wonder: As "THE ANTI-JOURNALISTS" documents, none other than leftwing billionaire George Soros is now linked to ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å are you ready for this? ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å more than 30 major news organizations in the United States. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of this amazing issue.
"The Fifth Estate" by Jack Cashill, on the new phenomenon of "anti-journalism in the Age of Obama"
"Terrorist helps Obama write famous book ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å reporters shrug" ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å on how the media steadfastly ignore overwhelming evidence that domestic terrorist and Pentagon bomber William Ayers crafted Obama's iconic autobiography, "Dreams From My Father"
"Looking for hate in all the wrong places" ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å exploring the vexing question: When leftists publicly beg for the brutal death of George W. Bush and Rush Limbaugh, why do reporters turn around and attack Sarah Palin for supposedly "violent speech"?
"Reporters told: Don't say 'illegal immigrant'" by Bob Unruh, on one journalism organization's call for a total purge of the term ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å since it might be "offensive to Latinos"
"The new citizen journalist and the media revolution" by David Kupelian, on how the future of American journalism is shaping up to be radically different from its past ÌÎÌ_ÌÎ_ÌÎå«Ì´å and that's a very good thing.
"Maybe we should just call today's mainstream press 'the George Soros media,'" said WND managing editor David Kupelian. "No matter how much you think you understand the state of journalism today," he added, "you really have no idea how subversive and destructive it is without reading 'THE ANTI-JOURNALISTS.' Even I was shocked by some of what is revealed in this issue of Whistleblower."


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Some impressions from my stay in Lofoten / Norway (March 2014) with fotoreisen.ch.
Enjoy, pictures say more than words...!
Just like last year I left Switzerland for Tromsø in northern Norway on February 15th 2014.
But this time I did not want to go as a tourist on a week hunt of aurorae (northern lights), this time I joined the fotoreisen.ch team as a tour-driver.
Here I am now in Norway for six weeks together with Dionys Moser, the owner of the company, and Raymond Hoffmann, Thomas Heitmar, Michael Volkart, Martin Bütikofer and Ronny Wuethrich, the other tour-guides and tour-drivers. Within a rotation of 6 days we have two groups of guests coming to Tromsø and we try our best to be in the right place at the right time. Our main aim is for everybody to take loads of (good) pictures home as well as long lasting memories of the northern lights, Tromsø and its surroundings.
Even if the days are quite short up here there is plenty to see and do in and around Tromsø.
...and you can always have some fun and try out new things too.
Two days ago, my trip to Far East brought me from Hoi An to Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. Again, the plane just needed to lift us some 200 to 300 meters up after the take off in Da Nang to get us out of the dust/mist/fog/smoke/smog, whatever it is. As soon as we got out of that grey soup, the sun I missed the last few days was back again and there was a nice clear blue sky above us. Unfortunately the cloud below obviously overspun the whole country and even at the highest flight level, my hope to see the end of that large cloud somewhere was destroyed, there were not even small holes in sight.
The 35 kilometers taxi ride to the city of Hanoi took about 45 minutes. My eyes burned and my throat was audibly dry at my arrival at the hotel, thanks to the heavily polluted air... The lobby of the Meracus 2 Hotel was nice, the staff very kind and - I didn't understand exactly why, but - for some reason , they upgraded me to the honeymoon suite in the top floor and there I found a beautiful room. It looked like cut out of the last IKEA catalogue and there were rosebud leaves on the bed and in the bathroom everywhere. To my pleasure, the air coming out of the A/C must have been filtered somehow, because it was really acceptable, compared to the air in the street. Or maybe I got already used to the hanoian air meanwhile.
Yesterday morning I got up early and was picked up by a tour bus after breakfast. All of a sudden there was even sunlight coming through the clouds and the air was much better in the morning! I was one of the last of totally 19 tour guests being picked up for a day tour to Ha Long Bay,160km southeast of Hanoi. Our tourguide Tam was a funny guy, who did a great job, made a little joke here and there and gave us precious information wherever we stopped. He had a Vietnamese accent, but his English, he apparently learned autodidactically by watching movies and reading books, was very good!
The group was mixed, there was a family with 2 little kids from Japan, some couples, some travelling friends and single travelers fron Corea, HongKong, Japan, Thailand, and me. The bus ride took a little more than 3 hours, the quality of the streets decreased the more we were out of Hanoi. The last part was on a dust road, but there was actually work in progress to the left and to the right of the street and I think soon there will be a better road too.
A ship was ready for our group in Ha Long City and as soon as we boarded and headed out to the islands, we already got some nice local food.
Eventually we stopped near a floating village in between the Dau Go islands (Ile des merveilles). There are people living on boats since more than 100 years, they have a floating bank and even a floating primary school. They invited us to a tour through their village in their bamboo-boats for 120'000 Vietnamese Dong (5 US$) per person.
Ha Long Bay includes some 1600 islands and islets, forming a spectacular seascape of limestone pillars. Since 1994 the region is listed as a UNESCO world culture heritage. Most of the islands are uninhabited.
We went back to the north side of the island with the big boat and stopped there again. There we had the opportunity to visit a huge splendid limestone cave with huge stalagmites and stalactites. The electrical light in different colors give the stones a very special look. I left over some tourists on the first picture, to give you an idea of the size of the cave.
New Year in Vietnam is nice, but not very spectacular. There were a lot of people on the streets at midnight and the bigger streets and places were really crowded. There was a countdown to 2014 but no big fireworks. Fireworks are reserved to the lunar new year (called "Tết") in Vietnam.
Since my hotel is located in the center of the Old Quarter, I spent my second day in Hanoi looking at the city, walking through the streets and gathering impressions. You will find some of them in the pictures below.
After two days without luggage in Hong Kong, I now got my suitcase back and I'm already heading to my next destination: Vietnam. The two and a half hours flight brought me to Ho Chi Minh City in the far south of the country and I changed the time zone from GMT +8 to GMT +7.
My hotel (Aquari) is located in Quân 1 (District 1) and the taxi ride from the airport to the hotel took about 25 minutes. En route I already made out one obvious big difference between Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC): While you almost never see bicyicles or motorbikes in Hong Kong, the streets here are crowded with motorbikes. There seem to be millions of them, most of them carrying 1 or 2 people, but there are also motorbikes carrying 5 people or mountains of goods or rubbish.
While the temperature in HCMC is around 25°C in December, I actually never really saw the sun. The city seemed to be immersed into a thick layer of smog, fog, smoke, clouds or maybe dust, whatever it exactly was. There's a strong smell of motorbike exhausts in the air and the visibility never exceeded 500 meters thanks to that pollution. That's the main reason, why many people wear face-masks here.
The second day's afternoon I went to the War Remnants Museum. I thought this might give me a short but interesting insight into the younger history of Vietnam. The museum is close to the Reunification Palace and it's built in a kind of a small park. The exhibition itself begins already outside, from a certain distance you can clearly make out the silouettes of the helicopters, bombers and tanks, we all know from Vietnam war movies, behind the park's fences.
What actually changes your mind immediately, as soon as you are inside that park, is the closer look and the texts on the plates in front of all the objects. The cool Vietnam movies fade away quickly and all of a sudden you're standing in middle of original war material, that has already been used to kill hundreds, thousands of people. And you can stand there and touch it.
There are three floors in the museum. I now wanted to see and read everything, but then the time went by so fast, that I had only seen the ground floor so far, when they closed the museum at 5pm. My decision was clear: I would come again the next day and visit the rest of the exhibition, even if I had already struggled and fought tears several times this afternoon. Back home at the hotel I googled the museum and read a lot of usercomments, in which people write, that the exhibition might be "quite disturbing, especially for American tourists". They are right, but you don't need to be American to feel this disturbance.
I don't know, if I was allowed to take photos, at least nobody stopped me in doing so. The images below depict a fraction of what can be seen in there, but they might give you an idea of what I saw and maybe even what I felt. Every additional word would be one too much.
But unfortunately there was no next day in HCMC for me, the next day I left the city and flew to Da Nang. From there I went to Hoi An by taxi (35 minutes) and ended up at the Hoi An Trails Resort for the next two days.
Hoi An is a small town with some 100'000 inhabitants, it's a UNESCO world heritage site and has a beautiful old town. I spent two very relaxing days there and met Mrs Anh, the owner of the little shop on the other side of the road at my hotel, who offered to wash all the clothes in my suitcase for 1 US$, what she actually did. Perfect!
School ended last Friday and I was looking forward to a two weeks holiday Far East. So I left home last Saturday for a two weeks trip to Hong Kong and Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang / Hoi An, and Hanoi). The railway ride to Zurich was comfortable and thanks to the many open counters at the Zurich airport, my check-in was quite fast, even though there were a lot of people at the airport. I was ready for my 19 hours three-flights-trip Zurich - Rome - Beijing - Hong Kong.
Because of the icy temperatures outside in Zurich, they had to defrost the plane's wings before departure, so we took off in direction of Rome with a delay of about 15 minutes. As if the scheduled transfer time of 45 minutes in Rome hadn't been sharp enough, this spiced up the challenge even more. The plane to Beijing was already boarded, when the 4 of us incoming from Zurich arrived, but the staff at the gate reassured us, we wouldn't have to worry about the luggage, since this had been sent from Zurich to Hong Kong on a direct flight. Whatever.
The overnight flight from Rome to Beijing took about 10 hours and since I was quite tired, I managed to sit-sleep a few hours. When they served coffee in the morning, I didn't hesitate long to do a silly move and to pour half of my coffee onto my neighbor's lap. That was the first time he said anything at all, but it was no more than "no, no, no" after each of my attempts to apologize and to offer my help. He just dried his trousers, made something I interpreted as moderate Tai Chi moves and then turned over to the window, said "no, no, no" a last time and never looked at me again.
We landed in Beijing on schedule and the transfer to the last flight was less stressful. Compared to the long over-night flight, the last 3 hours to Hong Kong went by quite fast. Did I mention my luggage already? Right! I first thought that the direct flight from Zurich to Hong Kong, my luggage seemingly took, might have been the reason, why my suitcase didn't show up on the baggage carousel in Hong Kong. But no, Hong Kong knew nothing about suitcases on direct flights. Luggage is always on the same flight as the passenger. Except when it's not.
Nevertheless, my first stay in Hong Kong was very pleasant. I met a work-colleague (PHBern) who lives in Hong Kong for 6 weeks in winter almost every year. She knows the city and its surroundings very well and it was nice having her introduce me, as a newcomer, to this enormous town! The first afternoon she led me up to The Peak, from where you've got a tremendous sight over Hong Kong Island and Kowloon and the second afternoon we went north to the New Territories together, to explore parts of the city, tourists usually wouldn't see on their second day in Hong Kong. The outrageous number of skyscrapers in middle of nature reserves (40% of the Hong Kong terrain is protected!) make Hong Kong a very well-worth visiting and special place and a must see by your own eyes!
I just spent another great weekend with fotoreisen.ch. This time we went to the Bündner alps, located in the south-eastern part of Switzerland, and spent some really nice October days there.
There is an uncountable number of beautiful places for photos in the area. We looked especially for small lakes (Lai da Palpuogna, Lagh da Saoseo), that would reflect the surrounding mountains like mirrors and for glaciers like the well known Morteratsch glacier, that can be overlooked mostly from Diavolezza (at 2978 meters above sea level).
This weekend I attended a photography workshop in Zermatt / Switzerland from fotoreisen.ch led by Dionys Moser. Our group consisted of 12 participants from Switzerland and Germany, and we experienced some unforgettable moments together!
Anyway, it was well worth it and the weather was excellent! We usually got up almost two hours before dawn and like that we were early enough to be all alone at the selected locations and had thus always enough space and the best locations for our shots! I think the results speak for themselves!
I spent the last two weeks in Bangkok (Thailand) and Luang Prabang (Laos).
Like many others places in the world too, the two cities of Bangkok and Luang Prabang are really worth visiting! They are geographically close to each other but still they are completely different.
Bangkok with its over 8 million inhabitants is an amazing town with modern infrastructure, transportation and commerce, just like many other big town in other countries. But the influence of Buddhism, especially the religious buildings and temples, and also the fact, that Bangkok as the capital city of a kingdom has its royal buildings (i.e. the Grand Palace), turns the city into a special place that I would really love to visit again.
Luang Prabang on the other hand is the former royal capital city of Laos. The small and quiet city lies along the Mekhong river, features 34 Buddhist temples and counts 50'000 inhabitants. bakeries selling croissants and french-style post-offices are todays visible reminders of the former French colonial government. While there are big roads with many cars in Bangkok, fast trains carrying thousands of people, big shopping malls selling goods from all the well-known brands from all over the world and just everything seems to be a lot more hectic, living in Luang Prabang seems to be much slower and much more unhurried. Buses and trucks are stopped outside of the UNESCO world culture heritage city center, people walk or dislocate riding their bikes or motor rollers or hiring a tuk tuk and everybody looks quite relaxed. The main street turns into a beautiful market every morning and evening and there is much more of a living on the streets, people talking together and enjoying their lives in a slow and peaceful way. And every now and there you see orange dressed monks walking around.
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Stuyven's 'dare-to-lose' mentality nets a victory at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
By Brecht Decaluwé 29 February 2020
'It's a totally different approach. I feel like I'm strong and mentally calm'
Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo) (Image credit: Getty Images)
The 2019 Spring Classics campaign saw Jasper Stuyven and the whole Trek-Segafredo team performing below par. Despite showing good form in September, he wasn't selected in the Belgian roster for the World Championships. But the foul weather during the 75th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad was similar to the epic circumstances at the last year's Yorkshire Worlds, and seen as a chance for redemption.
"Obviously it's a nice revenge", said Stuyven in Ninove, at the post-race press conference.
"Director sportif Steven De Jongh kept telling me that it was a hard race for everybody. I tried to think about eating and drinking. When I had a difficult moment then I tried to think it was probably hard for everybody."
The 27-year-old has been regarded as a top talent for many years now but there's a big difference between being one of the favourites for a Classics victory and actually winning a Classic.
On Saturday afternoon, Stuyven turned his own dreams and expectations into reality but also those of the team, as it turned out. "I finally win a Classic. I've never been better, from that point of view, both in terms of physical and mental condition," Stuyven said.
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"Last night I told the team that it wasn't my ambition to win the race. It was my ambition to show that last year was an accident. I wanted us to show that the team was there. I believed in the guys. In 2018 we were also strong as a team. It's nice to see that the whole team was going for it, that we were all ready. That was nice. It's even nicer that I was able to finish it," Stuyven said.
Coming into the race, Stuyven was breathing confidence. He's often been strong in the Belgian opening weekend. He finished fourth in the Omloop in 2018, and he won Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne in 2016 and finished as runner-up the following year.
"I really believed in it. I knew how my preparation was. I knew that I was really relaxed. I knew that I was mentally OK and how hard I had trained," Stuyven said. "We started the season well with the team. There was a good vibe in the team, which we kept from the end of last year. It all helped to make me feel that I knew it was possible. It's nice to show that it works out in the first Spring Classic of the year."
Just like last year, Stuyven crashed in the Volta ao Algarve but this time around things were different, he said. "In 2018 I also crashed in the first stage but then I rode a good Spring Classics campaign. This time I was calm. I knew straight away that the crash wasn't serious. I felt like it had to happen to be there the next week."
That was in stark contrast with his Algarve crash in 2019. "Back then I had a good build-up but a really hard crash. Then I lost too much weight and then I got ill. I panicked that I had to get back too quickly to be ready for the next Classics. That ended terribly."
Stuyven has been working together with a psychotherapist for some years now. It helps him to put things in perspective and approach the races in the best mental condition that is possible. That was different in the past.
"Last year, I didn't work as much on the mental front as I should've done. I thought I had it all under control whereas that was totally not the case. That was probably the year that I needed it the most. I wanted to pick it back up this year. It's also a matter of working on it all the time, even when things are seemingly going well," Stuyven explained.
In Saturday's race, Stuyven featured in a breakaway move that was formed at long distance from the finish on a section that wasn't marked out as decisive. "I was the last rider to bridge up. In the past I probably wouldn't have dared to do it, being afraid to lose. Daring to lose is a totally different approach. I feel like I'm strong, also mentally I'm calm. There's no stress."
Also the team seemed to breath the same approach. Much earlier in the race, at 130km from the finish, the Trek-Segafredo team featured with four riders in a group of fourteen riders when echelons were formed into the crosswinds.
"In this weather it can happen everywhere with the wind and sometimes rain. Straight from the start of the race we were there, all together. It wasn't a bad thing to take the initiative when everybody was there.
"We really have the riders who like to race in this weather. I believe in these guys. We grant each other success. We're a team which is capable of being a force next to the other strong forces."
Bearing the fruits of altitude training
Stuyven seems to be bearing the fruit of an altitude training camp on the El Teide volcano in Tenerife, together with teammate Edward Theuns.
"Now you can write that it works," Stuyven laughed. "I've worked hard over there. I really like to train there. Last year I discovered it with Edward in May and then I rode well in Switzerland and the Tour. I really worked hard there with Edward.
"It was super fun. We train seriously but we don't live there like monks. We had a lot of fun. In the Algarve I was quite tired due to the training camp and that wasn't easy to cope with. The goal was to be ready today and that worked out perfectly."
During the long breakaway move with eight riders, Stuyven wasn't confident that they would be racing for the victory because the gap was dropping steadily. At 43km from the finish their bonus was 2:40 but at 25km from the finish their bonus was down to 1:20, partly because some riders were no longer co-operating as much like Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma) and Frederik Frison (Lotto-Soudal).
"Everybody was too relaxed in the group because we had two minutes. It annoyed me. If Mike and Frederik really weren't allowed to pull along then I was worried that it would go wrong," Stuyven said.
I can't tell that I felt like I was the strongest in the group but I did feel certain that I would be in the mix until the final kilometres. It still has to happen though. On the Muur it might as well have been somebody else who led the group."
On the famous Muur in Geraardsbergen, Stuyven powered away together with Yves Lampaert (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) but also Sören Kragh Andersen managed to join them.
"Yves and I were somewhat frustrated about Sören because we didn't know if he was really dead-empty or if he was playing poker. He said that he was dead but I wasn't sure," Stuyven said.
When Lampaert attacked, Kragh Andersen got dropped. "Yves went where I wanted to go. It was mainly about going for the victory or about knowing if Soren was really dead or not. Nobody was certain in the group. I might have collected some good results in the sprint but I've seen some good sprints from Yves too, and also Soren rode some strong sprints after a tough race." In the sprint, Stuyven easily managed to hold off Lampaert.
During the upcoming Spring Classics it's clear that Stuyven will be a force to be reckoned with.
"I'm not going to say that I'm the top favourite for other races. I'm really satisfied that I've got this one in the pocket. There's a few other races coming up and also Paris-Nice. It'll be a matter of maintaining this form. I'll be very relaxed in the approach to the other races. Now I want to enjoy this victory, hopefully with a good bottle of wine."
Stuyven – a wine lover – expressed his hope that the team's hotel, Weinebrugge in Bruges, would be able to come up with a good bottle on Saturday evening.


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Армия Чешской республики () — совокупность войск и сил Чешской Республики, предназначенных для защиты свободы, независимости и территориальной целостности государства.

Состоят из сухопутных войск, военно-воздушных сил, сил специального назначения и управления информационных и кибернетических сил. Армия Чешской Республики вместе с Военной канцелярией Президента Чешской Республики и Замковой стражей составляет Вооружённые силы Чехии.

История
Армия Чешской Республики была создана в 1993 году, после распада Чехословакии и разделения Чехословацкой армии на армии Чехии и Словакии. В 1993 году чешские силы составляли 90 000 человек. В 1997 году их число сократилось до 65 000 в 11 боевых бригадах и ВВС, а в 1999 - до 63 601.

Парашютисты Чехии принимали участие в операции по эвакуации французской военной базы в Сербской краине в 1993 году.

С 1994 года Чехия активно участвовала в программе НАТО «Партнёрство ради мира» (Partnership for Peace).

В первой половине 1990-х годов подразделения вооружённых сил Чехии участвовали в миротворческих операциях ООН на территории Югославии, чешский контингент действовал на территории Хорватии в составе сил UNPROFOR и UNCRO (потери составили 6 военнослужащих погибшими).

12 марта 1999 года года Чехия вступила в блок НАТО.

В 2002-2021 гг. Чехия принимала участие в войне в Афганистане.

Чехия принимает участие в войне в Ираке, в 2003 году правительство направило военный контингент в состав сил международной коалиции.

В 2004 году Чехия вступила в Евросоюз, обязательная военная служба была отменена, к 2005 году численность войск была сокращена до 35 тыс. человек.

С 2013 года Чехия участвует в миссии ЕС в Мали.

Современное состояние
В 2018 год общая численность вооружённых сил составляла 23 200 военнослужащих и гражданских лиц, в начале 2022 года - 24,9 тыс. человек
 сухопутные войска: 13 тыс. человек (две мотомеханизированные бригады, пять полков, 14 территориальных командований и 14 пехотных подразделений резерва), 30 танков Т-72, 247 боевых машин пехоты (120 шт. БМП-2 и 127 шт. «Pandur II»), 34 бронемашины BPzV, 141 бронеавтомобиль (120 шт. «Iveco LMV» и 21 шт. «Dingo 2»), 14 БРЭМ (10 шт. VPV-ARV, VT-55A и 3 VT-72M4), шесть мостоукладчиков MT-55A, несколько бронемашин других типов (БТР «Титус», РХМ на базе БРДМ-2, БМР «Божена-5» и UOS-155), 98 орудий полевой артиллерии, 48 шт. 120-мм миномётов, а также 84-мм безоткатные орудия «Карл Густав» и ПТРК (9К111-1 «Конкурс», «Джавелин», «Spike-LR»)
 ВВС: 5,85 тыс. человек, 14 истребителей «Грипен-C/D», 16 штурмовиков L-159, 13 транспортных самолётов (шесть L-410, четыре C-295M, два A-319CJ и один CL-601), 8 учебных самолётов L-159T1/2, 17 боевых вертолётов (семь Ми-24 и десять Ми-35), пять многоцелевых вертолётов Ми-17, 30 транспортных вертолётов (4 Ми-8, 16 Ми-171 и десять PZL W3A)

Организационная структура
С января 2020 года произошли изменения в структуре управления Армии Чехии.

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Leverkusen – With the imminent introduction of tire labeling in Europe, the tire market will become considerably more transparent for consumers and particularly for car drivers. The fact that today's tires have such outstanding properties is due to a large extent to the special-purpose rubbers developed by one of the pioneers of synthetic rubber, LANXESS. There, a team of experts is working hard to ensure that tire developers will have the materials they need tomorrow to give the next generation of modern high-end tires yet another boost in efficiency.
The latest highlights from the LANXESS Performance Butadiene Rubbers business unit (PBR) include the ultra-high molecular weight product, Nd-PBR Buna CB21. Other promising special-purpose synthetic rubbers from LANXESS are now at the testing stage, for example the high-vinyl SSBR grades, PBR 4078. LANXESS rubbers will continue to shape the development of safer, more economical tires. This message will take center stage at the LANXESS stand during the 8th Intelligent Tire Technology Conference (ITT), due to be held in Darmstadt, Germany, from September 24 – 26.
"The name of the conference – Intelligent Tire Technology – says it all," according to Dave Hardy, Technical Marketing manager in the LANXESS PBR business unit, who will present a paper at this year's ITT on the topic "Future chances for high technology materials in tires". "After all," he says, "tire labeling will make an important contribution to demonstrating not only to rubber experts but also to consumers just how much intelligence and know-how actually goes into producing a tire." Through the use of modern grades of LANXESS high-performance rubber, the fuel consumption of present-day tires has already been reduced significantly: A fuel savings app developed by LANXESS shows that buying modern tires with a low rolling resistance can pay for itself after only two years, even with only moderate annual mileages.
For Dave Hardy, there is still plenty of room for improvement. His work at LANXESS involves helping to convert consumer requirements into new types of rubber and thus enable customers to master the ever more demanding market challenges: "The latest state of the art is based on decades of intelligent research work. With rubber blends of functionalized SSBR and Nd-PBR rubber, combined with the blessings of the silica technology, it is already possible today to design tires that satisfy Class A. New synthetic rubber grades from LANXESS can create a fresh stimulus here. The ultra-high molecular weight NdBR Buna CB21, for example, contains only a few free chain ends and will thus have superior abrasion properties with low energy dissipation.
The advanced LANXESS production technology also allows not only the continuous production of functionalized SSBR rubber via a smart polymer chain modification (among other things through the addition of cyclosilanes), but also the production of SSBR rubber with "unusual" styrene and vinyl contents. The prospects are that other new products such as PBR 4078 and PBR 4070 (high-vinyl and high-styrene grades) will display an improved Payne effect and improved low-temperature properties.
They, too, are amenable to end-group functionalization. Other new developments are aimed at further improving the processing characteristics of the latest LANXESS tire rubber grades during compounding. "We are confident that, with these new types of rubber, we will be able to produce even better tires than before. Not only will they have even lower rolling resistance, they will also display even better wet grip and abrasion resistance," says Hardy. "And that is exactly the same across the globe. It doesn't matter which of our many production plants around the world actually supplies the high-performance rubber.


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Son Ben, a sophomore at Loras College in Dubuque is a guest columnist. Enjoy!
I've been hearing about it for years. It all started in sixth grade, when my math teacher mentioned that he enjoyed reading my dad's column and that I should make a guest appearance. That day, I went home and promised my dad I would guest write a column for him. We both thought it was a great idea, and I went off to figure out what I should write about.
I remember all the ideas I initially wrote down as a sixth grader: I could write about guitar lessons, or AAU basketball, or my math teacher who inspired me to write the column. After a substantial brainstorming effort, I felt unsatisfied with the topics I'd come up with. So I put off this grand task, knowing that one day, at the right time, the right topic would finally come to mind.
Skip ahead a few years. Every Christmas, in order to simplify the gift-giving process in our family, we draw the name of one member of our family that we are then responsible for giving gifts to. This past Christmas, I drew my dad's name, and I knew it was the time to make good on my promise. I still hadn't decided what to write about, but regardless, it was time to fulfill the pledge I had made years ago.
Eight years later, I realized that the best thing to write about was the fulfillment of a gift that should've been given long ago. The column, I realized, would write itself, the fruition of a promise.
As small business owners and managers, details are unbelievably important (I'm not a small business owner, I just had to somehow incorporate the signature segue my dad loves to use). In fact, it's the primary weapon that separates small businesses from chains, or good business owners from great.
If there's one thing I've learned from watching the sitcom The Office almost four times all the way through on Netflix, it's that the only reason Dunder Mifflin, the mid-range paper supply company the show is based around, stays afloat among the big chain competitors is its commitment to personal service. Now that might be looking far too deep for small business strategies ingrained within a show where an employee fakes a fire alarm causing another employee to have a heart attack, but the real-world application holds true.
For instance, in looking for off-campus houses to live in next year at Loras, it was the small details that separated the seemingly shady landlord from the trustworthy one. It was a text, call, or email a day or two later or a week down the road to gauge my thoughts on the house, or the commitment to an informational tour rather than a tour dependent on me asking questions.
It's like calling back to a joke you made on the first date while you're on the third date. It's the little details that show the people you care about, your customers, that they are cared for and valued. Remaining faithful in small matters shows customers that you can remain faithful in the big picture.
The promise that I made my dad eight years ago is now complete. I hope this stirs up some sort of memory or recollection of a promise you made to an old friend or client years ago, about going out to lunch some time or get together. Maybe you made the promise in sixth grade, or maybe you made it yesterday, but just remember that getting the small details right and valuing your commitments will make people value theirs in return.


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One of the things that struck us about this year's group of 16 Top Singles was the mash-up of personality types. It was like watching a cast of video game characters: the debonair Hero, the crusading Warrior, the devastatingly beautiful Fembot … and so on.
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Vivianne Crowley, Ph.D., is an international teacher of Wicca and the Western magickal tradition. She is a psychologist and was formerly Lecturer in Psychology of Religion at King's College, University of London. She is now a professor in the Faculty of Pastoral Counselling, Cherry Hill Seminary, South Carolina.
She is the author of many books including Wicca, A Woman's Guide to the Earth Traditions, A Woman's Kabbalah and Jung: Principles of Jungian Spirituality.


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Elu Thingol je namišljena oseba iz Tolkienove mitologije. Bil je kralj Doriatha in vrhovni kralj sindarov in dober prijatelj Finwëja. Njegov brat je bil Olwë.

Poročil se je z Majarko Melian, ki mu je rodila hčerko Lúthien. Njegov naslednik je bil Lúthienin sin Dior.

       Fingolfin        Galdor     Thingol = Melian
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          Turgon         Huor   Beren = Lúthien
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           Idril ======= Tuor        Dior = Nimloth
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                 Eärendil ======== Elwing   Eluréd in Elurín
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                     Elros            Elrond = Celebrían
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                    Elendil                  |
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                Arnorski kralji              |
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          Dúnedainski vodje             |             |
                       :       (3)      |             |
                    Aragorn ========= Arwen  Elladan in Elrohir
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                            Eldarion

Opomba: Poroke med ljudmi in vilini so oštevilčene.

Njegov meč se je imenoval Aranrúth.

Sivi vilini

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pl:Lista Calaquendich#Elwë


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How do you serve a god of love when in fact you are a killer of men? How can you call yourself just when you are a righteous hammer that knows no fear or rem...
The Idea of God
What holds society together? How does civilization survive from collapsing in on itself? In this work, Kenneth A. Dobbs describes how religion is the cause of c...
Moose and Squirrel
Moose and Squirrel: The Adventure Begins! was born when my son Christian first cried, and my brother asked me if he was crying or laughing. I responded that ...
Love of Break Dancing
I write in my Harlem apartment in Wagner Projects. And I come over with great ideas when sitting in my black painted room. Where I started writing Love of Br...
Have you ever experienced hardships or failures either in your school or in your personal life? Do you tend to have conflicts with others or take things pers...
Spring Shot
This story is about a small boy who becomes lost in a strong dust storm. The wind and drifting sand is so strong that the only way he is able to go is north....
Poem Book from a Soldier
Poems from a SoldierTwenty years active duty in the Army. The best in four different MOS's, broke the security messages from the White House, also top C.A. a...
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