Disclaimer: This article has been updated after the WBC ordered the immediate rematch between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder.
Saturday's sensational heavyweight class between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder was supposed to give the victor more of a strangle hold on being the man in the division. But what the controversial draw has done is create even more argument and disagreement in Boxing's premier division. What the draw has potentially done is mean it'll be longer until we have one heavyweight champion.
Now, get your tinfoil hats at the ready, I have a theory as to how the game to the heavyweight throne will play out.
After the weekend all three men who can lay claim to being some version of Heavyweight champion of the world (lineal, in Fury's) said they want to fight each other. While one of these fights will happen in 2019, this article will look at why we won't have one unified, undisputed heavyweight champion in 2019. Next year may see the division become even more splintered with belt holders.
Hats on? Let's get going!
We'll start with the big payday – the AJ fight at Wembley Stadium in April 2019. We have all heard the talk that Dillian Whyte will be the man in the opposite corner to Joshua in the main event, but here is who it could be… Kubrat Pulev. Yep, Pulev, the man who pulled out injured the last time he was slated to face Joshua. I'll get to why I think this in a minute. But that doesn't mean the Whyte – Chisora winner won't fight for a world title in April.
With the immediate rematch between Wilder and Fury being ordered meaning there won't be a unification, the IBF could see an opening to call their mandatory to be the opponent for AJ in April. We all know how strict the IBF are with their mandatory challengers. It's technically how Joshua became the IBF champion so soon in his career, Tyson Fury having been stripped just weeks after winning the belt for not facing their number two.
The WBO, who had had Povetkin as their mandatory but surprisingly withdrew him from that position before the AJ fight, will with a little wink and a nudge from Eddie Hearn call their mandatory challenger. This will be in the form of the Whyte – Chisora winner, leaving Joshua in the position where he has to drop either the IBF or WBO belt.
Because the IBF was AJ's first "world title" (with another wink and a nudge from Hearn), he will drop the WBO to honour the IBF's mandatory call, leaving the Whyte – Chisora winner to fight for the vacant title, also meaning with the right results Hearn will have his hands on two Heavyweight World Champions when AJ wins and the Whyte – Chisora winner wins the vacant WBO title.
With no mandatory for either AJ or the new WBO Champion, this could lead to both men having voluntary defences toward the end of the year, before they meet at the beginning of 2020 in what will be sold as a huge unification bout. But let's not get ahead of ourselves; I'm still on the 2019 part of my tin foil theory.
With Fury and Wilder being ordered for the immediate rematch, both men will probably agree to fight somewhere towards the middle of 2019, but don't count on a third, the WBC will want their Mandatory honoured first. Don't be surprised if Tyson Fury shoots up the Ring rankings after the draw and their rematch could have the Ring Magazine Title on the line as well leaving the eventual winner as the WBC, Ring Magazine and Lineal Heavyweight Champion and in 90% of fans eyes, THE man at Heavyweight.
2020 starts the way 2017 and 2018 have finished, with boxing fans wanting a unified, undisputed Heavyweight champion and promoters start to work towards this, to a point. Matchroom announce that they have a huge unification fight between Anthony Joshua and the WBO Heavyweight Champion to keep Joshua on course to win all the belts.
This fight between AJ and the WBO Champion will allow the Fury Wilder Winner to fight their mandatory in Dominic Breazeale – as long as Breazeale stays unbeaten between now and then. This mandatory will keep the Champion busy and ready for the eventual unification with the other belt holder.
While this has all been happening, Oleksandr Usyk has finally stepped up from Cruiserweight and been made the WBO Number 1 contender as per their rules because he is their Cruiserweight Super Champion – he had held off until this point because the WBO had recently called their mandatory and he knew he wouldn't get his WBO shot straight away. Usyk steps up and is ringside for the unification fight between Anthony Joshua and the WBO Champion.
This is where I can see things either being unified and undisputed, or I could even see it all fracturing. Again. But this is where I see the first true point that the Heavyweight Titles could be unified – the end of 2020. The point where we get a WBA Super, WBC, IBF, WBO, Ring and Lineal Titles all held by one man. But it won't be a long unification as the eventual winner would have mandatory challengers everywhere! At the end of 2020 they would potentially have all 4 governing bodies calling their mandatories all within a short period of time, resulting in at least two belts being dropped almost instantly! As mentioned above, in this scenario, Usyk would have stepped up by this point and want his title shot, the WBA would want their mandatory obliged, the IBF are sticklers for a mandatory as well. The only one I could see not calling a mandatory straight away would be the WBC, but even that wouldn't be out of the picture.
As I said at the top – this is the Tin Foil Hat Corner. And I could have gone off on a tangent in many different directions: what if Usyk steps up at the beginning of 2019 and becomes the WBO Mandatory, forcing the Whyte Chisora winner to push for the WBC title fight rather than the WBO? The big variable for me would be Usyk and when he was to step up.
All three men can claim to be the man at the moment, but we could end up with none of them being the first undisputed heavyweight champion in the 4 belt era. The Whyte Chisora winner and Oleksandr Usyk will no doubt want to have their say on the outcome of the heavyweight scene in the next 24 months.
This is all obviously my opinion, and whatever way it pans out, the heavyweight division is fun again. Watching the game to the heavyweight throne will be fun, although I expect some flak for this piece!


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Roy was an avid collector his entire life, but he focused his primary energies on building three major collections: coins, stamps, and seashells. Like everything Roy approached, he became intent on completing these collections, and on acquiring the rare and hard-to-find. As a result, Roy's collections were recognized as among the world's most comprehensive.
All types of money were of interest to Roy as a coin collector. One of his early shows involved the participant reaching into a bowl to grab as many coins as they could manage. Very early on, Roy found himself noticing some rare dates in those bags of change that went to the studio, and he began exchanging the coveted coin for another, more ordinary coin. From then on, he found himself picking up currency everywhere he went, hoarding nickels, dimes, quarters, silver dollars, even pennies. Upon his return, he'd spend hours sorting and cataloguing his finds which — with the addition of tremendous research and devotion — grew into an exceptional coin collection over the next fifteen years.
Roy's collection contained many ancient Roman coins, which didn't have significant value, but which he appreciated for their beauty and novelty. His visits to coin dealers inevitably resulted in the addition of gold coins, rare coins, and commemorative coins to his substantial collection. This numismatic collector managed to acquire every type of money and currency you can imagine: gold sovereigns, shillings, florins, and half crowns; silver dollars; world currencies; American, British, and Canadian coins from the 17th century through the 20th century; and numerous commemorative coin sets. He was particularly found of gifting his wife, Shirley, with a rare gold coin or new commemorative set each year.
In the early 1960's, stamp collecting began to vie with coins for Roy's attention. He was intrigued by the beauty and variety of postage stamps. His stamp collection filled many albums with first-day covers and rare stamps from around the globe, not only Canadian, but US stamps and British stamps — including a British Empire collection that was 97% complete. Many quiet philatelic hours were spent sorting old stamps and poring over his burgeoning stamp albums in his home office.
Roy fell in love with seashells on his first trip to Fiji. Stunned by their beauty and infinite variety of form and design, he quickly became an avid collector. Like everything he did, he approached shell collecting ardently. His shell collection was likely the most extensive private collection in Canada, comprising many thousands of different specimens, some of them extremely rare. It included the Golden Cowry, the Glory of the Sea Cone, the Cypraea Guttata, and many other rare shells only seen in leading museums of the time.
After his death, all three collections were broken up and auctioned. Evaluating and pricing the various coins, stamps, and shells and arranging for their sale provided a monumental challenge for Roy's wife and children.
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Q: Encryped Core file in website I have a file called Core that is about 10 Mb. It is in the same directory that all the other main files of my website are in, such as Index.php. When I open it up, it looks encrypted. Can anyone tell me what the purpose of this file is?
My main concern is if the developer I worked with created this file for malicious purposes if he decides to use it. Is that possible?

A: Quite probably this is what's called a core dump file. There is nothing malicious about it. It is used for debugging, and is safe to delete.
Of course, I have no way to know for certain without any additional information, but I'd bet it's a core dump file.

A: Core files are created when a unix executable crashes - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump
It should be safe to delete it.

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Q: Missing Java3D on tomcat cartridge I have small gear with tomcat cartridge. When I try to execute war that that generate images with Java3D I get following exception:
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.media.j3d.Node

As a first think I tried to add Java3D at classpath, I have added to my pom.xml:
<dependency>
    <groupId>java3d</groupId>
    <artifactId>j3d-core-utils</artifactId>
    <version>1.3.1</version>
    <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>

This added to final war following artifacts:
[INFO] +- java3d:j3d-core-utils:jar:1.3.1:compile
[INFO] |  +- java3d:vecmath:jar:1.3.1:compile
[INFO] |  \- java3d:j3d-core:jar:1.3.1:compile

When I deployd adjusted war following exception raised:
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no J3D in java.library.path
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1886)

As far as I understand exception, it says that there are no native Java3D libraries at java.library.path. So I installed Java3D from suggested link, I also updated j3dcore.jar, j3dutils.jar and vecmath.jar. Also catalina.sh was updated:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/lib/openshift/<my-application-id>/app-root/data/j3d-1_5_2-linux-amd64/lib/amd64

I suppose that there is no X11 server to work with, because of that Java3D have to run in headless mode. It could be set in catalina.sh like this:
JAVA_OPTS=${JAVA_OPTS}" -Djava.awt.headless=true"

Now it seems that all java3D classes and *.so libraries are found. Now there is another problem:
java.awt.HeadlessException
at sun.java2d.HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.getDefaultScreenDevice(HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.java:64)

Problem is that Java3D class Canvas3D can't work in headless mode. Only way could be to connect to some X11 server with screen. It could be done with export DISPLAY=:0.0
As far as I was able to test, it seems that there is no X11 server, providing screen to which could Java3D connect. Because of that it's not possible to run Java3D at OpenShift platform with tomcat cartridge.
Thanks for your help.

A: Have you tried adding it to your pom.xml to get installed via maven? Or add the .jar file to your project manually... http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/java3d/j3d-core-utils/1.3.1
You might require more than just the core package.
Since you are deploying a war file, and not using maven, i think you would need to download the jar files and embed them in your war file as libraries and use them.
You might also check out this article: https://www.openshift.com/kb/kb-e1087-how-to-include-libraries-jar-files-in-your-java-application-without-using-maven
It looks like there is also a .so file that you would need to include with something like -Djava.library.path
Here is the file with the jars & .so file on java.net  http://download.java.net/media/java3d/builds/release/1.5.2/j3d-1_5_2-linux-amd64.zip
Speaking with the dev ops team, it does not seem that package is installed on the servers.


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Opinion: Our national parks are in crisis. Trump's solution is absurd
The granite monolith El Capitan is bathed in moonlight in the Yosemite Valley.
(Los Angeles Times)
By Linda J. Bilmes,
John B. Loomis
It's easy to dismiss as absurd the Trump administration's ideas for plugging the chronic funding gap of our national parks. Can anyone really think it's a good idea to allow Amazon deliveries to your tent in Yosemite or food trucks to line up under the redwood trees at Sequoia National Park?
But the administration is right about one thing: U.S. national parks are in crisis. Collectively, they have a maintenance backlog of more than $12 billion. Roads, trails, restrooms, visitor centers and other infrastructure are crumbling.
But privatizing and commercializing the campgrounds would not be the panacea that the Interior Department's Outdoor Advisory Committee would have us believe. Campgrounds are a tiny portion of the overall infrastructure backlog, and concessionaires in the parks hand over, on average, only about 5% of their revenues to the National Park Service.
Moreover, increased privatization would certainly undercut one of the major reasons why 300 million visitors come to the parks each year: to enjoy nature and get a respite from the commercial drumbeat that overwhelms daily life.
The real problem is that the parks have been chronically starved of funding. We conducted a comprehensive survey examining how U.S. residents view their national parks, and we found that Americans place a very high value on them — whether or not they actually visit them. The peer-reviewed economic survey of 700 U.S. taxpayers, conducted by mail and internet, also found that people would be willing to pay a significant amount of money to make sure the parks and their programs are kept intact. Some 81% of respondents said they would be willing to pay additional taxes for the next 10 years to avoid any cuts to the national parks.
The national parks provide great value to U.S. residents both as places to escape and as symbols of nature. On top of this, they produce value from their extensive educational programs, their positive impact on the climate through carbon sequestration, their contribution to our cultural and artistic life, and of course through tourism. The parks also help keep America's past alive, working with thousands of local jurisdictions around the country to protect historical sites — including Ellis Island and Gettysburg — and to bring the stories of these places to life.
The parks do all this on a shoestring. Congress allocates only $3 billion a year to the national park system — an amount that has been flat since 2001 (in inflation-adjusted dollars) with the exception of a onetime boost in 2009 as part of the Obama stimulus package. Meanwhile, the number of annual visitors has increased by more than 50% since 1980, and now stands at 330 million visitors per year.
It's time for Congress to recognize the enormous value of the national parks — America's "best investment," as we subtitled our recent book on the park system. If the administration's advisory committee wants to do the country a real service, it should focus its efforts on advocating for a realistic budget for the parks that will address their chronic funding shortage. It should also look at financing models that would help the Parks Service to fulfill its mission of protecting these places "forever." These models could include endowments, 20-year bonds and two-year federal appropriations.
Philanthropy also plays an important role in funding the parks, but there are regulatory impediments to effective fundraising. For example, federal funds and donated funds cannot be intermingled into a single contract, unless the private dollars are transferred to the government, a step often resisted by the donor.
The Los Angeles region has a special reason to help protect national parks. Many iconic movies and TV dramas have shot some of their most memorable scenes in these places — including "Star Wars" (Death Valley), "Jurassic Park" (Redwoods), "Thelma and Louise" (Canyonlands), "Forrest Gump" (National Mall), "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (Zion), "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (Arches). For the film industry, park locations provide instantly recognizable images (such as the Statue of Liberty in "Planet of the Apes"), grand untouched scenery (as seen in "Dances With Wolves" at Badlands) or entirely different worlds (such as the "Star Wars" planet Tatooine, shot in Death Valley).
There are plenty of commercial campgrounds outside park boundaries for those looking for take-out barbecue and speedy Wi-Fi. But those who wish to camp in a more rustic setting should be able to do so in peace. The recommendations from Trump to "modernize" park campgrounds would bring rank commercialization of one of America's most precious assets.
Linda J. Bilmes, a professor at Harvard University, and John B. Loomis, a professor at Colorado State University, are co-authors of "Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs: America's Best Investment."
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According to abbreviationfinder, Seoul or Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea. A megacity with a population of more than 10 million, Seoul is one of the largest cities in the world. The Seoul National Capital Area is the second largest metropolitan area in the world with more than 24.5 million residents, which includes the metropolis Incheon and the majority of Gyeonggi province. Almost half of South Korea's population lives in the Seoul National Capital Area and almost a quarter in Seoul itself, making it the main economic, political and cultural center of the country.
Seoul is located in the northwest of South Korea. Seoul comprises 605.25 km², with a radius of approximately 15 km, roughly bisected into two halves, north and south by the Han River. The Han River and its surroundings have played an important role in Korean history.. The Three Kingdoms of Korea strove to take control of this land, where the river is used as a trade route to China (via the Yellow Sea). The river is no longer actively used for navigation, because its estuary is located on the borders of the two Koreas, with the entry of civilians prohibited. The city is surrounded by eight mountains, as well as the highest lands of the Han River Plain and western areas.
Seoul is located in the border region between a humid subtropical and humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Cwa / DWA), depending on the definition. Summers are generally hot and humid, with the East Asian monsoon occurring between June and July. August is the hottest month, with an average temperature of 22.4 to 29.6 ° C with the highest possible temperatures. Winters are usually relatively cold with an average temperature in January of -5.9 to 1.5 ° C and are generally much drier than summers, with an average of 28 days of snow per year.
As the headquarters of Samsung, LG, Hyundai, Kia and SK, Seoul has become a major commercial center. Despite accounting for only 0.6 percent of South Korea's land area, Seoul generates 21 percent of the country's GDP.
A relatively large number of TNCs are based in Seoul. International banks with branches in Seoul include Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Grupo Santander, UBS, Credit Suisse, Unicredit, Société Générale, Calyon, BBVA, Macquarie Group, ING Bank, and Standard Chartered. The Korea Exchange Bank is also based in the city.
The most modern shopping center is Times Square, which also has a Starium CGV cinema with the largest screen in the world of cinema, certified by Guinness World Records. South Korea's largest market, Dongdaemun Market, is located in Seoul. Myeongdong is a shopping and entertainment center in central Seoul, with medium and high-end stores, boutiques, and international brand stores. The nearby Namdaemun Market, named after the Namdaemun Gate, is the oldest market in Seoul. Sinchon is a commercial area that caters mainly to a young audience and university students.
Insadong is the cultural art market of Seoul, Korea, where modern and traditional works of art such as paintings, sculptures and calligraphies are sold. Hwanghak-dong Flea Market and Janganpyeong Old Market also offer vintage goods. Some local designer shops have opened in Samcheong-dong, where many small art galleries are located. Itaewon is mainly geared towards foreign tourists and American soldiers based in the city. Gangnam District is one of the most prosperous areas in Seoul and is characterized by the Apgujeong-dong and Cheongdam-dong areas of fashion and luxury and the COEX mall. Wholesale markets include the Noryangjin Wholesale Fishing Market and the Garak Market. Yongsan Electronics market is the largest electronics market in Asia. The Gasan Digital complex also has an extensive variety of electronic products.
There are also religious buildings that have an important role in Korean society and politics. The Wongudan altar was a sacrificial site where the rulers of Korea held celestial rituals since the Three Kingdoms period. Since the Joseon dynasty adopted Confucianism as a national ideology in the 14th century, the state built many Confucian temples. The descendants of the Joseon royal family still hold ceremonies to commemorate the ancestors in Jongmyo., the oldest preserved Confucian royal sanctuary where ritual ceremonies follow a tradition established in the 14th century. Munmyo and Dongmyo were built during the same period. Although Buddhism was suppressed by the Joseon state, it has continued its existence. Jogyesa is the headquarters of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism. Hwagyesa and Bongeunsa are also the main Buddhist temples in Seoul. See population of South Korea.
Myeongdong Cathedral is a landmark of the Myeongdong district and the largest established Catholic church in Korea. It is a symbol of Christianity in Korea. It was also a focus of political dissent in the late 20th century.
There are many Protestant churches in Seoul. The largest number are Presbyterian, but there are also Methodists, Baptists, and Lutheran churches.
The Seoul Central Mosque, which is located in Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu was the first mosque built in Korea after the Korean War. It remains the only mosque in Seoul, and is a tourist attraction for Koreans who visit on weekends to listen to talks about Islam.
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SPORTS YEAR IN REVIEW: Top 10 area newsmakers of 2018
Jayden Fiebiger/Sawyer Lloyd/Sam Rocha, Wall basketball and track
These three Lady Hawks enjoyed quite the year in 2018.
All three are members of the Wall girls basketball team, which will the take the No. 1 ranking in the state in Class 3A into 2019.
All three also qualified for the state track and field meet.
Jayden Fiebiger took third place in the 800-meter run at state, while Sam Rocha was third in the high jump.
Fiebiger and Sawyer Lloyd were part of the Lady Hawks' 4x400 relay that was fifth.
Fiebiger signed to continue her track career at Oklahoma State University, while Lloyd and Rocha signed to play basketball at Angelo State University.
Jack Marshall, Brady tennis and track
Brady High School sophomore Jack Marshall was a two-sport star for the Bulldogs.
He won the Class 3A boys singles title at the state tennis tournament with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Shallowater's Riley Robbins.
He also swept the 100- and 200-meter titles at the Region I-3A track and field meet. He took sixth place in both events at state
Taylor Tomlinson, Christoval and Angelo State golf
Taylor Tomlinson defended her title at the Class 2A state golf tournament at Roy Kizer Golf Course in Austin.
Tomlinson had a two-day score of 74-77--151, then won a two-hole sudden death playoff against Forsan's Jillian Jones.
Tomlinson is in her freshman season with the Angelo State University golf team.
Tristan Ortiz, Reagan County powerlifting and football
Reagan County's Tristan Ortiz broke the state powerlifting record with an 820-pound squat at the Division III state meet.
Ortiz, who had a total lift of 1,755 pounds over three lifts, finished 15 pounds behind Dublin's Ethan Price and had to settle for second place in the 275-pound class.
Ortiz was also again one of the best linemen in West Texas. He earned first-team all-district honors as an offensive lineman and defensive lineman for the Owls football team.
Garrett Stephens, Wall track and field
Wall pole vaulter Garrett Stephens turned his wild-card entry to the state track meet into a gold medal.
Stephens nearly missed out on a trip to state, but he had the best mark among third-place finishers to earn the wild card.
Stephens was stellar at state, not missing an attempt until the bar was at 16 feet. His perfect run to 15-6 held up as the winning mark over Tolar's Warren Miller, who had more misses before clearing the height.
Colton Chitsey and Shawn LaBedelle, Wall tennis
Of all our area's state champions, the most unexpected may have come from Wall's boys doubles team of Colton Chitsey and Shawn LaBedelle.
After all, they were the No. 2 doubles team for the Hawks and unseeded at the regional tournament.
But Chitsey and LaBedelle made a surprise run to the regional title, then backed it up with their performance at the state tournament, where they dropped only eight games in three matches.
The Wall duo capped their run to the state title with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Brock's Rayce Mitchell and Zach Kursteiner in the final.
Brayden Wilcox, Christoval football
Christoval sophomore quarterback Brayden Wilcox was the definition of clutch for the Cougars in 2018.
He led his team to four wins that were decided in the final minutes -- including a district-title clinching win against Eldorado in which he scored on a 79-yard touchdown run with 3:23 remaining.
He delivered two game-winning drives against Cross Plains, including one in the playoffs that gave the Cougars their first playoff win since 1992.
Wilcox helped Christoval to an 8-4 record and its first district title since 2007. He rushed for 1,843 yards and 28 TDs in 12 games.
Alexandra Hensley, Menard track and cross country
Menard's Alexandra Hensley won the Class 1A state title in the 100-meter hurdles as a freshman.
She came into the meet with a personal-best time of 16.00 seconds but broke that by running 15.67 to set the 1A state meet record.
In the fall, Hensley qualified for the state cross country meet as a sophomore and took 29th place.
Natali Dominguez, Irion County powerlifting
Irion County High School's Natali Dominguez won her second consecutive state championship in girls powerlifting.
The 4-foot-7, 95-pound Dominguez lifted a total of 695 pounds over three lifts at the Class 1A/2A state meet to repeat as champion of the 97-pound class.
Her total was 55 pounds more than the second-place finisher and set a new state record for her class.
Her best lift of the year was 705 pounds, which made her pound-for-pound the strongest lifter of all the girls state qualifiers from the Standard-Times coverage area.
Jack Griffin, Eldorado football
Eldorado High School defensive lineman Jack Griffin wreaked havoc up front for the Eagles in 2018.
He had 122 tackles, seven sacks, 34 tackles for loss and six forced fumbles during the regular season.
He led an Eldorado defense that allowed only 15 points per game. The Eagles went 6-5 and won a share of their first district title since 2007, one year after going 2-9.
Griffin was named to the first team of the Associated Press Class 2A all-state football team -- an honor given to only 24 players in Texas.


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Forensic expert Dr. Michael Baden of the HBO series Autopsy and trial attorney and legal commentator Linda Kenney Baden bring us a chilling new thriller featuring their crack crime-fighting duo: Dr. Jake Rosen, world famous pathologist, deputy chief medical examiner, and devoted scientist; and top litigator Manny Manfreda who is as lovely (and accessorized) as she is gutsy.
The case begins with New York City on high-alert for a most bizarre serial killer–a strange kind of thief who stalks his victims for the purpose of extracting a vial of blood, earning him the tabloid nickname the Vampire. As the attacks become more and more vicious and graduate to torture and then murder, the duo begins to suspect there is a connection between the killer's seemingly random victims. But, what is the link between the Vampire and a case that Manny's been working for a kid whose high school prank-gone-wrong has earned him the moniker the Preppy Terrorist and an FBI ankle bracelet? Jake's careful forensic examinations, Manny's courtroom tenaciousness, and an unusual clue suggesting that a high ranking politician has risen from the grave, take them from the bowels of the morgue to the world of international intrigue. At the heart of this story is the heartbreaking take of corruption interlaced with cover-ups, conspiracies, death squads and dictators who committed crimes that to this day go unpunished.
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Home » Dewey storms race to secure Wind purchase
Dewey storms race to secure Wind purchase
O'Connor, Joanne
Lawyer;4/18/2005, Vol. 19 Issue 15, p8
The article reveals that Dewey Ballantine LLP, client Weather Investments has won out in the high-profile contest for Italian telecommunications group Wind, tabling a stunning €l2.2bn offer to defeat a bid by Blackstone. Dewey Italian head Bruno Gattai advised Weather, the bid vehicle led by Egyptian telecoms guru Naguib Sawiris, chief executive and chairmian of Egypt's Orascom Telecom. According to reports, Sawiris's Orasfom outfit, which owns and runs mobile phone networks across the Middle East and North Africa, stumbled into financial difficulty in 2001, before being rescued by more than $200m of investment from former Palestinian Liberation Organisation head Yassir Arafat.
North Korea: Will Mobile Phones Bring Change? // Emerging Markets Monitor;12/22/2008, Vol. 14 Issue 36, p6
The article reports on North Korea's implementation of third-generation (3G) mobile phone services through Egypt's Orascom Telecom (OT). The entry notes that OT has set an initial target of 100,000 subscribers in three major cities, including Pyongyang, and has committed to invest US$400 million...
NAGUIB SAWIRIS. El Sawy, Nada; Ismail, Gameela; Macaron, Joe; Sinderbrand, Rebecca // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition);6/20/2005 (Atlantic Edition), Vol. 145 Issue 24/25, p57
This article profiles Naguib Sawiris, chief executive of Egypt's Orascom. The kidnappings were a turning point for Naguib Sawiris, at least in the eyes of many Egyptians. Since the late 1990s, his fame had spread as the dynamic force behind Orascom's phenomenal growth as a telecommunications...
Egypt's Orascom eyes exclusive mobile service, expanded investment in N. Korea. // East-Asia-Intel Reports;11/14/2012, p4
The article focuses on a report concerning the visit of Orascom Telecom Holding SAE chairman Naguib Sawiris to Pyongyang, North Korea to discuss the expansion of the firm's investments in the Stalinist nation. Orascom Telecom Holding is noted to be the leading international telecommunications...
NAGUIB SAWIRIS. El Sawy, Nada; Ismail, Gameela; Macaron, Joe; Sinderbrand, Rebecca // Newsweek (Pacific Edition);6/20/2005 (Pacific Edition), Vol. 145 Issue 24/25, p51
Foreign bidders face exclusion. // MEED: Middle East Economic Digest;8/31/2007, Vol. 51 Issue 35, p25
The article reports on changes introduced by Kuwait in its third mobile license scheme. Some of the Middle East region's largest mobile phone operators do not know whether they are eligible to bid for Kuwait's third mobile license, after the government introduced last-minute changes that may...
Buy MobiNil On The Dip. // Middle East & Africa Financial Alert;7/28/2003, Vol. 2 Issue 43, p5
Egypt's Orascom Telecom (OT) announced that it was off loading its troublesome U.S. $10million stake in mobile operator Syriatel, which will end a legal dispute with its partner in the Syrian firm, Drex Technologies, over the management of the company. Orascom also confirmed that it will...
Beyond the Bazaar. MacLeod, Scott // Time International (South Pacific Edition);7/31/2006, Issue 30, p1
The article focuses on the purchase of Israeli-owned telecommunications company Partner Telecommunications Co. Ltd. by Orascom Telecom Holding SAE from Egypt. The $150 million deal, lead by Orascom CEO Naguib Sawiris, has allowed the company to acquire 9.9 percent of Partner's shares. Sawiris...
Reformers Take On Egypt's Old Guard. Zarocostas, John // World & I;Sep2004, Vol. 19 Issue 8, pN.PAG
Discusses issues related to the economic reform programs in Egypt in 2004. Views of Orascom Telecom CEO Naguib Sawiris on the government; Importance of gradual change to the country's economy; Percentage of the population who live below the poverty line.
Ambitions outgrow the region. Niedl, Richard // MEED: Middle East Economic Digest;4/8/2005, Vol. 49 Issue 14, p34
Reports on the financial performance of Orascom Telecom (OT) as of April 2005. Increase in the number of subscribers to company's services; Comments from OT chairman and chief executive officer Naguib Sawiris, on the strategy used by the company; Background on the growth of OT in countries such...


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Global outbreaks like coronavirus can easily spread across borders, so while they exist anywhere, they are a threat everywhere. The UK's aid budget is a life-saving tool in the fight to strengthen health systems globally to respond to crises, through sharing tools and expertise. Join the Global Citizen movement by taking action with us here to support the UN's Global Goal 3 for health and wellbeing for everyone, and to shout your support for the UK's aid budget.
Britain has announced a new UK aid pledge to help respond to the global outbreak of coronavirus by combatting the spread of the virus in developing countries.
The UK's Secretary for International Development, Alok Sharma, announced £5 million in funding from the aid budget on Saturday — with more than 40,000 people now reportedly infected in China, and an additional 319 cases worldwide.
It's essential that patients are detected and isolated to tackle the spread of the disease, so that they don't spread the virus to other people.
But many developing countries don't yet have the tools, expertise, and health infrastructure to diagnose and treat patients, according to the UK's Department for International Development (DfID).
The new UK aid funding will work to support such countries to rapidly identify and care for patients with symptoms.
"Diseases are global threats and to save lives around the world we need a fully coordinated International response," said Sharma, making the announcement.
"By supporting developing countries with fragile health systems to properly respond to suspected cases of coronavirus, UK aid can help prevent the spread of the outbreak," he added.
The funding is going to the World Health Organisation (WHO), to support its Flash Appeal. The appeal is aiming to train rapid response teams and medical staff to identify and respond to symptoms, as well as raising awareness of how to avoid coronavirus in developing countries.
On top of this, additional experts funded by UK aid will be deployed to the WHO to help coordinate the international response.
It's a great example of how overseas aid can work around the world to make it a safer place for everyone. As highlighted by WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a global effort is needed in response to outbreaks like coronavirus that don't respect borders.
"It could be the spark that becomes a bigger fire," he said. "But for now it is only a spark. Our objective remains containment."
According to reports on Tuesday, there are now eight cases of coronavirus in the UK — including two health workers. Public Health England has confirmed that five of the cases related to a "super spreader" — a man who caught the virus in Singapore, before travelling to France, and then returning to the UK.
The new UK aid announcement follows a pledge from the government last week of £20 million to support the development of new vaccines to help combat the world's deadliest diseases.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the funding would ramp up Britain's efforts to fund ground-breaking research into vaccines, diagnostics, and cures to fight the threat of future viruses.
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New UK Aid Pledge Will Combat Spread of Coronavirus in Developing Countries
By Imogen Calderwood


This week its Two against Three, Dana and B Plan talk about our top 3 underappreciated horror movies, plus their thoughts on James Wan's Insidious: Chapter 2!!!
This time Dana and Steve run around Kentucky's premiere Horror/Paranormal show Scarefest. Steve get run down by Christine and watch favorites Friday the 13th part 5 and part 7 plus the recent film You're Next. So listen and clean your nasty shitbox!!!
Dana and Steven travel to Horrorhound weekend plus we watch 'The World's End', 'I spit on your grave 2', 'Rewind This' and discuss the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' movies and nasty men on chat-roulette and even more! !
Dana and Steve take the Boardinghouse 2 and a half hour cut challenge, see who makes it thru it alive. We also check out Nightmare In A Damaged Brain and Wild Beasts!! So kick back, pop open a brewski and listen up!! !
For the first time on Deadpit Radio Network Dana and Steve fill their weekend with a ton of movies, including The Conjuring, Insidious, The Car, and even Via Knievel. Hear the newlyweds take about every type of movie under the sun!!!


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Which episode has a bouncer described with various meat monster cockogies?
I'm pretty sure it was one of the nanowrimo episodes. Either that or smashwords. One of the snippets from the doc has the main character trying to get into a club, but the bouncer rebuffs him, and it describes his "ham hock hands" and "sausage fingers" and one of the ridiculists points this out and asks if the bouncer thought it over in his "foie gras mind." Does anyone know which episode this is? I felt like listening to it.
#116, "Does an Ellipsis Count as Three Words?"
In the future, it's probably better to ask in the existing thread for this than to make a new one.


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This week, the College Seminar, the College of Arts and Letters's signature interdisciplinary requirement, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Implemented in 2005, the College Seminar requirement was initially intended to provide students with a traditional "Great Books" style of education and serve as an integration of the liberal arts. Now, the College Seminar serves as a course that both enhances students' oral presentation skills and offers a variety of unique topics centered on a faculty member's specific field.
As part of the Seminar's 10th anniversary, the College of Arts and Letters, in conjunction with its Department of Communications and Finances, is hosting a 10-day Twitter competition for students to share their personal lessons and experiences from their College Seminars. From April 10 to April 19, students can respond to questions tweeted by the College of Arts and Letters on its Twitter (@ArtsLettersND) using the hashtag #CSEM10 and receive prizes for the best answers. Prizes for the best tweets range from coffee mugs and campus gear from the College of Arts and Letters to Starbucks, Au Bon Pain and Hammes Bookstore gift cards.
"Doing it on Twitter was a way to include everybody," Joshua said. "We decided, in conjunction with the Office of Communication for Arts and Letters, on a Twitter competition that would be open to all current students.
Several students have already participated in the competition, Joshua said.
College Seminars have become unique for their interesting and diverse topics and focuses, Joshua said. Courses taught by Professors Andrew Weigert and David O'Connor are known to be especially popular, Joshua said.
"CSEM gives you that opportunity to go for something outside of your discipline, because it is interdisciplinary by nature, and to go out of your comfort zone, which is nice because you end up with exploration as well as engagement," Joshua said.
Joshua views the genuine interest, engagement and bonding between students and professors as a measure of the success of the College Seminar, she said.
"I measure success in whether 'Are the students engaged? Do they love it? Do they come out talking about it afterwards and are they talking about it before they get to class?'" Joshua said.


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Hannibal 1×03 – Potage
In the third episode of Hannibal, the tone remains the same, but the narrative begins to unfold ever so slowly.
When Abigail Hobbs awakens from her coma, Jack Crawford still thinks she was helping her father in some way. Taking her back to her home, she is confronted with evidence of her father's murders. As Will, Hannibal and Dr. Bloom (Caroline Dhavernas) try to tell Jack she had nothing to with her father's crimes, they find another victim impaled on a deer's head in Abigail's father's workshop. The girl is Marissa, a neighbor, who was alive 24 hours prior, and she was killed just like the previous victims.
The victim Will found in the very first episode he still believes to be the work of a copycat. That victim's brother, Nicholas Boyle, came to talk to Abigail at her home. The next day, Abigail finds women's hair inside of a pillow her father made, and attacks and kills Nicholas. Lecter discovers her and basically tells her there's no way to make it look like self defense. The two cover up the murder and clean the crime scene.
Abigail realizes that Lecter is the one that called and warned her father, as the two agree to keep each other's secrets.
Mads Mikkelsen is so, so good as Hannibal Lecter. He's quiet, sort of lurks in the shadows, but when he needs something, he gets it. He's so proud of Will for figuring out the copycat that he almost smiles. And it was so creepy. He's also the master of manipulation, if his treatment of Abigail is any indication. He manipulates her — softly, kindly, without any threats — into covering up the crime scene. Abigail thinks she's evil, made worse when she inadvertently kills Nicholas, but Lecter tells her she's not evil. And she's not. She's a scared girl who had a monster as a father. Lecter reassures Abigail that she is not evil. Because he knows evil and she's not.
This episode is Abigail's episode, but Will finds out the most important part: Hobbs used every part of his victims because he thought he was honoring them by doing so (using their hair as stuffing for pillows, for example). Will keeps mostly in the background since we aren't introduced to a new serial killer, for which I am grateful.
Potage was a much slower episode, but I like the Abigal Hobbs stuff and am intrigued by her character and her relationship with Lecter. She's already messed up, will he mess her up more or will he help her? Will she become his new assistant? Like always, the episode is gorgeous and so chilling. Everything looks so cold and lacks warmth. The set design is crazy complicated, though — the warmest part of the episode was when Lecter consoles Abigail after she had just killed Nicholas. The room looked so cozy and warm, when just minutes earlier it looked cold and unwelcoming.
Potage is a a thick creamy soup. It's often warm, which is something this episode lacked until the end.
Overall, I am very much enjoying this series and I'm so glad we get 13 more episodes next year. I like that only in its third episode we didn't meet a new serial killer, but rather focused on past characters. A nice change, and the violence was a little softer, if that's possible.
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Ever been in that neverending loop of non-support support? Here's a great example, and I'd love to get Samsung to notice. This is not about exploding phones. It's much more sinister because the problem is hidden.
My wife and I each own Samsung Galaxy Note 5s, which have the capability, supposedly, for wireless fast charging. That keeps us from ruining the USB ports by constant plugging and unplugging.
That would be great . . . if it worked consistently.
We bought three Samsung OEM Fast Charge Wireless Chargers from Target. These aren't knockoffs or counterfeit. They are the real thing. All three worked fine for a few days with both phones. Then, the problem began. When we place the phones on the chargers, the blue light on the front begins to flash and a message appears saying "Wireless Charging Paused" and charging never resumes.
After experiencing this problem with both phones and all three chargers, I began looking online for a solution. It turned out we weren't the Lone Rangers. Many, many people are experiencing this problem. Many solutions are suggested by users. Some seem to work, but those that do are random and temporary.
So, I called Samsung support. Twice. The only solution given was for me to return all three chargers for replacement. What? Tell me the odds that three chargers are all bad. And, what about the thousands having problems online. That many Samsung wireless chargers are manufactured with a flaw?
OK, so I emailed support. You can see the complete messages below, but I'll summarize them for you.
In my reply, I wrote, again, that the complaints I'd seen on the Internet were on SAMSUNG'S SUPPORT PAGE COMMUNITY FORUM, as well as many other websites. Clearly, the issue has been reported in SAMSUNG'S OWN SUPPORT FORUM.
So, just to be sure we all understand, the phone rep said to use the email system because she was unable to help me and the email system rep, Tushar, told me to call the phone system because he, and his email support colleagues, were unable to help me.
So, here we are with three wireless chargers that don't work, or work intermittently at best. They are useless and Samsung has no solution but return and replace all three chargers, which, according to the testimony of many others, does not solve the problem.
So, you ask, why don't you just return these chargers under the warranty? I probably will, but I am someone who saves receipts. Truth is, most people don't. Returning them for replacement is an onerous task most people don't have time for, so they'll just make the chargers a paperweight. When a company knows it is selling a flawed device, ignoring the problem is never the right answer, no matter the onerous, and apparently ineffective, suggested remedy.
Hey, Samsung, get your support act together and either find a resolution for these chargers' problem or quit selling them!
It must be disappointing as all the three wireless chargers failed to work. I will provide you with the information to replace the chargers under warranty.
First of all, I regret for the inconvenience. I understand the importance of your accessory to work correctly.
Samsung always strives to produce the products which meet customer's necessaries, demands on functionality, user reliability, and technical durability of materials. Samsung products are manufactured under careful conditions and are inspected before leaving the point of manufacturer.
There are no reported issues with any our products and replacement accessories. We do not take 3rd party websites into consideration. I appreciate your patience and efforts for charging your Note 5's with the wireless chargers to narrow down the issue.
As this issue cannot be resolved with troubleshooting steps, please ship the wireless chargers to our service center for physical examination/replacement. I regret to inform that there is no other option.
To ship the wireless charger to our Samsung service center for physical evaluation/replacement, please contact our Live chat / Voice support team to file an accessory replacement ticket on your behalf.
To replace the charger, the defective charger should be sent to the Samsung repair center for evaluation. Our repair technician will determine if the cause of damage is due to defect or an external source. If the damage is caused by a defect, the charger will be replaced under warranty. In order to receive a replacement charger under warranty, a copy of the Proof of Purchase must be supplied with the accessory that is being sent in.
Samsung provides 12 months of warranty to the phones and its accessories from the date of purchase. Physical and liquid damages are not covered under Samsung warranty.
1. Check the possible options by contacting the Carrier / place of purchase.
2. If the wireless charger has insurance, contact the insurance provider to check possible options available.
3. You may contact our chat support for further assistance in filing an accessory replacement ticket for your wireless charger.
They will file an accessory replacement ticket and provide you with the ticket number to you and send the UPS label to the email address.
Take the print out of the ship label and stick it on any one side of the box and write down the ticket number on other sides of the box and drop it in a UPS office.
The TAT (Turn-around-Time) for the service is 2 business days for ship in + 7 to 9 business days for Service and 2 business days for ship out.
5. You may also contact our voice support team for further assistance in filing an accessory replacement ticket for your wireless charger. Please contact our voice support at 1-888-987-4357, Mon-Fri: 7:00 A.M. to 2:00 A.M. (CST), Sat: 9:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. (CST), to send it to Samsung service center.
Hope the above information helps. Please revert to us if you need any further assistance. We will be glad to assist you.
Should you desire additional assistance, we invite you to access the above link to speak to a Chat Specialist. Our technicians are more than happy to assist you further. Chat Support is available 24X7.
For additional support and updates regarding your product, please follow us at @SamsungSupport on Twitter or like our page at https://www.facebook.com/samsungsupport.
Thank you for choosing Samsung products.
It must be very inconvenient for you as the Samsung wireless charger is not working and you do not want a replacement for the charger.
The community page is for the people to write their views and any information they wish to share.
As you mentioned that you do not want a replacement in this case please contact our voice support team they are the right person to help you. Please contact them and they will assist you further.
As the Email support you have contacted deals with basic troubleshooting and technicality of the phones and we do not have enough tools or resouces to get the information for you.
I am sorry for the inconvenience caused. Trust me I am helping you with all the information I had from our end.
Should you desire additional assistance, we invite you to access the web-link http://www.samsung.com/us/support/contact to speak to a Chat Specialist. Our technicians are more than happy to assist you further. Chat Support is available 24X7.


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Review: Fable Heroes
2012-04-30 11:00:00by Maurice Tan
One part hack, one part slash, and one part four-player cooperative Fable with puppet heroes. Fable Heroes would be the last thing you would expect Lionhead Studios to come up with if Fable: The Journey hadn't been announced already.
In true Lionhead fashion, Fable Heroes is a game that made me feel emotions I hadn't felt in more than a year, but perhaps not the kind that it intended to elicit.
Fable Heroes (Xbox Live Arcade)
Developer: Lionhead Studios
Publisher: Microsoft Studios
MSRP: 800 Microsoft Points
First things first: no, this is not that (non-)linear Kinect game where you shout at your horse. Fable Heroes is the result of Lionhead's yearly "Creative Day," during which employees can come up with creative new ideas (think Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight). Although the four-player, hack-and-slash genre may not be the most innovative of gaming experiences on offer, Fable Heroes does sport some creative touches where you least expect them.
Each player selects one of ten hero puppets that represent characters from the Fable series, then either goes online to fight through some of Albion's more memorable locations together or sticks with offline solo and local co-op play. It's your regular hack-and-slash fare, with normal and "flourish" attack moves serving as your quick and heavy attacks, while the right trigger is reserved for an area-of-effect attack that costs health every time you use it.
You shouldn't really think too hard about why you are in control of puppets -- which can look creepy or cute depending on your point of view -- and neither should you think about why the menagerie of Fable enemies, such as Balverines, Hobbes, and Sand Furies, isn't in puppet form itself. In fact, Fable Heroes doesn't require much of your cognitive capabilities at all.
Hacking and slashing your way through the six levels in Albion is as straightforward as it can be. You follow a path, collect coins which count towards your score and which act as currency for upgrading abilities, and kill enemies until a "Go" sign says you can progress. At some point before the end of a level, a choice of two paths is offered, one of which usually leads to a boss or a button-mashing mine cart or boat ride mini-game. As easy as all of that sounds, it's not as smooth an experience as it should be.
For starters, the controls are sluggish. Especially when playing as Garth or Jack of Blades -- who float in mid-air -- it's very hard to have any sense of precision as to where you are in relation to the ground. This is slightly less of a problem with the melee characters, while ranged characters like Reaver also control a bit odd when switching from stationary ranged pistol attacks to running around to collect coins.
The controls are not so much a problem when it comes to dispatching enemies, as you'll just aim in their general direction and mash the same button over and over again for what is usually the entire duration of a level. Where it does become an issue is when you try to pick up coins. As long as you don't get hit, your multiplier bar will increase with each enemy kill, and it will only slowly decrease when you don't kill anything for a while. The higher your multiplier, the more coins you'll collect when running over them.
On the Normal and Challenging difficulty settings, it's these coins that define how well you did in a level. The player who has the highest coin score at a level's end will stand victorious on a podium, while the player who was least successful in their scramble for monetary gain is rewarded with a sad trombone. In what is a very creative visual solution to indicate how long coins remain on the playfield, large coins spin around and only flicker and disappear after falling flat on one side. However, all coins of any size and value disappear far too quickly, making it a scramble for coins to get on the victory podium for trash talking's sake. What's worse, the act of collecting coins is bothersome since it can be very hard to gauge where your character is on the 3D playing field, usually meaning you'll walk right past these coins instead of picking up them up.
This results in chaos, with players often running and rolling in all directions except the piece of ground where the biggest coin is located, simply because the controls and the slightly tilted camera angle don't allow for the kind of precision movement required to pick up every coin on the ground. During solo play, the AI puppets also seem to randomly decide to steal your coins or wait for you to pick them up. The only time this shouldn't become an issue is on the Family difficulty, where players collect coins for a shared pool which is later distributed among each of the four puppets, but even then, it's a hassle to do such a basic thing as collecting all coins before they disappear.
Another big problem with the use of coins as a primary competitive driver is that, any time a player dies, the hero puppet turns into a spectral form which can deal damage but can't pick up coins until you collect a heart item which provides health. Until puppets are "leveled up" a bit, death can come easily to melee characters. This means that, as a ranged character, you can risk a tiny bit of damage then steal any heart that appears so that other (melee-oriented) players will eventually die, steal all the coins, and laugh as your co-players rage. In solo play, the AI will take care of this job for you, stealing hearts away from the player even if they desperately need them.
After a level, each of the four characters is awarded dice depending on how many coins they have collected. These are used in a board game of sorts, where a throw of the die moves your character to spots where you can upgrade specific abilities. Increased damage against certain types of enemies or against the highly repetitive bosses, increased speed, and new puppets to play with are among the range of upgrades you can purchase with the coins you've tried so hard to walk over. Over time, each puppet (even those that are AI-controlled in solo play) will become powerful enough to make an already easy game even easier.
As uninspired as Fable Heroes is when it comes to its core design, it offers a surprisingly nice touch with its credits level. Here, you can destroy the developer team's names while some enemies wield letters as weapons. It's a fun way to do a credits sequence, and it ends up being a full-fledged level to boot. After playing through the six levels and the bonus credit level, you are awarded access to Dark Albion, where you can play through all these levels again.
Dark Albion levels are (surprise, surprise) dark versions of Albion levels. They are slightly more challenging, but the level layouts are the same. This means that if you want to "complete" Fable Heroes, you can either choose to spend the hour or so to run through each Albion level once and leave it at that, or you can play through each level in both regular Albion and Dark Albion twice, to unlock each path for each level. Essentially, you'll have to play every less-than-exciting level four times for completion's sake.
Even though the combat is a matter of mashing buttons, the controls make a chicken-kicking mini-game almost impossible to play, power-ups often work against you while they are considered to be positive by the game, and the biggest drive behind cooperative and competitive play -- collecting coins -- is poorly implemented due to a lack of precise control and the short lifespan of coins, none of these aspects are the title's biggest crime. Fable Heroes is merely boring beyond belief.
No matter if you are playing in co-op or on your own, you'll have trouble paying attention to what is going on in the game. Due to the extremely simple combat and repetitive nature of the levels, it can be played on autopilot while you read about something slightly more exciting on a second screen, such as the family history of 16th century Dutch Stadtholders. If you are playing with a child, the kid will likely prefer to talk about his or her grades rather than focus on the messy action on-screen. It is by far the most boring gaming experience I've had in years, and I'm hard-pressed to imagine anything more coma-inducing than playing all of the levels on offer more than once, other than perhaps watching a Steven Soderbergh film without sound or subtitles or listening to Anvilania's national anthem for five hours straight. Having to play through each level four times just to complete the game can at best be considered a punishment.
Fable Heroes is a mediocre game at best, largely due to imprecise controls that are exacerbated by its scoring mechanics. If it was even slightly exciting to play, all of its issues could be overlooked in favor of a capability to provide simple cooperative family entertainment. Unfortunately, it is not.
Fable Heroes reviewed by Maurice Tan
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Representatives of the Swedish Defence Material Administration (FMV) and the Swedish Embassy in Croatia submitted the government-to-government proposal of 12 new Gripen C/D fighter aircraft to the Croatian authorities. Parallel to Sweden's proposal, Saab is offering a tailored made strategic cooperation package that will boost the Croatian defence industry, and benefit Croatian security by building a long-term partnership with strategic sectors.
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Gripen C/D is a modern and proven multi-role fighter that uses the latest technology and performs an extensive range of air-to-air, air-to-ground and reconnaissance missions. The aircraft is in operational service with the air forces of Sweden, Hungary, the Czech Republic, South Africa and Thailand.
Gripen fighters of the Czech and Hungarian Air Forces participate regularly in NATO operations and exercises, proving the fighter's full NATO interoperability.
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Q: updating all list items Note that I'm fairly new to programming.
So I made a list for all the children sprites of the parent sprite in my game (children) and I made another list (childrenSpeed) that stores each of the millisecondsPerFrame float value from the children sprites, also attached to the parent sprite.
The problem is: if I need to update the millisecondsPerFrame value for (as an example) the playerHead, then I need to type:
playerHead.millisecondsPerFrame = (value);

but I want to make it so that I can use one line of code to update all the values in the childrenSpeed list for all the children.
I tried to use a
player.childrenSpeed.ForEach(...)

for this but I couldn't seem to let it work.
This is my LoadContent method: (the last float in the playermovement is the millisecondsPerFrame value)
protected override void LoadContent()
{
    spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(Game.GraphicsDevice);

    // Player sprite
    player = new PlayerMovement(Game.Content.Load<Texture2D>(@"Images/" + s1[0]), new Vector2(150, 150), new Point(20, 35), 0, new Point(0, 0), new Point(1, 11), 1.5f, 1.75f, 65f);
    playerHead = new PlayerMovement(Game.Content.Load<Texture2D>(@"Images/" + s1[2]), new Vector2(150, 150), new Point(20, 35), 0, new Point(0, 0), new Point(1, 11), 1.5f, 1.75f, 65f);
    // playerHead is stored in the children list attached to player
    player.children.Add(playerHead);
    // the millisecondsPerFrame value from playerHead is stored in the childrenSpeed list attached to player
    player.childrenSpeed.Add(playerHead.millisecondsPerFrame);

    // Base loadcontent method
    base.LoadContent();
}

And this is my Update method:
public override void Update(GameTime gameTime)
{

    if (player.running == true)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Lopen");
        player.millisecondsPerFrame = 30;
        // I need my childrenSpeed code for millisecondsPerFrame here
    }

    else if (player.running == false)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("gestopt");
        player.millisecondsPerFrame = 65;
        // I need my childrenSpeed code for millisecondsPerFrame here
    }

    if (player.walking == false)
    {
        // not done yet
    }

    player.Update(gameTime, Game.Window.ClientBounds);
    player.children.ForEach(c => c.Update(gameTime, Game.Window.ClientBounds));
    base.Update(gameTime);
}

So I need something like this:
public override void Update()
{
    if (player.bool == ...)
    {
        player.milliSecondsPerFrame = (value);
        // Each element in the player.childrenSpeed list = (value) (same as player)
    }
}

A: I'm showing a simplified version of your code which you can run and test.
A pseudo Player class
class Player
{
    public float milliSecondsPerFrame { get; set; }
    public bool running { get; set; }
    public List<float> childrenSpeed { get; set; }
}

The Update method (note, we are actually assigning a new list)
public override void Update(Player player, float value)
{
    if (player.running) // == true not required
    {
        player.milliSecondsPerFrame = value;
        player.childrenSpeed = player.childrenSpeed.Select(s => value).ToList();
    }
}

Usage
var player = new Player { running = true, milliSecondsPerFrame = 1.5F, childrenSpeed = new List<float> { 2.5F, -3.5F } };

Update(player, 1.25F); //=> milliSecondsPerFrame = 1.25F, childrenSpeed = { 1.25F, 1.25F }

A: It worked by using a foreach loop in the Update method:
foreach (Sprite children in player.children) // player.children is the sprite list
{
    children.millisecondsPerFrame = value; // I assign the millisecondsPerFrame float value
}

But thank you for the answers.


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Exploring Cuba can be bewitching and bewildering, and you can't cover the whole country in a single trip. Our Havana Grand Tour concentrates on the capital's main sights, while our other suggested routes focus on getting the most out of the country when you venture beyond Havana.
You could cram this tour of Havana's major sights into two days, but allow yourself three and there'll be plenty of time to soak up the atmosphere – and a mojito or two – along the way.
The oldest and most animated of Habana Vieja's squares is where Havana established itself as a city in the second half of the sixteenth century – and it's been the barrio's heartbeat ever since.
A microcosm of all that is changing in Havana, this pedestrianized thoroughfare is brimming with a lively mix of street vendors, open-fronted bars, neighbourhood hairdressers, secondhand bookstalls and artists' ateliers.
The country's most spectacular museum houses its largest art collection: revel in the history of Cuban art (and Cuba itself) seen through Spanish colonial portraits, Cuban painting and sculpture and Revolution-inspired work.
Visit when the plaza is brimming with patriotic Cubans waving a sea of flags against a backdrop of sculptural tributes to Che Guevara, José Martí and Camilo Cienfuegos, and you'll have yourself the ultimate revolutionary photo opportunity.
Arguably the best of the city's music venues, hosting a consistently good programme of shows by Cuba's most popular musicians.
The atmospheric beauty, on-point menu and slew of celebrity guests all keep this as Havana's number-one paladar.
Watch some of the world's finest prima ballerinas give mesmeric performances in an ornate building on the Parque Central; Carlos Acosta regularly takes to the boards here, too.
Inland Cuba has natural treasures galore, and you could easily dedicate two weeks to trekking through the country's glorious forests, breathtaking mountains and verdant countryside.
A rich variety of birdlife flits through the fertile mixture of semitropical rainforest and evergreen forest on the slopes of the Sierra del Rosario mountain range.
The jewel in the crown of western Cuba is the landscape in this striking national park, where rich red earth and lush tobacco fields contrast with the almost eerie Jurassic rock formations.
Venture over 50m below the surface and along hundreds of metres of atmospheric passageways in these awe-inspiring underground caves.
This beautiful national park in the steep forested slopes of the Sierra del Escambray mountains has some excellent hiking trails.
The idyllic campsite here is tucked away down in the folds of the Jatibonico Sierra and framed by a halo of royal palms and banana groves alive with wildlife.
Few venture into this beautiful and isolated pine forest, with a placid lake, majestic waterfall and intriguing Pre-Columbian caves hidden high above sea level.
Cradled by lush green mountains smothered in palm and cacao trees, and threaded with swimmable rivers, the Baracoan countryside is the perfect place to immerse yourself in the great outdoors.
Even if you fall short of Pico Turquino, Cuba's geographical summit, a trek through the verdant peaks of the Sierra Maestra takes in stunning views, cloud forest vegetation and the mountain bases of Revolutionary rebels.
Once outside the cities, the roads in Cuba, even the motorways, are remarkably free of traffic, making it a fantastic country to cycle around. This week-long tour is based on a pace of between 40 and 90 kilometres a day. Flip the order around to avoid the headwind.
A gentle start to the tour allows you to get used to cycling in the humidity with a short hop from the capital to the nearest beaches, where you can cool off and relax before the longer leg tomorrow.
It's around 80km from the beaches to the provincial capital of Matanzas, a tatty but culturally interesting city on a bay with a colonial past – but the real pleasure is cycling through the idyllic Yumurí valley on the approach to the city.
An easy ride along a coastal road leads to the country's largest beach resort, where there's an abundant spread of excellent casas particulares and paladars.
This leg of the tour takes in most of the Península de Zapata's sights and ends up at the Bay of Pigs, where a modest beach and museum mark one of the key events of the Revolution.
Around 85km from Playa Girón, either along a coastal track and then a ferry at the Castillo de Jagua or along country roads, is the laidback, bayside capital of Cienfuegos.
Follow the Circuito Sur along the coast to Trinidad, Cuba's most intact colonial town. With beaches just down the road, mountains not much further away and a glorious nearby valley,you can do some day-tripping if you have any energy left before popping your bike on a bus back to Havana.


The company led by a generous contributor to Republican Governor Scott Walker has proposed building a road and maintenance facility in a state park that would serve a new high-end golf course on company-owned land adjacent to the park.
The Kohler Company's request for a conditional use permit to develop the new course on its land is scheduled for a July 16 hearing before the Town of Wilson Plan Commission.
In addition, the Department of Natural Resources must approve an easement before the golf course maintenance facility and road can be built on state property. The affected acreage includes forest and wetlands in the Kohler-Andrae State Park near Lake Michigan.
The Kohler project comes amid years of criticism the Walker administration has pushed to make the DNR a more business-friendly agency at the expense of safeguarding the environment.
Kohler Company employees contributed $51,304 between 2009 and 2013 to legislative and statewide candidates. Most of the contributions – $44,500 – were made by company president Herb Kohler Jr. Walker received $42,254 followed by GOP Senators Joe Leibham of Sheboygan at $3,950 and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau at $2,000 from Kohler and his employees.
Kohler developed Whistling Straits golf course which will host the 2015 PGA Championship, one of professional golf's four major tournaments. The course also hosted the 2004 and 2010 PGA Championships.


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As I mentioned in the last post, everything here has settled into a routine from a personal standpoint, and on that end there is not much to write about. However, there were three things that broke up the monotony. First, as always, the scenery was beautiful.
Snow covered hills shield the cove from the winds. Look how smooth the ocean is!
The view off the back of the ship.
Second, I found out that even with all of the modern equipment on board, catching fish is still not guaranteed. We trawled three times last night on the 23rd and caught a total of 14 fish in all three trawls! Remember, a good sample size for one trawl is supposed to be 300 pollock, so this is the equivalent of fishing all day long and catching a minnow that just happened to swim into the fishing hook.
The first trawl caught absolutely nothing, as the fish dove underneath the net to escape the danger. The second trawl caught two pacific ocean perch and one pollock, and the third trawl caught eleven pollock. All in all, not the best fishing day.
The lone pollock from the second trawl.
Despite the poor fishing, we did bring up this neat little critter.
This is an isopod! These animals are very similar to the pillbugs (roly-polys) that we find in the US. Many marine isopods are parasites, and can be a danger to fish!
The third thing to break up the monotony was the Aleutian Islands earthquake. On the evening of June 23rd, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook the Aleutian Islands. According to ABC news, the earthquake was centered about 1,200 miles southwest of Anchorage. The quake spawned a brief tsunami warning that caused a large number of Dutch Harbor residents (Dutch Harbor is the home base of the show Deadliest Catch) to head for higher ground. We had been in the Aleutian Islands and Dutch Harbor area on our survey route, but had left two days before, so the Oscar Dysonwas completely unaffected by the earthquake.
Dutch Harbor residents seek higher ground after a tsunami warning was issued. AP photo by Jim Paulin.
In order to obtain photos of all of this neat sealife, we first have to catch it! We catch fish by trawling for them. Some of you may not know exactly what I'm talking about, so let me explain. Trawling is a fishing method that pulls a long mesh net behind a boat in order to collect fish. Trawling is used to collect fish for both scientific purposes (like we're doing) and also in commercial fishing operations. We have two types of fish trawls onboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson — a mid-water trawl net and a bottom trawl net. We've used both types throughout our cruise, so let me tell you a little about each.
The mid-water trawl net is just as it sounds — it collects fish from the middle of the water column — not those that live on the seafloor, not those that live at the surface. The technical name for the net we have is an Aleutian Wing Trawl (AWT) — it's commonly used by the commercial fishing industry.
Part of the mid-water trawl net as it's being deployed.
The end of the net where the fish first enter has very large mesh, which is used to corral the fish and push them towards the bag at the end. The mesh gets progressively smaller and smaller the further into it you go, and at the very end (where the collecting bag is), the mesh size is 0.5 inches. The end (where the bag is, or where the fish are actually collected) is called the codend.
This is the kind of net we use when we want to collect a pollock sample, because pollock are found in the water column, as opposed to right on the seafloor (in other words, pollock aren't benthic animals). Our particular net is also modified a little from a "normal" AWT. Our trawl has three codends (collecting bags) on it, each of which can be opened and closed with a switch that is controlled onboard the ship. The mechanism that opens and closes each of the 3 codends is called the Multiple Opening and Closing Codend (MOCC) device. Using the MOCC gives us the ability to obtain 3 discrete samples of fish, which can then be processed in the fish lab.
The MOCC apparatus, with the 3 nets extending off.
The nets are opened and closed using a series of metal bars. (The bar here is the piece of metal running across the middle of the photo). The net has 6 of these bars. When the first bar is released, the first codend is ready to take in fish. When the second bar is dropped, the first codend is closed. The third and fourth bars open and close the second codend, and the fifth and sixth bars open and close the third codend.
This is the trigger mechanism for the codends on the MOCC. When the codend is released, the trigger mechanism is up. When the codend is locked and ready to go, it is in the down position.
One other modification we have on our mid-water trawl net is the attachment of a video camera to the net, so we can actually see the fish that are going into the codends.
This is the camera apparatus hooked up to the trawl.
When we spot a school of fish on the acoustic displays, we then radio the bridge (where the captain is) and the deck (where the fishermen are) to let them know that we'd like to fish in a certain spot. The fishermen that are in charge of deploying the net can mechanically control how deep the net goes using hydraulic gears, and the depth that we fish at varies at each sampling location. Once the gear is deployed, it stays in the water for an amount of time determined by the amount of fish in the area, and then the fishermen begin to reel in the net. See the videos below to get an idea of how long the trawl nets are — they're being reeled in the videos. Once all of the net (it's VERY long — over 500 ft) is reeled back in, the fish in the codends are unloaded onto a big table on the deck using a crane. From there, the fish move into the lab and we begin processing them.
Videos of the net being reeled in and additional photos are below!
This is the end of the trawl net. They are lines that basically hold onto the net.
One of the codends before being opened up onto the conveyor belt. We are inside waiting for the fish to arrive.
Opening the codend to release the fish catch!
The mid-water trawl net all reeled in!
The mesh and wheels of the bottom trawl.
The bottom trawl, all reeled in!
The first question for today comes from Rich, Wanda, and Ryan Ellis! Ryan is in the homeschool Tuesday class at the Zoo.
Q. We looked up what an anemone was and we found it was some kind of plant. Is that correct?
A. Great question! The answer is both yes and no. There is a type of flowering plant called the anemone. There are about 120 different species, and they are in the buttercup family. For one example of the plant, look below!
The sea anemone, however, is not actually a plant but an animal! Anemones are classified as cnidarians, which are animals that have specialized cells for capturing prey! In anemones, these are called nematocysts, which have toxin and a harpoon like structure to deliver the toxin. When the nematocysts are touched, the harpoon structure injects the toxin into the animal that touches it.
Cnidarians also have bodies consist of mesoglea, a non living jelly like substance. They generally have a mouth that is surrounded by the tentacles mentioned above.
The second question comes from my wife Olivia.
Q. What has surprised you most about this trip? Any unexpected or odd situations?
A. I think the thing that has surprised me the most is the amount of down time I have had. When I came on, I assumed that it would be physical and intense, like the show Deadliest Catch, where I would spend my whole time fishing and then working on the science. I figured that I would be absolutely toast by the end of my shift.
While I have worked hard and learned a lot, I have quite a bit of down time. Processing a catch takes about one hour, and we fish on average once or twice a night. That means I am processing fish for roughly two hours at most, and my shift is twelve hours. I have gotten a fair amount of extra work done, as well as a lot of pleasure reading and movie watching.
As for unexpected and odd situations, I didn't really expect to get your camera killed by a wave. Fortunately, I have been allowed to use the scientist camera, and have been able to scavenge photos from other cameras, so I will still have plenty of pictures.
Another technological oddball that I didn't think about beforehand was that certain headings (mainly if we are going north) will cut off the internet, which is normally fantastic. It is frustrating to have a photo 90% downloaded only to have the ship change vectors, head north, and cut off the download, forcing me to redownload the whole photo.
I also didn't expect that the fish would be able to dodge the trawl net as effectively as they have. We have had four or five "misses" so far because the fish will not stay in one spot and let us catch them. While the use of sonar and acoustics has greatly improved our ability to catch fish, catching fish is by no means assured.
Perhaps the biggest "Are you kidding me?" moment though, comes from James and David Segrest asking me about sharks (June 17-18 post). An hour after I read the question, we trawled for the first time of the trip, and naturally the first thing we caught was the sleeper shark. Also naturally, I haven't seen a shark since. Sometimes, you just get lucky.


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As I went to bed last night, I was deeply struck (hah, pun) about a phrase that I've heard a few times before in my life but never really took to heart: live deeply. What does that mean? A few weeks ago that would have been a sarcastic question, but now I'm just curious (which is much better, in my opinion). Live Deeply. What does that mean?
I think it has something to do with the sincerity with which you perform an action. More than just doing something consciously, I think it involves putting yourself into your actions, really meaning them.
I don't know what it all means, but I'm curious enough about it that it's my motivation to try out today. We'll see if I've learned anything about it by tonight.
Also, this. I'm not a huge fan of country (unless it's Rascal Flatts), but I do love this song. Deeply. (But not the music video? It's a bit odd, honestly).