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Japanese game apocalypse: art, gameplay, theme… What is missing in the current chain tour?
If you are a game loyalty powder, you will not be unfamiliar with the "Adaly collapse".
In 1982, Warner was heavily invested to buy the license. The movie adaptation game "ET Alien", which was developed by the home console giant Atari, would have become the best seller of Christmas, but the players found that it was only used after purchase. The garbage that came out of work in 6 weeks was refunded.
A large number of homogenized and shoddy games have made people lose confidence in the console market, and this fuse has undoubtedly led to the end of Atari.
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In 1983, millions of unsalable "ET" game cassettes were buried in the Alamogordo garbage town in New Mexico, announcing the end of an era.
In the following years, few people in the United States talked about the console market, and an industry is on the verge of collapse.
In the same year, Nintendo of Japan seized the opportunity to quickly launch a red and white machine to occupy the market and open a new era of video games.
For a long time afterwards, Japanese game makers as the leader brought many benchmarking works to the industry. Even today's Japanese factory technology has gradually fallen, but the game content design still has a unique charm, which is inseparable from the overall domestic game development environment.
In 2017, Nintendo launched two heavyweight works. "The Legend of Zelda's Wilderness" evaded the short function of the Switch function with elegant artistic effects, and showed their ultimate understanding of the "sandbox game" and directly won the TGA Award. "Super Mario Odyssey" broke the traditional concept of the game of Mario, and pushed the "box class" Mario to a higher position.
Players applaud the strength of this old-fashioned manufacturer, and once again reflect on "the Japanese game is down" is not a false proposition.
The same is true in the field of blockchain games. My Crypto Heroes (hereafter referred to as MCH) turned out to be the top three in the DApp list. The trading volume once exceeded the number one in the "Mystery Love Cat". The fire not only made the players in the chain tour feel once again. :
Maybe the Japanese know how to make a "game."
Art, always first impression
What many people don't realize is that "gaming" is not the first threshold for traditional players who have never touched blockchain games, and art is the only one.
When people browse Steam or mobile app stores, or even offline stores, there is no way to see the "core gameplay" and "essence" of a game at a glance.
In addition to being recommended, whether to buy a game depends largely on whether you have a relationship with the game – the importance of the game screenshots is highlighted.
Therefore, the importance of game art is self-evident.
For everyone's understanding of "good art," maybe everyone is not the same. But for me, "good" is not synonymous with a powerful technology engine and cool lighting effects. Just as someone can use the Unreal 4 engine to make a game less than a month ago, the light and shadow particles have everything, but the chaos is full of routines and looks boring.
Conversely, recalling the "Final Fantasy 6" that was used in the past, or the "Tea Cup" which was very popular last year, is the pixel and hand-painted 2D art, but the meticulous scene depiction and the exquisite American retro animated style make people remember. profound.
The key is to use your heart.
The My Crypto Heroes game uses the overall design of the pixel wind, which is a plus for the old players. But even if the player doesn't like pixel art, he can't deny the development team's Double Jump in character design.
Double Jump did not use the coarse pixels to perfuse things, but carefully designed the image of each character, so that the character map also contains some exclusive details while ensuring cute or handsome. For example, in the picture of the Brothers Grimm, the stalks of the four small animals of chicken, cat, dog and scorpion are from the Bremen band in Grimm's fairy tale.
In the fairy tale, the four animals left their poor masters and traveled to Bremen with the dream of "building a band together." Although I did not realize this wish in the end, I also happily lived together.
This story is a warmer one in Grimm's fairy tale, and designing these animal images into Q-pixel pixmaps in the game will give players more intimacy.
Crypto Oink's main game mode is the same as most collection chain games, but the developer has very experienced designing the character into a pig with an elliptical body and a bean eye. The image is very pleasing, in line with the general public's "cute" "Definition.
Although like the Mystery Love Cat, all parts of the pigs are made up of random elements, but each element in the Crypto Oink material library is uniform and restrained, no matter how random it is, it will not be too strange. image of.
At the same time, the design of the game logo is also very subtle, the visual communication effect is very prominent, and people have a very intuitive impression on the game itself.
Art is the skin of the game. Although it can't determine the fate of the game, it can be used as an important part of the promotion to attract more potential players to try the game.
User preferences are different, but good art won't be an obstacle to refusing players. More often, it may be a reason for outside players to get started with blockchain games.
Gameplay, the key to sustainable survival
For the entire game industry, "gaming" is a topic that can never be talked about.
The reason why Nintendo has such a high status today is the three words. Letting players feel fun in the game is the most fundamental requirement for a game, and for the current blockchain game, the discussion about "gameplay" is still at an early stage.
But some chain games will have more thoughts on gameplay. Take MCH as an example. On the surface, the gameplay is not high: send three characters to play, and then automatically fight to see the result.
In fact, the development team designed a very tight combat value system in the game.
When the role is upgraded, the four-dimensional attribute will be improved according to the growth value. The correlation between the active and passive skills and the attribute is very strong, and the performance of the same character in different positions (front, middle, and back) will be significantly different.
So this is not a "numerical than big" game. The design logic behind it is in line with the traditional turn-based RPG. It requires the player to have a clear understanding of the character's ability and give corresponding strategic arrangements. This is a great pleasure for the game.
Blockchain games can also completely copy some of the traditional game modes, such as Cryptoderby.
There are too many similar horse racing game consoles in Japan, but the combination of horse racing and trading is realized by blockchain. Combined with other original contents, it can also become a full-fledged work. Imagine this idea, the "Football Manager" of the overhead reality may also be a good idea.
For the current homogenization chain travel market, a different gameplay is enough to make players shine.
For example, in Cryptoninja, players need to manipulate their ninja to sneak into other cities and put traps in their own cities to prevent other players from invading. In many cases, the size of the game is not a decisive factor, as long as it can be different in the market, it will cause some attention.
After all, the blockchain game will eventually have to explore some fun outside the transaction, or expand on the basis of the existing gameplay, otherwise the player loss is the inevitable result.
At present, the Japanese chain tour is still somewhat conservative in this respect. After all, traditional game makers are still waiting to see this emerging field, but the existing works are better than a large number of opponents with serious homogenization.
Theme, rare design shortcut
For traditional games, script or worldview settings are a very important part and one of the core of the game.
Due to the limitations of the development stage, the chain tour is currently on a very small scale, and it takes a lot of time and effort to build a huge world view.
Is there any simple way for the player to quickly generate some interest and emotional connection to the game? It may be a good choice to spend a little thought on the subject.
The subject matter can be a work or event that is familiar to you and has no copyright restrictions.
There are almost no original characters in MCH. Except for the three miscellaneous soldiers provided at the beginning of the game, all available characters are historical or legendary characters. Even if the player first touches the game, they can have certain cognitions about these characters, and the emotional connection will naturally occur.
If a player likes Napoleon, he is likely to try to participate in the game, trade and train the character. This approach is obviously more effective at attracting players than original characters without a companion story.
On the other hand, the theme can also borrow traditional big IP.
Japan has a game called "European Three Kingdoms". The quality of the game is not mentioned for the time being, but the game is very easy to use in terms of subject matter.
In the traditional game industry, the three countries, the Westward Journey, the Warring States, and the Second World War are all eternal themes. The world view, script, and characters are all ready-made and familiar. Like "Three Kingdoms Warriors", "Nobunaga's Wild Hope", "Taige Lizhi Biography" and other works, developers can save time to set aside to focus on other aspects, but also have a lot of space.
In addition, the subject matter can also be a specific field. Japanese games are often surprisingly successful in this area, and chain tours are no exception.
Like Crypto Idols and Crypto Kanojo, this is the work that is aimed at the quadratic group. Crypto Kanojo also recently collaborated with a mixed media idol group called "Virtual Money Girl".
Although there is a gimmick component, the game itself is not a lot of people, but when the subject matter attracts people's attention as a topic, its purpose is achieved.
One thing to note is that although the selection of the theme is a shortcut, in the end it still needs to complement the game content itself. At this stage, developers can take the subject matter to try their luck, but it is not good to say whether it will be effective in the future. Just like the previous domestic mobile game frenzy, the games about the Westward Journey and the Three Kingdoms can find hundreds of games, but there are only a few that survive.
Without good content, shortcuts will not exist.
Aesthetics, mindset, and others
In the three aspects of art, gameplay, and theme, Japan's blockchain game does have its own advantages. But back to the essence, I would like to talk about the topic of "aesthetic".
Not long ago, the special issue of the new weekly magazine was called "Low-Sense Society", and some discussions were made on the lack of domestic aesthetics. The terrible expression packs, earthy music, and earthy videos are full of our lives, and the audience is not small. The entire Chinese society is in a state of "low aesthetics".
"Low-feeling society" does not mean that pursuing high aesthetics is meaningless. In the development of a single field, overall aesthetic improvement is a necessary path. This not only means visual upgrading, but also brings about qualitative changes in the product itself. .
In fact, it is as big as literary creation, as small as street signs, and the aesthetic gap between Japanese and Chinese people is objective, as is the case in the game field.
For the game, aesthetics is not only reflected in the art, from game theme selection, project development to music production, planning, gameplay design, UI design, and publicity, all of which can reflect the aesthetic level of the development team.
Take a look at today's many well-known domestic mobile games, basically bid farewell to the era of aesthetic loss. Although the Japanese chain tours are not all fine, the overall posture has matured, at least there is no sense of cheapness.
This is worth the time for the developers of the chain to spend more time working hard.
So what did the Japanese chain tour bring to us?
I think the article is written here, and the answer seems to be slowly clear:
Can learn the mentality of returning to the game production itself.
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Recipes are assembled into menus. A menu is what you eat for a meal.
A menu may also contain one or more of any of the other categories.
For this tutorial, the name of a menu is the same as the name of the Main recipe.
When you open the VeggieTABLE, the default view of menus is displayed. I refer to this as the menu window.
The menu window is divided into 2 panes divided by the slider bar.
The pane on the left is the summary pane.
The pane on the right is the detail pane.
You can increase or decrease the size of the summary pane by moving the slider bar.
TIP: you can drag the dividing bar to the right to increase the size of the summary pane.
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This is because the recipe has not yet been added to a menu. Or to put it another way, you have not yet prepared the recipe.
You can also add your own categories, such as 'dinner party', or dare I say 'chicken' - See section 14.1.
Again, you can also add your own categories to these.
Such as rating, county, whose recipe, time and cost.
These can also be customized – see section 6.1.
You start by adding a main recipe. In my example I am going to add chilli bean burritos. I would definitely encourage you to try this for yourself sometime!
A small calendar symbol appears to the right of the field.
In the GENERAL section, you can customize other information such as the cook.
Fill in the name, and click OK.
You should see that the name now appears.
Tip: fields that are coloured light green will open a 'dialog box' when double-clicked.
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The face of the head of Human Resources for the IDF was completely erased, while her body remained on a Knesset panel discussion the Tal Law.
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The ultra-Orthodox news site "Lada'at" (To Know) published an article Monday about the Knesset subcommittee on Foreign Affairs and Defense and their discussion of the Tal Law, which was meant to provide access to ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students to do a modified form of army or civil service. The article contained a picture of the committee, among them Maj. Gen. Orna Barbibay. Barbibay sat next to committee chairman, MK Shaul Mofaz and MK Yohanan Plesner.
"Lada'at" chose to completely erase Maj. Gen. Barbibay's picture from the panel because their newspaper has a policy of showing no pictures of women for reasons of "modesty".
Hiddush President, Rabbi Uri Regev, said "Ultra-Orthodox media proves once again that they have no idea what's going on in Israel. In spite of everything they'd like to see, the head of Human Resources for the IDF is, in fact, a woman, and women do, in fact, serve in the IDF. No technological trick will change this reality.
In spite of everything they'd like to see, the head of Human Resources for the IDF is, in fact, a woman, and women do, in fact, serve in the IDF.
Ironically, in the committee meeting itself, Barbibay spoke about the importance of recruitment. Said Barbibay that the security situation requires that "all citizens enlist in a meaningful army service."
The head of National Service remarked that today there are around 3,514 yeshiva students in national service. According to the data presented at the meeting, in the six years since the Tal Law has been in effect, 10,000 ultra-Orthodox students have joined either army or civil service,, that previously studied full-time in yeshivas.
Chairman of the committee on Foreign Relations and Security, MK Mofaz said "We cannot accept a reality that the IDF will not longer be the army of the people, but rather the army of the minority--an army of only half the population...there has been a sub-culture of service created. The tables have turned, and army evasion is the norm. Service will become the exception." Mofaz demanded a change to the Tal Law and said "We must return Israel to herself and establish a new model of elistment on the basis of universal service."
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Don Murphy (born April 1967) is an American film producer who produced Natural Born Killers, Real Steel, Splice and many other films, including Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Personal background
Born in April 1967, Murphy grew up in Hicksville, New York and was educated at Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York. He attended Georgetown University and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) from the McDonough School of Business. Having excelled academically, he was accepted into Georgetown Law.

Murphy was the film critic for the Georgetown school newspaper, The Hoya, for three years, and in summer jobs at his father's advertising agency worked on ad campaigns for such films as Blow Out (1981), Under the Rainbow (1981) and Ragtime (1981). In 1986 Murphy realized that his calling lay in films rather than law; he enrolled in the School of Cinema-Television (now named USC School of Cinematic Arts) in California, where he had classmates including eventual directors Bryan Singer, Jon Turteltaub, Gary Fleder, and Stephen Sommers, and received a Master of Fine Arts.

He is married to Susan Montford, a film director, film producer, and screenwriter with whom he frequently collaborates.

Career
After completing the graduate film program, Murphy teamed with Jane Hamsher to produce Natural Born Killers based on a script written by Quentin Tarantino, who was then unknown. Director Oliver Stone committed to direct the film, and he installed Murphy and Hamsher as on-set producers, which was described as "the equivalent of a crash course in filmmaking". Murphy said, "We wouldn't be where we are if not for Oliver." The film attracted attention upon release in 1994, and Hamsher documented the producers' involvement in the film in the best-selling book Killer Instinct.

In 1998, Murphy formed the production company Angry Films. He had an opportunity to see an unfinished cut of The Usual Suspects, which was directed by Singer, a classmate from USC. They decided to work together on Apt Pupil, based on a Stephen King novella and released in 1998. Murphy then worked as producer on the 2001 film Bully; its director, Larry Clark, was not impressed with the original screenplay, but committed to the film after Murphy encouraged him to read the book. Murphy also grew interested in adapting graphic novels by Alan Moore, such as From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, for film. He produced the movie From Hell, directed by the Hughes Brothers and released in 2001, as well as the film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, directed by Stephen Norrington and released in 2003.

Murphy and producer Tom DeSanto optioned rights to the Transformers toy line from Hasbro and pitched it to Hollywood studios. According to Murphy, the studios passed initially, but then began to express interest after further internal meetings involving younger staff, from the generation who had played with Transformers in their childhood. Paramount Pictures and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura pursued the property, and DreamWorks got involved. DreamWorks executive Michael De Luca proposed the idea to Steven Spielberg, who took the project and convinced Michael Bay to direct the film. Transformers was released in 2007 and was a major box office success. During production, Murphy hosted a forum on his personal website so Transformers fans could discuss the film and make suggestions, enabling them to influence the film's script and casting. However, the forum remained Murphy's personal project, rather than an official site for the film, partly due to his corporate partners' unease about how the website might be perceived. Murphy was also one of the originating producers of the 2009 sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Filmography
Producer

 Natural Born Killers (1994)
 Double Dragon (1994)
 Apt Pupil (1998)
 Permanent Midnight (1998)
 Bully (2001)
 From Hell (2001)
 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
 Transformers (2007)
 Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
 While She Was Out (2008)
 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
 Real Steel (2011)
 Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
 Vampire Academy (2014)
 Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
 Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
 Bumblebee (2018)
 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

Executive producer
 Monday Morning (1990)
 Splice (2010)
 Gemini Man (2019)

References

Further reading

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External links
 DonMurphy.net – Don Murphy's official Website, published by Angry Films
 Angry Films (US) at the Internet Movie Database

Film producers from New York (state)
Chaminade High School alumni
McDonough School of Business alumni
USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni
1967 births
Living people
People from Hicksville, New York
Georgetown University Law Center alumni

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All you need is...sugar! Well, and a little water too. Mix a few pinches of sugar with a small splash of water and create a paste...then scrub onto your face, body, or lips for silky smooth perfection! Sugar is great for exfoliating. Not only is it obviously granular and works fantastic as a manual scrub, but it's natural properties give you some added benefits! Naturally occurring glycol help with cell turn over...and sugar is also balancing to the skin! Hooray! So easy right?
--add a pinch to a pump of your cleanser for a gentle scrub while you clean your face!
--scrape a little lip balm and mix with sugar for a creamy lip scrub!
--brew some green tea and mix with sugar for even more amazing skin benefits while you scrub!
The video below is an oldie but a goodie! Watch it for more info on the benefits for your skin and a bonus easy step for a DIY face toner!
Cheers to Mondays, Makeup, and Skincare!
Stocking Stuffers for the Beauty Lover!
Stocking are probably my favorite part of presents at Christmas! Sure, big pricey presents are nice too, but all those little things that you like or need, your favorite treats...all in one giant sock...I mean, what's not to love?! And I don't know about you, but when I'm the one filling a stocking I like it to be as full as possible, and to have the most fun and legitimately enjoyable things inside!
Christmas socks, chocolate, magazines, maybe a small gift card...Hmm what else? Skip the weird cheap gift baskets in the holiday aisle and grab some of these instead!
1. WetnWild Eyeshadow Trios $2: Biggest shock ever that these shadows are amazing! They come in singles and larger palettes too...so affordable.
3. WetnWild Megalast Lipstick $2: Great pigment, long lasting wear, totally amazing!
4. Sephora Facial Cleansing brush $6: Consider this the poor man's Clarisonic. Gets my face so much more clean than when I just use my hands and is great for exfoliating too!!
6. ELF powder brush $1: Of all of the brushes that I use on my clients, the one that people compliment the most for how amazing it feels is not my $45 brush, not my $29 brush...it's this one! Go figure.
7. Ardell Fashion Lashes $3-$5: flirty fun for New Years Eve perhaps?
8. Kate Moss for Rimmel Lipsticks $4: No1 is the perfect Holiday Red! Love these and cannot get enough!
10. ELF Zit Zapper $1: tea tree oil and salicylic acid to give blemishes the ol' one two punch!
1. Rimmel Gel eyeliner $7: waterproof, black, and a brush built into the lid...I used this on my Fall brides and loved it!
2. Philosophy Shower Gels $5: Love these travel size gels they do at Christmas time...they ACTUALLY smell like what they say they do! If you buy 3 they're only $5 each! Hot buttered rum anyone?
3. Naked Basics Pallete by Urban Decay $27: The latest and greatest in the Naked family...already in love with these 5 matte shades and one satin finish highlight...neutral perfection!
4. MAC Viva Glam V lipstick $14.50: This lipstick looks great on EVERYONE. I mean everyone!! It's the perfect neutral everyday colour, it looks like "lip" but with a little extra pop.
5. Designer Makeup bags $7-$25: Ross ALWAYS has fantastic makeup bags, many from my favorite designers and are a fraction of their usual cost. Have you priced makeup bags lately? Even no-name bags at Target cost a pretty penny...why not get one from Michael Kors, Marc Jacobs, or Calvin Klein for cheaper instead? Plus, a makeup bag is cuter to stuff than a stocking anyway!
Happy shopping and Merry Christmas everyone!


A great chicken wing sauce from the famous Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, the birth place of Buffalo Chicken Wings. With cayenne peppers, vinegar, crushed red peppers, black pepper, salt and garlic, this hot wing sauce will delight your taste buds with suicidal heat and flavor. Enjoy!


After nearly eight years in office, Gov. Dayton still doesn't get it. He's threatening to veto a bill that's sailing through the legislature with bipartisan support to scrap an unenforceable, unpopular, wildly expensive water quality standard on the books since the 1970s for northern northern waters with wild rice.
The Mesabi Daily News picked up on Dayton's attempt to pressure lawmakers who are doing the sensible thing in attempting to put the issue to rest once and for all.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton is calling for modifications to a wild rice sulfate standard bill that is awaiting its time in conference committee. Dayton said he will veto the bill as written unless lawmakers make changes to the law.
In fact, Dayton's objections come much closer to describing what was wrong with the regulations proposed by his administration for 1,200 Northern Minnesota lakes and streams with wild rice. Fortunately an administrative law court recently threw out the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's draconian rule last month, forcing the state to abandon the effort altogether.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency had attempted to rework the standard using a formula to calculate suitable sulfate levels in wild rice lakes. That was developed at the direction of a previous Legislature, but the MPCA's proposed rule faced stiff opposition from municipalities, industries and environmental groups. An administrative law judge also told the agency to change its plan, and the MPCA withdrew its proposal earlier in April.
Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, R-Nisswa, said the MPCA's proposal had called for a standard 25 times more strict than for drinking water.
Bill sponsor Sen. Justin Eichorn, R-Grand Rapids, said the MPCA standards were based on 1943 science. If it had been enacted, Eichorn said, it would have cost northern Minnesota communities $2 billion.
In his letter to legislators, Dayton admitted the MPCA regulations would have been disastrous for Northern Minnesota's economy–now that there's zero chance of implementing them.
In the letter, Dayton says he recognizes the competing points of view over the rule. He wants a solution that complies with the federal Clean Water Act and "seeks innovative solutions" to protect wild rice, without jeopardizing the feasibility of businesses, municipalities and the mining industry.


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Q: Android Vector pixelating on zoom-in I'm trying to create a zoomable ImageView that can display vector images (SVG converted to Vector Drawable) that doesn't loose it's sharpness when zooming in.
I've used multiple Zooming approaches like this or this to handle the zooming, pinching and dragging. This resulted in a blurry mess when trying to zoom in, as seen below.
As I understand it from this article, these approaches don't work because the vector is drawn to bitmap , therefore pixelating when zooming in.
Is there any workaround to redraw the vector for each zoom step?
Or should I try to draw the vector in a bigger size before displaying it?
Any Help is appreciated.

Redraw on zoom?
Draw bigger Canvas, then zoom?

A: This is happening to conserve memory.
The Solution:
You should do subsampling scaling, which is to zoom in on stages.
for example: After zooming to 300% make a new bitmap from the vector which have the rectangle you are in only then start to zoom in the new image (see GIF below)

coding this will take some time, but I recommend using
subsampling-scale-image-view library as an interface to do this. you can with a few changes make it for vector scaling.

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Quaffable, cheerful wine with mellow fruits, soft tannins and refreshing acidity. Not at all complicated, just unadulterated drinking pleasure!
The Benoît family own three Provençal wine estates in total - Domaine de Costebonne with 30 hectares of vines at Eygalières, Mas de Longchamp with 24 hectares at Mollégès near Saint-Rémy and Domaine du Val de L'Oule with 13 hectares at Orgon. Five generations of accumulated knowledge is maximised in the quest for producing wines that really do reflect their origins. Authenticity and quality are the key drivers for Fabrice Benoît and his family. Working with nature rather than against it is a central pillar of their life and work credo. The vines have been certified organic since 1998. It is in the cellar at Mas de Longchamp that all wines from the three estates are vinified, all the time respecting the best of quality traditions. Surrounded by picturesque Provençal countryside with views towards the peaks of the Massif des Alpilles, the vines thrive in harmony with the olive trees and Mediterranean scrubland rich with aromatic wild herbs. The soils are a mixture of clay and chalk with parcels where they are more stony - all ideal for growing vines. Grape varieties across all three estates include Grenache, Cinsault, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Carignan, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Caladoc (a crossing between Grenache and Malbec), all of which thrive in the sunny, dry climate.


Your church should establish an accountable reimbursement policy. Clergy are allowed to exclude all reimbursed expenses from their reportable income. The church reimbursement policy should include the following, but not limited to: office supplies, religious material, subscriptions and paperbacks, meals, entertainment, seminars, dues and memberships, library, educational expenses, camps, legal and professional services, gifts, auto, travel, etc. Any expenses incurred on behalf of the ministry to the church will qualify.
A non-qualified/allowance plan is a reimbursement arrangement which does not require clergy to substantiate the expenses to the church and also give them the right to retain any amount in excess of the substantiated expenses. In this example, all the reimbursements would be reported as taxable income, which may increase the tax liability. These expenses could be treated as miscellaneous itemized deductions, which are subject to two-percent of adjusted gross income and may produce no tax benefit unless your itemized deductions exceed the standard deductions.
The new rules for qualified reimbursement arrangement plans would require that the reimbursements must not exceed the expenses incurred. All reimbursed expenses must be substantiated to the church with receipts or other documentation and all excess allowances must be returned to the church that are not used for ministry expenses.
In substantiating your expenses to the church, you must provide them receipts or documents indicating the amount, business use, number of business miles, time, date, business purpose and name.
a permissible arrangement providing that the expenses are substantiated.
are excludable from taxable income in full to the extent of the reimbursement. Failure to meet these new rules would required you to report your reimbursed expenses as taxable income.
Accountable reimbursement plans are one of the most misunderstood areas for church administrators.
Much documentation is required to substantiate expense reimbursements for employees taking ministry trips and can result in the church having to add such expenses to employee income and apply appropriate employment taxes to those amounts.
Internal Revenue Service Publication 463, Travel, Entertainment, Gift, and Car Expenses, defines qualified tax-free travel expenses as the ordinary and necessary expenses of traveling away from home for ministry, profession, or job.
However, churches must establish a travel and professional expense program using an accountable plan to maintain tax-free status of the amounts paid.
• Ministry connection—The reimbursements, advances, or allowances provided to employees under the plan must be for work-related expenses that would be deductible by the employee if claimed as a deductible ministry expense on the their personal return. Any advance payments must be reasonably related to ministry expenses that a worker is expected to incur.
• Substantiation—Employees must substantiate, within a reasonable period of time, the amount, time, use, and ministry purpose of the allowance or expense payment. In lieu of substantiation of actual expenses, churches can use IRS-approved per diems.
• Return of excess payments—The plan must require employees to return, within a reasonable period of time, any reimbursements or advances that exceed substantiated expenses, or, in the case of a per diem, payments for days not traveled. However, if an employee uses part of an advance payment that exceeds the amount that was incurred and substantiated to pay for other ministry expenses, the excess amount that was used need not be returned.
• Under the fixed date method, IRS will treat as timely: advance payments made no more than 30 days before an employee incurs ministry expenses; expenses that are substantiated within 60 days after they are incurred or paid; and excess payments that are returned to the church within 120 days after being incurred or paid.
• Using the periodic statement method, a church can issue periodic statements to employees, at least quarterly, regarding unsubstantiated expenses or unreturned excess payments, and the timeliness requirements will be satisfied if employees substantiate the expenses and refund any excess within 120 days of the statement.
To be excluded from taxable wages, several different types of reimbursed costs incurred during ministry travel need to be documented based on the nature of the expense. A variety of options exist for substantiating certain costs, such as lodging and meals, where exact amounts need not be reported to qualify as tax-free, while others require a more direct-cost approach, such as airfare or other transportation amounts.
It is important that records be kept of all the expenses and any advances that are covered by a church. Employees can use a log, diary, notebook, or other written records to track expenses. Churches also need a system to implement an accountable plan that identifies costs and ensures appropriate substantiation exists on the amounts. If reimbursements for travel are made at the same time as regular wage payments, the reimbursement for expenses must be separately paid or separately identified, or the reimbursement will be considered taxable wages.
IRS has instructed its field examiners that travel-expense reimbursement plans that show a ''pattern of abuse'' should be declared nonaccountable and all reimbursements made under them considered taxable income to the employees.
• baggage and shipping of materials to the temporary work place.
For example, a hotel receipt is sufficient to support expenditures for ministry travel if it contains the name, location, date, and separate amounts for charges of lodging, meals, and telephone. On the other hand, a canceled check made payable to a named payee would not by itself support a ministry expenditure without other evidence showing that the check was used for a certain ministry purpose, IRS said.
Note that, under IRS regulations modified in 2000, employees are not required to produce documentation for most travel-related expenses that are less than $75. Costs for lodging, however, are excluded from the rule and must be documented regardless of the amount. Some churches maintain a policy of requiring documentation for incurred costs that are less than $75, but IRS does not require such documentation.
• vehicle use while on ministry travel.
For lodging and hotel expenses and meals and incidentals, a church can reimburse employees' ministry travel expenses by means of a per diem allowance. Per diem, Latin for ''per day,'' is a sum of money calculated on a daily basis and may be paid in advance or after an expense is incurred.
For the use of a vehicle while on travel, churches have the option of applying in an accountable plan the standard mileage rate and calculating the expense per mile, as opposed to requiring substantiation of actual costs.
Using per diem rates, paid at the applicable federal rate, the amounts of lodging, meals, and incidental expenses are deemed substantiated for purposes of avoiding taxability of expense reimbursements. Per diem rates can also be paid based on another flat rate or stated schedule that is reasonably calculated not to exceed ordinary and necessary ministry expenses.
The amount of expenses deemed substantiated by churches that pay per diem allowances in lieu of reimbursing employees for actual expenses for lodging, meals, and incidental expenses incurred for ministry-related travel is the lesser of the per diem allowance, or the amount computed at the federal per diem rate for the ''locality of travel'' for the period the employee is away from home. ''Locality of travel'' is where the employee stops to sleep or rest.
When using per diem rates as a method of substantiation, employees need only account for time, place, and ministry purpose of travel. Receipts for lodging and meals are not required under a per diem allowance, and employees whose actual expenses are less than their per diem are not required to refund the excess. Excess amounts advanced for days not actually traveled must be returned, however.
The per diem allowance must cover lodging, meals, and incidental expenses for travel away from home. Incidental expenses include laundry and dry cleaning, fees, and tips for services.
• Regular federal per diem rate/per diem substantiation method.
If the church uses the high-low method to set per diem rates for an employee, the church generally may not switch to the per diem method for that same employee for travel within during the same calendar year.
Churches also can provide employees with a per diem allowance only for meals and incidentals. This can occur only if the church pays the employee for actual expenses for lodging based on receipts submitted, the lodging is provided by the church either directly or through the provider, there is no reasonable belief that any lodging expenses were incurred by the employee, or the allowance is computed on a basis similar to that used in computing the employee's wages, such as the number of hours worked or miles traveled.
For meals taken on the partial days of travel to and from a destination, meal allowances need to be prorated (a reduced amount for each day) depending on the meals required while traveling. Churches can prorate by using one of two IRS-approved methods: three-quarters of the standard meal allowance can be claimed, or by using a method that can be consistently applied and that is in accordance with reasonable ministry practice.
Finally, IRS allows for an ''incidental-expenses-only method,'' where incidental expenses are limited generally to tips and other small expenses only if employees do not pay or incur any meal expenses. Employees cannot use this method on any day that the standard meal allowance is used. This method also is subject to the proration rules for partial days, according to IRS Publication 463, Travel, Entertainment, Gift, and Car Expenses.
Costs incurred when employees operate and maintain a car when traveling away from home on ministry can be tax-free. Churches have the option of substantiating costs using actual expenses with receipts, or combining the standard ministry mileage rate (with a record of miles traveled) with receipts for ministry related tolls and parking.
If employees rent a car while away on ministry, only the ministry-use portion of the expenses are tax free. If the rental car agreement includes the cost for gasoline, employees cannot also claim the standard mileage rate for ministry miles driven. Actual costs incurred, in addition to the cost of the rental, are necessary for full substantiation.


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New medical standard to make flying more accessible
5 March 2021 Online Editor	0 Comments	CAA, Civil Aviation Authority, Press Release
Upcoming changes to New Zealand's Civil Aviation Rules will deliver a cheaper and more accessible medical certification option for thousands of New Zealand pilots.
From 5 April holders of private pilot licences will be able to fly with a driver licence medical certificate (known as a DL9) rather than the more costly class 2 aviation medical certificate.
Previously, pilots holding a DL9 medical could fly only within the restrictions of the more limited recreational pilot licence class. Private pilots can also now clearly see what restrictions will apply to them depending on the type of medical certificate they hold.
Work on this licensing reform has been under way for some time and included a CAA review of medical certification standards and requirements for private pilots, as well as consultation and engagement with pilots and their representative groups.
PPL holders flying on a DL9 medical will be able to exercise most of the privileges of their licence, but there will be some privileges which will remain available only to those with a current class 2 medical, such using their aerobatic ratings and flying under instrument flight rules. You can see a comparison of PPL privileges by licence type here and read the pending Part 61 rule amendment here.
Civil Aviation Authority's acting Licensing and Standards Manager, David Harrison, says these changes help reduce a significant cost barrier for pilots and bring New Zealand broadly in line with other international aviation authorities.
"Private pilots have been calling for the CAA to adopt an alternative PPL medical standard for some time now. We have listened carefully, consulted widely and have concluded that we can make these changes without adding any unacceptable risk for New Zealand's aviation system," Mr Harrison said.
"Most pilots will be able to get a DL9 medical from a local medical practitioner, such as their family GP, and unlike class 2 medicals there will be no CAA charges involved.
"These changes will be welcome news for the approximately 5,500 pilots flying recreationally in New Zealand with a class 2 medical.
"They will also lower barriers to entry for any individual who wishes to become a pilot."
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The Third Edition of this established work on chemical instrumentation has been completely rewritten and updated to account for the advances made since the Second Edition came out in 1973. More main methods of measurement are presented, and there is extended coverage of chromatography and electrochemistry. Most of the material is new--including coverage of microprocessors and microcomputers, statistical control of measurement quality, quantification and extraction of information, x-ray fluorescence spectrometry, surface spectrometric techniques, and chromatography and HPLC. The quality and range of the worked examples have been improved, and there are end-of-chapter exercises.
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The album went on to be certified platinum by the RIAA in the United States, within only five weeks of its release, and has sold 1.3 million copies according to Nielsen Sound Scan.The song was used for the film Step Up (2006) and featured on the film's soundtrack.In support of the album, Ciara went on her first headlining tour in October 2006.The tour went to seventeen different clubs in cities throughout the United States.
Born in Austin, Texas, she traveled around the world during her childhood, eventually moving to Atlanta, Georgia where she joined the girl group Hearsay (not to be confused with the British group Hear'Say); however, the group disbanded after having differences. Her third studio album, Fantasy Ride, released in 2009, was considerably less successful than Ciara's first two albums.The single performed well worldwide, topping the charts in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, and charting in the top ten of other charts, receiving Platinum certification in the United States."Oh" featuring Ludacris was released as the third single on March 5, 2005.Since making her musical debut in 2004, Ciara has attained eight Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles, including a number one.She has also earned numerous awards and accolades, including three BET Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, three MOBO Awards, and one Grammy Award.She was an opening act for Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Lovers Tour 2005 and went on tour with Chris Brown and Bow Wow on the Holiday Jam Tour in December 2005.


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Meet The Delusionals
Don't believe in COVID-19? Think climate change is a hoax? Right-wing politicians have a deal for you
Feature by Gregory Beatty
At its core, COVID-19 is a science story. But as with pretty much everything else in our fractured world these days, It's also a political tale.
For one thing, politics figures into in how countries have responded to the pandemic.
We can learn a lot from country-to-country comparisons of COVID-19 statistics. It's true, they aren't aren't always fair — island nations, for instance, have an obvious advantage at controlling the virus's spread compared to countries that are bunched together. Likewise, densely populated countries face greater challenges than sparsely populated ones.
Still, the statistics for COVID-19 infections and death tolls are telling. Generally speaking, nations that followed their public health officials' virus-fighting advice have had the best results.
The worst performers? Those tend to be countries led by populist politicians — the U.S., Brazil, Russia and the UK are prime examples — who put their political and economic interests ahead of science.
It should come as a shock in 2020 that governments of major countries could be so dismissive of science on such a critical issue. Unfortunately, it's not.
Exhibit A is the decades-long war that right-wing populists have waged denying climate change.
Clear As Mud
Julia Boughner teaches Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology at University of Saskatchewan. She sees a definite parallel between COVID-19 skepticism and climate change denial.
"It seems to go back to the core values of the people making decisions," she says. "The politicization of COVID-19 seems entirely consistent with the response to the climate crisis."
Gordon Pennycook (Hill/Levene Schools of Business, University of Regina) agrees there's a comparison.
The difference is the COVID-19 denial campaign has built-in limits.
"Psychologically, people have a tendency to deny something they prefer not to be true — or at least its importance, and what to do about it," says Pennycook. "There are people who want to get the economy going again but there's not much opportunity for them to deny the virus exists. They can't go that far because it's just obviously the case.
"What makes climate change different is that millions of dollars have been spent every year for decades by oil companies, think tanks and other vested interests to muddy the waters."
There's no doubt that COVID-19 has impacted our lives significantly. But the stark reality is that we are in the early stages of studying a new (novel) coronavirus that evidence shows is highly contagious and sometimes fatal.
And while some countries have successfully controlled the virus (gold star to New Zealand!), many are struggling.
For now, the watchword must be caution.
Still, disinformation on COVID-19 persists. While the campaign against action hasn't been as organized or well-funded as climate change denial, it has had an influence, says Pennycook.
"A study in mid-March showed there were 21 misconceptions around COVID-19," he says. "One example would be that the flu is just as bad as the virus."
Ties to 5G networks, human-made bio-weapons, government power grabs, nurses as crisis actors, and quack medical cures are other popular COVID-19 delusions. As befits this dog's breakfast of populist hobbyhorses, street protests against lockdowns, masks and social distancing have attracted a bizarre mix of anti-vaxxers, evangelical Christians, white supremacists, gun nuts, free-market libertarians and other characters.
While coronavirus protesters claim to be grassroots, there's evidence of state-sponsored propaganda — such as the English-language news channel Russia Today. The U.S. and China are engaged in a mini-propaganda war over the virus, too. Conspiracy theories and disinformation have been spread by prominent right-wing populists, led by U.S. president Donald "Very Powerful Light Inside The Body" Trump and Brazilian president Jair "Only A Little Flu" Bolsonaro.
And just the other day in the Alberta legislature, UCP premier Jason Kenney called the virus "influenza" six times while defending his government's plan to end the state of emergency on June 15.
Trump, Bolsonaro and Kenney, of course, are all big-time climate change deniers and distractors. Since they've painted themselves into a corner by denying the settled science on climate change, they can hardly turn around and embrace the science on COVID-19 — not without appearing to be hypocrites to enough people to damage their election chances.
When amplified by right-wing media —such as Fox News in the U.S. and, to a lesser extent Postmedia in Canada — their statements can have an impact, says Pennycook.
"If you're inclined to reject something, it becomes so much easier if people who you respect do the same," he says. "That's why it's important for leaders to be unequivocal with the issue.
"When they're always talking about economic impacts or whatever and not treating it like a true crisis then it's not surprising people take it as an opening to dismiss the issue."
Cooking The Vulnerable
While COVID-19 has obvious life and death consequences, climate change does too. They're not as immediate as the virus but they are being felt now.
And as climate change ramps up, they're only going to get worse.
People who accept climate change science have hoped that as deniers see the true threat they'll cut the bullshit, join the rest of humanity and take action. But if the rhetoric that's emerged at the extreme end of the pandemic denial movement is any indication, that may not be the case.
The elderly, people with health conditions and the urban working class and poor (primarily visible minorities) have been especially vulnerable in COVID-19's first wave. And Julia Boughner says there have been unpleasant and ageist messages from those who put politics and economic interests ahead of public health.
"When people make a sweeping comment about how the elderly are close to death anyway and don't contribute to the economy so they're not valuable — what does that even mean?" asks Boughner.
"And who really benefits when the economy 'opens back up'?"
During the early stages of climate change, countries in the developing world will be particularly vulnerable — both from adverse climate effects and a lack of capacity to adapt and protect their citizens. Will populists care, or will they shrug and dismiss the suffering and hardship in those countries as the cost of doing business?
"When we have a situation where an island nation is sinking because of global heating, we may like to think they're not connected to us," says Boughner. "But that's a huge assumption, and it's incorrect.
"It's like if people think there's a hole on one side of a boat but [since] they're on the other side, they're not going to sink," adds Boughner. "I think that's a good analogy, where if we have a problem in one place it will become a problem in another spot.
"It goes back to core values and what kind of society we want to live in."
Reality Denial
One argument climate change deniers like to trot out is that science, as a discipline, is never "settled". They like it because as a general principle, it's true — if contrary evidence is found and presented, scientists evaluate it to determine if it should replace previous conclusions.
That said, scientists have been studying climate change for decades and their data and analysis is solid. COVID-19, though, has only around for seven months. And while scientists have made great strides in understanding the virus and its impact on the body, their investigation is very much a work in progress.
What we're essentially seeing, says Julia Boughner of the University of Saskatchewan's Department of Medicine, is science being performed in real-time. The operative word there is "performed". Usually, scientists conduct research in their labs, in obscurity. But because COVID-19 is urgent, they've been releasing their findings without peer review.
"It's like crowd-sourcing, where they're getting eyes on pages and brains on problems to get ideas flowing and come up with solutions faster," says Boughner. "But it's not meant to usurp the peer-review process. And articles are now being published that have been peer reviewed."
When media pick up on the findings, they often become headline news. But when preliminary results are released and then routinely refined — if not outright contradicted — by later research, it feeds into the "science is never settled" narrative that climate change-denying populists love so much.
"The pandemic and broader climate crisis are very different, with different kinds of data and different implications," says Boughner. "But we're seeing the same patterns with elected or non-elected leaders, and on social media, so they must be stemming from the same thinking and acting.
"Unlike the climate crisis, though, COVID-19 is much more personal," she says. "So maybe it's one of those things where you have to live through a trial by fire and come out the other end, and then maybe you decide you have to change."
Betting money says a Venn diagram of COVID-19 and climate change denial would have a lot of overlap. But it wouldn't be total, since some prominent climate deniers haven't claimed the coronavirus is fake.
Boughner is gratified by that, but also frustrated.
"I appreciate all the nuanced and complex reasons for this so I'm not totally naïve but it does make me kind of nuts that you can have someone like our premier deferring to health experts for COVID-19, but be completely hands over ears singing 'la-la-la' when it comes to the climate crisis.
"It's almost like it should be a litmus test," she says. "Anyone who accepts the science around COVID-19 but refuses to accept climate science is a reality denier, and not to be trusted."


What is it ? : Yeager, Tam and Neeku arrive at the repair shop early, with plans to repair the Fireball after Kaz's latest outing, but find that Kaz is already completing the repairs. Neeku complements Kaz on his improving skills, although Tam manages to point out a mistake he has made, and Yeager questions where he got the parts.
Kaz reveals that he has agreed to cover Flix and Orka's shop for the day in exchange for the parts, and sets off to do the work.
As they prepare to leave, they inform him their most important rule is to ensure everyone pays, but he shouldn't sell anything in the back room, as everything there is already sold to other customers. He gets a couple of customers, before one tries to buy a phase connector, the only one of which is in the back room.
He selects a bunch of items and asks Kaz to deliver them, which Kaz sets off to do, leaving BB-8 in charge of the store.
Delivering the items, Kaz finds himself sealed in a cargo container, and the customer orders it disposed of. Kaz manages to assemble the parts he was ordered to deliver into a cutting beam, and escape the container, just as they drop it into the sea.
Meanwhile, the fake customer arrives at the store, and steals the phase connector, although BB-8 tries to hold him off by throwing items at him, but gets trapped beneath a cupboard, allowing the robbery to be completed.
Kaz contacts BB-8 and discovers what has happened, and spots the robber and the phase connector meeting with Stormtroopers, and realises that the Phase Connector is needed by the First Order.
Trying to recover the Phase Connector but is trapped on the First Order ship, ending up sabotaging it to deny the cargo to the First Order, he ejects in an escape pod.
The crew follow shortly afterwards as the ship crashes into the sea, and Kaz returns to the shop to discover the devastation just as Flix and Orka return.
After he explains, they tell him that the robber had been trying to get the part for some time, and must have been monitoring them to discover when they would be away from the shop. They're impressed by the effort that Kaz went to to stop someone avoiding payment, and don't seem to blame him, but they do expect him to help tidy up, and expect him to return to work the next day.
After leaving, Kaz tells BB-8 to inform Poe Dameron and General Organa of the attempted theft, as the only use for the device is mining, and he suspects they are attempting to get more dedlanite for use in weapons.
High Points : Although no one treats him as it, Kaz is extremely capable during the entirety of this episode, from completing the repairs on the Fireball, to assembling a cutting laser using only spare parts, he macgyvers his way through this episode amazingly well. He's a little gullible, falling for the trick to get him out of the shop, but since it's literally his first shift in the shop, you can't expect him to be 100% sure of when he should make deliveries and when not to.
Now, it's not made super clear, but I'm pretty sure that they're hinting that Flix and Orka are a gay couple. They talk of visiting Flix's parents, and Wookieepedia mention them as partners (although that could just be business partners). If they are, that's 100% a positive for me, the only stable relationship we've been shown in the entire series is a gay one. Brilliant, I know that Resistance is targeted at young kids, and normalising relationships like that is definitely something which should be done. It's subtle enough to not be part of "the gay agenda", but nice enough so that kids will be able to see that there's nothing wrong with them being together.
Low Points : Well, as always Resistance has problems all over, but my first one has to just be a question.
They just drop their junk into the sea?
During the episode, Kaz is trapped in a cargo container, the bad guy for the episode tells someone it's full of junk and needs disposed of, so they just drop it into the sea. I guess they've no murder problem, because I know for sure where I'd dispose of a body (although given they're on a platform in the middle of a planet covering ocean, I guess just dropping someone off the side is a pretty easy solution anyway), but without checking for pollutants, without checking if there's anything valuable aboard (on this station where someone working full time has problems buying water), they just drop cargo containers into the sea. I'm not surprised the sea creature attacked them last episode, they're an environmental menace and deserve all the sea monsters the planet can throw at them.
Secondly, I'm really getting sick of Tam's criticisms of Kaz. She arrives, early, for work, with 2 co-workers, only to discover Kaz has done all of the work that the 3 of them were going to do. But his rush as they enter, he connects one part up wrong, and all she can do is gloat over his mistake.
Apparently he's much better at her job than she is, and much faster too, not only doing that work, but making the deal to get the parts at his own expense.
And? He's doing it to get the Fireball ready for her. A totally altruistic action.
Although I don't really like Kaz as a character, he is above criticism in his actions here, she should thank him, and probably offer to help him out at the shop at the very least. But does she, does she hell.
And finally, the whole motivation for the robbery. The First Order need the Phase Connector to mine resources for their weapons, and are stealing it from a junk store on a platform so poor that people don't earn enough to eat.
Given the fact that they've got fleets of Star Destroyers, millions of Tie Fighters and Stormtroopers, it feels a little beneath them to be robbing a junk store. It'd kind of be like the US Military robbing your local thrift store for parts to manufacture missiles for their latest fighter jets.
If that's the only part they can find because they're super rare, then tell us, and why don't they arrive with a massive bid for it. If it's super secret, why not just manufacture their own (they seem to be able to build Star Destroyers no problem). The premise just doesn't seem plausible to me at all.
So what do you really think ? : Again Resistance disappoints.
The premise is junk, the characters unlikable, the dialogue uninteresting. While there's some action in there, and very few good ideas, it's just nowhere as good as Clone Wars or Rebels.
Final Words : If I wasn't tied into watching it for these reviews, and was just watching the show for my own entertainment, then I'd probably have stopped by now. Although that said, I still live in hope of some genius to manifest itself somewhere along the line, and the half season trailer did give me a few hopes that there's a plan, and some decent storylines to come.
My youngest son and I have always watched the Star Wars animated series together, he got me to watch Clone Wars, and we sat at the premier of each and every episode of Rebels and loved them all.
Resistance I sit and watch alone now. He's given up on it a few episodes ago, which is the harshest criticism I can level at the series. My 13 year old son, who loves everything Star Wars, doesn't want to watch Resistance any more as it's just not good enough for him.


Deramaxx (otherwise called deracoxib) is a NSAID drug utilized for controlling agony. At the point when given to pooches it is frequently utilized postoperatively for up to seven days, or on a more extended term premise at a lower dose for assuaging the side effects of osteoarthritis. Beside its utilization as a painkiller it has likewise been appeared to be compelling in the adjunctive treatment of bladder malignancy (TCC particularly).
Joint pain treatment elective: Treating your pooch's joint pain with agony alleviation medication is an imperative choice as it's generally a lifetime duty. We suggest investigating more characteristic choices first. Some puppies experience awesome alleviation from supplements, for example, Dasuquin and don't require drug until much later.
The larger part of dogs will endure this solution well, however, like most NSAIDs, there are various reports of antagonistic impacts, some of which are not kidding and could even prompt demise. This is the reason it's particularly critical that you think deliberately before choosing to utilize this prescription on a long haul premise. We encourage proprietors to fumes common cures first and even try different things with different prescriptions, for example, tramadol which can successfully calm the side effect of torment.
Deramaxx is known not strain on both the kidneys and liver, particularly if there are existing issues identified with their capacity.
Pregnancy/nursing: We prescribe that proprietors keep away from the utilization of deracoxib in the treatment of pregnant or nursing creatures because of an absence of accessible data.
And in addition posting the upsides and downsides of treatment and what you can expect, the vet might have the capacity to propose distinctive prescriptions. Get some information about tramadol and whether it would be more reasonable for your pooch.
Deramaxx has been found to have antitumor action when given to mutts with transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. For more data allude to this study.
There are many side-effects associated with this medicine. Below you will find the most common Deramaxx side effects followed by others which may be based on anecdotal reports.
If your dog produces dark and tarry or bloody stools, or if blood is present in vomit contact the vet immediately. These symptoms are caused by internal bleeding.


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(1) The employer must conduct a risk assessment in any workplace in which a need to rescue or evacuate workers may arise.
(2) If the risk assessment required by subsection (1) shows a need for evacuation or rescue, appropriate written procedures must be developed and implemented, and a worker assigned to coordinate their implementation.
(f) workplaces where there are persons who require physical assistance to be moved.
(1) Emergency means of escape must be provided from any work area in which the malfunctioning of equipment or a work process could create an immediate danger to workers and the regular means of exit could become dangerous or unusable.
(2) Emergency exit routes must be designed and marked to provide quick and unimpeded exit.
(3) At least once each year emergency drills must be held to ensure awareness and effectiveness of emergency exit routes and procedures, and a record of the drills must be kept.
(1) All workers must be given adequate instruction in the fire prevention and emergency evacuation procedures applicable to their workplace.
(2) Workers assigned to firefighting duties in their workplace must be given adequate training, by a qualified instructor, in fire suppression methods, fire prevention, emergency procedures, organization and chain of command, firefighting crew safety and communications applicable to their workplace.
(3) Retraining for firefighting duties must be provided periodically, but not less than once a year.
(4) A worker not covered by Part 31 (Firefighting), who is assigned to firefighting duties, must be physically capable of performing the assigned duties safely and effectively before being permitted to do them.
(1) An employer having at a workplace controlled products covered by WHMIS, explosives, pesticides, radioactive material, consumer products or hazardous wastes in quantities which may endanger firefighters, must ensure the local fire department is notified of the nature and location of the hazardous materials or substances and methods to be used in their safe handling.
An employer whose work activities result in a hit or damage to a pipeline, buried electrical cable or other such utility must notify the owner of the utility without delay.


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Q: Problems building go code from sources I am building Ethereum from sources (because I need to feed sources into debugger, to trace how it works) and I have an error during build:
[niko@localhost sources]$  go run  github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/main.go ---verbosity 5 --ipcdisable --port 40401 --rpc --rpcport 9101 --pprof --datadir=/home/niko/saved-niko-home/myeth/ --networkid=15 console
# command-line-arguments
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/main.go:115: undefined: configFileFlag
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/main.go:146: undefined: initCommand
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/main.go:147: undefined: importCommand
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/main.go:148: undefined: exportCommand
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/main.go:149: undefined: removedbCommand
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/main.go:150: undefined: dumpCommand
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/main.go:152: undefined: monitorCommand
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/main.go:154: undefined: accountCommand
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/main.go:155: undefined: walletCommand
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/main.go:157: undefined: consoleCommand
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/main.go:157: too many errors
[niko@localhost sources]$

All the undefined symbols are contained in these files:
[niko@localhost sources]$ ls -l github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/config.go  github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/chaincmd.go github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/monitorcmd.go github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/accountcmd.go
-rw-rw-r--. 1 niko niko 11843 Sep 12 09:10 github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/accountcmd.go
-rw-rw-r--. 1 niko niko 10036 Sep 12 09:10 github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/chaincmd.go
-rw-rw-r--. 1 niko niko  5881 Sep 12 09:10 github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/config.go
-rw-rw-r--. 1 niko niko 11362 Sep 12 09:10 github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth/monitorcmd.go
[niko@localhost sources]$

However, if I add these files to the command line, I will get another error (symbols get duplicated), which I submitted in another question: can not use function as type in Go
So, somehow, with automatic build process Ethereum is compiled to include these variables (configFileFlag,initCommand, etc) but when I am trying to do it manually I am missing some stuff. But which stuff?


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This manual AKM9135 Ed.4 (1990) is the 4th and latest edition of the latest Service Manual for the DS420. The older 1st edition of this AKM9135 manual (1985) is shown here.


Title: Section 360-2.2 - Applying for MA.
360-2.2 Applying for MA. (a) ADC and HR applicants. Persons applying for ADC or HR on the State-prescribed form are not required to make a separate application for MA.
(1) Persons determined to be eligible for ADC or HR are automatically eligible for MA if they meet the general conditions for MA eligibility in section 360-3.2 of this Part.
(2) Persons determined to be ineligible for ADC or HR will have their MA eligibility determined separately, unless they have stated in writing that they do not want their MA eligibility determined.
(b) SSI applicants. (1) Persons determined to be eligible for SSI from the Social Security Administration are automatically eligible for MA if they meet the general conditions for MA eligibility in section 360-3.2 of this Part. No separate application for MA is required.
(2) Persons determined to be ineligible for SSI must make a separate application if they wish to have MA eligibility determined, assuming they have not already done so.
(c) Title IV-E children. (1) A child receiving foster care maintenance payments pursuant to title IV-E of the Social Security Act or on whose behalf a title IV-E adoption assistance agreement is in effect is automatically eligible for MA. The child must be living in the state and meet the general conditions of MA eligibility in section 360-3.2 of this Part. No separate application for MA is required.
(2) If a child is determined ineligible under title IV-E, a separate application must be made in order to have MA eligibility determined, assuming this has not already been done.
(d) Application for MA only. (1) Persons may apply for MA without applying for ADC, HR, or SSI. Persons may also apply for MA separately from an application for SSI. Such applicants must complete and sign a State-prescribed form in ink. Spouses living together and applying for MA together must both sign the State-prescribed application form. The form may be completed and signed by anyone the applicant designates to represent him/her in the application process. The completed form must be returned to the social services district in the county in which the applicant lives.
(b) do not meet the requirements, other than financial, for medically needy status in section 360-3.3(b) of this PART.
(ii) Generally, eligibility for MA on the basis of HR eligibility will be determined according to Parts 352 and 370 of this Title. Exceptions to this general rule are set forth below.
(a) A homestead, as defined in section 360-1.4(f) of this Part, is exempt from consideration in determining eligibility.
(b) Lump-sum and windfall payments will be counted as income in the month received. Any portion of such payments remaining in subsequent months will be counted as an available resource.
(c) A child's savings of under $500 accumulated from gifts from nonlegally responsible relatives or from the child's own wages will be disregarded in determining eligibility.
(d) The provisions of section 352.23(b)(6) of this Title regarding the sale of real property do not apply. If the value of the total resources of the applicant/recipient is over the maximum resource level, the applicant/recipient will be ineligible for MA.
(e) Recertification. Social Services districts must redetermine an MA recipient's eligibility at least once every 12 months and whenever there is a change in the recipient's circumstances that may affect eligibility. The district may redetermine eligibility more frequently.
(1) MA recipients who are not eligible for ADC, HR, SSI, title IV-E, or the adoption assistance benefits described in section 360-3.3(a)(6) of this Part must apply for recertification on a State-prescribed form each time MA eligibility is redetermined.
(2) MA recipients who are eligible for ADC, HR, SSI, Title IV-E, or the adoption assistance benefits described in section 360-3.3(a)(6) of this Part will continue to be eligible for MA as long as they are eligible under the other program. No application for recertification is required when MA eligibility is redetermined.
(vii) the availability of other assistance or services for which the applicant/recipient may be eligible.
(2) (i) Social services districts may request a waiver of the personal interview requirement for recertification for aged, certified blind or certified disabled recipients. The request must be sent in writing, by certified mail, to the State Commissioner of Social Services. The request must state the intended duration of the waiver and other conditions the local social services commissioner finds relevant. The local social services commissioner must sign the request. A waiver request may be granted if the social services district demonstrates that alternative procedures have been established to verify that recipients continue to meet all eligibility requirements for MA. The department may require follow-up reports from the social services district to insure that continuing eligibility is being accurately determined. The waiver may be withdrawn or modified, if, through the department's monitoring efforts, it is determined that the statewide medical assistance eligibility error rate may be adversely affected.
(ii) The local social services official will be notified in writing within 45 days of the approval, partial approval or denial of the waiver. If the waiver is denied, the department will inform the district of the reasons for the denial. The department's failure to act within the specified time period does not constitute an automatic approval of the waiver.


A Berlin court has ruled that a Jewish poster collector's son living in the US is the rightful owner of a rare poster confiscated by the Nazis. A panel of three administrative court judges says Hans Sachs never lost legal ownership to his poster collection when the Gestapo seized it. Sachs' son, Peter, a 71-year-old resident of Sarasota, Florida, is trying to reclaim 4,000 of his father's posters from the German Historical Museum in Berlin. The posters are worth around $5.8 million. The court's ruling Tuesday applied only to one poster but is expected to be used as a precedent for the return of the entire collection. The German Historical Museum said it would appeal the ruling.


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Atiku's Optimistic Outlook for the New Year
by Adams Peter
in Editors' Pick, News
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has shared his views and aspirations with all Nigerians for the new year 2022. In his encouraging message he urged Nigerians to work together for a better country.
He said "It is worthy that we give thanks and adulation to God for the opportunity to witness a brand new year, 2022.
The outgone year came and went with challenges, especially with the second, third and fourth waves of the dreaded Corona Virus Disease; sundry upsets that troubled the peace and security in different parts of the country; a depressing economy and many touching stories of tragedies. For Nigerians, who lost dear ones to these calamities, it is my prayer that God shall continue to comfort the bereaved families.
But this New Year, 2022 promises to be a remarkable one. It is one year that is filled with hope and optimism. It is one year that comes with a unique opportunity for us to redefine the remainder of this decade. Moving forward into the decade of the 2020s, our New Year resolution should be about eschewing divisive and parochial tendencies and embracing inclusion and general good.
We cannot continue to kick the same can down the road, yet again. We need a reawakening. And it is a reawakening that must invigorate our unity as one people of one good country.
That is the commitment that we must pursue in this New Year.
We must seek to do something different and, in doing so, let us become peace ambassadors of God. Hate and strife never build a nation. They even destroy the individual faster.
Rather, unity and understanding bind a nation together.
Unlike hate and strife, an individual that chooses a life of unity and common understanding finds inner peace and love.
While I congratulate Nigerians on this New Year, 2022, let me urge us all to the task of washing our hands off every molecule of hate and strife and immerse our hearts in unity, love and peace.
I wish every Nigerian family a happy and prosperous Year 2022".
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Andrew "Andy" Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a Scottish professional tennis player, ranked World No. 3, and is the British No. 1. He achieved a top-10 ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals for the first time on 16 April 2007, and reached a career peak of World No. 2 from 17 to 31 August 2009. At the 2012 US Open, he became the first British player since 1977, and the first British man since 1936, to win a Grand Slam singles tournament, when he defeated Novak Djokovic in five sets. This title makes him the only British male to become a Grand Slam champion during the Open Era.
At the 2012 London Olympics, Murray defeated Roger Federer in straight sets to win the Gold medal in Men's Singles, becoming the first British champion in over 100 years. He also won a Silver medal in Mixed Doubles. He is the only man to win the Olympic Gold and the US Open back-to-back.
He has been the runner-up in four other singles Grand Slam finals: the 2008 US Open, the 2010 Australian Open, the 2011 Australian Open, and 2012 Wimbledon, losing three to Roger Federer and one to Novak Djokovic. In 2011, Murray became the seventh player in the Open Era to reach the semi-finals of all four Grand Slam tournaments in one year.
our cages of despair no longer keep us closed and life-denying.
The stone has rolled away and death cannot imprison!