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Time: 20 to 40 Minutes
Game Type: Card
For the daring and adventurous, there are too many lost cities to seek and explore. The search can take you to the Himalayas, the Brazilian rain forest, the ever-shifting sands of the desert, ancient volcanoes and to Neptune's Realm. Of course, one cannot go everywhere with limited resources so the players must choose which expeditions to begin and which to leave to others. Those with high confidence may have the opportunity to up the stakes: increasing the rewards for success, but risking more should the expedition fail. The player who finds the right balance will have successful expeditions. Too many expeditions will put a strain on limited resources and yield failure. Too few may guarantee success, but not victory!
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Balloon Cup (English Version)
Always a hit with "non-gamers." Simple to pick up and quick to play. Lots of luck involved, but a great diversion nonetheless.
An excellent 2-player card game that's easy to learn and quick to play. This is a great introduction game for non-gamers, and good filler game for those die-heart gamers. Every time I pulled this game out, it's been a hit. Everyone wants to play it again. I would definitely recommend this game!
Lee Kok Khing
Just got to play it recently and I must say I missed a lot for not playing it for the last 2 years. Rules are really simple and the play is intense. It is challenging enough for gamers and fun enough to introduce it to non-gamers.
Fast playing, easy to learn, fun, 2-player game that offers a lot more than may seem at first glance. Great for non-gamers - hard to imagine that anyone would not enjoy this one!
Everyone I have ever played this game has enjoyed it, its a great game for your fast play collection.
My husband and I love this game for its quick play and great blend of skill and luck.
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Lost Cities is my absolute favorite 2 player game. It is a game of risk taking and hand management that plays quickly but has surprising depth and strategy. Made by Rio Grande and they fit everything in a neat little box. A must have. Enjoy!
A very easy to play 2P game that's good as a filler and to give your brain a rest from the thinking games. I love the artwork on the cards.
A quick and fun two player game that was a favorite for a time. The ease of play made this a short filler that would be played multiple times in a row. A great game for someone new to games.
Easy to learn and quick to play. I think there's a bit too much luck involved, but the fact that you can always play a revenge match right away makes up for it.
This is probably the game I have introduced to the most non-games. It is very simple to learn, has big, colorful cards and plays fast. It may feel very luck dependent, but there is plenty of strategy here.
Great little card game. The only complaint I have heard about this game is that the box and artwork makes you believe that there is much more theme to it, while it is really a rather dry game of building numerical chains. I see it more as a push-your-luck game, where the decisions on how many colours to play and when to start them are critical.
This is a wonderful, light game that challenges you to press your luck and know when it's time to cut your losses and move on. My wife and I enjoyed this game so much that I actually re-themed the game and produced my own that takes place in the Firefly universe from the short-lived show Firefly! :)
Good 2-person game that takes 5 minutes to learn. Strategies must change on the fly because of the luck of the draw, just like most card games. A single round can take 5 minutes; you choose how many rounds per game. We don't LOVE the luck factor, but all things considered, a great choice.
One of our favorite two player games. Not a perfect game, but it's light, competitive, strategic, and tactical. A lot to fit into a two-player game that won't take up your whole day. Great for travelling, or as a gift to a couple. Even if we don't play for a year, this is a game we hang on to.
Mat Thomsen
This game is a blast. The gameplay is elegant and the art is wonderful. Terrific two-player game. My wife loves it, my daughter loves it. Therefore, I love it. Cheers to R. Knizia for this triumph.
A great gateway game....not something you'll find lying in Target, but simple enough that it's accessible while having enough simple strategy that replay is worthwhile again and again.


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// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

using System;
using System.Collections.Immutable;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CodeActions;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CodeFixes;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Diagnostics;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editing;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Shared.Extensions;
using Roslyn.Utilities;

namespace Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.AddAccessibilityModifiers
{
    internal abstract class AbstractAddAccessibilityModifiersCodeFixProvider : SyntaxEditorBasedCodeFixProvider
    {
        protected abstract SyntaxNode MapToDeclarator(SyntaxNode declaration);

        public sealed override ImmutableArray<string> FixableDiagnosticIds
            => ImmutableArray.Create(IDEDiagnosticIds.AddAccessibilityModifiersDiagnosticId);

        internal sealed override CodeFixCategory CodeFixCategory => CodeFixCategory.CodeStyle;

        public sealed override Task RegisterCodeFixesAsync(CodeFixContext context)
        {
            var diagnostic = context.Diagnostics.First();

#if CODE_STYLE // 'CodeActionPriority' is not a public API, hence not supported in CodeStyle layer.
            var codeAction = new MyCodeAction(c => FixAsync(context.Document, context.Diagnostics.First(), c));
#else
            var priority = diagnostic.Severity == DiagnosticSeverity.Hidden
                ? CodeActionPriority.Low
                : CodeActionPriority.Medium;
            var codeAction = new MyCodeAction(priority, c => FixAsync(context.Document, context.Diagnostics.First(), c));
#endif
            context.RegisterCodeFix(
                codeAction,
                context.Diagnostics);
            return Task.CompletedTask;
        }

        protected sealed override async Task FixAllAsync(
            Document document, ImmutableArray<Diagnostic> diagnostics,
            SyntaxEditor editor, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            var semanticModel = await document.GetRequiredSemanticModelAsync(cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);

            foreach (var diagnostic in diagnostics)
            {
                var declaration = diagnostic.AdditionalLocations[0].FindNode(cancellationToken);
                var declarator = MapToDeclarator(declaration);

                var symbol = semanticModel.GetDeclaredSymbol(declarator, cancellationToken);
                Contract.ThrowIfNull(symbol);

                var preferredAccessibility = GetPreferredAccessibility(symbol);

                // Check to see if we need to add or remove
                // If there's a modifier, then we need to remove it, otherwise no modifier, add it.
                editor.ReplaceNode(
                    declaration,
                    (currentDeclaration, _) => UpdateAccessibility(currentDeclaration, preferredAccessibility));
            }

            return;

            SyntaxNode UpdateAccessibility(SyntaxNode declaration, Accessibility preferredAccessibility)
            {
                var generator = editor.Generator;

                // If there was accessibility on the member, then remove it.  If there was no accessibility, then add
                // the preferred accessibility for this member.
                return generator.GetAccessibility(declaration) == Accessibility.NotApplicable
                    ? generator.WithAccessibility(declaration, preferredAccessibility)
                    : generator.WithAccessibility(declaration, Accessibility.NotApplicable);
            }
        }

        private static Accessibility GetPreferredAccessibility(ISymbol symbol)
        {
            // If we have an overridden member, then if we're adding an accessibility modifier, use the
            // accessibility of the member we're overriding as both should be consistent here.
            if (symbol.GetOverriddenMember() is { DeclaredAccessibility: var accessibility })
                return accessibility;

            // Default abstract members to be protected, and virtual members to be public.  They can't be private as
            // that's not legal.  And these are reasonable default values for them.
            if (symbol is IMethodSymbol or IPropertySymbol or IEventSymbol)
            {
                if (symbol.IsAbstract)
                    return Accessibility.Protected;

                if (symbol.IsVirtual)
                    return Accessibility.Public;
            }

            // Otherwise, default to whatever accessibility no-accessibility means for this member;
            return symbol.DeclaredAccessibility;
        }

        private class MyCodeAction : CustomCodeActions.DocumentChangeAction
        {
#if CODE_STYLE // 'CodeActionPriority' is not a public API, hence not supported in CodeStyle layer.
            public MyCodeAction(Func<CancellationToken, Task<Document>> createChangedDocument)
                : base(AnalyzersResources.Add_accessibility_modifiers, createChangedDocument, AnalyzersResources.Add_accessibility_modifiers)
            {
            }
#else
            public MyCodeAction(CodeActionPriority priority, Func<CancellationToken, Task<Document>> createChangedDocument)
                : base(AnalyzersResources.Add_accessibility_modifiers, createChangedDocument, AnalyzersResources.Add_accessibility_modifiers)
            {
                Priority = priority;
            }

            internal override CodeActionPriority Priority { get; }
#endif
        }
    }
}

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Has there ever been a grimmer, more taciturn main character in a book than Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge? We've all known someone like Olive, someone who looks like she's just bitten into a lemon, someone for whom a kind of self-righteous grumpiness rules the day. What's so unlikely is to have such a Gloomy Gus serve as the focal point of a book.
And it must be said: Olive Kitteridge is not a sympathetic character. As readers, we don't like her. Those around her – most notably her son – don't like her either. Her husband is long-suffering. Perhaps in years past, he saw something redeeming in Olive, but even he has to brush off and walk away from her brusqueness.
Why, then, would I recommend a book like this? While we don't like Olive, we do come to understand her – and maybe we come to understand a bit more about those unpleasant people who cross our own paths from time to time. For Strout seems to be saying: everyone has a story; there's a reason everyone ticks the way they do. As novelist Melissa Bank says of the book in her review for NPR, who says you have to like a character?
Strout's approach to this book and this character is highly innovative and very intriguing. Strictly speaking, Olive Kitteridge is a very loosely connected collection of short stories. Yes, Olive shows up in every story – but sometimes she merely walks across the stage or, perhaps, walks across one corner of the stage. In other stories, she is definitively the main character, and those stories help the reader plumb Olive's depths.
This kaleidoscope of stories reveals the many facets of a character who at first seems the very definition of the term "flat." Olive, it appears initially, has one note, which might go something like "Go to hell." But as Strout turns Olive this way and that, puts her in or near one extreme situation after another, we begin to know her. If we don't exactly sympathize with her, we do begin to care to some degree what happens to her. The ending – which I won't give away – gives us as readers a modicum of comfort, as it does Olive, too.
In addition to painting a portrait of Olive Kitteridge, Strout also brings to life the world of Crosby, a small town in Maine. When we leave Olive behind – as we do in several stories – we stay in Crosby, and we learn the many ways the community hurts, then marches on despite this hurt.
Is Olive Kitteridge more than a collection of short stories? Can it be called a composite novel in the vein of, say, Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time? To my mind, it does very much work as a composite novel. Like Hemingway, Strout doesn't keep a steady, straight-ahead focus on her main character – but the stories, taken as a whole, give us a rich portrait of Olive nevertheless.
Olive Kitteridge won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and was made into an excellent HBO miniseries, starring Frances McDormand as Olive. To translate the book to television, the screenplay writer, Jane Anderson, put the story in roughly chronological order with Olive consistently at the center of events. Despite this imposition of linearity where there is none in the book, the miniseries is a well-done production (winning eight Emmy Awards). It's a good supplement to the book but not a substitute for it.
I highly recommend reading the book first, then watching the miniseries. To get started, you can read Chapter 1, "Pharmacy," on Elizabeth Strout's website. Then consider purchasing the book and the DVD to get the full Olive Kitteridge experience.
Listen and Watch:Listen to Sandra Burr read an excerpt from Olive Kitteridge, then watch one of the trailers for the HBO miniseries. To learn more about Olive Kitteridge, watch Elizabeth Strout discuss the book.
Image Credit: Elizabeth Strout at the 2015 Texas Book Festival. Photo by Larry D. Moore CC BY-SA 4.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Strout_2015.jpg.
I taught this book as a novel in my AP Lit class two years ago as an indulgence to see how my students felt about Olive. While I know that most, if not all, readers see her as unsympathetic, I do not. I think the most telling part of this podcast is the observation that Strout maybe telling us to recognize that everyone has a story. I empathize and sympathize with Olive as she has taken on a persona to survive thus denying herself the joy of life that comes from letting people in.
I also believe that we are in the midst of a new literary movement yet to be named. This "composite", non linear, various perspective style is pervasive in so many of the newest, potentially canonical texts. At the end of the year, I my students may choose to define this new literary movement and to look for it in architecture, art, and music creating an encyclopedic entry naming the new movement. The last two years have been fascinating and studying Kitteridge has been a jewel in those years.
Thanks for all this insight, Kim!!! Your students are lucky to have you!
I had no idea there was a miniseries! I love this book; it continues to be one of my favorites… maybe because there was someone in my life who was my (our) Olive, who I loved dearly.
Kath Kaiser recommended this book to me, and I trust her judgment–and we seem to like the sam books–so I bought it. But I've tried twice to get into it, and both times I've put it down because Olive is so unlikeable. There have been many characters in literature that I've not liked, but they are not usually the main character. I was interested in reading you review, Linda, to see if someone could nudge me again toward a Pulitzer Prize winning book that I keep resisting. OK. I'll give it another shot. Thank you!


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Q: How can I use environment variables in jenkins config.xml I am running several jenkins services on a docker swarm and I want to use environment variables for some parts of config.xml. For example. In my docker service .yml file I set a service specific welcome message in environment variable JENKINS_WELCOME_MESSAGE and I want to use that message in jenkins config.xml:
<systemMessage>${JENKINS_WELCOME_MESSAGE}</systemMessage>

An other example is the configuration of my docker-swarm-plugin inside the jenkins service. It needs to know the Jenkins URL for slave agent jar download so I would like to set an environment variable JENKINS_MASTER_URL and use it in the docker-swarm-plugin part of config.xml:
<clouds>
    <org.jenkinsci.plugins.docker.swarm.DockerSwarmCloud plugin="docker-swarm@1.6">
      <name>Docker Swarm</name>
      <jenkinsUrl>${JENKINS_MASTER_URL}</jenkinsUrl>

Is this possible?
When searching fo a solution, I found this question (Using variables in config.xml). For me the question reads like my question, but the answer is more about using environment variables for in job executions.

A: I had the same exact question. I wanted to make repository that gets checked out use an environment variable so that I can set it dynamically at the time of Jenkins server setup. I went ahead and just tried it and it works.
I have Jenkins job config like following.
<scm class="hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM" plugin="git@4.7.2">
    <configVersion>2</configVersion>
    <userRemoteConfigs>
        <hudson.plugins.git.UserRemoteConfig>
            <url>${SEED_REPO}</url>
            <credentialsId>GITHUB_cmsbuilds</credentialsId>
        </hudson.plugins.git.UserRemoteConfig>
    </userRemoteConfigs>
    <branches>
        <hudson.plugins.git.BranchSpec>
            <name>${SEED_BRANCH}</name>
        </hudson.plugins.git.BranchSpec>
    </branches>
    <doGenerateSubmoduleConfigurations>false</doGenerateSubmoduleConfigurations>
    <submoduleCfg class="empty-list"/>
    <extensions/>
</scm>

I have SEED_REPO and SEED_BRANCH defined as global environment variables.

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Die Liste der denkmalgeschützten Objekte in Nassereith enthält die  denkmalgeschützten, unbeweglichen Objekte der Tiroler Gemeinde Nassereith.

Denkmäler

Literatur
 Bundesdenkmalamt (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs – Tirol. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Wien, 1980

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Nassereith
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7. Increase the Bump Intensity to 50%.
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Public Release: 18-Jul-2018
China -- The answer?
IMAGE: This is the cover for China's Change: the Greatest Show on Earth. view more
Credit: World Scientific
How can societies, firms and individuals survive in a world where rapid economic, political and social changes continually disrupt the status quo?
Economic, political and social turmoil capture headlines every day. Voters' verdicts from Brexit to Trump, Philippines to India, suddenly indicate a desire for a break with recent decades, while the most polarized US politics in living memory and European introspection await their denouement. There is a sense of relative power shifts to an increasingly multipolar world.
In his book China's Change: The Greatest Show On Earth, Hugh Peyman reasons that in order to react effectively to these changes, societies, firms and individuals must understand the nature of change itself. He believes that the best way to do this is to look at China and its record-breaking economic transformation. By exploring early Chinese history, philosophy, strategy, and governance, he comments on how they inform current Chinese thinking. He then identifies 20 essential ideas underlying Chinese thought on change and explains how each contributes to successful change.
Building on these essential ideas, Peyman outlines a general process for managing change which can be used to shape policy or to make personal or professional decisions. He also provides several case studies of change in Chinese contexts to illustrate the points he makes.
Says Ho Kwon Ping, Banyan Tree Resorts Founder, Singapore Management University Trustees Chairman and author of The Ocean in a Drop, "All travellers to China, whether on business, holiday or study, should take this book. China's Change has it all on China: history, philosophy, government, politics, business and economics, past, present and future." For Asia and the West this very timely, wide-ranging and original book answers two critical questions. Can China illuminate new paths for us to manage our increasingly disrupted worlds: in our national, work and personal lives? Can China continue to be the main driver of global economic growth? China's Change is the Greatest Show on Earth for anyone interested in business, economics, China or world affairs, even for anyone who has experienced difficulties in navigating the rapidly changing world we live in.
The book retails for US$38 / £33 in paperback and US$78 / £69 in hardback, at major bookstores/distributors/online. To know more about the book visit https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10748.
After graduating in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford in 1973, Hugh Peyman co-authored with Richard Hall The Great Uhuru Railway: China's Showpiece in Africa (Gollancz 1976), then moved with Reuters in 1977 to Hong Kong before joining Asia's leading business, politics and economics magazine the Far Eastern Economic Review where he worked in Hong Kong and Malaysia.
Peyman began over 35 years of investment research in 1981, heading Asian Research ex-Japan for Merrill Lynch and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, based in Singapore, before founding Research-Works in 1999 to do independent long-term Asian research for global asset managers. He speaks to investors, companies and students about China. He has lived in Shanghai since 2002.
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Union Budget 2022: Non-tax revenues to see a 14% decline in FY23
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that spectrum would be auctioned in 2022 to facilitate the rollout of 5G mobile services by private telecom operators. Despite this, the telecom sector is projected to contribute almost 27 per cent less in revenues to the government during FY'23 year-on-year.
This, coupled with an expected decline in dividend from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), would result in a 14 per cent fall in non-tax revenues at Rs 2.7 trillion during 2022-23 compared to the Revised Estimates of Rs 3.1 trillion in the current financial year
Spectrum auction, along with licence fees from telecom operators, is expected to fetch almost Rs 72,000 crore for the government during the current financial year, which is 33 per cent more than the budgeted Rs 54,000 crore.
ICRA Chief Economist Aditi Nayar said telecom operators prepaid some of their deferred liabilities in the current financial year.
The government had announced a four-year moratorium on paying adjusted gross revenue (AGR) with effect from October, 2021. The moratorium is an optional scheme and the company that decides to avail of it will pay interest at the rate of the marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) plus two per cent.
The deferment is basically on the payment of spectrum purchased in past auctions, excluding the auction in 2021.
Nayar said, "Given that moratorium was offered on spectrum and AGR payments, it is likely that the BE for FY'23 assumes some inflow of upfront payment towards the proposed 5G spectrum auctions."
Bank of Baroda Chief Economist Madan Sabnavis said the telcos paid their dues this financial year because of which revenues to the government rose. However, because of AGR calculations, the payout would be less from the next financial year.
For instance, in December 2021, Bharti Airtel prepaid its entire liability of Rs 15,519 crore from its 2014 acquisition of 128.4 MHz spectrum. The move may help the company save around Rs 3,400 crore in interest expenses.
RBI paid around Rs 99,000 crore to the government in the current financial year. The dividend payout was for the financial year 2020-21 paid in May, 2021. This dividend payout constituted almost all of the Rs 1.01 trillion from the RBI, nationalised banks and financial institutions.
The dividend from the RBI, nationalised banks and financial institutions is pegged at around Rs 74,000 crore for FY'23, lower by 27 per cent compared to the expected in the current financial year.
Sabnavis said this may be due to the excess liquidity as the RBI's net income falls as it sucks liquidity out.
Similarly, dividend from public sector units (PSUs) is expected to slip by 13 per cent at Rs 40,000 crore in the next financial year compared to Rs 46,000 crore expected in the current financial year. PSUs are projected to give less in the current financial year compared to the budgeted amount of Rs 50,000 crore.
However, it is more than the almost Rs 40,000 crore paid in 2020-21. In a way, PSUs are expected to give as much dividend to the government in the next financial year as was paid in the Covid-affected 2020-21.
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Cokie and Steven Roberts: President's headlong retreat from morality
By Cokie and Steven RobertsAndrews McMeel Syndication
One number illustrates how seriously the Trump administration violates our nation's most basic moral principles. That figure is 11 — the number of Syrian refugees admitted to this country in 2018. Only 44 have arrived since the beginning of the fiscal year last October.
The president has expressed strong support for the victims of Bashar al-Assad's murderous regime in Damascus — "Another humanitarian disaster," he tweeted after a recent chemical attack. But in an act of mean-spirited, wrong-headed hypocrisy, Trump has slammed the door shut on the victims of countless "humanitarian disasters" in Syria and around the world.
Under Trump, the annual quota for admitting refugees to the United States has been slashed to 45,000, down from 110,000 under Barack Obama and half the historic average on 90,000. As of mid-April, only 11,245 refugees had arrived since the start of the current fiscal year, according to the Refugee Council USA. At that rate, it translates to an annual total of barely 20,000, less than half of Trump's already truncated target.
"At a time of widespread need, the United States is in headlong retreat from the principles and practices that for so long has made it a global beacon," David Milliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, wrote in The Washington Post. "It is no exaggeration to say that if current trends continue, the U.S. government will have no refugee resettlement program at the end of this administration."
Trump's repeated attempts to block immigration from mainly Muslim countries have been thwarted by a series of federal judges, and one of those cases, brought by the state of Hawaii, reached the Supreme Court this week.
But when it comes to refugees — displaced persons seeking asylum for political reasons — Trump has more discretion. His trampling of human decency has been ruthlessly efficient, and Syria is only one example. Through the first four months of the fiscal year, only 81 Iraqi refugees gained entry to the U.S., compared to 4,700 in the previous year.
"During the worst refugee crisis in world history, the United States is failing in its very limited commitment to admit refugees," concludes the Refugee Council.
The Trump administration makes two arguments for its restrictive policy: Refugees endanger American security, and they drain public resources. Both are blatantly false.
On security: The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, says violence committed by refugees is virtually nonexistent and estimates that the chance of an American dying in a terrorist attack committed by a refugee is 1 in 3.64 billion. "Refugees are victims of terrorism, not terrorists," says Milliband.
On economics: Last year, the White House commissioned a report from its own Department of Health and Human Services, trying to document the cost of refugee resettlement. When the report contradicted the president's prejudices — it showed refugees contribute a net benefit of $63 billion to the economy over 10 years — the White House spiked the document, according to The New York Times.
New American Economy, a pro-immigration alliance of mayors and business leaders, examined the record of refugees who have arrived since 1975. Its report, issued last year, "demonstrates the strong, long-term upward economic trajectory experienced by many refugee families, and gives evidence that, rather than drain their communities, the high rate of labor force participation of refugees and their spirit of entrepreneurship instead sustains and strengthens their new hometowns."
While refugees do receive some public assistance when they first arrive, they quickly become taxpaying Americans whose median household income eventually reaches $67,000, $14,000 more than the median income of U.S. households overall. That's why John Feinblatt, chairman of New American Economy, asserts, "Refugees more than pay their way."
Trump's hostility toward refugees is not just based on false assumptions and "alternative facts"; it's a profoundly immoral policy that tarnishes America's reputation in the eyes of the world. "We need to show our friends and allies that we stand with them and this is a shared burden," Michael Chertoff, secretary of homeland security under President George H.W. Bush, told The New York Times.
According the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 65.6 million people have been displaced from their homes worldwide; 22.5 million are refugees, and more than half of those are children under 18. Twenty more people are uprooted every minute — more than 28,000 every day.
In the face of "the worst refugee crisis in world history," this president hardens his heart and turns his back. Instead of sharing the burden, he is shoving it away. History will not forget or forgive him.
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Dierks Bentley Bio
October 1,
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Dierks Bentley may be the only singer banned from the Grand Ole Opry before he even got to sing there. During his early days in Nashville, Dierks got a job as a researcher for The Nashville Network, which was located on the Opryland grounds. Dierks made sure to stay late on weekends so he could slip backstage at the Grand Ole Opry House to watch the show and visit the musicians. Dierks did this so often that Opry general manager Pete Fisher finally had to limit his access. These days, of course, Dierks is always welcome at the Opry.
"I actually come to the Opry even when I'm not playing," says the singer of hits including "Come A Little Closer," "Every Mile A Memory," "Lot Of Leavin' Left To Do," "Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)," and "I Hold On."
"I just come out because there's always great music." Once, he even surprised his wife Cassidy by taking her to dinner there. "We had dinner on the stage of the Opry, just to sit out there and be on it," he says.
Dierks made his Opry debut in April 2003 and sang his breakthrough hit, "What Was I Thinkin'" — a song inspired by a girl he'd met backstage at the Opry during those early visits. "I just want to add my name to the list of people that said this was the biggest night of their life," he said that night after Ricky Skaggs introduced him, "because this really is a dream come true."
Two years later, Dierks had been officially welcomed into the Opry fold. During that time, he'd been named the Academy of Country Music's Top New Artist of 2005. The month after his Opry induction, the Country Music Association gave him its Horizon Award.
Dierks has broad-ranging musical tastes. He's a student of history, but he also knows how to appeal to the young girls who come to his shows wearing the little white tank tops mentioned in "What Was I Thinkin'." He loves bluegrass (at the same time he was hanging around the Opry, he was also a regular at Nashville's top bluegrass club, the Station Inn), but he also has ties to the Texas and alternative country scenes. And while he's a regular at the top of the country charts, he makes sure to include a bluegrass tune on every album. His 2010 Up on the Ridge album featured guest spots by fellow Opry stars Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, and Del McCoury.
Now, when Dierks plays the Opry, he tries to make himself as available as possible. "We leave the door to our dressing room wide open so people can come in and say hi," he says. "And, if we're not getting ready, then I want to be out on the stage watching the other bands – just remembering what it feels like to be part of the audience. I don't ever want to lose that feeling of being a fan."
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Difference Between Eastern and Western Philosophy
Although both schools of thought are concerned about virtues, there are some differences between Eastern Philosophy and Western Philosophy. Eastern philosophy is largely spiritual in nature, while Western philosophy is quite practical.
Within the subject of philosophy, analytical thinking is used to investigate existential problems. While Western philosophy uses logic and reasoning to address these problems, Eastern philosophy is more subject to interpretation.
Eastern vs Western Philosophy: An Overview
Western philosophy is dominant in Western areas of the world, including Europe, whereas Eastern philosophy is predominant in Asian nations, including China, India, and more.
In a larger sense, Western culture tries to discover and verify the truth through the use of accurate facts from logical sources. Eastern civilizations, on the other hand, accept facts as presented and are more concerned with maintaining the equilibrium than with the sources.
When it comes down to Eastern vs Western philosophy, Western philosophers place a higher value on individual values than Eastern philosophers, who are more concerned with societal duty.
What Is Eastern Philosophy?
Eastern philosophy refers to the particular kind of philosophical system that arose independently of the Western tradition.
It is a varied collection of perspectives to existence and introspection, with a focus on comprehending the never-ending cycle of the Universe. In essence, it lacks the strict intellectual conventions prevalent in Western thought.
Eastern philosophy encompasses Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Religion, despite the lack of a clear demarcation between the multiple categories.
What Is Western Philosophy?
Western philosophy is the viewpoint that originates from the Greek philosophy that impacted the majority of Western civilization. This philosophy attempts to uncover and demonstrate the truth via the use of logical and rational data.
Originally, Western philosophy was split into five groupings: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics.
Main Differences Between Eastern and Western Philosophy
The obvious distinction is the partitioning of the region. Western philosophers, including those from Europe and America, influence on Western philosophy. And Eastern Philosophy includes intellectuals from Asian countries such as China and India.
Another difference between eastern and western philosophy is that of society and individuals. While Eastern Philosophy takes a more communal approach to seek purpose in life, Western Philosophy takes a more individualistic one.
Then there's a significant distinction. It is the one concerning reason and faith. Eastern philosophers are just looking for solutions to the meaning of life and existence. Western philosophers, on the other hand, seek information that is logical and rational.
Skepticism is another characteristic that distinguishes the two schools of thought. Eastern philosophers are not skeptics because they are not interested in rational or logical explanations. Western philosophers, on the other hand, are complete opposites.
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Parameters of Comparison Eastern Philosophy Western Philosophy
Definition It is a diverse collection of viewpoints on life and reflection, emphasizing grasping life's endless cycle. This ideology seeks to discover and show the truth via the use of logical and reasonable information.
Famous Philosophers Confucius, Lao Tzu Socrates, Plato
Constituents Mostly China and Indian Subcontinent Ancient Greeks, Europeans, and Americans
Categories Eastern Philosophy investigated the five major categories as well, although they did not distinguish between specific categories such as Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy, and Religion. Western philosophy was traditionally divided into five categories: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics.
Focus Eastern Philosophy takes a holistic approach to ideas. Western philosophy is prone to focusing on the constituents of a concept.
Individualism & Collectivism Collectivism and connectedness are more visible here, such as performing social duties. Individualism is largely prevalent in the Western world.
Skepticism Eastern Philosophers tend to be rather skeptical as they are more into logical and rational ways. Western Philosophers tend not to be skeptical as they are more about faith.
Traditions It is more of a spiritual notion. It has strict academic traditions.
The connection between eastern and western philosophy is frequently the source of heated debate on eastern vs western philosophy. While both philosophies are concerned with virtues, one is concerned with discovering the truth via logic and reasoning, while the other is content with faith.
Western philosophy has a more practical and individualistic perspective, whereas Eastern philosophy employs a much more metaphysical approach and is more concerned with individuals and communities.
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Q: GCD: asynchronously wait for condition In my iOS app, I would like to wait for a condition to become true before updating the UI.
I am doing like this:
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_HIGH, 0), ^{
  while (!condition) NSLog("waiting for the condition");
  dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue, ^{
    //update the UI here
  });
});

The code above works just fine but I would like to ask if using the while loop to do the waiting job is good or not, and if there is any better way.
Thanks!
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The condition is actually a combination of 4 BOOL variables. Each variable associates with a request for content from the server. I'm using AFNetworking framework. In the completion block of each of the 4 requests, I will set the associated BOOL variable to YES.
So, the actual while loop is like this:
while (!([MyRequest request1].isFinished && [MyRequest request2].isFinished && [MyRequest request3].isFinished && [MyRequest request4].isFinished)) NSLog("waiting for the condition");

A: In the revised question, it sounds like you have four AFNetworking operations that you want to be dependent upon. That's far easier. You might just add a new operation, and make it dependent upon the other four operations:
NSOperation *operation = [NSBlockOperation blockOperationWithBlock:^{
    [[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] addOperationWithBlock:^{
        // update UI
    }];
}];

[operation addDependency:requestOneOperation];
[operation addDependency:requestTwoOperation];
[operation addDependency:requestThreeOperation];
[operation addDependency:requestFourOperation];

[queue addOperation:operation];

The addDependency mechanism essentially does KVO of isFinished of each of those other four operations for you. It's one of the joys of using an NSOperation-based framework like AFNetworking. This sort of dependency is really easy to do.

Original answer:
If you had to do this, you might use a semaphore instead, e.g., you'd create a semaphore:
dispatch_semaphore_t semaphore = dispatch_semaphore_create(0);

You'd have your async block wait for that:
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_HIGH, 0), ^{
    dispatch_semaphore_wait(semaphore);
    dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue, ^{
        //update the UI here
    });
});

And when the condition is satisfied, the code that would have otherwise set this condition flag would, instead:
dispatch_semaphore_signal(semaphore);

Having said that, I'd rather not see a queue blocked (even a concurrent global queue) like this unless absolutely necessary. If that other code could issue the semaphore signal, I'm not sure why it couldn't just initiate the UI update itself. If I did use this semaphore technique, at the very least I'd have this waiting process taking place on a queue of my own creation, not a global queue.

Another approach which you can use in many situations, and which I'd probably prefer, is to employ key value observing:
For example, I could observe the changing of they someProperty property of an object called obj like so:
[obj addObserver:self forKeyPath:@"someProperty" options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew context:NULL];

I would then implement observeValueForKeyPath:
- (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context
{
    if ([keyPath isEqualToString:@"someProperty"])
    {
        NSLog(@"update UI here");
    }
}

Whenever the someProperty property of my obj object is updated, my observeValueForKeyPath method would be called.
FYI, I'd also make sure that before this object gets released, I'd remove the observer of obj:
[obj removeObserver:self forKeyPath:@"someProperty"];

Clearly, this assumes that someProperty is Key Value Coding Compliant. But if it is, this is a great technique.

A: While the general pattern here is correct (Apple refers to it as "call callback"), the while(!condition) bit is also known as a "spin lock", and is definitely not the best way to wait for a condition. Consider using NSTimer or NSRunLoop instead.


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Government to Mark 50th Anniversary of 1967 Referendum
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The Government has today announced a number of events that will take place in order to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum. This was the first time that the people of Gibraltar were given the choice to remain British or to come under Spanish sovereignty.
The programme of events is being coordinated by the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia and it will involve several Government Ministers and departments. An inter-ministerial committee has been set up chaired by Dr Garcia which includes the Minister for Heritage Dr John Cortes and the Minister for Culture Steven Linares, together with officials.
On 14 June 1967, UK Minister of State at the Commonwealth Office Judith Hart told the Westminster Parliament that a referendum would be held in Gibraltar on 10 September that year. There would be two options on the ballot paper open to the people of Gibraltar. The first to pass under Spanish sovereignty in accordance with the terms proposed by the Spanish Government to Her Majesty's Government on 18 May 1966. The second choice was to voluntarily retain the link with Britain, with democratic local institutions and with Britain retaining its existing responsibilities.
There will be an exhibition at the Casemates galleries which will open on 14 June this year. This will mark 50 years to the day when the United Kingdom Government announced that a referendum would take place in Gibraltar. The exhibition is being organised by the Government Archivist, who already holds a considerable number of media news reels, press cuttings and photographs of the time. However, members of the public who hold photographs, footage and memorabilia which relates to the 1967 referendum which may be suitable for displaying during the exhibition are invited to come forward and contact the Archivist so that an initial assessment can be made.
The exhibition will run until the first week of July.
The exhibition will be followed later in the year by a memorial event and concert. This is intended to bring together both the lighter and the more serious political message of the time.
There will be special coins minted to mark the 50th anniversary of the referendum and a set of stamps will also be issued.
A project is already in the pipeline, in conjunction with residents, for the re-painting of the steps at Devil's Gap in red, white and blue. This part of Gibraltar was an emblematic representation of the spontaneous actions taken by the people of Gibraltar to decorate the areas in which they lived in the colours of the Union Jack.
A commemorative booklet, similar to the one issued to mark the 75th anniversary of the Evacuation in 2015, will also be published. This will be distributed to schools around Gibraltar in order to highlight the anniversary of this important event.
The Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia said:
"The referendum took place on 10 September 1967. On a turnout of 95.8%, 12,138 people voted to remain British and only 44 voted for Gibraltar to become a part of Spain. This was the first time that the Gibraltarians had been given the choice and encouraged to exercise it. They spoke with devastating clarity.
The Government considers that it is important to mark the 50th anniversary of this momentous occasion in the history of Gibraltar. The referendum represented, at a symbolic level, that fact that British sovereignty over Gibraltar had come to rest on the living wishes of the descendants of the people who had lived on this Rock since 1704.
The 10 September was later chosen as the date for Gibraltar National Day because it marks the anniversary of the day on which this referendum took place. This year promises to be extra- special.
The list of events published so far is not exhaustive. For now, I would remind anyone with referendum memorabilia that can be displayed during the exhibition to contact the Government Archivist on telephone 20079461."


The translator on the complex interplay of Japanese and "hegemonic" English, and how the relationship informs his translation.
Today, we continue our spotlight on the winners of Asymptote's annual Close Approximations translation contest, now into its 3rd edition. (Find the official results and citations by judges David Bellos and Sawako Nakayasu here.) From 215 fiction and 128 poetry submissions, these six best emerging translators were awarded 3,000USD in prize money, in addition to publication in our Summer 2017 edition. After our podcast interview with Suchitra Ramachandran, we are thrilled to bring you fiction runner-up Brian Bergstrom in conversation with Asymptote Assistant Interviews Editor, Claire Jacobson.
Brian Bergstrom is a lecturer in the East Asian Studies Department at McGill University in Montréal. His articles and translations have appeared in publications including Granta, Aperture, Mechademia, positions: asia critique, and Japan Forum. He is the editor and principal translator of We, the Children of Cats by Tomoyuki Hoshino (PM Press), which was longlisted for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award.


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This edited book is divided into three parts: Fundamentals of Medical and Health Sciences Modeling and Simulation introduces modeling and simulation in the medical and health sciences; Medical and Health Sciences Models provides the theoretical underpinnings of medical and health sciences modeling; and Modeling and Simulation Applications in Medical and Health Sciences focuses on teaching, training, and research applications. The book begins with a general discussion of modeling and simulation from the modeling and simulation discipline perspective. This discussion grounds the reader in common terminology. It also relates this terminology to concepts found in the medical and health care (MHC) area to help bridge the gap between developers and MHC practitioners. Three distinct modes of modeling and simulation are described: live, constructive, and virtual. The live approach explains the concept of using real (live) people employing real equipment for training purposes. The constructive mode is a means of engaging medical modeling and simulation. In constructive simulation, simulated people and simulated equipment are developed to augment real-world conditions for training or experimentation purposes. The virtual mode is perhaps the most fascinating as virtual operating rooms and synthetic training environments are being produced for practitioners and educators at break-neck speed. In this mode, real people are employing simulated equipment to improve physical skills and decision-making ability.
John A. Sokolowski, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC) at Old Dominion University, where he is also Associate Professor of Modeling and Simulation Engineering. He is the coeditor of Principles of Modeling and Simulation: A Multidisciplinary Approach and Modeling and Simulation Fundamentals: Theoretical Underpinnings and Practical Domains and coauthor of Modeling and Simulation for Analyzing Global Events, all published by Wiley.
Catherine M. Banks, PhD, is Research Associate Professor at VMASC. She is the coeditor of Principles of Modeling and Simulation: A Multidisciplinary Approach and Modeling and Simulation Fundamentals: Theoretical Underpinnings and Practical Domains and the coauthor of Modeling and Simulation for Analyzing Global Events.
Part One Fundamentals of Medical and Health Sciences Modeling and Simulation.
1 Introduction to Modeling and Simulation in the Medical and Health Sciences (Catherine M. Banks).
2 The Practice of Modeling and Simulation: Tools of the Trade (John A. Sokolowski).
Part Two. Modeling for the Medical and Health Sciences.
3 Mathematical Models of Tumor Growth and Wound Healing (John A. Adam).
4 Physical Modeling (Stacie I. Ringleb).
Part Three. Modeling and Simulation Applications.
5 Humans as Models (C. Donald Combs).
6 Modeling the Human System (Mohammed Ferdjallah and Gyu Tae Kim).
8 Training (Paul E. Phrampus).
9 Patient Care (Eugene Santos Jr, Joseph Rosen, Keum Joo Kim, Fei Yu, Dequing Li, Elizabeth Jacob, Lindsay Katona).
10 Future of Modeling and Simulation in the Medical and Health Sciences (Richard M. Satava).


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All About The Canoe Champ, Tad Dennis
AthleteOlympic
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This article was last updated by on November 4, 2022
Have you ever heard about Tad Dennis? If yes, read the article to ensure you have not missed anything about the versatile world-class athlete.
If not, don't worry because we are here for you!
Starting at 7, Tad began his journey in the water; the rest has now become history. Currently, Tad Dennis is a USA Canoe/Kayak National Team member.
Tad Dennis (Source: Facebook)
This article will discuss Tad Dennis and his journey in the water. Further, we will also talk about his romantic relationship.
Before looking at the athlete's personal and professional life, let us sneak a peek into the quick facts about him.
Full Name Timothy Alan Dennis
Nick Name Tad Dennis
Birth Place Riverdale, Georgia
Education Mclntosh High School
Hobbies Adventurous sports, Travel
Tattoos None
Sponsors Glassport, House Rock Kitchen, Jackson Kayak, Immersion Research
Father's Name Not available
Mother's Name Debby Dennis
Siblings Katy Dennis
Weight Not known
Profession Kayaker
Wife/Spouse Lisa Marie Dennis
Social Media Facebook, Instagram
Net Worth $1 – $3 million approximately
Merch Paddles, Dry Bag
Tad Dennis: Early Life and Family
Timothy Alan Dennis, better known as Tad Dennis, was born on May 5, 1984, in Riversdale, Georgia, USA. He is a world-class athlete in the USA's Men's Single Slalom Canoe Division.
Tad grew up in the Peachtree City of, Georgia. He attended McIntosh High School and graduated from there in 2002.
Tad has a very intimate relationship with his parents. It was his Father who inspired him to canoe.
His adventure with boats began when he was still very young. He used to go to the riverside with his Father and spend time with him.
Eventually, his Father became the coach of his life. He learned everything from his Father, including kayaking, swimming, and flying planes.
Paddling was his favorite among all the skills taught to him by his Father. It didn't take him long to discover his love for paddling.
When Tad became old enough, he started learning to paddle on his own. He used to take his mother's kayak onto the lake and learn to swim.
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Tad Dennis: Age and Body Measurements
The canoeist, Tad Dennis, was born in the year 1984. So, he is currently 38 years old.
He was born in the Rat year, according to the Chinese calendar.
Talking about Tad's physique, he has an athletic build. He maintains his body with healthy nutrition and daily exercise.
Tad has a height of 6 feet 2 inches. However, his weight is not known.
He wears shoes of size 13(U.S.). Likewise, Tad does not have any tattoos on his body. Further, Tad has brown hair and blue. His nationality is American, and his ethnicity is White.
Further, Tad's zodiac is Gemini. Sapiens with the Gemini sign are competitive, extroverted, and versatile. They are also incredibly attractive and charismatic.
Tad Dennis: Marriage
Tad is married to his long-time girlfriend, Lisa Marie Dennis. The wedding took place in October 2015, and the couple has stayed happily married.
Lisa has been a support system for Tad. She has throughout his ups and downs; she has been his rock.
An interesting thing about the couple is that they both attended McIntosh High School. However, they didn't know each other until they were 25.
Tad Dennis wiped away tears from Lisa's eyes while they exchanged their wedding vows (Source: Instagram)
Despite attending the same high school, they met each other for the first time in 2011.
Soon, they fell in love and started dating. Now, seven years into their marriage, their love is stronger than ever.
Lisa is a freelance makeup artist. She is on Instagram as @lisamariedennis. Lisa mostly posts pictures related to makeup. However, she never hesitates to showcase her love for her husband.
On March 2, 2021, Lisa posted a beautiful picture on Instagram with Tad and captioned it:
"The hubby has been out of town training a bunch lately, so I've taken a little time off of IG recently to spend some quality time ❤ I have been filming some content that I cannot wait to show y'all, though!"
The couple is truly an example of love and is adored by many.
Tad Dennis: Career
Tad entered the world of the canoe at the early age of seven. Soon he got passionate about the sport.
He began competing in whitewater slalom at the age of eleven. It didn't take him long to pursue canoeing as a career.
Tad spent two months of his school year in New Zealand with an organization called Adventure Quest when he was 13 years old.
At this point, Tad began to succeed in the sport exceptionally because he could do two workouts every day.
Timothy then enrolled in the Atlanta Center for Excellence's slalom kayak training program without further ado.
From 11 to 13, the US-born canoeist was a U.S. Cadet National Team member. He did it by racing in the K1 class for men's single kayaks.
Timothy moved on to the solo canoe (C1) class. As a result, he was a member of the U.S. Junior National Team from the age of 14 to 17.
In addition, in 2001, he finished fourth in a Junior World Cup event in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Tad had to take a four-year break due to injuries. In the August of 2004, Tad got into a severe accident. His truck collided with a mountain, resulting in this accident.
The accident left Tad shattered. He broke his left hand and crushed his left leg. The misfortune took his passion away from him. He could not walk for five months, so canoeing was a far cry.
Following the accident, Tad did not canoe for seven months. Slowly he recovered and started getting back to the river.
However, Timothy's struggles did not end there. While running the Potomac River's Great Falls, Tad shattered his L1 vertebra. Consequently, the canoer could not walk for three months.
Looking back at the accidents, Tad considers himself lucky and blessed to have survived them. Most of the accidents that Tad faced were severe ones. However, the canoer was able to fight through them all.
Accidents also provided Tad with some time to rest. Further, all those times away from water also made him realize how much he loved paddling. Rather than scaring him away, the accidents brought Tad even closer to his passion.
He returned in the summer of 2006 after a four-year break. In August of the same year, he competed in the U.S. National Championship and finished seventh.
The following spring, Tad placed third in the 2007 USA Canoe/Kayak National Team Trials.
As a result, he also secured a spot on the U.S. National Team in the men's C1 level for the third and last time.
In 2008, Tad finished third in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials at the U.S. National Whitewater Center, earning him his third position on the U.S. National Team.
Tad Dennis after placing in North Fork Championship 2016 (Source: Instagram)
Tad finished second in the North Fork Championship in 2016. Further, in 2019, he earned bronze medals at the NorthFolk Championships and a silver medal at the Freestyle World Championships in C-1.
Likewise, in 2021, Tad finished fourth in the North Fork Championship. The championship was delayed because of the Covid 19 pandemic.
Tad Dennis: Net Worth
We can say that Tad Dennis has had a remarkable life and career. Tad chose a challenging path for himself.
Along with the satisfaction and other achievements, Tad's path has also provided him an opportunity to earn massive fortunes.
The exact net worth of Tad Dennis is not made public. However, we can say that he earns enough to live a life of luxury and travel the world, following his passion.
Judging from his successful career, the kayaker's net worth is estimated to be around $1-$3 Million.
Tad owns a truck and a few Subaru cars, as revealed in his Instagram. The details of his salary and other assets are still under review.
Likewise, he works at the Charlotte International Airport as an Air Traffic Controller. The job also pays him a hefty amount of salary.
Likewise, Tad also does various endorsements and sponsorships, which add to his net worth.
Tad Dennis is a role model for those who want to pursue their career paddling. Further, many people also follow him due to his unending enthusiasm for nature and adventure.
He is admired widely for his courageous personality. He interacts with his fans and followers through his social media platform.
The Kayaker is available on Facebook and Instagram. He has over 2.3k followers on Instagram.
Tad follows other Kayakers like Emily Jackson, Dane Jackson, Sage Donnelly, Kimberley Woods, Rici Funk, Evy Leibfarth, and Adrian Mattern.
Likewise, Tad has over 2.6k followers on Facebook.
His Facebook bio describes him as a "C-1 and Kayak Slalom, Freestyle, and Creek boater. U.S. Slalom Team Member for 10+ years. Silver medalist in C-1 at the Freestyle World Champs and World Cup Winner. Bronze medal at the North Fork World Champs in 2019."
If you wish to learn more about the lifestyle and adventures of Tad Dennis, follow him on his social media pages. The canoeist usually posts kayaking and canoeing clips on his social media.
Apart from Facebook and Instagram, the kayaker is also on Youtube. However, he is not active on YouTube now. However, you can still access Tad's old kayaking videos via his YouTube channel.
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What does Tad do to maintain his peak performance shape?
Tad Dennis works out daily with a unique combination of weightlifting, mountain biking, jogging, physio balls, and flat-water paddling to stay in peak performance shape.
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Review - RetroDuo Portable System
Written by Todd Friedman on 30 March 2016 . Posted in Reviews
This is the review of the RDP RetroDuo Portable V.2.0 handheld system. This is a fairly new item that has been on the market less than a year. I have purchased this item with the excitement of playing the original classic Nintendo and Super Nintendo games on a portable handheld device.
There are many recycled versions of classic Nintendo and Sega games on Gameboy, Wii U Shop, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and MAME, but to me there is nothing like playing the original cartridge that was played back in the 1980s and 1990s. I do own the systems and controllers from back in the day but most of the time they are stored away or unplugged. With this new portable device it's easy to turn on the classics and play them anywhere. There is no TV required. When I first saw this item online, I immediately got excited and had a vision of myself playing The Legend of Zelda in my backyard on the deck or in the bedroom at night with headphones so no one was disturbed.
The time came to order this ultimate handheld device and when it was time to checkout it was SOLD OUT everywhere. It was indeed the hot item of the year. I had to wait around 3 months for it to be back in stock and immediately placed the order. It finally came and I was ready to begin the experience. Overall there are many positives and negatives of this device. I will explain and go into details.
First impression out of the box was good. The size of the unit is not too big and no too small. The screen size is about what you would need and expect on a hand held portable. Some of the previous Gameboy systems had small screens which made gaming hard and bad on the eyes. The standard + direction pad was just the way it used to be on the old NES controllers. The buttons were what you normally would see on a SNES controller with the A, B, X, Y layout. Certain NES games took some getting used to on that layout. The Volume control is easily accessible on the bottom of the unit and there is a headphone jack as well for standard headphone use. The Power switch is at a good spot on the side of the unit so it's not in the way when holding it and moving around with the control pad. The charge on the unit is very good in my opinion. I fully charged it when I received it for about 6 hours and it lasted me almost a week of play. I would say a good 8 to 10 hours of play total.
The games itself are inserted directly into the unit. A firm fit makes the game work every time with no need to keep the unit still so the game stays in. The one negative about the game insertion is the NES cartridges. For SNES games, they directly go into the unit with no adapter needed. The NES games on the other hand need a special Retro Duo Port that does come with the system in the box. The problem is the port is almost as big if not bigger than the NES cartridge. After putting the NES cartridge into the port, you then insert both into the Retro Duo system. When all said and done the system looks like a huge long clunky handheld system you may see back in the 80s as prototype portables. I was expecting the NES to be a little bit quirky looking as they are large cartridges going into a portable system, but I never expected another large port extending out as well as the NES game. This makes it a little less "portable". There is also an extra DuoPort that can play Sega Genesis games on the RetroDuo, this item is sold separately, (the Genesis DuoPort will also let you play the Genesis games on a SNES system, but not sure why you would ever need or want to do that).
The visuals are average at best in my opinion. It does bring back the old memories of the original graphics, but on certain games it does not enhance the colors like a TV or an emulated version would do on a Gameboy. There are times that the graphics at the top of the screen will not catch up to the movement and looks choppy while scrolling on the screen.
The Sound from the system itself is again not what I expected. There are some games where the sound is muffled and digitalized. The sounds effects in the 80s and 90s were not as they are today, but hearing the original sounds from a cartridge game are what makes the experience true. I think the company could have done a better job with that.
One other item that to me is frustrating is the way to take out a NES cartridge form the DuoPort. The port itself comes out and goes in smoothly into the game unit, but the NES games coming out of the port take a lot of effort. Almost every time I take a game out I feel like I am going to break either the game or the port. It's not very smooth at all. I understand the game needs to be secure and tight to make it work but it may be too tight and too secure.
There are many positives to the unit as I explained. The idea of grabbing an NES , SNES or Genesis game off the shelf and being able to play anywhere , without hooking up the system to a TV, is very convenient . There is even an extender piece that comes with the RetroDuo Portable that will allow you to use your original NES and SNES controllers to play on the screen if you wish. This would ensure true original gameplay. The Battery life is much better than I expected and it really makes you not have to worry about playing a long ended game which does not have saving points. Fully charged system will let you play endless hours without having to plug it in. The system itself is lightweight and even with the DuoPort attached with an NES game, it is manageable to carry and not strain your arms or hands.
Overall I recommend this item for any old school gamer. It is definitely worth the $79.99 price and can be found at amazon.com.